04-29-2025APPLIED AI Renate Nyborg’s company pivots from therapy chatbot to voice-based dating practice using AI scenarios to boost users’ confidence and connection skills BY Jessica Bursztynsky Former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg launched Meeno less than two years ago with the intention of it being an AI chatbot that helped users through relationship issues the company is pivoting to focus on teaching predominantly male users how to connect romantically with women through interactions with voice-based AI characters “[Male loneliness] is a problem that’s been getting worse for 30 years,” Nyborg tells Fast Company “I never thought that this was something we could just go and snap our fingers and [fix].” allowed the company to prove that it could build something that appealed to men which will still be available on the Meeno app attracted over half of its 100,000-user makeup as men But they wanted it to yield faster results and rapid developments to OpenAI’s Whisper API and other technologies in the past few months meant it could rapidly decrease the amount of time its AI needed to offer insights could get benefits within minutes instead of over three to four weeks thanks to the OpenAI advancements meaning it’s not going to be hosted on an app store and then get insights into how they present themselves They’ll then make an account and go through fake scenarios such as being prompted to talk to a woman while waiting in line at a pizza place Users who want to go through more scenarios each day can pay $19 a month for a premium subscription with $2.7 million committed in the past few weeks The key to the platform, Nyborg says, was making it audio based so that it shows a clear intention of getting out of the house and interacting with people in the real world. A Pew Research Center survey from January found that while men and women report roughly equal rates of feeling lonely all or most of the time men aren’t reaching out to their networks for help as much as women are Nyborg says she and her investors have been testing out the product in the mornings often feeling more confident in their conversations later in the day because they were warmed up “Maybe someone pays you a surprise compliment based on the band T-shirt that you’re wearing and what I’ve realized about myself is because I’m an introvert if I’ve just left the house and I haven’t spoken to anyone I’ve realized I can be a bit standoffish or aggressive,” Nyborg says people are usually just trying to be nice and it can really make someone’s day doing that.” The final deadline for Fast Company’s Brands That Matter Awards is Friday, May 30, at 11:59 p.m. PT. 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Voor een optimale ervaring met deze website is het aan te raden om over te stappen naar een modernere verie of installeer Google Chrome Frame Europa Nostra the leading European heritage civil society network and working closely with the European Union expresses its concern over the intention by the Danish authorities to build a new information centre at Nyborg Castle at a listed archaeological courtyard and hence undertake an invasive construction project which will irreversibly alter the integrity of the Nyborg Castle For the above-mentioned reason, the Danish heritage association “Kultur & Arv” nominated the Nyborg Castle for the 7 Most Endangered Programme 2025 a civil society initiative run by Europa Nostra in partnership with the European Investment Bank Institute The shortlist of the selected 14 sites will be made public in January 2025 the Danish Parliament is currently discussing a special law (which is normally used to allow works on vital infrastructure) to push through the 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Sai Chiu Van’s spring roll factory in Nyborg was never a foregone conclusion With two older siblings who chose different paths Hemming recognized the importance of forging his own identity he decided it was wise to pursue a business education he moved to England and established a Daloon factory there while his father continued to lead operations back home Hemming Van served as the CEO of Daloon from 1989 until 2015 when he sold the company to the Dutch food conglomerate While some may speculate that Hemming Van sold Daloon to prove his worth as an entrepreneur like his father it was because I believed the company didn’t have a chance of surviving as an independent business anymore,” he explains Hemming often contemplates the weight of expectations tied to family legacy “It’s one thing to take over a business from your father,” he muses “But could I have done what my father did?” This question lingered in his mind especially when he considered starting from scratch “If I resigned from my job to start a new with six gas burners and six frying pans given the condition Daloon was in during the late 90s people would have thought I was crazy,” he chuckles at the thought “And they would have been right.” This sentiment left him feeling somewhat trapped grappling with the challenge of living up to a legacy while navigating his own aspirations who proposed the idea of launching a new venture together: Easyfood high-quality food options for busy consumers “It felt like a perfect compromise,” Hemming recalls “This would allow me to explore new opportunities without risking everything I had.” The partnership provided a safety net while allowing him to honor the foundations laid by his family Hemming gained his footing as an independent entrepreneur “Flemming needed something that he couldn’t achieve where he was and I thought it would be exciting to pursue this new direction alongside Daloon,” Hemming Van shares blending their visions and skills to carve out a niche in the market Hemming’s journey as an investor and entrepreneur began in earnest with Easyfood where his background in the food industry merged with Flemming’s insights and experience This venture allowed Hemming to tap into his creative potential while providing innovative food solutions that catered to evolving consumer needs Hemming’s experiences continued to shape his entrepreneurial journey he embarked on a new adventure in Thailand and Thailand to express gratitude to his suppliers for their support he became aware of the booming demand for coconut water particularly in the USA and the Middle East His Thai business partner introduced him to this emerging opportunity prompting Hemming to inquire about local suppliers’ ability to secure enough raw materials to meet such significant demand can we secure the raw materials needed to meet this demand?” Hemming recalls While he can’t remember who first proposed the idea a quick consensus formed to establish a coconut plantation ensuring a reliable supply of coconut products transforming them into a lush coconut plantation—an ambitious project resembling a large-scale nursery The process of planting coconut trees was both exhilarating and challenging just as the plantation started to bear fruit This setback coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic which further complicated matters as travel restrictions made it impossible for him to visit the site no one could move about freely,” he recalls emphasizing how communication became his only link to the situation on the ground but we’re hoping for better results next month…’” This uncertainty tested his resolve yet Hemming remained steadfast in his commitment to the plantation’s vision confident that perseverance would ultimately lead to success Hemming became involved in his Thai business partner’s coconut bottling factory and then I got involved in the bottling company because I could help manage the operations,” he explains Hemming emphasizes the factory’s significance “The coconut bottling factory generates revenues between 210 and 270 million “I believe that land in Southeast Asia never loses value over the long term,” he asserts confidently reflecting his outlook on strategic growth in the region This belief drives his dedication to nurturing both the plantation and the bottling operations ensuring they perform well in an increasingly competitive market Hemming Van’s entrepreneurial journey showcases his resilience and adaptability in navigating the complexities of business while honoring the legacy of his family From his time at Daloon to his current ventures in Thailand he exemplifies the spirit of innovation and seizing opportunities Karoline Rosenkrantz Paasch is a journalist working with ScandAsia at the headquarters in Bangkok and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your 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markets news at your fingertips with a Bloomberg.com subscription 09-26-2023TECH Meeno uses artificial intelligence to help users build stronger romantic and platonic relationships Renate Nyborg has been trying to solve relationship problems since she was three years old Growing up across Norway and the Netherlands her father would speak to Nyborg and her brother in his native Norwegian while her mother would speak to the children in Dutch The language immersion was great for the children her life felt a bit like living in the Tower of Babel “They were constantly getting into small arguments for misunderstanding each other and I was apparently interrupting them constantly to try and say Straddling different cultures and often moving around Nyborg became obsessed with communication and relationship science It’s an interest that’s only intensified in recent years she started playing around with mobile technology The two areas—connection and personal tech—have consistently played a role in her career Nyborg left Tinder in August 2022 shortly after Match Group CEO Bernard Kim took over and implemented a number of management changes All of this has culminated into Nyborg’s latest venture: Meeno an artificial intelligence-powered relationship mentoring app that’s operating in closed beta and available for pre-order in the Apple App Store part coach—the company strictly refers to the chatbot as a “personal mentor.”  