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Some weakend impressions from winterly Erholungspark Marzahn. As you can see it is quite icy.*
*thanks to Mark Aufpasser for tips for the camera!
update 27.2.2016:
Its been about ten years since this entry had been written. Meanwhile Erholungspark Marzahn
had turned into a kind of ugly Disney park like companion piece. I have basically ceased to go there.
According to world-nuclear-news.org today -on French President Nicholas Sarkozy`s state visit to China- a deal was signed which ensures that
France’s national nuclear champion Areva will build two power reactors at Taishan, China and undertake a feasibility study for a used nuclear fuel reprocessing plant as part of an Eur8 billion deal ($12 billion).
Areva are also to provide “all the materials and services required to operate” the forthcoming 1600 MWe EPR units, to be sited at Taishan, 100 km southwest of Guangzhou and 150 km west of Hong Kong in Guangdong province.
This is a little update to our mahrzipanien applet, which reflects on the changes which are taking place in the architecture of former gdr showcases/partial manifestations of utopies of east german socialism in the eighties. The post contains some images from the district of Berlin-Hellersdorf. In comparision to posh districts like Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg or Friedrichshain living is nowadays still relatively cheap in Hellersdorf. Despite this the housing cooperatives which own a big part of the district have often problems to rent out appartments. One tries to make the district more attractive by tearing down some of the bigger houses (or making them smaller) by renovation and by building new buildings.
Todays newspapers were full of mentioning yesterdays talk by Al Gore in Berlin.
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The above picture clearly shows, that Han Solo exagerated, when he first took the Death Star for a moon. (more…)
just an announcement: The CCC camp starts today at Finowfurt. Here the site with an introductory video by Tim Pritlove et al.
some things apparently have to be discussed seperately. seen on Oranienstrasse.
I am a bit slow these days, but here comes the summary of the NMI 07 of Thursday June 28, Section D+E
Since I don’t have a mobile phone blogging tool or even a laptop I couldn’t life blog from the NMI conference at the academy of sciences. So here comes a little summary about the topics and speakers of last Wednesday.
