Ich bin fitter, habe aber nicht abgenommen. Ich glaube, ich muss mich anstrengen und mehr Sport machen. Please forward it to me so I can lose weight as well. Losing weight by owning an app — that sounds perfect to me! I saw a report some time ago that pointed out that aged persons 60 and older might rarely gain muscle mass because of the increasing deficit of testosterone. One may stays fitter better trained?

Walking and biking is said to be good for legs, heart, and lung. It saves the fee for the gym, they said. Comment Und wo bekomme ich eines dieser sogenannten ewers? Wie zieht man sich solch ein Dingsbum an? Comment RenaRd , just for the record I know you weren't being serious: I didn't say I lost weight by owning an app. I said I was losing weight with the help of an app, and that implies clearly: I was walking, pushing my bike in the pedestrian zone, in a narrow alley that leads from the market place to the nearest street with traffic.

I noticed a rather young child, I guess around 1. I looked around if I could see a parent nearby, but none of the people nearby seemed to belong to the little boy. I watched him for a short while, and still nobody was looking after him. He was toddling towards the street for a while, then turned back towards the market place, then turned again towards the street, quickening his pace! I went after him, in order to catch him before he would reach the street.

He accelerated, and so I parked my bike quickly and ran after him to make sure I got him in time. Fortunately, he staggered and fell - not badly, but enough to make him cry "aua, aua! Soon a woman came running, with another kid exactly the same size and with the same jacket on, on her arm, probably the twin of "my" kid, visibly panicky! She grabbed her child from me, scolded him, hardly looked at me and vanished in the crowd I think she was just too upset to say something to me! I felt very pleased with myself - this was my Good Deed of the Day, certainly. Two passers-by addressed me afterwards, one man saying: I hope it made your day..

I never met a person as helpful as him, but he just ignores how ill I am. So if you have a better proposal gives it to me. Greetings from Carinthia, down south in the middle of the austrian mountains. But it's still an easy job here in the valley. Some regions above m get some meters of fresh snow: Hopefully we will have snow because our christmas ride really looks much better when there is some snow. Reminds me of the legendary Count Bobby who asked the shop assistant for a globe of whole Austria. ReNard, es tut mir leid, dass du unter so vielen Gesundheitsproblemen chronisch leiden musst.

Da bin ich neidisch. Comment Ah thanks lala , sounds like a nice place to live! Christmas ride - do you mean riding horses? Or is it just a Christmasy trip to the area? I confess I had to look up where the Lungau is To whom it may concern: It doesn't do the losing of weight for you, as I said. It's still you who have to do it! But it helps you. You enter your gender, age, present weight, and how much weight you want to lose, and it works out how many calories per day you can eat in order to reach that goal.

You then have to enter everything you eat - there's a huge data base from which you can chose whatever you eat. Since the users can enter new items into the data base, you have to be a bit careful because there are mistakes in it, but overall, it's really good, and many items are "confirmed" as correct. When you first start, it's a bit time consuming because you have to weigh everything that goes into your mouth - but you can also create your own "meals" e. After a few weeks, you get quite good at estimating the weight of things, and also you get a feeling for high calory food items and so, for example, will learn quickly to use a bit less fat for frying things, or using fat reduced yoghurt instead of Sahnejoghurt , that kind of thing.

Cheese is a bit of a problem for me, because I don't like fat reduced cheese. It's just not tasty enough. So, for the moment, I have to be careful with big lumps of cheese But it doesn't have any "ideology" about what you should eat and what you shouldn't, and that's something I like very much about it. I love butter, and I'd for example never bake a cake with margerine or any of the idiotic "fat-reduced fats", but I use less butter than I used to e. One butter cookie is so much better than 5 fat reduced ply wood type weight watchers recipe cookies!

You enter your weight as often as you like, daily or weekly or whatever and can see your progress on a curve. You quickly learn that the curve goes up and down all the time, no matter how well you stick to your calories - but the overall trend goes downwards, and you learn that exceeding your allowance of calories for one or even a few days won't ruin your program altogether.

You need such days from time to time, that's my experience. There's a basic version which is free and with ads appearing at the bottom , or a pay version with many more functions and ad-free. For me, the basic version is clearly sufficient. What I really like: You can also enter acitvities walks, sport, chores like cleaning etc and get extra calories for them.

So, once I had made up my mind to lose weight that's the real challenge, in my experience, making this decision wholeheartedly , it worked and still works very well for me. Comment hm — us: Thanks for worrying about me and your suggestions. No need to pity me. I had my good times and now the hard times are to come.

To quote the chief physician of a specialized clinic: Avoid any further pneumonia; that might by your last one. Besides that I'm really fit! I have got a home trainer as well that I rarely use it because of my eye disease: Which reminds me of.. Thanks for your additional info. I can hardly read the tiny letters of WhatsApp.. Comment Can't you enlarge the font size of WhatsApp?

Wenn ich einmal dies im Griff habe, geht mir alles andere ganz flott. Zum Beispiel, ich liebe ich liebe das Gericht pad thai, ich habe aber leider festgestellt, dass die Nudeln.. Und wenn ich in diesem Zustand.. Auch zwei wirklich herzige Geschichten haben wir gelesen, die von guten Samariten handeln. Ja, a nice experience war da spot on! Wenn ich einmal dies das erst mal im Griff habe, geht mir alles andere ganz flott. Zum Beispiel, ich liebe das Gericht pad thai, ich habe aber leider festgestellt, dass die Nudeln..

Very interesting about this different understanding of body members and the necessity to describe to whom they belong!

In my German understanding, it's somehow self evident that we are talking about the boy's mouth, and it is more important to say that the pacifier belongs to him. Eine neue Version von Firefox hat sich von selbst installiert Comment eclectus Your first sentence ended surprisingly. If so, it was very well done! The computer does not work as it should anymore and that's not due to your own actions. Aber hast du wirklich ' up the garden path' gefunden? Oder stand es eher ' down the garden path' Was denken andere Schnecken dazu? Comment eclectus , you are clearly sometimes thinking too much about what might possibly possibly possibly cause a misunderstanding!

