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Boho earrings,Tribal earrings,Summer earrings,Ceramic earrings,Fabric earrings,OOAK earrings,Multicolour earrings,
Boho earrings,Tribal earrings,Summer earrings,Ceramic earrings,Fabric earrings,OOAK earrings,Multicolour earrings,
These gorgeous Multicolour Tribal earrings feature handmade fabric beads by Jana Severin and ceramic tribal components by Maria Del Carmen Rodriguez Martinez.
The other earring components are : lampwork glass spacer beads, Swarovski crystal bicone beads, tierracast pewter ornate bead caps, gun metal filigree bead caps, gun metal open jump rings, toho seed beads, gun metal French ear wires, hematitie coloured artistic copper wire 20 G.
Beautiful and original earrings, which could make excellent jewellery for tropical holidays.
The earrings measure 3.22 inches or 82 mm (length including the ear wire).
Shipping from United Kingdom
Processing time
1-3 business days
Customs and import taxes
Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Payment Options
Returns & Exchanges
I gladly accept returns, exchanges, and cancellations
Just contact me within: 7 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 30 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 12 hours of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
The following items can't be returned or exchanged
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
- Perishable products (like food or flowers)
- Intimate items (for health/hygiene reasons)
Conditions of return
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Questions about your order?
Please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Frequently Asked Questions
Custom and personalised orders
Unfortunately I am not able to make custom orders at the moment, but any item that is in my shop can be adjusted to meet your needs. I guarantee my jewellery and will repair it at no charge to you, other than the cost to ship the item back to me. Your satisfaction is my priority.
Extension chains
I can make slight adjustments for already made items (i.e. length of extension chain for necklace or bracelet) if preferred. Please send a message, convo me, email me or leave the note at the check out if you would like such adjustment.
Care instructions
I strongly advise to remove jewellery before taking shower or swimming.
Some of my jewellery pieces are made of dyed beads and most of components are not waterproof.
Please take a good care while wearing perfume.
For best results use perfume first and wear your jewellery after your skin dries off.
Please store jewellery in Organza bags or in a box provided in dry place.
Sizing details
I describe listed jewellery in inches (necklaces, earrings ) and millimetres (some earrings). Bracelets are also listed in inches or centimetres.
Please always check the measurement before buying.
Gift wrapping and packaging
I send jewellery in Organza bags, wrapped in coloured crepe paper, bubble wrap and secured with special decorative duck tape. Sometimes I send jewellery in cardboard boxes for some delicate jewellery pieces (made of precious stones and glass) or if it is marked as a gift at the check out.
If you particularly wish to receive your jewellery in the box please send me a convo or email me. This is free option, I do not charge for it.


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Another local business using Constant Contact, clearly shows that integrating your Email Marketing campaign and your Social Media needs is a smart way to go forward.
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Putting interesting pictures on your planned event instead of stating it in text is a good way to get your followers to engage with your tweets. Eg: http://twitpic.com/58uag7
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Getting started
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Renting a property
Renting a property
We advertise self-catering holiday properties belonging to owners and agents. We have all types of property all over the world and a dedicated customer support team to assist you with the renting process. Clickstay provides an online platform for you to book and communicate directly with owners and agents. The payment process is managed by us which means your money is secure because you do not need to transfer directly to the owner's bank account.
We provide a property listing space for owners and agents so that they can present all the detailed information and photographs that you need to choose a holiday home which meets your requirements.
Choosing a destination
Choosing a destination
We have over propertyCount properties in 71 countries around the world, and counting. Choosing a destination is a simple process; just type your destination in to the search bar to discover the different types of property available. If you are struggling for inspiration, check out our destinations and inspiration pages, or our blog, where we regularly post articles. If you are on a budget or fancy a bargain, try our late deals page to help you decide where to go.
Searching for a property
Searching for a property
At the top of most of the pages on Clickstay there is a search bar where you can enter a destination, check-in and check-out dates. If you have arrived at the search page without specifying your travel dates and number of guests, select these to ensure only suitable properties are displayed. This ensures that the price shown is for the total booking, rather than the 'per week from' price.
On our search page there are lots of filters that you can use to narrow down the results and find the best property for you. This includes the property type (villa, apartment, riad, etc), swimming pool type (shared or private), and booking type (instant booking or on-request booking).
Booking a property
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- Booking a property
Instant booking
Instant booking
Instant booking refers to properties where the calendar is kept up-to-date meaning you can book and pay for a property without having to wait for confirmation from the owner. It is really useful when you have found a good price for flights (or other transport means) because you can book everything at the same time.
Occasionally a property which is advertised as instant booking will need confirmation from the owner. You will be alerted to this whilst checking out. No payment will be required until the owner has confirmed the booking.
On-request booking
On-request booking
On-request properties require the owner to confirm your booking. Payment for on-request properties does not need to be made until the owner has confirmed the booking. You should expect to hear from the owner within 48 hours. When you are in the process of requesting a booking we display similar properties that may be suitable just in case the property is not available.
Sometimes on-request bookings are declined by the owner. If this happens, one of our sales advisors will be in touch to help find you an alternative property.
Contacting the owner
Contacting the owner
Prior to making a booking, you can contact the property owner using your Clickstay account. You can ask the owner questions about any special requirements that you may have, or ask for more details if a piece of information is missing from the property page.
An owner can set up three types of automatic discount; early, late and long stay booking discounts.
When making a booking, if a property has a discount available for your dates it will automatically be applied to your booking. You will be able to see the amount discounted when on the check-out page. When searching for a property, you can filter the results to only show properties that have an automatic discount available. On the property page, go to the discounts and extras tab to see if the property has discounts available.
Discount and voucher codes
Discount and voucher codes
If you have received a discount or voucher code from an Owner or us, you need to enter it when on the check-out page so we can apply it to the booking cost. Unfortunately if you do not enter the code when on this page, we are unable to apply it to a booking later.
Changeover days
Changeover days
Owners may set up specific days of the week that they would like bookings to begin and end. These are marked on the property page under the prices and availability tab.
Extras are either paid with the booking through Clickstay, or paid locally, usually on arrival at the property. The details of when the extra will be paid can be found on the property page and is shown on the cost breakdown on the check-out pages.
Compulsory extras: these are charges that owners may add to their property which apply to every booking. These often include things like cleaning, and may be based on occupancy or length of stay.
Optional extras: these are optional charges that owners may add to their property for you to decide whether you would like to add them to your booking. These often include things like pool heating, transfers, or a maid service.
Breakage cover
Breakage cover
A breakage cover is a sum of money (set by the owner) in case of any breakages and/or damages that may occur during your stay. The owner will specify which (if any) breakage cover they require for a booking. The owner specifies on their property advert how many days after your check-out date they require in order to check their property for breakages and/or damages.
A breakage cover may be paid through Clickstay; this includes the Non-Refundable Breakage waiver and Refundable Breakage Deposit. If you pay one of these options, in the unlikely event that something is damaged, a claim will be handled through our system.
Non-Refundable Breakage Waiver: this is a non-refundable amount of £31.00, $50.00 or €44.00 which covers you for up to: £300.00, $450.00 or €340.00.
The terms of the Non-Refundable Breakage Waiver can be found here.
Refundable Breakage Deposit: this is a refundable amount of money that is set by the owner of the property. The money is protected and held by us; if the owner makes a breakage claim after your stay we will automatically send an email to inform you. If no claim is made by the owner we will automatically refund the full amount to the bank account you made the payment from.
Some owners may require breakage cover that is paid directly to them which will be listed as under compulsory extras as 'paid locally', and others will not require any breakage cover at all.
Paying for a booking
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Paying for a property
Paying for a property
Sagepay provides Clickstay with a payment system, so that we can guarantee a safe payment for renters. You can pay for a booking using credit or debit cards and PayPal. We accept the following card payments: Visa, Mastercard, Maestro.
Currency to pay in
Currency to pay in
The owner of the property specifies which currency they require the booking payment to be made in. This can be £ (GBP), $ (USD) or € (EUR). On Clickstay you can select from the menu bar the currency you would like to view prices in. If you are viewing properties in a currency different to what an owner has set for payment, this will be highlighted on the check-out page where you will be able to see which currency the owner requires payment in, and the total booking costs in that currency.
