Déjà-vu – Der Gespiele des Richters - Teil 1 und 2 [Gay] (German Edition)

Ollie was very angry, liberal and left-wing. And Hal was clueless, ignorant and patriotic. I liked that Hal was best friends with Barry Allen, the Flash [more about this friendship here, Link]. I liked that Hal was best friends with Ollie. But Hal really did have to put up with a lot from Ollie! When news reached Oa that Hal wanted to give up his ring and travel through small towns with Ollie, a Guardian decided to transform into a more human-like form and join them. The Guardians do not embrace individual names. And Hal became a lot less self-confident and a lot more whiney.

To my mind, some of the best stories about Hal are the very early ones in the Silver Age. They are just so… insane! He has his own fan cllub of hysterical teeny-boppers all wanting to marry him! Originally Hal was a lot of fun. He flew with his legs open. He showed off his ass in practically every shot [absurdly extensive Link].

He hit his head. Heck, he got hit in the head with a yellow ceiling tile, and was blinded by mustard, and all kinds of silly things. On your own website, you often post these two kinds of pictures: He always leaps before he looks, and strangely hilarious things happen to him… yet he always manages to overcome the indignities thrown his way [Link] , and come out smelling like the proverbial rose. And he drives Batman crazy. Granted, this is more of a recent development, but you could see echoes of it even back in the sunny old Justice League days: Batman plans and thinks Link , and plans some more.

Hal just… does it. By the seat of his pants. And manages more often than not, to get away with it. A lot of times, Hal acts like an ignorant, idolized super-hero fratboy: There are a lot of DC heroes that I respect as persons read this essay about Lois Lane as an inspirational character, for example. Or is he an evil person trying to pretend he is nothing more than a harmless moron?

His treatment of Carol Ferris [Link] is pretty outrageous for one thing. Hal never paid any attention, and kept chasng her around the disks in a way that would get him into a lot of trouble nowadays. He also treated his family in a rather cavalier fashion: Back in the old days, he and his brothers, Jack and Jim [Link] and their wives would go and visit their rich Uncle Titus. And smirk when he did it. Carol Ferris inherited Ferris Air and employed Hal as a test pilot. But frequently, an evil Alien energy, the Star Saphire Link , would latch onto Carol and transform her into a dangerous sexual predator Link.

Hal and Carol had several relationships… but they never stayed together too long. To his credit, he seems to date only one at a time, which is nice, but he has this pathological fear of commitment, and never lets anyone get too close. Nevertheless, Hal has a habit of using women, and then dumping them in a minute. Whenever I learn about specific heroes, their powers and their individual supporting casts, there is a moment when I feel overwhelmed: Every hero has an origin story, a specific home town, one or several love interests… For the longest time, Hal Jordan even had a non-superpowered sidekick, the youthful Inuit airplane mechanic Tom Kalmaku Link.

There are snarky articles that make fun of the weirdest and most stupid twists Link. Most heroes have a junior counterpart… a female counterpart… a kid sidekick… a romantic interest… an elder statesman… a civilian companion… an authority figure… a black sheep… a contextualizing city… and sometimes even an animal companion.

He always has a unique and usually brilliant take on things. I hated the stilted dialogue and the naive conflicts. I really liked the books starting the issue [Link] , when writer Steve Englehart [Link] took over: Then sadly, the Guardians disbanded, and went off to make whoopie with the Zamarons, and they accidentally executed Sinestro, and mostly the Corps was shut down… with the exception of a few, who all went to live on Earth with Hal.

I have no idea what you talking about. Reviews were so bad that I did not read this. Even that era was fun, because Englehart had a sure way with the different voices of the characters: Guy came out of his coma and became a whole lot more fun, and John and Katma got married [Link] , and Hal was busy making out with an underage Arisia [Link] , which was a bit squicky [Link] , but hey. For the longest time, I really did not like these Green Lantern Corps characters too much. All they ever did was paint the actresses blue or green or pink — but they all had long legs, high heels and perky perky breasts.

They might have antennae, and weird eyebrows, but they were all definitely humanoid females. All the better to be lusted after by Hal Jordan. She was this HUGE and completely unattractive Warrior Woman [Link] , who could have picked up just about any Green Lantern other than [massive drill sergeant] Kilowog and broken them in half. They ended up prettying her up after a while [Link] , which was a shame [Link!! She was a silicone-based life-form, if I remember correctly, and basically was made out of rock.

She still had breasts of course, because otherwise how would you KNOW that she was a woman , but she was a fun character. She also had this totally unrequited crush on Hal. Hal of course was busy lusting after all the other more nubile alien women. There are some really cool alien races in the Corps, however: Kilowog has to be one of my absolute favorites.

His planet of Bolovax Vik [Link] was unfortunately destroyed, but he had had a wife and a family. There is also Leezle Pon [Link] , who is a super intelligent virus, and I think that there is a mathematical equation that is a Lantern [Link] , and one that is shaped like a cube. In these first years after the Crisis, almost all major super-hero series thrived: There were smaller series like the excellent! The writer was Gerard Jones Link , the art came from Pat Broderick Link — and Hal was noticeable older now, with grey temples and a midlife identity crisis.

Suddenly, Hal got these weird gray sideburns, and became morose and even more angsty than when he was going around with Ollie twenty years earlier. At the same time however, Guy was becoming more and more interesting. And suddenly making perpetual horndog Hal Jordan suddenly look as though he was forty was a poor move. Instead of being charming and charismatic, he suddenly looked like a creepy older uncle. The 8 opening issues Link of this series had Hal flying around, searching for a new place in life.

And they must be one of the most annoying comics that I have read… because all the characters looked like gay fetish men Link. Hal Jordan was doing his own thing in his own book there for a while, yes. Occasionally, Guy would drop in and play off of Hal, and these issues were usually hilarious. Over time, he grew mad and started stealing whole cities from different planets to transplant them to Oa: The series is remarkable for the eye-popping, weird 90ies art it reminded me of artist Anthony Ausgang, Link and the Charles-Bukowski-like, deliberately erratic dialogue and storytelling.

But it was an ambitious concept — and nothing that I can see DC Comics publishing today, in And next, Hal turned crazy and killed all his friends. The story started when Superman was killed by a monster in Link. With Superman still dead, his old enemy Mongul Link , an alien despot with the personality of a schoolyard bully decided to attack Coast City.

Instead of getting him some therapy, they yelled at him and told him to stop moping. Naturally, this just made him mad [Link]. And then he tried to fix things, and they yelled at him some more. So he flew back to Oa, and basically just mowed down everyone in his path…. Hal murders the friends who try to stop him — Boodika, Kilowog, Arisia, and many more — and steals their power rings Link. Then, he kills Sinestro Link ….

To this day, the book is one of my favourites, and I can highly recommend it to everyone who knows nothing about the DC universe. So Hal was turned into a huge villain, and tried to destroy the Universe, and it was a pretty shabby treatment for someone who had been one of their classical heroes, really. He also beat the crap out of Guy, tore out his eye and put him into another coma.

In the end, Ollie shoots him in the heart to stop him Link. It gave us Kyle Rayner. But getting to Kyle. Frankly, the idea that Ganthet [the last surviving Guardian, Link] just found him standing in an alley outside of a bar [Link] is hilarious. And he does fulfill the first requirement of being a good Green Lantern… he has a really fabulous arse [Link]. When we first meet him, he lives in LA with his girlfriend Alex deWitt Link and has only been out of college for a couple of years.

Kyle has an overbearing mom, an absent dad and he really likes the comfort of a long-term relationship: He only found it by chance, and since there is no Oa and no Corps anymore, he has a hard time learning the ropes. Interestingly, Alex turns out to be very helpful there: He was spending a lot of his time trying to figure out how the ring worked, and how to BE a Green Lantern, without a Green Lantern Corps.

Everyone else had been depowered or killed off. So a lot of the early Kyle stories were mostly about him trying to figure out is place in the universe. Frankly, I really really liked Alex, and I was devastated when she was fridged. It originated with Kyle and Alex, back in , when a villain named Major Force Link found out where Kyle lived, visited their apartment…. She also gives a lot of cool examples: Another lazy writing trick is to have a heroine be raped [Link] and use that for her motivation.

Again, not too many male heroes use that as their reason for fighting crime. Starting in September of , there are 52 ongoing comic series at DC comics Link. So whenever a woman or a minority character in these stories dies [Link] … they are leaving a much bigger hole — because there has never been lots of diversity in comics, in the first place. Geoff Johns is a big fan of this strategy, and it brings a lot of problems: The oldest, classic heroes usually have the biggest brand value in comics, so when a comic book series is failing, it is easier to kill off the hero, invent a new person with slightly different powers and make him the new star… with the same name Link.

