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Representing and publishing news from the best established and emerging Urban gospel scene in the UK
'...There was a lot of energy and life - but it seems to have gone quiet now..'
While God does awesome things in China, Brazil, and a dozen other places, the West usually talks of "the Church" in terms of the UK or the US. And the Christian music scene, be it CCM/Pop or 'Urban' Gospel is no different.
A trawl through the Christian bookshop racks will reveal very, very little music that doesn't come from the UK, USA or Australia. In fact, we've been so indoctrinated, many of us sincerely believe America is the only place in the world where you can find gospel music.
Well, Americans may have coined the 'gospel music' phrase; they may also have built it into a multi-million dollar industry, but the concept of singing songs to or about God existed long before America did (see Psalm 150), and is not restricted to any one nationality or musical style.
- Music news
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One of George Luke's many media specialisms is perhaps best described as 'international gospel'. In addition to him reporting on all the local and US names you're probably familiar with, he has a particular passion for charting the growth of gospel music in far flung places.
Through the Global Warming series, he'll be bringing news of the global gospel industry, stopping on all of the continents, typically outside the more familiar US scene.
Prepare to read about the Latino gospel explosion, the rhythmic expressions of Africa and the strains of European and Middle Eastern worship music.
As a regular visitor to quite a few of these locations, George's reports are typically first-hand views, recollections and opinions. And even more good news: UKGospel.com's Global Warming is actually good for the planet. The gospel beat - as it were - is turning up the heat, and we're gonna be reporting on it.
Take it away George...
In true 21st Centrury style, George evolves the series by moving from text-based features to podcasts. The good news for you is that you now get to actually hear the music he's writing about...
Global Warming 1 - The Introduction: George sets out his stall for the series and observes how the church sometimes lags behind the mainstream in exploring international music. (Coming soon)
Global Warming 2 - Salsa! El Ritmo Caliente (the hot rhythm): George unearths the Christian Salsa music scene in Latin America. (Coming soon)
Global Warming 3 - Gospel from East Africa: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. George speaks to East African artists about their experiences both in their home countries and even here in the UK. (Coming soon)
Global Warming 4 - The Original Sound of America. Christianity hasn't got the best historical track record in parts of Native America. George explores how some of the US's first citizens are taking the faith back to the reservations.
Global Warming 5 - Praise Under Pressure. Looking at the persecuted church across the world and the activity of Christians under extremely difficult conditions. (Coming soon)
Global Warming 6 - Winter Warmers. Jack Frost rules in the UK, and George pulls out a few tunes that help through those short, cold days and long dark nights. (Coming soon)
Global Warming 7 - Home Stories. George returns home to Sierra Leone for the first time in a long time, and speaks to people who have just come out of civil war, and he looks at the role of gospel music as Sierra Leone rebuils itself.
Global Warming 8 - ARK stories. So what's the most difficult thing you have to do today? Does it include a 3-hour canoe ride to school...? George talks to George and Lucy Mhondera about their work for the Amazon River Kids charity in the Amazon jungle of South America. (Coming soon)
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All over Africa (and beyond), Congolese Soukous music rules.
It's catchy and highly danceable… and many fans would be surprised to discover that there's often a Gospel message under those nifty guitar solos and dancey grooves.
George discovers the high-energy side of Congolese gospel music, and chats with, Kanda Bongo Man, one of the legends of Soukous music.
Born in the nightclubs of 1960s New York, Salsa music is Latin America's most popular musical export.
In this podcast, George talks to some of the artists bringing El Sabor Latino (the Latin flavour) to gospel music – including legendary 'King of Salsa' Richie Ray, and popular Contemporary Christian Music acts Salvador and Jaci Velasquez (pictured with George).
George discovers the popular gospel acts in the southern African kingdom...
And while he was there he also checked out a Kenyan gospel track being used to raise awareness of preventable blindness in Africa.
Every year, thousands of schoolkids across the UK fill shoeboxes up with toys and all sorts of goodies.
The charity Operation Christmas Child (OCC) then distributes those shoeboxes to needy children in parts of Africa and Eastern Europe.
George Luke accompanied a team of people who are usually involved in getting the shoeboxes together, to report on what happened as they saw the gifts being distributed in Swaziland. "It was a profoundly moving experience," said George.
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Are You Working In The Business or Working On The Business?
If you are an entrepreneur and trying to go it alone, think again. You may have a great idea, an innovative product and a business strategy but before long you, too, will discover that these assets aren't enough to sustain your business for the long haul.
As an entrepreneur, it is easy to get caught up in the day-to-day tumult of running a business and you may find yourself falling into the trap of the entrepreneur's curse: You spend almost all your time working in the business and not enough time working on the business or yourself and your own development.
If you want to be successful, you are going to need mentors. That's right, multiple mentors. And, here is why. No one mentor can be all-wise and fulfill your needs for all things at all times.
Being an entrepreneur requires knowledge, competency, confidence and business savvy. It is not rocket science but it does require more than common sense. And, it requires making the time to work on your own development and the development of your business.
How do you get started?
Recognize that earning involves learning and that to grow your business you are going to need to grow yourself.
• Where would you like your business to be in the next (fill in the blank) years?
• Where are you now?
• What are the gaps?
• What are the challenges?
• What do we need to learn to fill the gaps and overcome the challenges?
Look in the mirror. Ask yourself:
• What are my challenges as a business owner?
• What competencies and capabilities will I need in order to grow my business?
• What do I need to learn?
• How can a mentor help me?
Where do you look to find mentors?
• The answer is everywhere. Keep your eyes open. Investigate what is available in your community: Chambers of Commerce, Small Business Associations, SCORE, Leadership Forums. These are good starting points for finding mentors. They will also give you exposure to experienced and successful business owners that in turn can create other business networks for you.
Use your current network to reach out to new networks. Look for successful entrepreneurs to network with who have achieved what you hope to achieve. Join networking clubs and associations related to your business. Look for entrepreneurs who demonstrate the competencies and capabilities you would like to develop. Follow up with people you meet; they know people who know people. And don't forget to stay in touch with people even if they can't help you immediately.
How do I know if I've found the right mentor?
• Will this person challenge and encourage you to raise the bar for myself and my business?
• Does this person have a sincere desire and willingness to mentor, and the knowledge and expertise I need?
• Is there a good learning fit between what I need and what this person has to share?
• Will this person have sufficient time to mentor me?
• Is this someone I would want to spend time with?
• Will I feel comfortable learning and interacting with this person?
If you are not working on your business, your business will be working on you. Who are your mentors?
Lois Zachary is the President of Leadership Development Services, LLC. and an international expert on mentoring and leadership development. She has written several books on mentoring. The newest one is The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships. Other books include Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization's Guide, and The Mentee's Guide: Making Mentoring Work for You.


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Foodgasm Factor 4 :: Broke Factor 4 :: Repeat Factor 6
This wasn't our first time here. Apparently it was our fourth, although I only remember three. It came highly recommended by a dear friend some time ago.
On this day, we stopped by on our way to a vineyard in Litchfield (Sunset Meadow — I highly recommend it). It was our last full day before The Kid came home from her mission trip so we wanted to get in another date.
The White Horse Country Pub is good. It's a decent place that seems to be reliable. It sits along this body of water they call a river but looks more like a creek on steroids.
There are two outside patios, one off the restaurant area and one off the bar. The patios sit looking out over the river and is beautiful. The setting is tranquil.
