Chinese market leader CATL has already opened its first battery factory in Europe in 2023 The company is currently working on further scaling up production in Arnstadt Germany - and is looking for more staff to do so The ground-breaking ceremony on the former Solarworld site near Erfurt took place in October 2019. Around three years later, in December 2022, CATL produced the first battery cells at the Arnstadt plant The factory has officially been in operation since 2023 and the cells produced there are delivered to customers in Germany and Europe These include the VW Group for the first models on the Premium Platform Electric (PPE) – i.e which have battery cells from the Thuringian plant in their underbody CATL has now provided the German news agency DPA with an interim update “The plant is currently working at a high capacity to fulfil customer requirements,” said a company spokesperson in response to a DPA enquiry The ramp-up of the plant also depends on further market developments around 1,700 people are employed at the plant which is officially operated by Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia GmbH These include “specialists from China who are involved in the installation of technology and the ramp-up of the plant,” according to DPA they will gradually return to their home country CATL is thus looking for further specialists the aim is not only to find specialists; CATL also trains people in Arnstadt around 30 people are currently undergoing vocational training with “up to 30 more” trainees to be added this year CATL trains machine and plant operators for production CATL’s careers portal currently advertises 105 positions for the Arnstadt plant – from shift supervisor and product engineering to tax specialist and heating ventilation and air conditioning technician CATL is also looking for more specialists in Hungary: the recruitment wave for the second European factory in Debrecen is currently visible on the careers portal; the plant there is scheduled to go into operation in the second half of 2025 faz.net, catl-career.com I agree with the Privacy policy electrive has been following the development of electric mobility with journalistic passion and expertise since 2013 we offer comprehensive coverage of the highest quality — as a central platform for the rapid development of this technology Battery manufacturer CATL is looking for experts from Thuringia The Chinese battery manufacturer CATL in Arnstadt The plant is currently operating at a high level of capacity in order to meet customer requirements a company spokesman said in response to a dpa inquiry CATL operates one of the largest battery cell factories for electric cars in Europe in Thuringia Contemporary Amperex Technology Thuringia GmbH supplies various automobile manufacturers in Germany and Europe Additional specialists are currently being sought for the plant with the focus on employees from the region The battery manufacturer says it currently employs around 1,700 people Some of them are specialists from China who are involved in installing technology and starting up the factory Some of them will gradually return to China CATL is increasingly committed to vocational training at the plant in Thuringia’s large “Erfurter Kreuz” industrial park There are currently around 30 young people in training There are plans to add up to 30 more this year According to the Association of the Automotive Industry the production of electric cars increased again in Germany last year a total of almost 1.3 million electric cars were produced in Germany by the end of November 2024 – more than in the whole of 2023 According to earlier information from CATL up to 1.8 billion euros will be invested in the factory in the “Erfurter Kreuz” industrial estate near Arnstadt It is a new building complex approximately 500 meters long The company also maintains a logistics center near Erfurt and a second one is being built near Nohra between Erfurt and Weimar CATL says it is one of the largest producers of battery cells in the world Arnstadt is the company’s first plant outside of China READ the latest Batteries News shaping the battery market Battery manufacturer CATL is looking for experts from Thuringia, source U Power Limited (NASDAQ:UCAR) Partners with Sumitomo Mitsui to Deliver Southeast Asia’s First Battery-Swapping Taxi Fleet in Phuket PHUKET 2025 /PRNewswire/ — U Power Limited (Nasdaq:.. 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There are many holiday and convalescent homes in the city and vicinity Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker The first historian of the illustrious Bach family of musicians was Johann Sebastian Bach himself who took up family genealogy late in his life.  Sunday’s concert by the Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis revealed the musical riches to be found along just one branch of that family tree The concert was presented by Music Before 1800 at Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights and titled “Bach: The Arnstadt Connection.”  The town of Arnstadt is a good jumping-off point for thinking about J.S provoking the ire of his employers by grossly overstaying a four-week leave to visit the famous composer Dietrich Buxtehude in Lübeck daughter of his cousin Johann Michael Bach The Arnstadt Bachs extended back from Johann Michael and his brother Johann Christoph to their father Heinrich and beyond—and almost to a man Sunday’s program brought this genealogical chart to life in music conveying not only the highly individual personalities of the composers but the development of musical style through three generations of family and German history—along with a generous helping of pretty tunes The ensemble consisted of eleven singers—including the group’s founder and director Lionel Meunier who guided the singing with a gesture here and there—five string players and a robust basso continuo of organ and theorbo This was no strain-to-hear-it early music concert; vocal solos projected clearly with impeccable diction and at full strength the ensemble filled the Baroque-style church with superbly tuned sound The program began well upstream in the story with one of the few surviving works by granddaddy Heinrich Bach (1615-1692) Ich danke dir Gott was a little gem of a geistliches Konzert (sacred concerto beginning with a mellifluous instrumental sinfonia and proceeding to singing in euphonious thirds speech-like phrasing gave way to ornate vocal lines in close imitation while violins and violas conversed in the background the piece contained the seeds of much to come that Sunday afternoon der König freuet sich by Johann Michael Bach (1648-1694) used an expanded cantata form to set a psalm celebrating a king’s strength and piety Robust homophonic choruses alternated with picturesque solos including an elaborate melisma on the phrase “langes Leben” (long life) Johann Christoph Bach (1642-1703) composed the allegorical mini-drama Die Furcht des Herren for the installation of the town council—a happy civic occasion celebrated in mostly major keys but punctuated by urgent pleas from individual officials to Wisdom (soprano solo) for guidance judging from the dissonant harmonies and suspensions that loomed in the opening sinfonia Then it was time for the 400-kilometer walk to meet Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) and discover The gear-shifting rhythms and picturesque text-setting were still there but incorporated in a larger design: a wonderfully imaginative set of variations on the optimistic chorale tune Herzlich Lieb hab ich dich sung at the outset by sopranos in long notes over a busy string accompaniment The music began unfolding stanza by stanza but by the end Buxtehude was setting the text line by line Singers and players deftly navigated this treacherous terrain and there was a note of triumph in their gorgeous cadence on the final “Amen.” the slow opening sinfonia of Johann Christoph Bach’s Herr wende dich und sei mir gnädig resonated darkly with stabbing harmonic cross-relations in organ and low strings Three singers bemoaned their fates to the refrain “Der Grab ist da” (The grave is open) and the voice of God (bass solo) offered words of comfort and joy All these winding streams (Bäche) lead eventually to the master stream and so Sunday’s program closed with the Easter cantata J.S Bach composed shortly after his belated return to Arnstadt from Lübeck As vivid choruses alternated with arias and duets one could hear echoes of Buxtehude’s walking bass and racing strings but also Johann Christoph’s ornate passagework even Heinrich’s lines