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One Direction vs. The Wanted: Who Will Justin Bieber Choose?
It's the battle of the British Boy bands and their bone of contention is Justin Bieber!
"Justin" time for the 2012 Summer Olympics, set for London, of all places, U.K. boy bands One Direction and the Wanted are reportedly competing for Justin Bieber's services and vying for the chance to work with him. The Daily Star reports that both bands want to work with the 'Boyfriend' singer but fear he will only choose one. Isn't there enough Biebs to go around?
Does either have an advantage?
The Wanted are managed by Scooter Braun, who also handles the Biebs' career, so they have a leg up there. The group skews a bit older than One Direction, and Bieber is clearly trying to expand his fan base to an older crowd, so working with the Wanted will certainly be mutually beneficial. The group has toured with him as well, and he referred to them as "part of the family."
However, he has also been seen hanging out with One Direction, who are blazing across the U.S. as of late. There are none hotter than 1D. Braun himself said that Biebs being a Directioner, if only for a song, was entirely possible. Braun commented, "He likes them and thinks they are good dudes." The singer and the group hung out last week and listened to 'Believe' and all parties tweeted about it.
The Biebs and 1D in one room, hanging out? Did a chorus of female screams erupt all over the world? Yeah, it did.
Okay, fans of both boy bands. Who should the Biebs work with if he has to choose only one?


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Mum's got a new tablet and stylus…….which means photograph city for Ellie and I!!! The finished pic is pretty cute though (not that I'm biased!!!)
Cartoon Sleeping Jay xxxxx
It's December…so it is officially okay to say 'Merry Christmas' from Ellie & I…..
I was just casually cruising through Google looking for links to Dog with a Blog (purely for statistical purposes and not because I am vain!!), when I came across quite a few references to my namesake; see The Huffington Post Newspaper for an example. Imagine my horror that casting has already taken place and yet
"Doth my ears deceive me, or has my phone not rung as of yet!!!"
Have I not proven my ability to act as a canine stunt dog in almost any situation, through my detailed blogs on my agility class antics. I mean obviously, there was the slight hesitation to jump through the swinging tyre…but I can't see me ever needed to do that in a real life situation…or the need to walk across an A-frame or beam in a calm and controlled manner! But I was top of the class when it came to standing still and eating the chicken pieces!!!
Is it not clear to all those that I know that no dog is more handsome, sophisticated, stylish or destined to be on the silver screen than me?
I can only hope that my wonderful and lovely blog & Twitter followers, who have supported me over the past 4 years can see past the miscasting of the global giant that is Disney…..and still love me for who I am (if you read that last paragraph with some piano or violin music playing in the background, it works best!!)
I Will Survive Jay xxxx
Yesterday I apparently stared at the front door for over 30 minutes and because Mum could not see exactly what I was staring at, she told me to stop doing it !!!
At the exact same time Ellie was ripping apart her new bed and shoving the soft, comfy innards into corners of the kitchen that would be impossible to retrieve them from at a later date; however this did not appear to bother Mum quite as much as my front door staring, given that she chose to tell me off and not Ellie….it is apparent that I am missing some strange Human trait here where looking at objects they cannot see is potentially terrifying to them.
I think tonight I will try staring at the patch of floor under Mum's arm chair and see how long she stays seated, too terrified to move…
Sinister Jay xxx
Once every year, my owner is overcome by the insane notion that I am either going to be attacked by a rabid flying monkey or that the pavements will turn into a blanket of rusty nails just before my evening walk. Why she thinks this is beyond me, however the consequences are that I am whisked off to the dreaded 'vets' and thus ensues the horrific event that Mum refers to as having my annual injections.
As any dog will know, the vets is a place of misery, pain and often humiliation (my vet has a particular proclivity for shoving his fingers up my bum!); but this years injection visit bore such humiliation that I searched high and low for a shovel to dig a hole in the ground as my paws were just not fast enough.
I always know when something bad is about to happen because Mum buys corned beef out of what I assume is pre-emptive guilt. Yesterday out came the corned beef; which I stupidly ate after checking no white pills had been hidden inside it! Ten minutes later we were in the car and on the way to the vets. I lay down by Mum's feet in the waiting room (There is no point creating a fuss as you just get dragged across the floor on your butt and our vet has wool carpets!) and waited for the inevitable to happen. A couple of dogs came out of the dreaded white door with cones on their heads; screaming the age old war cry of 'where have my balls gone!'. Finally it was our turn.
Mum placed my trembling body onto the vets table as she babbled on about unlimited corned beef and being able to sit on the sofa (I would have relished in the human guilt factor had I not been so terrified.) The vet pushed my head to the left and spewed out the usual load of rubbish that putting the injection in the neck is painless (how I long to shove a ten inch needle into his neck and see if he still thinks it's painless). It was just before closing my eyes that I noticed something purple lying on the floor. At first I couldn't quite make out what it was, it looked like an extra large hanky lying right next to Mum's right shoe. But then Mum moved slightly and the full shape of the object came into view….
I've heard about this happening to humans before but never actually seen it with my own eyes. They put their clothes on in a hurry and forget to check what might have become of the previous day's garments! The vet was stalling with the injection, he'd started talking about his impending holiday to Mum; I poked my paw out at Mum and tried to get her attention. She seemed to think I was beyond petrified and wanted to hold her hand! I didn't know how to get her to look down….I imagined all of the dogs in the neighbourhood finding out about it; I'd be the laughing stock of the village. I needed to do something, pick them up and hide them before the vet noticed…
I moved slowly towards the edge of the table and finally got my back end far enough across that gravity did the rest. I slid off the table and onto the floor before anyone could stop me. Using all of my stealth abilities, I flicked my tail in their direction and they soared through the air towards me before anyone noticed. Unfortunately, Mum was still looking at the vet when she bent down, picked me up to put me back onto the table so she did not noticed what was strewn across my head. In my attempt to sweep them under the table, they had in fact landed on top of my head.
It was too late…….Mum and the vet had finally stopped talking and both looked in my direction at the same time. Mum gasped and slapped her hand across her mouth, her cheeks turning a deep shade of red, the vet's eyes grew as large as saucers and his eyebrows receded into his hairline and there I sat on the veterinary table with a giant pair of Mum's purple knickers sitting on my head, my ears poking out through the leg holes like a giant purple hat.
Mum had obviously not noticed that morning when getting dressed that the previous days underwear were still lurking in her jeans. Throughout the morning they had made their crafty way down her trouser leg, poised until the perfect moment to drop presented itself. That moment it turned out had been 2 seconds prior to having my annual injection at the vets.
So I would like to take this moment to thank those purple pants from the bottom of my heart for postponing the inevitable injections, if only for a short while. In Mum's horror, she had lifted me from the table and fled from the vets room with such speed that the purple knickers had flown from my head and landed smack bang in the middle of the coffee table in the vets waiting room, right amidst copies of Dog Today and Womans Own.
Jay the Knicker Wearing Pooch
One voice is powerful…….a chorus of voices are a powerhouse!
I am one lucky dog to be loved, cared for, fed and given shelter. I am lucky, but thousands of dogs and cats are not as lucky as me. There are hundreds of thousands of animals in rescue shelters and adoption centres who need your support.
Do not dimiss this cause because you are not in a position to give a pet a home. There are so many ways that people can help…..and it is not a gift, it is a duty. Animals cannot speak for themselves, but if they could they would ask for the most basic things in life.
To be loved….
You can give your time, you money, your support….but more importantly, you can give your voice. Make people aware, spread the message, get onboard and be the person that you were put on this earth to be.
Already Rescued Jay xxxx
Hiss and Boo!!! Mum has changed our food and I am not impressed.
We were having lovely meaty chunks until a week ago when for reasons only known to humans, Mum brought home a big bag of rock hard coloured 'food'. As Ellie would quite literally eat poo on a stick if Mum fed it to her, she has not batted an eyelid at the change in our dietry sustenance. I on the other hand am slightly more refined and am not so easily hoodwinked by the bone and fish shaped colours that quite frankly taste like bird seed!!
I have tried this morning going on strike and simply staring at my bowl, giving Mum a distainful look and going to sit in my bed whilst Ellie gorges herself. Note to self: do not try again this evening as Mum simply put uneaten food back into bag……..
Starvin' Marvin Jay xxx
It's been a busy old week…hence my lack of blogging. For the third time in my life, I have had to visit the vets!!!
Picked up a stomach bug (from DOG know's where) and gave it to Ellie (Just because…..). I had to spend two days on rice……I hate rice. It turns out the rice hates me too….judging by the speed at which it came back up!
