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News of this morning, a tower in Shanghai burnt, killing many people. THIS is an inferno. Yet, did it melt its steel beams and drop past the non-burning levels at freefall speed to land in its own footprint?
I don't think they really care if we believe their stupid story any more. They've gotten what they wanted and from now on it's just something to let us entertain ourselves talking about.
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Immunisation from an early age is highly recommended for all Australian children. Having your child immunised helps to protect them from the most serious childhood infections, some of which may threaten their lives.
Routine childhood immunisations help to protect your child against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough (pertussis), polio, pneumococcal disease, meningococcal ACWY disease, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), rotavirus, chickenpox (varicella), measles, mumps and rubella (German measles) and influenza.
In line with the National Immunisation Program we provide childhood immunisations (2 months to 4 years of age) as recommended for all children in Australia, free of charge. Some groups are more at risk than others in the community and may need additional vaccinations.
We also run Public Immunisation Sessions on a monthly basis in Cowes, Grantville and Wonthaggi.
When attending a public immunisation session at either Cowes, Grantville or Wonthaggi please bring along the following to ensure a smooth and fast process for you and your children.
- Child's Health and Development Record Book (green book)
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If you have not previously attended one of our immunisation sessions, you will need complete a consent card prior to vaccination.
You will be asked to take a seat and wait for 15 minutes after all vaccinations to ensure your child doesn't develop a reaction to the vaccine/s, so please allow time for this.
Please seek advice from your child's doctor if your child is unwell prior to attending an immunisation session. Anyone with a temperature of 38.5°C and above will not be vaccinated. If you're unsure, the nurses on the day will advise whether or not they can proceed with the vaccination.
By law, parents or guardians must provide an Immunisation History Statement when you enrol your child in any childcare service, kindergarten or primary school in Victoria.
The only documentation that you can use is a current Immunisation History Statement provided by the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR). The statement shows whether a child is up to date with their immunisations and includes details of the vaccines they have received.
You will automatically receive a history statement from AIR when you child turns five years old. However, you can request a statement for children (under 14 years of age) at any time.
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Minister for Health The Hon Greg Hunt announces $52 million to deliver free meningococcal vaccines to teenagers
A free meningococcal ACWY (Nimenrix®) vaccine program on the National Immunisation Program is available for:
- Year 10 students in secondary school
- Young people aged 15 to 19 years of age.
Young people who haven't received the meningococcal ACWY (Menactra®) vaccine in school or in the community in the last two years, can be vaccinated by Council at one of our public immunisation sessions. No need to make a booking, simply attend any public session throughout the year to receive your free vaccine.
Many vaccines are routinely provided free of charge to Australian secondary school students under the National Immunisation Program.
The protection provided by some childhood immunisations fades over time and needs to be boosted in adolescence. Secondary school students are at an age when a vaccine will be most effective and provide protection before possible exposure to a disease.
Immunisation is most commonly given to students through council visits to secondary schools or students can attend a public immunisation session if they are absent from school on the day of immunisations. Parents must return a consent card to the school when requested, providing or refusing their consent.
Further information on the Secondary School immunisations can be found by visiting the Better Health Channel or Immunisation resources for parents and guardians
Some health problems associated with international travel are vaccine preventable.
Travellers should consult a travel medical centre, or their doctor, at least six to 12 weeks before departure for a check-up and to discuss required and recommended vaccinations for specific regions.
The websites below provide information about vaccinations and tips for staying healthy while overseas:
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- Smartraveller (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
- International travel and health (World Health Organisation)
- Travelers' health (US Center for Disease Control & Prevention)
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If your child's immunisations are not up to date your GP can develop a catch up program with you. Please contact our Health Department if you have questions about a catch up schedule. Please ensure you have a catch up program before you attend a public infant immunisation session. Immunisation catch up programs take time to develop and we cannot develop a program with you during an infant immunisation session.
You can determine what vaccines your child/ren may need by using the online Immunisation Calculator
All parents/guardians planning to enrol their child at childcare or kindergarten in Victoria must provide the service with evidence that their child is:
- fully immunised for their age, or
- on a vaccination catch-up program, or
- unable to be fully immunised for medical reasons.
Your GP or immunisation nurse will refer to national clinical guidelines to determine what vaccines are recommended at what age, what needs to be on a catch-up program and what is considered a valid medical reason not to be fully immunised.
The 'No Jab, No Play' law applies to all early childhood education and care services in Victoria that provide:
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Most Powerful Avatar Benders
The Top Ten Most Powerful Avatar Benders
Because he can bend all elements
This kids a legend.
Aang is a god
If he wasn't the avatar he would have died but he's lucky
Could have taken down the fire lord himself if he tried. Best character and most powerful by far!
Because he was next in line to defeat ozai if aang failed
Noble, peaceful, yet skilled
Ok, picture this... Avatar Iroh...
He should be number 2
How is he number 5
She was brave enough to stand up to katara who is a true water bending master and she could escape two master earth benders and she is not toph she is the melon lord
Anyone remember when, as an old woman she basically soloed an army? Granny Toph is a lot like Yoda, and not just because she's a mentor figure living in exile in a swamp. By the time we see her there, she is reactively creating earth wave to carry her out of the way of oncoming attacks, and she's doing so with little apparent effort (no gestures or nothing). I always got the feeling that as much as she was capable of, we never got to see her whole bag of tricks.
Toph would hand Zuko's ass to him on a silver platter
Toph got to kick two avatars' butts. This is a thing that not many people can say. AND she has THE BEST relatives. (Except Lao, I haven't forgiven him yet). Back to the bending thing... She INVENTED Metalbending! Not many people can say that they INVENTED a whole new style of bending. And also *Spoilers for the rift ahead! * she literally held up the weight of the world, like, twice. First, with the library, and then, at the Earthen Fire Refinery, she held up the entire world, while waiting for her students. Also, she trained Lin. That is good.
She was the only one who could bend blue fire and could wield lightning like no other. She was simply a fire-bending prodigy.
She could bend lightning better than anyone else
She die or not?
Her blue fire and lightning wielding made her a true threat to be reckoned with. not to mention her exceptional agility and cold calculated strikes make her at least the 2nd most powerful firebender in history behind her father. Iron is not more powerful than she is, and the only leverage he would have in a fight with her is redirection and even that is still giving him very little of an edge. She is capable of wielding lightning more efficiently than him.
By far the strongest outside the avatars in avatar state. Overall blood bending (without needing the full moon or even night) is overpower and not only could he control bodies but also take away bending powers.
Only blood benders superior to Amon and the Avatar state can resist Amon. He loses because he still fundamentally loathes bending and would not go all out with his power.
