Waste separation system ♦ 垃圾分类 ♦ Mülltrennungsystem

Waste separation plays an important roll in environmental issue, as a leader of a whole world - European countries of course must be a good model of other countries. In my opinion, Germany has done quite well on this part.
垃圾分类是一个环保意识里重要的一环，走在世界尖端的欧洲国家当然要以身作则。德国在这方面，我觉得算是不错了~


This is a typical garbage collecting container in a hostel. Green boxes are for paper, white boxes are for glasses. The black plastic bag suppose to be yellow is called "Gelbe Sack", it's for plastic bags and packaging bags. And the bio and rest waste are in another bag.
这个是在宿舍里典型的垃圾箱。青色盒子放纸张，白色放玻璃。黑色胶袋应该是黄色的，叫做"Gelbe Sack"，是用来装塑胶袋或包装纸。当然还有剩余的垃圾和有机的垃圾在另一个袋子。

Yellow bag - "Gelbe Sack"
黄胶袋 - "Gelbe Sack"

This is taken at train station. Green is for glass, yellow is for packaging, blue is for paper and red is for others.
这个是在火车站的垃圾桶。青色盒子放玻璃，黄色放包装纸，蓝色放纸张，红色放其余的。


This garbage centre is outside the hostel, you have to throw is out here when the garbage is full. White is for rest waste, blue is for paper. (the colour is a bit confusing, the best is know how to read the word)
这个是在宿舍外面，里面满了要拿出来丢。白色是其余的，蓝色的是纸张。（颜色有点不太统一，最好是会读字）

Here is to collect glasses, it even separates white(transparent), green or brown bottles.
这里收集玻璃，还有分白色（透明），青色或褐色的瓶子。

This is for you to put old bags or shoes or clothes or so on. It's for charity. Those things will send to poor people. Nice huh?
这个是装旧包包或鞋子或衣服等等。像慈济一样做善事的。这些东西会送去给穷人家。不错吧？


This mark means that you need to pay 25 cents for the bottle, we called it "Pfand". But if you put the empty bottle in a machine, print out a receipt, you can take the money back. This is also means they use money to force you not to simply throw the bottle, it's also a way. For normal beer bottle has this system too, but less money, only 8 cents.
这个标志代表瓶子要给钱，一瓶25cent，我们叫Pfand。但是放进机器里面回收后，印出来的单据可以换回钱。换句话就是用钱来逼你环保，也不算差。平时的啤酒瓶也是有回收，比较少,8cent而已。

The bottles are pressed flat and send back to factory.
那些瓶子被压扁，之后会送回工厂。

And one more thing, here we don't encourage to use plastic bag. You need to pay 6 cents for plastic bags. Let you think twice and better use green bag~~
还有值得一提的是，这里不鼓励用塑胶袋。要用塑胶袋要给钱6cents。让你三思后，还是用环保袋比较好~

Luncheon meat fried egg ♦ 午餐肉炒蛋

Luncheon meat is a very famous food in Asia country. Somebody feels curious whether they can buy luncheon meat in Germany or Europe country, or they should bring a whole beg of luncheon meat can food if they are going to stay in Germany to study.
午餐肉在亚洲国家很出名。有些人在想，到底在德国或欧洲买不买到？还是他们需要带一大袋午餐肉罐头，当他们要来德国念书。

I'm here to tell you, NO~you don't have to~ because here you can find something very similar and it's called "Frühstücksfleisch" (direct translate will be Breakfast meat instead of luncheon meat). It tastes 70% similar, but after frying it will be 85% similar~
我在这里告诉你，不需要~因为你在这里可以找到一个类似的东西叫“Frühstücksfleisch”（直接翻译的话是早餐肉，不是午餐肉）。他的味道相似度高达70%，经过油煎甚至有85%相似~

Here let me introduce you a delicious and simple way of cooking-Luncheon meat fried egg
在这里教一下简单又好吃的煮法——午餐肉炒蛋

全部材料： All ingredients:
午餐肉 Luncheon meat
鸡蛋 Eggs


First, cut the luncheon meat to small cubes, fry then will golden colour. Why fry the luncheon meat first? because the luncheon meat here has a very heavy pork smell, after frying it to golden colour, the smell will be gone and smell nice.
首先是把午餐肉切成一粒粒，煎一煎到金黄色。为什么要煎午餐肉？因为这里的午餐肉有臭臭的猪肉味，把它煎到金黄色，不但臭味跑光光，还有阵阵的香味。。。

Stir the egg and pour into the pan and fry, this time don't add any salt or soy sauce, because the luncheon meat is very salty~ if you want you can add some sugar to lower the saltiness...
鸡蛋搅匀倒进去煎，这回鸡蛋不用加盐或酱油，因为午餐肉很咸了~要的话还可以加一点点糖中和一下咸味。。。

The hardest part is to flip the egg, require a lot of skill, practice makes perfect, try it on your own~
这个是最考技巧也是很难传授的翻锅，大家自己慢慢练习吧~

2008, Year of Mathematics in Germany

2008 is the Year of Mathematics in Germany. The purpose is to send a message about the importance of Mathematics and the Joy of Maths learning. Many students have fear on Maths learning but actually you used Maths without knowing it!~

The slogan is quite cool :"Du kannst mehr Mathe, als du denkst" (You know more Maths than you think)


Jahr der Mathematik


Parabola + Projectile motion


Geometry


Positional notation


Parabola + Projectile motion


Topology

Polar bear celebrates 1st birthday

from CNN

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- Celebrity polar bear Knut -- who won the hearts of millions around the globe as a roly-poly orphan cub -- celebrated his first birthday Wednesday with a cake made from 300 eggs and 20 pounds of marzipan.

