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Opioid Use Disorder Paper Earns ACCP Award
A paper from UT College of Pharmacy researchers was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Paper of the Year from the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) Ambulatory Care Practice Research Network. The paper investigates the availability of buprenorphine and naloxone in Texas to treat opioid use disorder.
Nathan Pope Named New Assistant Dean
Nathan Pope, Pharm.D., BCACP, FACA has been named The University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy's new assistant dean of experiential education and will succeed Jennifer Ridings-Myhra, M.Ed., R.Ph., who plans to work with Dr. Pope through July and August to assist in the transition. The start date for this new role is effective July 1, 2021.
Gonzales named AAAS fellow
Professor Rueben Gonzales of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to the field of alcohol research.

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What will be closed and who will get the discount during the Weekend Curfew? Here are the answers to your questions
Delhi Police has issued strict instructions that whoever is caught breaking the rules of Weekend Curfew can be arrested. In the capital, 19,486 new cases have been reported in 24 hours amidst uncontrollable speed of Coronavirus.
New Delhi: Weekend Curfew has started in view of increasing cases of Coronavirus infection in Delhi. Under this, police is checking vehicles by putting barricades in different areas of the capital.
Strictness has been increased to break the chain of infection. Police personnel are constantly patrolling in this regard. At the same time, the campaign to keep people going is also going on continuously.
'Arrest possible if curfew breaks'
Delhi Police has issued strict instructions that anyone caught breaking the curfew rules can also be arrested. In fact, in the last 24 hours, 19,486 new cases have been reported in Delhi, amidst an uncontrolled pace of corona infection in the capital. During this period, 141 patients died of corona. At the same time, 12,649 patients recovered after treatment in the last 24 hours.
Corona bulletin of delhi
A total of 8 lakh 3 thousand 623 cases of corona have been reported in Delhi. Of these, 7 lakh 30 thousand 825 people have been cured after treatment. While the number of active patients has increased to 61 thousand 5. A total of 11 thousand 793 people have died in Delhi from Corona. At present, an order has been issued to close the tourist spots in Delhi by 15 May.
Scope of weekend curfew in Delhi
Weekend curfew will remain in force till 5 am on Monday in Delhi. Under this, people connected with essential services have been exempted from the pass. The mall, gym, spa and auditorium will remain closed during this period. The restaurants will remain open there, but they have been allowed home delivery only.
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#1. I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film. #Quote by Patricia Riggen
Good Movies Language
#2. Not all of E. Nesbit's children's books are fantasies, but even the most realistic somehow seem magical. In her holiday world, nobody ever goes to school, though all the kids know their English history, Greek myths, and classic tales of derring-do. #Quote by Michael Dirda
History Holiday Nobody
#3. Barbara and I had arrived early, so I got to admire everyone's entrance. We were seated at tables around a dance floor that had been set up on the lawn behind the house. Barbara and I shared a table with Deborah Kerr and her husband. Deborah, a lovely English redhead, had been brought to Hollywood to play opposite Clark Gable in The Hucksters. Louis B. Mayer needed a cool, refined beauty to replace the enormously popular redhead, Greer Garson, who had married a wealthy oil magnate and retired from the screen in the mid-fifties. Deborah, like her predecessor, had an ultra-ladylike air about her that was misleading. In fact, she was quick, sharp, and very funny. She and Barbara got along like old school chums. Jimmy Stewart was also there with his wife. It was the first time I'd seen him since we'd worked for Hitchcock. It was a treat talking to him, and I felt closer to him than I ever did on the set of Rope. He was so genuinely happy for my success in Strangers on a Train that I was quite moved. Clark Gable arrived late, and it was a star entrance to remember. He stopped for a moment at the top of the steps that led down to the garden. He was alone, tanned, and wearing a white suit. He radiated charisma. He really was the King. The party was elegant. Hot Polynesian hors d'oeuvres were passed around during drinks. Dinner was very French, with consommé madrilène as a first course followed by cold poached salmon and asparagus hollandaise. During dessert, a lemon soufflé, and cof #Quote by Farley Granger
#4. This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account' should be tattooed on the left wrist of every grad student in the anglophone world. #Quote by David Foster Wallace
English Writing
#5. He was afraid he might say or do something that would offend King Stephen or Bishop Henry and turn them against Kingsbridge. French-born people often mocked the way the English spoke their language: what would they think of a Welsh accent? In the monastic world, Philip had always been judged by his piety, obedience, and devotion to God's work. Those things counted for nothing here, in the capital city of one of the greatest kingdoms in the world. Philip was out of his depth. He became oppressed by the feeling that he was some kind of impostor, a nobody pretending to be a somebody, and that he was sure to be found out in no time and sent home in disgrace. He #Quote by Ken Follett
#6. In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant. #Quote by Matthew Arnold
Home Lost Ones Class Insulting Common Kind Bliss Goodness Spread Labour Middle Class England Incessant Lost Middle States Tables Conception
#7. The truth is you've already heard this. That this is what it's like. That it's what makes room for the universes inside you, all the endless inbent fractals of connection and symphonies of different voices, the infinities you can never show another soul. And you think it makes you a fraud, the tiny fraction anyone else ever sees? Of course you're a fraud, of course what people see is never you. And of course you know this, and of course you try to manage what part they see if you know it's only a part. Who wouldn't? It's called free will, Sherlock. But at the same time it's why it feels so good to break down and cry in front of others, or to laugh, or speak in tongues, or chant in Bengali--it's not English anymore, it's not getting squeezed through any hole. #Quote by David Foster Wallace
#8. American Heritage Dictionary: "The only rationale for condemning the construction is based on a false analogy with Latin. . . . In general, the Usage Panel accepts the split infinitive." Merriam-Webster Unabridged online dictionary: "Even though there has never been a rational basis for objecting to the split infinitive, the subject has become a fixture of folk belief about grammar. . . . Modern commentators . . . usually say it's all right to split an infinitive in the interest of clarity. Since clarity is the usual reason for splitting, this advice means merely that you can split them whenever you need to." Encarta World English Dictionary: "There is no grammatical basis for rejecting split infinitives. #Quote by Steven Pinker
#9. Sorry' is, indeed, one of the most difficult and most powerful words in the English language, provided one can feel and say it at the same time. It's difficult because you sincerely need to feel the pain of the other person and rise above your ego to say it; it's powerful because you overwhelm the other with the opposite reaction of what they were expecting. #Quote by Uday Mukerji
Apology Relationship Society
#10. To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have. #Quote by Fiona Shaw
Business Joy Honest
#11. The main cause of the ineffectiveness of British propaganda is that those directing it seem to have lost their own belief in the peculiar values of English civilization or to be completely ignorant of the main points on which it differs from that of other people. The Left intelligentsia indeed, have so long worshiped foreign gods that they seem to have become almost incapable of seeing any good in the characteristic English institutions and traditions. That the moral values on which most of them pride themselves are largely the product of the institutions they are out to destroy, these socialists cannot, of course, admit. #Quote by Friedrich Hayek
Economics Politics
#12. And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets. #Quote by Dorothy Dunnett
Army Men Sheep
#13. We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. #Quote by Alan Turing
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#14. I went to interview some of these early Jewish colonial zealots - written off in those days as mere 'fringe' elements - and found that they called themselves Gush Emunim or - it sounded just as bad in English - 'The Bloc of the Faithful.' Why not just say 'Party of God' and have done with it? At least they didn't have the nerve to say that they stole other people's land because their own home in Poland or Belarus had been taken from them. They said they took the land because god had given it to them from time immemorial. In the noisome town of Hebron, where all of life is focused on a supposedly sacred boneyard in a dank local cave, one of the world's less pretty sights is that of supposed yeshivah students toting submachine guns and humbling the Arab inhabitants. When I asked one of these charmers where he got his legal authority to be a squatter, he flung his hand, index finger outstretched, toward the sky. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens
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#15. Next to the tree was a short, broad-shouldered Asian man in overalls and a straw hat, leaning on a spade. His face was weathered, and in a halting English difficult to follow, he told Alma that this moment was beautiful, but that it would last only a few days before the blooms fell like rain to the ground; much better was the memory of the cherry tree in bloom, because that would last all year, until the following spring. #Quote by Isabel Allende
#16. I hope you'll stay for Blissology?' the man suddenly said, grabbing for her hand.
'For what?'
Davidoff smiled serenely at her. 'I'm a holistic escort. I have a PHD in Blissology from the Maharishi Kundalini University of Carlsbad. I'm about to hold a session.'
'Right,' said Lara. 'What do you do exactly?'
'Well, I interpret our human purpose by looking at quantum physics, an individual's astrological alignments and the I Ching.'
'And what does that mean exactly in English,' she questioned, feeling herself zoning out. #Quote by Lola Salt
#17. Stephen Burt is Professor of English at Harvard.
