<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565</id><updated>2012-01-29T01:57:47.745+01:00</updated><category term='Poker'/><title type='text'>Alyeska</title><subtitle type='html'>- impressions from the great land -</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>138</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-8370269260204367322</id><published>2009-02-01T23:10:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-02-01T23:28:40.796+01:00</updated><title type='text'>"there was a gathering party, you know?"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SYYgD55pjTI/AAAAAAAAATw/VMyF3p4caIU/s1600-h/DSC_0641.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SYYgtC0SdHI/AAAAAAAAAUI/buHdTGm-wl0/s400/DSC_0657.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297957969870353522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SYYgEcib3bI/AAAAAAAAAUA/hRimtaEf4kc/s1600-h/DSC_0651.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SYYgEcib3bI/AAAAAAAAAUA/hRimtaEf4kc/s400/DSC_0651.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297957272400158130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SYYgEHyYOxI/AAAAAAAAAT4/zb8BWFOAhng/s1600-h/DSC_0646.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SYYgEHyYOxI/AAAAAAAAAT4/zb8BWFOAhng/s400/DSC_0646.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297957266829884178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;i had some people over on friday, it was fun. so was tabitha's puppy. i did not want to strangle the little rascal on the picture above, even though i am sure he did pee somewhere!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-8370269260204367322?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/8370269260204367322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=8370269260204367322' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8370269260204367322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8370269260204367322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2009/02/there-was-gathering-party-you-know.html' title='&quot;there was a gathering party, you know?&quot;'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SYYgD55pjTI/AAAAAAAAATw/VMyF3p4caIU/s72-c/DSC_0641.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-422016601689320624</id><published>2009-01-19T02:05:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T02:21:53.720+01:00</updated><title type='text'>nooks vs. mavericks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPTh_EECwI/AAAAAAAAASY/FDPdqVmWVGA/s1600-h/DSC_0599.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPTh_EECwI/AAAAAAAAASY/FDPdqVmWVGA/s400/DSC_0599.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292806567908084482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPThTRyEFI/AAAAAAAAASQ/2dXwysGB7YM/s1600-h/DSC_0585.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPThTRyEFI/AAAAAAAAASQ/2dXwysGB7YM/s400/DSC_0585.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292806556154466386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPTiPuDxcI/AAAAAAAAASg/DmoNL2J9aIw/s1600-h/DSC_0607.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPTiPuDxcI/AAAAAAAAASg/DmoNL2J9aIw/s400/DSC_0607.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292806572379194818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the alaska nanooks played the mavericks from nebraska-omaha this weekend. &lt;a href="http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/jan/18/hohl-gives-alaska-shootout-victory-against-nebrask/"&gt;good games!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;i should have taken better pictures, but i was too lazy to get out of my seat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-422016601689320624?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/422016601689320624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=422016601689320624' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/422016601689320624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/422016601689320624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2009/01/nooks-vs-mavericks.html' title='nooks vs. mavericks'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPTh_EECwI/AAAAAAAAASY/FDPdqVmWVGA/s72-c/DSC_0599.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-6298550742822902312</id><published>2009-01-19T01:56:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-19T02:21:29.137+01:00</updated><title type='text'>my cabin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPQpqIxfCI/AAAAAAAAASI/LbvxbrdUYB4/s1600-h/DSC_0574.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPQpqIxfCI/AAAAAAAAASI/LbvxbrdUYB4/s400/DSC_0574.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292803401194765346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPQpdBPS4I/AAAAAAAAASA/bno3HHgDsrI/s1600-h/DSC_0577.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPQpdBPS4I/AAAAAAAAASA/bno3HHgDsrI/s400/DSC_0577.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292803397673503618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPQpC9WsxI/AAAAAAAAAR4/AruZ9CGwn24/s1600-h/DSC_0579.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPQpC9WsxI/AAAAAAAAAR4/AruZ9CGwn24/s400/DSC_0579.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292803390677889810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPVWmZi6BI/AAAAAAAAASw/-pvu8BOPffs/s1600-h/DSC_0556.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPVWmZi6BI/AAAAAAAAASw/-pvu8BOPffs/s400/DSC_0556.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292808571331995666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPVWcvjlrI/AAAAAAAAASo/jx_j2EWlWw4/s1600-h/DSC_0552.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPVWcvjlrI/AAAAAAAAASo/jx_j2EWlWw4/s400/DSC_0552.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292808568739960498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; at 40 below, the tires won't stay inflated...it finally got warmer, though (for a few days at least). when it is that cold, tea and fruits are important. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-6298550742822902312?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/6298550742822902312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=6298550742822902312' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6298550742822902312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6298550742822902312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2009/01/cabin.html' title='my cabin'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SXPQpqIxfCI/AAAAAAAAASI/LbvxbrdUYB4/s72-c/DSC_0574.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-8059887957169819398</id><published>2008-12-31T07:55:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-31T08:01:43.596+01:00</updated><title type='text'>end-of-year review: politics</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SVsYHc-1IHI/AAAAAAAAARc/lIcSQT0NFYc/s1600-h/A01-110508_t400.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 245px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SVsYHc-1IHI/AAAAAAAAARc/lIcSQT0NFYc/s400/A01-110508_t400.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5285845103967281266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this was an exciting year for me, i enjoyed it in so many different ways. from a political perspective, obama's election was my "event" of the year. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-8059887957169819398?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/8059887957169819398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=8059887957169819398' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8059887957169819398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8059887957169819398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/12/end-of-year-review-politics.html' title='end-of-year review: politics'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SVsYHc-1IHI/AAAAAAAAARc/lIcSQT0NFYc/s72-c/A01-110508_t400.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-5088042515040813961</id><published>2008-12-21T23:45:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-22T03:24:09.749+01:00</updated><title type='text'>solstice</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SU75sLmk0GI/AAAAAAAAARU/oRv7Q_4HK2c/s1600-h/DSC_0483.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SU75sLmk0GI/AAAAAAAAARU/oRv7Q_4HK2c/s400/DSC_0483.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282433950376317026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;on the shortest day of the year, the sun did not come out for very long. this is the museum of the north around 1pm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-5088042515040813961?