So off to the vets we went. Why he thinks he needs to shove the thermometer up my rear end is anybody's guess (obviously one vet told another vet, then he told 2 people and they told 2 people and so forth…). It wasn't as bad as it could have been though, at least he didn't chop anything off this time!!!
Mum has spent the past 2 days trying to give Ellie and I medicine. First she tried dripping it onto a biscuit, so I refused to eat it. Then she tried mixing it into my drinking water (not a chance)….and finally she resorted to offering me a treat and shoving a spoonful of medicine down my throat when I unsuspectingly took the treat…..DAMN Her!!!
Anyway, feeling a lot better now and will not be accepting treats for a while
Been sick but better Jay xxxx
I am seriously worried about Mum! She has been out today and bought me a backpack……..after I'd stopped laughing and realised she expected me to put it on, I was not impressed. It fits over my back and fastens under my belly and has 2 large zipped packs on each side….I look like a damn camel!
I have absolutely no idea what she was thinking in buying this. I did some research online while she was in the shower and believe I am supposed to look like the stud of a dog below…
Trust me…if your owner gets you your own handbag to carry; you will not look like this buff chap. You will look like you usually do….WITH A BACKPACK ON!!!
I understand why humans need to carry bags around. Mum, for example fills her bag with the usual human nonsense…loose change, mini sewing kit, 1 handy wipe, a till roll worth of receipts etc etc. I, on the other hand DO NOT need a bag; as I have nothing to carry. I am not going to get hungry half way around the block and stop off for a quick bite to eat….I will not get a runny nose and have to dive into my backpack for a faithful tissue.
More to the point…the backpage is actually filled with…..wait for it…….WEIGHTS. I am not even carrying anything around in my backpack. It is a placebo backpack, conning me into thinking I am helping out poor defenceless old people by carrying their shopping, when I am in fact lugging around 5kgs of sand………
Mum is under the impression the 'fake backpack' will help me to walk better. I don't know where she gets these ideas from honestly. I have left my backpack in the kitchen with Ellie…so hopefully within the next hour it will be no more….

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It feels good to see KDE 4.3 mature. Again it feels good to see some of the major but conservative Linux distributions turning up to KDE 4. PCLinuxOS has set a complete KDE 4.3 repository ready for those interested in this new and much-hyped desktop environment. Slackware 13 is loaded with KDE 4.2. However, it feels very bad that KDE4 doesn't deliver the stuff hyped much earlier. Read on to know what I exactly mean by "hyped stuff" but don't start kde4-fanboyism.
The worst hype about KDE4 is that it's more responsive than KDE3. It's a complete false statement. I have tried OpenSuse, PCLinuxOS, Mepis, and sadly, Fedora, on top of KDE4 and 3. Sorry friends, I could not see any major difference in performance. On the contrary I have seen lack of performance while using KDE4. "KDE4 uses around 40% less resource than KDE3" is another biggest hype that moved across various OSS forums. It's again a false statement. True, KDE4 manages memory more intelligently, but not 40% less.
I am sure, KDE 4.3.1 is way more polished and advanced than KDE 3.5.10. It looks stunning. It's enviable to all - KDE 3.5.10, Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard. But it is not as tightly integrated.
Good news is that Linux Kernel 2.6.31 has much possibility in terms of desktop performance improvement. And it seems, KDE 4 will stood up to its hype when it couples with this nice kernel. Till then I am sticking to KDE 3.5.10 on PCLinuxOS MiniMe.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
KDE4 - Hype & Reality
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kde4 runs slower on your hardware(hardware you failed to mention by the way) and "It's a complete false statement [ that kde4 runs faster than kde3 ] "
the "i dont see it on my hardware hence it doest happen on everybody else hardware and its a hype" comment doesnt add up
- September 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM
I find KDE4 to be more responsive, but then again, mine is only really a base install with a lot of the optional stuff disabled when compiling from source.
- September 10, 2009 at 11:53 AM
- manmath sahu said...
I don't say that KDE4 is always slower than KDE3, but it simply doesn't stand up to its hype that it's faster.
- September 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- jajaja said...
You said you "sadly" tried Fedora - is it a particularly bad implementation of KDE4?
- September 11, 2009 at 5:17 AM
Last night i installed debian lenny (net install) and then installed kde 4.3.1 (from the ustable repository). On my old machine, a pentium IV, 320 Mb RAM and a Geforce2 MX 200, kde4 was a little more responsive (less HD work) than KDE3 on the same machine. After i booted KDE4, it taked only 150Mb of RAM. I can say that KDE4 with compositing disabled is faster that kde3 on my machine. Unfortunately it doesn't look good with the compositing disabled :)
- September 11, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Wow another blog generating page hits by bashing KDE4.
I dumped XP for Gnome on Ubuntu, Also I got a Mac at work. I dumped both when KDE4 came out. I could never appreciate the powerful but chaotic and old-looking KDE3.
IMHO KDE4 has the big-$-designer look and feel that previously only the mac had - minus the corporate BS like company logos everywhere or pop-up advertising for new or less crippled versions. Also no registration or activation.
The amount of high quality apps available for KDE4 is amazing and growing very fast indeed. The standard is high and because of the high level of integration the user interface is well structured and seems logical or natural to me.
Instead of looking for magical 40% performance boosts, try doing some actual work on this desktop. It's fun.
- September 12, 2009 at 3:31 AM
It seems you have no idea of what you're talking about.
- September 12, 2009 at 3:32 AM
- manmath sahu said...
Thanks you dropped by! And Mr. Anonymous I have much ideas of what I talk about. I know KDE4 is better than KDE3 in many aspects. But all I wanted to convey through this post was that - KDE4 is glorified more than what it deserves. The false hype of performance and resource consumption was just two points in this regard.
- September 12, 2009 at 11:08 PM
- blackbelt_jones said...
Okay, I have a Dell Optiplex Pentium 2.4 GHZ with a gigabyte of RAM. I installed Kubuntu Jaunty with KDE4.3. I reied to watch a movie on HULU the reception was really jerky, so I booted a SLAX 6.1.2 live CD, with KDE3 and got much improved flashplayer reception.
the "i dont see it on my hardware hence it doesn't happen on everybody else's hardware and its a hype" comment doesnt add up
Actually, it does. I don't remember hearing about how KDE4 ran faster on some hardware. All I kept hearing about was how it ran faster. Well, apparently, it also runs dramatically slower on some hardware.
We were told that it was faster, and some of the time, apparently it is. Not for me, or for manmath, but apparently for anonymous, anonymous, anonymous and anonymous.
We were told that KDE3 is obsolete because of QT3, although software continues to be released with qt3, including opera 10.
We were told that KDE3 would continue to be supported as long as it had users. That's apparently not true either.
Now we're being told if anyone complains, they're working for Microsoft or trying to "generate blog hits." No one could possibly have a problem with having this monster shoved down their throat.
I've been frustrated and angry and anious for the better part of two years, but only now do I begin to suspect that we've have been had.
I tried Kubuntu, Opensuse, Lenny, Sidux. Just because it runs badly on my computer doesn't mean that it runs badly on anyone else's computer. Fortunately, I've got my slax cd archived, along with a bunch of modules, and all the packages from slackware 12.2
It's the crazy stampede to implement that occasionally pisses me off, especially the headlong rush to toss a prexisting classic down the crapper, but I still support KDE4 as the proper direction for development. I'm not saying that it's a piece of shit. It's emphatically NOT a piece of shit... but I have come to believe that if it was a piece of shit, they would still be telling us how great it is.
- September 23, 2009 at 1:26 AM
- manmath sahu said...
Hi Jajaja,
Yes, I found KDE4 is very badly implemented on Fedora in comparison to OpenSuse and Mandriva.
Hi BlackBelt,
It's good if it runs well on others' systems. BTW, this post is not another flamebait. It's just a personal opinion that KDE4 has been hyped beyond what it really is. You may like it or not. So, take it lightly.
- September 23, 2009 at 5:12 AM
- blackbelt_jones said...
Okay, I tried a google search for "KDE4 uses less resources than KDE3". Here's what appears to have happened. In late 2007, someone did a survey that concluded that KDE 4.0 used 40 per cent less resources than KDE3. But that turned out to be incorrect. Someone checked the math, and it used 20 per cent more resources than KDE3, but the original uncorrected story got was more play on the web, and gets repeated to this day.
To their credit, KDE developers were instrumental in the correction, but Searching through four or five pages of results for "KDE4 uses less resources than KDE3" produced no references to any other survey or study.
