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Things People Need to Understand, issue 223.2
September 8th, 2012 • Rantage
For the past few days I've been engaged in a series of conversations on Twitter and Facebook about SFF fandom and its safety/egalitarianism — or lack thereof. I'll just share some of what I've already said there, here:
Some bits of a conversation on Twitter that started with me generally ranting about how unsafe I feel at Worldcon and progressed to an argument with someone who said s/he spoke for the SMOFs ("secret masters of fandom", i.e. convention organizers). I basically pointed out that if fandom wants to change, the resources to assist with doing so have been around for years. At this point I'm tired. I'm not interested in further talk until I start seeing some action.
Then from a conversation about Heinlein and the racism that has always been visible in his work, and lately has been made explicit through his letters:
Marc, the larger literary continuum in which Heinlein's work existed was both created by *and contributed to* that flawed society. Heinlein's work is one of the reasons why SFF has spent years calling itself progressive, and utterly refusing to listen to complaints about the racism embedded in the genre's bones. That resistance is one of the things that's made my career a greater struggle than a white author's might be. The reason I read FF in the first place was because, when I first got active in SFF fandom and tentatively complained about some stuff that bothered me in the first Heinlein works I'd read, Heinlein fans yelled at me that he wasn't racist or sexist, and Farnham's Freehold was the proof of that. After I read that book I realized two things: a) that Heinlein was racist as *fuck*, and b) most of science fiction fandom was too.
Now, don't get me wrong. SFF is where my literary muse takes me, so I'm committed to this genre; I care for what it's done and where it's going, if only out of intelligent self-interest. But I'm very aware of not only how flawed it is from an artistic standpoint, but how utterly hostile it has been to me and people like me. So this cannot be an abstract thing to me; the bigotry in SFF does not merely passively reflect that of US society. It is an active, ongoing, threat. It has done, and is still doing, real harm. So I'll read it, but I'm not even going to pretend to love it. The best I can manage is love for its *potential,* and loathing for most of what it's actually done.
Now here's something I attempted to post as a comment in response to this blog post hyperbolically lambasting complaints about sexual harassment at cons as "plunging all fandom into war" (because demanding safety is just like attacking another country, killing soldiers and civilians, etc.):
You're downplaying what actually happened. I don't know whether you're doing so intentionally or out of ignorance, but this is a situation that can only be understood in context, and you're leaving out or ignoring a lot of the context that matters. I will attempt to explain.
No one has said Walling is a rapist. He has, however, been accused of repeatedly harassing women — and by "harassing" I mean stalking and groping and attempting to coerce into sex — not just at Readercon but many cons. He's done it to at least two authors (including Valentine), to con volunteers and staff, and more. When Valentine came forward, these other women did, too — enough to show that Walling has a demonstrated pattern of doing the same thing everywhere he goes. People want him banned from Readercon simply because that's what Readercon's rules said. But this is why people want him banned from all cons: because he cannot be trusted to behave at any of them.
Then you complain about the behavior of Valentine's friends. But you don't mention that Walling's friends have not only protected him from con rules enforcement, but they've gone after some of the women who've complained about his behavior in the past. Some of the authors haven't been invited to other cons as guests, some of the con staffers have been marginalized until they quit. In other words, Valentine's friends are hurting his reputation, but Walling's friends are hurting women's careers. Women cannot feel safe at any con Walling attends in part because of Walling himself, and in part because Walling is surrounded by (relatively) powerful people who've proven more than willing to use their power to harm others on his behalf. And he's also protected by a throng of random bystanders who decry any complaint about sexual harassment as a "lynch mob".
(Yeah, because asking a con to adhere to its own printed rules is totally like beating, raping, torturing, dismembering, and stringing someone up. Also, this is nowhere near "war".)
It's lovely that you've felt safe at cons. You're very lucky. But your luck does not mean that less-lucky women are imagining things. Or that their unwillingness to tolerate being groped — even though it didn't bother you when it happened — means they're overreacting.
Sadly, the level of vitriol around this incident can set the general egalitarianism in fandom back by decades.
There is no egalitarianism in fandom.
There is a belief in egalitarianism. But it has mostly been used to support the usual suspects — the straight white men at the core of SFF — while marginalizing the usual targets — women, people of color, anyone the straight white men don't like or want to objectify or want to own. When the usual targets complain about their treatment, they have to listen to what I like to call The Egalitarianism Speech. That's the speech that goes, "Can't we all just get along? Shut up a little and we can. Stop asking for change and we can. Everything was fine before you started complaining. We're all equal here, after all."
We are not. But we can be, eventually, if things change. What is necessary to bring about this change is sometimes, yes, vitriol, because polite discussions have already been had — in spades — and they haven't worked. Walling has apparently been Talked To before; it didn't stop him from pulling this again. Readercon's no-tolerance harassment policy came out of a previous incident and discussion and they ignored it. Only vitriol made them follow their own rules. All the anger right now is because politeness has been tried, and all that's done has been to protect and enable more bad behavior. The anger, however, seems to be having a positive effect.
So there's your context.
::sigh::
I write science fiction and fantasy. I write other things too, but I can't claim to be a mainstream writer; that's not where my muse goes. It's here. And I both love and despise this genre.
I love it because I've met wonderful people, and because through SFF I've been able to imagine things that I couldn't have if I'd kept my focus on the here and now. I despise it because SFF is just as flawed as the rest of the world when it comes to bigotry and marginalization — but unlike the rest of the world, SFF thinks it's progressive. Embraces the idea of its own progressivism with such fervor that I'd call it religious, if the field weren't so full of atheists who would never be caught dead preaching doctrine or shunning unbelievers or anything like that. (That was sarcasm. The atheists have their own problems right now.)
We have to shed this idea that SFF is somehow special. That it is perfect. That it is in any way better than the mainstream society from which it derives. It isn't. And in fact, SFF's manifest unwillingness to examine itself is one of the things that makes it worse than the mainstream.
I and people I care about keep getting accused of having some kind of agenda, whenever we express a demand for some kind of positive change. So OK. You know what it is? Lean close. Here's the secret. Here's the goal of the big shadow conspiracy. I'll whisper.
We want nearly everyone to have fun.
I say "nearly" because, well. Some people's idea of fun is other people's non-fun. But for anyone who doesn't think "fun" means hurting, frightening, or stomping all over someone else? They should all be welcome under this tent.
That's it. That's the conspiracy. And it really doesn't seem that much to ask.
Sean Jewell
@nkjemisin
You are making big generalizations that are just as harmful and hateful as the issues you are fighting against. I know when you are passionate it can be hard not to.
As far as what you call a threat. You're being an ass. Do you expect someone to put their time and effort into you, and get their trusted business contacts to do the same after you have called them a racist rapist and then thrown all their and your fans under the bus with them?
I wish you luck in your future ventures. Alienating and betraying your fan-base will be a hard thing to recover from if enough of them get wind of it.
nkjemisin
Martha,
I've been getting a small bombardment of Stupid against my mod filters for the last few days. I'm letting the more coherent of them (yes, Facto makes more sense than most of what I've gotten) through so people can see exactly what kind of things are being said to me and to others who just want nearly everyone to have fun. Isn't it interesting how calling for something so simple makes me a racist, a monster, and an ass?
edgestate
I think it is vitally important for implicit threats of the type Lisa made to be treated as actual threats, rather than rationalized based on an assumption of the author's intent, at least until the author clarifies their meaning. While this may mean that someone who misspeaks is treated more harshly than their intent deserved, it's been proven many, many times that dominant groups in our society will use implicit threats and roundabout means to exclude others from their spheres. This isn't a court of law, and we don't need to prove beyond reasonable doubt what Lisa's intent was. What matters is that an environment in which implicit threats against people challenging the status quo can be made without being called out is an environment hostile to inclusion.
I think as well that as fans we need to be more proactive in boycotting cons that turn a blind eye to harrassment, or blackball authors who bring up uncomfortable topics. It's great that some people have the strength of character to refuse to attend a con in which people like them are marginalized or expected to behave a certain way, and it's great that some authors have the ability and willingness to say "go ahead and blackball me!", but nobody should have to choose between putting themselves in a situation in which they might be harrased and then ignored, or possibly seeing their career suffer for refusing to attend certain cons. Ultimately we will only eradicate that kind of choice if the people who aren't at risk of being harrassed make it clear that they won't support cons that facilitate that type of behaviour. It is most definitely not somebody else's problem.
Nolly
So one person said something that might or might not have been intended as a threat of future blackballing, and was called on — meaning others will now be doubly on the lookout for any sign of blackballing. How is that "they've gone after some of the women who've complained about his behavior in the past. Some of the authors haven't been invited to other cons as guests, some of the con staffers have been marginalized until they quit"?
Nolly,
That person said something that was intepreteted as a threat, whether she intended it or not, and implied that others she knew, with greater power, were threatening similar things. Please don't downplay it; no author can afford to take something like that lightly, or to try and read the mind of the person saying it to see if she really meant it. And yeah, she got called on it — but I notice she didn't retract it. Like I said, looked to me like she doubled down.
But there have certainly been other incidents, most of which I can't discuss because they've been communicated to me in confidence. Authors talk privately about this stuff, same as SMOFs, and I've been involved in both conventions and the writer-sphere long enough to have heard plenty. In our culture sexual harassment has been actively encouraged by conrunners, condoned and enabled especially when it comes from BNFs; how many authors or con staffers do you think would dare make a stink, or expect the stink to go unretaliated, in such an atmosphere? But if you want concrete examples, there's the whole situation with Dragoncon, which people have been talking about quietly for years and recently blew up big. Several authors have complained of retaliation by the SMOFs involved with Dragoncon when they spoke against the con's founder, who's long been whispered to be a child molester. Among other things, there were public attempts to smear Nancy Collins as jealous and an anti-Semite when she complained.
I bring up this incident because I couldn't help thinking of it when I saw yesterday that Chicon has begun what I can only interpret as an attempt to smear Kate Kligman — who said she was marginalized until she quit. Again, that may not be how they intend for it to be interpreted, but that's how it looks to me, as someone on the outside, and in the context of everything that's happened.
WOW! The more I follow this the CRAZIER this person gets. You can't come on a public post and start slandering people calling them child molesters and shit with no proof just cause you have heard whispers. I hope he sues your ass to the point you can't afford to do your next project.
I get the feeling the only whispers you're hearing are coming from your own head.
And I'm sure the people who told you things in confidence are real happy you're running your big mouth. When someone tells you a confidence you don't start blabbing it to the world on the internet and leave out the name, well you do but apparently you're trashy like that. By the end of this you may be fanless, friendless and penniless.
Welp, that's the end of that experiment. Apologies, sensible folk; I figured for a few days I would let the more coherent of my detractors through the mod filter so that everyone could see what kind of abuse I've been getting (which is nothing to the kind of abuse other people, who are more involved in this mess, have been getting). I suppose I should feel flattered.
But there's always a danger, when letting this kind of thing through, that it will stifle the people who are just trying to talk and not threaten or bluster or whatever, so I'm shutting these guys down now. Everyone else go on as you were.
KatG
What's been interesting about this whole thing — well, disheartening but also interesting — is that it seems clear we're in a cultural shift with these conventions that I had mistakenly thought had occurred ten, twenty years ago, that we're having to have the conversations now that I thought had already occurred, not the least of which because the government laws themselves have changed, which has a large impact on the legal responsibilities of people running an event like a convention — responsibilities that a lot of these con-running folk do not seem to be taking seriously, despite their importance to the cons' operations. There seems to be a 1960's/70's ethos that many people are still clinging to — when Asimov used to grope young women, etc. — that really has no place in organizing and running conventions now and is having to give way to current reality and is doing the usual kicking and screaming about it. And again, I thought that had basically happened in, say, the late 1990's, at least for sexual harassment issues if not race. But I guess that was overly optimistic of me.
In any case, irrespective of the publicly witnessed groping and stalking that Walling did, which Massachusetts law could have arrested him for, the sheer fact that he, an organizer of cons, propositioned an author working the con, even if he wasn't involved in running that particular one, is not only irresponsible but indicates an emotional control problem that would usually have friends wanting to get the man some help. Instead, a lot of them seem to be arguing that con organizers should act any way they want and state laws, the future of a con, etc., be hanged. And I guess that's a painful part of the process. I'm glad the con committee at Readercon seems to have taken the situation seriously once it was known to them. I hope that continues.
The threat-like statement, from a person who also said she has no power to carry it out, referred to the future. Your statement that I am questioning was a) plural and b) in the past tense. In my area, I know one author we don't invite to our local anymore after we ejected him from the dealer's room for selling the Paris Hilton video, but he's welcome to come as an attendee still, if he were willing to buy a membership. That's the extent of our "blackball" list.
I don't think anyone at Chicon is trying to smear Kate Kligman; I think those who were involved feel she is smearing them. I don't know what harassment may or may not have occurred, but I heard from other sources, people involved in cleaning up the mess, well before that statement, that there was definitely failure to perform her duties. Maybe there was some of each; I don't know, as I was not staff this year, and might not know even had I been — no one who was not directly involved can possibly know exactly what happened, and she said / they said is a fruitless game.
But what were the Chicon people supposed to do? Let the accusation go unanswered? Submit, regardless of accuracy, and set a precedent where anyone can claim victimhood unquestioned? Maybe I've been burned by too many manipulative drama llamas (male and female), and it's just made me wary. (For the record, I've only met Kate once, sort of, in a group setting, and have no idea what her personality is like; I am not assuming she is a manipulative drama llama, but I'm also not assuming she isn't, having heard a far more heartfelt version of what Chicon posted from a young woman directly involved in the situation.)
The smofslist tumblr is isn't exactly reliable evidence of what conversations are actually happening; everything there is a) in violation of copyright, b) posted in violation of the community's trust, and c) completely out of context — most importantly, what it was in response to and how it was responded to.
A lot of things were actively supported and encouraged 50+ years ago which aren't now; I don't really see what that has to do with the present.
I really have nothing to say about Cat Valente's piece except to note that, unlike her phrasing ("Walling, who used his own "need" to apologize to Valentine as an excuse to follow, grab, and further stalk her"), there was no grabbing involved in the apology attempts; the attempt to apologize came after "you don't touch me!", and he did not touch her after that, as reported.
Dragon*con is only loosely connected to the world of (mostly non-profit) fannish cons; I don't know of any D*C folks on the SMoFs mailing list, though there may be one or two who are involved on some level in addition to working on more traditional cons — same for SDCC; there are a few SDCC staff on SMoFs, but only the ones who work on our other cons. I doubt most of the D*C folks identify as SMoFs, and I know most of the folks who do identify as SMoFs know little or nothing about D*C. Therefore, I know only what I've read, mostly recently, about the history of the founder with regard to abuse charges, and nothing about any retaliation that occurred. But that's a different community, at the organizer level; the people making decisions there are not the people making decisions at Worldcon.
Nolly, you seem very connected with the people involved in this — like you know them well enough to make decisions about them based on more than their words.
I don't know them. I've probably met a few of them but I don't know them. All I know is that some of them run SFF cons — and I don't know which ones, so if you say Dragoncon's not one of those SFF cons, that's nice to know, but it's not exactly something the average outsider would (or should) assume. I have nothing to go on but words, and actions. And the people I know best in this are Genevieve and other authors and fans, and I know what's said among us. I'm not planning to be more specific about which people I know who've suffered retaliation, because they've suffered retaliation, hello, and I'd rather be thought wrong than expose them to more crap. You seem willing to take other people's unspoken motives on faith; I suppose you'll have to do the same for mine.
What are the people of Chicon* supposed to do? They can show that they're taking Kate's accusation seriously by not following the same script that occurs nearly every time a woman complains of harassment: the smear campaign that attempts to depict the woman as somehow deserving of or complicit in the harassment, or which simply attempts to gaslight her as crazy and a liar; that focuses more on defending the reputation of the company/harasser/co-workers of the harasser than showing any sort of compassion for the victim. It looks like a smear campaign because that's always what it looks like when people malign the victim, or make bullshit excuses for the perpetrator, rather than doing something substantive. (Fathers are immune to being harassers? Seriously?) The people of Chicon could also try not assuming that anyone who complains of harassment is a "manipulative drama llama", or even tossing around that kind of language — because holy fuck what woman would put herself through this hell without good reason?
And most of all, Chicon should've thought about what message their response would send. Will women coming to future Chicons — or other Worldcons since outsiders don't know they're not the same, or SFF cons since apparently some SMOFs are involved in many of them — be reassured when they see Chicon following the Same Old Script in addressing a staffer's harassment? Personally I'm thinking that if I go to a Worldcon and suffer harassment, I will not bother talking to the con staff; I will simply call the police. The police are at least bound by rules — and likely to adhere to them — and they are a neutral party. They have less reason to call me an incompetent crazy liar, defend the perpetrator because he's a "nice guy" or has daughter!immunity, blame me for having somehow asked for it or been insufficiently forceful with my refusal, etc. The police will (probably) not put the interests of the convention before my safety. I distrust the police, but in this context I trust the people who wrote that statement even less.
So they could've taken some cues from other cons/conrunners that have dealt with this well. They didn't have to decide on Kate's case immediately; they could've shown that they were taking the time to consider it in depth. They could've brought in a neutral mediator, if they felt it was a "she said/they said" situation. Their statement could've publicly asked observers to refrain from making personal attacks on Kate or the harasser. And in the meantime they could've understood that for every publicly-made accusation of harassment, there are others that haven't been reported, and even one means that they have a problem. So then they could've used this as an opportunity to talk about what they'll do to improve, going forward. Support the Backup Project. Train their security in how to respond to harassment (and also accessiblity issues and other things that were apparently a problem at this year's Worldcon). Strengthen their Code of Conduct wrt harassment. There are all kinds of things they could've done.
Instead they called her a liar and washed their hands of it. Which doesn't actually fix anything, and instead makes a lot of things worse. You'll forgive me for being unimpressed.
* Look. I know that not all of SMOFdom thinks this way. I've been involved with Readercon's concom, though it didn't go well; I worked for Wiscon for awhile (that went better); I've started and run conventions, albeit not in the SFF sphere (Shoujocon, which alas did not survive once my regime ended). I've seen the efforts of people like Rose Fox and Farah Mendlesohn to try and change things from within, for the better. (I have no idea if they count as "SMOF"s and I don't care.) I know that it takes an eclectic group to get these things off the ground; I suspect that it's a relative few very vocal assholes perpetuating this image of utter tone-deafness, 1950s morality, and hostility to women/PoC/other marginalized groups. But if I'm pissed off and seeing "This con throws women under the bus" messages, what do you think other women, who aren't authors or former con staffers, who don't have positive experiences to go on or a nice loud public voice, are thinking as they follow this mess? As they see Chicon pull a Clarence Thomas? As they see conversation about positive change drowned out by nitpickers and apologists who are so invested in protecting the status quo that it seems as if they want to return to 50 years ago?
Nancy A. Collins
Since Dragoncon & Worldcon had shared programming this year, and once served as a NASFiC, Nolly's attempts to try and separate Dragoncon from "real" SFF cons strikes me as hair-splitting.
Like it or not, Ed Kramer was, indeed, a SMOF. And still seeing 6 figure pay days from Dragoncon.
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/features/story.aspx?ID=1764014
The sad fact of the matter is that organized fandom has a long, sordid history of turning a blind eye, if not actively coming to the defense of the sexual predators in its ranks, whether they be fans or pros. Walter Breen, anyone?
http://www.sff.net/people/stephen.goldin/mzb/timeline.html
Let's face it, when you still have to game under a 'masculine' name for fear of the flood of online harassment that comes your way when SOME of (and that's an important distinction!) your fellow gamers realise you're female (ditto for Xbox co-op play, claiming your mic is broken so they can't hear your voice!)then it's obvious all is not as equal in the geek/nerd world as we'd like to believe. But keeping quiet about it is not an option – otherwise things will never change. 'How can we keep things the same' is not an option, nor should we let it be.
Even if we give Chicon the benefit of the doubt, and take it as true that Kate Kligman wasn't performing up to their standards, they still have some problems.
First, while performance may be relevant to their reasons for letting her go, it is totally irrelevant to their dealing with a report of harrasment. A person doesn't deserve to be able to work, live, and volunteer in spaces in which harrasment isn't tolerated and reports of it are taken seriously because they are a good worker or likeable or contribute, they deserve that because they are a person. Period.
Second, if someone is performing poorly, and also reports that they are being harrased, the decent thing to do would be to fix the harrassment, then give that person a chance to work in a harrassment-free environment. Maybe, just maybe, people work better when they're not being marginalized, victimized, and ignored.
I haven't yet read the other comments but I shall get to them. But I wanted to speak my own thoughts on the initial post. :)
I have heard Heinlein glorified for years. I knew that he had serious issues with sexism, as I have heard his work criticized on that score for many years. I never got around to reading his work because, however much he did for the genre, I don't care to read something that is going to put my blood pressure up.
It may be that I've just totally missed it but I haven't seen Heinlein's racism discussed nearly as much. Reading the letters in the post that you linked, I had no fucking idea that he was that much of a racist, considering that the vibe I have gotten from so many SFF people is that he is the Progressive Grandfather of the SF Genre. Which… I had a problem with just based on the sexism, but dear goddess.
So, thank you for posting this and bringing it to attention, because I at least have not seen it pointed out like this before.
These sentences are a perfect example of why I say D*C is an very different sort of thing. No one is getting paid for running Worldcon. No one is getting paid for running any traditional fannish con. "SMoFs" don't get paid. We're volunteers. Everyone from the first-time gopher up to the chair is doing it because we love SF/F and the community of people who love SF/F. Some folks have other motives, too — I'm not claiming everyone's a perfect idealist! — but without that love at the core, who's going to put in the time and energy to make these things happen?
The joint programming was a marketing effort, to try to reach some of the D*C folks who would be interested in Worldcon-style cons / programming if they knew more about it.
I'm not sure how "outsiders" view of fandom is relevant; aren't we mainly talking about fans, authors, artists, and other members of the SF/F community here? Conflating the two is a bit like attributing something Jesse Helms said to Bernie Sanders, then saying "Well, they're both politicians, and I just live here; why should I pay attention to who's running the place?"
I know some of the people involved, not all; more are friends-of-friends. I've been reading a lot of what's been said in a lot of places, and been in several offline conversations, particularly among the "younger" conrunners at Chicon. ("Younger" in quotes as there's no hard age limit on who chooses to be part of that group / community / conversation.)
For the record, "manipulative drama llama" is my phrase, no one else's, and I had no staff or other role in Chicon other than as an attendee. By this phrase, I mean women such as my college classmate who regularly pulled stunts like going into hysterics and refusing to eat unless told to by one specific guy — who did not go to our school, wasn't even in state, and was not available by phone. The result was that every guy in our social circle was fawning all over her, trying to cajole her into eating, giving her their undivided attention, and she was eating it up. And she's far from the only woman like that I've known. So pardon me for being burned a few too many times to always believe every accusation a woman makes against folks I know as fine upstanding people, just because she's a woman, and some of them aren't.
Maybe I've missed it, but is there any evidence that the complaint that was allegedly dismissed was even lodged? Is there anything other than one person saying "They fired me because I complained" and those accused of said dismissal saying "No, you were fired for incompetence; please stop making us the bad guys." If there's not some evidence one way or the other, we've just got to decide based on who we trust. And for those who've decided they don't trust the Chicon committee, I doubt anything I say can change your mind entirely, but maybe someone can see that there's more than one story here, not a straightforward narrative.
Nolly: "No one is getting paid for running Worldcon. No one is getting paid for running any traditional fannish con. "SMoFs" don't get paid. We're volunteers."
That actually makes it worse. There's no oversight on volunteers. A lot of the legal requirements placed on for profit businesses regarding discrimination, sexual harassment and other laws are not placed on volunteer operated, non-profit events to run those events. But other laws are, and saying we're just volunteers is not going to protect cons from irresponsible and unprofessional behavior by the con-runners. The point of the Kramer story is not that he's a pedophile or that DragonCon is a pro shop. It's that SMOF's went after people who spoke out against him and what he was doing and tried to ignore everything they said as hysterical attention-getting and lies. And it damaged DragonCon and embroiled them in lawsuits, and that can happen to a non-profit con as well.
Rene Walling publicly harassed and groped Valentine in front of numerous witnesses at Readercon and my understanding is that Kligman has some evidence too. Readercon very publicly at first violated their own stated policy in Walling's case, which caused them damage. And Walling was allowed to volunteer at ChiCon and when bartending at a private party there, was publicly seen to be harassing young women who were trying to get beverages from him. This is a pattern of ignoring troubled and dangerous behavior by con runners which could really impact the future of cons. But hey, you knew someone in college who had emotional problems, so let's pretend the problem isn't there. That's not going to work, volunteers or no. If you truly do love the fandom community, you shouldn't want it to work that way.
I don't know if Kligman got "fired" from her non-paid volunteer position for just cause or not. But the timing of it is damn suspicious, given that Walling was allowed to work ChiCon and continued to harass women, and that causes damage. Even if she's mistaken as to the motivations of those who booted her, that doesn't make her a liar about the harassment she had from Walling. A lot of the remarks that we've been hearing from SMOF's on the Net are essentially that we should all put up with sexual harassment, that female authors and con attendees should shut up and are big fat liars or babies who should not annoy con runners, and generally that the people who make up the fandom community are not nearly as important as those who run the cons. Which has been rather shocking and dismaying for a lot of folks. These are supposed to be fun events for which people, including authors, pay. To which people bring their kids often. If con-runners will continue to ignore problems that ruin the fun and slander those who complain about the problems, then people are going to stop coming and cops may get called in. This is not somebody else's problem. This is yours, since you all took on the job, and if you can't handle it professionally, if people can't trust the runners, then you are likely to be replaced, on liability issues alone, or seal the con's death altogether. Sexual harassment cannot be swept under the rug with oh, she's just crazy. And there are going to be not fun consequences for everyone if you keep trying it. I'm sorry, but I just do not understand these SMOF attitudes in this day and age.
Heinlein was a… weirdo. He seemed to be ok with incest.
I'm not sure he was a full blown racist in his fiction (granted, I haven't read Farnham's freehold). That said, Starship Troopers had a Philippino protagonist (how many white authors can claim the same even today?). The same book had women as commanding officers in the fleet – years before it became mainstream. Thanks to Starship Troopers he was accused of a being a fascist – but Moon Is A Harsh Mistress is, next to 1984, is probably the most antigovernment SciFi book of the 20th century I've read. Made me question the modern democracy as supposedly the best political system for the first time in life.
Even though he was clearly a patriot and served in the US Navy during the war, he was publicly against the conscription (i.e. the army of slaves).
Finally, was a believer in self-sufficiency and self-defense. In the world of "Moon..", butt-pinching perverts would not have been tolerated (probably shot on the spot or something). Problem solved ;)
Yeah, trust me, he was a full-blown racist (whatever the fuck that means) in his fiction. It's visible in more of his work than FF, though that's where it's most indisputable, IMO. (And, of course, in his letters.) And I"m really not interested in discussing Heinlein's various bigotries again, or hearing them justified.
I believe you. I guess I'm lucky I haven't come across more egregious examples. And I don't try to justify anything, I just happen to agree with some of the ideas in his books. No excuses for bigotry, of course.
I did feel his female characters were often cartoonish and served mostly as love interests for the heroes. It really cracked me up when in Tunnel in the Sky all seventeen-year old girls wanted to get married and have babies – in the middle of the wilderness, no less. I know the book was published in the Eisenhower era, but really, even the 1950s housewives should have had more sense than that.
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Hives refers to a skin condition where in itchy red welts erupt on the surface of the skin. They may appear as single welts or in clusters. They tend to be itchy and can cause some swelling as well. Hives are also referred to as Urticaria and are commonly caused by allergens and other triggers like stress and viral infection. Hives are a common occurrence. They tend to fade away within six weeks of eruptions, However if symptoms persist or are exaggerated consult a doctor for a cure for hives.
There are a number of treatments for hives, from allopathic options to natural remedies.
Antihistamines – The most common way to treat hives is taking antihistamines to counter the allergic reactions. Welts are a result of the release of histamines in the bloodstream. Taking antihistamines counters the chemical release in the body and cures the hives.
Aromatherapy – Aromatherapy is a soothing hives remedy. It uses various healing and therapeutic essential oils like sandalwood, lavender and chamomile to treat hives. Your therapist will know exactly what combinations of essential oils to use to reverse the hives. If you are trying this at home, simply dab a few drops of sandalwood essential oil on a gauze and press over the inflamed skin every three hours till the hives subside.
Acupuncture – Another cure for hives is acupuncture. This ancient Chinese technique uses needles and fine pins, and massages to relieve energy flow along pressure points along the body. In the case of hives, the acupuncturist will access the muscle between the neck and the shoulder and apply the necessary pressure on it. This may help you get rid of the flare.
A great way to treat hives is by using natural and home remedies. These remedies comprise of easy to find ingredients and don't cause any serious repercussions.
Aloe Vera – Apply a soothing aloe gel to the affected body parts at regular intervals during the day. Continue this treatment till symptoms subside.
Mint – Mint has a similar effect on hives. Boil a few fresh mint leaves in a cup of water. Strain the solutions and refrigerate it. Once the mint water has solidified, apply the mint cube on the affected areas.
Cornstarch – Another cure for hives is a cornstarch soak. Simply add half a cup of cornstarch and half a cup of baking soda to a warm bath. Soak in this mixture once a day till your symptoms subside.
Quercetin – This natural antihistamine is found in green vegetables and fruits like apples. Include these foods in your diet for hive relief.