King bump is a BEAST. In season 1 he was hardly even trying and he pretty much beat Aang. During the solar eclipse, he was trapped in his cell, escaped AND reclaimed the whole city of On a shy BY HIMSELF. This guy should be at least in the top 5.
He is a BEAST
Above amon for sure. this dude could bend with his eye brows.
Let's not forget that she defeated Azula. I know Azula was mentally unstable, but so was Katara, since Zuko was about to die. Also, Azula had Sozin's Comet, which made her way more powerful.
And remember the fight in Ba Sing Se? Katara was definitely overpowering her - smill
I think she's so underrated. She's very powerful, she can bend in Northern, Southern and Swamp Water tribe styles. Also she learnt bloodbending just watching it once and if she wanted she could improve her bloodbending skills, but she just hates it. She maybe weak physically, but with her bending she's so powerful
Self taught in season one and was still doing well
Duh she can almost beat toph
He matched Azula for raw power by the end of Book 3 and went toe-to-toe with her sane self in "The Southern Raiders". Then, in the comics, he became the first human ever to bend dragon fire. A massive tornado of it, I might add. And even before he learned from the dragons, he consistently went toe-to-toe with Aang ("Bato of the Water Tribe") and Katara ("Siege of the North Part 1", "The Crossroads of Destiny"), and was strong enough to redirect Ozai's lightning in "Day of Black Sun", which is something Aang initially struggled with in the finale. Overall, while he's not on Aang or Iroh or Toph's level, he's definitely on par with Azula and Katara in terms of raw power.
Because he learnt the secret to firebending from the masters
He's so hot lol
She closed 8 portals in a day
I just put her on too see what will happen
The Contenders
He's very strong! He killed a queen!
She's a better villain then any one I have ever seen! She's so amazing!
She's a metal bending master that utilizes neutral Jing like nobodies business.
She is a badass bitch. Imagine her and Azula having a fight! You're welcome. I live kuvira she is my favourite character in lok
Bloodbending is just too powerful
If you are gonna add Korra characters in this list. The blood benders from the series easily beat all other characters as blood bending vs other elements is like Dumbledore vs muggle. Look at "Full Yakone Flash Back" at youtube to see how powerful he is.
One of my votes due to his ability to bloodbend withough the full moon
Waterbending master and unlike Zhao who hasn't even mastered firebending since he focuses on its destructive side, Pakku could hold his own against Katara and FIREBENDERS WITH THE POWER OF SOZINS' COMET
Uhh.. duh...! HIS FIRE DESTROYS EVERYTHING!
She's a very powerful fire bender. She had the ability to chi block an opponent, now that's insane!
Took down a lot of gaurds and tried to g up aganinst azula, so points for bravery


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From 1789 until 1913 U.S. Senators were not elected by popular vote. They were appointed by their respective state legislatures. So, when Abraham Lincoln ran for the U.S. Senate in 1858, he had to get the people of Illinois to vote for legislators who would in turn vote for him. Lincoln's Republicans received a majority of the people's votes, but the Democrats retained enough seats in the legislature to send their own candidate, Stephen Douglas, to the U.S. Senate.
The Senate campaign of 1858 had begun with Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, followed by the seven Lincoln-Douglas Debates. On November 19, 1858 Lincoln wrote to an old friend that, even though he had not won the legislature's favor and would not be going to Washington, he was still glad to have made the effort. "It gave me a hearing on the great and durable question of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone."
But Lincoln was not forgotten. Exactly five years to the day, on a great Civil War battlefield, he once again had the opportunity to display his modesty. On that occasion he said: "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here," but Lincoln's words from November 19, 1863 have been much noted and long remembered and are carved into the south wall of the memorial that bears Lincoln's name.


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The families of two young boys who were viciously attacked by two brothers gasped and sobbed yesterday as mobile phone footage of part of the horrific attack was played in court.
The 20-second video, taken by one the brothers, who were aged 10 and 11 at the time, showed his sibling taunting and hitting one of his victims as he lay on the ground, covered in blood.
Family members of the two victims, who were then aged nine and 11, broke down in tears and there were audible gasps from the public gallery as the film was played to Sheffield Crown Court in England.
In contrast, the two brothers, who sat at the back of the court, flanked by care workers, showed no emotion.
The brothers, now aged 11 and 12, admitted a number of charges in connection with the attack in Edlington, South Yorkshire, in April last year.
Shocking details of the brothers' crimes were read to the court by prosecution barrister Nicholas Campbell. The court heard how the brothers repeatedly threatened to kill the two young boys throughout the 90-minute ordeal in which they were strangled, burnt, punched, stamped on and hit with sticks.
At one point, a piece of ceramic sink was dropped on to the older boy's head and a lit cigarette was extinguished in a deep wound inflicted on the younger boy's arm.
The brothers ran broken glass across the throats of the two victims, forced them to eat nettles and dirt and threw and dropped bricks and stones on them. The boys were forced to strip naked and were gagged with their own socks before being made to carry out sex acts upon each other.
During the attack, the older brother stole a mobile phone from the younger boy and used it to film his sibling attacking the older boy.
Mr Campbell told the court that the footage was "upsetting to view" before it was played.
The film shows the older victim lying on his back on the ground, with his face covered in blood and his arms crossed over his chest to protect himself as the younger brother "taunts and jabs him" with an object.
Mr Campbell said the assault on the victims, who are uncle and nephew, was "both physically painful and emotionally traumatic -- it was frightening".
The attack, on April 4 last year, began after the brothers lured the two boys from a recreation ground with the false promise of showing them a dead fox.
They then took the boys to a series of more isolated areas and subjected them to the attack, which Conservative leader David Cameron yesterday said had "profoundly shocked the whole country".
The attack ended when the brothers went to meet their father. The brothers were later arrested after the younger boy was found wandering, covered in blood, and the older boy was later discovered unconscious in the ravine.
Last September the brothers admitted causing their victims grievous bodily harm with intent. They denied a more serious charge of attempted murder but the prosecution accepted their pleas and said there would be no trial.
The hearing was adjourned until today.
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"Hello Mr. Throne , I am Bella Miller. Your newly hired PA ." I sound better than I tend to and extended my hand for handshake , which he rudely ignored.
"Hello Ms. Miller yes you are hired here but not as my PA ...... but well as my SLAVE ." He said smugly leaving me shocked to core as I with wide eyes gaped at him .
"Excuse me?!''.
"Yes lady you heard me. What did you think, that after the stunt you pulled , I would let go of you just like that. No my darling that's where you are wrong. I make them pay who mess with me ."
