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Is the bird killing in The Prestige based on historical reality?
In The Prestige (2006), there is a magic trick in which a bird is made to disappear and it is revealed that the bird is secretly killed by crushing it flat to make it "disappear". Is this trick from real history, or was it invented for the book/movie.
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My understanding of The Prestige is guy #1 is doing it with a single live bird and guy #2 can't figure out how and decides that crushing birds to make the illusion is worth it. – Joshua Oct 2 '18 at 3:27
@Joshua ... that's not my take on it at all. I think the trick with the cage on the table is meant to be "well known" and not particularly innovative (and yes results in a dead bird per time it is shown). The version that Cutter invents has a hand-held cage, but still crushes the bird. We are never shown the trick where the bird survives. – iandotkelly♦ Oct 2 '18 at 16:36
When Cutter is walking Angier through the modified (hand-held) version of the trick, he ties a string to the bird's leg which pulls it out through the side of the cage as it's retracted into the apparatus concealed in Angier's sleeves. During this walk-through, the (apparently same) live bird is then produced from behind Cutter's back. I believe on stage the bird does die, but only because Borden (in disguise) sabotages it and causes it to misfire. – James B Jul 27 '20 at 13:20
@iandotkelly: That doesn't disprove Joshua's point that it was initially harmless to the bird, but then someone decided to just brute force it by killing birds, and it becoming popular, thus making it "well known and not particularly innovative" over time. This is remniscent of how urban legends are often born: the first one to tell the story know's it's a lie, but retellers thought it was true, eventually turning the tale into a "true story". – Flater Jan 3 at 0:53
@Flater ... I don't understand. Where does the movie show "guy #1" doing it with a single live bird and "guy #2" can't figure out how? As far as I can see Borden is involved with another magician who does it traditionally with a table in one scene (and lies to the kid about the bird being fine) and Angier does an updated trick that doesn't use a table. Each trick kills a bird, which is why they have a large stock of canaries. I don't recall any indication that it was ever initially harmless (unless I missed something). – iandotkelly♦ Jan 3 at 18:41
It is based on a real trick, but the sources I provided do not conclusively state if any birds in these acts were ever killed. Only rumors and at least one inquiry, resulting in no substantial proof.
It appears the general nature of the trick in The Prestige is a variation of the real life, Vanishing Bird Cage:
The vanishing bird cage, also known as the flying birdcage, is a classic parlour magic effect that was invented by French magician Buatier De Kolta. The trick has also been used by magicians Carl Hertz, Harry Beardmore, Harry Blackstone (Sr. and Jr.) John Mulholland, John Angel, Sabrina Vera, and Tommy Wonder.
The magician displays a bird cage, holding it between both of his hands. The cage is rectangular, about six inches tall by six inches wide by eight inches long, and made of wire on all six sides. Often there is a bird, though in modern performances of the act it is usually fake, inside the cage. The magician will offer the cage for inspection by an audience member, but he will never actually release his grip of it. Then, without covering the cage, the magician makes a sudden motion and the cage (and anything inside) vanishes from sight. A variation of the trick was featured in the 2006 film The Prestige.
The Vanishing Birdcage was a sensation and was also quickly ripped off. In the Summer of 1875 Harry Kellar is said to have purchased a cage from DeKolta's cousin for $750. Of course this was unauthorized because Buatier never sold cages to anyone. This cage was probably the very first one outside of DeKolta's act, but it wouldn't be the last. In fact, Harry Kellar can probably be credited for the deluge of Vanishing Birdcages in America because he sold the secret to a magic dealer in exchange for props. In Europe a letter from Robert Heller to Charles DeVere the french magic dealer shows that the cages were already for sale in December 1875.
Harry Kellar stirred up a bit of controversy while in Australia over his presentation of "The Flying Cage" as he called it. Harry Kellar's routine was simple and direct, he counted to three and the cage with a live canary inside would vanish! A rumor circulated that Kellar was killing a canary every time he presented the effect. An inquiry took place and Kellar proved that was not the case. He showed that he had one bird and one bird only that he had been using for a long while. But this same controversy would come to haunt other magicians across the globe. In fact, this controversy was used as a minor plot point in the movie "The Prestige" in which they give a rather fictitious explanation on how the cage works.
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It's still not clear from this answer though--in these tricks from history, was the bird actually crushed or not? Was Harry Kellar actually telling the truth? Did other magicians kill the bird even if Harry didn't? – spacetyper Sep 30 '18 at 21:08
@spacetyper True, but it does at least suggest that there were inquiries, but nothing was ever proven and that The Prestige seems to have taken some large liberties. So far that's all I have been able to find, I'm afraid. – Darth Locke Sep 30 '18 at 23:41
It would probably be more accurate to make the first sentence "It is based on a real trick, but it's unclear whether there was ever any bird killing involved". The quotes should back up the answer, not be the answer in themselves (note the question specifically asks about the bird killing). – NotThatGuy Oct 1 '18 at 5:18