in imitation—all elevated by the unique imagination and spirit of their genius cousin the singers and players of Vox Luminis wove a rich tapestry of life and music in the German Baroque the ensemble performed another chorale cantata by Buxtehude beginning with just the instrumentalists onstage and each soloist or group entering when it was their turn to sing concluding all together with a sonorous “Amen.” Music Before 1800 presents Juilliard415, conducted by Laurence Cummings, in works by Heinichen, Fasch, Pisendel, Zelenka, and other Baroque composers of the Saxon court at Dresden, 4 p.m. Dec. 11 at Corpus Christi Church. mb1800.org XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong> Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value"  Subscribe via RSS The Ningde-based Chinese battery manufacturer CATL is strengthening its position in the European market by opening a new plant in Arnstadt CATL has more than 80,000 employees world-wide was established in Munich in 2014 and the technology unit It is Europe’s largest application-orientated research organisation BITC will assist CATL in both destructive and non-destructive testing to study how batteries change their properties during their life cycle Part of the Arnstadt plant was completed last autumn The first batch of lithium-ion batteries was produced there during December 2022 Serial production is being ramped up during 2023 The total number of employees will exceed 2,000 At full capacity the factory will produce 30 million battery cells annually enough for 350,000 EVs with a 40 kWh battery CATL will invest €1.8 billion ($1.1 billion) into the production facilities This will be a sister unit to a plant in Debrecen in Hungary where CATL will produce cylindrical batteries similar to Tesla’s recent industrial standard for the new generation of EV cars The Sino-German cooperation has mighty figures was invited to join China’s prime minister Li Qiang during his visit in Germany in June 2023 The visit was a step towards deeper co-operation with leading German and French car makers and to lift the ambitions of CATL to advance the electrification of European public transport CATL holds a 30% market share of e-bus batteries in Europe All the latest on Batteries & Energy Storage Technology a major investor in the Turkish renewable energy sector has signed an agreement for British engineering company Rolls-Royce to supply a 132MWh LFP battery energy storage system (BESS).. Find a wealth of information on the energy storage and battery industries with BEST Magazine From all the latest news to in-depth technical articles we have everything you need in print and online All the latest news and articles on Batteries & Energy Storage Technology Copyright 2025 © Energy Storage Publishing Ltd N3 repairs five variants of Rolls-Royce Trent engines at its Arnstadt facility a specialist in Rolls-Royce engine maintenance is targeting the overhaul of nearly 200 engines next year and plans to expand capacity at its facility in Germany over the next two years to facilitate future ramp-ups The Lufthansa Technik and Rolls-Royce joint venture plans to invest €150 million ($167.3 million) at the Arnstadt site located in the Thuringia region in central Germany N3 says the project aims to further establish it as an important European location in the global maintenance network for Rolls-Royce aircraft engines while creating hundreds of new jobs N3 will ramp up capacity to accommodate larger overhaul volumes It has overhauled 160 engines this year and plans to increase to nearly 200 overhauls next year after which it expects to ramp up to 250 overhauls annually Construction work is set to begin in early 2024 with the expansion of the cleaning line for engine components and the extension of the building's factory hall area It will start construction on a new logistics campus with a warehouse and delivery center in the third quarter of 2024 N3 also plans to expand the canteen area while remodeling the site’s office area “Our business picked up speed again very quickly in 2022 after the coronavirus years we flipped the switch from crisis to growth,” says N3 Managing Director Carsten Behrens “N3 has enormous growth potential because the demand for engine overhauls in the Rolls-Royce network is huge for the coming decades.” N3’s workforce at Arnstadt will increase from 900-1,200 people over the next two years "We will fill another 300 positions—through in-house training qualifications and direct entry," adds Stefan Landes commercial director responsible for human resources at N3 N3 services five Trent engine types at the facility, including the Trent 500, Trent 700, Trent 900 and Trent XWB variants and, since the end of last year, Trent 1000 TEN engine types James Pozzi covers the latest industry news from the European region and beyond He also writes in-depth features on the commercial aftermarket for Inside MRO insight and analysis from our award-winning editors delivered to your inbox daily Copyright © 2020-2023 Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited. 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You can find more information on the individual external services in our privacy policy Johann Sebastian Bach’s genius has shaped music From Baroque brilliance to timeless masterpieces but an ocean!) – opinion of Johann Sebastian Bach and pun by Ludwig van Beethoven Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach producing 3,000 pieces — though “only” about 1,000 survive Bach was a composer of the late Baroque style music was developing into the new classical style when music lovers referred to “Bach,” they meant Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach the second surviving son of his 20 children (prolific in more ways than one!) Since Felix Mendelssohn’s 1829 Bach revival Bach has consistently been considered one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music singer and composer for various Protestant churches in Germany He also worked many years at the courts in Weimar who was his main music teacher after their late father though forbidden to do so since paper was expensive he was appointed court musician in the chapel of Duke Johann Ernst III in Weimar his reputation as a great keyboardist spread so widely that he was invited to give the first recital at the New Church (now Bach Church) in nearby Arnstadt a relatively generous salary and a world-class pipe organ Bach asked for leave from his Arnstadt job for a trip of “four weeks” that became four months He walked 450 kilometers (280 miles) each way to the northern city of Lübeck to hear the last concerts of composer-organist Dieterich Buxtehude Bach learned to master the hallmark of his most famous compositions — the complex fugue form of exquisite interwoven melodies Johann Sebastian took a new music job — without informing his current employer He had also complained that the musicians he was working with were not up to snuff One whom he ridiculed physically attacked him The rest of his life contained one success after another due to his genius There are actually no words to describe Bach’s sublime music the Halloween-haunting Toccata and Fugue in D minor Barry Barnett is a political and environmental author and activist CATL has started series production of battery cells in Germany as planned the first batch of battery cells ran under series conditions from the newly installed production line in building G2 CATL announced the start of cell series production in its first plant outside China for the second half of 2022 the company has now made an official announcement While the first batch of cells at the Arnstadt site has now been manufactured in the 360,000-square-metre building G2 the Chinese manufacturer had already started producing battery modules in the neighbouring 210,000-square-metre building G1 in the third quarter of 2021 CATL also reports that the installation and commissioning of the remaining lines is underway. The group is aiming for an initial capacity of 8 GWh per year This was approved by the state of Thuringia for the site in April With a total investment of up to 1.8 billion euros CATL plans to reach a production capacity of 14 GWh “in the future” and create a total of up to 2,000 new jobs in Germany “The production kickoff proves that we kept our promise to our customers as a reliable partner of the industry and we stay committed to Europe’s e-mobility transition even under very challenging conditions like the pandemic,” expressed Matthias Zentgraf “We are working hard to ramp up production to full capacity which is our top