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If you are looking for the best places to meet girls in Luxembourg with a dating guide then we have got your back. In no time we will inform you about where to pick up women near you and also some great spots for a date night.
Table of Contents
We always like to begin with the best singles nightlife for hooking up, then we will move on to meeting single Luxembourg girls during the day plus how you can use online dating sites to your advantage. Date night ideas and all kinds of casual things to do together will be discussed.
Historic European cities like this one are always great because there is something to do around every corner and you can just walk around looking at the buildings and have a great time.
Nightclubs & Pick Up Bars
These days a lot of guys will only care about a list of singles bars and nightclubs to pick up Luxembourg girls so let's start with one:
- Den Atelier at 54 Rue de Hollerich
- Melusina at 145 Rue de la Tour Jacob
- Lenox Club at 58 Rue du Fort Neipperg
- Saumur Crystal Club at 13 Rue Dicks
- Gotham at 14 Avenue de la Faiencerie
- Apoteca at 12 Rue de la Boucherie
- De Gudde Wëllen at 17 Rue du St Esprit
- Milady Palace at 24 Rue de Bonnevoie
- E-Space Lounge Bar at 1 Schlammestee
- Go Ten Bar & Cafe at 10 Rue du Marché-aux-Herbes
- Café des Tramways at 79 Avenue Pasteur
- Urban at 2 Rue de la Boucherie
- Ground Lounge at 48 Rue de Hollerich
- Buvette at 2 Rue de la Rotonde
- Rock Solid at 30 Rue de la Poste
- Ikki at 19-21 Rives de Clausen
- Hitch at 21-25 Allée Scheffer
The main area for singles nightlife is around Alstad which is the Old City. Grund is another area with plenty of places to try and hook up after dark.
For those who like to pick up Luxembourg girls at bars instead of nightclubs Rue du Marché aux Herbes is just loaded with pubs to search for a one night stand. Getting a hotel near there would be perfect and greatly improve your chances of getting laid.
While the nightlife here certainly isn't on Berlin's level you should be satisfied on a short trip. The longer you stayed the more of a small town feel it might begin to have.
Meet Luxembourg Girls During The Day
Walking around the Old City will allow you to try and meet women in your area all day and night. That is another big time positive of old European cities, you can day game anywhere and have a good time doing it, even on the public transportation.
Another option would be to meet single Luxembourg girls at malls and shopping districts like:
- Auchan Opkorn
- Knauf Shopping Center Pommerloch
- Auchan Kirchberg
- La Belle Etoile
- Shopping Village Pall Center
Chat With Girls Online
We can't be the only guys out there who feel like the dating and hook up scene has gotten really weird over the past handful of years. People are more anti-social than ever making it hard to make new friends or get into someone's social circle.
Nobody really trusts anyone and there is a pretty big 'stay home and mind my own damn business' attitude going on with many. Then when you do see a pretty girl in Luxembourg she is probably staring at her phone or has earbuds in.
When she goes to a club she probably just stands around a table with the few friends she came with and doesn't mingle with anyone. That is life these days, and for single guys it can feel pretty tough.
But all hope is not lost my friends, local women still have needs and when they want to fulfill them they need a guy to help them out. Some people do still hook up after meeting at the club, don't get us wrong, but these days online dating is the main way guys can get laid.
If you want to try to hook up with single girls in Luxembourg then you need to be using Adult Friend Finder. It is the site that girls in your area turn to when they need some loving, think of it as how to do speed dating these days.
You might just be surprised at how many girls near you are using it. This site is all about hooking up not taking a girl home to mom, so if you want to get laid hop on Adult Friend Finder and start making it happen.
Luxembourg Dating Guide
We just fully covered the best ways to meet singles near you so now let's change this over to our Luxembourg dating guide. Any time you are able to get a girl to go out with you it is a good start, but now you have to show her a good time on your local date night.
Any of these romantic restaurants or cocktail bars could do the trick:
- Mosconi at 13 Rue Münster
- Elch Club-Restaurant at 2 Grevelsbarriere
- Restaurant Clairefontaine at 9 Place de Clairefontaine
- Les Espaces Saveurs at 32 Rue de l'Eau
- La Cristallerie at 18 Place d'Armes
- Naga at 15 Rue de Limpach
- Le Sud at 8 Rives de Clausen
- L'Annexe at 7 Rue du St Esprit
- Max + Moritz at 2-4 Avenue du Dix Septembre
- Palais Bar at 13 Rue du Marché-aux-Herbes
- Konrad at 7 Rue du Nord
There are lots of bars down by the canal, take a walk in that area after dinner and look for one playing live music. It will make for the perfect romantic back drop.
For something a little classier take her to see a show at the Grand Theatre or the Philharmonie.
Day Date Ideas
Going outside and spending a sunny day together is always advisable if you can. Here are some fun casual places to take advantage of nice weather:
- Merl-Belair
- Little Switzerland
- Parcs de la Petrusse
- Edmund Klein Park
Those are good, but hiking at Little Switzerland might be the best. There are also many walking tours that will tell you all you need to know about these historic streets.
Another fun place to go on a sunny day would be the Parc Merveilleux and don't forget to visit the Bock Casemates, some huge tunnels under a castle. For even more culture on your date during the day try these museums and landmarks:
- Mudam Luxembourg Modern Art Museum
- Musée national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg
- Vianden Castle
- Cathedrale of Notre Dame
This city may not offer as many great date spots as Paris, but for its size it certainly isn't lacking. For a more outside the box romantic vacation try shacking up in Ghent for the weekend.
Enjoy Dating Luxembourg Girls
If you have any more to add we would love to hear about it in the comments below. This is a great little town to visit for a weekend with the right girl, or who knows you might be able to find one here.
