My previous post on this blog was published by the end of the long-gone month of June. Many things have changed since then, for example, I entered university and was pressed into creating a Facebook account (more or less separate from the rest of my online presence, so don’t look for me, I won’t add you). On that post, I rambled about the recovery from a big server outage that costed 42 hours of tny.im downtime, and over one week of server downtime. I learned my lessons (I doubt BlueVM learned theirs, but that’s a whole other story), and I went forward with what I said I would do: “setting up a new advanced and redundant system” for ensuring tny.im is always up.
That system has been up and running for over two months now, with varying amounts of servers making the redundancy and load balancing, and a plethora of occasional hiccups. Right now it’s composed of three virtual servers (all from different providers…), but there were times when it was composed of five servers. These three servers are paid, and while they aren’t exactly expensive (but not the cheapest, either), you can imagine the bill, so let’s not talk about tny.im profitability now, OK? (I have kind of given up).
However, having three servers serving the same website, with all three of them being almost a clone of each other (which means, all have the same files and database contents, synced), in a DNS round-robin setup doesn’t directly lead to greater uptime. In fact, I have found out it can lead to more outages, since now the total downtime is approximately the sum of the downtime of each server. Of course, most of these outages are partial (as in, only users unlucky enough to have their DNS request resolved to the IP of a server that is down, will actually perceive the site as down), except for when the MariaDB replication freaks out and basically grinds all database operations, on all servers, to a halt, requiring a complicated manual restart of all MariaDB instances, in a specific order (yes, I have spent many hours searching for an alternative database system, and couldn’t find any that met my requirements).
In order to actually achieve greater uptime, one must have a system that automatically manages the DNS records so that the domain(s) of the website in question never have any records pointing to servers that are down. In other words, the “sheep” must be “hidden from sight” as soon as they go “bad”, and should be put back “in stage” once they become “good”. Being DNS something that was definitely not made for real-time record edits, with many systems caching DNS request results well beyond the specified TTL, this system obviously doesn’t ensure that the “bad sheep” are not invisible to everyone watching the show. But if it manages to do it for even a small percentage of the public, it’s already better than not hiding from anyone (and especially, if it successfully hides the problem from the uptime monitor, that’s even better 🙂 ). This explains why the DNS records for tny.im are set with TTLs of five minutes.
The development of such a DNS record management system was also more or less contemplated in my previous post, when I say:
I’ll take this downtime and new server acquisition as the motivation for setting up a new advanced and redundant system, so that if one server goes down, tny.im (and possibly this blog too) will continue to operate as normal.
And in the end, in a later edit:
On related news, Mirasm – the Tiny Server Redundancy Manager – is mostly finished, only needs some more testing to be put on production servers, managing the new tny.im redundancy system.
“Mostly finished”, as we all know, really means “It’s 99% ready, I only need to figure out the remaining 1% that consists on… everything that is tricky and I’m not sure how it’s done”. This is specially true in this case, as I had high requirements for my manager: it couldn’t use any resources other than the servers I had already (it would’ve been easy to have a separate server just for monitoring and editing DNS as needed, but I didn’t want to pay for yet another server on yet another provider), and it couldn’t fail more than tny.im itself. In fact, the time when the manager has to do more important work, is when it is not working, i.e. when a server goes down and so goes the manager. I finally finished the project, and it works as planned. I only got the name wrong…
Introducing mersit, a Tiny Server Redundancy Manager
Pronounced “m-eh-rs-ee-t”, with the first “e” being like the one in “explain”, mersit is a simple Python script (Python 2.7, because I wasn’t sure what libraries were available for 3.x nor if my servers would run it well) hacked together with some sections that definitely look like spaghetti code. The good news is, it works fine, and has been well tested, so if you study it in the “black box” way, there are no big problems with it.
The purpose of the script is to manage the DNS records of the website served by the group of synced servers, in this case, tny.im. It runs on each server, in a peer-to-peer fashion. The peers select a single master, that will monitor all the peers and manage the DNS as they go up and down, “deciding who’s on stage”, and all peers will check whether the master is up, and select a new one that will edit the DNS to “hide the master from the public” when it goes down.
I definitely want to open-source mersit at some point, but not now because it’s not ready for prime-time (see “spaghetti code”, above), and I want to change some things that will make it more general-purpose. mersit has been managing the live records for tny.im for the past week (it’s been peaceful).
I have gone so far as to write a read-me for mersit (mainly for me to read, as I know I’ll forget how it works within six months). I think it’s best if I put the start of the read-me here, instead of trying to explain it all, once again:
mersit - Tiny Redundant Server Manager Copyright 2014 tny. internet media This version is customized for tny.im This is a Python 2 script that manages a group of computers/servers/thin clients/machines in a network (local- or wide-area), by automatically executing actions when something relevant happens to one of the machines. We'll call the "machines" "peers". mersit assumes all peers and the network are trusted. The script is meant to be run directly on the peers that are to be controlled, in a setup where there is not a single point of failure. It is not of much use when run in a single peer; in the context of this script, a "group" only starts to make sense when it has over one element. We'll refer to this script as "controller software" or simply "controller", and to the other software that runs on a peer and which is to be monitored as "application". The controller is made to run unattended, even though it accepts commands (issued by an "operator") to trigger certain behavior manually. The "something relevant" mentioned in the first paragraph consists on one of these "events of interest": - A peer goes "online", that is, it is reachable by other peers and reports the status of its controller software as "OK" or "ready"; - A peer goes "offline", that is, it is either not reachable by at least some peers, or the controller is reporting its state as "not good" or "not ready"; - A peer becomes good-for-work (GFW), which means, that the application is functioning properly and performing its function (such as listening for incoming connections, data to process, etc.); - A peer becomes not-good-for-work (NFW), in which case the application is not functioning properly, is too busy to perform its function (over capacity), or is otherwise unavailable. Each peer works in a given "domain", which is the group the peer belongs to. The domain is specified by a name and secret which act basically like a username and password pair. Peers will only communicate with other peers of the same domain, that is, peers where the domain name and secret are the ones the controller is configured to use. The domain acts as the authentication element; an external party can not join, communicate or perform actions in a domain unless it knows the name and password used by the peers of the domain. (Please note, that communication between peers is not encrypted by the controller - it goes completely plain-text over the network. It is possible to secure the communication between peers using external tools; such secure functionality goes beyond the scope of this software. The "domain" is simply a basic authentication system, implemented using HTTP authentication, to ensure that peers of a certain group don't start talking with peers from other groups. The basic authentication system is enough to protect against the casual script-kiddie, but by no means adequate for protection from a malicious party in an untrusted/open network) The controller on each peer must know _a priori_ (i.e. before it starts) about where to find at least some of the controllers on other peers. Peer discovery doesn't happen automatically, however, once a peer's controller can communicate with another controller, it will add every controller in the "contact list" of the latter to its "contact list". Imagine the following situation: you have peers A, B and C (and their controller software). The controller in A only knows about peer B. The controller in B only knows about peer C. If you start the controller on peer A, then start the controller on peer B, peer A will tell peer B about its existence, and peer B will tell peer A about the existence of a peer C (independently of peer C being running/reachable). However, if the controller in A knew about no peer (other than itself), it would never find peer B or C even if their domain settings all matched. Even though a big domain can be bootstrapped from just two peers, to ensure good operation, all controllers should know about all peers. This way, if the controller on a peer resets for some reason, it will have a greater chance