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FBI looking into suspected Dallas gunman's military and social media history
Officials say a suspect in an "active shooter incident" was shot during an exchange of gunfire with federal officers in downtown Dallas.
Posted: Jun 18, 2019 12:20 AM
Updated: Jun 18, 2019 12:20 AM
Posted By: By Eric Levenson and Amir Vera, CNN
The FBI is investigating the military background and social media history of a 22-year-old man who is suspected of trying to shoot up a federal building in Dallas Monday.
Brian Isaack Clyde was shot and killed by federal officers before he got a chance to enter the Earle Cabell Federal Building, authorities said.
No officers or other citizens were injured in the shooting on the south side of the building, police said. One worker sustained a superficial injury when she was taking cover, US Attorney Erin Nealy Cox said. She added that there were 300 federal workers inside the building during the shooting.
Clyde was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead, according to FBI special agent in charge Matthew J. DeSarno.
DeSarno said at a press conference that Clyde was discharged from the Army in 2017. The US Army confirmed to CNN that Pfc. Brian Clyde served as an infantryman from August 2015 to February 2017.
The FBI is working with the Department of Defense "to examine his record and identify any associates," DeSarno said. The shooter's firearm was also recovered and federal authorities are working with the ATF trying to trace the gun's origins and how the shooter obtained it.
DeSarno also said the suspect had more than five 40-round magazines on him. Authorities don't believe he entered the courthouse, DeSarno said. Agents all over the state are interviewing relatives and associates so the FBI can find a motive, DeSarno said.
"We have more than 200 FBI agents and partners aggressively pursuing every lead in this investigation in order to identify his family members, associates and get to the bottom of what the motive was," DeSarno said.
Prior to today's shooting, DeSarno said Clyde was not of "investigative interest" to the FBI. Agents are still working to see if Clyde was known to any other law enforcement agencies.
Authorities said Monday they were "aggressively pursuing" Clyde's social media activity, according to CNN affiliate KTVT.
Police also said a bomb squad was preparing to do a controlled explosion of the suspect's vehicle, the vehicle has been deemed safe and is in their custody. DeSarno said there was no indication that there are other shooters or threats.
One witness, Don Myles, told CNN affiliate KTVT he was walking into the courthouse when a group of people ran out and he heard about 10 to 15 gunshots in rapid succession. Myles said he turned and ran across the street to safety.
"It was just a whole lot of shots going on," Myles said. "It scared me to death."
Another witness, Herman Turner, told KTVT that the gunman was wearing fatigues and his face was covered by a mask.
The Earle Cabell Federal Building will be open on Tuesday for employees but closed for business, according to a tweet from the FBI. This means there will be no hearing or public services.
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Do new Companies have room in the BNPL market?
The powerful fintech unicorn Klarna recently reached $ 46 billion and buy right now, paying for the service later continues to grow tremendously, especially in North America, Australia, and Europe. It is estimated that there are currently more than 170 companies on the BNPL market site, with new ones added every month.
Fintech's Upgrades recently announced that it is entering BNPL's business and is not the only BNPL jumper. The start-up is supported by large pay lines that plan to offer Buy Now, Pay later service as a payment method through their platforms. Digital bank Monzo has started offering BNPL a flexible product and Revolut also plans to buy it later.
Is the BNPL market becoming crowded?
The big names are also entering the market through acquisitions – last month PayPal acquired BNPL's paid service in Japan and Jack Dorsey's square bought the Afterpay BNPL service in August with a $ 29 billion contract. Goldman Sachs also recently saved a piece of the pie, earning $ 2.24 billion from BNPL's GreenSky service.
Buy Now, Pay later makes a place with more people. It still accounts for about 2% of the global e-commerce market, but buy now, pay later services are growing at an average of 39% per year. According to FIS Worldpay, by 2023, they would account for around 5% of global e-commerce, excluding China.
Let's take a closer look at which BNPL markets are already full and where there is still room for new BNPL companies.
BNPL in Australia
Australia is one of the largest BNPL markets in the world. The Reserve Bank of Australia estimates that there are around 20 BNPL market services on the Australian BNPL market, offered by more than a dozen providers.
The two largest are home-based Afterpay and Zip Pay, which have a total of 6 million active BNPL user accounts as of December 2020. According to Worldpay, Australians made 10% of their e-commerce purchases through BNPL in 2020, and that's it. By 2023, that number should rise to 17%.
BNPL in Europe
The current rapid growth in acquisitions, subsequent payments in Europe, has been made in part by the media, looking at record-breaking uncontrolled cash flows from BNPL's fintech such as Klarna. The Worldpay statement says that the BNPL market will account for about 9% of e-commerce revenue by 2023 and 11% by 2025.
The largest and most popular player in the European BNPL market is Klarna, but there are other competitors, including:
Afterpay (UK, Italy, France, Spain)
Alma (France)
Twisto (Czech Republic, Poland)
Paypal (United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain)
Laybuy (United Kingdom)
BNPL in the USA
BNPL's market share of e-commerce transactions in the US was only 2% by 2020, but this still means that millions of people are actively using late payment methods. It is estimated that there will be 45 million BNPL users by 2021 and more than 76 million by 2024.
Fortunately, Affirm dominated the market significantly in 2008 with almost 80 percent, but has now given way to other suppliers. The top six Buy Now, pay later services, calculated by some downloads, were:
Klarna-34%
Afterpay-26%
Affirm-16%
Quadpay-16%
Sezzle-6%
Perpay-2%
BNPL in China
This scourge has significantly increased online shopping in China, and the trend continues. In the United States, where store brakes have partnered with fintech to offer BNPL on departure, major Chinese e-commerce platforms have developed their systems.
BNPL in India
The Indian BNPL market is still waiting for BNPL fintech to decline, as the transition to a non-financial society began immediately after Europe or SA Asia. The market is expected to grow amazingly in 2025 and many players have already started. These include LaysPay, Simpl, Capital Float, and ZestMoney. The Bangalore company recently announced that it has received $ 50 million in new funding from zipping, Australia.
According to the Bernstein report, BNPL's markets in India are estimated at $ 15 billion and could reach $ 100 billion by 2025. This may be one of BNPL's hottest markets. On the other hand, this market can be a challenge for global fintech players.
BNPL in Southeast Asia
Buy Now, pay later is successful in Southeast Asia, even though only 27% of the region's 670 million people have bank accounts. Southeast Asia is predicting one of the fastest-growing BNPL market regions due to the growing number of internet users, and many fintech companies have even jumped on the bandwagon to meet demand.
Major players include:
Grab- GrabPay (Singapore and Malaysia)
GoJek (Indonesia)
Razer (Singapore)
Oriente- Cashalo (Hong-Kong)
Hoolah (Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia)
ReePay (Vietnam)
Evidence of the rapid growth of BNPL services in Southeast Asia is based on data released by Hoolah. According to the company, during the epidemic, their BNPL service saw a sales increase of more than 1,500%, revenue over eight hundred percent, and retailers and customers volume over 400%. Hoolah also represented a series of volumes increased by 600% from May 2020 to May 2021.
