Nic Nolan
Nic Nolan has had a long and varied career in electronic media. Since 2004 he’s been Programme Director of Adelaide’s most popular News/Talk radio station FIVEaa. Before that, for 16 years, Nic anchored breakfast news on Perth’s number one rating radio station, MIX 94.5 a station listened to each week by more than half a million people. Nic started his media career at LBC, a Newstalk radio station in London, while still at high school. He went on to gain an honours degree in Communications before moving to New Zealand. Nic spent seven years with the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, working extensively in radio as a presenter of music and entertainment programmes, news and current affairs with a heavy emphasis on radio commercial and promotions production. During this period, Nic was also involved in the genesis of New Zealand’s Newstalk-ZB radio network, was a freelance television continuity announcer with New Zealand’s TV ONE, hosted a number of television specials and was appointed to the New Zealand Film Censorship Board of Review. A six-month assignment followed, as Australia’s Hoyts Radio Network London News Correspondent. A holiday stopover in Western Australia, saw Nic hired to read morning news on Perth’s Channel 7 for two years, at the same time starting his breakfast news-anchoring role at 6KY (now MIX 94.5). Nic also read news for Perth’s Channel 9. Nic, born 1 May 1958, loves current affairs, politics, music, movies, and has a passion for media.
Nic Nolan has had a long and varied career in electronic media. Since 2004 he’s been Programme Director of Adelaide’s most popular News/Talk radio station FIVEaa. Before that, for 16 years, Nic anchored breakfast news on Perth’s number one rating radio station, MIX 94.5 a station listened to each week by more than half a million people. Nic started his media career at LBC, a Newstalk radio station in London, while still at high school. He went on to gain an honours degree in Communications before moving to New Zealand. Nic spent seven years with the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, working extensively in radio as a presenter of music and entertainment programmes, news and current affairs with a heavy emphasis on radio commercial and promotions production. During this period, Nic was also involved in the genesis of New Zealand’s Newstalk-ZB radio network, was a freelance television continuity announcer with New Zealand’s TV ONE, hosted a number of television specials and was appointed to the New Zealand Film Censorship Board of Review. A six-month assignment followed, as Australia’s Hoyts Radio Network London News Correspondent. A holiday stopover in Western Australia, saw Nic hired to read morning news on Perth’s Channel 7 for two years, at the same time starting his breakfast news-anchoring role at 6KY (now MIX 94.5). Nic also read news for Perth’s Channel 9. Nic, born 1 May 1958, loves current affairs, politics, music, movies, and has a passion for media.
SAM COOK - NYIKINA NATION AUSTRALIA
BIOGRAPHY
Listed in the 2007 edition of the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the Who’s Who in
Western Australia and being one of only a handful of Indigenous Australians to have
carried both the Olympic Torch and Commonwealth Baton, Sam Cook is currently the
Executive Producer of Australia’s Leading Aboriginal Theatre Company - YIRRA YAAKIN.
A Nyikina sista from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Sam has been working in
publishing since 1994, Theatre from 2001, retired from a musical career aged 20 and has been
arts inclined ever since she can remember. She is a member of the Yirra Yaakin Dream-
Team, the artistic hub of the weird and wonderful and has recently written for the
CHOOteam COMEDY TROUPE and co-wrote IN THE NYITTING TIME. JILAS BUSH
MEETING is Sam’s latest creative endeavour, but her passion lay in further defining the
Aboriginal arts Industry within the context of the International Indigenous arts industry. In
her spare time – [ha!] she is the moderator of the WORLDS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
NETWORK, the BLAKSTAGEalliance and an Arts Hub columnist, with her monthly edition
titled KISSmyBLAKarts™. As a provocateur, Sam explores authentic Indigenous
Australian expression through a self determined model of living cultural practice as a
catalyst of social change.
AWARDS/CERTIFICATES
– Listed and acknowledged – Who’s Who of Australian Women 2007
– Listed and acknowledged – Who’s Who in Western Australia 2007
– Queen’s Baton Relay Runner - Commonwealth Games 2006.
