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The article reports on the developments in the operation of German firm KfW, including plans to raise 70-75 billion euros in 2013. According to the company's head of capital markets, Horst Seissinger, they expect higher interest in their bond issuances in 2013. Seissiner said that they will still focus on Asian currencies, particularly on Hong Kong and Singapore dollars.

The article announces the recipients of the 2012 European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction scientific paper award which are Dr. Traute Demirakca from Germany, Dr. Johanna Gripenberg from Sweden, and Dr. Katy M. E. Turner from Great Britain.

The article reports that German winding-up agency Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA) has expanded its global commercial paper (CP)programme limit in a bid to broaden its investor base. On May 7, 2012, a new limit of 20 billion euros has been set by EAA. Holger Dohra of EAA explains the decision to change the limit of its CP programme. Dohra expects EAA's outstandings to hit double digits by the end of 2012. The EAA decision to double its CP programme is intended to lure more dollar investors.

The article reports on the efforts being done by Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA) to finalize its preparations for a global commercial paper (CP) programme in 2011. Such programme is expected to catch the attention of investors facing low yields on dollar paper from sovereign, supranational and agency borrowers. A CP dealer expressed his belief in the strength of the credit of EAA.

The author reflects on the main topics discussed during the fourth annual European Bioplastics conference held on November 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The conference was attended by among others, representatives from the packaging industry, carmakers and electronic device manufacturers. The event revealed that degradable materials and materials sourced from renewably resourced materials will increase its presence in the bioplastics industry. The author also discussed the threat posed by the paper and cardboard industries to the plastics industry.

The article reports that portfolios of receivables from small and medium enterprise clients of banks are expected to be financed by multi-seller conduits from Germany. According to analysts from Fitch Ratings, multi-seller conduits have been placing commercial paper more than hybrid or securities-arbitrage conduits. Susanne Matern of Fitch stated that there is continued interest in German multi-seller conduits.

Reports on the plan of Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW) to launch a structured investment vehicle (SIV) as a solution for its commercial paper issues following the removal of its state guarantees in Germany. Need for LBBW to innovate to cope with the severe spread compression in assets and mortgage backed securities; Intention of HSH Nordbank to launch its own SIV; Factors being considered by LBBW before using SIV.

Russian gas could account for as little as 30% of imports by the end of the year, down from more than half currently, while the aim is to reduce oil imports almost to nothing by then, the magazine quoted the paper as saying. (Bloomberg) -- Germany is aiming to halve imports of Russian oil by mid-year while rapidly reducing its dependency on the nation's gas and coal, Der Spiegel magazine reported, citing an Economy Ministry paper. [Extracted from the article]

Reports on the multicurrency EuroCP program issued by German firm Robert Bosch company as of October 11, 2002. Purpose of the EuroCP facility; Value of the Bosch commercial paper issue; Approach of Bosch with the EuroCP facility.

Julius Streicher was notorious not only as the fanatical bull-necked, whip-wielding 'Beast of Nuremberg', who organized the first annual Nazi rally in the city in 1927, but also as the founder of the virulently anti-semitic and anti-Communist weekly newspaper, Der Stürmer. First published in 1923, it ran for twenty-two years and became one of the most widely read publications in Germany, selling half a million copies a week at its peak and being praised by Hitler himself. It began as a small-format four-page local scandal sheet, but later developed into a sixteen-page national illustrated tabloid. From 1930 it regularly carried photographs, but the most prominent feature of the paper from December 1925 onwards was its front-page cartoons signed 'Fips' — the pseudonym of Philipp Rupprecht. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In addition to the windfall profits, electricity subsidies will be financed by Germany's €200 billion ($197 billion) Economic and Stabilization Fund, which was created to mitigate the impact from the Covid-19 pandemic. (Bloomberg) -- The German government plans to collect windfall profits from electricity companies despite legal uncertainties about the proposal, according to a government paper seen by Bloomberg. [Extracted from the article]

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The article offers information on the increasingly changing attitude of people towards sex and pornography, in West Germany and reports on the success of two pornographic journals "St.Pauli Nachrichten" and "St.Pauli Zeitung" amid the sex wave in the country. Reportedly, the scene is changing so rapidly that Nachrichten swelled from a press run of 10,000 to a twice-monthly paper with a circulation of 700,000 including 3,000 subscribers from as far as South Africa and Australia.