BNPL fintechs have taken over the world, and there are indications that there is still plenty of room to buy new ones right now, paying companies later in most markets. In the markets of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America, the BNPL craze is yet to come. There, technology buildings and access to phones and mobile phones are a major challenge.
By 2025, the global BNPL industry is expected to grow 10-15 times its current volume to $ 10 billion. Thus, such growth means that BNPL providers are more likely to face regulatory barriers and fierce competition from employers.
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Happiness in early adulthood may protect against dementia
By Suzanne Leigh
UCSF-led study shows depressive symptoms increase risk for cognitive impairment
While research has shown that poor cardiovascular health can damage blood flow to the brain increasing the risk for dementia, a new study led by UC San Francisco indicates that poor mental health may also take its toll on cognition.
The research adds to a body of evidence that links depression with dementia, but while most studies have pointed to its association in later life, the UCSF study shows that depression in early adulthood may lead to lower cognition 10 years later and to cognitive decline in old age.
The study was published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease on Sept. 28, 2021.
The researchers used innovative statistical methods to predict average trajectories of depressive symptoms for approximately 15,000 participants ages 20 to 89, divided into three life stages: older, midlife and young adulthood. They then applied these predicted trajectories and found that in a group of approximately 6,000 older participants, the odds of cognitive impairment were 73 percent higher for those estimated to have elevated depressive symptoms in early adulthood, and 43 percent higher for those estimated to have elevated depressive symptoms in later life.
These results were adjusted for depressive symptoms in other life stages and for differences in age, sex, race, educational attainment, body mass index, history of diabetes and smoking status. For depressive symptoms in midlife, the researchers found an association with cognitive impairment, but this was discounted when they adjusted for depression in other life stages.
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Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH
"Several mechanisms explain how depression might increase dementia risk," said first author Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH, of the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. "Among them is that hyperactivity of the central stress response system increases production of the stress hormones glucocorticoids, leading to damage of the hippocampus, the part of the brain essential for forming, organizing and storing new memories."
Other studies have linked depression with atrophy of the hippocampus, and one study has shown faster rates of volume loss in women, she said.
In estimating the depressive symptoms across each life stage, researchers pooled data from younger participants with data from the approximately 6,000 older participants and predicted average trajectories. These participants, whose average age was 72 at the start of the study and lived at home, had been enrolled by the Health Aging and Body Composition Study and the Cardiovascular Health Study. They were followed annually or semi-annually for up to 11 years.
U-shaped curve adds credence to predicted trajectories
While assumed values were used, the authors stated, no longitudinal studies have been completed across the life course. "Imputed depressive symptom trajectories fit a U-shaped curve, similar to age-related trends in other research," they noted.
Participants were screened for depression using a tool called the CESD-10, a 10-item questionnaire assessing symptoms in the past week. Moderate or high depressive symptoms were found in 13 percent of young adults, 26 percent of midlife adults and 34 percent of older participants.
Some 1,277 participants were diagnosed with cognitive impairment following neuropsychological testing, evidence of global decline, documented use of a dementia medication or hospitalization with dementia as a primary or secondary diagnosis.
"Generally, we found that the greater the depressive symptoms, the lower the cognition and the faster the rates of decline," said Brenowitz, who is also affiliated with the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. "Older adults estimated to have moderate or high depressive symptoms in early adulthood were found to experience a drop in cognition over 10 years."
With up to 20 percent of the population suffering from depression during their lifetime, it's important to recognize its role in cognitive aging, said senior author Kristine Yaffe, MD, of the UCSF departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Epidemiology and Biostatistics. "Future work will be needed to confirm these findings, but in the meantime, we should screen and treat depression for many reasons."
Co-authors: Eric Vittinghoff, PhD, from UCSF; Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, PhD, from Columbia University; Sherita H. Golden, MD, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and Annette L. Fitzpatrick, PhD, from University of Washington.
Funding: National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging (1RF1AG054443).
Read the journal article
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease: Depressive symptoms imputed across the life course are associated with cognitive impairment and cognitive decline
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San Francisco Chronicle: Risk of dementia 73% higher for people with these symptoms in early adulthood, UCSF study says
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BELLEVUE – OCHRE POINT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
ABOUT BOPNA
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Meet the Friends of Newport Preservation
A WELCOME FROM THE BOARD
Welcome to the Bellevue Ochre Point Neighborhood Association (BOPNA) website! This neighborhood association is one of many in Newport that, together and individually, provide valuable input to the City and its boards on various citizen concerns. The boundaries of the BOPNA are defined by the R-60 zone and historic residential district located south of the Bellevue Avenue commercial district, extending south of the ocean, east to the ocean and west to Coggeshall/ Spring streets.
The governing committee of the Association hopes you like what you see. We also urge you to provide us feedback about your concerns and join us as active members of your Association.
In January 2008, the Ochre Point Neighborhood Association and Friends of Bellevue merged together as one organization to form the Bellevue-Ochre Point Neighborhood Association (BOPNA), which is now a recognized 501(c)(3) entity for Federal Tax purposes.
The Bellevue-Ochre Point Neighborhood Association is one of the local neighborhood groups in Newport that, together and individually, provide valuable input to the City and its boards on various citizen concerns. The boundaries of the BOPNA are defined by the R-60 zone and historic residential district located south of the Bellevue Avenue commercial district, extending south of the ocean, east to the ocean and west to Coggeshall/ Spring streets.
The Board continues to focus its efforts on the inadequate repair of Bellevue Avenue, and on working with the Preservation Society and Salve Regina University as they develop and restore their properties. We maintain our commitment to preserving the residential nature of our neighborhood while supporting the long term viability of our partners.
LEARN OUR CURRENT ISSUES
Over several years and after many meetings with members of the public and city officials, the Association helped to create the R-60 District Vision Statement, a document that outlines the fundamental characteristics of our neighborhood and calls for their protection and preservation. It has provided a process that has allowed all the major participants in our neighborhood the opportunity to discuss their visions of the future and provided a forum for facilitating future conversations about this ongoing process.
