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The UK’s most forward-thinking electronic music event Glade Festival returns for 2011, revolutionised and stripped back to it’s shiny roots. Taking place at a brand new, as yet undisclosed, venue this year’s festival will feature a selection of the biggest names in cutting-edge electronic music. This years event sees the festival scaled down in terms numbers (strictly limited to 5000 capacity) BUT will feature the same attention to detail which saw the event voted Best Dance Festival 2008 at the UK Festival Awards.
Glade Electronic Music Festival - 10, 11, 12 June 2011
Glade can confirm the new site for 2011’s event will be Houghton Hall in Norfolk.
With only a few weeks till things kick off we caught up with Glade regualrs Ben & Lex.
Hey guys, how are you? Are you ready to rock Glade Festival this year?
We are very good indeed & Ohhhhhh hell yes!! Favourite time of the year now! DJing at Festivals, especially the Glade, is second to none as far as we are concerned.
Tell us a bit about what inspired you to become DJs and why you chose breaks?
Well…just the love of good music really….and the desire to play it to people! And we never really chose breaks. It kind of chose us haha! Breaks gave us the opportunity to play whatever you wanted across loads of tempos. We were both very much into what the Chemical Brothers were doing at the Social with the likes of Phantom Beats….just mashing up everything from the Prodigy to Jimi Hendrix to Ed Rush in one night. …Nu Skool Breaks was the genre that was born out of this love of many styles. See next question ;)
How did the hook up between Ben & Lex come about? Have you been DJing together since the beginning?
Not completely. Back when we were fresh faced teenagers I started off playing at hip hop clubs & Benny was more into his D&B & techno. It was the birth of Nu-Skool Breaks as a genre that gave us the possibility to meet in the middle, tempo-wise, and that was when we started DJing together…..well….actually it was about 4 in the morning in this squat-like flat we lived in and a 3 litre bottle of Strongbow that really started it all….
Besides getting hyped for festival season, what are you up to at the moment? Producing, playing gigs?
Generally being far too busy! But in a good way. We are in the middle of producing the tracks for our (about bloody time, it’s only been a decade) debut album and trying to confirm the ever elusive vocalists hehe. We already have some BIG names confirmed, including some of our musical hero’s, so keep your eyes peeled for the first single coming out on Functional, after the summer madness.
You’ve played festivals and gigs all over the world, what is your favourite festival to DJ at?
Well, gotta be the Glade no doubt! Everyone at the event is there because they all love dance music of one kind or another. You couldn’t ask for a more receptive crowd really! 2009’s Thursday night headlining set was a definite highlight. I (Lex) even got a black eye………nuff said.
You run your own record label ‘Ape Music’, are there any new exciting releases we should look out for?
Abso-bloody-looootly. We have a stupidly strong release schedule this year including releases by Freear & Ekaj, Snareophobe, Lethalness, a wicked 140 Jungle EP by 601 (who are on FYAAAH right now) and possibly the strongest release yet from the Freerange Djs. The label is just getting stronger all the time and our Ape fam-a-lam are doing us proud!
You’ve remixed a lot of tracks from exciting artists, is there anyone you would particularly like the opportunity to do a remix for?
Hmmm…hard one that. We love working with vocals tbh…most of the time when you get sent instrumental parts you end up writing almost a completely original track anyway.
We’ve had the pleasure of getting our hands on vocals from Quannum / Blackalicious’ Planet Asia for our forthcoming Dub Pistols remix which was awesome…..We’d love to get our hands on some Ghostface Killah, Raekwon or Mr Meth vocals….That’d be nice… Just anything with wicked vocals really!...MCs or singers!
What inspires and influences your music? Is there any artist that especially influenced on your music?
Most importantly I think is our love of so many different types of music between us that has the most influence. I think this has been evident in our tunes so far and certainly will be on the album.
As for artists, Elite Force & Aquasky have to be heros of the scene, I don’t think there is a single tune by them that we haven’t played at some point in the production stakes Elite Force has always been a don.
What’s do you have to say about the breaks scene? Where would you say it’s most popular?
‘Breaks’ as a form of music is getting back to being as strong as it’s ever been, it’s just that it has such loose musical boundaries now. Huge DJs are playing sets that are almost entirely breakbeat based music that would never ever class themselves as ‘breaks’ DJs. This is a good and a bad thing I think as it means more people hear the music but the ‘scene’ has become a little fragmented into even smaller more cliquey sub genres when in fact the thing that made it great in the first place was its ability to encompass almost all tempos & styles at some point in the night. That said a lot of producers who stopped producing breaks at all for a while are coming back to it which has gotta say something I think!
What can we expect from you in the future?
This year is getting pretty mad for us… As we said above the label is going from strength to strength, we have an album in the works and we have bucket loads of gigs coming up too, so come see us if we are in a neighbourhood near you!! …


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Duration: 9 hours and 35 minutes
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From the critically acclaimed author of Motor City, Detroit comes alive in a powerful and thrilling novel set amid the chaos of the 1960s race riots and the serenity of baseball's opening day.
Willie Bledsoe, once an idealistic young black activist, is now a burnt-out case. After leaving a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he has become bitterly disillusioned with the civil rights movement and its leaders. He returns home to Alabama to try to write a memoir about his time in the cultural whirlwind, but the words fail to come.
The surprise return of his Vietnam veteran brother in the spring of 1967 gives Willie a chance to drive a load of smuggled guns to the Motor City—and make enough money to jump-start his stalled dream of writing his memoir. There, at Tiger Stadium on Opening Day of the 1968 baseball season—postponed two days in deference to the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr.—Willie learns some terrifying news: the Detroit police are still investigating the last unsolved murder from the bloody, apocalyptic riot of the previous summer, and a white cop named Frank Doyle will not rest until the case is solved. And Willie is his prime suspect.
Bill Morris' rich and thrilling novel sets Doyle's hunt amid the history of one of America's most tortured and fascinating cities, as Doyle and Willie struggle with Detroit's deep racial divide, with revenge and forgiveness, and with the realization that justice is rarely attainable—and rarely just.
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“Morris eloquently captures the Detroit of 1968, a city shaped by the auto industry, ravaged by violence, and rejuvenated by Motown, in this outstanding crime novel…Morris adeptly evokes time and place, displaying a profound passion for Detroit and astute insight into the era’s fraught climate. Characters represent a cross-section of the city’s population, adding nuance to this tale of a young black man seeking his voice, a cop pursuing justice, and a country searching for a way forward.”
“A former Freedom Rider and a determined detective face unfinished business in the aftermath of the Detroit riots…As usual, Morris uses historical figures and events, as well as a uniquely American city, as a backdrop for an intense cat-and-mouse game.”

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Days of Palestine – Tulkarm
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) cracked down Monday, August 15, 2022, on an anti-colonialism rally close to Beit Lid town, southeast of Tulkarm city in the north of the West Bank, according to local sources.
They said that IOF forcefully dispersed a rally called to protest the installment of tents and mobile homes by settlers at Abu Louka Mount, adjacent to the Enav colonial settlement.
They added that settlers, under military protection, prevented landowners from the cluster of Kafr al-Labad village, Beit Lid town, and Saffarin village, east, and southeast of the city, from reaching the Mount at gunpoint as a military vehicle attempted to run over Palestine TV photo/video journalist Fadi Jayyousi while covering the protest.
قوات الاحتلال تقمع وقفة نظمها أهالي بلدات كفر اللبد وبيت ليد وسفارين شرق طولكرم احتجاجا على قيام المستوطنين بنصب كرافانات فوق أراضي “أبو لوقا” القريبة من مستوطنة عناب. pic.twitter.com/8TNP1ejqY6
— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) August 15, 2022
Maen Rashed, a landowner, said that the protest was organized after settlers yesterday erected mobile homes at the 80-dunum olive-planted mount, which is privately owned by the villagers of the aforementioned villages and town.