Ich musste mir das Gehirn schon wirklich sehr verrenken, um nachzuvollziehen, wie deine obige Formulierung, insbeondere das: Ich frage mich, was er wohl noch vorhat. Vielleicht eine letzte Rede, oder irgendeine Abstimmung im Ausschuss. Es ist wirklich nicht zu fassen. Heute war er guter Laune, auch wenn wir uns z. Sorgen um eine abgebrochene Zahn und eine Abszess machen. Ein Freund von uns wurde diese Woche 96, und eine Freundin Auch kaum zu fassen.

Du bist uns allen ein gutes Vorbild. Das Thomas-Feuer in Ventura Danach haben wir alle drei Strophen gesungen. Hier bleibt es aber nach ein paar Tagen mit etwas Leichtregen nach wie vor eher trocken und soll auch mindestens 10 Tage weiterhin so bleiben. Versuchen wir nicht immer noch umsonst, den Weg vor dem Herren zu ebnen, zu bereiten? Sehnen wir nicht immer noch nach einem Emmanuel, einem Gott mit uns? Der Chor der St. Comment hm -- us: Ergibt das etwa einen Sinn? Comment A semantic question today, addressed to our ENS.

We had a dispute in our class on a sentence in a book. Crichton who wants to know whether Martin had sex with his daughter Jess. Being convinced that they went to his Mr. Moreover I seem to remember that the genitive indicates an ownership. Was I too pettifogging to insist in my version or does the genitive represent a possessive pronoun? Comment pettifogging - what a lovely word! For me, "Jess's house" can also mean "the house where Jesse lives", it doesn't necessarily mean she owns the house.

Comment Ja, "Jess's house" kann bedeuten, "das Haus, in dem Jess wohnt". Is it only my personally preferred diction? Thanks, Robert -- US , for keeping us informed about the news on the fire front. TV in Germany rarely reports about it, we seem to prefer our own problems — the never ending GroKo-story, if you know what I mean. Comment I agree with Goldammer.. Also zum Umformulieren, ginge mein Frage an dich vielleicht so:. Wenn du noch ein Junge warst, RenaRd, hast du damals nie zu einem Schulfreund von der Wohnung deiner Eltern als 'meine Wohnung' gesprochen?

When you were a kid, didn't you ever refer to your parents' dwelling as 'my place' or 'my house'?


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Es gibt mir schon was zu denken da.. Habe ich denn damals selbst so etwas gesagt? Aber doch, wenn wir 'unter uns' waren Sehr interessantes Thema, RenaRd.. Wenn wir vom Zuhause von anderen gesprochen haben, haben wir den Vornamen des Freundes benutz, aber wenn von uns selber und dem eigenen Bereich gesprochen wurde, haben wir auch die Eltern mit einbeschlossen.. Wieso schreibt man 'edith'..

Comment Edith is the goddess of edits. Or maybe the patron saint? My memory is a bit vague. So it is right and just to invoke her name when making edits. Comment Exactly, Norbert, that's the background. I have no idea who discovered the goddess Edith, she was certainly around before the Crossover Chat.

I suspect the countingthreaders. I think the problem with the house thing is that in German, we don't often use exactly that phrase. And with this, I meant the place where the respective persons were at home. The house itself wasn't mentioned. RenaRd definitely has a point when he says that from the context it wasn't clear before that Jess lived with her father - so, "Jesse's house" would then really have been a bit misleading. Comment I want to add a few correcturitos for the busy leftpondian snails - no claim to be complete.

I also really liked your thoughtful words about Advent. I also wouldn't want to live "Christmas Joy" already now - but all the same I attended the "Ceremony of Carols" service which was held in our main church. I really enjoyed the English lessons in the old biblical English. Isn't that beautiful imagery? Maybe especially for the poor Californians, at the moment - that thought just crossed my mind Habe schon lange wissen wollen..

Und was sind nun "countingthreaders"?? Sie sind sehr nett und einige von ihnen machen auch gelegentlich hier mit, wie auch umgekehrt. Comment - le, -lein, -chen: Dorle stands for Doris or Dora so female for sure. Der Dieter, die Ursula, das Dorle - the article is common in various South German dialects; in standard German you do not use it with a name because the name is distinctive enough. Comment My Dorle's real name was Dorothee, so yes, she was a girl and Dorle is a Swabian diminuitive and therefore neutrum.

I'm by the way still in touch with her and she's still Dorle at 61 years of age. It has nothing to do with being small. We also used diminuitives for boys. There was a Kurtle and a Ernstle in my neighborhood, for example. And hm--us, I truly liked what you wrote. It didn't come across as a moral sermon at all, but as a wise thought about the true meaning of Advent.

Or something like that. Comment I love this grinning, snow-covered fir tree watching the children sledding! Eighteen new postings since I closed my PC last night. I owe you some answers and will start here: Why mention a house or flat? Here she mentioned the name of city to remind me where the neighbor had moved to.

Comment Tja, diesen Unterschied zwischen Deutsch und Englisch wollte ich verdeutlichen in meinem Es gibt auch Varianten davon, z. Apart from mouth, tongue, eyes and gestures, this reads like a pretty good description of the Crossover Chat, doesn't it?? St Augustine was a very modern man, it seems The "normal" genitive construction would be:.

Comment Leider scheint es, dass mein Kommentar missverstanden wird. Die Diskussion ging um den Unterschied zwischen einer deutschen und einer englischen Redewendung. Kennt Ihr "Book Bub"? Besonders gut ist, dass ich es kostenlos auf Kindle bekommen habe. Comment Sorry, Robert , for my 6-gear long line! I understood it now; I had understood the main thought before, but not your example with "meiner Omas Haus".

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Comment Ein Sternchen vor etwas Geschriebenem bedeutet dasgleiche wie ein [sic] danach?? Das wusste ich auch nicht, Robert -- US. Ist das etwas Neues, was wir von Texting her haben? Ich wurde unterbrochen und habe vergessen, den schon anfegangenen Beitrag zu kopieren. Vielleicht sagt uns das Robert. Comment I am confused. I thought that in linguistics, a preceding asterisk marks a word that is reconstructed as opposed to recorded , encountered in etymologies that go back to IE roots, for example. Comment In der diachronen Linguistik bezeichnet das Sternchen ein rekonstruiertes Wort.