There was a new, female Dr. Light Link , a new, female Wildcat Link … there even have been female Robins Link , from time to time. The gratuitous and casual killing off of good characters is infuriating. Both boys seemed likeable and full of potential… but also very much like the characters that get sidelined and forgotten Link once they fail to interest the mainly white readership. A good supporting cast can really make or break a superhero. Batman could hardly exist without Alfred or Commissioner Gordon. There are a TON of Green Lantern supporting characters of course, and when they are well written, they become very important to the reader: Not only are there all of the myriad Lanterns, but all of the cool villains.

Where would Hal be without Sinestro? There are amazing characters around, and more of them than there are comic books to give them space to shine. For women, minorities, girlfriends and side characters, staying relevant is even harder. After Alex, the freelance photographer, was killed and stuffed into the fridge, Kyle dated Donna, a freelance photographer and hero, Link , who then was killed by an evil robot. First there was poor Alex. Then they killed Jade, then they killed his mother, then they killed practically anyone who had ever been in the same room with him.

I am really hoping that Soranik Natu, his current girlfriend, is the one to break the jinx. While Kyle started dating Donna, there was a whole generation of teenage heroes reaching their mid-twenties in the DC Universe: Dick Grayson, the former Robin, was now Nightwing Link. At the same time, their former sidekick roles were getting filled with new, more unconventional characters: In the late 90ies, DC Comics had became more multicultural and the authors worked hard to show us established hero concepts… with young, fresh faces: Kyle was part of this larger trend, and even today, he is the most popular and enduring of these characters.

I will be the first to admit that I am not much of a Donna Troy fan, though: I find her to be dull. Although I will admit that Kyle was a much better love interest for her than her late, unlamented husband, Terry Long [Link]. Terry Long was a middle-aged, divorced college professor, and Donna Troy was only 20 or 21 when she married him. To make things worse, Terry looked very much like Marv Wolfman Link , the author of that relationship and a long-time Donna Troy fan. She is one of the few people who actually have the Green Lantern power internalized… something that she inherited from her father, Alan Scott.

I was GLAD when she was killed…glad! I think the character of Jade was so annoying because Kyle basically had the very same story, with two different women: But in , a young author named Judd Winick Link took over and repeated many of the naive conflicts and stories that Marz had done before. Ironically, Ron Marz has also… said some of the smartest things about constructing characters that I have ever read Link , by drawing attention to a short sentence in an afterword Link by Stephen King: Instead, what had me invested in DC comics in the first place… was blogs like yours — that talk about the personalities and less about the always-the-same plot twists Link -, artists like Amanda Conner Link — that show the small, everyday moments between the heroes — and writers like Greg Rucka Link , who likes to write from the perspective of complicated, competent women Link.

Quite frankly, Winick has the ability to drive me absolutely nuts. He CAN be a good writer… when he wants to be. I get the impression that he thinks that superhero comics are a bit beneath him , and he writes them with a certain amount of contempt. His retcon [Link] is insulting, unnecessary and just plain bad [Link]. He CAN write men failry well…again, when he feels like it. He did a fairly decent job with Kyle back in the Green Lantern books. However, he also has this habit of writing about things such as drug use, or homosexuality, or whatever… and making a HUGE deal out of it.

There is a feeling that he has one eye on the award ceremony, and only one eye on his writing, because it is Just So Socially Relevant! Winick has also done some very good character stuff with Kyle… but having him answer to his real name while in costume or transforming into Green Lantern in the middle of a busy coffee shop?

Since his powers were magic-based, he also still was very active with the Justice Society. But what changed for Guy and John? It is quite fabulous, and poor John Stewart has never been quite as interesting since. He was still a jerk of course, but now he was a jerk on purpose.

And with a heart of gold of course. John Stewart — and Donna Troy, of all people — joined an intergalactic team of super-powered peacekeepers, the Darkstars , Link. Their uniforms were gaudy, and they seemed to just try to be copying the Lanterns. John was in a wheelchair at the time, so Meryan cared for him. But that changed fairly quickly: He fell for Katma Tui, and she for him, and they got married during the Super Bowl, which was fun.

Also, he never bothered wearing a mask [Link]. All of this was badly plotted, joyless to read and gradually marginalized one of only five or six well-known black DC heroes. To this day, I do not understand John, as a character: He is stern and humourless, uses his ring for elaborate, technically accurate energy constructs… and has been a Marine sharp shooter before he worked as an architect. Basically, John is probably the smartest of the four Earth Lanterns … although Guy is a whole lot smarter than people think that he is. Frankly, Hal and Kyle are pretty, but dumb.

John is quietly competent, stoic, and steadfast. He is calm and he is efficient, but he is NOT particularly charismatic. It is as though between them, Hal, Kyle and Guy use up all the charisma, and John is left over. Nobody really seems to know quite what to do with him. I like John, I really do…and yet I can understand why you have a hard time getting a clear picture of him. At the same time, an alien woman, Fatality Link came to earth and held John responsible for the destruction of her home planet Xanshi.

Lately, they seem to be trying to redeem Fatality, making her join the Star Sapphires [Link]. But it will be interesting to see what they ultimately do with her. But did it work? Is it worth reading? I have to admit that this was the low point of my interest in Hal: I was depressed enough that he went all crazy and became Parallax and killed his friends. It was nice that Hal was back… sort of. And it was interesting having him try and turn the Spectre into the Spirit of Redemption rather than the Spirit of Vengeance.

There were some good stories that came out of it, though: When Hal went bonkers and the Corps was destroyed, it was awfully hard on a lot of GL fans. Yes, Hal was shallow, self-centered, egotistical and a little bit dumb… but dammit, he always added some excitement.

I even missed the stupid boxing glove construct he sometimes made with his ring [Link]! I really do love Geoff Johns as a writer. Johns loves to go dumpster-diving into DC continuity. It can be quite a treat to someone who is well-versed in that same continuity to see odd little facts and long-forgotten ideas pulled out, dusted off, and refurbished. It was an okay explanation and a powerful retcon Link , and once Parallax was defeated, Hal had his body reconstructed and the Guardians decided to start a new, second Green Lantern Corps on Oa.

The Powers That Be made it almost impossible for Hal to be rehabilitated… and yet… Geoff Johns managed to do just that, and in an extremely satisfying way. The Corps was a rich and valuable mythology back in the day… and we lost a LOT of story-telling potential when they killed Hal off, and only told stories with Kyle as the last Green Lantern. Now it is all back, and better than it ever was, and I am eternally grateful. Geoff Johns has a gift for being able to go into the past, and mine obscure bits of continuity… and then reuse it to explain things that are happening now [Link]: You remember Cyborg Superman: The art [by Ethan van Sciver, Link ] was gorgeous, and it brought back Hal, as a hero… and Hal also lost those goddamned grey sideburns!

Man — I hated those! This is the way you sound on your blog most of the time, too: By god, this is the best current comic book out there! And that alone endears him to me! We even got Coast City back: And Sinestro [Link] came back as well. And this is a Very Good Thing. And that has been very very satisfying… to Sinestro. But no matter where you start: You have to read some pretty bad comics to understand what is going on. The older books still have a lot of relevance, yes. But it is fairly easy to find them, since DC has actually been reprinting a lot of their old material in handy dandy collected books [Link] … because who could afford to buy the extremely rare and valuable… not to mention impossible to find… originals from 50 or 70 years ago?

Although I suppose that can be said of just about ANY comic book! When I find a book that I like, I start to read it, and then I get interested, and start looking for back issues, and trade paperbacks so that I can figure out exactly WHAT is happening, and who those people ARE, and why are they acting the way that they do.

I tend to get a little bit obsessive. When I began reading Green Lanterns, I hunted down back issues with absolute lust: I went to every comic book store I could find. I had mail-order catalogues. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find thirty-year old French westerns? I actually think that it would be easier for a new reader to start with some of the Silver Age Green Lantern books [Link] , to find out who exactly Hal is. But if you really really like Green Lanterns… it is truly worth it. There is one reprint collection that I have found extremely helpful: He was a very competent, prideful and serious Green Lantern from the planet Korugar Link who realized that the planet was much more secure if he ruled it with an iron fist.

