Aris Fioretos

Selected works:The Truth about Sascha Knisch, The Gray Book.

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I finally cracked and made my own potato salad and "meatball" bento - looks Scandianvian, doesn't it?
Homemade potato salad though, and the "meatballs" are falafels. They come pre-fried and just need microwaving - very handy! Then there's some gardengrown salad and some cherry tomatoes, a skewered pickle and some red beets (which were the last of my freezer stash).

Pretty simple bento, but I came home late from training and STILL made the potato salad from scratch then. (I make my own mayonaise - I can't stand salad with storebought mayo.) So - simple-looking, but not that simple.

Potato salad

About 600g of potatoes, boiled and still warm! Boil while you make the rest.

Mayonaise: 1 room-temperature egg
unflavoured oil (I use corn or sunflower)
Salt
1 Tsp. mustard

Beat up the egg a little, then beat in the oil in a thin stream until emulsion forms. Add salt and mustard. I did the whole thing in a food processor and added 4-5 small pickles in the end, which got chopped up in the mayonaise. Saves time.

Salad
2-3 Tsp. Sourcream (I don't like sourcream all that much, so I use thick yoghurt. It gives a different taste though, which is somewhat rougher than sourcream.)
1/2 red onion, chopped
2-3 Tsp. vinegar (preferable apple, if you have it)
Mix with the mayonaise. Add salt and pepper to taste (and don't be afraid to file on the recipe a little until it matches your taste!)

Peel the potatoes and chop them into slices. Toss with the salad while still warm. Cool at room temperature and enjoy!

It's not the most spectacular recipe, but I needed it written down somewhere :)
I'm not fond of Austrian style (non-mayo) potato salad, which is made with broth. But my grandma swears on making her own mayonaise for mayo salad, and I love that! Adding yoghurt or sourcream makes it a *little* less fatty, which is also good, and fresher.

With the incident on K2 still fresh in everybody's minds, this drove home the reality of our new 'pastime' and new questions on the risks involved. These questions need answered before I attempt anything else on this scale. In the meantime... I'll stick to Munro's...

The following is the latest report from The Gaurdian...

Lizzy Davies in Paris and John Hooper in Rome
The Guardian,
Monday August 25 2008
Article history

A French police rescue helicopter passes in front of the Aiguille du Midi as it takes off near Chamonix during search and rescue operations on Mont Blanc. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters

Hope was fading fast last night for eight mountaineers missing near Mont Blanc after a powerful avalanche caused one of the deadliest accidents to hit the French Alps in decades.

More than 15 hours after a large chunk of ice broke off from the mountain and prompted the pre-dawn avalanche, five Austrian and three Swiss climbers had still not been recovered from the slopes of Mont Blanc du Tacul.

Seven other French and Italian climbers were injured when the avalanche swept down the mountain at 3am yesterday, hitting a path often frequented by groups heading for the summit of Mont Blanc, western Europe's highest peak. They were recovering in hospital.

Survivors spokes of a vast tract of ice moving silently but rapidly towards them, giving little time for escape.

"The guide shouted, 'Run fast! Run fast!'," said Nicolas Duquesne, who sustained a broken ankle. "It didn't make any noise. It really was impressive.

"We had just enough time to move away to the right before getting hit ... We were really lucky," said Duquesne, adding that he had to "swim" through the snow to get away. Another survivor, Italian guide Marco Delfini, said he saw "a wall of ice coming towards us and we were carried 200 metres."

Regis Lavergne, a rescue worker, told French television there was "no more hope" of finding the missing mountaineers alive, adding that they were probably on the lower reaches of the glacier "underneath the lumps of serac [pillar of ice]".

A large-scale search involving helicopters, Alpine guides and sniffer dogs had to be suspended yesterday afternoon for fear of more avalanches. "I don't think we'll manage to recover the bodies because they finished up in an area of high risk in which there are highly unstable towers of ice that could easily collapse," Adriano Favre, the director of Alpine rescue, told the AGI news agency.

The wall of snow, which was 200 metres (650ft) long and 50 metres wide when it hit the mountaineers at an altitude of 3,600 metres, was described by an Haute Savoie police chief as "extraordinary". Daniel Pueyo said the sheer volume of this slide had made it deadly.

Experts said weather conditions had been "excellent" throughout the night. "Last night it was cold, it was nice, so it was simply the weight of the ice which became too much," explained Yan Giezendanner, from the meteorological station in Chamonix. "It was a big slab and that slab was big enough to reach the team of climbers."

