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An Alaskan outdoorsman invented a pistol flamethrower that, he claims, is a big help for starting campfires. Ever heard of a match? * The "mission statement" drafted by Tom Cruise's sports agent in Jerry Maguire was inspired by a memo that Jeffrey Katzenberg wrote and circulated to his colleagues at Disney in 1991. * According to this passport from 1941, Adolf Hitler was a Jewish painter on his way to visit Palestine. * How do TV sweeps periods work? * The trailer for a would-be Groupon: The... READ ON
Scotland's Joanna Montgomery has designed a pillow set that creates "an intimate interaction between two lovers, regardless of the distance between them." * The hands-down coolest parent in all of Colorado constructed the kids new lightsabers out of $30 worth of materials from Home Depot. * Sometimes ice crystals suspended in the air create a gorgeous ring around the moon known as a 22-degree halo. * Even if you're no fan of the pigskin, you'll appreciate the parking lot shenanigans at Philadelphia... READ ON
David Milgrim's new children's book Goodnight iPad acts as "a gentle reminder to power down at the end of the day." * The Metropolitan Transportation Authority put out a beautiful time-lapse video documenting this weekend's NYC 2011 Marathon. * Heinrich Himmler, Nero, and Julian Assange aren't the only historical figures who could be mistaken for James Bond villains. Here are six others. * Is Barnes & Noble's new Nook tablet better than the Kindle Fire? Five techies weigh in. * A comedic actor... READ ON
Back in March of 1998, the Mystery Science Theater 3000 gang paid their own oddball homage to Andy Rooney, rest in peace, with a "Rooney-off." * Using data from a nationwide study of 7,000 people, economics professor Jay Zagorsky discovered that the "freshman 15" phenomenon is a big fat lie. * When it comes to flower longevity, a little crushed Viagra added to the water goes a long way. * Not every sports fan is content to stick with such old standbys as baseball, basketball, and football. Here are... READ ON
Diane Keaton has a memoir about her mother that releases in November, and here are 20 other must-read books coming out in the fall. * William Shatner tries to get the vocals just right for his cover of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," which will appear on his upcoming album Seeking Major Tom. * Researchers at Cornell University are tracking your mood swings on Twitter. Well, they actually have been using software to analyze tweets worldwide, and get this: It turns out people are happier in the... READ ON
Stephen King is writing a sequel to The Shining. * Is the grilled cheese martini the next big thing? * What women want, according to the October covers of Lucky, InStyle, InStyle Makeover, Glamour, Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Allure, Elle, and Marie Claire. * Good luck with this frustrating interactive jigsaw puzzle. * 4,000 spectators and 80 pooches gathered in Del Mar, California, for the Surf Dog Surf-A-Thon. * Here's a two-minute video of movie clips from the 1990s that reference the 1990s. *... READ ON
One-minute physics: Is Schrödinger's cat dead or alive? * In 1973, Francis Ford Coppola wrote Marlon Brando a letter, urging the eccentric icon to return for The Godfather, Part II. "At times, I try really hard to imagine what you're like in your thoughts." You have to read this thing for yourself. * The Illustrious Omnibus of Superpowers #2 is a poster-sized chart categorizing over 300 superpowers and the heroes, villains, and beasts who wield them. * George Takei reassures humanity about the new... READ ON
To honor the life of Doritos creator Arch West, who died yesterday in Dallas at the age of 97 (R.I.P.), here are 17 adorable animals enjoying his artificially flavorful snack. * Physicists shock the science world by announcing that neutrinos can travel faster than light. Could Albert Einstein's theory have been wrong? * This is fun for the whole family: Watching a grandma do a keg stand at a LSU tailgate party. * Nostalgic video gamers at the Visualization Center in Norrköping, Sweden, recreated a... READ ON
Mail-order jet packs, build-your-own phonograph, and 11 more do-it-yourself kits (and their advertisements) that took some healthy stabs at American consumerism over the years. * Ready for an eye-popping pic? Have a look at these thunderheads looming over the Grand Canyon. * Long before Harrison Ford donned the fedora, Chevy Chase was supposedly considered for the role of Indiana Jones. * The White House recently unveiled a new webpage called We The People through which average Americans can start... READ ON
After 19 innings on Tuesday night, an umpire at home plate may have made the worst call in Major League Baseball history. * I'd much prefer to see Hollywood put its CGI efforts toward big-screen adaptations of more Dadaist and colorful board games like Candyland and Mousetrap. Instead, according to this trailer, it looks like we'll be standing in line to see Hasbro's Battleship in 2012. * How to make Vietnamese coffee ice pops. * A young man named Corey Starliper has come forward with a theory on... READ ON
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One night at Twiga, the exclusive beach club at Forte dei Marmi
FORTE DEI MARMI (All year around): The Twiga at Forte dei Marmi is nowadays known as the most famous and frequented beach club of the Versilian area, where many national and international Jet-Set are coming to enjoy their holidays. The beach, ethnic and at the same time modern, it is equipped with all the comfort standards and it provides elegant awnings and chaises-longues. During the day, at the Chiringuito bar, it can be possible to sip refreshing and smoothly cocktails and later on, at the sunset and after the appetizer, the Twiga turns into a Disco Club.

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My artwork is influenced by the shifting and temporal nature of my surroundings and the traces that this passage of time leaves behind. Specifically, I am interested in fleeting moments and sensations which are not fully understood because they are only briefly glimpsed or experienced. For me, the process of making is a way of lending physical form to the traces left behind by time— a place where materials are used to reconsider and reinvent specific memories.
In my practice, I explore these ephemeral qualities through pieces which remove the boundaries between painting, drawing, and sculpture in order to offer different perspectives on an experience. I consider each artwork to be a small piece of a memory, which builds upon and questions the viewpoints offered by the previous artworks that I have created.
Although my art is based on specific points of reference, the creation of artwork in the studio evolves through intuitive processes—where I allow materials to be reshaped by the layering of time, memory, and the imagination. Each painted mark or folded crease suggesting an action which has already occurred, but where its memory has lingered through the marks that it has left behind. These actions coalesce to build their own visual dialogue where strands of different memories start to compete with one another, blur together, overlap, and erase one another. For me, the surface of an object is a place where these elusive moments can be transformed into tangible spaces. Similar to the process of attempting to remember an event; each form, mark, or color comes to the foreground to exist briefly within the experience of the artwork before dissolving.


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Now Roberts explains the failure of the mandate to satisfy the Commerce clause is not the "end of the matter":
Because the Commerce Clause does not support the individual mandate, it is necessary to turn to the Government's second argument: that the mandate may be upheld as within Congress's enumerated power to "lay and collect Taxes."
The Government's tax power argument asks us to view the statute differently than we did in considering its commerce power theory. In making its Commerce Clause argument, the Government defended the mandate as a regulation requiring individuals to purchase health insurance. The Government does not claim that the taxing power allows Congress to issue such a command. Instead, the Government asks us to read the mandate not as ordering individuals to buy insurance, but rather as imposing a tax on those who do not buy that product.
Under the mandate, if an individual does not maintain health insurance, the only consequence is that he must make an additional payment to the IRS when he pays his taxes.
That, according to the Government,means the mandate can be regarded as establishing a condition—not owning health insurance—that triggers a tax—the required payment to the IRS. Under that theory, the mandate is not a legal command to buy insurance. Rather, it makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income.
And if the mandate is in effect just a tax hike on certain taxpayers who do not have health insurance, it may be within Congress's constitutional power to tax. The Government asks us to interpret the mandate as imposing a tax, if it would otherwise violate the Constitution. Granting the Act the full measure of deference owed to federal statutes, it can be so read...
