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UCLA Anderson Forecast: Not a Real National Recovery; New Home Construction Returning to Normal in California
Jun 12, 2014, 04:00 ET from UCLA Anderson School of Management
LOS ANGELES, June 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- UCLA Anderson Forecast's second quarterly release of 2014 picks up where the March forecast left off, calling for "normal growth" in the three percent range through 2016. In California, the unemployment rate will continue to drop from 7.7 percent this year to 6.8 percent in 2015.
In companion articles, the Forecast examines a pair of real estate-related issues, as Senior Economist David Shulman looks at the nation's commercial real estate sector and Economist William Yu reports on potential Chinese investment in the U.S. real estate market. The four reports will be presented publicly on Thursday, June 12, 2014, at the UCLA Anderson Forecast conference titled, "The Changing Landscape of Commercial Real Estate."
The National Forecast
In his June national report titled, "Something is Seriously Wrong," UCLA Anderson Forecast Director Ed Leamer examines a number of long-term issues plaguing the U.S. economy and potential reasons why it is growing more slowly compared to its pre-recession peaks. Leamer echoes Shulman's March 2014 report regarding the short-term economy, noting that despite longer-term concerns, real GDP will bounce back from its dismal showing in the first quarter. "We forecast a 3.6% growth in the second quarter, with a 3% economy that gets a little healthier in 2016. Not a recovery, but normal growth," says Leamer. "While the rate of unemployment continues to trend downward to 5.4% in 2016," inflation remains quiescent, rising above the Fed's 2 percent target, according to Leamer. The Fed will sit on short-term rates until the first quarter of 2015, which may not affect the real economy, as housing starts edge slowly up to 1.5 million in 2016.
The bulk of Leamer's essay examines some of the longer-term economic issues that might be hindering an economic recovery. These issues include: 1) a historic look at the components of GDP trends and the fact none of the last three recessions has been followed by a real recovery; 2) the issues caused by permanent displacement of jobs in both manufacturing and construction sectors; 3) problems associated with productivity and job displacements caused by microprocessors and technology; and 4) which components of GDP have been especially weak and how much of the problem is on the demand side.
The California Forecast
The California Forecast report, authored by Senior Economist Jerry Nickelsburg, focuses on home construction in the state. Titled, "Home Construction in California: Did It Stall from 1st into 2nd?," the essay looks at a pair of current trends: the state's falling home sales and dramatically rising prices. Nickelsburg's essay concludes that the flat to negative growth in new homes sales, combined with increased prices, is an indication of a normalization in housing markets rather than a slowdown and, therefore, home construction should continue its return to normal activity. "While construction is still not a barn burner, and it is still not uniform across the state, we continue with our view that there will be a recovery in home construction before the end of the forecast horizon," says Nickelsburg.
The 2014 Forecast anticipates total employment growth (payroll, farm and self-employed) of 1.8 percent, and 2.4 percent and 2.1 percent for 2015 and 2016 respectively. Non-farm payroll employment will grow similarly, at 2.1 percent, 2.3 percent and 2.1 percent for the three forecast years. Real personal income growth is forecast to be 3.1 percent in 2014, followed by 4.1 percent and 4.1 percent in 2015 and 2016. Unemployment will decline through 2014, averaging approximately 7.7 percent for this year. In 2015 we expect the unemployment rate to drop to 6.8 percent on average, a percent higher than our U.S. Forecast, and then to 5.9 percent.
Commercial Real Estate Reports
In addition to the U.S. and California economic reports, the Forecast is also releasing a pair of companion essays looking at commercial real estate. In an essay titled, "The Changing Landscape of Commercial Real Estate," Shulman covers different sectors in the market, including retail, office, industrial, hotels and multi-family housing with a focus on disruptive technology that is undermining tenant demand for commercial real estate. In the case of commercial real estate, the disruptions are coming from e-commerce and the downsizing of the amount of office space required for each employee.
"Put simply," Shulman writes, "disruptive technology is defined as a low-cost solution that offers lower performance, but represents a true value at the price." In his conclusion he writes, "We have outlined several very important issues facing commercial real estate. We do not expect investors will focus on the technological disruption facing retail, office and hotel real estate until capital market conditions become less favorable. There is too much money pouring into real estate to worry right now. Simply put, the worriers don't get the deals. Nevertheless, when the capital markets turn, investors will wake up to the changing landscape for commercial real estate."
Economist William Yu writes about where Chinese investors will turn, now that the real estate bubble in China has started to deflate. He says that, "It will be a wise decision to relocate investment from China, a real estate market with low expected return and high risk, to the U.S., a market with a higher long-term return. Among the U.S. markets, large cities, such as New York, Los Angeles and Bay Area and Washington D.C., are good destinations in which to invest because of their depth and liquidity." Yu also says that for Chinese investors, West Coast cities, such as Los Angeles, those in the Bay Area and Seattle, are ideal locations for investment due to their geographic advantages, such as direct flights to China, mild weather and large Asian communities.
The Changing Face of Commercial Real Estate
Shulman and Yu's reports will be presented (along with Leamer's U.S. and Nickelsburg's California forecasts) at the UCLA Anderson Forecast's quarterly conference on Thursday, June 12, 2014. The conference, which will look at the latest trends shaping commercial real estate across California and the nation, will take place in the Palisades Room, Carnesale Commons on the UCLA campus. Those interested in learning about and attending the conference may register here.
About UCLA Anderson Forecast
UCLA Anderson Forecast is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation and was unique in predicting both the seriousness of the early-1990s downturn in California and the strength of the state's rebound since 1993. More recently, the Forecast was credited as the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to declare the recession of 2001. Visit UCLA Anderson Forecast at http://uclaforecast.com.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is among the leading business schools in the world, with faculty members globally renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Located in Los Angeles, gateway to the growing economies of Latin America and Asia and a city that personifies innovation in a diverse range of endeavors, UCLA Anderson's MBA, Fully-Employed MBA, Executive MBA, Global Executive MBA for Asia Pacific, Global Executive MBA for the Americas, Master of Financial Engineering, doctoral and executive education programs embody the school's Think In The Next ethos. Annually, some 1,800 students are trained to be global leaders seeking the business models and community solutions of tomorrow. Follow UCLA Anderson on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UCLAAnderson or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/uclaanderson.
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Monty has worked on the MySQL/MariaDB codebase since 1981. At least 60% of the MySQL code is still his. He is a MySQL Fellow and is the founder and CEO of Monty Program Ab and the creator of MariaDB.
Monty Widenius, CTO of the MariaDB Foundation, will provide a walkthrough of the new features in MariaDB 5.5 and share details on items like why the Foundation chose to create MariaDB 10.0 instead of simply taking MySQL 5.6 as a base for creating what would have been called MariaDB 5.6.

