I’ve been reading a really great story recently. By which I mean I have been playing a really great video game. Specifically, I’ve been playing adventure game Kentucky Route Zero, now on its fourth episode (of five). Despite being a video game, it is…
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Over the past few months, we have been hearing reports that many Surface Pro 3 users are experiencing rapid battery drain which essentially makes the device useless if they don’t have it plugged in all the time. Microsoft has been working on the fix for quite some time now and it has finally been released today. Those who own an affected Surface Pro 3 will certainly be hoping that this fix takes care of the problem once and for all.
When the issue was being reported, Microsoft was quick to acknowledge the problem and it suggested that a software glitch might be to blame. Nearly two weeks ago, the company confirmed that it was indeed a software-based problem and that a fix was going to be released soon.
Microsoft today released the Surface Pro 3 battery issue fix, pointing out that some units were facing this problem because they were not able to properly measure full battery capacity when prevented them from being fully charged.
The company compared the problem to a broken fuel gauge in a car. “If the fuel gauge isn’t working right, the car would also not be able to fill the tank — even though the tank is fine,” it said, reiterating that the battery hardware is completely fine in these units and that everything should function normally after the software fix is applied.
Microsoft does point out that users might not see an immediate improvement. It says that the issue will correct itself over the next several charge and discharge cycles once the update has been installed.
It’s yet to confirm how it will facilitate customers who have already paid money to replace the entire battery unit of their Surface Pro 3. It will first see who had a genuine claim and who simply ran down their battery before it reaches out to those who paid for a replacement within a month.
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We have already heard a lot of rumors and reports about the iPhone 7 and the latest suggests that a brand new color option might be introduced with Apple’s upcoming next-generation iPhone. Rumor has it that the iPhone 7 will also be offered in a new glossy black color that will look quite similar to the Mac Pro desktop. The traditional matte black color option is expected to be offered in the color lineup as well.
Macotakara today published a picture of what appear to be a series of SIM trays from the iPhone 7. We can see the trays in five different colors and three of them are already offered by Apple for the iPhone. These include silver, rose gold, and gold.
Previous rumors have suggested that Apple is going to replace the existing space gray iPhone color with a darker shade. Apple hasn’t released a handset with a proper black casing since the iPhone 5 so it’s going to be a big change if the iPhone 7 is offered in glossy black as well.
The report does point out that this glossy black color looks similar to the gloss finish that Apple introduced with the revamped Mac Pro back in 2013. Apple has obviously confirmed nothing about the new iPhone at this point in time.
Apple did send out invites to the press yesterday for an event on September 7th. It’s definitely going to launch the iPhone 7 on September 7th so we’ll know for sure what it brings to the table.
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India happens to be a very lucrative market for smartphone manufacturers so it’s often surprising if an OEM decides to skip this market for a high-end device. LG did just that last year when it launched the V10 but the company’s fans in the country will be excited to find out that LG V20 launch has been confirmed. The handset itself will be formally unveiled in the coming week in San Francisco, California.
The confirmation comes straight from the company’s top brass in the country. LG India MD Kim Ki-Wan has confirmed that LG is going to launch the V20 in India this year even though this market was skipped for the V10 last year.
“I just few days ago [sic] made the decision to launch V20 [in India],” Ki-Wan said, he also mentioned that the company is planning to release the handset in India within a month of its official launch.
LG V20 has already been confirmed as the first smartphone to run Android 7.0 Nougat straight out of the box. LG is going to formally unveil this handset at an event in San Francisco on September 6th. Many rumors have already come up concerning this device and just a few days ago we saw the first live leaked picture of the LG V20.
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George Wendt, Richard Bangs, John Yost on the Zanskar River, Ladakh, India
George Wendt (1941-2016), my long-time friend and partner, was defined and driven by a holy curiosity, an incurable case of the Quest, always seeking, always exploring, never content with an unturned corner, or unrun stretch of river. Match at the ready, he was ever eager to light the wick in the candle of understanding, even if it set the tent on fire.