While the individual mandate clearly aims to induce the purchase of health insurance, it need not be read to declare that failing to do so is unlawful. Neither the Act nor any other law attaches negative legal consequences to not buying health insurance, beyond requiring a payment to the IRS. The Government agrees with that reading, confirming that if someone chooses to pay rather than obtain health insurance, they have fully complied with the law.


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Peel and grate the carrots.
Simmer in milk with the cardamom until liquid evaporates.
Heat ghee in a heavy pan and add the carrot mixture.
Cook over a gentle flame for 10-15 minutes.
Stir in sugar and continue cooking until the halwa turns deep reddish color.
Stir in dried fruit and serve.
Some other recipes -
Gajjar ka Gajrella
Lahori Special Gajrella from Gawal Mandi
Vegan Gajar ka Halwa
Microwave Gajar ka Halwa
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These days, there isn't much that sets one scanner apart from another, aside from ease of use and software. They all perform more or less the same functions and feature similar specs.
"Unfortunately, consumers are using specifications as a key factor in buying scanners," says Kristy Holch, an analyst with InfoTrends Research Group Inc. "But the resolution and bit depth are the same in most models. Claims of higher resolution and bit depth don't necessarily translate into a better scanner for the user. Even comparing speeds can be difficult. It's very subjective because it depends on what is being scanned--its density, details and colors. Brand names, [bundled] software and support services are the most important criteria [when purchasing a scanner]."
Many of the scanners sold in retail stores cost less than $150, and some, with rebates, sell for as little as $50. But many stores report a pretty high return rate for these models--not because of faulty hardware but because the lowest-priced scanners often use third-party software incompatible with other applications. If you buy such a scanner, be prepared to buy extra software, which can cost anywhere from $49 to $199.
Connection requirements could well decide your choice and the price you pay for a scanner. Some scanners require Windows 98 and a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port (which hikes the price as much as $50 above scanners that hook up to a standard parallel port). Other models work with Windows 95, 98 and NT 4.0 through both a USB and a parallel port. Some older PCs aren't equipped with USBs, so check your outlets before shopping for a scanner--or be prepared to pay extra to have a new port or card installed. Also consider your electrical outlets; transparency adaptors require a separate power outlet in addition to your PC.
Speed is another issue to consider. Several scanners come with free, high-speed SCSI connector cards. Mustek's fastest scanner is the Paragon 1200 FS. It has a fast SCSI-II connector and a sensor in its lid that, when raised, automatically activates the scanning software. After 20 minutes of nonuse, the scanner will automatically shut itself off.
Think you're ready to shop for a scanner? Don't do anything until you review these tips:
- Analyze your most frequently used applications, then compare models in the same price range that meet those needs.
- Know which ports your computer already has, and decide whether you're willing to spend more money to make room for extra ports.
- Determine how important ease of use is to you. If your new scanner is too complicated, you and your staff probably won't take advantage of all its functions.
- Don't be drawn in by price alone; you may have to add expensive software later.
- Check out the lid. Some are height-adjustable but not removable.
- Always ask for a demonstration. Take along a sample image that the salesperson can scan.
- Opt for a recognized brand name to ensure reliable service and support.
Like this article? Get this issue right now on iPad, Nook or Kindle Fire.
This article was originally published in the January 2000 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Fantastic Scans.


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Traditional Pecan PiePecans are traditional in this popular cousin of the custard pie, but you can try it with other favorites like walnuts, almonds, or cashews.
Nutrition FactsCalories 586 Calories from Fat 312 (53%) (55%)Total Fat 36g (45%)Saturated Fat 9g Polyunsaturated Fat 0g Monounsaturated Fat 0g (40%)Cholesterol 121mg (13%)Sodium 309mg (0%)Potassium 0mg Total Carbohydrate 65g (8%)Dietary Fiber 2g Sugars 0g Sugar Alcohols 0g (12%)Protein 6g * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Nutrition facts are calculated by a food expert using nutritional values provided by the USDA for common products used as recipe ingredients. Actual nutritional values may differ depending on the amounts or products used and can be affected by cooking methods. Copyright 2015 Aisle7. All rights reserved. Aisle7.com Read our healthy recipe definitions. Learn more about Aisle7, the company. Learn more about the authors of Aisle7 products. The information presented here is for informational purposes only and was created by a team of US-registered dietitians and food experts. Consult your doctor, practitioner, and/or pharmacist for any health problem and before using any supplements, making dietary changes, or before making any changes in prescribed medications. Information expires June 2016. |


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We Want To Hear Your Music
Do you write and record wonderful songs or great instrumental music?
Does your band want a very fair deal with a small label that has great wordwide distribution and a great reputation?
Do you lay awake at night gnashing your teeth, convinced that your material, your art, would change the world if only they could get to hear it?
Then APE would very much like to listen to your stuff. Don't be shy, send in your recordings and who knows, you could be just what we are looking for.
OK, so what are we looking for exactly? Hmmm, thats a rather tough one, its almost easier to tell you what we don't want. Like…Dont send in amazing stuff made up of samples of other peoples songs. Impossible to get clearance for Dylan, Stones and Beatles bits no matter how good you think it makes your songs sound. Besides if they did clear them{in your dreams}, you'd end up giving all your royalties to the artists you've nabbed from. So NO nicking from your fave discs. Don't send in just you mumbling into a cassette machine with no instrumental input, only to wrap the package in 6 sheets of foolscap apologising for not getting it together in time, not being a good enough piano/gutar/zither player,promising you'll write the lyrics if you should get a deal etc. With current standards of home recording and the availability of cheap studio time, do you really have an excuse? Don't send in a disc just to have me waste my time calling you up all enthusiastic like, when really you had no intention of wanting to put a record out, you just wanted a phone call from your hero. Bah! (yes, thats happened)
So what might it be that we at APE are looking for? As corny as it sounds, it will always come down to original songs, sparkling playing, an artistic energy, an unhealthy obsessive self belief and damnit, that mysterious element that hits the spot just for me me me. Peter Blegvad has it, Veda Hille does, and so do the Milk and Honey Band. The good thing about running your own label is you don't have to follow trends and make only grotesquely cheesy commercial decisions for fear of angering the boss or losing your job. Hell! I AM the boss. My label, nobody to please but moi {and a few evil minions}, MWAH HA HA etc.
What do we prefer in practical terms? Ideally we'd want to hear finished quality recordings, remember what I mentioned earlier about home recording and cheap studio costs these days. Isn't that expecting too much and besides, how do others do it? Well Veda rents a studio and engineer, the "Milks" record round at Bobs house and Peter and I recorded in my garden shed. Yes men, it can be done, as the old ad used to say.
Why don't you pay me a big fat advance and I can then blow it on 6 months in Abbey Road? I suppose we could do that, but that's what a major label would do and do you know what you'd get in return for it? Diddly squat dressed in legaleze. Thats right, a tiny royalty you'll wait 10 to 20 years to see. The label would insist on owning the recordings forever despite the fact that you'd ultimately paid for them out of your pittance percentage. Thats the same as when you had paid off your mortgage, the mortgage company would STILL own your house. That's how a standard record deal works.
