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You know, he has quite the bad boy reputation himself.
Rush (2013)
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#goodluck
#goodmorning
Marie Antoinette (2006)
He's got quite a reputation, you know.
...when he has quite a reputation?
This place has quite a reputation.
Puss in Boots (2011)
I know you have quite a reputation with the ladies,
You know what I'm sayin'? He's the married one.
Bad Boys II
He killed himself, Mama.
You know, the way he was sort of throwing guys this way and that.
The Detour (2016) - S01E05 The B & B
You know, he is... he's a big boy. He can feed himself.
You know, he's so smooth, you know? Boy.
Gone with the Wind (1939)
He has a most terrible reputation.
He has a reputation.
Seinfeld (1989) - S07E07 The Secret Code
You know, the guy has one leg and he still calls himself Leapin' Larry.
Oh, yeah, well, you know, he's my man.
Grandma's Boy (2006)
Hi. It's nice to finally meet you. You have quite a reputation.
The Office (UK) (2001) - S01E06 Drama
He's feeling bad about himself.
You don't like your job? Quit.
You wanna meet Duke? He's-he's in the bed.
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
When you got busted. he quit watching.
I don't know what you're gonna tell 'em. Why can't he go? Why can't you go?
Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
Pedal, boys!
Scandal (2012) - S03E02 Thriller
That shop has quite a reputation.
Like the leftovers-the hooves, you know, stomach lining,
Family's the most important thing, you know. Is it?
- You got 3 seconds to drop your gun. - He has anger issue problems!
Changeling (2008)
but the boy has been quite insistent.
- The hell does that mean? - He has a meeting this afternoon.
Silicon Valley (2014) - S04E05 The Blood Boy
Frank Gehry has really outdone himself.


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Q: MongoDB Illegal character driving me nuts MongoDB is giving me [js] SyntaxError: illegal character @(shell):2:5
when writing

> db.createUser({
... user:¨brad¨,
... pwd:¨1234¨,
... roles: [ ¨readWrite¨, ¨dbAdmin¨]
... });

I know it has something to do with the colon, but anything seems to fix it.
I run it on mac if it gives any help.
Thanks in advance!

A: I'm not sure what's going on with the weird quote character, but just use the standard quote character (" instead of ¨):
> db.createUser({
... user:"brad",
... pwd:"1234",
... roles: [ "readWrite", "dbAdmin"]
... });

It seems like the JS engine doesn't recognize U+0308 as a quote character.
Edit: After looking it up, it's not a quote - it's two dots intended to be horizontally aligned over other characters.

A: I had a similar issue, tried different tricks and finally was able to fix it. Don't forget to try tilt(`) instead of double quotes(") or single quotes(') in case none of this worked for you. Happy coding!!!!

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What is in Owatrol Net-trol?
Owatrol Net-trol is a detergent type cleaner containing oxalic acid. In its undiluted state, it has about 8-10% oxalic acid.
Will Owatrol Net-trol remove paints and pigmented stains?
Owatrol Net-trol is not a stripper and will not remove any finish that is in sound condition.
WIll Owatrol Net-trol harm the asphalt or fibreglass on my roof? WIl it stain my concrete or brick?
Owatrol Net-trol will not damage these surfaces, but since oxalic acid does have a bleaching effect, it may produce lighter areas on some surfaces. One way to minimise this is to wet the adjacent surface before, during and after using Owatrol Net-trol.
WIll Owatrol Net-trol bring a natural colour back to all wood?
Yes, except for pressure treated wood or if the discolouration is from some treatment or finish used in the past that permanently discoloured it. In some cases, you may have to use a stronger solution and allow it to remain on the surface longer. Owatrol Net-trol will not bring back a natural colour to pressure treated wood because its natural colours were lost when it was treated.
Will Owatrol Net-trol kill mildew?
No, use a 50/50 solution of bleach and water to kill the mildew. Follow with an application of Owatrol Net-trol to neutralise the bleach, clean the wood and restore the natural colour.
Where can Owatrol Net-trol be used?
Owatrol Net-trol is versatile enough to clean pressure treated wood, cedar, redwood, log homes, wood fences, aluminium and vinyl siding, fibreglass, stone, concrete, rust stains and more.
Can you mix Owatrol Net-trol with bleach?
Never mix Owatrol Net-trol with bleach, this creates toxic fumes.
Is Owatrol Net-trol harmful to plants or shrubs?
No, Owatrol Net-trol is mild and will not harm plants or shrubbery, however it may cause some 'burn' marks on foliage.
What advantage does Owatrol Net-trol have over bleach-based deck cleaners or household bleach?
Such products will damage the cell structure of the wood. They break down the binder (lignin) which holds the wood cells together, creating a soft, spongy surface that weathers more quickly and has an adverse effect on the appearance of natural finishes. Owatrol Net-trol will not remove the natural colour of the wood while bleach and bleach-based cleaners will. Many of the less expensive deck cleaners are a mix of bleach and detergent, always check the ingredients.
Can Owatrol Net-trol be put through powerwash equipment?
Yes, the best way is to apply at a low pressure using the Venturi injection tube. Allow to sit on the wood, then powerwash off with the pressure set at 500 - 700 psi. Venturi injectors reduce the Owatrol Net-trol to a 1:10 ration, so it will not be as effective as when applying in a 1:4 mix. Rinse equipment thoroughly after use.
Can Owatrol Net-trol be applied with a garden type sprayer?
Yes, but you must ensure it is not over diluted in the mixing process. When using a garden sprayer it is best applied diluted, up to a maximum of 1:4 with water. Rinse equipment thoroughly after use.
Will Owatrol Net-trol remove nail stains?
Yes, apply Owatrol Net-trol to the entire surface around the nail stains, then rinse thoroughly. After the wood is dry, counter-sink and putty all nails to be sure stains will not return.
How do I know what dilution to use?
Owatrol Net-trol can be used neat or diluted up to a maximum of 1:4 with clean water. Dilution is very much dependent on the condition of the surface you are cleaning and what you are trying to clean. The best way is to test a small area first using the maximum dilution (1:4) and work backwards from there until the desired result is achieved.
What are the crystals in Owatrol Net-trol?
These are crystallised Oxalic Acid and in no way will affect the performance of Owatrol Net-trol. If the contents have settled to crystals in the bottom and will not mix in easily, pour off the liquid and add a little hot water. Replace the cap, shake, then replace the poured off liquid.


GMAW and GTAW processes were both originally developed for joining aluminum. Only after the production value of GMAW was realized did it become a popular alternative to SMAW.
HOT START is a feature developed primarily for achieving good wetting at the toe and penetration when first starting a weld. This is almost exclusively intended to eliminate cold roll on highly conductive metals like aluminum. Due to the high conductivity of aluminum, roughly twice the amount of voltage is required to initiate a weld as steel - because aluminum rapidly conducts heat away from the arc, starving the puddle for heat. Hot Start is a short boost in voltage for 0.5-2.0 seconds (average range, often adjustable), which overcomes the conductivity of the metal, resulting in a wet-in and flatter start to your weld bead, rather than a taller, cold-rolled one.It should be noted, that there are techniques which experienced welders employ to ensure a good weld start, without the benefit of hot start.


