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Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

Mentafy: Kontrolle des Schreibprozesses für Lehrende, KI-Hilfe für Nutzende
Stammt der Text vom Prüfling oder der KI? Ein Start-up aus Köln möchte Arbeitsprozesse für Lehrende transparent machen und KI-Tools dabei nicht verdammen.

ISW: Kremlin has yet to signal its response following Transnistria's appeal for 'protection': https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/isw-kremlin-has.html

Sources: The Center for Public Integrity is considering merging with a competitor or shutting down, after falling ~$2.5M short of its $6M budget goal for 2023 (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/busines

Center for Public Integrity Weighs Merger or Shutdown Amid Dire Financial Straits
The nonprofit had a budget shortfall of roughly $2.5 million last year amid a difficult market for fund-raising.

Shocker. Intuit is pushing back against the government's free tax filing service.
The IRS is piloting new software that could let you file your taxes for free : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227465233/

#30DaysOfBiking, Day 28 = #SPEZI24, Day 2: Rode my KMX recumbent trike to #SPEZI (2x 4km) and rode each of the following bikes at least once through the 750m test course: A

2024 NFL undrafted free agent tracker: Full team-by-team list of player signings following NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nf…

2024 NFL undrafted free agent tracker: Full team-by-team list of player signings following NFL Draft
The complete list of undrafted free agents signed

Fair Wayne Bryant served 23 years in prison for attempting to steal 3 pairs of hedge clippers before he was paroled.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/black-man-granted-parole-after-23-years-for-stealing-clippers/

Black man granted parole after 23 years in prison for stealing hedge clippers
A black Louisiana man who was sentenced to life in prison after stealing hedge clippers in 1997 was granted parole Thursday. Fair Wayne Bryant, 63, will get a conditional release following a 3-0 vo…

This morning, two paragraphs for spring.
Do you remember where I went when I went out? I don’t. Did you meet me, or did I meet you? Meeting met meeting. The day was wearing an outfit. The birds were zinging. Catch one for me you said, or did I say it to you?…
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Paragraphs for Spring
Dear Friends, In my Zen life, I’ve been teaching Zen poetry and the poetic-philosophical works of Eihei Dogen where I’ve found a welling of spring energies. I am feeling the grief of the world these days, the tearing-apart and the suffering of too many. There is no way, in my own heart, to reconcile this with the vivid coming-to-life of spring, and yet both are happening at the same time, in my own being.

What Ukraine needs for this to be the last year of the war. Ukraine in Flames #579: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/what-ukraine-needs.html