Comment Thanks for the clarification. It is interesting that you mention that an asterisk is used to mark up an entire sentence , presumably by marking the first word of an ungrammatical sentence, e. Das Letztere verstehen ich auch nicht auf Englisch: Offentsichlich liest ihr alle Dinge, die ich noch nie aufgegabelt habe.. Ich vermute ja doch? Ich meine, wirkt es auch im deutschen Ohr absichtlich anschaulich auf diese Weise? Wenn ich historische Linguistik lese und sehe, wie sich ein Sprachelement durch die Jahrhunderte entwickelt hat, dann ist das diachron.

Latin Deus originally used to address Jupiter , but later adopted as the name of God. Iranic daeva, daiva, diw , etc. Slavic div genitive divese ; "miracle". Diety, spanisches dios usw sind mir da freilich ganz deutlich.. Tiwaz ist irgendwie in etwa Gwiwas oder so geworden? Goldammer hat mich vor einem Jahr oder so auf das Buch The Unfolding of Language hingewiesen, was ich ganz irre interessant und aufhellend fand, aber ziemlich dicht?

Comment The terms diachronic and synchronic are also used to describe dictionaries. The OED is an example of a diachronic dictionary. It includes English words in use from about AD ? It tracks changes in meaning and spelling for individual words through time. Bilingual dictionaries on the other hand are usually synchronic dictionaries that provide a snapshot of two languages at a specific time.

I think "durchwaten des Lehrstoffs" would be readily understood, although it is not a standard phrase. The commonly used verb is "durchackern", I'd say. Meinst du denn, so wie bei Merriam-Webster, die etymologischen Angaben, die man in eckigen Klammern findet und was ich mir schon seit ewig gerne anschaue? Wenn ja, wo findet man so ein Vieh auf???? Comment The linguists here are in a better position to answer this, but to my knowledge tracking a change in meaning, e.

I would consider Grimm's dictionary or WNT Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal diachronic dictionaries, as they track changes in meaning and spelling of words over time. Das indo-germanische Wort "Gott" stammt von einer anderedn Wurzel. Comment Thanks for insisting, eclectus. I also didn't know about the terms diachronic and synchronic in this context and learned a lot about linguistics in here in the last few days!

Beharren ist eines was ich manchmal sehr gut tun kann;-. Klasse war, durfte ich mit einigen anderen in die 6. Eines Tages hat mich Mr. My son studies to become a teacher at the moment, and to earn a bit of money, helps out in his old high school with after school clubs etc. Today, he took on the " Experimentier-Club " where fifth and sixth graders 10 to 11 years old learn about doing scientific experiments.

He let them build different types of paper planes and was then going to let them find out what kind of "scientific" experiment they could design e. How long do they stay in the air? Which ones do special things like flying in curves or doing a looping and then documenting those measurements.

They can then make scientific statements about which type flies the longest distance, which ones stay in the air best etc. I bet this was great fun for everybody, and makes them understand better what scientific work means than many explanations. I really liked that project! My son studies is studying to be come [beides geht] a teacher at the moment, and to earn a bit of money, helps helping out in his old high school with after school clubs etc.

Comment That is a wonderful project your son did there, Goldammer. Parents are only asked for their support bummer - after reading it all I would like to take part myself. My son already stated that we have a certain lack of analytical balances in our household. Is it a regional difference whether "up" or "down" is chosen?

Comment I assume more or less everybody read or heard something about bitcoins in the recent past. I have no plans of investing in the bitcoin market and I'm not really interested in disussions whether there is a bubble or not. There is, however, one issue I would like to understand: When you search the internet you will find many articles describing that an incredible amount of energy is consumed for bitcoin mining. One example is https: Even after reading some articles on the net, I have no clue what all this is about.

Can somebody Norbert seems to be a good candidate as he knows a lot about computer hard- and software and is no stranger to economics either explain in the simplest way possible what the energy is needed for? Comment He-le-na, I was looking for analytical balance if this is the right word for it - and yes, it is. In your son's case, they should at least have one at school, don't you think so? Unfortunately, my son is already "too old" for this Olympiad.

Comment I'd like to ask you snails a cross-cultural question:. Yesterday, Mr Goldammer and I bought a Bosch impact drill as a Christmas present for Older Goldammerson who, as you know, left hotel Mama recently and moved in with his girlfriend. We thought, a decent household needs a good impact drill, doesn't it, and it was really fun buying it - including a set of drills and bits for all purposes. Someone said to me: Would any of you, non-Swabians of both sides of the pond, consider giving someone an impact drill as a Christmas present, or is it really unthinkable outside Swabia?

Comment Goldammer , this coming from a Franconian perspective: Two years ago a friend of mine turned 30 and we bought him a high-grade impact drill because he and his wife were about to start renovating his parents' house which we helped them move into a couple of weeks ago. There are pictures of him unwrapping the gift and holding the drill up, proud as can be. It may not be the most sentimental gift there is, but why not? On christmas, though, I might add something a little more personal, like, I don't know, some handknitted oven mittens or something. The couple I'm talking about is actually fun to buy gifts for because you can always get them something for the kitchen or tools, and she'll end up using the tools all the time because she's the crafty one, while he has total dominion over the kitchen.

The latter is true for all couples in our group of friends; it's always the guys that do the cooking, which is a source for a lot of good-natured teasing among us. Comment I generally love to give and receive practical gifts for everyday use. One very nice effect: Switzerland has different electric plugs, so, for my hairdryer I needed an adapter as later for my vacuum cleaner, when I moved to Basel, and several other household items. One day before Christmas, for a reason I don't remember anymore, I told my friend: In a book my mother had read before, I once found a receipt for a flat iron dated on the My mother was probably glad anyway, I don't know I was around But he already found a different way of measuring the relevant parameter without a balance as the results don't have to be exact.

The planning of the experimental set-up seems to count as more important. Practical gifts are something I like and I am not a Swabian. And a really good impact drill after moving to a new flat is something I would appreciate. My husband only likes a practical gift if it is something special for e. But even then such presents are "dangerous" as he usually knows exactly what features he would like the e. That's a nice anecdote: I am not an expert in bitcoin mining. I consider crypto-currency in its current form to be the equivalent of the Dutch tulip craze of the s, so I don't pay much attention.

