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These days, it seems like debate watching isn't such a social thing. We sit in living rooms with our family and friends, perhaps, or watch it alone and cast our thoughts out onto Facebook threads and Twitter feeds. So, what would it be like to watch it in a darkened movie theater with a bunch of complete strangers?
Tuesday night, I set out for the debate-watching party at The Texas Theatre, hosted by the Stonewall Democrats, a group of "politically active" LGBT advocates. What followed was by turns hilarious, obnoxious, raucous and, at all times, deeply entertaining.
The debate was lively, was it not? President Barack Obama and GOP challenger/former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney traded some substantive shots on foreign policy. When Obama spoke, cheering and applause invariably followed. There was no greater crowd reaction than to his "horses and bayonets" zinger. When Romney spoke, he got jeers and repeated requests to "shut the fuck up." A man a few rows behind me, who sounded drunk, carried on his own belligerent, running dialogue with Romney, challenging point after mendacious point, as Romney struggled to create daylight between his and Obama's Iran policy.
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I wondered what sort of chaos would transpire if this crowd was mingled with a debate-watching party at, say, Highland Park Village? Fisticuffs and flying beer/merlot would almost certainly roil the theater, which is as it should be. This was naked politics in the town square; bloodsport in the Roman Colosseum, writ contemporary. This is the American discourse, folks. Thus has it always been, and thus shall it ever be. And as I stumbled across debate watchers, sloshing my beer in the darkened aisle, I loved every goddamn minute of it.
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As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who
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As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: "It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living."
Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary.
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The Myth of War
The ethnic conflicts and insurgencies of our time, whether between Serbs and Muslims or Hutus and Tutsis, are not religious wars. They are not clashes between cultures or civilizations, nor are they the result of ancient ethnic hatreds. They are manufactured wars, born out of the collapse of civil societies, perpetuated by fear, greed, and paranoia, and they are run by gangsters, who rise up from the bottom of their own societies and terrorize all, including those they purport to protect.
Often, none of this is apparent from the outside. We are quick to accept the facile and mendacious ideological veneer that is wrapped like a mantle around the shoulders of those who prosecute the war. In part we do this to avoid intervention, to give this kind of slaughter an historical inevitability it does not have, but also because the media and most of the politicians often lack the perspective and analysis to debunk the myths served up by the opposing sides.
The United States and the West based our responses in Bosnia, or perhaps it is better to say our arguments not to respond, on such myths: the myth of the Serbian warrior who would fight to the death against overwhelming odds; the myth that the Croats, Muslims, and Serbs, who speak the same language and are nearly indistinguishable, were different people; the myth that Yugoslavia, a country that Josip Broz Tito made an important player in international affairs, had failed to give its citizens a national identity. These myths, swallowed whole, permitted us to stand by as 250,000 human beings were killed and Sarajevo spent three and a half years under siege. Although the United States finally intervened, we did so because the United Nations mission collapsed in the summer of 1995, not because of any foresight or courage on the part of the administration of President Bill Clinton.
Look not to religion and mythology and warped versions of history to find the roots of these conflicts, but to the warlords who dominated the Balkans. It took Milosevic four years of hate propaganda and lies, pumped forth daily over the airways from Belgrade, before he got one Serb to cross the border into Bosnia and begin the murderous rampage that triggered the war. And although the war was painted from afar as a clash of rival civilizations, the primary task of Milosevic in Serbia, Franjo Tudjman in Croatia, and the other ethnic leaderships was to dismantle and silence their own intellectuals and writers of stature and replace them with second-rate, mediocre pawns willing to turn every intellectual and artistic endeavor into a piece of ethnic triumphalism and myth.
Lawrence LeShan in The Psychology of War differentiates between "mythic reality" and "sensory reality" in wartime.1 In sensory reality we see events for what they are. Most of those who are thrust into combat soon find it impossible to maintain the mythic perception of war. They would not survive if they did. Wars that lose their mythic stature for the public, such as Korea or Vietnam, are doomed to failure, for war is exposed for what it isorganized murder.
But in mythic war we imbue events with meanings they do not have. We see defeats as signposts on the road to ultimate victory. We demonize the enemy so that our opponent is no longer human. We view ourselves, our people, as the embodiment of absolute goodness. Our enemies invert our view of the world to justify their own cruelty. In most mythic wars this is the case. Each side reduces the other to objectseventually in the form of corpses.
"Force," Simone Weil wrote, "is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates."2
When we allow mythic reality to rule, as it almost always does in war, then there is only one solutionforce. In mythic war we fight absolutes. We must vanquish darkness. It is imperative and inevitable for civilization, for the free world, that good triumph, just as Islamic militants see us as infidels whose existence corrupts the pure Islamic society they hope to build.
But the goal we seek when we embrace myth is impossible to achieve. War never creates the security or the harmony we desire, especially the harmony we briefly attain during wartime. And campaigns, such as the one in Afghanistan, become starting points for further conflicts, especially as we find that we are unable to root out terrorism or maintain the kind of solidarity that comes in the days just after a terrorist attack.
