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As you can see from the video below, the Pirates Parrot was put on a weather balloon that took him to the edge of the atmosphere before floating down to earth.
Sure, you might say this doesn't matter, but wouldn't you feel better if your mascot went to space before a huge game? Exactly.


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Many operators in deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GoM) are locked into long-term rig contracts at high day rates, a legacy of the tight rig market in the first half of this decade. The increasing complexity of deepwater projects and rise in exploration and development of the basin's frontier plays drove an increase in the number of new-build, high-specification drillships in the region. Since the collapse of oil prices, operators have adapted by allowing contracts to expire, terminating contracts early and sub-contracting rigs at discounted rates. The current oversupply in the rig market will lead to decreases in rig rates that may spur additional infill activity, but the resulting cost savings alone will not be enough to sustain growth in the frontier plays of deepwater GoM if the low oil price environment persists.
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Girl power wins, Mumbra grants them their own football field
When a motley group of girls in the Muslim-dominated suburb of Mumbra started playing football in secret, they had no idea that three years later, they would be able to kick the ball without inhibitions, in a place where they won't have to watch their back.india Updated: Jun 21, 2014 11:58 IST
When a motley group of girls in the Muslim-dominated suburb of Mumbra started playing football in secret, they had no idea that three years later, they would be able to kick the ball without inhibitions, in a place where they won't have to watch their back.
In a landmark decision for gender-specific urban planning and one which will encourage more women to reclaim open spaces, the Thane municipal corporation (TMC) has decided to allot a 4,000 sq m plot for the exclusive use of the suburb's girls. In doing this, the civic body has done what women's organisations have demanded for years and what bigger municipal corporations have failed to do.
Beyond its general advantages, the idea of a girls-only plot is great news for Sabah Shaikh, the captain of the football team. "For us, even getting out of the house without a naqab (veil) was impossible. To take off the naqab and play in full public view requires guts," says Shaikh.For the first year, Shaikh's discreet adventures in football were a secret. Eventually, she was able to tell her mother. But even that, says her friend and goalkeeper Salma Ansari, was after she injured her toe and couldn't conjure up any more stories to explain on-field injuries.
In the Mumbra that Shaikh describes, open spaces were practically forbidden to women. "That was something we wanted to change," says Ansari.
What started out as a few girls wanting to play football eventually turned into a campaign. When they approached other girls, any talk of playing was quickly shot down. "At some homes, the brothers said no to the very thought of their sisters playing in the open," says Syed Muskaan, the team's defender.
That's when Magic Bus, an NGO, stepped in and helped create Parcham, an NGO which the girls registered.
For them it was a constant struggle, but to their detractors it was a rare education in tenacity. It wasn't just men taunting them while they played; "At one point, some men, who were playing cricket, tried to get us injured deliberately. But, we didn't keep quiet. We treated their pitch as the goal post and shot penalties into it. After a few hits, they scampered off," says Muskaan, another teammate, as the girls break into a laugh.
Eventually, the girls started a signature drive for a girls-only exclusive ground and around 900 girls from Mumbra backed their demand. The Thane civic body agreed and the plot was allotted.
For the girls, having accomplished their goal, they can finally do what they enjoy the most--shoot a goal.
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"Yes, Vati," his stepdaughter sighed. "I'll read it most carefully, before Hansi and Mutti see it." She took the slim pamphlet from him, although she was already carrying his box of watch-making tools, as the two of them walked along the narrow village street, of which Albeck only had four, including the one which led to the city of Ulm. A late snowstorm scattered a few feather-like flakes around them, which whispered as they settled on the muddy and oft-churned ground. They stepped aside as a pair of bullocks pulling a sledge with a load of manure went past.
"Is that not Peter Frimmel already mulching his field?" Vati squinted after them. "It is early, yet, I think."
"It's March, Vati," Magda answered. She was a tall young woman with the ink-black hair and dark hazel eyes of her father, Mutti's first husband who had died when she was a baby. She had much of her mother's brisk manner and angular features wholly her own and thought to be too sharp and too forceful for beauty.
"Oh, so 'tis," Vati looked around him vaguely. He stood a head shorter than his stepdaughter, a gnome-like and lightly-built little man of middle age, whose near-sighted gray eyes reflected both the gentle wisdom of years but still some of the innocent enthusiasm of a child. "I lose track of the days, in the shop and away from the land. And that is the problem, dear Magda. There is barely enough to support us now. How will you all live, when my share is divided between the boys and you have a dower-share as did Liesel when she married Hansi?"
"I don't care to marry," Magda answered with a toss of her head. "I don't care in the slightest for any of the eligible bachelors in Albeck, and I don't want to go elsewhere. Who would look after you and Mutti?"
"Even so. But you still should marry, my dear child. It would make your mother so happy," Vati said and looked at her very searchingly. "Don't you wish for it, in the least?"
"I don't know what I really want, Vati," Magda answered. "I would like a husband that I could talk to, as I talk to you. Someone who is kind, and amusing; if I could find someone just like you or like Uncle Simon, I think I would marry very happily. But there is no one else like you in Albeck!"