Yesterday's disaster was the latest in a deadly season in the Alps. According to figures released last week, almost 100 people died this summer in the French, Italian and Swiss peaks, most of them in the Mont Blanc range.

Speaking from Chamonix, the French interior minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, described the avalanche as "one of the worst accidents we have had for decades ... Even when all precautions have been taken, as seems to have been the case here, things can go dramatically wrong." Alliot-Marie said there was no chance of finding anyone alive after flying over the scene in a helicopter. The avalanche had been "monumental" and "inescapable".

The route the climbers took is often busy. Groups tend to leave from their base before dawn when snow is firmest.

A spokeswoman for a British tour firm in the region, Mountain Adventure Specialists, said it would continue with tours which take in the Mont Blanc du Tacul. "This isn't the first [accident] and it won't be the last," she said.

The Alps: Sudden storms add to toll

August 16 2008
Briton Reg Clarke, 70, and Dutchman Johannes Ruiter, 47, found frozen to death minutes from their refuge after being caught in a storm near Naso del Lyskamm peak in the Italian Alps.

August 14
Six people die in four separate accidents. Two Frenchmen fell to their deaths from the Bosses ridge and later two mountaineers, aged 21 and 22, died while descending the Col des Courtes. A 54-year-old hiker fell coming down the Dent d'Oche and a 65-year-old local trekker was killed after falling on rocks.

August 8
Ian Jackson, 18, from Middlesbrough, fell 50 metres to his death while abseiling after a climb in Chamonix.

July 25
Jane Jerram, from New Zealand, her British boyfriend and two women from France and Chile froze to death after being caught by a sudden storm on the Bionnassay crest, on the French side of Mont Blanc. They were said not to have had adequate clothing or equipment.

July 24
A Dutch father, 56, and his children, aged 17, 20 and 23, fell 500m down a slope in Mont Dolent, part of Mont Blanc. They had been roped together.

April 30
Five French ski-mountaineers swept away by an avalanche in Gran Paradiso national park in Italy's north-western Alps.

Für Fußball Plakatwerbung zu machen, ist mal was Neues (wobei die Austria das nun schon zum zweiten Mal in den letzten Jahren versucht). Dass diese Art der Öffentlichkeitsarbeit irgendeinen Fan hinter dem Ofen oder aus dem Schwimmbad hervorholt und ins Stadion bringt, bezweifle ich aber. Das Geld kann man besser investieren!

Rapid jedenfalls hat Plakatwerbung nicht nötig. Das Hanappi-Stadion ist für's Derby seit Wochen ausverkauft. Ein Glück, dass ich mich als Abo-Besitzer heuer nicht um Tickets kümmern muss.

Am Sonntag muss die Austria das erste Mal in dieser Saison verlieren, das ist klar! Und von unseren Nationalteamspielern Maierhofer und Hoffer wünsche ich mir nicht nur heute Abend in Nizza gegen Italien Tore, sondern vor allem im ausverkauften "St.Hanappi" gegen die Veilchen!

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Austrian wine

Heute, Dienstag, mittags wird die zweite Hauptrunde des ÖFB-Cups ausgelost.

Der österreichische Fußballcup, seit jeher im Schatten der Meisterschaft, hat nach einem Jahr Pause - im Hinblick auf die Euro wurde im Vorjahr nur ein "Amateur-Cup" ohne die Bundesligavereine ausgetragen - einen neuen Anlauf genommen. Heuer stiegen die Profivereine schon im Sommer in den Cupbewerb ein und bescherten den "Kleinen" in der ersten Hauptrunde durchwegs interessante Partien, auch wenn sich mit Ausnahme von Wacker Innsbruck und Gratkorn (2. Liga) die jeweils höherklassigen Klubs in ihren Duellen durchsetzten (alle Ergebnisse: hier!).

Insgesamt nehmen 90 Klubs am Pokal 08/09 teil. Bis zur vierten Hauptrunde haben die Amateurvereine, sofern sie gegen einen Bundesligaklub (erste und zweite Liga) gezogen werden, Heimrecht. In der ersten und zweiten Hauptrunde werden die Bundesligaklubs gesetzt, danach gibt's keine Vorteile mehr für sie. Der SV Horn, der Gewinner des Amateur-Cups 2007/08 steigt erst in der 3. Hauptrunde in den Bewerb ein (siehe Durchführungsbestimmungen).

