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Nazism & Narcissism: David Bowie's Flirtation with Fascism
By Joseph Pearce|2016-02-18T22:58:09-05:00February 19th, 2016|Categories: Culture, Fascism, Joseph Pearce, Music|
At the age of eleven I began to spend most of my pocket money on records, buying a new hit single every week. Glam rock was all the rage and David Bowie became one of my idols.
Bowie would get himself into trouble in the seventies for his brief flirtation with fascism. In an interview for Playboy in 1974 he betrayed an admiration for Hitler, describing the Führer as "one of the first rock stars:" "Look at some of the films and see how he moved. I think he was quite as good as Jagger…[Hitler] used politics and theatrics and created this thing that governed and controlled the show for those twelve years. The world will never see his like again. He staged a country." In the following year, rather bizarrely considering his own androgynous image, he ranted against decadence and called for an extreme right-wing solution to the problem: "I think that morals should be straightened up for a start. They're disgusting. There will be a political figure in the not too distant future who'll sweep through this part of the world like early rock 'n' roll did. You probably hope I'm not right but I am…. You've got to have an extreme right front come up and sweep everything off its feet and tidy everything up. Then you can get a new form of liberalism." It is easy to imagine that the choice of the phrase "extreme right front" would have been seen as a veiled reference to the National Front, which was definitely in the ascendant in 1975 when these words were spoken.
In April 1976, Bowie was detained by customs officials on the Russian/Polish border after they discovered a cache of Nazi memorabilia in his luggage. In the same month, after a concert in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, Bowie was more forthright than ever in his candid expression of fascist sympathies: "I believe Britain could benefit from a Fascist leader. After all, Fascism is really nationalism." Six days after the pro-fascist remarks in Sweden, Bowie returned to England and allegedly gave a Nazi salute from the back of an open-top limo to the crowd of fans assembled at Victoria station to greet him. It is also widely believed that Bowie visited Hitler's bunker in Berlin and had photographer, Andy Kent, photograph him with his arm outstretched in a Nazi salute. Kent was made to swear that he would never release the photograph to the press; a promise that the photographer has dutifully kept.
Bearing in mind my admiration for Bowie's music, it is hardly surprising that I rejoiced in the news that he had given a Nazi salute to his fans. I wrote in Bulldog a few years later that Bowie was "the Big Daddy of Futurism" who, on his early album Hunky Dory, "started the anti-Communist musical tradition which we now see flourishing amidst the new wave of Futurist bands." It is customary for music journalists to dismiss Bowie's dallying with fascism as a brief flirtation caused by drug-induced manic depression, in other words by a temporary madness, but it is curious, as I mentioned in the Bulldog article, that the much earlier Hunky Dory album, recorded in 1971, contains several tracks that are suggestive of Nietzschean philosophy and Nazi sympathy. In "Quicksand" Bowie places himself into the mind of Hitler in the bunker as the Third Reich crumbles around him, contemplating suicide and condemning Churchill's lies, and remaining defiantly unrepentant to the last. "Song for Bob Dylan," for all its ambiguity and ambivalence, seems to climax with apparent disdain for Robert Zimmerman as "every nation's refugee," blaming Dylan's leftist radicalism and iconoclasm for breaking up the unity of the family. Such a reading of the lyrics dovetails with Bowie's later pro-fascist comments. In addition, Bowie's stripping away of Dylan's adopted stage name, his mask, to address him by his real name of Zimmerman could be seen, arguably at least, as veiled anti-Semitism, removing the gentile mask to expose the Jew behind it. "Andy Warhol" seems to mock the pretentiousness of its subject, which would explain why Warhol disapproved of it. "Oh! You Pretty Things" is a Nietzschean anthem exhibiting contempt for homo sapiens who "have outgrown their use" and who need to "make way for the Homo Superior." Homo sapiens are the untermenschen who are superseded by the emergence of homo superior, the übermensch or Superman from which the Nazis derived their notions of the Master Race. Since the quazi-Nazi Nietzscheanism of the Hunky Dory album came five years before Bowie's fascist declarations in 1976 and the Nazi kitsch of Heroes came a year after, it is a trifle naïve and simplistic to dismiss Bowie's fascist flirtation as a mere fling or one-night-stand. It would be more accurate to see it as a tempestuous and sordid love affair lasting several years.
Books by Joseph Pearce may be found in The Imaginative Conservative Bookstore. This is excerpted from Joseph Pearce's book, Race with the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love (Saint Benedict Press) and is reprinted with gracious permission.
About the Author: Joseph Pearce
Joseph Pearce is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. A native of England, Mr. Pearce is Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, editor of the St. Austin Review, editor of Faith & Culture, and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. He is the author of numerous books, which include The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile, Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, and Further Up & Further In: Understanding Narnia.
Nostromo Feb 19, 2016 at 10:46 am	- Reply
It's arguable that Bowie moved form one extreme to the other over the course of his life. From a Nietzschean world view where he commanded powerful music/imagery to nothing memorable after the early 80's Scary Monsters and having his ashes scattered in a Buddhist ceremony.
Christopher Coulter Feb 19, 2016 at 7:22 pm	- Reply
Given that slap at Dylan, it's interesting that Dylan asked Bowie to produce his "Infidels" album. Had Dylan paid attention? Or was it Christian forgiveness?
johnhenrycn Feb 20, 2016 at 12:24 pm	- Reply
JP, I've never intentionally listened to a Bowie song and I've definitely never seen a Bowie video, but your mentioning that in " 'Quicksand' Bowie places himself into the mind of Hitler in the bunker as the Third Reich crumbles around him…", reminds me of a funny YouTube video: "Adolf – I'm Sitting In My Bunker" that your readers may get a chuckle from. It's not in the least a Hitler apologia, in case anyone is wondering.
Sheila Feb 22, 2016 at 4:10 pm	- Reply
Jeremiah 17:9 (KJV) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked : who can know it?
Sheila Hamrick Feb 22, 2016 at 4:52 pm	- Reply
As with most things forbidden…there is always a bit of the risk of seduction. I think that is why the above quote is so wonderful.
James Morris Feb 23, 2016 at 8:55 am	- Reply
Very interesting…his hysterical operatic voice that he employed- Wagnerian… Nazi inspired..I mean Wagnerian in its hysterics?
There is footage of being being interviewed or people trying to interview but he keeps getting up and moving around the chair-'catch me if you can'..
There could be a sudden Nazi-like brutality suddenly in the words-'you're face is a mess'
More positively- the simple 'pop' songs he did with the Chic guy-'China Girl' 'Let's Dance' I love.
Was he guilty of is not crediting other musicians for their contribution to the composition of the songs? I have heard complaints and I believe them.
Oh Rest In Peace Daivd Jones
Eddie Z. Jan 12, 2018 at 11:46 am	- Reply
David Robert Jones (his given name) was prone to radical exploration of all sorts. It's my understanding his interest in Nazism coincided with his hardcore cocaine addition. He would kick both. In the 1980s and 1990s, Bowie's public statements shifted sharply towards anti-racism and anti-fascism.


