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Leah grew up in a very poor but happy family. Her mother, Rona went to America to follow her own American dream for her family; a better future. Life is initially well for the Olivars, until a tragedy enters their lives that will prompt Leah to follow in her mother's footsteps, by way of a choir competition in San Francisco, California. After the contest, Leah will extend her stay in San Francisco to visit her mother's grave and find a way to legally work in the United States to earn money for her ill father, Sol. To her surprise, Leah will not find her mother's remains.
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4 Bedroom 3 bath, Solid surface throughout, hardwood throughout, outdoor fireplace, 3 car garage, fully landscape and irrigated
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How to check and solve the most common mobility scooter or power wheelchair problems:
The most common problems with a power wheelchair or mobility scooter will be related to the batteries, charging, circuit breakers, keys / switches, cables, connectors or free wheel levers. Direct battery problems occur because they're, old and can no longer hold a good charge, not that old but have been pre-maturely worn down (due to any number of reasons), or just not being fully charged.
IMPORTANT: Problems related to the batteries only, occur because the batteries are not fully charged, or it could be that the batteries are worn down and can not hold a proper charge. If the batteries are not holding a charge, and are old, you just need to have them replaced. If batteries are not that old, it may be that you have not been charging them properly (check the manual). If the batteries are not worn down but your device does not get the range it did, it could be that the motors or other components are drawing too much current from the batteries. It can even be a wheel that is dragging which will discharge the batteries quickly.
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BATTERIES - Mobility Scooter and Power Wheelchair Charging and Testing:
Q: How often should I charge?
A: Daily Users:
Charge daily. This applies to anyone who actually uses his or her equipment outside of the home.
Occasional Users:
Always be sure to charge before an outing and always after active use. The ideal recharge point is about 50% on a scooter or wheelchair gauge.
Q: How do I charge my MK Batteries correctly?
A: To properly charge your mobility battery, follow these simple procedures:
- Use the manufacturer's automatic charger for all routine charging.
- Never use an automotive or wet-type charger on gel/sealed batteries. (They'll quickly ruin your battery).
- Never run your battery completely flat.
- Don't "top off" the battery with frequent charging.
Q: How should a battery be stored?
A: - Always store your batteries FULLY CHARGED.
- Check all batteries once a month and recharge as needed.
- Wet batteries can hold their charge up to 3 months.
- Sealed batteries can hold a charge for up to 6 months.
- When storing a chair or scooter for more than 2 weeks, charge the batteries and then disconnect them.
- Avoid hot and cold extremes when storing.
Q: What is the proper way to store batteries for the Winter?
A: Store batteries fully charged. Check them once a month and recharge as needed. Sealed batteries can hold their charge from 6 to 12 months. Remember, if storing your chair for longer than a couple of weeks, it's best to charge the batteries and then disconnect them.
Q: I want to store my MK Gel batteries outside for the winter. At what temperature do the batteries freeze at?
A: MK Gel batteries can be stored in sub-freezing temperatures as low as -25°F without freezing as long as they are fully charged prior to storage. The self-discharge rate of fully-charged batteries is so low in these conditions that they will not require charging for many months; however, if your gel batteries are frozen … they will not always recover.
To attempt recovery the following is the best plan of action:
1) Bring them inside and let them sit at room temperature for two days. (They must reach 60°F).
2) Charge the batteries normally. (Follow standard safety procedures).
3) Run a capacity check either through a quality discharge tester or by operating your power wheelchair in a controlled environment.
4) If you don't get enough run time then repeat steps 2 and 3.
Q: Do I have a battery problem or a charging problem?
A: The Digital Voltmeter is still the most valuable tool in the Mobility Technician's arsenal for sealed batteries. The starting point for checking batteries is always the charge voltage. In 24-volt systems we know the chances for two bad batteries are less than 1 in 10,000. So what we need to determine is W HI CH battery is bad or if either battery is bad. This is accomplished by checking the voltage of each battery separately.
As illustrated in photo 1, voltage for a pair of batteries can read in excess of 24-volts which can incorrectly be assumed to be a good set. However, as shown in photo 2 one battery has a voltage of 12.89 volts while the battery in photo 3 is reading 11.97 volts. Combined, the voltage of this set of batteries looks good, but clearly the battery in photo 3 is bad.
Two batteries in a 24-volt system charge and discharge together almost as one 24-volt battery. A wide voltage separation between two batteries indicates that you may need to replace both batteries. If both batteries read similar voltage, they should be fully charged before doing any further testing.
If both batteries are below 12.0 volts, the question becomes, "WHY?" Is the battery charger working correctly? Could there be a problem with the wiring or other components of the wheelchair?
You can determine the next step in the troubleshooting process once you know the voltage of each battery.
Q: My batteries were over-discharged and my battery charger will not start. What do I do?
A: Have you ever had a customer state that their batteries will not take a charge even though the charger was plugged in overnight? When you checked their batteries, you found that they both read 9 volts? This is usually due to a light or a brake being left on for an extended period of time, which drains the batteries.
The reason why the charger is not working is that most wheelchair battery chargers need to read at least 21-22 volts in order to begin charging. This is how the polarity protection system of many chargers works. If the user were to hook up the positive and negative backwards, nothing would happen to the charger or the batteries because the batteries never read any voltage so it never started.
The drawback to this polarity protection design is when a user over-discharges their batteries below the 21-22 volt cutoff. Although the charger is connected, it does not receive the signal to begin the charging process so the batteries never get charged.