The article focuses on the significance of founding the "Jewish Weekly" by Karl Marx in 1946 and its contributions to politics in Germany. It states that the paper has played a major role in shaping policies of the country and has also served as the undisputed voice of the diminished Jewish population. The relevance of the paper on the speculation of the press concerning the appointment of Kurt Georg Kiesinger, who is a close and trusted friend of Marx, as German chancellor is explained.

Bundesbank reopens its exhibit after six-year renovation To contact the reporter on this story:Alessandro Speciale in Frankfurt at aspeciale@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story:Paul Gordon at pgordon6@bloomberg.netJeff Black. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on the new logo of Edelmann Group entitled "Packaging CO2 Compensated" in Germany. It states that the new logo gives consumer a significant indication of folding cartons climate-friendly production. The company has captured relevant sources of carbon dioxide to cope high demands of a harmonious balance of carbon dioxide.

Germany is launching a program to provide up to €4 billion in funding to help heavy industrial producers transition to green technologies. The program, called "climate protection contracts," will compensate companies in sectors like steel, cement, and glass for the additional expenses of using clean technologies. Germany aims to reduce carbon emissions by two-thirds by 2030 and achieve climate neutrality by 2045. The European Union has approved the funding plans, which aim to remove around 350 million tons of CO2 from sectors such as steel, cement, paper, and glass. [Extracted from the article]

Reviews are offered for several photo studios including Paper Mill Studios located in London, England, Studio Chérie in Berlin, Germany and Big Sky Studios in London.

The shut-down of nuclear power plants and the general shift from fossil to regenerative energies lead to an increase of disparity between energy production and energy consumption in Germany. Because of the immense acceptance problems among the public against overhead lines and underground cables new solutions are needed. After considering various options the idea of a tunnel along the highway for the electricity transmission was selected within a VDE study as a promising option. Since joints are expensive and a source of failure and the transportation of cables that are longer than one kilometer is barely possible on land, on-site production is considered as an alternative. To make a production onsite economically more attractive, challenges and first approaches towards a continuous HVDC cable production are described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about the meeting of the American Historical Association at Cincinnati, Ohio during December 27-30, 1917. The array of papers and conferences offered at the Cincinnati meeting was exceptionally rich and varied. Professor Albert T. Olmstead, of the University of Missouri, in a paper before the ancient history section on Mesopotamian politics and scholarship, called attention to the success of French and German archaeological investigators, backed by their respective governments, in appropriating the Mesopotamian field, while reprobating the German policy of removing to Berlin many important finds. In addition to sessions for the presentation of formal papers, provision was made, as in former years, for a number of conferences for the discussion of special historical activities.

The article reviews the art exhibition "Josef Albers: Colored Works on Paper" at the Pinakothek Der Moderne in Munich, Germany from December 16, 2010-March 3, 2011.

The article relates the comment of Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp. (HSBC) on a bond issue that was launched by HSBC Bank plc on July 9, 2010. The bookrunner stated that there was rarity in the issuance by HSBC Bank plc of a euro senior paper. Investors in such bond issue came from several countries including Iberia, Germany, and France. Also included are distribution by investor type and market appraisal.

The article reports on the claim of a German team that they will launch printable batteries that pattern organic semiconductors on a paper-thin, flexible substrates, in 2010. According to the article, scientists at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems worked with colleagues from Chemnitz University of Technology and Menippos GmbH on the development of the product. It notes that the batteries use zinc anodes and manganese cathodes that react to give electricity.

The article calls for papers for the 17th meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music's (ICTM) Study Group for Folk Musical Instruments to be held in Berlin, Germany on April 1-4, 2009.

This article calls for papers for FILTREX 08 to be held in Cologne, Germany on October 7-8, 2008.

