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Pixel Scroll 8/12/17 Of Shoes, And Scrolls, And Sealing Wax, And Pixelated Kings
Posted on August 12, 2017 by Mike Glyer
(1) PAST WORLDCON CHAIRS PHOTO. In the video, they all state their names and the cons they chaired. The photo session starts to shape up at about the 35-minute mark.
Here's the final result:
Past #Worldcon Chairs (those present at #Worldcon75) photo: pic.twitter.com/6ibuQzLSkM
— Worldcon 75 (@worldcon75) August 12, 2017
(2) HUGO RULINGS OF 2017. Here's a unique document – a report of all the rulings and decisions made by the 2017 Hugo administrators. I don't think that's ever been done before. In fact, past Hugo administrators have been very reluctant to share how the sausage was made.
Questions were raised directly with us both by email and social media enquiries, both from members of the Worldcon 75 team and from other interested parties. We do not disclose the source of individual queries below, nor do we comment on questions that were not brought directly to our attention.
(3) HAUTALA GETS A BOOST. The late author received a helping hand to start his career: "Stephen King's letter introducing Rick Hautala".
Thanks to Gerald Winters of Gerald Winters and Son Rare Books in Bangor, ME, here's an amazing find: a letter that Stephen King wrote to publisher Coward, McCann, and Geoghegan recommending a new in-progress book by a new writer named Rick Hautala! The book, The Dark Brother, was retitled Moondeath when it was finally published by Zebra Books in 1980.
I'm writing in hopes that you will read a manuscript in progress. It is a novel called THE DARK BROTHER by a young man named Rick Hautala. Rick works in the South Portland Walden bookstore, and a few months ago he asked me if I'd look at this script.
Gerald wrote, "After Putnam Publishers acquired CM&G, this letter was kept on their files until it was eventually acquired by the previous owner.
"Now it is back in Bangor where it will stay for anyone wishing to view."
There's a readable image of the letter at the site.
Cat Eldridge sent the link with a comment, "Rick died of a massive heart attack four years back while out on a walk with his wife. Like all too many genre writers, he made very little money. And yes I knew him, a really nice person."
(4) TODAY IN HISTORY
August 12, 1943 — Arthur Lubin's Phantom of the Opera premiered. Universal originally planned this film as a comedy for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
August 12, 1977 — Space shuttle Enterprise completed its first free-flight test.
(5) YESTERDAY IN HISTORY
August 11, 1962 — Haruo Nakajima takes on the Eighth Wonder in King Kong vs. Godzilla.
August 11, 1963 — Haruo Nakajima plays the title role in Matango, opening this day in Japan.
(6) COMICS SECTION.
Mike Kennedy noticed Superman made an appearance on Non Sequitur.
And that in Over the Hedge the neighborhood animals have come up with their own definition of science fiction
Meanwhile, John King Tarpinian discovered sff is the cause of marital disharmony in Close To Home.
(7) LOOK, UP IN THE SKY. Pilots have their name stenciled on their planes – still, people are surprised that "Batman's Plane in 'Justice League' Totally Gives Away His Secret Identity".
On Thursday, Entertainment Weekly released concept art of Batman's plane, the Flying Fox. And, fans were quick to note a surprising detail: Thanks to a Wayne Enterprises decal, Batman's real name, "Wayne," is written on the side. Gotta have brand awareness, I guess.
The Justice League Comic-Con sneak peak made it seem like a big deal when Cyborg dropped into Batman's plane, hacked it, and said, "Relax, Alfred, I'll take it from here." While pretty much the entire Justice League will know Batman's identity at this point in the film — Wonder Woman and the soon-to-return Superman learned it in Batman v Superman, and we already knew that Bruce Wayne would reveal that he was Batman to Barry Allen/The Flash when he was recruiting him — it was still a big moment, and a showcase of Cyborg's impressive skillset. Within seconds, he was able to hack into a plane that was "password-protected" by the Batman, and determine his identity. Apparently, though, he could just as easily have read it off the side of the plane.
(8) QUANTUM OF SOLACE. From the BBC: "Chinese satellite sends 'hack-proof' message".
China has successfully sent "hack-proof" messages from a satellite to Earth for the first time.
The Micius satellite beamed messages to two mountain-top receiving stations 645 km (400 miles) and 1,200 km away.
The message was protected by exploiting quantum physics, which says any attempt to eavesdrop on it would make detectable changes.
Using satellites avoids some limitations that ground-based systems introduce into quantum communication.
(9) EVERYTHING BUT THE OINK. Genetically modified pigs "take step toward being organ donors".
The most genetically modified animals in existence have been created to help end a shortage of organs for transplant, say US researchers.
The scientists successfully rid 37 pigs of viruses hiding in their DNA, overcoming one of the big barriers to transplanting pig organs to people.
The team at eGenesis admits preventing pig organs from being rejected by the human body remains a huge challenge
But experts said it was a promising and exciting first step.
The study, published in the journal Science, started with skin cells from a pig.
(10) AWARD REPAIRMAN. Camestros Felapton says "Fixing the Dragon Awards isn't my problem", but he really can't resist trying.
As things have turned out, the Dragons are claiming to be the big populist award, are mainly get nominations that are a rightwing-indy award, are an epitome of cliques and have found themselves to be even more political by trying to avoid being political.
How did they get into this mess? Partly by ignoring the disconnect between why the puppies disliked the Hugos and what the puppies said was structurally wrong about the Hugos. Specifically:
The Hugos are membership based.
There is a cost involved.
There is only one novel category.
There is no video game category.
There are voting systems and rules
So the Dragons did the opposite:
Any one can vote.
There is no cost.
There are multiple subgenre categories.
There is a specific video game category.
The voting is a simple tally.
The issue is that none of those approaches really get the Dragons to what they want. Just because anybody CAN vote doesn't mean anybody WILL vote. No cost and no membership requirement makes stacking the vote trivial. The multiple categories are confusing for fans to know where to nominate things and encourage category shopping for vote campaigns.
(11) MESSAGE FICTION. People prefer their own ideas, and so have to be constantly reminded about Ray Bradbury's real message in Fahrenheit 451. Open Road takes a turn: "Ray Bradbury Reveals the True Meaning of Fahrenheit 451: It's Not About Censorship, But People 'Being Turned Into Morons by TV'".
Even those of us who've never read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 know it as a searing indictment of government censorship. Or at least we think we know it, and besides, what else could the story of a dystopian future where America has outlawed books whose main character burns the few remaining, secreted-away volumes to earn his living be about? It turns out that Bradbury himself had other ideas about the meaning of his best-known novel, and in the last years of his life he tried publicly to correct the prevailing interpretation — and to his mind, the incorrect one.
"Fahrenheit 451 is not, he says firmly, a story about government censorship," wrote the Los Angeles Weekly's Amy E. Boyle Johnson in 2007. "Nor was it a response to Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose investigations had already instilled fear and stifled the creativity of thousands." Rather, he meant his 1953 novel as "a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature." It's about, as he puts it above, people "being turned into morons by TV."
(12) VIDEO OF THE DAY. Martin Morse Wooster, in recommending "Helium Beer Test–Short Version With English Subtitles," says it's "a video on YouTube in which two German guys end up drinking 'helium beer.' It's really funny and in my view fannish but it is a spoof." Apparently it was originally posted on April 1 a couple years ago.
[Thanks to John King Tarpinian, Cat Eldridge, Martin Morse Wooster, Chip Hitchcock, and Mike Kennedy for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Ky.]
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98 thoughts on "Pixel Scroll 8/12/17 Of Shoes, And Scrolls, And Sealing Wax, And Pixelated Kings"
Chip Hitchcock on August 13, 2017 at 5:41 pm said:
@Nancy Sauer:
I don't object to games designed to explore heavy issues. Humans learn through play, after all. But there's nothing in that program description, nothing at all, that would tell me that this was going to be a thoughtful exploration of the issues surrounding dementia, and not a multi-fandom play-for-laughs.
I see nothing in the description that says it will be played for laughs; do you? (This is a more pointed version of my question that @JJ didn't respond to.) A stronger counter is that the person professing outrage is like the southern DA who claimed that "comics" are all for kids; "game" does not necessarily mean frivolity.
@lurkertype:
Canceling it was the right thing to do mid-con, when nobody's got time to explain things and it was more important to find enough space for programs.
I can accept the first part of this — I know from the inside how hard flying decisions are with a full staff, and Helsinki may have been short for the task they ended up having — but not the second; canceling an item is not going to increase the space available for other items, because function-space walls do not float on cue.
@Kendall: why the shudder? If Jordin Kare had survived, the first thing friend was planning to ask him was ~"Pig, plastic, or metal?". Pig valves have been used for some time; why does using a larger piece of pig provoke? Growing human-tissue organs from scratch isn't quite the daydream it was when Niven wrote A Gift from Earth, but what I read suggest that it's a long way off for moving organs and not close for static ones; this might be a bridge.
@P J Evans: I'm curious what your connection was to 1971; AFAIK the work was done by people I know directly.
It may amuse both you and @David Bratman to know that the punch cards that year used as ballots survived well into this millennium; they wound up in the NESFA clubhouse, like many other artifacts that had previously been moldering in separate basements rather than the joint semi-basement, and were broomed during a there's-gotta-be-something-we-can-throw-out session. (Approximation; the person who organized it might describe it differently.)
Andrew on August 13, 2017 at 5:46 pm said:
@Kendall
I'm curious what guidance you'd want to see (or they would). Just relating to not including things that aren't part of eligible body of work, or something else besides? (IMHO it doesn't belong in the Constitution, but a resolution could work.)
In addition to rcade's list of questions to be answered, a preface explaining the purpose of the Packet and discussion of its history might be useful as standard background information to send to publishers when requesting submissions for the Packet. A list of preferred formats might also be helpful.
P J Evans on August 13, 2017 at 6:40 pm said:
Chip, the 1972 program was the one from 1971 with the nominees changed. I have a (fading, dot matrix on greenbar) printout. There are a couple of places where things got missed that should have been changed. (Frisbie had a collection of stuff of which I now have custody. He still has the final ballots from 1984, seeing as it's his card reader.)
Hampus Eckerman on August 13, 2017 at 6:52 pm said:
Rev. Bob:
Again a cultural clash. As familiar with the finnish tradition of tragicomedies, I would have expected it to be filled with black humour and sadness.
JJ on August 13, 2017 at 8:51 pm said:
Chip Hitchcock: This is a more pointed version of my question that @JJ didn't respond to.
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but given that I had hundreds of comment notifications go through my e-mail inbox in the last few days, I'm not surprised if I missed something.
