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Joined: 11 Mar 2005
Posts: 696
Location: israel
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:28 pm
Post subject: C&Z Statistics
I like statistics.
So from time to time I'll feed this topic with some of my "observations" concerning this forum.
Today: the 10 (11)most popular topics:
1. Backyrd gardens 178 posts
2. Let's go tothe movies 161 posts
3. BBM 144 posts
4. Comfort food 141 posts
5. Tell us where you live 121 posts
6. A special request 106 posts
7. Changing eating habits 106 posts
8. Soccer.. I mean Football 101 posts
9. Favourite Icky foods 100 posts
10. Brookback Mountain 94 posts
11. Wedding feast ( I loved this post) 89 posts
What I find very interesting, but not surprising from my personal point of view is, that 9 out of the 11 most favourite topics are not connected with food . That means that we are actually interested more in the human, personal aspects of our lives; we are ready to reveal a lot about ourselves and share; we are willing to listen and are interested in what others have to say about themselves or about their opinions/views.
I find that marvellous, and I know- and I can speak only for myself- that it's one of the reasons I'm still on this forum.
No more war, maybe there is still some hope ( well, that's for the skeptics thread)
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Posts: 1324
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:32 pm
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Here's a number for you, Simona--you're one-of-a-kind cool!
What a nice post-- thank you. This is my first (and only) forum, and I too have noticed you can't talk about food ALL the time! I notice little "feuds", "in" jokes, get embarrassed when I say the wrong thing, let my housework slide, sometimes if it's late my eyelid starts to twitch-- yes it's hell, but I want to stay here too..
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Posts: 2498
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 5:10 pm
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Well put, Simona! I heartily agree!
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor
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Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 583
Location: Anniston Alabama USA
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:45 pm
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Writing and reading about cooking and food is to me like reading about sex or looking at pictures of food is like looking at naked bodies.
That's why the "other things" is more interesting.
' She says, 'I am the glamorous type.' I said, 'So what?'
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Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 450
Location: a Dutchie in HongKong
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:17 pm
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Sarape, you are a funny, strange man. But I like you!
.Or should I say: the 'you' we get to met here....?
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Joined: 11 Mar 2005
Posts: 696
Location: israel
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:34 pm
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Thank you folks.
Sarape dear, maybe you'll try also the other way round?
My question is : Do you also cook after reading the books?
No more war. More of the "other things". I mean cooking, of course.
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Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Posts: 583
Location: Anniston Alabama USA
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:18 am
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simona wrote:
Do you also cook after reading the books?
You mean after reading Shakespeare, The Joys of Cooking, or Penthouse?
Seriously, I don't find it satisfying to look at pictures of food either before or after cooking. And of course, looking at pictures of naked women after...... is not interesting for at least a half-a-day, now at my age.
Now I know I'm approaching the limits of decorum on C&Z
' She says, 'I am the glamorous type.' I said, 'So what?'
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Posts: 696
Location: israel
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 6:24 pm
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Congratulations to David, he has reached 1000 posts! He's the third one to enter the "thousands" club, with Madame following close by.
But of course, nobody can even dream of dethroning Rainey, the one and only C&Z forums Queen ( you do deserve an Oscar too..) , . She will soon open the "two tousand" Platinum club!! I believe it's an unique phenomenon in the blog world, and Clotilde ( and Rainey) should be proud of it.
And now, to the 10 most popular topics as for today:(it's Oscar season, isn't it?)
1. let's go to the movies - 331 posts, and still going on.
2. Backyard gardens -178, non active lately, maybe now with
spring around the corner, it will bloom again
3. A special request- 168 posts - a most special and unique thread
4. comfort foods -141 posts , not active
5.tell us about where you live -124 posts. Maybe the newcomers could
revive this forum?
6.favourite icky foods -123 posts . well , we are mostly food lovers...
7.which cookbooks do you use most -121 posts . I guess after
Clotilde's book will be released, that will change..
8.the joy of meeting c&zers face to to face - 120 posts . God bless the
australians, they are great travelers..waiting for more photos
9.changing eating habits -106 posts , Well I suppose we cant's change
that much anymore
10.Believers and skeptics -104 posts . I'm still skeptic, what about you?
11. What is foie gras -103 posts. The tastiest most controversial forum
That's all for today, I have some other statistics on my mind, but I'll leave them for the next celebration occation.
No more war, more friendship.
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Posts: 899
Location: Gold Coast Australia
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:18 am
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Congratulations David.
Like others this is the only forum I'm involved in. I've looked at a NZ food site forum and the posters all seem so boring after the C&Z crew.
I think our love of food brought us together but it is the people we've met here bring us back.
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Location: israel
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:33 am
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You are right Barbara, ultimately, it's the people who are "making" the forums.
My thoughts are with you,
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Location: Paris, France
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:48 pm
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Thanks for the rejoicing stats Simona, and congrats to David!
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Posts: 1855
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:26 pm
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Hey gang, thanks for pointing out I'd hit a milestone! Hadn't noticed it myself. C & Z is sorta like my own little cyberhome. And I'm very grateful for it!
Vivant Linguae Mortuae!!
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Location: israel
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:27 pm
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Dear David, with your above post you just stepped in your personal new millenium on C& Z.
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Posts: 1654
Location: Penrith (where jacarandas remind me of change), New South Wales, Australia
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:38 am
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cyberhome indeed Mr David Dear....this cyber business also enables cyberhugs! many flying your way...
thanks for being uber enriching
"I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson
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Location: israel
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 1:07 am
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Hurray and 1000 congratulations to Madame, who has joined the "thousand posts" exclusive club today!!!
Wishing you many more thousands, and all the best from our part of the globe.
No more war, more thousand-aires!!!
PS. It's a secret , but somebody is approaching the "two thousands" club. Shhhh, don't tell anybody, I'll reveal it in due time!!!
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what is your favorite favor of Ice Cream?
what is your favorite flavor of
Hmmm, that's hard to say...I do love peanut butter and chocolate.
Mint Chocolate Chip!!!!!!!
Yummy, love chocolate and peanut butter.
I would have to say Cookies and Cream
Dulche de leche
peppermint stick
Jamoca Almond Fudge
Coconut Pecan
chocolate, peanut butter (usually together) and lemon!
