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Definition of book in English:
- After some serious research he wrote a book on the subject, Ancient Mosaics in Bulgaria.
- Rosie bought me the DVD along with a book on philosophy.
- I sat there a while longer, staring down at the vellum pages of the book on the low desk before me.
- Henry Miller had published seventeen books when he sent out an appeal to all his friends to help him out.
- Merely getting books published serves little purpose if no one reads them.
- Another, working on a novel for young adults, already has books published in that field.
- The book of Esther is the only book of the Bible that does not contain the name of God.
- Of course, and that truth is preserved in the 66 books of the Bible, Old and New Testaments.
- Esther is one of the most neglected books of the Old Testament, certainly as far as commentaries are concerned.
- Keira took out the script book that she hadn't yet returned to the handbag.
- But he never wallowed in self pity, and rather spent every available moment with his nose stuck deep in his books.
- And there is naturally also a limit to how many hours they can be poring over their books after many hours at school and three hours of homework.
- The campus has plenty of spots for students tired of slaving over their books in the library or dorms to get some fresh air.
- Apart from in 2006/7, we are members of the Offa's Dyke Association, find us in the book, or the online entry they have for us.
- We are not a secret organisation, but out of necessity you will not find us in the book.
- And if you have fond memories of a special teacher, why not look them up in the book and say 'thanks' one more time?
- Money meant that no one laughed behind her back when she called magazines books.
- 'I read it in a book.' 'What book?' 'Vogue, that's what book.'
- Their readers nearly always referred to these magazines as 'books'.
- Whether or not 'long distance' relationships can work is one of those age-old questions in the book of love.
- There is a little known secret in the book of relationships, filed under the chapter on breaking up and I am here to share it.
- The way he receives his partner in his hotel room wouldn't count among 'nice and friendly' in the book of etiquette.
- She leaned back against her pillows and tapped her pen against the leather bound book.
- She reached into one of her few bags, and pulled out a leather bound book, and began to read.
- She spotted Joel propped up against the wall, reading a thick, leather bound book.
- They balance the books by selling places to students from developing countries.
- What's more, balance the books properly and you can avoid the perils of going deeper and deeper into debt.
- They need to be able to balance the books to continue to provide it.
- According to both the bookmakers and the form book it's a two-horse race.
- Newsome's name was soon added to referee's book when he deliberately tripped an opponent.
- It was the 11 th of the season for a man who is no stranger to the referee's book.
- Perry specialised in making books of matches (advertising bars or restaurants, for example).
- They have books of pictures and samples that you can look through there, and they can do it all.
- It was then that he remembered the book of matches in his pocket, and drew it out.
- The person who plays the highest card of the suit led, or who plays the highest trump, wins the book.
- If no one plays a trump, then the highest ranking card to the suit led wins the book.
verb[with object]
- Much coastal and Dales accommodation is already booked up in advance, and Scarborough had to print 10,000 extra holiday brochures to satisfy demand.
- The auditorium was packed and places were booked well in advance for this eagerly anticipated show.
- Similar to one week packages in the Canary Islands, all places were booked well in advance.
- My boyfriend brought me to London and surprised me by booking us in at the Met Hotel, absolutely stunning and funky place to stay, I loved it!
- Even booking you both into one of the most luxurious hotels in Moncton, Canada.
- We have taken the liberty at booking you at Collelungo, an agriturismo near Castellina.
- On arrival we booked into the hotel and then the festivities began with our annual pre-dive get-together.
- We booked into our fleapit hotels and checked out, we got on our buses and got off them again, we signed up on lists and then found that a new list was being drawn up which we were not on.
- Imagine booking into this hotel, with its romantic associations, and being faced with this brute of a building
- Work got underway booking performers as far back as last September and work on the parade for concepts and ideas got underway in March.
- The singer was originally booked for a small concert in Hangzhou on June 12, sponsored by an ice tea company.
- A promoter who booked them to play in Ripley, Derbyshire, suggested he change his name to Cliff Richard.
- People can come on the night but it may be booked up so they should book in advance.
- The Evening Press made a call to the centre to ask what accommodation was available and was told by that most hotels were booked up this weekend.
- All places have been booked up this weekend, but the sessions will also be available next Saturday.
- Officers took the inebriated tourists to the Pattaya police station and booked them on charges of physical assault and drunk and disorderly behavior.
- Eventually you'll get booked by the cops and handed a fine.
- Clients who do stop in these areas are often harassed by police by flashing their lights or booking them for traffic offences.
- That is important now, because referees are liable to book players for trivial things.
- The referee books him for a poorly concealed piece of play-acting.
- He says players over here are booked for minor offences by referees who operate by the letter of the law and claimed the same offences would go unpunished in all other major European leagues.
- We gotta book—fast.
- You gotta book, Officer. I gotta stay.
- Look, I gotta book. I'll see you guys later.
- She waved bye-bye and booked out of there.
- He's booking through that park.
- Book, man! Can't you run? Something wrong with your legs?
bring someone to book
- chiefly British Officially punish someone or call them to account for their behaviour: the murderer will be found and brought to bookMore example sentences
- And he warned the troublemakers that they would be brought to book over the next few months using evidence gathered on the night and CCTV video footage of the disorder.
- But they can be brought to book under legislation governing companies making false and misleading claims.
- It's good that he has been brought to book and sends out a strong message to others.
by the book
- Strictly according to the rules: a cop who doesn't exactly play it by the bookMore example sentences
according to the rules, in accordance with the rules, within the law, abiding by the law, lawfully, legally, legitimately, licitly;informal on the level, on the up and up, fair and square
- For such policemen, I have no feelings, they ought to be dealt with strictly by the book.
- We even have to keep an open mind about whether there were any dealings that weren't strictly by the book.
- Business as usual, even when done strictly by the book, is not necessarily the safest way of operating.
close the books
- Make no further entries at the end of an accounting period; cease trading: branches will be asked to close their books at the end of DecemberMore example sentences
- Shareholder requirements for dividends made it necessary to define an accounting period, close the books and calculate profits.