The best way to solve this problem is to remove the batteries from the wheelchair and charge each battery separately with a 12-volt battery charger. When each battery is fully charged, they can then be reinstalled in the chair and returned to service. Note: It may take the batteries up to 15 cycles to return to their former capacity if they have been severely discharged.
Things to Consider When Purchasing Wheelchair/Scooter Batteries...
* Discharge: Gel Cell is preferred for wheelchair and mobility scooter / power wheelchair batteries because of its deep cycle life span. The AGM battery will work nearly as well if the discharge rate is not below 50% before it is recharged.
* Range and Use: A battery's size determines its range. By size, we mean the Amp Hours the battery is rated for. A 30 AH battery has a range of approximately 10 miles, while a 98AH battery has an approximate range of 20 miles. Range depends, of course, on how and where you use your wheelchair or mobility chair and what features it has.
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Old Summer Palace (Ruins of Yuanmingyuan)
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Generally speaking, it consists of three parts - Yuanmingyuan, Wanchunyuan (the Garden of Blossoming Spring) and Changchunyuan (the Garden of Eternal Spring). These three gardens are often referred to as one common name: Yuanmingyuan. Hundreds of scenic spots in the Garden are made up of exquisitely constructed halls, pavilions, chambers, kiosks, earth and rock hills, rivers and ponds, and exotic flowers and grasses from different parts of the country. Indeed, it embodies the essence of Chinese ancient landscape gardening.
To be distinct from other traditional Chinese Gardens, the garden construction and horticulture of it is a harmonious blend of typical Chinese scenery and western architecture. The more famous scenic spots include, for example, the Grand Waterworks, the Throne for viewing the Waterworks and the Labyrinth. No wonder it was also called the 'garden of gardens' or the 'Versailles of the East' in Europe during that era. Furthermore, it was also an imperial museum that collected a large number of books, treasures and cultural artifacts. However, a large number of these collections were plundered by the Anglo-French Allied Forces in 1860, at the same time as the Garden was burnt down. Now, most of these historical curiosities are displayed in the other countries' museums, including the British Museum; Bibliotheque Nationale de France; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA; Oslo Museum of Applied Art and so on.
Each year, a Lotus Fetival is held in this garden from June to August. Changchun Garden is the best place to appreciate lotus flowers.
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Important recent advances in chemical synthesis, from this laboratory and others, have provided powerful new strategies for the homogeneous assembly of "biologic" targets, such as proteins, glycoproteins, and carbohydrates. With the development of increasingly sophisticated methods for the synthesis of glycans and peptides, and for the merger of these individual domains, it is possible to bring to bear the power of chemical synthesis on the assembly of therapeutically relevant biologic agents. The capacity to synthesize peptides, glycopeptides, proteins, and glycoproteins in homogeneous form will provide important opportunities. In contrast to biologically controlled processes, which often yield complex product mixtures, synthesis can allow for high levels of control in terms of product purity and homogeneity. Moreover, through recourse to chemical means, it is possible to achieve rapid and controlled syntheses of collections of analogs bearing mutations and constraints along the peptide backbone or in the glycan domain. Synthetic analogs bearing targeted amino acid or glycan mutations may be evaluated to examine the relative impact of individual structural features on stability, activity, and secondary structure. This proposal seeks to apply recent methodological advances in this field to the convergent syntheses of biologic targets and synthetic analogs. These synthetic structures will be evaluated in preclinical settings through collaborative efforts. In Project 1, we expect that the synthesis of the glycoprotein hematopoietic agent, erythropoietin (EPO) in homogeneous form will be achieved. Fully synthetic single glycoform EPO will be evaluated in biological studies, and a range of homogeneous EPO analogs will be synthesized with the goals of obtaining optimal stability and reactivity, and of identifying the minimum structural features required for activity. Project 2 anticipates the synthesis and evaluation of the osteoporosis therapeutic agent, human Parathyroid Hormone and analogs thereof, with the objective of identifying a structure that displays enhanced pharmacostability while preserving or even enhancing biological activity. Project 3 encompasses the synthesis and evaluation of the heterodimeric glycoprotein, thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH). Analog structures will be prepared with a view toward discovering TSH analogs with enhanced iodine uptake ability and pharmacostability. Project 4 seeks to identify the minimal glycopeptide sequence necessary to simulate the anti-inflammatory properties of the IgG Fc glycopeptide. The goal of Project 5 involves development of a series of carbohydrate-based anticancer vaccines and their advancement to clinical evaluation. Finally, Project 6 is directed toward the continuing development of peptide and glycopeptide ligation methods. In summary, we envision a multifaceted research program that integrates chemistry and translational development with a view to advancing the fields of both chemical synthesis and medicine.