If you are booking a property that requires payment in a different currency from your bank account, you can pay in the usual way using one of the accepted payment methods. Please note that when you receive a bank statement, the amount may be different to the total booking cost displayed on Clickstay, as your bank may charge for exchanges between currencies.
Paying in instalments
Paying in instalments
Currently, we do not accept payments in instalments. Payments consist of a deposit and the remaining balance; the deposit payment secures the booking, and the remaining balance is paid before the booking starts. The balance due date is set by the property owner and tends to be around 70 days before arrival at the property. If you make a booking that starts in less than the number of days set by the owner for the balance payment, you must pay the full booking amount.
Paying with more than one credit / debit card
Paying with more than one credit / debit card
The remaining balance can be paid with a different credit/debit card to that used for the deposit payment. However, we do not currently offer options for split payments, i.e. if your booking party includes one or more families who would like to pay for the costs separately, and with their individual cards. This is something we are looking to introduce.
Your booking
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- Your booking
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Cancelling a booking
Cancelling a booking
Owner cancels booking – there are two reasons why an owner may cancel a booking:
- Owner is no longer able to fulfil your booking; for example, they have experienced an emergency at the property. You will receive a full refund for any monies that you have paid.
- Renter balance payment is late. If you are late with your balance payment and the owner cancels the booking you will not receive a refund for the deposit you have paid. If you think you will be late in paying the balance we strongly recommend you contact the owner, and agree on an alternative due date.
Renter cancels booking – if you cancel your booking, you will be subject to the cancellation terms set by the owner which you will be made aware of on the check-out page, and will be on your booking contract. These cancellations terms are applied if you have paid the full booking amount. The deposit is never refunded.
Changing details of the booking
Changing details of the booking
If you need to change any details of your booking, for example, the booking dates or number/names of guests, you must contact the property owner who will be able to amend the booking for you.
Difficulty getting in touch with the owner
Difficulty getting in touch with the owner
If you are unable to make contact with the owner either through your Clickstay account or one of the telephone number they have provided, please contact us for further assistance.
Receiving directions and arrival instructions
Receiving directions and arrival instructions
The directions and arrival instructions will be sent to you by email, and can be viewed in your Clickstay account, after full payment has been made. You must print the owner contact details, directions to the property from the airport, port or train station, key collection and additional instructions, emergency telephone number, and any supporting documents the owner may have provided.
During your stay
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Renter protection policy
No access to the property
No access to the property
If you are unable to gain access to the property, you must try to make contact with the owner or property manager. Use all telephone numbers that were provided once the booking was paid in full, including the emergency telephone number. If you think that you will arrive late at the property, you must try to warn the owner or property manager in advance.
If you have exhausted all methods of contacting the owner or property manager, then contact us Monday to Friday between 8:30 and 17:00 GMT: +44 (0) 203 696 2870 or, if out of hours (Friday 17:00 to Monday 8:30 GMT) click here to contact us.
If you feel your personal safety is threatened or in a case of an emergency, contact the local police or emergency services immediately.
If you have a complaint which does not fall within the refund claim time period please click here.
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Reviewing a property
Reviewing a property
When you have returned from the property you will be able to submit a review about your stay. We publish all reviews, providing they are well-written, constructive and are not a personal attack against a third party. When submitting your review we will ask you to rate certain aspects of the booking process and your stay; for example, overall quality of stay, cleanliness, property page accuracy, communication with the owner, area, etc. Once a review has been approved, we give the owner the opportunity to reply.
Return of the refundable breakage deposit
Return of the refundable breakage deposit
We hold the refundable breakage deposit until after the booking. If the owner does not make a claim against your booking, we will automatically refund this money to the card it was paid on.
The owner sets how many days they need after the check-out date to assess any damages; this cannot be any more than 10 days. Please note that the claim assessment process may take an additional 10 working days.
If the owner makes a claim against the booking, we will be in touch with full details. We encourage you to communicate with the owner to come to an adequate resolution on this.
If you have a complaint which does not fall within the renter protection policy please contact us in writing within 7 days of your check out date at the property.
All complaints are dealt with on an individual basis and will be acknowledged within 48 hours by a member of our Customer Services team.
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Your account
Your account
Forgotten password: If you have forgotten your Clickstay password or cannot log into your account, select the 'Forgot password' link on the log in pop-out. You will need to enter the email address registered to your Clickstay account and select the 'Send' link. Open your email account and follow the link to reset your password.
Changing your password: To change your password you must login to your Clickstay account and select 'My details'.
Changing email address, address and telephone number: To change your email address, postal address and telephone number, login to your Clickstay account and select 'My details' from the menu bar. Scroll down to the section you would like to update, enter the new details and select 'Save' on the right.
Online safety
Online safety
Rentalsystems property owners and agents
Clickstay endeavours to provide tools for you to find detailed information about the property and its owner. We recommend that you always read the information provided on the property page carefully before making a booking. If you are unsure about anything regarding the property or the owners legitimacy, we suggest checking the below on the property page. Here are some tips to ensuring you have chosen a reliable property and owner;
- Read verified reviews from previous renters; the date they stayed at the property is displayed at the top of each verified review;
- Owner information; joined date, last logged in, response rate and time;
- Cross reference information about the property and check details carefully;
- Photos, Property description, facilities;
- If you have any questions you can contact the owner on the property page using our secure messaging system.
If you have any concerns please contact our Customer Services team and read our Renter protection policy.
Paying through us and communication within our system
All payments and communications with the owner should be made through your Clickstay account for safety and security. Clickstay uses Sagepay to ensure secure money transactions.
We also provide a safe platform for you to converse directly with the owner. We store all messaging history made through Clickstay so that you can easily access past conversations.
By booking through Clickstay, you also gain access to our dedicated customer services team who are on-hand to help you before, during and after a booking.
If an Owner asks you to pay for a booking outside of Clickstay please contact us immediately. Payments outside of the Clickstay system are not necessarily secure, so we do not recommend it. We do not take any responsibility for any payments made outside of Clickstay.
Reviews on our property pages that have been written by renters who have booked and paid through Clickstay will say 'verified by Clickstay'. These reviews will also include the dates the renters stayed at the property, so you can gage their relevance to your stay.
Is Clickstay ABTA / ATOL protected?
Is Clickstay ABTA / ATOL protected?
ABTA is the Association of British Travel Agents, providing legal advice and practices for tour operators and travel agents. ATOL is a specific licence known as the Air Travel Organiser's Licence, required by law for any UK travel company that offers flight-based holidays.
So, does Clickstay have ABTA / ATOL protection?
Because Clickstay is not a travel agent and doesn't provide flights, we don't fall under ABTA's or ATOL's umbrellas.
However, your money is 100% safe when you make a booking through Clickstay.
We provide a Renter Protection Policy, ensuring your money is secure in the unlikely event there is a problem with your booking. To see our policy, click here.
To create a wishlist, you must first have an account with Clickstay. Once you have logged in, you can select your account name in the top right-hand corner (on desktop) or the menu icon (on mobile) then select 'Wishlists' in the drop-down menu. From here, you will need to select 'add new wishlist'.
Alternatively, if you have found a property that you wish to add to a wishlist, simply click on the 'Add to wishlist' button on the right hand side of the property page (desktop) or the heart image on the property photo (mobile). From here, once logged in, you can either create a new wishlist or add the property to an existing wishlist.
You can share your wishlist with each member of your party if your wishlist is set to public. To make a wishlist public, login and ensure that the globe icon in the upper righthand corner (on desktop) or left-hand corner (on mobile) is set to 'public'. You can share the wishlist via email using the 'share' button located next to the left of the globe icon. You can also copy and paste the link to send directly to others.
If you'd prefer to keep your wishlist to yourself, then simply click the same globe icon but instead select the 'private' option.
Contact us
Contact us
We love hearing your feedback, whether good or bad, and we are always striving to better the Clickstay experience for our renters and owners. So please feel free to let us know what you think of the way we run things, whether it is feedback on our newsletter, our customer service, or our website design.
You can always give us a call, one of our friendly advisers will be happy to help.
