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Update On Gun Crime: Downward Bound. Vote Accordingly
Elections are nearing and some of our friends are worried about guns. Measures are on ballots, votes are urged; that sort of thing. Nerves are raw, tempers are flared.
Now if your only experience with guns has been through the media, film, television, or video games, well, you're likely to develop what psychologists call The Wrong Idea. How about looking at the actual numbers and see what they say? The picture above is from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports and shows the per capita homicide rate over time, along with the same rates due to handguns and other firearms (2012 was the last full year of data). For completeness, this link has a picture of all violent crime, which has exactly the same shape.
Notice anything? Right: where are the knives, blunt objects, hands and fists, poisonings, explosives, fires, narcotics, drownings, strangulations, asphyxiations, and other methods of dispatchment? The FBI lists them all. They all show the same shape as firearms. Excepting certain localities, we're becoming a less violent, less murderous society.
Why? Don't ask me. Maybe it's because there's fewer teenagers roaming around, maybe the cranks were right about fluoride, maybe blogs have made the populace less angry. Who knows? But given what's been happening, there doesn't seem to be a need to restrict the use and ownership of guns. To seek for a "solution" when there is no problem is to be a progressive—and who'd want that? So vote no on any confiscations or similar measures.
Now I have been shooting, killing, and eating with great relish animals of all kinds since I was a boy. Hunting provides the ultimate in free-range meat and is an environmentally sound practice. It also imbues a permanent sense that if it weren't for farms and farmers, most of us would starve to death. Hunting isn't so easy.
It's true I don't hunt as much now, but then the only animals that are fair game are subway rats and Central Park squirrels. Anyway, the rats do a good job clearing out the filth people dump on the tracks. And kill a squirrel and the French tourists who are endlessly fascinated with these flea-bitten beasties would turn on you and mime outrage.
Though I have owned and fired all kinds of weapons, I have never robbed even one store, took nary a hostage, and never shot at another human being who didn't have it coming. Neither did any of the many gun-owning friends I grew up with do any of these things. I don't recall ever hearing of a "home invasion", but this was in Northern Michigan where the first day of deer hunting season was an official holiday. No school: no kidding. Would-be invaders were probably dissuaded by the thought that the home they wanted to bust into had gun-owning occupants.
Accidents? We used to play war with BB and pellet guns and there were, it is to be admitted, minor mishaps. Nobody died, and scars bring bragging rights. But don't worry about that because these days rambunctious boys are medicated past interest or are sedated by glowing screens. One farmer down the road misused his shotgun and lost his head. Farming isn't so easy, either.
Point is, guns are fun and useful.
So. Remember that NRA quip that if guns are illegal only criminals would have guns? Progressives love to sneer at that, but that is only because progressives are not friends with logic. The quip is a tautology, meaning it is true no matter what, even if you don't want it to be.
Take Chicago, so long run by a Democrat machine that it's not clear citizens there even know other parties exist. Guns are all but illegal there. And so the guns that are out in the street are owned primarily by criminals, just like our tautology predicted. Somehow—and the how is still a mystery to sociologists—banning guns has not eliminated them. Of course, robberies are banned, too, yet they still occur. Strange. Maybe we could have a double-extra secret ban on top of the ordinary ban?
Yet even in Chicago, though there has been a slight blip upwards, the murder rates are down from their peak in the early 1990s (data here). Certain neighborhoods in the Second City, however, are not advisable to enter unarmed.
Full disclosure: I am a long-time NRA member, a position which has not, so far as I have noticed, increased a homicidal tendency in me.
P.S. Please let's don't quote comparative statistics from some wee European nation which has a homogeneous population smaller than that of heterogeneous New York City on a hot day in August when everybody is on vacation.
Thanks to reader Nate Winchester for recommending this topic.
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The right comparative statistic isn't whether gun crime is increasing or decreasing, it is whether it is too high compared to other places where control is a little or a lot tighter.
Plenty of large (not wee) countries around the world have rather tighter restrictions than the USA (where controlling guns in one state seems pretty futile unless states impose border control on each other). Some, like the UK have very tight restrictions (e.g. no handguns for the public at all); others allow many weapons but impose safety checks and strict licensing rules. In most countries (even the UK) hunting weapons are not much restricted (unless you need assault rifles to hunt, which seems a little unfair on nature).
What do their statistics on gun deaths look like (including both accidental and deliberate deaths)? Those are the right comparative statistics.
We don't impose urban speed limits on roads because the pedestrian death rate is rising quickly; we do it because the death rate is too high at higher speeds.
The debate on guns in the USA looks from the outside like a religious war. It shouldn't be. It would be better for all if it was treated like a pragmatic issue of the rules required to encourage the safer use of dangerous things.
How about statictics showing that the European countries with total handgun bans have the highest murder rates in Europe?
Harvard study, very interesting.
One note … the so-called assault weapons ban STILL exists. Not in legislative law, but in regulatory law. But the result is the same: only weapons deemed by the federal government to be built for "sporting" purposes can enter the US. And no weapon not allowed for impart can be assembled in the US from a majority, so to speak, of foreign made parts.
Briggs, "Who knows?" You didn't mention the increasing incarceration rate in the USA and the increasing efficiency with which this is accomplished.
Steve, "We don't impose urban speed limits on roads because the pedestrian death rate is rising quickly; we do it because the death rate is too high at higher speeds." Are you sure? I'm of the opinion that speed is very low on the list. I think the reason has to do with the income generated by speed traps, similar to the reason that cities have been caught shortening the yellow light time. Are you implying that non-urban speed limits are imposed for a different reason?