He pointed out that the settlers’ move is part of a colonial scheme intended to seize the mount and connect the illegal Enav and Avnei Hevetz colonial settlements with one another.

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Georgia is facing a pediatric health and wellness crisis – with nearly a million Georgia children classified as overweight and obese and with many Georgia unable to do a push-up, walk a mile or even touch their toes.
The health and wellness of Upson’s families is a priority to our medical community, which is why Upson Regional Medical Center partnered with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to offer their Strong4Life Provider Training Program to local healthcare providers.
The two-hour training session, held last Thursday at Upson Regional Medical Center gives doctors, nurses and dieticians the tools to have effective conversations with children and parents about weight and health habits.
Twenty area health care providers, including school nurses, pediatricians, public health providers and fitness experts, attended the event held by Strong4Life, a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta movement to fight childhood obesity in Georgia and help all Georgia families get and remain healthy.
It’s hard for many parents to speak to their kids, partners and even doctors about issues around weight. Georgia children are now dealing with diseases that once only faced adults, like:
• High blood pressure and high cholesterol
• Increased risk of impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes
• Breathing problems, such as sleep apnea, and asthma
• Joint problems and musculoskeletal discomfort
• Fatty liver disease, gallstones, and gastro reflux, and
• Greater risk of social and psychological problems such as discrimination and poor self-esteem.
When talking about childhood obesity, health care providers aren’t getting the message across to their patients. Practical steps for improving habits are often lost in translation, child wellness experts say.
“Health care providers are uncomfortable having that conversation and a lot of times they don’t have time to have that conversation,” said Jill Giles, RN, CDE.
Giles said that doctor’s tend to speak about broad end goals rather than giving small, practical steps for changing health habits, and they often focus on education and direction rather than conversation and collaboration.
“Primary care doctors are so busy and they don’t have much time with a patient,” Giles said. “These are really just tweaks on our patient/physician interactions that will help families become healthier.”
When it comes to helping families fight childhood obesity and live healthier lives, every little step is a big win.
The top five areas where families can chip away at childhood obesity are: 1) eating more veggies and fruits 2) eating healthier when outside of the home 3) increasing physical activity, 4) reducing sweet drinks and sodas and 5) reducing screen time.
Families can take the Strong4Life assessment for a personalized evaluation of their family’s health habits. For more information on Strong4Life, visit their website at Strong4Life.com.

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Mayor Albert Robles Discusses Live NFL Sexual Harassment Sham Dismissals. All after the Carson NFL Town Hall on Raiders and Chargers Potential . San Diego Channel 6 does live interviews of City of Carson Mayor Albert Robles after Town Hall meeting. Residents received updates. This is and update to the original bookmark published.
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Submitted by Rod Ritchie of MaleBC.org, in honor of Gary Wong, 1955-2021
Diagnosed in February 2019, Gary was just 55 when he passed in hospital, in May of this year, surrounded by the family he loved.
Gary’s cheery disposition and optimism infected those around him. He was determined to never give up, and he espoused a healthy diet and regular exercise, not just to give himself extra time, but for better quality of life.
To his siblings, his kids, and his partner, he gave love and attention. As he said, he wanted to bring all who he encountered happiness.
Gary knew breast cancer is not just about men or women, rather it was more about beating cancer itself. He had just been appointed to the Board of Advisors for ProjectLifeMBC, a survivor initiative based in San Francisco, for those with metastatic breast cancer. He was a diligent advocate for all guys with breast cancer.
Gary doubled his prognosis estimate, and we’re all so much richer for the extra time we had with him.
Thank you for honoring Gary, Rod. His legacy will live on.
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Alison Weir has quite a story to tell at her next dinner party — it’s about that time Hollywood actors Morris Chestnut and Diarra Kilpatrick spent a week at her home.
Weir’s home in Orange’ Seven Oaks neighborhood was selected as one of the film locations in Kilpatrick’s new eight-episode BET+ series, Diarra from Detroit, which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival this month.
“I loved every minute because they paid me good money,” Weir said.
For a week in February — the film was shot long before the ongoing writers’ strike — her entire house was at the producer’s disposal, including her 21-year-old son Ted’s room, which was converted into a green room for the actors. The location scouts were especially interested in her three-car garage, which was turned into a tiki bar for one of the scenes. When it was all finished, they even repainted the garage the color of her choice.
“It also forced me to weed out some of the junk in my garage,” Weir joked.
Scouts sent letters out in February to homeowners in Weir’s neighborhood before her home on Sterling Avenue was chosen, according to Justin Schwebel, one of the crew members on the film. “The director and production designer thought it was the best fit for this scene,” Schwebel said.
The movie, described as a dark comedy about a Tinder date gone wrong that morphs into a amateur detective story, was also filmed in Secaucus, Totowa, and Little Falls.
“It’s great to work with a town that’s welcoming to film production and knows what to expect,” Schwebel said. “We definitely consider going back to places where we’ve had a good experience.”
Film shoots have become increasingly common in New Jersey since Governor Phil Murphy extended a tax credit for movie productions in 2021. With new studios underway in places like Newark and Bayonne — and another in the works in West Orange — celebrity sightings could become regular occurrences.
That’s good news as money often trickles down to local businesses. At the wrapup party for Gabrielle Union-Wade’s Netflix movie The Perfect Find, Adenah Bayoh’s Cornbread restaurant — which has locations in Newark and Maplewood — catered the wrapup party. Furniture from the Diarra from Detroit production was bought and then redonated to Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore second-hand shop, which opened last year in Fairfield.
“We do cold call movies companies, but a lot of times the productions already know who we are,” said Carlos Carvajal, the store manager, who said he has a relationship with 10 production companies in the area. “We ask them if they’ll redonate the furniture when they’re done and they usually do.”
To attend the June 14 premiere of Diarra from Detroit at Manhattan’s SVA Theater, visit the Tribeca Film Festival website.

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A majority of respondents found neither President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) nor Vice President Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) credible and do not trust the fairness of law enforcement officials, according to the results of a survey carried out by Taiwan Indicate Survey Research (TISR) which was released yesterday.
The research, conducted on Monday and Tuesday, found that only 32.7 percent of respondents said they trust Ma while 53.1 percent said they do not trust the president.
Only 24.3 percent of those polled found Wu, who has been embroiled in an alleged corruption case centered around former Legislative Yuan secretary-general Lin Yi-shih (林益世), credible, while 60.6 percent said the vice president is not trustworthy.
Leaders of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) outperformed the most powerful duo in the country in the credibility test, with 45.3 percent of respondents saying they trust DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) and 49.4 percent saying that former DPP chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is credible.
A more detailed breakdown found that Ma and Wu appeared to have lost the support of many of those who consider themselves to be swing voters.
Among this group, only 25.4 percent said Ma is credible and 14.2 percent placed their trust in Wu. By comparison, 44.2 percent of swing voters said they trust Tsai and 35.9 percent found Su credible.
The survey also found that 65.4 percent of the respondents said they disagreed that law enforcement officials — including police officers, prosecutors and criminal investigators — have upheld justice and fairness in carrying out their duties. Only 24.9 percent of those polled agreed.
Comparing the survey with a pair of similar polls conducted in 2006 and 2009, public trust in the judiciary and law enforcement system has been consistently sliding, dropping from 35.8 percent in 2006 to 29.9 percent in 2009 and 24.9 percent this year, TISR general manager Tai Li-an (戴立安) said in a press release.
Asked whether the judicial system was able to uphold justice and fairness, 63.3 percent of respondents disagreed, while 24.3 percent agreed.
The survey also found Ma’s latest approval ratings still hovering around the low 20s at 22.6 percent, with Premier Sean Chen (陳冲) doing slightly better at 24.1 percent.