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Dr. David Katz: Preventive Medicine: Silence and science are never a good mix
Opinion // Columnists
Dr. David Katz.Contributed photo
I heard from a public health colleague this past week, whose work and time are partly funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that the CDC did not want to be acknowledged as a funding source in a research paper addressing gun violence. Apparently, CDC scientists have marching orders to be more concerned about unflattering facts about gun violence, than about gun violence itself.
In high-profile media coverage you have likely seen, we also learned that the Trump Administration effectively issued gag orders to the USDA and the EPA. Apparently, we the people are to be kept uninformed not only about guns, but also about such matters of minor importance as our food supply, and the environment. And perhaps everything else, too, since the White House message to the press was: just keep your mouth shut.
Silence where science ought to be is a grave threat to us all.
Just about everyone is a fan of science, it's just that some don't realize it. Everyone using the Internet; everyone who has ever flown on a plane or driven across a suspension bridge; anyone who has ever gone out to enjoy the spectacle of a perfectly predicted eclipse or meteor shower … is a fan of science. So, too, is everyone who has ever thrown a light switch.
Apparently, the switch is being turned off in the White House to keep disquieting facts in the shadows. The EPA, for instance, told us about lead in the water in Flint, Michigan. In a world where the EPA is muzzled, we might still be in the dark about that. The USDA tells us about food-borne outbreaks, and recalls. Silence, in this case, aids and abets the designs of salmonella.
We are all dependent on the unfettered work and the unmuzzled communication of the EPA, and USDA, and FDA, and CDC to make informed decisions about the risks around us. Unless you have a toxicology lab in your garage, or are conducting elaborate epidemiologic surveillance in your basement, you are very unlikely to learn about them on your own. Absent access to the work of agencies serving the public health, we'd be none the wiser, a few might well be richer, and the rest of us sicker without knowing why. Conspiracy theorists could blame it all on vaccines, or sunspots.
Good science is an enemy to no one, since it advances understanding and knowledge, and thus choice. Good science empowers us with options. In medicine, we speak of "informed consent," because uninformed consent is oxymoronic. Censorship, of course, keeps us uninformed — or worse, misinformed. Ignorance is the ultimate form of repression.
Scientists are the first to acknowledge that the sounds of science are not always, immediately, perfectly in tune. It can take any number of revisions to get the lyrics and melody of truth just right. But this very process leads us robustly and reliably toward truth and understanding. This very process informs and empowers us, as reliably as the progress from Kitty Hawk to the moon and Mars and beyond; from Morse to Microsoft; from miasms to the microbiome; from van Leeuwenhoek to Hubble; from the iron lung to drug-eluting intracoronary stents and pharmacogenomics. Science reliably, robustly, relentlessly informs and empowers us.
In a world of science silenced at the whim of tyrants, the sun would still revolve around a flat earth. Polio would still menace every parent's beloved child come spring. And the lead would still be flowing in Flint. We would know nothing about dioxin, or BPA, or hexavalent chromium. The first we would learn about the mass extinctions we are inducing would be the disappearance of the last remaining lion, and tiger, and bear. And our first clue about climate change would be the cooking of our own goose in it, to an irrefutable cinder.
When science is subordinated to silence, and the press to propaganda — only tyrants control the flow of information. It is the pernicious nature of propaganda in the service of tyranny that it can convert even true patriots into pawns. In the guise of pop-culture diversion, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, conveys this very point.
Science informs and empowers, and is the enemy only to those who have cause to fear truth and understanding. Silence where science ought to be — sciLence — serves the unscrupulous secrets that favor shadows, and the profits of few over the good of many. SciLence is a vividly clear danger to us all that is suddenly, alarmingly present.
Dr. David L. Katz;www.davidkatzmd.com; founder, True Health Initiative

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Q: How to test ehcache using mockito? Im helper method use ehcache, to reduce queries to Db. Now want to implement JUnit+Mockito test to ensure that ehcache works properly. Have such variant of test:
@Autowired
private DBService service;
@Autowired
private DiscountHelper discountHelper;

@Autowired
private CacheManager cacheManager;

@Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
    assertNotNull(cacheManager);
}

@Test
public void testGetDiscountWithCache() throws RuntimeException,
        InterruptedException {

    String id1 = "id1";
    String id2 = "id2";
    String id3 = "id3";

    List<String> discountsId = new ArrayList<String>();
    discountsId.add(id1);
    discountsId.add(id2);
    discountsId.add(id3);

