July 2010
18 posts
Statistic: Number of Germans with non-German heritage topping 16 million for first time →
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Interesting stat following Fulbright ‘09 discussions on immigration and Germany:
- These are different things: a “foreigner” vs. someone “with a migration background.”
- How do you become a German culturally if you came from somewhere else?
- Would Germans watch a newscast anchored by a German-speaking Asian?
- What does an Arab or an African immigrant think about the Holocaust? The Cold War? Where are migrants in Germany’s post-WWII story?
- Don’t have a number on this, but I’m told it’s true: Frankfurt has the largest Korean population in Europe.
- Every second person in Berlin is a migrant (ie, not born in the city). More than 20 percent are non-German migrants.
- Emigration will be Germany’s next big problem. In 2008, more people left Germany than came in.
- What does it mean to be “the other of the other”?
Things that happen when I'm in charge of the wire (Mostly Alligator edition)
- Manatee After-School Special: A girl manatee tries to run away from a bunch of cootie-riddled boy manatees, and they all get stuck in a dead-end canal near the Miami airport. Grown-ups are called, lessons are learned.
- Don’t Pet Service Dogs: Because they might be pit bulls.
- Chicks: Baby pelicans find oil in Louisiana, rehab in Florida.
- Sad: Bomb-sniffing K-9 dog dies while training at University of Florida stadium.
- MEAN: Turtles found decapitated on the beach. Really, people?
- Real Estate: Thousands of bats living under a SW Florida bridge scheduled for demolition won’t go up in smoke. They’re getting two bat high-rises. Sweet.
- Don’t Try This At Home: Man encounters 4-foot alligator under mobile home and thinks he can take it. Alligator’s sharp teeth sinking into his hand prove him wrong. Professionals are called, reptile is removed.
- Is Someone Humming the “Jaws” theme?: It’s a fun nighttime swim in a Naples-area canal, until a 10-foot alligator decides you look delicious and bites off your left hand.
- It’s Really Not the Other White Meat: Florida man allegedly beats alligator to death in front of neighbors. Police find gator meat in his fridge and ON A PLATE.
- The Need For Speed: Two racing greyhounds test positive for cocaine at a north Florida track.
- Sad, Part 2: K-9 dog in north Florida dies after distracted handler leaves him in hot patrol car.
- Finally, Some Good News: Kemp’s ridley turtle hatchlings, fresh from eggs rescued from the Gulf Coast, are released into the Atlantic off Cape Canaveral. Swim, little buddies, swim!
ICAO spelling alphabet →
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My ICAO name — Juliet Kilo — is amusingly more Miami-appropriate than my porn star name (Violet Morgan, if you must know).
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On July 4 in oil spill country, pondering America →
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Thank you, residents and visitors of Seaside, for not pointing out that I was interviewing people with my shirt inside out. We’re very professional out here on the Panhandle on the 4th of July.
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