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/5088042515040813961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=5088042515040813961' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5088042515040813961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5088042515040813961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/12/solstice.html' title='solstice'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SU75sLmk0GI/AAAAAAAAARU/oRv7Q_4HK2c/s72-c/DSC_0483.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-4429713434727480921</id><published>2008-12-09T08:00:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T08:12:15.296+01:00</updated><title type='text'>it's lars again</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/ST4aFil9I4I/AAAAAAAAARE/5P-534TKpR4/s1600-h/larspicture.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/ST4aFil9I4I/AAAAAAAAARE/5P-534TKpR4/s320/larspicture.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277684495812469634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/ST4ZIxiiQEI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/-Mqk3dOfqcU/s1600-h/lars2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/ST4ZIxiiQEI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/-Mqk3dOfqcU/s320/lars2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5277683451852636226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lindsey says: "Rudy giving his tour. I'm sure he's telling a joke right about now. Ah, the good ol' days." (thanks for the pics, lindsey)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-4429713434727480921?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/4429713434727480921/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=4429713434727480921' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4429713434727480921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4429713434727480921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/12/lindsey-says-rudy-giving-his-tour.html' title='it&apos;s lars again'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/ST4aFil9I4I/AAAAAAAAARE/5P-534TKpR4/s72-c/larspicture.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-5762835752906139347</id><published>2008-09-13T21:09:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-13T21:24:59.122+02:00</updated><title type='text'>whittier</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwSbkkZZiI/AAAAAAAAAMc/2YIA33Xfg40/s1600-h/DSC_0177.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwSbkkZZiI/AAAAAAAAAMc/2YIA33Xfg40/s320/DSC_0177.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245587930861889058" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwSb6CTP8I/AAAAAAAAAMk/aQOB_EywfMY/s1600-h/DSC_0181.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwSb6CTP8I/AAAAAAAAAMk/aQOB_EywfMY/s320/DSC_0181.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245587936624459714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwScaz_A3I/AAAAAAAAAMs/KexLTr9FSyY/s1600-h/DSC_0168.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwScaz_A3I/AAAAAAAAAMs/KexLTr9FSyY/s320/DSC_0168.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245587945422783346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwSc36Y5UI/AAAAAAAAAM0/Ty_DcDFhNjA/s1600-h/DSC_0688.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwSc36Y5UI/AAAAAAAAAM0/Ty_DcDFhNjA/s320/DSC_0688.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245587953234273602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;whittier is a special place. i could not imagine living there -  in fact only 180 people can. it is a small town created by the army to have an access harbor for its soldiers coming to alaska in world war II. today, it is popular for cruise ships. if you don´t come to whittier by ship, you have to drive through the longest tunnel in north america. it costs 12 bucks, and for european standards the tunnel is very short, a little bit more than 2 miles. that´s as long as the felbertauerntunnel back home! &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-5762835752906139347?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/5762835752906139347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=5762835752906139347' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5762835752906139347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5762835752906139347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/09/whittier.html' title='whittier'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwSbkkZZiI/AAAAAAAAAMc/2YIA33Xfg40/s72-c/DSC_0177.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-1073169891119569580</id><published>2008-09-11T05:16:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-13T21:08:03.234+02:00</updated><title type='text'>valdez</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNKYzSztI/AAAAAAAAAL8/eInbjgcMRms/s1600-h/DSC_0458.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNKYzSztI/AAAAAAAAAL8/eInbjgcMRms/s320/DSC_0458.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245582138087231186" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNK25oS0I/AAAAAAAAAME/6wbyorga0-4/s1600-h/DSC_0486.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNK25oS0I/AAAAAAAAAME/6wbyorga0-4/s320/DSC_0486.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245582146166868802" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNLI0eacI/AAAAAAAAAMM/bTHdvkXR578/s1600-h/DSC_0096.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNLI0eacI/AAAAAAAAAMM/bTHdvkXR578/s320/DSC_0096.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245582150977087938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNLaqaSDI/AAAAAAAAAMU/ONO3C4gIkG0/s1600-h/DSC_0431.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNLaqaSDI/AAAAAAAAAMU/ONO3C4gIkG0/s320/DSC_0431.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245582155766712370" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the first stop was valdez, that's where the pipeline ends. valdez is well known for the exxon valdez oil spill in 1989, and it also called the "switzerland" of alaska. it´s quite a long drive down there, so i needed to treat my back a bit.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-1073169891119569580?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/1073169891119569580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=1073169891119569580' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1073169891119569580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1073169891119569580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/09/valdez.html' title='valdez'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMwNKYzSztI/AAAAAAAAAL8/eInbjgcMRms/s72-c/DSC_0458.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3444174994159388624</id><published>2008-09-04T19:48:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-04T19:52:16.713+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Going South</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMAf0yyjweI/AAAAAAAAAL0/jedQbkxxcc0/s1600-h/DSC_0070.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMAf0yyjweI/AAAAAAAAAL0/jedQbkxxcc0/s320/DSC_0070.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242224958106747362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Isabel and I rented a car to explore Alaska a bit. During my first year here I haven't really seen anything beyond Fairbanks, so it was time to see what the Last Frontier had to offer...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3444174994159388624?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3444174994159388624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3444174994159388624' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3444174994159388624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3444174994159388624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/09/going-south.html' title='Going South'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SMAf0yyjweI/AAAAAAAAAL0/jedQbkxxcc0/s72-c/DSC_0070.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-9041271548464055239</id><published>2008-08-19T07:28:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-19T07:41:47.220+02:00</updated><title type='text'>on the ridge</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpdABKTKSI/AAAAAAAAALs/zwnWQ_Q_ids/s1600-h/DSC_0014.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpdABKTKSI/AAAAAAAAALs/zwnWQ_Q_ids/s320/DSC_0014.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236099771664640290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcIOUkqfI/AAAAAAAAALE/MHLisO8y8j4/s1600-h/DSC_0015.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcIgauYDI/AAAAAAAAALM/ilti-8dvD3g/s1600-h/DSC_0037.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcIgauYDI/AAAAAAAAALM/ilti-8dvD3g/s320/DSC_0037.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236098817982357554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcI6fh2kI/AAAAAAAAALU/FuVaym60QJs/s1600-h/DSC_0050.