Twenty-three year old, Diana Villamonte is skyrocketing to fame in Puerto Vallarta and beyond. A native of Panama, this extraordinary young woman possesses all the attributes of a rising star in entertainment. Her singing is absolutely breathtaking and her stage presence is phenomenal. She communicates and delivers just the right balance of confidence, poise, movement and audience interaction.
Diana has studied music, ballet, modeling and theater since the age of 10. In 2014, she won the Karaoke World Championship in Stockholm, Sweden. She's also starred in a reality television show in Central America as a result of her growing fame as an entertainer.
Several years ago, Diana was the runner-up on Act II's, 'The Voice of Vallarta. Most recently, she won 1st runner up on The Voice of Mexico (La Voz), a nationally televised competition. Act II Entertainment recognized Diana's tremendous talent and with the help of Danny Mininni, and Alfonso Lopez, developed two outstanding shows featuring Diana last season.
This season, Diana's new shows, 'More Motown and Beyond' and 'I Will Always Love You"(her Whitney Houston tribute) have become hugely successful. Diana's fame continues to grow both here and beyond Vallarta.
'More Motown and Beyond' is a follow up to last season's 'Motown and Beyond.' There are many new songs added, along with the return of some favorites. There are numbers from the Marvelettes, The Supremes, Aretha Franklin, Donna Summer, Etta James, Shirley Bassey, Marvin Gaye and Diana's hero Nina Simone.
A special moment in last Monday's 'More Motown and Beyond' show, was when Diana's adorable brother, joined her onstage to sing the Jackson 5 hit, "I Want You Back." At the end of the evening, we were given a taste of her Whitney Houston show as she closed with Whitney's 'I Want to Dance With Somebody.' The audience erupted in thunderous applause and a standing ovation 'More Motown and Beyond' is brilliant and engaging and will keep you thrilled from start to finish. See it on Monday nights at 7:30 pm.
Every Friday nights at 7 pm this season, you can see Diana perform her Whitney Houston tribute show, 'I Will Always Love You.' Fans have raved that Diana delivers the music of Whitney Houston as good as the original artist.
Coming up in the next few weeks, there will be a CD release party celebrating Diana Villamonte 's new CD There will be many songs that you've heard her sing in her shows. Stay tuned for the announcement of this event.
Diana Villamonte is a star and the all-time top performing artist of Puerto Vallarta. Her shows are in constant demand because her performances are so electrifying! Puerto Vallarta is extremely fortunate to have this up-and-coming artist share her incredible talent locally. Make sure to see Diana Villamonte's shows this season, because we don't know when bigger career opportunities will take her away from Vallarta. Come see Puerto Vallarta 's own superstar of music and you'll understand why her performances are so popular!
Go to www.actiientertainment.com for tickets and information about Diana Villamonte's shows and other entertainment at Act II Entertainment.


