IBM Redbooks

Martin Schulz

Hansjörg Schneider

Patrick Lindsey

Andrew Nardone

This IBM® RedpaperTM publication introduces and provides a technical overview of the IBM PurePower System that helps support management of big data, social media, mobile, analytics, and the flow of critical information. A PurePower System can be configured in an affordable entry-level configuration in a single rack, and it is agile enough to be expanded for scalable cloud deployments. It has built-in redundancy for highly reliable and resilient operation to support demanding applications and cloud services, as required by many enterprises. A PurePower System also provides the scalability, flexibility, and versatility that you demand for business-critical workloads. The following enhancements were announced in October 2015: IBM i operating system on top of a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) now supported on the IBM Power System S822 server Improvements to PurePower Integrated Manager Integration of HMC code (virtual HMC) into the PurePower Integrated Manager Ability to order translated PurePower documentation that is geography-specific Configuration support for IBM Power System S822 and S822L server in a single rack PowerVC 1.2.3 Standard Edition Power compute node firmware SV840

IBM PurePower Technical Overview and Introduction

A hunt for drug gang diamonds is keeping Basel Inspector Hunkeler on tenterhooks. Basel, nestled at the border of Switzerland with Germany and France, has been hammered by a huge snowstorm, cars and trams can barely move, trees are groaning under the weight of the recent snowfall, the cathedral and city roofs are smothered. An elegant young Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station, Inspector Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the German police. The courier manages to get to the station toilet and flushes the stones away. Erdogan, a young Turkish sewage maintenance worker, finds the diamonds in the pipes under the station. To him they mean wealth and the small hotel he always wanted to buy near his family village. To his older Swiss girl-friend Erika, employed at a supermarket checkout counter, the stones signify the end of their life together. She knows that Erdogan has a wife and children in Turkey. For the courier, finding the stones is a matter of life and death. His employers are on their way to “tidy things up”. For Hunkeler the stones are the only way to get to the people behind the drug trade. They turn out to include not only the bottom-feeding drug gangs but bankers and politicians very high up the Basel food chain.

Silver Pebbles

Über einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren hinweg hat Hansjörg Schneider Tagebuch geführt. Er notiert Lektüren, Begegnungen, Projekte. Er hält die Glücks­momente fest, die der Tag bringt, und die Alpträume, die ihn in der Nacht heimsuchen. Und immer wieder führt die dichteste Gegenwart zurück in die Vergangenheit, die ihn nicht loslässt. Hansjörg Schneider protokolliert sein Leben – schonungslos gegen sich und die Welt, berührend und mit lakonischem Humor.

Erinnerungen, Träume

Nilpferde unter dem Haus

The second in the series featuring Basel police inspector Peter Hunkeler. An elegant young Lebanese man carrying diamonds in his bag is on the train from Frankfurt to Basel, a drug mule on the return journey. At the Basel train station, Hunkeler is waiting for him after a tipoff from the German police. The courier manages to get to the station toilet and flushes the stones away. Erdogan, a young Turkish sewage worker, finds the diamonds in the pipes under the station. To him they mean wealth and the small hotel he always wanted to buy near his family village. To his older Swiss girl-friend Erika, employed at a supermarket checkout counter, the stones signify the end of their life together. She knows that Erdogan has a wife and children in Turkey. For the courier, finding the stones is a matter of life and death. His employers are on their way to "tidy things up". For Hunkeler the stones are the only way to get to the people behind the drug trade. They turn out to include not only the bottom-feeding drug gangs but bankers and politicians very high up the Basel food chain. This is a tale of ordinary people accidentally caught in a vortex of crime, like Hank and Jacob in A Simple Plan by Scott Smith or even Guy Haines in Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith. Unusually, and refreshingly, no one gets killed.

Ferdinand Bruckner

Dramen

Dresdner Theater nach 1945

Hoffnung zwischen Trümmern

von der Liebe, vom Sterben, vom Tod und von der Trauer darüber, den geliebten Menschen verloren zu haben

Nachtbuch für Astrid

Die Pest ist nur noch eine Tagesreise entfernt. Die Bewohner der Stadt schwanken zwischen Vorsicht, Panik und Leichtsinn. Im Wirtshaus wird gelacht, geweint, geliebt, gelogen – gelebt also. Bis das große Sterben anfängt. In diesem lebenshungrigen Totentanz scheint nur Augustin, der melancholische Vagant und Musikant, immun gegen die Seuche.

Hansjörg Schneider

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