EVEN MORE THAN ITS METICULOUS ENGINEERING, MERCEDES-BENZ IS DEFINED BY ITS CONTINUOUS INNOVATION. SINCE INVENTING THE CAR IN 1886, WE'VE SIMPLY NEVER STOPPED REINVENTING IT. What begins as a breakthrough becomes the standard for every car on the road. Mercedes-Benz has a history of making history. Since the first car, Mercedes-Benz has set the pace for what all cars might someday become. With an ongoing stream of firsts in safety, performance and driving enjoyment, it's an ever more exciting roadmap to the future. And while there's a neverending roster of new achievements, there's only one reason the world's first automaker remains first in innovation. Carl Benz said it best: "The love of inventing never dies." In 1886, Carl Benz is awarded German patent number 37435 for a three-wheeled, self-propelled "Motorwagen". With a rear-mounted single-cylinder engine, the first automobile forever changes the way people move, and sparks a legacy of innovation that continues to this day. The first female driver was"Bertha Benz, Carl's wife. She decided to help promote his invention by taking it on a 120mile tour without his prior knowledge. She also served as her own mechanic on the trip."
Some automakers’ logos change every decade as they struggle to establish a credible brand identity, while others have remained consistent for a century. One emblem that has come to represent quality, innovation, and tradition in the automotive industry is Mercedes-Benz’s three-pointed star. This iconic design has adorned the grilles and radiators of quality vehicles for a hundred years–as well as many personal accessories carried by enthusiasts. But what does the brand’s logo actually mean? You’ll be surprised to discover Mercedes-Benz’s emblem isn’t just an innocent star…
Gottlieb Daimler originally founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG) in 1890, while Carl Benz began Benz & Cie in 1883. Both businesses laid the foundation of motorized vehicle transportation. After Daimler passed away in 1900, chief engineer Wilhelm Maybach took over and brought on racing enthusiast Emil Jellinek as a partner. Jellinek’s daughter Mercédès–a Spanish girl’s name meaning “grace”–was the inspiration for the later trade name. In 1909, Daimler’s sons Paul and Adolf recalled an 1872 picture postcard sent by their father to their mother with a threepointed star marking the location of his house in Germany with the explanation that one day the star would shine over his factory and bring prosperity. DMG took the star as the company’s logo, trademarking three- and four-pointed stars but only using the three-pointed one. The logo began with a blue color but was changed to its signature silver after its involvement in the first Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in 1934. At the same time, Benz & Cie trademarked its own logo: a laurel wreath surrounding the company’s name. When the merger between DMG and Benz & Cie occured in 1926, the company logos combined to become a laurel wreath surrounding a three-pointed star. The company became known as Daimler-Benz AG, later Mercedes-Benz using its trade name. So what does the three-pronged star actually mean? According to the company, it represents the automaker’s drive toward universal motorization with its engines dominating the land, sea, and air (three points). Yes indeed: the Mercedes-Benz emblem is a symbol for the company’s plan for world domination.
Like many other towns in Namibia, Gobabis developed around a mission station and its apartheid history which and that was established in 1856 by Friederich Eggert of the Rhenish Missionary Society. Gobabis is a small town situated on the route from Windhoek to Botswana. Gobabis is situated some 110 km from the Buitepos Border post with Botswana and around 205km from the capital city. The town is in the heart of the cattle framing area, and is considered to be the capital of eastern Namibia. Its is also known as the ''Little Texas'' of Namibia, Gobabis is so proud of its cattle farming, that a statue of a large bull with the iscription "Welcome to Cattle Country'' greets visitors. In the latter half of the 1800s and the early 1900s several conflicts flared up between the Mbanderu and the Khauas Khoikhoi, as well as between the settlers and the indigenous people. The Gobabis district was proclaimed by the German authorities in February 1894 and in June the following year Gobabis was occupied by a German garrison. While the military fort, built in 1896/7, has long since disappeared, one of the few buildings dating back to that era is the field hospital, or Lazarette, which has been declared a national monument. According to Father Dohren of the Roman Catholic Mission at Gobabis, the first native huts to be erected in what could be described as the first location at the town of Gobabis were build near Spitskop around 1910. These huts were subsequently demolished and a new native area was established near the creamery, but the area was cleared in 1920 and the residents moved to a new area south of the town.