the rat from the Disney film Ratatouille who sits atop a clumsy man’s head and orchestrates his movements (by tugging the man’s hair) to help him become a world-class chef and the guidance isn’t around making a soup but figuring out how to navigate tough interpersonal relationships “I want to break up with my boyfriend but I don’t know how.” Meeno will respond with a tip along the lines of being honest Metrics details Eukaryotic multicellularity originated in the Mesoproterozoic Era and evolved multiple times since yet early multicellular fossils are scarce until the terminal Neoproterozoic and often restricted to cases of exceptional preservation Here we describe unusual organically-preserved fossils from mudrocks that provide support for the presence of organisms with differentiated cells (potentially an epithelial layer) in the late Neoproterozoic is a new carbonaceous organ-taxon which consists of stacked tubes with cup-shaped ends It represents parts of a larger organism (multicellular eukaryote or a colony) likely with greater preservation potential than its other elements Arrangement of open-ended tubes invites comparison with cells of an epithelial layer present in a variety of eukaryotic clades This tissue may have benefitted the organism in: avoiding overgrowth digermulense shares characteristics with extant and fossil groups including red algae and their fossils demosponge larvae and putative sponge fossils digermulense was a complex and likely benthic marine eukaryote exhibiting cellular differentiation and a rare occurrence of early multicellularity outside of Konservat-Lagerstätten Transmitted light photomicrographs of Cyathinema digermulense gen (a) Fossil tissue extracted via palynological maceration (b) Carbonaceous fossil embedded in shale in thin section Cyathinema digermulense gen. et sp. nov. (Figs 1–3) from the lower Ediacaran Nyborg Formation a thread; referring to cup-shaped terminations of tubular threads that comprise the fossil TSGf18420c (O37/2) (Fig. 2a–d) catalogued in the palaeontological collection of the Arctic University Museum of Norway 24 specimens from the uppermost Nyborg Formation Cup-shaped terminations on the apical side of Cyathinema digermulense gen (b) Circular inner openings (red arrow) are connecting the cup-shaped termini with cells underneath Occasional unopened domed termini are seen on the right arrow indicates inner opening inside the cup-like terminus (e–f) Uncoated samples in environmental low vacuum mode for EDX analysis Well-preserved cups have an even and well-defined outline (f) although they commonly appear torn (d) which may be a result of sample processing but others do not reveal additional internal features Measured dimensions of the fossils and elements of Cyathinema digermulense gen (a) Size distribution of fossil fragments extracted via acid maceration (black) and fragments observed in thin sections (grey) (b) Crossplot showing tube diameter plotted against cup diameter (dark grey The diameter of the cup structure follows the width of the tubes but the side of inner openings is largely consistent Only tubes on which the large opening (cup) diameter and the inner opening were visible were measured and compared on the crossplot Both in the macerated material and thin sections which can be attributed to short transport after death rather than sample processing Elemental composition of macerated fossils from energy dispersive X-ray microanalysis (a) Point-analysis on a tube of Cyathinema digermulense gen shows that the fossil is primarily composed of carbon (b,c) Elemental mapping shows the two most abundant elements The fossils are composed of carbonaceous matter But these features would have been easily destroyed due to low preservation potential The morphology of Cyathinema stands out from previously described Proterozoic taxa of macerated fossils The interpretation of biological affinity is challenging due to a lack of complete specimens fine-scale anatomical details revealed by SEM to assess similarities with extinct and extant clades Gaoyuzhang fragments possess irregular and cuspate cells and lack tubes so fossils of the total-group Holomycota would not be unexpected all specimens of Cyathinema share the same form and the Nyborg Formation hosts no evidence of differentiated organ-taxa akin to Silurian–Devonian forms Cyathinema is the oldest fossil exhibiting organization present among some nematophytes It is possible that the source organism contained only one body-part type with high enough preservation potential to leave a fossil record Cyathinema’s carbonaceous wall and regular arrangement of tubes render the xenophyophore affinity unlikely A stolon-like function would explain the incompleteness of Cyathinema yet there is no indication of the fossilization potential of stolon cells Cyathinema may represent the epithelial layer or a stolon of a stem-group soft-bodied sponge affinity to other organisms with epithelium cannot be excluded animal cells lack a wall that would facilitate their organic preservation which indicates they may have hosted multiple cells inside while none were extracted from shales or siltstones If red algal affinity is accepted for Cyathinema the occurrence of their epithalli within shales demonstrates the feasibility for red algae to become preserved organically Schematic illustration of a set of stacked tubes of Cyathinema digermulense gen (a) individual tube terminating in a cup-shaped structure round opening inside the cup connects to the interior of the tube domed termini usually occur on the apical side of the fossil This arrangement represents a single layer Rare tubes that are distally closed are randomly distributed but affinity to other epithelia-bearing groups cannot be excluded Considering the emergence of coeval 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Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy (2021) Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily. 2022The show’s writers cast Birgitte Nyborg as almost supernaturally resilient and virtuous.Photograph by Mike Kollöffel courtesy NetflixSave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyLate in “Borgen: Power & Glory,” the standalone fourth season of the Danish political drama and cult hit “Borgen,” two women step out of a government building Birgitte Nyborg (the luminous Sidse Babett Knudsen) Birgitte and Signe were once rivals with a confrontational working relationship and all similarities: both wear black blouses “To think that we almost needed a new world war to realize how good we can be together,” Signe says before offering Birgitte the title of Deputy Prime Minister which they post to social media with a utopian hashtag: #futureisfemale And yet the scene is deeply sinister, representing the moral nadir of Birgitte’s time in Danish politics. The first three seasons of “Borgen,” released between 2010 and 2013 established her as an idealist: a moderate who became Denmark’s first woman Prime Minister and who was able to maintain her beliefs amid Party intrigue and constant media scrutiny Her assets were her charisma—embodied by Knudsen’s distinctive crinkled-nose smile—and the approachability she projected as a married mother of two her candidacy was boosted by her admission that she’d had trouble fitting into her suit that day.) As Prime Minister she dealt with issues that were often wonky and drawn from Denmark’s real-life politics: debates over the ethics of the pork industry the country’s role in the war in Afghanistan cast Birgitte as almost supernaturally resilient and virtuous Neither the collapse of her marriage nor her daughter’s mental-health crisis nor a possible cancer diagnosis was enough to cause a professional lapse in order to affirm Denmark’s democratic process; in Season 3 after two and a half years away from politics a party that quickly became an electoral kingmaker She had another opportunity to become Prime Minister by allying with a coalition that included an anti-immigration party unwilling to compromise on one of her core political values (In another situation worthy of a “Borgen” story arc recently avoided impeachment following a scandal involving the government’s killing of mink during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The actions of Thorning-Schmidt and Frederiksen complicate the binary that has long existed for Western women politicians, who are either widely admired for what’s perceived to be their more inclusive, equitable approach to leadership (think Jacinda Ardern of Finland) or who become so subsumed by misogynistic discourse that it becomes difficult to critique them with nuance (Hillary Clinton being an arch-example.) Considering the past decade of women in power one can formulate a sort of gendered Rorschach test: does the image of a woman leader seem like a threat or a liability Is she the Platonic ideal of a successful head of state Or is she simply another elected figure who will disappoint voters “Borgen: Power and Glory” puts aside the optimism and circumscribed plots of the show’s earlier outings to take up Birgitte in the latter mold—as a politician still at the height of her powers but so stymied by professional and personal roadblocks that she devolves into a cynic devotes an entire season to a single political story line which has been under Danish rule since the eighteenth century has had some sovereignty from Denmark since 1979 though it still receives an annual block grant of more than six hundred million dollars.) The question of whether Denmark ought to allow—and profit from—the exploitation of oil lets the show interrogate political fights over the decolonization of Greenland and Russian interests in Danish foreign policy This broader scope—and the willingness to engage directly with colonialism—feels like an attempt to resituate “Borgen” in the modern television landscape (It also demonstrates how Netflix’s resources can make even prohibitively expensive filming destinations Some figures in Signe’s government support drilling