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New Porsche Experience Centre At The Hockenheimring
[Rendering bird´s eye view Porsche Experience Centre Hockenheim] Stuttgart.~ Another Porsche Experience Centre has been given the green light: The world's seventh customer experience centre from the sports car manufacturer is due to be built at the Hockenheimring. Over the next two years, a 176,000-square-metre area at the heart of the historic circuit will see the construction of a state-of-the-art building complex, a handling course, several driving dynamics areas and an off-road course. The work is due to start towards the middle of 2018, with the experience centre expected to be operational by the end of 2019. Porsche is implementing this project in collaboration with emodrom-group, the company responsible for the strategic development of the Hockenheimring.
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Defender Lives On: Land Rover Launches V8 Edition To Celebrate 70th Anniversary
Ryton-on-Dunsmore, UK – 17 January 2018 – Land Rover today announces a limited-edition high-performance version of the iconic Defender, with a Limited run of up to 150 Collector's Edition badged V8-powered examples, re-engineered to celebrate the Land Rover marque's 70th anniversary in 2018. The Defender Works V8 pays homage to the early high-powered engines in both the Series III Stage 1 V8 from 1979 and subsequent Defenders including the 50th Anniversary Edition, which are highly sought after by enthusiasts and collectors today.
GM Canada Announces Some Must-See Vehicles At This Years' Canadian International Auto Show (#CIAS2018) In Toronto
Don't miss the General Motors area of this year's show because there's plenty to see. ~ CHEVROLET Making its Canadian debut at CIAS, the all-new Silverado sets the course for the next century of Chevy Trucks with the most functional bed of any full-size truck. With a weight reduction of up to 450 pounds, it offers increased performance, along with a broad range of trims and engine/transmission combinations – including an all-new Duramax 3.0L inline-six diesel, to help each customer find their ideal truck.
Ford Announces The Return Of The Ranger To North America
Set to debut at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) this week, the mid-size Ranger will go head-to-head with the Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon and Toyota Tacoma that currently dominate the segment.
Auto Shows & Concepts / Ford
World Debut Of All-New 2019 Kia Forte Sedan Announced Ahead Of North American International Auto Show
(SEOUL) January 11, 2018 – Ahead of the global debut of the all-new 2019 Kia Forte sedan at the upcoming North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), Kia Motors today revealed design renderings of the compact sedan. While the third-generation Forte retains its sporty and youthful image, it has graduated with a more sophisticated appearance thanks to a number of sleek and dynamic styling cues inspired by the Stinger fastback sport sedan. What is most noticeable is that the Forte has evolved from a cab-forward design to one that is decidedly swept-back.
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Canadian International AutoShow [CIAS] To Offer Electric Vehicle Test Drives
The Canadian International AutoShow, in keeping with its 2018 theme of The New Movement, will offer free electric vehicle test drives to anyone attending this year's show – Feb. 16-25 at the downtown Metro Toronto Convention Centre – as long as they are 21 and have a valid driver's license. Eight manufacturers of EVs – Nissan, BMW, Fiat-Chrysler, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Volvo – will display cars like the Nissan Leaf and the BMW i3 in the EVolution Zone. General Motors and Ford (along with the previous eight) will offer up cars for test drives in nearby special sections in both the convention centre's North and South Buildings. As well as the Leaf and the i3, other EVs available to test will include the Chevrolet Volt and Bolt, the Outlander PHEV, the Honda Clarity, the Volvo XC40, the Hyundai IONIQ and the Ford Focus Electric.
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2017 Chevrolet Volt – Road Test
The Chevy Volt is the first Chevrolet I've driven in probably 20 years. To say I'm not a Chevy Fan would be pretty accurate. Based on my past experience of owning a Camaro and Malibu, I'd quite happily have watched the brand disappear into oblivion. So why am I driving one? Well fortunately Chevrolet didn't disappear because they are actually creating some good looking cars and they are at the forefront of the EV revolution with cars like the Volt and Bolt. The new Malibu is a good-looking car, as is the Cruze and I love the Colorado truck, so change is afoot at Chevrolet – time to check out the goods!
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2017 Chevrolet Bolt Premium – Road Test
General Motors have been building electric vehicles [EVs] for quite some time – remember the EV1? GM produced and leased it out to only 660 people living mainly in California and Arizona, it survived from 1996 to 1999 before being recalled and destroyed. Why? There are plenty of theories out there, but aside from being hideously ugly and an advertised range of 70–100 miles that was actually closer to 60, it was never going to set the world on fire. Although not a raging success, GM showed up at the auto shows in 2002 with a completely different take on the EV, perhaps the most audacious concept car ever – the AUTOnomy. Remember that one? GM planned to change the way we purchased/leased our cars in the future. We would buy the skateboard or standard "autonomous" platform and shift out whatever body we wanted for any particular need/desire. You could have a sports car or a pickup truck, you just had to lift one off the platform and replace it with the other – the …
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Introducing the All-New, Next-Generation 2018 Jeep Wrangler
October 31, 2017, Auburn Hills, Mich. – The most capable SUV ever delivers even more legendary Jeep 4×4 capability, a modern design that stays true to the original, advanced fuel-efficient powertrains, more open-air options, and is loaded with more safety features and advanced technology than ever before. The all-new Wrangler's unique design includes an instantly recognizable keystone-shaped grille, iconic round headlamps and square tail lamps, improved aerodynamics, a convenient fold-down windshield for off-road purists, even more open-air freedom, and dozens of different door, top and windshield combinations. Additional images and complete vehicle information will be available November 29 at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
2017 Ford Fusion Energi SE – Road Test
I've loved the look of the present generation Fusion sever since I laid eyes on it – when it's approaching from the opposite direction it looks a lot like an Aston Martin from the front. However, for 2017 Ford has seen fit to re-style the Fusion to make it look more like a Ford. In addition to the new grill and front fascia it also gets LED headlights, tail lights and fog lights, along a new rear fascia and spiffy redesigned 17-inch wheels. Inside, there is now a rotary-style gear selector – very Jaguaresque, a longer armrest and improved access to the open storage area in the lower dashboard.
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William Wall A Question and Answer Session with the author of Minding Children and Ghost Estate
March 1 to April 28
William Wall
Born in Cork 1955 | Grew up in the coastal village of Whitegate | Educated at University College Cork | Degree in Philosophy & English | Married | Two sons
William Wall has won the Virginia Faulkner Award, The Sean O'Faoláin Prize, several Writer's Week prizes and The Patrick Kavanagh Award.
He was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He was shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Award, the Irish Book Awards, the Raymond Carver Award, the Hennessy Award and numerous others. He has received Irish Arts Council Bursaries, travel grants from Culture Ireland and translations of his books have been funded by Ireland Literature Exchange.
He is not a member of Aosdána – if you're wondering why, please read Riding Against The Lizard.pdf. His work has been translated into many languages, including Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Latvian, Serbian and Catalan. He has a particular interest in Italy and has read at several festivals there including the Tratti Festival at Faenza, the Festival Internazionale di Poesia di Genova and at the Pordenone Legge festival near Venice. He has translated from Italian. William Wall was an Irish delegate to the European Writers' Parliament in Istanbul 2010. In March 2010 he was Writer in Residence at The Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco. He was a 2009 Fellow of The Liguria Centre for the Arts & Humanities .
A must read-Riding Against the Lizard-on the implication of government funds of the arts in Ireland
I recently read Strumpet City by James Plunkett (the 2013 Dublin One City One Book Selection). It presents a culture whose very life blood seems to be whiskey. Drinking seems much more a factor in Irish literature than Indian, Japanese or even American. There are rude sayings like "God Created Whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world" and "Without Guinness the birth rate in Ireland would be near zero". What do you think are some of the causes of this or is it just a myth?. It seems to me from my reading of Irish short stories that few important conversations or events happen without drinking. In your time outside of Ireland, do you see drinking to have less of a role in daily life than in Ireland?
Firstly, I think Strumpet City - both the novel and the television series that followed it – is an extraordinary piece of writing. Jim Plunkett was writing against the grain of Irish fiction, a kind of left-wing historical fiction that hearkened back to writers like Peadar Kearney, or further back to Sean O'Casey. He was trying to rediscover a narrative of Irish history that had been carefully buried by nationalism. The same project was at work in Ken Loach's film The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
Now for the the question of drink! I'm not sure why drinking (alcohol or tea!) is central to many Irish literary works, but it clearly is. It would be tempting to speculate on the psychology - a repressed people given permission by drunkenness to assert themselves - but the reality is that this is much a literary construction as a social one. I've travelled in France and Italy, for example, where wine is consumed several times a day very often, but where actual drunkenness is unusual. And it's unusual in their literature too, though perhaps France in the 19thC is an exception. I've marvelled at English and American films where spirits are consumed quite casually at home, whereas in my childhood people rarely drank at home. But none of this answers the question. Perhaps we need to go back further to the Dionysian rites and the part the drunkenness played in ancient civilisations. Intoxication as a rejection of otherwise impeccably upheld bourgeois manners. Perhaps the release provided by getting smashed explains why Irish people never took the trouble to smash the establishment, why we had a nationalist revolution instead of a socialist one. So many tempting ways to look at it, but the short answer is I don;t know.
In one of his most remember radio addresses to the nation, Irish President Eamon de Valera said "The Irish genius has always stressed spiritual values. That is the characteristic that fits the Irish in a special manner for the task of of helping to save western civilization". I somehow have come to strongly feel this through my readings of Irish literature. Do you think there is still truth in what de Valera said? In her Trespassers: A Memoir (my source for this quote, Julia O'Faolain suggest this may have been part of a Fascists agenda so I guess we are to take this as a two edged sword of some kind. There is no specific answer for this question-I am just seeking your reaction.
I don't think the Irish are in any way suited to saving Western civilisation. De Valera may have been thinking of the well-known truism that Irish monks saved European learning during the so-called Dark Ages, an assertion that I think my Arab friends would dispute with considerable success. That is not to diminish the part played by Irish monastic settlements, but to simply say that things are much more complicated than a grand Irish mission to save civilisation. In fact the very idea is ridiculous. These grand narratives of history and civilisation are always suspect and they certainly play into the hands of the fascists who tend to think in terms of a hierarchy of 'races' and nations. I think the supposed spirituality of the Irish is nonsense. It would be easy for someone like De Valera to come to that conclusion, having been intensely involved with Irish mythology and folklore, but without much exposure to the mythology and folklore of other countries. But to suggest that, for example, a Neapolitan peasant is less spiritual than a Connemara peasant is simply to ignore the richness of other people's cultures. I was struck recently, during a lecture on Irish folk story-telling about the otherworld, on the similarities between some of the Irish stories and those from Italo Calvino's collection of Italian Folktales.
The Fall of Celtic Tiger, the Irish Economy,has caused a lot of pain and misery. Is there a positive side to this? what lessons for the future can writers take to their work? has it in any sense brought people closer to values other than consumerism? Is it just another day in the life of the Irish? You talk about how Ireland was caught up in an almost frenzy of consumerism but with most of the population left out.
The first thing I'd like to say is that Ireland is full of journalists who believe that 'we all partied'. Well we didn't. Some people partied, some people paid for the party. Young working class people, for example, or teachers, or nurses, or the many people who work in call-centres and on assembly line jobs in the technology sector paid very high prices for their homes. They ended up with mortgages that they will now never be able to repay - not by choice but because it was that or try to rear a family in the kind of substandard kip that passes for an 'apartment' in Ireland. This is not partying. Now the government is planning to introduce a near-fascist system of 'debt-relief' in which every penny that a family spends will have to be accounted for to an 'authority'. X euros for food, Y euros for pleasure, Z euros for education, etc. They will, according to recent reports, for example, be allowed to spend €899 per month. The precision of that figure is worthy of the Nazis. Why not €900? It's more like a price-point for a sofa than an allowance for living.
