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Jim Crow, Science Fiction, and WorldCon
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No black fans had become active to any extent by 1957, but females without brothers or husbands in fandom became more numerous. The one who attracted the most notice was Lee Hoffman, whom everyone had assumed to be male until she appeared at a fan gathering for the first time and almost disrupted the New Orleans Worldcon in 1951 in the process.
—Harry Warner, Jr. "Fandom Between World War II and Sputnik" in Science Fiction Fandom 70
Nolacon I, held over Labor Day weekend (September 1-3) in New Orleans in 1951, was the ninth WorldCon. Harry Warner's pronouncement that no black fans had become active in fandom by 1957 was not true: black fans bought pulps and science-fiction books, and some even participated in "active fandom" as members of science fiction fan clubs and organizations. Allen Glasser in "History of the Scienceers" recalled:
During the early months of the Scienceers' existence—from its start in December 1929 through the spring of 1930—our president was Warren Fitzgerald. As previously mentioned, Warren was about fifteen years older than the other members. He was a light-skinned Negro—amiable, cultured, and a fine gentleman in every sense of that word. With his gracious, darker-hued wife, Warren made our young members welcome to use his Harlem home for our meetings—an offer we gratefully accepted.
(Science Fiction Fanzine Reader 49)
Attendees at Nolacon might be forgiven for thinking otherwise. While the convention itself made no formal statement regarding race, racial segregation was very much in effect in New Orleans in the 1950s. Public transportation, restrooms, and other facilities were segregated into "white" and "colored" under Jim Crow; restaurants, hotels, and other businesses simply refused to serve black customers, blacks and whites had separate beaches and parks.
There were less than 200 attendees. Nolacon Bulletin #2 (July 1951) lists 196 members; Harry Warner, Jr. in in his memoir of fandom in the 50s A Wealth of Fable says 183 were officially registered "and 300 or more persons were believed to be on hand at one time or another" (352). Membership at the door was $1; tickets for the southern chicken fried banquet, $2.50. The convention hall was at the St. Charles Hotel, which was air-conditioned—and traditionally white-only. Not all the rooms in the surrounding hotels were air-conditioned, and fans sweltered in the heat. Unable to sleep, they began an all-night poker game in room 770, which became a two-day room party that reached legendary proportions.
One highlight was a midnight showing of The Day the Earth Stood Still at the local Saenger Theater. Seating was segregated. Black attendees would have had to enter through a side door, to sit up on the balcony. Had any black science fiction fans done so, the film they watched could have stood as a metaphor for the mythic white space they found themselves in: a film of the possibilities of the future starring white people, for white people; the few non-white actors such as Rama Bai and Spencer Chan went uncredited.
Segregation had risen as an issue in science fiction fandom long before Nolacon I was a glimmer in the New Orleans Science-Fantasy Society's eye. In Summer of 1944, archfans Forrest J. Ackerman and Jack Speer had published an 8-page one-shot periodical in the Fantasy Amateur Press Association titled Black & White [PDF]. Ackerman published an editorial denouncing Speer's racial prejudice and support of Jim Crow; and recalled:
On our way to the Nycon [1939, the first WorldCon], Morojo and I felt distinctly uncomfortable, embarrass[ed] to be members of such a country, when we passed through a certain state wherein seats in the coaches were partitioned temporarily and marked "For Colored Only." We resented this, we did not like to think any colored people were blaming us in their minds, looking at us accusingly. Beyond personal, selfish considerations, we considered the situation fundamentally unjust. (Science Fiction Fanzine Reader 92)
The other half of the 'zine was Speers' rebuttal; which is proof if any was needed that even science fiction fans could be prejudiced and close-minded. The best that can be said is that Speer's position was soundly thrashed in the fanzines that reviewed the periodical. Seven years later, it was in another fan-periodical that the issue of Jim Crow and Nolacon was raised:
On the subject of this year's World Science Fiction Convention: It will be of great interest to this editor to discover whether there were both WHITE and COLORED entrances to the convention-hall this year, for the tenets of the sovereign state of Louisiana and the noble city of New Orleans strictly forbid the mingling of 'Caucasian and non-Caucasian races' in such public buildings as are usually the sites of conventions. Just as a clinical study, let's review the case.
We know that the basis for the persecution, discrimination, and segregation of and against the negro in the southern U.S. is an economic one. It is profitable for the Southern bourgeoisie (if we may borrow a work from the marxist lexicons) to oppress the Negro and other minority groups. The only way in which to fight this racist fascism is [to] make it extremely unprofitable for the South to pursue this racist policy.
Cities like Miami Beach and New Orleans derive a sufficient sum from the tourist trade (which includes the many convention dollars spent, not at the auction, but on such relative nonessentials as food and lodging) to make them review with alacrity the necessity of maintaining feudal laws in the face of a serious decrease in this income. Therefore, we must look upon the South's financial dependency on the tourist trade as a weapon which democratic Americans from more e[n]lightented sections of the county must use, as a club if need be, against the forces of bourgeois reaction and open fascism in the South.
Many progressives are foregoing the annual vacation-trip to Miami Beach, in the hope that this will graphically inform the business interests in the south who profit from such vacation-trips that democratic dollars shall not be spent to uphold [and] strengthen an undemocratic system.
It is up to the fans who will vote on future convention site[s] to make sure that all fans will be able to have an equally good time, regardless of the racial, national, or religious differences that may be evident to the eye of a sovereign state or a noble city.
—Michael DeAngelis, Asmodeus #2 (Fall 1951), 5
The call to action may sound familiar. The World Science Fiction Convention still struggles with issues of making sure that all fans, regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or ableness are able to fully participate, enjoy, and share their common love of science fiction art, literature, and media. While the Jack Speer of this generation may no longer be arguing explicitly and out loud for segregation, behavior which demeans, denigrates, and disenfranchises others based on such factors accomplishes much the same thing. Likewise, DeAngelis' suggestion that fans vote with their wallets, choosing not to financially support racist policies, is still very much sound advice.
The editorial in Asmodeus #2 made little splash in fandom; by the time it came out, it isn't clear that it would have been in time to affect attendance, even if it had achieved widespread distribution. Yet at least two fans chose to respond, in letter to the editors. The first is from L. Sprague de Camp:
Mr. DeAngelis's attribution of Southern race-prejudice to the economic motives of the Southern reactionary bourgeoisie is the usual Marxian pseudo-scientific fertilizer, based on the ludicrous assumption that people mostly act in accordance with economic class interests. If he'd lived in the South he'd know that the strongest such prejudice is found among the Southern white proletariat, & and that it's based not on economics but on a psycho-cultural attitude imbibed in childhood and derived from the former Southern caste system. Actually Southern segregational practices are highly unprofitable to all Southerners, but most Southern whites take the view they'd rather be poor than suffer what they consider spiritual defilement. I don't approve of their attitude any more than deA, but to drag in Communist twaddle merely confuses the issue.