In den letzten fünf Cup-Saisonen stand jeweils die Wiener Austria, traditionell als Cup-Spezialist bekannt, im Finale. Viermal in 5 Jahren gingen die Violetten auch als Pokalsieger vom Platz, insgesamt hat der "FAK" (FK Austria) 26mal den ÖFB-Cup geholt, Rekordmeister Rapid ist mit 14 Erfolgen zweitbester Cupteilnehmer (alle Endspiele seit 1919 siehe hier !).

At 2am this morning, much to my annoyance, he appeared at my bedside in rather a state.  He'd been up in the attic looking for, of all things, a blue lampshade which I imagine I threw out ages ago and don't really know what he is talking about anyway or why he should feel the need to find the damn thing in the middle of the night which has still not been explained to me.  In true Blue Peter fashion, a nest I found earlier.

I go balistic!  Afterall some of us have to rise at a reasonable time in the morning and I have not slept well lately anyway. I see him standing over my half alseep form, eyes glinting with the effects of some rather speedy drugs.  He is trying to show me that he has been stung by a bee whilst in the attic and is in a fair state.  After shouting my head off, I go back to sleep.  I have neither time nor patience for this sort of stupid adventure at this time of night and there is absolutely no sign of my sense of humour.

This morning, he brings me a cup of tea, all wide eyed and full of careful cheerfulness, testing the water to see if I am still annoyed about the nights antics.  I ask about the bee sting and he tells me we have a nest in our attic.  Being interested in all things natural and to do with animals and insects, my initial crossness is tempered by curiosity.  We have never had a bees nest in the house.  I get up and we approach the attic hatch with caution, bearing in mind the sting in the night.  The Other fiddles around with a torch though there is a perfectly good light up there.  I climb carefully up the ladder and peep my head into the gloom.  Directing me to look at the far end gable of the house, I see a wonderfully formed papery round ball on the inside of an airbrick.  I see the bees flying around the bare light bulb in silhouette and one escapes down the hatch.  Horror of horrors, it is not a bee, it is a wasp.  "It's a wasp you idiot, not a bees nest."  I yell at him.  I hurry back down the ladder and emplore The Other to pull the hatch down quickly.  The Other is usually brave, but the mixture of the speedy drugs, the sting from the night before and no sleep makes him unusually scared.  In fact I've never seen him like this and he has dealt with a number of nests while working on other people's houses.  (He is a musician, but that doesn't pay enough and before he became ill, he used his other talent to earn money restoring old buildings).  He backs off, worriedly.  I cajole him a bit and point out that there are no more wasps coming down the hatch and finally he manages to shut it equipped with sturdy gloves.  Phew!

"So what did you do up here last night then to get yourself stung?" I ask suspiciously.

"Well I saw the nest and wanted to see what it felt like, so I got a stick and poked it."

"You B*****y idiot", I scold.  "You do realise that the wasps could have got furious and chased you and stung you all over, and we could have had them attacking all of us."  I shudder at this thought.  Memories of being stung as a teenager spring into my mind.  I am allergic to wasp stings.  I have never forgotten being stung.

The time I got stung..I walked into my Dad's study, years ago when I was about 15.  I rested my hand over the back of his desk chair as I was chatting to a Belgian girl, a family friend, who was staying with us.  I felt a piercing pain on the inside of my finger and saw a large wasp attached, stinging me endlessly.  I was so scared I screamed at the girl to get it off me.  Seeing my panic, she panicked and refused to help.  After what seemed an eternity, I flicked the damn thing off. And then began one of the most humiliating times of my life.  My parents had some Austrian friends staying as well as the Belgian girl and everyone was busy getting lunch set up outside.  There were lots of people around what with the Belgian, the Austrian family and our own family so lunch was a bit of a headache for my Mum who was pretty distracted and not very simpathetic when I ran into the kitchen, blubbing my head off after the sting.  She delegated my father to get the sting, which was still attached to my finger and was still pumping venon in it seemed, to get it out, which he did very carefully indeed.  Crisis over, we all sat down to lunch, me still feeling very upset and shocked.  

And then it happened.  I started to feel itchy all over and I could feel my eyes litereally swelling and bulging in their sockets.  I thought they were were going to pop out.  Seeing my Mum still busy helping everyone to lunch I quietly went up to her and told her that I wasn't feeling well and was itchy.  Being still rather distracted and noting that it was a very hot sunny day, she told me to go and have a cold bath which I did.  I got in the cool water and tried to calm myself down but the water seemed to speed up some sort of adverse reaction and when I got out of the bath, my entire body was covered in giant round blotches, like wheels.  By this time I was seriously alarmed.  In nothing but a bath towel I tore downstairs, grabbed my mother to follow me into the sitting room and away from the other people and showed her my body.