From there, it turned violent… and he began to be a menace to the Guardians. Really, Sinestro is a fabulous character: All heroes need a good villain, and Sinestro is one of the best [Link]. Sinestro got a little bit carried away [with his dictatorship] on Korugar, and the Guardians turned on him [ Link ]. They seem to have a bad habit of doing that sort of thing. Soranik was a surgeon on Korugar, and now she is a Green Lantern in her own right… but she thinks that Sinestro is a monster. Geoff Johns has been working on Sinestro a lot in the past few years: I liked it even better than Rebirth!

Has that been handled with any kind of political complexity in the old comics, too? Or is Sinestro just your run-of-the-mill despot? He would like to have a New World Order however. And he does seem to see himself as being the most competent person to run it. A black sense of humor, but still… he has a kind of dark wit. And his artwork is just so…fluid. It flows so effortlessly from panel to panel. And he draws Guy Gardner simply beautifully [Link]! The ring is a very powerful weapon, and the Guardians have decided that instead of one ringbearer per sector, there will be two, bringing the number of Green Lanterns up to Link … All of this could be cheesy, chaotic or boring… but fortunately, Tomasi has a great eye for details, a good ear for characters… and he likes to put these space cops through unnerving, morally complicated situations Link.

The only problem is… it is a big, complicated, long-term story with no good jumping-on points. Also, with only 20 pages of story material a month, most plotlines are years-old: I loved reading the whole saga this June, in just about two weeks Link. There ARE a fair amount of lose ends and dangling plot lines at the moment, yes.

But Geoff Johns is notorious for taking a LONG view when it comes to writing his books… and he is very fond, and vey deft at planting clues and hints. You do have to be patient when reading Green Lantern. I like the serial nature of comic books… the monthly storyline… the cliff-hanger… the drama and the waiting… anticipation is one of the most enjoyable parts of being a comic book fan.

When finally after four weeks or so, your favorite book is right there in your trembling hands… and you get to see how the hero survived, or failed, or what happened, and oh God, it all starts over, because there is yet another cliff-hanger! I just hope that comic books stay popular and viable and profitable for another fifty years! Well… what do you think? Do you think there will still be 50 to 70 different DC books a month Link … ten years from now? Do I think that comics will still be around in ten years?

I certainly hope so… although I am pretty sure that the digital market is probably going to be the wave of the future. Still…there will be a lot of old farts like me, who like to hold the book in their hands, and actually have a physical copy of it. And I have to admit that I LOVE actually going to the Comic Book store on Wednesday , and talking in person with the other patrons about the new books, and complaining about whatever stupid thing the comic book companies have just done Link.

It is a personal connection that I treasure. I love the internet, but sometimes, human contact is also very nice to have. These are pretty durable characters, all things considered. Batman and Superman have been around for 70 some years now! And a lot of those kids grew up and were nostalgic for the beloved stories of their youth, and that spawned a whole new generation of fans, who may be older, but who continue to buy and read comics.

For an internship that summer, I had to take a 3-hour commute by train every day for three months, so I decided to buy some comics and read them on the train List of books that I read back then, Link. It was a magical, exciting summer I wrote personal essay about it here, Link … and places like your blog helped me understand what was going on. The funny thing is, though… I buy the books on Amazon. Can you explain what happened there? Why is the discourse on the internet SO different from the real-life demographics? I never picture comic book fans as predominantly white, straight and male because the people talking online are almost NEVER white, straight and male.

Is there another universe of well-written, thoughtful, intelligent and critical white, straight and male DC blogs that I have never found? That is one heck of a question, and it is one that I wonder about all of the time as well. I am so accustomed to going through my daily routine, reading all of my favorite blogs [Link, blog roll available on the right side] , writing something inane in my own blog, going through the various Message Boards and so on, that it seems as though the whole world is interested in Comic Books. But that of course, would be wrong. But yes, I am usually the only woman in my beloved local comic book store.

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Not always, there are some other, usually younger women who are patrons, but not all that many. But with only a few exceptions, I have been extraordinarily fortunate, in that the other male patrons have accepted by presence without a murmer. There are some stores that it is practically taking your life or your virtue in your hands to even enter [a comic book store]. My store is not like that…thank goodness! I also always make sure to bring Matt in home-made cookies and brownies and such… and I end up with the best covers , and occasionally action figures and statues and other stuff!

DC admitted target age of the new DC reboot [Link] is aimed at men, from 18 to If you are trying to maintain, and increase your customer base, it seems foolish to go out of your way to ignore and annoy a rather large section of that base [Link]. There are the Trolls of course. There is a rather peculiar subgroup of male fans who see any complaint from women as being an ad hominem attack on THEIR hobby, and they react with unprecedented fury. Most women fans, like a lot of the same things that the guys do… I can appreciate a good solid kick to the head any day.

I love capes, and sound effects and ridiculous science, and so on. We just want the female heroes to be a competent as the male heroes … without arching their backs [Link] and wearing thongs. So… I think that there are a lot of women who find the internet a safer place to talk. Which sounds a bit odd considering how many trolls are out there. There are PLENTY of men who are blogging, and writing articles and leaving huge essays on message boards… in fact I think that the majority of comic book blogs are still by men.

But there are a lot more women coming into the fandom, from even a few years ago, and I think this is a good thing. There are also a lot more women attending the various conventions and doing the whole cosplay thing too. There are more women gamers. The Comic book companies have actually made some strides in opening things up and having characters that appeal to everyone… certainly more so than in the past. There is a lot more that they could do … and probably will need to do, if they want to remain relevant and solvent in the future. It might have been a pretty smart move of DC to say that their comics are for grown-up men, though: Obviously, there are a lot of older, nostalgic men reading comics, too.

Some of the October covers look even pulpier and trashier: It looks darker and more macho than ever. But it also looks dumber than ever. I think that 12 to 15 is an ideal age to get interested in comic books. But teens always find a kick to the head to be hilarious. Unfortunately the trend in comics for far more mature audience leaves out a LOT of paying customers, and I think that it is also a recipe for disaster sooner or later. The inflation rate is much higher than it should be. I wonder why not?

Kids AND adults love this book! Are there any other DC series that you would like to recommend? I simply adore Jonah Hex [Link]. The book is a million times better than the movie [Link] , by the way. I have never been much of a fan of the Teen Titans [Link] for some reason. Or the Legion of Super-Heroes [from the 31st century, Link ] for that matter.

My feelings are mainly rooted in those old Silver Age books [ Link ] that show them getting bored every other week or so and staging fake try-outs for the poor wannabees [Link] and then mocking and humiliating them for their own pleasure. Spoiled rotten Teenagers from the Future!

Really really good [ Link]. I loved these weekly books that DC was doing: It was my only chance to read about some of my absolute favorite characters in the world, with Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Fire and Ice. Both women, Fire and Ice, were just written…very poorly.

It had no bearing on the final conclusion of the story, and did nothing but enrage Ice fans [in-depth article, Link]. I was about to ask you about your least favorite moments: What scenes were horrid and bad? Well… we talked about the way that the Comic Book companies keep killing off perfectly good and viable characters for no more than a momentary thrill.

By now, it has lost whatever shock value it ever had. Usually, the heroes end up coming back anyway…. Of course, there are a whole lot of Green Lanterns that have bit the dust, and it is a shame. If you have gone to the trouble to create these wonderful characters, with a long and rich history, it is an awful shame to get rid of them just for a momentary cheap thrill.

Also, it is possible to tell perfectly wonderful, exciting stories about married couples [cute Link] , such as Clark Kent and Lois Lane [Link] and not have it be boring. How many times can we destroy New York anyway [Link, published Sep. Heroes NEED good villains. Still, in the long run, there is more that I love about my comics than what I hate. I read comics because I enjoy them. So… read the books that you like. On the one hand, Johns is very good in creating an atmosphere of importance and urgency: On the other hand, all the characters explain and rectify complex backstory through dialogue: Johns uses so much retroactive continuity, explanations, remarks and throwbacks to the past…that the dialogue seems very artificial, lifeless, stilted and weird.

I think I was the most impatient man in the world. Reading Geoff Johns feels like working… or learning… from a teacher who is constantly lying about the history book. I have no problems with retcons. You made a good point when you brought up Hal and Barry talking, and referencing moments from their past, that have been reconstructed. Geoff Johns feels that he sometimes has to explain Every Little Thing about a character.

And he does have a tendency to get a little heavy-handed sometimes. But this is a minor flaw to me, most of the time: Hal does not like to wear his power ring when he is piloting a plane, so he could not free himself. But at the same time… he is friends with the whole super-hero community AND the Corps. Superman did not hear his heartbeats or his cries, with his super-hearing? And then all of a sudden, something like this happens: Hal Jordan, tortured and forgotten in Chechnya. And I actually find Cowgirl to be a bit of a bore, too: That seems to be the sum of her character [Link].

