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News and treats! </h2><!-- .entry-title --> 235 </header> 236 237 238 239 <div class="entry-meta-bar clearfix"> 240 <div class="entry-meta"> 241 <span class="author"><a href="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/author/admin/">Grigory Ryzhakov</a></span> 242 <span class="date"><a href="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/merry-christmas-news-and-treats/" title="23:33">24 Dec 2016</a></span> 243 <span class="category"><a href="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/category/books-2/" rel="category tag">Books</a>, <a href="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/category/music-2/" rel="category tag">Music</a>, <a href="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/category/science/" rel="category tag">Science</a></span> 244 <span class="comments"><a href="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/merry-christmas-news-and-treats/#respond"><span class="dsq-postid" data-dsqidentifier="3594 http://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/?p=3594">No Comments</span></a></span> 245 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 246 </div> 247 248 249 250 <div class="entry-content clearfix"> 251 <p><img decoding="async" class="alignleft size-large wp-image-3595" src="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-24-at-22.47.58-785x519.png" alt="all my books are on sale - 99p -
251only this holiday season" width="700" height="463" srcset="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-24-at-22.47.58-785x519.png 785w, https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-24-at-22.47.58-300x198.png 300w, https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-24-at-22.47.58-768x508.png 768w, https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-24-at-22.47.58.png 1172w" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" /></p> 252<p>Hello, my dear friends!</p> 253<p>It’s time to wish you a merry Christmas. I hope you’ll have an amazing year ahead of you, may it bring you happiness, success and well-being. You deserve it!</p> 254<p>To start out with the festive season, I’ve released a new annual Xmas song for your appreciation called Christmas Lights. It’s out on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/grishamcarrow/christmas-lights">Soundcloud</a>, also on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/christmas-lights-single/id1183701080">iTunes </a>(and Apple Music) and <a href="https://play.spotify.com/album/0o9KF0m5HxB0ecFzV2nh7i?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open">Spotify</a>.</p> 255<p><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/296322404&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" frameborder="no" scrolling="no"></iframe></p> 256<p>Plus, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007SXW2QC">all my books on Kindle</a> are now on sale throughout this holiday season. If you like quirky and funny stories, take a look.</p> 257<p>Also, my dear editor Steph has recently published a Xmas romcom called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fa-Llama-Stephanie-Dagg-ebook/dp/B01MF7F813/">Fa-La-Llama-La</a>, which I’ve enjoyed reading immensely. Can’t recommend it enough!</p> 258<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3599 aligncenter" src="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/falallamala-785x972.png" alt="falallamala" width="436" height="540" srcset="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/falallamala-785x972.png 785w, https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/falallamala-242x300.png 242w, https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/falallamala-768x951.png 768w, https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/falallamala.png 1005w" sizes="(max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px" /></p> 259<p>I’ve been busy not just with music or books, as you might have noticed my silence and the never-updated blog, I mainly focused on my biological studies and was awarded with a big discovery, which deals with a novel gene that regulates our immunity. I now need to understand better what it means, but I’ll tell you all about it when I’ll publish it next year hopefully.</p> 260<p>Enjoy your holidays, folks!</p> 261<div style="clear:both;"></div><div class="header_text" style="text-align:"><h3>Share</h3></div><div name="#" class="buttons_share" style="text-align:left; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:5px;"> 262<!--Start Share Buttons http://sbuttons.ru --> 263<div class='facebook-button'> 264<noindex><a rel='nofollow' title='Share to Facebook' href="#facebook" name="facebook" onclick="new_window('http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/merry-christmas-news-and-treats/');"><img src='https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/share-buttons/images/social/original_count/facebook_en.png' alt='Share to Facebook'/></a></noindex> 265</div> 266<div class='googleplus-button'> 267<noindex><g:plusone size="medium" href="https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/merry-christmas-news-and-treats/"></g:plusone></noindex> 268</div> 269<div class='livejournal-button'> 270<noindex><a rel='nofollow' title='Share to LiveJournal' href="http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml?event=https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/merry-christmas-news-and-treats/&subject=MERRY CHRISTMAS! News and treats!" target="_blank" name ="livejournal"/><img src='https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/share-buttons/images/social/original_count/livejournal.png' /></a></noindex> 271</div> 272<div class='twitter-button'> 273<noindex><a rel='nofollow' title='Share to Twitter' href='http://twitter.com/share' data-url='https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/merry-christmas-news-and-treats/' data-text='MERRY CHRISTMAS! News and treats!' class='twitter-share-button' data-count='horizontal' data-via='GrigoryRyzhakov'>Tweet</a></noindex> 274</div> 275<!--End Share Buttons http://sbuttons.ru --> 276 277</div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div style="clear:both;"></div><div name="#" class="buttons_share" style="float:left;"> 278<div class="facebook_like"> 279<div id="fb-root"></div>
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800<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/checkboxradio.min.js?ver=1.13.2' id='jquery-ui-checkboxradio-js'></script>
vendor: 1 bytes, line 800
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801<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/button.min.js?ver=1.13.2' id='jquery-ui-button-js'></script>
vendor: 1 bytes, line 801
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802<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui/dialog.min.js?ver=1.13.2' id='jquery-ui-dialog-js'></script>
vendor: 1 bytes, line 802
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803<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-includes/js/comment-reply.min.js?ver=6.2.13' id='comment-reply-js'></script>
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804<script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.ryzhakov.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-spamshield/js/jscripts-ftr-min.js' id='wpss-jscripts-ftr-js'></script>
804 805<!-- Facebook Comments Plugin for WordPress: http://peadig.com/wordpress-plugins/facebook-comments/ --> 806<div id="fb-root"></div>
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813 814 815</body> 816</html>
Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.