"Butterfly with Parachute"
Stephen Burt
A real one wouldn't need one,
but the one Nathan draws surely does:
four oblongs the size and color of popsicles,
green apple, toasted coconut and grape,
flanked, two per side, by billowing valentine hearts,
in a frame of Scotch tape.
Alive, it could stay off the floor
for a few unaerodynamic minutes;
thrown as a paper airplane, for a few more.
Very sensibly, therefore,
our son gave it something, not to keep it apart
from the ground forever, but rather to make safe its descent.
When we ask that imagination discover the limits
of the real
world only slowly,
maybe this is what we meant. #Quote by Stephen Burt
#18. When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night. #Quote by M.I.A.
Dance Night Words
#19. Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted ... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style. #Quote by Clive James
Grateful Style Enemy
#20. I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate into the broader society and a lot of them, especially Irish Catholic did their best to sound like they were English rather than Irish by dropping and the O and the apostrophe. #Quote by Steve King
Work Ethic Catholic Sound Ethics Dropping One Thing Protestants Protestant Work Ethic
#21. It is actually a rather sorry tale. In the late nineteenth century most English economists thought that economics was about happiness. They thought of a persons happiness as in principle measurable, like temperature, and they thought we could compare one persons happiness with anothers. They also assumed that extra income brought less and less extra happiness as a person got richer. #Quote by Richard Layard
#22. If Alex could have told Darlington anything, it would have been, Come back. She would have said it in English and Spanish. She would have used the imperative. #Quote by Leigh Bardugo
#23. In the bourgeois democratic countries the need for using intrinsically good means to achieve desirable ends is more clearly realized than in Russia. But even in these countries enormous mistakes have been made in the past and still greater, still more dangerous mistakes are in process of being committed today. Most of these mistakes are due to the fact that, though professing belief in our ideal postulates, the rulers and people of these countries are, to some extent and quite incompatibly, also militarists and nationalists. The English and the French, it is true, are sated militarists whose chief desire is to live a quiet life, holding fast to what they seized in their unregenerate days of imperial highway-robbery. Confronted by rivals who want to do now what they were doing from the beginning of the eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, they profess and doubtless genuinely feel a profound moral indignation. Meanwhile, they have begun to address themselves, reluctantly but with determination, to the task of beating the Fascist powers at their own game. Like the Fascist states, they are preparing for war. but modern war cannot be waged or even prepared except by a highly centralized executive wielding absolute power over a docile people. Most of the planning which is going on in the democratic countries is planning designed to transform these countries into the likeness of totalitarian communities organized for slaughter and rapine. Hitherto this transformation has #Quote by Aldous Huxley
#24. Bucket had started his criminal career in Braas, not far from when Allan and his new friends now found themselves. There he had gotten together with some like-minded peers and started the motorcycle club called The Violence. Bucket was the leader; he decided which newsstand was to be robbed of cigarettes next. He was the one who has chosen the name- The Violence, in English, not swedish. And he was the one who unfortunately asked his girlfriend Isabella to sew the name of the motorcycle club onto ten newly stolen leather jackets. Isabella had never really learned to spell properly at school, not in Swedish, and certainly not in English.
The result was that Isabella sewed The Violins on the jackets instead. As the rest of the club members had had similar academic success, nobody in the group noticed the mistake.
So everyone was very surprised when one day a letter arrived for The Violins in Braas from the people in charge of the concert hall in Vaxjo. The letter suggested that, since the club obviously concerned itself with classical music, they might like to put in am appearance at a concert with the city's prestigious chamber orchestra, Musica Viate.
Bucket felt provoked; somebody was clearly making fun of him. One night he skipped the newsstand, and instead went into Vaxjo to throw a brick through the glass door of the concert hall. This was intended to teach the people responsible lesson in respect. It all went well, except that Bucket's leather #Quote by Jonas Jonasson
#25. No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English. #Quote by Junior Seau
Together Forget Talk
#26. What does kiciciyapi mitawa mean?"
He kept his head on her breasts. "What?"
"You called me kicicyapi mitawa. It sounded so beautiful. It wasn't Japanese. What was it?"
"It's the voice of the Lakota. It would sound silly in English." He cupped her breast, his fingers moving lightly over her skin. His breath warm on her heart.
"I want to know. It didn't sound silly when you said it. It sounded ... beautiful. It made me feel beautiful. And loved."
He kissed her breast. "I called you my heart. And you are. #Quote by Christine Feehan
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#27. I don't speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer. #Quote by Monica Cruz
Speak Career Hollywood
#28. I would love to spend more time in Britain one day. In my heart, I still feel that I'm English, and when I think of home, I think of England. #Quote by Olivia Hussey
Love Time Home
#29. But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word "reason" already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume said that causal connexion was not merely unprovable, but unthinkable; and, in shallower waters still, one cannot assign a true reason why water should flow down hill, or sugar taste sweet in the mouth. Attempts to explain these simple matters always progress into a learned lucidity, and on further analysis retire to a remote stronghold where every thing is irrational and unthinkable.
If you cut off a man's head, he dies. Why? Because it kills him. That is really the whole answer. Learned excursions into anatomy and physiology only beg the question; it does not explain why the heart is necessary to life to say that it is a vital organ. Yet that is exactly what is done, the trick that is played on every inquiring mind. Why cannot I see in the dark? Because light is necessary to sight. No confusion of that issue by talk of rods and cones, and optical centres, and foci, and lenses, and vibrations is very different to Edwin Arthwait's treatment of the long-suffering English language.
Knowledge is really confined to experience. The laws of Nature are, as Kant said, the laws of our minds, and, as Huxley said, the generalization of observed facts.
It is, t #Quote by Aleister Crowley
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#30. More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor. #Quote by John W. Vessey, Jr.
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#31. His mama named him Head?" Talon snorted derisively. "Damn, that's cold. And here I thought this Cabeza had it bad."
"It was a nickname. His real name was Kukulcan Verastegui."
The Cabeza in front of her broke off into a fierce round of what sounded like Mayan cursing. She had no idea what he was saying, but it was raw and explosive as he gestured furiously to punctuate his tirade.
She turned her frown to Talon. "What's he saying?"
Talon shrugged. "I'm from Britain, not Mexico. No idea."
"That pendejo is not me." Cabeza broke off into a mixture of Mayan and Spanish and then returned to English, but this time his accent was much thicker and he rolled his Rs viciously. "His name, for the record, is Chacu. Ese cabrón hijo de la gran puta, pretending to be me. I should have cut his throat for my Act of Vengeance!"
"The real question is, did you cut his throat today?"
Hands on hips, Cabeza glared at Talon for asking such a thing. "No. He got away, along with the … what's the word? Uh … Pigeon crap?"
"Chicken shit?" Talon offered.
"Si!… that was with him. They vanished before I could kill them. #Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Quebec entomologists concerned about Monarch butterfly populations
By Amanda Kelly	Global News
Posted July 23, 2013 2:20 pm
Watch: Montreal Insectarium's entomologist on Monarch butterflies
MONTREAL – There has been a dramatic drop in Monarch butterfly populations in Quebec and it's becoming a worrying problem across North America.
"We've never seen anything this bad," said a Montreal Insectarium's entomologist, Maxim Larrivée.
"If you were to ask me last year if there was a possibility of a whole summer without seeing a Monarch, I would have said it was impossible."
Severe weather events last year in the United States, including one of largest droughts in history, have decimated the Monarch population.
As Monarchs emigrated from Quebec to Mexico, the drought meant that there were fewer opportunities for food en route, and fewer butterflies that arrived in Mexico for the winter.
Read more: 'Ominous' drop in Monarch butterfly numbers in Mexico, experts say
The butterflies are also much weaker.
"They have less energy and they're having a harder time finding their host plant to lay eggs on," said Larrivée.
As a result, there are very few Monarchs this year – and a very real possibility that we could go through the entire summer without seeing even one of the butterflies.
"Normally we have hundreds of millions of Monarchs in Quebec and Eastern Canada, and now we have 90 per cent of that at least," noted Larrivée.
"It's a tragedy."
What can be done to help create a welcoming environment for the Monarchs?
By planting milkweed and flowering plants, Montrealers can help to create what the Montreal Insectarium describes as a 'Monarch oasis.'
To find out more about building a Monarch oasis, click here.
The Insectarium is also encouraging Quebecers to report when they see a Monarch. By sharing butterfly sightings, it will help scientists to follow the butterfly populations.
"We can have a good idea of the numbers of Monarchs that are here and where they are," he said.
"So that, in collaboration with our colleagues in the United States, we can really manage this situation as best as possible to help the Monarch population."
To report a butterfly sighting, click here.
