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2018 First Fandom Awards and Big Heart Award
Posted on August 16, 2018 by Mike Glyer
By John Coker III: The 2018 First Fandom Awards and the Big Heart Award were presented during Opening Ceremonies at Worldcon76. Steve Francis was the Master of Ceremonies.
Distinguished First Fandom member Erle M. Korshak presented the Hall of Fame Award to Robert Silverberg.
Robert Silverberg has been a professional writer since 1955, the year before he graduated from Columbia University, and has published more than a hundred books and close to a thousand short stories. He is a many-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, was GoH at the Worldcon in Heidelberg, Germany in 1970, was named to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2004 was named a Grand Master by the SFWA, of which he is a past president. Silverberg was born in New York City, but he and his wife Karen and an assortment of cats have lived for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area.
John Hertz inducted Len and June Moffatt into the First Fandom Posthumous Hall of Fame, and the Award was accepted on their behalf by Bob Konigsberg.
Len and June Moffatt
Len and June Moffatt were longtime dedicated fans, SF and Mystery readers, authors, fanzine publishers, editors, correspondents, convention organizers and associate members of First Fandom. They joined LASFS in the later-1940s. They published the FAPAzine Moonshine, published in APA-L, and were founding members in the fanzine 5X5. Len was one of the organizers of the 1958 Worldcon. Len and June were co-founders of the Bouchercon, and were the 1973 TAFF Delegates. They were Fan Guests of Honor at Loscon 8 (1981) and BoucherCon (1985), and recipient of the Evans-Freehafer Trophy (1994) and the Anthony Award (1999). They are being honored as a couple for their tireless service to others over the course of their lifetimes.
The Sam Moskowitz Archive Award is presented for excellence in collecting. This year, First Fandom recognizes the important scholarly work that has been done by Hal W. Hall while he was curator of the SF and Fantasy Research Collection of the Cushing Library at Texas A&M University.
Hal W. Hall
In 1970, Hall W. Hall started indexing SF and fantasy book reviews, ending that effort 25 years later with a bibliography of some 79,000 citations. In the late-1970s, he started collecting citations to articles and books about SF and fantasy, first in book form and then online. That material resides in the SF and Fantasy Research Database, now approaching 115,000 items. In 2017, Hall published Sam Moskowitz: A Bibliography and Guide (221 pages, listing 1,489 items).
The Big Heart Award was presented by Sue Francis.
Big Heart Award goes to Mike Glyer
— Kevin Standlee (@KevinStandlee) August 17, 2018
Hmm. If only someone had said, "Mike, you really shouldn't miss Opening Ceremonies."
#WorldCon76 @worldcon2018 Hall of Fame award to writer #RobertSilverberg, who is attending his 65th WorldCon! Saw him the first time at a #HarlanEllison roast in Boston's Chinatown in 1977 or 78, a fundraiser for the Science Fantasy Bookstore in Harvard Square. pic.twitter.com/w3i8wsJFQI
— Sally G Pasion (@sgpombe) August 17, 2018
Posted in Awards	| Tagged Big Heart Award, First Fandom, John Hertz, John L. Coker III, June Moffatt, Len Moffatt, Sam Moskowitz, Steve Francis, Sue Francis
June Moffatt Remembered at LASFS
By John Hertz: June's local club was, and mine is, the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. She died on May 31st. She was my longest-time friend in fandom.
LASFS (to me and many, pronounced "lahss fahss"; to June's late husband Len rhyming with sass mass) was founded in 1934. Our memorial for her was June 28th. We meet every Thursday; it was our 4,220th. No one could take Our Gracious Host's place, but I told him that if he couldn't attend I'd take notes.
On the way I found classical-music radio Station KUSC broadcasting Chopin's Waltz No. 9 (Op. 59 No. 1, 1835) "L'adieu" played by Garrick Ohlsson.
We've been renting the Null Space Labs in North Hollywood. We outgrew our third clubhouse, sold it, and are looking for a fourth. Our meetings start at 8 p.m. This time we thought we ought to serve snacks, so we did that starting at 6.
We'd had another blow that day: Harlan Ellison. He would have a separate memorial.
Club business didn't take long. Usually a lot is monkey business. We left that out and went on to what the unusually large attendance had come for.
June's oldest son Bob Konigsberg had been able to visit her from his home in Los Gatos three hundred fifty miles away. I'd sometimes found him at Moffatt House, serenading her. Tonight he told us she loved railroad songs, like "The Wabash Cannonball".
A gadget in Bob's hand, coupled with one Matthew Tepper had, let us hear from June's daughter Caty, still on the road. It's called Bluetooth, I muttered to Lee Gold, because you put it in your ear. You know it's named for Harald Gormsson, she muttered back, quite rightly shushing me as I started to explain that the Greek dance Hasapikos (Turkish kasap, a butcher) is so called because sailors do it.
Caty told us she'd seen how much LASFS meant to her mom. As it happened no one broke into "Mutual Admiration Society" but we could have. June and Len were like that too. Caty thanked us all and said she heard us thanking her.
Barbara Gratz Harmon had married Jim Harmon about the time June married Len. They had double-dated. Len and Jim both died in 2010. Tonight Barbara talked about June.
Barbara lives in Burbank; the Moffatts lived in Downey. With Len and Jim gone, June spent Thursday nights after LASFS meetings at Barbara's, and drove home the next day. Barbara is a cellist in several orchestras. When she had to practice late at night, June took out hearing aids and slept jes' fine. When Barbara was on jury duty for five months, June had a key to the house. Barbara's dog Leslie loved her.
June became unable to drive. She passed the written exam but couldn't see well enough. Carol Sperling, among other things founder of the Blustering Gales, a local Sherlock Holmes club – detective fiction was another Moffatt interest – told us about taking June around.
George McUrso did some of that too. Eventually he had, as regular Thursday night passengers, June, Barbara, Charlie Jackson, and Rowan Dao (who was also the youngest Blustering Gale).
In 1991 George (then using the surname Mulligan) had been given the Evans-Freehafer Award for service to the LASFS; he was one of June and Len's nominators when they were given the Evans-Freehafer in 1994.
Like Carol Sperling, he had other adventures driving June. They went to an Edgar Rice Burroughs fans' Dum-Dum, and the Orange County Museum of Art. He learned what a great film Oklahoma! was. Once at Clubhouse III he was looking for The Mouse That Roared. After a while June thought it was time to go home. Just then our librarian Gavin Claypool emerged calling that he had it, and The Mouse on the Moon too. June said "Can we get out of here before he finds any more mice?"
Matthew Tepper said June had agented his Lzine when he lived in Minneapolis and San Francisco. She asked him to find music for Len's LASFS memorial. Tonight he began to play it from a gadget he had – "No, that's Mussorgsky" – then we heard "I Go Pogo". The Moffatts were Pogo fans.
Barry Gold had found LASFS in 1964. June's equanimity and aplomb, he said, had won her the name Mother Jaguar. June and Len made him feel he'd known them for ages. Near the end while visiting her he'd sung "Bouncing Potatoes" and told Bob Konigsberg how Poul Anderson was driven to write it.
Charlie Jackson said he'd just finished re-reading The Wind in the Willows when she died. Comments in her APA-L zine were headed "Onion-Sauce" (ch. 1). With Len and June, he said, as we agreed, seldom was heard a discouraging word.
Ed Green said there was no bigger heart than Len and June's. They sponsored people, including him. A bright light had gone out.
I said – there was more, but I'll stop here – Judaism taught that, whatever else after death there may be, the dead live in their good deeds. And we should take the torch.
Some of this is also in Vanamonde 1308.
Posted in In Passing	| Tagged Barry Gold, Charles Lee Jackson II, Ed Green, Gavin Claypool, John Hertz, June Moffatt, LASFS, Len Moffatt, Matthew Tepper
Look around! Look around! Look around!
By John Hertz: (reprinted from Vanamonde 1304)
White irises bloom
In dozens, in their bushes.
We do have seasons.
But I must write about death.
June Moffatt (1926-2018) left us on May 31st – kindly sparing, we might say, the month of her name. She and her husband Len (1923-2010) were exemplary of "The Second Time Around", the 1960 Sammy Cahn – Jimmy Van Heusen song I associate, like much else, with Frank Sinatra (though introduced by Bing Crosby, whom June preferred).
By our mythos, at least half in jest like much else, they're together again in After-Fandom. Whether that's otherwise true is not for me to say.