Ah, I hear you cry, my mates mate was offered a 50/50 deal with a production company.? The other type of deal doing the rounds at present are these production deals. What happens here is you sign to a production company and they say, hey we'll give you a 50/50 split. You think great 50% of the income from the album, fantastic deal, WRONG. What they don't tell you is that they then go and get you a recording deal with a label and on whatever terms they like, not what's best for you. You still lose your rights forever. Then you pay the production company back for the cost of recording the album they made for you. Trouble is , you're on this great 50/50 deal! so the royalties they get from the label they signed your album to, you only get 50% of this, so if they get 15% royalty you only get 7.5%, which is less than a pittance. So this 7.5% goes to recouping the cost of the album not the 15%, which obviously takes even longer. They also always want the publishing, so it's even WORSE than a label deal.
So in cold hard moolah terms Andy, what could I expect if I'm signed up? All artists on APE get a share of the profits on their albums, thats real profits, not a % of a % of an income. All of which means that although we like you to pay for your own recordings {which you'll own, we only lease them from you for a while}, we do pay up front for a lot of stuff. Such as mastering, production costs, artwork, promotion, videos, press etc. When those Initial costs are paid back from the sale of discs and/or downloads, we split any profit. You're paying me for fronting large sums to get you up and running. Basically, I'm taking the risk on you. Sounds fair? Look I couldn't run anything rip offy after what I've been through. I like to sleep at night. Most importantly though, you get to keep your publishing, many major labels will insist on having that off of you aswell when you sign a recording deal.
What might we be reasonable in expecting from you the artist? Really that you have a wellspring of ideas, material and keen-ness, we don't want to spend a long time putting you in the public ear, only for you to have had but one record inside of you {I suppose if the one was THAT fantastic we could forgive you}. Generally we're thinking long term and assume you are too. A willingness to do interviews please, yes one potential signee refused up front to do interviews or be sent anywhere to promote themselves, so we could go no further. Of course if you love playing live, all the better. Gigs can be great for getting that name around, so we're not going to stop you. We may even be able to put you in touch with some agents or people from that world.
So get writing, get recording and get posting. Even if you've sent in stuff to us in the past and heard nothing that doesn't mean we aren't going to like your newer, swisher, more marvelous material. APE really is an open door, if your fantastic, just walk on in.
Send your material to – Ape House c/o Weatherbox Ltd, PO Box 2126, Storrington, West Sussex. RH20 4WF. England.


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Thread-local storage
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Thread-local storage (TLS) is a computer programming method that uses static or global memory local to a thread.
This is sometimes needed because normally all threads in a process share the same address space, which is sometimes undesirable. In other words, data in a static or global variable is normally always located at the same memory location, when referred to by threads from the same process. Variables on the call stack however are local to threads, because each thread has its own stack, residing in a different memory location. The underlying problem is that, since all threads share an address space, no fixed memory location can be used to store the location of the storage.
Sometimes it is desirable that two threads referring to the same static or global variable are actually referring to different memory locations, thereby making the variable thread-local, a canonical example being the C error code variable errno
If it is possible to make at least a memory address sized variable thread-local, it is in principle possible to make arbitrarily sized memory blocks thread-local, by allocating such a memory block and storing the memory address of that block in a thread-local variable.
Windows implementation[edit]
The application programming interface (API) function TlsAlloc
can be used to obtain an unused TLS slot index; the TLS slot index will then be considered 'used'.
The TlsGetValue
and TlsSetValue
functions are then used to read and write a memory address to a thread-local variable identified by the TLS slot index. TlsSetValue
only affects the variable for the current thread. The TlsFree
function can be called to release the TLS slot index.
There is a Win32 Thread Information Block for each thread. One of the entries in this block is the thread-local storage table for that thread.[1] TlsAlloc returns an index to this table, unique per address space, for each call. Each thread has its own copy of the thread-local storage table. Hence, each thread can independently use TlsSetValue(index) and obtain the same value via TlsGetValue(index), because these set and look up an entry in the thread's own table.
Apart from TlsXxx function family, Windows executables can define a section which is mapped to a different page for each thread of the executing process. Unlike TlsXxx values, these pages can contain arbitrary and valid addresses. These addresses, however, are different for each executing thread and therefore should not be passed to asynchronous functions (which may execute in a different thread) or otherwise passed to code which assume that a virtual address is unique within the whole process. TLS sections are managed using memory paging and its size is quantized to a page size (4kB on x86 machines). Such sections may only be defined inside a main executable of a program - DLLs should not contain such sections, because they are not correctly initialized when loading with LoadLibrary.
Pthreads implementation[edit]
TLS with POSIX Threads, thread-specific data in Pthreads nomenclature, is similar to TlsAlloc and related functionality for Windows. pthread_key_create creates a key, with an optional destructor, that can later be associated with thread-specific data via pthread_setspecific. The data can be retrieved using pthread_getspecific. If the thread-specific value is not NULL, the destructor will be called when the thread exits. Additionally, key must be destroyed with pthread_key_delete.
Language-specific implementation[edit]
Apart from relying on programmers to call the appropriate API functions, it is also possible to extend the programming language to support TLS.
C++11 introduces the thread_local
[2] keyword which can be used in the following cases
- Namespace level (global) variables
- File static variables
- Function static variables
- Static member variables
Aside from that, various C++ compiler implementations provide specific ways to declare thread-local variables:
- Solaris Studio C/C++, IBM XL C/C++,[3] GNU C,[4] Clang[5] and Intel C++ Compiler (Linux systems)[6] use the syntax:
__thread int number;
- Visual C++,[7] Intel C/C++ (Windows systems),[8] C++Builder, and Digital Mars C++ use the syntax:
__declspec(thread) int number;
- C++Builder also supports the syntax:
int __thread number;
On Windows versions before Vista and Server 2008, __declspec(thread)
works in DLLs only when those DLLs are bound to the executable, and will not work for those loaded with LoadLibrary() (a protection fault or data corruption may occur).[9]
Common Lisp (and maybe other dialects)[edit]
Common Lisp provides a feature called dynamically scoped variables.
Dynamic variables have a binding which is private to the invocation of a function and all of the children called by that function.
This abstraction naturally maps to thread-specific storage, and Lisp implementations that provide threads do this. Common Lisp has numerous standard dynamic variables, and so threads cannot be sensibly added to an implementation of the language without these variables having thread-local semantics in dynamic binding.
For instance the standard variable *print-base*
determines the default radix in which integers are printed. If this variable is overridden, then all enclosing code will print integers in an alternate radix:
;;; function foo and its children will print ;; in hexadecimal: (let ((*print-base* 16)) (foo))
If functions can execute concurrently on different threads, this binding has to be properly thread-local, otherwise each thread will fight over who controls a global printing radix.
In D version 2, all static and global variables are thread-local by default and are declared with syntax similar to "normal" global and static variables in other languages. Global variables must be explicitly requested using the shared keyword:
int threadLocal; // This is a thread-local variable. shared int global; // This is a global variable shared with all threads.
The shared keyword works both as the storage class, and as a type qualifier – shared variables are subject to some restrictions which statically enforce data integrity.[10] To declare a "classic" global variable without these restrictions, the unsafe __gshared keyword must be used:[11]
__gshared int global; // This is a plain old global variable.
In Java, thread-local variables are implemented by the ThreadLocal
class object. ThreadLocal holds variable of type T, which is accessible via get/set methods. For example ThreadLocal variable holding Integer value looks like this:
private static final ThreadLocal<Integer> myThreadLocalInteger = new ThreadLocal<Integer>();
.NET languages: C# and others[edit]
In .NET Framework languages such as C#, static fields can be marked with the ThreadStatic attribute:
class FooBar { [ThreadStatic] static int foo; }
In .NET 4.0 the System.Threading.ThreadLocal<T> class is available for allocating and lazily loading thread-local variables.
class FooBar { private static System.Threading.ThreadLocal<int> foo; }
Also an API is available for dynamically allocating thread-local variables.