of reaching another peer. The "contact list" is the list of "known" peers. The controller keeps three lists of peers in memory: the "known" peers, the "reachable" peers, and the "GFW" (good-for-work) peers. The list of known peers is initialized from the source code's configuration section when the controller starts. It then proceeds to see which peers are "reachable", that is, can be reached through the network, are in the same domain (not being in the same domain gives the same effect as not being reachable over the network) and have their controller software report its state as "OK". This initial status checking includes the exchange of some other information about the controller. Once this initial peer identification is done, the controller enters a monitoring loop where it will keep the contents of the three lists up-to-date. The controller keeps running this infinite loop throughout most of its lifetime. How the lists are kept up-to-date and what happens when their contents change is something that depends on the current controller mode. There are two possible modes for controller operation: master and non-master. There is exactly one controller in master mode per domain, and this controller is usually called "the master" (the master peer has the controller in master mode). The differences between the modes are mostly related to what happens in the monitoring loop, but before going into those differences, it is important to understand how the controllers decide which peer is the master peer. When a controller starts and there are no reachable peers, it promotes itself to master, since there must be exactly one master per domain. Later, when another controller joins the domain (either because it started or because it went online after e.g. a period without connections or power), it checks which peers are reachable from its "known" list and "asks" them which is the master peer. Every peer should reply with the same peer, in which case the new controller assumes that peer is the master, and informs the master about its existence, to account for the fact that the new peer may not be in the master's "known" list. However, and especially on domains where not all peers initially know about every other peer, it's possible that a "head split" occurs and there are two masters in the same domain. Imagine a domain where there are four peers D, E, F and G. D only knows about E, which in turn only knows about D. F doesn't know about any peer, and we'll leave G aside for now. All peers are offline. The D controller starts up, sees it can't reach the only peer it knows (E), so calls itself master. The E controller starts up and reaches D, D says it is the master, E assumes D is master, all is fine. The F controller starts up, sees it can't reach any peer because its "known" list is empty, so calls itself master and sits quietly waiting for someone to contact it, which in turn would let it know about more peers. We now have the following situation ([M] represents a controller in master mode, --- represents the knowledge peers have of each other): -DOMAIN------------------ | | | D[M]-----E F[M] | | | ------------------------- Things could be like this forever, and no conflicts would occur - however, this is probably not a domain you want to have, since F doesn't know about any "event of interest" related to D or E, and these two don't know about any events related to F. In this situation, D--E and F act like separate domains. Assume that G is a peer which knows about D, E and F, and that its controller starts up, contacting D, E and F. The first two will agree that D is the current master, but F will disagree and say it is the master. At this point we have a conflict. There are many ways to solve this, including some form of "voting" (e.g. the peer the largest amount of the peers say is the master effectively becomes it), but mersit solves this in a simpler way. The controller checks that everyone in the domain agrees on what peer is the master on every iteration of the monitoring loop. It does this by "asking" each peer in the list of known peers who is the master. The first peer asked is free to reply with any peer. The ones that are asked next must agree with the first one. If not, the controller that was doing the loop tells each disagreeing peer that the actual master, is the one from the first peer's reply. It is possible that a minority is asked first, and thus everyone is forced to "change its opinion" to that of the minority. This is not a problem - mersit assumes all peers are trusted. Note that it can sometimes take some iterations of the monitoring loop for all peers to settle on a single master, because two (or more) peers may be trying to "change the opinion" of the other peers to different masters. This is not a problem either, because even if this kind of concurrency conflict happens once or twice in a row, it will stop happening as soon as one peer is faster than the other to tell everyone (including the other peer(s) that are trying to "change opinions"). What matters is that in the end, every peer knows about all others, and there is a single master. In this case, it could be D: -DOMAIN-------------------- | | | D[M]-----E-----F-----G | | | --------------------------- If the master becomes unreachable, or its controller stops working, the other peers will also find themselves a new master, by sorting the list of reachable peers alphabetically and choosing the first peer in the sorted list. Of course, if for some reason the list is not consistent across peers, the peers will try to "convince" others to settle on who they "think" is the master as previously explained, until everyone is set to the same master. Being the master essentially changes what happens in the monitoring loop. When a controller is in master mode, it is responsible for updating the list of "reachable" and "GFW" peers, by checking which peers are reachable (both in terms of network and in terms of functioning controller) and which have the application in a working condition. If there are changes in the lists that indicate an event of interest, it runs the appropriate handler. If, for example, a peer becomes NFW due to a problem in the application, it will stop being in the GFW list, and the handler function for when a peer leaves that list will be run with the peer in question as the argument. If the master becomes unreachable (network error, controller error, etc.), a new master will be found, as explained in the previous paragraph, and the new master is responsible for running the handler with the previous master as argument. When a peer is not master, it won't run any handlers for events of interest, and it is not responsible for updating the "reachable" and "GFW" lists - it will retrieve these from the master. The controllers on all peers need to keep their lists up-to-date, sharing a "vision of the domain" similar to that of the master, so that any peer can become a master instantly in case of necessity, without having to spend time performing checks on all peers and ensuring it has the best-and-latest list of "known" peers. The operator can manually tell a controller to become the domain's master. When the appropriate command is issued, the controller will send a command to every other controller instructing them to switch to the new master. This command may not always have an effect in some controllers, because while the first controller is sending the commands, other controllers are seeing if everyone agrees on who's the master, and issuing the same commands with another master in mind. This is a sequence of events picturing the situation, in a domain where there are three peers H, I and J, and H is the initial master: 0. ... 1. Peer H checks that every controller agrees it is the master (all agree); 2. Peer I checks that every controller agrees H is the master (all agree); 3. Peer J checks that every controller agrees H is the master (all agree); 4. Operator issues command for peer I to become master; 5. Controller on I assumes it is master, starts sending commands to other peers; 6. Peer H checks that every controller agrees it is the master, before the message from I that I is the new master can get to H; 7. Peer H finds out I (and possibly others) don't agree, sends them commands to change the master back to H; 8. Peer I changes master back to H; 9. Peer I checks that every controller agrees H is the master (all agree); 10. Peer J checks that every controller agrees H is the master (all agree); 11. ... If the master doesn't change when the manual command is issued, it's a matter of trying again. Most often, this kind of concurrency problem does not occur, and even when it does, it does no damage. While it is true that mersit could detect this situation and keep issuing commands automatically until the decision takes effect, we chose to not make it this way to allow the human operator finer control. The primary focus of mersit is to monitor a distributed application. The master checks if the application, or part of the application, running on a certain peer is in working condition by asking that peer's controller about the state of the application it is monitoring. In turn, this controller runs a function, defined by the mersit user in the mersit source code, that should check the application and return True (if application OK) or False (if not). This can involve, for example, making a HTTP request to a HTTP server in that peer to verify it is working. The controller then communicates the status of the application to the master (which may be itself). All this shouldn't take too long, especially when the domain has many servers, as only one peer is asked at a time. If checking the status of the application typically takes over one second, it is best to store the last known status in a variable, and update that state periodically in an asynchronous manner that may be external to the mersit script.
