Terry Brooks wrote a sci-fi novel? All of us nerds know his fantasy from Shannara, of course, but I had no idea he did this sci-fi book. Had to grab it.
All of Terry Brooks' Shannara books are sci-fi. Just saying.
Apparently the end of February is for reading thinky translated novels about near-future Earth society reacting to evidence of highly advanced aliens that we never physically "meet". Both are pretty clunky in terms of characters, but are carried by their big ideas (and both are titled after their respective metaphors for how alien societies might relate to humanity).
And since February is basically over, here are the prompts for April, with a historical era theme.
It's amazing how varied people's responses are to these books. I had much the same reaction as you did, but I know folks who absolutely cannot stand the style and never even made it to the second book. And there are those who loved the Three-Body Problem but hated Dark Forest. Just goes to show, the variety in human tastes is extensive!
Well, that was frightening. Summary: The state of nuclear power in the world is pretty scary and not likely to get better.
I'm justifying my placement of this book into "Hardware and Technical Stuff" because there is a decent amount of explanation about how nuclear power works. Especially in the appendix, where it talks about the guts of the power generation and also has some disturbing descriptions of what radiation can do to the human body.
But the real thrust of the book is the politics and economics - how those forces are preventing regulatory bodies from enforcing safety rules on the nuclear power industry. Regulatory capture is the relevant term here: when an industry wields such influence over how regulation is done that they're writing their own rules. And when you're talking about an industry where even a minor failure is dangerous, and a major one is a massive disaster, that's a scary thing to contemplate.
Well, that was a dud. This reads like someone showed Terry Brooks some classic cyberpunk and said "now write something exactly like this, don't do anything new or interesting, and make sure anyone with a brain knows where the plot is going nice and early." Brooks is a skilled writer, so the book is readable, but I kept waiting for the twist that would make the time spent on it worthwhile and that never came. Don't waste your time on this one.
Barely got February in under the wire (but then didn't have time to post yesterday).
I don't have anything to add that hasn't already been said better above. Great book, highly recommended.
I'll admit to being surprised to see you guys talking positively about Terry Brooks earlier in the thread. Sword of Shannara is cemented in my mind as the first time I ever realized that a book could be actively bad. I had gotten a decent way through it and then it suddenly struck me that it wasn't just playing with common themes and ideas, but that almost every character and plot point had a direct correspondence to an equivalent in LotR.
If I were to go back and read Sword of Shannara now, I'd probably feel the same way. When I first read that series, I was a teenager who wanted nothing more than more worlds like Tolkien. I didn't really care that it was derivative; that actually might have been a bit of a selling point. And of course, once I got into it, then I wanted to see what else happened in the Shannara world.
The book Young Thurgood has a lot of fairly dry history; important stuff, but I couldn't really rate it higher since I did struggle a bit to get through it. I enjoyed it despite the dryness - Thurgood Marshall's life is fascinating and his impact on society was immense. Just be warned that you may need to fight off the drowsiness a bit on the way through!
The film Marshall is very much the opposite - highly entertaining, but I doubt the historical accuracy. But I don't really care all that much, as the point of the film was to show Marshall as a sort of civil rights superhero, not just through his own actions but as inspiration for others. A bit of artistic license for that is fine by me.
I picked Off to Be the Wizard, totally judging a book by its cover and assuming it was generally going to be about gaming. Really, it's mostly about 70s and 80s nostalgia and has little, if anything to do with gaming. Ah well – I'm counting as a "win" regardless.
Cute book – almost totally weightless, but I enjoyed my time with it. It's certainly a book written by nerds for nerds, much like Ready Play One. It's more of a comedy book than any thing else – at no point did anything seem serious or even stressful… kind of like Pratchett's early "Diskworld" books, but not quite as clever.
I'm not sure if I'll continue with the series or not, but it was a fun diversion. And I have to say that the narrator (Luke Daniels) was spectacular.
@ineffablebob – The Fifth Risk was my other main option for P&R this month, so I switched over and joined you in reading it.
So, every month when picking out choices to queue up for each prompt, my starting point is my "want to read" shelf on Goodreads. This time, the prompts are so wide-ranging that it seemed like half my list would work for one of them. However, true to stereotypes, history books do include a high preponderance of 900-page monster tomes, and I doubt my ability to get through four of those in a month. So I picked both a weighty book and a more digestible short backup novel for each prompt. I'll start with the heavy stuff and see how long I can last before switching over to stay on track.
The bottom line in The Fifth Risk is that these federal government programs (and presumably many others not covered here) are a key underpinning of our society, whether we realize it or not. And when the country's executive leadership is ignorant or uncaring, those programs are in danger of being taken over by oligarchs, cut down by budget cuts, or simply mismanaged into failure.
I don't actually remember who recommended this to me, but I saw it on my goodreads "to-read" shelf when scanning through for anything with a connection to movies, and it has pretty good reviews, so what the heck.
Heard a couple interviews with Harris about this book and it seems pretty interesting. Don't have an Oculus (or any VR hardware) myself but I've certainly heard plenty about it.
For someone who is already interested in tech startup culture, the growth of virtual reality as a technology available to consumers, and how the business of big tech works…The History of the Future is a good read. If you don't share one or more of those interests, it's probably not for you, because it's really long and the detail will probably bog you down.
I only rated it middling for several reasons. I felt the story could have been told in about half the pages - there's a lot of interesting stories along the way, but were they all really necessary? I felt like the book tells only one side of the story in the later portion, when Palmer Luckey was being let go from Oculus. That may not be the author's fault…he says early on that not everyone was accessible to him…but it still felt incomplete to me. And, as I said above, you need a pretty specific set of interests to stay engaged through all 500 pages. I have those interests, it worked for me, but it may not for others.