– Board Member, ArtsWA, Aboriginal Arts Panel 2001-2003.
– Torch Bearer, Olympic Torch Relay, Australia, 2000.
– Winner, National Aboriginal Youth of the Year 1999 (NAIDOC).
– Finalist, Young Australian of the Year Awards, 1998.
– Certificate of contribution, National NAIDOC week, 1998.
– NAIDOC local artist of the year award, 1998.
– Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, Young Australian of the Year award,
1997.
– N.R.T.P. Certificate of completion, the Internet.
– Year 12 Graduation, Arts award, 1989.
– Year 10 Graduation, highest achiever in the Arts, 1987.
COMMITTEES/MENTORSHIPS
– BAA PLAYERS UK – UK - ongoing
– Regional Schools Touring – Perth WA - ongoing
– ADs Committee – Perth WA - ongoing
– GMs Committee – Perth WA - ongoing
– Advisory Group Member, Parliamentary Enquiry into Regional Arts 2006 –
current.
– President, Youth Media Society of Western Australia, Groove FM 2006.
– Artistic Directors National Committee member, ADs Retreat 2005.
– Committee Member, UWA Perth International Arts Festival 04, literature
committee 2004.
– Steering Committee - Indigenous Arts Showcase 2002-2003
– Aboriginal Arts Policy development committee 2002-2003
– Mentor, Aboriginal Mentoring Program, Education Dept of Western Australia
2000-current.
– Mentor, Australia Day Foundation 1999-current.
– Registered Peer Advisor, Australia Council for the Arts 1999-current.
– Board Member, ArtsWA, Aboriginal Arts Panel 1999-2001.
– NAIDOC committee, National Focus 1998.
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
– Presenter – Kimberley Aboriginal Health Summit, Broome WA 2007
– Panellist – APACA ,
Launceston Tas 2007
– Key Note Speaker – SORRY DAY, London UK 2007
– Conference Facilitator – BAA PLAYERS, Manchester UK 2007
– Masterclass – Enter the Dreaming – Borders Crossing UK 2007
– Masterclass – Boomerang / Enter the Dreaming, SAMPAD YUVA project UK
2007
– Works-In-Progress, Presentation – MAC arts Centre, Birmingham UK
– Panelist, Children’s Seminar Series, Perth Aust 2006.
– Panelist, Pine Tree Series, Nozheim Theatre, Trent University, Ontario
Canada 2006.
– Panelist/Speaker, Conference on art in society, Edinburgh UK 2006.
– Presenter, World Arts Summit, Newcastle-Gateshead UK 2006.
– Panelist, Aboriginal Arts Showcase, Salisbury International Arts Festival 2006.
– Key Note Speaker, BLAKarts intensive, Melbourne Vic Aust. 2005
– Key Note Speaker, ADs Retreat, Ballarat Vic Aust 2005.
– Presenter, Indigenous Performing Arts Conference, Canada 2005.
– Presenter, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Conference, Alberta Canada 2004.
– Panelist, Indigenous Arts Showcase 2003.
– Speaker, Young People and the arts - Sydney Opera House 2002.
– Key Note Speaker, Children’s Book Council National Conference 2002.
HISTORY
2007
– Executive Producer, Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation
– Co-Writer – The Gift
– Writer – Every Second Thursday
– Research Fellow, Sampad Arts/MAC, Birmingham UK
– Freelance Events & Design, KISSmyBLAKarts™
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
– Columnist – Sam Cooks KISSmyBLAKartsCOLUMN Arts Hub
2006
– Executive Producer, Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
– Writer – JILAS BUSH MEETING
– Writer – CHOOteam comedy troupe
– Co-writer – In the Nyitting Time
– Columnist – Sam Cooks KISSmyBLAKartsCOLUMN Arts Hub
2005
– Executive Producer, Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
2004
– Executive Producer, Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
2003'
– Marketing and Public Relations Manager, Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
– Day Manager, Karl Karniny - Welcome to Our Fire
– Broadcaster, RTRFM
2002
– Marketing and Public Relations Manager, Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Artist, Ministry of Justice Aboriginal studies Series
– Graphic Artist, Indigenous Employment Centres - National branding
2001
– Marketing and Public Relations Manager, Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Website Designer -NILS
– Contributor, ‘As told in their dreams’ exhibition, McClelland
Gallery/Dromkeen Gallery, Victoria.
