#Paul Eckart

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S06E08

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Imperial Crown of Russia or the Great Imperial Crown is one of the most outstanding examples of ‘regalia.’

Regalia is referred to as the emblems or insignia of royalty that survived through history.

It is a precious cultural heritage treasure — a well-documented and well-dated piece of jewellery.

Regalia jewellery pieces offer historians great insight into the gemstones used, their historical market values, and occurrences.

It also helps gemologists and jewellers to know how the gems were named and set on the piece of jewellery.

While royal crowns were usually made for individual rulers and later broken up, some of this royal regalia could be found in museums today.

Here are some interesting facts about one such royal artifact, the great Imperial Crown of Russia.

The Great Imperial Crown was made for Catherine the Great’s coronation, as the Russian Empress in 1762 AD, by Georg Friedrich Eckart and Jérémie Pauzié.

It is set with 4936 diamonds with a total weight of 2858 ct, 75 natural pearls, and a large 398.72 ct red spinel, historically known as “balas ruby,” which is among the largest ever reported in the literature, most probably from Badakhshan (today’s Tajikistan).

Imperial Crown of Russia was first worn by the Russian empress Catherine, followed by the subsequent seven emperors of her dynasty.

This royal regalia has remained a permanent fixture on the royal head.

This priceless artifact has been passed on to eight members of the Romanov family:

Catherine II, Peter III, Paul I, Alexander I, Nikolai I, Alexander II, Alexander III, and Nikolai II.

The Romanov dynasty survived till 1917, yet the crown publically appeared for the last time in 1906 at the opening ceremony of the first State Duma.

The crown was estimated to be worth $52 million in 1920.

The stones that the royal regalia comprises were sold off by the Bolsheviks and replaced in 1985.

Later in 1998, the crown was moved to the fund of Kremlin’s Diamond. Subsequently, it was declared to be priceless in a literal sense.

📷 : A modern replica version of the Imperial Crown was made in 2012 by Kristall-Smolensk, as part of the Jewellery project "Creation of Imperial Crown of Russia in Modern Interpretation" to celebrate the 400 years of the Romanov Dynasty and the 250 years of the Imperial Crown, as well as the 50th anniversary of the diamond industry in Russia.

Using white gold (original used silver) and 11,426 russian diamonds (original crown had 4,936 diamonds) from Alrosa with a total weight of 1180 ct, including 74 cultured pearls and a 384.71ct pear-shaped double rose cut purple tourmaline on top of the crown.

The spinel in the replica was replaced with a unique natural red tourmaline with a mass of about 400 karats.

[letters-tto-my-mother]

I can't see a future for myself and that scares me

I haven't taken my meds in over a year I want to be loved for me, not the sedated version of me

Me/Jordyne:

It seems like the worlds smiling without me

Should morals be dictated by fear of punishment?

They all had opinions of how the serial killer should be killed, and seemed to feel pity for his victims. I felt nothing, once again. I acted like I had a bit of an opinion but I really didn't. It felt the same as hearing what was for breakfast.

Why do you look like you just killed something?

I feel repulsed by my own body which somehow seems to be oozing germs, when there really isn't anything there. I wanna skin myself., claw my skin up and scrub underneath it so I'm clean. This is what it means to be sick, means to be constantly obsessed.

I love books that are

They just don't give out lobotamies like they used to anymore

(I'll say it to your face. Go fuck yourself.)

I've never felt romantically or sexually attracted to anyone before. I don't feel anything, including those things.

My Number One Man: Evangelos Kosmos

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That's okay. In taking the highest dose of medication they're allowed to give out and it's still not working

Alyssa/Aisha: Eyes scorched out & Beheaded

Charlize:

Hilise:

Kiera: Beheaded

Evienrose/Eve: Suicide by drinking poison

Louise:

Athanasia: Executed by hanging

Aria Roscente:

(Florentia):

Cayena:

Jayna:

By ,, Nakov

Nausea

1. Penelope & Callisto

2. Eris & Anakin

3. Ruby & Izek

4. Bianca & Zachary

5. Charlize & Dylan

6. Aria & Asher

7. Leticia & Erden

8. Olivia & Ian

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Vivi & Ahin / Ayesha & Hades / Cassia & Zester / Hilise & Axion / Lily & Vlad / Lariette & Ian /

1. Aria Roscente

2. Astelle Leston

3. Bianca De Arno

4. Cayena Hill

5. Charlize Ronan

6. Cassia Greze

7. Eris Misérian

8. Fiona Green

9. Hilise Inoaden

10. Kiera Parvis

11. Leticia Grey Halstead

12. Medea Solon

13. Penelope Eckart

14. Rudbeckia De Borgia

15. Roxana Agriche

16. Serena White

17. Soru

18. Tatiana Cartier

19. Verta Alberhart

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I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea

Notes from Underground

Novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm Thinking of Ending Things Novel by Iain Reid

House of Leaves Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski

The Butterfly Garden Book by Dot Hutchison

S. by Doug Dorst and JJ Abrams

This book is not a suicide note. Ten days after Edouard Leve handed in the manuscript of Suicide to his publisher in 2007, he hanged himself in his apartment. He was 42. Two years after Jean Amery's On Suicide was published in 1976, the author took an overdose of sleeping pills. He was 65. ... 

Notes on Suicide

Book by Simon Critchley

Nutmeg, Lemon juice, Vegetable Shortening, Garlic powder, Cocoa powder, Apple cider vinegar, Canola oil, Unsweetened milk, Colored dye, Soy Milk, Distilled vinegar, Soy sauce, better than bouillon vegetable paste*, Soy curls, Vegetable broth,

1 vegan yellow onion, vegan ground beef, chili powder, (oregano dried), paprika, unsweetened almond milk, vegan broth, rotini pasta, shredded vegan cheddar cheese,

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Thing I Want to Buy:

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You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.

...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.

