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The company with plans to bring an amusement park where Memorial Coliseum now sits still is working through some of the issues, including moving Shoreline Boulevard and getting a measure of public support.
TRT Development was selected by the city in February to redevelop the city-owned coliseum site.
Senior Vice President Michael Smith said Monday that TRT remains interested in the project, which some council members say has stalled since December, and wants to see an increase in tourism and economic development in the city.
"If we can find a way of working with city to help that, we'd love to. But if it's not the right project, it's not the right project and we'll move on," he said. "It's nothing negative. It's just nobody is really sure where to head right now."
Mayor Henry Garrett said he has been frustrated with a lack of action on the deal but expects an update from city staff March 20.
"The staff appreciates my frustration and assures me we're going to move forward," he said. "Whatever we come up with, I want to be sure things start happening."
The City Council heard no new information Tuesday during its regular meeting. TRT's proposal, dubbed "Boardwalk by the Bay," calls for demolition of the coliseum and addition of an amphitheater, miniature golf course, go-carts, restaurants and carnival rides for kids. A Ferris wheel, which has drawn some public opposition, remains a vital component, Smith said.
The city asked TRT to consider removal of some of the amusement park aspects, but company officials determined that would not fiscally feasible.
Smith said the project would require a realignment of Shoreline Boulevard so it would go behind the coliseum site and create more of a park-like area for the development.
TRT also wants assurance that the public supports its plan, information they sought after voters rejected a vehicle ban on a stretch of Padre Island beach, sidelining another development project.
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On Thursday, May 9th, at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra staged a very special tribute to the 57-year musical legacy of The Eurovision Song Contest.
The show was called Mooney's Eurovision Melodies. It was presented by Derek Mooney, and featured an array of talent, including some of Ireland's best-known Eurovision winners, Niamh Kavanagh, Paul Harrington, as well as Ireland's number one Abba tribute band, Abba-esque.
So if you weren't able to make it to the NCH last week, never fear - on today's show, we bring you the highlights of Mooney's Eurovision Melodies!
Today, Derek travelled from Malmö to Copenhagen, where he visited the statue of acclaimed Danish writer Hans Christian Anderson, on Hans Christian Anderson Boulevard!
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For anyone who wanted to know what kind of bat would hit a baseball the farthest, what kind of dandruff shampoo could keep hair flake-free or what color house paint would lower electricity bills, Incarnate Word Academy was the place to be Saturday.
The findings of 250 elementary- and middle school-aged scientists were on display there during the annual Diocese of Corpus Christi Science Fair. Winners advance to the Coastal Bend Science Fair, which is April 28 through April 30 at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
David Mason, the event's coordinator, said there were plenty of interesting things to see Saturday.
"I always learn something," he said.
For instance, St. Elizabeth sixth-grader Julysa Rodriguez, proved that no over-the-counter dandruff shampoos work. In fact, she found that using them can make more of the yeast that causes dandruff to grow.
And if you're looking for music to listen to while you work, Cecilia Eberhardt, a St. Elizabeth fifth-grader, would advise avoiding country music at all cost. When compared with hip-hop, classical music and nature sounds, her experiment found that people who listened to country music reported the worst concentration. Classical music listeners, on the other hand, had no trouble concentrating and scored the highest on Cecilia's test. Those who listened to hip-hop finished the fastest.
Noah Garcia, a St. Patrick School first-grader, earned first place in his grade level by testing metal bats to see which was more likely to hit a home run - a heavy bat or a lightweight bat. In 10 tries, a 20-ounce bat allowed him to hit the ball a total of 352.4 meters, while a 14-ounce bat's hits went a total of only 333.3 meters.
The biggest trophy went to Madison Rawls, a Incarnate Word third-grader who won Best in Show for testing different paint colors for heat absorption.
"Our house is always hot, so I figured let's see what color will keep our house cooler," she said.
She spray painted 10 pieces of wood different colors and used her father's temperature gun to measure how hot they got. Dark green was the worst, she discovered - even hotter than brown. Light yellow was a better choice - it stayed about 15 degrees cooler in the sun. Still, she hasn't been able to convince her parents to paint their pink home yellow.
"The house next door is yellow," Madison explained.
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With digital printing we don't have thousands of books sitting in warehouses waiting to be sold – spent resources that may or may not be purchased and read.
We print books only when an order is received.
The majority of our book sales (85%) are electronic as manufacturers of ereaders have opened their walled gardens allowing their books to be read on any device, any platform, anywhere, anytime.
Think printed books will go away? No way. Did movie theaters close when home theater systems became mainstream?
The Association of American Publishers reported that the annual growth rate for eBook sales fell during 2012, to about 34% – a sharp decline from the triple-digit growth of the preceding four years.
But that doesn't mean ebooks are going away. A recent Pew Research Center survey showed that adults who have read an e-book increased from 16% to 23% in the past year. It also revealed that 89% of regular book readers said that they had read at least one printed book in the last year.
Ebooks are merely another channel, another technology to promote, sell and enjoy books. It compliments printed books. Printed books won't go away – there will just be fewer printed.
Fewer printed books is not good for the big six publishers, but it won't bankrupt them – just lower their sales volume and profit margins.
That's why they won't fully embrace ebooks and why they charge artificially high prices for their ebooks close to the full price of their printed books.
They want to revive the same high profit margins they enjoyed with print books for so many decades.
But they will never convince their customers or the general public that ebooks cost as much as print books to edit, process and distribute.
Ebooks are a disruptive technology and like all disruptive technologies is condemned, rejected and deemed catastrophic for society by those who stand to lose.
The market will determine the accepted price of ebooks, not the publishers and there is nothing they can do to stop it. The tsunami has already hit land.
If you liked ARGO, you will love The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, a similar story based on true events.
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We decided to reprint this interview with Douglas Roberts about what inspired him to write such a book. The interview was originally published June 19, 2011.
When Doug Roberts approached us with his manuscript, The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, it was one of those stories that completely engrossed you where you couldn't put it down until it was finished.
Inspired by true events in the early 1970s, The Man Who Fooled SAVAK captures what it is like to live in a dictatorship with secret police monitoring your every move – an atmosphere of fear that still pervades today in many countries in the Middle East.
What makes Doug's book so appealing is that what he wrote today about events 40 years ago is still going on today in many parts of the Middle East. And all of these events are carefully woven into a love story that will make you fall in love all over again.
Q. The release of your book coincides rather well with Arab Spring. When did you start writing it?
A. In the summer of 2008. A woman I'd met on line named Erica Murray was interested in Iran so I started writing to her about it. I started doing some very preliminary research into the history and politics of Iran in 1971 in order to refresh my memory of things I had experienced when I was in Iran during that time. The book was completely finished several months before the uprising in Tunisia.
Q. Even though that was 40 years ago, there are many common elements with what is happening across the Arab world.
A. Yes, especially the fear people experience when living under an autocratic regime is something I hope I have captured, and as the book proceeds, the breaking out of that fear. Perhaps it will give people hope. Just like in my book, the methods used by various dictatorial regimes to maintain control seem to be taken from a common playbook: trample a free and independent press, keep the people fooled, use an iron fist to silence dissent, eliminate fair trials, use torture to extract confessions – the list goes on and on.
Q. But when you wrote the book, you weren't thinking about that.
A. (laughs) True! I don't have a crystal ball and the Arab Spring was as big a surprise to me as the rest of the world.
Q. Can I ask you about one of the characters in your book? Was there really a Junior?
A. Yes there was. I think Junior made the story possible to write. We really did sell our liquor and cigarette rations to him. I recently learned from a fellow who served in ARMISH/MAAG just before I arrived that Junior mostly dealt with the domestic workers, the Iranian nationals who worked at the bachelor quarters where we lived.
