This is my summer to rest, recreate and reimagine with discernment. My ReImagine ME Summer embraces the subtle shifts that are happening in my life: my spiritual practice, my role in the workplace, my creative work, the use of my physical space, my ministry, my health. All are in flow at the moment…all are being reframed and reformed during My ReImagine ME Summer! It is my time to ReBecca!
I seem to have lost my spark, or tucked it away over the past couple of years. A master teacher entered my life to teach me just how strong I am. This life lesson came with a price – the me that I am was slowly vanishing under weighty verbal abuse…some call it bullying. How could a woman of my age fall victim to this? Trust me, it can happen to anyone at any age.
Thankfully, that teacher has moved on, which means I am free to imagine again or anew; to form a new conception of ME. "This requires a shift in viewpoint, an openness to new information, a willingness to be inspired, and a desire to grow." according to Vinita Hampton Wright in her inspirational blog Days of Deepening Friendship.
I love to find growing edges within me. I embrace growth and the growing pains associated with it. I know there is an infinite space to grow and a lifetime to grow. I kept learning during this period. It was and is my saving grace coupled with prayer.
In her blog post Vinita asks, "Can you remember a time when you did some reimagining that gave a boost to your life?" Oh Yes, I am smack in the midst of reclaiming the new and wiser ReBecca. I am enjoying every second. I can look back on the bullies hypnosis and free myself from its absurdity. I say with conviction that no one is unworthy. The light that flows through the universe, flows through me.
I am learning to accept myself without complaint. I refuse to engage is sabotaging acts of self-contempt. I refuse to use or accept the use of inaccurate adjectives to describe me. I am reimagining the self-image that I carry in my mind and my spirit. I recently asked friends on Facebook to give three words to describe me as a branding exercise. The top three words were: creative, funny, and kind, with spiritual a close forth. I embrace these with a smile as I release the past and reimagine ME.
This struck me so deeply. You put beautifully into words your struggle and your truth. I feel like saying I am in the same place is such a cliche understatement. I am waking up to realize I have been hiding in most of the areas of my life because of fear, abuse from outside influence and just to be safe. The situation has changed and the people I needed to keep safe can stand up and defend themselves. But an I? You beautifully stated that you were opening up to new ideas but retaining the power to say "no this is wrong"….profound. Sending you love And prayers!


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16 years oldYou have to be at least 16 years old to work here.
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Chick-fil-A is a great company to work for. The values the company upholds are impeccable. The only downside is each restaurant has a different operator who sets the tone for the restaurant. If the operator has a poor leadership team your experience will be terrible.
18 yearsHow old you gotta be to work at Costco. You have to be at least 18 years of age.
Employees are currently being paid $12.50 or $13 an hour. Minimum wage in California is $11 an hour. Leadership level employees will receive paid time off. All employees will receive paid sick leave.
16 years oldTo apply for hourly positions at Target stores and our Distribution Centers: You must be at least 16 years old to apply for a Target store job. You must be at least 18 years old to apply for a Target Distribution Center job. You must be able to provide proof of legal aurthorization to work in the United States.
A Chick-fil-A team member typically starts out earning just above minimum wage. The average pay for a Chick-fil-A team member ranges up to $13.00 an hour. Pay rates for these workers may increase over time. Area of employment may also affect the hourly wages Chick-fil-A team members earn.
Well, Chick-fil-A is my first job. I heard they were really good with flexible schedules and my mom was like, "You should apply to Chick-fil-A." And I did.
11 dollars. It depends on how long you have worked there but assuming that you just started, you would most likely get paid minimum wage.
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Pros: Entertaining and charming from start to finish. A talented cast displaying an infectious passion for the Bard and bikes.
Cons: The four actors' fast and furious feat of playing every role in play was a little confusing at points.
This quirky take on Shakespeare's farcical comedy is unbeatable for its exuberance and lusty humour.
The Shakespeare play most worthy of a new twist is perhaps The Comedy of Errors. The story of two sets of twins, given the same names but mismatched, makes for mayhem and lunacy when, as adults, they end up in the same place. The comedy comes out of the mistaken identities that stretch for nearly the entire play, and keeping up the farce can prove quite a strain for the most ardent of production teams. So a degree of ingenuity goes a long way.
Enter The Handlebards – four men bicycling their way through a 2000-mile European tour, carrying their set, costume and camping equipment, to perform in total over seventy performances of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors and Macbeth. I must admit, I thought the chances of four itinerant cyclists being top-notch Shakespearian actors was too good to be true, but blow me down with a bicycle pump, their show was an absolute cracker. And with the exuberance displayed by these four actors, who assume every role in the play, I imagine they're clocking up a similar mileage on stage as they are on their bikes.
The play was performed in the grand hall of the Museum of the Order of St John, which, with its dark wood panelled walls, aristocratic portraits and lavish furnishings, is like a mini version of the Great Hall of Hogwarts (or Christ Church Oxford as some still like to call it!). Signs of them having just arrived at their next performance stop are aplenty – the bikes and helmets were on display around two lightweight tents that conceal the marvels of the play's many costume changes and nifty sound effects.
From start to finish the show is pure entertainment. The intro and outro live music from a local band, who strum through a welter of pleasingly softened pop tunes, provides a most welcome accompaniment. The cast are dressed in vintage bike fashion and their brightly coloured knee-high socks are only outdone by the courtesan's hilarious brassier constructed primarily from two shuttlecocks.
The actors – Callum Brodie, Callum Cheatle, Tom Dixon, and Paul Moss – were technically brilliant at executing a vast amount of theatrical tricks that keep the energy high throughout. Puppetry, using warped tennis rackets and puppet socks is used to narrate the deliciously woeful tale of the twins' separation in a storm and shipwreck. A bicycle bell signals the frenzied character and costume shifts, where the cast inventively jump in and out of the vacant items of clothing they hold up, in order to show us which characters are on stage. And when they run out of limbs, they enlist audience members in a way that made comic as well as practical sense. The female roles are inhabited even more convincingly and comically than the male roles, which was a joy to see, as the exchanges between the jealous wife and her meek sister are some of the best lines. The only issue with this performance is that the action does get a little confusing in the third quarter, as the mix-ups build to a head, so a quick read through a synopsis is advised.
Overall, this entertaining and charming show is not to be missed. There is the feeling of 'something that is just meant to be' about The Handlebards and their quirky enterprise. They somehow manage to put across the feeling of what it must have been like to perform the plays in Shakespeare's day whilst still managing to feel modern and fresh. If you love old bits of London, the Museum of the Order of St John, housed in a 16th century gatehouse, with impressive collections of art and artefacts, is definitely worth a visit.
Freelance writing coach. Alan is a literature graduate who now works to help others improve their writing. Bowled over by the National Theatre's 50th celebrations, he has since gone completely theatre loopy. His return to London, after living abroad in Toronto and Berlin, might have something to do with it. He'll happily devour drama in all its forms. Doomed lovers, unrequited passion and death all spell a good night out. As does a glass of wine and a packet of crisps. And anything that appeals to his dark and depraved sense of humour is also much appreciated.


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Have you watched Save Me before?
Sky Atlantic 2018
Nelson "Nelly" Rowe's life is turned upside down when he is arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his thirteen-year-old daughter Jody, whom he hasn't seen in ten years. After convincing the police of his innocence, and frustrated with the way the case is progressing, he decides to take matters into his own hands and track down Jody himself.
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Nelly and Melon infiltrate a secret network which may hold the key to Jody's return. Goz makes a shocking discovery.
Claire and Barry stage a press conference appealing for help, where Barry makes a reckless move. Meanwhile, Nelly pursues his own lines of enquiry.
Nelly stages a lock-in at The Palm Tree, where he confronts a regular about their role in Jody's disappearance. Season finale.
A police recording of a distressed 999 call from Jody is traced to Streatham. Nelly finds a unique way of locating the property Jody was held in.
When Grace can't get hold of Nelly, she reaches out to an old acquaintance to help escape the Towers. But an encounter with Samson brings the wrath of Zita
Torn between pursuing the men who abducted Jody and saving Grace from her fate. Nelly has a final, devastating choice to make.
Nelson "Nelly" Rowe's life is turned upside down when he is arrested on suspicion of kidnapping his thirteen-year-old daughter Jody, whom he hasn't seen in ten years.
Months after Jody's disappearance, the Palm Tree gathers to surprise Nelly for his birthday. But the police arrive with a shocking announcement.
The residents of The Towers come out in force to stage a reconstruction of Jody's abduction, and Claire becomes suspicious of Barry's reward.
Grace's memories of the previous night suggest someone else was at the scene of the crime. Nelly aims to hunt the suspect, but his mission is derailed.
Gripping! This was an intense and addictive watch. I'm very fond of Suranne Jones (Dr Foster) and Lennie James (Walking Dead), so this was a great combo.
The best thing Sky has ever done! Terrifyingly dark and twisted.
Series 2 is coming in early-ish 2020 with filming to start this month. Hoping for some sort of resolution perhaps, also the series would most certainly benefit from giving Suranne _more_ to do.