    List<Map<String, Object>> attrList = new ArrayList<Map<String, Object>>();
    attrList.add(new Discount().getAttributes());
    attrList.add(new Discount().getAttributes());
    attrList.add(new Discount().getAttributes());

    Cache cache = cacheManager.getCache(DiscountHelper.CACHE_NAME);

    assertNotNull(cache);
    assertEquals(0, cache.getSize());

    // First run with empty cache
    when(service.getAllItems(eq(Discount.TABLE_NAME))).thenReturn(attrList);
    List<Discount> actualResult = discountHelper
            .getAllDiscountsUsingCache();
    assertNotNull(actualResult);
    assertEquals(attrList.size(), actualResult.size());
    verify(service).getAllItems(eq(Discount.TABLE_NAME));

    cache = cacheManager.getCache(DiscountHelper.CACHE_NAME);
    // In cache should be 1 record
    assertNotNull(cache);
    assertEquals(1, cache.getSize());

}

And test method is:
@Cacheable(cacheName = CACHE_NAME, refreshInterval = 1000 * 900, decoratedCacheType = DecoratedCacheType.REFRESHING_SELF_POPULATING_CACHE)
public List<Discount> getAllDiscountsUsingCache() throws RuntimeException,
        InterruptedException {
    List<Map<String, Object>> result = dbService
            .getAllItems(Discount.TABLE_NAME);
    List<Discount> discountList = new ArrayList<Discount>();
    for (Map<String, Object> entry : result) {
        discountList.add(new Discount(entry));
    }
    return discountList;
}

And this perfectly works. In test i`m sure that after invocation of method I get something in cache. As you can see I also verify that was called method getAllItems in db service. That is good for first time invocation. Next I add second invocation of discountHelper.getAllDiscountsUsingCache() in the same test like this:
when(service.getAllItems(eq(Discount.TABLE_NAME))).thenReturn(attrList);
actualResult = discountHelper
            .getAllDiscountsUsingCache();
assertNotNull(actualResult);
assertEquals(attrList.size(), actualResult.size());
verify(service, times(0)).getAllItems(eq(Discount.TABLE_NAME));

So I just want to check that on second invocation there will not be calls to DB service via method getAllItems by this verify: verify(service, times(0)).getAllItems(eq(Discount.TABLE_NAME)); and result will be obtain from cache.
But it doesn't work, I still get invocation of DB method. I find this tutorial http://blog.goyello.com/2010/07/29/quick-start-with-ehcache-annotations-for-spring/ and try variant with delegate object for ehcache testing, but it still invoke db methods on test. What`s wrong?
By the way in production ehcache works good as I see in logs of tomcat, so this is a problem of test. Any suggestions how to fix it?

A: In the second invocation you use the same mock object (service) created (as I assume from a question's tag) by Springockito during the Spring context initialization. The mock remembers getAllItems() call from the first invocation. You can:

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*reset the mock before the second invocation using reset(service),

or

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*check after the second invocation) if there is still one (not two) getAllItems() invocation.

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Before even beginning to read Interview magazine's conversation between Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch, I started to giggle like a school girl. So much blue-eyed English intensity squeezed into one article! Yet, after reading it, I have an awkward question: are they the same person?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH: Like all interviewers, I should first of all thank you, Tom, for taking this time.
TOM HIDDLESTON: [laughs] Thank you, Benedict. We should just thank each other for our time. For the rest of our lives.
CUMBERBATCH: And then, in typical British fashion, we should just apologize for everything as well.
HIDDLESTON: I'm sorry for disturbing you.
CUMBERBATCH: I'm more sorry than you.
CUMBERBATCH: My role as a journalist?
HIDDLESTON: What do you think about revisiting a character—like Sherlock or Loki—as opposed to making up a character for the first time?
CUMBERBATCH: I think you have to approach it with the same level of invention. There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case. I know you battled with the horns, and I wanted to talk to you about that if you're allowed to talk about that. It dies when you don't feel the reinventing. It's interesting. I genuinely enjoy it. I think I wouldn't do it if the writing wasn't so good, if I wasn't being asked to do different things with the character. It really depends on what the obstacles and objectives are. If they're very interesting, then you can bring new tactics to play. And I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas. With Loki, the shape-shifting god of mischief can be a number of things. And a consulting detective who suddenly can do kung fu and speak a different language or do sign language ... There are all these untapped resources.
All right, guys. Or guy. They also touch on topics like running, the passage of time, regrets, and what climates are best for the Celtic complexion they share, since they're wearing each other's skin.
If you are wondering if Cumberbatch asked about Taylor Swift, he respectfully did not expose Hiddleston or himself to such an invasive and distasteful subject.
CUMBERBATCH: ...And there's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too. And, without getting into a huge debate, I just want to say that I'm not going to ask questions about my friend's personal life just because there are unsolicited photographs of him and a certain someone, in a relationship or together. I'm not going to get into that. So that door is closed, dear reader.
CUMBERBATCH: You're welcome. I know you'd do the same for me.
Because he'd do it for himself, who is also Tom Hiddleston.


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Unlike C/C++, Java only has signed numbers. Integer in Java ranges from -2147483648 to 2147483647, note that there's 1 more negative number than the positive numbers, because 0 also has the "positive" sign(highest bit is 0).
What is MAX + MAX?
int anInt3 = 0B101; // The B can be upper or lower case.
it will add 4 character after each v: , x, 7, f, instead of a hex 0x7f, and hence could not split it again as we discussed above.