+44 (0) 203 696 2870
Monday to Friday between 8:30 - 17:00 (UK Time) excluding bank holidays


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1. Engineering a skeleton ring device that ensures that the correct amount of space is maintained between the individual rollers or balls in a rolling bearing
2. Informal the basket used in basketball
3. Informal the goal in ice hockey
John. 1912--92, US composer of experimental music for a variety of conventional, modified, or invented instruments. He evolved a type of music apparently undetermined by the composer, such as in Imaginary Landscape (1951) for 12 radio sets. Other works include Reunion (1968), Apartment Building 1776 (1976), and Europeras 3 and 4 (1990)
(in mining), a hoisting device for transporting cars loaded with minerals through the main mine shaft to the surface and for lowering and raising workers, materials, and equipment. The cage is a metal compartment, with devices for guiding it along the conductors, arresting devices (gates) to prevent the cars from rolling out spontaneously, and suspension and parachute devices. The cages travel along wood or metal guides in vertical mine shafts and on rails in sloping shafts. Cages may be the tipping, nontipping, or combination type and single-stage or multistage.
What does it mean when you dream about a cage?
A cage may indicate the dreamer feels cooped up. Being in the cage may signify the need to escape from a confining situation or relationship.
A void occurring in a crystal structure capable of trapping one or more foreign atoms.
(mechanical engineering)
A frame for maintaining uniform separation between the balls or rollers in a bearing. Also known as separator.
(mining engineering)
The car which carries personnel and materials in a mine hoist.
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A component in a sucker rod pump that contains the valve ball and maintains it at a correct operating distance from the valve seats.
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An aggregate of molecules in the condensed phase that surrounds fragments formed by thermal or photochemical dissociation or pairs of molecules in a solution that have collided without reacting.
1. Any rigid, reinforced assembly, ready for placing in position.
2. A metal enclosure for balcony spotlights.
3. A chantry or chapel screened by open tracery.
Mechanically locking the gimbals of a gyroscope so that it will not be damaged by rough handling or radical maneuvers. A caging button or knob is provided on some gyro instruments to prevent damage to them. It is also used when a gyro has tumbled and needs to be re-erected.
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This dream symbol suggests that you may be experiencing inhibition and powerlessness in some areas of your life. Additionally, you may be feeling restricted and have concerns about your personal freedom. (Who holds the key to the cage in your dream?) Consider all of the details in the dream and look for its possible source (i. e., family life, relationships, thoughts and/or feelings, or work life).


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LA CROSSE, Wis., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told supporters in Wisconsin GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's economic policies would "double down on the Great Depression."
Biden -- making his fourth visit to Wisconsin this year and his eighth as vice president -- told an audience the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Friday Romney and his running mate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, "are the people who talk about 47 percent of the American people being unwilling to take responsibility," the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Saturday.
"I don't know who these guys are talking about," Biden said.
"Folks, it's time to lift the burden off the middle class, not double down on the Great Recession," he said.
A Quinnipiac poll released Thursday found President Barack Obama leading Mitt Romney 50 percent to 47 percent among likely Wisconsin voters, the newspaper said. Obama led Romney 51-45 in a Quinnipiac poll in mid-September.


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Who said that adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing couldn't be fun?
Here is a chance to play a version of the classic Countdown Game.
There are nasty versions of this dice game but we'll start with the nice ones...
This challenge is a game for two players. Choose two of the numbers to multiply or divide, then mark your answer on the number line. Can you get four in a row?
Can you deduce the pattern that has been used to lay out these bottle tops?
Some Games That May Be Nice or Nasty for an adult and child. Use your knowledge of place value to beat your opponent.
Dicey Operations for an adult and child. Can you get close to 1000 than your partner?
This activity challenges you to decide on the 'best' number to use in each statement. You may need to do some estimating, some calculating and some research.
Four Go game for an adult and child. Will you be the first to have four numbers in a row on the number line?
What do you notice about the date 03.06.09? Or 08.01.09? This challenge invites you to investigate some interesting dates yourself.
Make an estimate of how many light fittings you can see. Was your estimate a good one? How can you decide?
Mr. Sunshine tells the children they will have 2 hours of homework. After several calculations, Harry says he hasn't got time to do this homework. Can you see where his reasoning is wrong?
There are four equal weights on one side of the scale and an apple on the other side. What can you say that is true about the apple and the weights from the picture?
Find the exact difference between the largest ball and the smallest ball on the Hepta Tree and then use this to work out the MAGIC NUMBER!
Can you work out how many of each kind of pencil this student bought?
From the information you are asked to work out where the picture was taken. Is there too much information? How accurate can your answer be?
How might you use mathematics to improve your chances of guessing the number of sweets in a jar?
How many teddies are in the jar? How many teddies could you fit in your classroom?
Bluey-green, white and transparent squares with a few odd bits of shapes around the perimeter. But, how many squares are there of each type in the complete circle? Study the picture and make. . . .
Examine these estimates. Do they sound about right?
Can you rank these sets of quantities in order, from smallest to largest? Can you provide convincing evidence for your rankings?


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"[T]he appeal of Wonderful Tonight is as self-evident as the seemingly simple but brash opening chord of 'A Hard Day's Night'… a charming, lively and seductive book, and like all good memoirs it also works as a cultural history… The prose is clear and unpretentious, and although she writes candidly about the pain her husbands ' infidelities caused her…this isn't a bitter tell-all. There's an aura of sweetness around Boyd's approach."
—New York Times Book Review
"A scrumptious memoir…There is exactly one big question for Ms. Boyd to answer here: What made her leave Mr. Harrison for Mr. Clapton, her husband's close friend? To its credit the book answers that question plausibly and fully."
—The New York Times
"They say if you can remember the '60s, you weren't really there. Well, Pattie Boyd was there, and she remembers it all." Wonderful Tonight "is a unique gospel of a turbulent time by someone who was in the very eye of the rock 'n' roll hurricane."
—Sydney Morning Herald
"Pattie Boyd married two Sixties legends and inspired three of the era's greatest love songs, but life was far from glamorous. The ex-wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton speaks out in this compelling autobiography."
—The London Sunday Times
"There are so many wonderful stories in Pattie Boyd's life: Falling in love with a Beatle. Falling in love with another famous rock star, Eric Clapton, and being serenaded with 'Wonderful Tonight' . . . "But there is much that is excruciating in her life story." Boyd "was taught by her parents that she didn't deserve to be loved; she was told by her husbands that she wasn't worth very much, but here she is: not dead, not on drugs, not an alcoholic, but a survivor."
—London Daily Mail
"Will thrill classic-rock buffs with a taste for scandal."
—Entertainment Weekly
"Boyd finally answers some of those questions [about George Harrison and Eric Clapton]–but on her own terms."
—USA Today
"Sixties model Pattie Boyd opens up about her rocky relationships with two of music's most famed performers."
—Harper's Bazaar


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Tom Hanks is building, starring, writing, and lending his voice to a new animated scifi series for Yahoo titled Electric City, which is the first ever scripted series for Yahoo. Here's a plot synopsis, via Yahoo Vice-President Erin McPherson:
On the surface, the Electric City is utopia and under the surface, Electric City is secrets and heavy-handed state control. What we found really compelling is that this is perfect for a highly digital audience, a lean-forward audience who likes to utilize the medium of the Internet.
The first ever look at Electric City should be out sometime this week, and this series is just the first of many futuristic franchise projects Yahoo has been spinning around. Will it approach the sheer entertainment value of Mazes and Monsters? One can only hope.
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Leave it to Stephen King to take one of the greatest horrors of the 20th century – JFK's assassination – and make it even worse by undoing the entire episode.
Spare Kennedy from Lee Harvey Oswald's bullet at Dealey Plaza in Dallas and prepare for former Alabama Governor George Wallace to become the 37th president.
His election follows an era devoid of Civil Rights triumphs. In King's alternate take, LBJ's mastery of legislative power remains untapped in the office of the vice president.
"The Republicans and Dixiecrats filibustered for a hundred and ten days; one actually died on the floor and became a right-wing hero," he writes. "When Kennedy finally gave up, he made an off-the-cuff remark that would haunt him until he died in 1983: 'White America has filled its house with kindling; now it will burn.' "
Such stomach-churning fun-house mirror episodes loom among many unintended consequences in 11/22/63, a piece of time-traveling historical fiction that makes the what-if game intensely personal and terrifyingly broad all at once.