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Independent block hold the balance of power
Mayo Advertiser / NewsFri, May 31, 2019
After all the counting was said and done in the local elections, just like five years ago, the Independent councillors elected now hold the balance of power in the council chamber.
Mayo goes to the ballot box today
The majority of voters in Mayo will go to the ballot box today, voting on the islands took place yesterday for possibly the last time, with moves afoot to have islanders vote on the same day as the rest of the country in the future.
Castlebar battle likely to be intriguing contest
The Castlebar Local Electoral Area is the most crowded of all the areas for today's election with 17 candidates looking for the seven seats up for grabs.
Sixty three hopefuls confirmed to contest local elections in Mayo
Following the closure of the nomination process for this month's local elections last weekend, the stage has been set with a total of 63 candidates set to chase the 30 seats up for grabs in Mayo County Council.
Mayo delegation travelled to US for St Patricks Day
Mayo Advertiser / NewsThu, Mar 21, 2019
A delegation from Mayo County Council participated in the St Patricks Day parade in Philadelphia on Sunday last with the Mayo Association of Philadelpia, which had Mayo man Sean McMenamin as its grand Marshal for the 2019 parade.
Protesters to greet former Taoiseach Enda Kenny's honorary doctorate
Galway Advertiser / NewsMon, Oct 23, 2017
Protesters will await the former taoiseach Enda Kenny as he arrives in NUI Galway this afternoon to receive an honourary degree of Doctor of Laws for his contributions to public life from the university.
The 'Enda' of an era for Kenny
The months of speculation finally came to an end on Wednesday evening when Enda Kenny announced his decision to step down as leader of Fine Gael — the party he has led for just short of 15 years. Mr Kenny will be stepping down as Taoiseach, once a new Fine Gael party leader is elected by the party and a new Taoiseach is elected by the Dáil.
Councillors lay out the case to protect GMIT Castlebar campus
It was the one topic that everyone wanted to have their say on and throw their support behind at the March meeting of Mayo County Council. The future of the GMIT campus in Castlebar has been a major topic of discussion around the county in recent weeks and it was no different inside the council chamber. Some 25 councillors spoke on the topic in a debate that lasted well over an hour, and the one strong message coming from all of those who spoke was that everything that could be done to ensure the survival and the future growth of the third level facility in the county would be done.
Mayo Advertiser / NewsFri, Mar 10, 2017
It was the one topic that everyone wanted to have their say on and throw their support behind this week at the March meeting of Mayo County Council. The future of the GMIT campus in Castlebar has been a major topic of discussion around the county in recent weeks and it was no different inside the council chamber. Some 25 councillors spoke on the topic in a debate that lasted well over an hour, and the one strong message coming from all of those who spoke was that everything that could be done to ensure the survival and the future growth of the third level facility in the county would be done.
Mayo's immortal campaign of 1936
Mayo Advertiser / SportFri, Sep 16, 2016
They 'will rank in history amongst the greatest teams that have contested the Championship', so read the report of a contemporary journalist after witnessing Mayo rout Laois in the 1936 All-Ireland Football Final and claim the county's first senior football championship. Mayo senior football was peaking that year. The planets had begun their alignment four years earlier when Mayo contested only their third All-Ireland final. A narrow loss to Kerry in 1932 was crushing but oil had been struck and it did not just flow, it gushed throughout the 1930s and Mayo fans bathed in it. The 1932 final was the incendiary event that sparked an era of magnificence in Mayo football. The green and red would eventually see out the decade with a record six consecutive National Football League titles won between 1934 and 1939. With three of the six NFL crowns secured by the first game of Mayo's championship campaign in May 1936, the aligning planets must have appeared as leather footballs to the success-spoiled county.
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My problem is that I lock the mutex pretty much for most of the code, so the multithreading doesn't really make it that much faster. Is there any other way to synchonize multiple threads on adding/removing from a queue, keep in mind that I have to process rest calls from users so there is no way to predict how data will be added/removed from these queues.

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How do I send a file as an email attachment using Linux command line?

I want to send a mail with file attachment in linux with mail command. I have tried this:
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but test.txt is send as message, not as a attachment. I don't want to use mutt or other types of mail alternatives. Also i DON'T want to use uuencode. How can i send a file attachment with pure mail command from bash?

A: Have a look at How do I send a file as an email attachment using Linux command line?. The answers are pretty complete. So better abandon all hope for solving this with bash commands only. It surely is possible, but it's not worth the pain. BTW why should one want it anyway?

A: If you want to use only mail for sending files as attachments, you have to write your own bash scripts for formatting the message according to MIME and its specification for multipart messages.
I've done it once but it was not perfect and worth the try only for educational purpose. Moreover, if you plan to attach binary files, you will need some sort of binary to ascii encoder. At that time I found the C source code of a base64 encoder/decoder that I compiled and used in my bash scripts.


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Ernest Worthman and Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineering recently co-authored a fascinating article that explores the surprising origins of back doors in the technology sector.
According to Wikipedia, Multics implemented a single-level store for data access, discarding the clear distinction between files (aka segments) and process memory. More specifically, the memory of a process consisted solely of segments that were mapped into its address space. To read or write to them, the process utilized normal CPU instructions, while the operating system was tasked with ensuring all the modifications were saved to disk.
As Rambus Cryptography Research Fellow Pankaj Rohatgi notes, the U.S. Air Force "discovered" the concept of creating back doors during an evaluation of the Multics operating system. To be sure, Paul Karger and Roger Shell inserted trap doors as part of the review process; using them for system testing and to probe for potential security vulnerabilities.
According to Rohatgi, there are now many types of back doors.
Although back doors can be used to compromise a device's firmware or security mechanisms, not all were designed with devious intent.
According to Worthman and Sperling, the practice of inserting back doors into chips has clearly become a highly controversial "science" since the nascent days of Cold War Multics.
Interested in learning more? The full text of "Back Doors Are Everywhere" by Ernest Worthman and Ed Sperling can be read here.


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Edgar Wright And Simon Pegg Are Teaming Up For A New Movie
By Angie Han/Aug. 19, 2014 8:45 am EST
The Cornetto Trilogy may have come to a close with last year's The World's End, but the long and fruitful partnership between Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg has not.
The actor recently teased another collaboration for the duo, who've been working together on and off since the '90s. Hit the jump to read his comments. Read about the new Edgar Wright Simon Pegg movie below.
The pair's last three films together, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End formed the informal "Cornetto Trilogy," but don't look for their next collaboration to continue along the same lines. More Pegg:
When we said the trilogy was over, it was because that group of films was over. They're all kind of related with each other and deal with a specific idea. There's a criteria to those films.
The next thing we do won't do that, it will just be something else. It will happen. We made three films in ten years and hopefully in the next decade we'll make another three.
All of which sounds great, but it may be some time before the movie actually comes together. Though Pegg says it "will happen when we can do it," that might not be for a while.
Wright's next film is likely to be Baby Driver, with Grasshopper Jungle lined up sometime after that. Meanwhile, Pegg has at least half a dozen films due out in the next few years including Mission: Impossible 5 and Star Trek 3.
Still, it does seem like only a matter of time before these longtime pals join forces again. "I really love working with those guys and I wouldn't ever not want to work with them," said Pegg. "It's not even a question."