—L. Sprague de Camp, Asmodeus #3 (Spring 1952), 25
This is ultimately nitpicking without addressing the substance of the problem, something else that fans of science fiction today will recognize whenever the issue of discrimination rears its head. A penchant for pedantry often undermines any real progress, and carefully side-steps the issue of acknowledging a problem exists or what to do about it.
The second letter is from Redd Boggs, a prominent fan and fanzine publisher who has been nominated for several Retro Hugo awards for his fan-writing:
DeAngelis seems to be belaboring a dead horse with his remarks on the Nolacon. And after all, it was not the fault of the Southern fans themselves that Jim Crow exists down there. I might think more of them if I know they were doing what they could to break down racial barriers, but I don't think less of them for putting on a convention despite the segregation that had to be observed. What else could they do? Should we have allowed the South to have a convention? I think we should have. They deserved the chance to have one, and to deny them one on the basis of racial prejudice smacks of another kind of prejudice. Sectional discrimination is almost as bad as racial discrimination. I don't think fandom should ever allow a con to be held in a hotel where anti-Semitic rules are found, or—if it is anywhere but the South—where Negroes are barred, but if we go to the South there is little or no alternative. If there is an alternative, as there will be almost anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon, I trust we'll take it. Otherwise, deAngelis' analysis of the economic basis of segregation leaves much to be desired. I fail to see how an end to the tourist trade, if it affected the South very much, could accomplish anything but the opposite effect Mike desires: making the whites poorer and thus more in competition than ever with the Negro.
—Redd Boggs, Asmodeus #3, 27
"Sectional discrimination" in 1952 was the "reverse racism" of the 2020s—a fallacy used by those who claim that efforts to combat or reverse racial discrimination are themselves a form of discrimination. Boggs' claims break down what might be the typical white fan's mindset of the era: philosophically displeased with Jim Crow, but unwilling to actually do anything about it.
Implicit in all the Asmodeus debate are a number of implicit prejudices: that the culture of the American South was monolithic and unchangeable, that economics were a key factor in racial discrimination, that African-Americans were as a population disadvantaged by this discrimination, that science fiction fandom should not support racial discrimination…and that fandom as a whole was unwilling or unable to confront these issues with positive action.
We don't know if any black fans tried to attend Nolacon I and were turned away at the door, but these issues were not simply theoretical—they were real, and affected real people. We know because there is at least one account of that actually happening:
[Gene Deweese had] been corresponding with a girl, Bev Clark, in northern Indiana, and wanted me to go with him to meet her, which suited me fine; I was finally finding girls I could talk to. Gene arranged things and we went up. It was the first time I'd met a black (or African-American, if you prefer) person socially. We got along fine, and later on we'd arranged that the three of us would drive to Midwestcon, again in my car; that car got a lot of use that summer; Juanita and her friend Lee Tremper would meet us there, and we'd have fun. We arrived at Beatley's Hotel (or Beastley's-on-the-Bayou, which was one of the fannish descriptions at the time) but Bev was refused admittance. No blacks allowed. None of us had even considered the possibility. On the way out, we talked to a few fans sitting on the hotel porch and some anger was expressed, especially by Harlan Ellison, who said that all fandom would hear about this outrage. We drove home, and as far as I know, nobody ever mentioned the episode again. Except me, of course.
—Buck Coulson, "Midwest Memories" in Mimosa #13 [PDF] (1993), 36
That was in 1953; Coulson added that later that year Bev attended the 1953 WorldCon in Philadelphia with them and there were "no room problems." Juanita Coulson (she and Buck married in 1954), would add on to the account:
Lots of people commiserated and thought this was terrible and something should be done about it—but nobody did anything. We happen to know this particular instance pretty well. The convention hotel was Beatley's at Indian Lake, a Midwestcon, and the Negro girl fan was Beverly Clark. She, Buck and Gene drove over from Indiana, had their reservations cleverly lost by the hotel management, much sympathy and no action from the other con attendees, and turned around and drove back that same night. A procedure I would not recommend. I didn't find out about this until Saturday night, despite repeated inquiries of other people, some of whom were witnesses to the earlier incident. (I had come on the bus with Lee Tremper, expecting to meet the other trio. Obviously, I never did.) What could have been done? Well, at an outside guess I would say if the managers of the con and plenty of the fans had gotten together and promised the hotel keeper if she didn't admit a guest with a reservation regardless of color they'd take their business elsewhere something might well have been accomplished. Nobody suggested this, and there was no indication that enough of the fans were willing to put their actions where their mouths were. They had lots of company in mundania at that time. […] It's nice to think fans are slans and ahead of their times and farseeing and politically and socially advanced and all—but I'd take it with a healthy dose of salt. I been there. At least I got into fandom on the time-line edge, It was at that break point in the early-mid 50s that hotels began realizing there'd been an emancipation proclamation* or Buck and I would have missed a lot of cons. We wrote ahead to the hotel in Philly to make sure Bev Clark and her friend Eleanor Turner would be admitted, or we probably wouldn't have gone.
—Juanita Coulson, Starling #14 [PDF] (1970), 19-20
Racial segregation in the United States has been officially over for some time; Supreme Court cases like Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States (1964) and legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped end Jim Crow—though it was a long and uphill struggle, and far from bloodless. We still deal with the issues raised by segregation and its ends today, culturally and socio-economically.
The full effects of Jim Crow and racism both implicit and explicit prevalent on early fandom will never be known. How do you measure the effect of those fans who wanted to attend, but were denied access to the hotel where the convention was held? How many fans were turned off by the lukewarm response from fans like Redd Boggs, who didn't agree with Jim Crow but were willing to implicitly endorse it so that Southerners could have their own science fiction conventions?
While Jim Crow is a thing of the past, it is a part of science fiction fandom history—and one which we forget only at our own peril. There was a time when white fans did nothing, while black fans had to use side entrances and were denied entrance. If we are to not be hypocrites, to embrace and celebrate our diversity and look ahead to the future, we must make sure that all science fiction fans are treated equally—not harassed or discriminated against, not made second-class citizens because of their ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation—and to not retreat when such remarks are made.
Remarks were made at the 78th WorldCon, CoNZealand, in 2020. George R. R. Martin has been criticized for his hosting of the Hugo Awards at the event, where he spent considerable time discussing historically important figures in science fiction like John W. Campbell—long time editor of Astounding (1937-1971) and a noted racist in the Jack Speer vein. Martin has also been criticized for disrespecting the award winners, mispronouncing names and undercutting accomplishments like N. K. Jemisin's "hat trick" of three Hugo awards for best novel in as many years, and four in the last five (2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020). Several times, Martin reminisced about when fandom was so much smaller, and the convention was simply held in a hotel.
