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Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne er en historie af den danske forfatter H.C. Andersen. Den handler om et døende barns drømme og håb. Den blev trykt første gang i 1845. Historien er brugt til bl.a. animerede film og musicals.

Handling
En kold nytårsaften prøver en fattig pige at sælge svovlstikker på gaden. Hun fryser så frygteligt, men hun er bange for at gå hjem uden at have solgt nogen, fordi hendes far så vil slå hende. Hun finder en krog og tænder en af svovlstikkerne for at holde varmen. I gløderne fra svovlstikken ser hun drømmesyn som et smukt pyntet juletræ og en overdådig festmiddag. Mens pigen varmer sig ved svovlstikkerne, ser hun et stjerneskud og husker på sin døde bedstemor, der sagde, at et stjerneskud betød, at et menneske var død og faret til himmels. Mens pigen tænder den næste svovlstik, ser hun sin bedstemor i et syn. Hun er den eneste, der har behandlet hende med kærlighed. Hun tænder endnu en svovlstik for at beholde synet af bedstemoren så længe som muligt. Barnet dør, og bedstemoren bærer hendes sjæl med ind i himlen. Nytårsmorgen finder forbipasserende det døde barn på gaden.

Inspiration
En inspirationskilde til historien kunne være et træsnit efter den populære danske maler Johan Thomas Lundbye i en kalender fra 1843, der forestiller et fattigt barn, der sælger svovlstikker: Forskellige illustrationer blev sendt til Andersen af redaktøren af almanakken, der bad ham skrive historier til illustrationerne.

En anden inspirationskilde kan være det kendte eventyr Stjernedalerne, der var indsamlet af Brødrene Grimm. Eventyret handler om en ung pige, der giver alt, hun ejer, til nødstedte mennesker og ender med intet andet end sin kærlighed til Gud. Grimms historie varierer, men ender med, at pigen modtager guddommelige gaver (penge der falder fra stjernerne) til gengæld for hendes godhed.

H C Andersen var ven med Charles Dickens, der er nævnt som inspirator.

Endnu en inspirationskilde kunne være Andersens tur til Bratislava (Pressburg) i 1841, hvor han var vidne til, at byen Devin brændte ned, og hvordan kvinder ledte efter deres forsvundne børn.

Endelig ses H.C. Andersens mor, Anne Marie Andersdatters, barndom som inspirationskilde. H.C. Andersen skriver i sine erindringer Mit Livs Eventyr:
 — hun var som Lille jaget ud af sine Forældre for at betle, og da hun ikke kunde det, havde hun en heel Dag siddet og grædt under en Bro ved Odense Aa; min Barne-Tanke saae det saa tydeligt og jeg græd derover; …
H.C. Andersen uddybede historien til sin ven Nicolai Bøgh.
Moren skulle have sagt til sin digtersøn:
 Jeg har aldrig kunnet bede Nogen om Noget. Da jeg sad der under Broen var jeg saa sulten; jeg dyppede da min Finger i Vandet og tog nogle Draaber paa Tungen, fordi jeg troede, det skulde hjælpe. Endelig faldt jeg i Søvn og sov til om Aftenen. Saa gik jeg hjem, og, da min Moder hørte, jeg Ingenting bragte med, skændte hun meget paa mig, og sagde, jeg var en doven Tøs…

Udgivelse
"Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne" udkom første gang i december 1845 i Dansk Folkekalender for 1846. Den blev genudgivet d. 4. marts  1848 som en del af samlingen Nye Eventyr. Andet Bind. Anden Samling og igen 18. december 1849 som en  af Eventyr. Historien var også udgivet d. 30. marts 1863 som en del af Eventyr og Historier. Andet Bind .

Adaptationer

Film

 Historien dannede forlæg for den britiske stumfilm fra 1902, Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne.
 I 1928 blev filmen "La Petite Marchande d'Allumettes" ("Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne") af Jean Renoir udgivet (40 minutters stumfilm).
 1937 adapterede "Charles Mintz Studio" "Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne" med en uhyggelig slutning til en af Color Rhapsodies animerede kortfilm. Den blev set som en af studiets bedste film. Den blev nomineret til  1937's Oscar-uddeling i kategorien "Bedste kortfilm (Tegnefilm)", men tabte til Disneys The Old Mill.
 I 1971 udgav filmstudiet "Toei Animation" en animeret film baseret på Andersens historier, med titlen "Hans Christian Andersen no Sekai" ("The World of Hans Christian Andersen").
 I 2003 var "Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne" lavet til en animeret kortfilm af Junho Chung for Fine Cut: KCET's Festival of Student Film.
 I 2005 blev en adaptation af "Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne" udgivet af ADV Films i Hello Kitty Animation Theater Vol. 3 I 2006 færdigjorde Walt Disney Feature Animation produktionen af en ny adaptation of "Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne". Kortfilmen var oprindeligt tænkt, som en del af en Fantasia-film, men dette projekt blev afblæst. Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne er den sidste af fire kortfilm, der blev aflyst, der skulle være blevet til selvstændige film. Den var udgivet som en bonus på DVD Platin Udgaven fra 2006 af Den lille Havfrue.
 I den animerede serie fra 2005 Snedronningen baseret på andre H.C. Andersen-eventyr, var der et afsnit med titlen "Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne".

 Musik
 I 1897 skrev den danske komponist August Enna en opera med titlen Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne.
 I 1994 udgav Frederik Magle albummet "Sangen Er Et Eventyr" med sange over H.C. Andersens eventyr sammen med Thomas Eje, Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Trio Rococo m.fl. "Den lille pige med Svovlstikkerne" er en af sangene. .
 I 2006, udgav det engelske band The Tiger Lillies og en stryge-trio albummet "The Little Match Girl" baseret på historien.
 David Lang komponerede sin The Little Match Girl Passion i 2007, sammen med to sopraner, tenor og en bas-baryton. Arbejdet gav Lang en Pulitzer Prize i kategorien "Musik" i 2008. Optaget af Theatre of Voices og Paul Hillier for Harmonia Mundi USA.
 Den tyske avant-garde komponist Helmut Lachenmann havde skrevet en opera baseret på historien med titlen Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern.
 I 1995 var sangen "Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" med på den tyske sanger Meret Beckers album "Noctambule".
 I 2001 udgav guitaristen Loren Mazzacane Connors albummet The Little Match Girl baseret på historien.
 I 2001 skrev det ungarske band Tormentor sangen "The Little Match Girl" med tekst, der var baseret på historien.
 I 2002 udgav GrooveLily "Striking 12", off-Broadway-musicalen baseret på "Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne".
 Den taiwanske popkunstner Xiong Tian Ping optrådte med sangen 'Match Heaven' (火柴天堂) på sit debutalbum.
 Det finske symphonic metal band Nightwish udgav et album med titlen "Wishmaster". Sangen "Bare Grace Misery" indeholder linjen "A Little Match Girl freezing in the snow." ("Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne fryser i sneen").
 I 2005, lavede Erasure en musikvideo til deres sang "Breathe", baseret på en moderne adaptation af historien.
 Som beskrevet af instruktøren Rob O'Connor består kunstarbejdet på albummet A Winter Symphony af Sarah Brightman af en model, der portrætterer en "eksotisk, smuk... voksen version den lille pige med svovlstikkerne."
 I 2002 udgav Moppi Productions demoen "Halla", som var stærkt påvirket af "Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne".
 I 2007 udgav den japanske popgruppe AKB48 sangen 'Tear-Seller Girl' (Namida uri no shoujo, 涙売りの少女), temaet refererer til Den lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne).
I 1984 indspillede det grønlandske band Naneruaq sangenIkitsisaarniannguaq, som refererer til Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, og udgav sangen i 1985.

 Fjernsyn
 I 1974 blev en a tilpasser???? version sendt i Cincinnati, juleaften på WLWT. Den niårige Sarah Jessica Parker medvirkede i hovedrollen. Denne specielle juleudsendelse blev sidste gange sendt på Family Channel i december 1982.
 I 1987 udgav britisk fjernsyn "The Little Match Girl", en musical baseret på den oprindelige historie. Castet inkluderede Twiggy og Roger Daltrey. Musicalen inkluderede sangen "Mistletoe and Wine", som et år senere, blev et julehit  for Cliff Richard .
 I en moderniseret 1987-version, blev "The Little Match Girl" vist på amerikansk fjernsyn. Cast inkluderede Keshia Knight Pulliam og William Daniels.

