As known to all, Bihar is an important place for Buddhism religion as it was the place where the journey of Buddha began to enlighten. There are many traces of the journey and footsteps just like Bodhgaya. Bodh Gaya is a pilgrimage place for Buddhists and is a UNESCO world heritage site. The magnificent Mahabodhi temples are worth stopping at.
The entire Gaya district has a great religious preference and Bodh Gaya lies in the Gaya district itself which is also a pilgrimage site for Buddhists mainly. It is known to be the place where Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree which is now its name.
Also known with a name called "Great Awakening Temple" and it's a Buddhist temple in Bodh Gaya, it is marked as the place signifies the religious history. It is believed that Buddha was the 9th incarnation of Lord Vishnu. A sacred Bodhi Tree is placed to the left of the temple where Lord Gautam Buddha used to mediate.
It's a tall statue of Lord Buddha and was inaugurated by the XIV Dalai Lama in 1989, one can explore the meditating Buddha resting on a giant lotus, built up using the intricately carved sandstone and red granite.
Sited around 100 km. towards the South of Patna in the North Indian state of Bihar and the most famous holy places in Buddhism. The Bodhi Tree is a famous destination and most frequently visiting destination by the tourists. The aura of tree attracts sages, mediators, and yogis since the time of Buddha.
Famous for its cured roof enclosed with attractive tiles of gold, the Thai Monastery is home to a bronze statue of Buddha and a new founded 25 m high statue in the garden.
Mohammad Restaurant – taste the fine array of food including breakfast and espresso coffee.
Be Happy Café – enjoy the aromatic espressos, Italian cuisines like salads, pasta, freshly baked pizza.
Hari Om International Café – Eat the banana pancakes.
Nirvana, The Veg Café – enjoy the mouth-watering dosas, as well as pizzas, sandwiches, burgers, and noodles.
November to February is the best time to visit Bodh Gaya as the weather remains agreeable.
How to reach Bodh Gaya?


When purchasing a waterfront home or property in Florida it can be a dream come true. Some of the best boating, fishing and beaches in the world can be right in your back yard. Many homeowners are living their dream enjoying their boat parked right in their back yard. As wonderful as this can be when buying a water front home, you have to be very careful. Do not to make the same mistakes that many home buyers have made and continue to make. These mistakes can cost you thousands of dollars and even worse- turn that dream and into a nightmare.


