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YOLO Economics
September 16, 2016 John Feffer 1 Comment
by John Feffer
The economy, we have been taught, is a cat with considerably more than nine lives. The bottom might drop out of the stock market, but it will rebound — again and again. The Chinese were on top of the world, economically, for a thousand years or more, but then the colonial powers cut the country down to size — and now China has regained its former glory. Laptops, which once boosted productivity, no longer do so, but don't worry: another innovation will soon come along to revolutionize the workplace.
Growth is the sine qua non of every modern economy, from North Dakota to North Korea. Not everyone agrees, of course. Even before global warming appeared on the horizon, environmentalists came up with a persuasive argument about the limits of growth. The earth only has so many resources. There's just not enough for everybody to own multiple SUVs, indulge in all-you-can-eat sushi buffets, and go on back-to-back cruise vacations. Climate change is just the final warning for a voracious race that ignored all previous recommendations of restraint.
For the last couple decades, however, growth in the industrialized world has slowed down.Europe and Japan have entered a long period of stagnation. The United States has seen various ups and downs, but the purchasing power of your wages really hasn't budged since 1973. On top of that, U.S. productivity has slumped since 2010, with the most recent decline being the longest since 1979. Where growth has occurred, it has been unevenly distributed. Between 1947 and 1970, the bottom fifth of the U.S. population enjoyed a 3 percent growth increase in real personal disposable income. From 2000 to 2015, it was only .1 percent. The top 1 percent, meanwhile saw a 1.4 percent increase between 1947 and 1970 that swelled to 2.3 percent between 2000 and 2015.
Don't worry, the optimists coo. Growth will return. It always does.
So, for instance, in data released by the Census Bureau that made headlines this week, the incomes of middle-class Americans rose by a little over 5 percent in 2015, the kind of increase not seen since the 1960s. "There, you see, we told you so!" trumpet the optimists. The economy has finally recovered from the economic crisis of the late 2000s.
Ah, but if you read the fine print, you find out that, adjusted for inflation, median incomes have not yet recovered to the levels of just before the recent recession. Nor have they returned to the levels of 1999. Our paychecks are bigger, but they don't go any farther.
The forecast is even gloomier. Economic growth, when it does return, has been anemic, doesn't create a lot of jobs, and has increased rather than reduced inequality. That's the argument of economist Robert Gordon's compelling new book, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, which builds on a lifetime of research into technology and productivity. Say goodbye to the American dream, Gordon tells us. If you think it's possible to make America great again — to re-experience the growth rates of the 1950s and 1960s — think again. The enormous growth the United States enjoyed after World War II will never recur. It was a one-time-only occurrence.
This is not anti-Americanism. This is not pessimism or Malthusianism or neo-Marxist millenarianism. It is, simply, data.
And it's not just a problem for the United States.
Only Once
In an era of the "next big thing," it's hard to swallow the idea that we are no longer living in an exceptional period of economic prosperity.
I have an amazing computer in my pocket that can tell me the best Chinese restaurant nearby, record and edit a video, and produce a veritable library of e-books and audio books at a touch of the finger. Oh, and I can use it to make calls and send emails and post updates to thousands of friends and colleagues around the globe. My father would have been amazed by this phone; my grandfather would have been freaked out; go back any further and the owner of such an object would probably have been burned at the stake. How can we not be living in the best of all possible worlds?
In his review of Robert Gordon's new book, William Nordhaus provides the following startling statistics:
For most of human history, economic progress moved at a crawl. According to the economic historian Bradford DeLong, from the first rock tools used by humanoids three million years ago, to the earliest cities ten thousand years ago, through the Middle Ages, to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution around 1800, living standards doubled (with a growth of 0.00002 percent per year). Another doubling took place over the subsequent period to 1870. Then, according to standard calculations, the world economy took off.
Yes, you read that correctly. For a stretch of three million years, humans experienced a growth rate of .00002 percent per year. That includes the first four decades or so of the Industrial Revolution, which started around 1760. In other words, the contemporaries of Mozart enjoyed an average standard of living virtually indistinguishable from those laboring at the time of King Solomon.
The hundred years between 1870 and 1970, however, was truly a time of miracles. "Manual outdoor jobs were replaced by work in air-conditioned environments, housework was increasingly performed by electric appliances, darkness was replaced by light, and isolation was replaced not just by travel, but also by color television images bringing the world into the living room," writes Gordon. "The economic revolution of 1870 to 1970 was unique in human history, unrepeatable because so many of its achievements could happen only once."
Very few people dispute that that was a very special century of human progress, particularly since it lifted an enormous tide of people out of poverty and into a swelling middle class. Much more controversial are Gordon's assertions that the revolution ended in 1970 and will never be repeated.
Gordon's argument revolves around the relationship between innovation and productivity. There were, of course, inventions before 1870. But they didn't prove transformative in terms of human productivity, not like the telegraph, running water, the light bulb or the automobile. These inventions enabled us to make more things, make them more efficiently, and get them into the hands of more people. The information revolution was the latest in this series of transformations. "As the impact of the late-19th-century inventions faded away around 1970, the computer revolution took over and allowed the economy to remain on our historic path of 2% annual growth," Gordon writes.
Eventually, however, the IT revolution stopped boosting productivity so dramatically and, arguably, started to detract from it through such time sucks as Facebook and Angry Birds. Gordon estimates that the productivity turning point came around 2004 (coincidentally when Facebook was launched) and the real slowdown began in 2010 (shortly after Angry Birds launched).
So, what does Gordon mean by "only once"? After all, the automobile is still around. So are running water, the light bulb, and the computer. They continue to contribute value to the economy. But they no longer provide a quantum leap in growth. New baselines are established for productivity. Technology diffuses, and other countries or regions begin to take competitive advantage of the same improvements.
Gordon identifies six "headwinds" that make future growth less likely, at least for the United States. We're no longer able to take advantage of the baby boomer bump or women entering the workforce in large numbers. We already benefited from the explosion of higher education, and now students face a huge debt load. Then there's rising inequality, climate change, globalization and the erosion of the manufacturing sector, and the huge amount of debt held at both the household and governmental level. Combine these six ingredients and you have a recipe for Japanese-style stagnation.
Now let's take a look at how this "only once" insight affects other countries and geopolitics more generally.
Beyond Innovation
Western Europe experienced enormous growth in the post-World War II era, and it too took advantage of a number of "only once" boosts on top of those Gordon identified for the United States. The first, of course, was the Marshall Plan, which injected a one-time sum into the war-ravaged region that could rebuild what had been destroyed. The second was the European integration process, which created economies of scale for the region, linked supply and demand across borders, and also provided resources for economic laggards to catch up.
After 1989, East-Central Europe did not receive anything like a Marshall Plan. Indeed, the governments that emerged from the collapse of communism still had to pay the debts incurred by the previous regimes. But they did have two "only once" options they could access. The privatization of state-owned enterprises provided an enormous dividend for the new governments, which they either used to modernize their economies or lost in the swamp of corruption. The second option that nearly all the countries have pursued has been membership in the EU, which provided access to EU stabilization funds. Although East-Central Europe made important gains since it experienced its own downturn in the 1990s, the use of these "only once" options has not resulted in the closure of the economic gap with the West.
Following the lead of Japan and then South Korea, China experienced double-digit economic growth in the 1990s and into the 2000s. Virtually all of the "only once" factors converged at one time: agricultural modernization, transportation revolution, and computerization. The state was able to deploy resources in a way to encourage these transformations. It could also take advantage of another "only once" factor: cheap labor. China leveraged its enormous, literate workforce to carve out a competitive position in the global economy, and then work its way up the value chain. India is attempting to do the same now.
The challenge remains: can Europe break out of its rut and China regain its earlier growth figures? Not likely: and that will have important political ramifications.
After all, the global economy faces certain headwinds as well. The industrialized world is struggling with a debt overload, faces a demographic crunch, hasn't figured out a way to address growing income polarization, and comes up against resource depletion and global warming. The traditional answer to these problems has been: we need to grow our way out of it. Prime the pump! Innovate!
If Robert Gordon is right, however, that option no longer exists. Some developing countries will still be able to take advantage of some "once only" options, if it doesn't push them over their carbon allowances. But the rest of the world must come to grips with modest growth from here on out. Yes, of course, inventions on the horizon like artificial intelligence could prove to be transformative. AlphaGo recently beat the world's best Go player with an entirely new approach called "reinforcement learning" where the computer begins to develop a form of intuition about how to play the game. But the evidence so far suggests that such innovations will produce jobless growth — think: automation — and not provide the same lift for the poor and middle class as earlier industrial revolutions.
Economic stagnation, polarization of wealth, anger at an ineffectual and/or corrupt elite: here is the prescription for the rise of Trump-style populism. The global economy has failed us because it hasn't delivered the growth it once did between 1870 and 1970. Trump and his friends imagine that we can go backward and revive the golden age. The data says: no.
Fairy Tale Growth
Robert Gordon discusses the innovations of the late 19th-century but spends less time on the substances that made those transformations possible. Here, too, we encounter the iron rule of "only once," and it has an almost fairytale quality to it.
Back in the 19th century, we scraped at the earth and released a magic genie from his prisonhouse. In gratitude, the genie granted humanity one wish. We asked to be rich and powerful. And voila: the genie of fossil fuels did just that, making capitalism possible on a global scale, creating a class of the super-rich, and pulling an unprecedented number of people out of poverty and into a swelling middle class.
Ah, but there's more than one story in The Thousand and One Nights about genies granting wishes. The happier one centers around Alladin, who indeed becomes rich and powerful after rubbing the magic lamp. A perhaps more realistic tale involves a fisherman who releases an evil genie who grants only one very specific wish: the poor fisherman can specify how he wants to be killed.
It's not yet clear which genie we released when we rubbed the earth and out came coal and natural gas and oil. All those fossil fuels certainly have made us rich and powerful. But ultimately, they may simply grant humanity a single wish: to choose the way we die.
As importantly, the genie comes out of the bottle only once. We are not currently busy burying dinosaurs and massive ferns to create another cache of fossil fuels for some future generation. What we have — whenever it does run out — is all we have. Perhaps if we use them wisely, these fossil fuels will serve as a bridge to a technology, such as solar or fusion, that can provide comparable amounts of energy. Perhaps we can curtail the use of these fuels quickly enough to prevent the earth from becoming a ball of fire.
Either way, the enormous benefits that have accrued from fossil fuels provide a one-time boost in economic growth.
In response to Gordon's "once-only" rule, we should take develop a YOLO economics. I'm not talking about the individuals who declare that "you only live once" (YOLO) before they splurge on the latest Harley-Davidson. I'm thinking more of the environmentalist take on YOLO, interpreting the "you" collectively: we, the human race, also only live once, and therefore this generation should take care to pass on the planet to the next generation in better shape than we received it.
"Sustainable growth" just won't cut it. We have to come up with something that redefines growth, emphasizes the importance of equity and dignity, and ensures that innovation works for us all. In the end, coming up with this new economic model should be on everyone's bucket list.
Photo by Gary Knight via Flickr.
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John Feffer
John Feffer is the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is also the author, most recently, of Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe's Broken Dreams (Zed Books). He is also the author of the dystopian Splinterlands trilogy (Dispatch Books). He is a former Open Society fellow, PanTech fellow, and Scoville fellow, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, and many other publications.
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require 'rubygems'
require 'gosu'