- In fact, Vermont closed the books on its 2003 fiscal year with a $10.4 million surplus, even as California, Massachusetts, and many other states battle huge deficits.
- The Dow and Nasdaq were ready to close the books on their first down years since 1990.
in someone's bad (or good) books
- In disfavour (or favour) with someone: you could say he is in my bad booksMore example sentences
- They say: 'Let's try and be in their good books.'
- He's back in their good books, so his odds remain long.
- Ministers and officials in the state see to it that they stay in their good books.
in my book
- In my opinion: that counts as a lie in my bookMore example sentences
- True democracy, in my book, is one person one vote on any decision that effects the society that is voting.
- The party was a real laugh, lovely people, tasty food - a good combo in my book!
- It was a fish soup, no doubt made from yesterday's unsold fish - but that's a good thing in my book.
make (or open) a book (US make book)
- Take bets and pay out winnings on the outcome of a race or other contest or event: the bookies opened a book on his successorMore example sentences
- You can think of it as an American alternative to those famous London betting shops that will make book on just about anything.
- It will probably do worse - since the kind of events he wants to make book on are even more unpredictable and emotional than elections.
- The company is always game to open a book on most events and we do get some unusual requests.
on the books
- Contained in a list of members, employees, or clients: the club have six top foreign players on their booksMore example sentences
- The garage closes with 15 employees on the books, all of whom are entitled to transfer to the incoming dealer in Preston.
- We have only got thirteen players on the books who have made more than 20 Premiership appearances.
- The ailing team have finally resigned from division two with only seven or eight players on the books.
People of the Book
- Jews and Christians as regarded by Muslims.Example sentences
- Muslim men are permitted to marry non-Muslim women from the People of the Book - i.e. Jews and Christians.
- We cannot marry in any circumstances among the followers of other religious barring the People of the Book.
- Do the People of the Book in the verse refer to the Jews and Christians of all times?
suit someone's book
- British Be convenient for someone: it didn't suit her book at all to be movedMore example sentences
- My sister is quick to call somebody a friend, even somebody she hardly knows, if it suits her book.
- Sorry if that doesn't suit your book or your plans for us but when you said for us to go home you forgot one thing.
- Of course many of us have to relearn these lessons in a new cycle because changes in monetary policy seldom suit our book at the time.
take a leaf out of someone's book
- Imitate or emulate someone in a particular way: worm-watchers should take a leaf out of Darwin's fieldcraft book and sit still to observe the actionMore example sentences
- He wished more young people would take a leaf out of his book and follow his example.
- He carried the club at times last season, but others must take a leaf out of his book.
- I hope you do not mind Catherine, I am taking a leaf out of your book and asking anyone that passes this way to please call around and offer your support to John and his family.
throw the book at
- informal Charge or punish (someone) as severely as possible: get this lot down to the station and throw the book at themMore example sentences
- If the charges are proved, throw the book at the perpetrators, but not until.
- And last week, in the run-up to his visit, the Kremlin was continuing to throw the book at the company.
- Her bond has been set at $50,000 and it would be nice if a judge throws the book at her.
write the book
- Used in reference to particular expertise or proficiency in a subject, area of activity, etc. they actually care about the product they are making and they wrote the book on customer service he pretty much writes the book on how to be perfect in the mediaMore example sentences
- He's the man who wrote the book on duplicity.
- California wrote the book on approachability.
- I know how the whole 'need-to-know' system works: in fact I wrote the book on it!
you can't judge a book by its cover
- proverb Outward appearances are not a reliable indication of the true character of someone or something.Example sentences
- And I think that, like this movie says, you can't judge a book by its cover.
- Despite the admonition that you can't judge a book by its cover, I tend to find that, increasingly, you can.
- I told you that you can't judge a book by its cover,' he reminded her, in an 'I-told-you-so' type of manner.
Old English bōc (originally also 'a document or charter'), bōcian 'to grant by charter', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch boek and German Buch, and probably to beech (on which runes were carved).
The forerunners of the modern book would have been scrolls of papyrus or parchment, or engraved tablets—the first example of what we might recognize as a book came in Roman times. The word book goes back to Old English and has related forms in most of the other northern European languages of the time. Their ancestor was probably a word related to beech (Old English), which would have been a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. A bookmaker is someone who 'makes a book'. Bookmakers keep a record of bets made with different people, which was originally done in a memorandum book.
Words that rhyme with bookbetook, brook, Brooke, Chinook, chook, Coke, cook, Cooke, crook, forsook, Gluck, hook, look, mistook, nook, partook, rook, schnook, schtuck, Shilluk, shook, Tobruk, took, undercook, undertook
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Neurology, Cognitive Science And Brain Research
Brain fitness is a term that's becoming familiar to more and more people. That's because the more that scientists learn about the brain, the more we realize how important it is to keep our brains, as well as our bodies, in good shape. And when it comes to how your brain is affected by aging, there is good news and bad news.
The idea that aging leads to mental decline is not new and cognitive research has proved it. As William Shakespeare wrote in Much Ado About Nothing, "When the age is in, the wit is out." But the good news is that recent research is proving that this idea is not entirely true. Evidence now suggests that the brain is a flexible and renewable organ and that are you age, your brain is able to maintain and even improve its current level of performance, especially if you make sure to lead an active and mentally stimulating life style.
So what is the bad news? Well, like other things in life, achieving brain fitness requires some work. The reason for this is that the brain, obviously, is no fool. As you go through your daily routine, there are many tasks that you repeat, over and over. Obviously, your brain is no fool; in fact, it's an extremely efficient processor of information, so it creates shortcuts for accomplishing these repetitive cognitive tasks.
For example, when you were first learning to drive a car, you probably had a hard time carrying on a conversation at the same time, because your brain was busy processing all the new stimuli and cognitive tasks that are involved in driving. Once you become an experience driver, it's much easier to talk to passengers, enjoy the scenery, and drive at the same time.
