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The beast and the wolf

chapter five. Neil sees his mom.

Neil looked at his watch on his right wrist at the time, before looking at his phone after he pulled it out of his pocket when he got a text from his sister. "Mom wanted me to tell you, that she is wanting to see you. She also being awfully kind, so do try to stay on her good side." Neil sighed softly as he read the text, he hated how both his mom and sister weren't exactly the nicest. 

"Is everything okay?" Shadow asked Neil, as he saw his whole expression and mood change when he looked at his phone.

Neil looked up when he heard Shadow ask him if he was okay, he put his phone away not wanting to answer his sister at the moment with how bossy/demanding she was being right now. 

"Yeah, but I have to get going. If you want maybe we could do this again sometime." He told her, as he wrote down his number before giving it to her. "Okay, y-yeah sure I’d like to do this again sometime. I guess I'll call you if I need anything or need someone to talk to I guess." Shadow said softly, as she took the paper from him. 

Neil smiled a little and nodded his head, he was definitely okay with that and wouldn't mind her calling him for those reasons. "I'm okay with that, I'm sorry for having to rush but I hopefully will see you again soon." He told her, 

before paying for their food and heading out to go see his mom which he was nervous about since she was being very kind, which wasn't normal but his mom sometimes nicer to him then his sister.

Shadow sat there and let out a sigh when he had walked out the diner door, before shaking her head and grabbing her backpack as she then stood up to leave. 

She walked out of the diner and to her car, she thought about what Freddy had told her about the medication before he was killed, so she was thinking about going to see his sister to see if she could help her. 

Neil felt bad for having to leave Shadow like that, but he didn't want to get ripped a new one for not going to see his mother. He was secretly hoping that Shadow would call him later to talk, he would just have to wait and see if she does. Neil eventually made it to his moms place and parked his car, before getting out and walking up to the door thinking about how much he really didn't want to be there right. 

Neil knocked on the door and waited for it to open, he walked in once the door had opened. He looked around as it closed behind him, before see his mom walking over to where he was. "Neil my darling is so good to see you my dear boy." Catherine said with a smile as she pulled her son into a hug. 

Neil hugged his mom back with a small smile, he was happy to see his mom even if they didn't have the best relationship. "Good to see you to mother." Neil said, before pulling back from the hug. "I'm so glad your back home, Adalind tells me you work at the spice shop. I heard about what happened to your boss, it was very tragic to hear he was a nice man." Catherine said, as she walked into the kitchen to get them both a drink. 

Neil sat down on the couch wondering what she had needed to talk to him about, since she was being awfully nice and it was kinda scaring him a little bit knowing how she got when she wanted something. 

"He was, what exactly did adaline tell you?" Neil asked his mother, he wondered what both of them had up their sleeve because he could never really trust either of them with anything most of the time somewhat. "Well, she tells me that you have a crush on someone which I'm very glad to hear that. Because maybe at least one of my children will at least settle down." Catherine said, as she came back with drinks for the both of them. “But I would like to meet her, just to make sure that she’s the right girl for my son.”

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Flesh Leitner Reading List

The full list of submissions for the Flesh Leitner bracket. Bold titles are ones which were accepted to appear in the bracket. Synopses and propaganda can be found below the cut. Be warned, however, that these may contain spoilers!

Awad, Mona: Rouge

Barker, Clive: The Hellbound Heart Basye, Dale E.: Blimpo Bazterrica, Agustina: Cadáver exquisito (Tender is the flesh) Boote, Justin: Carnivore Bradbury, Ray: Skeleton Brown, Daniel James: The Indifferent Stars Above Buller,  Jon and Susan Schade: Mike and the Magic Cookies

Calvert, Amy: You Are What You (M)Eat: Explorations of Meat-Eating, Masculinity and Masquerade Carroll, Emily: Some Other Animal’s Meat Clarke, Arthur C.: Food of the Gods Cook, Robin: Coma

Dahl, Roald: Pig

Ellin, Stanley: The Specialty of the House Enriquez, Mariana: Carne (Meat)

Fink, Joseph: It Devours!

Gaiman, Neil: Babycakes from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions Graves, Damian: An Apple A Day Guanzhong, Luo: Excerpt from Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Harris, Thomas: Hannibal Harris, Thomas: Silence of the Lambs

Ito, Junji: Glyceride Ito, Junji: Tomie

Katsu, Alma: The Hunger KFC: Tender Wings of Desire King, Stephen: Survivor Type King, Stephen: Thinner

Lee, Tanith: The Beast Levene, Rebecca: Too Rich for My Blood (in Seven Deadly Sins)

Miyazawa, Kenji: The Restaurant of Many Orders

Ojeda, Mónica: Mandíbula (Jawbone) Orwell, George: Animal Farm Ovid: Metamorphoses

Pinkwater, Daniel: Slaves of Spiegel Piper, Hailey: Benny Rose, the Cannibal King Pizarnik, Alejandra: La Condesa Sangrienta (The bloody countess)

Quiroga, Horacio: La gallina degollada (The decapitated chicken)

Rymer, James Malcolm and Thomas Peckett Prest: The String of Pearls; or, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Shusterman, Neal: Duckling Ugly Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle Smith, Clark Ashton: The Garden of Adompha Smith, Cordwainer: A Planet Named Shayol Stine, R.L.: Chicken, Chicken Stine, R.L. and Stephen Roos: The Boy Who Ate Fear Street Summers, Chelsea G.: A Certain Hunger Swift, Jonathan: A Modest Proposal

Wells, H.G.: The Island of Dr. Moreau

Yoshitomi, Akihito: School Ningyo (School Mermaid)

Awad, Mona: Rouge

The book’s themes centre on consumption and perfecting the body. Much of it is reminiscent of the denizens of the mortal garden. Vague cannibalism and vampiric vibes but the latter distinctly not in a hunt way. A lot of juxtaposition of sterility and cleanness with fleshliness and revulsion. Towards the end of the book, the main character finds herself in a production line-esque march to some unknown doom. The book is tinged with several powers (haven’t even touched on the spooky mirror-dwelling dark prince who assumes the guise of whoever the watcher most desires) but flesh seems like the dominant one.

Barker, Clive: The Hellbound Heart

Frank Cotton is a hedonistic criminal selfishly devoted to sensual experience even if it harms others. Believing he has indulged in every pleasure the world can offer, Frank obtains the Lemarchand Configuration, a puzzle box said to open a "schism" or portal to an extradimensional realm of unfathomable pleasure ruled by beings called the Cenobites. Solving the box, he is confused and horrified when the Cenobites – horribly scarified creatures whose bodies have been modified to the point that they appear sexless and in constant pain – arrive. Frank still eagerly accepts the offer of experiences he has never known before, and the Cenobites take him to their realm, where they subject him to total sensory overload and he realises their devotion to sadomasochism is so extreme and their personalities so removed from humanity that they no longer differentiate between pain and pleasure and have no care to ever stop even if their subject no longer wishes the experience.

Sometime later, Frank's brother, Rory, moves into the home in England with his wife Julia. Unknown to Rory, Julia had an affair with Frank a week before their wedding and has lusted after him since. While in the attic, Rory accidentally cuts his hand and bleeds on the spot where Frank was taken by the Cenobites. The blood, mixed with semen Frank had left on the floor before he was taken, opens a dimensional schism. Frank returns, his body now reduced to a desiccated corpse by the Cenobites' experiments. Julia later finds him and promises to restore his body so he can truly live and they can be together. Julia seduces men at bars and kills them in the attic, where Frank feeds on their corpses.

Rory's friend Kirsty encounters Frank, who attempts to kill her. Kirsty grabs the puzzle box before fleeing and later accidentally opens it. The Cenobite intends to take Kirsty now that it is here, but she then reveals Frank is alive on Earth again. Though skeptical that one of their experiments could have escaped, the Cenobite is intrigued. It agrees that if Kirsty leads them to Frank and he confirms his identity, they will take him back and perhaps leave her alone.

Rory and Julia claim they killed Frank but Kirsty realizes the man she is speaking to is Frank wearing Rory's skin. Another altercation ensues, during which Frank inadvertently kills Julia. Kirsty then baits Frank into admitting his true name out loud. The Cenobites appear, ensnare Frank and return him to their realm, telling Kirsty to leave. Downstairs, Kirsty sees Julia's disembodied head calling for help. The leader of the Cenobites, a being called the Engineer, then appears and seems to take away Julia as well before briefly bumping into Kirsty. After leaving the house, Kirsty realizes the Engineer gave her the puzzle box to watch over until another seeks it out.

Basye, Dale E.: Blimpo

"After his second escape from Bea "Elsa" Bubb, the Principal of Darkness, Milton Fauster makes his way to Blimpo—the circle of the otherworldly reform school, Heck, where he's sure his friend Virgil is sentenced. Virgil's only crime is being, well, plump . Milton has to wonder if that's really enough to justify eternal darnation. And what Milton finds in Blimpo horrifies him. The overweight dead kids spend most of their time running on giant human hamster wheels called DREADmills that detect and exploit their deepest fears. The rest they spend eating Hambone Hank's barbecue—mystery meat that is delicious, but suspiciously (to Milton, anyway) haunting . Every classroom has a huge TV screen showing happy thin people who taunt Blimpo residents with a perfection they will never attain. Meanwhile, at her new job in the devil's Infernship program, Milton's sister, Marlo, knows all about trying to achieve perfection. And failing miserably. Can Milton get himself and Virgil out of Blimpo in time to rescue Marlo, too? Or is Fauster the next delicacy on Bea "Elsa" Bubb's menu?"

Bazterrica, Agustina: Cadáver exquisito (Tender is the flesh)

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore.

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.

Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

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The virus makes animal flesh unsafe to eat. Society converts to farming humans for meat. The book describes functioning slaughterhouse, often exaggerating the violence that goes on within. Where does the border between animals and human lie? What does it means to be reduced to meat? How would a human behave if they were treated like cattle?

Boote, Justin: Carnivore

Detective Inspector Jim Morfield is worried. In the quiet, countryside village of Fritton, human remains have begun appearing. Bodies so viciously mutilated that only their bones are left behind, in some cases less than a few hours after they were reported missing. What creature could possibly devour human remains so quickly? Surely, as with the case of farmer Stanley Walters, it couldn’t be his cows nearby and covered in blood that dismembered and devoured him? Then, when another person is attacked by a horse, his arm nearly torn off, he has no choice but to consider the impossible.

The problem is that there is another killer to contend with. One who has Fritton terrified. A serial killer hiding among the woods and fields, unseen, unchallenged. Now Jim has to decide if the bodies accumulating in the area are the works of a human or something as harmless as the local wildlife.

Bradbury, Ray: Skeleton

The story of a hypochondriac who becomes utterly terrified of the alien form of his own bones, and sets out to have them... treated. The character of M. Munigant alone, and his terrible office, would have made for an excellent Flesh avatar.

Brown, Daniel James: The Indifferent Stars Above

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of emigrants led by George Donner, they reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains as the first heavy snows of the season closed the pass ahead of them. In early December, starving and desperate, Sarah and fourteen others set out for California on snowshoes and, over the next thirty-two days, endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors.

In this gripping narrative, Daniel James Brown sheds new light on one of the most infamous events in American history. Following every painful footstep of Sarah's journey with the Donner Party, Brown produces a tale both spellbinding and richly informative.

Bonus: This is a nonfiction account of The Donner Party, probably one of the most famous occurrences of survival cannibalism in history.

Buller,  Jon and Susan Schade: Mike and the Magic Cookies

The protagonist and his family are turned into animals by the antagonist who is planning to eat them. Pretty Flesh i guess.

Calvert, Amy: You Are What You (M)Eat: Explorations of Meat-Eating, Masculinity and Masquerade

A fascinating essay on the concept of carnophallogocentrism (the connection between meat-eating and masculinity, as defined by Jacques Derrida) which discusses the gendered politics of consuming, preparing, and raising meat animals, viewed through the lens of the US reality television series Man V. Food. Calvert argues that the show represents the sexualization of both women and meat, and represents a cultural backlash against feminism as traditional concepts of masculinity are reasserted through the grotesque displays of meat consumption onscreen.

Carroll, Emily: Some Other Animal’s Meat

An excellent blend of the body image issues central to the Flesh and classic body horror.

“Aren't you tired of all those half empty bottles cluttering up the cupboard beneath your bathroom sink? Why not choose something that actually WORKS for once? Alo-Glo is all natural rejuvenating healing”

“But I wonder... What if inside. it's somehow the wrong stuff? What if my meat is some other animal's meat and the human part of me is just the skin like the smooth layer of dough you drape over an uncooked pie”

Clarke, Arthur C.: Food of the Gods

In this imagined future, we have stopped killing animals for meat and started to grow tissue in vats instead (to help support our even-more-massive population). People actually retch at the thought of eating animal flesh, although the vast majority of the various manufactured foods replicate the characteristics of various meats exactly. Several companies manufacture the stuff and get into a competition about who can make the best. Eventually, one company makes one that apparently tastes delicious and is perfectly tailored to human needs, calling it "Ambrosia Plus". The competition goes before a Senate subcommittee to explain why this might be a problem:

"Yes, Triplanitary's chemists have done a superb technical job. Now you have to resolve the moral and philosophical issues. When I began my evidence, I used the archaic word 'carnivore'. Now I must introduce you to another: I'll spell it out the first time: C-A-N-N-I-B-A-L ..."