Depends on my mood...my usual go-to's are cookies and cream, butter pecan, and mint chocolate chip. Has to be Blue Bell (Texas brand)!
@ Lisa, I agree with you on that one completely, has to be Blue Bell
Bunny Tracks! I think it is a regional thing here in the Midwest. It's vanilla ice cream with big swirls of chocolate and caramel and then it has little chocolate bunnies filled with peanut butter sprinkled throughout. It has everything I love in it.
Black Walnut!
2nd favorite - coconut ice cream (made it homemade last summer & it was YUMMY)
Bubble Gum (this farm near where I live (Macray's)makes the best Bubble Gum Ice Cream) and I like Cotton Candy Ice Cream (I had that once at a little shop on the pier at Point Judith in Rhode Island... it was so good I look for other places that have it, but I haven't found it anywhere else...)
Anything Ben & Jerry's is pretty divine, but I think my favourite is Caramel Chew Chew.
moose tracks or mint chocolate chip.
anything chocolate & peanut butter!!! chocolate moose tracks is really good - best you can get at the grocery store IMHO but the ultimate is chocolate & peanut butter at Baskin Robbins - mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
hi cherry vanilla.
Not real crazy about ice cream, but I do like a little vanilla on my chocolate sauce!
Mint chocolate usually, but depends on the flavours available to tempt me!!
Mint, moose tracks, cookie dough, blue moon, green tea, Starbucks mocha frap. What can I say.... Lol. I love ice cream!
Mint chocolate chip!
Chocolate, Double Ductch, Cookies and Cream and Rocky Road!
Mocha with chocolate chips
For all of you Ben & Jerry fanatics (I'm one).... Cherry Garcia & Coffee Heathbar Crunch. Mmm They also used to have a coconut based ice cream with chocolate chunks & nuts that was to die for, but I forget what it was called. I'm spoiled - I live in the state where they are from & when I had my tonsils out a friend of mine (who happened to work there at the time) let me have all his freebie ice cream while I was recovering! He told me he actually was sick of it after working there for a while! (it was a p/t college job for him) They used to offer "seconds" for $1.50 a pint up here, but that stopped after they sold the business. "Seconds" were created from any batch of ice cream that didn't meet it's high standards - it usually meant the goodies in the ice cream were either bigger or smaller than they would like. Didn't bother us a bit - was still the same, yummy ice cream as always...
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When I first think of Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the term troll isn't one of the first things that come to mind. Instead, I typically think of gory, gleeful R-rated witch hunting and quippy comments from the film's leads, Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. However, Edward the troll actually plays a huge role in the film and it's really surprising to learn that the character is played by a man in a very hot suit.
Paramount Home Entertainment has been gracious enough to extend us the above exclusive Blu-ray bonus clip, which looks into Renner and Arterton's scenes with the troll in the film. Arterton relates how the character is imposing and Renner simply talks about the hard work that had to be put into the role by actor Derek Mears since the weight is so imposing. As the clip notes, a cold air hair dryer had to be kept handy in order to blow cold air through the mouth of the costume. I feel exhausted just watching what the poor guy had to go through to become Edward.
If you want to take another peek at Edward the troll in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, you'll be able to do so beginning tomorrow, when the flick hits Blu-ray and DVD. "Meet Edward the Troll" will be one of the extras with the set, but other featurettes will focus on the reinvention of the fairy tale and the witches in the film. If you'd rather read up on the release than watch some behind-the-scenes footage, you can head over to Facebook. Or, we actually spoke with producer Adam McKay late last week about the Blu-ray release, and he had plenty to say. You can also check out the full list of extras or pre-order the movie over at Amazon.


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A recently leaked classified documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden show NSA and GCHQ have been working to develop ways to collect your personal information from so-called "leaky" phone apps.
According to Guardian, Such apps allow the spy agencies to collect information including phone details and personal info such as age, gender and location and in some cases even sexual orientation.
One of the slides titled "Golden Nugget" shows how NSA able to obtain phone type, buddy lists, "possible image",location and other data, when a user upload a photo taken via mobile.
Many social networking sites such as facebook removes the EXIF metadata(which contains the geolocation details). Guardians points out that agencies still can collect those data, as it is transferred across the networks.
On the other hand, Rovio, the creator of Angry Birds, said in a press release that it doesn't share any data with spy agencies. It points finger at the third-party advertising networks.
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Although black holes are invisible, they can be found by watching their effect on nearby gas and stars. For stellar-mass black hole IGR J17091, this is exactly what is happening. Its gravity is pulling gas away from a companion star and this gas has formed into a disk around the black hole, which is driving off wind.
However, there's something special about IGR J17091--the wind it's creating is the fastest wind ever discovered blowing off a disk surrounding a stellar-mass black hole.
In most other ways IGR J17091 is pretty much a ho-hum black hole: it's located in the Milky Way galaxy and is orbited by a sun-like star; its average weight--between five and 10 times the mass of our sun; and, was born like all other stellar-mass black holes--when an extremely massive star collapsed. But its wind speed equals some of the fastest winds generated by supermassive black holes, which are millions or billions of times bigger.
"This is like the cosmic equivalent of winds from a category five hurricane," Ashley King, lead author of a study published on IGR J17091, said in a statement. "We weren't expecting to see such powerful winds from a black hole like this."
The wind speed was recorded by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, which clocked it around 20 million mph, or about 3 percent of the speed of light. This is nearly 10 times faster than had ever been seen from a stellar-mass black hole and may help scientists better understand how these types of black holes behave.
"It's a surprise this small black hole is able to muster the wind speeds we typically only see in the giant black holes," Jon M. Miller, co-author of the study, said in a statement. "In other words, this black hole is performing well above its weight class."
Typical theory on black holes is that their gravitational pull is so strong that everything near it gets sucked in; supposedly even the speed of light is not fast enough to escape. However, scientists believe this isn't the case with IGR J17091. With such strong wind, they believe that possibly more material is being swept away than being captured.
"Contrary to the popular perception of black holes pulling in all of the material that gets close," King said, "we estimate up to 95 percent of the matter in the disk around IGR J17091 is expelled by the wind."
Another interesting aspect of IGR J17091 is that two months before the winds were recorded, astronomers at the Chandra X-ray Observatory saw no evidence of high-speed wind. They say that this means the wind is likely to turn on and off over time.