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Arabic Through The Quran (Alan Jones)
http://www.islamicbookstore.com/b8967.html
Author:Alan Jones
Publisher:Islamic Texts Society (2005)
Pages:331Binding:Paperback
Written by Professor Alan Jones, professor of Arabic at Oxford University, this work aims at teaching Arabic using only the vocabulary in the Qur'an. In forty lessons and starting with the alphabet, Arabic through the Qur'an covers the whole of Arabic grammar. Each lesson is followed by exercises and a key to the exercises is available at the end of the book. Arabic through the Qur'an gives the student a thorough understanding of Arabic grammar and a substantial vocabulary from the Qur'an including many of the often repeated verses. Arabic through the Qur'an is an indispensable aid both to those wanting to learn Arabic in order to be able to read the Qur'an and to Arabic students at university level.
Prof Alan Jones has taught Arabic for many years at Oxford and is well-known both for his knowledge of the Arabic language and for his work on the Qur'an.
In the introductory note you read:
Over the years it has been suggested to me that there is a need for Arabic grammar that will enable readers of English to read the Quran in its original language. This book attempts to fill that gap.
In its 40 lessons the book covers all the important points of the grammar of Quranic Arabic_ though not every point, as there are some problems of Quranic grammar that the grammarians, Arab and non-Arab alike, have never solved. Like grammarians in the past, I have occasionally taken a sentence somewhat out of context or changed a case-ending so that a phrase can stand alone. Without these minor and traditional pedagogic liberties, example of some grammatical points would be very scarce. This is hardly surprising, given the relatively small size of the text of the Quran.

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A move to a new home in South Tyneside is just the ticket for a U.S. firm's British subsidiary.
Newcastle-based Naylors has let first floor offices in Unit 8 of Merchant Court on Monkton Business Park to SeatGeek Sport Ltd, a division of New York-founded SeatGeek Enterprise, an international firm which uses its technology-first approach to deliver an innovative Ticketing Software platform to sports stadiums, theatres and concert venues.
SeatGeek Sport, whose UK client portfolio includes 25% of Premier League Football Clubs and 25% of the EFL Championship clubs, amongst a wide ranging client list spanning football, rugby and cricket, has committed to a four year lease as it expands its global business, which currently employs over 400 people across four continents.
Jessica Ross, associate director in Naylors' office agency team, who brokered the deal, said: "This high-spec business space, which is halfway between the A19 and the A1 at Leam Lane, is ideal for a growing business like SeatGeek Sport, with great access to the airport and major road networks, as well as on-site parking, and great public transport links.
We will continue to expand our local team which has doubled in size in the last 12 months and now have the additional space we need to enable the next phase of expansion in our team.
Peter Joyce, SeatGeek Sport managing director, said: "Jessica and the team at Naylors were a great help to us in working through the lease process and we are delighted with the results, having moved into Monkton Business Park during March.
Coun John Anglin, lead member regeneration & economy at South Tyneside Council added: "It's brilliant to see a company like SeatGeek so committed to investing in the South Tyneside area.
The ground floor of Unit 8 remains available to let, with Naylors and Gavin Black and Partners acting as joint agents.