These two links are telling. Note the big KDE4 uses less resources headline at the top, and the correction that come much further.
So what we see here most definitely looks like to me, although it's important to note that the KDE organization is not directly culpable in spreading misinformation, but it became part of the fanboy dogma, so that you were attacked, accused of disingenuous motives (generating hits) for questioning what appears to have no basis in fact. I invite someone else to try this google search, and see if they come to a different conclusion.
I think that sooner or later, we're going to have to face up to the fact that this is some kind of debacle, and yes, the comparisons to Vista are beginning to look valid. I believe that, to some extent, hype and misinformation have entered into the free software method, along with a cultlike dogmatism that corresponds to the corporate groupthink that probably drove Vista. It's not right for urban legends to be guiding software implementation. It's not right for everybody to be saying it's faster when it isn't. We've got to be more cooly critical in the future.
But less brutal! The haters are as much to blame as the fanboys. The ferocity of the initial attacks could not have produced any other result than a further digging in. Has it EVER produced any other result?
I'm not going to be using KDE4 any time soon, but I've seen it run on more high end computers and it can pretty dazzling. So let's just say there's room for disagreement and leave it at that, but if software is to be developed efficiently on the internet with the participation of a community, we're going to have to guard against those perennial internet problems, misinformation and net rage.
- September 23, 2009 at 8:16 AM
- manmath sahu said...
thanks blackbelt for such well thought reply. hope the fanboyism will diminish as the OSS matures.
- September 23, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- blackbelt_jones said...
I used to be one of the KDE4 haters, so I have my own share of responsibility for the debacle. Now I'm a KDE4 critic, of course, if you're a KDE4 fanboy, you can't tell the difference.
- September 23, 2009 at 9:17 PM
KDE4 is faster on my hardware, a LOT faster.
I use the open source radeon driver for my ATI graphics card. According to benchmarks, the open source driver is much faster in 2D graphics operations than the closed source driver:
The nVida closed source binary driver is also abysmal for 2D desktop-type graphics operations.
But whatever the reason, KDE4 is much faster than either KDE3 or GNOME on my system.
Even if my system was cripled by an abysmal 2D graphics card and driver, then KDE4 would be no slower than KDE3.
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Game 47 vs. DAL: AK-47 WILL Break You
I sit here typing with a huge grin on my face.
That was SO GOOD.
I don't know what it was that finally brought the team together, but these guys are playing the best basketball of the post-S2M era, and they are not only winning games, but they are competing and hustling and spoiling our eyes with highlights along the way.
It was basically a 5-point game either way through the first three quarters. The Jazz came out hustling in the 4th, however, with CJ tipping in his own miss, Ronnie P stealing the ball from Kidd, and AK tipping in a Sap miss in the first 75 seconds to take a 6-point lead. Several minutes of scoring futility for both teams followed, but the momentum shifted the Jazz's way for good when AK stole the ball from Barea with seven minutes left and converted a three-point play. On the ensuing possession, Sap stole the ball and OMSW got another "hoop and harm." All of a sudden, the Jazz had a 12-point lead.
The Jazz then proceed to miss three long jumpers, including two 3's by Deron and CJ. Just as I was connecting palm to face, Sap blocks a Terry layup, AK gets the board and passes it to Deron, and Deron passes it back to AK for the "hammeringest hammer dunk" (as Shums put it) that was hammered down since #32 was on the court. I swear, that dunk was so freaking loud I half-expected the ball to come popping out of my speakers. AK ran back down the floor grinning from ear-to-ear, and did I grin along with him.
There was no stopping AK anymore. By now, he was just toying with the Mavs, and everyone could see it. Carlisle tried calling time out, but Andrei stole the ball from the Mavs on the next two Mavs possessions*, and one minute later, Carlisle waved the white flag by subbing out the starters…Jazz win 104-92.
–I adore the AK (4 steals)-Sap (4 blocks) combo.
–Sap had another Manly Power Forward game with 25/9, while Deron racked up 18/15/7R.
–Have to give it up to Ronnie B for playing through pain (bruised ribs suffered in the first half).
–Did someone say OMSW? That's Oh My Sweet Hustley to you. And just as a matter of fact, Jason Terry didn't score a bucket in the second half when Hustley was on him.
–Did Jerry forget KK is on the team? Kyle didn't get into the game tonight.
–CJ made as many shots as bad shots he took, but otherwise did well enough that Jerry left him out there today.
–Memo was not Moneyman Memo, but I guess decent.
–I'd love to see how a Sundiata/Ronnie P backcourt (a la Maynor/Deron) looks.
*At this point, my heart was about to give out because it couldn't handle the overflowing love for AK that was pouring through it. Some people might say that the amount of love I express for AK is unproportional to his contributions in x game, but Andrei is the only current Jazz player I have an emotional attachment to, and it's my blog, and I can say what I want, so there. ;-)
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AP Source: S Byrd drawing pre-free agency interest
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Three-time Pro Bowl safety Jairus Byrd has already begun attracting plenty of interest before the NFL's free agency period opens.
A person familiar with discussions told The Associated Press on Monday that the Cleveland Browns, Miami Dolphins and St. Louis Rams are among a number of teams that have expressed interest in signing Byrd.
The person spoke on condition of anonymity because talks have not been made public. The person revealed those three teams specifically as having contacted Byrd's representatives since Saturday, when the NFL allowed discussions to begin with prospective free agents.
Teams aren't allowed to sign players until Tuesday afternoon.
Byrd is among the top defensive backs set to hit the market after a solid five-year stint with the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo chose not to apply its franchise tag and retain Byrd's rights for a second consecutive year.
Byrd's asking price is projected to be high after he elected to test free agency by choosing not to accept a lucrative offer from the Bills.
Two people familiar with a portion of the Bills' contract offer said Byrd stood to make about $30 million over the first three seasons of a multiyear deal. The full length and value of the contract – including guaranteed money – were not revealed.
Despite the Browns' struggles on and off the field, Cleveland is regarded as a potential landing spot for Byrd because Mike Pettine was hired as coach in January. Byrd enjoyed playing under Pettine, who was Bills defensive coordinator last season.
Byrd is capable of playing either safety position, which fits Pettine's defensive philosophy that puts a premium on player versatility. The Browns have a potential opening at safety, with T.J. Ward eligible to become a free agent.
Cleveland can also afford Byrd's asking price with the team nearly $50 million under the salary cap.
The Rams need to improve their defensive backfield after they manned their safety spot with fill-ins last year.
The Bills still haven't ruled out Byrd returning. That prospect appears less likely after Buffalo turned its attention to signing fellow starting safety Aaron Williams to a four-year, $26 million contract extension last week.
Byrd earned his third Pro Bowl selection last year despite missing a majority of the offseason before accepting the team's one-year, $6.9 million franchise tender in mid-August. He then missed the first five games of the season with plantar fasciitis in both feet.
Byrd still finished tied for the team lead with four interceptions, and added a sack and a forced fumble. Overall, the 2009 second-round draft pick out of Oregon has 22 interceptions and 11 forced fumbles in 73 career games.
AP Sports Writer Tom Withers in Cleveland contributed to this report.
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A portable neo-noir thriller
Gemini Rue, Joshua Nuernberger and Wadjet Eye's wonderful neo-noir adventure game, made its way over to iOS devices yesterday. It's been overhauled for the new platforms, featuring a redesigned combat system, a hotspot finder to eliminate pixel hunting, and larger icons and text.
The original version, released in 2011, left quite the impression on me. Although it's reminiscent of Westwood's Blade Runner, it ends up being a unique title with a complex, slow-burning narrative, well-thought-out puzzles, and a surprising amount of physicality.
Gemini Rue can be picked up on the App Store for $3.99 right now (normally $4.99), and it's well worth a look.
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Piers Guy, Vattenfall's UK onshore wind development director, said: "We are committed to engaging with local people and businesses at each stage during the development process and we are committed to developing an excellent wind farm and maximising local economic benefit."
It will cost more than £190 million to build the wind farm, and the company said there is the potential for 79 people to work on the site.
The application will now be considered by the Scottish Government's Energy Consents Unit. During this period Vattenfall will meet and talk to companies across the region and beyond who have the skills and services to help build and operate the project if it is given consent.