"Alas, I am sui generis," Vati agreed somewhat smugly as they walked towards the gate that led into the Steinmetz holding, where a lantern burned primrose in the twilight of the cobbled yard and the range of fine timber and stone buildings surrounding it. "But still, my dear child, you should be caring for your own husband and children," he chided her, fondly. "Now, you see, there would be another reason for going to Texas. Besides three hundred and twenty acres of land— good rich land it is—for each family, there would be a chance for you to find a husband that would better suit you than a dull old farmer with his head among the cabbages. Some splendid young Leatherstocking hero or a bold Indian chief; would that content you, Magda?"
He looked teasingly sideways at her and thought she blushed slightly, even as she laughed and answered, "But it would mean going away from here, Vati—from everything."
The older man and the young woman paused in the gateway as if both of them had a single thought. This was the house where all of Friedrich Christian Steinmetz's ancestors had lived, where they had stabled their horses and cattle and gone out to tend their fields and pastures. Not an inch of it had known any but their hands for hundreds of years. Vati's, or any one of the previous Steinmetzes' hands alone had piled hay in the loft, repaired the tiled roofs of the barn, house, or chicken house, boiled cattle-feed in the great iron kettle. Their wives had borne the next generation in the great bedroom upstairs, and their children had run out to chase chickens in the yard. Here were their roots set, generations deep. Although Magda was not truly one of them by blood, she had still lived here for nearly all of her life as Vati's much-loved oldest daughter.
"So it would," and Vati's eyes looked grave behind his glasses, as he opened the door into the farmhouse kitchen. "We could hardly take it all with us." They stepped into the little entry and from there into the warmth of the kitchen, scoured as clean as a new pin, full of the smell of food cooking and the yeasty scent of bread on the rise.
"Christian, my heart, my hands are all over flour!" exclaimed Magda's mother from beside the trough of dough. "You are early." Hannah Vogel Steinmetz did not look like either of her daughters: she was a plump little wren of a woman, brown-haired and rosy. Vati kissed her on the lips with a good enthusiastic smack before he was swarmed by his sons, Friedrich, and Johann and granddaughter Anna, with joyous shouts of "Vati! Opa!" and a treble chorus of questions and accounts of what had been going on over the last few days.
The boys were twins of the age of seven, as alike as two peas for looks, having Vati's grey eyes and Mutti's fair to light brown hair, but very different in nature. Johann was serious and shy, Friedrich a daring scamp. It baffled Magda when people claimed they couldn't tell the boys apart. Friedrich's face was rounder, and he was the outgoing, happy-go-lucky adventurer. Johann's face was thinner; he was the more timid and serious one. Magda didn't think much of people who didn't notice those elemental differences. Weren't they looking closely enough; how could they not see something so simple?
Anna had serious dark brown eyes like her father, Hansi Richter, her mother Liesel's dimples and brown curls too short and wispy to be woven into plaits. A solemn-faced little mite, she could on occasion be brought to laugh, a happy little trilling sound almost like a bird. The younger children addressed Magda as 'Auntie Magda', since she was so very much older than they. Now Magda set Vati's box of tools in the cupboard by the door and put the emigrant pamphlet into the pocket of her apron, for later.
"Children!" Hannah chided them. "Boys, you must behave!"
"No they must not—they are only children," Vati answered indulgently and swept small Anna up in his arms, whereupon a look of comic distress crossed his face. "Oh, dear, she has had a small accident …"
"Liesel!" Hannah exclaimed, and Liesel, Magda's half-sister, answered crossly from a chair by the fire:
"I'm nursing the baby, Mutti, I'll see to Anna when I can!"
"I'll do it, Lise," Magda said, taking her small niece into her arms, and Liesel said distractedly:
"Oh, of course you will!"
Magda and her parents exchanged a meaningful look, as Hannah murmured, "New mothers' nerves."
Magda shrugged and took Anna. Liesel was still in one of her black moods. She had always been that way, even before marrying Hansi and bearing her children. Vati had once observed, "Annaliese is either on top of the tallest tower or in the cellar—nothing in between!" When Hansi had been making fumbling attempts to court Magda—to Magda's hideous embarrassment, for Hansi had been her childhood playfellow, more like a brother than a suitor—Liesel had been serenely confident that he would be hers some day. She had adored Hansi since she was a tiny girl; Hansi—patient, stubborn and reliable with dark brown eyes so like one of his own oxen.
"He is only courting you out of courtesy, because you are the oldest," she said then.
Magda retorted waspishly, "And Vati will dower me with the small field adjacent to his! I can't help thinking that is my most attractive feature in his eyes!" She could look in Mutti's little silver hand-mirror and acknowledge that she was dark and over-tall, while her sister was dainty and fair and everything considered beautiful. And Liesel had giggled, while Magda added, "He is just like all the other marriageable men in Albeck; he fumbles for words when he talks to me but his eyes follow you like a hungry dog!"
"Well, once he brings himself to speak of marriage," Liesel consoled her, "you may slap his nose and say of course not—and then he will come to me and I will console him. And you both will sigh with relief and Hansi and I will live happily ever after and have lots of children, and you will marry a prince or a schoolmaster and come to visit us, riding in a grand barouche with footmen riding behind. You will live in a castle full of books . . ." She went on elaborating their fortunes until Magda had begun to laugh as well, for that was Liesel in her tallest-tower mood; merry and affectionate, and absolutely certain of Hansi's eventual affections. And so it had come to pass; Liesel's dark-cellar moods over the three years since had been infrequent. The worst one came after Anna's birth, and then again after Joachim, the baby. Magda supposed that the brunt of them now fell on Hansi, but he seemed well able to cope.
