Podcasts about Danes

Nestled between the North and Baltic Seas, just north of Germany, Denmark is one (excellent) place made up of lots of places: more than 400 islands, Greenland, the Jutland Peninsula (which, BTW, is so much fun to say: sounds like YOOT-lan), and the Faroe Islands (which are a 40-hour ferry ride away in the far North Atlantic). Every blog post, travel guide, and video will tell you that Denmark is laid-back and chill. All evidence seems to point in that direction; the country routinely ranks in the top five happiest nations in the world. It does seem quite idyllic, all sparkly and fresh: water, sky, and land, bright with wildflower fields, colorful boats ferrying among the islands, cozy little Lego-ish houses with grass roofs, and so. many. bicycles. Sure, there were marauding Vikings — but there is also Denmark's creative Golden Age, Hans Christian Andersen, Tivoli Gardens, two (beautiful) historical libraries, and New Nordic Cuisine. In this episode, we talk about the magic of wild swimming, learn whether or not Danishes are truly Danish, discuss how Danes eat like bears, and get very excited about a rabbit island. Then we recommend five books that took us to Denmark on the page, including a modern crime classic, a memoir about why Danish people are so deeply contented, a thriller with a strong sense of the Faroe Islands, a poetic novel about witches (with a unique narrator), and a magical, multi-generational family saga about the sea. Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg The Year of Living Danishly by Helen Russell The Blood Strand by Chris Ould We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen The Wax Child by Olga Ravn For more on the books we recommend, plus the other cool stuff we talk about, visit show notes. Sign up for our free Substack to connect with us and other lovely readers who are curious about the world. Transcript of Denmark: Gettin' Hygge With It Do you enjoy our show? Do you want access to awesome bonus content? Please support our work on Patreon! Strong Sense of Place is an audience-funded endeavor, and we need your support to continue making this show. Get all the info you need right here. Thank you! Parts of the Strong Sense of Place podcast are produced in udio. Some effects are provided by soundly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just arrived in Copenhagen? Welcome to Denmark! Now here's what nobody tells you. From getting an ugly bicycle and navigating the honor system on public transport to dating, drinking, saving money, seeing a Danish doctor, and even talking to a priest when you're feeling lonely, here are 13 quick tips to help you understand Copenhagen and settle into Danish life. Some are practical. Some are surprising. And some could save you from making a very Danish mistake. 13 Quick Tips for Newcomers to Copenhagen — a lightning round from Kay Xander Mellish, host of the How to Live in Denmark podcast. ---------------- The How to Live in Denmark podcast is the longest-running English-language podcast in Denmark, and one of the leading English-language resources on Danish culture and everyday life in Denmark now. The podcast host is Kay Xander Mellish, an American author, speaker, and cultural commentator who has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, for more than 25 years.  Through her books, keynote speeches, workshops, and consulting, Kay helps international professionals, global companies, universities, and newcomers understand Danish culture, Danish working culture, cross-cultural communication, and the practical realities of living in Denmark.  She has advised organizations across Europe and North America on working effectively with Danish colleagues and building successful international teams. She is the author of several books including How to Live in Denmark, How to Work in Denmark, Working with Americans: Tips for Danes, Working with Danes: Tips for Americans and The Danish Year. Her work combines firsthand experience, careful observation, and a dry sense of humor to explain not just what Danes do, but why they do it. As an international keynote speaker, Kay speaks to audiences in Denmark, across Europe, and in the United States on Danish culture, Danish working culture, and cross-cultural communication. Kay saw one of the music group Nirvana's last live performances.  She lives in Copenhagen.

Gaius and Germanicus: Germanicus attributes these failures to a psychological myth of omnipotence that has "suckled" every post-Cold War president: George H.W. Bush dipping a toe into Somalia, Bill Clinton's cruise missile war on Serbia, Barack Obama's targeted killings, Donald Trump mesmerized by unlimited power despite "mature" advisers, and Joe Biden's "feckless adventure" in Ukraine, sputtering that the US was the "greatest nation with the biggest military of all time." The failed campaign to defeat Russia should have been the alarm bell; instead the establishment stayed blind, and the current president—driven by instant gratification and poll rises, as in the first-term Miami meeting with Xi Jinping where he launched cruise missiles at a Syrian airport while serving chocolate cake—has proven American power "evanescent," "brittle," and "superficial." The hosts then catalog the petty feuds with "subkings" that Rome would have discouraged: the aggressive feud with Canada and Mark Carney despite a century of shared history; threats to invade Greenland, prompting the Danes to enlarge their army; disparaging loyal South Korea while courting Kim Jong-un, a "fratricidal cretin" whose flattery Germanicus calls "creepy"; threatening to throw steadfast Oman "into the ocean"; and destroying the bridge built by Giorgia Meloni, the EU's effective "Trump whisperer." Rather than championing an end to Europe's migration crisis, the president has backed the Sultan of Morocco over Ceuta and Melilla, inciting one of the continent's worst flashpoints—conduct Germanicus reads not as dementia but as narcissism grown into "incipient and growing megalomania," in sharp contrast with the implicit rules of the "divine Augustus," whose disregarding heirs Caligula and Nero did not last long. (2)

Danes se v Ljubljani začenja 12. festival kratkega filma FeKK, ki bo potekal do sobote. Letošnja tema festivala Nauki teme nosi naslov po filmu Wernerja Herzoga Lekcije teme (1992), ki ga bodo predvajali na nocojšnjem odprtju. V Novem mestu pa se začenja 26. izvedba festivala Jazzinty, kjer se bo v šestih festivalskih dneh zvrstilo enajst koncertov, potekale pa bodo tudi mednarodne glasbene delavnice.

Po dolgotrajni suši in visokih temperaturah ta teden prinaša nekaj olajšanja. Danes nas bo dosegla vremenska fronta, glavnina padavin bo zvečer, več jih napovedujejo za konec tedna. Količina padavin sicer danes ne bo omilila suše, za marsikatero prizadeto kmetijsko panogo padavine žal prihajajo prepozno. Druge teme: - ZDA bodo zmanjšale obseg vojaških vaj z Južno Korejo, kar ne pomaga v vojni proti Iranu. - V Belgiji še krotijo največji požar doslej; pri Omišu ocenjujejo škodo, zgorelo več kot 70 hiš. - V Novem mestu se začenja Jazzinty, prinaša kar nekaj novosti.

Informativna oddaja o vseh pomembnejših domačih in tujih novicah, o katerih so domače in tuje agencije poročale do 13-ih.

Informativna oddaja o vseh pomembnejših domačih in tujih novicah, o katerih so domače in tuje agencije poročale do 13-ih.

Petnajstminutna oddaja je predvsem lokalno obarvana, namenjena predstavitvi dogajanja, problemov in uspehov v posameznih okoljih po vsej državi. V njej seveda najdejo prostor tudi vse pomembnejše domače in tuje novice, o katerih so domače in tuje agencije poročale do 13.00.

