The month of February was nothing short of spectacular for Guthrie Racing. 4 weekends, 4 races, 1800 miles on the road, 2 1st place finishes and a 2nd. The ultimate off road race "KOH" kicked the month off, 5 days spent in a desolate location in Southern California pushing their bodies and machines to the limits just to be crowned King. Prep, Practice, Experience all play a huge role but the biggest factor is equipment. Guthrie Racing partners with the best in the business. After locking down a win at KOH the boys headed to Vegas for round 2 of the WORCS series. Mitch Jr secured a 2nd place finish and headed home right after to finish up his new race car they would debut at UTV World Championship in Laughlin on the 20th. Unfortunately new car blues struck and Mitch Jr would not get to show everyone the potential of the new machine. The team headed home for a few days to prep for WORCS round 3 the following weekend. Mitch would have a chance to put his new race car on the podium.
Laughlin NV has hosted some of the best off road races in history. On February 20th 2015 a new chapter was written. 125 of the best UTV racers in the world arrived in Laughlin NV to battle for a massive purse of over $100000 in cash and prizes. The format was simple. 1 day, 2 races for all the money. The first race of the day was around the historic 17 mile Laughlin loop. This is a desert loop and the racers would do 10 laps around before taking the checkers. The second race was a modified desert loop 6 miles in length. 15 cars wide, land rush start, crazy dust, door to door action, helicopters, TV cameras, media all over the track and a hill side packed with fans. To say this race didn't leave its mark would be insane.
Pulling the new car into at UTVWC Mitch was over whelmed. So much work had gone into this new build. So many cutting edge ideas and parts. On the line was a new Polaris RZR and a slew of cash. Winning with a new car in the largest UTV race in the would be the greatest racing achievement yet.
Mitch Guthrie Jr. airing the rollers at 60mph.
The green flag dropped and right away he did not have full power. Pedal to the floor at the machine is only at 60%. The seasoned pro Mitch is he kept cool and ran the car as fast as it would go. He pushed through all 10 laps and pulled of a 7th place finish out of 62 cars. This is not a bad day at all.
Canyon MX in Peoria has been the scene of many mud races and the forecast for this race looked like it was going to be another. It poured the days leading up to race day. 80% chance of rain and nasty looking clouds covered the sky. But mother nature gave us a pass for the day. The rain days earlier made the track conditions perfect.
Mitch Guthrie Jr. getting the hole shot in his row.
A flat out drag race to first turn and Mitch pulled the hole shot. Dust was not really an issue with this race because of all the rain the past few days. Mitch looks very comfortable in the new Nelson & Nelson built RZR. Through his first lap he made up some time on the front row.
Mitch Guthrie Jr. testing his Walker Evans Shocks in one of the many high speed g-outs.
By lap 3 Mitch was in the lead on time but there was not time to relax. He pushed his RZR harder lap by trying to build a cushion. Late in the race attrition started to weed out the field. He was in a battle for first with a guy that was physically in front of him but behind him on time. When the checkered flag dropped Mitch was 3rd across the line but was 24 seconds ahead on corrected time. Mitch is heading into round 4 in Lake Havasu 3rd in points for the series and on track for a great season.
Mitch Guthrie Jr. sailing his car over the huge step down.


Silvia Furtwängler was born and raised in Germany. She began mushing 27 years ago and became interested in running the Iditarod when she crossed the finish line of the Yukon Quest in 2003. In 2008, "I went in the footstep of Roald Amundsen and crossed the Hardangervidda with sled dogs a little bit like Amundsen, he went with ski. After this I was convinced that this is the right place to live. In 2008, I emigrated to Norway." For the last three years she has owned her own tour guide business. Silvia has two adult children, Maurice and Raffaella and Steven, 15. She lists her hobbies as hiking, cooking and photography.


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St. Mary's University School of Law was selected by The National Jurist magazine as one of the 2012 Best Value Law schools in the U.S.
The September issue of The National Jurist named 47 law schools across the country who best met criteria deeming them the best legal education for the value. St. Mary's is one of two private institutions on the list and the only private institution in Texas.
St. Mary's received a grade of B+ and is one of 18 law schools with a weighted employment rate above 85 percent. The National Jurist determined this rate by using the detailed employment data released by the American Bar Association, assigning full weight to full-time, long-term bar passage-required employment and calculating all other employment at lower percentages.
The formula used to determine which law schools made the Best Value ranking included this criteria: 1) bar pass rate; 2) percentage of employed graduates; 3) average indebtedness upon graduation; and 4) tuition and living costs.


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Stockport is a large town in Greater Manchester, North West England. Seven miles (10 km) south east of the city of Manchester, it is the largest settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester, and has a population of 136,083 (2001 Census), with the borough as a whole having 281,000. This makes the borough 23rd most populated district in England.
The River Mersey begins in Stockport, at the meeting point of the Rivers Goyt and Tame.
Geography and administration[change | change source]
The town lies in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport which is in Greater Manchester.
The Stockport railway viaduct over the Mersey
Stockport Pyramid
Stockport Town Hall
Twin Cities[change | change source]
The town of Stockport is twinned with the following towns:
- Heilbronn, Germany. since 1999
- Beziers, France, since 1972
- Paisley, Scotland, since 2006
Paisley is not officially twinned with Stockport but the entry is probably a mark of friendship.
Stockport Council
HatWorks Museum
Stockport County Football Club
Stockport Rugby Union Football Club
The Stockport Express
The National Library for the Blind
Stockport Harriers and Athletics Club
Stockport Grammar School - an independent school near Manchester, England
Stockport College
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CHRIS HUGHTON'S Norwich side always seem to deliver the goods when their manager's position is under threat and that proved the case once again as they outclassed 10-man Sunderland at Carrow Road.
With Premier League survival the target for both sides on show in Norfolk it was Hughton's Canaries who deservedly ran out 2-0 winners with Robert Snodgrass opening the scoring early on.
Alexander Tettey added the second with a contender for goal of the season and Marcos Alonso was sent off late on for a second yellow card after Norwich had been better than Sunderland in every position.
The Norwich players once again seemed to play for their manager, who has come under pressure in recent weeks. Victories over West Ham, Crystal Palace and Hull came at times earlier in the campaign when the strain on Hughton was at its highest and this win certainly ranks in that category.
The victory moves Norwich up to 13th and, more importantly, seven points clear of the relegation zone while Gus Poyet has a job on his hands to keep Sunderland afloat.
The hosts were on top from the off, forcing a number of set-pieces which all failed to test Vito Mannone in the Sunderland goal, with the Italian not forced into action until Jonny Howson's drive was hit straight into his arms.
The former Arsenal goalkeeper could do nothing about Snodgrass' opener in the 20th minute after a mix-up in the Black Cats' defence.
Wes Brown failed to clear a low cross and the ball fell kindly at the feet of Johan Elmander, who calmly slotted a pass for Snodgrass to steer past Mannone and put the Canaries ahead.
Howson came close to adding a second five minutes later as the hosts continued to completely dominate, this time arrowing an effort towards the corner only to see Mannone deny him once more.
Ricky van Wolfswinkel, without a goal since the opening day draw against Everton, should have poked home a chance when Elmander's low drive across goal found the Dutchman but he could not get enough contact on the ball to turn it home from six yards out.
The second goal did not take too long to arrive and when it did it was straight out of the top drawer.
John O'Shea headed clear a cross but the dropping ball was hit on the volley by Tettey and it flashed past Mannone and into the far corner.
Poyet's reaction to falling two goals behind was to make a pair of tactical substitutions before the break, hauling off Ki Sung-yeung and Jack Colback and replacing them with Seb Larsson and Lee Cattermole.
Fabio Borini finally forced a save out of John Ruddy as he shot across the England international, who easily kept hold of the low drive - but that was the best the visitors could muster from a woeful first-half display.
Alonso, who had already been cautioned for a foul on Snodgrass, was shown a second yellow card by referee Phil Dowd in injury time.
Substitute Nathan Redmond came close at the death but it would have only added the gloss to an important win for Norwich - which will again go some way to keeping the pressure off Hughton.