The poll collected 1,010 valid samples and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
CAUTION: Taiwanese should be alert, even if they have just liked or shared posts that would breach Beijing’s national security legislation for Hong Kong, the council said Due to the newly implemented Hong Kong national security legislation, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has drawn up a list of what it described as “high-risk groups,” cautioning them not to travel to Hong Kong. People who support independence for Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and Xinjiang; those who are critical of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Hong Kong government and the “one country, two systems” concept; and those who donated to or voiced support for the Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement are urged to refrain from visiting Hong Kong, the council said on its Web site. It released two posts on
NEW HONG KONG LAW: A visit to Beijing-friendly nations or those with weak judicial systems could leave people at risk of deportation to China, a former MAC official said Beijing could request countries with which it has extradition agreements to deport Taiwanese to China to face criminal charges following the implementation of national security legislation for Hong Kong, a former Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) official warned yesterday. Some developing countries, and those close to China because of the Belt and Road Initiative, are likely to accommodate Beijing’s requests to extradite Taiwanese to China, said former deputy MAC minister Chen Ming-chi (陳明祺), who served from July 2, 2018, until May 20, and then returned to his former post as an assistant professor of sociology at National Tsing Hua University. While Taiwanese
IN THE PIPELINE: The Ministry of National Defense said the sale, expected to take effect in one month, would be the seventh arms sale under the Trump administration The government yesterday thanked the US for approving the possible sale of a US$620 million missile repair and recertification package to Taiwan. The US Department of State has approved the sale of a package to recertify Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles to the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office (TECRO) in Washington for an estimated US$620 million, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a news release on Thursday. The agency has delivered the required certification to the US Congress, notifying it of the possible sale, it added. The TECRO had requested to buy an upgrade package that would support an operational
INJURED: Several KMT lawmakers fought their way through DPP members into the legislative chamber, while others lay on a driveway to block Chen Chu Scuffles broke out at the Legislative Yuan yesterday as Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers again occupied the legislative chamber, stymieing a report by Control Yuan presidential nominee Chen Chu (陳菊) and a question-and-answer session. The KMT lawmakers showed up at the back door of the chamber at about 5am and tried to enter, but were stopped by several Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers who were guarding the door. Scuffles broke out as the KMT lawmakers tried to force their way through the door, injuring legislators on both sides. KMT Legislator Hung Mong-kai (洪孟楷) tackled DPP Legislator Wang Ting-yu (王定宇), while DPP Legislator Wu


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Dony is wrapped in a pirate-themed kids' comforter, writhing in pain. "Ahhhh, Louie," she groans, thrashing her feet. Louie is clutching a tattoo machine and delivering precise jolts of misery into the 37-year-old's left shoulder. The fedora and heels in which Dony started the day are tossed to the side, but her product-heavy hair and makeup remain intact. "Ahh, Louie, wait," she demands in a sharp cry that fills the first floor of the Hialeah condo.
Louie heeds this order and places the machine on a blue medical napkin that's taped to a folding snack table. For several hours, he has been tattooing a large, slinking tiger and Chinese symbol on Dony. Standing up to stretch, he pulls off a pair of black plastic gloves and swigs from a bottle of Bud Light Platinum. "She's gonna take a crap when she sees how awesome this is," a smiling Louie says to his wife and 2-year-old daughter; the two are in the kitchen mixing corn muffin batter.
Onyx, the family's black schnauzer, waggles between rooms while searching for crumbs and attention. Lying on an L-shaped leather couch in the living room is Dony's boyfriend, George, a shirtless, bearded beast of a man. He's tucked under a SpongeBob SquarePants blanket, sleeping off the pain that accompanies getting an enormous, vivid phoenix carved across his rib cage. The canary-yellow walls, Tiffany-style lamp, and mail-strewn dining-room table lend a surprising sense of normalcy that's impossible to replicate in a storefront tattoo parlor.
In the past, Louie had few concerns about tattooing in his home. It had always been technically illegal — he didn't have the proper waste-disposal permits or work under the general supervision of a doctor, as required by law for years — but it was easy to fly under the radar. That changed on January 1, when a new law dubbed "The Practice of Tattooing" took effect. Now, for the first time, tattoo artists in Florida must be registered with the Department of Health, pass an infection safety exam, and work in a shop that's also registered with the state. Perhaps most notable, the new law creates a clear incentive — thousands of dollars in fines and criminal charges — for authorities to come down on unlicensed artists.
Although Louie does not have the proper permits, he takes health precautions just as any artist in a retail shop — except there's a dog and no autoclave (a machine that uses heat and pressure to sterilize equipment). "Treat everyone like they have AIDS," he says, shaking a red plastic biomedical waste box filled with used needles. Barrier film is slapped on nearby machines to prevent cross contamination, all needles are new and sterilized, and his plastic bottle of green soap is wrapped in a clear bag.
Louie scrolls through his portfolio on a smartphone during a break. He's the first to admit that it's not topnotch, but there's discernible improvement over the three years he has been tattooing seriously. He pauses on an utterly botched and disproportionate tattoo of the Incredible Hulk that was done by someone else; it looks like a drawing you'd see scrawled in a fourth-grader's notebook. A customer came to Louie with this mess, hoping he could salvage it. "That guy got scratched up nice," Louie says. Then he shows a picture of his fix-up in which the Hulk looks like the green superhero we all recognize.
Louie has never worked in a tattoo shop or toiled through an apprenticeship. He's a certified emergency medical technician who hasn't found a job in the health-care field, so he works at a hardware store during the day. In a busy week, he tattoos three people, enough to earn a few hundred bucks. At a recent tattoo convention in Fort Myers, he made a few grand and had a steady flow of customers the entire weekend. Price varies depending on the piece and whether you're a close bud, a returning customer, or a stranger responding to a Craigslist ad. Eighty percent of his customers come through word of mouth; the rest trickle in through the internet.
"A good project is hard to find," he says. "Sometimes I'll do pieces pro bono or for next to nothing if it's something I'm excited about, that I want to do. I do this more for the art, and it's also an extra income."
To some, Louie, 26, is a bona fide artist. To others, he's a "scratcher" — an unlicensed, untrained amateur who jeopardizes public health and pilfers clients from legitimate, taxpaying parlors.
"If you can draw and you can paint, you can tattoo," Louie says. "It all comes down to skills and your artistic ability. I understand why a lot of shop owners kind of hate the mobile artists and guys like me. They're upset that we're taking some of the clientele... I'm worried about the new law a bit; I just don't want to get screwed for anything."

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See the advice PETA shares with us to keep your animals safe at Christmas.
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Perse Chamber Choir in fine voice for Westminster Abbey Evensong
8 Jan 2019
The Perse Chamber Choir savoured the experience of performing Evensong at Westminster Abbey.
The school’s singers had the honour of leading the service in the quire of the iconic church, which is the traditional setting for coronations of the British monarchy and has hosted many Royal weddings.
In front of a congregation of around 400 people, including parents, supporters and Old Perseans, the choir sang Herbert Howells’ Westminster Service, featuring the canticles Magnificat (Song of Mary) and Nunc dimittis (Song of Simeon), and ended the service with a rendition of Charles Stanford’s work Beati quorum via.
Perse Director of Music Michael Holiday felt the Chamber Choir’s efforts in rehearsals had paid off in making sure they were fine tuned for the occasion.
He said: “Westminster Abbey has been the setting for a lot of major national events, so to go there and lead the service was really special. The pupils understood the significance and responded really well to it.
“It was lovely for them to have the opportunity to sing there. The choir had worked hard and prepared their music really well and they were on excellent form.”


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Can anyone fill me in on the difference between fermenting through bokashi and then burying in a garden vs. just straight burying food left overs in the garden and maybe turning it once in a while?
The bokashi microbes in the bokashi bran multiply rapidly when added to food waste in the bokashi bucket. The fermented food waste may look very similar to the original food waste, a bit mushier round the edges and maybe some white mold on top. But, other than that, it doesn’t look like that different. However, a whole heap of changes happen to the food waste during fermentation. Its just that these changes are not visible to the naked eye. And, maybe most importantly, the bokashi’d food waste is now teeming with these garden-friendly bokashi microbes.