She finally realised that this was no ordinary reaction to a wasp sting and was clearly very worried indeed.  She got my father to look, who also became worried and he phoned our family doctor. He advised taking antihystermine which fortunately we had in the cupboard and I sat very still in one of the chairs trying to calm myself down.  This is where I was humiliated beyond belief.  My mother felt that I should take my towel off so as not to further irritate the blotches.  So there I was, sat in the chair without a skimp of clothing, just about managing to hide my lower modesty with the towel.  The foreigners, wondering what was going on, suddenly appeared and to my utter embarassment started to examine my body, peering closely at my bosoms.  Everyone had a look, the mother, father, daughter, my brother, the Belgian, my parents and finally my sister came in.  In one swift glance she took in the situation, she saw my mortified face and immediately took charge.  She went and got a light Tea towel and draped it over my chest, admonishing my mother that I hardly wanted to sit there with everyone peering at me with no clothes on.  I was so grateful to her and smiled weakly at her in thanks as she winked at me kindly.

I always wondered later on, why on earth my mother let all those people look at me like that. It was quite the most awful thing for a fifteen year old girl.  Almost as shocking as the sting.  In fact it is that part that I remember most vividly.  I think she was desperately worried that I might go into some sort of shock and it blinded her to everything else.   She was possibly feeling just a bit bad at having been rather off hand, in the midst of her lunch do, when I first complained .  Now, lunch abandoned, she fussed worriedly around me and luckily the antihystermine worked and before too long, I was back to normal.  But wasps are not something I am happy around and I have been very careful indeed ever since that day, to avoid at all costs another sting.

The Other, now a bit calmer and less speedy with the drugs is beginning to behave more normally.  We discuss what to do and he feels, bearing in mind my allergy, that we should get rid of the nest.  I am a bit reluctant.  Inspite of my worry about being stung, I don't bear any malice to wasps and am intrigued by the fantastic nest they have built and don't like to disturb them.  They are, afterall, right in the attic and we wouldn't have known they were there, if The Other hadn't been on nightime rummage up there.  Now that he is thinking a bit more clearly he feels he can deal with the nest and make the wasps go away as he has done many times before.  I am a bit anxious that he will mess it up and fearful that we could have the wasps swarming and out to attack us so I persuade him to leave it be for the time being.  I'm still not convinced that the speedy drugs have fully gone from his system and we really don't want him poking around with a stick again!  I think it might be better to find a wasp man in the yellow pages.

Update later on!

 Jane Mayer and the reviewer of her book Andrew Bacevich both of them have an unfathomable deficit of a sense of reality and are oblivious of the lessons of history. Like beatific angels they descend from “a fine cloud of solicitous idealism” to critique and accuse the Bush administration of American-made Gulags. Disregarding and forgetting that the normal and complacent days of America ended on 9/11.  On this fateful day America was attacked by an invisible deadly enemy whose only transparency was that he was wearing civilian clothes. In such circumstances the Administration was in the morally unenviable position to apprehend people not on hard legal evidence but on suspicion and to hold them for a long period because of the possible great danger. In the darkness of this war against global terror the enlightened civilized processes of the Geneva Conventions and due process became totally obsolete, not by the nefarious practices of the government but by the dicta of reality and history. On the latter criteria, Mayer and Bacevich are irredeemable failures. To quote the great Austrian writer Robert Musil, “to the mind good and evil... are not sceptical, relative concepts, but terms of function, values that depend on the context (M.E.) they find themselves in.”

Further, desperate to make their case against the Administration they throw the latter into the pool of the politics of fear. They are deliberately not making the nuanced distinction between the words threat and fear. While one can threaten even the fearless it does not follow that the threatened reacts out of fear. He merely reacts to a plausible threat like any reasonable person would in the same circumstances.  And this is exactly what Americans are doing in the aftermath of 9/11. To claim as Mayer and Bacevich do that the Bush administration deliberately let loose the winds of fear to batter Americans for their own nefarious ends, whatever the latter happen to be, is on their part legerdemain par excellence.

I rest on my oars: Your turn now.

This lovely  overbust corset I spotted  on corsetted_girl 's flickr page.  Don't know who the maker is, but according to info on the page it reduces this beautiful young Austrian's waist to a slim 21 inches. The pictures are a good reminder that even slim women look very good wearing corsets.

Lawyer Svetozar Vujacic was quoted by the Politika daily as saying the appeal was mailed from a post office, but he declined to say which one, so the letter could not be immediately identified and rushed to the court handling Karadzic's extradition.