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Title: Marlee Matlin
Subject: Reasonable Doubts, Children of a Lesser God, Walker (film), 59th Academy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Collection: 1965 Births, 20Th-Century American Actresses, 21St-Century American Actresses, 21St-Century American Novelists, 21St-Century American Writers, 21St-Century Women Writers, Actresses from Illinois, American Autobiographers, American Deaf Actresses, American Film Actresses, American People of Russian-Jewish Descent, American Television Actresses, American Women Novelists, Best Actress Academy Award Winners, Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (Film) Winners, Dancing with the Stars (U.S. Tv Series) Participants, Deaf Activists, Deaf Writers, Hiv/Aids Activists, Jewish American Actresses, Jewish American Writers, Living People, People from Arlington Heights, Illinois, People from Morton Grove, Illinois, The Apprentice (U.S. Tv Series) Contestants, Women Autobiographers, Writers from Chicago, Illinois
Matlin receiving a Motion Pictures Star
at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 2009
Marlee Beth Matlin
(1965-08-24) August 24, 1965
Morton Grove, Illinois, U.S.
Actress, producer
Children of a Lesser God, Switched at Birth
Kevin Grandalski (m. 1993)
.com.marleematlinsitewww
Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Children of a Lesser God (1986), and is both the only deaf performer to win the award, and, at 21, the youngest to date. Her work in film and television has resulted in a Golden Globe award, with two additional nominations, and four Emmy nominations. Deaf since she was 18 months old,[1] she is also a prominent member of the National Association of the Deaf. Her longtime interpreter is Jack Jason.[2][3]
Personal life 3
Marriage 3.1
Filmography 4
Published works 6
Matlin was born in Morton Grove, Illinois, to Libby (née Hammer) and Donald Matlin (1930-2013), an automobile dealer.[4][5][6] She has two older brothers, Eric and Marc. She lost all hearing in her right ear and 80% of the hearing in her left ear at the age of 18 months. In her autobiography I'll Scream Later, she suggests that her hearing loss may have been due to a genetically malformed cochlea.[7] She also indicated that she is the only member of her family who is deaf. Her family was of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.[5][8][9] Matlin had a Bat Mitzvah, and managed to read her Torah portion by learning Hebrew phonetically; she was later interviewed for the book Mazel Tov: Celebrities' Bar and Bat Mitzvah Memories.[10] Matlin graduated from John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights and attended Harper College.[11]
In her autobiography I'll Scream Later, she described two instances when she was molested by her babysitter at the age of 11 and by her teacher in high school.[12]
Matlin made her stage debut at the age of seven, as Dorothy in an International Center on Deafness and the Arts (ICODA) children's theatre of The Wizard of Oz,[13] and continued to appear with the ICODA children's theatre group throughout her childhood.[14] Her discovery by Henry Winkler during one of her ICODA theater performances ultimately led to her film debut in Children of a Lesser God (1986). That film brought her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and an Academy Award for Best Actress. Two years later, she made a guest appearance on Sesame Street with Billy Joel performing a revised version of Just the Way You Are with lyrics by Tony Geiss. Matlin used sign language during the song and hugged Oscar the Grouch during the song's conclusion.
In 1989, she played a deaf widow in Bridge to Silence. Matlin was nominated for a Golden Globe award for her work as the lead female role in the television series Reasonable Doubts (1991–1993) and was nominated for an Emmy Award for a guest appearance in Picket Fences. She became a regular on the series during its final season. She portrayed Carrie Buck in the television drama Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story (1994) based on the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell 274 U.S. 200 (1927). In the movie, Matlin played a hearing woman for the first time and earned a CableACE Nomination as Best Actress.
Matlin later had recurring roles in The West Wing, and Blue's Clues. Other television appearances include Seinfeld ("The Lip Reader"), The Outer Limits ("The Message"), ER, The Practice and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. She was nominated for Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest appearances in Seinfeld, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and The Practice.
Matlin at the 2007 Texas Book Festival promoting one of her works
In 2002, Matlin published her first novel, Deaf Child Crossing, which was loosely based on her own childhood. She later wrote and published a sequel titled Nobody's Perfect, which was produced on stage at the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in partnership with VSA Arts in October 2007. In 2004, she starred in the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!? as Amanda. She also hosted the 3rd annual Festival for Cinema of the Deaf in Chicago, October 15–18, 2004.
In 2006, she played a deaf parent in Desperate Housewives. She also had a recurring role as Joy Turner's (who made many jokes of Marlee's deafness at her expense) public defender in My Name Is Earl and played the mother of one of the victims in an episode of CSI: NY. That same year, Matlin was cast in season 4 of The L Word as Jodi Lerner, a gay sculptor. She appeared in season 4 (2007), season 5 (2008) and season 6 (2009) as the girlfriend of one of the show's protagonists, Bette Porter (played by Jennifer Beals).
On February 4, 2007, Matlin performed the "Star Spangled Banner" in American Sign Language at Super Bowl XLI in Miami, Florida. In January 2008, she appeared on Nip/Tuck as a television executive.
On February 18, 2008, it was announced that Matlin would participate as a competitor in the sixth season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Her dance partner was newcomer Fabian Sanchez. Matlin and Sanchez were the sixth couple eliminated from the competition.[15]
On May 6, 2009, Matlin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[16]
On November 8, 2009, Matlin appeared on Seth & Alex's Almost Live Comedy Show, hosted by Seth MacFarlane and Alex Borstein. After Borstein imitated Matlin calling MovieFone and singing "Poker Face", Matlin herself appeared and launched into a comical tirade against Borstein over being made fun of, and how she was not invited to provide her own voice for Family Guy. Matlin went on to voice Stella, Peter's coworker, in the Season 10 episode "The Blind Side" which has since turned into a recurring role.
In 2010, Matlin produced a pilot for a reality show entitled My Deaf Family, which she presented to various national network executives. Although they expressed interest, no network purchased rights to the show for ongoing production. On March 29, 2010, Matlin uploaded the pilot to YouTube and launched a viral marketing campaign.[17]
On July 26, 2010, Matlin signed a speech at an event commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.[18]
She was a finalist on the NBC show The Celebrity Apprentice, competing to win money for her charity, The Starkey Hearing Foundation,[19] finishing in second place. However, on one episode of The Celebrity Apprentice ("The Art of the Deal" aired on April 3, 2011), Matlin raised more funds than had ever been raised for charity in a single event on any television show before ($986,000).[20] Donald Trump then donated an additional $14,000 to make the contribution an even million.[20] Marlee also acts as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for disability rights.[21]
She currently plays the recurring character Melody Bledsoe on the ABC Family television teen/family drama series Switched at Birth.
In September 2015, she made her Broadway debut in the revival production of the musical Spring Awakening[22]
Matlin is actively involved with a number of charitable organizations, including Easter Seals (where she was appointed an Honorary Board Member), the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, VSA arts, and the Red Cross Celebrity Cabinet.[23] She was appointed by President Clinton in 1994 to the Corporation for National Service and served as chair of National Volunteer Week. Matlin was a participant in the first-ever national television advertising campaign supporting donations to Jewish federations. The program featured "film and television personalities celebrating their Jewish heritage and promoting charitable giving to the Jewish community" and included Greg Grunberg, Joshua Malina, Kevin Weisman, and Jonathan Silverman.[24]
Matlin as one of presenters at the 2014 AHA Hero Dog Awards
Matlin received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Gallaudet University in 1987.[25][26][27] In October 2007, she was appointed to the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees.[27] In 1988, Matlin received the Samuel S. Beard Award for Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.[28]
Matlin attended the 1987 Oscars to present the Academy Award for Best Actor.[29] After signing her introduction in ASL, she spoke aloud the "names of the nominees" and of Michael Douglas, the winner.[29]
On April 14, 2009, Matlin released an autobiography, I'll Scream Later. In it she describes her drug abuse and how it drove her to check herself into Betty Ford. She also tells about her rocky, two-year relationship with actor William Hurt, who she claims was physically abusive to her and abused drugs during that time.[30] She also addresses the sexual abuse she says she suffered as a child at the hands of her female babysitter.[31]
She enjoys a sense of humor about her deafness: "Often I'm talking to people through my speaker phone, and after 10 minutes or so they say, 'Wait a minute, Marlee, how can you hear me?' They forget I have an interpreter there who is signing to me as they talk. So I say, 'You know what? I can hear on Wednesdays.'"[32]