Now everyone, especially Magda put it out of their minds that he had ever courted her. Not an easy thing to do, when they all lived in the same house. But it was made easier by the fact that Hansi never talked of much beyond crops and his manure-pile. All very well because such matters put food on the table for them all, but Magda privately thought she would shortly have gone mad from a lifetime of sharing Hansi's conversation about them. She would rather go on living as a spinster under Mutti's authority and talk with Vati about his books and notions than endure more of it than she did already. Now this talk of Adelsverein and Texas made her uneasy, as if something whispered in the corner, something from one of Vati's old tales that always gave her the shivers. She took Anna into the other room to change her sopping-wet diaper, and when they returned, Hansi himself had just come in from the barn.
"I think to start spreading the muck, as soon as the weather lets up," he was saying conversationally. Magda reminded herself yet again that he made Liesel happy and worked Vati's fields for him, and that's what counted.
After supper, she closeted herself in the little room at the end of the upper floor, the little room she had to herself since Liesel married. She lit a tallow candle and began to read. When she was finished reading it was late, but there was still someone downstairs in the big kitchen, where firelight still gleamed warmly over the polished copper pots and pans and on the row of pottery jugs hanging above the fire.
Vati sat with his scrap album on his lap, in the chair where Liesel sat to nurse the baby, leafing over pages neatly filled with carefully-cut news sheet articles. He looked up at Magda.
"Well? What did you think?" The firelight gleamed on his spectacles, like the eyes of some large insect.
"It's almost too good to be true," she answered thoughtfully. "They offer so much. I wonder what they are to get out of it."
"A colony, land, hard workers." Vati took off his glasses and polished them absently on his shirt sleeve, and Magda sat down on the bench opposite him.
"The Firsts have all that of the common folk, now," Magda pointed out, sardonically. "Hard-working tenants who take off their hats when one of them walks by. Would they expect that of us, in Texas, then? Might this be some clever means of skinning those who have managed to put a little money aside? All the gold should flow uphill, into the Firsts' money-bags, as they so kindly relieve us of the heavy responsibility of deciding what we should do with what we earn. They have so many better notions of what to do with it, after all."
"Such a cynic, my Magda!" Vati chided her.
She answered bitterly, "Such as you have made me, by allowing me to read your books and newspapers, and talking to me of important matters."
"Maybe they look for the honor of doing a good deed for the people. They are very forward thinking gentlemen, all of them."
"Perhaps; they are all but men and capable of shabby deeds as well as the noble." Magda became aware that her stepfather was staring thoughtfully into the fire, his expression very serious. "Vati, what is it? What is it that you know that you have not told us?"
Vati tore his gaze away from contemplation of the fire and looked gravely at her.
"It might be well to think about leaving, Magda my heart, and soon, while we can still afford it. All of us; Liesel and Hansi, and the children. There is talk in the air—oh, there has always been such, but this is new talk, talk such as I remember when I was a boy and the Emperor Napoleon was on the march. Talk of conscription and war and repressions. I do not like it—not for myself, you understand. There is no one's army would want a decrepit old clockmaker! But the boys—yes, they would want Friedrich and Johann in a few years, if it came to pass, and I won't have it. There is also the fact that business has not been good. So many factories, so much mechanization of things, so much change! And they will change, whether we wish to change or not. There will be new rules and repression of so-called dangerous thoughts brought down upon those of us who dare to think about such matters! What to do, Magda, what to do!"
"It is advised to take all that you can in a cart and sell the beasts that pull it at the port," Hansi answered decisively from the other end of the room. Startled, Magda and Vati looked up. Liesel's husband stood in the doorway for a moment, with Anna in his arms, half asleep. "And take apart the cart, and ship it with all your goods, since a good one may be hard to come by in the wilderness."
Magda regarded her brother-in-law with considerable surprise: How long had Hansi been thinking the same things as Vati? He strode across the room and sat himself down on the bench next to Magda, settling Anna in his lap so that she curled up, sucking her thumb.
"Anna couldn't sleep, and Liesel was nursing the little one," he added half-defensively, but he looked levelly at the two of them, all diffidence and talk of the muck pile set aside. "I heard you talking, so I came downstairs."
They looked at each other for a long moment, before Vati finally asked, "How long have you been thinking about emigration, Hansi?"
"A while," he answered readily, and there was firmness in his voice, and in his answer to Vati that Magda had never thought to see in Hansi. He wasn't impulsive; there was no dash to him. In a thousand years he would never do anything that his neighbors and family hadn't already done before, but there it was. He had been thinking long and seriously about emigration for that was the way Hansi did things.
"Go with us to Texas." Hansi savored the words, much as Vati had, and continued, "Everyone is talking about it in Albeck these last few weeks. I thought about going myself, first before we married. Then I thought about the two of us going together, and then Anna was born and then the new baby. You are right, Vati. We should go now, while we still can."
"What about the fields?" Magda asked, the fields that he cared about to the exclusion of practically anything else, and Hansi shook his head, regretfully.