There is a tall wooden wall that separates the diners from the parking lot and busy Rte 202. There are a few of those hot lamp things that keep you warm on cool days/evenings and a string of large bulbs hang from above. It looks like a great place to eat at night.
Inside, the restaurant and pub is rustic. It's a very quaint and fun atmosphere. The bar in the tavern is large and a big fireplace sits opposite it.
Any time I have gone by this place, the parking lot is full. It doesn't seem to matter what time of day it is. Good sign, right? Perhaps.
Everything seems to have their logo/name branded/stamped/etched into the sides. Wine glasses, beer mugs, pottery that holds bread. It's very charming. Just so you know, they give a generous pour of wine. Almost to the rim.
We were seated outside on the patio off the restaurant next to an older couple. They both had huge buckets of seafood in front of them. I looked and looked on the menu but couldn't find it. When our server came over (great service, by the way), I pointed to the couple and asked what that was.
"Oh, they must be regulars. That meal is only served at dinner, but I'm sure the chef will make it for you."
It is called the WHITE HORSE SEAFOOD BAKE and it consists of shrimp, clams, mussels, calimari, salmon, corn, onion, potatoes in a white wine sauce. I thought he said something about some kind of licorice liqueur but I didn't taste it.
It is served in a huge iron pot and a piece of branded pottery containing garlic bread accompanies it. He warned me that it was a lot of food for one person but I figured if two people who are at least 20 years older than I am can do it, so can I.
Ahhh. The excitement mounts.
DH ordered the BLT. A sandwich made of apple smoked bacon, fried tomato, greens and chipotle mayo on a baguette. This is served with a side of french fries.
It took a long time for our order to come. Probably because of my meal, I'm sure. I really don't mind waiting for a meal as long as the company is good and I have a full glass of wine, to which I had both.
When my food was finally placed in front of me, I thought "this is no problem, there isn't much food here." I quickly learned I was mistaken.
It was a damn bottomless pit. It was steaming hot, the heat being held in from the iron pot. I am not a fan of extremely hot food. I had to take a sip of water after each bite. I did burn my tongue. Several times. It was difficult to eat because although they do give you a galvanized steel bucket to put all your shells into, I really could have used a plate to dissect everything.
Everytime I dropped a piece of the seafood into the pot, the liquid would splash up and burn my neck or stain my clothes (even though it was a white wine sauce, there were tomatoes in there). I would highly recommend asking for a bib.
The mussels and clams were steamed almost perfectly. The salmon was thoroughly cooked, which is good for this situation. They could have been a little more generous with the potatoes, but they were so hot anyway, I had a hard time eating them.
After a very long time, so long that DH ordered a cocktail after he was finished with his meal (he thought his sandwich was okay…but remember, Mr. Picky), I was done. I'll have to remember to take a bite out of everything he orders, so I can pass on my findings. Be patient with me, I'm learning.
I finished the entire pot. And the broth was still steaming. I was full but was I satisfied? Eh. It was okay. I won't order it again. I had to really work at my meal. I don't really like to work that hard for a meal, unless it's lobster. And I wasn't impressed with the broth it sat in. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't to die for. I did not have a foodgasm.
The wine was average and DH's cosmo wasn't that great. It's a pub though. I'm sure they have a great beer list, but I'm not a beer drinker and DH really doesn't love beer either so there you have it.
If you go to their site, you will see all of the awards they have won. Lots and lots of awards. An entire page dedicated to their awards. So, you probably really can't go wrong.
I would go back again because of the atmosphere. The other items on the menu seem like they would be reliable and something you can count on being at least good.
I really want to go back for a burger. Their menu is quite extensive and there is something for everyone. Including the picky eaters in your family.
Also, it's really quite affordable. I didn't ask for the price of the seafood bake beforehand, but DH made a comment about how this lunch would probably be more expensive than the last lunch we had ($150? I didn't agree). We placed bets. I said my meal alone was $25. He thought it would be more than $50. We had three drinks (2 wines, 1 cocktail), no dessert and no appetizer.
The meal was about $56, with tip $67. My crockpot was only $21 (I won). It was a really great value for what I got. Overall, it was pricey for lunch, but that's not a fair statement because if I ordered the burger, it would have been much more reasonable. Also, it's probably not necessary to have two glasses of wine at lunch. But we're talking about me here.
The meal was decent, I didn't love it, I wouldn't order it again, it was a lot of work. But, you may feel differently so don't not get it on my account. That will totally make me feel bad.
Oh and by the way, when new people sat down at the table next to us, they wanted what I was having. Except the server said they can't make any more and that it's really for dinner. So, if you want that, go at dinnertime. I got lucky, I guess. Or not. I probably would have been happier with a cheeseburger.


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Trying to test out ability to write some custom map functions - am struggling a bit so far.
What's the best way to learn to debug or monitor these things?
Can anyone offer tips or best practices on debugging - others must have faced these things before.
Hi Jane,
Can you please post the Map UDF that you are working with?
I can give a few tips upfront.
Try to run the Map UDF outside Xcalar either in a notebook or a Terminal. If it fails to run on the target environment, it is most likely going to fail inside Xcalar.
Appropriate logging. Please note that the use of print() statement in python, for instance, can be buffered. I recommend you use a logger that uses "stderr". Here is an example Map UDF which is an example of Linear Regression. Note that I have added a main at the end which can be used to test the program. Please take a look at logger.info().
# Returns Exponential Weighted Moving Avg of winSize observations.
# Ref:
# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average#Exponential_moving_average
def ewma5(csvCol, winSize):
if winSize == 0:
return csvCol
row = csvCol.split(',')
q = [float(numStr) for numStr in row]
winSize = min(winSize, len(q))
result = ''
offset = 0
while offset < len(q):
p = []
for i in xrange(offset, min(offset+winSize, len(q))):
alpha = 2.0 / (winSize+1)
one_alpha = 1.0 - alpha
c = []
for i in xrange(0, len(p)-2):
if len(p) > 0:
numerator = p[0]
if len(p) > 1:
numerator = numerator + one_alpha*p[1]
for i in xrange(0, len(c)):
numerator = numerator + c[0]*p[2+i]
denom = 1 + one_alpha
for i in xrange(0, len(c)):
denom = denom + c[i]
myF = numerator / denom
result = result + str(round(myF, 3)) + ','
offset = offset + 1
return result[:-1]
if __name__ == "__main__":
inp = '1.3,2.4,5.7,8.2,9.7,11.4,13.6,21.4,24.2'
logger.info(ewma5(inp, 9))
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Having a child born in December is a tricky one for a mammy these days. I didn't realise it at the time but I certainly do now. This week I'm talking about the best age to send a child to school, namely Sarah. Should I send her to school at 4?Continue reading
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Junior Infants teachers – can we canonise them all?!
Let me set the scene. Picture 33 four and five-year-olds in the one room. The vast majority of them are giddy. They are not used to sitting down for prolonged periods. They are all probably talking over each other. To me it sounds like utter hell. However, that the reality for Aidan's Junior Infants teacher and Junior Infants teachers all over the country five days a week. And do you know what, the woman that teachers my fella deserves a medal. Or fifty bloody medals for that matter! Continue reading
Learning through Irish at naíonra
Both my children are currently attending a naíonra in Newbridge, an all Irish playschool. Aidan started there last September and Sarah started in January of this year. I wrote about Aidan starting his Irish journey last year and our reasons behind choosing this route. You can have a read of the post here if you fancy it. Continue reading


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and launching the I-39/90 Expansion Project Facebook page. From the
design of the page to content creation, they have keen insight and
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Within 200 meters of the water protection zone of Lake Baikal, our company has only the deep water intake station
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Many on Rohingya aid ship disappointed by restrictions
|On board Nautical Aliya.
