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lorirwritesfanfic · 4 years ago

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What’s Left Unsaid

Author's note: I'm soooo in the mood for drama lately 😈 [Leading characters are owned by Pixelberry Studios and original characters are creations of the author]

Book: Desire & Decorum (modern day AU) Characters: MC (Daphne), Ernest Sinclaire, Briar Daly, Harry Foredale, Dominique Foredale, F!OC (Alisha) Pairings: Ernest Sinclaire x MC (Daphne), Prince Hamid x MC (Daphne) Rating: T Word count: 3507 Summary: Hours before travelling to spend a week with Hamid, Daphne receives an odd invitation from Ernest. Yet, neither of them is ready to handle the inevitable conversation. Based on the music prompt: How Do We Make It?

"All set?" Briar asked before she took a malteser to her mouth.

"Yep. Everything is packed," the lady answered, closing her toiletry bag and putting it over her suitcase.

Leaning back on the plush couch, Briar ate more of the round biscuits coated with chocolate and frowned at her friend's luggage. "I understand you want to spend as much time as you can with Hamid. Believe me, I totally get it and support it. But why do you have to leave so soon?"

"You make it sound like we won't be living together for the most part of the next three and a half years."

"But you're leaving me again during this sensitive period I'm going through," Briar whined.

"It's just a week. You can survive without me for the time being."

"What if I need help? I can't call you anytime I want. I don't want to cockblock you and Hamid now that I know you’ll be on a dry spell until the end of March."

“It’ll be a little longer than that. Ramadan starts a few days before he returns to Cornell and he’ll have to abstain from anything that incites impure thoughts, but that’s beside the point. Just call Annabelle."

"Really? Ooof…” Briar made a face.

“Briar!” The lady glared at her friend.

“Sorry…” Briar smiled sheepishly. “But back to my problem, I don’t know. Annabelle's idea of tough love may be a little too tough for me." Briar's nose wrinkled in annoyance.

"Maybe it's just what you need." Daphne gave her friends a knowing look, who replied with a scowl. "You could also become friends with Alisha. She's really sweet."

"We barely know each other. I can't exactly call her in the middle of the night and ask her to help me not to send dirty texts to Ed."

"Well, I don't think you should call his step sister to talk about that, but it never stopped you before," Daphne joked.

"Hey!" Briar grabbed a pillow and threw it at the lady, making her laugh.

The two of them continued to tease each other when the viscountess's mobile got a notification.

Briar smiled slyly as her friend reached for the cellphone. "Aw, you smitten kitten…"

"Shut up…" Daphne scoffed as she tapped the screen when she read the message.

"Gee, did somebody die?"

Daphne eyed her friend confused. "Huh?"

"Your face doesn't scream boyfriend-girlfriend cute texts. It looks more like you just got 'we need to talk' text."

"Well, that's exactly what it is. Except it was Ernest." Daphne explained, placing the mobile in the pocket of her trousers.

"Oh…” Briar frowned. “Is his mother okay?"

"I don't know. He just said he wants to meet me tonight to talk."

"Sounds serious."

"It feels like it is..."

"Hey, maybe you two could meet at mum's? It's on the way to the train station and you can have tea and sweets to make the conversation less intense."

Daphne sat on her bed and considered the suggestion. "That's not a bad idea. I'll text him."

"Great. And when you're there, can you do me a favour?"

"Sure. What is it?"

"Speak louder. I want to hear the details when mum makes me wash the dishes in the kitchen." Briar's lips curled up.

Daphne narrowed her eyes playfully. But before she could retort, a door knock called their attention.

"Come in," Daphne said. A combination of surprise and nervousness took over her when the door opened. "Lady grandmother!"

"Hello, Daphne," Dominique said as she strolled in. "Briar, can you give me a moment with my granddaughter?"

"Certainly, ma'am," Briar bowed politely and left the room.

The dowager countess took a seat on the plush chair near the bed and looked at her granddaughter. "I heard you're travelling to Turkiye again."

"Yes. It's my last opportunity to spend time with Hamid before I go back to Cornell."

"Isn't he returning next month?"

"He can't travel by plane for the next three months without the risk of suffering an embolism."

"I see." Dominique nodded. "Are you returning to America from there?"

"No. I'll come back for three days to pack everything and take Drake with me."

"Good. I was hoping you could join me for tea in London with the Queen."

The young lady pressed her lips together and heaved a sigh. “Lady grandmother, please…”

"It's a mere informal gathering with an old friend of your grandmother, Daphne.”

"Who happens to be the Queen of England..."

The flat yet mocking tone in the young lady’s voice didn’t go unnoticed. Yet, the dowager countess chose to not reprimand her granddaughter. "I still believe you made a mistake, but I assure you it's not an audience. She is a wise old friend you could learn a lot from. Spending time with her is a privilege only a few people in the Commonwealth have."

Daphne pondered about it carefully. There wasn't a single time in her life she has ever joined her grandmother on something that didn't have a purpose. However, of all the times they have argued, this was the first one Lady Dominique has ever made the first step. Even if it wasn't an explicit apology, it felt like something similar to it.

"When will it happen?"

"January 10th."

"Okay. I'll see what I can find to dress for the occasion."

"I already made an appointment for you at the boutiques you like."

"Of course you did…"

The two shared rare friendly smiles.

"What time are you leaving?"

"Five thirty. I'm meeting Ernest at six."

"Oh…" Worry clouded Dominique's features. "Is Lydia alright?"

"I've been asking myself the same question."

"I'll make sure to pay her a visit later. But whenever you have time, join me at the lounge. I'd like to see the drawings you've been working on lately. Miss Parsons can join us as well," Dominique said as she stood up.

"I'll text Ann."

"Excellent. I'll see you downstairs."

"Yes, ma'am."

The sound of luggage wheels running on the wooden tiles followed Daphne down the stairs as she descended carrying her suitcase.

"Do you need anything else, ma'am?" Her maid asked.

"No, thank you. You've done enough…" The lady looked around the room, brows knitted together in a frown. "Hey, Carmindy. Do you know if Drake returned from his daily walk?"

"Yep, he has." Harry sauntered over with Lord Vincent, who held the dog's leash. "I hope you've been waiting for us. It'd be very rude of you not to say goodbye to us, sis," he teased.

"I wasn't going to do that. I already talked to Ed and grandmother," she said, swatting her brother’s arm. She then turned to her father and the dog. "Thank you for taking a walk with him. Bye, dad."

"Of course, dear. Have a safe trip." The lord cupped one side of her face and kissed her forehead.