These were good people and they had been good to us and we had therefore had a good time. To conclude otherwise was frightening, raising the specter of some unnameable quantity without which we could not abide, but which we could not summon on demand, least of all by proceeding in virtuous accordance with an established formula.

When you pushed me in the water, I swam I had to go my whole life learning, so that I wouldn't drown. You said you treated me like shit cause I deserved it When really you were just miserable with yourself

I let you

Cause I'm taking back my power,

Rico Nasty - Smack a Bitch

My Favourite Badass Girl's: Carter, Sloan,

Sloan D'Aboville: the Jefa of the Spanish mafia / La Jefa of the Spanish Mafia / evil, unforgiving and cold

Point of Menace : Sloan D'Aboville : the Jefa of the Spanish Mafia - evil, unforgiving and cold

Carter [ON HOLD] : Carter Knight : Leader of the Devil's Reapers (Mafia) -

Sinners like us don't find forgiveness in a church no more

This for my people going through depression This for the kids who never felt affection This for the kids whose parents don't accept them Saying they love everyone else except them

It seems like the worlds smiling without me

(God) (The Dream)

Why does my throat burn when I drink energy drinks?

If this happens to you, caffeine could be a culprit. "Caffeine relaxes esophageal sphincter, which allows acid to come up in the throat,"

2. You’re peeing orange

Urine that is dark yellow or orange is a telltale sign of dehydration. "Coffee is actually a diuretic that can lead to dehydration by increasing the amount you urinate so you lose too much body fluids," says Amy Gross, MPH, RD, CDN and a clinical dietician at New York Presbyterian Hospital. Caffeine usually doesn’t trigger dehydration until after you’ve had about 500 mg, so you should be safe if you stick to a cup or two of coffee a day.

"They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason."

It is not that [the sociopath] fails to grasp the difference between good and bad; it is that the distinction fails to limit their behavior.

Should our morals be dictated by fear of punishment?

I didn't think I'd make it to 12. I'm turning 18 this year.

Hearing words of love sounded like a record on repeat. You loved me, but I didn't love you.

Most days, it feels like I'm eating my own heart

I thought I needed to get worse before I could get better

Mother's often have nowhere to put their rage. More times than not, it gets directed towards their daughters, because they are a clear image of what they could've been. An unmoulded version they could make into something to feel as if they have accomplished something themselves.

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The truth is cruel. The people we love don't really love us back.

I cannot understand this feeling, and there's no way to explain it

Unless you are constantly exposed to a certain amount of pain, you will be afraid of it

Sometimes I wonder if there's something waiting for me in life. If maybe I'll wake up one day and suddenly want to live it.

You can't save me, and I'm afraid I'll drag you down with me

The side of me that was lovely, the side of me that cared about others. It made me sick to think that it was all a lie.

My mother tells me "Don't bleed on my floor," but she's constantly cutting me.

You told me you loved me my whole life, yet I never felt a thing

When the only emotion you ever showed me was anger, I welcomed it with open arms. I wanted you to feel something for me, even if all that was is rage.

In your eyes, what do I look like? Am I as bad as I make myself seem?

I had nowhere to put this sadness, so it turned into anger

A lifetime of sadness turns a person angry

I sat with my sadness long enough, until it became anger

Just because someone has it worse, doesn't mean you don't have it bad

I'm sorry that I broke your heart because I didn't know love

I'm sorry that I broke your heart because I didn't feel know love myself

I'm sorry that I broke your heart because I didn't know how yo love

I can't feel like others do so I end up hurting them by my bluntness ))

Thing Called Love

Not Sober

Rainstorm tixzystcks

Happy Face

Holy Molly

Famous Hoes

First Place

Virtual)) blue Balenciaga))

Robbin Hood

Hold Me While You Wait

Be Alright

Waves

I'm sorry that I broke your heart because I couldn't feel love in mine

Mafia Boss Female Lead's: Sloan D'Aboville (Point of Menace : RuStYtAbLeS) Carter Knight (Carter : Rachel1Levy)

Mafia Boss Male Lead's: Evangelos Kosmos [Gigi] (Serendipity & Sovereignty)

Medea Solon : ESTJ

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Aout MMXXIV

Films

Le Gendarme en balade (1970) de Jean Girault avec Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre, Christian Marin, Guy Grosso, Michel Modo, Claude Gensac, France Rumilly, Nicole Vervil et Dominique Davray

Ali (2001) de Michael Mann avec Will Smith, Jon Voight, Jamie Foxx, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright et Nona Gaye

Les Enchaînés (Notorious) (1946) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin et Reinhold Schünzel

Lettre d'une inconnue (Letter from an Unknown Woman) (1948) de Max Ophüls avec Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Art Smith, Leo B. Pessin, Marcel Journet, Mady Christians, Howard Freeman et Sonja Bryden

Lucky Jo (1964) de Michel Deville avec Eddie Constantine, Pierre Brasseur, Françoise Arnoul, Georges Wilson, Christiane Minazzoli, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Darras et André Cellier

Borg McEnroe (2017) de Janus Metz Pedersen avec Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf, Stellan Skarsgård, Tuva Novotny, Scott Arthur, Robert Emms et David Bamber

La Vérité (1960) de Henri-Georges Clouzot avec Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey, Marie-José Nat, Charles Vanel, Paul Meurisse, Louis Seigner, René Blancard et Colette Castel

Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) de Zack Snyder avec Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons et Diane Lane

La Chèvre (1981) de Francis Veber avec Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Robin, Corynne Charby, André Valardy, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. et Jorge Luke

Piège de cristal (Die Hard) (1988) de John McTiernan avec Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Paul Gleason et William Atherton

Le Samouraï (1967) de Jean-Pierre Melville avec Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy et Jacques Deschamps

La Piscine (1969) de Jacques Deray avec Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Maurice Ronet, Jane Birkin, Paul Crauchet, Suzie Jaspard et Steve Eckart

