[Leica] Monday Misc.

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

I'd have to go for the the Lobbyist. It would be hard to refuse her 
which is probably one of the reasons she has that job. Pulchritude 
shifts a multitude.
Douglas

On 22/09/2025 11:00, Don Dory via LUG wrote:
> Greetings to all.  Last week the LBJ library hosted a educational gathering
> on the nuclear industry in Texas partially sponsored by ret. Sen. Kay
> Bailey Hutchinson's non-profit.  I won't bore you with the speaker
> particulars but instead present some vignettes out of the attendee's.
> First we have a friend of mine mocking me taking another picture of him:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/What_.jpg.html
>
> This man's craggy features just appealed to me:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/profile+in+listening.jpg.html
>
> I always try to include the behind the scenes folk who make the front of
> the house look good:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/Prepping+the+slide+deck.jpg.html
>
> This woman looks nothing like my grandmother but her bearing and choice of
> clothes brings back fond memories:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/old+school+proper.jpg.html
>
> Recognizing the importance of Lady Bird to LBJ's ability to govern this man
> was next to a large mural of a young Lady Bird:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/I_m+with+her.jpg.html
>
> I didn't know it at the time but this woman is a lobbyist for the nuclear
> industry action group in Texas:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/lobbyist.jpg.html
>
> For clarification, Texas is working very hard to develop small nuclear
> reactors (think pick up size).  The Leg allocated a significant amount of
> money for seeding early manufacture, there is a prototype up and running at
> one of the UT system campuses in north Texas.  There is a beta reactor
> testing here in Austin in conjunction with fast tracking manufacturing
> capability.
>
> All the best.
>