Cook, Robin: Coma

Susan Wheeler is a medical student working at the Boston Memorial Hospital. Young, healthy patients are coming in for routine operations and leaving in permanent comas. Susan investigates, eventually unearthing an Organ Theft conspiracy. Apparently, they started using hospital patients who were already comatose, but demand (and profits) is such that they start artificially inducing brain death in healthy patients undergoing surgery to get more victims.

Dahl, Roald: Pig

Once upon a time, a boy named Lexington is born in New York City. Unfortunately he is soon orphaned when his parents are accidentally shot by the police, who mistake them for robbers. Lexington is sent to live with his Aunt Glosspan out in her cottage high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She is an eccentric old woman who schools him herself and raises him to be a strict vegetarian. As he grows older, Lexington starts to exhibit a talent for cooking and Aunt Glosspan encourages him to write a cookbook. By the time he is 17, he has invented over 9,000 different dishes. He is shocked when Aunt Glosspan suddenly dies, though, and he buries her himself behind the cowshed. The next day he finds a letter she has left him instructing him to go to New York and meet with her lawyer. Apparently the lawyer will read her Will and then give Lexington money to pursue his cooking ambitions. Unfortunately for the boy, the lawyer is an unscrupulous man who takes advantage of Lexington’s trusting nature and ends up giving him just $15,000 out of the $500,000 his Aunt left for him. Upon leaving the office, Lexington decides he is hungry and heads to the nearest restaurant for some dinner. To his surprise, he is served pork for the first time in his life and he finds it delicious. Eager to learn about this new food for his book, he bribes the waiter to take him back into the kitchen to meet the chef. The chef tells him though, that he can’t be sure it was pig’s meat. “There’s just a chance,” he says, “that it might have been a piece of human stuff.” He tells Lexington that they’ve been getting an awful lot of it from the butcher lately. He’s pretty sure that the piece Lexington had was pork though, so the boy asks him to show him how to prepare it. The cook says that it all begins with a properly butchered pig. Wanting to see how this is done, Lexington takes off for the packing-house in the Bronx. When he gets there he is ushered into a waiting room to await the Guided Tour. He watches as others go through the doors before him: a mother with two little boys, a young couple, and a pale woman with long white gloves. Finally his turn is called, and he is led to the “schackling area” where the pigs are grabbed, looped about the ankle with a chain, and then dragged up through a hole in the roof. While he is watching, one of the workers slips a chain around Lexington’s ankle and before he knows what is happening he is being dragged along the path as well. “Help!” he cries. “There’s been a frightful mistake!” But no one stops the engine, and he’s carried along to the sticker, who slices open the boy’s jugular vein with a knife. As the belt moves on and Lexington begins to feel faint, he sees the pigs ahead being dropped into a large cauldron of boiling water. One of the pigs seems to be wearing white gloves. Lexington’s strong heart pumps out the last of his blood, and he passes on “out of this, the best of all possible worlds, into the next.”

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A short story about a cookbook writer, Lexington, who was raised by a strictly vegetarian aunt. After her aunt's death, he seeks to expand his culinary horizons, first by tasting pork for the first time and then going to a factory tour to see how meat is processed. Unfortunately for him, the slaughterhouse he goes to appears to specialize on processing meat of the "long pig" kind...

Ellin, Stanley: The Specialty of the House

https://scrapsfromtheloft.com/books/stanley-ellin-the-specialty-of-the-house/

A macabre little tale about an unusual restaurant in Manhattan and its lonely patrons.

Enriquez, Mariana: Carne (Meat)

From the book Los peligros de fumar en la cama (The dangers of smoking in bed).

After the suicide of a controversial culty musician who sang about how we're all meat, a couple of teenagers dug up his rotting body and began to consume it until they were detained by police. This leads to a huge debate in the city as to wether these girls were insane groupies or if they "understood his message perfectly".

Fink, Joseph: It Devours!

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God.

Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town’s top scientist, she relies on fact and logic as her guiding principles. But all of that is put into question when Carlos gives her a special assignment investigating a mysterious rumbling in the desert wasteland outside of town. This investigation leads her to the Joyous Congregation of the Smiling God, and to Darryl, one of its most committed members. Caught between her beliefs in the ultimate power of science and her growing attraction to Darryl, she begins to suspect the Congregation is planning a ritual that could threaten the lives of everyone in town. Nilanjana and Darryl must search for common ground between their very different world views as they are faced with the Congregation’s darkest and most terrible secret.

Gaiman, Neil: Babycakes from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions

In this story, all the animals disappeared and people resorted to using babies as a substitute. Eating them. wearing clothes made with their skin and testing various things of them. A remarkably macabre Flesh vision of the world. Also, written as a benefit for PETA which, I think, should give it bonus points in the flesh category.

Graves, Damian: An Apple A Day

Tim Barnett decides to get revenge on his cruel neighbor, Bill Cole, by vandalizing his apple orchard. He steals and eats one of the man's apples as a souvenir, prompting a slow, painful transformation into an apple tree.

Guanzhong, Luo: Excerpt from Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Untitled, fictitious story in the larger work, meant to demonstrate Liu Bei's incredible character. He stops at the home of Liu An (a hunter, and one of his relatives). Liu An doesn't have enough meat to feed his lord and his retinue, to he kills, butchers, cooks and serves his own wife so that Liu Bei and company wouldn't be under-served. When Liu Bei finds out this he is shocked, but not outraged, at having been unknowingly fed human flesh. He is, instead, amazed at Liu An's devotion to hospitality (to the point of feeding his lord his own wife), and instead praises him as a model citizen. And this is a story the author inserted to make Liu Bei sound more virtuous and heroic than he was in actual history!

Harris, Thomas: Hannibal

Lecter's backstory. As horrible as you would imagine.

Harris, Thomas: Silence of the Lambs

Not only is this book about a guy who kidnaps, captures, and kills women and peels off their skin to make himself beautiful, there’s an unrelated cannibal (Dr Hannibal Lecter) just hanging out in jail. The title derives from Clarise’s experience growing up on a farm and hearing “the silence of the lambs” after they’ve been screaming before being slaughtered.

Ito, Junji: Glyceride

The story revolves around a father and his daughter and son, who run a barbecue joint, which results in grease rising from the bottom floor to their living space, making everything in their house- their clothes, the walls, the furniture - covered in a film of grease. There's a constant motif of the horrors of the flesh at their grossest: The constant bullying the daughter Yui endures from her brother Goro, her stress and disgust at what she calls the "saturation level" of grease in the air, the horrible acne Goro develops and his strange addiction to drinking cooking oil, and the unnatural, greasy body odor their father has. All of this is later put on disgusting constract against their father's job at the barbecue, and how his customers think the meat he serves is delicious...

All of this escalates until Goro tries to kill Yui. However, their father saves Yui by bashing Goro over the head with a frying pan, killing him; he subsequently gets rid of the body by serving his flesh to the customers in his restaurant. The restaurant enjoys a revival in popularity due to Goro being served to the patrons but, when the meat runs out, the customers stop coming back. Yui begins to develop acne and a bad temper, just like Goro. She wakes up one night to find her father forcing oil down her throat just as Goro used to drink it. From then on, Yui can't sleep due to her father's constant efforts to break into her room and give her oil.

With no more meat left, Yui's father is forced to close the restaurant. He begins drinking the oil himself. His skin and hair become even greasier, and the saturation level continues to rise. The entire house is now full to the brim with grease, and grease drips constantly from the ceiling the saturation level is 90%. Eventually, Yui catches a glimpse of her father cutting off his own leg to serve in the restaurant since Goro's been eaten and she refuses to drink the oil; she observes that her father's leg is not leaking blood, only grease, as she realizes the saturation level is now at 100%.

Ito, Junji: Tomie

Not only has body horror and cannibalism, but is also a commentary on beauty standards and objectification of women.

Katsu, Alma: The Hunger

Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it was a curse from the beautiful Tamsen, the choice to follow a disastrous experimental route West, or just plain bad luck--the 90 men, women, and children of the Donner Party are at the brink of one of the deadliest and most disastrous western adventures in American history.

While the ill-fated group struggles to survive in the treacherous mountain conditions--searing heat that turns the sand into bubbling stew; snows that freeze the oxen where they stand--evil begins to grow around them, and within them. As members of the party begin to disappear, they must ask themselves "What if there is something waiting in the mountains? Something disturbing and diseased...and very hungry?"

KFC: Tender Wings of Desire

It's a romance novel by KFC. What more do you really need to know?

King, Stephen: Survivor Type

One of the few short stories that even King thinks he went a little too far on.

From Wikipedia: "Survivor Type is written as the diary of a disgraced surgeon, Richard Pine nee Pinzetti, who, while attempting to smuggle a large amount of heroin aboard a cruise ship, is forced to escape when an explosion causes the ship to sink. He relates growing up poor in an Italian-American neighborhood and playing college football (which he hated) to get into a good college and then went on to medical school and in time a successful practice until his illegal distribution of prescription medicines and blank forms led to the loss of his license. He arranged to smuggle heroin from Vietnam to make a large amount of money, which would then be distributed for bribes that would enable him to return to practicing medicine. While encountering a storm in his empty lifeboat, Pine finds himself marooned on a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean whose exact location is completely unknown to him, with very limited supplies and no food. A self-proclaimed "survivor" type, Pine bitterly whiles away the time by using a logbook as his diary, detailing his rise and fall in the medical profession and his determination to survive this ordeal, get even with the people that "screwed him over," and return to prosperity.

Over time, the diary entries become more and more disjointed and raving, revealing Pine's slow mental decay and eventual insanity caused by starvation, isolation and drug use. Determined to hold out for rescue, he goes to horrifying lengths to survive. He eats insects, kelp and seagulls. After fracturing his ankle while attempting to signal an airplane, he amputates his own foot, then realizes he has to eat it to survive. He continues to amputate his own limbs to use as a food source, ingesting the heroin as a crude anesthetic during these operations. His last few diary entries, barely comprehensible, indicate that Pine has sliced off and eaten both legs, as well as his earlobes, and drools uncontrollably as he ponders which body part to consume next. The diary entries end when he cuts off his left hand to eat it and writes "lady fingers they taste just like lady fingers." "

King, Stephen: Thinner

Billy Halleck is a successful, arrogant lawyer known for his chronic obesity and sleazy manner. While driving across town he is distracted by his wife Heidi and runs over an elderly Romani woman, killing her. The woman's father, Taduz Lemke, curses Billy outside the courthouse, and Billy begins to lose weight rapidly regardless of how much he eats. Later, Billy discovers that the judge who cleared him of manslaughter charges has been disfigured by hideous scales growing on his skin, while the policeman who committed perjury on Billy's behalf is now stricken with uncontrollable acne. Both men eventually commit suicide out of shame for their malformed appearances.

(The judge is literally slowly turning into like, a literal alligator man, in horrifying detail per Stephen King. The policeman's "acne" is his entire skin basically turning into one giant pimple and sloughing off. It's very Flesh and VERY horrifying)

A now-emaciated, nearly skeletal Billy tracks the Romani band north along the seacoast of New England to Maine. He confronts Lemke at their camp and tries to persuade him to lift the curse but Lemke refuses.

Billy calls for help from his mob boss friend who threatens the Romani with violence until Lemke agrees to meet with Billy, who is now at risk of death from heart arrhythmia because of his emaciation. Lemke brings a strawberry pie with him and adds blood from Billy's wounded hand to it. He explains that the curse can't be taken back, so Billy must pass it to someone else by getting them to eat the pie. (The pie starts pulsing like it has a heartbeat by the way.)

Billy returns home intending to feed the pie to Heidi as he blames her for his predicament. He falls asleep, and when he wakes, he is horrified to find that both Heidi and his beloved daughter Linda are now cursed. Without hesitation, he eats the rest of the pie. And then the book just fucking ENDS, leaving you the reader to speculate on how the curse manifests to finish them off.

Lee, Tanith: The Beast

A "Beauty and the Beast" retelling that inverts a lot of the fairytale's traditional tropes: instead of Vessavion starting the story as an ugly Beast who becomes handsome at the end when the Beauty returns to him and recognizes his inner beauty, he starts the story as a handsome and seemingly perfect man who becomes an ugly Beast (and dead) at the end when his wife Isobel leaves him after learning about his secret hobby of murdering ugly people and taking their incongruously beautiful body parts for his collection.

Levene, Rebecca: Too Rich for My Blood (in Seven Deadly Sins)

The stories in Short Trips: Seven Deadly Sins are based on the Christian concept of seven deadly sins. This story's theme is gluttony.

On a trip to Las Vegas, Chris Cwej watches a hot-dog eating contest go horribly wrong as a painfully skinny contender devours his entire plate... and then his competitors'... and then his competitors. He's been spiked with alien hormones that massively accelerate his metabolism, burning away his calories as he eats -- and it's infectious. Soon, the casino is overrun with a zombie plague as Chris tries to lead the survivors to safety and ensure that the infection doesn't make its way onto the streets. Meanwhile, the Doctor searches for a cure, and Benny has stumbled into a poker tournament where the prize is getting to live.