Forfaiture (1937) de Marcel L'Herbier avec Louis Jouvet, Lise Delamare, Ève Francis, Sylvia Bataille, Victor Francen, Sessue Hayakawa et Lucas Gridoux

The Batman (2022) de Matt Reeves avec Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, John Turturro, Andy Serkis

Plein Soleil (1960) de René Clément avec Alain Delon, Marie Laforêt, Maurice Ronet, Erno Crisa, Elvire Popesco, Frank Latimore et Billy Kearns

58 Minutes pour vivre (Die Hard 2) (1990) de Renny Harlin avec Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Dennis Franz, Franco Nero, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson, Fred Thompson, Art Evans, John Amos, Tom Bower et Sheila McCarthy

Mort d'un pourri (1977) de Georges Lautner avec Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Mireille Darc, Maurice Ronet, Michel Aumont, Jean Bouise, Daniel Ceccaldi, Julien Guiomar et Klaus Kinski

The Layover (2017) de William H. Macy avec Alexandra Daddario, Kate Upton, Matt Barr, Matt L. Jones, Rob Corddry, Kal Penn et Molly Shannon

Une journée en enfer (Die Hard with a Vengeance) (1995) de John McTiernan avec Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Larry Bryggman, Graham Greene et Colleen Camp

Séries

Le Coffre à Catch

#179 : Le festival de Kane ! - #180 : Jack Swagger repasse par la ECW ! - #181 : Les adieux de Tommy Dreamer (Colby en fil rouge) - #182 : Bret et Shawn font la paix et on termine le Homecoming!

Castle Saison 7

Sans relâche - Montréal - Une force invisible - Un problème enfantin - Un buzz foudroyant - De parfaits inconnus - Les Mystères de l'Ouest - Chevalier blanc - Action! - Un Noël dans la mafia - Castle, détective privé - L'affaire est dans le sac - Devant mes yeux - Résurrection - Règlement de comptes

The Durrells : une famille anglaise à Corfou Saison 3, 4

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6 - Episode 7 - Episode 8 - Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6

Biography: WWE Legends Saison 3

Paige - Yokozuna

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

Le Prisonnier du château d'If - Le Revenant - Les Scélérats - La Vengeance

Maguy Saison 7

Suzanne désespérément - OPA comique - Hallali conjugal - Qui l'eût "crue" ? - Dernier de Corday - La mégère à prix Boissier - Absence unique - Un monde chou, chou, chou - Flamme fatale - Le déchargé de mission - Ice-cream et châtiment - L'âge de déraison - Un ome peut en cacher un autre - Maguy rock - Direction assistée - La vie en roses - Le bazar et la nécessité - Le salaire du rappeur - Pas commode d'emploi - Maguyvaudages - Sauve qui puce - SOS vampires - Il est 5 heures, Maguy s'éveille - Certains l'aiment faux

Commissaire Moulin Saison 1

Petite Hantise - Cent mille soleils - Affectation spéciale

Commissaire Dupin

Une famille endeuillée - La morte rose

Affaires sensibles

Bambi, vedette de cabaret et femme ordinaire - Simone Weber, "la diabolique de Nancy"

Spectacles

Adele at the BBC (2015)

ABBA : Live at Wembley Arena (1979)

Bénabar : Live au Grand Rex (2004)

Eddy Mitchell : Ma dernière séance (2011) à l'Olympia

Livres

Les Disparus de Trégastel de Jean-Luc Bannalec

Nota Bene, tome 6 : La Vie au Moyen Âge de Benjamin Brillaud, Phil Castaza, Christian Paty et Mathieu Mariolle

Les Schtroumpfs, tome 11 : Les Schtroumpfs olympiques de Peyo

Astérix, tome 12 : Astérix aux jeux Olympiques de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

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[Konzert] Trio Jean Paul - ein wirklich schönes Konzert