The part related to DNS records is not explained on the read-me, because it is related to the handlers (which each mersit user would customize to the specific needs of the system – as I said, I tried to make it a general-purpose script). Sounds interesting? Feel free to ask questions, or point out problems, in the comments.


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HEY Y’all hahah you like how Texan I sounded just now?
Do you know how many people live in Texas who have never been to BIG Bend NP?!?!?! Almost everyone I have talked to has never been there before. Like come on people its only a few hours drive for incredible views and an amazing outdoor experience. This trip we spent 5 days exploring and mostly driving all over creation because lets face it. It really is true when they say everything is bigger in Texas. It takes a lonnnngg freakin time to drive anywhere when you are out there in the middle of no where.
Our Thanksgiving this year was a little different than your average joe Thanksgiving holiday. There was no turkey with cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie and football afterwards. We actually camped in an Airbnb Camper in the literal middle of no where dirt desert, near a place called Terlingua Ranch. It even had rain catchers for all the potable water. My in-laws and their dog went with us and let’s just say it was a very full camper.
The first day we got there we got to explore the park a little bit but were were on a mission. It was thanksgiving day and we actually went to a little town in Mexico for a thanksgiving lunch. The park actually has a port of entry where you cross the Rio Grande river in a little row boat. You pay the guy waiting 5 dollars a person to get across and then you pay another guy waiting on the other side 5 dollars to ride a burro, truck, or horse into the little town of Boquillas population 100. Our guide, who walked us to town on the burros, did not speak any English. Thank goodness I took a few years in high school because we would have been completely screwed if not. He showed us the two restaurants to choose from and funny enough they have the same owner. He walked us in and they said we could have Cabrittos Tacos or Tamales. So we picked both and of course Corbin got a Cerveza. Afterwards we walked to the end of the town which is not very big and were incredibly humbled and thankful for the life that we have. It made our thanksgiving that much better. The only way those people make any money is from the tourists that visit from the park and so we made sure give a special thanks to our guide who kindly showed us his home town.
When we were all finished with town we ended up driving around the park for a while and exploring all the places to site see and view the most stunning views! We had the darnedest time trying to find somewhere for thanksgiving dinner and ended up going to a really awful Mexican restaurant outside the park. When you are in the middle of the desert there are only a few choices for food and I don’t think we found anywhere worth mentioning here in this post. We are total foodies and sort of food snobs and I would definitely talk about the food if there was any worth talking about but sadly the food was disappointing.
The following day we went mountain biking at this place called Lajitas Trails which is in Lajitas Texas a small little desert town. It is the only trail system that is not in the state park or national park and its free! To call it mountain biking would be a lie. Its more like trail riding but we had a blast! Riding on the sand in a desert like terrain. The cacti were HUGE! and every plant had evil thorns all over them. We joked saying don’t fall and what happened well I got in a fight with a bush and a rock and the rock won. Needless to say I ended up with a monster bruise on my thigh. We ended up doing the entire outer loop trail which ended up being 14 miles I think and took us about three hours to complete with little to no rest. We have had to opportunity to ride our bikes in many different terrains and its fun to experience it all!
One thing that we really miss about Colorado the most is all of the hot springs all over the place. We even got married at a hot springs resort thats how much we love them. When we got to Big Bend and did some research on what there is to do there and found out that there is a natural hot spring in the Rio Grande River, we were so stoked! There is a short dirt road you drive down to get to a small parking area. From there you hike about a half mile to this place in the river where I guess there used to be what you would call like a bathhouse on the water where people would sit in the hut/house and soak in the hot water. Now all that remains is some of the rock walls where you can sit and put your feet in or sit in the middle almost sort of like a small pool that is filled by the river water. We decided to get up really early to do a sunrise hike and watch the sun come up with all the beautiful stars around us while we soaked in the hot springs. A park ranger told us that any other time of the day will be packed. We only had a couple other people there with us and it was very pleasant. Now when you think of hot springs you think of fancy resort or nice soaking pools. This is definitely not for the faint of heart and you better not wear your fancy white bath robe because you must crawl down a mud hill to sit in a dirty river. Very rustic and not at all spa like but still awesome in its own crunchy granola hippie way!
After that we met up with the in-laws again and drove three hours to the Mcdonald’s Observatory for a evening star viewing party. My father in-law had purchased tickets for all of us to look at the stars starting at 7pm. Well lets just say we get there after driving and rushing through dinner to find out he had purchased the tickets for the following night and didn’t realize it. SOOOOOO we waited around for an hour to see if anyone wasn’t going to show up to use their tickets but unfortunately we were unable to use the telescopes and have a guide point out all the different constellations. This place is on the top of a mountain and so we sat outside and looked at the stars for a bit and decided to head home for the long three hour drive back. It was a huge disappointment but we were not going to do that drive again the next day.
