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The Los Angeles River is on the verge of a new era. In the few years since the flood control channel was reclassified as a “navigable waterway,” the region has re-embraced its oddball amalgam of concrete and nature, which winds roughly 51 miles from the San Fernando Valley out to the ocean in Long Beach.
A $1-billion-plus plan to restore 11 miles north of Downtown LA is (slowly) working its way through federal approvals.
Famed architect Frank Gehry is working with Los Angeles County officials and numerous nonprofits and stakeholder groups to create a comprehensive plan for the whole river. The river was one of the selling points in the city’s winning bid for the 2028 Olympics. Developers are still clamoring to build along the river’s banks.
The last time the LA River was reborn it was the late 1930s, and it had been drowning the young city periodically since its birth. At some points, the river was just a trickle; in other parts, it was uncontrollably wild, and flooded frequently and devastatingly.
After a terrible flood in March 1938, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began work to lower the riverbed, widen the channel, and choke the whole thing in “a continuous trapezoidal concrete channel to carry the river from Elysian Park to Long Beach,” as described in The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth.
Gehry thinks the LA River can be great again with its concrete still intact; the Army Corps aims to remove at least some of it.
In 2013, just as the LA River’s moment was beginning, we looked at 25 photos from the LA Public Library’s collection showing just how unrecognizable it was before it was paved. Peter Bennett, who runs the Los Angeles River Photos blog, found where nine of those photos were taken, and, using his iPad to match up with the originals, took the same shots of the river as it is in the 21st century. In an email, Bennett writes:
The idea was to get as close to the original spot the older photos were taken, and try to match up the lens and framing with the original… There was a sense of time travel as I viewed the landscape as it is today and... as it was back in the ’30s. The visual contrast was quite striking, and the changes apparent in the 75 years or so since the photos were taken was at times quite dramatic.
Below, the two versions are matched together, along with Bennett’s notes, so you can take the trip yourself.
“The first photo I took was from the Glendale Hyperion Bridge. It was probably one of the easiest to match up as the lamppost is still there, and I felt like I was standing on the exact spot where the photographer of the original photograph stood when they took it back in 1937.”
“The shot south of Compton Boulevard had no real landmarks, so I took it just south of the Compton Avenue Bridge. In the 1926 photo, you can see the river veer off to the right a bit, but I cannot say if that was a result of the flooding heading inland or if it was taken farther Downstream, where the river does veer to the right. In either case, you get a good idea of the contrast.”
“The most difficult photo to match up was the one from Elysian Park toward Cypress/Glassell. It took a couple of trips to find the location from where this photo was taken, but I finally spotted a blocked off fire road and walked down it a ways and found the view between some old eucalyptus trees...
I could not get to the exact spot, because it was simply too steep now, but the contrast between the 1898 rural farmland setting and the urban landscape it is now is quite stunning. The small country road in the foreground has been replaced by the multilaned 5 Freeway, and the crops just behind them are now a schoolyard in the densely packed Elysian Valley (Frogtown) community.”
“The photos of the Downtown bridges are interesting as you can really contrast the original unpaved river with the paved version that we are familiar with today. The photo [previously] labeled looking north from the Seventh Street Viaduct was actually taken from the Olympic Boulevard Viaduct, and while you can see the Seventh Street Viaduct in the distance. Today that view is blocked by the 10 Freeway."
“The photo of the dry section of Studio City was taken from Lankershim Boulevard, and you can see the edge of Universal Studios on the right.”
“The Dayton Avenue bridge hardly exists in its original form. It has become a mishmash of bridges that have been added to over the years. But if you look closely at the recent photo, in the upper left corner, you can still see some of the balustrades of the original railing of the bridge that still remain. The Riverside-Figueroa Bridge, which is what it is currently called, is being replaced again by a new bridge, and it is unclear whether anything from the original bridges will remain after the construction.” [Update: The Riverside-Figueroa bridge’s replacement opened in January 2017.]
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Today is the two-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, a movement born from outrage over bank bailouts, as well as a belief that the nation's richest had gotten richer following the Great Recession while everyone else got hammered.
Coincidentally, the Census Bureau is out Tuesday with its annual report on income and poverty in America, and the findings lend some credence to that argument.
After declining markedly every year since the financial crisis, median household income in the U.S. remained flat compared to last year at $51,017. (Technically median household income declined slightly, but by a statistically insignificant amount.)
On the surface, that's a positive sign that the economy is finally starting to turn around.
Yet for those at the top, in the 95th percentile, household income has already begun to go up, according to the Census Bureau. Though income in the 95th percentile is still down from its peak in the mid-2000s, the uptick is striking when you consider that income for average households is only just beginning to bottom out.
Further, median household income is still down 8.3 percent from its pre-recession level in 2007. For those in the 95th percentile, household income is down just 2.5 percent. And as the Washington Post's Neil Irwin notes, median household income is actually a hair lower than it was in 1989, in inflation-adjusted terms, when the average household earned $51,681.
"Growth is not fast enough," Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said before the report's release. "And the very definition of what it means to be middle class is being undercut by trends in our economy that must be addressed."
The divergence is more pronounced at the apex of the income ladder. The top one percent saw their income spike 31.4 percent between 2009 and 2012, according to a research paper released earlier this month by University of California economist Emmanuel Saez. With income for everyone else remaining relatively flat, that means the top one percent raked in 95 percent of the nation's total growth in wealth since the economic recovery began.
In a speech Monday, President Obama acknowledged there has been a rise in income inequality during the economic recovery, saying, "The trends that have taken hold over the past few decades of a winner-take-all economy, where a few do better and better, while everybody else just treads water or loses ground, those trends have been made worse by the recession."
But the chances that a gridlocked Congress will actually do anything about it are close to zero. Indeed, analysts are more concerned that the legislature will end up shooting the economy in the foot.
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About
With most of my time spent remaking the game i loved to play when i was younger and at school, i have really noticed my passion for game designing and this project has taken me just over 3 years to make and i have hit a point where i can take it no further.
which for me is very sad but i am only just a designer, i have made contact with coders who would love to help with this project and get it finished aswel as music artist to make custom soundtracks for the game but sadly that funding so with this so to speak wall in front of me i have come here to kickstarter the last line of defence for my game to finally get finished, i just hope that some of you have played the original thing thing arena and would love to see a remake.
To all those who pledge i thank you from the bottom of my heart and promise to not let you down in bringing back a classic flashplayer game with a new and wonderful twist,
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I absolutely love strawberries and cook with them frequently. I’ve tried to grow them several times in our gardens but there is just something about our property that strawberries do not like. I console myself by going strawberry picking at a local strawberry patch every year and then freeze batches of them so I have them available to me year round. When I came across a recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble in The Beekman 1802 Heirloom Cookbook, I knew I wanted to try it. My only problem was that our rhubarb plant hadn’t come up yet! I really wanted to try this crumble recipe so I decided to substitute some blueberries I had frozen over the summer instead.
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Strawberry Rhubarb Crumble recipe
Filling
2 pounds strawberries, halved or quartered if large (5 cups)
1 pound rhubarb, cut in 1-inch lengths (or 1 pound blueberries)
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
Streusel Topping
1 cup old fashioned rolled oats
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup packed light brown sugar
10 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into bits
Preheat the oven to 425F.
For the filling: In a large bowl, combine the strawberries, rhubarb/blueberries, and vinegar and toss to combine. Add the granulated sugar, flour, and salt and toss again. Transfer the mixture to a 9 inch square baking dish.
For the Streusel topping: In a medium bowl, combine the oats, flour, and brown sugar. With your fingers, cut in the butter until the mixture forms large clumbs. Scatter topping over the fruit.
Place the baking dish on a rimmed baking sheet to catch any drips and bake for 35 to 40 minutes or until the filling is bubbling and the topping is crisp.
Serve plain, with ice cream or with whipped cream.
This is absolutely delicious. This crumble recipe is quick and easy to make and can be made with either fresh or frozen fruit. This is a great way to use up berries that might be getting a little bit too soft to eat fresh. I grew up eating crumbles and crisps and this crumble recipe really brings back memories.
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Another movie from the daily sketches series - another animal, this time a lot smaller :D On the movie I will show you how to draw such birdie from the very beginning to the end, maybe my techniques will become useful to you in your own creations. Also I'd like to encourage you to upload your drawings to YourWorks gallery (you can do that after logging in)! Lately few new drawings showed up and it makes me very happy :D Such small bird is a great exercise so watch the movie and try it out yourself!
Of course if you have any questions, I am waiting for comments, I'd be happy to give additional explanations.
..:: DOWNLOAD VIDEO-TUTORIAL ::..
The one for download is in much better quality, bigger resolution and without speed up, so you can see clearly what I am doing in each step. Just download it, watch and try to draw the bird yourself!
At first I just try to grasp the base shape, only after I can see it, I add new layer and sketch all the details. I am not trying to be very precise while drawing, sketch is a bit messy and lines are pretty chaotic but what counts is that all the elements are on correct places (like eye, beak and so on). Then on separate layers I paint base colors with hard brush. I just divide the whole drawing into few layers, trying to simplify it. Opacity of my sketch is lowered, because it was too disturbing. And I paint background with soft brush. Low opacity for the brush makes blending colors easier.
For each layer on which I've painted some base color with a hard brush, I add new layer and turn it into a clipping mask (you can do that by right-clicking chosen layer and picking this option from the menu). I also copy the sketch and turn it into a clipping mask too, so that I can use those lines while painting the bird. Parts of the sketch will become part of the painting. I color my birdie with a brush you already know from the previous tutorial, you can download it from HERE. You can see that sometimes I use very small brush and scribble something on bird's head, and sometimes I use bigger one, with smaller opacity and cover larger areas. With small elements (like beak) I mix colors with smudge tool.
Sometimes I use smudge tool on my base layer, to get rid of hard borderline or add small feathers on the edge. You can see those on bird's head and belly. Slowly more and more feathers are being added and sketch is finally rubbed into the painting. Bird is rather colorful - to make areas of one color not look artificial, I add small details of that color elsewhere. For example - I used some orange tones from bird's belly and painted small lines on the side or head, where you don't see orange at all. I do the same on the tail, where I used blue from the background to add light.
Painting the branch also starts with creation of new clipping mask for color. Those are very convenient since they let me forget about the edges and shapes, I can paint freely without worrying that I will paint over something or will have to erase edges once again. At first I just want to show cylindrical shape of the branch so I add dark color on the upper and bottom part. I also add some light green, so that my branch is not completely black and white. Last thing in this part is adding missing detail on the tail.
I start working on his legs - first color them in a dark color, so I can see them more clearly and then adjust the shape with smudge tool. Only after that I start adding some simple detail with lighter color, to make them less flat. I am not trying too hard for those, they are not a significant element of the drawing anyway. But it is crucial to remember about the shadow on the branch. Only because of that shadow our bird actually looks like it is standing on the branch and it's not just pasted on top of it. Then I add some simple bark detail, small dots and wrinkles.
I fix (with smudge tool again) edges on the base layer for the branch, so they are not that sharp and stiff. Then I color that thin branch on the edge of the picture. I use lots of blue tones this time, since I plan to blur it out and it should blend into the background nicely. Gaussian blur filter helps me out in this task - I use in on the base layer and on the clipping mask too. I make that last branch in the upper-right corner in the same way.
And that's it, drawing is finished. Download the movie if you haven't yet!
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TUESDAY AM UPDATE, WRITETHRU with actuals: Disney/Pixar’s Coco has struck a chord in China — and is expected to keep strumming along as play continues. The movie from directors Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina has quickly become the top-grossing Pixar title ever in the market with guitar hero Miguel and his trusty dog Dante tuning up $75.6M after 10 days there ($80M through Monday, based on local estimates). The sophomore Middle Kingdom session came in 148% above last weekend’s opening, pointing to the fantastic buzz and relatable themes.
Coco led overall overseas play for the weekend, followed by Justice League which came in at a higher than estimated $36.8M, and helped to push Warner Bros across the $3B mark at the international box office. Murder On The Orient Express (also better, at $23.7M), Daddy’s Home 2 ($15.6M) and animated Japanese title Fireworks, Should We See It From The Side Or The Bottom? ($10.7M in China) round out the frame’s Top 5.
The full international box office weekend on Coco was $69.6M in 33 markets for an offshore cume of $172.3M and a global tally of $281M. There are still such majors to come as Australia, Italy, Brazil, Korea, the UK and Japan.
Pixar has traditionally been soft in the Middle Kingdom, but local auds are extra sweet on Coco. The movie had the 2nd best sophomore weekend ever for an animated film in the market, behind only Zootopia — and that title multiplied like rabbits with an ultimate $235M there last year (after it was granted an extended run). This past week, Coco saw increases throughout with a No.1 weekend that far outdistanced the market’s other players (including Justice League which is moving close to $100M at Chinese turnstiles).
Marvel Coco, which saw another No. 1 performance domestically this session, earlier this week helped Disney across the $5B global box office mark for 2017. So did Thor: Ragnarok which has now nailed $817.5M worldwide. The hammer-wielder grabbed another $6.6M this frame to lift the international cume to $526.1M, passing X-Men: Days Of Future Past’s $514M.
Warner Bros. In other superhero news, Warner Bros/DC’s Justice League dropped 48.5% from last weekend to lasso $36.8M in the 3rd outing for an overseas cume of $371.8M. The global total to date is $569.2M. In highlights for the group, the China cume of $98.6M (RMB 654M) has now surpassed the lifetime totals of both Wonder Woman and Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice to become the highest-grossing DC film ever in the PROC.
Elsewhere, Fox’s mystery train, Murder On The Orient Express, has crossed $150M internationally, with strong openings in Italy, Korea, Indonesia and Brazil. STX’s A Bad Moms Christmas decked the halls by passing $100M global, as did Lionsgate/Participant’s Wonder. And, Paddington 2 is thisclose to $50M overseas.
As we wait for Star Wars: The Last Jedi to storm the world beginning December 13, next weekend will see expansions and holdovers while China gets a roster of new pics including Paddington 2, Only The Brave, Loving Vincent and 47 Meters Down.
In the meantime, breakdowns and actuals on the titles above and others have been updated below.
NEW
DARKEST HOUR
Focus Features Gary Oldman’s star turn in Working Title’s Darkest Hour has been heating awards talk since the film debuted during the fall festival circuit. Universal is just beginning offshore release of the drama from Joe Wright with China kicking things off. The weekend was $2.1M in the Middle Kingdom for 5th place in a frame that was dominated by overwhelming support of animated family pic, Coco.
Oldman plays newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the early days of World War II. With the fall of France imminent, Britain faces its darkest hour as the threat of invasion looms and Churchill must maneuver his political rivals while confronting the ultimate choice: negotiate with Hitler and save the British people at a terrible cost or rally the nation and fight on against incredible odds.
International dates roll out through February. The UK and European majors should see solid play on the prestige title — premieres are being held in London and Paris the week of December 11. Upcoming dates include France on January 3, Brazil on January 4, Australia and Germany on January 11 and Spain and the UK Ireland on January 12.
HOLDOVERS/EXPANSIONS
COCO
Disney Leading the international box office this session, Disney/Pixar’s Day of the Dead-themed family pic continues to charm offshore audiences, and with many majors still to come. The movie had already become the No. 1 film ever in Mexico, and this weekend set a Pixar record in China where it is the animation label’s biggest grosser to date. With $75.6M in the Middle Kingdom, Coco is flying in the face of Pixar’s traditional underperformance in the market. Themes of love, leaving and the world of the dead are really striking a chord locally.
In total, Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina’s Coco plucked up another $69.6M in 33 material markets this weekend, lifting the international cume to $172.3M and the worldwide songbook to $281M.
This weekend saw Coco open in France, Germany and Spain. In the former, the colorful pic stirred up $5.2M ($6.4M including previews), landing it at No. 1 and more than doubling the openings of both Wreck-It Ralph and Big Hero 6. Spain was also a No. 1 start with $2.8M, ahead of the debuts of Moana and Big Hero 6. Germany too grabbed No. 1 with $2M to top Moana and Wreck-It Ralph.
Elsewhere in Europe, Coco had an especially impressive opening in Belgium, posting $900K, ahead of all three comps above and with a Saturday that topped Frozen.
In holds, the China performance truly is impressive. After a $17.8M start and lots of social sentiment last frame, this week saw each weekday increase before the sophomore session’s $44.2M. That’s 148% above the opening frame and ranks as the 2nd highest second weekend ever for an animated release in China behind only Zootopia. Recall that Zootopia was a massive hit last year with $235M in Middle Kingdom coin. Coco is already the highest grossing Pixar release ever in China and third highest Pixar/Disney release after only Zootopia and Big Hero 6. Fun fact: The second weekend $44.2M China gross, if ranked against animated opening weekends, would stand at No. 3 all-time, behind only opening frames of Despicable Me 3 and Kung Fu Panda 3.
Elsewhere, Coco held terrifically with increases in a further five markets: Indonesia (+49%), Malaysia (+30%), Portugal (+18%), Taiwan (+15%) and Vietnam (+9%). The Top 5 plays so far are China, Mexico ($55.6M), France ($6.4M), Russia ($5.8M) and Spain ($2.8M).
JUSTICE LEAGUE
Warner Bros. With a 48.5% drop in its third weekend, Warner Bros/DC’s Justice League added $36.8M on 20,375 screens in 66 markets. That billows Superman’s cape to $371.8M overseas and $569.2M worldwide.
There’s a new milestone for the league of superheroes in China where a running cume of RMB 654M ($98.6M) cuffs the best DC score ever, surpassing the total cumes of Wonder Woman and BVS.
Brazil remains the No. 2 offshore market for the Batman and crew. The film is still No. 1 there and saw a small 24% dip to bring the total so far to $31.3M. Mexico is next best with $21.7M to date after ranking No. 2 this weekend. In the UK, the crew has racked up $20.2M, and Korea is now at $12.9M.
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
20th Century Fox Rolling into a handful of new stations this session, Fox’s Kenneth Branagh-helmed mystery unearthed $23.7M in a total 72. That lifts the overseas cume to $153.4M. Italy saw a great start at $3.8M, 12% bigger than comp The Great Gatsby and good for No. 1. Korea, where two local movies are leading, gave MOTOE $3.4M, on par with Gone Girl and including previews. Also new this weekend was Indonesia at $1.8M for No. 1, and Brazil bowed at No. 2 with $1.5M.
In holds, Germany was down 30% for a $9.5M total so far; the UK dipped 39% with a cume of $28.8M; and Australia fell off by just 20% to cume $9.9M so far.
Overall, Orient Express is the top film in seven markets and is outpacing The Great Gatsby by 39% and Gone Girl by 68% in the same bucket of markets and at current exchange rates. Next weekend, the film opens in Belgium, Japan and Taiwan.
DADDY’S HOME 2
Paramount Paramount’s holiday comedy grossed $15.6M this weekend in 49 markets, including 25 new openings. The international cume is now $34M. Playing to the family crowd, the drop was 32% from last session.
Mexico got off to No. 1 with $4.8M at 764 cinemas becoming the 2nd biggest all-time opening weekend for a Hollywood comedy behind Pixels. The result is 108% above Daddy’s Home. The UAE was also a No. 1 debut with $650K at 45 cinemas for 26% over the original Will Ferrell/Mark Wahlberg-starrer.
Argentina roosted at No. 2 in the debut with $408K at 179 locations; the result is 40% above Daddy’s Home which opened during school holidays). Colombia started at No. 3 with $357K at 182 sites. The bow is 26% below Daddy’s Home which likewise opened during school holidays. Israel stepped in at No. 2 with $275K at 27 sites; 17% above Daddy’s Home. Ecuador scored the best opening ever for a comedy with $170K at 40 cinemas.
In holds, the UK added $2.7M in frame 2 on the pic that features Mel Gibson and John Lithgow. The total is currently $10.6M. Other cumes include Australia at $5.3M; Russia with $2.5M; and Brazil’s $1.6M. The next major to go is Germany on December 7.
WONDER
Lionsgate Lionsgate/Participant Media’s sleeper broke the $100M worldwide mark this weekend, thanks to a further $7.8M from 46 markets. The worldwide and international totals stand at $100.2M and $12.2M respectively through Sunday.
Australia started off at No. 1 with $2.3M from 290 locations. The Julia Roberts-starrer also bowed in the UK, with $1.5M from 526 screens, and Spain debuted to $753K from 241.
Brazil is the next major to launch (December 7) with the rest of international rolling out through the holiday season into early next year.
PADDINGTON 2
REX/Shutterstock The little bear with the big heart is closing in on $50M at the international box office after a weekend that added $7.5M in about 30 markets. That lifted the offshore total to $49.9M through Sunday. The UK still leads totals at $36.3M. China and France are on deck this coming session. Both were sizable plays for the Peruvian ursine’s first outing, with $16.8M and $25M, respectively. This is all ahead of the U.S. debut via Warner Bros on January 12.
THOR: RAGNAROK
Disney The son of Odin crossed $800M global as expected this week, lifting to $817.5M. Internationally, Taika Waitit’s take on the Marvel property added $6.6M in 52 markets for an offshore total of $526.1M to date, passing X-Men: Days Of Future Past ($514M).
Holds are good in such plays as the UK (-9%), Israel (-9%), Australia (-13%), Sweden (-28%), Mexico (-29%), Argentina (-30%), the Netherlands (-31%), Japan (-43%) and Germany (-45%).
In the UK, Thor 3 hammered past the £30M mark and will soon surpass the lifetime total of Spider-Man: Homecoming.
China remains the top market at $112.1M, followed by the UK, Korea ($34.9M), Brazil ($29.9M) and Australia ($25.2M).
A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS
STXfilms The STX sequel opened in seven more international markets this weekend and added $3.9M from 2,597 locations. The offshore cume is $38.2M which helps push the comedy across the $100M mark worldwide. The global cume to date is $102.9M.
In the Netherlands and Belgium this weekend, frosty weather kept some folks home as the weekend approached, but on Saturday both markets saw the sequel outperform the original. The former opened Bad Moms Christmas at No. 3 with $546K from 115 sites. That’s 24% ahead of the previous film and outranks comps like Horrible Bosses 2, Neighbors 2 and Office Christmas Party. In Belgium, the Mila Kunis-starrer opened at No. 3 with $206K from 68 locations, 26% behind Bad Moms, but ahead of the other comps. France came in lower than comps with $444K at 197 locations, 44% behind Bad Moms.
The UK leads holds with a tiny 13% drop for a $9.7M cume. Germany, Austria and Switzerland are at $9.6M to date, followed by Australia/NZ with $8.1M after five frames.
Still to come are Italy, Russia, Spain and Latin America this weekend.
JIGSAW
Lionsgate’s eightquel carved out another $2.5M in 65 markets this weekend, for a $60.4M running offshore cume. Brazil launched to $1M on 480 screens, surpassing Saw 4 (+89%), Saw 5 (+85%), and Saw 6 (+156%), based on local currency. The UK remains the lead market at $6.7M after weekend 6. Venezuela ($5.7M), Russia ($5.1M), Germany ($5.1M) and France ($4M) follow.
HAPPY DEATH DAY
Universal The Universal/Blumhouse micro-budget horror pic scared up $2.3M in 39 markets this session for an international total of $53.2M. Argentina got off to a strong start in the search for the co-ed killer with $418K at No. 3. France, where the movie’s titled Happy Birthdead, was the top hold at $601K for a total $3.6M. The global tally lifts to $109M. Russia releases this week.
MISC UPDATED CUMES/NOTABLES
STX Entertainment The Snowman (UNI): $1.6M intl weekend (19 markets); $34.9M international cume
The Foreigner (STX): $1.2M intl weekend (3 new markets); $103.5M intl cume
The Mountain Between Us (FOX): $1.46M intl weekend (26 markets); $27.5M intl cume
Girls Trip (UNI): $676K intl weekend (5 markets); $23M intl cume
Marrowbone (UNI): $245K intl weekend (Spain only); $7.7M Spanish cume
NEW LOCAL TITLES
Universal Perfectos Desconocidos, a Spanish comedy that Universal is distributing in Spain, opened Friday and placed No. 2 for the weekend with $2.2M. This is the second-best opening of the year for a local film and should see solid holds and extended run through the holiday period. Critics and audiences are responding well to the Álex de la Iglesia-helmed pic that stars Belen Rueda. It’s a remake of Paolo Genovese’s Italian hit Perfetti Sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers) which released last year and scored the Best Film and Screenplay prizes at the David di Donatello awards. The story unfolds at a dinner party during which it’s proposed that everyone leave their cell phone in the center of the table, with text messages, calls and social prompts visible to all and revealing secrets that are perhaps better kept hidden.
Warner Bros Japan released Full Metal Alchemist this weekend with the film grabbing No. 1 at $3.4M on 411 screens. The results are on par with WB’s local hit Rurouni Kenshin. Directed by Fumihiko Sori and based on the manga series, it’s an action story about alchemist brothers Edward and Alphone Elric in search of the legendary Philosopher’s Stone.
New in Korea, mystery thriller Forgotten bowed via Megabox with $3.42M at No. 2 behind holdover The Swindlers. From writer/director Zhang Hang-jun, the film stars Kang Ha-neul and Kim Moo-yeol as brothers Jinseok and Yuseok. When Yuseok is kidnapped on their first day at a new house, Jinseok suffers from hallucinations until Yuseok returns home on the 19th day with a memory loss and exhibiting strange behavior. Finding himself in a hidden murder case inside Yuseok’s twisted memory, Jinseok faces a heartbreaking truth. Netflix recently acquired the pic for global rollout in 2018.
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The economic pessimists are winning the argument in the U.S. Treasury bond market.
Yields on Treasury issues have fallen across the board Monday to their lowest levels in more than a year as some investors continue to seek a haven.
The 10-year T-note yield (charted below), a benchmark for mortgage rates, was at 3.04% at about noon PDT, down from 3.11% on Friday and the lowest since April 2009.
The two-year T-note was at 0.63%. That’s about half the yield investors were demanding as recently as April 5.
Traders say some investors are taking their cue from budget-cutting promises made over the weekend by the world’s wealthiest nations at the G-20 group summit. The biggest countries committed to slashing their budget deficits in half by 2013.
The more the industrialized nations talk about reducing spending, the greater the risk that the global economy tilts back toward recession and deflation. At least, that’s how new bond buyers see it, said Tom Di Galoma, head of U.S. rates trading at Guggenheim Partners in New York.
“This is carryover from the ‘double-dip,’ deflation outlook” that fueled heavy buying of Treasuries last week, Di Galoma said. The 10-year T-note yield was 3.24% a week ago.
Economist Paul Krugman has been leading the pack of analysts warning about the risk of sinking into a new morass if governments and central banks pull back on policies to boost the economy. “We are now, I fear, in the early stages of a third depression,” Krugman wrote in the New York Times over the weekend. The first two U.S. depressions were in the years following 1873 and in the 1930s.
The stock market wasn't buying the bond market’s grim message Monday. After slumping last week, stocks were up modestly with about an hour of trading to go. The Dow Jones industrials were up 42 points to 10,185.
Some of the fresh demand for Treasuries is tied to end-of-quarter book-juggling, as banks and other financial players look to bolster their balance sheets with liquid securities, traders say.
But buyers also must be betting that the raft of economic data this week won’t tell a story of a stronger recovery that could fuel a sudden snap-back in interest rates. A tepid report Monday on May consumer spending helped bolster the econ bears’ case.
On Friday the government will report on June employment trends. The private sector is estimated to have added a net 111,000 jobs this month, up from a dismal 41,000 in May, according to economist estimates tracked by Bloomberg News.
Di Galoma thinks the 10-year T-note yield will soon fall through 3%. Any backup in yields just brings out more buyers, he said.
-- Tom Petruno
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Read reviews all over internet... So I watched some Unboxing vids, and read online reviews, and freaked myself out, AFTER ordering this jacket. Some people online are really NOT fans of this website, or their products. All I can do is speak from MY experiences...
The item shipped fast.
The item arrived fast.
The packaging was perfect. Well sealed, compact without damaging the jacket. Professional looking.
The jacket was exactly how it was advertised. It fits perfect (which for me is the hardest part of shopping online).
I really can't say anything bad about my experience with this company or product. In fact, I'll probably order myself the Star Lord jacket for Christmas. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Look NO further tha right here I could not believe the quality of the product I received. It is expertly made, uses very supple and attractive leather and fits like a glove. READ the measurement chart and make sure you USE it to guaranteed the right fit.
Had a little bit of a time with communications BUT the item arrived within 4 days. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Tis a good buy a great medium to light jacket, good color not exactly like the movie which is good because i dont want to look like im cosplaying in everyday life. The best part about this jacket is not being attacked by a girl with a big metal stick and a droid that shocks you. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Recommended It is the best and most amazing jacket of Finn. Recommended Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
OH MY GOSH. I don't usually review products but I could not resist for this item.
So this jacket just arrived (within a week!!!) in time for the holidays. I purchased it as a gift for my brother. Not only is the material soft, comfortable, and warm, but it seems very durable and high quality. I am usually skeptical about ordering online, but this gamble was worth every penny.
If this jacket fit me, my brother would be getting something else for Christmas. I would have kept it myself!
Overall, wonderful product and it even comes with a garment bag for easy storage and wrapping. Would order it again ten times over. True to size, true to description. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Good jacket. Probably best option for the money Good quality leather jacket. The beige color is a little light but I weathering it it seems a little darker and more movie accurate. I originally got the distressed brown which starts out way too dark, so I figure this is the way to go and glad I did. It fits a little big in the shoulders and a little long in the sleeves and a little shorter in length than the movie. I'm 5'11" ~150 and the medium is good on me. Large would be too big and small would be too small... Also ships super fast, got mine within 6 days I think! I got some greeblies from Barton and bishop on etsy to make it more movie accurate too and now it looks awesome! Not a 5 star bc of the shoulder fit and sleeve length, but overall very satisfied with this jacket! I would recommend! Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
I've got a good feeling about this After looking at the few Finn jackets on here repeatedly I ended up going for this one. Arrived within a week. Fits great, feels good quality and nice soft leather. Detailing is great and even has some loops below the left hand pocket which aren't too obvious. The 3 inner pockets are decent size with one of them just right for an iPhone 6 which is also true of the breast pocket.
Love this jacket and only wish weather was cooler so I could wear it more.
I'm 5'10, 190 lbs and 43" chest and the Large is just right. If anything, the sleeves could do with being 1 to 2" shorter but that is not big problem. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Great quality, excellent customer service Mistakenly ordered this jacket instead of the Distressed brown jacket which includes a zipper. I'm currently exchanging it for that one, but I must say that I was still impressed with the quality of the jacket. I did try it on to check if my sizing was accurate, I ordred a large and it was a bit snug on me so I made sure to go with the XL on my exchange. I'm 5'9" and about 220 pounds.
The customer service team here is outstanding, highly responsive and does a great job of letting me know what is going on during the exchange process. I'll definitely be recommending this company to others! Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Good opinion from France Sorry for my english, I'm a french buyer. I have to say that I was very surprised of the quality of this Jacket, that is really really good, for only 169 $ and that is real leather. I found no defaults.
I received it 6 days after I ordered it. That is the exact model of the film. I choosed the Finn Beige Leather Jacket, because it looks "fresh" and not so "tired" that another model of jacket, (Poe Dameron Finn Brown Waxed Jacket) so I can wear it frequently.
Just one thing about the measure, I usually wear XL clothes in France, my chest measure is 109 cm, so I choosed the L model, and I have to say it is not too small. Perhaps a little little bit large, but, only if I wear a small t-shirt under. If I change and choose the M model, the arms will be too shorts.
If I wear a shirt under, it's perfect.
So you made me very happy. Thank you. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
It's calling to you...just let it in. Out of all the many Star Wars replicas I own, this is without a doubt the one of the highest caliber. Not only is it well-crafted, but it is also light, comfortable, and has the spot-on character quality that you need to be a part of the Star Wars universe. It is great to wear around the house or for Halloween. You can even become "that guy" that wears a Star Wars jacket in public with this one (it is that cool!). Now all I need is a starfighter, and I'd be set for life. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Great quality, quick delivery The jacket is near identical to the actual thing, high quality materials and feels sturdy. Delivery was great, went with the cheapest delivery option and it arrived to me in the uk in 5 days. The jacket fits well in the chest and is a good length, only problem I have is it is very tight on the upper arms around the armpit/deltoid area Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
OH.MY.GOD. Seriously, you have no idea how happy you made me. I got this jacket for my fiancee as a wedding gift to him and I swear, it is beyond gorgeous! It is worth every penny and the leather is seriously soft as described. Although the colour is slightly lighter than in the photos but it is still very gorgeous. Now, it would be so great if you could tel me how to maintain this jacket because I am all the way in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia with scorching tropical weather. It is very humid here and it can go up to 38 degrees on a normal day. What is the best way to care for this jacket? I would hate it if anything were to happen to it. Alright then, thanks so much guys for an amazing jacket and superb service. Be sure to hear from me again soon. I would surely come back for more ;) Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Great quality and excellent service. The jacket is of really great quality and is very comfortable to wear.
The delivery has been lightning fast and the support team has been of great help regarding sizing and so on.
Highly recommended you will not regret it. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Can't complain except that it's tailored a little wide I'm going to first say the quality is very impressive and is a soft leather, looks fantastic just like the movie. Wish the back upper shoulder area had the vertical stitching like the authentic and the back of the collar with the horizontal stitching (Maybe they'll add it in the future ;) but aside from that this jacket comes as close as it could. You could be nit picky and ask for the loose straps on the bottom left of the front of the jacket but there are straps there, just not loose. So once again this is a raving review its quite a beautiful jacket.
Here is my one legitimate complaint, I am 5'9" very active with a muscular build I weigh 175. I always wear a medium in my clothing and was skeptical if for a jacket I should be ordering a large or medium but decided to go medium seeing it's to be a fitted jacket instead of like a winter one. I should probably have gone with a small, the arms fit me pretty snug but the armpits down to the bottom of the jacket were made rather large, boxy could be the best description. Obviously I can't expect a tailored look because they don't know if it's someone fit or wide so it's tough to complain but I thought a medium would fit slimmer. Shoulders were a little wide too like a suit jacket instead of rounded and relaxed to the body. Maybe I just need to break it in some, I'm writing this as of the day that it arrived. Shipping took about 3 weeks from order day, but rest assured people I am from Pennsylvania and live in the States. This is not a fake site and you will receive your product with a smile on your face.
My only advice is that if you think ehh maybe I should get a small then you probably should, idk what the small fits like but I sure wish I could have tried them on before purchasing because I may have gone with it. I doubt I can exchange
Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Vary wary but super happy with purchase I was very wary of ordering a jacket, hoping the jacket would look and fit as advertised and not to get ripped off. My concerns were for naught, as the jacket arrived fitting well and looking just like the product pictures. This is a tremendous jacket, and shipping was prompt. I think I had the jacket within 2 weeks of ordering and discussing the fit with customer service. I will order again and I recommend the company. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
A very pleasant surprise I was very skeptical when I first ordered this jacket but I'm a HUGE fan of Star Wars and I had to take a chance. Well that chance paid off. This jacket is amazing. It really is real leather, it fits like a glove. I don't know what else to say. The shipping took a little longer than I anticipated, but I placed my order around Christmas. When I did contact their customer support they responded very quickly and assured me it would ship as soon as it was done being processed. If you're reading this review, don't buy this jacket from ANYWHERE else. This is the best choice. This jacket is amazing and I couldn't be happier with my purchase. I'll definitely buy from these guys again. Keep up the good work! Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Best Reproduction Out There I ordered this jacket while they were switching from the brown and bright red shoulders, to the weathered beige with darkened red shoulders. They gave me an option of choosing, to make sure I received the item I wanted.
Seeing that the beige was closer to the movie, I ordered that one. There are a few differences between this and the real on but the main color and details of the jacket are accurate, and looks much better than any other out there.
I am 6'2" and 200 lbs, and the Large fits just the tiniest bit larger than optimal, but is light and comfortable.
Can't wait for the weather to warm up and give this jacket a real weathered look. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Quality Product! I ordered this for my son for a surprise for his 22nd birthday. He is a huge Star Wars fan and had shown it to me before. When he opened his gift and saw it he was in shock! It is so well made and fits perfectly and didn't think I had gotten it for him. This jacket is gorgeous and the customer service is amazing! It arrived quicker than expected. I highly recommend this company and jacket for any Star Wars fan. Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
I love this jacket so much To any customer that is thinking about purchasing this jacket i am a verified happy customer.I have ordered multiple jackets from this company before this one and have never had a problem with shipping except this last time but that shipping mishap actually ended up working to my benefit to where i ended up extremely happen with the product in the long run. If you order this jacket, It will take a week maybe less to actually reach your doorstep once you get the confirmation email that your order was shipped. My particular experience they use Fedex and the package comes in a very professional package.
The quality of the jacket is very professionally well done. I was expecting a little bit heavier cowhide leather almost like camel leather which is what finn wore in the movie but its really fine light real leather. My jacket is a distressed brown color, not the antique beige color. I got that particular jacket because i wanted zippers and the jacket to function, and it works out perfectly. I don't understand why there aren't zippers in the movie jackets (apparently in a galaxy far far away a long time ago zippers didn't exist lol). Overall, everything i particularly requested was worked on and my jacket turned out perfect. I am really glad i took the extra time for the perfect jacket design because Fjackets really delivered a quality product.
I will order more jackets from them they are the best website in my opinion to order your film replica jackets from. Even if they don't have the jacket design you want from your favorite movie, they remain in constant communication within a day of your email. Which is another aspect about this company i love and what keeps me coming back.
Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
5 star for sure Great jacket... Good customer service 5 star for sure...:) Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
Hope He Likes It and Hope It Works The jacket looks really good but I won’t buy it for myself. I’m going to gift it to my bro, whose room is filled up with SW collectibles. I showed him the jacket and he liked it but he didn’t have the money to buy it so he felt down. Being the awesome sibling, I plan to buy it for him. I had full confidence that this will definitely work. I’m thankful that you guys made the delivery process quicker so that it arrived on time and I can gift it to him. You guys are the best! Yes, I recommend this product. Verified Purchase. I recommend this product.
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America may be one of the richest countries in the world, but its people are less healthy and more likely to die early from disease or accidents than those in any other affluent country, a damning official US report has found.
Even the best-off Americans – those who have health insurance, a college education, a high income and healthy behaviour – are sicker than their peers in comparable countries, says the report by the US National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine.
"We were struck by the gravity of these findings," said Steven H Woolf, professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and chair of the panel that wrote the report. "Americans are dying and suffering at rates that we know are unnecessary because people in other high-income countries are living longer lives and enjoying better health. What really concerns our panel is why, for decades, we have been slipping behind." The report, US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, was commissioned by the National Institutes of Health. It compares the US with 16 affluent democracies, including Australia, Canada and Japan and many in Europe including Britain. There have been similar findings from the Commonwealth Fund over some years, but they have compared the US with only a handful of nations.
The new report looked in detail at data from the late 1990s to 2008. "Over this time period, we uncovered a strikingly consistent and pervasive pattern of higher mortality and inferior health in the United States, beginning at birth," it said.
For many years, Americans have had a shorter life expectancy than people in almost all the comparator countries and for the past three decades the gap has been widening, particularly for women.
The US does badly in nine specific areas. It has the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country and also does poorly on other birth outcomes, such as low weight babies.
Deaths from injuries and homicides are far higher than elsewhere and a leading cause of death in children, adolescents and young adults. US adolescents have had the highest rate of pregnancies of affluent countries since the 1990s and are more likely to acquire sexually transmitted infections. The US has the second highest HIV rate and the highest incidence of Aids among the 17 countries.
Even taking out drunk driving, Americans lose more years of life to alcohol and other drugs than people in other affluent countries. The US has the highest obesity rate and, from age 20, one of the highest levels of type 2 diabetes. The death rate from heart disease is the second highest in the 17 countries. There is more lung disease and more deaths from it than in Europe and older people report more arthritis and other limitations on their activity than in Europe or Japan.
The US is, however, good at looking after the health of the most elderly. People who reach 75 are more likely to live longer, have lower death rates from stroke and cancer, better-controlled blood pressure and cholesterol levels and lower rates of smoking than elsewhere.
But death and disease take a huge toll on the younger American population, even though the US spends more on healthcare per capita than almost any other country in the world. Poverty, inequality, racial and ethnic differences and lack of health insurance are part of the story but not all. Even non-Hispanic white people with money and insurance who are not smokers or obese do less well than those in other countries.
Unless action is taken, the report says, the health of Americans will probably continue to fall behind. "The tragedy is not that the United States is losing a contest with other countries but that Americans are dying and suffering from illness and injury at rates that are demonstrably unnecessary. Superior health outcomes in other nations show that Americans also can enjoy better health," says the report.
The US public is unaware of the issues, says the report. "I don't think most parents know, on average, infants, children, and adolescents in the US die younger and have greater rates of illness and injury than youth in other countries," said Woolf.
The report says the situation will not improve unless Americans wake up to the truth about their health and a public debate begins.
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As the film Philomena heads into awards season, draped with nominations for Oscars and Baftas, you might think nuns are having a bad PR moment. But then over at Team Convent, Call the Midwife is the star of BBC TV's Sunday nights with a much more sympathetic crew. Both these are fictionalised versions of real stories, and they are just the tip of the iceberg: there are large numbers of nuns in books – surely higher than their incidence in the real-life population – with nearly all the descriptions coming from women authors, though there are a few good men below. (Strangely, I made the same point about flat-sharing in books – is it something to do with women and single-sex groups?).
Muriel Spark liked her nuns – one of the main characters in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ends up as Sister Helena, and there is a Marxist Church of England convent in Symposium: in one splendid scene the haloes on the figures in a mural are revealed as the fur hats of Lenin and friends. The Abbess of Crewe is wholly set in a convent, but is well known to be a satire on the Watergate scandal.
And that demonstrates a key feature of convents, fictional or otherwise – they are not actually mysterious hotbeds of unknowable religious transcendence or wickedness. They are communities like any other, with secrets, dramas and troublesome elections. And so, ideal as a vehicle for a good story: any closed community is interesting (see also: country house party, boarding school), there is an opportunity to have good strong female characters without their being framed by their relationships with men, and there is always the underlying question: "Why did these women become nuns?"
Roman Catholic women of a certain age will remember being obsessed as teenagers with Kathryn Hulme's The Nun's Story, book and film – "Is God calling me to be Audrey Hepburn?" It's still a good strong read, and even more fascinating when you know the story behind it. It is a novel, but based on the life of the author's long-term companion, a former nun.
One aspect of nuns in books is that the names are confusing and you get your Sister Mary mixed up with Sister Maria – and apparently the considerable profits from The Nun's Story are languishing unclaimed because no one knows which nuns should have inherited them. More straightforwardly non-fiction are books from Karen Armstrong (Through the Narrow Gate) and Monica Baldwin (I Leap Over the Wall – so much the better name) dealing with the challenges of leaving the convent behind in, respectively, 1981 and 1949.
Of course we all like to read about nuns going off the rails: Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus is an overwrought and enjoyable look at a convent in the Himalayas, and a nun who wants a last chance. There is also the very splendid Lambs of God by the Australian author Marele Day, with its feral nuns including sheep in their community. Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun (overshadowed now by the 1971 notorious-in-its-day Ken Russell film) is non-fiction, full of hysterical and demonic sisters in 17th-century France. The book very much reflects its author's non-believing, child-of-the-enlightenment stance, though it's a rattling good read, and he does his best to be fair.
Other men who have bravely written about nuns include the American novelist Ron Hansen, with his well-imagined Mariette in Ecstasy (1991), paralleling the story of St Therese of Lisieux, and Mark Salzman with Lying Awake (2000) – an extraordinary look at a nun who has visions and writes poetry, but fears both may disappear if she has treatment for epilepsy.
These have all been books with the nuns as the direct focus, but there is also a subgenre looking at them through the eyes of girls attending convent schools. In Edna O'Brien's Country Girl (1960), Cait and Baba deliberately get themselves expelled, amid some fairly unsympathetic nuns. Antonia White wrote what amounted to a misery memoir in Frost in May (1933), a lightly fictionalised version of her own experiences.
(But then it turns out her memories weren't reliable – Samantha Ellis writes rivetingly about this in her new book on literary heroines.) Much more enjoyable is Land of Spices (1941) by the under-rated Kate O'Brien – the title comes from a George Herbert poem and shouldn't be taken to imply anything exotic or cosmopolitan in the content (it means prayer) but, the relationship between Reverend Mother and a child at the convent school is engrossing. And adults get pulled in too: Iris Murdoch's The Bell (1958) is set in a religious community attached to a convent, but the nuns' role is mostly symbolic.
There are astonishing numbers of detective stories with nuns as sleuths or key characters: Antonia Fraser's 1977 Quiet as a Nun (convent, boarding school and the estimable Jemima Shore – triple threat) stands out, and the US author Jane Haddam's crime books often feature religious settings to great effect.
Once you start looking at nuns in history from a modern perspective, there comes a whole new topic – was it actually fun being a nun? Of course there must have been an unknown percentage of women closed up against their will, but it's rewarding to examine the idea that being a nun wasn't that bad an option in earlier times. In fact, dare we say it, was it the feminist choice? Look what they missed: a nun was free from the horrors and dangers of childbirth and the rigours of unwanted marriage. Often they could pursue an interest in medicine, horticulture, art or music. They didn't have to wear corsets or attract men …
This is what fascinates female authors and readers. Sarah Dunant's marvellous Sacred Hearts – published 2009, set in 1570 in Italy – looks at the idea of different choices for different women. Sylvia Townsend Warner in The Corner That Held Them (published 1948, set in an English convent in 14th-century Norfolk) gives us gossip, politics, particular friendships and details of church music.
Charlotte Brontë – daughter of the parsonage – is deeply suspicious of Roman Catholicism in general, and the figure of the nun in Villette is quite troublesome. But as s/he isn't a real nun – well, perhaps we won't examine the psychology of that too closely. She was certainly reflecting back to Gothic fiction and supernatural, creepy religious figures, rather than looking at career opportunities, and she and her heroine Lucy Snowe take a good Protestant line against Papist nonsense.
But Brontë is the exception: most authors understand more and condemn less.
Which other writers created convents worth reading about, and which books make the life sound attractive? Please offer up your thoughts …
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders attacked Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton over her record on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, during Thursday’s debate.
Sanders attacked Clinton’s previous promotion of natural gas saying, “[w]hen you were Secretary of State, you also worked hard to expand fracking to countries all over the world.”
Clinton admitted Sanders was correct, but stated during the CNN debate, “I don’t think I’ve changed my view.”
Clinton specifically claimed that “for both economic and environmental and strategic reasons, it was American policy to try to help countries get out from under the constant use of coal, building coal plants all the time, also to get out from under, especially if they were in Europe, the pressure from Russia, which has been incredibly intense. So we did say natural gas is a bridge.”
Clinton promoted fracking for natural gas in other countries during her tenure as secretary of state, saying in 2010, “[t]he United States will promote the use of shale gas.” The Department of State helped advise African and other world leaders on the benefits of fracking during her tenure, connecting them with American energy experts and organized visits to drilling sites in America.
The State Department hosted several conferences on fracking in other countries while Clinton was secretary of state and sent U.S. experts to help foreign officials develop fracking programs. State’s fracking program continued under Secretary of State John Kerry, known as the Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program.
Much of the fracking proposed by the Department of State would have been done on public lands in other countries, but Clinton now supports phasing out fracking on public lands in America. Clinton claimed in the debate that by the time the Enviromental Protection Agency finishes regulating fracking, there will be much less of it in America.
The Hillary Clinton campaign immediately hung up when contacted in December by The Daily Caller News Foundation about the presidential candidate’s record on fracking.
Environmentalists have accused Clinton of “soft climate denial” for her fracking history and her criticism of Sanders’ environmental record.
Friends of the Earth Action, which has endorsed Sanders, claimed Clinton lied about the Vermont senator’s environmental record during an interview earlier this month.
Friends of the Earth claims to have “over 2 million members and supporters around the world,” but is poorly funded compared to more established environmental groups. Larger environmental groups, such as the League of Conservation Voters, have endorsed Clinton.
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Both of them knew the conversation needed to happen. It had been simmering to the surface for quite some time, but it was only now, in June, at the Tour de Suisse that Shayne Bannan broached it.
"Come back in the car with me," offered Bannan. And so he did.
There's something about car rides that prys the heart and mind open. The unsaid, drips, then pours out, helped perhaps, by sparing eye-contact, and the gentle hum of the engine.
They were frank. Bannan, mainly. There was no sugar-coating it, the partnership hadn't been anywhere near as successful as either had hoped.
After 10 minutes, all was said and done. Catharsis.
Goss was out.
The decision was mutual, as Goss tells it anyway. Still it's not something he would have anticipated, nor desired even 12 months before. Both had wanted things to work. They hadn't.
In September, he finished his last race with the team, the Tour of Alberta, or rather didn't. A DNF is marked to his name for the final stage. An appropriately invisible close to Goss's time in Orica colours.
In three years with the team he'd clocked just two wins, and for the first time since he'd turn pro, in 2014, he hadn't won once.
Where exactly did it all go wrong for Matt Goss? What exactly happened to the world-beater that joined the team in 2012?
At a time of accelerating development, strength, speed and confidence, the Australian, stagnated, then went backwards.
For Matt Goss, these were the lost years.
***
Internally at least, frustrations with Goss's non-performance at GreenEDGE had been building for some time. One must remember that the Australian, was, at least in 2012, by far the team's best paid rider, on a deal close to double that of any of his team-mates. And yet the return on investment from the now 27 year old, in retrospect, is among the poorest of the crop.
At the time of Goss's signing, in 2011, his deal was vindicated. Here was a rider bubbling to his prime, and ready, or so it appeared to hit his stride in a new, ambitious team, unrestrained by the presence of other sprinters. He'd won Milan-San Remo, he'd very nearly won a world championship, in Copenhagen. The world was his oyster.
But things never clicked.
There's a confluence of factors that together unravelled Goss, the first, was the assumption that he could, or would be able to factor against the world's best sprinters in an incredibly tight, and highly competitive top-tier of fast men.
In reflection, Matt White conceded last week that one of the big lessons with Goss was how dramatically the trend of finely-tuned lead out trains built specifically around a single key sprinter had altered the speed game. Cavendish and Greipel, the emergence of Marcel Kittel, and the fact that Peter Sagan was a better climber, and arguably faster finisher left Goss little opportunity to succeed.
"We learnt that the hard way with Gossy," said White. "It's a very, very hard market to crack. Unless you can beat the Kittels, Greipels, or Cavs, of this world, you're pretty much wasting your time."
At least in Goss's first year with Orica, the number of near misses would suggest that even with a team focused on delivering the Australian to the line, racking up the wins the team had hoped was going to be hard graft, harder still in the evolving sprint environment without a train that rivalled Argos, Lotto, or, more recently, Omega Pharma-Quick Step. Goss did win, once, at the Giro d'Italia, a landmark of sorts for the team as its first Grand Tour win, but the number of seconds, thirds and fourths, built in droves as further wins alluded him.
As Goss sees it, contending with building a new squad around him, and vying for wins against the world's best was always going to have its challenges. At least initially he'd underestimated how long they would take to iron out.
"I had a great season in 2011, but I had it in a team which had been around in one form or another for a long time, and had a well-drilled sprint train, a really disciplined setup," Goss said. "They knew how to do everything. In 2012, we didn't. I was building a leadout train from scratch, in doing sprints I'd never really done before - I'd never really done the big bunch sprints at the Grand Tours, I'd always worked for Cav. It was a new experience, really getting the leadout to work properly."
The frustration with the team's teething problems in developing and honing a leadout, in building Goss into the sprinter they wanted him to be, netting the results they wanted, perhaps demanded, conspired to amplify in to pressure which Goss had previously never had to contend with.
Perceived and real pressure
The external pressure was there from the media, for Goss to perform. Questions were asked, doubts raised. Internally, the team remained patient, but Goss was feeling it all the same.
"When it didn't work properly, really dealing with the pressure of the media - and everything - that was a different scenario to what I'd been used to in the past. I knew it was going to be more than usual, being an Australian team, Australian riders, and at the time being a marquee signing. I knew a lot of weight was going to be on my shoulders.
"It was a combination of the pressure and expectation. It then snowballed after we missed out at the 2012 Tour."
Expectation came with the money, both Orica-GreenEDGE insiders and Goss himself acknowledge, but how much pressure that actually materialised on the Australian is contentious. Orica was finding wins across the board, its first year seeing Michael Albasini, Luke Durbridge, Daryl Impey, Aidis Kruopis, Simon Clarke and Simon Gerrans all winning at twice or more. With Gerrans's victory at San Remo, the Tour Down Under, and the National Championships, the weight was off the team's collective shoulders, 26 wins in total in its debut season, nothing to snort at.
Despite Goss being signed as the team's talismanic leader, the reality was that through such a spread pool of winners, Goss wasn't being relied on to perform. The internal pressure was less. Still it didn't make the results sheet any prettier. Goss wanted things to change. A better start to 2013 saw Goss end his pre-season and survive the hit out at Nationals, and then the Santos Tour Down Under in good shape, but winless. Success appeared to be in the offing. A win in Tirreno-Adriatico, channelling some of his old mongrel, just before Milan-San Remo was a breakthrough, and then he got sick. The unseasonably cold weather and high training load saw him repeatedly down with illness, something he failed to recover from the rest of the year.
"I tried to do more and more training to catch up in 2013 to be better but it meant I was sick a lot, I did three course of antibiotics during the Giro that year just trying to push through, and basically burning myself out in the process. At the end of the day I was the one that was paid to put the runs on the board, though. I should've known how far I could've pushed myself."
All the while, Simon Gerrans was lifting the team's profile into the stratosphere. Yellow, and a stage at the Tour de France, the "gift" to Daryl Impey, all overshadowed Goss. The signing of Michael Matthews, from Rabobank, and his immediate success gave the team a viable sprint alternative. Toward the end of 2013, Goss pulled the pin, and went back-to-basics.
A fresh start
The focus on Gerrans only increased this year. The team's golden boy delivered the team one of its biggest victories, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, while Matthews continued to quietly blossom. A growing tally of Grand Tour stage wins to Matthews name and leader's jersey both at the Vuelta and the Giro d'Italia have now eclipsed Goss's past contributions.
