We are a global communion of churches in the Lutheran tradition country programs and partner organizations to promote justice reconciliation and dignity for individuals and communities LWF membership represents over 78 million Christians in the Lutheran tradition in 99 countries across the globe as well as ten recognized churches and congregations We strive to put our faith into action within and beyond the communion and seek God’s Word and Spirit to guide us Your partnership truly makes a difference.Together a better world is possible.With Passion for the Church and for the World Leading Bishop Ralf Meister (right) and Diaconia Board Spokesperson Hans-Joachim Lenke in conversation with women who have fled Ukraine Svitlana Kryzhanivska (left) interprets the discussion (LWI) – The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover has opened a “blue-and-yellow meeting place” in a quiet residential neighborhood near Hanover on 17 March.  “People from Ukraine come to us with terrible experiences,” said Leading Bishop Ralf Meister during a visit to the “blue-and-yellow meeting place” of the diaconia in Neustadt am Rübenberge The meeting place bundles a variety of offers of help for refugees Meister emphasized that the people receive concrete support and “need to feel accepted in our society with their needs and burdens.”  The church provides 2.5 million Euro for refugees from Ukraine. The funds are dedicated to church and diaconal projects in the current year On the terrace of the parsonage that accommodates the meeting place Svitlana Kryzhanivska (55) follows a conversation closely to interpret what is said Next to her at the garden table sits a couple who fled Kherson before the Russian army captured the city.  Kryzhanivska also left her western Ukrainian hometown of Ivano-Frankivsk Kryzhanivska had not dreamt that she would be needed as a mediator thanks to the German language skills obtained in primary school she has come to the “blue-and-yellow meeting place” to translate between Russian The drop-in center in Neustadt is a meeting place set up by the diaconia in the Hanover region together with the church districts The aim is to enable refugees to regain some normality the social worker from the church district who heads the service.  The facilities in Neustadt include game corners Those who wish can also benefit from the social counseling or pregnancy counseling diaconia employees offer Ministers are also available for pastoral care “The possibility for childcare is also important for the meetings with mothers,” Breier emphasizes a large team of volunteers collects and distributes donations of clothing and other goods.  staff can build on the experience of the increased influx of refugees in 2015 most people want to go back home as soon as possible,” says Breier the willingness to help among Germans is even greater this time.  Kryzhanivska was lucky enough to stay with friends’ acquaintances in Neustadt such elementary things are often missing,” Kryzhanivska says Breier and her team try to organize these for the visitors to the meeting place “I heard about a family of eight where the mother always has to cook twice because the pot is too small,” Kryzhanivska says.  Kryzhanivska would have preferred to stay in Ivano-Frankivsk the family met and discussed how to proceed together Kryzhanivska is glad that she can help her fellow Ukrainians in Neustadt as an interpreter: “When I am busy I don’t want to wait and sit around until the war is over.”  278,008 people who have fled the war in Ukraine had been officially registered by 29 March the number of refugees entering Germany is probably much higher because there are no entry controls and many refugees have not officially registered yet.  Video: The “blue and yellow meeting place” Donate to Support Ukrainian Refugees Photos LWF's is coordinating a response through its member churches in Ukraine and the neighboring countries to ensure support to Ukrainian refugees as well as their safe and dignified arrival. The work is supported by LWF's funding partners, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America LWF's action in Ukraine Chemin du Pavillon 2,1218 Le Grand Saconnex [email protected]+41 (0)22 791 60 00 whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine Neustadt am Rübenberge – Berlin – Hamburg – Juli 2016 The private equity firm Elvaston has acquired a majority stake in MHP Solution Group a leading German shipping logistic and foreign trade software provider The managing partners of MHP Solution Group will continue leading the operational business we could participate in a company with a continuous expansion and strong market position in Germany and Europe” “We are looking forward to further push the development of the company – in an industry with high growth potential.” “We appreciate their partnership approach as well as their trust and long-term cooperation with owner-led companies” “Thanks to their industry expertise and targeted support Elvaston may increase in the long term the value of our company.” Carlsquare advised the shareholders of MHP Solution Group on its sale to Elvaston Michael Moritz Daniel Garlipp Thorsten Grandt Gerrit Zwarg www.carlsquare.com please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot Get the most important global markets news at your fingertips with a Bloomberg.com subscription Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Create your free account to receive personalised content alerts and Re:action our weekly newsletter of the top chemical science stories handpicked from a range of magazines journals and websites alongside insight and analysis from our expert editorial team Tell us what you think. Take part in our reader survey By 2017-08-01T09:24:00+01:00 Most of us think we have an intuitive feel for viscosity – liquid nitrogen is runny; honey is not. But if you are asked to define it and explain its origin, things quickly get sticky. It’s one of the strangest and most fundamental properties for life on Earth, yet few of us really think about it. As the physicist Edward Purcell pointed out in his seminar Life at low Reynolds number A human can swim in water by pushing against it trapped in a world where the forces they can generate are far exceeded by those of the water around them And by measuring viscosity we can get myriad insights into molecular structure too Source: Image courtesy of the US Library of Congress Invented a precise method of measuring absolute viscosity Ubbelohde’s parents were involved in the peat business in and around Hanover with the younger children moving to Neustadt am Rübenberge with their mother Ubbelohde showed real promise in scientific and technical subjects and by 1890 he was aiming to study science at university Disaster struck four years later when his father died suddenly While his mother scrambled to set up a business using peat to