Equally, it's wrong to suggest that consumerism, the highest expression of capitalism, is either unique to Ireland or in some way caused by The Celtic Tiger. Without consumerism where will capitalism's perpetual demand for growth come from? The problem is in the carefully nurtured perception of Ireland - nurtured by the tourist board - of a country devoted to the simple things in life, harvesting turf with donkeys, rowing currachs, wearing tweed. The Irish are no simpler or contented than anyone else. I think we Irish writers need to beware the simplicity of the public narrative. Politicians and their media adjutants want us to feel bad about having been briefly better off. They want us to internalise the narrative of the universal party. It's the only way they can maintain the fiction that we are all in it together, rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief. Any writers who buy into that will be servitors, not artists. Our job is to challenge the accepted truth.
One thing that it has not done is to bring Irish people to the realisation that their best interests are NOT served by right-wing politicians and get-rich-quick wide-boys. Perhaps that's because we've never had a proper left-right division in our politics - not yet anyway!
In some of my prior question and answer sessions I have asked people if they thought Aosdana was the best use the Irish government could in these times make use of its limited money to promote the arts. I know I am a total outsider and if there was an organization that gave money to book bloggers I would not perhaps bad mouth them If i though they might give me a pension but most of the responses were really vapid. In Riding Against the Lizard (we will come back to this) you directly say that accepting government money leads to an acceptance of the status quo and prevents writers from challenging the ways things are run in any but trivial ways. I know you recall Samuel Johnson's definition of a pension (of course he took one when offered it) "In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." is this the essence of your essay?
You've mentioned my essay Riding against the Lizard, which mentions Aosdána. I am, as they say, conflicted here. I know of several writers who have lived an honourable retirement on the subvention of Aosdána who otherwise would have been very poor indeed. Writing, and art in general, is very rarely a regular enough income to allow anyone to put a pension by. The idea of writers and artists being supported by the state is a good one. On the other hand, being supported by the state makes one well-disposed towards that state. there is always a fear that being too critical will make one an outsider. You are passed over for commissions, projects are rejected, applications turned down. There are always good reasons. If you're going to be dependent on the state, are you likely to attack it? Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Perhaps if more Irish writers openly voiced their criticisms of the state, I might be able to answer those questions. The fact is that, in the main, Irish writers are studiously apolitical, and the argument of that essay was that to be apolitical is to be for the status quo. He who is silent gives assent. A lot of writers have disagreed with me over that, but none of them in a publicly accessible form. One or two journalists have attacked the idea, but without adverting to the arguments in my essay. QED, as far as I'm concerned. The fact that no writer has seen fit to make their private objections public proves my point in a way. I hasten to add that there are important exceptions to this general trend. I could name several of them but inevitably they will be my friends and I'll irritate someone whose name has been left out because of my sieve of a memory!
Tell us something about your non-academic non literary work experience please.
My only significant work-experience was as a temporary postman in the country place where I grew up - at which job I was very bad. However it has given me a deep appreciation of the work done by postmen, in particular Don, the man who delivers letters to our door in rain or shine. One of my sons did the same job for two summers. I consider the postal system to be one of the greatest inventions of human kind. Email will never surpass it.
In your comments on The Master by Colm Toibin, a book I loved but now I wonder why I loved it, you said Henry James was a good subject for a writer who wants to seemingly talk about something shocking, the gay aspect of Henry James while intentionally picking an asexual man, a non-threatening gay who does not potential undermine the family structures modern capitalism depends on. Can you elaborate a bit on this?
Well, firstly let me say that The Master, is a fine book in so many ways. However I was approaching it from the point of view of critique. Viewed through a political lens it's quite interesting. Here is a gay writer writing a book about a gay writer. I think people have a right to expect something significant to be said about the repression that has troubled gay people for so long and which still continues to a greater or lesser extent almost everywhere. We hear so much now about the supposed threat to society and the family posed by gay marriage, that we need to think about why our particular form of social organisation - capitalist, consumerist, individualist - places so much store on an institution that is supposedly about love and solidarity and self-sacrifice. But viewed from that angle we can see that for capitalism marriage is essentially a means of securing and transmitting private property. Why should gay marriageor any other form of unorthodox association be a threat to that? It's dressed up in all sorts of stupid morality - some God can always be found to have pronounced against gay-ness, or as in the case of the Judaeo-Christian one, to have nuked a couple of cities that had a high proportion of gay citizens (Sodom and Gomorrah). I think Colm Tóibín passed up an opportunity to say something about that. But then I'm not surprised. In his other writings it becomes clear that from a political point of view he is at best centrist, and possibly even right of centre. It's a classic neoliberal position to be progressive on morals and private life, but right-wing in terms of economics and politics in general. I would be interested to know where Tóibín stands in the continuum. But, as I remarked in an earlier answer, Irish writers tend not to come out of the political closet.
It seems more and more writers have MAs in creative writing, some with PhDs. Education is a great thing but is there a negative side to this, will it produce in few years a literary culture where lacking this degree will make it hard to get published. Will the day of the amateur writer who comes from nowhere and changes everything be over because of this?
The main purpose of creative writing courses is to give employment to writers who don't want to do any other kind of work. In the old days they starved, got TB and died young. So creative writing classes have to be an improvement. It has a baleful effect on the production of literature though. Look at the bio of anybody who publishes a story in a magazine in the USA.
All I have read about Ireland and all the images I have seen on the net present a country of amazing beauty. How much does this saturation in natural beauty impact the writing of the residents? What is your reaction to these lines from Susan Cahill about the beauty of Ireland-"There is a hopelessness that a glut of natural beauty can create when there is a cultural and intellectual morass". Is the beauty of Ireland is two edged sword? Does it inspire and defeat at the same time?
Ireland is indeed very beautiful - at least when it's not raining. In fact, even the rain has a kind of bleak attraction. I don't think we can blame the beauty of the countryside for the intellectual morass, though. We're a provincial country and all of our media drives us towards provincialism. To be an intellectual is to be suspect. The media celebrates the plain man. Those intellectuals who raise their voices and take a public stance are heroic in the extreme. Otherwise it's necessary to leave the place as often as possible in order to understand that there are places where ideas still matter.
What draws you to Italian culture-who are the contemporary Italian writers that should be read more than they are? Who have you translated into Italian. One of my good friends Elizabeth MacDonald has translated many stories of Liam O'Flaherty.
Firstly I don't translate into Italian. Elizabeth lives and teaches in Italy, and has a degree in Italian, so she is qualified to do so, but the general rule is to translate into your own native language. I have however translated from Italian into English. It's haphazard. I've never made a project of translating any particular writer, rather I happen on poems, like them and translate them. I post the on my website and I've included some in my books.
I love Italy and spend as much time there as I can. I think we Irish are very like Italians (but with more rain!). But my knowledge of Italian literature is not sufficient to answer your question. Unlike Elizabeth, I'm very much a dilettante.
29. Quick Pick Questions
a. tablets or lap tops?
b. dogs or cats
Dogs definitely.
c. best city to inspire a writer-London or Dublin or Paris or San Francisco?
d. favorite meal to eat out-breakfast, lunch or dinner?
e. RTE or BBC
BBC if I must. I prefer the internet for news.
f. Yeats or Whitman
Yeats but also Whitman
g. Starbucks, McDonalds, KFC-great for a quick break or American corruption?
Mostly crap. Never eat food you can't cook at home if you want to. It's impossible to reconstitute the ingredients for so called 'fries', therefore it should not be eaten.
h. night or day
Day - well, morning and evening. Afternoons can be ignored.
i Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights?
Wuthering Heights.
j-best way to experience a new poem-hear the author read it or read it in a quiet undisturbed place?
Hear it first.
I offer my great thanks to William Wall for taking the time to provide us with such interesting and insightful answers. It is responses like this that keep me blogging on.
My Post on William Wall's great collection of short stories, No Paradiso
I hope to read much more of William Walls work in the future.
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Órfhlaith Foyle said...
This is a great interview. Thank you William.
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I see 100+ unofficial registrations. Is this issue still actual?
Just to make it clear, I'm trying to register officially not unofficially.
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Anthony Kiedis: 15 Things You Didn't Know (Part 1)
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You probably know Anthony Kiedis best as the frontman for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but how much do you really know? Despite the fact that Kiedis has spent a considerable amount of time in the spotlight and under the scrutiny of the public eye, there are still some things that many people don't know. With that in mind, here we present our list of 15 things you probably didn't know about Anthony Kiedis. Check out part one below, and stay tuned for part two, coming soon!
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Number Thirteen: He Is the World's Sexiest Vegetarian. PETA voted Kiedis as the World's Sexiest Vegetarian in 2008. Leona Lewis was the sexiest female vegetarian that year. Kiedis has since said that he sometimes eats fish, but steak does nothing for him.
Number Twelve: He Named His Son After a Band. Kiedis named his son Everly Bear, and he has said that he named him after the Everly Brothers. The Everly Brothers are one of Kiedis' favorite bands.
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Teddy Wayne Gentry was born in Fort Payne, Alabama on January 22,1952 and lived in the country on Lookout Mountain with his PawPaw in a wooden frame house. Teddy is 6'2" tall and weighs about 170 lbs. He has brown hair and green eyes. Teddy has been married for thirty-three years and has two children, one girl and one boy and four grandchildren, three girls and a boy.
After graduating from High School and before and during his music career, he worked in many other jobs. "I ran a theatre, I laid carpet, I bagged groceries and I worked on a farm."
Teddy enjoys spending time with his family and directing operations at his Bent Tree Farms cattle business when he's not playing bass for country supergroup Alabama. After receiving his first check from RCA records, in 1980, for $61,000, he asked his wife Linda what we should do with the money. She answered, "what means the most to you?" "Why don't you buy your grandfathers farm--where you were raised, because I know you love the old place."
Well, that's exactly what he did. His grandfather agreed to sell the 60-acre cotton farm for $1000 an acre. He had lived on the farm since the late 20s. "When I was born in 1952, my mother and I went to live with "Papa", as I called him," Teddy recalls.
"By 1980, my grandfather was not able to farm the land any more. He said he'd love for me to have it. As 1981 rolled around, our interest in the cattle business grew. That year we purchased our great grandfather Owen's farm, which joined my grandfather's place. That additional 80 acres now grew the farm to 140 acres. At the time we were called Lazy G Ranch."
"My son Josh was in the second or third grade. One night we were going over rhymes. We had rhymed several words, and suddenly I said our last name-Gentry. To which he replied, Bent Tree. I was telling one of the boys working on the farm the next day about my son's saying Bent Tree. He replied, "You know what a bent tree is?" I said, "no".
He said, "In Oklahoma, where I live, there were Bent Trees that the Indians would bend over when the trees were small and tie them to the ground, to point the direction the tribe was moving at the time."
"I contacted a lady at the Alabama Historical Society who told me we had bent trees along the top of Lookout Mountain and Little River Canyon where our farm is. When we found out this information, we decided to change the name of the farm to Bent Tree Farms."
When it comes to music Teddy plays by ear and has written hundreds of songs; he has co-written many of the Alabama hits -- "How Do I Fall In Love", "Why Lady Why", "My Home's In Alabama", "Fallin' Again", "Give Me One More Shot", "Sad Lookin' Moon", to name a few. He's also the founder and president of Creative Cafe.
Teddy was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in November 2005 along with his partners in Alabama. As part of his acceptance speech Teddy remarked, "Being put into the Country Music Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of Alabama's career. I am moved and honored to be in the elite company of my heroes."
A good memory that Teddy has of his career is the night ACMA presented them with "The Entertainer Of The Year Award." That was a dream come true for him. Teddy enjoys reading fan mail, especially "from the young fans" and wants all their fans to "Turn other people on to our music." When asked, "Do you have any special comments for your fans?" "I would like to extend many thanks for your support over the years and I hope that we can always put out a piece of product that will make the fans proud of us.