It's obviously a good thing that many of the cognitive tasks of driving become automated, because it allows your brain to divert its attention and resources to other things. But in the long run, creates problems too because your brain's natural tendency to learn from experience and create routines that make daily information processing easier also encourages it to become lazy and slack off a bit. As you age, this problem becomes even more pronounced because you encounter fewer opportunities to engage in new activities that will challenge the brain and jolt it out of a lifetime of automated processing. That's exactly why fitness is so important.
Brain fitness is like physical fitness. Just like your muscles, your brain requires consistent challenges in order to remain fit and healthy. Many people already rely on activities such as Sudoku, crossword puzzles or playing bridge to improve their brain fitness. These activities can indeed help keep your brain in good shape and they are definitely better than doing nothing. But if you repeat the same types of brain activities all the time, they too can become routine and will no longer properly challenge all of the attributes that are essential to overall brain health and fitness. The real key to optimum brain fitness is to exercise every part of your brain by constantly exposing it to as many new and different cognitive activities as possible. This level of fitness requires a more thorough and comprehensive program of brain training.
The reason for this is that cognition is made up of several attributes that operate together to create general brain fitness. They include (how good you are at memorizing and then retrieving information for different amounts of time), attention (how well you are able to concentrate on one or more tasks), perception (how well can you can perceive different stimuli in your surroundings), and hand-eye coordination (how well you are able to translate visual input into bodily movement). Since we are all unique individuals, your route to brain fitness is different from everyone else's. So the ideal brain fitness program is one that is able to determine your particular strengths and weaknesses and create customized exercise routines that will offer you the kind of training you need to maintain an active and healthy brain.
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- Cognition and Aging: Verbal Learning, Memory, and Problem Solving
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- Aging, Fitness and Neurocognitive Function
- Age Differences in Cognitive Performance in Later Life: Relationships to Self-Reported Health and Activity Life Style
- Use it or lose it: Engaged Lifestyle as a Buffer of Cognitive Decline in Aging?
- What is Cognitive Reserve? Theory and Research Application of the Reserve Concept
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- Improving Memory Performance in the Aged through Mnemonic Training: a Meta-Analytic Study
- The Impact of Long-Term Exercise Training on Psychological Function in Older Adults
- Multiple Sclerosis: Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Evoked Responses and Spinal Fluid Electrophoresis
- Cognitive Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis
- Life and Death of Neurons in the Aging Brain
- Aging and Neuronal Replacement
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The Hydro-Industries ReelSmart is an easy to setup, and one of the easist self-winding garden hose reels to use. It is great for someone that either can't or doesn't want to manually wind up the hose reel on a cart.
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Another Thing I want to add:
no matter if you use circulars or straight needles: you may make stuff that is longer than that needle at one point or another.
While the stitches then get bunched up along the needle and the top of your piece does not lie flat... what's the trouble?
you can work with your needle, unless the stitches themselves do not fit (that is when you can not compress them, yarn sling by yarn sling).
Let's say your needles are 10 inches and the thing you want to knit is 20 inches: no problem, mostly. The stuff will fit. If you have needles of 5 inches long... that is another story, really. It will get cramped at some point.
The other thing I want to say: I do not use straight needles and since childhood days did not use them anymore. I work with circs or dpn, depending on the project. But all my straight knitting is done on circular needles. I just do not want the leverage and angeling of the long needles. They get in my way and the weight of the knitting pulls on me funny. My grandmother solved her pain issues with knitting about 25 years ago when switching to circulars and I followed along, understanding about the beauty right away, even though I was still little. If you perfer straight needles: that is perfectly alright, as well.
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Huzzah! It's finally time to get our first look of Season 3 of Game of Thrones, which premieres March 31. This is quite a beautiful featurette, with views of the locations and many favorite stars, including a glimpse of Dame Diana Rigg. You'll be watching this one over and over:
Featurette: Game Of Thrones – Season 3: In Production
Game of Thrones Season 3, starring Gethin Anthony, Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Lena Headey, Kit Harington, Richard Madden, Jack Gleeson, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sophie Turner, and Maisie Williams, premieres Sunday, March 31 on HBO.


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Well, you survived. At least, we hope you did, with some semblance of your sanity left over. If you were one of the many, many people out there to stand waiting in a line to get your hands on the latest and greatest gadget from the ridiculously smart minds at Cupertino, then hopefully you're busy enjoying it as we write this. What is this, you might ask? Well, as you could probably glean from the title, it's a wrap-up of all the craziness that was today. And yes, it was crazy.
To be fair, but not too ridiculous here, we're going to actually start at the end of yesterday, June 23rd. Why? Because we've got to point out that when Apple announced the iPhone 4, there were two variations: white and black. And, while the black obviously still holds the major details of the iPhone 4, the white one attracted plenty of attention in of itself. Unfortunately for everyone who wants one, we already know that the white one wasn't available at launch. But, what made it worse, was the announcement that Apple wouldn't have any white iPhone 4s available until the second half of July. And, they're apparently sticking to that.
It didn't help on that particular day that, throughout the majority of it, people were reporting all sorts of doom and gloom stories regarding their brand new toys (which, coincidentally enough, they got early). Ranging from Retina Displays having spots or lines of yellow, to reception being next to abysmal (sometimes), the complaints were coming quickly from all sorts of different directions. And then, iFixYourI decided to destroy their own iPhone 4, which they got from a very nice gentleman, and found out that if you drop your iPhone 4, you'll probably want insurance.
And now, the big day! Today, June 24th, is the official day the iPhone 4 goes on sale! And sure enough, you could find some kind of line at almost every Apple Store across the country. (Indeed, around the world.) And while people waited in lines, talking amongst themselves, the rest of the world watched in one capacity or another. From news stations, to blogs, to newspapers, the hustle and bustle that is the iPhone launch day waiting line was definitely easy to find today.
And, who was the first to sell-out? It wasn't anywhere hear in the United States, surprisingly enough. (Then again, maybe it's not all that surprising, considering across the pond they had a few hours of a head start.) But, carrier wise, the first place to sell out of iPhone 4s was Vodafone. There's plenty of other stores around the world that followed suit, of course, and we're sure that they'll have to wait just as as many weeks as Vodafone is: at least a few, before they'll be able to refresh their stock. So, if you're in their neck of the woods, hopefully you already got your hands on one.
