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I have read the Programming FAQ, to no avail. I have been using Dev-C++ and MinGW for a month now, and lately I have been very unhappy with MinGW. Firstly, I am not currently interested in portability, and MinGW is stripped down, as is DJGPP. I want to use conio, since there are almost no textmode libs for MinGW. Secondly, I am happy with the Intel syntax for inline asm, which I've used in Object Pascal consistently before switching over to C++.
1) Is there an alternative win32 compiler? I have VC++ 6.0 but I don't understand why it spits out 2megs of random files in my directory when I want to create one console program for an exercise in class. I just want the .exe not all those project files ... Would that CBuilder 5.5 and Quincy IDE be a good choice?
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Why buy property in istanbul Turkey
When considering a property purchase in the wonderful city of Istanbul, firstly you need to decide why you are buying and your budget, Is it for pure investment for capital appreciation or rental yields? or is it a lifestyle change or holiday home for you and your family?
Istanbul is like any other major city in the world, city centre and sea view properties come with a premium price tag, quite often with six-figure tags.
Scores of overseas investors have zoned in on the city over recent years purchasing properties all across the city, cashing in on both short and long term rentals. Keen-eyed investors are buying off plan properties at launch prices where property prices increase by at least 50% by the completion dates giving you guaranteed capital appreciation in very short space of time.
The are you choose is a very important factor along with your budget, home buyers with a high budget can purchase luxury Bosphorus properties, though low budget buyers should be looking in the new fashionable inner city areas of Beylikduzu, Esenyurt west of Ataturk International airport.
Property for sale in ISTANBUL Turkey
Bodrum, in the south-west Aegean region of Turkey has for many years been a popular holiday destination for both Turkish and international tourists, having several holiday resorts located around the shores of its peninsula, from peaceful traditional fishing villages through to exclusive yachting resorts.
Bodrum Town is the hub of the Bodrum peninsula, a town that never sleeps with life revolving around the busy harbour and marina areas, lined with trendy bars, exclusive restaurants and chic fashions boutiques.
Property in Bodrum Town has successfully mixed the old with the new with some modern architecture sitting comfortably side by side with some of the fine ancient buildings of the past, beautiful traditional stone houses line the narrow cobbled streets, many of which have been sensitively resorted to their former glory, following strict regulations to protect the areas wonderful history.
Modern accommodation for sale in Bodrum Town is often luxurious and often offers amazing views out to sea, overlooking the ancient St. Peters Castle that dates back to 1402 which stands proudly on the coastline looking out for the town, a must see for anyone visiting the Bodrum area
With land in the town with building permission now being quite scarce, property prices are ever increasing to meet the demand from buyers, therefore capital appreciation is guaranteed for many years to come.
Prices for Real Estate in Bodrum Town
Bodrum town property for sale can still be affordable with apartment accommodation for sale in Bodrum Town starting in the region of £80,000 often located in the outskirts of Town in the popular Konacik area. Villas range from traditional to modern luxury homes with prices reaching well into to the millions of pounds, these homes offer the most amazing panoramic sea views as well as marina and castle views.
Is Accommodation in Bodrum Town, Turkey a Good Investment?
Investors looking to buy property in Bodrum Town can expect extremely high rental yields all year round, with Bodrum Town being a year round resort, having an array of amenities as in any town centre, and as stated above capital appreciation is also excellent, and a tip for investors in Bodrum Town is to never compromise on the views available, as holiday makers are almost always willing to pay that little extra for the best views.
Turkey Homes will guide you to your ideal investment in Turkey, taking into consideration your lifestyle requirements and budget.

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Jaygee123 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 118 diseños de 41 diseñadores freelance.
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We have been in business since 2001 looking after the bookkeeping and training needs of the Geraldton community which varies from Farming, cray fishing, hotels, motels, trucking, banana plantations and many other type of businesses and also my speciality Non-Profit organisations. I am a qualified as a Acredited Partner for QuickBooks, a Certified consultant for MYOB and a member of the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers. I also am a registered BAS agent.
I have two members of staff who are very experianced in bookkeeping and also training.
We pride ourselves on getting it right the first time and also making it all easier for them, so that they can get on with the business of their business whilst they can trust us to look after the boring neccessary tax stuff.
We are aming for clients who are small to medium entrerprises with a passionate interest in their business and want to know how to use the tools to enable them to get timely and accurate information regarding their finances.
We want to convey to potential clients that we can setup their software to give them information easily.
We can offer training, Bookkeeping and consulting in our offices or at their place of business.
We want to look professional but also very approachable. Giving the impression that we can help make the business admin side easier and more effective for them getting the most out of their QuickBooks or MYOB software.
We want it to stand out.
We want it to show our differences from other Financial Software trainers and bookkeepers
We are qualified, listed below are the logos for the different accreditations that we belong to
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It's been a long time since I rock and rolled,
It's been a long time since I did the stroll.
Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back,
Baby where I come from.
It's been a long time, been a long time,
Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
I didn't think I'd been nervous until I started realizing just how many things I'd forgotten.
Like where was my hat? Normally if there's a game to be played I've got my beloved, faded, battered Cyclones hat on my head. Or, failing that, my gray Mets hat with the NY in stars and stripes. (I don't know why, I just like that one.) Or, should neither of those seem lucky, the blue and orange NEW YORK one, or the blue and red BROOKLYN one. Or those old standbys, the black NY hat or the hat that was a Met hat when it never occurred to marketers that there could be more than one. Not today. I came back from my office bathroom having changed into my black away uni, rummaged through my bag and realized I didn't have my hat. How could I leave the house today of all days without it?
(As an incompetence bookend: I brought the digital camera, pulled it out of my bag in a happy Shea Stadium, turned it on and saw a beautiful image of the field and the happy baseball team below. Atop it, strange words: NO MEMORY CARD. Oops.)
The champagne didn't make it either, though I did remember it. I'd loaded my bag up Greg-style for camoflague — work shirt, t-shirt, book, printed manuscript pages, umbrella (no rain in forecast), the memory-card-free camera, and miscellaneous crap grabbed from my office to put the largest number of barriers between the eyes/hands of a security guard and the moderate-sized bottle of Verve Veuve Clicquot I'd found in a cabinet during a hasty search on Friday night. By the time I was done it was like carrying a cinderblock.