This proposal seeks to accomplish the synthesis of biologically active peptides and glycopeptides with improved properties for medicinal application. Target structures include erythropoietin (EPO), parathyroid hormone (PTH), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), immunoglobulin G glycopeptide, and an array of carbohydrate-based anticancer vaccine constructs.
|Wilson, Rebecca M; Danishefsky, Samuel J (2013) A vision for vaccines built from fully synthetic tumor-associated antigens: from the laboratory to the clinic. J Am Chem Soc 135:14462-72
|Shang, Shiying; Tan, Zhongping; Danishefsky, Samuel J (2011) Application of the logic of cysteine-free native chemical ligation to the synthesis of Human Parathyroid Hormone (hPTH). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:5986-9
|Tan, Zhongping; Shang, Shiying; Danishefsky, Samuel J (2011) Rational development of a strategy for modifying the aggregatibility of proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:4297-302
|Shang, Shiying; Tan, Zhongping; Dong, Suwei et al. (2011) An advance in proline ligation. J Am Chem Soc 133:10784-6
|Wu, Xiangyang; Stockdill, Jennifer L; Wang, Ping et al. (2010) Total synthesis of cyclosporine: access to N-methylated peptides via isonitrile coupling reactions. J Am Chem Soc 132:4098-100
|Zhu, Jianglong; Warren, J David; Danishefsky, Samuel J (2009) Synthetic carbohydrate-based anticancer vaccines: the Memorial Sloan-Kettering experience. Expert Rev Vaccines 8:1399-413
|Wang, Ping; Zhu, Jianglong; Yuan, Yu et al. (2009) Total synthesis of the 2,6-sialylated immunoglobulin G glycopeptide fragment in homogeneous form. J Am Chem Soc 131:16669-71
|Li, Xuechen; Yuan, Yu; Kan, Cindy et al. (2008) Addressing mechanistic issues in the coupling of isonitriles and carboxylic acids: potential routes to peptidic constructs. J Am Chem Soc 130:13225-7
|Wan, Qian; Chen, Jin; Yuan, Yu et al. (2008) Oxo-ester mediated native chemical ligation: concept and applications. J Am Chem Soc 130:15814-6
|Li, Xuechen; Yuan, Yu; Berkowitz, William F et al. (2008) On the two-component microwave-mediated reaction of isonitriles with carboxylic acids: regarding alleged formimidate carboxylate mixed anhydrides. J Am Chem Soc 130:13222-4
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For physics, I had to construct a boat that would successfully race down a 3m PVC track. We had limits on the dimensions, as well as the total voltage of the battery. The boat is really ugly, but it is fully functional. I attempted to model it after a catamaran, but it was no where near being the fastest in my class. It is made mostly of pink construction foam and hot glue.
I did not pick the paint, my partner did because I didn't care. It is also her handwriting on the boat.
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Let Us Pause A Moment In Celebration of Heart
Long before their era of lousy, stone washed power balladry, the sisterly duo of Ann and Nancy Wilson--A/K/A Heart--were nothing short of majestic in their heaviness.
At least to my older brother and me.
Cassette copies of Little Queen and Dreamboat Annie in all their newfangled, j-card cased glory were brought on the annual family vacation to Wildwood, NJ, in the summer of '77 by my brother and jammed from his crapola boom box nightly. The thunder of "Sing Child" and "Kick it Out" shot out into the dense black ocean night from the porch of our bungalow. My brother swung from the porch swing and stared into oblivion. I merely nodded along to the tunes feeling elated just to be a part of the harmless proceedings.
The impact Heart had on me in my toddler years more or less evaporated until somewhere in my late 20s when I found myself in complete shitsville. I was living a Chris Peterson-esque lifestyle above some old bag's garage in my hometown after traipsing back and forth around the country like some stinking hobo. Dollar vinyl copies of the above mentioned titles were found and initially purchased for a giggle. Although I was way beyond poor, I felt I could still afford such luxuries. See Also: - The Year of the Woman - VH1's Rock Honors: A Running Diary
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While I puffed on low grade weed and planned absolutely no moves to get out of the rut I had gladly and clumsily dug myself into, these records managed to be both nostalgic and revelatory. As just a young snot, I didn't have the ears to comprehend the desperation in the song cycle of Dreamboat Annie nor the brain power to fathom the sheer audacity it took to propel such guttural femininity in the world of the cock rock '70s.
Like many rockers of the era unsure of their future, the Wilson sisters were sadly swayed into the realm of '80 schlock, forever tarnishing their reputation. But it seems 2012 might be the year Heart gets remembered for being the groundbreakers they are rather than the cheese balls they're known as to anyone born after Reagan took office.
Earlier this year we saw the release of the Strange Euphoria box set which lays out their entire career from the demos of their monster hits of the '70s to the present day and the recently released memoirs of the sisters entitled Kicking and Dreaming is yet another volley to their validity as pioneers in the dude driven rock world. And yesterday saw the release of Fanatic, the group's fourteenth studio album which contains a fistful of tracks just as heavy and emotional as any of the tracks found on those classic full lengths. Hopefully the set list for the show tonight at the Beacon will follow the trajectory of the clips below and give some rest to the stuff like These Dreams and Alone. One can only hope.
The title track from Heart's newest is heavy 'n' slinky, no?
"Sing Child"
Possibly the greatest track in their repertoire. Why some DJ asshole hasn't used the flute breakdown in this song for a break is lost on me. I guess it's for the best."Devil Delight"
At first, you'd just take this is as Heart's attempt at re-writing 'When the Levee Breaks
," but halfway through it begins to float like a marshmallow in a cup full of codeine. Very 'nod' worthy."White Lightening and Wine"
That classic sly Heart groove permeates throughout this whole track. Feathered earrings are optional whilst listening to it. Bonus: Cowbell
"Kick it Out"
A short 'n' potent rager.
"I've got the Music in Me"
A kick ass take on a very lame ass song.