However, I would say that several other people in this thread have offered explanations similar to what I would have said, as far as the description not being well-written enough to avoid the misunderstandings which occurred.
I would imagine that most Filers have enough personal experience and knowledge of human interactions to know that "It didn't bother me, so how could it have bothered anyone else?" is not the right way to respond when people get upset about something.
<sigh>
blog post by person who completely missed the point
JJ on August 13, 2017 at 11:26 pm said:
Andrew: a preface explaining the purpose of the Packet and discussion of its history might be useful as standard background information to send to publishers when requesting submissions for the Packet. A list of preferred formats might also be helpful.
Is there any reason to believe that that this isn't what was done?
Anna Feruglio Dal Dan on August 14, 2017 at 4:07 am said:
Thank you for the link; to be honest this seems to me a fair description of what went down. I will add that several people I know have a problem with how one person's outrage snowballed into something like a slap in the face of the Nordic hosts of the convention.
If program items have to take due consideration of everybody's sensitivity, then perhaps the power of unleashing a twitstorm should also be yielded with thought and consideration.
JJ on August 14, 2017 at 4:14 am said:
Anna Feruglio Dal Dan: this seems to me a fair description of what went down
I wasn't there; I can only speak to what I saw on Twitter and Facebook.
What I saw was people who have have had hard personal experience with Alzheimer's expressing concern about the program item description, which did not seem to indicate that the subject was going to be handled in a sensitive manner.
This person has done what I have seen most Finns doing on social media — complaining that it is all about prejudice against LARP.
Which is, as I said, completely missing the point.
Hampus Eckerman on August 14, 2017 at 4:29 am said:
I do not think it misses the point. People would most likely not have reacted the same if hearing about a tragicomical movie about alzheimers.
Hampus Eckerman: People would most likely not have reacted the same if hearing about a tragicomical movie about alzheimers.
I think if there had been a movie about Alzheimer's on the film program, and the description gave people reason to be concerned that the subject would not be treated respectfully, there would have been absolutely the same reaction.
Andrew on August 14, 2017 at 5:30 am said:
@JJ:
No – judging by the high quality of the recent packets, I'm sure that this was done by the recent people in charge of producing the packet, and I'd like their successful techniques to be documented so that future Worldcons can succeed as well (if there's a place that this information is already recorded, then there's no need to duplicate it, though).
Nancy Sauer on August 14, 2017 at 5:39 am said:
@Chip Hitchcock
I had already established that games could be used to explore serious issues, so you can leave your southern DA example outside because it isn't needed here.
As for the rest, it is the responsibility of the writer to see that the program blurb establishes that the game is going to be a serious look at Alzheimer's–if only to forestall the types who think that making fun of old people is funny.
A. Is there anybody here who HASN'T had personal painful experience of dementia? Because it's not as if it's rare.
B. There are plenty of really royally pissed off fans on the larping side as well
Should we cancel items where a blurb author has failed? Nope. This is more a question of how items should be handled by the con when sudden criticism appears. And here it wasn't handled as well as it could have been.
Not a criticism per se, I know how you often want to act quickly when problems arise. More a question of if routines could have solved this at an earlier stage or better at the late stage.
Joe Sherry on August 14, 2017 at 6:31 am said:
Regarding the Voter's Packet – this is part of what the administrators sent:
As a Finalist for the 2017 Best Fanzine Hugo Award, you are invited to participate in the Hugo Voter Packet.
Distributed by each year's Worldcon, this is a compilation of electronic documents which contains many of the finalists (or representative samples of their work), to assist Hugo voters in making an informed decision when voting their ballot.
This sample should consist of one or more works from your Fanzine from 2016 which relate to speculative fiction or SFF fandom. All works should be from the calendar year 2016.
We are working to release the initial packet in late April, and our deadline is fast approaching. If you would like to include your finalist work in this initial release, we encourage you to send it to us, in EPUB, MOBI and PDF formats if possible,
They also included in FAQ addressing the purpose of the packet, who gets access to it, do you need to include a full work, other questions – and then if you have a question not covered here, please contact us at XXX e-mail address.
Having never been a finalist before, I can't say how this compares to previous years, but the Hugo administrative team did a fantastic job this year in a number of ways (those extra reports were also above and beyond)
rcade on August 14, 2017 at 6:56 am said:
That wasn't the only criticism, though. The person who shared the program description on Twitter and expressed offense also said this: "Disability is not a game."
The blog post you describe as "missing the point" was addressing the idea that a "game" is not an acceptable medium to explore a topic like Alzheimer's. I think there are some good points in that post, which states this:
Such position completely ignores the work that has been done for decades in Nordic LARP and in digital indie "art games" (and also within the academic traditions of game studies) to expand the range of games and play for cultural expression, and to remove expectation or stigma of automatic trivialism from the interactive forms of art and culture.
In the comments to that post, there's a link to a screenshot where Worldcon 75 stated in a Facebook post that the subject of Alzheimer's is not suitable for roleplaying.
The LARP description was poorly worded, but I think Worldcon 75 handled the cancellation badly as well. Declaring a subject unfit for roleplaying, when Finland has a tradition of serious-minded LARP play, is a disservice to one of the aspects of local fandom the con program organizers were trying to celebrate.
Worldcon 75 later issued a new statement that called their original one "neither a fair nor a full report of the facts."
Kendall on August 14, 2017 at 8:06 am said:
@Chip Hitchcock: I shudder because the idea of a pig's organ replacing mine creeps me out just a little bit. (In contrast, getting a transplant and finding out the organ came from a serial killer or whatever wouldn't bother me. I vaguely recall a SFF story along these lines, so it crossed my mind as part of "what would/wouldn't weird me out.") BTW I didn't get a chance to read the article yet – didn't know pig valves were used. Interesting, thanks.
Chip Hitchcock on August 14, 2017 at 8:07 am said:
@JJ: the comment you missed was a request to parse out what in the description photocopied to here (search for "Katy Keen") was an issue. The word "tragicomedy" doesn't appear here; if you can get an image of text that does, please provide for those of us who are following this via a pipe rather than in person. Re the blog post: No, they're not missing the point; they raised the same issue I did (and that others have pointed out) — that people assumed LARPing could not be serious — with a some associated heat but not nearly as much as would have been raised had the cases been reversed. Can you not imagine the cries of "cultural imperialism" that would have been raised if a group of foreigners had started a tweetstorm about something that a US convention and all its US attendees considered at least harmless if not direly important?
@Nancy Sauer: I see no reason for the description writers to try to tell every sensitive person that the topic won't impinge on their particular sensitivity; that's akin to the result of making something idiotproof. Note also that I said "the person professing outrage", not "you".
@Anna Feruglio Dal Dan: I can't claim direct experience with someone with diagnosed Alzheimers. OTOH, I've had to deal with spillover, and directly with a case where periodic depression produced some similar lack of carefulness.
@Kendall: fair enough — everybody has something that just gets to them.
@Chip Hitchcock: BTW of course, it's a personal thing for me, not anyone else. And if I'm ever on a transplant list, my squick will probably get overridden by my desire for a transplant, right? 😉 Something like in Niven's A Gift From Earth probably wouldn't weird me out.
@rcade: Thanks for that list! Most answers seems clear to me, or at least, answers I feel make the most sense (especially #1; there's no guarantee any creators will contribute a single thing, and if we don't require a Hugo ceremony, why require a Hugo packet, which requires on the kindness of creators & publishers). But guidance never hurts!
I would hope the answers to be #1 Con's discretion, #2 not obligated, #3 should omit (BTW you left out a third option – up to the con), #4 poorly worded (correct answer IMHO: con's discretion but don't alter their words), #5 up to the con (you left out two options: include in packet or up to the con), #6 yes (WSFS can't force a con to include something that could put them at legal risk in their jurisdiction), and #7 no (these things take time; trying to mandate a date seems impractical).
Just my take on it, but they seem like common sense things (or practical/impractical things). Probably some weird edge cases I'm glossing over, so take the above with a small grain of salt.
@Andrew: The preface sounds like a good idea. Preferred formats from WSFS – well, tech changes, so IMHO the guidance there (if any) should be more general, not a list of current formats. Hmm, well, if it's a document someone maintains and not something that's voted on by the WSFS Biz Meeting, then more specifics are okay – I'd just hate to see something that specific (along with dates) in an actual WSFS resolution or amendment, but maybe that's just me.
Chip Hitchcock: The word "tragicomedy" doesn't appear here; if you can get an image of text that does, please provide for those of us who are following this via a pipe rather than in person.
Since I never used the word "tragicomedy", I am unsure why you are demanding that I show where it was used.
Chip Hitchcock: Can you not imagine the cries of "cultural imperialism" that would have been raised if a group of foreigners had started a tweetstorm about something that a US convention and all its US attendees considered at least harmless if not direly important?
Certainly, I can imagine it — and if that had happened, I would be saying the same thing that I'm saying now: "It didn't bother me, so how could it have bothered anyone else?" is not the right way to respond when people get upset about something.
Kendall: well, if it's a document someone maintains and not something that's voted on by the WSFS Biz Meeting, then more specifics are okay – I'd just hate to see something that specific (along with dates) in an actual WSFS resolution or amendment, but maybe that's just me.
Oh, I can guarantee you that something that specific regarding the packet would never make it past the WSFS Business Meeting members into the Constitution.
The absolute most that would be likely, I think, would be a one- or two-sentence bit along the lines of "Creation of a packet of as many of the finalist works as possible for dissemination to, and use by, the voters for the purpose of determining the ranking of their final ballot, is encouraged." in the Resolutions of Continuing Effect.
I would hope the answers to be #1 Con's discretion …
I don't think providing a Hugo packet should be optional any more. It's a vital part of the voting experience and helps encourage participation. Any Worldcon that chose not to do the packet would get hammered.