"Thank you." Daphne beamed and crouched down to pet her dog. "Bye, sweetie! Be a good boy to everyone."

The dog replied by licking her hand.

"Are you ready to go?" Harry asked.

"Yes," Daphne replied. After waving to her father, her dog, and the staff nearby, she headed to the door carrying her luggage.

Inside the car, the lady gazed out the window as droplets of rain softly blurred the view. Despite the music playing in the background being one of her brother's favourites, he wasn't singing along or humming the melody as usual. Harry was quiet, serious, eyes focused on the road and the traffic as he drove towards the city.

"Thank you again for taking me. You didn't have to," she said.

"Don't worry about it. It's our driver's week off. Why would I let you waste money taking a taxi when you can buy me cheesecake?" He looked at her from a corner of an eye and smirked.

"Good point." Daphne nodded with a smile, glad to see her younger brother in his laid back demeanour again.

"So… When am I going to meet your new boyfriend?"

"I don't know. I haven't thought about it."

"Ouch…" Harry clutched a hand in his chest, pretending to be wounded.

"Don't be silly…" She scoffed. "I meant to say I haven't talked about it with him because we're taking things slow. It's not like we have everything figured out."

"Excuse me?" He gave his sister a look before turning his attention to the road once again. "You left home in August with all your four years of uni planned. And before that, you had most part of your life sorted out."

"Well, after everything I went through this year, I realised planning too much isn't going to do me any good. I'll just take my time and see how it goes."

"Huh…" Harry glanced at her with a curious look. "When dad and Ed returned from Ithaca after your birthday, they said you changed. But I didn't know what to think."

"Were you worried?"

"Honestly? Who wasn't? The only reason the family council agreed with you moving back to America was knowing that Briar and Annabelle would be with you."

"What?!" Her brows rose. "When did that happen?"

"Right after you said you'd choose Cornell over Sorbonne and Cambridge. Anyway, now I understand why they said you're changing. You're healing. And you're slowly finding your way to be your best self. That's brilliant, sis."

"Thank you." Her eyebrows rose as amusement played on her lips. "Look at you so perceptive and wise."

"It's a blessing and a curse."

The two of them chuckled.

But as their laughter died down, Daphne cast her glance to the window again. "I just wish I didn't have scars..."

"All great fighters have scars, Daph. I know whatever you have to face in the future, you'll keep your head high and do your best."

"Are you trying to psych me up to the meeting I have with Ernest, Harry?"

"No…"

She arched an eyebrow.

"Maybe…"

The lady shook her head with a smile.

"I know you're dating Hamid and I can see you care about him, but the whole situation with Ernest broke you. I don’t want to see you going through anything like that again."

"It's sweet of you to worry about me because I've been talking to him again, but I'll be fine. This is no big deal. He probably needs advice with something related to Mrs. Sinclaire's treatment."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. If he says anything I can't handle, don’t worry. I'll strangle him myself," she joked, making her brother laugh just a few blocks away from the bakery.

Once Daphne greeted the staff of Mrs Daly's bakery, she took a seat on one of the stools by the counter, where her childhood friend and the newest cook of the shop stood by.

"So you're meeting your ex-fiancé a few hours before you take a train to spend a week with your new boyfriend," Alisha concluded, but it was clear she was still trying to absorb the information.

"Yes," Daphne affirmed.

"And your new boyfriend is okay with it?"

"So weird, right?" Briar mumbled.

Daphne narrowed her eyes at her friend then turned to the cook. "Hamid knows I wouldn't do this if I didn't think it's important to support Ernest right now."

"You're lucky. Not all men are so understanding. By the way, that's one of the few contexts I'll ever start a sentence with 'not all men'," Alisha stated.

The three of them giggled.

"But seriously, are you okay with it?" The cook asked.

"Yes, I'm fine. But thank you for asking."

"We can bring you an extra dessert and a tea for you afterwards if you need comfort. On the house." Briar grabbed her friend's hand.

"I'm fine." Daphne insisted. "This is not the first time I’ll talk to him after we broke up."

Just then, the bell chimed as the front door opened. Placing his coat on the rack nearby, Ernest Sinclaire walked into the shop, nodded politely to the staff, chose a table, and waited for Daphne to follow.

"Call us if you need anything." Alisha gave her a sympathetic smile.

"Thank you." Daphne smiled.

"And if he needs a beating, I'm calling Ann," Briar warned.

Daphne pursed her lips at her friend. "I'm going to join Ernest at the table. Excuse me," she said standing up and walking towards the corner table, where her ex sat looking at the rain quietly drumming on the glass windows. "Good evening."

"Good evening," he replied calmly. "Did I make you wait for too long?"

"Not at all. I was just chatting with Briar and Alisha, the new cook here," Daphne explained as she sat down. "How are you and Mrs. Sinclaire?"

"We're fine. Thank you for asking."

Her eyebrows went up in surprise. "Really?"

A corner of his mouth lifted upwards discreetly. "Were you not expecting me to say that?"

"Um… No?" Her nose wrinkled. "I'm sorry. It's hard to figure out the tone of a sentence through texts. I didn't know what to expect."

"It's all right, Daphne. This is precisely why I don't like texting."

"You could add a few 'lols', 'jk' and emojis here and there…" She hinted.

"I'm not even going to entertain that idea."

As a giggle escaped Daphne's lips, Briar approached the table.

"Good evening! I'll be your waiter tonight. May I take your order?"

Daphne arched an eyebrow. "Oh, are you now?"

"Yes," Briar plastered a fake grin that purposely faded when she turned to Ernest.

"Miss Daly," he nodded politely and looked at the menu.

"Sinclaire," Briar hissed.

Noticing her friend's deadly stare, Daphne spoke up. "Anyway, I'm in the mood for mille-feuille, chamomile tea, and a box of macarons to go. How about you, Ernest?"

"I see the new cook added some new desserts to the menu. I'll have profiteroles and English tea."

"I'll be right back with your orders."

The two of them thanked Briar, who stepped away, still glaring at Ernest.

"I see she still hates me," he avowed.

"You are in a relationship with our secondary school nemesis."

He shifted in his seat and gazed at the woman before him. "Do you hate me as well?"

"I did." She confessed, staring back at him. "But that's water under the bridge now."

Despite the somewhat awkward start, the conversation flew easily after. Between bites of their desserts, the two kept everything friendly.

"Your French has certainly improved," Ernest praised.

"Thank you. It's nice to get feedback from a real person. I only get feedback from Duolingo, but I think the app is being nice to me on purpose."