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The Belarusian Statehood (the beginning of the 20th c.)
Niekraševič Ściapan (also spelled Nekrashevich Stsiapan; Некрашэвіч Сьцяпан), teacher, scholar, and political leader. Niekraševič was born in the village of Daniłaŭka, Śvietłahorsk region, on May 8, 1883; he died on December 20, 1937. Niekraševič graduated from the Vilna Teachers' Institute in 1913. During World War I he served in the Russian Army and became involved in the organization of Belarusian soldiers on the Rumanian Front. Niekraševič initiated and conducted a conference of Belarusian soldiers in the city of Odessa in 1917. He began publication of a bulletin for the Belarusians in Odessa and in southern Ukraine. He shared the political principles of the Belarusian Democratic Republic and accepted an invitation to represent the Belarusian Government in the south of Ukraine. In Odessa he conducted negotiations with representatives of the French military on behalf of the Belarusian Democratic Republic. Niekraševič returned to Soviet Belarus around 1920 and became actively involved in establishing Belarusian schools and Belarusian cultural institutions. He was appointed the first Chairman of the Institute of Belarusian Culture, the forerunner of the Academy of Sciences of the Belarusian SSR. In 1929 he became vice president of the Academy. During 1920-1930 he held positions in the top leadership of Soviet Belarus and published numerous scholarly works. Together with Mikoła Bajkoŭ, he compiled a Russian-Belarusian Dictionary, 1925. In 1930 Ściapan Niekraševič was arrested and exiled to the Udmurt ASSR. He never returned to Belarus.
References: The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 24, 1981, p. 133; Biełarus, New York, no. 314, 1983; Baćkaŭščyna, Munich, no. 581, November 19, 1961; BSSR Karotkaja Encyklapedyja, vol. 5, 1981, p. 445.