Developed by Google this component allows you to build a set of User Interface components that would follow material design specifications. It offers a great API solution that allows developer to work with ease, has a clean codebase and all the functions are documented. This component is upgrading, as Angular is getting more optimized and processed.
The list will go on because Angular 2 is releasing new directions all the time.
This is one of the most popular chart libraries on the market. It is in use in almost every industry where there is a need for slick and interactive charts. It offers eight different chart types, each sharing a similar design as Angular 2, which makes them a perfect fit for each other. It currently ranks #1 on GitHub.
When it comes to drag and drop tools, Dragula gives you the opportunity to feel the full sense of freedom in design. It differs from usual components, as it is not meant only for layout. Dragula offers a possibility of moving actual content, which is great if you are designing a quiz or keyword search related applications. Dragula allows you to drag content to any direction so it is great for content review websites.
This is a small component with a great user interface that is easy to work with. It allows both multiple and single file uploads, as well as drag uploads. The user is able to watch the progress of the upload as well as determine to cancel or delete the file once the upload is over.
A simple component that has only one single function. It allows you to enable a based select box for your data.
If you are not satisfied with traditional HTML5 table of contents for your web page, this is the component for you. It has a grid layout and allows data filter to specific search queries. It has a native pagination and works great with mobile devices.
Simply put, this component allows you to transfer Angular 1 cookies to Angular 2.
Although this is still a work in progress, this component shows a lot of potential. It allows you to natively place Google maps widget in your app.
If you have a NG2 app that uses Bootstrap design, then this is an interesting component for you. It is a drop-down function and you can use it without jQuery. In addition, if you remove the class names, you can use it without Bootstrap.
Another Bootstrap 3 design component, this time: a progress bar. Also, does not require jQuery and if you remove class names, you do not even need Bootstrap.
A great solution for all your multi-context design. If you need to handle a simple design that requires a lot of explanation, tabs are the best option.
It uses Bootstrap 3 and it can easily become a standalone component. Modal windows aka popup boxes are a great way to give your design some life and engage the users.
Not much different from traditional pagination, this component will add some flexibility in your Angular 2 apps.
Fuel-UI is a component that works with both Angular 2 and Bootstrap 4, and provides components, directives and pipes. It gives front-end developers a lot of new UI patterns and libraries.
This JS library allows developers to structure a single page scrolling website. It practically allows you to turn your page into a slideshow. In addition, if you need to jump from one slide to another, there is a menu that allows you this.
table that can export data to an external CSV file.
The ng2-start kit focuses on a minimal setup app that has additional WebPack support. It saves your time when you need to create an app from scratch.
Features like responsive web design, high-quality display, SASS, jQuery, and integration of charts and maps libraries is what makes Angular 2 Admin one of the best templates now. Built with TypeScript, WebPack, and Bootstrap 4 framework, which makes a great user experience.
This is an easy to configure push notifications component. Push notifications are becoming a big thing and are yet to show their full potential. Having a component like this on your web page can make all the difference.
A simple component library that can add the necessary functions to enable your projects for JS forms.
If you are handling tens of thousands of images constantly, you might as well ensure that they become active only when user reaches that particular element. Lazy image loader allows you just that. It does not matter what type of app you are making, if you have many images, this is a great solution.
Excellent solution for all of you who are just learning Angular 2. This component is a playground that allows you to learn about Angular 2 and what it can do for you.
If you prefer Redux as your JavaSrcipt container then this component will allow you to integrate Redux support with Angular 2 apps.


The Marsh Fritillary butterfly (Euphydras aurinia) is listed on Annex II of the EU Habitats Directive. Ireland is therefore obliged to monitor and regularly report to the EU with regard to its conservation status. Between 2013 and 2015, BEC Consultants undertook surveys of Marsh Fritillary in Counties Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Clare, Kerry, Galway and Mayo. The aims of these surveys were to determine if suitable habitat for Marsh Fritillary was present within the selected counties, to record the extent, general characteristics and management of this habitat, and to determine the presence of breeding populations.
At the site selection stage, BEC Consultants conducted a desk-study which made maximum use of existing data such as external reports, digital datasets and relevé data in order to refine the list of potential survey sites. At each field survey site visited, a rapid assessment was made by the field team to determine whether suitable habitat existed at the site, based on the presence of the Marsh Fritillary larval food plant (Succisa pratensis). Once suitable habitat was identified, it was mapped and subject to a habitat condition assessment. Habitat condition assessments involve recording vegetation characteristics at a requisite number of stops within the area of suitable habitat to assess the level of habitat suitability for the Marsh Fritillary. Characteristics recorded included vegetation height, abundance of S. pratensis, presence of structured vegetation, low invading scrub and stock grazing. In addition to this, larval web searches were conducted within these areas. At sites where populations of Marsh Fritillary were encountered, species threats and impacts were also recorded.
Other Marsh Fritillary surveys conducted by BEC Consultants include the Galway City Outer Bypass Marsh Fritillary Survey in 2013 and a Survey of Marsh Fritillary and Rare Bumblebees in Annex I Grassland Habitats in 2010.


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Wahyuni A. Hadi chats to Rennie Gomez, Managing Director of Yellow Box Studios, a sound studio that has had its hand in many Singapore and regional films.
At the recent Singapore International Film Festival, Mardhiah Osman caught three films that dealt with representation of the female gender.
Why Cinema is Important to Singapore?
Is There a typical profile for the heads of the digital film department in SAE Schools?
Reflections of the underside of Singapore's streets by Djinn, the director/writer of local feature film "PERTH" starring Lim Kay Tong and Liu Qiulian.


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Q: modal from ng-bootstrap integrate with sortable component from ng2-bootstrap I have a button that trigger a modal using ng-bootstrap modal
<button (click)="openModal()">Open</button>

the template of modal.html with sortable component inside is:
<template #modalContent let-c="close" let-d="dismiss">
    <bs-sortable #sortableComponent [(ngModel)]="array
     [itemTemplate]="itemTemplate"></bs-sortable>
</template>

<template #itemTemplate let-item="item" let-index="index">

{{item | json}}

</template>

the class will be:
import { NgbModal } from "@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap";
export class sortableModal{
    @Input() public array: [];
    @ViewChild("modalContent") public modalContent: NgbModalModule;
    @ViewChild("sortableComponent") sortableComponent: SortableComponent;

    constructor( public modalService: NgbModal ){
    }

    openModal(){
        this.modalService.open(this.modalContent);
    }

    removeItem(arr,i){
        if(i===undefined) i = -1;
        arr.splice(i,1);
        this.sortableComponent.writeValue(arr);
        //this.sortableComponent is undefined; why is that?
    }
}

A: I still don't know why this is happening. But I solved it by wrap ng2-bootstrap sortable component into your own component, MySortableComponent, which has sortable component in. It works.