If you live here and are struggling to hook up don't forget about all of the single local women in Europe who are using Adult Friend Finder to get laid. That wraps up our best places to meet girls in Luxembourg with our dating guide, enjoy your time here.


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Why I love Languedoc
It is easy enough to get to the Languedoc. All you have to do is follow the Rhône river south and once you reach the Mediterranean, turn right. The mystery is that for generations people have been turning left, towards the Riviera and Italy. But over the past five years, foreign housebuyers have suddenly started discovering the Languedoc.
Some say it started when the region began to produce interesting wines and the world wanted to know where they came from. Others say that it was the opening up of new cheap air routes to places such as Carcassonne, Nîmes and Perpignan, and the fact that Provence had become just too expensive.
I first heard about it when Rupert, my husband, came back from a press trip to Thailand. Before he had unpacked the suitcases he told me we were moving to the south of France. Of course, I ignored him.
"I met a couple on a boat," he said. "I want to go there and write a book."
"Don't be ridiculous," I said. "Things aren't that bad."
"They live in the Languedoc."
"Never heard of it."
To me the south of France was Cap d'Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Monte Carlo. Beautiful people, vast yachts and rocky beaches. Good for a holiday, but not a place to live and bring up children.
Nothing more was said until a letter arrived. It contained a hand-drawn card showing a lovely house on a hill, surrounded by olive trees and vineyards. I read the contents of the card and looked at the photograph the couple had taken of my husband lying in a hammock on a cruise ship. Obviously it had been another tough assignment.
"It was such fun meeting you on the Star Clipper," read the card. "Do come and stay if you're ever in the region, we would love to introduce you to the Languedoc."
I looked at the drawing of the house again, and compared it with the view from our Fulham flat. The French house had palm trees, sunshine and a swimming pool. We looked out over a leisure centre, a car park and constant drizzle.
"That idea of yours about moving to France," I said. "Let's go and have a look."
Within a week we were planning a trip to Pézenas, a Renaissance town 20 minutes from the Mediterranean. We left a gloomy Stansted in the rain, arriving an hour and a half later in brilliant sunshine at Carcassonne airport. On the way, our driver told us a bit about Languedoc-Roussillon.
"This is a wine-growing area, the biggest vineyard in the world," he said. "There are a couple of great cities — Montpellier and Nîmes — and we are close to Spain. We often pop down there for lunch. There are large sandy beaches, flamingos and oyster beds, and mountains to the north that funnel the wind in another direction. They say we get more than 300 days of sunshine a year, but when it rains, it really rains. I have lived all over the world, but I like it best here."
The best news for househunters was that the house prices were three to four times cheaper than in England, helped by the strong pound.
The market as we found it back then, in 1999, was not as developed as it is now. There were agents, but they seemed reluctant to give us any information about houses for sale. A Buddhist monk-turned-estate agent drove us long distances to look at totally unsuitable properties. He was deaf in one ear and overtook cars on corners. He may have had a strong belief in the afterlife, but we found it unsettling. Another agent, an Englishwoman, was reluctant to sell us anything. Rupert explained to her that this was her job.
"Oh no," she said. "I don't want the place overrun with foreigners. I liked it best a few years ago, when it was quieter."
We wanted an old property in the middle of nowhere, ideally with five bedrooms and a swimming pool. We looked within a 20-mile radius of Pézenas for more than a year, eventually ending up near Clermont-Hérault, a small town to the west of Montpellier.
Another English person showed us a couple of properties. He had been a plasterer and came to the south of France 10 years previously on holiday. After a week in the sun, he decided not to go back to Bolton. The most impressive thing about him was the amount he drank. "I start off with beer," he explained, "and move on to a bottle of wine and half a bottle of Ricard every night." His shape and colour confirmed this.
We told him we were visiting one more place before we returned to England, and were about to give up on the whole thing or try to find somewhere to rent.
"Well, you'll buy it," he said.
"How do you know that?" we asked.
"I just do," he grinned, tapping his red nose.
We drove away resolving never to drink as much as he did. But the strange thing was, the minute we turned off the main road to follow the small track to the final property, we knew he was right. The tiny country road ran through vineyards and garrigue, or scrubland, made up of stunted oak trees, broom, rosemary and thyme. Two miles later and we saw the house on top of the hill. Old stones, blue shutters, swimming pool, roses and olive trees in the garden, and not another house in sight. As we turned up the drive my nipples stood on end. Historically this has always been a good sign.
I found it hard not to smile as we were shown round. The lady who owned the house insisted on showing me every cupboard in it. I felt like jumping up and down, shrieking: "I don't care if there isn't a single bloody cupboard within a 10-mile radius." We walked up to the vineyard behind the house.
"Will you stop grinning," hissed Rupert.
"I can't," I replied, almost in tears.
We said goodbye to the old couple who owned it and went back to plan our strategy. There was no question we wanted the house. We could afford it. How easy would it be to close the deal? At the estate agent's the next morning we resolved to play it cool. We were instantly shown into the boss's office. When I started telling him that there were cracks in the walls, he said that we could arrange a survey if we wished, but the property was sound. Besides, a Swiss couple had already made an offer. Just then, his phone rang. I caught my husband's eye. I thought it was important that he realised how crucial his next move would be.
"If we don't get this house I will never recover," I whispered.
When the agent came off the phone, Rupert asked him how much the Swiss had offered. What about if we offer a sum £10,000 higher? I will ask them, he replied. We were made to sign a formal offer, then the agent drove off to see them in person. We were told to go for a walk and a cup of coffee.
We walked around in the sunshine for an hour, worried to go into any shops in case we lost the signal on our mobile phones. I kept telling my husband to call back and offer the asking price immediately. After an age, the phone rang.