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The creative team behind The Royal Opera's production of The Minotaur, director Stephen Langridge and designer Alison Chitty, bring a new staging of Parsifal to Covent Garden. Parsifal, Wagner's final opera, was first given at Bayreuth in 1882. For many years, at the insistence of Wagner and then his widow Cosima, performances outside the Bayreuth Festival were banned. This embargo was lifted in January 1914; by August of the same year Parsifal had been performed at more than fifty opera houses throughout Europe.
Wagner loosely based the opera on scenes from Wolfram von Eschenbach's medieval romance Parzifal. The score contrasts the sacred with the sensual, from the stark magnificence of the music for the procession to the Grail Hall in Act I to the richly orchestrated scene in which Kundry attempts to seduce Parsifal in Act II. There are sections of almost unearthly beauty such as the Act I Prologue, the Good Friday music in Act III, and the closing scene of the opera, in which Parsifal reveals the Grail to the knights.
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He tends to disappear within his subject matter, as evidenced by his output: The original (and superior) "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" (1974), Burt Reynolds' pleasing "White Lightning" (1973), the solid war flick "The Hell with Heroes" (1968), Gregory Peck's "MacArthur" (1977), Susan Anton's underrated "Goldengirl" (1979), the Robert Blake-Dyan Cannon lark "Coast to Coast" (1980), plus several impressive TV films - "Hustling" (1975) with Lee Remick and Jill Clayburgh, the incredibly popular "Sunshine" (1973) with Cristina Raines and the ahead-of-its-time "The Man" (1972) with James Earl Jones as the first black President. "The Man," adapted by Rod Serling from Irving Wallace's novel, was detoured into theaters before actually playing on network TV.
But my favorite Sargent film remains 1970's juicy "Colossus: The Forbin Project," a title that has always been available on home entertainment but is honored here because, despite enthusiastic reviews, this fine movie has never been given its due - by either its studio or the viewing public.
Adapted by filmmaker James Bridges from D.F. Jones novel, the preternaturally observant movie details - in an immensely entertaining fashion - how a sophisticated computer, named Colossus, designed ostensibly to control the country's nuclear defense network, goes berserk with power, turning on its creator, Dr. Charles Forbin, and joining forces with its Soviet counterpart, Guardian, to become a single Super Power bent on taking over the world from humans. The film is creepy and witty.
Eric Braeden is commanding as Dr. Forbin in a performance that should have led to bigger and better things. For one, Braeden would have made a terrific 007. Instead, this fine actor has enjoyed a lengthy, lucrative run as the willfully evil patriach, Victor Newman, on NBC's excellent daytime drama, "The Young and the Restless." Smart Susan Clark, as the thinking man's love interest, and Canadian actor Gordon Pinsent as the Kennedy-like President of the United States provide atypically combative support as each one spars with Braeden over his beloved demon child.
Universal, alas, exhibited limited interest in the film which had the working title "Colossus" in production, was released initially as "The Forbin Project" and then as "Colossus: The Forbin Project" for a half-hearted rerelease.
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[No title - Ploughboys' play from Woodborough, Notts.]
R.Wood Collection, Tape-recorded 4th Mar.1985
Taped interview regarding the Ploughboys (Ploughboying) play performed by children in Woodborough, Notts., from about 1912 to 1916. It includes text fragments and the final song, although out of sequence, and there is a list of fellow performers is included. The characters were; Head Man, Easum Squeezum, Beelzebub/Rub-a-Dub, Big Belly Ben/The Big Man, Soldier, Doctor, and Farmer.
Locations: Woodborough, Notts. (SK6347) Years: Perf. about 1912 to 1916; Col. 1985 Subjects: Audio Tape; Ploughboys; Ploughboying; Play; Text Fragments; Song; Tune; Cast List; Head Man; Easum Squeezum; Beelzebub; Rub-a-Dub; Big Belly Ben; Big Man; Soldier; Doctor; Farmer People: William Wright (Perf.); Cyril Wright (Perf.); Bid Hunt (Perf.); Harry Hunt (Perf.); Evelyn Orange (Perf.); Mrs. Rosemary Wood (Col.); Mike Bush (Col.) Archives: Ref.: TD00547; Transcript: Open Access; Mike Bush Collection, Calverton, Notts.


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Pizza Dominium
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Editor's review
The masters in pizza eats dominate the bustling capital streets. This prime central location is only one of twelve busy locales around town. Handmade menu choices and specially picked ingredients for the best taste in Italian. Salads, pasta, appetizers such as cheesy bread and additional sauces available - but order an XXL pizza with fresh toppings for the ultimate in pizza satisfaction. Head in to the restaurant or check on-line for the latest promotions before calling to order delivery. 100% Italian food by 100% Polish hands.
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eryk from Poland Reply
the best pizza
Pizza lover from United States Reply
Looks like Beatle never tasted pizza before. Im from California, and yes, Italian pizza is the best, second best New York pizza. Italian =10, New York = 9.5, Dominium = 6.5 Hope this helps! Szmacnego!
Beattle from United States Reply
Dominium - pizza taste better than in Italy!!!
Rudi from Austria Reply
Ein Lokal, das man selten noch findet. Die Speisen sind immer lecker und frisch zubereitet. Allein die Vorspeisen werden jeden Tag frisch zubereitet. Der Service ist sehr gut und immer freundlich. Falls er sehr gut schmeckt, kann man auch gleich ein paar Flaschen Bier kaufen.
Xavier from France Reply
La gentillesse et le très beau sourire de notre hôtesse sont enchanteurs. Les pizzas fines et bien équilibrées sont un régal. Faites une visite au Dominium vous ne serez pas décus. Bravo au jeune chef!
Aychichak Gumbach from Azerbaijan Reply
Calkiem ludzki pizza, ale gorzej kebap :)
courxcore from United States Reply
Very nice. Quiet, cheap, clean diner. Hope to come back soon!
from Poland Reply
chujnia w chuj. w ogóle nie odbieraj± telefonu. mmam ich w dupie. fuuuuck. suuuuuuuuks. thats so brutal!!!!
Pawel from Poland Reply
Awful. They are swindlers. When I order by phone Dominnium Pizza with 5 ingredients, I always get 4, and they don't want to receive me my money or do any compensation.
Germaine from United States Reply
Great pizza, but a little overpriced, particularly when you eat in.
Annie S from Canada Reply
I have to agree that sometimes they are a little flakey with the delivery. Make sure to call again if you haven't received your pie within 45 mins... that said their pizza is delish!
Bulent Akman from Canada Reply
Late with my pizza, lied to me, call centre manager was useless, I'll never order from them again.
George from United States Reply
One word, Flambee. Just order that pizza and don't ask any questions :)
Stephanie from United States Reply
Fun for a quick bite and the corn on the pizza wasn't as terrible as the corn and mayonnaise I've had on pizza in Japan! For some reason, though, there is a 1:1 ratio of employees to customers. Employees EVERYWHERE! The vegetarian pizza is a good choice.
Sean from United Kingdom Reply
Really awful but seems to be a fave pizza place of the locals. sticky doughy base with ketchup heavy sauce. Yuck!
valerio from Italy Reply
Calling what they cook in pizza dominum "pizza" is a shame.
Kope from Italy Reply
You can't get a really good pizza in Warsaw. If you want eat cheap a pizza-like product choose this one. Otherwise search further.
Tomek from Poland Reply
It is a cool place and they serve really fine food !
Elon from United Kingdom Reply
Shitty pizza, very doughy, over-sauced and under cooked. I've eaten there several times, usually due to a lack of quick choices when out. They consistently get it wrong. The reviewers who gave it praise obviously have never had good pizza.
Maciek from Poland Reply
I tried their XXL pizza with 5 ingredients. I liked its pastry very much - it is different than ordinary pizzas from other chain pizzeria's and I think I will try Dominium from time to time.
Opus from India Reply
Yes I agree. It is good for winter evenings when sitting at home. Just a call. Sometimes problems while speaking on the phone about delivieries (english) but eventually you'll make it.
narnia from Monaco Reply
GREAT PIZZA ! and great value for warsaw, i eat there everyday : )