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That New New In Lit: A Year In Review
1. Discounting profit margins, 2013 was a good year for print, and, especially for that willful fringe-dweller, the literary magazine. Some of the most exciting fiction and poetry happened offline, then, in the pages of publications of varying formats, moods, and legacies. And why shouldn't lit mags be chugging along at their own ink-and-wood-pulp pace? Screens hurt your eyes, and if that weren't reason enough to close your laptop and open something perfect bound, kids prefer the printed page, and kids know what's hot.
2. But with the abundance of literary magazines to choose from, where does one begin? Gigantic, founded in 2008 by Ann DeWitt, Rozalia Jovanovic, Lincoln Michel, and James Yeh, consistently publishes exciting talent, and their latest issue, the fifth, "Gigantic Talk," is the coolest yet. It's satisfying both to hold and behold, large with a soothing color scheme, and the phone number on the back connects you to the "perhaps… unprecedented" "Gigantic phone feature"—it's an "answering machine"/"soundboard," which plays pre-recorded messages from the contributors and editors. Lit mag begets answering machine—it doesn't get much more pre-web than that.
The best part of "Gigantic Talk," of course, is the writing, and particularly the works of contributors Thomas Pierce and Ottessa Moshfegh. Pierce's piece, "Time To Get Radical," is a guy giving himself a pep talk through a funny and sad series of reinventions and resolutions; standouts include "Time to feel alive—for the first time?" and "Time to feel embarrassed when my son comes to visit at the Econo Lodge." Check out his New Yorker story from a year ago, which features a dwarf mammoth. Moshfegh, an enigma of an up-and-comer, wrote a short short called "The Cellist," which is unflashy and masterful. Seek out the work of Ottessa Moshfegh.
3. You can start seeking it out with the Fall 2013 issue of The Paris Review, issue number 206, a knockout on just about every level. Moshfegh's story, "The Weirdos," stands out among the greatness; her prose is clear-eyed with flashes of poetic dazzle and pitch-perfect absurdity. Other notable pieces in the issue include Benjamin Nugent's frat fiction masterpiece "God," Andrew Martin's "Cool for America," and an interview with revered French author Emmanuel Carrère.
4. Another winner in print from 2013 is the "Summer Reading" issue of Tin House, which features an interview with Margaret Atwood, Liz Moore's "Shy-Shy," a story written in the second person about the sometimes-hell of sleepaway camp, and a new piece by Stephen King (!).
5. If you want to read about sex (you do), check out L.A.-based mag Black Clock, issue number 17, available in print and super-affordable PDF. This is high-brow eroticism, top-shelf stuff, featuring a mix of talents known and unknown; Aimee Bender, Henry Bean, Dana Spiotta, and Tom McCarthy contributed, to name a few.
6. 2013 saw the publication of books, too, a lot of books, and there have been numerous online efforts at sizing them up against each other. There's a lot to be said for year-end lists (heck, this is basically one!), and many are thorough and thoughtful, especially those over at literary treasure trove The Millions. For good reason, George Saunders's new collection, Tenth of December: Stories, found itself at or near the top of many. It makes sense: Saunders is one of the best living fiction writers today, and his new stuff is best. Stories like "Escape From Spiderhead" and "The Semplica Girl Diaries" are at once fun, plucky, and devastating; his emotional breadth is consistently impressive.
7. West Virginian writer/performance artist/homeowner Scott McClanahan wrote not one but two novels this year, both episodic, highly readable, and full of moments that might be funny if they weren't so fucked up. The novels are Crapalachia: A Biography of Place and Hill William. Jim Gavin wrote a really strong debut collection called Middle Men, and Roxane Gay interviewed him. Sam Lipsyte wrote The Fun Parts, a collection that includes "The Dungeon Master," which you can read all of online; you should, as it's one of the best stories written this year. Lore Segal's new novel Half The Kingdom is charming and witty but will, in the end, like so much in this life, crush you. Tao Lin wrote Taipei, which is a fast read about being young/the internet/drugs, and if that sounds abhorrent to you, read it anyway, because it's a genuinely good novel.
8. Printed books are artifacts, and their physicality informs your reading experience, at the very least on a sensory level; here are some books that are exceptionally designed.
9. But enough about print! There's still plenty of merit to online literature, and in fact some of the most exciting stuff is available right now on the browser of your choice. I've gushed about Electric Literature project Recommended Reading before, and I'll do it again: the blog really outdid themselves in 2013. Standouts include "It Doesn't Have to Be a Big Deal," by Rebecca Schiff, and "Pearl," by Mary Miller, who also wrote a collection called Big World. Donate to Recommended Reading!
10. The impeccably curated Joyland Magazine churns out consistently powerful fiction from authors you've probably never heard of. Virginia Konchan is one of those authors; her Joyland story "Welcome to My Harem" wins two prizes (prizes are purely imaginary): best title, and best ending. What an ending! Read it for the ending.
11. And here's a really fun drug trip by Sean H. Doyle.
12. Mellow Pages was the local literary success story of 2013, and continues to be. Keep going there to find the new good stuff.
13. Dutch Author Arnon Grunberg is writing with electrodes stuck to his skull so that researchers might discover "the nature of creativity itself."
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Newly Discovered Antibiotic is a Bacterial Triple Threat
D-briefBy Carl EngelkingJanuary 8, 2015 1:35 AM
In the fight against infectious bacteria, humans are slowly losing the battle. That's because common pathogens are developing resistance to the antibiotics we use to wipe them out. By 2050 it's expected that, globally, drug-resistant infections will kill more people than cancer. However, the fight is far from over. Researchers have discovered a potential new class of antibiotic that's a triple threat: it obliterates many types of drug-resistant bacteria, it's safe in mammals, and enemy cells weren't easily able to develop resistance to it. And the microbes that produce it were discovered in the soil of one of the study authors' backyards.
Through billions of years of evolution microbes have evolved to produce a variety of antibiotics to battle their fellow bugs. And in the past, studying chemicals excreted by microbes has been a fruitful path to discovering new antibiotics. But astonishingly, microbiologists only work with about 1 percent of the microbial species found in the wild; the other 99 percent are finicky and refuse to grow in the lab. That's part of the reason researchers haven't discovered a new class of antibiotics in almost 30 years. In this latest study, the scientists found a clever workaround. They collected soil samples and used a device called an iChip to isolate single strains of bacteria. Then, rather than raising them in the lab, researchers put the bacteria back in the ground to replicate. They screened more than 10,000 of these isolated bacteria samples to see how they performed in battling Staphylococcus aureus. And the runaway winner — a bacteria named Eleftheria terrae — was found to use teixobactin as its secret weapon.
Molecular Triple Threat
Teixobactin wages an attack against the cell walls of targeted bacteria to kill them. It's the same method of extermination used by another antibiotic called vancomycin, which was discovered in 1953. Vancomycin was an old stand-by, but bacteria resistant to vancomycin eventually emerged about 40 years after its discovery. However, the specific way teixobactin attacks its enemies' cell walls led researchers to believe it's unlikely that bacteria will develop resistance to teixobactin in 40 years — if at all. As encouraging as teixobactin was in the petri dish, the true test was whether it could perform safely in an animal. Researchers gave mice a nearly fatal infection of a drug-resistant form of MRSA (
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)
. An hour after infection, they injected mice with a dose of teixobactin, and every single treated mouse survived. Researchers published their findings Wednesday in the journal Nature.
A Dose of Hope
The discovery of new antibiotics has stalled in recent decades, so teixobactin is a welcome newcomer to a beleaguered field. However, we won't know whether teixobactin will emerge as a champion until rigorous clinical trials are performed in the future. Regardless, researchers' new method of growing and studying previously unculturable soil bacteria is a new twist that could reignite the search for novel antibiotics. In fact, researchers believe there are many more antimicrobial candidates hidden in the dirt. Scientists will just need to get their hands dirty to turn the tables on our microbial foes.
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Twitter suspended 1.2 million accounts for terrorism-promotion violations
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2018
In its latest transparency report, Twitter Inc. announced Thursday that it has suspended 1.21 million accounts from its social media platform between August 2015 and the end of 2017 for "violations related to the promotion of terrorism."
Between July 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017, Twitter permanently suspended a total of 274,460 accounts for violations related to the promotion of terrorism. "This is down 8.4% from the volume shared in the previous reporting period and is the second consecutive reporting period in which we've seen a drop in the number of accounts being suspended for this reason. We continue to see the positive, significant impact of years of hard work making our site an undesirable place for those seeking to promote terrorism, resulting in this type of activity increasingly shifting away from Twitter"
"We continue to expand and build upon our commitment to providing meaningful transparency about requests we receive to disclose account information or remove content. In particular, we are announcing updates on our work to permanently suspend terrorist accounts from Twitter, more granular data on our country-withheld content policy, and expanded reporting on requests for account information," the company said in a blog post covering its 12th biannual Twitter Transparency Report.
The company went on to say: "Between August 1, 2015 and December 31, 2017, we suspended 1,210,357 accounts from Twitter for violations related to the promotion of terrorism. Of those 274,460 accounts suspended in the last reporting period, 93% were flagged by internal, proprietary tools, and 74% of those accounts were suspended before their first Tweet. Government reports of violations related to the promotion of terrorism represent less than 0.2% of all suspensions in the most recent reporting period and reflect a 50% reduction in accounts reported compared to the previous reporting period."
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2017 Nebula Awards
Posted on May 19, 2018 by Mike Glyer
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) presented the 52nd Annual Nebula Awards, the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, and the Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book at a ceremony in Pittsburgh, PA on May 19.
The Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
All Systems Red, Martha Wells (Tor.com Publishing)
"A Human Stain", Kelly Robson (Tor.com 1/4/17)
"Welcome to Your Authentic Indian ExperienceTM", Rebecca Roanhorse (Apex 8/17)
The Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation
Get Out (Written by Jordan Peele)
The Andre Norton Award for Outstanding Young Adult Science Fiction or Fantasy Book
The Art of Starving, Sam J. Miller (HarperTeen)
Also presented:
Kevin O'Donnell, Jr. Service to SFWA Award
John C. "Bud" Sparhawk
Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award
Gardner Dozois
Sheila Williams
SFWA Damon Knight Grand Master
Peter S. Beagle
Here are tweeted photos of the award recipients or accepters.
(Sam J. Miller accepted the Best Novel award for N.K. Jemisin)
Sam J. Miller accepting the Nebula award for best novel on behalf of @nkjemisin . #Nebulas2018 pic.twitter.com/Vcsax8Guzh
— John Appel @ the Nebulas 2018 (@oldscout) May 20, 2018
@marthawells1 wins the Nebula Award for best Novella! Yes!!!!! #Nebulas2018 ???????? pic.twitter.com/uOLfkbfDQz
— Kelly Robson (@kellyoyo) May 20, 2018
CONGRATULATIONS to @kellyoyo on her Nebula win for Best Novelette!!!! #Nebulas2018 pic.twitter.com/uwFHDPmeSb
— Jeffe Kennedy (@jeffekennedy) May 20, 2018
Rebecca Roanhorse wins the Nebula for short story. #Nebulas2018 pic.twitter.com/JDOHq2uVak
Peter S. Beagle at the #Nebulas2018 receiving the Grand Master Award. pic.twitter.com/sdYktTmEJP
— Tor.com (@tordotcom) May 20, 2018
Sam J. Miller wins the Andre Norton Award for The Art of Starving! #Nebulas2018 pic.twitter.com/WHUWKLILjt
More #Nebulas2018! My hero @SheilaWilliam10 accepting her Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Congratulations, Sheila!!! We love you! pic.twitter.com/kfpbBR7k4X
James Patrick Kelly presents the second Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award to Sheila Williams. #Nebulas2018 pic.twitter.com/EgiOGF0imc
— Sarah Guan (@ #Nebulas2018) (@Sarah_Guan) May 20, 2018
Gardner's son Christopher accepting the award on Gardner's behalf. #Nebulas2018 pic.twitter.com/e4IoQGfz5y
More #Nebulas2018! My hero Connie Willis roasting Gardner Dozois for his Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award. Sorry you're not here, Gardner. pic.twitter.com/yofa4AklNS
Bud Sparhawk, outgoing SFWA CFO, wins the Kevin O'Donnell Jr. award for service to SFWA! #Nebulas2018 pic.twitter.com/pZTSrhM4MO
Laurie Mann, head of the Pittsburgh team, wins a special award for making the last two years work@so well. #nebulas2018 pic.twitter.com/h62xYzICc5
This entry was posted in Awards and tagged Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy, Damon Knight Grand Master, Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award, Kevin O'Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award, Nebula Awards, Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation, SFWA by Mike Glyer. Bookmark the permalink.
14 thoughts on "2017 Nebula Awards"
Bonnie McDaniel on May 19, 2018 at 7:49 pm said:
Yay! A most worthy list of winners.
Paul Weimer on May 19, 2018 at 7:58 pm said:
Congrats to all the winners!
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Cora on May 19, 2018 at 9:06 pm said:
A fine list of winners. Congratulations to all of them!
And as I said on Twitter, all the awards shows should be hosted by Muppets.
Kendall on May 19, 2018 at 11:17 pm said:
Squee! Congratulations to everyone, but especially to a couple of my favorites from 2017 – N.K. Jemisin for The Stone Sky and Martha Wells for All Systems Red. Also congrats to Sam J. Miller, whose The Art of Starving I enjoyed.
Msb on May 19, 2018 at 11:41 pm said:
Wonderful! Congrats to all.
Meredith on May 19, 2018 at 11:49 pm said:
Congratulations to the winners and commiserations to the rest!
Kyra on May 20, 2018 at 3:01 am said:
Great set of winners this year. Congrats to all the winners, and to all the nominees!
StefanB on May 20, 2018 at 4:21 am said:
I will join the congratulation.
Specially happy for Peter S. Beagle, who doesn't remember The Last Unicorn?
Laura on May 20, 2018 at 4:57 am said:
Watched the live stream last night which was both fun and very touching. They kept the camera rolling right through the alternate universe acceptance speeches too. Available on SFWAs YouTube channel:
Andrew on May 20, 2018 at 5:45 am said:
Jonathan Edelstein on May 20, 2018 at 2:40 pm said:
Solid choices all around – congratulations to the winners.
Lurkertype on May 20, 2018 at 4:03 pm said:
Good list. Glad to see Beagle recognized.
Wish I could have seen the Wilhelm Award roast — Connie's snark is amazing. I'll have to look at the YouTubes.
So happy for Murderbot.
Tasha Turner on May 20, 2018 at 10:31 pm said:
Congrats to all the winners