Poet Ross Gay joined the Creative Writing faculty at Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences in 2007. He is the author of the poetry collection Against Which (CavanKerry Press, 2006), and his poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Harvard Review, Columbia: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and Margie: The American Journal of Poetry, among other publications. In addition to his IU appointment, Gay also teaches in the low-residency program at New England College.
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, Gay grew up outside of Philadelphia. He is a Cave Canem fellow and has been a Bread Loaf Tuition Scholar. In addition to holding a doctorate in American Literature from Temple University, he is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man and a painter.
LIVE AT IU: Why did you choose Indiana University?
ROSS GAY: I chose Indiana back in the fall of 2006, when I saw that they had a job for a poet posted. I knew about the program, knew graduates of the program, knew the work of the faculty, and had also seen an Indiana basketball game or two in my life, so figured I'd give it a whirl.
LIU: What has been your experience being on faculty here?
RG: It's a wonderful place to teach. My colleagues are great, interesting people -- in both creative writing and literature. And my colleagues in other departments, whom I've had the pleasure of meeting, are also great. The students, also, are wonderful: The graduate students are amazing, and the undergrads are really a joy. I feel like I'm able to have very sophisticated conversations about writing and literature most days, which is to say I have a pretty good job.
LIU: When did you know you wanted to be a poet? Did you ever waver from that goal -- and can you ever picture yourself doing anything else?
RG: I knew I was going to go off to school to study poetry when I was 21 or so because I liked writing poems, though I'm not sure that I knew I would be a poet. Seemed just as likely at the time that I might go off to be a high school teacher or construction worker. I can picture myself doing other things because I do and always have and always intend to do other things. I can't really imagine writing poems all day. Or reading them all day, for that matter. You know, I like to play basketball. And I like to swing kettlebells. And I like to garden and hike and ride my bike with not a lot of purpose.
LIU: Describe your writing process. Any specific rituals or places on campus you like to write?
RG: These days I wake up early, at 5:30 or so, and put on coffee and sit down and read poems by someone else. Sometimes I get around to writing a few lines of my own, maybe a whole draft of a poem. Sometimes I do some work revising poems. But if I'm sitting down working for, say, four hours or so -- intermingled with eating my oatmeal and looking at the cardinals and blue jays that have started bouncing around in my yard, and thinking about fruit trees -- maybe an hour of that will be dedicated to actually writing.
LIU: What inspires you to write? Do you carry around pen and paper at all times in case inspiration strikes?
RG: I feel like many things inspire me. But I feel like reading most helps me put words on paper. It kind of loosens up that muscle, lets stuff start to come out. Gives me ideas about ways into a poem. I usually have a pen and paper. And, as far as inspiration goes, mostly it's just work, and not the most inspirational business, unsexy as that sounds. Mostly, for me, it's just sitting there in the dark reading someone else's poems. And trying to answer my questions, which is great fun!
LIU: Who are your favorite poets and writers?
RG: I love so many different writers from different eras. But a few -- of, really, zillions, so this is an incomplete list -- would be Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Philip Roth and Junot Diaz on the novel side and, lord, the poets-- too many to even mention. But right now I'm re-reading and re-reading Robert Hayden's poems, which are absolutely beautiful and brilliant. And about to read, for the first time, Shakespeare's The Tempest. And just beginning a book of poems by a young poet named Valzhyna Mort that looks exciting. Factory of Tears, it's called. Just finished Victoria Chang's new book, and about to pick up a new book by Ronaldo V. Wilson called Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man. I think Amiri Baraka's work made me want to write poems too. Especially his beautiful poem, "An Agony. As Now." A really, really beautiful poem.
LIU: How do you assist students with their writing? What advice do you give them?
RG: I just try to see their strengths and their weaknesses, getting them to exploit the former and improve the latter, I guess. I also, and most importantly, try to turn students on to good books: writers who will provide them with models of how to do what, maybe, they're trying to do themselves. No advice. I seek advice.
LIU: What are you working on these days? Does your work tend to come in themes/waves of inspiration -- say, related to the last movie you saw or annual elections?
RG: I'm working on two books, one of which is mostly done, and the other which is in the beginning, exciting stages. I don't get too much of the 'waves of inspiration,' unfortunately. Mostly I just have to try to write the same poem over about 50 times until I get it right, or give up for some years. Though I'm always inspired by current events -- for instance, I'm inspired to write something about the United States' arms industry "growing rapidly as the Bush era ends," which is right out of the New York Times. But, if I know myself, that information is not going to come out in any clear or straightforward way anytime soon. It'll take some time. But what always enters the poems, and makes them happen, is the world, and the things in it. And the real, breathing beings in it.


Back by popular demand! This month, editor Ruth Garvey-Williams will set out for another tour of the island this May, hunting down stories of Faith, Life and Reality. And this time, artist hubby Andrew will be coming too (to share the driving and help take wonderful photographs and videos along the way).
We'll be finding out what God is doing in YOUR part of Ireland and hearing stories of faith from ordinary people. We're visiting churches and Christian ministries that are transforming their communities in practical and innovative ways. And we'll be discovering what impact faith is having in every walk of life and every sphere of influence.
Tuesday 19 May (morning) - anywhere in Counties Derry, Tyrone or North Antrim.
Wednesday 20 May (afternoon) - we have a very short window as we drive past Carlow at around 3pm.
Friday 22 May (morning) - anywhere in Counties Limerick, Clare or Galway.
Saturday 23 May (late morning) - we'll be driving between Roscommon and Tullamore so anywhere en route.
You'll be able to follow the journey each day and interact with what is happening through our blog updates with photos and videos on our Social Media pages (Facebook/VOX magazine and Twitter @vox_ie). And, of course, the July issue of VOX magazine will be packed full of stories - the perfect summer reading!


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Realkreditinstitut () ist im Bankwesen der Oberbegriff für Spezialbanken, die Immobilienfinanzierung betreiben und diese ganz oder teilweise durch die Emission von Pfandbriefen oder Hypothekenanleihen refinanzieren.