The Chicago Police Department maintains an astonishing array of statistically based reports to wit: https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/News/Crime%20Statistics
It has been several years since I read there, but IIRC they included percentages of the departed who had at one time been guests of the state, identified as members of gangs, were collateral or appeared in the numbers for some other reason unrelated to being basically a bad person.
My suspicion is that the decline in violent deaths may be due to a decline in marksmanship. In fact, the level of collateral deaths seems somehow to be linked to marksmanship issues – also the proclivity of the indigenous population to use very stylish but ineffective grips on their pistols making accurate fire unlikely.
And they tend to own lousy weapons.
What to do? What to do?
Claro, better weapons should be made available and training too. While I was an NRA junior member in the '50s, Surplus, but unused, M1911 Colts were made available to full members for $25.
We need programs like this, although maybe M1911s might be a bit heavy for this purpose.
The NRA could organize marksmanship training.
Like most other problems we face, this is another one where there is too little clear thinking. Imagine the savings in alternative residence costs for these miscreants if they could more effectively reduce their own populations and maybe hit fewer civilians while they were at it.
Why is this so hard to understand?
Within the last 24hrs. a DC cop was attacked with a hatchet and a similar incident took place in NYC not long ago. Who needs guns?
Steve Black: I would hope you have no familiarity at all with weapons, since the comment "unless you need assault rifles to hunt, which seems a little unfair on nature" shouts out ignorance of actual weapons. Most assault rifle bans are based on appearance, not the actual caliber or use of the gun. They are based on pistol grips, flash suppressors, collapsible or folding stocks and detachable magazines, in many cases. Not one of these changes the function of the rifle. I can take an assault rifle and turn it into a legitimate hunting rifle by swapping out plastic parts for wooden ones. It's still the same caliber, as is the bolt gun over there that is a "hunting rifle" and has a magazine that does not detach. If you see the rifle in a war movie, it's evil. That's pretty much the criteria. In all honesty, a properly loaded shotgun is far more lethal, but it's a "hunting" weapon. A Smith and Wesson 50 caliber revolver is far more lethal but it's a revolver, not a semi-auto. There is NO inherent gain from using an "assault weapon" in hunting. None. (I have a .22 with a detachable magazine. Should we ban that? I also hunt with a single shot, or use a gun with a magazine as a single shot. I don't like semi-automatics of any kind. Personal preference, of course.)
With respect, your friend needs to quit lapping up marketing blurbs that flatter prejudices, as if they're antifreeze at a petting zoo and try actually READING the text of the actual bill he's gushing over.
Had he done so, he would know the bill is not really about background checks for sales, is very dangerous and will transform many people unknowingly into criminals.
I get the feeling that doesn't really bother him, though. On this one topic he seems to simply abandon rational debate and emote instead. Is hard to have a civil conversation with some one who calls upon God to destroy you organization.
Background checks themselves don't really bother me, though I think expanding it is not really necessary. But just 'background checks for gun sales' is NOT WHAT THIS LAW (Washington bill 594) IS ABOUT.
I honestly don't see how anyone who has read the content and actually understands the implications can support it.
First of all, touting this as a bill that just wants to enforce 'background checks of gun sales' is a plain, old fashioned lie. No, it doesn't. It takes absolute control and regulates every single aspect of your ownership.
Under section 4 it lists the specific instances where the requirement of a background and full FFL transfer paperwork isn't required. It is very specific, and VERY limited. EVERYTHING ELSE is considered to be covered by this law and requires a FULL FFL transfer, tax and paperwork. The verbiage is rather precise on this point. So, for example, if I'm at a local, government sanction shooting range and I let my best friend try out the new revolver I brought with me, yes, that's totally fine. HOWEVER, if say I'm on my own property outside the city, where shooting on your own property is allowed, and let my friend fire a couple of rounds then, guess what? I just violated the law. Yes, a 'transfer' includes just allowing someone to use it, even on private property, for any amount of time whatsoever. Don't believe me? Look at the definition of 'transfer' in the doc.
Strangely enough, if my friend is under the age of 18, it's totally cool to let him handle and shoot the revolver (for 'educational and safety' purposes). But as soon as 12:01am on his 18th birthday hits, it's illegal.
More examples: You and your buddy are out hunting. About to head to your respective stands and he drops his rifle, damaging the scope. Can you let him use your backup, just this once? No, according to the law, that is an unlicensed transfer, and against the law.
Let your friend use your special 12ga when his team is shooting in the state skeet competition? Yup, that's fine. How about letting him use it for official team practices? Nope, that's illegal.
Your long time girlfriend, who knows her way around firearms just fine and has no criminal record at all, is worried about someone who has been harassing her a bit and would really appreciate if you could let her borrow one of your pistols to keep in her nightstand, just to be on the safe side. No, unless you're already living with her, that's illegal.
Toward the end there is a nifty bit that guarantees fantastic opportunities for law enforcement to nail FFL holders, as transfer verbiage in this law can clash with federal law depending on circumstances.
You can now no longer have your firearm worked on or repaired by any gunsmith, no matter how qualified, unless he is also an FFL holder and a transfer is made. Otherwise, both of you are breaking the law.
There are lots of ways to implement a background check system for sales. That's not what this law is. Anyone who touts this a just a way to do background checks is either a liar, or they're too lazy to read the actual text of the law.
@Steve Black
"The debate on guns in the USA looks from the outside like a religious war. It shouldn't be. It would be better for all if it was treated like a pragmatic issue of the rules required to encourage the safer use of dangerous things."
– Because it's not really about guns. Fred Reed makes an excellent point on this:
"Actually, good and evil have little to do with it. The debate over guns is a clash of cultures, a confrontation of different kinds of character, a disagreement over social philosophy, and even–though few notice this–over free will and determinism. The contending factions don't need guns to detest each other. They would anyway."
