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Q: Move constructor for a value/object wrapper? Consider the following class:
template <typename Type>
class Wrapper
{
    public:
        Wrapper(const Type& x) : _data(x) {;}
        Wrapper<Type>& operator=(const Type& x) {_data = x; return *this;}
    protected:
        Type _data;
};

What would be the definition of the move constructor Wrapper(Type&& x) and the move assignment operator operator=(Type&& x) of this class ?

A: Wrapper(Type&& x) : _data(std::move(x)) {}
Wrapper& operator=(Type&& x) {_data = std::move(x); return *this;}

A: An interesting way to write this in C++11 is:
template<typename A, typename B, typename T=void*>
using IfSameBaseType = std::enable_if<
  typename std::is_same<
    typename std::remove_cv<A>::type,
    typename std::remove_cv<B>::type
  >::type,
  T
>::type;

template <typename T>
class Wrapper
{
  public:
    template<typename U, typename unused>
    Wrapper(U&& u, unused* do_not_use=(IfSameBaseType<T,U>*)nullptr) :
      data_( std::forward(u) )
    {}
    template<typename U>
    IfSameBaseType<T,U,Wrapper<Type>>& operator=(U&& x) {
      data_ = std::forward(x);
      return *this;
    }
  protected:
    T data_;
};

here, I use && in a type deduction context to provide a single override for l and r value references, which I then pass on via std::forward.  The IsSameBaseType stuff just makes sure that I only write constructors for the type T -- I could extend this and say "is implicitly convertible to T" instead of IsSameBaseType without all that much hassle.
The advantage of this is that we have fewer duplicate methods.  The disadvantage is all that template tomfoolery could distract someone from the point of it all.

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Overcoming Doubts and Doubters with Hint CEO Kara Goldin
Do you have a dream that you are not pursuing because of fear and self-doubt? Have you let other people's opinions drown out your own? What if…you could move forward with certainty towards your dream and ignore the naysayers?
That's exactly what we'll discuss in this conversation with Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of Hint, and author of the bestselling book Undaunted. Kara will inspire you to move past your fears and defy the doubters. As Kara says, it doesn't matter whether you feel confident; it matters what you actually do.
Kara has received numerous accolades as the Founder and CEO of Hint, best known for its award-winning Hint® water, the leading unsweetened flavored water. She was named EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2017 Northern California, one of InStyle's 2019 Badass 50, Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, WWD Beauty Inc.'s Feel Good Force and Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs. The Huffington Post listed her as one of six disruptors in business, alongside Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Previously, Kara was VP of Shopping and Ecommerce at America Online where she helped lead the growth of its shopping and ecommerce business to over a $1 billion in revenue.
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Electron spin resonance studies of kinetic effects of substituent and crown ether on intramolecular sodium cation exchange in 2,5-Di-Tert-amyl- and 2,5-Di-Tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone radical anions
Yoshimi Sueishi, Masamichi Kasahara, Kayo Okawa, Shunzo Yamamoto
Upon an addition of crown ethers to a solution of 2,5-di-tert-amyl-1,4- benzoquinone (2,5-DAQ) and 2,5-di-tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone (2,5-DBQ) radical anions, the significant broadening of the two-center lines was observed in their electron spin resonance (ESR) spectra. The formation constants for the complexation of sodium cation with three kinds of crown ethers in 2,5-DAQ and 2,5-DBQ radical ion pairs were estimated, and the intramolecular two-site jumping rates of sodium cation complexed with crown ethers were determined. Differential effects of steric and crown ether were found in the intramolecular sodium cation migration. The stabilization of inclusion complex of sodium cation with crown ethers gives rise to the acceleration effects on the rates of intramolecular migration of cation/crown-ether complex. Based on the results, a kinetic explanation for the intramolecular sodium cation migration in the presence of crown ethers was given.
Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie
https://doi.org/10.1524/zpch.218.10.1187.43590
Crown Ethers
Anions
Paramagnetic resonance
electron paramagnetic resonance
benzoquinone
Complexation
Cation Migration
Crown Ether
Semiquinone Radical Anion
Substituent Effect
Sueishi, Y., Kasahara, M., Okawa, K., & Yamamoto, S. (2004). Electron spin resonance studies of kinetic effects of substituent and crown ether on intramolecular sodium cation exchange in 2,5-Di-Tert-amyl- and 2,5-Di-Tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone radical anions. Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, 218(10), 1187-1196. https://doi.org/10.1524/zpch.218.10.1187.43590
Electron spin resonance studies of kinetic effects of substituent and crown ether on intramolecular sodium cation exchange in 2,5-Di-Tert-amyl- and 2,5-Di-Tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone radical anions. / Sueishi, Yoshimi; Kasahara, Masamichi; Okawa, Kayo; Yamamoto, Shunzo.
In: Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, Vol. 218, No. 10, 2004, p. 1187-1196.
Sueishi, Y, Kasahara, M, Okawa, K & Yamamoto, S 2004, 'Electron spin resonance studies of kinetic effects of substituent and crown ether on intramolecular sodium cation exchange in 2,5-Di-Tert-amyl- and 2,5-Di-Tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone radical anions', Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, vol. 218, no. 10, pp. 1187-1196. https://doi.org/10.1524/zpch.218.10.1187.43590
Sueishi Y, Kasahara M, Okawa K, Yamamoto S. Electron spin resonance studies of kinetic effects of substituent and crown ether on intramolecular sodium cation exchange in 2,5-Di-Tert-amyl- and 2,5-Di-Tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone radical anions. Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie. 2004;218(10):1187-1196. https://doi.org/10.1524/zpch.218.10.1187.43590
Sueishi, Yoshimi ; Kasahara, Masamichi ; Okawa, Kayo ; Yamamoto, Shunzo. / Electron spin resonance studies of kinetic effects of substituent and crown ether on intramolecular sodium cation exchange in 2,5-Di-Tert-amyl- and 2,5-Di-Tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone radical anions. In: Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie. 2004 ; Vol. 218, No. 10. pp. 1187-1196.
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The 2018/19 Premier League season kicks off for the first time on Friday 10th August when Manchester United play host to Leicester City at Old Trafford. Premier League betting is available at partybets, so we thought we'd pick the brains of our football-loving pros to see how they see this season panning out.
Who Will Win the 2018/19 Premier League?
Sam Trickett, a massive Manchester United fan, believes that fierce rivals Manchester City will win back-to-back Premier League titles, while Roberto Romanello thinks it is finally Liverpool's year (isn't it every year?)
Patrick Leonard shares the same views as Sam stating, "History dictates that the winner performs poorly in year two but I think Pep is a level above and will win again. An outside shot is Arsenal and I'll bet on them each way. Most of their team wasn't at the World Cup, they have a new manager, fresh and dangerous players and finally a striker who will score a lot of goals."
Irish legend Padraig Parkinson is another poker player wanting Arsenal to do well, even if it is only because he has placed a bet on them to lift the Premier League trophy.
"Heart says Manchester United if Jose Mourinho lets them. Head says Manchester City. Pocket says Arsenal, way overpriced and worth an each way bet."
Who Will be the 2018/19 Premier League Runner-Up?
Patrick believes Liverpool will come up short of winning the title but will finish in second-place this season. "Liverpool will push very hard and have a big squad now, but Jurgen Klopp is very good at falling at the last hurdle."
Sam shares Patrick's sentiments while Roberto thinks it will be Manchester City finishing one place below Liverpool when the teams complete their 38th game.
Which Team Will Qualify for the Champions League?
Everyone knows teams will be going all out to finish in the top four finishing positions and, therefore, qualify for the Champions League next season.
Most of our pros think the top four will be the same with all saying Manchester City and Liverpool will be up there and everyone apart from Sam thinking Arsenal will return to the Champions League fray; Sam believe Arsenal will miss out and Tottenham Hotspur will take their place.
Who Will be Relegated During the 2018/19 Premier League Season?
Nobody wants to see their team relegated to The Championship, but the nature of the beast means three teams will face the dreaded drop.
Patrick thinks it could be a long, arduous season for his beloved Newcastle United. "I don't know much about the new teams, but Cardiff's squad looks weak. Fulham have very few players and unfortunately Newcastle's recruitment has been really poor. Newcastle are 6/1 to be relegated, not a bad bet at all.
Both Padraig and Sam think Huddersfield Town will finally run out of luck with Roberto predicting Leicester City's run in the top flight will come to an end.
Who Will be the Most Improved Team?
Padraig's fondness of Arsenal shines through here as he says they have been underachieving for years. Each of our pros have predicted different teams for improvement: Sam has gone with Burnley, Roberto with Everton and Patrick with Chelsea because of their new manager and style of play.
Which Newly Promoted Team Will be the Best? Will They Stay Up?
Fulham are the best equipped team to stay up this season according to Padraig with Patrick and Roberto opting to choose Wolverhampton Wanderers. Only Sam believes Cardiff City have what it takes to retain their Premier League status for another season.
Who Will Win the 2018/19 Premier League Golden Boot?
Everyone loves to see goals being scored. There are fewer things more enjoyable in sport than seeing the net bulging and the striker wheeling away to celebrate. The top scorer market is one of the most popular before and during the season, but who will our pros be betting on?
Surprisingly, nobody has gone for last year's Golden Boot winner Mo Salah, perhaps he was a one season wonder? Instead, Sam and Roberto think Harry Kane will score the most goals. Patrick is opting for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Arsenal or Sergio Aguero of Manchester City, but only if the latter gets plenty of game time. "Aguero is a great bet at around 8/1 especially each way (top five at 2/1) as he has been in the top scorers for the last five seasons."
Who Will be the Biggest Disappointment This Season?
Finally, who do our pros think will be the most disappointing team or player this season? Roberto does not believe that either Eden Hazard of his Chelsea team mates will be any cop this season, while Padraig says Tottenham Hotspur are a two man team and that Harry Kane looks jaded.
Sam shares the same views as Roberto, but Patrick reckons Manchester United will disappoint.
"They have a boring manager, teams around them will overtake them and the fans will turn on him, making it very ugly."
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Q: PeripheralManager force disconnection I have developed a peripheral connection for both Android and iOS apps. Connection and communication are working but I still have the last requirement: I need to be able to disconnect all connected centrals from the peripheral (to release the connection for another peripheral device).
On the Android side this code seems to do the job (at least when I debug using the nRF Connect app the connection is properly reset) :
        mBluetoothManager.getConnectedDevices(BluetoothProfile.GATT).forEach {
            mGattServer?.cancelConnection(it)
        }
        mGattServer?.close()
        mGattServer?.clearServices()

