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Linksammlung für den Juni

Auch meine Schüler_Innen sind der Meinung ich sei ja kein Lehrer und könne deshalb keine richtigen Strafarbeiten und so geben. Auch auf dem Blog der Süddeutschen kämpft man mit dieser Problematik.

Auch die BBC hat ne schöne Serie zur Arbeit im Rettungsdienst.

Auch aus Britanien kommt eine Kurzgeschichte von Charls Stross einem der Meister der boshaften und unterhaltsamen gegenwärtigen fantastischen Literatur.

Und im Guardian gibt es ein Anti-Bart Text.

Der NDR erklärt mit einem Monty-Phyton ähnlichen Video, was die EU je für uns getan hat!

Ulrich Beck erklärt warum Deutschland zu mächtig für die EU geworden ist, im Interview mit dem Guardian.

Die zweite Folge von Junior Paramedics:

 

 

Linksammlung für März bis Mai

Von Zeit zu Zeit veröffentliche ich ja immer eine Sammlung mit interessanten Links. Irgendwie bin ich in den vergangen Monaten nicht so richtig dazu gekommen, es war ja auch viel los mit Kommunalwahl und Referendariat.

Aber nun wieder:

 

Ukraine

Daily Beast reports: „Over the past few years, NATO countries have helped Russia revolutionize its armed forces. Now questions are arising about a German defense contractor that trained the Russian military.“

Foreign Policy reports about Russia’s involvement in Ukraine: „Russia denies that it’s meddling in Ukraine. But the pro-Russian forces out there don’t always hide their links to Moscow.“

And in Estonia people are thinking on how to counter Russia’s Strategy in getting involved with its neighbours: „NATO and the new war: dealing with asymmetric threats before they become kinetic“

The NYT reports about the Links between the Masked Green Man that took over Crimea to Russia.

Arabien

Rettungsassistent aus Deutschland hat in Saudi Arabien gearbeitet und redet im Interview über seine krassen Erfarungen.

Die Welt fragt: „Darf man die Revolten in der arabischen Welt als Revolutionen betrachten? Eine ägyptische Zeitung eröffnet die Debatte mit einem Abdruck aus Hannah Arendts Standardwerk „Über die Revolution“

 

 

 

Some English Ambulance Stuff

Stayin‘ Alive at Chattanooga Fire Academy 2013

What a good video to teach how CPR is done.

By the way I also teach First Aid from time to time.

You may also watch a good insight in how life is really when you work as paramedic:

Its a UK TV Series and its pretty realistic. I hope we may have something like this as well in Germany.

a happy new year

As it has been a little tradition for new year I will be working on the ambulance. Today only until 22:00 so there will be some time to celebrate as well. For you the fellow readers of this blog, I wish you a happy new year with some pictures from work:

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Ever wondered how it looks inside the ambulance if you turn of the lights and then drive with flashlights?

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Of course more mundane things happen here as well, like sometimes checking how heavy your boots actually are.

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Or teaching the young people how to sew.

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Night time at the hospital

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And if there is no work we are allowed to rest. Which will certainly not happen tonight.

Singapore, Jakarta, Bandung

So its time to report a little bit about my journey through this far away lands. I’m writing this in the PMI Kota office in Bengkulu, where I worked alongside with Indonesian Red Cross volunteers in 2009/10. But let me recount my journey so far.

First I was in Singapore to met with some Friends I know through the South East Asian Youth Red Cross meeting in Batam and another friend I met at the most interesting academic seminar of my university in Udine.  Singapore is fascination and my things happened to me there: I could watch their national day parade from a place close to the actual stage. The parade included F-16 overflights, huge flags, skaters, military pomp unseen in Germany (in the west not since the 1940s in the east not since reunification).

Then I was able to accompany a friend of mine to the school where he is teaching and see the Anglo-Chinese-School from the inside. People also invited me to their house to a Hari Raya Celebration. I went with a friend to the Garden by the Bay and he took me to eat in the restaturant where he trains as a chef. In this restautrant I was also the only customer. A very intresting experience as at times I had the feeling that the staff (all trainee waiters and chefs) were competing on whom to serve the only patron. But food was good.

„Singapore, Jakarta, Bandung“ weiterlesen

The Two Georges

Recently I’m a lazy blogger. Not writing a lot and my online output seems on the other side where I write for our campaign on youth participation. Besides that I’m not doing anything on my phd application.

However on Thursday I will be leaving for Indonesia and I got a nice book that I will most certainly finish before I leave: The Two Georges – A Novel of an Alternate America available not easily only from Amazon.

Its a really nice plot: America remained in the British Empire, the symbol of this union is a paininting depicting the the two Georges. Washington and 3rd. Now this paining has been stolen and investigators from the Royal American Mounted Constabulary are traveling the us and searching for it.

Evidence Based Youth Policy Seminar

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The last week I was in a small village near Vilnius (Lithuania) to discuss evidence based youth policy with a group of young people and youth workers from all other Europe organised by POLITIKOS TYRIM? IR ANALIZ?S INSTITUTAS from Lithuania.

It is always great to get into contact with many new people on youth policy from all across europe. I shared a little bit about the German system of youth policy and how it is set and and done. But even more intresting I lerned a lot from other countries and their practices. For example a current hot toppic in the UK are the huge cuts done in the health and welfare system.

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The core idea of the project was to bring together youth researchers and practitioners from different European countries to develop set of tools that can be used Europe-wide to analyse youth (policy) situation. We shared a lot of research tools and information about what youth policy is. We talked about methodology and about the current practices.  „Evidence Based Youth Policy Seminar“ weiterlesen