"Doesn't Harry help you with that?"

"Sure… Because that's something siblings love to do: help each other."

He chuckled.

"So…" She placed her cup of tea down and looked at him. "You haven't told me why we're meeting here."

"All right." He cleared his throat. “First of all, I want to apologise for that awkward situation at the Christmas feast.”

“It wasn’t your fault.”

“I didn’t say a thing. Couldn’t that be interpreted as if I agreed with what Felicity said?”

“It could have been. But if I know you well, you didn’t say anything because you didn’t even want to be there in the first place. Besides, engaging in any frivolous topics of conversations isn't your cup of tea.”

“You do know me well.” A ghost of a smile played on his lips. “But I want to apologise anyway.”

“Thank you.”

"The other subject I want to talk about is my mother. She made a decision about her treatment."

"Oh?"

"Her doctors said they have great chances to stabilize the tumor and remove it through surgery if she keeps receiving chemotherapy and radiation. She said yes." At last, a broad smile lit up his features.

"Oh my God, that's fantastic news, Ernest!" Daphne beamed.

"I think so too."

"And you're moving back to UK soon, right?"

"Yes, I'll be back next month."

"This is really great, Ernest. I'm happy for both of you."

"Thank you. I knew you would be."

Daphne then glanced at her wristwatch. "Well, this has been such a pleasant evening, but I have a train to catch."

"Of course, I'll get the check."

After a brief moment, Briar returned with their separate bills and two boxes with pastries. "The second one is baklava for Hamid." The young woman gave her friend a knowing look.

"He's going to eat most of my macarons, but whatever. Thanks." Daphne replied and gave her credit card.

Ernest remained in silence for a moment, watching the two friends talk. Once the bill was paid, they stood up, thanked everyone, and headed to the door, where they got their coats, and Daphne's received her luggage that Briar kept in the storage room.

From the back of the counter, Briar and Alisha waved at the viscountess and her former fiancé leaving.

"Well, for two people who had their break up headlining all gossip blogs and tabloids in UK, they seem very friendly," Alisha commented as she arranged a few pastries inside the bakery display.

"Yeah…" Briar narrowed her eyes, not knowing what to make of her friend's behaviour near her ex.

"It's easy to make things look perfect for everyone else when you're just sweeping dirt under the rug instead of actually cleaning the house." Mrs. Daly chimed into the conversation as she passed by the two young women. "That has always been their biggest problem."

As they stepped outside, he gazed at Daphne tapping her screen of her mobile. "If you need a ride, I can take you to the train station."

"No, thank you. I'm calling an Uber."

"It's not that far from here."

"But you'd be driving in the opposite direction. I don't have to go through all that trouble…"

"Daphne," he called, placing a hand on her arm. "It's a fifteen minutes detour I'll gladly make for you. Please."

The lady considered the offer carefully. She wasn't eager to be seen in public with Ernest, especially given how much the tabloids used to follow both of them throughout their relationship. Yet, the paparazzi have stopped following her and the driver she called was over seven kilometers away. Perhaps this wasn't such a bad idea.

"Fine…" She acquiesced and watched him promptly open the door of his car then put her luggage in the backseat.

The moment Daphne buckled the seat belt, a message pinged on her mobile:

"I heard your boyfriend suffered an accident. Is he all right?"

Daphne's cheeks flushed crimson as her former fiancé's voice pulled her back to reality. "Yes, he's getting better. Thank you for asking."

"Is that why you’re returning so soon?"

"Among other reasons..."

The lady looked ahead, unsure where this conversation was going, but hoping her destination wasn't so far.

"Is it serious?"

"Excuse me?"

"Your new relationship: do you see yourself with him in the future?" He insisted.

"It's too soon to say."

"You've been seen with him since late October."

"I started dating him officially three weeks ago."

"But you were here three weeks ago. Did it start as a long-distance relationship?"

"Yeah, you could say that."

"How is that working out for you two?"

"It's too soon to say."

He glanced at her quickly, but didn't say a word. Yet, his expression said more than he wanted her to see.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"I didn't say anything," Ernest scoffed.

"Funny... You look like you have a lot to say about that," she replied, trying to suppress her annoyance.

He huffed. Somehow, this odd conversation felt awfully familiar. Ernest jumping to conclusions too quickly, Daphne annoyed with his judgemental demeanour. It was a clear sign that some things would most likely never change between them.

"Why would you care if my relationship is going to last?"

"Because I care about anything related to you!" He snapped as the car abruptly stopped right in front of the train station, pushing both of their bodies forward, only to be held back by the seat belt.

"Oh, sure! You did seem like you cared about me when you began your relationship with a girl that made me and my friends miserable in secondary school three weeks after we broke up."

"It wasn’t like that. I did care! I still do!"

"That was one hell of a way of showing it, Sinclaire!" She bellowed.

Honks startled them, breaking the tension between them. And as words sunk in, the only sentiment they shared at the moment was regret. Unbuckling her seat belt, Daphne reached for the door handle when he spoke up again.

"Did you ever love me?"

A moment of silence settled inside the car. Although she wished she could just leave, she knew this couldn’t be left unsaid. "I thought I did." Her eyes welled up as she mulled over her own words. "Now I don't know..."

Ernest inhaled sharply. Did he expect another answer? Or did he know it all along? "Perhaps it's for the best that we never said those words to each other."

Daphne swallowed hard and nodded. "Thank you for the ride." She uttered then opened the door, picked up the luggage from the backseat, and left without looking back.

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dustedmagazine · 5 years ago

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Sun City Girls — Live at the Sky Church, September 3, 2004 (2182 Recording Company)

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Even given the expansive, explosive parameters for live performance established during Sun City Girls’ long history, the band’s set (farcical romp? ritual exorcism?) at the 2004 Bumbershoot Festival was feral, hilarious and enraged. The fellows at 2182 Recording Company have done us all a solid by making the audio and visual record of the performance available via this combined LP and DVD release. Future ethnographers of Weird Americas old and new will rejoice. You should, too — and while you’re at it, maybe offer up something juicy and warm to Shiva.

