#tcf week 2021

[nishicchikouchi]

I posted 789 times in 2022

That's 744 more posts than 2021!

215 posts created (27%)

574 posts reblogged (73%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@murasaki-cha

@reneneedtodie

@hajidumps

@creator-savannah

@untitled-google-docs-document

I tagged 533 of my posts in 2022

Only 32% of my posts had no tags

#tcf - 279 posts

#trash of the count's family - 211 posts

#lcf - 207 posts

#cale henituse - 199 posts

#lout of the count’s family - 152 posts

#lout of count's family - 54 posts

#tcf part 2 - 33 posts

#alberu crossman - 32 posts

#svsss - 27 posts

#trash of the count’s family - 27 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#rok soo will just think if the time soo hyuk was dancing in the shower and he slipped and had a hard time sitting down for weeks after that

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Remember that Grade 1 Monster, the Steel Feathered Hawk? The one Cale called "Noonim" in Earth 2? That was a hawk, and Cale called it Noonim.

252 notes - Posted September 17, 2022

#4

I seriously laugh whenever I remember the fact that Cale slapped WS but laments that only 2-4 people saw it, namely Alberu, Mila, Hannah and Jack iirc since Choi Han was blasted out the window lmao. In reaction fics, while seemingly quite a long time to wait for, this is really one of the scenes that I hope they'll react to. How they react to Alberu knowing that Cale have gone Crazy, Mila's comments, Jack's comments. I mean we got a share of Hannah's POV. Why not the two. I can't not laugh whenever I think of this scene.

298 notes - Posted September 3, 2022

#3

...Dissociating?

Unhealthy coping mechanism?

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Oh gosh I wanna cry. The fact that Cale recognized most of his issues is a sign that he's trying to grow. The fact that he's slowly healing.

324 notes - Posted August 31, 2022

#2

These tweets are absolutely underrated and people needs to know more abt it.

340 notes - Posted February 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I love how in tcf, Cale's family reminds everyone that Cale is human too. That time when Eruhaben said to that knight in Caro Kingdom that Caro Kingdom is not Cale's responsibility, that time where Alberu thought that he should correct the mindset of the people about Cale being omnipotent, and lastly, how his family and allies wanted to break the image that Cale is unshakeable.

708 notes - Posted August 27, 2022

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[bloustorm]

I posted 35,806 times in 2022

That's 27,669 more posts than 2021!

594 posts created (2%)

35,212 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 5,463 of my posts in 2022

#reblog - 779 posts (I only started to use the XKit like two weeks ago and look at this)

#blou talks - 431 posts

#blou talks to people - 130 posts

#ask game - 122 posts

#tcf - 93 posts

#lmao - 93 posts

#remember dember - 88 posts

#blou writes - 84 posts

#bnha - 75 posts

#yes - 73 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#the only thing that comes to mind was the one time my dad started telling the story of snow white different to see if we actually were list

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Sometimes when listening/reading hfy, space orc stories etc. The human says like a quote with god in it or related and I'm hit with the fact that the author is Christian

Like nothing against it

But it's kinda weird to think that Christianity would survive that long, inmean ither religions are old as well and like wouldnt it be nice to have some variety sometimes??

I know that most people prob don't even consider it or want to do research, but some small hints shouldn't be that hard

Like, an alien asking his human crewmate if they wear a headscarf at all times to prevent hairs clogging up the vents or smth, and said human saying it's for religious reasons

Or dietary restrictions that are of choice, alien having recently learned about some humans can be allergic to some shit and then asking his friend if they are, because aparently humans can even develop allergies against something like meat and them just explaining it.

And like all of these things don't have to be big at all

A small throwaway comment here or there

Idk I would find it nice and I'm not even religious

131 notes - Posted November 19, 2022

#4

Also why is no one talking about the fact that the White Star wants to feed Cale a dragon heart

Where are the angst fics

The bad endings

Where is "the WS force feeds Cale, Raons or Eruhabens heart"

Like come on, use it

205 notes - Posted July 8, 2022

#3

pssst why is April 3 Danny day?

