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Harley Dental has seen an increased number of patients visiting the practice due to teeth grinding which is often caused by stress and due to today's hectic busy schedules and lifestyles.
With most businesses now becoming around the clock industries stressful habits can serious health problems and oral health problems. There is also research showing that other problems associated with stress include sleep disturbance, snoring and Upper Airway Resistance syndrome.
What are the symptoms of teeth grinding
- Headaches, neck pain and facial pain
- Increased wear on teeth, broken teeth, chipped front teeth and damage to existing restorations
- Jaw joint pain, clicking and tenderness
Teeth grinding can be caused or brought on by:
- Stress, busy lifestyles and juggling too much
- Interferences between your top and bottom teeth
- Overnight restricted airways – this problem affects women and men equally despite the snoring. This problem leads to disturbed sleep, chronic fatigue, spikes in blood pressure, stress on your heart and can be associated with increased risk of stroke, heart attack and fibromylgia.
Do you grind your teeth?
Have you chipped or broken a tooth with no obvious cause? Do you have restless nights? Do you get headaches or neck pain?
If you have answered yes to any of the above, then book a consultation at the Plymouth Dental Surgery today and they will give you a full diagnosis as well as provide you with a treatment plan to help you and your loved ones get a better night's sleep.
What can you do if you grind your teeth?
Staff can access the type of grinding, look at other symptoms and then advise you on a suitable treatment plan. This can vary from simple exercises through to specialist splints and mandibular advancement devices. In cases where your dentist feel's that full OSA (Obstructive Sleep Apnoea) might be the issue they sometimes recommend referral to a specialist sleep medicine centre.
Dental Surgeon, Charlie Fox said: "Not only can we help but we have personal experience in helping patients who grind their teeth in their sleep I use an appliance myself which helps me to stop clenching allowing my wife to get a better night's sleep."
Here are some tips to help stop you grinding
Why not ask your dentist to make a plastic or acrylic night time appliance for you to wear . Although it may not stop you from grinding, it will redistribute the forces from grinding and protect your teeth from damage.
Your teeth should be touching only when you're chewing or swallowing. Try and drop your jaw and feel the muscles relax.
Take a warm bath before bedtime this is a fantastic way to unwind after a busy day at work or at home with the kids. Treat yourself to some nice bath salts.
Exercise is the best way to beat stress or depression. When you are feeling a little hot under the collar either at home or at work take a walk or other mild exercise may help relieve some of the tension and stress that's causing bruxism.
If you're a daytime clencher, think of ways to remind yourself not to clench. For example, you can put a red dot on your phone, stickers on your wristwatch, or even a string on your finger to remind you to keep your jaw relaxed.


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Thought this picture was fantastic. Dislike very much that Senator Graham is from my home state (I didn't vote for him).
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He Doesn't Represent Me
South Carolina State Senator Lindsey Graham has betrayed his constituents. Yesterday he introduced a bipartisan bill for universal background checks under the guise of preventing those that are " insane" from purchasing guns. I have been thinking about this issue for awhile as I was very conflicted about it. I don't like crazy people wielding guns, but at the same time, a right is a right. My friend and fellow Libertarian Austrianaut put it this way. He said, "Now, everybody has a crazy uncle Earl. While crazy uncle Earl may seem a bit off his rocker due to what happened to him back in 'Nam, would you ever want your beloved (yet slightly off-kilter) uncle becoming a victim of a home invasion due to his mental state?" That really got me thinking. NO ONE should ever be stripped of their right to defend themselves, EVER! Rights are innate and should never be taken away. In my eyes, I guess that also means voting rights.
Senator Graham also spent last night wining and dining with the President instead of standing with Senator Paul on US Soil Drone Strikes. Not only did he not show solidarity with his fellow conservatives (and an absolute respect for the Constitution), he showed support for the current administration and their ideal that killing US citizens on US soil was a-OK. "Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, praised the Obama administration for its use of drone strikes abroad and offered his view that the wartime authority Congress granted to use military force against Al Qaeda made no exception for domestic soil. Mr. Holder indicated that he agreed." He has no respect for us and no respect for the Constitution.
Let's make sure that this RINO knows where we stand in 2014.

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More, now, in my series on hastily read Russian poets and their barely-understood poems. Today, Vladimir Mayakovsky, then Anna Akhmatova, and next week, I guess, Boris Pasternak.
What these three poets have in common, aside from chronology, is that for the hasty, English-only reader, their poetry is inseparable from their biographies. They all have such strong stories. As if their poetry is not muted enough by translation, their frightening, heartening, interesting personal histories practically swamp the poems. I mean, as I am reading them, in books with fifty pages of introduction and ninety pages of poetry.
I am having trouble focusing the microscope, so to speak.
Vladimir Mayakovsky was a wonderful nut, a true anarchist of the spirit, who inexplicably became Stalin's favorite poet, a preference that was also a kind of curse. Mayakovsky's suicide in 1930, at the age of thirty-six, is both a mystery and overdetermined.
Where Velimir Khlebnikov was closer to a pure language poet, Mayakovsky used the avant garde toolbox to write about himself, his love affairs and revolutionary activities and arguments and poetry. Mayakovsky, in the middle of a romance in Paris, has been asked to write political poetry, and responds with "Letter from Paris to Comrade Kostrov on the Nature of Love":
Public squares begin to buzz;
carriages roll past;
I stroll about,
jotting verse
in my notebook.
along the street
without knocking me down.
They understand,
the smart fellows:
here is a man
in ecstasy.
The assembly of visions
and ideas
is brimmed
to the lid.
even bears
might grow wings. ("Letter from Paris to Comrade Kostrov on the Nature of Love," 1929, 215-7)
Mayakovsky wrote plenty of propaganda poems, too, a third of his collected works, and drew propaganda posters, none of which is included in The Bedbug and Selected Poetry, tr. George Reavey and Max Hayward. This side of the poet remains a puzzle to me. He is so exuberant, as in the 1915 "The Cloud in Trousers":
I never want
to read anything.
What are books?
Formerly I believed
books were made like this:
a poet came.
lightly opened his lips,
and the inspired fool burst into song –
if you please!
But it seems,
before they can launch a song,
poets must tramp for days with callused feet,
and the sluggish fish of the imagination
flounders softly in the sludge of the heart. (75)
The English poems display an inspiring variety of metaphors.
Most puzzling of all is the 1929 play The Bedbug, a satire of science, the Soviets, futurism (small-F), Communism, etc., just the sort of thing to get a writer in serious trouble. A worker, a Party member, Ivan Prisypkin, is marrying into a bourgeois family, where he will abandon his Soviet ideals and become Pierre Skripkin, even if now he is so vulgar that mistakes brassieres for bonnets. By accident, he is frozen and resurrected in the future – 1979 – where he is no longer recognized as human, only barely distinguishable from the bedbug that was frozen with him.
PRISYPKIN: What is all this? What did we fight for? Why did we shed our blood, if I can't dance to my heart's content – and I'm supposed to be a leader of the new society! (292)
But dancing has been replaced with calisthenics and propaganda:
ZOYA BERYOZKINA: Tomorrow I'll take you to see a dance performed by twenty thousand male and female workers on the city square. It's a gay rehearsal of a new work-system on the farms.
The Bedbug played in 1929 and 1930 and was a failure; it was revived in the 1950s, post-Stalin, and was a smash. It is something else, especially the screwball, Marx Brothers-like wedding scene.
In hours like these, one rises to address
The ages, history, and all creation. ("Past One o'Clock…," 1930, 237)
I guess so. Then Mayakovsky spins the chamber of his revolver and points it at his chest.


