Appropriating Bimby on the Internet: Perspectives on technology mediated meals by a virtual brand community

It was Christmas day when an intriguing news piece about a kitchen technology was published in the Wall Street Journal in 2013 (Kowsmann, 2013). Immediately after, the piece went viral in the Portuguese (social) media (TV, blogs, press). It reported an odd 'obsession' of Portuguese consumers with a pricey German-made kitchen appliance - the Bimby (Figure 7.1) - during a difficult period of 'painful budget slashing in return for an international bailout'. The news piece served to unveil the irony: how come ''Western Europe's poorest country' could afford such an expensive technology 'that outsells high-end iPads [...] and is more popular on Facebook than the country's best-known rock band?' The journalistic piece advanced explanations for this technology craze: 'But the Portuguese love gadgets and seem determined, despite hard times, to maintain their tradition of regularly getting together for dinner. In this explanatory attempt, Bimby is portrayed as an intermediary that opens up the possibility for thinking about meal practices in a particular way, in this case, linking nation and meals through ideas around commensality.

A novel, bedside technique to rapidly identify umbilical cord blood units with high total nucleated cell numbers

BACKGROUND With increasing demand for umbilical cord blood units (CBUs) with total nucleated cell (TNC) counts of more than 150 × 10(7) , preshipping assessment is mandatory. Umbilical cord blood processing requires aseptic techniques and laboratories with specific air quality and cleanliness. Our aim was to establish a fast and efficient method for determining TNC counts at the obstetric ward without exposing the CBU to the environment. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS Data from a total of 151 cord blood donations at a single procurement site were included in this prospective study. We measured TNC counts in cord blood aliquots taken from the umbilical cord (TNCCord ), from placenta (TNCPlac ), and from a tubing segment of the sterile collection system (TNCTS ). TNC counts were compared to reference TNC counts in the CBU which were ascertained at the cord blood bank (TNCCBU ). RESULTS TNCTS counts (173 ± 33 × 10(7) cells; calculated for 1 unit) correlated fully with the TNCCBU reference counts (166 ± 33 × 10(7) cells, Pearson's r = 0.97, p < 0.0001). In contrast, TNCCord and TNCPlac counts were more disparate from the reference (r = 0.92 and r = 0.87, respectively). CONCLUSIONS A novel method of measuring TNC counts in tubing segments from the sterile cord blood collection system allows rapid and correct identification of CBUs with high cell numbers at the obstetric ward without exposing cells to the environment. This approach may contribute to cost efficacy as only CBUs with satisfactory TNC counts need to be shipped to the cord blood bank.

Diatomeen in der Eembohrung Klixbüller Koog

Im Herbst 1952 wurde auf der Baustelle des Schöpfwerkes Klixbüller Koog, etwa 3 km westlich von Leck, bei der Errichtung einer Grundwasserabsenkungsanlage ein neues Eemvorkommen aufgeschlossen. Es ist hinsichtlich seiner petrographischen Ausbildung, seiner Lagerungsverhältnisse und seines Fossilinhalts besonders bemerkenswert und für die Entwicklungsgeschichte des oberen Eems von großer Bedeutung.

Gustav Glogaus System der Philosophie.

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Die Jahreszeiten. Sinfonie für grosses Orchester ...

Der Winter.--Der Frühling.--Der Sommer.--Der Herbst.

Quellenbuch zur alten geschichte für obere gymnasialklassen. I. Abth. Griechische geschichte ...

Vol. 2 by A. Baumeister only.

Deutsches litteraturblatt ...

Editors: 1878-Mar. 1882, Wilhelm Herbst (with Heinrich Keck, Apr. 1881-Mar. 1882); Apr. 1882-Mar. 1887; Heinrich Keck; Apr. 1887-89, Rudolf Pfleiderer.

Matthias Claudius, der Wandsbecker Bote : ein deutsches Stilleben /

Includes bibliographical references.

Stellen a. d. Goettlichen Komoedie /

A facsimile of the original manuscript, printed in red and green.

Bibliothek christlicher Denker. /

Includes bibliographical references.

Through the Russian revolution,

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Politia municipalis, sive, De jure & jurisdictione civitatum municipalium ac superiorem recognoscentium, earundemq[ue] magistr. & civium officio tractatus juridico-politicus : cujus Ichnographia jam aliquoties prodiit /

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Quaestiones Taciteae. I. Qualem Tacitus in priore parte annalium secutus sit auctorem. II. Quatenus ei auctoritati fuerit obnoxius.

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De iis, quae ad cognoscendam iudaeorum Palaestinensium, qui Iesu tempore vivebant, christologiam evangelia nobis exhibeant, deque locis messianis in illis allegatis.

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Rationis, qua Fr. H. Iacobi e libertatis notione dei existentiam evincit, expositio et censura. Pars prior, expositionem exhibens quam ...

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