As Orica shifts its focus to hillier races, the arrival of more versatile sprinters, and a string of dedicated climbers, the Tasmanian has become an expensive luxury that no longer fits the team's mould. Orica clearly didn't know what to do with the Australian this season, racing him sparingly, only 50 race days compared to 85 the year before, and often making him ride in support of Matthews or Gerrans rather than chase his own ambitions.
A fresh start, by all reports, with MTN-Qhubeka, may foster Goss's resurgence as a force in the professional peloton. But exactly what the Australian needs to shift, or change is not clear. Goss will once more turn to single day races, drifting away from attempts to take swags of wins at the Giro or Tour de France, but presumably the same challenges that have blighted his success in recent years remain.
A point often made in Goss's favour is that he remains remarkably young, still only 27. Indeed, if he can find a new lease of life at his new home there's huge scope to what his career might still offer. But there's plenty to prove. Goss says he's still motivated, but the last three years must weigh on the mind.
"It's a fresh start, 2015, I'll go back to a role that I've had success with in the past (at Highroad)," says Goss. "There's another sprinter on the team who's a dedicated bunch sprinter, which means I can sit back a bit and take my opportunity from day-to-day, when they arrive, those harder stages, and one dayers again like San Remo. I won't have to keep trying something that isn't working.
"I'm looking forward to again picking and choosing my days, that's always worked better for me in the past. I'm looking forward to it."
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Once we enter Open Beta, we will stop selling the current set of
Many people who have supported Path of Exile financially will receive physical goods posted to them (such as t-shirts, posters, copies of the game and soundtrack). We are about to start preparing these and we expect that they will be printed and posted before August.
A few months ago, we stated that we hoped to enter Open Beta in June. Some of the crucial features that we must enter Open Beta with are not yet finished, so we will delay the Open Beta until they are. As mentioned above, we expect that this will be mid-August. While we strongly believe that this estimate is accurate, we will update it over time if work progresses ahead or behind of schedule.
One of the advantages of not having a publisher is that we are able to create our own deadlines without being forced to open up the game to the public in an unfinished state. While I am sure that many of our patient fans are disappointed by this announcement, please rest assured that the game is almost done - lucky testers (and our generous supporters) have been playing the Closed Beta for ten months and can hopefully attest to our high quality standards.
Here's the plan for the last remaining patches before Open Beta. The patches will take approximately three weeks each, and will be available to Alpha testers a week before they are deployed to the Beta realm.
0.9.10: Will be deployed Tuesday, June 5. I've discussed its contents
0.9.11: Among other changes, this patch will enable the new end-game (which we have been hinting at for a while) and the Act Two final boss. It will include the ability to swap between weapon sets.
0.9.12: This patch will fix most of the issues with Minions. It will also introduce PvP arenas and the ability to challenge other players to duel. We expect to improve the Brutus fight in this patch as well.
0.9.13: A secure trade screen and substantial update to server stability and capacity is scheduled for this patch.
0.10.0: The official Open Beta release, which we expect will be deployed a week or so after 0.9.13. It will have Act Three enabled, voice acting for most of the NPCs and characters, as well as a range of cosmetic micro-transactions to purchase.
There are hundreds of minor bug fixes and small features such as additional skill gems and monsters scheduled during the above timeline as well, but they are too small to individually list here.
While the Closed Beta has expanded in features and some content in the last year, most of our artists have been working on Act Three. We expect that Path of Exile will enter Open Beta in mid-August. At that point our final character wipe will occur and the game will be permanently available for everyone to play.Once we enter Open Beta, we will stop selling the current set of Supporter Packs and will instead offer other options for purchasing micro-transaction credit. If you want to buy a Kiwi pet, you will need to do so while Path of Exile is still in Closed Beta.Many people who have supported Path of Exile financially will receive physical goods posted to them (such as t-shirts, posters, copies of the game and soundtrack). We are about to start preparing these and we expect that they will be printed and posted before August.A few months ago, we stated that we hoped to enter Open Beta in June. Some of the crucial features that we must enter Open Beta with are not yet finished, so we will delay the Open Beta until they are. As mentioned above, we expect that this will be mid-August. While we strongly believe that this estimate is accurate, we will update it over time if work progresses ahead or behind of schedule.One of the advantages of not having a publisher is that we are able to create our own deadlines without being forced to open up the game to the public in an unfinished state. While I am sure that many of our patient fans are disappointed by this announcement, please rest assured that the game is almost done - lucky testers (and our generous supporters) have been playing the Closed Beta for ten months and can hopefully attest to our high quality standards.Here's the plan for the last remaining patches before Open Beta. The patches will take approximately three weeks each, and will be available to Alpha testers a week before they are deployed to the Beta realm.: Will be deployed Tuesday, June 5. I've discussed its contents here : Among other changes, this patch will enable the new end-game (which we have been hinting at for a while) and the Act Two final boss. It will include the ability to swap between weapon sets.: This patch will fix most of the issues with Minions. It will also introduce PvP arenas and the ability to challenge other players to duel. We expect to improve the Brutus fight in this patch as well.: A secure trade screen and substantial update to server stability and capacity is scheduled for this patch.: The official Open Beta release, which we expect will be deployed a week or so after 0.9.13. It will have Act Three enabled, voice acting for most of the NPCs and characters, as well as a range of cosmetic micro-transactions to purchase.There are hundreds of minor bug fixes and small features such as additional skill gems and monsters scheduled during the above timeline as well, but they are too small to individually list here.While the Closed Beta has expanded in features and some content in the last year, most of our artists have been working on Act Three. Here's a teaser of some of their recent work. YouTube |
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Photo Ballots were stacked up as a statewide presidential election recount began Thursday, in Milwaukee. Credit Morry Gash/Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. — Supporters of President-elect Donald J. Trump have filed legal challenges in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan in a suddenly robust effort to stop the presidential election recount efforts there.
Bill Schuette, the attorney general of Michigan, said that the recount, initiated by Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate, put Michigan voters at risk of “paying millions and potentially losing their voice in the Electoral College in the process.”
“This court cannot allow a dilatory and frivolous request for a recount by an aggrieved party to silence all Michigan votes for president,” Mr. Schuette, a Republican, said in a court filing.
A lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission filed in Federal District Court by the Great America PAC, the Stop Hillary PAC and Ronald R. Johnson, a Wisconsin resident, argued that the recount could “unjustifiably cast doubt” on Mr. Trump’s victory in that state.
The plaintiffs argued that the recount, which began across the state’s 72 counties on Thursday morning, should be halted immediately, in part because there is a substantial chance that it cannot be accurately completed by the deadline of Dec. 12. In 2011, a statewide recount took close to a month.
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In Michigan on Friday, where the recount is still pending, the Board of State Canvassers met to consider an objection to the recount by Mr. Trump.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump told the canvassing board, which is made up of two Democrats and two Republicans, that it should not allow a recount to proceed, describing it as needless, too expensive and not required by Michigan law. Besides, Ms. Stein came nowhere near winning the state.
“This recount petition is absolutely unprecedented in the history of Michigan election law,” said Gary Gordon, a lawyer for Mr. Trump and his campaign.
A lawyer for Ms. Stein, Mark Brewer, said Mr. Trump’s campaign was making a “desperate attempt” to avoid a recount. “I would remind everybody that the original source of the allegation that this election was rigged was Mr. Trump,” Mr. Brewer told the board.
The Michigan board split, 2-2, along party lines, meaning the recount objection failed.
Lawyers for Mr. Trump and his allies are also seeking to halt legal proceedings by Ms. Stein to contest the statewide election results in Pennsylvania.
Lawrence J. Tabas, general counsel of the Republican Party of Pennsylvania, said in an interview on Friday that Ms. Stein’s lawyers had fallen short of demonstrating that there was fraud or illegal action in the Nov. 8 election. “They know they have no claim,” he said.
“This action by Jill Stein and her supporters — I couldn’t even call it a Hail Mary pass, because that would be insulting to the Hail Mary pass,” said Mr. Tabas, who along with other lawyers, submitted a lengthy brief filed in Pennsylvania court on Thursday.
The recounts bids are widely viewed as having little chance of making a difference. But Ms Stein, in a statement, said the challenges to them were an effort to put “party politics above country.”
“In an election already tainted by suspicion, previously expressed by Donald Trump himself,” she said, “verifying the vote is a common-sense procedure that would put all concerns around voter disenfranchisement to rest. Trump’s desperate attempts to silence voter demands for recounts raise a simple question: why is Donald Trump afraid of these recounts?”
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Ms. Stein has raised millions of dollars for an effort to force recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, states that have recently voted Democratic and where Mr. Trump won by relatively thin margins.
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(AP Photo/David Goldman) Jeff Ploussard waves an American flag during a rally protesting the NRA's annual convention in Atlanta on April 29, 2017.
We are in the midst of what many pundits call the “Trump era,” but in fact most Americans neither like nor agree with President Trump, as Tuesday’s election results strongly suggest. Since June, Trump’s job approval ratings have hovered between 33 percent and 40 percent, according to the Gallup poll. This is lower than any other president’s approval rating at this point in his presidency. Nine months into the “Trump era”, 65 percent of Americans say he has accomplished “not much” or “little or nothing,” according to a Washington Post-ABC News survey.
A national poll conducted in October asked Americans to name the first word that comes to mind when they think of Trump. The most popular words were “strong,” “determined,” and “bold,” followed closely by “arrogant,” “egocentric,” and “narcissist.” The next most popular words were “incompetent” and “unqualified,” with “idiotic,” “ignorant,” and “great” not far behind.
These words—both positive and negative—focus on Trump’s outsized personality, not his policy ideas. But when it comes to key policy areas, polls show that a vast majority of Americans also depart from Trump by leaning left. That lean isn’t generally reflected in Americans’ self-designations, nor is ideological consistency a notable American trait. A new Pew survey found that about one-third of Americans hold both liberal and conservative views, depending on the specific issue. Another Pew report divides Americans into nine categories based on their political and social views, from core conservatives (13 percent) to solid liberals (16 percent). But even those on the extreme right and left ends of the spectrum share some views in common.
Since Trump’s inauguration in January, much attention has focused on how his racist rhetoric toward immigrants and Muslims, disdain for the rule of law, and hostility toward the free press have polluted the nation’s public discourse and given legitimacy to hate groups associated with the “alt-right.”
But the focus on division and bigotry can obscure views that most Americans share, especially when it comes to such matters as economic fairness, protecting the environment, and the drift toward plutocracy. The vast majority of Americans are liberal or progressive when it comes to these matters. Even some Trump supporters, Republicans, and people who call themselves “conservatives” have liberal views on many topics.
Americans are generally upset with widening inequality, the political influence of big business, and declining living standards. Public opinion is generally favorable toward greater government activism to address these and other problems, like climate change and health care.
Most Americans worry that government has been captured by the powerful and wealthy. They want a government that serves the common good. They also want to reform government to make it more responsive and accountable.
The figures cited below come from surveys conducted by Gallup, Pew, and other reputable polling organizations on the key issues facing the nation. These are the most recent national polls on each topic. Most of them are from the past year, although a few go back further. Each poll is hyperlinked so readers can look at the original sources.
The Economy
82 percent of Americans think wealthy people have too much power and influence in Washington.
69 percent think large businesses have too much power and influence in Washington.
59 percent—and 72 percent of likely voters—think Wall Street has too much power and influence in Washington.
78 percent of likely voters support stronger rules and enforcement on the financial industry.
65 percent of Americans think our economic system “unfairly favors powerful interests.”
59 percent of Americans—and 43 percent of Republicans—think corporations make “too much profit.”
Inequality
82 percent of Americans think economic inequality is a “very big” (48 percent) or “moderately big” (34 percent) problem. Even 69 percent of Republicans share this view.
66 percent of Americans think money and wealth should be distributed more evenly.
72 percent of Americans say it is “extremely” or “very” important, and 23 percent say it is “somewhat important,” to reduce poverty.
59 percent of registered voters—and 51 percent of Republicans—favor raising the maximum amount that low-wage workers can make and still be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, from $14,820 to $18,000.
Money in Politics
96 percent of Americans—including 96 percent of Republicans—believe money in politics is to blame for the dysfunction of the U.S. political system.
84 percent of Americans—including 80 percent of Republicans—believe money has too much influence in politics.
78 percent of Americans say we need sweeping new laws to reduce the influence of money in politics.
73 percent of registered voters have an unfavorable opinion of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
Taxes
80 percent of Americans think some corporations don’t pay their fair share of taxes.
78 percent think some wealthy people don’t pay their fair share of taxes.
76 percent believe the wealthiest Americans should pay higher taxes.
60 percent of registered voters believe corporations pay too little in taxes.
87 percent of Americans say it is critical to preserve Social Security, even if it means increasing Social Security taxes paid by wealthy Americans.
67 percent of Americans support lifting the cap to require higher-income workers to pay Social Security taxes on all of their wages.
Minimum Wage
66 percent of Americans favor raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour.
59 percent favor raising the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour.
48 percent support raising the national minimum wage to $15 an hour. (A survey of registered voters found that 54 percent favored a $15 minimum wage.)
63 percent of registered voters think the minimum wage should be adjusted each year by the rate of inflation.
Workers’ Rights
61 percent of Americans—including 42 percent of Republicans—approve of labor unions.
74 percent of registered voters—including 71 percent of Republicans—support requiring employers to offer paid parental and medical leave.
78 percent of likely voters favor establishing a national fund that offers all workers 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave.
Health Care
60 percent of Americans believe “it is the federal government’s responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage.”
60 percent of registered voters favor “expanding Medicare to provide health insurance to every American.”
58 percent of the public favors replacing Obamacare with “a federally funded healthcare program providing insurance for all Americans.”
64 percent of registered voters favor their state accepting the Obamacare plan for expanding Medicaid in their state.
Education
63 percent of registered voters—including 47 percent of Republicans—of Americans favor making four-year public colleges and universities tuition-free.
59 percent of Americans favor free early-childhood education.
Climate Change and the Environment
76 percent of voters are “very concerned” or “somewhat concerned” about climate change.
68 percent of voters think it is possible to protect the environment and protect jobs.
72 percent of voters think it is a “bad idea” to cut funding for scientific research on the environment and climate change.
59 percent of voters say more needs to be done to address climate change.
Gun Safety
84 percent of Americans support requiring background checks for all gun buyers.
77 percent of gun owners support requiring background checks for all gun buyers.
Criminal Justice
57 percent of Americans believe police officers generally treat blacks and other minorities differently than they treat whites.
60 percent of Americans believe the recent killings of black men by police are part of a broader pattern of how police treat black Americans (compared with 39 percent who believe they are isolated incidents).
Immigration
68 percent of Americans—including 48 percent of Republicans—believe the country’s openness to people from around the world “is essential to who we are as a nation.” Just 29 percent say that “if America is too open to people from all over the world, we risk losing our identity as a nation.”
65 percent of Americans—including 42 percent of Republicans—say immigrants strengthen the country “because of their hard work and talents.” Just 26 percent say immigrants are a burden “because they take our jobs, housing and health care.”
64 percent of Americans think an increasing number of people from different races, ethnic groups, and nationalities makes the country a better place to live. Only 5 percent say it makes the United States a worse place to live, and 29 percent say it makes no difference.
76 percent of registered voters—including 69 percent of Republicans—support allowing undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children (Dreamers) to stay in the country. 58 percent think Dreamers should be allowed to stay and become citizens if they meet certain requirements. Another 18 percent think they should be allowed to stay and become legal residents, but not citizens. Only 15 percent think they should be removed or deported from the country.
Abortion and Women’s Health
58 percent of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases.
68 percent of Americans—including 54 percent of Republicans—support the requirement for private health insurance plans to cover the full cost of birth control.
Same-Sex Marriage
62 percent of Americans—including 70 percent of independents and 40 percent of Republicans—support same-sex marriage.
74 percent of millennials (born after 1981) support same-sex marriage.
All this should be good news for Democrats. Although public opinion on these issues varies by geography, many voters in GOP-leaning states and House districts share these liberal and progressive views.
Of course, public opinion on its own doesn’t translate into public policy. It has to be mobilized. For example, a vast majority of Americans—and even a majority of gun owners—support background checks for gun purchasers. But the National Rifle Association, of which only 5 percent of all gun owners are members, is better organized, and more passionate and vocal, than the supporters of background checks.
These survey findings should compel Democrats running for Congress and governor next year, and for president in 2020, to promote a bolder progressive policy agenda. To have credibility with voters, Democratic candidates can’t be close to Wall Street. And candidates must be able to explain how these policy ideas translate into improving voters’ lives. Democratic candidates will need to draw a sharp contrast between their views and their GOP opponents’, linking them with the unpopular Trump.
Few Americans call themselves “progressive,” or think they share similar views with citizens of social democracies like Canada, Denmark, and Germany. But on most major issues, Americans lean left. Although Trump, the corporate plutocracy, and the so-called alt-right may think otherwise, the United States is a more decent and democratic society than we give it credit for.
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The world has gone cuckoo for cold brew and let us tell you, we don’t blame them. First a disclaimer: making cold brew is not push-button simple. It takes a long time (12-24 hours, to be exact) and can be a bit of a mess.
Which is why we try to make it easy on y’all with Stubbies, growlers, and cans, oh my. But if you’re a DIY-er, big batch cold brew at home is as delicious as the summer day is long.
We sell the Filtron Cold Brewer online so we are obviously Filtron fans, but we decided to do a round-up of several options on the market and see how it fares against our home team favorite.
For the round-up, we brewed up our House Blend, a great choice for cold brewing, and brewed each method according to the directions in the box. The next day we did a blind taste test to find our favorites.
We looked for things like ease of brewing and clean-up, functionality of brewer and most importantly, the resulting flavor and profile of the brewed coffee.
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A pictorial look at the career of City's latest recruit
An Italian Under-21 International, Federico joined the Manchester United youth set-up from Lazio in 2007, going on to top the Under-18 scoring charts in his first season at Old Trafford, netting 12 goals in 21 appearances.
A man whose experience defies his tender years, Macheda burst onto the scene as a 17-year-old as he came off the bench against Aston Villa in 2009. 2-1 down at the time, Cristiano Ronaldo grabbed an equaliser for United before the Italian curled home a debut goal in stoppage time to win the match for Sir Alex Ferguson’s title challenging side.
Macheda continued to feature in the United squad that season, scoring his second goal for the club against Sunderland just 46 seconds after taking the field to replace Dimitar Berbatov before being rewarded with his first Barclays Premier League start for United against Middlesbrough that season.
It was a remarkable breakthrough campaign that saw him named the Jimmy Murphy Academy Player of the Year, an award also won by Mats Møller Dæhli, in recognition of his rise to the senior set-up at Old Trafford.
A Champions League debut against CSKA Moscow followed the next season before injury started to hinder his progress in establishing himself as a United first-team regular. He returned to score in a top-of-the-table clash against Chelsea later in that season, with his fourth goal for United coming the following year against Aston Villa.
The following few years saw him look to impress away from Old Trafford as he undertook a series of loan spells away from the club. 2011 saw him return to his native Italy for a spell with Sampdoria before 2012-13 saw him have stints at Queens Park Rangers and VfB Stuttgart.
It was 2013-14 campaign that saw ‘Kiko’ enjoy his most fruitful spell away from his parent club, first scoring three goals in two stints at Championship Doncaster Rovers before aiding Birmingham City’s push for survival with ten goals in 18 appearances for Lee Clark’s side.
WATCH AN EXCLUSIVE FIRST INTERVIEW WITH FEDERICO MACHEDA ON CARDIFF CITY PLAYER NOW. FOR A TEASER, WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO BELOW.
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I believe it takes a lot of strength to have faith, but there is something that takes even more strength.
I was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. At the age of 8 years old I was baptized into the church and confirmed as a member. I wasn’t the most obedient, but for the most part I did what was expected of me. But then, at the age of 15 I began to question the doctrines that I had been taught since before I could even speak. I believed, as the church taught, that if I did what I was supposed to it would all be clear to me. I though that this doubt was coming from the devil. I believed that because I was dating when I shouldn’t have been, I let him into my life and allowed him to leave me astray. This doubt continued off and on for two years. After breaking up with my boyfriend, I was sure that I would gain clarity. I was doing what the Lord wanted me to do, he would bless me with the truth. But this never came. I began to google what I had been taught all my life was “anti-mormon” but when I did so, I was plagued with guilt. I would read for five minutes, exit out and delete my browser history. I continued as if I hadn’t read anything at all. I went to seminary, sacrament meeting, mutual, etc.. At this time in my life, guilt and confusion filled me.
It wasn’t until I left for school that I really started to look into what I had been taught my whole life. I visited mormonthink.com and /r/exmormon. I read the CES Letter. I stopped going to institute and Sunday meetings. I started to realize that what I grew up believing, was a con. The guilt and confusion I’d been feeling for the past 3 years floated away. That left room for anger, sadness, and worry. Initially, I was furious. I was partially angry at myself for being fooled, but mostly at the LDS church for fooling me and millions of others. I was devastated, I wanted so much to hold on to the church and its teachings. I wanted my dream of being married in the temple, because what girl doesn’t want to be married inside of a castle? At first, it scared me to realize that everything I thought I knew about life, was now a mystery to me. But most of all I was, and still am, worried. I know have a huge weight on my shoulders that will not be lifted until I tell my family of my disaffection. There is no doubt in my mind that they will not understand. They will believe that I have left because I want to “be of the world” and that I just want to sin. They will view me as weak for not having the kind of strength that is required to look past the things that led me away. I can’t blame them though… Four years ago I would have thought the same thing.
Yes, I believe that having faith does require a lot of faith… But in my mind, greater strength lies in admitting that you may have been wrong. Greater strength comes from leaving everything you were taught and accepting that maybe you don’t know everything about life. My strength has come from figuring out what I don’t believe, despite the disappointment I will cause my family. It isn’t easy to realize that you will never get to attend your siblings weddings, to know that there will always be a gap between you and your family. Yes, these things are hard to accept, but I wouldn’t go back because for the first time in my life I can actually be myself.
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I’m posting it here because I’ve mentioned it on Google+ for the third time, today. It all started with Zak posting about Evolution. He lists some well known role-playing games and shows that each one of them offers some sort of long-term promise of change for players. His point: every session produces “changes in that session”, but the really successful games promise “a specific kind of change will occur over the long haul.”
I definitely think that the promise of ever changing game play is what makes D&D interesting. The reason this works, I think, is because the spells you gain don’t simply scale. The game changes if you can be invisible and fly. The game changes when you can dimension door and teleport. The game changes when you can travel to the planes. Outside of the specific rules, the tradition also encourages changes to the game when you reach name level and build a stronghold, and it changes once more when you start to forge alliances with and wage wars against neighbors.
I think it’s also one of the reasons that Traveller can be boring. At least it didn’t hold a long-term appeal to me when I ran it. Perhaps I should have imagined the long term changes to the game play (more and bigger ships, get involved in the war) instead of focusing on changes to the setting (in my campaign, small colonies were being resettled or exterminated by the players – at the time I felt this was already a big step up). I feel like I should give Traveller another try soon.
I think Zak’s spot-on when he wonders whether campaigns using relatively simple rules have a hard time maintaining a long term appeal. For example, I claim that the long list of non-general spells with their non-linear progression of power create the long term changes over time. But what will you do in a simpler indie game? What will I do with my Solar System RPG game? Over time, I can add more gifts (feats, stunts, powers), but there’s really no promise that I will keep delivering. Plus, if I do, I’ll have to invent it all myself.
This is the key part: I have to come up with it myself – and I need to foreshadow it, make sure my players know it, want it, work towards it. In D&D, it’s simple. There’s a big Monster Manual full of critters in the book shelf. There is a big Players Guide full of spells right next to it. And there’s a list of magic items hidden away somewhere. You want to fight all this crazy stuff? Sit down at my table! That’s the promise the game makes without me saying anything at all. All the players sitting down at my table knowing the game cannot be faulted for assuming that this is going to be a big part of the game.
The Solar System campaign I’m running and the Barbarians of Lemuria campaigns I’m playing in are awesome. We’ve had a dozen sessions in each of the campaigns. They have enough potential to last us at least half a dozen more. But I think that’s because of the setting, the scope of the current plot, etc. What we don’t have, as Zak puts it, is a system that promising that “a specific kind of change will occur over the long haul.” The onus is on us, the table, to make this promise, to foreshadow it, to work towards it, etc.
In other words, it’s on us to foreshadow mechanical changes (new gifts, feats, schools of magic, spells) and new modes of play (land owning, castle building, plane hopping, politics) within the campaign. The system and the tradition around it doesn’t do that like D&D does.
I like to play all these games. This is not a value judgement per se. But the above observation can help you make value judgements elsewhere.
Here’s an example that I’ve come across twice in recent days: people propose a change to the D&D magic system; they want to make all the spells are available from the start. This is how spells work in HARP: more powerful variants just cost more power points – my second level mage, for example, has haste and fly as his two spells. Using the above observation, I must assume that these proposals remove the distinct modes of play I like so much. Any player character might have the necessary spells right from the start. As far as I’m concerned – and this is where the value judgement comes in – these proposals are taking away something I liked. What are they going to give me instead? If the answer is “more flexibility” for my character, then I feel that this change isn’t worth it. It might work for others, but I fear it won’t work for me. If I had wanted more flexibility I would have picked more flexible rules. Something with skills and point buy instead of classes and random ability scores, for example.
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In a recent interview, Angela Merkel made a statement that may be considered the signal for the implementation of the brutal Greek experiment inside Germany itself:
I am concerned with trying to provide jobs for as many people as possible. We have improved in the last years and have managed to halve unemployment since 2006, but we have also made sure that minimum earning capacity has improved through the minimum wage. This means that people who work the full day should not be reliant on welfare.
Economist Heiner Flassbeck explained to Sharmini Peries and The Real News how much the German chancellor and her party is devoted to the 'ideology' of lowering wages in the name of job creation.
As he said:
What Angela Merkel says is an ideology. It's an ideology of her party, but also it's affecting the Social Democrats, that says if you go for a policy that reduces unemployment, this is the best kind of social policy that you can have. Even if people suffer or if wages fall, this is then absolutely necessary and is justified because falling wages do a good thing, produce a good thing, namely more jobs, which is not true.
Unemployment is falling very slowly, but it's falling quite steadily, but it is not, so to say, the immediate result of the reduction of the social contributions to the poorer people or the reduction of the wages. It's mainly the result of Germany's huge export surplus, which cannot be copied by other countries.
Germany has now a very low minimum wage. It's eight euros and a little bit, which is much too low given the productivity of Germany. If Madam Merkel would really be realistic and would not have her ideology of low wages producing jobs, she would increase the minimum wage. There would be no problem at all given the very high German productivity.
The Social Democrats and the Green Party were those in the beginning of the century who reduced the social contributions, who said we have to lower the contributions dramatically to make the people search for work and that will reduce unemployment. The Social Democrats have never distanced from their own mistakes and so there is no difference between the Social Democrats and the Christian Democrats on this.
The most probable outcome will be a continuation of the Grand Coalition, so we will go on for the next four years. And the poor people will not change the outcome of the election because they are four or five million people and many of them will not even go to the election, so that will not change anything.
Flassbeck's remarks show that current German leadership actually continues to lower wages, not because this is a policy that helps towards the creation of jobs, but, essentially, because of its ideological devotion to the destructive neoliberalism.
Furthermore, check out again Merkel's last sentence: "This means that people who work the full day should not be reliant on welfare." Actually, Merkel is showing the policy that her party, or coalition, is about to implement in case she will get elected for another term. Next step according to the Greek experiment: the destruction of the welfare state, which has a long tradition in Germany.
As already described , German oligarchs promote another "haircut" of multiple dimensions across Europe. They proceed into a violent cut of salaries and pensions, trying to equalize them in a first phase with those of countries of the former Eastern bloc, and disolving the welfare state. Federalism means however, that the same policies will be applied totally, definately and very soon, also against German citizens and workers.
As Flassbeck rightly pointed out, the Social Democrats in power, or as leaders in a coalition with Cristian Democrats will not make much difference. Both these two parties in Germany, and more or less in Europe, have been occupied completely by the neoliberal doctrine. Their single mission will be to federalize Europe with the Greek experiment as a pattern.
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21 September 2015
Hamilton Zoo’s male Sumatran tiger Oz will not be euthanized following the death of Zoo Curator Samantha Kudeweh yesterday (20 September, 2015).
Lance Vervoort, Hamilton City Council’s General Manager Community, says although Samantha’s death is a tragedy for the wider zoo family and international wildlife conservation community, senior zoo staff have ruled out euthanizing Oz.
“We’re aware there is a lot of interest and speculation around how we manage Oz now, and I want to assure the public and zoo supporters that he will not be put down,” Mr Vervoort says.
“Although there is an inherent risk for zoo professionals who manage big cats like Oz, there is no wider ongoing risk. There is no reason for us to put Oz down.”
Mr Vervoort says the decision not to euthanize Oz was made by zoo senior staff today. They have advised the Ministry for Primary Industries – the Government agency responsible for overseeing zoo and wildlife park operations in New Zealand – of this.
“This is our call, and the decision on Oz rested solely with us,” Mr Vervoort says. “Oz is a significant animal for his species. He is the father of our two cubs, and he is vital to the ongoing breeding programme to conserve this rare species."
Mr Vervoort says the widely held view among zoo professionals was that Oz’s attack on Samantha was in line with his natural instincts.
Hamilton Zoo will reopen on Thursday, and Mr Vervoort says some of the zoo’s five Sumatran tigers will be on display. No decision has been made on whether visitors to the zoo will be able to see Oz.
Mr Vervoort says the zoo’s popular Tiger Talks, Eye 2 Eye and Face 2 Face encounters for all species have been suspended until further notice to allow zoo staff time and space to grieve for their friend and colleague. Those aspects of the zoo experience will be assessed on a weekly basis.
Mr Vervoort says Hamilton Zoo will not be commenting on tiger management procedures until all investigations have been completed.
“We’re firmly focussed on supporting Samantha’s family, the zoo team, and make sure we conduct thorough and complete investigations into this tragic incident.”
Mr Vervoort says Hamilton Zoo’s phone lines and social media channels had been inundated with messages of support from around the country following Samantha’s death.
“Our team is still coming to terms with what has happened, and the show of support from our community and the zoo industry worldwide has been very touching and hugely appreciated.”
Mr Vervoort says Samantha’s family has asked for ongoing privacy and time to grieve while arrangements are made for a service to celebrate her life.
Download the audio statement from Lance Vervoort (mp3).
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jeff Neems
Communication Advisor
07 838 6509
021 818 564
[email protected]
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Entire neighbourhoods of Fort McMurray were under water on Sunday, less than three months after a fire roared into the northern Alberta city and destroyed one-tenth of its buildings.
Residents of Canada's oil sands capital are wondering what will come next. They've lived through the rushed evacuation of more than 80,000 people and a wildfire that broke records in how aggressively it pressed forward – as well as years of heavy job losses and plunging profits because of oil prices that have stayed low far longer than most expected.
"There was just an incredulous feeling as people were like, 'Are you kidding?' They aren't too upset, they're just shrugging their shoulders at this point," said Tany Yao, the MLA for Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo.
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At least 37 homes were flooded on Sunday when 85 millimetres of rain fell on Fort McMurray in two hours. Some residents of the city water-skied through areas that had been on fire on May 3.
The flooding caused the area's emergency operations centre to be activated for the first time since the wildfire. "It's important that our community continues to be resilient and work together," Chris Graham, Fort McMurray's deputy director of emergency management, said in a statement.
As crews pumped water from flooded areas, ash was dusted off barricades so they could be put to use keeping motorists away from waterlogged roads. During the wildfire, those barricades blocked access to acres of scorched homes. Some people were once again told to boil their water, only weeks after similar advisories put in place for the fire were rescinded. "You saw the terrible thing in Fort McMurray. My God, I'm sure they were wondering would the locusts be next. I mean, it's so biblical," said David Phillips, Environment Canada's senior climatologist. "They had the fires and the drought and now the floods. They clearly had more than a month's worth of rain in Fort McMurray in two hours, and it's almost as if they couldn't get rain when they prayed for it back in April and May."
Fort McMurray isn't the only place in Alberta to encounter bad weather this year, Mr. Phillips said. A number of tornadoes have careered across prairie farmland, a large hailstorm forced an Air Canada jet to execute an emergency landing and thunderstorms have been a near daily occurrence across the province. The typically dry region has also experienced an unusually humid summer.
Both Calgary and Edmonton have been hit by episodic flooding over the past month. More than 206 millimetres of rain fell on Calgary in July, the most in 89 years. In Edmonton, stranded motorists had to be rescued from a flooded highway last week. One downpour even flooded the provincial legislature building.
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A spokesman for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, the local government that includes Fort McMurray, said the flooding won't hamper recovery efforts after the fire, the costliest disaster in Canadian history.
Much of the rebuilding hasn't yet started. Officials from the Alberta and federal governments, as well as the Red Cross, will be in the city on Wednesday to announce more funding to aid in the recovery. Mr. Yao and Alberta's Official Opposition Wildrose Party are pressing the provincial government for answers on the timeline for rebuilding. There's been little progress in rebuilding or even cleaning up the ash and debris, nearly a month after the wildfire was declared under control, Mr. Yao said.
According to Mr. Yao, the government is waiting on toxicity tests before making a decision on rebuilding three largely destroyed neighbourhoods that remain off limits to residents.
With a report from The Canadian Press
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T.J. Rivera’s transition to third base is a work in progress the Mets are willing to withstand.
Since moving to the position on a regular basis three weeks ago, Rivera has struggled with his fielding and throws, but is earning praise for his approach to the experiment.
“He knows he doesn’t have to be Nolan Arenado at third base to be a big league player,” infield coach Dick Scott said, referring to the Rockies’ Gold Glove third baseman. “[Rivera] looks at video and he’s out here doing the work and it might take time, but it’s going to happen. I have a lot of confidence in him.”
Rivera has six errors in 28 games at third base, but the Mets want to find out if he’s a viable option at the position for this season and beyond.
The Mets continue to like Rivera’s bat: He entered Friday’s game against Oakland with a .289/.333/.437 slash line with five homers and 25 RBIs. He then delivered two singles and drove in two runs for the Mets in their 7-5 victory over the Athletics.
“Honestly, I think [third base] is going to happen for him,” Scott said. “It might take some time. The worst thing we all can do on anything is say, ‘Next spring training we’re really going to get after this.’ Then three wasted months go by. I give him all the credit: He wants to do all the work. Every day he is finding me and we come out. That is all we can do.”
Neil Walker is expected to begin a rehab assignment Saturday for Triple-A Las Vegas in his comeback from a partially torn left hamstring. The veteran second baseman played a simulated game Friday at Citi Field.
The Mets’ .523 winning percentage in interleague play, is the best among National League teams. After this three-game series against Oakland, the Mets have interleague series remaining this season against the Mariners, Rangers and Astros.
Amed Rosario missed his fourth straight start for Triple-A Las Vegas because of a bruised finger he sustained earlier in the week.
Lucas Duda has one less error after an MLB scoring change from last Sunday against Colorado: Trevor Story was awarded a hit on a play in the eighth inning in which Duda originally received an error.
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It was Dec. 1, 2013. With the score at 7-7 in the second quarter, the Philadelphia Eagles marched to the Arizona Cardinals’ 6-yard line. It was at this moment when Chip Kelly unveiled a surprising wrinkle.
From Video
If Nick Foles was there, who was lined up as quarterback?
From Video
Meet Brad Smith. He has experience as a wide receiver, running back, quarterback, kick returner and special teams ace.
A few things about this play made people believe this was the Wildcat formation. The starting quarterback was positioned as a receiver, and a player who wasn’t the starting quarterback took the snap. In fact, the Wildcat formation doesn’t require either of those things.
From Video
The Wildcat formation always uses an unbalanced line, specifically the tackle-over set. The tight end lines up next to the weakside guard, while the two offensive tackles are next to each other on the playside.
From Video
Motion always sets up the play’s run from the Wildcat formation: usually a power run by the player taking the snap, a jet sweep by the motion man or a pass.
Kelly insisted after the Eagles-Cardinals game that he did not call the Wildcat formation.
“It was not a Wildcat play,” head coach Chip Kelly said. “It’s just Brad Smith plays quarterback. So let’s straighten that out right now. We don’t run the Wildcat. It’s just a play. He played quarterback. Nick played receiver because Brad’s really good with the ball in his hands.”
From Video
There was no tackle-over set or motion man. Kelly was absolutely correct when he said this play was not the Wildcat. So, if it wasn’t the Wildcat, what was it?
Look at where running back LeSean McCoy lined up. This should be familiar to Oregon and Eagles fans who know how the Inside Zone Read works.
From Video
Ignore the fact that Smith fumbled the ball. That isn’t the important part. McCoy was preparing for the mesh point with Smith, as he would during an Inside Zone Read.
The offensive line was zone blocking the defense. It left the outside linebacker unblocked, probably because Smith was supposed to be reading him on this play.
It is also noteworthy that there were three receivers (Riley Cooper, Jason Avant, Foles) who each faced single-coverage.
From Video
Cooper ran what appeared to be a corner route. Avant ran a crossing route. Foles took All-Pro Patrick Peterson out of the play by lining up at receiver. It is possible Kelly called a packaged play, an Inside Zone Read packaged with an intermediate pass.
It might be reasonable to blame Kelly for inadequately preparing the Eagles to execute this play, but his play-calling should not be at fault. I’ve concluded that this play was either the Inside Zone Read or a packaged run/pass play. Because these plays are staples of the Eagles’ offense, the notion that this play was a flashy gadget play is nonsense.
Yet, it is reasonable to ask the following: Why even bother making Smith the quarterback for a play when Foles was playing well on this drive? Or for that matter, why not use Michael Vick since he rejoined the active roster as Foles’s backup?
It is likely there are some play-calls that Kelly is more willing to make with Smith at quarterback than with Foles or Vick.
From Video
Against the Bears, the Eagles used a tackle-over set with right tackle Lane Johnson positioned between left tackle Jason Peters and left guard Evan Mathis. There was no motion man, so this was still not the Wildcat.
From Video
This was a classic power play. The linemen on the play-side were down-blocking. Running back Chris Polk was the lead blocker and did a nice job blocking the defensive tackle. Right guard Todd Herremans pulled to the left and entered the crease to block the playside linebacker.
From Video
Smith entered the hole for a two-yard gain. His versatility allowed Kelly to simultaneously avoid risking the health of his top two quarterbacks and keep an inside QB power run on the table.
Defenses must always be aware of the possibility that Smith will pass the ball. In fact, this could happen in a formation where he isn’t even lined up at quarterback.
From Video
Smith came into this game as a receiver. Nothing too unusual so far.
From Video
He motioned over and prepared for the surprise.
From Video
Smith ran to the right, as if this was a sweep.
From Video
Smith looked at Foles, who wasn’t even looking for the ball. He was likely just a decoy on this play.
From Video
Foles attracted double coverage, as the safety read Smith’s eyes and assisted the cornerback covering Foles. This allowed Zach Ertz to get open in one-on-one coverage against a linebacker. Unfortunately, Smith’s pass was behind him and he couldn’t make the catch.
There was one Oregon player who resembled Smith as an offensive weapon: Chris Harper. While Kelly was the offensive coordinator in 2008, Harper played quarterback, running back and receiver. He transferred the next year to Kansas State.
From Video
Kelly and head coach Mike Bellotti experimented with putting Harper at quarterback in the middle of games. Against Purdue, they instructed pocket-passer Justin Roper to get off the field.
From Video
Harper was a running threat and raw passer. Bellotti and Kelly didn’t mind tipping their hand close to the red zone. This QB sweep was effective because of Harper’s speed down the sideline. Roper returned to the game after this play.
From Video
Additionally, Harper sporadically played quarterback on zone read plays. It is noteworthy that Harper earned meaningful playing time when Oregon lacked a true “dual threat” quarterback.
Foles’s performance last season proved Kelly did not need a mobile quarterback to make his offense flourish, but it is possible he viewed Smith as a means of compensating for Foles’s lack of mobility. Smith is a situational player who makes the read option more potent and makes Kelly more comfortable calling inside QB runs. If Smith makes the roster this season, expect to see more of the formation with him at quarterback. Just don’t call it the Wildcat.
Top photo from video
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Assyrian Farmer in Turkey Attacked By Kurds
Iskandar Dayan, an Assyrian farmer in south-east Turkey who was attacked by Kurds, in hospital. (AINA) -- Iskandar Dayan, an Assyrian farmer living in south-east Turkey near the Syrian border, was attacked and severly beaten by twelve Kurds on November 16. Mr. Dayan was driving his tractor alone when approached by the twelve Kurds, whom he recognized as being from a neighboring Kurdish village. The Kurds beat him, breaking his jaw, and warned him to never cultivate his land.
Mr. Dayan was brought to a hospital in Diyarbakir. The Kurds were arrested by the police, but were set free after they were interrogated.
The attack is part of a wider pattern in which Kurds intimidate, threaten and attack Assyrians in order to take over their lands. Court cases relating to this problem abound in south-east Turkey, where Kurds, empowered by their sheer numbers and the support of PKK Kurdish militia, carry out an ethnic cleansing campaign against Assyrians.
The area in south-eastern Turkey, known in Assyrian as Turabdin, was inhabited almost entirely by Assyrians one hundred years ago. The genocide on Assyrians in 1915, the war with the PKK and Kurdish encroachment has sharply reduced the Assyrian population to a few thousand.
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Sometimes, a bra can look too small when it fits well, because the strip of fabric/elastic under the top of the lace is too tight across the top of the breast. European bras, in particular are nearly infamous for this. If you have firm breast tissue, your breasts will fight against the elastic and shape the bra. Not all of us are that lucky. Soft tissue molds to the shape of the bra, so the elastic pulls down over the top of the breast. If the bra is not a full coverage style, it will not sit against the breastbone, but actually against the breast tissue, causing the breasts to bulge out of the top of the bra and give the appearance of a bra that is too small.
This seam is put in place to pull the top of the cup closer to the chest and prevent the bust from spilling out. That’s probably just fine for someone who is predominantly full on bottom, but someone with a more even or full on top shape will run into this problem pretty consistently in European bras, so I’m going to talk about how to fix that.
Tools You’ll Need:
1 seam ripper & 1 pair of scissors.
Seriously, that’s it.
Difficulty Level: Easy. Seriously, a well behaved toddler could do it.
The bra I will be performing this alteration on is the Samanta Hana (A122 cut) in 70I. Samanta is a Polish brand, and I will refrain from discussing the finer points of the style in detail, as the brand has already been broken down quite well by Miss Underpinnings, but I will say for the purpose of this post that I would refer to this as a mesh balconette.
As you can see above, the bra looks too small on close up. I’m clearly bulging out the top of the cup. If you look closely at the top center, you can even see my bust trying to escape through the gaps in the lace. What may not be obvious in photographs is that there is actually plenty of room in this cup for me, but the top of the cup is being pulled down very tightly across the top of my breast, causing me to quadboob even though the bra actually fits.
This is the problem:
This seam is slightly elastic, and so makes the top of the cup too closed off for me. It fits beautifully everywhere else.
Now, you’re going to work from the inside of the bra. Grab your seam ripper. We need to remove the stitches from inside of the elastic.
You want to work from the elastic side to avoid potentially tearing any mesh or lace with your seam ripper. You can stab a piece of elastic to your hearts content and it doesn’t really matter, but stab a bit of lace and you might poke a hole in your bra.
As you start to remove these stitches, you’ll see the elastic start to come away from the bra, like so:
Keep going. You have to remove all of them. At which point, you’ll have something that looks like this:
Now, up to this point, we’re doing fine. We haven’t cut anything. We are still at a place where this alteration can be reversed by sewing the elastic back down, but we won’t be for long.
This alteration always has the potential to open the cup too much for you (You can correct this by sewing a dart near the wire, but that’s another alteration.), so you definitely want to try the bra on again at this point to make sure the alteration is going to work for you before you move onto the next step, at which point the alteration can not be reversed.
As you can see, this is probably going to work out well for me. There’s a tiny bit of gaping, but that’s mostly due to the position I have to put my arm in to take the photo and the elastic still being connected on both ends.
You’re done with the seam ripper now. Grab the scissors. We need to cut the elastic out on both sides beside the wire.
Cut as close to the wire as possible.
That’s it. The alteration is complete. There is no need to finish the elastic or add no fray. You’re welcome to if you’d like, but if you cut it as close to the wire as you can, the bra won’t give you any issues with fraying or loose threads, and you won’t really even notice that there was ever a seam there in the first place.
This is what you’ve removed – you don’t need them, so unless you have some other use planned for them, just throw them out.
And this is what your bra will look like when it’s done:
The Final Fit Test:
This bra now fits me pretty darn well. It will gape slightly when I move my arms certain ways, but not enough to make me fall out, not enough to cause fit issues, and not enough to show under clothing. This alteration has made this bra the best fit of my current rotation.
If I hadn’t altered it, I would only be able to wear it under loose t-shirts and tunics, and so it would probably spend most of its time in the back of the lingerie drawer.
If this is a problem you find you run into consistently, this is an alteration you definitely want to consider. The entire alteration can be completed in less than 30 minutes, and there is absolutely no sewing required.
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Huffington Post contributor Yashar Ali said Sunday that Fox News's Eric Bolling is attempting to intimidate him into silence by filing a $50 million dollar defamation lawsuit against his reporting.
"He is trying to intimidate me. He sees me as a young reporter that may be scared by big lawsuits. But if he wants to wade into this pond, I'm happy to go in with him," Ali host Brian Stelter on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
Ali pointed out that the lawsuit goes after him personally, rather than naming The Huffington Post. The media outlet has said it will stand with Ali regarding a story that included claims by multiple women who allege Bolling sent them lewd pictures.
"My life history has given me a lot of experience to not be scared by these things," Ali said.
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Ali also said he stands by his report, which he said he verified with 14 sources. Bolling has denied the allegations.
Ali called Bolling "wrong" for his decision to take legal action.
"He's wrong because I spent three months on this story. As you said, I have 14 sources. I've spoken to the victims, and that's on a factual basis. I know he's wrong," Ali continued, adding that "the best defense of defamation is the truth."
Ali said Bolling's intent to intimidate him is clear because Bolling filed the lawsuit against him personally, not against his company that has a multibillion-dollar parent.
"It's really important to note, Brian, that he's suing me personally for $50 million. He did not include HuffPost, which is owned by Verizon, in this lawsuit. If he wants $50 million, if you feel that you've been aggrieved and you deserve damages, you go after the multibillion-dollar conglomerate, not an individual reporter," Ali told Stelter.
Ali said he welcomes the opportunity to depose the Fox News host, saying he hopes his case will serve as an example to other journalists should they face similar legal actions.
"I relish the opportunity to see and being deposed and to stand up for not only my First Amendment rights, the First Amendment Rights of many reporters who messaged me after this came out, saying that they would be scared by this kind of action," Ali said.
"And, you know, I'm not trying to turn myself into a representative for the media here, but I feel like I have to really fight this because of other reporters who would be frightened by this kind of action," he added.
Ali has demanded Bolling dismiss his lawsuit over a report, published earlier this month on HuffPost, detailing allegations that the host sent lewd photos of male genitalia to two female coworkers at Fox News and Fox Business.
In a statement included in Ali's article, Bolling's attorney Michael Bowe said the host "recalls no such inappropriate communications, does not believe he sent any such communications, and will vigorously pursue his legal remedies for any false and defamatory accusations that are made.”
Bolling was suspended from Fox a day after the article was published and the network launched an investigation into the matter.
Fox News told CNN that Bolling remains suspended while an outside law firm investigates the allegations.
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The American coal industry is terminally ill — and that should serve as a warning to investors who might be tempted to put their money into other fossil fuels.
That’s the gist of a new report from the Carbon Tracker Initiative, which warns that oil and natural gas could also wind up becoming stranded assets — property that under other scenarios could be worth a lot of money, but not in the real situation we face as the climate warms and the market shifts in response.
Coal use has been decoupled from America’s economic growth for a number of reasons, the report finds. The biggest is the availability of other cheap sources of energy — since 2008, the abundance of shale gas from America’s fracking boom has played a big role in driving that trend, but so have renewable energies like solar and wind. Increasingly strict regulations on air pollution and the energy sector from the Obama administration’s EPA have also played a role.
“Cheap gas has knocked coal off its feet, and the need to improve air quality and ever-lower renewables costs has kept coal down for the count,” said Luke Sussams, co-author of the report and a Carbon Tracker senior researcher. He and his colleagues posit that investors in oil, and eventually even natural gas, could see a similar trend. The Carbon Tracker Initiative was one of the first groups to promote the idea of a “carbon bubble,” in which, as the world confronts global warming, fossil fuel investors would see the value of their assets collapse. Companies stand to lose billions, the think tank said.
This week’s Carbon Tracker report comes on the heels of a separate report from CoalSwarm and the Sierra Club that looks at international coal use. That picture, too, does not look good for fossil fuel investors. From “Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline”:
In India, projects shelved or cancelled since 2012 outnumber project completions by six to one, and new construction initiations are at a near-standstill. In both Europe and the U.S., the coal fleet is shrinking, with retirements outnumbering new plants. China faces a looming glut in coal-fired generating capacity, with plant utilization rates at a 35-year low.
The report also finds that more than two dozen U.S. coal companies have gone bankrupt in the past three years, and those that haven’t lost more than 80 percent of their share value.
The coal industry, of course, disputes these gloomy assessments. Peabody Energy, the largest coal company in the U.S., recently predicted that U.S. coal usage would increase 10 million to 30 million tons by 2017, and global demand could grow by 500 million metric tons during the same period.
The company and its coal-loving friends are also making every effort to challenge forthcoming EPA regulations that could hasten coal’s collapse. The company is paying well-respected constitutional scholar and former Obama mentor Laurence Tribe to argue that the administration’s Clean Power Plan is unconstitutional. And coal’s allies in Congress are trying to undermine the EPA plan with, among other things, an amendment to a big budget bill that would allow states to opt out. If the amendment passes, it will likely face a presidential veto, spurring yet another budget standoff.
But, as the Carbon Tracker report shows, the EPA’s efforts are just one factor among many that have weakened coal’s prospects. Ultimately, the industry is up against a global energy economy in which coal, with its huge environmental and health costs, increasingly just doesn’t make sense. And no amount of lobbying Congress or arguing in court will slow that trend.
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The Jelly Bean (JRO03O) update that popped up on a Verizon Galaxy Nexus last night is now available for download. If you want to flash it though, there are a couple of things you should know. First, you need to make sure your stock G-Nex is running IMM76Q. Second, this is a test build and apparently not the official build that users will see. So if neither of those things bother you, then you should jump all over this.
It’s being reported that this JB build contains both a new bootloader and, wait for it, new radios (FF02 CDMA/FG02 LTE). That may make it worth it, right there.
Download: Google Link [mirror]
Instructions:
The easiest way to do this, is to get yourself back to stock IMM76K. That may mean that you will need to flash factory images and wipe everything. From there, install ClockworkMod Recovery, download the IMM76Q file and flash it using “install zip from sd card.” After that, download the new Jelly Bean (JRO03O) file to your phone and flash it in CWM Recovery just like you did with IMM76Q. (This is a fantastic resource.)
Also, you could wait until someone turns this into a flashable .zip for any ROM.
Update: Radios from the update have been posted here.
Via: XDA
Cheers El Madhatter, oldblue910, Jason and Manny!
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As former acting attorney general Sally Yates prepares to testify, Donald Trump lashed out this morning via his customary outlet, Twitter, to attack both the Obama administration and Sally Yates herself.
In his first tweet, Trump went after the Obama administration, attempting to shift blame for the hiring of Michael Flynn off himself and onto his predecessor:
General Flynn was given the highest security clearance by the Obama Administration – but the Fake News seldom likes talking about that. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
Oh, dear, things seem to have gotten too deep for Trump almost immediately, as national security expert and former NSA analyst John Schindler quickly pointed out:
WH does not adjudicate clearances. IRL Obama fired #MoscowMike as DIA director because he's an incompetent asshat. https://t.co/R0ZYtK5hQZ — John Schindler (@20committee) May 8, 2017
Schindler further dismantled Trump’s absurd attempt at blame-shifting by a simple appeal to logic and fact:
Flynn was commissioned in Army MI in 1981. By Trump's "logic" Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43 & Obama all cleared him. This is insane BS. — John Schindler (@20committee) May 8, 2017
Trump’s second tweet was directed at Sally Yates:
Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 8, 2017
Again, Schindler quickly pointed to the fly in Trump’s buttermilk (a mistake Trump has since quietly corrected to “counsel”):
There's a WH Counsel. And there's a National Security Council. There is no "WH Council". POTUS is a complete moron. https://t.co/hUMBsq7NKS — John Schindler (@20committee) May 8, 2017
Schindler followed that up with a stinging condemnation of Trump’s continued dishonesty and where it’s going to get him (hint: not a good place):
There's so much dishonest desperation in this tweet you can taste it across the room. Gonna be a bad week for Trump & his #KremlinGate pals. — John Schindler (@20committee) May 8, 2017
Donald Trump has good reason to be frightened and good reason to want to shift blame for his hiring of Kremlin mole Michael Flynn onto Obama, who fired the guy and to discredit Sally Yates, who has the proverbial “goods” on Donald Trump.
John Schindler called it: Trump is a complete moron and he has only himself to blame for the fix in which he finds himself.
His desperate and increasingly pathetic attempts to blame everybody himself for everything he did wrong will stand out in historical accounts of his dizzying fall from the heights vaulting ambition.
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Ethereum’s (ETH) troubled but uncontentious Byzantium is officially here as the cryptocurrency’s fifth hard fork.
As creator Vitalik Buterin celebrated with other developers Sunday, Byzantium fought off last-minute bugs and calls for delays to have a stable issuance.
The move was notable in its lack of contention, with no significant community arguments resulting from Byzantium’s creation.
Similarly, ETH prices remained relatively stable both before and after the fork’s execution, rising around $40 October 13 and maintaining new levels since.
This takes ETH towards the upper end of its price spectrum, which this year saw all-time highs of around $410 and a July low of $146.
Despite the frenetic growth of investment in Ethereum this year, Byzantium is part of a package of improvements to the protocol that has been in development since 2015.
Known as Metropolis, its roadmap currently extends to an unknown date in 2018, when a further hard fork, Constantinople, will activate.