Q. I'd like to ask you about another character, Mihan Jazani. She is a historical figure, the wife of the Bijan Jazani who founded one of Iran's guerilla movements. It appears that she's a friend of yours on Facebook.
A. (Blushes) Um, well yes…so it would appear. (laughs) Actually, Mihan Jazani doesn't like Facebook and never uses it. The Facebook account was set up for Mihan by her granddaughter, Aida. Aida and I exchange messages occasionally.
Q. How were you able to remember so much about what happened then? It was 40 years ago after all.
A. I was assisted in several ways. I had some writings I had done about Iran when I was in journalism school at Kent State in 1972. I had a large number of slides that I'd taken when I was there. Those were crucial in reviving old memories. A huge help was finding a 1977 map of Tehran on the (now defunct) Tehran American School website. I was able to use the exact names of places, even street names. The fellow I'd mentioned earlier who told me about Junior had sent me a copy of the ARMISH/MAAG directory, which was very useful. Finally, talking to people I worked with at that time was extremely important, namely Heidi Eftekhar and Barry Silver, who are characters in the story. I obviously couldn't remember all events specifically, but I found I could generate them as needed by being very specific in my language. I would take seeds of ideas and extrapolate and grow them into full blown events. For example, a certain lecherous officer really did say to Heidi, "I think you're a woman who needs a lot of loving." I took that and ran with it. Last, but also important, the Internet was a valuable tool in researching the historical incidents in the book.
Q. So, where does the novel part come in?
A. Some of the human rights related events are novelized, but they're very accurate in their portrayal of the times. I'll leave historians to figure all that out. They will have their work cut out for them because I've spent a lot of effort weaving the story line into the history of those days.
Q. How close is your character Doug Roberts to the way you actually are?
A. That's a really good question. (laughs) I had originally intended that Doug the character would be an extreme version of myself. But after having read my book now over and over, I've come to see that what's extreme are the circumstances he's in. Doug the character is a lot like I was back then: ok in the smarts department, and a little too cocky sometimes. He's not very romantic or knowledgeable about women, but does all right in spite of himself. (laughs) There's an element of male fantasy in the book I suppose. In the story, I have two charming female lunch companions in addition to Fari my Iranian girlfriend/fiancée.
Q. But you really were friends with Heidi Eftekhar your co-worker in the story.
A. I still am. Heidi and I communicate regularly by email and her input on the book was immensely helpful. Miss Farou is the fantasy. She actually didn't like me all that much. (laughs).
Q. I get the impression you had a lot of fun writing your book.
A. It was pretty trippy for me at times. I would totally submerse myself in it. For example, I had written the scene describing how I spent New Year's Eve in Iran just a couple of weeks after New Year's Eve in real life. When someone asked me about how I'd spent my New Years, it shocked me as to how much effort I had to put into pulling up what I'd actually done versus what I'd just written. That was a little scary.
Q. What do you think people will get out of your book?
A. I'm sure everyone will get a little something different, but what I'd like for people to take from it is that, like in the story, life may present you with some extreme circumstances. When that happens, keep a level head and your wits about you. Try to see beyond what appears to be happening on the surface. There will always be some good things happening at any given moment. Try to focus on that. To get through your ordeal it's a good idea to engage all your friends to help you and your faith if you have that. Most important of all: never give up.
The Man Who Fooled SAVAK is available as an ebook on Amazon Kindle and in various ereader formats from Smashwords.com
Available in print Feb 2013
Outer Banks Publishing Group
BISAC: Fiction / Espionage
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"I was completely surprized…especially to know only now how this quiet person had gone against all odds, exposed himself to so much danger and took the risk to do something that he believed in and acted upon to bring resolve. I must say that with all that he was going through, he did not show it." – Heidi Efteckhar Silver, a character in the novel, The Man Who Fooled SAVAK.
Doug Roberts exciting novel, The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, came into being with the help of his long-time friend and co-worker, Heidi Efteckhar Silver, who helped him remember a lot of the details of his daring escape from Iran forty years ago. Mrs. Silver, one of the major characters in the book, played an integral part in helping Doug smuggle his then fiance and her mother out of Iran when the secret police, SAVAK, would not allow them to leave. SAVAK watched the family closely because they wanted the family to lead them to the husband and father, who was a human rights activist and lawyer who had escaped a decade earlier. Here is Mrs. Silver's thoughts on The Man Who Fooled SAVAK.
Q. Not many novels use the names of real people but Doug Roberts in his book The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, portrays you as being a friend and co-worker in the Administrative Services office in the U.S. military advisory unit to Iran, ARMISH/MAAG. I find that rather remarkable.
A. Since Doug's story is based on a real life experience, it's great that he has used people's real names in his story. Most things mentioned in his book did happen. Technology, such as Facebook, also played a big role in Doug being able to find some of the people he had worked with in ARMISH/MAAG, such as myself, and hear more stories from them that made his book more authentic and I am glad I was part of it.
Q. Did you know why Doug was sent to Administrative Services before leaving Iran?
A. I had absolutely no idea. I must say that Captain Seaman and Del, with whom I worked closely had great respect for Doug and kept his ordeal, which was extremely serious, strictly confidential.
Q. What was it like working with Doug.
A. I found him to be a pleasant fellow, who was very easy to work and get along with. I was completely surprised when I read "The Man Who Fooled Savak," especially to know only now how this quiet person had gone against all odds, exposed himself to so much danger and took the risk to do something that he believed in and acted upon to bring resolve. I must say that with all that he was going through, he did not show it. He exercised great care in keeping the situation under wrap. This also speaks of Doug's strong and determined character which is well played out in the book.
Q. What did you think of the book.
A. I thought the book was amazing. When I was reading the book, events played out in front of my eyes. His description of the culture, food, the Iranian way of life and their hospitality is so authentic that it also took my life for a review during those years in Iran. The amazing thing about this book is that Doug, as an American GI, who was stationed in Iran for a brief period of time witnessed the signs of the revolution which came about only a few years later.
Q. Would you recommend this book to your friends.
A. Absolutely. Especially young adults. My own children, who are now young adults, were very small at the time and knew nothing when we had the Iranian Revolution in 1979. This book is not only intriguing and entertaining, but also has a great historical value. During the 2009 uprising, I found myself explaining to my boys, their friends and even some of my friends how all this had come about. Doug has done a great justice in describing what was going on in Iran during the Shah's reign which lasted nearly 37 years before he was overthrown during the 1979 Revolution. I think those who read this book today will not only be intrigued by the story, but will also learn about Iran and gain great respect for this ancient country, with rich culture and history whose people are kind, friendly and hospitable, but have suffered much in the hands of politics.
The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, a suspenseful romance, is available on the Kindle, the NOOK and in other ebook formats from Smashwords.com.
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Published June 2011
So you wanna get published, right? So you think only a big house can get you anywhere worth getting, right? So, you think you need an agent first thing, right? I thought all these things and have the credentials to prove that I've been on a literary journey: English major, Phi Beta Kappa, teacher, professor, MFA degree, literary journal editor, literary prize winner. But no big house and no agent.
Instead, I did what some may think is crazy. I went with a product development company that dabbled in publishing. But my book got out. And I went to work. I have an active public Facebook page that is linked to my Twitter account, a website always under revision as new stuff happens and I write a blog where I try to post at least once a week.
Today's post that you are reading would have been this essay. But this site begged for it and it's theirs. But later you may see this post on my blog. Go check out this: How to buy a dress and end up with a book party.