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On msnbc.com today, is a must read, very informative article for anyone who gives via the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). If you don't know, the CFC is the nation's largest workplace giving campaign, which gives federal civilian employees, members of the military, and U.S. Postal Service workers the opportunity to contribute to charities. Since the CFC was created in the early 1960s, it has generated billions of dollars in contributions.
The article referenced above takes a critical look at less-than-stringent criteria used to include charities in the campaign and the resulting fact that some less-than-stellar organizations --- such as the 0-star Help Hospitalized Veterans --- end up in the campaign. We've written about this issue before (more than once) in order to educate potential CFC donors and warn them that they still need to do their homework in selecting a charity. Furthermore, we've cross-reference our database of charities with those enrolled in the national/international CFC. Of the more than 850 charities in our database that match up, 4 have a 0-star rating and 63 have a 1-star rating. On the flip side, the 365 4-star charities and the 266 3-star charities demonstrate that government employees shouldn't fear giving via the CFC --- so long as they check out the charities first.
To locate a rating for a specific charity enrolled in the campaign, simply enter its CFC number in the search box. Alternatively, you can limit any search to charities in the CFC by using our advanced search tool or by selecting CFC as a filter criteria on the search results page.


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SUSTAINABLE SEX - How to Remedy Boredom & Health Problems
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Sexual boredom is an argument for sexual diversity, sexual education and better health care.
If Scientific American magazine is correct that 1 in 6 are on psychiatric drugs, then this is why at least 1 in 6 Americans are bored with sex: they have a damaged libido.
Once one is off the drugs, trying different positions and sex toys is a no-brainer. There are many different positions, techniques and toys.
But often people simply get bored with each other. For 195,000 years of human history the average relationship was 3 years. Today we have the 7-year itch, so humanity IS improving. But the bald facts of existence may be that nature simply did not design men and women to be monogamous. At least men. Nature designed them to be promiscuous so the gene pool could be spread wide and far. No sexual imagery intended.
Unfortunately society -- and most men and women -- are in the Dark Ages when it comes to sex. They are also irrational, passing up viable and obvious solutions to their sexual problems. For instance most couples will get divorced before "swinging" with other partners. Swinging is a good way to provide sexual diversity when all positions have been exhausted. It is also more honest than a covert sexual affair.
Unfortunately your average brain-washed man or woman in America would rather destroy their family than go to a swing party. Where they place their MEAT is more important than where they MEET with their kids.
These things said, it's no surprise that most women -- AND men -- are shitty in bed. One doesn't have to sleep with a lot of people as they can ascertain this by studying pornographic films.
My estimates are that 1 in 10 are good at sex, 1 in 25 are great but only 1 in 50 are excellent. And this makes sense because the world wide average for sex is 7 partners for males and 5 partners for women. How can one become good or excellent at something if they only had 5 to 7 partners? This is no doubt the reason most men and women suck in bed -- not enough experience with different partners. They may know exactly how to please their wife or husband after 20 years, but they have no idea how to please other men or women, respectively.
And this brings me to why we need to establish !@#$ U.
Also know as !@#$ University, !@#$ U would have a comprehensive curriculum of theoretical and applied sex. Everything from various philosophies of sex to practical applications and exercises would be taught.
As part of the curriculum, !@#$ U would be affiliated with what could be called a sexercise club. This would be a bonefide health club where students could apply their lessons, improve their health and get into better physical shape. To this end students could elect health club exercises that would be reward-driven.
For instance, for every new push up a male student accomplished he would get an additional 30 seconds worth of blow job from the instructor of his choice. For every pound lost, a female student would get hard-fucked for an additional 10 minutes. The instructors giving the blow jobs or giving the hard-fuckings could be students themselves, students working on their degrees or to become more accomplished at various sexual techniques taught at !@#$ U.
A university like this would not only work it would probably be profitable. So where are the investors?!
Unfortunately, the sexually perverted, low-libido authorities and religionists would be sure to yap about this "business plan" and attempt to shut it down on the grounds it was "prostitution." But that might be more difficult than one would imagine because no one would be paying for "sex" -- the definition of prostitution. They would be paying for health and education. And that seriously WOULD be what they would be paying for, especially since the sex at the sexercise club would be on a volunteer basis.
Or to use Agenda 21 terms -- we could view !@#$ U and its sexercise club as a way society could "transition" off of drugs for pleasure and onto natural activities for pleasure. Sex, in the long-run is much healthier than alcohol, antidepressants or even heroin and given the population explosion it may only be a matter of time before the role of sex changes to align with the goals of sustainable development. If, after all, we are over-populated -- as the Club of Rome and the UN warn us -- then the sexual rationale between men and women may have to be updated. With a population of 7.7 billion people, men and women may no longer have the luxury of sex for reproduction, they will have sex for recreation as that's not only healthier, it's more sustainable on a number of counts.
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Abstract: Khoqand Khanate (1709 — 1876) becomes the independent state at 'Umar khan`s (1810—1822) reign. In this situation legitimation was fabricated — the legend about Altun Bishik ("The Golden Cradle") allegedly left in golden cradle the son of Babur from which there was created the dynasty of Kokand khans. The legend is given in the court historical work Mushrif Isfaragi "Shah‑nama‑yi 'Umar‑khani" ("'Umar‑khān's King's Book"). On my supervision a legend about Altun Bishik was created on the basis of the general plot of the work "Bakhtiyar‑nama" ("[The Book About] Bakhtiyar") of Daqayiqi Marwazi‑Samarqandi (2th—13th c.). There is a manuscript of the given work with the personal seal of 'Umar khan.


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The MPDL strives to make Open Access publishing as easy as possible for Max Planck authors. They therefore contract central agreements in order to cover article processing charges out of central funds on behalf of Max Planck authors. Additionally, Max-Planck-authors receive several special conditions with some publishers offering Open Access options.
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This week on the InSession Film Podcast, Vince Leo fills in for Brendan as co-host and guest Nguyen Le joins us as we discuss WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES, arguably the best summer movie of 2017 so far. Going off of that, we also discuss our Top 3 moments/scenes from the entire PLANET OF THE APES franchise. Additionally, we had originally planned to continue our Satyajit Ray Movie Series this week, but due to time, we decided to push our second film in the series to Episode 231.


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Q: VBA - Arrayformula to a range stored as array variable I need to apply a formula array to dynamic ranges in my spreadsheets, which for a fixed size range works fine using for example:
Selection.Offset(2, 0).FormulaArray = "=(SUM((Exx:Eyy-Fxx:Fyy)^2)/X)^.5"

But the ranges don't have a fixed size and position in all my spreadsheets, so I select them initially and then I store them as arrays of dimension 1 and then redim to length N.
These arrays will be named, for example, A for the range Exx:Eyy and B for the range Fxx:Fyy, so then, when I want to apply the same aforementioned array formula, I get the error Compile Error: type mismatch when using the array variables instead of the explicit ranges with:
Selection.Offset(2, 0).FormulaArray = "=(SUM((" & A & "-" & B & ")^2)/X)^.5"

And if I don't use the quotes and ampersand, of course, I got the error name.
I also tried to use the evaluate property on the right hand side of the equality and it works without errors, but in this way I don't get the same value as using formula array :/
Can anyone give me a hand please?