 I den første episode af Gilmore Girls, før de kommer hen til bedstemorens hus, siger Rory til Lorelai "So, do we go in or do we just stand here re-enacting The little match girl?" ("Nå, går vi ind eller skal vi bare stå her og genopføre "Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne"?).

 Litteratur

 I 1996, gav Hogfather, en af Terry Pratchetts mest populære bogserier Discworld, historien en helt anderledes morbid slutning, med indblanding fra selve Døden.
 La Vendedora de rosas (lit: "Rosensælgeren") var en moderne adaptation af Andersens eventyr i en meget realistisk dokumentarisk form. Filmen fra 1998 var instrueret af Víctor Gaviria, med Leidy Tabares.
 I 2003, var "The Little Match Girl" adapteret til en kort mangahistorie af Hans Tseng og hvori første volume af  Tokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga var med.
 I Neil Gaimans roman fra 2004, "A Study in Emerald," ser hovedrollerne tre skuespil, hvor et af dem er teater adaptation af the "Den lille Pige".
 Match Girl, er en kort fortælling af Anne Bishop, udgivet i "Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears" i 1995.
Romanforfatteren Gregory Maguire læser en kort historie baseret på "Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne" op på radiokanalen NPR.  I 2009 udvider han den korte fortælling til en hel roman, udgivet under titlen Matchless: A Christmas Story'' .
"Den lille pige" bliver sommetider refereret til i den japansk mangaserie, Crayon Shin Chan.
"Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne" er blevet genfortalt i et digt af William McGonagall (1825–1902) .
I Piers Anthonys roman "The Color of Her Panties", kapitel 11, refererer karakterne til historien om "Den lille pige" og Demoness Metria tager form af et forældreløst barn, der sælger tændstikker.

Se også
Eventyr af H.C. Andersen
Nærdødsoplevelse
Vilhelm Pedersen, første illustratør af Andersens eventyr

References

Eventyr af H.C. Andersen

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World would never forget Mohammad Amir's no-ball crime; resultant ban and sentence notwithstanding. Bangladeshi fans would ever rejoice these no balls of Mohammad Sami.
The idea of Asia Cup was conceived in 1983 when the Asian Cricket Council was founded as a measure to promote goodwill between Asian countries. It was originally scheduled to be held every two years. The first tournament was held in 1984 in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates and was known as Rothmans Asia Cup. Three teams took part in the tournament: India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in a round robin format where each team played the other – a total of only 3 matches. India won both its matches and won the Cup. Do you know or remember that the great Kapil Dev missed the tournament having to undergo a knee surgery in London and Imran Khan too did not play !
In 2012, in ODI no. 3267 that was finals of Asia Cup, at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, there were reasons to think that Bangladesh were the favourites to take the Cup, on their biggest day as a cricketing nation. A fourth consistent performance on the trot was expected. They could have been chasing much lesser score but for the specialist wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed, who had a highest ODI score of 24 and a strike-rate of 62.35 before this game, turned 199 for 8 into 236 for 9 with a 52-ball 46. Still a target of 237 was eminently gettable. They had a good opening start – 68 when the first wicket fell at 16.4; then tumbled to 81/3, had a good partnership taking to 170. What made them lose the chase perhaps was the slow game of Nasir Hossain who made 28 off 63 and that of Nazimuddin who made 16 off 52. The nail-baiting finish was witnessed by a capacity crowd that included their Prime Minister Begum Sheikh Haseena, who watched the match as a Prime Minister, today too. Sheikh Hasina, is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father (and first president) of Bangladesh and widow of a reputed nuclear scientist, M. A. Wazed Miah.
This tournament is different – Asia Cup in T20 format while all earlier ones were 50 over One dayers. Now with 2 matches to go, [India V UAE & Pak V Lanka]- the finals line-up is already drawn – it is India Vs Bangladesh on Sunday, Mar 6, 2016.
Having restricted Pak to 129/7 – Bangladesh were at best steady in the chase. After 16 overs, they were 95/4 (35 runs required from 24 balls) Mahmudullah2 (5b) & Shakib Al Hasan7 (9b) at crease. 17th over 2nd ball of tall Mohammad Irfan soared over mid-off for a six – by Mahmudullah. It was 26 off 18. Mohammad Amir's final over – first ball no run, second Shakib Al Hassan was out making a poor stroke. 26 off 16 - Mashrafe Mortaza promoted self and hit a good 4, Sami's fielding was found wanting though. Next came a ripping bouncer, not properly directed, the evasive action ensured a nudge and a four.
The roar was back as it was 18 off 12. Afridi had a lengthy chat with Sami. It was 1-1-1; 15 off 9 …….. then came Mohammad Sami's bounty ! – overstepped by a huge margin – Mashrafe hold out to long-off, ran 2 ; free hit yielded just a single; 2 off the next and off the last ball, Sami overstepped again – was hit for a four too. 15 came off it and only 3 required off the last over by Anwar Ali, whose 1st ball was hit for a 4.
Great moment for Bangladesh as they would play India in the finals of Asia Cup 2016.