By Patrick Lee and Shahrul Nazrij Rezal
February 14, 2017
CHITTAGONG: When word started to spread that only 25 people from the aid ship Nautical Aliya would be able to go to Rohingya refugee camps, Abdullah Yusuf, 26, got angry.
The Swedish volunteer was seen talking heatedly with Bangladesh immigration officers, asking if he could be left off the ship.
"I left my job, I left my wife (back home). I just got married two months ago, and now you tell me I cannot go?" he told The Star.
"I just hope I can take my passport and leave."
On Tuesday at about 11.30am local time, the aid ship carrying some 2,100 tonnes of cargo for Rohingya refugees arrived in Chittagong, Bangladesh, on what organisers are calling the "Food Flotilla for Myanmar" mission.
Bangladesh government officials then met with mission organisers for about two hours on how the aid was going to be distributed.
They later decided that only 25 of the 182 passengers would be allowed off the ship to go to Rohingya refugee camps on Wednesday and Thursday.
Aid mission organisers said Bangladesh officials would not allow more than this number, citing safety reasons.
On Saturday, volunteer Kelana Putra Muhamad, 44, told The Star that all he wanted to see was the condition at just one camp and how its people lived.
"I wanted to see with my own eyes how much they have suffered, so that I can go back to Malaysia and tell people how good we really have it," he said then.
On Tuesday, however, he was speechless.
"I don't know what to say. I don't know how to express this," he said.
French volunteer Moussa Yacoub, 39, who has been to Bangladesh many times, said, "Sometimes you win, (sometimes) you lose. You can't win all the time."
Still, he wondered why so many of those who were going were journalists.
Though sad at not being picked to go, Muhammad Uqbah Ahmad Termiz, 25, however was still hopeful.
"A lot of us are dissatisfied. We wanted to help them (the Rohingya) and kiss them.
"But it doesn't matter whether we go or not, the mission is important for the media to go in the camp and record what's going on there," he said.
Except for a small amount given on Wednesday and Thursday, most of the cargo lifted from the Nautical Aliya will be distributed by the International Organisation of Migration (IOM).
Committee co-chief Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim said Bangladesh invited organisers to come back in about 10 to 15 days and see how the aid is being distributed.
He added that only a small number of people, about 15 to 20, would be able to go on this visit.
Only 25 from Rohingya aid ship allowed to go to camps
Only 25 people from the Rohingya aid ship will be allowed to go to refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh. Aid mission organizer co-chief Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim said the Bangladesh government only allowed the small group due to safety reasons.


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Prices in the table do not include early booking and last minute discounts. Discounts are calculated automatically upon reservation.
No booking fees apply. Cancellation is FREE, except for last minute bookings - you can see the terms for free cancellation when you select dates and services.
Price includes free use of: Safe in the rooms, Wi-Fi internet in the hotel WiFi in the lobby, Wi-Fi internet in the rooms cable and Wi-Fi, Parking, Baby cot, Child chair, Children playground, Indoor swimming pool and outdoor swimming pool, Steam bath, Infrared sauna.
All prices are per room/apartment per day, on Bed & breakfast basis.
Half board available on additional payment.
Additional payment for New Year dinner is obligatory.
The additional person discounts are from the regular price per person.
Please, use the booking form, to get a price for your period of stay, number of people and meals included.
The regular prices are NOT valid during national holidays, Christmas and New Year periods!
A mandatory deposit of 100 BGN per room is required upon check-in and returns on the day of departure after a preliminary check of the equipment in the room. For this purpose a credit card may also be provided, from which the amount of 100 BGN will be blocked. The same amount will be unblocked after leaving the hotel!
Prices are not valid during national and regional holidays
Hotel rating:6/10 based on 1 reviews
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hotel overview:
It is designed as a complex of four connected buildings located perpendicular to the main road, with beautifully shaped green areas, alleys and gardens.
Location:view the map
Hotel is located in complex Pirin Golf & Country Club 7 miles from Bansko and 3 km from the city.
Distance to ski lift:
Distance to center: 6.4km
Distance to airport: 150km
hotel facilities:all facilities
The complex offers sophisticated menus for every taste in their thematic restaurants and establishments: restorant in the Club building (the largest with 120 seats), the main restaurant "Euro kitchen"with terrace (86 + 40 seats), restaurant"La foret"Restaurant"Taste of Asia", Greek restaurant Octopus"Italian restaurant" Casa di pasta"Irish pub"O'Brian's"Piano bar"Melody, Cafe-bar "FIRE, Lobby bar with terrace, bar "Let's barand vitamin formulation bar.
Safe at the reception:
yes, on payment
Safe in the rooms: yes, free
Wi-Fi internet in the hotel: yes, free, WiFi in the lobby
Wi-Fi internet in the rooms: yes, free, cable and Wi-Fi
Reception: 24 hours
Rooms and Accommodation:rooms details
Hotel has 11 double rooms type of Standard, 50 double roomstype of Superior, 4Junior suits,4 Apartments,Superior and 2 Apartments Deluxe(2 double rooms).
Accommodation in the hotel is after 15 hours and leaving up to 12 hours.
DBL room standard (SGL use)
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+ Review by Danai Chatzivaryti
Pirin Golf Hotel & SPA
29.12.2019 12:07
The hotel was average. The apartment was low quality. The mattresses were terrible. The spa area was nice and the view was spectacular!
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- Popovi Lakes
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- Nature Park Pirin
- Dobrinishte village
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- Ethnographic complex Radonova House
- Holy Trinity church Bansko
- Benina House, House-museum Neofit Rilski, Bansko
- House-museum Nikola Vaptzarov
Restaurants & bars in Bansko
- Obetsanova Mehana tavern
- Queen's Pub Bansko
- The Crown Pub, Bansko
- "Todeva kashta" winery
- "Bansko" tavern, Bansko ski resort
- "Bishine" tavern, Bansko
- "Bunare" tavern, Bansko
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- Track Bar, Bansko ski resort
- Amigo Pub, Bansko ski resort
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- Bansko attended Vacation and SPA expo 2013
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- French investors build a super ski resort near Sapareva Banya
- Bansko hosts European Biathlon Championship
- New tourism service in Bansko ski resort
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Reviewed by Cookie Sewell
The last parts of assembly cover the rear upper hull and fenders as well as the engine deck. They provide both a complete etched radiator exhaust grille (the big one at the rear of the engine deck) or a single part "quickie" solid styrene one. When completed the rest of the model is then assembled to include mudguards and external items such as the auxiliary fuel tanks. Note that the indirect fire panoramic sight is included and it can be mounted sticking out of the open gunner's hatches if desired.


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Embrace your word, then Pay It Forward to a person you feel needs the message more than you. Then write us a story of why you gave it away.
- Mini Keys are Gold or Silver, and 10.5 X 4.6 mm
- Stainless steel post
- Available in: BELIEVE, DREAM, and LOVE
- This item is not available to be customized
- Each set comes in one word only (not available for mix-and-match)
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Despite a recent ban on local fireworks shows, there's still a likelihood you'll need to worry about the effect the festivities will have on your pet this holiday. As San Antonians gear up for the Fourth of July, they should keep in mind not everyone will be impressed with the celebrations. Pets can become very frightened by all the noise and commotion we take for granted. Planning ahead and using some precautions can help make this Independence Day a festive one for all of your four legged friends. Animal Care Services offers these tips to protect your pet this Fourth of July holiday:
« Pets don't like loud noises. Some area towns are still scheduled to hold official fireworks displays but these events are no place for pets. Leave them at home in a secured, quiet area where they will be safe.