Many fans and writers, including Jemisin and other nominees and winners, tweeted, blogged, and essayed about the awards, but one observation from genre fiction scholar Jess Nevins stood out:
In their way, the SFF gatekeepers are the equivalent of the Lost Cause Southerners: clinging for dear life to this fantasy construction of the past that is at angle to the real thing, making secular saints of white men of reprehensible moralities and behavior. (tweeted by @JessNevins 11:17 AM · Aug 2, 2020)
It can be difficult to get away from the shadow of the past. John W. Campbell and H. P. Lovecraft were racist; that does not negate their accomplishments as editor and writer, respectively, but it does cast a shadow over their legacy. In 2011, Nnedi Okorafor's response to winning the World Fantasy Award—then in Lovecraft's likeness and nicknamed "The Howard"—sparked a petition for the replacement of the award, which happened in 2015. In her acceptance speech for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best New Writer, Jeannette Ng called out the award's namesake:
John W. Campbell, for whom this award was named, was a fascist. Through his editorial control of [Astounding Science Fiction], he is responsible for setting a tone of science fiction that still haunts the genre to this day. Sterile. Male. White. Exalting in the ambitions of imperialists and colonisers, settlers and industrialists.
Her words sparked change; the award was renamed to the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and Ng herself earned the 2020 Hugo for Best Related Work for making that speech.
Positive change can happen, if people raise their voices and work for it.
Originally published in The Cromcast Chronicle #1 (Dec 2020).
Bobby Derie is the author of Weird Talers: Essays on Robert E. Howard & Others (2019) and Sex and the Cthulhu Mythos (2014).
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Horror/sci-fi/fantasy genre readers, like their favorite authors, often reflect the best and worst of their society with no special claim to being exempt from those failings. What can be said of these "Shadows Over Fandom" except that they exist (and existed), and that progress toward the enlightened, prejudice-free worlds often depicted in these stories is maddeningly slow but, despite setbacks and endless gatekeeping, still incrementally being made. And these devoted readers of possibilities who, having glimpsed them, know more than most that better paths are possible, have an additional responsibility to move their and our worlds toward those possibilities, .
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An important article on the history of Worldcons and USA fandom and how it excluded people based on race. The Work to be inclusive still continues.
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My phone is ringing and I step into a quieter space to take the call. I am at work and I expect it to be a customer but it is your school. The secretary is not speaking fast enough for me. I want to know that you are OK but then she tells me you are in trouble. You didn't hurt anyone, but what you did was serious enough that the school has expelled you. This is the first time in your six years of schooling that you are in real trouble. The secretary tells me I need to come and pick you up and that tomorrow we are all going to meet to discuss this in the principal's office.
I leave work and drive to the school. Through the glass of the front doors I can see you leaning against the wall of the main office with your backpack on. I go into the office and sign you out. We don't have much of a conversation when we get into the car. I'm doing all the talking and question asking and you are just mumbling. I want to know what happened and clearly, you don't want to talk about it. When we get home, I don't have to send you to your room. You go willingly upstairs just to be away from my questions.
This is really hard for me. I am the "good girl" and I have no experience with principal offices or expulsion. My imagination conjures up the worst case scenario for your future: black marks on your school file that follow you through school, continued expulsions because you head down a darker path in life, and a bleak future as an adult because of your poor choices when you were young. I realize that thinking isn't helping and I try to calm myself down, but I don't know what to expect in this situation. It is all new to me. I wonder if I have done something wrong as a parent. I should have scheduled you into more after-school activities. I should have said no to you more as a toddler or I should have been stricter with your bedtime or television watching.
I give you the afternoon alone in your room. It is partially time for you to think about what you did and it is partially for me to get myself sorted out. When Dad comes home he seems far less affected by this situation. He has seen the inside of the principal's office and chalks this up to the growing pains of childhood. I am less relaxed about it and I am determined that this will never happen again.
He calls you down for supper and I wait through the silence while we all eat before I ask you for your explanation. You have all sorts of reasons and excuses at first but then you quickly lose your enthusiasm for your rationalizations of why you did what you did. You know you were wrong but I want to be sure that you fully understand the gravity of the situation. I decide to help you see what an impact you had on everyone involved and so I pull out some paper and a pencil. I ask you to write down all the people who were affected by the situation and how your actions impacted them. You struggle with this at first, so I have you think about me having to leave work to get you from school, and that tomorrow I will also have to go to the principal's office and miss even more work. This helps and you start to list the other children involved, the principal, and the parents of the other children. You write how they were affected and we put the paper into your binder to bring to the principal tomorrow.
Walking into the principal's office the next day I stutter my hello. I have that tingling feeling up my back and the buzzing in my ears that I only get when I'm ashamed. I feel as though I am the one on trial here and I can't relax. The principal welcomes us all in and I sit down stiffly and unzip my coat to let in a little air. You slump into a chair next to me with your head down but I can also see you steal quick glances at the principal. Your eyes hold a touch of fear and apprehension.
The principal asks you what happened and you reluctantly tell the story over again. I can see the principal is surprised that you are in trouble. You have never done anything like this before and you have even won citizenship awards for your behaviour. You finish up the story and I ask you to give the principal the paper we worked on. You pull out the impact activity from the binder you brought and hand it to the principal. His eyebrows raise as he looks it over and I can see him relax. He turns to me, smiles, and says he has nothing more to add to this. He can see from the impact exercise that you understand the situation and he thanks me for taking the time to build empathy and responsibility in you. I wish that was enough to make me feel better but I still feel like I failed. You have been expelled from school and I worry about how the other parents will judge me.
As we drive home again I think back to my own childhood and mistakes that I made. I never got expelled from school but I certainly disappointed my parents numerous times. I remember that in those moments of deep disappointment that I hated they got so worked up about it. It wasn't about them; they were my mistakes to make and the consequences were mine. They didn't own them—I did.
There, in that moment of remembering, you were pulled apart from me. We separated from mother-child to mother and child. I didn't realize how closely tied we were and that now a space had formed between us. I was still here, as your parent, to guide you, protect you, and hold you accountable, but I also could see that you had a part to play in that too. I was no longer solely responsible for your mistakes. You were separate from me as your own self-directed person. Your future opens up before me and I see you making decisions and exerting your independence and having success but also having failure. I realize that it isn't my job as your parent to take on the burden of everything you do. Instead, I will help you wrestle with the burden of your own decisions but you will carry them. In this less than perfect parent/child moment, I see you as the person you are: separate from me and imperfectly perfect.
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Hundreds flee besieged IS bastion in Syria
Hundreds of civilians have reportedly escaped from a besieged jihadi stronghold in northern Syria. In a blow to "Islamic State" militants, a US-backed alliance has surrounded the town and cut off a main supply route.