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Did WWE Ruin The Dusty Rhodes Classic?
This week's episode of NXT saw the two semi-final matches in 2020 Dusty Rhodes Classic Tournament. The team of Matt Riddle and Pete Dunne who go by The BroserWeights defeated Imperium, and The Grizzled Young Veterans defeated the Undisputed Era. The two teams will face each other next week on NXT. My question is this; did the WWE ruin this year's Dusty Rhodes Classic?
I ask this question for a number of reasons. The first reason is the competitors. When I found out that NXT UK was going to be involved in this tournament, I was excited. I thought it would be a perfect opportunity for the NXT UK wrestlers to get some exposure from the NXT America crowd.
Then I saw the bracket and was kind of upset to see NXT teams and NXT UK teams were facing each other all throughout the first round. I would've much rather liked to see an NXT side, and an NXT UK side of the bracket, with the finals, obviously being NXT vs. NXT UK. That is what we ended up getting, but I feel it should've been the best of one brand against the best of the other brand.
I love Matt Riddle and Pete Dunne separately, and the small number of weeks that we've seen them team up, I like what I'm seeing. But are we going to see another impromptu team win the tournament? Last year we saw Aleister Black and Ricochet team up and win. The very first Dusty Rhodes Classic was won by another impromptu team of Samoa Joe and Finn Balor. Why continue to have these new teams go deep into the tournament, just to have them break up soon after.
Then we have The Grizzled Young Veterans who are a fantastic team. But that's who they picked to represent NXT UK here? And it's not like it's the worst team in NXT UK in the finals, but I would think you would want a team like Imperium, or even Andrews and Webster to showcase just how great NXT UK is. I can't stress this enough, I love the team of James Drake and Zack Gibson, but I honestly feel the NXT crowd has no interest in them.
One of the other reasons is when this match is taking place. NXT and NXT UK will put on the World Collide show in the WWE Network. Why is this match not taking place on that show?! It's literally NXT vs. NXT UK! The entire point of the show is NXT vs. NXT UK! You have matches like Rhea Ripley vs. Toni Storm, Finn Balor vs. Ilja Dragunov, and Moustache Mountain vs. DIY. This match should round out the show and crown the Dusty Cup winners on the WWE Network. Maybe they feel they will get more ratings for their war against AEW, but I'd rather stuff make sense than have great ratings.
One of the matches for Worlds Collide that I left off is the much-awaited Undisputed Era vs. Imperium match. I honestly feel like the Dusty Cup took a backseat to the feud, even though the teams only touched once during the tournament. UE showed up at NXT UK TakeOver: Blackpool II and attacked Imperium. This gave Imperium an excuse to show up at NXT during Undisputed Era's semifinal match against the Grizzled Young Veterans and cost them their match. But weirdly enough, UE didn't attempt to cost Imperium their semifinal match against the BroserWeights.
I love tag team wrestling. I feel we all do when it's done right. The Dusty Rhodes Classic doesn't need any other storyline in my opinion. It's 8 of the best teams in wrestling each trying to prove they are the best. We didn't need UE and Imperium's feud to spill into the tournament. They didn't need it, because their match at Worlds Collide is a must-see regardless. I just feel like once they put the Undisputed Era and Imperium feud into the Dusty Rhodes Classic, it makes people only focus on that feud. And now that both teams are out of the tournament, people may not be paying as much attention.
As I said earlier, I love tag team wrestling and I've loved the Dusty Rhodes Classic since its inception. Maybe we can blame the fact that many great NXT teams have left NXT such as Street Profits, War Raiders, and Heavy Machinery. But we still have Undisputed Era, Forgotten Sons (who I enjoy) and great teams from the UK. Maybe I'm reading this all wrong, but I feel this year's Dusty Rhodes Classic has been one of the worst when it should've been one of the best.
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The CW has released the trailer for cancer dramedy Life Sentence and in it, we see that sometimes people only start to live when there's nothing left to lose.
From Richard Keith and Erin Cardillo (Significant Mother), Life Sentence follows Stella (Lucy Hale), a young woman who seemingly had her entire life ahead of her – that is, until she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of laying down and waiting for the cancer to take her, Stella decides to make the type of decisions she was always afraid of and get the most out of life while she still had it. That was all well and good, though, until she finds out that she's not dying after all and has to face the fallout from her fearlessness.
In addition to Hale, Life Sentence stars Dylan Walsh (Unforgettable), Gillian Vigman (The Hangover), Brooke Lyons (2 Broke Girls), and Carlos PenaVega (Big Time Rush).
Life Sentence is set to air midseason on The CW. You can check out the network's full fall schedule here.
Will you be watching? Do you think the show will succeed where fellow carpe diem dramedy No Tomorrow didn't? How will The CW's scheduling impact the show's performance?