I never met June's first husband Eph ("eef") Konigsberg or Len's first wife Anna Sinclare Moffatt. Each had, among much else, been active among us.
Much of what comes to mind about June I wrote about Len (Van 913). They were like that. I'll repeat this: "Conviviality, hospitality were with Len's wit, amplified, if possible, by June. Together clubmen and party hosts – the suffix -man is not masculine – they also welcomed and sponsored newcomers with open arms, and discernment, for them no paradox. Fine fannish things happened at Moffatt House and when the Moffatts went abroad."
They were the 1973 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegates; their TAFF report, mimeographed by Mike Glyer, was The Moffatt House Abroad; the same was true of them at other people's parties and at conventions – which from the fannish point of view are, we might say, justly deemed to be no less than other people's parties.
Glyer has a fine note about June; he'd kindly reprinted my note about Len, and has linked to it. June was 92.
I always thought she had good taste: outward from our core, the Oz books, especially Frank Baum's; the comic strips that charmed us, George Herriman's Krazy Kat, Walt Kelly's Pogo – which Judith Merril put in her 6th annual Year's Best S-F; tangent to us, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey, Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe – June and Len were among co-founders of detective fiction's annual Bouchercon, named for Tony Boucher, so excellent both here and there.
But I was one of those newcomers.
She and Len were active to the ends of their lives in the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society – founded 1934, even then we wanted to be sure of including both science fiction and fantasy. LASFS (to me "lahss fuss", to Len rhyming with sass mass) hosts Loscon, where she and Len were Fan Guests of Honor in 1981; they were given the Evans-Freehafer Award for service to LASFS in 1994. June was Chairman of the Board when Glyer joined in 1970.
June and Len sometimes invited me to other fannish clubs they took part in; naming two, the Petards, which had a Hoist and Hoistess, and the Prestigious International Gourmand Society, which more than once met at a Farrell's ice-cream parlor, where Alan Frisbie, who among much else hosted the two mascots of the 42nd World Science Fiction Convention, Reynolds Rat and Rat Masterson, at least once consumed a Trough.
June helped crack hazelnuts for a flourless torte I had something to do with. Hazelnuts are hard. At the time I quite deliberately had no telephone. There was a doorbell, rung by a cord that ran down one storey if you knew where to find it.
Moffatt House had, among much else, a plaque "These Are the Good Old Days".
Fanwriting to me is best as one word; a girlfriend or boyfriend is not merely a girl or a boy who is a friend. In the s-f community amateur magazines we publish for one another discuss life, the universe, and everything: by the 1940s we called them fanzines. They may sometimes seem never to mention s-f; but a love of s-f, and a sense of participation, are the string on which the beads of fanwriting are strung.
We did not invent apas, but our first was FAPA the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, founded 1937, still ongoing. Others followed. Originally they seemed a convenient way to circulate fanzines. Eventually apazines took on a life of their own.
The Moffatts' FAPAzine was Moonshine. Their Lzine De Jueves (Spanish, "Of Thursdays", APA-L being collated at but not by LASFS, which since 1934 has met on Thursdays) ran through No. 2084, until the end of 2017, mostly by June, after 2010 by her alone except that Len was always with her in spirit.
She shone with fanwriting virtues, intelligence, responsiveness, good humor, a light touch, reaching the new and the old; she avoided our too-typical vices, retaliation, garrulity, unignition, unfocus; in APA-L, weekly over forty years, a feat. Had she achieved nothing else she would have earned our awe. She would have declined it. She can't now.
She was my longest-time friend in fandom. I loved Len, and I loved her. Writing about death I have written about life. June was like that. Goodbye.
Posted in In Passing	| Tagged John Hertz, June Moffatt, LASFS, Len Moffatt
June Moffatt (1926-2018)
Posted on June 2, 2018 by Mike Glyer
Longtime LASFS member June Moffatt died May 31. June's son Bob Konigsberg announced her passing on Facebook. She was 92.
June attended her first LASFS meeting 1947. By the time I joined in 1970 she was chair of the Board of Directors. Her maturity, compassion, and wisdom made her one of the club's most admired and respected members.
June married Eph Konigsberg in 1949 and together they had three children Robert (Bob), Katie, and Jerry. June had little opportunity to visit the club for the next decade. After June and Eph divorced in 1964 she resumed going to LASFS meetings. That also was the year the club started APA-L, the weekly amateur publishing association, and June became a faithful contributor for decades.
Fred Pattenn and June Moffatt collating APA-L.
Len Moffatt, himself a LASFS member since 1946, married June in 1966. They both participated in club leadership, alternating terms on the LASFS Board of Directors, and serving in other offices.
Len and June were elected the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegates in 1973. Their TAFF trip report, The Moffatt House Abroad, which I mimeographed and slip-sheeted on the LASFS mimeo (!), for thirty years enjoyed the distinction of being the only full-length North American TAFF report completed and published.
Len and June also were active in mystery fandom. In 1965 they started publishing The JDM Bibliophile, about John D. MacDonald (who wrote in multiple genres, but was especially known for his Travis McGee detective series). And as Sherlock Holmes aficianados, they were members in the Blustering Gales of the SW and the Curious Collectors of Baker St.
In 1970, they co-founded Bouchercon, and chaired three of them. Today the convention is called Bouchercon: World Mystery Convention.
June in the 1970s. Photo by Bill Warren.
As part of another subfandom, she and Len were charter members of the Los Angeles SubERBs chapter of the Burroughs Bibliophiles.
They were jointly celebrated as guests of honor at Loscon 8 (1981), Bouchercon 16 (1985), and Tra-La-La Con (1997). LASFS gave them its Evans-Freehafer service award in 1994.
And at LASFS's seventy-fifth anniversary in 2009, the couple presented "LASFS ALIVE AT 75!" in rhyme and prose.
In Nineteen Forty-Seven I got a treat
And was taken to the LASFS on Bixel Street.
I met Forry Ackerman, van Vogt and more
Science-fiction fans by the score.
Only a year later, Len predeceased her.
John Hertz and June Moffatt at the LASFS memorial for Len Moffatt.
After that June remained as active in the club as health permitted.
Following two hospitalizations in March of this year she entered hospice care. Her family reports that on May 31 she went peacefully. Her remains will be cremated.
[Thanks to Lee Gold for her help with this story – but any errors are mine!]
Posted in In Passing	| Tagged Bouchercon, June Moffatt, LASFS, Len Moffatt, TAFF
Pixel Scroll 1/28/18 I Say We Take Off And Pixel The Entire Scroll From Orbit – It's The Only Way To Be Sure
(1) DUFF DEADLINE. Down Under Fan Fund nominations for the 2018 race close January 31. If you're interested, or have someone else lined up, hop to it!
Nominations are now open for a Down Under Fan Fund delegate from Australia or New Zealand to travel either to San Jose, California, USA for the 76th World Science Fiction Convention, 16–20 August 2018, or to other major conventions in North America in 2018.
(2) EARLY COSPLAY AND THE LA WORLDCON OF 1946. SyFy Wire's Carol Pinchefsky goes beyond the Ackerman/Douglas collaboration in "Firsts: The first cosplay took place at the first-ever con… in 1939", drawing on other anecdotes collected by John. L. Coker III, sf historian and editor of the nonfiction book Tales of the Time Travelers: The Adventures of Forrest J. Ackerman and Julius Schwartz:
Coker interviewed other First Fans for Tales of the Time Travelers. Author and fan Len J. Moffatt discussed yet another "first" … the first recorded cosplay fail, which took place at the fourth Worldcon, in 1946:
"[Fan] Dale Hart [pictured above] was an excellent Gray Lensman in a silver-gray form-fitting costume like the Astounding cover by Rogers. The problem was that it was so tight that he could not sit down or dare to bend over."
Moffatt may also have created another "first" at Pacificon I, the first cosplay routine:
"While at Slan Shack on Bixel Street earlier, I had borrowed some of Myrtle's green make-up, combed my hair over my ears and turned up my jacket collar to become a comical vampire. I made a better impression earlier when friends carried me into a meeting hall and deposited my rigid body on some lined-up folding chairs. I lay there a long time with eyes closed and hands folded on my chest listening to the wondering remarks of passers-by."