Object Pascal[edit]
In Object Pascal (Delphi) or Free Pascal the threadvar reserved keyword can be used instead of 'var' to declare variables using the thread-local storage.
var mydata_process: integer; threadvar mydata_threadlocal: integer;
In Cocoa, GNUstep, and OpenStep, each NSThread object has a thread-local dictionary that can be accessed through the thread's threadDictionary method.
NSMutableDictionary *dict = [[NSThread currentThread] threadDictionary]; dict[@"A key"] = @"Some data";
In Perl threads were added late in the evolution of the language, after a large body of extant code was already present on the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Thus, threads in Perl by default take their own local storage for all variables, to minimise the impact of threads on extant non-thread-aware code. In Perl, a thread-shared variable can be created using an attribute:
use threads; use threads::shared; my $localvar; my $sharedvar :shared;
In Python version 2.4 or later, local class in threading module can be used to create thread-local storage.
import threading mydata = threading.local() mydata.x = 1
Ruby can create/access thread-local variables using []=/[] methods:
Thread.current[:user_id] = 1
- ^ Pietrek, Matt (May 2006). "Under the Hood". MSDN. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ Section 3.7.2 in C++11 standard
- ^ IBM XL C/C++: Thread-local storage
- ^ GCC 3.3.1: Thread-Local Storage
- ^ Clang 2.0: release notes
- ^ Intel C++ Compiler 8.1 (linux) release notes: Thread-local Storage
- ^ Visual Studio 2003: Thread extended storage-class modifier
- ^ Intel C++ Compiler 10.0 (windows): Thread-local storage
- ^ "Rules and Limitations for TLS"
- ^ Alexandrescu, Andrei (July 6, 2010). "Chapter 13 - Concurrency". The D Programming Language. InformIT. p. 3. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ Bright, Walter (May 12, 2009). "Migrating to Shared". dlang.org. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
External links[edit]
- ELF Handling For Thread-Local Storage — Document about an implementation in C or C++.
- ACE_TSS< TYPE > Class Template Reference
- RWTThreadLocal<Type> Class Template Documentation
- Article "Use thread-local Storage to Pass Thread Specific Data" by Doug Doedens
- "Thread-Local Storage" by Lawrence Crowl
- Article "It's Not Always Nice To Share" by Walter Bright
- Practical ThreadLocal usage in Java: http://blogs.captechconsulting.com/blog/balaji-muthuvarathan/persistence-pattern-using-threadlocal-and-ejb-interceptors


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Thought this would be most appropriate here! Limited Time Magic | Disney Parks
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Thought this would be most appropriate here! Limited Time Magic | Disney Parks
Why is it that every time I hear about "Limited Time Magic" I can't get the thought outta' my head that, along with too many other things, TWDC is now gonna' be cutting back on The Magic and only offering it at limited times...?
I would say all of the magic is gone now. There certainly is no longer a compelling reason to spend $100+ a day to go to Walt Disney World.
It seems the reviews of Limited Time Magic is going over better in Disneyland than Disney World as a good chunk of Disneyland's visitors are in the parks very frequently where WDW on a whole is more an International vacation destination.
This weeks magic in WDW....
Beautifully Disney cosmetics line debuts, yes, that is Limited Time Magic, matches skin tone of some of your favorite Disney Characters. March 1-31st.
Spring Trolley Show March-May 12th.
Limited Time Magic in MK today.
Not thinking I'd stick around to watch this.
And for one week only Disney will give the guests the opportunity to BUY retro Tshirts from a truck parked down on the Westside of DTD.
Guess it is better than the limited time magic of being able to purchase make-up. I'm having a hard time wrapping myself around this years NYE announcement of Limited Time Magic. The Limited Time opportunities to spend more Disney Dollars, not so magical, to me anyhow.
So far the Limited Truck seems to be a fizzle.
I spy Duffy, wonder how he is retro? Those CM's look so freak'n bored. Bet they are glad it is only for a week.
Curious choice of a retro shirt. Here comes the truck.
So far the Limited Time Magic thing seems to be a complete bust.
I think we both understand the thinking behind the concept (which plays to the "collector" mentality of the hardcore fans), but the execution has been very underwhelming.
Limited Time Magic feels like a complete stopgap. I thought it was interesting when they announced it, but after seeing the "celebrations" each week it's pretty obvious that LTM was a last minute promotion they threw together because they have to have a special celebration each year.
I'm betting the original plan was to base the promotion this year around all the My Magic+ tech, and when it became obvious that wouldn't be ready for 2013 they hit the panic button.
Since Merida is the 11th Princess, 10 + 1 will celebrate as another Limited time magic event, 930am at Cindy's castle. Yes, wait for it on May 11th. :wink:
And not surprisingly, there will be a special TShirt sold for this special celebration.


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For better or worse, Bayer Leverkusen's Stefan Kiessling has had his fair share of modest seasons. But as his goal-tally indicates, this year belongs to him. Twenty-three goals to date in the calendar year makes him the most prolific striker in the Bundesliga right now.
In addition, his team also appears to be the only one that can realistically overtake Bayern Munich in the race to the Meisterschale, as Leverkusen trail the Bavarians by 11 points. Quite the gap to overcome, yet it's the closest compared to that of reigning champs Dortmund or Schalke.
That's why there are more questions than answers surrounding the exclusion of the player with the most goals in the calendar year in Joachim Loew's nationalelf. Kiessling remains undetected on Jogi's radar of starting strikers, well behind Miroslav Klose and Mario Gomez in the pecking order.
But Kiessling isn't a man of many words. Calm and collected in his demeanour, Kiessling rarely expresses his dissatisfaction with those in authority. It's not his style to engage in public feuds, but last month his frustration was slowly starting to spill over.
He admitted to Die Welt that he was irritated at being omitted and before dwelling on the negative for too long he added, "But I did read that Loew had noticed me." Indeed he had. The day before the friendly against the Netherlands, Jogi made clear that he hasn't ignored Kiessling's efforts.
"Stefan Kiessling is an accurate striker. He hasn't fallen into oblivion."
Loew witnessed the type of damage the striker can cause first-hand. In late October he attended the Bayern Munich vs Bayer Leverkusen match, a game in which Kiessling provided his team with the lead in the first half, and ultimately putting an end to Bayern's 8-game win streak.
But more importantly, the win lifted the curse of the club's Bayern curse: Leverkusen hasn't won in Munich since October 1989. This also wasn't the first time the Leverkusen striker scored against Loew's preferred world-class goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer. According to Bundesliga.com, he's already found the net five times against him.
Even the club's sporting director and much admired former German international Rudi Voeller said, "…he must make it as difficult as possible through his great performance for Jogi not to select him."
Yet, as to what more the player can do to make him part of the national team remains a puzzle. Kiessling is currently tied for first with ten goals in the Bundesliga. He's also registered an impressive 60 shots and has one goal in four of his Europa League appearances. Last season he had 16 goals, but his best season so far was in 2009/2010 when he became the league's runner-up with 21 goals, one behind former Wolfsburg forward and current Manchester City super-sub Edin Dzeko.
Kiessling's ascendance dates back to 2006, when he became one of the country's most lucrative transfers by moving from Nuremberg to Bayer Leverkusen. He appeared to have a dazzling international career ahead of him. At the age of 23 he made first appearance in a friendly against Denmark.
Since then his international trajectory hasn't played out the way it was supposed to, with only six international caps. The last time he represented Germany was against Uruguay during the 2010 World Cup when he came on as a substitute.