Matlin married Burbank police officer Kevin Grandalski on August 29, 1993, at the home of actor Henry Winkler, five days after her 28th birthday.[33] They first met while she was filming a scene from Reasonable Doubts outside the studio grounds; the police department had assigned Grandalski to provide security and control traffic.[34] They have four children: Sarah (born 1996), Brandon (born 2000), Tyler (born 2002), and Isabelle (born 2003).[35]
List of Academy Award records
^ Matlin, Marlee, I'll Scream Later, New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2009, p. 3.
^ "Marlee Matlin: 'Do What You Have To Do'", NPR, August 11, 2010.
^ Rick Rojas, "Jack Jason gives voice to, but doesn't talk over, Marlee Matlin", Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2011.
^ Marlee Matlin. Film Reference.com.
^ Matlin, I'll Scream Later (2009), pp. 21–22.
^ Schleier, Curt, "No challenge goes unmet for deaf actress Marlee Matlin", Jewish News Weekly, January 19, 2007.
^ "Mazel Tov: Celebrities' Bar and Bat Mitzvah Memories". Review at Amazon.
^ Heidemann, Jason A. "Vital signs". Time Out Chicago, October 4, 2007.
^ "Marlee Matlin receives Walk of Fame star", The Los Angeles Independent, May 6, 2009.
^ 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act | The White House
^ Video at Hulu.com
^ a b "SignTalk Joins Fundraiser for Marlee Matlin's Cause..." Published: 2011-05-12, Disabled World.com
^ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/children-of-a-lesser-god-oscar-winner-marlee-matlin-will-make-broadway-debut-in-spring-awakening-353669
^ "Film and Television Celebrities Promote Jewish Federations in First-Ever National Television Advertising Campaign - Jewish Stars Promote Federations' Initiatives and Mission", Jewish Federations of North America, August 2, 2004.
^ a b Profile: Marlee Matlin. Gallaudet University. Access date: December 26, 2007.
^ http://www.jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national
^ "Marlee Matlin: Baby sitter's abuse led to life of drugs, violence". CNN. April 14, 2009.
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Alzheimer's charity gets surprise $27 million
The hands of Kirsten Mangers, chairwoman of the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County, and Lydia Rojas, friend of Helen Banas, clasp a photograph of Helen Banas, 95, of Laguna Woods. Her DMV-issued senior citizen ID-card photograph is seen on a cellphone.
Helen Banas' friend, Lydia Rojas, stands in the bedroom of Banas' modest condo in Laguna Woods. Rojas is handling her friend's bequest of $27 million to the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County.
Kirsten Mangers, chairwoman of the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County, sits in the living room of the very private and thrifty widow Helen Banas, 95, of Laguna Woods, who died recently, leaving behind a shocking gift: a record-busting $27 million to the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County, a game-changer for the nonprofit.
The hands of Kirsten Mangers, left, chairwoman of the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County, and Lydia Rojas, friend of Helen Banas and the person handling her bequest, surround one of the last photographs of Helen, 95, of Laguna Woods. It's her DMV-issued senior citizen ID card, seen on a cellphone.
Kirsten Mangers, chairwoman of the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County, displays a tattoo on left wrist depicting the symbol for the fight against Alzheimer's disease.
By Greg Hardesty | Orange County Register
LAGUNA WOODS – Helen Banas loved the bonbons she got from Trader Joe's, feeding the cats and birds outside her porch, and dining out alone – Italian being a favorite.
She also cherished her privacy. She was a staunch recycler. And she was so enchanted by her patio furniture that, at one point, she moved it inside the living room of her $90,000 townhome.
But after Banas died of congestive heart failure at the age of 95 on Aug. 22, 2012, the Laguna Woods resident posthumously revealed a love for something unexpected:
Generosity – eye-popping, history-making, out-of-left-field generosity.
Banas, a widow for more than 50 years with no children, bequeathed her entire estate to the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County.
An estate worth $27 million.
To the astonishment of everyone but her bankers, Banas was fabulously wealthy when she died, the classic multimillionaire next door.
Her wealth came, in part, from her late husband, Alfons. He worked for the drugmaker Merck before becoming a stockbroker in New York.
But Alfons died in 1958 of lung cancer, and in the decades after his death Banas added to her wealth through savvy investing on her own.
It put her in a position to leave a gift, made public Wednesday, that's the largest ever for the national Alzheimer's association. It's also one of the largest donations ever given to an Orange County nonprofit that isn't a hospital or an educational institution, according to Alzheimer's Association officials.
"It was definitely a 'wow' moment," said Jim McAleer, chief executive of the local Alzheimer Association, when asked about the mid-October day when he learned about Banas' gift.
The local branch of the Alzheimer's Association has an annual budget of $3.8 million. Kirsten Mangers, chairwoman of the group's board, called Banas' $27 million gift "transformative."
Banas didn't have Alzheimer's but, like Mangers – whose grandfather died of Alzheimer's and whose mother, Linda, is battling the disease – Banas was connected to Alzheimer's by family.
In the 1980s Banas moved with her mother, Sofia Kordek Zaleski, from New York to Orange County. A few years after the move Zaleski was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and Banas became her sole caretaker.
At the time, Banas reached out to the Irvine-based Alzheimer's Association of Orange County to learn about the disease and how to help her mother, but she otherwise wasn't active with the organization.
Zaleski died on Jan. 16, 1992. Since then, Banas has been consistent in her desire to leave money to the local Alzheimer's group, said Lydia Rojas, a longtime friend of Banas and the trust officer overseeing her estate. Rojas said Banas wanted to make a big impact to help people with Alzheimer's and their caretakers.
She will. About $10 million of Banas' gift will go to the national Alzheimer's association. The rest will stay with the Orange County chapter, which currently helps about 36,000 people a year – or just 26 percent of county residents who either have or are at risk of having Alzheimer's.
But over the next two years the local group is expected to double its outreach and help roughly 72,000 people, a planned expansion that's a direct result of Banas' gift, according to local Alzheimer's Association CEO McAleer.
At least some of the people in the county who speak Spanish or Vietnamese at home aren't aware of help that's available from the local Alzheimer's Association, and McAleer said some of the Banas money will be used to beef up marketing outreach to those groups. It's also possible that the local Alzheimer's group will build a home for Alzheimer's patients.
Banas didn't flaunt her wealth.
She made one nod to modern indulgences: A 40-inch, flat-screen TV.
But that was it as far as extras. Her two-bedroom townhome, built in the 1970s, has well-worn carpet. Her furniture at the time of her death, including two twin beds in her bedroom, was worth about $1,400.
When she went out for grocery shopping, at a nearby Stater Bros., the woman worth tens of millions of dollars rode a bus.
It was a pattern in her no-frills life.
Born on Feb. 10, 1917, to parents who both came from Poland, Banas was raised in a Polish neighborhood in New Jersey, according to Rojas, vice president and trust officer at Farmers and Merchants Trust Co. in Laguna Hills.
After Alfons died, Banas owned a beauty supply business in New York. She and her mother moved to Orange County to escape the cold.
Banas became interested in living trusts after her mother died. Banas met Rojas at a seminar Banas attended on the topic.
According to Rojas, Banas knew exactly how much money she had. She kept meticulous records of her investments, making notes on all sorts of paper and keeping the documents together with hair clips.
In recent years, Banas took to shredding her investment documents as well as other personal effects, including family pictures – partly out of concern about identity theft.
The only known photo of Banas is a faded picture identifying her as a resident of Laguna Woods, and a DMV-issued Senior Citizen Identification Card.
The card, issued in 2009, shows a meticulously groomed, 5-foot, 100-pound woman with short gray hair. She's wearing a scarf and a red blouse.
Rojas said Banas valued women who were well-dressed, and took pride in always having her hair and makeup done. Banas even taught caregivers how to roll her hair in curlers.
Rojas added that Banas had a dry sense of humor that often fell on deaf ears.
"You didn't get it, did you?" Banas would say when she told a joke that didn't elicit a laugh.
When she dined out – usually alone – she would finish everything on her plate. She thought not doing so would be wasteful, Rojas said.
Rojas believes Banas' frugality was a result of growing up during the Depression.
"She always said that this (current) generation was wasteful," Rojas said.
Asked how Banas would react to public recognition for her gift to the Alzheimer's Association of Orange County, Rojas said her friend probably would use one of her pet phrases:
"I'm pondering."
Contact the writer: 714-796-6704 or ghardesty@ocregister.
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Merten ist ein Ortsteil der Gemeinde Eitorf im Rhein-Sieg-Kreis im südlichen Nordrhein-Westfalen. Bis zum 1. Januar 1935 war Merten mit den umliegenden Ortschaften eine eigenständige Gemeinde im damaligen Siegkreis.