(3) WRATHFUL SPEECH. Middle-Earth Reflections documents "His sharp tongue or Fëanor's talent to insult":
Fëanor the Spirit of Fire was the most gifted of all the Elves in linguistic lore. He could use language so well that his speeches affected those who heard them and inspired them to do different, though not always sensible, things. Thus, being gifted with words and able to use them potently, Finwë's eldest son was also exceptionally good at insulting others.
(4) BESPOKE AWARD. Charles Payseur unveils he fifth and final category winners: "THE SIPPY AWARDS 2017! The "Where We're Going We Won't Need Categories" Sippy for Excellent I Don't Know What in Short SFF"
The "Where We're Going We Won't Need Categories"
Sippy Awards for Excellent I Don't Know What in Short SFF
What does it mean? Well, part of the point of this category is…I'm not sure. These are stories that defy conventional definitions and categorization. These are the ones that slip between genres and expectations. They're…well, a lot of them are weird, but beautiful. Haunting, but fun. Deep and complex and brilliant in the ways they innovate and inspire. So without further delay…
(5) LEADING BY EXAMPLE. Lisa Goldstein's tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin tells how much she meant to girls who wanted to write science fiction and fantasy:
…Her characters were so real and rounded they became people you wanted to know. She wrote beautifully, in a field where most writing ranged from serviceable to awkward. And she was not just smart but wise, someone who could get to the heart of a subject with a few well-chosen words. I was looking through my copy of The Language of the Night this week and found this: "Fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true."
So I began to think that I could actually do this science-fiction thing. After all, here was a woman who was, IMHO, doing it better than any male writer. (And around the same time there were also Joanna Russ and Kate Wilhelm and Carol Emshwiller — and James Tiptree, or course, but we didn't know her secret then.) She gave me, and any number of other girls reading science fiction in those years, the courage to try….
(6) TV ARCHEOLOGY. Echo Ishii, in "SF Obscure: Planet of the Apes TV", discusses two TV adaptations, one live, one animated.
The live action TV series has two new astronauts stranded on future/parallel earth. In this version, there are human villages-not quite as primitive as the original movies movies-ruled over by Apes as governors and guards. The two astronauts are assisted by another Ape who believes humans are capable of more. It's a run of the mill action adventure with the planet of the apes spin. Entertaining, but not outstanding. It was, unfortunately, an expensive show and cancelled after 14 episodes.
(7) BEST OF 2016. Greg Hullender notes Rocket Stack Rank is continuing their analysis of the best science fiction and fantasy short fiction from 2016. In the latest installment, they turn their attention to —"2016 Best SF/F Short Fiction Authors".
Out of 602 authors, fully 74% had only one story published in our survey of 887 stories, so we're picking from a huge diversity of authors.
On the other hand, there's remarkable consistency among our pool of recommenders: 72% of recommendations went to the top 20% of authors, and 40% got no recommendations at all. It's true that different reviewers have different opinions, but it's also true that there's a sort of broad consensus around who the best authors are.
(8) WHOHIKER. Andrew Hickey reviews Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen, the book by James Goss based on a possible Doctor Who film script by Douglas Adams. It is a positive review with a caveat:
So you can be fairly sure that if you're the kind of person who would even vaguely consider maybe reading a book like this, you'll come away having read a book that at least matches your expectations, and maybe exceeds them.
(9) NOT APOLITICAL. How some people were spared persecution in WWII. The thread starts here –
This is a thread for those of you who say coders and developers should take no role in politics. Those of you who watched my #WCLDN talk last year already heard this story. You can hear it again.
This was Rene Carmille, and that is a punch card. pic.twitter.com/GJeWmFKIeH
— Heather Burns (@WebDevLaw) January 27, 2018
And here's one of the reasons you'll want to read it:
On #HolocaustMemorialDay , as the people in the data we collect and store and share face threats we never thought we would see again, you need to be prepared to go that far when the day comes when it is you handling the data.
You can, and you will.
(10) SMITH OBIT. Mark E. Smith, the leader and singer/songwriter of influential British post-punk band The Fall, died January 24 at the age of 60. In his last interview a reporter for The Guardian asked whether he saw the most recent Blade Runner since he was a "big fan" of Philip K. Dick movies. As usual, Smith was not exactly diplomatic:
I think the original Blade Runner is the most obscene film ever made, I fucking hated it. The Man in the High Castle is one of my favourite books; how they fucked that TV show up I don't know. It gets blander and blander. In the book the level of comprehension of that world is fucking astounding, in the show it's just everybody going around normally except they've got swastika armbands on. The only good Philip K Dick film is Total Recall, it's faithful to the book. Arnie gets it. I was physically sick watching A Scanner Darkly, it was like an episode of Cheers painted over except they all smoke dope and imagine women with no clothes on.
January 28, 1986 — At 11:38 a.m. EST the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, then explodes.
Born January 28, 1959 – Frank Darabont
Born January 28, 1981 – Elijah Wood, who played Frodo in the Lord of the Rings movies.
Michael J. Walsh, Mike Kennedy, and John King Tarpinian all saw what happens when a young writer picks sf, in Non Sequitur.
John King Tarpinian found a mock terrifying surprise in Lio.
(14) OKORAFOR SAGA. NPR's Amal el-Mohtar says "Binti's Story Is Finished — But Don't Expect Completion".
Nnedi Okorafor's Binti trilogy is now complete: The Night Masquerade is the final instalment in a series she's described as "African girl leaves home. African girl returns home. African girl becomes home." It's a beautiful proposed structure, a Hero's Journey that rings truer for me than Joseph Campbell's, resonating deeply with my experiences of diaspora, roots, and community. Binti left her Himba family on Earth in order to travel to Oomza University, far beyond the stars; she left Oomza in an attempt to manage her trauma and find herself again in the deserts of her home; and there, in the desert, she incorporated new revelations about her history into the anthology of herself, before being shocked into an awareness of impending doom.
(15) WHEN WILL YOU MAKE AN END? NPR's Scott Tobias on "'The Maze Runner: The Death Cure': Nice Guy Finishes, At Last":
The Maze Runner is the rare series that has improved with each installment, expanding beyond the organic pen of the first film into a bigger and more thrillingly realized science fiction sandbox. Though its young leads are mostly blah, the franchise has steadily accumulated character actors to liven things up, like Gillen, Esposito, and Pepper in the second film and now Walton Goggins in the third as the deformed leader of the Cranks. While Ball tries for too much in the needlessly protracted finale, he's supremely confident in staging the action sequences, which usually rely on a meticulously orchestrated set of circumstances.
(16) IT'S NOT FICTION. BBC reports about "Of Mice and Old Men: Silicon Valley's quest to beat ageing".
To understand what's happening in the tech world today, you need to look back to the mid-1800s, when a Frenchman named Paul Bert made a discovery that was as gruesome as it was fascinating.
In his experiment, rodents were quite literally stitched together in order to share bloodstreams. Soon after he found the older mice started showing signs of rejuvenation: better memory, improved agility, an ability to heal more quickly. In later years, researchers at institutions like Stanford would reinforce this work.
The extraordinary technique became known as parabiosis, and forms the basis of efforts at Alkahest, a California start-up that is banking on being able to apply those rejuvenative effects to people, rather than mice. It's an idea so fantastical it wouldn't look out of place in an episode of Silicon Valley, the HBO send-up of the start-up scene.
(17) HELPING WATER TAKE SHAPE. An article about digital effects in The Shape of Water: "How visual effects studio Mr. X helped create 'The Shape of Water' and its lovable merman".
It turns out that Jones' impressive costume and makeup (and his equally impressive performance) only accounts for part of what we see on-screen. Trey Harrell, CG supervisor at visual effects house Mr. X, told me, "Every single shot of the film where you see the creature is a visual effects shot."
After all, Harrell said that while "Doug is an amazing actor," his face was also hidden under "an inch of and a half of foam latex." So at the very least, Mr. X had to create the merman's eye and face movements. In other instances, like when the merman was viewed swimming inside the lab's capsule, Mr. X was responsible for the entire creature.
(18) ACCUSATION. Someone has made a claim about the source of the story — "Guillermo del Toro accused of stealing story of 'Shape of Water' from 1969 play" reports the New York Daily Post.
Guillermo del Toro has been accused of stealing the storyline of "Shape of Water" from Pulitzer-winning playwright Paul Zindel.
David Zindel, the son of the playwright, who died in 2003, claims del Toro's story is taken from his father's 1969 "Let Me Hear You Whisper," about "a female janitor in a research laboratory who bonds with a captive dolphin and tries to rescue the creature."
