Hier findet ihr eine Videopräsentation der Stadt Wien und dazu passende Übungen zum Herunterladen.

- Probando el servicio de referencia virtual de la National University of Singapore a través de Twiddla (y su increíble servicio de referencia electrónico).

- Artículo sobre los primeros años de SEDIC.

- Artículo de la BNE: “Encuesta sobre los fondos, catálogos y servicios de la Biblioteca Nacional: un caso práctico”. Y cómo se puso en marcha SABINA, el viejo sistema automatizado de la BNE.

- La iniciativa DAF en ThinkEPI.

- El pasado 16 de noviembre se publicó en el BOE la Orden CIN/3048/2009, de 6 de noviembre, por la que se crea la Comisión de Coordinación de Bibliotecas del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y de los Organismos y Entidades vinculadas al mismo.

- Las Bibliotecas de la Administración General del Estado y sus organismos públicos.

- The Amanda Project de HarperCollins.

- ISO de publicaciones científicas periódicas.

- Integración de información en biblioteconomía y documentación en España. La colaboración entre ELIS, EXIT e IraLIS.

- Panorama de Herramientas 2.0, por Baiget. También: cómo publicar con impacto.

- Historia de internet y referencias.

Quelle: internetdeutsch.de

Vater hat geholfen

Vier Kinderkarten, bitte!

Last week I spent sometime (re)searching various options for mobile signal processing. The findings are quite encouraging: there is a number of chips that can be used for our purpose.

Here is a brief summary of my findings:

• there is a chip in Hong Kong that can be re-used without much of the firmware modification,
• I also found several general purpose IC,
• and finally, there is a family of very powerful powerful enough general-purpose chips but the codding for them is a ted bit involved.

What I liked about all these options is that the cost of the parts is below a few hundred dollars.

Details are in the follow up posts.

Dear Fellows,

let me start with this — I know first-hand all the pain, suffering, and humiliation of being a stutterer and let me cut to the chase: There are devices that help alleviate stuttering. They seem to work on a sizable fraction of stutterers particularly on those with a severe condition. My search for such a device gave me several options that seem to have acceptable success rate: SpeakEasy ($5,000),  SmallTalk($2,500), and Fluency Enhancer ($1,600). But why are they  so expensive?

Being a scientist and a technical person (PhD and years of postdoctoral research in particle physics) I will try to answer this question: how much does it really cost to make such a device?

First things first — math: The technology behind these miracles is a so-called altered (delayed and frequency-modified) auditory feedback (aka AAF), i.e. speaker’s voice is returned into his/her ear after it goes through a delay line (typically 100 milliseconds) and a voice altering processor (pitch shift, frequency masking, etc. ). While mathematically it is a more or less simple transformation (FFT),  it is computationally intensive to do it in a real time for a stand alone device.

Idea what he is talking about here (not that he says much in either) but it’s nice to put a face to the voice sometimes….

The only German I know is: Ich habe mein Portemonnaie verloren which doesn’t get me very far and hopefully will never be needed!

Monarchie und Alltag (1980) foi o primeiro álbum da banda alemã Fehlfarben, composta por: Peter Hein (vocalista), Thomas Schwebel (guitarra), Michael Kemner (baixo) e Frank Fenstermacher (saxofone).

Este álbum faz parte daquilo a que se chamou a “Neue Deutsche Welle”, movimento post punk, onde se incluíram muitas outras bandas: Abwärts, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft /DAF, Malária, Xmal Deutschland…

Revisitemos esta bela faixa: “Ein Jahr (Es Geht Voran)”:

Der Musiker, Texter und Rapper Doppel-U hat sich mit Hilfe seiner Musik mit den zwei bedeutendsten deutschen Dichtern auseinandergesetzt. Seine zeitgemäße Interpretation der Gedichte von Goethe und Schiller in der Sprache der Jugend (Hip Hop) ist der moderne Zugang zu klassischer Dichtkunst.