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Of Meatwallahs, Bulls & Butchers
Studies related to anatomy, animals, carcasses. skulls have been integral part of art since time immemorial
Somnath Hore's Meatwallah is an exceptionally rare and important canvas of a similar genre.
Tyeb Mehta
Similar to his other work that was sold at auction at Christie's in 2014 for INR 17,54,25,000, this work shows the bulls as a symbol of masculinity and strength. The bull is seen struggling with a pair of hands insinuating that he is victim of circumstance and fate.
Chaim Sautine
Chaim Sautine was known to have a weak stomach and had a strict diet as a result of that. However, the meat bought for him was usually a common subject in his work. Often seen as a symbol of crucifixion even though Sautine was jewish.
Pablo Picasso grew up in Spain where bull fights were norm. When his father took him to his first bullfight as a child, he started to draw bulls more often in his art. To Picasso, the bull's struggle represented life and death. The agony of the bull was a comment on fascism and brutality that seen in Europe at the time.
Francis Bacon's 'Figure with Meat' is a copy of Rembrandt's 'Carcass of Beef (Flayed Ox)'. Here the carcass symbolizes crucifixion and the Pope Innocent X represents the catholic church's authority and abuse of its power. Bacon has painting the Pope's face with blood and his face seems to be a in a terrifying expression. This is meant symbolize the impermanence of life and the agony of life as a punishment for too much pleasure.
Souza's work here shows the butcher in action while working. The focus is on the butcher instead if the animal as hew wanted to depict humans as the evil oppressor and cause for pain in life. In a way, he was rejecting the usual christian ideals that have been the subject of other such artworks.
'Butcher's Shop in London' was made while Khakhar was in England as a part of an art residency. The painting shows a butchers shop and solicitor's office that was one of his common subjects while he was there.
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I moved to town when I was 9 years old, and while sometimes I think I must have come off as a bit of a freak to the local jeweler (what kid is this interested in jewelry?), mostly I think my passion for his work must have delighted him.
I always planned to follow in his footsteps, to become a jeweler. Life happened differently, of course, but when I finally wised up and decided to pursue my dream, even if a bit late to the game, it was Frank whom I called to get advice about training options. He'd gone to GIA, so I did too, and while a perfect end to this story might have been me buying his store, a slightly less perfect ending is me winding up in the sparkly industry of gems and jewelry after all; of seeing Frank at various tradeshows throughout the country; of being able to talk shop with this man I've long admired.
Me wanting to make him proud could be a classic case of someone meaning much more to me than I did to him, but I still hope on some level that I succeeded; that the thought of this Graduate Gemologist's clumsy start as a shy salesperson cleaning fingerprints off the jewelry cases of his store made him happy. I dedicated my second book to him ("For letting me in, for showing me the ropes, and for always being so sparkly.") and after he read it, he told me he hadn't realized my time in his store had meant so much to me. But that's the thing about life, about plugging along doing the thing you are passionate about, however ordinary it is to you. Because you never know who you are influencing, what young person is taking note and making plans based on the appeal of your everyday. You never know when your ordinary will be someone else's sparkle. That's what Frank was to me. And I will miss him.
If you are a professional, I encourage you to find a young person who finds your ordinary sparkly. Be a mentor, a friend, and let's do what we can to pass our passions down the line to those who come after. And if you knew Frank, my hometown jeweler, I trust you feel as lucky as I do.
This was part of my display at Friday night's ArtNight Pasadena, an event I've now attended for the second straight year. Part of me wonders why I went back. Not that it isn't a GREAT event, but it's just such a big event. And all the authors get stuffed into various nooks and crannies in the castle-like (charming yet simultaneously stinky) library. Even for the few people who manage to find you in the back corner of this dimly-lit building, most of them aren't really prepared to pay for something inside a library. Not that they couldn't. But that, on principle, they believe libraries should exclusively provide free stuff.
I do kind of get it. An event inside a bookstore will sell exponentially more books.
Not that it was a total loss. I met some great authors, sold a few books, and the best moment was when a woman saw the cover of Jeweled and loudly exclaimed, "I've read that!" She proceeded to ooze to the woman who was with her about what a fascinating and well-done book it is, and you'd think this other woman would have bought a copy. Indeed, before I got into this whole book thing, I was sure all I needed was a small core group of people who read and liked my books, and that The Snowball Effect would take care of the rest. That your book sales largely stop with this core group of people who read and like your books has been one of the most surprising lessons of bookselling.
"I may be back," the woman's friend said after looking at the front and back of Jeweled, an obligatory response to her companion's glowing endorsement.
She never came back, but then again, I knew she wouldn't.
I'll continue to do these events because, in spite of everything, I enjoy them. And because you never know who'll come by, like you, read your stuff, and start the snowball that will eventually lead to your big break. Or at least lead to someone loudly exclaiming in front of a room full of book lovers that yours is particularly fine.
There is something inherently ridiculous about getting your photo taken as an adult. Honestly. Who takes themselves that seriously? And sometimes when I see people post obviously professionally-taken photos of themselves looking totally cute, I roll my eyes. Like, a lot. I mean, doesn't it kind of remind you of that scene in While You Were Sleeping where she goes over to Peter's apartment and there's that picture of him framed on the counter? Framed. Of him. Displayed in his own apartment. Can you say selfish and shallow? I can.
I had some headshots taken about four years ago. For bookish purposes, I might add. The photo that's been on my website and social media channels since that time came from this very photo shoot, as did the author picture I used in Jeweled. Given how unnatural it seems to have photos taken of myself, I had planned on using the same picture in my upcoming book as well. Waste not, am I right? But people started generally remarking about how different I now look from those photos four years ago. And while there's no way I'm doing this every few years just because my hair is different, people did seem to have a point. So I scheduled another photo shoot. And while I certainly battled some amount of "you are as ridiculous as Peter Callahan" demons as the photographer snapped away, my confession to you is that I loved this photo shoot. I did. I loved it. I loved wearing my cute little city outfits in San Diego's sleepy Old Town. I loved feeling momentarily beautiful. And I loved the photographer's comment that I had the gift of no one being able to tell how old I am. I am a freaking illusion.
The shot above was my favorite of the day. I didn't opt to use it for anything official, but if I were Peter Callahan, this is the one I would frame and put on my counter. Just saying.
This store hosts a Northwest authors fair each summer, and for years I've been trying to get in. Nevermind that I no longer live in the Northwest. Nevermind that I spend much more getting to author fairs than I make in book sales from them. That's not really the point. The point is me, feeling like an author, introducing my books to people and seeing their faces when they smile that "I want to read this" smile.
A word about Bob's Beach Books, because I can definitely see why so many authors want to return to this event. It's remarkably well-run, mostly due to the efforts of the store manager, and, now that I've visited, it's exactly the kind of small-town independent bookstore that I would frequent if I lived there. Here's hoping I get in again next year. Because coastal air up north is so refreshing. And because Oregon has no shortage of kindred spirits. Even if so many of them do prefer quilting murder mysteries and cult vampire thrillers.
I've been eyeing this project for some time, although I must give credit to my sister, as she's the one who pointed these watercolors out to me in the first place. At first it was suggested that maybe I could attempt them myself, though I doubt this option would have produced something that made sense being displayed on my living room wall. Maybe more like my fridge...if I had a young child to whom I could attribute their creation.
It took several stops to find somewhere with frames both as colorful and cheap as I was after (I was buying twelve of them, yo), and don't even get me started on the hours-long ordeal of trying to line them up straight and with equal spacing. My brother had cautioned I should not attempt it without measuring tape, a level, and a second person to help me, but I have none of those things. So I went for the always solid Trial and Error approach, and the project is now done. There are also about a billion tiny nail holes in my living room wall.
I realize that decorating your walls with gemstones is not normal. But I'm really not a normal girl. My affection for all things gem is the epitome of abnormal. But surely you know that by now. I freaking wrote a book about it. And quit my job to study it. And moved across the country to work in it. And now, thanks to this weekend's project, every night I will come home to it. Besides, what's so great about being normal, anyway? It sounds much less sparkly.
Now, if coming home to find this blingitty bling bling gift on your front porch doesn't make up for you not winning the Ugly Sweater Contest at the holiday office party, then I'm not sure what will.
This Christmas just got a whole lot better.
PS - My sweater was hideous.
My sister is a great gift-giver. The best I know. She almost never asks me for ideas, she just spends the year quietly collecting things that make her think of me, things she thinks I'll like, and then I open her Christmas gifts having absolutely no idea what to expect. These kinds of gifts are my favorite to open, and they are usually spot on. Which proves what is possible when you truly know someone.
Cases in point. She bought and restored an old writing desk I adore and have schlepped across the country twice and still use. She tracked down the album of songs that a well-known hospital clown sang at Oakland Children's when I was a patient there in the late 1980s. Songs that I listened to for years afterward on a tape I eventually lost track of. Silly I guess, the songs, but being reunited with them so many years later was one of the biggest and most thoughtful surprises I've ever received. One I didn't ask for but loved.
If I ever had a child and found myself doing the family thing, I'd be tempted to implement a no-list policy. Meaning no one would be allowed to ask for specific things; rather we'd all just shop for each other based on what we knew the others would like. It means more, right? It's better, right? Of course, it's also harder. Not to mention, not everyone can do what my sister does. I think she has a knack. A gifting skill set. Whereas I always seem to say--about my own siblings and parents--"What on this green earth can I *possibly* get them?" Which seems an odd thing, being unsure what to buy for, say, the woman out of whose womb you tumbled forth. Um, maybe a pedicure? Some chocolates? I just DON'T KNOW!