"Please come back to my office," said a voice.
They had accepted our offer of £250,000. We all drove to the house, were taken on another tour and shown all the cupboards again. Then we were offered a glass of champagne and some canapés. It all seemed terribly civilised.
"It's a bit less than we wanted," said the lady owner, patting my pregnant tummy. "But I wanted the house to go to a young family."
Our timing was good. House prices have shot up since we moved there. Roughly speaking, a two- to three-bedroom village or town house will cost about £100,000, an isolated farmhouse that needs renovating will be £350,000, and a chateau starts at £1m. Places are more expensive the closer you get to the sea.
"House prices have more than doubled in the past five years," according to one estate agent in Saint Chinian, a pretty wine-making village near Béziers. "One out of every two of the buyers are foreign, which is good for the properties — because they renovate them beautifully — but terrible for the prices, which are being pushed up all the time."
It is not just the Brits who are arriving, but also Germans, Dutch and Scandinavians. A lot of French from the north are also moving south, fleeing the wet winters and hoping to work with computers in cities such as Montpellier. The foreigners come via Ryanair to Carcassonne, Montpellier and Perpignan. There is also talk of a Ryanair flight to Béziers. British Airways had several flights a week to Montpellier but is reducing them from this month. A TGV from Paris to Montpellier takes three hours and 15 minutes.
Living here for the past three years has more than met our expectations. We love the house, the people and the area. Although the choice of properties available has narrowed considerably, the region is still attracting some interesting expats and we have made good friends. The weather is generally great — although it is a land of extremes. July and August can be unbearably hot. It rarely freezes or snows, but the winters can be miserable. It doesn't tend to rain in the summer but can bucket it down for days on end in December.
Are there any downsides to the French idyll? Very few, but I should mention the drivers, who are mad, bad and dangerous. The Hérault boasts the highest fatal-accident rate in the whole of France. But it is a small price to pay for living in paradise.
What's on the market
In Hérault, near St Pons de Thomières and an hour from the Med, this maison bourgeoise has original fireplaces and parquet floors. Run as a five-bedroom hotel with two gîtes, it costs £595,000, fully furnished, through Francophiles (01622 688 165, www.francophiles.co.uk)
With four bedrooms, this villa is on the coast near Argelès, 20 minutes from Perpignan airport. It comes with a pool, a guest studio, garaging for five cars and a cellar built into the rocks. It costs £405,000 through Latitudes (020 8951 5155, www.latitudes.co.uk)
This villa, built in 1980, has three bedrooms, a large living space and patio, and an S-shaped pool. It is 45 minutes from Montpellier airport and five minutes from the coast. For sale through Francophiles (01622 688 165, www.francophiles.co.uk) for £290,000
French mistress
Next month Helena Frith Powell will begin a regular series in Home on how to buy and live in France, using the expertise she has gained from her own experience of living in the Languedoc, and those of her friends and neighbours. If you have a subject that you would like her to tackle, please e-mail her at firstname.lastname@example.com
Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper's Bazaar.
Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi-based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor-in-chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.
Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. She is working on a thriller set in Sweden as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.
In 2022 her short story The Japanese Gardener came second in the Fish Publishing Short Story Prize. One of her stories was also shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize. When she's not writing, she works as a headhunter for the media and entertainment industry for the Sucherman Group.
Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.
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Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)
All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006
Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006
Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007
So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)
More, More France; Gibson Square 2009
To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)
The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009
Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011
The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013
Smart Women Don't Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016
The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016
Smart Women Don't Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018
The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019


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- Diabetes Research News
- June 12, 2020
Supporting Diabetes Management Via Drone
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) affects people from all walks of life around the world. A challenge in managing the disease is regular access to healthcare and necessary supplies. Healthcare providers in Ireland recognized the impact of this problem even more when natural disasters such as snowstorms, hurricanes, and flooding made it difficult for patients to reach clinics for their appointments or to get medications.
As a result, researchers turned to technology as a way to potentially help patients receive the care they need. They spent more than a year working out the logistics and regulatory compliance of using drones to deliver supplies to individuals in remote areas or those cut off from access following natural disasters or other incidents such as COVID-19. The researchers had to ensure that when using the drone, they were following all aviation and aerospace regulations, as well as medical and safety regulations.
The first flight traveled around 20 km each way going from Galway, Ireland, to the Aran Islands on September 13. The Wingcopter 178 drone delivered insulin from a pharmacy to a patient's clinician and picked up a blood sample for remote testing of HbA1c levels. This test flight demonstrated that autonomous delivery of insulin is possible.
There was a significant amount of planning, research, and collaboration that went into making the drone delivery possible, but it is a starting point for making this technology available in healthcare. The researchers needed to have backup plans in place for each step of the process, and they worked closely with a multidisciplinary team including aviation and medication regulators.
However, this successful test flight is a stepping stone toward making drone delivery a reality for patients with diabetes. This could allow patients to continue receiving life-saving insulin and other supplies even when they are unable to make it out of their home. Diabetes does not take a break during pandemics or adverse events, and there are patients who live in rural communities where access to healthcare is a challenge.
Diabetes Research Connection (DRC) is excited to see how technology continues to improve and whether drone delivery becomes a feasible option as part of diabetes management and healthcare in general. The DRC provides funding for novel, peer-reviewed research studies focused on the prevention, cure, and improved management of type 1 diabetes. To learn more and support these efforts, visit https://diabetesresearchconnection.org.


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July 25, 2021
Scaling up a bioprocess can be challenging, but thorough preparation for scale-up early in the process can mitigate some of the associated risks. Here are three tactics that can help reduce some of the common issues encountered during scale-up.