Preserving our Neighborhood Beautification / Amenities - We supported the efforts of the Cliff Walk Commission for needed repairs and to improve warnings signage on the Walk; we also supported the need for quality lavatory facilities at 40 Steps with both the Commission Chairman and the City Manager. We endorsed the public/private creation of the Winslow Triangle at the end of Bellevue Avenue, and supported the ongoing effort for improved landscape language in City ordinances.
Engaging our Neighborhood Partners- We have worked with Salve Regina University on the reconstruction of Miley Hall's cafeteria without disturbing nearby residential neighbors and the reconstruction of O'Hare Academic Center into a much more effective property for the University with much improved aesthetic appearance. We also reached an agreement that large scale athletic events should not be held in the BOPNA neighborhood.
Newport World Heritage Site. We supported the nomination of Newport as a World Heritage site. Newport's colonial area was designated a World Heritage candidate by the Department of the Interior in March 2008.
Opposed Fast Food Outlet. Working with a member, we opposed the building of a fast food outlet at the Bellevue Plaza Shopping Center as detrimental to our neighborhood. We believe that our joint efforts were instrumental in the developer agreeing to limit the hours and operations of the establishment.
Charter Review: We supported the creation of these task forces which were established to recommend to the City Council improvements in these fundamental governing documents. Tom Goddard is a member of the HDC Zoning Ordinance Review Task Force which should finish its work in 2008.
Alliance for a Livable Newport. Representing the Association, Jim Moore is a member of the board of this organization. ALN presented an analysis of the city's budget to the City Council, and also held forums on the coyote population on Aquidneck Island, waste water controls and green policies for the city.
R-60 Zone Issues. Working with members of the Association we successfully opposed the sub-division of properties into non-conforming lots that are specifically not allowed by the zoning ordinance.
In partnership with BOPNA, Friends of Newport Preservation (FNP) is a committee working to protect the historic integrity of Newport's most valuable historic assets and the quality of life for all residents. The group organized to advocate for the protection of The Breakers, recognizing that the proposed development of the property will have an adverse effect on all of Newport. Our efforts have support from community members, local and national experts in preservation, conservation, planning, architecture, and landscape design. The group's ultimate goal is that our resources will continue to enchant Rhode Islanders and visitors alike, while enabling Newport to prosper as a residential community through protecting its historic landmarks.
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Joanne and Henry Breyer, Donald Christ, Maureen Donnell, Ron Fleming, Linda Gordon, Mary Joan Hoene, Judy McLennan, Stephanie McLennan, Elizabeth "Lisette" Prince, Diana and Jerry Slocum, Gladys V. Szapary, Paul L. Szapary, Gladys Roberts Thomas, William Vareika
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IP Alert: PTAB Estoppel Decisions Under § 315(e)(1) Occurring After Institution Are Reviewable on Appeal
On March 9, in Uniloc 2017 LLC v. Facebook Inc., the Federal Circuit held that the no-appeal provision of 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) does not preclude appellate review of the PTAB's estoppel determination under section 315(e)(1) when "the alleged estoppel-triggering event occurred after institution." As stated in section 315(e)(1), a petitioner "may not request or maintain" an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding as to any ground that the petitioner "raised or reasonably could have raised" in a prior IPR that resulted in a final written decision regarding the same patent claim.
Uniloc owns U.S. Patent No. 9,995,433 ("the '443 patent"), which was challenged in IPR petitions filed by several different parties including Apple, Facebook, and LG Electronics. In relevant part, Apple had filed an initial IPR petition challenging the '443 patent, and Facebook subsequently filed two petitions of its own. While both Facebook petitions were still pending, the PTAB instituted Apple's IPR. Shortly after this institution decision, Facebook elected to file a substantively identical follow-on petition and moved to join Apple's IPR, which was granted. Separately, LG filed two IPR petitions that were identical to Facebook's two initial IPR petitions and moved to join those proceedings before the institution decisions, which were also granted.
Then, after the PTAB had instituted both Facebook IPRs, the PTAB issued a final written decision in the Apple IPR upholding the patentability of all challenged claims of the '443 patent. As a direct result of Facebook having joined the Apple IPR, the PTAB issued a decision in one of the Facebook IPRs partially dismissing Facebook because it was estopped under section 315(e)(1) as to all claims already upheld in the Apple proceeding (i.e., claims 1–6 and 8). Despite Uniloc's objections, the PTAB allowed Facebook to remain in that IPR to challenge claim 7 of the '443 patent. Specifically, the PTAB found that section 315(e)(1) estoppel provisions only applied to grounds that were raised or reasonably could have been raised "with respect to that claim," which had not included claim 7. The PTAB later issued its final written decision (as a consolidated decision for both Facebook IPRs), finding that all challenged claims were unpatentable as obvious.
Uniloc sought rehearing of both Facebook IPRs, arguing in part that the IPR involving the estoppel question should have been terminated once the original petitioner—Facebook—had been deemed estopped. Since "[j]oined parties are privy to a petitioner," and LG and Facebook were joined parties, Uniloc argued LG was likewise estopped. The PTAB denied the request.
Uniloc appealed and argued in part that the PTAB erred in not finding LG estopped from challenging claims 1–8 due to its purported relationship with Facebook as a privy or real party in interest. However, before addressing the merits of Uniloc's challenge, the court first assessed whether the no-appeal provision of section 314(d) should apply. After discussing a number of prior decisions concerning section 314(d), the Federal Circuit ultimately found that since the estoppel issue had not arisen until after the institution decision in the Facebook IPRs, section 314(d) did not bar appellate review, holding "[W]e see no indication that § 314(d) precludes judicial review of the [PTAB's] application of § 315(e)(1)'s estoppel provision in this case, in which the alleged estoppel-triggering event occurred after institution."
Reaching the merits of Uniloc's estoppel challenge, the court rejected Uniloc's contention that a joined party is inherently privy of the original petitioner and affirmed the PTAB's finding that LG was not a real party in interest or privy of Facebook absent evidence showing that either party exercised control over the other party's decision to file a petition or that the parties coordinated their challenges.
The court also held that the PTAB had correctly found Facebook was not estopped from challenging claim 7, even though claim 7 depended from claim 1, which Facebook was estopped from challenging by the final written decision in the Apple IPR. The court reasoned that because claim 7 was not challenged by Apple and because Facebook could not bring its own challenge to claim 7 in the Apple proceeding via joinder under section 315(c), no estoppel arose with respect to that claim.
The court also affirmed the PTAB's obviousness determinations as supported by substantial evidence.
This decision provides further guidance on the contours of the section 314(d) no-appeal provision and which specific determinations by the PTAB may be appealed. This has been an ever-expanding body of case law, beginning with the Supreme Court's decision in Cuozzo Speed Techs., LLC v. Lee.
For more information on this topic, please contact Fitch Even partner Paul B. Henkelmann.
Fitch Even associate Evan Kline-Wedeen contributed to this alert.