I see little downside to formalizing the expectation that there will be a packet each year, with some language to state the guidelines for each year's release and the aspects where the Hugo administrators can exercise discretion.
There has been a packet every year since 2011, by my personal count, and it may go back further. No Worldcon is likely to end this streak. We all want more Hugo voters and the packet is a big part of furthering that goal.
Anna Feruglio Dal Dan on August 14, 2017 at 10:39 am said:
The main reason I did not speak up was because on the face of any outrage it is difficult to formulate a response that doesn't come across as hostile. I did not, in point of fact, see why people were so horrified, and I have, indeed, lost a beloved family member to dementia.
What did trouble me was one famous author regaling an appreciative audience with "I use the masculine gender for the generic third person, and if somebody has a problem with it they can call my agent – or my lawyer", a program item that asked the question "why is anti-war fiction still being written", and the repeated going back (from people who I know for a fact know better, which shows what a powerful narrative it is) to the idea that conflict is a) something that happens outside the motherland, b) that happens between soldiers, and c) that soldiers are such through choice. (All ideas that are natural if you are a US citizen, especially a civilian, but that go counter the European experience.)
Thing is, I didn't complain to the concom or tried to get Twitter to shut down the panels. I did what I went to the con in person to do: I talked about this to people there, as well as on social media. I wanted a discussion, not a crusade. And to the extent that I came across as owner in perpetuity of the moral high ground, I am sorry.
Mike Glyer on August 14, 2017 at 11:35 am said:
JJ: Chip Hitchcock: Can you not imagine the cries of "cultural imperialism" that would have been raised if a group of foreigners had started a tweetstorm about something that a US convention and all its US attendees considered at least harmless if not direly important?
Even without the internet, that's how it looked at the 1984 Worldcon when the Britain in '87 bidders showed up and expected the con to give them a free bid table because that's how things were done back home. But Americans didn't campaign that way — and the L.A.con II committee reacted that if they wanted a table, they should hire one in the dealers room like everyone else.
At American cons up to that time campaigning was done at room parties or individual conversations. When the concept behind the complaint was explained to me, I remember my two reactions being (1) who wants to pay to go to a con and sit at a table and miss everything else, and (2) now that the bastards have introduced us to the concept, that's what we're all going to be forced into doing from now on (which proved to be the case).
A version of the British complaint — that the con had reneged on the offer of a free table — became part of the outrage expressed at the Business Meeting which passed a motion to censure the committee.
For the curious, the fuller and more complicated story of how the concom tried to resolve the table issue is detailed in Colin Fine's item in the October 1984 Ansible. And you can see between the lines of his description that the committee was still awkwardly grappling with the previously unheard of concept of the convention bid table. (Because why the heck would anybody want to sit at a table all day? Ironically, Bruce Pelz came to love doing precisely that in later years.)
Oskari on August 14, 2017 at 2:38 pm said:
The case of the canceled larp offers quite a fascinating perspective on some cultural differences and conflicts that might arise in an international fandom setting. Hopefully there's something to learn in there for all parties involved.
The way Worldcon75 handled it was quite unfortunate, but I guess these things are sometimes bound to happen when you have little time to react.
For (unnecessary) context, the person whose blog post JJ linked to is the Professor of Information Studies and Interactive Media in Tampere University and by far the most prominent academic games scholar in Finland.
I don't feel he was terribly far off the mark, but all things considered, I'm not sure that debating heatedly one single larp's cancellation due to miscommunication is the best way to promote Nordic LARP culture.
Cora on August 14, 2017 at 4:12 pm said:
a program item that asked the question "why is anti-war fiction still being written", and the repeated going back (from people who I know for a fact know better, which shows what a powerful narrative it is) to the idea that conflict is a) something that happens outside the motherland, b) that happens between soldiers, and c) that soldiers are such through choice. (All ideas that are natural if you are a US citizen, especially a civilian, but that go counter the European experience.)
I originally wanted to go to that panel, but now I'm glad I didn't bother.
Anna Feruglio on August 14, 2017 at 8:23 pm said:
I see that I seem to give the impression that I did go – I went to a couple of panels on the military sf stream, but I kept getting angry so I decided going to that one would probably result in my blowing a gasket.
Cora Buhlert on August 15, 2017 at 6:23 am said:
The military SF panels confirmed that this particular subgenre is still very much ruled by US experiences and tastes.
the idea that conflict is a) something that happens outside the motherland, b) that happens between soldiers
To me, that's a fascinating inversion and/or forgetting. On the occasions when I've contemplated a response to why the U.S. doesn't make a big thing out of November 11, it ran along the lines of "We'd been observing a remembrance day for the previous half-century, because we'd had a war at home while Europe's war dead were due to colonialism and thus safely invisible." Like most smart answers this has gaping holes (I was reminded how holey on a visit to San Diego, whose economy was originally built on supplying hides for leather — substantially for European wars), but there was a time when the U.S. did not think of war as remote. Some of us still don't: one of my great-uncles died in the Civil War — but that family line is temporally elongated.
@JJ: okay, let's take the next step: to what extent is a tourist expected to learn about local customs — or to make sure they understand what is being said — before complaining of offense? wrt my request to you for documentation: I read your remarks as saying that there was additional printed material that was more offensive than the only description we couldn't-be-theres have seen (regardless of specific words); was that your intent, and if so what was this material? Or can you point to an issue with the material I linked back to?
@OGH: I've been around bidding too long; I'd forgotten there ever was a time when bidders didn't have tables. (Possibly fading memory has confused bid tables with post-vote registration tables?) IIRC the change would have happened soon after 1984; 1992 (where I first did floorplans) was unusual not because it had tables but because the tables were associated with minigolf holes. ISTM that providing the tables was a Good Thing — the Fannish Inquisition requires voters to give up a time slot and to sit through propaganda before getting to hard questions (as well as silly questions) — and LAcon 2 certainly had room for them, but I can see the initial culture clash being more friction than needed in real time.
Mark on August 15, 2017 at 7:56 am said:
11. "a searing indictment of government censorship"
If I remember correctly, the book's text itself explicitly and literally says it wasn't governmental led censorship that banned books, but a populist movement.
Anyway, it's a book. It can be "about" multiple things. Being turned into morons by TV doesn't mean that censorship is suddenly not relevant to the text.
Heather Rose Jones on August 15, 2017 at 8:25 am said:
@ Kendall
I shudder because the idea of a pig's organ replacing mine creeps me out just a little bit.
Given medical "informed consent" requirements, it wouldn't be done without you having the option of knowing about it. I say "option of knowing" because there's sometimes a lot of information in the full disclosure statements for medical treatments. But let me offer a parallel example. The pharmaceutical that my employer produces (which treats a life-threatening condition by offering a bioengineered substitute of a complex molecule not produced by the patient's body) is "grown" in hamster cells. The difference between growing a specific molecule in a non-human cell and using a non-human organ is one of degree rather than kind. To the best of my knowledge, no manufacturer that is producing a product similar to the one my company produces does it by any means other than via non-human cells at this point, because that's the safest, most reliable, and cheapest way to do it. This sort of thing is not at all new or unusual these days.
Chip Hitchcock: JJ: okay, let's take the next step: to what extent is a tourist expected to learn about local customs — or to make sure they understand what is being said — before complaining of offense? wrt my request to you for documentation: I read your remarks as saying that there was additional printed material that was more offensive than the only description we couldn't-be-theres have seen (regardless of specific words); was that your intent, and if so what was this material? Or can you point to an issue with the material I linked back to?
Please read this carefully:
"It didn't bother me, so how could it have bothered anyone else?" is not the right way to respond when people get upset about something.
I don't care what sort of intent or meaning you've decided to ascribe to my words, and I'm not interested in playing your little game. You'll have to see if you can find someone who is more gullible.
Magewolf on August 15, 2017 at 9:14 am said:
@JJ
What might be the right way to respond when people get upset, then? Because in my experience people can get upset about anything for quite often no rational reason at all.
I find the LARP incident to be another example of the internet hate mobs attacking something they do not think should exist even though they actually know almost nothing about the object of their sudden rage and it has nothing to do with them. Much like the YA book attacks mentioned in earlier Scrolls.
If someone had gone to the LARP and came away upset I think it would be reasonable to complain or if it seemed to be some kind of attack on someone. But this at worst looked like it would be in bad taste and if you thought you would dislike it you had an easy solution open to you, i.e. not playing the game.
Cassy B on August 15, 2017 at 9:18 am said:
Re: transplants — a good friend of mine had his life saved a few years ago by a kidney transplant. He absolutely refused to allow his friends/family to test for compatibility; he only wanted a cadaver kidney. He has never explained why (at least, not to me), but he was adamant.
He very nearly died before he got the transplant — dialysis machines only do so much, and there's a constant risk of infection — but he's now hale and healthy.
August on August 15, 2017 at 9:23 am said:
This may not be correct, but it's my understanding that kidney transplants can be extremely risky for the donors, not just in terms of the procedures. It's not unusual for donors to find themselves with long-term and potentially debilitating health issues. I'd be reluctant to let my friends sign up for that as well.
Cassy B on August 15, 2017 at 10:51 am said:
August, that makes sense.
@JJ: I don't play games; apparently you do. Read my questions carefully and without assuming you know what I'm really asking, and try answering them honestly instead acting like a broken record. Do you believe that taking offense is always privileged? Do you not believe it useful to say why something is offensive? ("You should know what's wrong" is a game right out of Eric Berne or a sexist sitcom.) I have not made the assertion that offense at any of the text presented was unjustified because it looked OK to me (do you have independent confirmation that the concom reaction was as blunt as you quote?); I have asked repeatedly what the problem is.