However, she apparently puts out, and that seems to be the sum of her attraction for Hal. Carol Ferris is a much more rounded character. She ran a business, and that was something of an achievement in the Silver Age days [Link]. Heck, they were even kids together [Link]. In 5 years of comics, Hammond only sat around and looked unhappy and bizarre Link ….

Hector is quite possessive of Carol — but in a weird sort of way, he has a crush on HAL too! The meteor rock that gave him his powers also makes him grotesque and unable to move, so all he can do is experience things vicariously, through Hal and Carol. You really do have to feel a little bit sorry for Hammond: Did you enjoy the movie? And I was actually quite surprised when Blaise decided to go and see it with me.

But we ended up going to a matinee, and having a really good time. I was surprised a bit that he DID like it so much because usually, his eyes start to roll when I start talking about my comics. He was able to follow the plot pretty well , and enjoyed it enough to come with me and see it AGAIN… this time with two of my sons. Who enjoyed it as well. The audience seemed to like it.

Everyone stayed and enjoyed it. I think that it would have been better with one villain… not two [Parallax and Hector Hammond? Or does Sinestro get evil, too? The visuals for Oa and the Guardians and the Corps was simply spectacular… and we were left wanting more. Oh, and putting Guy, John Stewart and Kyle into the sequel would be very nice! Your husband is named Blaise? A few smart people realize the connection…and yes, his parents DID name him after the original. He IS very good at math, less prone to philosophy and sexy as hell. I really like Adam Strange [Link] , a ies picture-story-[Link!

Sometimes, other space heroes drop by. What a wasted opportunity…. Back in the old days, the books were pretty much being written as entirely self-contained. Lobo did show up occasionally, though: And Lobo and Boodikka actually had a little fling, which I thought was an interesting characterization. Usually, the other Cosmic groups would only show up in books like Green Lantern Quarterly, and the New Gods and Apokolips always seemed to be off on their own. Again, you see Green Lanterns showing up on some of the more notable planets nowadays — which is only sensible.

The politics did not make sense, heroes were running around like headless chicken, the pictures were pretty — but no-one understood what these Amazons wanted, anyways misogynist Link. One ring even wanted to pick Batman. Man, that was pretty bad, all things considered: But yes, the Sinestro Corps War was a breath of fresh air!

You had the four Earth Lanterns, running around doing their Four Musketeers impression , which was fun. Poor Kyle was having a rather rough time, getting Parallaxed himself [Link] , but it was chilling to see how sweet little Kyle could be so…evil. You had the Lost Lanterns [Link] running around being snooty to Hal, Hal trying to laugh it off, John being pissy, and Guy as usual… having all the best lines. I can remember blogging about it… with the utmost enthusiasm. There is nothing quite like being with other people who love something just as much as you do.

Thank god for the Internet! And yes, I do think that this is the event that really propelled Hal to being an A-Lister. In the finale, Hal got to show how much he really does love his brother [Link] and what is left of his family, and then he and Kyle get to fight Sinestro… hand to hand, without rings! The good guys won, the bad guys lost, and we were all quite happy for some time.

It felt like once all their series had found their tone, Peter Tomasi tried to create one really emotional, honest moment every issue. Yes, the scene with Guy kissing Tora in the aftermath of the war is one of my favorites. So I agree with you that Peter Tomasi is an excellent writer, and I love his stuff to death. He and Geoff Johns have seemed to forge a really excellent working relationship together , and his portrayals of Guy and Kyle in particular seem to me to be absolutely spot on.

This article focuses on the fitness of German pupils third and fourth grades in five schools in Berlin with widely differing social catchment areas as well as children from differing social backgrounds. Besides an orthopaedic examination and…. Describes the goals and content of the Berlin education program for parents and children with atopic dermatitis AD. Program included six group sessions concerning medical, nutritional, and psychological issues.

Program aimed to contribute towards a comprehensive, family-oriented management of childhood AD. Data showed the program had a positive…. Increased incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in young women in the Mitte district, Berlin , Germany. To investigate whether the incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia CIN , in particular of high grade CIN, increased in Berlin during the period and whether the ages of women with CIN had decreased.

The incidence of all CIN increased from year to year over the observation period: There was a particularly high increase in the incidence of high grade intraepithelial neoplasms CIN 3: With a virtually unchanged age distribution for women in the Mitte district of Berlin , the median age of women with CIN 3 decreased significantly from to , from Examines changes in practices of two nurseries in East Berlin following reunification of Germany.

Notes that after reunification, the extensive nursery school coverage for children under 3, and near universal coverage for children was drastically reduced, and the ideological justification for coverage was systematically rejected. Return of the Pink Rabbit? A Visit to a Jewish School in Berlin. Describes a day in the life of teachers and students at a Jewish elementary school in Berlin , Germany.

On this mid-October morning, the school is under tight security, since skinheads began defacing Jewish graves, neo-Nazis started chanting in the streets, and Palestinian radicals began attacking German Jews. Education toward faith is the…. This article discusses the principles developed to assure the quality of international ranking practices for higher education, the so-called Berlin Principles, and the role given to them in the higher education community.

While the principles are generally regarded as proper quality assurance principles, they are problematic both in their content…. The acceleration of the masculine in early-twentieth-century Berlin. In early-twentieth-century Berlin , agents of speed and industrialisation, such as the railway, contributed to the seemingly unbridled velocity of urban life. Doctors and cultural critics took an ambivalent stance toward the impact of speed and technology on the human body.

The essay thus examines Ostwald's and Buschan's arguments and postulates that speed in the city Berlin can be seen as a feminised, sexualised force that determined sex in the city. According to this reading, the homosexual urban dandy resisted the accelerated modernist urban tempo, whereas the heterosexual man and hegemonic, heteronormative masculinity yielded to speed. The Iron Curtain that divided Europe for decades finally fell, ushering in a new era of freedom and Berlin visit.

Inverting Images of the 40s: The Berlin Wall and Collective Amnesia. Examines images of World War II invoked in two live, international music concerts one rock, one classical celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall. Argues that Western television's choice of imagery represented the Wall's demise as a marker of the end of the Cold War rather than a vanishing monument of Germany's conflicted struggle with Holocaust….

In this article, the author discusses how the municipal authorities eliminate the names of all schools in eastern Berlin in to formalize the spontaneous purge of school identities. She added, that the renaming of primary and secondary schools at this historical juncture provides a unique vantage point for examining what the democratic turning…. This essay considers the rhetoric of space in a rapidly transforming culture. Using Michel Foucault's concept of "heterotopias" to understand the rhetorical power of a building's disposition, it is argued that the Jewish Museum Berlin contains two heterotopias, one within the other.

The first is Daniel Libeskind's original building…. Walter Benjamin, cultural critic and philosopher, compiled " Berlin childhood around " trans. Howard Eiland, while in exile from Germany in the early s, filtering impressions of a privileged childhood through a politicised adult consciousness. The tephrostratigraphy of Mt. Integrating blue ice tephra and ice core tephra records. Reconstructing volcanic activity in Antarctica is difficult because of the limited outcrop exposure.

However, ice is an excellent medium for sampling tephra, allowing for a more complete eruptive record than can be found in other depositional environments. Furthermore, because of low ambient temperature, glass shards trapped in ice remain unaltered and unhydrated. Berlin is an ice covered volcano in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, and, because of heavy glaciation, eruptive records on the volcano itself are sparse. Here, we present the integration of two different records of Mt.

Moulton Dunbar et al. Berlin are also found in other ice and marine core records, and these have been correlated and integrated into the combined volcanic record. Moulton blue ice area is located 30 km from Mt. Berlin and hosts a fabulous tephra record spanning the last ka. A total of 36 tephra from Mt. Berlin with ice core ages dating back to 70 ka. The two tephra records were integrated using their respective timescales. In locations where the Mt. In total 61 tephra from both ice sections provide an excellent record of the magmatic evolution of Mt.

Berlin over the past ka. EMP analyses on glass shards show a gradual change in Fe and S over time. Most of the other major elements remain relatively unchanged. The trend in Fe and S could be produced by progressive tapping of a single, stratified magma chamber, but the long duration of volcanism makes this unlikely.