class Game < Gosu::Window
  attr_reader :images, :audio, :delta, :aliens, :bullets, :ship
  attr_accessor :score

  IMAGE_ASSETS = {
    :background => 'background.png',
    :ship => 'captain.png',
    :alien => 'alien.png',
    :bullet => 'laser.png'
  }

  AUDIO_ASSETS = {
    :shoot => 'shoot.wav',
    :kill => 'kill.wav'
  }

  def initialize
    super(550, 600, false)
    self.caption = 'Shooter'
    @images = {}
    @audio = {}

    @ship = nil
    @bullets = []
    @aliens = []
  end

  def run!
    self.load_assets
    self.setup_game
    self.show
  end

  def draw
    # draw background
    @images[:background].draw(0, 0, 0)

    # draw the sprites
    @ship.draw
    @bullets.each {|bullet| bullet.draw }
    @aliens.each {|alien| alien.draw }

    # draw the score
    @font.draw("#{@score}", 10, 10, 20)
  end

  def update
    self.update_delta
    self.spawn_enemies

    @ship.update
    @bullets.each {|bullet| bullet.update }
    @aliens.each {|alien| alien.update }

    self.handle_kills
  end

  def button_up(key)
    self.close if key == Gosu::KbEscape
    self.shoot if key == Gosu::KbSpace
  end

  protected

  def load_assets
    IMAGE_ASSETS.each do |key, value|
      @images[key] = Gosu::Image.new(self, "gfx/#{value}")
    end

    AUDIO_ASSETS.each do |key, value|
      @audio[key] = Gosu::Sample.new(self, "sfx/#{value}")
    end

    @font = Gosu::Font.new(self, 'Courier', 40)
  end

  def update_delta
    current_time = Gosu::milliseconds / 1000.0
    @delta = [current_time - @last_time, 0.25].min
    @last_time = current_time
  end

  def setup_game
    @last_time = Gosu::milliseconds / 1000.0
    @ship = Ship.new
    @score = 0
  end

  def shoot
    @bullets.push(Bullet.new(@ship.x, @ship.y)) unless @ship.nil?
    @audio[:shoot].play
  end

  def spawn_enemies
    if rand(100) < 400 * @delta
      @aliens.push(Alien.new)
    end
  end

  def handle_kills
    @aliens.reject! {|x| x.killed? }
    @bullets.reject! {|x| x.killed? }
    self.game_over if @ship.killed?
  end

  def game_over
    self.close
  end
end

module Sprite
  attr_accessor :x, :y, :z, :angle, :image, :radius

  def initialize_sprite
    @killed = false
    @x = 0
    @y = 0
    @z = 0
    @angle = 0
    @image = nil
    @image_index = 0
    @radius = 0 # circular boundign box size
  end

  def killed?
    @killed
  end

  def kill!
    @killed = true
  end

  def colliding?(other)
    if @radius.zero? or other.radius.zero?
      false
    else
      Gosu::distance(@x, @y, other.x, other.y) < (@radius + other.radius)
    end
  end

  def draw
    @image.draw_rot(@x, @y, @z, @angle) unless @image.nil?
  end
end

class Ship
  include Sprite
  SPEED = 350 # pixels / second

  def initialize
    self.initialize_sprite
    @x = $game.width / 2
    @y = $game.height - 50
    @image = $game.images[:ship]
    @z = 10
    @radius = 30
  end

  def update
    # move horizontally if <- or -> are pressed
    @x -= SPEED * $game.delta if $game.button_down?(Gosu::KbLeft)
    @x += SPEED * $game.delta if $game.button_down?(Gosu::KbRight)
    # clamp @x so the ship always stays inside the screen
    @x = [[@x, $game.width].min, 0].max
  end
end

class Bullet
  include Sprite
  SPEED = 400 # pixels / second

  def initialize(x, y)
    self.initialize_sprite
    @x = x
    @y = y
    @image = $game.images[:bullet]
    @z = 1
    @radius = 10
  end

  def update
    # move upwards
    @y -= SPEED * $game.delta

    # collisions against aliens
    $game.aliens.each do |alien|
      if self.colliding?(alien)
        # destroy both alien and bullet
        alien.kill!
        self.kill!
        $game.score += 10 # increase score
        $game.audio[:kill].play # play explosion sfx
      end
    end