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Merten liegt nördlich der Sieg am Rand der Nutscheid. Nördlich liegt die Mertener Höhe. Nachbarorte sind im Osten Lützgenauel, im Süden Bach und im Westen Bülgenauel.

Geschichte

Mittelalterliche Gründung
Merten verfügt mit dem früheren Rittersitz Burg Merten und dem ehemaligen Kloster Merten (im Volksmund auch Schloss Merten), in dem heute am Ortseingang unter anderem ein Alten- und Pflegeheim untergebracht ist, über eine alte Geschichte. Die alte Burg, bei der wahrscheinlich auch das erste Kloster Merten stand, war vermutlich in Höhe des Eisenbahneinschnitts gelegen.

Gemeinde Merten
Nachdem 1815 dem Königreich Preußen auf dem Wiener Kongress das Rheinland zugesprochen wurde, wurde Merten eine selbständige Gemeinde, die von der im Jahr 1816 neu geschaffenen Bürgermeisterei Eitorf im Kreis Uckerath verwaltet wurde. Der Kreis Uckerath wurde bereits 1820 aufgelöst und dem Kreis Siegburg (1825 umbenannt in Siegkreis) zugeordnet. Zum 1. Januar 1935 wurde die Gemeinde Merten zugunsten der Gemeinde Eitorf aufgelöst.