Now, remember those poor reception complaints we mentioned above? Well, sure enough, they picked up all day today. So much so, in fact, that we chronicled it within another post. And, while there was plenty of speculation, the main two arguments were the antenna (the external one, that frames the iPhone 4), or the software. While we showed you one video that showcased the software end of things, we've got it on good authority (from Apple), that it is indeed the external antenna and you do have to not hold it in such a way that you'd block that antenna with any kind of moisture on your hand. It's a real thing, and as we've seen from the comments in that section, we're not exactly sure the customer base is all that pleased with that result.
So, what about the screen discoloration? Apparently that's adhesive glue that got used during the manufacturing stages of the iPhone 4's development life cycle. The glue hasn't dried yet in a few places, on a few phones, and therefore the Retina Display has changed its hue in a small spot in some locations on the screen. The good news? Since it's adhesive glue, apparently it's going to fix itself over time. Though, we don't know many people that would sit and stare at their new toy with a yellow spot on it, hoping beyond hope that it disappears. But, if you're going to take Apple's word on it, sit tight.
And then, ultimately, it all comes down to the unboxing, doesn't it? We've obviously got a couple of iPhone 4s running 'round these parts, so we wanted to do the traditional unboxing for you, and show you all the goodness that is the iPhone 4. You won't find much in the box, obviously, as Apple doesn't mess around when it comes to wasting things in boxes. You will find the USB cable, and, of course, the iPhone. But, you probably don't need us to talk about it right here, so just go ahead and watch the video below for all the goodness.
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MALDEN -- Elizabeth Virginia Thomason, 89, died Sept. 25, 2008, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Born April 22, 1919, in Harrell, Ark., to the late Irwin Napolean and Irene Abernathy Williams, she was a member of First Christian Church in Malden.
On Oct. 30, 1936, at Tinsman, Ark., she married Nolan Travis Thomason, who preceded her in death on Feb. 13, 1984.
She was also preceded in death by two brothers, Dean Williams and Emery Oliver; and one sisters, Dorothy Thomason.
Survivors include: three sons and daughters-in-law, James and Wanda Thomason and Royce and Shelby Thomason of Malden and Ronald and Nola Thomason of Bernie; two daughters and a son-in-law, Alice and Larry Smith of Cape Girardeau and Margaret Bess of Puxico; one brother, LaVerne Williams of Sikeston; one sister, Imogene Russell of Creve Coeur; and 10 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
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Published on Thu, Jan 17, 2013 (10:37 a.m.)LAS VEGAS – (January 17, 2012) Cardiologist Jacques Joseph Lamothe, M.D. has joined Cardiovascular Consultants of Nevada HealthCare Partners Cardiology, a premiere physician-led cardiology group providing specialty care in Southern Nevada.
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During a very special meeting, ISA President Fernando Aguerre presented Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega a Hawaiian Lei to symbolize the establishment of Nicaragua as a surfing nation.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega welcomed ISA President Fernando Aguerre and his family to the President's office "La Casa de los Pueblos."
The President, Commander Daniel Ortega, held a meeting with the President of the International Surfing Association, Fernando Aguerre, and members of the Association of Surfing in San Juan del Sur, before the beginning of the 11th edition of the 2013 Dakine ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Playa Jiquiliste, Nicaragua
During a very special meeting, ISA President Fernando Aguerre presented Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega a Hawaiian Lei to symbolize the establishment of Nicaragua as a surfing nation.
During this encounter, held at the President's office "La Casa de los Pueblos," located in Managua, President Ortega highlighted the participation of the National Team and international surfers like Dexter Ramirez and American's Matthew and Sean, and part of the under-16 team, among these, Jackson Obando, Oscar Espinoza from Playa Colorado in Tola, and Juan López of Playa Popoyo, in addition to the surfer, Kendra Baltodano.
The President indicated that participants are boys and girls with ages between 15 and 16 years, who will represent Nicaragua's youth with dignity.
"These are boys and girls who are filled with the magic from the sea, and who love the sea, and who practice this sport, a sport that here in our country, I would say it is becoming a little more well known with the visits from this brother, Fernando Aguerre," expressed President Ortega.
The President of Nicaragua said that this is a sport for all ages, and that these boys and girls are going with all the encouragement and commitment to participate in this international event to be held at the beautiful and paradise of Jiquiliste Beach in the municipality of Tola, province of Rivas.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega welcomed ISA President Fernando Aguerre and his family to the President's office "La Casa de los Pueblos."
"It is becoming more well know , its becoming more popular, and I would say now with this event, we will have greater projections, there will be a greater understanding of what this sport that has great strength, tenacity, and demands a lot of discipline of the boys and girls and older adults who practice it, " continued Ortega.
Also, Daniel Ortega said there must be continuity to such major events as well as the links to the 300 participants from 30 countries who will be participating in the 2013 Dakine ISA World Junior Surfing Championship, due to the fact that this sport is opening an important path in Nicaragua.
"The truth is that this is a historic moment, in the 50 years that the ISA will reach as an organization, it's the first time that a delegation in this level from Nicaragua is able join this competition, and that is a historical fact and I congratulate these boys and girls," said Ortega.
ISA President Fernando Aguerre congratulated President Ortega for the natural and lush beauty that is Nicaragua, which allows to have unique environmental conditions for surfing. He gave the Commander Daniel, two symbols of the sport, including a Hawaiian lei and a postcard of the founder of modern surfing, Duke Kahanamoku.
He stressed that the promotion of the sport allows positive spillover effects, such as increasing tourist arrivals to the country, a fact that is supported by the statistics of the Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism (INTUR).
"The conditinos that you have with the offshore winds that hit the waves head-on are unique. In most countries of the world, they might get one or two hours of the day or non at all, and here in Nicaragua due to the unique wind effect, it produces offshore conditions all the time, so it's really unusual for surfers to have a place like this. There are very few places in the world," conversed ISA President Fernando Aguerre with Commander Daniel, while praising the natural conditions Nicaraguan beaches have, particularly in the area of Rivas.