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Tegra 4 was not the only thing that Nvidia unveiled at its event in CES 2013. The company also announced a new handheld gaming console — Project Shield — based on its Tegra 4 SoC with which the company aims to compete with the PS Vita, Nintento Wii and other gaming consoles.
Project Shield packs in a 5-inch 720p Retinal display with multi-touch display, Nvidia's own Tegra 4 which consists of a quad-core Cortex-A15 and 72 GPU cores, along with a microSD card slot. The 5-inch display of Project Shield is integrated on the controller itself, which somewhat resembles Microsoft's Xbox controller and features a calm-shell design.
On the battery front, Project Shield can provide gamers with up to 5 to 10 hours of battery life for gaming, and up to 24 hours for HD video playback.
The handheld gaming console runs on stock, pure, unadulterated version of Android along with the usual bunch of Google Apps including GMail and Play Store.
The killer feature of Shield is that users can stream their games from their PC to the console over Wi-Fi or Ethernet. They can then even stream the game to their HDTV and play it using the Shield as a controller. It will also provide Project Shield users access to the world's largest PC gaming platform – Steam.
Even though the company had some live demo units on stage, it did not mention anything about its availability or pricing.
UPDATE: Nvidia says that Project Shield will be coming to the U.S and Canada sometime in Q2 of this year.


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UPDATE: Ben Seewald and Jessa Duggar just announced the name of their firstborn son: Spurgeon Elliot Seewald.
Both new parents have been open about wanting to take their time with naming their child, and it seems as though they've finally settled on an unforgettable (and unique) moniker.
It's one kid and counting for Jessa!
The 22-year-old former 19 Kids and Counting star and husband Ben, 20, have welcomed their first child, a baby boy, TLC confirmed to E! News.
This is the sixth grandchild for her parents Michelle Duggar and Jim Bob Duggar, whose hit TLC reality show was canceled in July in wake of their eldest son Josh Duggar's molestation scandal, which addressed past incidents that had involved Jessa and sister Jill Duggar, 24.
Like her sister, Jessa documented her pregnancy and growing baby bump on Instagram. Two days before her due date, she posted a selfie and wrote, "39 weeks 4 days! Feeling as big as a barn, and soooo ready to meet my baby! #BabySeewald."
She and Seewald also encouraged their fans to guess online whether their baby is a boy or a girl (most people guessed girl) and vote on their favorite names.
In late October, Jessa posted on her page photos of her last days of pregnancy, which involved a coffee shop date with her mother-in-law and a pedicure.
Jill's pregnancy and birth of baby son Israel earlier this year was also documented on 19 Kids and Counting. Jessa announced her pregnancy in April, a month before the scandal erupted and three months before the show's cancellation. Jessa had said her due date was Nov. 1, her and Seewald's first wedding anniversary.
Jill, husband Derick Dillard, 26, and their child have been on a Christian mission for the past few months and have been living part time in Central America. Their journey and Jessa's marriage and pregnancy, as well as the sisters' perspectives on the aftermath of their family turmoil, will be shown on the new TLC spinoff, Jill & Jessa: Counting On, which is set to debut in December.
"Even with all the difficulties that my family has walked through, there's still a lot of exciting milestones ahead," Jessa said.
People was the first to report the baby news.


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Auction & claim: Banking scandal bickering intensifies
The banking scandal that's gripped this town like a Martha Stewart nightmare intensified last week with another lawsuit– as well as an auction during which bidders picked over the remains of Ivy Industries, a once-thriving maker of wood moldings.
The admitted mastermind of the check-kiting scheme that helped kill the company, however, remains unindicted and free.
On Wednesday, June 3, the final nail was hammered into the Ivy Industries coffin as a bank-ordered auction dispatched row after row of finished and unfinished wood moldings and the machines that had shaped them.
"I'm spending more money than I thought I was gonna spend," said Rick Wyatt, as he examined the "automatic feed-through finishing machine" he'd just purchased. Owner of Gaston & Wyatt, a high-end woodworking shop, Wyatt figures the machine is worth about $30,000; he got it for $9,000. [NOTE/CORRECTION: In the print edition of the Hook, the second amount was originally inaccurate.]
"Things are going really low," said Kenneth Ziegelheafer, a renovation woodworker from Petersburg. "It was worth the trip."
Former Charlottesvillian Chris Shepherd, who owns a Petersburg-based ball-point pen company and rode up with Ziegelheafer, was eyeing an IBM Selectric II typewriter. The machine was top of the line– circa 1979. Would he bid on it?
"I don't think so," replied Shepherd. "It doesn't have correction." The machine went for $15.
The mammoth factory, which occupies about half of an over-sized city block on Monticello Avenue, sits on 2.7 acres with about 70,000 square feet– or five Charlottesville Ice Parks– under roof.
The mammoth structure contained a museum's worth of early 1980s office equipment– not to mention everything needed to make some of the finest wood moldings in America.
That is, until closing abruptly in late March, when approximately 150 workers in Charlottesville and Beverly, West Virginia, lost their jobs.
Earlier that month, through an attorney, former Ivy Industries CEO John C. Reid came forward to apologize and take responsibility for the check-kiting scheme. "In an attempt to save a struggling business and to avoid admitting failure," said attorney Fran Lawrence, "he made terrible errors in judgment."
Subsequently, the bank that suffered $2.4 million in losses from those errors, Albemarle First, slapped a suit seeking about $10 million on Ivy Industries and its principals.
On the same day as last week's auction, Ivy's majority owners, Francis Troost Parker and Corwith Davis Jr., fired back with a suit of their own against Reid, another company executive, and Albemarle First Bank. They claim the bank "willfully and maliciously conspired" with Ivy executives to hide the scheme, and they demand any proceeds from the bank's lawsuit.
"I guess the best defense is a good offense," grumbles an Albemarle First insider.
In their claim, Parker and Davis portray Albemarle First at a minimum as a bumbling bank. As evidence, they submitted reams of photocopies of round-numbered checks. And as a sort of Rosetta stone, they emphasized the October, 2000 statement of Ivy Industries' real estate arm, RPD Properties LLC. That statement begins and ends with the same piddling balance: $857.25– while 21 credits totaled $890,000 and 21 debits totaled $890,000. That sort of high-volume, low-balance shenanigans "would have been readily apparent to even the most casual observer," says the claim.