The chief institutions that disseminate the myth are the press and the state. The press has been culpable since the telegraph made possible the modern war correspondent. And starting with the Crimean War, when the first dispatches were fed by newly minted war correspondents in real time, nearly every reporter has seen his or her mission as sustaining civilian and army morale. The advent of photography and film did little to alter the incentive to boost morale, for the lie in war is almost always the lie of omission. The blunders and senseless slaughter by our generals, the execution of prisoners and innocents, and the horror of wounds are rarely disclosed, at least during a mythic war, to the public. Only when the myth is punctured, as it eventually was in Vietnam, does the press begin to report in a sensory rather than a mythic manner. But even then it is it reacting to a public that has changed its perception of war. The press usually does not lead.
Mythic war reporting sells papers and boosts ratings. Real reporting, sensory reporting, does not, at least not in comparison with the boosterism we witnessed during the Persian Gulf War and the war in Afghanistan. The coverage in the Persian Gulf War was typical. The international press willingly administered a restrictive pool system on behalf of the military under which carefully controlled groups of reporters were guided around the front lines by officers. It could have never functioned without the cooperation of the press. The press was as eager to be of service to the state during the war as most everyone else.
Such docility on the part of the press made it easier to do what governments do in wartime, indeed what governments do much of the time, and that is lie. When Iraqi troops seized the Saudi border town of Khafji, sending Saudi troops fleeing in panic, the headlong retreat was never mentioned. Two French photographers and I watched as frantic Saudi soldiers raced away from the fighting, dozens crowded on a fire truck that tore down the road. U.S. Marines were called in to push the Iraqis back. We stood on rooftops with young Marine radio operators who called in air strikes as Marine units battled Iraqi troops in the streets.
Yet back in Riyadh and Dhahran military press officers spoke about our Saudi allies defending their homeland.
The potency of myth is that it allows us to make sense of mayhem and violent death. It gives a justification to what is often nothing more than gross human cruelty and stupidity. It allows us to believe we have achieved our place in human society because of a long chain of heroic endeavors, rather than accept the sad reality that we stumble along a dimly lit corridor of disasters. It disguises our powerlessness. It hides from view our own impotence and the ordinariness of our own leaders. By turning history into myth we transform random events into a chain of events directed by a will greater than our own, one that is determined and preordained. We are elevated above the multitude. We march toward nobility. And no society is immune.
Most national myths, at their core, are racist. They are fed by ignorance. Those individuals who understand other cultures, speak other languages, and find richness in diversity are shunted aside. Science, history, and psychology are often twisted to serve myth. And many intellectuals are willing to champion and defend absurd theories for nationalist ends.
By finding our identity and meaning in separateness the myth serves another important function: It makes communication with our opponents impossible. When the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat makes statements that call for moderation and peace he is accused by the Israelis of using words to conceal his intention to wipe out Israel. The Palestinians react in the same manner to statements by most Israeli leaders. It does not matter what they say, just as it did not matter what the Serb or Croat nationalists said to each other; the intentions of the other were predetermined by nationalist myth.
We often become as deaf and dumb as those we condemn. We too have our terrorists. The Contras in Nicaragua carried out, with funding from Washington, some of the most egregious human rights violations in Central America, yet were lauded as "freedom fighters." Jonas Savimbi, the rebel leader the United States backed in Angola's civil war, murdered and tortured with a barbarity that far outstripped the Taliban. The rebellion Savimbi began in 1975 resulted in more than 500,000 dead. President Ronald Reagan called Savimbi the Abraham Lincoln of Angola, although he littered the country with land mines, once bombed a Red Cross-run factory making artificial legs for victims of those mines, and pummeled a rival's wife and children to death. The mayhem and blood-letting we backed in Angola were copied in many parts of Africa, including Zaire and Liberia.
The myth of war sells and legitimizes the drug of war. Once we begin to take war's heady narcotic, it creates an addiction that slowly lowers us to the moral depravity of all addicts. War's utter depravity was captured in Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida, a work that as far as is known was never performed in Shakespeare's lifetime, perhaps due to its savage indictment of war and human society. Nearly every figure in the play, including Ulysses, lies to and tries to manipulate those around him: that is the trait of most leaders, no matter what political agenda they espouse. Here, unlike Henry V, Shakespeare excoriates the established order; the play is one that debunks national myth. There are only three characters who speak about war with any sanity or truth: Pandarus, who is a lecher and a coward; Cassandra, who is deranged; and Thersites, as described by Shakespeare, "a deformed and scurrilous Greek."3 Yet Thersites' bleak view of human nature and human folly is borne out by the play's end. We are left with the realization that characters who are, by the standards of civil society, the most retrograde stand above the baseness of those who prosecute war, if only because they speak the truth.
"Lechery, lechery, still wars and lechery, nothing else holds fashion," Thersites rails.4
War can be the natural outcome of brutal repression; witness Kosova or El Salvador. Or it can be manufactured by warlords intent on enrichment, as in Bosnia. It can also, although less and less, be the result of vying interests between nation-states, such as the Gulf War, fought over control of the oil fields in Kuwait. War, at times inevitable and unavoidable, is part of human society. It has been since the dawn of timeand probably will be until we are snuffed out by our own foolishness.