Heather Rose Jones on August 16, 2017 at 12:03 am said:
@ Magewolf
I find the LARP incident to be another example of the internet hate mobs attacking something they do not think should exist even though they actually know almost nothing about the object of their sudden rage and it has nothing to do with them.
This is a gross mischaracterization. What this is another example of is people trying to be proactively aware of situations that might "have nothing to do with them" but that might cause significant harm, distress, or exclusion to others who may not themselves have the resources or emotional energy to raise the issue, either in advance or in the moment.
Questioning whether an unfortunately described game (or panel topic, or lecture, or costume) is being presented in a thoughtful way or is being used as an entertainment with no regard for the well being of those that it does "have to do with" is not an "internet hate mob". It's more in line with an "internet love mob".
Whether or not the LARP in question in this specific instance was benign and supportive or careless and mocking, the motivation behind those who questioned it was the same as that behind questioning programming that appears to have potential to be misogynistic, racist, ableist or other "ist"s that have for too long been considered an acceptable part of fannish culture because they "had nothing to do with" those who made the decisions and wouldn't be harmed by them.
There's a good parallel here with the movement toward employing sensitivity readers when writing fiction outside one's own personal experiences (which, of course, ideally would be all fiction). Acknowledging that no one person will see a scenario from all sides, and that bringing in multiple divergent viewpoint can help identify problematic aspects that can be fixed without throwing out the entire baby+bathwater, is a good idea for the future. I would encourage all Worldcons (and perhaps especially those run by US fans) to bring in a group of diverse international programming reviewers to provide feedback on which items may need better framing, or may be unintentionally harmful.
It's not at all uncommon for a programming item to be phrased or described in a way that mischaracterizes the original intent, or that seemed like a fun "inside joke" to the proposers but won't seem that funny to segments of the convention membership. I know, for example, that the program wording that described the pronoun panel and this past worldcon raised the hackles of a number of people who are excited and energized around SFF worldbuilding that involves diverse takes on gender and its representation. Similarly, I myself have been on panels (not worldcon) in the past where someone came up with a clickbait-style title or description and the panelists retrieved it from disaster by saying, "Look, here is the underlying interesting topic, and we're going to talk about that, not go down the rabbit hole of the problematic panel title."
Any time an event is put together by people from within a specific social circle (and even something as big as a worldcon tends to draw from within specific social networks, especially on a function-by-function basis) there is a hazard that they will think certain aspects will be obvious to any rational observer…because they're all rational observers and it's obvious to them, isn't it?
Chip Hitchcock: I don't play games; apparently you do. Read my questions carefully and without assuming you know what I'm really asking, and try answering them honestly instead acting like a broken record.
I read your questions carefully; I didn't just "assume" I knew what you were really asking.
The reason I am "acting like a broken record", as you put it, is because you keep demanding that I answer your little Spanish Inquisition as if I was one of the people who complained about the LARP description. The only point that I have made here is that if a bunch of people get upset about a program item, then the appropriate response is to try to have a discussion with them about what they found upsetting instead of just insisting, out-of-hand, that their concerns are unfounded and illegitimate.
You say, "I have asked repeatedly what the problem is." Really? Apart from me, who have you asked? Have you contacted any of the people who expressed unhappiness with the program item? Or are you just demanding, for some wildly irrational reason, that I should serve as their proxy?
Chip Hitchcock: "do you have independent confirmation that the concom reaction was as blunt as you quote?
I'm not quoting the concom. I'm quoting a bunch of Finnish fans from Twitter and Facebook who say that they don't see a problem with the program description and that therefore there is no legitimate reason to be upset and the people who are upset are just prejudiced against LARPs.
Chip Hitchcock: "You should know what's wrong" is a game right out of Eric Berne or a sexist sitcom.
As I never said anything remotely resembling this, nor did I use the word "tragicomedy", nor did I say anything resembling "there was additional printed material that was more offensive than the only description we couldn't-be-theres have seen", yes, I think that you are the one trying to play games.
You will find that people who keep attempting to falsely put words in my mouth, as you have repeatedly done, have very little credibility with me, and I will not be playing your game.
Anna Feruglio on August 16, 2017 at 2:26 am said:
JJ, repeating what you have said when people have tried to respond to it doesn't make you automatically right. What you said was I think an unfair way to characterize what has gone on, but people have tried to have a discussion about it with you. You just shut them down and call them names. To wit, just because somebody is offended doesn't mean that their offense is real, completely righteous and actionable. It's a very wise move to take it seriously, but the only possible course of action is NOT to immediately and without discussion remove the object of offense.
Sometimes giving offense is part of a discourse that generates progress. The Pride marches I have been on have certainly, and knowingly, generated offense, outrage and revulsion in (many of ) the onlookers. That is part of the reason I supported them: because being tolerated when you accept to stay in the shadows and offend nobody with your existence is not acceptance. It could be argued that the larp in question was trying to do something very similar: bring the horrors and the awful humor of dementia out of the shadows so that it can be thought of and accepted for what it is, and not as a nameless horror whose reality needs to be whispered and feared.
I have seen this go down. I know the people involved. I have seen explicit calls to a SMOF to "do something" about the panel when the initial twitstorm wasn't effective quickly enough, with the result that the program item was cancelled without consulting or informing the people involved in running it – who had, btw, been ASKED by the con to run it. At no point did the originators of the outrage ask themselves if maybe, perhaps, there was more to it that what it looked like to them.
And I am sorry that, seeing it go down, I didn't have the guts to say, wait a minute, I don't get why this is so offensive? Maybe it's not? That is on me. I had a channel to get out of the knee-jerk reaction and I didn't use it, because I wasn't brave enough and I lacked the spoons for it. I always told myself that I was the person that speaks up and in this case I didn't want to upset my friends so I kept mum. I expected better from myself.
I think the ConCom also should not have reacted with such a panicked response: but they were running a 7,000 people convention purely on volunteer work, and a convention that had gone from 3,500 to 7,000 under their horrified eyes in the last two months, so I am cutting them a lot of slack. And they erred on the side of caution, so that the solution would offend "their" people and not the guests, which I guess is a sound principle of hospitality.
I think in fandom we do have a small problem with knee-jerk outrage. It's not as big a problem as sexism or ableism or homophobia or racism; but it is a problem nonetheless, because one of the side effects is that creating a storm about the insensitive description of a panel that turned out to be about a thoughtful examination of disability cheapens and undermines all the times when outrage is warranted.
@JJ: as long as you're complaining about my putting words in your mouth, please find
(a) where \I/ said "It didn't bother me, so how could it have bothered anyone else?", or where I defended anyone else saying this;
(b) "You should know what's wrong" is not a literal quote — but it is a fair summary of your attitude in this matter.
The reason I continued to ask you personally about this issue is that you were the first person I saw here (i.e., someone I could ask and might get an answer from) reacting against this. I have never tried to make you a proxy; I have repeatedly asked you, specifically, what you saw was wrong with the item as shown — or with any other formal representation (as opposed to distorted re-quotes) of the item that you might have seen but I had not. Your continued false accusations of me would remove all credibility from your complaints even if you hadn't come up with your latest nonsense about the unthinking attacks on the item constituting "questioning".
JJ on August 16, 2017 at 10:21 am said:
Anna Feruglio: You just shut them down and call them names.
What a bizarre accusation. I haven't shut anyone down, nor have I called anyone names.
I simply refused to be drawn into a little game of Inquisition, saying that the way issues like this should be handled is by getting the involved parties together to have a discussion (preferably one that is as calm as possible).
Chip Hitchcock: Please find where \I/ said "It didn't bother me, so how could it have bothered anyone else?", or where I defended anyone else saying this
Since I never accused you of saying this or defending it, why should I be expected to point out where you did it?
Chip Hitchcock: "You should know what's wrong" is not a literal quote — but it is a fair summary of your attitude in this matter.
No, it is not. That is something you have conjured out of whole cloth. A fair summary of my attitude in this matter is "issues like this should be handled is by getting the involved parties together to have a discussion (preferably one that is as calm as possible)."
It seems to me that from the very beginning of this discussion, you decided what you thought my point and my "attitude" were, and you have continually tried to mold my words to your perception, instead of actually reading my words and trying to understand what I was saying.
No, at the start of this discussion I asked you what was wrong; you repeatedly fobbed me off with absolutes. Any attitude comes right from your writing; you should perhaps read carefully what Anna wrote, since you're responding to your imagination of my writing.
Chip Hitchcock: No, at the start of this discussion I asked you what was wrong; you repeatedly fobbed me off with absolutes.
No, I didn't "fob you off with absolutes". I repeatedly refused to play your little game of Spanish Inquisition, saying only that the appropriate response is to try to have a discussion with the people who got upset about what they found upsetting, instead of just insisting, out-of-hand, that their concerns are unfounded and illegitimate.
And because you weren't getting the response from me which you wanted, you kept pretending that I'd said things I hadn't said (and later claimed that I'd thought things I hadn't thought, as if you are a mind reader and have any insight into what I think 🙄 ).
I've had enough of your bullshit. You have repeatedly been unable to provide quotes and hyperlinks to where I actually said any of the things you claimed I said. And every time I've pointed out that one of your claims is bullshit, you've switched to a different spurious claim.
Provide those actual quotes and hyperlinks, or stop harassing me.
Better yet, provide those actual quotes and hyperlinks, and stop harassing me.