« Give your pet some peace and quiet. A closed off area inside your home can be a blessing for a pet nervous about all the noise and commotion associated with the Fourth. Remember! Some pets get destructive when they're frightened so be sure to remove anything your pet could destroy. Try to provide some toys to occupy your pet while you're out. If your pet is crate trained, make sure they can curl up inside if they get scared. Fresh food and water are a must and a treat or two wouldn't hurt either.
« Never leave your pet in the car while you enjoy the party. The South Texas heat can kill. It takes only minutes for the temperature in your car to soar over 120 degrees. Pets left in cars, even with a cracked window, can quickly become stressed by the heat. Please don't risk your pet's life.
« NEVER leave pets unattended outside, even in a fenced yard or on a chain. Pets can overreact when they're scared and that dog who'd never leave your yard before could easily dig a hole under the fence to escape the noise. Fear of the fireworks and outside gatherings can also cause your pet to become dangerously entangled in their tether.
« Protect your pet from pranksters. Many animal cruelty cases start out as what some consider "harmless pranks." But there's nothing harmless about shooting fireworks at a pet. Bring outdoors pets indoors, at least for the evening. Animal Care Services will investigate anyone suspected of cruelly treating any animal.
« A collar and microchip ID can help your pet get back home if they get lost. Roaming animals stand the risk of being picked up by the city's Animal Care Officers. Your pet's ID is more than their ticket home…City licenses are the law.
Your veterinarian and local pet stores have a variety of remedies available to soothe your pet's nerves and set your mind at ease as well. Monday, July 4th is an official City holiday but Animal Care Officers are still on the job and animal related calls can be phoned in to 311. Remember! It is against the law to use or display any fireworks within San Antonio and residents can not possess, store, buy, or even transport fireworks with the city limits. The sale and use of fireworks is also prohibited this holiday in all unincorporated areas of Bexar County.


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Many changes are under way at Louisville International Airport, from runway improvements to additional escalators. And travelers will have a wider range of food choices, including a few locally-focused options when renovations are completed in the next year or so.
Those local options will include a Comfy Cow ice cream stand out in the pre-security area, and out in Concourse B a Coals Artisan Pizza will be baking in one of their signature coal-fired ovens, as reported in a recent Louisville Business First story.
A major makeover will replace the Woodford Reserve Lounge with a library-themed restaurant and lounge to be called Book & Bourbon Southern Kitchen, offering Southern comfort food–think fried green tomato Benedict and short rib hush puppies–a 100+ bourbon inventory, and a classic craft cocktail list.
Joining Book & Bourbon and Comfy Cow in the pre-security area will be Starbucks and KFC. In the rotunda past the security checkpoint a Starbucks Evenings will serve craft beer, wines and a health-conscious menu, as well as its usual coffee drinks, and Bourbon Academy Tasting Room will feature an elevated bar, premium bourbons and tasting flights served with an iPad that gives distiller information and history and tasting notes specific to each pour. A limited bar menu will also be available.
Joining Coals Pizza in Concourse A will be a Chili's and a Smashburger franchise, along with a new concept called The Local Rustic Market which will have the focus of healthful, freshly prepared food options for travelers on the go.


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Most of us understand that stale content isn't what Google wants to promote these days. They want new, fresh, entertaining or educational material, and they want what we publish to be well-written with proper spelling and grammar.
As a writer, I think this is great. And as a searcher (as we all are), nothing is worse than typing in a search term and coming back with a load of spammy, useless content. I hate when that happens. But have you noticed that it's happening less and less each time you click the "Go" button?
And did you know that even if you have an old site, such as MetaFilter, which has been around for almost 15 years (the site opened in July 1999, which is eons in Web terms), and you're cruising along making money and crushing it in the results pages, you aren't safe from the Google hammer?
If you're not familiar with MetaFilter, it's a weblog where anyone can create articles and make posts, and it is moderated by humans. People actually read the articles to make sure that spammy posts never see the light of day.
Though the site is filled with interesting content and had 81,681,269 unique visitors in 2013, they felt the sting of the Google hammer sometime between 2012 and now, though the exact time and crushing update are unclear. The bottom line is that MetaFilter is hurting, and in his "State of MetaFilter" post of May 19, 2014, founder Matt Haughey posted:
"The long-story-short is that the site's revenue peaked in 2012, back when we hired additional moderators and brought our total staff up to eight people. Revenue has dropped considerably over the past 18 months, down to levels we last saw in 2007, back when there were only three staffers."
And one wonders why. Why would a popular site with a huge readership and apparently helpful content be targeted for downward movement in the SERPs?
One aspect of the site that we now know Google to be against was that it had several ads on each page — ads that were providing revenue. But remember how in one of the Panda iterations, too many ads on a page were the target? OK, so Haughey says they removed the ads and kept them to a minimum. But that didn't fix things. They still lost a HUGE chunk of traffic, which they never got back and which negatively affected their bottom line.
How not to be like MetaFilter
In this post-Pandalyptic world, don't have too many ads. In fact, if you keep them below the fold you're in an even better position with the Big Dog. I get the impression that Google really hates ads, but we're not really sure how they expect us to make money and keep our sites running, do we? I'm guessing that like Honey Badger, Big Dog doesn't give a you-know-what. It's their game and they play it any way they want.
And we have to kowtow, if we want the free organic traffic.
Another thing we have to do is to keep our content fresh and engaging. So, if you have a site that's older, you're presumably doing that. If you aren't and you want organic traffic, go back to that blog posting that you've long ignored.
And update your site design! Nobody wants to see an out-of-the-box WordPress theme (Kubrick or 2010, 2011, etc. for example) or a design style used in the 2000s. Google is apparently targeting older site designs as unworthy, as well. In a Google Webmasters video on YouTube, Matt Cutts says that it's important to take a "fresh look" at your website:
"A lot of the times, if you land on your site and you say — land on a random website from a search result, even if they've been in business for 15 years, 14 years, sometimes they haven't updated their template or their page layout or anything in years and years and years. And it looks like, frankly, sort of a stale, older site…"
And he goes on to say that older, less cared-for sites won't make search visitors happy. Searchers want new, fresh and vibrant, and searchers have a boss, too — Internet searchers.
Search clients, and ergo Google, want your site to be professional and to keep up with the times. In the video, Cutts even cautions webmasters with older sites not to be complacent; Google won't want you if you get ugly and/or old.
Google is all about user experience these days
Get the term "user experience" into your brain and keep it there because that's what Google is stressing these days. So, think about yourself. Are you more likely to read a site that looks like it's been around since 1999 or one that looks cool and current?
If you have an older site, go through several webpages in your niche and see what the competition is up to. You don't have to model those sites, but you should think about modeling the "feel" of them. It's more important than ever to get your audience excited about what you're offering, even if it's solid, engaging content. It has to LOOK like it's solid and engaging, too.
MetaFilter is an older-looking site. It stretches all the way across the screen, rather than keeping to a 600-650 px. reading pane. People don't like stretching content anymore. With the bigger monitors that most of us have these days, no one enjoys reading back and forth across a very wide screen.
Plus, the blue background color makes things a tad hard to read. It's old-school. We just don't do things like that anymore. That's not necessarily what created a problem for Metafilter, it's just a good example of an outdated design.