However, the technology that facilitates crypto-currency transactions, called blockchain, is valuable in other contexts. From what I understand, new bitcoins are created by performing some very difficult and time-consuming calculations. By design, the difficulty of this computation increases over time. In the beginning days of bitcoin, you could mine i.

As computations became harder, miners first switched to GPUs the processors on graphics cards , then to FPGAs chips containing configurable hardware , and finally ASICs custom processors professionally designed just for this mining computation. Mining now is almost exclusively in the hands of professional outfits, who install thousands of ASICs plus supporting circuitry in giant warehouses. You need lots of electrical power to run all these ASICs.

That is the bulk of the op-ex operational expenditure of such a mining operation. So the key to mining profitably is low cost per kWh. As I understand it, most professional mines are located in China these days, and in particular in Inner Mongolia, where the government provides cheap, subsidized electricity from coal-fired power plants. Interesting article with pictures here: There have been recent reports which contained an estimate of the amount of electricity needed to operate the bitcoin systems: By dividing by the current annual number of bitcoin transactions, this then led to an estimate of kWh per bitcoin transaction.

I have read at least one critical examination of those estimates that concluded that the numbers are order-of-magnitude accurate. Since there are no reliable statistics, this is about as accurate as such estimates can be. My understanding is that the per-transaction number should decrease over time, even as the overall energy use for bitcoin continues to goes up. Note that there are other crypto-currencies besides bitcoin. To my knowledge, all of them rely on expensive computations that require lots of electricity to mine, but some are more power-efficient than bitcoin, and can still be mined on GPUs e.

A popular one of these myriad alternative crypto-currencies is Ethereum. Hence buying an impact drill would definitely not be my first choice, but in case of being needed it sounds to be a perfect gift: Comment Wow, thank you, Norbert, for this elaborated explanation! Interesting to read - and my conscience is clean since I didn't jump on this train is that colloquial?

On the other hand, I wouldn't have done anyway because it scares me. He-le-na, if your son already found a possibility to measure what is desired without this kind of balance, he was already successful in one part of his scientific project. RenaRd, nowadays times have changed: My son took my laptop where in my browser I still have a folder for him like for his boy scout activities, sports club etc. We jump on bandwagons, not trains: It might be interesting to compare the energy used for bitcoin production to the energy used for gold production since gold is also a highly speculative "investment".

On average, the production of an ounce of gold currently requires 8. Harambee might want to double-check my math to make sure I am not off by a power of ten somewhere. Comment Thanks to Norbert for the explanations. My intuition is completely at a loss when I try to understand how difficult and time-consuming calculations can be converted into a bitcoin, but that's obviously as it is.

Norbert, I did not double-check your calculations, because the message would not change significantly: Both mining techniques require a lot of energy. While a lot of computational work is required to determine the primes, the result tally of prime numbers in the stated range itself is just a simple, fairly short number. Most cryptocurrencies use this principle of "proof of work", e.

Comment Okay, I understand all that, but the whole concept is still foreign to me. Comment Well, it's similar to gold: The value of gold generally reflects how expensive it is to get the stuff out of the ground. The value of bitcoin generally reflects how expensive it is to do the underlying computation.

For practical purposes, there is little incentive to generate either commodity, There are some industrial uses for gold, but they are insignificant compared to total production. In other words, both mining activities are almost equally sensible in my view: At least one can hope that no human lives are lost in bitcoin mining. Comment Yes, you are right. Gold is also a concept I never fully understood. Of course many people will say that gold is something physical you can see and touch whereas as bitcoin does not have such properties, However, I'm not sure how relevant that difference is.

Comment Masse of computer operations? My belief is that there are dozens of gnomes sitting in a room somewhere carving coins out of a wooden slices in a specified way at last that. Then the coins are measured in different ways weight, size, shape etc to make them unique. That would be good enough for me. Comment , this proves our close relationship to magpies I had to look for the latter, didn't know the word Aber was passiert damit, wenn mal Quantumrechnen in Gang kommt?

Ich kann mir vorstellen, dass die Schwierigkeit dieser Art Berechnungen noch eine lange Weile unbestimmbar bleiben werden.. Und dann kommt noch auch ins Spiel, vermute ich, wer bzw welche Konzerne Zugang zu solchen Quantumrechnern haben wird.. Nur eine winzige Feinheit;-. Comment Selbst-korrektur zu meiner Ich frage mich schon lange, wie und woher Bitcoins ihren Wert und Kostbarkeit bekommen, und nicht einfach vermehrt werden, und wer so etwas kontrolliert.. Comment Best I know, bitcoin is set up so that there is in fact a specific finite amount of coins that can be mined.

While quantum computing can break some forms of encryption more easily than traditional computers, I am not sure that secure hashes which is what bitcoin is based on are at risk. Comment Mir wurde gerade annonciert, dass in drei Stunden die Nachmittagsvorstellung von Star Wars von uns besucht wird;-.

Comment Goldammerson was there already, eclectus , in the very first performance which started at 5 past midnight a few days ago booked months in advance , and he said it is an excellent film, much better than Episode 7. I'm curious what you say. Comment I like annonciert in that context, exactly my 19th century usage!

Sorry for having neglected y'all for a while. Now that we are in Budapest, things should be much quieter. Comment exactly my 19th century usage. I didn't realize we have a time traveler in our midst: Werdet ihr denn in Ungarn Weihnachten verbringen? Ist es dort so verschneit wie anscheinend in D? Oder ist der Schnee meist schon vorbei -- vielleicht war das eher vor ein paar Tagen. Comment No snow at all in my neck of the woods I must confess that this use has not at all been in my awareness. So, eclectus , I apologize for an overhasty correcturito.

Buda, Pest and Old Buda were merged in Before that, people often referred to it as Pest-Buda or, in German, as Pesth-Ofen not a very attractive name, I'd think, but apparently they didnt mind in those days. No snow here - we had quite a bit of it the past two weekends when we had to drive significant distances within Germany, so I can do without snow right now Vielleicht eher nicht, wenn man schon ungarisch spricht.