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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Thousands of people on Sunday took to the streets in the Montreal city in Canada's Quebec province to protest the government's proposed secularism bill, banning civil servants from wearing religious symbols on the job, local media reported.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Around 6,000 people took part in an authorised march commemorating slain Russian opposition figure Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow on Sunday, the Main Directorate of the Russian Interior Ministry in Moscow said.
Some 14 French political parties, including president Emmanuel Macron's La République En Marche!, as well as the Republicans, called on the French electorate to hold political demonstrations all over the country under the slogan "No to anti-Semitism".
This was the 16th time that right-wing groups in Bulgaria held the controversial annual march dedicated to Hristo Nikolov Lukov, a minister of war and leader of the Union of Bulgarian National Legions (UBNL), which supported Nazi Germany during World War II.
BRUSSELS (Sputnik) - The National Security Council of Belgium (NSC) cancelled the ban on the so-called March against Marrakesh protesting a UN migration pact, which is expected to take place in Brussels on 15 December, a source in the city administration told Sputnik.
A UK Independence Party (UKIP) march led by right-wing activist Tommy Robinson against what organisers call the "Brexit betrayal" is taking place in London.
Previously, several caravans with hundreds of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and other countries reached the Tijuana in a bid to enter the US. Addressing the issue, US President Donald Trump sent around 6,000 active troops to strengthen the border.