"We believed we were there for a high moral purpose," wrote Philip Caputo in his book on Vietnam, Rumor of War. "But somehow our idealism was lost, our morals corrupted, and the purpose forgotten."5
The employment of organized violence means one must, in fact, abandon fixed and established values. This is a truth made apparent in Troilus and Cressida. It is a truth Henry V ignores. Once war, and especially the total war that marked both the ancient and the modern way of battle, erupts, all is sacrificed before it. The myth of war is essential to justify the horrible sacrifices required in war, the destruction and the death of innocents. It can be formed only by denying the reality of war, by turning the lies, the manipulation, the inhumanness of war into the heroic ideal. Homer did this for the Greeks, Virgil for the Augustan age, and Shakespeare for the English in his history plays. But these great writers also understood what they were doing, and thus in the canon of their works come moments when war is laid bare.
Troilus, at the start of the play, states that he will not fight for Helen, a woman portrayed by Shakespeare as a mindless paramour. "It is," he says, "too starved a subject for my sword."6 Dying for this Helen, who has neither morals nor wit, is absurd. Yet I have seen men fight for even more ridiculous reasons. There was no reason for the war in Bosnia. The warring sides invented national myths and histories designed to mask the fact that Croats, Muslims, and Serbs are nearly indistinguishable. It was absurd nuances that propelled the war, invented historical wrongs, which, as in the Middle East, stretched back to dubious accounts of ancient history. I have heard Israeli settlers on the West Bank, for example, argue that Palestinian towns, towns that have been Muslim since the seventh century, belong to them because it says so in the Bible, a reminder that this sophistry extends beyond the Balkans.
The competing nationalist propaganda in Yugoslavia created a conflict in the country best equipped of all the Eastern European states to integrate with the West after the collapse of communism. Because there was no real reason to fight, there was an urgent need to swiftly turn a senseless fratricide, one organized by criminals and third-rate political leaders for power and wealth, into an orgy of killing, torture, and mass execution. This indiscriminate murder, these campaigns of ethnic cleansing, were used to create facts, as it were. The slaughter was carried out to give to these wars the justifications they lacked when they began, to fuel mutual hatred and paranoia, as well as to enrich the militias and paramilitary groups that stole and looted from their victims. Ethnic warfare is a business, and the Mercedes and mansions of the warlords in Belgrade prove it. Fighting for a Helen who is a strumpet, or Don Quixote's Dulcinea, looks noble by comparison.
1. LeShan, Lawrence, The Psychology of War (New York: Helios, 1992), Chapter Two.
2. Weil, Simone, 'The Iliad' or 'The Poem of Force,' (Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Pamphlet, 1993), p. 11.
3. Shakespeare, William, Troilus and Cressida –"Dramatis Personae," (Boston: Riverside Shakespeare, Houghton Mifflin, 1974), p. 448.
4. Ibid., Act V, sc. ii, p. 486.
5. Caputo, Philip, Rumor of War (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977), p. 345.
6. Shakespeare, William, Troilus and Cressida, (Boston: Riverside Shakespeare, Houghton Mifflin, 1974), Act I, sc. i, p. 450.
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Chris Hedges, in this book, reveals exactly what compels people to support the slaughter of their fellow humans. He takes us down a dark road of hypnotic, narcotic addiction to violence, the self-worship of the 'noble cause of war,' the necrophilia that is the 'culture of death' that surrounds war and the military, the cataclysmic destruction brought about by war, and the emptiness in the hearts of people that creates the need for violence and cruelty in the name of justice. At a time when the media predictably supports every war and every violent action, and depicts anybody who opposes the desires of the Bush administration as bloodthirsty terrorists and fanatics, Hedges aptly points out that the bloodthirstiness is in fact here, in America, and not out there in the desert of the Middle East. Moreover, I promise this is true: I saw Dick Cheney himself declare this as he lectured a live audience on C-SPAN: 'The war in Iraq is about America's economic interests, which need to be considered first so we remain a superpower.' That sums up what the Iraq war is really about, and Chris Hedges does a perfect job in proving it.
Chris Hedges articulates that which is difficult to articulate: the brutal reality of war and of human nature. Referring to such people as Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Shakespeare, Hedges looks at war from many different angles ¿ from theology to literature, from history to philosophy. In war morality is turned upside down, and the struggle is for life, not for a cause. Altruism and courage rarely exist in war, except as hypnotic rhetoric. Fear, the fight for survival, and visceral pleasure in sex, drink, and violence take over in war. He meditates on the chaos and insanity of war. The author exposes a dichotomy between the superficial pedestal on which war is often placed, such as in movies and stories like the Iliad, and the reality of war, which many of us fail to see or choose not to see. He contends that nations and the media build up the ¿myth of war¿; nations often build a national identity by creating an ¿us¿ and a ¿they,¿ a process which separates our humanity on a global scale. Love, or recognizing yourself in another, is an important step in dismantling the cycle of war. Hedges maintains that for reconciliation to occur, nations, such as Turkey, should not deny past atrocities they have committed (i.e. the Armenian genocide). Rather, a common language ¿ the truth of history and the humanity of love ¿ must be established if we are to coexist in the world. Or else destruction is imminent. Hedges concludes by saying that love, not war, provides real meaning in our lives. Overall, a worthwhile read.