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In 2020, we celebrate 100 years of Agatha Christie as an author extraordinaire, 100 years of Christie mysteries, and 100 years since Hercule Poirot's first appearance. Poirot's debut was in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, completed in 1916 and subsequently turned down before appearing in October 1920 in the United States. Its first true publication was serialized in The Times earlier in that year. Dedicated to her mother Clarissa, the novel came about as a challenge set forth by her sister Madge for Agatha to write a detective novel. This appreciation for Poirot's first case comes after a re-read of the novel and will contain spoilers.
In this her first novel, the reader will spot elements employed by Christie during her career. The novel contains many characteristics in her writings. There's the use of Christie's favorite weapon, poison. She employs already red herrings and plants doubt in the reader's mind as to motive. She uses the family gathering for the denouement of the mystery. The family is an upper-class one with servants living in a large home. There is already chicanery going on with wills and disguises. Poirot already exhibits his fastidious attitude towards cleanliness, order, method, and demonstrates the quiet moments he relishes to employ his "little grey cells". Early on in the novel Poirot already lists questions that demand answers and holds back some of his thoughts. The relationship between Poirot and his friend (and our narrator) Arthur Hastings is established. Hastings shows an admiration for Poirot's skills but also is infuriated at the detective's idiosyncrasies. Poirot is already misquoting literature and English idioms. He already nicknames himself "Papa Poirot" and acts as a father confessor.
Having revisited the novel this year, I have a new admiration and appreciation for Agatha Christie's effort. I have rekindled my love for Christie's mysteries and for Hercule Poirot. It's been said her first published novel was a valiant effort, and it is. It's been said mistakes were made. More on those two statements later. This is an analysis, and appreciation, and a love letter to Christie and her novel. For a first-time detective novelist, it is a marvel. It is an example of what a great career Christie will have. It is an excellent preview of what's to come--classic and exemplary Poirot novels such as The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, The ABC Murders, Death on the Nile, Five Little Pigs, and others.
This analysis and discussion on Styles are for those readers who have already read the novel, as plot, clues, and the whodunit are mentioned. So be aware that there are spoilers throughout.
Creating a Foundation
Elements that are common in Agatha's stories already first appear here. It is in Styles where she creates a foundation for her writing. They are more raw or undeveloped but these are already planted in this novel. These elements are establishing alibis, the question of wills and inheritance, the setting of a county house filled with servants, the misdirection through the use of red herrings or fragments of conversation, and the denouement of the cases with suspects all gathered. All of the elements present in Styles will reappear in her novels. Her earlier novels will feature the family and suspect gathering at the end for the solution. Her earlier novels also deal with the upper and upper middle class of society complete with large homes including servants. Agatha's future stories will also feature mistaken identities and the use of disguises like in Styles. One item used prominently in Agatha's books is poison. Her favorite murder weapon first appears in Styles, and employed well due to her knowledge during her service in the war.
When Agatha describes characters, sometimes it's an important detail. She first establishes that here and does it in future books. In fact, don't overlook anything she puts down on paper. It just might be important. I love Hastings' description of specific people like Mary Cavendish, Alfred Inglethorp, and Evelyn Howard (especially the last two as they are the guilty party and their description is important to the plot). She employs this characteristic in her future novels, but I will not mention these stories as to not ruin the enjoyment of these.
Agatha made wills and inheritance key ingredients in her numerous mysteries. Some stories involved elaborate subterfuge and deception, too. She included multiple wills in her stories to cloud the issue. This novel focuses on inheritance and Emily's will because the motive for murder lies there. Other novels involving inheritance and wills in Agatha's career include Sad Cypress, Hallowe'en Party, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, Peril at End House, Taken at the Flood, and others.
Agatha's mysteries sometimes include fragmented conversations as furthering the plot, and giving clues, too. In this novel the maid Dorcas overhears a quarrel. That proves important--what was said at the time it was said. Interestingly enough, even Poirot hears a fragment of conversation later in his career (in Appointment with Death). Conversation can mislead us and Agatha employs it here and to much better effect in her later books (which I will remain silent about).
Agatha will use misleading conversation as a clue or for plot development but she might also purposely confuse the reader. She will make the reader think "It's this! Yes!", when in fact it's not. It's something else completely different like in Styles. Agatha also causes confusion when characters are using nouns or pronouns correctly (or not!) but the reader misinterprets it. It's a trick that's more raw here but she perfects it in her later novels to great effect. Agatha is not playing unfair, but rather it's part of the game we as readers play with her.
In this novel, Agatha is already adding some romance and love early on in her career. Many times it furthers the plot, adds character and personality, and motivates characters to do what they do. That last bit certainly is applicable to The Mysterious Affair at Styles. This is not just true for the character of Lawrence Cavendish but for his brother John and his wife Mary. Sometimes when it comes to affairs of the heart, Poirot refers to himself as "Papa Poirot". That nickname appears for the first time in this novel. He's always loved giving people his heartfelt blessings in their happiness and union. I've always felt Agatha was a romantic at heart and it shows here and in her other works. In his career, Poirot's solving cases and mending hearts.
Poirot and Hastings
This novel is not the first meeting between Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. Hastings explains that he had met Poirot in Belgium before, with this Styles case being their first recorded. Early on in the novel we already learn of Poirot before being meeting the character. Christie already establishes the relationship of these two friends. Hastings has an admiration for Poirot's abilities ("a marvellous little fellow", Hastings says), yet also describes Poirot's methods as old fashioned.
It's funny how Hastings had this secret desire to be a detective for a profession. Certainly he was going to do detective work as he became the narrator for Poirot's cases. Hastings flattered himself that his first impressions or judgments were shrewd. He thinks this throughout the novels and short stories with Poirot. It aggravates Poirot when Hastings postulates an idea without thinking it earnestly. Hastings' conclusions are not accurate because he's too imaginative and lets the fantastical take over. At times, their exchanges are comical.
We learn a little about Hastings in the early chapters of the novel. We learn from Hastings that his friend John Cavendish was 15 years older than him. Hastings explains John was 45--that makes Hastings 30 years of age. (A reader can always surmise Poirot's age with this little detail.) He explains to Alfred Inglethorp and to the others that before the war, he worked for Lloyd's of London, the insurance company. He served as a captain in the Western Front in World War I. He spent several months at a convalescent home recovering from injuries when he met up with his friend John. Other information Hastings offers is that he has a female cousin who is a nurse.
Hastings describes Poirot with the famous first description of the celebrated sleuth:
"He was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible, I believe a speck of dust would have caused him more pain than a bullet wound. Yet this quaint dandyfied little man who, I was sorry to see, now limped badly, had been in his time one of the most celebrated members of the Belgian police. As a detective, his flair had been extraordinary, and he had achieved triumphs by unravelling some of the most baffling cases of the day."
Poirot states the greatest tool for crime solving is the mind, thanks to the "little gray cells". Agatha already has Poirot show this to be true, even in his first appearance. He's methodical. He looks at Emily Inglethorp's room in great interest at every clue he can find. He writes down questions (something he does regularly in his future novels) and asks them in turn to Hastings (and to the reader). He concentrates on the case by moving the clues as if they were puzzle pieces to create a whole picture. Even in this first novel Poirot simply sits in a chair working out the mystery in his mind and later builds a house of cards to concentrate. By now, Agatha establishes Poirot as a detective "thinker" who puts method and order as a high priority. This modus operandi of Poirot's is what makes him successful and is prevalent in all of his stories.