The in-laws decided to leave the next morning and we didn’t have any other plans so we hung out at the camper the rest of the day and took a short drive to a place called Terlingua Ranch. It’s a large hunting and camping ranch except its pretty rustic. We went and had lunch at their restaurant call the Bad Rabbit, had a pretty decent burger for the middle of no where. Other than that we just relaxed and enjoyed the sunshine and no cell service. It was a peaceful and pleasant holiday with no fuss and no worries at all.
If you ever get a chance to go and check out Big Bend National Park I highly recommend that you do! I know it may seem like a trek to get to but you will not be sorry that you did it. I would even say to camp and reserve a spot in the park so that you get the full experience! The landscape and the views are out of this world. You almost feel like you are on anther planet. When they say its so dark out there it really is and the stars are so bright it feels like you are in the middle of a snow globe and the stars are just all around you. The silence is breathtaking and the remoteness is a good mental reset. If you ever make it out, I would love love love to see your photos and let me know what you think!
That’s all for now!
Get out there and explore all there is this world has to offer. You never know, some of the most beautiful things may just be in your backyard.

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It takes a lot of energy to haul a ship through the water, which is why the maritime industry is often described as one of the final frontiers of decarbonisation. The gargantuan size of industrial vessels and the long distances they typically travel mean they’re not easily powered by green technologies such as lithium batteries.
Yet considering the industry is responsible for around 2.5% of the world’s total CO2 emissions and around 90% of everything people consume is moved by sea, there is a desperate need to find solutions.
Hydrogen is thought to be the answer. Technology providers are racing to build vessels that replace polluting hydrocarbon-based bunker fuel with hydrogen fuel cell technology. Yanmar Power Technology (YPT) is one. The Japanese-based manufacturer and supplier recently completed what it says is the world’s first 70 MPa high-pressure hydrogen refuelling of a ship using a demonstration test boat equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell system.
The higher refuelling pressure means more fuel can be added to the tanks to increase the cruising time of vessels and in turn improve the commercial viability of a range of hydrogen fuel cells at sea.
The new system, tested in collaboration with Toyota Tsusho Corporation, using a specially licensed high-pressure facility and a newly-developed prototype long hydrogen refuelling hose, resulted in more than three times longer cruising time compared to the previous process.
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This kind of technology has already been deployed to the automobile industry for fuel cell vehicles, buses and trucks but the length of the refueling hose of these applications is too short – often around three meters – to serve ships which are not set close to onshore facilities.
“To adapt to this, we’ve demonstrated a longer hose – around 30 meters – so it can reach to a ship on the quay from the onshore refuelling facilities, and executed a safe refuelling procedure,” says a YPT spokesperson.
The trial used a Mobile Hydrogen Station refuelling system, suitable only for fuel cell vehicles, and a YPT demonstration boat that was 38 feet in length and carried eight hydrogen tanks. During the pilot researchers had a couple of intervals to fill-up hydrogen into the refuelling system, which verified the configuration, and that it could be used for refuelling vessels. However, the system needs to be scaled up for practical operation, says the spokesperson.
The system, once finished, will be installed into a 300kW class maritime fuel cell system the company is developing based on Toyota’s MIRAI fuel cell modules.
This type of technology is in demand from its customers, says YPT, and this trial will support market deployment of hydrogen fuel cell systems as well as the study of hydrogen refuelling infrastructure for ships. It also supports Japan’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Roadmap to Zero Emissions from International Shipping established in March 2020 which aims to deploy the first-generation ‘zero emission ship’ by 2028.
Sailing towards commercialisation
Japan is one of the major players in global shipping and shipbuilding sectors and hopes to actively contribute to the International Maritime Organization’s target of reducing total annual greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels.
Japan is also keen to develop hydrogen as an energy fuel to end its overreliance on overseas fossil fuels, which account for around 98% of automobile fuels. It also plans to cut harmful emissions by 26% to 2030 and 80% by 2050.
YPT aims to obtain approval from classification societies so the refuelling system can be installed in various types of ships with global customers towards a planned launch to market in 2023. The company says that although the demonstration verified that 70MPa high pressure hydrogen refueling of a ship is possible, there are still things to be investigated and developed for deployment.
“For example, the refuelling protocols such as pressure increase rates need to be further investigated and optimised,” says the spokesperson. “Also, the longer hose we used is a prototype and more sophisticated commercial products will have to be developed.”
YTP is one of several companies making progress developing hydrogen systems for refuelling shipping vessels, all of which are mostly for the small boat sector, which experts believe will act as a proving ground to scale up the technology for bigger merchant vessels.
Last June, CMB Tech opened what it says is the first multimodal hydrogen refuelling station in Antwerp, Belgium to produce green hydrogen for ships, tube trailers, cars and buses. It previously launched the Hydroville in 2017, which is a hydrogen-powered passenger ship.
US-based Switch Maritime also announced the first hydrogen refuelling of its new 75-passenger ferry in November 2021. The vessel, called the Sea Change, received hydrogen into its 242 kg tanks on the upper deck, and uses hydrogen in fuel cells to produce electricity to power electric motors for distances up to 300 nautical miles and speeds of up to 20 knots.
Looking ahead to hydrogen-powered shipping
Ultimately, YPT aims to power a variety of ships by hydrogen fuel cell systems as well as hydrogen combustion engines. By 2023, it expects there will be hydrogen refuelling stations available to make use of its technology in several ports, with the number of the stations increasing as ‘interest grows’ in the use of hydrogen powered ships to ‘transform society to being carbon-neutral’.
However, challenges remain ahead of the widespread implementation of hydrogen. Hydrogen has low energy density compared with heavy fuel oil and needs to be stored in liquid form below -253oC using large cryogenic tanks, which are unwieldy for large cargo ships. Critics say that projects such as CMB’s only demonstrate that the system is viable on small scales on set routes, and in areas with refuelling infrastructure already in place.
The need to act remains pressing, regardless. Carbon dioxide emissions of global shipping are on the rise, having increased by around 4.9% in 2021 compared to the previous year, surpassing 2019 levels, according to analysis by Simpson Spence & Young.
YPT expects fuel cell powered ships operating around the world by 2025, which could go some way to reversing this trend.


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The sometimes unenviable task of hosting the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner will be tackled this year by Joel McHale, one of the stars of the NBC comedy "Community," the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports.
