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UserpicErhalten
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Ich habe ein Nachricht erhalten.

Wir haben Ihre Nachricht erhalten und werden diese umgehend bearbeiten.

Wir haben Ihre Nachricht erhalten und werden sie schnellst möglichst bearbeiten.

Ich habe die Nachricht zur Bestätigung der Eröffnung meines Schweizer Bankkontos erhalten und danke Ihnen dafür.


With declining print sales and in search of new revenues The New York Times will begin selling ingredients for recipes from its NYT Cooking website. The New York Times is partnering with meal-delivery startup Chef’d, which will send the ingredients to readers within 48 hours. The Times and Chef’d will split the revenues from the sales.


Running Foxes
Photographed in Biei, Hokkaido, Japan.

The National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest is now underway, and entries will be accepted until the end of the month, May 27, 2016. Make sure to check out some early submissions.


Ruhig is the corresponding adjective to the German noun die Ruhe, which itself has its origins in the Germanic rowo. Relatives of rowo can be found in pretty much all other Germanic languages … except English. For some reason all English words forRuhe come from Latin… silence, quietness, peace, tranquility, calmness… even rest can be explained via Latin.

Here some examples with ruhig as quiet.

  • Sei ruhig!
  • Ich gehe in ein ruhiges Café.
  • Thomas ist im Kurs immer sehr ruhig.

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New York, Offbeat
UserpicSunroom Design Decoration
Posted by Sasha

Sunroom Design Idea

Bamboo shades and Portugese tiles.


Photography
UserpicMagnolia Tree on Princeton Campus
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Magnolia tree on Princeton campus
Magnolia Tree. Princeton University, March 31st

Rolleiflex 2.8F, Zeiss Planar 80mm


You may hear the phrase “electronic music” and think of superstar dubstep DJs in funny helmets at beachside celebrity parties. Alternately, you may think of the mercurial compositions of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the musique concrete of Pierre Henry, or the otherworldly experimentalism of François Bayle. If you’re in that latter camp of music nerd, then this post may bring you very glad tidings indeed. Ubuweb—that stalwart repository of all things 20th-century avant-garde—now hosts an extraordinary compilation: the 476-song History of Electronic/Electroacoustic Music, originally a 62 CD set.

Visit the website to learn more


Offbeat
UserpicHow to Make Fire with a Lemon
Posted by Sasha

Get ready to make fire with a lemon, toilet paper, steel wool and some nails… Safety first.


In a recent randomized placebo-controlled trial of 17 heavy-drinking American men, for example, they found that taking kudzu cut alcohol consumption by between 34% and 57%.

But before you rush out to buy kudzu extract, there's a sting in this particular tale. Our test, and those carried out in the US, involved each person taking 500mg of the active ingredient. But we looked hard and we couldn't find any brands of kudzu available in the UK that have the government's THR mark, which guarantees that they actually contain what they say on the label.

Most problem drinkers eat badly and generally lack sufficient levels of vitamins (particularly B and C) and amino acids (the building blocks of protein). Excessive alcohol itself is toxic. The vitamins, herbs, and other supplements in our list can restore depleted nutrients and also aid in dealing with the effects of withdrawing from alcohol.

Recovering alcoholics may confuse feelings of hunger for alcoholic cravings and need encouragement to return to normal dietary patterns. A healthy diet for recovery includes vitamin-rich protein, complex carbohydrate and high-fiber foods. Vitamin supplements aid in restoring proper nourishment.

Vitamin B Depletion

The most common deficiencies from alcoholism include thiamine, pyridoxine and folic acid, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center. Thiamine, a B vitamin found in meat, grains and yeast, helps metabolize carbohydrates. Fish, liver, cereals and yeast contain pyridoxine, or vitamin B-6. Green vegetables, fruit and liver contain folic acid, also a B vitamin. B vitamin foods also include poultry, nuts, brown rice and dairy products. Broccoli, asparagus, potatoes, bananas, apricots and figs contain B vitamins.


L-glutamine

500-1,000 mg L-glutamine twice a day between meals

Vitamin C

1,000 mg 3 times a day

Milk Thistle

120-175 mg 3 times a day between meals

Chromium

200 mcg twice a day

Kudzu

The Chinese Pharmacopoeia states that an effective dose of dried kudzu root is 9-15g taken prior to drinking (1 hour minimum) if you are trying to cut down on your drinking. Take 10g, 3 times a day if you are abstaining from alcohol.

Kudzu root compounds can affect the same neurotransmitters (including serotonin, GABA, and glutamate) as alcohol consumption can.

According to A Holistic Approach to Health in Early Recovery article:

In double-blind research, alcoholics treated with DLPA (D, L-phenylalanine) combined with L-tyrosine, L-glutamine, prescription L-tryptophan, plus a multivitamin, had reduced withdrawal symptoms and decreased stress. One study suggests that kudzu, used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat alcohol abuse, might help reduce cravings and the patients that I’ve treated with it respond with fewer cravings [1].

1). Benlhabib, et al. “Kudzu root extract suppresses voluntary alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal symptoms in P rats receiving free access to water and alcohol.” J Med Food. 2004 Summer; 7 (2): 168-179.


