Learn Mandarin Chinese Lesson One

Various series...



This one's more professional, but includes no English! You can pick up a lot from context... Actually it does have English ~ dur! ~ and it's very good. I speak as someone who's done classes in eight languages and this is good:



Some Learn Chinese Free Links:

Learn Chinese Online: links to 11 online Chinese courses:
http://lelaon.com/learn_chinese.php

chinese-tools.com http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese

freechineselessons.com http://www.freechineselessons.com

learnchineseeveryday http://www.learnchineseeveryday.com

Learn Chinese 3.0 free download
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Educational_Tools/Learn_Chinese.html

My Chinese Lessons http://www.mychineselessons.com

E Language School: learn Chinese online http://learnchinese.elanguageschool.net

Ninhao.com http://www.ninhao.com/?gclid=CJu86f3P-6QCFUWZ2AodsmaX5w

5 top beginners' Chinese books from about.com
http://chineseculture.about.com/cs/toppicks/tp/chinese_books.htm

Heroin on Eastenders

NICK COTTON'S DRUG HABIT
POOR DOT (HIS MOTHER): POOR NICK!



DOT CATCHES HER SON NICK STEALING FOR HEROIN



NO HEROIN, MORE LIKE
NICK COTTON GOES COLD TURKEY

1 He's not actually clucking yet, because he's had a sneaky hit



2 "Kindly" Pete Beale the greengrocer finds Nick's stash



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Absolutely Fabulous: Gay

2002 special episode in which Eddie and Patsy trek to New York to track down Eddie's long lost (gay) son Serge...

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Ost Berlin 1990

East Berlin 1990
Video shot through car window. V good considering.
Shot just after the wall came down, showing the half-stylish, half-depressing DDR-half of the city.

East Germany/West Germany

DDR/Bundesrepublik
Film über die Grenze zwischen die zwei Teilen Deutschlands
Film about the old border between East and West in Germany

East Berlin

OST BERLIN

ZDF Fernsehbericht 1972
TV report from 1972
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Geschichte von Preußen: HISTORY OF PRUSSIA

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VOM KURFÜRSTENTUM ZUM KÖNIGREICH
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VON KÖNIGREICH ZUR GROSSMACHT
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VON DER REFORMZEIT ZUR REVOLUTION
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MIT BLUT UND EISEN
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Es geschah in August

FILM ÜBER DER BERLINER MAUER
Film about the Berlin Wall ....

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War On Drugs with John Stossel

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FATEFUL HARVEST: AFGHANISTAN'S OPIUM AND HEROIN TRADE

8 parts

1 of 8 AFGHANISTAN UNDER SEIGE



2 of 8 RISE OF THE POPPY PROBLEM
(since 1973 when the King Mohammed Zahir Shah was deposed...)



3 of 8 U.S. ERADICATION PROGRAMMES



4 of 8 WAR AGAINST POPPY



5 of 8 HEROIN LAB BUST



6 of 8 CORRUPTION



7 of 8 ADDICTION



8 of 8 A GLOBAL PROBLEM

HOW HEROIN IS USED

BALTIMORE, EASTERN UNITED STATES, THE CITY WHERE ONE PERSON IN TEN IS A HEROIN ADDICT

101 East: Golden Triangle Drug Problem

2008: HEROIN and METHAMPHETAMINE ~ yaa-baa in the Golden Triangle border areas of Thailand, Burma/Myanmar and Laos

The Secret of Levitation

BBC VIDEO IN SIX PARTS

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Deutsche ICE Zug geht nach Russland

Der Siemanns-gebaute Zug geht aus der Bundesrepublik nach Russland...
Film about the German-built ICE highspeed trains being exported to Russia...

Christiane F ist zurück auf Drogen (2010)

VIDEO auf Deutsch/in German
2010 news item from German TV: Christiane F, the woman whose life of child prostitution and heroin addiction inspired the famous book (1979) and film (1981) Christiane F: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo... after a life travelling the world and running away and lapsing and relapsing... and losing custody of her son to child protective services in Amsterdam... is back on drugs in 2010.

Links:
Stern-magazin: Wie geht es mit Christiane F (2009)
Stern-magazin: 27 Jahren nach Christiane F (2005)

Sind wir eine gedopte Gesellschaft? Menschen bei Maischberger

VIDEO auf Deutsch/in German

Sandra Maischberger presents discussion about drug use in Germany: are we a doped-up society? Featuring a painkiller-addicted housewife, reformed crack addict, red-haired pro-cannabis advicate, the mother of a heroin addict and a medical expert this in-depth look at drugs in modern society also includes an extended interview with Christiane Vera Felscherinow ~ the Christiane F of the famous film and book Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo.


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How much citric?

Most of the heroin illicitly produced in the world today is the "number three" base form of the drug, which is usually brown in colour, but can be grey or white. This base form of heroin is high purity at point of manufacture (though nearly always adulterated by dealers) yet readily smokeable. (The heroin is put on a strip of tinfoil and gently heated from underneath, which causes it to melt into a little puddle. The foil is tilted and encouraged to run and the fumes are inhaled through a foil tube stuck in the mouth. This gives a better "bioavailability" than snorting (ie more of the drug taken actually reaches the brain), but to smoke anything more than a tiny dose this way takes tens of minutes as the heroin only vapourizes fairly slowly... Many long term users prefer to inject heroin as all the drug taken hits the brain in a matter of seconds, saving money and maximizing the high.
Injection-quality heroin hydrochloride is produced in small amounts in Afghanistan and, more famously in the Golden Triangle area centring on Burma, where the product is known as China white, because production and distribution has long been controlled by ethic Chinese gangs from Thailand, Vietnam and surrounding countries. But "number four" heroin as it's known in the trade, is more expensive than the more common "number three", and is considered by dealers to be a less versatile product, because it cannot readily be smoked. Injecting addicts, however, usually prefer number four heroin because it dissolves easily into plain tap water without the need to add citric acid or vitamin C, which can sting and cause damage to veins.
This video uses actual heroin of about 75% purity to demonstrate the "cooking up" process and shows how much citric acid should be added and what the resulting heroin solution should look like...
Too much citric damages veins!

Heroin Wars

Heroin trade... from Burmese opium fields to the streets of London

Glee: Like A Prayer

GLEE Club ~ there is no such thing as a Glee club here in the UK. I mean, I didn't even know "Glee" was a generic name for theatre groups till I accidentally fell across a passage in a Bette Davis biography that mentioned her own schooltime Glee associations... Here, "Glee" Club would be called the School Drama Society... Anyway, the TV show has been running here since late last year. I think the actress who plays Sue is amazing... some of the musical performances are pretty good too...





Glee cast: Like a Prayer (sound only) ...

Heroin

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