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Ibiza History & Culture
LiveIbiza Established 1982
Ibiza Artists Anthropology Bibliomania Ecology History Features
I Remember Ibiza
by Harold Liebow
Part Eight
Ibiza Rental Accommodation
Island Map
LIVEIBIZA
Arrival on the Island
How I Got My Name
How I Met Ernesto
How I Crossed The Rubicon
What I Found In Santa Inés
Strange Bedfellows At The Delfín Verde
Christmas Day In Ibiza Town
Another House, Another Place
The Hunt For Flipper
Flipper Son Of Salsa
Flipper Sleeps It Off
Eastward Ho!
Back To Ibiza Town
The Kiosk On Playa D'En Bossa
The Party At La Parra
On The Way To Casa Paput
Casa Paput
I Begin To Understand Ibiza
A Sheep Leap, a Country School and a Translator
I Meet Alberto
As a photographer, the morning of my second day in Ibiza had been an exciting one. There had been that wonderful Christmas shot of the benign police-Santa directing sleepy traffic in an island of gifts, the Polaroid print of which had so astonished the locals: but, as a person, the afternoon was to prove even more exciting. For in the late afternoon the boat from Barcelona finally arrived. And on it were the friends who were to be my hosts during the next ten days. We were to go on from Ibiza town to their house on the island's west coast, well up from San Antonio Abad. It was sited in a lonely stretch of coast at the base of a massive, rocky promontory which jutted boldly out into the sea. Adjacent to it and just north of it was a lovely, very private, quite small cove. And still further up the coast was a much larger, very grand Cala. A place which was to figure importantly to me in the next few days. The friends were the people in whose Parisian apartment we had met about a month earlier and who had invited me to what I thought would be a Christmas party in Ibiza. They had told me their house was in a beautiful and solitary location. They had also told me that it was the first time they had opened the house in the winter. The chilly implications of that information had entirely escaped me and were only to be fully understood in due course.
The scene at the quay when their ship docked was much like the one when I had arrived. There were masses of welcoming people and I had the same impression that I had had before, viz., which the whole town turned out to meet these incoming ships bringing their cargoes of goods and people from the great outside world. In the quiet life of Ibiza town the arrival of the ocean going ships was a communal affair of the first magnitude. People would plan to meet them in the same way they might plan to have a picnic. They would organize themselves into family - or friend-groups and then become active spectators of the docking scenario. They would join in with the waving, welcoming throngs, even if they were not expecting visitors of their own. They would join in the occasional and spontaneous crowd singing, much like that of the fans at football spectacles. The arrivals of the ships were to be celebrated by one and all. And so they were.
This particular arrival saw my new friends struggle carefully down a shuddering gangplank lugging baggage and a child-in-arms. There was the Madame herself, dressed in that special Parisian fashion which immediately identified her as a woman of discriminating taste. There was her long-time companion, Jacques, about whom more later. There was her stunning daughter, Catherine, a youthful matron carrying her beautiful baby daughter, Sandra. And there was Catherine's young husband, Alberto, a poetic Columbian type who was manfully shouldering the heaviest of the luggage pieces. When at last they were all safely off the uncertain gangplank and standing solidly on the quay, there were embraces all around and a powerful sense of homecoming. Ibiza, it seemed, was as much home to them as was Paris. They had met Flipper before, of course, and their reunion was a delight to see. Baby Sandra, especially, was enchanted by him as he was by her. Because my Renault was full of my things and could never have held us all in any case, I had ordered one of the very few cabs available in those days - which had proved to be no simple matter since my Spanish was not up to telling its driver where I wanted him to take us. But finally, I had prevailed. So we all moved off slowly to the cab with the crowd noises still ringing loudly in our ears. In the end the two cars travelled westward together, towards San Antonio Abad, the cab leading Flipper and me in our Renault. I was now entirely in the hands of my friends. The Delfín Verde soon became only a memory.
The road westward began to rise just before we reached the mid point of the island's waist, at San Rafael, and the climb became steeper as we went on. It was so late in the afternoon or so early in the evening, that shadows were falling on both sides of us. Farm houses would at one moment be standing in glaring whiteness and in the next, look dark and alone in the tilled fields surrounding them. Here and there small clusters of sheep, or goats, would be moving slowly homewards. It seemed a perfect picture of the pastoral. Most notable of all, to my urban eyes, were the olive trees. Some of these trees presented a calendar of the island which must have been a thousand years old. They stood massively in their places, their knurled trunks sometimes a meter in diameter. They had seen the migrations of the Ancients; now they were to see the coming of new waves of unexpected people. The writers and the painters and the poets were soon to be joined by the flower people, and a new life style would begin to replace the old. In the end, with the coming of the tourists, the old ways would be forever lost. And so would most of the olive trees. But not all would go. To this day the island still cherishes the few that remain.
And then at San Rafael, we reached the top of the rise and began to negotiate a long downward slope which took us almost to San Antonio Abad. But not before we had one of those revelatory views of the island which, at the same time, startle and shock with their beauty. Suddenly, as we topped a minor rise in the roadway, the entire plateau on which San Antonio sits, and the sea which boarders on it to the west, burst into view. It was as if a stage curtain had been abruptly withdrawn revealing a gorgeous vista of green-blue sea, a vast open sky, a sleeping fishing village and gleaming, well groomed country farms. Flipper, hearing me catching my breath, jumped up from his cushion, put his paws on my shoulder and furiously wagged his tail. It was his way of reassuring me, of saying that everything was all right.
It is common knowledge that taxi-drivers anywhere in the world are leery of bad road conditions. Our taxi-driver was no different. The downgrade access road to my friends' house in those days can only be described as having been an automobile torture test. It took all of her charm for Catherine to persuade our reluctant driver to override his fears for his suspension. Finally, a compromise was reached. To relieve the strain on his springs, the passengers all absented themselves from their seats in the cab and, on foot, dutifully followed its cautious, snail-like downhill approach to the house. I followed them in the Renault, with Flipper yelping in indignation at the site of his friends stumbling along. The descent took us twenty minutes and during its passage we found ourselves in a brooding pine forest. It had become early evening and the sombre ambiance under the trees, and amid their resinous fumes, proved a proper introduction to the house itself. It heightened our senses and sharpened our vision. And when at last the house came into sight, with the sun beginning to set, the vista proved to be another of those magical Ibiza moments that are so hard to forget. Suddenly we broke through the last of the pine forest and into the open. We had reached the sea…and the house.
There it stood virgin white and indigenous to the ancient rock shelf out of which it seemed to grow. Solitary in the gloaming, no other human thing in view, it gazed forever west, to the sea, to the burgeoning sunset, the radiance of which embraced the vast dome of the sky and flamed the almost invisible horizon. Just below the house lay the deep purple of evening water saying farewell to the day, while high overhead a small flight of silently soaring seagulls, saluted the setting sun.
It was a large structure, simultaneously affirmative and authoritative, its commanding impact not diminishing in the least its proffered warmth of welcome and its gift of impregnable security. It seemed two storeys high, with ample girth to carry the upper mass. There was a convincing logicality to its exterior presentation which strongly implied that the inside of this architectural apparition on a lonely beachside, would be correspondingly logical to comfortable human habitation.
I stood struck with wonder at the huge complex of circumstances which had been woven together to create such a phenomenon as this house in this place at this time…and with me, there, to see, touch, smell, hear, and, yes, to taste it all! How had it happened? How had it fused together to find me and Flipper standing in this place at sunset on Christmas night with new friends and a new life ahead of us? Suddenly I felt a familiar pressure on my right foot. The little dog was sitting on it. He had read my feeling, as usual, and had come to say he understood. He was the only element of my past life in America that was still with me. I knelt down and patted his little head.
The speculation I had made about the nature of the interior of the house was well borne out. The layout and build quality were extraordinary for a building created in the early 1930s. We had entered from the rear into what was really a central utility area, walking on lovely old tiles. On the right was a kitchen of primitive character. There was a heavy stoneware sink supplied with sparkling fresh cistern water by a built-in hand pump. There were two foc a terras, small charcoal burning cookers made of heavy, natural earthenware. These stood on the left, at right angles to the sink, on an ample, waist-high platform. There was work surface enough to satisfy the most space-wasting of cooks. And everything such a cook might need seemed ready to hand. The kitchen, though primitive, was utilitarian in the extreme.
Back in the central utility area, and opening out from it, were a bedroom to the left and another one to the right, just after the kitchen. But the chief architectural feature was a great arched entrance, into what was the main and central living space. The arch was so fashioned that it displayed the structural nature of the walls. These were no less than 50 centimetres thick and had been built of large rocks concealed and locked in place by mortar, not cement. This was the same material and construction style of the island's casas payesas. Some of those old country houses were six hundred years old, still well preserved and in use. But what took the eye most, was the two-storey height of most of what was really the living room. The feeling of light and air and spaciousness that resulted was enchanting. The two storey ceiling portion permitted of a sleeping balcony reached by a curved staircase, with a small bedroom located underneath it. The balcony was ample for its purpose and was supplied with a south-facing window and a doorway opening to the west, onto its own pleasant terrace overlooking the sea. Two massive exterior wooden doors protecting two framed, interior, glass doors, comprised the main entrance of the house, and gave out onto a large terrace facing westward to the sea.
It was bitter cold as we stepped inside and entered the generous living room. In it were two comfortable old cushion chairs - still in place forty years later - set close to the walls, while the central region was occupied by a low table around which stood six chairs seemingly designed for children. They were very small chairs, indeed. I discovered later that they were typical of Ibicencan households. In the master bedroom, which was wide open to the living room, being closed off when appropriate only by a full sliding curtain, was a handsome fireplace fringed with old tiles. It was begging to be lit…and it was not long before it was.
Flipper stood in the middle of the living room, his tail wagging a bit uncertainly. I stood there with him, chilled to the bone. It had begun to dawn on me that there was not really to be a party, as I had expected, but rather a first-time Ibiza family gathering in winter. Madame came over to me, a sweet smile on her face.
"Welcome to my house!" she said, and kissed me on both cheeks.
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Man dead after shooting in south Minneapolis
It happened on Thursday evening.
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A man has died after a shooting in south Minneapolis on Thursday evening.
The shooting happened just before 9 p.m., with police sent to the 2200 block of 13th Avenue South, in the Ventura Village neighborhood, on reports of shots fired.
When they got to the scene, officers were told the victim had been transported to Hennepin County Medical Center. He died there a short time later.
It is believed that the victim, a man in his mid-20s, was sitting in a car when a suspect approached on foot, firing several times into the car.
The victim has not yet been identified, with that detail coming at a later date from the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office .
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Wil and Charlie are joined by special guest Nick Cody.
Wil and Charlie discuss Week 3 of the Finals while also making another shocking Sockgate discovery.
A small selection of pictures from the 2016 LA Podcast Festival. More to come!