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'Pretty Little Liars' Stars Win Big at Show's Last Teen Choice Awards!
Janel Parrish and Lucy Hale are surprised with their awards while presenting on stage at the 2017 Teen Choice Awards held at USC's Galen Center on Sunday (August 13) in Los Angeles.
The ladies and Pretty Little Liars co-stars were presenting on stage when host Logan Paul popped up to surprise them with the news that they both won awards!
Lucy won the award for Choice Drama TV Actress and Janel won for Choice TV Villain. This was the final time the show is eligible for awards at this show.
FYI: Lucy is wearing a Fausto Puglisi dress, Stuart Weitzman shoes, a Jimmy Choo clutch, and Beladora, Shay, and Ileana Makri jewelry. Janel is wearing a Hamel dress.
10+ pictures inside of the Pretty Little Stars at the awards show…


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Dear Nicalai,
You know Nona and Papa. They go for a walk every evening. Have done for, they claim, 44 years. So, here in Chania, we walk around the old Venetian harbor at least once a day. Sometimes, we go in the morning too. You know what we see. Right, a lot of boats. Boats of all kinds too. I thought I'd show some to you.
Here are some working boats. They're "working" because they're used to go catch fish for the market.
You can see some of their fishing nets piled up there in the center of the photo. Sometimes when we walk by those boats, oh girl, you wouldn't like the smell!
Papa said that whoever owns this boat is a "clever adapter." A what?
I said, "Papa, please speak words that I can understand. OK?" He tried, "Well, I mean the captain of that little boat is smart. He took a cover for a pick up truck, put it on top of his boat, and he made a captain's wheelhouse. He "adapted" that pickup top to a boat top." I said, "I get it. Hey, I think I'd like to be a "clever adapter." I'm going to look for something to adapt."
Nona said that she did a "double take" when she saw this boat being paddled into the harbor by all these people. It's really a raft.
The group on this raft had made it with their own hands out of reeds and with stone age type tools, and then they sailed it for 48 hours from a town on the mainland of Greece to Chania, Crete. They called themselves "The First Mariners," but, of course, they weren't.
Something about a boat cruising by an old light house tower has a calming effect on me.
I could sit and watch that kind of thing all day. Actually, I tried to do that, but Papa insisted, "Come on the day is still young. We have more walking to do. Have to get in our 10,000 steps!" I got an idea. "OK, let's go over their to the lighthouse tower. You hold me up so I can sit on it for the view, and, Nona, you stay here and take my picture." To my surprise, they did it!
Wow, on a clear day, I could see forever, maybe all the way to the Greek mainland.
Here's my favorite photo of that lighthouse tower. Nona took it when we went walking at sunset.
I really wish you were here to go for walks with us. You'd like seeing all the boats, but, in some places, you might have to hold your nose…just for a little bit.
I'm your friend.
July 2014
- You may be asking yourself, "Who is Solbit?" Solbit is a fictional character, but she is a real plastic dinosaur, sent to us unsolicited in a package we ordered from Photojojo. So, she's a plastic jurassic. Solbit is short for the four names given her by our grandchildren: Sparkle, Orangie, Lulu, Breakit. We tend to use her given names for when she's been naughty. Thank you for visiting Tales of a Plastic Jurassic. Solbit likes company and hopes you'll come back.
- You can learn more about Solbit at her About page and in the earlier posts, "Solbit: How I Got My Name" and "Solbit: How I Got to Travel."


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One sent over by my much better half, Basecamp look to be doing a cracking job of meshing R&B/Dub percussions with huge sweeping synths and textured electronic landscapes. While in itself that would normally be all I need to sign up, you also have a fantastic set of vocals that really polish the track into a total cracker.
They have rather generously uploaded their entire EP to Soundcloud and while all the tracks are great in their own right, this is the standout for me. Its all about the bleeps man.
Here is the artist page with links to the entire EP for your listening pleasure, enjoy.


text: This year was a year dominated by the rise of the Arcade. Half of the games in my top 10 were 15 dollars or less and that's a huge testament to how big the Xbox Live Arcade has gotten in the past year. Apart from the ones on my list, other games like Fez, Journey (PS3 download but you get the message), and Trials Evolution are getting major consideration for awards on multiple other websites. That doesn't mean there hasn't been a fair share of retail releases that impressed on multiple levels. Tell that to Sleeping Dogs, Mass Effect 3, Far Cry 3, Assassins Creed 3, and Dishonored and they will prove you wrong. It wasn't the best year, that's for sure, but that doesn't mean it didn't impress in many ways.


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Youth Programs
Whether it's for Guides, Scouts, Cadets or community youth groups, Admiralty House has the perfect activity. Our activities, coupled with a tour of the museum are guaranteed to educate and entertain. Here are the activities that are available and their suitable age group:
Kids learn Morse code through clapping, stomping and singing, followed with games to get their bodies moving.
Senior Programs
Seniors' Tour and Tea is sure to delight all who have an interest in history and a passion for conversation! Groups of seniors can book tours of the museum followed with coffee, teas, and treats. A minimum of 10 people is required for a booking.
Seasonal senior events are available in the summer. Check back for more program opportunities.
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Saturday, August 17, 2019
Fantasy Island Amusement Park
2400 Grand Island Blvd, Grand Island, NY 14072
This event has been canceled.
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Today was shearing day here at the farm. Our twenty ovine friends got a trim bright and early this morning. All were fairly cooperative and the entire process took just over two hours. It was also 27 degrees and blowing snow, not exactly the spring weather we had hoped for on such an occasion. Consequently, everyone will be staying in the barn where they will stay dry and out of the wind until our weather improves a bit.
Here is Miss. Dessie (one of our favorite and friendliest ladies) before shearing.
And here she is after her hair cut. I think I spy a baby belly.
They look so different without their fleece!
Hannah is looking at Kevin, possibly wondering why we would do such an embarrassing thing to her?
And the most mortified of all, the boys. Can't you tell by the look on Zeke's face that he is not happy with us?
We also uncovered more than a few large udders while removing all that fleece of their's, leading us to believe that all seven ewes in this year's breeding plan will grace us with at least one lamb each over the next month. Now we just wait and see!
I have twenty garbage bags of our very own wool to skirt, wash and process into roving. Let the fun begin! 🙂
Happy weekend!