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcI6fh2kI/AAAAAAAAALU/FuVaym60QJs/s320/DSC_0050.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236098824981830210" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcJW5MVxI/AAAAAAAAALc/I30OHJKxruo/s1600-h/DSC_0041.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcJW5MVxI/AAAAAAAAALc/I30OHJKxruo/s320/DSC_0041.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236098832605665042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcJ_erHwI/AAAAAAAAALk/W62v53H69zo/s1600-h/DSC_0042.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpcJ_erHwI/AAAAAAAAALk/W62v53H69zo/s320/DSC_0042.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236098843500289794" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hiking the kesugi ridge was a success. we left the parking lot in denali state park friday at noon, and finished our adventure on sunday at the same time. in 48 hours we hiked 43km (28 miles) on difficult terrain. also, it was quite rainy - but we had cake! the trip was guided by max and bryce from uaf outdoor adventures. they wanted to scout the ridge for future trips with more students. isabel and I were their guinea pigs. :-) and, it was the first time I saw a black bear in the wild.&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-9041271548464055239?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/9041271548464055239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=9041271548464055239' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/9041271548464055239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/9041271548464055239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-ridge.html' title='on the ridge'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SKpdABKTKSI/AAAAAAAAALs/zwnWQ_Q_ids/s72-c/DSC_0014.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-7329056549001964607</id><published>2008-08-13T01:42:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T01:45:43.984+02:00</updated><title type='text'>upcoming...</title><content type='html'>...travel impressions from kesugi ridge (denali), valdez, anchorage, seward, and more. i am really looking forward to do some traveling here in alaska...tomorrow is my last day of work at the large animal research station!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-7329056549001964607?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/7329056549001964607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=7329056549001964607' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7329056549001964607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7329056549001964607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/08/upcoming.html' title='upcoming...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-8718427673518319207</id><published>2008-07-15T04:52:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-15T04:57:30.421+02:00</updated><title type='text'>hanging out with the muskoxen</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_w7PjicingD4/SHwSDXVdgiI/AAAAAAAAAK8/gi9snfRqbGk/s1600-h/DSC_0459.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_w7PjicingD4/SHwSDXVdgiI/AAAAAAAAAK8/gi9snfRqbGk/s320/DSC_0459.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223069516855869986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is isabel feeding the little fuzzy rascals that we have here at lars. the animals are very calm usually and the visitors like them a lot. some funny tourists always ask whether our reindeer can fly. "depends," i answer them, "only if you kick them hard enough...". &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-8718427673518319207?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/8718427673518319207/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=8718427673518319207' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8718427673518319207'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8718427673518319207'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/07/hanging-out-with-muskoxen.html' title='hanging out with the muskoxen'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_w7PjicingD4/SHwSDXVdgiI/AAAAAAAAAK8/gi9snfRqbGk/s72-c/DSC_0459.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2261165536564300546</id><published>2008-07-15T04:30:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-07-15T04:35:14.110+02:00</updated><title type='text'>meet bailey</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_w7PjicingD4/SHwMySSYZLI/AAAAAAAAAK0/PfyoRqDAixs/s1600-h/DSC_0643.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_w7PjicingD4/SHwMySSYZLI/AAAAAAAAAK0/PfyoRqDAixs/s320/DSC_0643.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223063725884859570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;this is bailey, an 8 year old male caribou. his antlers at this time of the year are covered with a beautiful brown fuzz, the velvet. the velvet makes the antlers very sensitive. only when they lose the velvet in late summer the males start jousting with other bulls to compete over the cows. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2261165536564300546?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2261165536564300546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2261165536564300546' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2261165536564300546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2261165536564300546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/07/meet-bailey.html' title='meet bailey'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_w7PjicingD4/SHwMySSYZLI/AAAAAAAAAK0/PfyoRqDAixs/s72-c/DSC_0643.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-9081745848103380146</id><published>2008-06-18T20:10:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T20:23:01.133+02:00</updated><title type='text'>and even more dogs...</title><content type='html'>this is eleanor. she is a student at uaf and she also works at lars. she loves dog mushing - and right now, she has 60 dogs to feed. on the last picture you can also see the 800 mile long oil pipeline that goes all the way from prudhoe bay down to valdez.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQWwsf9eI/AAAAAAAAAKM/JOQUh1nIgAg/s1600-h/DSC_0154.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQWwsf9eI/AAAAAAAAAKM/JOQUh1nIgAg/s320/DSC_0154.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213286395616949730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQXY--0BI/AAAAAAAAAKU/tLjccafIgNg/s1600-h/DSC_0270.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQXY--0BI/AAAAAAAAAKU/tLjccafIgNg/s320/DSC_0270.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213286406431887378" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQYvERcBI/AAAAAAAAAKc/D39HuZuQTLA/s1600-h/DSC_0276.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQYvERcBI/AAAAAAAAAKc/D39HuZuQTLA/s320/DSC_0276.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213286429539528722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQc5e-YnI/AAAAAAAAAKk/sxprggaJc6Q/s1600-h/DSC_0283.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQc5e-YnI/AAAAAAAAAKk/sxprggaJc6Q/s320/DSC_0283.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213286501055357554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlRJsJeECI/AAAAAAAAAKs/c0snatbTqaA/s1600-h/DSC_0286.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlRJsJeECI/AAAAAAAAAKs/c0snatbTqaA/s320/DSC_0286.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213287270569611298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-9081745848103380146?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/9081745848103380146/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=9081745848103380146' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/9081745848103380146'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/9081745848103380146'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/06/and-even-more-dogs.html' title='and even more dogs...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlQWwsf9eI/AAAAAAAAAKM/JOQUh1nIgAg/s72-c/DSC_0154.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-553750347843253371</id><published>2008-06-18T20:02:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T20:25:19.108+02:00</updated><title type='text'>lars</title><content type='html'>here are some pictures of the large animal research station (lars), where i work. i don´t know how to put it, but for some reason it does not really feel like work. time goes by fast and there are a lot of great people to hang out with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOUZyeKlI/AAAAAAAAAJU/xON26d8rK5U/s1600-h/DSC_0253.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOUZyeKlI/AAAAAAAAAJU/xON26d8rK5U/s320/DSC_0253.