Another flaw is that when you go to the FAQs page, there's no link back to the home page. You have to click "MetaFilter" to go back, and as someone who doesn't frequent the site, that seems a tad confusing. Isn't the whole site MetaFilter?
Even worse, when you go to "Best of," the link takes you to what appears to be a completely different site. It is white and looks more modern, and I have to ask, "Why put older, staler stuff on a newer looking site?"
Navigation is also important to SEO, as it always has been. Again, I'm not suggesting that MetaFilter has had problems because of anything written here, but they do need to take another look (a fresh look) at their site. Perhaps a facelift could help them in search. Just sayin'.
The bottom line
The most important lesson from this situation is that you have to have your ear to the proverbial ground. Ask yourself these questions, whether your site is old and established or new:
1. Does my site look cool? Does it have a modern, clean style? 2. Is my site relevant? Is my content current and constantly fresh? Or, is it a re-hash of other articles online about the same things repeated ad infinitum? 3. Is my navigation clear and easy to follow? Do pages live no more than three clicks from home? Are my navigation buttons clearly marked and easy to find? 4. Do I still have keywords in my footer links? Be gone! 5. Am I a student of the Web or happy in my little foxhole thinking that nothing needs to change?
If you answered, "No," to any of those questions… It's time or even past due for a change. Just do it! Or you run the risk of your whole little, safe world collapsing inward on you.
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Pat Marcello is President and SEO Manager at MagnaSites.com, a full-service digital marketing company that serves small- to medium-sized businesses. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter or Google+ so you don't miss a thing. She's waiting to see how excellent YOU can be. Pat's last article for SEMrush was "7 Copywriting Tips: SEO-friendly Copy that Converts."


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New regulations sought for child car seats
- Child car seats would for first time have to protect kids from death and injury in side-impact crashes
- Standards may prevent the deaths of about five children and injuries to 64 others each year
- Agency also said to be close to rule on LATCH system for installing seats
Federal regulators proposed on Wednesday a long-awaited test for child safety seat side-impact crash protection that consumer advocates say will bring child safety in cars more in line with protection required for adults.
The proposed National Highway Traffic Safety Administration side-impact crash test — which would use a dummy simulating a 12-month-old and new dummy simulating a 3-year-old — would require car seats to prevent harmful head contact with an intruding vehicle door and reduce crash forces transmitted to the head and chest, NHTSA says. It would cover seats for children up to 40 pounds.
NHTSA estimates that the proposal would save five lives and prevent 64 injuries annually.
The proposal has been under consideration for a decade, and child-seat makers have been moving to add side protection in the meantime. Dorel's Safety 1st, for example, sells two models — the Advance 70 Air + Convertible Car Seat and the Elite 80 3 in 1 Car Seat — which provide full-body side impact protection.
Acting NHTSA Administrator David Friedman told reporters that many existing child seats would already meet the new rule, but some will need more padding. Those would likely cost seat-makers about 50 cents a seat, he said.
Asked about the 10 years to develop the rule, Friedman said the time was needed to replicate what exactly happens in such a crash. "It's more complicated than you would think, he said.
Child safety advocate Joseph Colella agrees. He said it was clear kids were being hurt in side crashes in 2003, but no one knew exactly how. The test couldn't be developed until that was figured out, he said.
Under the proposal, car seats would be tested in a specially designed sled test that simulates a "T-bone" crash: The front of a vehicle traveling 30 mph strikes the side of a small passenger vehicle traveling at 15 mph.
There will be a three-month comment period for the proposal, and the regulations would be final after the agency reviews the comments and addresses any issues raised.The agency proposed that three years after the proposal is final for seat-makers to comply.
At that point, "we will have the most realistic testing and the safest car seats in the world," said Colella.
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Sweeter than Ben and Jerry, with more tricks than Penn and Teller, there's a new dynamic duo on the scene. Holy Smokes! With 2 silicone dildos and 3 O rings, all you need is the Bonnie to your Clyde, the Tom to your Jerry, the Thelma to your Louise...
Weighing in at 255g and 8 inches tall, we have our champion. A length of textured veins, tapered for easy insertion, is crafted in silken silicone. A true, undefeated hero.
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Both dildos feature flared, suction cup bases for optional hands free fun, and the set includes 3 interchangeable O rings for pick n mix play.
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- Fully adjustable harness with leg straps - fits up to a 67-inch waist
- 3 x O-rings allow for interchangeable mix-and-match dildo fun
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How it measures up
- Circumference: 6 inches
- Insertable Length: 8 inches
- Length: 8 inches
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Reviewed: 17 March 2020 by Kinky Rose, a Gay Engaged Female
So this is my second strap-on purchase from Lovehoney and I must say they never disappoint.
The advanced dildo is perfect for me. It reaches my limit in length but the girth feels amazing. I had so many orgasms it's unreal. Overall a great purchase, I would definitely recommend.
- Pros
- Everything.
- Cons
- Nothing.
- Bottom line
- Amazing.
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I never thought I'd ever go there
Reviewed: 4 May 2019 by Wantuontop69, a Straight Going Steady Male
It's amazing how much you don't think about this. I love giving anal sex and never thought about how it would feel. Well I'll tell you we were having it one night and she ask me if I'd get a strap on for us. Not thinking about it. I said sure. I got it and when it got home. She saw it and said it's your turn. I didn't know what to say. Except my ass is exit only. How right I was.
That night she had her way and I'll tell you it was rough at first, but once you let go and get relaxed it got to be a good feeling and now I ask her if she wanting to punish me. Lol it's a fun toy. I'm taking the 8 in now and love It too.
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- How good it feels after you relax and just take it in slow.
- Cons
- Thinking it's not big enough and got to get the one that ten.
- Bottom line
- I love it and she loves it too.
- 2 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes
Reviewed: 14 December 2018 by Wozzer, a Straight Married Male
After plenty of anal play over the last year, we decided to go to the next step and try pegging. After much research and deliberation, we purchased this product.
With plenty of lube and teasing, we were ready with the smaller of the two. It didn't take long to move onto the larger and wow what a feeling and what an orgasm. Can't wait until we go again.
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- Secure and easy to wear.
- Cons
- Nothing.
- Bottom line
- Anyone wondering whether to try. Go for it, you won't be disappointed.
- 2 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes
Fits like a glove
Reviewed: 28 September 2018 by Christabella
I finally decided to buy this with the plan of playing with my male friend. We are always fantasising about me using a strap-on with him, so after lots of research and reading reviews I chose this one. I thought it was quite a reasonable price at £44.99. It arrived as usual in a discreet brown package. Although I'm quite sure my postman knows what I'm having delivered so regularly, but he never lets on.
The strap-on comes in a box and feels sturdy when I took it out.
My friend had said he thought the smaller of the two dildos was too small when we were discussing measurements, but when he held it in person he decided its definitely big enough! There are three rings of different sizes to attach different dildos.
The harness is so very comfortable. I am about a size 12 and 5'4. The velcro fastenings are so easy to alter. I tried a few positions with them to make it fit me best. There is a little pouch where you can slide a bullet vibrator in situ (not included).
Well when I tried this on my whole persona changed! I suddenly felt so dominant and sexy as anything. I had to take some pics and a video to send to him to let him know what was coming!
I also need to mention the dildos have suction bases. I for some reason decided to try this out and stuck the small one on my mirrored wardrobes at the bottom of my bed. I reversed myself onto it - wow how sexy and what a turn on if felt until I couldn't get it off the mirror! I was laughing hysterically trying to slide it to the edge!