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It's funny how some distance can make everything seem small…
It's been a while since I last wrote a blog post. My 'blog post ideas' Word document has been accumulating ideas, but time has not been on my side. At the same time, though, it's been difficult to write in the interim period, because I feel like I'm both barely the person I was two months ago and even more the person I was two months ago – and now really myself. I'll try to explain.
When I look back over my last five years, the changes, both external and internal, that I've gone through are pretty dramatic. I feel like that was a different me back then.
Yesterday, I turned 23. When I look back over my last five years, the changes, both external and internal, that I've gone through are pretty dramatic. On my 18th birthday, I was taking my French A Level oral exam (which I failed!). My mother was in remission and waiting a couple of years for an all clear, and was completely healthy with it. My boyfriend of a year and a half and I were going strong, and despite some ups and downs were looking forward to spending our gap year together. My RSI was bad, but not as bad as it had been and the medication was keeping it mostly under control, so I could function normally without too much pain. I was relatively comfortable with my religiosity and my faith, a few gripes notwithstanding. I feel like that was a different me back then.
Today I am 23. I am fortunate enough to have finished university with a first class degree, to have a good job which I secured within a few months of finishing university, and to have my RSI relatively under control without the aid of medication. To that extent, things are probably as I would have hoped to see them through the lens of five years ago. Other than that, though, I doubt much of my life today is how I'd have expected it to turn out.
My mother's been gone two and a half years now, and I still miss her as much every day as I did on that first morning that the sun rose without her. Yesterday, she would have turned 57 – we'd have a collective age of 80 now! – but instead she's in Bushey cemetery and I'm still putting the pieces of my life back together, rather inexpertly. The boyfriend and I broke up nearly three years ago, after just about making it through our gap year and then being on and off in our first year of university. My low moods, which were always a difficulty between us, have now crystallised into clinical depression, and his jokes that I was almost as interested in the women around me as I was in him are no longer jokes, because I proudly came out as bisexual a year ago. And my religion? Well, that's been a constant seesaw ever since the very first week of my gap year, and the last two months have been no exception.
I had never been all that bothered about the role of women in Orthodox Judaism while I was growing up (as I explored in a post a few months ago), and I was happy to be religious in a normative way – or, at least, to been seen to be like that outwardly. Then I got to Israel for my gap year. A couple of days after arriving was a Friday, so it was my first Sabbath spent in the country, and we decided that the only thing we could even contemplate doing was to go to the Kotel (the Western Wall) for the Friday night services. That's what we did. To pray with a few thousand other Jews at the holiest site in Judaism should have been inspiring, incredible. I was even lucky enough to get a spot right up against the Wall, at the furthest left of the women's section (so right up against the barrier between the men's and women's sections). Despite that, though, and despite the fact there were probably enough men there to have maybe 200, maybe 300 minyanim (the requirement of ten men for certain parts of the liturgy), I was nevertheless unable to hear any of the men who were leading the prayer, and so I was left praying the service to myself. I found that pretty upsetting – surrounded by thousands with the same intentions as me and yet still very much alone, just because I was a woman and couldn't position myself near a man leading the prayers for me. The following day, we went to the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, where there was a communal seuda shlishit ('third meal', the meal between the afternoon and evening services on the Sabbath), and I sat between the other two guys I was with; a few minutes into the meal, though, the rabbi bustled over and told me that I needed either to leave or to sit by myself at a table in the corner – facing the wall! – because women weren't allowed to share the same table as men. The three of us promptly walked out.
Those experiences really shook my commitment to my faith, although not to my practice. However much I questioned the point of being religious, I always found that I couldn't just drop the practice side of Judaism. I'm not sure whether that was because it was too habitual, a personal comfort, or an image that I felt I needed to maintain. Many people I've spoken to recently about similar issues (more on that later) have emphasised that the nature of Judaism is that you can keep up the practices without necessarily having the faith supporting them while you wait to see if the faith comes back, but I'm not sure if I'm convinced, because what is the ultimate point of practicing without the concept of divine authority?
What is the ultimate point of practicing without the concept of divine authority?
However much my faith seesawed, I do know that in the months running up and following my mother's death, my faith was complete. By that point, my personal theology of prayer had developed such that I couldn't accept petitionary prayer as a valid activity, so I rarely prayed earnestly for her to get better once we knew the cancer was terminal and wasn't going anywhere; my prayer tended to focus on her being as pain-free and comfortable as possible, and right at the end all I was praying for over and over again was for her to go peacefully. Well, that prayer seemed to be answered, because rather than spending her final moments in extreme suffering from the various factors combined against her, she just took one last breath and was gone. I believed that the fact that she died on the seventh day of Channukah and was buried on the eighth day was religiously significant: the story of Channukah is about the oil burning for longer than anyone expected (like she outlasted her diagnosis); and the eighth of anything is the mystical beyond the holiness of the seventh, so she died on a numerically holy day and was buried and send to her eternal rest on a numerically extra-worldly day. I got enormous comfort from saying the mourners' prayer three times a day (though whether that was a religious comfort or comfort from being able to say publicly, 'I'm mourning and it's OK for me to be doing so', I'm not sure). It all really meant something to me back then.
I'm not sure where to go with my story now, to be honest. There's a year and a half or so of internal struggle that I could talk about, but that probably all makes more sense in the light of recent events, and my sexuality in particular.
I was very clear on the fact that I didn't see any contradiction [between my religious beliefs and commitments and my sexuality].
When I first came out, more than a few people asked me how I reconciled that side of my life with my religious beliefs and commitments, and I was very clear on the fact that I didn't see any contradiction. A few very encouraging things I'd read and been told about Orthodoxy and its potential openness to non-heterosexuality in the weeks and months before I finally decided to come clean had convinced me that I could be who I was and still be who I'd always been. Once I found myself out of the heterosexual privilege position, though, I started to see things that I'd never noticed before. For example, the laws of modesty (tzniut) require you to be fully clothed in front of people of the opposite sex – let's not get into gender/sex here, because it gets even more messy – but the jury seems to be out on what an homosexual or bisexual individual should be doing. Is a women's only swimming pool really the right place for a lesbian or bisexual woman from a modesty perspective? Over time, then, cracks began to appear in my convictions…
The same-sex marriage debate is a whole other thing, and that's really the core of this post, I think, or at least the catalyst. I've already written in a previous post about my views about same-sex marriage; rather, I wrote about my views as they were two months ago. Watching the concept being debated on a Modern Orthodox forum about a month ago, though, changed my perspective on EVERYTHING. My faith in God was already questionable, and I will explain that further in a blog post soon to come, but when I saw the way that discussions of non-heterosexual rights were simply descending into thinly veiled homophobia and biphobia (in the sense of a complete lack of understanding rather than actual hatred), my eyes snapped open.
Watching [same-sex marirage] being debated on a Modern Orthodox forum about a month ago, though, changed my perspective on EVERYTHING. I was beginning to wish I could just 'be heterosexual again'.
Being bisexual is great. Twice as many possibilities. Twice as many pieces of attractive eyecandy. A complete lack of concern for gender identity in potential romantic interests. It's more than that for me, though. Discovering myself and coming out has made me so much more at peace with myself, and I can know that even as other things confuse me, at least one thing now makes much more sense. It gives me peace, self-confidence, self-assurance, and happiness. By the end of these discussions, though, I was beginning to wish I could just 'be heterosexual again', because my skin is not thick enough to deal with people lumping my attraction to women with other 'immoral' sexual activities – physical urges which are not wrong in themselves but which should be suppressed for the sake of religion. And that made me realise that, frankly, if it was going to come down to a choice between expressing my true sexuality, a piece of self-knowledge which has made me so much more at ease with myself, and following my religion, which I can't remember ever making me feel genuinely happy in and of itself, there is no contest.
The song Let It Go from the Disney film Frozen has become a bit of a phenomenon; I'm tempted even to call it an anthem. The sentiments the lyrics express can be used in an almost limitless range of situations, because what it champions is the idea that it is possible to break free from the restrictive bonds you've formerly been held back by, and that when that happens, you can reinvent yourself to be the person you've always wanted or needed to be – or felt that you already were. Breaking away from controlling parents or an abusive childhood (as is the case in the film). Slowly making your way out of the personal shackles of a mental illness. Getting out of an unhealthy relationship. Accepting your sexuality and coming out. Or maybe leaving behind a religious tradition that suffused every aspect of life while you were growing up but is no longer the positive inspiration it could be?
I need to strive for whatever will make me the most emotionally and mentally healthy individual I can be.
I have a long journey ahead of me, and I don't know where it will lead me. Maybe back to Judaism and Jewish faith. Maybe to another religion. Maybe away from religion entirely. Whatever happens, though, I'm going to try to bear the ideas behind Let It Go in mind. Ultimately, I need to strive for whatever will make me the most emotionally and mentally healthy individual I can be, and if that means that perhaps Judaism is not conducive to that for me, it is OK to 'let it go'.


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Toddler language has to be about the process of discovery. When my daughter states that her cat has ears and can walk (as I posted moments ago), I have to think she's doing so for many reasons. She is modeling her monologues on previous conversations. By starting a monologue, she's leading up to dialogue. She's cataloging what she sees in the world around her and sharing her knowledge.
A recent revelation that she shared with me: "I your daughter, and you my mommy!" Somehow, it was a revelation to me, too, hearing it come from her mouth. I AM her mother; I've become a new thing, on top of all of the other things that I am and have been. She IS my daughter – and she even got the pronouns right! I reveled in her revelation. My two-year-old is getting so many things sorted out so early, and I am so proud.
And then, a few days later, in her most endearing voice, she said to Pepper: "I your daughter, and you my Pup!"
Well, I'm still proud…but I'm wondering if these titles like "daughter" and "mother" might mean a little less than I'd first thought. Maybe I need to reconsider the ways in which I catalog the world myself.