For the third quarter 2018 Boxscore Brands, Inc lost money of $-0.02 per share compare to $-0.12 a year ago and eps fell from $0.07 per share from the previous quarter.
Sales fell sharply to $0 millions from $1 millions in the same quarter a year ago and sequentially from $0 millions.
In the third quarter 2018 Boxscore Brands, Inc reported net loss of $-1 million, instead of deficit of $-3 millions in the same quarter a year ago.
Heat Biologics, Inc announced very strong Sales growth of 235.4 % year on year to $2.06 millions in the forth quarter, but losses widen at $-0.16.
Suncoke Energy Partners, L.p announced earnings per share of $0.10 and Sales of $224.60 millions in the first quarter, Company's eps dived by -61.54 % per share, versus $0.26 eps, earned in the same quarter a year ago, although Suncoke Energy Partners, L.p saw it's Sales rise by 7.26 % in the same period.
In the first quarter Universal Stainless & Alloy Products Inc earnings per share plummeted by -50 % of $0.14 per share compare to $0.28 a year ago and eps dropped by -72.12 % from $0.50 per share from the previous quarter.
Sales declined by -5.44 % to $60.27 millions from $63.74 millions in the same quarter a year ago and sequentially Sales fell by -16.58 % from $72.25 millions.
For the third quarter Advanzeon Solutions, Inc increased losses at $-0.01 per share, compare to results of $0.00 per share a year ago quarter, In the previous quarter company realized $0.11 per share.