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Hundreds of civilians have reportedly escaped from a besieged jihadi stronghold in northern Syria. In a blow to "Islamic State" militants, a US-backed alliance has surrounded the town and cut off a main supply route.
Around 600 civilians fled Manbij on foot before US-backed forces fighting "transported them to safer areas," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
The US-supported Kurdish-Arab alliance, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), encircled Manbij on Friday, capturing dozens of villages near the Turkish border and severing a major supply route for "Islamic State" (IS).
The Britain-based Observatory, a monitoring group which gets its information from a network of sources on the ground, said tens of thousands of Syrians were still trapped in the town, and that food supplies were running low. It said at least 223 IS militants and 28 SDF soldiers had been killed – as well as 41 civilians – since the US-backed offensive began at the end of May.
Heavy fighting was continuing to the north and west of the town on Sunday, as IS militants launched several counterattacks. Manbij has been under IS control since the group declared a caliphate in Iraq and Syria in 2014. The SDF siege has blocked a key supply route used to transport IS fighters, money and weapons between the Turkish border and the militants' de-facto capital, Raqqa.
Also on Sunday, at least 20 civilians were killed in a series of airstrikes by unidentified warplanes in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. The Observatory said at least five children were among the victims, and that the death toll was expected to rise. It was not clear who carried out the raids, although the monitor group pointed out that Russian and Syrian planes had been flying over the rebel-held area.
Gains in Iraq
Meanwhile, Iraqi soldiers advancing on the edge of IS bastion Fallujah on Sunday said they had secured the first safe exit route for civilians to leave the city. A Norwegian aid group quoted by the Reuters news agency said about 4,000 people had escaped the city in the past 24 hours.
The United Nations has raised concerns about the fate of up to 90,000 civilians believed to still be trapped inside the city with little food and water.
Iraqi soldiers are also pushing into IS-territory further to the north as part of a larger campaign to take back Mosul. IS overran the city two years ago, and it remains the largest center under their control. Iraqi forces backed by US airstrikes marched towards Qayara on Sunday. The IS hub a short drive south of Mosul is home to an airfield which could serve as a staging ground for future operations to take back Mosul.
nm/ (AFP, Reuters, dpa, AP)
Topics: human rights Islamic state Syria
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may have had one or two people here at the inn who were interested, but that was quite a while ago.
stuff specifically here at the inn for all its members occasionally...I'll format it both for HQ and for Questing Heroes.
the next week or two.
you can do something with my card game if you are interested. Its all finished, play tested and so on, just needs a publisher/ retailer.
email me...I'd be happy to take a look at it.
I'll be sending it to a friend this weekend for a final edit, and then on to the publisher.
know when it is up.
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look at it some more in dept...but that could be a possible point of interest, as well.
Hey, we do it all here at Fantasy Game Strategies!
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Here is a peek at the book cover.
Fanatasy Game Strategies is official open for business.
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There will be plenty of upcoming adventures and supplements.
Physical Proof came in the mail today from Amazon. There is an issue with the cover.
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both at DriveThrueRPG and through Amazon.
Looking at the cover image you've posted here, issues are obvious. I'm surprised they didn't tell you before attempting a print, they should of known.
Why didn't you use a stroke of white around the logo and letters? It's hard to read.


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A spear phishing attack will also appear to come from a trusted source. However, unlike a traditional phishing attack, a spear phishing attack will be highly targeted. The message will be sent only to one person or a few, carefully selected individuals. The overall goal of the attack, will determine who gets selected as intended victims.
Before crafting the message, the attacker will research the intended victims' social media profiles, like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. Afterwards, the attacker will try to build a profile on the victims' life, work and interests. This will be used to create a highly customized message that will come across as credible and relevant to the victim. In addition, the attacker will gather information about the victims' friends and colleagues. Such as their names and email addresses. This in order to make the email appear like it is sent from one of them.
Because spear phishing attacks are highly targeted and customized, they are far more likely to succeed than traditional phishing attacks. This is concerning as the spear phishing attackers usually have very specific goals. Typical goals are accessing highly confidential information or corporate business secrets. A company can also be targeted as a stepping stone for getting access to another company. A small company may therefore be just as prone to a spear phishing attack, as a larger company. The result may in both cases be substantial revenue loss or damaged reputation.


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Legacy PopOff!
Charlie Watts 1941-2021
August 25, 2021 by DJ Bear
I know about Stewart Copeland because I am a huge fan of The Police. I know about Buddy Harmon because I've studied country music. I know about Charlie Watts because, well, it's the bloody Rolling Stones. Charlie is not the … Read the rest
She Gives Me Fever: A love-note to Peggy Lee, one of the greatest singer/songwriters of the recording era
June 9, 2020 by Steve Wagner
A tip of the top hat and genuflection to Miss Peggy Lee, today celebrating the centennial of her birth. Peggy has long been one of my very favorite singers, from the day a friend turned me onto her album Sugar … Read the rest
Chris Cornell Honored with a Tribute Concert that lasted Five Hours and included a 42-song Setlist
January 23, 2019 by Baby Huey
On Wednesday, January 16th, members of Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog and Audioslave, as well as the long running list of special guests including: Foo Fighters, Metallica, Geezer Butler, Perry Farrell, Juliette Lewis and more performed at an all-star tribute … Read the rest
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PopOff Commentary: A Not-So Modern Idea, A Classic Boundary-Breaking Album, and A New Year
January 3, 2019 by DJ Bear
For me, 2019 is going to be about my local community and bringing people together as a way to heal this very tribalistic and divided world I live in. And I think it is just perfect that one of the … Read the rest
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Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan dies at 46
Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of Irish rock band The Cranberries, has died in London. She was 46.
O'Riordan died in London, where she was recording, publicist Lindsey Holmes said. "No further details are available at this time," Holmes said, adding … Read the rest
Music legend Tom Petty dies at 66
Music legend Tom Petty has died at the age of 66, after being found in cardiac arrest at his home.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers completed their 40th anniversary tour just last Monday with three nights at the Hollywood Bowl. … Read the rest
Asia and King Crimson legend John Wetton dies at 67
Asia singer John Wetton has died from cancer on January 31, 2017 at the age of 67.
His long and storied career saw him rise to fame in the early '70s as the singer and bassist in King Crimson and … Read the rest
80s Icon George Michael Dead at 53
December 25, 2016 by Soundwaves
"It is with great sadness that we can confirm our beloved son, brother and friend George passed away peacefully at home over the Christmas period."
With that simple statement from a representative, the world learned that George Michael, singer, songwriter, … Read the rest
Dead or Alive singer Pete Burns dies at 57
Dead Or Alive singer Pete Burns has passed away at the age of 57.
The charismatic performer died October 23rd of a "massive cardiac arrest," his family and manager said in a statement shared on Twitter.