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"The Sacred Band": Book Three of the Acacia Trilogy
David Anthony Durham
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Published: 04 October 2011
Format: Hardback 576 pages
Categories: Fantasy
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"Durham brings his sci-fi Acacia Trilogy to a satisfying close. Samuel R. Delany meets Cormac McCarthy meets J.R.R. Tolkien as the striking and subtly powerful Corinn Akaran settles into queenship over the Known World just in time to take up arms with the Other Lands…. [Durham] takes time to paint scenes in words that other writers might brush away…and [his] pages are full of thrilling action that would do Tolkien proud. A close, yes—but with wiggle room for more Acacian adventures. At any rate, on the strength of this installment, Durham's many fans will be clamoring for more.".—Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"Provides the best of both worlds: epic world-changing conflict and touching character-centered story. What else could you possibly want?" —Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Wise Man's Fear, a #1 New York Times bestseller
"The conclusion of Durham's trilogy…ties the threads of these separate stories unto a satisfying climactic world-changing battle. Strong writing, intriguing characters, and a richly detailed background—along with the possibility for future development of Durham's scenario—make this fantasy epic a winner for those who enjoy large-scale fantasy along the lines of George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series.—Library Journal
Durham's sprawling epic fantasy trilogy comes to an end with this final volume. … Readers who began the Acacia trilogy with the first book, when the Akaran siblings' father was overthrown by a warlord, will find themselves immersed in this absorbing, far-reaching conclusion and the many story lines it wraps up."—Booklist


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Chapman is sticking with the wacky-rigged finesse worm and just caught and released a short fish.
He's fishing on the outside bends in the creek channel, focusing on 10-foot deep holes created by current. He's still hoping for some discharge and current, but hasn't happened so far.
He at least has to be encouraged he's getting bit.


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Precio: 10.20EURIVA:2.14Precio total: 12.34
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(Halifax, NS) In AUS men's hockey action, the Saint Mary's Huskies took on their cross-town rivals, the Dalhousie University Tigers, at the Dauphinee Centre. In front of a large homecoming crowd, an exciting game saw the Huskies come away with a close 4-3 win.
The Huskies opened the scoring three minutes into the first period. Rookie Sam King (Hampton, NB) tipped in a low shot from the point past Tigers goalie Connor Hicks (Kanata, ON). Defencemen Mark Trickett (Baddeck, NS) and Nicholas Welsh (Halifax, NS) assisted on the play.
The teams traded chances throughout the period, playing a physical, intense game. The energy of their rivalry was palpable in the rink.
The Tigers evened the score with less than two minutes left in the period. Battling behind the net, Michael Dill (Windsor, NS) passed to Brett Crossley (Dartmouth, NS) in front. It took Crossley a couple attempts in close but he stuffed the puck past goalie Eric Brassard (St. Hubert, QC) to make it a 1-1 game.
Shots after the first period were 11-7 in the Huskies' favour.
The start to the second period mirrored the first, with the Huskies getting on the board early. This time it was Anthony Repaci (Toronto, ON) scoring two minutes into the period. He sent a wrist shot went top corner as Trickett and Dylan Dylan Di Perna (Nobleton, ON) assisted on the play to put the Huskies up 2-1.
They came close to extending their lead when Noah Zilbert (Fredericton, NB) forced a turnover and with a burst of speed drove to the Tigers' net. The rebound of his shot went high and Connor McGlynn (Oakville, ON) following up the play couldn't control the bouncing puck to put home the rebound.
After that, the Huskies had a series of penalties that ended with the Tigers on a five on three man advantage. After some good puck movement around the perimeter of the Saint Mary's zone, Connor Welsh (Halifax, NS) walked in from the high slot and wired a wrist shot top shelf to once again even the score.
Later in the period on the power play, McGlynn had another chance for the Huskies as his shot beat Hicks short side and hit the post.
The second period ended with the teams tied 2-2. Saint Mary's took the edge in shots in the second frame 16-12.
Five minutes into the final period, Repaci put home a rebound off of a shot from the point from Jacob Friend (Bowmanville, ON) to again give the Huskies the lead, 3-2.
With five minutes to go, Mitchell Balmas (Sydney, NS) peeled down the left wing past Dal's defence and Aiden Jamieson (Lindsay, ON) was forced to haul him down as he drove to the net and take a penalty.
On the ensuing Saint Mary's power play, the Tigers scored a shorthanded goal. On the rush, Campbell Pickard (Halifax, NS), working with Dillon Boucher (Head Chezzetcook, NS), made it 3-3.
The Huskies' power play got to work, however, and with three minutes to go Bronson Beaton (Springhill, NS) scored the game winning goal.
The Tigers pulled their goalie in the final minutes of the game and spent that time putting pressure on the Huskies in their zone, but couldn't find the equalizer as the Huskies came away with a 4-3 win.
Anthony Repaci, with two goals for Saint Mary's, was named the Subway Player of the Game.
The Huskies travel to Antigonish to take on the X-Men on October 11, while the Tigers host Acadia at the Halifax Forum on the 11th.
Sarah Moore, SMU Communications
Photo Nick Pearce


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The White House has put together a slide show called "The End of the Combat Mission in Iraq." It includes a lot of scenes, dating back to Obama's Inauguration, of meetings with serious generals, concerned-looking Iraqi politicians, and cheerful American troops. No combat, althought there is a shot of Obama leaning over a grave in Arlington; he's leaving a Presidential coin there.
Interestingly, Vice-President Biden appears in twenty-one of the thirty pictures in the series. (Obama is only in thirteen.) Does that say something about Biden's role in Iraq policy? Or just that he knows how to pull off the pairing of a tan suit and combat boots? Maybe the President's speech, in a couple of hours, will explain that, as well as when the fifty-thousand troops still in Iraq might come home—home, and not just redeployed to Afghanistan. (And then maybe he can turn to some domestic issues, like the Steelers' quarterback situation.)
A number of New Yorker writers will be watching the speech, and we'll have their responses on the site. Stay tuned.


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Yinping Wang
Yinping Wang
Mr. Yinping Wang was re-appointed to the Board of Directors for Western Resources Corp. in April 2017.
Mr. Wang currently is member of the Board of Shenyang Zhiying Pharmaceutical at China Pioneer Pharma Holdings Limited, at which he was the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. Mr. Wang served as Vice President and Deputy Manager of Sinochem Corporation. Previously, Mr. Wang served as Vice President at Sinochem Corporation since November 1998. Mr. Wang is very experienced in corporate management. He joined Sinochem Import and Export Corporation (now known as China Sinochem Group Corporation (Sinochem Group) in 1987. Mr. Wang serves as Director of Sinochem Corporation, in charge of Engineering Management Department, China Foreign Economy and Trade Trust & Investment Company, Sinochem International Information Co. and Fund Management Company.
Mr. Wang holds bachelor's degree in law in 1985 from the Department of Law of China Renmin University and later received an EMBA from China Europe International Business School in 2004.