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Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge
National Geographic Society, 1999 - History - 215 pages
In August 1914, as World War I began, Ernest Shackleton and a small band of explorers sailed for Antarctica aboard a ship called Endurance. Few expeditions have been more aptly named -- and few leaders more courageous or inspirational. For two years, Shackleton and his men battled the elements in a saga that nearly defies description. Amazingly, not a man was lost...but their extraordinary feat was eclipsed by the Great War, and for three quarters of a century was all but forgotten. No longer: interest in Shackleton and Antarctica has never been greater. Yet even now, he is remembered for only one extraordinary expedition. But there is far more to Sir Ernest Shackleton -- and this wonderful book tells the whole story. His first encounter with the Antarctic was with Robert Scott, who would become his foremost rival. On his second attempt, he turned back within reach of the South Pole, preferring to save himself and his men rather than pushing on and dying on the return trip, as his former mentor Scott famously chose to do. "Better a live mule than a dead lion," he remarked to his wife upon his return, but in the end he died in the Antarctic that called him back, and back again, and he was buried there at his wife's behest. Now, at last, here is a book that tells the whole story of an explorer who ranks with Ferdinand Magellan, Christopher Columbus, James Cook, and Sir Richard Burton in his determination to follow his vision and his dream. Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge is adventure literature par excellence: a remarkable portrait in words and arresting images of an unforgiving world and a small, indomitable fraternity who refused to surrender to relentless hardship.
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Hard coding (also, hard-coding or hardcoding) refers to the software development practice of embedding what may, perhaps only in retrospect, be considered an input or configuration data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, or fixed formatting of the data, instead of obtaining that data from external sources or generating data or formatting in the program itself with the given input.
Considered an anti-pattern, hard coding requires the program's source code to be changed any time the input data or desired format changes, when it might be more convenient to the end user to change the detail by some means outside the program.
Hard coding is often required. Programmers may not have a dynamic user interface solution for the end user worked out but must still deliver the feature or release the program. This is usually temporary but does resolve, in a short term sense, the pressure to deliver the code. Later, softcoding is done to allow a user to pass on parameters that give the end user a way to modify the results or outcome.
The term "hard-coded" was initially used as an analogy to hardwiring circuits - and was meant to convey the inflexibility which results from its usage within software design and implementation. In the context of run-time extensible collaborative development environments such as MUDs, hardcoding also refers to developing the core engine of the system responsible for low-level tasks and executing scripts, as opposed to softcoding which is developing the high-level scripts that get interpreted by the system at runtime. In this case, the term is not pejorative and refers to general development, rather than specifically embedding output data.
As a digital rights management measure, software developers may hardcode a unique serial number directly into a program. A program that has a unique serial number may regularly check its maker's website to verify that it hasn't been blacklisted as compromised. If that website moves or the company goes out of business, this may cause the program to fail, even for perfectly legal users, if that check is programmed to fail when no response is received.
On the opposite case, a software cracker may hard-code a valid serial number to the program or even prevent the executable from asking the user for it, allowing illegal copies to be redistributed without the need of entering a valid number, thus sharing the same key for every copy, if one has been hard-coded.
If a Windows program is programmed to assume it is always installed to C:\Program Files\Appname and someone tries to install it to a different drive for space or organizational reasons, it may fail to install or to run after installation. This problem might not be identified in the testing process, since the average user installs to the default drive and directory and testing might not include the option of changing the installation directory. However it is advisable for programmers and developers not to fix the installation path of a program, since the default installation path is different in different natural languages, and different computers may be configured differently. It is a common assumption that all computers running Microsoft Windows have the primary hard disk labelled as drive C:, but this is not the case.
There was a similar problem with the microprocessors in early computers, which were built to expect the computer's initial program code to start at the address 0 of the memory pool (or at another fixed address). This was a failsafe layout for units designed for a narrow field of purposes, but lacked much expandability.
Some "copy-protected" programs look for a particular file on a floppy disk or flash drive on startup to verify that they are not unauthorized copies. If the computer is replaced by a newer machine, which doesn't have a floppy drive, the program that requires it now can't be run, since the floppy disk can't be inserted.
This last example shows why hard-coding may turn out to be impractical even when it seems at the time that it would work completely. In the 1980s and 1990s the great majority of PCs were fitted with at least one floppy drive, but floppy drives later fell out of use. A program hard-coded in that manner 15 years ago could face problems if not updated.
Some Windows operating systems have so called Special Folders which organize files logically on the hard disk. There are problems that can arise involving hard coding:
Some Windows programs hard code the profile path to developer-defined locations such as C:\Documents and Settings\Username. This is the path for the vast majority of Windows 2000 or above, but this would cause an error if the profile is stored on a network or otherwise relocated. The proper way to get it is to call the GetUserProfileDirectory function or to resolve the %userprofile% environment variable. Another assumption that developers often make is assuming that the profile is located on a local hard disk.
C:\Documents and Settings\Username
Some Windows programs hardcode the My Documents folder path to ProfilePath\My Documents. The program would work on most computers, but on localized versions of Windows (for example in Italian version My Documents folder is translated as Documenti), or if the My Documents folder is redirected using Folder Redirection in Group Policy in Windows 2000 or above a serious error would occur. The proper way to get it is to call the SHGetFolderPath function.
ProfilePath\My Documents
An indirect reference, such as a variable inside the program called "FileName", could be expanded by accessing a "browse for file" dialogue window, and the program code would not have to be changed if the file moved.
Hard coding is especially problematic in preparing the software for translation to other languages.
In many cases, a single hard-coded value, such as an array size, may appear several times within the source code of a program. This would be a magic number. This may commonly cause a program bug if some of the appearances of the value are modified, but not all of them. Such a bug is hard to find and may remain in the program for a long time. A similar problem may occur if the same hard-coded value is used for more than one parameter value, e.g. an array of 6 elements and a minimum input string length of 6. A programmer may mistakenly change all instances of the value (often using an editor's search-and-replace facility) without checking the code to see how each instance is used. Both situations are avoided by defining constants, which associate names with the values, and using the names of the constants for each appearance within the code.
One important case of hard coding is when strings are placed directly into the file, which forces translators to edit the source code to translate a program. (There is a tool called gettext that permits strings to be left in files, but lets translators translate them without changing the source code; it effectively de-hard codes the strings.)
In computing competitions such as the International Olympiad in Informatics, contestants are required to write a program with specific input-output pattern according to the requirement of the questions.
In rare cases where the possible number of inputs is small enough, a contestant might consider using an approach that maps all possible inputs to their correct outputs. This program would be considered a hard-coded solution as opposed to an algorithmic one (even though the hard-coded program might be the output of an algorithmic program).
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Gene activity change can produce cancer
Mouse study shows that epigenetic alterations can cause tumors
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Changing a gene's activity can cause cancer, even though the DNA itself hasn't mutated, a new study demonstrates.
The finding is some of the first direct evidence that epigenetic changes can cause cancer. Epigenetic modifications are chemical tags tacked onto DNA or associated proteins. Such tags alter gene activity without changing the information in genes.
Scientists have long suspected that epigenetic modifications contribute to cancer. "The problem is, all of the studies we've done so far have been correlative," says cancer epigeneticist Lanlan Shen, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who led the new study. Those studies showed that epigenetic tagging is different in cancer cells than in healthy cells. However, the research couldn't establish whether the epigenetic changes spurred the cancer's growth or were one of its consequences.
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Dunno why .... cos its late Sunday night and I still have 15 things to pack from madly E-Baying .... but it brings to mind my so far unidentified swirly bottles. Maybe its the swirly bits and the rough cut pontil.Forgive me ... its late ....Slightly flagging ..... Annie xxxxx
Tigerchips, I think you're right that it is Murano. I've seen many perfume bottles and other things with this type of filigrana. It might be tough to track down without a label. I have the feeling that most of these types pieces were made in the last 20-30 years, but could be wrong. I've seen labels on some of the bottles, but don't remember who they were. A photographic memory would be wonderful, so I could remember all these things I see online.
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The old zine was a beautiful thing and the new incarnation's awesome as well. With its several nifty offshoots and gigantic audience, the new BoingBoing matured into a fantastic success. But the new BoingBoing also added an inexplicable fixation on Disneyland that I don't appreciate, enjoy, or understand. I don't care about Disneyland one way or the other. When you don't care about something, seeing it pop up as a non sequitur once introduces variety and spontaneity; seeing it a hundred thousand million times gets distracting and irritating.
I described this in the past as the Tim Bray problem, which was a mistake. I've read somewhere (I think here) that the human brain has specific areas devoted to gossip that take automatic precedence over any other brain function except for the recognition of human faces, the adrenaline response, and autonomic functions like breathing. So if you've ever noticed that people's brains seem to shut off the minute gossip or interpersonal drama gets involved, that is in fact literal truth.
