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Possibility to make SecuritySpy HomeKit compatible?
March 2017
I know HomeKit is just starting to come to some acceptable level of maturity, but was curious if anyone knows if Apple has talked about any future capability for Mac software (I'm of course thinking specifically of SecuritySpy) to become any kind of official provider for HomeKit. I haven't heard anything like that yet myself, but it could open some possibilities.
Minus that, does anyone know of any good way to use HomeBridge with SecuritySpy in any manner? Or might Ben at some point consider making a HomeBridge plugin?
Ultimately, I'd love to expose the cameras motion sensors to HomeKit so I could use those as triggers to do other things (i.e. something triggers the motion detector in the backyard at night, turn on the outdoor lights for 10 minutes). I have a ton of HomeKit lights and other things so I've already invested a lot in HomeKit and at this point am only interested in trying to somehow bridge HomeKit and SecuritySpy rather than switch to another ecosystem.
Thanks for any pointers, particularly with HomeBridge. I've seen there are different plugins for HomeBridge for several camera manufacturers but I own 3 brands of IP cameras and they do not all have HomeBridge plugins. So I think the best bet would probably be to "bridge" SecuritySpy itself so that I can utilize the feeds and (maybe/hopefully) the motion detection for HomeKit use.
March 2017
FWIW, I recently bumped into this IOT workflow thats web based. It might be more involved than what you're looking for, but I was thinking about poking around with it and see what's possible with SecSpy functionality expansion/tie-ins for other IOT devices around the network.
April 2017
I'd love an option to have SecuritySpy disable camera alerts from inside my house when we come home. I think HomeKit has a way to know when you've arrived at home.
April 2017
jms703 - this could also be achieved through other means depending on hardware/software available - IFTTT with a compatible iOS app that supports geofencing - being one such software method to trigger an applescript on the Mac running Security Spy to turn off Actions for the internal cameras.
I personally mostly rely on schedules, and turning the Actions on/off for the unusual days when someone is home (or turning it on when we are out in a time when we are normally home) - variety of people in a given week (in my case makes) it harder to automate fully.
April 2017
I'm in a similar position, with many HomeKit devices. While its certainly possible to bring things together with a DIY solution, HomeKit solves the basic problem of getting the tech approved by the rest of the family (who for some reason think ssh'ing into a remote server to turn the lights on is a bad thing!). Integrating everything into HomeKit is a massive win, and anything sitting outside the shared eco-system is going to be less useful.
Unfortunately Apple are really slow in bringing HomeKit to the Mac (i.e. they haven't!). While Homebridge is pretty neat, its essentially a hack which Apple could shut down at any time. As such I can't see it ever being officially supported in commercial software. I'd assume Ben is watching HomeKit very closely, but until Apple offer something official there's nothing that can be done.
Things that could be done now - The iPhone Security Spy app could implement geofencing just for SS. The other easy option is to have an SS Action which turns on a Hue light through the Hue interface (very easy), and then have HomeKit do something when that bulb turns on. Similar you can check the status of a Hue bulb, and use that to control SS using Apple Script..
May 2017
It can be done using homebridge ffm-e.g. (
) and a URL for the camera feed that I copied from the web interface. I've not got it setup at present as Ive recently changed a lot of stuff but when I did it worked fairly well.. although was a bit slow to start.
May 2017
I've looked at HomeBridge, but I am also a bit leery of an under-the-table interface to HomeKit.
Nonetheless, does anyone know if HomeBridge has support for HomeKit security cameras?
What I mean is that HomeKit was updated last year to support the D-Link Omna 180 IP Camera. That is the first (and possibly still only) IP camera that officially supported by HomeKit.
So Apple has added some limited capability in HomeKit for a video stream and some ways to control it. Possibly also some limited support for motion sensor triggering.
Just wondering if HomeBridge links into this directly to allow other IP Cameras to mimic the D-Link and appear as fully native IP Camera to HomeKit?
Of course, with WWDC 2017 only a week away, I hope we seem some HomeKit enhancements tucked in amongst the higher value changes Apple will be introducing.
November 2017
HomeBridge will do whatever functionality Apple provides with HomeKit. Someone just needs to link the two together with there coding skillz!
February 2018
Don't suppose anyone else has had any luck with this? Since my last post the way that used to kinda work doesn't anymore.. I'm not sure why! This is one of the last few bits I haven't got integrated into HomeKit and it bugs me! (The other being Doorbells, thank you very much Ring!)
March 2018
Well in case it's of interest to anyone else there's now a plugin for Indigo Domotics that, along with every other type of HomeKit device, can also add SecuritySpy feeds directly into the home app. It's currently in public beta but in my tests it works nearly perfectly:
June 2018
I added my working config to the homebridge-camera-ffmpeg wiki, hopefully this may help some people out there.
SecuritySpy seems like the ideal interface for camera-ffmpeg because you should be able to get almost anything working without having to do any heavy lifting.
June 2018
Thickey, thanks for posting your working config. I think I have the config correct, but how do I actually see the cameras in the Home app? I have my Nest working through Homebridge, Homebridge appears to load the camera ffmpeg when I view progress in the Terminal, but I do not see how to add the cameras in the actual iOS Home app... Any advice?
June 2018
...and no sooner do I ask the question than I figure it out... I'm not exactly sure what I did this time, but everyone make sure you install ffmpeg first (thought I already had, reloaded it, works...)
July 2018
I can't get the config correct. Anyone willing to share a json file of a working setup that I could modify?
July 2018
I got ffmpeg installed, and the platform loads when home bridge starts...but I think something is wrong with my command line although the json config is fine. I think I'm not including the security spy items where I should.
Anyone able to help?
August 2018
When using the ffmpeg with security spy config, does the home app allow to assign each camera to a dedicated room ?
September 2018
startak11 if you're still working on this, I had problems with the initial install too. It's worth mentioning that there is a full ffmpeg platform that is separate from the Homebridge plugin...you need to install that first. That's where i had trouble, I was trying to install the ffmpeg main platform from ffmpeg.org...it was confusing and I never got it to work. Once I installed it using Homebrew, everything worked fine (
So the process for me was; install Homebrew, install ffmpeg (the full platform) using homebrew, then install the ffmpeg Homebridge plugin (
And this is the Homebridge config that's working for me (using Mac Mini and iPhone 6s and iPhone X)...
"platform": "Camera-ffmpeg",
"cameras": [
"name": "CameraName",
"videoConfig": {
"source": "-re -i http://<<username:password>>@<<address>>/++video?cameraNum=0",
"stillImageSource": "-i http://<<username:password>>@<<address>>/++image?cameraNum=0",
"maxStreams": 1,
"maxWidth": 1920,
"maxHeight": 1080,
"maxFPS": 25
March 2019
Trying to get this to work but no joy as of yet. Installed the components mentioned by
(Homebrew + ffmpeg using home-brew + ffmpeg home bridge plugin).
Used the same config as
as well, with the only difference that I put a colon and the port number after the address and changed the cameraNum to 1 to correspond to my actual camera number as so...
"source": "-re -i
"stillImageSource": "-i
Ran Homebridge and added Homebridge to HomeKit. It runs but no cameras are showing up. Here is the output when I run Homebridge
Loaded config.json with 0 accessories and 0 platforms.
Warning: skipping plugin found at '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg' since we already loaded the same plugin from '/Users/MYUSER/.nvm/versions/node/v10.12.0/lib/node_modules/homebridge-camera-ffmpeg'.
Loaded plugin: homebridge-camera-ffmpeg
Registering platform 'homebridge-camera-ffmpeg.Camera-ffmpeg'
Loaded plugin: homebridge-foscam
Registering accessory 'homebridge-foscam.Foscam'
Loaded plugin: homebridge-nest
Registering platform 'homebridge-nest.Nest'
Load homebridge-camera-ffmpeg.Camera-ffmpeg
Setup Payload:
Questions (to
or anyone else here who has this working)...
1) Aside from getting the right software installed and the right configuration, is there any other step to "add" the cameras (as a new accessory in HomeKit/Home app)?
2) If no, then any idea about why my config doesn't seem to work (again, using
's config with only the mods above to the 'source').
March 2019
I did end up getting it to work. Been working solid for months at this point. Once I installed home brew - And figured out all my syntax errors. It worked. My json file was overly complicated because of the nest devices so that made it more complicated.
June 2019
any chance you could share the relevant part of your JSON? (with username and password removed of course) I've been working on this for hours trying to get my SecuritySpy cameras to show up in HomeKit and am continually getting "ERROR: FFmpeg exited with code 1" errors in my Homebridge log.
I'm confident that I have the regular ffmpeg package installed + the homebridge-camera-ffmpeg plugin as well (I have a couple other Homebridge plugins already running so some what familiar with it all already).
I think it's the data in JSON for my SecuritySpy cameras that is no good... The example that
write out above is different from what
wrote out over on GitHub:
Unfortunately for me neither ways of formatting my JSON do the trick (nor do any of the other variants I've tried). Any chance you
(or any other members who have this working) could post the relevant part of their working JSON for me to reference while I try to figure this out?
June 2019
Help me
... you're my only hope! :)
June 2019
I know it's frustrating. It took awhile for me to figure this out. I'll post my json when I get home in a bit.
June 2019
OK, so the json is too long to post...send me a pm with your email and i'll send it over.
July 2019
August 2019
Any response from Ben on this issue?
August 2019
and others. We certainly appreciate the enthusiasm to add HomeKit support to SecuritySpy, and agree that it would be a great feature addition. However this simply isn't possible at the moment with an official Apple API; the only way is via unofficial third-party software modules, which as
correctly points out could be shut down by Apple at any time. As soon as Apple release an official macOS API, we will be able to move forward with this.
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*The kindling of the new fire and the lighting of the Paschal (Easter) Candle.
*The recounting of Passover/Exodus from Egypt, and the entrance into the Promised Land.
*The service of Baptism and renewal of our own Baptismal vows.
*The First Joyful Eucharist of Easter.
Following the Easter Vigil, Epiphany will celebrate Easter with a delicious breakfast. We will then conclude our three great days of celebrating the Paschal Mystery with the 10:30 a.m. Easter Sunday Eucharist during which the children flower the cross of our redemption. After the service, there will be an Easter Egg Hunt and refreshments for both the children and adults.
Since Maundy Thursday, we have been involved in an extended liturgy which is brought to conclusion at Epiphany's principle service. This is the day of the Passover of Christ from death into life. It is also the celebration of our own pass-over in Holy Baptism, in which "we were buried with Christ in his death and raised with him into new life."