@DarthLocke I think OP means the trick that's done earlier in the film, where the birdcage collapses inside of a table. In that case it's explicitly shown the bird is crushed. – Coloured Panda Oct 1 '18 at 7:30
@NotThatGuy I originally had that in my post, but edited it out when I added new information that seemed to indicate that birds were thought to be killed, but the inquiry found in Kellar's case, no proof of it. But I will add it back in. :) – Darth Locke Oct 1 '18 at 12:47
I did a little research on this question and it appears that the trick MIGHT kill the canary, or might not, but inevitably did result in a lot of bird deaths. Here is the notice:
The vanishing bird trick (which, I regret to say, kills a great number of canaries) is performed by means of accessories in which the costume plays a part. The bird cage itself is made to collapse into a cigar shaped tube. The centre of the cigar shape is naturally fatter than the ends, and, if the bird is fortunate, it is secreted there and may come out of the ordeal alive. Should, however, the bird get at either end it is crushed to death, or should the legs get through the bars they are almost certain to be broken. A conjurer once told me he had done the trick 200 times with one bird, but I should very much doubt it.
What happens is this. The bird cage is rapidly hooked to the end of a piece of whipcord, which passes up the sleeve and across the body of the performer, and then down the other sleeve, where it is tied to the wrist. It will thus be seen that the cord is considerably shorter than will be required to stretch from each end of the arms if they are extended. The cage, being in the performer's hand, is rapidly compressed and made to assume its cigar shaped form, and is dragged up the arm at lightning speed by the simple process of extending the two arms.
This very simple trick has puzzled millions of people. It is performed so rapidly that even if you closely watch the conjurer I doubt if you will know what he is doing. Afterward the conjurer usually pretends to find the bird among the audience. As a matter of fact he takes another bird out of his pocket, and by one of the simple dodges of conjuring appears to take it from some one's neck or head, or some other convenient place.
— Current Literature, Volume XIII, May–August, 1893, page 230
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Good answer, thanks. Is 2 oo meant to be 200? – Eric Duminil Oct 1 '18 at 11:46
Is there a link to the source available? – Longshanks Oct 1 '18 at 15:02
@Longshanks Source appears to be this book (or a similar one), which is a compilation of newspaper articles. The paper named is London Answers, but I cannot find a newspaper by that name. Though when I searched for "the vanishing bird trick" on britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk, I found that a version of the article was printed in the Liverpool Echo on 25 February 1893. – MJ713 Oct 1 '18 at 23:08
It might be worth editing this into the answer. It might also help to at least explain how you found the note if you can't remember the exact source anymore. – Napoleon Wilson♦ Oct 2 '18 at 16:21
@NapoleonWilson The source is listed. It is Current Literature magazine, June 1893. The article was originally published in "London Answers". – Tyler Durden Oct 2 '18 at 16:49
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In this analysis of the Rotterdam Study, a community-based, prospective cohort, lifetime risk of any NCD was calculated accounting for NCD multimorbidity and competing risk of death from other causes. In addition, the association of shared risk factor burden (presence of hypertension, overweight and smoking) with lifetime risk of NCDs, age at onset of NCD, and life expectancy with and without NCDs was studied.
Between 1989 and 2012, individuals ≥45 years from the Rotterdam Study were followed. From the total of 14,926 participants, those with history of 1 or more NCDs at baseline or incompletely screened were excluded leaving 9061 participants in this subanalysis.
Overall lifetime risk of developing any NCD was slightly higher for men vs women: 94.0% (95% CI: 92.9–95.1%) for a 45-year-old man and 92.8% (95% CI: 91.8–93.8%) for a 45-year-old woman (P<0.001).
Lifetime risk of heart disease as first NCD was significantly higher in men (22.5%) than women (17.0%, P<0.001).
33.7% of individuals with an NCD were diagnosed with multiple NCDs at follow-up.
Overall lifetime risk of developing any NCD was increased from 90.3% (95%CI:87.8–92.9%) for those without the risk factors to 96.8% (95%CI:95.3–98.2%) for those with the 3 risk factors.
Individuals without the 3 risk factors smoking, overweight and hypertension were 9.0 years older (95%CI:6.3-12.6) when first diagnosed for NCD, compared to those who smoked, were overweight and hypertensive. Similar trends were observed across the entire age range.
Those with the 3 shared risk factors were particularly at risk for development of heart disease (lifetime risk was 25.8% compared to 16.8% in those without the 3 risk factors), diabetes and chronic respiratory disease.
Individuals of 45 years without the 3 shared risk factors lived 6.0 years (95%CI:5.2-6.8) longer than those with the 3 risk factors.
This subanalysis of the Rotterdam Study showed that absence of the 3 common shared risk factors smoking, hypertension and overweight, results in 9 disease-free years and an increased life expectancy of 6 years compared to those with these 3 risk factors. These data emphasize that prevention of occurrence of smoking, hypertension and overweight may result in healthy aging and prevent premature death caused by NCDs in community-dwelling individuals.
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Wheatland es un lugar designado por el censo ubicado en el condado de Cass en el estado estadounidense de Dakota del Norte. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 68 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 6,54 personas por km².