Im Jahr 1885 bestand die Gemeinde Merten aus 22 Ortschaften und Wohnplätzen, in 186 Wohngebäuden lebten 968 Einwohner. 955 der Einwohner waren katholisch und 13 evangelisch.

Die zu Merten gehörenden Ortschaften waren:
Bach, Balenbach, Bourauel, Bruch, Büsch, Driesch, Happach, Harmonie, Hatzfeld, Heckerhof, Hohn, Jägeroth, Juckenbach, Leye, Lützgenauel, Merten, Schiefen, Schmelze, Storch, Untenroth, Wassack und Weiden.

Die Gemeinde Merten hatte 1885 eine Gesamtfläche von 1.511 Hektar, davon waren 548 Hektar Ackerland, 88 Hektar Wiesen und 758 Hektar Wald.

Die Gemeinde Merten wurde zum 1. Januar 1935 in die Gemeinde Eitorf eingegliedert.

Merten hatte auch eine eigene Volksschule, die zuerst im säkularisierten Kloster Merten abgehalten wurde, später in einem Gebäude daneben.

Einwohnerentwicklung

Kriegsereignisse
Am 26. März 1945 wurde das südliche Gemeindegebiet den amerikanischen Besatzungstruppen überlassen. Die Brücken Merten, Bourauel, Kelters und mittags als letztes die Brücke bei Alzenbach wurden gesprengt. Die Alliierten standen auf dem Lindscheid und nahmen durch Tiefflieger- und Artilleriebeschuss fast alle Ortsteile unter Feuer. Das Schloss Merten brannte auch aus und stand jahrelang als Brandruine leer.

Dorfleben
Merten war über viele Jahre hinweg eine eigene Kirchengemeinde mit eigenem Seelsorger, ist mit seiner Rektoratskirche St. Agnes spätestens seit Ende der 1980er Jahre aber der Pfarrgemeinde St. Patricius Eitorf angegliedert. Die seelsorgerische Arbeit wird mittlerweile vollständig von der Kirchengemeinde in Eitorf übernommen; bis Ende der 1990er Jahre war Merten noch ein eigener Subsidiar zugeteilt, der im örtlichen Pfarrhaus lebte und arbeitete. Merten hat einen eigenen Friedhof.

Im dörflichen Leben gibt es sowohl einen Kirchenchor (St. Agnes Merten) als auch einen mitgliederstarken Männergesangsverein. Darüber hinaus besteht der sog. Dorfverein sowie der vor vielen Jahren von einer Elterninitiative gegründete Kindergarten Mertener Schloßgespenster e. V. Erwähnenswert ist das große, in der Siegaue liegende Union-Gestüt, in welchem auch jährlich Treckertreffen mit hundert Fahrzeugen durchgeführt werden. Eine Gastronomie ist bis auf das Café in der Orangerie von Schloss Merten nicht mehr vorhanden.

Insbesondere für Fahrrad- und Wandertouristen lohnt sich ein Besuch in Merten, das mit dem ÖPNV, aber auch über den Natursteig Sieg sowie über Fahrradwege, sowohl aus Richtung Windeck als auch aus Richtung Hennef (Sieg), gut erreichbar ist.

Verkehr
Verkehrstechnisch liegt Merten vermeintlich abgeschieden, ist über eine Siegbrücke aber weniger als 500 m von der Landesstraße 333 durch das Siegtal entfernt.

Im ÖPNV liegt Merten an der Siegstrecke der Deutschen Bahn und besitzt einen S-Bahn-Haltepunkt. Im Stundentakt verkehrt die S-Bahn-Linie 12 zwischen den Bahnhöfen Au (Sieg) und Düren, der Bahnhof Köln/Bonn Flughafen ist außerdem montags bis freitags mit der S-Bahn-Linie 19 angebunden. Morgens, also in Lastrichtung, wird Merten auch vom Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) Richtung Aachen bedient. Die Fernverkehrsbahnhöfe Siegburg/Bonn sind in 15 und Köln Hauptbahnhof in gut 35 Minuten zu erreichen.

Weblinks

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Einzelnachweise

Ortsteil von Eitorf
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Rhein-Sieg-Kreis)
Ort an der Sieg