In meinem Bekanntenkreis gibt es viele, die sagen immer wieder, dass ich in die Gießener Meisterkonzerten gehen soll. Dies ist ein Verein, der besondere Künstler nach Gießen holt, entweder im Winter für Konzerte im Konzertsaal im Rathaus Gießen oder im Sommer als Basilikakonzerte auf dem Schiffenberg. So also diesmal im Konzertsaal in unserem Rathaus der Stadt Gießen. Ich bin also mal mitgeschleift worden und ganz ehrlich, dieses Mitschleifen hat sich wirklich gelohnt! Es sind sehr nette Menschen, die einen dort mit einem Lächeln begrüßen. Diese Freundlichkeit erzeugt in mir jedes Mal gleich eine besondere Vorfreude, denn ich finde, das drum herum muss immer passen. Was soll ich sagen? Der Konzertsaal war wirklich gut gefüllt und ganz ehrlich, dies freut mich immer wieder sehr. Dass der Verein hervorgehoben hat, dass diesmal auch unser Oberbürgermeister Frank Tilo Becher bei dem Konzert dabei war, und dass es bis jetzt noch kein Bürgermeister vorher geschafft hat, vorbei zu kommen, muss ich sagen, ist ein Armutszeugnis für die Vorgänger, denn auf der anderen Seite im Stadttheater habe ich sie doch häufiger gesehen. Und da ist es mir nun vollkommen egal, ob es nun unser Oberbürgermeister oder Landtagsabgeordneter oder Bundestagsabgeordneter ist, es wäre schön, wenn man die Lokale Kultur egal ob nun Stadttheater oder solche Vereine wie die Meisterkonzerte doch häufiger mal besucht, denn solche Kulturvereine egal wo machen einfach einen tollen Job und ohne die wäre es noch ruhiger wie teilweise ohnehin schon. Einfach mal als Politiker so eine Wertschätzung auszudrücken, wäre wünschenswert. Aber ich schweife mal wieder ab. Es sollte ja eigentlich um die Musik gehen und nicht um die Politik. Das Trio Jean Paul ist eines der wohl profiliertesten Kammermusik-Ensembles. Dies macht nun einen Zwischenstopp in Gießen, und tritt danach in Italien auf. Die Gruppe besteht aus Eckart Heiligers am Klavier, Ulf Schneider an der Violine und Martin Löhr am Violoncello. Als erstes gab es Johannes Brahms mit dem Klaviertrio Nr. 1 H-Dur op. 8 in der Urfassung von 1854. Schon nach dem Allegro con moto wäre ich am liebsten aufgestanden und hätte applaudiert. Wie diese drei Musiker sich gemeinsam ergänzen ist einfach wunderbar. Ich habe immer so ein bisschen Probleme mit der Violine. Wenn sie nicht mit einem anderen Instrument, wie z.B. dem Violoncello, ergänzt wird, greift es gerne mal meine Nerven an. Ich habe es da immer gerne ein wenig mit einem etwas tieferen oder voluminöseren Instrument umspielt. Und schon bei dem Allegro con moto muss ich sagen war dies wirklich meisterhaft. Gepaart mit diesem Klavierspiel war das einfach ein Genuss. Weiter ging es mit dem Scherzo Allegro molto - Trio Meno Allegro und es wurde immer besser in meinen Ohren. Ich konnte in dieser Musik und dieser Stimmung einfach ein wenig versinken. Es war im allgemeinen eine ganz andächtige und besondere Stimmung in dem Saal. Ich war wie gefangen und gefesselt in diesen Melodien, die diese drei Ausnahmemusiker auf der Bühne gespielt haben. Es wurde nicht schlechter, eher im Gegenteil. Weder das Adagio non troppo noch das Finale zeigten Schwächen. Vor allem das Spiel von Martin Löhr hat mich wirklich fasziniert. Auch wenn dies vielleicht noch ein wenig besser gehen könnte, wie meine fachkundigere Begleitung meinte, war dieses Zusammenspiel der drei Instrumente in meinen Ohren nahezu perfekt. So könnte ich mir vorstellen, hat es sich Brahms auch gewünscht, dass er 170 Jahre später noch gespielt wird. Nach der Pause gab es Robert Schumann mit dem Klaviertrio d-Moll op. 63. Die drei Musiker waren hier irgendwie nicht so perfekt im Einklang. Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass mir Brahms mehr liegt. Dies ist mir nun aber eine zu einfache Erklärung, da ich bei klassischer Musik schon oft gemerkt habe, dass ich die Stücke in Moll oft besonders mag, aber diesmal war es anders. Es gab Passagen, die mich wirklich mitgerissen haben, wo ich nur noch in der Musik sitzen wollte, ich die Augen geschlossen hatte und alles um mich herum vergessen habe. Lustiger Weise waren dies meistens genau die Passagen, die meine Begleitung bemängelt hat. Ich habe dafür Stellen bemängelt, die sie toll fand. Musik ist doch eine Gefühlssache. Da merkt man dann wieder, dass man das gleiche hören, aber unterschiedlicher Meinung sein kann. Deswegen sollte man sich einfach hinsetzen und es genießen. Jeder von uns hat andere Erfahrungen und andere Vorlieben. Was uns aber beiden aufgefallen ist, dass das Stück von Robert Schumann nicht ganz an die Perfektion des Klaviertrios von Brahms herankam. Dies kann einfach manchmal daran liegen, dass man das Stück vielleicht noch nicht so oft zusammen gespielt hat, oder das man es zu oft zusammen gespielt hat und man flüchtig vielleicht nicht zu 100% bei der Sache ist, oder an der Interpretation des Stückes, oder einfach an einem schlechten Tag. Musik ist emotional und kann auch so beeinflusst werden. Dies sind allerdings Kleinigkeiten! Was ich gehört habe fand ich einfach hervorragend aber je mehr Klassik ich höre, desto häufiger fallen mir Kleinigkeiten auf, die mich vielleicht früher nicht gestört haben und die ich wahrscheinlich auch gar nicht bemerkt hätte. Während ich Brahms dicht an der Perfektion empfand, waren es beim zweiten Stück Kleinigkeiten, wo die Abstimmung ein wenig gefehlt hat. Es war trotzdem wunderschön! Ich bekomme bei beiden Stücken, wenn ich daran denke noch Gänsehaut und so ein wohliges Gefühl, welches mir ein eigentlich perfekter Konzertabend bereitet. Ganz ehrlich, ich kann es nicht verstehen, dass der Veranstalter sich gefreut hat, dass dieses Konzert fast ausverkauft war. Es hätte eigentlich ausverkauft sein müssen! Ich habe noch immer freie Plätze gesehen und wenn ich überlege, dass die teuersten Karten gerade einmal 21 € kosten und die günstigsten Plätze 17 €, gibt es keinen Grund, nicht ins Konzert zu gehen. Dafür bekommt man Klassische Musik der Spitzenklasse! Lasst uns doch einfach mal diesen Saal vollmachen! Der nächste Termin ist der 17. März 2024 mit dem erweiterten Klaviertrio Hannover. Somit bin ich wieder bei dem Thema vom Anfang. Warum geht man ins Konzert im Stadttheater, aber nicht in ein Meisterkonzert mit wirklich namhaften und tollen Musikern? Beide Konzertformen sind einen Besuch wert. Ich habe sehr langen Applaus erlebt, vor der Pause, genauso wie nach dem Konzert. Es wurde auch noch eine Zugabe gegeben. Ich glaube dies zeigt, dass es ein toller Abend war, zumindest habe ich bei Jung und Alt ein Leuchten in den Augen gesehen, genauso wie ein strahlendes Lächeln und immer wieder die Worte: Das war wunderschön. Dies zeigt sehr deutlich, dass da etwas Besonderes stattgefunden hat. Schaut doch einfach auch mal vorbei. Versucht es, genießt es und wenn es euch dann wider Erwarten nicht gefällt, dann könnt ihr wenigstens sagen, dass ihr es versucht habt. Wenn ohnehin bereits zu den Kammerkonzerten oder allgemein Konzerten ins Stadttheater geht, dann geht auch mal über die Straße ins Rathaus zu den Meisterkonzerten. Ihr werdet es nicht bereuen, dies kann ich euch nach dem heutigen Abend versprechen. Lesen Sie den ganzen Artikel