I knew I wouldn't make it, though: The security guard dug through that bag like he was fricking Heinrich Schliemann while I waited for the inevitable. Finally he held up the champagne and simply shook his head, pleasant but implacable. I mumbled something lame about a dinner and BYOB, surrendered my bottle, and trudged into Shea with my enormous load of now utterly useless crap making me list to port. (Happy ending: Faith and Fear friend Laurie came through with mini-bottles smuggled in one of those umbrella carriers some bags have on the bottom. She's a crafty one, that Laurie. Oh, and her camera had a memory card in it.)
Everything else went just fine, of course. The Cubs put up crookeder and crookeder numbers, the Mets played crisply, and the crowd was going full throttle, ready to push the team across any finish line it came near. Up in the mezzanine, Greg and I fretted and then stop fretting and started wondering if Steve Trachsel, who often pitches the way continents meander across oceans, could possibly beat the news from Philadelphia. He could and he did — pitched wonderfully, in fact, and in near-record time. For all the attention Pedro's abortive return got on Friday night, Trachsel's storyline had to be just as compelling. He's never going to be loved at Shea, not with his water-torture pace and his head-down trudge to and from the dugout (the 5+ ERA doesn't help either), and he stands slightly apart on this team, a holdover from previous administrations who can't plead that he merely arrived early. But did he ever do his job when it needed to be done. It was disappointing that Trachsel couldn't tip his cap or wave his hand to the crowd that gave him a standing ovation — what was there to visualize at that point, Steve? — but what the heck, he probably didn't know what to do when confronted by a Shea standing ovation. Here's hoping he gets to ignore some more standing Os.
The rest? Signs premature (NL EAST DIVISION CHAMPS before we were), to the point (CLINCH) and irritatingly off-point (BRING ON THE YANKEES). Public-address messages that would have seemed like jinxes in other years — we were entreated not to go on the field ("illegal and dangerous") before the top of the ninth. Yankee fans got booed — my favorite target was a teenage girl in a camoflague Yanks hat whose walk around the mezzanine was paced, metronome-style, by a section-by-section YANKEES SUCK! chant. Various Mets were treated to unofficial MVP lobbying; "Around the Majors" showed highlights from the completely meaningless Reds-Astros game, a dose of habitual Shea incompetence that was somehow comforting; and Reyes and Valentin were serenaded with their shared first name. ("Jose Jose Jose Jose! Other Jose, Other Jose!" Greg and I improvised cleverly.)
And, of course, there was a final line drive and a lot of yelling and drinking of warm, properly smuggled champagne and a long, happy subway ride home with the exhilirated faithful. After a game I like watching the Met share of my fellow riders slowly decrease as the distance from Shea increases and people peel off for the near-infinite number of familiar routes taking them from Shea to their homes, until I'm down to knots of Met fans and then scattered sightings and finally the one or two fans who happen to live where I live and happened to have left the stadium at the same time I did, a coincidence that usually allows for a brief exchange of happiness or reassurance or commiseration before we go back to our non-baseball lives.
Tonight my 7 car was filled with booming Mets chants all the way to 42nd Street, despite various Met rooters being disgorged for the LIRR, the 4/5/6 and the B/D/F. They were still chanting on the 2/3 platform at 42nd, and I could hear them all the way down to 14th. (LET'S! GO! METS!) and then Chambers (LET'S! GO! METS!), the chants and sightings gradually dwindling until finally I got off at Clark Street and there was just me.
Just me, but I wasn't exactly alone. There was my uniform shirt and the astonishingly heavy bag and the flush of yelling and booze and victory and the season of blissful memories so far and the now-official glee and hope and anxiety for the future — that marvelous collection of things that come with being, at long last, NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST CHAMPS.


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The classical definition of a pandemic is not elusive
Heath Kelly a
a. Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, Department of Epidemiology, Locked Bag 815, Carlton South, Vic. 3053, Australia (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2011;89:540-541. doi: 10.2471/BLT.11.088815
Doshi argues cogently that the definition of pandemic influenza in 2009 was elusive but does not refer to the classical epidemiological definition of a pandemic.1 A pandemic is defined as "an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people".2 The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease severity. By this definition, pandemics can be said to occur annually in each of the temperate southern and northern hemispheres, given that seasonal epidemics cross international boundaries and affect a large number of people. However, seasonal epidemics are not considered pandemics.
A true influenza pandemic occurs when almost simultaneous transmission takes place worldwide. In the case of pandemic influenza A(H1N1), widespread transmission was documented in both hemispheres between April and September 2009. Transmission occurred early in the influenza season in the temperate southern hemisphere but out of season in the northern hemisphere. This out-of-season transmission is what characterizes an influenza pandemic, as distinct from a pandemic due to another type of virus.
Simultaneous worldwide transmission of influenza is sufficient to define an influenza pandemic and is consistent with the classical definition of "an epidemic occurring worldwide". There is then ample opportunity to further describe the potential range of influenza pandemics in terms of transmissibility and disease severity. The emerging evidence for A(H1N1) is that transmissibility, as estimated by the effective reproduction number (R, or average number of people infected by a single infectious person) ranged from 1.2 to 1.3 for the general population but was around 1.5 in children (Kathryn Glass, Australian National University, personal communication). Some early estimates of R for pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 may have been overestimated.3
Severity, as estimated by the case fatality ratio, probably ranged from 0.01 to 0.03%.4–6 These values are very similar to those normally seen in the case of seasonal influenza.7,8 However, the number of deaths was higher in younger people, a recognized feature of previous influenza pandemics.9
It is tempting to surmise that the complicated pandemic definitions used by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States of America involved severity1,10 in a deliberate attempt to garner political attention and financial support for pandemic preparedness. As noted by Doshi, the perceived need for this support can be understood given concerns about influenza A(H5N1) and the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). However, conflating spread and severity allowed the suggestion that 2009 A(H1N1) was not a pandemic. It was, in fact, a classical pandemic, only much less severe than many had anticipated or were prepared to acknowledge, even as the evidence accumulated.