We instead favor small batches of. Quantitative Analyse und Visualisierung der Herzfunktionen. Hierbei werden alle relevanten herzphysiologsichen Parameter berechnet und mithilfe von Diagrammen und Graphen visualisiert. Diese Berechnungen werden evaluiert, indem die ermittelten Werte mit manuell vermessenen verglichen werden.

Validation of the Malay version of Berlin questionaire to identify Malaysian patients for obstructive sleep apnea. Most patients with OSA are unrecognised and untreated. However, this tool has not been validated in Malay version. A parallel back-to-back translation method was applied to produce the Malay version Berlin -M. The Malay version was administered to patients in a tertiary respiratory medical centre. The test-retest reliability and internal consistency of the Berlin -M were determined. Most patients were males Based on the sleep study test, The test-retest reliability Kappa value showed a good range between 0.

The Cronbach's alpha of BQ was 0. Therefore, though the Berlin -M is useful as a screening tool, it is not a confirmatory diagnostic tool. Pulsatile mechanical cardiac assistance in pediatric patients with the Berlin heart ventricular assist device. Mechanical cardiac assistance for neonates, infants, children and adolescents may be accomplished with pulsatile ventricular assist devices VAD instead of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation or centrifugal pumps. The Berlin Heart VAD consists of extracorporeal, pneumatically driven blood pumps for pulsatile univentricular or biventricular assistance for patients of all age groups.

The blood pumps are heparin-coated. The stationary driving unit IKUS has the required enhanced compressor performance for pediatric pump sizes. In 45 pediatric patients aged 2 days years the Berlin Heart VAD was applied for long-term support days, mean 20 days.

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There were three patient groups: Seventeen patients were transplanted after support periods of between 4 and days with 12 long-term survivors, having now survived for up to 10 years. In Group II only one patient survived after successful transplantation. Prolonged circulatory support with the Berlin Heart VAD is an effective method for bridging until cardiac recovery or transplantation in the pediatric age group.

Extubation, mobilization, and enteral nutrition are possible. Symmetriebrechung und Emergenz in der Kosmologie. Diese Annahme liegt selbst noch den Standardmodellen der relativistischen Kosmologie zugrunde. End-of-life care for immigrants in Germany. An epidemiological appraisal of Berlin. The German health care system needs to adjust its services—linguistically, culturally, and medically—for this subpopulation of patients. As many of the labor immigrants of the s and s are in need of hospice and palliative care HPC , little is known about this specialized care for immigrants.

This epidemiological study presents utilization of HPC facilities in Berlin with a focus on different immigrant groups. Methods A validated questionnaire was used to collect data from patients at 34 HPC institutions in Berlin over 20 months. All newly admitted patients were recruited. Anonymized data were coded and analyzed by using SPSS and compared with the population statistics of Berlin.

Results questionnaires were completed and included in the analysis. This difference was especially seen in the age groups of 51—60 The largest ethnic groups are Turks, Russians, and Poles, with a different weighting than in the general population: Since the late 's, a steadily increasing immigrant population in Germany is resulting in a subpopulation of aging immigrants. The German health care system needs to adjust its services-linguistically, culturally, and medically-for this subpopulation of patients.

A validated questionnaire was used to collect data from patients at 34 HPC institutions in Berlin over 20 months. This difference was especially seen in the age groups of The present paper examines the first attempts to internationalise the problem of leprosy, a subject hitherto overlooked by historians of imperialism and disease. The last decade of the nineteenth century saw many in the civilised countries of the imperialist West gripped by a paranoia about an invasion of leprosy via germ-laden immigrants and returning expatriates who had acquired the infection in leprosy endemic colonial possessions.

Such alarmists clamoured for the adoption of vigorous leper segregation policies in such colonies. But the contagiousness of leprosy did not go unquestioned by other westerners.

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The convocation in Berlin of the first international meeting on leprosy revealed the interplay of differing and sometimes incompatible views about the containment of leprosy by segregation. The roles of officials from several countries, as well as the roles of five protagonists Albert Ashmead, Jules Goldschmidt, Edvard Ehlers. The first international leprosy conference, Berlin , The present paper examines the first attempts to internationalize the problem of leprosy, a subject hitherto overlooked by historians of imperialism and disease.

The last decade of the nineteenth century saw many in the 'civilized countries' of the imperialist West gripped by a paranoia about an invasion of leprosy via germ-laden immigrants and returning expatriates who had acquired the infection in leprosy-endemic colonial possessions. The roles of officials from several countries, as well as the roles of five protagonists Albert Ashmead, Jules Goldschmidt, Edvard Ehlers, Armauer Hansen, and Phineas Abraham in the shaping of the Berlin Conference are here examined. EXCOR is an extracorporeal pneumatically pulsatile ventricular assist device approved for use in pediatric age group since in the United States.

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It is a well-established life-saving therapy for the bridge to heart transplant or to provide circulatory support in a transplanted patient. The most commonly reported problem was "membrane defect" in a postmarketing major device reporting. In general, the filling and emptying of the pump can be easily visualized, but the interobserver variability exist. In this first novel report, we used the iPhone slow motion video to quantify and compare the differences in filling and emptying that positively impacted the management of the Berlin Heart.

This is an initial exploratory concept that will need further studies to validate this bedside tool. Water and bed-sediment quality in the vicinity of Berlin Lake, Ohio, Berlin Lake, in northeast Ohio, was created by the U. Army Corps of Engineers in and is used primarily for flood control for the upper reaches of the Mahoning River. The area surrounding and under the lake has been tapped for oil and natural gas production. One of the by-products of oil and gas production is concentrated salt water or brine, which might have an effect on the chemical quality of area potable-water sources.

This report presents the results of a U. Geological Survey baseline study to collect current water and sediment-quality data and to characterize water quality in the Berlin Lake watershed. Chloride-to-bromide ratios were used to detect the presence of brine in water samples and to indicate possible adverse effects on water quality. Analyses of ground-water samples from domestic wells in the area indicate a source of chloride and bromide, but defining the source would require more data collection. Surface water was analyzed twice, once each during low-flow and surface runoff conditions.

A comparison of the data to historical chloride concentrations, accounting for seasonal changes, does not indicate an increase in chloride loads for surface water in the area of Berlin Lake. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were found in bed-sediment samples collected from the mouths of major tributaries to Berlin Lake. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are produced during the incomplete combustion of organic carbon materials such as wood and fossil fuels, and they are components of petroleum products. Tularaemia in Berlin - two independent cases in travellers returning from central Anatolia, Turkey, February Tularaemia, though rare, has recently been increasingly reported in Germany.

Most cases are indigenous infections. This report describes two epidemiologically independent infections with Francisella tularensis subspecies holarctica detected in Berlin in February that were acquired in central Anatolia, Turkey. In Turkey, there have been repeated tularaemia outbreaks since and the disease should therefore be considered as a differential diagnosis in travellers returning from that country. Ein Blick ins Licht. This book is a German translation, by A. Ehlers, of the American original "Seeing the light. Optics in nature, photography, color, vision, and holography", published in Die Haupteigenschaften des Lichts.

Grundlagen der geometrischen Optik. Wie das Bild erzeugt wird. Ein Blick in die moderne Physik. Three jewish Germans were between and continuously in charge of a department of surgery at the oldest municipal hospital in Berlin -Friedrichshain founded Neumann , Moritz Katzenstein and Max Marcus Neumann described in the so-called omentum-majus-cuff. By this a drain is wrapped up and put into a perforated ulcus pylori, which cannot be treated by another procedure. Katzenstein in was the first in Germany who repaired a torn off meniscus by suture with a good result The very first was T.

Annandale in Edinburgh in Aside of this procedure, important for prevention of gonarthrosis, M. He was a close friend of Albert Einstein during his years in Berlin. Max Marcus was after the death of M. Katzenstein the youngest chief surgeon in Berlin --but only until April Then he was expelled by the Nazis, because he was a jew.

In June he immigrated to Palestine and became the leading surgeon there in the later Israel. Sauerbruch spoke about him as the "great hope for the German surgery". Distributed medical services within the ATM-based Berlin regional test bed. Distributed new medical services have been implemented and will be evaluated within the highspeed MAN of Berlin. Resource and application sharing is demonstrated by the use of two software systems. The first software system is an interactive 3D reconstruction tool 3D- Medbild , based on a client-server mechanism.

This structure allows the use of high- performance computers at the TUB from the low-level workstations in the hospitals. Data security concepts are being tested and integrated for the needs of the sensitive medical data. The highspeed network is the necessary prerequisite for the clinical evaluation of data in a joint teleconference. The transmission of digitized real-time sequences such as video and ultrasound and the interactive manipulation of data are made possible by Multi Media tools.