Aguerre continued by ensuring that surfing is a vehicle for socio-economic integration, "because in the water there is no differences in social, economic, or age. The water, is really a social equalizer, every one of us that is in the water enjoys the waves and the sea."
ISA President explained that in Nicaragua that surfing can also be an engine for growth and knowledge of the places where there are good waves, as there are also conditions for resting, vacation and surfing.
"Surfers don't just travel to surf, but we bring our families, girlfriends, boyfriends, children, siblings, parents, and in the end we are a tribe that seeks these places and Nicaragua, as we have found in the past in places like Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, and Peru, with good waves, but Nicaragua, I think was a secret as I was telling the Minister (of Tourism, Mayra Salinas), we have found a mine filled with new minerals that never ends, it just simply requires that we take care of it," advised ISA President while talking about the beaches of Nicaragua.
Aguerre explained to Commander Ortega that in attendance in this tournament are a little more than 270 surfers, but when you add the National Delegations (coaches, chaperones, etc..) they make up a total of 480 people from 30 countries.
Aguerre said that amongst the atheltes there are Russian surfers. He noted that for the first time in the history of the ISA, as it reaches its 50th anniversary in 2014, Nicaragua is participating with junior team.
The National Junior Team Coach and President of the Association of Surfing in San Juan del Sur, Dexter Ramirez explained that during the year there were three national tournaments in order to select the group of young people to represent the National Team in this ISA World Junior Championship, which was entirely possible with the support of the Government of Reconciliation and National Unity presided by Daniel Ortega Saavedra and some private companies.
Ramirez said that boys and girls, ranging between 15 and 19 years, have been working very hard in preparation for the tournament with many exercises during the day and techniques to improve their surfing.
"What I can say is that here we have a good level of surfing, although it is a sport that is recently emerging in Nicaragua, these guys are young, have few years of surfing, but are very good, they fly in the waves, land on their boards, get into tubes and they do wonders, "added the coach.
On the other hand, Ramirez, thanked President Daniel Ortega Saavedra, President of INTUR (Minister of Turism) Mayra Salinas and others involved in the event allowing for the participation of the Nicaraguan Junior Surfing Team that provide them with boards, uniforms and food during the training period.
"Thanks to the National Government the kids now have access to good surfboards, good equipment so they can give a good representation of Nicaragua in this event and have the courage to fulfill the promise sworn to Nicaragua, with the help of God, to perform well in this event. We are not going to disappoint Nicaragua, if we do not get a medal we will offer a good fight the whole planet earth, "said Ramirez.
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Twitter is an indispensible addition to your "marketing funnel." Do they even call it a "funnel" anymore? It is more like a "web." You can use Twitter to drive traffic to other resources that you use for marketing such as a blog page or website updates. It's a good way to get others moving to different resources that you have available that they might not know about. Your goal is to create a web environment where people can bounce from one resource to another, getting to know you and trust that you actually know what you are talking about. People want to do business with people, and Twitter is a good place to demonstrate that you are a real person.
The exchange of information through Twitter goes both ways.
You can share information with your followers, but you are also getting a constant stream of information from them. You can get the answer to a question from them, or answer their questions. You can have a dialogue and other people can join in. You can participate in a group chat. With hashtags, you can be part of "breaking news" – or tweet about an event you are attending. The list is endless!
Shameless Self Promotion is Frowned Upon
But one thing you should know is that you should not only tweet about yourself, or share only links. Sharing only links is interpreted by some as spammy, especially if they are always your own links! Change it up – offer links AND dialogue. Offer things about yourself from your own websites, but also offer links about topics of interest to your readers from other sources. Ask people about themselves and they will want to know more about you. Here is an example of a recent series of tweets that I did that are all different. One of them directs followers to a link on a website showcasing our networking group, one is a personal greeting, one is a retweet, and one is a comment on someone else's tweet.
What should be the ratio of business to personal tweets? The opinions vary widely. I have seen 1:10, 25% business to 75% personal, or half and half – depending, of course, on the nature of your business and what you hope to accomplish on Twitter.


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Stauffer Stuff: September 21
Oilers colour analyst looks at how Whitney and Hemsky are tied to the team's fortunes
Wednesday, 09.21.2011 / 11:05 PM MT / Blogs
By Bob Stauffer
|Ryan Whitney (Photo by Andy Devlin / EOHC)
Whitney is head and shoulders the Oilers best defenceman and his return to the roster at 100% health is paramount to the team's hopes this year. After an exceptional start to last season which saw him register a stellar 27 points and go +12 in 35 games, the Oilers fate was pretty much sealed when the puck-moving defender suffered a season-ending right ankle injury December 28th against the Buffalo Sabres.
A near elder statesman with the Oilers despite only being 28 years-old, Whitney fundamentally understands that the puck does the work, which is key to a successful transition game.
Tom Gilbert is a legitimate top-four NHL defenceman but miscast as a top-two guy. Ryan Whitney during his tenure as an Oiler has proven he can handle top-two minutes and excel because he plays an economically intelligent game.
Whitney has also shown he can dramatically improve the fortunes of a defence partner; case in point the aforementioned Gilbert, who floundered with just 12 points in 66 games in 2009-10 prior to the Oilers acquiring Whitney for Lubomir Visnovsky then finished up with 19 points in his final 16 games when he has was paired with the fifth overall pick from the 2002 NHL draft.
The indication from Whitney is that he is hoping to play two of the Oilers' final three pre-season games.
You can bet that the Oilers are monitoring Whitney's progress closely, because if he isn't at 100% or suffers a setback, my guess is that the organization may need to look to bolster their defence via a trade or picking up a free agent puck-mover.
|Ales Hemsky. (Photo By Dave Sandford/Getty Images)
One un-named GM told me the Oilers have five of their top-seven forwards in place for years to come (if you include the third-line centre position) with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Anton Lander down the middle and Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Magnus Paajarvi on the wings; and that does not include centre Sam Gagner, who had already played four NHL seasons at centre before his 22nd birthday.