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text: Rangers Set For Historic Season - Just Ask ThemBarry Petchesky2/26/10 2:20pmFiled to: MlbTexas RangersJosh Hamiltonnelson cruzjulio borbon40EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Hope springs eternal at Spring Training. But in Rangers camp, someone appears to have spiked the Gatorade with Prozac. Because players are throwing out pie-in-the-sky predictions like no one's business. Advertisement Just so we're clear, this is a team that probably overperformed last year, and still missed out on the playoffs. So last week when Josh Hamilton predicted 96 wins, it turned a few heads. Really, adding Rich Harden and Chris Ray is going to give you a shot at homefield advantage through the playoffs?But now that individual players have begun to weigh in with their own predictions, it starts to make sense. Hambone says to expect a full season from him, rather than the 89 games he played in last year. Add to that a 30-30 year from Nelson Cruz: Advertisement Asked if he was capable of having a 30-homer, 30-steal season, Cruz wholeheartedly said he was. Then, when asked if he cared to guarantee it, he thought for a moment before saying he would, in fact, become the second Ranger in as many years to join the 30-30 club.That sounds like a lot to ask, but then you consider the fact that Cruz won't even lead the team in stolen bases, not by a long shot.Earlier in camp, I asked [Gary] Pettis what he thought was a realistic range of steals for [Julio] Borbon to reach in his first full season in the majors.Pettis said he'd be disappointed if Borbon failed to reach 30."He ought to be disappointed if I don't get to 50," Borbon said.Other things the Rangers will accomplish in 2010:•Become the first team to send all 25 players to the All-Star Game. •Go 161-1, but only out of humility. •Start a home run conga line, like in that Bugs Bunny cartoon. •Cure cancer. •Make C.J. Wilson's Twitter more entertaining than Ozzie Guillen's. •Fit Jarrod Saltalamacchia's name comfortably on a uniform. •Once and for all establish that their dancers are not whores. Hamilton 'ready,' expects 96 wins [MLB.com] Morning briefing: Nelson Cruz's bold guarantee, the Tao of "B" games and, um, Lady Antebellum [Dallas Morning News] Could Julio Borbon break Texas Rangers' steal record? [Dallas Morning News]Reply40 repliesLeave a reply


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Jewish Museum, Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) is one of the largest Jewish Museums in Europe. In three buildings, two of which are new additions specifically built for the museum by architect Daniel Libeskind, two millennia of German-Jewish history are on display in the permanent exhibition as well as in various changing exhibitions. German-Jewish history is documented in the collections, the library and the archive, in the computer terminals at the museum's Rafael Roth Learning Center, and is reflected in the museum's program of events. The museum was opened in 2001 and is one of Berlin's most frequented museums (almost 720,000 visitors in 2012).[1]
Opposite the building ensemble, the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin was built – also after a design by Libeskind – in 2011/2012 in the former flower market hall. The archives, library, museum education department, and a lecture hall can all be found in the academy.[2]
Princeton economist W. Michael Blumenthal, who was born in Oranienburg near Berlin and was later President Jimmy Carter's Secretary of the Treasury, was the director of the museum from 1997 to 2014; Peter Schäfer was appointed as the new director in September 2014.[3]
- 1 History
- 2 Design
- 3 Permanent exhibition
- 4 Special exhibitions
- 5 Installation Shalekhet – Fallen leaves
- 6 Rafael Roth Learning Center
- 7 Collections and Archives
- 8 The Leo Baeck Institute Archive
- 9 The W. Michael Blumenthal Academy
- 10 Images
- 11 Sources
- 12 References
- 13 Further reading
- 14 External links
- 15 See also
The first Jewish Museum in Berlin was founded on Oranienburger Straße in 1933, but was closed soon thereafter, in 1938, by the Nazi regime. In 1976 a "Society for a Jewish Museum" formed and, three years later, the Berlin Museum, which chronicled the city's history, established a Jewish Department,[4] but already, discussions about constructing a new museum dedicated to Jewish history in Berlin were being held.[5]
In 1988, the Berlin government announced an anonymous competition for the new museum's design. A year later, Daniel Libeskind's design was chosen by the committee for what was then planned as a "Jewish Department" for the Berlin Museum. While other entrants proposed cool, neutral spaces, Libeskind offered a radical, zigzag design, which earned the nickname "Blitz" ("Lightning").[6]
Construction on the new extension to the Berlin Museum began in November 1992.[4] The empty museum was completed in 1999 and attracted over 350,000 people before it was filled and opened on September 9, 2001.[7][8]
The Jewish Museum Berlin is located in what was West Berlin before the fall of the Wall.[9] Essentially, it consists of two buildings – a baroque old building, the "Kollegienhaus" (that formerly housed the Berlin Museum) and a new, deconstructivist-style building by Libeskind. The two buildings have no visible connection above ground. The Libeskind building, consisting of about 161,000 square feet (15,000 square meters), is a twisted zig-zag and is accessible only via an underground passage from the old building.[8][10]
For Libeskind, "The new design, which was created a year before the Berlin Wall came down, was based on three conceptions that formed the museum's foundation: first, the impossibility of understanding the history of Berlin without understanding the enormous intellectual, economic and cultural contribution made by the Jewish citizens of Berlin, second, the necessity to integrate physically and spiritually the meaning of the Holocaust into the consciousness and memory of the city of Berlin. Third, that only through the acknowledgement and incorporation of this erasure and void of Jewish life in Berlin, can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future."[11] A line of "Voids," empty spaces about 66 feet (20 m) tall, slices linearly through the entire building. Such voids represent "That which can never be exhibited when it comes to Jewish Berlin history: Humanity reduced to ashes."[8][10][12]
In the basement, visitors first encounter three intersecting, slanting corridors named the "Axes." Here a similarity to Libeskind's first building – the Felix Nussbaum Haus – is apparent, which is also divided into three areas with different meanings. In Berlin, the three axes symbolize three paths of Jewish life in Germany – continuity in German history, emigration from Germany, and the Holocaust.[10][12]