Purpose: This paper aims to evaluate the market concentration and competition in the European Banking Sector using an integrated multi-criteria decision-making approach under the fuzzy environment. Design/methodology/approach: The hybrid model combining fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL), fuzzy analytic network process (ANP) and fuzzy VIKOR methods is applied to measure the market competition and concentration in the European Banking Sector. For this purpose, two academicians and one expert from banking sector with at least five-year experiences are selected to evaluate the dimensions, criteria and alternatives. The academicians are also appointed to define the decision-making problem and determine the dimensions and the criteria on the basis of related literature. The implementation of the model has been constructed in three main phases. The first phase consists of the fuzzy DEMATEL technique for understanding the impact-relation map among the dimensions. The second phase includes the fuzzy ANP method for measuring the relative importance of the criteria. The last phase comprises the fuzzy VIKOR approach to rank the alternatives with the values of the Herfindahl–Hirschman Index (HHI). Findings: Turkey, France, England and Germany are placed in the competitive market structure of the European Banking Sector respectively. Additionally, the comparative results of the study confirm the market shares and the competitive policies of the European and Turkish Banking Sector. Originality/value: The novelty of the paper is to construct a hybrid multi-criteria decision-making model with the proposed HHI scales under the fuzzy environment and defined competition dimensions and criteria based on the literature for the European Banking Industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article evaluates notebooks from German stationery company Semikolon.

The article discusses the move of paper pot producer Schneider GmbH & co. KG to implement Ellepot technology from Ellegaard SA on its production operation in Germany. It states that the technology operates automatically and continuously works in shifts, enabling the company to rationalize young plant production. It notes that the machine also helps the company produce highly reliable, soft, as well as uniform pots.

"The EUROCALL Review" is EUROCALL's open access online scientific journal. Regular sections include: (1) Reports on EUROCALL Special Interest Groups: up-to-date information on SIG activities; (2) Projects: reports on on-going CALL or CALL-related R&D projects; (3) Recommended websites: reports and reviews of examples of good practice in language learning website development; (4) Research papers on CALL-related topics; (5) Research and Development papers on CALL-related topics; (6) Reflective Practice papers on CALL-related topics; and (7) Reviews of new books, CALL software, etc. This issue contains the following papers stemming from the INTENT conference on "Telecollaboration in University Foreign Language Education" held at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of León, Spain, on 14 February 2014: (1) Promoting critical thinking in online intercultural communication (Marie-Thérèse Batardière); (2) Why in the world would I want to talk to someone else about my culture? (Chesla Ann Bohinski and Yumei Leventhal); (3) A blended learning scenario to enhance learners' oral production skills (Hee-Kyung Kim); (4) Combining Skype with Blogging: A chance to stop reinforcement of stereotypes in intercultural exchanges? (L. Lynette Kirschner); (5) English learning in an intercultural perspective: Russia and Norway (Anne-Mette Bjøru); and (6) Pan-American teletandem language exchange project (Aurora Castillo-Scott). The regular paper section includes: An e-portfolio to enhance sustainable vocabulary learning in English (Hiroya Tanaka, Akio Ohnishi, Suzanne M. Yonesaka, and Yukie Ueno). The following recommended website is reviewed by Rafael Seiz Ortiz: ABA English. Individual papers contain references.

This article reports that scientists at Infineon Technologies AG in Erlangen, Germany have fabricated organic transistors and circuits on commercially available cotton-fiber paper. Its fibrous surface is rough, whereas a typical semiconductor substrate such as silicon is smooth.

The article reports on the status of international trade relations among the U.S., Russia and Germany. Russian purchasing of U.S. products have declined by 55 percent, while Russian sales in the U.S. dropped by 34 percent. Germany has notified local manufacturers that it is unable to continue the country's 70 percent export guaranty scheme for the Russian order. Despite the internal financial problems of Germany, the Reichsbank decided to rediscount Soviet paper up to 36 million U.S. dollars.

The article reports that war-born German developments have provided a technical boost and opened vast prospects for the U.S. acetylene industry. Germany made use of acetylene in the absence of normal supply sources for petroleum. Walter Reppe, director of research for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG, found the use of acetylene as the organic building material for synthetic rubber, synthetic lubricants, plastics, adhesives, and textile finishes.