All of which makes Ales Hemsky a very interesting player to watch this season.
Coming off of a season-ending shoulder injury Hemsky too will be watched closely by the Oilers brass.
An elite level five-on-five winger who plays with courage, Hemsky has twice registered 70 + points in a season, but he needs to stay healthy after only playing 69 games in the last two seasons.
Hemsky, like Whitney, is 28 years-old and he should be entering the prime of his career. A career Oiler, Ales is an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season and unquestionably would get a lot of interest on July 1st if he tested the free agent waters.
The general consensus amongst NHL agents is that Hemsky is probably worth 5.0 to 5.5M per season with term (three years-plus) on the open market.
After talking to the talented Czech at training camp I get the sense that he is quite optimistic about the Oilers fortunes in the future and that he also recognizes he has lived through the tough times during the rebuild.
At this time be rest assured the lines of communication are open to discussion, but serious conversation on a contract extension has yet to really begin.
Despite Hemsky's injury woes the last couple of years, the minimum the Oilers would likely get for the right winger if they went the trade route would be a "Dustin Penner-like return", according to one NHL Senior Executive.
That return has already netted the Oilers two promising defensive prospects in Teubert and Oscar Klefbom, with a pick in the 2012 draft still to come.
Bob Stauffer is the Color Analyst for the Oilers Radio Network and Host of "Oilers Now", Mondays thru Friday from Noon 'til 2:00 on 630 CHED


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BOISE, Idaho – A federal judge has ordered the United States Forest Service (USFS) to create rules within the next six months governing snowmobile use in national forests.
U.S. District Court Judge Ronald Bush on March 28 found in favor of the Winter Wildlands Alliance (WWA), an Idaho-based advocacy group for non-motorized snow recreation, which contended the USFS Travel Management Plan, issued in 2005, governed off-road vehicle but not snowmobile use in the national forests.
Bush's ruling directs USFS to craft rules within 180 days of the March 29 judgment.
Before 2005, USFS managed off-road vehicles more at arm's length, with a policy known as "open unless posted closed."
The rule was crafted after then-Forest Service chief Dale Bosworth said unmanaged recreation, especially impacts from off-highway vehicles, was a key threat to the nation's forests, in part due to an "enormous increase" in off-highway vehicle use under the previous policy. The executive orders directing the USFS to manage off-road vehicles were created in the Nixon and Carter administrations.
The 2005 plan created rules for other off-road vehicles; however, USFS focused on summer use vehicles, stating that snowmobiles were exempt from the travel plan requirement because "traveling over snow results in different and less severe impacts to natural resource values than wheeled motor vehicles traveling over the ground . . . [and] it may be appropriate for snowmobiles to travel off route." Individual forest managers had the power to limit snowmobile access.
WWA sued the USFS. Off-road advocacy groups BlueRibbon Coalition, the Idaho Snowmobile Association and the American Council of Snowmobile Associations later joined the case on USFS' side. WWA, USFS and the intervenors each asked the judge to find in their favor and dismiss the case without a trial; WWA argued USFS did not have the authority to exempt snowmobiles, and won.
"In sum, the Court finds the OSV [over-snow vehicle] exemption is contrary to law, specifically Executive Order[s] … because Executive Order 11644 requires an agency to promulgate regulations that provide for designation of areas of use and non-use by off-road vehicles, including over-snow vehicles, on all public lands," Bush wrote in his decision. "By exempting OSVs from the 2005 rule and purporting to make discretionary the threshold question of whether to designate the areas of use or non-use by OSVs, the Forest Service has not reasonably applied Executive Order 11644 in its promulgation of the 2005 rule, or in its denial of WWA's petition to amend" the rule.


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Hungarian National Bank — 2014 Outlook
Hungary will sustain its easy money policies in 2014 as long as financial markets permit, aiming to juice a feeble recovery and help the government's economic policy.
The biggest challenge for central bank Gov. Gyorgy Matolcsy, the former economy minister in Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government, is deciding how deeply he can cut interest rates and how much money he can print to propel the economy before facing the need to increase rates again.
The central bank in December cut its main rate by 0.2 percentage point to 3.0%. Mr. Matolcsy. The bank has cut rates 17 times in as many months.
Some analysts worry that cutting the main rate too low could reduce the attractiveness of Hungarian government debt and other assets denominated in the country's currency, the forint.
Hungary has the highest ratio of debt to gross domestic product in Central and Eastern Europe, with foreign investors holding about 40% of it. Both households and the government are heavily indebted in foreign currencies, meaning Hungary needs to keep its currency relatively firm.
More rate cuts may follow but at a slowing pace, Hungarian central bankers said in December.
Stating that rate cuts will slow is "an important first step that signals the [central bank] is genuinely keen to avoid excessive easing that may need a quick reversal," said Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Raffaella Tenconi.
Upcoming elections loom large and could fan criticism that Hungary's central bank lacks the political independence that many other central banks guard zealously.
Low interest rates are popular with the public. Mr. Orban will fight for a second successive term in power at parliamentary elections in April or May.
"The central bank has chosen a bold path that is likely predetermined within the larger political context," said Goldman Sachs economist Phoenix Kalen.
Hungary's low inflation is forecast to accelerate by the end of 2014 as the economy picks up, analysts said. The central bank says headline inflation will remain below the 3% target even in 2015.


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I dig Julianne Hough. She is a very pretty woman with an great body. This we know. But she does a nice job of decorating herself in attire that is both elegant and sophisticated yet with a dash of sexy. She isn't a sluttty dresser but she shows off enough of her gorgeous legs to get the heads swiveling. She has great legs and mounts herself in sexy high heels. She is seen here in short dress and high heels attending the EIF's Women's Cancer Fund.
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Julianne Hough in Strappy High Heels
Julianne Hough looks cute and sexy in her ugly dress and high heels singing at the ACM Weekend on Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas, whatever that is. She is very leggy which I really like. I don't care for her billowy dress though. At least it is short enough to give a nice view of her pretty legs though. It's hard or me to be critical of shapely gams in high heels in a photo taken from behind. That is pretty hot stuff.