But, speaking with reporters on Saturday, Vujacic declined to give any details.

"I cannot say anything about the appeal, where or when I filed it or what is in it," he said. "Had I talked about it, the appeal would already be rejected and Radovan Karadzic would already be on his way to The Hague."

Karadzic faces charges including genocide and conspiracy to commit genocide, for allegedly masterminding the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica -- Europe's worst massacre since World War II.
Once Serb judges decide on the appeal, the case will be handed over to the Serbian government, which issues the final extradition order.
Karadzic was a fugitive for over a decade before he was arrested. Government officials say he was captured Monday but Vujacic claims Karadzic was apprehended the previous week on a Belgrade bus and held incommunicado by unknown kidnappers for three days.
Vujacic has filed a lawsuit against Karadzic's alleged abductors. Responding to the lawsuit, a prosecutor spoke to Karadzic about the claims Friday, Vujacic said.

Vujacic also says his client plans to defend himself against U.N. genocide charges, just as his mentor, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, did. Milosevic died in 2006 while on trial on genocide charges.
In Serbia, Karadzic's arrest has sparked nationalist anger.

Several hundred ultranationalists -- chanting Karadzic's name and denouncing Serbian President Boris Tadic -- marched Friday for the third straight day of protests in downtown Belgrade in support of Karadzic.

The demonstrators briefly scuffled with riot police and hurled burning torches at the Belgrade City Council building.

Since his capture, more possible news on Karadzic's nearly 13 years under cover emerged.

Serbia's Vecernje Novosti newspaper Saturday published an interview with Karadzic's nephew, Dragan Karadzic, claiming he was the only one who knew his uncle the fugitive had assumed a false identity of "Dragan Dabic."

"I was his only link to the family and to the outside world," the nephew was quoted as saying, adding he regularly met with Karadzic, helped him with renting different apartments over the past six years and bringing him supplies.
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"I am not afraid of the consequences," Dragan Karadzic said. "To me, he isn't a fugitive, he is my uncle, my father's brother."

On Friday, Austrian police Col. Rudolf Golia told The Associated Press that anti-terror units found a man who looked exactly like the fugitive Karadzic's assumed identity while searching an apartment in Vienna for a murder suspect last year. The man was not connected to the killing, and he was let go without being fingerprinted
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/26/karadzic.fallout.ap/index.html

Sir Rudolf Bing was an Austrian-born opera impresario. Sir Rudolf Bing was General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972. Sir Rudolf Bing was knighted in 1971.

Sir Rudolf Bing was born to a well-to-do Jewish family(his father was an industrialist) Sir Rudolf Bing studied at the University of Vienna and as a young man worked in theatrical and concert agencies. In 1927 he went to Berlin, Germany and subsequently served as general manager of opera houses in that city and in Darmstadt.

While in Berlin, he married a Russian ballerina, but in 1934, with the rise of Nazi Germany the Bings moved to Great Britain where, in 1946 Sir Rudolph Bing became a naturalised British subject. There he helped to found the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and, after the war, organized the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.

In 1949 he went to the United States, to become General Manager of the Metropolitan the following year, a post he held for 22 years. Sir Rudolph Bing supervised the move of the old Metropolitan to its new quarters in Lincoln Center and his administration was, by any account, one of the great eras of Metropolitan Opera. It was summed up as follows:

Wielding his powerful position at the Metropolitan Opera with intense personal charisma over two decades, Sir Rudolf Bing ruled much of the operatic universe in autocratic fashion, nurturing young artists and cutting superstars down to size with equal enthusiasm. Sir Rudolph Bing oversaw the abandonment in 1966 of the stately but somewhat dilapidated old Metropolitan Opera House and the construction of a grand monument to his regime, the building the company now occupies, which dominates Lincoln Center. For good or ill, his conservative musical and dramatic bent, predilection for Italian opera and concern for theatrical values yielded an identifiable artistic legacy.

During Sir Rudolph Bing's tenure, Marian Anderson became the first African American to sing at the house.

After leaving the Met, Sir Rudolph Bing wrote 2 books, 5000 Nights at the Opera
(1972) and A Knight at the Opera (1981).

Sir Rudolf Bing's wife Nina died in 1983. In January 1987, he married again and his wife took him to the Caribbean. However, she was reputedly unbalanced, and as he himself had been suffering for many years from Alzheimer's disease, an American court eventually declared him incompetent to enter into a marriage contract and annulled the marriage. The case was a cause célèbre.