I'm looking for the equivalent for iOS.
The only method for disconnect seems to be cancelPeripheralConnection() but is only available from centralManager.
If you have any solution it would help a lot.
Thank you

A: Is this u want?
peripheralManager.startAdvertising([CBAdvertisementDataServiceUUIDsKey: [serviceUUID], CBAdvertisementDataLocalNameKey: deviceName])

peripheralManager.stopAdvertising()


As the harvest time rolls in, we follow the journey of our English spring barley from an organic farm in beautiful Hampshire to the buzzing capital.
The story of the barley we use here at Bimber begins in the picturesque Fordham & Allen farm in Hampshire. Here they grow Concerto – which is one of the most sought-after barley varieties, which is perfect for both malting and distilling.At the farm, there is a seamlessprocess from seeding,to growing and right through to the harvesting.
Concerto has earned fame amongst maltsters and distillers alike, due to its unique qualities. Introduced in the UK in 2009, it has since become the benchmark and continues to produce high yields of quality malting grain. It is a relatively taller variety with strong agronomic attributes and carries approval from the Institute of Brewing & Distillingfor use in brewing and distilling.
At Bimber Distillery we only use the best ingredients and Concerto has a good physical grain quality with a high water-extract and low grain nitrogen of below 1.6%. From a maltsters point of view, high germinationpower is linked to the low nitrogen content. For a distiller, the nitrogenous wort composition is important as it largely defines the extract of the malt.
Rain makes grain, goes the old English saying, but not for barley! Unpredictable and moody, theEnglish weather made us hold our breath a few times this summer. Nevertheless, UK maltsters are likely to buy around 1.9 million tonnes in total of malting barley from the 2017 crop, according to the Maltster's Association of Great Britain.
This season the grain quality is good and the crop is reasonable despite a few weather challenges during the growing season. With a few weeks of intermittent rain, the Bimber spring barley crop was saved due to it not yet beingready for harvest at this point.
Spring barley is sown each spring and bears 19-24 grains per ear. This is about 20% less than winter barley, however winter barley varieties are not currently approved for distilling in the UK. Spring barley is also different from wheat as its flowering can start just prior to the ear's emerging.
Barley is rated on a scale 1-9 for grain quality and size with only top three grades malted for use in whisky production. Concerto and Odyssey are amongst a few varieties currently approved for distilling. It's not easy at all to make the cut to be used in Bimber spirits!
As distillers, we look for barley strains which are high in starch, with a large grain size, good enzyme potential and the ability to germinate. These form the basis of the unique Bimber Distillery London Single Malt whisky. For example, high starch is very important as it will be converted into sugar to fuel the fermentation process.
There are different opinions on how a specific barley kind can affect the taste of the end whisky product. We believe that care and control over quality are crucial and that's why we carefully select all of our suppliers at Bimber Distillery. As the crop from the farm heads to our craft distillery in West London, the casks are ready for our whisky-to-be, which will one day make it to your glass.