As the sounds and sights attest, the 3 September 2004 performance has a theatricality that’s intensely unpleasant and bitterly, anarchically funny. The Girls enter the stage at the Sky Church in full costume. Alan Bishop (AB) wears a Freddie Kreuger mask and a keffiyeh tied over his scalp. As the band’s noise cranks up, he cycles wordlessly through numerous routines: shagging golf balls into the audience with a pitching wedge; spastically grappling with a large, mic’d-up transistor radio; sitting in a chair and reading an oversized copy of Mein Kampf. Meanwhile Richard Bishop (RB) works over a guitar laid out horizontally on a table, hammering and raking at its strings with hollow metal rods; Charles Gocher beats on a bass guitar, then on a bass drum and also growls and shouts into a mic through a bullhorn. Both men are arrayed in scarves, skirts and veils. The abrasive sounds they produce are awash in static and accompanied by what sound like processed, collaged snippets from the collected output of Sublime Frequencies.

As the set progresses, the tension steadily ratchets up. AB removes the blankets that have covered a lumpy, upright form, and reveals a life-sized laughing Santa Claus automaton; the band has affixed a cartoonish Saddam Hussein mask over its features. AB dances grotesquely and soon unbuttons his jacket. His tee shirt is emblazoned with a lovingly realistic, full-color portrait of Osama Bin Laden (keep in mind that all this is happening in 2004, eight days before the third anniversary of 9/11 and 18 months into the second Iraq War). The noise and cavorting go on for about twenty minutes. Then, as the Girls were often wont to do, they shift the trajectory of the music on a dime. The distortion and collaging are silenced, and RB activates a cheap, keyboard burlesque of “Killing Me Softly with His Song.” He sings along, after a fashion — it’s not quite as unlistenable as the Girls’ notorious cover of “Me and Mrs. Jones.” AB accompanies him for a bit, then breaks into harangue: “Your culture’s fucking dead! And your friends are dead! And your fucking music is dead!” He grabs a copy of Pol Pot’s Brother Number One and reads aloud, caterwauling, “Sending your children to kill them!” It tracks, syllable for syllable, alongside RB’s equally demented recitation of the song’s chorus.

The visuals on the DVD are charmingly shot: a continuous, single-camera vantage, shakily hand-held, that focuses for the most part on one Girl or another. One wishes there were more attempts to get the whole band in frame. It would be even more useful to get consistent shots of the crowd, to see how the Seattle festival audience — an erudite, liberal bunch, listeners of KEXP’s hip, indie-rock programming — reacted to the Girls’ possessed antics. The band had a history of working crowds into froths of disapproval. Throughout their tenure, they were accused by some putatively progressive types of cultural imperialism and “present[ing] mocking images of the Other.” Oy vey, the mind reels. Perhaps with such superficial, priggish charges in mind, at Bumbershoot the band covers “The Girl from Ipanema” and proceeds to do awful things with and to a couple bunches of bananas.

It’s likely more than a few folks in Seattle took issue with the Girls’ grim iconography and sardonically playful symbolic action. At one point, AB sits on the edge of the stage and asks the audience, “Oh, who are you? Are you mediocrities who invented the color beige? Oh, cool….” The camera briefly surveys the audience. There are numerous confused faces and at least one older white dude seems to be inviting AB off the stage for some fisticuffs. After a long, oppressive barrage of horror-movie organ and operatic, scat-sung gibberish, AB begins repeating, “Yes, master. Of course, master. With pleasure, master.” He sounds like a parody of Peter Lorre, in the obsequious, Levantine guise he assumed in Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. AB goes on: “With a thousand violins, master. With ten thousand rock stations and seventy-two keyboards… With twenty-five years of the history of the worst music ever produced, master, of course. I wouldn’t want it any other way, master.” His hostility is palpable. It’s hard to say exactly to whom the vitriol is directed. The music industry? The audience? Donald Rumsfeld? The Sun City Girls were interested in obeying no masters.

As the performance winds down, RB says, “That’s how we do it down in Crawford,” invoking the location of the Bush Texas ranch. AB gives the audience the finger. It was September 2004. Mohammed Omar was touting the intensification of a Taliban-supported insurgency in Afghanistan. In Iraq the first Battle of Fallujah had ended; the second was soon to start. George W. Bush’s infamously dunderheaded response to it all was, “Bring ’em on.” In such circumstances, culture shouldn’t be slavishly interested in “pleasure” or “entertainment” or obeisance. Later that day at Bumbershoot, Nickelback would play the headliner’s set, preceded by Seal and Nancy Sinatra. Of course, master.

Jonathan Shaw

#sun city girls #live at the sky church #2182 recording company #jonathan shaw #albumreview #dusted magazine #alan bishop #richard bishop #charles gocher #live #experimental

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weepingobjectwerewolf · 2 years ago

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Aufgrund einer technischen Störung kann es am 17. und 18. Februar zu Ausfällen und Verzögerungen bei der Zustellung der gedruckten Ausgabe der Wilhelmshavener Zeitung kommen. Hier können Sie die aktuelle digitale Ausgabe als PDF kostenlos herunterladen.

Doch nun verkünden Rüdiger Meyer und Britta Wonneberger das endgültige Aus. Leitwolf Tobias Hauke führt bei der Hallenhockey-Europameisterschaft im Dezember ein starkes Aufgebot der Gastgeberstadt an. Howie, AJ, Nick, Brian und Kevin wissen immer noch, wie sie ihre Fans um den Finger wickeln – und zeigen sich als Stars zum Anfassen. Warum sich die Preiswende an der Küste und auf den Inseln nicht bemerkbar macht.

Nach dem "Pier 67" in List wurde nun auch in eine Bar in Westerland eingebrochen. Die Fanhilfen fordern eine unabhängige Beschwerdestelle für die Polizei. „Sprechstunde“ offenbart Ausmaß der Übergriffe. Das Restaurant ist eine Institution auf der Insel.

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This was a super fun podcast w/ @davidyontef @behindvelvetrope TUNE IN for some secrets !!! Posted @withregram • @behindvelvetrope Ep. 81 Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson step Behind The Rope. Just two simple Beverly Hills boys, P2 stop by to discuss it all. Having originally met in New York City, it was love at first sight, long distance ensued, they made it work, and here we are. Of course, their family isn’t complete without Snow White 90201, their Mimi Maltese. She joins us for the chat. Their Pol Atteu Boutique in Beverly Hills is frequented by Sharon Shone, Bella Thorne, Ariel Winter, and Laverne Cox and last, but certainly not least, Betty White. It was an incident with Betty White that gave Patrik and Pol the idea to turn this into a TV show. Voila, Gown and Out in Beverly Hills. Season One on Amazon, Season Two Coming Soon. Like any smart designer, the boys have pivoted and from dresses to masks. Not just any masks, but fashion forward masks worn by everyone from Real Housewives such as Kyle Richards, Adrienne Maloof, Kelly Dodd, Gretchen Rossi, Joyce Giraud, Claudia Jordan and Emily Simpson to VanderKids Scheana Shay and James Kennedy to Pop Culture Icons like LaToya Jackson and Perez Hilton. They also share their wish list for who they would love to dress. Fingers crossed. On a more serious note, Pol also opens up about being the victim of a hate crime at one of his Fashion Show's in the past. Pour yourself a drink and enjoy this real and honest sit down with Pol and Patrik. ** Pol and Patrik’s Pol’ Atteu Boutique in Beverly Hills has been destroyed by the riots that took place earlier this year in Beverly Hills. For anyone who wants to support, there is a GoFundMe Page on their Instagram’s listed above. @polatteu @patriksimpson @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef 💍💍🎙🎙 (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDedlIIDlC6/?igshid=1tit2t7csrath