The first axis ends at a long staircase that leads to the permanent exhibition. The second axis connects the Museum proper to the E.T.A. Hoffmann Garden, or The Garden of Exile, whose foundation is tilted. The Garden's oleaster grows out of reach, atop 49 tall pillars. The third axis leads from the Museum to the Holocaust Tower, a 79-foot (24 m) tall empty silo. The bare concrete Tower is neither heated nor cooled, and its only light comes from a small slit in its roof. The Jewish Museum Berlin was Libeskind's first major international success.[10][12]
In recent years, Libeskind has designed two structural extensions: a covering made of glass and steel for the "Kollegienhaus" courtyard (2007),[13] and the Eric F. Ross Building, which houses the Academy of the Jewish Museum in the former flower market hall on the opposite side of the street (2012).[12][14]
In 2016, a jury appointed by the Jewish Museum Berlin awarded the first prize in an architectural competition for a new €3.44 million children's museum for 5 to 12 year-olds to Olson Kundig Architects; the second prize was awarded to the Berlin firm Staab Architekten and third prize to Michael Wallraff of Vienna. The planned children's museum will be housed in the Eric F. Ross Building and is scheduled to open in 2019.[15]
Permanent exhibition[edit]
"Two Millennia of German Jewish History" presents Germany through the eyes of the Jewish minority. The exhibition begins with displays on medieval settlements along the Rhine, in particular in Speyer, Worms and Mayence. The Baroque period is regarded through the lens of Glikl bas Judah Leib (1646–1724, also known as Glückel von Hameln), who left a diary detailing her life as a Jewish business woman in Hamburg. The intellectual and personal legacies of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) are next; both figures are flanked by depictions of Jews in court and country. The Age of Emancipation in the nineteenth century is represented as a time of optimism, achievement and prosperity, though setbacks and disappointments are displayed as well. German-Jewish soldiers fighting for their country in World War I stand at the beginning of the twentieth century. One focus of the exhibition is Berlin and its development into a European metropolis. The Jews living here as merchants and entrepreneurs, scientists and artists, were pioneers of the modern age.[16][17]
In the section on National Socialism, emphasis is placed on the ways in which Jews reacted to the increasing discrimination against them, such as founding Jewish schools and social services. After the Shoah, 250 000 survivors waited in "Displaced Persons" camps for the possibility to emigrate. At the same time, small Jewish communities in West and East were forming. At the end, two major Nazi trials of the post-war period are considered – the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial (1963-1965) and the Majdanek trial in Düsseldorf (1975-1981). The exhibition tour concludes with an audio installation of people who grew up in Germany reporting on their childhood and youth after 1945. A new chapter of Jewish life in Germany began with them.[16][17][18]
Special exhibitions[edit]
Changing exhibitions present a broad range of themes, eras and genres. Notable exhibitions are: The Whole Truth … everything you always wanted to know about Jews (2013); Obsessions (2012–2013); How German is it? 30 Artists' Notion of Home (2011–2012); Kosher & Co: On Food and Religion (2009–2010); Looting and Restitution: Jewish-Owned Cultural Artifacts from 1933 to the Present (2008–2009); Typical!: Clichés about Jews and Others (2008); Home and Exile: Jewish Emigration from Germany since 1933 (2006–2007); Chrismukkah: Stories of Christmas and Hanukkah (2005–2006); 10+5=God (2004); and Counterpoint: The Architecture of Daniel Libeskind (2003).[8][12][16][17][18]
Installation Shalekhet – Fallen leaves[edit]
10 000 faces punched out of steel are distributed on the ground of the Memory Void, the only "voided" [clarification needed] space of the Libeskind Building that can be entered. Israeli artist Menashe Kadishman dedicated his artwork not only to Jews killed during the Shoah, but to all victims of violence and war. Visitors are invited to walk on the faces and listen to the sounds created by the metal sheets, as they clang and rattle against one another. Other art installations exhibited permanently in the museum are by Arnold Dreyblatt, Minka Hauschild, and Via Lewandowsky.[8][16][18]
Rafael Roth Learning Center[edit]
The Rafael Roth Learning Center is located in the basement of the Jewish Museum Berlin. Here, Jewish history is presented in a multimedia and interactive way at 17 computer terminals for individual visitors and groups. Under the headings of "Things", "Stories", and "Faces", visitors are introduced to special highlights of the collection and can deepen their knowledge in larger-scale virtual exhibitions – for example on the life story of Albert Einstein or Eastern European immigration between 1880 and 1924. Video interviews offer insight into Jewish life in Germany today. This center is named the after the Berlin real estate entrepreneur and patron Rafael Roth (1933-2013).[8][16][17][18]
Collections and Archives[edit]
The Jewish Museum's collections date back to the 1970s, when the Society for a Jewish Museum formed. The first acquisitions were Jewish ceremonial artworks belonging to the Münster Cantor Zvi Sofer. Soon, fine art, photography and family memorabilia were acquired. The collection is now divided into four areas: ceremonial objects and applied arts, fine arts, photography, and lastly, everyday culture. The museum archive safeguards over 1,500 family bequests, in particular from the eras of the Empire, the First World War, and Nazism. The library comprises 60 000 media on Jewish life in Germany and abroad.[16][17]
The Leo Baeck Institute Archive[edit]
Since September 2001, there has been a branch of the archive of the New York Leo Baeck Institute[19] at the Jewish Museum. The LBI has its principal office in New York and holds the most comprehensive collection of materials on the history of Jews in Germany, Austria, and other German-speaking areas in Central Europe of the last 300 years – including about one million documents such as local authority records, personal documents, correspondence, a photo archive as well as numerous testimonies from religious, social, cultural, intellectual, political, and economic life. The collection of more than 1,200 memoirs of German-speaking Jews (also and especially from the post-Nazi era) is unique.[12][16][17][18]
The W. Michael Blumenthal Academy[edit]
The Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin was opened in 2012 to create a place of research and discussion that goes beyond Jewish history and present, expanding the museum's spectrum to include the themes of migration and diversity. Its aim is to serve as a "platform for analysis and discussion about Germany as an immigration destination and the emerging pluralistic society."[12][16][17][18][20]
Philosopher Moses Mendelssohn's eyeglasses.