"We are shocked that a major studio could make a film so obviously derived from my late father's work without anyone recognizing it and coming to us for the rights," Zindel told the Guardian.
… Fox Searchlight denied that the "Shape of Water" storyline was stolen.
"Guillermo del Toro has never read nor seen Mr. Zindel's play in any form. Mr. del Toro has had a 25 year career during which he has made 10 feature films and has always been very open about acknowledging his influences," a spokesman told the Guardian.
(19) I'M FEELING BETTER! Scott Tilley was listening for something else when the unexpected happened: "Amateur astronomer discovers a revived NASA satellite".
After years in darkness, a NASA satellite is phoning home.
Some 12 years since it was thought lost because of a systems failure, NASA's Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) has been discovered, still broadcasting, by an amateur astronomer. The find, which he reported in a blog post this week, presents the possibility that NASA could revive the mission, which once provided unparalleled views of Earth's magnetosphere.
The astronomer, Scott Tilley, spends his free time following the radio signals from spy satellites. On this occasion, he was searching in high-Earth orbit for evidence of Zuma, a classified U.S. satellite that's believed to have failed after launch. But rather than discovering Zuma, Tilley picked up a signal from a satellite labeled "2000-017A," which he knew corresponded to NASA's IMAGE satellite. Launched in 2000 and then left for dead in December 2005, the $150 million mission was back broadcasting. It just needed someone to listen.
(20) RARITY. Offered on eBay for $2,000 – the NAL paperback of The Day After Tomorrow signed by Robert A,. Heinlein to his publisher:
HEINLEIN, ROBERT A. The Day After Tomorrow. New York: Signet – New American Library, 1964. First Paperback Edition. Signed and inscribed by Robert A. Heinlein with a superb inscription to his publisher: "To Kurt Enoch, President of N.A.L. With books as with icebergs it is the unseen 7/8-s which permits the 1/8 to be seen. Thanks! Bob Heinlein". Originally published as Sixth Column, this copy is enclosed in a custom cloth clamsell box. Paperbound, very good clean copy. From the library of Dr. Kurt Enoch (1895-1982) who was a noted German publisher, forced to flee the Nazis, landing in New York in 1940. In 1948, Dr. Enoch co-founded and became President of New American Library – Signet Books which became one of the successful and acclaimed post-war publishing houses. Enoch went on to become one of the most highly regarded figures in American book publishing.
(21) YOUR MOVE. The mention in yesterday's Scroll about Richard Paolinelli asking someone to guess his chess ranking inspired this parody of "One Night in Bangkok" (from Chess) by Matthew Johnson (and the last two lines by Soon Lee):
Twitter's gonna be the witness
This grips me more than if you go
To San Jose for a cruddy old Hugo
I don't see you guys making
The nine-dimensional move I'm contemplating
But our Gargoyles DVDs would not excite you
So you'd better go back to your Files, your SFWA forums,
Your cat cafes
One night in genre and worlds are your oyster
The Scrolls are Pixels and the comment's free
My pups are friendly and their noses moister
No politics in SF history
I can feel Bob Heinlein walking next to me
His mistresses are harsh, and his lunch ain't free.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, JJ, Soon Lee, Cat Eldridge, Martin Morse Wooster, Carl Slaughter, Chip Hitchcock, Rob Thornton, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Steve Davidson.]
Posted in Pixel Scroll	| Tagged Amal El-Mohtar, Andrew Hickey, Charles Payseur, cosplay, Doctor Who, Douglas Adams, DUFF, Echo Ishii, Forrest J Ackerman, Greg Hullender, Guillermo del Toro, J.R.R. Tolkien, John King Tarpinian, John L. Coker III, Len Moffatt, Lisa Goldstein, Matthew Johnson, Michael J. Walsh, Mike Kennedy, Morojo, Nnedi Okorafor, Pacificon I, Philip K. Dick, Rocket Stack Rank, The Silmarillion, Ursula K. Le Guin
Still in Wonderland
Posted on March 27, 2015 by Mike Glyer
By John Hertz: The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, my local club, has been meeting every Thursday over eighty years. Most of us rhyme "LASFS" with joss fuss although Len Moffatt always rhymed it with sass mass.
People often come for the business meeting and leave before the program. That's because our business is monkey business. We have strange motions – I mean, in the parliamentary sense; File 770 is a public forum – and auctions. Maybe your club does also.
Last night the program was Harlan Ellison. Of course the room was crammed.
We didn't call it "An Evening with Harlan Ellison". We didn't call it anything. He told us he'd like to come by, didn't mind if we let people know, and would gladly take questions and give autographs if we didn't make a performing elephant of him. I paraphrase.
Of course he's a LASFS member. While he's become a tremendous celebrity as a pro he's also a fan. Among many other things he brought about the faithful contributions of Nalrah Nosille to Science Fiction Five-Yearly – published on time for sixty years – until the very last issue.
Of course he's good at telling stories – he says Whoopi Goldberg, a friend of his, is too – and so many of us wanted to hear him we ended up seating him at a table on a platform with most everyone just listening. It was all right.
Our current clubhouse (our third; we outgrew two others) also has a social hall, a computer-game room, and our library. We even have a Null Space; one very able member was Bob Null. Fans also hung around these spaces from time to time, including John DeChancie, me, and Harlan's wife Susan who is herself a wonder. He couldn't; he was busy. But it was all right. In fact it was a gas.
I don't know if Harlan was born in a cross-fire hurricane. He was however reading by two – maybe you were also – and like many of the quick and the young he perceived and might answer more than he yet grasped. Once someone told him "Don't hock me a chainik" (a Yiddishism, literally don't bang me a teapot = make such a fuss) and he said "Okay, I'll pawn you in Poughkeepsie."
Dennis the Menace, he said, to him was Goldilocks.
Later he served in the Army. Just conceiving of this roused our imagination. He was court-martialed fifteen times. Acquitting him, which always happened, didn't seem to make things much better. At the end of his active duty he found nothing in his folder about where he was to go for reserve duty. Everyone else had an assignment. He asked. They said "Just go away."
Some of the legends about him never happened. He is not always the calmest man in the world and he has found their recurrence troubling. He told of a fellow who during another question time asked "Why did you drop that chandelier on those people?" To that man, and to us, he explained what he'd have had to do to get at a chandelier, to detach it, and to drop it. And what would those people have been doing in the meantime? And what place would he have had to stand on to wield that lever and move that world? I paraphrase.
Finally Susan, in her role as Mary Poppins, said it was time to go home. Of course there were new books and we wanted to buy them. Of course he preferred to sell some but was almost apologetic. Finally Jerry Pournelle managed it by asking "Harlan, if they buy your books will you tell us why you dropped that chandelier?" We all cracked up and it was all right.
Posted in Clubs	| Tagged Bob Null, Harlan Ellison, Jerry Pournelle, John DeChancie, John Hertz, LASFS, Len Moffatt
Len Moffatt Memorial Scheduled
The LASFS will host a memorial for Len Moffatt on Saturday, January 22, 2011 at the clubhouse beginning at 2 p.m. reports Andrew Porter.
The address of the LASFS clubhouse is 11513 Burbank Bl., North Hollywood, CA.
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Hertz: He Was a Lion – Len Moffatt 1923-2010
By John Hertz (reprinted from Vanamonde 913): I gave him a gilt bottle of mimeograph correction fluid for his 50th birthday. I dressed as Auguste Dupin for him in a presentation at the detective-fiction convention Bouchercon the year he co-chaired. I drank Chivas Regal with him. Len Moffatt was of First Fandom, that happy band active among us at least as early as the first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939. Born in Arizona, by his teens he was a founder of the Western Pennsylvania Science Fictioneers, doing fanzines – a word not yet invented – and corresponding with fans around the United States and United Kingdom. In World War II he joined the Navy like his ancestors and served as a hospital-corpsman with the Marines; he was in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb. In 1946 he joined the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. He always pronounced LASFS to rhyme with mass sass. He did a lot of rhyming, sometimes as the clown Pike Pickens, sometimes clowning himself.