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It’s here and you gotta listen to our latest podcast appearance - this time with @davidyontef @behindvelvetrope Posted @withregram • @davidyontef Ep. 81 Pol’ Atteu and Patrik Simpson step Behind The Rope. Just two simple Beverly Hills boys, P2 stop by to discuss it all. Having originally met in New York City, it was love at first sight, long distance ensued, they made it work, and here we are. Of course, their family isn’t complete without Snow White 90201, their Mimi Maltese. She joins us for the chat. Their Pol Atteu Boutique in Beverly Hills is frequented by Sharon Shone, Bella Thorne, Ariel Winter, and Laverne Cox and last, but certainly not least, Betty White. It was an incident with Betty White that gave Patrik and Pol the idea to turn this into a TV show. Voila, Gown and Out in Beverly Hills. Season One on Amazon, Season Two Coming Soon. Like any smart designer, the boys have pivoted and from dresses to masks. Not just any masks, but fashion forward masks worn by everyone from Real Housewives such as Kyle Richards, Kelly Dodd, Gretchen Rossi, Joyce Giraud, Claudia Jordan and Emily Simpson to VanderKids Scheana Shay and James Kennedy to Pop Culture Icons like LaToya Jackson and Perez Hilton. They also share their wish list for who they would love to dress. Fingers crossed. On a more serious note, Pol also opens up about being the victim of a hate crime at one of his Fashion Show's in the past. Pour yourself a drink and enjoy this real and honest sit down with Pol and Patrik. ** Pol and Patrik’s Pol’ Atteu Boutique in Beverly Hills has been destroyed by the riots that took place earlier this year in Beverly Hills. For anyone who wants to support, there is a GoFundMe Page on their Instagram’s listed above. @polatteu @patriksimpson @behindvelvetrope @davidyontef 💍💍🎙🎙 (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDeGduSsA_1/?igshid=116owyzupod43

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mysticmarsh · 7 years ago

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Languages in Italian

(translation of @malteseboy‘s vocab list of languages in Maltese - grazzi!)

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albanese - Albanian

arabo - Arabic

armeno - Armenian

basco - Basque

bielorusso - Belarusian

bosniaco - Bosnian

bulgaro - Bulgarian

ceco - Czech

cinese - Chinese

coreano - Korean

croato - Croatian

danese - Danish

ebraico - Hebrew

estone - Estonian

faroese - Faroese

finlandese - Finnish

francese - French

georgiano - Georgian

giapponese - Japanese

gaelico - Gaelic

greco - Greek

hindi - Hindi

inglese - English

islandese - Icelandic

italiano - Italian

latino - Latin

lettone - Latvian

lituano - Lithuanian

lussemburghese - Luxembourgish

macedone - Macedonian

maltese - Maltese

norvegese - Norwegian

olandese* - Dutch

polacco - Polish

portoghese - Portuguese

rumeno (or romeno)** - Romanian

russo - Russian

serbo - Serbian

slovacco - Slovak

sloveno - Slovenian

spagnolo - Spanish

svedese - Swedish

swahili - Swahili

thailandese - Thai

turco - Turkish

ucraino (or ucraino)*** - Ukrainian

ungherese - Hungarian

vietnamita - Vietnamese

zulù - zulu

When referring to languages, these adjectives are used in the masculine form with the articles il, lo or l’ (e.g. il francese, lo spagnolo, l’italiano).

*In everyday language, Dutch is most commonly translated with olandese, an adjective deriving from “Holland”; however, there is also a more general term, i.e. neerlandese, which includes both the Dutch and the Flemish varieties [source: here].

**Both are equally accepted (personally, I hear the form rumeno a lot more - I think I’ve only read romeno in the news) [source: here].

***Again, both forms are mentioned in the most influentian Italian dictionaries. This duality stems from the fact that, in the past, the stress was on the I in Ukrainian, but in Russian it was on the A. Nowadays, as the form Ukraìna is used in Russian as well, the most correct form would be ucraino; however, the other form is still widely used [source: here].

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beneroadtrip · 5 years ago

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Morgans in Malta! May 22-24 2019

Bene wanted to go to Malta and add another sticker to the bonnet.

Morgan historian Hermen Pol from the Netherlands came to the rescue and put us in contact with Maltese Morgan owner Reno Psaila.

Reno and his wife Vivienne organized a Morgan tour of the island with Charles and Sandra Vassallo, Anthony and Rita Borg, all 4/4 owners.

We left our B&B fairly confident that we would meet our new friends at the appointed time and place.

“The GPS says we will be there in three minutes”

Bene decided to take us on a short cut through the hills... and the road ended.

We managed to turn around and back track. Kathi’s heart was going pit a pat while Ron was exclaiming over the gorgeous scenery. We met our friends and the tour began!

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Capture2Text enables users to quickly OCR a portion of the screen using a keyboard shortcut. The resulting text will be saved to the clipboard by default.

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Capture2Text is free and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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The latest version can be found on the Capture2Text download page hosted by SourceForge.

System Requirements

Supported operating systems:

Windows 7

Windows 8/8.1

Windows 10

Note: Windows XP support has been dropped as of Capture2Text v4.0.

How to Launch Capture2Text (no installation required)

Unzip the contents of the zip file.

Double-click on Capture2Text.exe. You should see the Capture2Text icon on the bottom-right of your screen (though it might be hidden in which case you will have to click on the 'Show hidden icons' arrow).

Installing Additional OCR Languages

By default Capture2Text comes packaged with the following languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.

Follow these steps if you would like to install additional OCR languages:

Download the appropriate OCR language dictionary.

Open the '.zip' file you just downloaded with 7-Zip or similar decompression software.

Drag all files contained within the zip file to the tessdata folder:

Restart Capture2Text.