Analyzing Styles
In my opinion, it was good of Christie to introduce Poirot this early on in the novel through Hastings. I don't see another way of both Hastings and Agatha introducing the reader to Poirot without Alfred and Mary asking about Hastings' work (before the war). I suppose Agatha could've had Hastings begin the novel talking to the reader about Poirot--that would've been awkward though. In the very beginning of the novel, Hastings already introduces himself and explains he was in the War, mentions Poirot already, says the Styles case was a sensational one, and talks already about John Cavendish and the family.
The statements of witnesses are all laid out, given throughout the novel and the events are put forth not in chronological order. We as readers are going to exercise our little grey cells. We are putting the puzzle pieces in the correct places. Emily has an argument with John at 4pm about his relationship with Mary. Then at 5pm Emily was greatly agitated. The emotion at 5pm had nothing to do with the 4pm scandal. Needing stamps, Emily asks Dorcas for them--that was a clue. Poirot says that the coffee cup drunk by Cynthia with a narcotic to knock her out was placed into a brass vase (done all by Mary). This cup was later found by Lawrence.
None of this action is shown but deduced by Poirot. This new information is sprung upon the reader. Is that an unfair omission by Christie? I say no, for every action of every character cannot be shown to the reader. Hastings is narrating and clearly he is not omnipresent. It also demonstrates the brilliance of Poirot. This is not the last time Christie does this. It is a Christie characteristic that shows in many of her mysteries. Agatha is a novice author here at this point. You could argue that there are faults in the novel where information and clues are not given. I already explained the chronology of the novel's events is weak, but I don't fault Agatha here in reference to all the confusion of the coffee cups.
Amongst the various clues, there was the green fabric caught on the bolt of Cynthia's door. Poirot said that it was from an armlet. He said he examined a tear in Mary Cavendish's armlet. I didn't spot that explained or shown in the book. I don't think Agatha included that, so are we to correctly guess that clue as a reader? Poirot says she claimed that Mary heard the crash of the little table in Emily's room in the inquest. That was a lie--and the reader can deduce that. Later Poirot tested that idea with Hastings when he didn't hear the sound of the crash.
Back to the drugging scheme of Mary's. That is why the strychnine poisoning took so long--the narcotic to induce sleep delayed the poison. Mary did this--whilst wearing the green land outfit and drugging both Cynthia and Emily to get that piece of paper Emily had. (Mary thought it was a confession about her husband John's infidelity which Emily refused to show. But it wasn't that.) Poirot explains why he had the cocoa sent to be analyzed not for strychnine but for a narcotic. That is why Poirot says Mary is a jealous woman and also why there's a missing cup. That's why he asks Lawrence about the missing cup and why he invited Mary to confess to him.
There are clever clues about Lawrence protecting Cynthia. He loved her. He saw the door bolt was unbolted (left by Mary) and it was he who crushed the coffee cup (because he knew it was Cynthia who took it to Emily). Curious thing as to Lawrence's attitude during the inquest. He kept on and on with the theory of death from natural causes. Confusing for the reader perhaps? Clever though for Christie, using this question throughout the novel. Would the reader think about the crushed coffee cup having a connection to Lawrence? As seen in this novel, Christie has multiple suspects tampering with the crime scene. This is only the first time in many instances where Christie's characters have a hand to play in the scene of a murder. Curious thing is that during the inquest Lawrence brings up the facts that the tonic that Emily takes has strychnine. He says that during his studies, he's learned that a cumulative effect of a drug over time causes death. This theory was quickly dismissed at the inquest by the testimonies of Emily's doctor (Doctor Wilkins) and the maid Dorcas. Well, with these two testimonies the theory of death by overdose has been refuted. Christie has now told us to dismiss this theory. So, we abandon this idea. And overdose is ruled out. This must be so, for this is an inquest!
There are a few "key" characters in the novel. Lawrence is one of them. So much of the mystery was centered on the character of Lawrence. He notices the door from Cynthia's room to Emily's was unbolted. He knew Cynthia prepared the bromide, suggested at the inquest that Emily's death could've been natural (to protect Cynthia), went in search of the hidden coffee cup to satisfy himself and Poirot, he mentions Emily took a tonic (which has strychnine in it), went through the poison cupboard at the hospital in Tadminster (also having strychnine), and "receives" the package for the fake black beard in his name.
Agatha provides two instances--through Poirot--where she is pointing an accusing finger at Evelyn Howard. After the inquest he said two people were speaking the truth. Hastings said John Cavendish and Evelyn Howard. Poirot was almost aghast at Hastings' suggestion that she was "so essentially honest--almost uncomfortably so." Poirot said one spoke the truth, not both. He was about to tell Hastings why Evelyn was't truthful but stopped himself.
The conversation Poirot had with Miss Howard was quite revealing--Poirot states Evelyn wishes to believe Alfred Inglethorp committed the crime, capable of such a heinous act but instinct says he did not. Poirot says to Evelyn she's been so vehement against Alfred Inglethorp because there's another name. She cries that's not true and she doesn't know why she has these thoughts. She says to Poirot "it's too monstrous, too impossible. It must be Alfred Inglethorp . . . I won't admit it even to myself. I must be mad to think of such a thing." Hastings is annoyed that Poirot will not explain what he and Miss Howard were discussing. So annoyed was Hastings in fact, that he lies coldly to Poirot that he's not annoyed. Does Poirot reveal the meaning of the conversation? He doesn't. Hastings speculates, and of course comes up with the wrong assumption. I believe Poirot was pointing his finger directly as Miss Howard as the architect of the crime. It is up to the reader to trust his or her own instincts (or the one Hastings provides).
How about Doctor Bauerstein? Is he important, a "key" character? My answer is yes: he's a red herring. I believe that in mystery, a character herself/himself can be a red herring. A red herring is a clue (or person) intended to be misleading or distracting. He's important to the story. He provided important testimony about Emily's poisoning because he was an expert. Too much of an expert, perhaps. Since he's knowledgeable, does he apply his expertise of poison firsthand? I don't think it's a coincidence he's a tall bearded man like Alfred Inglethorp. Bauerstein has misled us because he's arrested, but not as a murderer. He's revealed to be a German spy and perhaps we now need to point our finger at someone else. Bauerstein is distracting because he seemingly causes a rift between Mary and John. Cynthia tells Hastings that Bauerstein is a "great friend of Mary's" to which John quickly changes the subject and has a face of disgust. Hastings describes the doctor as having a sinister face. Agatha gets the reader to dislike him when Hastings describes him as such, and then Hastings follows that comment with "for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil".
Two things I thought of from the ending. Firstly, Agatha is going to not only send a suspect to trial and have court scenes in future books, but also have a wrongly accused suspect be arrested (for example, Sad Cypress and Witness for the Prosecution). The second, Agatha also uses Poirot to bring people together--good ole Papa Poirot. He could have saved John from having a trial, but didn't for Mary's sake. Poirot decided to side with a woman's happiness. Says Poirot, "The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world." His belief in this happiness between a couple has been expressed in subsequent books.
Legacy of Styles
I do love this novel. It's not perfect. For a first-time published author, it is perfect. As already explained, this novel laid out the foundation for what's to come. And what is that? Superb novels in Poirot's career, such as: The Murder of Roger Ackryod, Death in the Clouds, Murder on the Orient Express, Five Little Pigs, Hercule Poirot's Christmas, The ABC Murders, Taken at the Flood, and Death on the Nile. That's just Poirot stories. Styles is the groundwork for other classics like And Then There Were None, Crooked House, A Murder is Announced, Sleeping Murder, Ordeal by Innocence, The Pale Horse, Endless Night, and others.
Poirot concludes the novel by saying, "We may hunt together again, who knows?" He turns out to be prophetic. They do indeed hunt together for many stories to come. And it's not just Poirot's career. This applies to Agatha's career, too. All thanks to a mystery novel titled The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
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Мусхаб-'Али Кузунский () — имам и один из руководителей сопротивления лезгин против большевистской власти.
Представитель сихила кузунар. Национальный герой лезгин.

