“Pankstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U8. It was opened on October 5, 1977 (Rümmler) with the line’s extension from Gesundbrunnen to Osloer Straße. The station’s name derives from its location: It sits under the intersection of Pankstraße and Badstraße.
The actual spelling of the station’s name is under debate. The German orthographic rules call for the spelling “Pankstraße”, but the signs inside the station spell “Pankstrasse”.
Like the station Siemensdamm (Berlin U-Bahn), the station is constructed as a “Multi Purpose Facility”. It is prepared and partially stocked to be used as a NBC shelter. It is specified to sustain 3339 people for 14 days.”
This is one of the churches that Schinkel built in the 19th century.This area used to be an outer norther suburb of Berlin. Now there is lots of traffic and U-Bahn Pankstrasse close by.Do you recognise this building?
Here you can find an impressive list of Berlin U-Bahn stations:
“Sometimes, the answer is right in front of your face. Sometimes, it’s just below your feet.
As we embark, as a nation, on a sensible and measured debate about tax reform, land tax should be a major part of the discussion.
Land tax is one of the most efficient taxes for precisely the reason it is unpopular: it is hard to dodge.
Of the roughly four things governments can tax – companies, individuals, consumption and land – economists agree that land is by far the most efficient source for taxation. . . . . ”
Please go to the above link to read on.
It is important that when it comes to land tax, only the unimproved value should be taxed, not the home!
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has turned out his classic Kevin ‘07 election line, but this time, he’s international.
Formerly, “My name’s Kevin, I’m from Queensland and I’m here to help”, the former Labor Party leader opened with the zinger after he zipped to Canada last month to talk China and US relations at the TED Truth or Dare conference. The full video was uploaded on Wednesday.
In his 20-minute speech, Rudd, billed an “international relations expert”, outlined what the future holds for the “giants of the 21st century” and how their decisions “will affect all of us in ways perhaps we’ve never thought of”.
Kevin Rudd made his debut on the TED stage, but his jokes fell flat.
He urged the countries to reflect on history and learn from our previous mistakes and called for the US to engage in a better understanding of China’s culture.
But what’s a Kevin Rudd speech without a Ruddism, or three?
Without fail, he delivered. Here’s the best of the worst.
Kevin Rudd: Are China and the US doomed to conflict?
WEED JOKE FALLS FLAT
If China does become the world’s largest economy, think about this.
It will be the first time since George III was on the throne of England that in the world we will have as the largest economy a non-English speaking country, a non-Western country, a non liberal-democratic country.
And if you don’t think that’s going to affect the way the world happens in the future, then personally I think you’ve been smoking something — and that doesn’t mean you are from Colorado.
HIS HANDS WERE CLEARLY NOT BUILT FOR FARMING
Soft and supple: These certainly aren’t farming hands.Source: Supplied
People ask me why is it that a kid growing up in rural Australia got interested in learning Chinese. This is Betsy the cow. Betsy the cow was one of a herd of dairy cattle that I grew up with on a farm in rural Australia. See these hands, they’re not built for farming.
So very early on I discovered that in fact working on a farm was not designed for me and China was a safe remove from any career in Australian farm life.
KEVIN THE CONQUEROR?
The great thing about learning Chinese is that your Chinese teacher gives you a new name:
“Conqueror of the classics”. Any of you guys called Kevin? It’s a major lift from being called Kevin to be called “Conqueror of the classics”.
KEVIN TALKS ORGASMS
The ambassador began with this inelegant phrase, he said, ‘China and Australia are currently enjoying a relationship of unprecedented closeness’.
I thought to myself, ‘that sounds clumsy, that sounds odd, I will improve it’.
Note to file, never do that. It needed to be a little more elegant a little more classical, so I rendered it.
There was a big pause on the other side of the room.
The blood was visibly draining from their face … when I rendered his sentence … in fact what I said was, ‘Australia and China were now experiencing fantastic orgasm’.
That was the last time I was asked to interpret.
ASKED IF HE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY BRIDGING THE GAP
what we Australians do best is organise the drinks, you get them together in one room and we suggest this and we suggest that, than we go and get the drinks.
kevin rudd ted talk
Talk about a turnout. Source: Supplied
The above is the URL of a reblog I published on 27 Feb 2015. I am a little bit concerned that the air in an aeroplane could be poisoned. I just watched the video that comes with the above post. Do you think we should take health concerns about air travel seriously?
