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Kids can be difficult to handle at any time of year, but the summer is an especially tough time for parents. You’ll constantly hear your kids complain that they are bored or have nothing to do. If this sounds like your kids then you’ll be pleased to know that there is something you can do to combat their boredom.

If you live in the Northwest of England, there is so much to see and do that your children won’t have the chance to say that they are bored.

Why not take them to somewhere like Acorn Farm or even Blackpool Zoo & Dinosaur Safari. Most young children in particular love learning about animals and wildlife in general. If that still isn’t enough then the Blue Planet Aquarium and Chester Zoo a great places for them to learn something new about their environment. If you still hear them moaning, then pack them off on a trip to Curraghs Wildlife Park and you’ll be amazed how quickly their cries of boredom become cries of excitment.

Taking the kids out doesn’t have to be a chore – the northwest has so many great places to visit that you and the kids will have fun!

It used to be the main worry for a temping radio columnist like me was TV hacks and some of the more famous big-shots who can squeeze to the front in front of you. Now there are more rivals for the awareness of a potential interviewee : the blog authors. Practically the whole web now consists of blogs and social network sites.

Everywhere there are voter newshouds, from people who send photos of fires from their mobile telephones to TV stations, maybe only once, to enthusiastic greenhorn media consultants who are attempting to change the personality of journalism with their net creativeness and agitation. Infrequently you’re the potential interviewee yourself, at a book launch or humanities holiday, and you are flattered to get asked for an interview. Then it registers you are coping with the editorial outreach arm of a blog with 6 readers. Or you may be sitting in a panel on a stage and look up thru the crowd and see a tiny mpeg recorder is pointing at you. And shoddy as the audio could be, it’ll log on and reach an audience. And were somebody there to get so irate that he drove forward and shot you, then reports outlets around the planet would take that photographs – regardless of how bad it was. Blogging aims to being the new journalism and journalism in the conventional media wants to debate that it has pro standards to protect. But there’s one massive failing in the understanding that blog owners and correspondents are at war with one another ; they actually feed off each other. They’ve a symbiotic relationship – and it’s changing. It used to be that journalism was an orderly and well-demarcated profession. The job was outlined by the nation’s Union of Writers , as much as by the employer. Therefore as a paper newshound, when I started, I might have caused a strike if I had carried a camera. I utilise a camera for blogging.

The blog owners outline their own functions and play with whatever technology suits them. And most do not worry about quality. It appears about in the natural personality of blogging the background noise is too high and the audio hisses. As a radio reporter, in the times of tape-recording, I wasn’t permitted to edit my personal tapes, but had to work alongside an audio engineer.

Now, even in the BBC, I’m able to edit everything. In reality I edit packages for Sun. Sequence at home. I often record talks for Radio Scotland and e-mail them to the producer.So blog writers aren’t responsible for the broadening definition of a hack ; it is occuring anyhow.

But there remain some urgent differences between a newshound and a blogger. The journalist has to supply in good time. There are cut off dates. The blogger can go to the bar and upload the recordings later on perhaps even the following day. The newshound has backing. When stressed by abusive calls and threats of libel, the paper or broadcaster should take the heat.

The blogger alone will more instantly surrender to pressure. After I commented on a blog that reviewed a book and the blogger straight away withdrew his piece. I did not desire him to do that. Nobody else went to the trouble to critique the same book, but he had not the thick skin of a columnist. And the issue for a blogger is that the publishing model is exposed. An article online can be removed in a fashion that a broadcast item or a paper article can’t. After they are out, the damage is done. The blogger could have to protect a piece each day, or remove it. And there’s not likely to be support from the host server, which has no editorial elements to protect.

I have myself damaged under the pressure of aggravation and threats from an interviewee to get rid of material from a blog, solely to lose the headache, while understanding that if I had revealed the material in a paper or broadcast it on-air, I would be totally safe. Blogs are far more interactive than conventional journalism and the argument customarily turns bad tempered and unpleasant.

Thailand’s energy minister ceremonially broke ground Thursday on what will become the biggest solar farm in Southeast East Asia. The edges of Bangkok, Thailand, will be home to a 44-megawatt solar farm to be finished by the end of 2011. The plant dovetails with the country’s attempt to get 20 p.c of its power from replaceable resources by 2022. Suntech Power, which bills itself as the planet’s biggest producer of crystal silicon solar cells, has reached an agreement to provide 34.5-megawatts worth of solar energy panels for the 1st section of the Bangkok solar project. When complete, the solar farm will be controlled and run by Thai oil company Bangchak Petrol with Solartron. Solartron is a turnkey solar solutions company that supplies design, installation, and maintenance services for solar projects.