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On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office released a booking photo of Michelle Waro, 43 of Lexington Park.
8/11/14: On August 9, 2014 Cpl. B. Connelly of the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office responded to the 22000 block of Point Lookout Road in Leonardtown for the report of a property destruction.
Upon his arrival he located the suspect Michelle Waro, 43 of Lexington Park walking from the rear of the residence laughing telling Cpl. Connelly "take me away because of this".
According to Cpl. Connelly's statement of probable cause, the victim was seated in the living room of his residence and heard a window shatter and observed a brick flying through the window. He along with the other victims inside the residence ran into the dining room where there are no windows and called the police.
They continued to hear several more windows shatter around the residence and observed his daughter in law, Michelle Waro holding a landscaping brick from his flower bed as she continued to throw more bricks.
The suspect shattered a total of 9 windows throughout the house and the windows on two pick-up trucks in the driveway causing an estimated $8,000 worth of damage.
Once the defendant was placed under arrest she told Cpl. Connelly "this was fun and they are a bunch of Bit**s." Waro was charged with three counts of reckless endangerment and two counts of property destruction over $1,000.
Waro was also arrested on July 30, 2014, for 2nd degree assault and theft under $1,000 on June 27, 2014.


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Body Mass Index (BMI)
BMI stands for Body Mass Index. It is a measure of body composition. BMI is calculated by taking a person's weight and dividing by their height squared. For instance, if your height is 1.82 meters, the divisor of the calculation will be (1.82 * 1.82) = 3.3124. If your weight is 70.5 kilograms, then your BMI is 21.3 (70.5 / 3.3124) (see calculator links below).
The higher the figure the more overweight you are. Like any of these types of measures it is only an indication and other issues such as body type and shape have a bearing as well. Remember, BMI is just a guide - it does not accurately apply to elderly populations, pregnant women or very muscular athletes such as weight lifters.
Calculate your own BMI !
- If you are from the US and want to enter your height in feet and inches, and weight in pounds, use this calculator.
- For the rest of the world, there is a metric version for entering height in meters and weight in kilograms.
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equipment required: scales and stadiometer as for weight and height.
procedure: BMI is calculated from body mass (M) and height (H). BMI = M / (H x H), where M = body mass in kilograms and H = height in meters. The higher the score usually indicating higher levels of body fat.
scoring: Use the table below to determine your BMI rating. The table shows the World Health Organization BMI classification system. The rating scale is the same for males and females. You can also use the reverse lookup BMI table for determining your ideal weight based on height.
|BMI (kg/m2)
|BMI (kg/m2)
|< 18.50
|Severe thinness
|< 16.00
|Moderate thinness
|16.00 - 16.99
|Mild thinness
|17.00 - 18.49
|normal range
|18.5 - 24.99
|18.5 - 24.99
|≥ 25.00
|25.00 - 29.99
(≥ 30.00)
|obese class I
|30.00 - 34.99
|obese class II
|35.00 - 39.99
|obese class II
|≥ 40.00
target population: BMI is often used as a general population measure to determine the level of health risk associated with obesity.
advantages: only simple calculations are required from standard height and weight measurements.
disadvantages: in certain populations BMI can be inaccurate as a measure of body fatness, for example large and muscular though lean athletes may score high BMI levels which incorrectly rates them as obese.
other comments: Other simple measures of body composition, such as skinfolds measures, would be preferable if available.
Similar Tests
- See also the Ponderal Index, which also uses height and weight to calculate fatness
- skinfolds measures
Related Pages
- Calculating Ideal Weight
- BMI calculators using imperial or metric values.
- about body composition
- other body composition tests
- reverse lookup BMI table and ideal height and weight graph.
- Videos of Anthropometric Tests


