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Every Monday, we're posting our weekly targets, aiming to achieve them by the end of play on Friday.
This week, Sue and Laura posted their aims. How did they do?
Sue aimed to:
- To write three chapters.
- To successfully negotiate the first week back at school by remembering all the after-school clubs that are starting back up and packing the appropriate equipment/kit for not only the right club but the right child.
- Get up extra early on Monday to wish DS a happy birthday, before we all go our separate ways for the day.
- Be at my desk ready to write from 09:00 Mon-Thurs.
- Write 5000 words by Friday evening.
- Plan talk for the Weymouth Leviathan and Maritime Festival.
- Have earlier nights to allow for reading time.
Laura: I managed Monday's targets and DS had a lovely day. I've also been ready to start work at 09:00, so I'm pleased with that.
I've not advanced the wip or planned my Weymouth Leviathan talk, but I did have news of a talk for the Weymouth Civic Society, which is happening on the 18th January, so this took priority. This week consisted of me trying to create a slide show for this talk, but my PC and laptop refused to cooperate. I am currently tapping this out on my phone … Thankfully, my husband is an IT engineer, so my PC and laptop are now being sorted. I will continue to aim for earlier nights …
Sue: I seem to have successfully negotiated the return to school challenge, so that's good.
I ended up having a particularly busy week with lots of family commitments which took me away from the desk for as much time as I spent behind it. However, I did manage to write one and a half chapters of my novella, clocking up over 1700 words on Wednesday.
Thursday I began to seriously think about the edits for my next full length novel. These edits actually came in before Christmas but I've only just looked at them properly. There's a fair amount of work to be done but generally, I do enjoy the editing process. So, not a bad week, all thing considered.
How did you all get on?


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The Casual Read-a-thon is created by BookAMeggle .and hosted by @KayteSays and @Lizameggle.
The read-a-thon was from December 27th through January 2nd. (More days were added so that it would be a full week instead of just 5 days. )
You can see my announcement and projected TBR here.
I ended up not even reading much until the last 2 days due to just not having time/being sick.
Because I was sick I didn't even end up completing any of the challenges or any of the books I had put on my TBR when I made the announcement about the Read-a-thon.
Grave Intent by Alexander Hartung ★ ★ ★ ★
Frostfire by Amanda Hocking ★ ★ ★ .75
I really enjoyed reading both of these books and absolutely flew through them.
I can't wait to read the next book by both of these authors, which I am sure will be awhile for Alexander Hartung because I need to forget certain things that happened so I can read the first book in the series.
For Amanda Hocking series I have the next one on hold from the Library and I am only two away from getting it so it shouldn't be to long and I can't wait to find out what happens next and if they are able to figure out who exactly is behind it all and how they are going to stop it.
I believe the dates for the next casual read-a-thons will be announced later this month.
If you took part in this one how did you do? Were you able to complete any of the challenges?

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To understand this flaw deeply, let's go through its work functions. Computer programs that need to share data may be operating in a virtual tower of confusion, as they are written in different programming languages to run on completely different computer systems that represent data differently in memory.
Serialization is a program which helps in the programs understands each other. Here the program collects and writes out all the actual data it wants to transfer in a standardized format, rather than just providing references to it that could be misinterpreted, such as memory addresses or file handles.
Last year, two researchers, discovered that a security hole exists when the data packets are deserialized-in other words, "Unflattened" so as to use the data within.
One of those bugs was discovered in cash-wrangling app of PayPal business website. The said serious flaw was lying in the PayPal Manager and has the potential to execute arbitrary commands on Manager.PayPal.com web servers. This could help hackers establish a connection to their own servers. If this happens, then the hackers could plant malicious codes on the databases and could also divert the transactions from the databases handling transactions to any server in the world.
Though, the bug presence has been informed to the PayPal authorities 10 months ago, they did not respond or tried to nullify it. They indirectly disclosed that the flaw was hard and almost impossible to break. Also they added that due to lack of media attention, their engineering team couldn't focus on it.
But now, security researchers like Michael Stepanin and Mark Litchfield have confirmed that if they could hack the web servers of PayPal through this vulnerability, then any other hacking group in the world could also exploit this flaw.
What if the data exploited through this vulnerability falls into wrong hands?
Hope, someone from PayPal is listening to it!


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When I was thinking about what today's Obsessive Thursday theme should be, I decided to look through my recent Etsy favorites to see what I've been loving. Well.... about 98% of it is nautical. Voila! We have a theme! OK, I realize that everyone and their mom is into the whole nautical trend right now, but.... I liked nautical wayyyy before it became 'in-fashion'!! Actually, I've always been sort of obsessed with all things involving the ocean. Case in point here, here, here, and here. And there's plenty more, I'm sure, if you just use some key phrases in the search bar.
Anyway, all of that is neither here nor there! The point is, nautical = awesome.
Mollusk Sea print from Sarah Ogren
Grey Ships Tote from Aunt June
So, I want all of the above, OK? OK. Thanks! :)
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So, of late, I've been plugging away on a new collection of short stories that will be released as an ebook in pretty short order, that is to say within the next couple weeks. To that end, here is a draft of my introduction that will appear in the new effort.
In it, I wanted to again emphasize my enthusiasm for the new framework in publishing that allows people like me to even be able to do this sort of thing, absent any support of the currently-flailing old publishing infrastructure. That's why I'm publishing it here early, it fits in with a common theme of mine, that the new connected world we live in has spurred a great capacity for individual efforts that no longer require yesterday's institutions to validate our work.
Ain't technology grand? I find it more and more amazing, every day, the possibilities we now possess as writers. Even a decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for someone not independently wealthy to publish a book outside of the established publisher framework and have it seen anywhere except small local enclaves and their own bookshelves. It wasn't called the vanity press for nothing. And in that name was the unfair implication that your book didn't deserve to be printed. The lockdown by the industry at large was so strong and all encompassing that they had gone beyond simply printing and marketing books into the realm of arbiters of our culture. After all, if a publisher didn't decree that your literary efforts were worthy, you were basically out of luck. This framework, while productive for publishers, who controlled the expensive printing apparatus and dominated the retail markets with favorable contracts with the then-increasing big-box book store chains and book-of-the-month club type offerings, was extremely limiting for the actual creators.
To be certain, there were the gilded few who navigated these sheltered waters successfully, but how much quality work, how many entertaining, thought-provoking creative efforts died an unseen death because of a publisher's arbitrary declarations of unprofitability? That was, to me, always the fatal flaw in the old system. How could publishers be simultaneously gatekeepers for cultural relevance and necessarily profit seeking? These are, sometimes, common ends, but far more frequently, they can be mutually exclusive. Profit isn't always the first thing on a writer's mind when they have something to say. Often, it doesn't cross their minds at all. And that's how it should be.
Writing is itself, at times, an act of creative destruction. By that, I mean that the best writing causes the reader to question things–themselves, their beliefs and the institutions that uphold them. Where's the profit to be found in work that criticizes some of the very institutions you must depend on to get that work in print in the first place? There is intellectual "profit", as in new thoughts, new ideas, an expanded mind and point of view. And then there is cash profit, made so by obtuse concepts of wide-scale marketability and mass-market acceptance that, in some cases, by very definition must be somewhat homogenized. After all, too much controversy can and will hurt the bottom line. Just ask any athlete or entertainer who has expressed a controversial opinion, however well considered, and then lost product endorsements. As if a football player's opinion on Osama Bin Laden has any bearing whatever on whether we, as consumers, should trust his judgment in workout attire choices.
Yet that is the way of controlling market forces that depend on mass appeal with the least possible controversy for profit's sake alone. The farther we get away from that kind of world, as creators, the better we will be for it. Certainly, selling tee shirts and selling literature are vastly different exercises. Profit motives for ideas can be somewhat self-defeating. But the expense previously involved in bringing books to market necessitated that profit be the key element. Not any longer.