“Metropolis is a planned Ethereum development phase that includes two hard forks: Byzantium and Constantinople. Byzantium is occurring at block number 4.37mil. Constantinople does not currently have a release date, but is expected in 2018,” a blog post from late last week confirms.
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A new Pokémon Rumble game will become the first to feature Skylanders style interactive toys, as Nintendo takes a typically cautious approach to NFC technology.
We wouldn’t bother catching ‘em all
You’d never guess it at the moment but the Wii U GamePad has NFC (near field communication) technology built into it, the same tech that the powers the Portal Of Power from Skylanders. But at the moment not a single game uses it or has even been announced for it – until now.
Unfortunately though you could barely get anything less exciting than downloadable game Pokémon Scramble U, the third entry in what is known in the West as the Pokémon Rumble spin-off series.
The game was announced last month in Japan and seems to be the same sort of low grade arena-based shooter as 2011’s Super Pokémon Rumble, which we awarded a scathing 2/10 in our review.
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For some reason Nintendo keep making the games though (we assume that means they’re popular in Japan, although we’ve seen no evidence for that in the sales chart) and Japanese magazine CoroCoro has revealed that Pokémon Scramble U will have its own range of toys to accompany it.
The conceit in the Pokémon Rumble games is that you’re not actually controlling real pokémon but instead little wind-up toy versions of them, hence the odd angular designs. As you can see in the image above that means the physical toys don’t look much like regular pokémon either, so presumably wouldn’t be reused for other games.
Only six basic figures and a special character have been announced so far though, which suggests Nintendo are merely testing (or perhaps muddying) the waters. Each toy will cost the equivalent of £1.40, which is considerably cheaper than any Skylanders toy.
By placing the Pokémon toy near the GamePad it opens up the character to be used within the game. Given the low price though the figures are unlikely to store any game data, unlike their Skylanders equivalents.
Skylanders has been such a success, becoming the second biggest money-maker in gaming, after Activision’s own Call Of Duty, that Disney has overcome its usual distaste for console games and announced its own take on the idea called Disney Infinity.
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The Pentagon budget will shrink slightly next year for the first time since 1998, the Obama administration said Thursday, in an attempt to chip away at the federal deficit while reorienting the armed forces toward Asia.
Under the proposal, the administration will reduce the size of the Army and Marine Corps, trim the number of fighter aircraft and ships, and seek congressional approval for another round of military base closures.
The administration will instead spend more on unmanned vehicles and Special Operations forces that can be deployed quickly and will not require large, expensive bases. The military will also largely preserve its manpower and weapons systems geared toward the Middle East.
The Pentagon said it would ask Congress for $525 billion in 2013, which represents a 1 percent decrease from the current year. While the difference may sound small, it represents a new era of austerity for the Defense Department that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, when the military was still accustomed to huge annual raises after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Pentagon leaders characterized the cuts in solemn tones. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta called them a “difficult undertaking.” Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added: “Make no mistake, the trade-offs were tough. The choices were complex.”
The changes are part of a broader effort by the Pentagon to decrease its projected spending by $487 billion over the next decade in accordance with a deficit-reduction deal President Obama reached with Congress in August.
Those cuts could soon swell substantially. If Obama and Congress cannot agree on another package of spending reductions or tax increases by next January, the Pentagon could be forced to slash an extra $600 billion over 10 years. “It basically takes a chain saw to the budget,” said Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Many analysts say that the chances of that happening are small, and that Obama and Congress are likely to work out a compromise ahead of time. But even if they do, many believe the Pentagon is in for more pain as lawmakers search for a long-term solution to the nation’s fiscal troubles.
“In terms of the overall federal budget, these changes are a rounding error,” Thomas Donnelly, a defense analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, said of Obama’s Pentagon budget for next year.
Donnelly said the Pentagon’s fiscal future will depend on the outcome of the presidential election in November.
“Either it will get worse for the Department of Defense if Obama gets reelected or Newt Gingrich gets elected, or it will get better for the Pentagon if Mitt Romney gets elected.”
Aside from the cuts to the Army, which will eventually reduce the number of active-duty soldiers to 490,000 from 547,000, most of the reductions revealed Thursday had been previously announced or involved less costly items. Panetta noted that the Army and the Marine Corps will still be slightly larger than they were in 2001, before the invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent war in Iraq.
Among the few weapons systems getting the ax are a defense weather satellite, a version of the Global Hawk surveillance drone and a radar with a mouthful of a name: the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System.
Of the total $259 billion in cuts to projected spending over the next five years, almost one quarter — $60 billion — will come from what the Pentagon obliquely called “efficiencies.” Defense officials said they would save more on “streamlined staff,” better use of “information technology” and “inventory management” but weren’t more specific.
Several big-ticket items that had been under scrutiny survived.
The Pentagon said it will preserve all versions of its next generation F-35 Lightning II fighter jet, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter, although some planned purchases will be delayed. The Air Force will also eliminate six of its 60 tactical air squadrons. Each has from 18 to 24 fighter aircraft, mostly older F-15s or F-16s.
The Navy got to keep all 11 of its aircraft carriers, although it will have to retire seven aging cruisers earlier than expected. It will also cut back production of two Littoral Combat Ships and eight Joint High Speed Vessels.
Panetta signaled that the Pentagon is willing to tackle a couple of politically sensitive topics: closing military bases and limiting compensation for troops and veterans.
He said the Obama administration will ask Congress to establish a new Base Closure and Realignment Commission, which would enforce another round of military base closures nationwide. Congress approved the last round of base closures in 2005. Most lawmakers, however, hate the idea of shuttering bases in their districts.
“Make no mistake, the savings we are proposing will impact all 50 states, and many districts across America,” Panetta said. “This will be a test — a test — of whether reducing the deficit is about talk or action.”
He also said he will ask Congress to approve a separate commission to authorize reductions in retirement benefits, which have accounted for an increasingly steep share of the defense budget. Moreover, he said the Pentagon would limit pay raises for active-duty troops — another idea that is unlikely to win much favor from lawmakers, who consistently award pay hikes larger than those sought by defense officials.
Panetta emphasized that any changes to retirement benefits would affect only future recruits, not those currently in the armed forces. He also said the less-generous pay raises would not take effect until 2015.
Also declining will be a separate budget dedicated to the cost of fighting the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and certain other overseas operations. Obama is asking Congress for $88 billion for the Afghan war next year, down from $115 billion in the current fiscal year, which included the costs of winding down the war in Iraq.
Although the defense budget will decline next year, to $525 billion from this year’s $531 billion, under Obama’s current projections it will inch upward in constant dollars between 1 percent and 2 percent annually thereafter.
Some analysts, however, said those projections are far too optimistic and that the Pentagon will be squeezed further.
Gordon Adams, a professor of international relations at American University, predicted that if lawmakers are to stabilize federal finances, they will have to agree on about $4 trillion in spending cuts and revenue increases over the next decade.
“Defense budgets will come down deeper than the secretary thinks,” said Adams, a former White House official for national security budgets who worked for Panetta in the Clinton administration. “To find those cuts, everything, including defense, will still be on the table.”
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On October 26, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued their successful operation on the eastern bank of the Euphrates and entered the oil fields of al-Tanak and Galban, according to pro-Kurdish sources. Earlier, the US-backed force reportedly established control over the oil fields of Azraq and Jarnof, Saban, Northern Omar, Maleh and Mqaat.
Thus, the SDF de-facto won the race for the oil and gas infrastructure located in the area with the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
Pro-opposition sources reported that ISIS just handed over the al-Tanak oil field to the SDF within the framework of the previously reached agreement. No more details were provided. Most likely these reports are linked to the alleged SDF-ISIS deal reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on October 22. According to this report, ISIS was set to surrender the entire area including Hajin village to the US-backed force.
Pro-SDF sources explain the situation with the top-class US air support and combat characteristics of SDF troops.
On October 25, the SAA liberated the Industrial Area and a large part of Khassarat district from ISIS in the city of Deir Ezzor. Now, government forces are aiming to separate further Saqr Island from the rest of the ISIS-held area in Deir Ezzor. When this is done, the SAA and the NDF will be able to isolate the remaining ISIS units in Saqr Island and to clear it from the terrorists.
The separatist Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is facing hard times in Iraq. On October 24, the Department of Foreign Relations of the KRG released a statement asking for a ceasefire with forces of the Federal Government. In return, it promised to “freeze the results of [independence] referendum”, and asked for “an open dialogue between the Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraqi Federal Government on the basis of the Constitution.”
However, on October 25 and October 26, Iraqi forces advanced further in areas seized by KRG forces beyond the borders of the Kurdish autonomous region. Experts believe that the army and its allies will continue operation in the contested areas until KRG military forces fully withdraw from it.
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Since Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe first launched his controversial land reform policies in 2000, some 4,000 white farmers have had their lands seized.
And the few remaining white farmers are being driven out — like the McKinnon family.
Danielle and Mark McKinnon, with their three kids, fled their farm just outside of Harare as the local sheriff, a court official and a group of men sought their eviction.
"That day just felt so uncertain. They were just in your face. They were coming into the house," Danielle tells The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.
"They wanted us out, then and there," says Mark McKinnon.
Danielle McKinnon recalls leaving in the truck with their animals in the back as they were being laughed at and videotaped.
"It was actually quite a shock because we've never given in before. That feeling of defeat... It was unfair."
Since president Robert Mugabe first launched his controversial land reform policies in the year 2000, some 4,000 white farmers have had their lands seized (Philimon Bulawayo/Reuters)
The McKinnons say they had a great relationship with their surrounding community. They were helping schools and orphanages and there was no one unhappy with them.
"It had nothing to do with happiness or race or colour or anything, it was money," Mark tells Tremonti.
In 2013, Mark said he was kidnapped by a group with very high connections to ministers and government. They were promised land and told to help themselves to farm plots close to Harare, according to McKinnon.
He was violently attacked for hours, says McKinnon.
"They wouldn't let me go… they wanted me to sign over a piece of paper saying that I allowed them to have a piece of the farm."
"I kept assuring them that I wasn't the person to give land. [It] wasn't my land anyway. It was state responsibility to give land."
Eventually Mark was released when police came but says confrontations like this happened all the time.
Now the McKinnon family lives in Stouffville, Ont. — just outside of Toronto but Danielle and Mark both agree that Zimbabwe is home.
"It's just bad politics. It will come right."
Listen to the full conversation at the top of this web post.
This segment was produced by The Current's Idella Sturnio.
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Two charts from Think Progress make the case that Occupy Wall Street has already won a major victory.
First, here is a look at the focus of economic discussion on cable news during the last week of July:
Now, here is a look at economic discussion on cable news over the last week:Granted, Occupy Wall Street is not the sole cause of this change. For one thing, President Obama has been stumping for his jobs legislation for the past several weeks. Also, the last week of the July was the peak of the debt default showdown, making it perhaps not the best point of comparison.
Still, Occupy Wall Street has made an undeniable impact in shifting the terms of debate on our current economic woes away from a focus on spending cuts, and toward a focus on unemployment and the culpability of Wall Street. That is a big deal.
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In the conservative commentariat and intellectual classes, the deal with the devil that is Trumpism seems increasingly complete. Stalwart conservatives who for years—in some cases decades—defended the principles of limited government, personal liberty, and strict adherence to the Constitution have hiked their skirts and dropped their panties, swooning as Big Donnie Trump talks dirty to the media.
In a depressing twist, many members of my party and ideological persuasion have become advocates for Donald Trump on a scale that ranges from grudging to toadying, for a simple reason that seems to overwhelm all other factors: He attacks the media. Many are willing to forgive almost any sin because of it.
All it took to break the spirit of far too many in the conservative class was for Trump to leaven his deranged, autocratic rantings with “fake news” and “duh librul media” bait to compromise the ideals and credibility of a large swath of the conservative firmament. People who think of themselves as being smarter than the average bag of hammers are missing that they’re the just the latest victims of the Trump Con.
We now routinely see a formulation something like this:, “Well, Trump isn't perfect, but at least he's attacking the media.” It's the haute-bourgeois pleasure of watching someone else to do your dueling.
For decades, the rallying cry on the right was: “If only we could overcome the liberal media monoculture, the truth and strength of our ideas would finally break through. If only we could really be heard on economic matters, on foreign affairs, and on race, the Republican Party and conservatism would finally get a fair hearing in the minds of the American people.” It wouldn’t have to be a zero-sum game of replacing one set of biases with another; the rightness of our ideas would carry the day.
But in a White House press room that includes staff “writers” for Infowars and Breitbart in press conferences, the Trump Administration isn’t looking for up-the-middle coverage; they’re looking for partners in the fake news explosion that helped Trump win the election. Conservative writers and thinkers who look away from the creepy authoritarianism, apocalyptic religious war fantasies, lavish corruption, overt economic statism, and general ineptitude simply because Trump snubs the established press aren’t doing the movement any favors.
Let’s be clear; the mainstream media deserves a kick in the ass so hard they reach orbital velocity for their professional missteps, insularity, ideological blinders, vast self-regard, and occasional outright malice against conservatives. However, as a justification for every one of Trump’s failings, reveling in their misery falls wildly short of the mark. It’s certainly not enough for the movement once graced by the ideas of Burke, Hayek, Kirk, and Buckley to sell so cheaply.
It’s not an argument for mainstream media malpractice, Obama, Clinton, social justice silliness, George Soros, or the Pentaverate to say that imitating the worst behavior of the liberal elements of the national media doesn’t honor the ideals we claim to serve. Instead, it makes a mockery of our ideas if we believe our a Trump-centric media monoculture is a positive outcome.
Yes, in 2008, the media lost their collective minds in a paroxysm of Obama-driven adulation. The superlatives flowed in an ridiculous, flowery stream of praise that bordered at times on the creepy. Yes, “the One” was a media absurdity. I remember emailing a reporter a snarky note after reading one of her pieces, “Are you practicing writing ‘Mrs. Katherine Obama’ in loopy script in your mash book?” (Name changed to protect the embarrassed.)
Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squeeing and fainting at his every utterance. That nearly mindless adulation was still a strong element in Obama's coverage until he walked out of the Oval Office. Conservatives rightly mocked it, while recognizing that the normative power of media and pop culture had combined in one fell swoop to overcome Barack Obama’s thin resume, his lack of experience, and questions about his ideological underpinnings.
Now, though, writers who just two years ago would have torn the bark off Barack Obama for picking winners and losers or for advocating some form of pie-in-the-sky “everyone gets covered” single-payer-ish health care plan today direct a large fraction of their ire to media outlets scrambling to find a way to process the election and governance of Trump. Rather than examine his daily assaults on conservative values, common sense, and that little thing we used to value called “the truth” they look politiely away as “conservatives” who have for decades sung the praises of free trade, low tariffs, and multilateral trade agreements now mutely nod at the brute stupidity of Trumpian economic populism... because at least he’s battering CNN, The New York Times, and BuzzFeed, right?
Of course, intellectual conservatism is a fairly small pool in the great scheme of things. What really mattered then and now is that a half-dozen gatekeepers in the conservative movement decided Trump would be lucrative fodder for their audience. They monetized the transition from promoting conservative ideals to selling the umber con man with the same vigor they pitch reverse mortgages, catheters, survival food, and gold.
This constellation of media players could have at any moment pumped the brakes on Trump and Trumpism during the 2016 election, and could do so now. At any moment, Rupert or the sons could have told Roger Ailes, “OK...that's enough.” The as-yet unchronicled conspiracy – and I use that word deliberately – between the c-suite at Fox News, Matt Drudge, Trumpbart, Rush Limbaugh is a story waiting to be told. They and others actively elected to elide Trump's endless catalog of ideological sins, moral shortcomings, mob ties, Russian moneymen, personal weirdnesses, trophy wives, serial bankruptcies, persistent tax shenanigans, low-grade intellect, thinly-veiled racial animus, and conspiracy email-forwarding kooky grandpa affect.
The “populist movement” explanation for 2016 isn't entirely wrong, but it took the full throttle efforts of the high-volume media enablers to promote Trump as the singular remedy for the moral, economic, and political collapse they decried each day for their credulous viewers and listeners to make that “movement” happen. Even after 25 years in this movement, I can't help but feel a sense of wonder at how brazen their marketing and monetization of Trump has been, and at its spectacular cost to conservatism.
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Here are some Larry King statistics:
• Larry King has had a talk show on CNN for 73 years now.
• Larry King owns 4700 pairs of suspenders.
• Larry King doesn’t look good in any of them.
• Larry King has been married 56 times.
• Larry King’s real name is Saul Rabinowitz.
• Larry King is 206 years old.
• Larry King has fielded thousands of phone calls from wackos over the years.
I am one of those wackos.
***
One night in the mid-80s, I was sitting on my ratty couch in my one-bedroom apartment in Peoria, Illinois. I had smoked a lot of pot and drank a bunch of beer and Larry King was on the television with the sound muted. My stereo was blaring “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by the Who. I remember feeling great pity for poor Pete Townshend. Someone had fooled him and I wondered who would do such a mean thing to that big-beaked guitarist. While pondering this thought, I absent-mindedly glanced at my 14-inch Panasonic color television set with real plastic wood-grain on the sides, and I saw that Larry’s guest for the evening was Jay Leno. Now this was way before Leno became the host of The Tonight Show. This is back when he used to do bits on the David Letterman’s show when Letterman was on NBC. I thought he was pretty funny back then and so I turned the Who off and turned up the volume. Larry King was speaking. “Our guest tonight is funnyman Jay Leno. If you have a question for Jay call the number below,” Larry croaked out in that old-man, froggy voice of his. As I looked at the number at the bottom of the screen, all of the sudden I had a desperate urge to call the show, so I scribbled it on a well-worn one-dollar bill that I yanked from my pocket, as a tampon commercial came on the air. Brenda Vaccaro’s deep mannish voice extolled the wonders of Playtex tampons, and I tried to think of a good question for Jay Leno.
Marijuana can cause unusual focus in obsessive moments, and this was one of those moments. I wanted to ask Jay Leno a question and I wanted it to be funny. I wanted to make Jay and Larry laugh. I had to make Jay and Larry laugh. This was more important than who fooled Pete Townshend. This was more important than Brenda Vaccaro. This, I daresay, was more important than a tampon.
I had to think hard and I had to think funny. I was furiously pacing the room back and forth, like a tiger in a zoo cage that’s two sizes too small. Then it hit me like 12 tons of mashed potatoes. I had the question and the question was thus: “I’d like to ask Jay what his favorite sandwich is.”
Ha! Now that’s what I call comedy. Everybody else would be asking about his comedy, his background, his influences and then I would roll in and hit him with, “What’s your favorite sandwich, Jay?” Ha! It was kind of Andy Kaufmanesque. And I loved Andy Kaufman. I picked up the phone and dialed the number. The line started ringing and my heart was racing wildly. On the fourth ring, it was picked up and a woman with a monotone voice said, “Larry King show, do you have a question for Jay Leno?” She sounded almost robotic.
“Yeah, I’ve got a question,” I answered the robot operator enthusiastically. “I want to ask Jay what his favorite sandwich is.”
This was greeted by silence. Dead silence. For a nanosecond, I thought I had been accidentally disconnected.
“Hello?” I queried to the silence.
“Hi,” the robotic woman replied. Great! We were still connected. She continued in her monotone voice, “Ummm, why do you want to ask Jay Leno what his favorite sandwich is?”
“Because it’s hilarious!” I told her. “This is really going to crack Larry and Jay up,” I assured her, and then I shut up I didn’t want to oversell the bit.
“It will?” she asked in her robotic monotone.
“Oh hell yes,” I said hoping that throwing in a minor curse word would bond us like kids hatching a plan to egg mean old Mr. Wilson’s house.
“Can I put you on hold for a few seconds?” she asked.
“Of course you can,” I responded in relaxing voice, trying to soothe her weary robot mind so she would see the genius of this question. Well, it worked. Within 15 seconds, she was back on the line. “Okay, you’ll be caller number three, turn the volume down on your TV. When you hear Larry talking on your phone, get ready to ask your question just like you said it to me.”
I was on. I WAS ON! I was the third caller. I was the king of the fucking world. Larry and Jay would love my question. They were going to crack up. We would all laugh together. They would laugh with me, not at me. Maybe Jay would talk about it on the Letterman show the next week. Maybe David Letterman would want to have me on as a guest. Maybe I would become a star out of this. I was just about to become the man who asked Jay Leno what his favorite sandwich was and soon the world would love me. Strangers would want to embrace me and take me into their homes and feed me pizza. About five minutes later, as I came to this realization, all of a sudden I heard Larry King’s voice in my phone.
“We have a caller from Peoria, Illinois. Do you have a question for Jay Leno?”
Oh, boy, did I have a question. And I asked it.
“Yeah, Larry,” I said, and then paused for comedic effect. “I’d like to ask Jay what his favorite sandwich is.”
Baboom. It was asked. I waited for heaven to part and the angels start singing and Jay and Larry to acknowledge my genius. I looked at the Panasonic and Larry was grimacing. Jay Leno looked like he had a sour stomach. Did they hear my question? Did I somehow speak in a foreign tongue? After an uneasy few seconds, Jay Leno spoke. “Well, I guess I’d say a Philly cheese-steak sandwich. Gee, Larry, what an inquisitive audience you have,” he said his voice dripping with sarcasm and contempt. “What’s the next caller going to ask me: What’s my favorite color?”
Larry was scowling. All of the sudden my world was spinning in the wrong direction. My stomach twisted into a pretzel knot as Larry uttered the following words: “Next caller.”
Next caller.
Fuck. Then my phone went dead. When the dial tone came on, I finally surrendered it to the base. They didn’t get it. Nobody laughed. Jay Leno thought I was stupid. Larry King hated me. David Letterman was never going to call me. And the poor robotic phone screener, she probably got handed her walking papers 10 seconds after the call hit the airwaves. Fuck! I turned the TV off and put the Who back on. “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Pete Townshend would’ve gotten it. He would’ve thought it was funny. And Keith Moon? Shit, he would’ve busted a gut over it.
“What’s your favorite sandwich?” That’s funny fucking stuff. I’m cracking myself up right now as I type the words. Fuck Larry King. Fuck Jay Leno. A lot of people never got Lenny Bruce, either. Shit, they locked that son of a bitch up in jail over some of his bits. Nobody knows the trouble me and Lenny have seen. Jay and Larry didn’t get my humor, but I knew as I passed out after drinking six more beers and cursing the lives of Jay Leno and Larry King, that Lenny was looking down at me and he was laughing. With me. Not at me.
The next day I woke up hungover and still a little high from the pot. I took a shower, took a bunch of aspirin, washed them down with a can of Diet Coke and wearily drove downtown to the printing factory where I worked as a four-color film stripper. I parked, made my way into the room where I worked with around nine other people, swiped my timecard and started making my way back to the light table where I sat. On my way there, I heard one of my coworkers, Dick Maurer, talking.
“I was watching Larry King last night and he had Jay Leno on,” Dick explained to about five co-workers gathered around his light table. “All of a sudden some guy from Peoria gets on, and this asshole asks Leno what his favorite sandwich is!”
“Hey, that asshole was me!” I shouted out to Maurer and his compatriots. “Holy shit! I thought I recognized that voice last night and it was you,” Maurer said, breaking out into laughter. “Why the hell did you call in and ask Jay Leno what his favorite sandwich is?”
“Because it’s funny. You know, everybody else is asking questions about his career, his background, his family and then I hit him with, ‘What’s your favorite sandwich, Jay!’ It’s on the level of an Andy Kaufman bit,” I explained to the group. They all just stared blankly at me. “It was funny!” I shouted out, and stomped my left foot on the concrete floor for emphasis.
No one said anything. They all slowly went to their light tables and went to work. I went to mine, muttering “fucking assholes” under my breath. For over 10 years, I never talked about that night of the Larry King show. By then, I was living in New York City, working nights and publishing my own humor magazine, fishwrap. It was 1996 and Ellen and Tracie, the two women who ran the company that distributed my magazine, were in town. We were having lunch at an outdoor cafe on the Upper West Side. About three bites into my grilled chicken sandwich, Tracie’s eyes got wide and she said, “Oh, my God, look who’s walking towards us.”
I turned around and saw a tall, stunning fortysomething blonde strutting our way on the sidewalk. Next to her, all slouched over, carrying all kinds of bags and a huge scowl coloring his face, was none other than Larry King. I started laughing.
“What’s so funny?” Ellen asked.
“Years ago,” I explained, “Larry King had Jay Leno on his show and I called in and got on air,” still laughing at the memory. “Oh, yeah,” Ellen inquired, “What did you ask him?” “I asked him,” I said, looking at the both of them while smiling widely and holding my hands up in the air for emphasis: “ ‘What’s your favorite sandwich?’”
Ellen looked at me like I was nuts.
Tracie just said six words: “Why did you ask him that?”
I decided right then and there that I’d never tell that fucking story again.
This essay originally appeared in Marty Wombacher's book The Boy Who Would Be a Firetruck.
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Three people you may have heard of—writer John Gruber, developer Brent Simmons, and designer Dave Wiskus—have joined forces to create Q Branch, an app development company whose first product is a $5 iPhone app called Vesper. The app, released Thursday, aims to help “collect your thoughts.”
Yes, it’s Yet Another iPhone Notes App. But it’s one that’s meticulously and tastefully designed—not surprising, coming from the principals of Q Branch. I’ve spent the past few weeks beta-testing the app, and in advance of the release I also talked to Gruber, Simmons, and Wiskus (all of whom have written for Macworld in the past) about what went into building it.
A notebook in your iPhone
There’s no shortage of notebook and reminder apps on iOS. I’ve used many of them, including Apple’s own Notes, Evernote, and a vast collection of text editors. And yet none of them has stuck for any length of time. The Q Branch group has had the same experience.
Vesper's full list view.
“I’d been waiting for [a note-taking app] I liked and wanted to use,” Simmons said. “That one just hadn’t appeared. There are good ones, for sure—but none that fit how I think and none that feel the way Vesper feels.”
I certainly can’t guarantee that I’ll stick with Vesper for the long haul, but I’ve been using it quite a lot for the past few weeks. The app’s core is a simple list of notes. Each note has a title, displayed in bold, with the first couple of lines displayed below it. Tap and hold to “pick up” a note and re-order the list in any way you like.
Tapping on a note enters the note editor. You can enter in as much text as you’d like, as well as attach a single image, which you can take directly from within Vesper or insert from your Camera Roll. Notes can be mailed, sent via message, or copied to the clipboard—there’s no syncing with other devices or any cloud-based sync services. Notes are organized via tags. Tap on the gray Tag button at the bottom of the note to add a tag, and a pretty orange pop-up will appear as you type, suggesting tags you’ve already entered.
Autocompletion of tags.
From the list view, you can tap the “hamburger” icon in the top left of the screen or just swipe from the left edge in order to display a filter list, which lets you limit the notes being displayed to those that contain a particular tag. There’s also an Archive list, where you can send old notes with a swipe.
Vesper doesn’t do much, but that’s the point. “We built it for ourselves,” Gruber said. “I think anyone who is like us—anyone who appreciates attention to detail, doing a few things really well instead of many things mediocrely—will love Vesper.”
Vesper's tag-filter list sidebar.
It’s visually striking. I like the typography (the app’s one and only body font is a custom-tweaked version of Hoefler and Frere-Jones’ Ideal Sans) and the design of the tags and the filter list. It’s simple enough not to get in my way with a lot of fiddly organizational features, but provides me with more structure than something like the Notes app. Tagging notes made a lot of sense—I immediately made Work, Writing, and Recipes tags. I commingled work notes, ideas for my novel, a favorite recipe for buttermilk biscuits, and an idea for my podcast without any trouble. Once I started treating it as the iPhone equivalent of a small paper notebook tucked into a pocket, it all began to fit.
That’s not to say there isn’t more to be done with the app. Syncing notes to other iOS devices (and perhaps a service like Dropbox) would be a natural, though I fear that any feature addition will make the app more cluttered, when simplicity is one of its real strengths. Too many fiddly feature additions and I’ll run screaming from it, just as I often do from Evernote.
The story of Q
Q is, of course, the mastermind who provides James Bond with all of his clever gadgets, as the leader of the British spy service’s Q Branch. (Vesper is the name of a cocktail invented by Bond as well as a pivotal character in Casino Royale.)
"Bond’s gadgets have always been at the intersection of utility and elegance," Gruber said. "That’s as good a motto for a software company as any."
“What I hope people pick up on is that in this scenario, we aren’t Bond,” Wiskus said. “We’re the people who make all the great tools for the agents to use.”
Here’s a look at the formation of Q Branch and the creation of Vesper in the words of its three creators.
Macworld: How did this project come about? When did you decide to work together? Did the idea for Vesper appear first, or did you decide to collaborate and then figure out what you wanted to build?
Simmons: Last year at Çingleton I talked to John and Dave about the three of us building an app, because it occurred to me that we’d make a great team, and I was looking for something new and awesome to do. John already had the idea for Vesper, but I didn’t know about it in advance.
Wiskus: Last summer, Justin Williams suggested that we work on an idea John mentioned to him. Justin had to drop out to keep up with freelance work, but I had completed a few iterations of design. When Brent pulled me and John aside in Montreal, we knew we wanted to work together but didn’t have anything in mind. I said, “Well, I have this idea of John’s I was working on,’ and showed them the early designs on my phone.
Gruber: Right. It was an old idea of mine from around 2009, but I had long ago figured I wouldn’t be able to build it myself, so over the years I had offered it to developer friends when they asked me if I had any ideas for apps. The difference with what we’ve done here is that I didn’t just contribute the idea, I was part of the team. I don’t consider ideas for apps all that valuable. It’s the implementation of an idea that matters.
Simmons: We talked it over, and decided pretty quickly that we’d build Vesper. Not long after that I decided to leave my then-current job and switch full-time to working on Vesper.
What was the division of labor on this project? What did John do, what did Brent do, and what did Dave do?
Simmons: I write code while Dave and John design. While I have input on design, it takes all my time keeping up with these madmen. Which I thoroughly enjoy. In the past I’ve designed my own software, though I didn’t necessarily do all the graphics. This is a very pleasant change for me—it’s great working with designers I trust, so I can concentrate on making those designs real. (Being a design-savvy engineer helps a ton.) I’m so proud of their work. Maybe they can’t say it, but I can: I think the design is hot. I love the way it looks and especially how it feels.
Wiskus: Our org chart is a Venn diagram, but simply: John and I would talk, then I would go draw pictures and give them to Brent. Then we’d all look at them, talk things through, try things out in implementation, and start the process over again.
"The last few years...have been the longest stretch in my life where I’ve done nothing new," Gruber said. "I had the itch."
John, what made you want to build an app?
Gruber: I didn’t seek it out. It’s Brent’s idea that we three would make a good team. But once he offered, I jumped at the chance. I’ve never worked with Brent before, but I’ve been using his software for over a decade now, and I’ve long been a beta tester on his stuff. I know his taste in software, and I know it matches mine. It sounded like fun, an opportunity I could not resist.
Secondarily, I’ve always tried to do new things. The last few years, where I’ve done nothing but write Daring Fireball, have been the longest stretch in my life where I’ve done nothing new. I had the itch.
The surprising part is how much designing for iPhone harkens back to my days doing print design. My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course as the years went on, I did more and more Web design and less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control. No control over the size of the canvas, severely limited selection of fonts, crude rendering resolution, etc.
The control and fidelity afforded by the iPhone—world-class fonts, high resolution output, control over the size and placement of everything on screen—made me feel right at home.
Vesper and Q Branch are James Bond references. Why the homage?
Gruber: Bond’s gadgets have always been at the intersection of utility and elegance. Serve a necessary purpose, reliably, and look good doing it. That’s as good a motto for a software company as any.
What does Vesper bring to the table that other apps don’t?
Gruber: A few things. For one, the design supports any size note, naturally. I have two-word notes, and 200-word notes. Vesper supports photo attachments, which few others do, and the ones that do tend to be complex, fussy apps. But the three big things are organization, prioritization, and feel.
With tags, I feel organized. I’ve got everything in my mind in Vesper. But with tags I can focus on just one area at a time. (E.g., I have a tag for articles I want to link to on Daring Fireball.)
With drag-and-drop reordering, I can keep important stuff at the top of my list. This drove me nuts in other notes apps, which sort by date. I’d always be opening week-old notes and adding meaningless changes, like an extra line at the end, just to get them to sort back to the top of my list. Vesper notes are like cards in a stack—it’s easy to move one to the top of the stack.
The last, feel, is the most subjective. But I think we’ve achieved something special with Vesper, where it feels both efficient and pleasing to use. I think this is more than just superficial. Our goal was to make it such that, if a quick little thought entered your head that you might want to put in Vesper, the appeal of using the app would push you over the edge to do it, to put it in Vesper rather than just keep it in your head. A complete reduction of friction.
Wiskus: Most apps of this type enforce some kind of philosophy. Some have books you need to read just to understand them. We wanted something that worked the way our brains did naturally.
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Technology firms have turned several industries on their head. The way people buy books, hail a ride home from the bar or find a room for the night while on vacation have all changed.
And now financial technology or fintech firms are turning their sights on the banking industry, but Canada's big banks aren't going to give up their dominant position without a fight.
Joanna Rotenberg, head of personal wealth management at BMO Financial Group, says the needs of customers are shifting and clients are seeking out digital tools to access and manage their money.
In response, earlier this year the Bank of Montreal launched its SmartFolio investment service, which offers a professionally managed portfolio online for a low fee.
"It's for clients who want support from human professionals," Rotenberg said. "It's not a robot behind the scenes, but people who want to be able to access that digitally versus needing the hand-holding and face-to-face support."
The BMO offering comes as companies like Wealthsimple, Nest Wealth and ModernAdvisor look to take a bite out of the big players by making easy-to-open accounts online and cheaper by using exchange-traded funds.
Rotenberg says it has been more than just digital-savvy millennials opening accounts with the new BMO service, adding that it has attracted the attention of a wide range of clients in both age and amount of savings they have to invest.
"You can't stereotype people in terms of who is interested. It really is about people who are looking for something that they can use on their smartphone, but they are going to get the money management support that they need," she said.
And it isn't just investing where the big banks are fighting off new competitors. Retail banking, long the bedrock of the big banks, is seeing new challengers offering basic banking services to Canadians who have long complained about the fees they pay.
Online banks like EQ Bank, which is backed by Equitable Bank, and Zag Bank, which is supported by Desjardins Group, have launched with promises of lower fees and high interest rates on deposits as well as apps to help people manage their money.
Among the big banks, Scotiabank and its Tangerine brand is the largest player in the online banking business. The former ING Bank of Canada operations, which Scotiabank acquired in 2012, was one of the first online banks in the country.
But the other big banks have also been upping their game in a bid to remain competitive by cutting fees and making it easier to open accounts and manage money online.
The Royal Bank has started offering unlimited free Interac e-transfer payments for personal chequing accounts, while CIBC is offering an account with a flexible fee that varies depending on how many transactions customers make. TD Bank has launched a real-time money management app to track spending habits from eligible TD accounts and credit cards.
Linda Mantia, executive vice-president, digital, payments and cards at RBC, said mobile applications have been a key focus.
"There's very few things that allow you to be more relevant to the client, more convenient to the client, more secure than other channels and obviously incredibly cost-effective," she said.
Royal Bank has recently launched a new version of its RBC Mobile and RBC Wallet apps and revamped the look of its online banking website. A redesign of its online brokerage site is on the way.
Mantia said RBC both works with and competes against fintech companies.
"We're pretty lucky in a lot of ways that we're able to work with some of the smaller players," she said.
"It is a bit win-win for us — to be scared of them, to meet with them, to visit them — because the last thing you want is for people who have always been in banking trying to reimagine banking. You need the stimulus of outsiders."
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BACK UP YOUR SAVE!
So, this is basically my favorite game on the vita!I made this save editor today.(It's in C#, I have never used that before, I'll put the source up on github later when it is cleaner and updated a bit more, don't worry.)Windows only, never thought I would do this, sorry!I want to add inventory/storage editing.I can already do simple stuff, like changing amounts, good for the dlc exp boosts(I will see if I can inject the dlc exp boosts to the save without needing to buy them)We can do cool stuff like having 255 scapedolls (I guess more, it's 16bit), instead of the normal max of 5.When I set scapedolls to FFFF, it didn't get used upon death, so that wasn't good.But stuff like monomates, if you set to FFFF, you can still use them (and the value won't even go down to FFFE)If anyone can have a look at items, how they are stored in the save, please shareI think items are stored in 16 bytes, but I might be wrong.I assumed monomates, dimates, trimates would be together in memory, but no they are spread out... strange.I can edit stuff like gran arts/technique levels, but I will add this stuff to the editor later.Any bugs etc, please tell me.Enjoy
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Doug Mataconis · · 7 comments
Today’s New York Times tries to figure out why there was a group of English soccer hooligans at the protests against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” on September 11th:
Among the non-New Yorkers who traveled to Lower Manhattan on Saturday to protest the neighborhood’s decision to allow an Islamic community center to be built were seven men who came from England bearing flags with slogans and the cross of St. George — a symbol of their nation and of the Crusades.
Those flags are often seen at soccer stadiums, when ultranationalist fans of England’s soccer team gather to cheer (and to fight fans of other nations), but they have been cropping up regularly at anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim protests in English cities over the past year.
That is because the men are members of the English Defense League, formed last year to counter what the men see as the threat posed to their national identity by immigrants to England and British-born Muslims who are neither white nor Christian.
As the British anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate explained last month, the E.D.L. is led by a former member of the British National Party, whose leader has made common cause with the Ku Klux Klan, and has “mushroomed from a coalition of former football hooligans into an enormous street army with the propensity for large-scale disorder and city center confrontations with the police.”[
(…)
After spending months working undercover on an 11-minute documentary about the group, Matthew Taylor reported, “A Guardian investigation has identified a number of known right-wing extremists who are taking an interest in the movement — from convicted football hooligans to members of violent right-wing splinter groups.”
(…)
In a report on the group, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz asked, “What are Israeli flags and Jewish activists doing at demonstrations sponsored by the English Defence League?” The newspaper answered the question this way: “Call it a struggle against a common foe: Islam. Or a journey into the heart of darkness. Or perhaps further proof that Europe is starting to lose its mind again.”
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Month after month I've taken the "over" for the employment report ("over" the consensus), and that has been correct most months. However, for January, I'll take the "under" ... however I think there is a good chance that employment will be up 3 million year-over-year (it would take 192 thousand jobs added including revisions).
Friday at 8:30 AM ET, the BLS will release the employment report for January. The consensus, according to Bloomberg, is for an increase of 230,000 non-farm payroll jobs in January (with a range of estimates between 215,000 and 268,000), and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 5.6%.
The BLS reported 252,000 jobs added in December.
Here is a summary of recent data:
• The ADP employment report showed an increase of 213,000 private sector payroll jobs in January. This was below expectations of 220,000 private sector payroll jobs added. The ADP report hasn't been very useful in predicting the BLS report for any one month, but in general, this suggests employment growth slightly below expectations.
• The ISM manufacturing employment index decreased in January to 54.1%. A historical correlation between the ISM manufacturing employment index and the BLS employment report for manufacturing, suggests that private sector BLS manufacturing payroll jobs were unchanged in January. The ADP report indicated a 14,000 increase for manufacturing jobs in January.
The ISM non-manufacturing employment index decreased in January to 51.6%. A historical correlation between the ISM non-manufacturing employment index and the BLS employment report for non-manufacturing, suggests that private sector BLS non-manufacturing payroll jobs increased about 115,000 in January.
Combined, the ISM indexes suggests employment gains of 115,000. This suggests growth below expectations.
• Initial weekly unemployment claims averaged close to 298,000 in January, up from 291,000 in December. For the BLS reference week (includes the 12th of the month), initial claims were at 308,000; this was up from 289,000 during the reference week in December.
Generally this suggests a few more layoffs, seasonally adjusted, in January compared to the previous four months (employment gains averaged 284,000 per month for the previous four months).
• The final January University of Michigan consumer sentiment index increased to 98.1 from the December reading of 93.6. This was the highest level in over ten years. Sentiment is frequently coincident with changes in the labor market, but this increase is probably mostly due to sharply lower gasoline prices.
• On small business hiring: The small business index from Intuit showed a 20,000 increase in small business employment in January, down from 30,000 added in November and December.
• Trim Tabs reported that the U.S. economy added between 190,000 and 220,000 jobs in January. This was down from their 210,000 to 240,000 range last month (that was low but close). "TrimTabs’ employment estimates are based on analysis of daily income tax deposits to the U.S. Treasury from the paychecks of the 141 million U.S. workers subject to withholding" December and January are challenging for TrimTabs due to year end bonuses - so they provided a range again this month.
• Conclusion: There is always some randomness to the employment report, but most indicators suggest fewer jobs added in January compared to the previous several months. The consensus forecast reflects some slowdown in employment growth, but I'll take the under this month (below 230,000).
Special Note: In addition to the normal revisions, the annual benchmark revision will be released with the January report. The preliminary estimate was an additional 7,000 jobs as of March 2014 (not a large revision).
Also, the new population controls will be used in the Current Population Survey (CPS) estimation process. The BLS notes that the "household survey data for January 2015 will not be directly comparable with data for December 2014 or earlier periods".
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Chapter Text
The world turned upside down on a Tuesday.
Thomas had been sitting at his computer, looking at pictures of other peoples’ cats. There was a brief moment of unaccustomed weightlessness, followed by a lurching feeling as he started falling. He hit the ceiling half a second later, denting the plaster and hurting his head. He lay there for a moment, rubbing his scalp, which was bleeding profusely in the way that minor head wounds sometimes did. Thomas let out a groan and moved slowly. When he looked up, he saw his cat, Bartleby, staring at him. From the floor.
“Help?” asked Thomas. His cat meowed.
He placed a hand on the ceiling, where he’d cracked the plaster. Bits of it fell past him, to where his cat was sitting. Bartleby, having seen enough, sauntered out of the room. Thomas stayed where he was. He touched the wound on his head, causing his fingers to come away bloody. He stared at them for a moment. There was enough blood for it to drip down; it fell toward the ceiling for a few brief fractions of a second, then reversed direction and fell toward the floor. Thomas looked up at the plaster and blood next to his computer chair, which had fallen over. Everything in the room was sitting just where it had been.
Thomas did what any savvy young person would do in a time like this; he pulled out his smartphone to consult the internet. Unfortunately, when he pulled it from his pocket, he suddenly realized that it was trying to get away with him, fleeing toward the floor. If he’d been prepared, it would have been no work at all to keep it in his grasp, but while he had decades of practice keeping a phone from falling from his grasp, he had no experience whatsoever with keeping a phone from falling up. The whole concept of gravity had been sundered into two pieces: the objective (everything in the world) and subjective (just Thomas). This would have been a pleasant epiphany had it not immediately followed his phone crashing into the ground. He winced when he saw the shattered screen.
The internet wasn’t going to be any help. It was unlikely that the internet would have been any help anyway, since Thomas was certain that he would have heard about it if anyone had ever had their personal gravity reversed; there wouldn't be any readily available FAQs or decades-old forum threads where the issue was hammered out. Still, he would have been able to go online to ask some pointed questions, which might have led him somewhere.
He rose on slow, unsteady feet, until he was standing on the ceiling. When he reached (subjective, Thomas oriented) up, he could just barely touch the phone. The screen was cracked, but there was no way of telling whether it was still working. Even going up to the balls of his feet, he only really succeeded in pushing the phone around. He was finally able to grab it by jumping for it, which brought another dusting of plaster past him as he landed back on the ceiling.
Thomas looked down. He was on the ceiling of the second floor of his house. The actual floors were built for the strain of people walking on them, but he wasn’t so sure that the same could be said for the ceilings. He had no idea what was beneath the plaster. There were probably some joists and insulation, then shingles beyond that. If he fell through the ceiling, what would happen? Would he continue falling into the sky? The thought was sobering enough that he moved away from the windows.
The phone wasn’t working, even after pulling the battery out then putting it back in to reset it. With the idea that this might actually be a dangerous situation to be in, Thomas reached up to grab his keyboard; luckily, it was a wireless one. While he was standing, he wasn’t in too bad of a position to look at his computer screen, though he had to hold into the keyboard with one hand so it wouldn't go falling to the floor, which meant typing with a single hand. It took a few moments to get his computer to flip the output of his monitor (Ctrl+Alt+F1), but then he was in business, with an open conduit to the internet and the wealth of problem-solving it contained.
It was all anyone was talking about. That was a relief -- it was proof that Thomas wasn’t crazy and wasn’t alone -- but it also meant that Thomas was nothing special. There were brief, half-buried thoughts at the back of his mind, that perhaps something strange and unique had happened to him. Maybe he wouldn’t have been Upside-Down Man, but there had been plenty of thoughts percolating, thoughts of money and attention. These all evaporated in the face of the worldwide news.
The thing that really brought it home was a video. It looked like a traffic cam, but it was much better quality than that, so Thomas thought perhaps it was one of those static cameras that TV stations cut to during commercial breaks. It showed a crowded pedestrian crosswalk somewhere in Asia. It was evening in America, which meant that it was early morning in China; people were going to work. One moment the mass of people were crossing the street, the next they were accelerating toward the sky. It was almost exactly what the Rapture was supposed to look like, at least in the movies and television shows that Thomas had seen. There was nothing peaceful about it though; these people were falling, their mouths open in screams that the camera's microphone wasn’t close enough to pick up. It only took a small slice of time for the crosswalks to be devoid of people. That was when Thomas saw the cars; there were people inside them, pressed up against the roofs. A few of the cars started to idle forward, heading towards collisions that their drivers weren't in control enough to stop. That was where the video cut out.
Thomas stared at the computer screen in mute horror. Then he rewound the video and did the math. He advanced it frame-by-frame, making best-guess measurements for height. Because there were so many people, it was easy to get references. He charted the seeming ascent of the people to confirm their acceleration away from the Earth. In the first second, they’d gone ten meters. In the second second, they’d gone thirty meters. That meant acceleration approximated ten meters per second per second, which was almost exactly equal to the force of gravity, only working in reverse.
The second half of the math was much more grim. Terminal velocity for a human was about two hundred kilometers per hour, which they would reach in about twelve seconds. People started having substantial trouble with oxygen deprivation at eight kilometers above sea level, which the people falling into the sky would reach in about two minutes. From there, the air would get thinner, increasing their speed and hastening their death from asphyxia. All this would have happened within five minutes. While Thomas was rubbing his head and fumbling with his phone, people had been dying. Anyone who had been standing outside when the change happened was almost certainly dead by the time he finally watched the video.
It was more than that though. Anyone in a car would have been lifted from their seat, jolted and disoriented even if they were wearing a seat belt. Thomas had felt mildly dizzy after his fall, which must have been from the fluid in his inner ear sloshing around. There would be car crashes, lots of them. Car crashes aside, even if you were stuck in an unmoving car, what would you do? How would you escape to the safety of indoors if you were under threat of falling into the sky? How would people get food? How was anyone who survived this first day supposed to keep on living?
Thomas began downloading a local copy of Wikipedia. If the change had happened worldwide, then it was only a matter of time until basic services were interrupted. Men and women at the power plants would have been thrown to the ceiling, which wouldn’t immediately cause the electric grid to shut down, but would impact their ability to correct any problems. That would lead to eventual failure. The same went for water pressure and internet service. While the five minute download of Simple English Wikipedia was going, Thomas began charging his e-reader to full power and moving over likely looking books from Amazon, grabbing everything that looked like it might be relevant. He reached up to grab his laptop from its satchel and began charging that as well. When he had all the transfers going, he moved to the bathroom and turned the water on full blast. If water pressure went, a bathtub full of water would keep him from dying of dehydration.
Once all that was finished, Thomas sat on the ceiling of his bedroom and thought about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Physiological needs came first; that meant food, water, air, clothing, and shelter. The bathtub full of water would take care of dehydration for the time being. Assuming that he could get down to the first floor, he could eat something in the kitchen. He made a quick mental note to eat things that were frozen or refrigerated first, in case the loss of electricity was imminent. He would have to take inventory, but he doubted that he had enough food for more than two weeks, and that was with rationing factored in. He had shelter and clothing covered just fine, though his shirt and pants seemed to follow the regular laws of gravity, which meant that they would need some modifications in order to reduce annoyance; his shirt was resting on his armpits rather than his shoulders. He'd have to find some suspenders and garters to keep everything where it was supposed to be. Reducing annoyance was high up the hierarchy of needs though; comfort would have to come later.
Thomas began preparing to go looting without any real conscious decision; it simply came to him as a thing that needed doing.
Getting downstairs was a challenge, one that mostly involved standing on the second floor ceiling in order to try to find a grip on the first floor ceiling. He’d never really taken note of the fact that the stairs from the first floor to the second floor had a high ceiling, but now it was all too apparent. If he planned to stay in his house, Thomas was going to have to put some upside down stairs there, secured with nails, or at least make an incline of some sort. Once on the first floor, he made his way to the hall closet, where he found one of the things he’d need to make it in this new world; his climbing kit.
He and Lillian had gotten into rock climbing together. There was an indoor rock-climbing gym downtown that had cheap prices and an auto-belay system that didn’t really require any sort of knowledge except how to wear a harness and how to clip in a carabiner. That had been the gateway that they’d needed. From there, it wasn’t too big a jump to buying his own harness instead of renting one. The shoes had followed soon after, a pair that he and Lillian had bought together, so that their kit matched. He’d bought the rope and carabiners for outdoor climbing, though they’d only done that two or three times at a few of the local spots.
As with most hobbies, Thomas had eventually dropped climbing. He’d considered himself fortunate to have come away from it having only spent a few hundred dollars. There had been other hobbies that had taken him in much more completely, which had eaten thousands of dollars before he’d eventually grown bored. Lillian had kept up with climbing though; that was one of the things that had driven a wedge between them. Climbing had been something they’d done together, a few hours three or four times a week. After Thomas had stopped, it became something that kept them apart for a few hours three or four times a week. It wasn’t too much of a surprise when Lillian said that their relationship had run its course, though it still hurt.
The only reason that his climbing gear was in a closet in his home instead of a cubby at the climbing gym was that Lillian had called him up to ask him whether she could use it. Thomas had said yes, because he didn’t want to feel like an ass, but the only explanation for Lillian borrowing a men’s harness was if she was going climbing with an uninitiated man who didn’t have equipment of his own. Thomas had gone down to the gym the next day (careful to go at a time when he knew that Lillian wouldn’t be there) in order to take his climbing gear back. If she called him to ask again, he could simply say that he’d decided to sell it, or that he’d gone outdoor climbing, or some other excuse. They’d had a reasonably amicable breakup, but that was no reason to let Lillian’s new boyfriend have something of his.
That small, admittedly petty act was now going to put Thomas in the top percentile of people most likely to survive. He started by stepping into the harness, which needed only a few straps loosened to compensate for the pudge that came with months of a sedentary lifestyle. After that, he threaded the rope through and tied the necessary knots, then tested them, mostly to make sure that he still remembered how to tie them correctly. The next question was where to find the appropriate counterweight.
Thomas weighed 190 lbs. He would need to find something that weighed that much just to keep him stuck to the earth. Anything less would just be pulled with him as he fell into the sky, like a teddy bear being pulled from a child’s hand by a helium balloon. Just for the sake of safety, Thomas figured on needing an extra twenty pounds of weight. His other big parameter was movement; the nearest place to stock up on food was a gas station, but that was still three full blocks away. In addition to the problem of getting there, Thomas also needed to consider the problem of trying to get back.
There were weights in the basement, but only two adjustable dumbbells that totaled up to a hundred pounds. They were fancy, because you could dial in however much you wanted to exercise with to within five pounds. In this particular situation (one he had never considered when he was buying the dumbbells) Thomas would have been much better off with separate weights that could all be tied together. After looking around his house for a bit, Thomas settled on using the coffee table in the middle of the room as additional weight. It was a huge, ugly thing, but it was also a hundred pounds, which served his purpose. Lifting the coffee table was far easier than he’d expected it to be; all he had to do was reach up, grab it, and then pull down on it using his full weight. It didn’t feel like carrying anything at all; instead, it felt like hanging down from a pull-up bar so that he was only putting a small amount of weight on his feet.
He assembled everything in the basement, where the ceiling was much lower. That way he could reach up towards the floor without having to try for extra height. He used the coffee table and the weights together, wrapping his rope around them several times and tying the knots as tight as he could. When he was finished, he pulled himself up and dangled from this contraption, so that his feet were a few inches from the ceiling. He tugged on it in a few different ways, then began swinging himself from side to side in order to do a stress test. If it failed here, he would fall a foot or two to the basement ceiling. The worst that would happen would be that he would bruise his tailbone. If the counterweight system failed out there, he would fall into the sky, where he would die of hypoxia and presumably become a floating corpsicle. Everything held, which meant that it would be safe enough.
The only thing keeping him back was the thought that perhaps gravity would take another turn. Before today, his prior probability for the personal gravity of everyone in the world reversing direction was in the thousandths of a thousandth of a percent, but after it had happened once, his prior probability that it would happen again necessarily had to increase by a very large margin.
If he knew that gravity was going to go back to normal in the next few days, he would certainly stay in his house instead of venturing out; food and water weren’t going to be an issue in the immediate future.
If he knew that gravity was going to stay in its current configuration indefinitely, or at least as long as the next month, he would leave the house as quickly as possible in order to gather enough food to prevent starvation, and ideally gather whatever supplies would be needed to survive into the future, beyond the timescale of months.
He could try to split the difference and bide his time. Even though he had no way to gauge the odds of gravity returning back to normal, he knew that if t was the time since the change, then as t increased, the odds that gravity would change back at t+1 decreased. Every passing minute made him marginally more confident that this was simply the new order of the world. So as t increased, the confidence in the necessity of making this perilous journey would also increase. Unfortunately, looting had definitive advantages for the people who moved first. Worse, waiting too long would begin to exhaust Thomas’ supplies, not just in terms of material things like food, but willpower and mental acuity as well. If he stayed at home with not much to do, with the gears turning, would he still have the courage to embark tomorrow?