Some fans sell s-f, some become quite active as pros. In 1949 the LASFS began a yearly Fanquet honoring the member who sold the most words in the previous year. Moffatt tied for that honor in 1951. In 2004 the LASFS gave him its Forry Award, named after Forry Ackerman, for lifetime achievement in s-f, putting him in the company of Ray Bradbury, Kelly Freas, and C.L. Moore. In 2008 his poem "What a Friend We Have in Sherlock" appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Detective fiction has long been our next-door neighbor. Bouchercon, of which Len and his second wife June were co-founders, was named for Tony Boucher, a top and if I may say so tony editor and author there and here. It gave them its Anthony Award for lifetime achievement in 1999.
Len was probably Rick Sneary's best friend. Both were active in the Outlanders, one of the many s-f clubs outside the LASFS – often overlapping the LASFS membership – that have flourished from time to time. Sneary lived in South Gate. In 1948 he began, first as a joke, the slogan South Gate in '58. It caught on. The Worldcon moves around so as to be each year in someone's back yard. In 1957 the con was in London. It voted for South Gate. Be careful what you wish. Luckily the mayors of South Gate and Los Angeles by joint proclamation constituted the premises of the Hotel Alexandria as South Gate for the duration and purposes of the Worldcon. The con was called "Solacon" in honor of the combination. It also combined with that year's Westercon, the West Coast Science Fantasy Conference. Len was in the thick of it all. A decade and a half later he was Fan Guest of Honor at Westercon XXV.
Besides fanzines we have apas, amateur publishing associations, which distribute fanzines. We did not invent apas but we gave them our own life. Our first was the Fantasy Amateur Press Association, older than Worldcons. The distinction between science fiction and fantasy has long been known and blurred. The Moffatt FAPAzine was Moonshine. This was appropriate. Among Len's achievements was fan fiction – in our sense, i.e. fiction about fans – that Terry Carr thought was factual anecdote. Len and June were in APA-L, much younger than FAPA, over thirty years until Len's death. June still is.
Conviviality, hospitality were with Len's wit, amplified, if possible, by June. Together clubmen and party hosts – the suffix -man is not masculine – they also welcomed and sponsored newcomers with open arms, and discernment, for them no paradox. Fine fannish things happened at Moffatt House and when the Moffatts went abroad. They went well abroad in 1973 as the Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegates, nominated by Terry Jeeves, Ethel Lindsay, Juanita Coulson. Fred Patten, and Roy Tackett. attending the British national s-f con, and publishing their TAFF report in good time. In 1981 they were Fan Guests of Honor at our local s-f con Loscon. In 1994 they were given the Evans-Freehafer Award for service to the LASFS. Shortly before I had the honor of co-editing with them the Rick Sneary memorial fanzine Button-Tack. It seems like yesterday.
He was a lion. I loved him. Good-bye.
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Len Moffatt Passes Away
Len Moffatt died around 3 a.m. on November 30 reports June, his wife. He was 87.
Dave Locke adds, "June had been keeping some folks informed on Len's hospital adventures with emails having the subject 'Len's Progress Report.' This one was entitled 'Len's Progress Report – FINAL.'"
Len went into the hospital on November 19 with extreme abdominal pain. He had been operated on for herniated colon.
It's a huge loss for June and all of Len's friends from the two fandoms where he's been active since the beginning. Len discovered SF fandom in 1939 and joined the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society in April 1946. Len and June Moffatt were Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund delegates in 1973. Fans in the mystery field will miss him too, as a participant in Bouchercons and as a writer (his most recent sales were to Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine).
1972 Westercon GoHs, Lloyd Biggle Jr. (pro) and Len Moffatt (fan)
Posted in In Passing	| Tagged June Moffatt, Len Moffatt
Moffatt, Niven Speeches Online
Posted on October 30, 2009 by Mike Glyer
Lee Gold has added to the LASFS website the text of speeches that Len and June Moffatt and Larry Niven gave at the LASFS' 75th Anniversary Banquet on October 23.
[Thanks to Lee Gold for the story.]
Update 10/30/2009: Fixed "link rot" pointed out by JK Tarpinian.
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There is a swell of change around the world that is shaking up gender roles and amplifying women's voices into the mainstream, from small moments to large movements. Millions of people marched for women in the United States, while one lone protester was heard from the streets of Iran. The United Nations' top management reached gender parity, while one family chose school over marriage for their daughter in Nepal.
From one voice to millions, women and men are collectively demanding progress with gender equality and taking steps towards it.
In Nepal, this ground-swell for women's rights, equality and justice has resulted in significant changes. The 2017 elections saw a historic number of women running and becoming elected officials, from the local level in the Gau and Nagar Palikas to the Provincial Assemblies and National Parliament. More than 14,000 women have taken up office. Many of these women are not professional politicians, but they come from every corner of Nepali society: small entrepreneurs, farmers, mothers, teachers. They were all motivated to actively participate in decisions that affect them, their families, their communities and their livelihoods.
Also in 2017, new legislation and policies were developed outlawing harmful practices like chhaupadi, sexual harassment, and violence against women. This changing political landscape has women and men working together to push women's rights forward.
But decisions about women's lives do not just belong to those in Singha Durbar, it's also essential for people from the most remote communities, to the bustling centre of Pokhara to weigh in on the decisions that affect their lives and the lives of their mothers, daughters, sisters, and neighbours, because legislation and policies are just words on paper if not acted upon.
Parents who send their daughters to school instead of marrying them off, families who reject chhaupadi, and couples who don't practise dowries, all influence the society around them.
This powerful momentum is what makes this International Women's Day so special. There is a seismic shift in gender equality, women's empowerment and inclusion that is undeniable. But the #PressforProgress must not abate. With this landmark election, Nepalis sent a message that women can and should lead. When leadership is inclusive, decisions are inclusive.
Nepal has ingrained traditions and seats of power that are occupied by the same sectors of society. But the aforementioned shift following the 2015 promulgation of the constitution to the historic 2017 elections is showing that society is rethinking and redefining what it means to lead.
Inclusive leaders are those women and men who measure their success in the reflection of the well-being of others and who lead collectively. This means that women who farm know what climate change is doing to their harvests and lands; they can govern from a place of environmental sensitivity; and they understand small-yield agriculture's contribution to the economy, and how poverty impacts progress.
This means that a person with disabilities knows how difficult it is to catch a bus in the city; they can govern knowing that improved urban transportation and ease of mobility can allow others to lead healthy and prosperous lives, and provide safety and security. The list goes on.
In Nepal, as women take leadership positions in the various spheres of government, they need to define how they will take forward their role as leaders in their communities. To do this, they will need time, time to undertake new dimensions of decision making—with both the risks and gains that new experiences bring. They will also need the support of colleagues, communities and families, as well as respect for and recognition of their expertise and added-values. They must be given the space and support to fulfill the promises and aspirations they brought with them into their new roles and awakened in others through their election.
Gender equality does not happen overnight; it is a process, lengthy, often painful, and at times, we discover that we continue to fight battles long after we thought we were at the finishing line. But to take those essential steps towards gender equality and the realisation of the rights of women, we must have strong leaders, advocates for change, who lead by example. Nepal needs leaders in each of its seven provinces and 753 local bodies who measure their success as leaders through the transformation they see in moving towards a more equal and just society.


Seungjoo Lee is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. She received a B.A. in English literature and a M.A. in Hispanic literature from Seoul National University in South Korea. Her current research explores political aspects of first-person narrators and detective plots in contemporary Latin American literature.
Lee, Seungjoo. "Condiciones para una nueva ficción fundacional argentina, en Respiración artificial." Sincronía, vol. XXI, no. 71, January-June 2017, http://sincronia.cucsh.udg.mx/articulos_71_html/a9_171_187.html. Accessed 2 February 2017.


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Shall we boycott Beijing 2022?
Workers fix the surface of a road outside the newly completed National Speed Skating Oval ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics test events in Beijing, March 31. AP
By David A Tizzard
In 2017, a world champion did something most remarkable: they refused to take part in a competition which they believed was prolonging human suffering. In doing so, they forfeited both their titles and considerable prize money but retained their dignity.
Obviously this wasn't a multi-millionaire Nike-sponsored athlete otherwise you would have likely heard about it before now. Instead, this was two-time women's chess champion Anna Muzychuk declaring she would not defend her title in Saudi Arabia.
Muzychuk's reasons were clear: "I decided not to go to Saudi Arabia. Not to play by someone's rules, not to wear an abaya, not to be accompanied getting outside and altogether not to feel myself a secondary creature."