Overall there is nothing I could dislike about this. Go for it!
- Pros
- Quality, sturdy but soft and gently harness. Looks classy all black.
- Cons
- Nothing to dislike.
- Bottom line
- Excellent quality, reasonable price... Sexy toy for beginners upwards!
- 5 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes
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Reviewed: 23 September 2018 by D0wn-for-anyythingg, a Bisexual Single Female
My girlfriend and I bought this a little while ago and we love it. Neither of us had any experience using a strap-on before so it was easy for she and I to figure out how to get it on and stuff. I was worried that it was going to be too big for me (which it was) but it felt good I couldn't complain.
She's been so eager to use it whenever we get the chance to. It hits all the right spots for me. We don't really use the smaller one too much, but it does get the job done. Sometimes we don't even us the strap and just use the dildo itself. The only thing I'd have to say is that I wish it was a little more flexible. This is also easy to clean if you're a creamer like myself. If it's your first time using it I would recommend using lube.
- Pros
- The size, the feel, easy cleanup, it's easy to attach and detach the dildo.
- Cons
- It's a little hard.
- Bottom line
- It's good for beginners.
- 1 person found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes
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Nothing says Easter like making or receiving handmade crafts.
Try making some homemade Easter egg shaped mosaics, cards and book marks for friends and family, using our tissue paper. With over 15 colours to choose from you will instantly brighten up any piece of card, and put a smile onto someone's face.
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David Mounteer
"We are very happy to welcome David, who has worked for more than 20 years in Canada's hotel and hospitality industry," says Lise Gagnon, President of Jonview Canada. "David is an accomplished manager, driven by a genuine passion for our industry and for Canada. His knowledge, skills and customer-centric approach are assets we will be able to rely on to continue to develop our company and manage our experienced team."
During the past decade, Mounteer has served as General Manager of 3 luxury boutique hotels: The Thompson Toronto; The Hazelton Hotel, also in Toronto; as well as the Auberge Saint-Antoine in Quebec City, where he earned the distinction Hotelier of the Year for 2009 in the Pinnacle Awards.
He previously worked for 15 years with the Fairmont Hotels organization.
Mounteer takes over from Andrew Lind, who has decided to take on new challenges after 15 years with Jonview Canada.


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Facebook's Mobile App Platform to Include Seamless Login, Bookmarks, Requests
New Screenshots and functionality details of Facebook's forthcoming HTML5 mobile site and application platform have emerged. Documentation of the updated mobile site and platform, externally referred to as Project Spartan, was briefly published to the Facebook Developers site last night, and TechCrunch recorded screenshots before Facebook took the pages down. We dug into the documentation and found many interesting facts about the mobile site that will impacts users and developers.
The Facebook mobile site will receive a significant redesign, users will be able to authorize and use third-party mobile apps from within the mobile site, these apps will be accessed through bookmarks shown alongside Facebook's in-house apps, and users will have the ability to post to the news feed and send Requests/invites that are delivered as notifications.
For developers, the same SDK and APIs used for Facebook web applications will work on mobile, a new authentication mode called Authenticated Referrals will allow users who've already installed an app to login with two taps, and mobile apps will be optimized to work across all iOS and Android devices.
Sources at the company told us last week there would be a major mobile launch in "three weeks" but TechCrunch is reporting that the date has been moved up along with the native Facebook iPad app launch. It will likely come at either Apple's iPhone event on Tuesday or a Facebook press event on Monday. Regardless, these updates are coming, though Facebook will surely continue to refine the mobile platform. How users and developers react will influence the power dynamic between Facebook, Apple, and Android, and could be an important determinant of Facebook's long-term success. (We first wrote about Facebook's HTML5 strategy for third-party mobile web apps in February, four months before it was reported in other mainstream press like TechCrunch.)
Here we'll take a look at the biggest changes evident from the leaked documentation and what they mean:
Mobile Site Redesign
The current design of the mobile site is not especially intuitive. Users must browse to entirely separate screens to access core functionality such as notifications or the publisher. This can makes the browsing experience exhausting and cause users to spend less time on the mobile site.
The new redesign previewed in the leaked documentation and seen here shows a more persistently available top navigation bar that lets users access their notifications, Messages, and friend request with fewer clicks. The notifications button reveals an overlaid drop down rather than opening a different screen, so alerts about new activity can be checked without losing one's place on the mobile site.
Third-Party App Access From a Bookmarks Menu
News that users would be able to access third-party Facebook apps from mobile leaked months ago, but the documentation reveals exactly how they'll be accessed. A button on the mobile site's top navigation bar will slide out a list of all of a user's installed apps — both Facebook's in-house apps such as Events and Groups, as well as third-party apps and games.
A bookmark will appear in this menu for any app a user has installed. Thanks to "bookmark synching", a bookmark will also appear on the homepage of a user's web version of Facebook. Users will also be able to search for new or previously installed games through the mobile site bookmarks menu. This will make Facebook mobile search engine optimization important for mobile apps looking to gain new users.
Facebook won't require developers to use a different SDK or set of APIs on mobile than they use to build apps on Facebook.com. This means some developers will simply have to redesign their apps for mobile, rather than having to re-code them. This could help quickly populate the mobile platform with apps. More complicated apps that use flash such as games will need to switch to HTML5, though Facebook has reportedly been working with a large set of top developers to make their apps compatible with the mobile platform.
Two-Tap Login and Requests Notifications for Growth
The authorization given to a mobile app upon install will be valid on the web as well, so users won't have to grant permissions to an app twice. Once a user has installed an app, they'll be able to quickly log into it later with a two tap process called Authenticated Referrals – one tap to select the app, and a second to confirm they are entering a third-party app.
Along with using or playing with an app, users can publish content to the news feed through a familiar sharing prompt. They'll also be able to send Requests to friends, such as an invite to play or a call to complete an in-app action. These Requests are delivered to friends as notifications that they can click through to open an app.
Right now, these notifications don't look especially compelling, and therefore might inspire users to try new apps or reengage with old ones. Facebook may need to make mobile app Request notifications more appealing if it wants to attract developers to the Platform with the opportunity for strong viral growth.
Initially, the Like button social plugin will be available for use within mobile platform apps. Developers can use the button to create a lightweight sharing flow. As part of the permissions process developers will be able to request a user's email address so they can communicate with them, or market to them, outside their apps.
Technologically, there are still some functionality disadvantages of using HTML5 mobile sites rather than native smartphone apps. For example, they only native apps can access device hardware such as the camera and GPS. Facebook will need to make up for this with virality if it wants its mobile Platform to become popular with developers.
There's no mention in the documentation of Facebook Credits spotted earlier this year, so its still unclear how payments will be processed within mobile apps. A big part of why Facebook needed to create the mobile platform was to allow it earn money from app sales and in-app purchases, which can't happen if its is merely a social layer within apps sold through Apple or Android's mobile app stores.
Launching the Platform without Credits support could attract some developers who don't want to pay Facebook's 30% tax. However, punching credit card details into a mobile device can be especially difficult and lead to significant drop-off, so developers may actually want Facebook Credits support because it could increase sales volumes. Third-party mobile payments companies could also step in here to facilitate developer monetization.
Facebook is on the cusp of a serious turning point. If it can make the mobile Platform fun for users and attractive to developers, it could create an important new revenue stream, ride the growth of smart phones, and gain leverage against Apple and Google. If users find accessing third-party Facebook mobile app clunky and developers don't see enough potential for viral growth, though, the Platform could fail and Facebook might get cut out of the mobile money stream.