Read the rest here: http://www.fredoneverything.net/Guncontrol.shtml
Dr. Kleck has written extensively on guns and crime. You might find this interesting.
Crime is only part of the story, and that are lots of parts to that story as well, and there are lots of way to parse the numbers as your ideological bent pleases.
Part of the story is the huge numbers of guns "on the streets." Studies show the vast majority of these guns start out with a legal purchase, at some store or such, checked, traceable, etc. What happens after to these guns gets murky. The problem here is that we really don't have any accountability that comes with gun ownership. I can buy a gun, legally, and then, one day, "give" my gun to pretty much anyone I please. And that's about that. This is the glaring hole in the regulation of the militia. And this is the hole the gun rights crowd refuse to close.
The Australia example, I think, shows how accountability solves the rights problem.
Jersey: Accountable to whom? The government—the "fast and furious government" that refuses to close the border, quarantine people returning from ebola areas and allows a class one narcotic to be sold all over Colorado and Washington? What accountability? I'll take my chances as is.
"This is the glaring hole in the regulation of the militia."
Methinks you need to pay better attention in school when they discuss the Constitution, as it seems rather obvious you don't.
" And that's about that."
– Yeah, it's actually kind of nice living in a sorta free country where the government doesn't control you like a child. I wouldn't change that for the world.
Oh, and in spite of this lack of regulation you're wetting yourself over… crime is still at a close to 30 year low, and still going down. And that is in spite of the fact that, over those same 30 years, gun laws have en general become even more lax across the US. You're panicking over a non-issue.
Have a drink, calm down, breath into a bag for a while and find something better to do with your time.
Oh and Jersey,
"The Australia example"
How about this? Saudi Arabia has a lower crime rate than Australia while at the same time having almost ZERO gun control laws of any kind. So, just going off of crime numbers, my selection is better.
Or, we could be intelligent and not try to compare one single item across multiple cultures and pretend it means anything.
Pete wouldn't that be a >50 year low according to the graphic above?
I am all for suppressing guns, but not gun ownership.
Anecdotally, the only time I have been held at gunpoint by uniformed 18-19 year olds, and shaken down for money was at a "Federal" road block in Baja, Mexico. It seems that when the authorities are sure they are not threatened by the populace (gun ownership is illegal in Mexico) they come up with creative ways to supplement their income.
Of course I don't own a firearm, but I do own a silenced pellet air rifle. The squirrels never know what hit them.
Guns are good, suppressed (silenced) guns are even better.
Bert Walker,
I agree with your sentiment but individual gun ownership in Mexico is not illegal. The Mexican constitution (1857) listed the right "to keep and bear arms". This was later modified in the early 1900's when "to keep" and "to bear" were separated. Today, Mexican citizens essentially have no right to bear arms. This doesn't seem to have reduced the incidents of gun violence in Mexico at all.
This is becoming the case in the US with the issuance of carry permits which are effectively licenses to exercise a Constitutional right. Imagine needing a license to exercise the right to free speech.
The existence of these licenses do not in any way prevent criminals from carrying weapons although that was apparently the intent.
Re. Paul Clark, 12 months, suspended, not 5 years.
Check out: http://www.gun-control-network.org/in2009.htm
"This is Surrey Today, 12 November 2009 *
Paul Clarke, a former soldier, has been found guilty of possessing a firearm. He handed a discarded sawn-off shotgun to the police in March 2009. He spotted a black bin liner at the bottom of his garden in Merstham, Surrey, and found the gun and two cartridges inside. He took the gun to a police station and was immediately arrested. The jury was told that his allegedly honest intent was irrelevant, possession of a firearm is a "strict liability" charge. There is no defence in law against it. He has been given a one-year prison sentence, suspended for 12 months (Get Surrey, 18 December 2009).
I'm with you.
"Some, like the UK have very tight restrictions (e.g. no handguns for the public at all); others allow many weapons but impose safety checks and strict licensing rules. In most countries (even the UK) hunting weapons are not much restricted (unless you need assault rifles to hunt, which seems a little unfair on nature).
What do their statistics on gun deaths look like (including both accidental and deliberate deaths)? Those are the right comparative statistics."
Even when we in the UK were armed to the teeth the murder rate was pretty much what it was now. see :
"The evidence shows that, despite the existence of an absolute right to keep arms and the very widespread ownership of firearms as evidenced by the state of the gun trade at the time, the use of firearms in crime and disorder was extremely rare."
I worked with a guy from England. He very astutely pointed out that we are comparing two very, very different cultures, especially when it comes to gun ownership. Plus, England is a tiny island, the US a huge expanse. There are far more important factors than gun ownership going into violent crimes.


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As we look at the leasing year ahead let's start with a particularly encouraging trend. The number of vehicles being bought into fleets is on the rise.
According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, 1.28 million new cars were registered to fleets in the first 11 months of 2016 – a 5.3% increase on the same period last year. Fleets accounted for 51% of all new car registrations in 2016.
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At the beginning of 2016, fuel prices were making headlines for all the right reasons. The cost of oil had fallen such that pump prices were the lowest they had been for over six years. Motorists could buy petrol or diesel for around £1 a litre.
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Comics vs. Movies! What If Avengers Looked Like in the Comic Books
Even though Marvel movies has millions of fans, not all of them are familiar with the comic books. Comic enthusiasts are consisting of a small numbered loyal fans who may be or may not be bothered going to the cinemas. For the people who met with these characters for the first time through movies, Robert Downey Jr. will always be Ironman, and Chris Hemsworth the mighty Thor.
While Superheroes engraved on our minds as they seem on the movies, checking the original drawings, we can clearly see they are quite different from the imaginations of the creators. For example, Thor. What would you think if this Asgardian God of Thunder wore a helmet?
