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Welcome to the latest episode of The Overlap's football history podcast, It Was What It Was.Jonathan Wilson and Rob Draper continue the series with a unite insight into the life of Jurgen Klopp.Klopp leaves his managerial role at Liverpool having ended their 30 year top flight trophy drought alongside a historic Champions League, FA Cup, League Cup and Club World Cup during a 9-year period that changed Anfield. Rightly regarded as one of the most important managerial spells in the Reds history, Jonathan and Rob explore the events that made Klopp the charismatic manager he is today.From his childhood and familial upbringing in Baden-Wurttemberg in Stuttgart to his playing then managerial stint at Mainz - that included an incredible final day of the season encounter - It Was What It Was gives a detailed look into the life of the German manager.If you enjoyed the podcast please hit subscribe to never miss an episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nel 2023, le famiglie in povertà assoluta si attestano all'8,5% del totale delle famiglie residenti (erano l'8,3% nel 2022), corrispondenti a circa 5,7 milioni di individui (9,8%; quota pressoché stabile rispetto al 9,7% del 2022). Lo indica oggi l'Istat sulla base delle stime preliminari.Il quadro, rimarca l'Istat, è di sostanziale stabilità rispetto al 2022: in particolare si tratta di oltre 2 milioni 234mila famiglie, per un totale di circa 5 milioni 752mila individui in povertà assoluta. Sono indicate come assolutamente povere le famiglie con una spesa mensile pari o inferiore a una soglia minima corrispondente all'acquisto di un paniere di beni e servizi considerato essenziale a garantire uno standard di vita minimamente accettabile e a evitare gravi forme di esclusione sociale. Nel Nord, dove le persone povere sono quasi 136mila in più rispetto al 2022, l'incidenza della povertà assoluta a livello familiare è sostanzialmente stabile (8,0%), mentre si osserva una crescita dell'incidenza individuale (9,0%, dall'8,5% del 2022). Il Mezzogiorno mostra anch'esso valori stabili e più elevati delle altre ripartizioni (10,3%, dal 10,7 del 2022), anche a livello individuale (12,1%, dal 12,7% del 2022).Ne parliamo con Massimo Baldini, docente di Scienza delle Finanze presso l'Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.Ue su Ita-Lufthansa, rischio aumento prezzi e calo servizi. Entro il 26 aprile la risposta ai rilieviLa Commissione Ue ha formalizzato a Lufthansa e al Ministero italiano dell Economia le conclusioni preliminari sul progetto di ingresso in minoranza nel capitale di Ita. Il timore, annuncia, è che porti a un aumento dei prezzi per i clienti e a una diminuzione della qualità dei servizi. La lettera (statement of objections) dei servizi per la concorrenza della Commissione europea elenca i rilievi e i nodi ancora da sciogliere prima di poter dare il via libera all'operazione di fusione delle due compagnie: il responso è atteso entro il 6 giugno.Nel dettaglio la Commissione europea evidenzia tre possibili criticità: l alleanza potrebbe ridurre la concorrenza su un certo numero di rotte a corto raggio che collegano l Italia con i paesi dell Europa centrale; ridurre la concorrenza su un alcune rotte a lungo raggio tra Italia e Stati Uniti, Canada e Giappone. Infine potrebbe creare o rafforzare la posizione dominante di Ita presso l aeroporto di Milano-Linate.Ne parliamo con Gianni Dragoni, Il Sole 24 Ore.L'appello lombardo alla Commissione europeaLa scorsa settimana l'Assessore allo Sviluppo economico della Lombardia Guidesi ha portato, per la prima volta, il Tavolo della Competitività a Bruxelles per riaffermare il protagonismo lombardo in Europa. È stato sottoscritto un documento da tutto il Tavolo con proposte su 11 tematiche specifiche di interesse del mondo imprenditoriale che verrà sottoposto alla prossima Commissione Europea.Alla base di questo percorso che l'assessore ha intrapreso, insieme al sistema Lombardo, ormai due anni fa, quello della creazione di lobby istituzionali con le altre regioni europee produttive e influenzare le decisioni della Commissione su specifiche materie, si pensi all'automotive (l'assessore dal 1° gennaio 2025 diventerà presidente dell'Alleanza delle Regioni europee dell Automotive), oppure alla chimica (da due mesi è presidente dell'Associazioni delle Regioni europee sulla chimica). La speranza dei promotori dell'iniziativa è poter interloquire con una Commissione che si confronti con i territori produttivi, come appunto la Lombardia.La Lombardia è la prima regione industriale d'Europa superando concorrenti come i Lander tedeschi del Baden Wurttemberg e della Baviera. Unica regione italiana in grado di registrare un indice di competitività regionale sopra la media dell'Unione Europea, come gli Stati membri dell'Europa centrale e nordici. Raccoglie oltre un terzo del totale in valore delle partecipazioni estere sul suolo nazionale e sviluppa circa un quinto degli investimenti netti italiani fuori dai confini; oltre il 60% degli investitori stranieri in Italia e 92 dei 100 investitori più significativi, sono proprio in Lombardia. Ne parliamo con Guido Guidesi, Assessore allo Sviluppo economico.