"It hurts me to say, but here is the truth of it. There's not enough. Not to grow enough hay for winter, not enough to grow what we need of beets or wheat or potatoes. There's just not enough, for all I break my back working at it and no way to get any more. The Adelsverein promises to send us all there, give us a house, everything we'll need for the first year—and three hundred and twenty acres." Hansi's face lit up in rapture as he said those last words. "Think of what I could do with that much good rich land. It's as much as all the fields around Albeck, almost."
Looking at the faces of Vati and her brother-in-law, Magda felt a chill around her heart, for it seemed to her that they were already decided, their feet all but set on that road.
Annaliese Richter was still awake when Hansi quietly returned upstairs with his slumbering daughter in his arms. Liesel watched him through her eyelashes, savoring the very look of him, a solid square man, perhaps a little shorter than most, but a very rock for dependability. He moved quietly around the room, tenderly putting Anna in the truckle-bed at the foot of theirs and settling the covers around the child. She closed her eyes as he leaned over the baby's cradle, drawn close to her side of the bed. It was her secret pleasure to watch her husband when he didn't know that her eyes were on him. She never doubted that he would marry her, for she had adored him since she was a little girl in short skirts herself and he was a stocky boy more than a little taken with her clever older sister; Hansi, stout and stubborn and good with cattle. Steady and reliable, funny in a mild way when he felt like it.
It had always been a mystery for Liesel why her sister did not see or value those qualities in Hansi. Why had Magda not loved him? Magda with her head in books, Vati's favorite daughter, such a mystery! But exactly as Liesel had known would happen, Magda had come to her sister saying impatiently:
'That blockhead of a boy asked me if I would marry him! I told him not to be ridiculous, and to ask you instead! You worship the ground he walks on, anyway. Don't be a ninny—say yes to him, so he'll stop pestering me!'
Liesel did not mind at all that Magda had left him to her. It only proved that books did not tell you everything. Oh, no—books did not tell you anything about certain pleasures of marriage, certain things that she was privy to now, as a married woman. Magda did not know about that, for it was not a thing that an unmarried girl should know about; it wasn't proper. But she did, Liesel thought—there were things she knew that her clever sister didn't! She listened to the soft sounds of her husband undressing and climbing into bed to settle himself at her back. Her heart warmed with renewed affection; he took such tender care, quietly returning to bed without disturbing her, after seeing to Anna! Liesel knew that many husbands wouldn't have bothered. Tending the children was the business of their mothers, no matter how exhausted from nursing a fretful baby or the work of the farm. Many another man acted as if once their wives had spread their legs apart for them, that was all they needed to do in regards to their children. But Hansi wasn't like that, not a bit of it. In his own quiet way, he took as much an interest in Anna and baby Joachim as Vati took in his own children. And for that, Liesel loved him all the more, if that were possible. She turned in the bed, reaching out as if half-slumbering, asking drowsily, "Are you just now coming to bed, Hansi? Whatever were you talking about for so long?"
He did not answer at once, but his arm curled around her. At last he answered, "We talked about going to Texas, Lise."
All thought of sleep was banished as if Liesel had been doused with a bucket of ice-cold water. She found her voice at last.
"And what did you say on that, hearts-love?"
He took a long time in answering, for he was a careful and considerate man.
"We ought to not let such an opportunity pass, Lise. We should go."
Liesel Richter did not sleep well that night, for those words echoing in her troubled dreams.
We ought not to let such an opportunity pass . . . we should go.
In the morning, she did as she had done all her life—she asked her sister what she thought, as they milked the cows in the morning darkness in the barn.
"What did you and Vati talk to him about last night?" she asked, leaning her cheek against the warm flank of a cow as her hands rhythmically squeezed spurts of milk into a pail. Magda was similarly occupied. "The baby kept me awake. When he came to bed, he said you were talking about going to Texas. I thought he was joking with me, Magda. He can't be serious!"
"Hansi never jokes," Magda answered, somberly. "He is serious, and Vati, too."
"What do you think of it?" Liesel asked after some moments of anxious silence broken only by the quiet hissing of milk breaking the surface in their pails. Magda was clever; Vati's daughter of the soul, if Liesel was his in blood. She always knew what to do.
"It might be rather interesting," Magda ventured at last, and Liesel's heart sank. "They promise us a new house. I expect it will be rather like the one in Herr Sealsfields' Cabin Book, in a wild and beautiful garden. Think on it, Lise—a house of your own!"
"But to leave here!" Liesel's voice trembled. How could they think to leave Albeck, everything they had ever known? "To leave everything behind and just go! I can't bear the thought of taking the children all across that ocean, going out to the wilderness! I really can't! How can he even consider such a thing, Magda?"
"Nonetheless, he is, and Vati also," Magda replied, blunt and practical. "And he is your husband, Lise. If he says that he wishes it, you must obey . . . just as Mutti and I must obey Vati."
No. This was horrible. Vati could contemplate such a thing; he was a willow-the-wisp for enthusiasms, a man of books and the tiny gears of clocks spread across his workbench. Not Hansi, who never had a thought which had not already occurred to his ancestors.
"But you have Vati twisted around your finger," Liesel pleaded, already knowing that she protested fruitlessly against the inevitable. "He would not make you go if you did not wish it."