On Saturday the 5th of March the CASA Drone team and I ran workshops on drones and 3D modelling as part of the Royal Institution's Coding Club for year 9 students.
The session began with an introduction by Flora and a discussion of the #drones4good movement and her previous collaboration with the ReMap Lima project where drones were used to map illegal land grabbing on the outskirts of the Peruvian capital.
Richard then introduced the workshop with a look at FPV quadcopter racing and went on to instruct the students in how to assemble the electronics in order to complete the wonderful 3D printed drone frames they had prepared specially for the event. Thanks there to our director Andy Hudson-Smith for his perseverance with the 3D printer!
After flying the drones we moved through to the computer room where I explained how 3D modelling formed a link between the 3D printed frames we had been using during the first part of the session and the kinds of 3D models used in movies, video games and virtual reality experiences that we would demonstrate in the second half. After a brief demonstration of SketchUp the students were able to start creating their own 3D models.
To end the session Richard and I gave demonstrations of the drone simulator he had created in Unity and the CASA Virtual Reality Urban Roller Coaster I had made previously for Oculus Rift Unity game engine.
We had a fantastic morning. Additional thanks are due to Martin Austwick who facilitated on behalf of CASA and two CASA Master's students Nathan Suberi and Anouchka Lettre who kindly volunteered to help out (first, second and third from the left in the pic below).
Finally a massive thanks to Elpida Makrygianni from the UCL Engineering who organised the event.
Further details of the event can be found on the CASA Drone team blog post here. The full set of pictures from the workshop can be found here.
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KADA-FM is the market's only Adult Contemporary outlet, having changed from 22 years of playing country music in June of '05. The carefully structured format is a blend of 70's, 80's and 90's music as well hits from today. It is also the only station in the market catering to a Female demographic, 18-45. The music featured will be hit-oriented, and will feature a core group of well-known artists including The Eagles, Celine Dion, Phil Collins, Elton John, Whitney Houston and more. Localism is featured on this station as well, including the Halloween Safe House, the single largest event in the market, with attendance of over 5,000 people in a 3 hour period! KADA-FM is also the exclusive market broadcaster of O.U. sports.
Website: http://kadaradio.net/
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VirtualDJ Radio - ClubZone - Channel 1
100% Live Mixes From DJs Around The World
VirtualDJ Radio - TheGrind - Channel 2
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New #1 For Hip Hop
VirtualDJ Radio - Hypnotica - Channel 3
Red Bull Radio
107.5 WBLS
#1 FOR R&B
The Most Trusted Name In News
116 Sat
La Mega New York
Salsa, Merengue y mas
World Class Jazz
Seattle-Tacoma, WA
99 JAMZ
Miami's #1 For Hip Hop & R&B
Your Music, Your Way
ESPN Radio
You Know Us, We Know Sports
889 The Bridge
Music and Conversation that Spans Generations
181.FM The Beat (HipHop/R&B)
La Mega LA
El Party De Los Angeles con todos los hits
ESPN Deportes Radio
Sólo deportes. Sólo en español.
La Raza 97.9
La estación de los madrazos
Regional Mexican/Banda/Cumbia
East Los Angeles, CA


