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Akai Timbre Wolf review
Lately, it seems as though Akai has been really pushing their analog synth offerings to the next level. The Rhythm Wolf was the first step in this process; Akai built a drum machine that divided the community due to its lack of depth in the tonality department, as well as the arguably out-of-tune bass synth module.
Still, the wholly unique sound of the machine coupled with the solid construction and affordability made it a very intriguing offer for those looking for that sort of thing.
Now, Akai is back with the Timbre Wolf 4-voice analog synth, an answer to the growing sub-$500 hardware synthesizer market. I had a chance to spend some hands-on time with the device, and I walked away with plenty to like about it, as well as a few sticking points that I feel need to be noted.
So, ultimately, is this the right synthesizer for you? Does it meet expectations? Well, let's find out.
Before we move on, please take a moment to use our interactive table below to compare the Akai Timbre Wolf synth to other quality synthesizers worthy of your consideration.
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Design and Overall Quality
The first thing that stood out to me about the Timbre Wolf's design was the construction quality. The little touches really shine on this one, including metal paneling, real wood end caps and a simplistic and clean interface. The rear of the device comes with just about everything you could want in a synth like this: a main out, individual voice outputs, headphones, MIDI In/Out/Thru, USB MIDI and gate I/O for clocking the sequencer.
Another feature that stood out immediately to me was the unique, independent 4-voice architecture. This is straight out of the playbook of the old Korg Mono/Poly machines, allowing control of the oscillators individually, opening up a lot of creative potential in the process.
The setup here is slightly different, though, due to the fact that each voice is in fact its own mini-synth. An integrated four-track sequencer can control any (or all) of the voices at will, creating an opportunity for unique groove-boxing and tone creation that goes beyond the normal layering methods on other similar units, such as the Korg Minilogue or the Arturia Microbrute.
Playing the synth feels great, with the semi-weighted plastic keys reacting nicely to the touch. I found that they had just enough resistance to feel substantial, but not enough to be a nuisance when playing faster passages and flourishes.
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Synthesis Engine
The four voices on the Timbre Wolf's engine are the same mini-synth components found in the Rhythm Wolf, though with one major improvement; all of the voices are in tune with one-another. Akai has even gone so far as to include a voice-calibration function that enables retuning, if the voices drift away over time.
You can tell they took the feedback on the Rhythm Wolf seriously, and included this as a stopgap to ensure that doesn't come up here. From what I played, the tuning discrepancy between the voices was negligible; certainly well within industry-standard limits. It's easy to forget that many classic monosynths suffered from tuning issues regularly, and this is something that Akai has clearly been working diligently on.
The synth itself can be played in both mono and polyphonic modes, and switching between the two is an absolute breeze. The polyphonic setup works very well, and all of the different layers and voicing's allow for some very interesting textures to be created.
That being said, I was majorly disappointed with the lack of a savable preset function here—it seems like a bit of an oversight for performance-minded players, and one that could hurt the longevity of the device in the long run, given its context on the market.
Consider that both the Arturia Microbrute and the Korg Minilogue both have this feature.
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The synthesis engine itself features a single square oscillator that feeds into a lowpass resonant filter, which then leads to a decay ramp envelope that can be individually applied to the amp as well as the cutoff. In practice, this setup allows for some beautifully stacked creations, as well as some absolutely massive and wailing leads.
The main drawback here is tied directly to the implementation Akai used for the physical controls. Each oscillator tuning knob only covers a limited detuning range. This amounts to one semitone either up or down, limiting the unison mode somewhat in practice. Another small complaint is the lack of an octave switch. I feel this would have created a lot of opportunities for an even more unique variety to the overall sound of the synth.
The good news is, none of these drawbacks feel particularly deal crushing within the wider picture of the synth itself. Plenty of synths had downright strange ideas and designs, a few of which led to some legendary sounds. The unique structure and quality of the Timbre Wolf's synthesis engine allows for more than enough depth to lose yourself in for quite a long time, and definitely lends itself to both production and live performance in many, many ways.
The Timbre Wolf has a number of competitors in its $500 price bracket, many of which do a few things that it doesn't. Probably the most notable of these would be the Arturia Microbrute, a hardware synth inspired by the classic Minibrute synthesizer.
The Microbrute has preset saving, a more robust step sequencer, and a more versatile sound overall, but ultimately, the two products serve fairly different purposes, and could even be complimentary to each other in some respects.
The 4-voice architecture of the Timbre Wolf really allows it to stand out among other synths for it's bass tonality and thick, satisfying feel. While other synths may "do more", what the Timbre Wolf does do, I feel it is unrivaled in.
Sequencing & MIDI
The Timbre Wolf has a four-track sequencer that seems fairly simplistic and user friendly, though I didn't get to spend quite as much time with it as I would have liked.
The good news is, what little time I did spend with it, I was able to get the hang of things within minutes of playing around with the device. The sequencer works in both monophonic and polyphonic modes, and allows for each mini-synth to have its own sequence.
This means creating complex patterns can be quite simple and very fun in only a few minutes. You also have the option of switching over to unison mode, where all four voices can "latch" onto the first ones sequence; I had quite a bit of fun messing around with layered sounds in this mode.
The bad news, at least for those that like deeper editing functionality, is that there isn't much else in the way of editing on the device. There's an A/B version selector, and they can be chained together for a combined total of 32 steps, but some users might still find this constraining. Personally, I think this synth is better suited to performance, as well as use in a studio environment, so I don't see this drawback being too important to lots of users.
The MIDI functionality seems to be pretty straightforward, though I should note I wasn't able to use it during my hands-on time with the synth. It looks like it transfers note and sequence data through MIDI, and it should work flawlessly with just about any DAW, as both a master and a slave.
From what I've seen in videos, one potential downside is that it doesn't seem as though you can run the Timbre Wolf polyphonically through a single channel. Commenters have mentioned that the master channel will only ever play one voice at a time; something that some users might find quite annoying, but others might not care too deeply about.
The solid construction and attention to stylistic detail, the ease of use and intuitive sequencer, and the solid control and sound variations make this an all-around go-getter of an analog synthesizer. When all four voices are engaged, you're able to create some truly textural and massive sounds, and when experimented with, I found it started to take on a character all its own. I noticed more than anything that I was starting to pick out a certain "Sonic Signature" for the device, picking out nuances that I haven't been able to recreate with any other synth since.
For this reviewer, that more than makes up for the drawbacks present throughout the different areas of the Timbre Wolf's design.
Like most synths of its class and size, I can't readily recommend this to be your main instrument in any setting. The functionality, while wholly unique in many respects, simply doesn't allow for enough creative tools to warrant full-time use. With that being said, I think that this synth would be an excellent addition to a rack or a studio setup, and I'd venture to guess that most users researching this machine would be looking for a supplementary device anyways.
The 4-track sequencer has just enough functionality to be worthy of experimentation, without really being able to do much else. In my opinion though, that is really what Akai needed to do with this guy; make it instantly playable above all else. Deeper functionality can be had elsewhere, and what the Timbre Wolf does do, it does incredibly well.
Four-voice polyphonic synthesis
Quality and fun (if somewhat limited) four-track step-sequencer
Solid construction and playing feel
Powerful bass tonality
No polyphonic MIDI information on a single channel
No savable presets
Lack of depth in editing tools
Not quite as versatile as a whole as I'd like it to be
The Akai Timbre Wolf is a unique and quirky polysynth that will make an excellent addition to an established rig or studio setup, adding deep, layered bass tones and an experimental-sounding sequencer setup.
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In year of the pig, Hong Kong has had enough of wild ones
Boars are now frequent sights on roadways, in parks and housing developments, shopping centres, and there is concern that the animals have lost their fear of humans
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HONG KONG — It may be the year of the pig, but Hong Kong has had enough of the wild ones.
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Their chances of feeding, and their habitat, are being destroyed
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Q: New to Java, can't call a different class from an existing class Apologies in advance if the title doesn't make any sense.
I'm trying to call a function named "emergencyButtonToggled" from a variable called "emergencyButton" but for some reason the code doesn't want to run. The error I am getting is as follows:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:
        The method emergencyButtonToggled() is undefined for the type emergencyButton