Money used in the Terezin Ghetto.
- Van Uffelen, Chris. Contemporary Museums - Architecture, History, Collections, Braun Publishing, 2010; ISBN 978-3-03768-067-4, pp. 214–17.
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- ^ Rosenfield, Karissa (17 November 2012). "Daniel Libeskind's Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin Opens Today". ArchDaily.
- ^ "Directors". Jewish Museum Berlin. Retrieved 5 September 2016.
- ^ a b Jewish Museum Berlin. "Presentation of the history of the museum on the Jewish Museum Berlin website, part 1: Background". Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ Jewish Museum Berlin. "Presentation of the history of the museum on the Jewish Museum Berlin website, part 2: Controversies and Contradictions". Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ Breslau, Karen (3 February 1992). "The New Face of Berlin". Newsweek. pp. 60–62.
- ^ Jewish Museum Berlin. "A Perfectly Normal Museum?". Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f Jewish Museum Berlin. "Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum Berlin". Retrieved 9 December 2014.
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- ^ Jewish Museum Berlin. "Information about the design and creation of the glass courtyard". Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ Jewish Museum Berlin. "Information about the design and creation of the academy". Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ Catherine Hickley (August 11, 2016), Berlin plans Jewish museum for children inspired by Noah's Ark The Art Newspaper.
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Further reading[edit]
- The Last Jews in Berlin, by Leonard Gross; ISBN 0-553-23653-9.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jüdisches Museum Berlin.
- Website of the museum
- Blogerim, the Jewish Museum Berlin's Blog
- Museum's YouTube channel
- Jewish Museum Berlin at Google Cultural Institute
- Global Directory of Jewish Museums
- detailed November 2001 review for Virtual Library Museums by Susannah Reid, University of Newcastle
- A Short Photographic Essay on the Museum
- Interview with Daniel Libeskind from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Website of Studio Daniel Libeskind - with descriptions of the Jewish Museum, the glass courtyard, and the academy


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Integrating Agile and ITSM
Every week a new production release and often changing requirements and priorities – this is daily life in agile environments. How does this project delivery approach (usually: SCRUM) fit into existing IT Service Management processes (usually: ITIL)? How do we manage for example the increasing trade-off between flexibility and stability? How do we make sure operational service-requirements are reflected in an early phase of an agile project? How do ITSM-roles and SCRUM-roles chime together? Can ITIL and SCRUM coexist? YES, definitely!
Before we proceed on that, just to make sure that things don't get mixed up:
- This blog is not about using agile project delivery methods to drive ITSM initiatives forward (I call this CSI 2.0: An very promising, but completely different topic)
- I hope it's also not one of these wishy-washy "let's go agile ITSM" blogs, which promote that we now should forget all the processes and become 'cool agile'. In my opintion, there is on the ITSM-side a lack of understanding, that SCRUM is an extremely structured approach, but within these boundaries promotes the principle of self-organization. Often, only the second part is perceived and 'becoming agile' acts as a bad excuse for the chaos.
- So this is rather about how to integrate a specific Project Management approach with ITIL. Especially if agile project methodology is used for existing products or services (being already in operation), a tight integration into your Service Management processes is key.
Developing the Model
Step 1: Understanding the two Domains and their Goals
ITIL and SCRUM do not contradict each other. There is no incompatibility. SCRUM is a specific way to deliver projects, it's an iterative, adaptive and incremental approach to project management. You can use it for any kind of project, even outside IT, and has become by far the most popular agile methods. ITIL is about best practice IT Service Management. It's a holistic collection of ideas and processes on how to define, design, transition, run and finally continuously improve services (-> that's the service lifecylce). ITIL takes the operational point of view into consideration, acknowledging that value to the customer is delivered during service operation and therefore operational requirements must be reflected in an early phase of Service Design. ITIL is agnostic on what PM methodology is used. So ITIL and SCRUM are rather complementary. Similar if you would look at ITIL and Prince. The challenge is how the two interact.
Step 2: Understand how the two Domains fit together on high Level
ITIL and SCRUM fit perfectly on high level. From ITIL perspective, SCRUM starts with Service Design and ends with the delivery of a product or service (well, actually it starts over and over again). I made below graph to illustrate this:
So, let's quickly walk through the SCRUM process and you will immediately understand what this buzz is all about:
- Service Design: Starting from the approved business case, requirements are gathered in form of user stories & prioritized. The result is the prioritized product backlog.