Even more grotesque was July, 2001– when company deposits "totaled an astounding $15,620,000– approximately 39 times Ivy's average monthly sales."
"The bank had to have known," says the suit, "and the bank had a duty to disclose this fact to Parker."
But Parker's detractor at Albemarle First doesn't excuse him. "It isn't a question of whether or not Troost [Parker] knew, it's whether he should have known."
Moreover, the insider continues, Parker and Davis, should– like Reid– stand up and take some responsibility, including financial responsibility.
"Both of those guys have a ton of money," says the insider. "They could make it all right and still be wealthy men."
The men have retained Payne Ross & Associates to handle media inquiries.
As for Albemarle First, the bank has no comment on the suit, says president Thomas Boyd, although he points out that the bank recently raised over $2 million by allowing previous shareholders to exercise warrants which gave them the right to buy additional shares of bank stock– which typically trades around $8 on Nasdaq– for just $7.
"We're pretty much back to where we were before the kite," says Boyd.
Additional questions remain to be answered. For one, why haven't any criminal charges yet been filed against Reid? A free man and an avid tennis player who, says a source, polishes his game on the plush courts of Farmington Country Club, Reid has confessed to the massive scheme, but the FBI remains tight-lipped on the investigation.


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Central to the philosophy of yoga is the universal spiritual concept of reaping what you sow: the law of Karma. Karma is the future consequences of one's current intentions, thoughts, behaviors and actions. While the Karma you currently create is the seeds that present future life experiences, your Karma is not your fate. You have the ability to consciously choose how you respond and react to Karmic generated events, thus reducing the current impact of your Karma and reducing or eliminating future Karma. This is both a psychological and physical practice, with the mental attitude much more powerful than the physical deed.The law of Karma is connected to the constant changing physical world the yogis call Samsara, the spinning wheel of life and death. This wheel is said to have six spokes: virtue and vice, pleasure and pain, attachment and aversion. These spokes are the types of Karma that bind us to the wheel and keep it spinning. The goal is to break the spokes of Karma to become liberated from the mundane and suffering world of Samsara.
Good Karma is good, bad Karma is bad, but attaining any kind of Karma is undesirable. The goal, through the practice of yoga, is to stop the cycle of Karma by ceasing further Karmic accumulation. The yogis tell us the only way to not produce Karma is to act selflessly, without ego, without the desire for any reward. Liberation from Karma and Samsara is known as Nirvana, a highly esteemed spiritual state. But striving to attain a state of Nirvana is not a necessary goal; any reduction in Karma will improve one's life, well-being and happiness.
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21 Top Paris Expat Blogs & Websites We Love Reading.
There's a blog for just about anything, it seems.
When it comes to Paris, the same applies.
Longtime residents in this enchanting city and Francophiles alike share their love for everything French, as well as the experiences they've had while living here.
Below are some of the blogs and websites we love, and are sure you will, too.
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Lily Heise is a Canadian who arrived in Paris in 2000 and never left. She writes about Paris from the point of view of romance: where to go, what to do, and especially her adventures in that arena. Her book, Je t'aime, me neither, is where it all started for the blog, and now she writes articles, too, for Huffington Post, CondéNastTraveler.com and Frommer's Paris, to name a few online publications.
2. Paris in four months
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Carin shares her love for Paris and passion for photography through her blog. Originally from Stockholm, she moved to Paris for four months in 2012 (hence the blog's name) to experience it and learn the language. The blog chronicled her time there, and then grew into what it is today. She loved it so much, she returned in 2013. She's still here.
3. Paris by mouth
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The name says it all. You will discover the best places to eat, buy cheese, chocolate, ice cream, coffee, have cocktails, and find wine and various specialty shops in Paris. Makes you hungry just thinking about it, right?
4. Relentless movement
ReGeneration: Finding Your Place Between Two Worlds (Facebook)
Razwana Wahid is a writer and marketing nerd who has been helping businesses with her expertise since 2007 through her online enterprise, Relentless movement. She offers one-of-a-kind copywriting services that bring your ideas, products and services to life. It's all about making you shine and giving you the best advice out there. She works with you every step of the way, teaching you how to write in the best way to increase sales and connect with your potential buyers, or she'll do it for you. Razwana has just published an amazing book; BRAND EXPAND DOMINATE. This amazing book is the Definitive Game Plan for Coaches to Brand their businesses, market their Services and run their coaching practice like Pros. I've just bought a copy and can't wait to start reading it. Sign-up here to get your copy too.
5. Paris, Up close & personal
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Sasha Romary is an American transplant who has lived in Paris for over ten years. Paris, Up close & personal is a blog that talks about the wonders of Paris, where to find special treats and all you'll ever need to know about the city. The blog falls under the umbrella of Savoir Faire Paris, styled as a "Parisian Concierge service" which offers the following personalized services (but this list is by no means comprehensive):
- Visa help, social security, insurance
- Moving assistance, help finding a home, utilities and bank account assistance
- Babysitters, house cleaners, repairs
- Restaurant reservations, event planning
6. Mama Loves Paris
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This blog is aimed at families: what to do, where to go, and fun things for the kids. Translation: how to keep the little ones happy and their parents sane, for the most part. Posts include reviews of places and activities in Paris, notices of upcoming events and sneak peeks into soon-to-arrive entertainment. There's information about everything under the sun pertaining to family fun: shopping, playgrounds, museums and so much more. Mama Loves Paris tweets daily and regularly posts in other social media avenues such as Facebook and Instagram.
7. Prête Moi Paris
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This blog is the domain of an American who came to Paris as a student in 2002, and stayed. She posts views on French luxury, fashion, shows and food, for the most part, and anything else that interests her. Melissa has studied the French language and culture in depth, and believes strongly "in a learned adaptation to a host culture whether traveling as a tourist or living here long-term."
8. Invisible Paris
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Invisible Paris talks about the places "less traveled" in the city. They are "invisible" yet precious. Invisible Paris Walks are self-guided tours organized on themes, taking you to places off the beaten tourist path. Paris Weekends are posts giving suggestions on offbeat weekend activities for anyone in Paris. There are also interviews with random "Paris People" that are featured on the blog.