The following OCR languages are supported:

Afrikaans (afr) Greek (ell) Odiya (ori) Albanian (sqi) Gujarati (guj) Panjabi (pan) Amharic (amh) Haitian (hat) Persian (fas) Ancient Greek (grc) Hebrew (heb) Polish (pol) Arabic (ara) Hindi (hin) Portuguese (por)Assamese (asm) Hungarian (hun) Pushto (pus) Azerbaijani (aze) Icelandic (isl) Romanian (ron) Basque (eus) Indic (inc) Russian (rus) Belarusian (bel) Indonesian (ind) Sanskrit (san) Bengali (ben) Inuktitut (iku) Serbian (srp) Bosnian (bos) Irish (gle) Sinhala (sin) Bulgarian (bul) Italian (ita) Slovak (slk) Burmese (mya) Japanese (jpn) Slovenian (slv) Catalan (cat) Javanese (jav) Spanish (spa) Cebuano (ceb) Kannada (kan) Swahili (swa) Central Khmer (khm) Kazakh (kaz) Swedish (swe) Cherokee (chr) Kirghiz (kir) Syriac (syr) Chinese - Simplified (chi_sim) Korean (kor) Tagalog (tgl) Chinese - Traditional (chi_tra)Kurukh (kru) Tajik (tgk) Croatian (hrv) Lao (lao) Tamil (tam) Czech (ces) Latin (lat) Telugu (tel) Danish (dan) Latvian (lav) Thai (tha) Dutch (nld) Lithuanian (lit) Tibetan (bod) Dzongkha (dzo) Macedonian (mkd) Tigrinya (tir) English (eng) Malay (msa) Turkish (tur) Esperanto (epo) Malayalam (mal) Uighur (uig) Estonian (est) Maltese (mlt) Ukrainian (ukr) Finnish (fin) Marathi (mar) Urdu (urd) Frankish (frk) Math/Equations (equ) Uzbek (uzb) French (fra) Middle English (1100-1500) (enm)Vietnamese (vie)Galician (glg) Middle French (1400-1600) (frm) Welsh (cym) Georgian (kat) Nepali (nep) Yiddish (yid) German (deu) Norwegian (nor)

How to Perform a Standard OCR Capture

Follow these steps to perform a standard OCR capture using the capture box:

Position your mouse pointer at the top-left corner of the text that you want to OCR.

Press the OCR hotkey (Windows Key + Q) to begin an OCR capture.

Move your mouse to resize the blue capture box over the text that you want to OCR. You may hold down the right mouse button and drag to move the entire capture box.

Press the OCR hotkey again (or left-click or press ENTER) to complete the OCR capture. The OCR'd text will be placed in the clipboard and a popup showing the captured text will appear (the popup may be disabled in the settings).

As with all OCR captures, you must manually select the language that you would like to OCR from the settings.

To change the OCR language, right-click the Capture2Text tray icon, select the OCR Language option and then select the desired language.

To quickly switch between 3 languages, use the OCR language quick access keys: Windows Key + 1, Windows Key + 2, and Windows Key + 3. The quick access languages may be specified in the settings.

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When Chinese or Japanese is selected, you should specify the text direction (vertical/horizontal/auto) using the text direction hotkey: Windows Key + O. If auto is selected, horizontal will be used when the capture width is more than twice the height, otherwise vertical will be used. The text direction also affects how furigana is stripped from Japanese text.

(For Japanese) Capture2Text will attempt to automatically strip out furigana.

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Capture2Text can automatically capture the line of text that is closest to the mouse pointer.

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Position your mouse pointer on or near the line of text to capture.

Press the Text Line OCR Capture hotkey (Windows Key + E).

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Position your mouse pointer on or near the character to start at.

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Capture2Text can automatically capture text contained within a comic book speech/thought bubble as long as the bubble is completely enclosed.

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Position your mouse pointer in the empty part of the bubble (not on the text).

Press the bubble OCR Capture hotkey (Windows Key + S).

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How to Specify the Active OCR Language

To specify the active OCR language, right-click the tray icon, click on OCR Language, and select an OCR languages from the list:

Translation

To enable the translation feature, start by opening the settings dialog (right-click tray icon and select 'Settings...'), and clicking on the Translate tab.

Check the 'Append translation to clipboard' checkbox to append the translated text to the clipboard using the provided separator.Check the 'Show translation in popup window' checkbox to display the translated text along side the OCR text in the popup window. For example:.

Each installed OCR language may be translated to a different language.

Note 1: Some OCR languages do not have translation support. Unsupported languages will not be displayed.

Note 2: The translation feature requires Internet access.

Settings

Right-click the Capture2Text tray icon in the bottom-right of your screen and then select the 'Settings...' option to bring up the Settings dialog. You may hover over many of the option labels to display a helpful tooltip explaining the option.

The Hotkeys tab allows you to specify which key and modifiers to use for each hotkey. To disable a hotkey, select '<Unmapped>' from the drop-down list.

Current OCR language: Specify the active OCR language to use. You may also specify the active OCR language in the tray icon menu.

Quick-Access Languages: The languages to use for each of the quick-access language hotkeys.

Whitelist: Inform the OCR engine that the captured text will only contain the provided characters.

Blacklist: Inform the OCR engine that the captured text will never contain the provided characters.

Text Orientation: The orientation of the text that will be captured. This option is only used when Chinese or Japanese is set as the active OCR language. If Auto is selected, horizontal will be used when the capture width is more than twice the height, otherwise vertical will be used. The text direction also affects how furigana is stripped from Japanese text. You may also specify the text orientation in the tray icon menu or with the Text Orientation hotkey.

Tesseract Config File: An advanced feature that allows you to specify a Tesseract config file.

Trim Capture: During OCR preprocessing, trim captured image to foreground pixels and add a thin border. OCR accuracy will be more consistent and may even be improved.

Deskew Capture: During OCR preprocessing, attempt to compensate for slanted text found in an OCR capture.

Contains options for configuring the automatic captures. Hover over the option labels for more information.

Allows you to specify the colors of the OCR Capture Box. The transparency can be changed by adjusting the 'Alpha channel' value in the color selection dialog.

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Allows you to specify the preview position, color, and font. You may disable the preview by unchecking the 'Show Preview Box' checkbox.

Save to clipboard: Save the captured OCR text to the clipboard.

Show popup window: Show the captured OCR text in a popup window:

Keep line breaks: Check this option if you don't want carriage returns and line feeds to be stripped from the captured text.

