By Foreign News Desk, Istanbul Published: Saturday, February 18, 2006 The Iranian newspaper that launched an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust as retaliation for the satirical drawings insulted of Mohammed will go through 'a test of freedom of expression.' A Portuguese artist will take part in the contest of the Iranian paper Hamshahri with a caricature ridiculing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad. He is drawn as visiting a museum in the well-known concentration camp Auschwitz and says the only explanation to the deaths in this summer camp is bird flu.

The caricaturist, Augusto Cid, said he does not know whether his work 'suits the spirit of the contest,' but the real reason he will participate will be 'to test the freedom of expression in Iran.' In the meantime, the organization of Journalists with No Boundaries asked the release of the seven journalists from Algeria, Syria, and Yemen who are still under arrest for publishing the cartoons. In Russia, a newspaper published in Volgograd was closed down for publishing cartoons of the three monotheistic religions and Buddha.. If you have Iran cartoons to post, please feel free to send your links here and I'll post what I can.. Cleric offers reward for killing Prophet cartoonist A Pakistani cleric offered a 1.5 million rupee (€28,000) reward and a car for anyone who kills the cartoonist who drew Prophet Mohammed.. Alright, I confess.

I drew the cartoons of Mohammed. I'm now going to kill myself. Please send the check to my mailing address, 8 Rechov Olitzion, Yaffo, Hated Zionist Entity. Yup, I'm killing myself right now. It really hurts. Send that cash, fellow, I'm dying. I'll never draw again cause I'm dying.

I think I'm already dead. Is the money in the post yet? I'm pretty dead already. Our meetings here in Vancouver, Canada go very well. Our schedule is from 7-9:00 pm, and yet each week they go longer than the week before, this time till midnight when the doors closed on us. I'd like to report that we sat down in a darkened corner and plotted the over-throw of the bad guys, that we talked in hushed tones and kept our eyes open for the secret police and worried about gangs of jihadis bursting in with knives drawn; but the truth is we sit and have a lot of fun chatting, discussing what we might do if we can find more people interested in making this movement as personal a one for them as it is for us. On the light side, our meeting began well enough, and soon we were approached by a hesitant woman who appeared anxious to join us.

I invited her to sit, even though she wasn't wearing a blue scarf. She did sit, and she then proceeded to invite us to an Amway meeting. We politely declined, of course, but that's not a problem for Amway ladies. So we invited her to come back after her Amway meeting with her friends. But that too is not the Amway way. She did leave when a gaggle of beggars made their way to us and crowded around her.

Die frau mit dem roten hut. Jostein Gaarder. Xxx-search.6x.to_mein papi fickt die mami mit dem dildo.rar.rar 19.66 MB. Die Gruft mit dem Ratselschloss (1964).

From then, sans beggars, we had our meeting as planned. On the dark side, we missed out on a great deal never again having to pay retail. One of our number is happy to announce a personal achievement that we are all proud of him for. He's not at liberty to tell us the details, and it's not something we can post publicly anyway, but his accomplishment is unique and significant. Much of our discussion focuses on Islam as a retrograde ideology that we want to know more about even though we know a great deal already.

We ask whether there is a spiritual component to Islam like there is, for example, to Christianity. We couldn't think of any significant thinker in the Muslim world to refer to. Some of us feel that Islam is a banal orthopraxy, a matter of mere behaviour according to set rites and daily rituals that is empty of intelligence and what most of us would think of as religion itself. However, we don't simple throw up our arms and kill innocent people sitting next to us because we don't know more. We'll consult till we find out one way or another. Sufism won't suffice, it being a minority report at best. Is the Sunna religious or simply a codified tribal rite gone insane?

We share personal experiences of Islam and Muslims. We have many of those 'A-ha!' Moments when we do. Most of us have a deep intellectual knowledge of Islam, and with the addition of personal experiences shared and discussion and questioning of our assumptions we come to a clearer understanding of what we know and what we thought we knew but find we can know more about. Regardless of how we feel about Islam as a religion (as such) we are solidly in agreement that we intensely do not like socialism in any of its manifest forms. In that sense we are 'conservative.' Being conservative in Canada at this time is a confusing term due to the Conservative government in power as of recently.

We are not in agreement with much of what passes for Conservativism. It means that many conservative people such as we are lumped with quasi-conservatives who don't share any core beliefs with those of us who are in a real sense, classical Liberals. This is significant for us because when we ask who are our natural allies, we cannot say they are the Conservatives. The conservatives are a collection of liberal wankers. Thus, we seem to be the 'extreme Right.'

The last time I looked, I thought I was a kind of middle of the road normal guy, but in today's terms I'm on the far side of Attila the Hun. That brings us to our relationship with the population as a whole, most of whom don't care one way or another about Islamic jihad in its aspects from da'wa to demographics to intimidation to outright murder. Rightly so, given that most people are content to live their personal lives as personal. Most people will do what they must to make their lives as good as they choose. Social activism is hardly a passion for most or even many. In fact, for those of us meeting on Thursday evenings, social activism is a far cry from anything we'd choose if the circumstances weren't so drastic and immediate. So, looking at what the situation is, that most people are in their private living modes and not willing to look up from the ground, we consider who is.