Butterflies are considered "champions of adaptation," so as a species, they quickly adapt to changing environmental conditions.
But what is most worrying for entomologists is that if butterflies are having trouble adapting to climate change, then it may be even more challenging for other animals and insects.
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The Douchey DM » Advice, Alternate Views, General Gaming, Opinion » Why I Like Sex in RPGs
Why I Like Sex in RPGs
In a recent episode of the Happy Jacks RPG podcast (Season 09 Episode 08), the hosts discussed romance, seduction, and sex in roleplaying games. I was really looking forward to this discussion as I am a big proponent of including these elements in games. While I wasn't exactly disappointed with the discussion that ensued (the hosts were funny as ever, and their inappropriate banter is a large part of why I like the show), I did feel that there was a lot more that could've be said. The hosts only scratched the surface of this topic, and I wish I could've been there to add my points to the discussion. However, as I don't own a teleporter, and don't live anywhere close to southern California, this article will have to suffice.
Before continuing, I want to clarify something. (Just an aside here, but I find I have to start most my articles this way. That's probably because nearly all of the people reading this don't know me personally, and may misinterpret what I'm trying to say. I want to hopefully avoid that, and possibly give some context to the point I'm trying to make.) Anyway, onto the clarification. When I say that I'm a huge proponent of including sex in roleplaying games, that does not mean I think the act of sex needs to be roleplayed out at the table. I'll repeat that.
Saying that people should include sex in their roleplaying games does not mean I think you should narrate or roleplay out the act of sex at your gaming table.
You can, and should, fade to black before situation gets to the sexual act itself. When and where you fade to black will vary, based on the tastes and comfort level of your group. Some players will want to cut away as soon as two (or more) characters leave the rest of the group with clear intentions (either expressed or implied) to have sex. Other groups will be comfortable following the characters right up until the clothes start coming off. Wherever you decide to cut away however, my point is this: don't roleplay out the sex. It's creepy.
All right. With that statement, some of you may be wondering how I can say that I'm a proponent of sex and seduction in roleplaying games while telling people to not show the sex "on camera". Let's see if I can explain this.
Small messiness
Around 35 minutes into the episode the hosts bring up love interests in superhero games. Someone suggests the idea of a superhero PC who must keep their secret identity hidden from an NPC whom they are married to. The PC is always out (fighting crime) and because of this neglect, the NPC spouse want a divorce. The hosts don't explore the idea further, though I wish they had because this is exactly what I am talking about. Adding sex, seduction, and romance to your roleplaying games allow you to add "small messiness" to a character's life.
Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting tired of those epic, continent-spanning, save the world style adventures. I like them occasionally, but after a while they start to get kind of boring. Another super villain bent on world domination. Another extra-dimensional race with it's heart set on conquering Earth. Another evil wizard trying to complete a ritual to release the Demon Prince Lashtar from the 777th layer of the Abyss. And your characters are the only ones who can stop it. They're fun once in a while, but not all the time. Not everything has to be big to be dramatic. The superhero who's wife and kids are leaving him because he's never home is just as dramatic as the alien invasion. It's just on a much smaller scale. In both cases the actions of the characters will have dramatic effects on the world. It's just that the "epic quest" story-line affects the whole world, while the other one affects the world of a single character.
Why sex and romance though? It's true that you can have dramatic moments between friends, but romance and sex are just more intense. Think of how nervous you were back in high school asking someone out to the prom. Think of all the agonizing you did over liking someone and not knowing of they liked you back or how to approach them. Think of all the stupid things you did because someone you secretly liked asked you to do them. Love makes fools of us all, even when it's one-sided or secret. Which makes for awesome opportunities to roleplay and to take the collective story in new and interesting directions.
When my group played Vampire: the Requiem several years ago, I decided to do something I hadn't done before. I decided to play a purely social character. I created Tyler Lockwood, a vampire club DJ who worked (and lived) in a college town dance club and relied on his good looks, charm, and personality to "seduce" victims so that he could feed from them. I imagined him almost like an escort or a prostitute; he took people out, showed them a good time, and then feigned having sex in order to feed from them. A vampiric one night stand, if you will. But something happened when we started playing the game. I found that I couldn't play a douche bag who was constantly having one night stands. I was too nice. I also found that it was a lot of effort to seduce a different person every single night. After a session or two, I decided that my PC would try to create a herd; a group of mortals who would willingly allow me to feed from them. Because of the way damage works in V:tR, I would need three mortals whom I could rotate between so that I didn't accidentally kill one of them. Being the "super charisma" character that I was, the way to build this herd, and disguise it from mortals, would be through feigning romantic involvement. So Tyler attempted to juggle several different romantic relationships, and ended up creating this giant, messy, love quadrilateral that had to be constantly juggled or would come crashing down around his head. It was great. [¹] You don't really have that kind of drama with friendships.
One moment in particular stands out in my memory.
Tyler had just finished feeding from Rebecca, someone he thought was a random stranger who'd come to his club. As he walked her down to the main floor from his room at the top of the building, the GM notes that he sees Heather and Indira in the crowd. These are the two roommates he'd fed from previously, and was trying to form into a herd. Tyler essentially has been caught cheating, as the two women spot him with Rebecca. Making matters even worse, Rebecca waves, and says "Oh! There's Heather and Indira. They're in my sorority." Well shit. What's going to happen now? I was sweating bullets, both as a player and as a character. Regardless if I could smooth this over or not, something interesting was going to happen. Maybe Tyler would crash and burn, losing the relationships (and source of food) that I'd spent a good 3 or 4 sessions building up. Maybe he could pull this off and placate everyone. But what would happen then? Adding a third person to the "dating nightmare" he was attempting would give him the required number of mortals to feed from, but make things all the more difficult.
This was intense and interesting because something was at stake. If Tyler botched his attempts to smooth things over he'd lose quite a bit. But he wouldn't die. He wouldn't be hurt. The story wouldn't grind to a halt like if the protagonist in one of those "epic quest" stories died. No. Life would still go on, it would just be different. This is what I mean when I say that romance, sex, and seduction can add small messiness to games. Your characters can fail, and in big dramatic ways too, without putting their lives or the main story at risk. The GM doesn't have to pull punches to make sure people survive, and player actions have real consequence. That's what sex and romance in roleplaying games is all about and why I encourage people to include it.
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I realize that the game moment I related above won't mean that much to people other than myself because it wasn't their character or their story. We're always more interested in things that happened to our characters, or stories that we experienced in our gaming groups. So, I'll look at some popular TV series in an effort to show that romance, seduction, and sex are great ways to add drama to games.
How boring would this show have been if everyone was "just friends"? If that'd been the case, we'd have something like The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers fighting vampires. Imagine that. Instead, we're given a messy teenage love triangle right from the start of the show. Willow likes Xander, who likes Buffy, who's friends with both of them. Awkward. And they all share a secret that holds them together; they all know that monsters are real and out to get people. Even if there's tension between the group, can one of them just walk, away knowing it might put the lives of the other team members or innocent victims at risk?
This show has multiple messy relationships going on. Mal and Inara are obviously attracted to each other, but each refuses to act on their feelings. Kaylee and Simon have an awkward budding romance that's constantly having wrenches thrown at it, both by their situation and the rest of the crew. Zoe and Wash's marriage is often strained due to their "rank" in the command structure. Compressing everything, both literally and figuratively, is that they're all trapped together in a small space for much of the story. There's very few places to be alone on the Serenity, meaning that tensions are more likely to boil over and affect the rest of the crew.
Oenomaus and Gannicus are both gladiators in the house of Batiatus and close friends, almost brothers. But Gannicus is in love with Melitta, Oenomaus's wife, a secret he has kept hidden from from his friend, but hot from Melitta. What would happen if Oenomaus ever finds out? And just like Firefly, there's no place for the characters to go. They're all slaves of the same house, and are forced to interact with each other on a daily basis. Sometimes in ways that they'd rather not, but are forced to because the dominus or domina who owns them commands it.
Sexual Aftermath
As I said in the introduction, the act of having sex in these stories isn't important. Meaningless sex does absolutely nothing to add drama to the story and is totally pointless. I've heard people equate having sex to going to the bathroom in roleplaying games; they're both "bodily functions" some people would prefer to gloss over. And I couldn't agree more, if the sex you're "adding" to your game is nothing more than "I seduce the bar wench, we go upstairs, and a few hours later we come back down again." What did that add to the story? Nothing. So why do it?