for oil because of the potential financial gains Greenland’s Foreign and Raw Materials Minister sees a generous profit-sharing agreement as a pathway for Greenland to become economically independent of Denmark Birgitte was sympathetic toward decolonization efforts in Greenland but as Foreign Minister she has different priorities she opposes drilling for oil because of the environmental consequences—and because strong climate policy is what got the New Democrats elected When crucial information about a Russian owner of the drilling company falls into Birgitte’s hands she intends to leverage it in order to do the “right” thing—at least for her party and for the environment as Americans tend to be on “Borgen”—asks Birgitte to keep the information to herself He dangles a proposition before her: perhaps Birgitte wouldn’t mind being put forward as a candidate for the U.N It’s unlike her to be tempted by such obvious flattery and backroom dealing we’ve seen that Birgitte is dissatisfied with her personal life: her relationship with her teen-age son has been strained by his progressive her ex-husband is having a child with another woman Birgitte’s age—she is now fifty-three—is another apparent source of anxiety: there are scenes of her sweating through her makeup and clothes “If I’m not the woman working nineteen hours a day as Foreign Minister who the hell am I?” The power vacuum at home has left Birgitte seeking to regain a feeling of control in her work is the degree to which Birgitte’s concerns about her family and her appearance are intertwined with her fears about the whittling away of her legacy as Denmark’s first female Prime Minister And so Birgitte complies with the ambassador’s request; when her deception is later uncovered she is predictably dogged by accusations of impropriety In a bid to protect herself—and to avoid resigning as Bent nudges her to do—Birgitte flips on the Greenlandic oil issue: she’ll not only aggressively support the drilling but she’ll also weed out anyone who opposes her (This is done right after she finishes throwing up after a night out—a comically unsubtle scene that conveys her own repugnance at the idea.) Michael wants Birgitte to refresh her image: to embrace social media and take advantage of the feminist wave in politics He also encourages her to resort to more extreme tactics Birgitte treats the Greenlandic representatives with disrespect; parrots the points of climate-change deniers; blackmails her party’s deputy leader Jon Berthelsen; and publicly repudiates her son for his political activity marking the second time this season that a white woman is positioned as the aggressor of a Danish woman of color a TV journalist and Birgitte’s former spin doctor yet neither confrontation explicitly or satisfyingly probes the gender and racial dynamics at play.) Birgitte’s moral transformation seems so enveloping that it’s hard to imagine that she will come to her senses Yet she does—thanks to an icy journey through one of Greenland’s fjords a local fisherman whose harbor has been bought off for use in the oil drilling As he muses on the effects of climate change “Perhaps all of this is more my fault,” she tells him He asks her what she got out of it: “I got to continue to be Foreign Minister Power.” The ease with which she comes to this conclusion is absurd and the fact that the revelation is spurred by an interaction with a member of Greenland’s indigenous community feels cynical: only a visceral sense of connection could affect her political reasoning—a plot point that not only reduces women politicians to their emotions seemingly rendering them incapable of abstract thinking but also puts indigenous people into the stereotypical role of teachers (It’s also striking that Birgitte only receives salient political advice from men this season; her tendency to exclusively view men as mentors is a realistic dynamic but it nevertheless reduces the relationships between Birgitte and other women to prickly performance.) the oil deal that she has just signed between Greenland and Denmark—though it hardly matters but I hope never to lose the ability to admit I am wrong.” She then voluntarily anoints Jon as the leader of the New Democrats and leaves the stage with everyone’s faith in her seemingly restored Birgitte’s volte-face feels rushed and unearned the writers couldn’t commit to fully transforming her into a villain are susceptible to the idea that even a flawed woman in power is better than the alternative But Birgitte’s resignation doesn’t satisfy not as a narrative of a girlboss learning her limits nor as a beloved politician’s return to form That’s because Birgitte won’t be leaving politics; rather Longtime viewers will immediately grasp the bleak significance of this posting Birgitte had tried to install Bent in the role but he resisted—seeing the position as a way to banish one’s unwanted peers she ended up shipping a political rival off to Brussels instead.) Birgitte’s exit from Denmark thus portends her obsolescence and reads as a strange sort of penance for her moral failings this season it’s difficult not to see Birgitte’s cynical turn as a reflection of her creators’ own evolved ambitions some sort of alignment with the zeitgeist; in that sense turning Birgitte into an antiheroine captures both the jaded nature of politics and television viewers’ attraction to messy women characters Yet neither Birgitte’s walk on the dark side nor her decision to pull back from the edge is entirely convincing One wonders whether the writers are choosing to leave several pathways open in anticipation of another season Knudsen has insisted that “Birgitte is done”—seemingly also interpreting her character’s move to Brussels as the coda to her career.) it would be hard for Birgitte to recover from her ethical flip-flopping; her brand of idealistic politics is now deeply suspect As unsatisfying as the writers’ choices this season may have been sadly pragmatic points about women in power much less women specifically; and second acts in politics—or new acts post-politics—can reveal as much about a leader as their time in office did A long-ago crime, suddenly remembered A limousine driver watches her passengers transform The day Muhammad Ali punched me What is it like to be keenly intelligent but deeply alienated from simple emotions? Temple Grandin knows The harsh realm of “gentle parenting.”  Retirement the Margaritaville way Fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “Thank You for the Light.”  Sign up for our daily newsletter to receive the best stories from The New Yorker. Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission That’s how it’s presented in the world of the show at least After weeks of strife and frustrating negotiation Nyborg stands in front of her party and announces that she’s going to resign her leadership position can hardly believe Nyborg has given up her self-serving embrace of bothsidesism and handed over the political reins Nyborg’s longtime fractious political partner had a different tinge to it — something more wistful or maybe even bleak on paper this is the least surprising twist the show could’ve offered Throughout Borgen’s first three original seasons Birgitte Nyborg was regularly presented with challenges to her political beliefs She was often forced to compromise with her detractors and sell out her allies in the interest of forming a government within the tricky parliamentary dynamics of the Danish political system Even more difficult was that when the show first appeared she was married and the parent of young children Borgen was perpetually testing her commitment to her own stated personal priorities: putting her kids first maintaining a healthy partnership in her marriage you probably can’t have it all” storytelling wave of the last few years (particularly about motherhood and careers — like Workin’ Moms there was already Borgen turning the importance of compromise into a dark warning Nyborg and the Danish government could not function without compromising in some important ways was that Nyborg could not move forward without losing — often quite a bit So it is not at all shocking that this new season of Borgen concludes with Nyborg embracing victory by choosing defeat (albeit defeat disguised as a probable promotion with Nyborg likely headed to Brussels to work for the EU) Even without that fitting thematic decision her choice to resign is resoundingly obvious She spends most of the season slowly compromising not for the good of the country but in ways that baldly betray her most deeply held political convictions She begins Power & Glory insisting that broadscale oil mining in Greenland a country still under Danish colonial rule Her initial certainty is shaken by the challenge of positioning Denmark within the interests of various global powers including Russia in order to maintain her position as Denmark’s foreign minister insisting that oil production in Greenland is fine and will have no major ecological ramifications she is undermining her own son (an animal rights activist) on national television has engaged the services of her former enemy to bolster her image shrugs off the fact that her pro-drilling climate report is patently fake and it’s certainly the end of Birgitte Nyborg’s career in Danish government For as admirably unflinching as Borgen has been in its willingness to paint Nyborg as a flawed human being there’s just no way this show would let her land on a devastating heel turn Not to mention the pleasant symmetry of it: The series begins with Nyborg’s shocking rise to power It’s nice for the show to end with a similarly abrupt The kind of ending that underlines this season’s ability to nail one of the most challenging aspects of a TV revival Power & Glory walks the line between retaining the feel of the original and embracing the intervening passage of time Nyborg doesn’t fight exactly the same struggles — she’s frankly thrilled to no longer be beholden to a husband and young kids To adult children with their own opinions and