Honda issued an official statement to recall about 748,000 Pilot and Odyssey vehicles due to an airbag issue. 2009 to 2013 Pilot crossovers and 2011-2013 Odyssey minivans are being requested to have their vehicles inspected, if necessary, replace the driver's-side airbag.
According to the Honda's statement: "Driver's-side airbags in these vehicles potentially were assembled without some of the rivets that secure the airbag's plastic cover. If the rivets are missing, the airbag may not deploy properly, increasing the risk of injury in a crash." The company was quick to clear out that no crashes or injuries have been reported as of press time.
Honda will mail out notifications to customers starting mid-February. They encourage owners of all affected vehicles to take their vehicles to an authorized dealer as soon as they receive. Owners of these vehicles can also check if their vehicles are affected by visiting www.recalls.honda.com or by calling 1(800) 999-1009, and selecting option 4.
Honda Cars Philippines (HCPI) officially introduced the Pilot and Odyssey to the Philippine Market in June of last year. Buyers of these models are advised to check through the website, but rest assured Honda will notify owners as well if they are included in the recall.
Update: Statement from HCPI "Concerned customers and/or owners shall be notified through a phone notification by Honda dealers and Letters of notice were sent starting January 19, 2013. Honda is announcing this recall to encourage owners of all these vehicles to take their units to an authorized dealer as soon as they receive notification of this recall from Honda. To conduct the voluntary recall in an orderly manner, customers are requested to call their respective dealers for service appointment or call the Honda Hotline 1-800-1000-HONDA (46632) and (02) 857-7240 or email at [email protected]"
Mazda and Fiat signed the final agreement for their partnership to build an Alfa Romeo Roadster based on the MX-5.