Chris Hedges, a veteran correspondent, has reported on the front lines in the Balkans, the Middle East and Central America. In this book of the seductive and corrupting power of war for individuals and societies, Hedges draws upon his own experiences and events he has witnessed as a correspondent in far-off lands. Chris shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but the entire societies, destroying culture and perverting basic human desires. A relentless litany of war's physicality, "War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" looks hard at the non-physical engines of conflict and war's psychological detritus. Schooled in the literature of war, his journalism is studded with allusions to classical texts. War myths are created to provide the nation with illusion of clear chain of events that prove nobility of the cause and aggression of others. Moreover, war myths are necessary for making people follow leaders, fight and die for them. Culture is seen as the victim of war as war applies cultural peculiarities to its own purposes. Finally, the author assumes that religion is the only ultimate power that can resist war. Fear, the fight for survival, and visceral pleasure in sex, drink, and violence take over in war. He meditates on the chaos and insanity of war. The author exposes a dichotomy between the superficial pedestals on which war is often placed, such as in movies and stories like the Iliad, and the reality of war, which many of us fail to see or choose not to see. Hedges is not anti-war, he just exposes war for what it is. He shows how patriotism and nationalism are exaggerated to hide reality in the time of war and the myth takes over.
This book is one of the most interesting and fact filled books that i have ever read. It tells you more than you would ever dream about what realy happens during a war and how people feel and act. The stories he tells are so heart lifting and sad. It gives you so much detail on what war is all about and how it corrupts or changes peoples lives forever. This book will make you think about war and what its really all about.
This is a very good book that is filled with a lot of wisdom. It exposes the 'myth of war' and shows how we humans use war to satisfy a natural urge for meaning. There is a lot of refernces in this book to recent conflicts in the world. Hedges has covered many conflicts around the world such as the first Persian Gulf War and the war in Falklands. Hedges is not anti-war, he just exposes war for what it is. He shows how patriotism and nationalism are exagerrated to hide reality in the time of war and the myth takes over. A must read for every human being.
This book changed the way I thought about war. It isn't glory or even manly. It's terrible and Hedges spelled it out for me. If we don't start to become more realistic about war and stop buying into the myth of it all, we are sowing the seeds of our own destruction.
Fascinating. Goes beyond a simple critique of war to delve into what it is about humans that makes them thrive on violence.


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Top 100 prospects of 2014
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Welcome to ESPN Insider's 2014 ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball.
This is my seventh such ranking for Insider, with a lot of movement within the list from last year's but many of the same names still present. Six of last year's top 10 players are still on the list, and only 13 of last year's top 50 lost their eligibility for 2014.
The list is heavy on position players up the middle, including shortstops near the top of the list and many potential everyday catchers further down. First base is extremely weak, and the pitching talent in the minors is still skewed heavily toward right-handed arms.
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Four of DC Comics' most dedicated superhero sidekicks get their own shot at the spotlight in the energetic animated series Young Justice. Though it shares a name and some characters with Todd Dezago and Todd Nauck's comic title, the Young Justice series, produced by Greg Weisman (The Spectacular Spider-Man) and Brandon Vietti, follows its own story arc, in which Robin (voiced by actor/pop star Jesse McCartney), Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Green Arrow's teenage charge, Speedy, decide to establish their own identities as crime fighters. Despite serious misgivings from Superman (Nolan North) and Batman (Bruce Greenwood), the quartet are given their own case, which leads to the discovery of not only a cloning laboratory within the Cadmus organization, but also Superboy (also North) among the replicas. After a brief lineup shuffle that sees Superboy replace Speedy and Martian Manhunter's niece, Miss Martian (Danica McKellar), join their ranks, the newly formed group takes on such established DC villains as Bane (well voiced by Danny Trejo), Kobra (Arnold Vosloo) and his cult, and Mister Twister (John de Lancie), among others. Young Justice should win over longtime DC fans and newcomers alike with its respectful nod to the imprint's long history and characters, and the smart, breezy, and action-filled tone of the series. Unfortunately, the season-one, volume-one DVD is something of a letdown, offering only the first four episodes (none of which include Artemis, who joins the team in episode five, and is prominently featured on the box cover art) and no extras. It may serve as the impetus to check out the rest of the series, but its limited presentation lacks the impact of a full-season set, which is how this terrific series ought to be seen. --Paul Gaita
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Like all the best superhero cartoons, this show is as not just a series, but a serial. It's a show where a large scale story arcs are gradually built up over the course of a whole season - and indeed, not only within each season, but between the seasons. I say "like all the best", because that's the format that's always seemed best able to bring out the more adult side of the superhero genre. It not only allows for more sophisticated plot lines: It also allows for the gradual development of character, and the relationships between the characters, while still leaving plenty of space for the spectacular action sequences that all fans of the genre love.
I know this is a controversial topic among fans, but personally I like season two a little better than season one. However, due to the complex nature of this show, I would say that seeing season one first is an absolute must.
I'd give the show itself (and yes, specifically season 1) 5 stars no problem. However, I'm taking off a star due to the questionable nature of the DVD release. This business of releasing shows in "volumes" rather than seasons is just so typical of the way things work in animation. Come on, Warner Bros.! You don't do this with your "grown up" shows!
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So on the whole I'd call "Young Justice" a reasonably good follow-on to the recent line of successful WB/DC Animated Series (Batman, Superman, Justice League, etc) the problem is that this is "V. 1"
They tried this with the Justice League and it didn't work.
Guys, guys, GUYS! FULL SEASONS! A reasonable price point (say $30.00) and the ENTIRE SEASON in one set.