"But Vati does wish to take the Verein's offer," Magda sighed, from the other side of the cow. "He has already convinced himself that it would be for the best for us. He reads books and talks to people, Vati does. He sees that things are not good and growing worse." As Liesel watched, her sister deftly squeezed out the last rich drops of milk from the cow's udder. She stroked the creature's flank with brisk affection before moving her milk-stool and herself on to the next cow. She looked sympathetically at Liesel as she did so. "Lise . . . dear little sister, I think our father made up his mind long since. He just waited upon the opportunity, and now the Adelsverein have given it to him. He and Hansi will sign the contracts, no matter what you and Mutti will have to say about it."
"Oh, and Mutti will have plenty to say," Liesel predicted with gloomy relish, hoping against hope as she did so that perhaps Mutti might prevail against this insanity. "And she will weep tears by the bucket!"
"To no effect," Magda answered. "In their hearts, Hansi and Vati are already there, running their hands through rich soil and counting ownership of more land than either of them ever dreamed."
"What shall we do then?" Liesel asked. Her sister turned her head and smiled at her.
"Think on those things which we value the most, and contrive some means of taking them with us," she answered. "Tears will avail us nothing, Lise. Smile and be brave."
On the day of their leaving, a bright and clear September day, Mutti cried as if her heart were breaking in two. There was a small gathering in the farmyard, clustering around the Steinmetzs' and the Richters' carts: Hansi's older brothers Joachim and Jurgen and his parents, Mutti's friends and a scattering of younger women, Liesel and Magda's contemporaries. Auntie Ursula, the sister of Mutti's first husband and her husband Onkel Oscar had come out from where they lived in Ulm on this momentous day. There were not too many other men, for it was harvest-time and most had already gone out to their fields. It felt very strange to Magda for them not to be at work themselves, not to be gathering their own harvest, filling the storerooms and larder in the old house. It was as if they were already strangers.
At the moment when they had finished taking the last of their things from the house, Vati's friend from Ulm, Simon the goldsmith, came rushing into the yard with a small package in his arms.
"I was afraid I would be too late!" he gasped, as he and Vati embraced. "This is for you," he added, thrusting the package at Vati. "A quire of fine letter paper and ink and pens enough for two or three scriveners, all to encourage you to write to me, as often as you can. I shall want to know every detail of your venture, Christian!" And he beamed at Vati, while Vati thanked him effusively.
"My people are given to travel widely," Simon gracefully waved off the thanks. "But so far, I know few who have ventured into Texas! I will look forward to your letters with great interest." Simon smiled warmly at Magda, the skin crinkling around his wise old eyes, and added, "You must remind him to write, Miss Margaretha, since we both know how forgetful your father may be. I shall miss his company very much; letters will be a poor substitute."
"I won't forget, Uncle Simon," Magda answered. He smiled again, but did not embrace her as he did her father. Such was not the custom among his people, for a man to touch a woman not his wife for all that Simon and her father were so close, close enough that they all called him their uncle.
"Good!" Simon looked at their carts, laden with all but the last few little things. "I see you took my advice about traveling with only the essentials. And all your papers are in order?"
"I have them right here." Vati patted the leather wallet, tucked into the inner pocket of his coat. It held all the necessary permits, visas and certificates; everything that the Verein had requested of Vati and Hansi to have in order before signing their contracts. "Don't worry, Simon—Magda shall see that I keep them safe. We arranged the sale of everything that is not in the carts," Vati added cheerily. Perhaps that was why Mutti wept in the arms of her dearest friend, Auntie Ursula, now that the moment had come to leave behind everything that had made her home so comfortable and welcoming. Vati continued, "We expect to live like gypsies, at least until we get to our new homes in Texas. Did I tell you they had assured us each a house, built on our own lands? It will probably not be as solid as what we leave behind, but I expect we shall prosper, none the less." Certainly that was what Hansi expected. Even if Liesel seemed as apprehensive as Mutti about leaving, she always believed what Hansi said.
"If you have any need of help once you reach Bremen," added Simon, his eyes beginning to overflow, "call upon my cousin David. I have written to him already. A safe journey for you, a safe journey and a golden future, my friend!"
"To be sure," Vati answered happily, as he wrung Simon's hand again and consulted his pocket-watch. "It is time, my dears. Now let our adventure begin with a smile, Hannah-my-heart . . . Magda, boys . . . " He deftly detached Mutti from Auntie Ursula with many determinedly cheerful words and handed her up into the first laden cart, where she sat with her shawl pulled tight around her elbows and her cheeks wet with tears. She reached down to grasp Auntie Ursula's hand while both wept mournfully.
". . . so far away," Auntie Ursula choked out, through her sobs, "Such fearful dangers, robbers and brigands! We will never see you and the children again!"
"Of course you will see us again," Magda said roundly although she did not believe it herself. She picked up her skirts and scrambled up to sit next to Mutti. She worried that Mutti and Aunt Ursula's tears might frighten the children, especially Anna. They were leaving the only place they knew, bound to be frightening enough for them, especially if Mutti carried on too long about it. She put her arm around her mother's shoulders. The horses shifted restlessly in harness, and the twins drummed their heels on the sides of the wooden chests upon which they sat, until Magda turned and told them to stop.
"Are we leaving now, Auntie Magda?" asked Friedrich, excitedly.