Regardless of how one feels about Saudi Arabia as a state, surely one can at least respect Anna Muzychuk's position. She would not allow her own personal values to be compromised by the lure of money and instead sacrificed her own chances of fame in doing so.
So what would happen if the world had more Anna Muzychuks? Would countries still be attending the Beijing Olympics next year? Or, more pertinently, should countries still attend the Beijing Olympics next year?
If you decided to take the position that China has placed over a million people in indoctrination and labor camps (officially titled Xinjiang Vocational Education and Training Centers), and while there it has stripped away their religious and human freedoms under a brutal and oppressive system of mass surveillance, detention, and forced sterilization, on what grounds could you consider supporting the Beijing Olympics?
President Biden has promised to be "unrelenting" in his battle against China's human rights abuses while the State Department has labeled the actions taken by the CCP as "genocide." British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said there is a "highly disturbing program of repression" and that "we cannot simply look the other way [during] one of the worst human rights crises of our time."
But if one uses this language and then still sends sports stars and athletes to compete there, what are we to think? Just how outraged are we meant to be by all this?
One does not easily denounce such behavior in a person and then rock up at their house with a couple of bottles for a party. Is it another case of deflection like we saw in the southern part of the United States when "concentration camps reminiscent of Nazi Germany" suddenly became "homely detention centers" overnight because the teams had changed? Or is there genuinely something for us to stand up against?
My point is not whether China is acting correctly or not, that is for each individual to decide on their own terms. Rather I am trying to suggest that people stick to their values a little more and not just do whatever is politically expedient.
Pew Research from 2020 shows 75 percent of the Koreans surveyed possessing negative sentiments toward China. South Korea reportedly lost $7.5 billion during China's ban of Korean cultural products as retaliation for the placement of an American missile defense system on the Korean Peninsula and tensions have been high ever since.
The current ruling party had previously drummed up political support by turning the nation's ire at the historic enemy Japan, banning and refusing to (publically) purchase Tokyo's products. That move gained the party a lot of support from the people and aroused a great sense of national pride. I don't think, however, that President Moon imagined it would then be turned toward China and Beijing with the passion that it has.
This has been one of the underlying lessons of Adam Curtis' recent documentaries and perhaps it's now being demonstrated again here in South Korea: politicians will often seek to gain political support by revisiting historical antagonisms and stirring the masses against an enemy … but those passions will soon become uncontrollable and manifest in a number of unpredictable and, often, unseemly, ways.
The highly-anticipated $28 million Korean drama "Joseon Exorcist" was taken off air after just a couple of days for perceived Chinese influence, while "True Beauty" and "Vincenzo" have also come under fire for Chinese product placement. Upcoming dramas "The Golden Hairpin" from tvN and JTBC's "Until the Morning Comes" are also both based on popular Chinese novels as domestic companies here seek that lovely external lucre.
South Korean media meanwhile continues to warn citizens of China's alleged cultural imperialism and "Northeast Project" while also seeking to protect the integrity and ownership of traditional Korean products and foods ranging from kimchi to hanbok.
President Moon and his administration have seemingly only sought to placate China. They have not expressed support for the democratic rights of the people of Hong Kong, they have not banned Huawei's 5G networks, they have remained silent on the continued imprisonment of Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, and they have said nothing of note about the seeming human rights violations in Xinjiang.
They have also publically championed holding the Olympics and World Cup in North Korea so one does wonder whether or not the administration realizes that, despite them being on occasion allowed to wonder around Pyongyang and up Baekdu Mountain with various chaebeol leaders for love heart-filled photo ops, no one else is allowed such privileges.
The issue has become politicized here with the opposition conservative party currying favor with the public by accusing the democratic party of extreme deference to China. Their political comments of late suggest they will take a far tougher stance on China if given power and this seems to be winning them some support.
Yet if we politicize human rights like that, if we only mention them when it's politically expedient to do so, we are not only undermining them as a concept, we make ourselves less trustworthy and believable. Yes they are an idea (a social construct) rather than a naturally occurring phenomenon, but their strength comes from consistency rather than fickleness.
Regardless of one's political affiliation, national identity, or ethnicity, it would be nice to see people actually stand behind their values: to be more like Anna Muzychuk. It's all well and good making claims about the horrors people are committing, but if you then go and buy their products, shop at their store, and send your richest and most famous to their place for events, what do your words really mean? Nothing.
Dr. David A Tizzard (datizzard@swu.ac.kr) has a Ph.D. in Korean Studies. He is a social/cultural commentator and musician who has lived in Korea for nearly two decades. The views expressed in the article are the author's own and do not reflect the editorial direction of The Korea Times.
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Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone Photo
Old Faithful Geyser, the most famous geyser in the world, was named by the Washburn expedition in 1870. It is located in the Upper Geyser Basin, and is so notable that an entire area of the park along with a lodge and an inn are named for it. While it is neither the largest nor the most predictable geyser in the park, it is by far the most-viewed geyser due to its accessibilty, beauty and its predictability. Within minutes after an eruption ends, park rangers predict the time of the next eruption and claim to be accurate (within 10 minutes) over 90% of the time. (The interval between eruptions is predicted based on the duration of the previous eruption, so only the next eruption can be predicted.) It can reach heights of 180 feet or more, and an eruption can last up to five minutes and release over 10,000 gallons of water. Its behaviour has not changed significantly during the entire recorded history of Yellowstone National Park, although earthquakes have lengthened the interval over the years.
Old Faithful geyser at peak eruption. Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
Location: Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA
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A key indicator of the health of the manufacturing sector tanked in June, suggesting that business sentiment around new tariffs is starting to bite.
The Empire State Manufacturing Survey, which measures how factories in New York State view the state of their business, fell much more than expected in June: a record 26 points, to the lowest level since October 2016. The figure, -8.6, is the first negative number in more than two years.
A reading below zero indicates that the sector is actually contracting. It had been growing — albeit at a slower pace — for more than a year. The dip was driven by a decline in employment, the length of the workweek and new orders. And it's not the only indicator showing a turn for the worse: Others, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's Manufacturing Business Outlook Survey, have also been sinking steadily.
Manufacturers are sensitive not just to the actual imposition of tariffs, but also to the threat of new tariffs. That fear has escalated in recent weeks, as President Donald Trump continued to hold open the possibility of 10% duties on an additional $300 billion in goods from China — even as he backed off on the idea of taxing Mexican imports as leverage in his campaign for more restrictions on cross-border migration.
China's retaliatory tariffs on US goods have also had a dramatic effect, with exports to China declining 20% year-over-year in April. It comes amid a global manufacturing slowdown, driven by factors including weak purchases of automobiles and slowing consumer spending in China.
"Threats to the global growth outlook from trade protectionism have become much more significant in recent months," wrote Fitch Ratings in a report released Wednesday. Even without the threatened new tariffs, Fitch downgraded its forecast for global growth in 2019, blaming policy uncertainty caused by the Brexit situation and the breakdown of trade negotiations between the US and China.


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Prince of Wales & Duchess of Cornwall 8th November 2013
Music to their ears.. Prince Charles adds another patronage
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Prince Charles receives birthday cake from schoolchildren in Govindpuri
'It's a joy to be here': Prince Charles says as he and Camilla begin nine-day tour of India
The National Arts Centre Orchestra will have Prince Charles as its Royal patron for one of its tours for the first time.
For the first time ever, Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra will have a Royal patron for a leg of its tour. The Prince of Wales will be the patron of the NACO when they tour England in October 2014.
Prince Charles is certainly an ardent supporter of the arts. If one was to scan the list of over 400 of the organisations he is patron of, the recurring theme is that of the arts in many forms.
King George II was the first member of the British Royal Family to offer his name to an organisation. His first 'patronage' was the Society of Antiquaries.
Lending his name to the NACO tour, Charles is scheduled to attend some of the events NACO will hold. The details of the said events are still being scheduled, according to the Ottawa Citizen. 2014 is also the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I and Canada's role in the dreadful battles.
"I welcome the announcement that the National Arts Centre Orchestra will be embarking on a U.K. tour next year to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War, as well as to celebrate the deep and longstanding ties between Canada and the U.K." Prime Minster Stephen Harper commented in the media release for the announcement.
NACO is led by Pinchas Zukerman who is also the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra principal guest conductor. Five concerts and approximately 24 outreach and educational activities are being planned to commemorate the anniversary of World War I and to celebrate "the long ties linking Canada and the United Kingdom."