In 1989 Roberta Peters and Teresa Stratas arranged for Sir Rudolph Bing to be admitted to The Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale, Bronx, where he resided until his death.

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Sorry for the dearth of posts recently - I've been on a much needed vacation first to Austria (where apparently Meeta has been as well - view her travelogue starting here) and then chilling with family here in Sweden.

I'll be back in full swing soon with new ideas I've picked up on the way and possibly some details about my native country, Austria!

Being European, I have been known to sneer at American coffee chains like Starbucks. "Frappuchino? That's not a coffee, that's a milkshake!"
Which I guess is true.
But I still must admit that ice cream and coffee is an addictive and delicious mix. Here in Austria, we've had Eiskaffee*, or ice coffee, for a long time.

To make a delicious cold un-mixed Viennese ice coffee, you need:
1 can of chilled brewed coffee, not too weak
Milk
Vanilla ice cream, or rather gelato as we don't really have anything else in Europe
Optional: Whipped cream
Cocoa or chocolate flakes for decoration
1 highball glass
1 straw
1 long spoon

Mix the chilled coffee with some milk (don't make it too light, just a tad or leave it out completely).
Spoon 2-3 balls of delicious vanilla gelato into the highball glass.
Pour the coffee over the icecream (careful, the ice cream does float!).
Make a pretty hat with the whipped cream and the chocolate flakes.
Stick in the straw.

Drink the coffee with the straw. Alternate with spooning the ice cream from the glass. Alternatively, suck the icecream and spoon the coffee. :)
I don't need to tell you that you should enjoy, right?

More later!

* That's pronounced Ice caff-eh, with a long e. An important difference between Germany and Austria is that the former pronounce Kaffee with a short e, the latter with a long one (stressing the second syllable). ;)

• BY BIRTH: Child born in the territory of Austria, with at least one parent being a citizen of Austria. However, a child born out of wedlock to a foreign mother and an Austrian father is not considered a citizen. Unless the couple marries, child obtains the citizenship of the mother.
• BY DESCENT: Child is born abroad, one of whose parents is an Austrian citizen. In case of a non-Austrian mother and an Austrian father, marriage law listed above applies.
• BY NATURALIZATION: Austrian citizenship can be applied for upon fulfillment of one of the following conditions:
  • Person has lived in Austria for at least 10 years.
  • Person has taken up a position as a professor at an Austrian University.
  • Person is the foreign spouse of an Austrian citizen and has resided in Austria for at least five years.

DUAL CITIZENSHIP: NOT RECOGNIZED. 
Exception: Child of Austrian citizens who was born in a foreign country and acquired citizenship according to the other country's laws. Also, in exceptional cases, Austrian authorities may permit an Austrian citizen who obtains a new citizenship to retain their Austrian citizenship.

LOSS OF CITIZENSHIP:

• VOLUNTARY: Under certain conditions, Austrian citizenship may be voluntarily renounced:
  • Person possesses another citizenship.
  • Person has no criminal proceedings, or criminal penalties of more than six months, pending against them in Austria.
  • Person, if male, has fulfilled required military service.
• INVOLUNTARY: The following are grounds for loss of citizenship:
  • Person acquires citizenship of a foreign country.
  • Person performs voluntary military service for a foreign country.
  • Person has employment with a foreign government that is damaging to Austrian interests.

Nun gibt es nicht nur bei meinen "Hammers" in London die berühmte Academy of Football, auch der SK Rapid Wien kann sich ab sofort so nennen.
Das einzige, was Rapid mit seiner traditionell guten Nachwuchsarbeit bisher zum Status einer Akademie fehlte, war die entsprechende Infrastruktur. Nun hat der SK Rapid mit der Möglichkeit, auch das Sportzentrum in der Südstadt (NÖ) zu nutzen, Akademiestatus erlangt. Das meldete die Website skrapid.at. Akademieleiter ist Rainer Setik.
Bereits im Februar wurde ein entsprechender Antrag beim ÖFB gestellt. Der Antrag wurde angenommen und die Hütteldorfer haben nun Akademiestatus. „Werner Kuhn und Alfred Hörtnagl haben das in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Geschäftsführer der Bundessport- und Freizeitzentren, Michael Sulzbacher, und dem Standortleiter der Südstadt, Harald Kraus, ermöglicht“, sagt Rainer Setik.
Sportdirektor Alfred Hörtnagl: „Wir wollen gewährleisten, dass wir künftig noch effizienter arbeiten und uns so ständig weiterentwickeln können. In weiterer Folge wollen wir auch sichern, dass unser Scouting verbessert wird und gute Spieler in diesen Prozess eingegliedert werden.“
Die Nachwuchsmannschaften U15, U17 und U19 trainieren ab sofort auf den teilweise neuen Anlagen im Süden Wiens. Die Jahrgänge darunter bleiben nach wie vor im Hanappi-Stadion.
In Zukunft ist Peter Grechtshammer Nachwuchsleiter von U7 bis U14. Ebenso ist er für das „Junior Project Team“, wo Spieler der U12 bis U14 gezielt gefördert werden, eine Art Vorstufe von „Pro Rapid“ also, zuständig.
Kurt Deringer übernimmt die Rolle des administrativen Leiters und Eduard Wiebogen kümmert sich um die Koordination der Turniere. „Aufgrund des Akademiestatus bin ich mir sicher, dass für alle Nachwuchsteams ein qualitativ hochwertigeres Training zu Stande kommt, da sich die Infrastruktur nun wesentlich verbessert hat. Außerdem stehen uns in Zukunft endlich mehr Plätze zum Trainieren zur Verfügung“, meint Kurt Deringer.

