“You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.”
~ Jackie Robinson
An argument between brother and sister Uli and Elisabeth opens Brigitte Reimann’s Siblings, published for an English audience for the first time. Narrated by Elisabeth, we learn that when they’d “argued in the past, he’d thrown shoes at me and once even a vase”.
Now, hot-headed temper has yielded to a “cold, dry calm”. It’s 1960 in East Germany, and Uli looks set to follow older brother Konrad in defecting to the West. For Elisabeth, an artist who believes in the socialist dream of the GDR, Uli’s betrayal is personal and political. Domestic turmoil is filtered through the evils of capitalism, communism, democracy, and totalitarian government.
Children blame their parents (who voted for Hitler) for the mess they’ve inherited. Elisabeth sharply rebukes capitalist exploitation, but when her work receives unwanted attention from the Stasi, an ever-narrowing “Party line” draws political idealism and artistic freedom into conflict. This fascinating autobiographical novel, sensitively translated by Lucy Jones, takes a literary star from behind the Iron Curtain and puts her centre stage.
A lost masterpiece from behind the Iron Curtain and a brilliant memoir
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Bob Carr’s long-time former political aide Graeme Wedderburn and his wife Bella Cheung are selling their Surry Hills terrace amid talk they are planning a tree-change.
The grand four-storey Victorian terrace was best described as a dilapidated dump when the couple traded in their Woollahra home to buy it in 2014 for $2.1 million, undertaking a major renovation since then.
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To attempt to sum up this beautiful book is to do a disservice to the delicate and finely woven lattice of narrative threads that comprise it, like reducing a glimmering spider web to its geometry.
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Is The Pope's Exorcist based on a true story?
Not exactly. While it was inspired by a real person and his work as an exorcist, the movie doesn't depict any specific cases that the real Father Gabriele Amorth focused on. Instead, the filmmakers took bits and pieces from Father Amorth's notes and memoirs and used them to inspire the entirely fictional storyline around which the movie unfolds. In this way, it is similar to the films in The Conjuring series, especially some of the spin-offs that followed the 2013 horror hit. That's not to say The Pope's Exorcist doesn't reference a few actual historical events, as we'll detail below, but even the way it describes those events is significantly fictionalized to fit the movie's narrative.
What is an exorcism?
In Father Gabriele Amorth's own words, "An exorcism is a prayer said in Jesus' name to cast out demons. And so it is the strength of the name of Jesus which gives the power to cast out demons." An exorcist is most commonly a Catholic priest who has been authorized by their bishop to perform the rite of exorcism. These individuals diagnose and treat cases of demonic possession and other types of demonic influence.
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Whether it’s a coming ATO attack, hypersale abuse that threatens sites that engage in limited edition sales, flash sales, or a flood of fake accounts being created for fraud or promotion abuse — nowadays, it often starts with bots.
Bot creators have begun selling on accounts of different types that they’ve taken over using their skills.
One example is particularly on marketplaces or second-hand selling websites. This illustrates how integrated online crime is becoming; in this specific scenario, you see bot expertise and its consequences, ATO, the online criminal marketplace in action, and all the possibilities that come with it. This leads to fraudulent transactions, data theft, social engineering, phishing and more — all starting with bots
In 1961, News Extra looked at life in Australia for Britons who relocated down under following World War Two. A new drama series centred around such emigrants of the era, Ten Pound Poms, begins tonight on and .
10 Ten Pound PomsA new drama series aims to reveal the disparity between what the Australia government promised UK migrants and the antipodean reality
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