In 2009 WHO declared a pandemic several weeks after the criteria for the definition of a classical pandemic had been met. Part of the delay was no doubt related to the nexus between the formal declaration of a pandemic and the manufacture of a pandemic-specific vaccine. If a classical pandemic definition had been used, linking the declaration to vaccine production would have been unnecessary. This could have been done with a severity index and, depending on the availability and quality of the emerging evidence on severity, a pandemic specific vaccine may have been deemed unnecessary. Alternatively authorities may have decided to order vaccine in much smaller quantities.
The response to A(H1N1) has been justified as being precautionary, but a precautionary response should be rational and proportionate and should have reasonable chances of success. We have argued that the population-based public health responses in Australia and, by implication, elsewhere, were not likely to succeed.11 Similarly, the authors of the draft report on the response to the International Health Regulations during the 2009 pandemic note that what happened during the pandemic reflected the activity of the virus and, by implication, not the interventions.10
Risk is assessed by anticipation of severity and precaution should be calibrated to risk. As Doshi has argued, we need to redefine pandemic influenza. We can then describe the potential severity range of future pandemics. Finally, we need to use evidence to assess severity early to anticipate risk.
Competing interests:
None declared.
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- Last JM, editor. A dictionary of epidemiology, 4th edition. New York: Oxford University Press; 2001.
- Mercer G, Glass K, Beckers N. Effective reproduction numbers are commonly overestimated early in a disease outbreak. Stat Med 2011; 30: 984-94.
- Donaldson LJ, Rutter PD, Ellis BM, Greaves FE, Mytton OT, Pebody RG, et al., et al. Mortality from pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza in England: public health surveillance study. BMJ 2009; 339: b5213- doi: 10.1136/bmj.b5213 pmid: 20007665.
- Bandaranayake D, Huang QS, Bissielo A, Wood T, Mackereth G, Baker MG, et al., 2009 H1N1 Serosurvey Investigation Team, et al. Risk factors and immunity in a nationally representative population following the 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic. PLoS ONE 2010; 5: e13211- doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013211 pmid: 20976224.
- McVernon J, Laurie K, Nolan T, Owen R, Irving D, Capper H, et al., et al. Seroprevalence of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) virus in Australian blood donors, October - December 2009. Euro Surveill 2010; 15: pii=19678- pmid: 20946757.
- Viboud C, Tam T, Fleming D, Handel A, Miller MA, Simonsen L. Transmissibility and mortality impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza, with emphasis on the unusually deadly 1951 epidemic. Vaccine 2006; 24: 6701-7 doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2006.05.067 pmid: 16806596.
- Wilson N, Baker MG. The emerging influenza pandemic: estimating the case fatality ratio. Euro Surveill 2009; 14: pii=19255- pmid: 19573509.
- Miller MA, Viboud C, Balinska M, Simonsen L. The signature features of influenza pandemics–implications for policy. N Engl J Med 2009; 360: 2595-8 doi: 10.1056/NEJMp0903906 pmid: 19423872.
- Report of the review committee on the functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) and on pandemic influenza A (H1N1). International Health Regulations Review Committee; 2009. Available from: http://www.who.int/ihr/preview_report_review_committee_mar2011_en.pdf [accessed 13 April 2011].
- Kelly HA, Priest PC, Mercer GN, Dowse GK. We should not be complacent about our population-based public health response to the first influenza pandemic of the 21st century. BMC Public Health 2011; 11: 78- doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-78 pmid: 21291568.


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The Appian Way
The Appian Way is the perfect setting for all your memorable events. Since 1975, the Appian Way has been providing the freshest and finest Italian cuisine wrapped a friendly atmosphere and attentive staff. The New York Times calls the Appian Way "The Lure of Orange Valley". We simply put it as a commitment of quality service. Join us everyday from 4 pm till closing to experience for yourself first hand why the Appian Way is the finest in catering services and fine Italian dinning.
Our graciously designed banquet rooms can accommodate a guest list from 20 through 300.Whether its dinner for two or a reception for 300. Head this way for excellent Italian-American cuisine at modest prices along with the care and comfort you deserve. Whatever the occasion, our facilities can accommodate your every need. Our party menus are design to fit any budget, and our family personally supervises every aspect from the preparing of the freshest and finest foods to the planning of every detail of your special event. From our family to yours, we have commitment of quality service. Thank you for visiting us at appianway.com
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Do I pick Helvetica or Arial for my website font? What about Garamond? What's the difference anyway? And how about my logo? Should I go with blue? Teal? Yellow?
If you're asking questions like these you've missed the primary step: understanding the tone of your brand. Before you jump into stylistic details you first need to understand who you are as a business.
An easy place to start is to imagine that your business is a person. People have unique personalities and individual styles that distinguish us from one another, right? Businesses aren't much different. We can dress them up based on their brand personality (that's where those fonts and colors come in), but you must have a clear grasp of that personality before taking any stylistic steps.
Three simple questions can guide you along the journey to understanding the tone of your brand or your business personality. Check them out below—and start answering!
1. What does your business "feel" like?
If you're thinking about your business as a person, the "feel" would be a summary of its personality in a couple of words. To pinpoint your feel, pretend you're describing your business as if it were someone you knew. If it helps, approach this exercise the same way you would set up a blind date between two acquaintances; you want to be specific and sell the personality of your business in as few words as possible.
Try not to describe how you think your business would look. Telling your friend that their blind date is going to show up wearing a sweet button down and khakis won't give them much of a feel for who they're going to meet. But telling them that their date is tons of fun, or has a great sense of humor or that they're cultured and worldly will give a better picture of who they'll be going out with.
For example, if I were to describe an iconic brand like NASA as a person, I wouldn't describe a person in a spacesuit or a government employee in a suit and tie. If you didn't know anything about NASA—or space—those descriptions wouldn't tell you much about the organization. Instead, I would use descriptive words that give a clear sense of NASA's "personality." If NASA were a person, I might describe them as an intrepid explorer of space and aeronautics.
Still not sure how to describe your business personality? Think about who you want your business to be, and use concise words to describe that personality. Are you the friendly alternative (think: Enterprise's "we'll pick you up") or the committed competitor (think: Avis', "we work harder")? Maybe you're the luxury model (like Tesla, a high-end electric vehicle) or the affordable option (like Prius, the electric vehicle designed to fit any budget)? Perhaps you're the masculine choice (think: Gillette Mach3 razors) or the convenient choice (think: Dollar Shave Club, with razors delivered to your door)?