These bokashi microbes are what makes boakshi composting so valuable. They serve a number of benefits:
1. Firstly, these microbes are hugely beneficial to our gardens. Food waste is made of lots of complex proteins. These proteins are of no value to your garden in their current form. As the bokashi microbes get to work on your food waste they break these proteins up into amino acids; the small parts of the complex protein chains. Plants, with the help of the bokashi microbes, are able to take up the nutrients in the amino acids.
2. The bokashi fermentation process allows us to throw all food waste into our bokashi composter. The microbes help to kill the harmful pathogens in meat, cooked food, bones and even pet waste. Without the help of these microbes, these items are very hard to compost safely and without attracting pests.
3. Finally, the bokashi microbes significantly speed up the composting process.If you put your food scraps into a traditional compost pile or buried them straight into the ground they would (eventually) become soil. However, the process takes longer. During this time many of the nutrients could be leached out and much of the carbon in the compost could be lost to the atmosphere in the form of methane and carbon dioxide.

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A two week vacation in exotic locations with all the comforts of home and none of the hassles of traveling. No way? We found a way. We spent two weeks in Asia, including 10 days in Vietnam, visited a wide range of cities - Hong Kong, Halong Bay, Haiphong, Danang, Hanoi, Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang, Ho Chi Minh City and Singapore - and all the while enjoyed good food, hot showers and starched sheets. And, of course, breakfast in our cabin every morning!
We recently cruised down the Vietnam coast aboard the Ocean Pearl. In 1994 the Pearl made the trip eight times. We were on the seventh passage, so things ran smoothly. The Pearl is a 517 foot, 12,000 ton ocean going cruise ship with a capacity of 500 passengers. It was my first cruise, but for my partner Lisa Spivey, an experienced sailor of China's Yangtze River, this mode of transportation was second nature.
We flew to Hong Kong and boarded the Pearl the day before she was due to sail. The Hong Kong Ocean Terminal, where the ship docks, is only 15 minutes from the Hong Kong International Airport. We opted for a short layover, but many travelers arrange to arrive in Hong Kong several days early to do some sightseeing and shopping.
Departing Hong Kong in the early evening we were treated to a fascinating show of life on the harbor while we enjoyed our first meal in the ship's dining room (early seating is at 7:00pm, late seating at 9:00pm). You can eat 24 hours a day on the ship, whether in the main dining room, one of the many lounges, or by calling room service.
The next day was spent sailing the South China Sea. We wandered around the ship, getting to know our floating hotel. The nine decks feature such amenities as a movie theater, discotheque, bar, dinning room, barbecue deck, beauty salon, gift shop, medical clinic and two swimming pools (indoor and outdoor). There is also a photo lab on board (yes, the pictures you take during the day can be shown to your dining companions at dinner), laundry and dry cleaning service, and a radio room where you can send and receive faxes (there is no getting away from the office). International phone calls can be made and received in your cabin.
Joanne, our tour manager, gave a two hour port briefing in the lounge, covering shore excursions and what to expect when we got to Vietnam. One of the advantages of traveling this way is you have the flexibility of taking a group tour, staying on board, or traveling independently. There was always an organized activity to keep you busy on the ship, from lectures to exercise classes to cooking demonstrations, or you could just catch up on your reading.
Throughout the trip we took the opportunity to meet and chat with fellow travelers. There was a professional tour leader from Hawaii who was constantly on the go while her husband enjoyed spending his vacation on the sun deck and the beaches. A Vietnamese-American from the Midwest was on his first trip home in 20 years. A well traveled lawyer from San Francisco taught us a lot about the region's geology. A French-American woman told us about her travels to Angkor Wat over 40 years ago.
At sunrise we arrived in Halong Bay with its islands rising from the clear blue-green waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The 30 minutes or so it took from the moment we sighted the first of the limestone islands to the time we dropped anchor was worth the whole trip. It was like waking up in the middle of the movie Indochine, except seeing the bay all around you is completely different from a two-dimensional picture.
Nothing we could show you in print can do it justice. The height of the ship (six decks above water) afforded us a view which going around the bay in a small boat does not.Halong, which means "where the dragon descends into the sea", got its name from the legend of the great dragon who lived in the mountains. As the dragon plunged into the sea, his thrashing tail created this magnificent bay with its 3,000 islands, beaches and grottoes.
After we dropped anchor and the staff cleared customs and immigration for us, a small boat took us ashore to the Hong Gai port. Buses were already waiting for the ride to Haiphong.Since we wanted to check out new hotels and developments in the area, we had arranged for a car to meet us at Hong Gai (the tour office on board ship can arrange such miracles).
The trip from Hong Gai to Haiphong involves two ferry crossings. Each crossing takes about half an hour, including the loading and unloading of trucks, buses, cars, motorcycles, bicycles and passengers. If there are no lines at the ferry, the whole trip takes two and a half hours. If traffic is heavy and you have to wait for a second or a third ferry, it could take more than four hours.
Most people we talked to enjoyed the process of getting there-it was a journey in itself. Long or short, the drive to Haiphong gave us the opportunity to observe everyday life in Vietnam. Riding the ferries we watched the small vans packed with consumer electronics, motorcycles laden with everything from chickens to crushed rocks, bicycles loaded with firewood, and children as curious about us as we were about them.
It was a full day and we got back to the ship at 6:30pm. The next day, small boats came alongside the ship to take passengers for two-hour rides around the bay to look more closely at some of the islands, beaches and caves.
The ease of moving from one city to the next was unbelievable. There was no mad dash for the airport and no packing and unpacking. As a leisurely lunch was served on the deck, we raised anchor and set out for Danang.
After a briefing about the next ports of call, people settled down in the reading room which had a small library and tables for card games or sat in the air-conditioned comfort of the observation deck and watched the sea. After dinner it was time to enjoy a drink in the piano lounge, catch one of the floor shows, dance in the nightclub, or have a quiet moment on the promenade deck under the stars.
We arrived in Danang mid-morning the next day and a school band greeted us at the dock. Well organized lines of buses were ready to take us to different destinations. Since we had three days there everyone was able to take in a variety of sites. One group went to the airport for a day trip to Hanoi.
Another went by bus to Hue, a three and a half hour trip. Yet another group headed for Hoi An, an hour's drive south of Danang. A shorter, half-day excursion was available to the Marble Mountains and China Beach. Some chose a more leisurely day, taking a cyclo ride around Danang to see the Cham museum, various temples, the local market and the small shops.
We decided to travel independently and hired a car to drive us to My Son. My Son is one of Vietnam's major Cham sites and has the potential of being a popular tourist destination as it becomes more accessible.
Set in a valley surrounded by green hills, some 20 structures remain, several dating back to the 8th century. It is a relatively rigorous trip: one hour by car on a paved road, half an hour on unpaved road, 10 minutes on the back of a motorcycle, a small ferry crossing, a five minute ride on another motorcycle, and a 10 minute walk down a small path. Was it worth it? Yes! We got to see a part of Vietnam's early history and be Indiana Jones for a day, knowing all the while that a hot shower was waiting for us back at the ship.
The next day we were off to Hoi An, an easy one hour drive from Danang. We had enjoyed it so much on previous trips that we wanted to spend more time exploring the old port town.
Hoi An, on the Thu Bon River near the South China Sea, is a step back in time. This 2,000 year old city was once the heart of the Champa kingdom. It later became an administrative center for the French and the location of the first Chinese settlement in Vietnam. From the 17th to the 19th centuries Hoi An was among the most active ports in Southeast Asia and its unique architecture still reflects the influence of the Japanese, Portuguese, Dutch, French and Chinese merchants who came here to buy silk, paper, porcelain, tea, sugar, lacquer, elephant tusks, and mother-of-pearl.