Miyazawa, Kenji: The Restaurant of Many Orders

From Wikipedia: "Two gentlemen in Western-style dress go hunting in the woods, accompanied by two dogs and a guide. After a day of hunting, they have failed to capture any game, they have become separated from their guide, and their dogs suddenly drop dead. As the two gentlemen lament their losses and trudge forward, they suddenly turn to find a large Western-style house with a sign reading, "Restaurant Wildcat House Western-Style Cooking". The hungry gentlemen, though unnerved, enter the restaurant to encounter a series of doors that open before and close behind them. Each door is preceded by a sign, the first few of which bear double-entendre messages of welcome. The gentlemen interpret these signs, apologizing for the restaurant's "many orders", as indicating the restaurant's popularity and quality. Later signs bear commands (the Japanese 注文 chūmon having the same two senses as the English "orders") instructing the men to undress and rub themselves with strange substances. All the while, growing hungrier and colder, the men speculate about the fine food and diners they expect to find in a restaurant so discerning.

Finally, the men realize they cannot go back and realize that they will be devoured by the proprietor of the house if they approach the last door. In a deus ex machina, their previously dead dogs return to fight the demons lying behind the final door and the house vanishes into mist. The gentlemen are rejoined by their guide, and they return to Tokyo forever traumatized by the experience."

Ojeda, Mónica: Mandíbula (Jawbone)

“Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?”

Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?

When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality.

Orwell, George: Animal Farm

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

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"It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed and, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon, the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before. "

A tale about animals trying to rebel against the slaughter and failing. What's more flesh than that? Also, it's a metaphor against totalitarian regimes and in those humans are often treated like cattle.

Ovid: Metamorphoses

A series of stories all about transformation, the flesh being reshaped in radical ways. Sometimes the changes are punishments, other times rewards, but all of them are carefully detailed and totally irrevocable. May have played a role in my own furry awakening.

Pinkwater, Daniel: Slaves of Spiegel

At the beginning of the story, a community of obese space pirates inhabit the planet Spiegel, but periodically raid other planets for fattening food. At a feast celebrating their raids, the pirates' supreme commander 'Sargon the Great' initiates a new expedition for the three greatest cooks in the galaxy; at the conclusion whereof, the three finalists and their assistants are brought to a grand festival on Spiegel, and ordered to satisfy all the pirates in a contest of their skills, of which the winner's prize is the lifelong position of chief cook to the pirates themselves. Among the finalists are Steve Nickleson (the protagonist of an earlier book) and his assistant Norman Bleistift, whereof Norman serves as first-person narrator of nearly one-half of the text. Ultimately, Steve and Norman win the second prize of 600 pounds of Spiegelian blue garlic and transport home, which Steve later uses to create a "bright blue" pizza. The first place winner is forced to cook for the pirates forever.

Piper, Hailey: Benny Rose, the Cannibal King

The main antagonist of the novel, Benny Rose has a special hunger for children. During the 50s, he ended up trapped with five kids in the basement of a hospital that caught fire and consumed them to stay alive, which caused him to become a supernatural entity of some kind. Now, every Halloween night, he strikes and feasts upon the trick-and-treaters who are filling the streets. To make him even more heinous, he eats his victims piecemeal, while they're still alive.

Pizarnik, Alejandra: La Condesa Sangrienta (The bloody countess)

The book is based on the real life story that inspired the figure of the vampire.

Accused of the murders of 650 young women, Erzébeth Báthory is one of the most sinister criminals in history. In her castle on the Carpaths, in the late 17th century, the countess closes in on her victims to bleed them and keep her youth. Her cursed and fascinating legend lives on through time. The bloody countess is one of Alejandra Pizarnik's key works, its pages build up a disturbing portrait of sadism and madness.

Quiroga, Horacio: La gallina degollada (The decapitated chicken)

A couple has a deep desire to have children and a legacy. Unfortunately their first four sons turn out to be idiots because of a congenital disease. They have a fifth child, a daughter who appears to be healthy and quickly becomes the favourite while the idiot sons get sent to live their lives sitting on the backyard. One day, the sons witness the cook beheading a chicken for lunch, and become obsessed with the colour red from the blood, chanting "Red, red". When they see their sister playing outside, they, in unison, replicate what the cook did to the chicken with her while chanting "red, red".

Rymer, James Malcolm and Thomas Peckett Prest: The String of Pearls; or, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

The book that inspired the musical, complete with delicious meat pies.

Shusterman, Neal: Duckling Ugly

Cara is so ugly, mirrors would rather break than show her reflection. Not even her own parents can deny her ugliness, and nothing can make up for the cruelty of her schoolmates. Tormented and tortured by the shallow people of Flock’s Rest, Cara’s life is miserable. Then Cara receives a shimmering note from some exotic place suggesting that there’s more to her than meets the eye. Cara wonders if her destiny has something to do with her recurring dreams of a beautiful green valley where the people are so accepting, her ugliness doesn’t matter. Soon, Cara discovers that her valley of dreams is real. It’s a place where the ugliest of ducklings can become swans. A swan, however, can have a serious taste for revenge . . . deadly revenge.

Sinclair, Upton: The Jungle

Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. Many readers were most concerned with his exposure of health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meatpacking industry during the early 20th century, based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper.

The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it, "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery."

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It examines the desperate lives of meatpacking workers in Packingtown, Illinois, an area of southwest Chicago marked by its abundance of stockyards, slaughterhouses, factories, and cramped tenements, in the early 20th century.

Sinclair's primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. However, the novel's most notable impact at the time was to provoke public outcry over passages exposing health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century, which led to sanitation reforms including the Meat Inspection Act.

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The Jungle is the story of Jurgis Rudkus and his family, Lithuanian immigrants who come to America to work in the meatpacking plants of Chicago. Their story is a story of hardship. They face enormous difficulties: harsh and dangerous working conditions, poverty and starvation, unjust businessmen who take their money, and corrupt politicians who create laws that allow all of this to happen. The story follows the hardships of Jurgis and his family and the transformation that Jurgis undergoes when he accepts the new political and economic revolution of socialism. The novel's most notable impact at the time was to provoke public outcry over passages exposing health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat-packing industry during the early 20th century, which led to sanitation reforms including the Meat Inspection Act.

"He lived like a dumb beast of burden, knowing only the moment in which he lived."

"They use everything about the hog except the squeal"

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“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”

The Jungle is probably the most famous muckraking novel in American history. Its unflinching description of meatpacking plants in Chicago brought public attention to the unsanitary, inhumane conditions of the industrialized meatpacking trade, eventually leading the U.S. to adopt the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, which created what would eventually become the Food and Drug Administration. According to Wikipedia, the author Sinclair--who was an avowed socialist--told Cosmopolitan Magaizine: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."

If that's not enough to make you think of the Flesh, consider one of the book's most infamous passages:

"…and as for the other men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting—sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham’s Pure Leaf Lard!"

Industrialized, inhumane slaughter of animals: Check

Visceral recognition of the fragile embodied state of human beings: Check

Cannibalism: Check

The Jungle is the perfect example of a Flesh text.

Smith, Clark Ashton: The Garden of Adompha

King Adompha and his equally vile court magician Dwerulas rule Sotar, which is known for Adompha's royal garden, hidden from the eyes of all but himself and Dwerulas. In truth, Adompha and Dwerulas capture or execute anyone disfavored by them in Sotar in order to butcher them and have Dwerulas fuse their remains to the plants of the garden, creating half-human, half-vegetable hybrids suspended in a strange state between life and death. Adompha orders a servant girl murdered purely for her hands, ordering the rest of her body fed to the plant her hands will grow upon, and furthermore murders Dwerulas on nothing more than an impulse. Dwerulas manages to curse Adompha in retaliation, resulting in Adompha's garden turning upon him and raking him to pieces.

Link: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/76/the-garden-of-adompha

Smith, Cordwainer: A Planet Named Shayol

The protagonist, Mercer, who lives within the Empire, has been convicted of "a crime that has no name". He is condemned by the Empire to the planet Shayol, where he lives in a penal colony whose inhabitants must undergo grotesque physical mutations caused by tiny symbiotes called dromozoans. Most grow extra organs, which the Empire harvests for medical purposes. The bull-man B'dikkat administers the prisoners a drug called super-condamine that alleviates the pain of their punishment and various surgeries.

More than a century passes. Mercer has found a lover, named Lady Da. B'dikkat shows the couple a sight that horrifies him: children have been sent to Shayol -- alive, though with their brains removed. Lady Da knows how to contact the Lords of the Instrumentality so that they can intervene. When the Lords arrive on Shayol, they are shocked by what they find. Moreover, the children there are heirs to the throne. Apparently, the Imperium has become so bureaucratic and corrupt that it condemned them to prevent them from committing treason when they matured.

The Instrumentality voids permission to allow the Empire to exist and to maintain Shayol. They will free the prisoners who are still sentient and provide a cure for their suffering with a substitute for the super-condamine, namely an electronic "cap" which stimulates the brain's pleasure center. The mindless prisoners will be decapitated, their heads "taken away and killed as pleasantly as we can manage, probably by an overdosage of super-condamine", leaving the bodies to be used by the dromozoa. Ultimately, Lady Da claims Mercer as her consort.

Stine, R.L.: Chicken, Chicken

"Everyone in Goshen Falls knows about weird Vanessa. She dresses all in black. Wears black lipstick. And puts spells on people. At least, that's what they say. Crystal and her brother, Cole, know you can't believe everything you hear. But that was before they made Vanessa mad. Before she whispered that strange warning, "Chicken chicken." Because now something really weird has happened. Crystal's lips have turned as hard as a bird's beak. And Cole has started growing ugly white feathers all over his body... "

-People turning into chickens!

-Detailed descriptions of how grossly biological chickens are!

 -A cliffhanger where we think the narrator's mom is going to kill and eat her!

Stine, R.L. and Stephen Roos: The Boy Who Ate Fear Street

Sam Kinney used to be a very picky eater. But after a friend’s eccentric Aunt Sylvie put a weird spice in his mac and cheese, suddenly, Sam can’t stop eating. Paste and pepper. Dishwashing soap. Even dog food. Sam has to find out what is making him eat...and eat...and eat. Before he eats his house. And all his friends on Fear Street…

Summers, Chelsea G.: A Certain Hunger

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes about. Dorothy loves sex as much as she loves food, and while she has struggled to find a long-term partner that can keep up with her, she makes the best of her single life, frequently traveling from Manhattan to Italy for a taste of both.

But there is something within Dorothy that's different from everyone else, and having suppressed it long enough, she starts to embrace what makes Dorothy uniquely, terrifyingly herself. Recounting her life from a seemingly idyllic farm-to-table childhood, the heights of her career, to the moment she plunges an ice pick into a man's neck on Fire Island, Dorothy Daniels show us what happens when a woman finally embraces her superiority.

Swift, Jonathan: A Modest Proposal

The famous work of satire that suggested that poor people should sell their children to be eaten by the wealthy. Some people... didn't get the joke.

Wells, H.G.: The Island of Dr. Moreau

A shipwrecked man, Edward Prendick, reaches a sinister island inhabited by notorious vivisectionist, Doctor Moreau. Prendick suspects that experiments are also being carried out on humans, resulting in hybrid forms; however, the doctor explains that he has actually been changing animals into people.

Yoshitomi, Akihito: School Ningyo (School Mermaid)

"Description from TvTropes: A horror manga / anthology series by Akihito Yoshitomi about Japanese school girls who really want boyfriends. But rather than going through the trouble of getting the attention of a boy, talking to them and just being themselves, they decide on a much quicker way to do so… By hunting mermaids in their school and eating their flesh."

Already submitted this for a hunt bracket but it works as a Flesh Leitner even better.

Spoilers: All the mermaids used to be people. They were turned into those mindless creatures meant to be eaten. If you don't eat the flesh of a mermaid during the hunt you turn into one so you have to consume flesh to avoid becoming it.

[buechermadl]

Rezension -Wiedersehen in Wildberry Bay-

Klappentext

Jahrelang hat Gwendolyn Hobbs es zugelassen, dass ihr Mann Tom sie von ihrer Familie und ihren Freunden isoliert. Als sie es endlich schafft, sich von ihm zu trennen, flüchtet Gwen von Montreal nach Wildberry Bay, wo ihre Eltern und ihre Freunde von früher sie mit offenen Armen empfangen. Das Rauschen des Meeres und die herzlichen Bewohner des kleinen Ortes haben ihr gefehlt - ganz besonders ihre erste große Liebe Neil. Bekommt ihre Beziehung eine zweite Chance? Dann macht Gwen eine Entdeckung, die alles verändert. Und als Tom plötzlich Wildberry Bay auftaucht, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse …

Schreibstil

Der Schreibstil ist angenehm leicht und man fliegt durch die Seiten.

Cover

Das Cover ist schön und ansprechend, es passt perfekt zum Inhalt und zu den anderen beiden Büchern.

Inhalt/Rezension

In dem dritten Teil der Reihe geht es um Gwen und Neil, die man beide schon aus den anderen Büchern kennt. Ich habe mich sehr auf dieses Pärchen gefreut.