"It’s still unknown if ‘Community’ will reach its long-stated goal of six seasons and a movie, but Joel McHale will at least get an opportunity to plead his case to President Obama," the story notes.
McHale is also known for hosting the E! series "The Soup."
The Times piece notes: "The annual dinner in Washington, hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association, has had an increasingly Hollywood bent to it in recent years, with more and more celebrities appearing as guests.
"McHale will sit at the head table, along with the president and first lady, and will perform a comedy routine for the association’s centennial dinner. The WHCA was founded in 1914."
In a statement, Steven Thomma, president of the WHCA, said: "We’re thrilled that Joel will headline the dinner when we celebrate our centennial. He’s sharp, funny, and just the type of comic who can navigate the unique challenge of our dinner, making fun of Democrats, Republicans and especially the news media. Washington can use a little good-natured ribbing."
In recent years the job has gone to TV fixtures including Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and Jay Leno.
"The dinner has come under increasing criticism in recent years by people who feel the event creates the feeling of a clubby, friendly relationship between the administration and the people whose job it is to cover them," the Times report notes.
McHale commented on the gig on Twitter, telling his fans: "My material will be equally offensive to all & over within 30 min — just like a Congressional work year."


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Benny Goodman, clarinet; Lionel Hampton, vibes; Teddy Wilson, piano; Gene Krupa, drums. With George Duvivier on bass. Hey, that Lionel Hampton's gotta be the King of Swing!
A Tribute to Benny Goodman.
Peanuts Hucko: все альбомы, включая Milestones of a Jazz Legend: Louis Armstrong, Vol. 10, Are You Here, What I Want и другие.
Peanuts Hucko: American big band musician. His primary instrument was the clarinet but he sometimes played various saxophones. Caravan, After You've Gone, Someday Sweetheart и другие песни. Вся дискография, Радио, Концерты, рекомендации и похожие исполнители.
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All the great songs and lyrics from the "A Tribute to Benny Goodman" album ont he Web's largest and most authoritative lyrics resource. Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko (April 7, 1918 - June 19, 2003) was an American big band musician. His primary instrument was the clarinet.
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Michael Andrew "Peanuts" Hucko (April 7, 1918 - June 19, 2003) was an American big band musician. He was born in Syracuse, New York, and moved to New York City in 1939; he played tenor saxophone with Will Bradley, Tommy Reynolds and Joe Marsala until 1940.
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North Yorkshire residents urged to be vigilant after spike in thefts
Officers are urging residents in North Yorkshire to be vigilant, following a spike in thefts from vehicles across the county.
North Yorkshire Police there had been a sharp rise in the number of vehicles being broken into York and Harrogate over the last month.
Extra patrols are now in place, and local policing teams are organising series of awareness events to encourage residents - especially those working with tools - to mark high value items.
A 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the thefts in Harrogate.
Inspector Lee Pointon, of York Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: “We urge tradespeople with vans containing high value tools to come to one of our property marking events. We have recently seen a rise in tradesperson’s vans being targeted in York and we want to do all we can to help you keep your property secure.
“Often, there is no way of identifying rightful owners of stolen property. Being able to trace the ownership of the property not only helps people get their property back, but it can also provide evidence that is vital in securing convictions.
“Pop down to one of our free events to have your property marked by our Dot Peen Machine and receive advice on replacement locks and other security devices”.
The next police property marking event will be held in the B&Q car park, Skipton Road, Harrogate, from 9am on Saturday.
In York, a similar event will take place from 4.30pm on Tuesday at Athena House, in Kettlestring Lane.

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In late December, Junrell Fuentes Revilla was riding his motorcycle through the mountains near Cebu in the Philippines when a dog started running after him.
The dog was barking desperately to get Junrell’s attention. The biker sensed that the dog was trying to tell him something, so he stopped his bike and approached him.
The dog led Junrell to a rubbish dump and then to a small bundle squirming on the ground.
“To Revilla’s surprise, he found a baby wrapped in a brown towel,” explains Gea Ybarita, a staff member at Hope for Strays, a non-profit organization that helps animals.
“The place where the baby was found is isolated since it’s on top of the mountain.”
Junrell picked up the newborn and rushed him to the nearest police station, where the Department of Social Welfare responded. Thanks to the dog’s quick thinking, the baby was found just in time and was still in good health.
When the story of the stray dog’s heroism spread to the local news, Hope for Strays volunteers rushed into the mountains in the hope of finding the dog.
But against all odds, they came across a man who claimed the dog, named Blacky, belonged to him.
“He showed us the way to his house and, to our surprise, Blacky was there with three other dogs,” says Gea. “We were able to verify that it wasn’t a stray at all.”
Rescuers were relieved that Blacky had a loving home, but it was clear that the dog and his family still needed help.
Blacky’s owner said, ‘No matter how hard life is, even though I’m poor, I feed all my dogs and take good care of them.’ reports Gea.
Since then, Blacky and his family have received a great deal of support from the community, including donations of food, pet supplies and much more.
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My first session of 2021 and I can’t imagine a better way to start the new year.
My goodness did it feel great to finally meet and photograph this family! This mama originally booked her session for the end of March. But, because of the corona virus we postponed twice. To say that I was excited to finally be able to get back out and shoot is an understatement. And, to have […]
As a photographer, walking into someone’s home for a session can be somewhat intimidating. You never know what to expect as far as lighting, the space, colors and what obstacles you may need to work around in order to create beautiful images for them. However, for me, all of these “unknowns” are what make in […]

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She sees you when you’re eating, she knows when you want food … she knows when you want healthy products, and she knows what’s really good! Carol Claus is coming to town!
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Did you know that this is the busiest time of year for Maine’s Maple Trees? Even with worst of winter in ten years, Maine has something sweet to offer, as the maple sugaring season got underway this past weekend. This year the SAP has started late and and is flowing slowly but should be flowing abundantly within the next few weeks. The trees are tapped, and in a good year, one large forty year old Maple Tree may produce as much as 60 gallons of sap.
It takes about 40 quarts of the sap to get one quart of the golden maple syrup that you find beside your pancakes, ice cream or in maple candies. Maine is the 3rd largest producer of Maple Syrup. Visit Maine’s maple producers this spring as they celebrate Maine Maple Sugaring Weekend Saturday and Sunday March 21 – 22 the day the sugar makers around the State open the doors of their sugarhouses for the public to join them in their rites of spring – Making Maple Syrup.