As the sun was setting we left for Nha Trang, a 19 hour sail down the coast from Danang. Sailing into Nha Trang around noon the next day again offered us a new perspective. We saw the beautiful untouched beaches and the Cau Da Villas atop the hill overlooking the bay.
Since the stop in Nha Trang was going to be short (half a day), almost everyone took the organized tour to the Long Son Pagoda, the Po Nagar Cham Tower, the Pasteur Institute, and finally the beach where we all drank juice from freshly cut coconuts. The more relaxed crowd took a bus ride down to the beach where they spent the whole afternoon.
"After a long day, it's great to come back to a hot shower, gourmet food and clean sheets," said Dennis, one of our shipmates, as our mini-bus reached the port. It was almost 7:00pm and as the bus rounded the last bend we could see the port and the Ocean Pearl, lit up against the evening sky. "Yes," I told myself, "you are right, Dennis, I can't wait to get in that hot shower." Lisa was happy she could get a chilled glass of wine.
We were getting the hang of cruising by now. The Pearl's crew were experts at making everyone feel at home. Ray, the cabin steward, always made sure our cabins were in perfect order. Our laundry and dry cleaning were well taken care of and on many occasions when we were too tired for the dining room Ray served us our dinner in the cabin. Willy on the promenade deck always showed up with Lisa's regular (iced tea) and knew exactly where we preferred to sit (port side, under an umbrella).
By 8:00 am the next morning we were already passing Vung Tau. The ship then proceeded up the Saigon River on the way to Ho Chi Minh City. For the next four hours we sailed slowly up the river which was bustling with activity. Small boats went up and down the small tributaries. Barges carried dirt, cement and construction material.
At noon, we pulled up alongside the Saigon port. We looked out at the downtown area and the Saigon Floating Hotel, a luxury property docked along the river. On the opposite shore, billboards advertised beer, televisions, Compaq computers and Xerox machines.
The welcome committee set off a long string of firecrackers as we docked. To one side, 10 big tour buses and many more smaller vans were parked in a row, waiting to whisk us off in different directions: My Tho on the Mekong Delta, a Saigon city tour, Cholon , or the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. From Ho Chi Minh City one could also drive two hours to Vung Tau, a popular seaside resort. Some people took a cyclo ride to the shopping area around Dong Khoi Street, the Ben Thanh market or the Lam Son lacquer factory.
All too soon, it was time to sail to Singapore. It was fascinating ending the cruise in Singapore, a city located at the convergence of sea routes that has witnessed many Indochina travelers over the years. When Sir Stamford Raffles established a settlement in Singapore in 1819 he declared it was perfectly situated to become a great trading post. Indeed, it is now one of the busiest ports in the world, and a city we are liking more with every visit.
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Salt Lake City, Utah — The University of Iowa men’s tennis team, notched another victory Monday defeating 54th-ranked Utah, 4-3, in exciting come-from-behind fashion. The victory mirrored its last win over BYU on Saturday, and is the teams’ fourth straight. The win improves the Hawkeyes record to 6-1.
“We fought hard and battled nerves today. We are fortunate to come away with a win. Matt Hagan and Dominic Patrick led us in singles and it was nice to see Josh Silverstein step up and clinch the match,” said UI head coach Ross Wilson.
With No. 98 Hagan taking care of business in three sets against Slim Hamza (2-6, 7-6, 6-4). The match came down to a winner-take-all affair between Silverstein and Utah’s Freddie McGeehan. With the match tied at a set apiece it all came down to the third set. For the second straight match, a freshman delivered for Iowa as Silverstein was able to register the win in the third set (6-4) to beat McGeehan (6-1, 4-6, 6-4).
At the No. 3 position, Patrick earned another win, grabbing the upper hand against Matt Cowley in straight sets (6-1, 6-1). The junior remains unbeaten in singles this spring (6-0). Jake Jacoby also registered a win, downing Santiago Sierra at the No. 6 position (7-6, 6-2). Lefteris Theodorou fell at the No. 2 position to Cedric Willems (2-6, 1-6). Stieg Martens looked to add another win to his first year resume but could not as he was outlasted (5-7, 5-7).
In doubles, 57th-ranked Hagan/Patrick dropped their match against Cowley/Willems (6-1). Freshmen duo Theodorou/Martens squared off with Hamza/McGuiness in search of a victory but were beaten (6-3). Leading 5-3, Jacoby and Silverstein’s match versus Sierra/Jonhagen was abandoned due to Utah already capturing the doubles point.
The win is the Hawkeyes’ first against a ranked opponent in exactly a year, when they beat then-ranked No. 39 Minnesota, 4-3, on Feb. 16, 2014.
Iowa will take its four-match win streak back home when it entertains Wichita State at the Hawkeye Tennis and Recreation Complex on Feb. 20. Admission is free to the public.
Iowa 4, Utah 3
Cowley/Willems (UTAH) def. No. 57 Hagan/Patrick (UI): 6-1
Hamza/McGuiness (UTAH) def. Theodorou/Martens (UI): 6-3
Jacoby/Silverstein (UI) vs. Sierra/Jonhagen (UTAH): 5-3 abandoned
Order of Finish: 1,2,3
No. 98 Matt Hagan (UI) def. Slim Hamza (UTAH): 2-6, 7-6, 6-4
Cedric Willems (UTAH) def. Lefteris Theodorou (UI): 6-2, 6-1
Dominic Patrick (UI) def. Matt Cowley (UTAH): 6-1, 6-1
Parker McGuiness (UTAH) def. Stieg Martens (UI): 7-5, 7-5
Josh Silverstein (UI) def. Freddie McGeehan (UTAH): 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
Jake Jacoby (UI) def. Santiago Sierra (UTAH): 7-6, 6-2
Order of Finish: 2,3,4,6,1,5


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A 3 album, 30 song compilation mixture of Traditional Country, Novelty, Bluegrass, Folk, Patriotic and Cowboy Narration with music background. Albums:#1"Dreams On The Line"songs 1-10/#2"Almost Together"songs 11-20/#3"Tales Of The Western Trail"songs 21-30
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Harvey Derrick lived and worked most of his younger years on a ranch. He is a soft spoken, easy going Oklahoman who''s performance, whether in the church, on the football field or on the stage, has gained the admiration, respect, and love of friends, fans and fellow veterans. Born September 23rd in Pawhuska, Ok, he was an all-star athlete. But, he joined the https://www.tradebit.comy when he graduated from Edmond High School(Edmond,OK). During his twenty-one years (ten Active Duty) of military service, he has served in special services, logistics, administration, and was a member of the United States Army Europe Honor Guard in Heidelberg Germany with the 529th MP Company and a Senior Enlisted Records Specialist with the 130th Station Hospital in Heidelberg Germany.
After the army, he received a football scholarship at Missouri Southern State College, in Joplin Mo, and became the most prolific scorer in that school''s history. He still holds most of the kicking records at MSSC, including the longest field goal, 57 yards. He was voted Most Valuable Player his sophomore year, and was high in the running for the All-American Team his junior year. He was inducted in the College''s Football Hall of Fame in 1994. Hampered by a leg injury his senior year, he decided to go back to Oklahoma after receiving his bachelor''s degree and start working on his songwriting career.
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Harvey was the president of the SONGWRITERS OF OKLAHOMA, with nine consecutive terms in that position, a member of the MIDWESTERN COUNTRY ENTERTAINER''S ASSN., and is the owner of Gusher Records and Furrow Music (BMI).