Apparently, all these legendary characters' appearances differ from movie to comics even sometimes from movie to movie. Wondering "What if Avengers looked like in the comic books?" Brenden Stall has made a comparison between the two. Let's see some of them.
Scarlet Witch
A good makeover to be honest. Like almost all female superheroes, she is over-sexualized in the comic books. As a witch, she doesn't really need all that flamboyant and ridiculous costumes now does she? So, this is cool.
Thor's helmet is a big deal in the comics actually, but movies made the bold decision of not including it. Probably so we can enjoy Chris Hemsworth pretty face in all its glory.
Captain America
With his original costume, Steve Rogers would look like the apprentice of a 1930's magician. So we definitely should not complain about this one.
Let's face it, that mask needed to be kept off. Comic Hawkeye has a history joining the circus so this get-up makes sense in that universe but not on our big screen, god no.
Uhhhmmm. MCU had to add some a padded/armored aesthetic to this weird, dancer costume, we guess. No tight spandex glory for Falcon.
Thank not only God but to Jesus, MCU got rid of that antennae! The new Ant-Man suit was designed with a nod toward the science behind it, with some extras that just look cool. As it supposed to be.
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Kotlin/Native as a Dynamic Library
In this tutorial, we look at how we can use a Kotlin/Native code from
existing native applications or libraries. For this, we need to
compile our Kotlin code into a dynamic library,
.dylib and
Kotlin/Native also has tight integration with Apple technologies. The Kotlin/Native as an Apple Framework tutorial explains how to compile Kotlin code into framework for Swift and Objective-C.
In this tutorial, we will:
- Compile a Kotlin code to a dynamic library
- Examine generated C headers
- Use the Kotlin dynamic library from C
- Compile and run the example on Linux and Mac and Windows
Creating a Kotlin Library
Kotlin/Native compiler can produce a dynamic
library out of the Kotlin code we have.
A dynamic library often comes with a header file, an
.h file,
which we will use to call compiled code from C
The best way to understand these techniques is to try them out. Let's create a tiny Kotlin library first and use it from a C program then.
We can start by creating a library file in Kotlin and save it as
package example
object Object {
val field = "A"
class Clazz {
fun memberFunction(p: Int): ULong = 42UL
fun forIntegers(b: Byte, s: Short, i: UInt, l: Long) { }
fun forFloats(f: Float, d: Double) { }
fun strings(str: String) : String? {
return "That is '$str' from C"
val globalString = "A global String"
We need to have a Kotlin/Native compiler on our machines.
More information on performing this step can be found in the
A Basic Kotlin/Native Application
Let's assume that we have a console, where the
kotlinc-native command is available.
Now we can call the following command to compile the code into a dynamic library:
kotlinc-native lib.kt -produce dynamic -output demo
kotlinc-native (with v0.9.2) generates the following files, depending on the host OS:
- macOS:
- Linux:
- Windows:
Let's check the C API for our Kotlin code in the
Generated Headers File
In the
demo_api.h (with Kotlin/Native v0.9.2) we'll find the following code.
We will discuss the code in parts to make it easier to understand.
Note, the way Kotlin/Native exports symbols is subject to change without notice.
The very first part contains the standard C/C++ header and footer:
#ifndef KONAN_DEMO_H
#define KONAN_DEMO_H
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#ifdef __cplusplus
} /* extern "C" */
#endif /* KONAN_DEMO_H */
After the rituals in the
demo_api.h we have a block with the common type definitions:
#ifdef __cplusplus
typedef bool demo_KBoolean;
typedef _Bool demo_KBoolean;
typedef unsigned short demo_KChar;
typedef signed char demo_KByte;
typedef short demo_KShort;
typedef int demo_KInt;
typedef long long demo_KLong;
typedef unsigned char demo_KUByte;
typedef unsigned short demo_KUShort;
typedef unsigned int demo_KUInt;
typedef unsigned long long demo_KULong;
typedef float demo_KFloat;
typedef double demo_KDouble;
typedef void* demo_KNativePtr;
Kotlin uses the
demo_ prefix from the library name to make sure
the symbols will not clash with other symbols in the project.
The definitions part shows how Kotlin primitive types map into C primitive types. We discussed reverse mapping in the Mapping Primitive Data Types from C tutorial.
The next part of the
demo_api.h file contains definitions of types
that are used in the library:
struct demo_KType;
typedef struct demo_KType demo_KType;
typedef struct {
demo_KNativePtr pinned;
} demo_kref_example_DemoObject;
typedef struct {
demo_KNativePtr pinned;
} demo_kref_example_DemoClazz;
typedef struct { .. } TYPE_NAME syntax is used in C language to declare a structure.
The thread
provides more explanations of that pattern.
We see from these definitions that the Kotlin object
DemoObject is mapped into
demo_kref_example_DemoObject and
DemoClazz is mapped into
Both structs contain nothing but the
pinned field with a pointer, the field type
demo_KNativePtr is defined as
void* above.
There is no namespaces support in C so that Kotlin/Native compiler generates long names to avoid a possible clashes with other symbols in existing native project.
The most significant part of definitions goes further in the
demo_api.h file.