Logging: Allows you to save all captures to the specified file in the specified format. The following tokens may be used in the format: $(capture), $(translation), $(timestamp), $(linebreak), $(tab). The default format is: '$(capture)$(linebreak)'.

Call Executable: An advanced feature that allows you call an executable after OCR is complete. The following tokens may be used: $(capture), $(translation), $(timestamp). Example:

Allows you to perform text replacements. Supports regular expressions. The text on the left will be replaced with the text on the right. Different replacements may be specified for each OCR language.

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This page allow you to enable the text-to-speech feature, set the volume, and select the options (voice, rate, pitch) to use for each OCR langauge.

Enable Text-to-speech: Enable text-to-speech when text is captured.

When this option is checked and the voice is not set to '<Disabled>', the 'Say' button will appear in the popup dialog:

Volume: Master volume of the text-to-speech feature. Applies to all languages.

OCR Language: Specify speech options for the selected OCR language.

Rate: Rate of text-to-speech voice.

Pitch: Pitch of text-to-speech voice.

Voice: Voice to use for the text-to-speech feature. Set to '<Disabled>' to disable the text-to-speech feature for just the selected OCR language.

Preview: Preview the current rate, pitch, and voice.

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Troubleshooting & FAQ

I'm getting a message about a missing DLL file when I double-click Capture2Text.exe.

Solution: Install the Visual Studio 2015 redistributable.

Capture2Text doesn't work at all. What can I do?

Possible solutions:

Make sure that you have unzipped Capture2Text. Search Google if you do not know how to unzip a file.

Make sure that your Anti-virus software is not blocking Capture2Text. Refer to the documentation that was bundled with your Anti-virus software.

Make sure that you have downloaded the latest version from SourceForge.

Restart your computer.

Ask one of your grandchildren to help you :)

I found a bug!

Great! Create a ticket and describe the bug.

I want to make a suggestion.

Great! Create a ticket and describe your suggestion.

Capture2Text is outputting garbage characters.

Solution: Specify the correct OCR language.

The language that I'm interested in doesn't appear in the OCR language menu.

Read Installing Additional OCR Languages.

I don't see the Capture2Text tray icon.

Click the 'Show hidden icons' button (it looks like a triangle or a ^ character).

I've clicked on the Capture2Text tray icon but it doesn't do anything.

Right-click it instead.

Capture2Text isn't working on my Mac.

Capture2Text is a Windows-only software. If you have a technical background, feel free to port it (but don't ask me to help).

Where is the uninstaller?

There isn't one. Capture2Text doesn't have an installer either. To remove Capture2Text from your computer, simply delete the Capture2Text directory.

Where is the settings .ini file located?

Type '%appdata%Capture2Text' into Windows Explorer.

You may delete it to restore default settings.

How do I make Capture2Text portable?

Call Capture2Text.exe using the --portable option. You may want to create a shortcut for this. Setting this option will make Capture2Text store the .ini settings file in same directory as Capture2Text.exe (as opposed to '%appdata%Capture2Text' which is the normal location).

Where is the source code located?

The source code is located on SourceForge.

Related Tools for Japanese Language Learners

JGlossator (Windows)

Automatically lookup Japanese words that you have OCR'd with Capture2Text. Supports de-inflected expressions, readings, audio pronunciation, example sentences, pitch accent, word frequency, kanji information, and grammar analysis. Supports both EDICT and EPWING dictionaries.

OCR Manga Reader (Android)

Free and open source Manga reader android app that allows you to quickly OCR and lookup Japanese words in real-time. There are no ads and no mysterious network permissions. Supports both EDICT and EPWING dictionaries.

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In a Crypto Briefing exclusive, Dusk Network (DUSK) said it will help the Maltese real estate company, BWRE, launch its STO on the platform. BWRE, which specializes in renovating and marketing short-stay lets, hopes to raise €21m – approximately $24m – in tranches. The company has already secured €5.5m.

The Dusk Network provides the technological framework for companies looking to launch a regulatory-compliant STO. Investors can communicate and exchange tokens on the platform; native DUSK utility tokens act as the standard, in the same way as ERC-20 tokens did for Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs).

The BWRE STO will begin sometime after the Dusk Network mainnet goes live in Q2 2019.

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Based in the Netherlands, Dusk is comprised of three layers providing projects with payment and communications channels that all remain completely private. Compliance is on-chain, allowing teams to communicate and transact confidentially whilst still acting in the confines of the law. One of the main advantages for this is it removes the need for any middle-men; lowering transactions costs and making the network scalable.

The BWRE sale will be the first STO for Dusk Network; it finished its funding round earlier this month. The European investment fund, Olymp Capital, announced yesterday it had invested into the project yesterday. In an email brief the Olymp Capital’s CEO, Christophe de Courson, said: “The Dusk Network team has created a technology that adapts uniquely to the needs of STO investors, and we see tremendous upside from their infrastructure.”

Dusk Network has also partnered with iFinex, the owner and operator of the Bitfinex and Ethfinex exchanges. The DUSK token sale took place on the Ethfinex platform in early November.

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As equity is a well-recognized asset class, many STOs can use existing regulatory frameworks. This will make it easier for companies to participate in token sales, which many couldn’t do with ICOs. Excitement is brewing over a lucrative onrush of new security token sales. The Chairman of CoinShares, a crypto products provider, said in mid-November that the STO market would be valued at over a billion dollars, but could go as high as $3bn or even $4bn.

Projects will be able to host their own STOs independently on the Dusk protocol; the team is assisting with the first few crowd sales. Speaking further, Dusk’s business lead, Jelle Pol, said initial STOs, such as BWRE, would be a crucial opportunity to display the platform’s potential.

‘’Although Dusk is a protocol play we have chosen to help the first few propositions to market through our digital asset hub,” writes Pol. “We are extremely keen to showcase what Dusk Network can do as a layer 0, and really see working together with parties like BWRE as a great kickstart to our ecosystem.

“We cannot wait to see more platforms use Dusk as an underlying protocol,’ he added.

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Frank-Jürgen Weise (* 8. Oktober 1951 in Radebeul) ist ein deutscher Manager.

Er war von 2004 bis 2017 Vorstandsvorsitzender der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und von September 2015 bis Jahresende 2016 gleichzeitig Leiter des Bundesamtes für Migration und Flüchtlinge. 2010 war er Vorsitzender der Bundeswehr-Strukturkommission.

Weise ist mit einer Grundschullehrerin verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder. Er ist Mitglied einer Freien evangelischen Gemeinde (FeG).