He said getting up from his posh chair and made his way towards me and stand few steps away.
I cleared my throat and said in low voice swallowing my pride .
" I don't have money." And looked down as my ears turned red.
" Well who asked for money my dear . Do I look like I want your money." He said stepping a step closer in low dark husky voice , making me look at him real quick.
"What do you mean ?" God if he.......No he won't......Would he ?
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Every action has some consequences.
David Throne, CEO of THRONE & CO. He is what you call ruthless, arrogant, womanizer and yes extremely good looks that make women throw themselves on him and men envy and not to forget the DEVIL of business world.
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Mark Roberts - The World's Most Famous Streaker
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Strategic versus Prescriptive Communication – YES Digital Needs Both
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Biz Beware of the Google Plus Bandwagon
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Now That's Just Rude – Disappearing Manners in a Digital World
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"Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed" by David Farber; Cambridge University Press (222 pages, $24.95)
Why should we pause, at this moment in America's drug history, to remember crack? That was my first thought upon picking up David Farber's head rush of a book, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed."
Crack was past its prime a quarter century ago. We're now apparently on the waning side of the opioid/heroin/fentanyl epidemic, the kids are hooked on Juul, and crystal meth is creeping from its rural strongholds into the city and its suburbs.
Farber, though, deals a potent mix of drug history, gangland lore and policy calamity that keeps you coming back for more. While he's unsparing in describing the racism-tinged hysteria with which government responded to crack, he doesn't sermonize, which is refreshing. And you put down "Crack" with a feeling that this exploration of a dark part of our history has given you an improved understanding of today, and maybe tomorrow.
It's well known that Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine, but you rarely hear about cocaine wine, cocaine toothache drops or Ryno's Hay Fever-n-Catarrh Remedy - the last of which was nearly pure blow. Farber, a University of Kansas history professor, makes the case that in the days before drug prohibition, doctors prescribed opium products to whites, while blacks were left to navigate the cocaine-heavy patent medicine market. Over time, cocaine became associated with African Americans, and was woven into an often-deadly mix of tropes and stereotypes.
"White authorities in the south noted, with great unease, black men's enthusiasm for cocaine," writes Mr. Farber. " ... Cocaine, they insisted, unleashed blacks' innate criminality and depraved hyper-sexuality."
By 1922, America's puritanical streak was ascendant, and most everything that gets people high was prohibited. It took 50 years for cocaine to regain its public profile, rebranded as the expensive drug of Eric Clapton, Robin Williams and Richard Pryor. From there, it was only a matter of time until some underground entrepreneur marketed the quicker and cheaper formulation known as crack.
There is no science that tells us why and when certain drugs catch on in specific populations. Farber suggests that black ghettos had, by 1980, been decimated by the flight of the black middle class, leaving concentrations of people who "were already in deep trouble of all kinds before they took their first hit."
From there, it's easy to see why the crack epidemic got so bad: "And then once these troubled people started using crack, most every kind of authority, from the police to social workers to local prosecutors, mostly made their lives worse rather than trying to help them."
There was no rush to develop antidotes or open rehab beds. Instead, as Farber puts it, "the American polity declared open season on economically disadvantaged young men of color."
Exhibit A: the famed federal law that equated a crack dealer with 10 grams of rock to a powder cocaine dealer with an entire kilo. That led to an 11-fold increase in the number of drug offenders in federal prisons, Mr. Farber writes, and the vast majority were black. Many states tried that approach. It failed. "Fiercely punitive laws aimed at crack dealers did not put much of a dent, if any, into the sales of crack, but they did result in the long-term imprisonment of economically disadvantaged black men," Farber writes.
Perhaps as damaging was the government's decision to portray drug users as members of a triumvirate of villains. "Those who use, sell and traffic in drugs must be confronted, and they must suffer consequences," William Bennett, the first national drug czar, said. People who needed help were instead going to be punished. That approach continued to dominate society's reaction to illicit drug use until attitudes started to shift at the height of the (mostly white) opioid epidemic.
Crack policy may be a downer, but the book has its guilty pleasures, especially when it takes us back to the ganglands of the 1980s and the early days of hip-hop. Like Prohibition in the 1920s, the explosive crack market, the inevitable turf wars and the government crackdown created a new breed of anti-hero, which Farber explores through ethnography and art.
While psychedelic rock focused on the user, hip-hop often explored the more complex character of the dealer: a man, typically, channeled by society into an illegal job exploiting his own community - and both richly rewarded and brutally punished for it. "With money to burn, they flexed and strained against the everyday; they willed themselves to live large, knowing that prison or death was around the corner," Farber writes. "As social bandits and murderous thugs, they grabbed their society's center stage."
There are no heroes in Farber's "Crack." There are lasting lessons on how not to handle the next drug epidemic.
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Month: April 2019
Strange Fevers
This is my second participation in an exhibit at Columbia College.
Strange Fevers Exhibit
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1st Floor
April 12 to May 31
Strange Fevers features work in various media that transforms and shapes experience the public both physical or electronically for playful or political purposes. using the existing culture either as impetus or camouflage, including altered signage, pranks or hoaxes, illusions, street art, faux propaganda and more…
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Saw a post by Sara Adams announcing a new instructional video on the O-list, and then the diagrams were published here (publicly accessible) in OrigamiUSA's online magazine "The Fold", and it's holiday time… so I folded a couple. These are from a red/gold-crinkled-foil duo paper I picked up in Japan (no, I don't know where you can get it outside of Japan, sorry!).
Very nice piece, easy to fold and assemble, with just a bit of 3D-ness to make it interesting. There will be a bunch of these going on presents this year, in addition to the Nishikawa Santas!


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Two months ago, I speculated that president Obama would doggedly pursue healthcare reform as an ideology (which, for better or worse, could become his legacy). Last month, I pointed out that the House of Representatives could do an end-run on the whole political process, merely passing the bill that the Senate had already approved.
This is one time when I am sad to say that I was right. It's not that I am against healthcare reform. There is a definite need for it, which I heartily support; unfortunately, my ideas for healthcare reform.
While it remains to be seen if this law will result in substantive, positive improvements, I personally expect that my healthcare costs will go up and the quality of my care will go down. I hope that I am wrong, but fear that I am right.
Aside from a present shortage of doctors, the threats that more will leave the field, and a growing shortage of nurses, the reality is that millions of more patients will soon be added to the system, putting additional strain on already stretched personnel.
Once president Obama signs the bill, it will be a done deal — all except for the threat of lawsuits — so the best thing we can collectively do as a nation is to be supportive of our president and to make the best of the situation.
Let's not fixate on what did and didn't happen — and just move forward. didn't make it into the bill.