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A Napoli domani il Trio Jean Paul per stagione della Scarlatti

Schumann e Brahms nel programma del concerto dell’ensemble tedesco Trio Jean Paul, domani, 18 gennaio (ore 20.30), nel Teatro Sannazaro di Napoli, per inaugurare la seconda parte della stagione musicale dell’Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti. Fondato nel 1991 e composto da Ulf Schneider (violino), Martin Löhr (violoncello) e Eckart Heiligers (pianoforte), propone nell’esibizione in programma a…

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461) Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP, German Workers' Party, Niemiecka Partia Robotników - założona 5 stycznia 1919 roku partia polityczna będąca prekursorką Narodowosocjalistycznej Niemieckiej Partii Robotników (NSDAP). Niemiecka Partia Robotników została założona 5 stycznia 1919 w monachijskim hotelu „Fürstenfelder Hof”. W zebraniu założycielskim uczestniczyło 20–30 osób, głównie kolejarzy. Jej liderami zostali ślusarz Anton Drexler oraz dziennikarz Karl Harrer. Uczestnikiem zebrania był także Paul Tafel reprezentujący Związek Wszechniemiecki, członek tajnego stowarzyszenia Towarzystwo Thule oraz jeden z dyrektorów MAN AG (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg Aktiengesellschaft). Nadał on ton dyskusji, aby nowa organizacja stała się masowa i z ducha nacjonalistyczna. Karl Harrer był także członkiem Towarzystwa Thule, prawdopodobnie jego zamiarem było przejęcie przez stowarzyszenie pełni wpływów w nowej partii. Partia budziła także zainteresowanie Reichswehry – zebrania partyjne były ochraniane przez jej członków po cywilnemu, brali oni także udział w rozpędzaniu siłą jej przeciwników. Draxler i Harrer stawiali sobie za cel walkę z wpływami marksistowskimi wśród niemieckich robotników. Na skutek sukcesu rewolucji październikowej, komunizm zdobywał wówczas sporą popularność w Niemczech. Adolf Hitler pojawił się na spotkaniu DAP po raz pierwszy 12 września 1919. Hitler był wówczas tajnym wywiadowcą Reichswehry, zajmował się śledzeniem działalności ugrupowań politycznych w Monachium. Gdy przemawiał Gottfried Feder nie przejawiał zainteresowania. Włączył się do gwałtownej dyskusji w momencie, gdy prelegentem był gość, profesor Adalbert Baumann, mówiący o bawarskim separatyzmie. Hitler bronił postulatu integralności Rzeszy. W trakcie gwałtownej dyskusji profesor Baumann opuścił salę. Pod wrażeniem oratorskich talentów Hitlera, Drexler zaprosił go na kolejne spotkanie. Wkrótce Hitler otrzymał od niego kartę pocztową, informującą, że 16 września został członkiem DAP. Na legitymacji Hitlera z dnia 1 stycznia 1920 widnieje numer 555. Partia nie liczyła jednak aż tylu członków, w rzeczywistości Hitler był 55 członkiem, numeracja legitymacji rozpoczynała się od numeru 501. Pozycja partii była bardzo słaba. Nie posiadała żadnej poważnej struktury, nie miała także zbyt wielu członków. Jej ogłoszenia propagandowe były często przepisywane ręcznie. Nie miała także żadnego majątku. Spotkania odbywały się w monachijskich piwiarniach. Grupą docelową mieli być byli żołnierze I wojny światowej. Zwalczali programowo demokrację parlamentarną. Harrer i Drexler nie byli dobrymi mówcami, Hitler szybko wykorzystał tę okazję. Harrer ustąpił z miejsca przewodniczącego po konflikcie z Hitlerem. Drexler zajął jego miejsce. 24 lutego 1920 odbyło się spotkanie zwolenników i przeciwników przywództwa DAP. Drexler był nieobecny, więc Hitler zaangażował się w przemówienie. Udało mu się przekonać 2000 obecnych tam osób do swojego stanowiska. Pozycja Hitlera od tego momentu była niezachwiana. Wkrótce, 6 kwietnia 1920, nastąpiła zmiana nazwy partii na NSDAP. Wzorowano ją na istniejącej w Austrii Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei (DNSAP). 29 lipca 1921 szefem NSDAP został Hitler. Oprócz Hitlera, Drexlera, Harrera i Federa członkami partii byli między innymi:

Dietrich Eckart

Alfred Rosenberg

Hans Frank

Ernst Boepple

Członkiem DAP był także przyszły szef Sturmabteilung (SA) Ernst Röhm.

[bexfangirlforlife]

I got major Toris flashbacks watching this. I swear there were these two lines that had so much Boris vibes (and I'm not even talking about the I'm gay statement), like I've heard that exact tone of voice and the rythm (or whatever you wanna call it) in the line delivery on Sturm.

Ok I know what a surprise same actor etc etc, but everything together, triggered my inner toris fangirl so hard.

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S10E06

[superghfan]

Ned Ashton (Wally Kurth), Jenny Eckart (Cheryl Richardson) and Paul Hornsby (Paul Satterfield)

[malenipshadows]

  *** Prosecutors encouraged the judges to reject Manafort's argument that the witness tampering allegations against him are less worrisome than in some other cases because no threat of force was involved.  ...    U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson — who oversees the criminal case Manafort faces in Washington over charges of money laundering, failing to register as a foreign agent and the new witness tampering charges — canceled the veteran lobbyist's house arrest on June 15 and ordered him into federal custody.  ...    Manafort's trial in Virginia on tax evasion, bank fraud and failure to report foreign bank accounts is set to begin on July 25. The D.C. case is set to follow on Sept. 17. ***

[redsoxfantasycamp]

Our Monday recap includes everything from the drafted teams to Sports Center Top 10 catches in the outfield.