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213284156084988498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOVOkTDFI/AAAAAAAAAJc/JbJopFsR8nU/s1600-h/DSC_0255.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOVOkTDFI/AAAAAAAAAJc/JbJopFsR8nU/s320/DSC_0255.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213284170252618834" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOVs_udKI/AAAAAAAAAJk/zNRGvGGBzg4/s1600-h/DSC_0263.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOVs_udKI/AAAAAAAAAJk/zNRGvGGBzg4/s320/DSC_0263.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213284178420724898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOWU6_GHI/AAAAAAAAAJs/Y0jsHV139yI/s1600-h/DSC_0264.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOWU6_GHI/AAAAAAAAAJs/Y0jsHV139yI/s320/DSC_0264.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213284189138262130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOW7NXmZI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/ZVNEI4H4CIo/s1600-h/DSC_0261.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOW7NXmZI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/ZVNEI4H4CIo/s320/DSC_0261.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213284199415912850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOqy7HeII/AAAAAAAAAJ8/3KwLWngy10Q/s1600-h/DSC_0265.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOqy7HeII/AAAAAAAAAJ8/3KwLWngy10Q/s320/DSC_0265.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213284540789258370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOrLDM5FI/AAAAAAAAAKE/Kq3iI9p_aLk/s1600-h/DSC_0269.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOrLDM5FI/AAAAAAAAAKE/Kq3iI9p_aLk/s320/DSC_0269.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213284547265619026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-553750347843253371?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/553750347843253371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=553750347843253371' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/553750347843253371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/553750347843253371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/06/lars.html' title='lars'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SFlOUZyeKlI/AAAAAAAAAJU/xON26d8rK5U/s72-c/DSC_0253.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-1915089051277508932</id><published>2008-05-29T21:13:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-29T21:15:00.777+02:00</updated><title type='text'>accomplishment of the day...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SD8ArAimhuI/AAAAAAAAAJM/hGuSFUnz8mo/s1600-h/DSC_0244.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SD8ArAimhuI/AAAAAAAAAJM/hGuSFUnz8mo/s320/DSC_0244.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5205880433143088866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...i set up my slackline! then it started to rain and i had to take it down.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-1915089051277508932?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/1915089051277508932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=1915089051277508932' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1915089051277508932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1915089051277508932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/accomplishment-of-day.html' title='accomplishment of the day...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SD8ArAimhuI/AAAAAAAAAJM/hGuSFUnz8mo/s72-c/DSC_0244.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2003756568971967524</id><published>2008-05-26T03:43:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-26T04:06:00.952+02:00</updated><title type='text'>fairbanks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXpAimhlI/AAAAAAAAAIE/xf6AHELL4a8/s1600-h/DSC_0153.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXpAimhlI/AAAAAAAAAIE/xf6AHELL4a8/s320/DSC_0153.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204498312667235922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;well my promise to provide "a picture a day" did not really last very long, did it? anyways, here is what i will be doing this summer: i am working as a tour guide at the large animal research station (lars).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXpgimhmI/AAAAAAAAAIM/ETHObJbFVCk/s1600-h/DSC_0165.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXpgimhmI/AAAAAAAAAIM/ETHObJbFVCk/s320/DSC_0165.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204498321257170530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;we have muskoxen, caribou and reindeer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXqAimhnI/AAAAAAAAAIU/zdZZ5DQxe7o/s1600-h/DSC_0176.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXqAimhnI/AAAAAAAAAIU/zdZZ5DQxe7o/s320/DSC_0176.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204498329847105138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;my cabin from the inside&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXqQimhoI/AAAAAAAAAIc/EzXKgeaJaSo/s1600-h/DSC_0193.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXqQimhoI/AAAAAAAAAIc/EzXKgeaJaSo/s320/DSC_0193.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204498334142072450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;jesse is probably talking about renewable energy in alaska. it is his favorite topic. i like that picture because here is how i saw it...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXqgimhpI/AAAAAAAAAIk/oeuFSmfbKXg/s1600-h/n567762622_874499_6583.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXqgimhpI/AAAAAAAAAIk/oeuFSmfbKXg/s320/n567762622_874499_6583.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204498338437039762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;...and this is a picture mathilda took.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoZZgimhqI/AAAAAAAAAIs/RgNXHLasr7M/s1600-h/DSC_0204.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoZZgimhqI/AAAAAAAAAIs/RgNXHLasr7M/s320/DSC_0204.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204500245402519202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;rune the viking taking a picture of me taking a picture of rune&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoalwimhtI/AAAAAAAAAJE/vjv9DxrCXc4/s1600-h/DSC_0210.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoalwimhtI/AAAAAAAAAJE/vjv9DxrCXc4/s320/DSC_0210.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204501555367544530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;this weekend we also went to the &lt;a href="http://www.chenahotsprings.com/"&gt;chena hot springs&lt;/a&gt;...the water is quite hot but after a while you don't really feel it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoZaQimhsI/AAAAAAAAAI8/5W6E9MQcuCQ/s1600-h/DSC_0215.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoZaQimhsI/AAAAAAAAAI8/5W6E9MQcuCQ/s320/DSC_0215.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204500258287421122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2003756568971967524?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2003756568971967524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2003756568971967524' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2003756568971967524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2003756568971967524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/fairbanks.html' title='fairbanks'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDoXpAimhlI/AAAAAAAAAIE/xf6AHELL4a8/s72-c/DSC_0153.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-1937304023152504658</id><published>2008-05-19T07:08:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-19T07:13:41.502+02:00</updated><title type='text'>cabin</title><content type='html'>alright, first off, my new camera and i are not exactly best friends yet, so excuse the poor quality of my pictures. but, i'd like to share with you my new cabin. i rented it for the summer - i think i already enjoy being there. of course, there is no running water!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMGVSjYpI/AAAAAAAAAHc/Z-cMZBtGlo0/s1600-h/DSC_0127.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMGVSjYpI/AAAAAAAAAHc/Z-cMZBtGlo0/s320/DSC_0127.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201952347523342994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMG1SjYqI/AAAAAAAAAHk/cYEp4zEtYio/s1600-h/DSC_0124.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMG1SjYqI/AAAAAAAAAHk/cYEp4zEtYio/s320/DSC_0124.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201952356113277602" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMHFSjYrI/AAAAAAAAAHs/8tWp_wOEOy0/s1600-h/DSC_0142.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMHFSjYrI/AAAAAAAAAHs/8tWp_wOEOy0/s320/DSC_0142.