That's not to say that we don't want to make money. Many of us unquestionably do. It's just that the necessity to make large profits has been removed from the equation. A book can now be written, published, marketed, sold to virtually anyone on the planet, read on any number of devices and the upfront costs to the author for doing so are virtually nil. And, whatever the old and antiquated publishing network tells you, it works.
This book is my second collection of short stories. In effect, it's actually a prequel to my first as most of the work contained herein pre-dates the work in my original collection, Bad Timing, published last year. Admittedly, my previous effort, which is available both as a print edition and an ebook, was far from a best seller. But that doesn't mean it was a non-seller. I've sold hundreds of copies to this point, totaling a couple thousand dollars or so, and I continue to get quarterly checks from Amazon and others outlets even though I've done very, very little marketing, no advertising and the book itself has been out well over a year. It's not a fortune by any means, but it has more than compensated me for my efforts, and it's infinitely more than I would have received from the traditional publishing world who would never have published it in the first place.
Before we decry the end of publishing and writing as a profession, as some have done, let's consider that I, on a laptop in my living room, wrote, produced, distributed and sold a very appreciable number of copies of a book that would not have been possible before. I added a not-insignificant amount of money to my yearly income in the process, money that didn't come through the old way of doing things, but wholly by circumventing that route. It won't pay all my bills, but it certainly paid some, and far more than it would have as a rejected manuscript collecting dust in my bottom desk drawer. So I repeat, ain't technology grand?
As I said, much of the material here is older. Some of the tales are my very earliest attempts at short stories. They show a lot of the influences that drove me, and the kinds of concepts and ideas that have always interested me. Exploring the darker side of things has always fascinated me, and while some of the works contained here are somewhat lighter than the general theme of my previous collection, they still come from a place that illustrates how the darker side of humanity can be far more fascinating. Everyone wants to find the happy ending in their own lives but, as I've learned too well over the years, there are far more bad results in life than good, and it is only through knowing the bad and getting past our inherent fear of all things dark that we can truly appreciate the light when it does shine down upon us.
So, thank you for coming back. I hope you enjoy this book and find something within that you can carry away. Lessons about how to handle life's difficulties can sometimes be hard earned. But the one I've learned well over the past few years, one illustrated by the very fact that you're reading this right now, is that however impossible it may seem to find your way in the world, however daunting it may seem when faced with long-standing institutions blocking your path, there is always a way around those roadblocks. Don't be afraid of the dark; revel in it instead. I know I do.
Keep watching this space. My new book will be unveiled very shortly.


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Washington: Shares of social networking giant Facebook hit a new low after another investment firm cut the social media company's target price, and the firm's co-founder sold his shares.
BMO Capital Markets cut Facebook's price target to 15 dollars, down from 25 dollars, saying that the "investor views of the company are lower."
Facebook's stock dropped 5.39 percent to 18.06 dollars on Friday, less than half of its offer price of 38 dollars during its May IPO, ABC News reports.
According to the latest filing made by Facebook co-founder and Mark Zuckerberg``s former Harvard roommate Dustin Moskovitz, he has sold over 1.35 million shares for proceeds of 26.2 million dollars, at a stock price of 18.79 to 20.08 dollars, which have affected the social site's share price in the stock market.
Earlier, Moskovitz had sold over 450,000 Facebook shares, earning himself a total of 8.7 million dollars.
Both Facebook and Moskovitz remained unavailable for comment.


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SharePoint 2010 is the latest iteration of the web application platform developed by Microsoft. SharePoint Server 2010 lets you implement SharePoint-based solutions via the Internet.
SharePoint Server 2010 significantly overhauls the previous iteration, SharePoint Server 2007. It's designed to make designing and implementing web-based applications almost as easy as producing a Word document. It retains some features introduced in the 07 version, such as the ribbon interface which is now a familiar signature element of Microsoft's products, but has made some important changes.
One major change is a move away from conventional programming and towards a more intuitive way of constructing web pages. You no longer have to wrestle with CSS to create user-friendly web pages and applications.
The new version has upgraded community features such as user profiles, tagging and rating. Support for content management including blogs and wikis is also improved. Two search engines are available to help find what you need amid all this potential new data -- an improved standard search engine and the optional FAST engine. SharePoint Server 2010 comes in a variety of different flavours, so any organisation should be able to find a variation that fits its needs.
The software doesn't support IE6. Of more concern is the fact that it's 64 bit only, so you may need to upgrade your servers. The generous 180-day trial period should let you iron out any kinks, however.
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Cons: No 32-bit version.
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While most students like to post their actual work from the quarter, I always end up showing showing the resulting disaster that is left behind. So, to keep up with tradition, here's what what it all looked like after 4 critiques and a quarter of hell.
At first, in the living room, not so bad…just some light trimming to get things mounted.
Then we move to my studio…ah,where the real action took place. Still not as bad as 4th quarter, but then again I didn't tackle any huge paper mache projects this time around…


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So it looks like I might be getting back into actually writing on my blog and not just posting photos. I have mostly been just putting photos on my smugmug page anyway. And I have been micro-blogging on facebook for the most part.
So I am going to take this moment to talk about this past year, right now, and the coming year...for all those who have an interest in my ramblings...and in my life...but mostly for myself.
In 2009 My job has not changed much...I continue to love what I do and where I work. The commute is wearing a little thin, but it's still worth it for now. This year I feel like I have tried to invest in my friendships and that has proven to be very fulfilling. I really have amazing friends and I am very lucky. Last but not least this was the year Wes proposed. I could not have found a more excellent life partner- and one I happen to be totally crazy about to boot. This past year Wes and I have been working on understanding each other better and we also have finally decided to not continue to have roommates so we can co-habitate like an engaged couple :) As I write this I wonder if I tell him enough how much I adore him and appreciate him. I am pretty sure I do, but just in case I think I will tell him again.
Right now I feel hopeful. Even though money is tight and weather is dull and somehow this year I have allowed myself to fall into some pretty bad food habits...I am still very hopeful. Hopeful because I know the days will get longer, the rain will end, the economy will pick up, my wedding will get planned and I might even adopt some healthier habits.
So...2010 is going to be a BIG year. I sense some pregnancies in my social/family circles might come this year...and of course a couple of weddings...and I have made one resolution...thats right just one...its a familiar one....although this time instead of simply saying i am going to make healthier choices or exercise more...I resolve to loose weight. period. I know the formula...smaller meals, dont let myself get so hungry, plan things out, keep healthy choices around myself, attend weight watchers meetings, read blogs about people who are motivators, substitute fried or fatty things for baked or fiberous things..etc, etc, etc.
I think I am going to take my new iPod (thanks again gang!) and keep the pedometer going on my pocket and load it up with fun tunes to run, skip, walk, and dance to and just move more...eat better, move more and loose weight!...starting Friday (of course).
Thanks for reading...feel free to comment if you have something positive to say...or just nod and grin. Either way I am sure you are with me on this.
December 28, 2009
2010 Baby
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Here's to a healthy and happy 2010!!
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One of the best movies about making movies, and shot for almost no money, Actress Apocalypse is a breath of fresh air in the stagnant pool that is the horror/comedy. It deals with a director named David B. Lincoln III, who is out to make his masterpiece. Sadly his masterpiece is a piece of shit movie called Clearwater Canyon about a fat killer Indian. He has delusions of grandeur, believes his script is better than what it really is and of course, nobody shows up to the auditions. Brother, as a indie filmmaker myself, I've been there and I can relate. So his insane brother Vance Lincoln and boom guy The Golden Terror start killing off the actresses they hire. I'd think they're evil, but at least they let us see them naked first. As I said, this movie is not to be missed. Ever since I saw it, I've been somewhat obsessed by it. The acting is hilarious and strangely believable considering how insane it all is, and the women are ridiculously attractive. I mean, these don't look like your typical "friends who come over and let's make a movie" kind of girls, they're smokin', particularly the last one, Lily Walker. What a body! The soundtrack is also damn awesome, done by Space Probe Taurus. In the end, a great film, and I look forward to Mr. Anasky's future work.
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oh man. oh man.
a few weeks behind.