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One reference to Budget 2022; congratulations to a newspaper printer
Dilshan Nadeera
Cass does not know enough to comment on budgets but one point she noted as given in headlines in the The Sunday Island of November 14 roused her approval plus ire. 'Budget transfers 'black' profits of Perpetual Treasuries to govt. coffers'. Cheating must be avenged. However, to her this statement smacked of partisanship, punishing one financial offender who benefited stupendously by being favoured during the Yahapalana Government and reaped illicit gains. It has been mentioned that incorrect or cheating moves were made by the CB during the previous, regime too. But no going beyond the Yahapalana Government. Then she asks tremulously, fearing being axed, what about the recent sugar scam and some other; was it garlic or salt or what? And what about that Nadesan couple with a Rajapaksa half, mentioned one among the very few of this land revealed so far in the papers flying out of Pandora's Box. The wealthy couple is in really high company with the likes of Putin and other bigwigs named. So, Sri Lanka may be a dot in the world, but it has made it to the Pandora Papers. Such is the corruption here! Glad the bond scam during the Yahapalana regime has to be paid for by illegal gains being acquired by the government, but it would have been laudatory if all or the largest scams perpetuated by others were also exposed and punished.
Budgets are hardly taken notice of by us Ordinaries nowadays since we believe next to nothing noted in them. In this one there are the usual sops to various groups like teachers and principals with Treasury coffers depleted to almost rock bottom in SL rupees and dollars. So more hurried printing of rupees and up goes inflation and prices of even essentials with it. Never mind, the people can starve or eat one meal of manyokka or bathala, while the extended Family and sycophants are well stocked in food and money.
Sabry saves his post
A teeny weeny change of wording (sure only letter not spirit) in a contract or whatever and Minister of Justice, Ali Sabry, does not have to carry out his threat of resigning from the Cabinet over the resounding slap he received from the Prez appointing the yellow robed Gnanasara Thera as Head of the Task Force to thrash out One Country One Law business. Well, we lost our respect for this one Cabinet Minister whom we heartily approved of, even admired. He is educated, suave, handsome to boot and such a contrast physically, mentally, educationally and in manners to most others in the Cabinet. We thought here was one Minister who would carry out his threat. He did receive shameful treatment since he was totally unaware of the appointment to a post that comes completely within his portfolio. But no, he was placated or he placated himself and did not resign. Cass invariably sees the glass half full, so she boosts her righteous indignation with the consoling thought that one Minister of State the public can look up to, stays on in the Cabinet.
Congratulations on 40th anniversary
Cassandra congratulates The Island on its 40th anniversary which was on Tuesday 16 November. And thus a word of thanks to all newspapers that come off Upali Newspapers Ltd printing presses, particularly in Cass' case the The Island and The Sunday Island. This is a remarkable achievement in Sri Lanka for a newspaper to live so long and impart the impression it will live on, in spite of obstacles and difficulties. As the chairperson, Lakmani Ratwatte Welgama notes in the 40th Anniversary supplement: "The Island was not started solely to cater to the people's right to be informed. Promoting the national interest was also one of its main objectives. The reading public is appreciative of the manner in which The Island has safeguarded national interest in a country which engages with and is open to the rest of the world."
Yes, it has maintained an even keel, balancing well between political parties and governments and giving the public unprejudiced, generally unslanted views and opinions, also pointing out lapses when necessary. We remember with gratitude the founder, Upali Wijewardena. His untimely death was one of the greatest losses to the country. It was said his plane nose-dived into the sea on his way home to Sri Lanka from a business trip to a South East Asian country, leaving no clues or traces whatsoever. Some however, would not accept this explanation. Another future leader, Gamini, who would really have led the country to peace, if not prosperity, was assassinated by the LTTE. This was during the regime of Premadasa Senior. Upali and Gamini were able to do so much good for the country, and poised to do so. That is the fate of this country, or was it Kuveni's curse at work. This curse seems to be very busy nowadays!
As Cass mentioned earlier, the tone and slant of the newspapers that roll off the printing presses of Upali Newspapers Ltd., report news and views which are not strongly slanted to one race or one religion.
The fate of the s… ship
Cass gave only the first letter of the earned name of the Chinese ship carrying organic manure along with micro-organisms injurious to our soil. The Sinhala translation of that sobriquet, as heard pronounced by a monk, is much more telling. The ship navigated in mysterious ways across seas but finally came to Sri Lankan waters just south of the port of Colombo, determined to unload its unholy cargo in spite of a refusal backed by scientific test results. The arm of the Sri Lanka government seems to be twisted: A third scientific test is demanded. Cass hopes very fervently the ship won't be allowed to unload its tonnes of s… manure. This is while conjecturing on the fate of our beloved country on Wednesday, November 17. The manure is from a Chinese company but the representative of the government of China here in Colombo, is moving strong in the matter. China has been benevolent to us and we have been more than welcoming. Are we unloading the cargo and distributing it too disregarding potential adverse results to precious agricultural land? Cass remembered how President Premadasa proclaimed Great Britain's ambassador to Sri Lanka, David Gladstone, persona non grata merely because he made some remarks after visiting a polling booth during a general election. We were upstanding and not corrupt then.
On that note Cass says bye bye, hoping the ship with its organic manure intact would have moved back to China. Also, that some relief will be forthcoming from the soaring costs of bare essentials for mere existence, to us Ordinaries and thousands disadvantaged.
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IN BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS (1952), FRANTZ FANON, the political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique, showed the importance of native language for the colonised to gain independence, decolonise knowledge and come out of their subordination.
By Darshi Thoradeniya
I would like to throw out some ideas on the importance of critical thinking in higher education especially in relation to history teaching by expanding the profound thoughts on decolonising education, expressed by Harshana Rambukwella, earlier in this column.
Just as educational institutions served to colonise subjects in colonial settings, the decolonising project also started through education. In the discipline of history, for instance, we constantly attempt to decolonise knowledge that has been created about the past and create new knowledge about the past through critical inquiry. In other words, critical inquiry is the tool that is used to decolonise knowledge. Thus, these two elements – decolonising knowledge and critical thinking – need to be linked in our discussions of higher education in post-colonial settings like Sri Lanka.
As Louis Althusser (1918-1990) argued, educational institutions are ideological state apparatuses used to promote and reinforce the ideology of the dominant classes. Through the national curriculum, government and private schools, in Sri Lanka, carry out this task meticulously. However, universities do not have a national curriculum; instead they have a subject benchmark statement that needs to be conceded to. Humanities and social sciences curricula are designed to generate critical engagement with key concepts, theories, texts and events. Thus, the school curriculum is unlearnt and critical thinking learnt at the university.
Critical thinking can take different forms according to the field of inquiry, but being able to question existing taken for granted knowledge is a crucial aspect of critical thinking. It is when knowledge is problematised by asking questions, such as who produced the knowledge, for whom it was produced, and by analyzing what sources were drawn upon to create the knowledge, do we become aware of the colonial mindset that we have developed and nurtured over the years through the school curriculum.
This is best illustrated through the way we teach and learn history in schools and perhaps even in some universities. Within the school curriculum, history is taught with an overwhelming emphasis on Sinhala Buddhist culture as if it is a pure, untainted culture sustained over 2500 years. This ideology is put forward mainly through uncritical engagement with sources. Mahawamsa (the great chronicle) is a key primary source that has shaped the history of Sri Lanka. At school level, we are not taught to question the intentions of the author, the sources analysed nor the audience for which the Mahawamsa was written. Sinhalese Buddhist culture became the dominant ideology with the involvement of colonial administrators, such as Alexander Johnston – the Chief Justice of Ceylon from 1811 to 1819 – who played an influential role in the translation of the Mahawamsa to English in the early 1800s. By neglecting these questions, we overlook the fact that this island has been situated in the trade route between the West and the East since the 12th century, and the possibilities of other narratives of ethnicity that could emerge by virtue of its location. Such possibilities are unfortunately not explored in schools because of lacking critical engagement on the historiography of Sri Lanka.
History writing in the colonies was essentially a production of colonial masters, hence a production of colonial knowledge. These histories were written by European travellers, missionaries, officials and administrators of trading companies, such as the Dutch East India Company or the British East India Company. Renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar charts how 19th century utilitarian and nationalist ideas in Europe influenced the Scottish economist and political theorist James Mill making him interpret Indian civilisation as static, leading him to divide Indian history into three sections – Hindu civilisation, Muslim civilisation and the British period – in his work History of British India (1817). The static character of Indian society with its despotic rulers became accepted as "truth" in Indian history as British colonial administrators were mandated to read the text before taking up duties in colonial India. The idea of oriental despotism would also justify the introduction of the British legal and administrative system to India. This colonial historiography remained unchallenged until decolonisation of knowledge took place in mid-20th century India.
When looking at the historiography of Ceylon, we can see many parallels with Indian historiography. Colonial administrators, such as Emerson Tennant and Codrington wrote a somewhat linear, continuous history of Ceylon emphasizing a Sinhalese Buddhist narrative centered on the kingdoms of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Dambadeniya, Yapahuwa, Kurunegala, Gampola and Kotte. By the 1970s, a group of Marxist historians started applying critical inquiry to the discipline of history and actively decolonising historical knowledge.
In Black Skin, White Masks (1952), Frantz Fanon, the political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique, showed the importance of native language for the colonised to gain independence, decolonise knowledge and come out of their subordination. He believed that human imagination could only be truly expressed through native language and could never be accomplished through the language of the colonial master. Taking this language argument further, Palestinian American public intellectual Edward Said showed in his seminal work Orientalism (1978), how Eurocentric prejudices shaped peoples' imagination of the Orient (i.e., the Middle East and Asia) as barbaric, backward and traditional, and how such understandings were ultimately bestowed the status of scientific knowledge.
Similar decolonising experiences and projects can be traced in Latin American and African settings. Latin American cultural anthropologist Walter Mignolo believes that formal educational institutions established by the colonisers must be dismantled in order to decolonise the mindset of the people. Otherwise, people's imaginations are trapped within the knowledge that is produced by these institutions. If people are to freely imagine and experience epistemic knowledge, they should be free from formal boundaries.
The faculties of humanities and social sciences in state universities have a gigantic task in hand. How should we further the project of decolonisation? A first step might be to start teaching Sinhala, Tamil and English languages to all humanities and social sciences undergraduates to facilitate understanding the indigenous cultures in which a specific knowledge is produced. At present, history writing mainly takes place within bilingual settings, and very rarely in trilingual settings, because very few historians are trilingual in Sri Lanka. The inability to comprehend the third language (i.e., Sinhala or Tamil) limits the historian from understanding the mentality of the so called 'other'.
If we do not know the 'other' colonial subject, how are we to write a history of Sri Lanka? Not knowing the other's language means we can only produce knowledge about one particular segment of society. Historians conversant in Sinhala and English end up servicing the hegemonic discourse (i.e., Sinhala Buddhist ideology), while historians conversant in Tamil and English end up creating an alternative narrative that is very unlikely to reach main stream historiography. There lies a fundamental problem that we need to address in decolonising university education. One suggestion in this regard would be to initiate exchange programmes between departments of national universities so that undergraduates as well as staff will be able to engage with the decolonising project in a holistic manner.