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Cell Phones May Soon Be Banned For Students at Westbrook Middle School
Chantel Updated: May 11, 2022
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Remember the days when we didn't have cell phones? How about when we did have cell phones but we could only use them for phone calls (and if we were lucky we were able to text)?
It feels like "back in the day," people were not on their phones constantly and actually spent time with other individuals. Nowadays, everyone is on their phones. It doesn't matter if it's during dinner, out without friends, or at school.
I remember getting in trouble for playing the game snake on my phone in school once, however, phones can do a lot more nowadays.
Cell phones can be a big distraction no matter where you are, and in Westbrook, Maine, cell phones may soon be banned from the middle school.
According to WGME Channel 13, cell phones could become banned for all students at Westbrook Middle School after a video of two eighth-grade girls having a physical fight circulated on social media.
WMTW Channel 8 states that on Monday, the Westbrook School Policy Committee unanimously recommended that cell phones be banned for 7th and 8th graders at the middle school. The superintendent of Westbrook schools hopes that with the banning of cell phones, that students will be able to focus more on interactions with other students as well as enjoy more experiences while in attendance.
Cell phones are currently banned for fifth and sixth graders at Westbrook Middle School, according to WGME. The new proposal, if approved, would have a phased approach.
WGME states that if the proposal goes through, that next year the ban would affect seventh graders and would affect eighth graders the following year.
According to WMTW, the earliest that the proposal could be voted on is in June and it will need two readings from the full committee.
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ZIBF celebrates 30th anniversary
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THE Zimbabwe International Book Fair roared to life on Monday with a mix of hindsight and fresh developments under the banner "[email protected]: Enabling Creativity, Writing, Publishing and Reading for Africa's Growth."
Scores of authors, publishers, readers and academics converged at this year's edition. It will be running until October 5. Highlights of the fair include the Indaba, Writers' Workshop, Young Persons Indaba, Traders' Day, the Literary Evening, Live Literature Centre and exhibitions.
"This year's theme captures the spirit of our celebration for having been in existence for the past 30 years as proudly the authentic book fair of Africa and in accordance with the vision of the founding fathers of this Pan-African event," ZIBF Chairman Musaemura Zimunya said in his welcome note.
"Over this period, ZIBF has been hosting Africa's literary heroes and putting on display the best there is in African publishing, in addition to creating a market for publishers on Traders' Day," he said.
The fair was officially opened by Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora who pledged Government support for the book sector.
Minister Dokora encouraged writers to adopt a boldly Pan-Africanist outlook and counter the onslaught against indigenous values through foreign texts. "The call therefore is not just for texts but more appropriate literature and more appropriate interventions. You could consider appropriateness in terms of age, orientation, preponderance of Afroscapes in subject matter, the ethos of unhuism present in text, and of course readability scores including the product's flexibility for inclusion under our e-learning," Minister Dokora said.
Minister Dokora promised stimulus packages for the embattled publishing industry, chiefly the Literature Bureau.
Keynote speaker Phyllis Johnson, who was ZIBF founding co-director along with her husband David Martin and great Zimbabwean writer Charles Mungoshi, took delegates down the memory lane, from the inception of the book fair in 1983 to the present.
"The vision grew out of a simple question by then Prime Minister Robert Gabriel Mugabe who wanted to know what publishers were doing to bridge the communication gap on a continent where writers of literature wrote mostly in the colonial languages, with a few exceptions and could not read each other's work.
"The point was that to increase understanding, co-operation and development in Africa, the barriers of language had to be bridged," she said
Johnson recounted the highlights of the formative years including presentations by acclaimed African authors Chinua Achebe, Cyprian Ekwenzi, Micere Mugo, Kole Omotoso and Ngugi WaThiongo.
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Posted on October 3, 2019 by tobinms
Tobin Miller Shearer
In 1955, white Mennonite church periodical editor Paul Erb wrote, "Perhaps in nothing have our Mennonite people so completely conformed themselves to a worldly idea as in this."1 He was not referring to dancing, watching movies, cutting hair (women's! – not men's), wearing wedding rings, or any of the other worldly pursuits deemed anathema by Mennonite church leaders at the time. He was referring to racial discrimination and segregation.
He did so on the occasion of the release of the 1955 Mennonite uber race relations statement, "The Way of Christian Love in Race Relations." That carefully vetted document, largely a result of the wordsmithing provided by Guy F. Hershberger and Grant M. Stoltzfus, called the Mennonite Church community to repent of the sin of racism and embark on a "ministry of reconciliation" by working "against the evils of prejudice and discrimination wherever they may be found."2
The 1955 document was one in a series of twenty-two race-focused statements that Mennonite bodies in the United States released between 1940 and 1976.3 By far the most high-profile of any of those statements, it was not the boldest, the most challenging, or the most theologically sophisticated of that set of twenty-two pronouncements. It was, however, the touchstone that statements for the next twenty-years – and beyond – referred back to and built upon.
Yet I am less interested in the impact of that particular statement than I am in the context of all but two of the twenty-two statements issued by Mennonites and Mennonite Brethren. For the three and half decades here examined, written statements about race by U.S. Mennonites were prompted by external political forces and almost exclusively a project of white men. Not once in any of those twenty-two statements did the white male authors identify, name, or evaluate their own racial identity. As a result, I will argue that, with one exception, these statements failed to address the underlying problem of white domination and supremacy in the church.
The story that I am focusing on begins not with the oft-touted 1688 Germantown anti-slavery statement because, as I have argued elsewhere, it was a document written to a Quaker assembly by practicing Quakers. It simply wasn't a Mennonite document in terms of audience, sensibility, or authorship.4 Instead the story begins with the 1940 Virginia Conference statement that mandated racial segregation in church sacraments such as communion, footwashing, and the Holy Kiss.5
That 1940 statement – like only one other of the twenty-two I have documented – was released primarily in response to dynamics internal to the Mennonite community. In essence, the workers at Broad Street Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, had in their bishops' eyes become too racially progressive. As a result, the Virginia bishops reigned them in by segregating the sacraments.6 When Broad Street leaders Fannie and Ernest Swartzentruber resisted that racist doctrine, the bishops dismissed the couple from their posts.7
To be certain, the Virginia bishops also passed the segregation mandate in hopes of placating the critics who called into question their patriotism as a result of the Mennonites' refusal to bear arms in the midst of World War II. By making the decision to conform to segregationist practices, Virginia Mennonites could at least demonstrate they were willing to cooperate with the dictates of a racially segregated and white supremacist society.
The first record I can find of a Mennonite group issuing a statement challenging racism – as opposed to instituting segregation – was a 1948 statement by the Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference in which they declared their opposition to "prejudices and discrimination against minority groups."8 In keeping with broader national trends, few white majority Protestant groups issued any statements against racism until after the Federal Council of Churches issued their declaration of the same in 1946. In that year the FCC declared that "the pattern of segregation in race relations is unnecessary and undesirable and a violation of the Gospel of love and human brotherhood."9
Prior to the 1955 Mennonite church statement issued in the immediate aftermath of the previous year's Supreme Court Brown v. Board desegregation ruling, a study group meeting at Laurelville Mennonite retreat center in 1951 had released a general statement on Christian Community Relations that included a short section calling for action against "racial discrimination."10 That same year, Lancaster Mennonite Conference bishops C. K. Lehman, J. Paul Graybill, and Amos Horst were tasked with drafting a statement on "racialism," but the Bishop board failed to act upon or promote the "tentative statements" developed by the three bishops.11
The 1955 statement deserves its reputation as the principal document that defined the parameters of Mennonite theology and practice in response to – employing the language of the day – "race relations." In addition to reviewing the biblical texts supporting racial unity, the statement declared racial prejudice and discrimination a sin, confessed complicity in that sin, and called for full integration of all congregations and church institutions, robust teaching on the evils of racial discrimination, and a "ministry of reconciliation" focused on correcting "the evils of racial intolerance within our society."12
That same year Bluffton College in Ohio released a statement encouraging racial integration and advising students to carefully consider the "potential richness" and "painful consequences" of interracial marriage, a topic that received frequent and near universal attention by white people at that time.13
List of Twenty-Two Race-Focused Statements by Mennonites – 1940-1979
1940 Virginia Conference segregation statement
1948 Southwestern Pennsylvania Conference statement on race
1951 Laurelville Study Conference on Christian Community Relations
1951 Lancaster Conference Bishop board statement on race (limited action)
1955 Mennonite Church statement on race – The Way of Christian love in Race Relations
1955 Bluffton College Statement on race
1959 General Conference Mennonites: A Christian Declaration on Race Relations
1960 Lancaster Conference Statement on Race Relations
1961 The Christian In Race Relations Statement/Paper
1963 Mennonite General Conference statement on Reconciliation
1963 Mennonite Brethren Statement on Race and Baptism
1963 IN-MI statement on race Relations
1964 MCC Statement from Words to Deeds in Race Relations
1964 EMC Faculty Statement on Race Relations
1964 MCC Peace Section statement on race discrimination and human rights
1964 Virginia Conference Statement on Race Relations
1967 Virginia Conference statement overturning segregation
1969 Mennonite Church General Conference Statement on Urban-Racial Concerns
1969 Lancaster Conference Statement on the Black Manifesto
1971 Minority Ministries Council Statement to the Mennonite Church
1971 Lancaster Conference Statement on Racism
1976 Liberty and Justice Workshop statement
The 1960s then erupted with a host of statements – more than half of the total examined here – in response to national events and presidential prompting. In keeping with the efforts spearheaded by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference to gain passage of a civil rights bill and President Kennedy's June 11, 1963, civil rights address, white church leaders across the country – not just white Mennonites – issued race-focused statements and developed new race relations programs.14 In 1963 and 1964 alone, Mennonites generated seven official statements including denomination-level pronouncements by the General Conferences of the Mennonite and the Mennonite Brethren churches. In addition the faculty at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Virginia, released a statement against the "evils of racial discrimination" in 1964, the same year that Virginia Conference called for full integration of all their institutions.15 Yet they did not at that time address their existing mandate to segregate the sacraments. They would not overturn those segregationist dictates until three later when they did so in 1967.16
Through the end of the 1960s, all of the statements generated by Mennonites had been in direct response to national events or political promptings. Although the correspondence around those statements and the articles and letters to the editor that filled that pages of church periodicals in those years of racial tumult and unrest pointed to much hand wringing and genuine discomfort on the part of the white Mennonites who wanted to do better, this set of race-focused declarations consistently shied away from naming the racial make-up of the church itself. In short, none of the statements up through the 1960s specifically talked about the problem of racism as a white issue for which white people needed to take responsibility.
In contrast to the relative silence of Mennonites about white involvement in racism, others outside the church did name white responsibility for racism. White civil rights leaders and activists like Anne Braden, Juliette Morgan, Will Campbell, Clarence Jordan, and many others had long been calling white people to recognize the particular role they played in perpetuating a racist society. In the Mennonite community, African-American minister and civil rights activist Vincent Harding famously challenged white Mennonites in 1967 to confront "the power of Mennonite prestige, the power of middle-class respectability, the power of whiteness."17 Yet, the vast majority of the statements authored and released by white Mennonites rendered their own racial identities invisible and therefore unexamined.
Members of the Minority Ministries Council
It was not until 1971 that a statement emerged directly engaging with racial identities in the church. The Minority Ministries Council, then only three years old, released a statement to the Mennonite Church in which they confronted "our white Christian brothers" for not accepting them "on their terms" but instead demanding that they deny their "cultures and backgrounds" in order to become assimilated into "the main stream of white America." They confessed that they had "accepted a 'false kind of integration' in which all power remained in the hands of white brothers" (the repeated male reference is notable here as well). They concluded by committing themselves to speak honestly to their "white Mennonite brothers" while seeking to develop "indigenous congregations" in which they would be the "generals" and white people the "foot soldiers."18
In far more specific and unapologetic ways than any of the statements up to that point, this 1971 statement named the racial dynamics of the church, called for authentic engagement across racial lines, and introduced – for the first time in an official statement – voices from communities of color writing as Mennonites to their co-religionists. Although limited by the idioms and practices of patriarchy and sexism, the document did what none of the previous statements had done before. It called attention to what Paul Erb had noted back in 1955, that white Mennonites had "completely conformed themselves" to the "worldly" identity of white people. Only a direct and unapologetic wrestling with that kind of conformity would move the church forward to a more authentic anti-racist identity.
I have documented two other statements in the 1970s. One was a new statement by Lancaster Conference also released in 1971 that echoed much of the conference's previous position paper while introducing the language of "racism" for the first time. The second one was released in 1976 by participants at a Race and Reconciliation conference in Newark, New Jersey, sponsored by Evangelicals for Social Action. This was the only one of the twenty-two statements documented here to have included women in the development of the statement; in this case Lois Leidig of Canton, Ohio, and Bev Lord of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were two of twelve signatories. Yet, neither of these two additional statements named white people or reflected on the identities of those drafting the documents.
To date, I have been unable to locate any race-focused statements by Mennonite groups in the following decade and a half through 1988.19In 1989, a joint statement by the Mennonite Church and the General Conference Mennonite Church entitled "A Church of Many Peoples Confronts Racism" did take on racism directly, but again the drafters did not see fit to focus their attention on white people or name them directly.20
This tabulation of Mennonite statements on race is not intended to suggest that the passing of statements is a futile exercise. We have many historical examples of faith-based statements igniting action, changing minds, and re-directing resources.
Rather this essay argues that Mennonites have had a particular history of putting pen to paper and declaring their position on "race relations." At key junctures, the passage of those statements challenged racial discrimination both within and without the church community. But by failing to address white people as white people, those statements fostered more assimilation than they did anti-racism.21 By demanding that African Americans, Native Americans, Latinex, and Asian American members of the Mennonite church become like white people to become Mennonite, those statements did little to change the nature, structures, and power relations within the church itself.
I await with eagerness for the day when white people in the Mennonite church will truly reckon with our conformity to whiteness. I expect that a statement may assist in that work, but the true mark of movement forward will be lived out in the collective action of white Mennonites to dismantle racism both within and without the church.
Paul Erb, "Nonconformity in Race Relations," Gospel Herald, June 7, 1955, 531.↩
Mennonite General Conference, "The Way of Christian Love in Race Relations," (Hesston, Kans.: Mennonite General Conference, 1955).↩
I have been able to document twenty-two such statements. I invite amendments and additions from readers who are aware of additional statements other than those listed at the end of this article. If you know of other race-focused statements issued by Mennonite groups between 1940 and 19990, please contact me at tobin.shearer@umontana.edu.↩
Tobin Miller Shearer, Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2010), 255.↩
"Policy Governing the Organization of a Mennonite Colored Organization," (Harrisonburg, Va.: Virginia Mennonite Conference; Virginia Mennonite Board of Missions And Charities, 1940).↩
Shearer, 36-37.↩
Ibid., 42-43.↩
Ibid., 269.↩
Ibid., 357-58.↩
"Statement of Concerns of the Study Conference on Christian Community Relations," (Laurelville, Pa., 1951).↩
"Lancaster Conference Bishop Board Minutes," (Lancaster, Pa.: Lancaster Conference, 1951).↩
Conference, "The Way of Christian Love."↩
"Attitude of Bluffton College on Relationships between Races on the Campus," (Bluffton, Ohio: Bluffton College, 1955).↩
"Churches Respond to Race," The Mennonite, August 6, 1963.↩
"E.M.C. Faculty Statement on Racial Discrimination," Gospel Herald, January 14 1964; Guy F. Hershberger, "Executive Secretary's Report," (Goshen, Ind.: Committee on Economic and Social Relations, 1965).↩
"Minutes Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting Virginia Mennonite Conference," in Minutes of the Virginia Mennonite Conference Including Historical Introduction, Statistical Section with Data on Conference Members and Her Official Statement of Christian Fundamentals (Harrisonburg, Va.: Virginia Mennonite Conference, 1967).↩
Vincent Harding, "Voices of Revolution," The Mennonite, October 3, 1967.↩
"Minority Statement to Mennonite Church," (Elkhart, Ind.: Minority Ministries Council, 1971).↩
As noted above, I would invite readers to alert me to any statements not named here.↩
http://home.mennonitechurch.ca/1989-racism (accessed October 2, 2019).↩
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning (New York: Bold Type Books, 2016), 2.↩
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Just before 9 p.m. on October 20, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on Twitch to play the hottest game in America: Among Us. "Hi, everyone! This is crazy!" she began, urging viewers to make a plan for how they will vote with I Will Vote, an outreach program funded by the Democratic National Committee.
After a few technical difficulties, Ocasio-Cortez spent three and a half hours playing the game with popular Twitch streamers as well as fellow Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar .
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reacts to being named the game's "imposter."
At one point Ocasio-Cortez's Twitch stream attracted about 430,000 viewers, making her the third most popular streamer on the site ever. Not bad for your first go.
More important, the event offered a glimpse at the future of political campaigning. In the waning weeks of 2020's volatile American election campaign, Democrats are increasingly turning to Twitch streams of popular video games to reach out to young voters and urge every last one of them to show up and vote. (Politicians are prohibited from using Twitch to fundraise, run ads, or monetize channels, according to a Twitch spokesperson.)
And you don't get much more popular than Among Us. In September, it was downloaded nearly 84 million times on iOS and Android. And it's been the most downloaded game on Steam, Apple, and Android since September, gaining nearly 200,000 players in the past few weeks alone.
The game itself is pretty simple. You play as a blob locked in a rocket ship with several other (differently colored) blobs. One of you—maybe you?—is a murderer, an "imposter." The others, "crewmates," have one mission: figure out who the imposter is before being "killed" by that imposter. You do this by running around the rocket ship, solving easy puzzles, and keeping an eye on any "sus" (suspicious) activity.
Among Us's simplicity is reminiscent of Animal Crossing, which similarly has a fervent fan base dating back to the early days of the pandemic, when its explosion in popularity led to a worldwide shortage of Nintendo Switches. That game—you cultivate a deserted island populated by cute animals, build a house, and till the land to create a home—also had a fan in Ocasio-Cortez, who took to Twitter to open her DMs and offer codes to a lucky few who could then visit her virtual island.
It's not only Ocasio-Cortez. Just last week, in Animal Crossing, the Biden campaign launched its own island, Biden HQ, featuring a Biden avatar in aviators who only says "No malarkey!" along with a shop and voting area—with text codes for players to sign up to vote and buy in-game merchandise benefiting the campaign. Biden HQ's launch was streamed to hundreds of thousands live on Twitch.
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Republicans are on Twitch too-—kind of. The Republican Convention streamed on the platform a couple of months ago, and President Donald Trump has an account, mostly used to stream favorable news segments or air campaign videos.
But the Republican Party has scoffed at the Democrats' activities. "This explains everything. Not only does Joe Biden think he's campaigning for president of Animal Crossing from his basement, his handlers are keeping him busy with video games while they stash him away to avoid talking about the bombshell reports of his corruption," deputy national press secretary Samantha Zager said in a statement when asked about the launch of Biden HQ.
That sentiment may miss the potential of Twitch streams as a voter outreach tool. Nearly 140 million people were streaming on Twitch monthly as of July, and the number has grown exponentially during the pandemic.
Twitch's video-game streams are far more nuanced than they at first appear, and the Amazon-backed company is arguably evolving into a social-media platform in itself, putting it in a position to become a political player alongside Facebook and Twitter.
The power of social media as a way to reach younger American voters was first identified in 2008, when Barack Obama's Facebook-heavy grassroots campaign showed that this demographic could be encouraged to turn out in droves. That narrative was turned on its head in 2016, when Russian disinformation worked to target millennials' parents and grandparents in a multipronged, sophisticated digital effort to ramp up support for Trump.
"We understand that the strategies in 2016 didn't cut it," says Briana Megid, the deputy national press secretary for NextGen, a progressive group focusing on youth outreach. "Poll-tested messaging, traditional spokespersons, and interviews with the political elite aren't as appealing to your average unregistered voter as they may have been in the past."
So far, unlike Facebook and Twitter, Twitch hasn't had a massive disinformation problem or issues with content moderation. With a user group drawn almost entirely from millennials and Gen Z, it has become America's pandemic-era alternative to TV, where a person can watch celebrities play games and engage in the type of side chats you might enjoy at a bar.
Democrats have recognized its value.
"It's built political will," says Jordan Uhl, who manages Twitch streaming for the progressive organization MoveOn. "It's more an engagement platform than a streaming one."
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How important is competition? What does the thrill of victory (and the agony of defeat!) teach us? Ian Bogost sparked these questions in a recent essay about the importance of competition, and we use his piece as a starting point to hash out the merits of having games with clear winners and losers. We also go on liberal tangents about the Olympics, dodgeball, and the effects of public leaderboards in single-player games.
Well, I don't have any stories of winning competitions... Lots of stories of beating champions after they win though. However, I do run many of the local competitions in the fighting game scene where I live. And I find it incredibly rewarding to see that burst of confidence that comes from when people win an event. And watching over the next few weeks how the people who nearly won improve, in an attempt to be able to beat that person next time.
I used to hate competition when I was younger, but the drive to improvement that competition gives I think is really important and now that it's a part of my life I do feel much happier.
I think the idea of making competitions into either co operative or competing against yourself is interesting but flawed... People will quickly and naturally compare themselves with others (leader boards make this even easier now).
I really agree with the idea that we need to normalise loosing/winning to people as well that was mentioned. Although I think for this to happen we might need less team games... In school contexts most games are in large teams, and that makes having any impact on winning/loosing you individually have quite minor. Smaller games like tenis/badminton you have a greater control over your ability to win or loose.
... that's enough blathering. Great cast guys!
Thanks for thoughtful comment, as always. Out of curiosity, what is your fighting game of choice? Despite being terrible at them, I've always liked fighting games.
Also, have you seen "I Got Next"?
I'm overall a video game tourist as they say so I play a bit of everything. But I 'focus' on Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code (a 2D doujin fighter with some really great damage scaling and just feels incredibly tight, super generic character designs though), Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3 because there is always more to learn although filled with various things I dislike about the game, and the Smash Brothers series, which is actually really hard to play well thanks to a lot of the advanced tactics, and is the fighter I would least recommend to beginners to be honest.
If I was going to suggest one to learn if you are bad at fighters though, if you can track down Melty Blood (I believe the PS2 version of MB: Act Cadenza made it to the US). It's rather combo heavy, but it just feels very very tight. SkullGirls is tempting to recommend, but I can't see anyone playing it on a pad (the issue of fighters not being designed for pads is an interesting one in the community).
"Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code" is pretty much the best game title I've ever seen.
Those Sirlin videos are really cool. Seeing the game in terms of formal geometry is really useful. It's something I always did somewhat by gut feeling, but seeing it spelled out really crystalizes it.
Hopefully I Got Next gets a proper release sometime soon. Most of the stuff in it will probably be old news to you, but I thought it was a really humanizing treatment of the U.S. fighting game scene.
The developer's next game is UnderNight In Birth. You can't help but love Japanese game titles.
Yeah, those vids sort of cover stuff most people basically know, but does a great job of crystallising it.
Well, I don't follow the scene that well really, I just watch top 8s of a few tournaments every now and then and that's pretty much it. So I look forward to humanising it.