– Project Officer, Special Projects ArtsWA, Perth.
2000
– Project Officer, Special Projects ArtsWA, Perth.
– A/Project officer Aboriginal Arts, ArtsWA Perth.
– A/Project Officer Young People and The Arts ArtsWA, Perth.
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network.
– Consultant GST deliveryWA, CHCWA, Perth.
– Contributor, ‘Standing Strong’ exhibition, publication, website, Sydney 2000
Olympics, NSW.
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Broadcaster/producer, the Black Market, Radio Goolarri 99.7Fm, Broome.
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
1999
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Broadcaster/producer, the Black Market, Radio Goolarri 99.7Fm, Broome.
– Artist, Under the Sea mural, Broome.
– Designer, The Elevation collective website, Perth.
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Freelance Designer, Indigenous Arts Journal, Tandanya, SA.
1998
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Freelance Designer, NAIDOC program, Canberra.
– Logo design, Respect Yourself, Respect Kimberley Cultures campaign,
– Kimberley Health Promotions unit, Broome.
– Photographer, Miles of Post and Wire cover design, Broome.
– Broadcaster/producer, the Black Market, Radio Goolarri 99.7Fm, Broome.
– Policy Contributor, Youth Arts, Australia Council, Sydney.
1997
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Freelance Cover Design, Plains of Promise, UQP, Brisbane.
– Photographer, Grog War Cover design, Broome.
– Designer, Desert Dog T-shirt, Desert Designs, Perth.
– Freelance Designer, Get Wicked skin print, Stick With Wik, Melbourne.
1996
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Freelance Designer/Artist, Travel Safe campaign, Kimberley Health
Promotions unit
– Cover Artist, Emerarra.
– Policy Contributor, Youth Arts Panel, Western Australia Department of the
Arts, Perth.
– Contributor, Native Titled Now exhibition, South Australian festival of the
arts, Tandanya Aboriginal Institute, Adelaide.
1995
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Cover Artist, Bee Hill River Man.
– Artist, Treadway Shoes, Broome.
1994
– Indigenous Designer (assistant), Magabala Books, Broome.
– Cover Artist, My Own Sweet Time.
BIOGRAPHY
Listed in the 2007 edition of the Who’s Who of Australian Women and the Who’s Who in
Western Australia and being one of only a handful of Indigenous Australians to have
carried both the Olympic Torch and Commonwealth Baton, Sam Cook is currently the
Executive Producer of Australia’s Leading Aboriginal Theatre Company - YIRRA YAAKIN.
A Nyikina sista from the Kimberley region of Western Australia, Sam has been working in
publishing since 1994, Theatre from 2001, retired from a musical career aged 20 and has been
arts inclined ever since she can remember. She is a member of the Yirra Yaakin Dream-
Team, the artistic hub of the weird and wonderful and has recently written for the
CHOOteam COMEDY TROUPE and co-wrote IN THE NYITTING TIME. JILAS BUSH
MEETING is Sam’s latest creative endeavour, but her passion lay in further defining the
Aboriginal arts Industry within the context of the International Indigenous arts industry. In
her spare time – [ha!] she is the moderator of the WORLDS INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
NETWORK, the BLAKSTAGEalliance and an Arts Hub columnist, with her monthly edition
titled KISSmyBLAKarts™. As a provocateur, Sam explores authentic Indigenous
Australian expression through a self determined model of living cultural practice as a
catalyst of social change.
AWARDS/CERTIFICATES
– Listed and acknowledged – Who’s Who of Australian Women 2007
– Listed and acknowledged – Who’s Who in Western Australia 2007
– Queen’s Baton Relay Runner - Commonwealth Games 2006.
– Board Member, ArtsWA, Aboriginal Arts Panel 2001-2003.
