Christmas Day is traditionally seen as an event to be spent around loved ones. But what about those who want to spend it alone, asks Ross Davies. Some would say there is no more poignant festive moment than to hear of a Christmas spent alone. Take last year's story of James Gray, the London-based Irish pensioner who placed an advert in the Irish Post in a bid to find someone to share the holiday with, having spent nine consecutive Christmases on his own. Or the report earlier this year of an unnamed widow, who hired an entire Devon pub so as to host a Christmas lunch for herself and 50 strangers also expecting to spend the day alone.

Guten Tag! I had a little free time this afternoon waiting on DPW to come fix some plumbing issues, so I thought I might add a little to my blog. DPW is the contract company that does all the service requests e. I do not claim to be an expert… Just wanting to help those on their way here have an idea of what to expect. There may be some peoples feelings hurt but that is certainly not intentional… so I will be as gentle as possible. First, there are four housing areas. There are pros and cons to most of the housing areas, which I will go over.

Noah C. Cloud, who returned to Wiesbaden after a month school assignment in the states, took command of U. Army Garrison Wiesbaden from Col.

Re-Configurations pp Cite as. The Iranian diaspora and its filmmaking are suitable objects of investigation because they can be used to illustrate two transformations, both of diaspora into postdiaspora and diaspora film into postdiaspora film. This reconfiguration manifests itself spatially on three levels: the real space of the diaspora, which is subject to socio-political changes; the internal-diegetic spaces in the films themselves, which constantly bring new themes to the fore; and film as a space-creating instance in itself, which constantly updates its own mediality. As early as the eighth century, Zoroastrians fled from Iran to neighboring India for religious freedom after the Arab-Muslim colonization. In the nineteenth century, many Iranians migrated to the neighboring czarist Russian Empire to work in the oil industry.