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So I have this friend that works in film post-production (you've seen his work). We were having dinner awhile back and, as it always does, the conversation turned to tech. We were discussing the recent trend to 3D films, and he explained that no longer are things necessarily filmed in 3D, but rather 3D-ified. His analogy was that the 2D version is a rubber plane, that can be pushed towards or away from the viewer. This causes some distortion, but is much cheaper.
The thing that also stuck with me was that one of the biggest reasons 3D is far from perfect is PARALLAX. This is the effect where when you move, objects far away move much less than those closer to you (hold up your thumb at arms length, aim at something, then notice how much your thumb appears to move relative to that other thing when you tilt your head). Because our heads are always wobbling, we're using these changes to continually build a 3D map of the scene in front of us, but that can't be replicated in a film because it'd require some sort of per-person eyeball tracking, converted back to the correct depth calculations, and beamed to the right individual.
But anyway, someone recently asked about how they could replicate this effect on the web. There is a jQuery tool that does this: here. But I wanted to understand it, so decided to build my own.
I started with a scenario like the thumb model. I put up a black background with white speck (space), and then a blue ball in the foreground (earth).
body { height:1px; width:1px; display:block; background-image:url('space.png'); background-repeat:repeat; } #earth { position:absolute; top:1px; left:1px; width:50px; height:50px; display:block; background-image:url('earth.png'); background-repeat:no-repeat; }
I wanted to have the body be fairly large, so I grabbed the height and width of the window, doubled it, and set those dimensions to the document body like so (body was my css rule 0):
var w = 2*window.innerWidth; var h = 2*window.innerHeight; document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[0].style.height=h+'px'; document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[0].style.width=w+'px';
And, I wanted to place the earth center screen, so I calculated that point, placed the planet, and then scrolled accordingly:
document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[1].style.top=((h/2)-25)+'px'; document.styleSheets[0].cssRules[1].style.left=((w/2)-25)+'px'; window.scrollTo(((w-window.innerWidth)/2)+25,((h-window.innerHeight)/2)+25);
Then I needed to add some handling in response to some action. I started with onscroll, but using the arrow keys it felt jerky, and the y-axis seemed to jump more per key press, so I went with mousemove, it was much more fluid:
var x,y; var earth=document.getElementById('earth'); earth.factor=2; window.addEventListener('mousemove',pieces);
So now we just need to define the pieces function:
function pieces(e){ paral(earth,e); x=e.clientX; y=e.clientY; }
Well wait, now I'm just calling yet another function? Why I did this will be evident soon, but here's the paral function. It determines how far from the last point (x,y) the mouse has moved, and the moves the pieces according to their 'factor' (and in the opposite direction, because if you lent left, your thumb went to the right):
function paral(t,ev){ if(ev.clientX>x){//moving right t.style.left=(t.offsetLeft-(ev.clientX-x)*t.factor)+'px'; } if(ev.clientX<x){//moving left t.style.left=(t.offsetLeft+(x-ev.clientX)*t.factor)+'px'; } if(ev.clientY>y){//moving down t.style.top=(t.offsetTop-(ev.clientY-y)*t.factor)+'px'; } if(ev.clientY<y){//moving up t.style.top=(t.offsetTop+(y-ev.clientY)*t.factor)+'px'; } }
So this will allow me to just add items to the pieces function as necessary, rather than needing to add line after line for each element, and each direction. And…it worked! But it wasn't quite right. Then I realized my error: When I'd made the background image, I had a variety of star sizes (simulating depth) but they were now all moving relative to something else, and doing so in a way that wasn't natural.
So I then sliced the background into a few different layers (each with ONE size of star), gave each it's own factor property, and then added each layer to the pieces function…and I threw in another planet for kicks. Oh, and one little housekeeping note, because I wanted the mouse to be generally oriented with the planets, I held off on adding the event listener until the mouse was over the earth, like so:
And with that, I give you my version of the parallax effect using javascript (click to play, then move your mouse to the earth):
Can you think of some interesting implementations for this kind of treatment? Do you have any suggestions for improvements?


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Day-Lewis makes Oscar history
Daniel Day-Lewis has become the first person ever to win the Oscar for best actor three times. Adele won the Oscar for best original song for while Argo took the top prize of the night for best picture.
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Austrian film Amour wins best foreign film
The winner for best foreign film is Austrian film Amour written and directed by filmmaker Michael Haneke.
Searching for Sugar Man wins best documentary Oscar
The Oscar winner for best documentary feature is British produced film Searching for Sugar Man, directed by Malik Bendjelloul. With Rodriguez, Stephen Segerman, Dennis Coffey and Mike Theodore.
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Inocente wins best documentary short film Oscar
The winner of the best documentary short film Oscar is Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine for Inocente.
Curfew wins best live action short film Oscar
The winner is the best live action short film Oscar is Shawn Christensen for Curfew.
Dame Shirley Bassey performs 'Goldfinger' at Oscars
To celebrate 50 years of James Bond, Shirley Bassey performs Bond theme 'Goldfinger', at this year's Oscars.
Adele will perform her single Skyfall later tonight.
Halle Berry introduces James Bond tribute
Bond-girl Halle Berry has introduced a special sequence celebrating 50 years since the first 007 film.
Les Miserables wins Oscar award for make up and hair
Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell win the Oscar award for achievement in make-up and hair design for British produced film Les Miserables.
Anna Karenina wins best costume design Oscar
The Oscar award for best costume design goes to British costume designer Jacqueline Durran for Anna Karenina.
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Adele has picked up the Best Original Song Oscar for the James Bond theme Skyfall, which she co-wrote with Paul Epworth.
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Background: Effective treatment is available for patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). Nevertheless the treatment goal seems hard to reach in all patients. We investigated to what extent recommended international treatment goals were achieved for total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, adherence to drug treatment and if achievement of treatment goals was influenced by knowledge.
Design: Cross-sectional design.
Methods: Patients with FH, above 18 years of age, n=74, were asked to participate. Drug treatment, laboratory results, blood pressure and smoking were documented, a questionnaire on adherence and knowledge about FH was sent to the patients. Response rate for the questionnaire was 92 % (n=68).
Results: The treatment goals for LDL cholesterol (< 3.0 mmol/L) and total cholesterol (<5.0 mmol/L) were reached in 23% and 22% of the patients, respectively. Patients with LDL cholesterol < 3.0 mmol/L who were on treatment followed the prescription to a significantly higher degree than patients with LDL cholesterol ≥ 3.0 mmol/L, (p=0.001). For patient knowledge, the mean was 6.8±2.2 out of 11 possible. The patients had knowledge about cholesterol, self-care prevention and the reason for drug treatment. Patients were less informed about the chance of getting FH and family history.