Harvey recorded his first record in 1983, and his first album in 1984 "Dreams On The Line" which contained his nationally acclaimed patriotic song "Butterfield''s Taps" that was the number one most requested song on KEBC Radio, Oklahoma City in 1985. He has had thirty-nine of his original songs published and recorded. He wrote the lyrics to the theme song of the OKLAHOMA COUNTRY MUSIC ASSO.. In May of 1987, his "Dreams On The Line" album was released in England by an English Record label and reached number #9 on their charts. In 1992 He recorded and released a limited edition of Cowboy Recitation Songs he co-wrote entitled "Tales Of The Western Trail" which was placed in the archives of the Dickinson Research Center of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum ( Formerly the National Cowboy Hall of Fame). He also wrote a song for the "ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART" which was accepted by that association and a song adopted by the "Procrastinators Of America.
Harvey was a regular on thursday nights and Saturday afternoons for five and a half years at the famous Blue Belle Saloon in Guthrie, OK and was co-host of the KOKC Jamboree, a live radio music show for 4 years at KOKC Radio in Guthrie, OK. He was the MC of the Back Porch Jamboree in Kingfisher, Ok for three years. He is a regular performer at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering held at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center. He performed two seasons in Branson, Mo with his "Almost Together" trio. He has been an instructor at Moore Norman VoTech, teaching Creative Song Lyrics. He narrates children''s cowboy books for Pelican Publishing Company out of Gretna, LA.
Music has always been a part of Harvey''s life. Even though he did not learn to play a guitar until he was a junior in highschool, he spent many hours listening to his uncles and grandmother playing music and singing. Those down home, simple and wholesome roots, as well as his patriotic loyalty, have remained deep in his heart and mind and now come out in many of the lyrics he writes in songs. His single, "Lets Not Forget Our Veterans", is an example of his touching lyrics, that chills the spine and brings tears to the eyes of every Red Blooded American who hears it. He has been working for fifteen years on an album of Patriotic songs, or stories he calls them, which include some of our country''s little known or forgotten heroes, places, and events.
Though he has a voice that is said to be a mixture of such greats as Jim Reeves, Marty Robins, and Johnny Horton, with a style of his own, his ambition is to be a successful song writer so he can help young talented artists and writers, as a promoter, producer, and publisher in the music industry. One of his greatest pleasures would be to write a song that launched some young unknown artist to stardom.
Harvey records, in the U.S.A., on the Gusher Record Label and makes guest appearances at private parties, opries, clubs, showcases, jubilees, on radio and television shows, and at charitable and patriotic events.
Harvey can be contacted at P.O Box 4121, Edmond, OK 73083-4121


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Global Women's Entrepreneurship Research: Diverse Settings, Questions, and Approaches
Karen D. Hughes, Jennifer E. Jennings
Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2012 - Business & Economics - 272 pages
Global Women's Entrepreneurship Research responds to recent calls from academic researchers and policy analysts alike to pay greater attention to the diversity and heterogeneity among women entrepreneurs. Drawing together studies by 26 researchers aff
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showcasing the diversity of womens entrepreneurship research
PART I Diverse Settings
the effects of national context on female migrant entrepreneurs
challenges in institutional financing
a multilevel institutional approach
examining the roles of financial capital and motivations
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5 How do social welfare and support systems influence the attitudes of female entrepreneurs towards risk and options?
8 Do highly accomplished female entrepreneurs tend to give away success?
PART III Diverse Approaches
a multicountry investigation
10 Sectoral segregation or gendered practices? A case study of roles and identities in a copreneurial venture
a reflexive approach
reflecting on the diversity of womens entrepreneurship research
6 Should women go into business with their family partner?
7 Are women more likely to pursue social and environmental entrepreneurship?
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I know, I know, chickpea patties have been done. I love Veganomicon's Chickpea Cutlets and Chickpea Sensation Patties from Eat, Drink, and Be Vegan just as much as the next vegan, but I think I may have found my favorite fried/baked pattied chickpea. 1,000 Vegan Recipes comes through again with Curried Chickpea Patties. (Don't just take my word for it, here is the review of this recipe on Cooking From 1,000 Vegan Recipes.) Pretty much anything with curry has me at "hello".
Carrot Coconut Sauce (I forgot the sesame oil and I think it would have been much better if I hadn't, as it was the kids liked the sauce, but Rob and I found the sauce to be missing something now that I look at the recipe I know what it was missing, doh)
Market at the Square, mixed greens from Vicky and Greg topped with Rob's tahini dressing and organic (goes without saying, 95% of what we eat, especially unprocessed foods are organic, but I like to stick it in there from time to time) dried cherries and walnuts from our buying club. One of the nice things about chickpea patties is you can usually make the mixture ahead of time and stick it in the fridge until you are ready to cook them up. I made a double batch and should have tripled it. The kids only left two for Rob by the time he arrived home from work.
Pekara's focaccia bread with tomato (from our garden), mixed greens (from Vicky and Greg), and curry mayo (as suggested by Robin Robertson in 1,000 Vegan Recipes). Grapes from Common Ground, watermelon from the Market at the Square, garlicky kale from the Market at the Square with Field Roast Mexican Chipotle vegan sausage from Common Ground (it was on sale this week) rounded out the meal. Dema who loves vegan sausage, homemade (my favorite) or store bought, was not a fan of the Mexican Chipotle. Josie liked them and Parker was so-so. I think we'll stick with the Italian or the Smoked Apple Sage on the rare occasions when we splurge. It was a unanimous win on the Curried Chickpea Patties and I think these will make a great quick go-to meal on busy soccer days.


A Kinetic Strike, nicknamed Rods from God, is a space-based weapons system in use by the United.
Pentagon to Accelerate Rail Gun Hypervelocity Projectile - Fires From Army Howitzer
NASA Taps Hoverboard Tech to Make Space “Tractor Beams”: This device can draw and repel satellites simultaneously, keeping a satellite where NASA scientists want it.
The action starts with the destruction of Turlock, CA by a kinetic energy projectile. Such a weapon is definitely possible and has been tested, but not yet a part of the US arsenal.


How much does the sun heat your house?
Calculating and exploiting passive solar gains in building design
Here at Marmott Energies we design ground source heating systems for people’s homes. These systems consist of a ground source heat pump and a ‘ground loop’. A ground loop is simply a loop of pipe that goes deep into the ground. The water in the pipe collects heat from the ground and transfers that heat to the heat pump. The heat pump uses a small amount of electricity to increase the temperature of that heat. It then transfers the heat into your house.
The first step in installing a geothermal system is deciding how big the heat pump and the ground loop should be. In order to do this, we have to calculate how much heating and cooling a house is going to need. It is particularly important that we do these calculations accurately with geothermal because the capital cost of the installation is the major part of the total heating cost. This is not the case for conventional heating systems. If you are installing a gas or oil furnace, the furnace itself is not expensive over its lifetime. The major cost of heating is the gas or fuel oil which that furnace burns. Installers can simply put in a furnace with excess capacity and it won’t cost the customers much extra money. They will still burn the same amount of gas or oil they would have done in a smaller furnace. With geothermal, in contrast, getting the size of the system wrong has big financial implications.
Marmott’s raison d’etre is to make geothermal more affordable and hence more accessible. To do that we need to ensure that geothermal provides great value for money, and to do that we have to size systems correctly. We therefore need to be able to make accurate estimates of the heating and cooling requirements of a house.
Calculating solar gains
How much heating and cooling a house requires depends on:
- the weather outside (temperature, humidity, wind and sunshine)
- what your house is made of and how well it is sealed
- what temperature and humidity you want it to be inside
- what other things are making heat within the house (ovens, fridges, people…)
One of the most challenging aspects of the calculation is figuring out how much the sun will heat up a house. Irrespective of the temperature outside, if the sun is shining on a window, your house will absorb some heat from that sunshine. Exactly how much heat will depend on the strength of the sunlight, how directly the sun is shining on the window, the size of the window and a property of the window itself called the solar heat gain coefficient. The solar heat gain coefficient of a window describes what proportion of the light hitting the glass gets through it.
