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Sunday, May 29, 2011
Amy Winehouse Album 'delayed'
Amy Winehouse's latest rehab stint has forced record label bosses to postpone plans to release her long-awaited third album, according to a U.K. report.The British singer, who has long battled drink and drunk addiction, checked into The Priory clinic on Wednesday (25May11) to undergo a treatmentprogram, with the singer's publicist revealing she was admitted to make sure she is ready for gigs in Europe this summer (11).
However, a new report now suggests Winehouse's planned comeback is set to be delayed to give her time to recover fully.
A source tells Britain's The People, "She has finally finished the album and it's ready to go. They were just about to finalise a release date and then this happened. She is back in rehab for the foreseeable future soit is just a question of waiting and seeing now. But there is no way they can give a specific release date until they know she is likely to be out".
A statement from Winehouse's representative previously revealed, "She will remain at the Priory on doctor's advice".
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Shakira Leads Cheers for Soccer Champions Barcelona
Pop superstar Shakira was leading the cheers as her soccer star boyfriendGerard Pique helped Spain's FC Barcelona to victory in the Champions League final in London on Saturday (28May11).The Hips Don't Lie hitmaker began dating the sports star shortly after announcing her split from longtime partner, Antonio de la Rua, in January(11) and she is often spotted supporting him at games.
Pique took to the pitch at London's Wembley Stadium on Saturday as his team took on Britain's Manchester United in the final of Europe's Champions League - and Shakira shared her excitement with fans as Barcelona thrashed their opponents 3-1.
In a post on Twitter.com, she writes, "Champions! Long live Barca! And now get ready, the big celebration is coming!" Pique later revealed the team will celebrate the victory by attending Shakira's concert in Barcelona on Sunday (29May11).
Other stars who attended the game included veteran crooner Neil Diamond, who posted a picture on Twitter which showed him at Wembley wearing a Manchester United hat and scarf.
But Diamond wasn't too disappointed when his team lost, writing, "What a match! Champions League Final at Wembley... Congratulations Barcelona. Great try Manchester!" Dedicated sports fan Russell Crowe was also following the game and 'Tweeting' throughout the action.
He concluded his Twitter coverage by writing, "Barcelona! Never in doubt. Bad luck Man U, did great to get to the final".
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Scratch Magic 8 Ball
Welcome to our Magic 8 Ball Fortune Teller.
Type in your question on the screen and click the blue tick mark. Good Luck and we hope your dreams come true!
To make this fun game, we first checked out a few of the Magic 8 Ball projects that had already been uploaded to the Scratch MIT Community Site:
http://scratch.mit.edu/
We then realised that our Project would require the following components:
- A Good 480x360 pixel sized Background image
- An 8 Ball image that had a spherical gradient on it to make it look 3D
- A Blue Triangle graphic image that we could write "Fortune" messages on
- A set of Fortune messages that we could include in our project
- Code blocks to make the ball shake
- A nice ball shaking sound effect
- Code blocks to randomly choose and display a "fortune" message
http://www.wallpapers-room.com/2256/filter/popular/sports/1280x960/1/
We made our 8 ball image as a 420x420 sphere in Adobe Fireworks, and added a spherical gradient 3 D effect to it. Watch the "YouTube" video later in this post for information on how to do this.
The small blue triangle took a few tries to get the right size, but we ended up with this 108x86 image. We made the triangle in Adobe Fireworks, using the Polygon Tool set to sides = 3, and added a gradient, and a light blue pencil outline.
Watch the "YouTube" video later in this post for information on how to do this.
The shaking sound effect we exported out of a Scratch project by "dominic_hunter" that we downloaded from the MIT site.
We also got our basic script coding ideas from his project.
To Export a Sound out of a Scratch Project
Right click on the Speaker symbol next to the sound in the Scratch project, and then choose "Export Audio Files to PC". (We can also do this same thing for Sprites and Images while on their "Costume").