A: It's not clear from your question what is the data type of your arrays string / range?
It seems that excel

*

*either don't know which sheet do you mean (if your reference is stored as a string, than add sheet to the address too (e.g. sheet1!a1:b1))

*either excel misinterpret your data (if your reference is stored in range try to use A.address instead of just A)


During World War II, Japanese Americans had to endure racist federal government policy in the form of relocation to internment camps around the country. Of the 120,000 people that were interned, a large number were citizens of the United States who protested that their 5th and 14th Amendment rights had been violated by their placement into the camps. The way Japanese Americans reacted to their experiences during the war differed depending on their experiences as Nisei or Kibei. These reactions materialized in different forms of participation in the war, usually involving the decision to serve in the military as a civic duty or whether to give up their citizenship entirely. This paper will explore how their actions shifted during the war based on their experiences of racism and their cultural backgrounds.
Deros, Julia K., "Similar Experiences, Unique Perspectives: How Japanese American Experiences Influenced Their Participation During World War II" (2016). Student Publications. 507.


My name is Ralph Shelton. I grew up in a small town near Lynchburg, Virginia, where folks still wave at one another. Here, I worked in my parent's restaurant through high school and my first years in college.
In 1983, I bought my first computer. And, even though it wasn't much of a computer, this little machine taught me tons. And would ultimately influence my education and career path for many years to come. My first degree was in engineering, but I also took classes in computer programming, and computer-aided drafting and design, or CADD. It was this experience that helped me land my first "official" job in 1986 with an architectural and engineering firm.
After a few years with that company, I realized that there was a strong need for CADD designers for a variety of businesses in and around Lynchburg; In those days, computers that could run programs like AutoCAD were not cheap, and there was still the need for someone to operate these systems. So, I and a couple of friends started a CADD services company in 1989. Not only would we provide the computer(s), but we would provide the staff to operate those CADD systems.
After winning a contract with the Veterans Administration in Hampton in 1993, I relocated to Virginia Beach. But, by the mid to late 90s, computer prices had dropped to a point that even small companies could then afford their own systems. And so, the need for my company's services began to dwindle. It was time to explore other avenues.
Fortunately, this was around the same time that the Internet craze was taking off, and so I began shifting my focus; designing, building, developing, and hosting websites became my next business model. Additionally, I further developed my digital photography skills, graphic design, and later digital audio, and finally videography as the need arose.
Today, I enjoy helping friends and neighbors with their computer, and other electronic woes. Most of my services are offered in-home. I can help with computer set up, printers issues, home networking, custom-built systems, and more. I do so with a friendly smile, and good humor.
In my spare time I enjoy music, photography, cinema, and lots and lots of travel. I have one wonderful and beautiful daughter, and a precious little granddaughter.
Thank you for visiting my website. Please give me a call if you have any questions or need my help.


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import javax.annotation.Generated;

import com.amazonaws.SdkClientException;
import com.amazonaws.services.waf.model.*;

import com.amazonaws.protocol.*;
import com.amazonaws.annotation.SdkInternalApi;

/**
 * GeoMatchSetUpdateMarshaller
 */
@Generated("com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-code-generator")
@SdkInternalApi
public class GeoMatchSetUpdateMarshaller {

    private static final MarshallingInfo<String> ACTION_BINDING = MarshallingInfo.builder(MarshallingType.STRING).marshallLocation(MarshallLocation.PAYLOAD)
            .marshallLocationName("Action").build();
    private static final MarshallingInfo<StructuredPojo> GEOMATCHCONSTRAINT_BINDING = MarshallingInfo.builder(MarshallingType.STRUCTURED)
            .marshallLocation(MarshallLocation.PAYLOAD).marshallLocationName("GeoMatchConstraint").build();

    private static final GeoMatchSetUpdateMarshaller instance = new GeoMatchSetUpdateMarshaller();

    public static GeoMatchSetUpdateMarshaller getInstance() {
        return instance;
    }

    /**
     * Marshall the given parameter object.
     */
    public void marshall(GeoMatchSetUpdate geoMatchSetUpdate, ProtocolMarshaller protocolMarshaller) {

        if (geoMatchSetUpdate == null) {
            throw new SdkClientException("Invalid argument passed to marshall(...)");
        }

        try {
            protocolMarshaller.marshall(geoMatchSetUpdate.getAction(), ACTION_BINDING);
            protocolMarshaller.marshall(geoMatchSetUpdate.getGeoMatchConstraint(), GEOMATCHCONSTRAINT_BINDING);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new SdkClientException("Unable to marshall request to JSON: " + e.getMessage(), e);
        }
    }

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


When Gmail debuted 12 years ago it made a shift in how we thought about email. At a time when the norm was Hotmail's 2MB free storage, or using an ISP email address you were likely to lose at some point, the days of having to tightly manage your email storage are long gone.
Instead of deleting, the idea of archiving messages indefinitely became plausible. This has been helped by a clean interface to keep a tidy inbox and powerful search capabilities, so you can find and retrieve old emails at will. Gmail search is also speedy which makes it practical, even if you don't keep your inbox at all organized.
For sake of brevity, I'll cover a few of my favorite and most useful Gmail search operators and then give you the full list below with some examples.
If you don't want to remember any operators, clicking on the search box down arrow will bring up a dialog with useful ways to search, covering typical queries using labels, date, recipients, and so on.
On the opposite of the spectrum, those who love keyboard shortcuts will certainly want to enter operators by hand. So make sure you have Gmail keyboard shortcuts turned on (Shift + ' / ' shows the full list) and simply hitting ' / ' (forward slash) will bring focus on the search box.
Using quotes "search goes here" and the minus sign "-"
Similar to searching on Google, if you wrap your query around with quotes, it will make a literal search. So you can look up an exact string like "a new hope". Conversely, adding a minus sign before a certain term or email address, will remove those from your results. For example, "star wars" -battlefront.
Run a standard search while adding who you sent or received an email from. This will narrow search results considerably, effectively filtering results in a breeze. If it's someone in your address book, Gmail will help matters further by autocompleting names which is handy.
Similarly, with subject: you can ignore emails' content and search text in the subject line only.
If you're looking for a specific email about your "pineapple" project that had an attachment added to it, you can add "has:attachment" and you'll only get results with emails that have your query term and attachments.
Or if you are looking for a particular file you can search by filename. The filename: operator also works to look up file types/extensions, so you can use "pineapple filename:pdf" and it will narrow things down for you.
If you're running out of space (Gmail offers ~15GB of free storage these days), looking up old emails that are larger than say, 10mb larger:10m will help you finding those pesky emails with huge attachments you may no longer need, saving precious free inbox space in the process.
If you use Gmail's star system to mark important messages, this will help narrowing things down considerably. Or if you use Google Chat, searching only within chats, can be a lifesaver, For example: "is:chat Melissa".
Although a tad cumbersome to use versus picking a date from the search drop down menu. For very specific queries you can use the yyyy/mm/dd format, to search within a certain time frame.
For example, "after:2017/01/01 invoice" or "after:2012/01/01 before:2016/01/01"
For relative time queries, you can also use older_than: and newer_than: (also available from the drop down search dialog).
Gmail search ignores Trash and Spam folders by default, this operator overrides it and searches everywhere.
Although I rarely use these, they surely come handy for advanced queries.
Brackets () let you group terms. For example, "subject:(star wars)" will look for the complete term in the subject line only, while trying to do the same without brackets "subject:star wars" would only look for the word 'star' in the subject and 'wars' everywhere else.
The OR operator (must be uppercase) works a little bit like programming. So you can match multiple terms. For example, a search for two different senders: "from:paul OR from:chris"
There are a few more search operators that we haven't covered here on purpose, since the above will cover 98% of your needs.