The statement says: "It … Read the rest
Legendary artist Prince dead at 57
April 21, 2016 by Dennis Willis
Damn, this one hurts.
Prince was found dead at his recording studio in Minnesota early on Thursday, according to TMZ. He was 57.
The legendary artist had a medical emergency on April 15th that forced his private jet to make … Read the rest
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Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer dies at 71
March 11, 2016 by Steven Kirk
Keith Emerson, co-founder of the '70s supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer passed away on March 10th.
The band's official Facebook page confirmed the news:
"We regret to announce that Keith Emerson died last night at his home in … Read the rest
Legendary Beatles producer George Martin dies at 90
March 8, 2016 by Soundwaves
Sir George Martin, the legendary "Fifth Beatle" who produced virtually all their songs, has died. He was 90.
Beatles drummer Ringo Starr shared the news on Twitter, writing "Peace and love… George will be missed."
As legend goes, Martin … Read the rest
Earth, Wind & Fire Co-Founder Maurice White Dies at 74
2016 claims another music icon.
Maurice White, the co-founder of Earth, Wind & Fire, has died following a long battle with Parkinson's. White was diagnosed in 1992 but the disease had progressed to the point he was forced … Read the rest
Eagles guitarist Glenn Frey dead at 67
Glenn Frey, a founding member and guitarist of the Eagles and solo artist, has died at the age of 67.
The multiple Grammy winner co-wrote and sang many of the Eagles' hits, including "Take It Easy," "Tequila Sunrise," "Lyin' Eyes," … Read the rest
Music Legend David Bowie Dies at 69
It all seemed like a hoax, but in the end, it was a simple tweet from his son Duncan Jones that confirmed it.
Very sorry and sad to say it's true. I'll be offline for a while. Love to all.
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Time For Gary Richrath to Fly
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REO Speedwagon guitarist (1970-1989) Gary Richrath has died at the age of 65. While the band saw many different formations over the years it's clear the apex of their success came with Richrath on lead guitar. He and lead singer … Read the rest
Yes Bassist and Co-Founder Chris Squire Dead at 67
Chris Squire, the co-founder and longtime bassist of Yes and the only member of the group to feature on every studio album, has passed away just over a month after revealing that he was suffering from a rare form of … Read the rest
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Toto bassist Mike Porcaro dies at 59
Toto bassist Mike Porcaro has died, following a lengthy battle with Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. He was 59.
"Our brother Mike passed away peacefully in his sleep at 12:04 AM last night at … Read the rest
Jimi Jamison (Survivor) 1951-2014
September 2, 2014 by Soundwaves
Jimi Jamison, lead singer of the band Survivor, has died of an apparent heart attack. He was 63.
Jamison joined Survivor in 1984, when he replaced Dave Bickler on the hit album Vital Signs. The next … Read the rest


I might have spoken too soon when I wrote in my first post that Little Roo might be the only full term baby I might have. Exactly 4 days after I turned 33 weeks, which is incidentally exactly the time I was in with Tigger. On the 22nd of June, Little Roo decided that he just didn't want to wait anymore. After C section No.3, he came out screaming. Little Roo is my 4th NICU baby, and at some point in time I am going to write about my traumatic birth stories and their NICU times, where the stories are many and not all of them happy. But today it's just his birth announcement. Tigger is ecstatic and can't wait till the baby comes home from the NICU (which should be in just a few days). Bam-bam and Pebbles don't comprehend yet, but at this point, as long they don't smack Little Roo when he comes home, I think we will be good.
To my new life as a mom to 4!
Is it just me, or people automatically assume that twins are the best of friends and that they always have each other to play, fight and do things with. If Only…!
(is absolutely what I am thinking, but I just smile and nod, because the ladies asking me this, obviously don't know enough about me or my home to need to know more).
My fraternal twins are like night & day. In character, likes, play and sleep.
Pebbles is the more creative one. She loves to explore and touch and feel things, and is neat and orderly and loves plenty of cuddles and loves to take breaks on mom's lap.
Bam Bam on the other hand is like a rubber ball, bouncing and rolling around everywhere (well, more like waddling as he hasn't really got the hang of balance yet). He loves to fight with his big brother, 'run' with balls, eat anything he can get his hands on, be it hot or cold. He hates sitting still and is always looking for the next adventure.
The twins, being the way they are, play together very rarely.
But they had a rare moment of hugs today, and it was SUPER sweet to watch. Until a few seconds later, when they both fell tumbling down and Pebbles hit her head on a table and screamed bloody murder for the next 10 min.
Lollipops are the only time in the house where there is a blissful silence!
As rare as they are!
Hope everyone is having a better week than us health-wise.
Last week Tigger's school held the spring show.
Before I go into that, I should tell you how much I love his school. Other than the regular stuff one would expect from the school, they have really let Tigger blossom as a real little person.
It was a bit of a struggle for me to find an elephant's costume that Tigger would wear. Unfortunately he is picky about itchy, starchy clothes. But that apart, he loved that I bought some face paints (and a quick internet tutorial at 6 in the morning). He was happy.
Sadly I missed the show. Pregnancy really hit me hard last week and I could barely get out of bed. Mr. A was super helpful in getting Ayaan dressed, and getting him to school.
Also this is why I only have ONE decent picture of the show.
Anyway, I am a super proud mummy today!
Welcome to my blog and my first blog post. As a mom to three kids and one on the way, I am sure you can imagine that I have some stories to share and a few rants to shout. The first one I think needs to be about where we are in life and what we are looking forward to (and that you will read about) in the coming few months.
Big brother Tigger is finishing his last few days in his current school. Change is always hard, and I am really not sure if he will notice the big change. Of course there are a few advantages. The big one being, he will be in the same school as his cousins. He loves them to bits, and he will welcome any chance he gets to spend time with them.
Pebbles and Bam Bam have finally started to walk. As of this month, they are officially 17 months old. Though they were born premature at 28 weeks, they have done so well and I am incredibly proud of my little miracles.
All three of my babies have been premature, with Tigger born at 33 weeks, and I am sure you can imagine that me being 30 weeks pregnant as of this week has got my family on their toes. I keep on telling them though, that I have a feeling that Little Roo is going for the long haul and is probably going to be the only full term baby I have.
It is official though – my belly walks into a room way before I do. I should probably enjoy this, as it is probably going to be my last few days as a pregnant woman, and of course when I say enjoy, I mean milk it for all it's worth.
Craving Curly Wurly candy bars today.


The report predicts the Global Diamond tools market to grow with a CAGR of 5.74% over the period of 2017 - 2024. The global market for diamond tools at $2520.40 million in 2017 is anticipated to grow in 2024. The rapid development of manufacturing industries especially stone and construction being the driving factor for diamond tools market. The production is also expected to increase in the growth rate of 7.36% in the forecast period.