    # destroy the laser when out of the screen
    self.kill! if @y < -15
  end
end

class Alien
  include Sprite

  def initialize
    self.initialize_sprite
    @x = rand($game.width)
    @y = -80
    @z = 1
    @image = $game.images[:alien]
    @radius = 20

    # random horizontal and vertical speed
    @speed_x = [-1, 1].sample * rand(50)
    @speed_y = 100 + rand(200)
  end

  def update
    @x += @speed_x * $game.delta
    @y += @speed_y * $game.delta

    # collisions against the ship
    $game.ship.kill! if self.colliding?($game.ship)

    # destroy alien when out of the screen
    self.kill! if @y > $game.height + 25
  end
end

$game = Game.new
$game.run!

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import asyncio
import bot
import datetime
from implants import lunch_lib

class LunchMenuImplant(bot.BotImplant):
    @asyncio.coroutine
    def handle_message(self, msg):
        if 'user' not in msg:
            return False
        if msg['user'] == self.rtm.user_id:
            return False
        if msg['text'].find('lounas') == 0:
            weekday = datetime.datetime.now().weekday()
            if 'huomenna' in msg['text']:
                weekday = weekday + 1
                if weekday > 4:
                    yield from self.rtm.send_event({
                        'type': 'message',
                        'channel': msg['channel'],
                        'text': "On viiiikonloppu täällä taas."
                    })
                    return True
            structure = yield from self.bot.event_loop.run_in_executor(None, lunch_lib.get_weekly_menu)
            weekdays = list(structure.get('menu').values())
            text = "{title} {period}\n\n{dishes}".format(
                title=structure.get('restaurant'),
                period=structure.get('period'),
                dishes=lunch_lib.format_message(weekdays[weekday])
            )
            yield from self.rtm.send_event({
                'type': 'message',
                'channel': msg['channel'],
                'text': text
            })
            return True


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SYNONYM

#### According to
The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

#### Published in
Fung. trident. 2(8-10): 23 (1892)

#### Original name
Russula lilacea var. carnicolor Bres., 1892

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Peabody Junk Removal & Dumpster Rental Alternative | 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
The word "Hygge" refers to a mood of coziness and comfort, a state of contentment and tranquility. One of the best ways of cultivating this feeling is to declutter your space. This could mean cleaning out your home of unwanted junk or trash. This could mean cleaning our your lawn or cellar. Either way, there is an easy way to achieve the hygge without breaking your bank, or your back.
We've rolled out our state of the art Peabody junk removal dumpster rental alternative service to give you the peace of a clean house without any of the hassle of a big green dumpster.
Maybe dumpster rental services were convenience decades ago, but today these services are fraught with obvious flaws and limitations. For one, you have to haul all of your junk from its original place to the dumpster. If you've just wrapped up renovations in your home, you could be looking at significant amounts of debris to carry. This could result in personal injury or accidental damage to your floors, carpets, or walls.
According to research, hauling heavy junk is actually a substantial cause of injury in the world. This is because carrying heavy stuff improperly could put strain on the back, especially if done on a regular basis.
Dumpster rental services are inherently limited. Because you're only renting a a physical object, you are only able to dispose of what can fit in the dumpster. That's not all, as you also have to mind the weight limit, which is not always easy to assess. Certain vendors will also not accept certain kinds of materials. In addition, if junk pick up is late or unreliable, you're stuck with an unpleasant dumpster sitting on your property for longer than needed. This can attract critters looking for junk, creating more of a mess. And they won't even provide labor involved in hauling the junk. There are simply too many limitations to the service.
1-800-Got-Junk provides a one-stop, holistic solution for the people of Peabody. We provide full service, turn-key junk pick-up and removal services. Rather than risk damage, injury, or mess, why not consider a full-package junk removal that takes care of everything quickly and cleanly?
You can book an appointment with us using our website to select a two hour window for pick up. Our strong and professional trained pick up staff will arrive during the window, giving up a heads up call 15 to 30 minutes ahead of time. Once on location, our team will remove all of the junk you need gone so that you don't even have to lift a finger. We impose no weight or size limits and take pride in offering a totally turn-key package.
Our services include but are not limited to appliance removal, furniture removal, Yard waste removal, hot tub removal, trash removal, mattress disposal, television disposal and recycling, refrigerator disposal and recycling, construction waste removal, E-waste removal, foreclosure cleanouts, garbage removal, and pretty much anything you might not want or need.
We remove all junk in a community oriented and eco-friendly way. This means that we either donate, recycle, or responsibly dispose of all junk, doing the best we can to give back to the Peabody community in the process.
So it's time to ditch the dumpster. A world of constant hygge is possible with 1-800-GOT-JUNK. Call us up for a no-commitment appointment or access our 24/7 customer service with any questions or concerns you may have. A brigher, junk free future in on the horizon.