He was generally the quiet one in the room, a deep listener, but one with a Socratic list of questions. And the screwier the response, the madder an idea, the more he wanted in. I threw so many wacky ideas at George, not the least of which was partnering in an international adventure company called Sobek, yet every time his eyes grew wide, and he wanted to be in the boat. He helped make the most outrageous ideas navigable.
John Yost and I concocted the idea of Sobek in my mother’s basement, but we had no money, only big ideas, initiative, enterprise and nepotism (John’s father was in the foreign service and we were able to get our rafts to Ethiopia free in the diplomatic pouch). When, as a 23-year-old dreamer, I returned from making first descents down some crocodile-infested rivers in Africa, I was broke, and wrote to all the Grand Canyon outfitters to see if anyone might be interested in becoming a partner in a new crazy international adventure company by investing some rafts and guides. Only George responded, and he become a full partner, and we pioneered many rivers around the world together, from the Bio-Bio in Chile to the Alas in Sumatra, and so many more.
When George put skin into Sobek, I moved to Angels Camp, and set-up shop in his basement beneath a single bare lightbulb, and in front of an ancient manual typewriter. We had adjacent card tables, and from there we produced our first brochure, and sold and organized the first trips, rafting down the Omo River in Ethiopia. It was the opening chapter in the book of international adventure travel, and George was a quiet co-author.
My first Thanksgiving in Angels Camp George called and said the Feather River, which had been dammed, was doing a release over the holiday. Wednesday night George disappeared a raft from the warehouse, we hopped in the van, and made the four-hour drive north, and made the run. On the way back we stopped at McDonalds, and George ordered two Big Macs. “Best Thanksgiving ever,” he said.
That Christmas I asked George if I could borrow the OARS van to drive to visit my family in San Diego. Somewhere south of Los Angeles I picked up a couple of hitchhikers…it was Christmas Eve. They piled in the back, lit up a joint, and gave me their drop-off point. I let them off on the outskirts of San Diego, and pulled into a gas station, where I looked in the back in horror to discover the hitchhikers had stolen all the Christmas presents for my family. They’d also cribbed an OARS hand pump. I called George with the news and he said, with equanimity and characteristic compassion, “Look in the glove compartment. There’s an envelope with $100 emergency cash….use it to buy gifts for your family.”
And over 40 years later, George was still exploring, probing, paddling the outrageous, always ready for a new canyon to descend. With John Yost, the other point in the trine, we ran the Zanskar in Ladakh, India a couple years back, his head thrown back in constant awe. Last year we descended a trio of wild rivers in Laos and Thailand, and during once George capsized and made a long swim through a gauntlet of rapids. But he was fine with the adventure….he’d been through worse many times…and was back in the boat paddling away in minutes, saying his signature “Thank you” to the river for allowing him the experience. This was his unquenchable spirit, and his passion.
We were planning the next expedition, a wild run in Japan, when he eddied out. I owe so much to George. If I said there was an unexplored river in heaven, he would say, “Let’s go do it!”
And a couple of rafts would disappear from the warehouse.
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About 30,000 cases of precut vegetables are being recalled in many Southeastern states because they could be contaminated with Listeria. But how, exactly, do these bacteria get into veggies?
This week, the food manufacturer Country Fresh announced a recall of several of its vegetable products — including precut onions, mushrooms and peppers — after one of its products being sold in a Georgia grocery store tested positive for Listeria bacteria. The recall affects products sold at a number of grocery stores — including Walmart, Harris Teeter and Winn-Dixie — in nine Southern states (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia).
Listeria is found naturally in soil and water, and animals can carry the bacteria without appearing sick, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Raw vegetables can become contaminated with Listeria either through contact with soil or with animal manure that is used as fertilizer, according to the Mayo Clinic. [Top 7 Germs in Food That Make You Sick]
From there, Listeria may get into a food processing factory, where it might live for years on equipment, according to the CDC. Unlike many other types of bacteria, Listeria can grow in the colder temperatures of refrigerators and freezers. “It’s a pathogen that’s particularly problematic in food-processing plants because it really likes cold, moist, dark environments,” Benjamin Chapman, a food safety expert at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, told Live Science in a 2015 interview.
Other foods that have been historically linked with Listeria outbreaks include raw milk, unpasteurized soft cheeses and deli meats, Chapman said.
