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i just voted three times for this awesome project which will help move Appalachia away from MTR mining and towards a sustainable, locally-owned, decentralized model [by utilizing timber industry byproducts.]

the project will entail "feedstock feasibility studies and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification to ensure sustainable forestry."

please vote today! signing up for brighterplanet.com only takes about 75 seconds. they are in second place and the prize is a $5000 grant!

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In Times of Crisis: Act!

Monday, 9 November, 2009

It has been 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are ‘celebrating’ this anniversary at a time when global capitalism and liberal democracy, the so-called winners of the Cold War struggle between East and West, find themselves in one of the deepest economic and political crises since the Wall Street crash in 1929 and the global turmoil that followed. Perhaps more significantly, however, this is the first crisis that Eastern Europeans are experiencing since their so-called ‘transition’ from a state socialist to a capitalist ideology. What should we make of this transition since 1989? Rather than engaging in a traditional analysis of the winners and losers of this transition, I am interested in what today’s capitalist crisis has perhaps in common with the crisis of state socialism in 1989. I will explore this question by engaging with the German film Good Bye Lenin!.

Crisis, What Crisis?

The press is currently reporting – on an almost daily basis – that we are in the midst of one of the deepest and most serious economic crises since the 1929 Wall Street crash. While it is clear that most of the media has not quite given up on capitalism – for example, the Financial Times’ motto seems to be ‘Capitalism is dead; long live capitalism’ (Wolf, 2009) – it is nevertheless significant that even the most outspoken apologists for capitalist free markets see a real danger in the capitalist system itself being under threat.

As someone who grew up in East Germany and went through a life-defining crisis in 1989 – the fall of the Berlin Wall – I find the current capitalist crisis strangely satisfying. Not that I do not have a heart for all those who are currently suffering because of this crisis. There are those millions who have lost their jobs, those who live in constant fear of job insecurity, and the millions who are affected by the massive cut-backs in social spending. The current crisis has unprecedented implications throughout the world. Latvia, for example – one of the ‘Baltic Tigers’ that until recently were celebrated for their ‘transition’ successes – has had to be bailed out by the IMF. This forced the government to cut the wages of public service workers, such as teachers, by up to a half(!), reduce state pensions by 10 per cent and the unemployment rate has risen from around 5 to over 14-15 per cent within two years (for more details, see Kuper, 2009). This is thus clearly a crisis that is affecting millions of people around the world in very real terms. What I find somewhat satisfying is not at all that people are suffering but that a system that just a few months ago nobody thought could ever come to an end is now in a deep economic, political and legitimation crisis. That is, what is good to see is that the over-confidence of capitalism – symbolized by astronomical increases in executive salaries, stock market booms and the construction of ever higher skyscrapers – has now experienced a real crack. For me, there are real parallels between today’s crisis and that of 1989. Back then, too, nobody – even those strategists of the West whose full time job it was to destroy the East – expected the state socialist system to crack and eventually fall in the spectacular fashion it did. Perhaps, then, we have not seen the end of today’s crisis!

Title: Three Decades and Five Thousand Million Miles
Rating: 15
Pairing: Romantica
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: From icy forgotten rooms to the explosion at the centre of the problem, past family and friends, to the last, livable environment he can find - how to define Usami Akihiko's life with a solar system.

Jupiter - The Ruler

Previously: Pluto - The Abandoned
                  Neptune - The Conflicted
                  Uranus - The Convention Breaker
                  Saturn - The Beginner

I don't know about you guys, but every time a new version of Ubuntu comes out, I think about changing over to KDE and giving it a try.

Thing is, I've been using basic Ubuntu since I started and every time I've tried to switch, it's been a bit scary. I know there is a way to have both installed on my computer at once and play with the two, but I am not sure how much storage space they both have.

With everything I've installed since my last clean install (about six months ago), I have 2.3 gigs left free on my / partition. This is a 10-gig partition. Would this be enough to comfortably run both Kubuntu and Ubuntu?

I can't seem to find literature anywhere about how much space each will take, nor do I know just how much software will transfer over. Does anybody have any idea? I'd really like to give KDE a shot, but don't want to make the full switch over yet.

[Note: What I'm talking about is keeping Gnome and KDE running with the same Ubuntu installation. Not two separate installs, just different environments. They'll share the same software et al. Sorry for the confusion]

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...except the German language.

If you have half an hour spare, see what this Mensch has to say on The Awful German Language.