        at emergencyButton.main(emergencybutton.java:10)

My code is as such:
import java.util.*;

public class emergencyButton {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner value = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Is the emergency button pressed? (Yes/No)");
        String button = value.nextLine();
        if (button.equals("Yes")) {
            System.out.println("The emergency button is pressed.");
            emergencyButtonToggled();
        } else {
            if (button.equals("No")) {
                System.out.println("Buzzer is not buzzing");
                System.out.println("No emergency");
                break;
            }
        }
    }

    class emergencyButtonToggled {
        public main(String[] args) {
            System.out.println("Buzzer is buzzing");
            System.out.println("Emergency, Manual Stop");
            System.out.println("Emergency, Water Reservoirs empty");
        }
    }
}

Thank you in advance.

A: You can't call class. Class is like a group of members. And members can be fields (representing state) or methods (representing actions). So, you can only call class methods.
You probably want to call method that outputs those three messages about emergency. To do that you can do two things:

*

*Create an object of type emergencyButtonToggled and call method on that object
emergencyButtonToggled text = new emergencyButtonToggled(); text.main(null);

*Add keyword static to the method, so you can call it directly on the class
emergencyButtonToggled.main(null);
But you shouldn't do any of those things. Instead, it is better to create a static method in emergencyButton class and call it.
public class emergencyButton {
    private static void emergency() {
        System.out.println("Buzzer is buzzing");
        System.out.println("Emergency, Manual Stop");
        System.out.println("Emergency, Water Reservoirs empty");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner value = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.println("Is the emergency button pressed? (Yes/No)");
        String button = value.nextLine();
        if ("Yes".equals(button)) {
            System.out.println("The emergency button is pressed.");
            emergency();
        } else if ("No".equals(button)) {
            System.out.println("Buzzer is not buzzing");
            System.out.println("No emergency");
            break;
        }
    }
}

P.S. Function main in your newly created class doesn't have return value, so you should add void before name of the method (like you can see in my example).