Large sections of the human brain switch over to background priority level when gossip gets involved. Which means if you want to use Tim Bray as an icon of irrelevance, because he happens to fit that role for you personally, people aren't going to go, oh, yeah, I see what you mean. They're going to go, oooh, Tim and Giles are going to fight after school.
Describing it as the Disneyland problem is much simpler. If you read BoingBoing every day, you're going to see something about Disneyland sooner or later. Most people seem to love Disneyland. I don't. A few people seem to hate Disneyland. I don't. Disneyland means nothing to me one way or another, which means that any blog post about Disneyland, whether critical of or flattering to Disneyland, is meaningless to me.
I tweeted months ago about wanting a Twitter filter to screen out any reply to
@timbray. I still want that filter. But as far as a BoingBoing filter which screens out any Disneyland content, I've built that.
Sort of. It sounds like the simplest app on earth but in fact there are some problems with it. I'm really announcing it in hopes that somebody will point me in the right direction for fixing some of its flaws. Here they are:
- Safari: works on my box, fails live
- Firefox: fails on my box, links-only live
I don't know what the story is with IE and I don't plan to find out. I do plan to find out how it looks with Google Reader, but I started hacking on this Friday night, and I've had a horrible cold all weekend. In addition to writing this, I've been sleeping all weekend, and I also squeezed in a few hours of work.
Anyway, pooooooor Giles, what a martyr. Yadda yadda yadda. I still use Safari as my blogreader, so a BoingBoing filter which works under Safari and on my box is good enough for me. But I had wanted BoingBoing Minus Disneyland to be my Christmas present to the world, and that just isn't happening.
As far as I can tell, all the problems come down to the inconsistencies of RSS. RSS spawned inconsistent de facto forks left and right the same way HTML did, only HTML did it under the eyes of a lot more developers over a longer period of time. I don't know what's going on with all this cross-browser stuff. My RSS is messed up every which way to Sunday. On top of that, RSS readers seem fragile and easy to confuse. HTTP headers must factor into it somewhere, too, as the only difference I can think of between dev and production is that I'm using Mongrel on my box and (probably) nginx live.
If you've got tips to fix it, or books/blogs/gems to recommend, hit me up, I'm easy to find.
Update: It's alive! Much thanks to Sean Geoghegan, and also to Tim Bray for pointing me in the right direction.


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Eli & Jennifer's Mixed Materials Kitchen
Eli and Jennifer's Brooklyn brownstone features a surprising mix of modern and antique elements, particularly in the kitchen where you'll find exposed brick, a raw brass kitchen faucet (constructed from pieces sourced from a local plumbing supply house), marble countertops, and a wood-burning fireplace!
Jennifer tells Apartment Therapy they "cook a ton in this kitchen" and that "it's fairly easy to bring things out of the fridge across the island to the sink or the stove, and all these distances are small enough that you hardly notice that it's a kitchen triangle with a big stone rectangle smack in the middle." They've had 4 or 5 people working in the kitchen at once "without any disasters or hurt toes or feelings."
See the Full Tour: Eli & Jennifer's Brought Back to Life Brownstone at Apartment Therapy
Related: Would I Be Crazy to Choose Marble Countertops for My Kitchen? Marble Countertop Pros and Cons
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Feng shui principles address the outside and inside of your home. You can tackle the interior of your home one room at a time. The living room is a vital seat of feng shui for your family and should be addressed with this importance in mind.
Most families spend a great deal of time in the living room and because it's a gathering place, it needs to accommodate the appropriate feng shui energies to ensure the wealth, health, and happiness of the family.
Living Room Location
In feng shui, the living room should be located in a part of the house that has at least two outside walls. Avoid using a room nestled deep inside your home for a living room space.
The ideal living room location allows chi energy to enter the room from outside without being slowed down or allowed to grow stagnant from moving through many rooms in order to reach the living room. This placement ensures that the chi energy is fresh and energetic enough to activate the living room elements.
Furniture Choice and Placement
The living room should never be small. It should be large enough to comfortably accommodate the entire family and guests. A larger room size will encourage the chi energy to flow in and around the room. Where you place furniture can impact the way the chi energy enters and move around the room.
General Furniture Placement
Never place furniture in natural pathways through the room. This type of placement will block chi energy, cause it to become stagnant, and create negative energy.
Best Couch Placement
The main piece of furniture in a living room is usually the couch, which should rest against a solid wall. Currently, one of the popular western furniture arrangements is to place the seating group in the middle of the room without any wall support. This is called a floating arrangement and should be avoided.
The floating arrangement is an improper feng shui furniture arrangement. Just as your bed should be anchored against a solid wall, so should your couch. This gives support to those living in the house and prevents instability in your family structure of home life, work, wealth, health, and relationships.
Test this feng shui principle by sitting on a couch against the wall and then one set in the middle of the room. Notice how you feel with each arrangement. Chances are you feel safe and secure when sitting on the couch against the wall, while the one set in the middle of the room leaves you feeling vulnerable and uneasy, as though you need to constantly look behind you.
Sectional Placement
Sectionals are another popular furniture choice for the living room. While may accommodate a large family, they can be problematic when applying feng shui principles. The L-shaped furniture layout is inauspicious since it creates a large poison arrow in the room. If you can't avoid this type of furniture configuration, you can lessen its impact by placing a plant at the end of arrow part.
Another technique to remedy poison arrows is to suspend a faceted crystal ball from the ceiling. Like the plant cure, the crystal ball will dissipate the energy the arrow creates.
Additional Furniture Placement
When choosing the ideal furniture arrangement, in addition to a couch, you want to also include a loveseat and a single chair. These pieces of furniture afford ample places to sit while creating a space that will neatly accommodate a coffee table. Choose either a square or rectangular shaped coffee table for an auspicious shape.
Electronics such as TVs and computers are yang energy and very active, so place these in areas you wish to activate. For example, the north (career) or south (fame and recognition) sectors of the room are excellent choices.
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Personal: Participated in MVP (Mentors in Violence Prevention) at Newton North… Member of the Newton Youth Commission… Cousin, Holden Mobley, plays basketball at Belmont University (Class of 2014)… Son of Page Kelley and Greg Mobley.


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Chance of this happening? Zero, or something in the ball park.
But with the news of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers declining an invitation to be featured on the acclaimed HBO series "Hard Knocks" the Raiders should make it known they're willing to have their training camp turned into a weekly series.
They were reportedly a candidate in March before the Bucs received the offer.
The road blocks are painfully obvious.
The first is the NFL lockout which could stop the show in its tracks for a year.
The next problem is Oakland pretty much operates as a closed shop. A couple of years back, they even took to pinning the media into 20-yard "penalty box" areas after years of allowing reporters to walk freely along the sidelines (staying away from the middle of the two fields where the players congregated).
The Raiders' love for secrecy is legend.
Add into it the fact that owner Al Davis doesn't like to be photographed. Media photographers are told not to be zeroing in on Davis, as are rolling cameras, not to mention invited guests. That doesn't stop an intrepid photographer from firing off a few shots from a long-range lens, of course, but given that constraint, it would make it difficult to chronicle Davis' visits to Napa. And those visits would be a huge part of the story, given quarterback Jason Campbell's comments last week about how the intensity increases with the owner on hand in his golf cart.
A lot of those issues can be negotiated, however and the Raiders can have some input into how it would be produced. You never know when Davis will decide to speak, and any time he does, it's great theater _ some of the best in sports.
The Raiders are struggling with a season ticket base in the 23,000 range last year and the lockout can't be helping things. I know a guy who threatens to give up his tickets every year. Then every year he tells me, "They got me again."
This time, it was because of repeated e-mails and phone calls _ the most contact this ticket holder can remember in terms of salesmanship.
This is an organization in need of some national exposure as it promises to get back in the championship chase.
What the Raiders really have going for them is coach Hue Jackson. He dominates training camp unlike any coach since Jon Gruden in terms of being vocal, enthusiastic and energetic. He'll get on players who fall short, talk trash to the defense. This year he'll be entrusted with the entire team, which ought to make the performance even better. The camera loves him, and Jackson seems to like to have it pointed toward him.
When Gruden was head coach, he was a favorite of NFL Films, who were often in Alameda and allowed access very unusual to the organization. How did it happen?
Davis left it up to Gruden, and Gruden was secure enough to say yes _ even after a pair of 8-8 seasons.
Jackson has yet to do anything wrong, and he doesn't seem to be lacking in confidence.