desires The global politics of 2011 are not those of 2022 But Borgen is still Borgen: full of delightfully wonky details about shipping harbors (It is also more full of skepticism about Greenlanders’ right to rule their own country one little bit of Danish political thinking that feels like a bizarre relic of the 19th-century-colonial mindset that somehow got ported into the 21st If this is a real reflection of current Danish thinking Power & Glory plays the moment of Nyborg’s resignation like an unexpected source of celebration but it’s undergirded by a sense of inevitability and although we may have feared a different outcome this is the Birgitte Nyborg we all know and love Maybe we’re startled by the abruptness of the decision but we’re mostly relieved — with that flavor of relief in which the conclusion was never in doubt it was just a question of how long we’d have to wait for it Yet in spite of all that — the nice symmetry predestined nature of this character’s development and extreme obviousness that this is where it would always end up — I found myself taken aback by Borgen’s final twist Not surprised in the world of the show but in a more global sense She’d finally wound her way through the tricky political waters and at the precise moment of her grand elevation from party leader to cult of personality Nyborg’s conscientious resignation feels like visiting another planet But while I wanted to be able to feel fond pride as Nyborg applauds for her successor that ending gives Borgen a hint of a fairy tale I watched Borgen with a sense of bafflement and delight fascinated by the dynamics of coalition politics The ending of Power & Glory made it painfully clear that while Borgen has not changed I (a Borgen viewer) have changed quite a bit It’s not Borgen’s fault that its grand gesture of an ending feels unreal The show is operating in the same lane it always has that lane has drifted further from the pleasant stories I once told myself about how real people in power can come together to make meaningful decisions the closing twist is legitimately astonishing A fairy tale about a politician who descends into the well of self-interested cowardice then at the last minute gives up all the power she’s fought so hard to hold Might as well be a show about witches and talking bears The ending only emphasizes what has always been true about watching Borgen as an American: a culture that openly embraces collective communal life is going to look like an impossible fever dream even when it’s inside a story about the most cutthroat it’s much more startling to wake up from the dream This article has been updated to include acknowledgement of Nyborg’s new EU post Password must be at least 8 characters and contain: you’ll receive occasional updates and offers from New York 2012 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air he was the son of the late Svante Emil Hugo and Marie Frances Pawlik Nyborg from General Motors where he was an electrician he had taught at Captain Tom's Fishing School in the early 1950's He enjoyed boating and motorcycles and was a member of the MSSA (Maryland Salt Water Sportsman Association) Essex Chapter and the Iron Ponies in Edgewood He also enjoyed water gardening and building ponds and loved to watch TV especially John Wayne and Bonanza Nyborg is survived by his wife of 58 years donations may be sent to Friends of Rescued Mastiffs Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text – Bryant University women’s basketball head coach Lynne-Ann Kokoski announced the addition of transfer Maranda Nyborg “We are excited to add more depth to our front court with Maranda’s addition,” said coach Kokoski “She brings more experience to our young roster which will help us build toward our quest for an America East Championship.” Nyborg is the third transfer the Bulldogs have signed She joins Penn State transfer Ali Brigham and Farfield transfer Mimi Rubino She played 67 games in her career at Fordham Nyborg posted four double-figure scoring games as a senior and tallied a career-high 13 points twice against UMass Lowell (Jan When I watched the fourth season of the Danish political drama "Borgen," recently released on Netflix I initially concluded that the show had captured the changing zeitgeist: Women's aspirations were spiraling downward Women's rights and women's power never advanced as much as we hoped they would We may have talked ourselves into believing that women could actually achieve equality American audiences were smitten by Birgitte Nyborg (played by Sidse Babett Knudsen) a relatable but politically savvy party leader who becomes Denmark's first female prime minister the fourth season of "Borgen" returned to the U.S RELATED: Sam Alito's ancient misogyny: SCOTUS rewinds to centuries-old law for abortion ban her hot flashes and unpredictable menstruation apparently clouding her heretofore good judgment TV journalist Katrine Fønsmark (Birgitte Hjort Sørensen) challenged by both the women she supervises and her corporate masters Birgitte sweats and bleeds; Katrine vomits They also are cast as bad mothers, or at the very least inattentive ones, whose fall from grace may be deserved, given their flouting of parental norms. This is the "Borgen" of women who lean in, teeter and then walk away from power. Vox may exalt in the demise of "the girlboss," but I don't find cause for joy This change in attitude is reflected in the real world. I don't expect Fox News host Tucker Carlson to say anything I agree with. But I was shocked when journalist Ben Smith, in a "dialogue" with Carlson this past week had no retort or even a follow-up question when Carlson while denying that he was a white supremacist made this admission: "In my mind the sort of archetype of the person I don't like is a 38-year-old female white lawyer with a barren personal life." Smith never asked Carlson about the misogyny behind those words nor called out his bizarre inclusion of the adjective "barren," which for generations was the word we used for a woman who could not bear children What we saw in the more upbeat "Borgen" of a decade ago was a world where women could assume power on their own terms, redefine leadership and make a difference. Fat chance. A UN commission estimates it will take 130 years for women to achieve parity with men as national leaders we've seen authoritarian strongmen increasingly take the reins of power We endured a president who unabashedly admired them the Supreme Court has made our losing ground inevitable Amid the rubble of reproductive rights smashed by the court is the economic wellbeing of millions of women this decision is not just about the right to choose If you are a woman of color working a minimum-wage job there is neither paid family leave nor affordable child care and only limited access to decent housing and health care Want a daily wrap-up of all the news and commentary Salon has to offer? Subscribe to our morning newsletter And yet the judges persisted. Sadly, the gang of five included a wife and mother. Justice Amy Coney Barrett has borne or adopted seven children, including a child with special needs. But she's been sheltered and cosseted from the demands of motherhood her entire life It's like saying that Marie Antoinette must understand the housing crisis because she's a homeowner Of course American women have made gains over the years. But our status is fragile. A pandemic knocked more than a million of us out of the labor force The Supreme Court's ruling now holds us hostage to lawmakers who know as much about a women's body as they do about the internet Even the most privileged among us now realize The world likes nothing better than to see a powerful woman fail Celia Viggo Wexler is the author of “Catholic Women Confront Their Church: Stories of Hurt and Hope” (Rowman & Littlefield) Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited Patent and Trademark Office as a trademark of Salon.com Associated Press articles: Copyright © 2016 The Associated Press Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders Complete digital access to quality analysis and expert insights complemented with our award-winning Weekend Print edition Terms & Conditions apply Discover all the plans currently available in your country See why over a million readers pay to read the Financial Times News of Renate Nyborg’s exit came as Match Group reported results that missed Wall Street expectations The chief executive of Tinder has left the dating app after less than a year after the market value of its parent company plunged by more than a fifth following reporting disappointing results The departure of Renate Nyborg was one of a number of management changes announced by the $20bn Match Group, which owns dating brands including Hinge, Tinder and Match.com Its share price plunged by more than 20% on Tuesday after missing Wall Street second-quarter expectations and issuing weaker-than-expected guidance “Today we are announcing the departure of Tinder chief executive Renate Nyborg and I have made some changes to the management team and structure that I am confident will help deliver Tinder’s full potential,” said Bernard Kim “We have not been able to realise the monetisation successes that we typically deliver Tinder’s current revenue growth expectations for the second half of the year are below our original expectations as a result of disappointing execution on several optimisations and new product initiatives.” Kim said he would oversee a new management team for Tinder while the company looked for a permanent replacement for Nyborg, who became the dating app’s first female chief executive in September. “I’ll be fully embedded within the team at our main Tinder office in Los Angeles to oversee business progress until the search is complete,” he said “I believe Tinder’s overall product execution and velocity can be improved and that we need to do more to excite our user base.” Kim said Tinder’s plans to introduce new technologies such as virtual currencies and metaverse-based dating were also