ORE Catapult wants industry blade failure data, Siemens Gamesa posts its first profit since 2022, and Vattenfall sweeps Denmark’s offshore auction. Fill out the ORE Catapult survey! The Uptime Wind Energy Podcast is brought to you by Weather Guard Lightning Tech, creators of the StrikeTape Ultra LPS retrofit. Subscribe to Uptime’s Substack newsletter. And check out Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” Youtube channel. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall, and I’m here with Rosemary Barnes, Matthew Sted, and Yolanda Padron. And it has been a real interesting week out in the renewable land, uh, if you’ve been watching some of the news, and we’re gonna talk about a number of those stories this week. But I wanna lead off with what ORE Catapult is doing over in the UK. So if, if you haven’t followed ORE Catapult, they are a, a research investigative arm and a huge proponent of wind, offshore wind in the United Kingdom, and they’ve done a, a tre- really tremendous amount of work in some of the, uh, particular problems that exist in wind trying to help [00:01:00] solve them. They have a survey that’s out, and if you haven’t seen it, you can just Google ORE Catapult and put in survey, and you’ll come to either an article or get to their site. And Rosemary and Yolanda, there’s a couple of particular items that they’re asking questions about. Uh, a lot of it is asking specific questions about torsional stability of blades. Have you seen more difficulty with torsion? Is… Do we need a torsion test? I think that was one of the questions. Uh, also looking at ranking of the different issues that happen with blades in particular. That’s what I noticed. Uh, you know, where’s lightning? Where’s blade connections? Where’s structural issues? Where do you rank all those different things? And I, I have not seen a survey like this in quite a while. Is this something that we need to do more of? I know [00:02:00] ORE Catapult will get a huge amount of feedback, at least I hope, over in the UK and, and around Europe. I don’t think many Americans are gonna be contributing to that too much since you don’t have a lot of offshore wind. But is this going in the right direction? Do we need more of these industry surveys about structural blade issues?  Yolanda Padron: Yeah, I think these surveys are a really good idea. Uh, the only thing that scares me from the owner side is that sometimes there’s a little bit of, uh- Teams don’t really love the idea of sharing information that might seem like it’s, um, like intellectual property to their internal teams. Even if as an engineer, of course, you love the idea of sharing and finding out like, um, what everybody else is, is experiencing on their site. Um, and so I really hope that the teams can really look, like their internal teams can really look past that because this would be a really great tool [00:03:00] for everybody to use. I know I looked at the survey myself and some of the questions kind of gave people the, the opportunity to kind of anonymize their data and then just kind of share it and have it. It seemed like it, it would probably be a platform that everybody could look at or everybody that, that shared could look at. And I think that it could be really, really good for operators to be able to know kind of if what they’re seeing on site is normal and just to be able to see what they’re signing up for when there’s a new site coming in. Or if it’s a site that’s been operational for a while, you can see what’s, hopefully, what’s happening to a quite older site than yours. So just to, to be able to be a bit more prepared, um, since a lot of these sites are from different own- owners. But I think it’s a really good idea.  Allen Hall: The survey asked questions about leading edge erosion, torsional loads, root joint integrity, lightning damage, manufacturing defects, which is a big [00:04:00] issue right now, extreme loading events, which also, uh, is, uh, coming about more often, uh, repair performance, and end of life fatigue. So there’s a, a series of questions about that and when do you experience these items in the lifetime of a blade. Is it more towards the beginning of the operation or more towards the end? That is important to know ’cause it, how you go about managing blades depends on that. The torsional questions were more specific. Uh, in your experience, how well understood are the effects on blade longevity of torsional loads compared to bending loads? And I think that relates back to some of the, uh, issues that have been seen on some offshore blades where there’s no existing test for torsion because it’s so hard to do. Whereas bending loads, we pretty well understand that and can do lifetime testing essentially for, for bending loads. So the torsional one I think is gonna raise a lot of question marks to hopefully with people, and we can come up [00:05:00] with a, a better approach to that.  Yolanda Padron: Hopefully, yeah. I think this is, I mean, this is just a really good idea to if, if everybody could partake. Um, I would really love to see something similar if people could in, in onshore. And so just something that’s, that’s shared a, uh, a little bit more widely I think would be really, really great. Uh, the only thing that might stre- or not stress me out, but- you know, I think people need to be careful about is just making sure that you’re not, um, that you actually use your data and not just kind of like, “Oh, I know that I remember this terrible lightning damage that I got in this really, really bad area, so I’m gonna mark as though most of my lightning damage happens in that bad area.” So just, just make sure you don’t use confirmation bias for, for that, but  Matthew Stead: I can also add to it as well ’cause, um, we’ve done a fair bit of work with all Catapult over the years, um, particularly through the new IEC standard for blade O&M. Um, and, uh, [00:06:00] definitely through the new blade O&M standard, the topic of blade twist has come up multiple times. Um- And also adding to that, you know, our organization has done twist on, twist measurements on 100 meter blades, and the twist that we measured was more than the OEM expected. Um, so I think this is a bit of a sleeper topic, um, and I think OR Catapult is doing the right thing by gathering more information. Allen Hall: There is a l- little database that’s gonna be put together, at least looking at the questions. Question 12, and everybody hopefully will go in and, and participate in the survey, but it says, “Would you be interested in sharing redacted failure data into a industry-wide database to help inform research agenda for blade development and O&M tools and solutions?” That is a great idea. Having a database so we understand the scale of problems and can put some numbers [00:07:00] to them, and then we can do some more research in those areas, and focus research where we’re actually gonna spend money in the right places, which has been my fight for the last five, six years, where we spend a lot of money, but not necessarily where we need to. That’s a great question, and hopefully OR Catapult does p- put together a database.  Rosemary Barnes: Companies really, really, really struggle to provide access to their data. Like, um, it, y- yeah, it, it’s, it’s very hard to get it beyond just using for their own specific project. I’ll be, I’ll be so happy if this database gets up and becomes publicly available so that every- everybody can use it to create the solutions that the industry needs. But I know how hard a challenge it is, so I’m wishing them heaps of, heaps of luck to get it to work.  Matthew Stead: And can I also add that, um, OR Catapult also did a wonderful presentation at Blades Europe, where they talked about life extension. They talked about the actual loading on the blades, um, influencing the fatigue life. And so I think, you know, that excellent [00:08:00] database hopefully, as we talked about, gets fed into some of their work about life extension.  Allen Hall: Well, OR Catapult is trying to get ahead of blade failures before they cost money. Uh, our next company knows exactly what that costs. Siemens Gamesa is still climbing out of a serial defect problem, and it posted its first profit in four years. So we’ll be back to talk about that in a moment.  Speaker: Are you overspending on lightning repairs? Most operators are, because solving lightning damage is complicated. Weather Guard Lightning Tech helps operators reduce lightning damage. Our innovative StrikeTape lightning diverter protects over 20,000 blades worldwide. Now, StrikeTape Ultra installs faster than ever. StrikeTape Ultra cures uptower in just 15 minutes, even in cold weather. Visit weatherguardwind.com to schedule a call. Allen Hall: Siemens Gamesa has finally turned a [00:09:00] profit, its first time since 2022. Uh, now comes the hard part. Order intake in the third quarter fell 77% from 4.89 billion euros a year ago to 1.05 billion Chief Executive Christian Bruch, uh, says a lot of the offshore projects that were originally planned are slipping, and as we’ve seen in the news, and that developers are not willing to make final investment decisions right now. Uh, in Germany, developers are lobbying to hand 16 gigawatts of offshore sites back to the states, and, and Bruch says that the, the capacity is, is not going to be built. Onshore, uh, the relaunched 5.X platform is ramping up slowly after the serial defect shutdown, with approvals still holding some orders back. So Siemens Gamesa is going to make a push, or [00:10:00] Omtera I guess it is called now, w- is going to make a push, uh, into the 5.X machine and continue on on the offshore side. But boy, some of these, uh, auctions and, uh, bidding processes are not great for Siemens at the moment.  Matthew Stead: I’ve got a question. Did, um, did Siemens actually stop selling for a while as well? Is that part of their order intake loss?  Allen Hall: Some of the machines, I believe, the 4.X and the 5.X, when they had the serial defect issues, uh, they put a hold on them for a little while and, and did a complete redesign, I believe, on the blades. But other turbines I thought were still being offered for sale, and I thought I saw s- some installs in the United States going on, more on the two megawatt, three megawatt machines, uh, but n- not the bigger ones. And, and offshore too, like it sound- does sound like the large offshore wind project in the United States, which is the coastal Virginia offshore wind project, uh, off the, you know, a couple of miles off the coast of Virginia, is [00:11:00]going a little bit slower than they thought. Uh, so maybe there’s a, a little bit to the 14. It’s, that’s a Siemens Gamesa 14-236 direct drive machine that’s going in there. So there, there’s some still learning curves going on from what I can see, but it does seem like it’s, uh, it’s, you know, formerly Siemens Energy, there’s a huge amount of money to be had in this corporation. So if the wind division is not doing all that great, it, it’s kind of like GE Vernova. There, there’s other ways to make money.  Matthew Stead: There’s also, I mean, I’m just wondering if there’s a bit of a blip. It’s just a short-term correction in terms of the order intake, and, you know, once they get back on track, uh, it’ll, it’ll revert again. Uh, that’s what I hope for, hope for.  Allen Hall: We’re gonna move on to Vattenfall. Uh, there was a Danish offshore auction, and Vattenfall won both of them. And Ørsted did bid and didn’t win, and no one seems to care too much that Ørsted didn’t win. Uh, and Vattenfall, it’s, it’s a huge deal for [00:12:00] Vattenfall. So- Orsted not winning in their own backyard does seem like a problem politically  Rosemary Barnes: If Denmark wanted to have, you know, local companies winning these auctions, then they could’ve, they could’ve, uh, you know, made it for l- local companies only or tilted the playing field in their favor. Um, so yeah, uh, I don’t know, maybe that’s the outcome that they want. If they want… It’s always like a, a tension, right? If you, you want cheap- the cheapest prices on one hand, you want local content on the other, and if you, you know, anything you do to one of those two sides affects the other. So yeah, like, in general, the more you encourage local content, then the more restrictions you place on companies to choose a cheaper supplier in every case. Uh, Denmark is at least well-placed to have good world-class suppliers in, you know, most, most categories of the things that you need in an offshore wind [00:13:00] farm. But yeah, I mean, you see it all over the world. Uh, you know, Australia periodically tries to, uh, you know, get more local content, but it’s very, it’s very hard for us ’cause we don’t have a whole thriving ecosystem. And so it’s like you’ve gotta pick out the one thing that you think that we could compete on and then subsidize that, and then it’s just, like, so… it’s such a weird distortion. And if companies didn’t already wanna choose that local supplier, it’s because it’s more expensive, so therefore you are necessarily adding cost. Um, I think Taiwan d- uh, has h- experienced a lot of this with their offshore industry, right? Where they kind of s- they got really enthusiastic about local content, and everyone’s like, “Yeah, this is a great thing to do ’cause you can get local manufacturing, and you can develop a whole thriving industry But then when it comes down to it, you know, it’s not so great to have, like, whoever set up the, the system that you’ve gotta adhere to to get these projects in place, like, they’re not the experts in developing offshore [00:14:00] projects for a cheap price and on schedules, obviously. Other- otherwise they’d be working in that, in that role. So you, uh, do end up making things really hard for the developers, and then you- they ended up with very expensive projects. And, um, because the local content, you know, like, they had what sounded, in theory at the start, like a good, um, like a good idea. They start off with a low local content requirement and gradually ratcheted it up as the industry is supposed to mature. But what they saw was the prices just ratcheted up in parallel. Um, especially once the few things that can be competitively supplied, uh, locally, once you… That is not sufficient to y- y- you know, once the local content amount exceeds what you can achieve with those competitive industries, then yeah, you do start to see people having to spend a lot more and add a lot of project risk if you’re, y- you know, uh, going with brand new suppliers that have never, you know, never supplied a project like that before. So I can kind of [00:15:00] understand why Denmark wouldn’t be so focused on, yeah, our local, our local company needs to win.  Matthew Stead: Yeah. Yeah, com- competition is a good thing, isn’t it? So yeah, you can’t have everyone winning all the time.  Rosemary Barnes: I think it’s such an interesting time, though, in the world where, and I’m changing my mind about this, like, yes, competition is a good thing, but if you only have competition, um, and don’t consider your country’s, you know, local competitiveness, then you end up not being able to make anything, especially when we’ve got, y- you know, in the world at the moment, there’s so much globalization, like, way more than ever before in the world’s history. And, you know, there are countries or our country mostly, that has, you know, 50% of market share for certain things, and more for other things that people need. It’s like, so- They can obviously, just based on scale alone, can produce things at prices that no [00:16:00] one else can compete with. And then you add in that not every country is totally committed to 100% fair global playing field and, you know, there are subsidies involved and incentives and that sort of thing. Like, you do just end up with every other country not thinking it’s economic to make anything at all. And then, yeah, I mean, everyone knows monopolies are bad, right? I don’t think that would be any different for supply chains. So I think, yeah, like we’re about to have a re-reckoning or are in the process of a re-reckoning about how much globalization is a good thing, how much free trade is a good thing, how much, you know, just letting the market take care of it is a good thing because nobody wants to end up in a situation where, you know, the whole world is dependent on one country to make absolutely everything. Yolanda Padron: Yeah, but is it, isn’t it also kind of like a cultural thing here for Vattenfall, um, like for Dane- Denmark itself to try to be very [00:17:00]strict about the rules and if Ørsted didn’t win the bid, then they didn’t win the bid type of thing? Like, to not try to give them as much of a, of an advantage ’cause they’re still owned majorly by the Crown, right? Allen Hall: It’s like 50% ownership by the state, right, Ørsted still.  Yolanda Padron: In general they, they have a lot of- very Danish rules of like against, you know, uh, in the US against like PACs and lobbying and stuff, and things that are very common here because it’s more culturally aligned with Denmark. Um, so I guess it, I mean, it does, it, it does make sense, right? That they would try to separate that as much as possible to try to not have that conflict of interest.  Rosemary Barnes: I think Denmark, um, definitely wouldn’t consider themselves rule followers, ’cause if you compare them to their immediate neighbors like, um, Sweden and Germany, the Danes are like a lot more relaxed. They have this saying in, [00:18:00] uh, Denmark that i- in, in Sweden, everything that isn’t forbidden is mandatory. That’s how they think of, of the Swedes.  Allen Hall: Wow. There’s a lot that’s not forbidden, Rosemary. You’re going into some murky waters there. Okay.  Rosemary Barnes: That’s their perception, and I think it is true relative to Sweden. The Swede- Swedes are more rule followers. But as, um, someone that comes from a probably more relaxed country, again, yes, the Danes did really like following rules. Um, like a lot of unwritten rules as well. I remember one specific example I remember actually, uh, we had like a whole, uh, I did Danish language classes when I was there, and part of that was like a cultural education. One of the classes was based around, uh, some of the unwritten rules in society, and one of them is it’s this date, and I don’t remember the date, but there is a certain date that if you have not trimmed your hedge by that date, that is just like y- you are not an upstanding member of society. Like, that is just like ab- absolutely not okay and like everybody that walks [00:19:00] past your house is like, “Oh my God, they haven’t trimmed their hedge yet,” and people will be talking about it and in the canteen at work. So definitely they do like to follow the rules. But what I will say about Denmark also is that I think that they usually top the world’s list, or at least close to the top in terms of trust. Um, they trust people in general, but especially they trust government institutions. And I think that you can’t have trust in government institutions if they pick and choose, um, when they’re going to enforce the rules or not. So I think that in that sense, yeah, of course, they’re not going to after the fact go, “Oh, this, the, oh, we had an auction, but the result wasn’t the way we liked it, so we’re gonna change it.” Like, that’s not a very trustworthy thing for a government to do. They do rely, obviously we’re a small country, they rely a lot on international trade, and so I think that they would see a big risk in, um, yeah, having their auction be anything but fully transparent and fair. So yeah. Anyway, that’s my, my cultural interpretation based on having lived in Denmark for five years. Uh, [00:20:00] five years ago now. It’s been a while.  Allen Hall: That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn. And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show. And don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. And for Rosey, Yolanda, and Matthew, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy podcast.