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One definition of scientific research is "organized curiosity."
People have always been curious: Now technology is getting them better organized.
With the help of personal computers and smart phones, so-called citizen scientists are making more and more important contributions to science. The projects range from tracking birds, sharks, or other wildlife to checking on water quality in a local stream or pond or poring through images of galaxies or ancient manuscripts to capture data. Citizen science is crowdsourcing meets Isaac Newton or Benjamin Franklin, to name a couple of long-ago famous amateur scientists.
The knowledge being gained from citizen science is significant, and likely to become more significant as the number of citizen scientists increases. But perhaps equally important is the opportunity it provides for ordinary citizens to get a firsthand feel for the work of a scientist: how scientists approach a problem, gather data, test theories. And, in at least a few cases, feel a bit of the thrill when a new discovery is made or a new understanding reached.
Among the myriad citizen science projects under way today:
•Galaxy Zoo uses volunteers to classify galaxies by examining images online. Humans have a relatively easy time distinguishing differences in galaxy shapes, something computers still find difficult. The results are also used to help "train" computer programs to do a better job at this task.
•Snapshot Serengeti asks for the public's help in cataloging millions of photos taken by heat-and-motion-activated cameras in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Many people look at each photograph online, and while not every person who gives it a try is successful at identifying the wildlife he or she sees, the combined effort results in highly accurate data.
•US Gulf Coast residents used aerial images taken from balloons they launched themselves to document the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. All the equipment was easily obtainable off-the-shelf. Kites and remote-controlled airplanes also can be used in this way; no satellite needed.
•Old Weather recruits citizen scientists to capture climate data recorded in old ship logs. For centuries sailors kept detailed handwritten records of the weather conditions they encountered each day. The information is usually quite accurate, but pulling the data together in order to see a bigger picture of weather trends over time had been impossible until citizen scientists pitched in over the Web (again, computerized reading programs are still shaky at deciphering handwriting). A volunteer begins as a "cadet" and advances to being an officer and eventually "captain" of a ship by deciphering more logs.
Birders were among the first citizen scientists. The Audubon Society began a nationwide Christmas bird count in 1900. Today eBird, a program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, based at Cornell University, has collected 141 million reports from amateur birders, who can file their observations straight from the field using their smart phones.
Spending time as a citizen scientist can get people, including young students, away from computer screens and out into the natural world for a close look at what it can reveal. Others, if they wish, go far afield (even into outer space!) sitting still at their home computer screens, helping scientists make new observations.
Beyond the science that is accomplished, these programs produce additional benefits: They introduce the public to the world of science, increase their knowledge of a particular field of science, and expose them to the vocabulary and methods of science.
And perhaps citizen science can also lift some of the veil of mystery about what scientists do, helping to build public trust in the work of scientists and the value of scientific endeavor.


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Since Steve and I each have quite a few relatives in Canada and the US, we had to figure out a way to introduce one another to them and let them know about our upcoming nuptials. We had already planned to have a relatively small wedding with just a few close friends and relatives. So we decided to write and post out a round robin letter with our Christmas cards.
It was fun to write. We looked back on the past year together and wrote about the highlights, starting with ringing in 2009 from our holiday cottage on a wolf sanctuary in Shropshire, moving into our home, having our first visitors and feasts, our summer holidays and finishing with our wedding plans, including a link to this blog.
There were a few reasons for doing this. The wedding is going to be small. But, potentially, the number of people we could invite runs into well over a hundred. We read sonewhere that simply to tell people of an impending wedding is tantamount to inviting them. We didn't want to disappoint, so a round robin was an ideal way of letting people know about our plans without formally inviting them to be a part of them.
Another reason was simply to introduce each other to each other's extended families. They live across continents, so it's not always that easy to invite all the relatives around for coffee!
And a further reason was to let people know of our plans to visit various parts of North America over the next couple of years to meet everyone.
Writing the round robin was, in some ways, remarkably easy. We'd had a great year, full of memorable occasions. In other ways, it was pretty tricky. What do you leave out? What do you put in? How do you tell so many different people what they need to know and how do you work out the difference between "need to know" and "maybe vaguely interesting".
The point is: actually, we wrote it for ourselves. This is what we wanted to say. And, if it was what we wanted to say, it was what we wanted people – anyone and everyone – to hear.


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I finished tucking in the ends. Whew! That was a lot of work. I think it looks so much better with those nasty bits tamed, and the half-hexagon motifs there and all.
This child sized blanket is about 34 x 38 inches. It was made with some of the discontinued colors of cotton-ease. I used a bit of one skein of each of the colors: red, turquoise, navy, orange and yellow. I think I used about 3-4 skeins of white (can't really remember). All of the colors where from my stash, but I ended up needing more white, so I picked up more white for another future project.
The right and left sides where the half-hexs are inserted kind of pooch out a bit, but I don't think anyone but another crocheter would mind. I decided to go without borders too. Borders made it look odd.
I started on a knitted afghan using more stash yarn. I will post that once it looks like something other than a puny cast on and a few rows.
~ Peace


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This is a slightly unusual post, in that it's about two books that I haven't shared with the boys much yet but have pored over time and time again myself.
I've been a huuuuuuuge fan of Rob Ryan and of paper-cutting ever since I came across his book 'A Sky Full Of Kindness' (which I read not long after H was born and therefore I'm able to convince myself it was hormones that were responsible for the copious amount of tears I cried…).
The books I've read most recently, however, are festive offerings from other talented authors for which Ryan has provided the pictures. He often seems to use deep blue in his work, but when matched with the wintery subject matter (and with a smattering of gold) it works particularly well for these two books.
The first is Carol Ann Duffy's updating of 'The Night Before Christmas', entitled 'Another Night Before Christmas', published by Picador.
The book is a modern and ever-so-slightly grittier version of the classic Clement C. Moore poem and thus contains scenes that might be more familiar to young readers today (though that's no reason for them not to enjoy the original just as much) such as droning motorways, televisions and cashpoints. However, the message that the book conveys is still one of excitement, hope and the magic of Christmas and I think it will quickly become a Story Seekers favourite at this time of year.
Just to share some more Rob Ryan joy, here are a few more spreads (and the first one has an owl – hurrah!):
The second book is a non-fiction one – 'The Truth About Christmas', by Philip Ardagh (who is also a great Tweeter – you can follow him here), published by Macmillan Children's Books.
This book is a cornucopia of interesting and unusual Christmas facts. Although it's not aimed at children as young as C or H, I've found it VERY useful when trying to field C's endless stream of 'Why?' questions, which have become more and more detailed recently and are started to be heavily influenced by the time of year. Should you (or indeed your children – this book can be enjoyed by people of all ages) wish to know the origins of carol singing or why people send Christmas cards, this book should be your first port of call.
C's questions have centred mainly around all things Father Christmas, with a few deviations into Christmas tree and advent calendar territory and this book has answered all his queries thus far. I really like using non-fiction books with him and seeing him start to take in the different conventions (contents page, index, not reading the whole book in one go) that he doesn't experience with the picture books that are our main reading fodder.
There are very few illustrations in this book and they're by Marian Hill, as opposed to Rob Ryan (though they're still lovely!), hence I haven't photographed any further spreads.
If you're keen to find out more about Rob Ryan's techniques, you can check out this Guardian article from a couple of years ago.