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Die Deutsche Bundesbank nimmt ihre Einteilung der Kreditinstitute nach Bankengruppen aufgrund bankaufsichtlicher Gesichtspunkte vor und führt unter den Realkreditinstituten die Teilsegmente Private Hypothekenbanken, Schiffsbanken und sonstige private Realkreditinstitute auf (15 Institute). Hierin enthalten sind auch Grundkreditanstalten, öffentlich-rechtlich organisierte Realkreditinstitute. Die Bundesbank unterteilt sie in Wohnungsbaukreditanstalten (Hamburgische Wohnungsbaukreditanstalt) und Agrarkreditinstitute (Calenberger Kreditverein und Ritterschaftliches Kreditinstitut Stade). Das Pfandbriefgesetz vom Juli 2005 führte den Begriff Pfandbriefbanken ein, womit die bisherigen Hypothekenbanken erfasst werden. Letztere dürfen ihren Namen nach   PfandBG weiterhin behalten.

Zu den Realkreditinstituten gehören außer den Hypotheken-, Schiffs- und Pfandbriefbanken auch Universalbanken, die – neben anderen Bankgeschäften – auch Immobilienfinanzierungen anbieten und diese durch Pfandbriefe refinanzieren. Dies ist durch das geltende PfandBG ausdrücklich erlaubt, denn es hat das Spezialbankprinzip des ehemaligen Hypothekenbankgesetzes abgeschafft. Diese Institute nennt man "gemischte Realkreditinstitute".

Geschäftstätigkeit
Reine Realkreditinstitute beleihen Wohn- und Gewerbeimmobilien, wobei sie nach  PfandBG bei der Kreditgewährung lediglich eine Beleihungsgrenze von 60 % des Beleihungswerts ausschöpfen dürfen. Dabei handelt es sich um den Realkredit, nach dem sie benannt sind. Dieses Aktivgeschäft wird durch das Pfandbriefgeschäft refinanziert. Nach  Abs. 1 PfandBG besteht das Pfandbriefgeschäft aus der
 Ausgabe gedeckter Schuldverschreibungen auf Grund erworbener Hypotheken unter der Bezeichnung Pfandbriefe oder Hypothekenpfandbriefe,
 Ausgabe gedeckter Schuldverschreibungen auf Grund erworbener Forderungen gegen staatliche Stellen unter der Bezeichnung Kommunalobligationen, Kommunalschuldverschreibungen oder Öffentliche Pfandbriefe,
 Ausgabe gedeckter Schuldverschreibungen auf Grund erworbener Schiffshypotheken unter der Bezeichnung Schiffspfandbriefe,
 Ausgabe gedeckter Schuldverschreibungen auf Grund erworbener Registerpfandrechte nach § 1 des Gesetzes über Rechte an Luftfahrzeugen oder ausländischer Flugzeughypotheken unter der Bezeichnung Flugzeugpfandbriefe.

Das Erfordernis eines Kernkapitals von mindestens 25 Millionen Euro nach  Abs. 1 PfandBG ist durch die Langfristigkeit der Darlehensgewährungen und der Emissionszeiträume des Pfandbriefgeschäftes begründet. Das Aktivgeschäft (gesetzlich "Deckungswerte" genannt) muss nach  Abs. 1 PfandBG das Volumen der Pfandbriefe um 2 % übersteigen ("sichernde Überdeckung"). Diese sichernde Überdeckung darf nur in Schuldverschreibungen von bestimmten Staaten, deren Regionen und Institutionen oder Bankguthaben bei Zentralbanken der Europäischen Union bestehen. Außer dem Pfandbriefgeschäft dürfen noch Derivate (nach  Abs. 11 Satz 3 Nr. 1 KWG) abgeschlossen werden, mit denen das Zinsänderungsrisiko ausgeschlossen werden kann. Weitere Deckungswerte sind in  PfandBG selektiv zugelassen. Nach  PfandBG ist von der Bank ein Deckungsregister zu führen, in das die Kreditgeschäfte einschließlich Derivatsansprüche einzutragen sind.

International
Grundpfandrechte dürfen in Deutschland und vergleichbaren ausländischen Rechtsordnungen eingetragen werden. Dazu gehören nach  Abs. 1 PfandBG die EU-Mitgliedstaaten oder ein anderer Vertragsstaat des Abkommens über den Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum, die Schweiz, die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Kanada, Japan, Australien, Neuseeland und Singapur.  PfandBG stellt klar, dass Grundschulden (auch Sicherungsgrundschulden) ebenso wie Hypotheken als Sicherungswerte in Betracht kommen. In der Beleihungspraxis der Kreditinstitute stellen Grundschulden gegenüber Hypotheken auf Grund ihrer mangelnden Akzessorietät zur Darlehensschuld den Regelfall dar. Da das PfandBG der BaFin weitergehende Aufsichtsbefugnisse einräumt, unterliegen Pfandbriefbanken einer strengeren Bankenaufsicht als die übrigen Kreditinstitute.

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The antidepressant drug is antagonist to both receptors, as in vitro experiments revealed. The drug was tested on dietary-restricted worms and worms with lifespan affecting mutations. The results suggest that the drug's effect on lifespan involves mechanisms connected to lifespan extension by starvation.
The study indicates that lifespan can be prolonged by blockage of certain types of neurotransmission involved in food sensing of the adult animal. This might lead to perceived starvation.
The team tested 88,000 chemicals for their ability to extend the lifespan of adult Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes.


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Este es mi quinto... sexto?... intento de mantener un Blog, ya veremos como va, pero las probabilidades están contra mi.

Resumiendo, este Blog es el resultado de tratar de aprender Jekyll + GitHub como plataforma de publicación. Ventajas? Es gratis, puedo escribir Markdown en mi editor de texto favorito (en estos momentos *Sublime Text*).

Espero publicar algunos artículos sobre React, JS, iOS y otras cosas que se atraviesen.