Hallo zusammen!
On Monday, my school is hosting an assembly in honor of the fall of the Berlin Wall (a wee bit late) and we're having the Consul General there. Basically, my job is to help a younger student how to thank our guest for his time and expertise (as well as some other things).

And I'm guessing since I need to help him, I need to do it in German. But I'm not entirely too sure on how to say that.

One of my results found this for "Thank you for your time":

Danke, dass Sie sich Zeit genommen haben.

Is that correct? Is there a simplier, yet still polite way of saying this? (Reminder that the younger student I'm teaching this to is not learning German. He/She is merely in a History class)

As for how to thank the Consul for his expertise, I have absolutely no idea how to go about that.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated!
 

Hello!

I work at an American high school, and I have been asked to help create an assignment on German humor.  I have looked around on the internet and at the library a little bit, but am having a little difficulty finding what I need.  I am looking for school-appropriate sources (print, cartoons, or video) that use different types of humor: satire, irony, situational humor, wordplay, traditional jokes, etc..    I have found a few cartoonists, some stand-up comedians on youtube, and several joke sites, but it is slow going sifting through all of this for school appropriateness and I have no idea what is actually popular in Germany right now, so I thought I would open the question up to the community for some ideas.

Thank you!

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Hi,
which of these sentences is used in Germany (or any other German speaking country)?

Ich gehe in die Schule.

or

Ich gehe zur Schule.

Thank you!

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These will also be crossposted in several other communities, so sorry in advance for the spam.

IN A HOT CLIMATE

In Australia they are part-way through a series of four Climate Camps across the country – because, as our SchNEWS correspondent says - it saves them “chugging across the country in dodgy hippy vans”, and causing more er carbon emissions.

As we covered in SchNEWS 691, the first was held September 12th-13th in Victoria, when over 500 people went to the Hazelwood coal fired power station in the Latrobe Valley, calling for an end to coal power and a switch to renewables. Despite a heavy police presence, 22 people scaled the fence to serve a Community Decommission Order on the power station.

Next up was South Australia, where from September 24th-27th a Climate Camp targeted a coal train running to Port Augusta. 50 people camped for four days and held a demo outside the Port Augusta coal fired power station, presenting a Community Decommission Order and 350 native flowers at the gate. Police had agreed that the coal train wouldn't run all weekend on safety grounds, but later – making a mockery of attempts to negotiate with police - it turns out that the train had run, at a different time, because apparently it had accidentally derailed.

NSW climate campers experienced some extreme climatic conditions, including gale force winds and heavy rain during their camp October 9th-11th. 200 people camped near the Metropolitan Colliery in Helensburgh for three days of workshops, campaign planning and direct action. The camp included a sovereignty tent, where Traditional Owners from around the country gathered to share stories of resistance. The camp was also visited by members of an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory who have recently walked off their community in protest against the continuing racist 'intervention' in indigenous communities (for more info on that, check out http://interventionwalkoff.wordpress.com). Early in the morning of Sunday 11th October, four people entered the Dendrobium coal mine and locked on to a conveyor belt. Later that day 500 people attended a big rally through town, finishing at the Colliery where eight more were arrested after jumping the fence. Despite threatening drinking water supplies, the mine is set for expansion, so no doubt we'll be hearing more from local campaigners down there.

And even though Queenslanders didn't have a camp, on October 22nd, 20 people went out in kayaks on the Brisbane River attempting to stop a ship loaded with 90,000 tonnes of coal from leaving the city's port. See www.sixdegrees.org.au

As the Copenhagen talks come to an end in December, Western Australians will camp in the state's coal capital, Collie.

For more see www.climatecamp.org.au

Hey,

did I translate this right: I want to be with the one I know

Ich will mit dem, den ich kenne, sein.

thanks

I was veeeryy patient ... I waited for Vol. 4 two month now, hoping it's just a little late. But now, even Vol. 5 has not been released. And since Go! Comi's website is not that informative about new releases (the new release calendar is not working -_- ... or it is working and they really don't release anything anymore) I searched amazon in order to know if it's only 07-ghost. 

According to that ... Bound Beauty, Crown and Ultimate Venus has also not been released since September. (and a very funny store is selling those volumes for 999.99$ on amazon store -_-) 

Does anybody knows more? I would really hate it if they drop it ... (I don't really want to buy it in German cause it would sounds too funny XD (EMA announced 07-ghost for the next summer program))

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