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The devastating flash floods along the Bhotekoshi River in Nepal have caused profound heartbreak. The people of Romania extend their deepest sympathies to everyone affected by this disaster, particularly those who have lost family members and those anxiously awaiting news of #NepalFloods #Bhotekoshi #PrayersForNepal #NP #RO

I think that the right to die, on our own terms, is one of the most important ones. But having a family places responsibility on us. A great grandfather of mine could not take it anymore, and the devastation it inflicted on his children can still be felt generations later. #RightToDie #FamilyResponsibility #MentalHealth #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.

🚨🇲🇦 Ayyoub Bouaddi, scheduled to fly to Manchester today in order to join Man City from Lille. His family already visited #MCFC weeks ago and Bouaddi will now sign a five year deal plus option. Fee confirmed: €95m plus €5m. https://t.co/QpI6ufVdmG #ManCity #Bouaddi #TransferNews #MA #GB #FR

🚨🔴⚪️ Bayern director Max Eberl on Jamal Musiala. “We've known about it the entire last season. It was Jamal's wish to communicate it. The players also knew about it. For us, it's become part of everyday life”. “We, as the FC Bayern family, stand together, will give him all https://t.co/gylqeszF2Q #BayernMunich #JamalMusiala #FCBayern #DE

Iryna Zarutska's family is going to file a lawsuit regarding her vicious murder in a Charlotte train car. We should be able to sue these negligent judges who let violent criminals back out our streets to victimize us again and again. Decarlos Brown, Jr., the murderer of Iryna Zarutska, had at least 14 prior arrests, including for violent felonies. HOLD THE JUDGES ACCOUNTABLE https://x.com/Kentuckygirl1/status/2090419769400836181

The return of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan to the UK raises speculation about King Charles' health condition and elicits mixed reactions within the Royal Family, as some family members are skeptical about the Sussexes' relationship, while others hope for a closer connection to the family. (translated)

Kyiv woke up to another deadly Russian attack. At least 16 killed and more than 40 injured. Behind every number is a person, a grieving family, and a life changed forever. This must stop. #IHL must be respected. https://t.co/8QCr2FQCAA #Kyiv #StopTheWar #IHL #UA #RU

CorSera - Quest'estate #Oaktree ha ricevuto diverse manifestazioni di interesse da parte di investitori pronti a diventare azionisti di minoranza dell'#Inter! A farsi avanti ci sono sia grandi fondi sia family office italiani ed esteri che gestiscono patrimoni di importanti dinastie imprenditoriali. Il fondo americano sta vagliando le proposte ricevute e nelle prossime settimane potrebbe approfondire i dialoghi con uno o più pretendenti. #Inter #Investimenti #Calcio

⚫️🔵 L’Inter è uno dei principali obiettivi del calciomercato dei club. Secondo diverse fonti, quest’estate Oaktree ha ricevuto diverse manifestazioni di interesse da parte di investitori pronti a diventare azionisti di minoranza della società. A farsi avanti sarebbero stati sia grandi fondi sia family office italiani ed esteri che gestiscono patrimoni di importanti dinastie imprenditoriali. Come è nel suo mestiere, il fondo americano sta vagliando le proposte ricevute e nelle prossime settimane potrebbe approfondire i dialoghi con uno o più pretendenti. Contattata, Oaktree non ha commentato l’indiscrezione @Corriere #calciomercato #Inter #investimenti

“L’Inter è uno dei principali obiettivi del calciomercato dei club. Secondo diverse fonti, quest’estate Oaktree ha ricevuto diverse manifestazioni di interesse da parte di investitori pronti a diventare azionisti di minoranza della società. A farsi avanti sarebbero stati sia grandi fondi sia family office italiani ed esteri che gestiscono patrimoni di importanti dinastie imprenditoriali. Come è nel suo mestiere, il fondo americano sta vagliando le proposte ricevute e nelle prossime settimane potrebbe approfondire i dialoghi con uno o più pretendenti. Contattata, Oaktree non ha commentato l’indiscrezione.” #CorriereDellaSera #Calciomercato #Inter #Investimenti

Portugal in a Bottle of Wine 🇵🇹🍷 Portugal knows how to surprise. Not only with its history of the great Age of Discoveries, azulejos, fado, or the poetry of Camões. It can also capture, in a single bottle, the character and flavour of a place that at first glance might seem quite unremarkable. One such place is Fernando Pó, on the Setúbal Peninsula, where Casa Ermelinda Freitas has been producing wine for more than a century. And since I am a great admirer of Portugal—and, more recently, have become increasingly interested in Portuguese wines—I decided to take a closer look at this remarkable family winery. Especially because one of its wines is also readily available in Poland. 🇵🇱🍷 https://varia-ap.blogspot.com/2026/08/portugalia-w-butelce-wina.html