“Malcolm Fraser cites the Melbourne-based Asylum Seeker Resource Centre as providing the kind of support that should be coming from the government. The ASRC, through a small permanent staff and about 900 volunteers, gives asylum seekers help with legal issues, medical care, training, accommodation, food and more.”
Even though this is another blog by pethan35 written in German, I still want to reblog it. I assume, that some of my followers can understand a bit of German, and besides some people might like to see the pictures and listen to the duet on the video.
I found in Google this Obituary about Karl-Josef Hering:
“KARL-JOSEF Hering, the German tenor renowned above all for his portrayal of Siegfried in Wagner’s Ring cycle, originally intended to pursue a business career. He took up singing “just for a lark”, but became serious about it when his voice developed heroic proportions.
After gaining experience in Hanover and Krefeld, Hering was engaged in 1966 by the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, and remained with the company until 1979, when ill-health forced him to retire. He then became landlord of the Fisher Cabin, an old and well-known hostelry in the Zehlendorf district of Berlin. There he frequently entertained his guests with a song.
Hering was born in Westonnen, Westphalia, and had already begun commercial training when he started to study with Franz Volker, a German tenor famous for his Wagnerian roles. Hering also studied with Max Lorenz, another heroic tenor. He made his debut in 1958 in Hanover, where he progressed from the First Prisoner in Fidelio to Florestan, the hero of Beethoven’s opera. In 1964 he moved to Krefeld and in 1966 to Berlin, where one of his earlier roles was Max in Der Freischutz.
In October the same year he made his Covent Garden debut as Siegfried in Gotterdammerung: everyone admired his voice, the kind of heroic tenor not heard in London for many years – older opera lovers even invoked the name of Lauritz Melchior in comparison – but his lack of stage experience and stiff acting were also commented upon.
In Berlin the following April, Hering first sang the young Siegfried, and it became immediately obvious that he had found his perfect role. Nearly two metres tall (around 6ft 5in) and broad to match, the tenor effortlessly conveyed the thoughtless, badly behaved child that lies at the heart of Siegfried, while his “big, never- failing voice unites melody and words with complete naturalness”, as the late Arthur Jacobs wrote, continuing, “I really enjoy his Siegfried.” So did I, quite enormously, when Hering sang both Siegfrieds at Covent Garden in September 1968.
Meanwhile Hering was rapidly acquiring new roles. He sang Pedro in Tiefland at the Vienna Volksoper, Parsifal in Marseilles and, in 1969, Erik in Der fliegende Hollander in Berlin. He visited Buenos Aires the same year, to sing Andres in Wozzeck and Max. He added Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, Aegisthus in Elektra and Hermann in The Queen of Spades to his Deutsche Oper repertory, and in 1970 returned to Covent Garden for both Siegfrieds in what turned out to be his final visit.
Siegmund in Die Walkure took him across the Berlin Wall to the Staatsoper, while he made guest appearances all over Germany, usually as Siegfried, which he also sang in Toronto. Hering was made a Berlin Kammersanger in 1974: his final new role at the Deutsche Oper was the Drum Major in Wozzeck, a character for which his gigantic stature well suited him. His retirement at the age of 50 because of ill-health was a great loss to opera. At any time there are very few tenors who can sing Siegfried; hardly any of them can sing the role the way Hering did.
Karl-Josef Hering, opera singer and innkeeper: born Westonnen, Westphalia 14 February 1929; died Berlin 20 May 1998.”
Im europäischen Frühling 1986 waren wir wieder einmal zu Besuch in Berlin.
Am Sonntag, den 27. April nahm ich am 25 km Lauf teil. Berlin erlebte einen späten Frühling. Aber endlich meldete sich der Frühling an. Die ersten Knospen waren mutig und wagten sich ans Sonnenlicht und gaben den Sträuchern einen grünen Schimmer.
Nach dem erfolgreichen Lauf beschlossen wir, meine Frau Ute, Tochter Caroline und ich, uns am Schlachtensee zu erholen. Hier hatte ich auch für den Lauf trainiert. Der Rundlauf (etwa 5.5 km) ist wunderbar zum Joggen geeignet. Aber das lag hinter mir.
Wir erreichten den See mit der S-Bahn und liefen am Ufer entlang zur Bootsvermietung. Es war mitten in der Woche und nicht viele Menschen kamen mit der gleichen Idee. Die Frau, die uns das Boot verlieh, war überrascht und plauderte munter mit uns. Für Caroline war es auch ein neues Erlebnis und sie wollte natürlich selber…
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