1. Run experiments at bench scale first
Running experiments at bench scale will help you better understand how scaling up will affect your results. Securing additional bioreactor capacity specifically to simulate conditions at scale in order to test process robustness can be helpful in de-risking scale-up. Whether it's mimicking the number of generations in case of strain instability or viability issues, or testing the robustness of each step, running experiments at bench scale can tell you a lot about your expected results. For example, you may want to find out the maximum amount of time between fermentation steps that will still yield optimal results.
One common challenge that bench scale experiments can address is that mixing times are longer in larger reactors. Materials that take seconds to mix at bench scale may take minutes at a larger scale. This can be an issue because there might be times when organisms are more exposed to a certain substrate (periods of excess) and times when they are not exposed at all (periods of starvation), which can have a detrimental effect on strain performance. Mimicking this phenomenon at a small scale is beneficial in helping to understand how mixing at a larger scale can affect the process. We recommend using a pulse-feeding strategy to do this most effectively as this can help mimic how strains may respond to cycles of substrate excess and depletion at scale.
Concentrations of gas in liquids vary with scale sizes as well. Changes in scale lead to changes in pressure, which can change the solubility of gas and in turn expose organisms to different levels of a gas. Recreating this phenomenon at bench scale can provide important understanding of how scaling up will affect strain performance at production scale.
Troubleshooting experiments and scale-up can be a difficult process, but Culture can help. Culture's guaranteed bioreactor capacity can be used to support studies that provide insight into the robustness of the process and potential issues that may be encountered during scale-up before you reach that point. Check out this scale-up data from our customer Modern Meadow, who scaled up to 50,000L tanks from Culture's 250mL cloud bioreactors.
2. Prepare for limitations in large-scale fermentors
When running your initial smaller-scale experiments, it's important to pay close attention to limitations, such as physical constraints, that you may face during scale-up.
A common limitation to anticipate is oxygen transfer rate. Smaller tanks often have higher oxygen transfer rates, whereas larger tanks usually have a limit to the amount of oxygen that can be transferred. If a process is developed at bench scale with high oxygen transfer rates, there is a risk that it won't scale. You can mitigate this risk by understanding mass transfer rates and capping oxygen transfer rates when you run your experiments at bench scale.
When conducting a fermentation process, another potential limitation is feed rate. At larger scales, the slower rate of continuous sterilization of feeds can limit the upper bounds of feed rates that are feasible. This should be factored into feed rate design when developing a bioprocess at bench scale.
A third limitation is the cooling capacity of large-scale fermentors. The metabolism of microbes can generate significant heat, and at a larger scale, the process might not be able to cool down quickly enough, or at all. It is therefore important to design the bioprocess to limit heat production in a way that is compatible with commercial scale facilities.
Additionally, the cost and availability of feedstock can be crucial limitations. If your scaled process requires an amount of feedstock that is beyond your budget, you may not be able to scale the bioprocess in a commercially viable manner. It's also important to ensure that the feedstock is available at scale.
Lastly, if there is variability in feedstock used at production scale, this could affect bioprocess performance. Factors that could affect feedstock include seasonal variation and inhibitory components in less refined substrates. Testing different lots of feedstock that reflect the variations you might encounter at commercial scale can help inform whether this will be an issue down the line.
3. Communicate with downstream processing partners
Another challenge of scaling up is that several different teams and possibly even companies can work on a single project. When there are many groups involved, it can be difficult to see how distinct parts of the process affect each other. Thus, it's important to communicate with downstream processing partners to keep them informed of the likely properties of the broth at the conclusion of the bioprocess. For example, factors such as compounds in the fermentation broth from media and feeds as well as biomass concentration can impact downstream processes. By communicating with downstream processing partners ahead of time, you can ensure you're not negatively affecting their future processes. Culture's Workspaces feature on our Cloud Console makes it easy to collaborate with colleagues at any point in the process.
How to scale your bioprocess
Now that you know some tips for de-risking scale-up, how should you go about scaling up your process? One way to get started is by partnering with Culture, where we provide the bioreactor capacity you need to run experiments at bench scale, and the data visualization tools to analyze your experiments and plan for the next ones. Our team executes your experiments in our cloud bioreactor lab - and you see the data in real time - so that you can understand the robustness of your bioprocess under conditions relevant to larger scales. This, in turn, can mitigate any potential process challenges before costly scale-up runs.
Ready to de-risk scale-up? Start running bioreactor experiments with Culture in less than one month.
An interview with Hardware Engineering Manager and first employee Collin Edington about the new capabilities you can expect from Culture's bioreactors.
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Tough decisions taken since 2010 have created a route to financial stability at Oxfordshire County Council as the council plans to set its 2019/20 budget at a time when all councils face financial challenges.
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The planned redesign of the council around the changing needs of residents and communities will maintain or improve services, with investment in new technology enabling us to save money in the process.
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Have your say
We are asking people for their views on our budget proposals and our proposed Council Tax level for 2019/20. Read the consultation booklet and take part online from Thursday 6 December at www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/budget. Alternatively pick up a copy of the consultation booklet at a library or email your views to email@example.com. The closing date for comments is Sunday 6 January 2019.