{still promise to provided Jamaica pictures}
but first time for
catch up.
today, Saturday, January 11th this pregnancy is 19 weeks in!
oh man.
weeks 17 & 18 were spent in
CO & Jamaica
hence the horrific photo
…please forgive…
courteous oh the Kaiser's wall
week 18 I had grandiose plans of doing
"the chalkboard"
Monday when we got back.
enter picture from our Saturday in Jamaica
BD made the weekly photo <3
…and today…
I introduce you to
"baby bump"
4 days till we find out if baby M is a
boy –or- girl
just for those you might care
I've been feeling fine.
this morning I welcomed being pregnant 19 weeks
with a 5 mile run!
PDR for baby M.
{& momma since week 10}
the countdown is on.
January 15th
he or she?


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Last Chance to Buy Yu-Gi-Oh! Transcend Game in VIZ's Digital Weekly Shonen JumpMarch 19, 2017 at 7:00 am | Posted in Duel Monsters, The Dark Side of Dimensions, Yu-Gi-Oh! | 2 Comments
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If you've been holding off on buying Kazuki Takahashi's Yu-Gi-Oh! Transcend Game manga, don't wait any longer. The sales period for the Weekly Shonen Jump issues that ran that story is about to end. VIZ Media's WSJ back issues are only available for purchase for about three months. Since one-shot stories like Transcend Game don't normally get reprinted outside the magazine where they initially ran, this is likely your final chance to own the issues.
The WSJ issues containing Transcend Game will no longer be available for sale after 1 pm ET/10 am PT on the following dates:
Yu-Gi-Oh! Transcend Game, Part 1: Monday, March 20. Buy it now on VIZ.com, Amazon, comiXology, and Google Play Books for $0.99.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Transcend Game, Part 2: Monday, April 3. Buy it now on VIZ.com, Amazon, comiXology, and Google Play Books for $0.99.
If you live in the United States, you can also find Transcend Game, Part 1, printed in VIZ's Spring 2017 Jump Pack, a WSJ magazine currently on sale at Scholastic book fairs.
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Doomsday prophet: End of the world is on schedule
It had been a few months since I dropped in on Harold Camping, the Oakland minister who believes the world will end May 21.
I was happy to see that Camping, a more frail 89 years than I had remembered, had at least maintained his apocalyptic sense of humor.
"I thought you were dead!" he said as we sat down in his office.
"Only a few more months," I responded.
Camping wagged a finger at me. "One hundred twenty one days."
Since our last visit, Camping's lights-out prediction had gone global -- much to his enjoyment. As the final date approaches, he's been swamped with media requests. He wedged our meeting among interviews with the Times of London, a score of bloggers, television producers and a Philadelphia morning zoo radio show.
"My life is not my own these days," he said. "I have no time for fun or pleasure. It's all about the interviews."
It was a good time to talk Armageddon. In the past few weeks, flocks of birds had fallen from the skies, persuading those unconvinced by the laws of science that it was, in fact, a sign of The End of Times.
"I didn't read anything in the Bible that talks of birds dying off as a sign," Camping said. "That's mankind doing the talking, not the Bible."
Director George Lucas had also reportedly given his blessing to the notion that the Mayan calendar's 2012 doomsday prediction was on target.
Camping offered what sounded like a practiced sound bite to respond to the Lucas report. "Phooey," he said. "Like a lot of people, he grabs at 2012 because he needs something to believe in. But it's all speculation."
What remains unquestioned, in Camping's mind, is that the world will come to an end in a matter of weeks. Each time I've met with him I've asked him if this makes him sad. Or angry. Or anything else but delighted.
"I gotta admit," he said, "that I do find myself thinking more and more about how short the time is. And how it goes by so quick. It's as if the mind is not capable of comprehending this."
Outside his office, Camping's employees were busy hand-washing a new fleet of RVs emblazoned with Bible verse and the proclamation, "May 21, 2011: Judgment is Coming!"
Above the passenger side door on each RV, one of of those red anti-circles was painted over "2012." The popular 2012 myth, as Camping dismissed it, at least served as an entry point for his followers to discuss the true Armageddon with the curious.
The five-vehicle caravan was headed to Florida the following week. Along the way they'd stop in small towns and big cities to share Camping's proofs and try to save as many souls as possible.
According to Camping's reading of the Bible, only those who are saved will enter heaven May 21.
"You better start pleading with God now," Camping warned. "He doesn't save people who are egotistical."JUSTIN BERTON is a general assignment reporter at The San Francisco Chronicle. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/justinberton
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We're Overlooking A Key Part of C/C++ to D User Migration
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In the D community, we have a strong belief in D's potential as a suitable and favorable alternative to C and C++ for areas commonly served by C/C++. This isn't surprising, since that's exactly how D was originally designed and envisioned.
To help facilitate that, D has always been designed to easily interface and directly link with C code. More recently, major improvements have also been made in interfacing D with C++. Naturally, one major benefit of this is to provide D with access to the wide array of existing C/C++ libraries. But the other key idea here is to help encourage D uptake. How? By making it easier for existing C/C++ projects to include D portions without the entire project needing to be ported.
This C/C++ interoperability is a fantastic feature for D to offer, and is essential in encouraging and facilitating migration to D. Building off this, we have Deimos, to offer D projects ready-made bindings to C/C++ libraries. Other projects in code.dlang.org may offer to auto-generate D bindings or wrap existing Deimos bindings with D-centric benefits and simplifications. All of this, we hope, will make D appealing enough and entice C/C++ users to try out D in their projects - and potentially, commit more fully down the road.
But we're overlooking a key part of the picture. We're looking at something backwards:
Our whole approach to giving D inroads into the C/C++ world relies on convincing C/C++ users to actually try out writing D. Even before they do that, they must actively decide to go learn some D. We've had some success, but as many of us have learned, this can be a significant uphill battle. The status quo is strong with programmers (and understandably so).
Take our existing focus, offering C/C++ libraries to D projects: What if we flipped that around and started using D's C/C++ interoperability to offer D libraries to C/C++ projects?
Think about it: If a D library came with its own C/C++ bindings, then it may as well be a C/C++ library as far as most C/C++ users are concerned. Then just slap into a C-world-compatible makefile into the library, which auto-detects a D compiler and, if none, does an automatic project-local download/install of DMD/LDC/GDC (this could all be offered to D libraries via a single D tool up on code.dlang.org), or even just include precompiled library binaries, and done: on any platform D supports, C/C++ users can use your D library just as if it were another C/C++ library.
That gives D inroads into C/C++ projects without requiring any C/C++ user to ever have to touch one line of D. Then, later, when coders wonder how the library they use works so efficiently and reliably, and is developed so productively - they can glance into the lib, see how simple it really is compared to a C/C++ equivalent, and see how much easier still it would be to use the library from D. Nice, D has just marketed itself.
tl;dr (In my day we called that a "summary"): I propose free C/C++ bindings with every D library! The D community should strive to offer them as a standard matter of course. Tools should be created to help D library authors offer their own C/C++ bindings. This will take us much farther into the C/C++ domain than merely offering C/C++ libraries to D users will.
Material Design Makes Me Want a Windows Phone
Published 2015-09-13 10:17 by Abscissa in Software/Device Development and Design
I'm amazed that Google's actually managed to fool anyone into believing they really did design Google Metro I mean *cough* "Material Design".
Hell, I'm amazed they even choose to swipe it in the first place: The biggest visual abomination to hit computing devices since Windows 2, attached to the biggest operating system blunder since...well, since the last Microsoft operating system blunder, Vista, and some Google genius decides, "Yes, this is a great thing for us to imitate."
As if stealing Metro wasn't insane enough, they just had omit the one good thing Metro actually does have going for it: Actual...fucking...words right below all the nonsensical hieroglyphs. (Even Chinese/Japanese logographic writing occasionally has such a thing as "Ruby/Furigana". And those are for long-established symbols, not some vague squiggly metaphor pulled out of a random cubicle-dwelling technohipster's ass one afternoon.)