When we are looking at the solar gains of a building, there are two results we are interested in:
- The power being transmitted through the windows (kW) — relevant because our heating and cooling systems provide a certain power. If 2kW of sunlight is entering your house through the windows in winter then you can turn your heating down by 2kW. If 2kW of sunlight is entering your house through the windows in summer however, then that is 2kW of extra power that your air conditioning system needs to remove.
- The energy transmitted through the windows (kWh) — relevant because it is what we pay for. Energy is power times time. So if we have 2kW of sunshine coming through the window for an hour in winter, then we have gained 2kWh’s of energy. That’s 2kWh of energy that we don’t need to pay for.
In what follows, I’ll describe how we calculate the solar power being transmitted through the windows, and the overall solar energy gained through the windows. Once I’ve done the calculations, I’ll use the resulting model to explore how you can best design a house to exploit these solar gains and so minimise the heating and cooling requirements of the house. This is called passive solar design. Like geothermal, it is a great way to heat buildings without emitting greenhouse gases.
If you would like to read this article with the code used for the calculations then you can do so here.
Hydro-Quebec runs a website called ‘SIMEB’ which provides hourly weather data for many towns in Quebec. This website is invaluable to us because it gives us the data we need to calculate the hourly heat loss or gain of a house. One of the pieces of information it provides is the intensity of solar radiation falling on a horizontal surface. The data for Montreal is plotted below.
In the above plot we see that the intensity of solar radiation on a horizontal surface is high in the summer and low in the winter. That’s because in the summer the sun is higher in the sky and so shines more directly onto the ground. The intensity of the solar radiation also jumps around a bit. It’s sometimes cloudy and so the clouds block the sun from hitting the floor. The plot looks almost solid at this scale because every night the radiation hitting the ground falls to zero. To better show the detail I have plotted a ‘zoomed in’ version below.
Ok, so we have data for the intensity of sunlight falling on a horizontal surface. What we want to calculate is the amount of solar power passing through the windows. To get there we first need to calculate the sun intensity falling on the windows. Windows tend to be vertical, not horizontal. They also have a certain orientation depending on which face of the building they are on. The sun will fall on different sides of the building at different times of day. In order to go from intensity of sunlight falling on the horizontal to the intensity of sunlight falling on windows, we are going to need to know more about the position on the sun.
There are two solar angles that determine the intensity of the sunlight falling on a particular surface. The first the solar altitude angle, θ. The solar altitude is the angle between the sun’s rays and a horizontal surface. It’s how much you need to crane your neck to look up at the sun. If θ is big, you have to crane your neck a lot. If θ is small, the sun is in your eyes even when you are hardly looking up. The second angle is the azimuthal angle, ϕ. The azimuthal angle describes where the sun is on a compass. It is defined clockwise from South. At the Equinox, when the sun rises it is in the East at ϕ = 270 degrees, at solar midday it is in the South at ϕ = 0 degrees, and when it sets it is in the West at ϕ = 90 degrees.
The sun position tool made by susdesign gives hourly solar altitude and azimuthal angles for a given location. The altitude data for Montreal is plotted below.
The sun altitude plot includes negative sun altitudes, that is to say, sun altitudes when the sun is below the horizon. Similarly to the solar intensities, this plot appears almost solid but that is just because the sun goes up and down every day. I’ve plotted the sun altitude at spring equinox, summer solstice and winter solstice below to give you a clearer picture of how the sun moves on a daily level.
Now that we have data for the solar angles and the sun intensity on a horizontal surface, we need to combine them to calculate the heating effect of the sun on our building.
First we need to calculate the solar radiation you would get on a vertical surface facing the sun. So something that is vertical but rotates like a sunflower to get the most of the sun rays. We can calculate these intensities by using the horizontal intensities and some geometry
In the picture above the intensity I denotes the ‘true intensity’ of the sunlight. That’s the intensity you would measure if you placed a surface at right angles to the sun’s rays. Ih denotes the intensity of the sunlight falling on a horizontal surface, and Iv denotes the intensity of the sunlight falling on a vertical surface oriented towards the sun. The angle θ is the sun altitude. A bit of geometry shows us that the intensity of sun falling on a vertical surface oriented towards the sun (Iv), is equal to the intensity of sun falling on a horizontal surface (Ih) divided by tan(θ):
I want to avoid dividing by the tangent of zero (which equals zero) because that is equivalent to multiplying by infinity. I have therefore set a minimum altitude below which I don’t consider the sun to have any warming effect. When the sun is very low, it is very likely that the sun is hitting trees or other buildings and so not hitting the walls of the house in question. I think a reasonable minimum altitude is 2°. When the sun is at 2 °, something 5 m high would have a 143m long shadow. It is therefore pretty likely that most windows will be in shadow at that point. The sun is between 0 and 2° for about 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening. We are therefore not cutting off a very long period of time, even if a particular window happens not to be in the shade.
We have now converted our data for sun intensity on a horizontal surface to sun intensity on a vertical surface which rotates to face the sun. However, windows do not rotate to face the sun. We therefore need to deal with the azimuthal angles. The angle which determines what proportion of the sun will fall on each wall is the angle between the sun’s azimuthal direction and the face of the wall. These angles are marked with δ in the drawing below. When the angle δ is greater than 180 °, that face is in shade and so the intensity on that face = 0. When the angle δ is less than 180 °, some geometry shows us that the proportion of the sunlight which is shining directly onto a particular wall = the proportion of the sunlight falling on a vertical surface multiplied by the sine of δ. So if we call the intensity of the sun falling on Wall 1 I1, then:
Putting it together
Combining the effect of the altitude and the azimuth gives us the conversion factor from the intensity on the horizontal surface to the intensity on a vertical wall with a particular orientation. I have plotted those conversion factors for North, South, East and West facing walls below.
Something super interesting is happening with the North and South faces. Sun only hits the North face in the summer. In the winter, the sun rises South of due East and sets South of due West. As such the sun is never above the horizon at times when it would otherwise fall on the North face. We therefore only get sun falling on North facing windows between the spring and the autumn equinoxes. On the South face, the low solar altitudes in winter mean the sun hits South facing windows quite directly. In summer however, the sun is high in the sky when it is in the South so it hits South facing windows at a very steep angle. As a result, very little light will pass through South facing windows in summer but a lot will in winter. That’s a very attractive feature if we don’t want to heat too much in the winter nor cool too much in the summer. We can further reduce the summer gains of South facing windows by adding a small roof overhang. As previously mentioned, the sun is very high in the sky in the summer when it is in the South. By adding a small roof overhang we can block any rays of sun that would otherwise have hit the windows. That small roof overhang won’t block winter sun because the sun will be much lower in the sky in the winter.
The East and West plots are essentially the same. The little whiskery patterns on top of the plots are just due to the fact that the data isn’t continuous. The weightings for East and West faces are slightly greater in spring and autumn than they are in winter and summer. In winter, the sun never shines directly onto the East and West faces because it rises South of due East and sets South of due West. In summer, the sun is quite high when it is shining onto the East and West faces and this reduces the weighting. In spring and autumn however, the sun is low in the sky when it is shining directly on the East and West faces and this gives a greater weighting.
The plot below shows the weightings for a day in midsummer, a day in midwinter, and a day in spring. Looking at it on a daily level allows us to better understand when the sun shines on each face, and for how long.
Finishing off the analysis
We now multiply the ‘solar intensity on the horizontal’ data by the conversion factors calculated above to get data for ‘solar intensity on each face of the house’. We then convert those intensities to the powers and energies that we are really interested in. To go from the intensity of the light falling on the wall (W/m²) to the power of the sunlight hitting the windows, we multiply the intensity by the window areas. Only a fraction of the sunlight that hits the window will pass through it. The proportion of the sunlight that will pass through the window is defined by the solar heat gain coefficient. It is a property of the window itself. So to get the solar power passing through the windows, we just multiply the values for the power hitting the windows by the solar heat gain coefficient.
