Kategorie: ‘Fun & Facts’
Random Acts of Kindness Day
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Tomorrow, February 17, is Random Acts of Kindness Day will be celebrated in New Zealand and the USA. What is it all about? By making small gestures, people want to make their (every)day a little nicer for their fellow human beings. For example, by being especially friendly, holding the door open for someone or volunteering to help other people.
We take this day as an opportunity to tell you – our community – that it’s great that you’re here!
Fit in the Homeoffice – Our Tips for Staying Fit
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How healthy do we actually live in the home office or even through the word “New Work” coined by the ongoing change in the working world?” In this article, we would like to give you some valuable tips on how to stay fit in the homeoffice, in order to provide you with new motivation for healthier exercise behaviour in the home office.
It’s Time for Spring Cleaning! 5 Tips for a tidy Workplace
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Two special days this week are dedicated to tidying up: “Clean Your Desk” and “Create Order in Your Home Day”. In keeping with the New Year and good intentions, we are using these days as an opportunity to tidy up properly and to motivate you to have a tidy-up day too. So get your feather duster out of the cupboard and pay attention! Read the rest of this entry »
Happy New Year – Not the same procedure as last year!
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Do you also have good resolutions for the new year?
According to Statista, the most popular New Year’s resolutions for 2022 include: exercising more, eating healthier, losing weight, living more frugally and spending more time with family and friends. Setting New Year’s resolutions is probably something all of us know. However, keeping one’s resolutions is not always the easiest thing to do. Usually, after a few weeks, the stress of everyday life has taken hold of us again, we juggle between home office and sports, we get stuck in our old habits again.
Not with us! We have put together a few tips on how you can achieve your resolutions and stay healthy at the same time.
Here’s something for your ears – recommendations for IT podcasts
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Podcasts are all the rage – they come in all variations and lengths, short or long, and on all kinds of topics. Whether on the road in the car, on the train, on foot or at home. In short or long episodes, we get news, background information or a casual chat or two quite simply on the ear in between. This is practical for being up to date on topics that interest us.
Advent, Advent, a light is sent…
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And soon there will be two!
And soon there will be two! The Christmas decorations have been taken out and put up. The first doors of the Advent calendar have been opened. In some houses there is already a wonderful smell of biscuits and pine trees. This year, even the Aachener Christmas market and its countless tasty treats are finally back. The Advent season has officially started and should make the wait until Christmas a little sweeter. We too would like to make this time a little brighter for you and have put together some ideas on how you can spend the Advent season in a relaxed manner. Read the rest of this entry »
Onboarding – Digital and with Heart
Nicole in interview
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An insight into the work of a data steward
Nicole has been working as a “Data Steward” at the IT Center since February.
Among other things, she supports researchers in managing their research data. But that’s not all.
In this interview, she tells us what other tasks this job entails and how she experienced her induction at the IT Center. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s starting again:
The IT Center Christmas baking season is open
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It’s finally that time again, the Christmas market is opening, the scent of print is in the air, warm lights brighten up the dark season. At the IT Center, we continue to work from the home office and therefore make it especially nice at home.
In addition to the Christmas decorations at home, of course we can’t do without treats.
For us, stollen and Christmas simply belong together.
Baking stollen –
the flavor needs time
Our IT Center baking professionals have told us: A Stollen needs time so that the aroma of the fruits and spices permeate the entire dough and it tastes especially good on Christmas Eve.So the Stollen should be baked four to six weeks before Christmas. Well then, let’s get to work on the raisins!
Stollen recipe
Ingredients for the dough
150 g raisins
½ tsp grated lemon peel
50 g candied orange peel
50 g candied lemon peel
50 g ground almonds
60 ml rum
430 g flour
½ cube fresh yeast
75 ml milk
100 g butter
1 egg
50 g sugar
1 packet vanilla sugar
1 pinch of salt
½ teaspoon organic cinnamon*
1 pinch cardamom
1 pinch nutmeg
To coat
40 g butter
75 g powdered sugar
1) First preparations the night before
The easiest way is to mix the raisins with lemon zest, candied orange peel, candied lemon peel, rum and ground almonds the night before, so that everything can be properly infused.
2) The next day
Put the flour in a bowl. Crumble yeast and pour over it. Add two tablespoons of lukewarm milk and a little sugar over the yeast, mix
briefly. Sprinkle some more flour on top and let the mixture rise, covered, in a warm place for half an hour.
3) Continue with the butter
Chop the butter and add small pieces on top of the flour. Add the eggs, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt with the spices. Mix everything briefly and then knead well with a dough hook. Meanwhile, gradually add the milk and knead it in. Finally, briefly knead in the fruit-rum mixture. Cover again and let rise for half an hour.
4) Now it’s time to shape the dough
Knead dough again briefly and shape into an oblong loaf. At the long edge of the stollen, roll half of it a little flat with the dough roller. Place the thicker part on top and shape the loaf again.
5) Put it on the baking tray
Line a baking tray first with aluminum foil and then with baking paper. Put the stollen on it and let it rise covered for another 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 220°C top and bottom heat. Bake the Stollen for about 45 minutes. After 30 minutes, lower the temperature to 200°C. If the stollen gets too dark on the outside, cover with aluminum foil.
6) Add the butter
Melt butter in a saucepan and brush the hot Stollen directly with melted butter. Allow to cool. Then brush again with melted butter and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
The right storage
It is best to wrap in aluminum foil and put again in a plastic bag so that everything is airtight. Store in a cool place.
We wish you lots of fun baking and a wonderful and delicious Advent season.
Responsible for the content of this article are Linda Jörres and Janin Vreydal.
IT Center Help – Your Lifesaver in IT Matters
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Have you forgotten the password to your RWTH e-mail account? Or are you new at the IT Center and need to insert a coupon for your employee email? Maybe you want to register the campus WLAN eduroam on a new device.
Many questions you can get answers to. Moreover, you don’t even have to pick up the phone or start a chat to get them. Because the solution to all of them is called IT Center Help. Never heard of it? Then we need to change that very quickly!
Unmotivated during your work at home? Our top 5 tips to boost your motivation!
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Over the past year, much of the population has spent more time than usual in their own homes: lockdown, quarantine, homeschooling. Public life has been scaled down and working from home has become commonplace for many professionals. But how do you stay motivated in a home office? We asked our team and share our tips and tricks with you. Read the rest of this entry »