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Wheatland se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Wheatland tiene una superficie total de 10.39 km², de la cual 10.39 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0%) 0 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 68 personas residiendo en Wheatland. La densidad de población era de 6,54 hab./km². De los 68 habitantes, Wheatland estaba compuesto por el 98.53% blancos, el 0% eran afroamericanos, el 1.47% eran amerindios, el 0% eran asiáticos, el 0% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 0% eran de otras razas y el 0% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 0% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Reports suggest that the Competition and Markets Authority has already met with Big Four leaders to discuss audit market change.
Reports suggest this morning that the Big Four audit firms have been asked to investigate ways of increasing the choice of auditors for companies listed in the UK.
There has been pressure on the UK audit market since the collapse of the construction giant Carillion, and criticism not just of the company's auditors—KPMG—but also of the audit regulator, the Financial Reporting Council.
The Times reports that the head of the Competition and Markets Authority has held a series of meetings with the leaders of the Big Four—PwC, Deloitte, EY and KPMG—to suggest that the firms look at ways to change the current environment in which the four dominate the market for large audits.
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Last week KPMG's UK chief, Bill Michael, said that the Big Four were losing public trust and that change was needed.
It has also been reported that the government is looking for someone to lead a review of the audit market.
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Zimbabwe commemorates International Day for Women
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ZIMBABWE joins the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day for Women highlighting women's achievements with the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Development celebrating tremendous efforts made by women in Covid-19 response and recovery efforts.
This year, the day is being celebrated under the international theme "Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world", while the national theme is "Women' s rights to decisions making vital in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic".
In her message, Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Minister, Dr Sithembiso Nyoni said this year' s theme celebrated the tremendous efforts by women and girls in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.
"Women leaders and women' s organisations have demonstrated their skills, knowledge and networks to effectively lead in Covid-19 response and recovery efforts.
"Today there is more acceptance than ever before that women bring different experiences, perspectives, and skills to the table and make irreplaceable contributions to decisions, policies and laws that work better for all,'' she said.
Dr Nyoni expressed concern over the increase of domestic violence during the Covid-19 induced lockdown.
"The ministry integrates women' s full and effective participation in the economy and protects women from all forms abuse and violence.
"My ministry and its partners are committed to strengthening protection systems to prevent and respond to all forms of violence against women and girls both in the private and public spheres," she said.
She emphasised the importance of providing access to various critical services such as psychological, health and legal services under one roof through one-stop centres and mobile one-stop centres around the country.
"Given the recent trend of heavy rains and cyclones that have wreaked havoc in Manicaland, Masvingo and Matabeleland South, there is need to work together to strengthen public and private partnerships building resilience among women and girls through funding and supporting local projects.
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The 'Suburbicon' Trailer Brings Murder to the American Dream
Published on July 28th, 2017 | Updated on July 28th, 2017 | By FanFest
What do you get when the idyllic American family has a run in with the mob, or at least when one of them does? You get murder, gore, intensity, and a bit of dry humor to stitch it all together.
A trailer for the new film Suburbicon dropped today and there are some big names associated with the movie. From Matt Damon and Julianne Moore to George Clooney and Grant Helsov, the film is sure to be a smashing success.
The premise of the movie is as follows.
'Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices. This is Suburbicon.'
After an 'infomercial' type scene, in the beginning, showing Suburbicon as the picture perfect place to have the picture perfect life; the trailer quickly descends into a type of hell where the mundane meets the mob. Through it all, Matt Damon holds character in a button up and taped together glasses, bringing that 'ordinary guy' thing back into focus.
Damon was thrilled to work on the film for the plot but also because he'd be working with George Clooney in the process. We're happy to see the two paired up again as well.
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Die Heinzelmännchen waren der Sage nach Kölner Hausgeister. Sie verrichteten nachts, wenn die Bürger schliefen, deren Arbeit. Nachdem sie dabei jedoch einmal beobachtet wurden, verschwanden sie für immer. Neben ihrer geringen Größe zeigen auch typische Attribute, wie die Zipfelmütze und ihr Fleiß, dass die Heinzelmännchen zur Gruppe der Kobolde, Wichtel und Zwerge gehören.