At many of these farms near the Atlantic Birches Inn in Old Orchard Beach Maine you can go into the sugaring shack, watch the sap evaporate, and learn about how it goes from what looks like nothing more than water, to one of the sweetest things made in Maine. Sometimes the syrup is pale gold and delicate, sometimes dark and rich. It all depends on the soil and terrain, the wind and the weather, just like fine wine. But don’t worry, if you can’t make it for Maple Sugar this weekend at one of these farms, you can always visit them the rest of the month of March and early April.
For a full list of participating farms visit Maine Maple Producers or see our map below of nearby Maine Maplc Sugaring Shacks below come see us and we can give you a list with directions to some of the Local Nearby Sugaring Shacks . Your Innkeepers Ray and Heidi Deleo


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Fitch Ratings' Global Sovereign Conference returns this year with six virtual events featuring our expert analysts who will be discussing key global and regional sovereign credit developments.
The sovereign credit landscape has been transformed by the pandemic. Even as recoveries take hold, policy challenges remain. Join Fitch’s sovereign analysts at this year’s Conference for up-to-date assessments of regional outlooks and sovereign-specific rating drivers ahead.
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Is The World Saying We Cannot Curb Terror Without Dictators?
By Chiman Salih: Chiman Salih is a legal consultant, writer and journalist.
Mr.Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister, said in his statement about the Chilcot Report: “I will at the same time say why, nonetheless, I believe that it was better to remove Saddam Hussein and why I do not believe this is the cause of the terrorism we see today whether in the Middle East or elsewhere in the world. “ Mr. Blair also said that “… if the people agree or disagree with me, I took military action to remove Saddam Hussein from power in good faith .”I agree with you Mr Former Prime minister.
You made the right decision. Saddam Hussein should have been removed from power even sooner than 2003. Before he killed many thousands of Kurds and Iraqis and destroyed 4000-5000 villages, before he bombarded Halabja with lethal chemicals and before the many other crimes committed by him and his cohorts. The world leaders should all have acted like Mr. Blair and ensured President Saddam’s removal.
Is it reasonable to debate about whether or not Saddam had weapons of mass destruction in his possession? Well, we know that he had used them.
In his memoir, Paul Bremer, who was appointed as Iraq’s civilian ruler by the US government following the invasion, recounts how the US and UK were warned by both Iranian and Russian government officials about Iraq’s complex internal composition which would lay the basis for many powers and terror groups to interfere in Iraq and stoke conflicts. In essence they were warning that Washington had failed to prepare for the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. I can say that most of the diplomats who were serving in Iraq after the invasion are admitting failure in terms of security and governance, but they still mostly agree that the right decision was made about Saddam’s removal.
Coinciding with Chilcot, the US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump praised Saddam Hussein’s role in restraining terror, saying: “He was good at killing terrorists“. I would like to ask: what terrorists were killed by Saddam, and who did Saddam describe as terrorists?
At the same time another atrocity happened in Baghdad, when a suicide attack in the Karrada district took the lives of 250 innocents in a busy shopping place as they were preparing for Eid al Fitir. The politicians are making their statements while terror attacks and suicide explosion continue daily in the Middle East. And, according to French, German, Turkish and US intelligence agencies, the West is also under a tremendous threat.
Don’t all these developments prove that the world’s superpowers have failed to protect humanity ? And do they pose the choice, particularly for Middle Easterners, of living under either a brutal dictatorship or brutal terrorism?
If this really is the situation, the world powers cannot do anything to protect humanity and they should announce their failure from the stage of the Security Council. They should also prepare for a newer order for the world with a much powerful universal organization and security protection body. The situation now is like after World War 1 when the great powers established the League of Nations to settle international disputes, but this body proved ineffective and so, after World War 2, they replaced it with the United Nations, whose declared purpose was to protect world peace and security.
If we say that only dictators are qualified to fight terrorism as the humanity’s rescuing angels then we are saying that the United Nations has failed. Indeed the operations that have been ongoing under the umbrella of the international powers to fight terrorist groups in different parts of the world have been fairly weak and protracted. Their failure has made the 21st century a century of migration, with 65 million people becoming migrants in just three years 2013-2015 according to UN statistics.
Meantime the UK Parliament is preparing evidence and proposals for the incoming UN Secretary General post holder and this is one of the key questions it has posed: Is the UN able to respond effectively to new global trends? Kurdistan Tribune 9 July 2016

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KUALA LUMPUR: Pos Malaysia is collaborating with Lazada (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd on the development of an e-commerce regional distribution centre in Sepang.
The memorandum of collaboration was signed by Pos Malaysia's group CEO Datuk Mohd Shukrie Mohd Salleh and Hans-Peter Ressel, Lazada Malaysia's CEO.
"The e-commerce RDC is a significant part of Pos Malaysia's journey into the region.
"It is an affirmation of our long-standing strategy to be an end-to-end Integrated logistics provider which will be a part of our growth trajectory in the e-commerce segment," remarked Mohd Shukrie at the event.
The e-commerce RDC is a one-stop centre by providing value-added services such as air-sea-land transportation solutions, international transhipment, postal and courier services and warehousing facilities.
Phase one of the collaboration of the Lazada is expected to be completed in August and the second phase by the end of the year.
A total 34 million items will be placed in the warehouse in 2018 and the number will be doubled in 2019, he said.
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Iran’s top diplomat presses efforts to save nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister is pressing ahead with intense diplomatic efforts to salvage Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers at the center of a crisis unfolding between Iran and the U.S.
Mohammad Javad Zarif chastised the international community, saying that so far, it has “mainly made statements, instead of saving the deal,” according to the official IRNA news agency. He spoke in China on Friday after visiting Japan.
The Trump administration pulled America out of the deal last year and imposed escalating sanctions that have crippled Iran’s economy. Other signatories to the deal — the European Union, France, Britain, China and Russia — have been trying to salvage it.
Iran recently warned it would resume enriching uranium at higher levels if a new nuclear deal isn’t reached by July 7.


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Sarah Marie Design Studio outfits customers with running-themed apparel and accessories. Read the full article for Runner’s World.
Coming to shelves soon: a sports bra that offers training advice, an alarm to stay safe on solo runs, and performance socks that support American farmers. Read the full article for Runner’s World.
Make these gear mistakes and your race time (and your toenails) may pay the price. Read the full article for Men’s Health.