Биография
Мусхаб-'Али родился в лезгинском селе Кузун Кубинского уезда, которое входило в одноимённое общество Кусарского полицейского участка (ныне село входит в Зинданмуругский сельсовет в Кусарском районе Азербайджана). Получил исламское образование в Турции, побывал в нескольких мусульманских странах, являлся крупным учёным и влиятельным религиозным деятелем в регионе. Наряду с родным лезгинским языком, Мусхаб-'Али в совершенстве владел арабским, турецким, персидским, русским и даже аварским и лакскими языками.

Деятельность до войны
В исторических источниках и архивных документах известен преимущественно под именем «Мохубали эфенди Кузунви». Известно, что Мусхаб-'Али в 1890 году построил в своём селе на собственные средства большую школу. В последующие годы он открыл в Кусарском участке два мадраса и отремонтировал восемь мечетей. О его просветительской деятельности и благотворительности говорилось в «Ежегоднике», изданном в 1903 году.

Смерть
Боясь дальнейшего роста авторитета Мусхаб-'Али Кузунви среди лезгинского народа, большевистскими революционерами было принято решение о его ликвидации. В 1920 году Мусхаб-'Али-эфенди попал в засаду в селе Агашириноба (ныне село в Хачмазском районе Азербайджана) где и был убит. Об этом событии подробно рассказывается в отчете председателя Кусарского революционного комитета Шаршанидзе в Кубинский Ревком от 29 августа 1920 года.