2. How do you say hello?
Your brand is the first interaction a client has with your company. Will you say "nice to meet you?" or "sup dude?"
Keeping with the business-as-a-person idea, your brand's hello is like your personal handshake. It could be firm or gentle, or maybe you skip the handshake and go for a hug instead—or a first bump. Whatever you choose, this will be the first impression you make on the rest of the world. No pressure, right?
If you can't decide how you want to say hello, take another look at the personality/tone words you brainstormed for the "feel" of your brand and use those to imagine how your brand-as-a-person would introduce itself. For example:
If you have a luxurious personality, you may want an elegant hello. For a casual personality, your first introduction might be more relaxed and informal.
If you have a masculine personality, you might go for a strong and bold hello. If you have a feminine personality, your hello might be softer and sweeter.
Maybe you have a loud personality. If so, your greeting will probably match.
When you think about your brand personality and its hello, do you have a mental picture of what that introduction looks like? You might start imagining your luxurious brand in a tuxedo, extending a manicured hand to say, "it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance." Hold on to that image, we're going to make it clearer with our third and final brand personality question.
3. Who are you dressing up for?
Your brand is ultimately about your customers, so for the third step in understanding the tone of your business, service or product, you've got to align your brand personality with your customers' personalities.
You know who you are and what you want to do (like NASA, the intrepid explorer who wants to unlock the mysteries of space). That's great! But to be successful as a business, you also need to make sure you appeal to your ideal clients.
If your business is planning black-tie events, you're likely targeting a higher-end clientele that expects to see professional, formal results when they hire you. That means you probably don't want to show up wearing a clown costume to your first meeting; likewise, a loud font and lots of color in your branding would be counterintuitive to your formal business personality. If you're firing up a vegan taco truck on the other hand, loud and colorful may be exactly what you need in your branding.
Once you understand your business and brand personality and the expectations your clients will have of you, you'll start to have a clearer picture of how your brand values will translate into an aesthetic sensibility.
Putting it all together
As you define your business's personality, you start to build an image of your brand as a person. That image is important to laying the groundwork for choosing the stylistic elements of your brand. Much like your personality informs the clothes you choose, your business's personality will help inform your decisions on all aspects of your brand identity.
Check out our ultimate guide to branding for more branding tips.
Now that you know your brand's personality, it's time to build your design to match.
Our designer community can create it for you!
About the author
Rachelle Ray is a marketing consultant and freelance content creator. She is passionate about developing brand identities and geeks out over things like cool product packaging and iconography.


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I'm excited about the Ask a Blogger question this week because it is about a very hot topic… blog giveaways. I get this question all the time from newer bloggers and it is a great one. The most recent time this question was asked was earlier this week, by one of my own Adopt a Blogger adoptees – Stephanie from the beautiful blog, Desserts for Breakfast. Here is Stephanie's question:
"I've been thinking for a while about having my first giveaway on the blog! I have no sponsors, so it's totally a me-loving-to-give-things-away-to-people thing. Plus, giveaways always seem so awesomely fun on other blogs. But, I don't know the first thing about any logistics of running a blog giveaway and can't seem to find anything on Google about it, so I was hoping that you'd be willing to give me a few tips? Mainly, what rules and legal things do you think I should be aware of? And, how do you think I could garner enough entries to make the giveaway be worthwhile?"
Such a great question and I can't wait to read everyone's answers in the comment section. I think giveaways can be a lot of fun too and it is a great way to show your readers how much you appreciate them. Everyone loves free stuff!
First, you need to figure out what you want to giveaway. That is important and will become the cornerstone for the way other parts of your giveaway are handled. As far as logistics, a few things you'll want to consider:
- How do you want people to enter? I usually do the leave a comment on the giveaway post as an entry and let the Random Number Generator choose the winner, but some people do where you can get extra entries if you tweet it, subscribe to your feed, get email updates, become a Facebook fan, that kind of thing. I am not organized enough to keep track of all that, so that is why I just do "leave a comment" or answer a question, etc. as an entry. Make sure you stress that if they enter, they MUST leave a way for you to get a hold of them so you can notify them if they win. You wouldn't believe the number of people who forget to include their email address! Just saying "Katherine" and "I'd love to win this" gives me no clue about who you are in the big old blogosphere.
- Do you want it to be open to everyone, or only readers in the US or your geographic area. This is basically to cover where are you willing to ship the prize to. If it is a gift certificate or something, this doesn't really matter, but if it is something heavy to ship, then it could be an issue. Also, customs could be an issue, so you really have to consider this carefully.
- Since it is a sponsor free giveaway, you will just want to put somewhere in the post a disclaimer like "I love <whatever you are giving away>… the company in no way sponsored or is representative of this post. I'm doing the giveaway out of the goodness of my heart to show you all how much I appreciate you". Something more creative like that to indicate to your readers that no one is paying you or giving you any goodies to have the giveaway.
- And finally, you have to realize that although a great giveaway can be a nice traffic booster, without some nurturing, it isn't often traffic that sticks around much longer after the giveaway. Your blog has to be producing great content… make people want to come back because of your writing and photography – not because you give away cool stuff. (Stephanie has great content and photography, so this won't be an issue for her… but just a tip for others out there wondering the same thing!)
So – experienced bloggers… I'd love to hear your opinion about blog giveaways. What tips, tricks and information do you have that might help other new bloggers out when deciding whether to do a giveaway on their blog. Leave your comment below so we can all learn from your experience!
Remember – if you are a new food blogger and have a question you'd like answered, please send me an email at kristen <at> dineanddish.net.
Because this is a food blog, I'm going to share the recipe for 10 Minute Mushroom Spaghetti Sauce from Recipezaar. This is such a quick and easy recipe for a nice, meat free, meal. Perfect for spring and summer when fresh veggies are in abundance!
10 Minute Mushroom Spaghetti Sauce (from Recipezaar)
20 min | 10 min prep
- Heat oil; brown garlic, onion, mushrooms and parsley.
- Add all other ingredients.
- Simmer 10 minutes.