(Darshi Thoradeniya is a Senior Lecturer attached to the Department of History at the University of Colombo.)
Kuppi is a politics and pedagogy happening on the margins of the lecture hall that parodies, subverts, and simultaneously reaffirms social hierarchies.
Australian antics and Djokovic's disgrace!
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana
It was a drama like no other! It is rarely that one and all involved in a saga ends up being a loser and that is exactly what happened with the 'Australian Open' fiasco. Novak Djokovic, his family, Tennis Australia, The Government of Victoria, Federal Government of Australia, the Serbian President and even the media have exposed chinks in their armour! Perhaps, the only people delighted would be our politicians who could now claim, justifiably, that incompetence is a trait shared by their ilk in the developing world, too!
Many, especially youngsters, would look up to sports stars for inspiration. Though many sports are no longer what they used to be, having undergone an unholy metamorphosis to be businesses, still a greater degree of honesty is expected of sports stars than from politicians. After all, sportsmanship is a term often used to express fair and generous behaviour. Considering all this, perhaps, the bulk of the blame should go to Novak Djokovic, the number one male tennis player who could have created history, had he won the Australian Open by being the Male Tennis player with the most 'Grand Slams'. Perhaps, in his overenthusiasm to achieve this, he attempted to find ways to compete without being vaccinated for Covid. But it failed, and the 11-day drama was finally over when he was deported on Sunday evening.
In a way, it is very unfortunate that Djokovic had to make that sacrifice for the sake of a strong-held belief of his. Though he has not been directly involved in any anti-vaccination campaigns, his refusal to have the Covid-19 vaccine had been made use of by anti-vaxxers on social media. At the very beginning of the epidemic, he got into trouble by organising a tournament in Serbia, where a number of players, including himself, got infected. Though there were rumours that he was not taking vaccines due to medical contraindications, it is very likely the actual reason is his going by the opinion expressed by some specialists that infection gives better immunity than vaccination.
Though Djokovic's vaccination status had been shrouded in secrecy for a long time, what transpired during this fiasco confirmed that he was not vaccinated and that there were no medical contraindications for vaccination. Whatever your beliefs or however important you are, one is still bound by rules and regulations. Australia is among the countries that imposed the strictest controls during the pandemic. In fact, many Australian citizens were stuck in many countries unable to return home, some for over a year. Even now, only dual vaccinated are allowed entry. If Djokovic had wished to stick to his principles, he should have done the honourable thing by staying out of the tournament, which is what some other players did.
It is surprising that Djokovic was given a medical exemption to enter Australia by two different independent health panels––one commissioned by Tennis Australia, the other by the state government of Victoria––after testing positive for coronavirus in mid-December, given that the rules are otherwise. Perhaps, they were more concerned about the success of the Australian Open tournament and were willing to bend rules! It is even more surprising that the Federal Government did not question this as immigration is not a function devolved to state governments. The moment Djokovic announced on Twitter that he would be attending, there was a hostile public reaction which may be the reason why Djokovic was detained on arrival but what followed could easily have been avoided had the Immigration Minister taken pre-emptive action. Whether the state government and the federal government being run by two different parties had any bearing on these actions is a moot point.
Djokovic made a false declaration that he had not been to any other country recently in spite of clear evidence to the contrary but later blamed his team for making the error. Surely, he should know that the responsibility is his, once he signs any form! When he had the infection in mid-December, rather than isolating himself, which even anti-vaxxers would do, he attended a number of indoor public events. And his explanation; he did not want to inconvenience the French TV team there to interview him. Serbian President overlooked all this, to blame Australia!
The state judge reversed his visa cancellation citing procedural issues. A BBC report exaggerated this by stating that the judge had allowed him to play in the Australian Open! Although the Immigration Minister could have taken immediate action, he chose not to do so, taking a number of days to cancel the visa on 'Health and good order grounds. To hear Djokovic's appeal the federal high court sat on a Sunday, just like our courts being kept open to grant bail to MPs! The three judges unanimously rejected his appeal, the Chief Justice stating that the court ruling was based on the legality of the Minister's decision, not on whether it was the right decision to make. Interestingly, BBC implied that Djokovic's efforts would reach fruition!
Perhaps, the federal government was forced to act by the injudicious press conference held, after the success of the first appeal, by Djokovic's family in Belgrade, wherein they attempted to portray him as a poster-boy for choice. It had a disastrous ending by the family terminating the press conference when journalists questioned why Djokovic had attended functions soon after testing positive! After the deportation, Djokovic's father has called it an assassination, of all things, failing to realise that he was hampering the chances of reversal of the three-year entry ban to Australia, Djokovic was facing! Serbian political leaders hitting out hard, calling it scandalous treatment was not very diplomatic, and did not help Djokovic.
The lesson we can learn, except that politicians play politics wherever they are, is that federated states have their own problems, as illustrated by this sad, winnerless episode.
There were varying shades of reactions to this saga. Perhaps, the words of wisdom came from Rafael Nada, who said, "He made his own decisions, and everybody is free to take their own decisions, but then there are some consequences"
Historic task—a non-racist and human security ideology
By Jehan Perera
The media has reported that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be announcing a new policy on national reconciliation in his address to Parliament at this inaugural session following prorogation last month. Apart from bringing peace of mind and comfort to those bereaved by the three decades long war, the central issue of national reconciliation is to find an equitable solution to the ethnic and religious conflicts that have plagued the country since the dawn of independence more than seven decades ago. The focus now needs to be on the development of the country and its economy rather than to support any parochial or ethnic cause and continue with the divisive politics of the past. It is only by this that the country can get back on its feet, and as many countries which had done so following traumatic events. President Rajapaksa was elected by a large majority with this hope in mind.
Indeed, it is unlikely that any other President could have faced the multiple crises the present government has got the country into and remained with its 2/3 majority intact, as it has done so far. The recent announcement of the SLFP, headed by former President Maithripala Sirisena, that it would remain within the government alliance, while criticising it from within, is an indicator of the government's stability. This follows the similar declaration by the three leading cabinet ministers from the 11 party alliance of small parties within the government, who have filed cases in the courts against the government. They too have said they would remain within the government and continue to challenge its decisions that they deem to be incorrect.
There are two key reasons why the government has a measure of stability despite the deteriorating economic situation that is impacting severely on the wellbeing of the majority of people. The first is the pragmatic calculation of the government leadership that it is better to have its critics within the government than out of it. It seemed possible that the sacking of Minister Susil Premjayantha for being overly critical of the government would be the start of a purge of internal critics of the government that could cause an unravelling. But so far it is only Minister Premjayantha, who has had to pay the price for his independence. This has been explained by the fact that the former minister was a member of the ruling party itself, unlike the other critics who belong to other parties.
SECOND STRENGTH
Due to the multiple perspectives within the government, and which represent the diversity of the government alliance, it has been able to reach out to the widest possible swathe of society. At the same time, it is able to woo diverse sections of the international community, including the three big international formations that hold the key to the country's economic progress. These are China, India and the Western countries. China is continuing to provide economic resources on a large scale along with India. Both of these big powers seek to improve their position of influence on Sri Lanka and ensure a physical presence in the country which is being granted. Dealing with China has been the easiest, as it only seeks to gain more economic and physical assets within the country to ensure its permanent presence.
Dealing with India and the Western countries is more challenging as they require political concessions as well. In the case of India it is a political solution to the ethnic conflict which involved power-sharing with the minority Tamil community. In the case of the Western countries it is progress in terms of protecting human rights. With Sri Lanka being a country of interest to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, this means that its human rights record is scrutinised every three months. The forthcoming session in late February, which continues through March, will be especially important. The Sri Lankan government is expected to present a written report on its progress in terms of issues of accountability, truth seeking, reparations and institutional reform. The response of the majority of countries at the UNHRC can have a significant impact as it would influence the European Union's pending decision on whether or not to suspend its GSP Plus tariff privilege which is a source of support to the Sri Lankan economy.
In this regard, it will be necessary for the government to rein in its champions of ethnic nationalism and national security that give emphasis to the perspective of the ethnic majority community alone. This is going to be the great challenge as the second strength of the government is its ideology of ethnic majority nationalism and national security which it invokes at frequent intervals, and especially when it faces challenges. These help to keep the ethnic majority's loyalty to the government. But they alienate the minorities and also those sections of the international community who are concerned with human rights. The country remains deeply traumatised by three decades of internal war, in which acts of terrorism could strike anywhere, a separate Tamil state led by the LTTE was a short distance away and the centre itself was at risk of being taken over violently by the JVP. These crises led to extreme measures that have left indelible scars and memories on the people that are easy to reinvoke.
BOTCHED ATTEMPTS
The botched attempt to explode a bomb in All Saints Church in Colombo and the botched police investigation into it have given the impression of a created event that has been questioned by the Catholic Church. The bomb discovery, in which the Catholic priests did more to uncover evidence than the police, served to divert attention from the 1,000, day commemoration by the church of the 2019 Easter bombings, which killed over 280 persons, set the stage for conflict between Catholics and Muslims and reinforced the need for national security, and racists, to take the centre stage of national politics. On that occasion, as on this, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo, played a crucial role in preventing an escalation of the crisis and in calling for the truth behind the bombings to be known. Like the prophets in the biblical tradition, he is increasingly powerful in speaking truth to the rulers, even truths they do not wish to hear.
Events such as the Easter bombing, and now this latest incident, give the impression of security failure that is detrimental to the country's internal communal harmony and to the international image of the country as a peaceful and secure one for both investment and tourism. Sri Lanka is yet to emerge from the thrall of nationalist politics, and its falsehoods and violence, where political leaders make deliberate and purposeful use of communal differences to win votes and come to power. They have succeeded time and again in this dastardly practice, but with it the country has failed to reach its full potential time and again. The costs have been unbearable, whether in terms of lives lost, properties destroyed and economic growth stymied. Sri Lanka has one of the largest standing armies in the world, with the number of its military personnel being five times larger than that of Australia, though the populations of both countries are about the same. This means economic resources being taken away from development purposes.
The historic task for President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the government is to make a shift away from a mindset that emphasises the interests of the ethnic majority and national security being the preserve of the security forces to a new mindset that includes the ethnic minority and sees human security and wellbeing as the country's need. The Sri Lankan state needs to consider all its people as citizens with equal rights, and not as ethnic majorities and ethnic minorities to be treated differently. And it needs to give priority to human security and wellbeing where gas cylinders do not explode and people have food and education at affordable prices. Both religious leaders and political leaders need to come up with an ideology of the wellbeing of all in which solutions that are beneficial to all are found, where basic needs of all are met, and there is no divide and rule, which is a recipe for long term failure.