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Michael Endo: To begin, will you tell us a little about yourself?
Marzena Krzemińska-Baluch: I was born and still live in Wrocław in the southwestern part of Poland. Wrocław is located at a crossover with three countries - Czech Republic, Germany, and Slovakia - whose history has been very closely knit together.
This is the city where I attended schools such as the School of Fine Arts (metalworking), and The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design (glass). Ever since my childhood I was influenced by the artistic community, having lived right next to the Academy of Art and Design in the very center of the city, surrounded by the oldest architectural treasures and art galleries. In high school, I relished waking at dawn to take pictures of the misty nooks and crannies of Wrocław's oldest churches and streets.
Traveling, meeting new people from various corners of the world, getting to know other cultures and the tastes and fragrances involved, and thorough, insightful observation of the places visited have always been very important and inspirational for me. At first this took the form of hitchhiking to the "least tame" distant European areas, and, in later years, of train travels around Europe. Currently, I am a PhD candidate and work as assistant professor at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, at the diploma-awarding Studio of Glass Design. Concurrently with my work at the Academy, I carry out my artistic realizations.
Marzena Krzemińska-Baluch, installed view of The Stijl/The Style series, 2017, kilnformed glass and metal frames.
ME: When did you start on the path of becoming an artist? Was it something you were always drawn to, or was there a specific experience?
MKB: I think my childhood environment had a huge influence on who I am today. Ever since those early years, I have encountered many visual artists, musicians and writers on my path.
As I remember, at the beginning, that is as early as elementary school, my attention was focused on architectural conservation (perhaps because of the proximity of Wrocław's oldest architectural treasures), and many of those closest to me advised me against this idea in favor of a more artistic path and of choosing a high school with an artistic profile. There I faced yet another choice – that of choosing to learn metalworking or art exhibition display methods. It wasn't a complicated one for me in light of my passion for architectural conservation, which I associated with artistic craftsmanship. I studied metalworking and jewelry for the next five years. In the course of my education at the School of Fine Arts, a glass artist was my closest friend and it was she who encouraged me to enter The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design to study glass. I very vividly remember how she told me, "If I were to try to get into the Academy again, I would yet again choose glass." I didn't hesitate long, as I thought glass would have much in common with jewelry-making due to the process involved and the technologies in forming that medium.
Marzena Krzemińska-Baluch in the studio.
MKB: Glass was of interest to me mainly due to its physical properties (brittleness, transparency, optical properties), chemical properties (heating and the plasticity of hot-sculpted glass), and the process of creating a work. I remember that when I entered the Academy of Art and Design it only had a cold shop with colorless and yellow optical glass. Both students and professors implemented their ideas using only coldworking techniques, which was very close to my earlier practice of jewelry techniques. Hot-sculpted or blown glass was utility glass. Students designed their works in class and made them during their apprenticeships in glassworks' industrial hot shops. This direct insight into the industry was a new and very interesting challenge for me. During my studies (2001-2006), the Academy didn't have a hot shop which would have allowed the hot-sculpting of glass or forming it in the warm glass technique. The cold-shop, intended for coldworking techniques, was our only option. Glass raw material was also difficult to access; optical glass donated to the Academy by Jelenia Góra's optical works was the only available material. We tried different "cold" methods to introduce color into the glass mass. In my case, it was the introduction of graphics, drawn in old techniques.
ME: In 2012, your cast and polished piece "lenses" was selected as a finalist for Bullseye's Emerge competition. Was this your first time applying to Emerge? Did the competition have any effect on your career or studio practice?
MKB: Yes, it was my first time. I learned about the Emerge competition during my artistic residency as "Emerging Artist in Residence" at Pilchuck Glass School in 2011. The residence at Pilchuck was my first artistic residency, my first direct contact with the artistic community in the United States, and my first contact with compatible Bullseye glass. Participation in the competition impacted my professional career, primarily due to meeting other artists and seeing their work, which is very important for me. I learned of new possibilities within this medium, and had the opportunity to work without restrictions.
ME: "lenses" is quite different from the body of work in the current exhibition. Can you discuss the path that led from there to here?
MKB: "lenses" was a project wherein I moved within the scope of issues connected with mostly the physical properties of glass such as transparency and optics, rather than within a specific idea or concept. I combined many of those pieces with drawn graphics, which alluded to organic representations. I mostly used clear glass, closing within it the black outline of the graphics, created on my own using old techniques, such as etching and aquatint. The world of insects was the main theme. There were also works in which the convex glass lens was the image mediator, which evoked emotions between the layers of glass and the image. These were usually minimalistic in their shapes and geometric in form; inside these I enclosed graphics, thus creating a three-dimensional space. "lenses" was a continuation of the way of thinking about glass I had learned during my studies at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław.
From the perspective of time, I see that most of the objects I initially made were more of a test of glassmaking techniques than a work on a specific "artistic idea." I wanted to explore the coldworking possibilities and examine the transparency and optics of glass to its limits. What I am currently doing with glass is a result of artistic mobility, my travels, the people I have met on my path, the exchange of experiences, and the museums and galleries I have visited.
ME: Who are your artistic influences?
Kirstie Rea, with whom I had the pleasure of working during my residency at Pilchuck Glass School and at North Lands Creative in Lybster, Caithness, Scotland. During the residency, we talked a lot and made short projects (which was a new experience for me). It was Kirstie who drew the essence from me. During the residency, I made many attempts and realizations that touched the inner me. That is where the idea of the making of the work entitled "Landscape" was born.
Oldřich Plíva from Czech Republic, with whom I've been friends for years. It was Oldřich who awed me with his very minimalistic approach to this medium, while, at the same time, bringing out what is most meaningful in this medium. He was the one who influenced my outlook on glass: "less is more," according to architect van der Rohe's theory.
Christopher Wilmarth's minimalism and modernism in his usage of flat sheets of glass in his sculptures, through which the artistic structure of glass gained a breath of fresh air.
Polish artist Jan Berdyszak through his introduction of real space to paintings, through constructing the work and its free space as an open image, and "Pomiedzy" ["In-between"], a series of his works.
Theories by architect Juhani Pallasmaa and his book The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses.
Larry Bell and his experiments with the nature of surfaces and their spatial, environmental aspects.
ME: Do you listen to music in the studio? If so, what bands/musicians?
MKB: Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't; it depends on the day. If I have too many external stimuli around me, I like to lock myself in the studio all alone and relish the silence.
ME: Upending the material expectations of glass (i.e. making it appear like fabric… or paper) has been the focus of a number of artists in recent years. Will you tell us a bit about what drives you to explore these forms in glass?
MKB: I am perfectly aware of how many artists deal with the issue of bending or forming glass as one would fabric or paper. My goal was not to create an object that would mimic fabric or paper. I am more interested in investigating the possibility of deformation in the gravitational technique of the glass plane, while, at the same time, enclosing the deformation in a geometrized form in order to achieve regularity and the narrowing of the visual field. I love to observe glass during the deformation process; to catch it, to stop it, at just the right moment of its deformation.
My work is always accompanied by some idea, a desire to depict my personal experience with emotions, images in my memory, etc. I start out with a model, usually made of paper or tracing paper, to be able to imagine the final form of the object. Why white? I often think about this question myself and believe it is due to the number of external impulses and the chaos of everyday life, which repeatedly encourages me to escape into isolation. White allows us to focus our attention, to have a moment to contemplate, to see the details, the meaning of the work.