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2016 Lola Hot Sale Mental Glazed Floor Tiles
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2016 Lola Hot Sale Mental Glazed Floor Tiles
Brand Name: LOLA
Model Number:QE1266018
Sizes: 600 x 1200mm, more choices are available
Thicknesses: 11mm
First choice, grade AAA
Water absorption: <0.5%
Surface: Glazed
Certificates: CE and ISO9001
Good quality with competitive price
Usage area: Interior floor & wall tiles
Package: standard export paper carton with wooden pallet
Payment terms: T/T 30% deposit,70%balance before loading
Delivery time: 35days after the deposit
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The tile surface using random print and layout design, printing more than 70 different blades
1280 ℃ high temperature firing, water absorption is lower than 0.5%, excellent moistureproof and antifouling performance.
Remarkable Non-slip performance
Imported glaze and three-dimensional grinding tool for suppression
Equipped with a special glaze powder at the same time, the surface concave and convex is outstanding
Simulation can increase the surface friction, in order to achieve the goal of anti-skid
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- Year Established:1993
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An over supply of homes discounted by banks, Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, HUD and mortgage companies to sell-off the record volume of foreclosures is pressuring home the U.S. The supply leaves no shortage of real estate markets for the worst housing markets forecast in 2012..
…The worst 25 housing markets forecast annually by Housing Predictor are a selection of the worst of the worst markets with the highest probability to reach their projected average home value losses during the calendar year.
The worst performing city was Las Vegas, predicted to drop 8.4% in 2012 in average price, followed by Wilmington in Deleware and Hilo, Hawaii, both down 8.2%.
HousingPredictor.com has provided market forecasts since 2006, based on factors such as income levels, employment rates and trends, real estate sales history and current market velocity.
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Porter thinks Corporan blocked plate properly
HOUSTON -- Even though Astros catcher Carlos Corporan blocked sliding Angels infielder David Freese with his left leg during a play at the plate in the second inning Saturday, Astros manager Bo Porter said Sunday he thought his backstop was within the new rules that are designed to prevent home-plate collisions.
It wound up not mattering because Corporan couldn't handle the throw, but he dropped his left knee to the ground and appeared not to provide a path for Freese, who slid head first and was called safe.
Freese said home-plate umpire Eric Cooper told him he would've been ruled safe anyway because Corporan didn't give him a lane to slide through when he didn't have the ball, and straddling the plate doesn't qualify as providing a lane.
Porter believes his catcher provided a clear path to the plate.
"I think Corporan gave him a sliding lane," Porter said. "If Corporan would have come up with the ball and made the tag, he would have been out and Corporan dropped the ball, so it's a moot point."
Corporan didn't block the plate until he got the ball, and the rules state the catcher must give a sliding lane for the runner and not block the plate without the ball.
"As the catcher, you can't be in front of the plate or drop down in front of the baserunner without the baseball," Porter said. "I felt like Corporan was in good position. He had the sliding lane and he just didn't control the ball through the tag."
Angels manager Mike Scioscia, a former catcher, said interpretations involving plays at the plate are still evolving when it comes to the new rule.
"The old adage about how you really don't want to go head first into home plate might not be as relevant if you have a lane to slide in if you have the play beat because you will most times be presented with a swipe tag instead of a leg," he said.


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Malibu Dog necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Our business name is "Renewable Works".
Our domain name is: http://www.renewableworks.com.au & http://www.renewableworks.co.uk (both still under construction)
We are a company initially based in Australia which is striving to make people more aware of their carbon footprint and encourage them to implement designs and technologies to reduce it. We are offering design consulting and project management services to implement sustainable designs into existing residential buildings or new developments. These include sustainable energy, water conservation, energy efficiency, passive building energy design and site remediation.
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They will be people with a green conscience but lack the time or the knowledge to implement environmentally sustainable projects themselves.
We want a simple logo and business card that represents a change to a sustainable way of residential living preferably with the business name incorporated as part of the logo.
A symbol that represents renewable energy or sustainable living or reducing individuals carbon footprint on the world would be good.
Must be an original design.
The business card must stand out and be one sided.
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Black modern TV stand with 16 color LED lights system.
Width: 78,7 inches / 200 cm
Height: 17,7 inches / 45 cm
Depth: 13,8 inches / 35 cm
TV stand MILANO 200 – fronts in gloss, two front doors (27,56" wide and 9,84" high each). Touch TIP-ON opening system (no handles). Open spaces for media equipment – 2 x ~H/W/D 3,54"/14,96"/12,6" and 1 x ~H/W/D 3,54"/23,62"/12,6" ( there is an additional ~2,56" space behind the front shield). On both sides two additional glass shelves (width 11,02") with remote controlled LED lighting system – ON/OFF and 16 color selection Remote Control.
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• fronts without handles – opened by touch - "TIP-ON" system
• glass shelves with LED lights in 16 colors
• LED lights system with remote on/off and color control.
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Neuried, Germany – Hiding and storing guns is always a struggle, especially for those who have small children running around the house. The danger of finding and playing with a gun is too high and risky if a person is not careful enough to hide it properly. That's why hunters and gun enthusiasts need a place to store their guns away and out of reach from children. Luckily, Stockinger now offers a Gun Cabinet that's specifically developed for hunters and gun enthusiasts that could perfectly store up to eight rifles plus pistols and ammunition, all in one cabinet.
"Stockinger is a company that manufactures the world's most beautiful and most secure safes. With its elegant design and perfect craftsmanship, your valuables will always be protected inside our safes," says company representative, Matthias Fitzthum. "Carefully crafted and designed, our products' modern design and protection blend in a perfect way that will give any owner a sense of absolute security. Our goal is to focus on manufacturing cabinets and safes that have the ability to adapt to any room they're placed in."
For forty years, the Stockinger team has been developing more security solutions for their client's needs. The development of their company has led them to create more designs such as hotel safes, gun cabinets, and even safe rooms. The company's products are built in such a way that no Stockinger safe could ever be opened by using force. They build safes divided into multi-wall construction, overleaf locking, which is a security bolt mechanism that will lock the safe from all four sides, and the Stocktronic which is the locking system of the vault.