Die Volkskundlerin Marianne Rumpf (1921–1998) führt in einem Beitrag in der Fachzeitschrift für Erzählforschung Fabula von 1976 zwei Erklärungen zur Herkunft des Namens in der Volkssage an: Zum einen war Heinzelmännlein eine Bezeichnung für die Alraune, die als Hausgeist verwendet wurde. Zum anderen waren Heinz oder Heinzenkunst Namen von Vorrichtungen im Bergbau zur Wasserabführung. Daher könnten nach Rumpf die Bediener solch hilfreicher Vorrichtungen Heinzelmänner genannt worden sein.

Der Weihnachtsmarkt auf dem Heumarkt und dem Platz Alter Markt  in Köln nennt sich "Heinzels Wintermärchen". Auf ihm werden Heinzelmännchenfiguren in verschiedenen Situationen dargestellt.

Kölner Sage
Als Vorlage der Kölner Sage diente möglicherweise die 1816 erstmals mündlich überlieferte Sage Des kleinen Volkes Hochzeitsfest auf der Eilenburg aus der Sagensammlung der Brüder Grimm, welche sich auf der mittelalterlichen Burg Eilenburg im sächsischen Eilenburg zugetragen haben soll. Die Sage erscheint 1826 erstmals schriftlich in einem Werk des Kölner Schriftstellers Ernst Weyden (1805–1869) als kurze Prosaerzählung mit dem Herkunftsvermerk "Mündlich" und der Einleitung:

Populär geworden ist sie in der Gedichtfassung (Ballade) von 1836 des Malers und Dichters August Kopisch (1799–1853), mit der er die ursprünglich rheinländische Sage aus dem Siebengebirge nach Köln transportierte:

Verwandte

Ähnliche Figuren sind die Brownies aus dem englischen Sprachraum, Nisse in Norwegen und Dänemark sowie die Tomte in Schweden, die dort als Julenisse oder Jultomte die Weihnachtsgeschenke bringen. Die Heinzelmännchen zählen zu den Vorbildern der Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts erfundenen Gartenzwerge. Kommerzielle Varianten neuerer Zeit sind die Mainzelmännchen als die Maskottchen des ZDF.

In den Niederlanden nennt man sie Kabouters. In den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren entstand dort ein regelrechter Kult um diese fiktiven Geschöpfe. Dazu trug auch ein von Wil Huygen und Rien Poortvliet herausgebrachtes, liebevoll illustriertes Werk Das große Buch der Heinzelmännchen. Die ganze Wahrheit über Herkunft, Leben und Wirken des Zwergenvolkes bei.

Auch zu den Menehune von Hawaiʻi besteht eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit.

Rezeption
In dem 2021 erschienenen Buch Die Heinzelmännkes. Auf Abenteuer im Ruhrgebiet verlassen diese Köln und landen an Ruhr und Emscher. Obwohl sie dort einiges zum Guten wenden, werden sie schließlich aufgrund ihres aufmüpfigen Verhaltens von der Obrigkeit aus der Region verwiesen. Der Kölner Stadtanzeiger brachte zu dem Thema ein Gesellschaftsspiel (Brettspiel) heraus.