We have placed the .WAV sound file at the following link:
http://www.passyworld.com/Scratch/ShakeSound.wav
If you click the above link, you should be able to play the sound with Windows Media Player. In WM player you can do "file > save as" to get a copy of it onto your PC.
However, if the sound plays in Quicktime when you click the link, then you will not be able to save it. You need to remove Quicktime as being your default audio player.
There is an excellent step by step article on how to do this at the following link:
Click here for How to Deactivate Quicktime as Default Player
Fortune Messages
Here are some fortune messages that can be used in the project.
( The / indicates a line return )
- Definitely / yes
- Without / a doubt
- Try / again
- Outlook / good
- Ask Nostradamus / he might / know
- Nostradamus / I am not. / Try / Again
- It is / certain
- My Reply / is No
- Yes It is / decidedly / so
- Yes
- Reply Hazy / Try Again
- No
- Ask again / later
- Sorry but / No
- Cannot predict / at this time
- My sources / say no
- Most / Likely
- Very / Doubtful
- Don't count / on it
- Probably / yes
Watch the "YouTube" video later in this post information on how to place each message into a blue triangle.
For the message font we used Arial Rounded MT Bold Bold size 14 or 18.
Creating all the costumes and graphic images, and getting them the right size, ended up taking a lot more time than creating the script blocks.
The following YouTube video explains in detail how to build the Passy World Magic 8 Ball Fortune Teller.
Note that by adjusting the bottom right hand controls, it can be viewed full screen in HD. (Press Escape to return to this blog page when finished).
Here is the Script blocks setup for the Stage.
Here is the scripting for the 8 Ball sprite.
The scripting for the Fortune Message triangle sprite is very long, but quite repetitive.
Here is the first part of the Fortune Answer sprite.
And the scripting repeats as we go through all the fortune answers, and ends like this.
The "Click for Next Question" message sprite requires the following scripts.
So that's it for our Magic 8 Ball Project.
Make sure you give our tutorials a go, by downloading and installing the Scratch Development Environment for free on your PC from the following link:
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download
When we asked the Magic 8 Ball if it had been a good project, the answer was:
"Definitely yes".
May good fortune be with you always.
Enjoy,
Big Passy Wasabi
Clairvoyant - Time's Crime
Year : 2009
1. Anthem Of God (ode) 01:29
2. Escape (From Despair) 05:30
3. Total Eclipse 03:06
4. Stand And Resist 04:45
5. Time's Crime 06:56
6. Rocking Hard 04:27
7. Lord Of Twilight 04:36
8. Achilles Wrath 07:01
9. Anthem Of God II (live instrumental) 03:52
10. Future Warning 05:44
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
Scratch Random Numbers
Welcome to our Random Numbers Tutorial in Scratch.
Click the Green Flag to start the guys making some numbers, and then keep clicking the green flag to go again.
This tutorial shows a variety of ways we can make Random Numbers using Scratch. These numbers are handy to use in games we make to create interest and unpredictability.
The following YouTube video shows how our Random Numbers project was built.
Note that by adjusting the bottom right hand controls, it can be viewed full screen in HD. (Press Escape to return to this blog page when finished).
Here are the variables that need to be created for this project.
Here is the Scripting for the Cat, who says numbers between 1 and 20.
The following is the scripting for the Starfish, who also creates numbers bewtween 1 and 20, but includes inbetween values like 6.5 and 17.5.
The script for the Squirrel creates numbers between 1 and 30 that are multiples of 3.
If you want to use our background to build your project, then here it is.
(Click on the picture and use your browser's save function, and then back arrow to return to this page).
As a challenge, modify this project to do the following:
The Cat says numbers between 20 and 40
The Starfish says numbers between 10 and 20 that have decimal values in one quarter increments such as:
10, 10.25, 10.5, 10.75, 11, 11.25.......19, 19.25, 19.5, 20
The Squirrel says numbers between 10 and 100 that are multiples of 10 such as: 10, 20, 30, 40, ......... 90, 100
Make sure you give our tutorials a go, by downloading and installing the Scratch Development Environment for free on your PC from the following link:
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_1.4_Download
You'll definitely have some fun getting into random situations with Scratch.