Today we're going to learn why the German federal state of Baden-Wurttemberg passed a law on sustainable investing that blacklisted US Treasury Bonds as a portfolio holding. My SFP guest is Arnim Emrich, head of treasury in Baden-Wurttemberg. Emrich and his team manage 35Billion Euros of capital market debt and the state's 10Billion Euros sovereign fund for future pension obligations. They also launched the state's green bond programme in 2021 and Emrich has authored a law on sustainable investing defining a common standard for any state entity investing in stocks, bonds or other financial instruments.

-Garlic dip, Raclette, Schnitzel's, deep fried potato knodel's and German cuisine -The importance of learning German and getting educated through hockey -The 5'8" old man, the 6'4" sons and the hockey family that is the Heatley's -Bietigheim vs Munchen 2009 and having your coach leave before the finals -Trappist beer of Belgium and running a muck of the Besen restaurants of Baden-Wurttemberg

This week is a return from the Ninaverse of the last three weeks as we sit down to discuss important things like SillyBandz, Menstrual Cups, how to kidnap a portly German, and the largest corporate fraud of post-war Germany, the darling of the Baden Wurttemberg's economy: Flowtex, and the man behind the scandal known as the Sheik of Karlsruhe: Manfred Schmider. As far as I can tell this is the first podcast ever to tackle this issue in the English language, so join us on the cutting edge!

Die Themen im heutigen Versicherungsfunk Update sind: Wie sich das Geldvermögen der Deutschen entwickelt hat Das Geldvermögen der privaten Haushalte ist im vierten Quartal 2021 um 161 Milliarden Euro auf 7.618 Milliarden Euro gestiegen. Davon sind 39,4 Prozent Bargeld sowie Einlagen. Gleichzeitig stiegen die Verbindlichkeiten der privaten Haushalte um 22 Millionen Euro auf 2.043 Milliarden Euro, teilte die Deutsche Bundesbank mit. So wenige Fahrraddiebstähle wie noch nie Die Zahl der Fahrraddiebstähle ist im vergangenen Jahr auf ein Rekordtief gesunken. „Insgesamt wurden 125.000 versicherte Fahrräder gestohlen, rund 15.000 weniger als im Jahr zuvor“, so der Hauptgeschäftsführer des Gesamtverbandes der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft (GDV), Jörg Asmussen. Die Schadensumme blieb 2021 mit 110 Millionen Euro indes auf dem Niveau des Vorjahres. Der Schadendurchschnitt hat sich in den vergangenen zehn Jahren von 440 Euro auf 860 Euro fast verdoppelt – und liegt damit so hoch wie noch nie. >>> mehr dazu www.versicherungsbote.de/id/4905687/Gestohlene-Fahrrader-immer-teurer Inter mit neuer Unfall-Police Die neue Unfallversicherung der Inter ist seit 1. April abschließbar. Sie kommt in den Varianten Basis, Exklusiv und Premium. Hinzu kommen individuell kombinierbare Bausteine, die jeder Kunde nach seinen Bedürfnissen abschließen kann. Frauen ungeschützt vor Altersarmut 30 Prozent der deutschen Frauen wissen nicht, wie ihre finanzielle Situation zu Beginn des Ruhestandes aussehen wird. Beinahe jede dritte Frau in Deutschland gibt an, nicht über genügend finanzielle Möglichkeiten zu verfügen, um sich selbst vor Altersarmut zu schützen. Jede fünfte Befragte ist sich außerdem nicht sicher, ob sie überhaupt vor Altersarmut geschützt ist. Das ergab eine Yougov-Studie im Auftrag von Clark. Wefox beteiligt sich an Luca Im Rahmen einer Finanzierungsrunde haben die Betreiber der Luca-App 30 Millionen Euro eingesammelt. Zu den Risikokaptitalgebern gehört neben den Unternehmen Target Global, The Delta und embedded/capital auch das Insurtech Wefox. Deren Chef Julian Teicke soll auch in den Verwaltungsrat einziehen. Das berichtet "businessinsider.de". >>> mehr dazu www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/business/wefox-chef-steigt-bei-millionenrunde-in-luca-app-ein Baden-Württemberg plant pauschale Beihilfe für Beamte Das Bundesland Baden-Württemberg möchte seinen Beamten den Weg in die gesetzliche Krankenkasse ermöglichen. Dieses Ziel hat sich die Landesregierung bis zum Jahresende gesetzt. >>> mehr dazu www.versicherungsbote.de/id/4905698/Baden-Wurttemberg-will-Beamten-Zugang-zu-Krankenkassen-ermoglichen/