If you’ve hit the path or checked out the crowd at your local 5K lately, you’ve likely seen athletes wearing tall, colorful compression socks. Some runners—and the companies who make the socks—swear the tight-fitting garments help you stride faster and recover more quickly. But a new study casts doubt on at least some of these claims. In fact, college runners actually exercised for less time when wearing them, according to results just posted online in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. Read the full article in Prevention News.
Find out how moving more improves your whole life. Plus, learn the perks of building stronger breathing muscles, the perils of fitness-related food labels, and where to put your activity tracker for the most accurate results, in this month’s Fitness Scoop. Read the full page in Women’s Health (pdf).
Fitness Scoop! for June 2013: Steal surfer’s fit bodies with these landlocked moves. Also, find out why it’s so hard to count during your workout, and find the best sports bra for full figures. Read the full page in Women’s Health (pdf).
Fitness Scoop! for April 2013: Exercise can relieve anxiety–but only if you use it wisely. Also, find out what to do immediately after strength-training to speed your recovery, learn how to make running feel easier, and check out eco-friendly workout gear. Read the full page in Women’s Health (pdf).


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In 2019 there were over 14.3 million Baby Boomers in the UK, making it the largest generational group. Boomers – people born between 1946-1964 in 2021 – are currently aged 57 to 75. Boomers don’t want to get old. I’m a boomer, I should know. That’s my first qualification to write this article.
Boomers followed the Silent Generation – born between 1928 and 1945 and the wealthiest generation ever seen. This cohort followed the Greatest Generation – defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. This was my mum’s generation, being born in 1923.
My second qualification for writing this article is the experience I gained helping my mum extend her disease- and injury-free life by 15 years, meaning she was able to live a full life well into old age.
Females across England in 2020 have a life expectancy of just 82.7 years, or 78.7 for males. Mum compressed all her impaired-quality of life into the last six months of her 97 years, compared to the average ‘decline’ which is quoted by The World Health Organization and the UK’s National Health Service as being the last 17 years of life.
She did this by remaining active, including doing regular sequence dancing until she was in her mid 80s, as well as yoga, working with a personal trainer and doing elderly judo to help prevent injuries on the occasions when she did fall.
Local authorities, such as Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands, where my mum lived, have improved the way social care, health, community and leisure services are brought together to support independent active ageing through social prescribing, which forms part of the NHS Long Term Plan.
Many of us will come across situations where ‘care’ means feeding, washing and personal hygiene, while sitting for long hours in a chair.
Not in Sandwell, where the many parts of the health care systems have been joined up and focused on keeping people independent, contributing to society, active and busy.
The movement to keep older people active is leading to a number of fresh initiatives. Power Plate and the Berkley Care Group recently shared the outcomes of an initiative designed to encourage healthy movement in elderly people.
Over 12 weeks, around 250 residents in six care homes took part in the programme, which included vibration training and simple stretches to counter the negative effects of inactivity.
Measurable improvements were found in activities of daily living and fall prevention, following as little as five minutes’ vibration training a day.
Power Plate instructors around the world are now listed on the Remote Coach app – one of the top 30 European start-ups based in London and backed by Google with both cash and in-kind support. Remote Coach has grown the number of trainers on its platform to over 20,000, offering live interactive sessions that track progress and motivate users.
One of these trainers is based at the Asics Sports Complex in Tokyo Bay, Japan, where Power Plate vibration training in low-oxygen environments is being used to prevent and alleviate lifestyle-related illnesses.
On my last visit to Japan, November 2019, I had the opportunity to try vibration training in a low-oxygen environment and would highly recommend it. With the oxygen in the air normalised, the complex is also used for active ageing programming.
All this activity is part of a joint research programme between the Asics Institute for Sports Science and the Ritsumeikan Trust, a Japanese educational institution which provides education to around 50,000 students and pupils from primary school to university.
Research papers galore show similar conclusions. The older you get the more likely you are to be inactive, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Research presented at the cardiology conference, ESC Congress 2021, from a study of 33,576 patients with an average age of 62 showed that it’s never too late to start exercising to reduce the risk of dying from heart disease.
As exercise expert Daniel Lieberman from Harvard University points out, more research is required to understand the ‘dose’ of activity that switches people from being in a negative feedback loop to being in a positive one, where exercise becomes necessary and fun.
Declining muscle mass is part of ageing, but that doesn’t mean you’re helpless to stop it. I wrote my first article on active ageing in 2006 and concluded that the research is there – if we want to find it – to build the case for doing more for the ageing population. Unfortunately, the fitness industry hasn’t changed that much since then, but health providers have, meaning we’re not keeping up.
The Kings Fund estimates the government in the UK spends around £22 billion a year on adult social care on behalf of around 850,000 people who are either living in care homes or being supported to live independently in their own homes. It’s also estimated that unpaid caregivers save the state around £10bn a year by supporting friends and family. Around 1.5 million people work in the care sector.
This scale of expenditure means the care sector is four times larger financially than the fitness industry and yet it’s generally ignored by the sector in spite of the fact that social prescribing, care homes and care packages are multi billion pound opportunities for the fitness industry.
New source of funding
In February 2021 the Department of Health and Social Care published the White Paper, Integration and Innovation: working together to improve health and social care for all in which it outlined plans to focus on improving lifestyle in older people to reduce the burden of ill health.
The government has yet to announce the details of how these new funds will be allocated, but the potential savings are becoming obvious. The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has stated that if people lose weight, drink less alcohol and become more active it could save up to £3 billion a year on the care budget.
If the fitness industry grew its membership base from the current 1 per cent to 15 per cent of members aged over 65, it would double the value and size of the industry. It would also become a major partner in local care provision.
But are training providers ready to upskill the workforce to optimise this generational gold mine, at the point where health and activity merge? It seems appropriate to ask if the industry will be ready.
With over 15 million people living with at least one long-term health condition social prescribing provides a huge opportunity for the industry and ActiveIQ’s Level 3 Diploma in working with clients with long-term conditions – devised in partnership with Nuffield Health – brings the latest thinking and current best practice into this new qualification. It’s good to see PTs will have a more advanced set of skills and deeper understanding to support this growing client group.
New partnerships and qualifications will also help move the national conversation on following the pandemic. Some of the most important conversations the industry needs to be having are around how we can age better and how we can liberate the fitness industry from its ageism.