Magda answered, "As soon as Vati is finished talking to Uncle Simon, Fredi." On the other cart, Liesel had the baby in her lap. Anna sat prim and wide-eyed beside her. The moment had come. Hansi's brother Jurgen slapped his shoulder, and his mother hugged him to her one last time, ruffling his hair as if he were still a small boy.
"Go with us to Texas," he said jauntily. "I'll write and let you know when it's safe, Jurgen," and his brother Jurgen jeered half-enviously, as Hansi climbed up and picked up the reins of his team.
"Away with you," Jurgen called cheerfully after Hansi's cart, as it creaked slowly towards the gateway and the road beyond, "and have a care for the wild Indians!"
Vati embraced Simon one last time, clambered spryly into the cart, where there was just enough room for the three of them, and chirruped to the horses. Auntie Ursula walked beside it, still holding onto Mutti's hand and both of them sobbing uncontrollably until they reached the gate and passed out into the road with a lurch and a bump.
"Goodbye, goodbye!" the boys shrilled from the top of the pile of boxes and chests lashed to the cart, "Goodbye! We're off to Texas! Here we go, we're away to Texas!"
Magda silently handed a handkerchief to her mother. They squeezed elbow to elbow on the narrow seat. Hannah dabbed her streaming eyes with the handkerchief and blew her nose. Vati looked across at her and smiled, as happily as his sons, saying, "The open road calls us, Hannah-my-heart. Can't you hear it?"
"Nonsense," Mutti snorted. "All I hear is Peter Frimmel cursing because he has stacked the hay too tall and it has fallen off onto the road."
They passed the last buildings of Albeck, dreaming under a deep blue autumn sky. Out among the meadows, and golden fields of wheat and barley still bowed heavy-laden and unharvested, or lay in neatly mown stubble. One or two of their neighbors, already hard at work, waved cheerfully as Hansi and then Vati's carts passed by on the little road that led to the bigger road that would take them towards Wurzburg and the north, to Bremen on the sea where waited the ship that would take them away. At a turning in the road, Hansi's cart halted, and Vati said, "What can be the matter already; did one of the horses lose a shoe?"
But ahead of them, Hansi was standing and lifting Anna in his arms.
"Look," he called to them all, "look back, for that is the last sight of Albeck! Look well, and remember—for that is the very last that we will see of our old home!"
Magda's breath caught in her throat. She turned in the seat, as Hansi said and looked back at the huddle of roofs around the church spire, like a little ship afloat in a sea of golden fields. All they knew, all that was dear and familiar lay small in the distance behind their two laden carts. Really, she would slap Hansi if that started Mutti crying again. Even Vati looked sobered; once around the bend of the road, trees would hide Albeck from their sight, as if it had never been a part of them, or they a part of it.
Magda lifted her chin bravely and said to Vati, "Really, I wonder how suddenly Hansi got to be so sentimental. We should drive on, Vati. There's no good in dragging our feet like this. Texas may wait for us, but the Verein ship won't."
"Right you are, dearest child." Vati slapped the reins, and the horses moved on again. Only Mutti looked back, her face wet again with fresh tears. Many years later, Magda would wonder if that were an omen.


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A beautiful and minimalist tribute to the ultra-exotic Honda RC30, accompanied by Satie's Gymnopédie No.1. Gorgeous.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Making
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Japanese make toasters.....Italians make art....just saying. :-)ReplyDeleteReplies
Yeah, why should we judge a machine on its merits when we can simply make blanket assumptions based on its origin? So much easier that way.Delete
Before the Japanese post-war boom, the Italians made more appliances than anyone on earth.
nothing makes a motorcycle film so wonderful as a little satie.ReplyDelete
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Monday, 16 July 2012
Back to knitting
I haven't done any knitting for at least 10 yrs and that was miniature, probably 20 yrs on any regular items. However once I did the fish and chip jumpers for charity I felt it didn't bother my shoulders like it used to so I would try out a cotton cardigan for myself. Despite doing so many other crafts it didn't take me too long to complete.
I have plans to do some baby knits but in the meantime waiting for the cotton for the pattern above.
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The New Zealand Black Sox with a victory Haka. Super cool!
For the record, New Zealand beat rival Australia 6-4 for the victory.
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Read the most recent L.A. Weekly news story on public library budget cuts: L.A.'s Library Measure L.
At the Chinatown Branch Library in downtown Los Angeles, manager Shan Liang says Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese immigrants who know little, if any, English rely on her multi-lingual staff for getting through the day.
"You hear people's stories about how they struggle and it brings tears to your eyes," says Liang. "They don't know where to turn but the library."
Aside from the dying city of Detroit, Los Angeles is the only significant U.S. municipality to close down its entire public library system two days a week -- Sunday and Monday -- due to severe budget cuts.
On the other days, L.A.'s 73 libraries operate under reduced hours with smaller staffs, with branches closing at 5:30 p.m. three days a week.
At the Chinatown Branch, Liang's immigrant patrons need help with filing income taxes, translating documents, and simply learning how to travel from one part of Los Angeles to another by public transportation.
"They are not aware of all the things that are available to them," says Liang. "We help them."
But that help is only there Tuesday through Saturday, and never past 5:30 p.m. on three of those days.