Main budget proposals
Budget increases to meet the predicated demand for services
- Investment of almost £6m by 2023 to increase care packages to meet assessed needs for adults with learning and physical disabilities. (Adult Social Care)
- An increase of £5.8m is proposed to be added to the budget in 2022/23 in adult social care to meet projected increased need as a result of the aging population. The council's existing planning up to 2021/22 already includes provision for budget increases of £5.0m in 2019/20 and 2020/21 and £5.6m in 2021/22. (Adult Social Care)
- Invest £3.2m up to 2023 (£800,000 per year) to support the increasing number of children qualifying for school transport – in particular children with special educational needs. (Children, Education and Families)
- Invest £17m to support the predicted increasing numbers of children in care, including more permanent care staff (Children, Education and Families)
Other financial pressures
- Following a review by the Treasury, the employer contributions to the firefighter pension scheme have been increased nationally to meet the future costs of the scheme – this creates a pressure of £1.6m up to 2023. (Communities)
- Energy price increases of approx. 30% in 2017/18 continue to impact on the cost of providing street lighting and along with repayment of borrowing to pay for LED lighting upgrades this creates a pressure of £2.6m up to 2023. (Communities)
- Funding the inflationary increase in the rates the council pays to adult social care providers from 2020/21 to keep pace with potential increases in the National Living Wage and to respond to other inflationary pressures of £3.3m (Adult Social Care)
- A growing number of children in the county have defined special educational needs (SEND). The number of SEND children; the increasing complexity of disabilities, and the legal changes that mean parents can ask for an assessment for more services has contributed to the growing numbers with an assessed need. This is an unavoidable budget pressure of £5.6m as the Department for Education grant does not cover council costs, and Oxfordshire receives one of the lowest grants in the country. (Corporate)
Proposed savings
This is a list of some of the most significant savings that will be considered by members of the Performance Scrutiny Committee on Thursday 13 December.
Children, Education and Families
The following are proposals already announced that will now take place over coming financial years.
- The council is re-negotiating contracts with outside organisations who assist in the provision of children's social care. Block contracts provide specific varieties of care for pre-agreed payment. This would save £2.65m between 2019 and 2023.
- The council is working on a new model of delivering children's social care following the example of other councils who have been able to structure themselves differently to deliver faster more intensive and therefore more effective care to families while at the same time streamlining processes. This would save £1.74m up to 2023.
- Moving children in care back home with increased support rather than keeping them in expensive care placements could save £2.491m. This is based on a new 'safer and sooner' approach to family support developed with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).
- Greater streetlight efficiency due to LED replacements would save £2.6m up to 2023.
Adult social care
- The council currently contributes money towards mental health services that sit with the NHS. This has not reduced over the last five years. Mental health has been protected to date but it is proposed that savings now be made in keeping with savings made elsewhere in adult social care. This would save £1m over 2020/21 and 2021/22 and a further £600,000 on staffing. The reduction in staff spend of £600k with Oxford Health is in order to invest in social work staff for special educational needs and safeguarding and is not an absolute reduction.
- In adult social care, proactive and supportive review / reassessments of learning disability packages of care to increase user independence and ensure best use of resources would save £1.5m
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- In adult social care, savings of £1.5m are expected as a result of price negotiations with providers on long and short-term care home beds.
Areas of uncertainty in budget setting looking forward to 2023
There are key areas in which councils need more information in coming months:
- Fair Funding Review – the Government is examining the current formula that decides funding allocations for local authorities by updating the assessment of their needs. The Government plans an updated funding formula by looking again at the factors that drive costs for local authorities.
- National Government's Spending Review – the Treasury is conducting a review across Central Government as to how each much each Whitehall Department will receive in funding. This will affect local government but also defence, health, home affairs, education and all other Government departments.
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Internet is a platform where people can exchange information with others, everyone can freely use the Internet. But due to some specific reasons, many popular foreign websites are blocked in China. People can only get access to these sites with a proxy or VPN service. This often causes a lot of inconvenience especially for foreigners in China who has got used to visiting Facebook or Twitter and thing. Then what sites are blocked in China and why these websites are censored in China, Listed below are 12 well-known blocked websites in China and the reasons:
1. Facebook
In Mainland China, Facebook was blocked since July 2009. (In October, 2014, the company founder Mark Zuckerberg visited Beijing and this seems to be an effort to lift the ban in China.)
2. Twitter
Twitter was blocked from 2009 to present.
3. YouTube
YouTube was banned in mainland China from March 2009 to present.
4. Blogspot
It was forbidden in China since May 2009, to present.
5. WordPress
This famous blog platform was blocked in mainland China from October 2011 to present. (But still you can find many Chinese blogs use this platform.)
6. Picasa
This photo sharing website was blocked in China from July 2009 to present.
7. Technorati
This famous blog search engine was blocked in mainland China from July 2008 to present.
8. Plurk
This social website was blocked in mainland China from April 2009 to present.
9. Hulu
Like many other sites, you can't access Hulu in China.
10. Dropbox
In May 2010, Dropbox users in China were unable to access Dropbox. Later, Dropbox confirmed they had been blocked by the Chinese government.
11. Wikileaks
China has blocked access to WikiLeaks since Nov 2010.
12. Google+
Google+ was blocked in China since July 2011. And since May 2015, most google services including the search service have been blocked in China.
There are several reasons why these popular sites are blocked in China:
1. The website content violate Chinese law (including pornographic or terrorist content).
2. Domestic DNS instability.
3. The site contains discordant elements.
4. To protect the development of national Internet industry.
The above reasons are for reference only.
Against the Internet censorship, I am afraid you need to use proxy or VPN service to get access to these banned sites if you are traveling to China or staying in China. Please check our previous post to find out some recommended VPN services.


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Shining Inheritance, also known as Brilliant Legacy, is a Korean Drama broadcast from April to July 2009, on the SBS network. The lead was played by K-Pop Idol Singer Lee Seung Gi, The drama consisted of 28 episodes and maintained its top spot in viewer ratings for 10 consecutive weeks, with its last episode attaining a high viewer rating of 47.1%.
Go Eun Sung is a bright girl, returning from overseas, when her father apparently is killed in a gas explosion in Incheon. Her stepmother, Baek Sung Hee, conspires to keep all the life insurance by kicking her and her autistic brother Eun Won out of the house. Eun Won disappears while they are desperately looking for a permanent residence. Eun Sung helps an injured old lady, but finds out she is the president of a national soup company. The lady invites Eun Sung to live with her widowed daughter-in-law and two grandchildren while they search for her missing brother.