– Torch Bearer, Olympic Torch Relay, Australia, 2000.
– Winner, National Aboriginal Youth of the Year 1999 (NAIDOC).
– Finalist, Young Australian of the Year Awards, 1998.
– Certificate of contribution, National NAIDOC week, 1998.
– NAIDOC local artist of the year award, 1998.
– Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, Young Australian of the Year award,
1997.
– N.R.T.P. Certificate of completion, the Internet.
– Year 12 Graduation, Arts award, 1989.
– Year 10 Graduation, highest achiever in the Arts, 1987.
COMMITTEES/MENTORSHIPS
– BAA PLAYERS UK – UK - ongoing
– Regional Schools Touring – Perth WA - ongoing
– ADs Committee – Perth WA - ongoing
– GMs Committee – Perth WA - ongoing
– Advisory Group Member, Parliamentary Enquiry into Regional Arts 2006 –
current.
– President, Youth Media Society of Western Australia, Groove FM 2006.
– Artistic Directors National Committee member, ADs Retreat 2005.
– Committee Member, UWA Perth International Arts Festival 04, literature
committee 2004.
– Steering Committee - Indigenous Arts Showcase 2002-2003
– Aboriginal Arts Policy development committee 2002-2003
– Mentor, Aboriginal Mentoring Program, Education Dept of Western Australia
2000-current.
– Mentor, Australia Day Foundation 1999-current.
– Registered Peer Advisor, Australia Council for the Arts 1999-current.
– Board Member, ArtsWA, Aboriginal Arts Panel 1999-2001.
– NAIDOC committee, National Focus 1998.
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
– Presenter – Kimberley Aboriginal Health Summit, Broome WA 2007
– Panellist – APACA ,
Launceston Tas 2007
– Key Note Speaker – SORRY DAY, London UK 2007
– Conference Facilitator – BAA PLAYERS, Manchester UK 2007
– Masterclass – Enter the Dreaming – Borders Crossing UK 2007
– Masterclass – Boomerang / Enter the Dreaming, SAMPAD YUVA project UK
2007
– Works-In-Progress, Presentation – MAC arts Centre, Birmingham UK
– Panelist, Children’s Seminar Series, Perth Aust 2006.
– Panelist, Pine Tree Series, Nozheim Theatre, Trent University, Ontario
Canada 2006.
– Panelist/Speaker, Conference on art in society, Edinburgh UK 2006.
– Presenter, World Arts Summit, Newcastle-Gateshead UK 2006.
– Panelist, Aboriginal Arts Showcase, Salisbury International Arts Festival 2006.
– Key Note Speaker, BLAKarts intensive, Melbourne Vic Aust. 2005
– Key Note Speaker, ADs Retreat, Ballarat Vic Aust 2005.
– Presenter, Indigenous Performing Arts Conference, Canada 2005.
– Presenter, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Conference, Alberta Canada 2004.
– Panelist, Indigenous Arts Showcase 2003.
– Speaker, Young People and the arts - Sydney Opera House 2002.
– Key Note Speaker, Children’s Book Council National Conference 2002.
HISTORY
2007
– Executive Producer, Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation
– Co-Writer – The Gift
– Writer – Every Second Thursday
– Research Fellow, Sampad Arts/MAC, Birmingham UK
– Freelance Events & Design, KISSmyBLAKarts™
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
– Columnist – Sam Cooks KISSmyBLAKartsCOLUMN Arts Hub
2006
– Executive Producer, Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
– Writer – JILAS BUSH MEETING
– Writer – CHOOteam comedy troupe
– Co-writer – In the Nyitting Time
– Columnist – Sam Cooks KISSmyBLAKartsCOLUMN Arts Hub
2005
– Executive Producer, Yirra Yaakin Aboriginal Corporation
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
2004
– Executive Producer, Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
2003'
– Marketing and Public Relations Manager, Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Moderator, Blakstage
– Moderator, Blakstageyarnin
– Day Manager, Karl Karniny - Welcome to Our Fire
– Broadcaster, RTRFM
2002
– Marketing and Public Relations Manager, Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Artist, Ministry of Justice Aboriginal studies Series
– Graphic Artist, Indigenous Employment Centres - National branding
2001
– Marketing and Public Relations Manager, Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Website Designer -NILS
– Contributor, ‘As told in their dreams’ exhibition, McClelland
Gallery/Dromkeen Gallery, Victoria.