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Q: Why do american people use the word "Tube" instead of "TeleVision"? Do the following sentences make sense in modern English if I replace the word "Television" with "Tube"?

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*Any ball games on the tube tonight?

*I was watching a horror movie on the tube.


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#CareofKancharapalem is a class apart. Truly a director's film, driven by extremely well-written characters. The climax is the heart of the film... Congratulations to @venkateshmaha25 on his marvellous first outing👏👏 Loved the film!!!
#CareOfKancharapalem gurinchi already cheppa, so ee Re-Review gurinchi emi anukovaddhu 😊 This small gem makes me say that "I am proud of TFI" . Chinna cinema. Peddha kalalu. Loved it. Thappakunda choodandi.
#CareOfKancherapalem...A Film with a Heart..so Real,so Simple,So True & so much more Passion. Kudos to the Director @venkateshmaha25 & Producer @paruchurimd for giving this beautiful Heart a Life. Maha..Your conviction,writing & Direction are much more then just being brilliant.
This little gem is in theatres now .. plz don't miss it .. plz .
Hearing so much about "C/O Kancherlapalem" from everyone whose seen it, I'm excited to watch it this weekend. All the best to @RanaDaggubati & @SureshProdns.
#CareOfKancharapalem is an utterly moving cinematic treat. In it's raw realism, emotional intensity and conviction, this film stands taller than most so-called 'trendsetters.' Cast and crew👏👏 Venkatesh Maha and team, Rana Daggubati, and Suresh Babu garu.👏👏👏. MUST-EST WATCH.
Suresh Atluri And Finally Watched #CareOfKancharapalem today.
Taking, new comers & natural performances have arrested me throughout. Its like somebody captured their lives in the village without their notice. #CareOfKancharapalem is worth all your time. Kudos to @RanaDaggubati for encouraging good content.
Sekhar Kammula సగం పైనే ఉన్నా, మన చుట్టూ ఉన్నా సరే మనకి పట్టని, మన సినిమాకి కనిపించని జీవితాలు, ఆ పాట, ఆ మాట! ఎంత ప్రేమగా, ఎంత నిజాయితీ గా, ఎంత అవగాహనతో, ఎంత బాధ్యత తో ఒక తెలుగు సినిమా వచ్చింది!
A film so real, honest and from the heart! a range of emotions and a lot of relevant topics as well.
Well done @venkateshmaha25 & entire team!
Sundeep Kishan #CareofKancherapalam is the Kakka Muttai of Telugu Cinema..such a beautiful film..kudos to the director Venkatesh Maha for pulling off..


Ex Navy, first sailing at CERBERUS in 1972. Sailed in an Endeavour26 on Gippsland Lakes while under training at Sale. Spent the 70s and early 80s at sea in HMAS MELBOURNE flying S2 Trackers and a couple of years on helos including on HMAS SYDNEY in 1984.
Had a Duncanson 26, now have the S&S34. She was moored at Salt Pan Cove Pittwater from 1984 till 2006. Now moored off the Drummoyne Sailing Club. Lord Howe Island BBQ in 2014, 15 and 16. Plan to go in 2019.
"Two sailors rescued couple experiencing rough..."
"Help Us, We're Upside Down In The Middle Of The..."
"Fleming wind vane yacht steering"
"Morning Bird keel, pre soda blast. It is bolted..."
"Cisco and Havefun at breakfast."
"Before the soda blast and repaint."


It also comes with a new problem: many of these internet-connected devices don't have malware protection. And it's now been documented that someone is taking advantage. Security company Proofpoint has discovered a botnet attack -- that is, a cyber attack whereby the attacker hijacks devices remotely to send spam -- incorporating over 100,000 devices between 23 December and 6 January, including routers, multimedia centres, televisions and at least one refrigerator.
The attack sent out over 750,000 spam emails, in bursts of 100,000 emails at a time, three times a day, with no more than 10 emails sent from any one IP address, making them difficult to block. Over 25 per cent of the emails were sent from devices that weren't conventional computers or mobile devices. It is the first documented case of common appliances being used in a cyber attack -- but that doesn't necessarily mean it was the first time it occurred, and it certainly won't be the last.
Most of the devices, Proofpoint found, weren't subject to a sophisticated attack. Instead, misconfiguration and the use of default passwords had left them open on public networks and therefore vulnerable to this kind of attack.
"Botnets are already a major security concern and the emergence of thingbots may make the situation much worse," said Proofpoint's David Knight. "Many of these devices are poorly protected at best and consumers have virtually no way to detect or fix infections when they do occur. Enterprises may find distributed attacks increasing as more and more of these devices come online and attackers find additional ways to exploit them."
With the International Data Corporation predicting that over 200 million devices will be connected to the internet by the year 2020, this could prove to be a significant problem, particularly since they are not routinely monitored for malicious activity.


On Controller 2, hold A, B, X, Y, then press Reset on the Control Deck. While still holding the buttons on Controller 2, press Start on Controller 1. Now go to the Options mode, choose "Custom" and you will have more options to choose from.


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Q: customvalidator servervalidate parameters description The ServerValidate event of CustomValidator has 2 parameters: source and args.
What each of them point out to?  Any description of them please.
Thank you

A: Like all "EventHandler"-style events, source will refer to the object that raised the event (in this case the CustomValidator instance) and args will refer to event data associated to this specific event.
For ServerValidate event, the args parameter is of type ServerValidateEventArgs. It has two important properties:

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*Value: returns the value of the input control you're validating (e.g. text in the textbox.)

*IsValid: you set this property to true if the validation is successful and false if it's not.