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201952360408244914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMR1SjYtI/AAAAAAAAAH8/Rnia86qe3ZA/s1600-h/DSC_0133.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMR1SjYtI/AAAAAAAAAH8/Rnia86qe3ZA/s320/DSC_0133.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201952545091838674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMHVSjYsI/AAAAAAAAAH0/HEPDoQovXqo/s1600-h/DSC_0137.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMHVSjYsI/AAAAAAAAAH0/HEPDoQovXqo/s320/DSC_0137.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201952364703212226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-1937304023152504658?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/1937304023152504658/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=1937304023152504658' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1937304023152504658'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1937304023152504658'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/cabin.html' title='cabin'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SDEMGVSjYpI/AAAAAAAAAHc/Z-cMZBtGlo0/s72-c/DSC_0127.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-8849068268753183059</id><published>2008-05-17T07:51:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-17T08:06:31.511+02:00</updated><title type='text'>canoe</title><content type='html'>today i grabbed the dog, a canoe and some beer and paddled around in a lake. i almost had the dog in the canoe, but she jumped out when it started to shake a little. anyways, she swam next to me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC50aVSjYmI/AAAAAAAAAHE/M2lptE0Khtw/s1600-h/DSC_0099.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC50aVSjYmI/AAAAAAAAAHE/M2lptE0Khtw/s320/DSC_0099.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201222615399883362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC50alSjYnI/AAAAAAAAAHM/L_t90gltAtM/s1600-h/DSC_0117.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC50alSjYnI/AAAAAAAAAHM/L_t90gltAtM/s320/DSC_0117.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201222619694850674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC50a1SjYoI/AAAAAAAAAHU/58Fa5CXcoNA/s1600-h/DSC_0120.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC50a1SjYoI/AAAAAAAAAHU/58Fa5CXcoNA/s320/DSC_0120.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201222623989817986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-8849068268753183059?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/8849068268753183059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=8849068268753183059' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8849068268753183059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8849068268753183059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/canoe.html' title='canoe'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC50aVSjYmI/AAAAAAAAAHE/M2lptE0Khtw/s72-c/DSC_0099.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-8390630222558309505</id><published>2008-05-16T05:53:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-17T06:49:04.351+02:00</updated><title type='text'>self portrait</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC5jhlSjYlI/AAAAAAAAAG8/5kBCWWYNu7k/s1600-h/DSC_0097.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC5jhlSjYlI/AAAAAAAAAG8/5kBCWWYNu7k/s320/DSC_0097.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5201204048256262738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC0IuVSjYkI/AAAAAAAAAG0/cMsrjQ3BSeM/s1600-h/DSC_0098.JPG"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-8390630222558309505?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/8390630222558309505/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=8390630222558309505' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8390630222558309505'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8390630222558309505'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/self-portrait.html' title='self portrait'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC5jhlSjYlI/AAAAAAAAAG8/5kBCWWYNu7k/s72-c/DSC_0097.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-5847467428385375342</id><published>2008-05-16T05:29:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-16T05:37:29.732+02:00</updated><title type='text'>You know you're in Alaska when...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;...you see this:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC0BQlSjYjI/AAAAAAAAAGs/sRCAUc_90lY/s1600-h/DSC_0074.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC0BQlSjYjI/AAAAAAAAAGs/sRCAUc_90lY/s320/DSC_0074.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200814529082253874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-5847467428385375342?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/5847467428385375342/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=5847467428385375342' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5847467428385375342'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5847467428385375342'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/you-know-youre-in-alaska-when.html' title='You know you&apos;re in Alaska when...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SC0BQlSjYjI/AAAAAAAAAGs/sRCAUc_90lY/s72-c/DSC_0074.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2682825349652182897</id><published>2008-05-14T05:43:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-14T05:45:21.735+02:00</updated><title type='text'>coffee</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCpgSFSjYhI/AAAAAAAAAGc/dIkm3Sx8bsQ/s1600-h/DSC_0057.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCpgSFSjYhI/AAAAAAAAAGc/dIkm3Sx8bsQ/s320/DSC_0057.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200074583526564370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2682825349652182897?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2682825349652182897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2682825349652182897' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2682825349652182897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2682825349652182897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/coffee.html' title='coffee'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCpgSFSjYhI/AAAAAAAAAGc/dIkm3Sx8bsQ/s72-c/DSC_0057.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-4690616334425256742</id><published>2008-05-14T05:41:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-14T05:43:11.819+02:00</updated><title type='text'>three dogs and a cabin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCpfylSjYgI/AAAAAAAAAGU/hUaJeaRW5d4/s1600-h/DSC_0041.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCpfylSjYgI/AAAAAAAAAGU/hUaJeaRW5d4/s320/DSC_0041.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200074042360685058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-4690616334425256742?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/4690616334425256742/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=4690616334425256742' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4690616334425256742'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4690616334425256742'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/three-dogs-and-cabin.html' title='three dogs and a cabin'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCpfylSjYgI/AAAAAAAAAGU/hUaJeaRW5d4/s72-c/DSC_0041.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-6308608472264205956</id><published>2008-05-13T04:48:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-13T04:51:34.436+02:00</updated><title type='text'>two dogs and a cabin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCkCLVSjYfI/AAAAAAAAAGM/s4VsfVNx5KI/s1600-h/DSC_0038.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCfz9VSjYeI/AAAAAAAAAGE/MJ9xzce0Jek/s320/DSC_0086.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199392529835057634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2126335483531217755?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2126335483531217755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2126335483531217755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2126335483531217755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2126335483531217755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/ministry-of-love.html' title='ministry of love'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCfz9VSjYeI/AAAAAAAAAGE/MJ9xzce0Jek/s72-c/DSC_0086.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-516977240145724967</id><published>2008-05-11T10:00:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-11T10:02:50.526+02:00</updated><title type='text'>a picture a day....</title><content type='html'>what, you say my blog is dead? shame on you! it is alive and well - and i will prove it! with a picture a day...