Conclusion: Intensified drug treatment is motivated since 23 % of the patients with FH reached treatment goals. In spite of the absence of relation between LDL cholesterol level and knowledge in the present study, we believe that increased disease lmowledge would facilitate for patients to face the difficulties of the condition.
The aim of this thesis was to describe quality of life 1) in patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), a genetic disorder with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), 2) in family members of patients with FH. Furthermore, the aim was to analyse the extent to which treatment goals were achieved, as well as adherence and disease knowledge in patients with FH. In order to describe quality of life, anxiety, depression and coping, patients with FH (n=185) and their non-affected family members (n=129) without FH completed the following questionnaires: the Quality of Life Index (QLI), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD), the Mastery Scale and a questionnaire on health and lipids. A reference group (n=I485) completed the same questionnaires on quality of life, anxiety, depression and coping. In order to describe quality of life from a deeper perspective and identify its meaning, patients with FH (n=12) were interviewed and data were analysed according to the grounded theory method, using constant comparative analysis. The extent to which treatment goals had been achieved was documented (n=74) and patients completed a questionnaire on adherence and knowledge about FH (n=68). The patients were more satisfied with overall quality of life, family life, socio-economic life and psychological/spiritual life than the reference group, (p<0.05). Of the patients, 86 % felt anxiety about contracting CHD. Family members, particularly partners, were more satisfied with family life and psychological/spiritual life than the reference group, (p<0.05). Anxiety about the affected family member contracting CHD was expressed among 91% of the family members. The meaning of quality of life was harmony in life. Cognizance of the threat of CHD, impending mortality, satisfaction and togetherness were balanced to reach harmony in life. The treatment goals for low-density lipoprotein (LDL) (<3.0 mmol/L) and total cholesterol(<5.0 mmol/L) were reached in 23 % and 22 % of the patients, respectively. Adherence to medical treatment was significantly higher in patients who had reached the treatment goal for LDL cholesterol (< 3.0 mmol/L) than those on treatment with a LDL cholesterol ≥ 3.0 mmol/L, (p < 0.05). Out of 11 possible correct answers, there was a mean of 6.8±2.2 correct answers on knowledge about FH. Patients' knowledge was best with regard to what cholesterol is, self-care prevention and reason for drug treatment. Sixty-six percent of the patients did not know about the chance of getting FH and 79 % had no knowledge of the family history of FH. Quality of life in patients with FH and their family members was at least as good as in the reference group. In order to decrease the anxiety among patients and their family members, it is important to meet them at their knowledge level, to support understanding of FH, its risk and treatment, thus facilitating living with harmony in life.


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Tweet and delete: avoiding regrettable, instinctive responses on social media and how to manage trolls
By Ned Worledge
Social media's best asset also leads to its ugliest.
Social media allows people from all over the world to engage in open discussion about a variety of topics. The problem being, ANYONE can have their two cents worth, and often people are rather critical in their feedback.
That is a very polite way of putting it, truthfully, some people are just ignorant and rude.
There was, and still is, the old 'armchair expert' who sat back, waived the remote at the television and lectured the politician on how ridiculous their policy was, or abused the sports player, claiming their 90 year old Grandmother could have kicked that goal.
However, thanks to the power of social media, those 'armchair experts' now have direct access to the very people they are criticising and spew their thoughts all over Twitter and/or Facebook.
Sometimes this is in the heat of the moment, but often it is more calculated.
There is an obvious difference between offering informed critical analysis and just flat-out abusing an individual, organisation or group.
How you, your staff, the members of your organisation or members of your group respond to trolls* on social media has a big impact on the perception and reputation of your business, group or organisation.
The natural, and perfectly reasonable reaction, is to quickly shoot them down with the facts, correcting all the miss-truths they've spouted, putting them back in their box.
The problem here is if someone is passionate or fired up enough to start an argument online, the facts and reason are unlikely to stop them. From an outsider's perspective, it just looks like you are picking on a concerned member of the public, especially if you are responding as an organisation, not an individual.
There are ways and means of successfully dealing with critical comments or untrue tweets. A simple method is to acknowledge the concerns of the individual and take the conversation offline, directing them to an appropriate complaint channel such as a customer service email or phone number.
Our experience is the person you give the email or phone number to rarely ever emails or calls.
One of the most desirable outcomes for any organisation is for staunch followers of your organisation or group going into bat for you.
A perfect example of this is the public response a client of Font's received after announcing the discovery of listeria in a small number of products.
Because of the organisations' openness and transparency, the comments were overwhelmingly supportive.
Even when there was a comment made, accusing the organisation of only making the announcement because legally, they had to, loyal customers defended the actions of the organisation, without them having to lift a finger.
One of the most vital pieces of equipment for any individual who uses social media professionally is a social media policy.
Social media policies not only outline what the moderators of your social media site should do if trolls strike, but also define general rules around content and content removal, misuse of social media, personal use and responsibilities in monitoring your pages.
If the situation arises whereby your organisation or group has to, or chooses to post something that may cause controversy or upset people, it is vital all staff or members know the appropriate way to react and engage with trolls. A social media policy is the answer to this situation.
*A social media troll, by definition, is someone who creates conflict on sites like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit by posting messages that are particularly controversial or inflammatory with the sole intent of provoking an emotional (read: angry) response from other users. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andre-bourque/answering-a-social-troll_b_6625654.html)


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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Starting Monday, the commute through downtown could be much different for some RTA bus riders. Superior Avenue will be open to bus traffic for the first time since Public Square renovations were completed last year.
Superior Avenue has been closed since March 2015, when Public Square began undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation.
But when the improved square reopened last summer before the Republican National Convention, the part of Superior Avenue that goes through it remained closed.
"It's a good idea to open it up, cut down on a lot of congestion with the buses all going one direction," said one man walking through the Square.
That's exactly what RTA plans to do Monday morning, when the closed stretch will reopen to buses only.
Friday morning, crews were setting up barricades in an effort to keep pedestrians from crossing the street into the path of the new bus traffic. Another crosswalk was also added.
Many RTA riders are thrilled about the change.
"I'm actually happy about it because I don't like all the turns the buses make. It's not safe down there to cross because there are so many buses going all the way around all the time; it's just not safe," said one downtown worker.
In the past, Mayor Frank Jackson has opposed reopening Superior Avenue, citing public safety and security concerns, but RTA faced a $12-million fine.
Twelve years ago, the Federal Transit Administration gave the agency a $142-million grant for the Euclid Corridor project, contingent on Superior remaining open.