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package org.spongepowered.common.sql;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;

import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.Caffeine;
import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.LoadingCache;
import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.RemovalListener;
import com.google.common.base.Objects;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
import com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariConfig;
import com.zaxxer.hikari.HikariDataSource;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;
import org.spongepowered.api.Sponge;
import org.spongepowered.api.sql.SqlManager;
import org.spongepowered.common.applaunch.config.core.SpongeConfigs;
import org.spongepowered.plugin.PluginContainer;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URLDecoder;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.util.concurrent.CompletionException;
import java.util.function.BiFunction;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

/**
 * Implementation of a SQL-using service.
 *
 *
This implementation does a few interesting things

 *     - It's thread-safe
 *     - It allows applying additional driver-specific connection
 *     properties -- this allows us to do some light performance tuning in
 *     cases where we don't want to be as conservative as the driver developers
 *     - Caches DataSources. This cache is currently never cleared of stale entries
 *     -- if some plugin makes database connections to a ton of different databases
 *     we may want to implement this, but it is kinda unimportant.
 */
public final class SpongeSqlManager implements SqlManager, Closeable {

    static final Map<String, Properties> PROTOCOL_SPECIFIC_PROPS;
    static final Map<String, BiFunction<PluginContainer, String, String>> PATH_CANONICALIZERS;

    static {
        final ImmutableMap.Builder<String, Properties> build = ImmutableMap.builder();
        final Properties mySqlProps = new Properties();
        mySqlProps.setProperty("useConfigs",
                "maxPerformance"); // Config options based on http://assets.en.oreilly
                // .com/1/event/21/Connector_J%20Performance%20Gems%20Presentation.pdf
        build.put("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver", mySqlProps);
        build.put("org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver", mySqlProps);

        PROTOCOL_SPECIFIC_PROPS = build.build();
        PATH_CANONICALIZERS = ImmutableMap.of("h2", (plugin, orig) -> {
            // Bleh if only h2 had a better way of supplying a base directory... oh well...
            final org.h2.engine.ConnectionInfo h2Info = new org.h2.engine.ConnectionInfo(orig);
            if (!h2Info.isPersistent() || h2Info.isRemote()) {
                return orig;
            }
            if (orig.startsWith("file:")) {
                orig = orig.substring("file:".length());
            }
            final Path origPath = Paths.get(orig);
            if (origPath.isAbsolute()) {
                return origPath.toString();
            }

            return Sponge.configManager().pluginConfig(plugin).directory().resolve(orig).toAbsolutePath().toString();
        });
    }

    private @Nullable LoadingCache<ConnectionInfo, HikariDataSource> connectionCache;

    public SpongeSqlManager() {
        this.buildConnectionCache();
    }

    public void buildConnectionCache() {
        this.connectionCache = null;
        this.connectionCache = Caffeine.newBuilder()
                .removalListener((RemovalListener<ConnectionInfo, HikariDataSource>) ((key, value, cause) -> {
                    if (value != null) {
                        value.close();
                    }
                }))
                .build((key) -> {
                    final HikariConfig config = new HikariConfig();
                    config.setUsername(key.getUser());
                    config.setPassword(key.getPassword());
                    config.setDriverClassName(key.getDriverClassName());
                    // https://github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-Sizing for info on pool sizing
                    config.setMaximumPoolSize((Runtime.getRuntime().availableProcessors() * 2) + 1);
                    config.setLeakDetectionThreshold(60 * 1000);
                    final Properties driverSpecificProperties = SpongeSqlManager.PROTOCOL_SPECIFIC_PROPS.get(key.getDriverClassName());
                    if (driverSpecificProperties != null) {
                        config.setDataSourceProperties(driverSpecificProperties);
                    }
                    config.setJdbcUrl(key.getAuthlessUrl());
                    return new HikariDataSource(config);
                });
    }
    @Override
    public DataSource dataSource(final String jdbcConnection) throws SQLException {
        return this.dataSource(null, jdbcConnection);
    }