I don't tweet about my memoir (Re)Making Love: a sex after sixty story much, though some. I don't blog about my book much, but some: actually, I blogged the book while I lived it—that's the first crazy-some-say thing I did before the product development company found me—and that accounts for the banner of a blog that deals not with erotica but with literary thought, interviews and essays on writing and books.
Now you'd think a book with this sordid, unconventional history wouldn't be doing very well, right? And, indeed, I'm not getting rich. But is that what we artists are really about? Okay, a girl could hope but that's never been the goal: The work will out.
But get this: The small print in the visual of my book on Amazon says, #7 top rated in the Kindle store for Non-Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Arts &literature, Authors. The week before it was #5 behind The Diary of Anne Frank and Steven King's On Writing.
And guess what: The book party at Upstairs on 7th (aka: "How to buy a dress and get a book party") resulted in the promise of another book party by one of the women who came. Then I went to dinner with a banker-friend I know and told him what happened. He called his wife and is planning another book party in another dress shop and he'll be providing the wine.
Is there a moral? Ain't no good here at morals. But I will say this: If you put your heart and soul into your book and you've edited it like crazy with a cool eye, had others eyeball it and critique it, then find a reputable publisher and work—yes that means you—to sell one book at a time. Because like the memoir I wrote, it's all personal.
PS: Another piece of good news: A new and much more experienced indie publisher has taken my memoir. Be sure to check out the second edition (more edits and a prologue) now from Outer Banks Publishing Group.
(Re)MAKING LOVE: a sex after sixty story, second edition, is available on Amazon, the Kindle, Barnes & Noble, the Nook, iBook, Sony ereader, the Outer Banks Publishing Group Bookstore and in other electronic formats from Smashwords.com.
When I heard this sad story on NPR radio this morning it moved me so much and reminded me of Doug Roberts novel, The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, a suspenseful love story based on true events. This is the kind of repression that still pervades a lot of the Middle East today as it did forty years ago when Mr. Roberts staged the successful escape of his fiancé and her mother from a repressive and threatening Iran.
In January of this year in Pakistan, the governor of Punjab province, Salmaan Taseer, who was an outspoken defender of civil rights, was gunned down for criticizing the hardness of Islamic law. He was merely sticking up for a Christian woman who was accused of blaspheming Islam. Her punishment: death.
His daughter, Shehrbano Taseer, is a journalist in Pakistan, and she talks to Steve Inskeep, host of NRP Radio's Morning Edition, about her father's legacy and her own fight against extremism.
Here is part of that interview:
"INSKEEP: And it was not that your father committed this alleged act of blasphemy, but merely spoke up for the rights of someone who was accused of blasphemy and asked for her to be accorded mercy. This is what many clerics described as itself being blasphemous.
Ms. TASEER: Yeah, because my father had criticized the law. He had criticized the misuse of the law.
INSKEEP: Did anyone speak up for your father after his murder?
Ms. TASEER: There were three people who believed that this law was being misused and that this was an unfair allegation of blasphemy. There was my father. There was our federal minister for minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, and there was Syeda Imam, who is a parliamentarian. And she had tabled a bill in the national assembly trying to water down this law and stop the misuse. And two out of three of these people are now dead. Shahbaz Bhatti, our federal minister for minorities, was gunned down outside his mother's home two months after my father was shot dead."
You can read the rest of this moving interview or listen to it on the NPR site. And if you want to read more about a similar story with a much different outcome, download a copy of The Man Who Fooled SAVAK, available on the Kindle, Barnes and Noble NOOK, Apple iBooks and in various ereader formats from Smashwords.
With all the buzz around the iPad, you don't need to be psychic to predict that Amazon would sooner or later develop a comparable color screen tablet device.
Well the sooner is here. Amazon is now accepting iPads and other devices as trade-ins for their new touch-screen color tablet at http://amzn.to/jbdaq2
Steve Windwalker reported in the blog Kindle Nation Daily that Amazon is well on the way to preparing to launch the device sometime this summer. Here's what he wrote about the trade-in program.
"It extended its relatively unknown Buyback program, previously associated mostly with textbooks, movies, and video games, to include a wide range of electronics products including the iPad, the iPhone, the Samsung Galaxy, the Motorola Xoom, and all kinds of other devices that might — if you could trade them in for a decent sum — prepare the way for you to buy a Kindle tablet, both in terms of the need to replace functionality and the financial wherewithal to make the purchase."
They actually want you to own their new Kindle Color version knowing full well that owners of iPads and other color tablet like devices wouldn't buy the new Kindle after shelling out $500+ for their current iPad or similar device.
It's another marketing first for Amazon to grab the lion's share of the spawning tablet market, and I'm sure it won't be their last.
You can also read Amazon's press release about the trade-in program on Steve's post on Kindle Nation Daily.
Congrats to Amanda Hocking for using a traditional publisher to further her writing career. She did the right thing seeking out a traditional publisher and the reason is clear – she wants to be a writer – not a book marketer, editor, designer and distributor.
This is not a new trend – it has been happening for years.
The caveat here is her content. She has the content that sells – when she writes, it sells. She can afford to give away a large piece of her royalties so she can spend more time writing.
So should every self-published author seek out traditional publishers for their work. Maybe, yes and maybe, no. Some authors like JA Konrath took the reverse course – he went from traditional publishers to self-publishing because he could get a bigger piece of the publishing pie, especially on his traditionally-published books that went out of print. Even luminary Stephen King experimented with self-publishing a few years back.
A new trend is emerging as traditional publishers go digital. Currently, a self-published author could get their work in front of more people as an eBook than a printed book. This is still true, but as more and more traditional publishers go digital, they can offer both – significant eBook exposure as well as print book distribution. They will take a larger piece of the pie, but if your work is selling well, it is worth going with a traditional publisher.
Here's the Amanda Hocking story from The New York Times.
If any writer proved that modern self-publishing could be a pretty sweet deal, it was Amanda Hocking.
Amanda Hocking, who has self-published nine books.
In the past year Ms. Hocking, a 26-year-old from Minnesota, became an indie heroine in the literary world for publishing nine books that sold a total of more than one million copies, nearly all of them in e-book form, earning almost $2 million for her efforts.
But for Ms. Hocking, self-publishing has had its limits. On Thursday she announced that she had sold a four-book series to St. Martin's Press, ending a frenzied weeklong auction that involved nearly every major publisher in the business, including Random House, Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins.
St. Martin's, part of Macmillan, paid more than $2 million for the world English rights to the "Watersong" series, Ms. Hocking's latest books in the young-adult paranormal genre. >more
We just received this newsletter from a new site called kindlelendingclub.com launched by Amazon last December.
If you have a Kindle or any of the Kindle reading apps (Kindle for PC, Kindle for iPhone, Kindle for Blackberry, etc.) you can go to the site, sign up and borrow any Kindle book that has lending enabled.
The book will then be loaned to you for 14 days and then automatically transferred back to the original owner.
What we found interesting is the lending trends reported by the site in the following newsletter and the 25 most wanted books.
In light of the demographics (females between 35 and 55) we would have thought romance novels would be the leading lending genre. However, here's what they reported.
The 25 Most Wanted
Literary fiction, the paranormal, sci fi, crime fiction, thrillers and even a memoir about a comedian's one-night stands; it seems like KindleLendingClub.com readers (who tend to be female and between 35 and 55 years of age) are borrowing anything but traditional romance in the lead up to Valentine's Day 2011.
While Amanda Hocking's vampire and paranormal romances for young adults remain perennially popular, only two of the top 25 most requested books are traditional romance novels: A Season to be Sinful, by Jo Goodman, and Terry Spear's An Accidental Highland Hero.