Just yesterday I sent off my Christmas list to my two brothers and my parents, and it reminded me that 1) lists make it SO EASY to shop for people, and 2) on the receiving end, you know you'll be getting things from that list; things you definitely know you like/want/need/have been coveting. It's sort of like the proposal conundrum I talk about in Jeweled. How a girl probably appreciates the Leap of Faith more than the Slam Dunk, but then again, she does want to like the ring she gets. Insert something about tradeoffs here, and I don't have the answer. But I am curious, dear reader, do you prefer giving and working off of lists, or are you won over by the idea of the heartfelt crapshoot? Please answer. These things keep me up at night.
of whose womb you tumbled forth. Maybe a pedicure? Some chocolates?
things keep me up at night.
For those waiting on the results of my candy experiment, having a big bowl of chocolate at my table did draw in a record number of visitors. Indeed many other authors at last weekend's Pasadena ArtNight commented to me on how popular my candy was. Not that it really sold me any more books. People just wanted some candy. Jerks.
It was a great event though, the ArtNight. And hats off to Pasadena for arranging such a complete and hassle-free experience. I found myself wishing I could ride the free shuttles around town to the different buildings housing various artists and musicians for the evening. What a great way for a city to see and experience a wide mix of genres and talents. And such a great reminder, for those of us at the library, of just how many people out there write books. Of course, it's also a reminder of how there really is something out there for everyone...and about a billion things not for everyone, which is why indie book selling is and always will be so challenging. There's a relatively (read: extremely) small number of people out there who are interested in reading your books. As opposed to all the other books they could be reading/buying. But I suppose that's what makes the world go round. And keeps the traffic at a book fair moving. As for that traffic, however, there might have been more of it had the library's $1 books room not been right next to the author area. Made our prices a tough sell...even with candy.
I woke up last Thursday morning to the sight of a woman at the top of my driveway putting a bag of dog poop in my trash can. And so I stewed on this for hours, feeling pissed and a little violated. What is wrong with people?
It took hearing the Roseburg news to shake me from my ridiculousness, because in the grand scheme of things, who cares about dog poop? In the grand scheme of things, who cares about anything other than the health and safety of the good people of this planet? What's worse—or at least what hit me hardest about this most recent mass shooting—is that it happened right near my own hometown. Mere miles from both the home where I grew up and the beloved jewelry store I talk about in Jeweled. The UCC campus itself is where I attended countless dance recitals and community musicals, competed in high school choir competitions, and took yearly school exams.
And so I've been sad for my community, even though I no longer live there. I've been angered at the vulnerable situation these no-gun zones put people in (think the school in Sandy Hook, the movie theater in Aurora, UCC, etc). I've been inspired by the faith and hope of those who have been most affected by this tragedy. And I've been completely unconcerned about dog poop in my trash can ever since.
I'm getting ready for an author fair next week. I love author fairs. Book events of any kind, really. It's nice to be reminded you're an author, especially when just a lowly one like me. Because sometimes I forget. Sometimes I feel discouraged and wonder why I do it. But an author event can bring me back to myself...my writerly self.
The question at any author fair is, of course, how to get people to buy your books. Selling books is hard. People can't just look at a book like they can jewelry or artwork and know they will like it. And people aren't as free with their money as they used to be. An author fair attendee peruses everything and oftentimes buys only one book. One book. So how do you make sure yours is the book they buy? Just make sure yours is the most interesting book. Right? Possibly out of your control, but even if it weren't, before a person can even think your book is interesting, you've got to get them to approach your table. And there are *a lot* of tables at an author fair. Most of the time all lined up in a row or arranged in some other closely-spaced configuration.
I don't know what the magic formula is--something tells me it probably involves a low-cut top, a celebrity guest, and an expensive giveaway--but I may try out a few new things at next week's fair. (Much to my sister's disappointment, I will not, as she suggested, be hiring friends to hang around my table and act very interested, thus creating the illusion of mass intrigue and popularity. But that's really only because I can't afford it. And also because I don't have many friends yet...new in town, remember?) In any case, if you find yourself in Pasadena next weekend, I hope you'll choose my table. There will be candy. Which, come to think of it, is probably almost as good as a low-cut top.
I should probably be doing more to prepare for this blizzard than listen to the 80's Hits radio station and fold laundry. But clean underwear should be near the top of anyone's snowed-in list. And I stand by that.
Since I will inevitably lose power in this storm, I thought I'd first say a few words about the opportunity I had this weekend to serve with the DOROT organization. A Jewish organization (the word means 'generations' in Hebrew), they work to serve the elderly, particularly by connecting them to younger volunteers, many of whom form lasting relationships with the elders they serve.
Yesterday DOROT delivered winter care packages to hundreds of elderly (many of them shut-ins, unable to leave their apartments) throughout NYC. The packages contained not just food, but warm hats, gloves, and other things needed in winter. (Just in time for the storm!) Of course serving others is its own reward, whether or not the experience is a particularly positive one, but I feel doubly fortunate that the woman I was assigned to visit was such a gem.
As a society, there's so much we can do for each other. I know time is precious and not one of us has nearly enough of it. But if any of you in the NY area are looking for an opportunity to serve, I strongly recommend this organization. You don't have to be Jewish ("Well you're obviously not Jewish," the woman I visited pointed out rather comically when my blond-haired, blue-eyed self showed up at her door), and I promise you you'll not only enjoy yourself and want in on the next planned delivery day as well, but you'll also wish you had gotten involved sooner.
Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a book group discussion. I don't belong to any book groups, and never really have (other than this one time, but I only went once, when that month's book was something I had already read, but the host's house smelled like fish and it was hard to hear over the yappy dog being kept in a bedroom), but a book group over on the west coast invited me to participate in the discussion of their January book, which just so happened to be one that I wrote.
It's a weird thing, listening in when a group of readers are discussing your book. It's even weirder when they've got you up on the big screen TV while you're talking. But technology is pretty cool when you think about it. And it got me thinking about how nice it would be if, after finishing a book I'd enjoyed, I could have a conversation with the author, ask her any questions, tell her I particularly liked this aspect or that.
And that's what these ladies did. They asked questions about jewelry, questions about writing Jeweled and if it was harder or easier than writing Schooled. They asked if I visited my jeweler when I was home for Christmas, asked about conflict diamonds, giggled about my musings on old-lady veins, shared how powerful the opening scene was with the whale. They even answered a few questions for me which might help me shape the structure of my next book, which I've recently begun to rethink.
How grateful I am for readers, for books, for kind words, for camaraderie. I'm also grateful for the times that make me feel like a real author. I will not say that they happen a lot, but when they do, it's enough to keep me going.
I love living in New York, but it's hard to beat this view out your back window. Yes, I love living in New York, but I'd be lying if I said it was stress free. Au contraire. It's noisy, it's expensive, and the woman downstairs keeps whacking her ceiling as hard as she can every time my cat runs across the room. Of course, these things seem less significant when compared to all the wonderful things about living in New York, but still, there are days it wears me down. There are days when the woman downstairs wins.
All of this is to say that I am enjoying my extended Christmas vacation in Oregon perhaps much more than I have in other years. The contrast is so refreshing. Everything is quiet and the air smells clean and piney. There are tree-covered hills in every direction. There are high school friends raising families. There is my jeweler who asked me once again yesterday how long before I am ready to buy his store. Of course, these things seem less appealing when compared to the economic challenges and realities of living in rural, southwestern Oregon, but still, there are days when it wins me over. There are days when the city can't compare.
I know, I know. A girl can certainly have roots and wings, and I guess I should consider myself fortunate that both places are so special to me. And with that, I must return to my Christmas Eve activities. There's a pie to bake, presents to wrap, a party to attend. I can promise that before stepping into the building tonight, pie in hand, I will pause, surrounded by green on all sides, and take a deep breath in. And it will smell like rain and trees. More than that, it will smell like home.
Like Father, Like Son. Like Brother.
There's a part in Jeweled where I mention my brother's wedding. How at the time, he being so much younger than me, there was a part of me that was sad about him passing me up in terms of major life milestones. It's just not something I had ever pictured happening, him getting married first. Of course, now he's been married for almost 6 years. (Me, still single.) And this past week he became a father. Talk about major life milestones.
It's not sadness I feel this time at having once again been passed up, but it does make me think. And not just about my dwindling egg count. No, I've been thinking a lot about my brother. And every time I've heard him say "my son" this week, it's like I hallucinate back to a much earlier time in our lives. Quite frankly, I don't know where the time has gone. I don't know how it is that back then has become so long ago; so far-removed. It's not that I want it back, not exactly, because I think it's kind of nice as we've all settled into adulthood, become Real People. But for my brother, his new arrival does mean a permanent pivoting. Toward the future and his new family. It's wonderful and I wouldn't have it any other way. And yet. I think I'll miss those over-the-shoulder glances he used to throw my way, toward the homebird nest and our idyllic childhood. Something tells me he won't be looking back quite as often now.