- Service Transition: This is handled through timeboxed sprints (typically between 1-6 weeks each sprint). Each sprint starts with a sprint planning meeting, in which user stories are included for the next sprint (-> sprint backlog, a subset of the product backlog). Daily standup meetings help to track progress and to eliminate impedimends. The sprint ends on the one hand with the sprint review meeting, in which the new/changed service or product is formally accepted. On the other hand, there is the Sprint Retrospect Meeting, which results in the lessons learned for the next sprint.
Step 3: Tackling the Challenges
Don't forget Operations
One issue with purely SCRUM-driven projects is that they don't care about Service Operation and focus very much on the utility (functional requirements) of a new product or service. Solutions are thrown over the fence and especially warranty-aspects of a new service (capacity, availability, security and continuity) are not taken into consideration and at the end of the chain the service doesn't deliver it's value. DevOps provides some ideas on how to solve this. One of the big contributions of ITIL is that these operational aspects are already reflected in an early stage of the Service Design phase. Applied to SCRUM, this would mean that already during creation of User Stories and the Product Backlog these requirements are gathered. During the sprint, teams taking care of these aspects (e.g. infrastructure) need to be part of the Scrum Team.
Change Management & Release Planning
From an operational perspective, Change Management acts as a protector of the productive environment, identifying risks of each change and preventing negative impact. More broadly , you can put every change on a Configuration Item under Change Control (e.g. product backlog, which is created in Service Design). The tricky question is to which extend. On the one hand it will give you more stability; on the other hand you add more administration and loose flexibility. So it's a trade-off. Change Control is also a big topic in SCRUM, for example each sprint end with a sprint review meeting, in which the product owner reviews and approves the sprint. Or in Service Design, the product owner acts as a gatekeeper for each user story (change control over requirements). So putting this picture together, there are many instances of change control:
To achieve the right balance between flexibility and stability it is key a) to decide, what you want to put under change control and b) moreover to apply the right delegation models. For example:
- Change control over the Product Backlog is delegated to the Product Owner. However, Service Operation teams should be involved as well to ensure operational warranty requirements are included as well in the user stories;
- Change Control over the sprint results is delegated to the Product Owner and in case the sprint shall be included in a future release, the regular operational CAB acts as an approver too;
- Change Control over the Sprint Backlog is delegated to the Product Owner, Scrum Team and Scrum Master and the regular Release Planning Team.
Test Automation
Using agile project methodologies means frequent releases. Testing can become a real pain. This concerns less the testing of new functionality, but rather the regression testing (checking if existing functionality has been affected by new release, repetitive). Automating regression tests is key. Test factory teams need to be involved early and based on the product backlog develop test cases need to be developed and automated.
Step 4: Integrating SCRUM- and ITIL-Roles
Scrum knows only three key roles: The Product Owner ('voice of the customer'), Scrum Master (the facilitator) and the Scrum Team (the developers). ITIL knows many roles, but Service Owner, Change Manager, CAB and CSI Manager seem to be very relevant to me in this context.
- ITIL Service Owner and SCRUM Product Owner: If we talk about existing services, it makes sense that the two roles are incorporated in the same person. Both roles act as a voice of the customer and know the requirements side. On the software side, this is often represented by the Application Owner.
- Change Management: Scrum Master and Product Owner need to be part of the CAB if it comes to the release of a sprint. The Product Owner acts as CAB approver from a sprint backlog point of view.
- CSI Manager and Scrum Master: Continuos learning is an integral concept in Scrum: In sprint retrospective meetings, process improvements are identified. In the daily scrum meetings, impediments which hinder success are eliminated. This is all happening under Scrum Master responsibility. Structural improvements out of the Scrum process should be considered from overall organizational developement perspective and become part of the CSI register, therefore the Scrum Masters and the CSI Manager should liase on a regular base.
So I hope this gave you some ideas on how to bring the two worlds together. Scrum is not just for developing new products in an isolated world. It has become mainstream for tackling Service Design & Transition for existing Services. Finally, we talk here also about two worlds, which historically do not talk to each other. One the one hand the developer guys, on the other hand the operation guys. This is why we needs an integrated & practical approach on how to bring them together and finally a mutual understanding how both worlds work.
Don't see it as a threat, see it as an opportunity.
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Excellent article – thank you. IK agree that Agile is an overlay and introduces different gearing (rates of change) for specific scenarios, presently not considered within ITIL beyond the priority/impact discussion. Some questions for you and others to ponder.
1) How would you incorporate the design of the service experience into both the requirements side and the support side?
2) How might you factor in the cost of support – total – break/fix and general requests, and offer comparisons with the speed of the agile part of the process?
3) This assumes a service lifecycle backbone, what about agile and a continuous improvement system, and the situation where an organization does not have a formalized 'service lifecycle' but can identify and begin to define a problem and its impact?
4) How could you reconcile the concepts of sprints and service plans, and wallboards (sprint task status) and the change schedule?
Thank you for the diagrams as they are very helpful. My experience has seen software being developed in iterations (releases) with each iteration including multiple sprints and delivering a usable product to users. I would like to modify your diagram to show multiple iterations and also how operations provides feedback to the product backlog after each rollout. Are you willing to share the original (if it is PowerPoint or Visio)?