(Another interesting trend we saw last week as well? Eight of the 25 titles fall under the umbrella of young adult fiction.)
KindleLendingClub.com Most Wanted – Week of January 30, 2011:
1. The Hangman's Daughter, by Oliver Pötzsch
2. Water for Elephants: A Novel, by Sara Gruen
3. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
4. Switched (Trylle Trilogy, #1), by Amanda Hocking
5. Wicked Appetite, by Janet Evanovich
6. Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
7. Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games), by Suzanne Collins
8. Heart of the Matter, by Emily Giffin
9. My Horizontal Life, by Chelsea Handler
10. My Blood Approves, by Amanda Hocking
11. The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel, by David Levithan
12. Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club), by Jonathan Franzen
13. The Templar Concordat, by Terrence O'Brien
14. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
15. We Interrupt This Date, by L.C. Evans
16. A Season To Be Sinful, by Jo Goodman
17. Sizzling Sixteen, by Janet Evanovich
18. Favorite, by Karen McQuestion
19. The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, by Kevin Malarkey
20. Ascend (Trylle Trilogy, #3), by Amanda Hocking
21. Ender in Exile, by Orson Scott Card
22. Crossing Oceans, by Gina Holmes
23. Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater
24. Firefly Lane, by Kristin Hannah
25. The Accidental Highland Hero, by Terry Spear
As more and more authors turn to self-publishing, a new trend is emerging that may benefit publishers as well as authors.
Successful crime novelist Joe Konrath is probably the author who started this new trend and is the poster child of successful authors moving into the self-publishing realm.
According to an article in The Star-Telegram online written by Alex Pham of The Los Angeles Times,
"Joe Konrath can't wait for his books to go out of print.
When that happens, the 40-year-old crime novelist plans to reclaim the copyrights from his publisher, Hyperion Books, and self-publish them on Amazon.com, Apple's iBooks and other online outlets. That way he'll be able to collect 70 percent of the sale price, compared with the 6 to 18 percent he receives from Hyperion.
As for future novels, Konrath plans to self-publish all of them in digital form without having to leave his house in Schaumburg, Ill.
'I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal,' said the author of Whiskey Sour, Bloody Mary and other titles. 'I can earn more money on my own.'"
Mr. Pham goes on to write, "It's difficult to gauge just how many authors are dumping their publishing houses to self-publish online, though for now, the overall share remains small. But hardly a month goes by without a well-known writer taking the leap or declaring an intention to do so."
However, Mr. Konrath is one of the exceptions to successful self-publishing because his fan base was primarily created by the marketing and distribution efforts of traditional publishing houses.
Does that mean an author needs to be published by a traditional publishing house to be successful later in self-publishing?
Not at all.
Mr. Konrath just stood up on his surf board and is about to catch one of the largest new waves in publishing. He knows where his readers are and how to read them – online where most hang out.
As an aspiring or first-book author who is relatively unknown, you need to market your work to where people seek, read, recommend and review books – in social media: Facebook, Twitter, NING, Linkedin, Foursquare, Goodreads, and all the other social networking sites out there.
There is only one problem. By the time you learn how to effectively market your work on all the social media, you may be in an old-age home especially if you are not so computer savvy. Besides, when would you have time to write another book?
Most authors just want to write. They don't want to wear six or seven hats and be the marketing guru, the sales superstar or the promotional genius.
This is where publishers can get their own surf board and ride the same wave as Mr. Konrath. But some are just standing up on their boards, others are knelling and most don't even see the social media wave.
Publishers can offer social networking services, electronic distribution and all the perks of traditional publishing to authors in digital and electronic form. This is a wave that is coming whether publishers like it or not so the best strategy is to make sure to have a surf board and to look out over the horizon. This publisher is certainly standing on his surf board poised to ride the next giant wave.
I am not surprised that Google will launch it's own electronic book venture called Google Editions. After all, why were they scanning every book ever published into digital form?
The Wall Street Journal and numerous other major publications, blogs and websites reported that Google is now nearing the launch of its massive new ebook venture and they hope to launch this year.
Instead of building another boat to navigate the ebook waters, they are diving into the water and going with the flow. Google says its books will not be tied to one particular device like a Kindle or iPad, but their books will be accessible from any device with an Internet connection.
Google is not running against the current trying to sell their own reading device with its own ebook store. Instead, they are the current ready to sell books to any device, in any format as long as those devices have a connection to the Internet.
And they won't have just one web site where you have to go to buy their books, they will have unlimited websites paying commissions to anyone who directs traffic to a Google Editions book using the same model as their Google ads.
And some observers think they may have a competitive advantage over the other Titans in the electronic book publishing market.
It will be interesting to see which Titan comes out on top: Amazon, Apple or Google.
Take a look at the video for more – Rex Crum talks with Amir Efrati of the Wall Street Journal about what Google's entry means for the online book market.
by Manisha on November 12, 2010
Market research firm Forrester has estimated e-book sales to touch the 1 billion mark by end 2010 in US and to triple by 2015!
Although only 7% of the 4000 people surveyed by Forrester actually read e-books these few are probably the most important ones reading 41% of their books in the digital form and buying books by the heaps.
In what might be viewed as a pat on the back for Kindle, it has surfaced as the most popular e-reader (32%), followed by Apple iPhone, Sony e-reader and Dell notebook and finishing a close second to the ubiquitous laptop in the Forrester findings.
Doing 66% of their reading in the digital form, Kindle users have emerged as the most avid e-book patriots and as if on a cue Kindle has already announced the flipping of its revenue sharing agreement with its publishers which we covered right here for you.
The findings could be a wake-up call for the tentative publisher yet to decide on whether to go digital with his next publication-the writing seems clear on the wall though-and before paperback becomes old hat it's time to cash in on the promising prospect of e-books as unveiled by Forrester.
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In an unprecedented move, the Wiley Literary Agency struck a deal with Amazon to publish 20 classic titles as ebooks on the Kindle. According to reports, this is the first time a literary agency moved into the publishing business.
Will this be a trend as agencies struggle to survive in the dwindling print market? It might be. An agency would sign on an author, retain electronic publishing rights and then sell print rights to traditional publishers.
Agency revenues would increase considerably for ebooks, especially with the current structure where agencies only receive 15% of the author's royalties.
However, the big question is will traditional publishers go along with this scenario or refuse to publish an author unless they retain electronic rights?
Will this be beneficial to authors?
Read Stephen Windwalker's column for more information on this emerging development.
Read the report from The New York Times.
Now that Borders has entered the ebook revolution, we will also see lower ebook prices and market pressure to lower the cost of ebook readers.
From The Wall Street Journal – July 8, 2010
By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG
Intent on catching up in the fast-evolving e-book arena, retailer Borders Group Inc. is launching an e-bookstore with titles provided by Kobo Inc., the Canadian e-book retailer in which it has an investment stake.
The nation's second-largest bookstore chain in sales, Borders, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., acquired the stake in December and said Kobo would provide e-books for sale on Borders.com.
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It was only a matter of time. Did you think Amazon would sit back and let Apple steal its thunder from the Kindle? I predict based on the following New York Times blog post, that we will see an iPad-like device from Amazon by the end of this year or early next year. What do you think?
From The New York Times blog, Bits, May 17, 2010, 3:42 pm
By NICK BILTON
Since Apple announced its plans for the iPad, Amazon has shared few details about how it would respond to the competition for its Kindle. But over the last few weeks, it has offered some more clues.