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Islam and the West ( 30 Sept 2015, NewAgeIslam.Com)
Syria, Obama and Putin
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Your Honor, I rise again in defense of President Barack Obama's policy on Syria.
Obama has been right in his ambivalence about getting deeply involved in Syria. But he's never had the courage of his own ambivalence to spell out his reasoning to the American people. He keeps letting himself get pummeled into doing and saying things that his gut tells him won't work, so he gets the worst of all worlds: His rhetoric exceeds the policy, and the policy doesn't work.
Meanwhile, Obama's Republican critics totally lack the wisdom of our own experience. They blithely advocate "fire, ready, aim" in Syria without any reason to believe their approach will work there any better than it did for us in Iraq or Libya. People who don't know how to fix inner-city Baltimore think they know how to rescue downtown Aleppo — from the air!
Vladimir V. Putin waiting to speak to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday.Contributing Op-Ed Writer: Vladimir Putin's Guide to World HistorySEPT. 30, 2015
Personally, I'll take the leader who lacks the courage of his own ambivalence over the critics who lack the wisdom of their own experience. But ambivalence is not a license to do nothing. We can do things that make a difference, but only if we look at our enemies and allies in Syria with clear eyes.
For instance, today's reigning cliché is that the wily fox, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, has once again outmaneuvered the flat-footed Americans, by deploying some troops, planes and tanks to Syria to buttress the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and to fight the Islamic State forces threatening him. If only we had a president who was so daring, so tough, so smart.
Really? Well think about this: Let's say the U.S. did nothing right now, and just let Putin start bombing ISIS and bolstering Assad. How long before every Sunni Muslim in the Middle East, not to mention every jihadist, has Putin's picture in a bull's eye on his cellphone?
The Sunni Muslims are the vast majority in Syria. They are the dominant sect in the Arab world. Putin and Russia would be seen as going all-in to protect Assad, a pro-Iranian, Alawite/Shiite genocidal war criminal. Putin would alienate the entire Sunni Muslim world, including Russian Muslims.
Moreover, let's say by some miracle the Russians defeat ISIS. The only way to keep them defeated is by replacing them with moderate Sunnis. Which moderate Sunnis are going to align with Russia while Putin is seen as the prime defender of the barrel-bombing murderer of more Sunnis than anyone on the planet, Bashar al-Assad?
Putin stupidly went into Syria looking for a cheap sugar high to show his people that Russia is still a world power. Well, now he's up a tree. Obama and John Kerry should just leave him up there for a month — him and Assad, fighting ISIS alone — and watch him become public enemy No. 1 in the Sunni Muslim world. "Yo, Vladimir, how's that working for you?"
The only way Putin can get down from that tree is with our help in forging a political solution in Syria. And that only happens if the Russians and the Iranians force Assad — after a transition — to step down and leave the country, in return for the opposition agreeing to protect the basic safety and interests of Assad's Alawite community, and both sides welcoming an international force on the ground to guarantee the deal.
But to get there we need to size our rhetoric with our interests in Syria as well. Our interests right now are to eliminate or contain the two biggest metastasizing threats: ISIS — whose growth can threaten the islands of decency in the region like Lebanon, the Kurds and Jordan — and the tragedy of Syrian refugees, whose numbers are growing so large they are swamping Lebanon and Jordan and, if they continue, could destabilize the European Union, our vital partner in the world.
If we want something better — multisectarian democracy in Syria soon — we would have to go in and build it ourselves. The notion that it would only take arming more Syrian moderates is insane.
During the weekend The Times reported that "nearly 30,000 foreign fighters have traveled to Iraq and Syria from more than 100 countries since 2011." So 30,000 people have gone to Syria to join ISIS to promote jihad and a caliphate. How many Arabs and Muslims have walked to Syria to promote multisectarian democracy? Apparently zero.
Why do we have to search for moderates like a man with a dowsing rod looking for water, and then train them, while no one has to train the jihadists, who flock there? It's because the jihadists are in the grip of ideals, albeit warped ones. There is no critical mass of Syrian moderates in the grip of ideals; they will fight for their own homes and families, but not for an abstract ideal like democracy. We try to make up for that with military "training," but it never works.
Are there real democrats among the Syrian opposition? You bet, but not enough, not with the organization, motivation and ruthlessness of their opponents.
Everyone wants an immaculate intervention in Syria, one where you look like you're doing something, but without the political cost of putting troops on the ground or having to make unpleasant compromises with unsavory people. There is no such option.
I think Putin's rash rush into Syria may in the end make him more in need of a deal, or at least a lasting cease-fire, that stops the refugee flows. If we can do that, for now, we will have done a lot.
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[Review] Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious – Episode 1
October 3, 2019 by Caitlin Moore Leave a Comment
What's it about? If she can find and guide a hero to rescue one more world, the rookie goddess Ristarte ("Rista") will be promoted to full divinity. The problem is that she draws an S-Class world, one so troubled that even gods who have saved hundreds of worlds would have a hard time with it. Luckily for her, she finds and summons Ryuuguuin Seiya, a young Japanese man with astronomical base stats. Unluckily for her, Seiya is so cautious he can barely function!
First anime of the new season for me, and of course it's an isekai. Of course. But still, I have to give Cautious Hero some credit. Okay, a lot of credit. This first episode was actually incredibly fun. It knows where the show's most entertaining qualities lie and just how to bring them out.
There's not really much to Seiya. He has two personality traits: paranoid and brusque. When Rista tells him that he's been isekai'd, he shows no enthusiasm or excitement, just locks himself in a room to do push-ups to prepare for a week.
When they encounter a Level 1 slime, he hits it with three high-power special attacks, continuing long after it's a smoking crater. There's really only one joke to him.
No, the real star of this episode is Rista, and I'm glad to see everyone involved in the production seems to realize that. From her first moments running away from the gacha ceremony screaming about the task in front of her, she lights up every moment on-screen.
She's already frazzled enough about such an important milestone hinging on such a monumental task, and then Seiya comes along and completely destroys her composure. The animation staff focuses mainly on expressing that through character animation and storyboarding, rather than showing off her boobs in her admittedly skimpy dress.
Rista's gag-anime energy gels wonderfully with Seiya's straight-man nature. Their relationship plays with expectations a bit as well, since Seiya has no apparent interest in Rista's divinely curvy figure while Rista is super horny for his hot bod.
Even as he drives her nuts, she can't stop staring at all those damn muscles, because he insists on working out, even just stripping his shirt off and doing push-ups in the middle of the floor. He irritably tells her to stop staring at him a couple times, but there's little sense of violence or violation like there is when a male character walks in on or peeps at a female character.
Not that this show isn't horny about its female characters. Rista's dress, with its thigh-bearing length and enormous boob keyhole cutout, leaves little to the imagination. And yet it's somehow one of the more modest female costumes, judging from the opening theme. Still, the first episode only has a couple instances of obtrusive fanservice shots, and it's more than outweighed by everything else about Rista.
I'm not sure how Cautious Hero will unfold as the series goes on. I can see the central gag of Seiya's paranoia and disproportionate responses getting old quickly. His and Rista's relationship could also become repetitive if there's not a shift in dynamic soon. Still, this premiere was the most fun I've had watching a single episode of anime in quite a while, so I'm going to stay cautiously optimistic.
Caitlin Moore
Caitlin Moore is a Seattle-based preschool teacher and amateur critic with an academic background in linguistics and Japanese language and culture. She runs the blog heroineproblem.com and can be reached on Twitter at @alltsun_nodere.
Filed Under: Reviews Tagged With: Cautious Hero: The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, Fall 2019


1. How does Ender differ from the other nineteen boys in his launch group?Ender differs from the other 19 boys in his launch group in that he is the only one alone, distraught with stress, anxiety and fear. He is quite unsure of what to expect, and being away from Valentine, with a bunch of kids he'd never met before, makes it even harder for him to cope.
2. What does Ender's understanding about gravity reveal about Ender's ability to think? How might this benefit him in outer space?
inextricable sense of direction, which will help mould him in to the best commander he can grow to be.
3. What effect does Graff's assertion that Ender will be commander while the other boys are still learning have? How does Ender feel about his statement?
Graff's assertion that Ender will be commander while the other boys are still learning makes the other boys less enticed to communicate and participate with anything to do with Ender. He is isolated, he is his inly friend, and Graff is no longer his acquiantance.
Ender tells Graff that he feels betrayed annd hurt, he thought that Graff was his friend, and even worse, he though himself to resemble Peter, but after a moments conclusion, he decided that what he did was right, as did Graff.
4. Why doesn't Graff stop the boy from hitting Ender on the head? What happens to the boy?
Graff isolates Ender just for that reason, he wanted to see how he would deal with these sorts of situations outside of earth, and to test his skills and technique capabilities. He wanted to make sure Ender will be able to take care of himself, for he knew they were going to be horrible to him. The boy breaks his arm as he floats senselessly at the wall, due to the laws of physics, there was nothing he could have done, apart from not hitting Ender on the head.
Turned out they used quite a bit of these questions in the summer HW packet! Probably gonna get an A cause of you!


You may realize that things in your life have gotten unmanageable but wonder if they are really bad enough that you need to seek inpatient treatment for addiction. It's a decision that many people who have substance abuse problems struggle with. How bad is bad enough to need treatment? The reality is, in the U.S. there are nearly 23 million people who need treatment for alcohol and drug dependency and addiction, yet only about one percent actually receive it.
When you are considering inpatient treatment for your substance abuse issues, it's likely that simply wondering about it means that you would benefit from treatment. If you think that you may have a problem, you likely do. Keep in mind that drug abuse and addiction affect each individual differently, you don't have to be a 24/7 user to be an addict. If your drug or alcohol use is causing negative consequences in your life and the lives of your family and friends, it's time to take a hard look at it.
To help you with your decision, here are some undeniable signs that you shouldn't wait any longer for treatment.
It never seems like a big deal at the time, but driving while intoxicated is a real danger to yourself, your passengers, and everyone on the road near you. When you begin taking chances with your life and the lives of others because you cannot manage your behavior when using, it's time to seek help.
It's often difficult to see the negative changes that drug or alcohol use causes in ourselves – we're too close to fully notice. However, those that are close to you don't have such a hard time recognizing those changes. If your friends or family have expressed concern about your drinking or using, or asked you to stop, you should heed their concern.
Drug and alcohol abuse is harmful to the body when used for any extended amount of time. Alcoholism can cause extensive, and sometimes irreversible, damage to the heart, liver and brain. Opiate use can slow your respiratory system so much that you can suffer from permanent brain damage. Some stimulants can cause serious cardiovascular problems when used repeatedly. If you use drugs intravenously, you run the risk of contracting hepatitis C or HIV.
If your body (or your doctor) is telling you that you are suffering health problems related to your use, you need help before it's too late.
People who drink responsibly don't feel the need to lie about it. If you find that you are lying or minimizing your drug or alcohol use to your friends and family, there is cause for concern. You may think that it is simply none of their business, but the truth is, people lie because they have something to hide.
When you use drugs or alcohol regularly, your body gets used to having them in your system – in fact, it becomes dependent on them. When you stop using, even for a short period of time, you may suffer headaches, nausea, trembling, cramps, insomnia, irritability and other withdrawal symptoms. The symptoms of withdrawal are uncomfortable and sometimes painful and they are one of the leading causes of continued use. If you suffer withdrawal symptoms when you stop using for a short period of time, you need to seek medically-supervised detox and an inpatient treatment program.
Maybe you are able to stop using for a day or two, or even a week. But you always begin using or drinking again. If you have tried to stop on your own, but haven't been able to do it for an extended amount of time, you probably need professional help to do so. Inpatient rehab offers support, therapy, coping skills, relapse prevention and addiction education. You need those things to successfully stop using or drinking.
Some drugs can cause anxiety, depression and even mental illness. If you have had suicidal thoughts or thoughts about hurting yourself or others, you need to seek inpatient treatment sooner rather than later. Sometimes, underlying psychological or psychiatric issues are exacerbated when drugs or alcohol are added into the equation. This can cause anger and rage and cause you to lash out physically at others. If you have done that, or are concerned that you might, treatment is right for you.
If you have made choices while using that have resulted in the possibility of jail time, or you are on probation or parole, drug or alcohol use can endanger your freedom. Will spending time behind bars be better than a 30-day stay in rehab? Not likely.
You probably started out by missing work or school occasionally due to your drug or alcohol use – not such a big deal. But if it has escalated to being disciplined at work or school, or if you have already lost a job or been kicked out of school, you need to take a close look at your drug or alcohol use.
If you are worn out by your drug or alcohol use and want to stop but you don't know how, it's time to enlist the help of professionals. Addiction is a disease which means that it's very hard for people to stop using on their own. Needing professional help is not a sign of weakness or failure. Get Help Now!
If you relate to any of the above signs, you should get help now. Addiction is a treatable medical disorder and the sooner you get help, the sooner you will stop suffering negative consequences and start living the life you want. At Serenity at Summit, we can help you make the best decision about how to get started with your recovery, and which treatment program is the most appropriate for your circumstances. Call us today at 844-432-0416 for more information.