Ah i think you should beter ask that someone who remembers it, I'm pretty sure that I learned it once but well that was around a year ago probably, so I don't remember now.

Maybe @floralflowerpower knows? Though I know they took a hiatus for a bit and if it started during that time they might not know but at least they might have an idea who knows instead? Sorry Anon that i can't answer this

205 notes - Posted April 4, 2022

#2

standing in the shower and madly cackling because i just gave all might a tumblr account (for my fic) was sure an experience

219 notes - Posted March 20, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

If you're reading this...

feel hugged <3

564 notes - Posted July 20, 2022

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Adem Asil recently gave a long interview to a magazine and I've translated it, not word for word as some topics were visited twice and I compiled everything a bit but there's some nice tidbits about his past and insight into key career moments.

He started gymnastics due to his 3 year older brother. Made the Egyptian national team around 13-14 years old. Says Alexandria is a great city for youth, although he couldn’t enjoy it as much because of training but he has no regrets. After he competed at 2017 Worlds for Egypt, his coach at the time, Yevgeny Kozin, left Egypt for Turkey and later asked Adem if he would like to come to Turkey as well. His coach and TCF invited Adem for a week trial which led to TCF offering him a spot on the Turkish team. He decided to leave Egypt because he was very determined but he didn’t feel supported by EGF and says they realized just how serious he was when he decided to leave. He says with that decision his career took a more professional turn because his way of thinking changed. His goals grew and he started working harder. He did feel lonely when he first moved to Turkey but in the training hall this feeling disappeared. Right from the start the other guys took him in and they started going out together etc. as well. Language was of course a big issue but teammates encouraged him to talk and develop his Turkish. And above all he was very focused on gymnastics and knew this was the right path so he didn’t look back.

It was very frustrating to not be able to compete for several years because of his nationality change and then the pandemic but he tried to channel it into getting better and better. He was very eager to make his name be heard around Europe, around the world. His bronze medal on high bar at 2021 Euros proved his potential. It motivated him a lot, and he continued training thinking of fixing his mistakes, aiming to place higher and higher.

At Tokyo 2020, he knew he had competitive vaults and was thinking that if he could replicate his training vaults in competition he’d be a medal contender. After the first vault he thought “Wow!” but didn’t look at the score. He focused intensely on the second vault and he thinks it would have been better to let go a bit and do “just enough”, but he tried to get even more height and didn’t spot the landing well because of it. He was pretty upset about how he could’ve been an Olympic champion and everyone would be surprised because his name wasn’t well known yet. But the fall strengthened him to practice more. Eurosport named his vault as one of the best 5 gymnastics skills at the Olympics and he was very happy to hear that, it’s pleasing to see people like watching his performances.

When he got silver on rings at Munich 2022 Euros, he was happy it’s a higher placement than bronze and made him think “I’m here and I’m working in the right direction”. Being 0.1 behind Eleftherios Petrounias, seeing that he was uneasy by Adem’s score who went up before him was very important. He says Lefteris congratulated him and laughs, saying he prefers to keep the details of the encounter to himself. There’s great sportsmanship among rings specialists. They all know everyone is doing incredibly difficult work and small mistakes determine the winner. His medal also instilled a feeling of “I’m ready for more” before Worlds.

At Liverpool 2022, he was a top rings contender and was dreaming of a medal. After his success at Euros he was feeling the judges’ respect. The moment he landed his dismount, the felt he did great and knew it was going to be enough to get on the podium. His joy was a very natural reaction, in that moment all his sacrifices, the years of hard work and being away from his family raced through his mind.

He's been away from his family for around 5 years. He wants to visit them very much but could never find a suitable time, nor could his family come to see him. He also wanted to have achieved a big victory before returning home. Now going home with a gold Worlds medal will be an immense pride.