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This upcoming Thursday marks the 33rd anniversary of the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NVCIA), which exempts the vaccine industry from all liability associated with injuries and deaths caused by vaccines. And in honor of the tens of thousands of children who've fallen victim to these liability-free vaccines, thousands of vaccine truth advocates are gathering on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to raise awareness about vaccine risks, as well as to pay homage to those whose lives have been destroyed by vaccines.
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Q: Why is __int128_t faster than long long on x86-64 GCC? This is my test code:
#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
using namespace std;

using ll = long long;

int main()
{
    __int128_t a, b;
    ll x, y;

    a = rand() + 10000000;
    b = rand() % 50000;
    auto t0 = chrono::steady_clock::now();
    for (int i = 0; i < 100000000; i++)
    {
        a += b;
        a /= b;
        b *= a;
        b -= a;
        a %= b;
    }
    cout << chrono::duration_cast<chrono::milliseconds>(chrono::steady_clock::now() - t0).count() << ' '
         << (ll)a % 100000 << '\n';

    x = rand() + 10000000;
    y = rand() % 50000;
    t0 = chrono::steady_clock::now();
    for (int i = 0; i < 100000000; i++)
    {
        x += y;
        x /= y;
        y *= x;
        y -= x;
        x %= y;
    }
    cout << chrono::duration_cast<chrono::milliseconds>(chrono::steady_clock::now() - t0).count() << ' '
         << (ll)x % 100000 << '\n';

    return 0;
}

This is the test result:
$ g++ main.cpp -o main -O2
$ ./main
2432 1
2627 1

Using GCC 10.1.0 on x64 GNU/Linux, no matter if it's using optimization of -O2 or un-optimized, __int128_t is always a little faster than long long.
int and double are both significantly faster than long long; long long has become the slowest type.
How does this happen?

A: The performance difference comes from the efficiency of 128-bit divisions/modulus with GCC/Clang in this specific case.
Indeed, on my system as well as on godbolt, sizeof(long long) = 8 and sizeof(__int128_t) = 16. Thus operation on the former are performed by native instruction while not the latter (since we focus on 64 bit platforms). Additions, multiplications and subtractions are slower with __int128_t. But, built-in functions for divisions/modulus on 16-byte types (__divti3 and __modti3 on x86 GCC/Clang) are surprisingly faster than the native idiv instruction (which is pretty slow, at least on Intel processors).
If we look deeper in the implementation of GCC/Clang built-in functions (used only for __int128_t here), we can see that __modti3 uses conditionals (when calling __udivmodti4). Intel processors can execute the code faster because:

*

*taken branches can be well predicted in this case since they are always the same (and also because the loop is executed millions of times);

*the division/modulus is split in faster native instructions that can mostly be executed in parallel by multiple CPU ports (and that benefit from out-of-order execution). A div instruction is still used in most possible paths (especially in this case);

*The execution time of the div/idiv instructions covers most of the overall execution time because of their very high latencies. The div/idiv instructions cannot be executed in parallel because of the loop dependencies. However, the latency of a div lower than a idiv making the former faster.

Please note that the performance of the two implementations can highly differ from one architecture to another (because of the number of CPU ports, the branch prediction capability and the latency/througput of the idiv instruction).
Indeed, the latency of a 64-bit idiv instruction takes 41-95 cycles on Skylake while it takes 8-41 cycles on AMD Ryzen processors for example. Respectively the latency of a div is about 6-89 cycles on Skylake and still the same on Ryzen. This means that the benchmark performance results should be significantly different on Ryzen processors (the opposite effect may be seen due to the additional instructions/branch costs in the 128-bits case).

A: TL:DR: __int128 division helper functions internally end up doing an unsigned div reg64 (after some branching on the values being positive and the upper halves being 0).  64-bit div is faster on Intel CPUs than the signed idiv reg64 that GCC inlines for signed long long.  Faster by enough to make up for all the extra overhead of the helper function, and extended-precision for the other operations.
You probably wouldn't see this effect on AMD CPUs: long long would be faster as expected because idiv r64 is similar enough in perf to div r64 there.
And unsigned long long is faster than unsigned __int128 even on Intel CPUs, for example on my i7-6700k (Skylake) at 3.9GHz (run under perf stat to be sure of CPU frequency during the test):

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*2097 (i128) vs. 2332 (i64)  - your original test (run back-to-back for CPU freq warm-up)

*2075 (u128) vs. 1900 (u64)  - unsigned versions.  Slightly less branching in u128 division vs. i128, but major difference for i64 vs. u64 where the only difference is div vs. idiv.

Also, drawing any general conclusions from a very specific micro-benchmark like this would be a bad idea.  It is interesting to dig into why exactly the extended-precision __int128 type manages to be faster in this division benchmark with positive numbers small enough to fit in a 32-bit integer, though.