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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Adds March 8 Annual Public Holiday
Landtag Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Schwerin) - The parliamentary group leader of the party Die Linke in the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament, Jeannine Rösler, has announced that International Women's Day, on March 8th, is to be a new annual public holiday in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, beginning in 2023.
Germany Considering Day In Lieu Public Holidays
Der Deutsche Bundestag (Berlin) - In 2021, many of Germany's public holidays will fall on a weekend. With Labour Day (May 1), German Unity Day (October 3) and the 2 annual Christmas holidays (December 24 and 25) being lost, German politicians from different parties are pushing for Germany's Working Hours Act to be amended to introduce compensation regulations for public holidays which land over the weekend.
Berlin 2022 Public Holidays Announced
Berlin.de - The Official Website of Berlin (Berlin) - The German City State of Berlin has released its list of 2022 public holidays (Feiertage und Termine der Schulferien in Berlin).
Germany 2021 Public Holidays Announced
Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt) - The German Central Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) has published its annual list of the 2021 federal and regional non-working public holidays in Germany as well as the list of 2021 bank holidays in Germany.
Thüringen Adds September 20 Public Holiday
Thüringer Allgemeine (Erfurt) - The Parliament of Germany's state of Thuringia has approved a bill to make World Children's Day, on September 20, a new annual non-working public holiday in Germany's state of Thuringia, beginning in 2019.
Berlin Amends 2019 and 2020 Public Holidays
Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin) - The Governing "Die Linke/Die Grünen" coalition of Germany's city-state of Berlin, has begun the legislative process which, barring any surprises, will make Women's Day on March 8 a new annual non-working public holiday in Germany's city-state of Berlin.
Berlin Opts for March 8 New Public Holiday
Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin) - The Governing "Die Linke/Die Grünen" coalition of Germany's city-state of Berlin, seems to finally have agreed on March 8 as a new annual non-working public holiday in Germany's city-state of Berlin.
Thüringen Mulls September 20 Public Holiday
Thüringer Allgemeine (Erfurt) - The SPD and Green government groups of Germany's state of Thuringia have submitted a bill to make World Children's Day, on September 20, a new annual non-working public holiday in Germany's state of Thuringia, beginning in 2019.
Berlin Narrowing Down New Public Holiday Date
Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin) - The Governing Mayor of Germany's city-state of Berlin, Michael Müller, has finally announced his preferred date, as March 18, for the new annual public holiday to be declared in Germany's city-state of Berlin.
Bremen Adds Reformation Public Holiday
Radio Bremen (Bremen) - By a large majority, the Government of Germany's State of Bremen has approved the CDU proposal to declare Reformation Day in Bremen as a new public holiday on October 31, henceforth.
Lower Saxony Adds Reformation Public Holiday
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hannover) - The regional parliament of Germany's state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) has approved the bill from the Ministry of the Interior to declare October 31 as a new annual non-working public holiday in the German State of Lower Saxony.
Lower Saxony To Add Reformation Public Holiday
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hannover) - The State Chancellery of Germany's state of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) has announced that the Cabinet has approved a draft bill from the Ministry of Interior to declare October 31 as a new annual non-working public holiday in the German State of Lower Saxony.
Hamburg State Adds Reformation Public Holiday
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Schleswig-Holstein Votes New Public Holiday
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Hamburg State Public Holiday Extension Vote Update
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Hamburg State Public Holiday Extension Spring Vote
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Bavaria Mulls November 8 Public Holiday
Bavarian State Parliament (Munich) - The SPD parliamentary group of Germany's State of Bavaria has proposed to all political groups within the state parliament of Bavaria to declare November 8, 2018, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Germany's State of Bavaria, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the Free State of Bavaria.
Hamburg State Mulls Reformation Public Holiday
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Lower Saxony Mulls Reformation Public Holiday
Hamburger Abendblatt (Hamburg) - Lower Saxony's Prime Minister, Stephan Weil (SPD), has announced that he would support the declaration of Reformation Day as an annual non-working public holiday in the German State of Lower Saxony, if he wins the upcoming, October 15, regional elections.
Bremen Public Holidays Extension Update
Radio Bremen (Bremen) - At its recent regional party convention, the majority of the SPD voted for the addition of one annual non-working public holiday to the list of annual non-working public holidays in Germany's State of Bremen, a position supported by their Green coalition partner, and independently in the past by the opposition CDU.
Bremen Mulls Reformation Public Holiday Extension
Radio Bremen (Bremen) - The major parties of the German City-State of Bremen, the CDU and SPD, are in discussions about the possibility of making Reformation Day, on October 31, a new annual non-working public holiday in Germany's City-State of Bremen.
Schleswig-Holstein Mulls Public Holiday
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Berlin 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
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Berlin 2017 Reformation Public Holiday Update
Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin) - The SPD and CDU coalition partners of Germany's state (Land) of Berlin, has announced a bill that would also declare October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Baden-Württemberg 2017 Reformation Public Holiday Update
Stuttgarter Zeitung (Stuttgart) - The Minister President of Germany's southern state (Land) of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, has given his approval to a bill that would declare October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt) - The German Central Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) has published its annual list of the 2015 federal and regional non-working public holidays in Germany.
Bavarian 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung (Augsburg) - The government cabinet of Germany's state of Bavaria, has decided to also declare October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Niedersachsen Mulls New Autumn Regional Public Holiday
Hannover Zeitung (Hannover) - The Interior Minister of the German State of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony), Boris Pistorius, has announced that he was in favor, in principle, of the declaration of an additional annual non-working public holiday (gesetzlicher Feiertage) in the German State of Niedersachsen.
Nordrhein-Westfalen 2017 Reformation Public Holiday Update
Westdeutsche Zeitung (Düsseldorf) - The Red/Green coalition government of Germany's state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, has confirmed that it would declare October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Deutsche Bundesbank (Frankfurt) - The German Central Bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) has published a list of the 2014 federal and regional public holidays in Germany.
Saarland 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
DPA (Saarbrücken) - The Premier (Ministerpräsidentin) of Germany's state of Saarland, Hannelore Kraft, has announced that the Saarland State Government would create the necessary conditions for October 31, 2017, to also be a one-off non-working public holiday throughout Saarland.
Niedersachsen 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
Bild (Hannover) - The 2 major parties of the German State of Niedersachsen seem on the verge of also agreeing to declare October 31, 2017, as a one-off non-working public holiday throughout Niedersachsen State.
Bremen 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
FOCUS Online (Bremen) - The Mayor of the City of Bremen, which is also one of Germany's full-fledged states, has also announced that October 31, 2017, would also be a one-off non-working public holiday throughout Bremen to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses.
Hamburg 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