A: Argument source is reference of validator control and args represent event specific data.
protected void CustomValidator1_ServerValidate(object source, ServerValidateEventArgs args)
{
    if (args.Value != "OK")
    {
        args.IsValid = false;
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With master song craftspeople David Olney and Mary Gauthier celebrating new record releases in these past few days, the signs are right for an Americana review session.
We're breaking the Disc of the Day into three parts. In our female division, we crown Mary Gauthier, of course. It is also a given that David Olney wins the male sweepstakes. The group award goes to Dualtone's esteemed Shovels & Rope.
I have never before heard of David White. But what a talent. He takes home this week's DisCovery Award.
-The Reagan Boggs CD Quicksand leads off with this slow-burning neo-soul groover. She delivers its earthy lyrics of failed romance with a sultry sigh. She is backed by The Coal Men and co-producer Eric Fritsch, who sound as good or better as any band in town. Recommended.
-The title tune of Olney's latest collection is one of his passionate, darkly intense creations that manages to rock your body as well as stimulate your brain. If this man's works aren't already in your record collection, your Nashville songwriting education is remedial. You will not find a finer story teller about the mysteries of love, life and death. On Tuesdays, visit his website for his weekly "You Never Know" streams of singing and musing.
-Like, way-way north. "North" all the way to Portland, Maine, where this duo is headquartered. Their style has an "outlaw" country thump, yet is firmly rooted in acoustic fiddle music. Intriguing, if a little thin sounding.
-This is the tune Gauthier sang at her recent Grand Ole Opry debut (backed by Marty Stuart, Kathy Mattea and Radney Foster, no less). On her new Trouble & Love CD, the sad, languid ballad features Guthrie Trapp, Darrell Scott, Viktor Krauss and Beth Nielsen Chapman. Scott is also prominently featured on the brilliant, atmospheric, gospel-flavored "Oh Soul," and Chapman co-wrote two of the collection's songs. The McCrary Sisters and Ashley Cleveland (plus Scott) are singing on the stately heartbreaker "Walking Each Other Home." Gauthier co-wrote that with newly anointed Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member Gretchen Peters, as well as the stunning "When a Woman Grows Cold" and "How You Learn to Live Alone" (which was sung by Jonathan Jackson on Season 2 of Nashville). In addition to the Opry, Gauthier's album has recently been in the spotlight on NPR's "Fresh Air." Buy this record.
-White is a Brentwood-based pediatrician with a style of vocal delivery that echoes James Taylor and a grasp of story-telling song craftsmanship that is right up there with the best of Music City. He also has one heckuva address book, for his self-produced opus features a cast that includes Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Dan Tyminiski, Bryan Sutton, Paul Franklin and Jerry Douglas. This Long Roots CD is an awesome disc debut.
-The duo's new Swimmin' Time album comes out on Aug. 26, but you can hear this preview of its opening track now on its website. They shout this journey of the soul in thrilling twin harmonies while backed by a punching rhythm section. Be among the first to get on board.
-The Mann brothers recorded their new CD in Nashville as well as back home in Texas. Its single is a loose-limbed, rambling outing that recalls a vintage track by The Band. Jaunty and highly listenable.
–Tennessean music writer Cooper also pursues a side career as a singer-songwriter. The title tune of his latest evokes the promise and hope that come with a new baseball season. The fact that we Pirates fans so often come to the fall in disappointment goes without saying. Sweetly sad and wonderfully evocative.
-Sloppy, simplistic string-band music for children.
-The title tune of DeMeyer's disc is a bluesy Southern backwoods lament that raises goosebumps and lives in steamy nostalgia. Her supporting cast on this collection includes Jeff Coffin, Will Kimbrough, Guthrie Trapp, Michael Rhodes and The McCrary Sisters. Let a word to the wise be sufficient.


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El condado de Piatt es un condado estadounidense, situado en el estado de Illinois. Según el Censo de los Estados Unidos del 2000, la población es de 16 365 habitantes. La cabecera del condado es Monticello.

Geografía
Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el condado tiene un área total de 1140 km² (440 millas²). De éstas 1140 km² (440 mi²) son de tierra y menos de 1 km² (0 mi²) son de agua.

Colindancias
 Condado de McLean  - norte
 Condado de Champaign  - este
 Condado de Douglas  - sureste
 Condado de Moultrie  - sur
 Condado de Macon  -suroeste
 Condado de Dewitt - oeste

Historia
El Condado de Piatt se separó de los  condados de Macon y Dewitt en 1841, su nombre es en honor de James A. Piatt, un residente local quien jugó un papel importante en la formación del condado.

Demografía
Según el censo del año 2000, hay 16 365 personas, 6475 cabezas de familia, y 4726 familias que residen en el condado. La densidad de población es de 14 hab/km² (37 hab/mi²). La composición racial tiene:

 98.83% Blancos (No Hispanos)
 0.62% Hispanos (Todos los tipos)
 0.24% Negros o Negros Americanos (No Hispanos)
 0.14% Otras razas (No Hispanos)
 0.13% Asiáticos (No Hispanos)
 0.57% Mestizos (No Hispanos)
 0.08% Nativos Americanos (No Hispanos)
 0.02% Isleños (No Hispanos)

Hay 6475 cabezas de familia, de los cuales el 33% tienen menores de 18 años viviendo con ellos, el 63.30% son parejas casadas viviendo juntas, el 6.80% son mujeres que forman una familia monoparental (sin cónyuge), y 27.00% no son familias. El tamaño promedio de una familia es de 2.5 miembros.

En el condado el 25% de la población tiene menos de 18 años, el 6.80% tiene de 18 a 24 años, el 27.60% tiene de 25 a 44, el 25.00% de 45 a 64, y el 15.50% son mayores de 65 años. La edad media es de 40 años. Por cada 100 mujeres hay 95.4 hombres. Por cada 100 mujeres mayores de 18 años hay 91.9 hombres.

Tabla de la evolución demográfica:

Economía
Los ingresos medios de un cabeza de familia el condado es de $45 752, y el ingreso medio familiar es $52 218.00 Los hombres tienen unos ingresos medios de $36 762 frente a $23 606 de las mujeres. El ingreso per cápita del condado es de $21 075.00 El 5.00% de la población y el 3.60% de las familias están debajo de la línea de pobreza. Del total de gente en esta situación, 4.80% tienen menos de 18 y el 6.20% tienen 65 años o más.

Ciudades y pueblos

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio oficial del condado (en inglés)
 Historia del condado (en inglés)

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What We Can Learn from 10 Years of Angry Birds
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Birds fly and so does time. Ten years ago a small Finnish mobile game developer released an app that turned mobile gaming on its head. It was the first title to gain more than 1 billion downloads.
No, it wasn't Supercell. It was Rovio.
In fact, looking back into Angry Birds' history, there are plenty of things misremembered and forgotten but that remain significant in terms of how mobile gaming got to where it currently is – an industry generating more than +$50 billion in sales every year.
Work hard, make things
Starting life as a three-man indie studio that came together as part of Helsinki's annual Assembly demo scene in 2003, Rovio famously made 51 games before Angry Birds hit big.
What's often ignored about those pre-App Store days however is that while mobile games were quick and simple to develop, the market was tiny. All companies had to release dozens of games annually just to make enough money to survive.
In that context releasing 51 games wasn't a mark of failure but of Rovio's ability to thrive in this nascent sector. The company was also well positioned thanks to the commercial support from deep-pocketed investors and of Nokia, which despite the eventual failure of its N-Gage platform, was at that point the largest founder of mobile games globally.
It was no surprise Rovio was the most successful mobile game company of that era.
As for Angry Birds itself, the game was smart combination of well-understood game play mechanics, support for new technology, great UX, and brilliant characters and sound. In other words, it was the complete package and plenty of people in and outside of Rovio – including initial publisher Chillingo and main theme composer Ari Pulkkinen – should share the glory.
But perhaps the core reason for Angry Birds' success was the beautifully-tactile manner in which it took the physics trajectory game play of Flash browser games such as Crush the Castle and implemented it on the new touchscreen mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone and Nokia N900. Just pull back and fire.
Everyone could do it and everybody did.
Of course, no-one now remembers the N900, a high-end Nokia phone that used a custom version of Linux called Maemo, but at launch Angry Birds was actually more popular for it on Nokia's Ovi Store than the Apple App Store.
Yet, as the iPhone's star rose, particularly in the vital North American market, Nokia's more international stance faltered, especially in terms of connecting to millions of users with credit cards. Apple's advantage was the prior success of iPod and iTunes.
Building the App Store on top of iTunes meant the hours of enjoyment available from Angry Birds' $0.99 price point ($1.99 for the iPad version) compared excellently with the $0.99 cost of a single audio track, especially as Rovio started releasing more and more level updates for free.
Again, forgotten now, there was a strong debate at the time that developers should charge for updates. After all, users were getting a lot more fun for free. Rovio's ability to pump out high quality updates not only cemented Angry Birds as the most cost effective entertainment on the App Store but killed the paid updates argument stone dead too.
Freemium versus really free
Indeed, as the months went on and Angry Birds was released on the then-Android Market, it quickly became apparent the app economy was about to undergo a radical transformation.
For one thing, Angry Birds was released on Android for free (no iTunes credit cards user base for Google) and it wasn't too long before a free 'Lite' version appeared on the App Store too. Suddenly the ability to generate vast numbers of downloads and monetize a small number of them became the thing all mobile game developers were doing.
The shift from freemium games, in which some content was locked behind a paywall, to Free-To-Play games (F2P), in which all content was free but in-app purchases could speed progress, took a couple more years to emerge. But Angry Birds' trajectory as the first mobile app to one billion downloads in mid-2012, followed by two billion in early 2014 demonstrated the potential global reach of this new industry.
And Rovio's licensing department made the most of the opportunity, with Angry Birds appearing on everything from baby clothes and t-shirts to cook books and bed spreads. Comics, YouTube toons, theme parks and – of course – feature film(s) followed. The Angry Birds Movie 2 is out later this year.
Business boomed yet for all its commercial trailblazing, the fact remains Rovio was very late to the F2P mobile gaming explosion.
As is often the case, the reason was it was so successful growing a business based around the Angry Birds brand, it didn't realise how important the switch to give away everything for free was going to be. After all, who did?
It's ironic then that Rovio helped popularise many of the retention components that made F2P games so valuable. For example it effectively invented seasonal events in mobile games, but it didn't run them within the original Angry Birds game. Instead Angry Birds Seasons launched as a separate game. Similarly, Angry Birds Friends – another separate game – featured weekly tournaments with your friends.
Alongside the launch of new paid games such as Angry Birds Space and Star Wars, Rovio was busy repeating its initial success, not starting again from scratch like fellow mobile developer Supercell, which didn't release its first F2P games until 2012 and is now the highest ranked game developer in the world in terms of profit per staff member.
In comparison, Rovio's first F2P game racer Angry Birds Go wasn't released until late 2013. Working with external developers a raft of other experiments such as RPGs Angry Birds Epic, Angry Birds Transformers and match-3 Angry Birds Fight followed. But it wasn't until Angry Birds 2 that Rovio had a F2P mobile game combining its core gameplay and meaningful live ops.
Since its release, the company's games department has finally found stability and some growth. Rovio's wider corporate woes have been the result of the rise and fall of its non-core licensing activities (which have now been massively scaled back), plus a badly managed IPO.
Ten years on then, Rovio reminds us to work hard and make things. That's it's much harder to sustain and grow success than it is to find it in the first place. That even the smartest people can be short sighted by what's happening right now to the detriment of what could happen next. But, more positively, that great brands last a long time too.
So all hail the Angry Birds. And down with the bad piggies.