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nzurek necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
MRM Proteomics
MRM Proteomics Inc. is a provider of protein biomarker services for pharmaceutical and biotech companies globally through the rapid development of multiplexed quantitative (Multiple Reaction Monitoring) assays. MRM Proteomics' range of services include biomarker discovery and validation, post-translational modification characterization, pathway mapping, and other targeted quantitative proteomics applications. These services can be employed by customers as a key part of their drug and diagnostic development process.
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What we want:
We are looking for a clean crisp professional logo that will appeal to our target audience (not cartoonish). We would like a combination logo (a symbol and the words "MRM Proteomics"). The logo should work well on most backgrounds.
We will require .ai (CMYK) and layered .psd (RGB) files.
Please do not use any stock images, clip art, and steer clear of duplicating other company logo designs.
We will be monitoring this closely and providing feedback. If you have questions for us to clarify something, please leave them for us and we will respond very quickly.
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When John Oates comes to the Don Gibson Theatre in Shelby on Friday night, it won�t be like one of his Hall & Oates performances.
When John Oates comes to the Don Gibson Theatre in Shelby on Friday night, it won�t be like one of his Hall & Oates performances.
And it�s not just because he won�t have longtime music partner Daryl Hall in tow.
�The Hall & Oates machine is quite large and complicated and big and all those parts,� said Oates in a recent phone interview from Nashville. �I show up with a guitar and I play.�
In addition to a set sure to draw attention to a solo career that�s seen him release four albums since 1999, Oates will sprinkle in several of the classic songs that have made Hall & Oates the most successful duo of the rock era, with 10 No. 1 records, more than 80 million records sold and more than 20 top 40 hits.
He�ll also share the stories behind those songs.
�I think people enjoy the insight into what songwriters think and where they get their inspiration,� Oates said. �So many people have heard our songs, they�re so ubiquitous in so many ways but so many people don�t know much about them other than Daryl and I recorded them.�
They�re songs that stick in your head when you hear them, like �Kiss is on My List,� �Private Eyes,� � I Can�t Go For That (No Can Do)� and �Out of Touch.� There�s also the 1982 hit � Maneater ,� reportedly about the unforgiving nature of New York City, and �Rich Girl,� about a spoiled former ex-boyfriend of Hall�s former girlfriend Sara Allen.
The melodies are catchy, but it�s the depth of the lyrics that have given the songs real staying power, Oates said.
�We started out as songwriters. We were not necessarily performers,� he said. �Songwriting is what brought us together, what matters to us and to this day is what the most important thing is individually and collectively.�
Oates said he did three times as many solo shows as he did shows with Hall, whom he has partnered with for more than 40 years. This year, his focus has shifted to recording songs for his fifth album. He plans to digitally release a single from the album monthly beginning in March or April before releasing the entire thing at the end of the year.
�The only shows I�m doing are shows like the one at Don Gibson,� he said. �I�m gearing up to do a lot more touring with Daryl.�
The consummate singer/songwriter � he and Hall were inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 � Oates said he�s honored that contemporary bands and musicians John Mayer, Rob Thomas, Death Cab for Cutie, Gym Class Heroes, Hot Chel Rae and the Killers cites Hall & Oates as influences.
�It feels good,� he said. �Personally, I�m old-school when it comes to that, that�s how it should be � older influences influencing younger musicians to go on and do something unique of their own.�
John Oates, one-half of the duo Hall & Oates, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at the Don Gibson Theatre, 318 S. Washington St., Shelby. Oates, who will be accompanied by guitarist Pete Huttlinger , will play his original songs as well as some classic Hall & Oates tunes.
Tickets are $28.50. For more information, visit www.dgshelby.com or call 704-487-8114.


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Crater Lake National Park
First stop on our Lassen Loop was Crater Lake were we spent 2 nights in the Mazama camp ground. The first day we checked out Sun Notch & climbed Mt. Scott.The second day after checking out the morning clouds from Cloudcap & Vidae Falls we made a spur of the moment decision to take the morning boat to Wizard Island, with only 20 minutes to spare we had to run the mile long trail down to the boat launch at Cleetwood Cove! The weather co operated until late afternoon on the second day when we got caught in a storm while on the boat back from Wizard Island. We also checked out the Lake after dark, gate crashed the Lodge & checked out the Pumice Castle. On the third morning we packed up our very wet tent & headed South for Lava Beds National Monument.Read More


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I would say that only one out of a million exceptions thrown in an application actually makes it to a log file – unless you run your application in verbose logging mode – Do you agree? No? Here is why I think that is: Because most exceptions are handled by your code or by the frameworks your app uses. Here is a chart from an enterprise application showing that there are about 4000x more custom application exception objects thrown than important log messages written.
So why worry about these exceptions that nobody cares to write to a log file? Two reasons:
- They are typically thrown for a good reason and therefore indicate a problem, e.g: configuration issues in frameworks or runtime problems
- Every Exception object is a potential performance problem because it means the JVM needs to allocate memory, get the stack trace and dispose the object soon after
Reason #1: Configuration Problems
The following shows a transaction where the method getImagePath makes a web service call to a backend server using HttpClient. getImagePath uses a an HTTP Endpoint URL. The Web Service however only supports HTTPS (SSL). The web service call therefore fails with an SSLException. getImagePath retries 3 times until it gives up and just returns a default value to the caller. No log entry written, no exception thrown to the caller, everything seems OK to the outside world even though we have a severe impact on an end user who is waiting longer than necessary for an image that he doesn't get to see:


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CNBC reports Greece Austerity Strike Will Hurt GDP Further even as Cyprus Expects Bailout as S&P Cuts Ratings to Junk:
Cyprus said on Wednesday it expected talks to start with lenders on badly needed aid next week, as ratings agency Standard & Poor's pushed it deeper into junk territory, implying domestic political expediency lay behind a delay in clinching a deal. One of the smallest nations in the euro zone, Cyprus sought European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) aid in June after its two largest banks suffered huge losses due to a write-down of Greek debt.
Well, our Contagion Model showed clear paths of the knock on effects of Greek infection, and we haven't even gotten started with the economic pathogen party yet!