Canon Cinema Caravan - We won!
Less than a week ago, we posted about the Canon Cinema Caravan commercial competition - asking you all to go and watch and vote.
It was just announced today that we WON!
HUGE thank you's go out to each and every one of you that voted. There were hundreds of you. Special thanks to the following people who really got the word out there: Dawn (our little model's mom), Terry, Carie, and all my family and friends who spread the word.
Elizabeth and Claudio had reason to rent a vintage limousine for their wedding day. Elizabeth had a photograph from Elizabeth's grandparents in such a car with a "Just Married" sign across the back.
This vintage limo was a beauty. Look at these white-wall tires.
While I drove behind the vintage limo (with Elizabeth and Claudio inside), Kelly rolled down the window and hung herself out there to get some "in action" shots. Great job Kelly!
And Elizabeth brought the photograph from her Grandparent's wedding day, so that we could take this exact photo of Claudio and herself with it. Oh and in case you can't tell....this IS THE EXACT "Just Married" sign that her grandparent used. They've saved it all these years. Too cool!
I am so excited to write our Talk of the Town Thursday post today! We are featuring Botanica Floral Designs and I couldn't wait to talk about Audrey and her fabulous work! Audrey with Botanica Floral Designs has been the florist for several weddings and events we've photographed in the last couple of years. We have also worked directly with Audrey on several Memory Journalists' shoots. Audrey is so talented and an all-around wonderful person. She is always so helpful, timely and super easy to work with. A couple of times we have had last minute flower emergencies and Audrey came to our rescue. Audrey, we can't thank you enough! We hope our readers enjoy some insight on Botanica Floral Designs including our fun interview and several storyboards (of course).
Audrey Chaney, Floral stylist and founder of Botanica Floral Designs, is passionate about wedding flowers and the beauty behind well-crafted wedding design. After receiving her Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Horticulture Science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Audrey began her pursuit of starting her own design firm in Sacramento. Specializing in wedding flowers and event floral design, Botanica Floral Designs has grown to be a premier wedding floral design studio where clients are offered a boutique experience, personalized service and dramatic results.
I love this photo of Audrey! Not only is she talented but so beautiful inside and out. This photo was taken by David Pascolla Photography.
How long have you been a floral designer and what made you choose this career? My goodness, I have been designing flowers for over ten years now, but remember as far back as being in elementary school when I started my fascination with flowers. I think flowers and horticulture have just always been a part of my life, and I am a true believer in making what you love your career.
What is your favorite wedding element or moment? Well, I LOVE weddings, and it's more than just my love of flowers. My favorite thing about a wedding is how "true to style" it matches the couple. The REAL PEOPLE getting married. Whether you like fried chicken, dancing to crazy songs, or sharing your family's jam recipe, I simply love when the wedding day reflects the bride and groom and how they live and love life. This is the one day that is about you as a couple and all the quirkiness which makes you, YOU!
What do you think is the biggest thing that sets you apart from other wedding florists? My creativity and versatile style. My design background allows me to create different designs and styles as well as create fresh and innovative ideas to keep my clients' events one of a kind. Some examples of this would include our use of interesting and unique elements, whether they be fresh botanicals or vessels and containers to make our clients' events totally unique.
What's the craziest "theme" you have ever incorporated into wedding flowers? Most of our clients don't take huge risks when it comes to their wedding flowers... so nothing too crazy-weird per se. I've had clients incorporate fish in their arrangements, I've also had their pets wear flowers, and we've done some other "fun" elements such as this. It's got to be different, but not sooo different that it's weird or doesn't make sense.
The below photos showcase a few of my personal favorites from Audrey for one of our fashion shoots. I love her use of surprising elements in her bouquets. The feathers are fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!
Botanica Floral Designs specializes in bridal flowers, bridal bouquet, bridesmaid bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages, reception flowers, ceremony flowers, centerpieces and wedding decorations and decor.
Below are more examples of Audrey's creative work. These are from the Beyond Platinum event at Arden Hills. We were partnered up with Audrey and just love how everything turned out!
Botanica Floral Designs is based in Sacramento and services all of Northern California, including Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, Napa, Sonoma, Roseville, Sacramento, Lodi, Stockton and Modesto.
We worked with Audrey at a NACE event out at Le Rivage last summer. Again, the work is so crisp. Audrey seamlessly incorporates whatever color scheme is desired into her florals bringing everything together so nicely.
You may have seen these photos on our blog or Botanica's blog but I just had to throw in one more storyboard. Audrey did such an amazing job on Caitlin and Sean's wedding flowers and incorporated gold fish for the couple's fish theme!
Canon Cinema Caravan - Vote for us!!!
Okay everyone...THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT!!! We need your help!!
As some of you know The Memory Journalists are getting into the film (aka video) side of photography. We call it "motion" photography, vs still photography. We recently attended a Canon sponsored workshop in Portland where we each had to come up with a 30 second commercial for a Canon Powershot camera. There were several cities on the workshop tour with a total of 20 submissions. There are BIG things in it for the overall winner, AND we just made the top 5 cut - which were chosen internally by the company who taught the workshop, StillMotion Photo & Cinema.
Now it's open to the public to vote for their favorite commercial out of the top 5! We are asking that you vote for us.
and click the word "vote"
Ask you friends, spouses, co-workers, etc. to vote too! Vote today. Voting is only open until Sunday and your vote counts. Of course, please watch all 5 entries and vote for your favorite...but we hope it's ours!
Many people have commented to me that our wonderful model looks like a mini-Jennifer. Wearing pink, a hat, painted toe nails with polka dots. I guess I never thought of that as I scouted for our model but now I laugh as she does remind me of me. We were given about 4 hours to pick our script, storyboard our commercial, and then go shoot. We had a team of 4 people: a director (me), Camera A, and Camera B and our lighting person. I hand picked this beautiful little girl, a complete stranger, from a water park in Portland close by where our workshop was held. She was the best model EVER!
Here is our commercial...you can also watch it on the link above.
Elizabeth and Claudio chose Wine and Roses as their wedding reception location. After Kelly and I did a bit of scouting around at Morris Chapel, we headed back to Wine and Roses, where Elizabeth and the girls were getting ready.
We stopped along the way to photograph how full the grapes are right now.
Elizabeth was getting ready in the Spa at Wine and Roses. I think I need to go there for a day of pampering myself....anyone want to go with me?
Elizabeth had her dress made by Amy Kuschel of San Francisco. And it was perfect! I loved the lace and the simplicity and elegance of this gown. Elizabeth is such a classic girl - I like to compare her to the actresses of the day of such women as Audrey or Katharine Hepburn. All the girls wore pearls...so classic! But it goes deeper than just classic looks...Elizabeth is deep down classic. You can feel it in her soul.
The french blue and yellow were used throughout the day. The flowers had such texture. Great job by La Martine Floral.
Even the striped linens were classic, elegant and beautiful.
As we returned from the Morris chapel ceremony, we spent a few short minutes on the grounds of Wine and Roses before the sun was completely gone.
Our journey back from Morris chapel has a special story...which deserves a blog post all by itself...so look for that post coming soon.
Mike Regan, of MR DJ Services, prepared a fabulous slideshow that had Claudio in stitches....even crying tears at one point that he was laughing so hard.
I loved hearing the words of wisdom and toasts. How many shirts did you really buy, Claudio, once you learned of Elizabeth's appreciation for those colors?!
Elizabeth and Claudio broke out into a salsa dance!!! It was awesome...so much fun!
And the Indiana Jones themed garter removal was perfect for Claudio. Be sure to click the below image to begin your wedding day sneak peak slideshow.
We really had a blast of a day with you two...Congratulations!


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Q: UIActivityViewControllers across iOS8/iOS9 iPhone/iPad My app features a share button which uses activityViewController on iPhones (iOS8+) and iPads (iOS9+). As iPads only use UIPopoverController on iOS8 and activityViewController on iOS9, I've implemented some conditions which direct each device to the appropriate controller. The problem is, iTunes Connect has shown crashes on iPads using UIPopoverController:
-[UIPopoverPresentationController presentationTransitionWillBegin]
Is the following code sound?
//if iOS9
if #available(iOS 9, *) {

    self.presentViewController(activityViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

}

//if iOS8
else {

    //if iPad
    if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiom.Pad) {

        let popoverCntlr = UIPopoverController(contentViewController: activityViewController)
            popoverCntlr.presentPopoverFromRect(CGRectMake(self.view.frame.size.width/2, self.view.frame.size.height/4, 0, 0), inView: self.view, permittedArrowDirections: UIPopoverArrowDirection.Any, animated: true)

    }
    //if other
    else {

        self.presentViewController(activityViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

    }
}

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text:
// Licensed to the .NET Foundation under one or more agreements.
// The .NET Foundation licenses this file to you under the MIT license.
// See the LICENSE file in the project root for more information.

using System.Buffers;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace System.Text.Unicode
{
    public static class Utf8
    {
        /*
         * OperationStatus-based APIs for transcoding of chunked data.
         * This method is similar to Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes / GetChars but has a
         * different calling convention, different error handling mechanisms, and
         * different performance characteristics.
         *
         * If 'replaceInvalidSequences' is true, the method will replace any ill-formed
         * subsequence in the source with U+FFFD when transcoding to the destination,
         * then it will continue processing the remainder of the buffers. Otherwise
         * the method will return OperationStatus.InvalidData.
         *
         * If the method does return an error code, the out parameters will represent
         * how much of the data was successfully transcoded, and the location of the
         * ill-formed subsequence can be deduced from these values.
         *
         * If 'replaceInvalidSequences' is true, the method is guaranteed never to return
         * OperationStatus.InvalidData. If 'isFinalBlock' is true, the method is
         * guaranteed never to return OperationStatus.NeedMoreData.
         */

        /// <summary>
        /// Transcodes the UTF-16 <paramref name="source"/> buffer to <paramref name="destination"/> as UTF-8.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// If <paramref name="replaceInvalidSequences"/> is <see langword="true"/>, invalid UTF-16 sequences
        /// in <paramref name="source"/> will be replaced with U+FFFD in <paramref name="destination"/>, and
        /// this method will not return <see cref="OperationStatus.InvalidData"/>.
        /// </remarks>
        public static OperationStatus FromUtf16(ReadOnlySpan<char> source, Span<byte> destination, out int numCharsRead, out int numBytesWritten, bool replaceInvalidSequences = true, bool isFinalBlock = true)
        {
            int originalSourceLength = source.Length;
            int originalDestinationLength = destination.Length;
            OperationStatus status = OperationStatus.Done;

            // In a loop, this is going to read and transcode one scalar value at a time
            // from the source to the destination.

            while (!source.IsEmpty)
            {
                status = Rune.DecodeFromUtf16(source, out Rune firstScalarValue, out int charsConsumed);

                switch (status)
                {
                    case OperationStatus.NeedMoreData:

                        // Input buffer ended with a high surrogate. Only treat this as an error
                        // if the caller told us that we shouldn't expect additional data in a
                        // future call.