It begins with the owner of a small-town diner in Maine named Al Templeton, who is dying of cancer. Locals have long wondered about Al's Diner because of its Fatburgers, priced to move at $1.19.
Unknown to all but Al, the pantry of the diner just happens to be a portal into the past. 1958, to be specific. Rather than serving catburgers, as many in town have conjectured, the proprietor has been stepping into the past and buying ground beef for 54 cents a pound in the sock-hop era and bringing it back into 2011 for a healthy profit margin.
Cheap burgers are well and good, but the rabbit-hole inspires more than just business schemes. Each time Al Templeton returns to 1958, no matter how long he stays, just two minutes have elapsed in the 21st century when he returns. All of which can get a man's mind to thinking.
The thinking Al does turns to history. Rewriting one of the saddest episodes in American history becomes an obsession for Al as he ponders what it would take to kill Oswald before Oswald can kill President Kennedy.
Near death, Al enlists Jake Epping, a 35-year-old high-school English teacher with a penchant for burgers, by initiating him into the otherworldly pantry and the plot to change American history.
This, of course, provides the foundation for the classic King tale: an ordinary man engulfed in the most extraordinary of circumstances.
King, a 64-year-old Baby Boomer, has a Mad Men-style ball satirizing the past as he sends a thoughtful but average man hurtling 53 years into the past. Before the harsh retaliation of mucking with the universe hits with full force, Jake Epping emerges enthralled and appalled during his initial sojourns into the Eisenhower era.
A trip down the pantry steps takes Jake from 2011 Lisbon Falls, Maine into Lisbon Falls on Sept. 9, 1958. Armed with $9,000 in period-vintage bills provided by Al, Jake discovers a country befogged by cigarette smoke, from restaurants to buses to the Steve McQueen TV ads for Viceroy. Homophobia, sexism, and anti-Semitism, not to mention blatant racism, run rampant.
Gas costs 20 cents per gallon. Hawaii has yet to become a state. At the drive-in, the double feature is tough to beat: Paul Newman in "The Long, Hot Summer" and Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" with Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak.
Food tastes better because it's not processed to death. (Then again, there are downsides in the diet department, as Jake notes: "Probably a billion grams of cholesterol in every bite, but in 1958, nobody worries about that, which is restful.") For $315 and a little haggling, Jake snaps up a 1954 Ford ragtop.
King enjoys the pop-culture ride, with nods to the Everly Brothers and the McGuire Sisters, among many others. For aficionados, the author slips in a delightful aside with a nifty cameo of characters and incidents from his 1986 novel "It" as Jake wanders through small-town Maine in the '50s.
In a world without cell phones and the Internet, Jakes faces constant fears of anachronism living in the past.
Just ordering a beer can be tricky. When Jake asks for a Miller Lite, the bartender replies, "Never heard of that one, but I've got High Life."
Later, after migrating to Texas, Jake absent mindedly sings the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women" in front of his girlfriend. When she asks where he heard such filth, Jake says the radio, an answer she can't fathom in the still-staid early 1960s. It is still a time when Americans have no idea who Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are and, even if they did, they wouldn't dare to hum along to lyrics about a "gin-soaked barroom queen." At this point, the Beatles are still a few years away from arriving on Ed Sullivan's stage.
Jake, of course, has advantages of his own, such as knowing the outcome to Kentucky Derbys, World Series (the Pirates' 1960 stunner over the Yankees comes in handy), and other sporting events of his newfound present-day.
Al spent several years in pursuit of Oswald, traveling to Texas, taking notes on what he found. Ravaged by cancer, Al kills himself, leaving the fate of JFK and Oswald in Jake's shaky hands.
With that, King ratchets up the consequences of changing the past. Jake ponders the butterfly effect and wonders constantly whether the small changes wrought by his presence are altering future events in unexpected and harmful ways.
He finds the past stubbornly resistant to going off-course, though the lax world of a half-century ago lends itself to creating false identities with minimal inconvenience. Driver's licenses, for example, don't include photos. Travelers can walk into an airport and hop on a plane, no questions asked. And, as Jake demonstrates, a gun can be legally and legitimately bought for $9.99 with no waiting period required.
Jake's mission to save JFK depends on him answering a question that has vexed Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner, among many others. That is, did Oswald act alone or was it a conspiracy involving the Mob, the government, or others? Jake heads South from Maine, witnessing Jim Crow on his way to Florida before migrating west to New Orleans and then into the hostility of Dallas in the early 1960s.
King inserts plenty of verisimilitude into his tale, the result, no doubt, of many virtual and actual trips to Dallas and the Sixth Floor Museum. Most important, the Oswalds and Kennedys are living, breathing people rather than historical artifacts. For a time, Jake lives below the Oswalds in an apartment on West Neely Street (where Lee and Marina Oswald lived with their baby daughter) and tries to determine whether Oswald is the lone conspirator.
When he's not chasing Oswald, Jake retreats to a small town outside Dallas and stumbles into what would be an idyllic job and romance sullied by just one unavoidable exception: He's a time traveler from the 21st century trying to save the president's life. Even if he wanted to enlist help, no one would believe the outrageous scenario of what history will record on Dallas' day of infamy.
Somehow, the absurdity of the situation – and Jake's self-awareness – makes the love story all the more heartbreaking. These threads eventually come together (King has never been a man to be hurried through a tale and that holds true here) in a breathless chase to reach the Texas School Book Depository on a November afternoon when JFK and Jackie are basking in the sun in an open-air car.
"The noise of the crowd rushed in again, thousands of people applauding and cheering and yelling their brains out," Jake recalls. "I heard them and Lee did, too. He knew what it meant: now or never. He whirled back to the window and socked the rifle's butt-plate against his shoulder."
And with that, King's muse dances through several twists in a finale that makes 11/22/63 a date well worth keeping.
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New Tut by Kajira
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Another wonderful tut by Kajira. This one is called Iirsh Luck and uses a blend of my Off to Tipperary FTU/PTU kits. You can check out the tut HERE
New Tut using my Off to Tipperary Kit
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It's called Feelin's Lucky and is by Kajira. Woohoo, Tom Hoover again. I love his stuff. You can check out the tut HERE
St. Patrick's day on the way
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Here's the 2 tags I've created for St. Patrick's Day. I used the kits I've created, Off to Tipperary and the new kit I'll be offering in the lucky blog train. I've used the gorgeous work of Tom Hoover, just superb and HOT, HOT, HOT! Bring us more Tom.
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This tag was created for me by casper. Doesn't she do beautiful work? She doesn't write tuts yet, but maybe if we keep coaxing her,she will. She used my HeartBreaker kit for this tag.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Tropicana Tut- by Me
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You need a basic working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop to use this tutorial.
Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincindental.
I used the wonderful scrapkit Lillerz Choice by The Urban Fairy. You can purchase her work here.
The Tube I used is a hot one from Jose Cano, available for purchase here.
You must have a license to use art from Jose Cano.
Let's begin.
Open new Document- 450 X 450, White backgorund.
Open mask or Choice, Invert Black and white.
Choose paper of your liking, drag onto document and free transform size to yuor choosing.
Drag onto document and fit for size .
Blending Options- Luminosity.
Choose Erasrer tool. I used a tear brush application (*by Terry Meruca, purchased at www.scrapbook-elements.com) and went around edge of mask to reveal paper undeneath.
Pick Frame of choice, drag onto document, free tranform to resize so it fits better on page and is skinnier.
Also tilt in one direction or the other. Apply Blending options- Stroke, 3 pixels, color picked with eyedropper tool from background paper.
Apply bevel and emboss style, smooth, with Shadow opacity at 9.
Open tube of Choice. Drag onto document. Resize so it fits on top of the frame, but still overhangs it.
Duplicate layer and move that layer behind the frame.
Using eraser tool with a basic round brush. Erase parts of the tube that overhang the bottom of the frame.
Choose a ribbon of your liking. Free transform size and width so that it covers most of bottom of frame.
I recoloured this one to match part of the tube.
Choose another ribbon, free tramsform size and width so that it covers middle of last ribbon.