Mein einzig anderer Anschlusspunkt ist, dass ich als Kind ein paar Romane von Kate Seredy sehr gern gelesen habe: Anscheinend sind sie weder in Deutschland noch in Ungarn bekannt -- schade eigentlich. Norbert war skeptisch, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere, aber den Faden finde ich jetzt nicht mehr. Also hier wenigstens der Link.

Comment Nee nee, Goldammer.. Nur begreife ich nicht, warum sie Princess Leah nicht beseitigt haben, da Carrie Fisher schon gestorb Comment The political situation in Hungary has been depressing for many years. Being German and Polish, we are considered "good" foreigners that would work even if we did not speak Hungarian The government kindles hatred towards homeless people, and those who are in fear of losing their own lower middle-class status are very receptive to that: And he offers an attractive storyline to the Hungarians: Very sad, especially since he started in politics as a very bright young man -.

Never heard of her. The description on Wikipedia sounds very Heidi-ish; not attractive for a city boy like me. Comment Another time traveller here: I myself probably wouldn't use "annoncieren" with the aforementioned meaning, but it nevertheless sounds quite normal to me. I've been in Hungary only once and that was not too long before the Hungarians opened the border for GDR citizens.

They lived in Miscolc, we had exchanged addresses, but we had not really established contact afterwards. Those were the times when email wasn't standard, so I had sent a letter in order to announce my visit. I never got a reply, but I went anyway, thinking that I would get through even if I could not meet them. Actually, I never met them. The address I had was correct, but it was a student hostel and all students had left the hostel for the semester break.

So, I had to do without the help of the students I wanted to meet. That was no problem although I did not speak any Hungarian. English was not of much help, but German helped sometimes. Miscolc itself wasn't the prettiest town in the world if I recall it correctly, but there were some interesting caves not too far away. Other places I visited were the Balaton I wasn't impressed , Budapest very nice and interesting city , Eger I accidentally ran into a chess event where the famous Polgar sisters gave a simultaneos exhibition, I spontaneously joined the event and managed to get a draw against Zsuzsa Polgar, I was interviewed and even mentioned in a local newspaper the next day: About 15 minutes later I was stopped by a plain-cloth whatever who wanted to see my passport.

When he saw my West German passprt everything was okay and the helicopter disappeared. Only later I understood that they were probably looking for East Germans trying to cross the border to Austria and a few more places. I worked in the computer industry in Silicon Valley. Specifically for companies making semiconductor devices, for most of my career. I worked anywhere from a person startup to a global player with 20, employees. That is the only industry I can speak to from first-hand experience, and I only worked in technical positions what is called an IC -- individual contributor , not in management.

There are a bunch of "canonical cases" most articles cycle through ad nauseam. To my knowledge none have been proven in court, which we could chalk up to corporations being able to afford expensive lawyers. I assume the linked article I only read the first few paragraphs goes through these as well. If so, please note: Tesla - automotive industry, not part of the computer industry.

Uber - transportation industry, not part of the computer industry, and not in Silicon Valley either. Kleiner-Perkins, Ellen Pao's former employer - financial services industry, not part of the computer industry. Are there some discrimination issues in the computer industry? Yes, because humans work there. Are they worse, compared to other industries? So what happens or happened in the computer industry?

Age discrimination, for one; not that you could prove it. At some point older engineers simply learn to leave early jobs off their resume, so as to not give any hints regarding age. I once had a boss who I strongly suspected of refusing to hire female engineers, but I would never be able to prove that. I recall one case of inappropriate touching, in the s; inappropriate remarks e. I know at least one case of a Southeast Asian contemplating to sue a company that was run by, and mostly staffed by, South Asians for that reason.

I heard a couple of comments from Asian engineers who felt they lost out in career advancement vs Caucasian engineers because of race, but as far as I was familiar with the circumstances, those decisions seemed justified to me. Most underrepresented group in the computer industry: Hispanics, from what I could observe. For the past dozen years or so, the companies I know have stepped up their game and are running a very tight ship when it comes to any kind of inappropriate behavior in the workplace.

As I said before, an allegation of misconduct can cost you your job, and thus likely your career. There aren't many people stupid enough to risk that. What a story, harambee! Or rather several great stories! The border guard in those days was not only after East Germans but also after Hungarian males who wanted to escape the draft. I was an AIESEC trainee in Budapest in ; on the train, as we were approaching Szombathely near the Austrian border, a very fat police officer in mufti checked the documents of all men in the respective age bracket thus including myself at that time , and my colleagues told me this was standard practice.

Hi snails, warm literally greetings from the island of Koh Phangan in Thailand. I stopped working 5 weeks ago and have moved into "Freistellungsphase der Altersteilzeit". I hope to be able to participate a little bit more in the future than in the recent past. Comment That's excellent news, congratulations! If my own experience is anything to go by, you will thoroughly enjoy the freedom of being the master of your own time from now on.

Comment At least in Germany, retired people never have time for anything Comment That's because tasks magically expand to take up the available time: Es scheint bei uns nur wenige Zwischenzeit zu geben, wo das Wetter perfekt ist.. There should be no Umlaut, but like this it is even better!

I will add it to my vocabulary Rechtslastig finde ich nicht bei LEO. Comment Oh what a beautiful [interruption] morning, oh what [interruption] a beautiful day.. Where is the usage of sending nicely made greeting card gone, that I used to array on the window sill in former days? The times they are a-changing.. That rings a bell!

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Comment Happy birthday, RenaRd! Comment Hier ist es immer noch der Die Torte schmeckt super. Stachelbeertorte war auch die Lieblingstorte meines Vaters. Comment I love today's Advent Calendar doorlet! Nicht dass ich damit ausflippen will.. Comment I believe, somewhere on Wikipedia there's a list of codes to enter for certain graphics I'm now going to pick up my new glasses at the optician. After a period of time where I wore my Swabian parsimony got me there some years ago cheap glasses - I never was really satisfied with them! I decided that like with the matress or the shoes you have, daily life-quality means more than saving money.