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Out of Touch
"Let them eat cake."
That is what Queen Marie Antoinette supposedly said; when she learned the poor of France had no bread to eat. She meant to illustrate just how out of touch with the poor she was. Actually, most historians agree that she never said it. First off, there was no real food shortage in the country during her rein, so no one would have brought up the subject to her. Second, Marie Antoinette the queen was sympathetic to the plight of her people; quite rare for rulers of her day. She would not have been so dismissive of their troubles. Yet, the words stuck and have become part of the lexicon of famous sayings never said. There are others:
"Play it again, Sam."
"You dirty rat."
"Judy, Judy, Judy."
"Well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into."
"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto."
"Just the facts, Ma'am."
"Beam me up, Scotty."
"Houston, we have a problem."
"Elementary, my dear Watson."
"What's that, Lassie? Timmy fell down a well!"
As a side note, Timmy got into a lot of trouble over the course of several seasons of the show, but he never fell down a well. Interesting that something he didn't get into should yield such a memorable line, but I digress.
Recently, a major political figure has spoken on two different subjects that both indicated just how out of touch he is with the common folks. When asked by a young woman where women would go to get mammograms, pap smears and other important medical tests, if Planned Parenthood was gone, Romney said they could just go somewhere else. When asked how teens and young adults could afford college, if cuts to student loans and other such financial aid became policy, Romney suggested they go borrow the money from their parents.
The man has made a huge number of what my father used to call "fox passes," his humorous way of saying the French expression "faux pas." Always the comedian, my dad, yet, I focus on these two instances because they specifically highlight how out of touch Romney is with common people. While he and other wealthy folks can easily get healthcare anywhere they want, the poor, and even the middle class, are not so fortunate. While he can easily afford to lend his children all the money they need to go to college, even right through to graduate school, most people cannot. My wife and I lucked out; our kid was smart enough to get a full scholarship, and even work part-time jobs. If not for that, she would have been unable to afford the outstanding education she is now getting. Romney is out of touch, no question, and I shudder to think what sort of president he would make.
Someone said that one in five children in this country goes hungry. I have to wonder, if someone asks Romney about that, what would be his reply?
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Eric is an uptight, conservative college professor whose family is falling apart. When his radical leftist office partner, Mike, has a solution to a family issue, Eric brings him home and lets him get close. Can they bridge the gap between them, or are their differences too much to bear?
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When rebel pilot Sahak escapes from a primitive holding cell on a distant mining colony, he doesn't expect to rescue an alien smuggler. He can't leave the man behind, either.
Azat has seen many things from humans, and none of them were kindness. He has no choice but to throw his lot in with the handsome rebel who bursts into his cell -- he can escape with Sahak, or he can wait for his own execution.
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Q: Perform multiple requests based on a previous request I have a method within a service (angular) which I am using as a generic one to get a list of resources from a json api spec endpoint.
The endpoints are limited to 10 resources per request, and they return meta information such as total page size.
Within this one method, what I want to be able to do is perform a request if the page size is 1 then just return the request, however if the page size is greater than 1 then I want to loop through and map all of the resources together.
So for example, if I'm doing a request for blog posts and I have 100. The page size is limited to 10, I'll have a response like this...
{
    "data": [
        ...
    ],
    "paginationMeta": {
        "pageSize": 10,
        "totalItems": 100
    }
}

After I have got this, I want to loop through 10 times to get the rest of the data and piece it together.
I currently have this code...
return this.apiService.list('posts').pipe(switchMap((response: any) => {
    if (response.paginationMeta.pageSize === 1) {
        of(response);
    }

    // We know the current page will be 2
    let currentPage: number = 2;
    const resource = response.data;
    const requests: any[] = [];

    while (currentPage <= response.paginationMeta.pageSize) {
        requests.push(this.apiService.list('posts', currentPage));

        currentPage++;
    }

    forkJoin(requests).pipe(map((responses: any[]) => {
        responses.forEach((apiResponse: any) => {
            resource.push(apiResponse);
        });

        return of(resource);
    }));
});

I believe this is way off the mark of what I'm trying to achieve. I have done some googling and can't seem to find anything that will help me achieve this.