under review as part of the restructure “After seeing mixed results from testing Tinder Coins we’ve decided to take a step back and re-examine that initiative,” he said “We also intend to do more thinking about virtual goods.” Match Group reported second-quarter revenues of $795m a 12% increase year on year but below analysts’ consensus expectations of about $704m which also owns OkCupid and Plenty of Fish expects revenues in the third quarter to be between $790m and $800m “While people have generally moved past lockdowns and entered into a more normal way of life their willingness to try online dating products for the first time hasn’t yet returned to pre-pandemic levels,” Kim said Kim was appointed as Match chief executive in May after his predecessor Orange junior Alex Nyborg steamrolled her way into the Division II state championship match last weekend but settled for second place after a loss to the defending state champion Nyborg placed fourth at the state tournament in 2020 “It was a good experience,” Nyborg said of her run to the state finals Nyborg opened the state tournament with a 6-0 6-0 win over Lima Central Catholic’s Libby Simmons and then beat Cincinnati Indian Hill’s Brooke Arrington she avenged her loss in the third-place last year when she beat Archbishop Alter’s Grace Lampman “I was pretty confident with my first match,” Nyborg said I saw her record and she had a pretty good record and was going three sets with really good people Nyborg had another loss she hoped to avenge in the state finals Eaton’s Macy Hitchcock defeated Nyborg in the 2020 state semifinals and the two had met several other times in tournaments Nyborg had beaten Hitchcock just once in their previous meetings “I was glad I made it to the state finals,” Nyborg said “I knew Macy was a really good player and I had nothing to lose I kind of knew her game and knew she was really consistent and she hits everything back.” 6-2 win over Nyborg to claim her second straight state title Nyborg settled for state runner-up honors in her third trip to the state tournament She qualified as a freshman but did not place and last fall Nyborg has her eyes on a repeat trip to the state tournament as a senior “I’d like to do as well as I did this year,” she said “I would be happy to make the semifinals and place The Chagrin Valley Conference features 25 schools spanning five counties Contact us: info@chagrinvalleyconference.com © Copyright - Chagrin Valley Conference Meeno, a relationship mentoring startup, has successfully raised a $3.9M seed round led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Andrew Ng’s AI Fund and NEA. The company, formerly known as Amorai, had previously raised funds during its pre-seed round in April (read more here) which brings its total funding to nearly $5M pronounced ‘me-know,’ is an AI-powered relationship mentoring app that offers personalized guidance for various types of relationships including personal and professional connections The funding secured in this round will be go towards advancing the company’s machine learning technologies and improving its mobile application “I believe that loneliness is the most important battle we’ll fight in our lifetime “Loneliness is a really hard problem to solve and generative AI offers a unique opportunity to enhance real-world relationships Although fostering social connection with AI may seem counterintuitive I believe that to make a dent in the loneliness universe you need to meet people where they are – online Just like Remy in Ratatouille helps you learn to cook Meeno is designed to help you learn about relationships: from friends to romance “Meeno provides a non-judgmental AI mentor that empowers people to master the skill of social connection,” said Roelof Botha Meeno understands your history and the web of your relationships—ultimately offering highly-personalized advice to help you foster better connections We’re proud to partner with Renate and the Meeno team as they help address the loneliness epidemic.” “The rise in loneliness is something I care deeply about I know a lot more about science than relationships — ask my wife — yet it concerned me that AI was being used by hundreds of millions of people to simulate friendship and romance,” said Andrew Ng Managing Partner at AI Fund and Meeno board member “Meeno is a perfect example of AI meeting a societal need and I’m excited to be involved in the company since inception.” Meeno has made its app available for pre-order on the App Store in several countries About Femtech Insider Advertise with us! 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Contact us Privacy Policy // Terms of Use The hit Danish political drama is back with a ‘gripping reboot’ Borgen: Power & Glory (now on Netflix) Sidse Babett Knudsen returns as the idealistic Birgitte Nyborg this time a junior coalition partner and foreign minister under a new female PM The stakes are slightly higher than in previous series: the plot turns on the discovery of oil in Greenland a tasty side-snack of feral coalition feuding” finds herself at odds with the younger prime minister Signe Kragh (Johanne Louise Schmidt) “they face the press in identical coats” “Britain’s Scandi love affair is over.” No one’s wearing Faroe Island jumpers and talking about hygge any more But “it is lovely to have Borgen back” – a grown-up show about politicians who are both very “Machiavellian” and deeply principled “Like a 2022 version of The West Wing it is a fictional antidote to unbearable reality.” From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox A free daily email with the biggest news stories of the day – and the best features from TheWeek.com Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Before Netflix made it available globally in late 2020 Borgen had been a VPN cult hit outside of Denmark it demanded tinkering with anti-geoblockers that before legit VPNs became a widespread thing probably saddled your computer with phishing viruses It was the perfect antidote against the era where we thought things like House of Cards were great political dramas Some might actually call Borgen the thinking person’s West Wing Adam Price’s magnum opus was also focused on politicians and civil servants that actually wanted to do their best for their country unglamorized portrayal of politics at its messiest and at its best truly representative Democracy (quickly: Denmark follows a unicameral Parliamentary System elected with open-list proportional representation which means the number of seats a party gets is almost exactly the number of votes it received overall) it also became nutritious comfort food for many of us played by the magnificent Sidse Babett Knudsen she became an icon of how to be a pragmatist without having to compromise your political values But unlike Sorkin’s US liberal fantasy Price built a realistic political figure based on Continental Europe’s Liberal Parties which in general lean towards the Center-Left are actually Liberal as opposed to Democrats a new season of Borgen was commissioned nine years after the end of Season three just as new oil deposits are found in Greenland she has to manage to find a way to reassert Denmark’s sovereignty represent the will of the neglected Greenlanders and leading to a clash against the Government she is a part of If we know anything about the spirit of the series Borgen - Power & Glory will be available on Netflix 2023WABC-TV is proud to take you inside NewYork-Presbyterian for a look at some extraordinary stories that we call Medical Marvels It's WABC's Emmy-nominated digital series exclusive to abc7NY.NEW YORK (WABC) -- Maranda Nyborg has been playing basketball her entire life She's a standout player on the Fordham Rams women's basketball team her playing days nearly ended last year when she was diagnosed with a serious medical condition that could have led to paralysis Doctors immediately recognized that Maranda's symptoms were not a normal case of strep throat An MRI of her cervical spine and thoracic spine revealed she was suffering a spinal epidural abscess A spinal epidural abscess is a serious infection that could cause a patient to deteriorate rapidly and end up paralyzed Dr. Andrew Chan, Co-Director of Minimally Invasive Scoliosis Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian, told Maranda she would need surgery immediately. "It was important that someone identify this quickly, which our team did, and that I was able to take her to the operating room urgently to be able to decompress this and drain the fluid from her spine," Dr. Chan said. "The surgery itself is not very complicated. What it takes is very meticulous exposure. You want to leave as much of the native musculature intact so that we leave Maranda as much support structure for the rest of her life." "It was really scary," Maranda said. "But honestly, I'd never been in so much pain in my life, so I was just like, whatever you need to do, I trust you guys. Just get it done so I can start to feel better." She woke up feeling immediate relief of her symptoms. However, she ended up spending nearly two weeks in the hospital while regaining her strength through physical therapy. "I definitely had a lot of doubts about how my strength was going to return and if I was ever going to be the same kind of athlete I was again," Maranda said. "So, that was definitely pretty scary for me." Although Maranda had to sit last season out but, she worked with an athletic trainer at Fordham during that time. They developed a workout regime that helped Maranda regain strength and a full range of motion. Recently, she was cleared to play for the Fordham Rams during her senior year of college. "We prevented something devastating happening to a young healthy college student," Dr. Chan said. "We were able to catch this early, get her the care she needed and get her back to playing basketball." After all of this, Maranda is grateful to the staff at NewYork-Presbyterian for giving her the best care to be able to continue to play basketball. "I can't express