The deal affirms a United Countries report that sees Pacific Rim leading the way in green tech investment. The deal also talks to the trend of solar corporations offering turnkey solar solutions.

The project also illustrates how oil firms are wanting to branch out into replaceable energy resources. Bangchak Petrol , which is essentially an oil refiner, voiced this week it plans to invest about twenty-three bill baht ( $716 million ) over the following 5 years in alternate power projects as a method of expanding its green tech portfolio.

Source: Thailand Properties

Faced with reception issues for iPhone four, Apple becomes the most criticised brand in the blogosphere, reported Commercial Times paraphrasing Brandwatch, a social media research firm. Similar articles According to Brandwatch, Apple brand got the highest number of feedback indicator ‘fail’, a negative hashtag commonly used on the web by the purchasers to show their unhappiness about a company’s failure to reach their expectancies.

Apple with this negative indicator got discussed 1,204 times in Twitter messages in the prior month, the study firm, says.

The majority of these messages were centered at criticising Apple brand while the leftover were beefs relating to its products — iPhone, iPad and Mac. On other blogging sites, shoppers posted masses of grumbles on the reception problem posed by the iPhone four, Brandwatch asserted. Brands in the communication and technology sectors are the most widely whinged online by the purchasers, according to the firm. Facebook, Nokia and the BBC in the second, 3rd and 4th position are the most criticised brands on Twitter, the firm asserted in its report.

Police have rebutted claims that they have given up looking for the body of missing Edinburgh lady Susan Pilley. Pilley vanished in May. A brief yesterday advised the hunt had been put off till new clues were revealed. Nonetheless Lothian and Borders Police has related there’s been no permanent active search, and its investigations continue on an intelligence-led basis as they’ve been in this past. Roads around Arthur’s Seat were closed yesterday after a grass fire broke out.

The fire, which started shortly after 3pm, spread over four hundred square metres leading to roads in Holyrood Park being closed until the dusk. Around thirty firefighters were wanted to quell the fire. Groups of youngsters from Israel and Palestine have met in the town to share experiences at the Windows for Peace Summer College debating their daily lives and the chance of peace. They also publish a multilingual magazine- Windows- at home. Peter’s Yard at Quartermile has been awarded a double gold star-rating at the wonderful taste Awards. The caf and bakery was among six thousand entrants to the respected awards which are organized by the Guild of Fine Foods. Entries are blind-judged by over three hundred gurus. The Evening News has a preview of this year’s Holiday parade, which should be at Holyrood Park for the second year running on account of the continuing tram project. Organisers of next Sunday’s event hope to top last year’s 75,000 turn out with over one thousand performers indulging in the day’s entertainment. The launch of the 2010 Edinburgh Jazz and Blues holiday is this Fri. . Jazzwise mag has a short preview of the line-up here.

Councillor Cameron Rose has launched a new blog- Climate Edinburgh- having a look at ecological concerns in the town. Make us aware what you think about it.

The first question from the press, about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, was one that could not have been asked at a similar event across the border.

“I was only seven years old when the incident happened and couldn’t understand it. But when I did understand it, I couldn’t read anything about it,” the 28-year-old said in Mandarin, referring to censorship on the subject.

Han Han has achieved mass popularity with a blog (http://blog.sina.com.cn/twocold) that offers a critical take on current affairs. A high school dropout and part-time rally racer, he has become something of a self-made media personality who writes books, produces music and is now the editor of a new magazine.

Party, a bimonthly art and literary journal that includes essays, photography and comics, was introduced earlier this month. The premiere issue also included a brain scan from Ai Weiwei, a top Chinese artist and high-profile activist who underwent brain surgery last year to stem a hemorrhage after a beating by the police. He had released the scan as evidence of the assault.

Han Han said that the majority of Party’s content would fall “outside the censors’ radar,” but added that “I dislike it when politics stall the development of literature and art.”

He referred to Hong Kong as the city where “you can say whatever you want.”

Later, he said in a Webcast that he was considering starting a Hong Kong edition of Party.

The fair, and the local publishing industry in general, has traded on the fact that it offers books, and open discussions, impossible to find on the mainland. In a show of hands, about 60 percent of those in Han Han’s audience said they were from mainland China, even though the fair attracts mostly a Hong Kong audience. The blogger was among 13 mainland speakers at the seven-day fair.

“Sometimes he says things that surprise me,” said Graham Lee, a Hong Kong native studying at Peking University, who had come across Han Han’s articles in Apple Daily, a Hong Kong newspaper. “His way of thinking is different from that of ordinary Chinese.”

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