 | Last login: 8 months agoThomas is a 40 year old married guy from Heilbronn, Germany. Most things here are about news or languages. I like chatting (yes, please send lots of messages :-)) and using news sources in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Danish (and sometimes even German) language. Check my tag cloud for other things that catch my interest. |
 Share This- Jatropha for Biodiesel Figures - Biomass
 Sep 9, 2007 2:08am  (1 review) energy-industry, sustainability, bio-fuel http://www.reuk.co.uk/Jatropha-for-Biodi...- Basic information on the use of jatropha plant for biodiesel production.
Additional information from Wikipedia and in a recent NY-Times article.
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- Chaos in Darfur Rises as Arabs Fight With Arabs - NYTimes.com
- Sep 3, 2007 11:16am (1 review) weapons, darfur, war-lords, bandits http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/03/world/...
- Good articlem, giving an update on how much the situation in Darfur is out of control. I've got no idea how this nightmare of this AK47 fueled machismo can be stopped...
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- http://www.parisgreeter.org/indexen.html
- Aug 28, 2007 11:30pm (1 review) france, paris http://www.parisgreeter.org/indexen.html
- "If you are about to visit Paris and want to try a new experience, a Paris Greeter will help you enjoy Paris as Parisians do.
The Paris Greeters are local Parisians who volunteer their time to share with visitors the districts of Paris they know and love so well. They will introduce places and insights into Parisian life that are not always found in the published tourist guides.
All our volunteer Greeters have a love of Paris and willingness to share with visitors it's art, tradition and culture. We want visitors to feel they have not only seen Paris but have been given a true taste of Parisian life.
Our Greeters are not professional tour guides but enthusiastic, friendly individuals with knowledge of Paris who will accompany you on a visit of the city, without charge, as a friend would."
There's been an article in today#s Le Monde about this non-profit association of volunteer tourist guides ( lemonde.fr/web/article/0 [lemonde.fr/web/article/0] ,1-0@2-3238,36-948436@51-940768,0.html ) .
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- PAKISTAN • 1947-2007 : soixante années perdues | Courrier international...
- Aug 22, 2007 10:22am (1 review) iraq, pakistan http://www.courrierinternational.com/art...
- From the page: "Une nation-Etat construite sur la base d'une identité religieuse - qui, par définition, sème l'exclusion, la division et l'intolérance parce qu'elle introduit une différence entre "nous" et "eux" - est plus encline à des crises de violence qu'un Etat-nation démocratique, laïc et pluraliste.
Au Pakistan, la question de la nation-Etat et de l'Etat-nation est rendue plus difficile par une grande contradiction contenue dans l'identité religieuse du pays. L'islam transcende l'Etat-nation, car il exige d'être loyal à une communauté transnationale de croyants, ce qui mine le sentiment de loyauté envers un Etat national délimité par des frontières géographiques et doté d'une souveraineté politique restreinte. La tentative du Pakistan pour se forger un "nationalisme islamique" est donc un contresens."
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- China Enacting a High-Tech Plan to Track People - New York Times
- Aug 12, 2007 1:44pm (1 review) china, human-rights, 1984 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/busine...
- From the page: "SHENZHEN, China, Aug. 9: "At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity."
American companies help China build a surveillance system that comes very close to what George Orwell envisioned.
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- Prostitutes face jail under tougher law | UK news | The Observer...
- Aug 12, 2007 1:26pm (2 reviews) great-britain, prostitution http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/s...
- From the page: "The government was last night accused of turning the clock back 25 years by introducing a law that will allow courts to imprison prostitutes who are arrested for soliciting. The move has provoked the fury of women's support groups, who say the move will do nothing to address the root causes of the illicit trade in sex."
I don't think that UK is just 25 years behind... In Sweden the customers would be prosecuted.
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- Un estudio señala que el canibalismo era habitual en Europa durante el...
- Aug 12, 2007 6:32am (1 review) anthropology, science http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/...
- From the page: "Desde finales del 3.000 al 2.500 antes de Cristo, el canibalismo era común en toda la cuenca mediterránea europea y en Finlandia, y la carne de los fallecidos se tomaba tras hervirla unas tres o cuatro horas, "tal vez para asimilar sus características", ha explicado el director del Laboratorio de Antropología Física de la Universidad de Granada, Miguel Botella, quien dirige esta investigación en colaboración con expertos de la Universidad Autónoma de México y el Instituto de Antropología mexicano."
In another age you'd be considered food.
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- The forgotten refugees who wait for justice after 60 years | World...
- Aug 5, 2007 2:05am (1 review) india http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/sto...
- From the page: "'We first came here as refugees in 1947,' says Kajal Roy, his eyes watering from the smoke that fills his bamboo and mud home. 'We used cow dung for fuel then, as we do now. Nothing has really changed for us. When we fled from East Bengal to West Bengal 60 years ago, our land in the camp was marked out by a few pebbles: 20 square feet a head. The pebbles are still there, dug into the ground.'"
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- Report Finds Dire Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq - New York Times
- Jul 30, 2007 9:54am (1 review) iraq http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/world/...
- From the page: "The report states that as many as four million Iraqis are in dire need of help getting food, many of them children; 70 percent of the country now lacks access to adequate water supplies, up from 50 percent in 2003, and 90 percent of the country's hospitals lack basic medical and surgical supplies."
- Jul 27, 2007 1:53pm
- For all who wondered what kept me busy during the last months: here is a list of the audio books I've been listening to:
Morten Ramsland
"Hundehoved" (dk) - the true reason why I learned Danish!
"Hundhuvud" (se) - the Swedish translation was very helpful
Henning Mankell:
"Mördare utan ansikte" (se)
"Hundene i Riga" (no)
"Den vita lejoninnan" (se)
"Mannen som log" (se)
"Villospår" (se)
"Den femte kvinnan" (se)
"Steget efter" (se) - the Wallander I liked best
"Brandvägg" (se)
"Pyramiden" (se)
"Italienska skor" (se) - a very nice book
Leif GW Persson
"Grisfesten" (se) - for all who always knew that something is rotten in the state of äh.. Sweden ;-)
Håkan Nesser
"Picadilly Circus ligger inte i Kumla" (se) - an outstanding book!
Karin Alvtegen
Bedrag (dk)
Currently listening:
Helle Helle "Roedby-Puttgarden" (dk)
"se", "no" and "sk" stand for Swedish, Norwegian and Danish. After about 200 hours of listening to Swedish audio books, I understand the language quite well. Now it's time to move on to Danish and Norwegian :-)
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