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCan5FSjYdI/AAAAAAAAAF0/p09yVaTnCbY/s1600-h/DSC_0033.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCan5FSjYdI/AAAAAAAAAF0/p09yVaTnCbY/s320/DSC_0033.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199027418960191954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-516977240145724967?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/516977240145724967/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=516977240145724967' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/516977240145724967'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/516977240145724967'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/05/picture-day.html' title='a picture a day....'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/SCan5FSjYdI/AAAAAAAAAF0/p09yVaTnCbY/s72-c/DSC_0033.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-1491604863660543541</id><published>2008-02-05T09:40:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-05T09:44:00.083+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Wahlkampf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6ghn8vcitI/AAAAAAAAAFU/lu8KLioPGkM/s1600-h/DSC00028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6ghosvciwI/AAAAAAAAAFs/OAH6cB1THwU/s320/DSC00026.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163413955868920578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-1491604863660543541?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/1491604863660543541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=1491604863660543541' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1491604863660543541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1491604863660543541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/02/wahlkampf.html' title='Wahlkampf'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6ghn8vcitI/AAAAAAAAAFU/lu8KLioPGkM/s72-c/DSC00028.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3523166670126126890</id><published>2008-02-03T04:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-03T04:10:37.319+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Four Seasons In Alaska</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Tourist season: July, August&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Almost winter: September, October&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Winter: November-April&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Still winter: May, June&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3523166670126126890?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3523166670126126890/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3523166670126126890' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3523166670126126890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3523166670126126890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/02/four-seasons-in-alaska.html' title='Four Seasons In Alaska'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-5976905480192800040</id><published>2008-02-01T10:41:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-02-01T10:44:06.046+01:00</updated><title type='text'>UAF 10 am</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6Lpr8vcisI/AAAAAAAAAFM/_b-dcBbasYo/s1600-h/DSC00014.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6Lpr8vcisI/AAAAAAAAAFM/_b-dcBbasYo/s320/DSC00014.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161945064168786626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-5976905480192800040?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/5976905480192800040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=5976905480192800040' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5976905480192800040'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5976905480192800040'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/02/uaf-10-am.html' title='UAF 10 am'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6Lpr8vcisI/AAAAAAAAAFM/_b-dcBbasYo/s72-c/DSC00014.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-6507663947494864198</id><published>2008-01-30T07:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-30T07:55:36.154+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Darniederligend</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6AdisvcirI/AAAAAAAAAFE/kptI5w60Gfw/s1600-h/DSC00012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6AdisvcirI/AAAAAAAAAFE/kptI5w60Gfw/s320/DSC00012.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161157654929509042" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ron Paul, der Wolf im Libertärenpelz, wird ja wohl keine große Rolle mehr im Kampf um die US-Präsidentschaft führen. Auf der Uni hier sind die Ron Paul - Aktivisten allerdings sehr fleissig. Die Utensilien habe ich  auf meinem Weg von der Cafeteria zum Hörsaal in die Hand gedrückt bekommen. Auch eine kleine Unterstützungserklärung für Barack Obama liegt dabei. Alaska hält seine Caucuses am kommenden Dienstag, dem "Supertuesday".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-6507663947494864198?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/6507663947494864198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=6507663947494864198' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6507663947494864198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6507663947494864198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/01/darniederligend.html' title='Darniederligend'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R6AdisvcirI/AAAAAAAAAFE/kptI5w60Gfw/s72-c/DSC00012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-4640580635833238841</id><published>2008-01-29T21:08:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T21:10:44.541+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Pokergaudi in Fairbanks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IGcvcimI/AAAAAAAAAEc/R-OG1rSAUXo/s1600-h/DSC_0130.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IGcvcimI/AAAAAAAAAEc/R-OG1rSAUXo/s320/DSC_0130.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160993342365665890" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IG8vcinI/AAAAAAAAAEk/N8F6asS2pDo/s1600-h/DSC_0144.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IG8vcinI/AAAAAAAAAEk/N8F6asS2pDo/s320/DSC_0144.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160993350955600498" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IHcvcioI/AAAAAAAAAEs/UNP5psvx2m0/s1600-h/DSC_0138.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IHcvcioI/AAAAAAAAAEs/UNP5psvx2m0/s320/DSC_0138.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160993359545535106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IH8vcipI/AAAAAAAAAE0/RcmCPGF2J7U/s1600-h/DSC_0135.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IH8vcipI/AAAAAAAAAE0/RcmCPGF2J7U/s320/DSC_0135.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160993368135469714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IIMvciqI/AAAAAAAAAE8/DsJGUQfkAfk/s1600-h/DSC_0146.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IIMvciqI/AAAAAAAAAE8/DsJGUQfkAfk/s320/DSC_0146.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160993372430437026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-4640580635833238841?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/4640580635833238841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=4640580635833238841' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4640580635833238841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4640580635833238841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/01/pokergaudi-in-fairbanks.html' title='Pokergaudi in Fairbanks'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R5-IGcvcimI/AAAAAAAAAEc/R-OG1rSAUXo/s72-c/DSC_0130.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3496163020803006494</id><published>2008-01-29T20:26:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-29T20:27:55.444+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Eisskulpturen (1)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R59-A8vcijI/AAAAAAAAAEE/O4XT6ndk1A4/s1600-h/DSC00001.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R59-A8vcijI/AAAAAAAAAEE/O4XT6ndk1A4/s320/DSC00001.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160982252760107570" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R59-BMvcikI/AAAAAAAAAEM/VCIMEL9g2Mw/s1600-h/DSC00004.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R59-BMvcikI/AAAAAAAAAEM/VCIMEL9g2Mw/s320/DSC00004.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160982257055074882" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R59-BsvcilI/AAAAAAAAAEU/M51UvOzrhyY/s1600-h/DSC00006.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R59-BsvcilI/AAAAAAAAAEU/M51UvOzrhyY/s320/DSC00006.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5160982265645009490" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3496163020803006494?