So far, there have been no reported cases of anyone becoming sick with Listeria from Country Fresh’s recalled vegetables, Country Fresh said in a statement.
But Listeria infections can be serious, and even deadly, particularly for certain groups of people, including young children, pregnant women, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. The infection can cause fever, muscle aches and diarrhea, and in pregnant women, it may cause miscarriage or stillbirth, the CDC says.
The CDC offered the following general recommendations to reduce the risk of Listeria infection:
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Football legend Jerry Rice used a discredited talking point to ask San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to end his protest of the national anthem.
Rice, a Hall of Fame wide receiver who spent the bulk of his career on the 49ers, began a tweet about Kaepernick on Monday night with the phrase “all lives matter.” He then asked the NFL player to stand for “The Star-Spangled Banner” so as not to “disrespect the Flag.”
“All lives matter” is a critical retort to the phrase “black lives matter,” as well as the protest movement against police brutality and structural racism that goes by the same name. The “all lives matter” camp fails to realize that the lives of black Americans are disproportionately destroyed by the criminal justice system, civil rights advocates point out.
Some Twitter users scolded Rice for the controversial tweet and for speaking out against Kaepernick’s actions at all.
Rice’s tweet also appears to reference a quote from Rodney King, the victim of a horrendous police beating in 1991 that was caught on camera. After a jury acquitted the Los Angeles cops involved in the incident, King famously pleaded against rioting by saying, “Can we all get along?”
Rice used almost the same wording on Twitter.
Kaepernick refused to stand for the national anthem at a preseason game on Friday night, arguing that he did not want to “show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Despite criticism from other players and the public, the 49ers quarterback is defending the gesture as a way to protest racism in the U.S., particularly police brutality.
Kaepernick said on Sunday that he will sit during the anthem in forthcoming football games.
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As an outspoken supporter of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, I often get questions akin to the one Stein was asked at the Green Town Hall on August 17: “Given the way our political system works, effectively you could help Donald Trump like Ralph Nader helped George Bush in 2000. How could you sleep at night?” More often than not, such questions are followed by the claim that voting for Stein in November is an act of self-indulgent privilege. Only those with little to lose from a Donald Trump presidency can afford to risk it by adhering to a rigid set of principles that will never come to fruition, third-party critics argue; people who might suffer under Trump’s policies, on the other hand, understand the stakes involved in this election and that Hillary Clinton is the only practical alternative to Trump.
This formulation misconstrues privilege dynamics and misrepresents the identities and considerations of third-party voters and others who refuse to support Clinton, who are far less often White, affluent, heterosexual men than their detractors seem to believe.
The status quo is serving many people poorly. Proclaiming that, because the alternative is “worse,” everyone must vote for Clinton – a politician who has championed policies that have actively harmed millions of people both here and around the world – is, at its very best, patronizing to those who are currently suffering. It’s a promise of crumbs instead of a meal with the admonition that starving people better be thankful for crumbs, as the other candidate might take even those away.
This rationale plays on the fears of disadvantaged people and those who care about them in order to perpetuate current power dynamics. Its use is in many ways an expression of the very privilege it critiques.
Third-Party Critics Misconstrue Privilege Dynamics
Privilege is a multi-dimensional concept, and very few people can claim to speak for the most downtrodden in society. Individuals writing widely read articles about the privilege of third-party voters aren’t refugees from Central America who President Obama is currently deporting – with Clinton’s support, until recently. They aren’t incarcerated for marijuana possession or sitting on death row, likely to stay locked up or sentenced to die if Clinton becomes president. They aren’t living under Israeli occupation, or in deep poverty, or afraid of being obliterated by a drone strike, with little hope for change under the specter of a Clinton presidency. As Morgana Visser recently noted, “many marginalized people are rightfully horrified of Hillary Clinton,” and those accusing nonvoters and third-party voters of privileged indifference to the plight of others have the privilege themselves not to be so marginalized that four, or eight, or indefinitely many more years of incremental change to the status quo is intolerable to them.