Lab 126, the division of Amazon responsible for building the Kindle, has been on a hiring binge, with dozens of new job listings on its Web site. Some are positions for testing and readying new products. And this suggests that the company might be preparing a new device. More >>
We hear it all the time. The electronic book readers like Amazon's Kindle and Sony's eReader are going to be the downfall of printed books. If you believe that you may have been one of the folks in Columbus' day who believed the world was flat. Don't worry. It won't happen at least for a very long time.
The eReaders are just another distribution channel for books. If anything, eReaders are going to allow more people to access more content than ever before. We hear it from Kindle owners all the time that their Kindles are maxed out – they cannot fit anymore books on these devices. Luckily for them Amazon allows users to store books online on their Kindle account. They just have to switch them out from the account to the Kindle. And people with mobile devices like phones and PDAs are only limited by the amount of memory in those devices.
Well, for all those people out there who don't like change, book eReaders and other mobile reading devices like the iPhone, iTouch, Blackberry, Palm Pilot and the entire family of Windows Mobile software devices are here to stay. Whether you passively ignore these devices or actively denounce them, the eReader trend is coming at you like a steam roller and there is nothing you can do. Go with the flow or be flattened.
A case in point is Amazon's launch of the European version of the Kindle (See the story on Bloomberg.com). Before the launch, Europeans had to settle for the American Kindle version and could only download books after they downloaded them to their PCs. Now they can download books wirelessly directly to the Kindle in more than 100 countries all over Europe. Now Europeans like us Americans only have to think of a book and in less than 60 seconds they will have the entire book ready to read on their Kindles.
And according to TIME online, "2009 is a breakout year for e-readers," says Sarah Rotman Epps, an analyst with Forrester Research. "But we're still in the early stages."
More than 17 Kindle-competitors are already on the market or expected to hit the market by 2010, according to TIME. The major players include Apple and Microsoft, Asustek, a Taiwanese company, Samsung, LG, IREX, Interead and Fujitsu with a full color e-ink display.
Cool technology. Disruptive technology. Revolutionary technology. The voices are clear.
So what does it all mean for our rich literary legacy? Will our literary future simply morph into something unrecognizable? Will it vanish completely? Maybe. Young people are writing novels on cell phones in Japan. Several authors have attempted to write and serialize novels on Twitter. Hundreds of books were first written on blogs and then turned into full length books in print.
Most young people don't read books; older people read books. Females read more books than males. A whole new language has been created for texting that uses mostly acronyms and makes understanding shorthand a cake walk.
Again allay your fears.
Clive Thompson, a writer for Wired Magazine, reported in the September 2009 article, "Clive Thompson on the New Literacy," that a college professor found just the opposite – that young people are much more prolific than their parents and grandparents.
"Andrea Lunsford isn't so sure. Lunsford is a professor of writing and rhetoric at Stanford University, where she has organized a mammoth project called the Stanford Study of Writing to scrutinize college students' prose. From 2001 to 2006, she collected 14,672 student writing samples—everything from in-class assignments, formal essays, and journal entries to emails, blog posts, and chat sessions. Her conclusions are stirring.
"I think we're in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven't seen since Greek civilization," she says. For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That's because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as Lunsford calls it. Those Twitter updates and lists of 25 things about yourself add up.
It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text (like in law, advertising, or media), they'd leave school and virtually never construct a paragraph again."
She's right about technology "pushing our literacy in bold new directions" – everything written is shorter, faster, more efficient. Books are shorter; chapters are shorter to reflect everyone's busier, faster lifestyle and the writing is concise and targeted written to get to the point quickly and efficiently.
Even Daniel Menaker, the former Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House and fiction editor of The New Yorker laments about the Internet in his article, "Radactor Agonisties" in the Barnes and Noble Review.
"(Speaking of shortness, the attention-distraction of the Internet and the intrusion of work into everyday life, by means of electronic devices, appear to me to have worked, maybe on a subliminal level, to reduce the length of the average trade hardcover book.)"
Does that mean we will never see great classics like Charles Dicken's, A Christmas Carol or Great Expectations? On the contrary. Writers are the bellwethers of our time, and their writings will reflect our lifestyles, our cultures, and our pace of living. Besides, when was the last time a friend proclaimed, "I just finished, War and Peace, and now I can start David Copperfield."
While books may be shorter, there will always be classics some already written, some to be written, whether they are traveling at light speed as zeros and ones over the airwaves or inked permanently onto the printed page.


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Same here... I could not begin to count the # of 700's friends and I have had over the decades & have never had this problem. It is the first I ever heard of it. Not saying it didn't or does not happen, However?Also, if I remember right, the actions/firing pin etc would come from the factor with too much grease on them, and thus would not hit the primer hard enough in cold or freezing weather to set the round off. I have to wonder if that couldn't have been at least part of the problem? I occasionaly had some of my 700 actions cleaned by a gunsmith when I use to deer hunt in extreme cold weather, & why it makes me wonder about this?
Never had any issues my 700 ever. I love it and would gladly buy many many more. If I had the money.
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As much as I love my Howa's the Remington 700 never had a miss firing problem. The owner of that gun F'ed with the trigger and wan't a qualified gunsmith. That gun was also rusted and not properly maintained. When the case went to court, no one could reproduce the problem either. I feel for the surviving family members but if you don't know what you are doing, DON'T F@#$ WITH THE BANG SWITCH. and for cry'n out loud, don't point the damn thing at anyone and these things won't happen no matter the condition of the rifle.
Did any of you see that documentary on the Rem 700 and its misfiring problem?
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THANK YOU... And is the REAL reason for this horrific accident. I always love it when someone trys to BLAME something, anything other than their own negligence.
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|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
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|Canned boiled onion
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|Cooked ham
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|Canned pimientos
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Simmer 30 minutes, or until chicken is tender.
Remove from broth; cool until easy to handle.
Strain broth into a 4-cup measure; add water, if needed, to make 2 1/2 cups.
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Stir in the 2 1/2 cups chicken broth; continue cooking and stirring until sauce thickens and boils 1 minute; remove from heat.
Stir in onions, diced chicken, ham, and pimientos; spoon into a shallow 10-cup baking dish.
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|75 Gram, sliced
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|Olive oil
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|Baby spinach leaves
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2. Mix in mushrooms and thyme sprigs and cook till mushrooms turn slippery.
3. Stir in Sherry and cook to halve the liquid.
4. Mix in chicken stock and cook till halved.
5. Mix in cream and once again allow the mixture to be reduced to half.
6. Whisk in rest of the butter, using a fine sieve strain the mixture to a saucepan.
7. Add pepper and salt to taste and keep aside the sauce till used.
8. Use black pepper and salt to season veal.
9. Take a frying pan, heat it, add 1/3rd butter, oil and veal and cook for 4 to 6 minutes, turning halfway through to allow veal to turn golden brown.
10. Mix in thyme and garlic just before done and allow to turn tender and golden.
11. Take off garlic and meet and keep aside.
12. Discard excess fat and using 3 tbsp water, deglaze.
13. Add the sherry sauce and beating continuously, reheat the sauce.
14. In the meantime, in a shallow pan, allow water to just boil, mix in asparagus and 1/3rd butter and cook for 2 to 3 min, gently, till asparagus is tender. Drain and keep aside.
15. Take another frying pan heat till hot, add rest of the butter along with wild garlic, mushrooms and spinach.
16. Cook for about 2 to 3 min to allow mushrooms to cook well and spinach to wilt.
17. Add black pepper and salt to taste.
18. Take individual serving plates, using a spoon, arrange mushroom mixture in the center.
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beach, dc, im visiting Tokyo this summer, so that might be a new fave.