Enjoy,
Big Passy Wasabi
Friday, May 27, 2011
Linday Lohan under house arrest
Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan, who showed up three weeks early at Los Angeles` Lynwood Jail, is now under house arrest.A website reports that she was immediately determined eligible to serve her time at home, so she was fitted with an electronic ankle bracelet Thursday and released.
She is now at her home in Venice, California, but cannot leave until June 29.
"She is now confined to the interior premises of her home at all times," said Steve Whitmore, the Los Angeles Sheriff`s spokesman.
The actress was last month ordered to to undertake three years probation, serve 120 days in jail and complete 480 hours of community service for jewelry theft and breaching the terms of her 2007 probation.
Home detention aims to reduce the prison population by allowing non-violent offenders to serve out their sentences in home confinement.
Lohan, who pleaded no contest to stealing a $2,500 necklace, had until June 17 to report to the prison but it is thought she wanted to do it sooner rather than later so she can begin shooting her new movie, "Gotti: three Generations"
Gregor Mackenzie + The Misanthropes "Torture That Girl"
Hailing from Minnesota, they released 4 singles between 1978-1981 and appeared multiple times on Hyped by Death and KBD comps. In addition to their singles, this album also includes many unreleased tracks.
Tracklist:
1] Torture That Girl
2] Contact Overdose
3] Judy's Wimp / Concealed Weapon
4] Window Peeper
5] Piston Boy
6] Andrea Teen
7] Baby Sitter
8] Oedipus Blues
9] When Havoc Struck
10] Winged Bat Anthem
11] Debby Is Electro-Cute
12] Getrude Is The Guitar Queen
13] Northfield Girls
14] Soviet Girl
15] Normal You
16] Surrogate Song
17] Memo To Rex
18] Sweet Little Suzie
19] Hey Rock Star
20] Skiing Down Mount Rushmore
21] Spacewalk
22] Suzie
23] Fun And Games And Michael Ambrose
24] Northfield Girls (Electro-version)
Gregor Mackenzie + The Misanthropes - Mediafire
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Gregor Mackenzie + The Misanthropes - Megaupload
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Gregor Mackenzie + The Misanthropes - Rapidshare
Style Crush Files: #1 Mollie King ♥
This is the first post I'm doing of a new thing called "Style Crush Files". Basically I get into stalking mode and try and piece a similar outfit together. I think it's more helpful for you guys to look at, instead of my usual outfit posts. I'm trying to include just high street clothes.
Much more helpful don't you think? Anyway, I absolutely love Mollie from The Saturdays and her style is always amazing. I think she is great inspiration for day time looks.
I'm not sure who will be next for the Style Crush File!
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Ramble, Ramble, Ramble ♥
Hello girls! I hope you are all well! I have been a very, very bad blogger this week. It feels like I haven't posted in forever! In my defence, I have been quite busy. First of all, it was my birthday on the 24th! I'm officially 20..I forgot it was my birthday until someone reminded me the day before. Terrible, I know.
My amazing mother bought me a Blackberry, which I am over the moon about but sadly I have to get another one because it won't connect to the Internet for some annoying reason :(
Um, what else have I been up to?...
I'm now back home in London and it's really nice seeing all my friends and family again. I think I've already told you all this though...bad memory.
I've been in quite a funny mood recently..I miss Southampton and I have a weird feeling that something bad is going to happen. Do you ever get like that? It's just a weird vibe I can't stop thinking about. Maybe I just need to sleep more..If that's even possible haha :)
Anyway, I'm starting to do research for my final major project for my 3rd year of uni already. I want to be all prepared for once. I actually envy people who are motivated and organised. I am the complete opposite. I get too distracted easily!
I'm just starting a new series of posts about my style crushes and I'm just doing one on Mollie King from The Saturdays. I love her!
Before I post that, I just wanted to show you a video that I cannot stop watching! I am actually speechless at how amazing this make up looks.
Take a look and tell me what you think!
xoxo
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