New research has discovered a fascinating hidden history of the Selden Map, the oldest surviving merchant map in the world. About 60 inches long and 40 inches wide, the map was drawn in ink and hand-painted with watercolors between 1607 and 1619. It plots 18 trade routes in an area of East Asia bounded by Siberia to the north, the Spice Islands to the south, Japan to the east and southern India and Burma to the west. At the top of a map is a compass labeled in Chinese characters to indicate the orientation of the map. The routes all start from the port city of Quanzhou in China's southern Fujian province, which at the time this map was drawn in the late Ming Dynasty was a major shipping hub for trade between Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
The "very odd" map was often put on display, unfortunately to its detriment, but it fell out of fashion in the 18th century after famed astronomer Edmond Halley declared it cartographically inaccurate. In 1919, the Selden Map was mounted on a linen backing so it could hung on the wall. This would have disastrous consequences. The fabric backing stiffened over time, distorting and cracking the fragile paper, and its brittle condition was exacerbated by being kept rolled up. In the 1970s conservators noted the map's dire condition, but decades would pass before the conservation issues were addressed.
In 2008, Robert Batchelor, a professor of British and Asian history at Georgia Southern University, sought out the Selden Map. He identified two features on the map which made it unique compared to all other known historic Chinese maps: 1) it's not a map of China, and 2) the shipping routes plotted from Quanzhou. China was placed in the center of other maps, but in this one it's just one of many countries around the South China Sea that traded with each other. The shipping routes marked it as the earliest example of Chinese merchant cartography, commissioned by traders, not the imperial court. It also contravenes the received wisdom that China was isolated from the rest of the world during this period. Its merchants were still doing plenty of business.
Batchelor's research spurred a new conservation and restoration plan. This time conservators took their time, researching past interventions to determine what parts of the map were original and which later alterations, if any, should be kept. They decided to keep a border added the map in the late 17th century because of its historically significant Latin annotations. The linen backing and earlier patching attempts were removed. The restored map was digitized and put online.
Examinations of the pigment used found a mixture of indigo with orpiment, a yellow mineral – rather than gamboge, a yellow dye – to make a green colour, which is also very unusual for a painting in China in this period. And the detection of a basic copper chloride in the green areas suggests an influence from south and west Asia, where it was often used in manuscripts. This green pigment was not typically used in paper-based paintings from China.
Detailed examination even found instances where the cartographer made alterations – some stylistic, others unintentional, and some made as the cartographer's knowledge of a certain area developed. The scientists were able to identify that the trade routes were laid down before the land was drawn in.
They believe that the cartographer did not plan the full map from the beginning, which was why they had to redraw some of the routes many times – and why they ran out of space at the southern and western points of the map, forcing the trade routes to be off the compass directions. Two trade routes were drawn without their corresponding compass directions, suggesting the map was unfinished.
As a result of this new evidence, the research team proposes that the map was drawn not in China, but in Aceh on the island of Sumatra.
It is the most westerly port in south east Asia marked on the map and has the longest history of the presence of Islam in south east Asia, as well as a long history of Chinese contact.
The new research has been published in the journal Heritage Science and can be read in its entirety free of charge here.


