Christina Becker (28th June, 1975 – 28th January, 1998) was a German university student who was apparently murdered.
Since 1994 Becker, hailing from Essen, was a student at the University of Münster. After having disappeared without explanation on her way home in the night of 28 January, 1998, Münster police and friends of hers made an extensive effort to trace her, in which, not at least by media coverage, local residents took active interest. But the search was to be in vain, increasingly arousing fears that Christina Becker has fallen a victim of a capital offence. More than a month later, on 6 March, her body was found at the verge of a federal road in Nordwalde near Münster. She had been choked with her own scarf.
The homicide squad comprised at times more than 30 police officers and so was the largest hitherto ever formed in Münster. As part of the investigation, saliva samples of more than 10,000 persons were examined. Not till the murder of Maria Beuting in Vreden, Germany on 4 August, 2001 and the apprehension of a suspect from Freudenberg in November 2001 did suspicion emerge that "Torsten S." also killed Becker. In June 2002 he was found guilty of both murders and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment with notice of the particular gravity of his guilt (which prevents him from being paroled after 15 years) by Münster district court.
Since 1994 Becker, hailing from Essen, was a student at the University of Münster. After having disappeared without explanation on her way home in the night of 28 January, 1998, Münster police and friends of hers made an extensive effort to trace her, in which, not at least by media coverage, local residents took active interest. But the search was to be in vain, increasingly arousing fears that Christina Becker has fallen a victim of a capital offence. More than a month later, on 6 March, her body was found at the verge of a federal road in Nordwalde near Münster. She had been choked with her own scarf.
The homicide squad comprised at times more than 30 police officers and so was the largest hitherto ever formed in Münster. As part of the investigation, saliva samples of more than 10,000 persons were examined. Not till the murder of Maria Beuting in Vreden, Germany on 4 August, 2001 and the apprehension of a suspect from Freudenberg in November 2001 did suspicion emerge that "Torsten S." also killed Becker. In June 2002 he was found guilty of both murders and sentenced to lifelong imprisonment with notice of the particular gravity of his guilt (which prevents him from being paroled after 15 years) by Münster district court.
Alexis J. Williamson is an American Ice Dancer and Photographer. She trains in Detroit, Michigan and currently skates with Vitaly Novikov.
Images Originales Photography is the company that represents her work in the United States.
Miss Williamson is an award-winning artist with special interest in fine art imagery. Born in 1981 in Barrington, Illinois, she graduated from
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ilinois in 2003 with High Honors in French and Economics. Williamson studied further at Columbia College
Chicago in photography and at The Art Institute of Chicago in art history. Images Originales Photography focuses on Event, Wedding and
Fine Art images. Portrait work and landscape as well as architecture are in the portfolio of Miss Williamson. Her studies abroad include
work in Paris, France, where she lived and worked as a photographer in 2002-3.
Ice dancing at the senior level includes competition this season, 2007-08, at the United States Midwestern Sectionals and the United States
National Championships in St. Paul, MN.
Miss Williamson currently trains with Coach Natalia Annenko-Deller, a world and olympic competitor, and has studied with Sasha (Alexander)
Zhulin, world champion and olympic medalist. Miss Williamson's previous partners include Jim Swanson, 1999, and Christian Wilson, 2002, with
whom she was a National Alternate for the 2002 United States Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles.
In 2003-4 she skated with Yuri Kocherzhenko of the Ukraine and trained in Montclair, New Jersey with Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomorov.
Images Originales Photography is based in Royal Oak, Michigan and is housed in an AIA award winning loft which will be featured in October
2007 on HGTV. "What You Get For The Money"
Images Originales Photography is the company that represents her work in the United States.