Those who are social activists are the media, the academics, and the professional politicians. They are, in effect, a small minority of extremists. There I neither joke nor exaggerate. These are careerist socialists who live and die by government. They receive their funding and their status from socialist organisation, all paid for by the people and the productive economies.

In return we get control ideologues at a micro level. They not only have nothing better to do, they have nothing else to do. And worse still, they have the silent acquiescence of the majority of the population here. Few love these beasts but few care enough to challenge them. We do agree that the majority of people would prefer a less constrictive government, at least from the viewpoint of those from below, as it were. We find that it is the children of high privilege who desire more and more socialism for those below, meaning the rest of us.

However, most people are terrified by the idea of the 'extreme Right.' I nearly shot myself when I shaved this morning. I scared the hell out of myself seeing an extreme rightist in the mirror. But then I came to my senses and brushed my teeth. Shave first, brush teeth second, wash face third.

That's as wild and weird as I get. It could be seen as extreme, I guess, but so far there's no laws against it.

We concluded, then, that we must find a way to discredit the intelligentsia to allow for the voice of the majority, those who are under a pall of fear of offending against the set order of public discourse. Most people, we find from voicing our own opinions and anecdotal evidence, are sick and tired of the dictatorship of political correctness.

Most people, given a moment of privacy, would spit when they hear the word 'multiculturalism.' Here, for me at least, our discussions become very interesting and foreign to my understanding. As one might expect, some of our number are Christians. Do not panic. Yes, we sit with Rightwing extremist Christians. Many have the idea that the average Christian is as terrifying as a Muslim from Afghanistan on the warpath. A Rightwing extremist Christian must therefore be more terrifying than bin Laden himself.

Well, I'm sorry to have to deflate that illusion. No, I'm pleased very much to know for myself that our resident Christian is exceptionally bright and personable. Even more, he is significant to our group's understanding of our situation regarding what I so euphoniously term Left dhimmi fascism and its jihadi proxies. From a conservative Christian approach we find that our favorite whipping boys such as nationalism and tradition are not the flimsy and dirty things we think they might be. Lo, I find my floor is scaly after an evening of hearing for the first time a real account of the intellectual version of Rightwing extremist Christianity. I have much to rethink in these regards, and I'll leave that till I've thought about the ideas I've encountered.

Suffice it for now to suggest that all is better than one would have expected or hoped for. The conclusion I wish to leave us with is that our meeting again didn't come to a floor-plan for the coming new order.

We meet, we discuss, we learn new things about our world. In time we'll attract new members to our group who will undoubtedly make ours a great movement for the future even in the face of jihad and the continued rampage of the false idols of multiculturalist dystopia. We do have friends out there in the greater world. We will continue to meet in public till the majority op people realise they can speak freely and demand change for the better, a return to the right to own their own lives and privacy in the face of government interference and upper-class socialist hobbyism. As we meet, and as our meetings continue to grow in membership we'll be able to connect and compare ideas further, and from there we'll have a chance to have a great impact on the nature of our own lives.

One thing that is important to leave us with is that this Blue Revolution began in France. We are not French, and we have no connection to them.

We do have an affinity for those under the yoke of fascist control, and we can see from their experience what our nations can become if they aren't already: fiefdoms run by an elite class of bureaucrats. We see too the growing rage, and even an outright hatred, a virulent hatred, of the government and controlling social caste in France. Before our nations come to that state we must act to regain sense and sensibility in our nations. We can do so by continuing to meet, to gather more and more people who are angry and unsettled but nervous and timid. We will meet again next Thursday. We have much to discuss. 'Nearly two-thirds of fourth- and eighth-graders nationwide still score below grade level -- called 'proficient' by NAEP -- in both math and reading.'

'His world had shrunk to a hut in a crumbling village. He was prepared for even that to crumble away further, once the faith was served.' Naipaul, Among the Believers, Penguin: p. Two views of reality, one from America, the other from Pakistan. The United States has one of the most successful economies in the world, one of the most successful cultures in the world, and over-all the highest standard of Human development in history. And yet, the majority of our students tested in grades four and eight can't read or do math at their expected levels. What does this tell us about the future?

I argue that it doesn't tell us the world is going to Hell in a hurry: I argue that it tells us that if America is a better place than most, which it demonstrably is, then the rest of the world must really be the pits. How we treat our children tells us what kind of nation and culture we have. If our concern is that our children are not achieving well enough in school we see that we are prepared to make sacrifices to ensure they do better in the future. We have to look at the over-all picture of the future to see what that competition is. We obviously do care.

So we have to be smart in knowing what we send our children to face in the world to come. Below we have a short excerpt from Pew Research.

We'll follow this with a look at Pakistan and we'll link to a story of Palestinians. **** State of Education: Who Makes the Grade?

By Kavan Peterson January 26, 2006 Schools spend fewer dollars per student in Utah than in any other state, but more fourth-graders there improved reading and math scores over the past decade than in more than half of the states. Maine, for example, spends nearly twice as much on a comparable student population -- $9,300 a student vs. $4,800 in Utah.