Danes nadaljujemo, kjer smo prejšnji torek končali, ko smo ugotovili, da je krščanstvo končalo gladiatorske igre. S sprehodom po rimskem Koloseju smo torej opravili prejšnji torek, današnji pa nas odpelje v Rio de Janeiro pod kip Kristusa Odrešenika. Sogovornica Torkovega kviza: Fernanda Spolaor (Mauka Travels), ki se je iz Ria de Janeira pred leti preselila v Slovenijo.

Odiseja je eno največjih in najbolj interpretiranih del evropske književnosti, ki se je pojavljalo tudi v drugih literarnih delih, pa v likovni umetnosti in v zadnjih desetletjih tudi v popularni kulturi, predvsem v filmskih priredbah. Kar je pri tem zanimivo, je, da sta tako Iliada kot Odiseja sicer povezani s številnimi neznankami glede časa nastanka, avtorstva, načina nastajanja in zapisovanja obeh pesnitev. Vendar se je na podlagi raziskav in dešifriranja mikenske pisave v sredini 20. stoletja oblikovala domneva, kot poudarja prevajalec Kajetan Gantar, "da je treba Homerja in nastanek Iliade in Odiseje datirati nekako v sredino osmega stoletja pred Kristusom". Kar pa je gotovo, je, da gre za umetniško izredno domiselna in skrbno pretehtana epa, še posebej to velja za Odisejo. Ta ep temelji na pesnitvah oziroma motivnih podlagah, ki se med seboj povežejo v celoto, ki razpade na dva velika dela – to sta Odisej na poti in Odisej na Itaki –, vsak od njiju pa ima po dvanajst spevov, vsak izmed teh pa se spet deli na tri manjše enote po štiri speve. Ep najprej opisuje desetletno vračanje Odiseja na otok Itaka po koncu trojanske vojne, sklene pa se z zgodbo o Odisejevem snidenju z ženo in pokolom vsiljivih snubcev. Na poti ga čakajo težke preizkušnje, ki razkrijejo njegovo iznajdljivost, vztrajnost in hrepenenje po domu. Zgodba o potovanju prehaja v razmisleke o poti skozi življenje, iskanju samega sebe in upanju ter moralnih dilemah. Zato Odiseja ni le ep o vrnitvi v očetnjavo, je tudi ep o ponovni vzpostavitvi kozmičnega ravnovesja, ki se je podrlo z vojno v Troji, o odpuščanju in o neprenehnem sledenju samemu sebi oziroma svojim ciljem. V pogovoru, katerega izhodišče je film Odiseja Christopherja Nolana, razmišljamo o tej filmski priredbi, razsežnostih epa, o interpretacijah in današnjem pogledu na to skoraj tri tisoč let staro literarno delo. Sodelujejo klasična filologinja in prevajalka Homerjeve Iliade Jelena Isak Kres, filologinja in prevajalka Nada Grošelj ter filmski kritik in prevajalec Igor Harb. Foto: marmorni doprsni kip Homerja, rimska kopija izgubljenega helenističnega originala iz 2. stoletja pr. n. št., ki jo hrani Britanski muzej; vir – Wikipedija.

Informativna oddaja o vseh pomembnejših domačih in tujih novicah, o katerih so domače in tuje agencije poročale do 13-ih.

Informativna oddaja o vseh pomembnejših domačih in tujih novicah, o katerih so domače in tuje agencije poročale do 13-ih.

Subscribe to Throwing Fits on Patreon. Hej! This week, Jimmy and Larry are coming to you from Copenhagen Fashion Week, cutting another on the road instant classic straight from the hotel bed on partying with the people who make your clothes only makes you wanna wear them more, armrest Klonopins, the curious case of an entire Hydro Flask evaporating at 35,000 feet, did you know planes come with built in apnea machines, the joys of working out with friends, watching real masters shop, wearing a polo and jeans to a very fancy gala, the best ramen outside of Tokyo, nothing beats some good bread and butter, embarrassingly waiting 45 minutes to eat Dua Lipa's favorite chicken sandwich, is indoor smoking actually disgusting, Georgian beer branding, Danes don't seal their floors while the Dutch steal theirs, mfpen celebrate 10 years with a fashion show and a New Balance collab, and much more.

Celjski nogometaši so včeraj dobili mogoče nasprotnike v zadnjem krogu za uvrstitev v skupinski del nogometne lige. Danes pa jih v 3. krogu čaka uvodna tekma z armenskim Araratom. Slovenska košarka se lahko pohvali z zlatima medaljama v mlajših konkurencah. Tudi igralci do 18 let so postali evropski prvaki.

Informativna oddaja o vseh pomembnejših domačih in tujih novicah, o katerih so domače in tuje agencije poročale do 13-ih.

Informativna oddaja o vseh pomembnejših domačih in tujih novicah, o katerih so domače in tuje agencije poročale do 13-ih.

Inventura je naslov zgodbe, ki bo prejela nagrado lastovka, znane pa so tudi preostale tri zgodbe, ki so se na 35. natečaju za najboljšo kratko zgodbo uvrstile v ožji izbor. Danes se v Ljubljani pričenja 12. Reciklart – mednarodni umetniški festival recikliranja in DIY oziroma »naredi si sam« kulture. Tudi smetarji pišejo lepe pesmi je naslov leposlovnega prvenca Matjaža Virjenta. Danes bo v Galeriji raum AU v Slovenj Gradcu odprtje razstave Vztrajni ostanki Evrope. Prav tako v Slovenj Gradcu bo jutri deveti festival mednarodnega animiranega filma Zebra. Vabljeni k poslušanju!

O Heinejevi politični pesnitvi, ki se bere kot odkrit napad na vse stebre tedanje oblasti: na monarha, rimskokatoliško cerkev, militarizem in fevdalne odnose ter socialno neenakost zgodnjega kapitalizmaDanes bomo odpotovali v politično, ekonomsko in idejno globoko shizofren čas evropske zgodovine. To je bil čas, ko so dosežki francoske revolucije in napoleonovih reform ljudem že vsadili ideje o svobodi, hkrati pa so se z Dunajskim kongresom leta 1815 restavrirale stare monarhije, ki so s strogo cenzuro skušale zatreti vsakršno nasprotovanje sistemu. To je bilo poleg tega obdobje, ko je pospešena industrializacija porodila množice revnih delavcev, ki so v nemogočih razmerah komajda zaslužili za golo preživetje - prav to obdobje je, nepresenetljivo, izoblikovalo tudi mladega filozofa Karla Marxa - stari režimi pa so morali leta 1848 popustiti pod pritiskom v tako imenovani marčni revoluciji, ki jo danes razumemo kot konec fevdalnega reda.V takšnem kontekstu ne preseneča, da je eden največjih nemških romantičnih pesnikov Heinrich Heine napisal delo, ki ga zaznamuje vse kaj drugega kot romantično svetobolje. Njegova nenavadna politična satira z naslovom Nemčija. Zimska pravljica prinaša neusmiljeno kritiko tedanje domovine ter zahteva kruh za vse in kraljestvo božje na zemlji. O pesnitvi, ki je pred kratkim izšla pri Založbi Univerze v Ljubljani, in času, v katerem je nastala, se bomo v tokratnem Kulturnem fokusu pogovarjali z avtorico spremne besede dr. Ireno Samide in s prevajalko besedila dr. Matejo Gaber, obe prihajata z Oddelka za germanistiko ljubljanske Filozofske fakultete. Oddajo je pripravila Alja Zore. foto: portret Heinricha Heineja, slikar Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1831, Wikimedia, javna last

Danes imam rojstni dan. Stara sem 47 let. Zdi se mi pomembno, da odkrito govorimo o stvareh, o katerih prepogosto molčimo. O denarju. O investiranju. In tudi o starosti. Leta so kapital. Pomembno je, kako ga upravljamo. Pri 47 letih imam več ambicij kot pri 27. Prvič v življenju imam občutek, da začenjam pobirati obresti odločitev, ki sem jih sprejela v zadnjih skoraj treh desetletjih. Največjega donosa mi ni prinesel ETF. Prinesla mi ga je investicija vase. ______________ 47 let. 47 ur. 47% popust. Ob 47. rojstnem dnevu sem pripravila posebno ponudbo za dva najbolj priljubljena programa: • spletna delavnica Investiranje za začetnike • Money-How Premium, naročniški paket, ki vključuje davčnega asistenta Taxistent, finančnega asistenta Modri AI in dostop do vseh zaklenjenih vsebin. Naslednjih 47 ur lahko obe ponudbi izkoristite s 47-odstotnim popustom. *Ponudba velja le 47 ur. Popust na Money-How Premium velja le prvo leto naročnine. Več o Money-How na https://money-how.si/

Andrej Žido, podpredsednik društva Transplant, je eden od sedmerice športnic in športnikov, ki so konec junija na Nizozemskem zastopali Slovenijo na evropskih športnih igrah transplantiranih in ledvičnih bolnikov. Domov so se vrnili z rekordno bero odličij; s kar 6 zlatimi in 3 srebrnimi medaljami. Med dobitniki zlatega odličja je bil tudi naš sogovornik, zmagovalec na tekmi v kronometru. Gre za potrditev truda, ki ga vložiš v pripravo, še pomembnejša pa so srečanja z ljudmi, s podobnimi izkušnjami, ki jih spoznaš na teh igrah, in prijateljstva, ki se stkejo, pravi. Želi si, da bi jih pod svoje okrilje vzel Olimpijski komite Slovenije in bi tako lahko postali prava reprezentanca. Danes lahko pripoveduje o zahtevni toda uspešni presaditvi jeter, leta 2019, in koreniti spremembi, ki jo je prinesla. Življenje se mu je namreč povsem spremenilo, vse se je sestavilo, kot se mora. Vsak dan, ki ga preživim, je darilo in zato čutim, da moram družbi vrniti, pojasnjuje. To počne tudi v društvu Transplant. Kako? Prisluhnite!

A.M. Edition for July 24. Global markets are reckoning with the prospect of prolonged conflict in the Middle East and rising inflation as oil prices roar back – pushing up borrowing costs in the U.S. and Asia. Plus, hotel chain Melia pulls out of Cuba in a blow to the island's vital tourism sector. And WSJ defense reporter Alistair MacDonald explains how Europe is turning to homegrown defense technologies in an effort to counter U.S. dependence. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Host Meg Wolitzer presents three works about idealized lives, and ideas about what constitutes an ideal life.  “Boy Meets Girl” is Jen Kim's humorous version of a Hollywood love story.  It's read by Tony Hale.  In the John Cheever classic “The Worm in the Apple” a couple have the perfect life—but no one can believe it.  It's read by Anne Meara.  And a harried mother fantasizes about a brand new life in Vanessa Cuti's “Our Children,” performed by Claire Danes, followed by an interview with Danes. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Poslanci bodo danes znova prisiljeni prekiniti počitnice, na današnji izredni seji bodo namreč odločali o razpisu prvega letošnjega referenduma. Če ne bo nepredvidenih zapletov, bomo jeseni glasovali o uveljavitvi novele zakona o parlamentarni preiskavi. Opozicijski poslanci se strinjajo s pobudniki civilne družbe, da koalicijski predlog omogoča zlorabe. Na drugi strani parlamenta zavračajo očitke o politični policiji. V oddaji tudi: - Savdski Arabiji se po sklenitvi sporazuma obeta ameriška jedrska tehnologija - Washington in Moskva oživljata diplomacijo in iščeta nove poti za sodelovanje - Celjani po številnih preobratih remizirali z albanskimi nogometnimi prvaki

Neža Strenčan je učiteljica razrednega pouka z angleščino, ki se je leta 2022 preselila v Avstralijo, natančneje, v Darwin, glavno mesto Severnega teritorija. Najprej je začela delati na farmi biserov, v neokrnjeni naravi, prežeti s kulturo domorodcev, pozneje pa so jo zaposlili v fundaciji Starlight Children's Foundation. V Darwinu je to pomenilo tudi obiske otrok v staroselskih naseljih, v katerih imajo ponekod hiše z najnovejšimi televizorji, ne pa tudi osnovnih higieničnih pripomočkov, kot je toaletni papir. Poudarja, da so jo ti ljudje marsičesa naučili, najbolj neverjetno pa je njihovo razumevanje in dojemanje narave. “Sedeli smo ob vodi, gospa je položila roko na gladino in rekla: otroci, lahko se kopate, tukaj ni krokodilov. Čutim vibracije, točno vem, kako daleč je krokodil ali želva, ki bo naša večerja.” Danes je Neža Strenčan zaposlena v kulturi kot organizatorka dogodkov, dejavna pa je tudi kot gledališka igralka. Govori tudi o težkih razmerah za staroselce v mestu.