Cold Beer and Hot Showers - Not Kilowatt-Hours All That Consumers Want The energy sector spends an extraordinary amount of time talking about generation, transmission, storage, flexibility, markets, tariffs, balancing, ancillary services, carbon emissions, batteries, hydrogen, demand response, electrification pathways, system costs, capacity mechanisms, investment signals, market design and regulation. All of these things matter. Some of them matter enormously. But there is a simple question that often disappears somewhere between the conference room, the policy paper and the technical model: What does the customer actually want? The answer is surprisingly simple. Most people do not wake up in the morning thinking about kilowatt-hours. They do not dream about capacity markets. They do not worry about frequency stability. They do not spend their evenings comparing balancing mechanisms. They want cold beer and hot showers. They want a warm home in winter and a cool home in summer. They want the lights to turn on when they press the switch. They want their phone charged, their food refrigerated and their car ready when they need it. In other words, they do not want energy. They want what energy allows them to do. That distinction may sound trivial, but it changes almost everything. For more than a century, the energy industry has been organized around the production, transportation and sale of energy itself. Electricity became measured in kilowatt-hours. Gas became measured in cubic meters. Fuel became measured in litres or tonnes. Markets, regulations and business models were built around those units. The customer, however, never experienced life in kilowatt-hours. The customer experienced comfort. Convenience. Mobility. Reliability. Security. The units used by the industry and the outcomes desired by the customer were never the same thing. For a long time, this mismatch was not particularly important. Energy was relatively scarce, flexibility was limited, and the dominant challenge was supplying enough fuel to satisfy demand. The system could afford to focus on production because production was the central problem. Today the situation is changing. Electrification is transforming energy systems around the world. Renewable generation is increasing rapidly. Batteries are appearing in homes, businesses and vehicles. Buildings are becoming smarter. Heat pumps are replacing boilers. Electric vehicles are becoming mobile storage assets. Customers are increasingly able not only to consume energy but also to store it, shift it, manage it and sometimes even sell it. As this happens, the most valuable question is no longer simply how much energy is produced. The more important question becomes: How well is energy aligned with what people actually need? A family does not care whether its water heater operates at noon or at two in the afternoon if hot water is available when someone steps into the shower. A homeowner does not care whether a battery charges at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. if electricity costs less and reliability improves. An electric vehicle owner does not care when charging occurs as long as the vehicle is ready when needed. The objective is not the kilowatt-hour. The objective is the service. This is why many of the most important developments in modern energy systems are not really about producing more energy. They are about matching energy to the service required, at the right time, in the right place and in the right form. The technical term for this is often hidden behind complicated language. Experts discuss flexibility, demand management, dynamic pricing, distributed energy resources and system optimization. Consumers experience something much simpler. They experience agency. They experience the ability to save money without sacrificing comfort. They experience the ability to make choices. They experience the ability to benefit from technologies that work for them rather than asking them to work for the technology. This is where many debates become confused. Consumers do not want to be coordinated. They want agency. Good energy systems do not force people to behave differently. They make beneficial behaviour easier, more natural and more rewarding. The best systems do not rely on control. They rely on alignment. When the customer’s interest aligns with the system’s interest, remarkable things become possible. Demand shifts naturally. Storage becomes useful. Flexibility appears. Costs decline. Reliability improves. The customer does not need to understand the complexity underneath. Just as nobody needs to understand how the internet routes packets around the globe in order to send a message, nobody should need to understand wholesale electricity markets in order to enjoy affordable energy services. Success is not measured by how much complexity consumers are asked to absorb. Success is measured by how much complexity the system absorbs on their behalf. The future energy system will undoubtedly involve more digital technology, more electrification, more storage, more automation and more coordination. But none of those are the destination. They are merely tools. The destination remains exactly what it has always been. Cold beer. Hot showers. Comfortable homes. Reliable mobility. Affordable bills. Everything else is infrastructure. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand the energy transition. People do not want kilowatt-hours. They want the life that kilowatt-hours make possible.

Som ni vet så granskade jag lobbygruppen Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast (JPB) nyligen. Expressens journalist Inas Hamdan valde dock att inte beskriva JPB som den lobbygrupp det faktiskt är, utan som en "kristen bönerörelse". I den konferens jag delat med mig av, går direktören Albert Veksler upp och ger direktiv till de närvarande. Sydafrikas delegater ska "fundera ut ett sätt som ni kan avbryta anmälan till Internationella domstolen" för det som Israel gör i Gaza. Alexander Christiansson (SD) utfrågas om vilken hans första motion i riksdagen var, varpå han svarar att det var att flytta Sveriges ambassad till Jerusalem. Nu har jag hittat ny information som visar att JBP själva hyllar den sionistiska lobbyismen. På hemsidan Israel Report beskriver JPB:s direktör Albert Veksler hur USA:s president Harry S Truman, tack vare att han hade en judisk vän som han gjorde affärer med, valde att godkänna Israel bara några minuter efter att staten bildades. Detta trots att USA:s regering inte ville det. 
 “Because of this friendship, Truman — against all odds and without the support of the State Department — was able to recognise Israel just eleven minutes after Ben Gurion declared the State of Israel." “This is what the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast is all about. We see miraculous things happen." Han beskriver hur nära kontakter med makthavare – ofta kristna sådana – varit en del av sionismens strategi ända från Theodor Herzls tid. "Albert Veksler describes how, in the late 19th century, Hechler [brittisk pastor] used his social connections to introduce Herzl to members of the German royal family and to the Sultan of Turkey, helping to elevate Herzl’s concept of a Jewish national homeland from the political fringe to a topic of discussion among world leaders.
– “This created the conditions for the Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate." I artikeln beskrivs också hur Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast lyckats bedriva framgångsrik lobbyverksamhet mot Nederländernas etablissemang. “The King acknowledged his great-grandmother, Queen Wilhelmina’s indifference to the fate of Dutch Jews during the Holocaust,” says Albert Veksler, who last April organised the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast in Stockholm at the Elite Hotel Marina Tower in Nacka, where around 400 delegates gathered." #Jerusalem #Lobbyism #Sionism