priority for the coming year.” The groundbreaking ceremony took place back in October 2019 with the completion of the first phase of construction announced at the time for early 2022 500 people from the region around Erfurt are said to have been employed by CATL there are several hundred specialists from China who are supporting the installation of the production facilities and the start-up phase of manufacturing prnewswire.com The 38th edition of the famous Arnstadt high jump meeting in Germany was arguably the best ever with the Russian pair of Ivan Ukhov and Aleksey Dmitrik both going over a meeting record of 2.40m on Saturday (8) the winner three times in Arnstadt from 2009-2011 went over on his second attempt to add four centimetres to his indoor and outdoor best Dmitrik then unsuccessfully had three times at a Russian record 2.42m – never before has a jumper jumped as high as 2.40m but had to settle for second place – while the London 2012 Olympic Games champion passed at that height and attempted a world indoor record height of 2.44m his second and third attempts being particularly close Russian jumpers have now won in Arnstadt for the past 10 years and it was an all-Russian men’s podium this year as Lev Missirov went over a personal best of 2.33m He finished ahead of The Bahamas’ former world champion Donald Thomas who equalled his indoor best of 2.33m while Marco Fassinotti equalled the Italian indoor record by also going over 2.33m but earlier failures meant he only placed fifth in the astonishingly high quality competition There was also an excellent women’s competition before the capacity crowd of 1300 spectators Kamila Licwinko (nee Stepaniuk) firstly added one centimetre to her Polish indoor record set last month in Cottbus when she went over 1.97m with her first attempt She then cleared 2.00m with her third attempt Germany’s Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch added a centimetre to her best when she went over 1.97m Equal third were Uzbekistan’s Nadezhda Dusanova and Sweden’s Emma Green Tregaro while Spain’s Ruth Beitia and Russia’s Irina Gordeyeva were equal fifth There was good high jumping at the British Indoor Championships as well with heptathlon talent Katarina Johnson-Thompson setting an absolute British high jump record of 1.96m in Sheffield on Saturday "I had no idea that high jump was in me," said Johnson-Thompson "I've been working a lot mentally with the high jump because I always feel like I've got a big jump in me." who was also the 2012 IAAF World Junior Championships long jump gold medallist cleared the record height with her third attempt and shattered her previous best of 1.89m having earlier cleared 1.90m and then 1.92m Pole vaulter Holly Bleasdale cleared a world-leading 4.73m and then had the bar raised to 4.81m On one of her attempts it looked like she had cleared that height as the bar wobbled but stayed on the uprights for several seconds but it eventually dropped after the long delay Moscow 100m finalist James Dasaolu recovered from an awful start to power his way to the UK 60m title in 6.50 equalling his season's best from last month and just 0.01 away from the world lead Cuban triple jumpers were in fine form outdoors in Havana as the 2013 IAAF World Championships silver medallist Pedro Pablo Pichardo improved by his best by seven centimetres to 17.76m just nine centimetres short of Yoelbi Quesada’s national record of 17.85m which was set when he won at the 1997 IAAF World Championships Enesto Reve also set a life-time best of 17.58m Both men have been selected for the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Sopot Yarisley Silva cleared 4.60m in the pole vault and Yarianna Martinez won the women’s triple jump with 14.36m Russia’s Aleksandra Butvina came out on top in the pentathlon at the Indoor Combined Events International meeting in Tallinn with 4549 points 19 points ahead of Poland's Karolina Tyminska who was second with 4530 points the second and third highest tallies of the winter It puts the pair in a good position to be invited to contest the event at the IAAF World Indoor Championships next month In addition to the 2013 IAAF Combined Events Challenge winner and the top three athletes who accept invitations from the 2013 heptathlon list invitations will be extended to the top three from the 2014 indoor lists at 17 February and one other athlete will be invited at the discretion of the IAAF Latvia’s Laura Ikauniece improved her best to 4496 points for third place in the Estonian capital Brazil’s Carlos Chinin won the heptathlon with 5951 points and equalled the South American record of Chile’s Gonzalo Barroilhet from 2008 US favourite and two-time World Championships decathlon winner Trey Hardee won the pole vault with 5.14m and led going into the final event but knew that he was going to be some way adrift of his personal best of 6208 points and did not contest the 1000m The New Mexico Classic indoor meeting in Albuquerque on Friday night (7) saw long jumper Tyron Stewart improve his absolute personal best to 8.16m Dee Dee Trotter won the 400m on the first day of Frank Sevigne Invitational in Lincoln Ukhov back to his best with 2.38m world lead .. Kajsa Bergqvist set a world indoor record of 2.08m* in the high jump today (4) at the International High Jump meeting in Arnstadt the reigning world champion and two-time world indoor champion added one centimetre to the previous mark set by Heike Henkel on 8 February 1992 I am overwhelmed with joy," Bergqvist said "I had a feeling that something special could happen today I felt great and I'd been training very well." Bergqvist cleared the record height on her first attempt with Henkel watching from the stands Bergqvist will be now looking to add another indoor title to the title she won last August in Helsinki missed the 2004 Olympic Games when she tore her achilles tendon just a month before the Athens Games Yaroslav Rybakov of Russia won the men's competition at the meeting by clearing a world-leading 2.37m *Subject to the usual ratification procedures Volume 9 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02120 Despite the important role of wood-inhabiting fungi (WIF) in deadwood decomposition our knowledge of the factors shaping the dynamics of their species richness and community composition is scarce This is due to limitations regarding the resolution of classical methods used for characterizing WIF communities and to a lack of well-replicated long-term experiments with sufficient numbers of tree species we used a large scale experiment with logs of 11 tree species at an early stage of decomposition distributed across three regions of Germany to identify the factors shaping WIF community composition and Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) richness using next generation sequencing We found that tree species identity was the most significant factor corresponding to (P < 0.001) and explaining 10% (representing 48% of the explainable variance) of the overall WIF community composition The next important group of variables were wood-physicochemical properties of which wood pH was the only factor that consistently corresponded to WIF community composition we found that approximately 20% of the total variance was explained by wood N content It is noteworthy that the importance of determinants of WIF community composition and richness appeared to depend greatly on tree species group (broadleaved vs coniferous) and it differed between the fungal phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota experiments combining high diversities of deadwood species and starting with homogenous log material are still needed we extend and deepen the study of WIF using our experimental set-up with 11 log species and relate the molecular WIF community data to metadata on wood-physicochemical properties (density C:N and pH) and geographical locations of the logs The aims were: (i) to determine and quantify the respective contributions of biotic and abiotic factors such as tree species identity forest management type and geographical locations on the WIF community composition and richness (α-diversity); (ii) to disentangle differences in the responses between the two main tree species groups (broadleaved and coniferous trees); and (iii) to unravel differences in WIF community composition and richness patterns between Ascomycota and Basidiomycota Based on the limited number of studies on factors affecting WIF community composition and diversity that used between one and three tree species (Rajala et al., 2012; Baldrian et al., 2016; Hoppe et al., 2016; Purahong