What exactly is Folkemødet, and why do thousands of Danes travel to a small island every June to attend it?In this episode, Derek Hartman and Brooke Black are joined by returning guest Brooke Fossey (@NearlyDanishDame) to explore one of Denmark's most fascinating democratic traditions.Brooke Fossey attended this year's Folkemødet through the Wildcard program, giving her a unique perspective as an American living in Denmark. Together, the three unpack what Folkemødet actually is, why it exists, and whether it really succeeds in bringing ordinary citizens together with politicians, journalists, businesses, and organizations.Along the way, they discuss Danish political culture, civic engagement, the Wildcard program, and what surprised Brooke most about experiencing Denmark's annual democracy festival firsthand. She's left with a question often discussed and debated, but never really answered - what does it mean to be Danish?Whether you've never heard of Folkemødet or you've always wondered if it's worth attending, this episode will help you make Denmark and Danish democracy make sense.

Pred poslankami in poslanci je na zahtevo opozicije nov poizkus odreditve preiskovalnih komisij o aferi Black Cube in obvodnem financiranju strank. Kolegij je tokrat potrdil časovnico seje, zato predlagatelji menijo, da koalicija ne bo znova preprečila ustanovitve preiskovalk kot prvič, ko ni potrdila dnevnega reda seje. V oddaju tudi: - ZDA zanikajo odgovornost za najnovejše napade na Iran - Dan Laščanov tudi letos uvod v festival Pivo in cvetje - Francozi po zmagi nad Marokom prvi polfinalisti mundiala

Pred petdeset tisoč leti so Zemljo poseljevale vsaj tri različne vrste rodu homo. Danes smo tu samo še mi.V dolgi zgodovini razvoja vrste homo sapiens je naš obstoj večkrat visel na nitki, o čemer pričajo tako imenovana genetska ozka grla, vpisana v našo DNK. V našem genskem zapisu so tudi sledi srečanj naših prednikov z drugimi predstavniki rodu homo, z neandertalci, ki so poseljevali Evropo in osrednjo Azijo, ter novoodkritimi denisovci, ki so živeli v vzhodni Aziji. Spoznanje, da so denisovci sploh obstajali, je prineslo šele odkritje leta 2010, ki je temeljito spremenilo razumevanje evolucije človeka.A če je bilo širjenje homo sapiensa po svetu tako učinkovito, pa je po drugi strani trajalo zelo dolgo, precej več kot sto tisoč let, da so se naši predniki sploh odpravili iz Afrike. Na vprašanje, zakaj je bilo temu tako, še nimamo jasnih odgovorov. A tisto, kar danes vemo o razvoju naše vrste in o poti, ki nas je pripeljala iz dolge kamene dobe, vsekakor kaže na to, kako lahko imajo relativno drobne spremembe zelo daljnosežne posledice.Evoluciji homo sapiensa smo se posvetili v tokratni Intelekti v družbi prof. dr. Petre Golja, ki na ljubljanski Biotehniški fakulteti med drugim predava evolucijo človeka, ter arheologa in antropologa dr. Manuela Willa z Univerze v Tübingenu v Nemčiji.Foto: Roke v jami Pettakere, 50 000 pr.n.št., Sulawesi, Indonezija , vir: Wikipedia, javna last, izrez

Clara Gené Škrabec je kolorektalna kirurginja, ki živi v sami srčiki turistično zelo obremenjene Barcelone. Njena mama je Slovenka, oče Katalonec, zato je odraščala v jezikovno mešani skupnosti. Mama je otroke dosledno učila slovensko, brati so morali slovensko literaturo in pisati celo spise. Danes so ji za to zelo hvaležni, v njeno domačo Ribnico pa se vračajo k babi, ki speče najboljše palačinke. Clara Gené Škrabec pripoveduje o pritisku turizma na katalonsko prestolnico, o dolgih in zahtevnih izmenah v bolnišnici, pa tudi o preživljanju prostega časa med ribolovom in opazovanjem delfinov.

Dva dneva pred ameriškim dnevom neodvisnosti, s katerim bodo letos Združene države Amerike praznovale okroglih 250 let od nastanka, vam v poslušanje ponujamo pogovor iz oddaje Intelekta, v katerem smo se spraševali, kakšna je pravzaprav narava ameriškega imperializma. Ta vse od konca druge svetovne vojne bistveno oblikuje naš svet. Četudi so imele Združene države Amerike v Sovjetski zvezi še skoraj pol stoletja pomembnega rivala in niso igrale vloge izključnega svetovnega hegemona, so namreč odločilno vplivale na povojno resničnost. Še več, s svojo politično, ekonomsko, vojaško, institucionalno in kulturno močjo so dosegle tolikšen vpliv, da se je dejanska ozemeljska zasedba teritorijev, kakor so se tega lotevali stari imperiji, pokazala kot tako rekoč nepotrebna. Danes je hegemonska vloga Združenih držav – predvsem zaradi vzpona Kitajske – znova pod vprašajem. In vendar se zdi, da koncu ameriškega imperializma ne bomo priča tako zlahka. Na kakšen način so Združene države, ki so dolgo veljale za eno najbolj izolacionističnih držav, zavladale in še vladajo svetu, smo se pogovarjali z dr. Bogomirjem Kovačem z ljubljanske Ekonomske fakultete, radijskim urednikom, zgodovinarjem dr. Tomažem Gerdenom in sociologom dr. Markom Kržanom. Oddajo je pripravila Alja Zore.

Na vrhuncu vročinskega vala se bodo temperature lahko povzpele tudi do 38 stopinj Celzija, Agencija za okolje je že včeraj na petih merilnih postajah zabeležila junijske rekorde. Danes je še nekoliko bolj vroče, zato so številni poiskali ohladitev v naravi. Vročina ne pojenja niti v drugih državah, v Nemčiji je bila danes najtoplejša noč v zgodovini meritev. Druge teme: - Hormuška ožina ostaja vroča točka v ameriško-iranski vojni. - V strmoglavljenju manjšega letala s padalci v Franciji 11 mrtvih. - Ambulante za neopredeljene za zdaj še pomemben del družinske medicine.

Brok rhymes with clock, and it is a Danish word that describes the petty complaints that are common in one of the happiest countries in the world, and one of the richest. It's complaining as a social activity, usually about things that are more irritating than dangerous. I feel there's more Danish brok in the summer because people come into contact with each other, the joy of spring is gone, and the bugs are coming out, and it can be so hot. But really brok can be a year-round occupation. It's particularly common in the coffee room or lunchroom on job sites, where Danes complain about their working conditions, the Danish government, the Danish public health system, Danish public transport, in particular the national train service DSB or, the all-time favorite, the exasperating Danish weather. Brok is a way of bonding – aren't we all irritated by the same thing? And a way of blowing off steam without ever confronting anyone directly, which is always a bit dangerous in Denmark, because the country is so small and you will run into the same people again and again.

What advice would Danes give to internationals trying to build a life here?In this special compilation episode, we're revisiting some of our favorite conversations with Danish guests and pulling together the best advice they've shared over the years.From comedian Sofie Hagen's thoughts on standing out in a culture that values fitting in, to Cecilia Bau's practical tips for surviving Danish bureaucracy, to Mathias Bach's advice on learning Danish before your free language classes disappear, and Steven Feraru's help in understanding why Danes might misunderstand you - this episode is packed with insights for anyone trying to make Denmark feel a little more like home.Along the way we talk about:Finding your people in DenmarkWhy having Danish friends mattersLearning Danish (and why it's worth the effort)Navigating apps, MitID, e-Boks, and bureaucracyJanteloven and the fear of standing outWhy your weird interests might be your greatest assetFeatured guests:Sofie HagenCecilia BauMathias BachSteven FeraruLinks to the full episodes are included below:Reverse Culture Shock (Sofie Hagen): https://pod.link/1704607322/episode/NjhhYzc3MjYzNTJiNTY1ZGViYWJmYTA0Dating, Coming Out, and No Such Thing as Oversharing (Ceceila Bau): https://pod.link/1704607322/episode/NjgxMjhkZDBjZWE2NjgyOTg2NzRkZmRiGoing Viral in Denmark (Mathias Bach): https://pod.link/1704607322/episode/NjdmZDA4MjdkNWVkMGQ1YjlkOWFiNDliAre Danes Making it Harder for You to Learn Danish (Steven Feraru): https://pod.link/1704607322/episode/NjdkOGI4NzZhZjFkMDQzMDU1Mjg0NTgx

Pred poslanci je danes zakon o vzpostavitvi sistema Eurodac za primerjavo biometričnih podatkov, ki je del novega azilnega sistema Evropske unije. Medtem ko vlada poudarja učinkovitejšo obravnavo prošenj za azil, opozicija opozarja na kršenje človekovih pravic. V oddaji tudi: - Predsednica republike Nataša Pirc Musar premierja Janeza Janšo pozvala, naj spremeni odločitev o praporščakih NOB in TIGR, ki niso vabljeni na državno proslavo - Deset let po bexitu dve tretji Britancev referendumsko odločitev obžaluje; medtem se je z Downing streeta poslovil že šesti predsednik vlade - Argentinski nogometni zvezdnik Lionel Messi po včerajšnjih dveh golih proti Avstriji postal najboljši strelec v zgodovini svetovnih prvenstev v nogomet

Vse od konca druge svetovne vojne svet bistveno oblikuje ameriški imperializem. Četudi so imele Združene države v Sovjetski zvezi še skoraj pol stoletja pomembnega rivala in niso igrale vloge izključnega svetovnega hegemona, so odločilno oblikovale povojni svet. Še več, s svojo politično, ekonomsko, vojaško, institucionalno in kulturno močjo so dosegle tolikšen vpliv, da se je dejanska ozemeljska zasedba teritorijev, kakršne so se posluževali stari imperiji, pokazala kot tako rekoč nepotrebna. Danes je hegemonska vloga Združenih držav – predvsem zaradi vzpona Kitajske – ponovno pod vprašajem. In vendar se zdi, da koncu ameriškega imperializma ne bomo priča tako zlahka. V tokratni Intelekti se ob bližajoči se 250. obletnici nastanka ZDA zato sprašujemo: kakšna je pravzaprav narava ameriškega imperializma? Na kakšen način so Združene države, ki so dolgo veljale za eno najbolj izolacionističnih držav, zavladale in še vladajo svetu? V živo v studiu Prvega programa so z mano dr. Bogomir Kovač z ljubljanske Ekonomske fakultete, radijski kolega zgodovinar dr. Tomaž Gerden in sociolog dr. Marko Kržan. foto: Pixabay

V švicarskem letovišču Bürgenstock se bodo danes med predstanvniki Združenih držav Amerike in Irana predvidoma začeli tehnični pogovori o uresničevanju dogovora o končanju vojne na Bližnjem vzhodu. Iransko delegacijo bosta vodila glavni pogajalec Mohamed Bager Galibaf in zunanji minister Abas Argči, ameriško pa podpredsednik J. D. Vance. Drugi poudarki oddaje: - Nemčija s podporo ukrepom Evropske unije za zaščito evropske industrije pred kitajskimi trgovinskimi praksami. - Obveščenost delavcev o tveganjih dela na soncu in vročini zelo slaba, opozarja zdravniška stroka. - V Poletni muzejski noči so muzeji in galerije brezplačno odprli svoja vrata. - Še naprej bo sončno in vroče, popoldne in zvečer možne posamezne plohe in nevihte.