This series contains the following tropes:
- Brain Fever: Go Eun Song helps an old lady suffering from this on the street; once her fever is down, it turns out the woman is the CEO of a giant food conglomerate.
- Faking the Dead: Go Pyung Joong
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: Butler Pyo, who cooks, cleans, maintains the household and still finds time to search for Eun Woo.
- Insurance Fraud: Baek Sung Hee, who swindled the Go children out of their rightful portion of the insurance money.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sun Woo Hwan, who gradually thaws as part of Character Development.
- Never Mess with Granny: Jang Sook Ja, who basically kicks her daughter-in-law and grandchildren out into the real world, allowing only room, board, and $10 a day for them to live on.
- The Piano Player: Eun Woo, who eventually is taken in by a bar owner, is a genius on the ivories, even though his autism makes it hard for others to understand him.
- Service Sector Stereotypes: Hwan and his sister Jung, who are forced to work as waitstaff in order to stay in the family home.
- Spoiled Brat: Sun Woo Jung, who spends most of her time on facials and handbag shopping, whining about her difficulties working.
- Wicked Stepmother: Sung Hee. She kicks her stepchildren out, abandons one of them in the country, lies to her friends and colleagues, and causes her daughter to do the same, dangerously coming close to the Moral Event Horizon.


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Backblaze publishes quarterly hard drive failure statisticsBy Shawn Knight 11 comments
Cloud storage specialist Backblaze on Tuesday published its hard drive statistics report for the second quarter, an insightful look at how the thousands of hard drives in its data center fared during the three-month period.
What immediately stands out in Backblaze's chart are the 228 Seagate ST4000DM000 drives that died during the quarter. But, when you consider that they have 34,693 of these drives in their fleet (50.4 percent of their deployment), the failure number is far more acceptable.
Looking at the annualized failure rate, we see that the Seagate ST400HX000 is actually the highest at 19.81 percent followed by the Toshiba MD04ABA500V at 8.91 percent and the Toshiba DT01ACA300 at 8.68 percent.
It's worth noting that the annualized failure rate is computed as follows: ((Failures)/(Drive Days/365)) * 100. As Backblaze points out, one should consider the number of "Failures" and "Drive Days" before coming to any judgment about failure rates.
Backblaze's statistics consist of data drives (not boot drives) and only models which they have 45 or more of deployed.
The cloud storage provider also rolled out 8TB drives in quantity, adding 45 HGST 8TB drives and 2,720 Seagate 8TB drives to the mix during the quarter. Thus far, only three of the Seagate drives have failed; the HGST drives all survived the quarter unscathed.
For those that are curious, the chart below shows Backblaze's annualized hard drive failure rates.
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The 160-year-old reason you're obsessed with your lawn
Frederick Law Olmstead aimed to bring nature to suburban doorsteps. Instead he helped create a dead zone for wildlife.
Just three miles outside Chicago lies Riverside, Illinois, a quiet 1,600-acre village that looks like a tidy Stepford suburb. Few people, however, know that it helped set the mold for many more 'burbs to come.
In the 1860s, a group of local investors wanted to lure home buyers to their land, so they commissioned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design the antidote for crowded urban life. He drew inspiration from his tours of England's public gardens, and dotted his blueprints with large parks and green plazas. He also wanted to create natural spaces that residents could see and reach from their front doors. To do this, he sat all houses 30 feet back from the road, behind close-cut lawns and two well-spaced trees.
Decades later, Olmsted's vision of one of America's founding suburbs came to fruition. Riverside filled up with winding streets, a golf course, and grass-hemmed homes. By the mid-1900s, almost every parcel had been developed.
The concept of a semi-private patch where families could relax, romp, and reap the benefits of the outdoors, meanwhile, spread beyond the town's borders. The lawn is now a cornerstone of bedroom communities across the country, but it's had some damning environmental impacts. US homeowners spend up to 50 gallons of water a day ensuring that their verdant carpets hold up to local ordinances and neighbors' scrutiny. What's more, runoff from fertilizers and pesticides contaminates water sources and kills off bedrock species in the food chain. That's led to a rival movement in recent years, where people replant their yards with overgrown shrubs and billowing sedges to foster real, thriving ecosystems. The individuality might stray wildly from Olmsted's prototype, but it still brings nature to Americans' front steps.
This story appeared in the Spring 2020, Origins issue of Popular Science.


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BandNerd1002 last edited by
What are some tips for a complete beginner for a raspberry pi?
I was a complete beginner when I started working on my mirror. I watched a bunch of youtube videos, skipping the ones dedicated to building frames, and learned about installation. There is an asian woman on youtube who does a tutorial walking through the installation of the magic mirror and its modules. It wasn't perfect but it helped me learn.
Read everything you can. Look at the stuff on reddit. Read this forum. Understand the problems people went through and bookmark pages that seem interesting to you. Learn from people's mistakes. Ask questions. Experiment and get frustrated when it doesn't work. Read code carefully as a slight deviation at all will mess things up. Ask questions, have fun. Use the search feature. Ask questions.
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I am still a beginner but one of my best tipps so far:
Don't use a cheap SD card and make constant backups.
For backups I use Win32DiskImager and WinSCP
before doing anything mirror related, use the pi to turn on/off a light when u press a button…
learn how the pi works.
Get a cana kit. will include most of waht you need and has a very good quick setup guide to get you up an running
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I think the installation tutorial is pretty good, only outdated a bit. Really, you're only talking about 2 commands: The installation command for MagicMirror and the installation of dependencies command for MagicMirror. Installation of your OS is pretty straightforward, as well.