    @Override
    public DataSource dataSource(final PluginContainer plugin, final String jdbcConnection) throws SQLException {
        checkNotNull(this.connectionCache);

        final String jdbcConnectionString = this.connectionUrlFromAlias(jdbcConnection).orElse(jdbcConnection);
        final ConnectionInfo info = ConnectionInfo.fromUrl(plugin, jdbcConnectionString);
        try {
            return this.connectionCache.get(info);
        } catch (final CompletionException e) {
            throw new SQLException(e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        if (this.connectionCache != null) {
            this.connectionCache.invalidateAll();
        }
    }

    public static class ConnectionInfo {

        private static final Pattern URL_REGEX = Pattern.compile("(?:jdbc:)?([^:]+):(//)?(?:([^:]+)(?::([^@]+))?@)?(.*)");
        private static final String UTF_8 = StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name();
        private final @Nullable String user;
        private final @Nullable String password;
        private final String driverClassName;
        private final String authlessUrl;
        private final String fullUrl;

        /**
         * Create a new ConnectionInfo with the give parameters
         * @param user The username to use when connecting to th database
         * @param password The password to connect with. If user is not null, password must not be null
         * @param driverClassName The class name of the driver to use for this connection
         * @param authlessUrl A JDBC url for this driver not containing authentication information
         * @param fullUrl The full jdbc url containing user, password, and database info
         */
        public ConnectionInfo(final @Nullable String user, final @Nullable String password, final String driverClassName, final String authlessUrl, final String fullUrl) {
            this.user = user;
            this.password = password;
            this.driverClassName = driverClassName;
            this.authlessUrl = authlessUrl;
            this.fullUrl = fullUrl;
        }

        public @Nullable String getUser() {
            return this.user;
        }

        public @Nullable String getPassword() {
            return this.password;
        }

        public String getDriverClassName() {
            return this.driverClassName;
        }

        public String getAuthlessUrl() {
            return this.authlessUrl;
        }

        public String getFullUrl() {
            return this.fullUrl;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean equals(final Object o) {
            if (this == o) {
                return true;
            }
            if (o == null || this.getClass() != o.getClass()) {
                return false;
            }
            final ConnectionInfo that = (ConnectionInfo) o;
            return Objects.equal(this.user, that.user)
                    && Objects.equal(this.password, that.password)
                    && Objects.equal(this.driverClassName, that.driverClassName)
                    && Objects.equal(this.authlessUrl, that.authlessUrl)
                    && Objects.equal(this.fullUrl, that.fullUrl);
        }

        @Override
        public int hashCode() {
            return Objects.hashCode(this.user, this.password, this.driverClassName, this.authlessUrl, this.fullUrl);
        }

        /**
         * Extracts the connection info from a JDBC url with additional authentication information as specified in {@link SqlManager}.
         *
         *
         * @param container The plugin to put a path relative to
         * @param fullUrl The full JDBC URL as specified in SqlService
         * @return A constructed ConnectionInfo object using the info from the provided URL
         * @throws SQLException If the driver for the given URL is not present
         */
        public static ConnectionInfo fromUrl(final @Nullable PluginContainer container, final String fullUrl) throws SQLException {
            final Matcher match = ConnectionInfo.URL_REGEX.matcher(fullUrl);
            if (!match.matches()) {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("URL " + fullUrl + " is not a valid JDBC URL");
            }

            final String protocol = match.group(1);
            final boolean hasSlashes = match.group(2) != null;
            final String user = ConnectionInfo.urlDecode(match.group(3));
            final String pass = ConnectionInfo.urlDecode(match.group(4));
            String serverDatabaseSpecifier = match.group(5);
            final BiFunction<PluginContainer, String, String> derelativizer = SpongeSqlManager.PATH_CANONICALIZERS.get(protocol);
            if (container != null && derelativizer != null) {
                serverDatabaseSpecifier = derelativizer.apply(container, serverDatabaseSpecifier);
            }
            final String unauthedUrl = "jdbc:" + protocol + (hasSlashes ? "://" : ":") + serverDatabaseSpecifier;
            final String driverClass = DriverManager.getDriver(unauthedUrl).getClass().getCanonicalName();
            return new ConnectionInfo(user, pass, driverClass, unauthedUrl, fullUrl);
        }

        private static String urlDecode(final String str) {
            try {
                return str == null ? null : URLDecoder.decode(str, ConnectionInfo.UTF_8);
            } catch (final UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
                // If UTF-8 is not supported, we have bigger problems...
                throw new RuntimeException("UTF-8 is not supported on this system", e);
            }
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<String> connectionUrlFromAlias(final String alias) {
        return Optional.ofNullable(SpongeConfigs.getCommon().get().sql.aliases.get(alias));
    }