Adding sex to a game is only meaningful if it causes something happen in the story. How many movie or book plots have hinged on people changing after they've had sex? How many times have we seen characters "just hook up" or "try to keep things casual" only to develop feelings for the other person after a time? Sometimes the two people discover they love each other, sometimes the relationship is one sided, but things always change. And not always for the better. To use our media examples, what would happen if Buffy and Xander slept together? Would Willow leave? Would the team fall apart? Would one of them get hurt, kidnapped, or even killed because they were trying to sort out their feelings at the wrong time? What would happen if Zoe and Wash got divorced? Mal and Zoe have been together since the war, but Wash is hands down the best pilot. Who leaves? If no one leaves, what kind of crazy tension does their defunct relationship create in the rest of the crew? Could Oenomaus and Gannicus's friendship survive if the secret got out? Would Oenomaus and Melitta's marriage survive? Again, none of these situations seem all that big in the larger scope of things. But in each case, it will dramatically change the world for a small group of people: the player characters. And isn't that who the story of your roleplaying game is about?
This is part of the reason why I love Apocalypse World and Monsterhearts so much. In both games, characters have a Sex Move. No, it's not a list of preferred sexual positions. Instead, they're mechanical game effects that trigger when the character has sex with someone. They're rules that attempt to mimic the messiness and change that happens after two people sleep together. And I think that's fantastic.
I've been trying to write this article for a while now. Close to two weeks, I think. For some reason, I keep getting writer's block. The thoughts are there in my head, but when I try to express them, they don't come out clearly. So I'm going to do something I've never done in the Happy Jacks community before; I'm going to plug my own weekly gaming podcast, the Idle Red Hands. One of the first episodes we ever did was about sex, seduction, and romance in roleplaying games. I went back and listened to Episode 8: The Art of Seduction while thinking about this article, and I did a much better job articulating my points in that episode. Plus, my co-hosts add several excellent points that I hadn't thought of. Fair warning though, the episode is back from when we were still explicit (which I doubt is a problem with Happy Jack fans) and we talk blatantly about sex. Again, not a shocker given the title, but it's probably best to not listen while your grandma is in the house.
[¹] OK. I shouldn't have to say this, but let me point out that I am talking about a game. I don't condone cheating, nor juggling multiple relationships at once. There is a lot of stuff I am willing to explore in a roleplaying game that I would never even consider doing in real life. That's part of the reason why I play these games. I think that's why a lot of people play these games, whether they're willing to admit it or not. They want to be, to do, or to experience things that they aren't, can't, or don't in real life.
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HyveMynd is a Philly native who's been living in Osaka, Japan since late 2005. When he's not sitting in front of a PC at work, he's sitting in front of a PC at home banging out notes for yet another homebrew RPG system that will most likely never see the light of day.
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4 Responses to "Why I Like Sex in RPGs"
Bookscorpion says:
For some reason, I've had characters become involved with other PCs multiple times over the years. It was always a lot of fun to play and it created some of the best scenes I have ever played. In the group, we always faded to black fairly quickly. The group doesn't need to know what happens – their characters don't know either (I should hope). We took the scene into a play by mail a couple of times with no-one else involved but the two players. That works well and I can only recommend it if you want to take things a bit or a lot further.
Sex and romance is a big part of what drives us, so why should we leave it out of the game?
Philo Pharynx says:
Not having your characters ever be sexual beings is unnatural. Even if your characters aren't currently in a relationship or having sex, you should know what their romantic inclinations are, what types of people they are attracted to, etc.
Cynthia Roberson Armistead says:
My characters have had relationships with NPCs in almost every game I've ever played in. It's just natural that it would happen. Two of those PCs had multiple relationships going on – not cheating but polyamorous relationships. Such things provide good plot hooks for the GM, just as having a family in your character's background does. For instance, if your character is involved in a relationship, then needs to seduce someone to achieve a plot goal, how does that affect his or her life?
Interestingly, I've encountered some players who can understand casual sexual encounters in the course of a game but are annoyed by an ongoing relationship of any sort in a PC's background. One player informed me during a campaign, "(Character name) isn't allowed any more family or lovers – they make things too messy!" because of the "plot hook" aspect. (His own PC had no family, lovers, or friends, by design, and couldn't tell us what his sexual orientation was because "it hasn't come up.") Another player freaked out when a female PC flirted with anyone, but went really went ballistic when she flirted with another female NPC – it was all about the player, not his character (he didn't stay in our game long).
Mark Knights says:
I really enjoyed that article. I see that we have a very similar opinion. I especially love the idea of small time drama as opposed to world influencing drama and how the relationships cut across the way group dynamics work. Thanks for pointing it out!


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Colorado lawmakers advance effort to maintain school funding despite enrollment declines
Democrats at the state Capitol said they would maintain school funding in recognition that schools have incurred additional costs to educate students in a pandemic and on the premise that some students who sat out the fall could return to their home district
Erica Meltzer, Chalkbeat
Centennial Elementary School first graders wait in line to enter the school cafeteria for lunch on Feb. 10, 2021 at the Harrison School District school in Colorado Springs. (Mark Reis, Special to The Colorado Sun)
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Colorado. More at chalkbeat.org.
A bill that holds funding steady for Colorado schools despite a pandemic-related drop in enrollment passed the state Senate unanimously Friday.
Colorado funds its schools on a per-pupil basis, and lawmakers could have held back millions promised to schools after the October student tally recorded nearly 30,000 fewer students this year, a 3% decline.
Instead, Colorado lawmakers said they would maintain school funding in recognition that schools have incurred additional costs to educate students in a pandemic, whether in person or online, and on the premise that some students who sat out the fall could return to their home districts this winter and spring.
Senate Republicans had suggested earlier in the session that they had concerns about the bill because they want state education dollars to follow students, rather than go to districts that might be educating fewer children. But on Friday, they said they would vote for the bill with the "asterisk" that a larger conversation about school funding is needed.
State Sen. Rachel Zenzinger, chair of the Senate Education Committee and a sponsor of the bill to maintain school funding, agreed. The Arvada Democrat said that alongside issues raised by Republicans, the pandemic revealed problems with how districts identify students in poverty — a count that also affects state funding.
Despite widespread job losses, many districts actually saw a decrease in students qualifying for subsidized lunches. This almost certainly doesn't mean fewer students live in struggling households. Rather, the federal government waived the paperwork normally required to provide free lunches, so districts don't have an exact count of qualifying students.
The bill on this year's funding sends an extra $60 million to school districts — $41 million to make up for lost local tax revenue and another $19 million to districts that saw particularly large enrollment declines or that experienced a notable decrease in the number of students living in poverty.
Rural districts will share another $25 million from a new nicotine tax approved by voters in November.
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According to the school finance formula, the full hit to school districts should have been almost $121 million. But Colorado lawmakers already hold back hundreds of millions every year that the state constitution says should go to K-12 schools to pay for other priorities. The withholding reached $1.2 billion this school year, as lawmakers struggled to balance the budget during the height of business restrictions and job losses. Colorado's K-12 budget is about $7.2 billion.
Rather than claw back $121 million for the state, the school funding adjustment bill essentially treats it as part of the amount that was already withheld.
The bill goes next to the state House, where Democrats hold a large majority and the bill is expected to pass easily.
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Holy Women: A Comparison Between Late Medieval Byzantine Orthodox Female Saints and their Catholic Counterparts
Michael Lee Martin Mr., Eastern Kentucky UniversityFollow
Women saints and their nature has always been debated by scholars due to the inaccuracy and bias of the hagiographical sources. Typically, the sources have had authors who were male and who depicted allegorical holiness and their views of women over reality. Within the troubled sources, scholars have always have debated on how to write about women saints. One way is that scholars have tried to use the depiction of women from the sources to discuss the way women were viewed in society. By looking at the view of women saints in a society, it is possible to see the cultural trends that were flowing through a society.
This paper looks at the cultural trends connected to women saints within the Mid to Late Medieval Period (the 11th Century to 14th Century) of the regions of Western Central and Southern Europe and the Byzantine Empire. Specifically, it focuses on the women saints of the Catholic and Orthodox faith in the regions. This paper explains why there is an increase in women Catholic saints compared with a decline in women Orthodox Saints during the Late Medieval Ages. Afterward, it connects how this trend depicts cultural issues and solutions in Late Medieval society and the hagiographical works on women saints.
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Martin, Michael Lee Mr., "Holy Women: A Comparison Between Late Medieval Byzantine Orthodox Female Saints and their Catholic Counterparts" (2017). Honors Theses. 478.
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#nc11: Meadows gets his committee back. Will he keep his cojones?
Posted on June 26, 2015 June 26, 2015 by Brant Clifton
Fresh off of being labeled a traitor by a little boy named Patrick McHenry, congressman Mark Meadows has his committee chairmanship back:
The second bit of good news is that Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) has been reinstated by Jason Chaffetz as chairman of a subcommittee from which he was removed earlier in the week. Meadows is a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus and Speaker Boehner demanded his removal for voting against the rule to bring some bills to the floor.