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Throwback Thursday ~ Revival: In America We Trust?
I don't know about you, but I've had it up to here with politics. Any politics. I'm sick of hearing about the candidates, where they stand on the issues, what they've done wrong, why we should vote for this one instead of that one or not vote at all, and what celebrities (and everybody else on the planet) think about them. It's a 24/7 barrage on TV, the radio, social media, and personal conversations. Yes, these issues are important (for the love of my sanity, y'all, please don't write me comments and e-mails arguing for your candidate or position- I agree these things are important) but I've reached my saturation point. It would be great if somebody would capture the Loch Ness monster or find a cure for the common cold or something just so everybody would have something else to talk about for five minutes.
In the midst of this political fervor, pastors – from those in the national spotlight to those in rural obscurity – are applying theology to the election and current culture. Some of it has been very, very good. Encouraging. Refreshingly biblical. And some of it…well, not so much.
On the "not so much" side, one of the recurring themes I've heard from various pulpits is the prediction or expectation that America is going to make a comeback. Brighter days are just around the corner. The cultural morality of the 1950's might even re-emerge, and we'll all be able to breathe a sigh of relief that evil and debauchery have left the building.
Then some pastor, somewhere, decided to co-opt the word "revival," paste it over this concept of America getting its moral act together, and offer the whole package to American Christians as hope.
A turnaround of American culture and morality wouldn't be a bad thing. Personally, I think it would be great if America would start behaving itself like a courteous, rational adult instead of a pagan, hedonistic teenager. We are 240 years old, after all.
But that is not revival, and it is not where our hope lies.
Let me ask you something: What if America never turns around? What if things continue to get worse, morally, economically, militarily, and culturally until this country eventually implodes into anarchy or becomes a vassal state to a godless nation?
What if God destroys America instead of making her great again? Will your faith be destroyed, too?
Sadly, for many Americans whose faith has become a syncretistic mélange of patriotism and pseudo-Christianity, the answer is yes. How many will lose heart and walk away forever when the "revival" their pastor promised fails to materialize? Uncle Sam is a cruel master and a lousy god.
Real revival is exactly the opposite. It can take place regardless of who wins the election, whether the United States is virtuous or villainous, rich or poor, enslaved or free or wiped off the face of the earth. It can take place even if you're the only person in the world who wants it.
Biblical revival happens when Christians – thousands or dozens or one – bow the knee to Christ in repentance over their sin, forsake their worldliness, pursue holiness, act on their new-found zeal for evangelism, and live faithfully. It's found when we stop fretting about who's sitting in the Oval Office and start focusing on Who's sitting on the Throne and how we might honor and please Him, regardless of what's going on in society.
Real revival doesn't always change the culture. Just ask Noah. Or the righteous remnant of the Old Testament exile. Or the martyrs of the early church. That's not what it's for. Revival isn't supposed to change the world. It's supposed to change your heart. It's supposed to change your focus from temporal, elemental things to the Christ who bled and died for your sin.
That's where our hope is found, sisters.
Not in the White House, but in Christ, regardless of who's in the White House. Not in a moral society, but in Christ, whether society's morals are Victorian or heathen. Not in laws and policies and freedoms that suit us, but in Christ.
Our hope is in Christ, dear sisters. Let us never forsake our First Love for something as lowly as love of country, favor of the government, or an upright populace.


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Maralinga, Australia
Nuclear weapons test site
Between 1952 and 1957, the United Kingdom conducted seven major and hundreds of minor nuclear tests at the Maralinga Test Site in Southern Australia. Nuclear fallout from the explosions contaminated large parts of the region and exposed many people to high levels of radioactivity. To this day, the casualties of these tests are denied recognition, medical care and compensation.
Without consulting parliament, Australia's prime minister Robert Menzies permitted the UK to conduct nuclear tests on Australian soil in 1952. After preliminary testing on the Montebello Islands and in the desert around Emu Field, Maralinga was declared a joint British-Australian nuclear test site in May 1955. Seven major nuclear tests were performed here, with yields ranging from one to 60 kilotons of TNT equivalent. By comparison, the Hiroshima bomb had an explosive yield of about 13–15 kilotons.
Under the code-name "Operation Buffalo," four bombs were exploded in 1956, in order to investigate the effects of nuclear radiation on animals, servicemen and civilians. In 1957, three more bombs were detonated at Maralinga as part of "Operation Antler." These nuclear detonations produced varying fallout patterns, which contaminated the entire Australian continent. Official fallout measurements were incomplete and were concealed from the public and, often, from the government.
In addition, approximately 600 minor tests of nuclear weapon components and sub-assemblies, the disposal of radioactive waste from the tests, and the effects of accidents have to be considered when assessing the total impact of nuclear testing at Maralinga. In total 24.4 kg of plutonium, 101 kg of beryllium and 8,083 kg of uranium were dispersed by the winds over a distance of up to 100 km, contaminating an area of about 450 km². The Maralinga Test Site was closed in 1967. Two clean-up operations failed to remove radioactive contamination, however, and the site remains uninhabitable to this day. Plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years.
As with previous British nuclear weapons tests at Emu Field, the local Aboriginal population bore the brunt of radiation exposure. Before the tests began, the region of Maralinga was inhabited by Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, with other Aboriginal groups often passing through the area. During the tests, many of them came into contact with fallout in the form of "black mist." The warning signs in English were usually incomprehensible to the Aborigines. Studies on the health effects of radiation on the Aboriginal populations were inconclusive due to inadequate identification and follow-up of the affected population.
An attempted clean-up operation in 1990 tried to bury contaminated soil below the surface, but instead stirred up thousands of tons of contaminated dust, which was dispersed by the wind. As a result of this fallout, additional exposure for Aborigines in most of the region is estimated to be 5 mSv per year, while people in the most affected 120 km² are believed to be exposed to an additional 65 mSv per year. According to the BEIR VII report, such doses would lead to 10 to 130 excess cases of cancer per 10,000 people.
Servicemen were also significantly affected by radiation exposure. In the 1970s, veterans described the lack of protective clothing and recalled flying through plumes of radioactive fallout in unpressurized aircrafts. The Department of Veterans Affairs conducted a study between 1982 and 2001 and found a significant increase in cancer rates (23 %) and cancer mortality (18 %) among veterans of the nuclear tests, compared to the population as a whole.
The uninhabitable and contaminated land around Maralinga was symbolically returned to the Tjarutja people in 2009, but those affected have not received any compensation. The burden of proof lies solely on the side of the claimants, who face difficulties in gathering evidence for their cases: hospital records are not available and dosage records are incomplete or have been removed from the archives. The indigenous population faces even more bureaucratic hurdles in their fight for recognition and compensation. To this day, epidemiological studies on the affected population have not been performed and the British and Australian governments seem unwilling to accept responsibility for the health impacts of nuclear testing. The Australian affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War found the right words in a hearing before the Australian Senate: "Justice delayed is justice denied." This simple truth applies to Hibakusha around the world – including the Aborigines and veterans of Maralinga.
"Radioactive Heaven and Earth." IEER, IPPNW, Apex Press: New York, 1991.
Parkinson A. "Maralinga: The Clean-Up of a Nuclear Test Site." Medicine & Global Survival, 2002; Vol. 7, No. 2, www.ippnw.org/pdf/mgs/7-2-parkinson.pdf.
"BEIR VII report, phase 2: Health risks from exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation." National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, 2006, p. 279f, tables 12.5a and 12.5b. www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11340&page=8
"Australian Participants in Nuclear Tests in Australia." Website of the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs, 2006. www.dva.gov.au/aboutDVA/publications/health_research/nuclear_test/Pages/index.aspx
Ruff TA. "Australian participants in British nuclear tests in Australia." Submission to the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, October 27, 2006. www.moruroa.org/medias/pdf/Ruffppt.pdf