                        if (!isFinalBlock)
                        {
                            goto Finish;
                        }

                        status = OperationStatus.InvalidData;
                        goto case OperationStatus.InvalidData;

                    case OperationStatus.InvalidData:

                        // Input buffer contained invalid data. If the caller told us not to
                        // perform U+FFFD replacement, terminate the loop immediately and return
                        // an error to the caller.

                        if (!replaceInvalidSequences)
                        {
                            goto Finish;
                        }

                        firstScalarValue = Rune.ReplacementChar;
                        goto default;

                    default:

                        // We know which scalar value we need to transcode to UTF-8.
                        // Do so now, and only terminate the loop if we ran out of space
                        // in the destination buffer.

                        if (firstScalarValue.TryEncodeToUtf8(destination, out int bytesWritten))
                        {
                            source = source.Slice(charsConsumed); // don't use Rune.Utf8SequenceLength; we may have performed substitution
                            destination = destination.Slice(bytesWritten);
                            status = OperationStatus.Done; // forcibly set success
                            continue;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            status = OperationStatus.DestinationTooSmall;
                            goto Finish;
                        }
                }
            }

        Finish:

            numCharsRead = originalSourceLength - source.Length;
            numBytesWritten = originalDestinationLength - destination.Length;

            Debug.Assert(numCharsRead < originalSourceLength || status != OperationStatus.Done,
                "Cannot report OperationStatus.Done if we haven't consumed the entire input buffer.");

            return status;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Transcodes the UTF-8 <paramref name="source"/> buffer to <paramref name="destination"/> as UTF-16.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// If <paramref name="replaceInvalidSequences"/> is <see langword="true"/>, invalid UTF-8 sequences
        /// in <paramref name="source"/> will be replaced with U+FFFD in <paramref name="destination"/>, and
        /// this method will not return <see cref="OperationStatus.InvalidData"/>.
        /// </remarks>
        public static OperationStatus ToUtf16(ReadOnlySpan<byte> source, Span<char> destination, out int numBytesRead, out int numCharsWritten, bool replaceInvalidSequences = true, bool isFinalBlock = true)
        {
            int originalSourceLength = source.Length;
            int originalDestinationLength = destination.Length;
            OperationStatus status = OperationStatus.Done;

            // In a loop, this is going to read and transcode one scalar value at a time
            // from the source to the destination.

            while (!source.IsEmpty)
            {
                status = Rune.DecodeFromUtf8(source, out Rune firstScalarValue, out int bytesConsumed);

                switch (status)
                {
                    case OperationStatus.NeedMoreData:

                        // Input buffer ended with a partial UTF-8 sequence. Only treat this as an error
                        // if the caller told us that we shouldn't expect additional data in a
                        // future call.

                        if (!isFinalBlock)
                        {
                            goto Finish;
                        }

                        status = OperationStatus.InvalidData;
                        goto case OperationStatus.InvalidData;

                    case OperationStatus.InvalidData:

                        // Input buffer contained invalid data. If the caller told us not to
                        // perform U+FFFD replacement, terminate the loop immediately and return
                        // an error to the caller.

                        if (!replaceInvalidSequences)
                        {
                            goto Finish;
                        }

                        firstScalarValue = Rune.ReplacementChar;
                        goto default;

                    default:

                        // We know which scalar value we need to transcode to UTF-16.
                        // Do so now, and only terminate the loop if we ran out of space
                        // in the destination buffer.

                        if (firstScalarValue.TryEncodeToUtf16(destination, out int charsWritten))
                        {
                            source = source.Slice(bytesConsumed); // don't use Rune.Utf16SequenceLength; we may have performed substitution
                            destination = destination.Slice(charsWritten);
                            status = OperationStatus.Done; // forcibly set success
                            continue;
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            status = OperationStatus.DestinationTooSmall;
                            goto Finish;
                        }
                }
            }

        Finish:

            numBytesRead = originalSourceLength - source.Length;
            numCharsWritten = originalDestinationLength - destination.Length;

            Debug.Assert(numBytesRead < originalSourceLength || status != OperationStatus.Done,
                "Cannot report OperationStatus.Done if we haven't consumed the entire input buffer.");

            return status;
        }
    }
}


text: Dylan Schneider has been active in the Country music scene since his teens. Drawn to the storytelling aspects of Country music, the Indiana native started performing and writing songs at the age of 14, after meeting Brett Eldredge and singing with him on-stage during a concert. After that, he began posting videos to his Facebook page, where he'd cover popular Country songs, gaining a devoted online following. Since then, Schneider has made a name for himself in the Country music community, forging a sound that merges modern Pop sensibilities with a down-home feel. He's been named an "Artist to Watch" (Taste of Country, Sounds Like Nashville) and declared by Billboard as "Country Music's Next Rising Star." He's toured with Florida Georgia Line, Granger Smith, Mitchell Tenpenny and Chris Lane, co-wrote Dustin Lynch's most recent Top 5 hit song "Momma's House," accumulated over one million social media followers and banked upwards of 186 million on-demand streams (and counting). Now, older, wiser and signed to BBR Music Group, the 21-year-old is back in the studio, recording new songs that properly capture his irresistible Rock-n-Roll edge and unrestrained Pop-Country swagger. Combining passionate lyrics infused with surging instrumentals and compelling, emotive vocals, Schneider's haunting debut track from BBR Music Group, "Lost In A Small Town," released earlier this year. Boasting a bolder, deeper aesthetic and lyrical undertone, Schneider's pensively nostalgic track "21 And Over" and driving, soulful groove "Right Girl" are out now


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Q: Why is "find" on OSX having trouble with regex? find -E . -type f -iregex ".*Diss.*\.tex" -exec basename {} +

or
find -E . -type f -iregex "(.*/).*Diss.*\.tex" -exec basename {} +

finds ALL files with extension .tex, but does not limit their names to Diss*.tex
Is it OSX malfunctioning, or is the regex wrong?

A: The .* pattern matches any 0 or more chars, hence the Myfile may appear in any part of the path. See your regex demo:

You may restrict the Myfile to only appear after the last / if you replace those .* at the end with [^/]* matching any 0+ chars other than /.
The pattern will look like
.*/[^/]*Myfile[^/]*\.tex

Here is a demo of what it will match.