You will learn as you go along. I did, starting out with no prior knowledge of the Pi or coding. I second all the suggestions above. Don't forget to have fun.
@Mykle1 try my install script. It handles missing npm
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RIght! Forgot about that. I used it on my last install
BandNerd1002 last edited by
In the Pi terminal what is the command for the config file?
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This? In the MM directory:
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While his last LP Parallax Error Beheads You (read the Quietus review) might, according to Twitter, be his last, Max Tundra continues to be a curious, diverting presence when playing live. Bobbing, weaving, ducking and indeed diving behind his various gizmos and machines, his sets are skittish and energetic curios. The same can be said for this mix that he's made for the Quietus to celebrate his set on the Village Mentality Stage this Saturday, a collection of MIDI covers that'd do a sonic centipede in your lugholes. For a full tracklisting, see the bottom of this page.
Hullo Max, thanks very much for the mix, can you tell us a little about what inspired it?
Max Tundra: I've just noticed there are a ridiculous amount of MIDI files on my hard drive. I have amassed these over the years from various nether regions of the internet, and the ones I've chosen here feature some great examples of the skill, fastidiousness and occasional bum note of the MIDI programmer's thankless art. Sit back, relax and listen to the preset musical instruments on the internal sound card of my desktop PC belt their way through these lovingly programmed files – and spare a thought for the countless MIDI men and women who stayed indoors hard at work, painstakingly replicating their favourite songs while the weather outside was lovely.
What do you think makes a good mix?
MT: Ensuring the concept of whether a track "works on the dancefloor" is the furthest thing from one's mind. Pandering to a hypothetical nightclub-full-of-people, is the main reason most mixes are so dull.
What are you working on at the moment?
MT: Remixing Abe Vigoda, Marnie Stern and - hopefully - Chilly Gonzales, getting a haircut, watching Wonder Showzen DVDs, emptying the cat litter tray.
What can we expect from Max Tundra at this weekend's Field Day?
MT: My wiggly old tunes, nice and loud, with glorious weather.
And finally, which of the other artists on the Village Mentality stage would you most like to collaborate with?
MT: Bowling For Bacon!
Max's Field Day MIDI Megamix by theQuietus
1 'Coming Up' (Paul McCartney)
2 'Contusion' (Stevie Wonder)
3 'Birdland' (Weather Report)
4 'Peaches En Regalia' (Frank Zappa)
5 'Genius Of Love' (Tom Tom Club)
6 Sexboy93' ("ASHY")
7 '1999' (Prince)
8 'Games Without Frontiers' (Peter Gabriel)
9 'YYZ' (Rush)
10 'What A Fool Believes' (The Doobie Brothers)
11 'Awakening' (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
12 'Dance Hall Days' (Wang Chung)
13 'I Feel For You' (Chaka Khan)
14 Ana Ng' (They Might Be Giants)
15 'Useful Chamber' (Dirty Projectors)
16 'Andy' (Frank Zappa)
17 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' (Cyndi Lauper)
18 'Toccata And Fugue In D Minor' (Bach)
19 'Stepping Out' (Joe Jackson)
20 'Sunchyme' (Dario G)
21 'Mr Blue Sky' (ELO)
22 'Help Me' (Joni Mitchell)
23 'Breakout' (Swing Out Sister)
24 'We Close Our Eyes' (Go West)
25 'I Would Die 4 U' (Prince)
26 'Children Say' (Level 42)
27 'Spirit Of Radio' (Rush)
28 'Proclamation' (Gentle Giant)
29 'Just Can't Get Enough' (Depeche Mode)
30 'Rydeen' (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
31 'The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway' (Genesis)
32 'Beautiful Stranger' (Madonna)
33 'Won't Get Fooled Again' (The Who)
34 'Inca Roads' (Frank Zappa)
35 'Video Killed The Radio Star' (The Buggles)
36 'Our Song' (Yes)
37 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic' (The Police)
38 'A-Punk' (Vampire Weekend)
39 'The Logical Song' (Supertramp)
40 'Sowing The Seeds Of Love' (Tears For Fears)
41 'Heart' (Pet Shop Boys)
42 'You Get What You Give' (New Radicals)
43 'Bette Davis Eyes' (Kim Carnes)
44 'Peg' (Steely Dan)
45 'Senses Working Overtime' (XTC)
46 'The Rain Song' (Led Zeppelin)
47 'Birdhouse In Your Soul' (They Might Be Giants)
48 'Into The Groove' (Madonna)
49 'Virtual Insanity' (Jamiroquai)
50 'Close To The Edge' (Yes)
51 'Let's Go Crazy' (Prince)
Max Tundra plays the Village Mentality Stage in association with The Quietus this Saturday, 31 July. For tickets and more information, visit the Field Day website


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David Graham (epidemiologist)
David J. Graham is an American epidemiologist who is the Associate Director of the Food and Drug Administration's Office of Drug Safety.
Graham has spent his career at the FDA studying the safety of drugs, many of them after approval using data from medical insurance companies. He claims successes in removing from the U.S. market the unsafe drugs Omniflox an antibiotic, Rezulin, a diabetes treatment, Fen-Phen and Redux, weight-loss drugs, and phenylpropanolamine, an over-the-counter decongestant, and in restricting the use of Trovan, an antibiotic, to use in hospitals. He also had a part in the removal of Lotronex, Baycol, Seldane, and Propulsid.