Of course, where there is a loser, there's always a winner as well - sometimes hidden beneath all of their spoils... On Friday, 04 May 2012 I penned The BoomBustBlog Pan-European Distressed Asset Acquisition Initiative, which clearly outlined the investment opportunities forthcoming in the tiny nation state known as Cyprus, as excerpted:
Asset sale by sovereigns is can be seen in the sale of stakes in government owned infrastructure assets and corporations. However, the approach adopted to dispose of these assets is to make partial sales in tranches in order to participate in any benefits of valuation recovery.
Professional and institutional subscribers should download the full version of this document ( The BoomBustBlog Pan-European Distressed Asset Acquisition Initiative) which outlines investment opportunities in the following nation/banks: UK, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland and Spain. Our initiative runs the gamut from whole companies and equities, to real estate, infrastructure assets, rare earth and hard tangible assets to IP.
Dispositions by Europeans banks have consisted mostly of foreign assets outside of Europe. Most of these assets had the potential for high returns but are being offered at prices reflecting the perception that future investment performance would be robust. This is why there is so much interest in the private equity and asset management space in scanning for strong deals among those assets. However, the competition among these entities to buy quality assets at reasonable valuations has created a micro bubble of sorts, the type that make profitable vulture investing a very difficult proposition.
Over the next week I will lead readers and paid subscribers through a journey of distressed assets being disgorged by banks and sovereigns that are poised to give those who are perceptive enough out-sized returns. I find this research and foresight to be invaluable, and I believe many institutions, asset managers and UHNWers will as well. Of course, the potential winners may be those who aren't among the usual suspects, and I feel TPTB amongst the EU clan may feel downright intimidated.
Yes, Spain will contribute to this vulture-fest, as will those still hooked into Greece, et. al.
- The Embarrassingly Ugly Truth About Spain: The IMF, EC and ALL Major Rating Agencies Are LYING!!!
- European Bank Run Watch: Spaniard Edition
- And confirming opinion from ZeroHedge: Chart Of The Day: Spanish Bad Loans Hit New Parabolic Record
- Last month we reported that Spanish bad loans jumped by the most ever, rising by over 1%
to just under 10%. Today, last month's number was revised even higher to 10.1%.
But the worst news is that the August bad loan total just hit a fresh
record of €178.6 billion, or 10.5% of the total €1,698.7 billion in bank
loans. Making things worse is that the primary bank funding lifeline -
deposits - continues to flow out. That both Spain, and its banking sector are
utterly insolvent, is clear to anyone but Oliver Wyman and those who have bought
SPGBs (although granted the latter are merely hoping for a quick flip). And the
ECB of course. Indicatively, as a % of GDP, this would be equivalent to roughly
$2.7 trillion in US bank loans going sour (for more on the collapse of Spanish
banking, and the laughable stress test whose worst case has already become the
baseline, read
here). The chart summarizing this staggering statistic is below.
- Last month we reported that Spanish bad loans jumped by the most ever, rising by over 1%
- This Time Is Different As Icarus Blows Up & Burns The Birds Along The Way - Greece Is About To Default AGAIN!
Stay tuned, and follow me!


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Sal y Pimienta Conversations with Tucán Part 1 & Part 2 (from Level 2)
"Conversations with Tucán" is designed to further enhance your child's grasp of the Spanish material. These DVDs take the themes to another level by using key words from each theme/song in conversations with Tucán, the puppet. There are also animated flashcards for each theme's vocabulary words to assist children in the learning process.
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[W]hen you take a ballerina by the wrists it shouldn't look like you are riding a motorcycle.
Never paddle a ballerina in a turn. Stir her discreetly with your finger in finger turns, not like you have a spoon and she is a pot of soup.
I can't quite picture what paddling a ballerina would look like. But that probably just indicates how ignorant I am of the art. Plus maybe I like imagining a ballerina as a canoe?
Soto says he finds himself using cooking metaphors while he teaches. I imagine Soto quietly giving the advice above, then shouting when the boys are on the floor.
"Don't stir her like a pot of soup! She is not a pot of soup!"
"Don't stand there like a frozen fish stick!"
When an ensemble exercise with eighteen boys was horribly executed I stopped them and scolded: "You're not supposed to look like popcorn!"
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In Axiom Verge , you play as Trace, a scientist who awakens in an alien world after a lab
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Sisters of Resistance have long opposed the misogynist, negative portrayals of women, working class people and people of color in reality TV shows. That circle has recently expanded to include children, exploited in such shows as "Toddlers and Tiaras" and its follow-up, "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo." We would like to call your attention to this clued-in article by Jennifer Pozner for the New York Times Opinion Pages in which she looks at this disturbing cultural phenomenon.
Read the article in its original location at the New York Times here.


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Announced yesterday, National Fitness Products of Canada (NFP) became authorized distributors in the Canadian market for FreeMotion Fitness Products.
Included in the partnership is FreeMotion Fitness Products EPIC Strength and NordicTrack Commercial Cardio. With no retail stores, NFP is a wholesaler of fitness products, supplying fitness facilities across Canada.
"We pride ourselves on providing our customers unparalleled products and education. Our partnership with National Fitness Products allows us to spread our philosophy in a focused manner to the Canadian market," said Chris McGill, FreeMotion Fitness vice president of sales for the United States and Canada, in a release.


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Maine governor calls $6.3 billion budget proposal an opportunity to 'right-size government'
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � Maine Gov. Paul LePage says his two-year budget proposal includes some education cuts, but that general purpose aid would remain higher than it was when he took office.
Finance Commissioner Sawin Millet began briefing lawmakers Friday afternoon on the $6.3 billion budget for the two years beginning on July 1. The proposal would eliminate 200 jobs.
In a statement, LePage called it "an opportunity to redesign programs and right-size government."
The two-year budget addresses a projected shortfall approaching $130 million. Lawmakers will also need to find tens of millions of dollars more to cover cost overruns for social services.


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Day 15 at HappyProgress.com – Does progress equal happiness to you? Join the conversation by sending in your audio clip for Happy Progress. Make this New Years resolutions to enjoy happy progress for success in life, business and the future.
Hear from Anthony of the Freelance Spotlight Podcast.
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Making Short Spark Videos Is No Fuss, No Muss
Oct 28, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Spark Camera by Ideo is available in the iTunes App Store for US$1.99.