There is a great deal of confusion about the amount of money being raised by our two candidates for Alderman in the 46th Ward.
I decided to add some numbers up from the State Campaign Website and see where we stand. Feel free to play around with the site yourselves if you wish.
In coming up with the following numbers I eliminated any donations or loans from the candidates or their family members. I also rounded numbers to reach numbers in 1000 dollar increments. For example if it was $5250 it became $5000.
I also combined donations so that if one individual gave five $1000 donations I count that as one $5000 donation.
I only looked at donations since January 2010 as Candidate Cappleman ran in 2007.
Also some smaller donations are not required to be posted on the state website.
Cappleman has 56 Donations adding up to approximately $38,000.
The average donation is $679.
Phelan has 34 Donations adding up to approximately $27,000.
The average donation is $765.
Cappleman has 4 donations adding up to approximately $2000.
The average donation is $500.
Phelan has 11 donations adding up to approximately $10,000.
The average donation is $909. This number is heavily skewed by the "In Kind" donation from the Kit Kat Club of $5000.
I didn't break down the absolute number of outside the ward donations. Just the total in dollars.
Simply put in the ward Cappleman has more individual donors than Phelan and has raised slightly more money.
Outside the ward Phelan is raising money at a ratio of more than 8 to 1 in her favor.
Hell just her top five donors nearly match all of Cappleman's donations.
I will not make any editorial comments on this post.
I am also a Cappleman supporter so take that into account as you read these numbers.
If you feel the numbers above are significantly wrong please get out your printer, red pen, abacus, and six pack of Guinness and start adding it up yourselves.
It's about two hours worth of work.
A commenter below came up with a different lesser number. Actually two lesser numbers. See comment for additional details. Also today an additional $8000 in donations showed up on the state campaign website for the Phelan campaign.
The Phelan campaign submitted a letter to the state showing $17,000 in duplicate donations shown on the state website. So factor that into the numbers you see above. They all apparently came from outside the ward so subtract them from the above numbers if you wish.


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Q: ngGridEventEndCellEdit cell data I am trying to find the exact cell-data that is modified when the "ngGridEventEndCellEdit" event fires.
$scope.$on('ngGridEventEndCellEdit', function (event) {
    rowData = event.targetScope.row.entity;
    cellData = event.targetScope.row.???;
});

Reason being that the data in each ngGrid-cell (per row) contains data from several records in my db (think pivot table) and as such I would like to update only 1 db-row that relates to the specific ngGrid-cell without having to update several db-rows for each event fired.
If not I'm going to have to revert to using cellEditableTemplate + ng-change as explained here

A: An easy enough solution for what I need... combining row.entity with col.field I can get the exact cell modified.
$scope.$on('ngGridEventEndCellEdit', function (event) {
    cellData = event.targetScope.row.entity[event.targetScope.col.field];
});

However, I still needed to use cellEditableTemplate + ng-change to detect whether the contents of the cell had changed & that the user hadn't just clicked in & out without changing anything.


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Q: Java - Run a jar with VM arguments without commandline I currently have a jar that needs the -Djava.library.path to be set for LWJGL on launch or it will throw an UnsatisfiedLinkError. To negate this problem, I have launched the jar through CMD with that VM argument using a batch file (Windows).
My question is - is there any way to do this natively in the jar without requiring some kind of launcher?

A: You can set the properties inside your program. Use either
System.setProperty("org.lwjgl.librarypath", "path/to/natives");

or
Configuration.LIBRARY_PATH.set("path/to/natives");

at the start of your main method.


Since the foundation of Artek in 1935, some 8 million Aalto stools have been sold worldwide. A few years ago Artek started to collect old Aalto chairs from flea markets, schools, elderly people's homes and garages. Artek wanted to give these classics a new lease on life, an original opportunity to tell their story. They are called the 2nd Cycle.
Sustainable 2nd Cycle items are part of Artek's environmental strategy. By creating the 2nd Cycle Artek wants to raise the issue of conscious consuming, praise the authentic design and honour the importance of originality. Solidly made and impervious to fashion, these iconic pieces of furniture have gained value and beauty through their everyday use.
"This was a brand new stool sometime in the 30s. It only just found its way back to Artek, when one of our Korhonen factory craftsmen brought it home. Where it's been in the past 70 years, we can only guess by reading tiny clues, like the green paint subtly appearing trough the chipped coat of red. It might tell us that it was one of the hundreds like that used to lie quietly in the halls of Paimio Sanatorium. Someone then thought that orange and red go better with hallmark L-legs. Some might think this stool looks old and dodgy. We think it's never looked more beautiful".


Can Anyone Help with the Lithuanian Kids Song "Vita Vita Koosha"?
"I'm in desperate need for the words to a Lithuanian children's song ; vita vita koosha. Can you help?
If anyone can help with this song, please share any info in the comments below. We'd welcome the Lithuanian lyrics and/or a translation.
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ne(net, no t)-be(bet, no t)-lick-oh.
This is a children's finger game. Take the child's hand, stir your finger in the palm as you say the first line–it means "cooking, cooking porridge". the second line, you push back the child's fingers, saying "the men are sitting back." Then point to the thumb, saying "that one got some", then the next and so on til you get to the pinkie and thenk you say, "and for this one, nothing was left" and tickle wherever it will make the child laugh.
Įnešė ledo – vaikai atsirado.
Pas Barono pirtį gul visi atvirtę.
Tam davė šaukštelį, tam duonos kampelį.