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Alcohol's strong link to cancers
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A reduction in alcohol consumption in Australia would lead to a reduction in cancer deaths, according to La Trobe University's Centre for Alcohol Policy Research.
The study found that across a 20-year period, a one litre decrease in annual alcohol consumption by males in Australia was associated with reductions of 15 per cent in liver cancer mortality and 11.6 per cent in head and neck cancer mortality.
For females, the reductions were 8 per cent for liver cancer and 7.3 per cent for head and neck cancer mortality.
The study's lead author, Dr Jason Jiang of La Trobe University's Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, said: "This study has extended our understanding of the role that alcohol plays with respect to liver, pancreatic, head and neck cancers in Australia, and the importance of addressing the nation's alcohol consumption levels."
"Alcohol is a major contributor to Australia's burden of disease," said the Centre's deputy director, Dr Michael Livingston. "This study demonstrates that reductions in per-capita alcohol consumption would lead to lower rates of mortality for liver and head and neck cancers."
The Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Risk from Drinking Alcohol suggests an adult should drink no more than two standard drinks on any day to reduce the lifetime risk of harm attributed to alcohol.
Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education chief executive Michael Thorn said: "There is no doubt that alcohol-related cancers would be significantly reduced if more of the population reduced their alcohol consumption and followed the national drinking guidelines, yet a lack of recognition of the links between alcohol and cancer remains.
"The study exposes the need for improved public health education campaigns, better public health policies on alcohol, and more promotion of the guidelines – to reduce the toll of cancer-related diseases and deaths in Australia."
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The book of lost and found was slow moving and lacked any real punch.I bought this book in hard back and loved the cover and the presentation The premise of the novel had me intrigued and I felt this was going to be a book I would enjoy.Unfortunately the story fell flat for me after about 140 pages and I think the reason for this was the lack of character development I don t mind a book to start out slowly if the the character development and plot warrants it I just never gelled with the char The book of lost and found was slow moving and lacked any real punch.I bought this book in hard back and loved the cover and the presentation The premise of the novel had me intrigued and I felt this was going to be a book I would enjoy.Unfortunately the story fell flat for me after about 140 pages and I Kate is grieving the loss of her mother, the world renowned ballerina June Darling, when she receives some startling information from her grandmother Evie June had always known that she was adopted but believed that her mother had never tried to find her However, Evie gives Kate a letter and a beautiful drawing of a lovely young woman and sets in train a journey of discovery that takes Kate to Europe and America in search of the truth.This is an unusual love story disrupted by the conventions Kate is grieving the loss of her mother, the world renowned ballerina June Darling, when she receives some startling information from her grandmother Evie June had always known that she was adopted but believed that her mother had never tried to find her However, Evie gives Kate a letter and a beautiful drawing of a lovely young woman and sets in train a journey of discovery that takes Kate to Europe and America in search of the truth.This is an unusual love story dis With the recent devastating death of her mother, Kate found herself floundering The only constant was the daily visit to her grandmother Evie in the nursing home But when Evie confessed a shocking secret to Kate, at the same time giving her an old portrait which she had had for many years, Kate was filled with a mix of emotions Anger, grief, frustration and then her grandmother died Kate s journey to find the woman in the portrait would take her to many places from her home in London, to With the recent devastating death of her mother, Kate found herself floundering The only constant was the daily visit to her grandmother Evie in the nursing home But when Evie confessed a shocking secret to Kate, at the same time giving her an old portrait which she had had for many years, Kate was filled with a mix of emot The story starts with a drawing of a woman All that identifies her is that she is, a friend of the artist s and the pen and ink drawing was from around 1929 From there it moves back to the meeting in1928 between Tom Stafford and Alice Eversley These two had known each other as children and lost touch over the years.It then jumps forward to Kate who is trying to come to grips with the death of her mother and best friend Lovely to see a mother and daughter relationship portrayed so positivel The story starts with a drawing of a woman All that identifies her is that she is, a friend of the artist s and the pen and ink drawing was from around 1929 From there it moves back to the meeting in1928 between Tom Stafford and Alice Eversley These two had known each other as children and lost touch over the years.It then jumps forward to Kate who is trying to come to grips with the death of her mother and best friend Lovely to see a mother and daughter relationship portrayed so positively, instead of the negative representations of the mother daughter relationship we often get in books I really related to Kate and to her grief for her mother Kate s mother was a famous ballet dancer It isn t until her adopted grandmother Evie dies and Kate is going through her things that Kate finds there was a lotto her mother s and her real grandmother s story than she ever knew I loved the descriptions of Corsica in this book and Spanning three distinct time frames throughout history, this beautiful book tells the story of a love so strong that was not meant to be in the physical sense and the lost and founds that came as a result of it London 1928, Thomas Stafford, will unexpectedly come across on old childhood friend at a party who he has not seen for 15 years, Alice Eversley The two will become inseparable and over time fall in love Alice is Tom greatest supporter and it will be her encouragement that we see him pu Spanning three distinct time frames throughout history, this beautiful book tells the story of a love so strong that was not meant to be in the physical sense and the lost and founds that came as a result of it London 1928, Thomas Stafford, will unexpectedly come across on old childhood friend at a party who he has not seen for 15 years, Alice Eversley The two will become inseparable and over time fall in love Alice is Tom greatest supporter and it will be her encouragem Can t believe this is a debut novel I absolutely loved it Thought it was beautifully written It spans from the 20 s to the 80 s, told from a few perspectives, and travels from England, Corsica, Paris, New York All executed brilliantly Loved this story even though it was heartbreaking. The first half of this book was slow I am 66% finished I am shelving it as finished I m not sticking around to find out how it ends I really don t care how it ends Too bad the plot is interesting but oh, so slow Four months in the life of Kate Darling with brief flashbacks to the early 20th century should not take four months to read.This is a debut novel This author has great potential She notices the details She uses some lovely phrases She understands human emotions She just The first half of this book was slow I am 66% finished I am shelving it as finished I m not sticking around to find out how it ends I really don t care how it ends Too bad the plot is interesting but oh, so slow Four months in the life of Kate Darling with Fun fact I went to the same high school as Lucy Foley She visited back in 2015 to give a talk about The Book Of Lost And Found which was soon to be released at the time She read the first chapter and, to be completely honest, I remember being not at all gripped I had no intention of reading the book until two years later it popped up in my local library and nostalgia and that stunning cover implor From London To Corsica To Paris As A Young Woman Pursues The Truth About Her Late Mother, Two Captivating Love Stories Unfurl.Kate Darling S Enigmatic Mother A Once Famous Ballerina Has Passed Away, Leaving Kate Bereft When Her Grandmother Falls Ill And Bequeaths To Kate A Small Portrait Of A Woman Who Bears A Striking Resemblance To Kate S Mother, Kate Uncovers A Mystery That May Upend Everything She Thought She Knew.Kate S Journey To Find The True Identity Of The Woman In The Portrait Takes Her To Some Of The World S Most Iconic And Indulgent Locales, Revealing A Love Story That Began In The Wild 1920s And Was Disrupted By War And Could Now Spark New Love For Kate Alternating Between Kate S Present Day Hunt And Voices From The Past, THE BOOK OF LOST AND FOUND Casts Light On Family Secrets And Love Both Lost And Found. It wasn t until after finishing The Book of Lost and Found I realised that this was a debut novel for Lucy Foley I would not have picked it for a debut novel.This is going to sound very whacky, but here goes When thinking of what to write for a review for this novel, the words Sunday stroll keep popping into my head The experience of reading The Book of Lost and Found, was like taking a leisurely walk on a pleasingly familiar path that is speckled with beautiful scenery.3.5 StarsThankyou to It wasn t until after finishing The Book of Lost and Found I realised that this was a debut novel for Lucy Foley I would not have picked it for a debut novel.This is going to sound very whacky, but here goes When thinking of what to writ
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Rt Hon Lord Paddy Ashdown
Rt Hon Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE PC
Paddy Ashdown was born in New Delhi on 27 February 1941, the eldest of 7 children. When he was 4 years old, his family returned to Britain to buy a farm in Ulster. He was educated at Bedford School. Between 1959 and 1972 he served as a Royal Marines Officer and saw active service as a Commando Officer in Borneo and the Persian Gulf. After Special Forces Training in England in 1965, he commanded a Special Boat Section in the Far East. He went to Hong Kong in 1967 to undertake a full-time course in Chinese, returning to England in 1970 with a First Class interpretership in Mandarin (accepted as the equivalent of a first class degree by the Civil Service). He was then given command of a Commando Company in Belfast.
In 1972 Paddy left the Royal Marines and joined the Foreign Office. He was posted to the British Mission to the United Nations in Geneva where he was responsible for Britain's relations with a number of United Nations organisations and took part in the negotiation of several international treaties and agreements between 1974 and 1976. He was also involved in some aspects of the European Security Conference (the Helsinki Conference).
After leaving the Foreign Office Paddy worked in local industry in the Yeovil area in South-West England between 1976 and 1981, firstly as a senior manager in the Commercial Department with the Westlands Group (Normalair Garrett) and then as Head of Personnel and, later as a divisional head with the Morlands' Yeovil-based subsidiary called Tescan until the demise of Morlands in 1980. In 1981, Paddy went to work as a Youth Worker with the Dorset County Council Youth Service, where he was responsible for initiatives to help the young unemployed.
He stood as the Liberal Parliamentary candidate for the Yeovil constituency in 1979 and raised the Liberal vote there to its highest ever level. Shortly after entering Parliament in the 1983 General Elections, Paddy was appointed as the Liberal spokesman on Trade and Industry Affairs within the Liberal/SDP Alliance team at the House of Commons. He became Education spokesman in January 1987. He was elected Leader of the Liberal Democrats in July 1988 and was appointed as a Privy Councilor on 1 January 1989. In the 1997 General Election he further increased his majority in his Yeovil constituency to over 11,000. Paddy stood down as the leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1999 and retired from the Commons in 2001. He was made a KBE in 2000 and a peer in 2001. Lord Ashdown was awarded the GCMG in the 2006 New Year's Honours List, for his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
During the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Paddy was one of the leading advocates for decisive action by the international community. He argued strongly that this would help bring the conflict to an early close, and that this was in the interests of all the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina whatever their ethnic background. He visited the country many times during the conflict and subsequently. Lord Ashdown was the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the 27thMay 2002 until the 31st January 2006.
On return to Britain in 2006, he was awarded the GCMG for his work in Bosnia.. He is now acknowledged as one of the foremost experts on the Balkans region in Europe.
In mid 2008 he declined Gordon Brown's invitation to join his Cabinet, shortly before he became Prime Minister because Paddy said he could not agree with the Government's policies, especially in respect of the erosion of our Civil Liberties.
Later that year, Paddy was asked by the US Government and the UN Secretary General to take up the post as the head of the International Mission in Afghanistan, but this was subsequently vetoed by the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai.
In 2009, Paddy co-chaired, with Lord George Robertson, the much acclaimed IPPR review into Britain's long term security needs.
He currently writes articles on foreign affairs matters, especially Afghanistan and Bosnia, for national newspapers and periodicals.
He is currently on the Advisory Boards of the Good Government Group, Defence Strategies and Solutions and Silverline.
Paddy has written eight books; Citizen's Britain, Beyond Westminster, The Ashdown Diaries Volumes One and Two and his best-selling autobiography, A Fortunate Life, A Brilliant Little Operation (which won the Military History Prize for 2103) and The Cruel Victory.
He is married to Jane and they have two children and three grandchildren.