The interviewer says that when they interviewed İbrahim Çolak after his rings title in 2019, he had said that had there been a previous World champion from Turkey, they’d have someone to look up to and maybe they’d have started winning medals earlier. Adem is asked an example like İbrahim has helped him. He says it had a huge impact because back in Egypt he was unquestionably number one and there was no competition to drive him. In Turkey, training with more experienced gymnasts that were World champions, Olympians pushed him forward and changed his mindset. He asked them what they did, what they thought before getting on the apparatus to compete. They are like brothers not only with İbrahim but the whole team. With İbrahim they pick a rings skill and challenge each other to do it. Or with Ferhat they do a stick challenge. This kind of friendly rivalry makes training enjoyable. They’re a brotherhood in the sport and outside of it as well, they share everything with each other.

At Worlds he withdrew from the AA final because the rings final was just the next day and AA finals are exhausting. Although he has a strong AA program and likes to compete all the apparatuses, he knew he didn’t have a shot at an AA medal in this field and decided to focus on EF. He would love to win a major AA medal but his potential and desire is greater on rings and vault.

His childhood dreams were to become a World and Olympic champion. Paris 2024 is the most prominent goal now. As a team they’ve had a great year, winning the Mediterranean Games team title, bronze at Euros. They’re very lucky to have a strong team together, the only problems are injuries and that’s the nature of sports. But if they are able to go to the Olympics with everyone at their peak, they wish to win a team medal. They have individual goals as well but most of all want team success. Adem says there wasn’t such an atmosphere in Egypt and he’s thankful for his current teammates for making him feel this team spirit.

#adem asil #team turkey #mag #men's artistic gymnastics

[pendwelling]

tcf week 2021 || day 3 — "RAIN"

#tcfweek #tcf week 2021 #trash of the count's family #백작가의 망나니가 되었다 #백망되 #tcf #my art #choi jung soo #lee soo hyuk #kim rok soo #THE SOOS #I LOVE THEM I CRYYYYYYYY #textless version can be found on my twitter!

[clara-licht]

The date is November 23, 2021, and it's 00.20 AM right now. This marks the time I start reading Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint novel! Let's see how long this will take me (for reference, 712 TCF chapters took me around 2 weeks)

#clara rants #clara reads manhwa/novel #omniscient reader's viewpoint #orv

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[ad_1] The time is near as we get ready to tune in to the anticipated and long-awaited…The Cultivate Awards Year 2 Finale! This Saturday, April 23rd at 6PM EST, grab a seat, your favorite snack, and a glass of something “good” as the day we have all been waiting for is finally here! The Cultivate Awards Year 1 Winner, Melissa Mercedes If you have been following along with the TCF Cultivate Awards, you know that back in April of 2021, we held our first Cultivate Awards and found our winner, Melissa Mercedes! The TCF Cultivate Award with the founding sponsor, Eloquii is The Curvy Fashionista’s latest program designed to support and nurture the plus-size community through an Award program and a finale fashion showcase. Last year, we put out a call for BIPOC plus size indie designers to sign up for a chance to win the 2022 Cultivate Award! The finalists are Charniece White, Matthew Robinson, Angela Rene, and LeAndra Dove. We would like to applaud all of them for their hard work and perseverance. You are almost at the finish line!!! A very special thank you to our Finalists’ advisor, Gabifresh and to our judges who took on the challenge of choosing out of these 4 powerhouses! Judges included an esteemed group of plus size industry experts:  Gwen DeVoe (Commercial Model/Actor, Creator & Former Executive Producer of Full Figured Fashion Week), Susan Moses (celebrity stylist and author of “The Art of Dressing Curves”), and Yesenia Torres (ELOQUII’s Director of Design).So who will take home the title this year? Who will win the Voter’s Choice Award? Well, in order to find out, you have to tune in to the finale! Be sure to tune in to the LIVE finale, hosted and live-streamed in partnership with Facebook! We have to again, thank Eloquii, Big Fig, Shapermint and Curvy Couture for being amazing partners and sponsors of this event! The winner of the Cultivate Voter’s Choice Award will also be revealed LIVE during our live-streamed finale on April 23rd at 3pm PST/6 pm EST! Will we see you there? [ad_2] Source link

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The Citizens Foundation at Expo 2020 Dubai