When that area, in turn, was required as a landing site for private aeroplane, the location for Blacks was moved to a new site approximately 2,5 km south of the town. Certain provisions of the Urban Areas Proclamation (Proc. 34 of 1924) were applied to the Gobabis urban area by three government notices in 1935, and location regulations were promulgated on 2 July the same year. Special compounds were established for contract workers employed by the municipality, the railways and the creamery, while the location itself was subdivided along the ethnic lines. An Advisory Board consisting of six residents was appointed in 1949. The old location eventually made way for Epako ("narrow defile", place at which the rivers runs between the koppies), which was established north-east of the town at a later stage. KĂśhler is the only published source to provide employment statistics for the residents of the black location. According to him, most were employed by various government departments, the municipality, and private businesses and as domestic servants. Furthermore, there were three general dealers, one butcher, one cafĂŠ owner, four shoemakers and a few firewood dealers in the location in 1956. A small number of stock (which declined over the years) was kept on the commonage. A separate township for Coloureds known as Nossobville was also established; this township had 415 inhabitants in 1973. The initially somewhat informal arrangements regarding segregated urban settlement and native reserves introduced during the German colonial period became increasingly rigid as apartheid policies were enforced under the South African administration. Movement of the greater part of the population had been restricted by the introduction of the pass system during the German period already. Non-Europeans were allocated certain sections of towns outside which they could live without permission, and outside the towns they were confined to reserves created by the white administration - unless, of course, they worked on White-owned farms. Gobabis, too, had its locations, which resorted under the municipality (assisted by Advisory Boards), while three native reserves, Aminuis, Epukiro and the Eastern Native Reserve, were situated in the district. serves fell under the control of first the magistrate and then the native commissioner stationed at Gobabis, and were administrated by welfare officers in the reserves themselves.
Whether you prefer a dab of clear lip balm or a full lip of brilliant red, your choice of lip color reveals something. BY VICTORIA HOLT Women who swipe on plum lipstick are unique
Plum lips certainly jump out in a crowd, as wearers of this shade definitely don't shy from the spotlight. Wearers of this shade give off a sexy sense of confidence and won't back down from a challenge. Plumcolored lips also indicate a unique sense of style, as women rocking this hue don't mind being set apart from the crowd.
VINNIGE CREMORA TERT There are no official guidelines, but here’s what the experts have to say. BY JULIANA LABIANCA
BESTANDDELE: 250g Cremora Poeier 1 Blik Kondensmelk halwe koppie suurlemoensap 125ml 1 Koppie Kookwater 250ml 1 - 2 pakkies Tennisbeskuitjies vir Kors (Pak onder in Tertbord) METODE: 1. 2. 3. 4.
Klits Kondensmelk en suurlemoensap saam. Voeg Cremora Poeier by. Klits kookwater by. Klits saam vir 5 minute en skep romerige mengsel oor tennisbeskuitjies in tertbord. Verkoel in yskas oornag.
So it happened: Your teenager took a sip of your iced coffee and decided that she, too, needed a glass. With no official guidelines on age and coffee consumption to be found, it’s hard to know what to say. A hard “no,” or an “I’ll let it slide”? Experts say it’s somewhere in the middle. “As far as drinking ‘real’ coffee on a daily basis— espresso, cappuccinos, and lattes—I think it’s prudent to wait until the age of 18,” Andy Bellatti, MS, RD, said. “The research I’ve seen points to negative cardiovascular and neurologic effects, namely anxiety and insomnia, in children who consume caffeine.” Beyond that, Bellatti points to added sugars (think coffee drinks topped with chocolate sauce and whipped cream), as well as energy drinks, as a cause for concern. Just think: A 16 fluid ounce caramel frappuccino at Starbucks packs in nearly 64 grams of sugar. For comparison, a hot chocolate of the same size serves up 43 grams, and a plain coffee contains zero. Energy drinks, on the other hand, should be outright banned from your teen’s diet. Bottom line: A plain coffee every now and then is relatively harmless. And those warnings you heard about coffee being able to “stunt growth”? Totally false.
When I woke up the morning of my daughter Stephanie’s wedding and looked out the window, my heart sank. Over a foot of snow had fallen. I had planned to finish up some last-minute jobs on Vashon Island, Washington, taking my car on the ferry, but I didn’t have snow tires. My husband, Eldon, would ride over a little later with my mother, his mother, and several guests in his van. Fortunately, the wedding party had stayed near the venue the night before, and the preacher lived on the island. Maneuvering in the snow was difficult, but I drove slowly and made it to the ferry dock. I had lots of things to take with me, including keys to the church, a friend’s fruit salad for the reception, pretty bows for the pews and my mother-of-the-bride outfit.
Thankful that I had made it to the ferry without an accident, I left my car behind. I was certain I could use a pay phone to call one of my friends and ask for a ride after I got across. Unfortunately I didn’t know that the storm had left little or no electricity or phone service on the island, or that trees had fallen in many places, blocking the highway. Talking to ferry workers on the ride over, I began to realize the gravity of the situation. It was 1990, before cell phones, and I wouldn’t be able to call anyone to pick me up. But the ferry workers, who had a wireless phone for emergencies, came to the rescue.