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Coronavirus: Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus.
He took the test, his fourth, on Monday after developing symptoms, including a high temperature.
Mr Bolsonaro has repeatedly played down the risks posed by the virus, calling it "a little flu" and saying that he would not be seriously affected by it.
He has also urged regional governors to ease lockdowns, which he says hurt the economy, and on Monday he watered down regulations on wearing face masks.
Mr Bolsonaro made the announcement in a TV interview on Tuesday. He said the fever he had been experiencing had gone down and that he felt "very well".
Mr Bolsonaro said that he had started experiencing symptoms on Sunday. He said he had had a high temperature, a cough and had felt unwell.
He added that on Monday he had felt worse which prompted him to take the coronavirus test.
Back in April, he said that even if he were to be infected with the virus, he would "not have to worry as I wouldn't feel anything, at most it would be like a little flu or a little cold".
When he made the remark, the number of Covid-19-related deaths was still under 3,000 and the number of infections was around 40,000.
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But the numbers have skyrocketed since then. As of Monday, the number of deaths was over 65,000 and infections were over 1.6m, second only to the United States.
Despite the rising numbers, President Bolsonaro has argued that regional lockdowns are having a more damaging effect than the virus itself, and accused the media of spreading panic and paranoia.
Jair Bolsonaro on coronavirus:
"From what I have seen until now, there are other kinds of flu which have killed more people than that [coronavirus] one" (11 March)
"Today we have information, that because we have a more tropical climate [in Brazil] we've almost reached the end [of the pandemic], or it's already over (…) the virus doesn't spread as fast in warm climates like ours" (18 March)
"After being stabbed, I'm not going to be brought down by a little flu" (20 March)
While he was at his most vocal and dismissive in March, he has continued to rail against measures that he deems "dictatorial" such as the closing beaches or requirements to wear face coverings.
On Monday, he made further changes to a law which would require Brazilians to wear masks in public.
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The Literati Awards by Claire Epstein | Playscripts Inc.
Tonight the brightest stars of classic literature are coming together for the biggest awards show of the year - so of course they're all on their absolute worst behavior. Romeo's jealous that Juliet got nominated, Sherlock Holmes keeps trying to deduce the results from the accountants, and it's all security can do to keep Gollum away from his precious trophy. Everyone's walking the red carpet from Elizabeth Bennet to Holden Caulfield, but only one can walk away with the big award for The Greatest Literary Character of All Time. Who will it be? With five possible endings, only the audience vote can decide! The classics get a showbiz twist in this wickedly funny comedy.


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Birmingham [UK], January 19 (ANI): Yorkshire County Cricket Club on Wednesday announced the appointment of Ottis Gibson as Head Coach on a three-year contract. He will start work at the end of February 2022.
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Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 19 (ANI): Pre-tournament favourites Bangladesh and Sri Lanka eased to victory in their respective games on the opening day of the ICC Commonwealth Games Qualifier 2022 at the Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur.
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50 die as plane dives into NY home
A CONTINENTAL commuter plane coming in for a landing nose-dived into a house in suburban Buffalo, New York, sparking a fiery explosion that killed all 49 people aboard and a person in the home.
Witnesses heard the twin turboprop aircraft sputtering before it went down in light snow and fog around 10:20pm on Thursday about 8 kilometers from Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Continental Connection Flight 3407 from Newark, New Jersey, came in squarely through the roof of the house, its tail section visible through flames shooting at least 15 meters high.
"The whole sky was lit up orange," said Bob Dworak, who lives less than a mile away. "All the sudden, there was a big bang, and the house shook."
Two others in the house escaped with minor injuries.
The plane was carrying a four-member crew and an off-duty pilot. Among the 44 passengers killed was a woman whose husband died in the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001.
Federal investigators were searching through the rubble for the "black boxes." National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Steve Chealander said the smoldering scene was still too hot to collect debris yesterday morning, but investigators were going after the flight data and cockpit voice recorders in the plane's largely intact tail.
Erie County Emergency Coordinator David Bissonette said it appeared the plane "dove directly on top of the house."
"It was a direct hit," Bissonette said. "It's remarkable that it only took one house. As devastating as that is, it could have wiped out the entire neighborhood."
No mayday call came from the pilot before the crash, according to a recording of air traffic control's radio messages captured by the Website LiveATC.net.
Neither the controller nor the pilot showed concern that anything was out of the ordinary as the airplane was asked to fly at 700 meters. Airport officials said the plane simply fell off the radar screen. At the time of the last radio contact, the controller said the plane was 4.8km from a radio beacon that is about 6km northeast of the airport.
The controller told the crew to turn the plane left to intercept a radio signal that would guide it to Runway 23. A pilot aboard the plane calmly repeated the instructions back correctly.
A minute later, the controller tried to contact the plane but heard no response. Eventually he told an unidentified listener to contact authorities on the ground in the Clarence area.
After the crash occurred, at least two pilots were heard on air traffic control messages saying they had been picking up ice on their wings. "We've been getting ice since 20 miles south of the airport," one said.
The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team of investigators to Buffalo. The Department of Homeland Security said there was no indication of terrorism.
The plane was carrying 2,300 kilograms of fuel and apparently exploded on impact. It was the first fatal crash of a commercial airliner in the US since August 27, 2006, when 49 people were killed after a Comair jetliner took off from a Lexington, Kentucky, runway that was too short.


Different support options suit different people. Not everyone needs a service or counsellor when they are worried about their drug or alcohol use. If you think self-directed help is for you, these articles, tips and tools may help.
It's likely you'll still be offered drugs or alcohol when you try to make a change and saying no can be one of the hardest things to do. But there are things you can do to make it easier.
One of the biggest challenges when you make a change to your use is the fact that everyone else might not want to change with you! It's likely you'll still be offered drugs or alcohol and saying no can be one of the hardest things to do. This is because it's normal to want to be with friends, to be liked and to avoid conflict. So here are a few suggestions if you want to get better at saying no when offered drugs or alcohol.
When you say no, be aware of your posture. If it's culturally appropriate for you try to look your friend or the person offering you drugs or alcohol in the eye when you talk.
To show you're not interested in using or drinking try and talk about something else or move the conversation to a topic you are comfortable with.
Remember, getting on with your friends is a priority for most young people so this stuff can be really hard and it might take some practice. On the other hand part of making changes requires doing things and thinking for yourself. Anyway, you might be surprised how supportive friends can be. How would you support a friend who was cutting down or quitting?
It shouldn't just be you that changes!