– Project Officer, Special Projects ArtsWA, Perth.
2000
– Project Officer, Special Projects ArtsWA, Perth.
– A/Project officer Aboriginal Arts, ArtsWA Perth.
– A/Project Officer Young People and The Arts ArtsWA, Perth.
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network.
– Consultant GST deliveryWA, CHCWA, Perth.
– Contributor, ‘Standing Strong’ exhibition, publication, website, Sydney 2000
Olympics, NSW.
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Broadcaster/producer, the Black Market, Radio Goolarri 99.7Fm, Broome.
– Freelance Designer/Publisher, Indigenous Publishing Service
1999
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Broadcaster/producer, the Black Market, Radio Goolarri 99.7Fm, Broome.
– Artist, Under the Sea mural, Broome.
– Designer, The Elevation collective website, Perth.
– Moderator, Worlds Indigenous Peoples Network
– Freelance Designer, Indigenous Arts Journal, Tandanya, SA.
1998
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Freelance Designer, NAIDOC program, Canberra.
– Logo design, Respect Yourself, Respect Kimberley Cultures campaign,
– Kimberley Health Promotions unit, Broome.
– Photographer, Miles of Post and Wire cover design, Broome.
– Broadcaster/producer, the Black Market, Radio Goolarri 99.7Fm, Broome.
– Policy Contributor, Youth Arts, Australia Council, Sydney.
1997
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Freelance Cover Design, Plains of Promise, UQP, Brisbane.
– Photographer, Grog War Cover design, Broome.
– Designer, Desert Dog T-shirt, Desert Designs, Perth.
– Freelance Designer, Get Wicked skin print, Stick With Wik, Melbourne.
1996
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Freelance Designer/Artist, Travel Safe campaign, Kimberley Health
Promotions unit
– Cover Artist, Emerarra.
– Policy Contributor, Youth Arts Panel, Western Australia Department of the
Arts, Perth.
– Contributor, Native Titled Now exhibition, South Australian festival of the
arts, Tandanya Aboriginal Institute, Adelaide.
1995
– Indigenous Designer, Magabala Books, Broome.
– Cover Artist, Bee Hill River Man.
– Artist, Treadway Shoes, Broome.
1994
– Indigenous Designer (assistant), Magabala Books, Broome.
– Cover Artist, My Own Sweet Time.
Union towards Unity
The right to know: the knowledge for wider European understanding of the post-war period presumes a broader recognized and fundamental lack of overview which should be based on superior wisdom and is ubiquitously dragging legislative supremacy to the brink. Participative and representative functions of the democratic process within the institutional methods of procedure are structurally endangered by politics of prescience economy, public ignorance, private arrogance and the covert engineering of economic fundamentalism: international industrial -technology based- abusive conduct facilitated by national jurisdictions of failing and imploding states. The main reason for a perceived lack of Unity in the European Union is defined by many as the democratic deficit. More recently, arguments about the underlying parliamentary deficit are raising questions concerning the effectivenes, transparency and openness of the international discourse. Interaction between individuals, markets and institutions become widely discussed. Compare the Nobel Prize in economics, 2007. The inherently scientized workings of asymmetric information and communication paradigms within the Global Community should be redressed as soon as possible. the Morse Code might be digitalized, but the critical energy fundamentals have taken the wrong course.
European position
Since World War II there was only one real global change: the energy transition from coal to natural gas of 1963. The founding of the N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie represented the European groundwork for her global dimension of economic energy-fundamentals coupled with the international Bretton Woods system of July 1944. A system of international monetary management establishing the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's industrial states, we now all have to live by.