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3rd August 2018 / Campaign, Economics, Politics
Big step forward in fixing climate change!
An exciting report has just been released, recommending 'an independent carbon tax with dividends' – which is the Citizens' Climate Lobby preferred solution to climate change and air pollution.
As we understand it, Policy Exchange, widely viewed as Britain's leading think tank and the author of the report, has the ear of the Conservative Party which could mean a major step towards the UK Government adopting a carbon fee and dividend.
"If the world is committed to limiting average temperatures at less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, a well-designed economy-wide carbon price is an indispensable part of a strategy for efficiently reducing greenhouse gas emissions while also fostering growth."
From: The Future of Carbon Pricing: Implementing an independent carbon tax with dividends in the UK, by Policy Exchange
Take 1, action! Write to your MP about the report
This is a brilliant opportunity to get in contact with your MP.
Here's an excellent example by Tim Prior, Bristol.
We recommend the following:
Write to your MP, and ask if they are aware of The Future of Carbon Pricing: Implementing an independent carbon tax with dividends in the UK, the new report by the Policy Exchange, which promotes just the kind of populist carbon pollution tax for which Citizens' Climate has been lobbying.
Ask if they would forward it to Claire Perry, Minister of State for Energy and Clean Growth.
Say you will arrange a meeting with them to discuss how this report can be taken forward.
Please do email us a copy of your email/letter to [email protected]
Take 2, action! Write to your political party about adopting carbon fee and dividend
If you are a member of a political party, please write to them and ask if they will look at the Policy Exchange's report and consider adopting Carbon Fee and Dividend.
Read the summary of the report, with a link to the report itself, here:
https://policyexchange.org.uk/publication/the-future-of-carbon-pricing-implementing-an-independent-carbon-tax-with-dividends-in-the-uk/
Quotes from the report:
Steadily rising and economy-wide, paid by companies that sell fossil fuels in the UK
Structured around border adjustments
Fund dividends from carbon taxation that are returned directly to the public in an annual lump sum, to lock in political and public support for fighting climate change.
Allow a rationalisation of environment regulations without reducing environmental protection, as an economy-wide carbon tax will make a number of existing carbon taxes and policies redundant. Eventually at least 10 direct carbon taxes would be rationalised into a single unified price
The cross-party foreword by former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling and former Conservative Party leader William Hague, includes:
the threat of climate change is too great for party politics to get in the way.
Cleaning up our own energy system will mean little if we simply outsource our emissions. In the absence of a unified global carbon tax, border carbon adjustments are essential to ensure that British businesses are operating on a level playing field with those that are foreign-based.
If carbon taxes are seen to unduly punish that average citizen, they will fail. That is why Policy Exchange's idea of recycling the revenue from carbon taxation back to the people in the form of a 'carbon dividend' is worth exploring. It would make a carbon tax both progressive
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Air Cooled Chillers is one of the chiller models, the water at room temperature through the chiller compressor cooling to a certain temperature to strengthen the cooling mold or machine, as a stand-alone use, the cooling device is built-in fan, there are three main interrelated The system: refrigerant circulation system, water circulation system, electrical control system.
2, Air Cooled Chillers used in CNC machine tools, jig boring machine, grinding machine, machining center, combined machine tools and all kinds of precision machine tool spindle lubrication and hydraulic system drive media cooling, can accurately control the oil temperature, effectively reduce the machine tool thermal deformation, improve Machine tool machining accuracy.
Air-cooled chiller is mainly used for cooling components of heating equipment, to ensure that the equipment in normal operation at a constant temperature. Air-cooled chiller for high-speed spindle, spindle, CNC machine tools, jig boring machine, grinder, machining center, laser marking machine, laser engraving machine, laser welding machine, laser printer, laser cutting machine and other equipment.
Air-cooled chiller models compact, compact, easy to move. With thermostat and intelligent thermostat two working modes, intelligent temperature control mode can be adjusted with the temperature changes to the corresponding water temperature.
1, air-cooled chiller COP efficiency is low, about 2.6-3.3, the use of the construction area is generally not more than 1W square meters, but you can also heat cooling, general shopping malls, and small-scale commercial buildings, as well as office buildings Use more cost-effective.
2, the principle is different from the condenser, air-cooled chiller is the refrigerant through the cooling fan in the condenser, water-cooled chiller is taken away by the cold water in the condenser heat, and distributed through the cooling tower to the atmosphere.
4, water-cooled chiller can only be cooled, such as heating to be other heating, such as electric heating, steam heating, or hot water boiler.