In the physical activity space I find the fitness sector the most ageist – and that’s me talking from experience.
Age of perfection
As people move from thinking about work-life balance to healthy movement-life balance, the Boomers, Silent and Greatest Generationalists will have reached what John Maynard Keynes described as the ‘age of leisure and abundance’. Staying fit and healthy is crucial to enjoying this ‘age of perfection’, yet where and what to do for the best? Inspiring people who survive it to improve their personal fitness levels could be COVID’s backhanded gift to humanity, as new industries spring up to cope with the growing demand.
Some sports, such as triathlon, are organised by age group categories in five year age bands up to 80+ and divided by gender. Hiromu Inada from Chiba prefecture in Japan became the oldest finisher of the Ironman World Championship at the age of 85 and at 87 years of age, he won a Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to compete.
Marie Dorothy Buder is the female oldest finisher aged 82, while Edwina (Eddie) Brockleby became the oldest British woman to complete an Ironman triathlon aged 74.
She’s also the founder of Silverfit, a charity formed as part of the summer 2012 Olympic legacy and dedicated to the promotion of the healthy benefits of physical activity for older people.
Silverfit now organises 13 activities across 14 venues around London. (Check out Silverfit@home on YouTube).
Up to £10m of National Lottery money, distributed by Sport England, is supporting projects encouraging inactive older people to move a little more each day. The aim of Ramblers Walking for Health, for example, is for everyone to have access to a short, free and friendly healthy walks to help people become and stay more active, while Oomph!, one of 20 funded projects, is a wellbeing business for older adults, providing training for care home staff in delivering exercise, activity classes and healthy movement.
Analysts at Fitt Insider, estimate that ‘healthy movement’ is a trillion dollar business, around ten times bigger than fitness and so prioritising healthy, balanced movement has become the focus of both the largest companies in the world and countless start ups.
Amazon, for example, has introduced Movement Health as a new feature on HALO, its wrist-worn health and activity tracker. This combines artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning to produce personalised programming of everyday movements we mostly take for granted and do without thinking.
Ageing is now the predominant cause of disease worldwide and yet it remains poorly understood. The Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College London is the centre of excellence for research on the biology of ageing and ageing-related diseases – one of the most important challenges in biomedical research today.
Harvard Health and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research have worked with fitness suppliers, Keiser and Power Plate, to publish a considerable amount of research on older adult fitness, including fall prevention, increasing bone density, preventing and controlling osteoporosis and increasing strength and muscle mass, to name a few, so our knowledge is increasing.
The NHS encourages some type of physical activity every day and the more you do the better. However, these guidelines – along with retirement ages, which are 66 for both men and women in the UK, rising to 67 by 2028 and 68 by 2037 – perpetuate the myth that 65 is old when it’s not.
The majority of Boomers are still working, like me, and staying active. In just ten years time 27 per cent of the UK population will be aged 70 plus. For many, 70 will be the new 60 and 60 the new 50 with one message everyone agrees on – it’s never too late to start exercising.
David Minton is founder of The Leisure Database Company www.leisuredb.com

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Do you use the same hotels on a regular basis? If so, check out their membership programs for frequent guests. Similar to frequent flyer programs, hotels have programs that add points on to your account each time you stay with them. You might earn free stays and discounts, show tickets, or other things.
If you don't have your heart set on a certain hotel, try using a website like Hotels.com. Look At This of sites let you put in bids and then return a list of hotels in your price range. The only drawback is that they may not reveal which hotel you have booked until after you have committed to staying there.
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7 subtle ways that hotels are becoming greener
The brand has also added easy features, like robe hooks. “We were asking people to preserve their towels, but they had no place to put them,” Bradley said. “One decision at a time, we get to the place where we’re able to do the right thing more easily and more intuitively, rather than asking people to go an extra mile in order to do the right thing.” Starwood’s Make a Green Choice program gives guests Starpoints or dining credits in exchange for opting out of housekeeping. (The company may retool its sustainability programs in the wake of 2016’s acquisition by Marriott International, according to a spokesperson.) 7 subtle ways that hotels are becoming greener
To ensure that you don't leave anything behind when you are checking out of a hotel, make a sweep through the room after you've packed your bags. Open every drawer, check down on the floor by each bed, and check every outlet to make sure that you haven't left any chargers plugged in.
If you are looking to save money on your next trip, it is a good idea to book a hotel that has an in-room kitchen. Many places have full kitchens that include a countertop range and a refrigerator. Preparing your own meals will save you money since you will not need to pay for room service or restaurant food.
To keep sand out of your hotel room when you are staying at the beach, make sure that you and the kids stop at the hose or faucet at the entrance of your hotel on the beach. If there isn't one at your hotel, find one nearby, and then either dry your feet off and slide them into your shoes, or walk barefoot back to your hotel.
Make sure the hotel you choose has friendly staff. Nothing can ruin a hotel stay faster than rude staff members. They need to be accommodating and welcoming. Try looking at some reviews online for the hotel you want. This can help you see how other travelers felt about the staff of a hotel. Their comments can help you decide between hotels for your trip.
When booking a hotel, make sure you find out whether it has private bathrooms or shared bathrooms. If you have no issues sharing a bathroom with other people outside of your room, then a hotel with a shared bathroom may be fine. However, if you are a pretty private person, then a private bathroom inside the room may be best.
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This research describes the techniques used to form terms in the Gamo language, an Omotic language of Afro-asiatic family spoken in South-Western Ethiopia. The introduction of Gamo as a medium of instruction in primary education and as a language subject for all grade levels requires the creation of new terms for concepts that do not already exist in the language. A number of new terms were formed to facilitate the teaching and learning of language, science and mathematics education. This research followed linguistic and communicative approaches, as illustrated in Antia (2000: 39, 44), to describe techniques of term-formation and to analyse features of the terms in line with the linguistic properties of Gamo. To this end, lexical data were collected from language and mathematics textbooks prepared in the Gamo language. Data were also gathered from native speakers who participated in textbook preparation and terminology works. According to the data, borrowing, compounding, blending, initialism, paraphrasing and semantic extension were applied to form terms pertinent to education in the Gamo language. The most frequent mechanisms were borrowing, followed by compounding, but few terms were formed by blending and paraphrasing.
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Almost three years after Jewish music lovers everywhere first got a taste of Benny Friedman with his debut album, Taamu, the talented singer is set to release his newest collection of musical gems, much to the delight of his loyal legions of fans worldwide.
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