PaceUp Invest Helps Women to Create and Manage Wealth – Founded by a Woman90% of the clients of robo advisors in Germany are still men. This has not changed. The interfaces look all the same. They are not targeting women properly. Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment Don’t Miss Any Blog Post, Video, or Audio PodcastSubscribe to our newsletter on Substack here: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe The FounderRakuyyat Kalowole (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rukayyat-modupe-kolawole-cfa/) is originally from Nigeria but had already very interesting life. Since her regular visits to her grandmother, who was an active trader, she is fascinated with the fast pace of trading in capital markets. She studied at Georgetown University in the US, Tongji University in China, as well as Mannheim Business School in Germany. Being fascinated by capital markets all her life, it comes as no surprise, that she joined Goldman Sachs in London, as well as Bloomberg in Reuters in London as well. When she relocated to Germany, to study in Mannheim, she also set up a shop there with her hybrid Robo advisor for women. Affiliate LinksWhy not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to sharing their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. Recommended by: Bill Gates “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlBRecommended by: Jeff Bezos “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKeRecommended by: Elon Musk “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhwRecommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQRecommended by: Warren Buffet “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06Recommended by: Tim Cook “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYn On our platform there will be a lot of impact investing, so women can choose how they want to invest according to their values and needs. Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment The StartupPaceUp Investment (https://www.paceupinvest.com/) is a hybrid Robo advisor headquartered in Mannheim Germany. We have talked about Mannheim before, but a short wrap-up: It is the only city in Germany set up in squares. Mannheim is the first city in the world, where a car drove (Carl Benz lived close by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz) and the place where the world’s first electric elevator was installed here in 1880 (Werner von Siemens). Rakuyyat set up her company PaceUP here to help women build wealth with a hybrid approach, combining remote investment advice with a Robo advisor. PaceUp provides women the tools to understand the basics. Then they offer advisory and coaching, before investing with their Robo advisor. Full service with LicensePacUp will be able to offer its full service only after regulatory approval. They are currently looking at Q4 2021 or Q1 2022 to go live. PaceUp on Social MediaFacebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2399668980113869Instagram https://www.instagram.com/paceupinvest/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8788895/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3EIqAHmEF0dnPB-IAy6gPw Venture Capital FundingPaceUp is currently funded by an angel investment in combination with a government grant of the state of Baden Wurttemberg. They will start their next fundraising soon, looking at 900k €. When I got in a bank to get a mortgage to buy my first apartment, my bank advisor asked me “where is your husband”. … other women had similar experiences Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment Further Readings / Additional ResourcesCapital Markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_marketForex: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/forex.aspDerivatives: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/derivative.aspImpact investments: https://thegiin.org/impact-investing/need-to-know/ETFs: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/etf.aspBaFin: https://www.bafin.de/EN/Homepage/homepage_node.htmlFeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email Follow usInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Newsletter: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdqbDh2OXRiaW9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ Folge direkt herunterladen