Today, he hasn't ruled out playing for his country but overcoming hurdles isn't anything new for the 28-year old. As a teenager he had to take a year-long break from his favourite sport due to an abnormal knee growth. One knee grew faster than the other resulting in an unevenness that brings to mind Garrincha's misshapen legs.
During his days at Eintracht Bamberg's youth academy, he also had to finalize his future career. Hard to believe the lanky teenager with the blonde wild curls also had once dreams of becoming a chef. When he realized it was one or the other and that learning about the art of cooking required cutting into his football schedule, he opted for the sport he loved.
Having an mother who actively encouraged him also helped fuel his passion. Years ago, he told Spiegel Online that his mother rarely punished him for missing school because of football.
"She has always supported me, always drove me. She knew this was my life."
Oddly, his early football concerns dealt more with his physique. His weight was always an issue for his coaches. Before moving to Bayer Leverkusen, his former Nuremberg coach, Wolfgang Wolf, considered him too skinny and suggested he eat more schweinebraten (roasted pork).
His current career path, however, has one nagging rock: the snub he continues to receive from the German national manager. Reasons are plentiful, speculation is rife, but no one has the correct answer besides the coach himself, who has thus far refused to offer a direct answer as to why he's given Kiessling the cold-shoulder.
Perhaps Germany's national coach doesn't think Kiessling is the proper fit in his highly technical and high-speed game. But then again from a technical perspective, neither is Gomez, yet one could argue the Bayern forward possesses a more consistent scoring record for both club and country (at least for the last two seasons).
Then there is the aging Klose, who is difficult to drop because he's an age-defying goalgetter. Time and again, he's proven he still has gas left in the tank.
In Kiessling's defense though, while he isn't a playmaker or known for scoring pretty goals, he's one of those players that's always in the right place at the right time. He's gritty with a great ability to head the ball and his current form definitely doesn't warrant exclusion. What if scoring isn't the issue here; maybe Jogi justifiably prefers Mario Gomez and Miroslav Klose to Kiessling.
But Kiessling isn't the only Bayer Leverkusen player overlooked by Jogi. His fellow teammate Gonzalo Castro, who has also been having a phenomenal season, has yet to reappear on the international scene. Even the club's manager Sami Hyypia added his two cents to the conversation, "I'm not Jogi Loew, but it would be nice for both of them if they were part of the squad again."
What if the duo are just part of a forgotten generation overshadowed by the emergence of young talented players such as Marco Reus, Toni Kroos, Mesut Ozil, Lars Bender, Ilkay Gundogan, Mats Hummels, Andre Schuerrle, Marcel Schmelzer and Mario Goetze to name a few? (That or maybe, just maybe, Loew isn't too fond of Bayer Leverkusen players…remember Michael Ballack?)
Jogi's selection for the Netherlands friendly further supports this view. He opted to go with youngsters Sven Bender, Lewis Holtby and Roman Neustaedter instead, perhaps to provide them with the chance to gain international experience. But the match could have also laid Jogi's ambivalent feelings (if he had any to begin with) about Kiessling to rest by providing him with the opportunity to definitively determine if the Leverkusen player can fit or at least adapt to his tactics, if that were ever the case, of course.
Luckily, his exclusion hasn't impacted his game with Bayer Leverkusen. He's made the best of the situation and has been able to direct more of his energy and effort toward his club.
"I'm not disappointed…I will concentrate on continuing to perform well for Leverkusen. We are already part of three competitions in which we can reach something," he told Bild last month.
At his present rate he may surpass his goal tally from three seasons ago. For Kiessling, however, satisfaction is found in more than just goals. He's striving for greater leadership within the team too.
"I not only try to help the team with my actions, but also by encouraging and comforting my colleagues."
He's also a dedicated father and husband. With the recent birth of his second child, he decided to tattoo his daughter's name on his arm, with the other arm already inked with that of his son.
Now, the only worthy name missing from this narrative is that of Herr Kiessling himself, on Jogi's list of die Nationalmannschaft, of course.


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Happy Music Monday! Pete Seeger always seemed like a pretty okay fella, and it was very nice of him to pass away early enough for me to write this Music Monday. If you don't know, Pete Seeger was a man who believed in his country, stood up for what he believed, and nearly anyone who plays a guitar and sings words pretty much owes Pete Seeger a thank you. So here we go.
Pete Seeger - What Did You Learn In School
In an age when protests tend to get messy and loud, it's odd to see a quiet man with a banjo making a clear statement. But this pretty song isn't saying ALL REPUBLICANS SUCK or LOL DEMOCRATS or anything, it's just saying that you shouldn't always believe what the powers-that-be tell you, which is something any one of us can get behind, right? Plus it's catchy and easy to sing the chorus and you can swap out the complex part for anything you want if you're singing it while drunk. Such is the power of folk.
See you after the jump for a little more Pete.
Pete Seeger & Johnny Cash - The Johnny Cash Show
It totally goes without saying that Pete Seeger was kinda an aging hippie stereotype come to life, and a lot people have hated him for his attempts to do what he thought was right. But, at the same time, here he is getting respect from Johnny Cash. Cash sings right along with Pete on a few of the songs, making it clear they're friends. You want to tell Johnny Cash he's made a mistake in picking a friend, you go right ahead and give that a shot.
Pete Seeger On The Axe Attack
I don't pretend to be some kind of folk music expert, and nearly everything I know about Pete Seeger comes from Wikipedia or passing his name in rock biographies or discussions about Civil Rights marches and how he stood up to HUAC in the 1950s. But, c'mon, everybody knows the story of Pete Seeger taking an axe to Bob Dylan's electric guitar. Is it true? Who knows? And why does that even matter? Like all folk songs, it's about telling the best story possible. The deeper meaning is simple: the new king defeated the old. Even if it's an exaggeration, people will never forget it. They will, however, gloss over how Bob and Pete were pals.
Pete Seeger - Turn! Turn! Turn!
That's not to say that Pete Seeger was always on the sidelines. Want proof? How many times in your life have you heard "Turn! Turn! Turn!" Probably a few hundred just in 1960s recap specials alone. Pete Seeger wrote that song, and others. See? He's not just a phantom in other people's legends. Man wrote #1 hits! You might also know him from a hit TV show (even though his version was a cover, of course). Pete wasn't exactly broke.
Pete Seeger - Dink's Song
Pete Seeger was one of the reasons folk music was rediscovered, and one can notice his legacy to performers like Bruce Springsteen and even occasionally Justin Timberlake. If you don't like his music, you almost certainly like the music of someone who did. So set down that axe, Pete, and walk proudly into Rock Heaven. Rest in peace.
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I was trying to find a version that didn't have a silly video with it, but I couldn't so this will have to do. You also beat me to Turn Turn Turn :P. Talking Atom - Pete Seeger
Thank you for this piece. The clips must not have been easy to find and there are some real gems in there.
I had a hippie music teacher in grade school and we sang this song. RIP, Pete
As a kid in the 70's I had a 45 of Pete singing "Little Boxes" and "Mail Myself To You". I played that record until it wore out. I still hum those tunes now and again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f79O8hf7ILw
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Big four winter vs summer internship
?Just wondering about the internship process at big four. Online it seems big four does most of their internships in the summer, yet the internship advisor at my school claims they only offer winter internships and start recruiting in the fall.
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ERmost do summer and winter...the winter program is usually smaller though. if you are doing audit, you will work a lot harder during the winter since it coincides with busy season for audit. prob get paid hourly and work a decent amnt of overtime. during the summer, you will get coffee and work 9-5.