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Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Checkpoint Telstar wishes to thank Cora Buhlert for supplying German sociocultural information relevant to this review.
Screenplay by Bernd Lichtenberg and Wolfgang Becker (with contributions by Achim von Borries, Hendrik Handloegten and Christoph Silber)
Directed by Wolfgang Becker
Daniel Brühl: Alex Kerner
Katrin Saß: Christiane Kerner
Maria Simon: Ariane Kerner
Chulpan Khamatova: Lara
Florian Lukas: Denis
Stefan Walz: Sigmund Jähn
Once more into the breach between East and West Berlin, dear readers. Since the Berlin Wall was dismantled twenty-five years ago this month, El Santo at 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting asked if I'd like to go in on some Cold War movie reviews to mark the time on our metaphorical calendars. I wish I'd thought of this earlier, because I only managed to get movies from the 1950s and 1960s reviewed during November; I certainly think something from Peter Watkins for the seventies and Val Kilmer as a hypergenius slacker at Cal Tech would have fit the bill nicely.
But enough about regrets. Onward to the future.
This film, if you're an American, is an obscure arthouse comedy from Germany starring the guy who would later be the sniper / war hero in Inglourious Basterds and the antagonist Formula 1 driver in Rush (and who will hopefully be raising his profile considerably when he's in Captain America: Civil War in a couple years). If you're German, it's the third-highest-grossing native film in your country's history. Not knowing about it would be like a United Statesian being unaware of Jaws. One of the reasons it was so resonant with German audiences would have to be the way it addressed the German national character; it's a home-grown movie about domestic concerns. I'm sure that there are subtleties and references I won't even remotely get because I just don't have the cultural background to do so. For that matter, high school German was a long, long time ago and Frau Tate was a semi-competent teacher at best. Mostly I'll be reading the subtitles and hoping that I understand the deep structure of the film.
Alex Kerner is a young man in East Berlin--but the first we see of him is home movie footage from the late 70s (I'm enough of a cult movie geek to note that the year of his summer-vacation film clip is the same as Dawn of the Dead's theatrical release). He appears to be a perfectly happy child, and like many kids in the Cold War, he's a big fan of the space program. Sigmund Jähn, the first German into space, is a particular favorite of his. And on the day that Jähn becomes the first Deutschlander into space, plainclothes officers from the Stasi are asking Alex's mom about his father's travels out of Germany. Alex's dad defects to the West, with the ten-years-older Alex fuming over the way his father rejected his family to sleep with an "enemy of the state" in capitalist Europe. His mother takes the betrayal far worse than Alex does; she spends two months catatonic in a psychiatric hospital that is exactly as cheery and warm as "East German mental health facility" suggests.
When Alex's mother returns home she amputates his absent father from her life; among other things, she sends his clothes off in a sack with SOLIDARITY WITH MOZAMBIQUE stenciled on it. According to the voiceover, Alex's mother decided she was married to the Deutsche Demokratische Republik instead. He doesn't have a father any more, but his mother is devoted to the fatherland. She becomes very involved in the East German equivalent of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts (and the communist organization seems more enlightened about gender inclusion than the Western European or American youth organizations; there's kids of both genders singing songs and going to summer camp together in the home movie footage).
Her efforts to swim with the tide result in, among other things, an award for exemplary citizenship at a nationally televised ceremony. Alex seems to be accepting this new reality, becoming very attached to his mother and still dreaming of space and rockets--hoping some day to be the second German in space. It's probably very important to note that Jähn is never referred to as the first East German to travel into space; he's a German first and a member of the political system second. Looking down at Earth he wouldn't be able to see any political borders; the Berlin Wall is utterly invisible from orbit.
Ten years later, Alex is an aimless young man working at a TV repair shop and lounging around on a park bench on his day off as East Germany prepares for its 40th anniversary celebrations (the contrast between the slouching dude stifling a burp on the bench and the voiceover declaring Alex was "at the height of his masculine allure" is amusing, but it also lets us know that Alex doesn't have all that many illusions about where his life ended up and how he's living it). He's in an apartment in a tower block, living with his mother and his older sister Ariane (and his sister's infant daughter Paula), in a room full of spare electronic parts and posters for rock groups probably not approved by the Central Committee. What appears to be actual period footage of the East German Army marching by the review stands contrasts later with Alex and hundreds of other young activists taking to the streets to protest in favor of democracy.
During this protest march (for "the right to go for walks without the Wall getting in the way", according to Alex's understated and sardonic commentary), two important things happen--when Alex starts choking on a bite of an apple he brought along as a snack a pretty young student nurse from Russia named Lara whacks him on the back till he spits it out, and they click once they get a look at each other. That's the good news. The bad news is that scads of police show up to corral the protesters at first, and then to beat the tar out of them with riot batons. Alex's mom is in a taxicab trying to get to the 40th Anniversary ceremony in East Berlin but gets blocked by police trucks and has to get out to take the subway to get to the event. Which is why she gets to see her youngest child as he's snagged by a pair of police, a shock so jarring to her that she collapses to the ground. Alex tries to run to her when he sees this, and gets tossed in the back of a transport truck as prelude to a punitive beating. But his mom is listed high enough on the Party org chart that he gets pulled out of the cell where the protesters are kept and released so he can get to the hospital and find out what's going on. His sister and the doctor give him the lowdown: His mom had a heart attack, CPR wasn't performed quickly but she did survive, albeit in a coma. The doctor can't tell Alex or his sister whether or not their mother will ever wake up.
Frau Kerner remains in her coma for a highly significant nine months; during that time the head of the Communist Party in East Germany resigns, the Berlin Wall is torn apart and the Cold War judders to a halt, symbolized to the world by the two parts of Germany reuniting to become a new nation--no longer a divided pair of countries sharing an internal border, but a new Germany that will proceed into the future as one place, just as Sigmund Jähn was a Deutschlander, not an Ostie or a Westie when he was in space. It's tempting to use mental illness as a descriptor here, with Germany suffering a decade-long psychotic break followed by the paranoid split personalities of the Cold War countries. Now that there's a brand new nation put together, it remains to be seen just what kind of nation it will be, and how the two different Germanies will work with each other to make it that nation.
History is occurring daily in front of him, although Alex is more concerned with something much more personal at the time. While the news clips that I'm sure are utterly iconic to an actual German (rather than an American who was properly awed by the peaceful reunification of the two parts of Germany but who only saw the highlights on TV) play out his mother sleeps on in the coma. Ariane gets a job as a cog in the great capitalist machine (becoming Employee of the Month at an East Berlin Burger King, as well as dating her boss, the "class enemy" who manages the franchise). Rainer, the fast food manager, moves into the tiny apartment to be closer to Ariane, leading to a great reaction shot when Alex observes them belly dancing in their underwear and decides he doesn't want any part of that. It's a great sequence, counterpointing the changes to the nation and to the flat at the same time.
Alex also meets Lara again after accidentally knocking the drip line out of his mom's IV bottle; it looks like she shows up in his life during medical situations. Which makes sense; she's a nurse. I'm certain that having a Soviet student nurse named Lara in the film is a Dr. Zhivago reference, but I don't know enough about the German take on that movie to make much out of it. At any rate, Alex continues visiting his mother at the hospital but makes sure to do it on days that Lara is going to be on duty. He's quite attracted to Lara but doesn't make any moves towards her, at least partly because everything else in his life is getting shaken up. The TV repair shop closes and Alex gets a job installing satellite dishes (the logo of the company looking very similar to the hammer and sickle); the installation manager picks names out of buckets labeled O and W (for Ost und West) to put crews together--doing his little part for unification. Alex is paired with a film fanatic named Denis and they hit it off pretty well.
What with the new job (and the implied lack of support from the new German welfare state as opposed to the old Communist one), Alex can't visit the hospital as much as he wanted to for either reason. He rigs up a tape deck to a timer and narrates an audio diary for his mother, which is more for Alex's good than hers at this point but also lets Lara see what kind of person he is if she's around when the timer hits 5 PM and the tape starts up. Eventually they go see some kind of techno performance art Teutonic version of GWAR at a nightclub and again I flounder as I wonder if the German audiences would recognize these goofs or if they're just as obscure in their homeland as they are in United Statesia. When the pair sneaks off to hang out in an art installation and not listen to the band for a while Alex and Lara chat for a while and our young protagonist shows that he's utterly inexperienced at doobie smoking (one wouldn't typically think of the USSR as a hotbed of youth in revolt, but Lara's handling the smoke a lot better).
When he's not working, dating Lara or worrying about his mother, Alex hangs out with Denis (whose Matrix-code shirt is part of an elaborate joke cut out of the movie; just roll with it). Denis, scraping up a little extra cash like a good class enemy, has a job shooting birthday and wedding videos but what he really wants to do is direct. He's got his own kitbashed editing studio in his apartment and he's actually got some talent (view the bouquet-tossing at an outdoor wedding that turns into a Kubrick homage and be amazed). As it turns out, Alex never saw the movie that Denis is referencing; East Germany and the rest of the Communist world was extremely careful about letting Western cultural artifacts in through official channels and our protagonist isn't a big enough pop culture junkie to track stuff like that down on the black market.