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In an article published last year in this journal, we invited attention to the legal implications of the rise of the market-fund concept. This concept-a radical departure from conventional investment ideasteaches that institutional investors who try to "beat the market" by buying stocks they believe to be undervalued and selling those they believe to be overvalued are likely to do worse in the long run than investors who adopt the passive strategy of buying and holding a portfolio of stocks designed to approximate the stock market as a whole. We argued that the decision of a trustee to invest trust assets in a mutual fund or equivalent vehicle employing the passive strategy-a "market fund"-raised only superficial problems of conformity with the law governing investments by trustees, that "market matching" was the superior strategy for a trustee to adopt, and that the courts would come around to this view. Our article created both interest and controversy in the investment community. We were invited to address a number of conferences and seminars sponsored by brokerage houses and other investment institutions, and there we encountered a good deal of hostility -along with a surprising amount of support. The hostility of the investment community to our approach was predictable, since the strategy of buying and holding a market-matching portfolio reduces both brokerage commissions and the role of the security analyst in the investment process. In responding to questions and comments raised by friendly and unfriendly critics, our own ideas concerning market funds and trust-investment law were tested, refined, and on the whole confirmed.
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- It uses less energy if you leave fluorescent lights switched on.
- Use less power - take a shower!
- It's best to leave your immersion heater on 24 hours a day.
- If you have thermostatic radiator valves you don't need a room thermostat.
- It's cheaper to use an immersion heater in the summer than to heat water from your central heating boiler.
- Replacing windows with double glazing will stop mould growth.
- Strapping an energy manager gizmo to your boiler can save you at least 10% from your heating bills.
- Big freezers cost more to run than little freezers.
- Leaving your PC screen switched on during the lunch break prolongs its life and doesn't waste much energy.
- With global warming we won't need as much insulation in the future.
1. It uses less energy if you leave fluorescent lights switched on. Myth or Truth? MYTH.
This one has been around almost since fluorescent (strip) lights first appeared. It is certainly true that in their start-up phase, they use a lot more energy than when they are running continuously, so it is not a good advice to keep switching them on or off. Although it depends on the individual light, if you're going out of a room for more than about a minute and a half (and certainly) more than 5 minutes, you should turn the light off.
2. Use less power - take a shower! Myth or Truth? Sometimes a MYTH, but sometimes TRUE.
The easiest way to test this is to put the plug in the bath next time you have a shower, and see how much it fills up. If, at the end of the shower, there is less water than you would usually have in a bath, then you will probably save money by taking a shower. But it's not quite that simple as it depends on whether you're using the same source to heat water for the bath and the shower. This will be the case if you use your central heating boiler or an immersion heater. But a 'power shower' uses electricity to provide a powerful and instant shower. It also uses water more quickly than a shower fed from a hot water system, and it uses on-peak electricity, rather than gas. How much power you use also depends on the efficiency of your heating boiler, the amount of insulation on the hot water tank and the losses on the pipework between the tank and your shower.
3. It's best to leave your immersion heater on 24 hours a day. Myth or Truth? MYTH.
It's always best to place the water heating on a timer, as the energy lost from a hot water tank depends on the temperature difference between the surface of the tank and its surroundings. It's a common myth that it somehow takes more energy to keep heating up a tank than to maintain it at a high temperature. Of course, as with all urban myths, there are a few "ifs" and "buts". If the tank is highly insulated (so standing losses are very low) and there is an effective thermostat on the tank, then the losses through leaving it on can be much reduced. But, in general, it's much better to install a timer - a heavy duty one, suitable for immersion heaters, should be quite cheap and it could pay for itself in a few months: an excellent energy efficiency investment.
4. If you have thermostatic radiator valves you don't need a room thermostat. Myth or Truth? MYTH.
Thermostatic Radiator Valves (TRVs) will only switch the flow to a single radiator on or off. They do not stop the boiler from firing (and so using energy). They are useful, but tend to be a rather crude control of temperature in a room, as they are affected by where they're sited and are often not set at the right temperature. In contrast, a room thermostat is accurate to within a degree or so. What's more, if it has been wired up correctly (in what may be called an "interlock") it should send a signal back to the boiler to switch itself off if there is no demand for heating for either the heating or hot water circuits. This stops the boiler firing when the internal water temperature has slipped - ie. it stops so-called "dry cycling", and definitely saves energy.
5. It's cheaper to use an immersion heater in the summer than to heat water from your central heating boiler. Myth or Truth? Sometimes a MYTH, but sometimes TRUE.
The answer to this one depends very much on how efficient your boiler is, especially when it is operating at part load, as it does in summer when there is no central heating demand. Broadly, if you have a modern high efficiency boiler (say rated 'D' or better on the SEDBUK scale) linked to a hot water tank thermostat, then it will be better to use the boiler to heat water, year round. But, providing you have a timer and well-insulated tank, it may be cheaper to use the electric immersion heater in summer if your boiler is not a high efficiency model.
6. Replacing windows with double glazing will stop mould growth. Myth or Truth? Usually True but sometimes causes problems.
Double-glazed windows can help stop mould, providing they are adequately ventilated, and can maintain a reasonable room temperature. Ventilation is the key; if a home is too airtight, moisture (from baths, showers, cooking and even breathing) will stay inside the house and create a damp atmosphere in which mould can grow. For this reason, good double-glazed units include trickle vents that are used to add controlled ventilation. Be careful about selecting double-glazed units that have metal (aluminium) frames. If they don't have a very good thermal break, you're likely to get some condensation on the metal, even though there will be none on the glass itself.
7. Strapping an energy manager gizmo to your boiler can save you at least 10% from your heating bills. Myth or Truth? MYTH.
But you could make the same savings by switching your boiler off for 10% of the time, and the same effect can often be achieved by turning down the thermostat by a degree or so. More comprehensive energy managers fitted by the manufacturer will save money, but need to be matched to the overall controls, including an intelligent thermostat which may duplicate some of their functions. Modern boilers and with good controls should not need an additional strap-on energy manager.
8. Big freezers cost more to run than little freezers. Myth or Truth? Usually True, but not always.
In one sense this is obviously going to be true. But, in practice, it often isn't! Small freezers are often upright models, which lose a significant amount of cold air whenever the door is opened. It can take as much as 30 minutes for a freezer to regain its temperature after the door has been opened for a minute. Chest freezers, with a lid opening (and typically thicker insulation levels) will often use less than half as much energy for a given volume of food storage. If you have empty space in either type of freezer, it's best to fill it (even with empty cardboard boxes - breakfast cereal packets are ideal) to stop air flow.
9. Leaving your PC screen switched on during the lunch break prolongs its life and doesn't waste much energy. Myth or Truth? MYTH (mainly).
In theory, leaving the screen on over lunch might prolong the life but, in practice, most PCs will either wear out or need to be replace for other reasons before the screen fails. Many PCs go into sleep mode if they are not being used but screens don't use less energy when they're in screensaver mode and, even when they power down into sleep mode, they still use some energy. PC screen consumption can often represent at least a third of the electricity consumption in a modern office. Most of the wasted energy is given off as heat, and in an air-conditioned office half as much energy again can be used in getting rid of this waste heat in summer.