This section offers news briefs related to businesses outside the U.S. as of September 1937. Exporters in Germany fear drastic decline in their performance since an outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai, China was reported. Businesses in London, England expect an improvement in their income despite the increased materials costs during the year. The Russian government launched a program which aims to promote the daily production of several commodities like coal, steel and oil.

The article reports on the social and political developments in the world during 1923. Gustav Stresemann, the Chancellor of Germany has determined upon complete and unconditional surrender to the French demand for abandonment of passive resistance in the Ruhr, Germany. New York without its customary newspapers was a curious sight to those accustomed to the solid rows of papers that usually hide men's faces in the subways and on the elevated. It was a revelation of the function of the modern daily newspaper, to supply unreal entertainment as a relief from real monotony.

This article discusses economic effects of the Paris Resolution. The Bureau of the League of Nations estimates the average income in Germany at about 3,900 marks paper, as against about 3,200 francs in France. An additional charge of 1,000 marks paper would raise the proportion of charges in Germany to 41 per cent of the average income, as against 12.2 per cent in France, without taking into account the additional 12 per cent of the exports, but considering only the annuity. The balance remaining for living expenses would therefore be about 2,300 marks paper annually in Germany, 2,810 francs, i.e., about 11,800 marks paper in France.

The article reports on the move of U.S. President John Kennedy whose total occupation was turning toward action not only for Berlin but for the whole world. It states that after last-minute revisions, the president will answer to Nikita Khrushchev's last-month memorandum on Berlin. Additionally, the State Department will release a White Paper on Berlin to further justify the Western stand and then, Kennedy will also summon congressional leaders to brief them on U.S. plans.

The article offers information on the business achievement and corporate establishments of German industrialist Friedrich Flick as the most powerful industrialist and richest man in Germany. It outlines the business performance of Flick's four pillars including Maximilianshuette, Suedwestfalen and Buderus, Daimler-Benz AG for automobiles, Feldmuele as paper company and Dynamit Nobel as explosive maker. Also presented is the corporate executives of Flick helping him to achieve modern management.

A recent report from the University of Passau in Germany explores the use of Learning Analytics (LA) in higher education for measurement purposes. The researchers discuss four main LA functions in assessment: monitoring and analysis, automated feedback, prediction, prevention, and intervention, and new forms of assessment. The paper also addresses the challenges of adopting and upscaling LA and the implications for instructors in higher education. This research highlights the potential of data-driven decision-making and data-intensive research in the field of education. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the hyperinflation that plagued Germany in 1923, resulting from years of printing excessive amounts of paper money. This hyperinflation devastated the German economy, and by December 1923, it took 4.2 trillion German marks to equal one American dollar. The hyperinflation had catastrophic effects, leading to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, emphasizing the perils of inflationary financial policies.

The article focuses on the estimated 60 billion euros worth of bonds from the German Residential Asset Note Distributor (GRAND) commercial mortgage-backed securitization included in a bid list due to be released in the market on September 7, 2012.

Information about the World Congress on Particle Technology held at the NürnbergMesse in Germany from April 26 to 29, 2011 is presented.

The Textile Technology Department of Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences (Campus Pirmasens) is working on the development of hybrid structures based on bast and basalt fibers as reinforcement in composite materials. For this research work, only materials available on the market are used. In addition, the newly developed hybrid semi-finished products should be manufactured and processed in established processing methods (carding, needling, hot pressing, etc.). For the successful implementation of these novel materials, the mechanical properties of the hybrid structures must be significantly higher than those of pure bast fiber-reinforced composites. This paper presents the research using bast and basalt fibers (with a PP suitable sizing) as reinforcement in polypropylene matrix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If Putin could turn off the Nordstream gas taps in response to German sanctions, an increasingly belligerent Chinese government could surely order Huawei to cut off 5G networks, they argued. Relying on a Russian thug for energy supplies no longer appeared very sensible to Germany's government after Vladimir Putin sent Russian troops into Ukraine. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses color lithography and offers techniques for artists on that medium. A brief background on lithography, which was invented in Germany by Aloys Senefelder in 1798, is provided. A photograph of the author's color lithograph titled "View From Battersea Bridge" is presented. According to the author, planning a color print starts by composing a complete color sketch on paper. She recommends working from hard to soft crayons which are available in stick and pencil form.