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
folk-rock, top 40, indie rock, etc...pretty much everything but country. don't watch much tv, but I love jimmy fallon, conan O'Brien, lost was the best & when they are in season, I like: the following, game of thrones, newsroom, girls, homeland
get active. run with friends, go to the gym, play beer pong, go sight-seeing, take a hike,
currently reading a portfolio about working with children who have challenging behaviors. or something for school about teaching math & science. I listen to a lot of audio books because its easy when im on the move.
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Working to become an early education teacher. Pre-k thru 3rd grade. Not sure which grade I want yet.
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Donation will enable non-profit to obtain $10,000 in federal aid
The Crossroads of the American Revolution Association announced Monday that it has received $10,000 for operating support and the implementation of a management plan from the J. Seward Johnson Sr. 1963 Charitable Trust.
Crossroads Director Cate Litvack said the money will be leveraged dollar-for-dollar through the National Park Service's federal matching funds for National Heritage Areas.
The J. Seward Johnson, Sr. 1963 Charitable Trust provides grants to non-profit organizations in New Jersey and selectively in other parts of the nation. Support is given to programs in the fields of oceanography, substance abuse prevention, cultural enrichment, health and healthcare, water and the environment, education, law and public broadcasting. A portion of the trust's giving is directed toward civic, cultural and educational activities in Princeton and New Brunswick.
Crossroads, founded in 2002, is the federally designated coordinating non-profit organization for the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area which was established by Congress in 2006. Working in collaboration with Morristown National Historical Park and other partners throughout New Jersey, Crossroads is actively pursuing historic and environmental preservation, heritage education, cultural conservation, recreational heritage trails and heritage tourism. New Jersey's heritage area comprises 213 cities and towns within 14 counties from Fort Lee in Bergen County to Fort Mercer in Gloucester County.


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Kalle Kiiskinen
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|Medal record
|Men's Curling
|Competitor for Finland
|Winter Olympics
|2006 Turin
|World Junior Curling Championships
|1997 Karuizawa
Kalle Kiiskinen (born September 6, 1975 in Hyvinkää) is a Finnish curler.
In Juniors, Kiiskinen played for Perttu Piilo and won a silver medal as his third at the 1997 World Junior Curling Championships.
Kiiskinen then joined up with Uusipaavalniemi, playing in his first World Curling Championships in 2002. He has played both second and third for Uusipaavalniemi. While never winning a medal at the worlds, at the 2006 Winter Olympics, Kiiskinen was a member of the Finnish team (skipped by Uusipaavalniemi) who won a silver medal.
After parting ways with Uusipaavalniemi, Kalle was the skip of the Finnish team in the 2007 European Curling Championships
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As of Saturday, January 21, 2012
© Copyright 2015 Newton Citizen
I just heard on the news that Rick Perry has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination for president. That leaves four contenders. Which one will be selected to face President Obama in November is still anybody's guess. There are many others that will be standing for election or re-election that same day in November. How much will I, as a citizen, have to say about those very important decisions?
I have one vote. I hope to cast it wisely by paying attention and carefully filtering out most of the political crap that gets floated out about candidates via PACS (Political Action Committees), Super PACS and big national party machines that use money from whatever source is available to buy elections. Will they sell you a candidate or will you choose one for yourself?
To choose one for yourself requires a bit of work on your part. You have to look carefully at where the candidate really stands. What kind of record does he or she have? Are they promising things that might really be possible or are they just wishfully thinking out loud about those things they think we want to hear?
No, it isn't easy being an educated electorate. You have to look, listen, and sort things out to separate the truth from fiction. Notice I did not say lies. There will be plenty of those too, but they will all be wrapped in pretty phrases with a little bit of truth attached to make it more believable. There will be quick slogans and quick fix ideas, but fixing the woes that face our state and nation will neither be quick or easy. It will require guts and determination, so you have to look very closely and listen very closely to see if a candidate has both. They will need both if they are really going to help rather than do as their colleagues who have been in power have done, which is little or nothing to address problems that everybody knows have to be addressed.
I have three beautiful grandchildren. I love them dearly and have a wonderful time with them whenever they are around. But when I look into their beautiful eyes and their bright, smiling faces I cannot help but wonder what kind of country and state are we leaving for them to inherit? Frankly it scares the hell out of me.
I am a native Georgian and my heritage is long in this state and this country. I still believe it is the best place to live, work and raise a family. But the problems this country and our state face right now and the lack of political will to even begin to address these problems makes me worry that the options and opportunities I had may disappear completely. What will there be in place for my grandchildren and yours? And for that matter how much impact will it have on my children and yours, because I think they are beginning to feel changes even now.
The election season is in full swing and the pace will pick up as the weeks and months go by. Decisions made in 2012 will have lasting impact on our children and grandchildren. Try to do your best to make the best decisions when you vote, and please vote for your children's and grandchildren's future. I intend to do just that.
-- John Hooper
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Hi I'm Pat Brenner, a developer on the Visual C++ libraries team. I'm pleased to give you a sneak peek at a major MFC update we've been working on. Since we're adding a number of cool new user interface components to MFC, this blog post is going to be graphics heavy. I'd much rather show you some of these components than just describe them! I hope you enjoy this quick tour through the new portions of the library.
Modern user interface elements
This update to the MFC library will enable developers to build modern user interfaces with support for the Office 2007 Ribbon Bar, Office-style menus, Visual Studio-style docking toolbars, tabbed documents and much more. All of the components included in the update will run on Windows 2000 and above.
Let's take a look at some of the Office 2007 Ribbon Bar support. Below is an image of an MFC application built with the Office look and feel:
The ribbon support includes support for the application button (the large round button at the top left), the quick access toolbar (the small set of tools just to the right of the application button) and the standard ribbon components. Each tab on the ribbon (e.g., the "Home" tab above) allows access to a category of tools. Each category is divided up into a set of panels (e.g., "Clipboard" and "Font" above) and each panel contains a set of ribbon elements. These ribbon elements can have a wide variety of styles—I'll go into more detail about these later.
Perhaps many of you would like to build applications that utilize some of the functionality we've had in Visual Studio. For example, one of the most requested features is support for the smart docking we added in Visual Studio 2005. With this new release, all the cool user interface features you've seen in the past versions of Visual Studio are at your disposal.
Let's take a look at some of the Visual Studio support. Below is an image of an MFC application built with the Visual Studio look and feel:
MFC now implements its own menu bar and toolbar, which is fully customizable like the Visual Studio toolbar and menu bar. This means that buttons can be moved between toolbars, and even from the toolbar to the menu bar and vice versa. Custom toolbars can be created, and commands can be added to them. And the images for the individual toolbar buttons can even be changed, and custom images can be created and used. Support for docking panes is also included—these panes can be grouped into one docking frame as above, they can be floating as well as docked, and they support auto-hide mode like in Visual Studio, so a docked pane will slide out from the edge of the frame when its tab is hovered over, mimicking the Visual Studio behavior. There is also support for tabbed MDI documents (which can be grouped) like in Visual Studio.
Ribbon Elements
In addition to all the features supporting Office, Internet Explorer and Visual Studio "look and feel" there are a number of built-in cool elements you can use in the ribbon in your application. In the images below, we provide a quick visual introduction to what's included in the library. The images come from the RibbonGadgets example that ships with the library.
In the image below you can see large and small buttons, as well as check boxes. The buttons can be simple (so they just respond to a click), or they can drop down a menu or be a split button which responds to the click or drops a menu depending on the click location.
In the image below you can see what we call palette buttons. These can be a set of buttons that have associated images, so the user can see what he will get when he clicks on a button in the palette. These palettes can be embedded in the ribbon, or they can be dropped down from a button in a window which can be resized dynamically by the user.