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Are We About to See a New Wave of Foreclosures?
Posted by Leslie Huggins at Mar. 19, 2020
With all of the havoc being caused by COVID-19, many are concerned we may see a new wave of foreclosures. Restaurants, airlines, hotels, and many other industries are furloughing workers or dramatically cutting their hours. Without a job, many homeowners are wondering how they'll be able to afford their mortgage payments.
In spite of this, there are actually many reasons we won't see a surge in the number of foreclosures like we did during the housing crash over ten years ago. Here are just a few of those reasons:
The Government Learned its Lesson the Last Time
During the previous housing crash, the government was slow to recognize the challenges homeowners were having and waited too long to grant relief. Today, action is being taken swiftly. Just this week:
The Federal Housing Administration indicated it is enacting an "immediate foreclosure and eviction moratorium for single family homeowners with FHA-insured mortgages" for the next 60 days.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced it is directing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to suspend foreclosures and evictions for "at least 60 days."
Homeowners Learned their Lesson the Last Time
When the housing market was going strong in the early 2000s, homeowners gained a tremendous amount of equity in their homes. Many began to tap into that equity. Some started to use their homes as ATM machines to purchase luxury items like cars, jet-skis, and lavish vacations. When prices dipped, many found themselves in a negative equity situation (where the mortgage was greater than the value of their homes). Some just walked away, leaving the banks with no other option but to foreclose on their properties.
Today, the home equity situation in America is vastly different. From 2005-2007, homeowners cashed out $824 billion worth of home equity by refinancing. In the last three years, they cashed out only $232 billion, less than one-third of that amount. That has led to:
37% of homes in America having no mortgage at all
Of the remaining 63%, more than 1 in 4 having over 50% equity
Even if prices dip (and most experts are not predicting that they will), most homeowners will still have vast amounts of value in their homes and will not walk away from that money.
There Will Be Help Available to Individuals and Small Businesses
The government is aware of the financial pain this virus has caused and will continue to cause. Yesterday, the Associated Press reported:
"In a memorandum, Treasury proposed two $250 billion cash infusions to individuals: A first set of checks issued starting April 6, with a second wave in mid-May. The amounts would depend on income and family size."
The plan also recommends $300 billion for small businesses.
These are not going to be easy times. However, the lessons learned from the last crisis have Americans better prepared to weather the financial storm. For those who can't, help is on the way.
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"Stay creative, stay vigilant, stay positive:" fighting for a living wage in California
WATCH: hotel maids are among the least protected workers in America, yet a coalition of groups in Los Angeles has organized successfully to raise their wages. Two community organizers reflect on the struggle and how it has transformed them (Video, 6 minutes).
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Jeannine Pearce and Nikole Cababa are community organizers with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy. In this short video, they reflect on the struggle to win support for "Measure N", which raised wages for some of the lowest paid hotel workers in Long Beach and the rest of Los Angeles County in 2012. Using innovative tactics that mobilized support across the city's population, they and the rest of the Long Beach Coalition for Good Jobs and a Healthy Community reached out to labor unions, small businesses, faith leaders and community organizations to galvanize support around a strong, shared vision of equality and justice.
Local groups like "Khmer Girls in Action" turned out high-school students to knock on doors in the city's Little Cambodia neighborhood. The Filipino Migrant Center sent out canvassers who spoke to Filipino immigrants in their native Tagalog. Long Beach is California's seventh largest city with nearly half a million residents. A quarter of them are aged under 18 and an equal number live below the poverty level. The city is 41 per cent Latino, 30 percent white, 13 percent African American and 13 percent Asian Pacific Islander – a prototype of America's multi-cultural future.
The living wage campaign has strengthened ties between the different communities that make up Long Beach, but it has also transformed organizers like Nikole and Jeanine. "Relationships are the most uplifting thing about organizing" says Nikole, "matching up what I believe in with how I work." "We have to stay creative, stay vigilant, and stay positive. In the future, we're going to have people who are not scared to challenge power."
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"If Africans do not tell their own stories, Africa will soon disappear". These are the immortal words that dominate the screen as Sembene! begins to roll; words that perfectly encapsulate the life and work of the subject of this lovingly crafted documentary. That subject is Senegalese director, Ousmane Sembene, a man respectfully considered the father of African cinema.
Directed by Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo, Sembene! is a deeply personal portrayal of the director's life as told by Gadjigo, himself both the biographer and close friend of Sembene. The personal connection between the two works both for and against the film; for while it certainly helps to humanise the subject, which is deeply necessary when dealing with a figure as legendary as Ousmane Sembene, it also creates a great level of sentimentality. By the film's end, there becomes almost too much of a focus on the relationship between Sembene and Gadjigo, with less time spent reflecting on his final years as a director. Thankfully, the film is not too overly sentimental, openly embracing the director's flaws including his strained relationship with his children as well as his highly controversial film-making.
Indeed, while the film is about the life about Ousmane Sembene, it is also as much about his career, the ground-breaking films he produced and their relation to the history of post-independence Senegal. In the words of Kenyan novelist, Ngũgĩ wa' Thiongo, "in all his works, [Sembene] saw himself as giving voice to the voiceless". As the first African director to gain international recognition, Sembene prided himself on stirring up controversy with his films: openly criticising the corruption of the post-independence governmental system; Islam; and the institution of female genital mutilation, to name but a few.
Sembene never stopped fighting for equality and offering hope for the helpless, even directing his final film, Moolaadé, at the age of 81 (despite being almost blind). The director serves as a hero to millions of people, and thanks to the work of Silverman and Gadjigo in producing this deeply important documentary, his work can continue to engage generations to come.
Thanks to the work of Silverman and Gadjigo in producing this deeply important documentary, [Sembene's] work can continue to engage generations to come.