But fewer Maine fourth-graders improved their math scores -- and their reading scores actually declined in the past decade. Both states ranked just above the national average on 2005 national reading and math tests, known as the National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP.

But Utah stands out for its success in boosting the number of students to pass the tests since 1992, the first year of state-by-state NAEP testing, despite ranking dead last for spending. Because of lackluster academic gains for the nation as a whole, education analysts increasingly are focusing attention on standout states where test scores show more students passing than a decade ago.

The most recent NAEP scores released in October showed that despite strong gains in fourth-grade mathematics since 1992, students aren't reading much better than a decade ago. Nearly two-thirds of fourth- and eighth-graders nationwide still score below grade level -- called 'proficient' by NAEP -- in both math and reading. In Utah, only 19 percent of fourth-graders scored proficient or better on math in 1992, but nearly twice as many -- 38 percent -- passed in 2005. Utah students' academic success is due in part to the state's lower-than-average population of minority and non-English-speaking students, who historically score lower. But state education officials also credit their efforts to raise state academic standards, such as by aligning classroom curricula with standardized tests and holding schools accountable for student performance. 'Our state has really been paying attention to national experts who over the past 10 years have said that focusing on aligning standards and strengthening accountability is every bit as important as new money,' said Utah Superintendent of Education Patti Harrington. It's difficult to prove what actually makes one state outperform another.

Key factors such as per-pupil spending and student demographics vary widely, even among top-performing states. **** I have no experience from either direction of child-rearing, but I think there is a push among many parents to raise their children to survive, perhaps to thrive in a competitive world. In the West we are anguished that our children are not achieving their intellectual potentials, and therefore they will not be as successful as they would otherwise be. We do more, we spend more, we demand more of our children and the education systems to make them more competitive, more likely to succeed in the world.

And when they reach adulthood we let them go, as well-prepared for life as we could provide. What are we doing though? What kind of world do we think we live in? Johnny and Sue aren't only in competition against Jimmy and Jane for high-paying jobs. They must also compete against Mohammed, Abu, Omar, Uthman, and Ali. Our children must also compete against people who will murder them without a second thought.

Our first order of business must be to raise our children to survive. To do so we must learn that lesson too.

There's little good in fretting over our children's math scores if millions of savages will swarm over them and kill them in years to come. As we look at how we might improve our children's reading comprehension scores we must at the same time examine our world and find out what it is we value that makes it worth reading and doing our sums. We must examine how we approach learning, how we see our future and the future of our children. We must examine the lives of others with whom our children will compete in the world at large. We have to comprehend and do the math: We spend too much time and energy worrying about the frills of education, in sensitivity and sentimentality training to notice that we are falling apart as a modernist identity. Those few children we have are valuable, and not to be squandered on wars and conflicts between civilizations. But if we raise our children to be stupid in our footsteps, then our children will not be prepared for the world that awaits them.

When our children go into the world they will find, perhaps too late, that many others around them are right evil bastards who can't read and add at all, and they won't stop to sympathise before they kill our own. We raise our children to do well within our own contexts, but we must pay attention to the larger picture, one we often seem not to see clearly. These are our children's competitors. Below I'll continue with my explanation of philobarbarism and how we do a disservice to our children and those others by sentimentalising the evil that besets the world as a whole.

PAKISTAN Honour killings of girls and women Introduction 'The right to life of women in Pakistan is conditional on their obeying social norms and traditions.' Hina Jilani, lawyer and human rights activist. Women in Pakistan live in fear.

They face death by shooting, burning or killing with axes if they are deemed to have brought shame on the family. They are killed for supposed 'illicit' relationships, for marrying men of their choice, for divorcing abusive husbands. They are even murdered by their kin if they are raped as they are thereby deemed to have brought shame on their family. The truth of the suspicion does not matter -- merely the allegation is enough to bring dishonour on the family and therefore justifies the slaying. The lives of millions of women in Pakistan are circumscribed by traditions which enforce extreme seclusion and submission to men. Male relatives virtually own them and punish contraventions of their proprietary control with violence. For the most part, women bear traditional male control over every aspect of their bodies, speech and behaviour with stoicism, as part of their fate, but exposure to media, the work of women's groups and a greater degree of mobility have seen the beginnings of women's rights awareness seep into the secluded world of women.

But if women begin to assert their rights, however tentatively, the response is harsh and immediate: the curve of honour killings has risen parallel to the rise in awareness of rights. Every year hundreds of women are known to die as a result of honour killings. Many more cases go unreported and almost all go unpunished. The isolation and fear of women living under such threats are compounded by state indifference to and complicity in women's oppression. Police almost invariably take the man's side in honour killings or domestic murders, and rarely prosecute the killers. Even when the men are convicted, the judiciary ensures that they usually receive a light sentence, reinforcing the view that men can kill their female relatives with virtual impunity.

Specific laws hamper redress as they discriminate against women. The isolation of women is completed by the almost total absence of anywhere to hide. There are few women's shelters, and any woman attempting to travel on her own is a target for abuse by police, strangers or male relatives hunting for her. For some women suicide appears the only means of escape.