Choose coordinating Flower. I used Hibiscus since it's a tropical theme.
Drag onto document, free transform size, placement and tilt to move it to top corner of frame.
Move behind Tube so it looks like it's part of the frame.
Choose Hibiscus flower again, recolour to coordinate with tube colors. resize smaller and place below and on top of 1st flower.
Repeat reclouring flower again and making it smaller yet and placing below 2nd flower.
Hide all layers other than 3 flowers. merge Visible.
Duplicate layer, flip horizontally and vettically. Move to bottom opposite corner or frame, tilt if need to mirron the top cluster.
Choose butterlfies of your liking. Resize quite small and add to opposite corners of frame.
Duplicate and move placement as often as you like until desired effect is achieved.
Add Copyright Info and any watermarks.
Mege Visible.
Add atext layer. I used 2 Peas Tiger tails. Apply Gradient overlay. I used NG Kiwi Fruit, reflected style, angle 99, scale 47%
Add a stroke 3 pixels of coordinating darker color to make the font pop.
Congrats! You are done your tag. Either save as a PSD/PSP file to be able to change the text, or save as a jpeg for web use!
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Heartbreaker Tut by Kajira
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My girl Kajira made up this tut. I'm so digging it. She's flippin awesome.
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Off to Tipperary PTU
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My latest offering. Can you tell I love holidays, each and every one? LOL
23 Paper 700 X 700
71 Elements all indivdual PNG files.
I hope you like this and I can't wait to use it myself.
It's on sale right now at my STORE
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71 Elements all indivdual PNG files.
I hope you like this and I can't wait to use it myself.
It's on sale right now at my STORE
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We're having a sale! Some of the designers decided to have a little sale for ya 40% Off
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I flew on United Airlines on June 8, 2012 from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and then on to Chicago's O'Hare airport. Needless to say it was the trip that would make anyone scream!!! The letter below is to the CEO of United Airlines Jeff Smisek. I have mailed this letter to him and I will let you know what his response is.
Enjoy, as you just can't make up a story like this one……
June 8, 2012
Mr. Jeff Smisek
CEO United Airlines, Inc.
77 West Wacker Dr.
Chicago, IL 60601
Dear Mr. Smisek,
I am a very frustrated customer. I am currently sitting in the Los Angeles airport waiting for the next flight to Chicago because I missed my connection due to no fault of my own. I have started this letter in Los Angeles at LAX airport and will finish it at home in Chicago.
Here is my story. I was booked on United 968 from Las Vegas to Chicago at 11:35PM. My reservation number is MY7XMZ. I was in Las Vegas on business and I finished very early, so I decided to catch an earlier flight home so I could sleep in my own bed instead of sleeping on the plane. So I used the United app on my iPhone and I paid $75 to change my current later flight 968 to flight 197 at 4:10PM to LAX connecting to flight 704 at 6:01PM in LA to Chicago. This would get me home just before midnight and I could have a good nights sleep in my own bed.
This is where the nightmare begins. I arrive at the Las Vegas Airport at 2PM. This is plenty of time to get through security and get to the gate area. I arrived at the gate area at about 2:25PM and I sat down in the gate area to wait for the flight. At 3:30PM I noticed that the aircraft had not arrived, so I started to become concerned. The aircraft arrived about 10 minutes later and we began to board at 4PM. I walked up the gate agent and said to her, "I have a VERY tight connection, do you think I should get on the Plane?" She looked up the connecting flight and told me, Oh, you will make it. I asked if my connecting flight was in the same terminal as my arriving flight from Las Vegas. She said, "Yes it is, don't worry you will make it!" So I proceeded to board.
I entered the aircraft and I told the flight attendant that I had a VERY, VERY TIGHT CONNECTION, and asked if she could help me out getting off the plane when we landed? She said to me, and I quote "Oh it doesn't work that way, when we land everybody stands up in the Aisle." That was not what I expected to hear, in fact I was taken back by her statement. What happened to a little customer service? All I wanted was to be able to be the first one off the plane so I could maybe have a chance, slim as it was, of making my connection. I was taken back by the flight attendant, I said to here "OK" and I proceeded to find my seat in the rear of the aircraft. We sat at the gate. And sat, and sat and when it got to be 4:35PM and we were still at the gate I pushed the call button. A flight attendant came to my row and asked what the problem was. I told her that I had a very tight connection and now I know I will miss my flight. I asked if I could get off the plane and have an agent rebook me on another flight out of Las Vegas. The look I received from this flight attendant was that of "How dare you ask to get off the plane." What the flight attendant proceeded to do was scold me for getting on the plane in the first place and that if I wanted to get off the plane that I would inconvenience this full airplane of people as they would have to match every bag to every passenger. Now I did not have any checked luggage. I had my small carry-on and my computer. So I was about to say forget it to the attendant when she says to me, I will just have to talk to the Captain and she walked to the front of the aircraft.
It is now 4:40PM and we start to push back. The flight attend comes back to me after we have pushed back and stopped and announces to me. "The Captain has stopped the plane for you." I looked at her and I said, "FORGET IT! I AM NOT MAKING THIS PLANE GO BACK TO THE GATE." I felt two feet tall after she scolded me. She went back up the front of the plane and we proceeded to taxi to the runway. The passengers around me consoled me and said, that was not very nice of that fight attendant to do that to you.
We were in the air at about 5:05PM. The captain came over the speaker system and said our flight time was about 45 minutes. So I looked at my watch and figured that if I could get off the flight and run I could make the flight with about 2 minutes to spare. We landed and taxied to the gate area and stopped short of the gate waiting for an aircraft to clear the taxi way. So now I am really concerned. We get to the gate area and I can see that my connecting flight is still at the gate and they were loading the last of the bags. I say to myself, well that flight is not in the same terminal, it was in the next terminal and I don't know if I could make a mad dash for the plane once I got off. Well, we stopped at the gate and everyone popped up and left me in the rear of the aircraft. Did the flight attendant say "We have a passenger that needs to make a tight connection, please let him out first." NO, I stood in the Aisle for 14 minutes as everyone took their time to get off the plane. When I did eventually get off the plane, I looked out the terminal window across to the other terminal and saw the jetway was pulled away from the plane. I asked the gate agent to call over to Gate 83. She did and told me the plane is ready to push back. I was furious! I just paid $75 to miss my plane. And no one at United seemed to give a dam. The gate agent said, "Walk over to the customer service desk and get rebooked." No, "I am really sorry you missed your connection." Just go get your flight rebooked across the hallway.
This is the worst customer service I have seen in a long time. And I watched you on the in flight TV screen saying "I wish I could greet each and everyone of you and personally shake your hand and thank you for flying United." Well your company failed me big time. Here is what I would have done if I worked for United. I would have never let me board the plane in the first place and I would have rebooked me on another flight from Las Vegas or let me off the plane first and have one of the golf carts at LAX waiting for me to take me over to gate 83 and call over to flight 704 and tell them I was on the way. I guess what really upset me was that no one cared, no one gave a dam. The only one that had any sympathy for me was the really nice agent at the customer service desk that rebooked my flight. She was the only one that cared, but after what I went through, it was little consolation.
I was rebooked on United Flight 1451 at 7:30PM. I returned to Gate 70 to wait for my new flight to Chicago. I boarded Flight 1451 at 705PM. I was thinking of telling the flight attendant on this new flight when I boarded, "Can You please be nice to me because the last crew didn't treat me very well." Well, that went out the window when I saw the flight attendant crew on this Chicago flight was the exact same crew that was on the Las Vegas – LA flight that treated me like dirt. I have to tell you that when I saw the same crew again, the anxiety I experienced on my first flight returned. So I decided to just go to my seat and avoid all contact with the flight attendants during this flight.
Some people want to just complain and not tell you what they want you to do. Well, that's not me. Here is what I want you to do. I want my $75 refunded to me by way of a credit to my credit card for $75. I had not flown United in a while because I have been flying Southwest. Why do I fly Southwest? Because they know how to treat their customers and they really do give a dam about all of there customers and the "Get It!" I decided to try United again and thought that the merger with Continental would change the airline for the better as I have always liked flying Continental. Boy was I wrong! You have a long road to travel before your service is back to just good. If you want to know what knock you socks off customer service is, look at Zappos. They also have it all right. They know how to treat their customers.