make cardboard Ubbelohde studied chemistry at the Berlin–Charlottenburg Technical University where the teaching was dominated by Hans Heinrich Landolt (of clock reaction fame) and Emil Fischer he directed the construction of a peat-processing plant in Groningen in the Netherlands he took a job in the petroleum department of the Royal Materials Testing Office in Berlin To improve vacuum distillations, he developed a compact and portable mercury vacuum pump, using a water aspirator to back a Töpler pump equipped with a McLeod gauge The distillates were characterised in part by viscometry For the most viscous glops, he used Carl Engler’s viscometer: an insulated cup with a hole in it – the time required for 200ml of liquid to drain out of the cup relative to the same volume of water is the viscosity in ‘degrees Engler’ Ubbelohde joined Engler’s lab at the Technical University in Karlsruhe By 1910 he had his habilitation and was on the faculty the following year His colleagues included three future Nobel laureates: Fritz Haber Ubbelohde worked on petroleum and fat chemistry as well as on textile fibres, patenting as much as he published. But viscosity remained one of his central concerns. The problem with the Engler viscometer was that it did not provide absolute values for the kinematic viscosity and its precision was modest. The only precise instrument available was Wilhelm Ostwald’s device in which a liquid was timed as it flowed through a capillary As Ubbelohde surveyed viscometry in general the limitations of Ostwald’s device were all too apparent: as the liquid level dropped it slowed down in the capillary (which required a kinetic energy correction) and the difference in curvature of the meniscus at the top and the bottom of the capillary introduced a systematic but indeterminate error This meant using very precise volumes; measurements as a function of temperature were exceptionally tedious because of thermal expansion Ubbelohde identified the shape of the liquid at the base of the capillary as a critical parameter affecting the speed of the liquid emerging from the capillary By attaching a bulb with a precisely hemispherical cross-section below the capillary the liquid flowed as a film along the walls effectively cancelling out the capillary forces larger bulb above the capillary acted as the reservoir A liquid was poured into the lower reservoir bulb and drawn into the bulb above the capillary by suction The time taken for the liquid to travel between the marks M and M1 was then recorded By adjusting the dimensions of the apparatus with extreme precision – Ubbelohde explicitly recommended commercial manufacture – the absolute viscosity could be calculated simply by multiplying or dividing the time by a power of 10 A set of ‘Ubbelohdes’ of different sizes could measure viscosities across six orders of magnitude in minutes a quick glance at a rheology textbook reveals scores of approaches to viscosity measurements that have grown alongside the development of the myriad glops and goops we use today And it leaves us to ponder deeper questions such as: how would we swim if we fell into a bucket of shampoo I am grateful to Tony Ryan for the enthusiastic suggestion L Ubbelohde, Ind. Eng. Chem. Anal. Ed., 1937, 9, 85 (DOI: 10.1021/ac50106a015) Site powered by Webvision Cloud Goalkeeper Robert Enke smiles during the official photo call of the German national soccer team in Palma de Mallorca in this May 29, 2008 file photo. [Agencies] BERLIN: Germany and Hanover 96 goalkeeper Robert Enke has died after being hit by an express train in an apparent suicide near Hanover "First indications point to suicide," a media officer for the Lower Saxony police told Reuters before adding Enke's body was found at a train crossing in Neustadt am Ruebenberge near Hanover "At 1825 (1725GMT) he was run over by a regional express train running between Hamburg and Bremen," said police spokesman Stefan Wittke "The train was travelling at the speed of 160-kph." The player's friend and consultant Joerg Neblung told reporters: "I can confirm this is a case of suicide There will be a press conference tomorrow with more details." won eight international caps and was in the running to play at the World Cup in South Africa next year The news left Germans reeling and stunned the national soccer federation (DFB) "The German team has learned of the death of Robert Enke with great shock," said the DFB in a statement "National team coach Joachim Loew and manager Oliver Bierhoff said 'we are all shocked Loew informed the squad of Enke's death in a hotel in Bonn ahead of their friendly match against Chile on Saturday in Cologne DFB president Theo Zwanziger said the federation was in mourning "Our feelings go out to his wife and family," he said Turkey and Portugal before signing for Bundesliga team Hanover in 2004 experienced a difficult time in recent months as he battled to secure his place in Germany's team "This is a tragedy," Hanover president Martin Kind told reporters Despite not being called up for two friendlies against Chile and Ivory Coast this month even after Bayer Leverkusen's Rene Adler pulled out with an eye infection Loew had hinted Enke was still front-runner for the starting spot also played club football for Borussia Moenchengladbach and Benfica and had a brief spell at Barcelona before stints with Fenerbahce and Tenerife His two-year-old daughter died of a heart ailment in 2006 The couple adopted a two-month-old girl in May "Germany loses an exceptional athlete and a sensitive man who was a role model for many," said Lower Saxony governor Christian Wulff Hundreds of fans gathered to light candles outside the Hanover 96 offices after learning of Enke's death a gentle man and he had this peace that he would project onto others," said Hanover 96 sports director Joerg Schmadtke "We did not have any indications that he was going into that direction." Hanover fan Florian Walter told Reuters Television outside the club offices: "This is a shock was very engaged with social projects in Hanover." It is not yet clear whether Germany's friendly against Chile on Saturday will still go ahead The team have a scheduled press conference at 1130GMT on Wednesday The private equity firm Elvaston has acquired a majority stake in MHP Solution Group is a leading German shipping logistic and foreign trade software provider The integrated product portfolio addresses customer needs consistently and is in demand all over Europe Furthermore they offer comprehensive support after the successful operational start-up constant consulting services and continuous supply with the necessary consumables Melden Sie sich jetzt mit Ihrem bestehenden Account an oder testen Sie unser digitales Abo mit Zugang zu allen Artikeln ZEIT ONLINE hat diese Meldung redaktionell nicht bearbeitet Sie wurde automatisch von der Deutschen Presse-Agentur (dpa) übernommen.