It's been a while since we've plumbed the depths of the bottomless chasm we call "fanmail", so this week we're reaching our hands as far as we can and pulling out some questions that have yet to see the light of say. Before we dig too greedily and too deep, we talk about Politrickers, Marvel Champions: The Card Game, and Banana Governance. 02:19 - Politrickers 10:47 - Marvel Champions: The Card Game 19:13 - Banana Governance 30:33 - Minimum expectations with new players? 40:59 - "Late to the Party" games? 47:19 - Stuff that we're looking forward to! 47:45 - The Danes 56:57 - Purple Haze Get added to the BGB community map at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/map Send us topic ideas at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/topics Check out our wiki at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/wiki Join the discussion at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/discord Join our Facebook group at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/facebook Get a Board Game Barrage T-shirt at: https://boardgamebarrage.com/store

Oči svetovne javnosti so usmerjene v morebitno sklenitev mirovnega sporazuma med Iranom in Združenimi državami. Teheran je sicer zavrnil navedbe ameriškega predsednika Donalda Trumpa, da bodo dogovor podpisali še danes. Nasprotujoča si mnenja imata strani tudi o vsebini dogovora. Nekaj drugih poudarkov oddaje: - Z veliko in malo Franjo se bo sklenila 45. najbolj množična kolesarska prireditev pri nas - Nova zakonodaja po prizadevanjih Čebelarske zveze Slovenije prinaša natančno označevanje izvora medu - Košarkarji New Yorka po 53 letih osvojili naslov prvaka v severnoameriški ligi NBA

Boris Horvat že od ranega otroštva slabše sliši. Sprva se tega ni zavedal, kasneje je skušal to prikriti, oboje je vplivalo na njegovo izobrazbo, odraščanje in življenje. Danes je glas tistih, ki ne slišijo. Opozarja na diskriminacije invalidov v Sloveniji, bori se proti zavajujočim oglasom, ki ciljajo najbolj ranljive, in podpira načelo, da smo v naši državi vsi enakopravni, pa čeprav žal včasih le "na papirju". Govorila sva o izzivih okvare sluha, o stigmi in strahovih, ki spremljajo to stanje, o položaju invalidov v Republiki Sloveniji... in še o marsičem!Hvala, da spremljaš Umetnost Lenarjenja!Društvo Auris Kranj najdeš na: https://auris.si/in na Facebooku: https://www.facebook.com/AurisKranj?locale=sl_SIDanašnja epizoda nastaja v sodelovanju s podjetjem Neuroth, vodilnim evropskim podjetjem za slušno akustiko in zaščito sluha. Najdeš jih na: https://www.neuroth.com/sl-SI/slusni-aparati/

Fluent Fiction - Danish: Rekindling Friendships: A Heartfelt Reunion in København Find the full episode transcript, vocabulary words, and more:fluentfiction.com/da/episode/2026-06-05-22-34-02-da Story Transcript:Da: Det var en strålende sommerdag i København.En: It was a brilliant summer day in København.Da: Solen skinnede klart, og lugten af nyudsprungne blomster fyldte luften i Botanisk Have.En: The sun shone brightly, and the smell of newly blossomed flowers filled the air in the Botanisk Have.Da: Det var Grundlovsdag, en dag hvor danskerne fejrer deres frihed og fællesskab.En: It was Grundlovsdag, a day when the Danes celebrate their freedom and community.Da: Søren gik langs den snoede sti, med kun en let nervøsitet bag de solbriller, der skjulte hans øjne.En: Søren walked along the winding path, with just a hint of nervousness behind the sunglasses that hid his eyes.Da: Han var lige vendt tilbage til Danmark efter flere år i udlandet.En: He had just returned to Danmark after several years abroad.Da: Hans hjerte bankede hårdt; han skulle mødes med sine gamle venner, Astrid og Klaus.En: His heart pounded hard; he was going to meet his old friends, Astrid and Klaus.Da: Søren havde savnet dem.En: Søren had missed them.Da: Han havde besluttet, at i dag skulle være dagen, hvor de genfandt deres stærke bånd.En: He had decided that today would be the day they revitalized their strong bond.Da: Men hvad hvis alt var forandret?En: But what if everything had changed?Da: Tiden kan ændre mennesker.En: Time can change people.Da: Søren frygtede, at deres venskab ikke længere passede ham, nu hvor han var tilbage i Danmark.En: Søren feared that their friendship might no longer suit him now that he was back in Danmark.Da: Ved rosenhaven ventede Astrid.En: By the rose garden, Astrid was waiting.Da: Hendes smil var som en frisk brise.En: Her smile was like a fresh breeze.Da: "Søren!"En: "Søren!"Da: råbte hun og vinkede ivrigt.En: she shouted and waved eagerly.Da: Astrid var altid værdsat for sin varme og stabilitet.En: Astrid had always been appreciated for her warmth and stability.Da: Hun havde altid været hans ven, hans trygge holdepunkt.En: She had always been his friend, his safe point of support.Da: Men under overfladen længtes hun efter eventyr, han kunne se dette nye skær i hendes øjne.En: But beneath the surface, she longed for adventure; he could see this new glint in her eyes.Da: Kort efter ankom Klaus.En: Shortly after, Klaus arrived.Da: Han så selvsikker ud, klædt i en smart jakkesæt, en fængende kontrast til parkens afslappede atmosfære.En: He looked confident, dressed in a smart suit, a striking contrast to the park's relaxed atmosphere.Da: Klaus var driftig og havde haft stor succes.En: Klaus was ambitious and had enjoyed great success.Da: Alligevel kunne Søren - intuitiv som altid - fornemme en indre kamp bag Klaus' selvsikre facade.En: Yet Søren - intuitive as ever - could sense an inner struggle behind Klaus' confident facade.Da: "Det er godt at se jer," sagde Søren og krammede sine venner.En: "It's good to see you both," said Søren and hugged his friends.Da: De talte om gamle minder, om deres skoledage og fælles oplevelser.En: They talked about old memories, their school days, and shared experiences.Da: Men under latteren gemte sig spørgsmålet – kunne de tre stadig finde en fælles vej?En: But beneath the laughter lay the question - could the three still find a common path?Da: Som eftermiddagen skred frem, satte de sig i skyggen af et stort træ, blomsterhavens lyde og farver omkring dem.En: As the afternoon progressed, they sat in the shade of a large tree, the sounds and colors of the flower garden around them.Da: Det var Astrid, der først brød stilheden.En: It was Astrid who first broke the silence.Da: "Har vi væk fra hinanden?"En: "Have we drifted apart?"Da: spurgte hun med et glimt af bekymring.En: she asked with a glint of concern.Da: Klaus nikkede stille, mens han kiggede ned.En: Klaus nodded quietly, looking down.Da: Søren tog en dyb indånding og svarede: "Ja og nej.En: Søren took a deep breath and replied, "Yes and no.Da: Vi har forandret os, men det er godt.En: We have changed, but that's good.Da: Vi lærer fra vores forskelligheder."En: We learn from our differences."Da: De diskuterede deres forskelle, deres livsvalg og deres drømme.En: They discussed their differences, their life choices, and their dreams.Da: De så hinandens virkeligheder i øjnene, og med hvert ord blev de usynlige bånd mellem dem stærkere.En: They saw each other's realities in their eyes, and with each word, the invisible bonds between them grew stronger.Da: Diskussionen blev følelsesladet, men samtidig åbnede den døren til en dybere forståelse.En: The discussion became emotional, but at the same time, it opened the door to a deeper understanding.Da: Til sidst brød Klaus stilheden med en varm latter.En: Finally, Klaus broke the silence with a warm laugh.Da: "Livet er ikke altid let, men vi har hinanden," sagde han.En: "Life isn't always easy, but we have each other," he said.Da: Astrid nikkede, hendes blik fast og beslutsomt fastet på de to mænd, hun holdt af.En: Astrid nodded, her gaze steady and determined on the two men she cared for.Da: Søren følte roen sænke sig over ham.En: Søren felt a calm settle over him.Da: Han indså, at hans venner i Danmark udgjorde en væsentlig del af hans identitet.En: He realized that his friends in Danmark formed an essential part of his identity.Da: Deres bånd var stærke nok til at rumme forskelle og forandringer.En: Their bond was strong enough to accommodate differences and changes.Da: Som solen langsomt sænkede sig over parken, gik de tre gamle venner langsomt mod udgangen.En: As the sun slowly set over the park, the three old friends walked slowly towards the exit.Da: Selvom de var af forskellige veje, gik de derfra sammen, fast besluttede på at værne om deres venskab.En: Although they traveled different paths, they left together, firmly determined to cherish their friendship.Da: Søren følte sig endelig hjemme, forankret i nutiden, med glæde i hjertet og venner ved sin side.En: Søren finally felt at home, anchored in the present, with joy in his heart and friends by his side. 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Danes bomo dobili novo vlado, ki jo bo vodil Janez Janša. Takoj po imenovanju se bo sešla na prvi seji in predvidoma potegnila prve kadrovske poteze - ob državnih sekretarjih bi lahko dobili še nova vodstva policije, Sove in morda tudi Fursa. Drugi poudarki: - Izrael in Libanon dosegla dogovor o uresničevanju premirja. - Združeni narodi ob hitrem razvijanju umetne inteligence opozarjajo na njeno energetsko potratnost. - Dve slovenski zmagi na atletskem mitingu na Finskem - Čeh prvi v metu diska, Guček na 400 metrov z ovirami.

Today on the Christian History Almanac, we remember the Danes, their Reformation, and poet Anders Arrebo. Show Notes: Germany / Switzerland - Study Tour Support 1517 Podcast Network 1517 Podcasts 1517 on YouTube 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 Events Schedule 1517 Academy - Free Theological Education What's New from 1517: By Water and the Word by Brian Thomas: https://shop.1517.org/products/9781967920013-by-water-and-the-word?srsltid=AfmBOopBUXbtbkYK0o6UHbWQm8_6UA7hG6B4RXYSeMxos6wbtbxX3Hnk Being Family by Dr. Scott Keith https://shop.1517.org/products/9781964419961-being-family?srsltid=AfmBOooZqqK-X8KqD64jZn1qUUrqiRwO-l3S4Z_WtIcfayMLAlTyHgoN A Reasoned Defense of the Faith by Adam Francisco https://shop.1517.org/collections/coming-soon/products/9781964419879-a-reasoned-defense-of-the-faith Stretched: A Study for Lent and the Entire Christian Life by Dr. Christopher Richmannhttps://shop.1517.org/products/9781964419381-stretched The Essential Nestingen: Essays on Preaching, Catechism, and the Reformationhttps://shop.1517.org/products/9781964419121-the-essential-nestingen More from the hosts: Dan van Voorhis SHOW TRANSCRIPTS are available: https://www.1517.org/podcasts/the-christian-history-almanac CONTACT: CHA@1517.org SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Overcast Google Play FOLLOW US: Facebook Twitter Audio production by Christopher Gillespie (outerrimterritories.com).