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Almost 1 in 5 people in Kokomo live below the poverty level. In Howard County, 1 in 6 people — including almost 1 in 4 children — regularly go hungry. And there are hundreds of homeless individuals and families throughout North Central Indiana.
The Kokomo Rescue Mission is here for the homeless, the hungry, and the hurting. Since 1953, we have provided help and hope through emergency assistance and long-term programs that touch the mind, body, and soul. All in Jesus' name.
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Kokomo Rescue Mission has programs for men, women, and children. We work compassionately with our guests to meet their short- and long-term needs—physically, mentally, and spiritually.
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A medical diagnosis can be one of the most terrifying and confusing days of a patient's life. Doctors often struggle to fully explain a person's illness to them because internal structures, like a tumor, can be hard to visualize.
Soon, doctors could have a new tool that helps remove some of the confusion from a diagnosis: virtual and augmented reality.
University of Washington startup Pear Med is taking advantage of that tech with VR and AR software that compiles medical scans into an interactive 3D model. The startup is currently negotiating a partnership with Seattle Children's Hospital to further develop their technology, which could revolutionize the way doctors communicate with their patients and help surgeons prepare for complex procedures.
One of our biggest challenges is being able to separate ourselves from that hype and show this can actually provide long-term value to doctors and patients.
Co-founders Ryan James and Mark Laughery started Pear Med during their UW software entrepreneurship class in winter of 2016 and have since moved the startup to CoMotion Labs, the university's virtual reality and augmented reality incubator.
The two combined James' health informatics background with Laughery's design experience to make medical data easier to visualize for patients, doctors and medical students.
"We're still trying to find our niche, so that's one of the reasons we're so excited about this Seattle Children's partnership because they really want to help us understand exactly how this can be used in a hospital," James said.
Pear Med's software, called Bosc, stitches together 2D images from a patient's MRI or CT scan to create a virtual 3D model unique to their anatomy. Using the AR HoloLens or VR Oculus Rift, users can see a color-coded representation of a patient's bones, organs, and nerves. The software is especially useful to help clinicians visualize the shape and structure of a growth or tumor.
Although various medical institutions have expressed interest in Bosc, implementing this technology into a doctor's daily clinical workflow will be no small undertaking. VR and AR headsets are still in their early stages of development and are prohibitively expensive for some institutions to use on a large scale.
"I think there's a lot of hype around VR and AR, so I think one of our biggest challenges is being able to separate ourselves from that hype and show this can actually provide long-term value to doctors and patients," Laughery said.
The UW Center for Multidimensional Medicine (CMM) has provided them with the clinical connections to rise to that challenge. The UC Irvine Department of Urology was the first institution to partner with Pear Med to see how the VR software could improve surgical training and planning for procedures such as kidney stone removal.
In November of last year, the CMM connected Pear Med with a very unusual case at British Columbia Children's Hospital. In a 1-year-old patient born with only one kidney, radiologists discovered a non-cancerous growth called a lipoma surrounding the base of her spinal cord.
Administrators at the CMM and NIH thought the Bosc technology might help the parents understand their daughter's illness and aid her surgeon in planning for a partial removal. The growth was intricately intertwined around her nerves, making it difficult to operate on without causing further neurological damage.
James and Laughery drove to BC Children's last November to show the family and their surgical team a virtual model of the child's lipoma. Interacting with a 3D model of the growth helped her parents understand the problem much better than flat MRI images, James said.
We open sourced the Pear Interaction Engine on GitHub as our kind of thank you to everyone in the software community.
Over the past year, much of Pear Med's funding has come directly from James' and Laughery's own pockets, so the Seattle Children's partnership will be an important source of new capital. In the past, they have received grants and awards for their work, such as $2,500 for an innovation award from the UW Business Plan Competition and $10,000 in hardware donated by UW Medicine.
Since James is still a Ph.D. student and therefore technically a UW employee, UW partially owns the intellectual property of all Bosc code. Any licensing agreement with Seattle Children's will involve royalty payments to both Pear Med and UW. Once James finishes his doctorate, Pear Med will have exclusive ownership over the intellectual property of any new code they write for the software.
James and Laughery relied heavily on open source software, such as NodeJS, to develop Bosc, so they felt compelled to share what they'd learned over the last year for free on a popular code sharing website called GitHub.
It could take years before Pear Med is able to fully integrate their technology into a hospital's daily workflow, but James and Laughery believe Seattle Children's will be the perfect environment to test their products.