Your benchmark is heavily weighted towards division, which you do twice per iteration (/ and %), even though it's much more expensive than other operations and in most code used much less often.  (e.g. sum a whole array then divide once to get the average.)
Your benchmark is also has no instruction-level parallelism: each step has a data dependency on the previous step.  This prevents auto-vectorization or anything that would show some of the advantages of narrower types.
(It's also not careful to avoid warm-up effects like the first timed region being slow until the CPU gets up to max turbo.  Idiomatic way of performance evaluation?.  But that happens much faster than the couple seconds of your timed regions, so that's not a problem here.)
128-bit integer division (especially signed) is too complicated for GCC to want to inline, so gcc emits a call to a helper function, __divti3 or __modti3.  (TI = tetra-integer, GCC's internal name for an integer that's 4x the size of int.)  These functions are documented in the GCC-internals manual.
You can see the compiler-generated asm on the Godbolt compiler-explorer.  i.e. 128-bit addition with add/adc, multiplication with one mul full-multiply of the low halves, and 2x non-widening imul of the cross products.  Yes these are slower than the single-instruction equivalents for int64_t.
But Godbolt doesn't show you the asm for libgcc helper functions.  It doesn't disassemble them even in "compile-to-binary" and disassemble mode (instead of the usual compiler asm text output) because it dynamically links libgcc_s instead of libgcc.a.
Extended-precision signed division is done by negating if necessary and doing unsigned division of 64-bit chunks, then fixing up the sign of the result if necessary.
With both inputs small and positive, no actual negation is needed (just testing and branching).  There are also fast-paths for small numbers (high-half divisor = 0, and quotient will fit in 64 bits), which is the case here.  The end result is that the path of execution through __divti3 looks like this:
This is from manually single-stepping into the call to __divti3 with gdb, after compiling with g++ -g -O3 int128-bench.cpp -o int128-bench.O3 on my Arch GNU/Linux system, with gcc-libs 10.1.0-2.
# Inputs: dividend = RSI:RDI, divisor = RCX:RDX
# returns signed quotient RDX:RAX
|  >0x7ffff7c4fd40 <__divti3>       endbr64             # in case caller was using CFE (control-flow enforcement), apparently this instruction has to pollute all library functions now.  I assume it's cheap at least in the no-CFE case.
│   0x7ffff7c4fd44 <__divti3+4>     push   r12
│   0x7ffff7c4fd46 <__divti3+6>     mov    r11,rdi
│   0x7ffff7c4fd49 <__divti3+9>     mov    rax,rdx                                                                                │   0x7ffff7c4fd4c <__divti3+12>    xor    edi,edi
│   0x7ffff7c4fd4e <__divti3+14>    push   rbx
│   0x7ffff7c4fd4f <__divti3+15>    mov    rdx,rcx
│   0x7ffff7c4fd52 <__divti3+18>    test   rsi,rsi      # check sign bit of dividend (and jump over a negation)
│   0x7ffff7c4fd55 <__divti3+21>    jns    0x7ffff7c4fd6e <__divti3+46>
... taken branch to
|  >0x7ffff7c4fd6e <__divti3+46>    mov    r10,rdx
│   0x7ffff7c4fd71 <__divti3+49>    test   rdx,rdx      # check sign bit of divisor (and jump over a negation), note there was a mov rdx,rcx earlier
│   0x7ffff7c4fd74 <__divti3+52>    jns    0x7ffff7c4fd86 <__divti3+70>
... taken branch to
│  >0x7ffff7c4fd86 <__divti3+70>    mov    r9,rax
│   0x7ffff7c4fd89 <__divti3+73>    mov    r8,r11
│   0x7ffff7c4fd8c <__divti3+76>    test   r10,r10      # check high half of abs(divisor) for being non-zero
│   0x7ffff7c4fd8f <__divti3+79>    jne    0x7ffff7c4fdb0 <__divti3+112>  # falls through: small-number fast path
│   0x7ffff7c4fd91 <__divti3+81>    cmp    rax,rsi      # check that quotient will fit in 64 bits so 128b/64b single div won't fault: jump if (divisor <= high half of dividend)
│   0x7ffff7c4fd94 <__divti3+84>    jbe    0x7ffff7c4fe00 <__divti3+192>  # falls through: small-number fast path
│   0x7ffff7c4fd96 <__divti3+86>    mov    rdx,rsi
│   0x7ffff7c4fd99 <__divti3+89>    mov    rax,r11
│   0x7ffff7c4fd9c <__divti3+92>    xor    esi,esi
│  >0x7ffff7c4fd9e <__divti3+94>    div    r9                #### Do the actual division ###
│   0x7ffff7c4fda1 <__divti3+97>    mov    rcx,rax
│   0x7ffff7c4fda4 <__divti3+100>   jmp    0x7ffff7c4fdb9 <__divti3+121>
...taken branch to
│  >0x7ffff7c4fdb9 <__divti3+121>   mov    rax,rcx
│   0x7ffff7c4fdbc <__divti3+124>   mov    rdx,rsi
│   0x7ffff7c4fdbf <__divti3+127>   test   rdi,rdi     # check if the result should be negative
│   0x7ffff7c4fdc2 <__divti3+130>   je     0x7ffff7c4fdce <__divti3+142>
... taken branch over a neg rax / adc rax,0 / neg rdx
│  >0x7ffff7c4fdce <__divti3+142>   pop    rbx
│   0x7ffff7c4fdcf <__divti3+143>   pop    r12
│   0x7ffff7c4fdd1 <__divti3+145>   ret
... return back to the loop body that called it

Intel CPUs (since IvyBridge) have zero-latency mov, so all that overhead doesn't worsen the critical path latency (which is your bottleneck) significantly. Or at least not enough to make up the difference between idiv and div.
The branching is handled by branch prediction and speculative execution, only checking the predictions after the fact when the actual input register values are the same.  The branching goes the same way every time so it's trivial for branch prediction to learn.  Since division is so slow, there's plenty of time for out-of-order exec to catch up.
64-bit operand-size integer division is very slow on Intel CPUs, even when the numbers are actually small and would fit in a 32-bit integer, and the extra microcode for signed integer division is even more expensive.
e.g. on my Skylake (i7-6700k), https://uops.info/ shows that (table search result )

*

*idiv r64 is 56 uops for the front-end, with latency from 41 to 95 cycles (from divisor to quotient, which is the relevant case here I think).

*div r64 is 33 uops for the front-end, with latency from 35 to 87 cycles. (for that same latency path).

The latency best-case happens for small quotients or small dividends or something, I can never remember which.
Similar to the branching that GCC does in software for 128-bit division in terms of 64-bit, I think the CPU microcode is internally doing 64-bit division in terms of narrower operations, probably the 32-bit that's only 10 uops for signed or unsigned, with much lower latency.  (Ice Lake improves the divider so 64-bit division isn't much slower than 32-bit.)
This is why you found long long so much slower than int for this benchmark.  In a lot of cases it's about the same, or half speed if memory bandwidth or SIMD are involved.  (Only 2 elements per 128-bit of vector width, not 4).
AMD CPUs handle 64-bit operand size more efficiently, with performance only depending on the actual values, so about the same for div r32 vs. div r64 with the same numbers.
BTW, the actual values tend to be something like a=1814246614 / b=1814246613 = 1, then a=1 % b=1814246612 (with b decreasing by 1 every iteration).  Only ever testing division with quotient=1 seems very silly.  (The first iteration might be different, but we get into this state for the 2nd and later.)
Performance of integer operations other than division is not data-dependent on modern CPUs.  (Unless of course there are compile-time constants that allow different asm to be emitted.  Like division by a constant is much cheaper when done with a multiplicative inverse calculated at compile time.)
re: double: see Floating point division vs floating point multiplication for division vs. multiplication.  FP division is often harder to avoid, and its performance is relevant in more cases, so it's handled better.

Related:

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*Trial-division code runs 2x faster as 32-bit on Windows than 64-bit on Linux has a specific example of changing div r64 to div r32 in a program that uses small-enough numbers, and seeing throughput improve ~3x.

*Can 128bit/64bit hardware unsigned division be faster in some cases than 64bit/32bit division on x86-64 Intel/AMD CPUs? has some details about div and idiv being microcoded.

*How sqrt() of GCC works after compiled? Which method of root is used? Newton-Raphson? has some hardware details of how div/sqrt execution units are designed in general, and in older Intel CPUs.  But that doesn't explain why 64-bit is so many more uops than 32-bit; I'm only inferring that the hardware must be narrower before Ice Lake from the fact that it needs so many more uops of microcode.