Leider hat ihr Liebe in Jugendjahren ein abruptes Ende gefunden und sie haben anderweitig Familien gegründet. Doch jetzt sieht alles so aus, als würden sie eine zweite Chance bekommen, jedoch hat jeder sein Päckchen zu tragen.

Einerseits habe ich mich sehr auf das Buch gefreut, ich wollte unbedingt wieder in den schönen Ort mit seinen Bewohnern eintauchen, die mir inzwischen sehr ans Herz gewachsen sind. Andererseits wollte ich, dass diese Reihe nie aufhört.

Fazit

Schade, dass diese Wohlfühlreihe schon zu Ende ist, ich würde so gerne mehr von Wildberry Bay lesen.

Zum Buch

Verlag: Heyne

Autorin: Miriam Covi

Preis: 15 Euro

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Juridische tegenstrijdigheid mondmaskers

Een ministerieel besluit (dat de mondmaskerplicht invoert) staat hiërarchisch lager dan een wet (die het bedekken van het gezicht met kleding verbiedt). In de praktijk hebben agenten gelukkig gezond verstand en sanctioneren ze niet. Ze oordelen dan dat er sprake is van overmacht. Het is hier in België een slordigheid van de wetgever. Een rechter in België heeft alle boetes kwijtgescholden van de mensen die geen mondmasker hadden gedragen. De schade die is ontstaan door de coronamaatregelen dient te worden verhaald op die organisaties en personen die direct of indirect (mede)verantwoordelijk zijn voor deze maatregelen. Er is hier een probleem met de wet van 1 juni 2011 tot instelling van een verbod op het dragen van kleding die het gezicht volledig dan wel grotendeels verbergt.

Deze wet werd ingevoerd in het kader van het boerkaverbod, maar verbiedt ook het dragen van mondmaskers. De vraag daarbij is vooral of een mondmasker als “kleding” kan worden beschouwd. Vooral bij zelfgemaakte mondmaskers, zoals een sjaaltje of een stuk stof uit een oud shirt, is dat wel het geval. Medische mondmaskers, mogen we in feite niet gebruiken in België.

Ondanks de maatregelen stijgen en dalen de cijfers. De gewone griep is door de maatregelen verdwenen vanaf oktober, zegt Sciensano (het Belgisch instituut voor gezondheid) maar we hebben wel de grootste golf Covid ooit gehad. De conclusie is dat de maatregelen gewerkt hebben tegen besmettingen met de griep, maar niet tegen die met Covid. Precies wat Prof. Didier Raoult ook zegt. 

De regering en de virologen hebben zich geconcentreerd op maatregelen die de hele bevolking treffen. Daarmee hebben zij verkozen om zich niet te concentreren op de bescherming van de zwaksten. Er is in België een probleem door het dragen van mondmaskers. De geluksbeleving van veel mensen is weggevaagd!

Ik vraag om bescherming van de kwetsbare mensen in België, zoals mensen met longziekten. Intussen hierin gesteund door tientallen wetenschappelijke publicaties die tot dezelfde conclusie komen.

Het heeft geen zin de Belgische economie te onderdrukken en de vrijheden van de mensen af te nemen. Dat is een soort van nutteloze zelf-geseling. Het bijzonder gevolg van deze zelf-geseling is dat er dan ook nog eens een pak collaterale schade en doden zijn.

De maatregelen hebben alleen destructie tot gevolg gehad en meer doden dan als er geen mondmaskerplicht was geweest.

Boerka-wet

Sinds 2011 is het overal in België strafbaar om zich op publiek toegankelijke plaatsen te begeven met het gezicht geheel of gedeeltelijk bedekt of verborgen zodat mensen niet herkenbaar zijn. De drie voorziene uitzonderingsgronden (arbeidsreglementen, politieverordeningen naar aanleiding van feestactiviteiten, en 'andersluidende wetsbepalingen') lijken onvoldoende ruim om te verhinderen dat dit zogenaamde boerkaverbod op allerlei niet door de wetgever geviseerde situaties van toepassing is, zoals kerstmannen en sinterklazen, menselijke mascottes, dragers van stofmaskers en motorhelmen met ondoorzichtig vizier, straatkunstenaars, enz. Het dragen van medische mondmaskers valt niet onder een uitzonderingsgrond, maar met name tijdens de coronacrisis van 2020 bleek dat het verbod op dit punt niet werd afgedwongen door de ordediensten.

De wiskundige modellen van Neil Ferguson en andere epidemiologen zijn intussen in meerdere wetenschappelijke bijdragen naar de prullenmand verwezen. Toch blijven mensen deze methodes gebruiken en verdedigen, hoewel ze tezelfdertijd zelf zeggen dat er grote onzekerheden en reserves bij te maken zijn. De voorbije maanden zijn er tientallen studies verschenen van professoren met een wereldreputatie, die aantonen op basis van de reële cijfers, dat de maatregelen niet werken. Niet op basis van fictieve statistische modellen, maar op basis van de echte evolutie van Covid-19.

Professor John Ioannidis, Professor Dr. Knut Wittkowski, Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor Dr. Klaus Püschel, Professor Dr. Michael Levitt, Professor Dr. Hendrick Streeck, Professor Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Dolores Cahill, Dr. Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, Dr. Anders Tegnell, Dr. Bodo Schiffmann, Professor Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche, Professor Dr. Pietro Vernazza, Professor Dr. Didier Raoult en vele andere wetenschappers bewezen dat jongeren minder vatbaar zijn voor covid-19.

Margot Cloet, CEO van Zorgnet-Icuro, zei het onlangs nog treffend op De Afspraak: we zijn proefkonijnen voor de maatregelen.

In het onderwijs zal er in verschillende snelheden worden versoepeld, blijkt uit de eerste beslissingen die genomen zijn in het Franstalig onderwijs. Gezien de epidemiologische situatie en de vaccinatiegraad is er een andere aanpak nodig, benadrukt minister Désir. Ik, Mirjam Schouten, BASc. uit Begijnendijk wil graag dat kinderen nog de mogelijkheid hebben om zich in vrijheid te ontplooien en een leven te leiden met hun eigen overtuigingen en meningen.

De verplichting tot het dragen van een mondmasker is anders voor leerlingen en leerkrachten in het Waalse Gewest dan in Brussel, waar er geen ruimte voor versoepelingen is. Dat bleek na overleg tussen de Franstalige minister van Onderwijs Caroline Désir en het onderwijsveld.

Het dragen van een mondmasker wordt flexibeler gemaakt in Waalse scholen, maar niet in Brusselse. Pedagoog Bert Smits (KU Leuven) stelt dat de lesoverdracht erdoor wordt bemoeilijkt, zeker voor zwakkeren. De Vlaamse Scholierenkoepel uitte dezelfde bezorgdheden. “Het is dan ook slecht voor de concentratie en communicatie als ze gedurende 7 à 8 lesuren per dag een mondmasker moeten dragen.” De mimiek van leerlingen en leraren gaat verloren door de mondmaskers.

Voor het basisonderwijs kijkt het Franstalig onderwijs naar de horeca. Voor personeel is een mondmasker verplicht in de binnenruimtes wanneer ze zich verplaatsen (als ze wandelen in de gang of even praten in de leraarskamer). Het mondmasker mag wel af als ze aan de les beginnen, als de vergadering start of als ze eten. Voor leerlingen is er geen mondmaskerplicht. In Brussel zijn er geen versoepelingen en blijft het mondmasker binnen verplicht voor alle aanwezige volwassenen - tijdens elk contact.

Ook voor het secundair onderwijs worden de regels van de horeca gevolgd. Wie zich verplaatst moet een mondmasker dragen (ook de scholieren), maar eens de les begonnen is, kan het mondmasker af. Dezelfde regel geldt voor lunchpauzes en vergaderingen. Opnieuw is er in Brussel geen ruimte voor versoepelingen. Leerlingen en leerkrachten moeten er ook tijdens de les hun mondmasker aanhouden.

Naast de discussie over mondmaskers is er in Franstalig België ook gediscussieerd over de ventilatie in schoolgebouwen en CO2-meters. De conclusie is dat er aanbevolen wordt om een risicoanalyse te vragen bij het comité voor preventie en bescherming op het werk of een andere dienst. Zij zullen de luchtkwaliteit meten en indien nodig strengere protocollen voorstellen.

De maatregelen die genomen zijn in Franstalig België, gelden tot eind september. Désir laat weten dat er voor de deadline opnieuw rond de tafel zal worden gezeten met de experts en het onderwijsveld. Vlaams minister van Onderwijs Ben Weyts (N-VA) heeft gesproken met zijn Franstalige en Duitstalige collega, het wordt tijd dat België 1 wordt en dat iedereen de drie landstalen gaat spreken.

Mondmaskers verplichten is een ingrijpende bedreiging voor het welzijn van onze jeugd.

Ondanks het voortschrijdend inzicht over de beperkte dreiging die van COVID uitgaat, én ondanks de ineffectiviteit én onzinnigheid van veel maatregelen, blijven de beperkingen onverminderd van kracht – en worden zelfs nog verder opgevoerd. Alles tegen beter weten in.

Zonder een deugdelijk wetenschappelijke grondslag.

Zonder deugdelijke rechtvaardiging of onderbouwing.

Zonder enig perspectief.

Het welzijn van kinderen en jongeren stond vorig schooljaar onder ernstige druk. Ze kampten met angst- en slaapproblemen, gedragsstoornissen en smetvrees. Ook nam isolatie en deprivatie bij de doelgroep toe en was er een gebrek aan fysiek contact waardoor hechtingsproblemen ontstonden.

In het lager onderwijs zijn het de leraren die verplicht zullen worden een mondmasker te dragen. In het secundair zouden alle leerlingen én alle leraren opnieuw mondmaskers moeten dragen.

Bronnen: de Belgische krant De Standaard en Internet.

[sammy-summerdotde]

"Es ist besser auszubrennen, als langsam zu verblassen." Neil Young Ein Herz aus Gold. Ja wir müssen uns mal wieder trauen. Das hat was damit zu tun sich treu zu sein. Im Hafen ist das Schiff sicher, aber dafür ist es nicht gebaut. Der Moment wo man einen Langkieler aus einen unbekannten Hafen Manövrieren kann. Super viele Fähren fahren Schabrode an. Super enge Fahrwasser. Noch nie das Boot alleine gefahren. Leinen los, Abenteuer wir kommen. Davor noch mal Sprit und Wasser gebunkert, alles geputzt, Schlüssel für den Hafen abgegeben. Extra den Kegel gesetzt und die Genua ausgerollt. Ich glaub ich habe die beste Crew. Ab Morgen kommt noch Crew dazu. Bei 5 Kojen ist gute Stimmung garantiert. Habe ein Porta Potti zu verkaufen. Ungenutzt. Jemand Interesse? Es sind die kleinen Dinge die wir tun, die uns zu großen Persönlichkeiten gestalten. Schön Hans Zimmer gehört beim Segeln. Schade, die Nussecke in Schabrode war schon ein Gaumenschmaus, genauso wie die Brötchen, aber wir sind den Paradis entkommen. Es hätte uns sonst Arm gemacht. Jetzt haben wir wieder Empfang und können fleißig Mittelmeer planen. #ostsee #travelblogger #sailing #genua #travel #travemünde #waves #sammysummer #freedom #crew #rumundehre #medizinstudium #vino #medstudent #karibik #medicine #pinnenpilot #fun #ukulele #musiker #kanaren #trave #ketsch #rügen #anker #buchbar #airbnb #sommer #siebenmeterundeinbier #reisenmachtglücklich 2.Chronik 25,8 Römer 8,34 (hier: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSzqYGcsD6B/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Serien-News und Beispiele dafür, wie man den Diskurs um sein Fandom herum manipulieren kann

Als eine eingschlägige Seite einen langen Artikel darüber brachte, dass Julie Benz in der neuen Staffel von “Dexter” nicht dabei sein würde, war ich noch der Meinung das würde am Sommerloch liegen, immerhin ist Rita in Staffel 4 gestorben und war seit der 5. Staffel nicht mehr in der Serie zu sehen, warum sollte sie also in der 9. Staffel mitspielen? Julie Benz selbst meinte zu diesem Thema ja nur: “Das letzte Mal, als ich nachgesehen habe, war Rita tot.” Nur ist das offenbar kein Hinderniss, da ausgerechnet ihr Mörder, der Trinity Killer, in der neuen Staffel zu sehen sein wird, und das auf durchaus wichtige Weise. Nun sind Tote in “Dexter” nichts Neues, Harry war mehr als Toter als als Lebender in der Serie zu sehen. Ich persönlich hätte ja Jennifer Carpenter so in der neuen Staffel vorkommen lassen: Als den neuen Harry, nur im Gegensatz zu ihm als gute Inkarantion von Dexters Unterbewusstsein, die will, dass er seinen düsteren Begleiter endlich mal links liegen lässt. Aber jetzt sieht es so aus als würde diese Rolle, natürlich ohne den Gut-Teil, eher Trinity zufallen, zumindest in einer Szene. Im Grunde hat es ja von Anfang an geheißen, dass man sich außer Dexter niemanden aus dem alten Cast in der Serie erwarten sollte. So sehr ich wollen würde, dass er am Ende mit Hannah und Harrison vereint wird, bin ich mir doch ziemlich sicher, dass wir gerade diese beiden Charaktere wohl eher nicht in dieser neuen Staffel sehen werden, und das nicht nur wegen Yvonne Strahovskis vollen Terminkalender. Der Punkt ist aber wohl eher, dass ja, es natürlich normal ist eine große Sache daraus zu machen, dass jemand, dessen Figur eigentlich tot ist, in eine neuen Staffel zu sehen sein wird. Das erklärt aber nicht den Artikel über Julie Benz, denn wie gesagt, es ist normal der Wiederkehr von jemanden, der lange kein Teil mehr einer Serie ist, einen Artikel zu widmen, aber der Bestätigung der Tatsache, dass jemand nicht wiederkehrt, bei dem das ebenfalls der Fall ist, einen zu widmen ist hingegen schon seltsam. Da können noch so viele Tote via Rückblick, Traum, oder als Vision vorkommen, deswegen muss nicht bestätigen, dass jemand anderer, der ebenfalls tot ist, eben nicht so zurückkommt. (Ganz abgesehen davon, dass angesichts dieser neuen Information Julie Benzs Antwort möglicherweise einer dieser vertraglich verpflichtenden Lügen sein könnte, aber auf die Idee alleine, dass Rita vorkommen könnte, kommen wir erst jetzt eben weil Trinitys Rückkehr bestätigt wurde).