Months pass and Alex starts to fit into the new routine, though he's completely aware of how much everything has changed. The day he finally takes the initiative and makes a romantic move on Lara at the hospital happens to be the very moment that his mother comes out of her coma. The physician tells Alex and Ariane the good news--it's a minor miracle that their mother ever regained consciousness. The bad news is twofold: nobody spends that much time in a coma without some kind of long-term mental damage; at this point, the extent of Christiane's deterioration is unknown but memory loss and confusion are the likeliest possibilities. The doctor then drops another bombshell: It's almost certain that Alex's mother isn't going to live more than another month or so, and another heart attack will definitely kill her. The doctor warns Alex that he's got to protect his mom from any kind of excitement, which will put fatal stress on her heart. Alex realizes instantly that he's got to bring Frau Kerner home to the flat; at the hospital she'll find out that there isn't an East Germany any more and that will certainly be enough of a jolt to end her life. The doctor agrees and one jump cut later plans are being made to bring Christiane home (although I'm not certain how much information she's been given about exactly what's going on).
Alex turns out to be a really shitty liar; instead of telling his mother what actually happened, he comes up with an instantly transparent lie about her collapsing in a shopping queue due to the heat, in October. In East Berlin. Back at the flat, there's a three-directional argument between the two siblings and Rainer, Ariane's new guy. Alex's plan is simple and desperate: To the best extent possible, shield his mother from the social and political changes in the world by fixing her bedroom up the way it was back when the Communist bloc hadn't fallen apart. She's going to be bedridden anyway, and her memory problems and assorted other mental-clarity issues are going to probably make it more possible to carry off the deception than one would think.
Denis gets dragooned into helping put the bedroom back together in a sped-up sequence set to a synthesizer version of The William Tell Overture; it looks like Kubrick references follow that character around like a faithful dog. Also, good on him for helping move a bunch of furniture up to the eighth floor of an apartment block when the elevator's busted. As the move-in date approaches, Alex also goes to charity shops to rebuild the East German wardrobe that he and Ariane discarded once Western products were available (though Alex himself, as a quietly rebellious guy, had a Levi jean jacket even when he was in East Berlin rather than just Berlin). He talks to the new doctor at the hospital--the old one having taken off for Dusseldorf as soon as was practical--and is kind of a snot to him about responsibility and duty to the nation. Which means the guy probably enjoys it a little more than usual when he demonstrates the proper CPR-at-home method to Alex by thumping him on the chest with vigor and abandon.
The big day arrives and Alex seems to be pretty out of his depth instantaneously; even the radio news bulletins in the ambulance are talking about things like switching East German currency to Deutsche marks. But after a couple minor hitches (like trying to make sure his mom doesn't see a neighbor wearing bright capitalist clothing) he gets her installed in the bedroom and safe from the outside world. Now his real task begins. For as long as her life lasts, Alex is going to make sure that his mother doesn't realize the sweeping changes that have gone through every aspect of German life and culture. It means dressing like a real goofball (I assume the clothing is authentically Communist), and also making sure that the radio is busted but the tape deck works; after all, he can control what cassettes make it into the apartment. It's an inversion of the usual family dynamic--Alex, the son, taking care of his mother. But he's going to protect her from finding out the truth, no matter what it takes.
The problems start immediately--from the small (the East German pickles his mom wants as a snack are no longer available now that competing Western stores have opened in his Berlin neighborhood) to the huge (his mother cannot remember where she stashed her bank book, and there's less than two weeks remaining to swap East German currency for the unified German marks). Alex turns out to be rather resourceful when he has to be. I don't think I would have had the patience to repackage all the various foods into old bottles, cans and jars even if I'd thought of the deception. But Alex is really applying himself to the project. The next difficulty pops up when his mother says she feels guilty for the round-the-clock care and asks Alex to set a television up in her bedroom so she has something to watch. The siblings also try to get power of attorney over Frau Kerner's bank account--in actuality so they can swap the East German money for the new currency, but in order to sell the story they claim their state-manufactured Trabant is ready for pickup after only three years on a waiting list. Alex's mom doesn't sign the paper and does tell Alex and Ariane a little secret--she didn't keep her money in a bank. But she can't quite remember where it's stashed in the flat and neither sibling is willing to push the issue too far out of concern for her health.
The geopolitical realities being what they are, a great many former East Germans are abandoning ship and moving elsewhere; this means that Lara and Alex can occupy an apartment abandoned by someone apparently more influential and powerful than the Kerner family--the place, which appears to be a swinging bachelor pad, is larger than the flat shared by Alex, Ariane and their mother. Lara is thrilled to find the phone still works there; Alex can't believe his luck when he sees a bunch of Communist-era packaged foods in the cupboards. The apartment even has a balcony; none of the windows in the gigantic tower block where the Kerners live have balconies. The apartment scenes also have a great sight gag where Alex helps Lara with her homework, which means that he gets stuck in the bathtub with a plaster cast on three limbs. This is almost certainly not what he expected to have happen when she made that request.
Alex decides to pick Denis' brains about what to do in order to prevent news of the world leaking into his mother's presence when she's watching TV; Denis says just showing the old programs again would probably work, since the Communist countries never really changed anything up and never had up-to-date equipment when making the shows. It seems to me that Denis is a relative rarity in the West, in that he was familiar with the East German programs. Maybe he liked them for the camp value, or just liked seeing what the Soviet bloc was doing. I never really thought of it before, but it's likely that the West Berlin channels could be watched in the East and vice versa. The two halves of the city were too close together for it to be any other way. Rigging up the television to show programming that his mom will be able to safely watch is one thing; the other is that her birthday is coming up and the neighbors will be invited, just like every year. And all of them have to be briefed about what conversational topics must be avoided (which is basically everything happening in the country and the world).
Alex finds capitalism to be quite useful in continuing the deception, bribing a pair of kids 20 marks to sing old East German youth organization songs as part of the celebration. This sequence also puts a human face on the old guard. People who were Alex's age or younger when East Germany became a political entity are now told that everything is different now (true) and better (possibly not). The East German constitution promised a job for every worker, and in the brave new world that isn't true. Not only are the older teachers and principals out of a job, but during one of their gripe sessions they mention the troubles their kids are having looking for steady work in the unified Germany. In the scene where Alex talks to the principal at the school where his mother taught, he displays a steel and resolve almost completely absent from his personality at any other time--it's now safe to criticize someone more powerful than you in East Berlin, and he makes the most of the opportunity.
The birthday party goes off rather well (Rainer the Burger King manager commits to a Method performance, passing himself off as a buyer for a chain of restaurants that existed in the Communist days but no longer does--he also wears goofy-looking plaid-accented Western wear that I'm guessing is the height of fashion for his status and rank and has a remarkably goofy haircut. He even takes detailed notes on his faked autobiography in case any questions come up. And the old principal of the school where Alex's mom taught stays sober enough to not embarrass himself at the shindig--he's one of the characters that takes to the new world rather badly, having unexpectedly found himself consigned to the ash heap of history--which had been the fate predicted for capitalism, not the Marxist-Leninist system he'd lived under since he was a child. And he gets a chance to tell Frau Kerner how much she should have been appreciated by the system when she worked there. Even there Alex is on a tightrope without a net, hoping that the gaps in reality don't become too noticeable for his mom (and the kids who learned their properly Socialist songs do a fine job, and get paid). It all seems to have gone off without a hitch until the gigantic red banner is unfurled on a building that Alex's mother can see from her bed, and instead of a gigantic DDR slogan it's the logo for Coca-Cola, the single most imperialist and class-enemy carbonated beverage.
Before I go any farther, I'd like to praise the movie here, because it's as good a spot as any, for treating all of its characters sympathetically and for all of them being nice people underneath it all. Even the one-note characters like Herr Ganske, grumbling about how dire things are in the new world when he sees Alex looking for old produce jars in a trash bin, have moments where their concerns are taken seriously by the film and the filmmakers. It cannot be easy to shift gears after four decades of life in one system and try to do things completely differently over the course of a single year. But everyone pitches in to keep the deception going and to help Alex protect his mother. Rainer even buys a Trabant rather than a BMW to keep the charade going, and that's a sacrifice worthy of legend. As the article in that link will tell you, "Trabant" means "satellite" in German, so even though it's one of the worst car models ever built I have a certain affection for them.
Even with the affection the film has for its characters and respect for the difficult situation they're in, I don't think it's ever guilty of sugarcoating the regime in East Germany. The buildings are all crumbling and dingy (and in the inevitable return to the hospital, the capitalist system has brighter lights, better equipment and obvious significant improvements in everything visible to the audience). The scenes of people throwing Stasi records out the windows of the headquarters and of the Berlin Wall coming down are presented as unquestionably good, not as ambiguous events. I'm guessing that's one of the other reasons that it was such a smash hit in Germany--it understands what both sides were going through during the year of reunification and sympathizes with both the East and the West. Like Sigmund Jahn in space, or the successful all-German soccer team in the World Cup, it's a movie about Germans--not about East Germans and West Germans.