Hamburger Abendblatt (Hamburg) - Yesterday afternoon, the Senate of Germany's second largest city, and also one of Germany's full-fledged states, Hamburg (aka. HH - Hanseatstadt Hamburg), has passed the necessary legal measures to also declare October 31, 2017, a one-off regional non-working public holiday in the city-state of Hamburg, as had been promised at the end of last year.
Rheinland-Pfalz 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
Ministerium des Innern für Sport und Infrastruktur (Mainz) - The spokesperson (Pressesprecher des Innenministeriums) of Germany's state of Rheinland-Pfalz, David Freichel, has announced that chances were good ("Die Chancen dafür stehen nicht schlecht") of Germany's state of Rheinland-Pfalz also declaring October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Nordrhein-Westfalen 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
Westdeutsche Zeitung (Düsseldorf) - The Premier (Ministerpräsident) of Germany's state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Hannelore Kraft, has announced in Parliament that she was in favor of Germany's state of Nordrhein-Westfalen also declaring October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Stuttgarter Zeitung (Stuttgart) - A spokesperson for the SPD party of Germany's southern state (Land) of Baden-Württemberg has confirmed that a law would be passed declaring October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Baden-Württemberg 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
Die Welt (Stuttgart) - SPD deputies from Germany's southern state (Land) of Baden-Württemberg have added their voice to the current spate of declarations, and intents to declare, October 31, 2017, as a one-off public holiday (gesetzlichen Feiertag) to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther posting his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg.
Hessen 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
Die Welt (Wiesbaden) - A spokesperson for the government of Germany's state of Hessen has announced that it would also declare Reformation Day, on Tuesday, October 31, 2017, as a one-off non-working public holiday in the German state of Hessen.
Niedersachsen 2017 Reformation Public Holiday Update
Die Welt (Rehburg-Loccum) - The Premier (Ministerpräsident) of Germany's state of Niedersachsen, David McAllister, has added his voice to recent calls for, and even outright declarations, of Reformation Day 2017 as a one-off non-working public holiday in Germany.
Germany Regional Public Holidays Update
Pressestelle der CDU-Fraktion des Sächsischen Landtages (Dresden) - The social policy spokesman of the CDU group in the parliament of the German state of Sachsen (Saxony) has re-iterated his party's support for the maintenance of the Day of Prayer and Repentance (Buß- und Bettag) as a non-working public holiday in the German state of Sachsen.
Schleswig-Holstein 2017 Reformation Public Holiday
Lübecker Nachrichten (Lübeck) - The Premier (Ministerpräsident) of Germany's state of Schleswig-Holstein, Torsten Albig, has announced that Reformation Day 2017 would be a one-off non-working public holiday in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Bremen Islamic State Public Holidays
Die Welt (Hamburg) - The German State of Bremen has also decided to officially recognize annual Islamic holidays as sectorial State non-working public holidays.
Hamburg To Add Islamic State Public Holidays
Die Welt (Hamburg) - The German city-state of Hamburg, and its second largest city, has signed an official agreement with its Muslim community which guarantees 3 annual Islamic holidays.
Germany 2017 Reformation Public Holiday Call
Die Welt (Hamburg) - The Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland - EKD) has called on the government of Germany to make the 2017 Reformation Day public holiday a nationwide non-working public holiday throughout Germany.
Niedersachsen Rejects Additional Regional Public Holidays
Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine (Hannover) - The recent bill, introduced by a coalition led by Die Linke, to add 2 regional public holidays in Niedersachsen has been rejected in that Land's parliament.
Hessen To Consider Extending Reformation Day Public Holiday
Osthessen-News (Fulda) - The Synod of evangelical Churches of Germany's State of Hessen has passed a motion asking the government to amend Article 1 of the Hessischen Feiertaggesetzes to make Reformation Day an official public holiday in the State of Hessen.
Bavarian Buß- und Bettag Public Holiday Update
Augsburger Allgemeine (Augsburg) - The Minister of Culture of Germany's Land of Bavaria, Ludwig Spaenle, has said he would press for the restoration of the Buß- und Bettag public holiday in Bavaria for next year.
Berlin To Consider Restoring October 31 Public Holiday
Berliner Morgenpost (Berlin) - Germany's CDU party, member of the current ruling federal coalition, has introduced legislation for Reformation Day (October 31) to become a public holiday in the state of Berlin, which includes Germany's capital.
Germany October 9 Public Holiday in Leipzig
Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Leizig) - In its last session before the summer break, this Wednesday, the Leipzig city council started considering a proposal from the Fraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen to make October 9 a city-wide (working) public holiday called Tag der Friedlichen Revolution (Day of the Peaceful Revolution) to commemorate the peaceful revolution which led to the end of the Soviet occupation of East Germany.
Buß- und Bettag Public Holiday May Return To Bavaria
Bayerische Runkfunk - Bavaria's Ministerpräsident, Günther Beckstein, has announced that he wishes to re-instate the Buß- und Bettag Public Holiday (Day of Prayer and Repentance) to the list of public holidays observed in Bavaria.
Germany Will Ignore 2008 Conjunction Of Ascension and May Day
n-tv.de - In 2008, the date of May Day and Ascension will fall on the same date. But while Belgium has declared the next day, May 2nd, as a one-off public holiday, recent media reports indicate that Germany will not declare a day in lieu public holiday.
Reformation Day Public Holiday In Schleswig-Holstein
Evangelischer Pressedienst - The Northern Evangelical Church is mounting a campaign to push for the addition of the October 31 Reformation Day to the list of public holidays of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg before 2017, the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's nailing of his list of 95 points on the door of the Church of Wittenberg.
Eastern Germany In Favor Of Keeping October 3 Public Holiday
Die Welt/Deutsche Presse-Agentur - While the government is discussing the moving of National Day to a permanent Sunday occurrence, a recent survey in the former eastern part of Germany, more than 2/3 of respondents said they preferred to keep the current October 3 public holiday, while 16% would prefer to have November 9 as a public holiday.
Germany's Majority Opposed to Removal of a Public Holiday to Finance State Pension Plans
pressrelations.de - A recent poll taken by the Postbank reveals that only 26 percent of those polled are in favor of the removal of one of Germany's public holidays, to help fund State pension plans, while 63 percent are against.
Germany Prepares For Many Bridge Public Holidays In 2007
Verlag fuer die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG - 2007 will be a good year for Germans who wish to optimize their days off work, through Brueckentage (days off that are a bridge between a midweek public holiday and the nearest weekend).
Germany Pressured To Maintain Sunday Shopping Ban
Sonntagsblatt - The chairman of the Bavarian Catholic State Comittee, Helmut Mangold, has re-iterated the church's will to keep on fighting against Sunday shopping in Bavaria.
Germany Asked To Restore Nationwide Reformation Day Public Holiday
Tagesschau (Munich) - The Evangelical-Lutheran Bishop of Bavaria, a predominantly Catholic German State, has called for Reformation Day (a Protestant holiday celebrated on October 31) to become a country-wide public holiday until at least 2017.
Germany Might Lose One Of Its Public Holidays
Deutsche Welle - Germany's Finance Minister, Hans Eichel, is scheduled to present a budget plan which will include celebrating the "Day of German Unity" on the first Sunday in October rather than October 3.
See also: Germany bank holidays and public holidays for 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.
Background Information (Germany)
Wikipedia page for Germany (includes commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays)
Deutsche Bundesbank (Germany central bank)
ISO-3166 Codes: DE and DEU.
ICANN Internet Domain: .de.
Regional Abbreviations:
BB=Brandenburg
BE=Berlin
BW=Baden-Württemberg
BY=Bayern
HB=Bremen
HE=Hessen
HH=Hamburg
MV=Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
NI=Niedersachsen
NW=Nordrhein-Westfalen
RP=Rheinland-Pfalz
SH=Schleswig-Holstein
SL=Saarland
SN=Sachsen
ST=Sachsen-Anhalt
TH=Thüringen