(CFD.net.au – Contract for Difference, Share, Forex, ETFs, Commodities Traders) –

By

Deborah Levine

, MarketWatch

That’s out of the ordinary. Stocks tend to rise when the outlook for the economy is good and investors are willing to buy riskier assets. When Treasurys advance, in contrast, the economy is typically weakening, prompting investors to seek safety in governmen …

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Deborah Levine

, marketwatch

That’s out of the ordinary. Stocks tend to rise when the outlook for the economy is good and investors are willing to buy riskier assets. When Treasurys advance, in contrast, the economy is typically weakening, prompting investors to seek safety in government debt.

This positive correlation — the market’s equivalent of cats and dogs becoming best friends — is happening now because of the U.S. dollar, analysts said.

“We’re likely to see many more days where Stocks are up, bonds are still bid and the dollar is weaker,” said Bill O’Donnell, head of Treasury strategy at RBS Securities.

“U.S. Stock price [gains] will not mechanically translate into lower Treasury prices as we’ve seen all year until recently,” he said.

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Partly driving this unusual trend is the dollar’s newfound status as one of the cheapest currencies to borrow among the developed nations. Thanks to the Federal Reserve’s moves to drive interest rates to near zero percent, the U.S. dollar carries a low Yield, particularly compared to currencies in Brazil and other emerging markets, where rates are much higher.

The dollar’s Yield is likely to stay low for some time. When the Federal Reserve releases its statement on monetary policy Wednesday afternoon, analysts anticipate no change to benchmark interest rates.

See preview of Fed meeting.

With U.S. rates on hold, more investors overseas are engaging in bets that the dollar will decline further — in other words, taking short positions. Or, they’re borrowing in the currency to buy higher-yielding assets just to profit from the difference between them, in what’s known as the carry trade.

Those strategies might be funding investments in the U.S. stock market. For example, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index


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has gone up 15.8% this quarter.

Simultaneously, the falling dollar may be encouraging foreign central banks to buy U.S. Treasurys, either because they are relatively cheaper because of the currency or as part of a plan to support their own currencies.

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It’s happened before

The greenback usually doesn’t act as a borrowing, or funding, currency since U.S. interest rates aren’t typically the lowest in the world.

But when the dollar has taken the role of a funding currency, a similar phenomenon has occurred: Stocks and Treasurys have risen while the greenback has fallen.

From 1991 to the middle of 1993, the last period when the dollar was the cheapest funding currency in the Group of Seven nations, Standard & Poor's futures rose by roughly 38%, O’Donnell wrote in a research note.

At the same time, 10-year Treasurys rallied, pushing Yields down to 5.74% from 8.13%. Yields and prices move in opposite directions.

Foreign central bank’s play

Meanwhile, the low-yielding dollar may be encouraging central banks to buy more U.S. bonds.

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Source: Weak dollar may help stocks, bonds rise together – MarketWatch

Ein Webquest zum Thema Musik von Claudia Sauerhering!

Zielgruppe: DaF -  Niveau-A2

Lernziele: Die Schüler sollen das Thema Musik bearbeiten und ihre sprachliche Kompetenz erweitern. Ihre Aufgabe wäre eine Präsentation über eine Band oder SängerIn zu erstellen.

Hier findet ihr fertige Arbeitsblätter als Kopiervorlagen. Sie sind gleich im Unterricht verwendbar!

Viel Spaß mit der Musik im DaF-Unterricht!

Und hier findet ihr dazu passende Videoclips!

Ihr wollt selbst ein Hörspiel machen, wisst aber noch nicht genau, was dabei so alles beachtet werden muss? Kein Problem! Hier findet ihr eine ganze Menge Infos. Das Ergebnis könnt ihr nicht nur lesen, sondern auch hören. Ein Hörspiel kann man auch mit weniger Aufwand zuhause produzieren. Wie das geht?  Klick unten!

This week, Rabbi Moshe Nechemia Reichman resumes his Gemara Brachot class, with a new course beginning from Daf 13A of Gemara Brachot.

In this Torah shiur (class) on Gemara Brachot, Rabbi Moshe Nechemia Reichman begins learning daf 13A, with a discussion of the halacha which states that one who is reading from a Sefer Torah fulfills his obligation to recite Kriat Shma daily if he reads the Kriat Shma from the Torah.