Somehow I reached my friend Mark, and he agreed to come and get me. I told him I had forgotten the keys to the church, and he assured me that he would take care of it. But he hadn’t ventured out yet, so he didn’t know how bad the conditions were. Meanwhile, the wedding party woke up to a white wonderland. Snow sparkled in the sunlight. Wood stoves are common on the island, so the party was comfortably warm, but there was some trauma when they realized there was no electricity for their curling irons. I was waiting for Mark at the dock an hour later when I noticed the ferry making its return trip. I hoped Eldon would be on it and could pick me up. He wasn’t. I was still stuck with my fruit salad, dress, bows and the keys to the church. When the next ferry arrived and cars started disembarking, I saw our van! Eldon had our senior mothers, another 90year-old lady from our church and a few others on board. He had to get up a steep, slippery hill when he pulled away from the ferry dock. The last thing he needed was to get stuck in the snow. I signaled Eldon, thinking he would stop. But he thought I was saying, “Go ahead—I’ll be coming along.” I fought back tears as he kept driving. The very last car coming off the ferry slowed down. It was another family on their way to the wedding. Ian, the driver, asked if I needed a ride. I climbed in and breathed a sigh of relief. I was going to make it. No snowplows had cleared the south end of the island. Ian drove slowly because his chains were too big for his tires. Back at the church, there was no heat. Eldon told everyone that the wedding was delayed. Stephanie, dressed in her wedding gown, told the pastor she would not be married until her mother got there. We picked up the flowers and finally arrived at the church. Then I found Stephanie, apologized and quickly dressed. At long last, my daughter walked down the aisle on her father’s arm, looking beautiful and serene. To get to the reception, guests had to drive a steep, unpaved road that was very slick. Fortunately our friends came through with four-wheel drive vehicles that traversed the hill without difficulty. Electricity was still out at the hall, but wood stoves provided heat. After the reception, Stephanie and her new husband, Gary, drove off in his truck for their honeymoon. One of our friends reminded me how much Stephanie loves snow. And I am sure God provided the picturesque landscape as a gift for their special day.
The therapy that produces stunning recoveries from stroke BY ART MARKMAN AND BOB DUKE There are a surprising (or perhaps frightening) number of videos on the Internet that involve small animals (particularly dogs and cats) doing adorable things. Online are videos of kittens resting, kittens playing with dogs, puppies crawling along with babies, kittens chasing dots from laser pointers, cats trying (and failing) to jump on couches, and puppies playing with squeaky balls. What’s with our seemingly boundless fascination with kitten videos? The starting point for the joy of kitten videos is our evolutionarily programmed sense of what is cute. Both men and women (unless they have hearts of stone) find human infants cute. Particularly cute infants tend to have larger heads but smaller features. This structure gives infant faces large foreheads. Cute infants also have large eyes. Infant cuteness creates positive feelings in the adults and older children who see them. This positive feeling is necessary because (as anyone who has spent a lot of time with infants can attest) babies can be quite difficult to be around in large doses. Babies require a lot of care. They need to be fed, washed, and carried. They often cry when they are not sleeping. And babies often wake up in the middle of the night needing to be fed, or changed, or just because.
A 71-year-old wheelchair-bound stroke victim is walking again. Scientists at California’s Stanford University School of Medicine have reported that seven of 18 stroke patients who agreed to undergo a trial therapy injecting stem cells into the damaged parts of their brains, have showed “stunning” results. Gary Steinberg, the study’s lead author and chair of neurosurgery at Stanford, said in an interview that while he is cautious about “overselling” the results of such a small study, his team has been “stunned” that seven of the 18 patients experienced significant improvement in their abilities following treatment. “Their recovery was not just a minimal recovery like someone who couldn’t move a thumb now being able to wiggle it. It was much more meaningful,” said Steinberg, who personally performed most of the surgeries. Incredibly, the therapy worked for patients whose strokes had occurred between six months and three years previously. The new therapy essentially turns the adult brain back to an infant brain so that it can rebuild itself—something that was not thought possible until now. The scientists believe the therapy could also work for traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Nicholas Boulis, a neurosurgeon and researcher at Emory University, Georgia, USA, said, “There is certainly reason to be enthusiastic based on the magnitude of responses from these patients.”