This is the fintech track of Startuprad.io. Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fintech_germany Learn more about us at www.startuprad.io PaceUp Invest Helps Women to Create and Manage Wealth – Founded by a Woman90% of the clients of robo advisors in Germany are still men. This has not changed. The interfaces look all the same. They are not targeting women properly. Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment Don’t Miss Any Blog Post, Video, or Audio PodcastSubscribe to our newsletter on Substack here: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe The FounderRakuyyat Kalowole (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rukayyat-modupe-kolawole-cfa/) is originally from Nigeria but had already very interesting life. Since her regular visits to her grandmother, who was an active trader, she is fascinated with the fast pace of trading in capital markets. She studied at Georgetown University in the US, Tongji University in China, as well as Mannheim Business School in Germany. Being fascinated by capital markets all her life, it comes as no surprise, that she joined Goldman Sachs in London, as well as Bloomberg in Reuters in London as well. When she relocated to Germany, to study in Mannheim, she also set up a shop there with her hybrid Robo advisor for women. Affiliate LinksWhy not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to sharing their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. Recommended by: Bill Gates “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlBRecommended by: Jeff Bezos “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKeRecommended by: Elon Musk “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhwRecommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQRecommended by: Warren Buffet “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06Recommended by: Tim Cook “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYn On our platform there will be a lot of impact investing, so women can choose how they want to invest according to their values and needs. Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment The StartupPaceUp Investment (https://www.paceupinvest.com/) is a hybrid Robo advisor headquartered in Mannheim Germany. We have talked about Mannheim before, but a short wrap-up: It is the only city in Germany set up in squares. Mannheim is the first city in the world, where a car drove (Carl Benz lived close by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz) and the place where the world’s first electric elevator was installed here in 1880 (Werner von Siemens). Rakuyyat set up her company PaceUP here to help women build wealth with a hybrid approach, combining remote investment advice with a Robo advisor. PaceUp provides women the tools to understand the basics. Then they offer advisory and coaching, before investing with their Robo advisor. Full service with LicensePacUp will be able to offer its full service only after regulatory approval. They are currently looking at Q4 2021 or Q1 2022 to go live. PaceUp on Social MediaFacebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2399668980113869Instagram https://www.instagram.com/paceupinvest/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8788895/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3EIqAHmEF0dnPB-IAy6gPw Venture Capital FundingPaceUp is currently funded by an angel investment in combination with a government grant of the state of Baden Wurttemberg. They will start their next fundraising soon, looking at 900k €. When I got in a bank to get a mortgage to buy my first apartment, my bank advisor asked me “where is your husband”. … other women had similar experiences Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment Further Readings / Additional ResourcesCapital Markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_marketForex: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/forex.aspDerivatives: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/derivative.aspImpact investments: https://thegiin.org/impact-investing/need-to-know/ETFs: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/etf.aspBaFin: https://www.bafin.de/EN/Homepage/homepage_node.htmlFeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email Follow usInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Newsletter: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdqbDh2OXRiaW9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ

Jana Braumüller, a feminist, political thinker and women's rights campaigner within fashion talks with Beatrace. Sustainability and justice are at the heart of Fashion Changers, a digital content platform Jana co-founded. Petitioning for laws bringing radical transparency, along with workshops, events and a co-written book, are just some of the efforts Fashion Changers are helping to drive on a societal scale in Germany. A parallel journey many young designers and brands from Africa and the diaspora struggle with: diversity, sustainability and inclusivity - fair fashion. Hear the challenges from Jana & Beatrace's experience in collaborating and adjusting mindsets in the mainstream. ‘Fashion is a vehicle to improve certain things and empower people' (Jana).Contact us or send in a voice message telling us what you think: podcast@fashionafricanow.comFuture Fashion:The initiative is supported by the Future Fashion project - a joint project initiated by the Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ), of the state of Baden-Württemberg, which is committed to the conscious and sustainable textile and fashion consumption in Baden-Württemberg. "Future Fashion Made in Africa", an extension of Future Fashion, ​​serves networking, knowledge transfer, exposure, market access for textile startups from Germany and African countries and is intended to strengthen the sector of sustainable textiles and promote international exchange.The Fashion Africa Now podcast is brought to you by Future Fashion and produced by APYA Productions with financial support from the Ministry of State of Baden-Wurttemberg via the Baden-Wurttemberg Foundation for Development Cooperation (SEZ). This episode was created in association with Social Urban Nature. Fashion Africa Now podcast has the permission to use the music and the sounds created by Blackstereo music. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/FANpodcast)