The influence of geopolitical change on the well-being of a population: Social cohesion is recognized as a fundamental condition for healthy populations, but social cohesion itself arises from political unity. The history of the Berlin Wall provides a unique opportunity to examine the effects of partition on social cohesion and, by inference, on health. This ethnographic study consisted of examination of the territory formerly occupied by the Wall, formal and informal interviews with Berlin residents, and collection of cultural documents related to the Wall.

Transcripts, field notes, and documents were examined by means of a keyword-in-context analysis. The separation of Berlin into 2 parts was a traumatic experience for the city's residents. After partition, East and West Germany had divergent social, cultural, and political experiences and gradually grew apart. The demolition of the Wall--the symbol and the instrument of partition--makes possible but does not ensure the reintegration of 2 populations that were separated for 40 years.

The evolution of a new common culture might be accelerated by active attempts at cultural and social exchange. Small cities are uniquely challenged to mitigate environmental issues in their communities because they usually lack the financial resources and technical expertise to address them. The Town of Berlin , population 4,, recently purchased approximately 60 acres of private property located at Old Ocean City Boulevard.

The property was previously owned by Tyson Chicken, Inc. Historically the plant emitted significant odors which limited the Town's ability to diversify its economic base. The plant closure provided an opportunity to convert the property to another use, but the downturn in the economy delayed that change. The Town intends to establish recreation oriented uses on the property with the following goals in mind: Create a common ground for the people of Berlin that will unite various neighborhoods.

Create synergy between ecological sustainability and community resilience Upgrade the ponds on the property to make them the design focal point Through the Thriving Earth Exchange, the Town of Berlin connected with Dr. Ellen Silbergeld to resolve the question of how to remediate the ponds. Silbergeld is trained as an environmental engineer and public health researcher, with substantial experience in environmental issues in the poultry industry.

This case study will show how one small city is working with a volunteer scientist to convert a blighted piece of property into a multi-use public space for the benefit of its residents and guests.

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Natiirliche und gesteuerte bewegung. Describes the Federalism and Tribal consultation efforts related to the Uniform National Discharge Standards UNDS and links to copies of each presentation, both to state and local representatives, as well as federally-recognized tribes. Aus Wirtschaft und Betrieb. Gewinnung und Verarbeitung mit Profilschal-maschinen. Keine der zusammen mit den Kiefern vorkommenden Laubholzarten wurde bisher in nennenswertem Umfan verwertet.

Two types of health care systems and their influence on the introduction of perinatal care: When perinatal medicine emerged as a new medical discipline in the s, Berlin was as one of the world's leading centers. During that time, the city was separated into two parts, each fostering its own health care system.

After the destruction of the Berlin Wall, it was possible to speak with the citizens of East Berlin and to access their database systems. This created the singular opportunity to objectively compare the development of perinatal care in both parts of Berlin. Rates of maternal, perinatal, and infant mortality as well as the rate of preterm deliveries were evaluated over time and between East and West Berlin.

The timing of introduction of 20 specific perinatal interventions was evaluated across 18 hospitals with more than deliveries 11 in West Berlin and 7 in East Berlin. Interviews were conducted with gynecologists, midwives, and women who had recently delivered their first child from each side of the city regarding their opinions of the importance of these interventions for the quality of perinatal medicine and how they would distribute a budget to improve maternity care.

Maternal, perinatal, and infant mortality decreased in both parts of Berlin until p Berlin , though the preterm delivery rate was slightly lower in East Berlin compared with West Berlin p Berlin. In contrast, certain public health measures--such as maternal transport, screening programs for diabetes, and support of breastfeeding--were introduced much earlier in East Berlin. There were significant differences between the beliefs of gynecologists, midwives, and mothers in East and West Berlin. In general, citizens of East Berlin were more enthusiastic about technological medical advances, whereas citizens of West Berlin were.

Human papillomavirus vaccine uptake, knowledge and attitude among 10th grade students in Berlin , Germany, In the absence of an immunization register, we aimed at assessing HPV-vaccination coverage and knowledge among students in Berlin , the largest city in Germany, to identify factors influencing HPV-vaccine uptake.

Between September and December , students completed the questionnaire mean age Of participating girls, Among these, 66 Reasons for being HPV-unvaccinated were reported by 65 girls: Dissuasion from parents The odds of being vaccinated increased with age Odds Ratio OR 2.

Self-administered questionnaires were distributed to 10th grade school students in 14 participating schools in Berlin to assess socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge, and statements on vaccinations. Vaccination records were reviewed. Multivariable statistical methods were applied to identify independent predictors for HPV-vaccine uptake among female participants.

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HPV-vaccine uptake was low among school girls in Berlin. Both, physicians and parents were influential regarding their HPV-vaccination decision even though personal perceptions played an important role as well. School programs could be beneficial to improve knowledge related to HPV and vaccines, and to offer low-barrier access to HPV vaccination. Receiver Operator Characteristic ROC curves were generated to compare the predictive validity of LIS for mortality to Berlin stages of severity mild, moderate and severe.

However, the mean LIS was only 0. However, predictive validity of both scores was marginal, and there was no additive value of LIS over Berlin. Although neither LIS nor the Berlin definition were designed to prognosticate. Kontinuierliche Wanddickenbestimmung und Visualisierung des linken Herzventrikels. The second part of the study on homicides in East Berlin from to describes the solving of crimes, the usual features of offenders and the legal assessment according to East German law. Most of the offenders had a low social background and often belonged to the victim's circle of friends or family.

Situational homicides and elimination crimes were the most common crimes. In the legal assessment sentences for murder were predominant. A Tandetron as proton injector for the eye tumor therapy in Berlin. The therapy of eye tumors with fast protons is an excellent tool giving very high local control rates.

Using the standard duoplasmatron ion source with direct extraction of negative hydrogen ions an extremely stable proton beam can be delivered, both on the short-term and the long-term scale. The hair-needle filaments made from thoriated tungsten wires have safe operation times of more than h. Vertical Windshear Below 5. To evaluate point-of-decision prompts in the promotion of stair use in Germany, motivational posters were placed at three underground stations in Berlin. The proportion of passengers using stairs or stairways was counted before, during installation, and two weeks after removal of posters.

In total, 5, passersby were counted. Stair use increased significantly in women, but not in men. The present pilot study thereby shows that the use of point-of-decision prompts is also feasible in Germany and it provides some evidence of effectiveness. Methodologically rigorous studies are warranted to confirm these findings. Understanding chemical binding using the Berlin function and the reaction force. We use the derivative of the electron density with respect to the reaction coordinate, interpreted through the Berlin binding function, to identify portions of the reaction path where chemical bonds are breaking and forming.

The results agree with the conventional description for SN2 reactions, but they are much more general and can be used to elucidate other types of reactions also. Our analysis offers support for, and detailed information about, the use of the reaction force profile to separate the reaction coordinates into intervals, each with characteristic extents of geometry change and electronic rearrangement. Comparison of the Berlin definition with the American European consensus definition for acute respiratory distress syndrome in burn patients. Acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS is a leading cause of mortality in burn patients.

Smoke inhalation, pneumonia and inflammation process are the major causes of ARDS in burn patients. We reviewed admitted burn adult patients for a two year period, and investigated patient who received mechanical ventilation for more than 48 h and in whom pneumonia was diagnosed.

Categorizing patients with the Berlin definition showed statistically significative difference of mortality within the three groups, but not with the AECC definition. This definition may facilitate prompt recognition of ARDS in burn patients, and promote protective ventilation strategy to a larger number of patients. The purpose of this study was to compare the Berlin definition to the American-European Consensus Conference AECC definition in determining the prevalence of acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS and associated mortality in the critically ill burn population.

Consecutive patients admitted to our institution with burn injury that required mechanical ventilation for more than 24 hours were included for analysis. Inhalation injury was present in First pediatric transatlantic air ambulance transportation on a Berlin Heart EXCOR left ventricular assist device as a bridge to transplantation. Mechanical circulatory devices are indicated in patients with refractory cardiac failure as a bridge to recovery or to transplantation. Whenever required, transportation while on mechanical support is a challenge and still limited by technical restrictions or distance.

We report the first pediatric case of transatlantic air transportation on a Berlin Heart EXCOR ventricular assist device Berlin Heart, Berlin , Germany of a yr-old American female who presented in cardiogenic shock with severe systolic dysfunction while vacationing in France.