Seriously Google, if I wanted my phone to look like Windows Phone Unicorn-Vomit Edition, I'd get a Windows phone. At least then I could actually read all the meaningless idiotically-designed buttons.
Remember this computer "interface" from Idiocracy?
We've already shot beyond that, with hieroglyphs that make far less sense, and screwups like Google have been leading the charge.
Oh well, I shouldn't complain. At least it's not an iPhone.
Those who rely on Moore's Law...
Published 2015-06-23 12:21 by Abscissa in Software/Device Development and Design
Those who rely on Moore's Law inevitably ignore and fall prey to Wirth's Law.
(See also Jevons paradox.)
Nemerle's "when": Bad Idea, Easily Solved
Published 2015-03-15 16:28 by Abscissa in Software/Device Development and Design
It's no secret I'm a big fan of D, and very critical of most other languages. But there is another language I actually do like: Nemerle.
Some highlights of Nemerle
Like D, Nemerle is one of the few languages which truly "gets" metaprogramming and provides a decent implementation[1] (unlike, say, C# which only offers a half-baked generics system plus a dynamic type and simply leaves it at that). D and Nemerle's approaches to metaprogramming are entirely different and both have their pros and cons, but I like them both.
Another thing I love about Nemerle is its powerful, yet extremely accessible, algebraic types and pattern matching. This is actually one area where Nemerle is vastly ahead of D: While D does offer algebraics via its standard library, they're nowhere near as nice and clean as they are in Nemerle.
Nemerle (as does D) naturally has its downsides, though. For one, it lacks D's fantastic "ranges and algorithms" system. Also, like C#, Nemerle's reliance on CLR (ie, Mono/.NET) renders it medicore at best for low-level bare-metal work. And unlike Nemerle's designer's, I remain entirely unconvinced that merging the ideas of "statement" and "expression" leads to an cleaner, nicer language. I realize the common statement/expression separation isn't necessary and hasn't always existed, but I happen to like it, and I find it more useful than problematic. I don't like implicit returns, and as for the benefits of blurring the statement/expression line: Having lambdas, the ternary operator and an expression equivalent to switch blocks are all I've ever desired. The merging just seems unneccesary and overboard. But that said, I can certainly live with it just fine.
Overall, D is still my preferred language. But Nemerle is the only other language I can say I genuinely like.
Nemerle's one big blunder
For all its good, there is one big thing about Nemerle that's been bugging the hell out of me: The if statement requires an else clause. If you don't want else, you say "when", not "if".
That may seem minor, and the Nemerle designers do have a very deliberate reason for it: "to avoid stupid bugs with dangling-else". They provide the usual old dangling-else example that relies on combining bad indentation with omitting brackets on multi-line blocks.
I have a problem with that reasoning.
In language design, any feature or deviation from common expectation needs to pull its own weight. The benefits must outweigh the costs. Let's see:
Benefit: "Eliminate stupid dangling-else bugs": Mmmm hmmm. Ok. So....Who the fuck actually hits this issue?!? I've been coding for twenty-five years. As such, I firmly believe that stupid mistakes happen, to even the best of programmers, and that the true mark of an amateur is believing you can (or have) overcome that. I openly admit I've made, and will continue to make on a regular basis, every stupid freaking mistake in the book...except this one. I have never made this one. I have never even seen this one get made by anyone, anywhere. I admit, I really do have no doubt it does get made. Sure. Occasionally. On rare occasions. But heck, who the fuck ever omits the curly braces around a multi-line "if" body anyway (a requirement for this bug to occur in a whitespace-insensitive language)? If it does happen, who the fuck lets it pass code review, whether dangling-else bug or not?
Is the benefit of eliminating this rare bug worthwhile? Naturally, that depends on the cost:
Cost: Take one of the most basic, common, fundamental constructs in all of programming, modify it, rename it, and force every addition/removal of every "else" clause anywhere to always involve swapping between "if" and "when" on a different line of code.
So, a major disruption to one of the most fundamental constructs in order to eliminate a bug that's quite frankly more theoretical than real? No. No Nemerle, that is not a good tradeoff.
Luckily, Nemerle's biggest problem also demonstrates one if it's greatest strengths: This design flaw is easily changed, in mere user code alone, without hacking or modifying the language or compiler at all:
macro plainIf(cond, body) syntax("if", "(", cond, ")", body) { <[ when($cond) { $body } ]> }
That's it. That solves it. Those few lines bring back a normal "if". Just toss that into a "plainIf.n", compile to a DLL:
ncc -r Nemerle.Compiler.dll -t:dll plainIf.n -o plainIf.dll
Then toss that DLL into your project:
ncc -r plainIf.dll [...the rest of your args here...]
And magically, you can use "if"s with or without an else. Nice.
For convenience, I've put this code (along with Posix/Windows buildscripts and a small test program) up on GitHub, in a simple project named plainIf.
[1] Ok, I realize there is *ahem* a certain enthusiastic subset of programmers who will look at Nemerle's macros and bring up the ol' "Everything is LISP" idea. And y'know what? They may well be mostly right. But, if I want to drown in a torrent of barely-readable symbols, I'll just use brainfuck and get to the "shoot myself" stage that much quicker.
Unity and Unreal Compete: Indies Win!
Published 2015-03-05 22:56 by Abscissa in Software/Device Development and Design
Big news from game engine developers at GDC this past week:
First, Epic dropped the up-front cost of Unreal Engine 4 to "free for everyone", with only a 5% royalty beyond each project's first $3000 revenue (per quarter).
Then, the following day, Unity released their long-teased Unity3D 5, along with an indie bonus of their own: Nearly all previously Pro-only features are now available for free to non-Pro users (excluding the snazzy Pro-only editor skin, darn!).
Also exciting is Valve's unveiling of Source 2, also free for developers. Although, I admit I know very little about Source, so I can't really comment any further on it.
I've had an eye on both Unity3D and Unreal Engine for awhile now, I even dabble in Unity3D a bit, and I find it interesting the directions both have taken. The two engines come from opposite backgrounds: Unity3D from the indie scene, and UE from the AAA industry (Although initially, Epic itself originated from the old DOS shareware scene - arguably the original indie game scene). But lately, they've been encroaching on each other's territory. Unity has been touting one AAA-targeted feature after another. Meanwhile, Epic has reversed the "expensive, exclusive and difficult" image from their UE3 days, and drastically reduced both technical and financial barriers of entry - a move aimed, in large part, straight at indies.
The wall between indie and AAA development tools has collapsed, attacked from both sides, with Unity and Epic being two of the biggest demolitionists (among others as well). And indies are quite possibly the biggest beneficiaries.
Here's what the two engines now offer to indies:
- Anyone can get started. (Both Unity and Unreal)
- Easy to use game editing environment, with rapid prototyping and development turnarounds, and loads of useful tools. (Both Unity and Unreal)
- Engine with AAA-quality and speed. (Both Unity and Unreal)
- Target all the most popular PC, console and mobile platforms... (Both Unity and Unreal)
- ...and then some (Unity)
- Develop and release without investing one cent on tools or engine. (Both Unity and Unreal)
- Official online store for buying/selling assets. (Both Unity and Unreal)
- Ease and safety of [an older version of] C# and other CLR languages (Unity)
- Full power of native C-linkage languages (implying a potential for possibly using D!) (Unreal)
- Full, unrestricted access to the entire build system and engine source. (Unreal)
- Partial ability to develop on Linux (Unity via Wine, albeit unsupported and occasionally problematic[1]. Unreal via an in-progress community-driven Epic-sanctioned effort[2].)
Even the few differences above aren't so different after all: Unity is perfectly capable of interop with native C-linkage languages (it just requires taking extra trips manually across the managed/unmanaged barrier), and there's no reason a managed scripting system can't be used on top of Unreal Engine (you're just "on your own" with that, AFAIK).
Of course, Unity and Unreal aren't even the only options in town. There's still Source 2 as mentioned earlier, plus CryEngine, MonoGame (a resurrection of XNA), and even others.
It's a good time to be an indie: Engines compete, we win.