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module KcCourses
  module Concerns
    module PublishedCourseReadingMethods
      extend ActiveSupport::Concern

      included do
        scope :studing_of_user, ->(user) {
          published_course_ids = KcCourses::PublishedCourse.enabled.select do |published_course|
            percent = published_course.read_percent_of_user(user)
            percent != 100 && percent > 0
          end.map(&:id)
          where(:_id.in => published_course_ids)
        }

        scope :studied_of_user, ->(user) {
          published_course_ids = KcCourses::PublishedCourse.enabled.select do |published_course|
            published_course.has_read_by_user?(user)
          end.map(&:id)
          where(:_id.in => published_course_ids)
        }
      end

      # array
      def published_chapters
        @published_chapters ||= data['chapters']
      end

      def published_wares
        @published_wares ||= published_chapters.map{|chapter| chapter['wares']}.flatten
      end

      def read_percent_of_user_with_published_ware(user, published_ware)
        ware = KcCourses::Ware.find published_ware['id']
        ware.read_percent_of_user(user)
      end

      def read_percent_of_user_with_published_chapter(user, published_chapter)
        wares = published_chapter['wares']
        return 100 if wares.length == 0
        total = wares.sum do |ware|
          read_percent_of_user_with_published_ware(user, ware)
        end / (wares.length * 100.0)
        total = total * 100
        total.round
      end

      def read_percent_of_user(user)
        return 0 if published_chapters.blank? or published_wares.blank?

        total = 0.0
        is_read = false
        published_wares.each{ |ware|
          percent = read_percent_of_user_with_published_ware(user, ware)
          total += percent
          is_read = true if percent > 0
        }
        total = total / (published_wares.length * 100.0)

        total = (total * 100).round
        return 1 if total == 0 and is_read
        total
      end

      # user 是否已经完成整个 course 的学习(read_percent 是 100 时,表示完成学习)
      def has_read_by_user?(user)
        read_percent_of_user(user) == 100
      end

      # user 截止到 time 当天(包括当天)已经学习了多少百分比的内容
      def read_percent_of_user_before_day(user, time)
        return 0 if published_chapters.blank? or published_wares.blank?

        total = published_wares.sum{ |p_ware|
          ware = KcCourses::Ware.find p_ware['id']
          ware.read_percent_of_user_before_day(user, time)
        }
        total = total / (published_wares.length * 100.0)
        (total * 100).round
      end

      # user 在 time 当天学习了多少百分比的内容
      def read_percent_change_of_user(user, time)
        return 0 if published_chapters.blank? or published_wares.blank?

        total = published_wares.sum{ |p_ware|
          ware = KcCourses::Ware.find p_ware['id']
          ware.read_percent_change_of_user(user, time)
        }
        total = total / (published_wares.length * 100.0)
        (total * 100).round
      end

      ## user 在当前课程正在学习的课件
      def studing_ware_of_user(user)
        return nil if user == nil
        ware_reading_count = 0
        ware_count = published_wares.length
        first_undead_ware = nil
        published_wares.each do |p_ware|
          ware = KcCourses::Ware.find p_ware['id']
          ware_reading_count = ware_reading_count + ware.ware_readings.count
          first_undead_ware = ware if first_undead_ware.nil? and !ware.has_read_by_user?(user)
        end
        # 没有课件
        return nil if ware_count == 0
        # 没有学习记录
        return nil if ware_reading_count == 0
        # 所有课件都有学习记录且所有的学习记录都是学习 100%
        return nil if has_read_by_user?(user)

        first_undead_ware
      end

      # user 在当前课程的学习时长
      def spent_time_of_user(user)
        ware_ids = published_wares.map{|p_ware| p_ware['id']}
        ware_readings = KcCourses::WareReading.where(:creator_id => user.id.to_s, :ware_id.in => ware_ids).asc(:created_at)
        return 0 if ware_readings.count == 0
        if ware_readings.count == 1
          ware_reading = ware_readings.first
          return 1 if ware_reading.updated_at == ware_reading.created_at
          return (ware_reading.updated_at - ware_reading.created_at).round
        end
        ware_readings.last.updated_at - ware_readings.where(:creator_id => user.id.to_s).first.created_at
      end