Julianne Hough in High Heels
It's almost too easy to post photos of Julianne Hough and say she has sexy legs. She's young, a dancer, active, gorgeous and has a great body. Of course she would have hot legs. These photos are of her at the suck-ass AMA's. Ugly dress but at least she has on high heels and it gives us a view of her beautiful legs. Of all the chick's photos I've seen since the event, she is probably the hottest. Of course anywhere she goes she's probably the hottest.


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I am very new to the whole C25K thing, will be starting tomorrow morning.
I am intrigued about running barefoot being better than running with shoes? Can those that do tell me more about how you go about conditioning your feet to endure running without shoes?
I don't run barefoot, but I do all of my running in Vibram Fivefingers and the biggest advice I can give you is start slow and short. You are going to feel it in your calves as your stride will be more up on your midfoot. If you are a heel striker with your stride you will not be after a few minutes because it will hurt. Listen to your body as you get used to it and take it slow and don't rush it. Good luck and welcome to our awesome sport.
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i do run barefoot (unshod) and in Vibram 5-fingers. For me, it works! I go barefoot a lot just as a matter of course & have been running since September 2009. I started out 100% in Vibram Five Fingers & gradually added unshod distance. I am now doing 1/4 to 1/2 of my weekly distance (typically 25 miles/week) completely unshod. It is a long slow process getting acclimated, and everyone is different so what worked for me may not work for you and vice versa. Please check out the barefoot running forums at Runners World (www.runnersworld.com) and you absolutely MUST read the info on barefoot running at http://barefootrunninguniversity.com/ before getting started. there are other websites as well - both pro & con. A lot of the 'con' sites seem to have a tie-in to selling athletic shoes. good luck! i'd write more but i gotta go to sleep!!
Hey thanks alot, I'll definatly be checking that out!
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Mount Rushmore to reopen amid fed shutdown
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Obama administration's willingness to reopen national parks shuttered by the government shutdown came with a big caveat: States must foot the bill with money they likely won't see again.
So far, only Utah, Colorado and South Dakota have jumped at the deal. Governors in other states were trying to gauge Friday what would be the bigger economic hit -- paying to keep the parks operating or losing the tourist money that flows when the scenic attractions are open.
South Dakota and several corporate donors worked out a deal with the National Park Service to reopen Mount Rushmore beginning Monday. Gov. Dennis Daugaard said it will cost $15,200 a day to pay the federal government to run the landmark in the Black Hills.
He said he wired four days' worth of the donations on Friday.
In New York, state and federal officials were discussing the possible reopening of the Statue of Liberty, while Arizona officials weighed whether to pay the federal government to reopen Grand Canyon National Park.
In Utah, federal workers rushed to reopen five national parks for 10 days after the state sent $1.67 million to the U.S. government with the hope of saving its lucrative tourist season.
Zion National Park began removing barriers to reopen today.


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I'm slowly learning about the world of groupware, which I'm thinking for the moment as access to shared resources (folders, address books, calendars) and coordination features like meeting scheduling. It's a world which is dominated by Exchange, especially in North America and especially in companies, especially in larger companies. There are alternatives, however, including some which have some interesting ties to Thunderbird. One notable such project is SOGo, which stands for Scalable OpenGroupware.org (not a great name IMO, but let's judge a book by its title😉. SOGo came to my attention for a couple of reasons — first, because they built a web front-end to their system which is a fairly close clone of the Thunderbird UI, second, because the same team built an extension to Thunderbird and Lightning to add support for more groupware-ish features like access to free-busy information. I'm hoping that the SOGo team and the Calendar team will be able to join forces to make both projects stronger. They've just announced their second RC of version 1.0, so if you're interested in this kind of project, do check it out.
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Calendar needs you!
As I've mentioned before, the Mozilla Calendar project, which includes the Lightning calendar extension to Thunderbird, is moving right along. It's currently at version 0.7, heading towards a 0.8 release ASAP. I've asked the Calendar team how I can help, and the answer has been clear — they need more developers. So if you've been sitting on the sidelines of either Calendar or Thunderbird and you want some suggestions as to where you could help, check out this bug list. Moving Lightning forward is one of the easiest ways to help move Thunderbird forward — the codebase is in quite a healthy state, there's an active group of daily contributors (check out the #calendar IRC channel to meet them), the roadmap is clear, and the bugs are clearly marked.
Request for Comments for Thunderbird's FUEL equivalent, STEEL
One of the big topics that I'm planning to devote a fair bit of MailCo energy towards is to help the Thunderbird extension "scene". Part of that is making it easier to make extensions for Thunderbird, with better docs, cleaner APIs where necessary, etc. One of the dreams that people have mentioned repeatedly was "wouldn't it be great to have a FUEL for Thunderbird", referring to John Resig & Mark Finkle's library that makes writing extensions for Firefox much easier.
Well, imagine my joy when Joey Minta posted on the newsgroup that he's started just that. He's looking for comments on the API, so check it out and pitch in!
Great Thunderbird Survey
Gary Kwong (the person behind the Rumbling Edge) just posted his analysis of the survey he's done, based on talking to Thunderbird users who are already fairly "in the loop". It's worth reading.
As soon as possible I'd like to post something like this post by Mark Hamburg, about Adobe Lightroom's goals. My challenge of course is that I'll have to make those goals public before shipping, not after, and I'll have to work out what those goals should be in a transparent global room with thousands of interested onlookers.
I wonder how many of Lightroom's goals as stated by Mark should be Lightroom specific, and how many are true of any piece of software.
Thunderbird and Institutional users
During my trip to Paris last week, I met with a set of representatives from public sector institutions which are deploying Thunderbird to large sets of users, as part of a larger (and long-term) move towards open source and open standards. It was fascinating to find out what their goals were, what they'd been able to achieve, what hurdles they were still facing, and how we might be able to work together.