Heinzelmännchenbrunnen

Dieser Kölner Brunnen steht nahe dem Dom und gegenüber dem ältesten Brauhaus Kölns, dem Früh, in der Straße Am Hof. () Er wurde in den Jahren 1899–1900 von dem Architekten Heinrich Renard (1868–1928) und seinem Vater, dem Bildhauer Edmund Renard der Ältere (1830–1905) gestaltet, auch wenn dieser eigentlich eher der religiösen Kunst verpflichtet war. Der Brunnen wurde vom Kölner Verschönerungsverein aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstags von August Kopisch (1799–1853) gestiftet. Die Original-Skulptur der Schneidersfrau ist im Kölnischen Stadtmuseum im Zeughaus Köln ausgestellt und am Brunnen durch eine der Verwitterung besser widerstehende Kopie ersetzt.

Die Grundform des Heinzelmännchenbrunnens wird durch ein Kreissegment bestimmt, dessen Mittelpunkt die dreipassförmige Brunnenschale aus Granit bildet. Darüber erhebt sich die Doppeltreppe, auf der die hübsch dargestellte Schneidersfrau mit einer Laterne in der Hand steht. Sie leuchtet auf die zu beiden Seiten heruntergestürzten Heinzelmännchen, die zu ihr aufschauen. Unter ihr am Mittelpfeiler des Brunnens steht auf einem über einem Schneiderwappen liegenden Schriftband der Kernsatz des Gedichtes von Kopisch: "Neugierig war des Schneiders Weib".

Die massive Brüstungsmauer schließt an den eigentlichen Brunnen in westlicher und östlicher Richtung an. Sie besteht aus Sandstein. Acht Reliefs zieren die Mauer. Sechs davon zeigen die einzelnen Arbeiten der nächtlichen Helfer. Von links nach rechts sind dargestellt der Zimmermann, der Schreiner, der Bäcker, der Metzger, der Schenk und zuletzt der Schneider. Dazwischen befinden sich noch zwei Reliefplatten mit Auszügen aus dem Gedicht in Frakturschrift. An der Rückseite des Brunnens sitzt eine Eule auf einem Buch und hält eine Lupe in den Krallen. Sie steht für Klugheit und Weisheit, das Buch und die Lupe weisen auf das literarische Werk von August Kopisch hin.

Bei der Renovierung des Brunnens 2017/18 wurden die durch eine Hydrophobierung geschädigten figürlichen Reliefs durch Kunststeinabgüsse ersetzt. Die Originale gingen an das Kölnische Stadtmuseum und in das Depot des Stadtkonservators Köln.

Außerdem gibt es im Kölner Stadtteil Neuehrenfeld in der Nähe des Takuplatzes den Heinzelmännchenweg. ()

Der Künstler Michael Weihe schuf den Heinzelmännchen-Brunnen auf dem Marktplatz von Eilenburg, der auf die Eilenburger Heinzelmännchen-Sage Bezug nimmt.

Heinzelmännchenplastik in Berlin-Alt-Treptow

Seit 1981 schmückt den Treptower Park auf der Höhe der Bulgarischen Straße am Weg zur Abteibrücke zur Insel Treptow (ehemals "Insel der Jugend") ein von Werner Richter in Bronze und Granit geschaffenes Kunstwerk, das vier der Kölner Heinzelmännchen zeigt, die stark bewegt eine steile Treppe herabkollern. Die erzählfreudige Gruppe gehört zu den gelungenen Plastiken im Treptower Park aus der Zeit der DDR. Der 2001 mit dem Bezirk Köpenick zum neuen Bezirk Treptow-Köpenick zusammengeschlossene Bezirk Treptow gründete zur politischen Wende mit Köln am Rhein eine Städtepartnerschaft.

Das Kunstwerk wurde im November 2014 von Buntmetalldieben abgebaut und weggeschafft, das zuständige Bezirksamt hat Anzeige gegen unbekannt erstattet und lässt ermitteln. Bis 2021 wurde das Kunstwerk nicht gefunden.

Musik
Joseph Hellmesberger junior komponierte 1903 das Charakterstück Heinzelmännchen für Orchester. Es wurde einem breiten Publikum durch das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2022 bekannt.

Philatelistisches
Mit dem Erstausgabetag 7. Oktober 2021 gab die Deutsche Post AG  in der Serie Sagenhaftes Deutschland ein Postwertzeichen im Nennwert von 60 Eurocent unter dem Titel Heinzelmännchen heraus. Der Entwurf stammt vom Grafiker Thomas Steinacker aus Bonn.