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Horror Double Feature: Savage Weekend (1979) / Mad Dog (1977)
Two couples spend a weekend in the country only to be hunted by a masked lunatic./A "mad dog' killer escapes from jail to embark on a spree of murder, rape, and brutality.
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SAVAGE WEEKEND (1979): Marie Sales, the recently divorced wife of a wealthy Wall Street stockbroker, heads to the country with her new boyfriend for some much needed rest and relaxation. They bring along several friends and settle at a lakeside summer home in upstate New York. The city dwellers are immediately met with resentment by the uncouth, seemingly inbred locals. A masked killer suddenly appears, brutally murdering the vacationers one by one. Marie finds herself the only one left, and begins to realize that the killer is the last person she would have ever suspected...
Shot over 20 days in Hudson Valley, New York, Savage Weekend was a low-budget production from first-time director David Paulsen. It originally received a limited theatrical release as The Killer Behind the Mask in 1976. The Cannon Group picked the movie up for distribution three years later and re-released it as Savage Weekend. The film has since garnered a cult following for its gore, violence, and explicit content. It has also been noted as a forerunner to Friday the 13th (1980). Character actor William Sanderson later had a memorable role in Blade Runner (1982) and played one of the wacky neighbors on Newhart (1982-1990). More recently he has appeared on the popular cable TV series True Blood and Deadwood. Contains nudity, strong language, and extreme violence.
MAD DOG (1977): "Mad Dog Killer" Nanni Vitali escapes from prison and embarks on a sadistic spree of murder, rape, and brutality. He makes the mistake of roughing up the girlfriend of police inspector Giuliana Caroli. Now the lawman won't rest until the madman is brought to justice...Also known as Beast with a Gun, Mad Dog is an Italian poliziotteschi (crime film) unrelenting in its ferocity. Gorgeous Marisa Mell is well-remembered for her swelteringly sexy role in Mario Bava's Danger: Diabolik (1968). Helmut Berger appeared in Luchino Visconti's acclaimed drama of Nazi Germany, The Damned (1969). Contains nudity, strong language, and extreme violence.
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Morningstar Corp.'s TriStar solar charge controllers are installed in a group of solar plus energy storage systems for large oil companies in locations around the world presenting difficult applications. The TriStar controller was chosen because it provides the highest levels of performance, safety and reliability for these types of business critical solar power systems. As environmental, social and governance (ESG) becomes mainstream for CEOs and CO2 emissions mandates grow around the world, oil and gas companies are finding ways to reduce their carbon footprint. The solar power generation systems provide a reliable and efficient source of power for the remote and often difficult conditions of oil production facilities. The Solar-plus storage systems keep production online and at the same time significantly reduce the CO2 emissions of the systems.
"As oil production facilities move to solar power, Morningstar's longstanding global track record reassures companies that we are a partner they can count on," said Lee Gordon, President and Founder of Morningstar Corporation.
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We arrived at the Desert Inn at about 7pm, we had decided to have dinner there and give ourselves the opportunity to talk to some of the locals, which provided us with some interesting stories about the area.
During our interviews, staff report that they had experienced multiple paranormal events. One story told was of a patron having a beer and during the conversation he made derogatory remarks about the ghosts and his beer flew across the bar. Last year there was a fire started in one of the hotel rooms due to a careless cigarette that resulted in the death of this patron. The waitress, who has only in the past two weeks started working at the Desert Inn, stated that last week while closing up, one of the chairs was out away from the table, so she pushed it in. Went to the kitchen to turn off the lights and upon her return the chair was back out a good two feet away from the table. She says there was no one else in the restaurant at this time. Another story tells of a prior owner who used to have her meals at the first booth in the restaurant everyday, one day she evidently choked on her dinner. They say she is seen periodiacally in the first booth having a meal as she did so much of her life. Patrons also related to us that the juke box was a favorite tou of the spirits, since it would come on at any given time all by itself and play a song. When questioned they had not noticed if it was the same or a different, random song each time.
At 9:00pm we started setting up our equipment. We chose to set up the video cameras in the bordello room, downstairs in the bar/dining room area and also one in the room where the fire had occured.
We went lights out at approxiamtely 10:00pm. Our initial EMF sweep produced an average reading of 0.2, except for the back wall of the men's bathroom in the bar. This wall area produce a reading of 74. Further investigation revealed that this wall backed up to the restaurant oven and this was what was producing the high reading. The average temperate in the bar was 76, the upstairs bordello area was a little warmer at 80 and the hotel room was also 76.
The reports from our teams were all in agreement about the hotel room with the recent tragedy. This room presented as one of the calmest, most relaxing areas they had been to in a long time. We had expected to at least feel some residual energy from the fire, but believe that possibly the complete demolition and rennovation removed all of the residual energy that was in this room. It truly felt like a blank canvas waiting for life to imprint it.
The restaurant was a little harder to investigate, due to the location of this place. Since it is literally, at the crossroads just before the turnpike entrance, there is an excessive amount of traffic which of course produces alot of noise and lights with reflections and shadows. We set out to try and debunk some of the stories about this area. The first was the juke box playing on its own. When Mike the manager was questioned, he stated that the juke box was set to play randomly as a way to remind customers that it was there and encourage them to put money in it. The next were the stories of ghosts pushing drinks across the bar, a review of the bar area revealed that the bar was very unlevel and slooped towards the center. We felt that the condensation that accummulates from a drink (we have all seen a drink slide across a table at some time due to this) along with the significant slope of the bar could easily account for these stories. Our team members all relate that the bar, dinning room, kitchen and downstairs office area did not have any significant feel to it and did not experience any unusual activity or any change in EMF or temp readings for this area.
The upstairs bordello rooms and museum produced a myriad of feelings within our teams. The front bordello rooms had the same issues with noise and shadows as the bar downstairs. One team member did relate that something rubbed across her calf area while she was sitting in this room. The office and two bedrooms at the top of the stairs also were very quiet, with one member reporting feeling that she was being watched each time she entered this area. There are six rooms along the hallway leading to the bordello, most of these rooms were very quite for the evening, except for room 6, the room that contains the vintage kitchen equipment. The first team reported that upon entering the back half of this room, they would experience goosebumps and their hair standing on end. They returned to this room several times and relate the feeling being the same. The second team, without knowing the first teams reactions, also reported the same feelings to this room. One of the team members also experienced significant heart palpitations in this room. The other team member reports during this time she was getting an increase in EMF readings, up to 1.4 on the meter. (This data was confirmed after a review of the audio recording for this room.) The third team reported the same feelings and also report that when they were in the front hallway by the stairway, they heard a thump from down the hall near this kitchen room. An investigation produced nothing unusual to have accounted for this noise.
A complete review of the investigative data, revealed a picture in the bar/restuarantof the front booth showing a mist. Other photos throughout the evening revealed only dust orbs.
The hotel room audio, video and photos did not reveal anything.
The upstairs hallway, kitchen room and bordello.