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module.exports = testla

//+ @type TestResult = {name: String, time: Number, passed: Array, failed: Array, skipped: Array}
//+ @type Dependencies = Object
//+ @type Tests = {Function} | Function
//+ @type Promise = {fork: Function}
//+ @type DI = {register: Function, inject: Function}
var assert = require('asserts')
var fn = require('fn')
var DI = require('dependency-injector')
var Observer = require('observer')
var Promise = require('fantasy-promises')

var INCOMPLETE = {}
var PASSED = 1
var FAILED = 2
var SKIPPED = 3

//+ prepareTests :: DI, Tests -> { run: Function }
function prepareTests(instance, tests) {
  var mapOfTests = typeof tests === 'function'
    ? instance.inject(tests).call()
    : tests

  return { run: fn.curry(runAllTests, mapOfTests) }
}

//+ foldPromises :: Function, [Promise], Any -> Promise
function foldPromises(f, arr, acc) {
  return fn.foldl(arr, function (a, b) {
    return fn.lift2(f, a, b)
  }, Promise.of(acc))
}

//+ runAllTests :: Tests, Function, Function -> Promise
function runAllTests(tests, runner, formatter) {
  var promisedTests = fn.pairs(tests).map(runner)
  var accumulator = { passed: [], failed: [], skipped: [], time: 0 }
  var reduce = function (a, b) { return fn.foldl([a, b], formatter) }

  return foldPromises(reduce, promisedTests, accumulator)
}

//+ computeResult :: String, Number, Any -> TestResult
function computeResult(name, startTime, result) {
  var test = {
    name: name,
    time: Date.now() - startTime
  }
  var report = fn.mergeInto({}, test)

  test.failed = []
  test.passed = []
  test.skipped = []

  if (result instanceof Error) {
    report.status = FAILED
    test.failed.push(report)
  } else if (result === INCOMPLETE) {
    report.status = SKIPPED
    test.skipped.push(report)
  } else {
    report.status = PASSED
    test.passed.push(report)
  }

  report.result = result

  return test
}

//- runTest :: DI, [String, Function] -> Promise TestResult
//+ runTest :: DI, [String, Function] -> Promise
function runTest(instance, testPair) {
  var name = testPair[0]
  var test_fn = testPair[1]

  // skip tests that begin with an underscore
  if (name[0] === '_') {
    return Promise.of(computeResult(name, Date.now(), INCOMPLETE))
  }

  return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
    var startTime = Date.now()
    var doResolve = fn.comp(resolve, function (value) {
      return computeResult(name, startTime, value)
    })
    var promise = { resolve: doResolve, reject: reject }

    try {
      var result = instance.inject(test_fn, {
        promise: promise,
        spy: new Observer()
      }).call()

      return result === promise ? null : doResolve(result)
    } catch (e) {
      if (e.name === 'AssertionError') {
        return doResolve(e)
      }
      console.error(name)
      return reject(e)
    }
  })
}

//+ getFormatter :: String -> Function -> Object, Object -> TestResult
function getFormatter(name) {
  return function (a, b) {
    return {
      name: name,
      time: a.time + b.time,
      passed: a.passed.concat(b.passed),
      failed: a.failed.concat(b.failed),
      skipped: a.skipped.concat(b.skipped)
    }
  }
}

//+ testla :: String, Tests, Dependencies -> Promise
function testla(name, tests, dependencies) {
  var instance = new DI(fn.mergeInto({ assert: assert }, dependencies))
  var runner = fn.curry(runTest, instance)