In order for all of the baby demands to seem worth it to adult caregivers, they need some positive feedback. Before infants are mature enough to engage with adults and smile and laugh, all they have going for them is their cuteness. And not surprisingly, adults are wired to respond to infant facial features with positive feelings. As it turns out, the facial features of immature humans are similar to the facial features of young animals, like kittens and puppies. Baby animals also have small facial features and large eyes, so you generally respond to kittens and puppies in the same way you do to babies. Looking at them, you get an immediate dose of the “warm fuzzies.” You might wonder whether kitten videos, like any great little snack, are actually good for you. Because they, like many drugs, can provide an immediate boost of positive feeling whenever you’d like one, you might suspect that they are not something you should waste your time on. But it turns out that cute videos are probably good for you, as long as you don’t become so enthralled that you allow hours to slip by as you sit motionless staring at them. The modern world is filled with lots of stresses. From early in the school years, kids have busy schedules with lots of activities and homework. Most adults’ jobs are busy, and many adults work long hours. For many people, days are filled with more drudgery than joy. There is lots of good evidence that a positive mood is beneficial in lots of ways. For example, people tend to be more creative when they are in a positive mood than when they are in a neutral mood. They make better decisions in complex environments when they are in a positive mood. In addition, people in positive moods have more self-control resources. When you are feeling good, you are less likely to snap at a co-worker who annoys you than when you are not. And when you are feeling a little down (or perhaps just not feeling that good), a kitten video can jumpstart a positive mood. Once you are in a positive mood, two good things can happen. First, people’s behavior is often contagious. If you smile, the people around you are likely to smile as well. That means that making yourself a little happier can increase the happiness of the people around you. Second, your mood affects what you remember. When you feel good, you tend to remember positive things. When you feel bad, you tend to remember sad and stressful things. What you recall in turn influences your mood, so if you start out in a positive mood, that mood can be maintained by the things you remember. When you start out in a bad mood, the things you recall can make the bad mood persist. If you find yourself stuck in a bad mood, then watching some cute videos can provide a way to inject some positive feeling into your day in ways that might set you on the course to feeling good the rest of the day. Of course, small doses are the key to any mood enhancement. For one thing, you get the biggest effect on mood from the first video you watch. After that, you have already engaged the system that creates positive feeling from faces. Before long, you may habituate to the videos (as you may habituate to the effects of a drug), meaning that you are no longer getting any additional value from watching them. Plus, if you spend too much time watching cute videos, you will probably run out of time to take care of important things you need to accomplish, and the stress of missed deadlines can ruin the joy induced by big-eyed kittens.
The fact that treadmills feel like torture is no accident. It was originally invented to punish prisoners. BY BRANDON SPECKTOR
You never know which obnoxious thing will become a hit 100 years later. In the days before elevators, penthouse-level apartments were the cheapest and least desirable. Lobster was so over-abundant in colonial New England that it was rejected by all but the imprisoned and the destitute. And treadmills, which today account for about $1.4 billion a year in North American retail sales, were invented as a form of prison torture. It was called the Discipline Mill—or “tread-wheel,” according to Sir William Cubitt, the English engineer who invented the predecessor to the modern treadmill in 1818 as a means to occupy prisoners sentenced to hard labor. You can still read an 1822 description of it and shudder with familiarity. Ten to twenty prisoners stood upon a long wooden wheel affixed with 24 “tread boards” around its circumference. Gripping a horizontal bar for support, the prisoners stepped in unison, pushing the wheel around in exactly the manner a river moves a water wheel. While the wheel was mainly used as a form of punishment, one infamous wheel at Brixton Prison was used to crush grain, giving the device its lasting name, the treadmill. While even an hour on today’s treadmills can be a monotonous challenge, 19th century inmates faced the herculean task of powering the Discipline Mill for six or more hours a day. According to one 1822 report, “the diameter of the wheel being five feet, and revolving twice in a minute, the space stepped over by each man is 2193 feet, or 731 yards per hour.” Were the prisoners wearing Fitbits, that afternoon of cardio would clock in at anywhere from 13,000 to 18,000 consecutive steps. The tread-wheel eventually fell out of fashion as a punishment toward the late 1800s when American prisons turned to similarly backbreaking labor like picking cotton or smashing rocks, and British prisons abandoned the wheel for being too evil. What was once a form of torture became a leisure activity by the mid-1900s, when a rise in factory and office jobs led to an increasingly sedentary population. Treadmills, now looking more like factory conveyor belts, were suddenly revived as luxury items for laborers who spent all day sitting. Today you can pay upwards of $1,000 for the pleasure of owning a machine that one English historian calls “the harshest form of punishment, short of the death penalty, for about 100 years.” But, hey—at least you get to choose when to step off.
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International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900's - a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. International Women's Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity. No one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women's network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women's Day. Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others. "The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights," says world-renowned feminist, journalist and social and political activist Gloria Steinem. Thus International Women's Day is all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy and action - whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women's Day has been occurring for well over a century - and continue's to grow from strength to strength.
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