For Elternseminar, getting help for families with migrant backgrounds is the right way to go in integrating the migrant population into mainstream society. Elternseminar is the Family Education Service of the Youth Welfare Office of Stuttgart, located at the capital of the region Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany. For years, it has been organised into a cross-cultural family education service to respond to the growing migrant population of the city. Elternseminar has placed more efforts in helping migrant families by providing services for the education of children but also to the development of women and mothers. For Peter Wahl, Headquarter Director of Elternseminar, his office’s integration task is to create opportunities for all inhabitants in all towns through education. By creating opportunities for everyone, Wahl believes that this creates an equal chance. The first thing that has to be done is to support good education for the inhabitants and to learn to live in diversity. One of the programs that work exclusively with mothers under the family education service of Elternseminar is called Rucksack, backpack in German. The education program for mothers who have children in kindergarten and is run by Nesrin Tyurksyoz who is the program coordinator. About European Initiatives For An Inclusive Society: The Oslo Desk was invited to contribute to a third study visit of the Family+ project in Oslo under a three-day conference between 11th and 13th March. The project aims to overcome the social exclusion of families through family education and empowerment activities, adapted to the needs of the disadvantaged and migrant families. Therefore the conference is part of exchanging knowledge and practices between Germany, Sweden and Norway. However, the conference was cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak and lockdown measures. In collaboration with Oslo VO Rosenhof, an adult learning centre, and funded by Erasmus plus programme of the European Union, are we able to produce a podcast season and series of articles. Podcast cover by Ka Man Mak and Kriti Thepade. Podcast production by Ka Man Mak and Alex Whateley. Text and Articles by Maria Cecelia Ingles Read articles: www.oslodesk.com

En el episodio de hoy estoy sola…. What?!... Sí, bueno Katt y Guillermo están en exámenes de tesis, cambiando visas… en fin no disponibles por el momento, así que para no dejarlos a la deriva tanto tiempo, me llegue de valor y les prepare un pequeño episodio. En este episodio les contare sobre la región metropolitana Rhein-Neckar. Seguro se preguntarán por qué de la nada este tema, pues porque lo acabo de descubrir y me pareció super curioso. Como les dije al comienzo del episodio, me encuentro en Mannheim por unos días. Es la primera vez que vengo y siendo mega sincera, no estaba 100% segura de donde quedaba la ciudad en el mapa. Mientras buscaba hoteles descubrí por la magia de Google-Maps que hay dos ciudades al lado de Mannheim. Pero cuando digo al lado, es como cerca… es enserio al lado. Mannheim junto con las ciudades Ludwigshafen y Heidelberg y con otros pueblos adyacentes forman lo que se llama la región metropolitana Rhein-Neckar. Esta zona está en el suroeste de Alemania creando un triángulo fronterizo entre los tres estados de Baden-Wurttemberg, Hesse (Hessen) y Renania-Palatinado (Rheinland-Pfalz). El área metropolitana tiene alrededor de 2,4 millones de habitantes y ha sido una de las regiones metropolitanas europeas desde 2005. El nombre se deriva de los dos ríos Rin y Neckar, que fluyen a través de la región. El Neckar desemboca en el Rin en Mannheim. Los asentamientos en los alrededores de la llanura del Rin y el transporte marítimo han contribuido a las estructuras culturales, sociales y económicas durante siglos. PARA DEJAR UN MESAJE DE VOZ, HAZ CLICK AQUÍ: https://anchor.fm/hablamosalemanol/message --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/hablamosalemanol/message

