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Are the Boomers Are Heading for the Barn?
When the April figures on unemployment were released May 4, they were more than disappointing. They were deeply disturbing. While the unemployment rate had fallen from 8.2 percent to 8.1 percent, 342,000 workers had stopped looking for work. They had just dropped out of the labor market. Only 63.6 percent of the U.S. working age population is now in thelabor force, the lowest level since December 1981.
WANDERLUST
Eurostar Eyes Frankfurt Link
Eurostar is to extend its high speed rail service to link Frankfurt and Cologne via the Channel Tunnel to London within the next five years, according to a British newspaper report on Monday.
GERMERICANA
Digging into German Culture in Pennsylvania
By Chris Sholley
During the past year, a group of Lebanon Valley College students poured over German documents at the Lebanon County Historical Society of Pennsylvania as part of an advanced course in the language. They made interesting discoveries about the lives of German immigrants.
AKADEMIA
Learning and Teaching German
With the free German courses from Deutsche Welle, you can choose the learning style that suits you best: e-learning at the computer, with short videos, audio courses or podcasts, or with texts and worksheets you can print out. For DW's website, please click HERE
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German-American Heritage Month
Mon, 09/21/2009 - 22:35 — Walter
This October marks the 20th anniversary of German-American Heritage Month. It was begun in 1989 by the German-American Citizens League of Greater Cincinnati, which was founded in 1895.
German-American Heritage Month takes place in October since German-American Day is October 6th and is the day in 1683 when the first permanent German settlement in America was established at Germantown, Pennsylvania.
German-American Day was officially declared as a day of commemoration by President Ronald Reagan in 1987 and has been celebrated ever since across the country.
Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann, president of the German-American Citizens League, led the national campaign for German-American Day, and in 1989 organized the first German-American Heritage Month in Cincinnati.
Since that time, other places around the country have followed suit and established German-American Weeks or Months.
This year a month-long program again has been put together by the German-American Citizens League of Greater Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati program serves as a model that should be adopted elsewhere across the country, centering the celebration on the 6th of October and building a month-long program of events relating to German-American history and relations.
For the calendar of events in Cincinnati, see: www.gacl.org
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KULTUR
Celebrating Gustav Klimt
Vienna's art trade will be marking the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s birth in style. A series of special events in 2012 will pay tribute to the artist, who was a leading light in the Vienna Secession movement and a pioneer of modernism.
DAS KINO
Portrait of Wally - The Movie
A documentary about Austrian painter Egon Schiele's famous portrait of his mistress "Wally" opens Friday, in New York's Quad Cinema III. It traces the legal and emotional drama surrounding the oil painting. The following review is by Chuck Bowen of Slant.
DER STAMMTISCH
Gertrude Stein's Strange Views
By Mark Weber
Scholars of the life of Gertrude Stein were recently startled to learn that in 1938 the prominent American writer Gertrude Stein had spearheaded a campaign urging the Nobel committee to award its Peace Prize to Adolf Hitler.
FUSSBALL