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Prosecutors have since dropped all of the charges.
Nellis' attorney had pushed for a jury trial and said he would file a constitutional challenge to the City of Ottawa's right to strip access to shelter on public property from its homeless population. The city had previously fenced off spots under the Mackenzie bridge near a mall and the Rideau Street-Colonel By Drive underpass.
Nellis said he was "disappointed" that the city had dropped the charges against him. He is now planning to sue the City of Ottawa for "vexatious harassment" and false arrest. Nellis spent five days at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre on Innes Road, a prison well known for its poor conditions. Nellis organized the prisoners to protest their "inhumane" conditions, resulting in citywide and national media coverage. The combined inside-outside pressure resulted in immediate improvements for prisoners.
He has petitioned the IWW General Defence Committee Local 6, based in Ottawa, for support in raising funds for his legal fees. To donate, send a cheque or money order to GDC Local 6, PO Box 52003, 298 Dalhousie St., Ottawa, Ontario K1N 1S0, Canada.
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Ottawa IWW Picket Wins $2,500
October 11, 2019 September 1, 2008
Ottawa-Outaouais IWW members and community supporters won $2,500 owed to member Miguel Yanes Lobaina. Lobaina, who had worked as a dishwasher before being fired, had won a Superior Court of Canada ruling on March 5 ordering Hooley's restaurant to pay him, but it refused to comply. On August 6, 20 picketers marched in front of its doors, with IWWs holding signs saying, "Pay What's Owed." It took less than an hour for the owner to ask for a meeting with the picketers and sign a cheque to pay Lobaina. It didn't bounce either.
Tags industrial worker, wage theft
MayDay '08
October 11, 2019 June 1, 2008
"Capitalism cannot be reformed" reads the French banner of the Ottawa-
Outaouais IWW branch which came out to support the IWW Ottawa Panhandlers Union on May 1. A tea party and march to impeach the anti-panhandler Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien proceeded, despite the early morning arrest of organizer, Andrew Nellis. Protesters were thrown out of the court building before Nellis' bail hearing. Nellis was released with minimal bail conditions.
Tags industrial worker, may day, panhandlers
Interview: The IWW and the Ottawa Panhandlers Union
From Anarkismo.net
Dave interviewed Ottawa anarchist Andrew Nellis for Linchpin. Andrew is an organizer with the Ottawa Panhandlers Union.
Q. What is the Ottawa Panhandlers Union and how was it started?
A. The Ottawa Panhandlers Union is a shop of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It's a real union. What we do is run by the panhandlers themselves. The IWW has one paid member for the entire union. It's entirely member run. The idea is to empower people on the street to fight for themselves.
Ideally despite coming in as an outside organizer I'll be able to step out of the picture once the organization is up and running and there's a structure in place to ensure that the organization continues. I was on the street myself. I'm not on the street now. So I do know something about the milieu in which I'm working.
Ideally it [the Panhandlers Union] should be run by people who are actually on the street but in practice we find that our most valuable members are those who have just come off the street or are in the process of getting off the streets. Their lives are somewhat less chaotic than people who are actually on the street although we do have some [key] people who are hardcore street. It always impresses me. I'm so proud of all of these people. For example, the guy who writes our press releases has to leave the room every 15 minutes or so to take a sip of hand sanitizer As you may be aware people who are heavily addicted to alcohol stand a one in three chance of death if they go through withdrawal so they have to drink alcohol continuously just to survive The fact that someone who is dealing with this many crises in his own life is capable of not only functioning but contributing something to the welfare of others around him. It's just really humbling for me to work with someone like that considering the many sacrifices that he's got to be making in his own life are so much larger than anything I'm expected to give.
Q. Could you give some examples of some of the problems that are faced by panhandlers and homeless people in Ottawa that the Panhandlers Union was formed to help resist.
A. I can tell you that although things were bad before the new police chief, they've become infinitely worse since. The new police chief has the "broken windows" philosophy. He believes that you can stop big crimes by stopping little crimes. He's ordered his police officers to stop issuing tickets and begin arresting panhandlers. It costs $185 a day to keep someone in jail and they're more than willing to pay that to keep panhandlers off the street than providing supported housing is infinitely cheaper they prefer using enforcement for something it was never designed to do.
We were forced to start a Copwatch program because the police are openly and blatantly breaking the law. We have had many cases where its been reported to us that the police have stolen the panhandlers' money, roughed them up, and told them not to come back or they'd be beaten. One night I had to start guard under the bridge by the Rideau Centre because the street kids there had been informed by a police officer that if they were there when he came back he was going to – and I quote – "boot-fuck" them. So I went there with a recorder and I warned the police that I'd be there all night with my recorder. This is the kind of stuff that we do.
We do a lot of advocacy work. We have one member who is schizophrenic and he was picked up in an ambulance and he was [held] involuntarily at the Montfort Hospital in their psychiatric wing. And he requested our assistance in getting his doctors to agree to let him go to school since he has a law degree from Russia and he's in the process of updating his credentials here in Canada. His doctors were concerned about letting him go by himself to his classes so we went there to tell them that we'd have a person willing to go with him to the classes if necessary to assure them that he wouldn't be a danger to himself or others. What was particularly gratifying for me was that while the doctors did not want to talk to us, it took us several hours to buttonhole the doctor, once he heard the name Industrial Workers of the World, he was at great pains to assure us that that they very sensitive to his cultural and religious needs, and that they were not discriminating against him. When I tried to get a word in edgewise to assure him we were not there to complain about his treatment but to make sure that he was able to attend his classes.
This is the kind of work that we do. A lot of it is in the background. A lot of people think that because our most visible efforts revolve around things like marching in the street, or egging the BIA that this is [all of] what we do. In fact 99% of what we do is just quiet support work for the streets that particularly teaches people where to go, how to wend their way through the paperwork of police complaints, to make sure they turn in their tickets [under the Safe Streets Act] to the Ticket Defense Program and see benefits of what standing together can do.
We have one member right now who is an organizer with the IWW. He came to us because he had been beaten up by Rideau Centre security. Immediately after getting out of the hospital, he contacted us. We got our video cameras and documented his injuries, I got him in contact with a lawyer, Yavar Hamid. As a result, we sued the Rideau Centre in superior court for $70,000. The Rideau Centre settled.
Q. How is the Panhandlers Union structured internally?
A. The IWW is not an anarchist organization. Our constitution actually forbids us as members from promoting and political or anti- political party. The organization itself runs in an anarchist manner. We have no hierarchy. At meetings everybody takes turns, everybody is expected to be either ther chair or recording secretary and at every meeting it changes so that everybody gets to see and develop the skills necessary for running a meeting. It's very important for the continuation of the kinds of traditions that we are trying to build for the organization.
For many people this the first time they've ever had any responsibility in a social sense, and its very gratifying to see someone who started out at the beginning of a meeting very nervous and unsure of themselves actually telling someone like me to shut up and let other people talk.