"I think it just got to the point where an awful lot of people were saying, geez, they go out and they openly vote against the leadership and the rest of the Republicans, and nothing ever happens to them," Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, a close Boehner ally, told the Washington Examiner. "I think it was a lot of us pounding on leadership, saying you have to put some discipline back in our conference."
Boehner let the rank-and-file know what he thinks in a private meeting held in the basement of the Capitol Wednesday morning. He told the group he supports the move to strip Meadows of his chairmanship.
"Part of being in the majority is advancing an agenda — a conservative agenda," Boehner told Republicans, according to a witness. "You may not agree with every part of the agenda, and when you don't, you can vote your conscience. But voting against rules is not a vote of conscience. It is a vote to hand the House floor over to Rep. Nancy Pelosi."
Republicans say Boehner has come to realize that he's not going to win over at least some of the conservatives who continue to flout the leadership.
"I think John realizes that you are never going to bring them into the fold," Simpson said. "They are never going to be part of the team."
This is nothing less than a complete surrender by Boehner and it only underscores that he knows his position is shaky, that the revolt is growing, and that he found that punishment was not productive.
Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) has given North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows back his subcommittee chairmanship just days after it was taken away as punishment for crossing party leaders, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision.
It is a stunning reversal for Chaffetz — and, by extension, the GOP leadership — and could embolden the several dozen conservative Republicans who defy Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.). Those close to — and part of — House Republican leadership say they disagree with Chaffetz's decision, but feel there is nothing they can do.
"Disgusting," one Boehner ally remarked Thursday.
There is evidence that the Freedom Caucus was not only undeterred by Boehner's move, but that it made them more defiant. There is also evidence that the membership of that caucus grew after Meadows was removed. And there is evidence that the Freedom Caucus decided to play the role of Samson in the Temple.
The House Freedom Caucus has a secret it wants to share with Democrats.
"If the Democrats were to file a motion to vacate the chair and were to vote for that motion unanimously, there probably are 218 votes for it to succeed," one member of the House Freedom Caucus told CQ Roll Call Tuesday night, as he exited an meeting in the basement of Tortilla Coast.
If that's true, Democrats could certainly use a vote to remove Speaker John A. Boehner as leverage in any number of upcoming battles: the Export-Import Bank, a highway bill, all sorts of spending measures. But absent any real talk from Democrats, the official response from Boehner's communications director, Kevin Smith, was simply to dismiss CQ Roll Call's reporter.
"Matt Fuller is a prop for Freedom Caucus propaganda," Smith wrote via email.
While the HFC member in question wouldn't say whether a vote to take Boehner's gavel was part of the discussion Tuesday — and other members said it was not — it's clear thedecision to strip North Carolina Republican Mark Meadows of his subcommittee chairmanship has stirred the already excitable Freedom Caucus into a new frenzy.
The HFC looks ready for war, as does GOP leadership and more moderate Republicans who are sick and tired of conservatives voting against the team — and that could signal more retaliation to come from both sides.[…]
I hope Meadows did not kow-tow and apologize to get his gavel back. Simpson is wrong. Being in DC is not about being part of "the team." It's about representing your people back home. It's about advancing the interest of America over your own selfish ones.
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Patrick McHenry should be a high priority for a conservative primary challenge. His voting records stinks, as he is a brownnoser for both Boehner and Obama. He even voted to fund Obama's executive amnesty. That issue alone should destroy Obama Republican McHenry in a primary.
Real Republicans in North Carolina need to toss out the garbage such as McHenry in our primaries.
The polls consistently show that GOP voters do not trust or support our legislative leadership in DC and kissing Obama's ass like they did on the legislation in question is the reason for that. Boehner stooge McHenry had a lot of gall voting himself for the Obama position and then criticizing Mark Meadows who voted against Obama on each of the votes. It is the Obama position that is the Democrat position, McHenry, you moron.
The rule vote is where you can stop bad legislation, and needs to be used to do that. Boehner seems more interested in moving Obama's agenda than in fighting Obama, and Boehner's position can absolutely NOT be trusted on any issue by Republicans.
The Democracy Corps poll just before Boehner was reeelected Speaker showed that only 16% of GOP voters wanted Boehner kept as Speaker while 60% wanted him dumped and another Republican to be Speaker. Too many of our Congressmen ignore the voters back home and whore themselves to the DC insiders, and those Congressmen need to be brought home in the primaries.


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https://lonzowire.usatoday.com/2018/02/24/lonzo-ball-just-happy-to-be-back-from-injury-for-lakers-vs-mavericks/
Lonzo Ball 'just happy to be back' from injury for Lakers vs Mavericks
Lonzo Ball had gone nearly six weeks without wearing his Los Angeles Lakers warmups, let alone having to strip them in favor of his Purple and Gold uniform. So when it came time for him to play in an NBA game again, against the Dallas Mavericks at Staples Center on Friday, his entrance was delayed slightly by a wardrobe malfunction of sorts.
"I forgot I had my shirt on over the warmups," he said after the Lakers' 124-102 win. "I was trying to zip it and it wasn't going down. I looked and I was like, 'oh,' so I had to just take it off."
The rest was smooth sailing, more or less, for the rookie out of UCLA. He hit his first shot—a three-pointer from the wing off a pass by Brandon Ingram—on his first possession off the bench to spark a nine-point, seven-rebound, six-assist effort in just 17 minutes.
"I was just happy to be back," Zo said, before reiterating as much on Twitter.
Feels good to be back 👌🏼
— Lonzo Ball (@ZO2_) February 24, 2018
"I was just out there playing, man, just having fun," he added. "I wasn't thinking about anything, just playing hard."
As for the sore left knee that kept him out for 15 games, Ball noted that he felt "pretty good" and there was "nothing restricting" about the remnants of the MCL sprain, though he could still feel it—albeit not enough to keep the team's doctors from clearing him.
"Just sliding a little bit, especially going right," he said, "but other than that, it's pretty much okay."
So long as the knee is sound, Ball's biggest concern figures to be recapturing the rhythm he'd found before that fateful bump with fellow rookie Dennis Smith Jr. back on Jan. 13 in Dallas.
"My timing was off a little bit," he said. "That's just going to come with getting back on the court."
Lonzo won't have a chance to work his way back into his and the Lakers' flow any further on Saturday, when the team hits the road to play the Sacramento Kings. The Crown Prince of Chino Hills has been ruled out of back-to-backs, this one included, for the time being.
Assuming there are no setbacks from his return, Ball should be available again on Monday, when the Lakers face the Atlanta Hawks at Philips Arena.
Lonzo Ball keeps it short and sweet in Lakers' 124-102 win vs. Mavericks


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10 years of the iPhone, and 10 years of iPhone reviews
Revisiting every single one of Apple's iPhones in a trip down memory lane.
Andrew Cunningham - Jun 30, 2017 2:41 pm UTC
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Ten years ago this week—on June 29, 2007—many waited (in line or online) for the first iPhone's formal release. This week as the device turns 10, we're examining its impact and revisiting the phone that changed it all. As such, we wanted to resurface this trip down iPhone review memory lane. This piece first ran on January 9, 2017 (ten years after Steve Jobs first unveiled his now signature product to the world).
The iPhone at 10
The Gearhead podcast: Was the iPhone a revolution or just slick marketing?
June 29, 2007: Waiting at the San Francisco and Cincinnati Apple Stores on iDay
With iPhone, Apple showed AT&T and Verizon who's boss
A touch of Cocoa: Inside the original iPhone SDK
Ten years ago, Steve Jobs hopped onstage at the 2007 MacWorld conference and announced a much-anticipated product that would come to totally eclipse the Mac. It was an iPod, a phone, and an Internet device. It was the first iPhone, and whether you like Apple and its products or not, it drastically altered the face of computing.
Apple stopped attending MacWorld in 2009 (the conference ended entirely in 2015) and Steve Jobs passed away in 2011, but the iPhone is still here and so are we. We've reviewed every single iPhone that Apple has released, and as we did when the iPad turned five, we'll walk down memory lane with both the benefit of hindsight and the stuff we thought at the time.
The iPhone: It begins
We're still talking about one of these gadgets; guess which one!
Jacqui Cheng
Our original iPhone review was written by four people and was nearly 20,000 words long—even in the pre-App Store days, there was a ton to cover. We take pretty much everything about that first phone for granted these days. It's driven almost entirely by its touchscreen, eschewing any sort of hardware keyboard. It had a mini version of the desktop Safari browser that could actually display accurate versions of sites instead of barely formatted piles of text and unsupported HTML and CSS. And it served as such an effective iPod replacement that it eventually cannibalized sales and reduced the iconic music player to a rounding error on Apple's balance sheets.
iPhone in depth: The Ars review
But we can say all of that pretty easily with the benefit of hindsight. At the time, we hedged our bets, and much of our review was about the things that the first iPhone was missing: no Exchange support, no MMS support, no app store, and no 3G connectivity. It was locked to AT&T, and since Apple hadn't yet succumbed to the subsidized two-year-contract model that helped obscure the true cost of a high-end smartphone, you had to pay $500 or $600 up front for a 4GB or 8GB model. From the review:
We love the concept of the iPhone. It's extremely easy to use and almost entirely self-discoverable; the interface looks better than any other phone—smartphone or not—currently on the market, and it's just plain fun to use. In a perfect world, the iPhone is a perfect 10. But neither the world nor the iPhone is perfect.