Hizbul Mujahideen on Tuesday confirmed that the three youth, whose bullet-riddled bodies were recovered Monday, were militants who belonged to the outfit and alleged that they had been killed by police.
NIA, which is probing the terror strike on a BSF convoy case in Jammu and Kashmir last month, on Friday announced cash reward on information leading to the arrest of six Lashker-e-Taiba and Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists who were part of a larger conspiracy behind the attack.
Army personnel engaged in a clash with a group of militants in a gun battle in Rafiabad in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district on Wednesday, reports said.
South Kashmir is abuzz with a new recruitment policy.
A Special Investigating Team of Jammu and Kashmir Police arrested a physiotherapist minutes before he was going to board a flight to London via Delhi.
A series of grenade attacks on mobile towers and telecom offices on Friday rattled Srinagar city. Four grenades were lobbed at telecom infrastructure in a span of a few hours.
The banned Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin wants to return to India even today, said AS Dulat, former chief of India's external spy agency RAW.
The terror of targeted killings continued in Sopore on Monday as suspected militants shot dead a man in the fourth such attack in the north Kashmir.
The father of a sarpanch who had a mobile transmission tower inside his residential compound was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Sopore, Kashmir.


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Technology fuels businesses large and small. Businesses are embracing digital transformation as they place a high priority on retaining customers, expanding into new markets, improving business processes and innovating with new products and services. That mindset is fueling IT spending, which Gartner predicts to grow by 2.9 percent in worldwide in 2017, reaching $3.5 trillion, after a slight dip last year.
With technology so strategic, the way businesses purchase technology has evolved. "The decision-maker is changing," says Jennifer Anaya, vice president, marketing, Ingram Micro North America. "CIOs are serving the line-of-business leaders who are making the decisions. They know what they want to accomplish, whether it's a new capability or a cost savings, but they don't know the technology. The IT teams need to make sure it works, stays up and is secure."
That's why there's such strong demand for solution providers that can help business and technology leaders put their strategies into practice as efficiently and quickly as possible.
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Solution providers have an unparalleled opportunity to help businesses with digital transformation. Those who work smarter can capture more of the opportunity, streamline the transaction process and close deals sooner.
Ingram Micro is committed to helping partners shorten the sales cycle. "Ingram Micro works to serve our partners better so they never have to say no," says Anaya. "Ingram Micro has become an indispensible business partner," with robust services that not only enable solution providers to deliver solutions and services, but also educate their customers on the business value, market their offerings and maximize the value of technology investments.
Hutchinson Networks, a U.K.-based IT network service provider, has been on a rapid growth trajectory. "Our business doubled in the last two years," says Stephen Heslop, COO of Hutchinson Networks. "We were growing much faster than our credit limit. We met with our Ingram Micro finance director and explained what we wanted to do, and he extended our credit so we could fuel our growth."
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"Working with Ingram Micro can help solution providers shorten the time it takes to get into a new business area," says Ament. "They can speed up deployment and execution." Working with Ingram Micro's partner technical enablement team can help solution providers gain technical certifications, design solutions faster and develop robust practices in new areas.
Sikich, a professional services firm based in the Chicago area, has seen strong success with wireless network assessments from Ingram Micro Professional Services. Bringing in an expert third party adds credibility. "Working with the Ingram Micro Professional Services team has helped us win business and be more confident in our ability to deploy solutions," says Ryan Overtoom, a partner at Sikich.
It also brings clout. "By dealing with Ingram Micro, you gain access to vendor relationships that you'd otherwise never have," says Robert Bell, director of operations, Integrated Data Technologies (IDT), based in Florida. "When we are presented with an opportunity that's a little larger or more complex than normal, such as a data center or storage virtualization, with one phone call I can be connected to a senior systems engineer at the vendor or have a field rep who will come with me to present the proposal. In a competitive situation, what could look better?"
Fuel Growth With Advanced Solutions
Ingram Micro has deep expertise in big data and analytics, security, cloud, customer experience, mobility, converged infrastructure and the emerging Internet of Things. Solution providers can help customers leverage advanced solutions and leading technologies to drive transformation.
"We identify categories that are less mature but are growing more rapidly than the traditional IT market," says Ament. "We can absorb the initial risk and have made long-term investments in areas such as network security, digital signage, unified communications, physical security and data capture/point of sale." With cybersecurity concerns at an all-time high, solution providers can look to Ingram Micro for guidance in building the right security portfolio. "Some solution providers specialize in security, but others may have great relationships with customers who have security as top of mind. If they're not talking about security, someone else is, and that's a long-term risk," says Ament.
Access to new complementary technologies can be key to creating differentiated solutions for customers, and Ingram Micro works closely with emerging vendors. "Many vendors in emerging markets don't know how to embrace the channel community," says Ament. "When we get involved, it shortens the sales cycle because we can scale the selling process and make it much smoother."
A Bright Future for Cloud Services
The cloud in all its forms has dramatically changed how businesses adopt technology. "It's important for partners to get ahead of the rapidly changing consumption model of technology," says Ament. "Ingram Micro can help partners transition into services." "When we made the transition to new types of recurring revenue services, we found that the platform was very difficult to accomplish efficiently," says Bell. "Ingram Micro has assisted us in shortening our sales cycle and allowing us to operate in an environment that is new, very competitive and detail-oriented. Ingram Micro's processes, expertise and cloud services portal facilitated that transition so we could go out and earn that business."
The ability to partner easily and with high confidence can make a big difference in closing more deals—and faster. With Ingram Micro communities such as Trust X Alliance and SMB Alliance, partners can work with like-minded peers to go after a solution or market opportunity.
"We leverage the Trust X Alliance for our clients in geographies where we don't have feet on the ground," says Overtoom. It's mutually beneficial, as other Trust X Alliance members have leveraged Sikich's expertise in security, compliance and enterprise software. "The ability to reach out to solution providers with whom we have relationships has helped us keep business as our clients have grown," says Overtoom.
Bell is also a big proponent. "The SMB Alliance is a fantastic option for someone who wants to extend their reach without having to put a whole lot of people on staff to get to the same point," says Bell.
Go Deeper In Verticals
Maximizing the value of technology often requires specialized knowledge of vertical markets, and solution providers can tap into Ingram Micro's expertise in healthcare, financial services, retail and public sector. "We have the market expertise on the sales side and the technology expertise in the business unit," says Anaya. "For instance, in healthcare, we have a doctor on staff who can help partners understand how doctors think."
Make a Lasting Impression
"Solution providers can use content to shorten the sales cycle," says Anaya. "Through Agency Ingram Micro, we arm partners with content they can use to help decision-makers find them and understand their options." That's especially important today, with a buying process that's collaborative between business and IT. Agency Ingram Micro can help partners develop the content they need for different marketing channels, including websites, executive events, social media, public relations and videos. "There's a convergence between sales and marketing that's rocking everyone's world," she says.
A Continued Commitment
Beyond resources and programs, Ingram Micro's focus on shortening the sales cycle comes down to its people. "We have a concerted effort to make Ingram Micro a great place to work, with motivated associates who are well-prepared to serve our clients," says Ament. "When we help our partners better serve their customers, we all earn better."
That philosophy goes a long way. "When you're trying to explain a need, a concern or a want, Ingram Micro listens," says Bell. "It sets the stage for the entire relationship."


This fragrance is the perfect start to Christmas Day. It throws a festive concoction of complex aromas that truly complement each other. Delightful fruity notes of lemon head this stunning Christmas fragrance with the intoxicating allure of cyclamen and pine. Final notes of spice, florals and amber complete this resonant fragrance.
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Olympic Casino Ogre is located in the city of Riga the capital and the largest city of Latvia. The small gaming area in the casino shares space with the OlyBet Bar and lounge area and features a sportsbook and approximately 20 slots. The casino offers complimentary Wi-Fi and hot coffee to go.
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Holiday product styling ideas can be a challenge when you're short on time and props. We're less than eight weeks away from Christmas and Hanukkah, so if you need some more inspiration for your blog, online shop or Instagram feed, here are five holiday product styling ideas using paper. Most or all don't need a special trip to the shops, depending on what you have around your home or office.
This looks great whether you cut out many stars the same size or use different sizes. You can match colours, use contrasting or additional supportive colours. You also could use patterns to add a point of interest.
Punch or cut a slit for ribbon, twine or metallic wire and write or embellish the card. It can go next to your product or on a wrapped gift box.
Cut up strips of paper that work with your product and make a short paper chain to drape around or on top of your product. In this example, I've picked up the warm metallic of the plate (from West Elm) and paired it with a copper wrapping paper.
Take a strip of paper + play around with thread and/or paint. You could pull the thread tight to make the paper ripple (especially if you used tissue paper) and would work especially well with a contrasting thread to give a colour pop.
Using paper for a strong background. You can cut a shape that corresponds with your product (in this case, a circle) or as a contrast, to give you leading lines into your product on either a vertical or horizontal photo. You could also add other relevant props or items to enhance your photo.
So there you have five ways to use paper for inexpensive styling of your holiday and Christmas offerings. If this has inspired you, I'd love to see your photos on Instagram – please tag @livingabstracts in your photos!