That's true, I would think
ACThat's true, I would think that they definitely do more Summer internships overall, but that doesn't mean there is anything wrong about doing a summer. You can get a full time offer from either, but Winter internships are great if you're wanting to experience the "busy season" and maybe rack in some good overtime hours.
What he said is true from
ACWhat he said is true from what I know. I can confirm that the winter intern class is usually pretty small compared to summer, but I'm sure it varies by hiring needs, etc.


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Earthsky Tonight — March 18: Venus in Pisces, moon
Courtesy of EarthSky A Clear Voice for Science www.EarthSky.org Tonight, as soon as it gets dark, the waxing crescent moon can help you locate the small constellation Aries the Ram. Look to the west, just above the place where the sun went down. You will see the thin crescent by the head of the constellation Aries. Although we draw in the constellation Pisces, this faint group of stars is not really visible at this time of year. Given clear skies, there is no way that you ... Full Story
Earthsky Tonight — Young crescent moon above Venus
Courtesy of EarthSky A Clear Voice for Science www.EarthSky.org Our sky chart shows the waxing crescent moon and the blazing planet Venus for about 45 minutes after sunset (at mid-northern latitudes in North America). Venus sets a bit more than one hour after the sun, and tonight's moon sets over two hours after sunset. Yesterday, at this time, the young moon was much closer to the western horizon, shining pretty much side by side with Venus. Tonight, the moon appears ... Full Story
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Courtesy of EarthSky A Clear Voice for Science www.EarthSky.org Tonight's chart portrays the western sky for about 30 minutes after sunset at middle latitudes in North America. The waxing crescent moon should be fairly easy to spot tonight, because it sets almost 3 hours after the sun. It's a different story for the planets Venus and Jupiter, which are in conjunction today. Although Venus is the third brightest celestial object in the sky and Jupiter ranks the 4th ... Full Story


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"Argentinean girls are amazing. They are the most beautiful women in the world and I cannot wait to come back." So said pop star Robbie Williams during an interview with local journalist Diego Maradona. Ask anyone in Buenos Aires why this is the case and the answer is always the same: "It's in the genes." However, according to a book called The Masks of Argentina, written by Luis Majul, plastic surgery may be the reason why. One in 30 Argentineans has had plastic surgery. Add up all of the procedures—facelifts, liposuction, hair transplants, breast implants, etc., says José Juri, Argentina's leading plastic surgeon, and the only country that possibly carries out more operations as a proportion of its population is Brazil. The U.S., France, Italy and Spain all lag behind, despite being far richer, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. In fact, within six months of the crash, a period when spending in supermarkets went down by 40 percent, plastic surgeons—as well as fitness clubs and beauty salons—were all reporting that business was booming again.


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Like a United Nations of varietals, some of the world's tastiest wines from countries such as Argentina, Chile, Italy, and France are well-represented within Jackie's Wine Bar. Connoisseurs savor the unique notes of each pour while investigating the black-framed pictures on Jackie's coffee-colored walls and the shelves of wine bottles that vie for attention behind the bar by wearing chic designer labels. On Thursday evenings, free salsa lessons invite patrons to set down their glasses and grab their dance partner's hand; Saturday nights feature live bands that serve dulcet melodies as aromatic bouquets serenade olfactory receptors. Fresh air courses through Jackie's outdoor patio, where visitors can alternate between sips of wine or beer and bites of sandwiches, desserts, and appetizers.
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In addition to its elegant, warmly decorated lounge and hand-selected stock of wine, Crush Kitchen doubles as an intimate gathering place?a place that lets groups connect over small plates and test pairing tips doled out by knowledgeable servers. The wine list features premium, uncommon wines crafted by small producers from around the world, and wine-tasting events give patrons a chance to learn about pinot noir or American varietals from wine experts. Crush also makes all of its breads, dressings, desserts, and soups in-house everyday, and daily specials encourage patrons to try out new dishes.
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Evocative aromas ascend from swirling chalices at Veritas Wine Bar, a brick-walled lounge where sommeliers pair more than 70 wines by the glass with a menu of cheese and charcuterie plates. Grape-infused elixirs gush from a temperature-controlled tap system, ensuring uniform sips unmarred by sudden climate shifts or clumsy fire breathers. Reds and whites from Italy, South Africa, and New Zealand slosh into individual glasses or join forces to create flights. Globetrotting artisanal cheeses fall under four categories—blue, cow, goat, and sheep—and deliciously mingle with charcuterie selections. Sippers can scrawl an appetizing epilogue across the evening's feast by noshing on chocolate morsels laced with slow-cooked caramel or pistachio butter, which silence petulant sweet teeth without preemptively donning a bedtime retainer.


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India's rupee rose, heading for its biggest two-day gain in almost four months, after the central bank unexpectedly increased interest rates and an emerging- market selloff abated.
Philip Wee, a senior currency economist at DBS Group Holdings Ltd. in Singapore, comments on the outlook for the Thai baht in an interview today.
Philip Wee, a senior currency economist at DBS Group Holdings Ltd. in Singapore, comments on the outlook for the Indonesian rupiah in a telephone interview today. DBS predicts the currency will strengthen 1.5 percent to 8,400 per dollar by third quarter and 2.8 percent to 8,300 by year-end.
South Korea's won climbed for a second day on speculation exporters are selling dollars to meet month-end expenses. Government bonds gained.
New Zealand's dollar slid against all of its 16 major counterparts, extending yesterday's biggest decline this month against the greenback, after a government report showed the country's trade deficit unexpectedly widened.
South Korea's won fell by the most in a week as cooling growth in the world's biggest economies stoked concern the pace of recovery is losing steam.
India's rupee appreciated against the dollar for a second day after overseas investors increased holdings of the nation's shares to a record.
Yuan forwards fell the most in three weeks, projecting the least appreciation in seven months, as signs the global economic recovery is losing traction heightened risk aversion.
Indonesia's bonds advanced, pushing the two-year yield to the lowest level in almost a week, on speculation foreign inflows will recover. The rupiah touched the strongest level in almost six weeks.
India's rupee and the Thai baht dropped the most among Asian currencies this week as some investors deemed policy makers in Europe and the U.S. aren't doing enough to revive global economic growth.


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The truth about Tacoma: 5 things you might not know
'Nuff said. Credit: Tacoma Public Library.
In Seattle, a city where most people come from somewhere else, origin stories make for reliable cocktail chatter. The California expats have it easy. Everyone's been to the Golden State, and most people have at least one charming anecdote about excursions to Golden Gate or the Walk of Fame. Likewise, the émigrés from small town America. Everyone loves a good fish-out-of-water story.
But if you're from a place like Tacoma, which falls somewhere between destination and corn-fed Heartland crossroads, things can get downright sociological. No one has a Tacoma vacation story, and no one really believes Seattle is that big a culture shock for a City of Destiny native. So Tacoma natives get bigger, deeper questions: What is it like to grow up in Tacoma? How does Tacoma see itself? What does Tacoma aspire to be?
Heady stuff for a cocktail party.
I'd like to think I'm qualified to answer. I was weaned on MSM Deli sandwiches and Neko Case albums, and have fallen into Commencement Bay on no fewer than two occasions. Tacoma is a place of totemic comfort for me: I know the city blocks, and notice when they change. I feel a little wistful when a small business closes, even if it's one I didn't like. I have an extensive history with Tacoma's politics and civic life. Tacoma is a place I love and I think about it often.