...It's clear to us that the iPhone wasn't meant, at the outset anyway, as a smartphone for smartphone people (who typically end up being business people). Instead, the iPhone was meant as a smartphone for everyone else: average people who, until now, had no reason or motivation to get a BlackBerry or something similar that may have been more difficult to use and had way too many features for the average phone user. But the concept of the iPhone doesn't just appeal to average users; it appeals to everyone, including business users. And some would even say that business usage patterns are really at the forefront of what the iPhone should be doing anyway: push e-mail, network independence (you don't have to choose a carrier based on your phone), and custom apps.
But like iPod 1.0, this design set out to accomplish the basics of what a full-featured Internet phone should be. With regard to Exchange and push e-mail, we believe that only a fraction of the target audience has use for that. Most people are using POP, IMAP and webmail; iPhone supports these. Of course, we anxiously await what Visto and others are working on with regard to add-on Exchange support.
For us personally, the short explanation that we find ourselves giving people most often about how we feel about the iPhone is this: before the iPhone came out, we were planning to buy a new smartphone that was not the iPhone. We are still not buying an iPhone today, after having used it exclusively for some time. However, we are not buying something else either; we plan to wait to see what software (and hardware) updates might come out for the iPhone in the near future. We believe that the iPhone is cool enough to wait for whatever might come out, and we have confidence that many of the nits we have picked can be fixed through a major software update.
The iPhone 3G: An iPhone with 3G
The iPhone on the left, iPhone 3G on the right.
Apple's second iPhone got a tweaked design and that 3G connectivity we wanted, but the most important stuff about it in retrospect was its software and the way it was sold. "iPhone OS 2.0," as it was then called, added the App Store to both the 3G and the first-gen iPhone. Even with all the limits Apple placed on developers, it felt like the full potential of the iPhone was beginning to be realized. By this point, AT&T was also offering the phone for $199 or $299 with a two-year contract for 8GB and 16GB models—sure, you'd end up paying more in the long run, but those subsidies helped downplay the original model's sticker shock and get the phones in the hands of more people.
Our review highlighted those advantages, but we were still lukewarm on the iPhone as a BlackBerry replacement for business users. At the time, in fact, we knocked this device down a couple points on an arbitrary numerical scale Ars was in the process of discontinuing.
The $199 (or $299, or $399, or $499) question is: is it worth it? As usual, the answer is "it depends." If you're using some old, crappy cell phone, you're looking for something new, and you're not allergic to AT&T, then go for it. Do it now. Well, maybe wait until the lines subside.
If you've got a smartphone for personal use—iPhone or otherwise—then the answer depends on how much you value the new features. Are 3G, the louder speaker, and GPS worth at least $200 plus $10 more per month for two years? Remember that you can get the iPhone 2.0 firmware and the App Store on an older iPhone as well. For us reviewers who are using the iPhone 3G as a personal phone, we feel happy with the decision to purchase it. Sure, it's not a religious experience, but we're definitely satisfied. If you want to wait and see what comes out of Apple in another six months to a year, however, there's no huge reason not to do so.
If you're a business user, then we feel the answer is no, it's not worth it. The original iPhone was not made to be an enterprise device, and the new iPhone isn't either. Although some baby steps have been made, BlackBerry users will find themselves frustrated with the lack of complete Exchange support and may even end up returning their devices, or at least carrying an iPhone alongside a BlackBerry. We already know several who have done this, and it will happen to many more.
Although we have dropped numerical scores from our product reviews, we feel the need to enumerate the iPhone 3G in comparison to our original iPhone score. A year ago, we gave the iPhone an 8 overall (with significant caveats based on personal use). The original iPhone was truly an innovation in the mobile space, and it has most certainly shaken things up over the last 12 months. The iPhone 3G is being marketed not only as a faster device, however, but as a business-capable device as well. So, not only is it being compared to the original iPhone, it is being compared more heavily to its competitors in the smartphone space than its predecessors. Because of this, we at Ars have agreed that the new device deserves a 6. It's great as a consumer device, but with enterprise users' expectations having been raised this time around, we feel it still has quite a ways to go.
The iPhone 3GS: S is for speed
Enlarge / A battle-tested iPhone 3GS running iOS 6, the last major iOS update the phone received and the last one to use the old Scott Forstall-era iOS design language.
Apple's third iPhone was its first "S" model, establishing a pattern that Apple followed until 2016's iPhone 7. One year would bring an iPhone with an all-new design, and the next year would bring a refinement of that design with faster internals and other new tweaks.
For the 3GS, performance really was the main draw—even though the 3G didn't improve performance at all. What this phone did offer was double the RAM (from 128MB to 256MB), a processor bump from a 412MHz ARMv6 CPU to a 600MHz ARMv7 CPU, and a brand-new GPU. Those hardware improvements combined with the new stuff in iPhone OS 3.0 earned the 3GS a solid review from us, but we complained that it still couldn't run third-party apps in the background. Note the comparisons to the Palm Pre, a phone that looked impressive at the time but ultimately ended up imploding:
Whether or not you buy an iPhone 3GS depends highly on what you're coming from and what you want to do with the device. If you're in the market for a new iPhone and you've never had one before (or you have an original iPhone), there's no reason not to buy the new one—the device is blazingly fast and can do more cool things than ever; you even qualify for fully subsidized pricing from most carriers.
If you're an iPhone 3G owner, the question is more nuanced. How much do you value being able to take video? Do you like having a compass in Maps? One of us (Jacqui) is a 3G owner who doesn't plan to upgrade because the current feature set is not enough to make her want to drop $400 to $500 on a half-subsidized model that is very similar to one she already owns. However, if there's one reason to upgrade between these two models, do it for the speed. The speed difference is significant, and iPhone OS 3.0 is clearly optimized for the 3GS.
As for everyone else, there are still downsides to consider when thinking about buying an iPhone. The OS still does not support background processes outside of Apple's own applications—something that the Pre's webOS can apparently handle quite smoothly. Some users still hate the iPhone's on-screen keyboard, and there's no indication that a physical keyboard (even as an add-on) is coming any time soon. And, for those of you in the US, the iPhone is still locked into AT&T, a carrier that seems relatively unpopular among our readership (though, we should point out that other popular phones like the Pre and G1 are also locked into their respective carriers, so this point only stands if you dislike AT&T more than the others).
What we do know is that it's extremely difficult not to fall in love with the 3GS for some reason or another, especially if you play a lot of games or do a lot of Internet surfing. Despite its flaws, we still give it a thumbs up.
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deanrozz Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
analogika wrote:
Dzov wrote:
tayhimself wrote:
mod50ack wrote:
Back in the 4.x, 5.x days and earlier, I loved iOS. Just lived for that next update.
I'm still using an iPhone (6) but I guess it's not magic to me anymore. Was it Steve? Maybe.
I remember everybody celebrating them, but am I the ONLY one who loves the 2000s glossy UI aesthetic? I still use it on my Linux desktop, although it's hard to find good GTK3 themes.
I still use iPhones, but anybody else feel nostalgia for those old days?
Yeah, the changes have died down a lot. The iphone 7 is a great update from the 6, but it's not crazy like an update from a 3GS to a 5 or the first time using an iPhone. That felt crazy. Design wise, the 5 was the best as it looked great and felt even better.
The 7 is really a whole slew of small things that make the phone significantly better than a 2 year old 6,. It's LOUD, TouchID is about 5x faster than the 6 (it unlocks before you know it), waterproof, the back is less slippery, the camera and live photos, 32 GB minimum, etc.
As a 6 user that didn't know about these benefits, these almost sound like a reason to upgrade. Thanks for posting this.
3D Touch!
Seriously, it is so underrated. I really wouldn't want another phone without it.
3D Touch is great. It's literally right-click for your phone. Without having to wait for a second (long press). Imagine using your PC and waiting 1 second for the context menu to pop up whenever you right-click. That would be infuriating.
952 posts | registered Feb 29, 2016
got2bereal wrote:
The iPhone lost the innovation edge once Steve Jobs died. It's pretty evident that all Cook does is incrementally add features that Android or Windows Phone has had very years. Cook doesn't take risk and that's why the iPhone is not the most innovative mobile phone or OS. It's the most optimized platform but not the most feature rich or innovative.