Mir ist es peinlich zu gestehen, dass ich mich schwer tue, Das Christkind so ganz richtig zu verstehen: There is also the strange verse morality of the final dramolette, The Christ Child , whose focus is not the titular messiah but rather his confused, exasperated, wonderfully human parents.

When they are overwhelmed by visitors and Joseph is taken in by their enthusiasm, Mary grounds him and quickly, at that:. They doubt, they listen—and they begin to believe in their own destiny. Ist sowas ein lang etablierter Brauch bei euch zu dieser Jahrzeit? Oder ist diese Art von geistigem Adventskalender eher etwas Eigenartiges, da wir hier alle einigermassen "Kopfmenschen" sind?? Ich glaube, so ein Gebrauch gerade zu Weihnachten ist sei?? Ok beim Nachlesen, vielleicht ist das Schreiben nicht gerade Kauderwelsch, aber schon etwas zum Durch Wie kommt's denn, dass du diese kennst?

Gibst es mal her! The notes I copies one day in another thread but pasted it here for the first time just to have a try. Are the glasses made by Porsche, for sitting on a porsche, or just excellent and expensive? I was referring to the Leo Advent Calendar Maybe I should mention that eclectus is among the recipients of a "poetry advent calendar" made by members of my family. I tested the new glasses immediately on my way home: I was very satisfied, they are excellent in those conditions.

Comment While I don't wear the Rolls-Royce of glasses, I have like Goldammer learned the hard way that going cheap is not the thing to do when it comes to glasses. Because of a nickel allergy I developed over the years, I have to stick to titanium frames these days. And I also need progressive lenses: One pair for infinite distance down to two feet for driving , and one pair for a viewing distance of two feet down to one foot for computer work and reading.

I retain one cheap pair with lenses based on an old prescription that I use when I do work around the yard, where it does not matter when the world appears slightly blurry. I would hate to destroy an expensive pair of glasses when a tree branch snaps back or something of that sort. After having some less than stellar experiences in the past, I now see an O. Sounds like a certain type of pastors. Comment No, Robert , that wasn't it. I think there's a special linguistic term for a word which is transferred into more contexts than it originally comes from, in order to stand in a generalized way for a special attribute of the original word.

Another example would be "the mother of all Warum denn nicht einfach aus Plastik, wie wir normale Menschen? Oder stehst du auf den 'wire-rimmed' Look? Besonders eine Lesebrille kann man oft sogar in der Apotheke kaufen, nicht wahr? Nicht, dass ich das bisher getan habe, ich verwende immer noch stur die Gummiarmmethode Meine Mutter musste einmal ihre gestohlene Brille in Italien ersetzen und hat vom Hotel einen teueren Designerladen empfohlen bekommen.

Aber ich bin es leider nicht. Nobody noticed the pun not the mistake. A young woman ran out of money, but she was good in working. So she took the bus to the suburbs and as she left the bus she instantly spotted an old man sitting on the porch of his house. She approached and asked him for a job. He looked her over and finally answered that the porch needed a painting. Only half an hour later it knocks at the door. Comment I wasn't aware that normal people use glasses with plastic frames, which makes people who prefer metal frames abnormal freaks, I guess: So at least I want them to look reasonably stylish according to my preferences.

To maximize comfort and eye protection, I choose photochromic polycarbonate lenses with antiglare coating. In the computer industry, your most important bodily assets are brain, eyes, and hands, so it makes sense to take good care of those. Luckily I was able to leave the industry before I completely ruined my right wrist, but I do tend to lose all feeling in my right hand when holding things for a prolonged period of time such as a car's steering wheel , causing the nerves to get pinched off.

I am not aware of a concept of over-correction, and my very experienced O. My myopia is pretty exactly where it was when I was 20 i. Apparently it is the last item that makes it hard for optometrists to determine the optimal correction; one even had new lenses ground at their expense because I complained that things still looked fuzzy.

It didn't help, the problem was with their prescription. Comment On my way to bed. Will comment tomorrow, hopefully. Comment Correct, an on-ramp is an Auffahrt and an off-ramp is an Ausfahrt. Just like all roads lead to Rome, in Germany they all lead to Ausfahrt or so first-time visitors to Germany are led to believe: An Ausfahrt can also be a driveway, in particular one between two houses or one used to exit an industrial park, in which case you might see a sign with the stern reminder "Ausfahrt freihalten!

Similarly, for a driveway that gives access to a lot, garage, etc: Danke, Norbert und eclectus. Comment Do American highways actually sport acceleration and deceleration lanes? Based on usage, I would say: Not sure whether those terms occur in any vehicle codes. I will check the California one. In my thinking, the German usage seems clear: The sign "Ausfahrt" is placed at the point where the off-ramp splits from the highway at the end of the deceleration lane. We apologize for any inconveniences. Access road, frontage road, service road sind m. Aber sie haben z. Oder doch nicht, eher Auf- und Aus-, auch wenn das eigentlich eine Mischung ist?

Ich habe mehrere Notizen gemacht, aber vielleicht warte ich noch etwas ab, bevor ich weitergehe. Things could be worse. For example, my local credit union refers to "divided checking" accounts instead of "dividend checking" accounts not only on their website but on their account statements as well. I already pointed it out to them, but it didn't help.

As you note, highway terminology is a bit of a mess. I think it is close to impossible to find good translations for the various parts of a highway system, simply because highways are constructed to different standards in Germany versus the US interstate highway system and its states state highways. That extends to other countries as well. I do not recall deceleration lanes on Danish highways, for example. Glaubst du, DIR wird je ein Preis verliehen? Kommen in Soaps viele Leute wie du vor? Findest du ihre Storylines gelungen? Welchen Vorurteilen entsprichst du? Wen findest du charmant, charismatisch?

Was interessiert dich nicht? Wen kannst du fragen und um Tipps bitten? Was sind deine Waffen, was sind deine Schilde, wie verteidigst du dich, wer kann dir etwas anhaben? Wen ignorierst du, aus Selbstschutz? Hat unsere Gesellschaft Feinde? Machst du deinen Job gut? Was gibst du auf oder ab, zugunsten anderer Leute?