This is not hard to understand, so why don't you?
a measly 4 episodes? Had I known that I would have not ordered. Please avoid, they will release these either in a box set or the price will drop, save your money.
Instead buy the "Justice League" full seasons.
Yes, this show is pretty good. It is well-written, has good animation, and the voice acting is also well-done. Still, when it's offered in such a small dose for such a high price, the whole thing just stinks. Get it right WB!


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Sakio Bika out-moved and out-brawled Marco Antonia Periban, winning the bout on a majority decision to claim the vacant WBC super-middleweight title.
With judges scoring it 116-112, 115-113, and 114-114, Bika - usually very composed and controlled - looked more ruthless than he had done in his previous fights, adopting a style akin to a brawler.
Periban boxed smartly in periods, utilising his consistent jab, and was able to control the tempo but Bika's hard-charging efforts kept the Mexican off balance.
Seemingly lacking the power to hurt Bika, Periban upped his game in the final round which saw the two men throw everything at each other.
"I expected the fight to go the distance. He was very tough," Bika said.
"It was a great fight and I gave my heart and soul. I feel good. I worked hard and I was dedicated to the fight. Now I want to fight the best. I'd fight Andre Ward (again). I'd fight anyone."
It was a hugely physical encounter that really came to life in the eighth round as the pair clashed heads; Periban coming away with a cut on his scalp.
Despite the majority decision, Periban was quick to express his disgust after the bout.
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Action Launcher Pro for Android is a clean and simple launcher with a few unique features
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- Some bugs need to be ironed out
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Action Launcher Pro for Android is clean and simple launcher with a few excellent features, including a sliding quick drawer for apps and a completely new take on folders and home screen widgets.
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There are hundreds of Android launchers available in the Google Play store but one of our new favourites is Action Launcher. It's a clean and simple launcher with a few excellent features, including a sliding quick drawer for apps and a completely new take on folders and home screen widgets.
The brainchild of Australian developer Chris Lacy, Action Launcher is one of the cleanest Android launchers we've used. The main component of the launcher is a sliding quick drawer that lists your apps in alphabetical order.
Action Launcher is one of the cleanest Android launchers we've ever used.
The list has an alphabet index on the right side, so if you're looking for the YouTube app you simply tap "Y" to scroll down. Although it does take a bit of getting used to, accessing your apps in this manner is quick and easy.
The quick drawer in Action Launcher is accessible by swiping to the far left page of your home screen. However, it is also revealed from any home screen when you swipe from the very left edge of the screen and can be accessed by tapping the app drawer button on the top left of any home screen. The list scrolls smoothly, there's minimal lag when jumping to a letter and the transition to open and close the quick drawer is fast and smooth.
The home screen of Action Launcher can be tailored to use between one and five home screen pages and has a persistent bar across the top of the screen. Along with the app drawer button, there's a search button, a link to the Play Store and a menu key. The search button is very convenient as it can search through Google (web search) or your installed apps and contacts.
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Action Launcher boasts two unique home screen features. The first is called Covers, which is a new take on folders that allows users to keep a clean look on the home screen. Simply make a folder of apps, open the folder, tap "make cover" and the folder icon will become whatever app is in the folder first.
A single tap on any Cover will open the app shown, while a double tap or a swipe up on the icon will open the folder. A good example to make use of a cover is the phone app — make a folder with the phone app and direct dial shortcuts and you can tap once to open the phone app and double tap or swipe to quickly dial common contacts. It's a very handy feature and one that we really came to appreciate on a day-to-day basis.
Shutters is the Action Launcher's other unique feature. It is basically a collapsible widget that allows you to swipe an app icon to view it. Like Covers, tapping the app icon on a Shutters-enabled app will open the app, but swiping up or down will display its widget.
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The widget is automatically created when you drop an app shortcut onto the homescreen, but there's annoyingly no way to select which widget is used as part of the Shutter for apps with multiple widgets. The feature will only work for devices running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and above and widgets in a Shutter can't be resized.
Conveniently, users can put shutters inside Covers or regular folders. You can also use regular widgets in combination with Shutters on the home screen if you wish. Overall, the Shutters feature provides all the functionality of widgets but eliminates much of the clutter, a common criticism of the Android home screen interface.
There are a few tradeoffs that come with Action Launcher that you should be aware of. Firstly, the customisation options aren't as extensive as many other Android launchers we've used. You can hide apps from the quick drawer, adjust the number of home screen pages, and change home screen grid sizes but more advanced options like using alternate icon packs, editing screen transitions and enabling a scrolling dock bar aren't available.
There are also a few bugs that need to be ironed out. You need to specify your phone's default launcher after every reset and the app can become a little unstable at times. It's usually fixed by clearing the cache in the settings but it does become an annoyance and can slow your phone down.
Action Launcher includes the ability to import your home screen layout from other launchers including Apex, Nova, TouchWiz and the stock Android launcher. The app also offers full tablet support.
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They defined a generation, are revered by critics and adored by fans. In an epic career spanning 30 years and more than 60 million albums sold, Simple Minds travelled from the streets of Glasgow to become one of the world's biggest bands with a musical majesty that still inspires awe.
Devo's pioneering sound, style and philosophy had a profound effect on the new wave movement. Influential, subversive and downright entertaining, Devo's cult status quickly spread to the mainstream.