Diamond tools are the cutting tools with diamond speck attached to the serviceable parts of the tool by means of bonding substances or other. These cutting tools have their own uniqueness such as resistance to heat, sharpness in cutting edge, superior thermal conductivity, and excessive hardness. This tools are broadly used in various industrial applications such as geological prospecting industry, machining, transportation industry and stone processing industry.
What are the major applications of Diamond Tools?
Diamond tools are extensively used in Optical manufacturing industries which includes lenses and mirrors and also other glass drilling works. For dressing other grinding wheels and sharpening various cutting tools, diamond abrasive wheels are used in Abrasive Machining process. Apart from this, Specific micromachining process, polishing and cutting of different metals, polymeric plastic machinery process, and production of accuracy tooling are also the applications of diamond tools.
Saint Gobain Abrasives, being the predominant player in high performance and highly engineered abrasives had launched new wheeling techniques CarbonForce, a new thin line of shiny Cubic boron nitride wheels for outer diameter grinding. This Carbon Force wheels are 75% lighter than heavy steel integrated wheels but the performance and safety benefits are as same as superabrasive wheels. The cycle time, dressing frequency, labour cost, and changeover can be dramatically reduced upto 75% by using this new set of wheels.
Norton, a subsidiary of Saint Gobain had launched Infiltrated High-Density Technology (i-HDTM) which integrated with licenced laser welding mechanism which is a remarkable development in diamond tool technology. R&D in this Infiltrated High-Density Technology had made further developments in safer products, wider availability of segment design, lower energy manufacturing needs and blade performance.
The innovational diamond cutting blade, SilentMax, provides various advantage to the operator in blade cutting, with longest life and fastest cutting combination, but also lessens the possible dangers in loss of hearing by means of blades on portable machines.
This blade had been solely tested and certified as a "State of Art" by EU Safety and Health Organization.
Refinish Solutions Group (RSG) is a measure taken by Saint Gobain to provide cutting edge technique solution and training programs with best practices that provides opportunities for shop owners and technicians to be up-to-date with latest refinishing and repair technologies and developments. RSG endeavor to provide products with high quality and aid all the mechanism in collision pair.
The key players operating in the global diamond tools market are Asahi Diamond Industrial, Bosun, Saint Gobain, Ehwa, Hilti, ICS, Husqvarna AB, Makita, Bosch, Tyrolit, Blount, Hebei XMF Tools, Gangyan Diamond, Disco, Reliable Diamond Tool, Nanjing Sanchao Advanced Materials, Shibuya Company, Metabo Power Tools, Billon Power Diamond Tools Syntec Diamond Tools, OX Group International, MK Diamond Products, Lackmond and other 10 more companies.


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by Drew Kaplan · September 26, 2018
The Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education (CASJE) announced the launch of a major project supported by the William Davidson Foundation and the Jim Joseph Foundation for comprehensive research on the pipeline and "career arc" of educators working in Jewish education. The two-year project is supported by generous grants totaling $1.5 million from both foundations, and will yield findings to be shared broadly with the field of Jewish education and engagement.
"We are embarking on a timely project that promises to yield new key findings and data on critical issues that affect the work of educators in Jewish institutions and the needs of the field," says Michael Feuer, CASJE co-chair and Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University, home of CASJE.
"The support of the William Davidson Foundation and Jim Joseph Foundation enables CASJE to conduct this project on a national scale and to gather and analyze data about educators, where they work, and the professional preparation they receive," adds Rabbi Mitchel Malkus, CASJE co-chair and Head of the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School. "This data will be of significant value to the places at which these educators work. Moreover, we hope to help the field understand the needs of educators to recruit and retain the most talented people."
Earlier this year, the William Davidson Foundation supported a CASJE-facilitated "Problem Formulation Convening" with a group of educators and researchers, which generated high-priority research questions. The group identified challenges relating to the professional culture in many segments of the Jewish education sector, opportunities for advancement, and the condition of educator compensation. The convening helped identify the three questions central to CASJE's new project: 1) Entry: What does it take to launch a career in Jewish education? 2) On the Journey: Why do educators stay in this field and how do they grow? And 3) Mapping the Marketplace: Where are personnel shortages and saturation?
"Our founder, William Davidson, understood the lifelong impact Jewish education can have on an individual and a community," says Menachem Menchel, program officer for Jewish Education at the William Davidson Foundation. "Mr. Davidson supported various causes for many decades, including those that benefited individual Jewish day schools and communities, as well as larger opportunities to professionalize the field of Jewish education. This grant—to understand how to attract and retain the best educators—positions us to expand upon his vision."
The research will be overseen by CASJE and will be conducted initially by Rosov Consulting in three linked studies. First, researchers will study the career plans of people currently in the settings from which Jewish educators have tended to come, such as summer camps, longer-term programs in Israel, and college fellowships. The second study will involve a comprehensive mapping of those who work in the field of Jewish education today to understand why they stay in the field and how they grow. The third component will focus on problems faced by employers and training providers coping with personnel shortages and/or saturation.
"CASJE's unique approach combines planning strategies and research programs that reveal insights through systematic and applied research," says Stacie Cherner, Senior Program Officer at the Jim Joseph Foundation. "Moreover, with organizations such as Leading Edge and JPro already doing important work in many of these research areas, CASJE is positioned to deliver much-needed comprehensive quantitative and qualitative findings. Together, stakeholders in the field can then review this work to make sense of people's experiences and choices at different stages of their careers."
CASJE is a community of researchers, practitioners, and philanthropic leaders committed to sharing knowledge to improve Jewish education. In addition to the William Davidson Foundation and Jim Joseph Foundation, CASJE receives support from The AVI CHAI Foundation and The Crown Family, among others. The George Washington University serves as the administrative home for CASJE, enabling the specific goals of CASJE to be enriched by the academic and intellectual resources of a global, comprehensive, research university. Along with this new project, CASJE's areas of inquiry include Jewish educational leadership, Jewish early childhood education, Hebrew language education, and Israel education.
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UK and European Union strike historic Brexit trade deal
Tom Belger and Oscar Williams-Grut
WATCH: UK and EU secure historic trade deal
Britain and the European Union (EU) have agreed an historic post-Brexit trade deal, with just days left until the end of the transition period.
"We've taken back control of our laws and our destiny," said UK prime minister Boris Johnson in a press conference unveiling the zero-tariff, zero-quota deal on Thursday.
He called the agreement a "jumbo Canada-style" deal that would preserve £660bn ($895bn) of cross-border trade while allowing Britain to strike deals elsewhere, set its own rules and catch more fish in UK waters.
Johnson said it meant "a new stability and a new certainty" in a relationship that had been "fractious" between Britain and the EU.
READ MORE: Pound higher as UK and EU weigh 'landmark' trade deal
The prime minister faced questions from journalists over new trade barriers likely in spite of the deal however. Meanwhile business chiefs welcomed news of an agreement but said they needed to see the final text.