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Good people who are harassed by debt collectors sometimes wonder if it is ok or right to sue an abusive debt collector.
Sometimes they are told that it is wrong to take action against debt collectors if you owe any money. Sometimes they are told that there is nothing that can be done against debt collectors or that no lawyers will help them.
Today I wrote an article entitled "Are You A Hero For Suing Abusive Debt Collectors" and I hope that this helps you as you think through these issues.
My position is that abusive debt collectors hurt not only consumers but also honest, law abiding collectors. This is not fair and it is not right. As we have explained in a closing argument in Federal Court — it is bad for business to allow these cheaters to run free and destroy honest debt collection agencies.
The jury agreed.
But nothing can happen unless good, honest, determined Alabama consumers stand up and say "I will not take this anymore!"
The collectors use, and break, the laws so it is certainly appropriate and fitting for you to use the law in an honest, ethical way to do your part to stop even the largest of abusive collection agencies.
Be someone that others look up to.
Can I say it?
Be a hero.


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Several space events in Kyiv confirmed Ukraine's status as a hi-tech nation
This fall we celebrated two prominent space anniversaries: the 60th anniversary of the launch of the first satellite (October 4) and the 20th anniversary of the flight of the first astronaut of independent Ukraine (November 19). Several events were conducted around these dates, including the International Space and Future Forum, the world's first CosmoHack, as well as the Space Launch meetups in Kyiv. The first meetup was held after the Forum and the CosmoHack, and the second one was on November 20.
At the first meetup, the organizer Myroslav Vasylenko thanked SpaceHub, UNIT City, UkraineIS and other partners of the event. Paul Thomas, Advisor to the Rector of the Wisconsin University in Ukraine and the Forum speaker, discussed how people will work in the future and who are more likely to keep work. Lead engineer of the State Enterprise Ukrcosmos Operations Department, Sergiy Volkov told about the project to launch the first Ukrainian telecommunication satellite Lybid in which he participated, and presented the work of the Council of Young Space Industry Workers of Ukraine. Nazar Bendasiuk, a postgraduate student at the Institute of Telecommunication Systems of the KPI University, spoke about Ukrainian nano-satellites. In particular, he is a member of the research group that created the second Ukrainian nano-satellite PolyITAN-2-SAU. This satellite was launched this year to study the atmosphere.
Read more: Space and Future Forum and the first CosmoHack
The second meetup started with the presentation by Sergiy Yatskov (UMAKO Suzirya), the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Space and Future Forum. Since the independence of Ukraine, Suzirya has been the lead organization in aerospace education. Next, Oleksandr Butkalyuk and Andriy Muzychenko presented the MarsHopper team, which won the global first place at the NASA Space Apps Challenge with the support of UkraineIS. They talked about their space passion, the MarsHopper's path to victory and new projects. As most NASA Space Apps projects, MarsHopper has a highly developed IT component. Finally, two developers from Dnipro demonstrated how individuals can undertake space projects. Dmytro Khmara, a Space Cossacks team designer who participated in the 2016 FAI World Space Models Championships in Lviv, spoke about amateur space initiatives and rocket modeling in Ukraine. Models of missiles, in particular the prototype of the orbiter, were demonstrated by Dmitry Kostrenko.
Initially Myroslav Vasylenko presented his space meetups project at the СosmoHack. The Space and Future Forum co-organizer and the СosmoHack founder Sergiy Vakarin scored his work as the most inspirational project among the ones presented at the event.
Read more: Space Call: International Space Station Commander talks with Ukrainian experts and students
The Council of Young Workers of the Space Industry of Ukraine was presented at the Forum by its Head Stanislav Tsyhichko. Representatives of several enterprises at the Council also were the Forum speakers, including KB Pivdenne Design Bureau and the National Center for Space Asset Management and Testing. The scope of the Center's activity includes, in particular, coordinate/time and navigational support systems; control and analysis of the space environment, including space debris; monitoring of radiation and seismic conditions and other functions.
The meetups took place at the UNIT City, where many interesting events take place and a local chapter of the School 42, founded by Nicolas Sadirac, has been operating. The school trains programmers based on a new method of self-study without teachers. Roman Kupin, who graduated from the first level of this school, developed a fintech project in cooperation with Sergiy Vakarin.
This year several ESA member states made funding available for fintech-related applications and services based on the integration of space and non-space technologies.
Ukraine has a high ranking in the world in high-tech, including IT and space industry. Ukrainian rocket engines and stages are used in space programs of many countries. Thirteen Ukrainian outsourcing companies are part of the 2017 Global Outsourcing 100, and the rating of software developers 2017 Software 500 includes a Ukrainian company N-iX and seven companies with development centers in Ukraine.