The thing is, the argument that the Democrats are the only actual alternative voters have to Trump – that the status quo cannot be radically improved and that incremental change is all that is possible – is one that many people cannot afford. Those of us voting for Stein seek to challenge this thinking, to fight for a world in which the most marginalized people are not consigned to deportation, lifetime imprisonment, poverty, or death at the hands of Democrats who are better than Republicans but not nearly good enough. Third-party voting and abstaining from the presidential election altogether are strategies designed to either change the Democratic Party or create an alternative in a political system that has failed disadvantaged populations for decades, as Sebastian Castro points out.
It’s perfectly fine to challenge the efficacy of that strategy, and I encourage everyone to read compelling cases for lesser-evilsism in 2016 from Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky and John Halle, Shaun King, and Adolph Reed. I evaluate the risks of Trump relative to Clinton and a lesser-of-evils vote relative to third-party voting differently than they do, but I also have a ton of respect for where they and other social justice advocates like them are coming from.
It is wrong, however, for anyone to wield accusations of privilege as a cudgel against those with different electoral strategies, especially because this tactic ignores the voices of Michelle Alexander, Cate Carrejo, Rosa Clemente, Andrea Mérida Cuéllar, Benjamin Dixon, Eddie Glaude, Marc Lamont Hill, Jenn Jackson, Rania Khalek, Arielle Newton, Kwame Rose, Kshama Sawant, Cornel West, and numerous other members of marginalized groups who support alternatives to the Democratic Party and/or believe it’s fine not to vote at all.
Those who prioritize identity politics should also remember that prominent spokespeople for the Green Party (including Clemente and Cuéllar) tend to be less privileged than their Democratic Party counterparts, that a woman has been on the Greens’ presidential ticket every single year in which the party has launched a bid for the White House (beginning in 1996), and that the party’s presidential and vice presidential candidates this year — Stein and Ajamu Baraka — are by far the least privileged candidates running.
Third-Party Critics Misrepresent Voter Demographics
Statistics on Green Party voters in the United States are hard to find, but it’s possible to back out some rough estimates from recent polling. The graph below uses data from four different polls to compare demographic shares among registered Clinton supporters, registered Stein supporters, and all registered voters.
The estimates debunk the notion that Stein’s base is especially privileged. Her supporters are about as likely as Clinton’s to be women and seem to be a little less likely than Clinton voters to make over $50,000 a year or to have the privilege of a college degree. The confidence intervals on these estimates are likely fairly large and the average differences between the candidates’ supporters in these domains, if there are any, are thus probably small, but other evidence also suggests that Green Party voters tend to have low incomes; as Carl Beijer has observed, Ralph “Nader had a stronger 2000 performance among voters making less than $15,000 a year than he had with any other income demographic.”
Beijer also makes an important point about the domain in which Stein and Clinton supporters differ most: age. While age-based privilege is a complicated concept – both young and old people can be targets of discrimination – younger voters have to worry much more than older voters about “what happens over the span of decades if [they] keep voting for increasingly right-wing Democrats.”
Now, to be fair, Clinton voters are more likely than Stein voters to be people of color. But Stein’s share of voters of color is similar to the share in the general population of registered voters; Stein voters are not disproportionately White. Looking at the total population that won’t vote for Clinton, which is a larger universe than the set of registered voters who support Stein, provides an even more striking rebuttal to the those-who-oppose-Clinton-are-White-male-Bernie-Bros narrative. As Visser shows, Reuters data actually suggests that over 40 percent of people of color do not plan to vote for Clinton in 2016. In fact, neither do over 45 percent of the LGBTIQ community, nor the majority of women, “marginalized religious folk,” and people making less than $50,000 a year.
None of those statistics change the fact that I, along with many Clinton supporters, am privileged enough to have little to lose from a Trump presidency. But like nearly all Clinton supporters – and unlike the millions of people who, as Visser reminds us, “do not have the privilege of feeling or being any safer under Democrats [as] opposed to Republicans” – I have even less to fear from a Clinton win. Pundits and partisans would do well to spend less time alleging that third-party voters don’t care about the disadvantaged and more time reflecting on why large numbers of people are much more worried than they are about the status quo.
A version of this post originally appeared on 34justice.
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