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// Copyright: ©2006-2011 Strobe Inc. and contributors.
//            portions copyright @2011 Apple Inc.
// License:   Licensed under MIT license (see license.js)
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/*global module test htmlbody ok equals same stop start */

var pane, view , view1, view2, view3, view4 ;

module("SC.SelectButtonView",{

  //setup
  setup: function() {
    SC.RunLoop.begin();
    var isDue = NO ;

    //pane
    pane = SC.MainPane.create({
      objs : ["Around","The","World"],
      objs2 : [{ title: "Around", pos: 3},
        { title: "The", pos: 1},
        { title: "World", pos: 2 },
        { title: "Again", pos: 4}],
      selectedValue: "World",
      isDue: YES,
      childViews: [

        //view1
        SC.SelectButtonView.extend({
          objects: ["To","Back", "You"],
          disableSort: NO
        }),

        //view2
        SC.SelectButtonView.extend({
          objects: ["Drop","Down", "Menu"]
        }),

        //view3
        SC.SelectButtonView.extend({
          objectsBinding: '*owner.objs',
          valueBinding: '*owner.selectedValue',
          isVisibleBinding: '*owner.isDue'
        }),

        //view4
        SC.SelectButtonView.extend({
          objectsBinding: '*owner.objs2',
          valueBinding: '*owner.selectedValue',
          valueKey: 'title',
          nameKey: 'title',
          sortKey: 'pos'
        }),

        //view5
        SC.SelectButtonView.extend({
          objects: ["My","New", "List"]
        }),

        //view6
        SC.SelectButtonView.extend({
          objects: ["My","New", "List"],
          customViewClassName: 'custom-menu-item',
          customViewMenuOffsetWidth: 46
        })
      ]
    });

    view1 = pane.childViews[0] ;
    view2 = pane.childViews[1] ;
    view3 = pane.childViews[2] ;
    view4 = pane.childViews[3] ;
    view5 = pane.childViews[4] ;
    view6 = pane.childViews[5] ;

    pane.append(); // make sure there is a layer...
    SC.RunLoop.end();
  },

  //teardown
  teardown: function() {
    pane.remove() ;
    pane = view = null ;
  }
});

//test1
test("Check if objectBinding works", function() {
  var obj = view3.objects ;
  equals('Around',obj.get(0),'First item should be') ;
  equals('The',obj.get(1),'Second item should be') ;
  equals('World',obj.get(2),'Last item should be') ;
});

//test2
test("Check if valueBinding works", function() {
  equals('World',view4.get('value'),'Value should be') ;
});