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There's been yet another exciting foodie arrival in Penarth of late: Washington Tea, which has taken over the old Washington Gallery site, which had its own tea shop which was briefly (and unsuccessfully) taken over by Foxy's Deli before the owners of the very successful Waterloo Gardens Teahouse in Penylan decided to move in and make the whole premises into a tearoom.
Mr W and I had already visited during the day and had found it a pleasant venue for tea, coffee and cake – especially if you're a lover of, or even just interested in, unusual teas, so we were pleased to be invited along to the inaugural evening opening for their 'Food and Tea' supper club. The plan is that they will open every other Friday evening, serving a 5 course meal with each course paired with a different tea.
On the night that we went along, the place was packed, with a buzzing group of eager diners anticipating the meal. We weren't sure whether to expect a 'supper club' type set up with group tables, but we ended up with our own table – the table set up being broadly similar to the daytime arrangement. We ordered a bottle of wine from the modest (and relatively inexpensive) wine list as we weren't sure if the teas would be enough!
We were interested to discover that the menu was broadly vegetarian. On speaking to Kas, the owner, who was there chatting to us all, he told us that the restrictions of preparing a five course evening meal for a large group in a kitchen usually reserved for tea room type preparation had meant that a lot of the dishes needed to be pre-prepared – and vegetarian food lent itself better to this, hence the menu choices.
We started with an organic chard and herb soup, served alongside crispy filo rolls of feta, chard and pine nuts. The filo rolls were a hit with me – the chard and feta were a great pairing. They were crying out to be dipped in something too, so serving them with the soup, which was tasty and quite refreshing, was a winning idea! This was followed by (we discovered that the paired teas were served after each course, rather than alongside it) a glass of interestingly named 'Hairy Monkey' tea, a white tea from China.
Next up was raw parsnip, Welsh shitake mushroom, avocado and spring onion maki, served with wasabi crème fraiche, soy sauce and pickled ginger. This was an interesting take on traditional maki rolls, with the rice being replaced by very finely chopped raw parsnip. It was our least favourite course, as neither of us was particularly keen on the raw parsnip concept – even finely chopped it felt as if it was going to be indigestible, and the flavour was a bit overpowering – although all of the other flavours worked well and the wasabi crème fraiche was a pleasant addition – we would have preferred the more traditional rice option! This was appropriately paired with a Japanese green tea, Genmaicha.
The only non-vegetarian course came next: Dukkah coated pan-fried scallops on a bed of cauliflower and apple puree, served with organic leaves. It was ambitious that the one dish that they had to cook in real time, on the night, was something that's as time critical as scallops, but they did an excellent job, and the scallops were cooked perfectly. Cauliflower and apple with scallops is a heavenly combination in my book, so this was definitely my favourite course of the evening. It came with a glass of The Awakening black tea from India.
The final savoury course was organic pumpkin and beets cooked with Moroccan spice, chickpeas and apricots, served with jewelled couscous and homemade flatbreads. This was a tasty dish that looked beautiful, and I'm a big fan of couscous so I really enjoyed it. A peppermint rooibos was a suitable aid to digestion after four courses were down!
Final course of the evening was dark chocolate and rum torte served with a raspberry coulis and Amaretto cream. As you'd hope in a place that specialises in cakes, this was bang on – a rich, dense torte, perfectly complemented by the sharp coulis and silky cream. If I had to be really critical I'd say I could have done with a bit more coulis, but this is only my personal preference as I do tend to drown food in sauce, given the chance! As with all the previous dishes, the presentation was beautiful.
We enjoyed our evening at Washington Tea. There was definitely a nice buzz in the room amongst the guests, and it's amazing how well the tea room transformed into an evening venue. All of the staff were very helpful and enthusiastic, and talked to us about each of the dishes and teas, although at times the service was a little frantic, and some of the staff looked as if they could do with a cold shower and/or a lie down in a dark room by the end of the evening! This was no doubt partly due to it being the first evening of its kind, but it was sometimes very evident that the set up didn't lend itself well to serving a relatively large number of covers all at the same time and there were a few lengthy waits between courses and quite a bit of running around that was only partly 'behind the scenes' (again, due to the set up!)
That said, the food was very good, albeit we felt that despite the quality of each individual dish in terms of taste, innovation and presentation, the menu as a whole didn't hang together that well as it tried to encompass too many different cuisines. It was also a bit odd to have a 'mostly vegetarian' menu. Despite the fact that the scallops were the dish I enjoyed most, this was probably because I hadn't been expecting a predominantly meat-free evening. I actually think they'd be better off planning to do a wholly vegetarian/vegan/wholefood evening, as this in itself could be an attraction, and sits quite nicely with the concept of the paired teas. Having spoken to Kas, he's said that it's likely the 'mostly vegetarian' concept will continue, but with efforts to challenge the perceptions that vegetarian food is often stodgy or boring – and the dishes we tried certainly made a successful challenge as they were neither of these things! He's also said that they may invite guest chefs to cook on future evenings who will develop menus that play to their individual strengths.
For us, the tea pairings were interesting, and it was good to try some different ones as I'm a bit of an ignoramus in this department. It piqued my interest in getting to know and understand a bit more about the myriad of different varieties available – and Washington Tea is definitely somewhere that I intend to go back to in order to do this, although for me tea definitely works better with cake than with an evening meal.
The food scene in Penarth seems to be going from strength to strength, and it's great to have yet another new venue in town, and one that's doing things a little bit differently.
We were invited to the Food and Tea supper club as guests and as such our food and teas were complimentary. The meal with paired teas is normally charged at £35 per head.
Washington Tea, 1-3 Washington Buildings, Stanwell Road, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan CF64 2AD


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Trudeau-Obama summit — A critical need to focus on the Arctic
Prime Minister Trudeau and President Obama will hold their first formal summit this week, and are expected to sign a continental environmental and climate change strategy. But at the top of their agenda must be the need to address a global crisis — the unravelling of the Arctic due to climate change.
For millennia, the Arctic has been a stabilizing component of Earth's climate system. Thanks to the work undertaken over the past several decades by the international scientific community including Canadian and U.S. scientists, we know that the Arctic is changing rapidly, with warming occurring at twice the rate relative to the rest of the planet.
There are many threads in the unravelling Arctic: major disruptions in weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere; major permafrost thaw which is disrupting infrastructure and leading to enormous increases in methane and carbon dioxide emissions, further destabilizing global climate; the loss of sea ice and spring snow cover which turns surfaces that once reflected sunlight into those that now absorb sunlight rendering the Arctic and the planet increasingly warmer; and the tundra and northern boreal forest experiencing unprecedented fire seasons.
The upcoming Trudeau-Obama Summit presents an opportunity to tackle these issues, to be leaders in protecting the Arctic. Two questions are paramount:
How can we slow and stabilize the warming of the Arctic? And, how can we adapt to the new Arctic that global human activities are forging?
Science also tells us that what happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic — the changes underway have major global implications. By the end of this century, it is predicted that alpine glacial and continental ice sheet melting will contribute to at least one meter of sea level rise. Cities, island states, and coastal regions throughout the world will be inundated. In short, the fate of Greenland's ice sheet is the fate of Miami. And, at the very time President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau will meet, Arctic sea ice will reach its annual maximum. This year's maximum is likely to be one of the lowest in recorded history.
A warming Arctic is also disrupting the traditional ways of life for the Arctic's indigenous peoples. Arctic communities must now adapt to increased coastal erosion, flooding, and the increased frequency and severity of forest fires. Furthermore, changing animal migrations (e.g. caribou) and hazardous sea ice conditions on the routes of the traditional hunting grounds are jeopardizing access to essential food supplies. Some communities in Alaska and Canada's North are being forced to relocate to less hazardous areas, particularly due to coastal erosion.
President Obama publicly recognized the dramatic changing state of the Arctic when he visited the region last summer. In his speech to an international audience, he pointedly noted the urgency and opportunity to act by observing: "There is such a thing as being too late." We are hopeful he will take these observations and turn them in to actions at the Summit with Trudeau.
Fortunately, Canada's Prime Minister's key priorities include climate change and other issues critical to the future of the Arctic, such as infrastructure investments, food security, and rebuilding trusting relations with First Nations, Metis and Inuit.
Timing is critical. We have entered a period where we must act together with sufficient speed and scale if we are to avoid catastrophic outcomes. Adaptation to current changes in the Arctic by people and ecosystems has been underway for some time and is a signal of what is to come. We must recognize that some responses will require not only action within our lifetimes, but also action by future generations. Response is necessary at every level within governments, the private sector, NGOs, the academic community, and, perhaps most importantly the people living in the North.
The Trudeau-Obama summit offers the chance to transform the climate change dialogue, building on the momentum of the recent Canadian First Minister's meeting on climate change and the current U.S. Chairmanship of the eight-nation Arctic Council which has made climate change a key priority. As two key Arctic nations, the Arctic must be central to those discussions.
Russel Shearer is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Climate Forum, Chair of ArcticNet's research committee and former Chair of the Arctic Council's Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). Rafe Pomerance is Chair of Arctic 21, a network of NGO scientists and advocates on Arctic climate issues, and is also a member of the Polar Research Board of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.