Tim Cook should be fired and replaced with a younger more forward thinking CEO rather than a bean counter. Apple maybe the most profitable but Google is just as profitable without building as many branded handsets.
Apple is about to add wireless charging which many Android and WinPhone has had for almost 5 years now.
So much fail, where to start?
"Google is just as profitable without building as many branded handsets"
First off, Google is an advertising company. The majority of their revenue is from ads. Hardware (phones, tablets, Home, Chromecast) is such a small part of their revenue it's lumped into "Other".
That said, in 2016 Google had gross revenues of $89 billion. Apple was $215 billion. Not even close. Profit (since you claimed Google was just as profitable as Apple) was $19.5 billion for Google in 2016 and $45.7 billion for Apple. Again, not even close.
As to features, the Google Pixel finally added a feature the iPhone 3GS had - inline hardware encryption. If you think iOS/Apple has been sitting still, then you clearly don't know anything about their platform. I can do this all day, if you want to go down that road.
ZippyPeanut Ars Tribunus Militum
Didn't Karl Marx say that smartphones are the opiate of the masses?
6459 posts | registered Jan 13, 2015
HellDiver Ars Legatus Legionis
I've had a 3G, a refurb 3GS, 4, 4S, 5S, 6, and now on a 7. I've also had various Android phones, including Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Samsung S7, and most recently a OnePlus3T. I flirt with Android, but always end up back with the iPhone.
11718 posts | registered Feb 12, 2000
MPerz Ars Praetorian
...and FaceTime calls are at least fun (if an old concept and possibly useless).
How prescient.
533 posts | registered May 30, 2013
RockDaMan Ars Legatus Legionis
Android fans comments haven't seen much innovation recently.
12928 posts | registered Jun 19, 2007
truthyboy15 Ars Scholae Palatinae
RuhRoh wrote:
truthyboy15 wrote:
In your iPhone 5 review, you mention the lack of USB 3.0 support. Has that arrived yet? I just upgraded an employee's phone for him (from 6s to 7 plus), and transferring ~20 GB took far longer than I would expect if it was USB 3.0.
You should have setup wireless syncing with iTunes.
That would involve taking the iPhone off of the guest network. And it would have been slower. So no, I should not have done that.
well if your wireless network is slow maybe you should stop be a cheap bastard and upgrade to the latest specs.
sprockkets Ars Legatus Legionis
deanrozz wrote:
Regarding inline hardware encryption, that actually isn't true, but let's move on...
Edit for the downvoters, care to point out which part of the pixel does hardware encryption? Or does the fact that the Nexus 6 later in it's life used neon instructions to speed up encryption count?
Last edited by sprockkets on Fri Jun 30, 2017 5:20 pm
17958 posts | registered Aug 12, 2005
Digital Dud Ars Praefectus
My understanding is that storage encryption on iOS devices is completely transparent, like there is zero performance impact with having it enabled because it's baked into the DMA controller, which is why it's enabled by default on every device. On Android phones if you enable it you are hurting performance and battery life. If work mandates device encryption, I would never recommend someone get an Android phone because you're basically shooting yourself in the foot by enabling it.
3271 posts | registered Mar 6, 2008
Digital Dud wrote:
I've done it in cheap phones, there barely was a difference. I've got the storage numbers to prove it.
sprockkets wrote:
You've done what now? There are plenty of benchmarks out there for the perf impact of device encryption, including articles that Ars has done, so call me skeptical. Pre-Android 7 it's common to see 7 times slower sequential reads, and with 7.0 and the proper hardware support you can manage "only" 3 times slower. That doesn't begin to account for the battery penalty though of the main CPU now needing to wake up to run code for every bit that transfers between flash and RAM.
OrsonX Ars Centurion
peak iPhone.
299 posts | registered Sep 11, 2016
name99 Ars Praefectus
"It was locked to AT&T, and since Apple hadn't yet succumbed to the subsidized two-year-contract model that helped obscure the true cost of a high-end smartphone, you had to pay $500 or $600 up front for a 4GB or 8GB model
"By this point, AT&T was also offering the phone for $199 or $299 with a two-year contract for 8GB and 16GB models—sure, you'd end up paying more in the long run, but "
Jesus Christ, Andrew, can you give it a rest? Ten years on and you people STILL want to insist that the iPhone somehow became popular by "cheating".
Exactly WHAT does this "sure, you'd end up paying more in the long run" mean? Give the alternative possibilities. Because every two years I carefully cranked the numbers for exactly what I would buy; and by accepting the two year contract you come out SLIGHTLY ahead. (Not much, about $60, but slightly).
In other words, far from ATT somehow stealing extra money from you, ATT was PAYING people to use iPhones. And why was this? Because iPhones were good for ATT's business --- they used (and provided example use models for non-iPhone users) of the value of data plans and faster data. None of this was secret at the time --- but people like you insisted (and continue to insist) on an ass-backwards interpretation of the issue. ATT subsidized (slightly) the iPhone for the same reason that printer manufacturers sell the printers cheaply.
The flip side of the story is was this relevant to people's purchases? We have no evidence for this. iPhones have sold in a large number of countries, under a large number of plans. "Subsidy" doesn't seem a substantial factor in whether they're popular or not. The primary thing "subsidies" seem to have done was convert a large capital purchase into an ongoing smaller purchase, like hire purchase or a credit card, but without the abusive interest rates.
I know, I know, haters gotta hate. But it's ten years on, FFS.
It's time to freaking face reality --- the iPhone sold well because it was a good product that met a need. Not because ATT or Apple or anyone else was hypnotizing people into buying something against their best interests through mysterious pricing policies.
4990 posts | registered Nov 18, 2003
Diebytheapple Smack-Fu Master, in training
There's no question that the iPhone was revolutionary but it still sucks as an enterprise device... funny that that's the same concern you originally raised.
19 posts | registered Dec 6, 2016
name99 wrote:
You are taking this way seriously man... chill. I don't think that pointing out that the favorable pricing plan of cell service in the US likely contributed to getting some people over the hump. There are still people who believe that sleek powerful mini computer in their pocket only costs $200. It would be revisionist history to claim that that had no impact on people's decisions. That isn't at odds with the point that it was also a great device
By the way also it's more than a $60 difference because of inflation. Paying an extra $60 today is more expensive than paying $60 in increments over the next two years.
"7 Times slower" huh?
Before encryption and after:
Yeah, like from years ago. Today's SoCs are not phased by it. Even the lowly 410 and 430 loses only around 15-30MB/S on sequential reads. Other stuff doesn't change. Heck some of the scores after encryption in my example improved.
This is from a cheap LG cricket phone and is NOT running Android 7. While it does have the 430 it doesn't run in 64 bit mode. Even if it did it technically isn't hardware accelerated - it just has access to new instructions on the CPU.
Aside from perhaps the photo gallery taking a little longer to load stuff you'd never notice the difference.
Also, there is nothing inherent to version 7 of android I'm aware of that changes encryption speeds. It does do file based encryption but I don't see how that's any different than doing it at the block level.
Diebytheapple wrote:
You'd be WAY more convincing if you, at least, got the damn SIGN right...
You were not PAYING $60, whether today or in the future, you were receiving $60. Your inability to even understand the point I was making leaves me somewhat unconvinced of your value as an interpreter of the issue. And of course, in a world of zero inflation (which is essentially the world we have been in since at least the iPhone shipped) the point is irrelevant anyway.
At realistic inflation rates we're talking about the difference between $60 and $62 or so.
I hear an awful lot about these people who are so stupid they don't understand the actual cost of the devices they are buying, but I have never met any of them. Maybe they are the same people who are supposedly only buying iPhones because of "fashion" even though Apple doesn't actually change the iPhone's appearance for "fashion" reasons, rather for technical reasons (better screen, larger screen, etc)? Strange how they all continued buying iPhones, without a hiccup, even when the "subsidy" went away. I guess they really were so stupid they didn't even notice the price change.
Ha ha, name99 is one of the original Apple fanatics I blocked many years ago. Only him/her seems to be around
If you refuse to learn anything from the past "You are taking this way seriously man... chill" then your opinions of the present and the future are essentially worthless.
Call me one of the "original Apple fanatics" if you like, but how often have I been wrong vs right? How about you?
Perhaps you're angry not at the fact that I'm an "Apple fanatic" but that I seem to have an understanding of the world that more or less comports with reality?
Fibonaccied Ars Praetorian
I love how the Jobs Widows shut up when they are shown actual data and screenshots. Have fun with your OS upgrades to improve the mail app, suckers.
436 posts | registered Aug 8, 2016
TheWerewolf Ars Scholae Palatinae
10 years of iPhones and 10 years of borderline sycophantic 'reviews' that often read as little more than advertising copy lifted from Apple press releases while slamming everyone else's products.