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Tricia Leigh Fisher is an American actress and singer.

Early life
Fisher was born to singer Eddie Fisher and actress Connie Stevens. Her older sister is actress and singer Joely Fisher. She has two half-siblings, actor and producer Todd Fisher and actress Carrie Fisher, from her father's previous marriage to actress Debbie Reynolds. Fisher's paternal grandparents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. Fisher's parents divorced when she was a baby and she and Joely were raised by Stevens. As children, both Tricia and Joely began performing on stage in their mother's Las Vegas show. They toured the world with their mother, attending many different schools and having tutors. Both girls also attended Beverly Hills High School.

Career

Acting
Fisher made her debut in the 1985 crime drama Stick, starring Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, and Charles Durning. She then starred as Daphne Ziegler in the 1986 comedy Pretty Smart. In 1987, Fisher appeared in the television movie Strange Voices, opposite Valerie Harper. The following year, she landed a role in the TV movie Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis, also starring her mother as well as Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver. In 1989, Fisher appeared in two movies, Hollywood Chaos and C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D., followed by roles in the 1990 comedy, Book of Love and Arizona Dream starring Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, and Faye Dunaway.

In addition to Fisher's work in movies, she has also made guest appearances on Our House, Growing Pains, Ellen, Wild Card, 7th Heaven, and 'Til Death. In 1996, she portrayed Heidi Fleiss in the CBS television movie The Making of a Hollywood Madam.

On October 7, 2006, Fisher was honored at The Thalians 51st Anniversary Ball along with producer Marc Cherry, her mother Connie Stevens, and her sister Joely Fisher. They performed together at the event at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California.

In September 2011, Fisher and her husband, actor Byron Thames, appeared in her mother's Las Vegas stage show. In July 2012, Fisher, her husband and children began appearing on the ABC Family reality series Beverly Hills Nannies.

Music
Fisher performed the theme song for her 1986 movie Pretty Smart, and released a self-titled debut album for Atco Records in 1990. The album's single "Empty Beach", written by Dennis East, was a modest hit.

Filmography

Discography

Albums

 1990: Tricia Leigh Fisher
 1990: Dreams‡

Singles

 1990: "Empty Beach"
 1990: "Let's Make the Time"
 1990: "My Heart Holds On"/"Good As Gold"‡

 ‡ Japan release only

References

External links

20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
American child actresses
American dance musicians
American film actresses
American women pop singers
American people of Italian descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
American television actresses
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
Singers from California
Atco Records artists
Beverly Hills High School alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Designer and calligrapher, Erica Tighe, of Be a Heart shares a story of personal transformation that took place through the development of her artistic talents.
Erica is the owner and designer of Be A Heart. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from DePaul University in Chicago, moved to Brazil to work for Heart's Home for a year and a half, then lived and worked in Brooklyn before moving to Los Angeles. She has a love for her Southwestern roots, bold patterns and all hand lettering. Her client list includes Verily Magazine, Darling Magazine, Dig Deep, Elle Communications, Kirsten Marie Inc., Akin & Co, Echo and Atlas, Leah Darrow, Blessed Is She, and countless beautiful couples who entrust their weddings to Be a Heart.


Construction companies, harbors, and warehouses move several things, and individuals things weight too much. Cranes are helpful, however they simply can't walk inside or any other areas that can not be arrived at previously mentioned. Due to these factors, forklifts would be the workhorses of industry. With respect to the kind of labor and types of conditions they work under, some might require more maintenance than the others.
An individual negotiating within the cost for any forklift learns numerous strategies in early stages. The very first, and ironically most overlooked but many apparent one, learned would be to be aware of product. The customer must spend a minimum of a few days operating one, by having an eye for the stresses that the forklift experiences this is applicable not just in the forks, but towards the gears involved completely to tires. Only by understanding how a forklift works can he fully recognize how one works.
A possible buyer should also understand how they work from the purely mechanical point of view. Which means that a mechanic's background is essential, or at best the opportunity to listen and get all the right questions. Coupled with an operator's experience, this provides the customer an array of potential areas he may then compare and inspect, and may thus easily determine the real worth of the forklift he's planning on buying.
Clearly he's gonna need to also continue around the literature in the field, in order to be familiar with new developments within the field along with the newest models that are offered. Also, he gives creedence to reviews in addition to keeping an ear down, from time to time asking mechanics or no forklifts appear in the future set for repairs more frequently than other models along with the operators themselves about vehicles that really work and have problems. Also, he gives creedence to his company's vehicle records.
Only if he's acquired this raw information is he prepared to sit lower in the negotiator's table. At that time they know exactly what the advantages and disadvantages are with the forklifts for purchase, and may pick which machines he is able to buy straight out, and which require some kind of special care prior to being fully operational. It's frequently stated that understanding is power in negotiations, superior understanding always wins.
Are you searching for forklift for sale? You should search for the right company that would cater to your specific needs in the best manner possible. The company should be able to provide to your needs at affordable price.
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The Studio host's all the Fighting Fit, Strength and Conditioning, Strongman, Kettlebell, Cardio Workouts, Circuit and Bootcamp Classes.
Featuring a bespoke pull up rig, indoor pushing and pulling areas, boxing for fitness, kettle bell resistance, Olympic lifting, wall ball, gymnastics, rowing, ropes and box jumps etc.
The gym host's state of the art machinery, fully air conditioned area to offer you a great space that looks quite different to "The Studio" downstairs. As with the rest of the gym, the studio has been designed to give a stylish yet cool look to work out within.
Fitness and nutrition go hand in hand. At Fighting Fit, we are lucky to have the Heath Cafe/Restaurant on site providing a great source of fresh, healthy food, refreshments and beverages to keep you refuelled.
If you are struggling with muscle soreness, sports or general injuries, we have that covered too! We have a number of specialist sports massage therapists and a chiropractor on site who can get you back on your feet.
Shower and change room facilities with security lockers. We also have a large free car park and a lot of space. so you don't have to worry about finding a space. We also have free parking for 100+.


I've installed Domain Mapping, and followed all the steps, including pointing the DNS on the domain server, and switching to dedicated IP on the main blog, but the domain is not pointing to my site.
The main blog domain and the sub blog domain aren't purchased in the same server.
One of our community members has created a pretty nice tutorial here : http://coreyjmahler.com/topics/setting-up-a-wordpress-multisite-install-to-use-multiple-domains/ Can you go through that as well and see if that helps at all ?
Can you double check that as well ?
Thanks for your recommendations, I've started a ticket on the mapped domain server to create an A record, since they don't have any option to do that from the control panel. Seems that this should be the problem, I'll let you know if I can fix it, or I'll need more help.
You are most certainly welcome Martin.
As both tickets are regarding the same issue, we can close this ticket.