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Lover Or Mistress?
Are you a lover or a mistress or somewhere in between?
What is the difference between those two words? They make a world of a difference like Heaven and Earth. A lover is one who loves a man for whom he is and does not expect any financial rewards or exchange while a mistress has the connotations of being a 'kept' woman.
A mistress is just there to serve her man and the man puts her up and pays for all her upkeep. She does not enjoy the freedom to do as she pleases like a lover .The lover is in total control of herself.
If you had a choice, would you be a lover or a mistress?
Neither choice is palatable but sometimes in life, there is not much choice for some women. It is not that they enjoy being a lover or a mistress. For some, it is their destiny. When they are attracted to some man but who is already taken.
Love and emotions are like strong tidal waves which sweep them off all rational and coherent thoughts. They are powerless as the strong currents will carry them beyond and into another realm. It is like she is in a whirlpool and there is no way out.
Why do women need to be lovers or mistresses? Can they not live without a man and be happy with their life's?
I think a woman can live without a man but she will not experience the real meaning of life. Life would be pretty boring and very dull if there is no man to play with. Men and women are ideologically different and discovering the differences is an exciting journey in life. Marriage is like an interesting game where it will require two completely opposite people to play and 1 + 1 = not 2 but ,3,4,5 ,6
A man needs a woman as much as a woman needs a man. They complement each other as God designed them to be.
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I found that interesting. I'm in the strange position of being the friend/mistress of a married much younger man. We support and care for each other. The sex is fantastic but doesnt happen that often. I dont like being without a man and I do like being loved exclusively but it doesnt always happen that way
Laura1318; Thanks for your input and validating my thoughts.


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He said the decision had not been taken lightly, and after 'considerable research, debate and scrutiny within the Department'.
The situation will be kept under review and Minister Watterson said he may reconsider the ban if e-cigarettes are properly regulated in the future.
He commented: 'The overriding consideration is the duty of care owed to prisoners by the Department of Home Affairs. There is a lack of understanding at this time of the medical implications of medium and long term use of e-cigarettes. The body of medical opinion is that these products are still something of a lottery when it comes to their impact on the user.'
A prisoner had written to the Minister to ask him to consider sanctioning the use of e-cigarettes – battery-powered devices that convert liquid nicotine into a vapour that is inhaled by the user.
Prisoners and members of staff have been prevented from smoking tobacco products at the Isle of Man prison since 2009. The Department of Home Affairs introduced the policy to protect non-smokers from the harmful effects of secondary smoke inhalation.
The arrangements were reviewed in response to a report by HM Inspectorate of Prisons in March 2011. The Department decided to continue the ban, with a renewed focus on robust enforcement and effective smoking cessation support.
Minister Watterson said he had kept an open mind on the possible introduction of e-cigarettes and was aware of their use in other prisons. Guernsey recently followed the Isle of Man's lead by banning smoking at its Les Nicolles prison, but allows prisoners to purchase e-cigarettes as a tobacco substitute.
The Minister said: 'While e-cigarettes are available or are being trialled in other prisons, they are currently unregulated and questions remain over their safety. The Department of Health's Quit4U service has also considered this issue and concluded that it would be wrong to promote the use of e-cigarettes until concerns over long-term health impacts are addressed.'
He added: 'In light of these considerations, and after lengthy discussions, I have decided to oppose the introduction of e-cigarettes at the Isle of Man prison. However, at some point in the future there is likely to be a greater body of evidence around the use of these products. In the medium to long term, if health and security implications can be addressed I would be prepared to look at this again more favourably.'


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Dan Aykroyd-unplugged on UFO's
Posted by dandare on April 7, 2007
Whilst looking through google video, on ufo subjects, i came across
and watched the whole thing (i think i will buy this, as its pretty damn interesting, and the quality is not good enough on google to do it proper justice)…. alot of areas are covered, with actual ufo footage. I know it was done in 2006, but for some reason i never got round to seeing it.
I also discovered the CNN interview with Dan about the film linked here by someone
Also another small video footage can be seen here…obviously alot of video footage out there is fake, hoaxed, ect.
The links above where not put up by myself, just discovered whilst hunting around, therefore the links to these could be taken down at any time…. i will endevour to find them again if they do.
A extra video i have just found and watched, warrants a look (mexico ufo's)


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During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
David Cuevas is a family man who works as a gangland tax collector for high ranking Los Angeles gang members. He makes collections across the city with his partner Creeper making sure people pay up or will see retaliation. An old threat returns to Los Angeles that puts everything David loves in harm's way.
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.
A parolee teams up with his old crew determined to find a buried bag of cash stolen a decade ago from a DEA bust gone bad, while being tracked by a retired Sheriff.
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions rise as oxygen levels fall and the friends find themselves trapped. Unknown to them, the storm has also brought in a pack of dangerous and hungry crocodiles.
An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can't connect with.
Gabe (J. Lee) sees his therapist (Michael Ealy) every Wednesday. Therapy takes a turn when another patient is "left behind" at the therapist's office and they go on a misadventure to get him home, all while running into odd ball characters in Gabe's life who are helping him get over his last break up.
In a desperate attempt to reach Europe and crouched before an airstrip in Cameroon, a six-year-old boy and his older sister wait to sneak into the holds of an airplane. Not too far away, an environmental activist contemplates the terrible image of an elephant, dead and fangless. Not only do you have to fight against poaching, but you will also have to meet the problems of your newly arrived daughter from Spain. Thousands of kilometers to the north, in Melilla, a group of civil guards prepare to face the furious crowd of sub-Saharan people who have begun the assault on the fence. Three stories linked by a central theme, in which none of its protagonists know that their destinies are doomed to cross and that their lives will no longer be the same.
The TRUE STORY of how a young girl begins to suspect that her neighbour on a quiet suburban street is fugitive family killer John List.
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
A cursed survivor of killings at the Amityville House brings evil to a small island where bizarre genetic experiments are carried out on humans and animals.
Lucy Neal is thrown for a loop when she is accused of being too inhibited by her ex-boyfriend. In an effort to prove him wrong, Lucy creates a rather wild to-do list that sends her on a whirlwind and surprising journey of self-discovery, friendship, and new love.
Reporting from the frontlines of the Okanagan wildfires, Stan documents uncommon heroism on his blog while hoping for a big break that'll make him a household name beyond Peachland. But when he's unexpectedly charged with a shocking crime, he must scramble to salvage his reputation with the civic leaders who respect him and save his marriage to Gail, the woman who's supported him amidst his various struggles. But how will Gail react when the extent – and nature – of the charges are revealed and his innocence is hardly assured?
Gabe (J. Lee) sees his therapist (Michael Ealy) every Wednesday. Therapy takes a turn when another patient is "left behind" at the therapist's office and they go on a misadventure to get him home, all while running into odd ball characters in Gabe's life who are helping him get over his last break up.
A listless grand-daughter, Chance Sinclair, is sentenced to live with her draconian grand-father, August after a violent incident at school and begins to question the source of her families immense wealth and power. When Chance's scheming Mom, June hires a troubled chef Sydney to poison August, the family's monstrous secrets are revealed over the course of one bloody night. Every soul is up for grabs as The Sinclair Family Games Night gets underway and Chance learns that being a part of this family is a blood-in, blood-out proposition.
After Becca receives a distressing call from her suicidal brother Richie, she rushes over to his apartment and finds him alive and well - surrounded by copies of his own dead body.
An ambitious vlogger experiences the dark side of the internet when his latest video, which features an alleged haunting, goes viral.
Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants of this former fishing village, their peaceful life is disrupted when a "scientific" team led by her ex-boyfriend and marine biologist Richard show up looking for three bull sharks who we soon learn aren't just any bull sharks.
A panicked young woman and her two best friends fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau, who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.
When best friends, Jack and Scottie, get a once in a lifetime shot at hidden loot, they take off on a cross-country adventure turned crime spree. With a whiny accidental hostage in tow, and a deranged bounty huntress and Johnny Law hot on their trail, it's going to be a race to the bullet-riddled finish.