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Shangela On Not Taking Time Off And Remaining A Stan of 'Drag Race'
By: Jeffrey Masters
On this week's LGBTQ, Jeffrey Masters talks with Shangela about the current season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, wanting to work in TV more, why she doesn't take days off, and which queens to look out for on Season 10.
Click here to listen to the full interview with Shangela on the podcast, LGBTQ, or read it here exclusively on INTO below.
JM: What was going through your mind when BenDeLaCreme eliminated herself from the competition?
Shangela: I just went down to my knees because I was in such shock. We'd been working so hard to get to this point. Just knowing my journey from Season 2 and 3 and what I've done outside of Drag Race to get to this point, to get that call to come back for All Stars 3. I feel like I'm there representing the people who have put so much faith, time, money, and knowledge into me. I would feel as if I were letting those people down. Quitting has never been an option to me in my life. I grew up poor, I didn't have a lot of money. If you didn't go out and get a job and work, honey, you ain't going nowhere.
JM: Looking at you from Season 2 and 3 to now, it's a night and day difference.
Shangela: Everyday I'm learning new stuff. I don't think I'm the best Drag queen out there, but I definitely I'm one of the hardest working. I hope that's something that I represent to people who follow me or to have watched me grow up in Drag Race, because honestly, I started as a baby queen five months in. I came back for Season 3, only been doing Drag for still a year.
JM: Your first time on Drag Race, you'd only done Drag for five months?
Shangela: Five months, a total of 10 shows. I was a baby queen, honey. Look at me walking in the room, I ain't got hardly no makeup on. I thought I was painted lovely.
When BenDeLaCreme said, "This means a lot more to those girls than it does to me." She is exactly right. It means a lot to me because it's everything that I've put my faith in and work and tears and time away from family and not just being in my house. I've been working. To be at this point right now and hear Ru saying, "You are one of my All Stars." I'm like, thank you. Six and a half years well worth it.
JM: When you looked around on the first day and thought about who your biggest competition was, did that change as the show went on?
Shangela: Remember, I'm also not just a contestant on Drag Race, I'm a fan of Drag Race. I know that just because you know a girl and think she's not competitionthere've been times when I was coming in as a dark horse and they didn't see me coming, baby. They all said, "We know what she does, the one, two step." They didn't know what I had up my sleeve.
JM: That surprises me because I think of you as a fan favorite.
Shangela: I appreciate that, but a lot of girls in the Drag Race world, they look up to me as a hard worker, but they don't necessarily see me as a strong creative queen on the runway based on what I did in Season 2 and 3. That was five or six years ago and they haven't seen me since.
JM: Watching and seeing confessionals for the first time, are you ever hurt by what queens say about you?
Shangela: You know what, in Season 3, I was because I was new and a little naïve. Now, its just something I've come to expect with Drag Race. In this group of All Stars, we have a greater respect for each other. We've worked together and have seen how hard each individual works. I've grown up too. I said some nasty comments back in the day. Hell, I threw a drink on a girl, but we've all grown up and evolved.
JM: You've worked on more TV shows than almost any other queen and want to do more. Doesn't your crazy tour schedule pull you away from TV opportunities since you're out of LA so much?
Shangela: Yes, it does. But I don't know if it's God, if it's the way the universe works for me, but a lot of times these roles have just fallen into the pockets of when I'm going to be in town.
I'm that girl that will come film Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and go get on an overnight flight to get to my gig on Friday. I think it's really about when you're present and you're ready for something and you just have your mind like, "I can do it," and the opportunity comes and you just match up and you do it. I went to Puerto Rico do a volunteer project right after the hurricane. They said, "You know there are hardly any flights, sister, you're not going to be able to make it back." I was like, "I'm going to make it back." And I did. You just had to make it work.
JM: So, do you take days off?
Shangela: What really makes me take a day off is when I get sick. I got a cold after we came back from this tour in Brazil recently and I had to cancel two shows. I've hardly ever had to cancel anything. It hurts me. I broke my leg on stage, okay? I was in New York, I did a death drop that went wrong. I broke the tibia and fibula bones on the right leg, and still tried to finish the number on stage with one leg.
JM: How is that sustainable?
Shangela: I always say I was built for this. Everyone tells me that I need to rest more, to take time off. And I will. But honestly, I feel like I was built for this. I have a lot of energy for life. I have a good time, and I enjoy what I do, and I love people. That's why I say, bring it. And I like money. I grew up with no money, so to be able to help take care of my family, to save, to work hard and have something to show for it, I love that.
JM: How does dating factor into your life when you're traveling this much?
Shangela: I don't have no love. I don't have no love, Lord. Honestly, I would love to be in a committed relationship. I'm not home enough. You have to be in one place to build trust in a relationship and I just don't have that luxury right now.
JM: Because the exposure from the show is amazing, but it doesn't ensure a success, right?
Shangela: No. There are over 100 queens from RuPaul's Drag Race that have been born to the world. Success is defined differently for every different queen, but the show is not just some cash cow or golden ticket to success. You've got to work.
Some of the hardest working girls who you see out there, people like Bianca Del Rio and Alaska and Alyssa Edwards, they're out there working. That's what it takes in order to be what you want to become.
JM: Looking at the Season 10 queens, do you have any favorites?
Shangela: Yes, I know some of them actually. Asia O'Hara, I used to back up dance for her. I danced backup for Asia and Alyssa when they each won Miss Gay USA. It's awesome to see these girls who I've know to be on Drag Race now, and get this opportunity. I know Monét X Change, Miz Cracker, Aquaria. Those are the fire cracker kind of girls that bring a lot to the stage.
JM: Aquaria's looks blow me away.
Shangela: Oh, she is sickening child, she is sickening. And she represents something that's really part of where we're headed with regard to drag. Drag continues to get younger and younger and younger, but age doesn't have a thing to do with it. It's all about how much time you've invested. She may be a young queen with regard to age, but she's very polished and no one should underestimate her.
JM: Any advice for them?
Shangela: In my season, Season 3, I was working so hard to give them what I thought they wanted as opposed to what they really want which is the best version of you. That's my advice to these queens, be you and they'll come to love you. And don't get crazy. Ride the wave, honey, don't get crazy, and think before you tweet.
This has been edited and condensed. The full interview with Shangela is available as a podcast on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and I Heart Radio.
Jeffrey Masters
Jeffrey Masters documents the stories of the LGBTQ community on the podcast, LGBTQ&A.


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The Mystery Cartoon Character Game, ongoing-ier.
Discussion in 'Free-For-All' started by oneuglybunny, Dec 31, 2014.
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emeraldisle Moderator Staff Member I SUPPORT BCDB!
Well, this glorb has the answer now. It's Darwin, from "G-Force."
emeraldisle, Jun 1, 2015
oneuglybunny Moderator Staff Member Forum Member
Ah, at last, it almost seemed like I'd hallucinated that whole film. Yes, EmeraldIsle, this is Darwin the guinea pig from Disney + Bruckheimer's G-Force. Darwin, Blaster and Juarez are the guinea pigs, Speckles is the star-nosed mole and Mooch is the housefly. Collectively, they act like a Mission: Impossible team to infiltrate and glean intel on Silberware's Clusterstorm Project. G-Force plays a lot like an updated version of That Darned Cat.
Well, many thanks and a shining +1 to EmeraldIsle for naming the Mystery Character, and providing proof that I haven't (yet) gone insane.
oneuglybunny, Jun 1, 2015
Thanks, OUB. Now for a real, totally untapped virgin vein:
1. My parents are conspicuously absent from the series.
2. I learn astronomical data from my intellectual big brother.
3. My show, in fact, aired during the peak years of the space program, and was even sanctioned by NASA itself.
I'm running short on clues for this one, so these last three will have to do:
4. Like another series from a couple of years earlier, mine shows live action films to deliver the lesson of the day.
5. The title of my show is printed on a huge book.
6. The opening has me and my bro traveling through space, and even underwater.
Can't believe I'm the only one who remembers this. The answer is Little Adam, from "The Big World Of Little Adam." I'll explain the clues to clear things up:
1. The boys' parents are never seen in the series.
2. Adam learns about outer space and more from his older brother Wilbur.
3. The show premiered in 1964, and was off by sometime in the early '70's.
4. Like "The Funny Company," this show had live action films between the animated parts.
5. Self-explanatory.
6. Self-explanatory again.
Since this one turned out to be a genuine toughie, I'll let someone else take a turn instead of posting a new character.
saltyboot A Moderating Moderator Staff Member Forum Member
Yeah, I haven't heard of this one. I also didn't come across it in my research. Oh well.
saltyboot, Jun 3, 2015
Glowworm Moderator Staff Member I SUPPORT BCDB!
Yeah, I too have never heard of this one.
Glowworm, Jun 3, 2015
News to me, too. I know some Hanna-Barbera characters piped in for CBS's In The News vignettes, but Adam and Wilbur come from left field for me.
Yeah, I decided on him for no reason other than that was untapped.
So, any takers?
Offhand, I'd defer to Glowworm, who has posed 226 Mystery Characters, and correctly identified 222, a difference of +4.
Saltyboot has posed 187 characters and identified 179, a difference of +8.
Oneuglybunny has posed 122 characters and identified 113, a difference of +9.
Peterhale has posed 132 characters and identified 123, a difference of +9.
FluidGirl has posed 68 characters and identified 58, a difference of +10.
EmeraldIsle has posed 315 characters and identified 305, a difference of +10.
The disparity is largely due to Unguessed Characters. Although anyone who keeps things rolling along is good by me.
OK, I put together a character, so I'll go ahead a post the clues.
I appeared once in a short.
I have a powerful sniffer.
I chase a certain rabbit around in a circus.
Nero the lion from Acrobatty Bunny.
Yep, that's it. Easy peasy.
Nero appeared once in Acrobatty Bunny.
His sniffing was so strong that Bugs got sucked up the rabbit hole.
Nero chased Bugs into the circus tent.
Yeah, good short too.
1. I am the king of the jungle, but I'm not respected by the others.
2. To prove myself, I go out to kill something small and simple.
3. A phone call from my wife saves my prey's life at the end of the short.
This is the lion from the 1951 cartoon Hold The Lion, Please, directed by Charles M Jones. The lion has Bugs Bunny pinned to the ground, ready for the coup de grace, when a phone rings, and the lion's wife demands him to return home pronto. This is also the first and only appearance of Mrs. Bugs Bunny. I think the lioness's name is Hortense, but as far as I know, the lion himself goes unnamed.
I love the line the lion says to Bugs, "I'm sorry I can't stay and kill ya."
The lion may be called Leo--I'm not certain, but yes it is the lion from "Hold the Lion, Please." It is coincidental that I chose another lion character as I've been thinking of using this one for a while.
Also, I love the joke where the lion is ready to pounce on Bugs in his carrot garden, and when caught, pretends to swim.
Even though Chuck Jones is credited as director for that cartoon, I'm seeing some Tex Avery tweaks in it. I know the two men were friends, part of a circle of comics who'd bat loony ideas around like playful kittens. Anyway, here's an untapped vein:
1) This character is a recurring antagonist in a regularly televised cartoon series, no longer in production.
2) The same luckless predator versus immaculate prey mechanism as in the coyote versus roadrunner cartoons drives this character's comedy. However, there are two key differences: the predator is articulate, often using guile and deceit upon his target; and the prey doesn't so much escape as summon a personal bodyguard to dispose of the threat.
3) Perhaps you've heard this before: center square.
OUB, it's no-brainer for this Hanna-Barbera buff. The answer is Mildew Wolf.
1. He was seen in the "It's The Wolf'" segment of "The Catanooga Cats."
2. He was quite articulate, and invariably disposed of by Bristol Hound.
3. He was voiced by Paul Lynde, natch.
Precisely, that answer of Mildew Wolf is 100% correct, and right on da money, too. I'll deposit another newly-minted +1 on your tick sheet, EI, and await your marvelous Mystery Character.