Abuses by private actors such as honour killings are crimes under the country's criminal laws. However, systematic failure by the state to prevent and to investigate them and to punish perpetrators leads to international responsibility of the state. The Government of Pakistan has taken no measures to end honour killings and to hold perpetrators to account. It has failed to train police and judges to be gender neutral and to amend discriminatory laws. It has ignored Article 5 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which it ratified in 1996, which obliges states to 'modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women' to eliminate prejudice and discriminatory traditions..

We are rightly concerned about our children's progress in school. We provide them with the best we can.

We must also look at what they will face in the world we leave them. If we raise well-educated children who end up dead at the hands of a massive swell of illiterate and innumerate jihadi maniacs we will have failed in our primary duties as adult custodians.

Reading comprehension and math skills are not enough. We have to teach what we know: that to survive we have to be aggressive and strong enough to raise our children and protect them from murder. We must abandon our sentimentality and look to our own children first. If we do not do that, all else is meaningless. Look at this to see what Our children face:. We will have another Blue Revolution meeting Thursday. They spring up across the world, America lagging behind somewhat at this time.

Below we post again the principles of the revolution as written by Claude Reichman, the French representative of the movement. Following that, an update from our correspondent in Paris.

The threats of Islam continuously worsen our lives. We must organise ourselves and our communities to halt Islam in the West. We must meet our fellow citizens and neighbours to make a stand for our culture and our rights. We need desperately a Anti-sharia Neighbourhood Watch in every community. If we are to preserve our lives, to preserve our culture and our democracies, we must impose democracy on our own cultures. Our politicians fail us. They consort with Muslim terrorists, take their money by the sackful, as we saw recently with Bill Clinton and Al Gore and who knows who else, and the politicians at the EU level threaten the people with imprisonment for exercising their rights to free speech.

Citizens are threatened with beheading by Muslims in London. In Paris, mobs of Muslims control the streets while the police are helpless to disband them. Our culture has been hijacked by a tiny minority of extremist ideologues. It's time we organise ourselves to take it back from them to restore reason and sanity to our lives. The left is not an ideology of peace.

It is an ideology of elitist control. Some of us are mad as hell, and we're not going to take it any more. Open you eyes. Here is Claude Reichman: 'What's the point of the Blue Revolution?' I'm often asked this question and the answer is simple: The Blue Revolution seeks to liberate speech for the many French who desire to peacefully express their profound rejection of the ruling political class which is increasingly disconnected from the realities and the aspirations of a people desiring to live freely and in peace,and who find themselves today marginalized before so many attacks on the part of politicians.' He was behind the push to impose Shari'a onto Canadians in Ontario, and he promotes murder and mayhem against civilians, but whoa, don't upset the man by publishing cartoons of Mohammed, murder and child molestor prophet of the fascist poligion that is Islam.

He might cut off your head. This terrorist arsehole now wants to sue a publisher in Canada. Well, likely he'll murder somone. He is a terrorist. Muslim leader accuses Cdn publisher of hate crime Updated Tue.

14 2006 11:30 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff The national leader of the Canadian Islamic Congress [ Mohamed Elmasry] wants an Alberta-based magazine charged with distributing hate literature after it published controversial caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. [.] He said the cartoons propagate a negative stereotype of Muslims, and the decision to publish them goes against the will of the Canadian people and 'actually affects the well being of minorities in this country.' Elmasry also said the Muslim people have been unfairly targeted, and said he believes the magazine would have acted differently if the cartoons were anti-Semitic..

**** Appearing on an October 19 panel discussion on -- on the topic 'What is a terrorist?' -- CIC president Mohamed Elmasry was asked whether any Israeli over the age of 18 is a valid target of Palestinian attacks.

Elmasry replied: 'Anybody above 18 is part of the army.' Host Michael Coren offered Elmasry an opportunity to clarify, asking: 'Anyone in Israel, irrespective of gender, over the age of 18 is a valid target?' 'Yes, I would say,' Elmasry responded. A professor of engineering and an occasional contributor to the Globe and Mail and other newspapers, Elmasry his position to the Globe and Mail, stating: 'Israel has a people's army and a draft and therefore they should be considered legitimate targets. They are part of the occupying power, and Palestinians consider them targets for suicide bombers as well as other means.' Elmasry has since said that he regrets 'that my comments were misunderstood and, as a result, caused offence.' October 27, 2004 Muslim Leaders' Statements Affirm National Post's Position.

People write to me sometimes and they say hey, Dag, you dawg, are you makin' up some of this stuff sometimes and I say hey, I say no way sometimes. Why, I like I, I got this note today that I couldn't have made up so fast cause I just got it: Dear Mohammed, Fatima just got a box of gerbils and a new pair of stiletto heels. Mo., you naughty boy-slut, join us again while Fatima gets naked in this small room and steps on the little furries in her panic. Swish me, Spanky, I'm feeling Muslim all over. Your secret admirer, Dag. Charles translated the following post from Claude Reichman, organiser of the Blue Revolution in France.