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Hello Alex,
In what you've described above, is there a role for the "traditional" Change Manager to play in Dev Ops? It seems that the Application Owner from Operations and the Product Owner from SCRUM should be the main roles to approve a Change Request, since they clearly understand the changes, their impacts on production, risks and values to the users.
Our "traditional" Change managers role was to really review the request and make sure all the documentation requirements are there, but in reality do not have the knowledge or bandwidth to join all the Sprint meetings and work closely with Development for this Leaner model of the Change Management process.
So, in my view, they will not have a role to play in this process, or have I missed something?
Just wondering, that is the best methodology to do Knowledge transition to new supplier in Agile ITSM world? the transition should be rapid but effective to ensure no disruption to the BAU activities in the production.
I think there are some misinterpretations regarding Agile in general and Scrum in particular. For instance:
"SCRUM is a specific way to deliver projects, it's an iterative, adaptive and incremental approach to project management." No, Scrum is first and foremost about products, it is not about projects.
Directly taken from the Scrum Guide: "Each Sprint may be considered a project with no more than a one-month horizon. Like projects, Sprints are used to accomplish something." [http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#events-sprint] If anything Sprints are like projects. Again quoted from the Scrum Guide, this time the very first sentence: "Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products." [http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html#purpose] There we have it: it is about products, about development and sustainment at that! What's the value of a product that is not working properly, in the short term and in the in the long term?
Which brings us to the next point: "One issue with purely SCRUM-driven projects is that they don't care about Service Operation and focus very much on the utility (functional requirements) of a new product or service. Solutions are thrown over the fence and especially warranty-aspects of a new service (capacity, availability, security and continuity) are not taken into consideration and at the end of the chain the service doesn't deliver it's value." Agile is all about value. For instance, 'Agile Hero' Alistair Cockburn defines it as "the early delivery of business value" [http://blog.adform.com/adform/q-a-with-agile-hero-alistair-cockburn/] — see above.
"Change Control is also a big topic in SCRUM, for example each sprint end with a sprint review meeting, in which the product owner reviews and approves the sprint. Or in Service Design, the product owner acts as a gatekeeper for each user story (change control over requirements)." Well, no. Scrum and Agile are neither about quality gates nor about gatekeepers. Its about: Collaborate, Deliver, Reflect, Improve. [http://a.cockburn.us/3545] The Product Owner is part of the Scrum Team. Thus, she works hand in hand with the development team. She is not a gatekeeper. She collaborates with the development team. I've met many people who state that gatekeepers and quality gates are for the purpose of a common goal. However, in real life people having this role quickly act as, well, gatekeepers and quality gates. Thus, they hinder instead of enable other people who have to "pass" those gates. A Product Owner who acts as gatekeeper would be a poor Product Owner.
"Test factory teams need to be involved early and based on the product backlog develop test cases need to be developed and automated." Agile is about self-managing, cross-functional teams [https://less.works/less/structure/teams.html]. There are no test factory teams or the like.
First of all, I must say I have little experience in Agile. While I understand that DevOps is all about people and culture and SCRUM is about product and collaboration, I was hoping to understand in more details the processes in all these approach or framework esp. Change Management process involvement in an Agile environment. On one forum I saw that the traditional (ITIL) Change Management can be used for production change like bug fix while Agile is used for new change / release but I don't really buy into that.
Since the topic is about integrating Agile with ITSM, Alex post an interesting way of doing so. esp. on the part of Product Owner "approving" the sprint since the role is accountable for the product and he is in the part of the sprint team. However, I am not sure if the Product Owner or the SCRUM Master or everyone (developers) in the sprint team would raise a RFC (in a ITSM tool) and then the Product Owner approving it. Do the sprint team record their sprint in any tool for traceability, impact analysis or authorisation? Would it defeat the culture or purpose of Agile?
Hi Rattan,
Great article and very good comments. I appreciate your article and the visuals. I do believe the visual could add in a couple of key items in the visual that could articulate how a SCRUM approach can add critical artifacts to ongoing support. I would include the value added artifacts of: a forward calendar of change (even if this is one day), an ability to support a system of record of incidents, and problems and finally the core aspects required to be documented so that a developer can move on without an anchor holding them back to one product or service.
Love to hear your thoughts on this.
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In her commentary on meal preparation, for example, Haskins argues that a mother's love from her family is contingent on her ability to prepare a perfect meal. Sarah then goes through a series of examples to demonstrate her point.
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Haskins then shifts her attention to jewelry in her profound philosophical account of "the jewelry face," which is the face of awe and wonderment that women express when they are given expensive gifts. The genius in her critique lies in the ease with which she can so quickly point to a myriad of examples within contemporary media.
Truthfully speaking, I have always had a fondness for feminist philosophies. I have read Gayatri Spivak's account of the subaltern, Julia Kristeva's account of the chora, and Judith Butler's account of the identity of women as constructed through an absence of male genitalia. Despite all that I have read, I had not seen the glaring sexism of contemporary media.
Haskins has validated their intensive theories of the subjugation and oppression of women in a very effective indictment of contemporary media. Her sarcasm is not to be taken lightly, however.
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I consider myself a feminist. It is a common misconception to assume that all feminists are women or that a man cannot be a feminist. Though I can never fully understand the plight that women face in their continued quest for social respectability or their fight against sexual objectification, I certainly recognize their plight. For this reason, when I heard Haskins say, "We know more about weddings than we know about string theory," being the father of a young girl, I decided to call attention to her cause.
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