I hope to hear from you soon. And I really hope that you, Mr. Smisek will read and respond to this letter. I hope that you do, it would prove to me that you really meant what you said in your pre-flight announcement. And you really care about everyone of your passengers.
In closing, you have a lot of work to do to bring your airline back. Just remember, "It's all about the CUSTOMER!" If you give your customers great customer service then even when things go wrong, your customer will tell you that you went that extra mile for them to make it right! And they will be your customers for life. Let's see if you can make that happen. For your sake, I hope you can.


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Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center
"I never know what to expect when I walk into the Main Space of Cornerstone. It's one of the quirkier spots on campus, where there is a constant rotation of installation and performance art pieces on display."
Cornerstone is LEED-certified, and was completed in 2008 with the mission to create a space that allows for innovative, experimental, and collaborative projects. Cornerstone is home to CC's Theatre and Dance, and Film and Media Studies departments, and offers state-of-the art facilities like computer labs programmed with video and photo editing software. For students interested in drama, Cornerstone has a 450-seat theater, a black box theatre, and a wood shop for set design and construction.


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Papas Rellenas With Picadillo De Pavo
By á-170456
- 1/4 cup pure olive oil
- 1 1/4 pounds ground turkey
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 garlic cloves thinly sliced
- 1 medium red onion diced
- 1 red bell pepper stemmed, seeded, and diced
- 1 yellow bell pepper stemmed, seeded, and diced
- Kosher salt to taste
- Freshly-ground black pepper to taste
- 1 large tomato peeled, seeded, and chopped
- 1/2 cup tomato paste
- 1 cup dry red wine
- 1/2 cup Spanish dry sherry
- 1/2 cup small capers well rinsed, and chopped
- 1/2 cup raisins or currants roughly chopped
- 5 tablespoons roughly-chopped rinsed green olives
- 3/4 cup sliced scallions
- 3 cups mashed Idaho potatoes - (abt 1 1/2 lbs)
- 3 cups mashed boiled yuca - (abt 1 1/2 lbs)
- 5 extra-large eggs
- 1/4 cup chopped thyme leaves
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons freshly-ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3 cups picadillo de pavo
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons water
- 3 cups fine bread crumbs
- Canola or peanut oil for deep-frying
Servings 40
Step 1
For the Picadillo: Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat and add 2 tablespoons of the olive oil. Put the turkey in the skillet and cook, separating the clumps of meat with a spoon or spatula, until crumbly and lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Transfer the turkey and any juices to a bowl. Reserve.
Add the remaining 2 tablespoons olive oil and the butter to a skillet and heat until hot. Add the garlic, onion and bell peppers, season with salt and pepper, and saute for 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Stir in the turkey, tomato, tomato paste, red wine, sherry, capers, raisins, olives, and scallions. Lower the heat to medium-low, season to taste, and cook for about 15 minutes until the flavors meld. Remove from the heat.
For the Papas Rellenas: Combine the mashed potatoes and yuca in a large bowl. Lightly beat 2 of the eggs, and add to the potato mixture, along with the thyme, salt, black pepper, and cayenne. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Form the potato mixture into balls about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Using your thumb or forefinger, make a little well large enough to hold 1/2 tablespoon of filling in each ball. Add the filling and pinch the dough to seal. Pat the seam gently, then roll the ball to make it smooth and round.
Bring out 3 shallow bowls, Put the flour in 1 and season with salt and pepper. In another, beat the remaining 3 eggs with the water. Put the bread crumbs in the third bowl. Roll each ball in flour, then in the eggs, and then in the bread crumbs to coat.
In a deep fryer or deep pot, heat the oil to 375 degrees. Drop the Papas Rellenas in the oil, in batches, and cook until golden brown, about 3 minutes. Remove and drain on paper towels. Serve.
This recipe yields 40 to 44 papas.


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About TheBigH
I heard about this on the radio this morning. Someone was making the case that a lot of scientific progress is incremental improvements on existing things, rather than entirely new things. That is true, of course. But that doesn't excuse the cynical practice of making trivial changes to existing products as a legal ploy; that's not innovation.
Actually, that's not as ridiculous as it sounds.
The Vatican actually funds a lot of science. Also the Vatican is an independent nation, so it's not clear that scientists working for the Vatican could be persecuted under the dumb Italian legal system.
Agree. Unity is dreadful and I would gladly pay to see it buried forever, but I doubt that's something they'd let you pay for.
I do scientific work on my machine, and I need stability and functionality, not uncustomizable unintuitive crap in gaudy colours. I have a computer, not a glorified mobile phone, so I've moved on from Ubuntu and probably won't be back.
Public pressure like this is a big reason why SOPA died, and ACTA is dying.
Mr. Anonymous Shill knows this, and is terrified.
He's probably working for Hollywood in his current position.
Isn't this just using the spectre of potential future abuses of the law to justify current ones?
Kenzie is not a legitimate entity. That's the difference.
But since this typosquatting affects the intended recipient as much as the sender, the intended recipient is being punished for the mistakes of others. If I'm expecting an email from someone and they mistype the email address, that is not my fault. So you actually agree that this kind of typosquatting is not OK.
If you die, the hooker doesn't start screwing your family.
Be glad Mr Immaturity didn't giggle at you for writing "i snot".
...and 4) No riders!
No more bills like "Fight pedophilia (and extend copyright terms until the heat death of the universe)"
Seems to me to be a great way of punishing people who are not jerks at all, just unpopular through no real fault of their own. These would include young people, people who do not have English as their first language, people with unfashionable political or religious opinions, etc. That is, the same kinds of people who get rubbished unfairly on every other internet community in the world. What will inevitably happen is the development of a powerful clique of high profile users who will enforce conformity through financial disincentives.
what dafuq did I just watch?
When you consider the copyright maximalist position of the German government, an amalgam of the words "verbatim" and "verboten" seems somehow appropriate.
If the facts don't agree with your political ideology, then too bad for your political ideology.
Insightful times Aleph-Zero.
Yes, well, didn't the guy who killed Michael Jackson get a lesser sentence than someone who downloaded some of his music?
Oh, I agree. Some of the GMO producers (eg. Monsanto) aren't doing themselves any favours with their unscrupulous behaviour. But this is part of the problem. If you're justified in attacking a company over its unethical business practices you feel more able to attack it over other things as well- such as the science, where your justification may not be as strong.
Look at the case of "big pharma" for example. People have a go at them for their greed and shameless profiteering, and rightly so. But then some turn around and say that if "big pharma" are willing to do this then obviously all their drugs are going to just make people sick and keep them sick rather than healing them because all they care about is money and not about people. And so you get dangerous idiots like the antivax movement, faith healers, and homeopaths cashing in on people's ill-informed mistrust of the evil scary corporations. I don't really see the fear of GMO food as being any different.
I can dislike a company's practices without being paranoid of the science.
"In fact, if GMOs are so great, presumably you'd be proud to sell labeled GMO foodstuffs."
That's difficult, considering the amount of fearmongering and misinformation spread by the opponents of GMO food.
Doesn't this petition go some way towards doing that?


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By Rob Goszkowski
In the past, Argentinean singer-songwriter Juana Molina took her time to craft carefully looped and layered beatscapes before her audiences. Her approach has changed, per the artistic demands of her most recent release, Wed 21. The songs are more condensed, but the aesthetic is the same.
There is a primal quality to her music, like she is tapping into a great heartbeat and proceeds to drape the sounds of whatever instrument has ahold of her attention at that moment. Her experimental pop has gained acclaim from world music fans and critics at prominent publications alike. The performer, who is still known for her successful career in comedy back home as well as her music, will be at The Independent with her band tomorrow night, Thu/24. We caught up with her before the show.
San Francisco Bay Guardian I understand that Wed 21 was recorded only by you in your apartment. Are you self-taught on all of these instruments that appear on the album?
Juana Molina Yes, I suppose. But let me make a little clarification: All of my records were done on my own at home. There is some misunderstanding there because everybody is asking me the same thing! When I'm recording and I find a new sound, figuring out what to do with it is the key. I'm not looking for or seeking anything. There is something that happens between the sounds and me.