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Art Daily News
LONDON.- The statue of Admiral Lord Nelson is decorated with a hat and an Olympic torch, designed by Sylvia Fletcher of Locke and Co., the company famed for making Nelson's original bicorn hat, as part of an art event in central London's Trafalgar square, during the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012. The "Hatwalk" event, brings together 21 emerging and established designers to showcase British millinery in some of London's most iconic statues.
AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis.
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A High Holy Whodunit
Michal Chelbin for The New York Times
The Aleppo Codex, the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible, in its vault at the Israel Museum.
By RONEN BERGMAN - Published: July 25, 2012- The New York Times
One day this spring, on the condition that I not reveal any details of its location nor the stringent security measures in place to protect its contents, I entered a hidden vault at the Israel Museum and gazed upon the Aleppo Codex — the oldest, most complete, most accurate text of the Hebrew Bible. The story of how it arrived here, in Jerusalem, is a tale of ancient fears and modern prejudices, one that touches on one of the rawest nerves in Israeli society: the clash of cultures between Jews from Arab countries and the European Jews, or Ashkenazim, who controlled the country during its formative years. And the story of how some 200 pages of the codex went missing — and to this day remain the object of searches carried out around the globe by biblical scholars, private investigators, shadowy businessmen and the Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency — is one of the great mysteries in Jewish history.
Michael Maggen, the head of the paper-conservation lab at the Israel Museum.
Full story at The New York Times.
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Mexico's new Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation offers one winner $250,000 cash and brings the country coveted cultural cachet.
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Writing competition considers the role of science in our future
Writers are being invited to submit their thoughts about the contribution of science to the future of New Zealand in this year's Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing competition.
This is New Zealand's only literary award for science writing, and carries cash prizes of $2500 for each of the non-fiction and fiction categories. The winning entries will be published in the New Zealand Listener.
The theme for the 2012 competition is inspired by the late Sir Paul Callaghan who saw the transit of Venus in June as symbolising a new chapter in New Zealand's history. His vision was to make this country a place "where talent wants to live".
Prize-winning poet and fiction writer, Bill Manhire(left), after whom the competition is named, says: "The Transit of Venus Project was started by Sir Paul soon after he became ill in 2008. Paul was passionate in his belief that only science and scholarship will achieve our desired economic, social and environmental futures. As science was intertwined in the history of our nation, so it will forge its future. "
The writing competition has been running since 2007 and aims to encourage exciting science writing. Entries are judged on their literary merits and how accessible they are to the general public.
Past winners of the competition include Dave Armstrong, Alice Miller and Tina Makereti. This year's judge is Steve Braunias, author of books and TV series, columnist, journalist and editor.
The Manhire Prize Creative Science Writing competition is a partnership between the Royal Society of New Zealand, the New Zealand Listener Magazine and the Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University.
Entry forms can be found in next week's Listener Magazine and on the Royal Society of New Zealand website. Closing date for entries is 5 October 2012.
An e-book of all past winning entries is available from the Royal Society of New Zealand website.
Eating Dirt by Steve Gurney
Steve Gurney loves to live at the edge of his comfort zone; it's when he feels most alive. And in his new book Eating Dirt he challenges others to do the same.
Gurney believes that New Zealand society has morphed into an 'OSH culture'; one where children are 'cotton-wooled' and everything is over-regulated, including adventure sport. His challenge to us is to let children take risks — even if that means they fall out of trees occasionally — 'eat dirt' during a game of playground bull-rush and make mistakes, so that they'll know how to find their limits in later life; as he has done.
Gurney is the living embodiment of a 'V commercial': high octane and fun. His adventures are extreme, his innovations are pioneering, his dreams are big. He is also very resilient. Like many Cantabrians, he lived through the major Christchurch earthquakes, lost property and had to take stock of his life. This journey led him to connect with his local community in surprising new ways and inspired him to undertake extensive research into the area of resilience, so that he could share his practical tips for recovery after any crisis.
Eating Dirt takes up the story where his bestselling autobiography Lucky Legs (2008) left off. Here, we find Gurney about to undertake his latest extreme adventures, including a world-record crossing of the Sahara Desert by kite-buggy, while trying to avoid land mines, terrorists, corrupt border officials, gear breakages and bone-breaking rocks — one of which almost took him out — and climbing Aoraki Mount Cook the hard way.
Eating Dirt encapsulates Gurney's philosophy for winning in adventure and achieving those important life goals before it's too late. His grit, determination, candour and humour resonate throughout and inspire the reader to make mole hills out of mountains.
Steve Gurney is an adventurer, inventor and motivator. A qualified engineer, he is an ex-professional adventure athlete turned professional motivational speaker. Gurney won the 'Coast to Coast' race a record nine times and twice raced mountain bikes for New Zealand at the world champs. He once waxed his entire body for 'Dancing with the Stars' and was awarded an MNZM for his services to Endurance Sport. Eating Dirt is Steve Gurney's second book.
Eating Dirt,
Random House - $39.99
Publication 3 August.
Hunter from the Heartland
I talked (enthused) with Jim Mora about this title on Radio NZ National this afternoon.
Here is the recipe from the book which I mentioned in our discussion.
Easy Fish Curry with Bananas and Prawns
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
cooking oil for frying
1 spring onion, finely sliced
3cm knob ginger, julienned
2 tablespoons curry powder
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 × 400ml can coconut cream
2 × 200g snapper fillets, cubed
12 prawns
2 bananas, sliced
1 bunch coriander, finely chopped
When a workmate introduced me to curry with bananas, I wasn't sold at first. It sounded weird but after trying it, I loved it.
Sweat down onion and garlic in a medium-hot frying pan in a little oil. Add chilli, spring onion and ginger and cook for 2 minutes. Sprinkle over curry powder and cook for another 2 minutes. Then add fish sauce and coconut cream, and bring to the boil.
Turn down the heat to a gentle simmer. Add snapper and poach for 4 minutes. Add prawns and bananas and simmer for another 4 minutes. Add chopped coriander and gently stir through. Season to taste with salt and pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Serve with steamed rice.
Dead simple and delicious, like all of his recipes.
A special book, great fun with as much space given over to his stories as to recipes and cooking. The perfect gift for Fathers Day I reckon. Published this coming Friday 3 August.
Published by Random House $49.99
Successful fundraising bid enables Speed Dating with a twist to reach Porirua
The Book Council has drawn on community support through a two-month crowdfunding appeal to successfully fund a Speed Date an Author workshop for young writers in Porirua next term.
Teaming up with Pledge Me, the Book Council raised almost $4000 with 31 generous donors pledging their financial support for Speed Date. Donors included one very generous local woman who read of our plight in the Kapi-Mana News and pledged to meet the shortfall just before the fundraiser closed.
These open-hearted donations mean that this event will be free for all participants. Chief Executive of the Book Council Noel Murphy says:
'We are touched by the display of generosity which enabled our success in this Pledge Me campaign. Our schools programmes are hugely valued and an inspiration to the children and teachers who take part. It's wonderful that this appeal has enabled us to extend this inspirational programme into Porirua. We will certainly look to run other fundraising appeals using this method.'
Speed Date an Author will involve six of New Zealand's top authors, and 60 of Porirua's top young writers aged 11-14 (years 7-10). Each author will inspire and encourage the young writers to improve particular aspects of their writing, during six 20 minute long sessions during the event. The students will then move into their chosen groups to complete writing exercises with these writers, further deepening their learning. Writers Kate De Goldi, Mandy Hager and Karlo Mila have already agreed to lead this event in the last week of October, and three other authors will join them.
This event will be run with the support of the Porirua Writers' Walk committee, with the aim of enhancing the creative output of top students in the run-up to the Porirua-wide writing competition planned for Term 2 2013. This competition is to be run in correlation to the development of the Porirua Writers' Walk.
Porirua schools will receive a fax-back registration form in the next few weeks, but schools already interested in the event are encouraged to reserve their spaces through Sarah on the contact below.
The Book Council would like to unreservedly thank all of our wonderful donors and supporters for believing in Speed Date an Author, and supporting the power that writing has to open up the imagination.
Get your hammock out - it's Tuesday Poem with experimental poet Terry Moyle.
The Tuesday Poem
This week Tuesday Poem offers up something that might make you think again: poetry as you may not have seen it before. It's The Hammock by Terry Moyle. Moyle is a vector artist and experimental poet, and this week's editor Orchid Tierney says:
"What I particularly enjoy about Terry's work is his diversity. Ranging from comic strips to 3D milk cartons, his work pushes poetry off the page into real life tangible artefacts. In this way, his experimental works are suggestive of new forms of literacy where text, image and object are inextricably related. Yet, if I can sum up briefly, I want to suggest that works like Terry's are conversations that challenge binary demarcations of high and low art."
Go and read - you won't be disappointed.
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2012 CLNZ EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING AWARDS
We are now calling for entries for the 2012 CLNZ EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING AWARDS, in association with PANZ.
Entries close at 5pm Thursday 16 August.
All enquiries to edawards@publishers.org.nz.
Please visit our website to download criteria and entry form.
The awards will be announced at a ceremony on 15 November 2012.
Author Maeve Binchy dies aged 72
Irish author Maeve Binchy had sold more than 40 million books worldwide - BBC
Best-selling Irish author Maeve Binchy has died aged 72 after a short illness.
Binchy, born in Dalkey, Co Dublin, has sold more than 40 million books. Her works were often set in Ireland and have been translated into 37 languages.
They include The Lilac Bus as well as Tara Road and Circle of Friends, which were both adapted for screen.
Binchy trained as a teacher before moving into journalism and writing, publishing her first novel - Light a Penny Candle - in 1982.
She had written the novel in her spare time from her day job as a journalist at The Irish Times.
BBC Dublin correspondent Ruth McDonald said Binchy's warm, witty, perceptive stories, were read and enjoyed around the world.
Our correspondent said the author was renowned for her generosity and support of others, writing in a guide for aspiring writers: "The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
"It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up".
In a 2001 interview with the BBC after she had won the WHSmith Book Award for fiction, Binchy described the five rejections she received for her first novel as "a slap in the face".
She said she was glad she persevered and sent the book to a sixth publisher.
"It's like if you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either," she said.
The author said that her secret was to write the way she spoke.
"I don't say I was proceeding down a thoroughfare, I say I walked down the road.
"I don't say I passed a hallowed institute of learning I say I passed a school.
"You don't wear all your jewellery at once - you're much more believable if you talk in your own voice," she said.
Lifetime achievement award In 2000, Binchy was ranked third in the World Book Day poll of favourite authors - ahead of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.
Binchy received a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Book Awards in 2010, the same year her last novel, Minding Frankie, was published.
She published a personal message on her website thanking fans who had praised the work:
"My health isn't so good these days and I can't travel around to meet people the way I used to. But I'm always delighted to hear from readers, even if it takes me a while to reply," she said.
Binchy is survived by her husband, writer Gordon Snell.
Irish politicians paid tribute to the author on Twitter after news of her death.
Meath East TD Regina Doherty tweeted: "Godspeed Maeve Binchy RIP lovely warm gentle lady brought much joy through all her work."
And from Hachette NZ:
Hachette NZ is saddened to learn of the death of much-loved Irish author Maeve Binchy.
"Maeve Binchy was one of the loveliest writers you could tour," says Managing Director Kevin Chapman, who remembers her fondly. "She was not only a marvelous writer, but a marvelous person. It's a great loss to storytelling."
Maeve will be remembered by the Hachette NZ team for her generous spirit. She regularly communicated directly with New Zealand booksellers and was incredibly well regarded across the book trade.
Maeve touched readers all around the world throughout her long career and leaves a legacy of best-selling novels.
Michael Morpurgo – war child to war horse
by Maggie Fergusson – Harper Collins - $39.99
Reviewed on Radio NZ National this morning.
Let me say straight up that I do not normally choose to read biographies but I couldn't resist this one.
Michael Morpurgo is of course an English author, poet, playwright and librettist,best known these days for his work in children's literature especially of course for War Horse although I hasten to add that he has been shortlisted four times for the Carnegie Medal and he won the 1993 Prix Sorcières (France): King of the Cloud Forests and all of the following:
1995 Whitbread Children's Book Award: The Wreck of the Zanzibar
1996 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Gold Award): The Butterfly Lion
1999 Prix Sorcières (France): Wombat Goes Walkabout
2000 Red House Children's Book Award: Kensuke's Kingdom
2001 Prix Sorcières (France): Kensuke's Kingdom
2002 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (Bronze Award): The Last Wolf
2004 Red House Children's Book Award: Private Peaceful
2005 Blue Peter Book of the Year Award: Private Peaceful
2005 Hampshire Book Award: Private Peaceful
2008 California Young Reader Medal: Private Peaceful
( this list from Wikipedia)
So he has a considerable body of work in addition to his most famous title; in fact he has written over 150 books for children dating back to 1974,(a full list appears at the back of the book).
He was the third Children's Laureate having been very involved in setting it up in the first place, inspired by his friend the late Ted Hughes..
I guess though it is War Horse (originally published in 1982) for what he will long be remembered. The book sold modestly well but after becoming a play at the National Theatre in 2007 and then a Spielberg movie in 2011 it has sold close to two million copies and has now been translated into more than 40 languages. In a way it is appropriate that this should be the case as that book is particularly about reconciliation, remember the opposing soldiers meet in no-man's land because he admits in this biography that reconciliation is what he "yearns for most".
The biography reveals the troubled relationships which Morpurgo has with his children and which have yet to be repaired.
Although his daughter was interviewed for the book both of her brothers declined any involvement and in the biographer's list of acknowledgments they are conspicuous by their absence.
Although Morpurgo has a close relationship with all six of his grandchildren,(there is a lovely photo of them together in the book), the biography reveals that his troubled relationship with his sons remains a source of regret which, he says in the book, "lasts longer than any kind of pleasure that comes from success."
The book describes how in 1975, his children were then 12, nine and eight, Morpurgo and his wife Clare,(who by the way is the eldest daughter of Penguin Books founder, the late Sir Allen Lane, but that is another whole strand in the book that I could discuss at length), moved to a 50 acre farm, Nethercott House, in Devon where they set up a charity,Farms for City Children, which provided city children with the opportunity to experience life on a farm for a week.
Working three seven-day weeks in a row before taking a weekend off, the couple channelled huge energy into looking after the visiting city kids so that they were unable to fully devote themselves to their own family.This and being sent away to boarding schools may be behind the subsequent difficulties between the father and sons. He also had a rather difficult upbringing himself not getting to know his birth father until he was almost an adult.
I should mention that the Morpurgo's farm experience for city kids charity has been most successful and there are now properties in Gloucestershire and Wales with a fourth planned for Scotland. Princess Anne is its patron. They are justly proud of it.
Biographer, Maggie Fergusson is Director of the Royal Society of Literarure and a literary editor. She has previously written a well-received biography of the poet George Mackay Brown.
In this biography she and her subject employ a technique I have not come across before – at the end of each section of the book Michael Morpurgo responds to it with a new piece of fiction so you get a biography and seven previously unpublished short stories. I found it appealing although occasionally distracting.
Clearly Maggie Fergusson has got to know her subject well and seems to like him but the book is no hagiography – Morpurgo is a really complex man with many moods and outbursts recounted – "the colour of your shirt is appalling", he snapped at a deeply embarrassed small girl, who's asked him a question about where his stories come from, after a reading at a school. I was appalled when I read this.
But the difficulties of his nature, the strength of his feelings, the complications of his upbringing, his charitable generosity, his wonderful and energetic work as Children's Laureate, along with a long and largely happy marriage, (they celebrate 50 years next year and Michael talks of having a church wedding to make up for the registry wedding of long ago, this because neither sets of parents approved and Clare was pregnant), are what make him and his writing so appealing and in particular the biography most entertaining and absorbing.
My only complaint? No index! Unforgiveable in a major non-fiction work.
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Ashton Wylie Book Award 2012 Finalists Announced
The New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc), in association with the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust, is delighted to announce the seven finalists for the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award. The Book Award offers one of the largest monetary prizes for literature in the country with an award of $10,000 for a published work which embodies the mind, body, spirit genre.
Maggie Tarver, Chief Executive Officer for the NZSA, says the Book Awards always attracts an impressive number of entries and 2012 was no exception.
"The Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Literature Awards attracts much interest from the literary community and we have received over 50 entries in the published book category," says Ms Tarver.
The Book Award finalists are:
Robin Kelly – The Human Hologram
Bernadette Logue – Pinch Me – How Following the Signals Changed My Life
Alan Dawe – The God Franchise
Keith Hill – Secular Spirituality
Martin Herbertson – The Sleeping Messiah
Glenys-Kay O'Byrne – Metaphysics 101: Buckle Up For The Wildest Ride of Your Life
Cliff Harvey – Time Rich, Cash Optional : An Unconventional Guide To Happiness
The Ashton Wylie Children's Book Award 2012 was run for the first time this year but the selection panel elected not to declare finalists or a winner for this award. However an award of merit has been given to Marnie Anstis for "The Millennium Tree."
The award winners will be announced in a ceremony at the Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust's own venue, the Hopetoun Alpha in Auckland on Friday 24 August 2012. A day of Children's Writing Workshops will follow on 25th August featuring Joy Cowley, Martin Taylor, Maria Gill and Sandra Morris. For booking information contact www.awct.org.nz
Construction begins on new Wellsford Library
Auckland City Libraries News
Construction on a new Wellsford War Memorial Library is underway. We expect the building to be complete by late April 2013, with the opening of the new library planned for early June 2013.
The new Wellsford War Memorial Library will be a purpose-built public library for the local community. It is being built in the War Memorial Park in Wellsford, adjacent to the Albertland and Districts Museum.
The new library development will include an upgraded and expanded car park for both the library and the museum and relocation of the helipad. The plaza that will connect the two buildings is designed as an entry court for both library and museum, and will be an attractive open space.
The park's war memorial gates and flagpole will be repositioned in the plaza, giving a generous setting for ANZAC day commemorations.
Local artists from Te Hana are working with the project team to integrate artworks and design elements into the building that reflect Wellsford's historic connection with the Kaipara Harbour.
The future use of the original library building has not yet been decided.
Once complete, the new library will be five times the size of the existing library, and will offer more space for reading, study, events like story time for children and book groups for adults, meeting space and room for more book collections.
It will have dedicated areas for children, teenagers and adults; space where digital media can be watched, listened to and enjoyed; enough room for growing library collections and a public meeting room. WiFi and more public computers will also be available.
Auckland City Libraries website.
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The Book We're Talking About This Week
"The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code"
Little, Brown - US$25.99
The story of DNA, and the scientists who discovered what we know about it. The book is written in a very informal tone, sharing incredible tales of our own existence woven in with gossip about the people who first told them.
Why are we talking about it?
Public interest in genetics has reached an all-time high, as advances in gene-based medicine and detailed DNA sequencing hits the headlines. Kean's book, which is getting an initial print run of 75,000 copies, promises to be this summer's must-read nonfiction book. Plus, it's fun to read.
Sam Kean is a writer based in Washington, DC. His first book, The Disappearing Spoon, was about the history of the periodic table, and was a bestseller.
Who will read it?
Fans of Bill Bryson, Radiolab, readers of Mental Floss; people who might otherwise have picked up Jonah Lehrer's book.
What do the reviewers say?
Click here to read the rest of this article.
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Harry Benson, The Beatles, Collector's Edition
Published: July 2012
New Zealand Price: price on application
Hardcover in a clamshell box, 440 x 312 mm, 272 pages; Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
Collector's Edition of 1,764 numbered copies, signed by the photographer.
Published by TASCHEN and distributed in New Zealand by New Holland Publishers
The Fab Five: Behind Beatlemania
These photos convey a really happy period for them and for me. It all comes down to music, they were without a doubt the greatest band of the 20th century, and that's why these photographs are so important. – Harry Benson, 2012
In early 1964, Harry Benson was getting on a plane for a foreign assignment in Africa, when he got a call from the photo editor of London newspaper The Daily Express. He was now going with The Beatles to Paris to document French Beatlemania and what followed was the biggest (ticket to) ride of his life.
Benson was warmly welcomed into The Beatles' inner sanctum, resulting in some of the most intimate photographs ever taken of the band, then on the cusp of world domination. In Paris, he took the famous photograph of the Fab Four having a pillow fight at the George V Hotel; he shot their groundbreaking first visit to the United States, the full impact of New York hysteria, their famous appearance on The Ed Sullivan show, the band in Florida, including their surprising encounter with Cassius Clay; as well as on the set of A Hard Day's Night. The relationship continued in 1966, including George's honeymoon in Barbados and their notorious US tour, under the shadow cast by Lennon's comment that the Beatles were "bigger than Jesus Christ."
Benson's luminous black and white photographs show at close quarters The Beatles composing, performing, encountering their fans, relaxing, and engaging with each other, while trying to cope with their increasingly isolating fame. In addition to hundreds of photographs, many previously unseen, there is an introductory essay by Benson as well as quotes and newspaper clippings from the period.
The photographer:
Glasgow-born Harry Benson has photographed every US President since Eisenhower, the Civil Rights movement, and was next to Robert Kennedy when he was assassinated. As well as The Beatles, he has shot some of the biggest personalities of the last 50 years, including Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Her Majesty The Queen. In 2009, he was made Commander of the British Empire (CBE).
The Beatles is Taschen's 1000th title. Congratulations Taschen.