As a result, says Liang, there are always long lines at the service counter and a major drop in monthly average attendance at the Chinatown Branch. This time last year, before the budget cuts, the library saw 25,000 people come through its doors each month. Now, 20,000 people visit..
"I don't have late hours," says Liang, "and people can't make it."
It's a shocking situation, in which L.A. politicians have quickly turned one of the largest and most respected library systems in the country into an institution that's now less student-friendly, less senior citizen-friendly, and less neighborhood-friendly.
L.A. Weekly, in fact, uncovered these embarrassing truths in the widely-read feature story "City of Airheads," which outraged many L.A. residents.
But Measure L, an initiative authored by L.A. City Councilman Bernard Parks, seeks to help those kids and families by better funding L.A.'s public libraries.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Elia Suhana visits the Sultan
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The second wife to the Sultan of Kelantan, Elia Suhana was seen entered the HUSM at 10.45 pm. She was seen enter the hospital entrance accompany with her assistant. Elia Suhana married with the Sultan of Kelantan in 2007 and been kept secret until 2009 when she make a shocking announcement about her status as the second wife to the Sultan of Kelantan, Sultan Ismail Petra.
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Karen'll turn this into a meme, just you wait.
My fave section of that meme was:
Name two favorite lines from movies.
Which I would have answered:
1. "Teaching the lepers how to sing." Stolen (in adapted form) from Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, and used whenever someone engages in an activity of purported charity which accomplishes nothing, but makes the person performing such an act feel as if s/he had actually achieved something.
2. "So that's it, then. We're going to die." Stolen from The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and used whenever my wife is scared of something that I'm doing which, in reality, merits barely a raised eyebrow.
But, to a "film/TV geek" like me, a mere two lines is woefully inadequate. I've stolen hundreds if not thousands of lines, and I spout them off at, ideally, inconvenient times and in as impertinent a manner as I can manage.
Here are some other ones, with credit where credit is due and suggestions on usage:
"Fire at will, Commander." Stolen from The Empire Strikes Back and used to indicate "Fine. Whatever. Do what you want." (It helps if you can do the impression of Emperor Palpatine)
"Light is green, trap is clean" from Ghostbusters, meaning the traffic light has changed and you may now use the gas pedal.
"It's the long pedal on the right. Live a little." Pilfered from Dragnet 1987, same as above, but with more emphasis.
"God help me, I do love it so." That one is from Patton and it means that although I recognize the subject under discussion may not be to anyone's taste, I happen to love it. I usually mention it to my long suffering wife in conjunction to uncommon cuisines such as Korean or haute-WASP.
"So this is Hell." Shamelessly lifted from Volunteers (a movie with as many quotable lines* as any ever committed to film -- Karen, you may relay this to Ken), from the scene when Lawrence Bourne the Third discoveres that, in his haste to escape his gambling debts, he has boarded an airplane filled with Peace Corps volunteers singing "Michael Row The Boat Ashore" and "Puff The Magic Dragon." I use it whenever I am unexpectedly dismayed by a new development.
"There is no Dana...only ZUL!" also from Ghostbusters, and uttered when someone is having a Very Bad Hormone Day. A gravelly, deep baritone or bass best conveys the intended effect.
"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Made in response to an unbelievable assertion. (But you hafta do the accent.)
"If you buy this hat they give you a free bowl of soup...[pause]...but it looks good on you." Swiped from Caddyshack and used when someone is contemplating a hideous garment.
"Remain calm. All is well." Which I take from Animal House and use to suggest panic is not inappropriate nor unexpected.
"Blessed are the cheesemakers." Taken from from Monty Python's Life of Brian, and used to suggest someone has really gotten the wrong idea about something.
"These people built the Pyramids." From Mr. Saturday Night and used to denote the average age of the attendees at a given event is "deceased."
"Bring me a glass of warm gin with a human hair in it." This one is from Rustler's Rhapsody and it is intended to convey my posessing precisely the sort of toughness which Karen considers as suitable for men.
"I believe on a voyage like this, you should should have every amenity." My fave Groucho Marx line, from A Night At The Opera and it means I am going to make the best of a bad situation, probably by frequenting the bar.
"You mean witches? We have 'em too. We just pronounce it differently." Van Johnson's immortal line from Brigadoon. I use this to explain that my feelings for someone extend beyond the supposed mere dislike.
"Nonsense. They came nowhere near my tabloids." From The Thin Man, and used to indicate "no harm done."
"Congratulations. You're a Hell of a threat to mosquitoes everywhere." Grabbed from Ensign Pulver (a very young Jack Nicholson boasts about just having swatted a bug) and used whenever someone brags about something very trivial. I mean even trivial for me, which is saying a lot.
"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops." from Arsenic and Old Lace. Used to explain my abysmal relatives.
"I'll meet you at the place near the thing where we went that time." From Broadcast News and used when someone thinks I know WTF s/he is talking about.
"What we've got here is failure to communicate." a BRILLIANT line from Cool Hand Luke which I use to denote (usually to my long-suffering wife) that she is not paying detailed enough attention to whetever the Hell it is I am talking about now.
"I was born a poor black child." from The Jerk. I use it to denote how much progress I have made towards a particularly difficult goal, such as making gnocchi from scratch.