He wore an old biking helmet, which would hopefully protect him in the event of a sudden acceleration towards the ground. In his backpack, one he hadn’t used since college, he put two liters of water, a number of snacks like trail mix and protein bars, a first aid kit from the bathroom, his wallet, and his laptop, which was now full of charge and loaded down with every resource he’d thought to cram it with. Backpacks were unfortunately designed to be assisted by gravity; their straps rested the weight on the shoulders. He had to use carabiners in order to secure it to his climbing harness, but that put the weight right on his legs, which were already carrying the weight of his body in a way that the human musculoskeletal system wasn’t designed for. The last thing he grabbed before setting out were two flashlights, in case it had grown dark by the time he returned. His cat watched these preparations with idle curiosity.
Thomas’ inner ear had finally stopped fighting with his visual cortex. In the beginning, the inner ear had been saying that he was right side up when his feet were on the ceiling but his visual cortex had been saying that he was upside down, likely based on decades of training in making just that determination. It was mildly disorienting, but nothing that he hadn’t been able to handle. Now though, the inner ear -- which was much more insistent -- had won out. The houses and trees were stalactites on the roof of an enormous cave so tall that the bottom was invisible.
With a deep breath and not too much more time for second guessing, Thomas set out toward the garage. Movement was a matter of lifting up one of the dumbells and swinging it forward, then swinging the other one forward, then reaching up to grab the coffee table and awkwardly rocking it. It was slow, but seemed safe enough. After a few cycles of this, Thomas was out of the house and dangling into the open air. There was nothing to catch him if his counterweights or ropes failed. After debating it for a few moments, he left the door partly open so that Bartleby could escape. There was no sense dooming the cat to death by starvation if Thomas fell into the sky.
The trip to the garage took fifteen minutes of awkward movement, where before it had taken a handful of seconds. Extrapolating from that and accounting for increases in efficiency as he got better at it, Thomas still would have taken half a day to get to the gas station, which was the nearest point where there was food to be found in quantity. It was bad enough without the psychological terror of looking at the sky and seeing a quick death by oblivion there. Fortunately, he had a car.
Getting into the car was an ordeal. Opening the car door was easy enough from his dangling position, as was lifting the weights in, but the coffee table proved unwieldy. Without it, Thomas would have no way to get out of the car without risking death by falling. He eventually crammed it into the backseat with some difficulty by moving his weight around, but the ropes meant that he wouldn’t be able to fully close his doors. He got in the driver’s seat by flipping himself around, pushing his hands against the ceiling of the car, and then hastily buckling himself in. The average seat belt wasn’t really designed to keep someone from floating up, but it was better than nothing. He clipped himself to his seat belt as well, so that in the event of a crash he would have some redundant mechanisms keeping him stuck to the earth.
Driving was a slow, painful process. In fact, everything outside the house seemed to consist of awkward and tedious processes. The car functioned the same as it ever had, but the pedals that controlled the gas and brake were difficult to reach because he had to work against gravity. Blood was pooling in Thomas’ brain from almost the moment he had turned himself upside down, so after he was out of the driveway, he had to turn the car off, turn himself around so he was sitting on the ceiling of the car, and wait to regain some semblance of proper blood flow. This mostly confirmed his initial thought that everyone who had been in a car or truck when the change happened was not long for the world.
During that rest, Thomas began thinking in the long-term. Stocking up at the gas station would mean that he could survive for a matter of months. He would be able to set out rain barrels, which would take care of water easily enough by the time his bathtub cache had gone dry. It was early September, which meant that winter would need some thinking about. His house was insulated, but he had to assume that electricity would be a thing of the past when he would need to heat the house. That meant he would either need to move to a warmer climate, with all the problems that driving there would involve, or find a way to make a fire every day in a house that didn’t have a fireplace. Thomas was thinking like a scavenger, but eventually there would be nothing left to scavenge. He would have to learn how to farm, but with all the added effort of clipping weights to himself. He would also have to scavenge weapons from somewhere in order to be able to hunt.
But beyond those concerns, was there a life worth living in this new world? A conservative estimate said that maybe 20% of the people in his city were now dead. More would die from wounds they had sustained in those brief, unexpected falls that had marked the change. How many people had broken bones with no hope of emergency services or doctors coming to help? Starvation (and the desperation that came with it) would eventually claim more lives. Everyone that survived would be reduced to subsistence farming.
Yet even with these thoughts, Thomas continued on. If there was no life worth living with things the way they were, suicide was as easy as unclipping his harness, but there was no way to chart out the course of the future with the information he had available to him.
When he pulled up to the gas station, he was surprised to see people inside. He maneuvered the car as close to the front door as possible, then opened his car door. An older man, who was standing on the ceiling of the gas station next to a rack of postcards, opened the door.
“You an idiot?” he asked.
“Excuse me?” asked Thomas.
“Why in the hell are you out driving?” asked the man. He rubbed his head. “We seen too many fall into the sky. Indoors is the only place that’s safe.”
“I needed supplies,” said Thomas. He wasn’t sure why he had thought there wouldn’t be people in the gas station. In his head, he’d matched what was happening to the patterns that the movies always presented of apocalypses. Maybe that was because he’d seen the video of all those people falling to their deaths; it was easy to imagine what had happened as being the Rapture. He’d thought that if he was going to run into anyone, it would be another looter. Yet now that he thought about it for five seconds, of course it made sense. A gas station almost always had at least one person in it. When the flip happened, they would have ended up on the ceiling. In a zombie apocalypse, the gas stations ended up abandoned, because the workers didn’t really have a reason to be there. But here, they wouldn’t have had any ability to leave.
“Supplies?” asked the man. He rubbed his head again. “Well, come on in, I guess. How is it out there?”
“I didn’t come too far,” said Thomas. “Just three blocks.”
A woman was sitting cross-legged on the ceiling with a phone in her lap. She wore a t-shirt with the local college’s name emblazoned on the front. The older man was wearing a button-down shirt with his name on a patch. Thomas mentally labeled them customer and attendant. There were two cars out by the pumps though, which meant there was an extra person not accounted for.
“So you’re here to loot us?” asked the woman.
“I can pay,” said Thomas. He was about to unzip his backpack when he realized that it would be disgorge its contents onto the floor if he did that. “I can pay,” he repeated lamely. Most of his money was in the form of credit cards, not cash. Both were now of dubious worth.
“I don’t blame you for looting,” said the woman. “It’s what I would have done, if I thought I could make it to my car.” She pointed to a silver Toyota next to one of the pumps.
“No one is looting anything,” said the attendant. “I don’t know that I can let you just buy things though.” He frowned in thought.
“You can have whatever you want,” said the woman, “So long as you help us get out of here.”
“Now hold on just a minute,” said the man. He turned to the woman. “You don’t have any claim on what’s in this store.”
“What’s the plan then?” asked the woman. “We were stuck here until he showed up. Our options included trying to get into one of the cars or staying here until the power went out and we ran out of food. You were planning on splitting food with me, right?”
“I suppose,” the man said slowly.
“Well, if you take into account the fact that I would be eating half the food in this place, then if this guy leaves with me, it seems like he should be entitled to some amount of the food as a reward.”
“My name’s Thomas,” said Thomas.
“Juliette,” said the woman. She held out her hand, which Thomas shook.
“Randall,” said the attendant with a nod. “Now I suppose I would split some food, if it came to that, but maybe this whole thing works itself out. Maybe I can explain to my boss that I couldn’t let you starve, but that’s a whole heap different than letting you take off with half the food.”
“It won’t just be food,” said Juliette. “We’ll need batteries, rope, flashlights, I saw some patching kits over there, tools we can use, things like that.”
“No,” said Randall. He shook his head. “That’s too much. Things you need to survive, that’s one thing, but you’re talking about the long term. You can’t use these resources to hunker down on your own.”
“I’m not hunkering down,” said Juliette. “I’m going to launch a rescue mission.”
“You’re what?” asked Thomas.
“A rescue mission,” replied Juliette. She turned to look at him. “Most people are trapped inside their houses or places of business. Everyone who survived the initial fall into the sky is safe, so long as they stay in one place. But in the long term, we’re going to need to work together if we want to pull through this. Right now, I think our first priority is going to be mobility.” She pointed at the ropes and harness that Thomas was wearing. “I assume you know where we can find more of those?”
“There’s a climbing gym downtown,” said Thomas. He felt slightly dazed. Though neither of them had mentioned it, his head was still sticky with blood where he’d hit it on his ceiling.
“We’ll go there first,” said Juliette. “Wait, there’s a gym a block from here, maybe we’ll stop there first in order to get some weights. We’ve got to figure out a foolproof method of moving around and weights are going to be part of that.”
“I didn’t agree to anything,” said Thomas.
“You have some rudimentary understanding of rock climbing,” said Juliette. “I need you. And what are our other options here? Grab as much food for ourselves as we can, hide out until civilization crumbles, then starve to death or be reduced to hunter-gatherers? That’s crap.”
Thomas wavered. “I don’t think two people can keep civilization together.”
“Of course not,” said Juliette. “Civilization is a process, one that take more than a handful. But the first step is getting mobility, not just for us, but for a small core of people. We need to do it while the communication networks are still up and running. Furthermore, we need to build communication networks that can survive a temporary or even semi-permanent loss of power. Hand-cranked radios, if we can find them. Walkie-talkies, maybe. If I’d had my laptop, I’d be downloading as much information from the internet as possible, survival manuals and schematics for how to build things back up if it comes to that … but before any of that, I need to secure a way out of this gas station. How about it?”
Thomas paused. She’d just thrown his plans into disarray. She’d driven a sense of hope into him like a stick stuck into the wheel of a moving bicycle. “Okay,” he said. “We’ll give it a shot.”
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By Ralph Nader
The editor of The Hill, a newspaper exclusively covering Congress, said that Congress was not going to do very much in 2012, except for “the big bill” which is extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment compensation, which expire in late February. That two month extension will likely reignite the fight between Democrats and Republicans that flared last month.
In 2012, Congress, the editor implied, would be busy electioneering. That is, the Senators and Representatives will be busy raising money from commercial interests so they can keep their jobs. There won’t be much time to change anything about misallocated public budgets, unfair tax rules, undeclared costly wars, and job-depleting trade policies that, if fixed, would increase employment and public investment.
So this year, Congress will spend well over $3 billion on its own expenses to do nothing of significance other than shift more debt to individual taxpayers by depleting the social security payroll tax by over $100 billion so both parties can say they enacted a tax cut! That is what the Democrats in Congress and the President call a significant accomplishment.
Will someone call a psychiatrist? This is a Congress that is beyond dysfunctional. It is an obstacle to progress in America, a graveyard for both democracy and justice. No wonder a new Washington Post-ABC news poll found an all time high of 84 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing.
Both Republicans and Democrats say they want to reduce the deficit. But they are avoiding, in varying degrees, doing this in any way that would discomfort the rich and powerful. One would think that, especially in an election year, the following legislative agenda would be very popular with the voters.
First, restore the taxes on the rich that George W. Bush cut ten years ago which expanded the deficit. So clueless are the Democrats that they have not learned to use the word “restore” instead of the Republican word “increase” when talking about taxes that were previously cut for the millionaires and billionaires.
Second, collect unpaid taxes. The IRS estimates that $385 billion of tax revenues are not collected yearly. If the IRS budget increased and more people were hired, every dollar it spent would return $200 from tax evaders, including corporations and the wealthy. When taxes are not collected, the large majority of honest taxpayers are left with the unfair consequences. Imagine that money being applied to jobs that repair our crumbling public works.
Third, end the outrageous corporate loopholes that allow profitable large corporations to pay just half of the statutory tax rate of thirty-five percent. More than a few pay less than five percent and many pay zero on major profits. During a recent three year period, according to the Citizens for Tax Justice, a dozen major corporations such as Verizon and Honeywell paid no taxes on many billions of profits, and the legendary tax escapee, General Electric, managed to pay zero and even receive billions in benefits from the U.S. Treasury.
Fourth, do what most U.S. soldiers in the field have believed should have been done years ago–get out of Afghanistan and Iraq and nearby countries like Kuwait where thousands of U.S. soldiers based in Iraq have moved.
Fifth, to increase consumer demand, which creates jobs, raise the federal minimum wage from the present level of $7.25–which is $2.75 less than it was way back in 1968, adjusted for inflation–to $10 per hour. Businesses who keep raising prices and executive salaries (eg. Walmart and McDonalds) since 1968 should be reminded of their windfall in that period.
In addition, President Obama can urge mutual and pension funds and individual shareholders to demand higher dividends from companies like EMC, Google, Apple, Cisco, Oracle and others firms hoarding two trillion dollars in cash as if this money was the corporate bosses’, not the owner-shareholders. More dividends, more consumer demand, more jobs.
Want to know why Congress doesn’t make such popular and prudent decisions for the American people? Because the people are not objecting to all the power that their Congressional representatives and their corporate allies have sucked away from them. Because the people are not putting teeth and time into the “sovereignty of the people” expressed in the preamble to our Constitution which begins with “We the people,” not “We the corporation.”
So citizens, it’s your choice. If you don’t demand a say day after day, you’ll continue to pay day after day.
By the way, the Congressional switchboard number is 202-224-3121.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton believes women’s health, child marriage, and climate change are “interconnected.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVWDgz23Ino
“Just listening to the concerns around education and climate change, women’s health, child marriage, access to technology, all of those are of course interconnected,” Clinton said while participating on a panel at the CARE National Conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. She added, “We have to focus on each of them in their interconnectedness, as well as individual outrages that do demand our attention.”
The event was broadcast live on C-SPAN.
The event host introduced Clinton as an “activist, thought leader, and change agent.”
Clinton did not elaborate or explain why she believes climate change and child marriage are “interconnected.”
Child marriage has existed for thousands of years.
Clinton appeared on the panel with fellow former first daughter Barbara Bush. Also on the panel was Global Fund for Women President and CEO Musimni Kanyoro and founder and Editor-in-Chief of Muslimgirl.com Amani al-Khatahtbeh.
In March, Bush delivered the keynote address at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in North Texas.
“I am proud to stand with Planned Parenthood not only because women, regardless of where they are from, deserve to live dignified, healthy lives,” she said, “because it’s a really good investment. We know that when women are healthy, their families and their children are healthier too.”
Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
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Aug. 28, 2016, 12:14 PM GMT / Updated Aug. 28, 2016, 1:37 PM GMT By The Associated Press
AMATRICE, Italy — Bulldozers and other heavy equipment rolled through Italy's quake-devastated town of Amatrice on Sunday, pulling down dangerously overhanging ledges and clearing rubble as investigators tried to figure out if negligence in enforcing building codes added to the quake's high death toll.
Investigations will focus on a number of structures, including an elementary school in Amatrice that crumbled when the quake hit Wednesday. The school was renovated in 2012 to resist earthquakes at a cost of 700,000 euros ($785,000).
Questions also surround a bell tower in Accumoli that collapsed, killing a family of four sleeping in a neighboring house — including a baby of 8 months and a 7-year-old boy. That bell tower also had been recently restored with special funds allocated after Italy's last major earthquake, in L'Aquila in 2009.
Firefighters gather near the damaged Sant'Agostino church in Amatrice on Sunday. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP - Getty Images
The quake early Wednesday killed 290 people and injured hundreds as it flattened three medieval towns in central Italy. Giuseppe Saieva, the prosecutor in the regional capital of Rieti, said the high human death toll "cannot only be considered the work of fate."
He said for now, police investigators remained focused on recovery efforts but once that emergency phase has passed, they will concentrate on the investigations.
Italy's state museums, meanwhile, embarked on a fundraising campaign, donating their proceeds Sunday to relief and reconstruction efforts in the earthquake zone.
Wednesday's 6.2 magnitude quake destroyed not only private homes but also churches and other centuries-old cultural treasures. The idea is to use art for art — harnessing the nation's rich artistic heritage to help recover and restore other objects of beauty in the hard-hit towns.
Related: Tears Flow as Italy Holds Mass Funeral for Quake Victims
Overnight was relatively calm, the first since the quake struck without strong aftershocks. In all, the region has seen 1,820 aftershocks, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
On Saturday, mourners prayed, hugged, wept and even applauded as coffins carrying earthquake victims passed by at a state funeral in the town of Ascoli Piceno.
The caskets of 35 people had been brought to a community gym — one of the few structures in the area still intact. The local bishop, Giovanni D'Ercole, celebrated Mass beneath a crucifix he had retrieved from one of the damaged churches.
Relatives mourn over a coffin of one of the earthquake victims prior to the funeral service Saturday. Gregorio Borgia / AP
Emotions that had been dammed up for days broke in a crescendo of grief. One young man wept over a little girl's white coffin. Many mourners were recovering from injuries themselves, some wrapped in bandages.
As all of Italy observed a day of national mourning, Bishop D'Ercole urged residents to rebuild their communities.
"Don't be afraid to cry out your suffering — I have seen a lot of this — but please do not lose courage," D'Ercole said. "Only together can we rebuild our houses and our churches."
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The Mayor of London has said Brexit could be halted if the Labour Party made staying in the European Union a manifesto policy, and won the next election.
Sadiq Khan said it could still be possible to ‘trump the referendum’ result by effectively putting it back to the public as a manifesto pledge.
The Mayor has made the intervention at a time his party is in turmoil over its own position, though he has never waivered in his pro-EU stance.
He told the Guardian: ‘For it to have credibility with the British public, there would have to be a Labour manifesto offer, because the public would say, not unreasonably “Hold on a sec, we voted to leave and you’re now sticking two fingers up at us”.
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A Google logo is seen at the garage where the company was founded on Google's 15th anniversary in Menlo Park, California September 26, 2013. REUTERS/Stephen Lam
(Reuters) - Google Inc has acquired solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace as the Web search giant ramps up plans to deliver wireless Internet access to remote parts of the world.
Titan Chief Executive Vern Raburn declined to provide information on the price of the deal, which he said closed on Monday morning.
The 20-person company will remain in New Mexico for the foreseeable future, Raburn said, with all employees joining Google.
The deal could further Google’s efforts to deliver Internet access to remote regions of the world. Last year Google launched a small network of balloons designed to deliver Internet access over the Southern Hemisphere, dubbed as Project Loon.
“Atmospheric satellites could help bring internet access to millions of people, and help solve other problems, including disaster relief and environmental damage like deforestation,” Google said in an emailed statement confirming the Titan acquisition.
Google’s acquisition of Titan comes several weeks after rival Facebook Inc announced plans to build solar-powered drones and satellites capable of beaming Internet access to underdeveloped parts of the world. A few weeks before Facebook’s announcement, press reports said that Facebook was in discussions to acquire Titan.
Titan is developing a variety of solar-powered “atmospheric satellites,” according to the company’s website, with initial commercial operations slated for 2015. The drones, which fly at an altitude of 65,000 feet and can remain aloft for up to five years and have a 165-foot (50-meter) wingspan, slightly shorter than that of a Boeing 777.
News of the acquisition was first reported on Monday by the Wall Street Journal.
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Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter made a recent proclamation that grabbed the attention of the L.A. Times, but flew under the radar of most people in Idaho. On the same day that the federal government shut down and Idaho's new health exchange launched, Gov. Otter declared Oct. 1 "Aaron Paul Sturtevant Day".
WHEREAS, “Aaron Paul” first became a household name for his role as “Jesse
Pinkman” on the popular AMC series “Breaking Bad;” and WHEREAS, Aaron won two Emmy Awards for “Outstanding Supporting Actor in a
Drama Series” for his role in “Breaking Bad” in 2010 and 2012; and WHEREAS, anyone who watched Aaron Paul’s performance in “Breaking Bad”
witnessed the devastating, tragic impacts of methamphetamine use on individuals, and the
scourge that meth has become to our communities and society; and WHEREAS, Aaron Paul continues to be an ambassador for the State of Idaho throughout
the nation and is an inspiration to all Idahoans; NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, hereby
proclaim October 1, 2013, as Aaron Paul Sturtevant Day.
Aaron Paul Sturtevant, who goes by Aaron Paul, played the meth-cooking Jessie Pinkman in AMC's "Breaking Bad." The hit show's finale was Sept. 30, but the show's much-anticipated end wasn't the final word in Idaho. The governor's proclamation came two weeks after the Emmett-born actor rented out the Egyptian Theatre in downtown Boise for a screening of one of the final episodes.
According to Otter's spokesman Jon Hanian, a proclamation of this kind isn't unusual.
"He's obviously had great success in his chosen profession, winning accolades and honors for his role in 'Breaking Bad.' He speaks fondly of Boise and of the state and of his experience of growing up here," Hanian says.
Hanian says he's not sure if the governor is a fan of the show, but he says Otter wanted to recognize this "Idaho son," despite his living in L.A. for the past several years.
And for those who missed the feverishly hyped visit from Paul at the Egyptian, Bushmill's whiskey produced this video documenting it. The whiskey company sponsored his trip to the City of Trees, as Paul refers to Boise. In the video Paul sips whiskey with some friends and talks about his Idaho roots -- and "staying grounded" in Hollywood.
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Don't start thinking that landing a rocket's first stage is routine just yet, as SpaceX has just posted video of its latest attempt. The Falcon 9 rocket successfully delivered two satellites to orbit, however when it returned to Earth everything did not go exactly to plan. The live video feed cut out so we weren't sure exactly what happened, but now Elon Musk has tweeted video from afar showing the landing process. According to Musk, one of the engines cut out before it hit the deck of the droneship, causing a landing hard enough to "destroy the primary airframe and accordion the engines." We're guessing there's not enough left for this one to join the trophy case, but that's just how it happens in 2016, which Musk is calling "the year of experimentation."
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B. Sherwood Lollar et al. A scientist takes a sample of water from a mine deep underground in Ontario, Canada. The water turned out to be 2.6 billion years old, the oldest known water on Earth.
By Charles Q. Choi
LiveScience
A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old — the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life — has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth's surface.
The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature, raises the tantalizing possibility that ancient life might be found deep underground not only within Earth, but in similar oases that may exist on Mars, the scientists who studied the water said.
Geoscientist Barbara Sherwood Lollar at the University of Toronto and her colleagues have investigated deep mines across the world since the 1980s. Water can flow into fractures in rocks and become isolated deep in the crust for many years, serving as a time capsule of what their environments were like at the time they were sealed off.
In gold mines in South Africa 1.7 miles (2.8 kilometers) deep, the scientists previously discovered microbes could survive in pockets of waterisolated for tens of millions of years. These reservoirs were many times saltier than seawater, "and had chemistry in many ways similar to hydrothermal vents on the bottom of the ocean, full of dissolved hydrogen and other chemicals capable of supporting life," Sherwood Lollar said. [Strangest Places Where Life Is Found on Earth]
To see what other ancient pockets of water might exist, Sherwood Lollar and her colleagues investigated copper and zinc mines near the city of Timmins in Ontario, Canada. "As the prices of copper, zinc and gold have gone up, mines now go deeper, which has helped our search for long-isolated reservoirs of water hidden underground," Sherwood Lollar said.
'Mind-blowing' find
"Sometimes we went down in cages — they're not called elevators underground — that dropped us to the levels we wanted to go," Sherwood Lollar told OurAmazingPlanet. "Other times, we went down ramp mines, which have curling spiral roadways, so we could actually drive all the way down."
The scientists analyzed water they found 2 miles (2.4 km) deep. They focused on noble gases such as helium, neon, argon and xenon. Past studies analyzing bubbles of air trapped within ancient rocks found that these rare gases could occur in distinct ratios linked with certain eras of Earth's history. As such, by analyzing the ratios of noble gases seen in this water, the researchers could deduce the age of the water.
The scientists discovered the fluids were trapped in the rocks between 1.5 billion and 2.64 billion years ago.
"It was absolutely mind-blowing," Sherwood Lollar said. "These weren't tens of millions of years old like we might have expected, or even hundreds of millions of years old. They were billions of years old."
The site was formed by geological activity similar to that seen in hydrothermal vents. "We walked along what used to be ocean floor 2.7 billion years ago," Sherwood Lollar said. "You could still see some of the same pillow lava structures now seen on the bottom of the ocean."
Signs of life?
This ancient water poured out of the boreholes the team drilled in the mine at the rate of nearly a half-gallon (2 liters) per minute. It remains uncertain precisely how large this reservoir of water is.
"This is an extremely important question and one that we want to pursue in our future work," Sherwood Lollar said. "We also want to see if there are habitable reservoirs of similar age around the world."
Sherwood Lollar emphasized they have not yet found any signs of life in the water from Timmins. "We're working on that right now," she said. "It'd be fascinating to us if we did, since it'd push back the frontiers of how long life could survive in isolation."
And the implications of such a finding would extend beyond the extremes of life on Earth.
"Finding life in this energy-rich water is especially exciting if one thinks of Mars, where there might be water of similar age and mineralogy under the surface," Sherwood Lollar said.
If any life once arose on Mars billions of years ago as it did on Earth, "then it is likely in the subsurface," Sherwood Lollar said. "If we find the water in Timmins can support life, maybe the same might hold true for Mars as well."
Follow OurAmazingPlanet @OAPlanet, Facebook and Google+.Original article at LiveScience's OurAmazingPlanet.
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A searcher walks through the debris of a deadly mudslide in Oso, Wash. At least 18 people have been confirmed dead. Up to 30 more are probably entombed in a thick gray muck, swallowed by the land, perhaps never to be seen again.
March 29, 2014 A searcher walks through the debris of a deadly mudslide in Oso, Wash. At least 18 people have been confirmed dead. Up to 30 more are probably entombed in a thick gray muck, swallowed by the land, perhaps never to be seen again. Elaine Thompson/AP
People are still unaccounted for after a March 22 massive landslide in rural northwest Washington state killed at least 18 people, authorities said.
People are still unaccounted for after a massive landslide in rural northwest Washington state killed at least 16 people and forced evacuations of the area because of fears of flooding, authorities said.
People are still unaccounted for after a massive landslide in rural northwest Washington state killed at least 16 people and forced evacuations of the area because of fears of flooding, authorities said.
LoAnna Langton saw the mountain move.
It roared. It shook. It tossed aside trees — 100 at a time, she said — as it tumbled in an avalanche of mud and rock toward her back door. It moved so fast she immediately gave up any hope of surviving. Langton gathered the children and hugged them close, so they would be buried in the same spot. “I just knew,” she said, “we were going to die.”
But Washington state’s deadliest natural disaster since the 1980 Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption — and one of the worst in a century — came to a miraculous stop in Langton’s back yard. Elsewhere in her small rural town of Darrington, residents were killed in a variety of ways: Some were swept off a highway in their cars, others were crushed by huge mud balls that demolished everything in their path, and many simply disappeared.
At least 18 people have been confirmed dead, and up to 30 more are likely entombed in a thick gray muck, swallowed by the land, perhaps never to be seen again.
For two tiny logging towns — Darrington’s population is 1,400 and Oso’s is 180 — the death on such a wide scale is unimaginable. Bogged down by relentless rain that continued Saturday, workers have failed to unearth many bodies, all but assuring that the landscape will be preserved in the short term as a mass graveyard.
Nearly every adult in this part of Snohomish County, a patchwork of little towns about 50 miles north of Seattle, knew someone who died or knows someone close to them. It is a tightknit community of loggers who earn low-wages in jobs cutting timber, and wealthy people, some of them retirees, who built dream homes on emerald hills with scenic views of the Cascades, near a river teeming with steelhead and salmon.
But some are now questioning whether many of the homes should have been built at all in the valley below a hillside that commonly shifts, sending mud raining down about once a decade. At least four new homes have been built since the last major landslide muddied the valley eight years ago.
The Snohomish County officials who control land use permits asserted last week that there was no way of knowing a giant mudslide would ever happen there.
In fact, the area was primed for just such an extraordinary event, according to geologist Daniel J. Miller, who twice surveyed the area for local Native American tribes who rely on the river’s health for fishing and for the Army Corps of Engineers. He wrote in his 1999 report that the Hazel Landslide, as the mountain is known, was constantly shifting, experiencing landslides and would one day suffer “a catastrophic failure.”
“This landslide moves every year when it gets wet, and pieces fall off,” said Miller, a consultant in Seattle, in a telephone interview Friday.
It was a nightmare waiting to happen.
An ancient glacier is jutting out of the mountain, making its flat plateau unstable, Miller said. The Stillaguamish River was eroding it from below. Rows of conifer trees that helped to mitigate erosion by sucking water through their roots and releasing it into the atmosphere were chopped down by loggers. Rain fell on the bald spots they left, drenching dirt and sand, making the mountain even more precarious.
March 2014 has been a record-breaker, the wettest in Seattle’s history.
Miller realized his warning was not heeded when he visited the site following a major landslide in 2006 that did not do nearly as much harm. He could not believe what he saw.
“There was new construction,” he said. “The sound of hammering competed with the sound of [destabilized] trees snapping after the mudslide. I can’t believe that someone wanted to build their home there. It was a very bad idea.”
Charity Prueher, 41 and raised in Oso, said homeowners rarely mentioned the slides. When they did, the coursing mud was considered a small disruption, more of an annoyance than a major problem.
“They’re so content with the beautiful place where they live, they don’t think anything would happen,” Prueher said.
Prueher said she helped clear debris from the 2006 mudslide when she was a volunteer firefighter. The thought that another slide could come that was far worse never occurred to her.
“It was nothing compared to this,” she said. State geologists estimated the volume of the March 22 slide at about 7 million cubic yards, covering an area equal to 545 football fields and six feet deep in parts.
As Prueher bowled with friends Thursday at Rocket Alley Bar and Grill in Arlington, the largest town nearby, reality sank in. “I’ve been over this in my head many times in the last five days,” Prueher said. “I know close to 20 people who are missing and haven’t been found.”
That includes a family of four who own a store across from the school where Prueher works. When she thought of the family’s two little boys, laughing and playing outside in the spring, her eyes started welling with tears.
“I know I’m never going to hear them laughing again,” she said.
Then she caught herself. “You should always have hope,” she said. But her expression reflected the grim reality that has washed over this county. She feels deep down that all the missing are dead, but “I can’t bring myself to say it out loud.”
After a tragedy writ large, disbelief and grief often turn to anger and a demand for accountability. Already, some engineers have criticized local and state officials for failing to recognize the dangers of development on the mountain.
David Montgomery, a professor of geology at the University of Washington, said questions must be asked, but he is not sure blame is deserved.
Predicting mudslides is like forecasting the weather or an earthquake, he said. The science is not exact.
Montgomery praised Miller, a colleague, because his 1999 prediction appears prophetic in hindsight. But Miller had no way of knowing when his prediction would come true, and he did not take the added step of estimating where debris would flow when the slide happened.
A report such as that might have gotten the attention of policymakers, he said. And then again, it might not have.
Geologists have recorded landslides around Seattle for generations, but dire warnings about shaky ground in their reports are not always greeted as good news. It can hurt homebuilding and businesses that generate tax income.
Regardless of who is to blame, Montgomery said, the state and other stakeholders must do whatever is needed to better understand the geology of its mountains and hills. “We have to use that information to identify the true hazard areas and run-out zones,” where the cascading debris is likely to go.
When the mountain began to move on an ordinary Saturday morning across the Stillaguamish River, it sounded “like a 747 jet was directly overhead,” said Langton, 30.
She was feeding her baby when it started. Her kids playing outdoors yelled for her to come out. Right away, she knew something was weird.
“There was this gray cloud . . . and then I saw it taking out trees 100 at a time,” she said. “I started screaming for my kids to get out of there. I’m screaming, ‘It’s a mudslide!’ ”
Within minutes, the roar was gone, and Langton opened the back door.
“I looked out on complete devastation,” she said. “I heard two ladies shouting for help. I heard another voice screaming, ‘Help.’ I couldn’t see him. I said, ‘Sir, could you raise your arms so I can see you?’ He said he only had one arm. The other one was just hanging there.”
She helped rescue them. Now she lives in a basement of a friend’s home, because her house is flooded. Her husband, Kris, is among the volunteers slogging through the mud in the pelting rain and wind to find his neighbors. He rarely talks about what he sees.
“We’re a little logging community,” she said. “There are so many missing, so many dead. We definitely feel God protected us. My neighbor’s house is gone. My husband’s out there digging for bodies.”
Richard Johnson in Oso and Julie Tate and Alice Crites in Washington contributed to this report.
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Want to download torrents on iPad at full speed, but afraid of jailbreaking your iOS device? Wondering if you can download torrents on your iPhone without jailbreak? Well, that should not be a problem if you follow the method featured in this article.
Introduction
Previously, I had written a post featuring the best torrent downloader app for an iPhone. In that I had mentioned a much easier way to download torrents on your iPhone, iPad or even on an iPod touch. But there’s a catch in that.
These torrent downloading apps can be installed only on a jailbroken iOS device from third party app stores like Cydia. This can be a problem to some iOS users for whom jailbreaking may be a strict no-no. However, the good news is that, there is a work around to this problem.
In this article I am sharing a new idea that would help you download torrents on your iOS device without the need of a jailbreak.
What are torrents?
Torrenting is a file sharing protocol on the internet that is fundamentally different from all other ways of downloading a file. In the traditional way of downloading a file, a file can only be downloaded from a single source on the internet. However, in torrents’ case, a file can be downloaded, bit by bit, from the source of upload as well as from fellow downloaders. Hence, by using up multiple sources of downloading simultaneously, torrents can potentially increase the speed of download of a file when compared to direct downloads.
While downloading a torrent file there are three types of sharing sources that you will come across.
Users who have completed their download and are sharing/seeding it for others to download are called seeders. The more seeders a file has, the faster the download is bound to complete. Users who only have a portion of the file, but are uploading it and downloading the rest at the same time are called peers. Peers are very useful in increasing the overall speed of downloading a torrent file. Users who have just started downloading the torrent and have no portion of it to share with the others are called leechers.
The torrent files themselves are just trackers that keep track of the different download locations in real time. They manage the seeding and leeching of a file to different computers.
Why Torrent?
The internet has developed rapidly in the past two decades, but not everyone can afford a high-speed internet connection yet. As a result, slower internet speeds may make it cumbersome for such users to download heavy sized files.
In that context torrents have emerged as the easiest means to share large-sized files among multiple internet users. Additionally, the speed of downloading torrents may not be limited to your ISP speed. Using proper porting techniques anyone may get download speeds that are much faster than what they are otherwise used to.
No Torrent Clients in App Store
Android users have access to loads of torrent clients such as bittorrent and utorrent on Google’s Play Store. These apps can download torrents without jailbreak or root on android devices. At the same time, iOS users struggle to find even a single such app in Apple‘s App Store.
The reason?
Well, over the years Apple has been keen on implementing copy right infringement laws a tad more seriously than many of its rivals in the tech industry. The curators of Apple’s App Store try very hard not to allow torrenting apps to enter the iOS platform. And they do succeed in their efforts for the most part.
That’s where iOS jailbreaking comes into the picture. Jailbreaking unlocks a number of commonly used features that iOS users are otherwise deprived of. One such feature would be the ability to download third party apps like utorrent.
But, if you are one of those users who are skeptical of jailbreaking your device then the following guide is for you. Use it to simply download torrents on iPad without jailbreak.
How to Download Torrents on iPad (iOS)
In this guide we are going to use a download manager such as ‘iDownloader’ or ‘UC Browser’. We shall use this manager to download torrents so that no jailbreak is required as promised earlier. We will also use two other websites in the process to download torrents at high speeds.
Requirements before downloading torrents on iPad
1. Install a download manager like iDownloader or UC browser that can be quickly downloaded from Apple’s App Store within a minute or two.
2. Secondly, you will need a torrent website for browsing and saving the torrents you would like to download. For this you will have to look for a torrent website that is online or active. A simple Google search for active torrent sites should suffice.
Steps to download torrents on iPad
Step 1 : Open iDownloader or UC browser on your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch and open the internet browser given in that app. Browsers of different download managers work differently.
Step 2 : Go to any working torrent site. Here, we have used “Piratebay” as an example. You can use any working torrent site of your choice. In that torrent site, search for the legal torrent you want to download.
Step 3 : Long tap the Download link of that particular torrent.
Step 4 : You will get a pop-up with 3 options – ‘Open’, ‘Copy’, ‘Cancel’. Select ‘Copy‘ by tapping on it.
Step 5 : Now, open a new tab on your browser and go to www.zbigz.com.
Step 6 : On the Zbigz website you’ll see a URL field. Paste the Torrent link (which you had copied in step 4) in there and tap on the GO button.
Step 7 : Wait for a moment. Zbigz will now create the download link.
Step 8 : After you get the link, just tap on the download button in the shape of a “down-arrow” which is located beside the file name.
You should see these three options – ‘Download’, ‘Open’ and ‘Copy Link’. Choose the ‘Download‘ option in order to download the file to your iPad.
Alternatively, you can just tap on the download icon in the shape of an ‘up-arrow’ at the bottom of the page in iDownloader. The downloaded file is stored in the ‘Files‘ segment of iDownloader.
That’s it. You have now successfully downloaded a torrent file to your iDevice without having to jailbreak it.
Update
It is common practice to use ‘Safari‘ in the process of downloading files from sites like ZbigZ. But, the Safari browser sometimes downloads the files and other times streams them directly, which can be a problem. So, sticking to the likes of UC browser and iDownloader can be the better option.
Got a question? Please feel free to voice out in the comments below.
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TOKYO — He was celebrated as a prolific musical genius whose compositions appeared in popular video games and the competition routine of a top figure skater in the coming Sochi Olympics. His deafness won him praise as Japan’s modern-day Beethoven.
It turns out his magnum opus was his own masquerade.
On Thursday, Japan learned that one of its most popular musical figures, Mamoru Samuragochi, 50, had staged an elaborate hoax in which someone else had secretly written his most famous compositions, and that he had perhaps even faked his hearing disability.
Across a nation long captivated by Western classical music, people reacted with remorse, outrage and even the rare threat of a lawsuit after Mr. Samuragochi’s revelations that he had hired a ghostwriter since the 1990s to compose most of his music. The anger turned to disbelief when the ghostwriter himself came forward to accuse Mr. Samuragochi of faking his deafness, apparently to win public sympathy and shape the Beethoven persona.
The scandal began on Wednesday, when Mr. Samuragochi publicly confessed that someone else had written his most famous works. These include Symphony No. 1 “Hiroshima,” about the 1945 atomic bombing of his home city, which became a classical music hit in Japan; the theme music for the video games Resident Evil and Onimusha; and Sonatina for Violin, which the Japanese Olympic figure skater Daisuke Takahashi is scheduled to use in his performance in Sochi.
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By Ray Charlston
Several weeks ago, Margaret O’Reilly began seeing a local psychiatrist in her city of Seattle Washington. Dr. Ahmed Abdullah Rahman is a licensed psychiatrist who originally practiced in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. He has been practicing psychiatric medicine in the US for more than 10 years. After one session, according to Mrs. O’Reilly, Dr. Rahman stunned her by suggesting that she was suffering from “Disobedient Wife Disorder.”
The treatment for “Disobedient Wife Disorder” (or DWD), which is even more controversial, involves light beatings using a stick called a “miswak.” The punishment is administered by the woman’s husband, along with verbal admonitions from him for his wife to be obedient, or to end her rebellion. The practice is designed, allegedly, not to injure a woman or to harm her, but to shame and humiliate her into compliance. The controversial treatment is allegedly about “Bringing the woman back to her senses and back to reality” according to one booklet on the topic.
“Disobedient Wife Disorder” remains a controversial diagnosis, sparking strong feelings among those on both sides of the issue. Most of the psychiatrists in the West who do accept the existence of DWD are Muslim, and this fact is often cited by Islamophobes and reactionaries. The American Psychiatric Association, as well as the American Psychological Association, both reject the diagnosis. When I began writing this article, Margaret O’Reilly was suing Dr. Rahman for medical malpractice.
According to Mrs. O’Reilly “I have always been progressive and strongly anti-racist. I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my entire body! When I learned that Dr. Ahmed was a devout Saudi Muslim, that he had a special room just for praying in his office, and that the government of Saudi Arabia expelled him from their country for alleged ‘extremist’ activities and associations, I didn’t judge. This has nothing to do with Dr. Ahmed’s religion; this is about discrimination against women and medical malpractice. For a male doctor to tell me that I have “Disobedient Wife Disorder”, and that I require beatings from my husband, is outrageous and intolerable. This isn’t about Islam at all; it’s about male-chauvinism. Islam is a beautiful religion of peace and moderation practiced by millions of people around the world.”
When I asked Dr. Rahman for his comment, responding to Mrs. O’Reilly’s quote, he stated that “I am a devout Muslim. I strongly object and take exception to Mrs. O’Reilly’s statement that my treatment has nothing to do with Islam. Islam fully informs my practice as a doctor, and inshallah (God-Willing), I hope it informs everything I do in this life. I was trying to help her and her husband and family in sincerity as a Muslim psychiatrist. I never had any malicious intent. I believe in the Hippocratic Oath; I will not do any harm. If I failed to warn Mrs. O’Reilly as to her mental sickness, I would be negligent in my responsibilities! She is a very sickly disobedient woman. She needs help very badly. I hope her husband helps her soon.”
When I pointed out that many reputable psychiatrists reject the existence of DWD, Dr. Rahman responded, “Some in the West reject my treatments and advice. As a matter of fact I think most do. The fact is, while most American psychiatrists deny the existence of Disobedient Wife Disorder, they now label homophobia a mental illness! If you think homosexuality is wrong, they say you are mentally ill and need treatment! They say, if you don’t want to ‘experiment’ with homosexual activity, you cannot know that you wouldn’t enjoy it! These people are sick and evil, not me as a Muslim psychiatrist or my practice! They should be sued, not me, by Allah, I swear it!”
I tried very patiently and calmly to explain to Dr. Rahman that homosexuals are born that way, and that it is just as valid, moral and healthy to be homosexual as it is to be heterosexual or any other sexual orientation. Dr. Rahman became enraged, and told me that “Homosexuals will dwell in the fires of hell, so too will all their advocates! There is only one God, Allah, and Muhammed is His Prophet! Get out now, you deviancy defending degenerate! Get out! I won’t let you infect my patients with your satanic mental diseases.” Dr. Rahman then opened the door demanding again that I leave his office. I complied and walked outside.
Reflecting on the day’s events, I wanted to believe that some kind of misunderstanding occurred. Could this all be some sort of cultural or religious misunderstanding or snafu? Is it possible that some Muslims actually believe a husband should command his wife, rather than marriage being an equal partnership, and that if she disobeys, it is ok to hit her? I refused to believe it. No, it has to be a mistranslation or a miscommunication. Islam is a religion of peace and not violence. I vowed to investigate the matter further.
I contacted King Saud University, in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. I spoke with Professor Tariq Aziz at length on the phone. Prof. Aziz explained to me that I had not misunderstood. Disobedient Wife Disorder is an accurate translation of the Arabic name for the condition in question. Beating a rebellious wife with a miswak a small stick, and demanding that she cease her rebellion, is the prescribed treatment. I was stunned. I asked Prof. Aziz how he could possibly consider this practicing medicine. He told me that this treatment has its source in the Hadith, an old collection of alleged sayings of the Prophet Muhammed, handed down orally and then codified into written form.
I read several booklets about Disobedient Wife Disorder before I reached the obvious conclusion. Actually DWD was fairly new. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that DWD was officially classified as a mental disorder by psychiatrists in the Middle East. No doubt, it was under chauvinistic white-colonialist influence. While the idea of punishing a disobedient wife may have some basis in obscure Islamic writings, the idea of treating this as a mental illness was something new. It was clearly the result of western influence! I discovered through my research that originally, Middle Eastern psychiatrists relied heavily on associations from abroad, including the American Psychiatric Association, for their information and knowledge!
The next day, I contacted Margaret O’Reilly and explained my research to her. She cordially agreed to drop all charges against Dr. Rahman, and instead to sue the real culprit. Margaret O’Reilly is now suing the American Psychiatric Association. We both agreed that obviously the AMA failed to adequately explain the discipline of psychiatry to Middle Eastern psychiatrists now practicing in the US. It was, in reality, their fault that Disobedient Wife Disorder was being propagated as a diagnosis. Fortunately, a great injustice against a Muslim-American was averted through some investigative journalism.
Margaret O’Reilly personally called Dr. Rahman to apologize for initially attempting to sue him. Dr. Rahman, understandably still stinging from the threatened lawsuit, hung up on her, after calling her a “lowly kafir sharmootah” before adding “I feel very sorry for your unfortunate husband.” Of course, the doctor’s anger is perfectly understandable given the misunderstanding that transpired.
Mrs. O’Reilly, realizes that she almost brought about a major injustice against an innocent immigrant doctor. Wishing to cleanse herself of her misdeed, she has decided to donate a large sum of money to an Islamic charity. Fortunately, in a world where so much has gone wrong, some stories still have happy endings. It is events like these that make me especially proud to be a writer for Diversity Chronicle, knowing that we are making a real difference in the world.
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The most popular article in the leading economics Web archive doesn’t concern tax policy, international trade, or the theory of the firm. It’s about an online fantasy game.
During the past year, nearly 16,000 people have downloaded a 40-page economic analysis of EverQuest, Sony’s popular online fantasy world of Norrath. “Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier,” by California State Fullerton economics professor Edward Castronova, is the No. 1 article in the history of the Economics Research Network, an Internet library of tens of thousands of professional journals and research papers in economics. The article, which you can download here, not only outpaces the online works of every Nobel laureate, it is also the fourth-most popular article on the entire Social Science Research Network, which contains more than 75,000 professional articles and abstracts in range of social sciences.
For cybergaming naifs—most males over age 30 (me included) and almost all women—virtual worlds are elaborate, multiplayer, role-playing online environments in which each player’s actions can affect many others. At any given moment, 50,000 or more people from more than 120 countries are online at EverQuest, moving their personal “avatars”—wizards, trolls, amazonlike women, and a dozen other types—through the fanciful landscapes of Norrath. These dramas unfold on more than 40 dedicated Sony servers, each accommodating up to 2,000 players interacting with the program and each other. (EverQuest is only one of several popular MMORPGs—”massively multiplayer online role-playing games.” The oldest, Ultima Online, has 225,000 players; and the largest, Lineage, has more than 4 million subscribers, mostly in Korea.)
What intrigues Castronova and other economists about EverQuest—beyond the fact that more than 500,000 people pay Sony $13 a month to participate—is that something resembling a nascent economy has emerged in Norrath. Inadvertently, EverQuest has become a virtual experiment in some of the fundamental questions in economics: What are the necessary conditions for markets; how much government does capitalism require; and how do equality and inequality affect economic development?
According to Castronova’s account of it, EverQuest has something to gratify economists of all political stripes. For natural-law types, Norrath suggests that the conditions for vibrant markets to develop are pretty minimal. Libertarians can delight that “government,” in the form of rules restricting a player’s activity, is also limited in Norrath. And liberals can take heart that Norrath’s market and society rest on initial conditions of radical equality.
The most basic condition for market activity built into EverQuest is that resources in Norrath are limited. In particular, a player chooses his avatar’s initial traits, but a character with the power to heal wounds, for example, will lack agility; and another smart enough to decipher codes will be physically weak. Unlike real life, therefore, everyone in Norrath starts out with roughly equal resources.
The second basic condition of self-regulating economic life in this virtual world, as in our own, is that nothing is free. An avatar’s initial assets aren’t enough to make much headway in the game, so players intent on navigating Norrath’s challenges have to work at either developing new skills or earning new assets.
The intriguing part is that most MMORPG players expand their assets and abilities not through violence or chicanery, the modus operandi of a typical single-player computer game, but through virtual market transactions. Hundreds of thousands of EverQuest players spend most of their time in Norrath trading or cooperating with other avatars, buying goods from creatures (“bots”) built into the program, or using auction sites inside the game. To facilitate this, EverQuest adopted two other key conditions from real economic life: A currency called “platinum pieces,” or PP, can be earned by completing various tasks, and there are rudimentary rules for buying, selling, and bartering.
These few conditions are apparently all it takes to precipitate capitalism in cyberspace. As in a real economy, virtual market conditions change in response to how players behave. For example, shrewd players who know Norrath’s nooks and crannies will purchase goods in a game zone where they’ve become abundant and then sell them in another where they’re in greater demand.
The kicker for economists is that these virtual economic relationships have broken into the real U.S. economy. When players found EverQuest’s bartering rules inadequate, they started exchanging the armor, spells, and other Norrathian objects of value at real-world auction sites. These transactions are conducted not in Norrathian PP but in U.S. dollars and then completed between avatars inside the game. (You pay in dollars at a real-world site, then the seller’s avatar gives your avatar the goods in Norrath.) You can even buy another player’s avatar, complete with its accumulated skills and assets. Sony tried to stop all these transactions and persuaded eBay and Yahoo! Auctions to bar them on the grounds that they involve Sony’s intellectual property. But this kind of protectionism is hard to enforce whether the goods are real or virtual: Trade in Norrathian goods and services simply migrated to other sites.
The exchange of goods and services in Norrathian PP, inside the game, and U.S dollars, outside, creates an exchange-rate relationship between the two currencies. Based on surveys of these market exchanges, Castronova calculated that one unit of PP was worth a little more than one U.S. penny. That technically makes Norrathian PP a “stronger” currency than the Japanese yen or Italian lira, albeit a thinner and less liquid one. (But Sony apparently could use lessons in central banking: As in real-world Japan, price deflation has hit the market for Norrathian goods.)
The economic dynamics of EverQuest also allow Castranova to calculate wage levels in Norrath. Take the PP value of an average avatar’s skills and assets, divide it by the average number of hours required to accumulate those holdings, and an average avatar “earns” 319 PP/hour, or $3.42/hour at the prevailing exchange rate. (This doesn’t sound like much, but Norrath’s deflation means that “real” wages are actually rising.) Castronova estimates that Norrath’s per capita GNP is higher than India’s or China’s.
The similarities to real-world market behavior certainly owe much to the fact that EverQuest players know how real markets work and probably believe in markets. In this respect, Norrath resembles the more successful transitional economies of Central Europe, whose citizens had a history of capitalism to draw on when their communist regimes crumbled. (Russia, by contrast, had no history of market capitalism and has struggled to make the transition to free markets.)
EverQuest liberates its players from some of the dismal restrictions of real economic life. Norrath is a truer meritocracy than our own, with no one hindered or helped by personal history or family background. The game also offers the ultimate safety hatch (a superenhanced version of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection): Fail at one of Norrath’s deadly challenges, and you can start over with a new avatar and new identity.
What may be most striking about Norrath is that the virtual market doesn’t require a powerful government. Norrathian economic life, conducted in PP or dollars, proceeds without laws stipulating the terms of exchanges, regulations dictating who can participate in various activities, or authorities enforcing contracts. There are no monetary or fiscal policies to manage demand and prices, and no safety net.
In this virtual world, a powerful government appears only briefly at the start, in the iron rule that everyone starts out with roughly equal assets. Then it retreats and lets economic nature take its course. In Norrath, more equality permits freer markets. This may provide the most important lesson of all from the EverQuest experiment: Real equality can obviate much of a democratic government’s intervention in a modern economy. Many of our own government’s current policies—progressive taxation, securities regulation, social insurance—are aimed at offsetting some form of inequality. If EverQuest is any guide, the liberal dream of genuine equality would usher in the conservative vision of truly limited government.
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Australia's agricultural export growth is slower than the global average in all key markets except Oceania, a report has found.
A rural think tank is warning Australia's agriculture export performance is waning in the face of stiff competition from rising agricultural producers.
At the centre of the issue is Australia's lack of new farm lands, which has effectively capped agricultural production when compared with countries in Asian and South America where production is expanding.
The Australian Farm Institute's trade review concludes that with little opportunity to expand production, Australian agriculture needs a renewed focus on productivity gains.
"In effect, Australia is losing market share in those neighbouring markets that we identify as our own," director Mick Keogh said.
"That really is a wake up call about the need to be competitive and to be not assuming these markets are ours and there for the taking."
The AFI's analysis found the growth of Australia's exports to every global region except Oceania and North Asia was slower than the equivalent global growth figure.
Alarmingly, the report also finds that in addition to the volume of exports fall, so too is the value.
"The results highlight the need for Australian agricultural producers and exporters to dispel any complacency that might be held about the ability of Australian agriculture to automatically benefit from the growth in global demand for agricultural product as world populations increase and diets change." — Australian Farm Institute: Review of Agriculture Trade Performance 2016.
Mr Keogh said the report's finding highlighted the need to find on-going productivity improvements.
"The one thing we have learned from our New Zealand cousins' success is that isn't something you do and then stop.
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"You cannot assume our agriculture sector is competitive and going to be successful — it is a continuous process."
Speaking to the draft findings of a recent Productivity Commission report, Mr Keogh said there would not be a single action that will help boost productivity.
"All the sorts of things that have been talked about in that Productivity Commission report are worth thinking about, especially in terms of continual improvement.
"You cannot assume there is a 'big bang' solution to successfully capturing all these markets."
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New Zealand drug-trafficking accused Sharon Armstrong has admitted she knew of a secret package hidden inside her suitcase, but insists she believed it was nothing more than confidential papers.
Ms Armstrong, 54, a former Maori Language Commission deputy chief executive, was arrested on April 13 after Buenos Aires Airport police allegedly found 5kg cocaine hidden in her suitcase.
Ms Armstrong has said she did not know about the drugs and was tricked by a man she met online.
She is being held in a medium-security women's detention centre in Ezeiza, about 30km southwest of Buenos Aires.
She made a private court appearance on Thursday, where Judge Daniel Petrone ruled he would proceed with a full investigation court appearance, dashing any hopes of an early release.
Yesterday she told the Herald on Sunday an online boyfriend who lives in London, who she had been dating for six months, tricked her into being a drug mule.
"He said that it was documents and a contract. I don't know any more about it and I didn't ask. I just thought it was really important and that the contract was worth a lot of money."
Armstrong refused to say how she came into possession of the suitcase, but it was understood the switch was made with the case she brought from New Zealand just before she attempted to board a British Airways flight to London on April 13.
She said she did not notice the 5kg of cocaine.
If convicted, Ms Armstrong faced at least eight years behind bars.
Speaking to NZPA from jail last week, Ms Armstrong said she needed help but was reluctant to talk about her case because she feared for her safety.
"I'm just a little bit concerned that this might be a lot bigger. I've never been involved in anything like this ever before."
She refused to name the man who she said scammed her.
"I'm not wanting to protect him, but I'm not prepared to name any names for fear of any retribution."
Ms Armstrong said reports she was carrying four driver's licences when arrested were wrong.
She told NZPA she had three licences -- New Zealand, Australian, and Cook Islands -- with her at the time.
She said the Australian licence was for when she visited family, and the $10 Cook Islands licence had expired.