YA author Inks Erotica Book Deal
By Maryann Yin on Galley Cat, July 30, 2012
YA author Andrea Cremer has landed a book deal with Penguin Group (USA)'s Dutton imprint to write an erotica trilogy for adults. The not-yet-titled first book will be available in October 2013.
Cremer established her career as a YA author with the Nightshade trilogy, a fantasy series starring teen werewolves. The new adult books will be set in this Nightshade universe.
According to Publisher's Weekly, Dutton publisher Brian Tart negotiated the deal with InkWell Management literary agents Richard Pine and Charlie Olsen. Associate editor Jessica Horvath will edit the books.
Fan fiction writers have certainly been known to add an erotic spin to some of their favorite books. What do you think?
Philomel Books, an imprint at Penguin Young Readers Group, published all three original Nightshade books. In August, Cremer will release a Nightshade prequel called Rift. A second prequel called Rise will follow in summer 2013. Prior to her full-time writing career, Cremer worked as a history professor. (Photo Credit: Gina Monroe)
Don Donovan's World
Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author - 31 July 2012
Great Works Re-visited 65.
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donovan@ihug.co.nz
The 10 best… closing lines of books
The most memorable literary payoffs, from the chilling to the poetic
Robert McCrum - The Observer, Sunday 29 July 2012
English novelist and critic Virginia Woolf: good with a decisive ending. Photograph: George C. Beresford/Getty Images
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Fitzgerald hypnotises successive generations of readers with this tale. Nick Carraway's signing off after the death of Gatsby is my favourite last line in the Anglo-American tradition – resonant, memorable and profound. It hovers between poetry and the vernacular and is the magnificent chord, in a minor key, which brings this 20th-century masterpiece to a close. Somehow, it sums up the novel completely, in tone as much as meaning, while giving the reader a way out into the drabber, duller world of everyday reality.
Ulysses by James Joyce
"I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another… then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes."
Joyce is the master of the closing line and this is his most famous and most suggestive. Compare it with the end of The Dead, his short story that concludes Dubliners: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
Middlemarch by George Eliot
"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
Middlemarch is many readers' favourite Eliot novel, with so many quotable passages. This passage is almost a credo – a lovely, valedictory celebration of Dorothea's quiet life, after she has renounced Casaubon's fortune and confessed her love for Ladislaw.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky – seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness."
Conrad's merciless short novel (fewer than 40,000 words) opens on the Thames and ends there, too. The last line of Marlowe's astounding confession is an admission of his complicity in the terrible events he has just described as a reluctant witness. It also executes a highly effective narrative diminuendo in an extraordinary fictional nightmare. Compare George Orwell's chilling return to the status quo in another nightmare, Nineteen Eighty Four: "He loved Big Brother."
Read the rest at The Guardian.
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Self-Published Bestsellers List for July 30, 2012
By Jason Boog on Galley Cat, July 30, 2012
Erotica author Sara Fawkes climbed our Self-Published Bestsellers List this week with her new book, Anything He Wants 4: Collateral Damage. The release also drove sales of the first book in the series.
To help GalleyCat readers discover self-published authors, we have compiled lists of the top eBooks in three major marketplaces for self-published digital books: Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords.
We update these lists every week, tracking how writers perform inside these booming marketplaces.
You can read all the lists below, complete with links to each book.
If you are an author, check out our Free Sites to Promote Your eBook post and our How To Sell Your Self-Published Book in Bookstores post.
Amazon Self-Published Bestsellers for Week of July 23, 2012
(Last week's rank in parentheses)
1. Slammed by Colleen Hoover: "Following the unexpected death of her father, 18-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she's losing hope." (2)
2. Our Husband by Stephanie Bond: "Three women from different walks of life–a doctor, a socialite, and a stripper–find out they have one thing in common: a husband!" (6)
3. Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover: "Layken and Will's relationship persevered through hardships, heartache and a cruel twist of fate, further solidifying the fact that they belong together." (8)
4. Anything He Wants by Sara Fawkes: "Lucy Delacourt's temp position isn't quite her dream job but it pays the bills…barely. The highlight of her day is riding the elevator in the mornings: she always manages to time it so that she sees the handsome stranger every day." (9)
5. Anything He Wants 4: Collateral Damage by Sara Fawkes: "When Lucy Delacourt signed a contract with Jeremiah Hamilton, she had no idea she'd be caught up in an assassination plot against the billionaire." (-)
6. Training Tessa by Lyla Sinclair: "Tessa Greer is so desperate for work she leaves Michigan and travels to Houston. She's thrilled to land the 'Receptionist Plus' position at Maddox Brothers Inc. Now she can continue to pay the bills for her mentally ill mother's care facility." (10)
7. A Deadly Blessing by Kathy Bennett: "The critically ill daughter of the governor of California has been kidnapped. LAPD Detective Maddie Divine is assigned to find her before it's too late. But this high-profile case comes with secrets on every side: cops, politicians, even the innocent." (-)
8. Love Unscripted by Tina Reber: "Ryan Christensen [is] the most sought after film star on the planet. Taryn Mitchell has been feigning contentment while running the family pub. Her peaceful life is tossed upside down when Ryan [takes] a shortcut through Mitchell's Pub." (-)
9. Easy by Tammara Webber: "A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion. A boy who believes truth is relative, lies can mask unbearable pain, and guilt is eternal. Will what they find in each other validate their conclusions, or disprove them all?" (-)
10. Bedding the Billionaire by Ruth Cardello: "Lil Dartley's life is upside down. Her previously steadfast and predictable sister is marrying an influential billionaire and needs help planning the wedding of the century in less than a month." (-)
Barnes & Noble Self-Published eBook Bestsellers for Week of July 30, 2012
1. Weekends Required by Sydney Landon
2. Slammed by Colleen Hoover
3. Not Planning on You by Sydney Landon
4. Ryan's Return (3/5/2011) by Barbara Freethy
5. Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover
6. For His Honor by Kelly Favor
7. Reason to Breathe by Rebecca Donovan
8. Sand Castles by Antoinette Stockenberg
9. Ecstasy by Bella Andre
10. For His Pleasure by Kelly Favor
Smashwords eBook Bestsellers for Week of July 30, 2012
1. Wisdom by Amanda Hocking
2. The Last Shaman by William Whitecloud
3. Fairest by Chanda Hahn
4. Bedding the Billionaire by Ruth Cardello
6. The Great Convergence by Joseph Lallo
7. The Battle of Verril by Joseph Lallo
8. The Phoenix Rising by Richard L. Sanders
10. The Grey God by Lizzy Ford
These three eBook lists were recorded on Monday, July 30, 2012.
For the Amazon list, we found the highest ranked self-published bestsellers in Amazon's Top 100 Paid Kindle Books list. For the Barnes & Noble list, we highlighted the bestselling PubIt! eBooks from self-published authors. Finally, the Smashwords list was drawn from the bestselling titles in the company's fiction list. None of these companies have released actual sales figures for the individual books.
If you believe your book should (or should not) be included in our rankings, feel free to email GalleyCat with your concerns. Our list will not include writers attempting to game the system by using the names of famous authors. (Image via Horia Varlan)
Hobbit's tale grows in the filming
Tom Cardy - stuff.co.nz - 31/07/2012
More filming for The Hobbit will be done in Wellington after Sir Peter Jackson confirmed the movie will be split into three.
The film-maker today announced plans for the third film, with more shooting for the US$500 million (NZ$639m) project planned in the capital next year. The third, as-yet-unnamed part will be released in mid-2014.
Jackson said the decision to the turn the two-part film into a trilogy was based on "the richness of the story of The Hobbit, as well as some related material in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings".
Full story at stuff.co.nz
While Galley Cat saw it this way:
Peter Jackson Makes The Hobbit a Trilogy
By Maryann Yin -Galley Cat - July 30, 2012
Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson revealed today that his adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit adaptation will be a trilogy.
Here's more from the director:
We were really pleased with the way the story was coming together, in particular, the strength of the characters and the cast who have brought them to life. All of which gave rise to a simple question: do we take this chance to tell more of the tale? And the answer from our perspective as the filmmakers, and as fans, was an unreserved 'yes.' We know how much of the story of Bilbo Baggins, the Wizard Gandalf, the Dwarves of Erebor, the rise of the Necromancer, and the Battle of Dol Guldur will remain untold if we do not take this chance.
Jackson discussed his upcoming film adaptation of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at San Diego Comic-Con.
The Wall Street Journal reported that convention attendees received a 12 minute-preview of both Hobbit movies which included scenes that featured "Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), royal elf Galadriel (Cate Blanchett), 13 dwarves and the ring-obsessed creature Gollum (Andy Serkis, who also served as the production's second unit director)."
Check out this photo album to view pictures from the event. So far, New Line Cinema has uploaded seven behind-the-scenes video blogs on The Hobbit's official Facebook page.
Jonah Lehrer Resigns After Fabricating Bob Dylan Quotes For Book
Posted: 07/30/2012 - HuffPost
Jonah Lehrer resigned from the New Yorker on Monday, after admitting that he fabricated Bob Dylan quotes for his bestselling book "Imagine."
On Monday, The Tablet's Michael Moynihan reported that he questioned Lehrer about several quotes that he could not verify. When confronted with the piece, Lehrer confirmed that he made up quotes up.
The allegations surfaced just over a month after Lehrer was found guilty of recycling his own work. At the time, he apologized and the New Yorker assured readers that Lehrer made a "mistake" that he would not make again.
The newest allegations prompted Lehrer to apologize and resign from his job as a staff writer at the New Yorker on Monday. "The quotes in question either did not exist, were unintentional misquotations, or represented improper combinations of previously existing quotes," he admitted. "But I told Mr. Moynihan that they were from archival interview footage provided to me by Dylan's representatives."
Click over to the New York Times for the full text of Lehrer's statement. Julie Bosman reported that New Yorker editor David Remnick issued this statement about the scandal: "This is a terrifically sad situation, but, in the end, what is most important is the integrity of what we publish and what we stand for."
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will be stopping shipments of "Imagine" and taking the e-book off the market while it determines how to handle the book going forward.
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My topic today is Perfume, if I make one point in this post is that less is better. There is nothing worse than someone over spraying their favorite celebrity scent and making everyone around them gag for fresh air. I don't know what is worse, BO or a perfume overdose. I actually had to change seats in a theater because an older woman held her finger down too long on the perfume spray (I think woman over 60 are one of the biggest culprits of this crime…not to mention their poor choice of scents). I remember this woman I did not particularly like wore Angel so now every time I smell that I just get bad memories…smelly by association! And please, when going on job interviews…just opt of deodorant that day. I also think Calvin Klein is pulling something over on us, I swear every one of his scents smell the same with just name and bottle changes.
Do you know the first celebrity to have their own scent…in 1980 Sophia Loren came out with Sophia followed by Forever Krystle in 1984 by Linda Evans and next in 1988…the BEST one yet was Uninhibited by…you guessed it…CHER (yes, I did own it). It seems as if every celebrity is putting their name on a bottle now. Why did it seem glamorous back in the 80's but now does not seem as vogue when Paris Hilton is on a box called Fairy Dust…there is no comparison.
Just remember, dab a little of your scent on either the backs of your knees, across your abdomen, in the cleavage area, on your wrists or your neck and the heat from your body will release the scent when you need it the most. You want to leave a mmmmm impression…not an ewwwwww memory!


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