Great Suppression
The oil and gas situation threatening world stability -recently described by Lee Raymond's energy commission of the National Petroleum Council in the July 18, 2007 report Facing the Hard Truth About Energy, and being the globally imposed architectural mainframe for the financial markets, energy fundamentals like the linked oil and gas pricing, widely determine risk and security management derived from the pressure of the world's largest public-private partnership P3 between ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch government, Gasunie. Long-term pipeline lock-in contracts governed by the U.S. economic primacy virtually represent the European constriction by American industrial abusive components supported by the administration, although off- balance sheet and without the usual checks and balances. Compare , key document of the American contract with Europe, 1963.
World in transition
Energy transition being locked-in by multinational contracts is the key function for sustainable globalization and responsible development.
World out of balance
The global public-private gap of social-economic instability is of major corporate concern and significance , surpringly swiftly claimed by the largest global players outpacing whatever jurisdiction.
Global change
Real global change for effective competition and innovation, sustainable growth, progress and responsible conduct can only be induced by the power of principles layed down in a code of conduct for ethical business behaviour combined with the necessary integrity for good governance. The growing discourse about the hazards of moral fallout related to good institutional governance and corporate transparency is about to settle in people's mind and a sound reason for better explanation so knowledge can be the base for -mutual- understanding in order to be able to counterbalance the risks of foreknowledge as the faculty of prospect, insider trading accounting scandals and credit-linked budget crime or State-corporate crime.
World stability
Atlantic unbundling energy pricing and monetary conditions would be the only Grand Strategy to follow and solve the American problem adequatly. Unpegging the euro from the U.S. dollar is all the more important now while sovereign wealth funds of emerging economies become overwhelmingly influential.
The right to know: the knowledge for wider European understanding of the post-war period presumes a broader recognized and fundamental lack of overview which should be based on superior wisdom and is ubiquitously dragging legislative supremacy to the brink. Participative and representative functions of the democratic process within the institutional methods of procedure are structurally endangered by politics of prescience economy, public ignorance, private arrogance and the covert engineering of economic fundamentalism: international industrial -technology based- abusive conduct facilitated by national jurisdictions of failing and imploding states. The main reason for a perceived lack of Unity in the European Union is defined by many as the democratic deficit. More recently, arguments about the underlying parliamentary deficit are raising questions concerning the effectivenes, transparency and openness of the international discourse. Interaction between individuals, markets and institutions become widely discussed. Compare the Nobel Prize in economics, 2007. The inherently scientized workings of asymmetric information and communication paradigms within the Global Community should be redressed as soon as possible. the Morse Code might be digitalized, but the critical energy fundamentals have taken the wrong course.
European position
Since World War II there was only one real global change: the energy transition from coal to natural gas of 1963. The founding of the N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie represented the European groundwork for her global dimension of economic energy-fundamentals coupled with the international Bretton Woods system of July 1944. A system of international monetary management establishing the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's industrial states, we now all have to live by.
Great Suppression
The oil and gas situation threatening world stability -recently described by Lee Raymond's energy commission of the National Petroleum Council in the July 18, 2007 report Facing the Hard Truth About Energy, and being the globally imposed architectural mainframe for the financial markets, energy fundamentals like the linked oil and gas pricing, widely determine risk and security management derived from the pressure of the world's largest public-private partnership P3 between ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell and the Dutch government, Gasunie. Long-term pipeline lock-in contracts governed by the U.S. economic primacy virtually represent the European constriction by American industrial abusive components supported by the administration, although off- balance sheet and without the usual checks and balances. Compare , key document of the American contract with Europe, 1963.
World in transition
Energy transition being locked-in by multinational contracts is the key function for sustainable globalization and responsible development.
World out of balance
The global public-private gap of social-economic instability is of major corporate concern and significance , surpringly swiftly claimed by the largest global players outpacing whatever jurisdiction.
Global change
Real global change for effective competition and innovation, sustainable growth, progress and responsible conduct can only be induced by the power of principles layed down in a code of conduct for ethical business behaviour combined with the necessary integrity for good governance. The growing discourse about the hazards of moral fallout related to good institutional governance and corporate transparency is about to settle in people's mind and a sound reason for better explanation so knowledge can be the base for -mutual- understanding in order to be able to counterbalance the risks of foreknowledge as the faculty of prospect, insider trading accounting scandals and credit-linked budget crime or State-corporate crime.