Rapid hemodynamic deterioration occurred despite maximal medical treatment, and she was supported initially with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation converted to a Berlin Heart EXCOR left ventricular assist device. Long-distance air transportation of the patient was accomplished 3 wks after implantation from Marseille, France, to Denver, Colorado. No adverse hemodynamic effects were encountered during the The patient did not recover sufficient cardiac function and underwent successful orthotopic heart transplantation 3 months after the initial event.

Our experience suggests that long-distance air transportation of pediatric patients using the Berlin Heart EXCOR mobile unit as a bridge to recovery or transplantation is feasible and appears safe. Simulation and source identification of X-ray contrast media in the water cycle of Berlin. This article describes the development of a model to simulate the fate of iodinated X-ray contrast media XRC in the water cycle of the German capital, Berlin. It also handles data uncertainties concerning the different amounts and sources of input for XRC via source densities in single districts for the XRC usage by inhabitants, hospitals, and radiologists.

As well, different degradation rates for the behavior of the adsorbable organic iodine AOI were investigated in single water compartments. The introduced model consists of mass balances and includes, in addition to naturally branched bodies of water, the water distribution network between waterways and wastewater treatment plants, which are coupled to natural surface waters at numerous points. Scenarios were calculated according to the data uncertainties that were statistically evaluated to identify the scenario with the highest agreement among the provided measurement data.

The simulation of X-ray contrast media in the water cycle of Berlin showed that medical institutions have to be considered as point sources for congested urban areas due to their high levels of X-ray contrast media emission. The calculations identified hospitals, represented by their capacity number of hospital beds , as the most relevant point sources, while the inhabitants served as important diffusive sources. Deployed for almost inert substances like contrast media, the model can be used for qualitative statements and, therefore, as a decision-support tool.

Science and policy for a healthy future, April , , Berlin , Germany. Entitled "Science and Policy for a Healthy Future", the conference brought together international experts from the scientific sector, politics, authorities, industry, non-governmental organizations NGOs , and other involved associations. The conference took a critical look at today's chemicals that have a potential impact on human health and should be investigated as a matter of priority.

It also discussed current activities and research efforts on HBM occurring worldwide, presented HBM success stories, and emphasized areas, where further research and focus are needed to improve the use of HBM for policy making. In many countries, HBM has been proven to be a useful tool and warning system to indicate problematic human exposure to pollutants and to evaluate the effectiveness of existing chemicals policy and regulations. However, important challenges remain such as exposure assessment of mixtures of chemicals, the development of analytical methods to detect new chemicals of concern e.

Squatting and urban renewal: Squatting as a housing strategy and as a tool of urban social movements accompanies the development of capitalist cities worldwide. We argue that the dynamics of squatter movements are directly connected to strategies of urban renewal in that movement conjunctures occur when urban regimes are in crisis. An analysis of the history of Berlin squatter movements, their political context and their effects on urban policies since the s, clearly shows how massive mobilizations at the beginning of the s and in the early s developed in a context of transition in regimes of urban renewal.

The crisis of Fordist city planning at the end of the s provoked a movement of "rehab squatting" 'Instandbesetzung' , which contributed to the institutionalization of "cautious urban renewal" 'behutsame Stadterneuerung' in an important way. The second rupture in Berlin 's urban renewal became apparent in and , when the necessity of restoring whole inner-city districts constituted a new, budget-straining challenge for urban policymaking.

Whilst in the s the squatter movement became a central condition for and a political factor of the transition to "cautious urban renewal," in the s large-scale squatting — mainly in the eastern parts of the city — is better understood as an alien element in times of neoliberal urban restructuring. Current state and development of the real-time control of the Berlin sewage system.

Since the s, we have known about real-time control of urban drainage systems. However, global real-time control strategies still show a lack of implementation for large drainage systems of high complexity. In Berlin , Germany, a city of 3. In the framework of the project "Integrated Sewage Management", the possibilities of a global and integrated control strategy for the Berlin system are examined. The paper is focused on the historical concept and design of the sewerage and the further improvement towards an environment-oriented system that builds the basis for today's considerations.

The operational method and functionality of local regulators that have already been implemented are described. Further-more, the model-based methodology for the analysis of the system and the development of global control concepts, as well as the results of system analysis, are stated. On the basis of model simulations, it is shown that a global coordination of pump stations can lead to a reduction of sewer overflows, and consequently to an enhanced water protection. Over cases of equine periodic ophthalmia p. As regards aetiology, the extraction of 71 affected Trotters was investigated.

Antibodies to toxoplasmosis, leptospirosis and intestinal parasites were found only in some of the patients. Younger animals, aged between one and four years, and male animals The results of the examinations of faeces showed no correlation between cases of p. The examinations for antibodies to toxoplasmosis gave no indication of a participation of the toxoplasmas in the aetiology of recurrent uveitis. In contrast, the results of the examinations for antibodies to leptospirosis, of which Breed analysis showed that in certain breeds of Trotters and warm-blooded horses, p.

The Verein Jugendheim in Berlin -Charlottenburg was a holding organisation of welfare institutions and of training facilities for members of the caring professions. In it founded a Soziales Institute that offered various courses for advanced vocational training. In those courses depth psychology - mainly represented by the Adlerians, least by the Jungians and increasingly by the Freudians - had a prominent place. The role of the Freudian school was supported by the fact that two staff members of the Jugendheim Hildegard Buder-Schenck, Ursula Graf [Laessig] started their analytic training at that time.

The main teachers of psychoanalysis at the Institute were Siegfried Bernfeld, Edith Jacobson and Steffi Bornstein; notes take by a student at one of Jacobson's seminars are documented in this paper. In general, in the psychoanalytic courses there seems to have been a shift from academic teaching of theory to case oriented supervision. The presence of psychoanalysis in the training program of the Jugendheim indicates the beginning of an institutional rapprochement between pedagogy or social work and psychoanalysis in Berlin , analogous to earlier developments in Vienna.

The rise of the Nazis put a stop to this promising, yet hitherto completely unknown, chapter of history. Land Surface Temperature LST is defined as the temperature of the interface between the Earth's surface and its atmosphere and thus it is a critical variable to understand land-atmosphere interactions and a key parameter in meteorological and hydrological studies, which is involved in energy fluxes. Air temperature Tair is one of the most important input variables in different spatially distributed hydrological, ecological models. The estimation of near surface air temperature is useful for a wide range of applications.

Some applications from traffic or energy management, require Tair data in high spatial and temporal resolution at two meters height above the ground T2m , sometimes in near-real-time. Thus, a parameterization based on boundary layer physical principles was developed that determines the air temperature from remote sensing data MODIS. Tair is commonly obtained from synoptic measurements in weather stations.

However, the derivation of near surface air temperature from the LST derived from satellite is far from straight forward. Most of the previous studies have focused on estimating T2m based on simple and advanced statistical approaches, Temperature-Vegetation index and energy-balance approaches but the main objective of this research is to explore the relationships between T2m and LST in Berlin by using Artificial intelligence method with the aim of studying key variables to allow us establishing suitable techniques to obtain Tair from satellite Products and ground data. Secondly, an attempt was explored to identify an individual mix of attributes that reveals a particular pattern to better understanding variation of T2m during day and nighttime over the different area of Berlin.

For this reason, a three layer Feedforward neural networks is considered with LMA algorithm. Kommunale Energieversorger als wesentliche Akteure der Digitalisierung - Strategien und Handlungsoptionen.

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Vielerorts gestalten kommunale Unternehmen den digitalen Wandel bereits aktiv mit. Ferner profitieren kommunale Unternehmen von einigen Wettbewerbsvorteilen, etwa hohen Vertrauenswerten ihrer Kunden und umfangreiches Know-how im Datenmanagement. When the Girls Still Wore Headscarves: This study is centered on a youth center in Berlin , Germany, that serves migrant females. It draws on the anthropology of performance and the concept of "friction" to argue for an understanding of performances of belonging, where migrant girls stage acts of inclusion through creative encounters with the forces of integration to negotiate….

This article presents an analysis of the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall which reveals that both grew from unique political, historical, geographical, cultural, and economic circumstances. The purpose of this article is to provide new arguments for a debate that all too often has been waged with emotions, polemics, and misinformation. Prevention of Homicidal Violence in Schools in Germany: Since , Germany has experienced at least twelve serious cases of targeted school violence.

This article describes two projects designed to fill the gap between universal prevention and emergency response in preventing severe forms of school violence in Germany. The Berlin Leaking Project examined the viability of preventive efforts based on…. Wednesday, 6th of May, Hotel Esplanade in Berlin ]. In this paper, the celebration of Freud's 70th birthday in Berlin is used as "time slot" to demonstrate the interconnectedness of psychoanalysis in the public sphere and its journalistic reflection.