9. MyRoomin Le Mag (in French)
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MyRoomIn has more than 400 hotel rooms available for guests to reserve throughout Paris. The best hotel rooms in the city are selected to be a part of MyRoomIn, whether colorful, bright, art-deco, romantic, vintage and futuristic, there is something for everyone.
10. Girls Guide to Paris
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This blog is the brainchild of New Yorker and Francophile Doni Belau, who has loved Paris for over two decades and visits often. It's an all-encompassing guide to Paris and has over 5,000 pages of much treasured tips for appreciating and getting the most out of Paris, whether it's the best places to shop, sleep, or eat, just to name a few categories. Doni and her Paris team test and personally select everything and pass on their opinions on the subject. There are also discounts and reduced rates, exclusive invitations, everything a traveler to Paris would need to enjoy their stay.
11. David Lebovitz
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David started working in restaurants when he was sixteen. He was a professional cook, baker and acclaimed pastry chef for many years, and has a many books under his belt, including "Room for Dessert." He blogs about food and travel, shares stories and recipes and loves interacting with his readers.
12. Hip Paris
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Want to know what's hot right now in the city of light, whether it's film festivals, fashion, architecture? Check out HiP Paris. Erica Berman and her band of bloggers steer away from the obvious to find the secret delights in Paris and share insider tips with their readers. HiP Paris goes hand in hand with Haven in Paris, which offers luxury short-term vacation apartment and villa rentals in Paris, Provence, London and Tuscany.
13. 52martinis
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This blog, started in 2007, is an online guide to the best cocktail bars in Paris, headed by Forest Collins, a freelance drinks writer. A regular judge of cocktail competitions, she also interviews industry bigwigs for her audio show/podcast, Paris Cocktail Talk. Forest tries a new Paris cocktail bar every week. She also covers the city's cocktail classes and spirits shops. And, I've just discovered that Forest runs The Chamber; a select social club for modern urban cocktail lovers and gastronomes that "reinterprets the Parisian salon through intimate, convivial food and drink events held in private Parisian residences or other unique locations". If you are not a member of The Chamber, but would like to be kept up to date regarding their events, sign up for their "Friends of The Chamber" mailing list.
14. The Expats Paris Blog
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This is our blog. The one you surfing right now. As you can see, our blog is full of information about everything you need to know on living as an expatriate in Paris. You can learn how to file your taxes; what to do about rentals; who can start a business; how to get a visa and your carte vitale; fun articles about fashion and that je ne sais quoi that French women and men have in abundance. The aim of our blog is to be entertaining as well as informative. It's a labor of love by expats as in love with Paris as you are. Or soon will be. Hey, want to be able to receive our articles every time something new from our blog is out? Please subscribe to our mailing list.
15. My Love for Paris
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Nhan, the one and only blogger at My Love for Paris, has a love for languages, travel, writing, food and whatever catches her eye at the moment. You will find her thoughts on pretty much everything, including things to do, exhibitions, day trips, free activities, you name it.
16. Eye Prefer Paris
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Eye Prefer Paris is an ex-New Yorker's guide to the city. Richard Nahem writes about the dream he had of moving to France, how he got here, and what he did after recovering from the move. It started out as a way to attract readers to a book he'd planned to write about his experiences getting to and living in Paris. But then it changed to simply being a view to the world in his everyday life in the city. He's been at it for ten years and finds it very rewarding.
17. Happy Place Paris
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Camelia Pierre took her experiences trying to find the perfect home for her growing family in Paris and turned it into a business to help other expats with families do the same. Her blog gives tips to newcomers and guides readers through the pitfalls of the real estate market and how best to approach getting the right home for their needs.
18. Lost in Cheeseland
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Lindsey is an American transplant in Paris. She shares trends, travel, and her experiences with everything French with her readers. Her stories are engaging and heartwarming. She contributes to Conde Nast Traveler, the Wall Street Journal and Bon Appétit, to name a few publications. Our favorite article on Lost in Cheeseland still is where to drink specialty coffee in Paris.
19. Prêt à voyager
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Anne Stark Ditmeyer founded Prêt à Voyager on Bastille Day 2007. She wanted to explore the creative ways people travel and talks about that in her blog. She arrived in Paris for the first time in 2001 as a student, came back again and again until she decided to stay. She also shares her experiences with French bureaucracy and how to keep your cool, just like the French do.
20. Bellanda in Paris
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Bellanda is a New Yorker living in Paris. She blogs about what it's like to live here, her experiences, the good and the bad. Her personal motto is: "Believe in dreams and fear not the realization of them."
21. Books and Baguettes
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Books and Baguettes is about the Jennifer's (blogger) journey from New York to Paris. Everything from leaving her home in the U.S. to finding a place to like, making friends, extensive travel, learning the language and embracing life in this wonderful city.
22. Love in the City of Lights
Kasia Dietz is a handbag designer and freelance writer from New York City, now based in Paris. As she mentions on her about me page, Kasia lived for more than ten years "a career driven, highly social, mostly single life…". For her, this was "a dream of success and independence". Her second dream was "a dream of courage and freedom". It made her pack a bag and travel the world for more than a year. Kasia's website, Love in the city of Lights, is full of musings and memoirs of life in Paris. After living in Paris for more than six years to follow her (other) dreams of designing and writing, Kasia likes to call Paris her home.
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A Christmas miracle on the fiscal cliff failed to occur after House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called an abrupt recess for the House of Representatives on Thursday night. The House speaker made his decision after he failed to win enough support from fellow House Republicans on his "Plan B" budget proposal, which would have allowed taxes to rise only for Americans with more than $1 million in annual income.
On Friday morning, Boehner told reporters, according to the Associated Press, that he's still open to talks with President Obama on ways to avoid the steep sequestration budget cuts and expiration of Bush-era tax rates due December 31. But when asked how the fiscal cliff could now be avoided, the speaker said, "How we get there, God only knows."
"The House did not take up the tax measure today because it did not have sufficient support from our members to pass. Now it is up to the president to work with Reid on legislation to avert the fiscal cliff," a statement from Boehner read on Thursday, referring to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
White House press secretary Jay Carney vowed that President Barack Obama would act but offered no clear path through the political mine field, The Washington Post reported Friday. The House is now out of session until after Christmas. The Senate is scheduled to meet for only a few hours on Friday afternoon before members leave town until next Thursday.