Q. Earlier [before the interview] we were talking about the backlash that has been felt by the Panhandlers Union and yourself. Could tell me a little about that?
A. We've experienced some amount of backlash from the police towards the organization. It's become particularly bad lately since we've started the Copwatch program. It started in earnest perhaps a year ago when someone logging in from the Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton [IP address] vandalized Panhandlers Union Wikipedia article saying that "Mr. Nellis," that is myself, "really, really, really needs to get a life" and saying that the members of this union are a "parasitical blight on the city of Ottawa." These changes were edited back fairly quickly but it was only discovered as a result of the release of the Wiki Scanner tool. The official response from City Hall was "No Comment." I've subsequently discovered that the police use the same system that City Hall do. Whoever made these changes might well have been within the police station as well as inside City Hall.
Since then there have been posters put up on Ottawa city streets saying things like "Don't feed the human pigeons" This is in response to Mayor Larry O'Brien's statement in which he compared panhandlers to pigeons stating that if you don't feed them they'll go away. During the election campaign he [O'Brien] compared panhandlers to seagulls at the Carp Dump saying that in order to keep the seagulls away, occasionally you have to shoot one.
The second set of posters that went up, we believe by the same people, featured myself with a gun in my mouth in a circle with a line through it saying "Panhandlers follow your leader" with [a picture of] the mayor standing in the background grinning. I can only take this as a death threat.
We've recently had the Panhandlers Union [Wikipedia] articles deleted by a false flag campaign launched by someone who also we believe hijacked my internet account. Someone contacted Sympatico, my ISP, identified themselves as me and asked for my password. We know that that the first time this did not work because Sympatico Security contacted me to tell me my password which I informed at the time them that it was not me [requesting the information]. We put a special password on my account which was supposed to prevent anything like this from happening and which would require the person to give a password to identify themselves as me if they called. Apparently this did not work because within a couple of weeks someone had hijacked my e-mail, deleted a week worth of personal e-mail, vandalized my blog, attacked an anarchist IRC channel I founded and helped facilitate, and generally made my life very miserable on the internet. Whoever did this used servers they had hijacked in Pakistan and Hong Kong.
The Wikipedia campaign to delete the Panhandlers Union article – someone identified themselves in the discussion as a member of the Panhandlers Union, gave details of his arrest records, the fact that he was Hepatitis C positive, details that only the police would know about this man. We know it was not the panhandler himself who posted this because he was at the time homeless. And we know that whoever posted this was [also] using servers in Pakistan and Hong Kong. We have reason to believe it was the same person [who hacked Andrew's internet account] who posted these messages. And in these messages he ranted about fascists and police and said that he had voted numerous times to keep the article. This gave Wikipedia administrators the excuse to delete the article out of hand by ignoring all calls to keep it. The Wikipedia article is currently deleted and no record of it ever having existed remains including the evidence that the City of Ottawa or the police had vandalized it.
Q. Do you think that the Panhandlers Union in Ottawa is a model that could be applied to other cities? Has there been interest in trying to develop Panhandlers Unions in other cities?
A. Yes. In fact I've been in a number of presentations on street organizing. It's a very different milieu from what most organizers are used to. The street has its own rules. It's stylized and ritualized not all that different than lets say a medieval Chinese court. It's a very different place.
When you're dealing with people as oppressed as people on the street are, it's extremely important not to come across as an authority figure. Often the temptation is there to present yourself as leader and this must be resisted at all costs because the street will try to turn a person into a personality and it will become a cult of personality in which the personality is more important than the movement. While there can be short term results, eventually the organization falls apart when this person leaves.
The street is extremely hierarchical. There is usually a dominant alpha male. It's very patriarchal. Often it's racist and homophobic. I should add that it's probably no more so than any other sector of society but because people live much closer to the bone there's not as much lying about it. People are very straightforward about their prejudices.
So because of all these things which exist on the street, it's important that the organizer establish from the very beginning that its about the organizational structure and that its not about the individual. If it's about the individual, the structure is never going to survive. The reason to have an organizer when one is organizing on the street is to make sure that there is a structure.
The entire reason [many] people are on the street is that they cannot live in a highly structured scenario. There is nothing wrong with this but it is very difficult to keep an organization going when there is no structure to it. In order to ensure that it survives it's necessary to create a tradition. And this takes many, many years. There is no short way to do this. And the way you do this is by giving people successes, by showing them that what you're doing works. On the street people don't have enough resources to take risks so they tend to do what works for them. If its already working they are loathe to change it. In a very real sense they are very conservative. In order to break through this it is necessary to give them successes and show them that working together is better than working by themselves. The only way to do that is by slowly building people's trust and to show them that if they work together there is an advantage to them personally.
Q. Could you tell me a about your own politics and how you became an anarchist?
A. I identify as an anarcho-syndicalist and I am a member of the IWW. I believe that the union structure provides a very viable means of building resistance to the current system. Anarcho-syndicalism I believe is important because it will not only allow us to build an army within capitalism itself while continuing to function but will allow us to create a structure which will continue to exist when capitalism will have been destroyed.
A lot of the problem we face is that there's always a sense of immediacy. We're always looking at the next battle and never at the longer strategic plan. And we see the results of that in what's happened thus far in anarchist movements. For example in Spain and the Ukraine where people were no careful about who they chose as allies and were crushed as a result. Anarchists have a history of winning on the battlefield and losing in the halls of power. I think its very important that we develop long-term strategic plans for dealing with our success rather than planning for our failures.
Q. What do you see as some of the strengths and weaknesses of anarchist organizing in Ottawa?
A. It's interesting. I often get the feeling from anarchists that they really don't believe that anarchism works. It's a strange thing to say but often people seem to feel that anarchism is something you need to weave life into, that it requires extra effort to put a slather of anarchism across whatever structure it is that they create but it gives me a feeling that people don't have faith that anarchism itself works. It's not a chore that you need to apply to whatever it is you're actually doing. Anarchism works. I've seen it in action. I've seen people who are oppressed and beaten down and frightened empowered by what anarchism has done for them. I've seen people on the street who've literally been beaten down. We have a man who was beaten so badly be Rideau Centre security that he nearly lost the use of his eye and yet through solidarity through what he saw anarchism was able to do for him he is now today an anarchist organizer himself. And its gratifying to see that he's taken control of his life. He has a good paying job. He has a permanent home. And he's using these advantages now to teach other people the value of anarchist organizing. These techniques don't need to be grudgingly applied. They need to be lovingly embraced. They work. If you actually use them they work. It is such a thrill the first time you see it actually working, not just in theory but in practice. It's easy to see why those original anarchists were so passionate why they continued to work into their eighties and nineties why they sang on the gallows, because anarchism is a revolutionary idea in every sense of the word. It gives a person such joy to see that it is capable of empowering people to take control of their own lives.