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That may be inevitable, given the opportunity offered by such a role and such a successful show, now in previews and set to open Oct. 14 at the LaSalle Bank Theatre."I'm under 5 foot 9 inches tall, I have dark eyes and hair and look Italian," Spector says. "How many roles calling for someone exactly like me are out there?"
Meanwhile, the real Frankie Valli, Spector says, is kind and gracious. "There are celebrities who have this off-putting aura, but he's the real deal, this intense little guy as nice as he could be. You want to love the man you play, and this man, you want to honor. Meeting him made it easier to get behind the character and root for him."
Easier, mind you, but hardly easy. Few entertainers boast as inimitable a talent as Valli's legendary, trademark falsetto.
Sure, Spector has a great job. Who would dare apply for it?
LListened as a kid
"When my manager called and told me about a musical all about the Four Seasons, I asked my parents, 'Who are these guys?'" recalls Spector, 26. His parents reminded him he'd grown up listening to such classics as "Sherry," "Walk Like a Man," and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" around the house.
"So I started listening to them again, and I called my manager back and said, 'I can't sing this. Nobody can.'"
She told him enough people in show business will say you can't do things. "Don't you say it," she advised.
"So I went back in and worked on it some more, and I thought, 'I can hit these notes. [But] I can't hit them and sound pretty, but you're not supposed to.' Nobody argues Frankie's voice in falsetto is pretty. It's gritty and edgy and glass-shattering. He has a beautiful voice. But those high, piercing falsetto sounds are just that."
"Jarrod is a natural," says Rick Elice, co-author of the show's book. "He's got the voice. He's got the look. And he's got a wonderful wound to him, which makes the guys in the audience relate and the women in the audience want to mother him. That's what makes a great Frankie, the wound."
"We're blessed he exists," agrees co-author Marshall Brickman. "This isn't an easy part to cast."
The idea, the creative team concurs, isn't to come up with just an imitation Frankie -- the Broadway equivalent of an Elvis impersonator. "Jersey Boys" succeeds thanks to its story and performers' skill at convincing the audience they're watching reality unfold.
"Jersey Boys" the blockbuster musical, say its creators, is also an intimate play.
"You have to grow as a character as the show progresses," says Brickman, whose screenwriting credits include co-authorship of "Annie Hall." "He's 15 when the story begins, we follow him for years and he's not, at face value, an automatically sympathetic character. But there's something about Frankie that allows the audience in, and they feel touched. The actor has to have that inside himself somewhere."
Brickman admits that when the show lost its first Frankie, TV familiar David Norona, after a pre-Broadway staging in La Jolla, Calif., "we were panicked." They turned to the runner-up in the audition process: John Lloyd Young, who went on to win rave reviews and a Tony Award.
Success bred more success. "As we gained credibility, people started to emerge," says Brickman, "just as, after 'Les Miserables' hit, actors started showing up everywhere with long haircuts."
"Believe me, these days, if you're under 5 feet 9, you've got black hair and a falsetto, you're working on your Frankie Valli," says Des McAnuff, the show's director.
Sing and move 'brilliantly'
Not to suggest the role of Frankie is ever routine to cast. "You also have to find someone who sings so that he makes the hair stand up on the back of your head and moves brilliantly," says Elice.
As productions multiply, the show now has its own loosely rigged matriculation process called "Frankie camp," at which potential Frankies undergo several days of crash coaching, dance rehearsals and vocal lessons. "Falsetto can harm your voice," warns McAnuff. "You need to know how to warm up and how to warm down."
"I warm up about 35 minutes before the show, and then 15 or 20 minutes after," Spector explains. "I take a paper towel and put it in my mouth and pull on my tongue for stretching in one exercise. It's gotten to where, if I'm running late, I'm literally walking down the street, pulling my tongue, with a paper towel in my mouth. It looks weird, but on the streets in New York or San Francisco, well, I blended right in."
He's well-suited to a show about show business. At age 3, he was on a local Philadelphia TV show, and, by age 6, on "Star Search," that precursor to "American Idol." At 9, he was cast as Gavroche in "Les Miz," playing here in Chicago and on Broadway, until, by age 11, he literally outgrew the part: "You can only be 46 inches tall."
At 15, he was in a TV pilot with Peter Boyle that came to naught, and he'd had it. "I said to my parents, 'Enough. I don't want to do this anymore. I want to play sports. I want to have a girlfriend. I want to be normal.'"
He enrolled at Princeton University, and then spent all his time with an extracurricular musical comedy club. "I was writing and singing and thinking I'd get a business degree as a backup," he says. "Nice theory. Princeton's hard enough when you're dedicated. When you despise your courses, it's Herculean."
Two years in, he left. As an actor, he then trained with the Atlantic Theatre Company, with David Mamet and William H. Macy among his tutors. He had been cast to play Hamlet when he got the call about returning for auditions for the "Jersey Boys" tour. The long break between spells working on Frankie proved beneficial. "Between my initial and later auditions for 'Jersey Boys,' I really needed to grow up, to find more depth as a man and an actor. Rehearsing Hamlet while going back to work on Frankie helped. There are more parallels than you'd think. Both characters have ups and downs, triumphs, anguish and glory. And both directly talk to the audience."
He's eager and warmhearted, quick to ask a stranger for career advice after only an hour's conversation. Truth is, he doesn't need any. His Frankie festers with pain and channels Hamlet.
Brags the distinguished McAnuff, "He really nails it."
"This show has such velocity, and people get so hooked," Spector says. "Before long, they forget, and we are the Four Seasons. For just one night, I'm a rock star."


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Spotlight On: Carine Roitfeld
Hello Everyone! We have decided to focus this post on one of our favorite ladies in fashion, Carine Roitfeld. Roitfeld is a woman that we've been following since her long tenure at Paris Vogue (which was a personal favorite – her focus on edgy photography and fashion was comparable to no one else!). Her career … Continue reading
New Inspiration: Caterina Gatta
Caterina Gatta is an up and coming designer from Italy with a great idea – to use the vintage prints and fabrics of top labels, such as YSL, Gianni Versace, Fausto Sarli, Pierre Cardin, Lancetti, Irene Galitzine, Givenchy, Valentino, André Laug, Ungaro, Scherrer, Clara Centinaro and many others (as quoted from her website, http://www.caterinagatta.it) '.. … Continue reading
Menswear Trend 2012 ~ Return of the Gentleman
While doing research for a -potentially- new and very cool project, I realized that we have been neglecting all of the fashion curious men in our life! Here are our top picks for 2012 – welcome the year of the Gentleman. {Our favorite} top 3 menswear labels at the moment are: 1. Ami, http://www.amiparis.fr The … Continue reading
Things We Love: Latest Vintage Trends in Film
It has been very exciting to witness a major trend in the last year; throwback films to the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Maybe I am just charmed because on Sunday, I had the enormous pleasure of viewing The Artist, the silent black and white film that has been taking over all of the cinema award … Continue reading


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For Sale €1.450.000 - Commercial
Hotel Rural – Las Calas
"Las Calas" is a 17thcentury building located in the heart of Gran Canaria. Situated in the beautiful hamlet called La Lechuza approximately 26 km from the capital Las Palmas and 30 min drive from the international airport.
This up and running business is operating for several years successfully to rising alternative eco tourism and offers a great investment opportunity in a truly unique environment.
It has a total of 6 double rooms, 2 Junior Suites and 1 Suite, all with different distribution and personality.
Each room has its own exclusive design including antique furniture and materials from various corners of the world.
A charming restaurant and meeting area is overlooking the garden and the external entertaining area with swimming pool.
The estate has been reconstructed to his traditional architecture and elements to high standards, which offers the perfect hideaway from mass tourism to explore the island.


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Country: France
Category: Fiction
Release date: 2017 - March
Duration: 25 min
Director: Thomas Grascoeur
Edition: September 2017
Official site: https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/smartpote
When 30-year-old Faustine comes back home to prepare herself before meeting her date she finds herself face to face with a stranger who has made himself at home in her apartment. What if apps became real people and actually lived in our homes ?
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(Rinku Singh unloads the samosa)
I wasn't expecting to proclaim a favorite National League team this year, but the Million Dollar Arm contest in India settled it for me: I can now be counted among the Pittsburgh Pirates faithful. The storied club of Roberto Clemente, Dock Ellis and Dave Parker can now boast a pitching staff that includes the first two hurlers from the Indian subcontinent ever signed by a major league baseball team, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel.
These guys, 19 and 20 respectively, throw around 90 mph and consistently for strikes. But at writing time, their knowledge of baseball is perfect – perfectly nonexistent. While I look forward to their stint in spring training and what will probably be the Pittsburgh minor league system this season, their Blog and Twitter have already been nothing short of awesome and it's my bet will only get better. From a couple of days ago:
JB sir [JB Bernstein, Barry Bond's ex-agent and mastermind of the whole contest] explained to us today about the mind tricking us. He say that brain trick body to do bad sometimes. What we have to do is learn to say no to our brains and tell our arms to just throw. We need no excuses in our mind. Just do our best and rewards will come.
He ask us what we would do if we were throwing Javelin against man who throw farther than our best throw… We then realize that we trick our body to think we can do better than our best to beat other man. That was good way to show us and we understand much better now.
We want to pitch very good. We are working so hard and we are told that we may sign contract next week. When that is true it will be the best day of our lives!