The Citizens Foundation at Expo 2020 Dubai

The Citizens Foundation (TCF), perhaps the largest network of independently run schools in the world, is set to be featured at the Expo 2020 Dubai’s Global Best Practices Programme in December 2021. This week as the Expo 2020 Dubai celebrates the Knowledge and Learning Week, we will see many organisations such as TCF highlighting best practices in education to achieve Sustainable Development…

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After Weeks of Delays the Detroit TCF Center Turns Over Security Camera Footage of 3:30 AM Biden Ballot Dump to Gateway Pundit

After Weeks of Delays the Detroit TCF Center Turns Over Security Camera Footage of 3:30 AM Biden Ballot Dump to Gateway Pundit

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Gateway Pundit Has The 3:30 AM Biden Ballot Dump Video

Gateway Pundit Has The 3:30 AM Biden Ballot Dump Video

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tcf week 2021 || day 1 — "MYSTERY"

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[brandonnatali]

Detroit Motor Show (NAIAS) moved to September 2021

Motor shows are struggling to survive in the era of the coronavirus (no one passed the memo to Beijing though), and the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) – the traditional curtain raiser in the big motor show circuit – was among the ones to wave the white flag to Covid-19 earlier this year.

The 2020 edition of NAIAS was supposed to be a new chapter for the show, with a mid-year slot in June instead of a wintery January, but as Covid-19 cases mounted, the show’s downtown venue (TCF Center) was instead used as a field hospital for coronavirus patients.

The reason that organisers Detroit Auto Dealers Association moved the show from January to the summer was so it could offer outdoor events along the riverfront, including test drives, demonstrations of self-driving cars and other new tech, plus the Motor Bella, a pre-show street festival of English and Italian cars in downtown Detroit. All that will be carried forward to the 2021 show, they said then.

And so it will, but NAIAS 2021 will no longer be in the summer. The new dates are from September 28 to October 9, but the indoor and outdoor plan remains.

“We have talked with many of our partners, particularly the OEMs, and they are fully on board and excited about the date change. Our responsibility as an auto show is to host a global stage for current products as well as mobility innovations of tomorrow. September is an excellent time of year for new product, and at the same time, alleviates the challenges a now crowded spring auto show calendar presents for auto show stakeholders,” NAIAS executive director Rod Alberts said.

Moving forward, NAIAS will remain a fall show, and dates have already been secured with TCF Center for the next three years, organisers say. They added that late September was chosen with the new IAA in Munich in mind. The German motor show is scheduled for the first full week of September.

“Spreading out major auto shows is a win for everyone, particularly our partners. It gives auto companies an opportunity to give it their best at each and every show, which creates excitement for those who attend, too,” Alberts added.

“With seasonable autumn temperatures and technology and experiential activations positioned throughout the city, show visitors will be able to enjoy fall in a walkable, vibrant Motor City while embracing the future of the industry right before their eyes,” said 2021 NAIAS chairman Doug North, who added that the Detroit event will include dynamic displays and experiential ride-and-drives. The NAIAS campus will include product and technology activations both inside TCF Center and throughout the Michigan city.

NAIAS will continue to host seven shows in one: Motor Bella, The Gallery, Press Preview, AutoMobili-D, Industry Preview, Charity Preview and Public Show.

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Postponed Detroit Auto Show Now Canceled, With Future in Doubt

It’s been a tough week for Detroit, with the president yapping at US automakers to produce ventilators, shields, and masks faster. Now the date-shifted North American International Auto Show is kaput for 2020. Last held in January 2019 and slated this year for June 2020, the show organizers called it off when it became likely the downtown convention center, TCF Arena, would be requisitioned for use as a FEMA field hospital to support hospitals overtaxed treating coronavirus patients over the summer.

The show has now been reset for June 2021 as a convention-center auto show, plus rites-of-spring outdoor events along the Detroit River.

Detroit’s convention center, Cobo Hall, in 2018, now called TCF Center, after the frozen yogurt company. Sorry, we meant bank. TCF has 300 branches, about 10 times as many as TCBY has flavors.