Abbie Hoffman said that a revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power and that's perfectly true and valid but the opposite is also true. A revolution in the distribution of power will be meaningless unless there's also a revolution in consciousness, it starts inside and continues on into the world outside of us.
A shorter version of this interview appears to Linchpin 2.
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Why Panhandlers Need a Union
By Proshanto Smith
The first reaction when most people hear the idea of a "panhandlers union" is laughter. Then the jocular questions start: When a panhandler goes on strike, will anyone notice — or care? What could they possibly want, wider sidewalks?
Given the widespread misunderstanding of what it means to belong to a union, these questions are not altogether unexpected.
Every person must first and foremost have the freedom to exist; history shows us when this freedom is infringed for any, it becomes a threat to all.
For panhandlers, begging is the means for survival. Take this away, and one threatens their existence. The Panhandlers Union of Ottawa has been formed in response to the attempt by police, business interests and government to eradicate panhandling through the criminal justice system by characterizing panhandling as aggressive.
Panhandlers have inadequate or no income and shelter. Most have inadequate education, skills and family support. According to a study prepared for the City of Ottawa, 32 per cent of panhandlers have had some involvement with the foster-care system.
They are burdened with anxiety, depression and low self-esteem and they often develop drug and alcohol addictions, all of which present barriers to integration into the community. Many suffer years of homelessness before they get the help they need to stabilize. And some never make it off the street.
In this city, where street vending is prohibited, panhandlers do not have other legal options to make a living if they are not job-ready.
Yes, individuals can recover by overcoming the psychological trauma and addictions associated with their plight. However, judgment and condemnation are not the cornerstones of recovery. In fact, they present sometimes-insurmountable barriers.
Society must make room for the homeless by graciously extending a hand.
In April 2004 the Ottawa-Outaouais General Members Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World unanimously agreed to extend such a hand when member Jane Scharf requested that panhandlers become part of that union. She said panhandlers were enduring harassment by shopkeepers, the police and social-service agencies.
Panhandlers were unable to pay the $3 monthly dues and therefore did not become full members. IWW members nevertheless provided support such as assistance with police complaints, assistance in getting panhandling tickets registered with the Ticket Defence Program and advocacy with social services and housing authorities. For a time, the union produced an edition of the Dominon newspaper for distribution by the panhandlers for donations. The city shut this successful venture down with a bylaw that prohibits street vending with or without a licence.
In the summer of 2004, hundreds of community and labour activists helped the Panhandlers Union organize a homeless action strike in the form of a tent city at City Hall. This action, which lasted 55 days, drew public attention to many of the problems facing the street person in Ottawa.
The panhandlers demanded that the city stop prosecuting panhandlers who were not aggressive, and find more humane solutions to homelessness. They were able to get the mayor to set up a task force to investigate the way the city and police are treating the homeless.
As found in the many public delegations made to the Task Force on Homelessness and the Safe Streets Act 2005, many of these panhandlers come from backgrounds of tremendous trauma with very little — if any — assistance in learning to cope with the effects of the beatings, rapes and deprivation they have experienced.
The police have made an effort to improve the treatment of homeless persons and are working with community agencies to try and find more humane responses. However, the city continues to abuse and discriminate against the homeless when it tries to move them off the street into housing. For example the homeless cannot access Ontario Works or emergency housing programs because they do not have addresses where they can be contacted.
This year IWW member Andrew Nellis secured funding from local labour groups, businesses and individuals to ensure that union dues were no longer a barrier for panhandlers. To date, the union has signed up 25 members and meets formally once a month at a drop-in centre to plan, network, and organize.
Members of the Panhandlers Union are negotiating with Ottawa City Hall and the various business improvement areas regarding the current ban on street vending so that the homeless can sell their arts, crafts, jewelry, and street newspapers, as well as perform music and street theatre. With the union behind them they can look to the future with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Proshanto Smith is an Ottawa panhandler who negotiated with the mayor on the homeless task force. He wrote this article in collaboration with the Panhandlers' Union of Ottawa.
First published in the Ottawa Citizen as part of a settlement with the Ontario Press Council for the Citizen's publication of false information about the Ottawa Panhandlers Union.
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Brooks Orpik retires after 15 seasons
Josh Wegman
Len Redkoles / National Hockey League / Getty
Two-time Stanley Cup champion Brooks Oprik is calling it a career after 15 NHL seasons, the Washington Capitals announced Tuesday morning.
"I've been extremely lucky to have the best job in the world for many years, but my body is telling me it is time to move on to something new," Orpik said. "I'm excited for more family time and to experience a lot of the things that being a professional athlete forces you to miss out on.
"Thank you to the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins for giving me the opportunity to play against the best athletes in the world. I'll be forever grateful for the memories and relationships that hockey has given me."
The longtime defenseman is the only player who's won a Stanley Cup with both Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin - the 2009 title with Crosby's Pittsburgh Penguins and the 2018 championship with Ovechkin's Capitals.
Despite never surpassing 25 points in any season, Orpik was a bruising blue-liner who was difficult to play against. In 2012-13 with the Penguins, the San Francisco native received one third-place vote for the Norris Trophy as the league's best defenseman.
Brooks Orpik has announced his retirement today from the @NHL after 15 seasons. The two-time Stanley Cup Champion skated in 1,035 regular-season games.
Congratulations on a terrific career, Brooksie. And thank you for everything! #ALLCAPS
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— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) June 25, 2019
Even when the NHL transitioned to more of a speed and skill game in the last few years, the 6-foot-3, 217-pounder was able to remain an effective presence on the ice. Off the ice, he was regarded as an exceptional leader by his teammates.
Overall, the 38-year-old posted 194 points and 972 penalty minutes in 1,035 career regular-season games, and added 26 more points in 156 postseason contests.
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A: In Rails 3, you can call the .html_safe method to tell rails that you have verified the content is safe to send unescaped.
See http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/01/safebuffers-and-rails-3-0/ for an explanation of the motivation for the default escaping behavior.
The idiom is reversed from older versions of rails, where you had to explicitly call .h (.html_escape).

A: No Ruby expert, but I think escaping is the default behavior. You have to force it to output as an unescaped string by wrapping the thing in raw().