Parlamentarna delovna telesa so včeraj potrdila vse ministrske kandidate nove vlade pod vodstvom Janeza Janše, ki so dokončali predstavitve. Pozno sinoči so po nadaljevanju zaslišanja kot primerna ocenili kandidata za gospodarskega ministra Anžeta Logarja in za kmetijskega ministra Janeza Ciglerja Kralja, že čez dan pa Jerneja Vrtovca za infrastrukturo, Valentina Hajdinjaka za obrambo, Ignacijo Fridl Jarc za kulturo, Tadeja Ostrca za zdravje in Andreja Širclja za finance. Danes se bo predstavil drugi del kandidatov za ministre. Drugi poudarki oddaje: - Ameriški predsednik Trump v pričakovanju novega kroga pogajanj med Libanonom in Izraelom pozdravil napredek. - Predsednik Evropskega sveta Costa opozoril Srbijo, da zaradi notranjih razdorov izgublja evropski denar. - Košarkarji Olimpije s tretjo zmago v finalnem nizu proti Krki šestič zapored postali državni prvak.

Ørsted closes its European offshore sale to CIP and weighs a $1 billion exit from the US market. Plus MingYang commissions a 20 MW offshore turbine, and ZF’s plain bearings log 36 GW with no measurable wear. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! [00:00:00] The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape, protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit StrikeTape.com. And now, your hosts Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host for today, Allen Hall, along with Matthew Stead, Rosemary Barnes, and Yolanda Padron. If you’re going to be in Houston for Clean Power 2026, mark Wednesday, June 3rd on your calendar. The Australian American Chamber of Commerce, Texas is hosting an invitation-only panel and networking reception with cocktails from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Houston Club, and I’ll be moderating. We’re bringing together Australian and US wind energy experts to compare notes on how two markets handle O&M, lightning risks, blade inspections, remote monitoring, and where operational gaps [00:01:00] are. The evening also marks the North American commercial launch of EOLOGIX-PING’s satellite-based lightning monitoring system, developed with Adelaide-based satellite IoT company, Myriota. So in joining me on the panel, our own Matt Stead, co-founder of EOLOGIX-PING, and Mark Norman, VP of Edge Solutions at Myriota, and Weather Guard’s Yolanda Padron. EOLOGIX-PING and Myriota have systems already deployed in Japan and Australia, and a little bit in the US here at Weather Guard, and they’re stepping into the North American market at American Clean Power with this advanced lightning monitoring product. So you’ll want to be there and see this new product introduced. It is an invitation-only event, so if you’re at Clean Power and want to be in the room, reach out to us on LinkedIn so we can get you on the list. Orsted finished selling off its European offshore wind business to Copenhagen [00:02:00]Infrastructure Partners, better known as CIP or as it’s a-affectionately called CIP. Now, Bloomberg reports the Danish company is exploring a sale of its US portfolio also, which includes a whole bunch of wind. It’s a decent amount of solar and battery storage in a deal that could bring more than about a billion dollars. Uh, the business generated more than one-fifth of Orsted’s total operating income just last year. Uh, meanwhile, uh, more than 50 US organizers are urging RWE CEO, Markus Kroeker, not to hand back over $1 billion in US offshore wind leases as part of a reported deal with the Trump administration. Uh, so the, the pattern is clear, everybody. European developers are being pushed towards the exit in the American market. The Ørsted situation’s been going on several months now. I, I think it’s pretty much common [00:03:00] knowledge, I would assume at this point. W- we’ve known for months, and I th- think a lot of people we’ve talked to have been saying Ørsted is prepping for a sale. The question is who? And the, the RWE getting rid of their offshore leases in the United States would be a little bit of a odd move. However, a billion dollars back in your bank account is probably a smart move today. So are the, the Germans and the Danish leaving America?  Yolanda Padron: Ørsted’s still keeping their offshore in the US, right?  Allen Hall: Yeah, I don’t know if they’ll be able to sell it off. They own it 100% at this point, right? All the partners have pulled out But I wonder if that’s on the auction block also. That it could be  Matthew Stead: So why? Why are they, why are they selling? I mean, there has to be a reason. I mean, do they have better use for the money elsewhere, or do they just have lost faith in the, the USA?  Allen Hall: It could be a combination of both, right? Both can be true at the same time. I do think the cash flow is an issue [00:04:00] for renewable energy companies at the minute, so if they can get some money back into the coffers and to get ready for the next big run of development, they probably should do it now. But things, especially it does seem a little bit on the slow side on the re- renewable development, except in the UK where it’s going crazy.  Do you think then that they’re looking for American people to sell it to?  Allen Hall: Or Canadian. If Ørsted sells their onshore business, uh, to CIP, it still remains in Danish hands, so it wouldn’t necessarily be a, uh, removal of the Danes from America, not, not quite. Matthew Stead: Yeah. I’m just a bit confused why, you know, why, you know, why would it, um, attract a good price at the moment? So I would’ve thought, you know, if it was me, I would’ve take the long-term view and just hang onto it.  Allen Hall: Well, the, the tax credit’s already built into those businesses, right? I, I at least that’s what I would assume, that the, the tax credits are still [00:05:00] available on a number of the Ørsted sites. They’re not that old. A lot of the wind sites are not that old, so you could gain that tax advantage. It may make sense. It may be a, a Berkshire Hathaway or somebody like that may, may jump into the mix.  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, and maybe because there’s not so much opportunity for new developments at the moment, that might be maybe it’s appealing for that reason, that there’s, yeah, not, not so many wind opportunities around, and companies want wind in their portfolios, so. Allen Hall: Or data centers like we just saw with NextEra and Dominion. The, the drive for, for data centers, uh, is pushing the, the power demand, and if you could buy wind, solar, and battery all together, most of it kind of co-located, you could put some data centers in Texas ’cause a vast majority of that Ørsted fleet is in a place where you could plant a data center right next to it. Maybe that’s, maybe that’s the thought. Uh, if they saw NextEra and Dominion join hands, maybe there’s another partnership in the mix. That would be really interesting. Maybe it’s Elon. Maybe [00:06:00] SpaceX or, uh, Tesla could just buy Ørsted’s onshore wind business. That would be a- amazing.  Matthew Stead: I thought they were going into space. Why would they be bothering with the Earth?  Allen Hall: You gotta power the rockets before you launch them, right? You get so-  Matthew Stead: gotta get some power from somewhere. Allen Hall: Delamination and bondline failures in blades are difficult problems to detect early. These hidden issues can cost you millions in repairs and lost energy production. CIC-NDT are specialists to detect these critical flaws before they become expensive burdens. Their nondestructive test technology penetrates deep into blade materials to find voids and cracks traditional inspections completely miss. CIC-NDT maps every critical defect, delivers actionable reports, and provides support to get your blades back in service. So visit cicndt.com because catching blade problems early will save you millions[00:07:00] China has commissioned what is being called the world’s largest offshore wind turbine. It’s a 20-megawatt machine built by MingYang Smart Energy, installed off the coast of China in the South China Sea. The structure stands about 240 meters tall with blades around 128 meters long. That’s a pretty good-sized blade. And it’s rated to survive gusts up to 80 meters per second. But the real story is what researchers are watching after the turbine starts up. Early reports say that the rotor that is massively big will create measurable changes in local air currents and temperature distribution. At this scale, offshore wind creating a physical footprint that scientists want to measure and We have seen this effect here at Weather Guard Lightning Tech, watching storms go through the big wind farms [00:08:00] in the United States. So you can actually see storm behaviors change because of the quantity of turbines, and the turbines are getting to be high enough with the hub heights approaching 100 meters. But nothing as big as a 20 megawatt machine out on the ocean. It’s mixing the t- the, the air quite a bit, changing the temperature. Uh, is this something that climatologists are looking at, Rosemary, or, or, or watching closely, particularly with the, uh, fish life and sea life around the wind turbines?  Rosemary Barnes: I don’t know. My thing with MingYang is that they’re always, like, you only ever hear about them ’cause they’re announcing the biggest something, right? Um, that’s like the extent of it. It’s not like you hear about, oh, there’s a wind farm near you and it’s gonna have MingYang turbines in it. You never hear that. You only hear about they’ve got the biggest, and now next year they’ve got the new biggest, the biggest, the biggest, the biggest. And, uh, it’s like I know that they do actually make some, like, a lot of turbines. I think they’re in the, we mentioned last week, they’re in the top five manufacturers, um, mostly or maybe [00:09:00] pretty much entirely for the Chinese market. Um, so it’s not like I think they don’t make anything. But I do think it’s quite easy to announce the biggest something. This announcement is also like, yeah, okay, but is it real? Like it’s the, it’s a big, it’s a really big turbine. It’s going pretty high, but like offshore, um, there are, I think, onshore turbines being announced that are gonna go as high or higher because, you know, onshore, um, turbines have much taller towers than, than offshore. So I actually don’t think that it probably is a record for the tallest, like, tip that’s scraping. This is a thing that’s always happened, and sure, that’s interesting to have a look at and see if it has any local impact. It’s not like it’s, it’s not creating energy, right? It’s not gonna warm up, um, the, the planet. I mean, it’s, yeah, taking energy out of the, the air and then converting it to electricity. Um, so overall you’re gonna end up with the same amount of, of energy. But yeah, could be interesting to study, study what’s happening specifically.  Matthew Stead: I think it’s a so what question. You know, so what? I mean, I can sneeze and [00:10:00] I’d change the local environment, but who cares if I sneeze and change the local environment? You know, the, you know, the weather is inherently turbulent and, you know- There’s mixing and there’s all sorts of stuff naturally occurring. Yeah, my question is, so what?  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. I mean, it’s interesting in terms of, like, wakes of wind turbines and, you know, there’s, uh, people are researching that more because it’s not well enough understood, I think, for some of the really big offshore wind regions where there’s heaps of different wind farms and, you know, like, you’re gonna wanna know if you’ve got a win- an existing wind farm or you’re planning one, and then they sell, um, rights to build one immediately upstream of you, then, you know, you’re gonna wanna understand how, how all that local atmospheric stuff is, is happening exactly. Um, but yeah, like, it’s not, it’s not quite new and it’s not, yeah, like you said, it’s not unique to wind turbines. Um, so yeah, it is, like, slightly interesting, I would say. 5 out of 10 interesting.  Allen Hall: How much time should we spend on contrails? [00:11:00] Because we spent a good 20 minutes before we started this podcast talking about contrails, which is a one or maybe a negative one on the scale of should I follow this? Rosemary Barnes: How interesting is the fact that air travel is contributing to climate change? How interesting is that on a scale of one to 10?  Allen Hall: Zero.  Matthew Stead: Eight.  Allen Hall: It’s like the, it’s like the cow argument, right?  Rosemary Barnes: Allen doesn’t care about climate change. That’s okay.  Allen Hall: You asked me to put it on a ranking of where it is in importance. It’s, it’s nowhere near m- even a five.  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. So Yves said zero. Matt said eight. What about you, Yolanda? How, how interesting is the fact that air travel impacts climate change?  Yolanda Padron: I think it’s, like, a six.  Rosemary Barnes: Six. Okay. And so did you know that, um, airplanes are 2.5% of the world’s emissions, um, come from air, air travel? And did you know that I think it’s [00:12:00] 4% of the world’s warming comes from air travel? Of the warming, two-thirds of the warming that is caused by air travel or airplanes, uh, could be freight as well, it’s not to do with CO2. So some of that is, you know, like other, um, gases like NOx is a pretty potent greenhouse gas. Contrails are the biggest single component, the single biggest factor causing warming from, um, from air travel. And it’s not, it’s not necessary. You know, every airplane doesn’t create contrails in every trip. It’s, it’s a small number. Like, it’s a pretty small number of trips that are making contrails, and if we can better understand how like, what are the factors that lead to a contrail being formed or not, then we can avoid them and, you know, get rid of a, a percent or two of the world’s global warming. I think that’s just really huge.  Matthew Stead: What would you do about it, Rosie?  Rosemary Barnes: There’s a couple of solutions I know that other people are working on that sound very interesting to me. So the first is that if you change the fuel, like, [00:13:00] um, to sustainable aviation fuel, like a, a biofuel, some of those that have been tested also produce less contrails. I don’t know the exact reason why. Would be interesting to find out. That’s one thing. But secondly, um, if you can get good data about, like, very local atmospheric conditions and, you know, let the world’s airplane fleet can communicate with each other and some AI processing in real time, you can make small changes to your flight path to avoid making contrails, and yeah, you get, um, a small increase in, in f- fuel burn, I guess, from deviating from the most efficient route, but a big, big inc- um, decrease in contrails. Uh, so I think both of those are really promising solutions.  Allen Hall: It’s not that easy It isn’t like every airplane’s out there changing its altitude to keep away from creating contrails. There’s whole systems, thousands of people working at any one moment to keep airplanes up in the air. So it, it’s not something you just willy-nilly say, [00:14:00] “AI can adjust my altitude or my flight plan to deviate so I can prevent contrails.” It’s not that easy. It’s actually a huge undertaking, and it may end up burning more fuel.  Rosemary Barnes: Oh, I mean, it’s an incredibly complex system to keep airplanes up and not colliding. Um, I believe it’s not centrally planned. It’s not like you’re not logging your whole flight path any- anymore. I, I listened to a podcast about this the other day, and in the past you used to log your entire flight plan and not deviate from it, but now it, it’s done a bit on the fly. So I’m sure that there are already hundreds or thousands of factors that an aircraft computer is taking into account, um, when it’s figuring out exactly where it’s gonna go, and this would be another bit of complexity. I don’t, I don’t think it’s easy, otherwise we’d already be doing it. But I think it’s, it’s promising. And I think it’s easier than making hydrogen airplanes, for example. I think it’s easier than electrifying airplanes. And the fact of it is that even if you do [00:15:00] have sustainable aviation fuel, if it’s still making contrails, it’s still causing warming. So if you wanna actually s- solve, uh, you know, heating from flying, then you have to, you have to tackle the contrail part of the problem. It’s the biggest, it’s the biggest chunk on its own, bigger than CO2.  Matthew Stead: So did we get here by talking about possible contrails from wind turbines? Is that what we were talking about?  Rosemary Barnes: No. It was because Allen was saying before that we were gonna go off the rails, and he’s like, “Oh, you know what? In no time we’ll be talking about contrails,” like using it as an example of a tinfoil hat-wearing person. And I’m like, “Actually, that is a tinfoil hat that I do like to wear,” the contrails one. Um, not because I think the government is controlling me, uh, with with, you know, targeted hor- hormone or chemical releases via contrails, but because of the global warming potential.  Matthew Stead: Could a, a really tall wind turbine create contrails? What, what’s the physics behind that?  