Was geben andere Leute auf oder ab, zu deinen Gunsten? Menschen tun schrecklich unmenschliche Dinge: Vietnam, Bosnien, Ruanda, Tschetschenien usw. Ein sehr schnelles Lesen mit vielen faszinierenden Charakteren und ihren Geschichten. Er ist ein Theaterlehrer auf Tour durch die Vereinigten Staaten. Es kann sein, dass er ein Amerikaner geworden ist. Seit 20 Jahren war er nicht mehr zu Hause: Keiner bekam, was er wollte. Sie benutzt die meiste Zeit, um zu schlafen, und nimmt starke Schlafmittel.

Einer von ihnen zeigt ihr einen Blick auf etwas Anderes, Besseres. Liebe, Aggression, erwachsene Kinder, Fremdenhass und Schwarzarbeit. Dezember in einem Dorf in Ostnorwegen. Tanja wird Tore und Jorid in den Kindergarten und in die Schule begleiten. Leute um sie herum denken, dass sie es gut gemacht haben. Tanjas Bruder meldet einen Besuch an: Aber es gibt etwas, das nicht passt. Aber ist es gut oder schlecht? Gibt es etwas, auf dem du ein Leben aufbauen kannst? Sjur denkt an Pjotr und daran, was letzten Sommer passiert ist. Aber nein, das Traumhaus ist aufgetaucht.

Eine junge Mutter zieht nach Skien, um wegzukommen — weg von Oslo.

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Eine Autorin, geboren. Ein Buch, ein wenig wie eine Umarmung, ein wenig wie ein Schlag in den Hals. Jetzt haben sie unrealistische Erwartungen und sind besessen von sich selbst. Reis hvis du ma. Warum sind sie gegangen? Jetzt ist sie Mutter und fragt nach den Beziehungen in ihrem Leben. Im Herbst ist Kenneth verliebt. Im Sommer zieht Kenneth nach Hause. Und die Kunst des Spuckens beim Sprechen.

Die Tiere sollten sie einfach geschlachtet und gegessen werden. Dann wird eine Geisteskrankheit bei ihm diagnostiziert. Beginnend in den 60er Jahren stellt sich die Frage: E-Mails aus der Klinik. Sie ist 37 Jahre alt und lebt bei Geir, sie haben Maiken, die rhythmisch saugt. Sie ist 46 Jahre alt, hat ein Nebenhaus voller Kriegerhennen und glaubt, dass das Leben aus hoffnungslosen Versuchen besteht, sich zu vereinigen.

Alles, was sie mitbringen, ist ihr Kleinkind und ein Koffer. Sie fliehen aus ihrem Heimatland Ungarn vor einem System des Terrors. Jobs, eigene Wohnung, neue und alte Freunde und so weiter. Doch eines Tages, auf dem Badezimmerboden, bekommt sie eine Panikattacke. Menschen sterben die ganze Zeit. Also warum nicht Eva? Dann kommt die beste Freundin Miriam aus Paris. Dann sitzen sie auf dem Boden und reden.

Dann putzen sie die Wohnung. Dann sitzen sie auf dem neuen Boden. Dann liegen sie im Bett und reden. Das Buch spielt vor einiger Zeit, doch dieselbe Misshandlung und unmenschliche Behandlung findet heute statt — in psychiatrischen Anstalten im ganzen Land. Eine scharfe und harte Darstellung eines versteckten Kapitels der norwegischen Gegenwart. Johannes ist Anwalt und will ein Jugendtheater leiten. Namenstage, Weihnachtsfeiern und Abendessen am Sonntag.

Das Leid, das alles umgibt. Jens ist erst 22 Jahre alt, als sein Vater an einem Herzinfarkt stirbt. Er wird Marias Freund, doch reist mit dem Rucksack durch Europa. Klaus wird in die Psychiatrie eingeliefert. Was versteckt Klaus und was versteckt Sara? Alf van der Hagen: Auch eine scharfe Kritik, wie der norwegische Staat und die norwegische Gesellschaft sie nach dem Krieg behandelten. Wie objektiv war der Prozess? Mikkel wartet in einem Hotelzimmer in Oslo auf Anna. Aber an diesem Freitag erscheint Anna nicht: Sie mag den Blick auf den Wald nicht.

Eines Tages kommt ihre Tochter zu Besuch: Mutter und Tochter haben sich nicht mehr gesehen, seit Hildegunn sechs Jahre alt war. Die Tochter ist jetzt erwachsen geworden. Vibeke hat entschieden, dass diesmal alles anders sein wird. Ein bisschen Licht und viel Dunkelheit in diesem Roman. Clemence wuchs auf der Familienfarm auf, einem abgelegenen Ort entlang von Fjorden und Bergen, und aus seiner Sicht lernen wir eine dysfunktionale Familie kennen.

Die Geschichte seines Kindes, das nie geboren wurde. Die Geschichte der Liebe, die nicht fortgesetzt werden konnte. Vier letzte Tage durch eine Vielzahl von Geschichten und Schicksalen: Der junge Arzt Jonas. Sogar der Boden einer Turnhalle hat ein eigenes kleines Kapitel. Fast alle tauchen auf und beschreiben Teile ihres Lebens. Die soziale Hierarchie, erforscht in einer beladenen und sinnlichen Sprache. Eine witzige und scharfe, tragische und schmerzhafte Darstellung von Freundschaft und Einsamkeit und von der Klaustrophobie der Gemeinschaft.

Im brutalen und grausamen Nachtleben sehnt sich die Hauptfigur danach, geliebt zu werden. Eine angespannte Dynamik in diesem dunklen Roman. Wie eine langsame Kaskade aus mildem psychologischen Horror. Alva ist acht Jahre alt. Und von vielen Geheimnissen. Was geschah, dass Tante Paulas Leben zu dem wurde, was es wurde? Der Roman ist ein Versuch, ihre Geschichte zu schreiben.

Er existiert nicht mehr. Jetzt ist Trude erwachsen und selbst Mutter. Kann sie jetzt mehr verstehen? Hermann, der jahrelang im Wald gearbeitet hat. Wer war er wirklich? Hermanns Sohn hat das alte und verlassene Haus betreten. Der Roman basiert auf den eigenen Erfahrungen des Autors. Die Geschichte einer Familie, die niemals verloren geht, sondern sich immer wieder findet.