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Book Review : Oleander Girl
Divakaruni's descriptive, evocative writing makes you race through the book and then mourn its completion. For those who are fans of the author, this is a must-read. For those who have yet to discover her, this book is a must
People Troubled by the silence that surrounds her parents' death, seventeen-year old Korobi Roy clings to her only inheritance from them: the unfinished love note she found hidden in her mother's book of poetry. But when her grandfather dies, the young woman discovers a dark secret which will finally explain her past.
'A coming of age novel in the best tradition, with a heroine who is both infuriating and endearing and most importantly, brave – Divakaruni's gift is story telling and she is generous with her gift'- Huffington Post.
It's not easy to review your favourite authors' books. There's a certain amount of expectation that you already set even before reading it, and most readers like me keep on tallying their projections with each page or chapter of the book. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is one of my favourite Indian authors and I begin reading her books with an anticipation of new layers opening up in our normal human relationships. She doesn't write about supernatural or psychos or serial killers, her characters are as close to us as ourselves, which makes them more appealing and real.
If you have read Divakaruni's books, there's quite often a story involving an unusual mother-daughter pair or sisters separated by distance and fate. The stories are immensely layered with a plethora of emotions, love, envy and often hatred too. Frequently set across continents and generations, there's a vast expanse of familial tension, conversations, plots and subplots. Oleander Girl is about Korobi, well, mostly her and Rajat, her beau. Korobi is an orphan, raised by her benevolent grandparents with the memories of her mother.
Aug1August 1, 2016 • By PRB • Posted in Book Review	• Tagged Calcutta, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Flower, Grandfather, Korobi, Oleander, Rajat, Romance • Comments: 1
Book Review : It's Never Too Late
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In a nation where most women are taught to be submissive at every stage in life, Maya stands out. In a society that finds fault in women for heinous crimes like rape, Maya stands up. Maya and Rajat fall in love while they study at IIT Kanpur, their daughter Sejal only makes the bond stronger even after years of marriage. Life is almost perfect when two petty criminals decide to make her fairy tale life a tale of horror and fear with their intention of molesting her. Will she be able to fight her fate while Rajat is away and save herself and her five-year-old? Will she be able to undo all stereotypes and face the male-dominated society after that fateful night? Will Rajat stand up with her as she decides to battle her fears and take the culprits to their just punishment? Its Never Too Late is a story of every woman who decides to fight her fears and even destiny of every human who chooses the right over the easy of every wife who shoulders all responsibilities of the house and of every mother who is unwavering in her resolve to ensure that her daughter grows up in a safer world.
Rape. Molestation. Sexual Abuse. Attack. These are the words each woman in India dreads today. Increasing cases every day, rather every hour, creep into our TV channels and newspapers. Every woman is livid each time they go out on the streets. But danger doesn't lurk only on the streets, it can inch it's way inside your house too. That's what happens with Maya, the protagonist of It's Never Too Late.
In this post-Romance-genre era of Indian Literature, we have a book that touches the most relevant issue in India these days. What does a woman do when she's alone and attacked inside her own house? How does she protect herself and her daughter? How does she overcome her fear? In the book, Maya has a loving husband Rajat and a pretty little daughter Sejal. She's a happy woman, bound within the wings of her wonderful family. Snippets from her life are framed into scenes and described to the readers – from her student self at IIT to the wife and mother that she becomes later.
Mar28March 28, 2014 • By PRB • Posted in Book Review	• Tagged Drama, Fear, Fiction, IIT, indian author, Intruders, Kanpur, Maya, Molestation, Priyanka Baranwal, Rajat, Rape, Romance, Sejal, Women • Comments: +