}


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HomeNewsWHO IS DIVIDING THE APC IN RIVERS STATE?
WHO IS DIVIDING THE APC IN RIVERS STATE?
The All Progressives Congress APC today remains the party in power in Nigeria and arguably the biggest political Party in Africa.
1. Rivers state played a most critical role in the formation of the APC in 2014. Regrettably, today the party is not in any political position in Rivers state and this has been so from the 2015 to 2019 general election till date. This is not farfetched yet not without the disposition of one man Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. The APC lost the general election in Rivers state in 2015 but for a few offices. In 2019, the party totally lost everything in entirety not even a Ward Councillor because of ego trip and disobedience to Court judgement and so we lost the opportunity to even contest. It appears APC has still not learnt the bitter lessons? All because one man decided for everybody and imposed his uninformed strategy on the rest of the party without question.
2. Today, bold questions have been asked by patriotic voices, albeit the one time APC 3rd Force now the lawful leadership of the Party led by the Acting Chairman, Rt. Hon. Igo Aguma. The question is simple: constitutional politics and inclusive democracy. What is wrong with asking that these should be the watchword of our party in the state. The Party has a Constitution which should be respected. What is wrong with that? Today the Court has not only pronounced Rt. Hon. I go Aguma as Caretaker Committee Chairman of the party; it went on in the open to counsel that members of the party should come together and resolve the ailing issues on a round table through dialogue. This was done after the Court dissolved the illegal illegal caretaker Committee of the Party in the state constituted through the hands of Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi the Minister for Transportation.
3. Several heavily publicized Executives Committee meetings of the party in Rivers state were called by the Acting Chairman Rt. Hon. Igo Aguma and far reaching decisions were made including the resolution for peace and reconciliation in the party by the well attended meetings which held virtually. Unfortunately, an insignificant fraction of the statutory members of the party deliberately refused to attend the meetings and made no apologies despite been well informed and all details for virtual access made available to them abundantly and evidently without denial. Their refusal was no doubt in line with instructions from the Transportation Minister who has been committed to polarising the Party for his own self gains in government.
4. Surprisingly, about five statutory members or so and some other supporters of the party "loyal" to Rotimi Amaechi held a press conference called by Senator Andrew Uchendu in his house in GRA Port Harcourt. Curiously, they announced the purported suspension of Igo Aguma from the party and named Dr. Sokonte Davies a member of the party as their chairman. The persons carried out a contemptuous action with impunity seating on Appeal through a press conference over the judiciary to set aside the judgement of the Court which affirmed Igo Aguma as Acting Chairman of the party. They dramatically christened their press conference a "28 man attended meeting" or better described as a "one room cell meeting" whereafter a certain attendance list leaked showing that not even a quarter of the number they brandished attended. In reality, after their script failed, they now forge signatures and go from house to house of statutory members to beg to sign an attendance list which has now irrevocably exposed their deceit.
5. Today, Rotimi Amaechi now runs and sponsors two factional Caretaker Committee Chairmen of APC in Rivers state right in his both hands. On one count, he has a Dr. Sokonte Davies paraded as his caretaker Committee Chairman here in Port Harcourt and on the other hand, he has an Isaac Abot Ogbobula as Caretaker Committee Chairman whom he is also sponsoring from Port Harcourt Appeal Court Division now to a night-Bus-case-file-travel by road to the Appeal Court Abuja Division where he is now litiguosly fighting to be confirmed as Chairman of the APC which the Court in Port Harcourt has voided as illegal. As an obiter which someone posited, if Sokonte Davies is Chairman, why is he not the one in the Respondent Applicant status in the Court of Appeal? If Sokonte is Chairman, why is Igo the one still being contended with at the Court of Appeal seeking to be stayed. Sokonte Davies has a character assassin and towncrier without an office and he goes by the name Ogbonna Nwuke. This fellow has continued to hang in the barrels and balance of the entire crisis vituperating. Who is Ogbonna Nwuke in APC Rivers state today? Does he have an office? Is he aware of another aware of another acclaimed APC Rivers state Chairman whom his principal Rotimi Amaechi is also parading and vigorously sponsoring? Do he know he stands to lose his current job in his faction if in their wildest dream Isaac Ogbobula is confirmed by their dead on arrival hatchet plans through the Court?
6. The question comes up again, WHO IS DIVIDING THE PARTY? President Muhammadu Buhari had directed weeks ago that all APC members should withdraw their cases from the Court to give room for peace and reconciliation within the Party, but Rotimi Amaechi and his supporters are daring the President and disregarding the Presidential directive including that of the National Caretaker Committee of the party. Such insubordination is a new wonder in our politics and leadership. This raises the puzzle why strangely but not surprising, the Transportation Minister has never called for peace and reconciliation in the party in Rivers State. Not for once. There has never been a peace or reconciliation sentence in his speeches. His statements have never been conciliatory or at all reconcilliatory. He has only sang war songs and sponsored groups to threaten Rivers state and burn down Nigeria should things not go his way in the party. This is confirmed in a bizzare viral video about June 21, 2020 of young men from his village whom he admitted are his Supporters came out to boldly threaten to burn down Rivers state and all federal structures and Agencies and "NOTHING WILL HAPPEN ". We are concerned about their boldness.
7. They ended by saying and I quote, "whoever will sympathize with anybody should start now, President Muhammadu Buhari should talk to the Chief of Army Staff now, should talk to the Inspector-General of Police now, should talk to DSS now, should talk to the Chief Justice of the Federation now, to caution the Rivers State Judiciary, now that it has not happened, because if it happens we will destroy everything in Rivers State, and we will be ready to face the consequences and nothing will happen. Thank you very much".
8. A section of his supporters later staged a denial and petty disclaimer in another video while their principal was on another platform affirming that the violent group are his supporters yet they walk freely.
The Minister of Transportation came on a live programme on Arise TV to admit "I know my publicist will be surprised about what I am about to say. Both the group that threatened and the ones that countered them are all my supporters ". This is an open admittance and requires no further interrogation. What is necessary now is that the relevant Authorities should immediately arrest and prosecute these suspected criminals that seek to kill people and burn down the Nigerian state.
9. As long as Rotimi Amaechi is Minister and controls opportunities and benefits meant for Rivers state from the federal government, he cares less whether the party is alive or dead in the state. This is why he destroyed the chances of the party in the 2019 general election in the state jeopardizing the political prospects of an army of aspiring party supporters and members. Can anyone doubt that Rotimi Amaechi is dividing the APC in Rivers state? Can he be absolved any responsibility or blame in all his deliberate actions or inactions, since he claims "I MADE EVERYBODY POLITICALLY IN RIVERS STATE? The much "godified" man may have been made by no one including God. God forbid.
We are still on the path of peace and so restrained from saying so much and deeper things.
AGAIN, WHO IS DIVIDING THE APC IN RIVERS STATE?
Sign:
Comrade C.M Samuel
Facilitator,
APC New Generation Group


Once again it's exam time here at Ziontech. Tim and Rachel have retaken and passed their exams in order for us to continue to be a Google Certified Partner. Partners stay up to date on the latest Google tools and products by passing Google-administered certification exams every 18 months. In order to become certified, Tim and Rachel had to pass both the Google Advertising Fundamentals exam as well as one of the three advanced exams.
The Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam; which covers the most basic aspects of AdWords and online advertising, including account management and the value of search advertising.
The Search Advertising Advanced Exam; which covers intermediate-to-advanced best practices for managing AdWords campaigns.
The Display Advertising Exam; which covers intermediate-to-advanced best practices for advertising on YouTube and the Google Content Network.
Both Rachel and Tim have each passed The Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam and The Search Advertising Advanced Exam. Tim also went on to take and pass The Display Advertising Exam. Here at Ziontech we would like to congratulate them on their achievements. Tim has maintained his qualification as Google Advertising professional since 2005 and Rachel since 2007.


Singapore Tour for the 7th Time.
Last month I went to Singapore to deliver XNA Game Development workshops at Singapore Universities.
XNA Game Development Workshops at Singapore Universities [Event Update].
My new HP Laptop at Microsoft.
At Marina Bay Link mall.
View of Marina Bay Sands.
At the Changi AirPort, Singapore.
2011 Microsoft MVP Global Summit.
The MVP Global Summit is a multi-day event that is hosted in Bellevue and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. With a large catalog of deep dive sessions and a variety of networking opportunities, the MVP Global Summit enables MVPs to connect with other MVPs, build relationships with Microsoft product managers, and provide feedback on Microsoft products and technologies.
The MVP Global Summit will be hosted in Bellevue and at Microsoft headquarters, in Redmond, Washington from February 28 – March 2.


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Edgewater Ventures Announces the Development of Palmetto Coast Industrial Park
Published on Tuesday, December 13, 2022 by Expansion Solutions Magazine
Edgewater Ventures announces the development of Palmetto Coast Industrial Park, a four-building Class A industrial development that will total nearly 720,000 square feet upon completion. Edgewater anticipates breaking ground in January on Building 1, a 165,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility that will feature tilt-up concrete construction with extensive glass lines, 32' clear height, an ESFR sprinkler system, and a 180' deep truck court. Building 1 is slated to deliver in the fourth quarter of 2024 and can accommodate tenants ranging in size from 22,000 to 165,000 square feet.
Palmetto Coast Industrial Park will be the first-ever speculative Class A industrial development constructed within the Myrtle Beach market. The park is strategically positioned on Water Tower Road with a dedicated interchange at Highway 31, providing direct, uninterrupted access to the entire Myrtle Beach region. Upon completion, the development will provide corporate tenants with outstanding access to the Grand Strand, Myrtle Beach International Airport, Highway 17, Interstate 95, and the Dillon Inland Port Terminal.
Palmetto Coast Industrial Park is Edgewater Ventures' first ground-up development in the Myrtle Beach market and will add to the company's industrial portfolio in the Carolinas which currently totals nearly 3.2 million square feet. Chris Norvell of Edgewater Ventures commented, "We're extremely excited to bring North Myrtle Beach its first-ever Class A industrial development. We're bullish about the long-term growth of the region and view this development as extremely well positioned to serve companies looking for best-in-class facilities in a highly accessible location."
Edgewater has tapped Adam Cates with Tradd Commercial to spearhead the leasing for the project. Cates added, "The expansion of Edgewater Ventures development footprint into Horry County will deliver a product that is sorely needed in our area. I'm excited to participate in what will be a success for economic development along the Grand Strand."
"The Palmetto Coast Industrial Park will be a significant recruiting tool for the Horry County area," said Sandy Davis, President and CEO of the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corp. "The state of the art facilities will increase our chances of winning projects and having availability for our existing industries to grow. We appreciate Edgewater Ventures for seeing the need in our area and we look forward to their growth."
About Edgewater Ventures
Edgewater Ventures is a commercial real estate investment firm that is focused on the acquisition and development of industrial, office, multi-family and life sciences assets across the Carolinas. Our team members have dedicated their entire careers to the maximization of real estate value through the identification of opportunities and the first-class operation of assets for our clients and partners. With over 50 years of combined experience and years of working together, the Edgewater team brings a unique corporate culture and passion for the industry that has consistently translated into exceptional results. Founded in January of 2020, Edgewater currently owns and operates a portfolio of 3.2 million square feet of properties and over 1.1 million square feet under construction throughout the Carolinas. The firm has offices in Raleigh and Wilmington, North Carolina.
For additional Information:
Chris Norvell
www.edgewater-ventures.com
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