Die vielen Leben der Paula Fox (The Many Lives of Paula Fox) Villa Aurora presents German author Bernadette Conrad, who is in Los Angeles for her followship with the Villa, for an event discussing and signing her biography of American author Paula Fox. NOTE: The reading and signing will be in English, but the book is only available in German.  Skylight will have some copies of the German edition available for sale. Born in 1963, Bernadette Conrad studied German Philology, Romance Languages and Social Pedagogy, and pursued a career as a social worker with a focus on addiction therapy. Today, she is a freelance writer and journalist, whose publications are regularly featured in DIE ZEIT and Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Bernadette Conrad is the recipient of various grants and awards such as the 2010 Walliser Medienpreis and the 2012 Literary Fellowship of the State of Baden-Wurttemberg. Her publications include “Nomaden im Herzen” (Nomads at Heart, 2006), a collection of literary reports, and the biography “Die vielen Leben der Paula Fox” (The Many Lives of Paula Fox), published in 2011 to rave reviews. During her residency at Villa Aurora, Conrad will do extensive research for her new book, a work of fiction again examining the topic of nomadic existence. Set in Los Angeles and other parts of the U.S., it tells the story of a father who emigrates to the U.S. in the 1950s, but returns after discovering that all the demons he had hoped to leave behind are still with him. It is also the story of his daughter who feels compelled to follow her father's dream, and travels to New England but ultimately realizes that she has to follow her own path. THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS FEBRUARY 10, 2013.

Sossarnas nya ledare är inte bara känd för sin mustasch - han är också en omvittnad lustigkurre. Men hur bra funkar humor i politiken egentligen? /// I det tyska CDU-fästet Baden-Wurttemberg chockade Die Grünen omvärlden genom att ta makten. Sonja förklarar hur det kunde hända på koncisast möjliga sätt: Med en Haiku. /// Give me five! Parisa Amiri och Viktor Barth-Kron hjälper oss att kommentera nyhetsflödet med hjälp av bara fem ord. Om S-kongressen; USA:s utfadening i Libyen och om Olle och björnen.

Latest studies show, that not only worldwide, but also in Germany the prevalence of A. vasorum has increased in the dog population over the last years (Barutzki und Schaper, 2009; Hermosilla et al., 2009; Taubert et al., 2009). Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relevance of this lungworm in dogs in the state of Bavaria, Germany. Faecal samples of three consecutive days were examined for presence of A. vasorum larvae in a total of 276 dogs from Bavaria between April 2008 and April 2010 by the Baermann funnel technique. Of these 276 dogs, 160 showed clinical signs suspicious for canine angiostrongylosis. Of those 160 dogs, 90 showed respiratory disease, 47 had neurological signs, and 23 dogs had bleeding disorders. In addition, a control group of 116 clinically healthy dogs from Bavaria were coprologically examined for lungworm infections. A second aim of the study was to investigate clinical, laboratory, and radiological findings of A.-vasorum-positive dogs. Only one of the 276 examined dogs was tested positive for A. vasorum. This dog belonged to the group with respiratory signs. Thus, the prevalence for all 276 dogs was 0.36 %. The prevalence for the 160 dogs with suspicious clinical signs was 0.63 %, while 1.11 % of dogs in the respiratory group were A.-vasorum-positive. The A.-vasorum-infected dog was an eleven year old, female Labrador-Mix from the city of Munich. The dog was presented because of acute cough, retching, and anorexia. Laboratory findings were eosinophilia, thrombocytopenia, and hyperglobulinemia. Thoracic radiographs showed a mixed alveolar-interstitial lung pattern with diffuse micronodular opacities. The prevalences established in this study show that the risk of an infection with A. vasorum in dogs with suspicious clinical signs as well as in clinically healthy dogs in Bavaria can be considered low at the moment. However, recent studies have shown that the prevalence of A. vasorum has increased over the last years in Germany (Barutzki und Schaper, 2009; Hermosilla et al., 2009; Taubert et al., 2009), and high prevalences have been detected in the German states of Baden-Wurttemberg and Saarland (Barutzki und Schaper, 2009). Therefore, it cannot be excluded that the prevalence of A. vasorum in Bavaria and other German states might increase in the future. As a consequence, practicing veterinarians in Germany should be familiar with the various clinical signs associated with canine angiostrongylosis and should always consider an infection as a possible differential diagnosis in dogs with suspicious clinical signs.