"Through this next international tour, Maestro Pinchas Zukerman and the musicians of the NAC Orchestra will communicate the strong cultural ties between Canada and Great Britain, and a very important chapter in our history," according to President and CEO of the NAC, Peter Herrndorf.
The idea is for an official concert in London, according to Herrndorf. "Then part of the hope is to take the orchestra to one or two of the cities on the plain in tribute as a thank you to those cities," he concluded.
Plans and further details are still being decided and will be known in the coming months.
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> What is Athlete's Foot?
> Can Anything Be Done About Hammertoe?
> What Does It Mean to Have Fallen Arches?
> What Causes Hot Feet?
> What Causes Cold Feet?
> What is Urethin and Does It Help With Foot Calluses?
> What is Morton's Neuroma?
> What is Turf Toe?
> What Is Sesamoiditis and What Can Be Done About It?
> What Are The Most Common Foot Complaints?
> What Are Flat Feet and Do They Cause Foot Pain?
> What are Alpha Hydroxy Acids?
> What is Shea Butter and Is There More Than One Type?
> Is Shea Butter Considered an Effective Treatment for Dry and Cracked Feet?
> What Can Peppermint Oil or Cream Do for My feet?
> What is An Ingrown Toenail?
> How Do I Keep My Feet Looking Good?
> Do Heel Grips Work?
> What Are The Metatarsal Bones?
> What Purpose Does a Heel Lift Serve?
> What Does A Podiatrist Do?
> What Kind of Damage Does Long-Term Wearing of High Heels Do?
> What Causes Toenails to Be Brittle and Ridged?
> What Is Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome?
> What are Bunion Slings and Do They Work?


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Riz Maslen has had an extraordinary career so far – playing live at Coachella and the Montreaux Jazz Festival, composing for Kew Gardens and the English National Opera, and releasing work on a who's who of independent labels including R&S/Apollo, Oxygen Music Works and Ninja Tune.
First marked out as a trip hop artist by critics, Riz Maslen had actually arrived in London from the West Country where she had been playing in several indie bands.
The story of her involvement with Future Sound of London and The Beloved at the inception of acid house is well-documented, as is her loan-funded move into production and subsequent releases on R&S, Oxygen Music Works and Ninja Tune.
But scratch beyond those beginnings and an extraordinary trajectory emerges – of an artist building an aesthetic that breathes both electronically and organically, in which can be heard jazz, folk, psychedelia and post-rock, alongside those electronics, samples and field recordings which characterise her early output.
Beyond the musical, those early incorporations of field recordings and found sounds have developed into audio artworks including installations for Kew Gardens and The Southbank Centre.
And beyond the aural, her work has frequently included or required visual elements, both still and moving – in fact, La Prochaine Fois (2001) was both an audio CD and a film directed by Maslen that screened at Sundance.
Now homed in St Leonards On Sea, she has completed her sixth Neotropic studio album, formed improvisation super group Non Blank with Oliver Cherer, Jack Hayter and Darren Morris, and collaborated with Zeroh for several festivals.
Often intensely personal, her focus on honesty in performance makes her a compelling live act.
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Garden of Life Sponsored Athlete Ingo Rademacher Joins Dancing With the Stars
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At Garden of Life, our love affair with ABC's Dancing With the Stars (DWTS) started last year when we discovered that winsome judge Carrie Ann Inaba was a fan of our Vitamin Code® RAW ONE™ for Women multivitamins.
This spring we are more dialed in than ever, as one of our sponsored athletes, Ingo Rademacher, attempts to waltz, tango and jive his way to the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy. Paired with professional dancer Kym Johnson, "Team Ingo" is expected to get plenty of votes from daytime soap opera fans who have drooled over Rademacher for 18 years when he played the role of Jasper Jacks on General Hospital. Other fans may have caught a glimpse of him last year in the homicide movie, Alex Cross. But what most of his admirers don't realize is that he's also an accomplished athlete who actively competes on the stand-up paddleboard (SUP) race circuit, a feat that requires balance and concentration that should help him immensely on DWTS.
A member of the YOLO SUP race team, sponsored by Garden of Life, Ingo moved to Hawaii last year so he could pursue his passion for paddleboarding. He's already made his mark on the sport by winning several races in Florida and placing second in the 2011 Blue Ridge SUP Splash. He lives in Oahu with his wife Ehiku— who is also a SUP racer—and their two sons, Peanut and Pohaku. Whether he's racing in Hawaii or filming scenes in Los Angeles, Ingo's a staunch supporter of environmental movements such as Greenpeace, Water Keeper and Sea Shepherd. He also sits on the board of Heal the Bay in Santa Monica.
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"He looks like a movie star, but he's also athletic," said Kym, who also noted that the two hit it off immediately because she also hails from Australia. "We're Team Aussie!" Already in great shape from his intense paddleboard workouts, Ingo will be fueling his grueling dance sessions with Garden of Life supplements. For years, he's been using Wobenzym® N for inflammation and everyday aches and pains, but now he's added a RAW Organic Meal shake and several other supplements to his morning routine.
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An earlier mission visited the asteroid Itokawa in 2005 but suffered a string of failures. It was supposed to fire bullets into the space rock at close range and scoop up the resulting debris, but the bullets never fired. Luckily, some dust slipped into the probe's collectors and was brought back to Earth in 2010.
Hayabusa 2 will try to avoid its predecessor's mistakes when it lands on the kilometre-wide asteroid 1999 JU3. It will have backup software in case of failures, and instead of using bullets to create debris, the probe will drop an impactor from 300 metres above the surface. It is set to return to Earth in 2020.


South Africa is a special and indeed beautiful country, but there are a few personal and home essentials that make living in our country a little easier and safer.
Firstly, you always need a raincoat or umbrella in your car as our weather tends to be unpredictable. Secondly, most of us spend our Saturday mornings in a grocery store or a mall grabbing the weeks necessities. Thirdly, Sunday afternoon naps are such a great way to end off a busy week in SA, and lastly but most importantly home security measures are really non-negotiable.
The safety and security of your family members automatically become a priority when living in South Africa. There are many measures we can take to make sure we are covered. From burglar bars to alarm systems and security gates, just to name a few. We all want peace-of-mind making sure we are safe and secure in our home, especially during those Sunday afternoon naps.
Another way to ensure your family's safety and security is by installing Shutterlux security shutters. Many of us have open front yards and still, want to enjoy this freedom. Having a security gate and boundary wall could hinder the enjoyment of this freedom. A great way to still enjoy this and have the added benefit of security is to install security shutters in your home.
In this blog, we will have a look at the ins and outs of our security shutters as well as four reasons why to install these in your home.
The locking system has been specifically and cleverly designed with a sleek locking mechanism making it discrete (tamper proof) and functional. Therefore you have an added benefit of a locking system that not only gets the job done well but does so and still looks sleek and sophisticated.
The solid aluminium frame consists of a 2.5mm rib. This has been done to get that extra strength which makes them nearly impenetrable. The anchor points of the structure are secured with 11.5mm hardened stainless steel bolts. These are fixed to the bottom of the frame. At the top of the frame, there are 16.5mm hardened stainless steel bottles which add to the durability and sturdiness of the frame making it even more secure.
Having security shutters adds an additional barrier to keep your family and home safe. Furthermore, security shutters have both the appeal of security and the sophistication of style. They are designed to look sleek while having the benefit of being nearly impenetrable.
Security shutters are great for exterior use as they are made from durable aluminium, so they will work great on your patio or exterior entertainment area keeping all your outdoor belongings safe. They are also well suited to interior use as they add to a sleek modern look.
If you are living near the coast or in an area with high rain and windy conditions, security shutters will still have a great lifespan as they have been powder coated to within stand harsh weather conditions.
Security shutters have long-term cost benefits. The maintenance on our security shutters is minimal in comparison to other window coverings or security gates, which could rust. Also when installing security shutters, you won't need all the other additional security barriers in your home. Lastly, security shutters act as a great deterrent to criminals which means you will end up suffering fewer burglaries which will save on insurance.
In this day and age, we cannot take the safety of our homes and our families for granted. Consider the benefits of our well-crafted Shutterlux Security Shutters. It could save you a pretty penny in the long run.