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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 254 people now suffer from meningitis and 23 have died as a result of taking contaminated steroids mixed by a single Massachusetts-based compounding pharmacy, and more cases may still be reported. Investigators believe the steroid, which was ordered for back pain patients, was contaminated with a slow-growing fungus that caused the meningitis.
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Steven Reid: We'll need to call on old guard for Swedish trip as fringe brigade not ready for World Cup heat just yet
THIS game was all about the fringe players coming in and impressing and, unfortunately, not too many put their hands up against Greece.
Unfortunately, I think we will still be relying on the old guard when we take on Poland ahead of the crucial qualifiers in March.
This was a real chance for James McCarthy, in particular. I have been really impressed by him in the Premier League, but so far he hasn't really done it for Ireland.
He has been given a number of chances to show what he can do and he will be disappointed with last night.
But bear in mind that before I made my Ireland debut, Mick McCarthy said to me that it can take 10 games to really show what you can do.
It is probably unfair to expect them to just show up against Greece and perform, they need an extended run in the side.
You need to feel your way, get to grips with the way that international football is played. It is a completely different experience, it is quite nerve wracking at times for younger lads and it does take time.
The friendlies are so different to qualifiers, they lack intensity and on a night like last night it can be difficult to get up for a game like that when there is so little atmosphere.
Giovanni Trapattoni had to try and experiment. We know what our best 11 can do, the 14 or 15 regular players. This was a chance for the guys who are outside of that to go out and showing the manager what they can do.
These international friendlies can become so drab. There is not too much action and the manager can only do so much.
He has put out a team who have to go out and try and impress him, the lads that go across the line have got to take the bull by the horns and have a right go.
There weren't too many of those impressive performances we were looking for.
You are missing the creativity of Damien Duff and Robbie Keane and they are both world class on their day. You look at the side now and you struggle to see where that spark will come from.
The lads started well, but five minutes before Greece scored they allowed them into the game a bit more.
The goal came against the run of play, we knocked it about pretty well without creating too much.
James McClean didn't really have a go at his man as much as I would have liked, but Robbie Brady was one of the better performers, he saw a lot of the ball and put in some decent balls but, apart from that, there wasn't much for the two strikers to thrive on.
I wrote about Shane Long's abilities in yesterday's column, but he saw so little of the ball and had to work off scraps before exiting at half-time.
He had so little service and sometimes in international friendlies you have 20 or 30 passes but you haven't even crossed the half-way line. We showed so little urgency.
We had plenty of possession, but no cutting edge in the final third.
Simon Cox will be disappointed he didn't taken either of his chances, but while Keith Andrews injected some life after half-time and Seamus Coleman showed glimpses of what he can do, on the whole it was a flat, disappointing night.
Ciaran Clark was one player did well, he gave a solid display – even if he was a little fortunate to escape with just a yellow card for that crunching challenge on Jose Holebas towards the end of the first half.
Sometimes, a tackle like that can get the crowd going and give the crowd a lift.
At least we could see that he was up for the fight.
We weren't put under too much pressure. I think Coleman and John O'Shea would have been disappointed by the nature of Holebas' goal.
Seamus could have showed his man wide, while John might have gotten tighter, but apart from that David Forde didn't have much to do.
It was a flat night, the crowd was small and it is difficult and expensive for fans to go to games every month.
Some of that will be on the back of the Germany result, maybe it was one friendly too many.
There has been plenty of talk about changing the friendly schedule, but, ultimately, this was an opportunity lost for the fringe players to show their worth.
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This series is not meant to replace Illegal Danish, but to provide a faster alternative to long, complex Machinima movies by focusing on short stories and character development featuring everyone's favorite Illegal Danish personalities that can be captured entirely in-game.
That's not all Myndflame has been doing lately, though. Check out his latest Battle of the Blues, part of his Epic Blue Time series. Myndflame's hit an amazing stride with these videos, producing some incredibly funny videos. Epic Blue Time is definitely worth the time to watch.
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Phainopepla nitens
IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern
Steve Zamek
A crested songbird of the deserts and arid woodlands of the southwestern United States and Mexico, the Phainopepla is unique in taxonomy, distribution, and behavior. It is particularly notable for its enigmatic pattern of breeding twice each year, in two different habitats.
Call a rising "wurp." Song complex, with at least 14 different identifiable elements, though notes and phrases often seem weak and disjointed. Includes a sprightly, whistled "wheeda-lay"
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The first point I would like to make about this subject is that drawing people in my mind is really about drawing figures, whole people, legs, arms and bodies as well as faces or heads. I would not consider just faces on there own to be drawing people I think of them as portraits but to be honest the rules are the same for all drawings be it cars, bicycles, dogs or cats the same basic rules apply.
Doing drawings of people or rather drawing figures is just like every other type of drawing that you will ever attempt to do because as with all other drawing it is about getting the construction right, it is about getting everything in proportion to everything else.