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10 Things You Should Know About Irene Rich
Here are 10 things you should know about Irene Rich, born 130 years ago today. She enjoyed success in vaudeville, on Broadway, in pictures, radio and … poultry farming.
Remembering Bing Crosby on His Birthday
Crooner-actor-comedian-show biz immortal Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby was born 118 years ago today. We're featuring his music all day today on Cladrite Radio, so why not tune in now?
10 Things You Should Know About Mildred Bailey
Here are 10 things you should know about the great Mildred Bailey, born 121 years ago today. She was an important link between early jazz performers such as Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith and iconic singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
Be sure to tune into Cladrite Radio today; we'll be playing Bailey's music all day long.
10 Things You Should Know About Bing Crosby
Here are 10 things you should know about Bing Crosby, born 117 years ago today. His personal life was a mixed bag (to put it mildly), but he was a major figure in the popular culture of the 1920s, '30s and '40s.
We'll be featuring Bing's music all today, so why not tune in right now?
Happy 114th Birthday, Bing Crosby!
Crooner-actor-comedian-show biz immortal Bing Crosby was born Harry Lillis Crosby was born 114 years ago today (or thereabouts—there's some debate about the actual date, though the date now most widely agreed upon is May 3) in Tacoma, Washington. Here are 10 BC Did-You-Knows:
A true middle child, Crosby was the fourth of seven children. His father, a bookkeeper, was of English descent and his mother was a second-generation Irish-American. The family relocated to Spokane, Washington, when Crosby was three. When Crosby was seven, a neighbor, inspired by the Bingville Bugle, a popular humor feature in the Sunday edition of Spokane's Spokesman-Review newspaper, nicknamed him "Bingo from Bingville." The name stuck (though the -o was soon dropped).
Crosby attended Gonzaga University for three years, playing on the school's baseball team as a freshman. He never graduated, but in 1937, the university gave him the benefit of the doubt, awarding him an honorary degree.
At 20, Crosby was asked to join a group of younger musicians in forming a combo called the Musicaladers (as to how that name was pronounced, your guess is as good as ours). One of the members of that group was Al Rinker, brother to Mildred Bailey, who would go on to great success as a jazz and swing vocalist.
In 1925, Crosby and Rinker headed for Los Angeles, where Bailey's show-biz contacts helped them find work. They were eventually hired by the star-making orchestra leader Paul Whiteman. During a stint in New York City, the pair's prospects were bolstered by the addition of pianist and songwriter Harry Barris. They became known as the Rhythm Boys and their collective star was on the ascent.
Extensive touring with the Whiteman organization allowed the Rhythm Boys to hone their skills and they became stars in their own right, with Bing being singled out for solo work on record and over the radio airwaves. They soon left the Whiteman group and signed on with Gus Arnheim, whose orchestra was featured nightly at the Cocoanut Grove night club at L.A.'s Ambassador Hotel.
Bing Crosby was increasingly the focus of the act and he eventually made the logical move toward being a solo performer. Both his recordings and his radio program became huge successes. Crosby performed on 10 of the most popular 50 recordings of 1931. He began in films making shorts for Mack Sennett and his first feature-length picture, The Big Broadcast (1932), made him all the more successful. He would be a top recording, radio and motion picture star throughout the 1930s and '40s and in the 1950s, he conquered television, too.
From the 1940s to the 1960s, Crosby was a minority owner (15%) of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team.
Crosby was the first choice to portray Lieutenant Columbo on the popular television series Columbo. After Crosby declined, he role eventually went to Peter Falk.
It could be said that, as Elvis Presley was to rock 'n' roll, Crosby was to jazz. He was one of the first—and certainly the most popular—white vocalists to embrace the new form of music. Jazz legend Louis Armstrong was an admirer of Crosby, describing his voice as being "like gold being poured out of a cup."
Crosby notched 38 No. 1 singles over the course of his career, topping even Presley and the Beatles in the category.
Happy birthday, Bing Crosby, wherever you may be!


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Jailing homeless man for sitting on the ground "without reasonable excuse" described as "simply cruel"
He has a raft of previous convictions
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Baker's latest sentence has caused outrage with lawyer, journalist and film maker Peter Stefanovic, who branded it 'madness' (Image: Getty)
Jailing a homeless man for sitting on the ground "without reasonable excuse" in Taunton has been described as "simply cruel" by a lawyer and journalist.
Haydon Mark Baker, 33, who was staying at a homeless hostel at the time, pleaded guilty to a total of three offences.
He admitted sitting on the ground, which he was banned from doing under a Criminal Behaviour Order, at three locations in Taunton, Somerset, between April 28 and May 5.
He was jailed for 20 weeks (concurrent) on each count and also ordered to pay a £115 victim surcharge. There was no order for costs due to lack of means.
The court heard there was considered to be a high risk that he could be seen to be begging and that his deliberate actions were the latest in a line of deliberate breaches of the order.
His latest sentence has caused outrage with lawyer, journalist and film maker Peter Stefanovic tweeting: "This is complete madness.
"Jailing the most vulnerable members of our society for being homeless, for having nothing of their own, is simply the most cruel and stupid thing anyone could do."
Baker, who has mental health issues, was living at Arc's Lindley House homeless hostel at the time, has made a string of court appearances.
Last October, he was jailed for 30 weeks for breaching the Criminal Behaviour Order eleven times by sitting on the ground in the town.
He also has convictions for begging.
And in February, he was ordered to pay £100 compensation to a nursing assistant he assaulted.
A rough sleeper regularly seen sitting outside Taunton Station, who gave his name as Phil, said: "He's got mental health issues and needs help.
"It's crazy locking him up for that. It's no good to keep sending him to prison - it's not like he's running into shops and nicking stuff."
An Avon and Somerset Police spokesman declined to comment.
However, Taunton-based Chief Inspector Lisa Simpson said at a meeting earlier this year that "locking them (repeat offenders) up for a few months" has a minor impact on their behaviour.
She added: "We need to work out why these things are happening.
"When it comes back to drugs, alcohol and mental health, we should be at the end of the process of resolving."
She added: "From years of police experience, arresting them does not stop their behaviour."
ARC and Somerset West and Taunton Council also declined to comment.
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Your pajamas are uncomfortable - You might want to rethink your pjs if you wake up hot and sweaty or have those pink elastic lines on your skin. Avoid fabrics like polyester and rayon because they hold heat and moisture and get some jammies in breathable fabrics like cotton, linen, and bamboo. Or maybe you could try sleeping in the buff, which some claim has a host of benefits.
Your room is too hot - We all like to be cozy when we're sleeping, but according to the National Sleep Foundation, the ideal sleeping environment is actually around 65-degrees. So turn down that thermostat, open a window, or get the fan going to cool it down.
You had a big dinner right before you fell asleep - Dietitian Chloe McLeod explains that eating a big meal before bed causes your body to produce more energy for digestion, which could disrupt your sleep cycle. She also says it's not good to go to bed starving and suggests eating something light like a veggie omelet or soup if you need to eat late.
You're not timing your REM cycle correctly - You might feel groggy even after eight hours of sleep if you wake up in the middle of your REM cycle. The National Sleep Foundation says all REM cycles are a little bit different, but they last about 90 minutes on average. So they advise planning sleep in 90-minute blocks so you time it right and don't wake up in the middle of the REM cycle.
You're scrolling through your phone immediately before bed - Lots of us scroll through our news feeds right before we go to sleep, but that's a habit that could keep us from a good night's sleep. It's the blue light that phones and laptop screens give off that can confuse the body and trick it into thinking it's not bedtime, so you stay up later than you normally would.


On the first hand at the final table of ten, Ryan Stoker moved all in and Kai McCue-Unciano called on the button. The blinds released and the hands were tabled.
The board ran Kh Qc 8d Js 3h, McCue-Unciano's pair of kings was best and Stoker was eliminated.
Stoker was 68/69 players returning to Day 2 with just 33,500 and was down to two big blinds at one point in the day.
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