Den "netten Herrn Slomka" haben ihn die Medien genannt. Das klang ein bisschen abschätzig, man wusste offenbar nicht so recht, was man von ihm halten sollte. Keiner von den ganz großen Namen, die man sich gewünscht hätte, aber immerhin: Vizemeister mit Schalke 04 und Champions League-Viertelfinale. Eine ausländische Lösung hätte mir gefallen, bei Andi Herzog, den ich als Ex-Rapidler und Rekordinternationalen, durchaus mag, habe ich immer das Gefühl, er sei wirklich allzu sehr "der nette Andi" (das liebe "Herzilein").
Ob Slomka, von dem es heute heißt, er habe dem Fußballbund absagen müssen, der Richtige gewesen wäre, weiß ich nicht. Aber "Herzilein" wird nun, sollte er aus Zeitmangel, zu wenig Phantasie und mangelnder "Kohle" beim ÖFB doch Teamchef werden, immer den Geruch haben, die "2. Wahl" gewesen zu sein.
Grund für Slomkas Absage: Schalke soll ihm keine Freigabe geben, denn dort steht der seit April beurlaubte ehemalige Mathe-Lehrer noch bis Juni 2009 unter Vertrag (Jahresgage über 1 Mio Euro).
Da müsste der ÖFB halt - wie damals bei Hicke, der bei Rapid nicht nur einen Vertrag hatte, sondern die Mannschaft auch noch in der Champions League trainierte - ein bisserl Geld in die Hand nehmen, um mit Schalke und Slomka eine finanzielle Lösung zu finden. Auf die Frage "Und der ÖFB war nicht bereit, eine Ablöse zu bezahlen?" antwortete Slomka im Interview: "Das stand nie zur Diskussion." Und das Gehalt, das der ÖFB bietet, ist wohl deutlich unter dem, was Herr Slomka für's Spazierengehen "auf Schalke" kriegt.
Ja, schön langsam wird's peinlich: Dass Hicke nach der Euro gehen würde, war doch voraussehbar! Gab's gar keinen "Plan B"?
Das österreichische Team hat sich bei der Euro nicht blamiert - blamiert sich nun der ÖFB bei der Teamchefsuche?

I could look at someone and admire things about them but that never disguised their flaws. Even my parents, and grandparents; i loved them, but I still saw things they could be better at. So many people get these obsessions while growing up; wanting to be their dad, looking up to batman, grandfather, soccer coach. I never had anyone like that, I wanted to be better myself, but I wasn't emulating anyone.

Which is why, as I'm preparing to start my last year of college, I find it so odd that I've developed such a strong admiration for Congressman Ron Paul (This isn't a bump for his presidential campaign since it's quite clear that he's ended it.) There has never been another person that I've developed such a deep respect for, the kind that if he said something that contradicted one of my beliefs, that I would carefully re-evaluate it. The type of political ideology he preaches is one self governance, returning to the constitution, reigning in government to the limits it once held; holding true to the idea that government's role is to protect the liberty of it's citizenry and that alone.

More than is ideology, however, is the type of man that he is. A faithful husband (sad how that has become a virtue through a lack in common practice,) a dedicated ten term congressman, and still small voice in the void of our countries atrophy; our cradle to grave mindset. Who can fault a man who practices what he preaches. To be ridiculed, looked down on, and openly laughed at; anyone in Ron Paul's place would have lashed out but people watching the debates couldn't help but feel admiration for the only man on stage who never threw dirt on his opponents, endured the majority of the onslaughts and when allowed to respond, acted in the manner of a true statesman; a true representative of the people. How sad that a man so humble, so unwavering in principle, would endure twenty years in congress , not fighting for himself but for the people of this country with a lone vote no against an onslaught of tyranny and that hardly anyone would notice and when notice was taken; call him crazy.