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The organisers of the Reading And Leeds Festivals have issued a warning after becoming aware of scam websites emailing fans asking for personal details.
A message at the official websites of the festivals, Readingfestival.com and Leedsfestival.com, explained that some fans had received emails asking for information, including photocopies of credit cards and passports.
Organisers explained the sites in question included readingfestival2009.com and leedsfestival2009.com (and .net), and urged fans not to comply with the requests as the sites were "fake".
Anyone who suspects that they have been a victim of identity theft is advised by the festival organisers to seek advice at Cifas.org.uk.
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1655 Ortelius "Theatro Del Mondo" Atlas
We have an old little book that was found at a farmstead auction here in Wisconsin.
Now, when you bought it at the farm sale, what made you buy this particular book?
Well, it was in a small box of a lot of old-looking papers. There was a deed that had an old date on it and it was just a little book and it was interesting because it had those little worm infestation marks, and it survived that. A lot of books, the pages are missing or gone or stained. This one didn't seem to be that way. APPRASIER: Well, when you bought that box of papers and so on, what did you pay?
First of all, this is the original vellum binding. This is in really good condition, but let's get to what it is. It's by a man named Ortelius. He lived in the 1500s. In around the 1570s, he was the first one to actually put out what we would recognize as an atlas. He was appointed by the king of Spain; he went all through Europe. But, he was the first atlas maker. Now, in the book it has what's called a half-title. Many times this page is missing. Yeah, you do have a few worm holes, but those are really minor and insignificant. The next thing I know that you had pointed out to me was what the date was. It's right here-- 1655. Now that does tell something about the book because Ortelius died in the late 1500s. So 1655 is a later edition. The first edition was 1570s, but then they kept adding more maps. And some of the editions are huge. I mean, we'd have trouble fitting them on this table. But this one's sort of like the paperback edition. It was the small edition, the cheaper edition. And then, the last thing we have on the book is the index, and many times that's missing. The condition looks wonderful. The ink stock... there's a little bit of browning. Now, there's only been two or three records of sale of this particular edition in the last 20 years. The most recent record was about 15 years ago. It was missing that half-title page that I showed you at the front; it was missing the index; it had some tears in it, and that sold at a little over $2,000. I think this one would sell in the $4,000 to $6,000 range in a retail store. It's a great book. And then you could put it in your pocket and you can travel through Europe and you'll know exactly where you're going. (laughs)
And right now I just should be concerned with getting the little book back home. (laughs)
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I just want to take the time to thank and give praise to all my family, friends, and fans that have supported me the past year and a half with my Blog…Sports N' Metal. Up until this past February, I was on my own independent site on WordPress.Com. Well in February…An excellent opportunity presented itself where I was asked to join forces with Philly Rock Radio, an up and coming Internet Radio Station that plays classic metal to modern metal…all things hard rock and metal. Anyways, I want to give a special thanks to Johnny E and Kevin L for allowing me this opportunity to expand my talents. Who knows…the sky is the limit. I would love to be writing or reporting for ESPN or That Metal Show or Hair Bangers Live someday. Once again, thank yo ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 12,000 views is a huge accomplishment. I feel that doing this in an 18 Month Period is an even larger accomplishment. Anyways, you can continue to follow me now on Philly Rock Radio. I will continue to post on Word Press from time to time \m/
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A new scheme for home educators in Northern Ireland to share resources, these resources will travel around between families to support community and give us all access to interesting things... It will be organised through the HEdNI Facebook Group.
Our first Travelling Resource will be the Schools Pack from Historic Newspapers.
"Our free teaching packs are available in order to help students discover the cause and consequence of historical events. Hard copies are currently available to schools, universities, libraries and accredited education establishments only.
A newspaper is ideal for a history lesson. Each page is filled with stories from eyewitnesses, social history detail and topics for discussion. A newspaper is an enjoyable way to help learning and engage a pupil's curiosity and imagination. Papers allow us to relate past events to the present day and be the starting point for debate on history and its significance today.
Many families and groups will be using the resources from http://shakespeareweek.org.uk/ in March this year... and exploring Shakespeare in families and at the various groups. The resources and 'passports to Shakespeare" are available to Home Educators if you register before February.
"Shakespeare Week is a national annual celebration giving primary school children a great first encounter with Shakespeare. Join the thousands of schools, families and organisations working together to inspire a whole generation of children through Shakespeare's stories, language and heritage. "
Some really nice free posters and information from the British Heart Foundation.
In the classroom and at home, education is at the root of combating heart disease.
This is the place for teachers, parents and those who work with children to find out more about our free resources and training opportunities for encouraging young people to live a heart healthy lifestyle.
Our free resources cover everything from learning to read through to physical activity and education, science and PSHE.
We also have information for and about young people with heart conditions.
Free wallcharts from the British Ecological Society.
Our wallcharts are aimed at teachers and students, or those with an interest in science, ecology and the environment. Each poster is printed A1 and introduces a range of topics. All wallcharts are available free of charge and are supported by additional online teaching resources.
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Names of application server in java, when you can use shared server and when to use dedicated server, how to select the right application server etc is given in this topic.
First of all, application server sits in between web server and database server. Further , there are many application server examples. application server WebSphere is one such server. Most of the application servers in java given below.
Now a server is a software running on a machine to handle requests from the clients. Also, this runs 24X7 as it connected to internet. So, the website stored on the server.
Moreover, we have web server, application server and database server installed on same machine or different machines depending upon the load and volume of work, No. of visitors etc. .
First of all when you have a website that handles 1000 visitors request on a daily basis you can have shared hosting and all these servers are installed and run on the same machine./computer.
Further if we have big database and more than one lakh visitors daily then it is better to hoist on dedicated server with VPN for security reasons. Then we will have three servers installed on three different machines but the functions remain the same.
What does the webserver , application server and database server handle?
First of all Webserver handles HTTP requests and hands out HTML pages. Further, Webserver runs on Apache, Nginx, IIS, Microsoft etc. Also, Webserver can map the parts of URL (Uniform Resource Allocator) into
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A local file resource
So,If there was no webserver then requesting a name file and age file will be like this
https:// file://c://documents%nameand%age/Home.index.html
Moreover, in case of bank our login request is the web server request. Also, It resides on port 80/443 and handles HTTP request . However, If page not found the error message 404 – page not found flashes.
Now application server is go between web server and database server. So,an application server can often be described as a software framework that resides on the middle tier of Service centric architecture. However, database is never available on the internet for security reasons. Most noteworthy is that it is the dynamic application server which fetches the database for the client using some protocols . Now these protocols depend upon application business logic. In banks to serve their purpose they use Application server Flex cube. Application server will always sit on DMZ.
However , Database server uses protocols ODBC ,JDBC etc. Also, it runs on MYSQL, Oracle, Postgre SQL etc
Need for application server
Application server integrates database with existing system
Helps to solve complex transaction
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What will happen if there is no application server
First of all, Webserver can only handle HTTP request so the webpage will be displayed and pricing information will be handed over to server side program .Now, suppose the query is about price of certain product the pricing information will be displayed but comparisons and other logical analysis will not be available. So, application server uses its business logic application to give useful information.
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- Reliability and performance are the Key factors
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My album The Empire Never Ended is finally out. The weight of waiting has lifted! Waiting to release things drives me crazy so I am super super happy to be able to finally share this music with you. I put a ton of time and effort into this record and I feel like it's some of the better stuff I've done, sonically, song writing wise and in the way it all fits together. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
If you're inclined to buy it I ask that you do so through the Dutty Artz bandcamp page. We get the biggest cut of the money there and you can also get higher quality audio files if you're a DJ or you just like things that sound good. You can also mail order the CD from there or through the Dutty Artz web store. We'll be sure to put some extra goodies in the mail for those of you choose that option. It is of course available at all your other favorite music outlets too.
If you think it's a cool record and/or generally support what Dutty Artz does we would love it if you could tell a friend using the like, tweet or g+ buttons at the bottom of this post.
To hear a new track from the record you can head over to Stereogum today to stream, "Bout It Girl" the track that I did with Riff Raff exclusively. It's the first time I've released a track with my own vocals on it, another big milestone for me.
Tomorrow (3.27.13) I'll be doing a live set with my new performance setup on the Duttycast at 7PM and chatting a bit so stop in if you are online.