et al., 2016a, 2017) and our previous results (Purahong et al., 2018b) macronutrients and forest management type are the most important factors to explain the variance in overall WIF community composition and richness; (ii) different factors significantly correspond to overall WIF community composition and richness in broadleaved and coniferous trees; and (iii) different factors are responsible for variation in Ascomycota and Basidiomycota WIF community composition and richness considered only these 11 species in this research (11 tree species; one log/species/site × 3 forest management types; Norway spruce age-class forest European beech age-class forest and unmanaged beech forest × 3 locations; Schorfheide-Chorin region Hainich-Dün region and Schwäbische Alb regions × 3 replicates = 297 logs in total) Products from three PCR replicates were then pooled in equimolar amounts and processed as according to Roche 454 protocols (454 Life Sciences each wood sample was oven-dried and used to determine water content The concentrations of C and N in wood samples were measured by total combustion using a Truspec elemental analyser (Leco Wood pH was measured for each sample in an aqueous extract (water) of a 0.5 g homogenised wood sample Wood physicochemical properties of deadwood logs decomposing for 3 years across 11 tree species (green = broadleaved tree species and red = coniferous tree species) in 27 forest plots (mean ± SE The maximum and minimum values are represented by the orange and blue dotted lines Goodness-of-fit statistics (R2) for environmental and wood physicochemical factors fitted to the three dimensional non-metric multidimensional scaling (3D-NMDS) ordination of wood-inhabiting fungal community composition (∗P < 0.05 Stepwise multiple regression analyses on wood-inhabiting fungal OTU richness as a function of eight independent variables (tree species wood physicochemical properties and space) The wood-physicochemical properties after 3 years of decomposition changed as compared with the initial wood-physicochemical properties (Supplementary Figure S1) Wood density in deadwood logs of all species except Pseudotsuga decreased by 11 – 24% Total C slightly increased by 3 – 8% three patterns were observed: N accumulation (increase decidua) and no accumulation/mineralization (stable N mineralization was clearly observed only in the two deadwood species with lowest initial C: N ratios [C sylvestris decreased greatly (15.2 – 50%) while those of C abies increased markedly by 17.1–273% The pH values of deadwood samples of most tree species changed substantially except Pinus and Larix Location (Exploratories and coordinates) significantly corresponded (P < 0.001) and explained the overall WIF community composition however the goodness-of-fit statistics was low Variation partitioning analysis for evaluating the most important factors explaining the variations in wood-inhabiting fungal community composition (A,D,G = all fungi Factors explaining WIF OTU richness and community composition in Ascomycota and Basidiomycota differed between broadleaved and coniferous trees Factors explaining the community composition of Ascomycota and Basidiomycota in broadleaved and coniferous tree species were also different (Figure 2) the Ascomycetous WIF community composition was mainly explained by tree species identity (8%) tree species identities and wood-physicochemical properties both explained the majority of variance in WIF community composition (4 – 13%) the Ascomycetous WIF community composition was explained only to a small extent (1%) by wood-physicochemical properties and interactions between tree species identity and wood-physicochemical properties wood-physicochemical properties explained the majority of variance in WIF community composition (7%) Tree species identities and the interaction between wood-physicochemical properties and location did not explain any variation in Ascomycetous community composition but these factors were significant for Basidiomycota (explaining 2 – 5%) our work provides important and novel insights into the factors that explain the distribution and richness patterns of WIF in temperate forests In this work, we successfully quantified the relative contributions of different factors on WIF community composition at the end of the first 3 years of decomposition. Tree species and physicochemical wood properties (i.e., pH and N) are known to correlate significantly, thus it is very difficult, or perhaps impossible, to quantify the relative importance of each of these factors on WIF community composition (Baldrian et al., 2016) We applied variation partitioning analysis to evaluate the most important factors explaining variations in WIF community composition This enabled us not only to compare the relative contribution of each factor but also their combined effects we noticed that the combined effect of tree species and physicochemical wood properties explained substantial proportions of WIF community composition (3% of all variances which accounts for 14% of explainable variances) significantly corresponded to and explained notable proportions of the total WIF community composition and richness when considering all tree species the responses of WIF to factors varied greatly when the analyses were carried out separately for all species or only broadleaved or only coniferous trees or when analyzing the two main fungal phyla The forest management types within this experiment consist of unmanaged mixed forests as well as managed even-aged forests of European beech and conifers Thus it can be considered that in each region WIF are homogeneously dispersed between plots of all management types This observation suggests that maintaining different management types with different tree species compositions may be a good strategy to conserve WIF diversity in European temperate forests that display relatively low tree species diversity higher concentrations of C in wood do not indicate a higher availability of C to microbes The overall architecture of tree family–fungal associations illustrates how wood-inhabiting fungal OTUs that show preferences for particular tree species (detected in no more than two tree species in total 617 OTUs) were distributed within a web of wood-inhabiting fungi Different node shapes represent different organismic groups: square nodes = plant families (number of tree species in each family is shown in the middle of each node) and circular nodes = fungi (yellow nodes = fungal OTUs associated with Pinaceae and white nodes = fungal OTUs associated only with broadleaved tree families; the numbers of fungal OTUs associated with each family and tree species are shown in brackets) the nutrient requirements for growth and enzyme production between Ascomycota and Basidiomycota may differ greatly in this study we were able to determine some important factors and quantify their respective contributions in shaping WIF community composition and richness We conclude that (i) tree species identity is the most significant factor corresponding with the overall WIF community composition (ii) wood pH is the only wood-physicochemical properties that consistently corresponded to WIF community composition (iii) overall WIF richness patterns (∼20% of the total variance) are explained by wood N content tree species identity and wood density and (iv) the importance of determinants of WIF community composition and richness appeared to depend greatly on tree species group (broadleaved vs coniferous) and the fungal phyla (Ascomycota vs The results of this study relate only to the initial phase of wood decomposition (3 years) during which Ascomycota display higher OTU richness than Basidiomycota We can speculate that during later stages of decomposition during which availability of resources declines and Basidiomycota tend to dominate due to their stronger wood decaying potential the contribution of factors that shape WIF community composition and species richness may change significantly Field work permits were issued by the responsible environmental offices of Brandenburg Baden-Württemberg and the Free State of Thuringia (according to §72 BbgNatSchG) Datasets are in a publicly accessible repository: The datasets analyzed for this study can be found in the European Nucleotide Archive under the study number PRJEB21052 (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/data/view/PRJEB21052) and WP conceived and designed the experiments WP and KJ performed the laboratory experiments and JB commented and revised the manuscript All authors have seen and approved the manuscript