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alged
Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2369 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Welcome back and "all hearts" with you.
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Merci beaucoup, alged ♥
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alged
Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2369 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Take comfort with a "drømmecake "
----------------------------------------Just heard today on radio France Culture the french-danish soprano Elsa Dreisig talking about the delicious pastry her mother was cooking A 3mn broadcast where she speaks a perfect french but...sing in danish at the end here she remembers: "Le drømmecake me renvoie à la maison de ma grand-mère, dans laquelle il y avait tout le temps de la musique classique" "The drømmecake reminds me my grand-mother house where classic music was always on"  Nous sommes tous des chercheurs en puissance |
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Thank you, alged
 All my music education I get from you - not being much of a music person  more of a drømmekage person  I'm afraid  |
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Today Queen Margrethe II of Denmark turns 80.
Like many other people she has had to cancel all planned festivities. That has not kept her 'underlings' from celebrating their widely popular queen, so at midday the traditional Danish birthday song was performed all over the Kingdom - also in Greenland. As I took a ride to a favorite walking spot, I noticed flags in almost all flagpoles in people's gardens. The first to wish her happy birthday were the employees at Fredensborg Castle's cupola hall - and she watched from the balcony in her night gown   |
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pcwr
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Little Mermaid statue vandalised with ‘racist fish’ graffiti in Copenhagen
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Sigh, pcwr ....
 What has the world come to calling me a FISH!?  |
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BBC writes:
"A study from the University of Liverpool has found that countries led by female leaders have had a "systematically and significantly better" outcome in their fight against Covid-19." New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel are mentioned. Denmark's female Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen deserves a mention, too. When many Danish ski tourists returned with the infection from Italy and Austria, she announced the close down of Denmark effective March 18, 2020. Our testing capacity was slim, and many of our vulnerable people were already infected and died with COVID-19. With a concentrated effort, we have worked our way forward in many areas. By now about 25% of the Danes have been tested. We do have the occasional death, and we do have clusters of outbreaks, but we think we have it on some sort of leash. So far, face masks have not been mandatory anywhere. But a few days from now they will be on all public transport 24/7. For those interested in numbers, the Danish Health Authority has an English version.  |
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Jack007
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So couple things about windmills (sorry if it's been mention only read this page 10)
----------------------------------------Sweden is making some wooden ones. Much more eco friendly not to use steel, and lighter and ability to go taller apparently. They have a prototype in Sweden already, looking to build in the US. No link sorry guessing swedish wooden windmill search would work Also they(not the swedes I forget who is doing this study) found painting one windmill blade black makes the birds far better able to see and avoid them, saves something like 66% reduction in bird kills. Bird Lives Matter. EDIT: Also a spanish team (I believe) were studying wind 'sticks'. Just a pole that vibrates in the wind, that makes energy. Zero bird deaths, unless they are REALLY dumb. I don't know how efficient they would be, who cares something is better than nothing. Can't find anything recent on these, will try again and post if I do. Edit2: here is what i found on their site. https://vortexbladeless.com/technology-design/  [Edit 2 times, last edit by Jack007 at Sep 1, 2020 4:12:51 PM] |
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adriverhoef
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So couple things about windmills (sorry if it's been mention only read this page 10) I found an article in Dutch, dated '31 augustus 2020', that says that Norwegian scientists from the Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim performed this new research and found that painting one blade black (instead of white) yields more visible contrast (which is scarier to birds). The idea stems from American lab tests where the American krestel proved to react the best with black and white contrast.Sweden is making some wooden ones. Much more eco friendly not to use steel, and lighter and ability to go taller apparently. They have a prototype in Sweden already, looking to build in the US. No link sorry guessing swedish wooden windmill search would work Also they(not the swedes I forget who is doing this study) found painting one windmill blade black makes the birds far better able to see and avoid them, saves something like 66% reduction in bird kills. Bird Lives Matter. |
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