Staff from the New Zealand embassy in Buenos Aires had visited her in prison and had given her a Spanish dictionary, magazines and writing paper so she could write a journal.
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Honestly, people, why wait to fall asleep with your shoes on when you can just draw dicks on your own face, am I right?
Asia Brautigam, 19, as she was poking fun at our obsession with beauty bloggers, experimented with some eyeliner, and well? It’s dick liner. Cat eyes are out. Dick eyes are in.
Wow MUA Twitter has been so creative with their eye looks, thought I'd have my take ⛽️ pic.twitter.com/Nsfm460HVV — asia (@asialbx) November 18, 2016
And a bunch of people began following her lead.
@asialbx sooo in LOVE with your look my new everyday eye makeup pic.twitter.com/bxlP3NEPJC — jas♡ (@jasmin_c_) November 19, 2016
Asia got ahead of the curve and told Buzzfeed she wasn’t trying to shade makeup artists just in case people started saying she was “makeup shaming.” She assured “I think they’re all creative and amazingly talented!” she said, and added, “My dick-liner will never compare!” There ya have it, folks..
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Earlier today we brought you word that one LSU offensive lineman would be (controversially) returning to the Tigers. Now there’s word of a loss at the same position group.
The university has confirmed that Jonah Austin (pictured, No. 71) has decided to take his leave of the football program and transfer to an undetermined location. No reason for the decision to leave was given, although a search for a better opportunity at playing time would be a good place to start.
If Austin were to end up at another FBS institution, he’d be eligible to play in 2015 as a graduate transfer.
Austin was a three-star member of LSU’s 2011 recruiting class who was rated as the No. 58 tackle in the country. He did not see any game action his first two seasons in Baton Rouge, then played in a total of 12 games the past two years — five in 2014, seven in 2013.
As was the case each of the past two seasons, the 6-6, 330-pound Austin was slated for a backup role in 2015.
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Forty years ago, NASA landed a spacecraft on the surface of Mars, giving us our first close-up view of the so-called Red Planet. And, in what seems to be standard protocol for NASA missions, the 90-day operation stretched into a six-year mission, paving the way for later Mars rovers like Opportunity and Curiosity.
The Viking 1 spacecraft touched down on the Martian surface on July 20, 1976, seven years after Apollo 11 astronauts stepped out onto the moon. The landing was originally scheduled for America’s Independence Day, July 4. But once in orbit around Mars, the satellite carrying Viking revealed that the landing site was incredibly rocky, notes Bill Barry, NASA’s chief historian. So mission controllers adjusted the date so the spacecraft could find a smoother place to land.
The Viking mission was a huge success from an engineering perspective, an 11-month journey through space to a perfect landing on another planet. The heat shield and parachute design were updated and used in subsequent missions to Mars. And Viking’s measurements of the Martian atmosphere and surface are being used and analyzed to this day.
But scientists were really anticipating the results from the life sciences payload carried by the lander. This apparatus housed four different tests in a space the size of a soccer ball, according to Glenn Bugos, historian for the NASA Ames Research Center.
A week after landing, soil samples were put through this barrage of tests to look for evidence of life: mainly carbon molecules and gases released by organisms metabolizing a variety of nutrients that had been added to the soil. Three tests came up negative.
But the fourth one had a promising result… at least initially. In this test, water, nutrients and a radioactive form of carbon were added to the Martian soil. If any organisms ate the radioactive nutrients, they would emit a specific gas. The lander detected this gas spewing out of the soil during the first time it ran the test. But during the next two trials, there was nothing.
This has puzzled scientists for decades. Some researchers have tried to recreate the tests here on Earth and their results have led some scientists to say the tests were “inconclusive” instead of “negative.”
At a panel discussion on the history of the Viking 1 mission, Bugos said that the lack of definitive results killed the desire to search for life on Mars.
Erik Conway, a historian for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, added that a change in political focus towards NASA’s shuttle program and the failed 1984 Mars Observer mission also contributed to the 17-year gap before another lander was sent to Mars.
Opportunity and Curiosity, two of the new rovers, focused more on studying the ancient conditions of Mars to see if it was once suitable for life. They each found evidence of water on Mars in the past. Curiosity also noticed that methane periodically increases, which is most likely because of chemical reactions between the Martian rocks and water. But there is a small chance it could be released by living organisms.
So, 40 years after we reached it, humanity is still holding onto hope that life exists - or once existed - on the Red Planet.
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Christina here….
One “Million” Mom’s sent me an email!
Dear Christina, As the Christmas shopping season begins full swing, here is our annual “Naughty or Nice” retailer list. We have taken the top 100 national retailers and reviewed their websites, media advertising and in-store signage in an effort to help you know which companies are Christmas-friendly. Over the past seven years, OMM has stood firm in the “War on Christmas.” Companies who used to refuse to acknowledge Christmas now have Christmas “shops” inside their stores. Many of them now liberally use “Christmas” in their advertising and in-store signage. Sadly, there are still some companies which refuse to use “Christmas.” They continue to insult and offend Christian shoppers by sticking with their politically correct “holiday” term.
Yaay! I love how OMM can Dixie Dogwhistle what is really a “War Against Inclusion” and pretend that when businesses attempt to be more inclusive during the holidays, that they are somehow unfriendly to Christmas.
I really don’t understand why Christians feel insulted and offended when businesses use the word “holiday” instead of “Christmas” – fuck inclusion, right? YOU MUST ACKNOWLEDGE OUR HOLIDAY EXCLUSIVELY OR WE WILL HURT YOU WITH OUR WALLETS.
Criteria – AFA reviewed up to four areas to determine if a company was “Christmas-friendly” in their advertising: print media (newspaper inserts), broadcast media (radio/television), website and/or personal visits to the store. If a company’s ad has references to items associated with Christmas (trees, wreaths, lights, etc.), it was considered as an attempt to reach “Christmas” shoppers.
So even carrying your religious tchotchkes aren’t enough for the AFA? Not mentioning Christmas does not mean someone is against Christmas. You’re confusing neutrality for persecution, AFA.
If prayer actually did anything, I’d pray that you guys get over your petty persecution complex.
p.s. Here are the companies “against” Christmas:
Companies AGAINST “Christmas”
Banana Republic
Barnes & Noble
Family Dollar
Foot Locker
Gap Stores
L.L. Bean
Limited Brands
Maurice’s
Office Depot
Old Navy
Radio Shack
Staples
Supervalu
Victoria’s Secret
Learn more about Christina and follow her @ziztur.
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Originally published in two parts at Skepchick and Queereka and cross-posted here with permission.
Disclaimer: I’ve chosen to focus this article on trans women only for the sake of brevity and clarity. It is not my intent to contribute to the ongoing cultural erasure of trans men, and I believe their voices, experiences and identities deserve to be heard and understood. Cis readers, please note that much of this can be applied to transsexuality in general.
Debunking myths is one of those things that us skeptics are supposed to do, right?
Okay then…
(my triskaidekaphilia isn’t showing, is it?)
Myth 1. Trans women are just really, really, REALLY gay.
This one is impressively persistent, and unbelievably common. It was even pulled out recently while Lance Bass, an openly gay man, was guest-hosting Access Hollywood.
The truth is fairly simple: gender identity and sexual orientation have nothing whatsoever to do with one another. A fairly common adage used to address this misunderstanding is “sexual orientation is about who you want to go to bed with, gender identity is about who you want to go to bed as.”
My own preference in addressing it is to simply point out the existence of trans lesbians (that is, trans women who are attracted to other women). Problem solved. Let’s go have tea and scones.
Or so one would hope, anyway.
I think a lot of this confusion stems from how strongly we associate behaviour with gender. The cultural assumption of heterosexuality is so intrinsic, we see gay men as being somehow in defiance of what it is to be a man. They become regarded as female-like or transgender simply by engaging in a mode of sexuality that is more common amongst women than men, even though many gay men express themselves in an almost hyper-masculine way.
This misconception is amplified by our overemphasis of sex and sexuality when thinking about gender and what gender means, so we can end up regarding any expression of gender as being about sexuality. Such as the widespread assumption by men that women dress nice or stylishly or sexily primarily as a means of attracting men, rather than simply an expression of their own identity and feelings that day.
This myth is damaging to both trans women and gay men alike. It also often leads to trans issues being swept aside or subsumed within broader discussions of LGBTQ stuff.
Such as how this ad that ran in the Canadian newspaper The National Post was largely decried for being homophobic rather than transphobic despite being almost entirely based around promoting fear of transgenderism, and how the narrative of PFC Manning has been written as the story of a gay man in the military, despite the fact that the evidence clearly shows she had been planning to transition immediately upon return to civilian life. She continues to be described even by her supporters in male and masculine terms.
Short answer: sex / gender and sexuality do not have a deterministic relationship to one another. Which is why there are such things as gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the first place.
Myth 2. So you’re going to get your penis cut off?
Another impressively common one.
In short, no. That’s not how it works.
I hope I don’t squick you all out too much, but I’ll provide a really rough, basic explanation of one of the common forms of MtF lower surgery (aka SRS, sexual reassignment surgery, aka GRS, genital reconstruction surgery, aka vaginoplasty), using the “inversion method”.
The penis is basically split into three pieces. The tip is sort of detached from the bulk of the shaft to be formed into a clitoris. The skin of the shaft is removed and the shaft itself split down the middle. It is then inverted into a vaginal canal such that the exterior circumference of the shaft serves as the vaginal lining. This preserves sensation in the event of penetrative sex as well as allows for a certain degree of natural lubrication during arousal. The testes are indeed discarded but they’re pretty much the only bit of tissue that doesn’t get used. The scrotal tissue is used to form outer labia and create the aesthetic appearance of a typical female vulva. Remaining tissue and skin get used to form a clitoral hood and add additional depth to the vaginal canal as needed.
The procedure is remarkably effective, and has come quite a long way over the decades. Trans women today are able to preserve considerable sensation (often no loss of sensation reported at all), and very many report greatly improved sexual satisfaction and full orgasmic potential. The outward appearance is virtually indistinguishable from any other woman’s vulva. The only two things that are typically at all noticeable are that if your partner is particularly well-endowed, he may notice a slight lack of depth, and the vaginal canal is often a little bit steeper than in cis women, though that can be prevented by a trans woman taking care to exercise proper technique while dilating (a process required to ensure the vaginal canal doesn’t close).
There are a few things that I find particularly troubling about this misconception, or even just casual joking reference to “cutting off your dick”. One is reinforcement of the classic misogynist myth that women are incomplete men. Women are men, minus a few pieces. Female genitals are just the absence of male genitals. Castration anxiety, penis envy, blah blah blah, etc.
Clearly, that is not true. Women are their own sex, not simply lesser men. So why should we assume that acquiring girl bits is as simple as lopping off the boy bits and carving a gash?
The other problem is how it reinforces an image of trans women as sexless, mutilated Barbie dolls. It reinforces the idea that we have simply discarded our sex rather than creating for ourselves a new one. It is reductive, and imagines our new state as “less” than our previous one. It reinforces the sense that we’ve rendered ourselves inferior in sacrificing our maleness.
The reality is that transition is not a de-sexing of the body, it is a re-sexing of the body. Our genitals are not discarded, they are simply reshaped.
Myth 3. So you’ve chosen to get a sex change operation?
SRS is not what changes our sex. That’s only one tiny piece of the puzzle. And many trans women choose not to, or can’t, undergo SRS. A woman is not defined by what’s between her legs.
I lay this one at the feet of the media.
Unless a film or TV show is explicitly about the long, gradual, complex, multifaceted, emotionally harrowing, highly individual process of transition, it is impossible to really portray it accurately or fit it into a plot. Most of the times transition shows up in movies or TV, it’s as a plot device. Why waste time portraying something so complex and gradual when it’s just a little hinge in your narrative?
We’ve all seen it a million times. Bob goes into the hospital as a big, burly, manly dudely dude. Out walks Roberta in her heels and mini-skirt, with her D-cup breasts suddenly magically having appeared out of nowhere, her hair miraculously 12 inches longer, and goes swishing off to sleep with the first unsuspecting guy she can find.
No recovery time! No pain! No blood! No dilation! No bandages and packing! No long, tedious four year process for hormones to do their breast development, skin tone, body hair, fat redistribution thing. No irritating legal hassles with changing name and documentation. No emotional roller-coaster. No spontaneous bursts of tears. No voice training. No re-learning your body language and mannerisms. No anxiety about passing. No joyful revelation the first time you realize you are passing. No crying with happiness the first time you discover you can look in a mirror without hating what you see. No dealing with the scariness and awkwardness of beginning to date again. No re-learning the entire language of fashion and how to dress. No getting accustomed to bras and heels and earrings and annoying nightmarishly fiddly little jewelry clasps. No wondering whether the better orgasms are worth their infrequency. No rediscovering your sexuality. No long, complex process of reacquainting yourself with new genitalia and learning to understand them. No learning what you are and aren’t comfortable wearing. No getting nail polish all over your fingers and eyeliner in your eyeball because you never got a chance to learn how to do that stuff as a little girl. No coming out. No losing friends. No being disowned by family. No growing closer to the people who supported you. No adapting to the loss of male privilege and learning how to deal with cat calls. No nothing.
Basically? No transition. None of any of the stuff that makes it such an intense and incredible and traumatic and rewarding and beautiful experience.
And she’s wearing a mini-skirt! After SRS! Which in real life basically amounts to your entire lifetime’s worth of periods condensed into a two month period of recovery. Bloody, hormonal, moody, painful recovery.
And she goes and gets laid, too.
Trivializing? Kinda.
Myth 4. “It’s a trap” / Trans women are just gay guys trying to attract straight dudes.
See above about us not being gay guys.
But this one goes a lot deeper, a lot nastier, a lot more demeaning, and a lot more dangerous.
Dangerous in that a great many trans women have lost their lives to sexual partners who felt they were “tricked”.
The concept of “deception” is a tricky one, and it can be very complicated to unpack the various ethical dimensions of disclosure and where a trans person’s responsibility lies in terms of informing her partner.
That’s far too big a subject to tackle here, but Zinnia Jones provides a fantastic explanation in this YouTube video. I’d just like to say that I really don’t think it’s our responsibility to give you the opportunity to inflict your bigotry and hang-ups on us; it’s your responsibility to ask (if it’s that big a deal to you).
And if a woman was attractive to you one moment and a repulsive, lying whore the next, when all that has changed is that you now know a largely irrelevant detail of her history, the problem is with your perceptions, not her body.
The problematic implications of us being “traps” are a bit too numerous to name them all. A few that come to mind are the basic assumption that we’re “really” men, believing that our decisions all revolve around you andwe’re doing this for your sake, not our own (kind of like the earlier example about how men may interpret how a woman dresses), the issues of conflating gender expression with sexual motivations, the concept that femaleness and femininity are artifice and fake, etc.
But I guess the one that I’d most like to unpack is how, like the thoroughly debunked theory of “autogynophilia”, it looks at trans women’s sexuality and motives through a lens of male sexuality and motives.
A hypothetical cis male sits on his couch and is absent-mindedly flipping through a porn magazine. He comes across an ad for “shemale” porn. He wonders, “why would anyone ever do that? Why would a man want to become a woman? That’s crazy!” (yeah, let’s put aside the implicit misogyny there… we can talk about that some other time) and rather than think about it in terms of why a woman would want a female body and not a male one, he thinks about it in terms of why a man would want a female body.
The conclusions he draws, based upon the assumption that a man is fundamentally a sexual agent and a woman is fundamentally a sexual object, are that the “shemale” is doing it to get laid, to attract men to him with his new hot, curvy, sexual-object of a body. Either that or, as in “autogynophilia”, doing it to have himself as his very own personal sex object.
Never mind what happens to a trans woman’s libido during HRT. Never mind that for very many trans women, that period of time, exactly when the libido starts diminishing, happens to be when commitment often deepens, and any remaining doubts and questions are resolved.
Forget that. It MUST be about sex. Because that’s all the female body is good for: sex.
Right?
Myth 5. Aren’t you sort of reinforcing stereotypical gender roles?
Aren’t you just going along with the idea that having a feminine personality means you must be female? Doesn’t that perpetuate the idea that there are certain ways women and men are “supposed” to be like?
Much like the existence of trans lesbians serves to disprove the “really, really gay” myth, in this case we can point to the existence of butch or tomboy trans women. Ta da! Myth vanishes in a puff of logic. But to explain further…
This is about a very basic confusion: lack of understanding the difference between gender identity and gender expression.
Gender identity is an internal sense of self and what one fundamentally is. It’s the sense of being a man or a woman (or both, or neither, or in-between, or something else). It is divorced from concepts of what a man or woman is or isn’t supposed to be like, and appears to be very much innate and unchanging. It also appears to be related to the neurological “body map” and relationship to one’s body- feelings of either comfort or alienation.
Gender expression is the degree to which one’s personality, interests and manner of self-expression is culturally regarded as “masculine” or “feminine” (or “androgynous”). This is heavily culturally and socially mediated. What is regarded as feminine in one culture may be regarded as masculine in another. There seem to be some gendered traits that are in varying degrees innate to an individual but gender expression is an aggregation of many, many, many such traits which can occur in an immense variety of combinations.
An imperfect but very helpful breakdown from the Center For Gender Sanity (which I think I’ve used before, actually) can be found here.
What makes a person transsexual, and motivates one to pursue physical transition, is typically a conflict of gender identity with physical, assigned sex. It is not a conflict of gender expression or role with physical, assigned sex.
We transition not because we feel we’re too feminine to be men, or that the presence of feminine characteristics means we must be female. The motivation is far deeper and far less analytical than that.
We transition simply because we know ourselves to be female… totally independently of how well we do or do not fit into female stereotypes.
Hence we are not simply basing this off of an overly strict concept of gender roles where we need to get our bodies to conform to a socially mandated binary.
We are only seeking to get our bodies to conform to our sense of self so that we can feel that they are our own rather than a creepy gross alien thingy that happens to be attached to us. And our existence does not in any way support, perpetuate or rely upon those binaries… we are fundamentally transgressing them and asserting that they may be broken, and sometimesmust.
Myth 6. If our culture didn’t have such strict gender roles, there would be no need for transition.
This is another mistake stemming from the confusion of gender identity with gender expression, and also again the belief that a trans woman makes her decision because she is uncomfortable with the male gender role rather than the male body.
The argument runs that, basically, if we were to break down the socially arbitrated binary and “gender straitjacket” we would no longer feel any sense of conflict between our selves and our assigned sex.
But, again, we do not transition out of discomfort with the male gender role. We transition out of discomfort with the male body.
No matter how open, enlightened and non-gendered our society could be, most women would go right on feeling just as alienated and disturbed by having a penis, a pair of testicles pumping her full of testosterone, a hairy face and body, a masculine distribution of muscle and fat, a flat chest, that acidic male locker room smell, ruddy oily skin, etc.
And most men would go right on feeling creeped out and appalled by having a vagina, menstruating every month, having breasts, soft and smooth skin, no beard, a feminine shape, wide hips, the rising and falling cycle of estrogen and progesterone, etc.
Transsexuality is first and foremost about us and our bodies and our right to be happy within them, not all about social conventions or the politics of gender or what you think society should be or what you think is best for us.
People whose gender identity is in conflict with their physiological sex will continue to exist no matter how well we accommodate for variation in gender expression. Solving society’s problems of gender won’t solve all the problems of sex.
Please, take it as a reasonable assumption that we’ve thought this stuff through, our decisions are our own, and we haven’t just been duped by the patriarchy or whatever.
It sucks to have people who are ostensibly your allies tell you you’re living your life wrong and that the biggest, most important, most difficult, most thought-through decision you ever made was just a result of being brainwashed by the system, maannnn.
Myth 7. You’re so brave!
No. That’s a lovely idea, it is, and thank you. I do appreciate the sentiment and we often enjoy hearing that kind of thing. It’s an enormously tempting idea, too, and hard to give up. It would be terrific to believe that I’m this wonderfully brave, courageous, strong woman who overcame unimaginable odds to assert her true self without compromise to a hostile, bigoted world. But it just isn’t true. We aren’t brave. We’re scared shitless and in tremendous pain and desperate for a way out, and don’t really have much of a choice. Imagine you’re being chased by a pack of snarling wolves through a darkened, stormy forest. They’re nipping at your heels, just behind, barking and growling with long strings of saliva dangling from their bared fangs. Your body is aching and sore and straining against the exhaustion, just barely maintaining your sprint through a combination of adrenaline and the terrifying certainty of death should you give in. Somewhere in the darkness and gloom you suddenly catch a glimpse of light. You run towards it, screaming for help as best you can through your bursting, panting lungs. It is a cabin. You finally make it to the door, you throw it open, and just in nick of time as one of the wolves lunges for your throat, you slam the door shut behind you. At last you’ve escaped. You’re safe. Inside the cabin sits a friendly old man smoking a pipe and mulling some wine. As you stand there, shaking and gasping for breath and crying and terrified out of your wits, he smiles and says, “wow, you’re really brave.” Some of us are brave. Some of us are strong. But that’s not always the case, and can’t necessarily be inferred from our transition. We do what we have to do, however we can, no matter how scared we are. But on the other hand, as it was articulated in Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, one of my favorite novels: “Courage is being scared shitless and doing it anyway.” Myth 8. You’re appropriating the female body. Appropriation is about co-opting someone else’s identity. We’re not doing that. We’re expressing our identity. It is not an act of attempting to emulate or express ourselves as The Other, we are attempting to more accurately and honestly express The Self. We don’t transition into being a new or different person. We become more ourselves. We don’t put on a mask, we take one off. We don’t another cliché metaphor, we just cliché metaphor. It is not YOUR body or sex that is being in any way appropriated or affected. We are making decisions about our own bodies, our own sex, specifically just trying to feel at home within them…. Which is our choice to make. Our bodies, our choices, yeah? Myth 9. Why can’t you just accept yourself? Why not just learn to be comfortable with who you are? This one is usually based on analogy to cosmetic surgery and eating disorders. After all, we do teach people to do their best to accept their bodies and not treat themselves with loathing. We rightly teach people that self-acceptance is of great importance to one’s mental and emotional well-being. The appropriate response to body-image issues is therapy, and to reinforce self-acceptance, not to facilitate an obsession with cosmetic surgery or enable an eating disorder. But gender dysphoria is not as simple as a “body-image issue”, and has been proven unresponsive to therapy and psychotropic medication. There are certain reasonable expectations a person can have for their body, and there are certain conflicts between body map or self image and physical configuration of the body that deserve to be addressed through medical means. Consider, for instance, the case of skin grafts for a burn victim, plastic surgery for someone with an extreme socially and psychologically debilitating deformity, or prosthesis for an amputee. In these cases, we don’t simply teach self-acceptance. That is part of the process, sure (as it is with gender transition), but we do provide medical intervention and don’t question or belittle their desire for it. They are only asking for a relatively basic level of bodily integrity. That line is subjective but it is present. If you’re cisgender, ask yourself: were your genitals to be lost or disfigured in an accident, would you want someone to chastise you for wanting a prosthesis or cosmetic surgery? A body consistent with one’s internal conception of sex and gender is a perfectly reasonable thing to want and a very difficult thing to live without. Furthermore, these kinds of procedures, and gender transition, have specific, defined end-points and goals. Eating disorders and cosmetic surgery do not. Someone with a severe psychological body-image disorder will, presumably, never feel pretty or thin enough. They will remain unhappy, and the physical changes won’t solve the underlying issue. In the case of gender transition, and cosmetic procedures for burns and deformities, there is an end-point and the procedures consistently produce a great deal of psychological and emotional benefit with significant improvements in the patient’s well-being. Most medical procedures are not simply about sustaining life. They are about maintaining well-being and improving quality of life. That is what transition provides… a quality of life an individual may reasonably expect. No other procedure or treatment has ever been proven effective or helpful in addressing the extreme detriment to mental health caused by Gender Identity Disorder. Myth 10. You don’t really become female. The process is only cosmetic. You’re still technically a man. I addressed much of this a few weeks ago in this article. It has chickens! To summarize: there is no particularly valid reason to prioritize the genetic definition of sex above all other aspects of physical sex: hormones, secondary sexual characteristics, genital configuration, etc. Chromosomes actually don’t play nearly as much of a role in human sexual differentiation as we often think they do. The Y chromosome is mostly deteriorating junk DNA that’s only real function is to turn the gonads into testes. In an XX cell, one of the X chromosomes is deactivated. As such, there’s no real functional difference between a “female” cell and a “male” cell. The process of sexual differentiation in humans is not genetic in nature, but hormonal. As for the matter of being “cosmetically” female… a trans woman’s secondary sexual characteristics are in no substantial way different from that of a cis woman and are formed through the exact same physical processes. If my breasts are to be deemed “cosmetic”, so too must the breasts of any woman at all. There is no single variable we can point to that suggests someone is “really” female or not. Doing so for any individual trait will necessarily require excluding some cis women from the category. There are some traits that no trans woman possesses, but there will always be cis women who don’t possess those traits either. As such, there is no definitive way that you can suggest trans women are outside of the category “woman” but all cis women are in. At least not without going into tautologies like “only cis women are really women because trans women aren’t really women”. In so far as the term “woman” is to be at all meaningful and consistent, trans women must be included. Myth 11. Drag queens, transsexuals, transgenders, cross-dressers, what’s the difference? First, don’t say “transgenders”. Nouning-the-adjective places the category above the person. Say “transgender women/men/people”. Transgender is an umbrella term that includes all significant deviation from the norms of gender and sex. Drag queens, transsexual people, cross-dressers, transvestic fetishists, people who identity as trans-masculine or trans-feminine, people who are genderqueer, etc. are all included. Transsexual refers specifically to people who permanently transition from one sex to another, usually through one or more medical treatments such as hormone replacement therapy and/or genital reconstruction surgery, usually along with legal and social changes such as change of legal name and documentation, alternate gender presentation (clothing, make-up, etc.), voice training and so on. The adjective “trans”, as in “trans woman”, usually means transsexual but sometimes means transgender. It’s usually clear from context. This article, for instance, has been about transsexual women. Drag queens are men (typically but not always gay) who dress in an exaggeratedly, campily female way for the sake of performance or entertainment. There is typically very little emphasis placed on actually passing as female but instead on having a particularly ostentatious and fun outfit. This is an act of playing with gender roles, not an act based on expression of a deeper internal sense of self. A drag queen adopts a female persona but will (almost always) have a male gender identity. Cross-dressers are men with a male gender identity who, for a variety of possible reasons, choose to occasionally dress in women’s clothing and accessories and present as female. The acts of cross-sex presentation are temporary and do not reflect their “true self”. A transvestic fetishist is a cross-dresser who does so for sexual motivations, due to being aroused or getting an erotic thrill from the cross-sex presentation. They also maintain a male gender identity and the cross-sex presentation is temporary. These distinctions are important. Seriously. Myth 12. Transsexuality is just an invention of the modern medical establishment, a symptom of Western culture. Hormone replacement therapy and genital reconstruction surgery are modern medical treatments developed to address and accommodate a long-standing human issue. Gender variance, although it may vary in its particular iteration, will not always be socially accepted or accommodated, and is sometimes only accommodated in very specific ways, occurs in pretty much all cultures and societies throughout human history. Many cultures were actually fairly accepting and tolerant. Some even imagined transgendered identities to be especially blessed, lucky or powerful… such as a shamanic role for certain North American First Nations “two spirit” identities, the Galli priestesses of Cybele in ancient Greece, the paradoxically respected-and-stigmatized social status of Kathoey in Thailand, the positive social standing of Hjira in India prior to British colonial rule (which brought with it British attitudes towards gender variance), etc. Gender variance has existed as long as human beings have. Transsexuality is simply a relatively new option for addressing it and meeting the needs of people with a sense of strong disharmony between gender identity and physical sex. It didn’t create us, it is just a means of allowing us to live full, happy, meaningful lives and feel comfortable and at home in our bodies. Myth 13. You’re infiltrating women’s spaces and making them unsafe. First of all, we are women. So there’s that. I’m not sure why whatever discomfort may arise from a cis woman’s hang-ups about the thought of a trans woman in the same bathroom or changing room or whatever, and the perceived risk, should take precedence over the extreme discomfort and actual physical risk that a trans woman would be forced to endure in using men’s facilities. An argument I’ve encountered repeatedly is “well what’s to stop some male rapist or child molester or voyeur from putting on some lipstick, claiming to be transgender, and then sexually assaulting your daughters!” (Ominous scary organ chord!). Well… there has never, ever been such an incident. No man has ever disguised himself as transgender for the sake of perpetrating such a crime. And if what you are worried about is sexual assault and voyeurism then those are the issues you should be targeting, enacting policies against, and the people whom you should be demonizing. Don’t demonize and punish innocent trans people over some wild, imagined hypothetical. Would you ban lesbians from women’s facilities on the possibility of their voyeurism? No, probably not, and it’s extremely statistically unlikely for lesbians to commit sexual assault in such a setting. But… it’s just as unlikely for trans women to do so. And remember that stuff about our libidos? Our difficulty achieving erection if we even have a penis? If prevention of sexual assault is something you’re keenly interested in, then please start by focusing on dismantling a misogynistic culture that objectifies and devalues women and places their humanity as secondary to their bodies. There is also a lot of anger and controversy within the feminist community about other types of women’s spaces. A particularly prominent example is the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, which enforces a trans-exclusionist “Womyn-Born-Womyn” policy (though they allow trans men to attend and perform). Many of the justifications are parallel to those of the Christian right in forbidding us access to women’s bathrooms and changing rooms: we’re really men, it makes the environment unsafe (again, there is absolutely no data whatsoever to support this), what’s to stop men from attending under the pretense of being trans, etc. But there are additionally complex issues. One is the general transphobic attitudes within certain branches of feminism (particularly radical feminism)…. The notion that we’re enforcing the gender binary (which relates to the “why can’t you just accept yourselves” thing and the confusion of gender identity with gender expression), the weird hypocritically gender-essentialist insistence that although gender is “just a social construct” we are nonetheless completely bound to our assigned sex and may not transcend it, many bio-essentialist claims (such as, literally: “rape is encoded on the Y chromosome”… I’ve actually come across that claim), etc. It is also sometimes insisted that because we lacked female childhoods and the concomitant gender-socialization that we can’t possibly understand the female experience. That’s true in a sense… there are many aspects of a female life I did not experience and some I never shall. But this is true of every woman. There is no universal, unwavering female narrative that everyone experiences exactly alike. There are as many stories as there are women. To act like any particular thing being absent means someone isn’t “really” a woman and can’t understand womanhood would necessarily mean excluding a whole lot of cis women, too. All of these notions seem to be acts of bending over backwards and performing intellectual acrobatics to try to disguise their transphobia as being somehow an extension of their feminism when it in fact runs directly contrary to several of the fundamental tenets of feminism… that our lives, choices, identities and what we do with our bodies should not be dictated by external forces or forced upon us to conform with what society tells us those with our particular anatomy are supposed to be. Biology is not destiny. Remember? … In summary, almost all of these misconceptions stem from the assumption that we’re really men, and considering us, our lives, our implications and our choices through a male frame of reference. A woman who is attracted to men is not gay. The existence of a woman as a woman does not reinforce traditional gender roles, nor would the breakdown of those roles cause her to disappear. A woman would not be asked to simply accept a male body. A woman would not be accused of appropriating womanhood, or infiltrating women’s spaces. A woman’s body, and the aspects of it that render it female, are not simply cosmetic. If there is one myth to debunk from which all others would perish, it’s the notion that our gender is not legitimate. We are women. Just think of us as such, and you’ll get it. … ETA: When I said that a cross-dresser’s acts of cross-sex presentation do not reflect their “true self”, I should have been more clear: in the case of a CD (as opposed to a trans woman in denial who simply believes herself to be CD), the female presentation / persona isn’t MORE true than the male identity. Both are aspects of that individual’s sense of self. But the primary difference between a genuine CD and a trans woman is that the male identity is not held to be false while the female identity is held to be genuine. Instead, the male identity is still the primary expression of self that is inevitably returned to.
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After the most unprecedented denigration of a presidential candidate in US history, the worst may be yet to come, beginning Friday with Trumps inauguration as Americas 45th president.
Pro-Hillary dark forces call him illegitimate. Media scoundrels beat on him relentlessly. Whatever he does or says or doesnt do or doesnt say is criticized.
Nothing in memory resembles whats gone on since mid-2015. The problem isnt Trump. Its Americas debauched system - fantasy democracy, not the real thing.
Leaders like Obama govern by the script handed them, doing the bidding of powerful dark forces running the country. Trumps anti-establishment sounding rhetoric scares them, especially talk of getting along with Vladimir Putin - anathema in neocon infested Washington.
Days before his inauguration, a disgraceful Huffington Post article contemptuously headlined Hillary Clinton is the Legitimate President, saying:
The evidence is clear. Hillary Clinton is the rightful president-elect, and courts must use the broad discretionary powers with which they are vested to enjoin an illegitimate president from taking office.
Shocking stuff, here in America, not in some faraway tinpot dictatorship. The evidence is very clear. Trump won convincingly. Hillary lost whining, whimpering, simpering and groaning, believing it was her turn as a woman to claim the nations highest office.
Her defeat let humanity dodge a possible nuclear bullet. Huffpo saying US courts should intervene on her behalf is seditious or treasonous - despicably promoting coup detat action to prevent an elected US president from taking office.
Huffpo: Every major intelligence agency in the country has reached the same conclusion: Russian hackers engaged in cyber attacks with the express purpose of helping Donald Trump win the election.
They operated at the directive of Russian President Vladimir Putin, apparently motivated by his hatred for Clinton.
Fact: This is what passes for mainstream news and information - utter rubbish, knowing, or should know, not a shred of evidence suggests Russian US election hacking.
The whole dirty story was fabricated - a disgraceful scheme to delegitimize Trump and prevent normalizing ties with Russia.
Promoting the notion of Hillary as Americas legitimate president is scandalous, stuff commonplace in banana republics or despotic monarchies.
Itll likely continue after Trump enters office - instead of focusing solely on how he governs, judging him by what he does or doesnt do for good or ill.
A rough ride awaits him. Fidel Castros advice to Hugo Chavez before his death applies to Trump, saying (t)ake care what you eat, what they give you to eat. They inject you with I dont know what.
Watch your back is also sound advice, including carefully vetting security personnel assigned for protection.
Threatening dark forces make survival Trumps top priority.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected].
His new book as editor and contributor is titled "Flashpoint in Ukraine: How the US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III."
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanIII.html
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.
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Alan McConnell is the new coach of the Giants' AFLW team
ALAN McConnell will replace Tim Schmidt as coach of Greater Western Sydney’s NAB AFL Women’s team.
McConnell, the Giants' director of coaching, will continue working with the AFL team.
The club said Schmidt, who coached the NSW/ACT team in the NAB AFLW Under-18 Championships, had stepped down to focus on his expanded role with AFL NSW/ACT’s talent programs. He also operates a kicking academy business.
"When the opportunity arose, it made sense to look internally to continue to build the relationship between our AFL and AFLW teams," Giants CEO David Matthews said.
"Alan had already assisted our AFLW players and coaches across the inaugural AFLW season and to secure him in this role is a real win.
"Importantly, he will continue to be across the men’s program during the women’s season, and return to the men’s program during the AFLW off-season."
Matthews thanked Schmidt for his contribution to the club’s inaugural AFLW season.
"Many of the values and processes he implemented will continue into 2018 and beyond," he said.
"Pleasingly Tim’s role at AFL NSW/ACT will ensure he continues to work with the Giants' AFLW program as the key person identifying and developing young female talent in New South Wales and the ACT."
McConnell played 37 games for Footscray and was the last coach of Fitzroy before it merged with the Brisbane Bears at the end of 1996. He was previously an assistant coach at Geelong and the AIS-AFL Academy’s high-performance coach. He has been with the Giants since 2009.
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Thor, the classic God of Thunder in the Marvel comics, exploded onto the screen in 2011's "Thor".
The film did well, both with critics and financially, giving Marvel even more momentum to push its planed cinematic universe forward. Surprisingly though, Thor's debut film was a make or break moment for Marvel.
In a recent interview with the director of the film, Kenneth Branagh, discussed just how nervous the company was about the film.
Branagh had the following to say in the interview, as reported by Comicbook.com:
"Remember, there were only two pictures in the Marvel Universe. Iron Man, genius, the first one. [The Incredible] Hulk hadn’t worked as they’d hoped," he continued, "And then [ Thor was] number three, it was sink or swim before Captain America and then suddenly, oh, it was fine after that. We make Iron Man 2 and Avengers and everything’s tickety-boo."
"But everybody who was there knows that that was an incredibly sweaty time," he continued.
When asked if Thor failing would have hurt Marvel and the plan for their film timeline, Branagh had the following to said, "That’s certainly how they felt."
What a twist! Sounds like Thor succeeding was the best thing that could have happened for everyone!
Thor recently starred in the third film for the character, "Thor: Ragnarok", which has become a smash hit. Looks like everyone has this thunder god to thank for making sure we would continue to enjoy high quality superhero films produced by Marvel!
"Thor: Ragnarok" is out now, be sure to check it out!
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The number of patients waiting to be admitted for operations or other treatment in June was a quarter of a million higher than in the same month last year, official figures show.
Labour claimed that overflowing accident and emergency departments and cuts to nursing jobs were to blame for the figures, which were published by NHS England on Thursday.
But the Department for Health insisted that average waiting times are remaining stable and said demand for services had increased significantly since 2010.
The figures come after a report by Monitor, the NHS regulator, which warned that some trusts were cancelling non-emergency procedures to deal with a higher load of emergency cases, resulting in longer waiting times.
The "referral to treatment" data reveals that waiting lists, which have hovered around 2.5 million patients in recent years, reached 2.88 million in June, the highest level since May 2008.
However, the figures also show that the median waiting time for treatment is currently 5.7 weeks – the same duration as in June 2012.
A&E departments have been under growing strain with ministers blaming a rapid rise in demand for emergency care, but opponents have claimed the introduction of the 111 non-emergency phone line and restructuring of the NHS have made the problem worse.
Andrew Gwynne MP, shadow health minister, said: “This year, thousands of extra patients are facing the agony of a long-awaited operation being cancelled as overflowing A&E departments need more and more hospital beds.
“David Cameron wasted £3 billion on an NHS reorganisation that took the focus off patient care. At the same time, almost five thousand nursing jobs were axed and cuts to older people's care budgets left thousands more vulnerable people arriving at A&E."
A Department of Health spokeswoman said: "The NHS is performing well – it is treating over a million patients a month.
"But despite this average waiting times are low and stable and the number of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks is nearly 55,000 lower than in May 2010, and the number of people waiting for more than a year to start treatment is the lowest it has ever been."
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) – mythologised in popular imagination as ‘Veer Savarkar’ – not only refrained from participating in the freedom struggle after the British released him from prison on account of his relentless pleas for mercy, but also actively collaborated with the English rulers to whom he had declared his loyalty.
At the time when Subhas Chandra Bose was raising his Indian National Army to confront the British in India, Savarkar helped the colonial government recruit lakhs of Indians into its armed forces. He further destabilised the freedom movement by pushing his Hindutva ideology, which deepened the communal divide at a time when a united front against colonial rule was needed. Post independence, Savarkar was also implicated in Mahatma Gandhi’s murder.
Such is the man who was declared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to be “the true son of Mother India and inspiration for many people”, in his Twitter salutation to Savarkar on his birth anniversary on May 28 last year. In 2015, commemorating Savarkar on his 132nd birth anniversary, the prime minister bowed before a portrait of the Hindutva icon in remembrance of “his indomitable spirit and invaluable contribution to India’s history”.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley was quick to follow up on the act. “Today, on birth anniversary of Veer Savarkar, let us remember & pay tribute to this great freedom fighter & social-political philosopher,” he tweeted. And somewhere in the stream of Twitter accolades from numerous BJP ministers that followed, the TV anchor Rajdeep Sardesai joined the chorus, albeit with a caveat. While he disagreed “with his ideology”, Sardesai said he honoured Savarkar’s “spirit as freedom fighter”.
A freedom fighter he definitely was, for a certain period in the first decade of the previous century, long before he’d begun articulating the notion of Hindutva. Savarkar was then an atheist and a rationalist, who had started out on a revolutionary road to rid India of her colonial yoke, asserting:
“whenever the natural process of national and political evolution is violently suppressed by the force of wrong, the revolution must step in as a natural reaction and therefore ought to be welcomed as the only effective instrument to re-throne Truth and Right.”
On sailing to England to study law in 1906, Savarkar founded the Free India Society to organise Indian students studying in England to fight for independence. In a famous declaration before the society, he said:
“We must stop complaining about this British officer or that officer, this law or that law. There would be no end to that. Our movement must not be limited to being against any particular law, but it must be for acquiring the authority to make laws itself. In other words, we want absolute independence.”
However, when the time came to pay the price for being a revolutionary under an oppressive colonial government, Savarkar found himself converted and transformed into “the staunchest advocate of loyalty to the English government”, to use his own words. This was after he was arrested and sentenced to serve 50 years in the infamous Cellular Jail on the Andaman islands after he was found guilty of supplying the pistol that a member of the Abhinav Bharat Society used to assassinate the then collector of Nasik, A.M.T. Jackson, in 1909.
‘Veer’ Savarkar pleading with the British for mercy
Barely a month into the hardships of prison, Savarkar wrote his first mercy petition, which was rejected in 1911. The second mercy petition, which he wrote in 1913, starts with bitter complaints about other convicts from his party receiving better treatment than him:
“When I came here in 1911 June, I was along with the rest of the convicts of my party taken to the office of the Chief Commissioner. There I was classed as “D” meaning dangerous prisoner; the rest of the convicts were not classed as “D”. Then I had to pass full 6 months in solitary confinement. The other convicts had not… Although my conduct during all the time was exceptionally good still at the end of these six months I was not sent out of the jail; though the other convicts who came with me were. …For those who are term convicts the thing is different, but Sir, I have 50 years staring me in the face! How can I pull up moral energy enough to pass them in close confinement when even those concessions which the vilest of convicts can claim to smoothen their life are denied to me?”
Then, after confessing that he was misguided into taking the revolutionary road because of the “excited and hopeless situation of India in 1906-1907”, he concluded his November 14, 1913 petition by assuring the British of his conscientious conversion. “[I]f the government in their manifold beneficence and mercy release me,” he wrote, “I for one cannot but be the staunchest advocate of… loyalty to the English government (emphasis added)”.
“Moreover,” he went on to say, making an offer which few freedom fighters could even think of making, “my conversion to the constitutional line would bring back all those misled young men in India and abroad who were once looking up to me as their guide. I am ready to serve the Government in any capacity they like, for as my conversion is conscientious..The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the paternal doors of the Government?”
In his fourth mercy petition, dated March 30, 1920, Savarkar told the British that under the threat of an invasion from the north by the “fanatic hordes of Asia” who were posing as “friends”, he was convinced that “every intelligent lover of India would heartily and loyally co-operate with the British people in the interests of India herself.”
After reassuring the colonial government that he was trying his “humble best to render the hands of the British dominion a bond of love and respect,” Savarkar went on to exalt the English empire: “Such an Empire as is foreshadowed in the Proclamation, wins my hearty adherence”. “But”, he added:
“if the Government wants a further security from me then I and my brother are perfectly willing to give a pledge of not participating in politics for a definite and reasonable period that the Government would indicate… This or any pledge, e.g., of remaining in a particular province or reporting our movements to the police for a definite period after our release – any such reasonable conditions meant genuinely to ensure the safety of the State would be gladly accepted by me and my brother.”
Finally, after spending ten years in the cellular jail and writing many mercy petitions, Savarkar, along with his brother, was shifted to a prison in Ratnagiri in 1921, before his subsequent release in 1924 on the condition of the confinement of his movements to the Ratnagiri district and his non participation in political activities. These restrictions were lifted only in 1937.
Self-glorification of a defeated man
One might have argued in 1924 that the promises he made about his love and loyalty to the British, about his readiness to serve the government in any capacity required and so on were a part of a tactical ploy – perhaps one inspired by Shivaji – employed to make his way out of prison so that he could continue his freedom struggle. However, history has proven him to be a man of ‘honour’, who stood by the promise he made to the colonial government. How then, one might wonder, did Savarkar acquire the title ‘Veer’?
A book titled Life of Barrister Savarkar authored by Chitragupta was the first biography of Savarkar, published in 1926. Savarkar was glorified in this book for his courage and deemed a hero. And two decades after Savarkar’s death, when the second edition of this book was released in 1987 by the Veer Savarkar Prakashan, the official publisher of Savarkar’s writings, Ravindra Ramdas revealed in its preface that “Chitragupta is none other than Veer Savarkar”.
In this autobiography masquerading as a biography written by a different author, Savarkar assures the reader that:
“Savarkar is born hero, he could almost despise those who shirked duty for fear of consequences. If once he rightly or wrongly believed that a certain system of Government was iniquitous, he felt no scruples in devising means to eradicate the evil.”
Without mincing words in the name of modesty or moderating the use of adjectives in the name of literary minimalism, Savarkar wrote that Savarkar “seemed to posses no few distinctive marks of character, such as an amazing presence of mind, indomitable courage, unconquerable confidence in his capability to achieve great things”. “Who,” he asked about himself, “could help admiring his courage and presence of mind?”
Perhaps in polite society, we ought to quietly look the other way with an embarrassed smile when an ex-revolutionist, after breaking down in prison, indulges in self-glorification under the cover of a pen name after his release. And, indeed, no one who did not suffer the conditions the inmates of that infamous prison on the Andaman islands had to endure, can claim the right to castigate Savarkar for refusing to contribute to the freedom movement after he was released from jail.
But his purporting of an ideology which destabilised the freedom movement by deepening the divisions along sectarian lines and his active rendering of support to the British government – which was determined to subdue the anti-colonial struggle – was a betrayal that must be hard to forgive, especially for a ‘patriot’ and a ‘nationalist’.
Derailing the freedom movement with his Hindutva ideology
The sectarian mindset, which eventually culminated into the articulation of Hindutva ideology, was evident – as Jyotirmaya Sharma has demonstrated in Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism – in the early Savarkar, that too from a tender age. Only a boy of 12, Savarkar, leading a pack of his schoolmates, attacked a mosque in the aftermath of the Hindu-Muslim riots in Bombay and Pune in 1894-95. Holding back the Muslim boys of the village using “knives, pins and foot rulers”, Savarkar and his friends mounted their attack, “showering stones on the mosque, shattering its windows and tiles”. Recollecting the incident, he later wrote, “We vandalised the mosque to our heart’s content and raised the flag of our bravery on it.” When the news of Hindus killing Muslims in the riots and its aftermath reached him, little Savarkar and his friends “would dance with joy”.
The sectarian nature of Savarkar’s social and political thinking not only bred in him a deep-rooted resentment against Muslims but also clouded his understanding of historical events, leading him to perceive the 1857 War of Indian Independence as a retaliation by Hindus and Muslims against Christianity, in response to Britain’s efforts to Christianise India. In his 1909 book, The War of Independence of 1857, published during his revolutionary days, years before he had declared his loyalty to the British government, Savarkar wrote, quoting Justin McCarthy, “The Mahomedan and the Hindu forgot their old religious antipathies to join against the Christian.”
What was to stop the British government, which had passed a law against the practice of Sati (widow burning), from meddling further with Hindu customs by passing a law against idolatry, he asked. After all, “[t]he English hated idolatry as much as they did suttee.” Describing a process he perceived to be the destruction of Hinduism and Islam in India, Savarkar wrote in his book::
“The Sirkar (government) had already begun to pass one law after another to destroy the foundations of the Hindu and Mahomedan religions. Railways had already been constructed, and carriages had been built in such a way as to offend the caste prejudices of the Hindus. The larger mission schools were being helped with huge grants from the Sirkar. Lord Canning himself distributed thousands of Rupees to every mission, and from this fact it is clear that the wish was strong in the heart of Lord Canning that all India should be Christian.”
The sepoys, according to Savarkar, were the primary targets in this mission to spread Christianity in India. “[I]f any Sepoy accepted the Christian religion he was praised loudly and treated honourably; and this Sepoy was promoted in the ranks and his salary increased, in the face of the superior merits of the other Sepoys!”
“Everywhere”, he argued, “there was a strong conviction that the Government had determined to destroy the religions of the country and make Christianity the paramount religion of the land”. By thus giving religion an unwarranted centrality in his analysis of the causes of the rebellion, Savarkar, says Jyotirmaya Sharma, expressed jubilation in his accounts of the rebellion “at every instance of a church being felled, a cross being smashed and every Christian being ‘sliced’.”
While the seeds of communalism had been sown in his mind at a very young age, the poison fruit of Hindutva ideology was to blossom only in his late 20s, after Savarkar’s will to fight the British (or the Christians, as he often referred to them in his book on the 1857 uprising) had been defeated during his imprisonment. It was during his last few years of imprisonment that Savarkar first articulated the concept of Hindutva in his book, Essentials of Hindutva, which was published in 1923 and reprinted as “Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu?” in 1928. This ideology was a deeply divisive one which had the potential to distract attention from the British and cast it on Muslims instead.
While he was careful to specify that Hindutva, or ‘Hinduness’, was different from Hinduism and encompassed a wide range of cultures including, among others, the “Sanatanists, Satnamis, Sikhs, Aryas, Anaryas, Marathas and Madrasis, Brahmins and Panchamas”, he nonetheless made it a point to warn that it “would be straining the usage of words too much – we fear, to the point of breaking – if we call a Mohammedan a Hindu because of his being a resident of India.”
“Mohammedan or Christian communities”, he argued, “possess all the essential qualifications of Hindutva but one and that is that they do not look upon India as their Holyland”. A cohesive nation, according to Savarkar, can ideally be built only by those people who inhabit a country which is not only the land of their forefathers, but “also the land of their Gods and Angels, of Seers and Prophets; the scenes of whose history are also the scenes of their mythology.”
The love and loyalty of Muslims, he warned, “is, and must necessarily be divided between the land of their birth and the land of their Prophets… Mohammedans would naturally set the interests of their Holyland above those of their Motherland”. One might wonder whether this line of reasoning implies that Muslims cannot be nationals of Pakistan or Afghanistan either, because they would place the interests of Saudi Arabia, wherein lie Mecca and Madina, above the interests of their own country.
Back in the 1920s, the damage that could be done to the freedom movement by his ideology did not fail to come to the notice of the colonial government. Even though Savarkar was released on condition that he should not participate in political activities, he was allowed by the British to organise the Ratnagiri Mahasabha, which undertook what is in today’s lingo called “Ghar Wapsi” and played music in front of mosques while prayers were on.
He was also allowed to meet K.B. Hedgewar, a disillusioned Congressman, who, inspired by his ideology of Hindutva, intended to discuss with him a strategy for creating a Hindu Rashtra. A few months after this meeting, in September 1925, Hedgewar founded the RSS, a communal organisation which, like Savarkar, remained subservient to the British.
In spite of the blanket ban on political participation, Shamsul Islam pointed out:
“The British rulers naturally overlooked these political activities as the future of colonial rule in India rested on the communal divide and Savarkar was leaving no stone unturned in aggravating the Hindu-Muslim divide.”
Collaboration with the colonial government
Savarkar was elected as the president of Hindu Mahasabha in 1937, the year when the Indian National Congress won what we today call a landslide victory in the provincial elections, decimating both the Hindu Mahasabha and that other communal party, the Muslim League, which failed to form a government even in Muslim-majority regions. But just two years later, the Congress relinquished power in protest when, at the outbreak of the Second World War, the viceroy, Lord Linlithgow, declared India to be at war with Germany without any consultation.
In September 1939, the working committee of the Congress declared that it would render support to Britain’s war efforts in her time of crisis only if the colonial government recognised India’s independence and “the right of her people to frame their constitution through a constituent assembly”. When dominion status was the last concession Linlithgow was willing to grant to India, the ministers of the Congress resigned in protest.
Quick to grab the opportunity, the very next month, Savarkar, in his capacity as president of the Hindu Mahasabha, met Linlithgow. In the report about the meeting sent to secretary of state, Linlithgow wrote:
“The situation, he [Savarkar] said, was that His Majesty’s government must now turn to the Hindus and work with their support…. Our interests were now the same and we must therefore work together… Our interests are so closely bound together, the essential thing is for Hinduism and Great Britain to be friends and the old antagonism was no longer necessary. The Hindu Mahasabha he went on to say favoured an unambiguous undertaking of Dominion status at the end of the war.”
Two months later, addressing the Mahasabha’s Calcutta session, Savarkar urged all universities, colleges and schools to “secure entry into military forces for youths in any and every way.” When Gandhi had launched his individual satyagraha the following year, Savarkar, at the Mahasabha session held in December 1940 in Madura, encouraged Hindu men to enlist in “various branches of British armed forces en masse.”
In 1941, taking advantage of the World War, Bose had begun raising an army to fight the British by recruiting Indian prisoners of war from the British army held by the Axis powers – efforts which eventually culminated in his invasion of British India with the help of the Japanese military. During this period, addressing the Hindu Mahasabha session at Bhagalpur in 1941, Savarkar told his followers:
“..it must be noted that Japan’s entry into the war has exposed us directly and immediately to the attack by Britain’s enemies…Hindu Mahasabhaites must, therefore, rouse Hindus especially in the provinces of Bengal and Assam as effectively as possible to enter the military forces of all arms without losing a single minute.”
In reciprocation, the British commander-in-chief, “expressed his grateful appreciation of the lead given by Barrister Savarkar in exhorting the Hindus to join the forces of the land with a view to defend India from enemy attacks,” according to Hindu Mahasabha archives perused by Shamsul Islam.
In response to the Quit India Movement launched in August 1942, Savarkar instructed Hindu Sabhaites who were “members of municipalities, local bodies, legislatures or those serving in the army… to stick to their posts,” across the country. At that time, when Japan had conquered many Southeast Asian countries in India’s vicinity, Bose was making arrangements to go from Germany to Japan – from whose occupied territories the INA’s assault on British forces was launched in October the following year.
It was under these circumstances that Savarkar not only instructed those serving in the British army to ‘stick to their posts’, but had also been involved for years in “organising recruitment camps for the British armed forces which were to slaughter the cadres of INA in different parts of North-East later.” In one year alone, Savarkar had boasted in Madura, one lakh Hindus were recruited into the British armed forces as a result of the Mahasabha’s efforts.