 The morning started off with a practice that was meant to loosen up the muscles, but what it turned into was a tryout for the campers to be scouted by their favorite coaches. The looming worry about the lunch time draft left players diving for fly balls, swinging the bat to hit the ball to the moon, and straining muscles they didn’t even know they had. It was as if they were that little kid again in gym class, waiting for their name to be called onto a team. Don’t fret campers, everyone gets drafted! Participation trophies for all!

 The doors then closed and the coaching staff got started on the draft. The room was tense as each name was taken and put onto the board. Victor Rodriguez and Frank Viola got into a scrum over a player who they thought would lead them to the 2020 Fantasy Camp Championship. Trot and Dauber whispered side by side, strategically planning their next move. Alan Embree talked up players he knew nothing about to try and throw off next round choices, but the group caught on to his guerrilla warfare tactics. El Tiante fell asleep.

 And finally, your 2020 Fantasy Camp teams:

 Billy’s Ballgamers

BILL MUELLER, KEITH FOULKE

 DAVID CATALANO

BRUCE DIAZ

MICHAEL DIXON

JEFFERY FRAZIER

THOMAS GRAZIANO

STEVE KNOTT

JAMES MOROSCHAK

HOWARD NELSON

ERIC ROUKEY

JACK SANDLER

SCOTT SARIAN

BRIAN STOLTZ

THOMAS URBANSKI

  Cori’s Fireballers

JIM CORSI, JOHN VALENTIN

 CHRISTINA ALAVIAN

JAMES ANTONELLIS

HEATH BAKER

JOSHUA BOSLEY

JON BROLIN

JEFFREY BROOKS

MICHAEL BURNS

PHILIP PRATT

RANDY ROBINSON

JUSTIN STEINBACH

RUSSELL UPTEGROVE

SCOTT VIBERT

RON YOUNG

  Embree’s Outlaws

ALAN EMBREE, MANNY DELCARMEN

 BOB CONNORS

DARYLL DODA

BRIAN DRULA

MIKE FRANCIS

DAVE GREEN

DAVID HALL

ROBERT  SULLIVAN

TOM SULLIVAN

CURT SWIFT

CHRISTOPHER SWIFT

CURTIS SWIFT II

JOHN TOINTIGH

LEO YORKELL

  Gedman’s Bombers

RICH GEDMAN, RICK WISE, DAVE SMITH

JOE GILL

ERIC GRANDMAISON

MIKE GRANDMAISON

JIM HUTCHISON

MARK KENTON

MATTHEW MARSHALL

TONY MATEUS

JOHN MONAHAN

LUI REDIGONDA

MONIKA SELMONT

RICHARD SHINKLE

GARY STEVENS

CHARLES WU

Hobson’s Heroes

BUTCH HOBSON, RICH GARCES, LUIS TIANT

 FRANK CASTIGLIONE

CHRISTOPHER DECATUR

ROY KAPLAN

JAMES KELLY

JIM KELLY

RYAN KELLY

JAMES MACHADO

DANIEL MCKENZIE

JEFF MILLAR

ROBERT  MILLER

JOHN PITTMAN

STEVE PITTMAN

RICHARD STRAUSS

STEPHEN WOLFE

  Lenny’s Legends

LENNY DINARDO, POKEY REESE

 EVAN ANDERSON

PAUL ANDERSON

DOUGLAS  BISSANTI

ALAN CASTELLANOS

BRIAN ECKART

JIM FORBUSH

PETER GAW

MARINO JIMENEZ

TIM  KEEFE

CHARLES ORNDORFF

PAUL PEREIRA

BRIAN STACK

BRIAN SULLIVAN

  Nixon’s DirtDogs

TROT NIXON, BRIAN DAUBACH

 CONNER DRIGOTAS

FRANK DRIGOTAS

CHARLIE EARL

MARK ELGART

IAN HAY

STEVE KINGSTON

SEAN LEE

KEVIN LOW

BRIAN  MCWHINNIE

JOE  MUSTO

SCOTT SNOW

MICHAEL SYLVESTER

VINCENT  WELCH

 Sabe’s Babes

BRET SABERHAGEN, TOM GORDON

 JONATHAN BEAN

CHARLES CAWLINA

DEAN COHEN

DAVID DORAN

PAUL EDWARDS

BILLY  GRANT

BRIAN HABIG

CHARLEY HOWE

KEVIN HYATT

HERB SARGENT

JEFFREY VACHON

RICK VACHON

MIKE WALDEN

  Stanley’s Steamers

BOB STANLEY, BOB MONTGOMERY, AL BUMBRY

 DON AMIRALIAN

ERIK BOVASSO

JOSEPH BRADY

JON DAVIS

MIKE DIPALMA

TOM FREEMAN

JOHN GARREN

JADE HERBST

TODD KOPCZYNSKI

MARK OBERT

RANDY OCHAB

ROB SCHRAGER

DANNY TANGEN

  Wins & Saves

FRANK VIOLA, JEFF REARDON, VICTOR RODRIGUEZ

 DOUG BELAIR

MATTHEW BELAIR

DANIEL CALLAHAN

STEPHEN CAMP

BOB HENAULT

AL  HERNANDEZ

DENIS IBEY

JUSTIN JAGHER

JIM KENNEY

JEFF PERRY

DAVID POMERANZ

GREG RUSHFORD

BRANDON THOMPSON

JIM VIEIRA

  The teams got together, sang a cheer, and headed out to the fields to try and win their first regular season match.