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Sts Thomas Minster
Newport Minster (Sts Thomas, Newport, Isle of Wight)
Newport Minster (Isle of Wight)
Churchmanship
Broad Church
Thomas the Apostle and St Thomas Becket
Vicar(s)
Kevin Arkell
Sts Thomas Minster, Newport Minster or The Minster Church of Sts Thomas, until 2008 Sts Thomas Church, is civically recognised as the main Anglican church on the Isle of Wight. Unusually, it is dedicated to both Thomas Becket and Thomas the Apostle.
2 Burials
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Interior of Newport Minster
The original late 12th-century church was dedicated to St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas Becket) (1118–1170). Later, under the rule of King Henry VIII of England (1509–1547), when Becket was declared to have been a traitor, the Canterbury part of the name was dropped. Its name and the ambiguous dedication to St Thomas was thereafter, over time, assumed by many to refer to Thomas the Apostle.[1]
From the 18th century its deterioration made any renovation futile, and funds were raised for a new church on its site. The new church was built over the years 1854 and 1855 to a design by the architect S. W. Dawkes of Cheltenham.[2] Reflecting the building's history, but arguably unusual, the new church was dedicated on the feast of Thomas the Apostle to both him and St Thomas of Canterbury. The tower contains a ring of 12 bells.
To honour its importance in Island and civic life, but conferring no official status within the Church of England itself, the church was designated as a Minster at Easter 2008 by its diocesan bishop Kenneth Stevenson, Anglican Bishop of Portsmouth.[3]
Burials[edit]
Princess Elizabeth of England, daughter of Charles I and Henrietta Maria. A memorial was given by Queen Victoria in 1856 and made by Carlo Marochetti.[4]
Sir Edward Horsey 1582[4]
Organ[edit]
The organ is an architectural pipe organ positioned in the west gallery.
The original organ was built in 1870 by Forster and Andrews, and replaced by in 1925 by Conacher Sheffield & Co Ltd which was rebuilt itself in 1957 by J.W. Walker incorporating some pipework retained from the original Forster & Andrews organ.[5]
^ Written history displayed within church
^ The Buildings of England. Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Nikolaus Pevsner.
^ http://www.newportparish.org.uk/
^ a b Page, William (ed.) (1912). "A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5. Parishes: Newport". Victoria County History of Hampshire. British History Online. pp. 253–265. Retrieved 3 May 2017. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
^ http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=D00003 National Pipe Organ Register
Newport Parish
Island Pulse article
Wikimedia Commons has media related to St Thomas' Church (Newport, Isle of Wight).
Coordinates: 50°41′59″N 01°17′37″W / 50.69972°N 1.29361°W / 50.69972; -1.29361
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Church of England church buildings on the Isle of Wight
Newport, Isle of Wight


These days it looks like many people are doing a growing number of shopping on the web. It may have you thinking to develop eCommerce website. In fact this last Christmas it was estimated that four billion dollars was spent online. That's a pretty big number considering we are suppose to be some sort of recession right now.
The open nature of Chrome extensions lends itself to easy source code audits that will prevent this sort of attack. One would think that before adding it on the Web Store, a Google engineer must audit the code to make sure it isn't looking to grab bank card numbers. However, the growing size of the Chrome member list and the simplicity of extension development does present a juicy target for could be attackers.


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Meet Your New Neighbor: Roswell Adult Rec Center and 'Roswell Ramblers' Founder Alice Grant, RN
Historic Roswell Place recognizes Alice Grant, RN, a notable resident who had a long career in nursing.
Historic Roswell Place is an assisted living and memory care community located in Roswell, GA where getting to know our residents is an important part of providing them with the best possible care. One of those residents is Ms. Alice, someone who has made a name for herself in town as a founder alongside her husband of the Roswell Adult Rec Center and a former nurse of 40 years.
Who is Alice Grant?
At 91-years-young, Alice Grant is a retired registered nurse.
She graduated from Piedmont High School at 21 and went on to earn a bachelor's degree from the Medical College of Georgia.
Nurses are the hospitality of the hospital.
After graduation, she went to work at Piedmont Hospital as an RN and soon became the instructor of their nursing program. In 1969, Piedmont Hospital dedicated the program to her because of all of her hard work and dedication to the college and the hospital.
Because of her reputation for hard work and compassion, Alice was quickly making a name for herself.
In the late '70s, she was hired by Cobb General Hospital in Austell, GA to be the Assistant Director of Nursing.
Among an endless list of nursing tasks, her responsibilities included obtaining hospital accreditation and the hiring and training of nurses. She was even tasked with recruiting nurses from New Zealand during a hospital shortage.
Nursing: It's not what you do; it's who you are.
"I loved being a nurse because I took care of my patients and helped them feel comfortable and at ease. I am so proud to wear my nurse's cap and uniform. It was a lot of hard work, but I am proud to be a nurse!"
Happiness is serving others.
Alice retired from nursing after 40 long years of service. At that time, she changed gears and became involved with the construction of the Roswell Adult Recreation Center.
Alice at the founding of the adult recreation center
Beginning in August 2000, she and her late husband Hoyt Grant served as board members. Under Director Mary Rummel, they helped with the development of the senior program, "Roswell Ramblers." Anyone who visits the center can find a plaque of service bearing Alice's name on the entrance.
We love you, Alice!
There is a quote that says,
"When you are a nurse, you know that every day you will touch a life or a life will touch yours."
This is especially true of Alice. Although her professional nursing days are behind her, she continues to touch the lives of everyone around her.
We are so blessed to know Alice and to spend every day with her. She is a joy to be around and continues to be loving and compassionate. The world needs more people like you, Alice! Come join us and see how enriching life can be with interesting neighbors at Historic Roswell Place.
Looking for a community that wants to hear your story? Come tour Historic Roswell Place or your local Pegasus Senior Living community.
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Bad customer experience is awful. Have you ever tried to make amendments to train tickets if you've accidentally selected the wrong day? It's painful. It's at these points when you make decisions whether you will purchase from that company again. It's easy to provide a great experience when you are trying to sell a thing. There is a clear incentive for the company to make the path smooth or interactions with a sales rep lovely. But when cash has changed hands... well then everything changes.
Here's to Orblieb, a company that has just done well by me. If you've been around me in London this year, you'll have noticed that I am normally accompanied by a big red bag or two that clip to my bike. I bought these about 14 months ago and they have been my companions through the worst of trips across London and joys of UK weather.
So think of my distress when one of the clips which is used to attach the bag to the bike sheers off as I clip it on last week. Gutted.
Turns out that Ortlieb have a great warranty and quick response. All that I needed to do was to snap a photo of the broken part on my bag, uploaded it to their website and the process was started. I was quickly contacted by Sabine in Germany who informed that she had passed my information on to George in the UK who would handling my issue. George looked at the photo and mailed me a replacement part. Job done. Five working days turn around. Amazing. Thank you both.
If you are ever looking for pannier bags for your bike I'm keen to recommend Ortlieb. They're not the cheapest on the market, but they are really good, and their after sales support is excellent.