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Angel Domingue was born in San Francisco who in her early twenties discovered a love for writing and ministry. She currently lives in Sacramento and she loves to minister to God's people who are Incarcerated about the good news of Jesus Christ to bring love, hope, and encouragement by having faith in God. She has counseled many people who are desperately seeking healings mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally. She also carries a certification for Alcohol and Drug Counseling. She has a sincere heart for God's movement and accepts the calling of being one of God's Ambassadors.
Lay Ministry: Lay ministers are people called to serve the Church in a preaching, teaching and pastoral ministry. Lay ministers come from all walks of life, occupations and backgrounds and have been described as the Church's lay theologians; thinking, well informed, articulate lay women and men. They are selected at diocesan level and after training, most are licensed to parishes, working as a team with clergy and other laity. However, some are chaplains in prisons, hospitals or the Armed Forces.
The Bible is the infallible Word of God, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and contains every answer to man's problems.
God is Love and He loves all people. It is His desire to reach out to those who are poor, oppressed, widowed or orphaned, and to heal the brokenhearted.
Man is created in the image of God but separated from God by sin. Without Jesus we cannot have a relationship with God.
We can have a personal relationship with God through salvation, God's free gift to man. It is not a result of what we do, but it is only available through God's unearned favor. By admitting we have sinned and believing in the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, and accepting Him as Lord, we can spend eternity with God.
I believe in water baptism, as taught and demonstrated by Jesus, as the way for believers to identify with the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift from God. He helps empower the believer to develop the character of Christ and live every day in God's will.
God gives all believers spiritual gifts. They are for the strengthening of God's people (the Church) and proof of God's existence and power to unbelievers. The gifts of the Spirit are active and relevant today.
Sanctification is the ongoing process of allowing God's character to be developed in us.
Divine healing is active in the lives of people today through Jesus, who is the Healer. Healing includes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual restoration.
The Bible describes hell as a real place. It is a place of suffering and a place of permanent separation from God for those who die without accepting Christ. God's desire is that no one be separated from Him for eternity, which is why He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to earth.
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Ukrainian Comedian Tops Polls but Race Far from Over
By Katie LaRoque
In a few weeks, a comedian may become the next president of Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an unlikely candidate who plays an ordinary history teacher that becomes president of Ukraine on his popular TV series, Servant of the People, ranks as one of the most popular candidates in Ukraine's March presidential election. Zelenskiy's character, Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko, is a Kyiv-based secondary school teacher, whose rant about government corruption and waste goes viral while he's unknowingly filmed and vaults him to the presidency.
While much is known about Zelenskiy's television character, relatively little is known about Zelenskiy the candidate and his stance on issues of importance to Ukrainian voters. A political neophyte whose political party is named for his television series, Servant of the People, Zelenskiy has surged to first place in a number of national surveys among a competitive field of candidates vying for the presidency. He's edging out more established candidates, including incumbent President Petro Poroshenko and longtime politician and current Member of Parliament Yulia Tymoshenko.
A native of Kryviy Rih, a Russian-speaking, industrial city, Zelenskiy's growing support can be seen as a clear indication of dissatisfaction with the ruling elite. In an era of Instagram and Facebook politics, Zelenskyi is active on social media and regularly shares posts and updates with his supporters, while offering few details of what he would do to address current frustration. In the absence of answers from Zelenskiy the candidate, voters are left with images of Zelenskiy the teacher-turned-president on television, who dreams of directing gunfire at the Ukrainian parliament in one of the first episodes of the show, Servant of the People.
Recent polling from SOCIS, KIIS, and Razumkov Center shows Zelenskiy leading the field with 17.3 percent support, over incumbent Poroshenko and Tymoshenko at a respective 12.3 and 11.8 percent.
While Zelenskiy's rise in the polls has caused concern in some circles and excitement in others (many allege that he has links to oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, business interests in Russia, and naïve foreign policy views), his victory is far from guaranteed two months out from election day. Although he now leads in some polls, an examination of the political outsider's base of support suggests vulnerabilities that Zelenskiy's campaign team would need to address ahead of election day in order to convert his support in the polls to actual votes.
The International Republican Institute's (IRI) latest national survey in Ukraine, which contains data from December 2018, found that Zelenskiy's supporters are less likely to "definitely vote" than Poroshenko's or Tymoshenko's supporters. Fifty-seven percent of Poroshenko's supporters say they will "definitely" vote on March 31, while only 32 percent of Zelenskyi's supporters say they will.
One explanation for this is that Zelenskyi's supporters are disproportionately young (18-35 years old), and IRI's survey indicates that compared to other age groups, youth are the least likely to vote—only 26 percent of young people nationwide say they will "definitely" vote, compared to 37 percent of those 51 and older who say they will.
IRI data from October 2018 also indicates that many of Zelenskiy's supporters aren't as committed—in fact, they are some of the most likely to change their mind when deciding on a candidate leading up to the election. Thirty-nine percent of supporters said they were very or somewhat likely to change their mind—ten points higher than the national average of 29 percent.
What is clear, however, is that Zelenskyi's support represents a desire among a sizeable portion of voters to see new faces in office—and his high name recognition along with favorability among voters makes him a competitive candidate. This same October survey found that 59 percent of Zelenskiy supporters believe that he will be able to make changes, and 79 percent believe that their candidate represents a new generation of politicians in Ukraine.
In Ukraine, anything can happen between now and March 31. Zelenskiy may lead this week, but the outcome is far from certain. A large number of undecided voters are still in play. Until Zelenskiy or another candidate can pick them up, the race is far from over.
Katie LaRoque is the Program Manager for Ukraine at the International Republican Institute. She tweets @katielaroque.
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Shattered Dreams is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Paul Scardon and starring Miss DuPont, Bertram Grassby and Herbert Heyes.

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 Miss DuPont as Marie Moselle
 Bertram Grassby as Théophine Grusant
 Herbert Heyes as Louis du Bois
 Eric Mayne as The Police Commissioner

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Bibliography
 Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

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1922 films
1922 drama films
American black-and-white films
Silent American drama films
American silent feature films
1920s English-language films
Films directed by Paul Scardon
Universal Pictures films
Films set in Paris
1920s American films


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Nenad Firšt (born November 6, 1964, in Zagreb), is a Slovene composer, conductor and violinist.

Nenad Firšt received a high school musical education at the Zagreb High School of Music before moving to Ljubljana to study at the Ljubljana Academy of Music under Dane Škerl (composition) and Rok Klopčič (violin). He completed his study of chamber music and composition at home in Slovenia, in Hungary, and in France.

In 1982, he joined the Croatian Sebastian string quartet, from Zagreb, with which he toured nationally and internationally until 1992. In 1988, he moved to live in Celje, Slovenia, where he is the artistic director and conductor of the Celje String Orchestra.  He is also the director of the Celje Institute for Cultural Performances.

Between 1993 and 1998, he was President of the Musical Youth organisation and he has been artistic director of Musical Youth's International Music Camp at Dolenjske Toplice since 1996.

He has received various awards and recognitions, including the Prešeren Award of the Ljubljana Academy of Music in Ljubljana (for the composition of his 3rd String Quartet) and the Prešeren Award of the Municipality of Celje.

On 7 February 2009, Nenad Firšt was one of the two Prešeren Foundation Award laureates from the field of music, recognised for artistic achievements in the previous two years including his "Concertino for flute, saxophone and orchestra", "Concerto for two saxophones and string instruments", "In the very moment of pause", for chamber ensemble, "Magic Mountain", for symphony orchestra, "Letters" for violin and chamber orchestra, and "Odeon", for chamber orchestra".
(The prestigious awards are named in honour of Slovenia's national poet, France Prešeren).

His work for chamber orchestra "Odeon" was performed by the KOS DSS Chamber Orchestra on a tour of Germany in 2008 as part of the cultural programme celebrating Slovenia's Presidency of the EU.