It includes the definition of our Kotlin/Native library world:
typedef struct {
/* Service functions. */
void (*DisposeStablePointer)(demo_KNativePtr ptr);
void (*DisposeString)(const char* string);
demo_KBoolean (*IsInstance)(demo_KNativePtr ref, const demo_KType* type);
/* User functions. */
struct {
struct {
struct {
void (*forIntegers)(demo_KByte b, demo_KShort s, demo_KUInt i, demo_KLong l);
void (*forFloats)(demo_KFloat f, demo_KDouble d);
const char* (*strings)(const char* str);
const char* (*get_globalString)();
struct {
demo_KType* (*_type)(void);
demo_kref_example_Object (*_instance)();
const char* (*get_field)(demo_kref_example_Object thiz);
} Object;
struct {
demo_KType* (*_type)(void);
demo_kref_example_Clazz (*Clazz)();
demo_KULong (*memberFunction)(demo_kref_example_Clazz thiz, demo_KInt p);
} Clazz;
} example;
} root;
} kotlin;
} demo_ExportedSymbols;
The code uses anonymous structure declarations. The code
struct { .. } foo
declares a field in the outer struct of that
anonymous structure type, the type with no name.
C does not support objects too. People use function pointers to mimic
object semantics. A function pointer is declared as follows
It is tricky to read, but we should be able to see function pointer fields in the structures above.
Runtime Functions
The code reads as follows. We have the
demo_ExportedSymbols structure which defines
all the functions that Kotlin/Native and our library provides to us. It uses
nested anonymous structures heavily to mimic packages. The
demo_ prefix comes from the
library name.
demo_ExportedSymbols structure contains several helper functions:
void (*DisposeStablePointer)(demo_KNativePtr ptr);
void (*DisposeString)(const char* string);
demo_KBoolean (*IsInstance)(demo_KNativePtr ref, const demo_KType* type);
These functions deal with Kotlin/Native objects. Call the
DisposeStablePointer to release a Kotlin object and
DisposeString to release Kotlin String,
which has the
char* type in C. It is possible to use the
IsInstance function to check if a
Kotlin type or a
demo_KNativePtr is an instance of another type. The actual set of
operations generated depend on the actual usages.
Kotlin/Native has garbage collection, but it does not help deal with Kotlin objects from the C language. Kotlin/Native has interop with Objective-C and Swift and integrates with their reference counters. The Objective-C Interop documentation article contains more more details on it. Also, there is the related tutorial named Kotlin/Native as an Apple Framework.
Our Library Functions
Let's take a look an the
kotlin.root.example field, it
mimics the package structure of our Kotlin code with a
kotlin.root. prefix.
There is a
kotlin.root.example.Clazz field that
represents the
Clazz from Kotlin. The
Clazz#memberFunction is
accessible with the
memberFunction field. The only difference is that
memberFunction accepts
this reference as the first parameter.
C language does not support objects, and that is the reason to pass a
this pointer explicitly.
There is a constructor in the
Clazz field (aka
which is the constructor function to create an instance of the
object Object is accessible as
kotlin.root.example.Object. There is
_instance function to get the only instance of the object.
Properties are translated into functions. The
get_ and
set_ prefix
is used to name the getter and the setter functions respectively. For example,
the read-only property
globalString from Kotlin is turned
into a
get_globalString function in C.
Global functions
forFloats, or
strings are turned into the functions pointers in
kotlin.root.example anonymous struct.
The Entry Point
We can see how the API is created. To start with, we need to initialize the
demo_ExportedSymbols structure. Let's take a look at the latest part
of the
demo_api.h for that:
extern demo_ExportedSymbols* demo_symbols(void);
The function
demo_symbols allows us to open the door from the native
code to the Kotlin/Native library. That is the entry point we use. The
library name is used as a prefix for the function name.
Note, Kotlin/Native object references do not support multi-threaded access.
Hosting the returned
demo_ExportedSymbols* pointer
per thread might be necessary.
Using Generated Headers from C
The usage from C is straightforward and uncomplicated. We create a
main.c file with the following
#include "demo_api.h"
#include "stdio.h"
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
//obtain reference for calling Kotlin/Native functions
demo_ExportedSymbols* lib = demo_symbols();
lib->kotlin.root.example.forIntegers(1, 2, 3, 4);
lib->kotlin.root.example.forFloats(1.0f, 2.0);
//use C and Kotlin/Native strings
const char* str = "Hello from Native!";
const char* response = lib->kotlin.root.example.strings(str);
printf("in: %s\nout:%s\n", str, response);
//create Kotlin object instance
demo_kref_example_Clazz newInstance = lib->kotlin.root.example.Clazz.Clazz();
long x = lib->kotlin.root.example.Clazz.memberFunction(newInstance, 42);
printf("DemoClazz returned %ld\n", x);
return 0;
Compiling and Running the Example on Linux and macOS
On macOS 10.13 with Xcode, we compile the C code and link it with the dynamic library with the following command:
clang main.c libdemo.dylib
On Linux we call a similar command:
gcc main.c libdemo.so
The compiler generates an executable called
a.out. We need to run it to see Kotlin code
being executed from C library in action. On Linux, we'll need to include
. into the
to let the application know to load the
libdemo.so library from the current folder.
Compiling and Running the Example on Windows
To start with, we'll need a Microsoft Visual C++ compiler installed that supports a x64_64 target. The easiest way to do this is to have a version of Microsoft Visual Studio installed on the Windows machine.
We will be using the
x64 Native Tools Command Prompt <VERSION> console. We'll see the
shortcut to open the console in the start menu. It comes with a Microsoft Visual Studio
On Windows, Dynamic libraries are included either via a generated static library wrapper
or with manual code which deals with the LoadLibrary
or similar Win32API functions. We will follow the first option and generate the static wrapper library
for the
demo.dll on our own.
We call
lib.exe from the toolchain to generate the static library
demo.lib that automates the DLL usage from the code:
lib /def:demo_symbols.def /out:demo.lib
Now we are ready to compile our
main.c into an executable. We include the generated
demo.lib into
the build command and start:
cl.exe main.c demo.lib
The command produces the
main.exe file, which we can run.
Next Steps
Dynamic libraries are the main ways to use Kotlin code from existing programs. We may use them to share our code with many platforms or languages, including JVM, Python, iOS, Android, and others.