how thankful I am to NewYork-Presbyterian for all the help they've given me and all the support throughout this process," Maranda said. "Obviously, without them and without them catching this abscess in my spine, I wouldn't be where I am today, and I wouldn't be able to play today. So, I'm very thankful. It feels great to be back!" We don’t flood you with panic-inducing headlines or race to be first We focus on being useful to you — breaking down the news in ways that inform We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today The latest season of Borgen is a political thriller for the Great Resignation by Anna North Centering on the (fictional) first female prime minister of Denmark the show depicts a functioning democracy with a robust social safety net where government-funded health insurance and pensions are benefits voters take for granted and it was often unclear exactly what heroine Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) But she came across as generally principled and it was comforting in 2020 to watch someone like that in charge of a country even if she wasn’t real and the country wasn’t ours Then came Borgen’s long-awaited fourth season, released on Netflix in June and subtitled “Power & Glory.” This pandemic-era iteration is darker and less comforting, and takes an entirely different view of female power: It’s one of the first shows I’ve seen to reckon with the decline and fall of the archetype of the girlboss Season 4 finds Nyborg and Fønsmark in new roles: The former is now foreign minister under Denmark’s second-ever female prime minister while the latter has just become head of news at the struggling TV1 clouding their judgment and destroying their empathy as they scramble to hold onto power The foreign minister abandons her principles to back a climate-destroying oil-extraction agreement with Greenland she hires a slimy tabloid-news muckraker to retool her image and he convinces her to abandon even more of the principles viewers of previous seasons expected her to hold dear She’s mean to her son on national TV micromanages and then fires her star anchor who also appears to be the only woman of color among the station’s on-air staff She momentarily discourages an employee from taking maternity leave causing internal conflict and public scandal (the level of horror with which this suggestion is met both inside and outside the company is She starts having panic attacks and yelling at her family All this makes season 4 kind of hard to watch at times — the striving heroines of previous seasons have essentially become villains and as the show progresses it’s increasingly difficult to see how they can ever turn it around and Nyborg and Fønsmark both do something that would have been unthinkable on pre-pandemic Borgen and in pre-pandemic girlboss narrative culture more generally: They quit Fønsmark leaves her job at the TV station though not before negotiating an exit from the bad oil deal it’s the only way the show can come to a satisfying end The mindless pursuit of power has so thoroughly stripped these women of their wisdom and dignity that the only way to reclaim any shred of humanity — or to repair the wrongs they’ve caused — is to walk away We’ve all seen the dark side of the girlboss — and of the boss in general and we’re beginning to see popular culture reflect that disillusionment whether it’s Apple’s Severance or Ling Ma’s Severance It’s rarer to see an established show revisit its earlier premises with jaded eyes Borgen has not entirely abandoned its old principles nor are its characters realistic role models for ordinary viewers who might want to step away from the capitalist treadmill when Nyborg steps down from the Danish parliament a prestigious post with the European Commission is apparently waiting for her Fønsmark isn’t sure what she’ll do next but she’s thinking of writing a book called Power in Denmark These ex-bosses don’t have to worry about money or health insurance and they get to keep doing cool stuff despite messing up catastrophically and hurting people along the way Even this death-of-the-girlboss story takes the girlboss’s point of view I felt joy when Birgitte Nyborg announced her resignation on my TV screen I felt like a pretty good trick had been played on me I started watching Borgen for the soothing fantasy that there was a country where nice ladies were working hard to make everything okay Borgen season 4 destroyed that fantasy and made me feel dumb for ever having it then offered me something more interesting in its place it gave me the ending that I — and Nyborg — deserved Borgen is streaming on Netflix. 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FARGO — At the group’s peak in the early 1980s the members of The Newz were road warriors trying to break out and be the next big thing but without a major record label behind them they didn’t get much airplay or distribution and eventually the members went on to do their own things The band is no longer trying to make it big Now that they are all retired and in their 70s they just want to do what they love — play music “It’s kind of like bringing children into the world,” Kittelson said of finally releasing all of the group's music online “You have these songs inside of you and you want to get them out You want your friends and family to hear them.” The band started out in the late 1970s covering acts like The Police Members would sprinkle in an original tune or two like “Popular Boy,” “Tear it Up,” and “Doesn’t Matter.” "Then we started creeping new material in there and members dressed the part in skinny ties Nyborg remembered playing three one hour sets with a complete wardrobe change during each break The trio became regulars at the local bars of the time all in Moorhead as well as the Monte Carlo in Fargo and The Spud and Level Seven in East Grand Forks The local music scene was very active at the time featuring bands like The Phones Things were particularly busy on the Minnesota side where the drinking age was 18 until 1986 The Newz caught on beyond the Red River Valley and the group regularly played from Missoula Manitoba (nine hours north of Minot) and all places in between “People would come out of the bush there .. And then they'd bring stuff like bear meat and other things they’d been hunting The band didn’t get the royal treatment everywhere Members recall rough crowds in South Dakota and Nebraska “I wish they would’ve had chicken fencing,” Kittelson said “Sometimes they’d mistakenly book us into biker bars.” One of the worst club experiences was in their hometown After playing a weekend show at The Monte Carlo Nyborg remembers pulling up Monday morning to get paid A group of beer and liquor delivery drivers were trying to figure out why no one was answering the door only to discover the owner skipped town with all of the money as the group’s name stayed on the building’s marquee for over a decade while the space went unoccupied trucks and buses to haul the gear and road crew and Lincoln Town Cars nodding at his amp where he’s placed a chrome Studebaker logo where the amp manufacturer’s name should be Their reputation as a live band earned them opening spots for Cheap Trick Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and The Tubes “They were so much fun,” Kittelson said of the latter One group they may have not had as much fun with was Huey Lewis and the News Nyborg and Christensen made a name for themselves regionally as The News before the San Francisco-based band of a similar name broke out on MTV and national radio in 1982 The FM group had the name first and sent a note to the other band's management telling them to get a new band name The move backfired when Lewis' side lawyered up “Their label had a bunch of lawyers we couldn’t compete with,” Nyborg said adding that in 1983 the band became The Newz The name change didn’t slow The Newz down and the group kept building a following and some industry buzz We had five record companies wanting to sign us “It didn’t work out and things started to slow down.” He left the band the next year to go to college then graduated and worked at Sanford for the next 30 years Nyborg and Christensen started the Stanley Gordon band Stanley being a high school nickname Nyborg could never shake I like writing music and he’s good with lyrics,” Nyborg said of Christensen Nyborg worked for delivery services during the days and Christensen took day jobs to work around his nighttime performing schedule The three regrouped in 1999 to record the album “Two Sides to Every Story” and opened up for Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top at the Fargodome that October They got back together again for the 2020 album “Life of Crime.” A CD release show was planned for that March but scrapped when the COVID-19 pandemic stopped everything The old friends won’t be promoting a new album this weekend but are looking forward to playing old favorites That’s how new drummer Will Willert feels too “They were always my favorite band in the 1980s.” “It’s a step in the right direction,” Nyborg said But the band isn’t looking to get back on the road they want to open for other acts that come through town We want to be the opening act,” Kittelson said “We want to be able to show up and the lights and sound system have already been set up.” It was pretty intense working day and night for years We don’t have to impress anyone or make a lot of money and there’s no crazy travel,” Kittelson said A lot of people from our history are coming to see this show Aker Carbon Capture has been awarded a test campaign and feasibility study for Fortum Waste Solutions’ facility in Nyborg Fortum’s waste incineration plant is specialized in the safe destruction of hazardous waste and turning it into energy The planned capture capacity will be around 170,000 tonnes CO2/year Aker Carbon Capture is currently delivering a first-of-a-kind modular carbon capture facility at Twence’s waste-to-energy plant in Hengelo The company will bring learnings from this project to the Fortum decarbonization study “We are proud to be working together with one of Europe’s cleanest energy producers” Chief Commercial Officer at Aker Carbon Capture “We look very much forward to help enable Fortum Waste Solutions reaching their ambitious goal of carbon neutrality by 2030 we see carbon capture as a great opportunity to create green jobs in Denmark” Fortum Waste Solutions has extensive experience in handling hazardous waste The Danish company is part of the Fortum’s Nordic Business Area Recycling & Waste the hazardous waste is safely transformed into energy in the form of district heating which covers around 85% of Nyborg Municipality’s heating demand A successful recovery of excess heat from the carbon capture process can lead to more district heating which can replace heat that is produced with natural gas today.  "By selecting Aker Carbon Capture as an experienced partner for our feasibility study and pilot project for capturing and storing CO2 we are in the best hands to develop the optimal solution for Fortum This is the starting point for reaching the first milestone in our carbon capture and storage project In the long term this will develop the company to not only detoxify and utilize hazardous waste from industry but at the same time recycle the derived CO2," says Jens Peter Rasmussen An important part of the project will be the test campaign performed by Aker Carbon Capture’s Mobile Test Unit The results from this test campaign can be used towards a large-scale carbon capture plant our Mobile Test Unit is a complete replica of a large Aker Carbon Capture plant and has more than 30,000 operating hours on different flue gases around the world  We can therefore offer our customers a unique opportunity to test our technology at their site and de-risk the project with results that are fully benchmarking towards a large implementation prior to a full-scale investment decision,” said Tove Ormevik Chief Operation and Aftermarket Officer at Aker Carbon Capture.  Denmark aims to achieve a 70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared with 1990 levels by 2030 and storage (CCUS) represents a solution to significantly reduce emissions from hard-to-abate sectors in the last three days of an election race emerging as the model of a modern political player She is a woman willing to change course if necessary but unwilling to compromise or double-cross Would she support damaging information being leaked about a rival "How dirty do you think I am?" she asks her spin doctor: "I'd never forgive myself if I came to power in that way." "In that case In the TV debates she stands out in a purple dress before suddenly discarding her prepared speech she addresses the public passionately for two minutes expressing just what voters are waiting to hear: that when politicians don't know something they should simply admit it It's common knowledge that this is a drama about a female prime minister in Denmark so it's not giving too much away to say Nyborg triumphs "This is quite simply the beginning of something new," says her old because they want to be led by you." "What if I don't know how to?" she asks "You'll learn it along the way," he replies That exchange is important, because it sums up an ongoing truth: that there is still no map for women in power. It's a reality also explored by The Iron Lady, currently a hit at the box office, as well as the new book by Jodi Kantor, The Obamas: A Mission, A Marriage (Extracts focusing on Michelle Obama's perilously tricky role in the White House appeared in the Times yesterday.) With politics and most major industries still male-dominated there is a recognised approach available to the small group of privileged men who reach the top There is a debating style: apparently straightforward There is an attitude; an air of confidence and absolute certitude the relationship between female politician and husband looms surprisingly large.) Nyborg is very involved in family life – she shocks her spin doctor by taking time out from the campaign to attend a child's birthday – and it turns out she and her husband have a deal whereby she can concentrate on her career for five years before he gets his turn Their back and forth is that ultra-rare beast a TV depiction of a couple juggling ambitions and family life sexy portent of doom hanging over them in the shape of a female student the shorts that were too "common" the moment White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told her "you're never going to please some of these people" she no longer needed to prove that she was tough enough for the job; it was becoming a cliche .. to say that she was 'the best man among them' But that raised the alarming spectre of a feminist harridan – the worst sort of woman." Thatcher was therefore presented to the press and public as an "ordinary housewife" shown cooking her husband's breakfast on the morning of the ballot Thatcher secured her position over more than a decade in power through a brutal belief in her own outlook, a belief that became sclerotic, and led to her downfall. She suppressed dissent among male colleagues, until finally a group toppled her; she couldn't be of them, so she operated above them. In Borgen attempting to secure her position through give and take which recognises she doesn't have all the answers sees power in admitting this and attempting to find solutions through dialogue Neither of these is a male approach to power Before Fordham Women's Basketball took on Saint Bonaventure Kris Pursianen and Thomas Aiello caught up with sophomore forward Maranda Nyborg on the pregame warmup Maranda discussed the team's mindset through COVID-19 postponements and continued work on finishing strong down the stretch that have let her confidence grow as a rebounder shot blocker and overall player in year two in the Bronx Listen to every Fordham Women's Basketball game on Spreaker and tune into the Pregame Warmup with Thomas and Kris an hour before tip of every Fordham Women's Basketball home game Listener-Supported Public Media from Fordham University It's two and a half years since we last saw Birgitte Nyborg as statsminister (prime minister) in the second series of the hit Danish political drama Borgen she's no longer PM and has reinvented herself as a kind of low-budget Tony Blair all fatuous international speaking tours and lucrative seats on boards for uninteresting multinational corporations But then something happens that lures her back into the political fray Here, Borgen's creator Adam Price, a Dane of English ancestry who is also a chef and host of the TV cookery show Spise med Price (Eat with the Prices) explains what he's serving up for Borgen's season three In Britain, there's currently a debate about the pointlessness of party politics initiated by comedian Russell Brand Are you countering disillusionment about democracy Definitely. It's very central in Borgen that people in politics sometimes actually believe in something I think that's important – that there be a little flicker of hope in politics my generation [Price is 46] in Denmark was always accused of being non-political whereas the generation before us was the ones who made the revolution there were great images of people fighting for something – the falling of the Berlin Wall So I thought it was very interesting that in our self-sufficient western democracies we don't want to bother with defending democracy And that is an interesting dilemma; how can we stand up for democracy when so many are so cynical about it That was perhaps the very beginning of Borgen for me What's your answer to that dilemma about democracy We have Birgitte Nyborg launching a new party because she can't change her old one Instead of being dragged through the mud for policies you don't believe in So when Birgitte returns to Copenhagen to relaunch her political career I definitely want you to believe there is a shred of idealism in Birgitte Nyborg that is real She's also become a very professional political being The question the writers asked ourselves at the outset of series three was: "Can you achieve power and remain yourself?" I hope the answer to that question is positive TV Journalist Katrine Fønsmark is now a single mother working for Birgitte Photograph: BBC/DRIt has been striking that the first series of Borgen was written by three men but the leading protagonists were women – Birgitte as prime minister and Katrine Fønsmark as the TV journalist There are now two women writing for the show but hopefully it's no less feminist than it was We're still trying to dramatise the personal and the political – whether that be Katrine now as a single mother trying to establish herself as press secretary for Birgitte's new party or Birgitte trying to balance family life and a new romance with the demands of setting up a new political party I don't have special insight into these women characters but I do know that their problems make for great drama Birgitte returns to Danish politics because she's disgusted that Jacob Kruse the new leader of her old party (the Moderates) is backing the tightening of immigration rules Why did you make that the issue that tempts her back The party we based the Moderates on is called the Radical Left even though they're not especially radical or left wing They have a core belief in shared humanity and that we should welcome strangers So when Birgitte sees her party changing its immigration stance and abandoning that belief in welcoming foreigners that fires her up and makes her want to return to politics Is it a possibility to get votes for it though One of the great stories of modern Danish politics took place six years ago when we saw the appearance of a new political party Three politicians got tired of their old parties and created a new one It got tremendous interest and the press was all over them So you're showing a new party born in an age of cynicism And then we show what it is to make politics There's that great quote from The West Wing where Leo says: "There are two things you should