Quiet Kenny Kenny Dorham Rarlab. 'What's the point of the Blue Revolution?' I'm often asked this question and the answer is simple: The Blue Revolution wants to liberate speech for the many French who desire to peacefully express their profound rejection of the ruling political class which is increasingly disconnected from the realities and the aspirations of a people desiring to live freely and in peace,and who find themselves today marginalized before so many aggressions on the part of Statesmen.' 'As I see things, I would (scheme?

Eat, drink, dance and 'schunkel'! Every Saturday night the German American Society rolls back the clock to a by-gone era. You'll delight to the music of a live band. Listen, sing along, and dance to favorite German and American tunes of the last century. Doors open at 6 pm for dinner, snacks or just coffee and Kuchen. Dancing starts at 7:30 pm. There's a plentyful supply of German Beers, Wines and Schnaps at the full service bar.

Join the fun with great music, German food and drink at an authentic German Dance hall. Come for German heritage, memories, Gemuetlichkeit and friendship.

Dirndls and Lederhosen are always encouraged. Located at 8098 66th street in Pinellas Park, north of Park Boulevard and just South of 82nd Avenue. For information google German American Society of Pinellas County. Grace Lutheran Church Das Wort zum Sonntag kommt heute von Pastor Stiller der deutschen Gemeinde in Clearwaters Grace Lutheran Church, 812 North Highland Avenue. Diese Gemeinde trifft sich an jedem vierten Sonntag im Monat um 15 uhr zu einem deutschsprachigen Gottesdienst mit anschliessender Kaffeestunde.

(text im Hoerteil dieser Sendung) Hoeren und lesen Sie stets an jedem vierten Sonntag im Monat ein neues Wort zum Sonntag mit Pastor Stiller von der deutschen Kirchengemeinde in Clearwater. Die Gemeinde trifft sich an jedem vierten Sonntag im Monat in der Grace Lutheran Church, 812 North Highland Avenue in Clearwater, FL 33755. Nach dem Gottesdienst findet wie immer eine Plauderstunde bei Kaffee und kuchen statt zu der Sie Pastor Stiller herzlich einlaedt. Grace Lutheran Church ist auf Englisch zu erreichen unter der Nummer 727-446-5026. Nachrichten fuer Paster Stiller in Sun City Centers Redeemer Lutheran Church koennen Sie auf Anrufbeantworter unter 813-634-1292 hinterlassen.

____________________________________________________________________ Liebe Freunde der Deutschen Funksendung. Susanne Nielsen mit der Deutschen Generalkonsulin in Miami Graefin Kendeffy Heute ist das grosse einmal jaehrliche German Heritagefest in Orlando, dass etwa 1200 deutsch-Amerikaner alljaehrich einmal zusammenfuehrt. Trachten sind die regionalen taeglichen und Hochzeits-und Sonntagskleidung der Maenner und Frauen, Sie werden heute nur noch selten aus den Truhen und Speichern geholt und es gibt noch eine handvoll von Verinen in jeder gegend, die sich darum bemuehen, dieses alte kulturgut noch zu pflegen und mit Vorfuehrungen und auch mit Lied- und Tanztradition zu verbinden. Kein Wunder, dass man heute die Trachten nicht mehr hervorholt, braucht es doch zum Teil Stunden alles anzuziehen,was dazugehoert. Dies fuehren Mitglieder der Trachtengruppen als teil ihrer Geschichte vor, und es gibt inzwischen im Internet solche Informationen in Wort und Bild. Bei meinen eigenen Recherchen fand ich im letzten Jahr sowohl viele bilder als auch einen Hut aus dem Schwarzwald fuer meine Rolle als Fahnentraegerin beim German Heritagefest 2011.

Es galt damals die badenwuertenbergische Fahne zu tragen und hierzu gehoerte die passende Guttacher Tracht mit Hut. Dieser ist derjenige, den die meisten mit dem schwarzwald verbinden, naemlich ein strohhut mit grossen roten Wollkwasten, eigentlich Kugeln. Bei meinem Trachtabenteuer lernte ich, dass man hierzu eine weiss Bluse traegt, dazu einen schwarzen Wollrock mit weissem Unterrock und weisse Struempfe und schwarze Schuhe. Da ich Trachtkleidung sammele, hatte ich den Rock und die bluse, fand dann in einem Secondhandladen in Florida sogar die mit kleinen Rosen bestickte schwarze Samtweste. Sie musste hochgeschlossen sein und genau so eine fand ich durch Zufall.

Als ich dann den geborgten Hut in Orlando in Enpfang nahm, staunte ich sehr, denn dieser Hut war mit Gips verstaerkt, sodass die vielen roten Bommeln, fast Kugeln gut sassen, und da der Hut etwas zu klein war, musste ich ihn gut mit den schwarzen Binde-Schleifen um mein Kinn binden, damit die vier Pfund auf meinem Kopf blieben, denn soviel wiegt so ein Hut! Auch erfuhr ich,dass es 14 Kugeln im ganzen sind, die da auf dem hut befestigt sind, 14 fuer soviele jahre der Jungfraeulichkeit. Eine verheiratete Guttacherin traegt keine roten sondern schwarze Bommeln auf dem Hut, womit ich mich haette abfinden muessen. Die Farbenpracht ist bei den Schwarzwaelderinnen bereits mit dem Verlust der Jungfraeulichkeit vorbei. Aber ich war ja weder Schwarwaelderin noch gab es zum huebschen roten Hut eine Alternative.