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3496163020803006494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3496163020803006494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3496163020803006494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3496163020803006494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/01/eisskulpturen-1.html' title='Eisskulpturen (1)'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R59-A8vcijI/AAAAAAAAAEE/O4XT6ndk1A4/s72-c/DSC00001.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3466307609919686240</id><published>2008-01-07T15:58:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-07T16:01:18.049+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poker'/><title type='text'>Poker in Alaska...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R4I-sNpS3UI/AAAAAAAAAD8/TwI4lhu_5Ww/s1600-h/DSC00981.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R4I-sNpS3UI/AAAAAAAAAD8/TwI4lhu_5Ww/s320/DSC00981.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5152749852963298626" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...doesn´t look different than poker in Austria...I win, of course.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3466307609919686240?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3466307609919686240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3466307609919686240' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3466307609919686240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3466307609919686240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/01/poker-in-alaska.html' title='Poker in Alaska...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/R4I-sNpS3UI/AAAAAAAAAD8/TwI4lhu_5Ww/s72-c/DSC00981.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-5064561729222508759</id><published>2008-01-06T22:02:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2008-01-06T22:05:09.527+01:00</updated><title type='text'>New Year, New Entry...</title><content type='html'>...derzeit bin ich im schönen Pinzgau und genieße hauptsächlich das gute Bier. Das beansprucht natürlich viel Zeit, die dann fehlt um hier Einträge zu schreiben.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-5064561729222508759?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/5064561729222508759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=5064561729222508759' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5064561729222508759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5064561729222508759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-year-new-entry.html' title='New Year, New Entry...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-8968182622494460073</id><published>2007-10-26T07:36:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T07:44:06.366+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Time flies when you´re having work to do...</title><content type='html'>Ah, es gibt kaum updates, und der Flo hat sich schon (zurecht) darüber beschwert. Er hat mir sogar mit Klage gedroht, da fällt mir ein, klagen wir den Mayrl jetzt oder wie?&lt;br /&gt;Wie auch immer, ich glaube, das nächste Mal werde ich erst zur Ruhe kommen, wenn ich im Flugzeug nach Hause sitze. Ich freue mich schon auf ein Bier zu Weihnachten mit euch allen, 25. Felbermühle ist wohl fix :-) Falls es sich ausgeht schreib ich hier hin und wieder was rein, aber e-mails gibt es auf alle Fälle noch! &lt;br /&gt;Jetzt ist außerdem Semesterhalbzeit, 1/8 meiner Studiendauer ist somit vorbei. Man kann auch sagen, das Glas ist ein Achtel voll. Prost.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-8968182622494460073?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/8968182622494460073/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=8968182622494460073' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8968182622494460073'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/8968182622494460073'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/10/time-flies-when-youre-having-work-to-do.html' title='Time flies when you´re having work to do...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-7915236600919813623</id><published>2007-10-07T11:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-07T11:18:05.490+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Dude, can´t make it to the game tonight, gotta go to war</title><content type='html'>Man findet immer schnell raus, was am Campus gerade so läuft. Überall werden Zettel angeschlagen: am Donnerstag Hallenfußball, am Mittwoch eine Band im Pub, immer ist irgendwo eine Filmvorführung, die Campusdemokraten treffen sich zur Beratschlagung. Eine dieser Ankündigungen hat Ruaridh aus Schottland besonders gefallen: Rugby, Samstag um 5. Sachen dieser Art werden oft von verschiedenen Clubs organisiert, auf den Rugby-Flyern steht der Name "ROTC". Dahinter verbirgt sich die US-Armee, genauer gesagt die von der US-Armee gesponserten Studenten. Ruaridh war etwas betreten, als er heute zum Abendessen kam - kein Rugby, er war der Einzige vor Ort. Rugby ist dieses Semester abgesagt, hieß es, die Zettel wären schon vor Wochen entfernt worden, da müssten wohl noch ein paar vergessen worden sein. Der Grund: Die ROTC-Gruppe, die das hätte veranstalten sollen, ist auf dem Weg in den Irak.&lt;br /&gt;Es ist wahrscheinlich, dass es sich hier um eine Campus-Legende handelt - das Rugbyspiel, das nicht statt findet, weil die Beteiligten in den Krieg müssen. Es ist einfach zu krass um wahr zu sein. Trotzdem. Die Tatsache, dass hier darüber diskutiert wird - und dass wir Europäer uns alle nicht sicher sind, dass es nicht DOCH wahr sein könnte - zeigt, dass die Uhren in einem Land das im Krieg steht anders ticken als zu Hause.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-7915236600919813623?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/7915236600919813623/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=7915236600919813623' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7915236600919813623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7915236600919813623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/10/dude-cant-make-it-to-game-tonight-gotta.html' title='Dude, can´t make it to the game tonight, gotta go to war'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2322251235774423607</id><published>2007-10-03T21:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-10-03T21:08:30.434+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tests</title><content type='html'>Ich habe damals die PÄDAK ziemlich schnell verlassen, weil ich nicht "Hänschen klein" aus dem Gedächtnis rhythmisch richtig aufschreiben wollte während Flo und Hannes über Quantenphysik philosophieren. Nun bin ich T.A. auf der Uni und gerde dabei, die Political Economy exams meiner Studenten zu korrigieren - das ist zwar anstrengend, noch macht es aber Spass. Da sind Antworten dabei...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2322251235774423607?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2322251235774423607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2322251235774423607' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2322251235774423607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2322251235774423607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/10/tests.html' title='Tests'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-1911034171287197625</id><published>2007-09-28T07:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T07:27:48.041+02:00</updated><title type='text'>At the river</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQzJnmh0I/AAAAAAAAADk/_HnAGKqdEZw/s1600-h/DSC00473.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQzJnmh0I/AAAAAAAAADk/_HnAGKqdEZw/s320/DSC00473.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115122485215790914" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQzZnmh1I/AAAAAAAAADs/X0YD2x1C9Js/s1600-h/DSC00483.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQzZnmh1I/AAAAAAAAADs/X0YD2x1C9Js/s320/DSC00483.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115122489510758226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQzpnmh2I/AAAAAAAAAD0/RvwcrV0L41I/s1600-h/DSC00499.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQzpnmh2I/AAAAAAAAAD0/RvwcrV0L41I/s320/DSC00499.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115122493805725538" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQmZnmhvI/AAAAAAAAAC8/5VMVV-hb2NU/s1600-h/DSC00058.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQmZnmhvI/AAAAAAAAAC8/5VMVV-hb2NU/s320/DSC00058.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115122266172458738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQmpnmhwI/AAAAAAAAADE/BJ25BDpaYtw/s1600-h/DSC00063.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQmpnmhwI/AAAAAAAAADE/BJ25BDpaYtw/s320/DSC00063.