[1] I'll have to save my adventures using Unity3D's editor on Linux for a separate post. In brief: It gets the job done, although not spectacularly well. Certainly not well enough to obviate the need for a native Linux editor.
[2] At the moment, I have no idea what the exact state of Unreal Engine's editor is on Linux. I know it exists, my understanding is that it's usable, but I know nothing about how usable. Could be flawless, could be comparable with Unity under Wine, could be less, I don't know. But I am definitely interested.


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Scandal Recap: What in the Huck Is Going On
Last 7 days, Mike the Reptile drawn (no, basically dragged) Olivia Pope into the forest to demonstrate her that Jennifer Areas was still in existence. This 7 days, Olivia interferes with a hot punching sesh between Huck and his lovely new woman buddy, Meg, and brings Huck to some vehicle quit where Mike remaining her.
Olivia knows that her dad, Rowan, murdered Frankie Vargas, and now she wants him deceased ... again. Sigh. She's already requested Mike to destroy her dad ... and Huck to destroy her dad. Terrible, she even tried to destroy him once. However, here we go again. Olivia wants Huck to destroy Rowan. Huck doesn't believe that Rowan murdered Vargas, but Olivia is certain.
So Huck keeps a gun from his red toolbox—it must be his excellent gun—and paths Rowan onto the City system, where Rowan confesses that he taken Vargas to preserve the girl he liked, and the individuals following him created him to do it. They—a woman in an lemon cover (Sarah) and her buddy with a scar—will be browsing off that practice in Just a couple of a few moments, and they'll destroy Olivia if he doesn't do what they say.
Like clockwork, Debbie and Scarface hop off the City, and Rowan conceals until they go look for him upper level. Now that Huck is a believer, Rowan informs him that whoever is viewing Olivia is in her group.
Huck is dubious of everyone, so he insects Quinn Perkins and follows her to the residence where Mike is having Jennifer and intends to capture Quinn, but she cusses she's just assisting Mike get to the base of whatever is occurring with Rowan. Mike says that Rowan was getting together with some woman known as Sandra, but he hasn't seen her since Selection Day.
Quinn, however, is dubious of Huck's new woman buddy. She informs Huck of how he dropped for Becky a few periods ago, and then Becky taken Fitz Allow in the go and remaining Huck having the gun. Oh, yeaaah. I almost didn't keep in mind about Becky!
When Huck gets house, Meg is in his residence. He didn't keep in mind he'd given her a key, and now that Quinn has gotten in his go, Huck is providing her serious part eye. But Meg softball bats a few lashes, and it's all excellent until her cushion discuss contains a demand to fulfill Olivia ... face-to-face ... alone ... so she can get solutions about Jennifer.
So Huck requests Abby Whelan, whom we haven't seen in a while, to let him see Becky in super-security jail. At first Abby isn't fascinated, but she benefits up when Huck says, "What if I provide you with some details, like the point that Jennifer Areas is still alive?"
Huck trips Becky and wants to know how she was able to try out him so many periods ago. Becky becomes psychological, asking him to help her see her passing away sis, and Huck is instantly prepared to assist. "That's how I performed you," she says. She requests him which woman is performing all sad and broken and enjoying him now. Rattling. Remember when we used to contact someone "simps"? Now we're just contacting them "Hucks."
So Huck agents on Meg, who's consuming a food on a regular, when Debbie plops down beside her. So he phone calls Meg and requests her to come over later, and when she gets there, he keeps a big, terrifying hook filled with items don't want in you up to Meg's experience and requirements to know why she was speaking with Debbie. Meg gets all teary-eyed and cusses she'd never met Debbie before and pleads with Huck to look into her sight and see someone who likes him. Huck looks. He recognizes. He allows her go. What a Huck.
Later, Huck satisfies up with Quinn, Charlie and Olivia, and they have Sandra's deceased body system in their footwear. They tell him that Rowan murdered Sandra and is relaxing to him, but Huck informs Olivia that Rowan is different and there are individuals managing him. Olivia's done with the discussion. She advice Quinn to destroy her dad and Huck to get rid of Sandra's body system.
Before Huck comes Sandra's body system into a severe, he pieces a micro-chip out of her throat. Later he decologulates the processor, which performs the video of Debbie and Scar face harmful to destroy Sandra, Rowan eliminating Sandra, and Debbie saying that they have someone viewing Olivia who will destroy her as soon as they say the phrase. By the way, I created up the phrase "decologulate" because they created up a processor you can place in someone's throat that performs video from last week's display. If they can, I can.
Nevertheless, Olivia is incorrect (as she regularly is), so she appears at Meg's entrance with Huck and asks her to absolve him. Meg forgives him, and Huck requires her to see Jennifer, where Meg instantly launches Jennifer deceased. Aww, naw!
We cut to a field where Meg satisfies with Debbie and Abby and reviews that Jennifer is deceased. Then we display returning to the field where Meg taken Jennifer and we see Meg capture Huck 3 periods and take a position over him as he will bleed out on the ground.
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Teens Shoveling Snow For Cash Save Stranger's Life
by McKinley Corbley – Jan 10, 2017
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These four teens were just looking to shovel some driveways in exchange for pocket money – but while they were going door to door, they found something much more important.
Coby, Rebecca, Marcello, and Jerry were for shoveling snow throughout their neighborhood in LaSalle, Colorado. When they knocked on one door in particular, however, they heard shouts for help.
An old man had apparently fallen to the ground in pain a few days previously and was unable to get up.
"You could clearly see he was in pain," Zach Hill of the LaSalle Fire Department told NBC. "This gentleman had been there for, we're not sure how long, and we don't know how long he would've been there had they not knocked on the door so they had a huge part in getting him help."
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I'm lucky. I have two "stalkers" — a fiancé and an niece-in-law — who keep track of me.
What about all the "old folks" who aren't so lucky?
It would seem that good Christians would at least look out for the neighbors?
"And who is my neighbor?"
The parable of the Good Samaritan.
Funny how things just seem to come back around.
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- When doing the Mambo with an IV pole, it's always best to let it lead. Trust me, it's gonna go where it wants to go and no amount of pushing and pulling is gonna change it's course of action...no matter how firm your hold position is. It's kinda like trying to do the Samba with John Wayne if you catch my drift. The only thing you'll accomplish is ending up wrapped to the pole by the IV line like a May Pole with your gown up around your ears.
- When the urge to bust a move hits, you best not wait until the last minute to ask Mr. Pole to Quick Step you on over to the bathroom. I learned the hard way it doesn't like to sit too long on the wallflower bench and can get a might testy when one tries to hurry it along. It can and will step/roll on your toes. This was a dance move I learned the hard way and I've got the bruised big toe to prove it.
- There is no way on God's green Earth you can ever make a cocktail dress out of a hospital gown. Hot to trot? Forget it...not even the matronly Fox Trot works in that get-up. Truth is, you can be neither vixen nor lady in one. Nope...ain't gonna happen. Face it...it is what it is...dog butt ugly. That split up the back is not and will never be the same as a split up the thigh. Law...it's not there to attract the opposite sex. It's there to facilitate treatment or so they say, but I got me a hunch it's there to humble you into submission. And boy oh boy...does it ever succeed! Not even the ruffliest pair of Rumba britches can change that fact. Oh...and take it from me...putting it on backwards won't improve the view either! That'll only get you raised eyebrows from the hospital staff and your kids the need for some therapy.
- If you're thinking a pair of dancing shoes will improve the situation...think again. This year's fashion trend in hospital footwear includes a pair of hideous brown non-slip socks...hospital issued of course. Which reminds me, I haven't got the bill for 'em yet. I'm pretty sure those bad boys are gonna set me back more than a pair of Louboutin's. Heck...couldn't they at least have red leather soles instead of white vinyl lines? And lest I forget, there was the white electric leg warmers with matching knee-highs for circulation I wore each and every night. At first it was like cat-dancing on my legs, but after an hour...ummm not so much. I tried to re-imagine them as disco boots, but the first night as I was doing the Hustle to get them off for my bathroom Tango, I quickly changed their name to #%&$ PITA's.