  return prepareTests(instance, tests).run(runner, getFormatter(name))
}


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Pixel Scroll 9/11/16 Infinite Pixels in Infinite Scrolls
(1) THAT FONT. The following video about comics lettering is via Mark Evanier's News From ME, who recommended it while also offering one correction:
The gent who did it knows a lot about his subject but no one seems to have told him that nobody in the business ever refers to the shape around the words as a "bubble." It's a "balloon." The word "bubble" refers to the bubble shapes that serve as a pointer on a scalloped-edge thought balloon (one that tells us what someone is thinking rather than what they say).
(2) 9-11 THEME. At Galactic Journey, The Traveler (Gideon Marcus) has just seen a new 1961 sf movie — [September 11, 1961] Newest Child of The Bomb (The Flight that Disappeared).
The Bomb. Since its creation and use in 1945, it has overshadowed our world. For the first time since we descended from the trees a million years ago, humanity had the means to destroy itself in one blow. It can't help but influence our culture, our politics, our nightmares. It is no surprise that atomic holocaust has figured prominently in our visual and printed media.
Last weekend, at a pre-premiere in Los Angeles, my daughter and I watched The Flight that Disappeared, the latest film to draw inspiration from the universal fear that is nuclear annihilation.
(3) COMMUNITY STANDARDS. I learned from Patrick Nielsen Hayden's reaction comment that a Jim Wright post had been taken down.
What the fuck, Facebook, deleting Jim "Stonekettle" Wright's eloquent post against the death cult of compulsory 9/11 "patriotic" observance for "not meeting community standards."
I was here in NYC when the towers came down. Their ashes fell on my neighborhood. Facebook can kiss my New York ass.
(4) FACEBOOK UNDERWHELMS. Jim Wright himself commented about Facebook's action in "Renegade 911" at Stonekettle Station.
I made a Facebook post about 9-11.
It went viral.
It wasn't even the first viral post I wrote this week, or the first to offend a certain segment of America.
And many people were offended.
Oh, yes, they were offended.
Those who beat their fleshy chests and wave the flag in righteous unending fury and bleat most bitterly about "Freedom" and "Liberty" and "Patriotism" were the most offended.
Because aren't they always?
Aren't they?
They attempted to hack my Facebook account.
When that didn't work, they complained to Facebook in righteous anger, furiously waving their little flags.
Because that's what you do when you love "Freedom" and "Liberty" and "Patriotism" — not the real freedom and liberty and patriotism but the jack-booted goose-stepping version where everybody is lined up and made to salute the flag with a gun to the back of their necks. The kind of "Freedom" that's administered by serious men of pure Aryan descent with death's heads and lightning bolts on their collars.
Eventually these patriots succeeded in convincing Facebook's idiot mechanical brain to remove my post for "violation of community standards," even though nothing I wrote violates Facebook's community standards in any way
Wright's new post quotes the text that was taken down, which reads in part:
They killed 3000 of us, we killed 300,000 of them or more.
8000 of us came home in body bags, but we got our revenge. Yes we did.
We're still here. They aren't.
We win. USA! USA! USA!
You goddamned right. We. Win.
Every year on this day we bathe in the blood of that day yet again. We watch the towers fall over and over. It's been 15 goddamned years, but we just can't get enough. We've just got to watch it again and again.
It's funny how we never show those videos of the bombs falling on Baghdad today. Or the dead in the streets of Afghanistan. We got our revenge, but we never talk about that today. No, we just sit and watch the towers fall yet again.
(5) GOOD TASTE IN PODCASTS. Scott Edelman posted three more episodes of Eating the Fantastic while the Scroll was on its medical hiatus.
Episode 15: Cecilia Tan
Cecilia and I discussed how her self-published Telepaths Don't Need Safewords gave birth to the Circlet Press empire, the advice she received from Tor publisher Tom Doherty, her love for the Legion of Super-Heroes, the lesson you should learn from the fact mass market publishing finally caught up with what she'd been doing all along, and much more. Plus a few things you might not know about her, such as her teen presidency of the largest Menudo fan club in the English-speaking world!
Episode 16: Resa Nelson
Resa Nelson
Joining me was Resa Nelson, whose story "The Dragonslayer's Sword" I published in the first issue of Science Fiction Age. My decision to purchase the story was validated when at the end of our first year, I tabulated thousands of subscriber surveys and discovered readers had voted that tale their second-favorite story—and their #1 fantasy.
We discussed how the short story of hers I'd published in Science Fiction Age grew into not just a single novel, but a series of novels, why she watches the Japanese movie The Mystery of Rampo before beginning any new writing project, what she learned from the hundreds of film interviews she did for Realms of Fantasy magazine, and more.
Episode 17: Jeffrey Ford
So when it came time to seek out a good setting in Quincy, Massachusetts to chat during Readercon with six-time World Fantasy Award-winning and three-time Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer Jeffrey Ford, whose new short story collection A Natural History of Hell was recently published by Small Beer Press, I looked for something off-site and more authentic.
And found it in McKay's Breakfast and Lunch. When I read a review about "a popular townie joint" that served food which was "simple and straightforward (no creme brulee French toast or maple ganache cinnamon bread here)," I knew I'd discovered a spot with some character. So that's where I took Jeff.
We talked about how being edited by Jennifer Brehl made him a better writer, what it was like to be taught by the legendary John Gardner, why he admitted "I don't really know dick about science fiction or fantasy," and much more.
Edelman says upcoming episodes already recorded include F. Brett Cox, David D. Levine, Adam-Try Castro, Alyssa Wong, Kathleen Ann Goonan, and Robert Reed.
(6) LOOKING SHARP. Just spotted Heather Rose Jones' tweet for the first time – it made me think there'd been an MGM musical version of the Hugo acceptance speeches.
Ran into John Hertz on a street corner on his way to the Hugo winners party with Mike Glyer's awards. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/LShVhTSvAi
— Heather Rose Jones (@heatherosejones) August 21, 2016
(7) EGOSCANNING. Hey, I also got a call-out from John Z. Upjohn!
Best fan writer goes to Mike Glyer, that weasel who had the temerity to directly quote and even link to unflattering things Puppies said
— John Z. Upjohn (@hymenaeushouse) August 21, 2016
(8) EISNER SELECTION. All this discussion of Dragon Con's new Dragon Awards led me to remind myself how San Diego Comic-Con's Eisner Awards are picked. The nominees are juried.
Who votes for the Eisner wards, and how are vote cast?
Once the nominees have been chosen, voting will open on the online ballot site, www.eisnervote.com. This usually occurs in mid-April, with a voting deadline in early June. Voting is open to comic book/graphic novel/webcomic creators (writers, artists, cartoonists, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists); all nominees in any category; comic book/graphic novel publishers and editors; comics historians and educators; graphic novel librarians; owners and managers of comic book specialty retail stores.
(9) RAISING AWARENESS. On Facebook, Gail Martin has set up a group and enlisted a large number of authors to support an initiative:
What happens when more than 75 sci-fi and fantasy authors start a nd conversation about mental wellness, mental illness, depression, suicide prevention, domestic violence intervention, PTSD treatment and related issues?
We don't know, but we're going to find out.
#HoldOnToTheLight is a blog campaign encompassing blog posts by fantasy and science fiction authors around the world in an effort to raise awareness around treatment for depression, suicide prevention, domestic violence intervention, PTSD initiatives, bullying prevention and other mental health-related issues. We believe fandom should be supportive, welcoming and inclusive, in the long tradition of fandom taking care of its own. We encourage readers and fans to seek the help they or their loved ones need without shame or embarrassment.
Among the authors participating so far are: Robin Hobb Jody Lynn Nye Cat Rambo Seanan McGuire Laura Anne Gilman Chuck Gannon Kameron Hurley Catherine Asaro Gaie Sebold Karen Miller Rowena Cory Daniels David B. Coe Marc Tassin Marc Jonathan Oliver Jeanne Adams Nancy Northcott Aaron Rosenberg Jennifer St. Giles Mark L. Van Name Juliet E McKenna Jennifer Brozek Darynda Jones Christopher Golden Clay Griffith Susan Griffith Alyssa Day Gregory Wilson Josh Vogt Darin Kennedy Jon Sprunk James Maxey Karen Gallagher-Taylor Justin Gustainis Misty Massey John Hartness Gail Z. Martin Jean Marie Ward Jaym Gates Laura Taylor Weston Ochse Ronald Garner Jade Lee/Kathy Lyons, Mari Mancusi Leanna Renee Hieber Davey Beauchamp Author C.L. Wilson/Cheryl Wilson Rod Belcher Travis Heermann Author Cara Santa Maria Michael J. Allen Joshua B. Palmatier Mud Mymudes Tera Fulbright, Nicole Kurtz, Emily Leverett, Tamsin Silver Stuart Jaffe Danielle Ackley McPhail, Eric Asher, Rick Gualtieri, Chris Kennedy, Ken Schrader, Samantha Dunaway Bryant, Valerie Wllis, Alexandra Christian, Jake Bible, Matthew Saunders, Jay Requard Vonnie Winslow Crist, Kelly A. Harmon, Jeremy F. Lewis, Sascha Illyvich, Kelly Swails, Bishop O'Connell, Sherwood Smith, Peter Prellwitz, Tracy Chowdhury, Trish Wooldridge and more….