//test3
test("Check if isVisibleBinding works", function() {
  var isDue = pane.isDue ;
  SC.RunLoop.begin() ;
  pane.set('isDue', NO) ;
  SC.RunLoop.end() ;
  ok(!view3.get('isVisibleInWindow'), 'view2.isVisibleInWindow should be NO') ;
});

//test4
test("SelectButton with objects", function() {
  equals(3,view1.objects.length,'The number of options in selectButton Menu should be') ;
  equals(null,view1.nameKey,'the selectButton should not have any name key') ;
  equals(null,view1.valueKey,'the selectButton should not have any value key') ;
});

//test5
test("sortObjects() sorts the items of the Drop Down component", function() {
  var obj = view1.objects;
  view1.objects = view1.sortObjects(obj);

  equals("Back",obj.get(0),'First item should be') ;
  equals("To",obj.get(1),'Second item should be') ;
  equals("You",obj.get(2),'Third item should be') ;
});

//test6
test("rebuildMenu() populates the Drop Down Menu with new data", function() {
  var newObj = ['Rebuild', 'Drop', 'Down', 'Menu'] ;
  view2.objects = newObj;
  var obj = view2.objects;
  equals('Rebuild',obj.get(0),'First item should be') ;
  equals('Drop',obj.get(1),'Second item should be') ;
  equals('Down',obj.get(2),'Third item should be') ;
  equals('Menu',obj.get(3),'Fourth item should be') ;
});

//test7
test("isEnabled=NO should add disabled class", function() {
  SC.RunLoop.begin() ;
    view1.set('isEnabled', NO) ;
  SC.RunLoop.end() ;
  ok(view1.$().hasClass('disabled'), 'should have disabled class') ;
});

//test8
test("objects should change on changing the binding", function() {
  SC.RunLoop.begin();
    var newObjects = ['Bound','Objects'] ;
    pane.set('objs', newObjects) ;
  SC.RunLoop.end() ;

  var objects = view3.objects ;
  newObjects = pane.objs ;
  ok(objects===newObjects, 'Objects should be bound') ;
});

//test9
test("Check if setting a value actually changes the selection value", function() {
  SC.RunLoop.begin() ;
    view2.set('value','Menu') ;
  SC.RunLoop.end() ;

  equals(view2.get('value'), 'Menu', 'value of Drop down should change to') ;
}) ;

//test10
test("objects should change on changing the binding", function() {
  SC.RunLoop.begin() ;
    var newObjects = ['Bound','Objects'] ;
    pane.set('objs', newObjects) ;
  SC.RunLoop.end() ;

  var objects = view3.objects ;
  newObjects = pane.objs ;
  ok(objects===newObjects, 'Objects should be bound') ;
});

//test11
test("The properties for select button should take default values unless specified", function() {
  var prop1 = view5.get('customViewClassName');
  var prop2 = view5.get('customViewMenuOffsetWidth');
  equals(prop1,null,'Custom view class name should be null');
  equals(prop2,0,'Custom view menu off set width should be 0');
});

//test12
test("The properties for select button should take the specified values", function() {
  var prop1 = view6.get('customViewClassName');
  var prop2 = view6.get('customViewMenuOffsetWidth');
  equals(prop1,'custom-menu-item','Custom view class name should be custom-menu-item');
  equals(prop2,46,'Custom view menu off set width should be 46');
});

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If you are a Plano Small business owner, and your Small Business is experiencing debt problems that are temporary, or more serious financial problems that your small business may not recover from, filing a Business Bankruptcy may be an option. Bankruptcy laws were designed to give small businesses and big businesses options to address their financial problems.
When your Plano Small business has debt that has become unmanageable or getting out of control, contact the Plano Small Business Bankruptcy Attorneys at The Law Offices Of R.J.Atkinson. We can explain your options to deal with small business debt and the problems that go along with it at a free initial consultation. Whatever small business financial problems you may be experiencing, we can help you to make an informed decision about your company's debt.
When a small business is having problems with debt, their debt problems can often cost the small business more than the amount of the debt itself. A Small Businesses' reputation, their employee's morale, the product or service the produce, and overall credibility are some of the intangibles that can be affected when a small business has financial problems. What can be considered a small debt problem for a small business can easily evolve into bigger problems when collection actions begin. This is especially the case when there is personal liability or personal guarantees involved. I.R.S. Problems like payroll taxes, debt related lawsuits, or commercial litigation of any kind can financially strain a small business to consider bankruptcy. When a small business is in financial trouble, vendors & suppliers along with others in their industry can get wind fairly quick. This can make things go from bad to worse.
Small Businesses use Chapter 7 Liquidation Under The Bankruptcy Code in situations where it seems unlikely that the small business will recover from financial difficulty. In cases where a small business will most likely never be able to pay its debts or continue as an ongoing small business concern, Chapter 7 Bankruptcy can be the best or the most appropriate bankruptcy option. In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the small business debtor turns over all of it's assets, over to the Chapter 7 Trustee, in order to be sold to satisfy the small businesses' creditors.
Bankruptcy under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code is often referred to as "liquidation bankruptcy" or a "straight bankruptcy." Under Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, a small business must cease all operations and allow the Bankruptcy Court to liquidate all assets to pay the debts. All types of business entities may use Chapter 7 Bankruptcy to liquidate.
A small business debtor begins the bankruptcy process by filing a petition with the local Bankruptcy Court. Once the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy petition is filed, an "automatic stay" goes into effect and the creditors are prohibited from making any attempt to collect their debt, including attempting foreclosure and repossession. Along with the petition, or shortly thereafter, the debtor files various written "schedules" and "statements" to inform the Court of its outstanding debts, its current income and expenses, any existing contracts, any current or potential lawsuits, and any recent asset transfers. Upon receipt of the Petition, the Court appoints a Bankruptcy Trustee to handle the debtor's case. The Trustee collects and sells the assets of the business and uses the proceeds to pay off the creditors. Once the Trustee sells all of the assets and distributes the proceeds, the Bankruptcy Court discharges the remaining debt and concludes the bankruptcy proceeding.
The main benefit of filing a Chapter 7 filing for a small business is The Automatic Stay, which allows the small business to dissolve without the harassment of their creditors. Small Businesses are eligible to file Chapter 7 but they are not allowed to keep any property. Even after the trustee liquidates the assets of the small business, the business does not receive a discharge.
Under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, businesses can reorganize their debts and pay them off over time. Unlike Chapter 7, Chapter 11 allows businesses to continue to operate while repaying their debts. Businesses may be given up to six (6) years to repay debts. Although it offers businesses the option of remaining in operation, the Chapter 11 proceeding is time consuming and expensive.
Chapter 11 can choose to be designated as a special type of Chapter 11 case in which there is no creditors' committee (or the creditors' committee is deemed inactive by the Bankruptcy Court) and in which the debtor is subject to more oversight by the U.S. trustee than other Chapter 11 debtors. The Bankruptcy Code contains certain provisions designed to reduce the time a small business debtor is in bankruptcy. A Small Business Debtor is defined by the Bankruptcy Code as a Chapter 11 debtor with liquidated debts not in excess of $2 million who elects treatment as a small business debtor, excluding a debtor whose primary activity is owning and operating real estate. Small business debtors are the subject of Bankruptcy Code Section 101(51C).
A small business Chapter 11 Debtor begins a Chapter 11 in the same way as a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy — by filing a petition with the local Bankruptcy Court. As in the Chapter 7 case, once the petition is filed, an "automatic stay" goes into effect and the creditors are prohibited from making any attempt to collect their debt, including attempting foreclosure and repossession. Also like the Chapter 7 case, the business debtor in the Chapter 11 case files various written "schedules" and "statements" to inform the Court of its outstanding debts, its current income and expenses, any existing contracts, any current or potential lawsuits, and any recent asset transfers. Upon receipt of the Petition, the Court appoints a Bankruptcy Trustee to handle the debtor's case. The small business debtor then proposes a reorganization plan to the Bankruptcy Trustee for approval by the Court. The proposed reorganization plan includes a proposed debt repayment schedule and may include a request to terminate burdensome contracts and leases and recover assets. The business begins to operate under the reorganization plan once the Court approves the plan. Upon successful completion of the plan, the Court will discharge the balance of the business' debts and conclude the bankruptcy.
Chapter 13 is only available to sole proprietors. Sole proprietors cannot use Chapter 13 to file bankruptcy for an entity business. Sole proprietors must file as individuals to take advantage of Chapter 13 but can include business debts for which they are personally liable. The Chapter 13 bankruptcy proceeds in the same manner as the Chapter 11 bankruptcy except that execution of the approved repayment plan does not require as much activity by the debtor.
Chapter 13 Debtors who are engaged in business have many other requirements to comply with in a Chapter 13 case.
The Small Business Bankruptcy Attorneys at The Law Offices Of R.J.Atkinson can help you to explore your small businesses' options in bankruptcy at a free initial consultation. If your small business is having debt problems, there are also alternatives to small business bankruptcy such as forbearance agreements, voluntary receiverships, UCC Article 9 Sales, dissolution of a business entity, composition agreements, out of court workouts and settlement arrangements, assignments for the benefit of creditors, as well as simply letting the business be. Whatever debt problems your small business may be experiencing, it is a good idea to get advice from an experienced bankruptcy attorney who can go through the bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy alternatives for your small business.
Debt problems for businesses can be quite complicated, so if you or your business is facing financial difficulty and you are considering filing a bankruptcy, contact The Law Offices Of R.J.Atkinson today. With offices in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Waco, Plano, New Braunfels, we can help you decide if Business Bankruptcy is right for your company. Contact Us for a business bankruptcy evaluation.