- Lastly, but certainly not leastly...the hairstyle to complete a hospital ballroom look. Now if you're hoping for an up-do and long, dripping with crystals, earrings...Oh Mylanta...are you in for a disappointment. I'm here to tell you the only thing that'll be dripping is the IV bags...and quite possibly you from those #%&$ disco boots. I found my up-do consisted of my hair sticking straight up in the air. Maybe a classic French twist? Yeah...that was me all right, doing the twist trying to brush out the tangles with my free arm while asking the nurse to pardon my French.
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Thursday, October 13, 2016
Vick's Vultures by Scott Warren Book Spotlight
Genre: Science Fiction
In the far future, alien technology captured by the Union Earth Privateers has fueled Earth's tenuous expansion from a single planet to a handful of systems across the Orion Spur. Victoria Marin, captain of the U.E. Condor, and her crew of Vultures have been running dry for months. In danger of losing her command and her credibility if she can't locate fresh salvage, she locks onto the distress signal of an alien ship in hopes of valuable cargo. What she finds instead is First Prince Tavram, the heir apparent to one of the largest empires in known space. Tavram's ship has been crippled after narrowly escaping an ambush and his would-be assassin is coming to finish the job. The Vultures launch a high risk mission to rescue the prince and recover every last scrap of xenotech they can before the hunter catches up to his prey. But there are more dangers than notorious interstellar assassins when it comes to ferrying an alien prince across the stars, and Victoria must contend with dangerous alliances, old grudges, and even her own government if she means to bring her crew home alive. Whether she succeeds or fails, the consequences of her choices will affect the path of all humanity.
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Cultural studies
"On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."
George Mikes
When somebody visits some foreign country ,he or she wants to know everything about people who live there. They want to learn about their culture, about places of historical interest and of course about their household and national cuisine. Every country has its typical cuisine. The most popular food in Czech republic is dumplings with various sauces. The most popular food in China is rice with meat or vegetables; in Italy it is pasta also with meat or vegetables; Switzerland is famous for its delicious cheese... And what about Great Britain? You can learn it from my essay. English food has a bad reputation abroad. This is most probably because foreigners in England are often obliged to eat in more "popular" type of restaurant. Here it is necessary to prepare food rapidly in large quantities, and the taste of the food inevitably suffers; though its quality, from the point of view of nourishment, is quite satisfactory. Still, it is rather dull and not always attractively presented.
Fast food outlets are now more common in Britain than they are in most other countries. The most popular are for example: Fish and chips and the sandwich and the Cornish pasty. Fish and chips are made from white sea fish such as cod, batter-coated and fried in oil, with chipped potatoes, salt and vinegar. The sandwich and the Cornish pasty is sandwich filled with meat and vegetables baked in pastry crust. They originated as a bandy way for farm labourers to take their lunch to work. Fast food comes much cheaper, usually under 10 pounds. Apart from the numerous individually owned fish and chips shops, there are many fast food chains in Britain, such as McDonalds Burger King, Pizza Hut and KFC.
It is self-evident that you know typical Czech food, such as tomato sauce, sirloin sauce...Now I would like to show you typical British food which you probably don't know enough. Like in the Czech republic British people start their day with breakfast. In many countries breakfast is a snack rather than a meal, but the traditional English breakfast is full meal. A full English breakfast can include fried bacon and egg, mushrooms, sausage, tomatoes, freed bread and black pudding. Some people have a cereal or porridge to begin with. Yorkshire ham is also a breakfast speciality. Afterwards come toast, with butter and marmalade, and perhaps some fruit. Tea or coffee is drunk with meal. Many English people now take such a full breakfast only on Sunday morning.
The traditional English meal (lunch or dinner, lunch generally being the lighter meal) is based on plain, simply cooked food. Lunch is typically at one o'clock (any shops which close for lunch close from one to two). But it is often a bit earlier for schoolchildren and those who start work at eight o'clock. Ploughman's lunch is served in many pubs. It consists of bread, cheese (often Cheddar) and pickles garnished with salad. Ham may be substituted for cheese. Roast beef is Britain's traditional Sunday lunch. It usually comes with Yorkshire pudding (baked batter, a mixture of flour, egg, milk and salt), roast potatoes and seasonal vegetables. A rich gravy enbances the favour and horseradish sauce is a favourite relish. Cheese is often served to finish lunch and dinner. Mature Cheddar is one of the most popular regional varieties. The "king" of cheeses is Stilton, a blue-veined cheese both smooth and strong, and at its best when port is drunk with it. Among further cheeses belong: Cornish Yarg, Sage derby, Cheshire, Red licester... Dover sole is Britain's most prized flat fish. Served on the bone or filleted, it is firm fleshed and delicately flavoured. As regards fish, Dover soles are a delicacy. So are British trout and salmon. Unfortunately, they are not cheap! Strawberries and cream are the delight of early summer, associated with outdoors social occasions of all types. Later, raspberries come into season. Both fruits make excellent jam. Apple pie is a favourite sweet, and English puddings, of which there are various types, are an excellent ending to meal, especially in winter.
Most of Czech people drink tea only in the morning to some bread or in the winter (when outside is cold and they want to defrost). There is not regular time for drinking tea in Czech republic. For the British urban working class tea is the evening meal, eaten as soon as people get home from work (at around six o'clock). For other lasses afternoon tea, taken at around 4pm, is a tradition enacted daily in homes, teashops and grand hotels. The tea is usually from India or Sri Lanka, served with optional milk and sugar, but it could be scented China or herbal tea served with or without lemon. Small, delicately cut sandwiches are eaten first (fish paste and cucumber are traditional fillings). Scones jam and cream especially in the west of England may follow these. Other opinions include battered toast or crumpets, but leave room for slice of fruitcake or jam sponge or regional speciality such as Scottish shortbread.
Britain has a large food and drink manufacturing industry, which has accounted for a growing proportion of total domestic food supply in recent decades. There has been little change in alcohol consumption in recent years. Beer is the most popular drink among male drinkers. The most popular pub beer is "bitter", which is draught from the barrel, has no gas in it and is drunk at room temperature. A sweeter, darker version of bitter is "mild". These beers have a comparatively low alcohol content. Beer that has gas in it and is closer to continental varieties is known as "lager". Shandy is half beer and half fizzy lemonade. It has reputation of being very good for quenching the thirst. Consumption of table wine has grown, although there has been little change in the consumption of higher strength wines such as sherry and port. A high proportion of beer is drunk in public houses ("pubs"), traditional social centres for many people, and in clubs. The British pub is unique. This is not just because it is different in character from bars or cafés in other countries. It is also because it is different from any other public place in Britain itself. Without pubs, Britain would be a less sociable country. The pub is the only indoor place where the average person can comfortably meet others, even strangers, and get into conversation with them. People cannot be served in pubs until the age of eighteen and they are not allowed inside one until they are fourteen.
There are quite a large number of vegetarians in Britain and an even larger number who are aware of the implications for their health of what they eat. "Health food shops" are as abundant in the country's high streets as delicatessens. Medical research has shown that a diet which is low in fats, especially saturates, and rich in fruits and vegetables contributes to good health and can reduce the risk of certain serious illnesses, such as coronary heart disease and stroke. By now the British are also extremely open to the cuisine of other countries. The country's supermarket shelves are full of the spices and sauces needed for cooking dishes from all over the world.
The end will be dedicated to the comparison of British and Czech cuisine and their habits. The main difference is that Czech cuisine has more traditional and more national recipes. On the other hand England seems to be more advanced country. Some British people are trying to live healthier life (as I already mentioned) and in our country are growing fast foods chains as McDonalds (almost in every big city), Burger King, KFC (in Prague) and further. Now our republic is at the beginning of period of fast foods-at the beginning of unhealthy life and the Great Britain is about one step before. I hope that every person soon realise that health is more important than save time spend in fast food restaurant!