never let people see how you make 'em: politics and sausages." Here we're seeing how they're making politics – they're sitting in the engine room but can we have one with a veil and still win seats That was the hottest issue for us in making series three We did a show about legalising prostitution but it was the pork issue that drove Danes crazy A lot of Danish pig farmers thought we were being overly critical around production of Danish pork They were worried that we would be tampering with that big income for pork production I was dragged around the Danish media for being the person who wanted to destroy Danish pig production We've been criticised a lot from the extreme right of Danish politics translated into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation] is just like the BBC – constantly accused of being leftish We're always told we are the cultural elite writing this politically correct leftish disgraceful stuff that the right can't stand We really stuck our heads into the beehive a lot of times in the series – we deal with immigration There are several real-life incidents that we are trying to put into it there was a very famous incident in Danish politics when two former prime ministers a liberal who's now Nato's secretary general a social democrat – it's really weird how many Danish prime ministers are called Rasmussen – clashed on TV During the election campaign Poul Nyrup did a crazy thing He tore pages from a neoliberal book written by Anders Fogh Rasmussen Anders Fogh was arguing that the Danish state had overgrown and needed to be cut down and that opposed nearly 100 years of social democratic policy Poul Nyrup goes: "It says here on page 19 blah blah blah so we'll tear that page out." He really tore it out it looked bad – it recalled the images of Nazis burning books So I really wanted a scene to echo that incident where Nyborg's doing a live debate with Kruse she tears out pages of his manifesto she disagrees with but because she's outraged at what Kruse has done to the party she loved Birgitte has a new lover – a hottie English architect Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg and Alastair Mackenize as her architect lover Birgitte's been lonely all through the second season She lost her husband at the end of the first season so she's been on her own for quite some time We asked where would a former prime minister go for love How could she discover love in a small country like Denmark without her fame standing in her way Then we thought it would be highly credible that she now would meet someone and build a relationship with someone who was not Danish We just happened to pick a very good-looking English architect fails to learn a word of Danish during the 10 episodes of this third season while Birgitte (played by Sidse Babett Knudsen) speaks formidably excellent English with an increasingly London accent during the series I didn't know she spoke in a London accent he does learn two Danish words – skål [cheers] and tak [thanks] You can get a long way in Denmark with just those two words There's a parallel storyline in Borgen about TV journalism with a new manager trying to make politics programming more gimmicky to boost ratings There actually was a show in Denmark during the 2011 election where leading political candidates played handball live against each other with cheerleaders on TV2 and fingers crossed it'll never happen again Why – because it degraded democracy and journalism Borgen has been broadcast in 75 different countries now Are there different national reactions to it We are so proud and astonished and grateful that a lot of countries seem to like Borgen – we didn't expect it it got sold to Israel and there they do a Saturday Night Live show on Israeli TV satirising us I got a call from an Israeli journalist and he said: "Mr Price Politics in Denmark – are they really that quiet when we disagree we blow each other up." I said to him: "In Denmark we don't do that – we just form coalitions." It's very big in France Partly that's because the French really dislike politicians a lot in France – or at least it seems that way So it's refreshing for them to see a show in which a politician really seems to want to do good You've said there will not be another season of Borgen after this one the third season ends by teeing up a fourth season It does but that doesn't mean there's going to be a fourth season Have British viewers seen all the good Danish TV dramas now There's a new series I've not seen yet called – what is the translation – what do you call the people who are inheriting It's about a great artist who dies and then her children pick up the pieces Are Danes as interested in British TV dramas as we are in theirs Most Danes who are really into TV will still consider the UK to be the cradle of serious TV drama The Danes are still watching an insane amount of crime shows like Inspector Morse The third and final series of Borgen begins on Saturday The complete box set is released on 16 December by Arrow Films A well-built analogue rack synth with plenty of character and ample modulation possibilities Analogue Solutions Nyborg 12 ModuleAnalogue Solutions Nyborg 12 ModuleAnalogue Solutions has been a purveyor of home-grown and well-regarded analogue synths for over ten years The key thing that connects its gear is the heavy reliance on discrete electronics in its synth designs This means they eschew the use of digital circuitry in all but the necessary nod to the modern world in the form of MIDI interfacing This also means no CPU control of envelopes or LFOs The unit up for testing here is the Nyborg 12 The units arrives in a market that is seeing an ever growing number of 'real' analogue synths from Korg's large-scale resurrections to boutique modular units - so competition is fierce the Nyborg 12 and 24 were created in response to the demand for smaller in many respects the Nyborg 12 is very much a trimmed-down Telemark You lose the patching sockets and Ring Modulation option which of course makes for less flexibility independently tunable oscillators combined with a square wave sub-oscillator and noise source The Audio Mixer section allows you to adjust oscillator level and waveform selection (sawtooth of pulse) for each oscillator but sadly not both at the same time - this is perhaps an inevitable compromise on such an instrument There is plenty of flexibility in the VCO tuning department including the option of turning either oscillator into an LFO-like mod source The reasons become clearer when you turn to the modulation switches which allow one VCO to modulate the other (and vice versa) and for them also to come under the control of an external audio source or the built-in envelopes In each case you can choose the modulation source to be routed to changing oscillator frequency or pulse width and even includes the possibility of VCO2 slaving to the LFO oscillator pulse-width can be dialled in manually for each VCO The filters section is where the two Nyborgs part company and though VCOs play a massive role in any synth's overall character it is here that you find two different classic approaches to tonal shaping The Nyborg 12 employs a two-pole 12dB/octave multi-mode filter This means that on paper it should have a more polite tone than the 24 but with the flexibility afforded by the possibility of switching between four different filter configurations - low-pass band-pass and notch (with a dedicated control for adjusting the relative mix of low and high-pass filters that contribute to this shape) As many 12dB/octave filters tend to be quite tame on the resonance front the Nyborg 12 features a Q Boost switch which pushes things into somewhat nastier territory AS mention that this is worth trying with VCO2 as a mod source (a form of cross-modulation) - nice The modulation possibilities in the filter section are again quite extensive Decay/Release and Sustain) envelope generators Although available for other modulation duties EG1 is primarily intended for controlling the filter (in the 12 it's the only EG available for this) and EG2 for controlling the VCA (for amplitude changes) One nice feature in the VCA section is the possibility of having the VCA triggered by a note-on or gate signal (with or without the full envelope shaping) or re-triggered by the LFO The final part of the sonic equation is the LFO which has triangle and square wave modulation signals You can also route Sample and Hold or CV2 (velocity) signals to the VCF and VCOs See below for more on MIDI and other connectivity.We found the 12 was a lot of fun to use and were drawn to its multimode filter While these synths are not especially cheap both are more flexible than they perhaps first appear- and you're getting a well-made hand-built 'true VCO' synth that should last a lifetime The Telemark offers more scope for experimentation but is therefore more complex (and more expensive) and there is a lot to be said for keeping things patch-free It was unbelievable”: The making of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love One man spent an entire year recording a pine tree Hear the results as FOUR album epic is released and if you ask me how I did it I don't know because I think I was in a flow process”: Rihards Zalupe on composing the music for the Oscar-winning animated movie The University of Alberta banner is flying at half-mast from February 7–10 The University of Alberta banner is flying at half-mast from February 7–10 Professor Emeritus in the Department of Renewable Resources in the Faculty of Agricultural After a debilitating illness that spanned over half his 87 years Marvin Nyborg left his battle-worn vessel behind Marv developed a passion to make the land more fertile This passion drove him and shaped his life culminating in his position of Professor Emeritus in soil science at the University of Alberta A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. at Ascension Lutheran Church, 8405 83 Street, Edmonton. To send condolences, please visit www.connelly-mckinley.com.