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He isn't a puppy he is two years old. When he was a puppy he was attacked by a coyote. Ever since then he either gets into fights with other dogs because he is in defense mode, or he picks on little dogs very much. I use to take him to dog parks but he doesn't know how to play. The big dogs thinks he's trying to show his dominance which he is and they attack. Up to at least 8 fights with large breed dogs. But if he comes across a small dog he is a total jerk to them. Great with humans by the way. He can't even play with puppy labs. He has to dominant them then when the dad comes along he turns into a pile of scarred schnauzer. Any help is appreciated!
My family rescued a schnauzer/irish wolfhound mix. She is spayed and roughly 8 months old. She is wonderful, friendly toward everyone, and super obedient. The problem is that within the last month (been with us 4 months now) she has started showing aggression toward my kids (ages 1 and 3) only when she's tired. She will be napping on the floor and suddenly wake up growling at them if they are too noisy or too close to her. Any other time she loves them! She doesn't bite but will jump up and nip them (leaves no marks whatsoever). If I tell her no or say her name like she's doing something wrong then she immediately stops but will go right back to it the minute she is disturbed again.
She's a wonderful dog any other time! And she is so good with my daughters as long as she's not tired. She's gentle with them, loves to play with them, and even does well when they play a little rough with her.
Her little outbursts are never directed at my husband or myself and are always when she is trying to sleep. Her gentleness is reassuring but it's still scary to see her jump up and nip them. What if one of these times she actually bites?
How can I help the situation? She already has her own spaces she can go to any time, two dog beds and a cage with a cushion. But she tends to prefer laying on our hard floors to stay cool.
Ever since my puppy came home at 8 1/2 weeks she has been very vocal. Not just barking and crying, but howls and rolls her barking almost like trying to tell you something. I realize adult dogs do this, but have never seen a puppy do this so early. Another sound she makes is an aggressive growl and bites or nips. She tends to do this often when playing or the playing begins to get rough. I try to give her down time and sleeping breaks, keeping play time to a short sessions. I notice the aggression tends to happen in the evening about an hour before bed time. She gets mad when we won't let her up on the couch and the aggressive growling and biting begins. Does this mean she could become a mean dog when she is older? What is the best remedy to stop this aggressive behavior.
I have a 5 month old cavapoo and he is lovely so gentle!
My wife and I just recently got Henry our 8 month old Schnauzer / Wheaton Terrier mix. We have had him for about 4 days now.
We did a meet and greet with our 2yr old dog Rin (dachsund / beagle mix) at the local animal shelter where he was and they were generally very happy together.
Since bringing Henry home, he's displayed on again / off again dominant behaviors towards Rin and us.
He uses his mouth and snaps a lot. He doesn't bite particularly hard but he makes Rin yelp a lot. He pesters her a lot and will not leave her alone when she doesn't want to play. He nips and bites at her to get attention and she ends up running around the house or into our laps for safety. She's generally miserable and we are having a hard time getting Henry to stop.
He even will mouth us and nip at us when we tell him now or lightly tap him away to stop. He continues to pester Rin even when she's in a chair or in our laps trying to escape and continues to mouth and nip at all of us.
I understand that the dogs are trying to find their place in the pack so to speak but just from a training perspective he's staring to leave marks on us too.
We're currently exercising the timeout routine to curb the excessive biting and nipping.
Any suggestions will help greatly. Thanks.
We already have a beautiful miniture schnauzer boy of six and we recently got a female standard cross Miniture Schnauzer. We have had her for four weeks and she is getting harder to control, the main problem is she will nip our dogs legs or muzzel whenever he moves, and our poor dog is really nervous of her.
He is very gentle and loves to play with the pup but she just keeps biting him in a nasty way, not playful. We are always saying no to her and we have tried taking her out of the same room even hitting her on the nose, which I know to be wrong but am at a loss with what to try next. If I get between them and try to protect our older dog she snaps at me,I just don't know how long we can keep her like this as there seems to be no nice times any moore. Please Help.
I was so excited to get a new puppy since I missed my girl mini schnauzer being a tiny pup. So my friends dog had a litter and gave me one. He was 7 weeks when I took him home because he was already biting his mom when he was being fed and fighting with his litter mate. He came to my home and bullied my 4 year old schnauzer. I'm aware he is teething but my first one didn't exhibit this type of biting behavior. He violently snaps at me, my dog, and my parents, he gets aggressive anytime we try to do anything with him. He is now 10 weeks and I'm not sure if I want to keep him or put him through training. I don't mind investing the money if this can be fixed but if it doesn't I'm not sure if I'll keep him.