      # 最后学习该课程的时间
      def last_studied_at_of_user(user)
        return nil if user == nil
        ware_ids = published_wares.map{|p_ware| p_ware['id']}
        KcCourses::WareReading.where(:creator_id => user.id.to_s, :ware_id.in => ware_ids).asc(:updated_at).last.try(:updated_at) || nil
      end

    end
  end
end

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I began playing poker tournaments in Santa Cruz the mid-1980s. Since this was before flop games came to California, there were three single-draw options: Ace-to-Five Lowball, High-Low Draw, and Five Card Draw High only. I had a lot of success in Lowball tournaments over the years, winning the first California State Lowball Championship in 1993 and making ten other final tables in the 1990s till the game finally died a merciful death. And, my High-Low Draw experience served me well in helping me develop the strategies for my most successful game, Omaha High-Low Split.
While Five Card Draw was the game depicted often in movies and played most on kitchen tables, it was much less popular than Ace-to-Five Lowball in California's cardrooms for one simple reason: the skill level is far higher in Draw High. Lowball was invented for some of the same reasons that Texas Hold'em was... both games have much more random short term luck than Five Card Draw High and 5-Card/7-Card Stud variations. It's easier for poor players to get lucky, for a short time at least, playing bad hands in Lowball and Hold'em.
When the Santa Cruz cardroom began offering tournaments they would alternate each week between Draw High and Lowball... even though Draw High was not offered as a ring game at the cardroom (Draw High-Low was). For several months, myself and another player, HurryBack John, would alternate winning the Draw High tournaments, largely because most of the 25 or so players who would enter simply could not come to grips with the strategy and tactics needed to win at the end of the tournament when blinds were very high and King-high no-pair would often be not only the winning hand, but a reasonable hand to draw to (like drawing three to KQ or KJ).
HurryBack and I consistently winning the Draw tournaments inevitably lead to the Draw fields getting smaller than the Lowball ones, until finally the club owner ended the Draw events, replacing High Only with more Lowball and occasional High Low events.
Anyway, considering my win rate in the game, after I started playing the Southern California tournament circuit in 1993, I was always disappointed no one ever spread a Five Card Draw High event.
That is... except for one glorious day in 1996. To commemorate Mike Caro's 52nd birthday, Hollywood Park Casino offered the only Five Card Draw (Single Draw) tournament in the past 25 years, that I know of. As I recall there were about 75 players, for a $220 entry, but since there is no Hendon Mob record of the event (the Mob site doesn't include quite a lot of tournaments of this era and before) I can't be sure of the details.
What I do remember is I was as excited about this tournament as any I ever played -- even though I had not played a single hand of Draw High in a decade.
There were two notable things about this event that stuck with me over the years, and served as very valuable lessons for the rest of my tournament playing.
The first one involves a smug (though quietly so) player at my first table. The structure of the event was a dealer button rotated around the table each hand as normal, but instead of blinds, every player anteed each hand. After the deal, the first player to the left of the button could open or fold. (If a one chip ante, the open would be two chips, meaning the open was cheap compared to the size of the antes in the pot.) If no one chose to open, the player in the dealer position would win the antes and we would move on to the next hand.
I was in seat 6 while Mr. Smug was in Seat 2. For the first three rounds of the tournament, he played exactly zero hands... meaning he was losing 24 chips without playing a hand. Finally he opens under the gun. I thought "wow, that smug dude who hasn't played a hand finally plays his first hand, and it is under the gun... has to be a monster." The player to his left calls, everybody else folds. Mr. Smug draws one, opponent draws three. Then, Mr. Smug checks, and I think: "OMG, did he actually wait three rounds just to draw to a flush???" After he checks, his opponent makes three of a kind and cluelessly bets... and Mr. Smug smugly raises! The opponent calls, and Mr. Smug smugly turns over his KQ543 flush. Opponent shows his three sevens -- meaning he called the open of a man who had not played any of the previous 24 hands... with a pair of sevens!
Mr. Smug smugly stacks his chips, and I take stock of what I've seen... this smug dude waited three rounds to play his first hand, and the hand he decides to play was worse than a 2-1 underdog to a freaking pair of sevens!
On top of that, his clueless opponent decided that playing two sevens against a guy under the gun who had not played a single hand in 45 minutes. On top of that, Mr. Smug, having finally played a hand and only gotten a three card draw to call him decides it is best to now check his flush. On top of that, the clueless player decides to bet his three card draw after the one card draw in front of him checks. On top of that, clueless player decides to call a checkraise when Mr. Smug has an obvious monster.
And finally, on top of all these fortuitous events combining for Mr. Smug... he still had less than a starting stack of chips! He won every hand he played, and he was losing.
What a great game, for a skilled player. While Mr. Smug played like a rock, his choice of tight play was idiotic. At the same time, his opponent's loose play was similarly idiotic. In Lowball or Texas Hold'em, playing almost any reasonable starting hand offers you a fairly good chance to get lucky against an opponent who holds a hand that is also weak but somewhat better than yours. In Draw, it is harder odds-wise to come from behind and (because there are only two limit betting rounds) it is very hard to extract value from an opponent when you do come from behind, even if they play bad.
Longterm lesson #1... never underestimate how poorly poker players play, especially players who smugly overvalue their own skill and approach to the game. Arrogant, confident players who play against the odds are even better opponents to face than bad/clueless opponents are. When at any tournament table, one of your first jobs should be to identify who is playing confidently when they have no reason to be so confident. These players should be your #1 target at the table (aside from specific individuals whose weaknesses you know well).
Longterm lesson #2 comes from a situation I faced when we finally made it to the final table. I had been struggling all night, getting no really good hands, having to make due with stealing the antes and winning marginal one- or two-pair hands. But I do make the final table (paying eight), and so I am happy to be getting a payday with probably the second smallest stack.
She wants no cards. I remember being dumbfounded. There had only been a handful of pat hands in the hours I'd been playing, and never two pat hands at the same time. But now look at my pat hand... 5432A is literally the worst pat hand there is. I can't beat any other legitimate pat hand. All full houses and flushes beat me. All straights are bigger than mine. All I can do is tie Barbara if she also has a wheel, which is extremely unlikely.
But what the hell can I do about it?
My hand is 5♣4♢3♠2♣A♡. There is a microscopic chance Barbara is standing pat on three of a kind or two pair, maybe hoping I might break 7♣6♣5♣4♣3♢ to draw to a straight flush, but that seems less than a 500-1 chance. There is also a microscopic chance she has overlooked her hand, like having four spades and a club.
1) stand pat behind her, hope she also has 5432A and hope for a split pot (or win if she has trips or two pair).
2) draw three cards to 5♣2♣.
3) draw four cards to A♡.
4) just say the hell with it and draw five cards.
I decided to stand pat and hope I would tie. But Barbara had A♠K♠J♠7♠3♠, and I got my payout and went home: now tortured by wondering, from a Fundamental Theorem of Poker perspective... if I knew she had an Ace-high flush, what should I have done?
If Barbara's had would have been a King-high flush, I would win about 510 times if drawing to my Ace, compared to 432 times drawing to my 5♣2♣, and 275 times drawing five.
Since I can't assume she has an Ace, or any other card, drawing to the Ace would be the best draw, giving me something around 200-1 against straights/flushes and 690-1 against full houses that don't involve aces.
When completely in the dark, if you draw to the nuts you always have a chance, in this case drawing to either the Ace or five cards, but only if you are sure your opponent isn't sneaky enough to stand pat on an incomplete hand!
In any case, if you ever find yourself in a Draw High tournament, hope for any hand except a pat 5432A! Even a pat 65432 would have been less torture, since I could plausibly beat one hand, and wouldn't have an Ace to draw to.