On November 18, 2004, Dr. Graham testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance about Merck's withdrawal of the popular anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx the previous month because of serious safety concerns. In his testimony, he asserted his personal belief that the policies within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were insufficient to protect the public from drugs which carry unacceptable risks, saying "I would argue that the FDA, as currently configured, is incapable of protecting America against another Vioxx. We are virtually defenseless."[1][2]
After his testimony, Graham was publicly criticized by the FDA. He contacted the nonprofit Government Accountability Project, a whistleblower protection organization, for advice on getting his findings on Vioxx published over the objections of his superiors.
In a 2005 interview, Dr. Graham was asked "What Specifically do you believe is broken in the FDA and what needs to be done to fix it? What must be done to improve the drug vetting system ?" his response: " FDA is inherently biased in favor of the pharmaceutical industry. It views industry as its client, whose interests it must represent and advance. It views its primary mission as approving as many drugs it can, regardless of whether the drugs are safe or needed"[3][4]
In 2010, Graham and one of his FDA colleagues, Kate Gelperin, have called for the popular diabetes drug Avandia to be pulled from the market. Their study of the drug found possible evidence of an increased incidence of mortality; however, they found no indication of an increased risk of heart attack, contrary to other published studies.[5]
- ^ David Brancaccio (January 7, 2005) Interview with Dr. David Graham . Now on PBS Transcript. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
- ^ Matthew Herper (December 13, 2004) Face Of The Year: David Graham . Forbes . Retrieved August 26, 2013.
- ^ DICK CAROZZA (September/October 2005) FDA Incapable of Protecting U.S., Scientist Alleges . Fraud Magazine Cover Story. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
- ^ DICK CAROZZA (September/October 2005) FDA Incapable of Protecting U.S., Scientist Alleges Archived 2012-07-31 at the Wayback Machine . National Health Federation (Full original interview available with the permission of Fraud Magazine). Retrieved August 26, 2013.
- ^ Diabetes Drug Avandia Targeted By Reviewers on Safety. ABC News, 2010-02-23.
External links
- "Judge orders FDA whistleblower to testify", Associated Press, March 15, 2006.
- "Bad Medicine" - Interview with David Graham broadcast on PBS's NOW January 7, 2005.
- Face Of The Year: David Graham - Forbes, December 13, 2004
- Congress Told FDA Failed Public on Vioxx - Reuters, November 18, 2004.
- Whistler-Blower Guardians Say FDA Officials Tried to Undermine Critic - San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 2004.
- Attempt to discredit whistleblower alleged Washington Post. 23 November 2004.
- Graham's Senate testimony in 2004


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Condé Nast Traveler's Award Recognizes Fairmont Hotels
– All Fairmont Hotels in Canada's Western Mountain Region Ranked Top 10 –
BANFF, AB – Condé Nast Traveler today announced the results of its annual Readers' Choice Awards with Fairmont Chateau Whistler being recognized as the "Best Resort in Canada", and sister-properties Fairmont Banff Springs, Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise and Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge ranking within the Top 10 Resorts. More than 715,000 Condé Nast Traveler readers submitted an incredible number of responses rating their travel experiences across the globe.
"The results of this year's survey, conducted at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, are a testament to the lasting power of a meaningful travel experience," said Jesse Ashlock, U.S. Editor of Condé Nast Traveler. "The winners represent the best of the best for our audience and offer plenty of trip-planning inspiration for all the adventures we can't wait to have next."
The Condé Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious recognition of excellence in the travel industry. In addition to Fairmont Chateau Whistler's first place finish, the 2020 results saw Fairmont Banff Springs #6, Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise #7, and Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge #8 Best Resorts in Canada. The full list of winners can be found here.
"These awards represent the best our industry has to offer and we are honoured our discerning guests have recognized us as leaders," said Gregor Resch, Regional Vice President, Canada's Western Mountain Region, and General Manager, Fairmont Banff Springs. "However, without the hard work, dedication, and genuine passion for hospitality our employees embody every day, these awards would not be possible."
The 2020 Readers' Choice Awards are published on Condé Nast Traveler's website at www.cntraveler.com/rca and celebrated in the November issue of Condé Nast Traveler US and UK print editions.
About Fairmont
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is where occasions are celebrated and history is made. Landmark hotels with unrivalled presence, authentic experiences and unforgettable moments have attracted visitors to Fairmont and its destinations since 1907. The Plaza in New York City, The Savoy in London, Fairmont San Francisco, Fairmont Banff Springs and Fairmont Peace Hotel in Shanghai are but a few of these iconic luxury hotels, forever linked to the special places where they reside. Famous for its engaging service, grand public spaces, locallyinspired cuisine and celebrated bars and lounges, Fairmont promises a special brand of thoughtful luxury that will be remembered long after any visit. With a worldwide portfolio of more than 75 hotels, Fairmont also takes great pride in its deep community roots and leadership in sustainability. Fairmont is part of Accor, a world-leading augmented hospitality group offering unique and meaningful experiences in 4,800 hotels, resorts, and residences across 110 countries.
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Birth: 1521 Essex, England
1st Marriage: 1550 to Juliana Westley
2nd Marriage: 1559 to Ellen ? Essex Co, England
Birth of Son: 1560
Name: Phillippe Kellogg
Court Record: 12 MAY 1568
Details: Thomas surrendered to William Kellogg two acres of Wymonds.
Land Rec: 1571
Details: He succeeded his mother in possession of the tenement and land called Mondes as appears in the Manorial Court record as follows:
"Whereas Florence Kellogge, widow, late wife of Nicholas Kellogge, deceased, held for term of her life, a customary tenement with a house thereon and 10 acres of customary land formerly called Webbs and now called Mondes with a pightel planted with osiers etc., reversion therof after her death to Thomas Kellogge and his heirs as appears by the rool of 5 Edward VI [A.D. 1551]. Now comes the said Thomas and prays to be admitted in reversion and he is so admitted."
Death: 17 MAY 1594
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