Miss Williamson is an award-winning artist with special interest in fine art imagery. Born in 1981 in Barrington, Illinois, she graduated from
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Ilinois in 2003 with High Honors in French and Economics. Williamson studied further at Columbia College
Chicago in photography and at The Art Institute of Chicago in art history. Images Originales Photography focuses on Event, Wedding and
Fine Art images. Portrait work and landscape as well as architecture are in the portfolio of Miss Williamson. Her studies abroad include
work in Paris, France, where she lived and worked as a photographer in 2002-3.
Ice dancing at the senior level includes competition this season, 2007-08, at the United States Midwestern Sectionals and the United States
National Championships in St. Paul, MN.
Miss Williamson currently trains with Coach Natalia Annenko-Deller, a world and olympic competitor, and has studied with Sasha (Alexander)
Zhulin, world champion and olympic medalist. Miss Williamson's previous partners include Jim Swanson, 1999, and Christian Wilson, 2002, with
whom she was a National Alternate for the 2002 United States Figure Skating Championships in Los Angeles.
In 2003-4 she skated with Yuri Kocherzhenko of the Ukraine and trained in Montclair, New Jersey with Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomorov.
Images Originales Photography is based in Royal Oak, Michigan and is housed in an AIA award winning loft which will be featured in October
2007 on HGTV. "What You Get For The Money"
Matt Lovett
Matthew Dean Edwin Lovett is 16 years old (born 11 April 1991 , Newark, Nottinghamshire), is a Young British Entrepreneur turning over £6,500 a month and is best known for BritishRewards.co.uk, a UK reward site with over 200,000 members. Matthew is in the finals for Young Entrepenur Award by the Daily Mail.
Matthew is the Managing Director of Only Option Limited, known as the WOW Group (www.wowgroup.ws) which is an umbrella brand running a range of different websites including search engines, reward sites and many other websites accross the globe.
Matthew Dean Edwin Lovett is 16 years old (born 11 April 1991 , Newark, Nottinghamshire), is a Young British Entrepreneur turning over £6,500 a month and is best known for BritishRewards.co.uk, a UK reward site with over 200,000 members. Matthew is in the finals for Young Entrepenur Award by the Daily Mail.
Matthew is the Managing Director of Only Option Limited, known as the WOW Group (www.wowgroup.ws) which is an umbrella brand running a range of different websites including search engines, reward sites and many other websites accross the globe.
Democratic communism is a socio-economic system with communism as the economic basis and democracy as the governing principle. This entails that the means of production would be controlled and owned by the entire population and that political power would be in the hands of the people, whether through democracy that is representative or direct.
Some argue that communism implies democracy, and that democratic communism is a redundant term. However, the term is often used to contrast genuinely democratic communism from the self-described "communist" ideologies that democratic communists consider totalitarian, such as Stalinism or Maoism. Democratic communists reject both democratic socialism and social democracy as forms of capitalism.
Concept
Communism is the communization of the economy and means of production own the whole population because all are the workers. In democratic communism, the entire population controls the economy through some type of democractic system. Directly contrasting this is state capitalism where a small group of ex-workers control the economy.
The term "democratic communism" is used by communists who want to distance themselves from the Soviet Union and the other so-called "Communist states." Such forms of communism are hailed as communist in name alone, specifically for their lack of democracy.
Democratic socialism is a previous system of democratic communism.
Some argue that communism implies democracy, and that democratic communism is a redundant term. However, the term is often used to contrast genuinely democratic communism from the self-described "communist" ideologies that democratic communists consider totalitarian, such as Stalinism or Maoism. Democratic communists reject both democratic socialism and social democracy as forms of capitalism.
Concept
Communism is the communization of the economy and means of production own the whole population because all are the workers. In democratic communism, the entire population controls the economy through some type of democractic system. Directly contrasting this is state capitalism where a small group of ex-workers control the economy.
The term "democratic communism" is used by communists who want to distance themselves from the Soviet Union and the other so-called "Communist states." Such forms of communism are hailed as communist in name alone, specifically for their lack of democracy.
Democratic socialism is a previous system of democratic communism.