Satanists tend to be self-motivated, driven people. Some fix their sights on externalized personal goals like fortune, fame, or power. Others aim for political change. Still others just want to create art, spread ideas, or maybe simply seek out and taste new physical pleasures. As a result, Satanists tend to be busy people, just like you. Because we're all so busy, time is precious and waste can be ruinous.
This purpose of this page is to provide links to five-minute-or-less executive summaries of the posts that appear elsewhere on the site in longer—often much longer—form. Each summary links to the full piece. The first link is to one of the welcome pages of the site. The short essay there doesn't have a corresponding long-form, but gives a good quick impression of the breadth and diversity of Satanic paths. If you're brave (or maybe reckless) enough to just want to go ahead and look on the long-form posts in all their protracted glory, click here instead.
Religious pluralism versus religious unity in America: Which is real and which an illusion?
What Has WHITE Supremacy to do with the BLACK Flame?
Who is the "We" who Trust in God?
Nothing new under the sun, eh? How 'bout among what lurks in the darkness, then?


Here we go again….It's the week of July 4th and the Bi-Peds are going firecracker crazy! I truly don't get the joy of hearing loud noises and watching shiny, sparkly stuff in the sky. If I'm going to watch anything in the sky that makes noise, it's going to be something I can possibly have for dinner….like a big, chirpy, juicy bird!….Anyway, for whatever reason, Bi-Peds are nuts about fireworks. This wouldn't irk me so much if it didn't lead to so much critter chaos in Bi-Ped City. So for all of you Bi-Peds out there reading this (and you know who you are), it's time for you to Critt-It (this is my way of saying go into "Critter Crusader" mode). You need to make sure your pets don't get freaked out by the fireworks.
Did you know that animal shelters report a huge increase in shelter admissions during the few weeks before and after the 4th of July holiday? This happens because pets frequently run away when the crackle and boom of fireworks scare them. They dig under fences, bust through gates, jump through windows, climb over fences, and anything else they can do to try to run away from the noise that frightens them. Sometimes, pets even get lost or hurt.
Spread the word that fireworks scare many pets and tell your friends what they can do to keep their pets safe.
Don't take your pet to the fireworks displays. You may like the sparkle-farkle and all that noise, but most likely your pets won't.
Talk to your veterinarian about ways to help reduce fear and anxiety your pet may experience when hearing fireworks.
Make sure your pets are wearing identification and have a microchip so they can be returned if they do get lost >> We'll Cat-Chat about microchips a little later.
Keep your pet safe indoors. Leave a radio or television on to buffer the sound of fireworks. Close the curtains or blinds to reduce the distraction of fireworks. It may help to turn the lights on too (so they don't see all that "lighting-up" stuff going on in the sky).
Never leave pets outside and unattended, even in a fenced in yard. Pets may panic, escape and then get lost or injured.
I'm telling ya, Riley used to go out of his Mutt-Nutty mind during thunderstorms AND fireworks! If it weren't for his Puppy Dog Power Plan (yes, I'm serious…he has a Puppy Dog Power Plan), then he would be totally stressed out! A long time ago, he almost jumped through a window when fireworks were being set off. Believe me, dogs (and cats) can become amazingly strong and determined to run-run-run or get away from wherever they are when they hear or see stuff that scares the catnip out of them.
Time to Critt-It by spreading the word and preparing your pets for the fireworks.
This is Hobo Kitty…Meowing Out!


Drawing from direct observation and personal experience, memory and imagination, develop your understanding of a broad variety of themes. The course will relate to contemporary art and art history - landscape, the body/people, film, poetry, paint and sculpture.
A renowned figurative painter committed to observational drawing and painting who studied at The Glasgow School of Art and the Prince's Drawing School.


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Para je lahko:

 Para, svetovni cikel v hinduizmu
 para - agregatno stanje
 para - stotina jugoslovanskega dinarja
 Rio Para - reka
 Para - zvezna država Brazilije

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Considering today is election day, I was of course paralyzed by indecision. I first consulted my faith, but the lesson should be that Our Lord has much more important matters in store for us. Who wins the World Series, the Super Bowl, even the Presidential Election matters little in the big picture, like it or not. I have a long spiritual path to tread & I will never be perfect. But voting my conscience is really the only thing I need to start with for today, but this was just a starting point. Time to look towards my favorite movie (oh now I AM going to hell).
There is not much political discussion in Star Wars. Of course, there is a lot of talk about evil empires, rebel alliances & royalty (queens & princesses) that were apparently elected? But there is not much deep politics. Of course, there is this one brief conversation between Anakin & Padme during the Meadow Picnic Scene of Episode II: Attack of the Clones.
::Padme::You really don't like politicians do you?
::Anakin::I like two or three, but I'm not really sure about one of them.
::Both laugh:: ::Anakin:: I don't think the system works.
::Padme::How would you have it work?
::Anakin::We need a system where the politicians sit down & discuss the problem, agree what's in the best interest of all the people, & then do it.
::Padme::That's exactly what we do,the trouble is that people don't always agree.
::Anakin::Well then they should be made too.
::Padme::By whom,who's going to make them?
::Padme::Sounds often alot like a dictatorship to me.
Harumph. The cynical youth these days! He does seem to make a certain amount of sense... Aren't you sick of red tape? Aren't you sick of government that seems too busy getting reelected & lining their pockets to care about you? This election day, amid the false hoopla & circus act, wouldn't you consider something easier?
By the way,... I voted for Kerry. Not like that is an endorsement. Remember, I am far from perfect.