"The president's main priority is to ensure that taxes don't go up on 98% of Americans and 97% of small businesses in just a few short days," Carney said in a written statement. "The president will work with Congress to get this done and we are hopeful that we will be able to find a bipartisan solution quickly that protects the middle class and our economy."
"Speaker Boehner's partisan approach wasted an entire week and pushed middle-class families closer to the edge," Reid spokesman Adam Jentleson added in his own statement. "The only way to avoid the cliff altogether is for Speaker Boehner to return to negotiations, and work with President Obama and the Senate to forge a bipartisan deal."
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MISTRAS Group Announces Conference Call to Discuss Fourth Quarter and 2019 Year End Results on March 13, 2020
PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., March 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MISTRAS Group, Inc. (MG) has scheduled a conference call for Friday, March 13, 2020 at 9:00am Eastern Time to discuss its results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2019. A press release with the fourth quarter results will be issued after the close of market on Thursday, March 12, 2020.
The call will broadcast over the Web and can be accessed on MISTRAS' Website, www.mistrasgroup.com. Individuals in the U.S. wishing to participate in the conference call by phone may call 1-844-832-7227 and use confirmation identification code 9586568 when prompted. The International number is 1-224-633-1529. Those who wish to listen to the call later can access an archived copy of the conference call at the MISTRAS Website.
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MISTRAS is a leading "one source" global provider of technology-enabled asset protection solutions used to evaluate the structural integrity of critical energy, industrial and public infrastructure. Mission critical services and solutions are delivered globally and provide customers with asset life extension, improved productivity and profitability, compliance with government safety and environmental regulations, and enhanced risk management operational decisions.
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LeBron James. Usain Bolt. Gabby Douglas. Jeremy Lin. Ronda Rousey.
When it comes to mainstream sports, which one of these doesn't belong? Before 2012, you'd have said Rousey, of course. But this past year, not only did the first female fighter in UFC history break through in the MMA world, but she broke through into the mainstream consciousness, as well.
The latest evidence of Rousey's rising star comes in the form of a spot on Sports Illustrated's 2012 list of most memorable sports moments.
Rousey came in at No. 65 on SI's list of what it calls "the most mind-blowing, record-breaking, earth-shattering, mystifying, seriously sublime sports moments, memes and memories" of the year.
Rousey, of course, is the UFC's first women's bantamweight champion, sliding over to the promotion from Strikeforce, where she won the 135-pound title in March, then defended it in August. All the wins in the Judo Olympic medalist's MMA career have come by first-round armbar. She'll fight for the first time in the UFC in February when she headlines the UFC 157 pay-per-view in Anaheim, Calif., against Liz Carmouche.
"She's the biggest rising star in women's mixed martial arts, if not the sport as a whole," Sports Illustrated wrote of the Californian. "Ronda Rousey's rise has been meteoric. In just nine fights (both professional and amateur) – all first-round victories by arm bar – Rousey has become an MMA sensation. … The UFC is banking heavily on Rousey."
The mention is just the latest for Rousey, whose accolades this year have included the cover of ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue," a multi-page story in Sports Illustrated, the back cover of UFC Magazine, a record four World MMA Award nominations, a Showtime "All Access" special, a guest-host slot on TMZ, appeared on Conan O'Brien's show, had a spot on AskMen.com's list of 99 Most Desirable Women for 2013, coming in at No. 43, and caused a stir on "Jim Rome on Showtime" when she talked about her pre-fight sex habits.
And all this before she fights for the first time in the UFC. We should know in less than months just how big Rousey might be in 2013 when promotion for her headlining fight against Carmouhce really heats up.
Check out some video highlights of Rousey's 2012 below.
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This article provides the information on "Dell UltraSharp UP3216Q Flat panel display usage issues & troubleshooting".
There are two options of HDMI input on the UP3216Q display. Incorrectly configured settings may result in no video.
Troubleshooting steps:
If HDMI 2.0 is the issue, change the HDMI configuration in the UP3216Q on-Screen Display (OSD)
No video/Black screen is displayed after your system wakes up from sleep, hibernate, etc., (intermittent no video or black screen).
You cannot get configure the 3840 x 2160 (4k2k) @ 60Hz maximum display resolution on your system.
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For the last seven months, the fashion flock has been reluctant to celebrate anything in light of the frightening economic and retail climates. During the last round of collections in February, save for a few exceptions like store opening bashes for Giorgio Armani and Matthew Williamson, parties took a nosedive with the economy. "I got really nervous about working less," recalls Harley Viera-Newton, a popular DJ on the social circuit, who struggled to book gigs last February. "I didn't know if people were sick of me."
Viera-Newton wasn't alone. "The phone wasn't ringing," says caterer Mary Giuliani, whose clients include Jessica Seinfeld, Carolina Herrera and Ferragamo.
But, according to party organizers, there was no other option than to cut back. Calvin Klein dropped its semiannual bash, as did Alexander Wang and, most notably, Marc Jacobs. "When Marc pulls out, everyone follows him. It's really bad," Paul Sevigny told WWD at the time.
Now it appears Sevigny's logic is working in the reverse. Jacobs is indeed hosting a party again this year with a performance by Lady Gaga (though this year, he's cohosting with Visionaire magazine) and many others have followed suit: Wang's affair is back on again, as is Calvin Klein's, and Diane von Furstenberg is hosting three parties during the week including one for Amanda Brooks' new book, "I Love Your Style," and another for Brandaid Project's "Masks and Mirrors" exhibit. "I am always in the mood to celebrate," says the designer by way of explanation. Other big bashes of the week include a dinner at Monkey Bar for the much-anticipated biopic "Coco Avant Chanel," cocktails at the MoMA cohosted by Linda Evangelista for Ron Arad, a soiree for the Olsens' The Row at Bergdorf Goodman, and a benefit at Gucci where Mary J Blige will make an appearance. And those are apart from tonight's numerous bashes for the citywide (and international) Fashion's Night Out.
But many are careful to note that while parties have come back, they're back in a different way. "People have adjusted to a new reality of life," says Lydia Fenet, who, as director of special events for Christie's, is organizing several marquee events for the fall, including a 125th anniversary party with Bulgari. "Over-the-top partying has been replaced with more intimate events. It's a question of looking for strategic partnerships that help generate business instead of events that are purely for entertaining."