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Feel unlucky to have missed Ustad Hotel, says actor Siddharth
Siddharth might have made his debut in Malayalam long back with Ustad Hotel which starred Dulquer Salmaan in the lead role and is one of the most acclaimed films in Malayalam.
By Gautham Pattikonda | March 26, 2018 12:44 pm | 11,570 reads | 3 comments
Actor Siddharth will be making his debut in Malayalam now with Kammara Sambhavam after having been in films for more than 15 years and in three different languages. Siddharth will be playing a pivotal role in Kammara Ssambhavam which also stars actor Dileep and is directed by Rathish Ambat. Siddharth might have made his debut in Malayalam long back with Ustad Hotel which starred Dulquer Salmaan in the lead role and is one of the most acclaimed films in Malayalam. The multi-talented actor says that he feels unlucky to have missed Ustad Hotel but says he missed it because of prior commitments. "My first Malayalam film might have been Ustad Hotel but I didn't have the time back then and I was unlucky to miss that movie," Siddharth told TOI in an interview.
Waiting in the wings for #Kammarasambhavam Coming soon. Very soon:) @muraligopy #RathishAmbat #Malayalam #Debut pic.twitter.com/DXtHhSqzZx
— Siddharth (@Actor_Siddharth) March 22, 2018
Siddharth also says that he couldn't have asked for a better film than Kammara Sambhavam as his first film in Malayalam. "There wasn't anything specific I was looking for my debut but when I heard the script I wanted to feel that this has to be my first Malayalam film, because you only get one first film. So, when I met Murali and Rathish three years ago and they narrated the whole script to me, I was taken aback by the quality of the ambition. See, it's good to be ambitious but then when you are ambitious with this kind of quality with the amount of research that has gone into the film, the kind of entertainment value it offers in terms of how the movie wants to make the audience feel, I was spellbound," Siddharth added.
#Kammarasambhavam In the beginning…The memory. pic.twitter.com/K4LVPqxQhI
Siddharth has dubbed for himself in Malayalam and says that it has been one of the most challenging experiences in his career so far. "The best way of explaining it is, like I tweeted a few days ago. I feel like I studied the syllabus, wrote the exam and now I am waiting for the results. As somebody who works in multiple film industries, I have been quite blessed to get the opportunity to learn languages. The sad thing about this day and age is that the need to learn a new language is becoming less. To learn a classical language like Malayalam was a huge opportunity for me. Also, none of my films have had someone else dub for me so there was no question that I was not going to dub for my first Malayalam movie. It has been one of the most challenging experiences of my creative career. I have learnt new things every day," the Boys actor added.
Source: Times of India
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Ummm no DQ was too good in Ustad Hotel. Sid doesnt look like a Calicut muslim
Reply March 28, 2018 at 6:45 am
I love Sidharth but cannot imagine anyone else in Ustad hotel except DQ !
How does siddharth work with a sex offender is beyond me


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Apus Constellation
Apus constellation is a small constellation located in the southern hemisphere. The constellation represents the bird of paradise, and the name has Greek origins from word apous, which means "footless' - at one point in history, there was a belief that birds of paradise lacked feet. No mythology tail is associated with the constellation.
Apus was invented by Petrus Plancius, a Dutch astronomer and cartographer, who was actually the first who cataloged it from the observations of two Dutch navigators.
How to spot Apus constellation?
Apus is the 67th constellation in size and it is set in the third quadrant of the southern hemisphere. You can see it at latitudes between +5° and -90°. Apus is bordered by these constellations: Ara, Chamaeleon, Circinus, Musca, Octans, Pavo and Triangulum Australe.
The best time to see Apus is during a bright summer night, and it's always best to look for it is to find one of the constellations that surround it.
Apus belongs to the Johann Bayer family of constellations, along with Chamaeleon, Dorado, Grus, Hydrus, Indus, Musca, Pavo, Phoenix, Tucana, and Volans.
Major stars in Apus constellation
Apus does not have any bright stars than the 3rd magnitude, and the brightest one is called Alpha Aphodis. This constellation has two star systems with known exoplanets: HD 131664 (G3V) and HD 134606 (G6IV). It contains two galaxies and two notable deep-sky objects, but there aren't any Messier objects or meteor showers connected to it.
Mythology of the Apus Constellation
The name Apus has Greek origin and is linked to word apous, which means footless or no feet. Name is associated with birds who lived in Eastern Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia - it was said that these birds had no legs. The constellation was referred to as 'Apis Indica' at first. Apus and Musca were part of one constellation, due to translation errors, but that was quickly fixed and the two were separated. Apus is bordered by Ara, Chamaeleon, Circinus, Musca, Octans, Pavo, and Triangulum Australe.
Since this is not linked to ancient Greek, the story of Apus is connected with the 16th century. At the end of the 16th century, a Dutch fleet was sent to the Spice Islands. They were on a mission to create new trade relationships. During the journey, the position of 135 stars was measured and they were later added on Plancius sky maps. When he added them he noticed there are 12 new constellations, and Apus was one of them. Apus was first referred to as 'De Paradis Voghel', then 'Apis Indica' and finally Apus. From there, he recognized twelve new constellations, including "De Paradijs Voghel ". A few years later, the constellation was recorded as "Apis Indica" in the new Sky Atlas. Translated it means "Indian Bee" - a mistake by the engraver probably caused the deceptive designation of the constellation, because "Avis Indica" (Indian Bird) would have been a more appropriate name. To avoid misunderstandings, the Bird of Paradise was later called "Apus" and the Fly, which was actually called "Apes", was given the Latin name "Musca". In 1922, Apus was included by the International Astronomical Union in the list of 88 modern constellations.


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