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Faculty > Profile
Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi
esraxhimi@ustpaul.ca
613-236-1393, ext. : 2115
GIG 220
Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi, assistant professor at the School of Conflict Studies is an anthropologist specialized in Political Anthropology. Her research interests focus on migration and forced displacement - due to conflict and climate change, on political and ethnic violence, gender and conflict, power and abuse of power, and Roma minorities. She has conducted field research in France, Albania and Kosovo.
Ethnic violence
Feminism, Peace and Conflict
Colonization processes and cultural changes
Critical Theories
ECS 2124 - Local and Community Responses to Conflict
Conflict is always experienced at a community level, whether its source is local or international. This course identifies and examines the many different ways in which local or community level actors respond to the causes and effects of violent and non-violent conflict in their midst.
ECS 3540 - Rapports sociaux de sexes et conflits
Théories sociales et philosophiques sur le genre. Théories féministes sur la discrimination. Structures de domination de genre et leurs impacts en situation de conflit. Facteurs ethniques et religieux dans les conflits de genres. Mesures réparatrices et mouvements sociaux.
Préalables : ECS2591 et ECS2592. Ce cours était antérieurement ECS2525.
ECS 5103 - RESEARCH METHODS
Critical evaluation of research findings in the human sciences. Qualitative and quantitative methods of gathering, validating, and interpreting evidence. Issues in research ethics. Applications in graduate research projects and theses.
ECS 5101 - Identity-Based Conflict
Theoretical concepts to understand the dynamics of religious and ethnic conflicts. Application of these concepts to particular situations. Religion, ethnicity, gender, class, and other identity signifiers. Human identity needs, mimetic theory, and structures of domination. Ethno-nationalist movements and victimization.
ECS 5520 - THÈMES CHOISIS EN ÉTUDES DE CONFLITS
ECS 4530 - Sujets avancés en études de conflits
Étude approfondie de sujets particuliers en études des conflits.
Préalables : 51 crédits universitaires. Ce cours est réservé aux étudiantes et étudiants inscrits en études de conflits.
ECS 6540 - SÉMINAIRE DE RECHERCHE
ECS 8911 - Selected Readings and Research
ECS 5715 - RAPPORTS SOCIAUX DE SEXE ET CONFLITS
Examen multidisciplinaire de cas de domination et de marginalisation. Les rapports sociaux de sexe comme construction sociale et culturelle. Rôle de ces constructions dans des structures de domination. Défis particuliers aux tentatives de transformer ces structures.
ECS 8901 - Doctoral Seminar I
Seminar aimed at enabling students to gain expertise in Conflict Studies, from a multidisciplinary approach. Epistemologies of Conflict Studies.
Prerequisite: Active knowledge of English or French and passive knowledge of the other language.
ECS 8902 - Doctoral Seminar II
Seminar aimed at enabling students to gain expertise in Conflict Studies, from a multidisciplinary approach. Exploration of the field in connection with the student's research interests.
Prerequisites: ECS8901. Active knowledge of English or French and passive knowledge of the other language.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada. 2016-2018
Ph.D., Anthropology, Université de Montréal, Canada, 2016
Visiting Doctoral Fellow, IIAC, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France, 2012–2014
Affiliate Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, USA, 2005–2006
M.A., IDHEAP, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
B.Sc., Physics, University of Tirana
The current research, supported by the SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2020-2022), uses an ethnographic design to examine how the dynamics of displacement intersect with climate change, violence and political unrest and impact the lives of the displaced populations in Haiti.
Edited Special Issues
Sula-Raxhimi, E. and Hanna Kienzler (eds). 2019. Special Issue: "Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans, Nationalities Papers, 47(2). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.31
Sula-Raxhimi, E. et Alexandra Dorca (eds). 2016. « L'Étranger », Altérités, 9(1). 116 pages. http://alterites.ca/vol9no1/index_en.html. ISSN 1205-8009.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2020. "Dispozitivi normalizues: Politikat mbi romët në Shqipërinë socialiste" (The normalizing apparatus: Roma policies in Socialist Albania). Antropologji, 2 (2): 7-31.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2019. "Reading the present through the past: Roma memories in post-war Kosovo", In Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans, Nationalities Papers, Special Issue, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 47(2): 217-231. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.23
Kienzler, H. and Enkelejda Sula-Raxhimi. 2019. "Introduction", in Collective Memories and Legacies of Political Violence in the Balkans, Special issue edited by H. Kienzler et Sula-Raxhimi, E. (eds). Nationalities Papers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 47(2): 173-181. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2018.31
Sula-Raxhimi, E, Butzbach, C. and Astrid Brouselle. 2019. "Countering Commercial and Corporate Power". The Lancet Planetary Health, 3(1): PE12-E13, January 1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30241-9
Sula-Raxhimi, E. and Alexandra Dorca. 2016. « L'étranger. Introduction et présentation du numéro », L'Étranger, Altérités, 9 (1) : 1-8.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2021. "Heterotopias of Displacement: The production of Space in Post-socialist Albania", in Smoki Musaraj Natasa Gregoric, Remitted Pasts and Palpable Futures: Space and Temporality in Albanian Studies, London: Berghahn Books. (in press)
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2012. "Pauvreté, exclusion et racisme: modes d'appréhension au pluriel", in Suarez-Herrera, J.C., Blain, M.J. (eds), Éléments théorico-pratiques pour une approche socio-anthropologique de la recherche en santé mondiale, Conference acts n° 652: cahier d'Acfas, Montreal, Canada, p. 153-166.
Critical Reviews
Sula-Raxhimi, E. and Brousselle, A. 2018. Book review, Humanités environnementales: Enquêtes et Contre-enquêtes. of Blanc G, Demeulenaere É, Feuerhahn W (eds) (Publications de la Sorbonne). Anthropologica, 60(1): 355–356.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2014. "Populism, or Playing Extremism by Democratic Rules", review of Stewart Michael (eds), The Gypsy "menace": populism and the new anti-Gypsy politics (Oxford University Press). H-SAE, H-NET Reviews, May, 2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/21311/reviews/27000/sula-raxhimi-stewart-gypsy-menace-populism-and-new-anti-gypsy-politics.
Sula-Raxhimi, E. 2011. "Viva Jerez!" de Hélène Giguère (Presses de l'Université Laval). Anthropologica, 53(2): 361-363.