While the granular details of the deal have not been unveiled by the UK or EU, Johnson said:
There would be "change" for firms, encouraging them to prepare. Exporters and logistics firms face new paperwork and checks, as Britain will leave the single market and customs union.
The UK had made concessions on fish, with a longer transition period preserving significant EU access to UK waters than initially demanded by the UK. He said compromise "isn't a dirty word."
Both sides will be able to impose tariffs if the other is found to have undercut them, with Johnson stressing the role of "independent arbitration" rather than the European Court of Justice.
The UK had not secured everything it wanted on financial services equivalence, which would have helped maintain better EU access for the UK finance sector.
The move would preserve cross-border ties and access for hauliers, carmakers, police, scientists, and highly skilled workers.
The deal is done. pic.twitter.com/zzhvxOSeWz
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 24, 2020
European politicians say deal is 'fair'
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the press conference to announce the deal: "We have finally found an agreement. It was a long and winding road but we have got a good deal to show for it."
"It is fair, it is a balanced deal and it is the right and responsible thing to do," she added.
The EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said: "The clock is no longer ticking."
"Today is a day of relief, but tinged by some sadness as we compare what came before with what lies ahead," he added.
However, the full details of the deal were not announced at the conference. The final document confirming the deal, which Johnson said ran to around 500 pages, is yet to be published.
WATCH: Michel Barnier says real changes are coming after Brexit deal
Breakthrough, four years after Leave vote
The deal comes more than four years after the UK voted to leave the EU in June 2016, and a year after a transition deal was struck preserving much of the status quo this year.
It concludes a year of talks between the UK's negotiating team, led by Lord David Frost, and their EU counterparts, led by Michel Barnier.
Talks began in March and both sides had hoped to reach an initial agreement by early summer. However, talks were delayed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which complicated face-to-face negotiations and sapped the bandwidth of decision makers in government.
Negotiations have been held up for months on three issues: fisheries, 'level playing field' agreements to prevent unfair subsidies, and the enforcement mechanism of any deal.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, on the agreement of a post-Brexit trade deal. Photo: PA
UK prime minister Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen held private phone calls in recent days in a bid to try and surmount the differences between the two sides.
Von der Leyen said "effective tools" had been agreed in the deal in case either side "distorted" fair competition. She also said the EU had secured 5.5 years of "stability" for European fishing rights in UK waters, and a "strong incentive" for it to remain so.
The fishing transition period marks a compromise for both sides, as the EU had pushed for a longer transition period and the UK had pushed for a shorter one. But the scale of each side's compromises are likely to become clear only when final legal texts are published.
The agreement must still be approved by EU member states and UK parliament before it can take effect, with provisional EU approval expected before EU's parliament votes in the New Year.
What do industry representatives think?
The City of London, financial district of the Metropole, just after sunset with illuminated buildings and cloudy sky, United Kingdom
RETAIL: Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, said: "This protects consumers on both sides of the Channel from billions in import tariffs on everyday goods. Given that four-fifths of UK food imports come from the EU, today's announcement should afford households around the UK a collective sigh of relief."
FINANCIAL SERVICES: Bob Wigley, executive chair of UK Finance: "Concluding these negotiations with an agreement brings much-needed certainty for businesses and paves the way for the beginning of a new relationship with the European Union. The banking industry remains focused on supporting customers and businesses impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the end of the transition period.
"Looking ahead, it will be important to build on the foundations of this trade deal by strengthening arrangements for future trade in financial services.
"This can be achieved by building on the longstanding regulatory dialogue and supervisory cooperation between UK and EU authorities and reaching agreements on all appropriate equivalence determinations as soon as possible.
"Consumers and businesses in both the EU and UK will benefit from maintaining open and integrated capital markets and facilitating the flow of cross-border financial services in the years ahead."
SMALL BUSINESSES: Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) national chairman Mike Cherry added: "After such a torrid year, and during such a disrupted festive trading season, it's a huge relief to see negotiators finally strike a deal.
"The work of looking through the detail of the agreement to map out exactly what it means for the small firms that make-up 99% of our business community now begins."
CAR INDUSTRY: Mike Hawes, CEO of Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT): "We welcome today's agreement of a new EU-UK trading agreement, which provides a platform for our future relationship.
"We await the details to ensure this deal works for all automotive goods and technologies, including specifics on rules of origin and future regulatory co-operation.
"A phase-in period is critical to help businesses on both sides adapt and efforts should now be sustained to ensure seamless implementation, with tariff-free trade fully accessible and effective for all from day one. We will continue to work closely with government to ensure all companies are as prepared as possible in the limited time left."
WORKERS' UNIONS: Trades Union Congress (TUC) general secretary, Frances O'Grady said the deal puts workers' rights "on the line:"
"This deal is better than nothing, but not by much. It won't protect jobs and puts hard-won workers' rights on the line.
"As we come out of the pandemic, we're facing a crunch point for jobs and living standards. This deal is on the prime minister's head – it's his responsibility to make sure working families don't end up worse off.
"Now the prime minister must make good on his promise to level up Britain. And he needs to act fast. There can be no more pointing the finger at the EU. Government must deliver an industrial strategy for decent work, with investment in jobs and green industries in parts of the country that need it most.
"Ministers must also urgently build on this deal to overcome the barriers to trade and higher production costs many sectors will face which puts jobs at risk. And we will not accept a race to the bottom on rights."


The Next Big Thing in Social Networking?
CHICAGO, Jan. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- SportsFYLE, LLC is a new technology startup based in Chicago, IL founded by David Garside and Eric Hays. SportsFYLE creates online sports focused communities. David and Eric are also building buzz around a new word 'FYLE' to represent an online profile. Their Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign goes live on Feb. 16, 2016. David and Eric hope to get the crowd behind what they believe could be the next big thing in social networking for 2016.
Their goal is to raise at least $50,000 to finish their SportsFYLE Connect mobile platform. The funds will also be used to complete the mobile development of HockeyFYLE.com. Pending the success of their Kickstarter, Eric & David plan on launching either SoccerFYLE.com, BaseballFYLE.com, BasketballFYLE.com or FootballFYLE.com. The crowd will decide the next sports community that SportsFYLE will release first in 2016.
"Our SportsFYLE Connect platform offers a different kind experience designed to get users organized and socially connected to their sport. Players can then develop their own unique virtual scrapbook and sports identity," says David Garside one of the co-founders and CEO of SportsFYLE.
Eric Hays, the founder and CIO of SportsFYLE states, "Now it is all about resources, an idea this big needs a small team of people to get it moving in the right direction. This is too big just for the two of us to do part-time. We need to take the concept to the next level and we are excited to share our plans with the Kickstarter community on Feb. 16."