Literatur
 Ernst Weyden: Cöln's Vorzeit. Geschichten, Legenden und Sagen Cöln's, nebst einer Auswahl cölnischer Volkslieder. Schmitz, Köln 1826.
 August Kopisch: Die Heinzelmännchen zu Köln. Regionalia Verlag, Rheinbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-95540-137-5.
 August Kopisch: Gedichte. Duncker und Humblot, Berlin 1836.
 Rien Poortvliet, Wil Huygen: Das große Buch der Heinzelmännchen. Die ganze Wahrheit über Herkunft, Leben und Wirken des Zwergenvolkes. Stalling, Oldenburg, 1978. ISBN 3-7979-1668-X.
 Die Heinzelmännchen (und andere Geschichten aus Opas altem Buch) CD Hörspiel uccello verlag, .
 Handbuch von Köln Verlagsanstalt Hermann Wieger, Köln 1925.
 Yvonne Plum: Kölner Brunnen Hayit Verlag Köln 1992.

 Hans-Jürgen Mende und Kurt Wernicke (Hrsg.): Berliner Bezirkslexikon Treptow-Köpenick. Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89542-153-2.
 Die Heinzelmännkes. Auf Abenteuer im Ruhrgebiet. Zeichnungen Benjamin Bäder, Text Werner Boschmann, Beratung Olli Heinze. Bottrop 2021, ISBN 978-3-948566-08-1.

Siehe auch
 Knockers
 Kobold
 Hinzelmann
 Die Eilenburger Heinzelmännchensage

Varia

 Seit 1949 gibt es die Arbeitsvermittlung Heinzelmännchen, eine Einrichtung des Studentenwerks Berlin, die ehemals an der Freien Universität Berlin ansässig war.

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Deutsche Sagengestalt
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Saving the World at Work
What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference
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Even the actions of a single person can help to change the world. How? Through simple acts of leadership and compassion. Open up this book, and discover the true stories of people whose actions have caused a chain reaction at work and in their communities. Among them:
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A "responsibility revolution" is shaking up corporate America. In this provocative and insightful book, bestselling author Tim Sanders reveals why companies must to go beyond making a profit and start making a difference.
Every one of us, regardless of title or position, can inspire our companies to change the way they do business, helping them to become a positive force for enriching people, communities, and the environment. When this happens, not only do we help save the world, we help save our companies from becoming irrelevant. We also become part of what Sanders calls the Responsibility Revolution.
Companies that don't participate in this revolution risk becoming obsolete. Today customers, employees, and investors are demanding that companies focus on their social responsibilities—not just their bottom lines. Sixty-five percent of American consumers say they would change to brands associated with a good cause if price and quality were equal; 66 percent of recent college graduates will not work for companies with poor social values. And more than sixty million people are willing to pay a premium for socially and environmentally responsible products.
In SAVING THE WORLD AT WORK, Tim Sanders offers concrete suggestions on how all of us can help our companies join the Responsibility Revolution. Drawing on extensive interviews with hundreds of employees and CEOs, and illuminated by countless stories of people who are making a difference in the workplace and in the world, Sanders offers practical advice every individual and company can use to make the world a better place–now and in the future.
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Ndue Sinishtaj (August 24, 1944) is an Albanian poet, and former Catholic priest from Montenegro known for writing poems in Gheg Albanian.

Early life
Sinishtaj was born in Krševo (), an Albanian village in the Gruda region near Podgorica, at the time part of Yugoslavia, but now part of Montenegro. He was given his nickname, Nokë, by his family. He hails from the Shytaj brotherhood, a large family which numbered about 60 members, all living together in a big house known as the tower of Shytaj. He is the fourth of thirteen children in the Sinishtaj family. As pastoralism was the family occupation and means of survival, he was a shepherd as a child.

He attended elementary school in Tuzi taught by teachers who spoke the Gheg dialect. He continued his education in the city of Zadar and finished classic high school in Pazinit. He studied theology at schools in the Balkan cities of Zagreb and Rijeka finally moving to Florence, Italy where he graduated in theology.

Intellectual formation
For Nokë and his family, it was a great honor to be nominated as a Catholic priest and return to Malësia. For five years, Sinishtaj served as a priest in Gusinje, Tuzi, and Hoti. While serving as a priest, he was known for his oratorical skills preaching in church. However, after five years, he left the priesthood to start a family with whom he lives today in Switzerland.