Back to the narrative--Denis has gone through the national archives of the former East Germany and taped dozens of hours of programming, setting up a system where Alex can have a series of normal "broadcast days" going whenever the TV is on and at least at the beginning of the scheme, his mother doesn't really notice the difference (a commercial about setting up satellite dishes in East Berlin is explained away as "interference", which might well be something that happened a lot on German television). And to start explaining things like that ten-story Coca-Cola logo outside the bedroom window, Denis becomes even more invaluable to the scheme. Frau Kerner has never met him and has no idea what he looks like, so with a bad haircut, a stick-on moustache and a powder-blue suit jacket he looks exactly like anyone else on the news and he can create "special news bulletins" that get dropped into the existing programs with increasing frequency as Alex's scheme turns out to be increasingly unsustainable (and, to Lara, creepy). To hear Denis and Alex explain it, there was a patent-law case proving that Coca-Cola was stolen from an East German chemist and now the drink is officially Communist instead of American.
After the Coca-Cola news break, Alex's mother remembers where she hid her life savings--it's in a piece of furniture that was taken out of the apartment to be hauled away; thankfully, the capitalist garbagemen haven't gotten there yet and Alex gets to rifle through all the abandoned furniture looking for the money. Naturally, Herr Ganske shows up just in time to grump that they've been driven to a new low by the switch to the new system, and wonder what use there was to working for forty years to build a Socialist paradise. Alex misses the deadline as it is, and the bank teller informs him that they would have had to make special arrangements to exchange paper currency instead of bank book records at any rate. Understandably, Alex loses his temper and gets thrown out of the bank. That night he scatters the worthless banknotes off a roof and, at Lara's insistence, engages in some primal scream therapy. Just as he lets out a bellow, fireworks fill the sky. The reunified German soccer team won the World Cup (having "exceeded their production target", according to Alex). His mom even feels better every day.
Another piece of the constructed reality falls apart soon after, but from a direction Alex wasn't expecting. His sister, working at the drive-through, took an order from their long-vanished father. She recognized his voice even through the crappy speaker, and handed over three cheeseburgers and two orders of fries with mayo (Germans apparently preferring that condiment to ketchup). Whatever might have been in her mind about meeting her father again after all that time, I'm positive Ariane didn't expect to just thank him for choosing one particular franchise restaurant for his hamburger needs. Far worse than that--her dad handed the meal off to a pair of young kids in the back seat. Germany might be together again but it sure looks like Herr Kerner won't be looking for the wife and kids he left behind when he fled to the West. Ariane doesn't mention the kids to Alex so he assumes his dad is a fat dude constantly eating terrible food (and the set design for the "capitalist pig class enemy" house is a great little cutaway gag).
When Paula, Christiane's granddaughter, takes her first few tentative steps, Alex's mom decides she should try and get out of the bed and walk around a little bit herself. When she leaves the bedroom, she's also leaving the tiny little scrap of East Germany that Alex constructed around her to keep her safe. Walking outside the apartment tower for the first time in weeks, Seconds after she's outside the building she encounters someone moving in from Wuppertal, in the West, and literally everywhere she looks there's something else new and confusing that makes no sense in the context of a world where there's still an East Berlin and she's still an East German. It's the helicopter hauling away a statue of Lenin (with his hand reaching out to Frau Kerner) that makes the biggest impression, and I'm positive that's a reference to a film I haven't seen yet--like Alex, my education is incomplete when it comes to art film. Ask me one about kaiju eiga films instead, and I'm probably your guy.
At any rate, Alex and Ariane's mom certainly knows that something is up now. One quick studio mockup later and Denis is acting as a newscaster explaining that East Germany is allowing refugees in from the West in the wake of economic collapse; I didn't notice the first time I watched the movie that Denis is wearing a suit coat and no trousers at the news desk. The material that gets repurposed as Westerners seeking political asylum in the Communist world is almost certainly Berlin Wall breach news footage; maybe they just pointed the cameras in the opposite direction? Alex observes that the fantasy East Germany he's creating to keep his mother safe is the country he always wanted to live in. Again, the evenhandedness of the film knocks me out. It's not exactly that the film is refusing to take sides; instead, it's more that the filmmakers are acknowledging that there are two different sides to be viewed. They aren't ten thousand percent for capitalism and Western politics any more than they could be said to be promoting Communism.
When Alex's mother sees the traffic streaming into East Berlin, she knows that she's got to do something to help all those refugees. It's the least a devoted Party member could do for the asylum seekers. There's no room to take in anyone at the flat, but they do have a weekend getaway cabin that could be fixed up and made available. While talking about this situation ("You'll have to decorate the whole city now"), Ariane and Rainer drop the news that they're going to have a child together. One that is both East and West German, and symbolic of the new accords between the two former nations. Also, it's worth noting that the Communist hospital didn't have an ultrasound viewer; the technological advances brought to the Eastern half of the country aren't limited to cars and soft drinks.
At the cabin in the woods, the Kerners, Lara and Rainer don't run afoul of a merman or dragonbat, but there's still problems. With significant nudging from Lara, Alex is about to confess his entire scheme to his mother, since she seems to be strong enough to withstand the emotional shock. Just before he can explain everything, his mother makes her own True Confession. Her husband fled to the West, but not to be with another woman. He wasn't a member of the Communist Party and was facing dismal personal and professional consequences every day. When he had the chance to flee to the west he took it, but Christiane was supposed to take the children and join him shortly after. Her nerve faltered, because if she failed in getting her kids out of the country they would have been taken away from her. She was more willing to live as the wife of a defector in the East than lose her kids and run to the West.
In that moment, Alex truly understands what he's done to his mother through his deception, but he's stung much too badly to react; while he's still numb his mother has a cardiac event and gets rushed back to the hospital. While Alex accompanies his mother to the hospital, Ariane tears the kitchen cupboard apart until she uncovers a decade's worth of mail sent to the family and hidden from her and her brother. Thanks to the return addresses on the mail, she knows where to find the long-absent Robert Kerner and sends Alex out to do just that. One of the last things Christiane said before her second heart attack was that she wanted to see her former husband one more time.
Outside the hospital, Alex gets one more ghost from his past--a cabdriver that's the spitting image of Sigmund Jähn, the first German into space. The cabdriver says he's not actually Jähn, but the movie is rather ambiguous on whether or not he's lying. He takes Alex out of East Germany and into Wannsee, where Robert Kerner has lived since his departure from East Berlin. Alex turns out to be rather underdressed for the cocktail party that's going on at the Kerner residence, and eventually spots his dad playing the happy host before stumbling on his half brother and sister watching a stop-motion children's show called Sandman that he remembers fondly. He calls the character a cosmonaut instead of an astronaut, and when the kids ask where he's from he simply says it's another country. He could mean the past just as much as he means East Germany. His father gets called away to give a speech to the partygoers, leading to the stingingly ironic "Robert, you sure kept us waiting" called out to him as he leaves his son. When he returns to the kids' TV room there's a fantastic bit of physical staging as he sits down next to Alex; the father and son haven't seen each other forever but they've got identical posture.
While Alex is off on his mission, Lara explains to his mother what's actually gone on in Germany for the last year or so; Alex has brought his dad back to the hospital (telling him to think of a good reason for coming back to "East Germany" after all this time). While he's cooling his heels in the hallway with a bouquet of flowers, Ariane shows up to see her mom. He suspects he's having another family reunion; she knows. And she walks away without another word, giving her dad a taste of just how that feels. Alex--and the audience--don't find out what Christiane and Robert talk about in the hospital room, but Alex has decided that his charade has gone on too far, and is utterly unsustainable at this point. It's time to wrap it up.
But he's going to do it on his own terms, and by reuniting East and West Germany himself. To help him in this task: Denis, a law library with an impressive backdrop of books, a video camera, and a cabdriver in a second-hand dress uniform. With the polite tolerance of everyone at the library (who watch in baffled acceptance), "Sigmund Jähn" gives an important speech and Denis edits all the real-world footage he needs into the faux news feed. When he shows the news to his mother (five days early; she's in very bad shape and probably won't survive until the genuine reunification day), he has no idea that she knows it's all a well-meaning hoax meant to preserve her life in a strange new world. And, for the first time, she's the one lying to Alex about it to save his feelings. She lives three days longer than East Germany, and her son believes she never found out the truth.
A rooftop ceremony with a model rocket and Christiane's ashes is the last scene in the film; the people, East and West, who knew here are there to mark her passing with an aerial scattering of her ashes. Both halves of Germany forbade that, incidentally, but Alex was willing to change the world and reverse the course of history to protect his mom. Funeral laws didn't stand a chance.
I really can't praise this one enough. I'm going to have to watch The Room or something soon or I'll have nothing but masterpieces on this blog. It's a bittersweet comedy about truth, history, and reconciliation that affects me deeply even though I've got only the most tenuous connection to the time and place where the story happens. Daniel Brühl is way too young in the film to be as good as he is, with everyone else supporting his efforts magnificently. I keep forgetting how much bitterness is in with the sweet after I watch it, and every emotional beat hits like a sledgehammer. If you haven't seen this one, and you love movies, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
This review is part of the "Berlin Thanksgiving" event with 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting, commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall and corresponding end of the Cold War 25 years ago, in November of 1989.
Gary Reichardt December 3, 2014 at 12:56 PM
The Flying Lenin scene comes from the first sequence of 'La Dolce Vita.'
Tim Lehnerer December 3, 2014 at 6:13 PM
Yeah, I figured it'd be from something I hadn't seen. The only Italian movies that come to mind for me are giallo flicks, zombie movies, cannibal movies and Road Warrior ripoffs.
http://seance.blogg.se/ December 7, 2014 at 3:55 AM
Cold War! Rulez!
Since this is my first spam, I'm going to keep it up as a historical curiosity. Finally, after about two years, the Checkpoint has enough readership that someone thinks it's worth their time to do this.


