He holds MBA from NIMBAS Graduate School of Management.Īlex and his wife Carlijn have one daughter and two sons and live in the Netherlands. Prior to Onshore Wind, Alex worked in GE finance leadership roles within Power Generation industry in Netherlands and Italy.Īlex is a graduate from two leadership programs within his former company GE, the Financial Management Program (FMP) and GE Corporate Audit Staff (CAS) during which time he worked in UK, Germany, Netherlands, US, South and Latin America. Prior to that he was a CFO for GE Onshore Wind EMEA business driving profitable growth in the region. In addition, Alex was a managing director of GE Wind Energy GmbH Salzbergen entity with over 1000 Employees. Most recently Alex was GM for GE Onshore Wind EMEA projects segment providing operational leadership for 7GWs of onshore wind installations during the period of 4 years, covering project management, proposals & projects procurement, logistics, turnkey solutions, installation & commissioning. He has more than 20 years of international business experience most of which within the renewable energy sector. Chief Operating and Financial Officer, CWP EuropeĪlex is Chief Operating and Financial Officer for CWP Europe.
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When Kenza is captured, the soldiers take off her kerchief and throw it on the. And in the thick of battle, Henry, a medic, searches for lives to save.In a breathtaking race against time, they all must fight to complete their high-stakes missions. At the beginning of Allies, Kenza Zidane, Samira’s mother, wears a headscarf (referred to as a kerchief) (25) both to hide her appearance from the Nazis and as an expression of her Algerian identity. Meanwhile, paratrooper James leaps from his plane to join a daring midnight raid. Behind enemy lines in France, a girl named Samira works as a spy, trying to sabotage the German army. He feels the weight of World War II on his shoulders.But Dee is not alone. And Dee - along with his brothers-in-arms - is terrified. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together to storm German-occupied France.Welcome to D-Day.Dee, a young U.S. June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. The diverse characters not only represent different nations and ethnicities, but differing reasons. The story mostly follows Dee, but the others play integral roles in the mission. Allies takes place over the course of twenty-four hoursfrom midnight Jto midnight on June 7. An instant New York Times bestseller!Alan Gratz, bestselling author of Refugee, weaves a stunning array of voices and stories into an epic tale of teamwork in the face of tyranny - and how just one day can change the world. Written by Alan Gratz Review by Meg Wiviott. The use of this code allowed messages to be sent and decoded in minutes, instead of hours – saving an untold amount of lives. Ned and hundreds of others invent an unbreakable code that was used throughout the Pacific Theater. Suddenly Navajo language speakers – the defining aspect of a people’s culture – are needed to assist the United States defeat Japan. From when he was six until he was sixteen, his culture and beliefs were shamed and ridiculed as useless. Growing up, Ned, was continuously told that nothing Navajo contained any value. The book represents cultural difference in the most profound way, as that between life and death. Then he traces his time through Boarding Schools, which ultimately led him to the Marines and becoming a Code Talker in the Pacific Theater during World War II.Ĭode Talkers took Bruchac about 20 years to write and offers a fictionalized account of the Navajo contribution to the war that wasn’t acknowledged until 1969. It starts with Ned’s earliest memories growing up on the Dine – Navajo land in Southwest United States. The telling begins with Ned surrounded by his grandchildren. Ned Begay, the narrator of the story is a proud member of the Navajo Tribe. When the climate was congenial, though, when the food was plentiful, we were willing to stay put. We were bounded only by the Earth and the ocean and the sky-plus occasional grumpy neighbors. There were no border guards then, no customs officials. We could always begin again.įor 99.9 percent of the time since our species came to be, we were hunters and foragers, wanderers on the savannahs and the steppes. And when we couldn't get on with the others in our little nomadic band, we left to find a more friendly bunch somewhere else. When the drought was prolonged, or when an unsettling chill lingered in the summer air, our group moved on-sometimes to unknown lands. Then, as now, technology was the key to our survival. We taught them the skills they would need. Working together, we protected our children from the lions and the hyenas. Making it on our own was as ludicrous to imagine as was settling down… through stealth, feint, ambush, and main-force assault, a few of us cooperating accomplished what many of us, each hunting alone, could not. We followed the herds in their annual migrations. When the fruits or nuts were ripe, we were there. We knew every stand of tree for a hundred miles. However, the article also focuses ecocinematic research towards issues of reception, examining film’s capacity to affect the spectators: the slow contemplation of the world is posited as an essential aspect of ecocinema. MacDonald’s text is pioneering in several ways, first because it posits experimental films as privileged sites for ‘ecocinema’, an intuition that seems to be confirmed by the significance given to experimental films in ecocritical studies since then. Over the years, this concept of ‘ecocinema’ has become a widely discussed object of study by ecocritics, including a large spectrum of styles and media. The idea of an ‘Eco-Cinema’ was first proposed in an article from 2004 by Scott MacDonald, which examined avant-garde, non-commercial film productions, where the filmmaker’s experience of being immersed in the natural environment was poetically attuned to the material vulnerability of the film medium. (Site St Charles, Turbulence Building, 3 place Victor Hugo, Marseille or by Zoom) 16 and 17 November 2023 / Aix-Marseille University He's a little on the hard side, not so chatty, and keeps to himself. Luna has had a little crush on Rip for as long as she can remember. She loves the guys there, the owner is like a father to her, then there is her other boss. One of the things she loves the most is going to work. Her life hasn't always been good, but she doesn't like to focus on that. She has a good life, three sisters she loves and cares for, a few good friends, and is trying to be as content as she can be. Luna is the only woman working in the auto shop she paints at. they were just everything! It's been a while since I've had an epic 5+ star read from this author and this book really hit the spot for me! I have to say, this is one of her very best books and Rip is an amazing hero! I loved Luna as well. That fact made Luna and the Lie that much sweeter. I've loved most of her books, but her last few haven't been five star favorites for me. Mariana Zapata is one of my favorite authors. The manga captures little vignettes of all these characters’ lives, be it gaming (or even in-game role-playing), shopping at manga stores, or just hanging at the coffee shop. There’s an intense moment in this volume, for instance, where they are close to kissing, and there’s also a hilarious beat where Narumi sees a lot more below the belt than Hirotaka would ever want. Hirotaka and Narumi, the main characters, end up progressing their relationship a bit, but it’s clear Fujita is rolling out the hot and heavy stuff at a slow pace. This volume fleshes out the main characters’ two friends Hanako and Taro (who have a wickedly sexual relationship) quite a bit with a new budding relationship. Being a nerd in America doesn’t quite have the stigma the characters must live through in this manga, but it’s relatable nonetheless. It’s without a doubt capturing real-life portrayals of people and the culture they live in. Some references certainly fly over my head, but without a doubt creator Fujita has created an incredibly genuine story here. I’ve probably learned more terms and little Japanese nerd factoids reading this and the last volume than anywhere else. Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku © Fujita/Ichijinsha, Inc. The power levels give good detail on the characters and they’re fun. Profound and totally in keeping with the title of the local poets' event: “Amphibian fate.” Amphibian is a compound word, Amphi- meaning "on both sides" and -bios meaning "life" in Greek. Who said we are going to crash? We never even arrived.,” Tell me, does separation kill? It wounds, it does not kill. "I want a boat, oh river, made of cardboard, like those with which students play by the banks of rivers. This year marks the sixtieth anniversary of the visit to the Yarra River of Kavvadias, a poet who confided in our major riparian artery: The only other Greek literary figure of note to enjoy such a connection is Stratis Tsirkas, who lived in Sydney for five years in the fifties. Furthermore, we are all pretty chuffed that one of the premier poets of Greece has an Australian connection. So who was this Nikos Kavvadias who visited or shores and why did a group of local poets pay tribute to him on 5 June 2011, in a tribute concert at the Melba Hall, Melbourne University, entitled “Amphibian Fate?” The short answer is because he is cool and because they could. I ended up enjoying this book more because of the political material rather than insights into the newspaper business. Graham’s entry into the business of the Post, receives significant space in the narrative. Philip Graham’s mental health issues and ultimate suicide in 1963, followed by Mrs. Graham’s husband became involved in the business and eventually took charge of the company during the 1950s. Graham, ever considered a formal role for her in the paper. From our early 21st century perspective, it seems very odd that no one, including Mrs. Graham became an important confidant for her father who would often discuss newspaper issues with her. By all accounts, during her college years, Mrs. Graham was intimately involved with the Post and became immersed in the newspaper world. Graham’s father, purchased the Washington Post in the depths of the Great Depression for $825,000 in 1933. Instead, it is an illuminating account of the economic, political, and business landscape of much of the last century.Įugene Meyer, Mrs. While there are fascinating accounts of her leadership of the Washington Post, this is not primarily a book focusing on the operations of the newspaper industry. Graham’s book is, as the title would suggest, a very personal history. And the citizens seem determined to keep the siblings there, with false promises of an easy existence and the lure of a "dream house." But when their dream houses literally break apart, the kids are thrust again into a homeless existence that mirrors their real-world limbo. In a feather-covered cab with a child driver, they enter Falling Bird, a Coraline-like alternate reality where things seem better than the place they left behind, but where something indefinably sinister lurks beneath the surface. The journey turns peculiar when the kids' flight lands in a strange location where cell phones don't work and they are cut off from the normal world. Gr 5-7-When their mom loses their house to foreclosure, India, Finn, and Mouse must move in with a relative in Colorado. |