In the image below you can see a variety of color choosers. These can be embedded in the ribbon, or they can be attached to a button. The table of colors associated with the chooser can be customized in your application. There is a color picker dialog which offers even more flexibility, including the ability to choose the color of any pixel on the screen and use that color.
In the image below you can see groups of commands. A ribbon group can be built from an existing toolbar, so if your application has a large number of toolbars, you can place them on the ribbon with ease.
In the image below you can see support for edit boxes, combo boxes and spin controls, as well as the font picker control, which can display the font names in the font (as in Word) so you get an instant preview of the font appearance.
Below you can see a few more ribbon elements. Several of these, including the progress indicators and the links and sliders, actually make more sense on the ribbon status bar, which you can see in the first image at the top of this article.
Powerful application wizard
We've also beefed up the MFC Application Wizard (see the images below) quite a bit to enable easy use of these new features in MFC. We've added a couple of options to the "Project Style" category which will allow you to build a project that looks something like Visual Studio or an Office application by default. We've added the option to use tabbed MDI document windows rather than the old MDI style. And we've added the ability to choose the look and feel of your application with the "Visual Style and Colors" combo box.
An option that is hidden in this image is a checkbox that allows your application look and color to be changed at runtime. You can choose your application look and color at design time, but if the user wants to change it, he can do so easily. This is possible because the drawing of all the user interface elements is done via what is called a "visual manager". The visual manager takes care of all the drawing of elements, so if a different look is desired, all that is required is to switch to a different visual manager, and redraw the window, and your application instantly has a completely new look. As you can see in the image below, a number of schemes are supported, including Office 2003, Visual Studio 2005, and several different Office 2007 schemes which use different colors. All of these are implemented using visual managers.
An option that is disabled in the image below (because ribbon was chosen instead of menu bar) is a checkbox that enabled "personalized menu behavior". This means that the menus will not show all commands by default, just like in Office applications. When a menu is hovered over briefly, the menu will expand to contain its full set of commands. And as the application is used, the most-used commands are added to the menu by default, so over time, the menu will become personalized to how it is being used.
Below is a screenshot of a running application which uses a ribbon. This is actually the application created by the Application Wizard when the "Office" project style is chosen. There is an Outlook-style navigation bar docked on the left side of the frame, and a caption (or message) bar at the top of the client area. Note that the application button, quick access toolbar buttons, and the ribbon elements have keyboard hotkeys which are available when the Alt key is pressed. On the right hand side of the ribbon is a drop-down element named "Style", and from it you can choose which color you'd like the application to be presented in.
Easy to update existing MFC code
One of the great things about the new components is that they're easy to incorporate into existing applications. All of the new behavior is encapsulated in new classes, and none of the existing classes have been modified. If you want to update your existing MFC application to use the new menu bar and toolbar support, all that is required to update your application to the new look is to change the base classes of your application and frame windows, and add a few lines of code, and you've just updated your application to have a more modern interface.
Below is an image of the new DrawClient sample. This is a remodel of the DrawCli sample that ships with MFC—it's been updated to include Ribbon support. Most of the modifications to the source code were in mainfrm.h and mainfrm.cpp. The ribbon is currently built entirely in code. The ribbon is created and then the various ribbon elements (application button, quick access toolbar, categories, etc.) are added via calls to ribbon member functions. However, the underlying command architecture did not have to change—all the ribbon controls can be associated with a command identifier, and when the command is fired, it is handled via the existing command handlers. The object drawing code did not have to change in any substantial way—it was only augmented to allow a few new capabilities. One of these capabilities is something I'll call "command preview". This means that, just like in the new Office applications, you can see the effect of a command before actually choosing it. For example, the purple rounded rectangle is active below. As you float the mouse over the large color buttons in the ribbon, the rectangle will temporarily change color to match the color of the button the mouse is hovered over. When you click on the button, the color of the rectangle will then be changed.
We're pretty excited about all these new additions to MFC, and we hope you are too! Feel free to ask any questions you have about the new features and I'll do my best to answer.
Pat Brenner
Visual C++ Libraries Development
Tomas: I was getting ready to abandon this blog because its clear that Microsoft is not listening to us in regards of at the very least giving us an "off option" or even that they aren't really reading it.
I will say this: BCG has a *few* things implemented in the Ribbon that CJ does not. But regardless of performance or flickering, BCG has a lot more drawing bugs. If you are not picky about drawing bugs in your GUIs, maybe you should move to the back end work. I have already listed 5 drawing bugs above that you declared "minor". So I'll listed 5 more:
[Before I do, FYI, notice Stas did not even comment on the Office/VS toolbars because they are so broken]
1) On the Office 2007 style menus, the drop shadows are "so weirdly wrong". It looks rectangular with weird points sticking out of it. Not even close to Office 2007 or how a shadow would appear in nature or even the stock OS shadow.
2) On the Office 2003 / Visual Studio 2005 style menus, if the menu gets inverted, the shadow around the button just gets left behind in the wrong place and wrong shape.
3) Visual Studio 2005 demo, I leave a few of the docking windows in the floating position, it now repaints so slowly when the application is launched.
4) Toolbar customization: mouse randomly flashes to "circle slash" cursor and back as I drag a button across the screen, the insert mark is often not drawn correctly, etc. etc.
5) Toolbar buttons often get left in "hot" state when the mouse is not even on them.
There, I threw in a free bonus one in #4. Thats 6 bugs there, 5 bugs from before. That makes 11 so called "minor bugs" I found from just minor testing with the two demos. I have not even scratched the surface in testing other themes and various OSes, etc.
Please stop calling BCG a "great" library, because it is clearly not and as Andre stated, BCG has shown ZERO effort in fixing any of these 11 bugs I just mentioned, because they have existed in the demos for as long as I have been testing them against my library (which is many, many years).
I am not baised towards either BCG or CJ. CJ has issues too, but with Codejock is more of "some missing features" vs. broken ones.
Three years ago I did a major evaluation of CodeJock and BCG (Dundas/Ultimate Toolkit was eliminated quite quickly.) My test consisted of writing the basic framework of the planned application with each toolkit. In the end CodeJock was the hands down winner. It wasn't due to performance as much as the terrible all-or-nothing architecture of BCG--to use it would require compromising to many parts of the design of the application. Plus, BCG required an amazing amount of monkeying around with all basic framework classes and the documentation stunk.
By contrast, CodeJock not only let me use just those parts I needed, its integration into my App was so seamless I thought I'd made a mistake. On top of all that, the documentation was excellent as was the support. They not only got back to me about a serious issue within 24 hours, they solved it! (BCG took over a week and basically told me "tough luck".)
(In case anyone is wondering, in the end .NET was used for the application I mentioned and the result is a big, slow giant--and I mean humongous--turd.)
Someone: The bugs you've listed are really minor, perhaps this is the reason they do exist up today. 99% of customers won't mention them at all. If you want to talk about attention to details in CJ product, please:
1. Buttons should lose pressed/highlighted state when you move mouse cursor out, but keep pressing the left mouse down.
2. White pixel at the bottom right corner of the popup menu.
3. Ribbon tabs, must display at least 3 characters.
4. You can highlight and press another ribbon button when a popup menu is displayed.
5. Should I mention a crash in a Gallery?
I found these problems in 10 minutes as well. So, it seems that CodeJock also has some "broken" features.
1) I mentioned this same issue in BCG
2) BCG doesn't even clip the ribbon tab text properly (neither does CJ). Both often over draw the tabs.