Auto Shows in Free-Fall Before the Pandemic

It has been a tough year and a half for auto shows. How tough?

Detroit, the North American International Auto Show, was most recently held in January 2018. Where it’s cold and snows. A couple of times in the past two decades, auto execs and press people were stranded in Detroit because Detroit Metro Airport was snowed in. Journos had nothing to do … except write snarky articles. The show was reset for June 2020, a 17-month gap, and now it’s off until 2021.

It is obvious so let’s say it explicitly: The #IAA2019 is a huge fail. It’s just a sad shadow of what it used to be. There will not be an #IAA2021. End of story. KTN

— Karl-Thomas Neumann (@KT_Neumann) September 11, 2019

The world’s most important show, Frankfurt (IAA), saw attendance fall at the odd-years-only  September 2019 show from 931,700 in 2015 to 810,000 in 2017 to just 561,000. Opel board member Karl-Thomas Neumann called it a “huge fail.” (Isn’t it nice when businessmen speak their minds, even if it annoys the Frankfurt Convention Bureau?) Sponsors put the 2021 show’s location out for bid. The commercial vehicles show continues in Hannover in September 2020. For the auto show, Munich won over Berlin, Hamburg, and three others for the next show in the fall of 2021.

The Los Angeles Auto Show went off in November 2019 and generally did well, in part because of its heavy emphasis on alternative-energy vehicles. Also, LA is a nice place for auto execs and the media to be heading into winter. LA is the de facto auto capital of the Americas because of design and tech centers in SoCal and Silicon Valley, plus the number of international automakers with US headquarters there. Unlike in Detroit, there’s no hometown bias in the media coverage. LA took on a life of its own when it gave up its early January date in 2006 for November/December. For now, the 2020 show is still on, Nov. 18-29. LA’s biggest problem is the convention center is small and cut into two halls that are a five-minute walk apart.

The Chicago Auto Show, the fourth of the three major US auto shows, went off Feb. 13-21, 2020 and was the last major or mid-major auto show to be held. For impact, Chicago ranks just behind the three international US shows – Detroit, New York, LA – but is the envy of the others for the best show facility, McCormick Place. It’s the one US site that can handle a million visitors. Should that many people show up for an auto exposition in the near future.

The Geneva International Motor Show (GIMS) was slated for March 2-15, just as the expanse of the coronavirus epidemic in China became evident. Automakers had been pulling their top execs back from the show, and days before the Swiss government banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people, which ended the show. Geneva is considered one of the Big Five auto shows of the world – Frankfurt, Geneva, Detroit, Paris, Tokyo – but its attendance slipped in previous years. Non-participants included Cadillac, Ford, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Land Rover, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Citroen, Opel, Vauxhall, Subaru, Tata, Tesla, and Volvo. But the show went on, online: Virtually every automaker with a major introduction live-streamed the rollout from headquarters.

The New York International Auto Show (NYIAS), scheduled every year starting the Wednesday before Easter (April 8) and running a week and a half, postponed the show to one of the least desirable times of the year, the week and a half leading up to Labor Day weekend. Press days are Aug. 26-27, with public days through Sept. 6. Greater New York is one of three sales hotspots for luxury cars along with SoCal and Miami, but Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz said they’ll skip the show.

The Paris Motor Show, Oct. 1-11, just announced the main part of the show has been canceled. For now, off-site events are planned: Movin’On and Smart City.

The Tokyo Motor Show, Oct. 22-Nov. 2, has made no announcement of plans for this year.

Happier days: Steve McQueen’s exuberant granddaughter Molly McQueen, in 2018 at the rollout of the new Ford Bullitt Mustang, done in the same Dark Highland Green as in the 1968 movie.

Detroit’s Tough-Luck Story Gets Tougher

Detroit 2018 press days: Selfies against the Detroit River next to Cobo Hall with (we’re not sure) clouds reflected in the water. Or ice floes.

It has been a difficult week for the auto show, Michigan-based automakers, and the state’s economy. Detroit will now be going almost two and a half years between shows. More than any other city and show, the automakers and auto dealers have used NAIAS to remind themselves of past glory: when US automakers sold half the cars in the US and when GM alone sold half the cars (1962).