Some people believe the buses will ruin the pedestrian-friendly aspect of the Square.
"I don't see any reason why the buses can't go around the Square; just going through the Square is going to ruin it for all...all the kid during winter and during the summer where they can use the water park or the skating rink," said one downtown worker.
Only four bus lines will actually make stops in Public Square: the number 3, the 26, the 38 and the 81.
All others will go through the area without stopping.
"When they need to close it, they can close it to do what they want to do, then reopen it, like for a special event," said a bus rider.
Fox 8 reached out to city officials for comment, but no one returned our calls on Friday.
RTA says in the future, there could be more changes in the works for Public Square, depending on how things operate for now.


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A #WorldCon76 Call To Action – #DiversityIs4Me
If I don't speak truth I can't seek truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Eye of Huron
So much about the world these days leaves me feeling impotent. It seems like terrible things happen in a fire and windstorm that no amount of compassion can put out. For me, it can feel like a physical ache. It hurts in my heart and I feel it in my shortened, rage-filled breath. And yet, I often feel like this anger mounts and mounts and would burst in any other vessel. A firework locked in a safe, no place to let the pressure out.
When all of the #WorldCon76 controversy started and then came to a head, I felt so low.
To WorldCon's credit, they've brought on a fantastic programmer in Mary Robinette Kowal to help fix the programming issues. But, still. Things like this shouldn't happen.
But the truth is, not doing something is going to do the same thing that safe might do to a firework–pull out all the oxygen so the fire dies. That's unacceptable.
The only thing to do is fight. And I need your help.
I can't actually slap people (something, something pacifism), and I don't know how effective writing my congressperson will be at effecting broader social change.
If there's one thing I can trust to get a change started, it's the internet.
(after all, if the internet can make rickrolling someone and the tide pod challenge a thing, we can also use those powers for good.)
What I need from you.
I'm still planning some outings for WorldCon and for those of you who show up, please make the effort to find me so I can feature you and your favorite underrated author on Instagram, but …
I want everyone to be able to work together for positive, community-wide change.
So, email me.
I'll be posting video clips and text snippets from you. Email me some text or a video clip of you (30 seconds-1 minute) about your favorite authors. Include the authors you love who are persons of color, neuro-atypical, queer or who have a disability.
I want you and I to shout their names to the internet. Together.
Feel free to do your own posts using #diversityis4me
Message me on twitter or reach out to me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Keep an eye out for tweets, youtube videos, and instagram posts all about this topic over the next few weeks.
Let's fight.
A Big Fucking Hugo Sigh
Well, I know it makes me naive and ignores a lot of fandom's history, but damn if I don't want it to be a haven. Science fiction and fantasy espouses some of what is best in humanity, and so I always hope that the people who love it will continue to espouse acceptance, love, and hope as well.
And so I made the best of the puppies.
And I forgave people who were internet jerks.
And people just keep giving me more and more strife.
Probably you've heard by now that there's another dumpster fire in science fiction fandom. I wish this were less surprising.
TL;DR – Nothing that has come to light is great. I'm going to work to make it better. Here's a plan, albeit limited by time, space and assistance.
I turned off my phone to sleep, and I woke up to news that the WorldCon 76 team had:
- Changed a person's gender neutral pronoun bio to using the wrong pronouns
- Not put new Hugo finalists, largely persons of color and younger authors onto panels
- Sent dress codes to some individuals but not others "asking" that they dress professionally
Because, hey, it's 2018 and why not?
I get it.
Conference running is really tough. Like on a scale of 1-10, probably an 8 or 9. I know; I've helped host thousands of people for academic events. Even in a place where you're not coordinating dozens of panels and participants on top of booths, celebrities, vendors, and guests, you're doing a lot of work.
But that doesn't excuse shitty behavior
So, let's talk about this.
Shitty thing #1 – Screwing with bios and using personal pictures on programming
Well, this is easily one of the things that makes me the most mad. Program creators requested bios and photos from authors and other hugo-nominees and panel participants. +1 for having people explain themselves. Except they didn't.
Bios were edited, including switching someone's gender pronouns.
People's professional pictures were skipped and personal facebook pictures (listed on private accounts) were used instead.
I cannot even fathom why this was considered ok.
Guess what, if you ask for a bio, as long as it isn't wildly unprofessional or lewd, you should stick with that bio. In particular, you should NEVER change someone's own pronouns. If someone tells you their pronouns, you accept those pronouns and move on. You aren't the arbiter of pronouns and I promise you don't know someone's gender better than that person knows their own.
I would very much appreciate a public apology from @worldcon2018 for rewriting my bio to change my name and my gender.
I have never, ever used "he" pronouns.
After many similar exclusionary actions, this is the last straw, I am honestly not sure I can safely attend. pic.twitter.com/agazsY1rmV
— Bogi Takács PERSON, 100% migráncs (@bogiperson) July 23, 2018
Using someone's personal photos rather than a supplied professional one is a weird and invasive combination of ignoring privacy and not presenting your organization professionally. Just…What?
Shitty Thing #2 – Dress Codes
Rather than going on and on about this. I'll just say, sending dress codes to some but not others isn't ok. Hugo award nominees have enough on their plates, if a sparkly unicorn dress is their preference, it's their damn night. Do what you will. I don't care if someone is a man in a kilt, a woman in a miniskirt, or someone in a gender non-conforming outfit you don't think is "pulling it off." The nature of dress codes, in particular those espousing professionalism are both sexist and classist. I'm not here for that and I'm not here for it not being universally applied.
For a much more intricate look at the relationship between sexism and dress codes, here's a fantastic piece by Everyday Feminism.
And this series of tweets shows a lot more at stake than who wears what type of heels.
Hi. My name is Elsa Sjunneson-Henry. I'm the managing editor of the Hugo Finalist magazine, @FiresideFiction, and last week when we all got angry about dress codes, I also got worried.
Because the email about dress codes ALSO talked about access needs at the ceremony.
— Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Fancy Cyclops (@snarkbat) July 23, 2018
Shitty Thing #3 – Not Including Members On Panels Because They Aren't "Popular" or "Well-Known" Enough
Hugo nominees, in particular many of the younger nominees and those who have diverse backgrounds weren't put on panels. Some of them have been receiving emails saying that they aren't well-known enough to be placed on them.
This is ridiculous on two fronts:
1- Hugo nominees are definitionally well-known. To be nominated, you MUST have a not inconsequential presence and respect within science fiction and fantasy. PLUS, in theory at least, over the last five or so months, people have been reading those works and watching those movies and looking at that fan art. They have been a highlight in the community.