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|Ham Common and Ham Common Woods
Fuller information:The deed of King Charles I in 1635 called together the people of the surrounding manors not to farm or make a profit from the waste-land. The open area to the west of Upper Ham Road consists of open grass crossed by paths and has perimeter trees, with willows around Ham Pond. It is now the site for the annual Ham Fair and is used for other recreational purposes, such as cricket. Ham Common was designated as a Nature Reserve in 2001. A stone obelisk is on the junction of Ham Gate Avenue and Upper Ham Road.
Sources consulted:Ben Weinreb & Christopher Hibbert, 'The London Encyclopaedia' (Macmillan, revised ed. 1993); John Archer, David Curson, 'Nature Conservation in Richmond upon Thames, Ecology Handbook 21', (London Ecology Unit) 1993 p44 & 85
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In theĀ Is currying monadic? post the author says:

 This is again a nested expression. So I wondered if you could again "flatten" it with a monadic do block:
 let add3 = do
 a <- get first parameter
 b <- get second parameter
 c <- get third parameter

 return a+b+c

OK, so I "know" that functions in Haskell (which uses currying for functions as a general rule) are the "Reader monad". But I don't understand it well enough to know if that means you can use Reader to implement the above...
 (I don't understand Reader at all in fact. I must bang my head against it again, but I find it very confusing - how the monad is represented, what the functions are, and how they get magically applied.)

Any idea what he is talking about?

Thanks

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For 28 years, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority has honored the legend of Dr. Martin Luther King through celebration.
Iris Williams with the local D.S.T. chapter joined John Thomas with how to get involved with a Nueces County event.
It's the annual Martin Luther King Celebration, and it will take place at noon Monday, Jan. 21, at the Nueces County Courthouse.


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Montana: Defeat Tester's Anti-Access Land Grab!
Synopsis of S.1470: Temp Jobs, Way More so-called "Wilderness", and Access Denied
Western Tradition Partnership (WTP) is urging its members – and all citizens who enjoy access and use of "public" lands – to fight Jon Tester's so-called "jobs" bill, which is nothing more than a bait-and-switch play to ban humans from our forests. Brian Schweitzer came out in support of the bill just weeks ago.
"Jon Tester and Brian Schweitzer are two peas in a pod when it comes to carrying water for Montana's radical environmentalists," said Jacob Leis, Director of Membership with WTP. "This bill is nothing more than another federal bailout – only instead of banking CEO's, Tester is using taxpayer funds to take access rights away and pay off his environmental extremist friends."
"Most of the alleged jobs will be tearing out long-established roads and closing access, leaving our forests to overgrowth and more catastrophic fires."
Tester was embarrassed earlier this fall, when he claimed that Kerry White, the tireless leader of Montana's Citizens for Balanced Use, "helped" him craft the bill. In a statement posted here, White called out Tester's cynical tactic of claiming the bill's opponents as supporters, and he even had the gall to send White a "thank you" note.
"This is a last-ditch effort by Tester to throw a bone to his eco-radical pals, since he couldn't get NREPA passed (sign WTP's anti-NREPA Wilderness petition here)," Leis concluded, "but throwing away forest access over some elusive logging rights and temporary jobs – which will consist of destroying roads in our currently accessible forests – is unacceptable and will result in the loss of the Montana way of life."
For an excellent analysis of the REAL hidden dangers of this bill, read this excellent Clark Fork Chronicle linked here by Fred Hodgeboom, President of Montanans for Multiple Use. WTP is also urging Montanans to get Congressman Rehberg off the fence on this bill by opposing it at one of his upcoming public Wilderness Bill hearings, which will be held in counties impacted by the proposed legislation:
The locations are:
Madison County – Ennis
Monday, January 4, 2010 at 10 AM
Madison Valley Rural Fire Station 1
Beaverhead County – Dillon
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 12:30 PM
University of Montana Western, Auditorium Main Hall
710 South Atlantic
Butte-Silver Bow County – Butte
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 9:30 AM
Montana Tech – SUB Copper Lounge
1300 West Park Street
Granite County – Philipsburg
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 2:30 PM
Taylor-Knapp Building, Sapphire Gallery, Banquet Room
212 E. Broadway
Powell County – Deer Lodge
Friday, January 8, 2010 at 10 AM
William K. Kohrs Library, Meeting Room
501 Missouri Avenue
Greenpeace Gets Taste of Its Own Medicine
(reposted from AmSpec's Blog)
By Paul Chesser on 12.16.09 @ 9:28AM
The good folks at Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow yesterday jumped on board two Greenpeace ships in Copenhagen and, while decoying crew with doughnuts, unfurled banners that said "Ship of Lies" and "Propaganda Warrior." From CFACT's own report:
CFACT unfurled the banners for two reasons, CFACT president David Rothbard explained. "Greenpeace ships, like the Rainbow Warrior and Arctic Sunrise, have become global symbols for radical environmentalism, and we wanted to call attention to the harm these groups are causing. And second, it seemed appropriate to use one of Greenpeace's favorite tactics to make this point."
Radical Enviromentalism is Killing Science
There is a great opinion article by Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal about radical environmentalism's effect on the pursuit of truth in science. Climategate is damning proof that the radical enviro-zealotry of the global warming alarmists is suppressing scientific debate and attempting to ostracize scientists who are willing to take a stand against the global warming sham.
The article is well worth the read, you can check it out right here.
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April 19, 2013: Boston Bombing, Gun Control, Chris Christie
One of the biggest manhunts in U.S. history as police try to track down one of the alleged marathon bombers. We'll also tell you why that case ended up in at least one raid here in New Jersey. And a former New Jerseyan tells us about how his neighborhood turned into a war zone.
Aired: 04/18/13Video has closed captioning.


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Salvador Allende
"A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat?"
Salvador Allende was the popularly elected socialist President of Chile. He was killed in a right wing military coup on September 11, 1973. Many Allende supporters suspected that United States and the CIA were heavily involved in the coup. This is 2004 documentary about Allende that follows him through the Presidential campaign, the election and the coup d' etat in which he was killed. Patricio Guzman directed the documentary. The documentary shows how Allende invigorated the Chilean population, why the Chilean military and elite viewed him as a threat and it explore Nixon and the CIA's involvement in the coup.
2004 | 1 hr 40 min | 10 /
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What if more newsletters automatically switched the frequency of the delivery when it notices changes in your viewing habits (both email opens and click thrus)? Check out this email from LinkedIN that I got today:
I'd almost make it even easier with the buttons: "No, I liked it the way it was. Change it back to daily."