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Board Game Review: Reverse Charades
If you're looking for a great party game to play with 10+ people, you'll want to check out Reverse Charades. A unique spin of the classic "Charades", this game gives the team the chance to all act together for one teammate- and it's up to the teammate to guess as many words as possible within 60 seconds. It's a hilarious award-winning game, recommended for ages 13+. I played this game with a group of friends, and it was incredibly fun- especially since the team is on their feet, trying to act together.
Great Group Games Rating: 4/5 Stars
New Group Games!!! YAY!
Well, it's about time. After almost a year of idleness- we've got a few more games on Great Group Games!
What's New
1. Powerpoint Games section- Includes a ready-to-edit Jeopardy Powerpoint Template for teachers and more. All of the Powerpoint games are free to download and use!
– Battle of the Sexes – Test each teams' knowledge of the opposite gender- sports, fashion and more!
– Company Slogan & Tagline Game – Test your corporate slogan & tagline knowledge now!
– Memory Game – Memorize as many items as you can from the Powerpoint slide.
– Picture Guess – Guess the secret word or phrase using only your teammate's drawing.
– Zoom In Game – (Personal Favorite!!!) Guess what the item is, zoomed in – Great Powerpoint game for medium and large groups.
2. Purse, Pockets, and Wallets- Bridal Shower – for any bridal showers in the near future. Free print out ready for your use.
3. Halloween is just around the corner! Here are a couple more Halloween games to keep your party going.
– Halloween Trivia (Updated for 2011)
Have fun and enjoy the new stash of games!


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February 26 2012
Vote in the 3rd annual Whedon Oscars. The online ceremony begins at 8pm EST.
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The Whedon Oscars. Vote for your favorites! Edit: A big thanks to whyiwatch for creating this!
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my fairly ancient MJLJ died today. its been in service since 2010 or 2012 (don't recall). it's running 4.0.2.
it died while carb tuning; highway cruise speed suddenly got very pingy, and since i had been leaning the carb out i went in with the tuner program to retard spark across the board for carb testing, then saw that the LOAD value was erratic, jumping all over the place; it appears that mostly it returns "0", then various erratic values and maybe once in a while something like the correct value. but not usable. the spark advance value selected was correspondingly nutty.
in the car, all features of the MJLJ are working properly as far as i can tell, only LOAD is erratic. RPM tracks engine RPM. spark advance is the one value (erratically) selected from the matrix.
if i pull the vacuum hose off the MAP sensor, the LOAD is maximum and spark advance is taken from the correct bin (RPM in the max load row).
running the engine but the hose to the MightyVac, smoothly decreasing pressure/increasing vacuum also generates erratic values. set to some arbitrary pressure, that load value is wrong but steady. less or more pressure generates a different crazy, but steady, value.
out of the car and on the bench, with a MightyVac hand pump on the MAP port, i get crazy, erratic "load" values from the S command; the rpm vs load bin jumps around erratically to match. i put my 'scope on pin1 of the MAP sensor (output) and it's steady, voltage increases with pressure (decreases with vacuum).
board is spotlessly clean, dry, no corrosion. it is mounted in the passenger compartment, cool and dry. for good measure i examined the MAP sensor pins, resoldered them, alcohol wash (i know flux is not a problem but wanted it clean to look for cracks, corrosion, foolishness, etc under a bright light and magnifier).
so it appears to be kaput.
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Viswanathan Anand draws with black in World Chess Championship
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand showcased fresh preparation and got an easy draw with black against rival Boris Gelfand in the second game of the World Chess Championship here.
Defending champion Viswanathan Anand showcased fresh preparation and got an easy draw with black against rival Boris Gelfand in the second game of the World Chess Championship here.
Anand equalised easily out of the opening springing a surprise as early as on move five by going for a rare move as black.
Gelfand spent a lot of time and it was clear that his ammunition had run out at this move itself. The fight for equalising had begun for Anand and he drew level on psychological terms after being pressed as white in the first game of the match.
The preparation part took a heavy toll on Gelfand and as the game progressed, Anand once again produced what he is best at - deep preparation backed by deep analysis. Gelfand could not think of anything better than going for the trade of queens and it was signal enough that Anand had what he was looking for.
As it happened in the game, Anand's tenth move was the perfect road to equalising. The center was wide open soon after as Gelfand went on an exchanging spree and it took little time for Anand to come up with the new move which put the Israeli again in deep thought.
Middle game never happened and Gelfand might have to look for other methods as Anand seems clearly better prepared with his black pieces. It may be recalled that the Indian ace had also successfully employed the Slav defense to beat Russian Vladimir Kramnik in 2008.
There is also speculation that Kramnik might be helping Gelfand for this match. The main reason being that Gelfand and Kramnik have been friends for a long time.
It was a level position once the queens were off the board. Also the presence of opposite colour Bishop was not anything that could enthuse either player.
"I had a very small and symbolic advantage but black's position is fine anyways," said Gelfand in the post game chat.
Anand has played his cards right and the balance now tilts again in the favour of the reigning champion. The world championship seems set to take off another way when the matches begin after a day off.
Anand was considered an overwhelming favourite coming to this match, but Gelfand has also proved himself very well.
Anand's team will have to work out new ways, and Gelfand needs another surprise. For the record, the second game lasted just 25 moves and was not exactly entertaining for the chess buffs across the world.
Anand enthralled the audience in the press room with his nonchalant sense of humour. Asked about the first game and the fact that there was a similar game between computers some time back, the Indian ace replied: "Computers have nothing better to do."
Moves game 2: Gelfand - Anand: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 a6 6. b3 Bb4 7. Bd2 Nbd7 8. Bd3 O-O 9. O-O Bd6 10. Rc1 e5 11. cxd5 cxd5 12. e4 dxe4 13. Nxe4 Nxe4 14. Bxe4 Nf6 15. dxe5 Nxe4 16. exd6 Qxd6 17. Be3 Bf5 18. Qxd6 Nxd6 19. Nd4 Rfe8 20. Nxf5 Nxf5 21. Bc5 h5 22. Rfd1 Rac8 23. Kf1 f6 24. Bb4 Kh7 25. Rc5 game drawn.


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The following note was posted on the Trikke Facebook page. It's a story its author, Marcy Scardino, calls "My journey with Trikke."
I got my Trikke in 2007 for Christmas after seeing it on a late night infomercial. I had never seen one of these used before, never met anyone who had heard of it, and got so frustrated with trying to learn it while dealing with nay sayers that it got lost in the garage and not touched for about half a year. One day, I decided to give it another shot, and fell in love. I was going out and pushing myself every day to get better at it. Took the poly wheels off of my T8 and bought air tires. I was even more hooked. I completed my first ten mile ride in under an hour.
Between moving around for college and work, with the lack of available places to ride, the Trikke started collecting dust again. I picked up a bicycle instead, and was doing well with it, but still knew that I wasn't getting the workout that I used to with the Trikke. While using my bicycle one day for transportation, WHAM got taken out by a Jeep and broke my leg to the point of needing surgery and hardware put in my leg.
I'm just over 7 months after the accident and I finally built up the confidence and strength to get back on wheels, but not two wheels, three wheels. I know that with the Trikke I can overcome this injury, build back my muscles, and my overall fitness. Today I just did my first full hour of riding on the Trikke after building back up to it with many months of physical therapy.
Not much has changed since I first started riding the Trikke though, people still don't know what it is, and I still have nay sayers. I can feel my body ache (in a good way) every time I get off of the Trikke, and it's still fun! If the Trikke can bring be back to the level of athleticism I was at before, there's no reason I can't push to be in the 50 or 100 mile rides. I want to be able to do that and educate people about this equipment in such a bad way! It's one of the best things I've ever ridden, anyone can do it, and everyone who does it would benefit from it.
So thank you for such a great invention, and I hope that I can ride the Trikke back to being fit 🙂