Even though the British Army, with which Savarkar and the Hindu Mahasabha were collaborating, managed to defeat Bose’s INA, the subsequent public trials of INA officers at the Red Fort roused in the Indian soldiers of the British armed forces a political conscience, which played a crucial role in triggering the Royal Indian Naval Mutiny in 1946, after which the decision was made by the British to leave India.
In coalition with the Muslim League when Pakistan resolution was passed
That Savarkar and the Hindu Mahasabha actively collaborated with the British may not be difficult to comprehend, since it is widely known that the Hindutva groups regarded Muslims, and not the British, as their primary enemies. What is likely to raise more eyebrows today is the collaboration of the Hindu Mahasabha with the Muslim League.
When the Congress leaders were arrested during the Quit India movement, the Hindu Mahasabha, still presided over by Savarkar, entered into a coalition with the Muslim League to run the governments in Sindh and Bengal – a move Savarkar justified as “practical politics” which calls for “advance through reasonable compromises”.
After all, in spite of the deeply-held conviction by Savarkar and his party that the Muslims – whose holy land lies in a foreign country – cannot be regarded as Indian nationals, the Hindu Mahasabha nevertheless had a great deal in common with the Muslim League. Both parties made no contribution to the struggle for independence from the colonising empire and both were communal parties whose ideologies antagonised the prospects of India remaining undivided after independence.
Even after the Sindh assembly passed a resolution in 1943 demanding that Pakistan be carved out of India as a separate state for the Muslims, the Mahasabha ministers continued to hold their positions in the coalition government. Not entirely surprising, given that Savarkar had put forth his two-nation theory “a clear sixteen years before the Muslim League embraced the idea of the Hindus and the Muslims as two distinctive nations and demanded the division of India.” And when India was eventually partitioned, Savarkar blamed Gandhi for allowing Pakistan to break away from India, an accusation that stoked the fires of hatred against Gandhi among many of his close devotees, including his ‘lieutenant’ – Nathuram Godse.
The second part of this series will focus on Savarkar’s role in Gandhi’s assassination.
Pavan Kulkarni is a freelance journalist.
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Invested interests: the UK's Overseas Territories' hidden role in developing countries
Konstantinos Todoulos Added 18 Jun 2013
Eurodad member Christian Aid and the IF campaign released a new report entitled “Invested interests: the UK's Overseas Territories' hidden role in developing countries.” It reveals that UK-linked tax havens are at the centre of a global financial system that encourages crime, corruption and aggressive tax avoidance in developing countries.
The report also reveals that the British Virgin Islands (BVI), Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Anguilla and Turks and Caicos - all British Overseas Territories - together with the Crown Dependencies of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey are now the largest source of Foreign Direct Investment in developing countries. The amount totalled US$556bn by 2011, the most recent year for which we have figures, and accounted for one in every ten US dollars of foreign direct investment made there.
This figure is concerning because investment is often structured through such jurisdictions specifically to enable tax dodging in poor countries. Other abuses they facilitate include the laundering of crime money, and ‘round tripping’, in which money originating in the developing country where it is to be invested is sent offshore and then returned disguised as foreign funds to qualify for major tax breaks.
Finally among the report findings are that the British Virgin Islands alone was the fourth largest investor to developing countries in 2011, with the amount involved US$388bn. It provides globally investment more than 860 times the size of its own GDP. That same year it was revealed that 45 newly incorporated companies in the BVI had acquired mining assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo at a loss, it was claimed, to the DRC’s economy of US$5.5bn. The identity of those behind the companies remains secret.
Download full report here.
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A clown urges passersby to sign a petition calling for the retirement of Ronald McDonald as a mascot for the fast-food chain. The demonstrators, organized by Corporate Accountability International, claim McDonald's uses the corporate mascot to market unhealthy, fatty foods to children. UPI/Brian Kersey | License Photo
HYATTSVILLE, Md., July 23 (UPI) -- Nearly a third of American children and adolescents aged 8 to 15 years misperceive their weight, according to a new CDC study. The majority of that 30 percent chunk are obese and overweight children who don't see their weight as an issue.
The study, conducted and published by researchers at CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, found that 76 percent of overweight boys and girls believe they are "about the right weight," while about 42 percent of obese kids consider themselves about right.
Although new evidence suggests obesity rates among kids has leveled off in recent years, the problem is still prevalent and the health risks more and more apparent.
"I am seeing people younger and younger coming into my office with osteoarthritis from weight," explained Dr. Daniel Neides, director of medicine at the Wellness Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. "We weren't learning about kids with these problems when I was in medical school."
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The CDC study found minority children and those from poorer backgrounds -- demographic groups with higher rates of adult obesity -- were more likely to misjudge their weight. The evidence suggests kids with obese parents may be more likely to misperceive their own weight issues.
"As our country gets heavier, children don't necessarily see it as abnormal," Neides, who was not involved with the CDC study, told TIME.
Neda Sarafrazi, a nutritional epidemiologist with NCHS and the report's lead author, told NPR that a child's proper perception of his or her weight is important for inspiring behavioral changes -- like eating healthier and getting more exercise. "Children who don't have a correct perception of their weight don't take steps to lose weight," she said.
But Marlene Schwartz, a psychologist and director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University, warns against the dangers of labeling. "Shame is a terrible motivator," she said. Schwartz thinks education and encouragement are more effective at inspiring healthy change than ensuring kids' weight issues are properly categorized and labeled.
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Turkish policeman fined for voluntarily escorting Paris Hilton
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet
REUTERS Photo
An investigation into two police officers who voluntarily escorted U.S. celebrity Paris Hilton without an official order when she was in Turkey last year has been completed. One of the officers has been handed a warning fine, while no legal action has been ruled for the other investigated officer.When Paris Hilton was in Istanbul for a commercial shoot last October, two motorcycle policemen voluntarily escorted her car to a TV studio, before waiting outside the building during the show. Later, they accompanied her from the studio to the hotel.An investigation was launched by the Istanbul Police Department when the incident was revealed.In the investigation, the two officers reportedly said they had decided to voluntarily escort Hilton in order to reflect Turkey’s image well.The disciplinary committee fined one of the officers on charges of acting against instructions.Paris Hilton was in Istanbul to appear in a clothing brand’s advertising campaign with Turkish football star Arda Turan.
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As in the past, Seattle police anticipated the actions of self-proclaimed anarchists on May Day. But the Seattle Police Department’s incident commander for the protests said this year was notably different.
“I was surprised at the numbers of people at Seattle Central (Community College) that wanted to get into a confrontation,” Captain Chris Fowler told
KIRO Radio’s Jason Rantz. “I have not seen that many black bloc anarchists — people dressed up in that vein — that wanted to cause problems that early.”
Related: Mayor, chief praise police response to violent May Day protest in Seattle
“I would say that it was a substantial difference between the small groups of people that wanted to commit violence from years past, or the small groups that we’ve seen glom onto peaceful protest,” Fowler said. “This was a group of people in a large group — 75, 100, 200 mixed into a crowd of much larger size — that facilitated that violence and destruction.”
What is to blame for the uptick, Rantz asked.
“I don’t know if it’s just levels of frustration or there was a need to make some sort of statement,” Fowler said. “Clearly, they were out to commit violence and crime. So it’s hard for me to relate to people that want to do that. It’s hard to say.”
Officers confiscated a hammer, wrenches, batteries, and a machete with “death” written on it. A total of 17 arrests were made Friday night. Three officers went to the hospital for injuries. Rioters smashed over 20 cars, including a KIRO Radio truck.
Photos from May Day protests
As in years past, the Seattle Police Department is expected to release photos and ask people to help identify rioters for further arrest.
Fowler said the department still has a lot of video and photos to look through, and that the investigation is underway.
He noted that just because they arrest someone, it doesn’t mean that they will eventually be charged. That is up to prosecutors, he said. In the meantime, police are making arrests for a range of crimes from felony assault to obstructing.
After the protest-turned-riot, Fowler said that he knew those crimes were likely coming as he watched the anarchist crowd gather.
“When they left Seattle Central Community College and moved down Broadway, it was relatively peaceful, but we knew before they left that there were going to be issues,” Fowler said. “You could hear the crowd talk about what they were going to do as you were standing there. You saw the sticks, you could see them putting wrenches into their sleeves. It was unlike anything I had seen before.”
The Seattle Police Department is expected to brief the Seattle City Council Wednesday afternoon about the actions officers took on May 1.
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Overview
AVEXIR’s AVD3UH31001204G-2CI is a Dual channel 512M x 64-bit 4GB single side (4096MB) x2 DDR3-3100MHz CL12 SDRAM(Synchronous DRAM) memory modules, based on eight 512M x 8–bit DDR3 FBGA components per module. Each module kit supports Intel XMP 1.3 (Extreme Memory Profiles). Total kit capacity is 8GB. It supports newest generation of Intel Haswell Z87 Chipset.
Each module pair has been tested on various motherboards to run at rated speed at timing of 12-15-15-35 2T at 1.65V.
The SPDs are programmed to JEDEC standard latency DDR3-1600MHz timing of 11-11-11-28 at 1.5V.
Features
-Intel Haswell Z87 motherboards Optimized
-Every Avexir Memory is 100% tested on PC motherboard environment
-Dynamic blue LED light
-High conductive light guide bar
-High performance voltage stabilizing generator
-AIST every single IC examined by AVEXIR IC Sorting Technology
-Golden Finger Protector
-8 layers PCB for maximum thermal conduction
-Double Copper PCB to maximized overclocking ability
Caution
**Not every motherboard could operate such high speed
**Make sure your motherboards and CPUs are capable to overclock
**Please update motherboard BIOS to the newest version
Verified motherboard
- Asrock Z87 OC Formula Series
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'Maturity Is Greatly Overrated': The Conversation With Ronda Rousey
UFC Champion Ronda Rousey explains why she doesn't like calling herself a "role model." NEXT VIDEO
Ed Mullholland for ESPN Who could doubt Ronda Rousey's seriousness on press day for UFC 184?
In this signature espnW series, we sit down for a candid Q&A with a remarkable person. Our aim is to cover topics high and low, deep and less so, to present a fresh look at folks we think we know and meet some others we wish we'd known all along. Welcome to The Conversation.
Caution: Adult themes and language ahead.
***
Who: Ronda Rousey, undefeated women's UFC bantamweight champion.
Who else: Her best friend, Marina Shafir.
Where: Threadgill's Restaurant, Austin, Texas.
When: March 14, 2015.
Ronda Rousey: I think we should have a prickly pear margarita. I worked hard the last couple days. I deserve it.
Allison Glock: I wholeheartedly agree. What size?
RR: [side-eyeing] Uh, large. I'm f------ Ronda Rousey. [Laughs.] I'm officially changing my name to "F------ Ronda Rousey."
WAITRESS: Can we get your drinks?
RR: I want a prickly pear margarita! Ten ounce. And get some top-shelf tequila.
WAITRESS: It only comes one way. Can I just see your ID?
RR: Here's my bartender's license. Do you want to see that?
AG: You have to have a license to bartend?
RR: In California, yeah. As soon as I turned 21, I was bartending. I learned so much from the job, social lessons I didn't learn from judo. Especially about doing press.
AG: How's that?
RR: As a bartender, I am having pretty much the identical conversation over and over all day, but I still have to be present and genuine with every single response and try to get the other person to like me because that's what gets you tips. And really, how is that different from media? I did an appearance with fans recently, and people were like, "Are you getting tired of this?" And I'm thinking, "No, this is the same as Mother's Day at Gladstones. Instead of giving out drinks, I'm giving out signed pictures."
AG: You worked at Gladstones in Malibu?
RR: I wore the red polo and the blue hat. The khakis. And then they made me start wearing skirts. It was bulls---. I got skorts instead. I wasn't about to be working in a skirt.
AG: You've evolved from not caring about clothes at all to being somewhat into fashion.
RR: Actually, my coach started it. All the guys at my gym are Armenian and extremely well dressed. I was rolling in looking like a bum, mostly because I was wearing clothes I'd had since I was 17. I owned, like, four outfits, and they weren't in the best of shape. So my coach said, "Ronda, you have to dress up a little more. Put on makeup in the morning. Make it a habit." When I started making a bit of money, I got better clothes, and now I'm sponsored by Buffalo David Bitton. I'm wearing it right now [points to her gray, perforated T-shirt and camel-colored leather jacket].
Rod Mar for ESPN Rousey does interviews in Los Angeles ahead of her last fight, which lasted all of 14 seconds.
AG: Yours is the first fashion sponsorship anyone in MMA has ever gotten.
RR: Yes! And now that I'm into it, I look at fashion all the time. You know, "Who are you wearing?" I kinda feel bad because sometimes the worlds clash. The last fight, at the staredown on press day, I was wearing this white, leather Alexander McQueen dress, and I was going to post it, but then I worried maybe I shouldn't because people might think that I'm not serious about MMA.
AG: I don't think there is any risk of that. Besides, it would be a bit of a double standard given someone like Conor McGregor is such a dandy. No one is accusing him of not being a serious athlete.
As a bartender, I am having pretty much the identical conversation over and over all day, but I still have to be present and genuine with every single response and try to get the other person to like me because that's what gets you tips. And really, how is that different from media? Ronda Rousey
RR: No kidding, right? Ultimately, though, I didn't tag the photo. I was like, "Alexander doesn't pay me. Screw it." I do get gifted some things. I have a stylist now because I've got several trips coming and I don't have that many outfits. A lot of my best clothes I buy at photo shoots because I don't have time to shop. I actually bought that McQueen dress from the ESPN 15th anniversary photo shoot. I bought it from you guys, so thank you for making me look really hot.
AG: You're welcome. [She puts on an oversized trucker cap the restaurant just gave her, snaps a photo.] That looks pretty hot, too.
RR: [Makes a goofy face] I've got a really good hat head. But my hair is still done, so the struggle is real. Do I cover the amazing hair? Or do I show how great my head is in hats?
AG: You gotta go back and forth. You gotta mix it up.
RR: I gotta gesture with it and take it on and off. [She does just that, starts laughing.]
AG: Are you fussy about your food when you're not training?
RR: I try to keep healthy-ish, but I'm so on point when I'm in camp that having a vegetable wrap would actually only be healthy-ish because of the wrap on it.
AG: The wrap is the sin? That's a lot of sacrifice.
RR: Yeah. Like last night, I got the fried calamari and I took all the bread off before dipping it, and that was my treat. And I had one little rip of the cotton candy because I thought maybe gourmet cotton candy would be different. It wasn't. And I ate all the raspberries off the desserts. Everyone else had dessert. I ate the raspberries. And I wouldn't even do that during camp. Let me show you what my training diet looks like. [Takes out her phone, pulls up a sample menu.] Here we go. 8 a.m.: Two teaspoons oat bran, two teaspoons chia seeds, two teaspoons hemp seeds; 10 a.m.: Train; 11:45: Post-exercise smoothie; 12 p.m.: Farmer's scramble: one whole egg, plus two egg whites, two sides of turkey bacon; 4 p.m.: Snack: one apple, one-fourth cup raw almonds, one-fourth cup raw cashews; 6 p.m.: Train. Post-exercise smoothie, da, da, da. Before bed: Chamomile tea. Everything's got an hour, an amount, everything.
AG: And you follow it to the letter?
Esther Lin/Getty Images No one puts more pressure on Ronda Rousey than Ronda Rousey.
RR: Yeah. And instead of vitamins, I have this giant shake twice a day, so it's all fresh vegetables and fruits: a whole beet, a whole apple, two carrots, four strawberries, one cup of blueberries, two handfuls of red grapes, one whole lemon, one handful of spinach, one handful of kale, one-fourth handful of parsley, two stalks of celery, two tablespoons of hemp seeds, two tablespoons of chia seeds, one tablespoon of coconut oil, one chard leaf, no stem.
AG: Just the one chard leaf.
RR: [Laughs.] Just the one, yeah. Listen, after I stopped competing in judo, before I began fighting MMA, I partied hard. I felt like I'd been training my whole life and missed out on the whole good-time club scene.
AG: How long did that debauchery last?
RG: Long enough. It ended after being on the other side of the bar. Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking. Any time I saw a white chick go, "Woo!", it was not hot. There is nothing sexy about a drunk girl. You really don't know how dumb you look.
AG: Speaking of letting off steam, do you dance or sing?
RR: I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.
AG: Do you do karaoke?
RR: I sang karaoke in Japan, but they didn't have the right song. I've always wanted to sing "Take Me Home Tonight," but I've never gotten the chance.
Josh Hedges/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images
AG: Wow, if only we had more time. Do you prefer a shower or bath?
RR: A bath. I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi, because I love me some candles.
AG: Cat person or dog person?
RR: Dog. My dog, Mochi, she changed my life.
AG: In what way?
RR: Knowing I was responsible for another living thing. When I got her, I decided even if I was a loser, my dog didn't deserve to suffer for it. So though I was bartending and working three jobs, I made sure I woke up extra early in the morning to drive her to doggy day care. The first $35 of my shift went to Mochi. Even when I was eating Top Ramen noodles, I bought her top-shelf dog food because it wasn't her fault that I was broke. There were times when I lived in my car, and I was like, "I have a dog, I need to ..."
AG: You lived in your car?
RR: For a week or so once, yeah, after judo, before MMA. And I realized I couldn't let that situation ever happen again because what would my dog do? It put pressure on me to succeed when I was responsible for another living thing.
Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images Rousey attends the 2014 premiere of "The Expendables 3" in Los Angeles.
AG: You seem to put pressure on yourself regardless.
RR: Pretty much. I figure, what's the worst that could happen?
AG: You could have projectile diarrhea in front of everyone you respect.
RR: Yeah, I guess. But compared to soldiers fighting wars or families in refugee camps, that's really not a big deal, is it?
AG: What do you wish you could change about yourself?
RR: A lot of things. I wish I could cook. I wish I could speak Spanish. I want to speak Spanish and Armenian and Russian.
AG: What is your biggest vice?
RR: Buffalo wings.
AG: What is the last television show you binge-watched?
RR: [The HBO documentary series] "Vice." I watched all of the first two seasons. And I like Bill Maher a lot.
AG: Have you been on his show?
RR: No, I'm not that cool. There's a lot of pressure on that panel. Some people, they just bomb. I don't want to look dumb in front of Bill Maher. [Pauses for a beat.] Is he single?
AG: I think he is aggressively single.
I realized I couldn't let that situation ever happen again because what would my dog do? It put pressure on me to succeed when I was responsible for another living thing. Ronda Rousey, on living in her car
RR: Really? He's got that Richard Gere, grey-haired sexy look.
AG: I noticed you were killing time watching Ryan Gosling .gifs earlier.
RR: Mmm, we do love us some Ryan Gosling.
AG: Why?
RR: I don't know. Why is a margarita delicious? What can I say? It just f------ is, man.
AG: Tell me a bit about your romantic history.
RR: Any guy that I've ever really been into, I never liked him at first. I grow into liking people. And I'm not into guys from afar. People are always asking me about my celebrity crush, and I'm like, I don't know. I can say people are cute. Brad Pitt is a sculpture of a man, but I'm not squealing "Oh my God!" because I don't know him. I have to know somebody to have a crush on him.
AG: What about other relationships? What kind of friend are you?
RR: I don't know. [She turns to her best friend, sitting nearby.] Chime in, Marina. What kind of friend am I?
Marina Shafir: Very loyal.
RR: Ferociously loyal, almost to a fault. Do I have makeup all over my face?
MS: No.
AG: Are you a birthday rememberer?
RR: No. To be honest, I don't know some of my family members' birthdays.
MS: The only reason she knows my birthday is because it's her lucky number.
AG: What's your lucky number?
RR: Fourteen.
AG: How did you guys meet?
RR: Judo.
MS: You didn't like me.
RR: I liked you.
MS: No, you didn't. I complimented you on your Sponge Bob laces, on all sorts of things. Every time I tried to speak with you, you were a b----.
RR: I just had a b----- demeanor. Listen, the first time she tried to talk to me, I was listening to my music, and I'm really into my music. And she taps me and says, "That's Rage Against the Machine." And I'm like, "You made me stop listening to Rage Against the Machine so you could tell me that I was listening to Rage Against the Machine?"
MS: Such a b----.
Josh Hedges/Getty Images Rousey had an image epiphany at age 22.
AG: How old were you? How many years ago?
RR: We were both 13.
AG: How did you get past that rocky beginning?
RR: It was at a judo tournament. Everybody left to go eat after we all made weight, and I don't know why, we were on a sugar high and I was like, "Hey Marina, you want to see something I've never shown anybody before?" And I twerked for her, before twerking was a thing. Way back in 2005.
MS: We've been like sisters ever since.
AG: Is your friendship the kind that you give advice to each other?
MS: Only about boys. We're like, "No, no, no! He should not be doing that to you. No, no, no!"
RR: "Girrrl, you can do a whole lot better than that!" I've definitely had worse boyfriends than her.
AG: Do you have bad taste in men?
RR: Well, I'm single, so ...
AG: Would you rather date a bald guy or a short guy?
RR: I would rather date bald and tall.
It's how I was raised, to have a place and a purpose and know everything happens for a reason. I have faith that even missed opportunities are a blessing in disguise, and the very worst things that have happened in my life have resulted in the best things that have ever happened in my life. Ronda Rousey, on faith
AG: What movie have you watched more than any other movie?
RR: I think it's a four-way tie between "Fight Club," "The Fifth Element," "Pulp Fiction" and "When Harry Met Sally."
AG: What's the worst advice you've ever been given?
RR: Don't do MMA? [Laughs.] Thanks, Mom!
AG: How important is faith in your life?
RR: Every single good thing in my life happened because I had faith that there was goodness coming for me. It's how I was raised, to have a place and a purpose and know everything happens for a reason. I have faith that even missed opportunities are a blessing in disguise, and the very worst things that have happened in my life have resulted in the best things that have ever happened in my life.
AG: Does nature play a part in your outlook?
RR: Yes. I'm a big Southern California beach girl.
AG: What is it about the ocean that speaks to you?
RR: Being able to feel small.
AG: How do you imagine your old age?
RR: I never want to put a perfect body into the ground, so I'm going to wear my body out. What do I need two perfect knees at age 60 for? I picture myself as one of those floating heads in a tank like in "Futurama" because my body quit.
AG: Are you an organ donor?
RR: Yes.
AG: What virtue do you think is overrated?
RR: Maturity. Maturity is greatly overrated. That's one of my mom's favorite lines.
AG: When did she start telling you that?
RR: As a kid, so I wouldn't take myself too seriously. What is that Dr. Seuss quote? "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." I think that's what she wanted me to take away from that.
Ed Mulholland for ESPN Did we mention her last fight lasted 14 seconds?
AG: And did you?
RR: As I got older I learned to be comfortable enough to act like myself. It took awhile to gain the confidence in every setting. I was extremely introverted and shy growing up. A lot of people are surprised to hear that since I'm so over the top now.
AG: Were you the kind of kid that would sit back and observe?
RR: I didn't talk coherently until was 6, so I was forced to be an observer. Not having that many words, I learned a lot of patience.
AG: How important is patience in your career? I would imagine it's pretty critical.
RR: One of my problems fighting is I am sometimes too impatient, and that's something I've had to really train. One day my coach made me hit the bag for 30 rounds so that I would learn patience.
AG: What is your idea of perfection?
RR: I like having a day where I can balance everything. My idea of paradise is to wake up in the morning, have coffee, go surfing or skimboarding, get in the ocean somehow. Then eat breakfast and go train, come home, chill with my dog and my friends and a big plate of buffalo wings and some sort of dessert a la mode. It's got to be hot and cold. I need two temperatures in my dessert.
AG: Do you think it's a good time or a tough time to be a woman in this culture?
RR: I think it's the best time yet, because it's always improving.
AG: How do you feel about how women are treated on social media?
I'm an ovarian goldmine. I can't waste these genes. Ronda Rousey, on wanting to have kids
RR: It can be creepy and weird. Personally, I wasn't allowed to have a cellphone until I was 16. I think having a cellphone becomes a social crutch, especially during those uncomfortable puberty years. If I had a kid, I would try to keep them out of social media until they were at least in their teens.
AG: Do you want to have kids some day?
RR: Definitely. I'm an ovarian goldmine. I can't waste these genes.
AG: Would you rather lose an arm or a leg?
RR: Arm.
AG: Would you rather be stronger than you are now or smarter than you are now?
RR: Smarter. I'm strong enough.
AG: Who do you want most to make proud?
RR: My mother. She lives on the border of Santa Monica and Venice. My sister and their family live nearby, too. We have the most entertaining family dinners. There is no topic off the table, and no one ever gets offended. It's a wit competition every time.
AG: Is everything a competition for you?
RR: Yes. Notice that I finished my drink first. Not an accident. Worse is, if I feel like I'm in a competition that I'm not going to win, I'm not playing. If people want to play Monopoly and I don't think I'm taking the victory, I'm like, "F--- it." I'm either in it to win or I'm not in it at all.
AG: What's the biggest lie you've ever told yourself?
RR: That I would be happy bartending for the rest of my life. I really tried to convince myself of that. That it would be great for me. But it just wasn't. I was meant for something else. And now I see why I felt that way.
AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill Rousey, not one for team sports, is a big fan of Serena Williams.
AG: Did you ever have body image issues?
RR: Huge body image issues growing up. Big time! I absolutely loathed how I looked until I was around 22 years old.
AG: What happened at 22 that changed that trajectory?
RR: I stopped caring. I stopped looking at the scale. After the Olympics I didn't weigh myself. I ate as much as I wanted all the time. The feeling of having my belly full was something I was compelled to do, and once I got that out of my system, I felt like I was able to break my emotional dependency on food.
AG: Conflating food with feelings is a complicated struggle for many women.
If the best thing about your day is what you eat, there's something wrong with your f------ day. Ronda Rousey, on body image
RR: Listen, there's nothing wrong with your discipline or you just because you ate whatever. But if the best thing about your day is what you eat, there's something wrong with your f------ day. What changed for me is I was always thinking I wanted to make my body look a certain way so I would be happy. But when I made myself happy first, then the body came after. It was a journey of self-discovery and trial and error.
AG: When you say you wanted your body to look "a certain way," what was the image in your head?
RR: The image in my head was the Maxim cover girl. In the end, instead of making my body resemble one of those chicks, I decided to try to change the idea of what a Maxim chick could look like.
AG: And then, in September 2013, you were on the cover.
RR: I wasn't conventional, but apparently, I was acceptable. [Laughs.]
AG: Do you have a soundtrack for your life?
RR: Right now, my song is "Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. That's my walk-out song. When I was going to the 2004 Olympics I was constantly playing to "Waiting" by Green Day. I was 17 and I was listening to that song and picturing myself surprising everyone by winning the gold. Didn't pan out that way. The most-played song on my iPod is "Strangers In The Night," a cover by Cake.
AG: Really?
RR: Yeah. It's a good driving song. No one would think that would be my song.
AG: It's pretty emo. Does anything scare you outside of your career? Spiders? Heights?
RR: My only fear is failure. I like spiders. I used to collect bugs when I was a kid. I love heights. I've been bungee jumping a bunch of times. I would love to go parachuting. I'm cool with snakes. I can hook a rattlesnake. I've done it before.
AG: What makes you feel out of control?
RR: Drinking too much, which is why I barely do it now. It's like a once-a-year event, and I always regret it. I'll start to feel like, "Ahhhh, let's go dancing tonight, yes, woo!" I'll do the "white-girl woo," and it's not good. Alcohol is bad, kids. Stop at buzzed. "Stop at buzzed" is my mantra.
AG: What about feelings? Do your feelings ever make you feel out of control?
RR: Not out of control, but I won't say I'm a control freak, either. I'm an extremely emotional person and kind of impulsive. I'm calculated in business, impulsive in my life.
Allison Glock/espnW Ronda Rousey, with the self-proclaimed "really good hat head," signs photos for fans at South by Southwest.
AG: What sports do you watch?
RR: Boxing, MMA and tennis. I like individual sports the most. I feel like team sports dilute pressure, and I don't really understand why everyone likes them so much.
AG: What other women do you admire?
RR: Serena Williams, and, of course, my mother. But I love watching Serena. I think she's awesome.
AG: Do you play tennis?
RR: I'm really bad with ball sports. I have been hit in the face with every type of ball.
AG: Are you sure you want to say that?
RR: [Laughs.] I'm serious. Basketball, football, softball, baseball, foosball, pinball, ping-pong ball, rugby ball, cricket ball. They have all hit me in the face.
AG: Why?
RR: I have tiny hands. I can't catch things. I have the smallest hands in the UFC. My hands are smaller than 115-pound girls'. I have the strongest chin and the most tiny, fragile hands.
AG: The bantamweight champion of the world has elf hands?
RR: [Holds up her palms, wrinkles her nose.] Carnie hands.
I was a muscular girl. I never wore make up a single day. I always had my hair up, dressed in baggy clothes because I was embarrassed about how my body looked. Ronda Rousey, on high school
AG: How was high school for you?
RR: I dropped out sophomore year. It was not cool for me. I was far from popular. I got teased a lot.
AG: Teased for what?
RR: I was a muscular girl. I never wore makeup a single day. I always had my hair up, dressed in baggy clothes because I was embarrassed about how my body looked. I was shy. Having cauliflower ears and ringworm are another sure way to get teased.
AG: So you said goodbye to all that and pursued athletics?
RR: I decided to go to the Olympics instead.
AG: Do you believe in destiny?
RR: Definitely.
AG: When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
RR: It depends on the day. Usually, I look in the mirror and ask, "What have you gotten yourself into now?" I will literally ask myself that question. Right before a fight, for example. Or I'll be on a photo shoot, tanned up in a swimsuit. Or say I'm in a trailer on a movie set and I'm in costume. Or a week after a fight, when I've gained a few pounds and can't see the bones in my feet anymore. Then, as I always do, I will stare at the reflection of my marshmallowy face and ask, "What have you gotten yourself into now?"
AG: And what's your answer?
RR: I just shrug and say, "I don't know, but you're here, so you better f------ deal with it, girl."
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Bitcoin’s momentum among key merchants and platforms on the web keeps accelerating.
After hinting at it a few weeks ago when Braintree enabled Bitcoin-based transactions for PayPal developers, the company is now enabling Bitcoin across the PayPal network for merchants of digital goods.
The company has expressed interest in bitcoin for a while, with eBay CEO John Donahoe saying in the past that it would play an “important role” in the company’s future. Now that large players from Overstock to Wikipedia are now relying on the cryptocurrency for a part of their transactions or donations, PayPal is stepping in.
Through partnerships with BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin, PayPal will let its merchants accept bitcoin for digital goods transactions. They decided to go with a handful of launch partners instead of a single one, as PayPal’s Braintree did with Coinbase earlier this month. To be clear, this isn’t about adding Bitcoin to PayPal’s digital wallet and it’s only in North America for the moment. These are baby steps for now.
“This is a huge endorsement to the digital currency community,” said GoCoin CEO Steve Beauregard.
PayPal will earn transaction revenue through referral fees, which are pretty common throughout the payments world.
“PayPal is playing the role of the intermediary, but the cost will be left up to the merchant and the payment processor,” said Scott Ellison, who is PayPal’s senior director of competitive intelligence and corporate strategy.
A few weeks ago at TechCrunch Disrupt, Braintree CEO Bill Ready said that it was adding Bitcoin as a payment to its SDK.
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An 18-year-old man is seriously hurt in a possible fireworks explosion in Central Park.
Authorities say it happened shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday, inside the park near 68th Street and 5th Avenue.
At a press conference held by the NYPD's bomb squad at the park Sunday night, authorities said the victim and two friends who were with him were not responsible for the explosion.
Police say the man's foot was severed above the ankle in what they believe was a fireworks accident, but the exact cause is still being investigated.
"The explosion could have been an experiment with fireworks or homemade explosives," said Counterterror Chief John O'Connell. "We do not have any evidence of a constructed device or commercial grade fireworks. We believe this could have been put here as some sort of experiment.
"It should also be noted, the victim and his two friends, we do not consider them to be part of the construction of this object," O'Connell added.
One man who was close by when it happened described the scene.
"Everyone in the park, or this end of the park, heard a loud boom," the man said. "It was a loud report. Clearly not a car backfiring, more than a firework. Then heard some young men yelling, went over there on the rocks, and their friend was lying down whose foot was severely injured. And they claim he stepped on something."
Lieutenant Mark Torre, commanding officer of the bomb squad, suggested that the device was made by someone with knowledge of chemistry, but said the result of the explosion seems to have been accidental rather than deliberate.
"There is some forsenic evidence that indicates that it was not meant to go off by somebody stepping on it," Torre said. "It may have not gone off at an earlier time and was just left there."
Authorities say the victim was taken to the hospital.
No one else was hurt.
The bomb squad was still on the scene conducting its investigation as of 6 p.m. Sunday.
Stay with Time Warner Cable News and NY1 for more on this developing story.
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Image copyright Austin Police Department
Hollywood star Shia LaBeouf has been arrested and charged with public drunkenness, police in Texas say.
Police arrested the actor on Friday night on Sixth Street in Austin's entertainment district.
The actor has had numerous brushes with the law throughout his career.
Witnesses said LaBeouf initially caused a disturbance on Friday after being refused a drink at a bar, and later jaywalked in front of police.
Officers are reported to have subdued him and put him in handcuffs before arresting him, the TMZ website reported.
Jail records quoted by the AP news agency say that he spent Friday night in the Travis County Jail and has now been released.
In September 2014, he pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct over his disruption of a Broadway performance of Cabaret.
He was also arrested after a fight in a bar in Los Angeles in 2011, although he was later released without charge.
Image copyright EPA Image caption The actor has had numerous brushes with the law
Shortly before that arrest, a publicist for the actor said that he was receiving treatment for alcoholism.
There have also been a series of instances where LaBeouf is said to have behaved erratically in public - on one occasion appearing on the red carpet with a paper bag on his head, on which was written: "I am not famous anymore."
LaBeouf - who also writes screenplays - found fame at age 14 as the star of the Disney series Even Stevens and has also starred in three Transformers films.
The star's movies include Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
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VRFocus catch up with Justin Ng from Gattai Game, a Singapore based company who have taken their award-winning student videogame previously known as Lurking into virtual reality (VR). This is a first-person mic-enabled sound-based stealth thriller. This narrative single player game uses sound to enable you to see but also allow enemies to hear you. VRFocus has covered this extensively in this preview here.
Inspired by an animation of a young blind girl who taps around her to see they locked down the art style and decided to make a VR game. With two to five hours of gameplay the game will be available for the PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Gattai Game is composed of fresh grad students who have a few more ideas in the pipeline which are both VR and non-VR. VRFocus will keep you up to date of their endeavours. Watch the video below to find out more.
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Museum hopping is a favourite Vancouver past time during the rainy winter months … but it isn’t necessarily cheap. Full-price admission to the city’s top museums and galleries can run from $15 to $25 and up.
Except, that is, for one magical day of the year when you can visit five of the city’s cultural attractions for $5. Winter Wander returns this Jan. 23, transforming waterfront Vanier Park, home to a bumper crop of museums, into a moving cultural feast.
Located in Kitsilano, at the edge of English Bay, Vanier Park is a favourite with sun worshippers, dog walkers and kite flyers in the summer months. But tucked away in this idyllic setting are some of the city’s largest museums and cultural attractions.
In the space of a short walk, you can: learn about downtown’s neon era at the Museum of Vancouver; explore the first ship to circumnavigate North America at the Vancouver Maritime Museum; stare deep into the night sky at the planetarium inside the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre; and browse through endless stockpiles of old photos at the City of Vancouver Archives.
This year’s Winter Wander takes place from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 23. Apart from the bargain museum access, there will be live entertainment, plus plenty of street eat options from the city’s top local food trucks. The $5 admission price gets you access to all five cultural attractions, and kids 5 and under are free. Tickets are available at any of the participating venues.
Here are some more detail on each of the five offerings:
Museum of Vancouver: Vancouver-focused exhibits show what the city was, is, and can be. Permanent exhibitions tell the city’s stories from the early 1900s to the late 1970s and are complemented by contemporary, groundbreaking feature exhibits.
H.R. MacMillan Space Centre: This non-profit community resource brings the wonders of space to Earth. See real rocket engines and space suits or sit back and zip off to outer space inside the Planetarium Star Theatre.
Vancouver Maritime Museum: Explore exhibits on pirates, shipwrecks, lighthouses and more in this seafaring museum. The highlight is the restored RCMP Arctic schooner St. Roch, which in 1944 made a voyage through the treacherous Northwest Passage.
City of Vancouver Archives: Step into the city’s official archives, where records documenting the Vancouver’s public and private history are preserved. Browse through more than 1 million old photographs or pore over maps, architectural plans, news clippings and heritage artwork.
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45% of video gamers, and 46% of game purchasers, are women. More complex storylines, more personalized characters, more acceptance of ‘geekiness’ as something to be proud of and a wider variety of games available are just a few of the reasons why gaming is no longer being seen as a boys-only club. Women are finding their place in the gaming world. , a YouTuber and gamer with 60,000 subscribers, is excited about the change. “More and more I feel like it is normal for a woman to play video games too. It's no longer "a guy thing". Growing up I often heard "What, you play video games?! That's so awesome, girls never play video games!", but now when you tell someone you play video games you'd sooner get the question what kind of games you're into, which is really nice.” GirlGamerGaB , a YouTuber and gamer with 60,000 subscribers, is excited about the change. “More and more I feel like it is normal for a woman to play video games too. It's no longer "a guy thing". Growing up I often heard "What, you play video games?! That's so awesome, girls never play video games!", but now when you tell someone you play video games you'd sooner get the question what kind of games you're into, which is really nice.”
And yet, even the fantasy world still isn’t equal. But from gamers, to game developers, to women in games, we still have a long way to go before gaming becomes an gender-equal world. ...for women who play games: On paper, a female gamer’s customer experience should be no different to that of a man’s. In practice, the communal nature of gaming means that male gamers can make life pretty unpleasant for a female gamer… a ‘side effect’ of the product she didn’t sign up for. Women face roughly three times more harassment than men when playing online. Gamer and YouTuber Yasmin Uddin (known as Yammy xox) said she experienced sexism first hand, “mostly during games like Call of Duty and Gears of War. I was ashamed to speak in online game chat as I felt as if I’d be ridiculed for my voice.... I’d be told to ‘get back into the kitchen.”
It’s not always that aggressive – but unwanted attention is still a distraction to women just looking to play the game. “A lot of people try to make flirty conversation whenever they find out I’m a female gamer, and ask for my personal details, like Facebook or Skype,” says Hayley W, an avid gamer. And sometimes, men will be unnecessarily forgiving towards a woman – skewing her results in the game. “They’re a lot more forgiving to me if I make mistakes. They assume I’m not as good as them and sometimes give me game money in an attempt to flirt.” ...for women in games: In a make-believe universe where anything is possible, is it really so hard to picture female characters without pinched waists, hourglass curves, and tiny, tiny skirts? Despite managing to come up with a seemingly endless amount of alternate worlds and fantastical societies, games often fall back on the same old tropes of women wearing clothes which, if you think about it, are highly impractical for the things they’re expected to do within the game.
Still, things are improving: a recent survey pointed to a decrease in the sexualization of female protagonists in games over the last eight years. More and more women are being given three dimensional roles and complex personalities. Just give them some clothes, too? ...for women in the gaming industry: Most games are created by men, for men. Governments around the world are talking about the lack of women in STEM (science, tech, engineering, maths) – for the gaming world, the problem manifests itself in fewer female coders and developers to create games. Those who do make it into the industry, face lower salaries for doing – you guessed it – exactly the same job – women in gaming in the US, for example, make 86 cents for every dollar made by a man in the industry. Women working in gaming have also been known to face vicious and sexist abuse from gamers – you need only to look at the #GamerGate controversy, where several women working in the industry faced an orchestrated online campaign of misogynistic harassment and threats, to see that the cost of working in gaming for women is higher than just the pay gap.
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Closing Europe’s Borders Becomes Big Business
This is the first of a two-part report on extraordinary measures the EU is taking to keep unwanted migrants out of the EU.
ATHENS/WARSAW, Jan 9 2013 (IPS) - The European Union is implementing a new border management system with tougher migration control the core aim. Major security and weapons companies are already reaping the benefits.
Frontex, the EU border agency, has financed major weapons and security equipment producers to present their equipment in demonstrations. European national border guards have participated in these demonstrations as potential customers, IPS learns.
Frontex confirmed to IPS that the agency has been paying weapons and security equipment manufacturers to participate in demonstrations of equipment which national agencies attended as potential customers.
“In the case of companies Lockheed Martin, FAST Protect AG, L-3 Communications, FLIR Systems, SCOTTY Group Austria, Diamond Airborne Sensing and Inmarsat, it (the reimbursement) was 30,000 euros,” the agency told IPS in an emailed response.
The companies participated in demonstration of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (Drones) in Aktio in Greece in October 2011. Thirteen companies and consortiums (Israel Aerospace Industries, Lockheed Martin, FAST Protect AG, L-3 Communications, FLIR Systems, SCOTTY Group Austria, Diamond Airborne Sensing, Inmarsat, Thales, AeroVision, AeroVironment, Altus, BlueBird) demonstrated technological solutions for maritime surveillance.
“The payments made to the companies to cover the costs incurred by them to participate in the demonstration in Aktio varied from 10,000 euros to 198,000 euros,” said Frontex.
U.S.-based Lockheed Martin, French Thales and Israeli IAI are among the biggest weapons and security equipment producers in the world.
The demonstrations are part of the preparation for the launch of EUROSUR, the European External Border Surveillance System meant to enhance cooperation between border control agencies of EU member states and to promote surveillance of EU’s external borders by Frontex, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean and North Africa, in view of controlling migration to Europe.
Surveillance plans envisage the possibility of using drones to spot migrant boats trying to cross the Mediterranean.
EUROSUR is one of the two main elements of Europe’s new border management regime along with ‘Smart Borders’ which will put in place an ‘Entry-Exit System’ (EES) to identify visa overstayers, and establish a Registered Traveller Programme (RTP) to enable pre-vetted individuals to cross borders faster. The system would rely heavily on use of biometrics and on the collection of a huge database of passenger personal information.
A legislative package setting up EUROSUR was approved in mid-November this year by the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee and is expected to receive a final go-ahead soon from the entire Parliament and by the European Council, the EU’s executive. Meanwhile, preparations for EUROSUR are advancing away from public scrutiny.
The demonstrations of market ready equipment are a significant measure in the steady construction of a new EU border management system. Through 2014-2020 member states will be encouraged to buy such equipment with support from the EU budget.
The Commission estimates that the creation of EUROSUR could cost up to 338 million euros. ‘Borderline’, a study of the EU’s new border surveillance and control system published by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, claims the costs could “easily” end up as high as 874 million euros. The Commission refutes the higher estimates.
The ‘Smart Gates’ initiative is estimated by the Commission to cost 400 million euros for setting up plus an additional 190 million euros annually in operating costs.
According to the Borderline study, “despite the absence of any draft legislation, or even an agreement in principle on introducing smart borders in the EU, the Commission has already allocated 1.1 billion euros to the development of an EES (EU Entry Exit System) and RTP (EU Registered Traveller Programme) from the proposed EU Internal Security Fund (2014-2020).”
The Internal Security Fund is meant to be a new component of the future EU budget (2014-2020), replacing the existing External Border Fund. According to a Commission proposal, the Internal Fund would be 4.648 billion euros annually, and among its strategic priorities will be “to finance the setting up of the EES and the RTP as well as the introduction and operation of the EUROSUR, notably through “the purchase of equipment, infrastructure and systems in member states.”
It would also “boost the operational potential of the Frontex Agency by inviting member states to earmark additional resources under their programmes for specialised equipment which can be put at the disposal of the Agency for its joint operations.”
In early December, the European Parliament gave a green light to the Internal Security Fund. Now only Council approval is needed for it to become operational – member states are expected to make a final decision on the next EU Budget in February 2013.
“The European border security policy is going in the wrong direction,” Green euro-parliamentarian Ska Keller told IPS. “Against the background of pervasive budget cuts and austerity measures, it is unbelievable that the EU is spending millions of euros for ‘smart gates’, UAVs, and other surveillance technologies.
“And it is even more shameful that those who profit most from EUROSUR and ‘smart borders’ are the big European defence contractors.”
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Looks like the TARDIS fell out of the Time Vortex and landed in an strange new dimension.Honestly, I can't believe I haven't seen something like this before. Now I'm not saying one doesn't exist, just that I haven't seen it.Anyway, I think it turned out well. Took me forever to find a TARDIS picture from a good angle to get the desired result.I especially like Ditzy Doo's expression here.---FIRST EDIT, Nov. 27, 2011:Changed the color of the TARDIS light to better match the show. For some reason, I thought it blue. I also added a faint green glow to the Doctor and Ditzy, emanating from the TARDIS interior.--Doctor Whooves vector made by * Zork-787 Ditzy Doo/Derpy Hooves vector made by ~ solusjbj TARDIS photo belongs to the BBC [link]
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"Cinder block" redirects here. For the American singer, see Cinder Block (musician)
"Breezeblocks" redirects here. For the song by Alt+J, see Breezeblocks (song)
An interior wall of painted CMUs
A concrete masonry unit (CMU) is a standard size rectangular block used in building construction. CMUs are some of the most versatile building products available because of the wide variety of appearances that can be achieved using concrete masonry units.[1]
Those that use cinders (fly ash or bottom ash) are called cinder blocks in the United States, breeze blocks (breeze is a synonym of ash)[2] in the United Kingdom, and hollow blocks in the Philippines. In New Zealand and Canada they are known as concrete blocks (a name common in the United States also). In New Zealand, they are also called construction blocks. In Australia they are also called Besser blocks and Besser bricks, because the Besser Company was a major supplier of machines that made concrete blocks. Clinker blocks use clinker as aggregate. In non-technical usage, the terms cinder block and breeze block are often generalized to cover all of these varieties.
Composition [ edit ]
Concrete blocks are made from cast concrete (e.g. Portland cement and aggregate, usually sand and fine gravel, for high-density blocks). Lower density blocks may use industrial wastes, such as fly ash or bottom ash,[3][4] as an aggregate.[5] Recycled materials, such as post-consumer glass, slag cement, or recycled aggregate, are often used in the composition of the blocks.[6] Use of recycled materials within blocks can create different appearances in the block, such as a terrazzo finish, and may help the finished structure earn LEED certification. Lightweight blocks can also be produced using autoclaved aerated concrete.
Sizes and structure [ edit ]
The use of blockwork allows structures to be built in the traditional masonry style with layers (or courses) of staggered blocks. Concrete blocks may be produced with hollow centers (cores) to reduce weight or improve insulation. Blocks come in modular sizes, with the most popular typically referred to (by their thickness) as "4-inch", "6-inch", "8-inch", and "12-inch". In the US, CMU blocks are nominally 16 in (410 mm) wide and 8 in (200 mm) long. Their actual dimensions are their nominal dimensions, minus ⅜ in any direction (to allow for mortar joints regardless of their orientation as laid).[7] In Ireland and the UK, blocks are usually 440 mm × 215 mm × 100 mm (17.3 in × 8.5 in × 3.9 in) excluding mortar joints. In Australia, New Zealand and Canada, blocks are usually 390 mm × 190 mm × 190 mm (15.4 in × 7.5 in × 7.5 in) excluding mortar joints.
Block cores are typically tapered so that their top surface (as laid) has a greater surface on which to spread a mortar bed and for easier handling. Most CMU's have two cores, but three- and four-core units are also produced. A core also allows for the insertion of steel reinforcement to span courses in order to increase tensile strength. This is accomplished by grouting the voids of blocks containing rebar with concrete. Thus reinforced, CMU walls are better able to resist lateral forces such as wind load and seismic forces.
A variety of specialized shapes exist to allow special construction features. U-shaped blocks or knockout blocks with notches to allow the construction of bond beams or lintel assemblies, using horizontal reinforcing grouted into place in the cavity. Blocks with a channel on the end, known as "jamb blocks", allow doors to be secured to wall assemblies. Blocks with grooved ends permit the construction of control joints, allowing a filler material to be anchored between the un-mortared block ends. Other features, such as radiused corners known as "bullnoses" may be incorporated. A wide variety of decorative profiles also exist.
Concrete masonry units may be formulated with special aggregates to produce specific colors or textures for finish use. Special textures may be produced by splitting a ribbed or solid two-block unit; such factory-produced units are called "split-rib" or "split-face" blocks. Blocks may be scored by grooves the width of a mortar joint to simulate different block modules. For example, an 8-by-16-inch (200 mm × 410 mm) block may be scored in the middle to simulate 8-by-8-inch (200 mm × 200 mm) masonry, with the grooves filled with mortar and struck to match the true joints.[11]
United States [ edit ]
Uses [ edit ]
Concrete block, when built with integral steel reinforcing or in tandem with concrete columns and tie beams and reinforced with rebar, is a very common building material for the load-bearing walls of buildings, in what is termed concrete block structure (CBS) construction. American suburban houses typically employ a concrete foundation and slab with a concrete block wall on the perimeter. Other common uses for concrete block wall is interior fire-rated partition walls, and exterior backup wall for attachment of building envelope systems and façades.
Structural properties [ edit ]
Concrete masonry walls may be ungrouted, partially grouted, or fully grouted, the latter two enhancing their structural strength. Additionally, steel reinforcement bars (rebar) can be used both vertically and horizontally inside a CMU wall to maximize its structural performance. The cells in which the rebar is placed must be grouted for the bars to bond to the wall. For this reason, high seismic zones typically only allow fully grouted walls in their building codes. The American design code that guides design engineers in using CMU as a structural system is the Masonry Standards Joint Committee's Building Code Requirements & Specification for Masonry Structures (TMS 402/ACI 530/ASCE 5). The compressive strength of concrete masonry units and masonry walls varies from approximately 1,000 psi (7 MPa) to 5,000 psi (34 MPa) based on the type of concrete used to manufacture the unit, stacking orientation, the type of mortar used to build the wall, and other factors.[12][13][14]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
Sources [ edit ]
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The Dallas Police Officers Association PAC endorsed Texas Governor Greg Abbott in his bid for re-election. The nod comes on the same day Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez announced her run against the incumbent governor in 2018.
Frederick Frazier, 1st vice president of the Dallas Police Association PAC praised the governor for his commitment to increasing public safety and for building a strong relationship between law enforcement officials and their communities, according to a statement provided to Breitbart Texas by the Abbott for Governor Campaign.
“Governor Greg Abbott has been a true advocate for law enforcement in Dallas and throughout our state,” Frazier said. “He has strengthened protections for our officers in the line of duty, and has worked to make sure we have the resources to better serve our communities. Texas needs four more years of Governor Greg Abbott to ensure our officers here in Dallas have the support they need to keep our communities safe.”
Governor Abbott has put law enforcement officers first during his tenure as the head of state government. Following the murder of five Dallas-area police officers in July 2016, Governor Abbott flew back from Texas to attend a press conference with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings despite having been severely burned. The governor did not announce his injury until after the funeral to avoid distracting attention from the slain officers.
Doctors advised the governor not to attend the meeting because of the risk of infection. Abbott’s first words were, “I’ve got to come back,” spokesman Matt Hirsch told the Dallas Morning News after the word of the governor’s injury spread. “It was hugely important for him to be in Dallas the next day without regard to his well-being.”
In response to the murder of the officers, Abbott began the process of issuing rifle-resistant body armor to police officers. He also proposed legislation to make targeting police officers with acts of violence a hate crime, Breitbart Texas reported.
“I, along with so many Texans, have a deep respect for our law enforcement officers,” Abbott said while thanking the officers association for their endorsement. “They put their lives on the line each and every day to make our communities safer, and we remain grateful for their sacrifice and dedication.”
“I am committed to increasing support and protections for our police officers, and I will do whatever I can to make sure they know that Texans have their backs,” the governor continued. “I am honored to receive the endorsement of the Dallas Police Association PAC. I am committed to working alongside our law enforcement officers over the next four years to improve public safety and to make sure that the men and women in law enforcement have the support and protection that they need to carry out their duties.”
The Dallas Police Officers Association is the largest police employee organization in Dallas, Frazer stated. “We are proud to endorse Governor Greg Abbott for reelection as governor of Texas,” he announced on Wednesday.
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for Breitbart Texas. He is a founding member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX, GAB, and Facebook.
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SAN ANTONIO - A man is dead and woman has been taken to the hospital in a shooting on the city's far North Side, San Antonio police said Friday.
The shooting was reported just before 7:30 a.m. in the 3600 block of Ivory Creek. That's in a neighborhood found near Loop 1604 and Rodgers Ranch.
Police said when they arrived on scene they found a man and a woman both in their 40s with gunshot wounds in separate rooms, on the ground floor of a two-story home.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman in the home was taken to an area hospital. Her condition is not presently known.
Officials tell KSAT 12 that they are not searching for anyone else in regards to the shooting. However they would not confirm who shot who.
A next-door neighbor said she was told that the husband did the shooting. Two other neighbors said the couple who lived in the home had not been married long.
Additional neighbors said the children who live in the home were not present at the time of the shooting and had likely gone to school.
KSAT 12 will continue to follow this story and have more information as it develops.
Copyright 2016 by KSAT - All rights reserved.
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‘Faculty rights and the sufficiency of law students’ education’ at risk
One of the worrisome trends in law-school education is students seeking to avoid uncomfortable areas of the law, particularly sexual assault.
But it was a law professor’s exam question on an uncomfortable area of the body that got him in trouble with his university. As in, 504 days of trouble, and potentially many more.
Howard University is hanging the Sword of Damocles over the head of Reginald Robinson if he ever offends a student again by the content of his legal pedagogy.
The historically black school in Washington, D.C., has yet to respond six months later to a warning letter from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education about its year-plus Title IX investigation of Robinson (left) for an exam question on groping and drugging involving a Brazilian wax.
Though Robinson’s lawyer said this summer that they “believe we have reached a mutually satisfactory solution” in discussions with the university,” that resolution fell through, FIRE told Howard President Wayne Frederick in a Tuesday letter:
Robinson has now informed us that no agreement was finalized. Accordingly, as he plans to return to teaching next semester, his and other Howard professors’ free speech rights remain threatened. To our knowledge, the unjust sanctions against Robinson remain in place, including the threat of termination for protected expression simply because someone may find it offensive.