Allen Hall: [00:16:00] It’s just, um, water, right? So you’re just condensing water and shoving it out the back. When you’re burning hydrocarbons, it’s one of the byproducts, right? It’s like in, when, in an internal combustion engine, you see water dripping out the tailpipe. It’s this very similar kind of thing. Uh, so how much water comes out is dependent upon somewhat the fuel, as Rosie’s pointed out, so you can slightly change it, but a lot of it has to do with the temperature, altitude, pressure moisture content of the air, all those different factors play into it. So you’d have to have, in order to go look at it, you’d have to have a bunch of sensors on the airplane, which, which the aircraft may have some of them, but probably not enough to determine if they’re creating contrails besides looking out the window to see what’s coming out on the backside of the engine. Matthew Stead: A wind turbine could not create contrails. The pressure differential and the, the vapor pressure-  Allen Hall: Yeah, it’s not enough to, you’re, you’re not, you’re not changing temperatures enough, [00:17:00] right? So you, you basically have to change the dew point. That’s the way I would think about it. You have to change the dew point somehow, which I guess you could do maybe by a degree or so locally, you may be able to, to change it, and maybe you could. Um, well, we have seen tip vortices, right? So tip vortices, you have seen these contrails off the, the tips of, of, of aircraft wings.  Rosemary Barnes: But are they durable? You know, ’cause like, yeah, you see tip vortices off, yeah, off wing, wingtips, off wind turbine tips as well. But I don’t think they stay in the air after, you know, they, um, you can see them, and then they dissipate usually. Allen Hall: Yeah, it, it depends. You’ll see it when aircraft land quite a bit. Depends on what the temperature, humidity is at that particular moment, but th- those will, those will hang around a little bit  Rosemary Barnes: But I mean, certainly you can, you can, um, cause droplets to freeze from a wind turbine being there. That’s how they get iced up, is that their… Or either their water was super cooled to begin with and it just needs a, a surface to latch onto so that the crystal can, [00:18:00] um, form or also, yeah, like, I mean, in the aerodynamics there is that point between where the air goes over and under and you, um, sta- stagnation or-  Allen Hall: Stagnation point?  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. So you can, um, you, you could get some freezing there. Allen Hall: You can create cold zones.  Rosemary Barnes: I, as far as I know, all that stuff is just causing ice to build up on the blade. I don’t think that it’s, um… Yeah. And anyway, even if it did, like even if you did affect the, um, you know, have some ice particles forming in the, um, the wake then it’s just going to, or I don’t know, get hit the next time the, the, the blade goes through or, yeah, fa- fall out I would think ’cause it’s quite close to the ground  Allen Hall: but- Just to tie into what Rosemary’s saying, although I think wasting time on contrails is not worth the effort, I do think meteorologists do not do enough work on big changes that are happening to the planet in regards to, like, renewable energy is one of them, like wind turbines. I [00:19:00] haven’t seen a lot of work done about are wind turbines changing the temperature locally or not. I mean, they- I’ve seen some top level things, solar panels, but the same thing could be seen about shipping.  Rosemary Barnes: Oh, I mean shipping, shipping was, shipping was, um, cooling the planet until we, um, brought in restrictions on how much, um, sulfur emissions that you could, you could make. But can I use this to actually plug a, um, a, a pro- a collaborative project that we’re about to start where actually, uh, this is quite specific to Australia, to Queensland and Northern New South Wales. We’ve got a study, uh, collaborative study from a bunch of wind farms in that area and getting some academic researchers involved to look at how, like very detailed how lightning is in that region. And one of the questions that we’re gonna look at is what, h- how has the, um, the presence of wind farms, like when wind farms are built, how has that affected the local lightning, um, area? [00:20:00] So we’re gonna be able to answer, uh, you know, like to what extent have these wind farms caused increases in In lightning  Allen Hall: Or decreases  Rosemary Barnes: Or decreases. I’d, I, oof, yeah. I, I’d be surprised if it was decreases, and I will say, like, yeah, that area of Queensland, northern New South Wales, um, you know, they get kind of tropical storms, um, heaps and heaps of lightning, you know, hundreds hundreds of, um, strikes in a single storm sometimes, you know, and, you know, in one wind farm. But even if you think, like, uh, down in Victoria, New South Wales and Victoria, where you look at a lightning map and there should be very little lightning there, there are certain sites that are actually having huge problems with lightning, like way more strikes than you would expect based on the map, and I think that partly that’s also ’cause it just varies locally. But the other thing is, like, a l- a lot more of really damaging strikes. It is something that’s the world needs to do more of, is looking into, like, really local lightning, understanding how the wind farm is interacting with the lightning, causing lightning, how it differs from place to place. [00:21:00] I’m really hoping that, yeah, this, this one study that we’re working on now, and anyone who has a wind farm in that area, Queensland, northern New South Wales, if you wanna be involved, get in touch. The more people involved, the cheaper it is. But I think that that’s definitely something that can improve how lightning protection systems are, are designed, if we just know, like, what’s, what’s happening. ‘Cause there aren’t great links between OEMs doing the design and people in the field experiencing damage. Like, they don’t talk. Even when it’s the same company, you know, if it’s Vestas or GE that designed the turbine and is now servicing the turbines, they, they don’t necessarily talk to each other as much as, um, would be ideal.  Allen Hall: Using the EOLOGIX-PING lightning sensors, we just completed a study over a five-year period, uh, just about that subject. Rosemary Barnes: Where, where did you do that?  Allen Hall: In the States.  Rosemary Barnes: And will you be publishing the results and sending a, a letter to Vestas and GE and Siemens and whoever else and send them a letter, “Attention lightning expert”? [00:22:00] Matthew Stead: We’re probably just gonna put it on the website.  Rosemary Barnes: But is there even a, a, a conference, a, a conference for wind turbines and lightning? Con- considering it’s, like, one of the number one O&M things, like we’re-  Matthew Stead: There’s one in Melbourne next year in February.  Rosemary Barnes: I wasn’t attempting to, um, set the stage for, uh, this is why everyone has to come to our event. I mean, it, it, it’s so strange to me that there isn’t just, you know, like, a big conference every year. I mean, it could be every two years where all of the univ- like there’s heaps of people researching it, heaps of people working on designing on it, heaps of people working on operating it, repairing it when it doesn’t work, and, um-  Allen Hall: I think they’re looking at it from a very, uh, local scale And looking at a turbine taking a lightning strike and the things you can do to reduce damage or what the, the physics are locally, ’cause we don’t understand all that much about lightning, honestly. However, on a, on a larger scale, which is what the effort we’re working on right now, is that we’re looking at several states that are right in the thunderstorm alley and where [00:23:00] there’s a lot of wind turbines, thousands and thousands of wind turbines. What you see is, uh, a real change in the, in the weather patterns and in lightning, but it depends on the time of year. And having the EOLOGIX-PING lightning sensors on gives us a better sense of the number of strikes that are occurring, where they’re occurring on the wind farms. Uh, o- otherwise, all the other services that you could use wouldn’t be nearly as accurate. A lot of false positives.  Rosemary Barnes: But I wanna say, like, I think you’re so right that lightning it- it’s very local, like, and s- lightning behaves differently depending where you are. It dep- dep- behaves differently or it affects your turbine differently depending on what kind of LPS you’ve got. But the problem is that it’s not like there’s, um, you know, a catalog of LPSs and you’re like, “This one suits the lightning in Japan, and this one suits the lightning in Queensland.” It’s one– Y- if you want a GE turbine, this is the, it comes with a certain type of LPS, and the same with, with Vestas and, you know, ev- every other manufacturer. And they’ve all, I’m sure, got types of lightning that [00:24:00] they are better or worse suited to, but the information is, is certainly not out there for someone who’s choosing a turbine, and I don’t think that it’s actually properly understood by, by anyone. Because, like, who’s measuring all of the characteristics that you would need to know to design the LPS better? Almost no one. Most of the people doing that in the world are probably, yeah, on this podcast today. Um, but it’s, uh… And, and when they are being measured, is it being communicated back to every OEM so they can know? Like, of course it’s, it’s not.  Allen Hall: I’ll give you a good example because it happened over the past week or two. Looking at a wind turbine blade that had some damage to it, and the question was, was it caused by lightning? That was the question. And that’s a really good question. So I thought, “Oh, this will be easy,” because there’s gonna be a plethora of- lightning test data reports talking about testing of this particular kind of aluminum mesh on fiberglass surfaces, and [00:25:00] there really is not much. I was shocked by it. So I always think like if, if I can’t put my fingers on it readily, then what is a blade engineer or a site supervisor or someone who owns an asset’s gonna do?  Rosemary Barnes: I saw a presentation at Wind Europe last year or whenever I went, when I met with, with you both, probably both of you there, um, uh, that Polytech did where they had done some fatigue testing, um, of copper mesh and its lightning, um, protecting capabilities. And they did f- they, so they, you know, put some mesh into, um, fatigue testing, I, I think, or they, they damaged it a bit with a bit fatigue, some micro cracks and stuff. And they just did find that it heated up a lot after that. Um, you know, after it was a bit damaged, they were getting like real hot spots. And so then you’re gonna start to see laminate damage, um, in the, the area underneath that. So yeah, I, I think that more, more, like it’s a, it’s a good step that we’re now thinking [00:26:00] of, you know, protecting better than what we used to do with just, you know, one receptor in the, the tip and a cable, especially, you know, throw in carbon fiber and you, you know, make a second electrically conductive path and have flashover and stuff. It’s really great that, you know, we’ve evolved beyond that design, but it’s not finished yet. Like th- all those designs are new. There’s a lot of them out there. It sound like everyone’s like, “Oh, it’s, you know, we don’t have to worry if it’s got mesh over the whole blade.” It’s like, okay, maybe you don’t have to worry. Maybe, maybe you do. We, we kind of have to, have to keep on monitoring those for a few years and sharing the information.  Allen Hall: As wind energy professionals, staying informed is crucial, and let’s face it, difficult. That’s why the Uptime Podcast recommends PES Wind Magazine. PES Wind offers a diverse range of in-depth articles and expert insights that dive into the most pressing issues facing our energy future. Whether you’re an industry veteran or new to wind, PES Wind has the high-quality content you need. Don’t miss out. Visit [00:27:00] peswind.com today. In the current issue of PES Wind Magazine, there are a number of great articles. If you haven’t received your copy, you should just go to peswind.com and where you can read it and download a copy. Well, uh, this issue has an article from ZF and talking about gearboxes. And as we all know, inside every gearbox there are bearings and surfaces. Those tend to be the weak links when things break. And for decades, the industry has used roller bearings and, uh, the same kind basically you find in other machines. Uh, they work, but they do wear out. And how many times have you seen bearings, roller bearings wear out inside of gearboxes? Quite a bit. So– And they, they, they break down, they go offline. It’s, it’s a big problem. But ZF Wind Power says it has cracked the code with its hydrodynamic plain bearings. The company has already installed 36 gigawatts of gearboxes [00:28:00] using this technology, and they say field inspections show no measurable wear. Uh, the next generation, uh, which is a single film design, is heading to production in 2027. So ZF uses a different technique to keep their gearboxes running for a long time, which is, uh, it’s a simple device mechanically, but it is quite complicated in the way you have to design materials. Uh, basically plain bearings are what’s used in, in internal combustion engine around camshafts and things of that sort. But designing those and making sure you have the right materials is the trick, Matthew, and you’ve been around cars for quite a while. It’s, it’s the right approach if you can make it work, and it looks like ZF has done a really good job of making these, uh, bearing services work.  Matthew Stead: Yeah, it sounds like a, a perfect, uh, innovation. I, I heard about this the first time, I think it was a couple of years ago. And, and like you said, Allen, um, you know, cars for the [00:29:00] last 100 years or so have, have been using journal bearings. I probably need to fact check that one. It may not be 100 years yet, but definitely cars from a long time ago have been using these, um, these bearings. Um, I, I think, uh, one question is, though, around condition monitoring. You know, how do you actually monitor the condition of the, the s- the surfaces? Um, you know, with a traditional roller bearing, you can use, you know, vibration techniques. I’m not aware of as many condition monitoring techniques for, for the journal bearings. Um, perhaps, um, obviously the oil, oil particle and, you know, checking the oil quality, et cetera, et cetera. But, um, that might be where the gap might occur. But You know, if they’re lasting, if they’re not degrading, um, there’s no moving parts, um, yeah, great  Allen Hall: The issue is lubrication, right? Because you’ve got basically two well-designed flat metal surfaces that you have to provide lubrication to, and those two surfaces are moving relative to one another. The lubrication [00:30:00] matters ’cause you’re literally riding on a very, very thin layer of lubricant. So making sure the lubricant gets in there, that it’s, it’s clean, and it’s always available, uh, is the trick. That’s why in today’s world, a lot of internal combustion engines can go several hundred thousand miles in a vehicle because the lubrication systems have gotten so much better over the last 50, 60 years. And ZF is probably using something very similar, where the, the technology has gotten better and the metallurg- the metallurgy has gotten way better, and control of that. Because the, the bearing surface really matters, and there’s two pieces to it, right? You got this rotating– To simplify it, you got a rotating shaft, and then you have this bearing surface that that shaft sits on. The, the rotating shaft is gonna be made out of something relatively hard, where the bearing surface is gonna be made out of a mixture of metals that is a little bit soft. So if anything goes wrong, that bearing surface, that little race right there, uh, will wear, [00:31:00] and you can replace it. But if kept lubricated and cleaned and proper, that will run dang near forever, as ZF has proven. Matthew Stead: I think it’s the starting load. I think it’s when it’s at stationary and then starts. So I’m getting that initial lubrication. From my understanding, that’s where the, where the challenge lies. And, you know, obviously in a combustion engine in a vehicle, it’s starting and stopping all the time. So, um, but I just wonder, are the loads higher? Um, how does that occur in a, in a actual, um, gearbox on a, a turbine?  Allen Hall: Right. It’s not like a main, uh, shaft bearing, right? The– It’s, it’s in a gearbox. You have a lot of planetary gears and a lot of rotating com- pieces there But the, I think the trick is, one, understanding what’s happening load-wise, and hydrodynamic bearings can have some issues if things are twisting in weird ways. So a gearbox is probably the right place to do this technique because of it’s a [00:32:00] controlled environment necessarily.  Matthew Stead: Alignment.  Allen Hall: Yeah. So you can, you can control how the, the loads are carried internally to it, which would make it last a lot longer. S- because roller bearings and, and all of the complexities around that, uh, we’ve seen those fail so many times inside of wind turbines because it’s hard to control everything about that. Al- although they, they can be extremely durable, I would say ZF is onto something in, in terms of delivering a gearbox that can actually run longer using, uh, good engineering. That’s what it is. It’s just really good engineering. So if you haven’t seen this issue of PES Wind, you should download it today. Go to peswind.com. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn. And don’t forget to subscribe so you [00:33:00] never miss an episode. And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover the show. So for Rosie, Yolanda, and Matthew, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy podcast.

