With the advent begins in the Catholic and Protestant churches the new liturgical year. The first Advent Sunday is the fourth Sunday before 25. Dezember, So it is between the 27. November and 3. Dezember. If the 24. December falls on a Sunday, He is the 4. Sunday of Advent. The Christmas season ends on Christmas Eve with the first Vespers of Christmas.The Advent Sundays in the church year each have a special character: The first Sunday of Advent reminds us of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem (Mt 21,1–9 LUT). The second Sunday of Advent, the expected return of the Lord to topic. The third Sunday of Advent reminds us of John the Baptist as a forerunner of Jesus Christ ...

How to become a translator of Japanese literature, why should our Japanese jokes often do not understand and which books to read Japanese necessarily, explained in an interview Till Weingartner, Japanese studies and translator of the recently published novel blue cat Shadow.

Japanliterur: Naoyuki Iis the Blue Cat The shadow was your first novel translation. How long did it take you to this translation!?

Till Weingartner: The translation was produced as part of a Japanese side supported financially translation program. As a result, some conditions were specified, about the delivery of the first half of the translation after half a year, and then the revision of the first half parallel for translating the second half ...

In the first Aikido lessons we feel awkward, the arms and legs Tuen hurt us because we do not relax,we do not dare to fall, the knees hurt from too much sitting seiza and the names of the techniques hear to Chinese.
If we accustom ourselves and have the stamina to stand over the first hours and the first 3 Exercise regularly months, We will remember, that if we use relaxed and the whole body rather than just the arms in a pub, no longer do they hurt, we learn more easily traps, the knee and the Back of foot Back themselves get used to it and the names of the techniques, we repeat as many times as, We are also familiar.
In the next few months in which our teacher by watching our progress will be slow our Kyu Exa ...

This is the second set About Tung of one of the beautiful documents from Niall Matthews from his Blog Moon in the Water, I would like to again point to the pictures, echt toll!

“I play banjo better than the one who taught me”

photo: Karen Kerney’s “Paul Robeson, Voice Of The People” In A Call Box On Varnum Street, NW (Washington, DC) “The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.” – from a speech at a London rally for Spanish loyalists, 1937. photo by takomabibelot http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/415003735/ photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomab…ith/415003735/ used under creative commons licence

I remember, that my father Paul Robeson at the banjo song listened to, when I was a boy ...

Feldkirch - find Throughout the week in the gym of the elementary school in Levis Feldkirch several judo training for the place. The Martial Arts is currently on the rise and therefore very popular among young people. VOL Live was there for a training and talked to coach Andreas Wieland. Judo is a Japanese martial art, in by certain grips, Lever and throws the opponent may be put out of action. "What makes Judo is, that you can live a duel without violating the opponent seriously ", describes Andreas Wieland, one of the coaches of the Judo Union Feldkirch. The big difference to other martial arts is the low risk of injury by choosing not to Kicks, Blows and blows ...

I put about, whether I should let test me again and asked those who had helped me earlier. I got the following answer I would like to share with you, because it is something, that many are wondering:
This is the first set About Tung from one of the posts from Niall Matthews from his Blog Moon in the Water, Please note the pictures, real works of art.

I was kicked out of high school because of my fraud in the metaphysics exam, I looked into the soul of the boy sitting in my vicinity. Woody Allen

Hardly it will be cooler, and a runny nose again. How can we protect ourselves from colds and helps us as buckthorn here.You can still be so careful, can not tighten so warm - at Hatschi you seldom over. But you always hear of people, which are rarer than others afflicted by infections. The other day I met a woman at the lake, barefoot! In less than ten degrees. She was wearing a bathrobe over the wet swimsuit, shook the hair and said,, that they do that until well into the winter so. Cold it was, incidentally, not many years more.

The popularly called the Resilience, and he is right. The immune system is trained by challenges ...

Actroid-F kann lächeln, sprechen und vor allem lernen. Auf den ersten Blick sieht die Androidin aus wie eine junge Japanerin in Krankenschwerstern-Kleidung. Doch sie ist ein Roboter, programmiert um selbständig zu lernen – durch Nachahmung. Bald soll sie ihren Dienst im Krankenhaus antreten.

Die junge Frau sitzt auf einem Stuhl und beobachtet. Ihre wachen Augen gleiten durch den Raum, ein Lächeln huscht über ihr Gesicht, dann runzelt sie kurz die Stirn. Ihre Mimik wirkt zurückhaltend, aber täuschend echt. Ein paar Worten kann sie auch schon sprechen. Dabei ist alles an ihr künstlich. Actrioid-F ist ein Roboter der japanischen Firma Kokoro.

Science Fiction zum greifen nah

2001 schienen die menschengleichen Roboter im Film “A.I. – Künstliche Intelligenz” noch Zukunftsmusik...

Ein Kommentar von Peter Carstens

Entwaldung im Kongo

Wir beuten, das zeigt der jetzt veröffentlichte WWF-Bericht “Living Planet Report 2010”, unseren Planeten derart rücksichtslos aus, dass wir, wenn wir wie bislang weitermachen, year 2030 zwei davon bräuchten. Und im Jahr 2050 sogar fast drei. Gleichzeitig sterben immer mehr Tier- und Pflanzenarten aus. Kaum jemals zuvor hat eine globale Zustandsanalyse gezeigt, wie eng unsere Ressourcen-Nutzung (oder sollte man -Missbrauch sagen?), unser wachsender Wohlstand und die Artenvielfalt auf der Erde zusammenhängen...