2- There is no way to make our fandom last without incorporating new voices. New voices are important to science fiction and fantasy. Without them, there will be no growth, and, frankly, growth is exactly what SFF needs.
At the very least, I'm glad I'm not living in a world limited to Heinlein and LeGuin. I want innovation and new perspectives, because this genre set needs that to maintain its lifeblood. And I want SFF to be around for a long, long time.
Fine, Bree, But What Are You Doing About It?
Right now, I'm talking to folks about setting up some outtings in San Jose. I understand this isn't the same as at-con participation, but at the very least we can be a community that accepts one another. I'll be working to get us accessible transit and will announce any outing plans soon, both here and on YouTube.
I'm bringing a fuck ton of pronoun stickers. I want to normalize inclusivity. The only way to do that is to make people realize that their world doesn't have the rigid limits they think ought to be there and to call folks out on their incivility. If you show up at WorldCon, hunt me down. You can have a pronoun sticker for your badge.
I'll be wandering with my Instagram stories going on throughout WorldCon. I want to talk to people about their favorite works, especially those that are debuts, new to you authors, #ownvoices, and that feature intersectionality. I'll be posting frequently throughout the week.
Other things. Right now I'm open to suggestions. I want to help build community in places where community should be. Let me know your thoughts about what events or other activities you think should take place. Tweet me, comment, plaster my insta and YouTube with suggestions. Let's make it happen.
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To the Dude Who Cut Me Off in the Comics Shop
I guess you didn't see me here, just three feet away from the shelf, browsing comics with titles C-H. Sup?
I know. You didn't realize I was browsing. Why would I be? You saw me come in with my boyfriend or maybe you didn't. But regardless, I am an anathema here. Or at least to you. A woman doesn't belong a comics and games shop.
Here's some fun trivia for you. I was born into nerddom, a little baby princess ready to inherit. I was playing Magic: the Gathering before I ever considered playing Pokemon, and I knew by age ten that I loved Punk Rock!Storm way more any other version of her. I grew up in a comics shop and can slide boards into bags so fast, I'm a goddamned comics ninja.
But sure, stand in front of me so I can't see the shelves anymore.
I get so sick of people like you.
There are so many people who don't think I get to exist, or who cry "fake" when I talk nerdy. It will never matter how many times I've seen BSG or that I spent my childhood running around gaming conventions. To these, let's face it, men, I'm an invader, taking up space and taking enjoyment from things to which I have no right.
Fuck. That. Noise.
Let's not bother talking about the fact that just standing in front of someone or talking to the man next to them like they're somehow not there is just plain fucking rude. Let's just get to the root of this problem.
You don't think women belong here. And you're wrong. To paraphrase the great Kameron Hurley, women have always geeked. Hell, you wouldn't have science fiction as a genre without the late, great Mary Shelley.
(This is my cat. She is named after Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, Mary W. Shelley)
The part that's always got to me is that you should be so damn excited I'm here. That I'm a real person. After all, relatively attractive young woman who's into the same things you are?! That's supposed to be what you cry on the internet about, isn't it? That no one will love you because you like to recite L5R deep lore a little too much?
Huge eyeroll. Here's the truth.
You don't actually want to be around geeky women. You identify yourself with a class of "rejects" because (1) you have based your identity and self-narrative and the idea that you are a persecuted, sad lonely person, (2) you like to feel like a self-important gatekeeper in a world that doesn't actually use you as a gatekeeper, and (3) you think women are incompetent and tasteless walking vaginas who just flat out can't keep up with the smart man-brain powers that let you play five hour tabletop games based off of scary stories written by a dead racist.
The fact that so much of this male geek rage is based in a sense of self-righteousness and persecution is ungodly frustrating. After all, the easiest thing to be in America is a straight middle class white dude (+1 modifier for educated). And also, you're just being fucking petty. You had a crush or an unrequited whatever and they shot you down, made you feel like you didn't belong. So you're taking the first chance to do that to someone else, because to you, cruelty is how you regain your wounded pride.
The worst part, though, is all the shit you ruin. Just by being a jerk. Like, ya know, video games and Comic-Con and the Hugos.
Fun fact: no one spends hundreds of hours and tons of cash to dress up as a seriously perfect replication of a character just to get on your weasley dick. But instead of recognizing that, let's ostracise all the hot ladies.
Let's deep dive, though.
Why having women (and diversity) in a comics shop is only ever a good thing
Culture. It's kind of awesome. And the more people who contribute, the cooler your culture gets.
Comics and nerddom are known for being insular spaces, but what they really ought to be known for is being *STORYTELLING* spaces. The best comics and movies and games all center around storytelling and world creation. When you add women and other diverse people into your spaces you get a much wider world of stories.
You get to finally hear about the Miles Morales and Moon Girls of the world. And those stories are fucking amazing.
I love Stan Lee as much as the next nerd, but let's be honest there are only so many man stories a person can take before it gets old.
There's also significant evidence that shows workplaces and social areas only benefit from different perspectives and a diverse culture. You think more creatively and work harder. Diversity literally makes you a better person.
Why not every nerdy space is your sacred hidey hole from reality
You don't own Marvel or DC or Star Wars. Even if you did, the nature of stories and creation means that YOU DON'T CONTROL who consumes a work. Once you put something out into the world, the world will spread that as it wills. You don't get to choose who likes something and who doesn't.
If you really want to cloister yourself off into a space where no one else can enjoy something, you should stick to your basement or a password-protected limited access blog or something.
Until then, people get to enjoy whatever it is they want. That's part of freedom (or whatever).
And just because someone does or doesn't like something doesn't give you the right to try to destroy it. Chances are good you can't. The world is resilient and people, generally speaking, don't like bullies. *coughVoxDaycough*
It's cool though. I can't stop you from being a tool.
Plus, my comics collection is bigger than yours.
Star Wars the Last Jedi, Shitty "Fans," and Enough of this Bullshit
By Jacob P. Torres
Buckle up I have some words. To say that I am disgusted by the amount of offensive nonsense going on in America right now is an understatement so massive it has its own gravity. And while this isn't the forum to discuss all the many things that are keeping me up at night, this is the forum to discuss Star Wars. As was pointed out in the excellent article on SyFy by the same title, Star Wars has a White Male Fandom Problem. I'd put off making many comments about The Last Jedi or these basement-dwelling nutters because I've got more significant things to spend my moral outrage on, but ultimately, I was reminded recently that failing to speak out against racism, against misogyny, against intolerance, any time you see it is tacitly supporting that sentiment, especially if you're born into a position of relative privilege that being white and male affords you. So, at the risk of having my twitter feed flooded with a bunch of sexist, racist manbabies butthurt that the movie they "love" no longer reflects the white-washed worldview that dominates their dark and empty skulls, here we go.