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Today's Top Alzheimer's News
October 8, 2013
Nobel prize winners slam funding cuts for U.S. medical research, a new study finds delaying aging may have a bigger payoff than fighting disease, and Alzheimer's caregivers keeping tabs on the Affordable Care Act (read more).
Must reads
- An October 8, 2013 Times Live article reported that US Nobel laureates "slammed recent spending cuts at the National Institutes of Health, the biggest funder of scientific research in the world." According to the scientists, "At a press conference in New Haven, Connecticut, Nobel winner Rothman also criticised NIH spending cuts and said he probably would not have started his research had NIH funding not been available. He said over the past few years, NIH funding, which "has made America the great engine of biomedical discovery" and fuelled the US biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, had fallen significantly, when accounting for inflation."
- An October 7, 2013 NPR article reported on a study published in Health Affairs that offered "statistical evidence that delaying aging in people would extend life expectancy even more than would a decline in cancer or heart disease." According to the article, "If the process of aging could be delayed, all of the diseases associated with aging, whether cancer or stroke or Alzheimer's, would occur later in life than they do now. The idea is that people would not only live longer, they'd be healthier for longer." Also covered by Scientific American.
The Affordable Care Act
- An October 7, 2013 California Health Report article highlighted the impact of the Affordable Care Act on Alzheimer's caregivers. According to the article, "Ruth Gay, the director of public policy and advocacy for the Northern California Alzheimer's Association, said her agency has been watching closely as the Affordable Care Act progresses. Benefits for the elderly so far include better prescription care coverage, which started this year. More benefits are expected, including a mandatory screening for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia as part of routine care for people over 65."For a lot of seniors that doughnut hole is a big piece we were interested in – many of them were hitting it very early on," Gay said.The doughnut hole Gay is referring to is a gap in prescription coverage under Medicare Plan D. In 2013, patients on Medicare Plan D can accrue up to $2,970 in out-of-pocket and insurance payments before they go into the "doughnut hole." The ACA is slowly eliminating the doughnut hole. Now, when patients reach the $2,970 limit, they get a 50 percent discount on brand-name medicines and 14 percent on generics until they reach an out-of-pocket expense total of $4,750. At that point they pay 5 percent of prescription costs for the remainder of the year."


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The acolyte will deride the obvious misses amid this collection of hits; the casual fan won't even notice, since the casual fan skipped most of the band's '90s output anyway. Still, it's amazing that U2 could fill two discs this go-round, since there were half as many albums to choose from as there were for the 1980-to-1990 best-and-rest-of two-fer -- and a quarter as many moments worth getting stuck in or on. ("Desire" and "With or Without You" for, say, "Miss Sarajevo" and "The Hands That Built America," the latter a languid new track from Gangs of New York, might be considered trading down.) But taken as a whole, from B-sides ("Happiness Is a Warm Gun") to besides ("Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" from Batman Forever), this is the disc of revelations -- the compilation that redeems the band's '90s albums not as the work of bored superstars, but as pop stars who stayed interested when they stopped proselytizing and started pissing off hotel balconies.
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The grandest discovery and joy come from hearing concept albums, such as they were, torn apart and reassembled as a gathering of rootless singles; it's far better when "Mysterious Ways" gives way to a "Beautiful Day" instead of Bono tryin' to throw his arms around the world, and a blast when "Hold Me, Thrill Me" is followed out onto the dance floor by a new mix of "Discotheque," the greatest U2 single that wasn't. Odd that the band would include the William Orbit remix of "Electrical Storm," the new single, on the first disc; it fits better on the nonessential second, a compendium of redos intended for the clubs, most of which went out of business in 1998. Better to hear The Edge's edgy guitar -- strings like razors, played with bloodied fingers -- than imagine it, which is all the remixes can offer; turns out it was precisely what the band couldn't leave behind.


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David Foster Wallace
It's hard to write about David Foster Wallace without hyperbole so let's just say here that he was a fantastically interesting novelist, reporter and essayist.
Sonny Takes A Fall.
160: Character Assassination 05.19.2000David Foster Wallace reports on a turning point in past Presidential primaries: The moment when ...


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Sun and fun to be had at Oak Creek event
September 6, 2004
Oak Creek — Oak Creek is the place to be on Labor Day, and it always has been.
For as long as Shirlene White can remember, she has come to the Labor Day celebration. She remembers running — and, she says, "winning" — the same potato sack races that children were running Monday in Decker Park.
"Labor Day has stayed the same for all these years," she said.
White was sharing lunch with Republican state Sen. Jack Taylor, whose campaign signs held down the back of a yellow truck turned parade float.
Democratic challenger Jay Fetcher also had a float and both men's signs fought for visibility at the entrance to Decker Park.
Taylor and his wife have attended Oak Creek's Labor Day festivities for more than two decades, he said.
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"This is a tradition passed down generation to generation," he said.
White and Taylor were sitting at the picnic table by Robert Alvarez from Kremmling. Alvarez makes the trip to Oak Creek every year.
"This is a good time to see friends and family," White said. "You see classmates that you only see once a year and family members come in from out of town."
All around, Decker Park was full of activity — volleyball games, a quilt raffle for the Oak Creek Historical Society and endless races for children and adults of all ages.
Winners of the potato sack races were given cash prizes of up to $1 at the finish line.
Labor Day celebrations in Oak Creek began in the early 1900s as a way for coal miners from across the state to organize and talk about unionizing.
This year, there still was a float honoring local coal miners and hourly mine tours offered by the Historical Society of Oak Creek and Phippsburg, but the focus was more on having fun.
Oak Creek's Labor Day events began on Friday night with a "Gong Show," Oak Creek's sometimes rowdy version of the 1970s television show where singers and dancers are gonged off the stage if the audience doesn't approve.
This year, an improv comedy troupe from Sabre's Comedy Den in Steamboat Springs performed at the Colorado Bar.
On Saturday, a free outdoor concert featuring four local bands was scheduled for the afternoon, but rain and cold cancelled the concert. Oak Creek musician Cary Kamperschroer was setting up his drum set for the expected show, but organizer Don Williams told him to go home.
"A couple people played but they were just getting cold," Kamperschroer said.
By contrast, Monday's weather couldn't have been more beautiful. The sky was blue, and the sun was out.
There were plenty of bare feet to be seen running among the games, food and family.


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Police arrested the president of Hill-Murray School, a Catholic school in Maplewood, during an undercover police sex sting operation Thursday in a St. Paul park.
Joseph Peschges was apprehended at Crosby Farm Regional Park, and received a misdemeanor citation for indecent conduct Friday, according to St. Paul Police spokesman Sgt. Pete Crum.
Peschges allegedly touched an undercover police officer's groin, according to Crum.
The Star Tribune reports that Hill-Murray has relieved Peschges of his duties as a result of the incident. The school's online directory lists Susan Paul as acting president and principal.
School officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Hill-Murray is a private Catholic school, with about 950 students enrolled in grades 7-12.
Crum said police have conducted five undercover sting operations at local parks this summer.
"The reason they do these is because of the number of complaints that come in about the conduct in these parks," he said. "It's an attempt to try and discourage that conduct."
Police apprehended eight other people during the sting Thursday at Crosby Farm Regional Park and Meeker Island.