When central figures of public life had to emigrate and in some cases were even killed, this connection between institutionalised psychoanalysis and the political and cultural space was permanently destroyed. A purification and some properties of an insecticidal exotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis Berliner. An insecticidal exotoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis var. The efficiency of each stage of the purification has been ascertained and the yield of toxic material estimated by means of a quantitative bioassay. It is shown that the exotoxin is an adenine derivative substituted at position 9 and having a molecular weight of approximately It can be dephosphorylated enzymically or chemically under conditions that define the exotoxin as a phosphomonoester.

This results in loss of toxicity, both to insects and to mice. Glucose and allomucic acid have been positively identified as hydrolysis fragments from the exotoxin. These results are discussed and compared with the results of others on similar or possibly identical compounds. Reduced size liver transplantation from a donor supported by a Berlin Heart. Patients on cardiac assist devices are often considered to be high-risk solid organ donors.

We report the first case of a reduced size liver transplant performed using the left lateral segment of a pediatric donor whose cardiac function was supported by a Berlin Heart. The recipient was a day-old boy with neonatal hemochromatosis who developed fulminant liver failure shortly after birth. The transplant was complicated by mild delayed graft function, which required delayed biliary reconstruction and abdominal wall closure, as well as a bile leak.

However, the graft function improved quickly over the first week and the patient was discharged home with normal liver function 8 weeks after transplant. The presence of a cardiac assist device should not be considered an absolute contraindication for abdominal organ donation. Normal organ procurement procedures may require alteration due to the unusual technical obstacles that are encountered when the donor has a cardiac assist device.

The 5th annual European League Against Rheumatism congress, held in Berlin , 9—12 June , was attended by a record number of delegates from all continents and offered a large choice of education, state-of-the-art and original research presentations in up to 15 parallel sessions. Some of these were poorly attended, although featuring top-ranked abstracts. The poster sessions remain a problem child. They were not well attended by viewers and largely neglected by presenters, mainly because of the general structure of the meeting. Ways to improve this could be to provide lunch packages and to appoint poster session chairmen.

Other changes would involve moving morning hour satellites to other slots. However, in general it was an enjoyable meeting showing important progress in various fields of rheumatology and meeting the expectations of most delegates. While the name of the conference has changed over the years, it is regularly held approximately every 2 years and continues to be one of the leading international conferences on remote sensing. It works mainly on the development, manufacturing and testing of hot water propulsion systems. In order to perform thrust experiments for a deeper understanding of the propulsion efficiency and the influence of varying nozzle parameters on exhaust characteristics, a dedicated hot water test facility has been built.

For more than five years,ground-based take-off assistance systems for future reusable launch vehicles have been the subject of intense investigation. The Berlin Brain-Computer Interface. Classical BCI applications are brain actuated tools for patients such as prostheses see Section 4.

In these applications, the BBCI uses natural motor skills of the users and specifically tailored pattern recognition algorithms for detecting the user's intent. But beyond rehabilitation, there is a wide range of possible applications in which BCI technology is used to monitor other mental states, often even covert ones see also [6] in the fMRI realm. While this field is still largely unexplored, two examples from our studies are exemplified in Sections 4.

Our objective was to revise the definition of acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS using a conceptual model incorporating reliability and validity, and a novel iterative approach with formal evaluation of the definition. After 2 days of consensus discussions a draft definition was developed, which then underwent empiric evaluation followed by consensus revision. The Berlin Definition of ARDS maintains a link to prior definitions with diagnostic criteria of timing, chest imaging, origin of edema, and hypoxemia.

For the bilateral opacities on chest radiograph criterion, a reference set of chest radiographs has been developed to enhance inter-observer reliability. The pulmonary artery wedge pressure criterion for hydrostatic edema was removed, and illustrative vignettes were created to guide judgments about the primary cause of respiratory failure. If no risk factor for ARDS is apparent, however, objective evaluation e.

This panel addressed some of the limitations of the prior ARDS definition by incorporating current data, physiologic concepts, and clinical trials results to develop the Berlin definition, which should facilitate case recognition and better match treatment options to severity in both research trials and clinical practice. Computer-aided system for diabetes care in Berlin , G. The basis of the system is the data bank on diabetics DB , where at present data from approximately 55, patients are stored. DB is used as a diabetes register of Berlin.

On the basis of standardised criteria of diagnosis and therapy of diabetes mellitus in our dispensary care system, DB facilitates representative epidemiological analyses of the diabetic population, e. The availability of general data on the population or the selection of specified groups of patients serves the management of the care system. Also, it supports the computer-aided recall of type II diabetics, treated either with diet alone or with diet and oral drugs.

In this way, the standardised evaluation of treatment strategies in large populations of diabetics is possible on the basis of uniform metabolic criteria blood glucose plus urinary glucose. The system consists of a main computer in the data processing unit and of personal computers in the diabetes centre which can be used either individually or as terminals to the main computer. During 14 years of experience, the computer-aided out-patient care of type II diabetics has proved efficient in a big-city area with a large population.

Berlin , Germany, - Santiago, Chile, ]. Georg Friedrich Nicolai was a German physician and physiologist whose pacifism during the First World War led him in to cosign with W. Bueck a "Manifesto to the Europeans" against the entry of Germany into the war and the invasion of Belgium. As a result of this appeal and his strong pacifism, Nicolai lost his positions as cardiologist to the German royal family, professor at the University of Berlin and chief of laboratory at the Charite hospital also in Berlin , and was sent as a garrison physician in Graundenz, in today's Poland.

There he began to write his book, The Biology of War. It managed to avoid censorship and was published in Leipzig in He was court-martialed in Danzig in but escaped to Denmark. Nicolai was reinstated to his faculty positions by the Weimar Republic after the war but was subsequently forced to emigrate from Germany to South America by the pressure of right wing student groups who accused him of being a deserter and a traitor. From to Nicolai lived in Argentina, and from until his death in , in Chile.

In this later country Nicolai was professor in the University of Chile and interacted with members of the Chilean intelligentsia, including the poets Vicente Huidobro, Gonzalo Rojas and Pablo Neruda. Through his friendship with Chilean psychiatrist Agustin Tellez, Nicolai influenced the development of phenomenological psychiatric school in Chile. Oppenheimer and Linus Pauling. Marble Deterioration and Climate: Protective structures for works of art or antique artefacts have a long architectural tradition and have been known in Germany since the 19th century.

The effect of such covers on the microclimate around artworks of natural stone, and hence, their protective capability are insufficiently documented and understood. Such a system would need to fulfil the various requirements for structural stability, aesthetics, climate and practical use. This applied research represents the first complex scientific study of the sustainability of a winter covering system. A climate monitoring system was designed to create a dense database for the numerical prediction of the effect of protective systems, and to compare the given climate conditions to the known factors influencing the marble deterioration.

Based on these findings a prototype of an innovative shelter was designed and tested. The project shows, that beside a temporary covering regular inspection and maintenance combined with regular cleaning ensures an effective and sustainable protection of marble sculptures. Important scientific results of the project are transferable to similar objects of Carrara marble. The results throw a new light on the conventional protection of such objects and leads to a discussion on the necessity of an all-season protection.

Failure to reliably diagnose ARDS may be a major driver of negative clinical trials and underrecognition and treatment in clinical practice. Two hundred five patients with hypoxic respiratory failure from four ICUs were reviewed independently by three clinicians, who evaluated whether patients had ARDS, the diagnostic confidence of the reviewers, whether patients met individual ARDS criteria, and the time when criteria were met. The reliability of the Berlin ARDS definition is moderate, driven primarily by differences in chest imaging interpretation.

Combining independent reviews by multiple clinicians or improving methods to identify bilateral infiltrates on chest imaging are important strategies for improving the reliability of ARDS diagnosis. Postgraduate training for young psychiatrists--experience of the Berlin Summer School. Growing professional exchange between Eastern and Western European countries increases the possibilities for international postgraduate training courses and by that satisfying the need for rapid and facilitation of travel and migration in the enlarged European Union increase achieving high standards.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a summer school program that trained young Eastern European psychiatrists and to assess the impact of the program on their professional development and future activities. We evaluated the training effect of the first 3 years of the Berlin Summer School with respect to 1 the participants' satisfaction with the topics, quality and originality of the presentations, and 2 long-term effects and implications for their professional career.