Voting, Popularity, and Awards
It's been a long week, made longer by world events.
Needless to say, I turned to my books to keep me company while I've been riding out the storm. Books don't want to talk about the merits of Trump v. Clinton, at least, not in explicit terms.
Yet, a different kind of electoral strife hits the bookternet at the end of the year: awards season.
The past three or four years in particular have had a lot of upheaval in the bookish world. In particular, the Sad Puppies' impact on science fiction fandom has been controversial. But, all of the upset, the fighting over popular opinion versus panel awards, the debates over cannon, and the push for more diversity in publishing have left us wanting more and talking more. To me this has always been the upside of these "culture wars."
That being said, it's easy to be disappointed.
I woke up this morning to a flurry of messages. The Goodreads Choice Award finalists have been announced. After the initial shock of "Wow. This is a lot of stuff I haven't read" and the following "These are not the best in XYZ category," I think it's worth while to revisit the idea of awards and their merit.
The Goodreads Choice Awards get the same general complaint every year: the books are too populist and not representative of the really great works in their genres or categories.
I'm inclined to feel the same way. Because of the open-forum nature of the Goodreads Awards and the ways that the awards nominees are selected, they wind up being much more of a "what was the best airport read of the year?" kind of award.
There's a time and place for this, but it falls into all of the weaknesses of the publishing industry. Underrepresentation; promoting lighter reads over those that make you think; difficulty in getting recognition for works that are truly fantastic, but don't get the same marketing budget.
I don't know that there's a way around this unless Goodreads users really start using the write in.
Bright Point! Kameron Hurley's The Geek Feminist Revolution was a write-in and has made it to the final round!
On the Brightside, there are hundreds of other awards that strive to be inclusive and promote more obscure or substantive works. It's why we have genre awards. So, bummer, but we can all take this for what it is: an algorithm meant to promote increased amazon purchasing.
I'll wait for the Booktubesff Awards instead.
The Ladies Who Could Have Been…
My shelves are filled with ladies. I'm a fan of Leia and Rey; I adore Xena and Gabrielle; Buffy and Charmed are my sick day go-tos. I have feminist SFF coming out of my ears. But I spend a lot of time wondering if it's really THEM that I like. Something about the Strong Female Protagonist is always going to grab me, but sometimes it seems like the Chinese takeout of the speculative fiction world: tasty and fun, but not always satisfying.
What I really want in my female characters has never been strength for strength's sake. I want them to be rivers that run deep even when they look shallow. When I think about my favorite ladies, they tend to fit that mold. It's not hard to see the complexity in Buffy's character as the seasons go along.
I think what may be odder are the female characters I like who aren't in the typical mold. I like many characters set up to be side characters and many of the main SFPs I can't stand. It's an interesting thing I've been thinking about lately. Read the rest of this entry »
I haven't been overly concerned with the Sad Puppies this year. I've talked about this before, but the general level of vehemence and craze among the more moderate puppy group had seemed to die down a lot with the turn of a new Hugos cycle.
A few tweets went up regarding the Puppies list. I more or less ignored it. Lists happen, particularly with awards. It was a few days later that I noticed what was actually happening.
Twitter basically exploded, albeit quietly compared to last time.
The Sad Puppies list this year is considerably different from their past years' lists, including in some cases more recommendations that nominating slots on a ballot. Note that though the original intent claim was to post ten works per category this didn't happen, with more or less believability depending on category. It includes the usual suspects (Jeffro Johnson, the expected over-representation of Baen and Castillia House), but also includes Okorafor, Leckie, and Scalzi. If the Scalzi thing doesn't raise your eyebrows, you haven't been paying attention.
In truth, the Sad Puppies list includes some authors really worthy of awards and beloved genre-wide.
Unsurprisingly, authors have been requesting removal and posting objections to association with the Puppy Slate, including Alastair Reynolds, Cat Valente, and Peter Newman.
Should the authors have been asked if they would like to be included?
This is an interesting question. Normally, I would say no.
But, the Sad Puppies aren't just any old blog. Affiliated with the Rabid Puppies, Vox Day, and GamerGate, and the epicenter of last year's fiasco, I think they should have.
The Puppies' lists and base are rooted in controversy. They know that. Last year's slate led to withdrawal of nominees from the Hugo Awards ballot for the first time in decades. The desire to avoid affiliation with the Puppies runs strong and not without reason. While the Sad Puppies calmed their rhetoric a bit, it's clear that the self-positioning as interlopers to SFF being kept out by "SJW" cliques is being maintained.
Frankly, a good faith effort should have been made to contact every author listed on the SP recommendation list, regardless of past affiliation, leanings, or talk. There's too much controversy for that not to be a minimum consideration.
What was the response to those who asked to be removed?
Generally sarcasm and overreaction.
I understand that the admins are frustrated. I understand that there was some genuine effort to back off the rhetoric and open up the Puppies to more varied selection. And, some of the anti-Puppy folks can compete with Vox Day for vitriolic anger. But, you don't become the Puppy ringleader without knowing that people don't like what you're doing or who you're affiliated with.
So, let's not pretend that people requesting to be removed from the list are the "special snowflakes" and "delusional" types that Sarah Hoyt has called them on her blog. Hoyt is one of the Sad Puppy 4 coordinators\admins. She's compared anti-Puppy folks to the Third Reich.
The objectors have been noted with asterisk (leading to some laughter about revenge for the asterisk awards at the previous ceremony)
Frankly, she would have been MUCH better served by putting an editors note that there's a list of people who have been removed, posting the raw data from the forums, and then highlighting those who have been removed on the raw data file.
Let's have a quick caveat
I do think she has made a good, significantly more insightful point that people are giving her credit for. It's hard to get past the anger and resentment in her post-reaction blog to see it, but she makes it clear: who's really keeping women and minorities out of SFF? Publishers.
It's true. If everyone who spent the energy to tweet Sarah, Vox, or the other vehement sector of the Puppies on Twitter had spent the time to tweet Harper Collins, St. Martin's Press, or Simon and Schuster about the lack of diversity in SFF, we may eventually see a more substantive change in the genre.
By and large, the puppy ship is sinking. Maybe it's time to focus on the people who control the genre more directly.
Post-Script Note: I'm not discussing the Rabid Puppy slate today. Mostly because it lacks a sense of taste and appropriateness.
Additional Note: The original post pointed to Nnedi Okorafor for having tweeted about the list. I was in error. My sincerest apologies.


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