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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Sep 16, 2011
Energy, focus, attention, connection —
what is the energy that's set,
on the context of driving forward;
uncovering the new?
That is personal. That's brand. That is human; that's enterprise.
"energy is eternal delight" — it is the captivation of attention and spectacle, because it's sensible, it's felt and the touch of energy brings a charge to action.
Energy and interlacement — the weaving of ideas and humanity; brand and energy — and the mix in the match how people work in enterprise; and how people work in their lives.
I'm thinking that people are either in, or out — they're committed, or they're vacuous to the intentionality of the team, the story, the brand and its community. Working with people, for nearly 40 years — I see those that are in, that get it; and those that are simply there. Not here.
T H E W A T C H I N G L I S T E N I N G
I'm listening to — and watching — someone on the phone — and talking about commitment, and direction for a brand; but the real conversation is about the concept of committing to something, connectivity, attention; it is requiring focus — zeroing in to the foci; it's a storytelling exercise. And someone is trying to tell a story to another person; but my suspicion is that they don't get it.
The energy that is expended in trying to tell the story oftentimes comes at the risk of how resonant the story really is to the listener. Telling a story — outlining a positioning, watching the eyes and body of the listener; you can see who's sitting at the table, leaning and learning in; and those that lean back away, drawing their energy away from the circle.
In the work of the brand space — the marketing of an enterprise, these ideas might be deemed commonplace. Do people lean in — or are they regarding the expression in a more circumspect, circling condition. While the intentionality might be there — there is passion in the commitment of the teller; relevance and resonance will be critical. Do you have the energy to listen? Can you focus, for only a moment?
And — to the reflective return (this story becomes my story) is there an energy in spreading the word? Energy — the potency of that magnetic charging of electrical voice, message and imagery will be everything. These days, it is everything. Energy takes focus. Taking energy takes attention to turn it to the next cause — the new telling.
Practice never makes perfect, but it surely makes betterment:
• Passion springs to mind and body.
• Energy is shareable — enthusiasm (from the Greek en + theos, for the "indwelling of divinity") energizes.
• Staying power is emboldened by energy — without sustenance, a beautiful story might evanesce in the quiet of dissipation.
• Vitality makes things grow.
• Light, shines — as energy.
While I'd never suggest that I really know the perfection of these conditions, surely I've seen what works, from marketing to presentations, from visualization to place-making, from evangelism to launches.
E N E R G Y W I L L W I N I N T H E E N D .
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County & Local Councillors view 'The French Nuclear Trap' Film 02.02.20
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On Sunday 2nd February, at the Riverside Centre, Stratford St Andrew, TASC showed two films – one beautifully shot by Friends of the Earth Suffolk Coastal highlighting the fragile habitat that will be lost if Sizewell C is built, the other a French-made documentary 'The French Nuclear Trap' – to over 30 local councillors including three from Suffolk County Council.
The 'The French Nuclear Trap', made in 2018 by CPB Films, features current and former employees of Electricte de France (EdF), Sizewell C's developer, and systematically and unflinchingly demonstrates that:
EdF management is riven with doubt and division about the 'EPR' project;
EdF is hopelessly bankrupt with liabilities from historical debt, decommissioning, refurbishment and maintenance costs for its domestic reactors running into hundreds of billions of Euros;
The European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) design is commercially unproven with some experts claiming that the design is too complicated to construct;
The Finance Director resigned after demonstrating that EdF could not afford to take on the Hinkley project;
The first ever EPR, being built in Olkiluoto, Finland, and the EdF flagship EPR currently under construction in Flamanville, France have both been beset by engineering problems, are 10 years late, still not operational and are at least three times over their original budgets;
The sale of the EPR design to the UK is essential to keep France's domestic nuclear industry alive;
So desperate were EdF for funds, they have allowed China's loss-leading investment into Hinkley C, enabling China to develop their own version of the EPR reactor thereby effectively killing off EdF's chances of selling their reactors elsewhere in the world;
EdF has not built up a reserve of funds to cover the huge costs associated with a nuclear accident such as occurred in the Ukraine (Chernobyl) or Japan (Fukushima);
French safety agencies do not rule out a major nuclear accident in France; and since all the reactors currently operating in France are of the same design, an accident at one would require them all to be shut down, creating a critical energy crisis in France;
TASC was happy to host three representatives from Stop Hinkley all of whom are living through the construction of Hinkley C. They gave the audience an insight into what fate awaits East Suffolk should the plans for Sizewell be approved. They spoke of gridlocked streets in Bridgwater, 24 hour light and noise pollution, a rise in prostitution, employers losing key members of staff, long-term tenants being kicked out of their homes to enable landlords to cash-in on the demand for accommodation from the EdF workforce and a total change in the way of life for thousands around the Somerset coastal area. They also pointed to the predictions for far greater sea level rise than was taken into account when Hinkley C's planning application was made and compared these dire warnings to the inadequate precautions which have been constructed in defence of the site.
The meeting was addressed by three supportive county councillors who promised to generate the sort of debate within the council which has hitherto been so sadly lacking. They felt that the film should be made available to all councillors. Moreover, they promised to demand that the council state its outright opposition to the EdF plans.
Pete Wilkinson, TASC's Chairman, said today,
'Despite the shamefully low turnout of county councillors and the virtual absence of East Suffolk Councillors, we are greatly indebted to the County Councillors for not only making the effort to attend but more importantly for having the courage and determination to take the fight to the council chamber and to state openly and without fear or favour their opposition to these plans.
'TASC will work closely with these councillors and the immediate plans are to contact the Secretaries of the different political parties in the council to offer to show the film to their members.
'The support from these Councillors is a potential game-changer and we applaud the commitment of all of those councillors who attended yesterday to understand the issues and to agree to take whatever action is available to them to tell people the truth about EdF and the monstrous plans the government has for this area.'
Letter of thanks to Councillors 19/08/20 - 19 July, 2020
Small Modular Reactors (SMR) – revealing truths to demonstrate they are not as simple as they appear : Peter Banks - 20 September, 2020
National Trust concerned about impact of Sizewell C on Dunwich ~ 02.10.20 ~ EADT - 2 October, 2020
TASC & SSC deliver petition to No 10 ~ now has over 19,000 signatures - 6 October, 2020
Campaigners Urge Sizewell C Delay Until After Crisis - 1 April, 2020
TASC Committee Member Seeks A Judicial Review 07/01/20
TASC supports the demand by Stop Hinkley to abandon the lame duck of Hinkley Point C EPR 17.01.20