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Anatoli Michailowitsch Stolbow (; * 21. März 1933 in Leningrad; † 7. November 1996 in St. Petersburg) war ein sowjetischer bzw. russischer Theater- und Film-Schauspieler.

Leben und Leistungen
Stolbow stammte aus Leningrad, wohin sein Vater aufgrund des Studiums gezogen war. Er arbeitete später in der Industrie und meldete sich zu Beginn des Deutsch-Sowjetischen Krieges freiwillig zum Dienst in der Roten Armee. Bereits im September 1941 wurde er jedoch für vermisst erklärt. Seine Frau Sinaida Michailowna, geb. Dubnewskaja, wurde mit ihren beiden Kindern nach Tschkalow evakuiert und arbeitete dort in einer Fabrik. Nach dem Ende der Blockade kehrte die Familie nach Leningrad zurück, wo Sinaida Stolbowa daraufhin Mathematik unterrichtete.

Nach seinem Schulabschluss arbeitete Stolbow von Januar bis August 1952 als Radiologe, trat danach aber in die Schtschepkin-Theaterschule ein, die dem  Maly-Theater angeschlossen war. 1954 unterbrach er seine Ausbildung zugunsten von Theaterengagements in Dagestan und Qaraghandy, nahm es aber 1956 wieder auf. Zu seinen Mitschülern zählten Swetlana Nemoljajewa und Witali Konjajew. Nach dem Abschluss im Jahr 1958 war er ein Jahr beim Lenfilmstudio angestellt, trat danach bis 1961 beim Kleinen Dramatheater in Leningrad auf und kehrte 1965 zu Lenfilm zurück.

Sein Filmdebüt gab Stolbow 1954 als Schüler in Feuertaufe, war aber erst ab 1959 regelmäßig im Film zu sehen. Sein Schaffen umfasste mehr als 70 Arbeiten vor der Kamera, zu den bekanntesten Werken zählen Republik der Strolche (1966), der erste Teil der Filmreihe Рождённая революцией (Roschdjonnaja rewoluzijei), Сержант милиции (Serschant milizii, beide 1974) und Соль земли (Sol semli, 1978). Die Rolle des Kasimir in In den Wäldern bei Kowels (1985) betrachtete der dunkelhaarige Mime als den Höhepunkt seines Schaffens.

Zudem war Stolbow an zehn Filmen als Synchronsprecher beteiligt, zuletzt an der russischsprachigen Fassung von The Verdict – Die Wahrheit und nichts als die Wahrheit (1982).

Ende der 1980er Jahre wurde bei Stolbow Kehlkopfkrebs diagnostiziert. Mehrere Operationen und das Einsetzen eines medizinischen Ventils retteten ihm das Leben, seine Sprechfähigkeit blieb jedoch stark eingeschränkt. Er trat dennoch bis 1993 im Film auf.

Stolbow starb 63-jährig in seiner Geburtsstadt und wurde auf dem Nordfriedhof beigesetzt.

Privates
Stolbow war in erster Ehe mit der Schauspielerin Dolores Iwanowna Stolbowa (1936–1994) verheiratet, beide hatten eine Tochter namens Olga. Danach heiratete er Elvira Dmitrijewna Tarasowa, ihre gemeinsame Tochter Tatjana studierte Literatur und wurde später Mitglied des Russischen Autorenbundes.

Filmografie (Auswahl)
 1954: Feuertaufe (Schkola muschestwa)
 1966: Die Verschwörung in der Botschaft (Sagowor poslow)
 1966: Republik der Strolche (Respublika SCHKID)
 1967: Die Schneekönigin (Sneschnaja korolewa)
 1976: Der Einzige (Edinstwennaja)
 1977: Bewegte Kindheit (Ognennoje detstwo)
 1985: In den Wäldern bei Kowels (W lesach pod Kowelem) (Filmreihe)

Weblinks

 Anatoli Stolbow in der Online-Filmdatenbank
 Foto des Grabes auf  spb-tombs-walkeru.narod.ru

Einzelnachweise

Filmschauspieler
Theaterschauspieler
Sowjetbürger
Russe
Geboren 1933
Gestorben 1996
Mann

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Home | Through Citizen Engagement, Community Groups Build Village Health Center in Niger
Through Citizen Engagement, Community Groups Build Village Health Center in Niger
By: NCBA CLUSA Published: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Share: Print: Subscribe
Members of the Gamba village Mother-to-Mother group, in Niger's Zinder region, were wondering how to get a village health center, because the closest one was five kilometers away—too far to walk with sick children. The village had been requesting a local health center for decades.
Some of their husbands were members of the village Husbands' School, a peer education group for fathers. They were also discussing the need for their wives and children to visit health facilities and clearly identified the lack of a village health center as a major obstacle. In December 2016, the village created a community-based health and nutrition quality improvement (QI) team, supported by the USAID-funded REGIS-ER project, implemented by NCBA CLUSA in Niger and Burkina Faso.
QI teams are made up of representatives from existing, diverse organizations/groups within the community. The team meets to collectively review relevant data and identify areas for improvement, set indicators, develop an action plan, and work with their respective organizations/groups to implement the action plan. They meet regularly to track their progress and make changes to the action plan, as necessary.
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The QI team first focused its efforts on promoting enriched porridge consumption by all children between six and nine months old. They organized regular group sessions on making the enriched flour and porridge with the village Mother-to-Mother groups, and they performed home visits to ensure the adoption of the practice. They also promoted home garden visits by the Local Development Committee, or Comité Local de Développement (CLD).
The CLD also initiated a lobbying effort to establish the health center, targeting the office of the prefect of Magaria Department. The CLD successfully leveraged funds from three of the community's savings and loan groups, and one community member offered the plot of land for the health center.
The CLD collected nearly 1,400,000 CFA francs ($2,600) from the community to contribute to building and equipping the health center. The money collected within the community helped purchase building materials, a professional mason to finish the building and install a latrine, furniture and equipment, and a startup stock of pharmaceuticals.
With the facility completed, the mayor's office recruited a health agent for the center. During the official opening, the Magaria Department health district rewarded this initiative by offering a maternal delivery bed and a desk for the health agent. The health center has been functional since February 2018.
A health worker stands outside the Gamba's new health center. "Before, to visit the nearest health center, we had to spend 10,000 CFA francs ($20), and we lost a lot of time. Now, it takes less than 1,250 CFA francs for a visit, as we have the center just next to us. We feel relieved, especially pregnant women who can get prenatal care and professional support to give birth," said Gamba resident Kanta Ibrahim.
Chamsia Kanta was one of the first women to give birth in the health center. Her husband had previously had to wheel her in a cart to the nearest center—now it's a quick trip next door! Also, after the birth of her child, vaccination services were easily accessible. Over 10 women have given birth in the health center since it opened.
"Before, we had to go several times to the administrative center over 5 kilometers away so our children could get their immunizations. It was long and exhausting. My son is less than one month old today—look how healthy he looks," Kanta said.
The new health center also benefits neighboring villages, which were even further away from a health center. Achi Moutari comes from Maiboukrou, five kilometers away, to have her children vaccinated. "We are impressed by what Gamba achieved. It is a unique example in our area. Thanks to the health center and the efforts of Gamba, we cut the journey in half. Such a major change!"
The Gamba CLD continues to organize development initiatives with the trust of the community. It has now taken over the management of the other activities in the community, including an animal transfer activity supported by REGIS-ER. The CLD also created a fund of 150,000 CFA francs ($300) to contribute to drilling a brand-new borehole in their village.
Gamba's success lies in the community's collaboration with local institutions, building resilience and connecting to long term resources.
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