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<div>Here is the full version of the Battle of Stanhope re-enactment I told you about a little while ago. Did the Austrian one ever get transcribed/translated</div>
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<div>http://jackdrum.co.uk/4pence/the-battle-of-stanhope-2/<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Steve Thompson<br>
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DigitalCity Innovation<br>
Teesside University<br>
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<div id="divRpF227781" style="direction: ltr; "><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> videobridgebuilders-bounces@globalvillages.org [videobridgebuilders-bounces@globalvillages.org] on behalf of Franz Nahrada [f.nahrada@reflex.at]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 March 2012 20:40<br>
<b>To:</b> Arthur Spiegler; p.turner@semantise.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Videobridgebuilders@globalvillages.org; Gerhard.Fasching@sbg.ac.at; b.macaria@chello.at<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [VBbuilders] 2nd Russia videobridge adress today<br>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">(at a moscow conference organized by BASEL - basic elements corporation, 200.000 employees)</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">we had technical problems with the videolink though, too many peaople on the wifi in the hotel</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">see the first one at
<a href="http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/Pikalevo" target="_blank">http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?VideoBridge/Pikalevo</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Good morning - or should I say good afternoon, since you are ahead of us….</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">I am Franz Nahrada from Vienna, future researcher and networker.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">I am very excited to hear that the small and medium towns of Russia came together to discuss their structural
problems. We here in Austria observe very keenly what is going on in Russia, especially since we have so guests from Russia now ;-)</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">I think that maybe not our beautiful mountains are interesting, but also the beautiful composition of big
city, small towns, villages and countryside</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">They form a very essential interconnected system</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Much attention has been spent on the big cities and their problems, and also at the other end of the spectrum
we have had village renewal and many ppograms for rural areas</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">But very rarely we became aware of the small towns as the centerpiece of the system, that are a link between
the functionality of their "Hinterland" and the offerings that mostly still emerge in the big cities</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">We at ECOVAST (European council of Villages and small towns) have started a program to look at these small
towns, and take action to strengthen them.</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">because they are the most important joint bones in the overall structure of our social space.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Without them, rural life would be impossible</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">Now I see that the towns that you are representing were not primarily designed as maintainance centers for
a region, but as part of a vast interconnected industrial network</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">But now, as this network is facing the enormous structural changes in the global economy, with increased
competition overproduction, full automation, wage dumping and all that….</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">It might be wise to consider a transformation of small and medium towns to take full advantage of some of
the lesser visible advantages of globalisation.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">This is by the way the only way to save the national cohesion also - by giving all people good opportunities
of life!!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">This lesser visible advantage I am talking about is the enormous amount of knowhow and technologies that
enable us to act locally, diversify, do more</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">In fact more than ever industry does not only produce consumer goods, it also produces tools hat empower
us to do more different things than we ever could do before on a local level.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">I hope you will look into this possibility and the new economic circulations that can be created.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left"><font face="Helvetica" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Helvetica; font-size:12pt; color:#000000">thank you!</font></div>
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