Quero Ser Tua
Shine into my darkness
shine into the night, my rising sun
drive away the madness
Can you be a masterpiece of love
Sending out a message out above
Telling all the world to show some love
No one's gone bring me down, bring me down
You are my rising sun
Love makes you beautiful
When you are loved, that heating drop in you
No need to cover up
You being yourself is enough
If you see it through my eyes
Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick Tock (Ukraine)
One of my favorite entries from this year's Eurovision Song Contest
This is Riana Kadyrova's first program when she debuted as a figure skater just at the age of 2.5 years old!
The title of the music she's skating to is Barynya.
Meet Riana Kadyrova, a three-year old figure skater from Russia
Riana Kadyrova started figure skating only at the age of 2 with her mother, Reseda Kadyrova as her coach. Her older sister, Yasmina is also a figure skater as well. She debuted in figure skating championships at the age of 2.5 years with her first program, Barynya.
She trains with an older group of skaters from ages 9-11 who are also being coached by her mother. Riana describes her mother as a strict mentor, “My mother is a coach and I am a ‘sportswoman’!”, she states.
Rianna has not only won the hearts of people in her own country but she has also won the hearts of audiences in Italy and Estonia as well.
This is Sweden Calling is a really informative book on the Eurovision Song Contest although the information is a bit outdated in the sense that it only covers the history of the Eurovision from when it started in 1956 to 2003 but it's outdated-ness is understood because the book was published after the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest.
I honestly hope though that Des Mangan releases another book like This is Sweden Calling that would cover the Eurovision's history from 2004-present because those years had a fair share of interesting Eurovision moments as well!
BookLikes future and the mobile app
We’ve received many questions about BookLikes mobile app and the answer to this request is always the same: Yes, of course, there will be a mobile app. Definitely. Since the question is still present in BookLikes community I’ve decided to present you several challenges we’re dealing with and what we’re working on right now to resolve your doubts and to assure you that it’s something really worth waiting for.
BookLikes is an unusual company, our development isn’t just based on my and my team’s concept, it is an ongoing process which is also based on BookLikes’ members requests and suggestions. We’re not only creating BookLikes for book lover but with book lovers, with all of you guys. Knowing your opinion is something extremely valuable for me and for the BookLikes team, it has showed us many new paths and introduced great solutions that we’ve implemented. You feedback, options and requests have also guided us in what direction we should be developing in the near future.
The notion near future is crucial here, our regular members know that we release a new feature -- a new functionality available for all BookLikes members every week -- on Thursdays. Those special Thursdays became our traditions and we definitely don’t want to give up on them, however, the weekly releases have a big impact on the process of development and maintenance of the mobile app.
What we care about the most is the quality and the functionality. Those two characteristics are our guidelines for building BookLikes and cannot be ignored when we refer to BookLikes mobile app. The thing is, we still have many awesome ideas to show, numerous exciting releases to launch -- I’m talking about unique, innovative and special releases, not seen on any other book-social sites -- but if we decide to introduce a mobile app now, at this very stage, it would mean we should stop or at best limit the Thursday releases.
For us the most important question isn’t Will BookLikes introduce the mobile app? (the answer is Yes) but rather What BookLikes mobile apps will include? The process of preparing apps for various systems (Android, Windows, IOS) is a necessity as well as including all BookLikes functionalities and this results in major changes for BookLikes.
With an active mobile app we won’t be able to launch new feature every Thursday and update the app on the weekly bases as it requires extra time and resources which we cannot spare at this very moment. We would have to freeze the process of BookLikes development in order to adjust all BookLikes functions to the mobile application because the maintenance of the functional, high quality app with weekly updates would be extremely difficult. This would result in holding back the development of new options and improvements on BookLikes, and in consequence this would also mean introducing the incomplete and not fully functional app. It’s definitely not something we want to set up.
The app should be like a gift with an exciting inside and a breathtaking wrapping. Both of these elements need to be complete in order to present a full package of options to make BookLikes mobile experience total, fun and enjoyable.
We’re super excited about the features we want to introduce during the upcoming Thursdays and I think you’ll be also thrilled about the things we’ve prepared. For this reason I was looking for the best solution for BookLikes that would allow us to develop BookLikes, launch new weekly releases and present the mobile friendly design, and I figured out that the best solution would be a responsive design.
This way, we’ll be able to give you the Thursday candies and provide a webpage perfectly adjusted to your mobile devices. The implementation of the responsive design won’t happen overnight but it will be executed much faster than an app, plus nor the BookLikes team, nor you - the BookLikes members - will have to resign from our weekly surprises and new options for BookLikes community. And they are really worth a wait.
The BookLikes mobile app will be of course introduced, and we promise that it will be much more than just a blogging/book-cataloguing app. Just wait and see :-)
Can't wait for this!
8-year-old girl is West Bank’s youngest citizen journalist
An eight-year-old Palestinian girl is opposing the Israeli occupation of her West Bank village—with a mobile telephone.
Jana Tamimi makes news reports about the regular conflicts with Israeli soldiers in Nabi Saleh, filming video on a camera phone and posting it online.
She films her reports about her village at a time when demonstrations against Israeli settlements are taking place on a weekly basis after Friday prayers.
Tamimi said she wants to deliver the voice of her people to the world so they can gain more international support.
Jason Brown's Long Program at the 2014 US Figure Skating Championships
He skated to Riverdance which was made famous when it debuted at the 1994 Eurovision in Dublin, Ireland as an interval act. He received a standing ovation after skating his long program because he is the only figure skater so far who has skated to Riverdance at a competition. Other figure skaters have skated to Riverdance but they did it outside competitions like the Riverdance on Ice show.