[Thanks to Scott Edelman, Tak Hallus and John King Tarpinian for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Cally.]
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131 thoughts on "Pixel Scroll 9/11/16 Infinite Pixels in Infinite Scrolls"
Tasha Turner on September 12, 2016 at 7:56 pm said:
Naming the not-Hugo YA award. Thought I'd float the idea before submitting. I wanted to stay away from people's names/books/series to avoid possible problems (estates, turns out *ist issues, etc.). Wanted a theme which would be both SF & F. Hopefully not controversial. Not tied to any culture.
Dwarven Pluto Award – let's you play with a planet and dwarves making a pun on little Pluto the planet that was + science and fantasy
lurkertype on September 12, 2016 at 8:44 pm said:
@Lis: you are most welcome. It's a lesson it took me too long to learn and I want to help others save time.
@JJ: I loved that review. More than I would have liked the book. That prose is beyond purple and into ultraviolet or possibly X-ray.
Lis Carey on September 12, 2016 at 9:10 pm said:
I felt oppressed by that prose. Surely x-ray; it made me itch.
lauowolf on September 13, 2016 at 12:17 am said:
The review was enough for me.
There may be a day I am powerful enough to cope with that prose, but that day is not today.
You probably do need some comfort reading now.
Do you have an old favorite that might do?
Me, I'd be grabbing Book of Night with Moon, or some Diane Wynne Jones.
But The Raven and the Reindeer might work well too.
Definitely a pot of tea, and settling down in a different spot.
JJ on September 13, 2016 at 12:28 am said:
lurkertype: I loved that review. More than I would have liked the book.
Even had I wanted to (and I do not), I could never read that book now. Because I would spend the entire novel picturing the Heat Miser. *snicker*
microtherion on September 13, 2016 at 12:29 am said:
@rcade
Since there's a 9/11 topic in the scroll today, I thought I'd ask something that was on my mind yesterday: What are the post-2001 works of SF/F that were most influenced by the attacks and subsequent societal changes, either explicitly or implicitly?
I'm surprised that nobody has brought up Matt Ruff's The Mirage yet, which is very obviously 9/11 based alt-History. Not quite as good as this year's Lovecraft Country, but still worth reading.
steve davidson on September 13, 2016 at 4:27 am said:
@Mark: just applying NIven's "Kzinti" solution (via Puppeteers) to humans.
I think the point of brain maturity is that they are incapable of reliably making rational decisions. Though of course that applies to most everyone on the planet, so I concede your point.
Sorry. Very, very down on "people" these days. I keep on getting reminded that the problem is not that a candidate like Trump is running a viable campaign, its that there are enough people out there buying into it, for whatever reason, that makes it a viable campaign….
I'd seriously consider taking the "off world colonies" option, even if advertised as "where life is nasty, brutish and short"….if it were available
Lis Carey on September 13, 2016 at 7:38 am said:
I'm now reading The Queen's Accomplice by Susan Elia MacNeal. Being set during WWII with no sffnal elements puts an outside limit on the scale of disaster possible, and she doesn't do purple prose. 😉
Andrew M on September 13, 2016 at 7:44 am said:
Regarding Howl's Moving Castle: I actually see that it could be read either as children's or as adult humorous fantasy; I have great difficulty seeing it as YA. It doesn't seem to me to fit the typical YA approach at all. (Which isn't to say teenagers shouldn't read it, of course. Teenagers should read children's books, and adult books.) Anyway, in the UK it, like most of DWJ's books (that are still in print) is sold as children's.
Now, in trying to work out what class a book belongs to, I'm relying on the practice of UK bookshops, and a. This may not work internationally; while UK '9-12' or '8-12' or 'older children's' clearly occupies the same sort of space as US 'middle grade', I'm not sure the limits are exactly the same, and b. For many people the practices of bookshops are no longer relevant, and while, when deciding what shelf to put a book on, you have to make dichotomous decisions, for online sales you don't; you can tag a thing as children's and YA and old adult if you want to. Both of which things mean that deciding which class a thing belongs to for award purposes is an impossible task.
Kathryn Sullivan on September 13, 2016 at 10:02 am said:
Both of which things mean that deciding which class a thing belongs to for award purposes is an impossible task.
Which is why it's a good thing that the YA/Youth Award is Not A Hugo, so that a strict definition of what constitutes YA isn't needed. (the YA Award Committee pointed this out in their report)
Kurt Busiek on September 13, 2016 at 10:45 am said:
Not quite as good as this year's Lovecraft Country, but still worth reading.
I recently finished LOVECRAFT COUNTRY and thought it was a good book but disappointing in one major way: it wasn't very Lovecrafty.
The book overall was good, and the exploration of racism was well done, with interesting character and incident. But the Lovecraft bits were empty — no cosmic dread, no unsettling chaos beyond our comprehension, no sense of a hostile universe of vast and inimical powers.
There were bits that were meant to be Lovecrafty, touchstones to the Mythos, but underneath, they felt like just ordinary magic. There were wizards, but they were squabbling men out for political gain, not people wielding forces that would corrupt their minds and souls. There was a weird Massachusetts village, but it felt more like the magically-protected village of British fantasy, not the eldritch menace of HPL. There was another planet, but it was…another planet. Not a terribly Lovecrafty experience.
I get that part of it was that the racism of the villages surrounding the mystic village was meant to be creepier. But I don't think the way to do that was emptying HPL of its menace, creating a world where lingering ghosts are just odd people you can get to know, or shapeshifting is more of a superpower than a threat to your sanity and soul.
It'd have been great to read a book where the unsettling, corrupting Lovecraftian "other" was white people, but this didn't get there. It was a good novel about racism in a setting involving magic. But it wasn't Lovecraft country.
Plus, having kids in the early 1950s head off to the local comic book store (with comics in the name, no less) is a jolting anachronism, at least for some of us. But that was a minor detail.
Mark on September 13, 2016 at 11:14 am said:
@Kurt Busiek
Lovecraft Country gave me a sense that the characters were living with the knowledge that more powerful beings could abuse or even kill them with very little thought and with no way to prevent it. That's very Lovecraftian to me, it's just that it wasn't monsters they were afraid of.
But I agree that the explicitly Mythos elements weren't particularly played to be scary. It was Lovecraft as metaphor, not Lovecraft as horror.
Mark —
I can see that, but I think it was done in a flat way that required the reader to bring in an awareness of Lovecraft from other reading, rather than understanding the metaphor from the book itself. I think there are better ways to bring that through.
I think THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM by Victor LaValle, while it had structure problems, managed to braid the nightmares of racism and Lovecraft well, though it didn't try to move the "other" place over to whites.
Plus, the fact that they kept outwitting or outmaneuvering the powerful figures undercut the metaphor for me. The dangerous white people were the sheriffs and such; the wizards were white, too, but they were a logic problem rather than an existential threat. They weren't compelling enough as Lovecraftian or as entrenched white privelege.
For a very different take on Lovecraft, Kij Johnson's THE DREAM QUEST OF [NAME I CAN'T RECALL JUST NOW] was satisfying in a creepy fairy-tale way. Built on HPL's sexism more than racism, it's less a critique than a what-if, a repair that looks at things Lovecraft shied away from and adds them in rather than directly critiquing him.
And there weren't any comic book stores in it.
Lee on September 13, 2016 at 12:00 pm said:
@ Steve D: If this were NIven's Known Space Universe, I'd be encouraging the US to engage in as many land wars as possible; this would accelerate the elimination of highly aggressive individuals (whose fear response causes them to get so unthinkingly patriotic that they're willing to "travel to distant lands, meet interesting people, and kill them"), thus raising hope that fewer of the amygdala-challenged will be reproducing.