The letter from Susan Kruth, staff attorney for FIRE’s Stand Up For Speech Litigation Project, is copied to the chair of Howard’s board of trustees, its general counsel, provost and law school dean, as well as the Title IX investigator who investigated Robinson and Title IX coordinator:
Howard’s finding is at odds with the plain language of several written university policies and could chill professors’ teaching of basic legal principles. As a result, it puts at risk both faculty rights and the sufficiency of law students’ education.
Though Howard is private, it has two written policies that on their face apply to Robinson’s classroom conduct. One seems explicitly designed to encompass controversial legal subjects, from the Faculty Handbook, last updated 24 years ago:
Faculty members are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subjects, but they should be careful not to introduce matter into their teaching that has no relation to their subjects.
Another is less than a year old, directed to the entire community from President Frederick (in response to a political vandalism incident), though it explicitly prioritizes safety over freedom of speech:
Howard University is committed to the principles of free speech, public protest, and inclusivity, even though these ideals may sometimes conflict with one another. However, our commitment to the safety, well-being, and support of the Howard University community remains our highest priority.
Read FIRE’s letter to the university.
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Document number: N2271=07-0131 Date: 2007-04-27 Reply to: Paul Pedriana
Electronic Arts
ppedriana at ea.com
EASTL -- Electronic Arts Standard Template Library
Paul Pedriana
Electronic Arts
ppedriana at ea.com
Abstract
Gaming platforms and game designs place requirements on game software which differ from requirements of other platforms. Most significantly, game software requires large amounts of memory but has a limited amount to work with. Gaming software is also faced with other limitations such as weaker processor caches, weaker CPUs, and non-default memory alignment requirements. A result of this is that game software needs to be careful with its use of memory and the CPU. The C++ standard library's containers, iterators, and algorithms are potentially useful for a variety of game programming needs. However, weaknesses and omissions of the standard library prevent it from being ideal for high performance game software. Foremost among these weaknesses is the allocator model. An extended and partially redesigned replacement (EASTL) for the C++ standard library was implemented at Electronic Arts in order to resolve these weaknesses in a portable and consistent way. This paper describes game software development issues, perceived weaknesses of the current C++ standard, and the design of EASTL as a partial solution for these weaknesses.
Introduction
The purpose of this document is to explain the motivation and design of EASTL so that it may help the C++ community better understand the needs of game software development. This document is not a proposal, though some of EASTL's changes and extensions could form the basis for such discussions. The large majority of EASTL would be useful to any kind of C++ software development.
This document describes an STL implementation (EASTL) developed within Electronic Arts as an alternative to and extension of the STL defined by the C++ standard library. By STL, we mean the container, iterator, and algorithm components of the C++ standard library, hereafter referred to as std STL (with std referring to the std namespace, whereas the S in STL refers to standard C++). By C++ standard, we mean ISO 14882 (1998) and the 2003 update. The large majority of the design of std STL is excellent and achieves its intended purpose. However, some aspects of it make it hard to use and other aspects prevent it from performing as well as it could. Among game developers the most fundamental weakness is the std allocator design, and it is this weakness that was the largest contributing factor to the creation of EASTL. Secondarily was the lack of std STL containers designed to be memory-friendly. There are additional reasons that will be discussed below.
We hope that those reading this document have an open mind to the idea that std STL may not be ideal for all purposes. Before this document was written, sketches of it were shown to some outside of the game development industry. In some cases we found that there was an initial reaction to dismiss an alternative STL and assume that the somebody must be misunderstanding or misusing the STL. But upon explaining game development and high performance software issues and comparing these to std STL's design and implementation by current vendors, people usually reduce their skepticism. Indeed we have found that those have the most extensive and deep STL experience have been those most enthusiastic about EASTL. We nevertheless have a great respect for the C++ standard library and the great work that has gone into its design and implementation, especially after having gone through the long and difficult process of implementing it.
This document is divided into the following sections. The first section summarizes the motivation for the creation of EASTL and its design; the subsequent sections flow from this.
Throughout this document there are references to the Appendix. The Appendix contains supplementary material which provides more detail about some item of discussion. This material is placed there in order to avoid getting in the way of the primary text, as the material is a bit verbose and is sometimes tangential to the discussion of EASTL. It was nevertheless felt to be important that the Appendix exist in order to provide a better understanding of practical game development issues.
Motivation for EASTL
The following is a listing of some of the reasons why std STL and its current implementations are not currently ideal for game development. There are additional reasons, but the list here should hopefully convey to you some sense of the situation. Each of the items listed below deserves a document of its own, as a single sentence alone cannot fully convey the nature or significance of these items. Some of the items refer to the STL design, whereas some of the items refer to existing STL implementations. It would be best if these were discussed independently, but to many users this distinction is often of little practical significance because they have little choice but to use the standard library that comes with their compiler.
std STL allocators are painful to work with and lead to code bloat and sub-optimal performance. This topic is addressed separately within this document.
Useful STL extensions (e.g. slist, hash_map, shared_ptr) found in some std STL implementations are not portable because they don't exist in other versions of STL or are inconsistent between STL versions (though they are present in the current C++09 draft).
The STL lacks functionality that game programmers find useful (e.g. intrusive containers) and which could be best optimized in a portable STL environment. See Appendix item 16.
Existing std STL implementations use deep function calls. This results in low performance with compilers that are weak at inlining, as is the currently prevalent open-source C++ compiler. See Appendix item 15 and Appendix item 10.
Existing STL implementations are hard to debug. For example, you typically cannot browse the contents of a std::list container with a debugger due to std::list's usage of void pointers. On the other hand, EASTL allows you to view lists without incurring a performance or memory cost. See Appendix item 2.
The STL doesn't explicitly support alignment requirements of contained objects, yet non-default alignment requirements are common in game development. A std STL allocator has no way of knowing the alignment requirements of the objects it is being asked to allocate, aside from compiler extensions. Granted, this is part of the larger problem of the C++ language providing minimal support for alignment requirements. Alignment support is proposed for C++09.
STL containers won't let you insert an entry into a container without supplying an entry to copy from. This can be inefficient in the case of elements that are expensive to construct.
The STL implementations that are provided by compiler vendors for the most popular PC and console (box connected to TV) gaming platforms have performance problems. EASTL generally outperforms all existing STL implementations; it does so partly due to algorithmic improvements but mostly due to practical improvements that take into account compiler and hardware behavior. See Appendix item 20.
Existing STL implementations are hard to debug/trace, as some STL implementations use cryptic variable names and unusual data structures and have no code documentation. See Appendix item 2.
STL containers have private implementations that don't allow you to work with their data structures in a portable way, yet sometimes this is an important thing to be able to do (e.g. node pools). See Appendix item 22.
Many current versions of std STL allocate memory in empty versions of at least some of their containers. This is not ideal and prevents optimizations such as container memory resets that can significantly increase performance in some situations. An empty container should allocate no memory.
All current std STL algorithm implementations fail to support the use of predicate references, which results in inefficient hacks to work around the problem. See Appendix item 3.
The STL puts an emphasis on correctness before practicality and performance. This is an understandable policy but in some cases (particularly std::allocator) it gets in the way of usability and optimized performance.
Differences between std STL and EASTL
First, EASTL provides a set of containers, iterators, and algorithms that are identical in interface and behavior to std STL versions with one exception: allocators. EASTL has a different allocator specification which is simpler, more efficient, more flexible, and easier to use than std::allocator. Both std::allocator and eastl::allocator are described below. EASTL follows the defect reports and TR1 as well. EASTL additionally provides and uses some of the TR1 functionality as well, including most significantly the smart pointers, type traits, and hashing containers.
Second, EASTL provides extension functionality to the above containers, iterators, and algorithms. An example of this is the push_back(void), set_capacity(size), and validate() functions added to eastl::vector. The majority of these extensions are driven by the need for higher performance (push_back(void)), higher clarity (set_capacity), or higher debuggability (validate()). There are about 30 such extensions to the various entities in the library. These are described in detail below.
Third, EASTL provides additional containers and algorithms that don't correspond to std STL. These include intrusive_list, vector_map, fixed_hash_set, slist, ring_buffer, radix_sort, has_trivial_relocate, and others. These are described in detail below.
There are additional differences not related to the functional specification. They include a programming philosophy that emphasizes readability, consistency, and optimal performance on limited hardware. See Appendix item 23.
EASTL functionality summary
EASTL coverage of std STL (not including TR1)
EASTL covers the following parts of the C++ standard library.
Entity Comments list
vector
deque
basic_string
set
multiset
map
multimap
bitset
EASTL has a small number of additional requirements for containers beyond those std STL containers. An example of this is the requirement that a newly constructed or reset container allocates no memory. These are discussed in the next section. EASTL has additional functionality in most of the containers in order to obtain higher performance. These are discussed after the next section. EASTL uses a different allocator model, as described below. Otherwise, the EASTL versions logically behave the same as std STL versions. The EASTL implementations of the containers listed on the left are not modifications of any existing std STL implementation but are largely complete reimplementations. queue
stack
priority_queue iterator EASTL defines an additional iterator_tag in addition to bidirectional_iterator, random_access_iterator, etc: contiguous_iterator_tag. A contiguous iterator has all the properties of a random_access_iterator but additionally specifies that the range is contiguous in memory as with an array. memory
numeric
algorithm
utility
functional
EASTL augmentations/amendments to std STL
Here we list extension functionality that EASTL provides over std STL along with a rationale for each item. In some cases additional information can be found in the appendix and will be noted. All of these changes were prompted by real issues that were encountered in the use of std STL and EASTL. None were the result of speculation or "premature optimization."
Extension Rationale All containers have a node_type typedef and kNodeAlignment constant. Much as containers define types such as value_type and key_type, EASTL defines node_type for all containers. node_type is the storage type that the container uses, as opposed to the user-specified contained type. It is the type that the container allocates. Explicitly defining this type allows users to implement allocators such that the allocated type is known at compile-time. Additionally, kNodeAlignment is a size_t constant which defines the alignment of the node_type. For containers such as hash tables which have multiple allocated types, additional node types are explicitly defined for the class. Similarly, all containers understand and respect object alignment requirements. As discussed elsewhere in this document, game development platforms explicitly or implicitly require the use of non-default alignments. A typical example is VMX vector types, which explicitly require 16 byte alignment because they are an array of 4 floats which are processed in parallel in a single 128 bit register. All containers have a get_allocator and set_allocator function, which return the actual allocator instead of a copy of it. std STL lets you set the allocator for a class only during class construction. Additionally, std STL doesn't let you access its allocator; you can only get a copy of it. This and other weaknesses of std STL allocators are discussed elsewhere in this document in more detail. All containers guarantee that there is no memory allocation upon being newly empty-constructed. Since EASTL containers have a set_allocator function and allow the user to set the container's allocator after the container's construction, this requirement naturally follows. It's also simply more efficient to avoid memory allocation whenever possible. Lastly, there is the game development policy that memory should never be allocated "behind a user's back" or when the user doesn't expect it. All containers have a reset function, which unilaterally resets the container to an initialized (and unallocated) state, avoiding container teardown and reallocation. A common high-performance technique is to create a temporary hash table with a fixed-size memory buffer, do processing with it, and then "nuke" the hash table when done instead of going through the process of clearing and deallocating its nodes. EASTL explicitly supports this programming pattern via the reset function. The supplied allocator generally must cooperate with this, lest memory leaks occur. However, it can work safely only with value types that have a trivial destructor. All containers have explicit validate and validate_iterator functions. EASTL provides an option to do implicit automatic iterator and container validation, but full validation (which can be potentially extensive) has too much of a performance cost to execute implicitly, even in a debug build. So EASTL provides these explicit functions which can be called by the user at the appropriate time and in optimized builds as well as debug builds. bool validate() const; iterator_status_flag validate_iterator(const_iterator i) const; See the EASTL container section for more. Containers should be viewable in a basic debugger to the extent possible. A common complaint by users is that std STL implementations use void pointers for linked list items and makes the container overly difficult to view while debugging. EASTL rectifies this with no overhead. See Appendix item 2. vector has a data() function which acts similar to basic_string::data() data() is not the same thing as &v[0], as the latter will result in an invalid dereference assertion failure when v is empty. This is also in the current C++09 draft. vector<bool> is an array of bool. It is not a bit vector. The user can use eastl::bitvector if the user wants a bit vector, and vector<bool> is deprecated in the current C++09 draft. vector and basic_string have set_capacity(size), which sets the capacity to exactly what the user specifies. People have been recommending the "swap trick" for years, but this is an obfuscated and easy-to-forget workaround in place of what should be built-in functionality. If a workaround is well-known enough that there are hundreds of pages on the Internet devoted to it and it has its own nickname, it probably should be built into the standard library. set_capacity is the same thing as resize_capacity which has been suggested by some. vector::iterator and basic_string::iterator are pointers. Primarily this allows for easier debugging by the user and easier optimization by the compiler. A random access iterator is not the same thing as a pointer, which refers to contiguous memory. Even in the presence of type_traits optimizations there are things a compiler can do with known-contiguous pointers that it cannot do with random access iterators. See Appendix item 25. The downside to vector and string iterators as pointers is that some types of automated runtime validation can't be done. So far it doesn't seem to have been greatly missed. All containers have a push_back(void) and/or similarly useful functions. Existing std STL implementations implement insertion operations by copying from an element. For example, resize(size() + 1) creates a throw-away temporary object. There is no way in existing std STL implementations to add an element to a container without implicitly or explicitly providing one to copy from (aside from some existing POD optimizations). For expensive-to-construct objects this creates a potentially serious performance problem. A typical suggested workaround to this problem with std STL is to store pointers instead of objects; however, such external memory allocation is undesirable for reasons described elsewhere in this document. list and deque have both push_back(void) and push_front(void). slist has push_front(void). map, multimap, hash_map, and hash_multimap have insert(key). insert(key) is the same thing as the lazy_insert function that has been suggested by some. Other related proposals have been put forward. There are sprintf, append_sprintf, trim, compare_i, make_lower, and make_upper functions for the basic_string class. These are practical useful functions. Game developers prefer to use sprintf instead of stream and strstream functionality where possible because the latter is unacceptably slow in practice. The obscurity and lack of readability of stream operations adds to their unpopularity. The compare_i, make_lower, and make_upper functions are by definition not locale-savvy. They are nevertheless useful practical functions due to the large amount of non-localized string usage in utilities and applications. Not all strings are destined to be viewed by the end-user. deque allows the user to specify the node size as a template parameter. std STL deque guesses the node size for the user; the user cannot control it. This can result in undesirably large or undesirably small memory allocations that the user cannot control. Making the node size available like this does represent a leaking of the deque abstraction. template <typename T, typename Allocator, size_t kNodeSize> class deque { };
Associative containers (e.g. map, hash_map) have the find_as function, which allows fast key lookups for expensive key types. If you have a map<string, int> and you want to look up an entry, std STL requires you to supply a string object to the map::find function. This is overly expensive for the common case whereby you have a string literal which you want to look up, because passing such a literal to the map::find function silently creates a temporary string object and allocates memory. EASTL solves this problem by defining the following member template function, which allows you to, for example, look up a string object via a lightweight string literal: template <typename U, typename BinaryPredicate>
iterator find_as(const U& u, BinaryPredicate predicate); This is similar to the lazy_find that has been suggested by some.
An additional iterator_tag beyond random_access_iterator_tag is defined: contiguous_iterator_tag. random_access_iterator_tag defines a range which has random access, but isn't necessarily contiguous. This may lead to missed optimization opportunities. type_traits can be used to work around some of these opportunities but not in all cases and not in as explicit a way. Need to provide an example here. eastl::pair has a single argument constructor. It accepts the first element as a constructor argument and default-constructs the second argument. pair();
pair(const T1& x);
pair(const T1& x, const T2& y);
The usefulness comes about because the map::value_type is pair<const key_type, mapped_type>. As a result, inserting a value into a map requires the user to create a temporary pair whose contents must be set at its construction. This turns out to be inefficient when the mapped_type is expensive to construct or copy, as the pair constructor forces you to provide a mapped_type to copy from. It's more efficient to write code like this: map<int, expensive>::value_type value(37);
value.second.blah = blah;
m.insert(value); bitset uses uint32_t instead of unsigned long. unsigned long is not a portable type. On game development platforms it can be any of 32, 64 or 128 bits. On platforms where it is 64 or 128 bits, it can be inefficient to work with these types, as it is on the PlayStation 2 platform. Types such as short, int, long, and long long cannot be used in a portable way and thus EASTL and many game programming standards disallow their usage in API interfaces. Sized types such as int16_t, int32_t, etc. are used instead. bitset has neither string nor iostream functionality. string and iostream are unrelated to bitset and embedding knowledge about them into bitset bloats the bitset implementation and dependency graph in a way that yields marginal and limited benefits. bitset has find_first, find_next functions. These are of course more efficient for the user than manually checking every bit in turn. Three additional heap algorithms are provided: remove_heap, change_heap, is_heap. Similarly, priority_queue has change and remove member functions. These are useful practical additions. remove_heap and change_heap provide functionality that can't be efficiently implemented externally. eastl::list, slist, intrusive_list, and intrusive_slist don't cache the list size. Thus the list::size is O(n). However, there is a configuration option to cache it an make it O(1). The C++ standard specifies that list::size is O(1), and some STL implementations cache the list size and implement it as O(1). The SGI STL branch of STL doesn't cache the list size and list::size is thus O(n). EASTL can be configured to work either way, but defaults to O(n). The rationale for this is that it adds extra memory and processing cost to the list container, whereas users of linked lists often don't care about the size of the list. The user can always maintain a list size cache on their own. A future revision of eastl::list will likely make this a template policy option. EASTL algorithms respect user-supplied template argument types and are guaranteed to do so. No existing std STL currently does so. The following code does not work as one might expect or hope with any current std STL implementation: struct ExpensiveToConstructCompare{ };
ExpensiveToConstructCompare compare;
std::sort<int*, ExpensiveToConstructCompare&>(begin, end, compare); The problem is that std STL implementations ignore the user-specified compare reference type and convert it to a value type and proceed to make (possibly very many) copies of it. This can be prohibitively expensive. The conventional workaround for this problem is to create a proxy compare class that references the real compare object. Why not simply have the algorithms obey the user's request and avoid such workarounds and their resulting overhead? It's not clear if the C++ standard requires that the user's request be respected, but it would be nice if it did. The currently proposed std::ref adapater could help this situation with existing std STL implementations, but it would be nice if they didn't require this. EASTL type traits can be explicitly user-controlled. Some type traits cannot be discerned by compilers, and in some cases you may want to override the compiler's automatic view of a type trait. EASTL provides a supported mechanism for explicitly setting a type_trait: EASTL_DECLARE_*. An example of this is EASTL_DECLARE_TRIVIAL_RELOCATE(x). EASTL's shared_ptr/weak_ptr allow the user to specify an allocator instead of implicitly using global new. As described in the game software issues section, global new usage is often verboten in game software development, at least for console platforms. Thus any library facility which uses global operator new or any memory allocation that cannot be controlled by the user is unacceptable. Allocators are named. All containers have a default name in case one isn't supplied by the user. Naming allocators and allocations is a common and useful practice for software development where all memory must be accounted for. Tracking allocations by file/line doesn't work well with libraries - especially fundamental libraries such as STL - and EASTL builds it into the API, though allocators can ignore it when appropriate. This is a case of a feature that might not be popular if it was in std STL, but since EASTL is developed for use by a game development company it works well. queue, priority_queue, and stack have a get_container function. It is sometimes simply practical to have this. A typical case is one whereby the creator of the queue is different from the user of the queue. It is also useful for diagnostics. EASTL doesn't use char and wchar_t but instead uses char8_t, char16_t, and char32_t. wchar_t isn't portable. See Appendix item 13. EASTL defines eastl_size_t and eastl_ssize_t, and container size_type is typedef'd to eastl_size_t. These default to size_t and signed size_t respectively but can be configured to be uint32_t and int32_t on 64 bit platforms, as a 64 bit size_t wastes space in practice in most cases.
Changes that aren't related to API specifications:
hash and tree containers work by inheritance instead of by composition in order to reduce a layer of indirection. It is common for std STL implementations to implement std::set by having it own a member rbtree and route most of its functionality through the member. This has some theoretical advantages but results in asking the compiler to deal with a layer of indirection which it may or may not optimize away. EASTL supplies per-platform optimizations in some cases. For example, the min function specialized for float can be implemented in a way that avoids branching. float min(float a, float b)
{
float result, test(a - b);
__asm__ ("fsel %0, %1, %2, %3" :
"=f" (result) :
"f" (test), "f" (b), "f" (a));
return result;
} Such optimizations are implementation details, but are described here because they provide a practical performance benefit to the performance-conscious user. It would be nice if std STL implementations provided such things, though Metrowerks has been known to do so in some cases.
Instead of just <algorithm>, EASTL has <algorithm.h>, <sort.h>, <algoset.h>, and <heap.h>. std STL <algorithm> is a large file that is slow to compile and creates large object files for compilers that use the Borland template model (most compilers) as opposed to the Cfront model. EASTL containers avoid function calls to the extent possible, even if such calls might be inlined by the compiler. This makes it easier for the compiler to optimize and easier for the user to trace. Debug game builds that heavily use std STL with all its function calls can be unacceptably slow. See Appendix item 9 and Appendix item 10. EASTL is argument-dependent-lookup safe and guaranteed to be so. This allows you to safely call STL functions with code from other namespaces. See Appendix item 11. EASTL compiles without warning on the highest warning levels available by the compiler. This might seem like an obvious idea, but the most common commercial STL implementation does not follow it. Nearly all shared libraries and most games within EA are developed with the highest possible warning levels, and many teams set warnings to be errors. As it currently stands, usage of the C++ standard library and STL provided by the aforementioned vendor must be wrapped in warning disabling clauses wherever they are used. This results in more messy code and more fragile builds. Exception handling can be disabled in EASTL by explicitly supported configuration directives. Almost all game development is done with exception handling disabled. The discussion of this policy is outside the scope of this paragraph, but is handled in Appendix item 19. It useful if users can explicitly disable exception handling in the libraries that they use, independently of how the compiler is configured for exception handling. Header files are explicitly in an EASTL header directory and have a .h suffix. Thus we have #include <EASTL/list.h> instead of #include <list>. Putting header files in an explicit directory gives them a "namespace" of sorts. This goes a long way towards avoiding header conflicts between shared libraries and is the standard design within Electronic Arts. Suffix-less header names (e.g. <list>) don't work well in practice as well as suffixed names in user and development environments. This is a practical reality, and users prefer suffixed file names anyway. EASTL is implemented in a highly readable way that allows non-experts to follow it. All existing STL implementations with the possible exception of Metrowerks are hard to read. They have virtually no code documentation and use variable and function names that are cryptic and/or use unusual formatting. This has been a surprisingly negative point in EA team evaluations of STL for their use.
EASTL coverage of TR1 (C++ library extensions)
EASTL covers the parts of TR1 that relate to containers, algorithms, and iterators. Most significantly, it does not cover random number generation and regular expressions.
Entity Comments array
type_traits EASTL provides many of the type_traits defined in TR1 to the extent possible, and includes some extension traits and functionality as well. EASTL algorithms and containers make extensive use of these type traits. unordered_set
unordered_multiset
unordered_map
unordered_multimap EASTL names these hash_set, hash_multiset, hash_map, and hash_multimap. A primary reason they were renamed to unordered_* in TR1 was to avoid collision with existing std STL extensions. This is not an issue for EASTL because it has its own namespace: eastl. EASTL provides some extension functionality to the TR1 proposal, the most significant of which is the find_as function. shared_ptr
weak_ptr These are fundamentally the same as TR1 with the exception that they allow the user to provide an allocator instead of using global new, which is often verboten in game library development. Also, the use of virtual functions is avoided as well, given the potential cache miss they may cause. See Appendix item 19.
EASTL additional functionality (not found in std STL or TR1)
The following lists EASTL containers, algorithms, functors, and meta-templates that are not found in either std STL nor in TR1. The non-allocating containers and smart pointers below are viewed by many as the most important part of EASTL and some users use these more often than regular containers or even exclusively.
Entity Comments fixed_list
fixed_slist
fixed_vector
fixed_string
fixed_set
fixed_multiset
fixed_map
fixed_multimap
fixed_hash_set
fixed_hash_multiset
fixed_hash_map
fixed_hash_multimap Fixed containers are fixed-size containers with their memory stored right within the container itself. Fixed containers allocate no dynamic memory and their memory tends to be cache-friendly due to its contiguity and proximity to the container's housekeeping data. The user declares the max container size as a template parameter, and can also specify that if the container overflows that an auxiliary dynamic allocator is used. The overflow allocation feature is best used for pathological cases or during development when the container's fixed size is being tuned. All fixed containers have high-water mark tracking to assist in size tuning. The following is the template declaration for fixed_vector: template <typename T, size_t nodeCount, bool enableOverflow = true, typename Allocator overflowAllocator = EASTLAllocator> class fixed_vector { ... }; fixed_substring
This is a string which is a view on an arbitrary span of characters. Thus if you have a paragraph of text but want to treat a single sentence of it as a (const) string, fixed_substring can be used. This allows for efficient const string operations without allocating memory and copying string data. A fixed_substring can be resized, upon which it will then allocate memory and copy characters. vector_set
vector_multiset
vector_map
vector_multimap These are the same thing as sorted vectors as described in Effective STL. The underlying container is not limited to being a vector but can be any random access container, such as deque or array. Recall that the characteristic of these containers is that they provide improved memory efficiency and locality at the cost of dynamic container modification efficiency. intrusive_list
intrusive_slist
intrusive_set
intrusive_multiset
intrusive_map
intrusive_multimap
intrusive_hash_set
intrusive_hash_multiset
intrusive_hash_map
intrusive_hash_multimap Intrusive containers are containers whereby the user provides the nodes and thus no memory is allocated and cache behavior is improved during container manipulations. Another benefit is that elements can be removed from containers without referencing the container (i.e. without calling container member functions). This is useful for when a class hands out element pointers to clients which the client will eventually hand back. Another benefit of intrusive containers is that is they doesn't require elements to be copyable, and sometimes element copying is not possible. EASTL intrusive containers allow elements to safely reside in multiple unrelated containers simultaneously. See Appendix item 16 for the intrusive_list interface. slist slist is a singly-linked list that is much like the slist extension found in the SGI STL branch of STL implementations. ring_buffer This implements a constant or variable capacity ring buffer which is templated on a user-supplied bidirectional container. Typically you would use it with a list or a deque, but a constant-capacity ring_buffer might use vector or array instead. template <typename T, typename Container = vector<T> >
class ring_buffer { };
linked_ptr
linked_array
intrusive_ptr
safe_ptr
These are smart pointers which have similar characteristics to shared_ptr, but don't allocate memory. safe_ptr is an explicitly standalone weak pointer which doesn't allocate memory. linked_ptr uses a linked list to store references and thus also doesn't allocate memory. intrusive_ptr uses an object-supplied addref/release function to manage object lifetime. shared_array
scoped_array
These are array versions of shared_ptr and scoped_ptr. The conventional explanation for why the TR1 doesn't provide such array versions is that vector already supplies this. That's a fine argument, though vector and shared_array are not identical. binary_search_i
find_first_not_of
find_last_of
find_last_not_of
identical
change_heap
remove_heap
is_heap
median These are additional algorithms. binary_search_i is an alternative to binary_search which returns an iterator instead of bool. It turns out that users often want the result of the binary search and not the just status. This is the same as the binary_find function suggested by some. identical is an algorithm which is like the equal algorithm except it doesn't assume/require that the input ranges are of equal length. identical efficiently compares ranges for both length equality and element equality. is_sorted
radix_sort
bucket_sort
shell_sort
insertion_sort
merge_sort
merge_sort_buffer
comb_sort
bubble_sort
These are additional sort algorithms. radix_sort is implemented via the following interface: template <typename RandomAccessIterator, typename ExtractKey, typename IntegerType>
void radix_sort(RandomAccessIterator first, RandomAccessIterator last,
RandomAccessIterator buffer, ExtractKey extractKey, IntegerType); merge_sort_buffer is a merge_sort whereby the user supplies the scratch buffer instead of relying on dynamic allocation to provide it. bubble_sort has curiously been shown in practice to be a good sort for very small element counts (<5), and so it is retained for both practical and instructional purposes, though insertion_sort also works well for small sizes. comb_sort is a fast sort which is almost as fast as the (introspective) sort algorithm, but has the benefit of using much less code and thus may be more friendly with the instruction cache. equal_to_2
not_equal_to_2
less_2
str_equal_to
str_equal_to_i
These are additions to the functional module. equal_to_2 compares two different types T and U for equality. less_2 is similar. These are useful for things such as the find_as extension. str_equal_to compares two C strings represented by character pointers. It is like strcmp. is_aligned
has_trivial_relocate
EASTL_DECLARE_* EASTL has a couple additional type traits in addition to the TR1 set. Of note is the has_trivial_relocate trait, which defines whether a class instance can be moved (memcpy'd) to another location in memory safely. This is useful for classes that are expensive to copy construct and assign but are easy to memcpy. The classic example is a reference count. A vector of reference counts is expensive to manipulate because it triggers what we call "ref count storms" or "ref count thrashing" which slows down execution and makes some types of debugging very difficult. However, a reference count is merely an integer and so can memcpy'd to its new location by the vector. Note that a relocatable object is not the same thing as a POD. A POD may or may not be relocatable, and a non-POD may or may not be relocatable. relocation is very much related to move semantics proposed for the C++ language, but is called "relocate" in order to avoid confusion with evolving definition of move semantics. EASTL has a formal mechanism which allows the user to explicitly ascribe a type trait to a class. This can be applied to most of the type traits but is particularly targeted at the type traits which the compiler cannot determine for itself. For example, the EASTL_DECLARE_HAS_TRIVIAL_RELOCATE(T) tells the compiler that type T should have the has_trivial_relocate type trait. uninitialized_copy_ptr
uninitialized_fill_ptr
uninitialized_fill_n_ptr
uninitialized_copy_fill
uninitialized_fill_copy
uninitialized_copy_copy
These are the same as equivalents found in libstdc++ and its predecessors. These do operations on uninitialized memory such a filling to it or copying to it and thus initializing it as it goes. generic_iterator EASTL defines a generic iterator which can be wrapped around a pointer to make it act like a contiguous iterator. use_self
use_first
use_second
make_pair_ref These are utility templates for the pair template. make_pair_ref is a version of make_pair that explicitly uses object references instead of values in order to prevent potentially expensive copy operations. compressed_pair
call_traits These are as per existing similar extensions found elsewhere. compressed_pair is useful for implementing the "empty base class" optimization.
Game software issues
The discussion here involves gaming platforms currently developed for by EA. These include primarily console, hand-held, and desktop platforms. Virtually all game development within EA and other companies is done in C++; this isn't likely to change for many years. A number of characteristics distinguish game software requirements from desktop productivity software requirements. These include:
Game software always maximizes the hardware and is subject to Nathan's Laws.
Game source and binaries tend to be rather large. See Appendix item 5.
Game applications work with large amounts of application data. See Appendix item 5.
Console-based games run off of DVD drives, which are much slower than hard drives.
Game applications must execute very smoothly; there can't be unplanned execution pauses.
Non-desktop platforms don't have paged memory. If the application exhausts memory, it dies.
The lack of paged memory means that memory fragmentation can kill an application.
Non-desktop platforms have a fixed amount of memory, and it is smaller than desktop platforms. See Appendix item 27.
Non-desktop platforms have special kinds of memory, such as "physical memory," "non-local memory," "non-cacheable memory," etc.
Non-desktop platforms have processors and memory caches are less forgiving than those on desktops. See Appendix item 28.
Debug builds of game software need to be reasonably fast. See Appendix item 9.
Game platforms sometimes require the use of non-default memory alignment.
The above conditions lead to the following results:
No matter how powerful any game computer ever gets, it will never have any free memory or CPU cycles.
Game developers are very concerned about software performance and software development practices.
Game software often doesn't use conventional synchronous disk IO such as <stdio.h> or <fstream> but uses asynchronous IO.
Game applications cannot leak memory. If an application leaks even a small amount of memory, it eventually dies.
Every byte of allocated memory must be accounted for and trackable. This is partly to assist in leak detection but is also to enforce budgeting.
Game software rarely uses system-provided heaps but uses custom heaps instead. See Appendix item 26.
A lot of effort is expended in reducing memory fragmentation.
A lot of effort is expended in creating memory analysis tools and debugging heaps.
A lot of effort is expended in improving source and data build times.
Application code and libraries cannot be very slow in debug builds. See Appendix item 9.
Memory allocation of any type is avoided to the extent possible.
Operator new overrides (class and global) are the rule and not the exception.
Use of built-in global operator new is verboten, at least with shareable libraries.
Any memory a library allocates must be controllable by the user.
Game software must be savvy to non-default memory alignment requirements.
Memory pools are sometimes used in order to avoid fragmentation, even though they necessarily waste some memory themselves. See Appendix item 26.
Branching (if/else/while/for/do) is avoided to the extent possible, especially mispredicted branches. See Appendix item 28.
Virtual functions are avoided to the extent possible, especially in bottleneck code. See Appendix item 19.
Exception handling is usually disabled. See Appendix item 17.
RTTI is usually disabled or at least unused in shipping code.
Many of the above items are related to memory management and performance. As a result a lot of effort is put into optimizing the use of memory. Some games have been known to run with only a few KiB of system memory free. Some games run with no memory free at all and install an out-of-memory callback to free memory from elsewhere to satisfy the current request. See Appendix item 18. The memory fragmentation is not solved, as many of the analyses that have been used to measure memory fragmentation have largely applied to desktop software memory usage patterns, requirements, and environments. Game development has further memory constraints which make problems harder to solve. EA would like to welcome researchers to work with us on some of these problems, as they represent difficult problems that don't appear to be going away.
We also have the following practical considerations regarding C++ game programmers:
C++ isn't taught much any more in college. It's hard enough finding people who know C++, and harder finding people who understand templates of the kind you find in STL.
An increasing number of game developers are young and generic programming is foreign to them. Readers of this paper may have no trouble navigating a std STL header file, but this can be a daunting task for a less experienced programmer. An STL implementation that is very clear is worth more than experts may intially think.
Game developers (all developers, really) need to be able to examine and trace STL containers and algorithms. It's not a matter of debugging the containers themselves (which are already debugged) but a matter of debugging the user's use of the containers.
C++ templates are disliked by some because they are "tricky" and have "gotchas." You shouldn't have to be a language lawyer to use a programming language.
Section 20.1.5 of the C++ standard describes the requirements for an allocator, and the result looks more or less like below. The requirement that the allocator be a templated class is not explicitly stated in the standard, though the requirements for rebind make it virtually mandatory that allocators be templated. Items of interest to this discussion are colored in blue.
template <typename T> class allocator { public: typedef size_t size_type; typedef ptrdiff_t difference_type; typedef T* pointer; typedef const T* const_pointer; typedef T& reference; typedef const T& const_reference; typedef T value_type; allocator(); allocator(const allocator<T>&); ~allocator(); template <class U> allocator(const allocator<U>&); template <class U> struct rebind { typedef allocator<U> other; }; T* address(T&) const; const T* address(const T&) const; T* allocate(size_type, const void* = NULL); void deallocate(T*, size_type); void construct(T*, const T&); void destroy(T*); size_type max_size() const; }; bool operator ==(const allocator<T>&, const allocator<T>&); bool operator !=(const allocator<T>&, const allocator<T>&);
Unfortunately, the std allocator design and its use by std containers make it hard to work with and leads to suboptimal performance and code bloat. These are some serious charges, but in the realm of high performance game development they are real and significant. The following is a list of some of the issues of std allocators and std containers' use of std allocators:
As described in the Halpern proposal, std allocators are class-based and not instance-based. This results in some awkward attempts to make them act as if instance-based.
Allocators are virtually required to be templates, and rebind is required to be a member template. Unless the compiler is very good at inlining (and some compilers are not -- see Appendix item 15), this can result in an explosion of templates, code, and performance problems.
Allocators are rebound by containers to one or more additional types -- types which the user cannot know in any portable way. Thus the author of an allocator cannot know what it will actually be asked to allocate and construct. It is ironic that user-supplied allocators to STL containers in practice don't allocate objects of the user-specified type. It is unfortunate that there is no portable way for the container user or allocator implementor to know what the allocator will be asked to allocator or what it will be rebound to. This somewhat defeats the purpose of the allocator being templated on some type.
Allocators don't understand alignment requirements. Objects allocated by a std allocator are assumed to be of default alignment (usually equal to sizeof double) or it is assumed that the implementor of the allocator knows what the alignment is. Neither of these assumptions are satisfactory, as the former can be simply untrue and the latter can be impractical or impossible.
Allocators are required to construct and destroy objects as well as allocate them. This forces the mixing of two separate concepts: allocation and construction.
Containers require you to set an allocator at container construction time; you cannot set it later.
Containers do not let you access their allocators; they only give you copies of their allocators.
Current STL implementations such as libstdc++ (up to libstdc++ v4.1, apparently rectified with v4.2) copy allocators and create temporary allocators during empty construction and copy construction, which can result in performance problems in the case of expensive allocators. The user is thus steered towards making allocators lightweight classes which are references to the actual allocators in use, which results in unwanted indirection overhead and extra code.
EASTL allocators bear a resemblance to std allocators but have one fundamental difference: they malloc memory rather than allocate and construct objects. EASTL allocators are thus more like the malloc and free functions than like the new and delete operators. EASTL allocators also bear a marked resemblence to the allocators described in the Towards a Better Allocator Model proposal though they were developed independently without knowledge of the former. A fundamental difference between the two is that EASTL allocators don't have virtual functions; these have a performance cost that is to be avoided whenever possible.
The following illustrates the interface requirements for EASTL allocators. Items of interest are colored in blue.
class allocator { public: allocator( const char* name = "EASTL" ); allocator(const allocator& x); allocator(const allocator& x, const char* name); allocator& operator=(const allocator& x); void* allocate(size_t n, int flags = 0); void* allocate(size_t n, size_t alignment, size_t offset, int flags = 0 ); void deallocate(void* p, size_t n); const char* get_name() const; void set_name(const char* name); }; bool operator==(const allocator& a, const allocator& b); bool operator!=(const allocator& a, const allocator& b);
Some notes regarding eastl allocators:
Allocators are required to be assignable. The user may define a swap function for the allocator as well.
allocator is not necessarily a template, nor does it necessarily have member templates.
The flags parameter describes hints for the allocation, such as whether the memory is temporary or permanent. This is very useful for high performance non-fragmenting memory allocation. See Appendix item 7.
The alignment and offset parameters specify the alignment requirements of the allocation. This is important on platforms that require non-default memory alignment. It's not feasible for the container to expect the allocator know the required alignment ahead of time. This is because allocators may be shared between containers and because containers may use an allocator to allocate multiple types, as is the case with deque and hashtable containers.
The name-related functions allow the user to name the allocator, which in turn results in all allocations from that allocator being tagged with a user-supplied name. This is important in game software whereby all allocated memory must be accountable. See Appendix item 12.
The allocator is assumed to save the name pointer as opposed to copying its contents.
allocator comparisons are significant, and equality is defined as meaning that equal containers can free memory allocated by each other.
There is no max_size function, though such a thing might be useful for fixed-size pool allocators and their containers.
An allocator which is a copy of another allocator compares as equal to the original allocator and acts as such.
EASTL containers
All EASTL containers follow a set of consistent conventions. Here we define the prototypical container which has the minimal functionality that all (non-adapter) containers must have. Items of interest are colored in blue.
enum iterator_status_flag
{
isf_none = 0x00,
isf_valid = 0x01,
isf_current = 0x02,
isf_can_dereference = 0x04
};
template <class T, class Allocator = eastl::allocator>
class container
{
public:
typedef container<T, Allocator> this_type;
typedef T value_type;
typedef T* pointer;
typedef const T* const_pointer;
typedef T& reference;
typedef const T& const_reference;
typedef ptrdiff_t difference_type;
typedef impl_defined size_type;
typedef impl-defined iterator;
typedef impl-defined const_iterator;
typedef reverse_iterator<iterator> reverse_iterator;
typedef reverse_iterator<const_iterator> reverse_const_iterator;
typedef Allocator allocator_type; typedef impl-defined node_type; static const size_t kNodeAlignment = impl-defined;
static const size_t kNodeAlignmentOffset = impl-defined; public: container(const allocator_type& allocator = allocator_type()); container(const this_type& x); this_type& operator=(this_type& x); void swap(this_type& x); void reset(); allocator_type& get_allocator(); const allocator_type& get_allocator() const; void set_allocator(allocator_type& allocator); iterator begin(); const_iterator begin() const; iterator end(); const_iterator end() const; bool validate() const; iterator_status_flag validate_iterator(const_iterator i) const; }; template <class T, class Allocator> bool operator==(const container<T, Allocator>& a, const container<T, Allocator>& b); template <class T, class Allocator> bool operator!=(const container<T, Allocator>& a, const container<T, Allocator>& b);
Notes:
EASTL guarantees that existing std STL container usage will behave the same under EASTL. Changes in functionality are introduced only by new member functions, extra template parameters, or simply new containers. This allows for easy conversion to EASTL, and often from EASTL to std STL as well.
The get_allocator function allows the user to access the container's allocator as opposed to a copy of it. Without this, the user can only set the container's allocator on container construction, and this is impractical under some situations.
Note that allocator parameters are specified by value and not by pointer, unlike the Halpern proposal. A pointer-based parameter was initially considered but it was determined that a class can encapsulate a pointer and thus act as a superset of a pointer-based design.
Swapped containers do not swap their allocators. See Appendix item 29 regarding LWG #431.
Some operations that involve multiple containers (such as list::splice) are invalid when container allocators are unequal and an exception is thrown if the allocators are unequal.
Newly constructed empty containers must do no memory allocation. Some STL and other container libraries allocate an initial node from the class memory allocator. EASTL containers by design never do this. If a container needs an initial node, that node should be made part of the container itself or be a static empty node object.
Empty containers (new or otherwise) contain no constructed objects, including those that might be in an 'end' node. Similarly, no user object (e.g. of type T) should be constructed unless required by the design and unless documented in the container/algorithm contract.
The reset function is a special extension function which unilaterally resets the container to an empty state without freeing the memory of the contained objects. This is useful for very quickly tearing down a container built into scratch memory and is a useful feature for high performance programming. No memory is allocated by reset, and the container has no allocated memory after the reset is executed. It is inherently unsafe for types that have non-trivial destructor.
There is no max_size function, though such a thing might be useful for fixed-size containers. The reason it doesn't exist is simply because in practice it is rarely used.
The validate and validate_iterator functions provide explicit container and iterator validation. EASTL provides an option to do implicit automatic iterator and container validation, but full validation (which can be potentially extensive) has too much of a performance cost to execute implicitly, even in a debug build. So EASTL provides these explicit functions which can be called by the user at the appropriate time and in optimized builds as well as debug builds.
EASTL does not solve the out of memory problem. See Appendix item 18.
EASTL flaws
Some aspects of EASTL turned out to be not quite right. The following is a list of some of the things that might be done differently.
The basic_string implementation propagates the problems with std::basic_string. Two fundamental problems with basic_string are that it has too many member functions and that end() should have been used instead of npos for member algorithms. EASTL fixes neither of these and in fact adds a few additional member functions. A better string class would fix the above two problems and would also implement optional behavior policies such as copy-on-write.
Some people want list::size to be O(1) and some want it to be O(n). eastl::list should solve this by providing a template parameter to let the user choose, but currently it has no such option. A future revision of eastl::list will likely make this a template policy option.
fixed-substring is currently a subclass of basic_string, which creates some unsafe situations. However, this is an implementation detail which can be rectified.
The container reset function should perhaps have been given a less simple name. Some new users confuse it with clear.
EASTL does not solve the out-of-memory problem any differently than std STL (aside from it providing intrusive containers and fixed size containers). The std STL solution (exception handling) is supported by EASTL but is not favored and is usually disabled. See Appendix item 18.
The EASTL compile-time and runtime checking is not as thorough as that of libstdc++, as libstdc++ and possibly other std STL implementations have compile-time checking for some types of requirements. This too is something that can be improved in EASTL if deemed necessary.
Appendix
This appendix contains supplementary material referenced by the document body. In many cases the items here describe in more detail what is meant in the body. It is placed here in order to avoid getting in the way of the primary text.
1 - (removed)
2 - A debuggable list container
To make a list container debuggable, whereby the user can easily inspect and traverse it with a traditional debugger, we use Curiously Recurring Template Pattern like so in EASTL.
template <typename LN>
struct ListNodeBaseProxy
{
LN* mpNext;
LN* mpPrev;
}; template <typename T> struct ListNode : public ListNodeBaseProxy< ListNode<T> > { T mValue; }; template <typename T, typename Allocator> class ListBase // Typically the list class inherits from a base class such as this. { public: typedef T value_type; typedef ListNode<T> node_type; typedef ListNodeBaseProxy< ListNode<T> > base_node_type; protected: base_node_type mNode; . . . };
3 - Algorithm type preservation problem
The following example demonstrates a problem with current std STL implementations. What the TableBasedSorter specifically does is somewhat meaningless and arbitrary.
struct TableBasedSorter { TableBasedSorter(const int values[128]) { for(int i = 0; i < 128; ++i) mTable[i] = ((values[i] ^ 0xff80) + 128) - i; } bool operator()(int a, int b) const { return mTable[b] < mTable[a]; } int mTable[128]; }; std::sort(v, v + 128, TableBasedSorter(values));
The problem is that the std STL implementations pass the Compare function object around internally by value, triggering copying of it. This is compounded by debug STL implementations which call a Compare checker that evaluates the comparison twice instead of once so that it can enforce !(Compare(x, y) && Compare(y, x)). It thus ends up calling the copy constructor O(n log(n)) times. The user might think that the following should rectify the problem:
HuffmanHistoSorter compare; std::sort<int*, TableBasedSorter& >(v, v + 128, compare);
But it doesn't work, because the sort function ignores the compare reference template parameter and makes copies of the compare internally.
The conventional workaround for this problem is to create a proxy compare class that references the real compare object, but this is clumsy and creates a performance dragging memory indirection. Why not simply have the algorithm obey the user's request? It's not clear if the C++ standard requires that the user's request be respected, but it would be nice if it did. EASTL does so.
4 - (removed)
5 - Game source and binary sizes
Game software for desktop platforms and for 2005+ console platforms is often large-scale software.
The source code for large PC games is usually in the range of 500,000 to 2 million lines.
Application binaries are in the range of 5 to 20 MB.
Game source data (graphics, maps, search graphs, UI, movies, animations, scripting) source is in the range of 5 to 50 GB.
Compiled game data is usually in the range of 500 MB to 4 GB (not including movie files).
In addition to the code for the games themselves, game software tends to have a lot of supporting tool or "pipeline" code. Since games tend to have a lot of data, a lot of custom tools are written to generate and process this data. The size of these tools can be larger than the size of the game applications themselves. However, these tools usually don't need to have the same attention to performance as does the game code itself. While game code is almost exclusively C++, tools are written in a variety of languages, including most commonly C#, Python, C++, and Perl.
6 - Garbage collected allocators
Garbage collected memory is not currently considered an option for game development, though current iterative generational garbage collection is well-done. A full discussion of this deserves a paper of its own, but suffice it to say that the realities of limited memory and specialized memory as well as the somewhat real-time requirements of game software make garbage collected memory currently not viable. However, EA is interested in the results of research in this area and is interested in the possibility of collaborative work with researchers on this topic.
7 - Permanent and temporary memory
A useful technique for reducing memory fragmentation which is often used by game developers is to separate allocated memory into two classes: temporary memory and permanent memory. Some EA games have consumed system memory completely enough that that they would fail to run without this optimization. The way it works is that memory which is allocated once on startup is deemed to be permanently allocated. Similarly, memory which is allocated once for a new game level is deemed to be permanently allocated. Memory which is dynamically allocated and freed in a arbitrary or out-of-order way is deemed to be temporarily allocated. Memory which is permanent is allocated from the top of the heap downward, and memory which is temporary is allocated from the low end of the heap.
[temporary memory --> (free space) <-- permanent memory] (low memory) (high memory)
The result is that permanent allocations are tightly packed together in high memory and don't create dead spots in low memory. Sometimes permanent and temporary memory are sometimes referred to as high and low memory, for reasons that should be obvious. This technique is useful on both fixed-memory systems and on mapped virtual memory systems such as Windows. The custom heaps in use at EA explicitly support the concept of permanent and temporary (high and low) memory.
8 - (removed)
9 - Debug builds can't be slow
Game software is notoriously difficult to test, and it is particularly difficult to automate game software testing. Individual modular components can be automatically unit tested (as is EASTL) but the interactive gameplay of an application is much harder test. There is currently no satisfactory solution to this problem and no solution appears to be imminent. This is a topic of research on its own, and until it may be some day solved, the majority of game testing is done interactively by humans.
The interactive nature of game software means that slow debug builds are hard to test and can waste a lot of human testers' time. Since much of the testing involves testing the interactivity of the game, a slow game can make interactivity testing virtually impossible. Also, a slow application can waste a lot of programmer time spent waiting for the application to get to some desired state. Such a wait occurs for any programmer testing any kind of application, but it often happens in game programming that the programmer needs to follow a potentially long series of gameplay steps in order to get the application to some state, and there might not shortcuts or cheats to get there.
When we were using STLPort on some of our earlier STL-based PC games at EA, we enabled inlining in debug builds in order to avoid all the function calls that aren't being inlined in debug builds. Enabling inlining wasn't desirable (as it made debugging more difficult) but it made the debug builds more responsive.
10 - Function call avoidance
EASTL containers avoid function calls to the extent possible, even if such calls might be inlined by the compiler. The avoidance of function calls makes it easier for the compiler to optimize and easier for the user to trace at runtime. Many of the improved benchmark results of EASTL over std STL are due to the compiler not being able to inline functions that the std STL author assumed or hoped that it would. Compiler inlining weaknesses are discussed in Appendix item 15 . Additionally, builds with inlining disabled can yield sluggish applications that become unsuitable for testing. See Appendix item 9.
The downside to function call avoidance is that it makes container authoring and maintenance more difficult for the author, though containers tend to have little work done on them once implemented and debugged. There is a maxim that EASTL attempts to follow: write for your users first, your peers second, and yourself last.
The following demonstrates the function calls involved in the vector::resize function in EASTL and libstdc++. The EASTL version does some math and then calls insert or erase. The libstdc++ version class functions which themselves call functions, and so on. Consider that the code calling resize may itself be subject to inlining. This layering of function calls puts a burden on the compiler to inline optimally which it may or may not be able to do.
EASTL vector::resize
void resize(size_type n) { if(n > (mpEnd - mpBegin)) insert(mpEnd, n - (mpEnd - mpBegin), value_type()); else erase(mpBegin + n, mpEnd); }
void resize(size_type __new_size) { resize(__new_size, value_type()); }
void resize(size_type __new_size, const value_type& __x)
{
if(__new_size < size())
erase(begin() + __new_size, end());
else
insert(end(), __new_size - size(), __x);
}
size_type size() const
{ return size_type(end() - begin()); }
const_iterator begin() const
{ return const_iterator(this->_M_impl._M_start); } const_iterator end() const
{ return const_iterator(this->_M_impl._M_finish); } __normal_iterator(const _Iterator& __i) : _M_current(__i) { }
11 - Argument-dependent lookup safety
If the user calls a std STL function with an argument that happens to exist in a namespace that has functions of the same name as those in the std namespace, what should std STL do if it needs to call a function of that name? Is the C++ standard clear on the requirement here? Should std STL explicitly call the std version of that function or should it call the version unqualified? In the large majority of cases, the STL should explicitly call the std version, with exceptions being made only for functions that were intended to be overridden, such as swap.
The following code may fail to compile if the std::sort implementation makes unqualified min calls, as the compiler will use ADL to find the test::min function in addition to std::min.
namespace test
{
int min(int x, int y);
class X { };
}
std::sort(XArray, XArray + 10);
At least one major commercial STL implementation has recently not been ADL-safe, despite having otherwise excellent standards support. The vendor has been notified and agreed to fix the problem future releases.
12 - Memory tagging
Memory tagging is the process of associating some useful information with a memory allocation. It is typically done in one or more of three ways:
1 file / line The __FILE__ and __LINE__ values of the allocation request are stored. This is lightweight but doesn't work well when the allocation comes from within a shared library, such as STL. Another problem with it is that it doesn't tell you anything about the nature of the allocation, such as who did the allocation or what the allocation is used for. 2 call stack The call stack of the allocation request is stored. This works well but is not as lightweight as file / line tagging. As with file / line tagging, call stack tagging doesn't tell you much about the allocation aside from where it was done. 3 name The allocation is given a name, such as "VehicleInfo". This has the advantage of telling you what the allocation is used for. For categorization and budgeting purposes, the name can be hierarchical, such as with "Automata/VehicleInfo". Allocation names can also be used in many cases to tell you where the allocation occurred as well. Memory tagging combined with detailed heap reports can tell you if similarly used memory is physically proximate. A disadvantage of this scheme is that it requires explicit support in user libraries; it cannot be automatically generated like a call stack can.
Each has its strengths and weaknesses and users will often favor one technique over another. However, they aren't mutually exclusive. Typically file/line and name will be used or callstack and name will be used together, as naming is somewhat complementary with the other two. EASTL explicitly supports memory name tagging, as it is so useful. Memory heaps in EA explicitly support all three of the above methods of memory tagging, as well as others: allocation time, allocation number, allocation group ids, arbitrary user-supplied data, and others.
13 - wchar_t portability
The large majority of commercial game software uses 8 bit UTF8-encoded text or 16 bit UCS2-encoded text. Different operating systems have different conventions for encoding text, but these have little bearing on what a game chooses to use for its text. The discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of text encoding options is outside the scope of this document, but the discussion of how to portably support a given encoding in a library is pertinent.
char16_t and char32_t are sized character types, much like uint16_t and uint32_t are sized integer types. These sized character types are extensions defined by EA which allow string code and data to be more portable, though they don't solve the string literal problem. wchar_t is not considered portable, as it may be 8, 16, or 32 bits, depending on the system (BEOS, Windows, Unix, respectively). The Unicode Standard recommands against using wchar_t for this same reason (version 4, section 5.2, paragraph 2).