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Newswalk 1 – Daniel Libeskindadminonlined2020-05-08T10:52:54+01:00
Newswalks: (1) Daniel Libeskind, Berlin
In his "Walking Essay" of 1912, a brilliant young English writer, A.H. Sidgwick, proposed that walking "lays a foundation of mutual respect more quickly and more surely" than any other activity. The environment of a walk, suggested Sidgwick, who was killed five years later at Yypres, was exactly right: "familiar enough to create a sense of ease, and yet strange enough to throw the walkers back on themselves with the instinct of human solidarity."
True walking, as the historian Richard Holmes puts it, will always be something subtly more than putting one foot in front of another. "Every walk has a beginning, a middle and some kind of end (though rarely the one we had in mind). Every walk tells." To properly see and feel a country or city, one has to step through it – and in doing so, we hold out the prospect of untangling ourselves. Paddy Leigh Fermor and Bruce Chatwin when they strode together, chatting, through the Peloponnesian landscape were taking a break from their desks, but also enacting Diogenes' celebrated observation "ambulando solvitur" – it is solved by walking.
With this in mind, Newsweek has invited some of the world's most interesting thinkers to go on a five-mile walk of their choice. In the first of the series, Nicholas Shakespeare accompanies the architect Daniel Libeskind through Berlin.
On a beautiful autumn morning not far from where Rosa Luxemburg's body was found in the Landwehr Canal, a compact, grey-haired man springs out of a taxi and peers about through red-framed glasses. He is dressed in black ("it doesn't date) – black jeans, scarf and jacket ("from airports usually") – and on his feet wears crocodile-skin cowboy boots ("from Albuquerque"). Hand outstretched, he walks towards where he asked us to meet, on Potsdamer Strasse, outside Mies Van de Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie.
Like Van de Rohe, Daniel Libeskind is incontestably a great architect. His initial choice was a walk from his studio in New York to the Ground Zero site, of which he is master-planner. But he changed his mind, preferring to set out from the Neue Nationalgalerie, now closed for renovation, to the Jewish Museum. Libeskind's first major building to be completed, this opened on 9 September, 2001, in one of those arresting combinations of fate which seem to have tracked him since his birth in Poland, 68 years ago.
We head off through the centre of Berlin, where in another momentous year – the summer of 1989 – Libeskind arrived to start work on the Jewish Museum. Three months later, the Wall came down. Our path this morning is a mere five miles, but its route through Berlin's once-divided city is a walk in the shadow of events that have shaped Libeskind's life, but also his work; notably, the museums he has built in Berlin, Dresden, Copenhagen, Denver, Toronto, San Francisco and Manchester.
Libeskind grew up in Lodz, where he was born just after the war. His family were Ashkenazim Jews from Eastern Europe, his grandfather an illiterate, itinerant Yiddsh storyteller. Samuel Johnson said that "very few men know how to talk a walk." Walking and talking were instinct in Libeskind from the start.
"I'm not that old, but there were still horse-drawn carriages, no cars. I used to walk to school, or with my father to the Jewish cemetery – the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe – trying to interview anyone who was Jewish and had survived. I held my father's hand as he went up to people and asked, like a code, 'Are you of the people?' and break into Yiddsh. But there was no one left." Together, they faced the Sisyphean task of cleaning up and restoring the ignored tombs of relatives and friends. Of Libeskind's immediate relatives, 85 had been exterminated.
His parents had survived by escaping Poland when the Germans invaded in 1939. Captured by the Red Army, his father was marched to a camp in the Volga; his mother to a gulag in Silberia. "She had to sew white silk shirts for officers in the Russian General Staff. The only way to protect against frost-bite was to wrap newspapers around her feet." Years later, around the family table in the Bronx, she declared that the Soviets were just as bad as the Nazis – only not so efficient.
In 1942, under the terms of a Polish-Russian treaty, both parents were released. Independently, they walked east, towards warmth, ending up in a small community of Polish Jews on the Tibetan border, where they met, fell in love, married. In late 1945, pregnant with Daniel, his mother decided to return with her husband to Poland. The epic journey home took nine months. Daniel gestated in movement: on hitched rides on freight trains and horse carts. "Other times they walked." From Tashkent. Through the Fergana Canal to Moscow and Minsk. To Lodz. "I was born the day they arrived."
His mother Dora was a seamstress. In Lodz, she specialized in sewing underwear for women – nude-coloured corsets and girdles for the wives and mistresses of Party members. Daniel inserted the whalebones – his first lesson, he jokes, in applied Euclidean form
"Her shop was a hole in the wall with one small door – this size," and he stops before a new office block and spreads his arms over a glass pane. "She had one Singer sewing-machine, and the police would come checking lists. 'How much do you pay for this? Where from?' There was a sense that to be involved in private enterprise made you an enemy of the state. It's hard to believe in my lifetime."
His father, Nachman, found work in a textile factory. He was shivering, coat-less, in a queue of men trying to land a job, when a man walked down the line, shouting "Libeskind! Where is Libeskind?" He was terrified, Libeskind says. "One must never be identified. Once they had your identity, it usually meant trouble with the Polish secret police."
Before the war, Nachman had been arrested for whistling in public, and thrown into a prison cell with 30 others, charged with sending a secret message. Through a hole in the thick wall, he established communication with another prisoner, a communist. They revealed their lives through a knocked Morse code. Nachman, a non-smoker, blew his daily cigarette-ration through the hole to his invisible friend.
Told that the factory boss wanted to see him, Nachman was puzzled to be ushered into the presence of a man who wrapped him in a tearful embrace – he had waited so long to meet Nachman Libeskind! By way of explanation, he rapped his knuckles in a rhythmic pattern on the desk. It was the man from other side of the wall – who offered Nachman the coveted job of manager.
I ask: "What do you remember about Poland?"
"The grimness. Coupled with a sense that the Holocaust was not over. At school, my name alone was enough. The other boys used to hit me. Zit, the Jew. I'd run back home not to get hit. I was always in flight."
What rescued Libeskind was music. Aged five, he had longed to play the piano. "But my parents were scared. A piano was too big to get into our little courtyard, and we would be targeted by our neighbours. So my parents brought me a suitcase. 'OK, we've got you a piano' – and inside was an accordion."
On his white Hohner accordion, Libeskind proved to be a child prodigy. In 1953, between hymns to communism, he performed Rimsky Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee" on the first ever broadcast on Polish television. He was such a virtuoso that upon arriving in New York in 1959, he won an American-Israel Cultural Scholarship, playing a red Sorrento. One of the jurors, the violinist Isaac Stern, wanted to know how on earth Liberskind had got stuck with the accordion: "You've exhausted all the technical possibilities of the instrument." Not long after, for reasons he still is unable to explain, Libeskind gave it up. His wife of 46 years, and his three children, have never heard him play a single note. With a willpower that seems astonishing, he suppressed his musical talent while managing to discover an alternative outlet, first in drawing, then in architecture (his hands, he said, were used to playing vertically), and sketching out his designs on musical notation paper. "Architecture is very similar to music. Every vibration, every line has to be perfect and precise. At the same time, you're working with others. Unless you work like Speer for Hitler, you have to be part of a consensus."
We halt before an imposing 1930s construction situated previously in what was the Soviet Zone. The GDR was declared inside this grey building. Before that, it housed Goering's Luftwaffe. The long narrow windows are typical of the totalitarian design favoured by Albert Speer, the Führer's favourite architect and collaborator.
"Architects like authoritarianism, so they look for powerful clients who can get their projects built. Stalin loved architects – Beria trained as an architect. Mao and Hitler had great architectural aspirations. Hitler wanted to destroy half this city to build the world's capital, and Speer, the lackey, would make his dream come true. Even in his bunker at the last minute Hitler was looking at models of his new Berlin."
Today, the Reich's former Aviation Ministry contains the German Finance Department. Libeskind is impatient to press on. "Even though nicely restored and cleaned, it gives me the creeps to look at it."
"Why is it bad?"
"This is art without any ethics; it's the building of a fellow traveller, an expert manipulator. You recognize the meanness. The proportions are mean. Everything is fake, mechanical, and invented through the classical style. There's no human spirit. Aesthetic desire is opposite. It's an affirmation of the diversity of life, of the sky, of the earth – and not of a fantasy of oppression."
We turn right. The next lane is Niederkirchnerstrasse. On one side is a grey façade, the surviving remnant of the Gestapo and SS headquarters. It provokes Libeskind to imagine the opening night, the canapés and luminaries, the orchestra playing, art critics united in praise. "This was going to be world's capital for 1000 years. It didn't even last ten. Now look at it. We see it for what it was, an exercise of evil."
He breaks into verse, quoting Emily Dickinson, his favourite poet:
Fame is the one that does not stay —
Its occupant must die
Glimpsed at the end of the road is the reddish façade of the Martin Gropius Museum. In 1990, Libeskind was invited to contribute an installation for an exhibition on Soviet and Nazi art. Its germ was a letter that he wrote to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida: "I would like you to give me the answer to a very simple question. What is the most important date in the 20th century?" Derrida replied: "23 Aug 1939" – the day of the Hitler/Stalin pact. Liberskind says, "That was the end of the world. Those two colliding deviants of history had divided it. I built two mega wedges, one black wedge closing in on a big red one. It was one of the most popular exhibitions ever. For the first time, people could see what Derrida meant."
On the other side of Niederkirchnerstrasse is a rare section of the communist wall which had appeared overnight in 1963. "The commission would have been awarded to an architect like Speer. 'I'm going to do a great job on the wall!' Buildings in concentration camps were designed by good architects for what they had to do, which was to exterminate." With a professional eye, Libeskind estimates the nondescript, graffiti-splattered wall. "Consideration would have been given to the foundations and materials. It's made of concrete and reinforcement bars, twelve foot high – an empirical height for people not to climb over. And at the top, prefabricated concrete elements to make it more difficult, and you more visible, as you climb over."
As abruptly as it was erected, the Berlin Wall fell. Absorbed in what the city is forcing him to remember, Libeskind fails to notice that he is striding us through Checkpoint Charlie – the spot formerly marking the entrance from the Russian sector into West Berlin. "The wall went through this. The wall was right here. We've crossed it!"
In early November 1989, having uprooted wife and children here, Libeskind had invited his father to West Berlin. "Most of the family disowned me when I came to live in Germany, except my father. He understood." On his first visit to Europe since 1957, Nachman had stopped in Potsdamer Platz, tears in his eyes: "We are here, living, eating, sleeping in this city, and the bones of the Nazis are rotting underneath." They had rented a VW camper-van and visited Prague. On their return through Checkpoint Charlie, on the night of 8 November, three East German police cars descended, torches flashing, and hastily fined the Libeskinds' 100 marks, before letting them through. "It was the last fine issued. They already knew. Next day the wall is down."
Vivid in Libeskind's memory is being interviewed, shortly afterwards, on the roof of the Springer Verlag building, and watching bulldozers beneath tear down the wall. He says: "This city, the source of all evil in world, was changed overnight, making it such a fantastic new, hopeful city." Fundamental to the new Berlin would be its Jewish Museum.
He had built nothing before, not even a small building. He was living in Milan, aged 42, an architectural theorist who had worked in architects' offices for a few days at a time, and resigned because he was bored. Then in November 1988 a letter arrived, inviting him to participate in a competition for an extension of the Berlin Museum to house "the Jewish Department". The 165 candidates were to submit their designs anonymously, with a number. "I chose 6 million and one. If the jurors had discovered my name I'd have been disqualified. They didn't even know I was Jewish." He didn't have to go to libraries for research, he says. "I knew what the story was. Instantly."
Months later, he was lying in bed one night when the telephone woke him. His wife answered. "It's for you." A voice in terse German said: "Mr Libeskind, you've won the competition."
Rooftops above the skyline recollect the twisting saga of the next twelve years. One by one, Libeskind points them out.
– The Senate Building Administration office, where in 1990 the new senator of building, Wolfgang Nagel ("meaning nail") summoned Libeskind. "He comes over to me, puts a finger to my chest and says aggressively, determined to fire me, 'What buildings did you do in the past, Mr Libeskind, to qualify you to do this?' I said: 'If you go by the past, Berlin is not going to have any future.' He put his finger on the model. 'OK, how do I get in?' I said: 'There is no door for you. You have to go underground, because Jewish history is hidden. You must descend.' After two minutes, his eyes had changed, his expression had softened. 'Mr Libeskind, I welcome you to build this in my city.'"
– The Senate, which in 1991 decided to scrap the museum with a unanimous vote.
– The Rathaus, where Mayor Diepgen offered Liberskind, instead, the chance of building a skyscraper in Alexanderplatz – "Because you know what a museum is? It's nothing." Libeskind says: "I told him, 'I haven't come to Berlin to build office buildings. I came to build the Jewish Museum,' and I walked out, slamming the door."
– The Parliament of Berlin, which unanimously overruled the Senate and voted to build the Jewish Museum.
At last, in September 2001, after five changes of name, four changes of government, three changes of director, and the turmoil of the final years of 20th century Europe, the building stood ready to open. At a dinner for the Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder had knelt beside Libeskind's father and held his hand, saying "Mr Libeskind, you must be so proud. Thank you for being here" – "and I thought, there is the German Chancellor, kneeling next to my 90-year old father, in the Jewish Museum."
We approach via a narrow lane that would not exist but for Libeskind. He pauses beneath the sign – "E.T.A. Hoffmann Promenade" – and smiles: "I'm very, very happy that the name I gave this promenade on the plans is here." Hoffmann was a Polish Jew famous for his fantasy and horror stories, but another of his jobs was to bestow names on Jews. "Libeskind – love child – is a Hoffmann name." We walk down the lane. And there, at the far end, zinc façade gleaming in the pale Berlin sun, it is.
Unrecognized, Libeskind enters. We pass through security, and I follow him down, into the earth. The tilt of the black slate corridor creates uncertainty. At the end, a thick metal door on a sloping surface. He squeaks it open, invites me inside.
We stand in a bare, dark, cathedral-shaped space, and look up at a slant of light. He whispers, "You don't see the source. You only see the illuminated surface, reflected on the wall. But I didn't have it till the very last moment. I stood in a model that had no light, and thought it can't be. There's got to be light." Then he read a book about Holocaust survivors living in Brooklyn, and a woman who, when loaded onto a cattle truck, saw a crack of light through the slats and held on to the memory of it through her dark years. Libeskind, a believer like Vitruvius in omens, in the movement of light and wind, realized: "You have to bring hope. Without a positive sense of the future, you can't build architecture – because you're laying foundations."
I first stood here in 1999, before the museum's official opening, and experienced the dislocation which Libeskind intended –"that shock to the system that comes from seeing something jarringly new or unexpected, so that you feel you have arrived in another place, between the known and the unknown." Since then, 350,000 people a year have filed through the same squeaking door and stopped in meditative silence to gaze up at a needle of light.
An immigrant who has found in architecture a way to reflect catastrophic events, Libeskind is drawn in his 70-odd buildings ('the same number as Frank Lloyd Wright!") to explore what he calls "the void: the presence of an overwhelming sense of emptiness when a community is wiped out." The entire premise of the Jewish Museum, commemorating the obliterated history of Berlin's 160,000 Jews, is contained in this room, the Holocaust Tower. "It's a building based on absence," he says, again quoting Emily Dickinson: To fill a Gap/Insert the Thing that caused it. As in his project for Ground Zero, the absence is creative. Out of his void, he has invented an expression for emotion, and, by breaking all rectangular structures, a way to give historical experience not only a form but an optimism. "The light is something that penetrates through, a sharp point where you come to realize something about the past, which is also about the future. Suddenly, you see light in a diffent way, and yourself too."
Outside, a grey-haired woman turns and peers solemnly at him. "Are you Mr Liebeskind? Thank you for having done this architecture."
Over a drink at the Hotel Adlon after our walk, Libeskind mentions that a cocktail has been invented for him in Paris. A vodka from the era of Napoleon. And he talks of a machine that distills the essence of a particular herb. Another machine, from New York ("Only in New York!"), that creates ice in the shape of a wedge.
The cocktail was so good, smokey, mysterious…
"What did it taste like?"
He leans forward and looks up at me. "Nothing."
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It forges a link between us and many Asian countries like China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, and Myanmar where Buddhist traditions and his preaching are a part of their origins. And this is the very reason that we are developing Infrastructure for Buddhist Tourism, which is going to connect Southeast Asia with the important Buddhist sites of India. I am also very pleased that the Government of India is a partner in the restoration of many Buddhist temples which also includes the centuries old magnificent Anand Temple in Bagan in Myanmar. Today, when there is confrontation and human suffering prevalent everywhere in the world, Lord Buddha's teachings show the way to rid hatred from the world with compassion. I wish people spread all over the world who revere Lord Buddha and believe in the principles of compassion- I wish all of them an auspicious Buddha Purnima.
I seek benediction from Lord Buddha for the entire world, so that we can fulfill our responsibility in building a peaceful and compassionate world based on his teachings. Today, as we remember Lord Buddha, you must have heard about the idols of laughing Buddha, it is said that laughing Buddha brings one good fortune, but very few people know that smiling Buddha is also associated with an important event in India's defense history. Now you will be wondering what is the connection between smiling Buddha and India's military might?
You must remember, 20 years ago today, on 11th May 1998, the Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had said while addressing the nation and his words filled the whole country with pride, courage and elation. The Indian diaspora was infused with new confidence. That day also was the day of Buddha Purnima. On May 11, 1998, at India's western end a nuclear test was conducted in Pokhran, Rajasthan. It has been 20 years since Pokhranand this test was done on Buddha Purnima with the blessings of Lord Buddha. India's test was not only successful but in a way, India had demonstrated its might in the field of science and technology. We can also say 11 May 1988 is engraved in the history of India as a demonstration of her military power.
Now that when we are going to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pokhran test conducted on May 11, 1998, I ask the younger generations of our nation to imbibe the mantra of 'Jai-Vigyan' given by Atalji for enhancing the might and the power of India, to build a modern India, a powerful India and a self-reliant India. Synergize your energy with the strength of India. Witnessing the journey that Atal ji started, we while continuing onwards on that very path with a renewed joy will derive great satisfaction in getting ahead.