I've sometimes wondered whether the progressive leap forward in the 60s and 70s might not be at least partly related to the number of American soldiers who died in WWII. The problem with your proposal, of course, is that it reduces everyone else in the world to the status of spear-carriers. But that would be why you presented it as an option for a fictional universe.
@ Ken R: Nobody ever remembers the second half of that quote. It's "My country, right or wrong — when right, to be kept right, and when wrong, to be SET right." It's a declaration of responsibility, not even remotely the carte blanche that the jingoists make it into.
(Not specifically directed at you; this is one of my personal hobby-horses.)
@ Seth: And here I was thinking about ABO fanfic. (A sub-genre in which humans are divided into 3 categories of sexuality, and I haven't read enough of it to be able to go into any more detail than that.)
@ JDN: There were a lot of people in the early 2000s drawing notice to the parallels between Heinlein's description of the Crazy Years and what was happening in the world around us. And the only really significant difference I see between Scudder and Trump is that the latter is building his campaign around jingoism and bigotry rather than religion.
Mark on September 13, 2016 at 12:48 pm said:
I think you are right about Lovecraft Country needing external knowledge. Obviously it worked for me, but it might lack a certain something for someone else.
I've read Ballad of Black Tom and Dream Quest of Vellitt Boe – quite a Lovecraft theme this year, it seems. It seems to me there's a joint theme of repurposing the elements of Lovecraft they don't like while building on the parts they do.
Paul (@princejvstin) on September 13, 2016 at 1:38 pm said:
I read Vellitt Boe and enjoyed it highly. Johnson clearly "Gets" the Dreamlands.
I'm going to read Vellit Boe soon, within a week.
Call the Not A Hugo a "Youth Award" for a short title (till it gets a name, then it's the X Award For Youth Fiction), and in the description say "children's, middle grade, older children's, YA". Then the voters can put whatever they want in there, regardless of what publishers or bookstores have to say. Is it a book aimed at/suitable for/enjoyable by persons 0-18? Ta-da. Grownup appeal is a bonus.
(I say age 0, because who knows, someone might come out with a mind-blowing board book on an SF or fantasy topic.)
Jim Parish on September 13, 2016 at 6:44 pm said:
@Lee: That version of the quote is due to Carl Schurz, and was a response to Stephen Decatur's original, half a century earlier. Decatur's version, according to Wikipedia, was "Our country – In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong" – still somewhat nuanced, but much closer to jingoism.
Kathryn Sullivan: Certainly once the 'not a Hugo' thing is established, we don't need a strict definition; my worry is about whether we even have a vague definition clear enough to determine what ballpark we should be looking in. I think that what for some people are central cases of YA are for other people not YA at all.
lurkertype: I agree. Indeed, that is what I have been saying all along. Now that there seem to be at least three of us who agree on this, should we start putting together a proposal for some future business meeting?
Curiously, this is exactly what was proposed in 2013 (except that at that point it was meant to be a Hugo).
And I realise my weird facts about the concept of YA are getting rather boring, but just in case anyone's still interested, I have discovered an even weirder fact. According to the 2013 proposal the title of the award would be 'Best Youth Book', and the text of the proposed rule said 'for young adults, middle readers or children'. But the title of the motion was 'YA Hugo'. Which I think demonstrates than no one knows what YA means. (I don't mean 'everyone else has got it wrong'. I mean no one knows. Including me. The concept is a mystery.)
jonesnori/Lenore Jones on September 14, 2016 at 10:06 am said:
Lurkertype, I like Youth Award. I've been suggesting the Worldcon YA Award as a title, but Youth Award works better. Or the Worldcon Award for Youth Fiction.
Andrew M on September 14, 2016 at 12:36 pm said:
jonesnori and lurkertype: My worry is that WSFS has already approved the regulation, and that says it's for young adult fiction, so it would be problematic simply naming it the Youth Award. It wouldn't be impossible, clearly – both the SFWA and the Dragons have awards where the title doesn't fit the regulation – but it would add to the confusion in the world. If – as I think we are agreed – it would be better to have a youth award (recognised by all as such), I fear it would require another amendment to the constitution.
jonesnori/Lenore Jones on September 14, 2016 at 1:33 pm said:
Andrew M, the wording is "a book published for young adult readers in the field of science fiction or fantasy", so you may have a point, although the Committee report and discussion were specific in not defining that further, with the intention of leaving it to the nominators and voters.
Andrew M on September 14, 2016 at 2:36 pm said:
I think the 'not defining further' thing was mainly meant to quell worries about the upper bound, the border with adult fiction, which is what people have in fact largely been worried about, since if this had been an actual Hugo it would have created a demarcation problem. I haven't until now seen much discussion about the lower bound. Yet that seems to me to be much the bigger issue; it's just the occasional book which is debatably YA or adult, but there are whole swathes of literature, including the most successful young people's series of this century, which are debatably YA or children's. There isn't a demarcation problem there, but there is room for endless conflict about what the award is for, which could be avoided if it were just a youth book award.
Andrew M, those are all good points. Is the committee taking input other than names?
I don't think it's really possible now for them to consider anything other than names; the wording of the change to the constitution is fixed, except for the name which was purposely left blank.
JJ on September 15, 2016 at 3:05 pm said:
jonesnori/Lenore Jones: Andrew M, those are all good points. Is the committee taking input other than names?
Andrew M: I don't think it's really possible now for them to consider anything other than names; the wording of the change to the constitution is fixed, except for the name which was purposely left blank.
The committee has been taking input for at least a couple of years.
Changes other than the name could, of course, be made; however, they would probably not be considered "lesser changes", which means that the approval process would have to start over at Year 1.
I don't see why any boundaries are needed for this award. Hugo voters will make of it what they will, just as they have done with the Best Related Work category, just as they have done in deciding what qualifies as SFF for the fiction categories.
It will take a few years to see how it shakes out. If Worldcon members end up unhappy about the books which the award ends up recognizing, they will either participate in greater numbers, make some changes to the award definition, or eliminate the award entirely.
Mike Glyer on September 15, 2016 at 3:12 pm said:
JJ: Why, there I am in Entertainment Weekly. Not that it's on my bucket list, I just never conceived of doing anything they would cover.
Mike Glyer: JJ: Why, there I am in Entertainment Weekly. Not that it's on my bucket list, I just never conceived of doing anything they would cover.
It would be interesting to know whether the EW article was the result of a Press Release by the Hugo Marketing Committee / MidAmeriCon II, and if not, what triggered it.
Gail Z. Martin on September 16, 2016 at 5:23 am said:
Thanks for the shout-out for #HoldOnToTheLight! We're up to 100 authors, and I'll also be posting updates with links to all the blog posts on MagicalWords.net and on DisquietingVisions.com.
Cassy B. on September 16, 2016 at 5:40 am said:
If it was in a press release, Entertainment Weekly should have done a cut-and-paste to avoid misspelling "Beijing"…. (I guess major Chinese cities don't come up much in EW's area of expertise.)
JJ:
I don't see why any boundaries are needed for this award.
I don't think anyone is suggesting we establish boundaries What some of us are suggesting is that it would work better with a label which made clearer its unbounded nature.


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Is deflect considered counter damage?
Wasn't really sure so i figured i would ask, is deflected damage (tusk, lancelot) considered counter damage?
Deflect takes the damage received by the target and returns it in full to the attacker. Counterdamage calculates the strength of the target and returns damage based on that.
Deflect damage is calculated based on attacker damage. Counterdamage is calculated based on target damage.
The higher the difference between attacker and target, in attacker favor, the higher the deflect.
Cannot say the way around, in target favor means a higher counterdamage, because damage overall is calculated according to base attack.
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