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REGINALD HUDLIN ~ The MOVIE EXPO KEYNOTE SPEAKER - Part 1\2
Moderator Yusuf Gad
Reginald Hudlin is an Oscar Nominated Director and Executive Producer best known for The Black Godfather, the 88th Annual Academy Awards, Marshall, and Django Unchained. He is also the former President of BET and former Vice President of the Producers Guild.
YG: Your breakout movie House Party is a seminal film in Black cinema. How did this film come about?
RH: House Party represented something very important to Hollywood. It was a genre film in the sense that they had seen John Hughes' teen movies, they had seen Risky Business with Tom Cruise. They had never seen a movie like that about Black kids. So they were like 'Oh, wait a minute! You took the kind of movies we make, made it authentically Black and you took the audience either to a world they knew intimately but had never seen on a screen before, or a world they had never been to but really wanted to go hang out with.'
And so, suddenly Hollywood said that this is replicable. This movie was made for $2.5 million and it made $27 million US, not counting international, home entertainment and so on. It was one of the most profitable movies of its decade.
That suddenly said we can take hip hop stars and make them movie stars, which seems really obvious now but was a big risk and threshold issue for that film.
It started mainly because I was a film student and my older brother was a filmmaker. He was living in New York in Harlem and I was totally aware of the hip hop scene even before they started making records. And I would say that this is an exciting, new vibrant moment in popular culture, before it became popular culture. And I just thought, this is what I need to make a movie about.
I didn't want to make a movie about professionals in the entertainment industry. I wanted to make a movie about kids who liked cutting edge culture. That perspective difference, I think, was really crucial.
It made it relatable, it had a level of accessibility that people could connect to, and it spoke to classic teenage issues in a time that was very cutting edge but it spoke to universal themes that everyone related to.
YG: So much of your career is tied into the excellence of Black cinema from the 1990s moving forward. You did Boomerang, another spectacular hit. You did The Ladies Man which to this day is one of the funniest comedies. So how do you go from House Party to Oscar nomination with Django Unchained?
RH: You know, you just do what's exciting. House Party I did as a student film at Harvard. I made a little 20 minute short film and shortly after, She's Gotta Have It came out, which changed everything and opened all these doors. So I pitched it to New Line Cinema and they saw the short film and they said Ok. We wanted $2.5 million and they gave us $2 million. After the first week of dailies, they said we could get the rest of the money.
We didn't know what we were doing, our first time making a feature film.
But I knew what I wanted. I had an amazing cast and a great crew and we just got it done. And I said, 'well, I think this is good.' And I remember we had a focus group on the Fox lot and driving there was all this traffic. I thought I was going to be late for my own screening and the traffic there was all these people coming to the Fox lot to see the test read.
They packed the house and it was a dream version of how you want your film to play where bam, bam!
Every joke just hits super loud and they're just standing up high-fiving each other. And I was like, 'oh my God, we did it. This thing works.' And the movie just hit. And I get a call from Eddie Murphy who says he liked my movie. And it's weird because Eddie Murphy and I are the same age, but he was on Saturday Night Live and I had a bedtime. We kept pitching different ideas and then he pitched the idea for Boomerang and I said great.
Eddie is always a genius, brilliant but he never had a great cast around him as funny as he is. So I said, 'look, there's all these great up and coming guys like Martin Lawrence and David Alan Grier and Chris Rock. And wow, there is this great new actress Halle Berry, we should put her in the movie.' And so we put this cast together and made a movie that again, reflected our lives. Me, a young Black guy living in New York, hitting the clubs, hanging out with people who work in advertising or whatever. That was just our lives. And that worked.
The Studio didn't 100 per cent understand it, but it was very successful. And so I finally met Quentin Tarantino. Quentin was a fan of my work. He actually first started the conversation not by mentioning House Party or Boomberbang, but a short film I did for HBO called Cosmic Slop which he knew in great detail. He didn't know why it was a short film for HBO, he felt it should have been a feature and that just started a great friendship. We're talking over the years and he would be generous enough to show me rough cuts of his movies or scripts. One day he goes 'hey, I'm having a party, I just finished this new script, you should come by.'
I came by his house and there's all these great folks and he gave me the script and said 'you planned the seed, this is the tree. Remember that conversation we had years ago about slavery movies and how you basically hated all slavery movies except Spartacus?'
I thought Spartacus was the only movie about slavery that I thought was good and until America makes a movie like that about our experience, don't bother with me. So with that nugget, he went off and wrote this amazing movie and wanted me to produce it. I thought that was fantastic. And that was it for the next years of my life. I was immersed in working with a genius.
Quentin Tarantino, I can tell you, working with him close up, his body of work speaks for itself but the thing that impresses me the most about him is that there are directors who write, and writers who direct. He's the only person I know who is equally good at both things. He's a brilliant writer and a brilliant director. It was a joy to work with him, inspiring and educational in so many ways.
YG: Why was the 1990s so special for Black cinema? What happened during that time that unleashed the creative potential of Black writers and directors?
RH: Well, Black people were more free. Here's the thing, when I was born, the civil rights act had not been signed. It changed shortly after but so when we think that stuff happened a long time ago, no, it happened really recently. In the 70s, you had affirmative action, which basically means 'we will oppress you less'. We will give you opportunities to go college, to get a job you are qualified for, just to do those basic things most people take for granted. What started happening is that once those obstacles began to be removed, not that they were entirely removed, but at least it was less horrific.
Then boom, you have this incredible success in a lot of fields, including entertainment. So you have Black music divisions, and then you have hip hop artists who are working outside of the record business altogether and Berry Gordy did it this way, so they were doing it the same way, outside of the system. And then the system goes 'woah, you are making a lot of money outside the system, so let's take you in into the system.'
That happened with hip hop music, and then it was Spike Lee working outside the system made these movies and made a lot of money and so are there any more of those people in and let's bring them inside the system? And so piece by piece, popular culture acknowledged there was a way to make money on Black culture beyond names they knew. That was the beginning of that opening up. That product they thought was just going to speak to a very small audience actually spoke to a far bigger audience.
YG: Hollywood is always surprised when Black-led movies do well even though they've always done well. Has that changed finally? Has there been recognition within Hollywood and studios in the value of diversity in storytelling, behind the camera and in decision making processes?
RH: I look at it in 20-year cycles. So you have the Black exploitation boom in the 70s with Shaft, Super Fly and Foxy Brown. Those are low budget movies that make a lot of money, they make huge cultural imprint, that can still be relevant today, 50 years later. Then it dies out for 10 years in the 80s, except for Eddie Murphy and Prince. Then in the 90s, boom it's me, Spike and John Singleton and all those folks, and then that dies out except for Tyler Perry and a few others. And now we are in this current era.
The thing about these 20-year cycles is that in each era, the movies are bigger, better and reach broader audiences.
They have bigger budgets and more global reach. In the past five years, there has been what appears to be, what could be, a meaningful shift. For years, I said when we have the budget to do science fiction and superhero movies on par with our white counterparts, that will lead the way to billion-dollar success. Which is exactly what happened with Black Panther. That was a theory I had for a long time that was finally proven.