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Measurements of Ground Temperature Lapse Rates at 50Cm Depth and Pit Surveys
Mon, 06 Mar 2017 | Soil Temperature
The diurnal variation in ground temperature is negligibly small at depths below 40 to 50 cm. The lapse rate of the ground temperature at 50-cm depth (GT50) during summer in the seasonal-frost zone is close to that of the air temperature, because the GT50 is principally controlled by ground heat flux for some days (Fig. 4). However, the GT50 lapse rate in the permafrost zone during summer is much larger than that of air temperature, because the GT50 is controlled by not only ground heat flux but cooling from permafrost. For example, Fujii and Higuchi (1972) and Fujii et al. (1999) estimated the permafrost lower limit based on the tendency for change in the GT50 lapse rate at Mt. Fuji, Japan, in August of 1973, 1998, and 1999 (Fig. 4).
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Figure. 4 Ground temperatures at 50-cm depths during August 1998 on a south-facing slope of Mt. Fuji (modified Fujii et al., 1999).
Fujii and Higuchi (1976) also measured the GT50 at approximately 100 movement points on slopes of all aspects between 4500 and 5300 m in the Khumbu Himal in summer 1973. Because research period of GT50 measurements reached several weeks, time series variations in GT50 were observed during the research period. The time series variations in GT50 were revised using fixed-point GT50 measurements at Lhajung (4420 m) at 3-h intervals; revised GT50 (Tre) values were calculated in °C using the following equation:
Tre Tm Tha, where Tm is the GT50 at the movement points in °C and Tha represents the time series temperature variations for GT50 at Lhajung in °C.
Fukui et al. (2007a) took GT50 measurements at 20 movement points from 8 to 21 October 2004 on a south-facing slope in the Khumbu Himal between 4200 and 5600 m ASL
(Fig. 2) with a digital thermometer (testo110; testo AG, Lenzkirch, Germany), which has a resolution of 0.1°C and accuracy of 0.2°C. Shallow pits were dug and the thermometer probe was inserted in the pit at 50-cm depth just after excavation. GT50 was also monitored at Lhajung at 15-min intervals from 8 to 22 October using a miniature temperature data logger (TR-52; T and D Corp., Nagano, Japan) and revised the time series variations in the GT50.
To determine the frozen layer in the permafrost, three pits (0.7-1.4 m deep) were dug around Kala Pattar (Fig. 3b; 5554 m) on 20 and 21 October 2004 (Fukui et al., 2007a). The ground temperature profiles and stratigraphy were observed in the pits.


Schumann often turned to Heine's poems, for instance for his Myrthen and Dichterliebe. Likewise for Liszt and Schubert. Thomas Quasthoff is delighted to be presenting the laureate of his Berlin Lied competition, who will be reciting in German some of Heine's poems, to communicate all their musicality.


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A PEX or Copper repipe is a treatment where the existing pipes in a house or a building are upgraded with new ones. All pipe fittings, stop valves and supply lines are upgraded. this generally results in much better water pressure and more favorable water quality.
Should We Repipe our house in Cloverdale?
Many reasons exist for why a person should replace the pipes of your home.
Galvanized piping are located in houses built during the 70s. A galvanized pipe is an iron water pipe which is coated with zinc to be protected from corrosion. Often times though the zinc coating gradually wears away over the years exposing the iron, then corrosion buildup.
Very Low Water Pressure – The reason might be the limitation of the water flow because of corrosion and rust build-up inside of the galvanized water pipe.
Rust Colored Water – Oxidation often goes into the water fixtures. This means a highly developed stage of deterioration in the plumbing.
Leaking Water Pipes – Leaks are most commonly a consequence of corrosion of the galvanized iron pipes. Unseen leaks may develop inside the walls, in the attic as well as under the house, generating the chances of major damage to the house.
This kind of plastic water pipe was used from the middle of the 70's to the mid 90's. It was regarded as the next great advance for piping and fittings. Polybutylene water pipe systems were installed in millions of households before it was deemed highly faulty. Just about 60% of most family homes constructed in this time period is still equipped with this category of water pipe in the house.
Polybutylene pipes have an enormously small life span, since chemical contaminants in typical city water causes it to turn hard and become brittle. The fittings commonly break open first, and then the water line itself.
Polybutylene water lines are made up of flexible plastic piping, colored grey when used inside and black or blue for outdoor usage. Several fittings were created with both plastic and metal. Insert fittings are used to join up sections of polybutylene pipe.
Extraordinarily high monthly water costs.
Nearby neighbors have already had a slab leak.
High quality water pipes without having any more leaking pipes.
A lot more satisfaction when your piping system is dependable.
When you hire a plumbing company or other organization to do the job, it's possibly going to cost you more over time if you consider that you will have to employ a drywall repair service business to patch over the various repair points. When you seek the services of a repipe business that features a master patcher on staff such as Repipe Specialists, you'll never have to pay out extra money or time getting your household back to normal. From start to finish, the PEX and Copper repipe system normally takes only 2 or 3 days.