10. With global warming we won't need as much insulation in the future. Myth or Truth? MYTH.
Global climate change will not provide a nice even increase in temperature. It's likely to be accompanied by greater instability in weather, so homes will need just as much insulation to deal with cold spells.The most likely effect in the UK is to shorten the heating season slightly, not to reduce the need for heating altogether.Global warming will not happen overnight. It's expected to take around 50 years for the temperature to rise by another 2°C.


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Why Are LCD Projector Bulbs Expensive?
Anybody who's ever had the lamp go out in his LCD projector knows they can cost hundreds of dollars to replace. The cost may seem exorbitant, until you stop to think about the special tasks the lamp is being asked to do. Far from an ordinary bulb, it must have a compact size, dramatic light output, and be able to withstand enormous amounts of heat, criteria that make LCD bulbs more expensive to produce than regular household bulbs.
Light Output
An LCD projector bulb's light output requirements are greater than a regular household bulb's. In a projector, the light is filtered through three separate LCD panels before it's sent to the lens for magnification. To cast a bright enough image onto the screen, the lamp must project as much as 6,000 lumens, almost four times the brightness of a 100-watt incandescent bulb. Yet the LCD projector lamp needs to be much smaller than an incandescent bulb to fit into today's slim-line projectors.
High-Pressure Mercury Vapor Technology
To generate the light needed, most LCDs use intricate High-Pressure Mercury Vapor lamps. These lamps use three separate electrodes to vaporize mercury gas, which glows at a high intensity as electrical current is passed through it. The amount of mercury in the bulb must be carefully measured to maintain the optimal pressure when it's at full operating capacity. The complexity of High Pressure Mercury Vapor lamps, and the toxicity of the mercury used to produce them, make them expensive to produce.
Heat Resistance
High Pressure Mercury Vapor lamps must operate at high temperatures to work efficiently. For this reason, all their components must be able to handle heat stress. The tube containing the mercury vapor, for instance, must be made of quartz, and the glass lens must be made from high-temperature glass. These heat-resistant components add cost to the lamp.
Increasing Lamp Life
You can avoid the expense of frequent lamp replacements by taking a couple of simple steps. One is to run the LCD projector in economy mode mode whenever possible, if it has such a mode. This slightly dimmer setting can increase the life of the bulb by 50 percent, according to Projector Central, a projector review website. Also, clear the fan intakes and exhaust ports of the projector of obstructions so that the lamp won't overheat.
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So a few weeks ago, I randomly started talking about something called Songbird Story on Twitter. Now, I can tell you what Songbird Story is.
I've gotten a lot of requests for a story from Sam's point of view, and it seems the fine people at HarperCollins have heard your cries, as well. Now (well, in September) you can have a Sam story on your ereader!
Technically, PHOENIX OVERTURE is a prequel. It happens lifetimes before INCARNATE. But, as some of you have figured out, there's a lot about the world that Ana's trying to learn all through INCARNATE and ASUNDER — and the distant past is one of those mysteries.
Which means if you're sensitive to spoilers, I'd read PHOENIX OVERTURE after you read ASUNDER. It's safe to read this before INFINITE, though. (Otherwise we'd wait to publish this.)
So is this Incarnate .5 or 2.5? It's sort of both.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 1 second Welcome to week three of teaching primary science, getting started. So far we have looked at how to plan effectively for practical science and the key resources you may need. We've also established the five inquiry types within the English primary national curriculum, and how we should plan to provide a range of opportunities to develop these. Last week, we also discussed why mapping out inquiry in a school is useful, as it ensures coverage and progression. This week, we'll be taking a closer look at the skills children need to develop working scientifically. There is no definitive list of inquiry skills. However, there are several skills that are generally agreed as being core to teaching science.
Skip to 0 minutes and 49 seconds Over the week we'll examine some of the core practical skills and see them in action in a classroom. We will also consider why developing thinking and reasoning skills is so important and give you tips to carry out thinking and reading activities yourselves. For the first discussion this week, tell us below what skills you think children need when they are working practically.
What scientific enquiry skills should we develop?
This week we will focus on the skills and behaviours we would like our children to develop that reflect those of real scientists. You will examine some of the core practical skills necessary for this and consider why thinking and reasoning skills are so important.
By the end of the week you will be able to ensure that you are planning for progression of enquiry skills and use strategies to help develop thinking and reasoning in your children.
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The tragic death of South Auckland toddler Emma-Lita Bourne has led to fresh calls from the national student union for nationwide rental standards.
National president of the New Zealand Union of Students' Associations, Rory McCourt says, "Nick Smith has been making excuses about not tackling shoddy private rentals by saying he was getting the Government's own house in order first. Clearly he failed. To have state houses without carpets and insulation is completely negligent. To do nothing to lift rental standards after seven years is just gutless."
"While this case is extreme, the coroner's findings show in black and white what we already know – that cold, damp houses make us sick. Students know it, parents know it, and doctors know it."
"Minister Smith claims he wants to see the evidence first. Well, the research is all there and has been for some time. The sticking point is whether the Government has the courage to take on the landlord lobby."
"Perhaps this untimely loss will help them find that courage and safeguard New Zealand's tenants so that this never happens again." says Mr McCourt.


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Ilk "Carpets" solo show at Kolly Gallery in Zurich (Switzerland) from April 8 to 13, 2019. Thanks Pebeo for the support.
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Scalable cloud architecture for flexible growth
ICEPAY is a Dutch Payment Service Provider offering a wide range of payment services. Security and continuity are of key importance because ICEPAY's clients – including a large number of web shops – need continuous insight into transactions and absolute certainty about their sales income. To keep up with its rapid growth and high transaction volumes, ICEPAY needed to upgrade its IT landscape to an ultra-high capacity-processing platform, with an easily scalable, cloud-based architecture. Xpirit designed an Azure- and .Net Core-based solution with containers, while the Kubernetes orchestrator ensures easy switching between cloud providers in order to avoid vendor lock-in.
ICEPAY's demanding requirements
ICEPAY processes a huge and rapidly increasing number of payment transactions, including all major debit and credit cards, Paypal, SEPA direct debits etc. Many of ICEPAY's clients are web shops who need immediate certainty about payments and insight into transactions before they fulfill their orders. Speed, continuity, security and transparency are therefore keywords in ICEPAY's exacting processing demands.
In 2016 ICEPAY decided to radically upgrade its ten-year-old IT environment – congested servers and databases were impeding the company's growth. Steven de Boer, ICEPAY's Chief Executive Officer, describes the required direction: "We operate in an evolving market with extremely rapid developments, but with low margins. In order to improve and optimize our competitive edge we needed an innovative solution based on a scalable cloud architecture. Easily expandable, ultra-reliable and highly available server capacity was of key importance. However, one thing we wanted to avoid was vendor lock-in. Although we had our own highly skilled IT team, we needed additional knowhow and experience. Although we have our own highly trained IT team, additional knowledge and experience were needed."
Intelligent, state-of-the art architecture
ICEPAY started their journey on December 2016 with an analysis of requirements, including a cloud scan. Soon afterwards, they came up with the design for the solution, of which the first components for payment processing were deployed during the second half of 2017, while other components are still being developed.
Steven: "The core of the new .NET Core and Azure-based cloud architecture is a flexibly scalable set of containers that communicate via a service bus, providing us with unlimited server capacity. The database platform is Azure, while the Kubernetes orchestrator ensures easy switching between cloud providers. A striking example is the fact that payment transaction details are processed and stored at all times, even if there's a disruption somewhere in the chain. This is something that is extremely important for our clients because their business and money simply have to keep rolling at all times."
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