People by nature are more socially engaged when they join focused groups with similar interests. SportsFYLE communities will give each sport a focused area for players and fans to communicate away from the game. David and Eric are also excited about their new slogan and call to action: "Connect Your Game!" Nobody else has a claim on this to date.
SportsFYLE creates sports based communities focused on the individual player or fan within a sport. HockeyFYLE launched earlier this year as a concept community for hockey fanatics. Players can build their FYLE and post hockey related events and news. Additional features will be added in the near future to enhance the solutions provided by the HockeyFYLE Connect platform.
SportsFYLE, LLC is a new startup based in Chicago, IL founded by Eric Hays and David Garside. They founded SportsFYLE after discovering that the word FYLE could be a clever and fun new word to represent an online profile. So your sport's profile equals your FYLE.


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Vegan St John's cake of cream with cherries and pine nuts
Coca de Sant Joan vegan cream with sour cherries and pine nuts
As we already told you in the recipes of Vegan St John's cake filled with orange cream and cherries in syrup and Vegan St John's cake filled with vegan truffle , this sweet is the traditional dessert of the St John's eve, which consumes especially in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands during the festival, although in some regions of Aragon it also has a great role.
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Vegan St John's cake filled with vegan truffle
Coca de Sant Joan of fruit stuffed with vegan truffle
On June 23, the festival of Sant Joan is celebrated, a festivity that pays tribute to the sun on the longest day of the year and, especially, on the shortest night.
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Vegan St John's cake filled with orange cream and cherries in syrup
Coca de Sant Joan filled with orange and cherry cream
With the arrival of the summer solstice there is also the St John's eve, celebrated on June 23 with bonfires (to pay tribute to the sun, combat the few hours of darkness of the shortest night and purify the sins) and with the typical "coca de Sant Joan", which we will teach you how to make in this recipe.
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This study aimed to determine the influence of owner's knowledge, business scale, busines life partially toward the success of business performance and also to determine the influence of owner's knowledge, business scale, business life partially toward the success of business performance with using of accounting information as moderating variable.
The population of this study is SME's (Small Medium Enterprises) owners of Banyumas specialty food. Sample determining is using purposive sampling method. The respondents consist of 64 business owners. Hypotheses testing of this study use multiple linear regression and Moderated Regression Analysis (MRA).
Based on the research result and data analysis using multiple linear regression and MRA show that : (1) owner's knowledge has positive significant influence to the success of business performance; (2) business scale has positive significant influence to the success of business performance; (3) business life has positive significant influence to the success of business performance; (4) using of accounting information moderated positively toward the relationship of owner knowledge to the success of business performance; (5) using of accounting information moderated positively toward the relationship of business scale to the success of business performance; (6) using of accounting information moderated positively toward the relationship of business life to the success of business performance.
The limitation of this study are: (1) independent variables only focus on internal business factors such as owner's knowledge, business scale, and business life; (2) situational factor which is used as moderating variable in this study only one situational factor that is using of accounting information.


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* Generally this option loads the sequence of colors used in particular design to work on same color sequence for another design.
2. Default Colors: It shows the default quick colors.
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According to this post; the LGNAS CPU (Marvell "Kirkwood") does not have VFP support (would be listed as vfp under "Features" in cpuinfo) therefore do not specify a -mfpu= in the CFLAGS.
Do 'make'; do 'make install-lib-shared'.
Did the same edit to ffmpeg's config.mak as done in x264 config.mak.
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FIFA have today announced that the football World Cup will be expanded to 48 teams, an increase of 16 from the current 32 team format. The sport's world governing body voted on the decision in Zurich, Switzerland on Tuesday.
The plan was the idea of new FIFA President Gianni Infantino as he wanted the game's showpiece event to be more 'inclusive', saying that: "There is nothing bigger in terms of boosting football in a country than participating in a World Cup." This expansion marks the first change in format of the World Cup since 1998 when it changed from 24 teams to 32.
Despite the alterations, the amount of games played for the eventual winners will remain the same at seven. It means that instead there will be 16 groups of three teams (rather than eight groups of four) with the top two qualifying for a new round of 32 knockout stage. Another new addition means that any group stage match that is a draw will now be decided by a penalty shoot-out.
The total number of games will increase from 64 to 80 but FIFA is adamant that the schedule can still take place over a 32-day period, meaning that club sides would still be able to have their star players back and ready for the start of their various domestic seasons.
However, the German FA and national team coach Joachim Low has questioned whether the quality of football showcased at a bigger tournament would be to a poorer standard. Whether these new changes will be a success in the long term remains to be seen and we'll have to wait until 2026 to see it in action.
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The OSSCAR (Open Software Services for Classrooms and Research) platform is a collaborative environment targeted at enhancing awareness and adoption of best practises in Open Science.
OSSCAR targets both research and education: it will provide some of the core tools needed for "computational thinking", first targeting physics, chemistry, materials science, mechanical and chemical engineering.
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OSSCAR is a project funded by the EPFL Open Science Fund.


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Top judge says greater efforts made to build a "beautiful China"
Chief Justice Zhou Qiang delivers a work report of the Supreme People"s Court at the second plenary meeting of the first session of the 13th National People"s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 9, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]
With China sparing no efforts to fight pollution in recent years, courts across the country have handled a rapidly rising number of environment-related lawsuits in the past five years, according to the nation"s top court.
The Supreme People"s Court, in its work report released on Friday, said the number of criminal environmental cases heard by courts nationwide between 2013 and 2017 increased by 65.6 times compared with the period from 2008 to 2012.
The report was delivered by Zhou Qiang, president of the top court, and submitted for discussion to the first session of the 13th National People"s Congress.
Though the exact figure was not released, earlier data from the top court also points to this sharp rise. In 2014, for example, courts filed 1,188 environment-related criminal cases, while in 2016, they concluded 19,000 criminal cases related to environmental and ecological damage, up by 18.8 percent year-on-year.
"We"ve made greater efforts to protect the environment and ecology, contributing to building a beautiful China," Zhou said.
The number of people investigated for environment-related crimes has also increased, according to the work report of the Supreme People"s Procuratorate, which also was delivered on Friday.
Around 137,000 people were charged in the past five years with crimes involving air, water or soil pollution, and importing foreign waste, as well as illegally occupying farmland, destructive mining and illegal lumbering, up by 59.3 percent from the previous five-year period, said Cao Jianming, procurator-general of the Supreme People"s Procuratorate.
Experts said stronger legislation and law enforcement in the environmental sector is behind the sharp increase.
For instance, the revised Environmental Protection Law, effective since 2015, stipulates that polluters face a fine of up to 100,000 yuan ($15,800) a day if they do not stop emissions after being warned, and there is no ceiling on the fine.
Zhou Guangquan, an NPC deputy, welcomed the progress that has been made, saying he is glad to see stricter environmental law enforcement in recent years.
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