Jetzt entdeckt er neue Wahrheiten und Verwandte, und mit ihnen erscheinen schwierige Fragen. Er lebt mit einer Erbkrankheit und nutzt einen Rollstuhl. Ist die Geheimhaltung in der Familie mit dem Chromosomenfehler verbunden, den er erbte? Thorvald Steen geht dort hinein, wo es brennt. Zu Beginn des An einem anderen Rand der Stadt wird Stian Bech jr.

Der Krieg gibt Bech jr. Ich trug es mit mir. Juli wurde sie in Oslo von dem Angriff betroffen: Wir bekommen auch einen Einblick in das, was wir tun, um dem Hass entgegenzuwirken. Das Buch zeigt den Rassismus, den Sie weiterhin erlebt, der ihre Tage infiziert und immer mitgedacht werden muss. Holen sich das Zertifikat, das Ticket in die Zukunft.

Was gewinnen wir als Gesellschaft, in der mehr Menschen den richtigen Weg gehen? Anette Trettebergstuen, Bard Nylund: Mit Texten von u. Vielleicht ist es eine neue beste Freundin? Es stellt sich heraus, dass sie ein Geheimnis versteckt, ein Geheimnis, das in der Garderobe des Turniers brutal offenbart wird. Dann bekommt Malin eine neue Herausforderung: Ist sie mutig genug, um Leona zu verteidigen? Bleibt Leona Nebenfigur ihrer eigenen Geschichte? Warum gibt es so viele Jugendliche, die nicht wissen, was Vergewaltigung ist? Aber nimm es leicht!

Das ist in Ordnung! Zu Weihnachten sind Eltern und Schwiegereltern eingeladen. Kristine ist ausgebildete Figurentherapeutin und vertieft sich in den Perfektionismus der Moderne. Sie gibt uns eine neue Sicht dessen, was erstrebenswert ist. Sie hat Haare auf ihrer Brust. Sind Frauen in ihrer Sprache indirekter? Erika, 25, geht gern mittwochs in die Bibliothek.

Dies ist kein trauriges Buch: Ein kleines Juwel von zwei verschiedenen Menschen, die ihr Leben nicht komplett in Ordnung bringen und sich in ihrer Andersartigkeit wiederfinden. Welche Spiele werden in einem Menschen gespielt, der eine Krankheit beenden wird, die seit ihrer Kindheit sowohl lebensrettend als auch lebensbedrohlich ist? Dieses Buch ist garantiert frei von Romantik. Bis sie am 7. Dezember aufwacht und sich erinnert, dass die Welt sie braucht.


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Lotta Elstad ist vielleicht Norwegens wichtigste Satirikerin. Wieder zu Hause entdeckt sie eine ungewollte Schwangerschaft. Es sollte leicht sein, etwas dagegen zu tun. Ist es aber nicht.

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Vor einer Abtreibung sind drei Tage Bedenkzeit vorgeschrieben. Hedda weigert sich, zu denken. Finnmark ist das Ende. Es spielt keine Rolle, wo du hinschaust, denn es wird immer noch weit weg sein. Hen ist gleichzeitig weit und nah. Wenn ein Volk flieht. Edor hat vor nichts Angst. Er ist mit Beate zusammen, trainiert neue Eisbahnen, badet im Meer, schwimmt weiter hinaus, als er sollte.

Edor badet nackt mit Celia, es ist ihm egal. Edor braucht keinen Helm, er hat keine Angst zu sterben. Die Mutter sitzt normalerweise drinnen und redet mit Fremden im Telefon. Niklas fehlt ein Gegenmittel. Gunn hat beschlossen, keinen Kontakt zu ihrem Vater zu haben. Edor ist nach Brighton gereist, arbeitet bei Burger King und kann genau tun, was er will. Aber was will er? Im Radio empfehlen sie, dass jeder drinnen bleibt. Nach einer Wette entwickelt sich langsam eine Freundschaft zwischen den beiden.

Aber in Jossis Welt ist nicht alles vorhanden. Die Geschichte handelt von einer lesbischen Beziehung. Emma verliebt sich und so ist es. Aber das Buch ist nicht frei von Klischees, und das zieht meine Sterne herunter. Krieger Eskil gewinnt unerwartet seine Freiheit unter einer Bedingung. In der Show trifft er eine Frau. Um herauszufinden, wer Mathilde ist, unternimmt Jonas eine Reise zu Orten und Menschen, die er vorher nicht kannte.

An imaginative and unique world, written in a simplistic and easy-to-read style which fits children and young teens perfectly. Its content, while down-to-earth and simple, is also poetic and contains many wise lectures. This struggle is portrayed through the journey of three unlikely friends, the human child Kaim, the forestman Gwan and the dragon. The journey explores the dynamics between the different intelligent races, the lifestyle of living out in the wild, cultural and racial identity, and longing. The balance between humans, animals, nature and civilization is explored in depth and from different interesting angles.

Easy to read, childish but also wise. Nach einer Weile tobt die Gesellschaft um sie herum. Warum ist es so gelaufen? Ein Generationenroman, der stehen bleiben wird. Sie haben kompromisslose Standpunkte zu den grundlegenden Fragen des Lebens: Der bisher heterosexuellste Jarle verliebt sich in Yngve. Yngve ist ein Eindringling, der Tennis spielt. Jarle hat den starken Willen, das Beste aus der Welt zu machen, in der er lebt. Doch was ist mit der Familie passiert?

Warum haben sich diejenigen, die sich so gut leiden wollten, gegenseitig verletzt? Es ist ein neues Jahr in dem kleinen Dorf. Auch wenn es direkt vor uns spielt. Er trauert Tag und Nacht, tut sich und seiner Familie weh. Die Handlung beginnt am 6. April, dem Datum, an dem der italienische Dichter Petrarca seine geliebte Laura zum ersten Mal sah, als sie 13 Jahre alt war. Jeder nimmt an, dass Terroristen hinter der Tat stehen. Das Letzte, was er will, ist Aufmerksamkeit wegen dieser Angelegenheit.

Dann beendete sie es. Jetzt ist sie tot. Das Unwahrscheinliche passiert in der Welt immer und immer wieder.