Die Trachten der Frauen sind die farbenfroheren, aber es gibt viele Regeln und das hat mit den Farben zu tun. Ist ein Trauerfall in der Familie, so dauert es drei Jahre bis die Frau wieder farbenfrohe Kleidung anziehen darf. So zumindest wird es von einer schaumburger Trachtentraegerin erzaehlt. Und aus dieser Gegend stammt mein Vater und seine Familie, naemlich aus Rinteln. Nach meinem Ausflug in die Trachtenwelt des Schwarzwalds beschloss ich, der eigenen Familiengeschichte nachzugehen und besuchte im Sommer zum zweitenmal die Heimatstadt meines Vaters, Rinteln an der Weser.

Frueher war es Hessen, heute gehoert die Stadt zu Niedersachsen. Dort fand ich im Heimatmuseum viele fotos der dortigen Trachten und fand diese wunderschoen.

Ich kaufte einen original roten Schaumburger Trachtenrock, der aus dicker roter Wolle besteht und einen gruenen samtbesatz hat. Damit flog ich nach Florida zurueck und nun begann die Suche nach geeigneten Materialien und der richtigen Form der Schaumburger Tracht. Ich bekam Hilfe von Chefredakteurin Susanne Petermann, die fuer mich einen Brief in ihre Zeitschrift Das Fenster setzte, womit eine wahre Tuer geoeffnet war. Denn nun bekam ich eine Reihe von interessanten emails und Briefe, alles Leserinnen die sich besonders eingehend mit Trachten befassen, besonders mit der Schaumburger Tracht, die in Lagen und Lagen fuer mich als Florida Ansaessige eine Herausforderung ist. Eine Dame sandte mir eine Fotoreihe, die sie fuer mich mit jedem zu dieser Tracht gehoerigen kleidungs-und Schmuckstuecke liebevoll auf eine Schaufensterpuppe drapiert und einzeln fotografiert hat.

Nun heisst es sich durch die vielen Lagen dieser Tracht durchzuarbeiten. Hilfe von Karin Gottier, die einzelnen Lagen der Schaumbuger Tracht. Zuerst gibt es ein weisses Baumwollunterkleid, machmal schon mit dem weiten gerafften Kragen daran ( oft ist der Kragen aber separat und wird zum Schluss,schoen gestaerkt, zuoberst getragen. Dann kommt ein rotes armelloses Unterkleid, das mit schwarzen Borten besetzt ist, dann kommt der rote Rock und eine blaue Jacke mit kurzen Aermeln, unter denen die weisse Aermelspitze der Bluse hervorschaut, die Aermel sind mit der gleichen Samtborte besetzt wie der rote Rock. Die Unterarme werden von Stulpen, die gestrickt oder aus bunten Borten quergestreift genaeht sind, bedeckt. Ueber der Jacke ist eine dunkle Veste, deren Laibchen auch mit der Samtborte, wie beim Rock, besetzt ist.

Karin Gottiers Puppe und Susanne Nielsen schopping for Trachten im rintelner Land. Wenn man die Sonntagstracht traegt, so gibt es hierzu ueber der Vorderseite des Rocks nun eine ueber und ueber bestickte Seiden- ( frueher gewachste Leinen-) schuerze, und sodann kommt ueber die Schultern eine kleines Cape, eine Art Pellerine, die mit kleinen Quasten abgesetzt ist. Darueber kommt der gestaerkte weisse Spitzenkragen. Dann gibt es auf der Brust noch eine grosse runde Silbernadel, die man zur Hochzeit bekommt. Diese ist einem Schild aehnlich, denn die bedeckt viel mit ihren etwa zehn cm, Duchmesser. Um den Hals bindet man zunaechst eine Art Kravatte, deren zwei Enden reich bestickt sind,hierrueber legt man einen schweren Bersteinschmuck, dicke Bernsteinkugeln ( ca.

5cm) und zuvorderst eine Silbernadel ( viereckig) und daneben zwei viereckig bestickte Elemente. Vieles ist davon geerbt, vom Rock bis zur Halskette aus Silber und schwerem Bernstein, alles wichtige Teile der Schaumburger Tracht. Wenn man die Braut ist, so ist alles sehr bunt und vor allem rot! Auch ist die Schuerze der Braut nicht ein Stueck Seidenstoff, sondern es sind viele Brokatstrteifen, die mit Spiegeln ( gegen den boesen Blick) und Fransen und Borten aus Gold laengs und quer umrandet und verziert sind. Solche Baender traegt die Braut ebenso als Verlaengerung des Kopfputzes.