In what promises to be one of the most captivating tours of the year, Simple Minds and Devo will perform indoor shows and the popular a day on the green winery series later this year.
Joining them, and adding another highlight to savour, will be one of Australia's finest, the church. Simple Minds, Devo and the church all in one night – now that's what we call a concert not to be missed!
The tour is the first announcement for the next a day on the green summer season, the event's 12th year. Eclectic 80s popsters The Models, led by Sean Kelly, will open all a day on the green shows.
Simple Minds has had a lengthy love affair with Australia since tasting success here for the first time anywhere in the world with their first hit single 'Love Song' and first Gold album 'New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)'. A stellar array of hits followed like 'Don't You (Forget About Me)', 'Alive and Kicking', 'Love Song', 'Promised You A Miracle', 'Glittering Prize' and 'Waterfront' spanning eight Top 20 albums.
Lead vocalist Jim Kerr says: "Australia holds a very special place in the heart of Simple Minds. It was the first country anywhere in the world to embrace our music and we have wonderful memories of the tours we've done. We're extremely excited about playing in Australia again."
In the live concert arena, Simple Minds have few peers. This is a band that has played countless sold out stadium tours including three times at Wembley stadium, has been voted the prestigious Q Magazine's 'World's Best Live Act' and has retained an enviable reputation as one of THE great live concert bands.
Simple Minds commence a lengthy European tour in late June in support of their just released box set "Simple MindsX5" which features their ground-breaking first five albums 'Life in a Day', 'Real to Real Cacophony', 'Empires and Dance', 'Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call' and 'New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84)' as well as a bonus disc of rare and previously unavailable B-sides and remixes.
According to the UK Guardian Newspaper "Simple Minds are suddenly alive and kicking again" whilst the Metro says: "It's official, Simple Minds are cool again."
There's no denying the influence Devo – brothers Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh and Gerald and Bob Casale - have exercised over a new generation of artists. Invitations to play the Livid Festival (1997) and Splendour In The Grass (2008) on past Australian sojourns is testimony to their currency with music fans.
Devo was an extension of a multi-media exploration of the concept that mankind's progress had ceased, and the process of de-evolution had begun. Their early work from the visionary debut 'Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo' caught the attention of such icons as Brian Eno and David Bowie, and with hits like 'Whip It' and 'Girl U Want' and the accompanying revolutionary music videos, the group became one of the defining acts of the 1980s.
Devo's surrealist and highly innovative stage shows have been an influence on artists from Rage Against the Machine to Lady Gaga. Kurt Cobain once said, "Of all the bands who came from the underground and actually made it in the mainstream, Devo is the most challenging and subversive of all."
In 2010 Devo released their first album in 20 years 'Something For Everyone' and have re-ignited their passion for live performance. They are about to tour the US with Blondie so will be in fine form when they hit Australian shores again. DEVOtees..... expect the unexpected!
Having recently celebrated their 30th anniversary, the church continue to redefine what it is to be a band, evolving without compromise. From the debut album 'Of Skins and Heart' through to 2009′s lush, organic masterpiece 'Untitled #23', lead vocalist and bassist Steve Kilbey, guitarists Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper and drummer Tim Powles (now an active member of the band for 17 years), continue to pleasure their fans with a combination of chemistry, talent and a desire for excellence, unique and distinctive guitar sounds and thought-provoking lyrics.
The Models induction into the 2010 ARIA Hall Of Fame was recognition of the status this pioneering Melbourne band has always held. Led by Sean Kelly and James Freud and emerging from the post new wave scene, Models' produced ground-breaking albums 'The Pleasure Of Your Company' and 'Out Of Mind Out Of Sight'. Kelly has continued to work as a producer and performer with his solo combo and leading various Models reunions.
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Dallas Cowboys bus involved in fatal crash in Arizona
Dallas Cowboys bus involved in fatal crash in Arizona
KINGMAN, Ariz. -- The Latest on a fatal traffic crash in Arizona involving a Dallas Cowboys bus (all times local):
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Four people were killed when a Dallas Cowboys bus collided with a van in Arizona.
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Quentin Mehr says all the fatalities in the Sunday crash were passengers in the van.
Mehr didn't say what led to the crash on U.S. Highway 93 in western Arizona.
Dallas Cowboys spokesman Rich Dalrymple says the bus had no players, only staff members on board. They suffered "bumps and bruises."
According to the Department of Public Safety, the collision occurred about 30 miles north of the city of Kingman.
The bus was en route to Las Vegas for an afternoon fan event where organizers say the team's mascot was expected to appear.
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A spokesman for the Dallas Cowboys says passengers on a team-owned bus escaped serious injury in a collision with another vehicle that killed at least one person in Arizona.
Team spokesman Rich Dalrymple says people on the bus suffered only "bumps and bruises" in the Sunday crash on U.S. Highway 93.
Dalrymple didn't say if any players or staff were onboard the bus.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety says the collision occurred about 30 miles north of the city of Kingman, in western Arizona.
The agency said it was a fatal crash but couldn't immediately confirm the number of people killed.
The bus was heading to an afternoon fan event in Las Vegas where organizers say the team's mascot was expected to appear.
Report: Phillies preparing for possible Jeremy Hellickson trade to Marlins
Report: Phillies preparing for possible Jeremy Hellickson trade to Marlins
Jeremy Hellickson may be staying in the NL East past the trade deadline.
Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports reported that the Phillies are scouting the Marlins' minor league teams in advance of a possible Hellickson deal.
Sources: #Phillies scouting #Marlins' Gulf Coast league affiliate in preparation for a possible Hellickson trade.— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) July 25, 2016
This comes on the heels of a report from a radio host in Miami that Marlins starter Wei-Yin Chen may need Tommy John surgery. Chen left with an elbow sprain during Wednesday's loss to the Phillies and was placed on the disabled list. Ironically, Chen was starting against Hellickson, who will face Jarred Cosart in place of Chen on Monday.
SLATER SCOOP: Several people within Marlins organization fear Wei-Yin Chen will need Tommy John surgery. He'll try to let elbow heal first.— Andy Slater (@AndySlater) July 25, 2016
Hellickson's value rebounded significantly this season after struggling in Arizona and Tampa Bay the last few seasons. After dealing with a shoulder injury, Hellickson pitched to ERAs above 4.50 in each season from 2013-15, leading to the Diamondbacks trading him to the Phillies for limited value.
However, in 20 starts, Hellickson, who will be a free agent after the year, has anchored the Phillies' rotation, bringing a 3.84 ERA over 119 ⅔ innings into Monday's scheduled start. He also has a nearly career-best strikeout rate and has regained his signature command that made him a strong performer with the Rays.
The Phillies are aided this trade deadline by a lack of starting pitching options available on the market. With many teams in contention looking for an additional starter, Hellickson is an attractive piece who could help a team in a pennant race.
Previewing Eagles 2016 training camp: A to Z
Previewing Eagles 2016 training camp: A to Z
The Eagles officially kick off training camp on Monday morning, when rookies, select veterans and quarterbacks report to the NovaCare Complex.
The rest of the team will show up on Wednesday, which leads into the first full team practice on Thursday afternoon at 3:30. From there, things don't really stop until the season ends in January.
But every season starts with training camp. This will be the first under head coach Doug Pederson and the first as Eagles for many rookies and free agent pickups.
Let's take a look at this year's training camp from A to Z:
A – Nelson Agholor: Agholor wasn't charged with sexual assault stemming from an incident at a South Philadelphia gentlemen's club in June, but that doesn't mean he's past it. The second-year receiver will undoubtedly be asked about the incident the first time he fields questions from reporters and likely won't say much. He's lucky most of the incident is behind him, however, because the last thing he needs is a distraction. Agholor is coming off an extremely disappointing rookie season and has a chance to turn things around by earning a starting receiver job. He could be one of the biggest keys to the Eagles' offense in 2016.
B – Bucs. Mark it on your calendars, folks: the first preseason game of 2016 is on Aug. 11 against Tampa Bay at the Linc. It'll be our first chance to see a ton of new players – including the No. 2 pick – in game action.
C – Cornerback. One of the more intriguing position groups on this team for a few reasons. It looks like one of the starting corner jobs is going to belong to free agent pickup Leodis McKelvin. But the other? Well, it could belong to Nolan Carroll or Eric Rowe or Ron Brooks or even rookie Jalen Mills. And then one guy will have the opportunity to play the slot. During the spring, Brooks played outside and slid into the slot in the Nickel.
Aside from the top of the roster, there's intrigue among the last few corners on the roster. Simply put: there are too many talented young players than there are roster spots.
D – Days off. There aren't many. Training camp is a brutal few weeks. From the start of camp until the first game on Aug. 11, players have off just two days (Aug. 2, Aug. 9) and 15 practice days.
E – Early mornings. If training camp isn't brutal enough, practices are starting mighty early. Once the entire team gets to camp, practices will start at 8:15 a.m., which is when Andy Reid used to hold his camp practices.
F – Fullback. Under Doug Pederson's offense, a fullback will be used. Now, the Eagles don't have a traditional FB on the roster, so this job will belong to either Trey Burton or Chris Pantale, who are both listed as tight ends. Pantale worked with the first team at fullback in the spring, while Burton got some second-team snaps, but Pederson made sure to note that he wanted to see both of them play the position when the hitting started at training camp. Here's his chance.
G – Chris Givens. If you're looking for an under-the-radar player to become a fan and media favorite during camp, look no further than Givens. He had a very good spring and his rapport with starting QB Sam Bradford was clearly on display. Givens can catch short passes, but his ability to stretch the field will be more fun to watch. With a base salary of just $760,000, he could be a huge bargain.
H – Hitting. It's something we didn't see a lot of during the last three years of training camps under Chip Kelly. He preferred to keep things lighter, in terms of hitting, to prevent injuries. Pederson's philosophy is different and more like Reid's. The Eagles will hit at training camp. At times, they will have live (tackle to the ground) periods. It will much more closely resemble actually football than what Kelly had the team doing for the last three years.
I – Isaac Seumalo. Through no fault of his own, the rookie third-round pick missed all of OTAs this spring because of the NFL/college graduation rule. Seumalo was able to stay in touch with his coaches through the marvels of modern technology, but he still missed a ton. And now he's playing catch-up. Will he have enough time to wrestle away the starting left tackle job from Allen Barbre? Not sure. First, though, he'll need to surpass top backup Stefen Wisniewski, who also has his eyes set on that starting left guard spot.