Now you have more success by Black filmmakers in film and television than ever before. And there's a great recognition of some Black executives and that maybe we need to change how the system works a little bit. Whether that is lasting change, or another 20-year cycle, we will see.
YG: How did The Black Godfather opportunity come about?
RH: I knew Clarence Avant my whole professional life. I had made student films, I hadn't made a feature yet. There were some people in Hollywood who wanted to make a film with Janet Jackson. One of the producers knew me as an undergrad and said 'this kid is kind of talented.' So they flew me out to LA and I met Clarence and basically he got me my first movie deal. The movie didn't happen as you can tell, but I made enough money writing a script that I could buy a computer. And on that computer I wrote the script for House Party.
As I'm in Hollywood, I stayed in touch with Clarence and I realized how important he was and how influential he was to basically everyone in Black entertainment, a lot of white entertainment and politics.
His daughter who I had become friends with said 'I want to make a movie about my dad. I talked to my dad and he decided that he wants you to make it.' This was like a call from Rome, I'm in! So we made a movie about his life. We all thought we knew his life. We didn't.
He's a true Russian doll. Every door you open, there are three more doors and he has a vast, amazing life. We had to make some hard choices like a cut an hour out of his life that's as good as the movie. But what we felt like we got the fundamental essence of the man and his incredible achievements.
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'Me And Earl And The Dying Girl,' 'The Wolfpack' Open Strong: Specialty B.O.
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The Sundance Film Festival's two top U.S. competition winners launched their theatrical runs this weekend, with documentary winner The Wolfpack boasting a robust per-theater-average among specialty newcomers, the second-highest for a non-fiction movie in 2015. Sundance's U.S. dramatic grand jury prize and audience winner Me And Earl And The Dying Girl opened over a dozen runs this Jurassic World weekend, with slighter PTAs than Wolfpack. And The Orchard bowed the third theatrical installment of The Yes Men in 10 theaters.
Magnolia's The Wolfpack lead the, well, pack this weekend with the second-highest PTA, behind gargantuan Jurassic World's $47,870. Directed by Crystal Moselle, the doc grossed $46K in two New York theaters, averaging $23K. Wolfpack's debut was outflanked this year only by HBO Documentary's Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck, which had a $35,685 PTA from its initial Friday-Saturday screenings in three theaters when it opened in late April. Montage Of Heck, however, only remained in theaters for about a week before its HBO premiere.
With a longer potential theatrical lifespan, The Wolfpack has a great shot at becoming the year's highest-grossing documentary. In comparison, the feature opened slightly better than The Orchard's Dior And I, which opened in April with a $22,886 PTA from two locations. Dior And I has now cumed over $965K.
'The Yes Men Are Revolting' Earns An Estimated $45K In VOD
"Already one of the most written-about films of the year, The Wolfpack's strong opening further propels the story of the amazing Angulo brothers into the national eye as it expands [June 19] into 20 additional markets," Magnolia said today. The Wolfpack sold out shows in two Manhattan locations, the Sunshine and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, outpacing the PTA for fellow Sundance winner Me And Earl And The Dying Girl in the city.
Fox Searchlight opened Me And Earl And The Dying Girl in 15 theaters in New York, L.A., Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington, D.C. grossing $210K for a $14K PTA. The title increased 10% Friday to Saturday. Searchlight's Frank Rodriguez said today, "We are happy to have launched the picture amid the terrific reviews and great audience response." Searchlight plans to add 10 markets next weekend, while expanding in current locales. It will be in 60-70 theaters by June 19.
The Orchard opened The Yes Men Are Revolting, the third installment by the comedy/activist duo Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. The feature grossed $15,544, averaging $1,544 in 10 cinemas, although this was a day-and-date theatrical/VOD release, and The Orchard said the title grossed an estimated $45K on-demand and reached the top 15 on iTunes' documentary charts. The Orchard said today the feature had "multiple sellouts" at New York's IFC Center, buoyed by a Skype Q&A with Julian Assange and "support from Michael Moore." More than $7K of its weekend gross came from the Greenwich Village theater.
United Artists opened the first Yes Men in September, 2004 grossing $24,373 in three theaters, averaging $8,124 ($255,364 cume), while Shadow Distribution opened The Yes Men Fix The World in late September 2009 averaging just $621 in 2 theaters. It went on to cume $194,533.
The Orchard will expand The Yes Men Are Revolting to over 20 locations next week including L.A., Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Chicago, Phoenix, Detroit, Dallas and Atlanta.
Love & Mercy made it to the overall Box Office Top 10 in its second weekend. Roadside/Lionsgate added 90 theaters for the second frame, grossing more than $1.76M, averaging a respectable $3,082. The feature about Beach Boys frontman Brian Wilson, starring John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Dano and Paul Giamatti, grossed over $2.22M its first weekend in 483 theaters ($4,601 PTA). Its two-week cume is more than $4.77M.
Bleecker Street's I'll See You In My Dreams remained vivid as it expanded in its 5th weekend. The feature grossed just under $800K in 246 theaters (81 more than last weekend), averaging $3,250. Dreams is approaching the $3M threshold.
A24's Ex Machina tallied another $213K ($1,100 PTA) in its 10th weekend. It's expected to cross $25M this week. And Sony Classics' Wild Tales crossed $3M in its 17th weekend — currently the longest-running specialty title reporting weekly numbers. The feature grossed a still-respectable $25,867 in 24 theaters Friday to Sunday, for a $1,078 PTA.
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl (Fox Searchlight) NEW [15 Theaters] Weekend $210K, Average $14K
The Wolfpack (Magnolia Pictures) NEW [2 Theaters] Weekend $46K, Average $23K
The Yes Men Are Revolting (The Orchard) NEW [10 Theaters] Weekend $15,544, Average $1,544; VOD estimate $45K
RETURNING/SECOND WEEKEND
Love & Mercy (Roadside/Lionsgate) Week 2 [573 Theaters] Weekend $1,765,720, Average $3,082, Cume $4,774,331
Testament Of Youth (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 2 [16 Theaters] Weekend $109,509, Average $6,844, Cume $186,820
HOLDOVERS / THIRD+ WEEKENDS
Heaven Knows What (RADiUS) Week 3 [14 Theaters] Weekend $12,717, Average $908, Cume $50,131
The Farewell Party (Samuel Goldwyn Films) Week 4 [13 Theaters] Weekend $33,800, Average $2,600, Cume $68,903
When Marnie Was There (GKIDS) Week 4 [55 Theaters] Weekend $80,337, Average $1,460, Cume $311,592
I'll See You In My Dreams (Bleecker Street) Week 5 [246 Theaters] Weekend $799,737, Average $3,250, Cume $2,952,299
The Apu Trilody (Janus Films) Week 6 [5 Theaters] Weekend $27,996, Average $5,599, Cume $251,174
Saint Laurent, (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 6 [24 Theaters] Weekend $16,004, Average $667, Cume $365,359
Far From The Madding Crowd (Fox Searchlight) Week 6 [366 Theaters] Weekend $435K, Average $1,189, Cume $10,752,678
Félix And Meira (Oscilloscope) Week 9 [7 Theaters] Weekend $6K, Average $857, Cume $427,503
Dior And I (The Orchard) Week 10 [14 Theaters] Weekend $15,441, Average $1,103 Cume $980,686
Ex Machina (A24) Week 10 [194 Theaters] Weekend $213,400, Average $1,100, Cume $24,706,315
Woman In Gold (The Weinstein Company) Week 11 [198 Theaters] Weekend $184K, Average $929, Cume $32,241,733
Salt Of The Earth (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 12 [25 Theaters] Weekend $19,403, Average $775, Cume $1,247,829
It Follows (RADiUS/Dimension) Week 14 [14 Theaters] Weekend $2,681, Average $179, Cume $14.67M
The Hunting Ground (RADiUS) Week 16 [2 Theaters] Weekend $1,256, Average $628, Cume $387,832
Wild Tales (Sony Pictures Classics) Week 17 [24 Theaters] Weekend $25,867, Average $1,078, Cume $3,027,986
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javac: invalid flag: C:\Users\AUG\Documents\SourceTraceJAVA\epanet2.h
Usage: javac <options> <source files>
use -help for a list of possible options

It is considering epanet2.h file as a flag instead of a file. Is there somethng wrong with the syntax ?
How do I resolve this?

A: Java doesn't know what to do with .h files -- that looks (based on extension) like a C header file so it shouldn't be included in the list of files passed to javac or if it is a valid java source file then change its extension to .java.

A: *.h is not a valid java source file extension.