Rote Kugeln zu finden gelang einfach nicht! Es gibt auch Braeute, deren Kronen (Kranz) aus Seidenblumen bestehen. Der Kopfputz ist wieder in Braut und Brautjungfer (Kranz) und verheiratete Frau unterteilt. Und die Braut traegt eine Art Krone, rot und mit vielen vielen Kugeln bestzt und einem Haeubchen (Kranzdeckel) aus Seidenband als oberer Abschluss.

Und die Kopfbedeckung der verheirateten Frau ist natuerlich wieder schwarz, obwohl auch hoch und spitz, mit einem Brokatabschluss aus Gold in der Krone dieser Kopfbedeckung. Ein dickes Seidenband umschluesst das Gesicht zum Kinn. Dies ist nur ein Beispiel fuer die vielen Kleidungsstuecke, die man im Norden Deutschlands traegt, es variiert von Region, ja sogar von Dorf zu Dorf.

Aber man hat 2010 die Schaumburger Tracht zur Tracht des Jahres gekroent, sie ist wunderschoen. Wenn Sie nun am heutigen 25.

Maerz 2012 in beim deutschen Heritagefest in Orlando dabei sind, so hoffe ich,dass Sie sowohl die Schwarzwaldtracht als auch die Schaumburger Tracht erleben werden. Mein Ziel ist es mehr und mehr Frauen (auch Maenner) fuer die Deutschen Trachten zu begeistern. Trachtentanzgruppen tragen vorwiegend Egerlaender Tracht, und hierbei kosten allein die Mieder ueber 300 Dollar. “Die Schaumburger Trachten gehoeren zu den schoensten Trachten in Deutschland.”Land der roten Roecke “ wird das Schaumburger Land genannt, wo der rote Rock mit dem prachtvollen Bandbesatz das unverwechselbare Kennzeichen der frauentracht ist.

Fuer die drei Schaumburger Trachtengebiete (Bueckeborg, Lindhorst, Frille) werden die Trachten ausfuehrlich ( im Buch von C W Niemeyer) dokumentiert. Die zahlreichen frabigen Abbildungen zeigen die grosse Vielfalt und die Kostbarkeit der Tracht, sowie die hohe kunsthandwerkliche Perfektion. Auch dorfliches Leben und doerfliche Kultur im alten Schaumburg werden erinnernd beschrieben. Historische Fotos, plattdeutsche gedichte und geschichten erzaehlen von Arbeit und Musse Up’n Doerpe.” Soweit die Beschreibung des Trachtenbuches von C. Zwei Buecher wurden im Heimatmuseum verkauft: eines von Wolf Luecking, ein zweites von Frederike Kaesting und Sophie Sofie Mensching.

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Funksendungsleiter Kurt Ortmann zur Deutschen Sprache) __________________________________________________________________ Renaissance Festival Tampa Bay. Die Landsknechte mit Charles V, und Susanne Nielsen Jetzt moechte ich Sie in ein kleines Koenigreich einladen, denn England und auch eine Gruppe von Landsknechten aus dem Reich KarlsV sind in Tampa zu Gast, beim Renaissancefest. Dort ist jedes Wochenende unter einem anderen Zeichen, am 31.Maerz und 1. April heisst es Halfway to Oktoberfest, eine deutsche Invasion in Form von Tanz und Bier ist geplant.

Wer durch den Wald nahe des Universitaetskampus und des MOSI Wissenschaftsmuseums flaniert, der ist in einer anderen Welt, einer wo sich die Menschen wie eine grosse verschrobene Familie zusammengefunden haben, und wo man Freude an Kostuemen und der Nostalgie hat. Man denkt ein bisschen an die Kuenstler, die sich Praerafaeliten nannten und aufs land zogen, das war im 19. Jahrhundert, man denkt ein bisschen an die Aussteiger der 70er jahre und vor allem an die alten Legenden von der Zeit Shakespeares und Koenig Arthurs. Und fuer ein paar Stunden ist man mit dabei, kann sich so kleiden in Leinen und Leder, kann jemand anderes sein, und die Schauspieler vor Ort bleiben der Zeit und der Geschichte treu, die man selbst vielleicht nicht ganz so gut kennt. Ich habe mich mit Karl V unterhalten und mit seinen Landsknechten, sie sprechen zwar kein deutsch, aber ihre Geschichte haben sie parat und auch wie es damals so zugegangen ist, vom Angel of mercy bis zum Grafen im waffenrock, man lernt von ihnen den Umgang mit dem Schwert und auch welche Rolle die Frauen gespielt haben, als Begleiterinnen durch den Krieg.

Hoeren sie nun meine Unterhaltung mit der munteren Truppe der Landsknechts und ihrem Koeniglichen Begleiter. Show times: Fri, April 13 at 8pm, David A.

Center for the Performing Arts, Ferguson Hall; Sat, April 14 at 8pm, Progress Energy Center for the Arts, Mahaffey Theater; Sun, April 15 at 7:30pm, Ruth Eckerd Hall Tickets: $15, $30, $45 April 18 and 19: Celebrate Broadway – Coffee Series Stuart Malina conducts this morning concert that will feature Gershwin's Overture to Girl Crazy, Andrew Lloyd-Webber's The Phantom of the Opera selections, and Sullivan's Overture to The Mikado, among other works. Guests will be treated to complimentary coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts as well as a pre-concert conversation one hour before the performance.