Am 16. April 2008 erhielt Weise die Ehrenpromotion (Dr. rer. pol. h. c.) der Fakultät Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Er ist Träger des Bayerischen Verdienstordens, des Ehrenkreuzes der Bundeswehr in Gold und des Ehrenkreuzes der Bundeswehr in Silber für besondere Einzelleistungen. 2017 erhielt er den Vordenker-Preis des Finanzberaters Plansecur.

Übergabe des Berichtes der Strukturkommission, Oktober 2010

Seit September 2012 gehört er dem 6. Beirat der Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik an. Von 2013 bis 2014 war er Sprecher des Beirats der Clausewitz-Gesellschaft. Am 12. März 2014 ernannte ihn das Kuratorium der Gemeinnützigen Hertie-Stiftung zum Vorstandsmitglied ab 1. April 2014. Daraufhin wählte ihn der Vorstand zu seinem Vorsitzenden. Dieses Amt wird er ehrenamtlich ausüben. Er war Vorstandsmitglied der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Personalführung. Er ist Senator der Deutschen Nationalstiftung, Vorsitzender des Vorstandes der Hertie-Stiftung und ehrenamtlicher Präsident der Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe.

Seit November 2017 ist er der 8. Präsident der Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe.

Sammler der Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe gehen nun von Haus zu Haus und legen den Bewohnern einen Dauerauftrag ab 36 € jährlicher Beitrag vor. Spenden in geringerer Höhe werden nicht mehr angenommen.

Die Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe (JUH) ist als Ordenswerk des Johanniterordens eine evangelische Hilfsorganisation. Die JUH wurde im Januar 1952 unter Federführung von Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff in Hannover gegründet, das erste Büro befand sich in Rolandseck. Der wichtigste Anlass dafür waren die vielen Verletzten und Toten aufgrund der steigenden Anzahl von Kraftfahrzeug-Unfällen. Heute ist die JUH eher unter dem Namen Die Johanniter bekannt. Das Signet der Organisation zeigt das weiße achtspitzige Johanniterkreuz auf rotem, kreisförmigen Grund mit der Umschrift Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe. Die JUH ist im Zusammenschluss mit den Ordenswerken anderer Länder im Johanniter International (JOIN) verbunden. Die katholische Schwesterorganisation ist der Malteser Hilfsdienst.

Hilfsorganisation Vorsitz: Präsident: Frank-Jürgen Weise

Bundesvorstand: Jörg Lüssem, Thomas Mähnert Hubertus v. Puttkamer

Gründungsdatum:1952

Mitgliederzahl:

Ehrenamt/Jugend: 33.998

Hauptamtliche Mitarbeiter: 20.013

Bundesfreiwilligendienst: 351

Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr: 1.067

Fördernde Mitglieder: 1.280.354

www.johanniter.de

Vorstandsvorsitzender der Bundesagentur für Arbeit

Im Mai 2002 berief ihn der damalige Leiter der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Florian Gerster, als Verantwortlichen für Finanzen in den Vorstand. Nach der vorzeitigen Ablösung Florian Gersters wurde Frank-Jürgen Weise am 6. Februar 2004 Vorstandsvorsitzender der Bundesagentur für Arbeit.

Ab 1. Februar 2007 wurden in der Zentrale der Bundesagentur die Vorstandsbereiche neu geordnet. Ziel der neuen Führungsstruktur war es, durch stärker getrennte Aufgabenprofile die gesetzlichen Aufgaben beider Rechtskreise (Arbeitslosenversicherung und Grundsicherung) besser zu erfüllen. Als Vorstandsvorsitzender war Weise in den Bereichen Finanzen und Personal tätig. Seine Vorstandskollegen waren Detlef Scheele (Vorstand Arbeitsmarkt) und Raimund Becker (Vorstand Regionen).

Am 7. Oktober 2016 beschloss der Verwaltungsrat der Bundesagentur Scheele als Nachfolger für Weise im Amt des Vorsitzenden des Vorstands vorzuschlagen. Nach Zustimmung der Bundesregierung trat er das Amt am 1. April 2017 an. Frank-Jürgen Weise trat wegen Erreichens der Altersgrenze Ende März 2017 ab. Als neues Vorstandsmitglied rückte Valerie Holsboer aus dem Verwaltungsrat in den Vorstand der Bundesagentur auf.

Amt des BAMF-Präsidenten

Am 18. September 2015 stimmte Weise auf Bitten der Bundesregierung zu, zusätzlich zu seinen Aufgaben den seit dem Rücktritt von Manfred Schmidt am Tag zuvor vakanten Posten als Präsident des Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) zu übernehmen. Nachdem klar wurde, dass das rechtlich nicht zulässig ist, weil nach § 382 Abs. 5 SGB III Weise als Vorstandsvorsitzender der Bundesagentur für Arbeit nicht zugleich ein „besoldetes Amt“ antreten darf, sollte er stattdessen die „Aufgabe der Leitung“ des Bundesamtes ohne zusätzliche Bezahlung wahrnehmen; das Amt des BAMF-Präsidenten im statusrechtlichen Sinne erhielt er jedoch nicht. Der Wissenschaftliche Dienst des Deutschen Bundestages hat in einem Gutachten vom 27. Oktober 2015 die mit der Übertragung der zusätzlichen Leitungsaufgabe verbundene Problematik rechtlich beleuchtet. Die klassischen Amtschef-Aufgaben sollten nach Angaben des Innenministeriums vom Vizepräsidenten ausgefüllt werden.

Zum Jahresende 2016 schied Weise aus dem BAMF aus; seine Nachfolge trat am 1. Januar 2017 Jutta Cordt an, die mit Wirkung zum 1. Februar 2017 auch auf das (vakante) Amt der Präsidentin ernannt wurde. Weise berät das BAMF über seine Amtszeit hinaus als Beauftragter des Bundesministeriums des Innern; diese – in Nürnberg angesiedelte – Tätigkeit endete wie vorgesehen Ende 2017.

Jutta Cordt (* 24. August 1963 in Herne) ist eine deutsche Juristin. Sie war von Anfang 2017 bis Juni 2018 Präsidentin des Bundesamtes für Migration und Flüchtlinge(BAMF). Am 15. Juni 2018 gab Bundesinnenminister Horst Seehofer bekannt, Cordt aufgrund der sogenannten „BAMF-Affäre“ von ihrem Amt zu entbinden. Am 21. Juni 2018 wurde dies vollzogen. Cordt ist verheiratet und passionierte Motorradfahrerin. Sie ist parteilos.

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