As for the "penalty box," that was mostly put in place because of a perception that Bay Area media _ or as Warren Sapp termed "the local yokels" _ has been too critical. Some bigger national outlets get to move more freely if they're considered more friendly or have a relationship with whoever the coach happens to be in a particular year.
If there is an end in sight to the lockout, and the Raiders can sell it, they ought to consider allowing an up close look at Jackson's "Build a Bully" process.


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My name is Taylor Harrison and I am running for Blanding City Council. I grew up in West Jordan, Utah, and graduated from West Jordan High. After high school I served an LDS mission in Des Moines, Iowa.
I met and married Stacy Lyman (Harrison) and very quickly fell in love with Blanding. We were able to move to Blanding in early 2010 and I started working for Wells Fargo Bank.
I started as a part time teller, and worked my way up, first to personal banker and then to the branch manager of the Monticello branch.
Two years ago we were blessed with our beautiful daughter, Palmer. We love Blanding and consider it the best place possible to call home!
Why am I running for city council? I want to be involved in projects that will help Blanding continue to be the best place in the world to live and visit.
I am conservative and believe that the role of government is basic, yet vital.
In my view, the role of government is to provide the basic needs of citizens that they can not provide for themselves.
I believe that government's role with the local businesses is again vital, but minimal. I believe in open dialogue.
I look forward to discussing issues with citizens of Blanding as well as city councilmen.
I believe a thorough discussion is key to making decisions.
Taxes can not be burdensome to citizens, and I want to make it so they aren't. I am conservative, and believe in fiscal responsibility.
I love recreation, and want great recreation options for our citizens and visitors, but we have to be reasonable with how those things are provided; I want to keep tax rates as low as possible.
I feel I bring a great perspective to the table with my work experience.
I love Blanding, and want it to continue being the best place in the world to call home! That is why I am running for City Council.
I would appreciate your vote.


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My countdown to my debut novel's release and a chronicle of my attempt to not go stir crazy while waiting. (I post here on Mondays and Fridays. See you then!)
Monday, March 14, 2011
Before Ever After: Book Cover Reveal and Virtual Tour
55 comments:
- Hillary Jacques said...
That is truly gorgeous, Samantha.
- March 14, 2011 at 1:13 AM
- Daphne said...
I'm looking forward to seeing it!
- March 14, 2011 at 2:03 AM
- MuMuGB said...
Very nice pics! I look forward to reading it. The words and the shots complement each other. very nicely done!
- March 14, 2011 at 2:10 AM
It's perfect--it already looks like a well-loved book from your shelf.
The trailer is great, too!
- March 14, 2011 at 3:19 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Awww...thanks, guys! (p.s. Clovia - This isn't the trailer. That will come out in a month or so. Stay tuned! :D)
- March 14, 2011 at 5:42 AM
- Cathy Kozak said...
Yes Sam, you look oh so fat...with talent! Nifty trailer, which really isn't a trailer ;)
- March 14, 2011 at 6:25 AM
- Kelly Andrews said...
- March 14, 2011 at 6:30 AM
- Dawn Brazil said...
Awesome!!! Can't wait to read the book.
- March 14, 2011 at 6:46 AM
- Tanya Reimer said...
I have goosebumps on my goosebumps. Can you believe that? Do they make me look fat?
I can not wait to read this. Incredible. I am so happy for you!
- March 14, 2011 at 6:53 AM
- Traci said...
Oh my gosh - so exciting! Beautifully-done!
- March 14, 2011 at 7:05 AM
- Jan O'Hara (Tartitude) said...
- March 14, 2011 at 7:24 AM
- Kara Mustafa said...
GORGEOUS cover!!
- March 14, 2011 at 7:33 AM
The cover is amazing! Simply gorgeous! Congratulations! I'm so happy for you.
- March 14, 2011 at 8:22 AM
- Janel said...
I loved it! All of your beautiful words mixed with the beautiful pictures was just wonderful!
- March 14, 2011 at 8:28 AM
Absolutely gorgeous. (And it makes you look fabulous!)
- March 14, 2011 at 8:30 AM
- Kate Evangelista said...
It's beautiful! I dream of all those places. :-)
- March 14, 2011 at 9:26 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Oh, gosh. You guys are AWESOME. I'm overwhelmed. Thank you soooo much. I'm going to be grinning the ENTIRE DAY. :D
- March 14, 2011 at 9:29 AM
SAM! Super duper Like! I want my copy signed ha! :)
Congratulations! It looks so exciting!
- March 14, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- Scrollwork said...
It looks like a well-loved book that's been on our shelves for years! I love it. And those photos of your friends are haunting. Just the snippets from your book are enough to make us want the story to end well for Max and Shelley.
- March 14, 2011 at 10:27 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Thanks!!!! I could never have dreamed up the cover myself. I can honestly say this design never even crossed my mind, but when I saw it, I was awed by how the designer "got" the book. As for the pictures - how I came to meet the brilliant photographers behind them is quite amazing as well - another awesome surprise at a corner of this twisty path. :D
- March 14, 2011 at 10:35 AM
- Jennifer Hillier said...
Stunning! You must be so happy. It's gorgeous. Huge congrats!
- March 14, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Thanks, agency-mate! Can you believe how fast our pub dates are coming up? You'll be seeing CREEP on the shelves SOON! :D
- March 14, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- M Kathy Brown said...
Hi Sam ~
Beautiful book, appropriate cover, amazing writing and absolutely love your vid promo!! Thank you for posting it! I may want to do a promo for you at my site if you wouldn't mind...and use the vid...what d'ya think?
Your colleague and friend,
- March 14, 2011 at 11:29 AM
- Meredith said...
The descriptions you've included are so vivid! That plus the gorgeous pictures make me feel like I'm actually there. Just beautiful!
- March 14, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Hi, Kathy! Thank yo so much! And of course I'd LOVE to be on your site! Thank you so much for the opportunity! I'm beyond thrilled :D
Meredith - Thank you!!! :D I wanted to include all the countries featured in the book, but the video got waaaay too long. The original was over 5 minutes! LOL
- March 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM
- Jen Daiker said...
I love the sound of this book however I have the misfortune of looking at this at work so they've blocked whatever special thing you wanted to show! That being said you've been bookmarked so I can look at home!
Regardless, HOW FLIPPING EXCITING!!!!
- March 14, 2011 at 7:59 PM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Hey, Jen! Can't wait for you to see it! Promise to let me know what you think, okay? :)
- March 14, 2011 at 8:12 PM
- Elaine Cristina said...
Wow. Just. Wow.
The bits and pieces from the book is a teaser to everyone, but me (Look, modesty flew out of the window! :D). For me, it was a reminder of how wonderful a journey it was. Damn it. I'm crying all over again...
- March 14, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Hey, Elaine!!! So happy to see you here! *hugs* I'll now admit that I was SUPER NERVOUS about you seeing the tour since you've already read the book. I am SOOOOOOOOO relieved that you like it!!! I'm going to go to bed now with a HUGE smile on my face. Thank you, thank you, thank you, my dear! :D
- March 14, 2011 at 9:07 PM
- C.M. Villani said...
Oh wow Sam! That was beautiful and that cover is absolute perfection!!!! It seems to fit your novel perfectly - I love it!
- March 14, 2011 at 11:04 PM
- Deborah Lawrenson said...
I'd be thrilled if that were my cover! Very elegant and appealing to a wide readership. Love the line in the trailer about the taste of Venice.
- March 15, 2011 at 12:38 AM
- vinobaby said...
Fabulous!! The cover is beautiful, the words enthralling, the pictures breathtaking. I simply cannot wait to read your book.
- March 15, 2011 at 12:39 AM
- hot girl said...
nice post.
- March 15, 2011 at 12:43 AM
- Serendipity's Library said...
I Love it! I can not wait to read it. I have been bragging to all my non blog friends that we are blog friends. They are so jealous of me. I am so excited for you and can not wait to add your lovely book to my library.
Have a wonderfully exciting day!
- March 15, 2011 at 12:44 AM
- Andrew Leon said...
I just found your blog. Congratulations on your book! The video is great. I'll be looking forward to picking up a copy when it becomes available.
- March 15, 2011 at 4:32 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Christina - Yay!!! Thank you! I'm really happy you like it! Now you know why the music you posted on your blog gave me goosebumps. I think that song has a similar tone and feel as the one in the video :D
Deborah - Knowing your excellent taste in art, I'm thrilled you like the cover!!! Thank you! :D
Vinobaby - Thank you so much!!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it :D
Hot girl - Thank you! (and thanks for stopping by!) :D
Serendipity - *blushes* Awww...thank you so much! It would be beyond awesome for Before Ever After to find a home in your library. :D
Andrew - Thank you and welcome to the blog! *Offers a cupcake* Hope to see you around often! :D
- March 15, 2011 at 5:42 AM
- WhisperingWriter said...