being submitted The work has been (partly) funded by the DFG Priority Program 1374 ‘Infrastructure-Biodiversity-Exploratories’ (KR 3587/1-1 The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest We thank the managers of the three Exploratories – Kirsten Reichelb – Jung and Martin Gorke for their work in maintaining the plot and project infrastructure; 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By using our site you consent to the use of cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy 171 young people are now starting either traditional or dual-study training programs with the Lufthansa Technik Group, fourteen more than in 2015. The selection process for 2017 is also already under way at www.be-lufthansa.com/technik Lufthansa Technik in Germany will now be home to 575 young people on their way to professions in technical aircraft services or aircraft logistics 90 of the new trainees are beginning programs in Hamburg Applicants were able to choose between 16 different professions and courses of study The range of programs for electronics technicians has been expanded substantially In addition to aircraft electronics specializing in working on aircraft for which 36 new training places are available twelve trainees will commence a new apprenticeship trade as “Electronics Technician for Devices and Systems” for the first time for deployment in the specialized workshops Three of the overall 18 tool mechanics starting out in Hamburg are deaf trainees Lufthansa Technik is thus continuing a project that has been successfully ongoing since 2000 as part of the normal training and subsequent workshop deployment 128 young people will begin their training directly at Lufthansa Technik AG and another eight will be starting at Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey the very successful Lufthansa Technik Group company that specializes in overhauling smaller jet and turboprop engines Lufthansa Engineering and Operational Services (LEOS) will be home to one trainee destined to become an automotive mechatronics technician Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services (LTLS) will have 20 new trainees in the future-oriented specialty of warehouse logistics this is one of the major training operations in the Lufthansa Technik Group a 50:50 joint venture with Rolls-Royce headquartered in Arnstadt in Thuringia filled a total of twelve training slots for aircraft mechanics with a specialty in engine technology The company will now train two warehouse logistics specialists for the first time Arnstadt has also further consolidated its position as a training location in the Group with its 54 trainees The percentage of women among the new trainees in the current training year at just under eight percent is significantly down on previous years Lufthansa Technik cannot see any reasons for this development There are indications of a turnaround for 2017 based on the current applications received The increased efforts by the company over recent years to interest women in technically-oriented future professions will be fully maintained The sites and training professions: Hamburg: 90 trainees and dual-program trainees are joining the program in Hamburg this year Most of the slots here go to young people who will become aircraft mechanics with specialties in repair technology (12) manufacturing technology (6) and aircraft electronics (12) as well as the new apprenticeship trade as electronics technician for devices and systems (12) this year eighteen people will begin their training as tool mechanics eight as warehouse logistics specialists (Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services LTLS) and two as surface coating technicians there are new trainees in Hamburg for the following degree-based professions: three practice-oriented aircraft engineers (Bachelor of Engineering) one practice-oriented electrical engineer (Bachelor of Science) two mechanical engineers (Bachelor of Science) and two students of mechatronics The degree coursework for these programs takes place at the University of Applied Sciences some 55 traditional and dual-study trainees will be starting this year: eighteen aircraft mechanics specializing in repair technology twenty four specializing in aircraft electronics and nine destined to become warehouse logistics specialists (LTLS) Four trainees are commencing a dual-study program in aviation system engineering and management for maintenance engineers in cooperation with the Bremen University of Applied Sciences Arnstadt: Twelve aircraft mechanic trainees with a specialty in engine technology will strengthen N3 Engine Overhaul Services’ work force The company will also offer training as a warehouse logistics specialist for the first time with two slots initially Alzey: Five aircraft mechanic trainees with a specialty in engine technology and one machinist in milling technology will be trained at Lufthansa Technik AERO Alzey Two additional dual-study places have now been filled on the Bachelor of Engineering in cooperation with the University of Kaiserslautern following the launch in 2015 Munich: Three people will begin training at Lufthansa Technik Logistik Services as warehouse logistics specialists and one at LEOS as an automotive mechatronics technician Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov is part of a 37-strong Russian team heading to Sopot next month for the IAAF World Indoor Championships on 7-9 March After taking world indoor bronze in Istanbul two years ago Ukhov will be looking to regain the title he won in 2010 leaping a world-leading 2.41m in Chelyabinsk last month followed three weeks later with a 2.40m victory in Arnstadt But European indoor champion Aleksey Dmitrik did not gain selection after finishing fourth at the Russian Indoor Championships the second place on the team went to the up-and-coming Daniil Tsyplakov who set a PB of 2.34m to qualify for the team World champion Aleksandr Menkov is named in the long jump Svetlana Biryukova and Yekaterina Koneva lead the way in the high jump Medal hopes in the track events are carried by world-leading 400m runner Kseniya Ryzhova and European sprint hurdles champion Sergey Shubenkov MEN400m: Lev Mosin800m: Stepan Poistogov60m hurdles: Konstantin Shabanov Sergey ShubenkovHigh jump: Daniil Tsyplakov Ivan UkhovLong jump: Aleksandr MenkovShot: Aleksandr Lesnoy WOMEN400m: Kseniya Ryzhova800m: Yekaterina Kupina Anna Shchagina1500m: Svetlana Karamasheva3000m: Natalya Aristarkhova Yelena Korobkina60m hurdles: Yekaterina Galitskaya Yuliya KondakovaHigh jump: Irina Gordeyeva Maria KuchinaPole vault: Anastasiya Savchenko Anzhelika SidorovaLong jump: Svetlana Biryukova Darya KlishinaTriple jump: Yekaterina Koneva Britain to send 35 athletes to Sopot – IAAF W.. Kuchina continues winning streak at Russian I.. the joint venture between Lufthansa Technik AG and Rolls-Royce plc for the maintenance and repair of aircraft engines celebrated its 10-year operating anniversary with a ceremony the Rolls-Royce Trent engines have been overhauled at the facility at Arnstadt the world's most efficient civil large engine flying today and the powerplant for the A350 XWB The company initially began operations in 2007 with 270 employees 350 of which were able to pass the aeronautical qualification programme designed specifically for the company There are currently more than 40 international airlines among the customers serviced by N3 on behalf of Rolls-Royce N3 has overhauled more than 800 engines from the Trent 500 (A340) Trent 700 (A330) and Trent 900 (A380) model ranges output will increase from the current 100 engines per year to 150 - 200 engines per year in the coming years N3 Engine Overhaul Services: "N3 has developed from the newcomer in the industry to one of the leading companies in the servicing of Rolls-Royce Trent engines excellent quality and outstandingly trained workforce." Stern further praised the excellent location conditions in Thuringia:"The central location in Germany and Europe the excellent infrastructure and the specialists were and still are important factors for the successful development of the company."On behalf of federal and regional government Head of the Department of Industrial Policy at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy and Wolfgang Tiefensee honoured the commitment of the parent companies in the Free State and the productivity of the model company Head of Department Dr Scheremet: "N3 is a real success story and represents an investment in the future of the German Site for Industry and Advanced Technology Thuringia - like the whole of