"In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention." From Laura, uttered by the very inimitable Clifton Webb. Self-explanatory.
"Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Little Caesar (and also, hilariously, Home on the Range) used to admit that something, towards which I have expended much effort, is going to not work out.
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." To be uttered to someone who is really doing something completely idiotic, counterproductive and self-indulgent, from Animal House.
"Rommel! You magnificent bastard! I read your book!" From Patton, and used to indicate that, following written instructions, I have achieved better-than-expected results. (If possible, you have to sound like George C. Scott.
I could go on and on...in fact, I think I have.
* Other amazing lines are:
(when LB III deplanes in the tropical swelter of South East Asia) "Jesus H. Christ, we must be a mile from the sun."
(when LB III spots a tall Texan in a crowd of Thais) "I'm going strictly by height, but...are you in charge here?"
"It's not that I can't help these people it's that...I don't want to."
"We must do what we must do, for if we do not do what we must do, then what we must do does not get done."


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Star of Disney's new DCOM 'Teen Beach Musical' Ross Lynch, his siblings and best friend, are Hollywood Records new recording artists titled, R5. Their debut EP, Loud, is slated for release February 19! R5 is comprised of siblings Ross, Riker, Rydel and Rocky Lynch and best friend Ratliff.
Ross and Riker Lynch staring in Disney Channel Original Series 'Austin & Ally' and 'Glee.' Tour dates will be announced shortly. Tracklisting includes: Loud, Fallin' For You, Here Comes Forever and I Want You Bad.


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The Pasterze glacier in the Hohe Tauern National Park
The Pasterze glacier in the Hohe Tauern National Park
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Between 1981 and 1992 the Austrian federal states of Carinthia, Salzburg, and Tyrol established the Hohe Tauern National Park in the Alpine mountain range of the same name. As the country's first national park the reserve occupies a model position in Austria. In a larger spatial framework, however, the pioneer park can be seen as a latecomer with all neighboring Alpine countries having older national parks.
There is no simple explanation, neither for the long delay nor for the eventual establishment of Hohe Tauern National Park. Attempts to establish a park in this region go back to the era of the Austrian monarchy. In 1913 and 1914, the German-Austrian Verein Naturschutzpark [conservation park association] bought several alms in the Salzburg part of the Hohe Tauern, with a total area of approximately 1,000 hectares, to spare these spots from agricultural or industrial use. However, the association's plans for a larger "nature protection park" faltered with the First World War, which put a damper on conservation efforts across Europe.
In the interwar years, private associations such as the German-Austrian Alpine Association, the Austrian League for Nature Protection, or the socialist Friends of Nature became involved in nature protection in the Hohe Tauern. After the German Reich had annexed Austria in 1938, the National Socialist conservation elite selected Hohe Tauern as a prime site for a future "Greater German National Park." Authorized by Hermann Göring, Berlin Zoo director Lutz Heck pushed the issue, but with the beginning of the war his plans were shelved.
Postwar nature idyll: The "Musteralm" Schidhofalm in the Obersulzbachtal, photographed by leading Austrian conservationist Lothar Machura (1950)
Postwar nature idyll: The "Musteralm" Schidhofalm in the Obersulzbachtal, photographed by leading Austrian conservationist Lothar Machura (1950)
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Incorporating both cultural landscapes and wilderness areas was key to the establishment of the park (Pamphlet 1985)
Incorporating both cultural landscapes and wilderness areas was key to the establishment of the park (Pamphlet 1985)
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In the post-war decades of reconstruction and growing prosperity different visions of development clashed. Ideas for strengthening nature protection were both driven and challenged by large infrastructure projects, mainly concerning water power, road construction, and an oil-pipeline, by agricultural intensification, and by tourism. As in the decades before, these issues were not restricted to the region or nation but influenced by international and global developments.
When the Council of Europe declared 1970 the "European Nature Conservation Year," this provided a strong impetus for the national park idea. In 1971 the first concrete political step was taken when the governors of Carinthia, Salzburg, and Tyrol signed an agreement on a future national park. The idea was finally realized in the 1980s and 1990s at state level, which resulted in the creation of today's three park administrations.
Besides the upheavals caused by war, harmonizing (or deflecting) social interests was the main reason for the time-consuming process of achieving the designation of the national park. Bringing proponents and opponents closer together and mediating between local needs and international standards took many very small steps. Hardly any other national park featured as many land owners who needed to be convinced of the significance and benefits of such a project. A 1995 mission statement called it "a miracle of spatial planning and conservation." This miracle did not come about through divine or human intervention but was the result of endless talks and of mobilizing new sources of income for the region.
Map of the Hohe Tauern National Park
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Kupper, Patrick and Wöbse, Anna-Katharina. "A Latecoming Pioneer: Austria's Hohe Tauern National Park." Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia (2014), no. 9. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6233.
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- Kupper, Patrick and Anna-Katharina Wöbse. Geschichte des Nationalparks Hohe Tauern. With contributions by Ute Hasenöhrl, Georg Stöger, Ortrun Veichtlbauer, Ronald Würflinger. Innsbruck: Tyrolia, 2013.
- Kupper, Patrick et al. History of Hohe Tauern National Park: A Case In Point of Use and Protection. eco.mont 6:1, (January 2014): 61–64.


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