When I noticed that Apple had highlighted a new video app in the iTunes Store, Spark Camera, as one of its best new apps, my reaction was, yet another video camera app? What gives? Can it really be that cool?
So, to find out what Spark Camera brings to the world, I bought it -- and I was pleasantly surprised. First, the interface is super simple, clean and effective. To start recording, you just have to touch and hold the screen -- anywhere that's not a button.
If you've ever tried to frame a shot, look at the subject, and even walk at the same time, you know that touching a specific button in awkward situations easily leads to missed footage. To start recording in Spark Camera, you just put any finger or thumb on the screen and hello, you're recording.
Isn't that a little high-maintenance for a video recording app? Seriously, you have to hold your finger on the screen in order to keep recording? What happens if you take your finger off the screen?
You stop recording.
Touch and hold it again -- boom, you're recording again.
Easy Scene Stitching With Spark Camera
As you might guess, the consequence of this sort of interaction control comes back to the intended output of a Spark video: A series of scenes seamlessly connected to form the video.
There is no editing.
Instead of creating a bunch of clips that you then import into say, iMovie, and cut and splice into a single shorter clip, Spark Camera lets you create the clip on the go via its start-and-stop recording method. It's pretty cool, actually, and the effect was far better than I imagined.
Unfortunately, you get only 30 seconds to work with (but Ideo says it's looking into enabling longer videos).
When you touch the screen to record, there is a line of a thin circle that starts to change color and grow around the diameter as you record. When you start the first time, it might be blue. If you stop then start again, a new portion of the circle will start growing as a different color, say red, and if you repeat the process, you'll have a segment of video illustrated by a new colored circle line that is green -- and so on and so forth until you've filled the circle's line with colored segments that add up to 30 seconds of video.
Don't worry, it's far more intuitive in person than I'm able to describe.
If you start a clip but don't like it, you can delete it -- but you can only delete clips in a linear fashion, starting from the most recent clip. You can't, for example, realize, "Oh, hey, I'd like to re-record the start of this little Spark video and insert it in." Nope. Linear recording only.
Adding Filters to Spark Video
At any point, you can stop recording to play back what you've recorded. If you sideswipe your screen, you'll instantly throw a filter over the top of your video, giving it a new tone or hue. It works well, and there are about a dozen or so filters available to you, including a greenish one called "Area 51."
Meanwhile, if you want a song to play in the background, you can choose one from your music library. It's super fast and easy. If you've recorded audio, though, the song will remain playing in the background while you play the video, while the audio -- say, of a person talking -- remains in the playback, too.
You can choose to mute the audio if you want, which is handy. Unfortunately, there's no way to control the volume of the song, so it can seem as if the song plays loudly over the top of your recorded audio, rather than your audio being heard over the top of a quieter background song.
Save to Camera Roll
While you can upload videos to sparkcamera.com to share them via text messages and email, or post them to social media sites, you don't have to: You can save your videos to your Camera Roll. This lets you keep your videos 100 percent private, and if you want to share them, you share as .mov files. Nice.
Of course, if you want to post to Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, just upload your video to sparkcamera.com, where it gets a funky-but-short (and presumably open) URL. While it would be hard to guess a particular URL or even stumble upon someone else's video, it seems quite possible -- so mediocre privacy if you, say, try to send the video to a friend via a text message from within the Spark Camera app. (You should be able to get around this by saving the video to your Camera Roll and then sending the clip file itself via Messages or Mail.)
The bottom line is, you have to pay attention. What if you upload a video and don't want it shared? You can delete the link and your friends who had the link won't be able to view the video from the link anymore.
After that, I'm assuming that Ideo deletes the video, but at the time of this writing, I couldn't find any clear terms of use or details about what's happening with your videos once you share them -- or after you try to remove them. The sparkcamera.com website shows off some nifty videos that give you a taste of what you can do, but it's a barebones site right now.
Spark Videos in Action
Say, for example, that you want to use Spark Camera to record a day at the beach. You can start by shooting a short clip of video of your pals setting up a beach volleyball net. Stop. Put your iPhone down. Make a call. Whatever.
You can open Spark Camera later and shoot a short clip of your hand taking an ice-cold beer out of a cooler. Stop. Walk away. Shoot a few little clips of your beach volleyball game. Stop. Go swimming. Shoot a short clip of someone walking up out of the water toward the beach. Stop. Shoot a few seconds of a beach bonfire. End with a close up of your sweetheart's face in the firelight, smiling.
You could do all of this the traditional way, and at the end, stitch your footage together in iMovie and create an awesome video. Or you could do it with Spark Camera. If you're like me, you've got tons of clips that have never been edited. Because you don't edit in Spark Camera, you're more likely to produce something you actually share -- and that's the genius of Spark Camera.


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Reason number 387 on why I love Jennifer Lawrence – she isn't afraid to rock her curves on a cover of a magazine. The Oscar-winning actress, and potential contender this year for the best supporting actress gong, looks incredible wearing a 50's style floral high-waisted Dolce & Gabbana bikini on one of the six special covers for W magazine's Movie issue.
It isn't often that you get to compare Jennifer against Oprah Winfrey, Cate Blanchett, who is one of my favourite red carpet stars, as well as Matthew McConaughey, Amy Adams, and Lupita Nyong'o – all chosen for their incredible movie performances over the last year snapped by photography legend Juergen Teller.
Inside the magazine, Jennifer opens up about her big trip-up at last year's Oscars (reason 254 for loving her):
"I was at the Oscars, waiting to hear if my name was called, and I kept thinking, Cakewalk, cakewalk, cakewalk. I thought, Why is 'cakewalk' stuck in my head? And then, as I started to walk up the stairs and the fabric from my dress tucked under my feet, I realized my stylist had told me, 'Kick, walk, kick, walk.' You are supposed to kick the dress out while you walk, and I totally forgot because I was thinking about cake! And that's why I fell."
As well as loving Jennifer's cover – Cate is stunning, I love her red lippy, I have to say that Lupita in that metallic Dior dress has to be my favourite. I just love that W magazine went with an up-and-coming actress who is really standing her own against the more established names. I think Lupita will be the one to watch this award season, not only will she pick up a lot of awards but her red carpet style is going to be amazing.
Which W magazine cover are you loving? Also are you still loving Jennifer Lawrence as much as me?