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A woman steals a million euro scratch card from her cousin
By Alexander Vasiliev On Jan 21, 2023
An American woman has pleaded guilty to grab a lottery prize that his cousin had won, which would have brought him half a million dollars, according to a statement from the New York County of Nassau Prosecutor's Office released this Friday.
The defendant, identified as Iris Amador and originally from the state of Texas, could be sentenced to between 16 months and four years in prison. The Prosecutor's Office indicated that the victim won a million dollars with a scratch card in October 2020 and asked his cousin to collect the prize for him, which after taxes amounted to $537,000because he wanted to remain anonymous.
In addition, the victim had promised to give her cousin $50,000 in exchange for doing him that favor. The defendant accepted the deal, but instead of delivering the money to the victim, told him that in reality the prize had not been a million dollarsbut 20,000, but after taxes it had remained at 13,436 dollars.
Not convinced by his cousin's arguments, the victim did an internet search and found a statement from the New York State Lottery Administration announcing that her cousin had claimed the prize and received the $537,440 to which she was entitled. In New York it is mandatory to make public the name of the winners of the lottery games. After unsuccessfully trying to get her cousin to return the money she had earned on her card, the victim reported what happened.
"When the victim initially reported that her cousin had stolen her $1 million Scratch-Off ticket, it seemed crazy that a relative could be so trickysaid the detective john nagle of the Glen Cove (New York) Police Department, where the investigation took place. The County Prosecutor's Office added that last May the confiscation of the money that the defendant accumulated in her bank account was ordered, the sum of which amounted to $317,857, which was delivered to her rightful owner.
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I've become a believer in the Connected Car, after wondering for quite some time why I should care about the concept at all. But my epiphany, if you can call it that, only came about when I didn't buy one - and that doesn't bode too well for the current market.
I bought a Jeep Wrangler, which is far from being a connected car but is the perfect mid-life crisis vehicle. Works for me, but what could have been in my car open is an open road of opportunity. My new purchase has an in-navigation system – as do a lot of cars today, despite that fact that anyone with a smartphone could pull up a map system and get where they need to go. The problem is I won't be able to get where I am going if I am sitting in traffic and my new car's navigation system doesn't support traffic updates. Seriously?
So I'm stuck with the error of my ways and with a navigation system that is only halfway useful. But… if this was a "connected car" I'd presumably be able to simply down load a better mapping solution; end of problem.
And herein lies the epiphany part of all of this. When mobile carriers and car manufacturers talk about the "Connected Car" I immediately think about the connection: about getting broadband to the car so I can stream video to my kids in the back seat. The problem is I can already do that with my phone, so why do I need another data pipe in my car for an additional fee?
But, if you change the name to "Intelligent Car" or "Smart Car" (which is, of course, is already taken and brings up its own vision of a little squished city car) and the usefulness starts to become apparent. Think of the smartphone: sure, it has a data pipe, but that's not what makes it successful. What makes it all work are the apps and other things you can do with the data pipe. The same is true of an integrated data pipe in a car. If this pipe leads to an app store, with a choice of relevant apps, then suddenly my car gains intelligence. For example, rather than just a weather app, perhaps the integrated app would know that I've taken the roof down, but also that it is going to rain soon. An alert to my phone (assuming I've walked away from the car) would be very useful.
Okay, it's a bit of a niche example, but that's kind of the point. Once the apps store is available, there can be a torrent of niche apps, most of which can help improve the car beyond the basic options of search, navigation and video. After all, it's not how big the pipe to the car is, it's what you can do with it that counts.