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Road test: 2009 Audi A6
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Road test: 2009 Audi Q7 3.0 TDi
A6 makeover not just a prettier face
2009 Audi A6.
Like some of the poor souls featured on Extreme Makeover or The Biggest Loser, the A6 was in desperate need of a fresh image. It may only be four years since Audi's mid-sized sedan was last completely revised, but much has changed in that seemingly short time. BMW's 5 Series has been refreshened in the interim, ditto the stylish Mercedes CLS, and Jaguar's XF is so radically modern it made the old A6 look like an antique.
Besides, Audi is in the middle of one of the most impressive brand and model makeovers in recent history. The A4 is all new, there's a new A5 coupe, a revitalized A3 and a phantasmagorical R8, not to mention a brace of new SUVs. Only the company's A8 (which sells in piddling numbers) and the A6 (which is, or should be, far more important to corporate coffers) remained unchanged. So, for 2009, the A6 gets a mid-cycle refreshening and, though it may not be obvious from the outside where the changes are relatively modest, there is much that is substantially new under that familiar skin.
Most notably, the engine compartment has a new player — the 3.0-litre TFSI V6 — and although Audi's public relations machine might go into full Richard Nixon denial mode, the power-plant is an obvious answer to BMW's twin-turbo 3.0L six. Both, for instance, feature forced induction. In BMW's case, it's the first ever twin-turbocharged production engine and, in Audi's case, it's the first use of supercharging on one of its V6s. Even their specifications are remarkably similar, the BMW boasting 300 horsepower and 300 pound-feet of torque, while the Audi counters with the same ponies and ups the ante with 10 extra lb-ft.
Were it not for their six pistons arranged in different fashion — in-line for BMW, a classic 60-degree vee for Audi — they might feel almost identical. But, BMW's in-line six with its perfect primary and secondary balance factors is the smoother of the two engines. It's not by much, mind you, and most couldn't tell unless they drove them back to back, but the Audi V6 gets a little growly when it revs, while the Bimmer remains the model of sophistication.
On the other hand, the Audi TFSI may have a little more bottom-end grunt. Superchargers traditionally offer just a titch more immediacy at lower revs and, though drag racing is not the Audi's forte, the supercharged V6 does an admirable job of emulating a larger-displacement V8. Audi, for instance, still offers a 4.2L V8 in the A6. Though it has more horsepower, most of its oomph is well up the rev band. The smaller supercharged six feels thoroughly "gruntier" with its maximum torque available at much lower revs. In fact, the 4.2L A6 is only a tenth of a second faster to 100 kilometres an hour than the 3.0T. Its major advantage isn't power but smoother running.
For now, the new TFSI engine will only be available with Audi's quattro all-wheel-drive system. Newly revised with a 60/40 rear-to-front default torque split, the quattro system offers sportier rear-drive bias than the previous version, which evenly split engine output between the front and rear axles.
Winter is never the time to test any car's roadholding ability, but I can state that the rear-biased torque split is noticeable. Of course, the quattro's torque split isn't fixed. According to Audi, it can send as much as 85% of the torque to the rear wheels or 65% to the front, depending on which wheels are losing traction. From the driver's seat, that means extraordinary security, especially with the tester equipped with snow tires.
The one downside to the quattro system, at least in the A6, is that the engine is situated far forward in the chassis, virtually replicating the weight distribution of a front-wheel-drive vehicle. It's not something noticeable during the course of normal driving, but, when pushed to the limit on a twisty road, the A6 will understeer despite newly made albeit minor revisions to the suspension.
On the other hand, the A6 is a doddle to drive around town. I had just previously tested BMW's revised 750Li, and the most immediate impression on switching to the Audi was how much lighter it felt. That's partly because the 7 Series is a hefty beast, but there's also a marked difference in tuning as well. BMW's legendary steering offers exemplary feedback, but even with active steering it can be weighty. Conversely, the A6 offers the light steering of a Japanese sedan with most, if not quite all, the feel of a German touring car.
Audi's cabins always feature superior materials and impeccable build quality. The 2009 A6 is no exception. As part of its redesign, the interior has been brightened up with some aluminumcoloured (Audi calls them Flexmetallic) trim bits, a simpler MMI computer interface and a trendy engine start button (although one still gets a full key). Also new on the A6 is a Side Assist system that warns of the presence of other vehicles in blind spots.
As mid-cycle revisions go, the A6's is fairly dramatic, with the new engine and revised quattro system to go along with the de rigueur interior and front fascia alterations. It doesn't vault the A6 past all the other players in the segment, but at least it's back in the fray.
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Type of vehicle: All-wheel-drive, mid-sized luxury sedan
Engine: Supercharged 3.0L DOHC V6
Power: 300 hp @ 4,850 rpm; 310 lb-ft of torque @ 2,500 rpm
Transmission: Six-speed manumatic
Brakes: Four-wheel disc with ABS Tires P245/40R18
Price: base/as tested: $49,650/$66,900
Destination charge: $800
Transport Canada fuel economy L/100 km: 13.5 city, 8.4 hwy.
Standard features: Power door locks, windows and mirrors, dual-zone automatic air conditioning with micron air filter, AM/FM/CD/MP3 audio system with 10 speakers, steering wheel-mounted audio controls, tilt and telescopic steering wheel, DVD navigation system, cruise control, power glass sunroof, Audi Multi Media Interface, leather seats, 12-way power driver's seat, heated front seats, auto headlights, dual front air bags, dual seat-mounted side air bags, Sideguard side curtain air bags, electronic stabilization program, electronic rear brake-force distribution
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text:
<button class="btn btn-success" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#createEventModal" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/html">{{buttonText}}</button>

                <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true" #closeBtn>x</button>

{{buttonText}}

                <form class="form" #f="ngForm" (ngSubmit)="f.form.valid && onSubmit(closeBtn)">

                        Title
                        <input id="title" type="text" class="form-control" name="title"
                               [(ngModel)]="schoolEvent.title"
                               #title="ngModel" minlength="1" required/>

Title is required

                        Description
                        <textarea id="description" type="text" rows="10" class="form-control" name="description"
                               [(ngModel)]="schoolEvent.description"
                               #description="ngModel" minlength="1" required>
                        </textarea>

Description is required

                        <input type="submit" class="btn btn-success" value="Save">

                </form>