In 2000, many years after leaving the priesthood, he published a book which was both an autobiographical diary and a confessional to justify his decision. The book was entitled Confessions of a Rebellious Priest. In this book Sinishtaj recounts the problems he encountered as a priest. It was because of these events, including hostile behavior, and injustices inside the clergy, that caused him to finally leave the priesthood but not his faith in God.

However he did not stop studying and in 1975 continued his education in Philosophy and Italian Literature at the University of Fribourg, graduating in 1981. He is currently working as a translator at the Court of Lucerne. He is a polyglot, speaking: Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, German, and Italian.

Works
Works in Albanian :
 Mogilat e Kshevës" (1976)
 Te varret e Kshevës (At Ksheva graves), poem (1976)
 Syri i ngujuar (Confined eye), poem (1998)
 Në vend të epitafit (Instead of the epitaph), poem (2002)
 I vetmuar, në kopshtin tim, qaj për të afërmit e mi (Alone in my garden, crying over my family), (2002)
 Spirale (Spirals), poem (2003)
 Rekuiem për fshatin tim (Requiem to my village), poem (2005)
 Tetë letra të Martin Camajt (Eight letters of Martin Camaj), (2000)
 Nga sergjeni i harruar (From the forgotten shelf), poem (2007)
 Rrefimet e një prifti të rebeluar (Tales of a rebelled priest), (2000)
 Kupa e thyer e heshtjes (The broken glass of silence), poem (2010)
 Nën arkada të universit (Under the arcade of the universe), poem (2013)

Works in Croatian :
 More mira u nemiru (The sea of quitenes in unquietitude ), poem (1974)
 Nerastočeni mir (Nerastoceni peace), poem (1974)
 Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik), poem (1974)
 Apokalipsa Paška s Prokletia (Apocalypse of Paško from Prokletia), novel (1977)

Works in Italian
 Rimani amica (Stay friend), poem (1977)

Work in German
 Eingewickelt in sein Schweisstuch (Wrapped in his sweat cloth), poem (1994)

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Action games expand the brain's cognitive abilities
The human brain is malleable - it learns and adapts. Numerous research studies have focused on the impact of action video games on the brain by measuring cognitive abilities, such as perception, attention and reaction time. An international team of psychologists, led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has assembled data from the last fifteen years to quantify how action video games impact cognition. The research has resulted in two meta-analyses, published in the journal Psychological Bulletin, which reveal a significant improvement in the cognitive abilities of gamers.
Psychologists have been studying the impact of video games on the brain ever since the late 80s, when Pacman and arcade games first took roots. The present study focuses on one specific video game genre, action video (war or shooter) games that have long been considered as mind-numbing. Do they influence the cognitive skills of players?
"We decided to assemble all the relevant data from 2000 to 2015 in an attempt to answer this question, as it was the only way to have a proper overview of the real impact of action video games", explains Daphné Bavelier, professor in the Psychology Section at UNIGE's Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (FPSE). Psychologists from UNIGE and the universities of Columbia, Santa Barbara and Wisconsin dissected the published literature (articles, theses and conference abstracts) over the course of a year. In addition, they contacted over sixty professors, asking them for any unpublished data that might throw light on the role of action video games. Two meta-analyses emerged from the research.
Profile of action gamers
A total of 8,970 individuals between the ages of 6 and 40, including action gamers and non-gamers, took a number of psychometric tests in studies conducted by laboratories across the world with the aim of evaluating their cognitive abilities. The assessments included spatial attention (e.g. quickly detecting a dog in a herd of animals) as well as assessing their skills at managing multiple tasks simultaneously and changing their plans according to pre-determined rules. It was found that the cognition of gamers was better by one-half of a standard deviation compared to non-gamers.
However, this first meta-analysis failed to answer a crucial question. "We needed to think about what the typical gamer profile is," points out Benoit Bediou, researcher in the FPSE Psychology Section. "Do they play action-type video games because they already have certain cognitive skills that make them good players; Or, on the contrary, are their high cognitive abilities actually developed by playing games?"
Training your brain by playing action video games
The psychologists proceeded to analyze intervention studies as part of the second meta-analysis. 2,883 people (men and women) who played for a maximum of one hour a week were first tested for their cognitive abilities and then randomly divided into two groups: one played action games (war or shooter games), the other played control games (SIMS, Puzzle, Tetris). Both groups played for at least 8 hours over a week and up to 50 hours over 12 weeks. At the end of the training, participants underwent cognitive testing to measure any changes in their cognitive abilities. "The aim was to find out whether the effects of action gaming on the brain are causal," continues Bavelier, adding: "That's why these intervention studies always compare and contrast a group that is obliged to play an action game with one obliged to play a video control game, where the mechanics are very different. This active control group ensures that the effects resulting from playing action games really do result from the nature of this kind of game. In other words, they are not due to being part of a group that is asked to undertake an engrossing task or that is the centre of scientific attention (placebo effect)."
The results were beyond dispute: individuals playing action videos increased their cognition more than those playing the control games with the difference in cognitive abilities between these two training groups being of one-third of a standard deviation. "The research, which was carried out over several years all over the world, proves the real effects of action video games on the brain and paves the way for using action video games to expand cognitive abilities," argues Bediou.
Despite the good news for avid gamers, it is worth highlighting that these beneficial effects were observed in studies that asked individuals to space their game play out over a period of many weeks to months rather than to engage in a large amount of gaming in a single sitting. As is true in any learning activity, short bouts of repeated practice is much preferred over binging!
The two meta-analyses, which covered fifteen years of research, underline the importance of sharing data between different laboratories in order to validate results on an international level without suffering from biases specific to each experiment and working group. Moreover, these meta-analyses help to further improve our understanding of the brain's plasticity and potentially create games specifically designed to develop attention or spatial cognition.
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A vadszőlő (Parthenocissus) a szőlővirágúak (Vitales) rendjébe és a szőlőfélék (Vitaceae) családjába tartozó nemzetség.