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We discuss how the equilibrium shapes of a confined toroidal fluid membrane vesicle change when an adhesion between membrane and confining sphere is taken into account. The case without adhesion was studied in Ref. [1]. Different types of solution were found and assembled in a phase diagram as a function of area and reduced volume of the membrane. Depending on the degree of confinement the vesicle is either free, in contact along a circle (contact-circle solutions) or on a surface (contact-area solutions). All solutions without adhesion are up-down symmetric. When the container is adhesive, the phase diagram is altered and new kinds of solution without up-down symmetry are found. For increasing values of adhesion the region of contact-circle solutions shrinks until it vanishes completely from the phase diagram.
Steady, dihedrally symmetric patterns with sharp peaks may be observed on a spinning skirt, lagging behind the material flow of the fabric. These qualitative features are captured with a minimal model of traveling waves on an inextensible, flexible, generalized-conical sheet rotating about a fixed axis. Conservation laws are used to reduce the dynamics to a quadrature describing a particle in a three-parameter family of potentials. One parameter is associated with the stress in the sheet, aNoether is the current associated with rotational invariance, and the third is a Rossby number which indicates the relative strength of Coriolis forces. Solutions are quantized by enforcing a topology appropriate to a skirt and a particular choice of dihedral symmetry. A perturbative analysis of nearly axisymmetric cones shows that Coriolis effects are essential in establishing skirt-like solutions. Fully non-linear solutions with three-fold symmetry are presented which bear a suggestive resemblance to the observed patterns.
The growth of a thin elastic sheet imposes constraints on its geometry such as its Gaussian curvature KG. In this paper, we construct the shapes of sympetalous bell-shaped flowers with a constant Gaussian curvature. Minimizing the bending energies of both the petal and the veins, we are able to predict quantitatively the global shape of these flowers. We discuss two toy problems where the Gaussian curvature is either negative or positive. In the former case the axisymmetric pseudosphere turns out to mimic the correct shape before edge curling; in the latter case, singularities of the mathematical surface coincide with strong veins. Using a variational minimization of the elastic energy, we find that the optimal number for the veins is either four, five or six, a number which is deceptively close to the statistics on real flowers in nature.
We study the morphology of a fluid membrane in spherical confinement. When the area of the membrane is slightly larger than the area of the outer container, a single axisymmetric invagination is observed. For higher area, self-contact occurs: the invagination breaks symmetry and deforms into an ellipsoid-like shape connected to its outer part via a small slit. For even higher areas, a second invagination forms inside the original invagination. The folding patterns observed could constitute basic building blocks in the morphogenesis of biological tissues and organelles.
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AUGUST BREAK IN BURGUNDY
Last spring three friends made a bet that they could live in a château in Burgundy more cheaply than they could in a two bedroom London flat. They decided on a summer trial run.
Hrant, a close friend from undergrad, decided to drop in on them for a couple days. We planned to rendezvous at Gare Du Nord. He was making his way circuitously from Armenia back to Stanford, where he's doing his PhD. I bused and trained in from Oxford via London. Using the bus from Oxford to London and the 4-hour Eurostar from London to Paris as extensions of my office, I'd been working since 6am and was just wrapping up while waiting for him at Starbucks. Hrant and I hadn't seen each other in more than a year, but I keep finding that with good friends, you pick up where you left off as if no time had passed at all. A quick coffee turned into a "quick" champagne before our next train.
We caught the 6pm to Sens, a smallish city (population ~30k) in Burgundy, southeast of Paris. Our friends met us at the station in a beat-up car they said had broken down last week. They related the comedy of trying to find a French mechanic who didn't groan "but it's Saturday..." in response to their repair requests.
On the drive to the château in La Chapelle-sur-Oreuse, we stopped at a bakery to pick up their last pan au chocolat before closing. The back seat was a buttery-flakey mess as we pulled onto rue du château.
The 14th century château was postcard perfect. The sun was seting over its expansive green and yellow fields, illuminating a glass of white wine that rested languorously on a table outside the ivy-covered stone walls.
We ditched our bags and lounged in the unkempt garden to watch sunset. Our host brought out some watered-down pastis, a French anise apéritif. The nine of us were a mix of recent grads and PhD candidates in theoretical physics or engineering from MIT, Harvard, Oxford, or Stanford.
"Is now a good time for the champagne tasting?" one of our hosts asked. Meeting no objection, he dashed inside while another host gave Hrant and I a tour of the place.
Our first stop was the wine cellar, which was expansive and musty, but empty except for two lonely bottles of local red. Our next stop was the main reception on the ground level. Sleeping bags covered couches in front of a massive fireplace. A Ping-Pong table occupied an arched stone alcove, looking incongruous under a brass chandelier and in front of a two-story red velvet curtain leading to the front garden. Empty glass bottles covered all counter space in the butler's kitchen, waiting to be driven to the nearest recycling center. A long dining table that could easily seat twenty plus guests also occupied the ground floor, but it looked unused. The real living space was on the upper floors.
Up half a flight on the lopsided spiral staircase, we reached what looked like a front door, but upon opening it we found a sheer one-story drop along the château's stony outer wall –- an effective way to dispose of unwanted guests?
Further up the stairs we encountered a cozy sitting room complete with couches and high-backed velvet chairs around another fireplace. The room connected to a smaller dining area and a fairly modern kitchen. From a terrace adjoining the kitehcn, a château cat surveyed the neighbor's chickens.
Our host ran the champagne tasting much like ones I've had the good fortune to enjoy at Oxford. Two of our hosts had toured the vineyards in the nearby Champagne region and returned with their favorites, so needless to say they really knew what they were talking about. Many of us preferred the slipped in sparkling bourgogne (not technically a champagne; a NV Honoré Louis Crémant de Bourgogne Brut). Ed told us that in blind "champagne" tastings, most people prefer non-"champagnes" (even non-French Proseccos, Cavas, etc.). It reminded me of how susceptible we humans are to marketing and hype; how often we go with the crowd and don't really know what we want.
Candle wax had already dripped onto the tablecloth by the time we started dinner. After our second bowls of pasta, when I for one would ordinarily be settling into a carb-coma, someone got a Ping-Pong tournament going to German rap and Brittany Spears. Wine and conversations flowed well into the night.
The next day I woke with the sun and roamed the château with everyone still zonked. I felt like the one person awake during a Sleeping Beauty curse. I made a cup of tea and quietly enjoyed the library. People emerged at a more civilised hour and brunch cooking quickly commenced.
Individually, some people worked remotely, connecting to the library Wi-Fi, Skyping with their supervisors, etc. Those not so scholarly employed spent the afternoon reading or cooking. I thought of an advertisement that keeps appearing on my Facebook and Instagram: "Apply for a Remote Year." The concept is that you pay a set price to travel the world with a group of young professionals who all work remotely. I guess this is how it might work and it's not bad.
I thought of working, but tried not to. I'd planned in advance enough to be able to take these two days off and had just finished a paper on my summer field work; now was a good time to take a break. The library's enticing collection books proved a relaxing distraction.
I kept-up a habit I've developed recently of taking an hour's afternoon siesta. When I awoke, the crew was attempting the rather ridiculous endeavor of rigging a sous-vide in the tower bathtub to cook half a lamb. Sous-vide is a method of cooking meat very slowly till melt-in-your-mouth tenderness. I'd learned about the technique from this KickStarter a few years ago, but I had never seen one before, let alone tasted its output.
The sous-vide in place, the team set to frying calamari in a homemade spicy batter. Because of overfishing, I don't eat seafood except for bivalves, cephalopods, and lionfish (you can read why on my Act Now page), and calamari thankfully falls into the cephalopod category. We enjoyed a late "lunch" in the sunshine, wearing straw hats that came with the château, eating the small batches of calamari as they emerged from the kitchen, where two guests volunteered as chefs. Each batch improved, getting crispier. We finished with a ricotta lime cake topped with grape compote that a kitchen goddess had made from scratch while I was napping. Discussion of the next meal commenced immediately afterward; we had a château conundrum. The sous-vide lamb would be acceptable to eat around 9pm, but it would be at its best, mouth-watering, falling-off the bone, at around 5am. We decided to have dinner with the first round of lamb at 9pm, followed by a breakfast of lamb so scrumptious that it was worth waking up at 7am. No one objected to this plan.
With the next day's early start in mind, the evening quieted down earlier. In the morning, just hours before Hrant and I departed, we enjoyed an early morning farewell feast of what was indeed the most tender and delicious lamb I've ever eaten, paired with eggs, toast, foie gras, and just a little bit of red wine. It was the gastronomic pinnacle of our Epicurean stay and the perfect way to wrap-up our visit.
The neighbor's excitable dog joined the party bidding us farewell. The guests remaining had seen posters advertising a circus in town that night, so planned to attend and host an impromptu after-party. I was tempted to stay, but by that time Hrant would be flying over the Atlantic and I'd be at a Royal Geographic Society (RGS) conference in London thinking of what we were missing.
The experience was not unlike ones I've had on boats and expeditions. You learn to savor moments with the people around you because, well, you are stuck with them. You're not in the city, so you can't bounce from one attraction to the next, or pick-and-choose with whom you hang out. There's no compulsion to check your phone all the time because no one else is doing it and, frankly, why? After the RGS conference, rather than venturing into the city, I spent my time in the quiet of my Oxford apartment working more productively than usual. I wonder how I'd feel after a full "European August" off in such a lovely spot.


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The number nine is unhappy with his life on the bench and a move to Turkish football, where he will get regular first-team football, will come as an interesting choice.It is also reported that Galatasaray are also keeping tabs on the situation of Andy Carroll at West Ham. The form of players like Felipe Anderson and Marko Arnautovic has made it difficult forCarroll to get a place back in the West Ham team after returning from a long-term injury. He may be sent out on a short-term loan in order to rediscover his confidence. Other players who are also in the consideration happen to be Hoffenheim forward Adam Szalai.
Among all the choices, "it is expected that Galatasaray will be making the first move for Tottenham's Fernando Llorente considering the favourable situation". The forward is also keen for a move after having been in "English football for several" years since coming to Swansea. He moved to Turkish football will also help him stay in touch with the European game, as Galatasaray do happen to feature quite regularly in the Champions League and other major European competitions on a regular basis.