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What is Action Bar?
In this post, I will walk you through an important Android UI component – Action Bar. You will also find list of useful posts on Action Bar tutorial following this post. Before we start creating Action Bar, we should know What is Acton Bar and its uses.
Let us begin.
What is Action Bar?
- Action Bar is an Android UI component which occupies dedicated space on top of Applications.
- Action Bar is a window feature which provides User actions and Navigation modes.
Action Bar – Key Functions
- Makes important actions prominent and accessible in a predictable way.
- Supports consistent navigation and view switching within apps.
- Reduces clumsy look of Action buttons by providing an action overflow for rarely used actions.
- Provides a dedicated space for giving your app an identity. Identity denotes Application name and Logo./li>
How Action Bar is organized?
The Action Bar in Android is split into four functional areas and they are shown below:
- Application IconThe application icon denotes the application's identity. Application icon shows up the 'Up' navigation with which User can navigate up the hierarchy.
- View Control
If your app displays content in different views, this segment of the action bar allows users to switch views. Examples of view-switching controls are drop-down menus.
In GMail Android Application, you can see View control as shown below which facilitates User to move from one GMail to Another.
- Action ButtonsShow most important or frequent actions of the application in the actions section so that Users will be able to access it with much ease. Actions that don't fit in Action Bar will move to Action overflow.In WhatsApp Android application, Search and New Chat functionalities are added as Action buttons in Action bar. Take a look here:
- Action overflowLess often used actions are moved to Action overflow. Also actions that don't fit in Action Bar are moved to Action overflow.
The overflow icon only appears on phones that have no menu hardware keys. Phones with menu keys display the action overflow when the user presses the key.
Action Bar – Layout Consideration
It is always better idea to split Action Bar into multiple Bars within the View so that User will be able to access them with much ease. There will be enough room to accommodate multiple Actions buttons based on different category.
When splitting up content across multiple action bars, you generally have three possible locations for action bar content:
1. Main action bar
It occupies top space of the Application which allow user to navigate up the hierarchy from a given screen, the main action bar contains the up caret (<) with which User can navigate Up screen in the hierarchy.
2. Top bar
Top bar displays tabs which allow the user to quickly switch between the views present in the application.
Bottom bar
Bottom bar displays most often performed actions and the actions that don't fit will move to overflow.
Actions Buttons – Usage
- Action buttons play vital role in show casing the important actions that can be performed within the Application.
- You can download icon package from here which are suitable for Applications.
- Think about how and in which order the Action buttons will be organized based on the FIT scheme.
- Frequent – Important – Typical scheme helps developers in placing Action buttons in a order.
- Frequent – Will Users use this action several times?Important – Have this action to be exposed due to its importance?Typical – Other Applications falling under your application's category using such type of Action buttons?
If your application's action falls under either one of the aforementioned category, you must place it on the Action Bar. Move other Actions that don't fall under FIT scheme into Action overflow.
I strongly believe you learned much about Action Bar from this post. If you feel this article should be shared to your friends, please do share it.
Theory is enough.. Let us create Android application that will have Action Bar. Click below link to take you to Action Bar Tutorial.
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Have you ever needed to hang something on a wall but drywall was just not strong enough to hold it?
Using the 2×4 wood board inside the wall (also known as a stud) is the best way to hold things on the wall. But how do you find it to attached things to it? You don't want to have to keep hammering a nail in the wall until you strike a stud. So the best was to find one?
A stud finder…
So how does it work? It finds the density changes in the wall as you slide it across the surface. Generally, studs are 16 inches apart in walls and that should give you a good idea of how often the stud finder should be detecting them.
How to use a stud finder is as simple as 1-2-3.
#1 Place it on the wall where you are trying to find a stud. Turn on the stud finder. Mine has an easy to see on/off location.
#2 Notice where on the line that the light is lit. In this case, it is ready for use. Not all stud finders have a gradient of light changes. Some just have a ready state where no density change has been identified and the other light when it detects a change.
#3 With the stud finder on the wall, pull it across where you are needing to find a stud. Remember that studs are generally 16″ apart (or approximately one and a half times the length of a sheet of paper). If the stud finder doesn't light up all the way in a 2 foot length across the wall then either it has turned off or you need to try again.
See how the light is all the way to the top? That's showing exactly where the stud is located. I generally go kind of slow pulling this across the wall so I can mark the wall as soon as this lights up and mark it again as soon as it goes down.
See how it changes as it detects the density change. You can kind of see the mark I made when it first detected the stud…
Using is a stud finder really is that easy. I've used these for years as we have moved from place to place and it's been time to hang up heavy artwork and shelves and for other projects. If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments below.
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Aerial refueling. Tanking. In-flight refueling. Passing gas. Air-to-air refueling. Tanker tracks. Tanker Toads. Texaco. All terms associated with ensuring one aircraft has the fuel necessary to complete a mission planned to cover more distance than its un-refueled range.
The United States Air Force (USAF) has been refueling its aircraft in flight since 1949, initially employing modified British looped-hose aerial refueling equipment during the world circumnavigation by the Boeing B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II. The "flying boom" method was originally introduced on Boeing B-29s, designated KB-29Ps, during 1950 and 1951. Every Air Force tanker placed in operational service since then has been equipped with the flying boom. Many Air Force tankers can also refuel refueling probe-equipped aircraft using the retractable drogue or "basket."
The video was shot during the pre-flight and actual refueling mission of a Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker from the 128th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) Badger Tankers of the Wisconsin Air National Guard (ANG) based at General Mitchell Air National Guard Base (ANGB) on Milwaukee's General Mitchell International Airport. The unit, equipped with the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker since 1992, is designated as the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron on deployment as an Air Mobility Command (AMC) asset. Prior to flying the KC-135R, the 126th also operated Boeing KC-97L Stratotankers and Boeing KC-135E model Stratotankers. Yes…they shared the same name.
The Wisconsin ANG tanker in the video refuels several 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron (TFS) Triple Nickle General Dynamics Block 40 F-16C Vipers during its mission on the tanker track. The 555th, based at Aviano Air Base in Italy since April of 1994, became a part of the 31st Operations Group (OG) when they moved to Aviano. Evidence suggests that these particular Vipers were prosecuting targets. Enjoy the HD sights and sounds (including talk between tanking pilots and boom operators) in this video.