In the programme notes for the 2009 Prešeren Prizes ceremony, Firšt's fellow composer Crt Sojar Voglar wrote that "His highly individual leanings towards the avant garde are perceptible in all of his works which, without being unduly experimental, demonstrate an incredible originality that emerges from a synthesis of his devotion to formal proportions and an expressive mix of thoughtful intimacy and pronounced playfulness, combined with a distinctive melodic voice and harmonic penetration that is always on the edge or just beyond the edge of the traditions of older music. His instrumentation, always in the service of expression, often explores interesting and unfamiliar sound colours — sometimes thick and full, other times randomly dispersed and mysterious."

Selected works
Much of Firšt's music is published by Društvo Slovenskih Skladateljev.
 Love Song for 2 Violas (1988)
 SSSSS, Variations for Viola and Double Bass (1991)
 Tres Faciunt Collegium for Clarinet, Viola and Piano (2001)

References

External links
 Nenad Firšt official website
 Društvo Slovenskih Skladateljev

1964 births
Living people
Musicians from Zagreb
Slovenian classical composers
Slovenian male musicians
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When Fiction and Philosophy Meet: A Conversation with Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil
By author: E. Jane Doering, Ruthann Knechel Johansen
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An innovative book, WHEN FICTION AND PHILOSOPHY MEET explores the intersection between the philosophy of Simone Weil from Paris, France, and the fiction of Flannery O'Connor from the Southern state of Georgia, USA. In an era of war, of unprecedented human displacements, and of ethnic, racial, and religious fears the ideas of these two intellectuals bear on our present condition. Both women keenly desired to perceive the realities of good and evil inherent in human existence and to bring this truth to the consciousness of their contemporaries. Embracing their belief that truth is eternal but must be transposed and translated, generation after generation, in language appropriate to each age, the authors acquaint O'Connor readers with concepts in Weil's religious philosophy as seen in O'Connor's stories. Doering and Johansen simultaneously illustrate how Weil's philosophy, when embodied in fiction, reveals the lived realities of the human condition across time and space. Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor were audacious thinkers with inquiring minds who held clear and firm religious convictions. Each applied her understandings of enduring spiritual truths to the challenges of nihilism and social oppression as seen in the spreading totalitarianism and the distressing legacy of slavery throughout human history. Both Weil and O'Connor crossed disciplinary boundaries and influenced their respective fields with innovative ideas and artistic expressions. Taking their cues from these writers, Doering and Johansen bring these two remarkable women into a four-voiced dialogue--Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor with Doering and Johansen--by engaging each writer in the forms of her own genre and inviting readers to enter a dialogue of courage with Weil and O'Connor in the postmodern and post-Christian world.
Review by: Marshall Gentry, professor of English, Georgia College and editor of The Flannery O'Connor Review - January 15, 2019
WHEN FICTION AND PHILOSOPHY MEET, rather than simply insisting on specific connections between Simone Weil's principles and Flannery O'Connor's works, welcomes scholars into a dialogue between the two great figures, on such topics as how evil mixes with good, how we amuse ourselves with lies, how to build a bridge between the natural and supernatural, and how we might understand action and nonaction, decreation and death, violence and beauty. The reader is invited to contemplate and appreciate the powerful ways in which Weil intrigued and inspired O'Connor.
Review by: Valerie Sayers, novelist and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, University of Notre Dame - January 15, 2019
Doering and Johansen's meticulous juxtapositions of Flannery O'Connor's fiction and Simone Weil's philosophy are so apt and convincing that a reader can only wonder why such a full-length study hasn't been undertaken before. The scope of this concise book, from Weil's Platonism to O'Connor's engagement with the racial tensions of her day, should make it appealing to anyone interested in the ways these two giants of twentieth century thought approached the intersections of politics, philosophy, religion, and literature.
Review by: Sonia Gernes, poet and emerita professor of English, University of Notre Dame - January 15, 2019
Doering and Johansen have done something quite remarkable. They have taken two twentieth century writers often perceived as difficult and used them to illuminate each other's work. In their capable hands, O'Connor's "grotesques" and Weil's struggles with the forces of evil are revealed for what they are: media through which the divine communicates. Like the authors they write about, Doering and Johansen bring us meditations on truth, grace, beauty, right action, and all that transcends.
Review by: Michael Birkel, professor of Christian Spirituality, Earlham School of Religion - January 15, 2019
This innovative and interdisciplinary collaboration explores the writings of two great voices of the last century, Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil, each of whom wrote against the conventions of her age. Profoundly influenced by the Catholic tradition, each held to a sacramental view of this world, while resolutely facing the reality of human evil and suffering. By suggestive juxtaposition and by fresh insight, Doering and Johansen offer creative readings that will delight many. There is something for everyone in this book.
Review by: Christine Evans, professor and Humanities division chair, Lesley University - January 15, 2019
Doering and Johansen bring two major figures from two different fields into rich dialogue with each other. This study is valuable for those familiar with both writers and well as those with minimal knowledge of them; it lays out the significant biographical markers of their lives and the experiences that fed into their thought as well as the sweep of their careers and oeuvres. For such prolific and significant writers, this represents no small feat.
Review by: John Dunaway, professor emeritus of French and Interdisciplinary Studies, Mercer University - January 15, 2019
Doering and Johansen have done us a great service in exploring the commonalities and kinship of these two great writers of the mid-twentieth century. Their "conversation" evokes the richness of what Great Books advocates call "The Great Conversation," and the Red Virgin and the Red Clay Virgin are splendid nominees for the Canon, as the authors show here.