This morning the group is working, energetically of course, to clear stress related to the pericardium. This stress is being measured in the etheric body, or blueprint, not the physical body. However, if any kind of stress remains unbalanced within the energetic blueprint, it will at some point make it to the body. Since "pericardium" has come up before, I'm going to share some information. But remember, I'm no doctor!
The mediastinum...is the central compartment of the thoracic cavity...this cavity contains the heart and its vessels, the esophagus, trachea, phrenic and cardiac nerves, the thoracic duct, thymus, an lymph nodes.
In addition to connecting us to the mediatinum,- which sounds important to me, just saying,- the pericardium also provides lubrication for the heart and protects against infection. Not very interesting, unless you consider the fact that the heart is the most important organ in your body. And no one is immune to a heart attack. A person can appear to be in excellent health, eat well, exercise, etc, and still end up with heart problems because of STRESS. It's not the major trauma, but the day in day out stuff, like dealing with your kids, difficult commute to work, a relationship that doesn't run smoothly, bills, etc. that do the damage. Stress hormones stay amped up and actually "break" the heart.
Surprisingly, women face the greatest risk- heart disease is the # 1 killer for women in the United States The number of men and women who die each year from heart disease is nearly equal, but there are major differences between the male and female heart ...why doesn't that surprise me... Women's hearts are actually more fragile! However, when they change their lifestyle, their hearts respond more rapidly!
If you have some extra time this weekend, you might want to do some internet searches on this subject. Symptoms, for example, of a heart attack are different for men and women. Knowledge is power. Nothing outside of YOU heals your body. The body has an innate intelligence that is capable of healing virtually anything. This doesn't mean you don't go to doctors. It means you don't relinquish your power to them.
And what to eat for a healthy heart? It's mainly fruits and vegetables, imagine that-and to cut back on the sugar! We're not designed to eat ANY processed sugar, yet the average American gets 48t a day. It's in almost everything that's processed! And about the fruits and vegetables? We're supposed to get 9 servings a day. That just 1/2 cup servings though. I personally am going to make a real effort to do this starting today.
And remember, it's the small changes that make the biggest differences. If you can't see yourself eating 9 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, can you at least start by having a salad every day? When most people look at their diet, they realize they don't get ANY vegetables! And fruit? It doesn't count if its a juice, did you know that? Juice is all sugar. We were never intended to drink over 1 oz at a time. Of course, I'm talking about orange juice, etc- not health products that come in juice form.
In addition to heart-related stress, the group is also working on "splitting". That's trying to do too many things at once without having any real focus on what's most important. Pulled in many different directions, so that nothing much ever really gets accomplished. Let's clear that!
And, speaking of small things- there's something very small- a pink sideways v with a * next to it - hidden on the home page of this site. If you find it and click, up will come some frequencies for prosperity that you can look at, copy, or print out. Remember, everything's energy, and that includes your material abundance. I gave these frequencies out at the beginning of the year and those who printed them out and placed them around the house- under the bed, checkbook, etc- have :had a big increase in their financial abundance! Wanted to share this with you today.


I have transitioned from running at school, where I was an all-Ireland finalist a couple of times, to a brief stint as an elite Duathlete on the GB squad at university and then a whole career as a professional cyclist. My sporting journey has taken me through a wide range of events, levels and sport. Along the way I've raced everything from 400m hurdles, to the Volta a Portugal and even enjoyed (but was terrible at) rugby.
By far the hardest transition I made was from multi-sport to cycling. Cycling is tremendously technical and requires very good bike handling skills and acquiring these motor skills as an adult is possible, but very hard. As well as pedalling hard, you've got to be a good 'driver' and really it doesn't differ that much from motor sports in that regard. The easiest transition I made was from athletics to multi-sport, where although my swimming was bad, my run was good and bike was excellent. I think this transition was made easy by the great people at Loughborough triathlon club made the sport inviting and fun. I also had the exceptional luck of meeting Martin Yelling on a bike ride who became my first coach.
From road cycling to mountain biking the transition is less hard, especially in less technical mountain bike events like the Marathons. My first event I was over an hour of the leaders; gastrointestinal problems and a fear of the descents. But the second mountain bike race I did I came third and just lost it by a whisker.
Right now I am facing a daunting challenge: transitioning back to triathlon (I want to do Ironman specifically) and the challenge is no smaller than it was when I first changed to triathlon. I've had to 'teach' myself how to run efficiently again, which is more complicated that you may think. After eight year cycling find just keeping correct posture while running difficult… But it's coming together and I love it.
I figured the best way to get going running would be to run barefoot, after all shoes aren't there when we're born and I was aware of the likes of Zola Budd and Abebe Bikela running barefoot with supposedly no ill effect. It seemed logical. So I did. I started very, very slowly, literally jogging just 500m down the road and building this up. While I am far fully adapted, I can run 5km now in 19 min on a hilly course, unshod. This might not seem impressive, but pace is only half the story, the fact is it feels good and it feels easier than running even with minimalist shoes. I've read in quote article that running barefoot is 4% more effective. I figure if the benefits are 'only' 4%, that that's 6' at the end of an Ironman.
Abebe Bikela didn't find a pair of Adidas trainers in his size, so he ran the marathon barefoot, in 2:15 in 1960!
I've also noticed that I don't get that terrible, crippling delayed onset muscle soreness, it seems that taking the jarring heel strike out of the equation can help avoid that muscle soreness.
So while I look like a madman, I feel I am doing the most natural and most rational exercise: Just the way the human body was designed for.
This is only the first step in preparation for Ironman. I figure when I can run consistently at high speed, then I can put cycling back in a work on swimming. Also my cycling career wont be over if I'm given reasonable conditions to continue pursuing the sport.
Swimming is a sport I am not good. I am a lanky ectomorph with large legs and a puny upper-body, the exact opostite phenotype to a good swimmer. I am not looking forward to long hours in the pool, I am just going to train in the sea I think and use the pool to be coached on technique… Just need to get a wetsuit.


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Jenny Pennaz
Jenny Pennaz, a Minnesota native, graduated from the University of Minnesota with bachelor's degrees in dance and biology and completed a post-baccalaureate certificate in Contemporary Studies in Dance from the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. She holds a K-12 Dance & Theater teaching license and is currently writing her thesis to complete a master of arts in teaching from Hamline Univeristy. Jenny has studied ballet at Minnesota Dance Theater, North Carolina School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, and the Arizona Ballet. She is trained in capoeira (a Brazilian martial art form) from Capoeira Beribazu at the Federal University of Espirito Santo. She is also a registered yoga teacher (RYT 200). Jenny has been teaching dance in the Twin Cities for over 10 years and absolutely loves it. In addition to teaching ballet at Woodbury Dance Center, she teaches dance at the Fine Arts Interdisciplinary Resource School, also know as the FAIR School, in Crystal, MN. Jenny is a professional dancer and a member of two companies: Contempo Physical Dance, a company that fuses Afro-Brazilian dance, capoeira and contemporary dance, and the Threads Dance Project, a contemporary ballet company. Jenny is also active as a choreographer, with an interest in combining choreography with photography and film. Her choreographic work has been presented at Works-in-Progress at the Red Eye Theater, Minnesota Dance Film Project at the Southern Theater, No One Knows at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, and the Paniel Performatico at the Federal University of Bahia. This November she will present a solo at Choreographer's Evening at the Walker Arts Center.


I'm not sure about this picture though i feel like kagome looks like a zombie haha but there's just something about it i like and i hope you guys like it too!!
I had favored this drawing awhile back but never left a comment...I just love this piece. It is one of my favorites and plus I love your work.
I hope you didn't give up on this site.
Zombie, no. I'd say she's more transfixed. And who wouldn't be in her shoes?! Fine work.
OMG I love how you posed them and their expressions!
I am speechless as to how AMAZING this is. You are truly an amazing artist!
i love it1 they look good together and kagome looks pretty!


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Me — Be. Yoga. Art.
For me ״TO DO" is to be, to create a gap, view space and reality, ask questions, give out pleasure or discomfort, generate unfitted humour, express and heal myself, a form of mental digestion.
Once the idea is out it has it's own existence, unfolding.
Fascinated with body mind relations, changing, moving, removing layers, trying to view things from a different perspective.
Practicing art since i remember myself, an a huge fan of do-it-yourself in general.
Graduated from Azrieli school of architecture at Tel Aviv university Israel (B.Arch).
I teach Hatha yoga, in small groups and 1/1 sessions.
Would love to share my knowledge and experience with you.