 The Bombers and Heroes had a close game in the main stadium. The campers got fired up as their name could be heard over the loud speakers walking up to the plate. Each team was facing the sun in the outfield. Their chances of catching any fly balls was slim. Against all odds, they rose to the occasion! There were multiple catches made that had the crowd jumping up and down, cheering in pure amazement. Steve Wolfe (Awwwoooooooo) made an unbelievable, almost backwards, snag in the right center. The Heroes were able to rally and win 4-6.

 Sabe’s Babes and Wins & Saves was a different story. Wins and Saves crushed the Babes, 14-6. Bret Saberhagen was seen shedding a tear in the dugout after the game, while coach Tom Gordon flipped the Gatorade cooler. Yikes… Wins & Saves, congrats on the first game W and welcome to the winner’s circle- for now.

 The Legends and the Outlaws had 27 runs all together. These games were coach pitched. Maybe our coaches should get some more practice in before lobbing the ball over the plate. Campers, take it while you can! That was just a warm up. Embree’s Outlaws outlasted the Legends, and came away with the 15-12 victory.

 Something must have been in the water at JetBlue Park yesterday morning, because there was another 29 run game. Stanley’s Steamers and Corsi’s Fireballers went neck and neck, fighting until the last inning. Corsi was seen pacing the dugout, almost about the charge the Ump, at every play. After last camp, Corsi was longing for a team that could win a game. And gosh dammit, the Fireballers did not disappoint. His team ended the drought and won the game 15-14. Corsi, your luck may be changing!

 The last game was a blowout not usually seen during coach pitched games. Billy’s Ballgamers demolished Nixon’s DirtDogs 18-3. You heard it here folks, 18-3. Trot is known for pitching zingers against his own team, but was that the reasoning here? Or did Billy “Where’s the sunscreen?” Mueller and Keith “I need to take a nap” Foulke draft the dream team to beat?

 We’ll have to wait and see!

[theresidentnews]

“Queens” Press Release

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18

BELL IS AT A CROSSROADS WITH QUOVADIS ON AN ALL-NEW "THE RESIDENT" MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, ON FOX

Lynn Whitfield ("Greenleaf") Guest-Stars

Bell's confidence in Quovadis continues to waver when the poster child for one of its medical devices, Henry Barnett (guest star Evan Whitten), is rushed back into the ER, experiencing seizure-like symptoms. Meanwhile, Mina's past comes to light when her mother, famous Nigerian surgeon Dr. Okeke (guest star Lynn Whitfield), pays a visit to Chastain, and Conrad makes a risky move when Henry returns to the hospital in the all-new "Queens" episode of THE RESIDENT airing Monday, Feb. 18 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (RES-215) (TV-14 L,V)

Cast: Matt Czuchry as Conrad Hawkins, Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Randolph Bell, Emily VanCamp as Nicolette, Manish Dayal as Devon Pravesh, Shaunette Renée Wilson as Mina Okafor, Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Dr. AJ Austin, Jane Leeves as Dr. Kitt Voss and Glenn Morshower as Marshall Winthrop.

Guest Cast: Tasso Feldman as Dr. Irving Feldman, Michael Weston as Gordon Page, Daniella Alonso as Zoey Barnett, Evan Whitten as Henry Barnett, Michael Hogan as Dr. Albert Nolan, Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Okeke, Erinn Westbrook as Adaku Eze, Robert Rescigno as Brent Trainor, Paul Rescigno as Milo Trainor, Jessica Miesel as Nurse Jessica Moore, and Paul Schackman as Dr. Todd Eckart.

[washoeri]

Begierig sind wir zu schauen«, schreibt Friedrich Hölderlin in seiner Hymne »Der Ister«. Geht es uns, nach den langen Wochen des Wartens, nicht ähnlich? Das Kunstmuseum Singen zeigt zum Neustart ein Fest für das Auge: Höhepunkte und Neuzugänge aus der Sammlung. Die Sommerausstellung spannt dabei den Bogen über rund 100 Jahre Kunstgeschichte am Bodensee, im Hegau und im deutschen Südwesten von den Künstlern auf der Höri bis hin zu zeitgenössischen Positionen heute.

Mit »Sehen was war. Die Höri-Künstler und ihr Umkreis.«  und  »Sehen was ist. Kunst der Gegenwart im Bodenseeraum.« vermittelt die Ausstellung auf zwei Stockwerken und 1000 qm Werke der Höri-Künstler Otto Dix, Erich Heckel, Max Ackermann, Curth Georg Becker, Helmuth Macke, Walter Herzger, Ferdinand Macketanz u.v.a. sowie zeitgenössische Positionen von Beni Bischof, Isa Dahl, Johannes Dörflinger, Felix Droese, Eckhard Froeschlin, Eckart Hahn, Friedemann Hahn, Daniel Hausig, Susanne Hofmann, Velimir Ilisevic, Thomas Kitzinger, Gerold Miller, Harald F. Müller, Gerhard Opitz, Jürgen Plamtag, Miriam Prantl, Klaus Prior, Johannes ›Jo‹ Rave, Rudolf Schoofs, Hans Schüle, Paul Schwer, Gabriel Vormstein, Markus Weggenmann und Simone Westerwinter.

[expatimes]

When Africa was a German laboratory

At the turn of the 20th century, epidemics of trypanosomiasis, or "sleeping sickness" as it is more commonly known, started to appear across Africa. A vector-borne parasitic disease causing apathy, slow movement, speech disorders, physical weakness and death, sleeping sickness raised alarm among European colonisers on the continent who feared that its spread could slow down the African workforce, and subsequently their colonial projects.

In 1906, a renowned German scientist traveled to East Africa with his wife and assistants to try and find a “cure” for the disease. He set up a sleeping sick “concentration camp” for East Africans, and started to “treat” them with Atoxyl - a reagent containing arsenic - even though it was known to cause pain, blindness and even death.

That scientist's name was Robert Koch.