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In this article the brake pads and discs on the front axle will be replaced. But the procedure for the rear wheels is identical.
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I would recommend to first trying to undo the bolt holding the brake disc (just try to loosen it a turn or so). Although this is not a step included in removing the brake caliper, it is recommended to start with this. Because if there is anything that could go wrong when changings discs and pads, this is the one.
Use a 5 mm Allen key socket on a ratchet and try to undo the screw a turn or so. If you make it round, the easiest thing to do is to drill it out or use an angle grinder and grind away the bolt head (together with brake disc). But you do have the option to put everything back on and do it another day if you for example have limited time because this will set you back 30-60 minutes or more.
Removing the small (and usually stubborn) bolt holding the brake disc.
Now back to the actual steps needed to remove the brake caliper. Use a small flat-blade screwdriver to pry off the dust caps covering the two guide bolts. The dust caps are located on the backside of the brake caliper, see the picture below. To remove the dust caps, simply pry it loose and pull straigt out.
To the left the location of the dust caps for the two guiding bolts have been marked out with red circles. To the right an example of how to remove the dust cap.
Behind these dust caps the guide bolts are located. Use a 7 mm Allen key to remove them. It is not necessary to remove the guide bolts completely to remove the brake caliper but since you should always inspect and clean the bolts anyway you can remove them directly.
After the guiding bolts have been removed the brake caliper is dismounted simply by pulling it straight out. Use a very small crowbar or large screwdriver if you find the brake caliper don't want to slide right off.
Note! Never never let the brake caliper hang from the brake hose! Support it from the chassis with strong wire or similar.
The brake pad carrier is hold into place by two bolts with 19 mm hex head. Use a long 19 mm socket and a long breaker bar to remove these. The can be quite stubborn so try to find the longest and sturdiest breaker bar you have.
Undo the small bolt holding the brake disc and remove the brake disc. If needed, tap it on the backside with a hammer or similar (use a wooden or rubber hammer if you are planning to reuse the brake disc).
This is how it looks when everything has been removed.
All the removed parts (anti-rattle clip, guide bolts, dust caps, brake pad carrier, brake pad carrier bolts, brake disc bolt, brake pads and the brake disc).
Clean the hub with fine grit sandpaper if needed and wipe it clean with CRC Bräkleen and a rag.
Pull out your new brake discs from the box. They are covered with a layer of oil to keep it from rusting, so that has to be removed. Simply clean the brake surfaces (both sides) with Bräkleen and a rag.
New Brembo brake discs to be unpacked and installed.
Mount the brake disc on the hub and secure it with the small bolt. Put some anti-seize (for example Loctite 8009 which is metal free high temperature anti-seize paste) on the threads! And don't tighten it so damn hard! Hold the brake disc with one hand and fasten the bolt with the other – simply fasten very lightly – it only need to keep the brake disc from falling off until you mount the tire (this small bolt doesn't keep the brake disc attached to the wheel hub – it's the wheel bolts that does that).
Mount the brake pad carrier. Clean the threads on the bolts and apply a thin layer of Loctite 8009 (or similar anti-seize paste) and torque them down with 110 Nm.
Brake pad carrier torqued down.