Offbeat
UserpicExercise and the Brain
Posted by Sasha

According to thethe new study, which was published this month in the Journal of Physiology, researchers at the University of Jyvaskyla in Finland found that:

Those rats that had jogged on wheels showed robust levels of neurogenesis. Their hippocampal tissue teemed with new neurons, far more than in the brains of the sedentary animals. The greater the distance that a runner had covered during the experiment, the more new cells its brain now contained.

There were far fewer new neurons in the brains of the animals that had completed high-intensity interval training. They showed somewhat higher amounts than in the sedentary animals but far less than in the distance runners.

And the weight-training rats, although they were much stronger at the end of the experiment than they had been at the start, showed no discernible augmentation of neurogenesis. Their hippocampal tissue looked just like that of the animals that had not exercised at all.

Read full article at The New York Times


Photography
UserpicPhotographers Banned in the USSR
Posted by Sasha
Man With A Clock
Electrician

Banned by the KGB in the USSR, group of photographers, TRIVA.

 


Offbeat
UserpicAmazon AWS Has You Covered
Posted by Sasha

Amazon’s web services arm has updated its terms of service with a special clause that kicks in in the event of corpses consuming human flesh and the like fall of civilisation.

Clause 57.10 of the AWS terms of service states: “This restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organised civilisation.”

 


“The original workers that were not paid anything by their employers were newly freed slaves,” she tells Quartz. “This whole concept of not paying them anything and letting them live on tips carried over from slavery.”

Many Americans in post-slavery America initially resisted tipping, a custom that originated with European aristocrats. To tip was patronizing, Jayaraman writes in her book; it was seen as “despicable, undemocratic and wholly un-American.”

But the idea that anyone who accepted tips was in a lower class held on into the early 20th century. Jayaraman quotes an American reporter, John Speed, who reflected on the tipping system in 1902 while traveling to the North for the first time. His words underscore the inherent racism to tipping: “I had never known any but negro servants. Negroes takes tips, of course; one expects that of them—it is a token of their inferiority. But to give money to a white man was embarrassing to me.”

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Offbeat
UserpicAmazing Russian Truck
Posted by Sasha

It could be useful. You can drive it right into a lake.


Offbeat
UserpicOne more freak show
Posted by Sasha

David Bowie died recently. You may have heard. I wasn't a full-tilt fan and in consequence thereof didn't rend as many garments as some. As might be put by someone within hailing distance of youth, the dude was okay. He occupies a small amount of real estate on my playlist. One of them, "Putting out Fire with Gasoline," the theme from the 1980s remake of "Cat People," I went considerably out of my way to get.

Why do I bring it Bowie up now? Because in all the public mourning and celebration-of-life in print over the past week or so I don't recall seeing much about Bowie's super-legendary introduction to "New York's large and influential counter-culture, most of whom had never heard of David Bowie," as put by the site "The Ziggy Stardust Companion." That would have been September 28, 1972, his Carnegie Hall debut, which was the mightiest display of the power of the hipper-than-thou ever seen in the City that Doesn't Understate.

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Movies
UserpicWeather in Closed Spaces
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weather in closed spaces

Das Wetter in geschlossenen Räumen (2015) or "Weather in Closed Spaces"

Set at a luxury hotel in a conflict zone. Development aid worker Dorothea begins an affair with a young Arab drifter, Alec. A literal take on the humanitarian aid.

 


Photography
UserpicNew Year on Isla Mujeres
Posted by Moxietype
Locals swimming in Isla Mujeres
Locals taking a bath on December 31st in Isla Mujeres. Rolleiflex 2.8F, Kodak Ektar 100. 
Reading My Struggle book
Elizabeth reading "My Struggle" by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Rolleiflex 2.8F, Kodak Ektar 100

 

 

 

 


Photography
UserpicWay of Seeing
Posted by Sasha
Photo by Robert Frank
Iowa, 1956. Photograph: Robert Frank

Photography critic Sean O’Hagan hits back at Jonathan Jones’s damning claim that photographs cannot be considered fine art

Imagine, if you will, the following scene. I pop into the National Gallery to view the 2014 BP National Portrait Award and look in bemusement at the exhibition, which is mostly comprised of rather old-fashioned paintings. It’s an uninspiring show, a hotchpotch, as are most exhibitions drawn from open submissions. Inexplicably enraged by this, I rush home and pen an article claiming that painting is dead and that it looks anachronistic, indeed stupid, on a gallery wall in the 21st century. Not only that, but I then extrapolate that all painting is dull and stupid – Caravaggio, Rubens, Picasso, Hockney, Richter, the lot.


Photography
UserpicLisbon
Posted by Sasha
Lisbon
Lisbon. Rolleiflex 2.8f Carl Zeiss Planar. Kodak TRX400.

Photography
UserpicRosy Fingered Dawn in Amsterdam
Posted by Moxietype
Amsterdam Spui Photo

Spui, Amsterdam. Rolleiflex 2.8F, Carl Zeiss Planar, Kodak Porta 160