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A car bomb has killed a policeman [2] in Sixth October City on the outskirts of Cairo, an interior ministry aide told CBC Extra private satellite channel on Wednesday morning.
Unidentified assailants placed a homemade device below the car of Central Security Forces officer Ahmed Zaki, which blew up when he started the engine.
Explosives experts are searching the area for further devices.
Attacks, mainly against security personnel and installations [3], have grown common since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last summer. [4]
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/99623/Egypt/Politics-/UPDATED-Car-bomb-kills-policeman-in-Sixth-October-.aspx
[3] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/large-blast-in-downtown-cairo-is-followed-by-gunfire/
[4] http://www.albawaba.com/news/egypt-divided-celebrations-and-anger-morsi-overthrown-504098
[5] http://english.ahram.org.eg


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How is everyone doing with The Power Of Now? It's a challenging read in that it really makes you think, and it's helping me a lot to write about it here and read your comments and thoughts – I hope it's helping you guys too. At this point you may be frustrated…I know I was at first. All this talk about being present, but what is it? Why is it so hard to wrap your head around this concept? Because, as Tolle says, "you can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present." As an experiment he suggests that you close your eyes and say to yourself "I wonder what my next thought is going to be." Then become very alert and wait for the next thought. Try it right now.
When I did this at first, I had a really hard time with it because I was at work and I could hear voices and people around me. I recommend trying it when you're in a quiet place, by yourself. According to Tolle, when you are in a state of presence, and therefore free of thought, it will take a while for a thought to come to you. But if thoughts come rushing into your head (like they did for me), it's because your conscious attention is lowered and your head is being filled with mental noise. Tolle states that at all moments, you should always have at least a small portion of your attention focused on the inner energy field of your body. Be deeply rooted in yourself, know yourself and be observant of your thoughts, feelings and emotions. Yoga goes hand in hand with this – it's all about finding that stillness, and focusing your attention on your body, your breath, and your energy.
To truly experience those magical, beautiful moments in life, you must be present. Surely you can think of a moment when you have felt it – a moment of staring out into the ocean, listening to the waves crash on the shore, or lying in a field of grass listening to the wind rustle the leaves on a nearby tree. To experience these moments you must be able to stop the incessant noise, rendering the mind completely and utterly still. Otherwise, "you will see but not see, hear but not hear." Those words struck a chord in me. Think about the number of times in a day that you see something without really seeing it. Or someone says something to you and you hear it on the surface, but do you really hear it, deep down? Usually, no.
"Silence is an important part of presence. Be aware of the silence between and underneath the words. Be aware of the gaps. To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you."
This passage reminded me of stepping outside early in the morning after a fresh snowfall. Imagine it…the world is hidden under a thick white blanket and the sounds you normally hear are muffled to the point of silence. As you take in the beauty the noise inside, your mind quiets down as well and in that moment everything is peaceful and still. Try to create moments like this in everyday life. Focus on you, and don't let the noise around you overpower the stillness inside of you.
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How-To: Dominique Swain's Cutesy Curls
How-To: Dominique Swain's Cutesy Curls
Wednesday night at the 2008 ESPYs Giant Event, which was hosted by Eli Manning, actress Dominique Swain arrived with a clean and polished makeup look and flirty finger curls.
This hairdo is simple to achieve and adds a great deal of style, volume, and bounce to straight or naturally wavy hair.
- STEP 1: Begin by towel-drying your hair and applying a palmful of mousse. Add a tiny drop of serum to the lengths and ends and spray a heat-protecting product all over. Next, brush out snarls using a wide-toothed comb.
For more directions on how you can re-create this look at home,
- STEP 2: Now you're ready to dry your hair. Set your blow dryer to a medium heat setting and, using a medium round brush, dry your hair in sections. Make sure to create tension at the roots with the brush to get rid of frizz, but when you get to the lengths, twirl the brush to create more volume and loose curls. Repeat until your hair is completely dry.
- STEP 3: Using a two-inch barrel curling iron, take small sections of your hair and wind it away from your face. Hold it in place for seven to 10 seconds and then let the curls go. You'll want to leave some loose strands but will curl about 75 percent of your entire head.
- STEP 4: As a finishing touch, mist hair with a light hold hairspray and give your hair a couple of cool shots from your hairdryer to set the look.