These are the light times in Denmark. In May and June, it's light until 10 or 11 in the evening, and then the sun is back around 4am. It's a nice contrast to the dark times in winter, although all that light can make you feel a bit jittery and overstimulated. It's also one of the few times a year that the Danes close their curtains. They do that so the first rays of sunshine won't wake them up at a painfully early hour. At other times of the year, the curtains to homes and apartments are often wide open, and visitors to Denmark are sometimes surprised that they can see right into people's homes as they eat dinner or watch TV. Keeping curtains open makes sense for the darker times of the Danish year when you're desperate for as much sunlight as possible. But it's also a sign of confidence in who you are and what you are presenting to the world, that you have nothing to hide. This is me. This is who I am. Authenticity is a basic Danish value, just like trust and transparency and having a sense of humor about yourself.  Denmark is not a status culture, it's not a place where you fake it until you make it. It's a place where you're expected to present yourself warts and all.

Od revolucionarne ideje, ki je ponudila tisoč skladb v žepu in spremenila glasbeno industrijo, do telefona z zaslonom na dotik, ki mu je morala slediti tudi konkurenca in zaradi katerega so ljudje v več državah hkrati bili pripravljeni stati v dolgih vrstah. Ameriška korporacija Apple danes ob 50. rojstnem dnevu ni samo iPhone, čeprav še vedno predstavlja dobro polovico prihodkov podjetja. Kljub brezhibnemu videzu izdelkov, odličnemu marketingu in enormni rasti pa nabira tudi črne pike in kritike, ki jih ni mogoče spregledati.Nejc Žorga Dulmin je tehnološki navdušenec, ki je med letoma 2012 in 2019 soustvarjal podkast Bitni pogovori, enega prvih slovenskih tehnoloških podkastov z rednimi debatami o Applu. Danes deluje kot razvijalec digitalnih izobraževanj in interaktivnih učnih vsebin. Zapiski: Odbit Discord Oglasite se lahko na odbita@rtvslo.si Apple | Book by David Pogue | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster Apple in China - Wikipedia Poglavja: 00:00:01 Uvod in 50 let podjetja Apple 00:03:24 Zgodovina pred iPodom 00:06:24 Odhod in vrnitev Steva Jobsa ter reševanje pred bankrotom 00:08:51 Leto 2001: Revolucija z iPodom 00:13:14 Leto 2007: Predstavitev iPhona in prelom v industriji 00:18:09 Temna plat uspeha: Tim Cook in odvisnost od Kitajske 00:23:28 Eksponentna rast številk in pomen iPhona danes 00:31:09 Zapuščina Tima Cooka in prihodnji izzivi

Why are Danes so obsessed with summer festivals?In this episode, Derek and Brooke dive into Denmark's legendary festival culture with Heartland Festival founder Ulrik Ørum-Petersen. From Roskilde Festival and Smukfest to Heartland Festival, Distortion, and Copenhagen Jazz Festival, they unpack what each festival says about Danish culture, and the people who go to them.This episode explores how festivals can actually help internationals better understand Denmark, and maybe even integrate into Danish society. If you're new to Denmark, curious about Danish culture, or planning your first Danish summer festival, this episode is your guide to navigating festival season like a local.Topics explored:Why Denmark has so many festivalsRoskilde as a “rite of passage”Why Danish summers feel so intenseFestival camping vs glampingDanish music trends and local-language artistsHow festivals became part of Danish identityTips for internationals attending their first Danish festivalUlrik (guest)Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ulrikorum/Heartland Website: https://heartlandfestival.dk/Heartland Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heartlandfestivaldk/

The war between Denmark and the duchies hadn't solved the question of who should govern Slesvig. Tension between Danes and Germans kept growing, and too many people on both sides started to think that only another war could settle the issue.

The conclusion of the Viking Age is often associated with the pivotal year 1066, marked by the death of Harald Hardrada at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Hardrada was a legendary King of Norway who had lived an extraordinary life, serving as an imperial bodyguard in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople where he was rewarded with gold or "embers of the hands." He sought to reclaim the English throne, which had previously been held by King Canute during the era of the North Sea Empire that united England, Denmark, and parts of Norway. While 1066 is a convenient historical bookmark, Barraclough argues it is an Anglo-centric view that ignores the persistence of Norse culture in other regions like Greenland or Russia. The era also featured figures like Harald Bluetooth, who famously claimed to have converted the Danes to Christianity and whose runic initials now serve as the symbol for modern Bluetooth technology. Another symbolic ending occurred much later in 1263 at the Battle of Largs, where King Haakonof Norway faced off against King Alexander III of Scotland. Although the battle was inconclusive, Haakon'ssubsequent death in Orkney led to the Western Isles being ceded to Scotland, marking the end of significant Norwegian political control in the region. 7/81630

Israel and Iran continue to strike each other after the US says plans for talks with Tehran remain "fluid". We also hear how President Trump's vague peace plan gives only temporary relief to unstable markets, and about life in Iran under constant bombardment. In other news, the United States pays a French energy company $1 billion not to build a wind farm. Danes go to the polls: will they re-elect their prime minister for a third term? The plight of some of Cuba's most vulnerable people under a US oil embargo. And, the BBC follows an illegal trade as valuable as cocaine - in baby eels.The Global News Podcast brings you the breaking news you need to hear, as it happens. Listen for the latest headlines and current affairs from around the world. Politics, economics, climate, business, technology, health – we cover it all with expert analysis and insight. Get the news that matters, delivered twice a day on weekdays and daily at weekends, plus special bonus episodes reacting to urgent breaking stories. Follow or subscribe now and never miss a moment. Get in touch: globalpodcast@bbc.co.uk