Knut cleaning his fur in his outdoor enclosure at the Berlin Zoo.

The Berlin Zoo pulled out all the stops to fete its star attraction, who has gone from a fluffy white powderpuff of a cub to a full-grown polar bear with a cheeky curiosity and a penchant for muddying his coat by rolling in the dirt.

His giant birthday cake contains 30 pounds each of flour and sugar. Children were given free entry to the zoo to help celebrate Knut's birthday, and proceeds from sales of slices of the cake will go toward the zoo's foundation, officials said.

But Knut -- no longer a tiny cub, thanks partly to his penchant for croissants -- probably won't get a taste of his own birthday cake. He may have weighed less than two pounds at birth but now tips the scale at more than 240 pounds, and has been on a diet since July.

Abandoned at birth, along with a twin brother who only survived a couple of days, Knut first attracted attention when Berlin's media picked up the story of his main caregiver camping out at the zoo to give the cub his bottle every two hours.

The story angered animal rights activists, who tried to sue the zoo for cruelty to animals by preventing nature from taking its course when the cub was rejected -- even if it cost him his life.

By that time, Knut was a three-month old white furball, with button eyes and his own fan club. He had been photographed dozens of times -- including for the cover of Vanity Fair -- and attracted thousands to the zoo.

Knut has generated more than $14 million for the zoo over the past year in with Knut toys, books and other trinkets, and drawing more than double the number of visitors.

Now that he is grown, the zoo does not have room to keep Knut permanently and are considering other offers from zoos in Europe, with an eye to finding him a mate, officials say.

Thomas Doerflein, who raised Knut by hand, cuddling him and playing with him in addition to feeding him from a bottle, told Germany's Bild newspaper on Wednesday that he hopes the bear will soon find a new home.

"A spacious enclosure. A female partner. At some point, Knut needs to leave me," Doerflein told the paper.

Nachtwandel im Jungbusch

am 26. und 27. Oktober 2007, 20 bis 02 Uhr http://www.laboratorio17.de/seiten/hauptseiten/nachtwandel-2007.htm http://www.mannheim2007.de/2007/10/16/262710-nachtwandel-im-jungbusch/ http://www.jungbuschzentrum.de/

Nachtwandel is an event that helds for the purpose of celebrating the end of day-light-saving. Many arts, dances, musics are performed.

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German railroad strikes spread

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- German train drivers launched a strike on the country's passenger network Thursday, following freight train drivers off the job as their union turned up the pressure on the national railway in a bitter pay dispute.

German railroads came to a halt Thursday as passenger drivers came out on strike.

The GDL union called passenger train drivers out on strike at 2 a.m. (0100GMT) for a walkout that was set to last 48 hours.

Freight train drivers started their strike at midday Wednesday. Railway operator Deutsche Bahn AG said that only one in 10 regional trains was running in eastern Germany, where GDL is strongest.However, it said that two-thirds of its high-speed InterCityExpress trains were running normally.

The strike marks an escalation by GDL after it staged a 42-hour walkout against freight services last week, but left passenger trains running.

Construction starts on Nazi museum

From CNN

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- The German government Friday started construction of an exhibition center at the site where the Gestapo, leaders of the SS and other top officials in Adolf Hitler's police state presided over Nazi-era crimes.

Work begins on the "Topography of Terror" exhibition center in Berlin.

The site "stands like no other place in Berlin for terror and genocide," Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit told reporters while marking the start of work. With the new center, he said, "one of the most important, authentic places of remembrance in Berlin will gain in stature."

The functional glass-and-metal structure, a single-story pavilion designed by German architect Ursula Wilms, will complete a memorial known as the "Topography of Terror" at what was one of the centers of Nazi power. It should be opened on May 8, 2010 -- the 65th anniversary of Nazi Germany's final surrender.

Visitors -- currently around 500,000 a year -- have been able to view an open-air exhibition in what remains of the Gestapo cellars, which were uncovered in the 1980s in what is now largely wasteland.

The Gestapo also had its prison at the headquarters.

Next door once stood the Hotel Prinz Albrecht, which housed the leadership of the SS, the Nazi party's dreaded paramilitary unit -- including Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich -- and the Reich Security Main Office. Officials prepared the 1942 Wannsee Conference, where Nazi leaders formalized their plans for the Holocaust, at the site.

The SS acted as a special police force and was involved in some of the worst crimes committed in territory under Nazi control during World War II.

The remains of the damaged buildings were leveled after World War II. The site is in what was for decades a neglected corner of postwar West Berlin, right next to the Berlin Wall. It is still bordered by one of the wall's few remaining sections.

Wowereit said Wilms' design "is architecturally restrained and does not distract from the matter at hand."

The estimated $33 million cost of the new center will be shouldered by the German federal government and the city government.

Andreas Nachama, a former head of Berlin's Jewish community who leads the foundation overseeing the project, said that it would include a library and seminar rooms as well as the documentation center.

The site will now become "a worthy place of memory," said Wolfgang Boernsen, a lawmaker for Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.

"We more than owe this to the victims of the Nazis' regime of terror, on whose fate decisions were made here."

The site is a few minutes' walk from the capital's Holocaust memorial, which opened two years ago. It is across the road from the one-time Nazi Aviation Ministry, which is now Germany's Finance Ministry.