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Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book...
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of one of the most amazing rides through the worlds of music and film that anyone has ever had.
Will Smith's transformation from a fearful child in a tense West Philadelphia home to one of the biggest rap stars of his era and then one of the biggest movie stars in Hollywood history, with a string of box office successes that will likely never be broken, is an epic tale of inner transformation and outer triumph, and Will tells it astonishingly well. But it's only half the story.
Will Smith thought, with good reason, that he had won at life: not only was his own success unparalleled, his whole family was at the pinnacle of the entertainment world. Only they didn't see it that way: they felt more like star performers in his circus, a seven-days-a-week job they hadn't signed up for. It turned out Will Smith's education wasn't nearly over.
This memoir is the product of a profound journey of self-knowledge, a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind. Written with the help of Mark Manson, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Will is the story of how one person mastered his own emotions, written in a way that can help everyone else do the same. Few of us will know the pressure of performing on the world's biggest stages for the highest of stakes, but we can all understand that the fuel that works for one stage of our journey might have to be changed if we want to make it all the way home. The combination of genuine wisdom of universal value and a life story that is preposterously entertaining, even astonishing, puts Will the book, like its author, in a category by itself.
"It's easy to maneuver the material world once you have conquered your own mind. I believe that. Once you've learned the terrain of your own mind, every experience, every emotion, every circumstance, whether positive or negative, simply propels you forward, to greater growth and greater experience. That is true will. To move forward in spite of anything. And to move forward in a way that brings others with you, rather than leave them behind." —Will Smith


�Morning, Morning�! �The familiar call that meant another full day of controlled speed, getting air and falls at the slopes. Over the second week of the holidays 37 students set out for Bright via Melbourne for four days of skiing or snowboarding at Falls Creek and Mt Hotham. For our first day at the snow we were greeted by a cool temperature of -2 and very cloudy conditions (we were truly among the clouds). After the first lesson which was either a beginner lesson for some or a refresher for others, the students were left to further develop their skiing or boarding techniques.
Lessons did turn out to be some what of an adventure especially at Falls Creek. Gunter the ski instructor from Austria took the more experienced skiers on a memorable lesson. It began with the warm up run which concluded with Gunter completing a 360 spin and the challenges offered to the group of jumping, doing 180�s, skiing down vertical cliffs and skiing backwards. If nothing else it left Mr Gunning in fits of laughter and as he would put it�looking at all the carnage�.
After four days of skiing the students spent one day in Melbourne to shop and look around. Most students also took the opportunity to see the Broncos and Melbourne Storm do battle.� Only thing left to do is to make sure that next time I am not surrounded by 40 not-so-quiet Queensland supporters when Queensland finally wins a game.


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351: Return to Childhood
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Host Ira Glass talks with Kayla Hernandez, a seventh-grader who likes to reminisce about when she was a child, back in fifth grade. She visits Room 211 in her school, where her fifth grade class met, and looks at her old books, thinks about what happened there. She says she knows that decades from now, she won't even remember most of what's happening to her this year, in seventh grade, and that makes her sad. (5 minutes)
776: I Work Better on Deadline
Act One: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quorum
Reporter Sarah Gibson tells the story of a huge political divide in the tiny town of Croydon, NH – population 800.
764: School's Out Forever
Act One: Big Mother Is Watching
When school closed and threw routines into disarray, one mom and daughter figured out a new way to make it work.
Act Two: The Case of The Vanishing Sixth Grader
The pandemic moved lots of families around, and many children simply vanished from school, in person, and online.
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781: Watching the Watchers
Act Two: I'll Be Watching You
A group of 6th grade boys are bothered by their teacher's behavior.
777: Name. Age. Detail.
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774: The Pink House at the Center of the World
Act Four: Next
Host Ira Glass walks through possible next steps with a pro-life activist who worked on the Texas SB8 bill, that set a precedent for enforcement of abortion bans throughtout the country.