Kotlin/Native also has tight integration with Objective-C and Swift. It is covered in the Kotlin/Native as an Apple Framework tutorial.


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pregnant and excited, dreaming of your child and what it will be
like to be a mother. You plan the birth, the first few months, and
the rest of your child's life. People ask how you're doing, share
their own pregnancy and birth stories, and offer unsolicited advice.
One of the most common suggestions you are likely to hear is to
lower your expectations, yet I am not sure that this is always helpful
or well understood. Most pregnant women, certain that they will
be different, that their babies will be perfect, and that their
homes, their friendships, their marriages, will all be beautiful,
too, simply cannot digest what it might mean to lower their expectations
or why they should even consider it.
say a better idea is to expect the unexpected. While chances are
very good that your pregnancy, birth, and early mothering experiences
will all be text-book normal, they are unlikely to be totally as
you want or expect them to be. Being open to experience whatever
comes your way is a much better stance than trying to be in control
of everything.
heard too many new moms tearfully describe feeling that they can't
possibly be good mothers because they needed medical interventions
to deliver their babies safely. I've heard too many new mothers
worry that they will never bond properly with their babies because
they were unable to breastfeed successfully. New mothers routinely
question their competence and value simply because they don't have
the feelings that they thought they would, or because they feel
disappointment that their babies don't look or behave as they had
hoped. New mothers fret that they are crabby and miserable because
they are still sore and exhausted six and a half weeks after delivery,
that they haven't had time to write thank you notes, or that they
can't seem to take a shower before noon. New mothers are consumed
by the wish to be good mothers, and they often worry that because
things aren't going the way they expected, that they must not be.
mothers do the best they can and do very well by their kids. But
most seasoned mothers know that motherhood seldom goes according
to plan. Mothers who do everything by the book, who read and follow
tons of "expert" advice" sometimes have children
with problems. Mothers who seem to ignore current parenting wisdom
sometimes have children who are amazingly successful and pleasant.
But it is also safe to say that mothers whose children surprise
them, for whom motherhood is a struggle, have it harder, as they
try to mold either themselves or their children into something or
someone they are not. And that rarely is good for anyone.
I say, expect the unexpected. Be open to whatever comes your way.
If your childbirth experience doesn't resemble the bathed-in-sunlight,
unmedicated bliss you'd hoped for, but you and your baby are healthy
and alive, be grateful rather than self-loathing. If you have a
boy when you'd wanted a girl, learn to love the boy you have. If
you want to stay at home with your baby now that she's in your arms
even though you'd always assumed that you'd eagerly return to your
full time career as soon as possible, accept that that's who you
are and what you want, at least for now.
as you had little control over when or even if you conceived this
child, and, unless you have a planned c-section, you have little
say about when you will deliver, you just can't control or predict
what motherhood will be like for you. The sooner you learn to take
pleasure in the surprises your baby has to offer you, the more you
will enjoy your motherhood. And I believe, the more you relish the
process of discovering who you all are and what you all like or
don't like, the more you will enjoy each other. Accepting yourself,
accepting your baby, and welcoming the experience, no matter what
is in store for you, frees you from disappointment and allows you
to know what a fantastic mother you really are. Expecting the unexpected
keeps you open to the real and enriching experience motherhood should
Gilbert Rosenberg, LCSW, is the mother of three, a licensed clinical
social worker, and an adjunct faculty member in the Sociology Department
at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois. She works part
time at a community mental health center and runs discussion/support
groups for first time mothers. She is the author of The New Mom's
Companion: Care for Yourself While You Care for Your Newborn,
a guide for first time mothers to help them adjust to the many emotional,
relationship, identity, and physical changes that accompany motherhood,
published by Sourcebooks, Inc, in April, 2003, and Motherhood
Without Guilt: Being the Best Mother You Can Be and Feeling Great
About It, a book that helps mothers become more self-accepting
and confident about their motherhood, also published by Sourcebooks,
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German Uwe Ehinger has created the world's first premium dry gin to contain Harley Davidson engine parts.
Every single bottle of The Archaeologist is a unique item and therefore as irretrievable as the era of the motorcycles it represents. Preserved for eternity – or at least for a very special night amongst motorbike enthusiasts.
Ehinger was inspired by a passionate love of Harleys. He has searched the most remote places on the planet for antique motorbikes, and saving them for dealing or as core pieces for designing his own models. This earned him the nickname 'The Archaeologist'.
"Everything I do pays tribute to the things that used to be," Ehinger says of his work.
The Archaeologist is filled in bottles together with original engine parts of legendary Harley Davidson bikes Ehinger has discovered someplace over the world: 1939 Flathead camshafts from the Mexican desert, 1947 Knucklehead screw-nuts from Chile or 1962 Panhead rocker arms from South Korea. To each of these iconic machines, Ehinger dedicates a very own sort of tribute gin.
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The Justice Department has charged former CIA officer John Kiriakou, later a Democratic staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, with violations of the Espionage Act. Kiriakou is charged with supplying the name, address, phone number, and e-mail address of a CIA interrogator to Scott Shane of the New York Times, who published the information along with the 'exposé' about water-boarding in a 22 June 2008 article, despite the requests of then-CIA director General Michael Hayden and the lawyer of the CIA agent that the agent's name not be disclosed. Hinderaker then lists the various ways that Shane harassed the agent and his family, including parking in front of his home for hours, and calling his wife, mother, sister and high school friend.
During the run-up to the publication of the article, Kiriakou lied to the agent:
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A few weeks ago, we told you the Blue Band needed your votes in a talent competition presented by Polk Audio.