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France's Tro Bro Leon takes place on the far end of Brittany, and is famous for its 25 sections of dirt track and gravel lanes.
This sportive doesn't mess around. No sooner have you left the start town of Lannilis, than you drop down the hillside to bridge a broad estuary then climb the first rough sector high on the hillside above. It starts with broken tarmac between houses then quickly turns to dirt roads. Like Flandrian cobbles, the best way to handle this stuff is to hammer it.
After a couple of hard, draggy kilometres on smoother tarmac you then descend again to breathtaking stretches of beautifully rugged coastline. If only we could have seen them through the murk.
While the longer ride later looped off for more of this around the most westerly tip of France, my ride turned back towards Lannilis and the remaining ribinoù immediately after the second sector – a well sheltered, gravelly lane with a mohican of grass growing down the middle.
The Tro Bro Leon is nicely connected for British cyclists thanks to the Plymouth-Roscoff ferry connection. To make a weekend of it, take a night crossing on Friday and return late on Sunday.
Missed this? Try this…
The Rutland-Melton Cicle Classic race is the British equivalent of Tro Bro Leon. While the race took place last weekend, the sportive is not until June 16: www.eastmidlandsciclechallenge.co.uk
Website: trobroleon.jimdo.com
Kilometres of rough stuff: 5.5km/12.3km
Terrain: Rugged coast and agricultural farmland
Best: Picking the best line across the ribinoù
Worst: Exposure to the elements in the French 'Land's End'
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Detroit officials have been working to bring the city out of bankruptcy by September 2014, a date that becomes increasingly unrealistic as intricate, financially unstable plans to save the city crumble.
In the latest example of plans gone awry, a federal bankruptcy judge last week rejected Detroit's plan to pay UBS and Bank of America $165 million in order to extricate itself from an expensive interest-rate swap deal. According to Judge Steven W. Rhodes, the city plan to offer gambling revenue (gleaned from Detroit's three downtown casinos) as collateral to Barclay's — which had agreed to loan Detroit the money it would need to repay UBS and BoA, plus more — relied on funds already tied up as collateral in previous deals.
In other words, Detroit is gambling on casino revenue it doesn't have, in a tragically fitting example of how difficult it will be for the city to lift itself out of fiscal quicksand.
Reuters reports that Detroit opened up three casinos in 1996, and has been relying heavily on their revenue, roughly $180 million per year, until it promised away the revenue in a Rumpelstiltskin-like deal:
In an effort to reduce its unfunded pension liability, the city sold $1.45 billion of bonds in 2005 and 2006, then used derivatives known as swaps to cut risk. The derivatives deal backfired as interest rates dropped, when Detroit expected them to rise. When Detroit's credit rating was cut to junk in 2009, banks had the option to demand $400 million, and the city fended off immediate payment by pledging casino revenue as collateral. The deal's continued threat to Detroit's financial future was one of the key elements that pushed the city into the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history in July.
In the latest deal, Detroit was hoping to use these same casino revenues to secure a $285 million loan from Barclays that would release the city from BoA and UBS's hold, and leave it $120 million to manage the city. Theoretically, the deal would free up gambling revenues — which UBS and BoA would lose their right to once they received the $165 million — for use as collateral for Barclays. But Judge Rhodes argues that Detroit can't rely on the Herculean financial manipulation to make the deal, because it harms other creditors and would grant the banks money it doesn't deserve. The New York Times explains:
The ruling [to block the deal] was seen as a vindication for Detroit's residents and its other main creditors, which stood to take a back seat to the new Barclays loan. They were arguing that the swap contracts appeared to have been illegal to begin with and should be voided rather than paid by the bankrupt city. Some even called for Detroit to claw back the millions of dollars it has already paid the two banks on the swaps.
According to the Times, the judge thinks the plan is little more than a desperate attempt that will hurt the city overall:
Judge Steven W. Rhodes of United States Bankruptcy Court, in a decision many viewed as a big surprise, said that Detroit had hurt itself with hasty and imprudent decisions in the past, and that the practice "must stop." He ruled that Detroit could not proceed with a plan to pay $165 million to two big banks to extricate itself from some long-term financial contracts that have been costing the bankrupt city tens of millions of dollars a year.
The ruling is a rightful reminder that predatory lending practices harm people but benefit "too big to fail" banks. The judge's decision left city managers scrambling, but creditors cheering, according to the Christian Science Monitor:
Jordan Marks, executive director of the National Public Pension Coalition in Washington, issued a statement Thursday calling the Rhodes ruling "a win for Detroit retirees, who are at risk of being thrown into poverty thanks to unscrupulous practices on Wall Street." "At a time when retirees stand to lose 84 cents of every dollar they earned, a payout to Wall Street is unconscionable," Mr. Marks said.
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MUSKEGON — A 'boatload of data' will be collected during the third and final research season of Grand Valley State University's Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center's offshore wind assessment.
The research buoy that collects data for the study will be placed about seven miles offshore northwest of the Muskegon Channel in Lake Michigan within the next two weeks. It will remain in the lake until December, where it will continuously collect data about offshore wind characteristics, along with meteorological, marine and avian data, to help assess the viability of commercial-scale wind energy generation in the Great Lakes.
"Over the last two years, we've collected wind data in locations that were previously inaccessible," said Arnold Boezaart, director of MAREC. "This year, we're keeping the buoy closer to the shore to collect data that we predict will reinforce the data we collected from last year's season. We'll end up with a great representation of wind characteristics on Lake Michigan that can contribute to potential wind energy development."
The three-year study began in 2011, when the buoy went through a validation study on Muskegon Lake for two months, followed by two months of trials on Lake Michigan. During the second year of research in 2012, the buoy was placed 35 miles west of the Muskegon Channel at the mid-lake plateau in Lake Michigan and captured data at elevations between 90 and 175 meters above the lake surface.
The buoy uses laser pulse technology to capture wind measurements far above the buoy itself, the first time the technique has ever been used on a mobile research platform in open water.
"Throughout this study, the technology has demonstrated an ability to capture quality wind measurement data as much as 98 percent of the time," said Boezaart. "We are getting excellent results."
Students and faculty in Grand Valley's Padnos College of Engineering and Computing are analyzing data to determine the amount of power that could be created if wind turbines were installed in Lake Michigan.