Love it. Congrats!!
- March 15, 2011 at 6:59 AM
- C.M. Villani said...
It is! Its fabulous, and gorgeous and just plain lovely. And I can't wait for it to hit the book stores, Sam. :D
- March 15, 2011 at 7:04 AM
- Kara said...
I love it! And I am so excited for you! I can't wait to read it, share it with my friends, and say, "I know her, she's my blogging friend."
- March 15, 2011 at 7:06 AM
- Danielle said...
Your cover is beautiful, Sam! I love the description of your book too, and I especially love that they go to Paris! I can't wait to buy it when it comes out! Congrats!
- March 15, 2011 at 7:44 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Whispering Writer - Thank you so much! :D
Christina - Thank you, my friend. :D
Kara - Aww...thanks! I'm so glad our blogging paths crossed :D
Danielle - Thank you! There was no way that I was going to leave out our fave city from the tour. :D
- March 15, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- Joy Page Manuel said...
I'm excited!! The book cover is 'poetic', so delicate...love it! Oh and I love the color too! :-))
- March 15, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Thanks, Joy! I'm glad you liked the color! The designer tried other colors, but in the end the green design was the one that best captured the feel of the story. :D
- March 15, 2011 at 9:40 AM
- (Florida) Girl said...
Super cool. You are such an inspiration.
- March 16, 2011 at 4:09 AM
- Connie said...
It is absolutely lovely! Even my kids gathered around to watch it. I'm salivating to read the book. :)
- March 16, 2011 at 5:05 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Florida Girl - Thrilled you like it! Thank you so much!!!! :D
Connie - That's sooo cool! I hope they liked it. My kiddos like to watch it too (which ultimately leads to pleading about going to Europe for summer break) LOL Thank you!!! :D
- March 16, 2011 at 5:32 AM
Loved the YouTube Vitrual tour - the snippets of your book, the music, the photograhpy all go together beautifully. My husband has a similar reaction when I become frustrated with whatever it is I'm trying to do at the moment! (smile) Much success with your book!
- March 16, 2011 at 11:08 PM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Thanks, WynnieBee! So glad you liked it! (And yay for well "trained" husbands ;-) )
- March 17, 2011 at 6:35 AM
Love the cover! Love the virtual tour! LOOOOOVE EVERYTHING!!!
Cupid and I were at Fully Booked last weekend, and we said that we would soon see Before Ever After right smack in the middle of the Best Seller wall/ section...we are THAT excited, and happy for you...not to mention, PROUD! Oh, you cannot imagine how much!
- March 17, 2011 at 6:51 PM
Oops...before I forget...and I know that this is nothing compared to everything that you have accomplished...but I want to let you know that I have (also) awarded you with the ONE LOVELY BLOG AWARD! Yay!
Here's the link:
You truly deserve another one of these....and EVEN MORE, really!
It's just my little way of showing and letting you know, that I appreciate you, your blog, your support, and your friendship.
More power to you!!!!
p.s. I sent a comment earlier. But Blogger said that something went wrong and that my comment could not be sent. Weird huh?! So, I decided to just compose another one. Just couldn't pass up the chance to congratulate you! :)
- March 17, 2011 at 6:52 PM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Oh, WOW, Mia! Thanks for the award and all your support!!! I'm truly flattered and touched!!! I'm relieved/excited/thrilled you like the cover and video! :D
- March 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM
- Julie Flanders said...
This is so wonderful, Samantha! The cover is beautiful, and fits so perfectly. I loved the "tour," and can't wait to read the book! :)
- March 18, 2011 at 4:06 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Thank you so much, Julie!!! :D
- March 18, 2011 at 7:12 AM
- Jennifer Walkup said...
Love it!!!!!
- March 18, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- Samantha Sotto-Yambao said...
Thanks, Jennifer!!! :D
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Per Mertesacker maintains Arsenal are confident they can break into the top four despite the disappointment of failing to secure all three points against Wolves.
The Gunners missed the opportunity to leapfrog Chelsea when they were frustrated by an inspired performance from visiting goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey and a battling display from Mick McCarthy's men, who survived the second-half sending off of midfielder Nenad Milijas to earn a 1-1 draw.
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In this comic it is mentioned:
At least, "normal" in some sense; it would be a black hole as massive as the observable universe.
How does he arrive at this conclusion?
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VERGENNES — Vergennes voters will pick a new mayor in March, as Mayor Michael Daniels made good on his pledge made early in 2012 not to seek re-election for a fourth term.
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A nice basic muffin made with oatmeal, apples and apple pie spices.
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Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 25 min | Yield: About 12 muffins
- 1-1/2 cups of all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup of quick cooking oatmeal
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 cup of unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- 1/2 cup of light brown sugar, packed
- 1 large egg
- 3/4 cup milk
- 2 cups of peeled, cored and chopped apple
- 1/2 cup raisins, optional
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Butter a 12-cup muffin pan or spray with non-stick cooking spray; set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, oatmeal, baking soda and baking powder, salt, and spices until well mixed. Set aside.
In a separate bowl, cream the butter, add the brown sugar and blend together. Beat in the egg first and then the milk. Add the apples and raisins, if using, to the dry mix and mix in. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir gently to combine. Spoon batter evenly between the muffin cups and bake at 375 degrees F for 20 to 25 minutes or until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the center of comes out clean.
Cool in pan for 5 minutes and transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
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Twice a year the scrapbook industry reveals it's latest and greatest. CHA is not only a huge event for buyers and manufacturers, but those of us watching from home get to see all kinds of peeks into what is coming to stores in the near future. Seeing all of the sparkly new scrapbook supplies through blogs and twitter, not to mention video tours of booths from the show floor, can be overwhelming – both visually and to my budget! How is a crafter on a budget to choose without having to take a loan? Today I have some tips and tricks that I utilize, and that I hope you'll find useful.
By taking some time to look around and see what is coming, and what is available, from various manufacturers and educating yourself on what your choices are, it becomes easier to resist impulse spending. Knowledge is power – and often by looking around you'll find lines that complement each other, or are very similar, and products that truly are your "must have" items.
Here are my six rules for scrapbook supply shopping on a budget:
Rule #1: Be picky. Perhaps this sounds too simple – but when you find yourself in love with a particular line of products, it's often the impulse to buy one of each. Instead, stop and pick no more than 2- 3 items from that given brand or line. Pick your absolute favorites that will be most useful rather than binging on any one brand or line.
Rule #2: Watch for the great bargains. The above sticker sheets from Tim Holtz and The Girls' Paperie have an MSRP of $4.99 for seven sheets of stickers. Not only that – but the sticker designs showcase many of the best design elements from the lines so that you get a lot of value (not to mention a 'sample' of the entire lines) for a great price.
Rule #3: Beware of patterned paper. While seemingly inexpensive, sheets of patterned paper can add up quickly. Often new papers, while lovely, can be substituted out with older versions of similar designs. This especially goes for ledger, stripes, dots, gingham, and other classic designs. Choose carefully, and keep your existing stash and your personal creative habits in mind.
Rule #4: Invest in classics. Cardstock is a great example, or ink pads, or useful stamps or basic punches. When a product comes out that is clearly going to last a long time and be a timeless classic in your stash – it's worth spending money on.
Rule #5: Keep an eye out for new designs that will blend nicely with your existing stash. Studio Calico (pictured above) has some items this release that I know already will work well with other brands and lines I want to work with. When choosing items, I try to be aware of what I already have, and what will complement (vs repeat) what I already have on-hand.
Rule #6: Beware of repeats! There were several lines at this CHA that reminded me a lot of lines from a few years ago. Before you invest in new stuff, check out your own stash to make sure you're not causing history to repeat itself.
By putting thought into your purchases, and carefully selecting the few items that you love the most, you can infuse the latest and greatest into your craft projects while using up what you already have in your existing stash of supplies.
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INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — A body discovered near the Sand Harbor boat ramp Friday morning has been identified, officials said.
Incline Village resident Carl Strickland, 40, was spotted by a paddleboarding class under water near the docks, according to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office.
The class instructor described him as white male tangled in some ropes affixed to a boat.
Sheriff deputies responded to the scene at about 10:50 a.m., with Strickland pronounced dead by emergency medical responders. The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District also responded.
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Sheriff's office detectives investigating the death have found evidence that indicates Strickland had been working on the boat and appears to have entered the water on his own volition.