Penn State answered the call, and with more than 4,100 votes, the Blue Band has been declared the winner for its rendition of the Doobie Brothers classic "Listen to the Music."
With the win, Polk will donate $20,000 to the charity of the Blue Band's choice, and every member of the band will win a pair of Polk's Nue Era headphones. It's a bit strange that the Blue Band missed out on what may be the cooler prize: The band that came in second, a Detroit-based psycho-electro group called FLASHCLASH, will travel to Las Vegas and open for nine-time Grammy award winning singer-songwriter John Legend. But, no one can complain about $20,000 for charity.
"We are honored to have received the highest number of votes for our cover of 'Listen to the Music," Blue Band director Richard Bundy said. "Our love for music is what drives us to practice day-in and day-out, and we are thrilled to have participated in a contest that honors that same passion for both music and the artists and musicians who create it."
This is a tremendous accolade for the Blue Band to add to its lengthy list of accomplishments. Congratulations to everyone who played a role in helping the Band win this contest.
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Rabbi Justus Baird is Dean of Auburn Theological Seminary in New York. He helps to build multifaith movements for social justice by overseeing Auburn's education programs. He has been a member of the Auburn team since 2007 and founded the Auburn Senior Fellows (2014) and Justice Ministry Education (2016).
Rabbi Baird's super power is creating learning environments that help leaders grow. He has a reputation among his colleagues for being calm, thoughtful, laconic and a great facilitator.
As an educational entrepreneur, Rabbi Baird co-founded a major online library (Questia.com, 1999) and an experimental Jewish supplementary school (Yerusha, 2009). His educational background includes rabbinic ordination from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion and a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Rice University. He not only leads fellowship programs for Auburn, but has benefited from them as well, including the Wexner Graduate Fellowship, Rabbis Without Borders of CLAL, the Dean's Colloquy of the Wabash Center, and the Rabbinic Leadership Initiative of the Shalom Hartman Institute.
Raised in Texas, Rabbi Baird lives in Princeton, NJ, with his wife Rabbi Julie Roth (Director of the Center for Jewish Life at Princeton University) and their three children. To stay healthy and sane, he rows on Lake Carnegie twice a week.
Recent writing by Justus Baird:
Canals, Grandchildren and the Nobel Prize: We Are Not in Control of Our Legacy (Yom Kippur sermon, September 2017)
From Individual to Collective Repentance: Rosh Hashanah sermon and Voices blog (September 2017)
"Pursuing and Teaching Justice in Multifaith Contexts," book chapter in Teaching for a Multifaith World (2017)
Yom Kippur Sermon: Privileged at Birth (September 2015)
America's Faith Flotilla, on the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape Survey and the "nones" (Patheos, July 8, 2015)
Faith, Money, Politics (remarks given at a Congressional Briefing on June 11, 2014, and featured on Congress Blog "The Hill")
Israel and the Diaspora: 2 Foci of a Single Ellipse (eJewishPhilanthropy, May 6, 2014)
Free Speech Just Got More Expensive (Religion News Service, April 8, 2014)
Lo$ing Faith in Our Democracy: A Theological Critique of the Role of Money in American Politics (Auburn Applied Theology Series, Volume 1)
Multifaith Education in American Theological Schools: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. Teaching Theology and Religion 16:4 (October 2013)
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Exploring the scientific, spiritual, cultural and political sides of running
On June 26, UCL Geography and the Slade School of Art, in association with Falmouth University, held Run Run Run! An International Festival of Running 1.0.
This was a cross-disciplinary event, held in the Slade Research Centre in Woburn Square, that welcomed more than 40 researchers and practitioners from all over the world (including Milan, Melbourne, Grenoble, Glasgow, Vancouver, Venezuela, Lethbridge, Lancashire, Ljubljana, Singapore, Oxford), and from a wide range of fields (biomechanics, fine art, performance, community involvement, psychiatry, kinesiology, theatre, history, medicine, museum studies).
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The festival was curated by Dr Alan Latham (Geography), Kai Syng Tan, and Jo Volley (Slade). A report about it published in the Guardian can be found at: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/2014/jun/30/running-academia-intellectual-aspect-pounding-pavements
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GSE Relief:
Could reviving this prohibited report get F & F some love, making them more desired, supported on the Hill??
"Congress needs reasons to want to keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac around and working…"
Fannie and Freddie always are on my mind.
Regularly, I consider schemes to reduce the height and depth of what I call the "DC GSE shit wall (SW)," the virulent sustained opposition which allows their commercial and ideological enemies to keep the GSEs in government bondage while perpetuating lies which allow many in Congress, when asked, to hide and/or deflect and prattle, "But, didn't Fannie and Freddie… (fill in your favorite F&F mortgage history accusation or other fabricated business sin)."
Major Aside: No federal office holder in the category above is more egregious than Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), the stock market playing, Wheeling and dealing former Chattanooga Mayor—who, as a presumably working US Senator, reportedly made numerous equity trades per day—and somehow (with the help of his friends, many of which had business before his Senate Banking Committee) went from "bigly" in debt to having net worth touching $100 Million (or more)??
Corker and his wingman Sen. Mark Warner regularly talk GSE crap and few people push back with any intensity and challenge their dismissive Fannie and Freddie perspective.
Hopefully and literally, Corker's day in court should be coming. If he savaged the GSEs for personal financial reward—as some sources claim--he should face a special kind of Hell, as should anyone else in Congress who did the same.
Back to my plans dispersing myopic GSE fog from DC.
F&F congressional doubt and opposition wasn't always the way and--while it won't be easy to dismantle that "GSE SW"—I think it is possible to plant the seeds to reverse some of the current misdirected hysteria.
Long ago, with a creative and spirited effort, Fannie Mae helped produce just the opposite, a first rate company reputation inside DC and on Capitol Hill.
