What The Force Awakens Borrowed From the Old Star Wars Expanded Universe

Whether intentional, by coincidence, or because the plot points are obvious continuations of the established characters, there are a number of things in The Force Awakens that tread over ground the old Expanded Universe also walked. Major spoilers ahead. The New Republic and the Remainder of the Empire As in the original-now-Legends Expanded Universe, the…

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$100,000 and up is not enough – even the ‘rich’ live paycheck to paycheck | Business | The Guardian

Marguerita Cheng, a certified financial planner and CEO of Blue Ocean Global Wealth, has a client in the Washington, DC area who makes $450,000 to $600,000 a year but lives paycheck to paycheck. He spends a lot of it on keeping peace with his ex-wife. Related: Guardian readers: US middle class is ‘living from one…

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Everything you ever wanted to know about unfurling but were afraid to ask /or/ How to make your… — Slack Developer Blog — Medium

Let’s start with the most obvious question first. This is what an “unfurl” is: Those handy little previews you see when you paste a link into a Slack message are what we refer to as unfurling internally at Slack (and also in Slack’s API documentation). While it may sound like a made up bit of tech jargon, it’s…

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Oberlin College Apologizes to Students for Serving Culturally Insensitive Meals That Honestly Look Pretty Okay For Cafeteria Food

Oberlin, a private college with a $50,000 tuition, has entered once more into this year’s Tedious Campus Culture War Debate. After hearing complaints that its sushi program wasn’t good enough for reasons of racism, the place of learning has issued an apology. http://gawker.com/oberlin-debate… The New York Times reports that this particular campaign for justice began…

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Oberlin College Students: Cafeteria Food Is Racist – The Daily Beast

The noted liberal arts school explores new frontiers in getting offended. University dining halls aren’t exactly famous for serving gourmet dishes, but Oberlin students say their meals aren’t merely bad—they are racially inauthentic, and thus, a form of microaggression. It’s one thing to quietly gripe about the quality of dorm food (students have likely been…

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Star Wars Merch’s Sexism Problem: #WheresRey Highlights Dearth in Female Toys – The Daily Beast

The omission of Rey from the Millennium Falcon—the ship that she flies in several key Force Awakens scenes—drew sharp criticism from fans. UPDATE, 12/23/15: This story has been updated with comment from Disney. Now that fans have flocked to the new Star Wars flick to the tune of a record-breaking $247 million opening weekend, a disgruntled…

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