The plot below shows the solar power passing through the windows on each side of a house which has 8 m² of windows on each face and a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.4. To give you some context on the size of a kW, a typical household kettle uses about 1.5kW, a large fridge uses about 0.8kW, an LED light bulb uses about 0.009kW.
The same picture seen with the weightings remains, if a little less cleanly. North facing windows only see the sun in the summer. More solar power passes through South facing windows in the winter than in the summer. West and East facing windows have the most solar power passing through them in spring and autumn.
Finally we need to integrate the powers with respect to time to get the energies. The plot below shows the solar energy entering the house through the windows on each face of a building each day. Again, the building in question has identical window areas on each side.
Implications for energy efficient buildings
We now have a model capable of calculating the solar power and energy gains of houses with different orientations, window areas and windows. We can use that model to explore how we can exploit those solar gains in building design. If you want to benefit from solar gains in the winter but not have a huge cooling load in summer then you want to maximise your solar gains in winter but minimise your solar gains in summer. There are 4 things we can change about a building to achieve this objective:
- Building orientation
- Window areas and placement
- Window solar heat gain coefficient
Lets start with building orientation. The figure above showed the daily solar energy gains of a house which is oriented N/S/E/W and has 8m² of windows on each face. Let’s look at how those gains would change if we rotated that house by 45 degrees such that it was oriented NE/NW/SE/SW. The figure below shows the gains through the windows on each face of that house. The equivalent figure for the N/S/E/W is also reproduced below to make it easier to compare the two.
Let’s look first at the NE/NW/SE/SW house. The NE and NW faces give big gains in the summer and no gains at all in the winter. That means that NE/NW facing windows increase cooling loads but provide no heating — not a desirable profile. The South East and South West faces give the highest gains in the shoulder seasons. The gains in summer and winter are very similar to one another. The shoulder season gains come with the downside of quite big solar gains in summer and so a big extra cooling load.
Now let’s look at the N/S/E/W oriented house. East and West faces give low solar gains in the winter and high solar gains in summer. Again, this doesn’t match well with our heating and cooling loads. The North face only gives solar gains in the summer, and even then they are pretty small. The South face gives big solar gains in the winter and small solar gains in the summer. That’s exactly what we want. South facing windows allow the sun to heat the house a lot in winter while not adding too much to the cooling load in the summer. That profile cannot be recreated by combining the gains on other walls. So if we have the choice, we should always orient buildings so that they have a South facing wall.
Where should I put my windows?
We now know the heating characteristics of windows in each orientation. We have seen that, given the choice, we would choose to orient buildings such that they have a South facing wall. So with our N/S/E/W house, let’s see how we can change the window layout of a building to maximise our gains in winter and to minimise our gains in summer.
We want to move as much window area as possible to the South face of the house. However,for lighting reasons we probably can’t have all the windows on one side of the house. We’ll leave 3m² of windows the N, W and E faces of the building and put the remaining 23m² of windows on the South face. If we are designing a new house we are also free to choose what windows to install on each side of the house. The solar heat gain coefficient of windows varies a lot. You can get windows with a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.1 and others with a coefficient of 0.7. We can further improve the passive heating of our house if we choose to put windows with the high gains coefficient on the sides that get winter sun, and windows with low gains coefficients on the sides that get summer sun. So we’ll put windows with a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.65 on the S facing windows and windows with a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.15 on the other faces.
The resultant gains are shown on the plot below. The gain through all of the windows in the house is plotted this time, because it is the total gain that affects our heating and cooling loads. The gain through all of the windows on the baseline house is also plotted. The baseline house is a house with the same orientation and total window area, but with the windows distributed equally on all sides of the house and with all windows having a solar heat gain coefficient of 0.3.
Compared to the baseline house we have managed to increase the winter gains threefold without increasing the summer gains at all!
A bit of context on what these energy values mean: A detached house with a floor area of 1600 square foot per floor might need 270 kWh of heating on the coldest day in winter, and 110kWh of cooling on the sunniest day in summer. In Quebec (where electricity is particularly cheap), a kWh costs between 6.8 and 10.5 ¢/kWh after tax (depending on how much you consume). So that 270kWh of heating on the coldest day would cost between $18.36 and $28.35 if provided by electric baseboards.
When it isn’t cloudy, the solar gains for this optimised house are at or above 270kWh per day for the whole heating period. So, provided that we can keep that heat in the house through the night (which is a challenge that we won’t explore here), the house will only need heating on cloudy days. That’s pretty astonishing.
Retrofit of existing buildings
Unless you are building a new house you can’t do much about the orientation of your house. Changing where your windows are is also a pretty major retrofit. But changing the windows themselves is a much more achievable idea and something you will do at reasonably regular intervals. So if we return to our N/S/E/W house with 8m² of windows on each side, how much can we do by just varying the SHGC? We’ll install windows with a SHGC of 0.65 on the South face and a SHGC of 0.15 on the other sides.
This is far less powerful than moving the windows but it is still helpful. In the winter the gains have only increased very slightly. However the summer gains are much reduced — going from around 125kWh/day on sunny days to around 75kWh/day on sunny days. As such the heating bill for the house would be slightly reduced but the cooling bill would be significantly reduced.
The downside of windows
Windows are poor insulators compared to walls and so a lot of heat is lost through windows by conduction. If your windows are poorly positioned or have inefficient SHGC’s, it’s easy for your windows to cost you more money in heating than they save you.
A typical, double glazed window with a plastic frame will have a conductivity of about 3 W/m²/C. That means that, a window of 1 m² with a temperature difference of 1 degree C across it will be losing heat at a rate of 3W. If we have 32 m² of windows which have a conductivity of 3 W/m²/C then the house will lose 96 W per degree C of difference between the outside and inside temperature. If it is -23 outside and 22 inside then you have a temperature difference of 45 degrees across the windows. That means you are going to be losing heat at a rate of 4.3kW through the windows. If we multiply that by 24 hours then we have lost 104 kWh of heat through those windows in one day (assuming it stayed -23 outside for the whole time). If we look back we can see that our ‘new building’ optimised designs were gaining much more than that 104kWh of energy from the sun on all but the cloudiest of days. In contrast, the solar energy gains for the baseline house were often below 104kWh in winter. Often on those days, more energy would be lost than gained through the windows.
It is therefore really important to design windows carefully in new buildings. Windows can reduce our heating loads without increasing our cooling loads too much if we use them well, but they can increase our heating loads and our cooling loads substantially if we design them badly.
Some relatively simple geometry has allowed us to combine some individually uninteresting data sets to give some really useful results. The resulting model lets us calculate the solar power entering a house through its windows on an hourly basis, for any house orientation and any window layout.
By exploring that model, we saw that window design can have a striking effect on the heating and cooling requirements of a building. In particular, we saw that window orientation is very important.
- South facing windows have an excellent solar gains profile. They give high solar gains in winter, reducing the need for other heating sources, and they give small solar gains in summer, minimising the need for cooling.
- West and East facing windows on the other hand are best avoided. They give big solar gains in summer when you don’t want them, and small solar gains in winter when you do.
- North facing windows only give any solar gains in the summer, and even then, the solar gains are small.
Passive solar building design can utilise these insights. You can design buildings with a big South facing wall and then maximise window areas on that South face. You can adjust the solar heat gain coefficient of windows on different faces as function of how good the profile of solar gains through those windows is. You can also shade South faces to prevent the high summer sun from entering the room at all.
Marmott Energies does not work in passive solar design, but we are excited about all technologies which can have a meaningful impact on the carbon footprint of buildings. We built this model of solar gains because it lets us size geothermal systems properly. When we size geothermal systems, we combine this solar gains model with a model of the other heat gains and losses of a house. The combined model gives us the energy needed to heat and cool the house for every hour of a typical year. With that model we can size a geothermal system that will provide the lions share of the heating, but that won’t have expensive excess capacity that is only used a few days a year. This model therefore lets us design geothermal systems that give a great return on investment, thus making geothermal affordable and accessible.


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