Even as market share shifted away from the Big Three – GM, Ford, and the Chrysler-Ram-Dodge part of FCA – Michigan remains the auto engineering capital of the Americas. When the automakers shed employees in the past 20 years, many of them went to work for big US suppliers such as Magna or Lear, or international suppliers with big presences: Bosch, Denso, Continental, ZF, Aisin, Hyundai and the like. At the same time, the era of Rust Belt assembly line jobs paying $30 an hour is gone and will never come back. Manufacturing growth, with factory workers making $15-$20 an hour to start, is in the new south: the Carolinas, Georgia Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas. Plus Tesla in California using a former Toyota/GM plant to build a small-scale EV company in one with the largest market value outside Toyota.

A GM technician setting up and testing machinery to produce Level 1 face masks in Warren, Michigan. GM will ramp to 50,000 masks per day within two weeks, and later to 100,000 if there’s need. (Probably will be.)

Meanwhile, POTUS Blasts GM

This should have been a good-news story week about automakers pitching in to help fight coronavirus (as have many industries). Ford, GM, and Chrysler (FCA) are recalling employees to build masks, face shields, and even respirators. At the same time, the White House has been praising and then criticizing the automakers for not being in production already.

Friday President Trump castigated GM and CEO Mary Barra for slow-walking production plans to build ventilators. This was the event where the president said both “General Motors” and “General Electric” in the same extended sentence and described the federal relief package as “$2.2 billion …. $2.2 trillion.” GE does make ventilators through its healthcare unit. GM is partnering with Ventec Life Systems. Insiders at GM and Ventec said the past week was not GM stalling, but cutting red tape and expediting parts ordering, finding the best-skilled workers, and getting plants ready. According to a story in Tuesday’s New York Times:

President Trump on Friday accused G.M. and its chief executive, Mary T. Barra, of dragging their feet on the project and directed his administration to force the company to make ventilators under a 1950s law. But accounts from five people with knowledge of the automaker’s plans depict an attempt by G.M. and its partner, Ventec Life Systems, a small maker of ventilators, to accelerate production of the devices.

With deaths surging as cases snowball, the two companies have moved urgently to find parts, place orders and deploy workers, the people said. Tasks that normally would take weeks or months have been completed in days. The companies expect production to begin in three weeks and the first ventilators to ship before the end of April.

Why automakers? They have big assembly lines that are the opposite of clean rooms. But they also have smaller, cleaner prototype rooms and rapid-development assembly areas that can, and will be, repurposed. One of the things automakers do well is source parts from third parties.

In the making of a car, we’re almost a century removed from the Ford River Rouge plant, where freighters docked at the 900-acre factory with iron ore and a finished Model A came out the other end. Instead, an automaker may produce the highest-value items itself, typically engines, and outsource tires, wheels, transmissions, infotainment, and driver-assist electronics, sometimes even body panels.

I always treated the Chinese Virus very seriously, and have done a very good job from the beginning, including my very early decision to close the “borders” from China – against the wishes of almost all. Many lives were saved. The Fake News new narrative is disgraceful & false!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2020

Some outside the administration allege that the executive branch is pressing GM, and many others, to light a fire now in order to make up for lost time responding in January. Multiple reports say the CDC and national security advisors in January described the coronavirus as out of control and on the way to being a pandemic – an epidemic that reaches much of the world.

Regardless, protective equipment and ventilators will begin flowing soon from automaker factories and other sources. At the same time, doctors, nurses, and hospital staff are stuck reusing old masks or creating makeshift protection until the so-called “arsenal of health” starts flowing. And with no end in sight for people suffering from Covid-19, there won’t be many auto shows, large or small, in the near future.

Now read:

Covid-19 ‘Arsenal of Health’: Automakers Are Building Ventilators, Masks

Top Cars of the 2020 Geneva Motor Show That Never Was 

5 Lessons From the Death of Frankfurt Motor Show 

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