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Messi's Father Launches Fierce Defense Of Son's Argentina Record
By Abhishek Upadhyay on July 8, 2015 10:41 am
Lionel Messi's father has defended his son following the criticism leveled at the FC Barcelona forward for the Copa America final loss with Argentina.
Lionel Messi was left heartbroken after Argentina suffered an agonizing penalty shoot-out defeat to Chile in the Copa America final.
It was the second time in 12 months that the FC Barcelona star had finished on the losing side in a major final following Argentinaa s extra-time loss to Germany at the World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
a This generation is desperate to win a title with the national team,a Messi had said before the final of Copa America against Chile.
a As a team, we deserve to win something and it would mean so much after the World Cup where we came so close.a
The FC Barcelona star has taken to his social media account to express his disappointment and thank the fans after Argentinaa s 22-year wait for a major silverware was extended by Chile in the Copa America final.
Messi has come under widespread criticism for Argentinaa s failure despite scoring his own penalty as well as almost winning the game for Argentina with an incredible run in the dying minutes that was followed up by team mate Lavezzi setting up Gonzalo Higuain, only to miss the goal from a yard out.
His father, has now come out in the defense of Messi, saying that criticism on FC Barcelona superstar is harsh: "Many only understand failures and that forces them to see their own failings in others," Messi Senior told Diez Mas. Unfortunately, we live in a world of show and harsh criticism sells better than constructive criticism.
"But Leo just plays football and stops worrying about the rest."
Jorge Messi also revealed that his son has always been a quiet, humble character.
"Lionel grew and grew up in a family like any other in Argentina, where everything is achieved with sacrifice and respect," he added.
"Our culture, our country, is like this: everything is achieved through sacrifice and that will forge your values.
"He never did anything mischievous when he was young because he was always a good boy. Naughty, yes, but never difficult!
"It was hard for him to leave [Argentina for Barcelona at 13], but that has to do with what I have been saying: We are a family that has managed to do things thanks to sacrifice."
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