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	<title>Ruhr in English &#187; Dirk Schmidt</title>
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	<description>English Life in the Ruhr-Metropolis, the community of 53 cities and towns in the heart of the German state of Northrhine-Westfalia which will be Europeans Cultural Capital 2010 is covered by this blog. The larger cities of this area are Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Dortmuind as well as Oberhausen, Mülheim, Herne, Gelsenkirchen and Bottrop.</description>
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		<title>Business Information Systems, bilingual</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The university of Duisburg-Essen now offers a bilingual field of study. A master of science in business informations systems (&#8220;Wirtschaftsinformatik&#8221;) will be offered from winter term on. Due to a press release the English spoken lessen will be 30 to 80 percent. The lesson will be hold by native speakers or people with long term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ruhr and me have been in the New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quoting about the New York Times I remembered that recently &#8211; while campaigning &#8211; a Berlin based journalist form the New York Times came over from the capital. He wanted to watch campaigning here in the region. We don&#8217;t seems to be completely unknown in the USA, at least to Mr. Nicolas Kulish. Here&#8217;s what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruhrtriennale &#8211; why not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever heard about the Ruhrtriennale? It&#8217;s a famous annual music and arts festival in the Ruhr area. The venues are sites of industrial heritage, e.g. the famous Jahrhunderhalle in Bochum. The program never really attracted me: ever it was too hard to get tickets or it wasn&#8217;t something I wanted to see. Due to some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Service Bike Rental</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have seen them at some railway sstations in Germany. Self-rental bike from a company owned by &#8220;Deutsche Bahn AG&#8221;. The metropolis Ruhr now get&#8217;s it&#8217;s own network of bike stations all across the 11 larger cities. On June 18th, 2010 the first self-service bike stations have been started in Dortmund. Further stations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunny Pre-School in Gelsenkirchen and soon in Bochum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday I wasn&#8217;t able to go to the meeting of the club of the supporters (friends?) of the bilingual Carolinenschule in Bochum.Therefore I just have second-hand information. But there is interesting news: There is progress with the new building for the school. They even started working on the secondary school which will be bilingual, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Chance for FlicFlac</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[circus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oberhausen]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the campaiging this year, Pam and I are exploring the project of the European Capital of Culture Ruhr.2010. Especially, the Schachtzeichen-event was great. But now there is something that is a must see but will end soon. The next two weeks will see the last  days of FlicFlac which is a circus. Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Local&#8217;s guide to the Ruhr Valley&#8217;s year of culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The Local&#8217; (Germany&#8217;s News in English) provides an article &#8220;The Local&#8217;s guide to the Ruhr Valley&#8217;s year of culture&#8221; including a photo gallery. The guide contains a list of the highlights of 2010.]]></description>
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		<title>International School Ruhr opening September 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really don&#8217;t have writen much about this project initiated by the &#8216;Initiativkreis Ruhr&#8221; and &#8211; as far as I remember &#8211; the CEO of the RWE company: The International School Ruhr is going to open in September 2010 in Essen. This is the link to its website. http://www.is-ruhr.de According to a press release and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Drama Group: Romeo and Juliet</title>
		<link>http://www.ruhr-in-english.de/2010/01/adg-romeo-and-juliet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December 2009 Pam and I went to watch a French play at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the city&#8217;s theatre. It was a stage adaption of &#8220;The Little Prince&#8221;. Funnily enough, the play was arranged by the American Drama Group in Europe. Usually their plays are in the English language. Anyway, in February the American Drama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wonders of the Solar System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dirk Schmidt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[exhibition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I have been to the exhibition at the Gasometer in Oberhausen. Seems to me and my wife that &#8216;gasometer&#8217; is a British word which is used for large gas holders or gas tanks. The Gasometer in Oberhausen is no longer used as a gas tank but as an exhibition hall. Starting in 2009 [...]]]></description>
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