Aber das Internet ist ja voll von ... seltsamen Reaktionen der Allgemeinheit auf Dinge, und ich rede jetzt nicht einmal von den großen Neuigkeiten des Weltgeschehens oder Politik. Das Sommerloch macht alles nur schlimmer. Und oft werden Reaktionen, die seltsam sind, bewusst geschürt. Kurze Zeit nachdem bekannt wurde, dass Fox nicht nur die 6. sondern auch die geplante 7. Staffel von “Prison Break” gecanncelt  hat (und als jemand, der Staffel 5 gesehen hat, sage ich dazu aber nur “Gott sei Dank!”), hat Dominic Purcell mal wieder auf Social Media versprochen, dass eine sechste Staffel auf jeden Fall kommen wird, es eben nur mehr Zeit in Anspruch nehmen wird. Allerdings würde diese dann wohl eher ohne Wentworth Miller kommen, also ist der Großteil der Fans eher der Meinung, dass diese 6. Staffel unter diesen Voraussetzungen eben bitte nicht kommen sollte. Natürlich ist die Frage wie ernst diese seltsame “Ich will keine hetero-sexuellen Charaktere mehr spielen”-Aussage inmitten einer Pandemie nach dieser vorhergehenden Staffel zu nehmen war, aber trotzdem sieht es für eine sechste Staffel momentan schlecht aus und trotzdem reiten alle darauf herum, dass sie bald kommen wird. Aber wie gesagt, Dominic Purcell ist daran nicht ganz unschuldig.

Zugleich wurde eine zweite Staffel von “Good Omens” offiziell bestätigt. Woraufhin die Hälfte der Leute gleich die Heugabeln hervorholt bzw. eigentlich nicht, aber alle das scheinbar immer befürchten, denn alle müssen immer betonen, dass es Pläne für ein zweites Buch gab, und Neil Gaiman diese Pläne nun in der zweiten Staffel verwirklichen will, also eben nicht einfach nur eine goldene Kuh gemolken wird, sondern eine legitme Fortsetzung ansteht. Im Grunde müsste das aber keiner betonen, weil Neil Gaiman diese Tatsache in ungefährt drei Dutzend Interviews zur 1. Staffel in Bezug auf eine eventuelle 2. zu Protokoll gegeben hat, auch auf der DVD-Fassung von Staffel 1. Und dann hat er Staffel 2 persönlich angekündigt, mit genau dieser Erklärung wieder, also würde man meinen, dass sie inzwischen jeder mitbekommen hat.

Aber da nicht einmal jeder mitbekommen hat, dass Rita in “Dexter” gestorben ist, ist das wohl zu viel verlangt. Trotzdem ist es seltsam, dass sich alle genötigt fühlen diese Faktum zu betonen, denn 1. als Co-Creator könnte Neil Gaiman “Good Omens” von rechtswegen auch ganz alleine fortsetzen, und 2. wollen die Leute doch sonst immer Fortsetzungen, egal ob es verfilmbare Vorlagen gibt oder nicht. Sie schreien bis heute nach Fortsetzungen von “Harry Potter”, “Twilight”, den “Hunger Games” etc. oder auch nach noch mehr Staffeln von egal welcher Fernsehserie, egal wie wenig Leute von Staffel 1 vor oder hinter den Kulissen zuletzt noch dabei waren. Und normalerweise ist es ihnen auch herzlich egal, wenn irgendjemand davon tot ist. Scheinbar ist es mit Sir Terry anders. Immerhin hat er seiner Tochter die Scheibenwelt und den Wunsch nach Fortsetzungen zwar explizit vermacht, trotzdem wird es jetzt zwar aber Verfilmungen geben, aber nie mehr neue Scheibenwelt-Romane.

Zuletzt seltsam reaktionsfrei und auch dafür gibt es Gründe, und hier kommen wir wieder zu Thema Manipulation durch gewisse Leute zurück, blieb die Nachricht, dass AMC die Welt von Anne Rice jetzt definitiv in Serie schickt und eine erste Staffel bestellt hat. Von “The Vampire Chronicles” wohl gemerkt, die Mayfair-Hexen warten ab, ob diese Staffel Erfolg hat, bis sie kommen, und die Behauptungen die Serie würde “Interview mit einem Vampir” heißen/sein ist auch skeptisch zu betrachten, da es bisher immer geheißen hat sie würden mit “The Vampire Lestat” beginnen, was auch Sinn machen würde, wenn man einen Mayfair-Hexen-Spin-Off etablieren will, weil man die Talamasca nicht in “Interview” einbauen kann, hier aber schon, wenn man die entsprechenden “Queen of the Damned”-Passagen vorziehen würde. Wie auch immer, keiner weiß mehr genau, was eigentlich passiert, denn offiziell sind Anne und Christopher Rice zwar noch als Produzenten an der Serie beteiligt, doch die kreative Kontrolle dürften sie nicht mehr haben. Keiner von beiden hat zu dieser News nämlich bisher auch nur einen Piep gesagt, und die offiziellen Seiten und ihre Teams schweigen genauso. Schweigen zu einem Thema ist auch eine Art der Manipulation. Dominic Purcell spricht über etwas, das nicht passieren wird (zumindest nicht so bald), während Anne und Chris über etwas, das nächstes Jahr ausgestrahlt werden soll, eben nicht sprechen. Das ist insofern schade, da die Grundidee hinter der Hulu-Serie, die nie Realität wurde, nicht nur kreative Kontrolle von Mutter und Sohn, sondern eben auch Miteinbezug der Fans war, es wurde eine eigene Facebook-Gruppe gegründet, die nur der Entwicklung der Serie gewidmet war, die Idee war also sich Input von den Fans zu holen, aber diese Idee scheint nun gestorben zu sein, da es nicht mehr um die gleiche Serie handelt. Deswegen reagiert die Öffentlichkeit eher verwirrt und zurückhaltend, wiel sie eben nicht wissen, wie sie zu reagieren haben, ist die kommende Serie nun plötzlich etwas Schlechtes anstatt etwas Gutes für die Fans?

Also ja, die Reaktionen des Internets sind in letzter Zeit durchaus eher seltsam, werden aber bewusste manipuliert um seltsam zu werden. Die Frage nach Rita war bereits in Versuch eines “Journalisten”  den Diskus zu manipulieren, andere waren mit ihren Versuchen ihrerseits erfolgreicher.

Wozu all das am Ende dann wirklich führt, bleibt abzuwarten.

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IMDb: Riviera

Staffel 1: (3/10) 2020-12-27, TV Sky Ticket

ansich interessante Story, die aber unendlich in die Länge gezogen ist, bis es so langweilig ist, dass man sich von Folge zu Folge quälen muss -- in 3 Episoden wäre das auch gut zu erledigen gewesen. Mit Folge 9 stürzt die Serie vollends ab: zur Langeweile gesellen sich unnötige Brutalität und lächerliche Eskalationen -- es gibt nichts mehr, was am Ende noch hätte passieren können. Auch die Auflösung ist idiotisch, das Ende ist so unglaubwürdig wie unnötig. Schade. Und für den nervtötende 63 Sekunden langen Vorspann ist man fast geneigt, noch einen Punkt abzuziehen ...

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Lesen mit Corona

Das Lesen in der Corona Krise

Lesen mit Corona - April 2020 - Ich glaube das "Lesen an sich" war noch nie wichtiger als jetzt. Unsere Freizügigkeit ist eingeschränkt. Wir sollen zuhause bleiben. Wir sollen unsere Kontakte einschränken. Eigentlich wissen wir noch viel zu wenig über dieses Virus. Es mutiert anscheinend schon, aber gemächlich - nicht zu häufig. Manche haben Angst. Auch ich habe Angst, um unsere Freunde, Bekannte, Verwandte und meinen Mann, der als Hausarzt praktiziert. Ich werde 60, habe Multiple Sklerose und nehme ein Medikament, das mein Immunsystem herabsetzt. Dennoch dürfen wir uns nicht von unserer Angst erschlagen lassen. Wir müssen uns Wohlfühl-Oasen einrichten, in denen wir Kraft und Stärke tanken können. Lesen ist für mich Wellness pur. Warum lesen wir? Wir lesen, weil wir Informationen suchen. Wir lesen, weil uns langweilig ist. Wir lesen, weil wir uns ablenken wollen und es lieben in andere Welten einzutauchen und andere Perspektiven einzunehmen. Ich lese, weil ich gar nicht anders kann. Ich bin süchtig. Ich liebe Bücher. Neue Bücher 2020 Um meinen Lesedurst zu stillen, habe ich dieses Jahr schon gewaltig zugeschlagen. Ich möchte euch die Bücher kurz vorstellen. Ihr werdet in den nächsten Wochen noch mehr davon lesen. "In den Zeiten der Ansteckung" - Lesen mit Corona Paolo Giordano lebt in Rom und hat zur Krise ein Buch geschrieben. "Ich habe keine Angst davor zu erkranken. Wovor dann? Vor all dem, was die Ansteckung verändern kann. Davor zu entdecken, dass das Gerüst der Zivilisation, so wie ich sie kenne, ein Kartenhaus ist."

Graphic Novels - Lesen mit Corona Ich habe mein Herz für Graphic Novels entdeckt. Besonders bei diesen vier Büchern, konnte ich nicht wiederstehen. "Graveyard" von Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russel aus dem Eichbornverlag. "Der Report der Magd" von Margaret Atwood, Renee Nault aus dem Berlin Verlag. "Paul Austers Stadt aus Glas" Paul Karasik & Dave Mazzucchelli, Reprodukt. "Die drei Leben der Hannah Arendt" Ken Krimstein, dtv. Bei "Graveyard" werde ich Roman und Graphic Novel besprechen. Bei "Der Report der Magd" werde ich nicht nur Roman und Graphic Novel besprechen, sondern auch auf den Film und Serie eingehen.

Kampa Salon - Lesen mit Corona Und schon bin ich beim nächsten Buch aus dem Kampa Verlag aus der Reihe Kampa Salon "Aus dem Wald hinausfinden" Margaret Atwood im Gespräch mit Caspar Shaller. Ich hatte vor kurzer Zeit ein weiteres Buch aus dieser Reihe, "Wenn Gefühle auf Worte treffen" Siri Hustvedt im Gespräch mit Elisabeth Bronfen, rezensiert. Ich war sehr angetan, über Siri Hustvedt und ihr Werkt zu erfahren. Jetzt bei der Rezension "Der Report der Magd" wäre es toll, mehr von der genialen Margaret Atwood über dieses Buch zu erfahren.