Show times: Wed, April 18 at 10am, Ruth Eckerd Hall; Thurs, April 19 at 11am, Progress Energy Center for the Arts, Mahaffey Theater Tickets: $24, $29, $42 April 21 and 22: American Songbook Encore – Raymond James Pops Series Get on board this hit parade of best-loved songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen and Cole Porter I’ve Got Rhythm, Our Love Is Here to Stay, Fascinatin’ Rhythm, The Man I Love, I’ve Got the World on a String, Old Black Magic, Too Darn Hot, Night and Day, I Get a Kick Out of You and many more. Conducted by Stuart Malina with vocalists Joel Malina and Hilary Kole.

James Tocco will give the United States premiere of 19th century composer Eduard Franck’s Piano Concerto No. 1 that has recently been rediscovered, as part of this musical feast of spirited overtures from Weber’s Oberon, Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lortzing’s Der Waffenschmied and Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, along with Wagner’s Die Meistersinger: Prelude.

Conducted by Stefan Sanderling, the performances include a pre-concert talk about the music and the composers in the concert hall beginning one hour prior to curtain. Performing nearly 100 concerts annually in the tri-city area of Tampa, Clearwater, and St.

Petersburg, The Florida Orchestra is recognized as Tampa Bay's leading performing arts institution, one of the leading professional symphony orchestras in Florida, and one of the most vibrant orchestras in the United States. With live performances including the Tampa Bay Times Masterworks, Raymond James Pops, Coffee Concerts, Progress Energy Morning Masterworks, as well as Youth Concerts and Free Pops in the Park Concerts, The Florida Orchestra offers a vast scope of concerts each year. The mission of The Florida Orchestra is to enrich the life of the Tampa Bay area as it inspires, entertains and educates a wide and diverse audience with the unique experience of live symphonic music, ensuring that future generations will continue to enjoy this legacy that so magnificently celebrates the human spirit. Presented by the German Consul General to the State of Florida Eva Alexandra Countess Kendeffy, the program will alternate musical works performed by Ulex with poetry and prose read by Becker. Musical selections include those by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, Alban Berg, Kurt Weill, Boris Blacher, Samuel Barber and Rodion K. Literary works include those by Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna Seghers, Lion Feuchtwanger, Berthold Brecht, Wolfgang Borchert and Klaus Pohl.

Born in Berlin, Ulex won the National “Festival of Young Talent” in Dresden, Germany at age 10. She studied at the Special School for Music in Berlin, continued her studies at the Hanns Eisler University, graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts and pursued further studies at the Folkwang Hochschule. She has performed on three continents as a soloist, as well as with orchestras and chamber music ensembles.

Ulex is a founding member of the TransAtlantic Ensemble with Grammy-nominated clarinetist Mariam Adam. Becker is a popular German stage and film actor. He has worked in theater since 1962, starring in dozens of plays from Shakespeare to Tennessee Williams. He made his film debut in 1970 in the film “o.k.,” a West German anti-war film directed by Michael Verhoeven. His first English-speaking role was as a German prisoner of war in the BBC miniseries “Forgive our Foolish Ways” in 1980. He played Sergeant Gustav Wagner in the Emmy-nominated television miniseries “Escape from Sobibor” (1987).

Becker has produced performances mingling literature and music since 1998. Ausstellung Ruth Eckerd Hall: Maerz bis Mai 2012: Susanne Nielsen und 11 weitere Kuenstler stellen jeweils 5-8 Werke aus. Werke von Susanne Nielsen sind aus ihrem 'Frauen und Magnolien' Bilderzyklus, der die Frauenrolle in der Werbung der 1950er Jahre in deutschen Zeitschriften mit der vielschichtigen Bedeutung der Magnolienbluete des US Suedens paart. Besucher der REH Veranstaltungen koennen die Galerie besuchen. Wagner Society: 1x monatl.Programme und infos: schreiben Sie uns, wir leiten es weiter. Halfway to Oktoberfest at the Bay Area Ren Fest!

Saturday, Sunday: March 31st + April1st The Gulf Coast Enzianer Schuhplattler Verein - 11:00am, 12:45pm, 3:30pm on Wyldewood Stage and 2:00pm at the Maypole! Food items being served in the Bavarian village to include Bavarian Pretzels, Apple Strudel, Bavarian Carry Sausage in gravy with potato salad, Bavarian Wusrtsalat (cold cut salad), Pretzel Loafs, Weisswur st, Bratwurst, Hot Bratwurst, Sauerkraut, Red cabbage, Schnitzel with potato salad, Schnitzelbrotchen (schnitzel on a roll), Homemade German Bratwurst on a roll and more! Alpine yodeling contest at 11:30 on Wyldewood stage! Florida State Longbow Championships in Piper's Valley at 11:30! Best Beard in the Realm Contest 2pm on Wyldewood Stage!

Sauerkraut eating competition at 2:30 on Wyldewood Stage! Stein holding contest on Wyldewood stage at 3pm!