Today, Koch's legacy lives on across Germany. The city of Berlin is full of plaques, monuments, and statues bearing his name and praising his medical accomplishments. The German federal agency responsible for disease control and prevention, which is currently leading the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, is also named after Koch.

Best known for his research on cholera and tuberculosis, Koch is considered to be the founder of modern microbiology and one of the finest scientists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1905 for his research on tuberculosis and gained international acclaim for his discoveries. His four postulates, used to establish a causative relationship between a microbe and a disease, are taught in high school biology lessons to this day, solidifying young students' understanding of disease, infection, and environment.

Today, while Koch's discoveries and accomplishments are well known and highly celebrated in Germany and the world, his expedition to East Africa rarely gets a mention. At the time of writing this article, even on Wikipedia, where his early life, education and career are discussed in detail, there is no mention of his work in Africa. There is no question that Koch designed, set up, and personally ran medical concentration camps in East Africa, causing immeasurable suffering and pain for thousands of people. So why are his colonial endeavours being ignored in modern conversations about his legacy?

Koch's advocates might argue that his notable contributions to the field of biology outweigh his brief expedition to East Africa. However, the influence Koch had on colonial Africa was not limited to the few years he spent on the continent. Moreover, his decision to conduct on African people medical experiments that were deemed too dangerous for Europeans had overreaching consequences that influence the way the Western scientific community treats Africans to this day.

When sleeping sickness struck Africa over a century ago, the disease was poorly understood. While its dangers were well known, both in Europe and in Africa, little could be done to prevent its spread.

Nevertheless, scientists in Germany came up with several remedies that they believed could be effective against sleeping sickness, as well as other illnesses widespread in Europe, such as syphilis. They tested these remedies on animals, but growing suspicions about medical experiments on humans in Europe meant these concoctions could not be tried on German test subjects. In Africa, however, there was no comparable public resistance, and colonial authorities cared little about the impact such experiments could have on Africans.

So when Koch embarked on his expedition to East Africa, his main task was to test these remedies - many of them containing poisonous substances like arsenic - on humans. It is hard to determine whether Koch's primary concern was to cure East Africans suffering from this horrible disease or to use them as guinea pigs to ascertain the efficiency of remedies that can also be used in the treatment of other illnesses widely affecting Europeans.

Was Robert Koch a racist willing to conduct dangerous experiments on Black people for the benefit of Germany or a canny scientist who took risks to heal the sick?

We may never know the definitive answer to this question. What we do know, however, is that regardless of his intentions, Koch's actions directly contributed to the colonial oppression of African people.

After arriving in East Africa, Koch established the Bugula sleeping sickness research camp and started “treating” up to 1,000 people a day with Atoxyl and other untested reagents. As historian Manuela Bauche explains, it is unclear how this many locals ended up in Koch's camp, and whether they were informed of the likely effects the toxic “treatments” would have on their bodies.

Koch's experiences and experiments in the Bugula camp set the standard for combating sleeping sickness in Germany's African colonies. Not only did Atoxyl establish itself as the standard drug in the treatment of sleeping sickness, but Koch's proposal to establish many more “concentration camps” - the name he himself gave to these facilities - to isolate the sick from the healthy and continue human experimentations, were taken to heart by German authorities.

By the time Koch left the continent in October 1907, three sleeping sick “concentration camps” had been established in German East Africa, and five such institutions were found in the German West African colonies, that is, present-day Togo and Cameroon.

In these camps, as Wolfgang U Eckart explains in his research paper, The Colony as Laboratory: German Sleeping Sickness Campaigns in German East Africa, thousands of Africans became the objects of dangerous therapeutical and pharmacological research. Scientists running the camps routinely gave different doses of Atoxyl to their "patients" and monitored the side effects they experienced. According to Pittsburg University historian Mary K Webel, at the Bugula camp established by Koch himself, test subjects were made to wear wooden identification tags around their necks or wrists and subjected to a series of dehumanising assessments. Their eyes, ears, and limbs were regularly punctured with needles in an effort to extract what scientists called Krankenmaterial, or “sick material”, from their bodies. The data collected in these camps was eventually shared with British officials, who were also trying to tackle sleeping sickness outbreaks in their colonies.

Faced with a deadly epidemic that could devastate the labor force and crash the economy, Koch and his contemporaries embarked on a quest to find a cure or at least a method to contain the spread of the disease. By choosing to conduct experiments that they deemed too dangerous for European populations on Africans, they created and sustained racial hierarchies of experimentation. In light of the international race to find a vaccine for COVID-19, these are issues that we should be wary of today.

In April 2020, two French doctors suggested in a TV show that a potential vaccine for coronavirus should first be tested on people in Africa.

“It may be provocative,” said Jean-Paul Mira, head of the intensive care unit at the Cochin Hospital in Paris. “Should we not do this study in Africa where there are no masks, no treatment or intensive care, a little bit like it's been done for certain AIDS studies, where among prostitutes, we try things, because we know that they are highly exposed and don't protect themselves? ”

His comments caused an uproar, and led many to publicly challenge the idea that “Africa is a testing lab for Europe”.

The French doctors' suggestion, however, did not come out of the blue. Over a century ago, when faced with a deadly novel disease, European colonial officials did not think twice before using Africans as test subjects, without seeking their acquiescence or informing them of the risks.

Koch was a brilliant scientist, and he likely genuinely wanted to cure sleeping sickness and improve the health and lives of those who suffered from the illness. Nevertheless, the methods he used to try and find a cure and the conditions he set up to contain the disease were rooted in colonial hierarchies. He not only poisoned thousands of people but also contributed to the widespread acceptance of the idea that, when it comes to medical ethics, different rules apply to Africa and Europe. As we continue to search for a vaccine or potential cure for the novel coronavirus, it is important to take heed from the dark chapters of the past, so that Africa is no longer a living laboratory for western scientists.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.

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