Aus der Kampa Salon Buchreihe Die Büchergilde Gutenberg - Lesen mit Corona Ich möchte euch heute mal wieder die Büchergilde mit ihren schönen Buchausgaben und der Büchergilde Abo-Box ans Herz legen. Ich freue mich immer sehr über meine Vierteljährliche Bücherbox, deren Inhalt mir meist unbekannt ist. Es sind immer tolle Bücher mit zum Thema passenden Beiwerk. Das ist sozusagen mein Ü(berraschungs)-Ei. … In der Abo Box 1/2020 war "In die Wildnis" von Jon Krakauer. In der Abo Box 2/2020 war "Winterbienen" von Norbert Scheuer. Außerdem habe ich mir noch "Der Sprung" von Simone Lappert gekauft. Eine sehr schöne Ausgabe. Die Büchergilde sagt über sich selbst: Seit 95 Jahren schöne Bücher 2019 feiert die Büchergilde ihren 95. Geburtstag. 1924 in Leipzig mit dem Ziel gegründet, den Mitgliedern „ … inhaltlich gute Bücher in technisch vollendeter Ausführung und nicht alltäglicher Ausstattung zugänglich zu machen“. Bis heute haben wir diesen Anspruch an Qualität in Inhalt und Form aufrecht erhalten. Mehr zur Geschichte der Büchergilde →Seite der Büchergilde "Der letzte König von Osten Ard 2" - Wie geht es weiter? oder Was bisher geschah: "Über dreißig Jahre sind in Osten Ard vergangen, seit der verheerende Sturmkönigskrieg endete - ein Krieg, der beinahe das Ende der Menschheit bedeutet hätte. König Simons und Königin Miriamel, beim Sieg über den Sturmkönig fast noch Kinder, herrschen jetzt auf dem Hochthron über die Länder der Menschen, aber sie haben den Kontakt zu ihren einstigen Verbündeten den unsterblichen Sithi, verloren. Tanahaya, die erste Sithi-Gesandte sei Kriegsende, wird auf ihrem Weg zum Hochhorst ...""Das Reich der Grasländer (1). Der letzte König von Osten Ard 2" von Tad Williams, S. 9. Endlich geht es weiter. Ich habe schon gewartet. Eigentlich sollte ich es, wie mein Mann machen, nur beendete Buch Reihen lesen. Du wartest immer. Aber Tad Williams schreibt am Anfang "Was bisher geschah". Dieser Überblick und das Glossar am Ende ist bei High Fantasy Reihe wirklich von 'Vorteil. Das Setting ist großartig, aber komplex. Es treten zahlreiche Akteure auf aus unterschiedlichen Handlungssträngen. Eben ein richtiger Tad Williams. Die Hexenholzkrone war ein starker Einstieg in die Osten Ard Reihe. Zu den Rezensionen von: Die Hexenholzkrone 1 Die Hexenholzkrone 2

Selfpublisher und kleinere Verlage - Lesen mit Corona

Es ist mir immer wieder eine Freude, Bücher abseits vom Mainstream vorzustellen: Zuerst zu zwei meiner Lieblingsautoren Aileen o'Grian Ich habe gerade den zum Teil dystopischen Kurzgeschichtenband von Aileen o'Grian fertig gelesen. Rezension kommt noch diese Woche (heute ist 21. April 2020). Erzählungen, die jetzt in der Coronakrise und der Klimakatatrophe, uns noch brisanter als zuvor erscheinen. Sehr Aktuell! Zukunft erscheint als Chance und als Gefahr. Rezensionen: Rowan - Kampf gegen die Drachen Rowan - Kampf gegen die Felsenburg Rowan - Verrat im Ostreich Rowan - Flucht ins Sumpfland Abels Vermächtnis Interview mit der Autorin

Wichtig: Ich habe diese Pflanze nicht verdorren lassen, sondern gefunden. Und dachte: "Schade um die Pflanze, aber passt genau zum Thema. und Thorsten Hoß Und jetzt kommen wir zu einer Space Opera, die Marvel entworfen hätte können, mit allem was die Fantasy so hergibt. "Die Crew der Sirius 7" ist ein All Age Buch und spielt auf einem fremden Planeten mit vielen Wesen, die es auf unserer Welt nicht gibt. "Kurtai der Amazonen" nun mein vierter Teil und die Figuren bzw. Charaktere sind mir zusammen mit ihren Eigenheiten ans Herz gewachsen. Thorsten Hoß macht gerade eine Leserunde auf Lovelybooks, an der ich ab Mai auch teilnehme. Schaut ruhig mal rein. Thorsten ist immer für Fragen offen. Die Crew der Sirius Rezensionen Absturz unter Drachenfeuer Der Clan der Astronauten Menschen gesucht Interview mit Thorsten Hoß

Neuigkeiten Im nächsten Post erzähle ich euch von weiteren Neuigkeiten in unserem Bücherregal und auf dem unteren Foto.

"Kryonium" Matthias A. K. Zimmermann "Unnützes SalzburgWissen" Holzbaumverlag "Mein Kompass ist der Eigensinn" Maria Almana Demnächst mehr in diesem Theater Read the full article

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Spider-Man Reviews Teil 76

"Strange Encounter"

Untold Tales of Spider-Man: Strange Encounter

Autor: Kurt Busiek & Roger Stern

Zeichner: Neil Vokes

Inhalt:

In Chicago brechen zwei Diebe in ein Museum ein. Dabei wecken sie ein mächtiges Artefakt.

In New York merkt Dr. Strange die magische störung. Er schickt seinen Astralköper zum Hymalja um sich mit seinen Mentor den Antic One zu beraten. Er hat die Störung auch bemerkt und meint Strange wird Hilfe bekommen.

Diese Hilfe hat einen ganz normalen Tag. Er vermöbelt Verbrecher, kommt zu später zur Schule wo er von Flash verspottet und von Liz angemacht Wird, zuhause wird er von Tante May bemuttert. Im Bugle behandelt ihn eine Eifersüchtife Betty eiskalt und Jonah wirft ihn aus der Redaktion. Jedoch hört er noch das in der Park Avenue Leute entführt werden. Sofort schwingt er hin. Und wird Zeuge wie zwei Männer eine Frau entführen. Die Kidnapper - Mose und Jackie - beschießen ihn mit einen magischen Artefakt und telepotiern sich anschließend damit weg.

Später verkauft er die Fotos an Jonah der die Fotos gerne nimmt da sie die Entführung mit Spider-Man in Zusammenhang bringen. Betty will sich entschuldigen doch da Peter nach den entführen suchen will lässt er sie abblitzen.

Als er nach den entführen Sucht bekommt er Besuch von Dr. Strange. Er erklärt ihn das nur er die Magische Laterne finden kann und gibt ihn einen "Laternen"sinn.

Unterdessen erstatten die Entführer ihren Meister Baron Mordo berricht. Er ist unzufrieden und befiehlt ihnen Spider-Man das nächste mal zu erledigen.

Am nächsten Morgen sucht Peter nach den Kidnappern und trifft dabei Flash und die Gang und dann auch noch Jonah und Betty. Da geht sein Laternensinn Los und wird von den anderen verfolgt. Unterwegs kommt er an Anna und MJ vorbei. Anna fragt ob sie Hallo sagen sollen und MJ meint nur an solle nie einen Mission stoppen.

Peter kommt mit seinen Gefolge bei den Kidnappern an und sie transportieren einfach alle in eine seltsame Dimension.

Um Spidey Werden zu können rennt Peter einfach los. Die Gangster sagen er ist für immer verloren und bringen Peters Freunde zu den andern Opfern.

Peter hat keine Ahnung wo er ist und nutzt einfach de Laternensinn.

Baron Mordo taucht auf verpasst Jonah einem Magischen Knebel und sagt das die Opfer hier sind um geopfert zu Werden. Da taucht Spidey auf und Mordo verwandelt Mose und Jackie in Dämonen die Peter gleich angreifen. Doctor Strange taucht in Astrahlform auf und bekämpft Mordo mit Magie. Mordo trott den Rückzug an und trifft dort auf seinem Boss Dormmamu. Der ist nicht begeistert und verbannt Mordo.

Währendessen besiegt Spidey die Dämonen ind Dr. Strange führt alle zurück zur Erde. Wo Jonah zugeben muss das Spidey ein Held ist. Jedoch löscht Strange gleich darauf die Errinerungen von ihn und.den anderen Opfern. So können sich nur Peter und Strange errinern

Fazit:

Ein Untold Tales Special mit den ersten treffen von Spidey und den Doc. Pat Olliffe geht ab, was schade ist den das Special ist wirklich gut.

Bewertung:

Story: 3

Zeichnung: 2

Bonus:

Gesamt: 5

Held: Spider-Man, Dr. Strange

Schurke: Baron Mordo, Mose und Jackie, Dormammu

Nebenfiguren: Wong, Ancient One, Flash, Jason, Liz, Tante May, Betty, Jonah, MJ, Anna

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Oc for a Grimm story. Adlinda’s brother. (Sorry if I spelled her name wrong.)

𝒩𝒶𝓂𝑒: Neilson Waden Schade or Shade.

𝒩𝒾𝒸𝓀𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓈: Neil, Waden, 

𝒜𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓈: assist at the spice shop, 

𝒜𝑔𝑒: 27 or 28

𝒫𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓈: He/him

𝒮𝑒𝓍𝓊𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎: Straight 

𝒟𝒶𝓉𝑒𝑜𝒻𝒷𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽: 1984

𝒫𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒𝑜𝒻𝒷𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽: Portland 

𝒞𝓊𝓇𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑅𝑒𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒: Portland 

𝒮𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓈: male hexion Beast

(side to be added)

𝒜𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓇𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒

𝐻𝑒𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉: 6’1

𝐻𝒶𝒾𝓇/𝐻𝒶𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉𝓎𝓁𝑒: shortish gold blonde 

Eye color: blue

𝒮𝒸𝒶𝓇s: none

𝒫𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎: kind, nice, quiet, shy, laid back, calm, antisocial, softhearted, chill, compassionate, loyal, sweet, gentle,

𝒦𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓃𝒽𝑜𝒷𝒷𝒾𝑒𝓈: reading Grimm books to help fight the weson, playing piano, learning nerdy things from Monroe’s sister, spending time with her and driving his bike or car around town, playing games with Shadow after she teaches him, playing the guitar, singing in the comfort and his own home an recording himself for the fun of it.

𝐹𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒𝒻𝑜𝑜𝒹𝓈: ?

𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹𝓆𝓊𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈: caring, loyal, protective, listener, willing to do anything for the people he cars for,

𝐵𝒶𝒹𝓆𝓊𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈: has a bad temper when angered or upset, closes people off sometimes 

𝐿𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓈: playing the piano, going to where Shayna works, staying up late because he’s a night owl, wearing sweat shirts with hoods when he’s home alone, helping stop bad Weson, being a hermit when he’s not working at the spice shop, wearing button up shirts, jeans and or slacks them,

𝒟𝒾𝓈𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓈:, Hexionbeast because he is one and he doesn’t like it, liars, Evil Weson, patties, Sean (for now.), evil witches, seeing anything wrong with Shadow especially if she’s in pain, people shooting at his brother or her, seeing the people he cares for getting hurt. The royals, black claw, witch craft, spells, hurting people, suits but he wears them when he has too or wants too, to show his other side, 

𝒫𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝓈  & 𝒜𝒷𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈:

𝑀𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒶𝒷𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈: his hexion beast abilities for now 

𝒲𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑜𝓃𝓈: guns

𝐸𝓍𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒻𝑜𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉𝒶𝒷𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈: Can move objects around and other things

𝐹𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎, 𝐹𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉

𝐹𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎: Adeline Shade sister, Catherine mother, Diana renard niece, Kelly Schade burkhardt nephew, Nick burkhardt brother in law, Monroe and Rosalie after he falls for Monroe’s sister Shadow,

𝐹𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈: Rose, Monroe, Hank, Sean, Wu, Trouble, Freddy Calvert, Mysner, Hank, trouble, Eve, Juliette Silver ton, Wu, nicks mom Kelly, Sean’s mom, 

Love interest(s): Monroe’s sister Shadow 

𝒜𝒻𝒻𝒾𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜n: works for the resistance secretly, is back in Portland to protect Monroe’s sister, works at the spice shop, 

𝐹𝑜𝓇𝓂𝑒𝓇𝒜𝒻𝒻𝒾𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈: as a detective for Sean til he left Portland and joined the Resistance.

𝒱𝒾𝓇𝑔𝒾𝓃: yes

𝒪𝒸𝒸𝓊𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃: secretly working with the resistance, helper at the spice shop at least for the moment.

𝐸𝓍𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒩𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈: (not to spoil the book I’m working on, but he ends up falling for Monroe’s sister. I just not going to say how or why, because I don’t want to spoil anything for when the book comes out.

Neil’s relationship with his mom and why he’s against being what he is: they don’t exactly get along to much, since Neil isn’t exactly happy with being a male hexion beast. 

Neil also doesn’t like spells or anything that has to do with witch craft, because it just isn’t something he was/is interested in. 

Neil spoke to his mom on holidays and birthdays, he would stop by every once in awhile to see her and his sister Adalind whom he had a close bond with since their mom wasn’t exactly happy with him.

Neil was asked to join the resistance because of his abilities, he was confused at first before realizing that he could do great good with how powers and help people which is what he wanted to do in the world. 

Neil left Portland once he had turned of age and had enough of being around weson in general, so he left to find his own way and path which is how he stumbled upon the resistance or actually they had found him and recruited him.

Neil also has changed him name to Neil tenet(a reference to another movie Pattinson was in.) which was a combination of his first and middle name, he did that so no one would expect him of being Adalinds brother accept for misner and the resistance. 

Neil is a trained yet good fighter for the resistance, he is also one of their field agents who knows a bit of medical. He still at times stays to himself and very quiet, especially during meetings or on missions mostly because I doesn’t like talking very much.

How Neil got his job and how he met his first Grimm: Neil meet Freddy Calvert during a resistance mission when the two of them went under cover, him and Freddy became good friends after that mission and Freddy had offered him a job at his spice shop if he wanted it since that’s where Neil’s next mission would be.

Neil met Nicks mom Kelly burkhardt on a another mission, he ran into her shortly after mysiner and the others of the resistance joined together for a meeting. Him and Kelly had to work together in order for the mission to go smoothly, and so it did but as as soon the mission was over Kelly became one of the few people he trusted after they both had saved each other’s lives on the mission.