"We literally have boatloads of data because it's recorded in one-second intervals," said Boezaart. "Grand Valley is providing important leadership in an area of science and technology, demonstrating groundbreaking technology, and generating unique and large data sets."
Project partners include researchers from Michigan Technological University, who are studying wind turbulence; Michigan Natural Features Inventory, a component of the Michigan State University Extension program who are studying bird and bat activity, and who confirmed for the first time ever last summer that bats do fly over the Great Lakes; and the University of Michigan, who are conducting research on large data sets.
Project staff will present findings from the study at the American Wind Energy Association's Windpower Conference and Exhibition — the largest annual wind energy event in the world — in Chicago in May. Monthly data summaries and other preliminary information collected from the study are available on ScholarWorks atscholarworks.gvsu.edu.
While federal grant funds end this year, Boezaart said other opportunities are being explored for the buoy to continue to capture data in different locations throughout the Great Lakes.
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- Euro 2020 to be staged at 13 different venues
- UEFA confirms its decision to adopt new format
- UEFA president Michel Platini floated the idea last month
- 10 cities confirmed as venues for Euro 2016 in France
The European Championships in 2020 will break new ground by being staged in 13 different venues across the continent, UEFA confirmed Friday.
Europe's governing body first revealed the idea last month, but it needed a meeting of its executive committee in Nyon, Switzerland to agree the package.
Being labeled the "Euro for Europe", the 24-team tournament will see the group stages and the subsequent last 16 and quarterfinal knock out matches played in 12 different countries.
The semifinals and final will be held at the same venue.
Previous championships have been staged in a maximum of two countries, with Ukraine and Poland hosting Euro 2012, won by Spain.
Euro 2016 in France will be the first with an expanded number of teams from 16 to 24.
UEFA also announced the 10 stadiums for that tournament Friday, including the Stade de France in Paris
The 2020 tournament will mark the 60th anniversary of the first edition of Europe's premier international competition.
Under the new format, UEFA has promised to take traveling distances into account when allocating countries who have been selected as hosts to groups.
Bids to stage matches must be put forward by September this year, with the winners announced in September 2014.
Venues for the semis and final must be able to hold at least 70,000 spectators, UEFA said, but smaller 30,000-seater stadiums will be considered for group matches.
UEFA president Michel Platini made a stout defense of his plans when they were first floated.
"Countries that would never have had the chance to host the Euros will be able to participate in this festival of football," he said.
"The situation is difficult in Europe. It's hard to ask one country to invest in 10 stadiums like in Ukraine. There's also the idea of belonging to a European country. It's a great idea to mark the anniversary."
Platini also said that the tournament will return to its traditional format for 2024.


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Every once in awhile I make something that I am super proud of... this, is one of those projects.
I had my eye on this pattern by Drops Design for a long time. I read it over and over, until the time came to pick up a hook and a skein of Pistachio Green. The pattern is very easy to read (although it does use British English crochet terms, which isn't hard but took a moment to translate) and the Drops Paris yarn sews up like a dream.
With every row I became more enamored. I learned to crochet about two years ago and I am still completely amazed that a simple twist of the wrist and turn of a hook can make simple string into something beautiful.
Yesterday I had lunch with the Carpoolqueen who has the best family room for picture taking. Its a warm and happy place, with sunlight that fills the room. I knew I just had to bring this new project to her house for a little photo shoot. I paid her in cookies.
So she made the coffee while I made moved cushions and generally made myself at home.
Oh! That picture makes me happy! It was so nice that CPQ's new throw pillows perfectly matched my new blanket...if those pillows show up missing one day....
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Since the early 1990s, African states have been democratizing. Political parties now dominate the public spaces in many African democracies. The past 26 years have witnessed the growth and consolidation of "party democracy" in Africa. This is the longest period of uninterrupted growth of electoral politics in many countries on the continent. Recent Afrobarometer surveys show that almost two-thirds (63%) of Africans support pluralistic politics. Party identification in sub-Saharan Africa has also been on the rise. Across 16 states Afrobarometer surveyed, a majority of Africans (65%) claim they "feel close to" a political party in their country. The mass public who identified with a particular political party increased by 7 percentage points between 2002 and 2015.
Political parties are the vehicles for citizens to engage in party activism. The women and men who join a political party become the party activists. Party activists are the lifeblood of the party organization. And political party activism in sub-Saharan Africa is geared toward the election of the party and its candidates into office. Consequently, party activism is a continuum of high-intensity and low-intensity political activities. Party activists vary in their levels of involvement. Thus, it is a mixture of fanfare and aggressive participation. Political party activism is a multifaceted process where party members undertake any of the following political activities: display a poster, donate money, help with fund-raising, deliver election leaflets, help at a party function, attend party meetings, undertake door-to-door campaigning, and run for party office. The involvement of party members usually varies from active engagement to passive attachment to the party. There were several motives for party activists getting involved in "high-intensity participation." Because of the crucial role party activists play in the intra- and inter-party competition, the parties provide some incentives to get members commitment. At the organizational level, party activists present themselves for election into party offices at the grassroots, regionally or nationally. They devote their time and financial resources in furtherance of the party agenda. In return, party activists expect the party to reward them with selective incentives when power is won. That said, more research is required at the country level to enable us to construct the profile of the African party activists.
Keywords: activism, political party, multiparty, elections, membership, two-party systems, dominant party system, African politics
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Come on. Did anyone actually think this video — which looks convincingly like an outtake from any CoverGirl commercial ever — could possibly work to encourage women to pursue careers in science?
Really? Really? The scientist in the video is a man! And at one point a high-heeled shoe takes up the entire frame. Like a Payless Shoes ad! Ugh. Why. [TheAtlantic]


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Corrado RS - How Paul Walker Influenced My Automotive Enthusiasm
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"The death of Paul Walker is shocking, saddening, and yet I could not figure out why his death was having such an impact on me. Why was it bothering me? The earliest memory I have of anything tuner related has to be some time before I was nine years old (between 1983 and 1992). This I know because it was in my familys first apartment, and I distinctly remember sitting on the couch, with the latest issue of Automobile Magazine, reading the Not For US (pun intended Im sure) column about the (now I know this) Subaru WRX STI, chassis code GC. All I remember is that, whomever the author was, had an ear-to-ear grin on his face. At least thats what I gleamed from the article. Fast-forward ten years "
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