SFBG As a listener, it is easy to go into a kind of trance while hearing your music, you can get lost in it.
JM That's exactly what happens to me! It's true! I just get lost and I let the sound take me for a ride. I just do whatever the sound tells me to do and I follow. Sometimes it's so long — and I hate it a little bit. Because I think, "Oh, I can't have a 45-minute song that does the exact same thing the entire time." But I'm so into it when I get there. That's probably why some people, like you in this case, get the same effect. It is the sound that is leading the ride.
SFBG You have talked about the value of repetition, of playing something over and over again. What is that about?
JM I think the answer comes from the idea that I loop things in my recordings, which is something that I don't do. I very much enjoy playing the same thing over and over. Because I am taken by it. So I make very long recordings because sometimes, even if it sounds like the same thing — it is not the same thing. If you put one on top of the other, you hear the difference. When it's really nice and I want to keep it, I need to go through it part by part, step by step, because everything needs to fit with what was played at that time. Putting it together can become a nightmare because sometimes I play for hours and hours.
SFBG Does this approach make playing before an audience with a limited amount of time difficult?
JM No. Because the process of putting sounds together for a live show is a completely different process. You know what the song is about, because you worked on it for months. And then what you need to do is to figure out sounds are essential to it, what makes the song a song. This record was especially hard to put together live because of the dynamics. For previous records, where I built up layers up layers on to layers — that was easy to do in the live show. The dynamics are so different on this one that it took me forever to translate it for the live show. Now that we've managed to put it together, we don't understand why it took us so long. Now it is easy, it's obvious.
SFBG So you and the band had a breakthrough.
JM It seems so easy now. When we compare this tour to our previous one in Europe, we can't believe the difference. Now it's so tight — and I say this now when it risks making the next show a mess — but there's confidence we have gained over the months. The previous record had very long songs. I would play one loop and add layers upon layers. It was like cooking for the people, in front of the people. Waiting for the onions to be a little more brown, now I add a little bit of salt, then let's go with tomatoes — mmm, tomatoes! What else to add? And at the end of the song, we have the dish ready. But these songs are so short, that they need to be ready as soon as you start them. The energy must be completely different, it has to be there from the beginning. That is something I had to learn.
With Emily Jane White
8pm, $15
The Independent
628 Divisadero, SF


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'When You Are Who You Are':
'Home is where the hatred is':
'Whitey on the Moon':
'The Revolution will not be Televised': (everything is a reference to something in this song, learn "what to," click here.)
'Lady Day & John Coltrane':
'Did You Hear What they Said?':
Him who don't fit through the needle's eye:
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Ariane 5 ECA
|Main data
|Ariane 5 ECA
|up to 53 m
|up to 5.4 m
|Liftoff mass*
|780 t
|Payload mass**
|10.0 t
* Double launch
** Into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO)
The latest version of the Ariane 5 launcher, Ariane 5 ECA, is designed to place payloads weighing up to 9.6 tonnes into GTO. With its increased capacity, Ariane 5 ECA can handle dual launches of very large satellites.
This version of the Ariane 5 will help to maintain Europe's competitiveness in the commercial space transport sector by offering customers the opportunity to launch a wider range of heavier satellites while reducing launcher production costs.
Ariane 5 ECA: new elements
Ariane 5 ECA is an improved Ariane 5 Generic launcher. Although it has the same general architecture, a number of major changes were made to the basic structure of the Ariane 5 Generic version to increase thrust and enable it to carry heavier payloads into orbit.
Solid boosters (EAP)
The EAP boosters' upper segment of the Ariane 5 ECA (also known as segment S1) carries 10% (2.5 tonnes) more propellant. This extra propellant gives the Ariane 5 ECA an additional 50 tonnes of thrust in the first 20 seconds following liftoff. This means that together the twin boosters deliver a thrust of 1300 tonnes at liftoff, nearly 10 times the level delivered by the new engine of the central stage.
The boosters are also equipped with a new nozzle that has fewer parts and is easier and cheaper to produce.
Main stage (EPC and Vulcain 2 engine)
An improved version of the Vulcain engine was developed and used on the Ariane 5 ECA version. The Vulcain cryogenic engine was modified to increase its thrust by 20%, up to 137 tonnes. This new Vulcain 2 operates under slightly higher pressure with a mixture ratio that has 20% more liquid oxygen than the Vulcain 1. Because of this change in the mixture, a new oxygen turbopump was developed.
In addition, the Vulcain 2 turbopump exhausts are reinjected into the main system, thus improving engine performance at high altitude. The Vulcain 2 engine is a key contributor to the additional lift capability of the new Ariane 5 ECA version into GTO.
To hold the extra liquid oxygen needed for the EPC core stage, the capacity of the liquid oxygen tank has been increased by 16 tonnes. This was achieved by relocating the common tank bulkhead between the liquid oxygen tank and the liquid hydrogen tank of the Ariane 5 Generic EPC stage and reinforcing the structure elements.
The new fuel load capacity of the EPC is:
- Liquid oxygen: 150 tonnes
- Liquid hydrogen: 25 tonnes
The EPC stage operates for nearly 540 seconds. It also performs the roll control function during all its propulsion phase. At shut down, at an altitude between 160 km and 210 km depending on the mission's trajectory, the EPC stage separates from the upper composite and reenters the atmosphere above the Atlantic Ocean.


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New Side Crash Tests: Performance Of Two Fords Improves With Side Airbags
SUV Air Bag Safety and Health
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently tested four 2007 model vehicles with side airbags: Toyota FJ Cruiser and Ford Freestyle (midsize SUVs); Ford Fusion (midsize moderately priced car) and Ford Crown Victoria (large family car). The FJ Cruiser and Freestyle earn good ratings for protection in side crashes. The Fusion is rated acceptable, and the Crown Victoria is marginal. Side airbags are optional in the FJ Cruiser and Crown Victoria. The Fusion has been upgraded to standard side airbags for the 2007 model year. The Freestyle will have standard side airbags in 2007s built after September.
"We commend Ford for making side airbags standard in the Fusion and Freestyle," says Institute president Adrian Lund. "A few years ago, it was rare to find these standard in moderately priced family vehicles, but they're quickly becoming the norm."
The tests were conducted outside of the Institute's normal schedule at the request of the manufacturers. Tests of the Crown Victoria and Fusion update earlier tests of these vehicles without side airbags.
"Manufacturers may request a test because they've made changes to improve a vehicle's performance or they have a new vehicle they think will earn a good rating," Lund explains. "We encourage these requests because it means manufacturers are striving to make their vehicles safer, and we can get the results out to consumers earlier. When we do conduct tests early the manufacturers provide reimbursement for the cost of the vehicles."
Summary of test results: The FJ Cruiser with optional side airbags earned a good rating. Intrusion into the occupant compartment was minimal. Performance in all categories (dummy injury measures, head protection, and structure) was good across the board.
"A perfect score," Lund points out.
The Freestyle's structure didn't perform quite as well, but this vehicle is rated good overall. The dummies' heads were protected from hitting any hard structures by side curtain-style airbags that deploy from above the windows.
Both the Fusion and Crown Victoria (also sold by Mercury as the Milan and Grand Marquis) with side airbags improved compared with the poor ratings earned by 2006 models tested without side airbags. In the new test of the Fusion, head protection was good but measures recorded on the driver dummy indicated that a fracture of the pelvis would be possible in a crash of this severity. The Fusion with side airbags earned an overall rating of acceptable for side impact protection. In the Crown Victoria, head protection also improved, but this car is rated marginal because of high forces recorded on the driver dummy's pelvis and poor structural performance. (Note: These ratings do not apply to 2006 models equipped with optional side airbags. Ford changed the side airbags, door structure, and interior trim of 2007 Fusions and the side airbags and interior trim of 2007 Crown Victorias to improve occupant protection in side impacts.)