[larryland]

by Gail M. Burns

From his perch in 1986, Neil Simon looked back to 1947 and wrote a play about the future. All the characters in Broadway Bound, the final installment in his quasi-autobiographical trilogy of plays about the Jerome family, is teetering on the verge of the precipice of change. The young people, sons Eugene (Anthony J. Ingargiola) and Stanley (Robbie Rescigno), are reaching eagerly for their future, filled with the promise of romance, adventure, and success as comedy writers. Their father, Jack (Jason Asprey), is about to leave his wife and family, something their mother, Kate (Sarah Corey), knows and may or may not be ready for. And Kate’s father, Ben (Richard Howe), is clinging to his life in Brooklyn as his wife prepares to move to a retirement community in Florida.

It is a joy to see Ingargiola return to the Oldcastle stage after his thoroughly winning portrayal of Huck Finn in last season’s musical Big River. His Eugene is kind and caring. He has a believable brotherly bond with Rescigno’s much more aggressively ambitious Stanley, and a truly warm rapport with Corey as his mother. The scene late in the play where Kate recounts her teenage adventure of running off to the Paradise Ballroom (when she should be sitting shiva) in order to dance with movie star George Raft requires Ingargiola to listen with love and wonder as he gains a deeper understanding of Kate as more than just his mother. That is not an easy trick to do. And when they dance – Eugene says later that he couldn’t hold his mother close because the moment was just too intimate – there is magic on the stage.

Which brings us to the delicate subject of casting. Corey is a fine actress and she gives a wonderful performance, but she is too young to play Kate. There is a time to play a role like Kate, and you need to live a while to earn that right. It took me about half an hour to be able to put this problem out of my mind and accept her as the 50-something matriarch. That I did accept her and was able to move past the age issue is a tribute to her talent and commitment to this role, but there are so many fine actresses of the right age – Oldcastle regular Christine Decker springs instantly to mind – for whom meaty roles like this are hard to find, that I still question director Eric Peterson’s choice.

Asprey, however, is perfectly cast. His portrayal of the genuinely tortured Jack is haunting and powerful. There are no laughs in this role. Jack is a man who sees his future clearly, and he hates it, but he knows it is inevitable. He will leave. He must leave. And he knows that it will hurt Kate and Stanley and Eugene, and him. That hurt will shape all of their future paths in life. The second act scene between Jack and his sons is frightening and heart-breaking as Asprey takes all of Jack’s self-loathing out on his sons, ruining their moment of triumph and leaving them reeling.

The role of Ben offers a little bit of the comic relief that Simon provides so easily through his older characters – most notably in The Sunshine Boys – but Ben is not an aging cantankerous comic. He is a man who has worked hard and done his best by his wife, his daughters, and his grandchildren and has come to a point where he is scared of what comes next. Moving to Florida is one step closer to…what comes after retirement? What comes after your 70s? Maybe your 80s, maybe not. Howe gives a solid performance offering real insights into a character who could just be a geriatric punch line.

Rescigno provides the real comic energy in the play. Stanley is well past the age when he wants to be living at home with Mom and Pop. He knows he has talent and ambition, but Simon makes it clear that even while he can’t wait to get to his future, he finds the prospect of change as daunting as the rest of the family. Rescigno carries the frenetic scenes where Eugene and Stanley struggle to come up with their audition sketch for their big break in radio.

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There is a sixth character, Kate’s sister, Ben’s other daughter, Blanche (Amy Gaither Hayes), whose second husband has surprised everyone by becoming quite rich and installing Blanche and her two daughters on Park Avenue. Blanche is the one who is ready and financially able to move her parents down to Florida, a climate that will be beneficial to her mother’s health, and Ben’s refusal to accept her “charity” and join his wife perplexes her.

Blanche and her daughters are key characters in Brighton Beach Memoirs, the first play in this trilogy, which is also set in Jack and Kate’s home, and I understand Simon’s interest in completing their story arcs, but unless you have a chance to see these two plays in close proximity, those aspects of her scene are awkward.

Set designer Carl Sprague has cleverly reworked his set for Oldcastle’s production of A Comedy of Tenors, which ran immediately before this production, and it works surprisingly well. There are well defined areas for the living room, the dining room, and Eugene and Stanley’s bedrooms upstairs. …Tenors is a six door farce which leaves the Jerome’s dealing with about two doors too many in their house, but Peterson, Sprague, and the actors make it work.

Ursula McCarty has crafted another fine set of costumes. Except for Blanche’s Park Avenue finery, the Jerome’s are not a stylish bunch, and her costumes clearly define the period and the socio-economic strata of the household.

Creating clearly audible sound that emanates from a radio and synchs with on stage dialogue is not easy and Cory Wheat’s sound design executes it well. My only problem with David V. Groupé’s lighting design was the jarring transitions when Eugene broke the fourth wall to act as narrator. Something much more subtle and less blinding would have been more effective.

I see a lot of plays – many of them very well written and many much more innovative in style and structure than Broadway Bound – but I have to say that it is a pleasure to attend the work of a playwright who just knows how to do it. Who knows how to create three-dimensional characters you care about, who knows how to structure scenes and advance plot, and who writes in clear, lucid language that flows. This is what is called a Well-Made Play, and with this fine cast it is just a joy to behold.

Broadway Bound by Neil Simon, directed by Eric Peterson, runs September 29 – October 15, 2017, at the Oldcastle Theatre Company, 331 Main Street in Bennington, VT. Set design by Carl Sprague; lighting design by David V. Groupé; sound design by Cory Wheat; and costume design by Ursula McCarty. Stage Manager Gary Allan Poe. CAST: Sarah Corey as Kate, Richard Howe as Ben, Anthony J. Ingargiola as Eugene, Robbie Rescigno as Stanley, and Jason Asprey as Jack. Radio voices provided by Gary Allan Poe, Timothy Foley, and Jody June Schade. The show runs two and a half hours with one intermission. For tickets and more information visit http://oldcastletheatre.org/ or call 802-447-0564.

REVIEW: “Broadway Bound” at Oldcastle by Gail M. Burns From his perch in 1986, Neil Simon looked back to 1947 and wrote a play about the future.

[rene-grandjean]

Kommentar zur Schließung vom Mr. Music / Bonn

„Die Zeiten ändern sich“ (Peter Licht, Lieder vom Ende des Kapitalismus)

Veränderungen stehe ich außerordentlich aufgeschlossen gegenüber. Das Alte weicht dem Neuen. Niemals ist das an sich gut oder schlecht. Mir scheint vielmehr, dass Erneuerung ein wesentlicher Antrieb menschlichen Strebens ist. So wie zum Mars fliegen. Oder Softdrinks mit kranken Geschmacksrichtungen erfinden. Oder die Komposition des Schokoriegels KitKat Chunky Peanutbutter. Ein Meisterwerk. Leider von Nestlé. Dass diese der menschlichen Gattungen eigenen Neugier, kombiniert mit kapitalistischem Gewinnstreben (auch an sich nicht böse) dazu führte, dass die gemeine Bundesdeutsche Innenstadt von Filialen übermächtiger Ketten dominiert wird, begrüße ich selbstverständlich nicht. Meine Stadt Bonn bekommt demnächst seinen ersten Primemark. Ich habe einen ausgefuchsten Plan: ich werde nicht hingehen. Der Plunder, der da verhökert wird, riecht sowieso nach Mottenkugeln. Dennoch werde ich mich nicht vor der Eingangstüre einbetonieren, um andere an ihrem stinkigen Einkaufserlebnis zu hindern. Das Leben ist bunt, die Meinungen zahlreich, die Interessen verschieden, der Bürger mündig. Manchmal dämlich, aber auch das ist das Recht des Einzelnen. Seufz. Das Rad der Zeit dreht sich und ich versuche so gut es eben geht, mich nicht von ihm zermahlen zu lassen. So finde ich mich ab mit Veränderungen, mögen sie mir auf den ersten Blick auch suspekt erscheinen. Des einen Freud, des anderen Leid. Aber der anstehende Verlust des letzten Plattenladens in der Bonner Innenstadt macht mir zu schaffen. Mr. Music scheint seinen Betreibern eine echte Herzensangelegenheit. Als ich vor zwölf Jahren mit dem Gedanken schwanger ging, von Köln nach Bonn zu ziehen, galt es als erstes in Erfahrung zu bringen, ob das vermeintlich verschlafene Bundesdorf meine musikalischen Gelüste befriedigen könnte. Kaum aus dem Zug, stolperte ich auch schon ins Ladenlokal von Mr. Music. Und siehe da, die Soundtracks zu „Twin Peaks“ und „Fire Walk With Me“ waren nicht nur vorrätig, sie waren auch günstig. Dem Umzug stand somit nichts mehr im Weg. Bist du der Neue in der Stadt, ist es nicht leicht Fuß zu fassen. Das ich bald bei meinen regelmäßigen Platteneinkäufen wiedererkannt wurde, ein nicht unwesentlicher Teil des Ankommens. Dafür Danke. Dies möge auch rechtfertigen, das ich diesen Text verfasse. Bin ja bloß Kunde und möchte mir nicht anmaßen, über Gebühr traurig zu sein. Das überlasse ich Daumen drückend denjenigen, die ihren Arbeitsplatz verlieren. Es macht aber einfach großen Spaß, bei euch mein Geld auszugeben. Als ich das Don Johnson – Album „Heartbeat“ von 1986 erstand, nahm Mr. Music (als Synonym für alle dort arbeitende Menschen) es an der Kasse mit spöttischem Grinsen entgegen und fragte mich, was denn mit mir nicht stimmt. So etwas finde ich witzig. Nick Waterhouse drittes Album „Never Twice“ wollte ich, mit Nick Waterhouse erstem Album „Time’s All Gone” ging ich heim, Mr. Music hielt es für das bessere, außerdem kostete es weniger. Großartig. Oder folgender Dialog, der sich erst kürzlich ereignete: Ich: „Es gibt eine neue Best of von Springsteen?“ Mr. Music: „Brauchst du nicht.“ Ich: „Kann ich mal hören?“ Mr. Music: „Nein.“ Ich mag es, das Mr. Music sich nicht zu Schade ist, Andrea Berg ebenso anzubieten wie Blood Orange. Von Bonnern für Bonner. Kein blödes Getue, Hauptsache Musik. Das letzte Einhorn. Der letzte Mohikaner. Der letzte Tanz. Der letzte Drink. Der letzte Plattenladen in der Innenstadt. Mr. Music schließt zum 30. Juni 2017. Für mich fühlt es sich an wie der Umzug eines Kumpels, kein enger Freund, eher ein sympathischer Bekannter, dem man immer mal wieder über den Weg lief und bierselige Gespräche führte. Das Leben geht weiter, ist er fort, aber man bemerkt seine Abwesenheit. Heute war ich dort, wollte mal was von Neil Young. Herrje, da standen bestimmt dreißig verschiedene Alben des kauzigen Kanadiers. Ich frage Mr. Music, welches er empfiehlt. Versuch das mal im Media Markt.

[softrevolutionoflove]

Een ministerieel besluit (dat de mondmaskerplicht invoert) staat hiërarchisch lager dan een wet (die het bedekken van het gezicht met kleding verbiedt). In de praktijk hebben agenten gelukkig gezond verstand en sanctioneren ze niet. Ze oordelen dan dat er sprake is van overmacht. Het is hier in België een slordigheid van de wetgever.   Een rechter in België heeft alle boetes kwijtgescholden van de mensen die geen mondmasker hadden gedragen. De schade die is ontstaan door de coronamaatregelen dient te worden verhaald op die organisaties en personen die direct of indirect (mede)verantwoordelijk zijn voor deze maatregelen. Er is hier een probleem met de wet van 1 juni 2011 tot instelling van een verbod op het dragen van kleding die het gezicht volledig dan wel grotendeels verbergt.

Deze wet werd ingevoerd in het kader van het boerkaverbod, maar  verbiedt ook het dragen van mondmaskers. De vraag daarbij is vooral of een mondmasker als “kleding” kan worden beschouwd. Vooral bij zelfgemaakte mondmaskers, zoals een sjaaltje of een stuk stof uit een oud shirt, is dat wel het geval. Medische mondmaskers,  mogen   we in feite niet gebruiken in België.

Ondanks de maatregelen stijgen en dalen de cijfers. De gewone griep is door de maatregelen verdwenen vanaf oktober, zegt Sciensano (het Belgisch instituut voor gezondheid) maar we hebben wel de grootste golf Covid ooit gehad. De conclusie is dat de maatregelen gewerkt hebben tegen besmettingen met de griep, maar niet tegen die met Covid. Precies wat Prof. Didier Raoult ook zegt. 

De regering en de virologen hebben zich geconcentreerd op maatregelen die de hele bevolking treffen. Daarmee hebben zij verkozen om zich niet te concentreren op de bescherming van de zwaksten.  Er is in België een probleem door het dragen van mondmaskers. De geluksbeleving van veel mensen is weggevaagd!  

Ik vraag om bescherming van de kwetsbare mensen in België, zoals mensen met longziekten. Intussen hierin gesteund door tientallen wetenschappelijke publicaties die tot dezelfde conclusie komen.

Het heeft geen zin de Belgische economie te onderdrukken en de vrijheden van de mensen af te nemen. Dat is een soort van nutteloze zelf-geseling. Het bijzonder gevolg van deze zelf-geseling is dat er dan ook nog eens een pak collaterale schade en doden zijn.