Előfordulásuk
Ennek a növénynemzetségnek az eredeti előfordulási területe Észak- és Közép-Amerikában, valamint Kelet- és Délkelet-Ázsiában - beleértve Indonézia egyes szigeteit is - van. Az Amerikai Egyesült Államokban Új-Mexikóban és Coloradóban, továbbá az Appalache-hegységtől nyugatra eső területeken őshonos. Közép-Amerikában Mexikótól Belizéig és a Karib-térség néhány szigetén található meg. A vadszőlő ázsiai elterjedése India keleti határától és a Himalájától keletre, Mianmaron és Kínán keresztül Kelet-Szibériáig, Japánig és más kontinens közeli csendes-óceáni szigetig tart. Algériába, Burundiba, Kazahsztánba, valamint Európa legnagyobb részére dísznövényként, vadszőlőfajokat telepített be az ember.

2015-ben, Ausztriában fosszilizálódott vadszőlő virágport találtak a kutatók. A vizsgálatok után a virágport középső miocén korszakinak találták. Abban az időben Ausztria szubtrópusi éghajlatú volt, ahol vegyes lombhullató és fenyőerdők nőttek.

Rendszerezés
A nemzetségbe az alábbi 13 faj tartozik:

Parthenocissus dalzielii Gagnep.
Parthenocissus feddei (H.Lév.) C.L.Li
Parthenocissus henryana (Hemsl.) Graebn. ex Diels & Gilg
Parthenocissus heptaphylla (Planch.) Britton
Parthenocissus laetevirens Rehder
tapadó vadszőlő (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) (L.) Planch. - típusfaj
Parthenocissus renukae Anto & Pradeep
Parthenocissus semicordata (Wall.) Planch.
Parthenocissus sichuanensis Y.F.Deng
Parthenocissus suberosa Hand.-Mazz.
háromkaréjú vadszőlő (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) (Siebold & Zucc.) Planch.
Parthenocissus vicaryana (Kurz) H.B.Naithani
közönséges vadszőlő (Parthenocissus vitacea) (Knerr) Hitchc.

Források
Parthenocissus Planch. Plants of the World Online
Accepted species Plants of the World Online
Planchon, J.E. (1887) Monographiae Phanerogamarum 5(2): 447–453.
Fralish, James S.; Franklin, Scott B. 2002: Taxonomy and Ecology of Woody Plants in North American Forests. John Wiley and Sons. p. 167. . .
Combined LM and SEM study of the middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria: part III. Magnoliophyta 1 – Magnoliales to Fabales, Friðgeir Grímsson, Barbara Meller, Johannes M. Bouchal & Reinhard Zetter, Grana 2015, Vol 54, No. 2, 85-128.

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