How vehicles are evaluated: Each vehicle's overall side evaluation is based on performance in a crash test in which the side of the vehicle is struck by a barrier moving at 31 mph. The barrier represents the front end of a pickup or SUV. Ratings reflect injury measures recorded on two instrumented SID-IIs dummies, both representing a small woman or preteen; assessment of head protection countermeasures; and the vehicle's structural performance during the impact. Injury measures obtained from the two dummies, one in the driver seat and the other in the rear seat behind the driver, are used to determine the likelihood that the driver and/or passenger in a real-world crash would have sustained serious injury to various body regions. The movements and contacts of the dummies' heads during the crash also are evaluated. Structural performance is based on measurements indicating the amount of B-pillar intrusion into the occupant compartment.


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More than a decade after its introduction, REST has become one of the most important technologies for Web applications. Its importance is likely to continue growing quickly as all technologies move towards an API orientation. Every major development language now includes frameworks for building RESTful Web services. As such, it is important for Web developers and architects to have a clear understanding of REST and RESTful services. This tutorial explains REST architecturally, then dives into the details of using it for common API-based tasks.
While REST stands for Representational State Transfer, which is an architectural style for networked hypermedia applications, it is primarily used to build Web services that are lightweight, maintainable, and scalable. A service based on REST is called a RESTful service. REST is not dependent on any protocol, but almost every RESTful service uses HTTP as its underlying protocol. In this article, I examine the creation of RESTful services with HTTP.
Features of a RESTful Services
Every system uses resources. These resources can be pictures, video files, Web pages, business information, or anything that can be represented in a computer-based system. The purpose of a service is to provide a window to its clients so that they can access these resources. Service architects and developers want this service to be easy to implement, maintainable, extensible, and scalable. A RESTful design promises that and more. In general, RESTful services should have following properties and features, which I'll describe in detail:
- Representations
- Messages
- URIs
- Uniform interface
- Stateless
- Links between resources
- Caching
The focus of a RESTful service is on resources and how to provide access to these resources. A resource can easily be thought of as an object as in OOP. A resource can consist of other resources. While designing a system, the first thing to do is identify the resources and determine how they are related to each other. This is similar to the first step of designing a database: Identify entities and relations.
Once we have identified our resources, the next thing we need is to find a way to represent these resources in our system. You can use any format for representing the resources, as REST does not put a restriction on the format of a representation.
For example, depending on your requirement, you can decide to use JSON or XML. If you are building Web services that will be used by Web pages for AJAX calls, then JSON is a good choice. XML can be used to represent more complex resources. For example a resource called "Person" can be represented as:
Listing One: JSON representation of a resource.
{ "ID": "1", "Name": "M Vaqqas", "Email": "[email protected]", "Country": "India" }
Listing Two: XML representation of a resource.
<Person> <ID>1</ID> <Name>M Vaqqas</Name> <Email>[email protected]</Email> <Country>India</Country> </Person>
In fact, you can use more than one format and decide which one to use for a response depending on the type of client or some request parameters. Whichever format you use, a good representation should have some obvious qualities:
- Both client and server should be able to comprehend this format of representation.
- A representation should be able to completely represent a resource. If there is a need to partially represent a resource, then you should think about breaking this resource into child resources. Dividing big resources into smaller ones also allows you to transfer a smaller representation. Smaller representations mean less time required to create and transfer them, which means faster services.
- The representation should be capable of linking resources to each other. This can be done by placing the URI or unique ID of the related resource in a representation (more on this in the coming sections).
The client and service talk to each other via messages. Clients send a request to the server, and the server replies with a response. Apart from the actual data, these messages also contain some metadata about the message. It is important to have some background about the HTTP 1.1 request and response formats for designing RESTful Web services.
HTTP Request
An HTTP request has the format shown in Figure 1:
Figure 1: HTTP request format.
<VERB> is one of the HTTP methods like
OPTIONS, etc
<URI> is the URI of the resource on which the operation is going to be performed
<HTTP Version> is the version of HTTP, generally
"HTTP v1.1" .
<Request Header> contains the metadata as a collection of key-value pairs of headers and their values. These settings contain information about the message and its sender like client type, the formats client supports, format type of the message body, cache settings for the response, and a lot more information.
<Request Body> is the actual message content. In a RESTful service, that's where the representations of resources sit in a message.
There are no tags or markups to denote the beginning or end of a section in an HTML message.
Listing Three is a sample
POST request message, which is supposed to insert a new resource
Listing Three: A sample POST request.
POST http://MyService/Person/ Host: MyService Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 123 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Person> <ID>1</ID> <Name>M Vaqqas</Name> <Email>[email protected]</Email> <Country>India</Country> </Person>
You can see the
POST command, which is followed by the URI and the HTTP version. This request also contains some request headers.
Host is the address of the server.
Content-Type tells about the type of contents in the message body.
Content-Length is the length of the data in message body.
Content-Length can be used to verify that the entire message body has been received. Notice there are no start or end tags in this message.
Listing Four is an actual
GET request that was created by my browser when I tried to visit the HTTP 1.1 specifications on w3.org:
Listing Four: A GET request.
GET http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html HTTP/1.1 Host: www.w3.org Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml; … User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 … Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,hi;q=0.6
There is no message body in this request. The
Accept header tells the server about the various presentation formats this client supports. A server, if it supports more than one representation format, it can decide the representation format for a response at runtime depending on the value of the
Accept header.
User-Agent contains information about the type of client who made this request.
Accept-Encoding/Language tells about the encoding and language this client supports.
HTTP Response
Figure 2 shows the format of an HTTP response:
Figure 2: HTTP response format.
The server returns
<response code>, which contains the status of the request. This response code is generally the 3-digit HTTP status code.
<Response Header> contains the metadata and settings about the response message.
<Response Body> contains the representation if the request was successful.
Listing Five is the actual response I received for the request cited in Listing Three:
Listing 5: An actual response to a GET request..
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:31:04 GMT Server: Apache/2 Last-Modified: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:24:52 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 32859 Cache-Control: max-age=21600, must-revalidate Expires: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 00:31:04 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> <head><title>Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</title></head> <body> ...
The response code
200 OK means that everything went well and the response message body contains a valid representation of the resource I requested. In this case, the representation is an HTML document that is declared by
Content-Type header in the response header. The headers in the message are self explanatory, but I will discuss some of them later in this article. There are many other attributes. You can catch and inspect such HTTP requests and responses using a free tool called Fiddler.
Addressing Resources
REST requires each resource to have at least one URI. A RESTful service uses a directory hierarchy like human readable URIs to address its resources. The job of a URI is to identify a resource or a collection of resources. The actual operation is determined by an HTTP verb. The URI should not say anything about the operation or action. This enables us to call the same URI with different HTTP verbs to perform different operations.
Suppose we have a database of persons and we wish to expose it to the outer world through a service. A resource
person can be addressed like this:
This URL has following format:
Here are some important recommendations for well-structured URIs:
- Use plural nouns for naming your resources.
- Avoid using spaces as they create confusion. Use an
_(underscore) or
–(hyphen) instead.
- A URI is case insensitive. I use camel case in my URIs for better clarity. You can use all lower-case URIs.
- You can have your own conventions, but stay consistent throughout the service. Make sure your clients are aware of this convention. It becomes easier for your clients to construct the URIs programmatically if they are aware of the resource hierarchy and the URI convention you follow.
- A cool URI never changes; so give some thought before deciding on the URIs for your service. If you need to change the location of a resource, do not discard the old URI. If a request comes for the old URI, use status code
300and redirect the client to the new location.
- Avoid verbs for your resource names until your resource is actually an operation or a process. Verbs are more suitable for the names of operations. For example, a RESTful service should not have the URIs
Query Parameters in URI
The preceding URI is constructed with the help of a query parameter:
The query parameter approach works just fine and REST does not stop you from using query parameters. However, this approach has a few disadvantages.
- Increased complexity and reduced readability, which will increase if you have more parameters
- Search-engine crawlers and indexers like Google ignore URIs with query parameters. If you are developing for the Web, this would be a great disadvantage as a portion of your Web service will be hidden from the search engines.
The basic purpose of query parameters is to provide parameters to an operation that needs the data items. For example, if you want the format of the presentation to be decided by the client. You can achieve that through a parameter like this:
Including the parameters
format and
encoding here in the main URI in a parent-child hierarchy will not be logically correct as they have no such relation:
Query parameters also allow optional parameters. This is not otherwise possible in a URI. You should use query parameters only for the use they are intended for: providing parameter values to a process.