De maatregelen hebben alleen destructie tot gevolg gehad en meer doden dan als er geen mondmaskerplicht was geweest.

Boerka-wet

Sinds 2011 is het overal in België strafbaar om zich op publiek toegankelijke plaatsen te begeven met het gezicht geheel of gedeeltelijk bedekt of verborgen zodat mensen niet herkenbaar zijn. De drie voorziene uitzonderingsgronden (arbeidsreglementen, politieverordeningen naar aanleiding van feestactiviteiten, en 'andersluidende wetsbepalingen') lijken onvoldoende ruim om te verhinderen dat dit zogenaamde boerkaverbod op allerlei niet door de wetgever geviseerde situaties van toepassing is, zoals kerstmannen en sinterklazen, menselijke mascottes, dragers van stofmaskers en motorhelmen met ondoorzichtig vizier, straatkunstenaars, enz. Het dragen van medische mondmaskers valt niet onder een uitzonderingsgrond, maar met name tijdens de coronacrisis van 2020 bleek dat het verbod op dit punt niet werd afgedwongen door de ordediensten.

De wiskundige modellen van Neil Ferguson en andere epidemiologen zijn intussen in meerdere wetenschappelijke bijdragen naar de prullenmand verwezen. Toch blijven mensen deze methodes gebruiken en verdedigen, hoewel ze tezelfdertijd zelf zeggen dat er grote onzekerheden en reserves bij te maken zijn. De voorbije maanden zijn er tientallen studies verschenen van professoren met een wereldreputatie, die aantonen op basis van de reële cijfers, dat de maatregelen niet werken. Niet op basis van fictieve statistische modellen, maar op basis van de echte evolutie van Covid-19.

Professor John Ioannidis, Professor Dr. Knut Wittkowski, Professor Sunetra Gupta, Professor Dr. Klaus Püschel, Professor Dr. Michael Levitt, Professor Dr. Hendrick Streeck, Professor Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Professor Dolores Cahill, Dr. Thomas Jefferson, Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, Dr. Anders Tegnell, Dr. Bodo Schiffmann, Professor Dr. Peter C. Gøtzsche, Professor Dr. Pietro Vernazza, Professor Dr. Didier Raoult en vele andere wetenschappers bewezen dat jongeren minder vatbaar zijn voor covid-19.

Margot Cloet, CEO van Zorgnet-Icuro, zei het onlangs nog treffend op De Afspraak: we zijn proefkonijnen voor de maatregelen.  

In het onderwijs zal er in verschillende snelheden worden versoepeld, blijkt uit de eerste beslissingen die genomen zijn in het Franstalig onderwijs. Gezien de epidemiologische situatie en de vaccinatiegraad is er een andere aanpak nodig, benadrukt minister Désir. Ik, Mirjam Schouten, BASc. uit Begijnendijk wil graag dat kinderen nog de mogelijkheid hebben om zich in vrijheid te ontplooien en een leven te leiden met hun eigen overtuigingen en meningen.  

De verplichting tot het dragen van een mondmasker is anders voor leerlingen en leerkrachten in het Waalse Gewest dan in Brussel, waar er geen ruimte voor versoepelingen is. Dat bleek na overleg tussen de Franstalige minister van Onderwijs Caroline Désir en het onderwijsveld.

Het dragen van een mondmasker wordt flexibeler gemaakt in Waalse scholen, maar niet in Brusselse. Pedagoog Bert Smits (KU Leuven) stelt dat de lesoverdracht erdoor wordt bemoeilijkt, zeker voor zwakkeren. De Vlaamse Scholierenkoepel uitte dezelfde bezorgdheden. “Het is dan ook slecht voor de concentratie en communicatie als ze gedurende 7 à 8 lesuren per dag een mondmasker moeten dragen.” De mimiek van leerlingen en leraren gaat verloren door de mondmaskers.

Voor het basisonderwijs kijkt het Franstalig onderwijs naar de horeca. Voor personeel is een mondmasker verplicht in de binnenruimtes wanneer ze zich verplaatsen (als ze wandelen in de gang of even praten in de leraarskamer). Het mondmasker mag wel af als ze aan de les beginnen, als de vergadering start of als ze eten. Voor leerlingen is er geen mondmaskerplicht. In Brussel zijn er geen versoepelingen en blijft het mondmasker binnen verplicht voor alle aanwezige volwassenen - tijdens elk contact.

Ook voor het secundair onderwijs worden de regels van de horeca gevolgd. Wie zich verplaatst moet een mondmasker dragen (ook de scholieren), maar eens de les begonnen is, kan het mondmasker af. Dezelfde regel geldt voor lunchpauzes en vergaderingen. Opnieuw is er in Brussel geen ruimte voor versoepelingen. Leerlingen en leerkrachten moeten er ook tijdens de les hun mondmasker aanhouden.

Naast de discussie over mondmaskers is er in Franstalig België ook gediscussieerd over de ventilatie in schoolgebouwen en CO2-meters. De conclusie is dat er aanbevolen wordt om een risicoanalyse te vragen bij het comité voor preventie en bescherming op het werk of een andere dienst. Zij zullen de luchtkwaliteit meten en indien nodig strengere protocollen voorstellen.

De maatregelen die genomen zijn in Franstalig België, gelden tot eind september. Désir laat weten dat er voor de deadline opnieuw rond de tafel zal worden gezeten met de experts en het onderwijsveld. Vlaams minister van Onderwijs Ben Weyts (N-VA) heeft gesproken met zijn Franstalige en Duitstalige collega, het wordt tijd dat België 1 wordt en dat iedereen de drie landstalen gaat spreken.

Mondmaskers verplichten is een ingrijpende bedreiging voor het welzijn van onze jeugd.

Ondanks het voortschrijdend inzicht over de beperkte dreiging die van COVID uitgaat, én ondanks de ineffectiviteit én onzinnigheid van veel maatregelen, blijven de beperkingen onverminderd van kracht – en worden zelfs nog verder opgevoerd. Alles tegen beter weten in.

Zonder een deugdelijk wetenschappelijke grondslag.

Zonder deugdelijke rechtvaardiging of onderbouwing.

Zonder enig perspectief.

Het welzijn van kinderen en jongeren stond vorig schooljaar onder ernstige druk. Ze kampten met angst- en slaapproblemen, gedragsstoornissen en smetvrees. Ook nam isolatie en deprivatie bij de doelgroep toe en was er een gebrek aan fysiek contact waardoor hechtingsproblemen ontstonden.

In het lager onderwijs zijn het de leraren die verplicht zullen worden een mondmasker te dragen. In het secundair zouden alle leerlingen én alle leraren opnieuw mondmaskers moeten dragen.

Bronnen: de Belgische krant De Standaard en Internet.

#mondmaskers

#mondmaskerplicht

#belgie

#virologen

#scholen

#onderwijs

#onwettelijk

#wettelijk

#leraren

#leerlingen

#kinderen

#jongeren

#hechtingsproblemen

#zelfmoorden

#zelfmoord

#co2

#isolatie

#depressie

#deprivatie

[sabareads]

The Sleeper and the Spindle

Autor: Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

Sprache: Englisch

Rückentext:

She was one of those witches

driven to the margins a thousand years ago,

and a bad lot.

She cursed the babe at birth, such that

when the girl was eighteen she would

prick her finger and

sleep

forever

Klappentext:

It was the closest kingdam to the queen's

as the crow flies, but not even the crows flew it.

You may think you know this story.

There's a young queen, about to be married. There are some good, brave, hardy dwarfs; a castle, shrouded in thorns; and a princess, cursed by a witch, so rumour has it, to sleep forever.

But no one is waiting for a noble prince to appear on his trusty steed here. This fairy tale is spun with a thread of dark magic, which twists and turns and glints ans shines. A queen might just prove herself a hero, if a princess needs rescuing...

Gelesen weil:

Ich habe schon einige andere Bücher von Neil Gaiman gelesen und mochte sie.

Meine Meinung:

Es ist schwierig, etwas über ein derartig kurzes Buch zu sagen.

Die Geschichte ist typisch Neil Gaiman. Man glaubt, sie zu kennen und dann ist doch alles ganz anders.

Ich mochte, dass niemand in dieser Geschichte einen Namen hatte, aber sehr gut zu erkennen war, wer wer war und woher man sie kannte.

Ich mochte, dass niemand in dieser Geschichte einen Helden brauchte, aber sich doch die Hauptpersonen heldenhaft verhalten haben.

Ich fand das Ende ein wenig schade, da die queen und die princess gute Freundinnen abgegeben hätten. Die Entscheidung, die die queen zum Schluss getroffen hat, mochte ich aber und ich hoffe, irgendwann noch mal etwas von ihr zu lesen.

Mir gefielen insbesondere auch Chris Riddells Zeichnungen, die sehr sehr simpel gehalten sind, aber trotzdem sehr detailreich sind. Durch ihre Einfachheit lenken sie den Blick auf das Wesentliche. Dennoch schafft er es, dass nicht nur im Text steht, dass die Augen alt seien, sondern sie sehen auf seinen Bildern auch alt aus.

wie erworben: neu

Lesezeitpunkt: Februar 2017

[ghost-wolf34]

The Beast and The Wolf

Chapter two. The mystery suspect?

Neil saw the cop through the window and quietly but quickly got up, before heading to the back door to get out to his car to head home. He heard the cop enter and talk through his walkie talkie, before turning the alarm off and leading the cops on the other side know that they had a body at the shop. Neil opened the backdoor and walked out which caught the cops attention, he got into his car not knowing the cop had heard the backdoor close. 

"I think one of the killers just went out the backdoor." The cop said, as they rushed to the backdoor and opened it to find it empty before rushing back out the front door when they heard a car driving off. 

The cop managed to get a good look at the car and its color, before reporting it having no idea that the guy who had just left was not a killer but instead a upset friend who had to see their boss/friend dead. "I have a license plate and color of the vehicle." The cop said to Wu, as he gave it to Wu before walking away as Wu went inside the shop where nick and hank were.

"Well, he was shot at close range. There's some powder burns on his clothing. Got some blood in his mouth." Nick said as he looked at Freddy's body.

"Internal bleeding, maybe." Hank said as he also looked at the body. "Looks kinda human." Hank added. "He took a bite out of his killer?" Wu asked Nick and Hank confused as to why the shop owner would bite his killer.

Nick pulled the skin out and looked at it. "Looks like it." Nick said as he put it in a bag, while Hank and Wu spoke. "Makes for some good DNA." Hank said. "Why kill the owner of a tea and spice shop? How much money could there be in a place like this?" Wu said. "Maybe he was dealing under the table." Hank suggested , before nick spoke. "I checked this guy out once before. There's a basement." Nick said, as they headed down to the basement. 

"Awful lot of herbs and spices." Nick said as he shined his flashlight seeing a big mess. "Yeah, who knows what all this stuff is." Hank said as he shined his flashlight looking at things. "We'd better get it all tested." Nick said still not entirely sure what was stolen but he did took to happy. "We've gotta check phone records and find next of kin." Hank said as they looked around, before heading back up the stairs. "And we have to find out who the mystery person was that run out the backdoor." Wu added.

Neil made it home from the shop and sat in his car a few minutes, before heading inside after locking his car, he unlocked the front door and headed inside his apartment. He relocated his door, before taking off his jacket and setting his keys in the bowl by the door, he ran a hand through his hair sighing as he thought about what happened to Freddy and as he thought about when he would see Shadow again. 

"I got a Rosalee Calvert, victim's sister. Listed as beneficiary, lives in Seattle." Nick looked at the file as him and hank walked to their desks, he sat the file down before sitting down in his chair. "You want me to make the call?" Hank asked him, as he sat down in his chair working on something else.

"No, it's my turn. Nick told Hank, as he typed in the phone number and waited for Rosalie to pick up. "Hello?" Rose said over the phone not knowing what had happened to her brother yet. "Is this Rosalee Calvert?" Nick asked her.

"Yes." Rose replied over the phone. "This is Detective Burkhardt from the Portland police department. Uh, you have a brother, Frederick Calvert?" Nick asked her not sure how exactly to explain to her what had happened.

"Yes." Rose replied again. "What's this about, did my brother do something wrong?" She asked the detective. 

"Your brother was killed this morning, we need you to come down here." Nick told her softly, before hanging up after Rosalie told him that she would be on her way there. "Got something for ya." Wu said as he brought them a file. "I got a hit on the car from the shop that drove off. It belongs to the shop owners assistant, Neil Schade who was working with the owner around the time of the attack." Wu gave them the file, before walking away. 

"Wait that last names familiar, isn't that the last name we had of the lawyer who was being targeted?" Hank asked. 

Nick looked at the guys file on the computer, as he thought about the last name of the lawyer they helped a couple of cases ago. "I believe so, looks like Neil is her older brother and has a clean record. So far he's only been in trouble for carrying a gun without a permanent, and getting into a bar fight with someone who apparently punched him first and started the fight."

"Huh, I guess we'll have to go pay him a visit then and see if he saw who did or if he knows who did it." Hank told Nick, Nick nodded his head as he went back to trying to figure this case out but he had a feeling it might be Weson related.

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