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This was inspired by the need of feeding my family a healthy breakfast besides the normal bread, cereals, yogurt combo. :p
Fried Spagetti
3/4 Spagetti pack
2 Cups Taugeh (Beans sprouts)
4 pieces of Fish Cake sliced thinly
1 punnet of Mushrooms (fresh - any kind you like)
1 piece of Fried Taufu (thin type) sliced thinly
2 Eggs (Omellete style for garnishing)
2 Tbsp Soya Sauce
1 Tbsp chopped Garlic
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
1 Tbsp Oyster Sauce
1. Boil water to cook the spagetti & set aside.
2. Fry the eggs into an omellete. Slice & set aside for garnishing.
3. Fry the sliced pre-fried thin type of Taufu & the sliced Fish Cake. Once brown a bit, set aside. Fry the chopped garlic with mushrooms & add Oyster Sauce.
4. Next add the Taugeh (Beans Sprouts) & stir fry for 30 seconds & add the spagetti, taufu & fish cake. Fry the spagetti until everything starts to be fragrant, then it's ready to be served.
Add soya sauce to taste. Garnish with egg.


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SOURCE: Ocean Mist Farms
February 25, 2014 20:06 ET
Chef Curtis Stone Visit, Display Contests, Artichoke Club Giveaways and Annual Festival Planned
Chef Curtis Stone Visit, Display Contests, Artichoke Club Giveaways and Annual Festival Planned
CASTROVILLE, CA--(Marketwired - February 25, 2014) - March is the beginning of peak artichoke season and Ocean Mist Farms, the largest grower of Heirloom artichokes in the country, is celebrating the company's 90th anniversary with multiple activities designed to generate awareness for fresh artichokes.
The HH Heirloom artichoke variety is a perennial plant that grows from original root stock that dates back to the start of Ocean Mist Farms in 1924. The formal classification of an Heirloom fresh fruit or vegetable is any distinct variety that grows and has been sold for more than 50 years using the same lineage.
Like a family recipe, this unique variety of artichoke grows only from the same root stock that has been passed down to each generation of Ocean Mist family farmers for more than 90 years -- never from seed. Artichokes are such a strong part of California history that last year they were named the Official State Vegetable of California.
"Ocean Mist Farms' Heirloom variety has also been the variety chefs preferred for years," said Kori Tuggle, director of marketing and business development. "Most chefs refer to this variety as the 'red label' referring to the red font color of our packages for the last several decades."
Yesterday, for example, Chef Curtis Stone of Bravo TV's Top Chef Masters visited Castroville for a field tour of the new Heirloom artichoke crop. Chef Stone brought a team from his new restaurant Maude to help prepare for the restaurant's March menu that will feature artichokes in nine courses of a fixed menu; Stone will also feature the visit on his popular blog.
Peak season of the Castroville Heirloom crop is March through May, Tuggle said, and all the Heirloom artichokes harvested in Castroville will have a red sticker to help shoppers find the Ocean Mist Farms' Heirloom variety in their local grocery stores.
Ocean Mist Farms is sending weekly "Arti Alert" emails to the 40,000 members of its Artichoke Club to help them find where they can buy Ocean Mist Heirloom Artichokes on sale specific to the region where they live. The same message will also be shared via Ocean Mist Farms' 11,600 Facebook fans and other social media channels such Twitter using the hash tag #heirloomartichoke.
The highlight of Heirloom artichoke season will be the Annual Castroville Artichoke Festival held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds on May 31 and June 1, in Monterey, Calif., where Ocean Mist Farms will be honored for its service and support of the Castroville community since 1924. The festival features Arti the Artichoke, Agro Art, chef demos, artichoke field tours, wine tasting and assorted activities for artichoke lovers of all ages.
For more information about the company and its products, visit www.oceanmist.com.
About Ocean Mist Farms
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Strike A Chord: Kevin O'Leary riffs about his passion for collecting guitars
Entrepreneur and TV personality Kevin O'Leary riffs about his passion for collecting guitars.READ MORE
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In 2007, business television personality Kevin O'Leary went shopping for a fund management firm he could call his own; one that matched his value-yield style of investing. He soon clicked with Stanton Asset Management chief and Wall Street veteran Connor O'Brien, and the pair launched O'Leary Funds, which has seen its assets under management grow from $400-million in year one to $1.2-billion today. Mr. O'Brien recently spoke with Dan Ovsey about the genesis of O'Leary Funds, working with a celebrity and the strategy behind the success of the relatively new partnership. Following is an edited transcript of their conversation.READ MORE
As singing competitions shed viewers, a new breed of reality show is striking it rich.
"Coming out of the recession, people like to see other people beating the system and living the American dream," says Brent Montgomery, producer of "Pawn Stars" and ABC's new sports memorabilia series "Ball Boys."
No business-themed program is hotter right now than ABC's "Shark Tank."READ MORE
For eight hours last summer, Dallas Robinson and Mike Buonomo stood in line to audition for the hit ABC reality TV show Shark Tank. The producers loved their concise and clever pitch, and a couple months later, the 24-year-old Salt Lake City residents are on the set in Culver City, Calif., getting ready to pitch their catchy startup Kisstixx to five astute and very rich investors, otherwise known as "the sharks."READ MORE
The reality TV audience, it seems, can be quite forgiving.
Consider CBC TV's Redemption Inc. This week, a Prince George, B.C., woman emerged victorious on the series which saw 10 former convicts compete for a hefty investment to help them get a business idea off the ground. Alia Pierini, who was convicted in 2006 of extortion and aggravated assault, walked off into the sunset (yes, literally) with $100,000 to inject into Relia-Gal, her landscaping and snow removal business.READ MORE
Alia Pierini took home the top prize of $100,000 on Redemption Inc. with Kevin O'Leary, CBC's show that's all about giving ex-convicts second chances.
The show began with 10 contestants, all of whom had serious run-ins with the criminal justice system. Each week, they were given a task and someone would go home, though with an exit package to help them move forward.READ MORE
Jamba Juice Company (NASDAQ: JMBA) announced today the acquisition of Talbott Teas™, a Chicago-based boutique, premium tea company, recently profiled on ABC-TV's "Shark Tank".
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Kevin O'Leary is the Simon Cowell of "Shark Tank" and he's totally unapologetic about it. When the entrepreneur thinks your idea is stupid, he tells you — in no uncertain terms.
"If they've wasted their entire family's net worth on an idea that's never been tested by the market, tell them the truth," O'Leary says.
"So what if they cry? It's very important that they stop doing it. I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.READ MORE
Some irate callers to the show, Kevin O'Leary reports, were up in arms at the idea of tapping into the entrepreneurial talents of the former drug dealers, bank robbers, fraudsters and other ex-convicts who compete in the eight-part series to prove their skills in running a legitimate business.
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UCLA was picked by the media to win the Pac-12 title, but coach Ben Howland said that doesn't amount to a hill of beans when it comes to playing the games.
"One way or another they pick us low or they pick us high, it means nothing," Howland said. "That doesn't help us win one game."
UCLA last won the conference title in 2008-09, the last of three consecutive regular-season championships for the Bruins and Howland said that getting picked first only makes things more difficult to do it again, especially at a school with as much history and tradition as UCLA.
"All it does is make the bull's eye even bigger, Howland said. "You've already got the bull's eye because you've got those four letters on your chest so we've got to go out and prove it."
Last year, the Bruins were picked third in the preseason media poll and used that as a sign of disrespect. They carried an edge all season, using an 'us against the world' rally cry to make a title run before finishing second, a game behind Arizona.
Getting picked to win the title, however, doesn't mean the Bruins will lose that edge.
"It's still us against the world," point guard Lazeric Jones said. "We don't have a home court. When we go on the road it's us against the world. I know for sure that no one wants UCLA to win. I'm sure we have more people that don't want us to win than people that do, so we still have that mentality."