World stability
Atlantic unbundling energy pricing and monetary conditions would be the only Grand Strategy to follow and solve the American problem adequatly. Unpegging the euro from the U.S. dollar is all the more important now while sovereign wealth funds of emerging economies become overwhelmingly influential.
Varkon
VARKON is a CAD-Computer Program which enables users to produce drafts, models and visualizations of three-dimensional objects.
Furthermore with VARKON a user is able to do parametric modelling and CAD application development.
Originally VARKON was developed between 1984 and 1986 at the University of Linköping in Sweden by a group lead by Dr. Johan Kjellander.
In 1985 Dr. Johan Kjellander founded Microform and Varkon became a commercial product which it remained until the year 2000, when it was released under the GNU/GPL license.
In august 2007 the VARKON project was relocated to SourceForge.
VARKON is written in ANSI portable C and able to run on many different Operating Systems, including Windows and Linux.
Variational Design
VARKON is suited for all types of variational design. Using VARKON with its ability to handle geometry as
well as other features and store the result in a well-structured and object oriented manner it is possible to produce much more information than paper drawings.
Cost estimations, bill of materials and different forms of manufacturing data are usually created automatically in VARKON applications.
Integration
A VARKON application can communicate using files or pipes and can spawn other processes as well as being spawned itself. Using this
technique a user can either let a VARKON application be on top and control other systems or the user can use other systems to control VARKON.
Varkon also includes an ODBC API for communication with commercial databases.
3-D Modelling
Basic 3D entities used in Varkon are points, lines, arcs, curves, surfaces, coordinate systems and transformations. Several representations of parametric curves are implemented including rational polynomial, analytical offset and curves on surfaces so called UV-curves.
Surface representations include rational polynomial, lofted procedural, analytical offset and a faceted surface for approximations.
Basic support for trimmed surfaces was introduced in Varkon version 1.19.
Operations include intersects, closest point, silhouette, curvatures, transformation, trimming, export, import and approximation.
Basic visualization as well as complex rendering based on OpenGL is included in all versions of the system.
VARKON is a CAD-Computer Program which enables users to produce drafts, models and visualizations of three-dimensional objects.
Furthermore with VARKON a user is able to do parametric modelling and CAD application development.
Originally VARKON was developed between 1984 and 1986 at the University of Linköping in Sweden by a group lead by Dr. Johan Kjellander.
In 1985 Dr. Johan Kjellander founded Microform and Varkon became a commercial product which it remained until the year 2000, when it was released under the GNU/GPL license.
In august 2007 the VARKON project was relocated to SourceForge.
VARKON is written in ANSI portable C and able to run on many different Operating Systems, including Windows and Linux.
Variational Design
VARKON is suited for all types of variational design. Using VARKON with its ability to handle geometry as
well as other features and store the result in a well-structured and object oriented manner it is possible to produce much more information than paper drawings.
Cost estimations, bill of materials and different forms of manufacturing data are usually created automatically in VARKON applications.
Integration
A VARKON application can communicate using files or pipes and can spawn other processes as well as being spawned itself. Using this
technique a user can either let a VARKON application be on top and control other systems or the user can use other systems to control VARKON.
Varkon also includes an ODBC API for communication with commercial databases.
3-D Modelling
Basic 3D entities used in Varkon are points, lines, arcs, curves, surfaces, coordinate systems and transformations. Several representations of parametric curves are implemented including rational polynomial, analytical offset and curves on surfaces so called UV-curves.
Surface representations include rational polynomial, lofted procedural, analytical offset and a faceted surface for approximations.
Basic support for trimmed surfaces was introduced in Varkon version 1.19.
Operations include intersects, closest point, silhouette, curvatures, transformation, trimming, export, import and approximation.
Basic visualization as well as complex rendering based on OpenGL is included in all versions of the system.