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UNEP's GEO-5 To Address Global Environmental Challenges and Solutions
This year has seen the world struggle with a range of environmental and humanitarian challenges, including floods in Pakistan, landslides in China, wildfires in Russia and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. How to respond to these kinds of disasters - many of which transcend national boundaries - is the focus of the Environmental Outlook-5 (GEO-5), the flagship publication of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
GEO-5, which is due to come out in 2012 with the recommendations of the world's leading scientists, environmental experts and key policymakers, will highlight how countries can respond on a policy level, giving key recommendations in line with global environmental trends.
Earlier this month UNEP concluded a series of regional consultations in Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, West Asia, Latin America and Europe. The outcomes of these consultations show consistent themes and concerns across the regions on the need for environmental governance, sustainable water-use plans and the need to protect biodiversity and support renewable energy.
Consultations in the Asia and Pacific region identified some effective policies for addressing environmental issues, including policies in watershed management; financial mechanisms, such as cap-and-trade systems, and crop insurance schemes in the agricultural sector. These discussions highlighted the importance of aligning developmental and environmental goals, noting that improved food security and sustainable development is crucial for preventing environmental degradation.
North America's regional consultations saw policy-makers identifying sustainable development and poverty eradication as top priorities with the goal of advancing the concept of a Green Economy that will support new technologies as well as introduce new jobs.
In Latin America and Africa, which have been experiencing drought, desertification and floods as a result of climate change, the consultations emphasized the need to minimize these effects (specifically natural disasters) as a key priority and called for the need for more conservation and sustainable use of coastal and marine ecosystems.
In Europe, air pollution and air quality emerged as top priorities, seeking solutions for successful policies which facilitate integration between air pollution and climate change policies. GEO-5 will also address chemical and waste management issues in Europe, issues of responsibility outside its borders, water contamination among others.
The last edition, the GEO-4 published in 2007, and entitled Our Common Future, focused on unresolved threats to the planet such as climate change and the rate of extinction of species. However, the upcoming report will differ significantly in that it will shift from assessing priority 'problems' towards assessing priority 'solutions'.
Ultimately, the GEO-5 consultations spotlighted environmental themes that will be used to identify tangible, region-specific action plans that can inform progressive and sustainable environmental governance and responsible decision-making from the policy level to the individual level.
How African countries can effectively combat desertification, given that it has been singled out as a regional concern, or how to solve issues surrounding the efficient use of fresh water resources, are just one of the many questions that will be answered in the GEO-5 in an attempt to bridge the gap between science and policy, and ensure that credible science informs environmental decision-making.
The next stage in the GEO-5 process will see a selection of world experts assess policy options that could help regions speed up the realization of these goals. UNEP has also selected chapter authors based on nominations received from governments and other stakeholder groups.
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Vocalist, singer/songwriter, and guitarist Syd Straw first made a name for herself as part of the Golden Palominos, a band led by Anton Fier that enjoyed a cult following in the 1980s. Her Capricorn Records debut, War and Peace, was released in 1996, and since then, her unique blend of folk-rock and blues-rock has found a home with Triple A (adult album alternative) radio stations and their audiences around the country. Straw released Surprise in 1990 to good reviews. That recording chronicled Straw's emergence as a songwriter; she had thought of herself primarily as a song interpreter before that. On Surprise, Straw was joined by Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), John Doe (X), Ry Cooder, Daniel Lanois, Don Was, Richard Thompson, and Marshall Crenshaw.
Straw was raised in Los Angeles, the daughter of Hollywood film and TV actor Jack Straw, best-known for his starring role in The Pajama Game. She was drawn to the life of a performer, and after high school, she headed straight for Manhattan, arriving in New York in 1978. Shortly after that, she landed her first job singing harmonies for Pat Benatar, and later joined the Golden Palominos' ever-changing lineup, which also included Michael Stipe and Matthew Sweet. Straw can be heard on the Palominos' Visions of Excess and Blast of Silence albums. She also toured the U.S. and Europe with the band, performing at the Montreaux Jazz Festival one year.
In the midst of promoting and touring for War and Peace, Straw has kept up her profile as a scenemaker, sitting in at clubs and lending her gifted musical sensibilities to records by Vic Chesnutt, Wilco, Rickie Lee Jones, David Sanborn, and Evan Dando. A version of her song "Howl'' served as the title cut for a film by Eric Stoltz, Sleep with Me. Straw was the first female singer signed by Capricorn, a roots rock and blues label based in Nashville. On War and Peace, she's accompanied by a gifted bar band from Missouri, Lou Whitney & the Skeletons, and she recorded the album without a lot of extras at their studio off Route 66 in Springfield, MO. On the album, Straw addresses themes ranging from love and the lack of it on a track by the same name, "Love and the Lack of It,'' as well as loneliness, as on "All Things Change.''
Straw is an enormously gifted vocalist and songwriter who has her own distinct musical vision, as evidenced on her self-produced War and Peace. That vision is a rootsy one, with lots of country and blues influences. The 14 originals on the record prove it. Although she didn't set out to, she also plays rhythm guitar on many of the tracks on the album. Straw says with the biography accompanying War and Peace that she doesn't see the album as a "comeback'' at all, "because things have been constantly busy and changing for me since Surprise came out. But I really threw myself into the new record in a way that I haven't been inspired to do for a long time.'' Great records and a wider following are in the offing for this unique, multi-genre vocalist and songwriter. She released her third album, Pink Velour, in 2008. ~ Richard Skelly
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I tried to play a bit with sdl2 on Windows.
I tried sbcl 64 bit, ccl 32 and 64 bit, but with no success.
Steps to reproduce:
-) Store the correct dll (32 bit or 64bit from SDL2 project) inside your path.
-) then:
(ql:quickload :sdl2)
(ql:quickload :cl-opengl)
(asdf:load-system :sdl2/examples)
A window should open, as in Linux, but nothing happens, no error message, nothing. It wont open a window nor gives control back to the repl. You need to crash the lisp enironment to stop it.
On Linux it was no problem at all, and glfw3 works on windows like a charm, so I assume that my setup understands opengl.
But I would like to use audio too, so glfw3 is not an option unfortunately.
Has anyone of you a working Installation with sdl2 on windows and can give me hints how it could work?
If not: is there a companion audio library to glfw3 I could try? I need to play music in the background and parallel to it some sound effects.
And why has everything that has something to do with programming must always be a pain if you want to use it cross platform? But thats another question...


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Set an Exercise Goal & Make a Plan
If you're ready to start getting active, it's time to set goals and make a plan.
Remember to start small if you haven't been active in a while; you don't want to overwhelm or hurt yourself.
Set a Goal
When you think of a physical activity goal, make sure you consider three points:
- What activity will you do and for how long? Be specific.
- How often/when will you do this?
- Is your goal realistic? Don't try to change too much at once!
Here is an example of a goal that includes the three points above:
Four days each week I will take a 10-minute brisk walk during the lunch hour (since I don't really need the whole hour to eat).
Notice that the activity goal is not "I'll walk more" or "I'll be healthier". Those goals are not specific enough.
Put It in Writing
Writing goals down can help. Put them in a place where you will see them often—on the refrigerator, your bathroom mirror, or in your purse or wallet.
In addition to setting goals, plan ahead to set yourself up for success.
Make sure you answer the questions below so you have a full plan and back-up plan when it comes to your new routine.
Where am I now?
Example: I am mostly sedentary. The most exercise I get is housework or yard work once a week.
My Goal(s) Are:
Example: Four days each week I will take a 15-minute brisk walk during the lunch hour since I don't really need the whole hour to eat.
Here's what I need to get ready:
Example: I need to bring my walking shoes and socks to work so I'll have something comfortable to walk in.
This might come up, and get in the way of my plan:
Example: I might have a meeting during my lunch hour.
If that happens, I'll do this instead:
Example: I'll take a walk after dinner with my spouse or a friend.
Here's when I'll start working toward my goal:
Example: I'll start next Monday.
Here's when and how I'll reward myself. (Try to stay away from rewards that involve food.):
Example: I'll go to the movies if I stick to my plan for the next month.
Once you've reached your first goal(s), remember to set another one:
Example: I will increase the time I walk at lunch to 20 minutes each day and I'll add a 20-minute walk to my routine on the weekends.
How Did You Do?
As time goes on, make sure you revisit your goals and evaluate how you are doing.
- Did you succeed?
- Did you set your sights too high?
- Did something happen in your life to keep you from being successful?
If you weren't successful, don't give up!
Revise your goals to make them more realistic and try again.