A group of artists are protesting the development of a historic neighborhood in Hamburg. They've occupied buildings and held rallies. But instead of sending in the police, the city is now trying to meet their demands. The name Gaengeviertel literally means the neighborhood of passageways. And that's exactly what the Gaengeviertel in Hamburg once was, a dense district of narrow alleys. There's very little left of the old Gaengeviertel now. But just west of the showy Jungfernstieg waterfront boulevard, shoulder to shoulder with modern office and apartment buildings is a remnant of the neighborhood a bit like it once was. This group of twelve run-down buildings has stood mostly empty for years and the city was delighted when an investor willing to foot the bill for the development of the project was found. Dutch investment company Hanzevast drew up plans to tear down some of the original buildings, restore the facades of others, and develop a complex of high-end offices and apartment buildings. But what the city and Hanzevast had not realized is that new life had sprouted in the historic neighborhood.
The name Gaengeviertel literally means the neighborhood of passageways. And that's exactly what the Gaengeviertel in Hamburg once was, a dense district of narrow alleys.
There's very little left of the old Gaengeviertel now. But just west of the showy Jungfernstieg waterfront boulevard, shoulder to shoulder with modern office and apartment buildings is a remnant of the neighborhood a bit like it once was.
This group of twelve run-down buildings has stood mostly empty for years and the city was delighted when an investor willing to foot the bill for the development of the project was found.
Dutch investment company Hanzevast drew up plans to tear down some of the original buildings, restore the facades of others, and develop a complex of high-end offices and apartment buildings.
But what the city and Hanzevast had not realized is that new life had sprouted in the historic neighborhood.
IAN LYNCH SMITH, a shaggy-haired ball of energy in his late 30s, beams as he ticks off some of the games that Freeverse, his little Brooklyn software company, has landed on the iPhone App Store's coveted (and ever-changing) list of best-selling downloads: Moto Chaser, Flick Fishing, Flick Bowling and Skee-ball. Skee-ball, Mr. Smith says, took about two months to develop and deploy and then raked in $181,000 for Freeverse in one month. The company's latest bid for App Store fame? A game featuring a Jane Austen character in a lacy dress who karate-chops her way through hordes of advancing zombies.
IAN LYNCH SMITH, a shaggy-haired ball of energy in his late 30s, beams as he ticks off some of the games that Freeverse, his little Brooklyn software company, has landed on the iPhone App Store's coveted (and ever-changing) list of best-selling downloads: Moto Chaser, Flick Fishing, Flick Bowling and Skee-ball.
Skee-ball, Mr. Smith says, took about two months to develop and deploy and then raked in $181,000 for Freeverse in one month. The company's latest bid for App Store fame? A game featuring a Jane Austen character in a lacy dress who karate-chops her way through hordes of advancing zombies.
Women with breast cancer are five times more likely to undergo a mastectomy rather than have less invasive surgery in some parts of the country compared with others, research has shown. By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent and Sally Lewes Published: 9:30AM GMT 06 Dec 2009 Women with breast cancer are five times more likely to undergo a mastectomy rather than have less invasive surgery in some parts of the country compared with others Sufferers living in some parts of the North are far more likely to undergo the major operation, rather than having the "breast conserving" surgery more common elsewhere, according to NHS figures revealing a "postcode lottery" in cancer care. Statistics showing the ratio of mastectomies to less invasive procedures to treat breast cancer, show that Redcar and Cleveland, in the North East, is the place where patients were most likely to have at least one breast removed
By Laura Donnelly, Health Correspondent and Sally Lewes Published: 9:30AM GMT 06 Dec 2009 Women with breast cancer are five times more likely to undergo a mastectomy rather than have less invasive surgery in some parts of the country compared with others
Sufferers living in some parts of the North are far more likely to undergo the major operation, rather than having the "breast conserving" surgery more common elsewhere, according to NHS figures revealing a "postcode lottery" in cancer care.
Statistics showing the ratio of mastectomies to less invasive procedures to treat breast cancer, show that Redcar and Cleveland, in the North East, is the place where patients were most likely to have at least one breast removed
ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2009) -- Practice makes perfect. But imaginary practice? Elisa Tartaglia of the Laboratory of Psychophysics at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) and team show that perceptual learning -- learning by repeated exposure to a stimulus -- can occur by mental imagery as much as by the real thing. The results, published in Current Biology, suggest that thinking about something over and over again could actually be as good as doing it.
Everywhere in Europe, Father Christmas has a dark side alter ego. Whether he's dressed in black, covered in carbuncles or dressed as an old witch, he has one aim only - terrorising kids who have been bad all year. Cafebabel.com rounds up. "'And is that cane there by your side? 'The cane's there too,' I did reply. `But only for those, those naughty ones, Who have it applied to their backsides.'" This is how the Christ child in Theodor Storm's poem Knecht Ruprecht - "Farmhand" or "Servant" Ruprecht) quotes his eponymous Christmas helper, surely Europe's cruellest Christmas horror figure. According to late medieval tradition, it's not only St Nicholas who comes on 6 December to fill children's polished-up boots with gifts. No, he also has his buddy Ruprecht in tow, his negative alter ego, who is there to drum good behaviour into the little ones - with a good beating if necessary. Well, we wouldn't want them to turn into spoilt brats...
Everywhere in Europe, Father Christmas has a dark side alter ego. Whether he's dressed in black, covered in carbuncles or dressed as an old witch, he has one aim only - terrorising kids who have been bad all year. Cafebabel.com rounds up.
"'And is that cane there by your side?
'The cane's there too,' I did reply. `But only for those, those naughty ones, Who have it applied to their backsides.'"
This is how the Christ child in Theodor Storm's poem Knecht Ruprecht - "Farmhand" or "Servant" Ruprecht) quotes his eponymous Christmas helper, surely Europe's cruellest Christmas horror figure. According to late medieval tradition, it's not only St Nicholas who comes on 6 December to fill children's polished-up boots with gifts. No, he also has his buddy Ruprecht in tow, his negative alter ego, who is there to drum good behaviour into the little ones - with a good beating if necessary. Well, we wouldn't want them to turn into spoilt brats...
As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