Germany - is a great place for investments and innovation I hope that the success of N3 will set a precedent and inspire others to emulate it as they continue to add value and bring job opportunities to new locations across Germany."Thuringia's Minister of Economy Science and Digital Society Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee took part in the opening of the site in 2007 when he was the Federal Minister for Transport He praised N3 as one of the region's most fruitful investments: "All the best on the company's 10th birthday allowing it to transcend the borders of Thuringia N3 has expanded to a stable size and developed into a reliable and important part of Thuringia's economy high levels of efficiency and the most modern equipment the site has been able to broaden its client base and thereby more than double the number of its employees The site is renowned not least for its strength in the training of aircraft mechanics which allows it to cover the demand for specialist workers I am confident that N3 will continue its outstanding development in the future."For the parent companies the joint enterprise formed the beginning of a strategic partnership in the field of engine servicing Rolls-Royce and Lufthansa Technik have set a new benchmark for international cooperation in engine MRO We are proud of having been able to offer the best quality in the overhaul of Trent engines for the past ten years With the expanded capacity for the new Trent XWB engine type the company is well equipped for the future."Eric Schulz said: "We are proud to have worked with Lufthansa Technik to establish N3 as a leading overhaul facility for Rolls-Royce engines in Europe Their consistently high standards and dependable turn around times play a critical role in making it easier for our customers to plan their own operations it also plays a role in the broader Rolls-Royce CareNetwork competing with other shops to repair Trent components that will be fitted to engines being overhauled elsewhere in the network."Soon every seventh engine specialist from own trainingIn the future the company expects a moderate increase in employment By continually training aircraft mechanics in the field of engine technology N3 is able to secure its need for specialists largely by itself N3 has trained approximately 12 aircraft mechanics in the field of engine technology every year 54 young men and women have finished their training and found permanent positions at N3 There are currently another 40 young men and women undertaking training at N3 a cohort of future warehouse logistics specialists began Servicing and component repair "best in class"Thuringians are leaders in the use of vertical building techniques which enable precise and non-destructive disassembly and assembly of engine modules With the help of electronic and mechanic lifting platforms mechanics work on all four types of engine efficiently and ergonomically the engine test station in Arnstadt is one of the most advanced and powerful facilities in the world Over the years of repairing engine assemblies / components N3 qualified for a range of special repairs (source-controlled repairs) that are authorised and controlled directly by Rolls-Royce An in-house engineering division allows for continuous improvement and sustainable further development of the processes and the introduction of new and innovative repair technologies N3 also developed some solutions and established them asbest practices in the Rolls-Royce network Arts It was in his organ loft at Arnstadt that I began my acquaintance with Johann Sebastian Bach — with JSB After the great walk of his in 1705 that we would follow and after his return trek in February 1706 he would be caught at it in that organ loft with a ‘mysterious’ woman who may or may not have been she who became his wife Already a subscriber? 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This is the capital of the Thuringia region This region of Germany has a great history of culture; everywhere you go you will come across Johan Sebastian Bach Schiller and so many more great literary and music master figures It used to take over 4 hours by train from Frankfurt to Erfurt, today, with their high speed trains and new lines (put us to shame, we are so far behind) it takes just over 2 hours. From Erfurt’s smart, bright modern station a local train will take you to Arnstadt in 22 minutes the main one has the bus station outside it (of course – again put us to shame) but continue to the “Sud” station which is nearer to the town centre Coming out of the station the first thing that caught my eye was a red brick wall that is a monument to the Holocaust every town I went to had at least one monument to this dark time in human history of one of the old town wall towers that stood there for centuries Arnstadt was an important town centuries ago and the other still guards one entrance to the town square The first recorded mention of Arnstadt is in 704 and it is the oldest town in all Thuringia It has been inhabited at least since 4,000 BC from Erfurt to Nuremberg came through here and the travellers would need to change horses on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostella in Spain The town square (which is anything but square!) has ancient inns and houses all round it plain (as you would expect post Reformation) with two tiers of seating in a “U” shape facing the pulpit it has had to be rebuilt and repaired over the years Then we climbed up to the old organ – and what a difference with a depth and volume that made you tingle Jürg played some music that Bach had composed while he was there Then he played some that Bach composed later after he had been exposed to other teachers and musicians Jürg really is a master of that ancient organ The original keyboard is in the town museum He played a piece that he made up on the spot and also suddenly played a Nightingale singing We plunged into the back of the massive organ and he showed me the small metal bath with three different small pipes in it The pipes play into the water in the bath and this gives the trilling of the Nightingale He also brought out an original pipe from Bach’s time – from the time of construction of the organ It was a great privilege to have this private concert and to actually go into the actual organ Because of the strong links with Bach (many of the extended family of Bach lived here as well) there are frequent concerts continuing their tradition of beer making that goes back 600 years It is the oldest wheat beer brewery in Germany The tourist office organise walking tours at 11 a.m There is so much to discover that you really need such a guide There is the Rathaus (town hall) which is ornate and lovely the Church of Our Lady that dates from 1220 This started out around 1246 as a Franciscan monastery The Reformation resulted in them having to go in 1538 Inside it is the most Catholic of Protestant churches There are massive ornate altars; the baptismal font is huge had glass window encased cabins built above the ordinary benches One special grave stone was awaiting renovation many figures and images that give a whole story Continuing, there is the Schlossmuseum Across the road is a building that was a convent The nuns had this building where there were springs Then there is the Theatre in the Palace Gardens and just about every building within the circle of the old walls is worth a look at and many will have blue plaques on them to say that some member of the Bach family lived there at some time There is also a very attractive monument to Eugenie John My only disappointment was that when I was leaving and then set off again running past a railway museum wagons and locomotives awaiting renovation – they didn’t tell me about this Yet another attraction of the town – I shall definitely have to go back there SchließenSucheAutokatalogTestEinzeltest Auto-News Auto-Abo Fahrbericht Die besten Autohändler muss nach AUTO BILD-Informationen eine zweiseitige "Vertraulichkeitsanweisung" unterschreiben Bei Missachtung nur einer der 18 aufgelisteten Regeln droht CATL mit dem Anwalt.Wenige Meter weiter berichtet die Besitzerin eines Lebensmittelgeschäfts dass sie die Verwaltung von "Kattel" Eine Bekannte von ihr habe dort in der Kantine gearbeitet jedoch schnell wieder gekündigt.ZoomBusse bringen die chinesischen Arbeiter morgens zum Werk und holen sie abends wieder ab Ihre Pensionen sind oft viele Kilometer entfernt Bild: Hauke Schrieber / AUTO BILDDie Arbeitsbedingungen seien ihr zu stressig gewesen Die Chinesen hätten eine andere Work-Life-Balance "Die sind halt