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Croatian Island Hopper South (Start Split) » Review by Samiah
This is definitely the way to see Croatia!! It was awesome having our own boat with our own crew. The tour manager Emma was really nice and did her best to get everyone interactive with each other. The stops were amazing, Hvar and Dubrovnik was awesome. The clubs were really fun, and if you're a Game of Thrones fan, you will love Dubrovnik. Just keep in mind the recommended tip for the crew is 75 Croatina Kunas per person, and there were 6 of them on our boat, plus the tour manager. That was a little surprise for us at the end as we all scrambled to find ATMs to grab extra cash.
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1. The Blacklist (2013– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, who has eluded capture for decades, turns himself in and insists on speaking only to her.
Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold
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2. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
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This show introduces the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the NYPD who investigate sexually related crimes.
Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T, Dann Florek
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3. Chicago P.D. (2014– )
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Stars: Jason Beghe, Jesse Lee Soffer, Patrick John Flueger, Marina Squerciati
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An ex-assassin and a wealthy programmer save lives via a surveillance AI that sends them the identities of civilians involved in impending crimes. However, the details of the crimes--including the civilians' roles--are left a mystery.
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Follows a crime, usually adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points, the police investigation and the prosecution in court.
Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, Dennis Farina, S. Epatha Merkerson
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6. The West Wing (1999–2006)
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Inside the lives of staffers in the West Wing of the White House.
Stars: Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe, Allison Janney, John Spencer
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7. You Were Never Really Here (2017)
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A missing teenage girl. A brutal and tormented enforcer on a rescue mission. Corrupt power and vengeance unleash a storm of violence that may lead to his awakening.
Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette
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8. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell
Votes: 109,811 | Gross: $1.74M
9. Shame (2011)
NC-17 | 101 min | Drama
A man's carefully cultivated private life is disrupted when his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Lucy Walters
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Stars: Coby Bell, Skipp Sudduth, Jason Wiles, Molly Price
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11. The Butler (I) (2013)
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As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.
Director: Lee Daniels | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda
Votes: 95,512 | Gross: $116.63M
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Let's say it fluctuates between a duplicate every 5th and 6th frame. How would I properly decimate this?
The pattern is:
F is frame, D is duplicate frame.
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If the pattern repeats perfectly (not likely):
SelectEvery(13, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
Why can't you use IVTC?
But I do like to troubleshoot things. Hahaha
I know they have different logics to conform different fps. Maybe I'll learn something too.
Last edited by budwzr; 25th Jul 2012 at 17:55.
This does exactly what you want. It doesn't necessarily do it in that order. It decimates 2 duplicates out of every group of 13
To be clear , you should use more precise notation. I'm assuming this is what you really mean?
But you said the pattern doesn't repeat perfectly, and isn't perfectly aligned - otherwise you could use SelectEvery as above
Did you try those Tdecimate settings ? It's adaptive, so even if you have 2 patterns and there is a slight cadence swap it will still work (it will look for the duplicates wherever they might be within that cycle, not blindly take every 6th or 7th frame) - whereas SelectEvery will make a mistake if it's not aligned perfectly (you need perfect match for the pattern)
I don't have two duplicates at every 13th frame, I said I have two PATTERNS of duplicates.
Last edited by poisondeathray; 25th Jul 2012 at 21:10.
Yes there is danger of selecting different number because the cycles won't line up (you'll eventually miss a duplicate, or more than it would normally miss) . 13 is "ideal" given the information you've provided
CycleR / Cycle
This means 2/13 (or 2 frames out of the cycle of 13 are selected)
No, because it won't "see" the outside duplicate
Take this example:
The KK will be missed in that cycle if you chose 11
The "adaptive" part means it doesn't matter if you started on an "A" frame or a "D" frame etc.... because if that pattern is fairly consistent, then every 13 frames will have 2 duplicates
avisynth normally does) . Using this you can tweak the dozen other settings to get more customized results as well
Since you see pattern changes, I suspect it's not truly 2 of every 13 frames that needs to be removed (and also because 11/13 doesn't correspond to any of the standard frame rate conversion). You may want to look at a longer section to determine what the real frame rate is (something close to 11/13 of the source frame rate) then use "mode=2, rate=x", where x is whatever that frame rate turns out to be.
And then rather than us trying to guess what he really has, better might be to provide a small sample from the source.
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Perfect, this worked. Your guess is as good as mine why the source is so weird. If you knew what I worked with and all the bizarre rare videos that mental ****s on eBay are looking for it might make more sense.
manono and jagabo, both of you can bite me. You might surpass me in technical knowledge but you've achieved them at the expense of intellectual aptitude. I own up when I'm wrong, have many times and do it immediately without any bullshit. I've seen neither of you do so once. You are more apt at lecturing than learning, a trait more common with the uneducated.
Remember our discussion about the benefit of deleting duplicate frames? Funny how poisondeathray and neither of you responded to the evidence I posted in a new thread. Tells a lot about your character and how little you are willing to put to educate yourself.
I'm not interested in being right, I'm interested in being correct, and I live on $3 a day. You can do way better, holms.
And he still had the nerve to argue before even trying it. Or even before reading the doc which is quite clear about Mode 0 and what Cycle and CycleR mean.
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The legendary Choctaw Books in Jackson, Mississippi, is one of those places that truly define a town. While Oxford has the clean and bright Square Books, all windows and staircases and gleaming paperbacks, it's somehow more fitting that the state's capital have a dark and mysterious little nook jammed thick with ancient and rotting tomes, bookplates signed with quill pens.
Over the years, I've scoured the North Jefferson building and come up with signed copies of The All-Girl Football Team, battered and moldy Reveilles from the 1930s, a tiny hardback volume of Dame St. Millay's poetry, a quickie kiddie book about Blondie by Lester Bangs, and paperback copies of Jujitsu for Christ (one nestled on the shelf above, betwixt a clutch of Nightshades and Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rocks). In other words: the world. If you have a favorite, it is here; there has never been a time when I didn't find something special, although rarely it's what I was looking for at the time I entered the store.
For instance, I was heading in on this particular trip to purchase a copy of Jujitsu for Christ for Lula's stepfather, a true lover of Southern fiction and dweller of New Orleans, who was deeply excited when I told him of the book at Christmas. I settled for a paperback copy—which I'd never seen before—and a good clean Little Rock, but he'd beat me to it, already wading through Jack's Skillet, the rest of the Butlerian oeuvre piled on his nightstand. The thing is, I glance through the Southern stock in the front of the store fairly often, and I'd never before seen any of those books on the shelf before—not that combination—as I know for certain that I'd bought the last Hawk Gumbo and Nightshade there, just a few months before, and:
Listen, that's the thing about Choctaw. It's like a living, breathing creature—it changes. Just like there wasn't any Buddy Nordan this time, there was a battered copy of Airships, inscribed lovingly from the author to a person who appeared to be a long-lost friend; there was a stack of Rolling Stones from 1988 in the back, all Janet Jackson and Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney; there was the first-edition Eudora I accidentally stepped on while reaching for a copy of I Cannot Get You Close Enough. Choctaw Books is glorious in its tumbling infinity.
Read this now decade-old article about the intelligent and kind proprietor, Mister Fred Smith, an alumnus of Millsaps, and lover of books. He has been mighty fair to me over the years, always friendly, and never ceases to tease me when I am buying less then six or ten books at a time. If you have not yet done so, and you have the ability, go there this week. You can spend five dollars or five hundred. It is that kind of a place. Just be prepared to stay for a while.
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I am beyond delighted to bring you today's guest post. It comes from my sister of another mother (seriously we are freckishly similar) and very dear friend, Nic of My Bottle's Up. If you are not familiar with Nic and are not already reading her fabulous blog you are missing out. I met Nic about a year and a half ago and loved her the minute I finished reading one blog post. She is witty, and hysterically funny, but also passionate, caring and beautiful. I could go on for ages.
Before I hand you over to Nic let me just say I can so empathize with what she is going through with her son right now. Parenting a two year old can be tough. Show her some love and support.
i just let my 26 month old son scream for over an hour during what should have been his nap time. yup. i did. i turned off the monitor, turned up the volume on my itunes, and i let my son scream… this was of course after i had done the obligatory "is he stuck in between crib rails?" or "does he have shit in his pants?" check.
he was not stuck in between crib rails. he was standing, handing me his blanket and screaming "ALL DONE."
he was shitless in his pants. dry as a bone, in fact.
i picked him up, rocked him for a few minutes, and laid him back down… and he stayed down… for 10 minutes.
then something not of this earth entered my son's room, proceeded to invade his 25 lb body and take hold like a leech for over an hour.
he sounded like an angry, possessed, demonic i don't know what… and i just listened and tried not to listen but still heard him for over an hour.
this week has been a particularly rough one for the magoo. and yeah, i ranted… cuz i have a blog and occasionally you'll find that people do that on their blogs.
it's an outlet.
today, when i endured the wrath of yet another napless afternoon for my son, filled with tantrums, turmoil and total chaos, my outlet was not my blog, but instead, my husband's voicemail.
i called him. at work. he didn't answer. and when his message finished and the beep BEEPED, i held my cell phone up to the monitor for 1 minute and 5 seconds.
my husband returned my call just minutes later, to let me know he in deed received my message.
"this sucks," was a portion of his response.
both he and i are at a loss… our son has developed a habit of doing this scream-until-mom-or-dad-comes-in thing beginning at 6 am (when he used to sleep until 7:30) and then again when he goes down for his afternoon nap. his nap used to last from 1 pm until 3 pm.
as of now, i'm lucky if i get 45 minutes until the demonic wails begin.
so today, i let him howl… until his voice was hoarse. i told my husband that i was not getting him out of that crib, come hell or high water.
and i stuck to it.
am i the worst mother on the face of the planet? nah. at least not yet.
did i make the right decision? hell if i know. i know it felt right at the time.
in my opinion, the terms "right" and "wrong" are overrated. what you do for your child may be "right" and work for you one day but not the next. i guess that's just the awesomeness that comes with parenting.
what i do know is that this week has been unbelievably challenging with my toddler son.
i also know that with age comes all sorts of changes in behavior, mood, habits, etc…
lastly, i know that those of you reading this and judging me for leaving my son in his room for over an hour to scream will have your turn.
we all do, us parents.
we take turns and endure these challenges in this thing called parenthood.
if you do things another way than i do… awesome.
if you do things similarly to the way i do… awesome.
if you judge me and my parenting according to this post and the experiences i have shared with you so candidly… watch your back, because i will let the wrath of my son loose on you and you will find yourself begging me for forgiveness on hands and knees.
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we are soooo "freckishly similar" and I LOVE IT.
thanks for having me, sugacakes.
Ugh. My kid never had the thoughtfulness to do his screaming at home. I wish. Instead he used saved up his scream time for the grocery store, Wal-Mart, McDonalds, the playground….I could go on. It was ugly.
@HeatherPride oh sweet jeebus!!! i have endured one public meltdown (i'm totally screwed and jinxed myself for the rest of today now) and it was in bed bath and beyond… and i just let the little dude wail. he wanted a canteen that was bright blue and i wouldn't get it for him. an older woman stared at me as though i was depriving my child from a meal or something. after a couple of minutes in the check out line (WHY do they put all the fun stuff in the check out line aisle?!?!) i looked at the woman and said, "he's going to continue crying. if it's that painful for you to listen to, feel free to go ahead of me in line."
Both of my boys were screamers. Actually, they still are. Both at home in their rooms, in public places.
I have begun to think it is partly their way of communicating when their words are not developmentally to the point of being able to say, "Hey Mom, this sucks and I don't want to be in here. Would you please be a dear and let me out so I can sit my butt on the couch and watch some Dora?"
I can tell you that my pediatrician totally agreed with letting the boys scream it out when they were over the age of 6 months. They are not going to hurt themselves by learning Mommy and Daddy are the boss and when we say go to sleep we mean go to sleep! If they chose to spend that time screaming, so be it.
You're doing a great job Nic. We have ALL been there!
thanks sunday!!! your support meant THE WORLD to me last week… and always does.
Still dying laughing at the voicemail thing. I've done that too. Our poor husbands. I really do feel sorry for you, in between bouts of hysterical laughing.
jenn- paul got to endure the wrath of the demonic screams this weekend… but only for 25 minutes b/c when daddy's home, magoo naps.
::flicking off paul::
i'll just continue gchatting with you during the exorcism. it's worked well so far.
Being an adult sucks sometimes, when do we get to go to our rooms and scream our mother-loving head off for 45 minutes? I'd consider trying it, but I think I'd rather nap.
I went through that with my son, he's now 11 and still doesn't sleep. He doesn't scream about it now…he reads books by flashlight under his covers in hopes of not getting caught.
Who knows if letting him scream it out did him any good or not. I know that me crying, screaming back at him and BEGGING him to take a nap wasn't going to make him sleep either…Such is the life of a mother.
i know… it's like wish is the lesser of two evils, him screaming and me turning up my itunes or giving him what he wants and now giving myself that bit of time to gain just a smidgen (yes, that's a word) of sanity back.
LOVE the idea of screaming our heads off for 45 minutes though.
ps- "wish" is "which"
apparently i'm wishing for a lot of things today… like for the magoo to actually sleep, for example.
You know that saying about leading a horse to water? Well, several years ago I changed it to: You can lead your kid to bed, but you can't make him/her sleep.
So, what's a parent to do?
That's right: put the lock button on the outside of the damn door. An hour is not going t kill him, especially when you've made sure he's safe and dry. A few days (maybe even a week if he's really stubborn) and he'll figure out that he's going to stay in there whether he naps or not, and he'll nap.
It worked for my kids, and they're perfectly FINE! Oh, and I haven't lost my mind yet, so that's also good.
i'm writing that on a piece of paper… "you can lead your kid to bed, but you can't make him/her sleep," and taping it to the magoo's bedroom door to remind myself because THAT was awesome.


