Northside Life

June 2010

Northside Life A Lifestyle Magazine Distributed free in North Sheffield

To advertise please Tel: 0114 2464734 Cover Photo by Paul Cornthwaite Visit us online at www.northsidelife.co.uk

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Northside Life Welcome to the newly branded Northside Life magazine, featuring many local advertisers. All offering especially good value and exceptional quality right on your doorstep.

Northside Life is the free lifestyle magazine with a regular distribution of very high quality magazines direct to local consumers.

In addition to independent local interest articles in Northside Life, we have nationally sourced features on various lifestyle topics; fashion, interiors, gardening and computing plus many more.

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There will be a regular monthly crossword and sudoku puzzle also an updated directory of essential contacts upcoming local events will also be included. We have not forgotten the kids, there will be a Kids Corner and Maisie our little dog is still going missing, so there will be a chance to win a cash prize for whoever finds her in the magazine.

We welcome any contribution to the magazine i.e. recipes, gardening tips, or memories of bygone days. If anyone has a special anniversary i.e. silver, ruby, gold or diamond, let us know and we will feature you in the magazine.

Inside This Month

Please mention Northside Life when contacting our growing band of advertisers, they are right on your doorstep offering you best value products and services; keen prices and sensible honest advice with excellent service

Page 8 Garden View

Page 4 Protect Yourself

Page 10 Puzzles Page 12 Healthcare Page 14 Retirement

In the meantime very best regards

Page 15 Puzzle Solutions

Mel Hodgson Publisher: Northside Life Mel Hodgson - Editor Editorial: 0114 2464734 Advertising: 0114 2464734 Email: info@northsidelife.co.uk www.northsidelife.co.uk

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Protect Yourself!

It’s not just our children we need to worry about. Adults can fall victim too.

Hands up who worries that their teenager might be at risk from potential child abusers when they go online.

connection. However, the owner of the apartment in question turned out to be an elderly lady with an open Wi-Fi connection which covered ten storeys of her building.

It’s a valid concern but did you know that we adults are also at risk from those same offenders?

In this instance the police had to drop the investigation but it begs the question: what if she hadn’t been an elderly lady but a single, middle-aged man? Wi-Fi piggybacking raises the real prospect of someone being investigated or even convicted of a crime committed via their internet connection of which they are entirely innocent. Even if the police can separate the crime from the connectionowner the mere threat of police scrutiny can have devastating consequences: people have committed suicide while being investigated for such offences.

In the early days of the internet people, including potential offenders, believed the web offered complete anonymity. Those days are gone. High profile celebrity prosecutions have ensured that paedophiles now make every effort to conceal their identity.

Activity on home internet accounts is easy to trace and no offender wants to lead the police straight to their front door so they develop ways to cover their tracks and one of the latest is ‘piggybacking’. This is the unauthorised use of another person’s wireless broadband connection.

Piggybacking masks the identity of an offender. They can download or distribute offensive, illegal material via an unsecured Wi-Fi connection without having to register a service in their own name. Worryingly that unsecured Wi-Fi connection may be yours.

Take a look at your Wi-Fi connection.

Does it use WPA (wireless protected access) encryption or the older, hackable, WEP (wired equivalent privacy)? Is it password protected? Both the connection and the router should be protected and the passwords should be strong: a random series of letters and numbers is the most difficult type of password to hack. Hide the router’s SSID (service set identifier) to minimise the chance of it being compromised. Finally, if you suspect your connection has been violated, report it.

A staggering one in six Wi-Fi connections in the UK is left unprotected and this opens the way for abuse to occur. The Washington Post recently reported such a case in the US. Police arrived with a warrant at an apartment block in Arlington County, Virginia. They were there to arrest a man suspected of distributing child pornography via his internet

By protecting ourselves we make it more difficult for those who want to harm our children which can only be a good thing.

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Garden View This month - Turning Japanese...

Japanese Maples are surely one of the most beautiful trees. They produce the wonderful foliage in a variety of colours.

Add to this the fact that they never become too large and you have a tree which could have been specifically designed for small suburban plots.

Acers do prefer a rich, slightly acidic soil, but fortunately for those of us with lessthan-perfect growing conditions many varieties grow well in pots.

Acer palmatum “Little Princess” would be my first choice. It is such a pretty plant with small, bright green leaves edged with deep red. Being a dwarf variety it will only reach 1.5m / 5 ft and it produces a lovely display of red foliage in the autumn as a bonus.

Acer palmatum is the base variety. It’s a handsome enough small tree with neatly cut green leaves, but the ‘wow’ factor really sets in when we get to some of its varieties.

To grow a Japanese Maple in a pot use a large container and a John Innes No.2 potting compost.

My favourite is “Atropurpureum”. It is an elegant tree which only reaches 10 feet / 3m tall in 15 years. Its leaves are crimson when they open then turn a rich shade of burgundy as they mature. It’s beautiful in any position but for maximum impact plant it where you will see the sun shine through the leaves.

Every spring remove the top few inches of compost and replace it with fresh. This top-dressing will ensure that the plant stays healthy and vigorous.

All maples prefer shelter. Persistent cold winds dry the leaves and turn them brown. They are also quite thirsty plants and it is important not to let the roots dry out.

The feathery-leaved varieties are also stunning. Their slightly weeping habit gives them a graceful appearance.

“Dissectum” is plain green, while “Dissectum Atropurpureum” is a dusky plum colour.

Really, in spite of their exotic appearance they are not at all tricky to grow, and they lend an air of elegant sophistication to any garden. Try one as a specimen plant and I’m betting that you’ll add another soon after...and another...

For full sun Acer palmatum “Bloodgood” holds the red colour of its leaves best.

For a shadier spot try the more delicate “Orange Dream” which opens with fresh yellow-orange spring growth and turns lime green in summer.

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Clues

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Fill in the grid so that each row, colum n and 3x3 box, contains the numbers 1 through to 9 with no repetition.

You don’t need to be a genius. These puzzles use logic alone.

Watch out! Sudoku is highly addictive.

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Chapeltown Surgery 11,Ecclesfield Road Chapeltown Tel:0845 124 3367

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Chiropodists Lloyds Pharmacy Thompson Hill High Green Tel:0114 284 8219

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Retirement?

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By Christine Harris over the years and moves which will you might not feel ready to step out of help you feel more confident and in working life entirely. If the calendar says control. one thing but your heart and mind There are many ways to research disagrees, what should you do? information about employment. The Don’t despair, there are in excess of library and your local college are good 1.3m pensioners still working. We starting points. Libraries often have represent 11% of the total workforce, computer terminals available for public and prove that many companies use, and some run courses if your PC recognise our value, and that figure is skills need polishing. still rising. No surprise then that the When you get an interview: Government has been pressured into Be positive Stress the good reputation bringing forward its review on the of the firm plus other positive working age limit. information.

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