In any event, this discusion is getting pointless. Both libraries have issues. You obviously prefer BCGSoft and I obviously prefer using my *own* library (because I prefer fixing bugs in my own code vs. others). Neither of us will convince the other.
The whole point is, I don't want to ship BCG with my app, so why not have an option to turn it off?
To the other person. Yes, 2MB of unused bloat bothers me. Why do you think I'm not using GDI+ or the 30MB of bloat .NET?
@Joe. Please stop talking about documentation and API. It's well known that CJ's documentation has always been useless. Just search their forums (but they usually remove negative things).
About API and seamless integration with MFC's applications: even Andre told that BCG is much better in this area.
"as the terrible all-or-nothing architecture of BCG"
LOL - go for .NET, Joe, MFC is not your cap of tea :)
@Somebody. "In any event, this discusion is getting pointless"
Agree... Just ignore my answers to Andre :)
You need to stop being an apologist for BCG.
I am speaking from my direct experience of an intense evaluation of BCG. At the time I did my evaluation the architecture did require almost their entire class library to be linked to the application. (You are aware that BCGs architecture is quite different from CJ and UT, right?)
I also stand by my complaints of BCG's poor documentation and support. They simply did not document huge portions of their class library.
I made it very clear this was three years ago and BCGSoft may have changed since then. I doubt the fundamental architecture of their product is much different, but it's entirely possible their documentation has improved.
You snarky comment about .NET makes no sense. I'm trying to keep my apps slim, not fat. I'm still annoyed at the changes to MFC with VS 2002 that at least doubled the minimum size of an MFC app (you used to be able to strip out most the active X stuff amongst other things.) I currently use straight C++ for most my work.
Be aware that your use of ad hominem attacks and suggestions that CodeJock engages in some conspiracy instead of arguing the substance of people's complaints only undercuts your defense. You may have had a good experience with BCG, but I have not and am simply reporting that and why.
"I also stand by my complaints of BCG's poor documentation and support"
Is it related to the new MFC we're discussing here? I believe MS has much more resources to document everything.
"I doubt the fundamental architecture of their product is much different"
The architecture is based on MFC and the whole library is designed to be very comfortable to MFC developers. It's all matter of skills and... taste. But I'm sure this fact influensed the decision.
"Be aware that your use of ad hominem attacks and suggestions that CodeJock engages in some conspiracy"
Some time ago Kirk Stowell, CEO of CodeJock, personally encouraged his customers to post on forums about MS plans to update MFC. Unfortunately, the exact wording I meant in my post above has been cut off from CodeJock's forum.
That's wonderful.
Are there any plans to upgrade some other parts of MFC, maybe moving away from all those macros.
I can't help but thinking it would make sense to do it now.
I think the discussion is going in wrong direction. It is useless to fight about supremacy one or another 3rd party library. The decision is already made and I don't believe that VC team is going to change it.
I'm not devil's advocate so I'm not going to sing alleluia for Microsoft. But I am very excited about the rebirth of MFC. MFC is a great framework and with new features it will became even better.
We are taking here not about BCG or CodeJock. The new extensions are going to be supported and maintained from VC team the next few years. So I don't think that these gays are going to erase just four chars "BCGP" from the class names and let the cat out of the bag.
I'm looking with a lot of expectation into the future and the time after the first Beta-Release. The nights are going to be short again and we will all have some new chances to bitch about MFC again…
Wow! A lot of feedback both ways...
Lets face it guys:
1) BCG and CJ both have plenty of problems.
2) We aren't going to change Microsofts mind either way :(
3) Nobody from Microsoft is even reading this feedback (and if they were, they wouldn't care). Microsoft has shown in the past that they hardly if ever respond to feedback during the dev cycle or after shipping unless it is really overwhelming (and 5 to 10 people is not considered overwhelming). Remember, Microsoft knows whats best for us :).
4) The code will be maintained by the VC++ team which means we are unlikely to get bug fixes (because they never have delivered them in the past, and I don't expect them to now) between cycles.
Basically whatever glitches or bugs or performance issues the initial release comes with, you'll have to decide if you can live with that for 1yr+.
BCG won't save you... they aren't going to release new builds of MFC. You'll have to go to the external BCG or the external Codejock which makes integrating either library so tightly into MFC a really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really bad idea.
All these features are in Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2. I don't see it. This is marketing crap!!!
Hello Mike,
These features are not in Beta2. For our release plans, please see our previous post at http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2007/11/09/announcing-a-major-mfc-update-plus-tr1-support.aspx
Ayman Shoukry
Visual C++ Team
I used BCGSoft for years and I think that it is (one of) the best GUI lib.
Compare to CodeJock, IMHO, BCG is simpler for developer using and more close to MS products GUI (I mean look and feel).
Anyways I think it is a greate news and the right direction.
Best regards to Visual C++ Team.
Bundling a large GUI library in with MFC is simply a bad idea.
I don't see a massive deployment issue in having an extra DLL for Office Ribbon functionality, just as gdiplus is extra. Tripling the current DLL size is simply unacceptable.


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A sports blog with Richard Justice
Monthly Archive for June, 2005
Surfing some sports headlines . . .
• Kenny Rogers can't in anyway be defended for attacking those photographers Wednesday afternoon. However, as Gerry Fraley of the Dallas Morning News points out, the Rangers aren't totally blameless. • ESPN's Chad Ford gives the Rockets an "A" for their drafting of Illinois guard Luther Head. • Buck Harvey of the San Antonio Express-News […] [Read More]
Lidge's health brings more worries
• Forget about Craig Biggio's milestone, another blown lead and Phil Garner's use of his bullpen. If there's a question about Brad Lidge's health, every other story line is irrelevant. He was unavailable for a second straight night because of soreness in the bicep near his right elbow. That's a worrisome area for any pitcher. […] [Read More]
On travel disasters, Piglet and more . . .
Random thoughts… • If you're ever in Omaha and you're impressed that they sell Diet Coke in 24-ounce bottles, don't buy a six-pack and stuff it in a piece of soft luggage for the flight home. If you do, you might open your luggage to find the bottles have exploded and that your clothes, shoes, […] [Read More]
Home runs are on the rise
• Maybe it was something more than steroids after all. Home runs are again flying out of ballparks. According to Gordon Edes of the Boston Globe, the average number of home runs hit per game is 1.012, slightly down from 2004 (1.123) but comparable to 2002 (1.043). Runs per game also are slightly down from […] [Read More]
Random thoughts on the Rockets, Jackson Browne and more…
• Yao Ming isn't going anywhere for at least two more seasons. Even if he decides not to sign the long-term extension the Rockets will offer this summer — and the betting inside the organization is that he will — he can't be an unrestricted free agent until 2007. He's signed for next season, and […] [Read More]
Blogging my way to the College World Series
I'm off to the College World Series Friday morning in Omaha. It's my first trip to an event that countless colleagues say is one of the best things they cover regularly. Smaller cities typically do a much better job handling big events than bigger cities. Bigger cities sometimes could care less. But smaller cities — […] [Read More]
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Random, irrelevant notes… • Phil Garner's shifting of Lance Berkman into the No. 3 hole is a reflection of the continued evolution of the club. Berkman is the Astros' best hitter, and even though he hasn't been comfortable hitting third, the time has come. No one knows when, or if, Jeff Bagwell will play again, […] [Read More]
Final shots from Pinehurst
I'm writing this Monday morning sitting outside a cafe in Chapel Hill, N.C. The place is wired and the sandwiches are huge. I took a final tour around the Village of Pinehurst this morning as workers began cleaning up after the U.S. Open. Even with the security barriers, grandstands and stacks of trash left over […] [Read More]
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