User control vs. centralized responsibility
In enterprises, people expect their IT department to help them if they have problems using the software they use for work. Especially if the IT told them to use Thunderbird, that means that the same IT department has to be able to support it, in the local language, using customized, organization-specific documentation. In that kind of scenario, it's seen as important that the IT department has the right level of control over exactly what version of Thunderbird is in use. Many of the things that make both Firefox and Thunderbird wonderful consumer products end up inadvertently making it harder for those IT administrators to support it. Auto-update, which is key to keeping the web safe and any desktop application up to date especially with security fixes but also with continuous improvement, is a possible time-bomb for the people handling support in large installations. The ability for end-users to install extensions which solve a need they have as individuals, if it breaks core functionality in the product, and results in calls to tech support, end up hurting the product.
I like these topics because I think that while on the surface they seem like points of conflict between the end-user focus of Mozilla products and enterprise deployments, longer term I see opportunities for progress on both "sides".
- The AUS technologies that Mozilla built to support updating hundreds of millions of users at once can be redeployed inside enterprises to give them the control they need and facilitating faster update cycles.
- The support concerns that IT managers have about extensions aren't that different than the concerns the Firefox team probably has about possible "rogue" extensions, and together I suspect both groups can help each other.
- Improving the configuration experience for Thunderbird will help the home user as much as the IT administrator.
Annoyingly for me, when these institutions distribute Thunderbird, the update-checking mechanism is deliberately disabled as part of a global security policy, meaning that not only do bug fix releases like last week's 18.104.22.168 don't reach those users, but I have no way of even guessing how many such users there are! This makes understanding user trends like total user population, the speed at which users upgrade, etc., much harder.
The power of extensions
Extensions are great. Everyone says it, and they're usually referring to Firefox extensions. But I believe the potential power of extensions is even greater in the world of messaging than in the world of the web. Browsers are made to interact with websites, most of which try very hard to make the experience be the same across browsers. Firefox extensions, in some way, fight the dominant mode of the web. In a messaging client, however, extensions can work hand-in-hand with server-side technology, or the sometimes very idiosyncratic needs of a specific organization. I was shown several fascinating Thunderbird extensions implementing CRM-like features, global account management features, integration with custom calendaring software, specialized mail handling, etc. In these organizations, the email client is deeply customized to fit the local needs, and the Mozilla platform's story on extensibility is unbeatable. There are definite issues in the Thunderbird extensions story, but there are also low-hanging fruit there.
Pre-configuration and mass deployment
If you think Thunderbird is hard to configure right now (I do), imagine being responsible for configuring 80,000 desktops for non-technical users! There are some systems in place already, but I understand there are still issues that make it a challenge to deploy Thunderbird in such large installations. This is likely more problematic for Thunderbird than for Firefox, as there are more environmental settings involved in email than in web browsing. Indeed, several of these enterprises deploy Thunderbird but not Firefox, countering the notion that Firefox is always the "lead".
Opportunities for peer-help and a Thunderbird consultant market
If last week's conversations are any indication, there are likely hundreds of individuals responsible for hundreds of thousands and maybe soon millions of Thunderbird installations, and yet they likely don't know each other. One of them may even have solved a problem that the others are struggling with, or don't yet know they'll have. Today, it's hard for these people to find each other. That's a problem we should be able to solve, using basic tools like Wikis and a dedicated mailing list/newsgroup.
Another opportunity is that institutional users tend to have core competencies which don't include writing Thunderbird patches or extensions. There are, however, a growing number of small and not-so-small service companies which are learning how to do that better and better. There's a market gap there, especially as MailCo itself is not likely to build custom extensions, for example. Given that my number one goal is to facilitate adoption of Thunderbird, I want to facilitate the creation of a market for custom Thunderbird extensions, and for fixes to bugs which may be urgent for some but which we may not get to soon enough. If you're interested in either side of that marketplace, let me know.
The debate is different
More specifically, the people I talked to represent a new type of customer for me. Thanks to years of evangelism by people like Tristan Nitot, I didn't have to argue for releasing code under compatible open source licenses, or for working hard to avoid the need for forks. Even more interesting is the fact that in North America, when I describe what I'm up to, the most common first question is "but how will you make money?", while at least in one big meeting with lots of people, no one asked. The people I talked to were more interested in the non-financial aspects of the Mozilla endeavor. That money is being made is fine, but one gets the feeling that it's not a particular point of interest by users or pride by community members. Knowing that Mozilla is willing to take on fights that no one else is willing to take on, that's inspiring and exciting, and worth taking some risks for.
Next Steps
The single most common complaint I heard regarding Mozilla's handling of Thunderbird is not enough communications. Communications about everything from the roadmap (on my plate), the APIs for extensions (FUEL for Thunderbird anyone?), the wiki, the strategy to change the world, and more. I agree wholeheartedly, even with the criticism that I should blog more. Mea culpa, will try to do more in the coming weeks.
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I'm building a list of reactions to my Paris visit, touching on cultural differences in the world of email, open source, the fascinating things that various folks have done with Thunderbird in France, imperialism, and other topics, but I wanted to make sure to show this picture. There's a transportation strike in Paris this week (great timing on my part, as usual), which makes getting around a bit harder than usual, although I tend to walk around as much as is reasonable anyway given how nice it is to do so in Paris.
Today though, I was running late for an appointment, so I hopped on one of these puppies:
These slightly frumpy 3-gear city bikes are some of the 20,000 "Velib" that a company has placed in 1000 different locations throughout Paris in exchange for advertising rights. The system is optimized for using bikes as a quick and easy way to move around short distances. With a subscription (ranging from 1 euro for a day to 29 euros for a year), trips of 1/2 hour or less are free, with costs climbing for longer rentals, thereby ensuring that people don't hog the bikes. Apart from reports of some people using padlocks to "reserve" the bikes in anticipation of the strike, it seems to work great. The stations I see tend to have at least some bikes in them (this one was full, which is actually a problem if you're trying to return a bike). On Wednesday there were 159,000 trips recorded .
It was a fun bike ride. In addition to the simple pleasure of zipping past cars through sunny Paris streets, there's something about riding a "Velib" for the first time which reminds me of using open source software for the first time. A joyful personal experience based on a structured shared asset, with positive environmental consequences.