Most in Congress didn't then—and don't today--understand mortgages or care about Fannie and Freddie.
When they do display anything--because of the SW-- it's more a smite and burn mindset. Most Hill types can't give you a good explanation for their opinion, but they'll give you a reason, something like…."But they're Fannie and Freddie!"
However when I F&F dream, it's about what possibly can become GSE-ameliorating, rejuvenating, or even restorative, since a top end GSE cheer leading campaign--conducted by the Treasury with the support of this White House--likely won't happen?
What would it take to start a congressional enlightenment?
Pointed but simple education
As former Fannie Mae CEOs used to remind us, "With Fannie's federal business charter and behind the scenes function, we need to give Congress both reasons to support us and want Fannie Mae (and Freddie Mac) around."
With my GSE magic wand, I would return to those days when the GSEs would supply every Member of Congress and Senator with a simple schematic of how the primary and secondary mortgage markets work, and the respective roles played by borrowers, lenders, the GSEs, and mortgage investors.
The statement also would report exclusively on the one piece of US geography every Senator and Member cares about—no matter their political persuasion--GSE business activity in their state or congressional district, i.e. delivering the goods or the bacon (in reality mortgage loans).
Give everyone in Congress an easy to read and understand graphically pleasing report showing in simple terms how much and what kind of mortgage business the GSEs are doing in their states and congressional districts.
Why go through all of these informational hoops?
As noted, Congress needs a selfish, parochial reason to want to keep the GSEs around and this self-explanatory information could be just that.
It would show these Hill "jamokes" (Steve Bannon word?) just how much business the GSEs do "back home" and how their voters—not just home buyers--rely on Fannie and Freddie for mortgage finance help.
Most can't see any evidence of Fannie o Freddie as part of their own congressional fabric, but it exists and in volume.
Admittedly when Fannie did this 15 years ago, they had larger portfolios and more loans ($$$) to display, but their combined $5 Trillion, today, in (largely) mortgage backed securities still gives them some market heft to display.
Fannie and Freddie don't have far flung offices and employees in every state to pitch politicians on their value and good company citizenship. The GSEs are "wholesalers"—with mortgage lenders not individuals for customers--but their underwriting rules impact retail (primary market) lending and American consumers.
The GSEs are obscure
They have weird jokey nicknames and few people—even some in the business—know exactly how they operate, yet even with their federal handcuffs the GSEs still finance half or more of all the nation's conventional mortgage loans (those not otherwise insured or guaranteed by the federal government) and therefore provide mortgage credit to families in every single congressional district or state.
I think the resurrection of that regular business report would provide a local context regarding the GSEs value back home. It would allow elected public officials (federal, local and state) to see in their backyards where GSE financing occurs and how voluminous it is.
A little cognitive extrapolation, which GSE allies can provide and deliver since the GSEs can't, would allow those community stakeholders to grasp firsthand how much Fannie and Freddie's active financing means to their constituents, local lenders, Realtors, builders, and constituents whose jobs rely on the GSEs which finance half the conventional loans in the nation.
That GSE business activity suggests a lot of Fannie-Freddie driven local money and a lots of related jobs which most people never comprehend when thinking "Fannie and Freddie."
Sounds small, but—trust me—I believe it's a major first step in allowing politicians to see the GSEs in a different and more positive light ( probably that's why Treasury/FHFA bans it).
Obstacles to/for the "Maloni plan"
It's verboten!
FHFA/Treasury won't let the GSEs share their information in that manner, because they claim it's "lobbying," which was banned in the 2008 Conservatorship action.
To this non-lawyer, depending on the day of the week or the institutional federal mood swings, some in government/on the Hill contend the GSEs are part of the federal establishment or they are not.
If they are, isn't their business information owned by the taxpayers and don't they and their elected congressional representatives have a right to see it???
Or maybe, getting it requires a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to make available what Fannie Mae, in my era, once published every 90 days to allow people and policy makers to see/understand what the GSEs were producing "back home."
Exactly what is the harm in that, what damage could it cause except to big bank marketing campaigns?
Whatever it takes, I think it would be the single most effective tool—short of the Treasury and the WH becoming major GSE advocates (ain't gonna happen)—to clear the air of the many untruths that their opponents have used to turn Congress against Fannie and Freddie.
Let me repeat, the Congress needs a reason to support the GSEs and want to keep Fannie and Freddie around producing fair and consistent mortgage financing for American consumers (and also stiff-arming the big US banks and their allies).
That type of report represents a major first step in giving people who don't know or understand the GSEs a reason to do both.
Accurate GSE information is very scary for their detractors
A renewal of the former practice—whether by their allies going to court to make it permissible-- would do more to help generally uninformed Senators and Members learn not only what the GSEs do, but what could/would be lost "back home," if they vote for the commercial euthanasia being plotted by Corker-Warner and their fellow travelers.
With that foundation of information, constituents and others could query their Senators and Congressmen/women, I then would ask them, "What is it you most fear with perpetuating Fannie and Freddie as shareholder owned entities (even in utility form)?"
The congressional inquisitors could point them to current GSE regulation—which is excessive-- but prohibits the GSEs from ever trafficking in subprime mortgage loans, a major source of the real estate mess 9 years ago.
(I would encourage these asking the question not to smirk when so many of them and their assistants admit, "I didn't know that?")
And, "yes," dear reader, it is "all about the money" as well as who/what controls the secondary mortgage market, since the primary mortgage market already is largely bank-dominated.
Having solved that problem—in my next blog--I would then turn to that Trump dude so accurately and honestly profiled in Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury?
Maloni, 1-11-2018
Go Steelers
(I want one more Super Bowl win before I
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