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Yunhee Kim
Prep: 20 minutes; Cook: 45 minutes.
Recipe Is:
How to Make It
Step 1
In a 2-quart stockpot, heat oil over medium heat. Sauté carrots and onions until softened. Add next 4 ingredients (through apple); sauté until fragrant.
Step 2
Add broth and salt. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer, covered, 45 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
Step 3
Pulse mixture in a blender or food processor until smooth. Add coconut milk, then add salt, to taste.
Step 4
Garnish with diced pear and chives, if desired. Serve with 1 piece of bread.


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Health Secretary under fire again
- 08 Oct
Hunt receives criticism after backing the reduction in the legal time to have abortions, following the attack by Andy Burnham on his policy changes to the NHS and Health and Social Care act.
Newly appointed health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has come under fire this weekend after backing a reduction in the legal time limit for women to have abortions, from 24 to 12 weeks.
Burnham wants a 'referendum on health'; accuses Hunt of not showing an interest in the NHS as £250m of services put out to tender.
Hunt's comments, which came on the eve of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham this week, have been heavily criticised from all sides, with Prime Minister David Cameron forced to distance himself from his health secretary's personal views, and stress that the government currently had no plans to alter the legislation surrounding abortion.
He did however stress that although he did not agree with the health secretary's position he did think the date should be brought forward slightly and that Hunt was entitled to his own opinion, adding: "He is a member of parliament, he is absolutely entitled to hold an individual view".
Jeremy Hunt was also criticised last week by Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary who has spoken out against the NHS reforms and pledged to repeal the health act, calling for much greater integration of NHS services.
Speaking at the Labour Party conference in Manchester, Mr Burnham said he wanted to make the next general election a 'referendum on health'. He warned that hundreds of NHS community services worth around £250m had been put out to tender, inviting intense interest from the private sector and accused Hunt of not showing an interest in the NHS:
At least 37 private bidders - and yes, friends of Dave amongst the winners. Not the choice of GPs, who we were told would be in control. But a forced privatisation ordered from the top.
It's hard to be a shadow when you're up against the Invisible Man. Hunt Jeremy - the search is on for the missing health secretary.
A month in the job but not a word about thousands of nursing jobs lost. Not one word about crude rationing, older people left without essential treatment.
Mr Burnham said that he wanted the health system to work as one and get local authorities involved in caring for the individual.
Burnham also called for "full integration" between NHS and local authorities to improve health and social care services:
If we can find a better solution to paying for care, one day we might be able to replace the cruel 'dementia taxes' we have at the moment and build a system meeting all of a person's needs - mental, physical, social - rooted in NHS values.
Responding to Mr Burnham's speech, BMA chair Dr Mark Porter said:
Delivering genuine whole-person care is of course what we would all aspire to.
The Health and Social Care Act takes us further in a market-based direction, opening up the likelihood of fragmentation rather than collaboration.
What we don't know from Andy Burnham's speech is how he intends to achieve this. Yet more, major structural change, would be hugely disruptive, and particularly when the NHS is likely to face considerable financial pressure for some time still to come.
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Hollie Dyson Photography
Hollie is a fabulously talented natural light photographer/wife/awesome friend/mother of an adorable little boy that takes AWESOME pics. I know this because she took some fabulous pics of my first born in early 2010...then she took THESE gorgeous pics in March 2011. This blog would be naked without her work, as I love it so much I've used it everywhere!
I am also SO lucky to call Hollie one of my dearest friends. I am so happy that our friendship has grown over the past few years! Love you Hollie!!!
You can find all of our awesome engagement shots HERE!
Wedding slideshow by Hollie Dyson HERE
Drum roll please....a sampling of our wedding photos can be found on Hollie's site HERE!
Some of our post wedding shots can be found HERE!
Hollie also took some great photos of us at the VA State Fair in 2012. Check them out HERE
Some of her work:
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Haba 75th Anniversary GlobeFish bath Toy
I had heard many people talk about Haba, and to be honest I wasn't too sure what they were all about, I knew they were something to do with toys and that's about it. When a call was put out for Bloggers to celebrate their 75th anniversary I knew they had to be pretty good to have been going that long, so I took a look at their website www.haba.co.uk to discover that they were in fact a German Toy Company.
I was intrigued and very pleased to be chosen as one of the Bloggers to test out some of their toys (well, I say me, in fact the toys are in fact meant for Tyrus!!)
Our first toy was a bath toy called a Globefish, it is a very brightly coloured fish with lots of bobbles on it.
When we first gave it to Tyrus, he eyed it suspiciously, but after a while he worked out that it did actually belong in the bath and it wasn't some strange creature that was there to attack him!
|Do these bobbly bits come off?
As you can see from the photo below, this has become quite a favourite with Tyrus, I like it because it doesn't squirt too far, meaning his older brothers can't soak the entire bathroom
It empties out easily once bath time has ended, meaning that it doesn't go black and horrible as some bath toys do.
Look out tomorrow for another Haba toy, this one is definitely worth reading about, as it has become Tyrus's VERY BEST toy EVER….