How much better our country would be if we were all a little more like Ron Paul; the old man in the corner, on his knees, hands folded, head bowed in prayer. Not telling people how to live, but proclaiming and defending their right to live how they want. The type of argument you'd more often hear from a social deginerate whose breaking societies norms not the type of argument you'd expect from a 72 year-old Republican, fundamentalist christian. No surprise that he was the first person to ever herd cats, except he didn't find the cats, the cats found him.

Many have dubbed Ron Paul Thomas Jefferson and I see the similarities but there is another Founding Father I see much more clearly in Ron Paul; George Washington. Because few people have the unwavering principles that Washington possessed working along with a stalwart humbleness that allows them to be given enormous power and not only not abuse it but to go one step further and to state; "This power is not mine, it is the people's"

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. (Lazarus Long)

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children? (Karl Kraus)

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future. (Jean De La Bruyere)

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Fuente: Fundación Hayek, Argentina (http://www.hayek.org)
Revista dirigida por Adrián O. Ravier

Descargar: Año 2 - Número 8

El presente número incluye una entrevista a Murray N. Rothbard, un pequeño tributo a Louis M. Spadaro, y tres artículos de Gabriel Zanotti, Ezequiel Vázquez Ger y David Sanz.

Carta de Presentación

Es un placer para la Fundación Friedrich A. von Hayek presentar el octavo número de la Revista Digital “La Escuela Austríaca en el Siglo XXI”.

En esta oportunidad presentamos una entrevista a Murray N. Rothbard, profesor de Economía en la Universidad de Nevada y, hasta que nos dejara, uno de los principales exponentes de la Escuela Austríaca. Rothbard nos cuenta aquí qué influencias recibió, su relación con otros exponentes de la Escuela, la situación por la que atravesaba la misma en la década del 50 y 60, y hasta cómo se fueron desarrollando sus principales trabajos, entre los que se destacan Man, Economy and State y su famosa y controvertida An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (en dos volúmenes). Rothbard responde sobre la importante conexión que siempre exisitó entre la economía y la religión, ataca al positivismo, critica el free banking, argumenta sobre las formas en que hoy se presenta el socialismo y profundiza en las diferencias existentes, a su juicio, entre Mises y Hayek.

A continuación se presenta un pequeño tributo a Louis Michael Spadaro, quien cuenta con el privilegio de haber alcanzado su doctorado en economía bajo la dirección de Ludwig von Mises, y quien falleció en el pasado mes de mayo.

El tercer artículo es una nueva contribución de Gabriel Zanotti. En esta oportunidad Gabriel sintetiza la crítica austríaca al positivismo metodológico de Milton Friedman, repasa los argumentos y contra-argumentos respecto de la “realidad” o “irrealidad” de los supuestos y cuestiona hasta dónde la Escuela Austríaca trabaja con supuestos “reales”, recordándonos a los propios austríacos el debate entre Kirzner y Lachman y el importante rol que juega la hipótesis auxiliar “muy fuerte” del alertness empresarial.

El siguiente trabajo es un aporte de Ezequiel Vázquez Ger, quien presenta a la globalización como un nuevo orden espontáneo y nos expone ciertas políticas que nos permitirían aprovechar el proceso. Ezequiel destaca los mitos del “intervencionismo global” y ataca a los organismos internacionales de crédito y la “ayuda” que pretenden ofrecer a los países en vías de desarrollo.

La última de las contribuciones pertenece a David Sanz, quien nos presenta un original aporte sobre las causas y consecuencias de los procesos hiperinflacionarios. David explica la paradoja de la escasez de dinero que surge cuando el gobierno emite nuevo circulante a un ritmo astronómico y los precios suben tan rápido que la cantidad de dinero existente es insuficiente para llevar a cabo las transacciones mercantiles y se producen múltiples quejas en torno a la “escasez” del mismo. El gobierno entonces responde con una mayor oferta de circulante, pero esto contribuye a profundizar cada vez más la mencionada escasez.

Desde la Fundación Friedrich A. von Hayek aprovechamos la ocasión para saludarlos y esperamos que disfruten de esta nueva edición de esta Revista Digital.

Adrián O. Ravier
Director y Coordinador