Here are five things you should know about the singular culture and politics of my hometown, and why I believe that Tacoma, despite all the jokes and put downs, is a very compelling place:
- Tacoma is a divided city
I was raised in the North End, which gives me a very specific "Tacoma experience" that is far from universal. Tacoma's reputation as a scrappy port city has legitimacy. The Port of Tacoma and Joint Base Lewis McChord are critical economic forces, and major sources of blue-collar employment. North of Sixth Avenue – the recently rejuvenated nightlife and small business core – Tacoma is a very different place.
North Enders are largely white-collar, a mix of industrial managers, attorneys, engineers and college professors from the neighboring University of Puget Sound. The North End isn't necessarily rich, but it wouldn't be one bit out of place in Seattle. The story is similar in the West End of town, out toward the Narrows Bridge, and also in Northeast Tacoma, a bluffside view neighborhood adjacent to Federal Way.
When you move south of Sixth Avenue, where the easy majority of Tacomans reside, life suddenly becomes much different. This is where the working-class folks make their homes – the service industry workers, crane operators and longshoremen. That is, if they live in the city. Poverty rates in this part of town are 60 percent above the state average; unemployment rates are 40 percent above.
On average, Tacomans south of South 19th Street live on less than half as much as North Enders. (See the map below. Source: American Community Survey, 2006-2010.)
The average North Ender subsists on $40,022 a year, a per-capita income comparable to well-off cities like Seattle. Average income for residents of the suburban West End, Northeast Tacoma and the condo-dwellers of Downtown are comparable. Move south, though, and incomes fall by half. The Hilltop, once a predominantly black, working-class neighborhood, has recently undergone considerable gentrification. But despite the craft cocktail shops and hipster bars, per-capita income there is under $16,000, less than 50 percent above the federal poverty line for an individual.
In Seattle terms, the difference between North Tacoma and the South End is roughly the difference between Ballard and the Rainier Valley. Incomes on the Hilltop are so low that there's not really even a Seattle analogue. It's a stark divide, and one that underscores a truth about life in the Gritty City: The level of "grit" varies a hell of a lot depending on your address.
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Posted Thu, Jun 19, 9:47 a.m.
Great article! No surprise that Ben Anderstone has hit this one out of the park!
Posted Thu, Jun 19, 10:22 a.m.
I appreciate this article. I settled in Puyallup 6 and a half years ago. We actually prefer going to Tacoma over Seattle to escape the burbs and chain restaurants. We've even considered moving there. But there is so much diversity in Tacoma it can be VERY puzzling to an outsider. It does feel like many cities rolled into one. This really helps explain why. Thanks.
Posted Thu, Jun 19, 12:27 p.m.
Seattle's derision towards Tacoma is borne out of fear. The fear that Tacoma will rise again and challenge Seattle's comfortable position of Supreme Overlord of the Puget Sound region, if not the entire state. It's not rational, but it's true. Throughout history, victors mock the vanquished as a form of whistling past the graveyard. In Britain today, everyone makes Nazi jokes about Germans. Even teenagers. Britain won the war but lost their empire, and they're still nervous that an imperial Germany will rise again. It's the same thing at work with Seattle and Tacoma. Hell, the only reason that the celebrated Smith Tower has that spindly spire on it is to make it taller than Tacoma's National Real Estate Building (then the tallest west of the Mississippi).
Posted Thu, Jun 19, 2:04 p.m.
Oh yea. That's the ticket! Fear and loathing of Tacoma. Up next North Bend!
Posted Thu, Jun 19, 5:12 p.m.
I worked in Tacoma for a while. Awful commute (this was decades after intercity rail service was trashed and before it was reconstituted). I like the feel of the place, more than my similarly sized home town Spokane.
Unlike Seattle Tacomans appear to have largely given up on their frenetic late-Nineteenth Century boosterism and are not trying to GROW into a world class city. Good for them. Thanks for another good piece of demographic analysis.
Posted Thu, Jun 19, 5:51 p.m.
With one exception, Mr. Anderstone's essay is an accurate, welcome and long-overdue portrait of Tacoma.
Alas that one exception is a falsehood so grave it not only misrepresents Tacoma but in its magnitude and significance is both breathtaking and perplexing: Mr. Anderstone's dead-wrong assertion that "Tacoma voters have...torpedoed two transit measures."
Yes, the proposals were rejected – but not by Tacomans.
Indeed, if Mr. Anderstone is the expert voter-analyst he claims to be, surely he knows the two Pierce Transit propositions in question – one on a special election ballot in 2011, the other on the general election ballot in 2012 – were approved by substantial majorities inside the Tacoma city limits.
The 2012 results show Tacomans voted by 55 percent to save Pierce Transit and protect its mostly low-income riders from further service reductions. In that same election, pro-transit voters also won, albeit by smaller percentages, in the adjacent towns of Lakewood and Steilacoom.
While I no longer have the 2011 figures – and I do not have time today to recalculate them from the precinct-by-precinct data available from the Pierce County Auditor – Tacoma and Lakewood also supported Pierce Transit, though (typical of special elections), the 2011 voter turnout was depressingly small.
But in each election – despite the substantial support for transit inside the Tacoma city limits and in the two smaller towns – the measures were beaten by the rabidly reactionary voters who rule the remainder of the Pierce Transit service area.
Significant too is the fact neither the 2011 proposal nor its 2012 counterpart would have expanded bus service. Each would merely have restored it to the barely adequate level that, by 2012, had already been slashed 43 percent. The necessary sales-tax increase would have been tiny – .03 percent or three pennies on a $10 purchase.
But even that paltry sum was too much for the dominantly white, comparatively wealthy suburban voters outside the Tacoma city limits – where a "transit is welfare" meme inflamed the transit controversy into racial and class hatred that was expressed as venomous resentment of transit users. In those realms – a red-zone of Rush Limbaugh bigotry and Glenn Beck paranoia – the measures were overwhelmingly rejected.
The suburban anti-transit vote in 2012 was 56 percent. In many precincts it exceeded 60 percent. Even so, the 2012 measure's final official anti-transit margin was only 704 votes.
Significantly – proof positive the vote was both a classic suburbs-versus-city fight and a class-war groundswell indicative of white suburban Washington's shift to the Hard Right – the anti-transit, anti-marriage-equality and Romney-Ryan votes in the suburban precincts were mutually predictive. The voters who were anti-transit voted overwhelmingly for Romney-Ryan and were equally anti-gay.
The results from Tacoma's precincts are significantly different. As Mr. Anderstone correctly noted, even anti-gay-marriage precincts in Tacoma supported President Obama. The same sorts of tabulations, available on a post-2012-election website I can no longer find, showed Tacoma's anti-gay voters were also pro-transit.
Why then Mr. Anderstone's false statement? Since Seattle's so-called progressives seem desperate to deny the ugly reality the white suburbs are becoming hotbeds of reactionary ideology, perhaps that's the reason he chooses not to tell the truth about the Pierce Transit debacle. Perhaps he deems it better to tar Tacoma with an anti-transit brush than to acknowledge the suburbs are now Tea Bag country.
Perhaps too he wants to avoid the related but mostly suppressed story of how PT has done a 180-degree policy shift and is now punishing the pro-transit cities while rewarding the anti-transit suburbs.
The punishment takes the form of keeping intra-city service severely downsized while dramatically increasing suburban service. Though there's been no restoration of intra-city service – nor is any contemplated in the foreseeable future – the anti-transit suburbs have already gotten three new bus routes since the first of this year.
Most of this new service benefits commuters – people who, unlike nearly half of PT's intra-city ridership – have enough money to own and operate motor vehicles. In other words, PT is short-changing the urban poor, who have no means of transport save buses, while pandering to the auto-centric suburbanites, who have cars and trucks galore.