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I was in this conversation recently with a friend about animation. His son is 13 and loves the show FMA ( Full Metal Alchemist), I also watch the show which surprised my friend cuz he thought I was too old for anime. His understanding of anime was that most animation was for children like Saturday morning cartoons. Over the next two hours Isaac and I gave his father I education in animation. After watching the Ninja Scrolls and Fist of the Northstar my friend joined the fan club. You never get to old to enjoy the things you love in life. There are countless amounts of awesome anime to watch but I only like a select few. The three shows I'm watching right now are Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto Shippuuden and Ichiban Ushiro no Diamao of the three F.M.A. is the best.
Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Their world is styled after the European Industrial Revolution. Set in a fictional universe in which alchemy is one of the most advanced scientific techniques known to man, the story follows the brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric, who want to restore their bodies after a disastrous failed attempt to bring their mother back to life through alchemy. Check out the clip below.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brent Beaudoin (Londonderry, N.H.) posted three points and Anea Ferrario (Ogden, Utah) netted his first career goal as the Brown men's hockey team skated to a 4-4 tie against No. 20 Maine in nonconference play Monday night at Meehan Auditorium.
Brown secured a its third tie in the last four games to move to 5-8-3. Maine now stands at 11-7-2.
Beaudoin recorded a goal and added two assists, while seniors Tim Lappin (St. Charles, Ill.) and Tyler Bird (Andover, Mass.) joined Ferrario as the other goal scorers for the Bears. Chase Pearson had two goals from Maine.
Rookie Luke Kania (Chicago, Ill.) made 31 saves in net for the Bears, while Rob McGovern stopped 26 shots on the other end.
Brady Keeper gave the Black Bears an early lead when he scored from the top of the right circle 3:17 into the contest.
Brown answered right back, however, as Beaudoin scored just 20 seconds into the team's second power play. After collecting a pass from Tony Stillwell (Green Bay, Wis.) in transition, Beaudoin skated right through the defense and snapped a shot past McGovern to even the score, 1-1.
Lappin gave the Bears a one-goal lead at 6:09 in the second period. The senior gainned control up top and blasted a shot through traffic for his fifth tally of the season.
After Maine responded with a pair of goals in just over a three-minute span, the Bears battled back to even the score at 14:21, as Bird tipped in Josh McArdle's shot from the blue line to make it 3-3 at the second intermission. Brown outshot Maine by a 13-7 margin in the middle frame.
Ferrario pushed the Bears back in front at 12:15 in the third period as he rifled a shot from the slot for his first career collegiate goal. Nevertheless, the back and forth action continued, when Pearson capitalized on a turnover in the offensive end and netted his second of the game to force overtime.
Kania stopped all five shots he faced in overtime to secure the tie. Maine outshot the Bears overall, 35-30.
Brown will continue its five-game home stretch on Friday against Colgate at 7 PM.
Video of all Brown men's hockey home contests and all Ivy League games, home and away, will be broadcast live on ivyleague.tv.
Tickets for all Brown men's hockey games can be purchased online, calling the Brown Athletics Ticket Office at (401) 863-2773, or walking up to the Box Office located in the Pizzitola Sports Center, open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.


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Levi, we just had your half birthday!!!
Well kind of.... February only has 28 days, and your half birthday is on the 31st, so I don't really know how that works?
You are my tiny guy, weighing in at just over 13 pounds! You look so small still next to other babies, even babies that are younger than you look like they could eat you!
You still wear size 3 month clothes, and some that are even 0-3 months!
But you are strong and healthy!
You wiggle ALL over
You love kisses and grab my face with your mouth open wide, and attack me! I sing over and over to you " I love your kisses cause their sooo delicious, gotta love Levi kisses"
You are Mr. Grabby Grabberton, which is a big reason why I had to cut my hair, but I still love you and I like my hair better anyway!
You got your first 2 little teeth, I knew you had to be working on something down there!
You also finally started solid foods, avocado being your first, and I might add the most delicious food you will ever eat :O) You aren't a Goodlin unless you like avocados! So welcome to the family my man, welcome to the family
You love sweet potatoes, only when mommy makes them though.... daddy's chunky version doesn't quite cut it
There were some hard days between your 5 and 6 months, where we had to spend much time apart. Your sister was sick in the hospital. It was very rough on both of us. You were not a happy camper about so many bottles and Grammy even resorted to feeding you with a syringe!!
Man alive Levi, you are like by baby Monkey!
You look SO much like Maya to me, and there are so many similarities between the two of you!
Here is Maya at 6 months
What do you think, twinsies?
You and Mr. Brocolli are also pretty good friends
Happy 6 months Little Levi!


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The Jefferson [Parish] Performing Arts Society (JPAS) is staging "Petit Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood," a musical. It begins Sept. 17 and continues through Oct. 3, in the Westwego Performing Arts Theater. Story from NolaLive (scroll down for story). It's listed under the category "Theater for Young Audiences" so I presume it's for children. Says it's "zydeco-charged" so that's promising. The JPAS site also says: "JPAS is pleased to announce that a portion of opening weekend ticket sales (Sept 17-19) will be donated directly to Audubon Institute's Louisiana Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Rescue Program to aid in their Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response." So, take the kids, go have fun, and support a good cause.
September 8, 2010
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So, last time I said I would show you what I did when I couldn't knit.
Um, yeah, I bought yarn. Specifically Fleece Artist Seconds. For... cheap.
I bought four skeins of the basic merino sock in assorted colourways...
Which are now hanging out on my windowsill being 'inspiration' (they are so pretty). They are all oversized seconds, so I might get a pair out of these myself, and I may or may not play with some designy ideas. Maybe.
I also got two skeins of Fleece Artist Seawool seconds in some cozy brown colour. I decided I needed a man-cowl (ravelry link). I do not yet know if I can pull it off, but it is commmmm-fy.
(I just came out of the shower, hence the hair)
It was super simple, but would anyone like to see a little pattern written up?
Until next time, lovely people! I think it might be time for some non-yarn pictures, too, but we shall see.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
In which I totally keep a promise
So, last time I said I would show you what I did when I couldn't knit.
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For the unknown its like a reminder about the unannounced Lenovo A7600-M smartphone that was been certified in China by TENAA, which is the countries equivalant of the FCC back in February, which has once again spotted on the Internet Web. Today. it shows up all its poses and which could in result be the successor to the Lenovo A7000 and may be an affordable offering from the Motorola-acquired company of China. More details on the new budget friendly Lenovo A7600-M can be catched after this jump.
Lenovo is going to introduce A7000 in India this week on April 7, but before that we have came through an yet another smartphone already in the pipeline. Called Lenovo A7600-M, photos and specifications have surfaced online,. with the courtesy of Mobile-dad.
According to the blog, the new Lenovo smartphone in its A series line-up features a mostly hard plastic body with a metal border. The Lenovo A7600-M offers a 5.5-inch HD screen with a resolution of 720 x 1280. An octa-core MediaTek MT6752 is under the hood coupled with 2GB of RAM and 8GB of native storage inside. Also to support expandable microSD card and on the software front, it gonna run Android 5.0 Lollipop wrapped under VIBE 2.5 UI skin.
The leaked unit in the picture features a white finished version of the A7600-M, but a black variant is also expected to come out soon. Power button rocker alongside a volume tracker can be found on the right-hand side of the phone. Demensioms wise, the new A7600-M measures at 152.4 x 76 x 8.39mm and weighs around 150 grams.
Camera department on the Lenovo's A7600-M flaunts a 13MP primary with LED flash and a 5-megapixel secondary front-facing sensor for selfie captures, and more over the new handset will be packing a 3000mAh battery unit.
Price as far as it is considered, the Lenovo A7600-M is far expected to retail for a competitive tag of less than 1000 Chinese Yuan, which is translates to a $163 USD and and will be available in two color options.
Like to compare Lenovo A7600-m with the newly arrived A7000 specs and performance? Talking about the specifications of the Lenovo A7000 sports a 5.5-inch 720p IPS display, 1.5GHz MediaTek MT6752m eight core CPU, 2GB of RAM, 8GB ROM, SD card support, 8MP rear and 5MP front camera and packs a 2900mAh battery. Connectivity features on the A7000 are its a dual-SIM phone, offers 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and comes out of the box running Android Lollipop as well like the A7600-M smartphone.
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