J – Jason Peters. For whatever reason, Peters declined to talk to the media all spring. We'll try again during training camp. Perhaps it's because he wasn't thrilled about all the talk of his decline in play, which, while it might be unpleasant for him, is hard to argue. Peters is 34 and his eventual successor Lane Johnson signed a long-term deal this offseason. Still, Peters is a big key to the Eagles' offensive success in 2016.
K – Kicker. Caleb Sturgis or Cody Parkey will win this job and you may not care. But you probably should. Sturgis looked better in the open practices this spring, but Parkey is recovering from a serious injury and will have every chance to win his old job back.
L – Linebackers. This is perhaps the scariest position on the roster in terms of depth. Jordan Hicks and Mychal Kendricks have lengthy injury histories and Nigel Bradham is somewhat of an unknown. Still, it might be a solid starting group. But after them? Najee Goode, Deontae Skinner, Joe Walker and a few undrafted rookies. Yikes.
M – Most at stake. There are several players who can earn a roster spot or even a starting job over the next few weeks. I outline them here.
N – NovaCare Complex. For the fourth straight year training camp will be held in South Philadelphia and it doesn't look like it'll be heading back to Lehigh University anytime soon. This is sad in some ways because it was a lot of fun up there, but it's hard to blame Pederson for choosing convenience over team-building.
O – Open practices. This is the part of having camp at home that really stinks. When it was at Lehigh, fans could get a really good look at their team and I know many took the opportunity to make a mini vacation of it. This year, there are just two open practices, on July 31 at 10 a.m. and Aug. 14 at 7 p.m.
Both open practices are at Lincoln Financial Field and do not require tickets. Seating is first-come, first-serve. Parking for the practices is free in K Lot, which will open at 7 a.m. (gates open at 8) on July 31 and 4 p.m. (gates open at 5) on Aug. 14. Keep in mind, the NFL's clear bag policy will be in effect. Concessions will be open during those practices.
P – Doug Pederson. Obviously, a lot of eyes are going to be on Pederson as he enters his first year as a head coach in the NFL. We got a sense of what his practices are going to look like from OTAs, and they're going to be much different than the ones Kelly ran. Slower pace, more teaching. Really, a more traditional look.
Q – Quarterbacks. In case you've been living under a rock for the last few months, the Eagles have invested a ton of money and resources into the quarterback position. They re-signed Sam Bradford, signed Chase Daniel, then moved up from 13 to 8 to 2 to draft Carson Wentz. Pederson and his offensive coordinator Frank Reich, who are both former NFL QBs, have obviously put a ton of stock in the position. How will it all shake out this season? We're not sure yet, mostly because injuries are impossible to predict, but we'll certainly be watching.
R – Rookies. Wentz is the first quarterback the Eagles have taken this high in a draft since Donovan McNabb. Yeah, people are going to be watching him. But the Eagles have plenty of other draft picks and undrafted rookies in camp, 26 in all. Now, not many are considered to be candidates to make impacts this year, but a few could.
S – Jim Schwartz. The Eagles' defensive coordinator is almost as important as the head coach. He's charged with turning around a unit that has been very bad for the last few years. He has some new pieces to go along with his 4-3 scheme. If nothing else, it'll be fun to watch.
T – TV. The first two preseason games will be simulcast on CSNPhilly and COZI TV. The last two preseason games will be on NBC10. CSNPhilly will also replay all the games (see story).
U – Under the microscope. For the last few years, Fletcher Cox has way out-performed his rookie contract. To out-perform his new deal, he'll have to become a perennial Pro Bowler. He's clearly the best player on the team – and the Eagles paid him like it – but now it's time for him to show he's worth the money. And Cox isn't the only one. Lane Johnson, Zach Ertz and Vinny Curry also got big money in long-term deals.
V – Destiny Vaeao. Aside from linebacker, the position with the biggest depth concern is probably defensive tackle. After starters Cox and Bennie Logan, there's Mike Martin, who is probably the top backup. Then there's Beau Allen and Taylor Hart, who are questionable scheme fits. That leaves the door open for an undrafted rookie to make the team here, and the top one this spring was Vaeao from Washington State. Now, Aziz Shittu from Stanford might push for a roster spot, but he missed all spring because of the NFL/college graduation rule.
W – Carson Wentz. The No. 2 pick's first training camp. Everyone's gonna be watching. The thing we really have to look forward to is seeing Wentz playing in the preseason games, where he should get significant snaps.
X – X's and O's. Since training camp will actually resemble real football, the X's and O's will be important. We'll see if Pederson's offense will have some downfield influence from Frank Reich. And then we'll get a chance to see what Schwartz's defense is all about. How quickly will the returning players figure it out?
Y – Year 2 and 3 players. Plenty of folks will be watching the rookies, specifically Wentz, but there are several players entering their second and third years in the league who need to make more of an impact. To name a few: Agholor, Josh Huff, Marcus Smith. All early-rounders who haven't hit their potential.
Z – Zoo. Under Kelly, there just seemed to be much more media hype around the Eagles, especially last year. Plenty thought the Birds were legitimate Super Bowl contenders, Kelly was always intriguing, and the team made some major offseason moves. This year, there's Wentz, but not nearly the expectations in 2016. With the headlines and radio airwaves the Sixers have gotten in town recently, the Eagles have been on the back burner. Don't expect this to last long though. After all, this is a football town.


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