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Archive for the 'Open Source' Category
CodeSpanish monthly listsby Pablo Matamoros - 9 June 2009
Image by Ludwig Gatzke
I always find lists useful. They allow me to have access to resources that others found useful, therefore saving hours of research. So I thought, why not start my own series of lists?
I won't be able to write as many lists as I would like, as fast as I would like to write them. I will do it monthly to make sure that they are seriously useful to you.
I will add links to all the lists that I'll publish on this post for future reference.
CodeSpanish monthly lists:
Stumble it! Bookmark it! Digg it! Menéame! Fresqui Suscribe Suscribe
Richard Baraniuk on open-source learningby TED Talks - 25 May 2009
I'm Rich Baraniuk. And what I'd like to talk a little bit about today are some ideas that I think have just tremendous resonance with all the things that have been talked about the last two days. In fact, so many different points of resonance that it's going to be difficult to bring them all up, but I'll try to do my best.
Does anybody remember these?
OK, so these are LP records and they've been replaced, right. They've been swept away over the last two decades by these types of world flattening digitization technologies, right. And I think it was best witnessed when Thomas was playing the music as we came in the room today. What's happened in the music world is there's a culture or an ecosystem that's been created that, if you take some words from Apple, the catchphrase that we create, rip, mix and burn. What I mean by that is that anyone in the world is free and allowed to create new music and musical ideas. Anyone in the world is allowed to rip or copy musical ideas, use them in innovative ways. Anyone is allowed to mix them in different types of ways, draw connections between musical ideas and people can burn them or create final products and continue the circle. And what that's done is it's created, like I said, a vibrant community that's very inclusive with people continually working to connect musical ideas, innovate them and keep things constantly up to date, right. Today's hit single is not last year's hit single, OK.
Stumble it! Bookmark it! Digg it! Menéame! Fresqui Suscribe Suscribe


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Children's Activities
Kids love to run around, having fun and getting lots of exercise. Make the most of our range of children's classes, holiday activities, and birthday party ideas at our sports centres!
Kids love to run around, having fun and getting lots of exercise. Make the most of our range of children's classes, holiday activities, and birthday party ideas at our sports centres!
Gymnastics is one of the key activities that develop agility and movement skills for all young children. It's rewarding, fabulous fun and a great sport in its own right!
Gymnastics sessions are run by fully qualified staff and are suitable for beginner/intermediate level. Sessions incorporate a number of different aspects to allow children to experience the sport and improve their skills and abilities.
Suitable for ages 5-11.
Places are limited, so children will need to be booked on in advance. Please call our team on 01228 616006 for more information.
Celebrate your birthday with one of our fun filled sports parties.
If you're looking for a safe, affordable place to host a party for your child, come to the Carlisle Sports Centre.
You can book the multi-purpose sports hall for an hour of fun activities and use the seminar room for food afterward.
For more details, contact our team on 01228 616006.
Gymnastics is a great activity for developing agility and movement skills in children of any age and ability. It's rewarding, fabulous fun and a great sport in its own right! General disciplines of gymnastics are practised and perfected using the floor, beam, bars, vault and acrobatics.
Sessions are led by qualified coaches and last 50 minutes. Gymnasts progress from Transition to Fun Fit Gym groups.
Trampolining lessons for children are run on three days of the week, catering for beginners, intermediates and advanced levels.
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|Comets (Intermediate Group)
|Rockets (Beginners Group)
|Comets (Intermediate Group)
All sessions cost £5.00 (Disability class £4.00) per session payable in short term blocks (5-8 weeks). Advanced payment is required each term. For more information, contact reception at 01524 590 841.
UoC Active Summer Activities 2019
Keep your kids active this summer with our kids' summer activities programme. We have plenty of activities for 5 to 7 and 8 to 12 year olds. For more information on anything listed here, feel free to get in touch on 01524 590841.
Mix 'n Match Fun Sessions
These sessions include a variety of activities such as ball games, arts and crafts, team games, relay races, quizzes, obstacle courses and much more.
Each session generally includes at least two different activities.
Themed Days
Your kids will love our themed days, including favourite literary character day, splash day, adventure challenge, favourite sports person day and Olympics. These days will include a variety of activities with games, arts and crafts designed around the set theme.
Drop off time: 8.30am
Session times: 9.00am-12.00 noon and 1.00pm-4.00pm
All breaks including lunch time will be fully supervised. Activities will take place in the Sports Complex.
Specialist Activities include:
Archery, Climbing Wall, Fencing, Judo, Gymnastics, Street Dance, Trampolining, Kidz Fitness Zone.
To register your child for any of our summer activities, please complete our booking form and return it to the Sports Complex in person or by post to:
Kids' Summer Activities
University of Cumbria Sports Complex
University of Cumbria
Bowerham Road
Lancaster LA1 3JD
For more information on any of the activities listed, please contact us on 01524 590841 and we'll be happy to help.


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Electrodeposited black chrome solar coatings have been found to degrade thermally when used at temperatures near 300 °C. This degradation is evidenced by a large (∼ 10 percent) decrease in the solar absorptance for these coatings. The solution of the thermal degradation problem has led to a detailed study of the dependence of the coating microstructure and composition on the plating process variables and how these film properties change after thermal aging. The areal density, ρs, of coatings deposited on steel substrates reaches a constant value as the plating time increases. For thermally unstable coatings, ρs ≈ 2.6 × 10−5 g/cm2, while for thermally stable coatings, ρs ≈ 11 × 10−5 g/cm2. Scanning electron microscope studies of both unstable and stable coatings show that the films are composed of roughly spherical chromium/chromic oxide (Cr/Cr2O3) particles with diameters in the range of 90 to 150 nm. In the stable coatings, the particles tend to form clusters. This microstructure does not change upon heating, although the metallic chromium in the film oxidizes to form fine crystalline chromic oxide (Cr3O3). These data, together with previously published results, have been utilized to develop a model of the black chrome coating. This model is used to calculate the reflectance properties as a function of the average Cr2O3 percentage by volume within the film. The calculated reflectance curves are compared with experimental data for coatings aged for various times at 450 °C in air. Both the model and experimental data show that the solar absorptance initially decreases only slowly as the amount of Cr2O3 increases; however, a rapid decrease occurs when the Cr2O3 content exceeds ≈ 70 volume percent. Thus the authors have concluded that the decrease in solar absorptance with heating can be explained by oxidation of metallic chromium in the films to Cr2O3. It is believed that the clustering of particles in the more stable films decreases the effective exposed surface/volume ratio and thereby tends to inhibit the chromium oxidation. As a result of these investigations, it has been determined that careful control of the film morphology, through careful control of the plating process, is necessary to produce thermally stable black chrome coatings.
microstructure, solar coatings, optical properties
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Pettit, RB
Members of the technical staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Sweet, JN
Members of the technical staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
Sowell, RR
Members of the technical staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N. Mex.
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KUWAIT CITY, Aug 18: Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and Kuwait Municipality, along with the Public Authority for Food and Nutrition, have launched inspection campaigns on sheep markets in various areas to ensure compliance of traders with the approved prices, regulations and conditions, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
During a campaign at Jleeb Al- Shuyoukh sheep market, Head of the Emergency Team at Al-Sadiq Center in Ministry of Commerce and Industry Hamid Al-Dhufairi revealed that no unjustified price hike was detected at the market, affirming that the inspection campaigns will continue round the clock especially during the Eid holidays.
Meanwhile, Acting Supervisor of Public Relations Faisal Al-Osaimi said Kuwait Municipality has set a comprehensive work plan with the cooperation of regulatory bodies in all governorates in preparation for Eid Al-Adha holidays to increase control and monitoring mechanisms concurrently with the "Connect with Us" campaign which is aimed at removal of encroachments on state properties and violating advertisements on all roads and public places.