fleißig." Im Internet findet man Kommentare von weiteren Deutschen Nicht wenige – inzwischen Ex-Mitarbeiter – beklagen den hohen Arbeitsdruck.Speisekarte mittlerweile zweisprachigDie Besitzerin eines Schreibwarenladens berichtet die Chinesen seien tägliches Gesprächsthema unter ihren Kunden so sagt es die Frau aus dem Laden: Einige Chinesen kauften in Arnstadt schon ganze Mehrfamilienhäuser Das alte Café Waffelstübchen sei längst in chinesischer Hand die Speisekarte ist mittlerweile tatsächlich zweisprachig.ZoomMehr als jede dritte Gigawattstunde die im ersten Halbjahr weltweit in Akkus für E-Autos verbaut wurde Bild: Mamapost GmbH / AUTO BILDUm kurz nach 18 Uhr taucht Herr Wuh wieder auf Er steigt mit seinen Kollegen in einen Reisebus des chinesischen Betreibers CEB aus Frankfurt am Main Fahrer Yüksel fährt die Arbeiter aus China seit über einem Jahr.Er sagt: "Es sind schon 4000 Chinesen hier in der Region 3000 würden noch kommen." Überprüfen lässt sich das nicht "Gerade letzte Woche kamen wieder 100 neue Den dahinten fahre ich seit über einem Jahr in seine Unterkunft."Und Deutsche sechs Tage in der Woche." Heute ist zwei Stunden früher Feierabend denn heute ist "Kaufland-Tag": Die Busse halten vorm Supermarkt die Chinesen kaufen ein.Für Herrn Wuh geht es dann 30 Kilometer in die alte Pension "Zum Luchs" mitten im Thüringer Wald "Zum" und "Luchs" sind die einzigen deutschen Wörter einer Stadt im Wandel.","articleBody":"Herr Wuh lacht Jeden Morgen um kurz nach acht Uhr kommen die Busse aus den umliegenden Ortschaften die kurz vor der Fertigstellung steht: die Giga-Fabrik des Batteriezellenherstellers CATL aus China; die größte Akku-Produktion Europas CATL steht für Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited; es ist der weltweit größte Batterie-Bauer CATL investiert etwa 1,8 Milliarden Euro in seine erste Giga-Fabrik in Europa und bekommt aus Deutschland nur 7,5 Millionen Euro an staatlichen Subventionen Die Jahreskapazität liegt zunächst bei acht Gigawattstunden (GWh) In ein paar Jahren soll sie bis zu 100 GWh betragen von dem auch der Standort Deutschland profitieren soll Noch in diesem Herbst soll in Thüringen die Produktion modernster Akkuzellen beginnen Rund 1500 deutsche Arbeitsplätze sollen bis Jahresende besetzt werden Doch noch sind es bis auf wenige Ausnahmen Chinesen die vorbei an neun sich mit der Sonne drehenden Solarenergie-Anlagen auf die Baustelle und durch das bereits fertige Tor 1 gehen Fragen werden von CATL nicht beantwortet Die Einwohner von Arnstadt \"nehmen die chinesischen Fachkräfte natürlich im Alltag wahr\" sagt Bürgermeister Frank Spilling (parteilos) denn das Stadtbild ist mittlerweile geprägt von den Asiaten wie viel Deutsche schon bei CATL arbeiten und auch sonstige Fragen werden von CATL nicht beantwortet die aber gleich warnt: Antworten würden mit der Zentrale in China abgestimmt Auch CATL-Europachef Matthias Zentgraf sei nicht zu sprechen Also schauen wir uns in der schönen Altstadt von Arnstadt um so berichtete der CATL-Europachef gegenüber einem Logistik-Magazin würden die Deutschen chinesische Gerichte wählen Zweiseitige \"Vertraulichkeitsanweisung\" bei Werksbetritt Und geschäftstüchtig sind sie auch Mitten im Zentrum hat gerade ein chinesischer Supermarkt eröffnet die bei CATL ein Praktikum in der Personalabteilung macht Wie viele Deutsche denn schon im Werk arbeiten (Natrium-Ionen-Akkus von CATL: Ist das der Durchbruch bei den Akkus für E-Autos?) Wer das Werk betritt muss nach AUTO BILD-Informationen eine zweiseitige \"Vertraulichkeitsanweisung\" unterschreiben Bei Missachtung nur einer der 18 aufgelisteten Regeln droht CATL mit dem Anwalt Wenige Meter weiter berichtet die Besitzerin eines Lebensmittelgeschäfts Die Arbeitsbedingungen seien ihr zu stressig gewesen \"Die sind halt fleißig.\" Im Internet findet man Kommentare von weiteren Deutschen Nicht wenige – inzwischen Ex-Mitarbeiter – beklagen den hohen Arbeitsdruck Speisekarte mittlerweile zweisprachig Die Besitzerin eines Schreibwarenladens berichtet die Speisekarte ist mittlerweile tatsächlich zweisprachig Um kurz nach 18 Uhr taucht Herr Wuh wieder auf Fahrer Yüksel fährt die Arbeiter aus China seit über einem Jahr Er sagt: \"Es sind schon 4000 Chinesen hier in der Region 3000 würden noch kommen.\" Überprüfen lässt sich das nicht \"Gerade letzte Woche kamen wieder 100 neue Den dahinten fahre ich seit über einem Jahr in seine Unterkunft.\" Und Deutsche sechs Tage in der Woche.\" Heute ist zwei Stunden früher Feierabend denn heute ist \"Kaufland-Tag\": Die Busse halten vorm Supermarkt Für Herrn Wuh geht es dann 30 Kilometer in die alte Pension \"Zum Luchs\" mitten im Thüringer Wald \"Zum\" und \"Luchs\" sind die einzigen deutschen Wörter DS Smith plans to invest €120m in the expansion and modernisation of its three German plants in Nördlingen More than €75m  will be invested in a new corrugator and a fully automated high-bay warehouse in Nördlingen The Arenshausen and Arnstadt sites will also see upgrades worth €34m and €9m respectively The money will mainly be spent on modern converting equipment the Berlin corrugated packaging plant will be closed the site is "no longer economically viable" Read the full article in our next issues which will be published next Wednesday von | Juni 20, 2022 | Allgemein, Mobilität The production in the CATL plant G1 in Arnstadt CATL broke ground on its German plant (CATT) in 2019 The plant in Arnstadt consists of two buildings: G1 an existing building purchased from another company where battery module production has begun in Q3 2021 where the equipment installation and commissioning is currently in full swing CATL received approval for battery cell production from the state of Thuringia With a total investment of 1.8 billion euro CATL plans to achieve a production capacity of 14GWh and create 2,000 jobs in Germany in the future CATL started battery modules production in Q3 2021 and is expected to start cell production by the end of 2022 which has achieved carbon neutrality through hydropower consumption energy-saving smart plant management system was certified as the world’s first zero-carbon battery factory this March We will replicate these advanced experience in all of our production facilities including teh Thuringian plant thus reducing carbon footprint throughout the life cycle of batteries CATL is committed to green manufacturing and is poised to reduce carbon emissions through a variety of measures such as utilization of green electricity and smart plant energy management system We are also building a photovoltaic system at the rooftop of G2 building to generate green electricity to power the plant CATL is committed to sustainability and the environment in the green heart of Germany CATL has entered into an agreement with the organization Tree Sponsors of Thuringia and donated 1,500 trees that have been planted in the Thuringian Forest The construction site of the CATL plant in Arnstadt (Thuringia) we offer regular application days for production employees We offer many students an opportunity to start their career right after their studies in order to develop with us and we also offer lateral entrants a chance by aligning our qualification concept with the Erfurt Education Center and the Employment Agency  We also offer entry opportunities for applicants who do not speak German This international orientation offers many people in Thuringia the opportunity to work internationally ImpressumDatenschutzAGB Last month, sixteen members of the Trinity Boys’ Choir set off on a tour of Germany giving performances in locations including Sangerhausen The tour began in the historic town of Sangerhausen where our students took part in a fledging festival collaborating with students from the choirs of Rossleben’s Klosterschule and Sangerhausen’s Geschwister-School The festival culminated in two spell binding ‘promenade performances’ with audiences walking from one historic church to another between concerts “The highlight for me was singing Singet dem Herrn by Bach It was very interesting hearing a wonderful different style of singing and when we came together to sing the Bach My favourite part other than the music was bonding with the rest of the choir I really enjoyed the experience and feel privileged to have gone It will be something I will look back on.”  “We thoroughly enjoyed the diversity of music that we sang including renaissance music from Tallis and White in addition to more modern works by Graham Lack and Jonathan Dove including ‘Seek him that maketh the Seven Stars’ which was arguably our best piece The lower voices formed an amateur seven-part bell choir which featured in Lack’s “Candlemas.” What made this tour even more enjoyable was being surrounded by friends and doing what we all loved singing; even on the bus journeys home where Disney and Queen often featured in our karaoke this has undoubtedly been the best tour we have ever been on.”  The tour was a fantastic opportunity for the students to perform a very challenging programme of music for audiences across Eastern Germany and establish lasting relations with schools and choirs across the region They are followed by another tour of nine members of the Trinity Boys’ Choir who fly out to Germany in November to give performances in Marburg Hamburg and Lüneburg with male voice ensemble Bermudian Caleb McDowall has expressed his appreciation after residing in Germany from April to June 2022 in order to attend The Academy in Arnstadt, a comprehensive football training program “A young Bermudian is making his experience in Germany this summer count on and off the football field “When Caleb McDowall was given three weeks to pack his bags and head off to Germany for a three month training course his only response was ‘I guess I’d better start learning how to speak German.’ “As a National Junior Athlete awardee [an achievement received from the Bermuda Government one year prior] the 19 year old defender traveled to Germany and resided there from April to June 2022 where he attended The Academy in Arnstadt a comprehensive football training program that focuses on academics Caleb trained and lived with other aspiring football players from around the globe “The time in Germany yielded many pleasant surprises One special moment came when he met Coach Lenny Taylor a Jamaican coach who lives in the US and runs a foundation to help Caribbean boys with the opportunity to become professional footballers The highlight moment was to learn that Coach Taylor played with the Brazilian football legend Pele and Bermudian Randy Horton when he played with the Cosmos “Now as a freshman at Anderson University in South Carolina Caleb is settling in as a student and is a starting player for the school’s NCAA Division II Soccer Team Trojans He is now fully embracing the time and sacrifice away from friends and family to improve his stamina on the field and his mindset about the game “Caleb’s overall sentiment is that ‘the opportunity to be in Germany for three months was timely and likely instrumental in my realizing what it would be like to be away from the comforts of home and really concentrate on becoming the player that I envision I learned some beneficial and transferable skills that are making the difference in my response as student-athlete here at Anderson.’ “Caleb would like to thank the Bermuda Government National Junior Athletes committee for selecting him to represent Bermuda in Germany this summer Coach Bascome at BAA and his family and friends for their ongoing support and encouragement Caleb is currently a Bachelor of Arts student majoring in Interior Design.” Category: All, Sports Before the world was struck with Beatlemania–much for that matter―a different kind of craze swept through Europe one that would reveal ties to demonic forces The Dancing Mania was a strange social phenomenon that escapes clear explanation to this day It was recorded throughout the history of the Middle Ages with earliest accounts dating from the 7th century but there was one constant―those “infected” would move in groups performing something similar to dancing as their bodies twitched with spasms People who engaged in this activity didn’t seem to be aware of themselves sometimes the dancing mania would possess a person for days as the people afflicted by this peculiar obsession would sometimes die of exhaustion or hunger a group of children showed signs of the dancing mania as they traveled the 13 miles to the nearby town of Arnstadt dancing and jumping throughout their journey It’s likely that it was this or a similar story from which the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin sprung―a folk tale about a piper with supernatural powers who leads a group of children to their death as an act of revenge against the townsmen who refused to pay him for his services of eradicating rats in times of plague titled The Black Death and the Dancing Mania in which he collected numerous accounts of Dancing Mania relating it to the horrific consequences of the Bubonic plague that reached its peak in Europe in the mid-14th century describes the dancing frenzy as a reaction to the years of Black Death He believed that the hardships brought by the disease indirectly manifested themselves in the form of a collective madness which wiped out one-third of the world’s population left a devastating effect on the human psyche One the largest outbreaks of the mysterious dancing “sickness” happened in Aachen Several thousand frenzied people danced in fits that lasted for weeks Hecker’s description of this strange gathering invokes rather hellish visions resembling the miniatures of Hieronymus Bosch: and appears to have lost all control over their senses until at length they fell to the ground in a state of exhaustion They then complained of extreme oppression and groaned as if in the agonies of death until they were swathed in cloths bound tightly around their waists and remained free from complaint until the next attack The Church was suspicious of these events right from the start The theological explanation fell into three categories: people affected by the dancing plague were either under the control of the devil The third explanation was that this was nothing but a band of heretics who through the guise of madness found a loophole to practice their unholy rituals without being disturbed Apart from claims that all these events were staged the use of hallucinogens was also considered a potential explanation by both the church and contemporary authorities and the people begged the ancient saints for forgiveness the mania was reported to spread to Utrecht in the Netherlands and Liège in Belgium a report from Metz in France claimed that 11,000 people had succumbed to the Dancing Mania The rich trading city was turned into a bizarre gathering of the insane as the “dancers” fell like flies after a while of non-stop jumping and dancing huge guild halls were adapted to fit a large number of people The “sick” would then be herded into these structures as if the entire spectacle resembled a modern musical concert the next documented case in which a large group of people was involved occurred in Strasbourg a woman started the dance and within a month more than 400 people were “possessed.” Historian John Waller who is the author of the book A Time to Dance A Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 studied the archives and concluded that the event indeed happened as he confirmed it from various different sources: shaking or convulsing; although they were entranced their arms and legs were moving as if they were purposefully dancing after pushing their bodies to extreme limits of endurance experts have tried to produce a medical explanation on this subject but all have failed to properly explain the causes of this hysteria One of the most prominent theories claims that the main reason behind this mass mania was poisoning by Claviceps purpurea a fungus known to infect rye and other cereals Symptoms of ergot poisoning include hallucinations a painful burning sensation in the limbs and extremities and it can cause damage to the central nervous system Others propose that the symptoms were similar to encephalitis but none of these explanations could answer for all the symptoms exhibited in the reports Read another story from us: Pope Clement VI: The generous and progressive Pope who granted remission of sins to all people who died of the plague a similar social phenomena called the tarantella was attributed to spider bites The poison produced by spiders or scorpions was considered to cause such madness but this scenario is hardly possible in such mass cases Read another story from us: Crinolinemania: This deadly Victorian fashion garment killed around 3,000 women Even though sources are scarce and unreliable everyone agrees that the phenomena was no fiction It indeed happened and it was the earliest-recorded case of a psychic epidemic that shook the world of medieval Europe just as the plague was retreating leaving a trail of more than 350 million dead worldwide Scott Antony is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News Join 1000s of subscribers and receive the best Vintage News in your mailbox for FREE