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Continuing its quest for dominance in the photo arena, online editing suite Aviary announced version 2.0 of its photo editor today, bringing with it a slew of updated features and something enticing for developers: instant monetization for photo apps.
With the new Aviary editor comes a mobile software development kit that will offer virtual goods for purchase, including premium effects packs, original sticker packs (which includes things like holiday and season photo stickers) and branded sticker packs. Aviary partners need only enable the SDK's in-app purchasing feature to get a cut of the profit — Aviary will take care of all the hard stuff.
"We plan to monetize through in-app purchases," Aviary CEO Avi Muchnik said in a statement today. "In addition to creating original premium content ourselves, we are working with a number of publishers to license their content through our distributed network."
The company will share the in-app revenue with its partners, though it hasn't yet revealed how the money will be divided up. In a pilot program over the past two months, one unnamed Aviary partner has seen a "nice percentage" of premium purchases, Aviary's head of business development Alex Taub said in an interview.
"If you're doing thousands of photos a day, and if you can convert a small percentage [into premium purchases], it gets really interesting. It could be an interesting business model," Taub said.
The updated editor, which will work across web and mobile, also sports a slicker interface and new tools, like better one-touch auto enhance effects, and new dials for adjusting things like brightness and saturation on mobile devices. Pic Stitch, an app that lets you easily put together multiple photos, will be the first to sport Aviary's new editor.
Aviary launched its mobile photo editor back in September as a way to help developers easily implement high-quality photo capabilities into their apps. It was a smart way for the company to tap into the mobile photo craze without actually competing directly against top photo apps like Instagram.
The plan seems to be working out for Aviary. The company says it's now editing over 10 million photos a month, and it's growing 50 percent monthly in terms of unique users and edits. It now has over 300 partners using its editor across the web and mobile.
Taub tells me the company is now hiring more mobile developers than web developers, a sign that mobile is becoming the company's main focus. "Mobile is obviously the future," Taub said, though he confirmed the web product won't be going anywhere.
New York City-based Aviary has raised $11 million so far from Spark Capital and Bezos Expeditions.
You can check out a video of the new editor in action below.