If your application wants to use a 16 bit string but your compiler defines wchar_t as 32 bits, you cannot use the standard string library provided with the compiler. And even if you could recompile the standard string library to be 16 bit, you'd then be breaking any code you have that wants to use a 32 bit wchar_t. Another problem is that there is no way to declare a 16 bit string literal if wchar_t is 32 bits. Also, if wchar_t is defined as 8 bit UTF-8, there will be difficulties if you do a lot of string processing, which we can say with confidence because we've done this. So what we do is define char8_t, char16_t, and char32_t and rewrite the standard string library to explicitly support all three types. A side benefit is that the resulting string library is more efficient than the one provided with the compiler. See Appendix item 14.
Sized character types would be useful to have in C++, as they allow for portable and efficient usage of strings in a multi-platform development environment. Instead of prefixing a string with L, how about prefixing it with L16 or L32 instead? There are proposals for such sized char types in C++09.
14 - Why replace standard library functions?
Often you will see game programmers avoid using functions from the C and C++ standard library and instead use re-implemented versions. The reasons for this depend on the individual case but are usually driven by some practical performance issue. We provide a table of commonly re-implemented functionality and the most common reasons for it. We hope that this may help library designers understand the requirements of game software.
Replaced functionality Rationale memcpy, memmove, memset memcpy implementations for existing well-established desktop platforms are known to be well-optimized and are rarely replaced. However, it turns out that library vendors for new hardware sometimes don't come up with optimized implementations until well after the hardware's initial availability. Also, in many cases memory manipulation functions can be improved for the case of memory aligned on page-sized or cache line-sized boundaries and thus game software often implements specialized memory manipulation functions for these cases. printf, sprintf
sprintf is a function that is often re-implemented by game software. Typical reasons are thus: sprintf is slow because it locks mutexes and reads internal locale information.
sprintf brings in enough extenal code to make it too big to be usable on some machines such as the new Sony/IBM Cell processors.
wsprintf can't be relied upon to work with 16 bit strings, as described in Appendix item 13.
Some sprintf implementations may allocate memory from the global heap.
Some sprintf implementations (e.g. Playstation 2) are very slow with double precision floating point math.
sprintf doesn't support explicitly sized types such as int32_t. C99's PRId32 is a poor workaround, as it is obfuscational and non-portable.
sprintf supports decimal (%d), octal (%o), and hexidecimal (%x) output, but not binary output (%b).
sprintf sometimes isn't provided by the compiler vendor. Or more often, some useful variation of it such as vsnprintf isn't provided by the compiler vendor. wcscpy, wcslen, etc. As explained in Appendix item 13, wchar_t is not portable in practice. If your game uses 16 bit UCS2-encoded strings -- as many do -- then you can't rely on the standard library wide string functions being usable. So games will commonly re-write the entire string library in order to be portable. This is unfortunate, as the vendor-provided C string functions are usually well-implemented. fopen, fstream The FILE-based standard library functions for manipulating files is fine for many purposes and applications. However, it isn't very good for game applications, particularly console-based applications. Even in those cases where sychronous fopen/fread behavior is appropriate, games almost always use the lower level operating system-provided equivalent functionality. As such, FILE use is uncommon in console-based games and often in PC-based games as well. The primary reasons for this are: FILE-based IO is inherently blocking, and games work best if IO is asynchronous and priority and head proximity-driven
FILE-based IO is inherently buffered, whereas this is often not what game software wants.
FILE-based IO is slower (e.g. mutex locking) than equivalent system-provided functionality and usually more limited (e.g. no buffer control) in capabilities. rand The problems with the standard library rand are well-known and are likely part of the impetus for improving random number generation with TR1. A brief summary of the weaknesses is: Limited to 16 bit values in practice.
Poor randomness.
Can't have a private implementation.
Poor performance. atoi, strtol, etc. A problem with functions such as atoi and strtol is that they work with non-portable types such as long and wchar_t. On game platforms, a long may be an inefficient data type (as it is on the Playstation 2). It is preferable to use APIs that work with sized types such as uint32_t and uint64_t, as they guarantee portable behavior and in practice are at least as efficient as types such as int and long. See Appendix item 21. strncpy, strncat These functions are too hard to use safely. We have replaced them with strlcpy and strlcat respectively, though much game software inside and outside EA still use these. Also, the fixed_string or fixed_substring class can be safely used to replace these functions in a friendly way. strftime, set_locale C-provided locale functionality suffers from being neither portable nor overridable. There is no portable way to tell what locale to use, as compilers implement it differently. However, the differences can often be abstracted away with macros. But once you get over this you still have the problem of API functions not always being helpful. The strftime function, for example, doesn't do time/date format localization but instead requires the user to do it. Again the user is required to abstract this away. Another problem is that the user has no way of extending or modifying the behavior of functions like strftime to accomodate some practical requirement. An end result of this is that game software often just rewrites functions like strftime to be simpler, more flexible, and usually more efficient as well. new/delete, malloc/free Custom heaps fragment memory less, use memory more efficiently, and handle aligned memory better that system provided heaps. Custom heaps provide built-in debugging features such as tagging and strong validation, among others. Additionally, gaming platforms often require usage of different kinds of memory for which there is no portable API to manipulate. assert The fundamental problem with assert is that there is no way to override it or intercept it and redirect it to application-provided facilities. The result is that assert usage is verboten because it operates outside the application's control and in practice usually unilaterally causes the application to exit. This is unfortunate because it goes against the purpose of standard library facilities: to provide a portable standard implementation of useful universal functionality. What we would like to see in the C++ standard is a portable way for users to be able to override the assert function and redefine its behavior.
15 - Compiler inlining problems
The GCC C++ compiler is a great compiler with a lot of flexibility and portability. However, it has one weakness of significance that affects templated libraries such as the STL: it is not very good at inlining. There are a number of compiler options to tweak the inlining parameters, but it seems to be fairly difficult to get the compiler to do the "right thing." This appears to be a known problem and it is hoped that a future version of the compiler will address this. The Microsoft C++ compiler does a rather good job of inlining and might be worth using as a reference.
A full discussion of compiler inlining characteristics is outside the scope of this document, but some Internet discussions regarding GCC inlining problems can be found at:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_frm/thread/b74eed16bd48d42e
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/1861b2634cdfa68a/
http://www.pixelglow.com/lists/archive/macstl-dev/2005-September/000154.html
16 - EASTL intrusive_list
As an example of an intrusive container, we show the interface for eastl::intrusive_list. The actual implementation breaks intrusive_list into intrusive_list_base and intrusive_list in order to place some of the non-templated functions into a base class. Other EASTL intrusive containers (e.g. intrusive_hash_map) have a similar philosophy. Recall that the primary advantage of intrusive containers is that they allow the user to provide node memory.
struct intrusive_list_node // Users can use this or provide their own. { intrusive_list_node* pNext; intrusive_list_node* pPrev; }; template <typename T, typename Pointer, typename Reference> class intrusive_list_iterator { public: typedef intrusive_list_iterator<T, Pointer, Reference> this_type; typedef intrusive_list_iterator<T, T*, T&> iterator; typedef intrusive_list_iterator<T, const T*, const T&> const_iterator; typedef T value_type; typedef T node_type; typedef ptrdiff_t difference_type; typedef Pointer pointer; typedef Reference reference; typedef bidirectional_iterator_tag iterator_category; public: intrusive_list_iterator(); explicit intrusive_list_iterator(pointer pNode); intrusive_list_iterator(const iterator& x); reference operator*() const; pointer operator->() const; intrusive_list_iterator& operator++(); intrusive_list_iterator& operator--(); intrusive_list_iterator operator++(int); intrusive_list_iterator operator--(int); }; template <typename T = intrusive_list_node> class intrusive_list { public: typedef intrusive_list<T> this_type; typedef T node_type; typedef T value_type; typedef eastl_size_t size_type; typedef ptrdiff_t difference_type; typedef T& reference; typedef const T& const_reference; typedef T* pointer; typedef const T* const_pointer; typedef intrusive_list_iterator<T, T*, T&> iterator; typedef intrusive_list_iterator<T, const T*, const T&> const_iterator; typedef eastl::reverse_iterator<iterator> reverse_iterator; typedef eastl::reverse_iterator<const_iterator> const_reverse_iterator; public: intrusive_list(); intrusive_list(const this_type& x); this_type& operator=(const this_type& x); iterator begin(); const_iterator begin() const; iterator end(); const_iterator end() const; reverse_iterator rbegin(); const_reverse_iterator rbegin() const; reverse_iterator rend(); const_reverse_iterator rend() const; reference front(); const_reference front() const; reference back(); const_reference back() const; bool empty() const; eastl_size_t size() const; void clear(); void reverse(); void push_front(T& x); void pop_front(); void push_back(T& x); void pop_back(); iterator locate(T& x); const_iterator locate(const T& x) const; iterator insert(iterator pos, T& x); iterator erase(iterator pos); iterator erase(iterator pos, iterator last); void swap(intrusive_list&); static void remove(T& value); // Erases an element from a list without having the list; O(1). void splice(iterator pos, T& x); void splice(iterator pos, intrusive_list& x); void splice(iterator pos, intrusive_list& x, iterator i); void splice(iterator pos, intrusive_list& x, iterator first, iterator last); void merge(this_type& x); template <typename Compare> void merge(this_type& x, Compare compare); void unique(); template <typename BinaryPredicate> void unique(BinaryPredicate); void sort(); template<typename Compare> void sort(Compare compare); bool validate() const; int validate_iterator(const_iterator i) const; };
17 - Disabling of exception handling
Game software usually disables exception handling. A full analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of C++ exception handling in game software is outside the scope of this document, but a few comments can be made here to help clarify some issues.
Exception handling incurs some kind of cost in all compiler implementations, including those that avoid the cost during normal execution.
However, in some cases this cost may arguably offset the cost of the code that it is replacing.
Exception handling is often agreed to be a superior solution for handling a large range of function return values.
However, avoiding the creation of functions that need large ranges of return values is superior to using exception handling to handle such values.
Using exception handling correctly can be difficult in the case of complex software.
The execution of throw and catch can be significantly expensive with some implementations.
Exception handling violates the don't-pay-for-what-you-don't-use design of C++, as it incurs overhead in any non-leaf function that has destructable stack objects regardless of whether they use exception handling.
The approach that game software usually takes is to avoid the need for exception handling where possible; avoid the possibility of circumstances that may lead to exceptions. For example, verify up front that there is enough memory for a subsystem to do its job instead of trying to deal with the problem via exception handling or any other means after it occurs.
However, some game libraries may nevertheless benefit from the use of exception handling. It's best, howerver, if such libraries keep the exception handling internal lest they force their usage of exception handling on the rest of the application.
18 - Out of memory
EASTL does not solve the out-of-memory problem any differently than std STL (aside from it providing intrusive containers and fixed size containers). The std STL solution (exception handling) is supported by EASTL but is not favored and is usually disabled (see Appendix item 17). There are four common solutions in game software to dealing with out-of-memory conditions within libraries:
The library throws an exception if memory cannot be allocated. This isn't used very often because it is has more overhead and is much harder to safely use than the following two methods. One forgotten "try" by the user and the application can unexpectedly crash. The allocator calls a user-callback upon failure, whereby the user callback frees up memory in an application-specific way. This is a reliable method because it allows the failure to be handled in a single place in a consistent way and it only needs to be written once and the user doesn't have to worry. The user simply guarantees up front that there is enough memory. This is the simplest and most reliable method and is the one that's used the most. A common way of guaranteeing the availability of the memory is to allocate it up-front and hand it to the system that needs it. The library propagates and error value up to the caller. This solution is non-optimal, especially if there are multiple return values that are specifically handled. Exception handling is often considered superior to this solution.
Dealing with exception handling at the level of the container user is tedious and error-prone; dealing with it at the level of the allocator is easier for the user and is more reliable. Using exception handling to properly and safely deal with out-of-memory conditions is a daunting and tedious task, especially in an environment of custom allocators. This is not a criticism of C++ exception handling in general but rather is an observation about using it with STL containers.
19 - Benchmarks often miss cache effects
Typically a benchmark of comparing two functions will go through some effort to make sure that the measurements aren't polluted by memory cache effects such as cache misses. This is a fine approach for comparing functions that are roughly equivalent in their memory effects. A typical such benchmark will call a function once, then start the timer, call it 1000 times, and finally stop the timer. However, such a testing approach may yield misleading results for cases whereby the compared functions are not equivalent in their memory effects. The benchmark intentionally chose to ignore cache misses that occurred during the first function call, but in real-world execution such cache misses may well affect application performance because these functions aren't actually called 1000 times in a row one after another. A better way of measuring performance is to have a 1000 different functions which are called one after another and which exercise the code and data memory caches like a real-world application might.
The Technical Report on C++ Performance recognizes cache effects at one point in the document but seems to dismiss them in its own measurements and conclusions. For example, it states that the timing analysis of virtual functions is straightforward and concludes that the cost of virtual functions is "a fixed number of machine instructions." This analysis is somewhat misleading, as it implies that there are no cache misses or that memory caches are so large that a cache miss for any code will only ever occur once on startup. See section 7.2.1 of the report. A full discussion of the usage of virtual functions in game development is outside the scope of this document, but it is sufficient to say here that the cost of virtual functions in practice is likely greater than implied by the Technical Report on C++ Performance, largely due to practical cache effects.
20 - Performance comparison
A couple of comparisons are presented here which compare EASTL with a commonly used commercial version of std STL. EASTL is generally faster, though in many cases the differences are minimal. In some cases speed improvements aren't very important; nobody is going to know or care if min_element executes 10% faster or slower in EASTL. In other cases -- such as with the sort algorithm -- speed improvements are important. The source code to the benchmark is distributed with this document. A reported result of 1.40 means that EASTL ran 40% faster; a ratio of 0.75 means that EASTL ran 33% (1/.75) slower.
In practice, with GCC it turns out that EASTL performs a little better than the benchmarks indicate due to EASTL being easier to inline. The benchmark code is very simple and is relatively easy for the compiler to inline, but real-world code in practice often turns out to not inline as well.
A: Windows / Pentium 4 x86 / VC8 -Og -Oi -Ot -Oy -Ob2 -GF -Gy / compiler-supplied STL
B: Console / 64 bit PowerPC / VC7 -Ox -Ob2 -Oi -Os / compiler-supplied STL
C: Linux / Pentium 4 x86 / GCC 4.1 -O3 / libstdc++
D: Mac OS X / G5 PowerPC 32 bit mode / GCC 4.0 -Os / libstdc++ Green: EASTL 15% or more faster (>= 1.15)
Blue: Std STL 15% or more faster (<= 0.87) Test Windows Console Linux Mac algorithm/adj_find/vector<TestObject>
algorithm/copy/vector<LargePOD>
algorithm/copy/vector<uint32_t>
algorithm/copy_backward/vector<LargePOD>
algorithm/copy_backward/vector<uint32_t>
algorithm/count/vector<uint64_t>
algorithm/equal_range/vector<uint64_t>
algorithm/fill/bool[]
algorithm/fill/char[]/'d'
algorithm/fill/vector<char>/'d'
algorithm/fill/vector<char>/0
algorithm/fill/vector<uint64_t>
algorithm/fill/vector<void*>
algorithm/fill_n/bool[]
algorithm/fill_n/char[]
algorithm/fill_n/vector<uint64_t>
algorithm/find_end/string/end
algorithm/find_end/string/middle
algorithm/find_end/string/none
algorithm/lex_cmp/schar[]
algorithm/lex_cmp/vector<TestObject>
algorithm/lex_cmp/vector<uchar>
algorithm/lower_bound/vector<TestObject>
algorithm/min_element/vector<TestObject>
algorithm/rand_shuffle/vector<uint64_t>
algorithm/reverse/list<TestObject>
algorithm/reverse/vector<TestObject>
algorithm/search/string<char>
algorithm/search_n/string<char>
algorithm/unique/vector<TestObject>
algorithm/unique/vector<uint32_t>
algorithm/unique/vector<uint64_t>
algorithm/upper_bound/vector<uint32_t>
1.00
1.09
0.95
1.03
0.78
1.00
1.34
9.43
7.36
7.33
9.39
1.07
1.02
13.71
10.67
1.00
31.63
3.42
1.51
1.88
0.99
1.88
1.43
1.13
1.17
1.02
1.03
2.48
1.39
0.98
1.07
1.13
1.47
1.24
1.15
1.82
1.07
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2.22
1.07
1.09
1.05
0.91
1.01
7.32
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1.08
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1.06 0.98
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0.89
1.00
1.02
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1.99
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bitset<15>/count
bitset<15>/flip
bitset<15>/reset
bitset<15>/set()
bitset<15>/set(i)
bitset<15>/test 1.04
0.97
1.87
1.00
1.25
1.17
1.02
1.10
0.97
1.08
1.00
1.08
1.00
1.10
0.82
0.94
0.80
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0.80
0.91
1.17 1.61
1.00
2.00
1.00
2.63
1.96
1.87
bitset<35>/>>=/1
bitset<35>/count
bitset<35>/flip
bitset<35>/reset
bitset<35>/set()
bitset<35>/set(i)
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1.27
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0.90
3.40
2.29
1.79
bitset<75>/>>=/1
bitset<75>/count
bitset<75>/flip
bitset<75>/reset
bitset<75>/set()
bitset<75>/set(i)
bitset<75>/test 0.94
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1.50
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0.88
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0.65
1.82
2.16
3.02
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1.37 1.86
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1.29
0.49
1.46
1.94
2.20
bitset<1500>/>>=/1
bitset<1500>/count
bitset<1500>/flip
bitset<1500>/reset
bitset<1500>/set()
bitset<1500>/set(i)
bitset<1500>/test 0.99
0.99
1.08
0.95
1.14
0.98
1.00
1.74
1.90
1.89
2.18
1.89
0.95
0.90
1.21
1.00
1.44
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1.71
0.82
1.21 1.13
1.00
0.87
1.61
1.37
2.28
1.78
deque<ValuePair>/erase
deque<ValuePair>/find
deque<ValuePair>/insert
deque<ValuePair>/iteration
deque<ValuePair>/operator[]
deque<ValuePair>/push_back
deque<ValuePair>/push_front
deque<ValuePair>/sort
2.48
1.56
2.97
0.94
1.30
8.67
9.73
1.51
1.05
1.85
1.64
1.80
1.40
6.43
5.03
1.61
1.19
1.06
1.03
1.06
1.55
0.98
1.03
1.01 0.86
1.05
1.24
0.98
2.66
1.65
1.68
1.00
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/clear
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/count
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/erase pos
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/erase range
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/erase val
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/find
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/find_as/char*
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/insert
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/iteration
hash_map<string, uint32_t>/operator[] 0.58
2.23
0.67
1.47
1.18
1.66
1.96
0.59
1.29
1.60
1.01
2.75
0.69
1.98
1.22
2.19
2.34
0.65
1.29
2.11
0.75
1.24
1.15
0.82
0.75
1.21
3.52
0.54
3.00
1.53 1.16
1.19
2.57
1.09
0.98
1.58
4.61
0.73
3.49
2.21
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/clear
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/count
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/erase pos
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/erase range
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/erase val
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/find
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/insert
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/iteration
hash_map<uint32_t, TestObject>/operator[] 0.89
2.95
0.90
3.41
1.94
2.72
2.55
1.04
2.20
1.02
2.78
1.34
5.30
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1.89
2.04
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1.75
0.82
1.02
1.00
1.05
1.05
0.76
0.91
2.29
1.37 1.22
1.38
1.62
1.03
1.24
1.24
1.05
4.03
1.96
heap (uint32_t[])/make_heap
heap (uint32_t[])/pop_heap
heap (uint32_t[])/push_heap
heap (uint32_t[])/sort_heap 1.21
1.09
1.59
0.96
1.07
1.01
1.08
1.02
0.97
0.98
1.05
1.12 0.93
0.98
1.13
1.01
heap (vector<TestObject>)/make_heap
heap (vector<TestObject>)/pop_heap
heap (vector<TestObject>)/push_heap
heap (vector<TestObject>)/sort_heap 0.93
0.93
0.97
0.95
1.05
0.98
1.03
0.97
1.11
1.07
0.88
0.99 1.02
1.02
1.12
1.06
list<TestObject>/ctor(it)
list<TestObject>/ctor(n)
list<TestObject>/erase
list<TestObject>/find
list<TestObject>/insert
list<TestObject>/push_back
list<TestObject>/remove
list<TestObject>/reverse
list<TestObject>/size/1
list<TestObject>/size/10
list<TestObject>/size/100
list<TestObject>/splice 1.10
1.04
1.13
1.24
1.34
1.60
1.23
1.06
1.00
1.00
1.00
2.28
1.09
1.15
0.96
0.97
0.99
1.17
1.13
1.25
1.00
1.00
1.00
2.27
1.03
0.91
0.97
1.00
1.00
1.04
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1.09
1.00
1.01
0.96
1.30
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1.18
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1.35
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1.33
1.07
1.00
1.00
3.56
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/clear
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/count
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/equal_range
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/erase/key
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/erase/pos
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/erase/range
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/find
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/insert
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/iteration
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/lower_bound
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/operator[]
map<TestObject, uint32_t>/upper_bound 1.00
2.15
1.75
1.38
1.26
1.10
1.42
1.03
1.88
1.18
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1.26
1.01
2.03
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1.00
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1.01
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2.05
0.92
0.92
0.83 1.02
1.21
1.81
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1.09
0.97
1.25
1.17
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set<uint32_t>/clear
set<uint32_t>/count
set<uint32_t>/equal_range
set<uint32_t>/erase range
set<uint32_t>/erase/pos
set<uint32_t>/erase/val
set<uint32_t>/find
set<uint32_t>/insert
set<uint32_t>/iteration
set<uint32_t>/lower_bound
set<uint32_t>/upper_bound 1.00
1.98
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1.04
0.86
1.06
1.07
0.98
2.18
1.78
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1.13
1.49
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1.11
1.62
1.17
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1.00
1.05
1.49
1.10
1.11
1.62
1.02
1.13
1.55
1.06
0.93 1.01
1.31
2.12
1.00
0.99
1.88
1.39
1.29
1.33
1.11
1.04
sort/q_sort/TestObject[]
sort/q_sort/TestObject[]/sorted
sort/q_sort/vector<TestObject>
sort/q_sort/vector<TestObject>/sorted
sort/q_sort/vector<ValuePair>
sort/q_sort/vector<ValuePair>/sorted
sort/q_sort/vector<uint32>
sort/q_sort/vector<uint32>/sorted 1.50
1.31
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string<char16_t>/compare
string<char16_t>/erase/pos,n
string<char16_t>/find/p,pos,n
string<char16_t>/find_first_not_of/p,pos,n
string<char16_t>/find_first_of/p,pos,n
string<char16_t>/find_last_of/p,pos,n
string<char16_t>/insert/pos,p
string<char16_t>/iteration
string<char16_t>/operator[]
string<char16_t>/push_back
string<char16_t>/replace/pos,n,p,n
string<char16_t>/reserve
string<char16_t>/rfind/p,pos,n
string<char16_t>/size
string<char16_t>/swap 1.85
1.00
1.00
0.95
0.97
0.78
1.01
1.33
1.45
2.14
0.99
1.16
1.92
0.92
1.94
1.01
1.00
0.96
1.17
1.13
1.25
1.01
1.53
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6.39
1.01
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2.04
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1.40
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1.00
5.03
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0.46
1.10
1.07
1.30
1.22
1.18
100.00
1.08
0.91
1.10 1.45
1.01
4.22
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string<char8_t>/compare
string<char8_t>/erase/pos,n
string<char8_t>/find/p,pos,n
string<char8_t>/find_first_not_of/p,pos,n
string<char8_t>/find_first_of/p,pos,n
string<char8_t>/find_last_of/p,pos,n
string<char8_t>/insert/pos,p
string<char8_t>/iteration
string<char8_t>/operator[]
string<char8_t>/push_back
string<char8_t>/replace/pos,n,p,n
string<char8_t>/reserve
string<char8_t>/rfind/p,pos,n
string<char8_t>/size
string<char8_t>/swap 0.99
1.07
0.58
0.85
1.34
1.57
1.15
1.00
2.23
2.28
1.00
1.19
1.86
1.08
1.95
1.00
1.00
1.00
0.94
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.79
2.10
5.09
1.02
1.70
2.12
1.00
1.31
0.99
1.01
5.06
3.20
10.11
8.27
0.77
0.86
1.66
2.28
1.03
100.00
8.70
0.94
1.45 0.91
1.03
3.69
1.17
1.45
1.15
1.05
4.05
5.66
2.05
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100.00
4.22
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vector<uint64>/erase
vector<uint64>/insert
vector<uint64>/iteration
vector<uint64>/operator[]
vector<uint64>/push_back
vector<uint64>/sort 0.99
0.99
0.93
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3.28
1.01
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1.02
2.18
1.00
1.00
1.03
1.15
1.29
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0.92 1.02
1.12
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1.59
1.27
21 - int is not a machine word
The int data type was originally intended to represent a machine word. The C99 standard states:
A ‘‘plain’’ int object has the natural size suggested by the architecture of the execution environment (C99 6.2.5 p5)
But in practice int is nearly always 4 bytes (int32_t), even on 64 bit and 128 bit platforms.
22 - How do you make a node pool for a linked list?
If you want to make a std::list that uses a fixed-size node pool, there is no portable way to do it, as you don't know what your allocator needs to allocate:
template <size_t allocSize, size_t nodeCount>
class NodePool{ }; std::l
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The New York Islanders will welcome captain John Tavares back to the lineup for their contest against the Montreal Canadiens, head coach Jack Capuano confirmed.
The 25-year-old has missed the Islanders' last three games with what the team deemed "flu-like symptoms," but after taking an optional skate Thursday, he was inserted into the lineup.
Tavares explained the severity of his illness Thursday, saying it rendered him unable to eat until Monday, when he was then forced to try to put on the weight he lost, according to NHL.com's Arpon Basu.
With Tavares returning to the lineup, forward Steve Bernier will draw out.
Bernier comes out with Tavares back in. Capuano very pleased with Bernier's play. — Arthur Staple (@StapeNewsday) November 5, 2015
Despite missing three games, Tavares leads the club in scoring with five goals and 11 points in 10 games.
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TORONTO – When playoff time comes, the smallest margins can have major impacts.
Toronto FC head into the first leg of the Eastern Conference Championship with the aim of extending their 2016 Audi MLS Cup Playoff run. Standing in their way are a familiar foe: Montreal Impact.
The Canadian rivals are well acquainted, having played some eight times over the past calendar year, but Tuesday's game (8 pm ET, TSN1/3, RDS in Canada | ESPN in US) brings a new wrinkle into the occasion, as the match will be played at Olympic Stadium, also known as the "Big O."
Compared to Stade Saputo, the massive Big O, poses a unique challenge, foremost in the mind is, of course, the surface. Where Saputo houses a fine grass pitch, the Big O's is artificial turf.
“It's going to be different,” said Toronto FC midfielder Jonathan Osorio last week. “...Both teams are going to play on it; it's going to be a level playing field. A couple of things will be different, but we'll just have to adjust.”
“Usually these turf field are fast, they're bouncy,” remarked head coach Greg Vanney. “The game has a hard time settling down because the ball doesn't settle. It's a different type of game, we have to be ready for anything. You have to be switched on, ready for a game that could be high energy; the ball will be fast, the intensity will be there no question.”
As a club, TFC are no strangers to the Big O. They have played there three times, twice in the league and once in the Amway Canadian Championship – both MLS matches ended in 2-1 losses, while the cup match was a 0-0 affair – but the last time was back in 2013. Osorio and defender Ashtone Morgan are the lone Toronto holdovers from that time.
“Turf is just one factor,” reiterated Vanney at a subsequent media session last week. “If they train on it, maybe they get an advantage, but the game comes down to who can execute in key moments and who is aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition, and who can deal with it.”
Another consideration that must factor into the calculus is that this is only the first leg. With the second game at BMO Field, will TFC look to play shutdown soccer away, or aim to secure an advantage to take home?
“It's important that we set ourselves up appropriately. That's the key to going on the road first,” explained Vanney. “We've seen in this last round, it doesn't always benefit those teams [to have the second leg at home]. We have to be smart about it: pay attention to details, stay together, work hard for the common goal. If we can do that, we give ourselves the best shot.”
Still another variable will be the vociferous and partisan crowd. Montreal recently announced they have sold over 50,000 tickets with the match still six days away, and while there will be a 1,400-plus strong crowd of Toronto fans, the vast majority will be supporting the team in blue.
“It's going to be a great crowd, [a] good time atmosphere, so we're excited about that,” said TFC goalkeeper Clint Irwin last week.
And superstar Sebastian Giovinco welcomed the spectacle: “It's a show; the more people in attendance the better.”
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“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” said President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning during his maiden speech before the United Nations General Assembly. “Rocket Man”—Trump’s new nickname for North Korean supremo Kim Jong Un—“is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”
If there is a war on the Korean Peninsula, as appears increasingly likely, what happens after the guns go silent? The reconstruction of the Korean nation, after more than a century of tragedy and division, would be one of the most difficult and expensive projects in history.
The cost of rebuilding the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as the North calls itself, is beyond the means of Seoul. There are South Korean estimates ranging from $50 billion to $229 billion. Add in rebuilding the South, and the tab can soar to over $5 trillion.
Yet the real cost is the suffering of more than 25 million North Koreans. Many tell us they would try to move north in the event of the destruction of the Kim regime so Beijing is worried about the influx of refugees in its northeastern provinces.
It does not appear, however, that Chinese officials are especially concerned about the ability of the People’s Liberation Army, backed up by the People’s Armed Police, to close the border with the North. After all, that border is defined by three natural boundaries: the Yalu and Tumen rivers and an active volcano, Mt. Paektu.
In any event, it is unlikely that North Koreans want to leave their fate to the hated Chinese when they can more easily walk across the Demilitarized Zone, the strip of land separating the two Koreas. In an era of considerably less tension, north-south corridors in the border area were de-mined. Refugees, therefore, merely have to stroll south—to be with other Koreans—along safe paved highways and railroad tracks.
That means, if North Korea were to be “totally destroyed,” the first job of South Korean and U.S. troops would be to stabilize the population of North Korea.
The South Korean military would likely execute “stabilization operations that will focus on two key objectives: establish security and restore essential services with the intent to keep the Korean population fixed in their villages receiving essential support to minimize the humanitarian crisis,” David Maxwell, of Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.
At the same time, South Korean forces, assisted by the U.S., would have to go on the most important Easter egg hunt in history. They would have to, as Maxwell said, “search, locate, secure, render safe, account for, and as appropriate destroy any remaining weapons of mass destruction.”
And they’d have to do this in a hostile environment, one “exponentially more complex than Iraq,” says Maxwell, a former U.S. Army Special Forces colonel with five Korea tours. The North Koreans are indoctrinated to hate Americans, almost all males have military training, and they will have guns. Moreover, the population has been raised on a myth glorifying “partisan warfare.”
So what could be more dangerous? As South Korean and American forces move north, the Chinese would probably move south.
China’s military would also want to find nuclear weapons, stocks of chemical and biological agents, and ballistic missiles. Beijing, however, covets something even more important to China: paper. The Chinese would need to secure North Korean archives, which will likely show their complicity in the Kim family’s weapons programs and its horrific crimes.
This means China almost certainly would try to secure the capital of Pyongyang and weapons sites before South Korean and American forces did so.
South Korean and American military officers and diplomats have, for decades, tried to discuss with their Chinese counterparts what happens when, for whatever reason, the Kim regime can no longer rule. Maxwell points out that “this can hardly be called coordination.”
Why not? “These engagements,” he said, “are generally one-way with no reciprocal sharing from the Chinese side.” Therefore, Beijing, at least at this time, does not seem to be particularly interested in attempts to “minimize misunderstanding and miscalculation.”
It is often said that Chinese officials do not participate in these discussions for fear of offending their North Korean allies. Another reason, however, may be that Chinese military officers do not want to reveal their plans because they want to control the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula.
Leading Korea watcher Bruce Bechtol of Angelo State University told me that the Chinese would undoubtedly end up talking to Washington and Seoul if and when the time comes. Bechtol, the author of North Korea and Regional Security in the Kim Jong-un Era, is probably correct, as the specter of great-power war should tend to convince Beijing that it has no choice but to coordinate.
But should the Chinese decide not to do the right thing, the total destruction of North Korea could lead to two large armies with incompatible objectives coming into contact with each other in a wartime setting.
Miscalculation in these fluid circumstances haunts war planners like Robert Collins, who has worked with U.S. Forces Korea in this area. As he told The Daily Beast, if Kim loses control, planning for all sides becomes “exceptionally complex and challenging.”
That’s when the real fighting in Korea could begin.
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Anyone who has ever been near a dairy knows that cows can be smelly beasts: they fart and poop constantly, filling the air for miles with the acrid scent of their bowels. For anyone who may find that aroma repulsive, California is on the case.
California Gov. Jerry Brown this week signed into law a bill that would place limitations on emissions of greenhouse gasses like methane and black carbon. Those types of gasses, known collectively as super pollutants, have some of the biggest impacts on global warming but remain in the atmosphere for a much shorter period of time than carbon-dioxide (CO2).
The new California law requires the state to approve and begin implementing a strategy to cut super pollutant emissions from dairy, livestock, organic waste and landfills. They must reach a goal that includes a cut of methane emissions by 40 percent, hydrofluorocarbon gases by 40 percent and anthropogenic black carbon by 50 percent below 2013 levels by 2020.
Cow farts, for their part, are rich in methane.
“Cutting black carbon and other super pollutants is the critical next step in our program to combat climate change,” Brown said Monday in a statement after signing the law. “This bill curbs these dangerous pollutants and thereby protects public health and slows climate change.”
Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are used in refrigeration and air conditioning and began being used to replace ozone destroying chlorofluorocarbons. Black carbon is created when fossil fuels aren’t burnt completely — it's basically soot. Methane comes from a variety of organic sources, including living animals and landfills.
The three gasses have varying levels of potency and lifespans. Methane is roughly 30 times better at trapping heat than CO2 and stays in the atmosphere for an average of roughly 20 years. HFCs are 3,830 times more potent than CO2 and have a 14 year lifetime. Black carbon stays in the atmosphere for just weeks and is very potent, though it has a variable potency.
Removing just one ton of diesel black carbon from the atmosphere, Brown’s office said, is equivalent to taking out 1,000 to 2,000 tons of CO2.
“The policies that California is implementing, if achieved worldwide, would cut the expected rate of global warming in half by 2050, save millions of lives, avoid millions of tons of crop losses per year and slow dangerous climate feedbacks such as melting ice caps and rising sea levels," Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor at the San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said in a statement accompanying Browns’ comments.
The potential to eliminating greenhouse gasses is an obvious goal for California. The state, which is in its fifth year of a blistering drought, is already being impacted by the effects from a warming climate which exacerbates conditions that may extend that drought, new research this week showed. If those effects aren’t mitigated, the state could potentially be looking at prolonged drought for decades or centuries to come, that report suggested.
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'Give It To Your Woman, It's Her Job' Laundry Tag Doesn't Wash With Many
When Emma Barnett saw the laundry tag in her boyfriend's pants she was shocked.
"Give It To Your Woman," it read. "It's Her Job."
So Barnett did what you would expect the digital media editor of The Telegraph would do. She posted the photo online and started tweeting.
One day later, the twitterverse was in a tizzy and she had turned up the name of the company responsible.
"The beige pair of chinos in question were purchased in London at Madhouse's flagship Oxford Street store last month," Barnett reported Tuesday. And a company spokesman told her "the care instructions on this product were not proofed by our buyers who normally concern themselves with quality, style and price of the products they order. ... The wording is clearly meant as a joke but now it has been pointed out to us it is something we will need to be more careful about in the future."
If you're interested in following the Twitter debate, which continues, the proper search term is #sexisttrousers.
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“You can’t get bigger arms unless you go heavy on the barbell or on some dumbbells.”
Yeah, that’s what more than one guy told me at the gym. Hearing this advice made sense to me. I had seen the workouts before in magazines and they always threw in 4 exercises for biceps and 4 exercises for triceps. Add in 10 to 12 reps per set per exercise and I was being promised arms bigger than the Hulk.
It made sense at the time. Lift some iron and watch the muscle grow. That’s the common advice and it works, but only if you do it right.
However, lifting weights is not the only way to gain muscle in your arms. If you want to get awesome results you should include bodyweight exercises.
Anytime someone tells me that you can’t get muscular arms by using only your bodyweight I point to a gymnast. Simply look at a gymnast and you will quickly see that weights are not the only way to make significant gains in muscle.
You don’t have to lift like a bodybuilder.
Sure you can grab a barbell, put some weight and go at it.
I am all for that. You can lift heavy weight and see results but having thicker arms is best when you do certain exercises that trigger maximum growth.
That’s where bodyweight movements can come in.
Here are a list of exercises for biceps and triceps without having to use weights.
Bodyweight Exercises For Biceps
Chin Ups: This exercise is one of the forgotten and unsung bodyweight exercises. Some see this as either being too easy while others look at it as too difficult to do. It is often considered a back exercise but in reality it is much more than that. Chin ups are a compound movement that will give your back and your biceps a killer workout. This exercise is similar to a barbell curl except that it follows a natural movement and can be tough as you lift your own weight.
Parallel Grip Chin Ups: Another great option for building your biceps. The palms face each other on parallel bars allowing for a movement that is easier on the wrists and shoulders than a pull ups. The positioning of the hands and arms is very much like a Hammer Curl; however this exercise also works on the lats. If you don’t have access to parallel bars simply grip a bar with both hands with both palms facing each other.
Pull Ups: Some time ago I dropped all biceps curls for about a year. The only stimulation my biceps received was through my back workouts. My primary back exercise at the time was pull ups and my biceps never decreased in size. Whether you choose to do a shoulder wide grip or wider than shoulder wide grip you will still find this exercise giving your lats and biceps a boost. Don’t confuse this exercise with chin ups. Pull ups require a “palms out” grip while a chin up uses a “palms in” grip.
Bodyweight Rows/ Inverted Rows: When was the last time you saw someone at the gym using this exercise? Yeah, I never do either. Simply use a Smith Machine and set the bar below your waist. Proceed to sit down on the floor, grab the bar and with your back flat and facing the floor you then do a rowing movement. For the easier version of this exercise keep your heels resting on the floor. If you prefer a challenge lift your feet off the floor and leave your body suspended, then proceed with performing a row.
Note: Even though these exercises are usually done using a bar you can always use variations with gymnastics rings and using the TRX.
Bodyweight Exercises For Triceps
Dips: This is a popular exercise and rightfully so. Anyone who has ever tried this exercise knows the power and the results you get. You can either use parallel bars, TRX or rings. This exercise primarily targets the triceps and the chest with the back and lats getting some stimulation as well. By doing this exercise with a closer grip, elbows close to your side and your chin tucked in you will target the triceps more.
Bodyweight Triceps Extensions: Place your hands on a strong surface like a bar, bench or rings. Place your feet back so your body is as close to a horizontal position. Your head should be placed in between your elbows. Push your bodyweight up and then lower yourself slowly. This exercise is close to a skull crusher except you are not lying on your back.
Close Grip Push Ups: Any type of pushups exercise works great for your triceps. Most pushups exercises will primarily target your chest with secondary work done on the triceps. However, close grip pushups or triangle pushups will work primarily on the triceps with less emphasis on the chest.
Bonus Exercise Works The Entire Arms
Muscle Up: Every time I see this exercise I think of the guys from “300.” This exercise requires a lot of upper body strength and is a combination of a pull up with dip. The workout is a combination of a biceps exercise and triceps exercise. The entire motion of the exercise is meant to work on the biceps, triceps and the back and chest muscles. Stand underneath a pull up bar and jump up, grab the bar and use the momentum to pull yourself up and push up until the bar is at waist level. Proceed to come back down in a controlled motion. As you can see the explosive pull up motion will work the biceps while the pushing movement and lowering of the body is going to target the triceps.
Tips For Your Next Arm Workout
Looking at these exercises it is tempting to stack a workout with 4-5 or more of these exercises. Avoid the temptation of doing too many exercises all at once. Doing too much at once will only make you over train.
The best way to achieve ideal results is by choosing 1 or 2 of these exercises for biceps or 1 to 2 exercises when doing triceps workouts. If you decide to add weight training for your arms simply do 1 exercise using weights and 1 exercise using your bodyweight.
The best thing to do is to include a bodyweight exercise along with an exercise using weights. Sticking to an all bodyweight workout for your arms works too.
If your goal is to gain muscle stick to rep ranges of 8 to 10 and 3 to 4 sets. Make sure to be as explosive as possible in each repetition.
Final Thoughts
One thing that is very clear is that you won’t find isolation type exercises in this list. Bodyweight type workouts are always going to be compound type. Unlike dumbbell exercises, like dumbbell curls, you won’t find the equivalent version using your bodyweight. Each one of these exercises works not only the biceps and triceps but also works in conjunction with another muscle group like back muscles or chest.
If you only use weights to add muscle to your arms it is best to add bodyweight exercises as well. The benefits you will gain will be tremendous.
If you have never done a workout using only your body then feel free to try it. A good combination of these exercises will allow you to make significant gains in size.
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NEA KAVALA, Greece — As her young children played near heaps of garbage, picking through burned corn cobs and crushed plastic bottles to fashion new toys, Shiraz Madran, a 28-year-old mother of four, turned with tear-rimmed eyes to survey the desolate encampment that has become her home.
This year, her family fled Syria, only to get stuck at Greece’s northern border with Macedonia in Idomeni, a town that had been the gateway to northern Europe for more than one million migrants from the Middle East and Africa seeking a haven from conflict. After Europe sealed the border in February to curb the unceasing stream, the Greek authorities relocated many of those massed in Idomeni to a camp on this wind-beaten agricultural plain in northern Greece, with promises to process their asylum bids quickly.
But weeks have turned into months, and Mrs. Madran’s life has spiraled into a despondent daily routine of scrounging for food for her dust-covered children and begging the authorities for any news about their asylum application. “No one tells us anything — we have no idea what our future is going to be,” she said.
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One of the best parts of Wear OS is the ability to customize your watch face. It’s a small thing, but making it look how you want it to look adds a uniqueness that can make your watch truly yours and distinguishable from everyone else’s. There are a ton of great selections, but here are a few Android Wear watch faces that we think shine above the rest. As of the time of this writing, these watch faces should work on most Wear OS and Android Wear smartwatches.
Check out more excellent Android Wear apps and games! 10 best Android Wear apps (Wear OS apps) 5 best Wear OS games (Android Wear games)
AccuWeather Price: Free / $2.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY AccuWeather is a decent weather app. On top of all of its mobile features, it also has support for the newer Wear OS features. It's not a watch face on its own. It's a fully usable Android Wear app. It just so happens to also have Android Wear watch faces. To be honest, they aren't the most amazing watch faces ever. However, they're clean, they show you the weather, and they're Wear OS compatible. Since it can cover your phone, watch, and watch face, you can kill several birds with one stone using this app. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
Black Metal HD Watch Face Price: Free / $2.49 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Black Metal HD is an ideal middle-of-the-road watch face. It features a black, brushed metal style look. The watch face itself has customizable elements as part of the Wear OS Complications feature. It can show things like battery status (for phone and watch), Google Fit, current weather conditions, and more. The watch face does virtually everything you'd want a watch face to do. It has a few bugs, but otherwise it works well. It's definitely one of the simpler, but better Android Wear watch faces. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
Bubble Widget and Wear Launcher Price: Free / $3.95 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Bubble Widget and Wear Launcher bills itself as a widget and launcher for Android Wear. As it turns out, it also has an interactive watch face. Essentially, the launcher becomes the watch face. You'll see the time, of course. The watch face will also have a variety of shortcuts to quickly open the apps you use most frequently. It's one of the most unique Wear OS watch faces available. Make sure to take a look at the device compatibility list on the Google Play page to make sure your watch will work with it. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
Facer Price: Free with in-app purchases DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Facer is the original app that lets you make your own Wear OS watch faces. The app gives you a template, some instructions, and then you go nuts from there. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it's nothing bad. You can always download watch faces that other people make if the task proves too daunting. It boasts a selection of over 15,000 watch faces. Some of them are free and some of them will require a small fee to buy. It should work pretty well with newer versions of Wear OS as well. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
Material Style Watchface Price: $0.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Material Style Watchface is a simple, but functional Wear OS watch face. It boasts over 625 total configurations across three styles, 15 accent colors, and 15 background colors. The watch face can show a variety of stuff, including alarms, battery life, calendar events, and other data from basically any other app on your watch. It won't turn any heads like some others on this list. However, those looking for something very clean, simple, and functional have a great option with this one. It's also relatively cheap, supports four languages, and the developer seems amicable to feedback. This one only works with round watch faces, but that's about its only potential issue. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
You're halfway there! Here are some more excellent apps and games! 10 best Google Daydream apps! 15 best Google Daydream games
thema watch faces Price: Varies DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY thema is a developer of Wear OS watch faces on Google Play. They have dozens of options. Most of them are individually themed, but they all mostly have the same features. You'll get a variety of features in the free version of the watch face. You can then pay for the pro version to get all of the features. They all look relatively nice, even if some (like the Jack Daniels themed one) can be a bit tacky. There are even themed ones for stuff like Halloween. They're all free to install if you want to see them for yourself. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
Twelveish Price: Free DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Twelveish is a quirky and free Wear OS watch face. It does the basics like display the time in a variety of colors. However, this one adds a bit of comedy. Along with the full time, it also gives you estimations in large words in the middle of the display. Thus, it may tell you what it's a quarter to ten or so or twelveish. Sometimes it's okay to just have fun with this stuff, right? Some other features include an app data slot (via Complications) on the bottom and two on either side of the display for a total of three configurable slots. It worked just fine in our testing. This one is also totally free with no ads or in-app purchases. We'll take it! The developer has an optional Support Development app for $1.49 if you want to toss them some money. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
Ultimate Watch 2 Price: $0.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY Ultimate Watch 2 is one of the most powerful Wear OS watch faces available. Its feature list reads like a grocery list and it is exceptionally long. Basically, it comes with 21 watch faces or you can build your own. It comes with support for IFTTT, Tasker, and IoT stuff for automation purposes. You also get Wear OS Complications for support for almost any app on your watch right on the watch face. Some other features include full Google Fit support along with direct support for plenty of other apps. This thing is a functional all-star and it took us a long time to sift through its various functions. The price isn't half bad either. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
Watch Face Price: $1.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY As you might imagine, this watch face bills itself as being minimal and elegant. It also has choices. The developers boast over 20,000 total watch faces that you can use. Of course, it also has Android Wear 2.0. It also has a variety of other options, including the usual stuff like interactive features, Google Fit integration, and other customizations. It also has support for specific apps like Spotify, Pocket Casts, and other apps. It's cheap and has a ton of features. It's one of the better Android Wear watch faces. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
WatchMaker Watch Faces Price: Free / Up to $9.99 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY WatchMaker is a DIY watch face. It competes directly with similar apps like Facer. You'll have plenty of tools to make your own Android Wear Watch Faces. Additionally, you can fork out for the pro version and get access to over 20,000 community-made watch faces. You can nab even more for free on the app's Google+ page. It's not as in-depth as some watch face makers, but you can still get creative and have some fun. You'll get some of it for free and the rest when you fork out $3.99. DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE PLAY
Thank you for reading! Here are a couple final lists to check out! 15 best Android apps of 2019! 10 best Android themes
If we missed any of the best Android Wear watch faces, tell us about them in the comments! Thanks for reading!
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VRChat has announced that they’ve raised $4 million in a Series A Round led by HTC Vive. They are now the key investor and strategic partner of VRChat. Joining them is Brightsone VC, GVR Fund, and Rothenberg Venture.
VRChat lets users create, publish and explore virtual worlds with other VR users from all over the world. The experience was built as a social platform for the virtual space, similar to AltspaceVR.
“Our goal is to enable anybody to create their own social VR experiences,” said Graham Gaylor, CEO of VRChat. “Partnering with HTC gets us that much closer to achieving that, and driving social experiences for VR forward.”
According to VRChat, this new stash of money will help power the future of the metaverse where they can better serve the consumer and enterprise space. And what’s quite different about VRChat is that their employees all work remotely from around the world. They have their meetings in the virtual space and immerse themselves in their own product to brainstorm their next ideas. The company is currently made up of 16 team members who were directly hired through VRChat.
“Not since the early Blizzard days have I experienced the right mix of passion, talent and magic on a project,” said Ron Millar, Chief Creative Officer at VRChat. “Now that HTC Vive is part of the VRChat dream I foresee the making of something truly epic!”
While we’ve seen social VR spaces such as AltspaceVR not make it through the test of time, maybe VRChat will be able to do so. But they will soon be facing tough competition as Linden Labs gets closer to releasing Sansar. VRChat is available for free today on Viveport so make sure to check it out.
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Image caption New rules should make it cheaper to book cinema tickets
Consumers booking a range of items from cinema tickets to hotel rooms now have new protection from card surcharges.
A ban on "excessive" debit and credit card charges begins on Saturday 6 April.
The government said it should put an end to unscrupulous practices by some businesses.
Until now, many people have been asked to pay large surcharges for using cards, especially when booking online.
Typically, people trying to book concert tickets, theatre seats, hire cars or train seats discover at the end of the payments process that they have to pay many pounds extra to use a debit or credit card.
"The practice of excessive payment surcharges has been ripping off consumers for far too long," said Jo Swinson, the consumer affairs minister.
"They are fed up of thinking they will be paying a certain price for goods, only to find out towards the end of the process that the final price is much higher," she said.
Airline industry
Under the new rules, payment surcharges will have to reflect the actual cost to the retailer of processing the card transaction.
That includes fees they have to pay to Visa or Mastercard, for instance, or the cost of installing a chip-and-pin device.
How much should your credit card surcharge be? transaction of £50: £1.16
transaction of £100: £2.10
transaction of £250: £4.94 source: OFT, 2011
But in many cases, this should be minimal.
For example, according to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), someone spending £100 on a travel ticket could expect to be charged 53 pence extra if using a debit card, or £2.10 if using a credit card.
The figures, produced in 2011, suggest the cost of using a debit card remains at just over 50 pence, however large the transaction.
But the government stresses that charges will differ according to individual businesses.
In the past, the airline industry was the worst offender.
The government says that in 2010, airlines charged passengers up to £350m in card surcharges.
But following an investigation by the OFT, airlines including Ryanair, Easyjet and Aer Lingus agreed to include debit card charges at least in their headline prices.
The ferry industry was the next biggest user of surcharges, according to the government, charging its customers up to £145m.
Enforcement
The new rules are being brought in earlier than the rest of the EU Consumer Rights Directive, because of the concern that was first raised by Which?
"Over 50,000 people supported our campaign to end rip off surcharges, so we're pleased the Government is implementing this ban," said Richard Lloyd, the executive director of Which?
But he warned that people needed to be vigilant about businesses that tried to avoid the ban.
"For it to be effective, there must be a tough enforcement regime and companies must play fair and not pass costs on to customers in other ways. We will be monitoring the ban closely and want people to tell us about surcharges they think are excessive," he said.
Consumers are entitled to receive a refund of the excess surcharge they have paid, according to the government. If necessary, they can bring a private claim to recover such surcharges.
However, there are a number of sectors which are excluded from the new rules.
Very small businesses and companies just starting out will not be subject to the rules until June 2014.
Some companies in financial services, gambling, healthcare, social services, property and passenger transport are also excluded.
Other elements of the directive will be implemented over the next year.
Those include new rules on cancellations, refunds and delivery times.
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I’ve recommended it to many people over the years, mostly elders who hadn’t considered the internet being that useful, and usually they’re like, “aw? A website? No thanks, it’s not necessary”. Which is fine even if internally I was like “plsssss no it’s so good”.
A lot of gen-z are getting into fiber crafting and that is exciting.
So, here’s a little intro
This is the homepage, after making an account
Up on the top right is your notebook, which you’ll probably visit the most because it contains all of the tools for organizing your projects.
That’s your notebook, on the left bar are your various tools. Projects are lined up neatly on the rest of the screen. There’s a Handspun tab for spinners, Stash is where you organize your yarns, uQeue is where you list upcoming projects, Favorites is where you can save and organize your favorite projects/patterns, Needles & Hooks gives you a chart that you can fill in with what you already own, Library is a digital library of patterns and even representations of the physical books that you own.
Each of these can be customized, for example in favorites in there is a place to bundle them, so that if you wanted to say make a bundle of everything you want to knit as Christmas presents throughout the year, you can do that. In Queue you can link the called for yarn and the yarn you are going to use, linked from stash or otherwise, you can make notes on each entry. I will often note whether I need needles and what kind, so that if I drop by the store, the info I need is just a couple of clicks away. There is even a place in the stash to note where you got your yarn and how much it cost.
I’m not going much more deeper into that, but if ya’ll want me to do a post about specific tools let me know.
The most attractive part of Ravelry for me is easily searchable database of patterns.
If you click on the Patterns button at the top left of the homepage, it takes you here.
I typically go straight to pattern browser & advanced search through the link under the search bar.
The great part of this are the filters on the left. You can filter by category of clothing, if and how it’s in your notebook, by craft type, by it’s availability (like whether it’s free, downloadable, or purchased elsewhere), whether or not it has photos (because there are many self-published designers), by attributes such as shape, techniques, texture, and types of colorwork, by age, size, ease, fit, and gender, by weight of the yarn called for, by yardage required, by number of colors used, by pattern source, by needle size, by star rating, by difficulty, by origin of crochet terminology, and by language. There are many more search options after the main filters.
So for example if I had exactly 700 yards of worsted eight yarn in two colors, and I knew I wanted to make a scarf, using bobbles and colorwork, I could search that.
Not only that, but you can customize the filters to combine traits:
I could make my selections and hit advanced where I’ve circled in red and,
specify that I want merino, and cashmere, or silk, but not nylon. I still got 27 matches from that search, but that’s how big the database is.
And the same goes for the yarn tab at the top left of the homepage next to patterns. You can search through pretty much every yarn available, from red heart to indie fiber artists, using similar characteristics to narrow it down.
I hope someone found this useful and if you’re a knitter or crocheter, it’s seriously worth a look. I’m not very active lately, but It’s where I go for inspiration if nothing else.
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