Thus – Mr. Anderstone please take note – are the suburban, Ayn-Rand-minded barbarians mercilessly laying siege to urbanites who despite ideological differences remain nominally united under a Democratic Party banner. One can only wonder if the recent anti-Metro-Transit vote is the beginning of a similar assault on Seattle.
(Disclosure: I am an expatriate New Yorker who has lived in Tacoma twice – 1978-1982 during my years as a working journalist here and again in semi-retirement since 2004. Obviously, I am fond of the so-called "gritty city," mostly because I find native-born Tacomans to be infinitely more welcoming than native-born Seattlites. The latter in my experience yet retain the closeted bigotry and malicious xenophobia for which they are deservedly notorious – a mindset immortalized in the 1980s by a Seattle t-shirt that read, "If God Is On Our Side, Why Is There A Tacoma?")
Posted Thu, Jun 19, 10:37 p.m.
Hey Loren,
This was an editing error on my part. I lived in Tacoma during both campaigns and know both measures passed the City of Tacoma. My brain didn't quite make it to my fingers when writing that one sentence. I asked the editors to change it to "Tacoma-area," but that's still too vague, and I'll ask them to update it to be explicit.
For the record, the 2011 vote passed Tacoma 19,993 to 16,095 (55.40%) and the 2012 vote passed Tacoma 42,365 to 34,732 (54.95%).
You can always drop me an email (contact information at the bottom) if something doesn't look right.
Posted Fri, Jun 20, 12:45 a.m.
Well, Benjamin, obviously I drew the wrong conclusions from the mistake, which means I owe you a public apology for my erroneous speculation – and yes, I am intimately familiar with how an editing error can monkeywrench an otherwise sparkling piece. (Though at the various newspapers I served during my half-century before the masthead, we never said "monkeywrench"; we used a two-word term of art that began with an "f" and ended with a "p.")
Meanwhile I surely wish you or some other member of the present-day local working press would report on Pierce Transit's new pro-suburbanite, anti-urbanite expansion policy. (I've written about it a couple of times in my blog, Outside Agitator's Notebook, internationalizing the story by hanging it on the peg of class warfare, but then my readers are mostly on the East Coast and in Europe.)
That said, let me say again I'm sorry I behaved like a simpleton by reading way too much into a simple mistake. The story is otherwise the best, most accurate piece on Tacoma I've ever seen anywhere – and obviously I've lived here long enough to have a real appreciation of this place and its people. In fact, though it surely sounds like the old cliché, three of my closest friends are Tacomans. And during the last couple of years or so, I've finally begun to think of Tacoma as home -- precisely why I was almost as outraged by the mistake as I am by how the Ayn Rand suburbanites are maliciously denying us bus service we desperately need.
Hence I'll apologize once more for over-reacting. Please pass the crow.
Posted Thu, Jun 19, 7:21 p.m.
Your highlight of the divide between north and south Tacoma is a good point, one that is often over-looked when discussing Tacoma. I lived in T-town for 5 years and was very active in local politics. One thing you didn't point out is the anti-democratic system of government in Tacoma with the unelected City Manager (and his minions) running things while the Mayor and Council are mostly powerless. It alienates a lot of folks when they talk to the Mayor or city council and all they get is hand-wringing and empty promises, since all the power lies in an unelected person.
The reason Tacoma politics are so NICE is because most people running are not that partisan. They might have a (D) next to their name, but very, very few of them are actual partisans or have any interest in being partisan. By and large they are content to be policy wonks, technocrats or just be part of the system.
Posted Fri, Jun 20, 11:19 a.m.
Of course, that the Smell by the Bay no longer stinks helps, but the stigma still lingers, as well as the lead, arsenic, and other toxic effluents in the soils. The clean-up will likely also linger for decades.
That district elections might lead to voters knowing and caring less about civic affairs could be a disquieting harbinger for Seattle.
Seattle-like development likely won't reach Tacoma and environs until light rail links the two burgs (and the same for Everett). Yeah, the rents might be lower in Tacoma, but the jobs are fewer and pay less.
On the other hand, with artists, writers, and other creative types being increasingly priced out of Seattle, the prospects for a Tacoma cultural renaissance seems that much less unlikely.
Posted Fri, Jun 20, 2:14 p.m.
Kind of reminds me of Seattle that I chose to move to in the 1970s. Sigh.
Posted Fri, Jun 20, 4:36 p.m.
The North/South End divide is a bit murkier than it seems. My dad would ONLY live in the North End, but not one of our addresses fell into the "white collar", UPS professor demographic. I grew up in Ruston for one thing, and otherwise between Gove and Stevens, N 30th to 45th. With the exception of the dive of a triplex in Ruston, it wasn't shabby, very Leave It To Beaver, but there are South End neighborhoods that are more affluent than that. Just saying. However, it is true that, even among us blue collar families, that "prestige" of living in 98407 meant something. Yes, I've moved away you may say (but I'll be back!), and yet, other than many fewer empty lots filled with blackberry bushes and wild rhubarb and a few more cute boutiques in the Proctor District, it's pretty much the same old North End it's been for the past 45 years. Except for Old Town and the neighborhoods between I Street and Commencement Bay, it's pretty average when it comes to income distribution.
Posted Fri, Jun 20, 4:45 p.m.
OH MY --great article -probably is accurate in some politcal nonsense sort of way!!! OBVIOUSLY you are well suited to NOT live in T-Town. I am really glad all that pretentiousness stays in Seattle!!! YES the cultural distance is FAR between our two cities-- thank GOD-- we have smog-- you have smug-- i will take ours over yours ANY DAY. I chose to move back to Tacoma -- not even to the NorthEnd -actually EastSide (SHocking!!!) over 30 different languages here on the EastSide --a little dangerous- a little out of the lines - but culture rich and real life people LIVING real life-- not all that booJee Seattle nonsense --
There is a GREAT movie about a Tacoma Band - Girl Trouble- i pasted the trailer -- it's starts like this "Where are we going?" NO WHERE- "where is no where?" TACOMA -- two last words-- FUCK YOU & thanks- oh that's three-- but i am from Tacoma - what do you expect
Posted Fri, Jun 20, 4:48 p.m.
oops wrong link lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLu61lv8g7Y#t=12
Posted Sat, Jun 21, 9:47 a.m.
Enjoyed reading this but was left dissatisfied by the choices of the Parkway and Bertolino's as the two places to capture Tacoma, so to say. They draw similar crowds, and while full of PLU and UPS graduates, don't do the city justice as far as diversity goes. There's a reason you could walk from one to the other.
Posted Sat, Jun 21, 1:33 p.m.
So how come a Sound Transit "Join the Conversation" flyer just came in the mail that shows 2040 Seattle with a 28% population increase, 2040 Tacoma with a 60% population increase, and 2040 Everett with a 74% population increase? Seattle —only for swells and workforce winners of the subsidized housing lottery, Everett for what is left of Boeing workers, Tacoma for everyone else?
Posted Mon, Jun 30, 9:05 a.m.
Seattle has run out of geography. Only place to go is up.
Everett and Tacoma have plenty of square mileage to spread out.
Posted Sat, Jun 21, 5:18 p.m.
I grew up in Kitsap, attended PLU, departed to L.A. County on graduation day and then back a decade later (almost a decade ago now) to settle less than a mile from the line (so odd to see so clearly represented on the satellite views in Google map) between Federal Way and N.E. Tacoma (and TPU provides our water), . I've never really "understood" Tacoma. This article helped a lot. Thanks.
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