841 posts | registered Nov 26, 2002
althaz Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
zephonic wrote:
My first smartphone was the 3GS. To me, the earlier models felt like betas, and the 3GS was the first fully matured product.
I love that phone, it was snappy with iOS4 and 5, but 6 made it unbearably slow.
Totally agree. The first iPhone to me felt like a prototype. Probably the greatest prototype product of all time - but a prototype nonetheless. The lack of 3G and the state of the web at that point made the killer feature of the iPhone - the amazing (for a phone at the time) web browser - not overly useful. The lack of any sort of additional apps made things worse. I tried it and thought "this isn't ready, but it's still the best smartphone I've ever used". I didn't buy one. The 3G felt more like an actual product but it felt (to me) too slow to be *quite* ready and the battery life was *awful*. I tried the 3GS and just immediately felt "yep, this is phones from now on" - it was (at the time) an *astonishing* experience.
To me, the real shame is that Apple has stood so still with the design of their home screen over the years. What worked before there was an app store (and an app store was not planned for early on) simply doesn't make sense anymore.
I'm incredibly greatful for the early iPhones, but to me Apple have since been outstripped in a lot of areas. Not all of them (not even close), but a lot.
I am getting pretty excited for the next iPhone though - this seems the time to finally do something with their incredibly dated homescreen (it's ten years old and even then it was probably the worst part of the OS - though not a bad part) and it seems certain that Apple will *finally* move to an OLED display (opinions vary, but having owned a phone with an OLED screen, I can no longer stand LCD-equipped phones).
I really hope Apple has something to draw me back to the iPhone - because although I prefer Android as an OS, the apps on iPhone are better, the hardware is better (aside from the screen, which is still best-in-class for an LCD) and Android OEMs really seem to have lost their way.
I have no idea, since I blocked you for years, and am not making a judgement one way or another about your post.
To be fair, the other posts I've seen being quoted of you are actually fine. I've thought about unblocking you actually
It's unclear.
iPad Pro's have in theory some sort of USB3 over Lightning capability BUT you can't buy a Lightning to standard USB3 cable, so you can't get USB3 speed for iPad to iTunes connections on most macs. You can get a Lightning to USB-C connector, so on Macs with USB-C I expect you'd see a performance bump, but I don't know how large it is. This might also work if you buy a USB-C to USB-A converter dongle to connect to the Lighting-USB-C connector, but I have had no reason to try that.
(One problem is that iTunes, as part of its on-going commitment to be the crappiest piece of software that Apple ships, seems to have throttling in it so that it won't perform at least some file transfers at faster than USB-2 speed.
You can see this when you drag-and-drop from a remote SSD, connected via gig ethernet, to a machine also with a local SSD. Dropping into Finder will copy at gigE speeds, so at around ~120MB/s. Dropping inro iTunes will copy at USB2 speeds, so around 38MB/s.
WTF would iTunes do this? Well, you don't win an accolade like "crappiest piece of software that Apple ships" by thinking rationally...
It's possible whatever insane logic is deliberately throttling drag-and-drop transfers to USB-2 speeds would also kick in for iOS sync operations?)
Certainly given the HW Apple has released, their usage model for USB-3 on iPads seems to be that it is their to make copying photos to/from SD-type cards faster, and for no other purpose that they care about. That may change, but it's the situation today. Go look at the cables listed on the Apple Store web site if you think I'm misrepresenting the situation.
0megapart!cle wrote:
Going to have to disagree with you there. I can't imagine upgrading to a 7 from a 6, knowing that a much bigger update is right around the corner this year. Apple's financial results show that a record number of users agree with me.
Seriously? A "record number of users agree with me"?
Let's look at the numbers shall we?
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ip ... art-2017-5
The worst interpretation you can honestly put on those numbers is that the sales volumes are flat. And in contrast to almost all electronic items, the ASP over that time has likewise essentially remained flat.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/02/ ... asp-of-695
Maury Markowitz wrote:
"The SE also played its part in Apple's revenue decline in 2016; CEO Tim Cook has mentioned on the company's earnings calls that the SE has proven unexpectedly popular. That's not necessarily a bad thing for Apple and its ecosystem, but it did drive the average selling price of iPhones down."
Herein lies my greatest fear.
Apple's history is dominated by products that are just on the upside of the consumer pricing curve. The original Mac, the iMac, iPod, etc. With each of these releases, Apple gains share and propelled itself to become a more relevant force.
When Jobs is not around the company forgets this. instead, they confuse business success with success, because most of them are really business men at heart. So when given the choice between building the iMac or the IIfx, the look at the margin and go with the IIfx. And so they rapidly become irrelevant.
I believe that is once again happening at Apple. Their cheapest iMac (in Canada) is $1499. You can argue whether that's value for money all you want, it is still an expensive piece of machinery by any measure. And unlike the original iMac, the company has no interest in having a model that's more competitively priced.
The concern here is not for the machines or for the people who do or do not buy them. It's for the developers. If they decide it's not worth developing for a small and dwindling market, that's pretty much that. You'll end up like it was in the mid-1990s again, with a handful of small outfits reselling glorified shareware.
I understand the company's dilemma... they are no longer a growth stock and the street now judges them on their margins. But playing that game is a sure-fire way to lose.
So when I hear that the SE's success is somehow a problem, I worry.
That's the problem. It's not a shocker to see that people will go for the $400 phone vs the $650 one. They are cannibalizing their own high end sales. It's been going on for years with everyone else.
The only way to stop it is to not offer cheaper phones. Apple knows that but OTOH knows if they don't offer the SE people will just buy cheap Android devices.
But I've said Apple's main priority is high margins then customer service. They could kill Android off if they wanted to with a $400 iphone8, but know it will also cause other problems. Too bad people would be happy with that.
Oh FFS. Apple's iPHONE ASP is KNOWN. It is NOT FALLING.
SE does not cannibalize sales, in exactly the same way that selling older versions of the iPhone, price dropped by $100 or $200 did not cannibalize sales. SE sells to a DIFFERENT MARKET.
Perhaps there's a reason Apple is a trillion dollar company while you and the other business geniuses on the internet have yet to change the world? One of you is obsessed with financial metrics and the short term, the other (successful...) one is obsessed with providing better, appropriate, products to customers regardless of details.
You see the exact same thing with iPad vs iPad Pro. You saw it with iPad Mini vs iPad. You see it with MacBook Air vs MacBook. You see it with Watch Series 1 vs Series 2.
Apple sells good stuff at a mid-price, and better stuff at a higher price. Seems to be working out just fine for them so far.
Last edited by name99 on Sat Jul 01, 2017 4:32 pm
Must be why iOS completely dominates in enterprise use with Android running a very distant second. Or why companies like IBM, Cisco, SAP and others are lining up signing business deals with Apple to use iOS devices in enterprise.
Don't bring facts into this discussion. Even Google has minimum storage performance requirements before encryption can be enabled by default so that devices can maintain a certain level of performance. Funny that Google is aware of this issue but sprockets-the-troll isn't.
Apple has had inline hardware encryption since the 3GS. This has not only allowed improved performance with encryption, but also makes it very fast & easy to wipe a device. All they do is erase the encryption keys and the data on the NAND is useless. This is also one of the reasons iPhones took off in enterprise use.
Uh huh. Coming from the person who couldn't stand being corrected about the FACTS of the Google vs. Oracle case, that's pretty fucking rich.
I like how neither of you have anything to say after posting ACTUAL BENCHMARKS. But I guess that's fake facts.
Yeah, pay no attention to actual benchmarks, just say I'm trolling.
You know what's that's called? Classic Projection. Troll harder next time deanboy.
Here's another fact troll, Google states a minimum of 50mib/s for encryption performance. Devices from about the past 2 years have no trouble meeting it.
Um, the SE came out when? Kinda like old news and probably not a factor.
But even if the asp is as you say, good, what about their profit margin? You know, what I said in my, you know, post?
i love how the Jobs Widows put their hands on their ears and sing "lalalalala" while chanting their "alternative facts" like the crazy homeless person in a subway station when they are shown ACTUAL EFFING SCREENSHOTS!
Limberger Smack-Fu Master, in training et Subscriptor
0t wrote:
Only Apple could force a device on the big cellular carriers without compromise to its config/software.
Even 10 years later only a handful of smart phones come un-compromised with UI and app add-on software clutter.
The original iPhone was an incredible paradigm change, but what has kept me using iPhones isn't just the ecosystem: No Crapware. That's worth the price differential and ostensible inflexibility in and of itself to me.
(Normally an Apple creature I recently bought a Windows laptop for gaming. Why is all that _stuff_ infecting my nice new machine?!?)
31 posts | registered Nov 28, 2016


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