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Successful Suisse Sushi Soiree: Lusso meets Nobu
It all seemed so easy. After landing, this is how it looked on my itinerary:
11.13am: Zurich Airport to Zurich HB (Platform 3)
11.37am: Zurich HB to Chur (Platform 7)
12.58: Chur to St Moritz (Platform 10)
Arrive St Moritz 14.55pm*
*(A hotel transfer will be waiting for you)
Badrutt Palace's old world elegance, St. Moritz
The hotel sits slap-bang on the shore of the elliptical Lake St Moritz
His new venture here will be one of only six 'Matsuhisa' restaurants in the world
However, in the effort to get from my house to Gatwick to Zurich, I'd had to get up at 3.30am, mainly due to an overzealous minicab firm. Has anyone else ever got to an airport two hours early for a 7am flight? No? I win. Pyrrhically. Thus, by the time I board the Albula/Bernina Express at Chur, my mental faculties have begun to fade. This was a shame, since I was alert for the dull standard train out of Zurich. The Albula is a totally different kettle of rail porn. Part of Switzerland's Rhaetian Railway network, this serpentine narrow gauge single line snakes through some of the most spectacular vistas anywhere in the world.
The route climbs over 1000 metres in less than 70 km, over impossible achievements of engineering, such as the breathtaking Landwasser Viaduct, near Filisur, an arc of dark limestone, 65 metres high. Then there are the 54 other bridges and some 39 tunnels, including a near 6km penetration through the Albula Pass. I slump in the Panoramic carriage, mouth agape – half out of exhaustion and half out of drooling wonder. The fact that this is such a precious sight – UNESCO has listed the entire Albula valley as a World Heritage site – alongside that this was all accomplished at the very end of the 19th century soon forces me to focus tired eyes.
Luckily, that asterii is approaching. As we ascend through snowy cantons, each more picturesque than the last, the Swiss promise of a journey run like clockwork bears fruit.
I arrive dead on time and stagger out of St Moritz's chocolate box station. Here is the *. Waiting for me is a gleaming extended wheelbase Rolls-Royce Phantom accompanied by a chauffeur in peaked cap and red, gold and navy great coat. Snazzy doesn't cover it. I sink into cream leather for the long journey of about 500 metres to my destination. It was still worth it. That said, so's the destination.
Badrutt's Palace effectively is St. Moritz. Before the grand opening in 1896, the sleepy village by the lake was remembered as the site where an epiphanal Roman centurion of Egyptian origin was martyred in the third century. Things only really changed in September 1864, when a local hotelier, Johannes Badrutt, made a wager with four British summer guests: that if they returned in winter and preferred it, he would reimburse their travel costs. They did and they did and he did and winter tourism was conclusively born. The first European Ice-Skating Championships came in 1882, the first bobsleigh run and race in 1890. Newer events, like ice polo and Olympic events give way in summer to altitude training for distance athletes, particularly cyclists, runners, and race walkers.
The town maintains an air of graceful high-end insouciance that no doubt comes from having its cultural and commercial foundations rooted in the grand hotel tradition. Badrutt's dominates, partially by reputation, and partially by location – nestled as it is, slap-bang on the shore of the elliptical Lake St Moritz, equidistant between its two ends. Its distinctive mountain-shaped central tower that serves as the town's emblem dominates the built skyline, mirroring the real star of the vista, Piz Rosatsch, all 10,000 feet of her. The Badrutt experience is therefore about both what happens in the exceedingly fresh air and also under its carved wooden architraves and panels. The hotel boasts seven restaurants, including the bustling earthly pleasures of Chesa Veglia, the town's oldest farmhouse, dating back to 1658, which houses a fabulous pizzeria, a grill and two bars. Spas, service and housekeeping are all of an elevated level that one only hopes to find, but rarely does.
However, it's the hotel's newest eatery that has necessitated this visit. Nobuyuki Matsuhisa – better known to you and I simply as Nobu – is arriving by private jet from Italy at the nearby Engadin Airport. As his gunmetal bird streaks across the lake for landing, I'm whisked in Badrutt's other Roller to meet him. This beauty – a perfect specimen 1969 Phantom VI limo – lives safely underground and is available for guests to get pootled anywhere in the local environs. Abusing Switzerland's lax attitude to smoking laws, I puff a Hoya de Monterrey Corona in the back. Thus the press who are assembled to meet Chef Nobu swarm my car, thinking I'm very much someone. When availed of that notion, they trudge off in genuine disappointment. I feel a pang of hurt.
His new venture here will be one of only six 'Matsuhisa' restaurants in the world with Nobu himself present in the kitchen for the first few days of service. Luckily, over a few samples, we get a brief window to chat in his rather reassuringly expensive-looking new dining room, designed by, of course, Martin Brudnizki. The maestro of warm, welcoming lounge-type elegant eateries has created an open space for 108 guests that borrows from the best of the 1930s, 1940s and 1960s. A sushi bar showcases the kitchen behind it and over to the side a cocktail bar that evokes the Ivy or Dean St Townhouse.
I first ask the master of 'kokoro', or 'feeling with heart' what the main difference is between the Nobu chain and Matsuhisa. 'Simple,' he shoots back. 'No De Niro!'. In fact, Matsuhisa was his first solo venture in LA, opened in 1987. Robert De Niro was the regular customer and fan who chased him down for years, with the canny sense of opportunity he's brought to his other business ventures. They have collaborated on the Nobu brand since 1993. He talks in an English still charmingly faltering after all those years working in America (and appearing in Scorcese's Casino and Austin Powers), but warmth and openness will break through any language barrier.
Raised by his mother – his father having died when he was eight – Nobu first trained at a Tokyo sushi parlour, Matsuei. In a familiar echo of later events, an enthusiastic and entrepreneurial regular encouraged him, and at 24 he moved to Peru, where a large immigrant Japanese community needed the taste of home. How did he find Lima? 'Eye opening!' he recalls. 'A brand-new experience. And fish was never in short supply – back then, anyway.' But with few Japanese ingredients available, he had to improvise using Spanish-infused Mediterranean ingredients. 'Of course, I don't call it "fusion"'. Oh? What do you call it? 'Nobu-style, of course!'.
He recalls how he developed this style by utilising empathy, listening to the demands of customers and pleasing them. He developed his 'new-style sashimi' when he cooked some raw sushi for a nervous American lady, in increasingly hot olive oil, to her eventual great delight. This reveals that sense of care and love of pleasing that marks Nobu's own kokoro. However, that good heart has been tested. Before Los Angeles, he broke out on his own to another growth market, Alaska. In 1970, oil pipelines were creating a burgeoning economy. Just as it was due to open on Thanksgiving Day, and still uninsured, his new Anchorage restaurant burnt to the ground.
'How did that affect you?' I ask innocently. 'I almost killed myself,' he grimly recalls, nervously taking mints from a small tin. 'I couldn't eat, drink, or even talk and I was on the edge…'
He positions the tin on the edge of the table and insinuates it teetering. 'But you didn't…' I start to ask. 'The babies. Eight months old, and 18 months, were playing around me, happy to actually see their dad, because I'd been working so hard, they hadn't seen me much. And I heard a voice from God in the laughter of my daughters. My family saved my life.' I ask how he balances family life with an international empire of more than 30 venues that take him away for 10 months of the year. 'I'm still married after 42 years because I'm away 10 months a year!' he half-jokes. 'But in my chefs, I have family all over the world. They are all Matsuhisas.'
He shows this sense of warmth at the sake ceremony that night that marks the opening of the venue, mingling, cooking, shaking hands – even indulging my De Niro impression and then pulling his own version of the famous grimace. It's better than mine, but then he does know the man. The marriage of Matsuhisa's clean, elegant food and Badrutt's old world elegance will no doubt be considered a winning fusion … sorry, a Nobu-style success. And well worth taking planes, trains and overzealous mini cabs to get to.
Matsuhisa@Badrutt's Palace is open from 19th December 2014 to 14th March 2015. During the summer the location can be booked for events (price on request). For more information visit www.badruttspalace.com or call +41 (0) 81 837 2661.
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