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115122270467426050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQm5nmhxI/AAAAAAAAADM/9HGJouo5Cs0/s1600-h/DSC00457.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQm5nmhxI/AAAAAAAAADM/9HGJouo5Cs0/s320/DSC00457.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115122274762393362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQnJnmhyI/AAAAAAAAADU/7b5cAR-e8-s/s1600-h/DSC00466.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQnJnmhyI/AAAAAAAAADU/7b5cAR-e8-s/s320/DSC00466.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115122279057360674" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQnJnmhzI/AAAAAAAAADc/2ZX1kPs83Z4/s1600-h/DSC00469.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQnJnmhzI/AAAAAAAAADc/2ZX1kPs83Z4/s320/DSC00469.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115122279057360690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nachdem ich Tränen gelacht habe über Hubert Gorbachs Peinlichkeit (ich bin gespannt, welche "old-time friends" er sonst noch kontaktiert hat, würde mich wundern wenn nicht der Arnie dabei wäre), nun wieder zurück in die Wirklichkeit. Hier ein paar Fotos vom Kanuausflug letztes Wochenende. Wir waren am Upper Chena River unterwegs. Ein ruhiger Fluss, der einer Amerikanerin allerdings fast zum Verhängnis geworden wäre. Es gibt ein paar gefinkelte Stellen, und an einer dieser Stellen kippten zwei Kanus um. Das Wasser hat ungefähr 4 Grad Celsius, es ist also unangenehm, dort baden zu gehen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-1911034171287197625?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/1911034171287197625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=1911034171287197625' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1911034171287197625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1911034171287197625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/at-river.html' title='At the river'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyQzJnmh0I/AAAAAAAAADk/_HnAGKqdEZw/s72-c/DSC00473.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-697663712113428047</id><published>2007-09-28T07:13:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T07:14:18.463+02:00</updated><title type='text'>I think I spider! Ich hoffe ich kann das irgendwann mal besser...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyNlpnmhuI/AAAAAAAAAC0/I6typUd9Eyk/s1600-h/gor.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyNlpnmhuI/AAAAAAAAAC0/I6typUd9Eyk/s400/gor.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115118954752673506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-697663712113428047?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/697663712113428047/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=697663712113428047' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/697663712113428047'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/697663712113428047'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-think-i-spider-ich-hoffe-ich-kann-das.html' title='I think I spider! Ich hoffe ich kann das irgendwann mal besser...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvyNlpnmhuI/AAAAAAAAAC0/I6typUd9Eyk/s72-c/gor.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115509819354082189</id><published>2007-09-23T06:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-23T06:53:43.506+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Mondays in the sun - Los lunes al sol</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvXrrJnmhtI/AAAAAAAAACs/aX9R-QP0KhU/s1600-h/V_los+lunes+al+sol.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvXrrJnmhtI/AAAAAAAAACs/aX9R-QP0KhU/s320/V_los+lunes+al+sol.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113252078497990354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meine Tätigkeit als teaching assistant für das Fach Political Economy ist sehr schön. Auch wenn ich bis jetzt kaum zu tun habe (das wird sich mit den ersten Prüfungen die ich korrigieren muss schnell ändern), ergeben sich für mich viele neue Perspektiven und Eindrücke, die dieses faszinierende Gebiet noch beeindruckender machen. Hauptaugenmerk  des Kurses liegt auf dem Gefälle zwischen Arm und Reich in den USA. Eines der  Textbücher hat ein bedrückendes Cover: Der Blick auf das Capitol in Washington D.C., halb verstellt von Barracken und Obdachlosen. &lt;br /&gt;In den USA, wo vieles etwas größer und lauter ist und Kritik selten subtil und oft unverschleiert vorgetragen wird, werden auch im Unterricht die verschiedenen Ansichten klar und deutlich auf den Punkt gebracht. Ich bin positiv überrascht von der Einsicht - oder Weitsicht - die viele Studenten an den Tag legen. Für viele ist der Bundesstaat Michigan ein warnendes Beispiel, wie es einer Gesellschaft ergehen kann, die von einigen wenigen Großkonzernen abhängig ist. Seit die Autoindustrie in und um Detroit im Sterben liegt, geht es mit Michigan und seinen Einwohnern bergab. Was Arbeitslosigkeit für den Einzelnen bedeutet, wird in dem ausgezeichneten Film "Los lunes al sol" (2002) verdeutlicht. 6 Männer mittleren Alters finden nach dem Schließen einer Werft in Nordspanien keine Arbeit mehr und kommen der Verzweiflung jeden Tag einen Schritt näher. Das wirklich faszinierende an "Los lunes al sol" ist allerdings der trotz allem zu verspürende positive Unterton der Lust aufs Leben macht. &lt;br /&gt;Also anschauen! Der Fängsy, Flo und ich haben ihn vor ein paar Jahren im DasKino gesehen, ich gab in mir diese Woche also zum zweiten Mal, hat er mich sogar noch stärker beeindruckt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115509819354082189?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115509819354082189/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115509819354082189' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115509819354082189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115509819354082189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/mondays-in-sun-los-lunes-al-sol.html' title='Mondays in the sun - Los lunes al sol'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RvXrrJnmhtI/AAAAAAAAACs/aX9R-QP0KhU/s72-c/V_los+lunes+al+sol.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-5812174862432905956</id><published>2007-09-18T06:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-18T07:03:01.280+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Fall Colors Canoe Trip</title><content type='html'>Am Wochenende steht zum ersten Mal ein Outdoor-Trip am Program, ich werde am Upper Chena River paddeln! Spätestens dann gibt es auch wieder Fotos. Bis dahin bin ich eingedeckt mit Arbeit, ich lerne gerade über "Alaskans' Per Capita Harvest of Wild Foods".&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-5812174862432905956?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/5812174862432905956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=5812174862432905956' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5812174862432905956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5812174862432905956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/fall-colors-canoe-trip.html' title='Fall Colors Canoe Trip'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-1424742766717437016</id><published>2007-09-15T11:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-15T11:42:45.953+02:00</updated><title type='text'>At the Pub</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/Ruun-nHCK5I/AAAAAAAAACk/790NzJVXIYA/s1600-h/DSC00040.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/Ruun-nHCK5I/AAAAAAAAACk/790NzJVXIYA/s320/DSC00040.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5110362896274172818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es ist wirklich verrückt, aber ich bin nicht der einzige Österreicher in Fairbanks - ja, nicht einmal der einzige Salzburger. Da ist der Reini aus Bad Gastein, er besucht die Fachhochschule in Kufstein, und wir haben schon darüber gescherzt, einen Fairbankser Stammtisch zu eröffnen. Und heute im Pub am Campus habe ich auch den Andi aus Tirol kennen gelernt, er wird, wie es ausschaut, auch für 2 Jahre hier sein und sein Geld mit Skaten fürs Langlauf-Team verdienen. Überhaupt ist Fairbanks viel internationaler als ich es mir je vorgestellt habe. Jemanden zu finden, der hier aufgewachsen ist, ist nicht einfach!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-1424742766717437016?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/1424742766717437016/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=1424742766717437016' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1424742766717437016'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1424742766717437016'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/at-pub.html' title='At the Pub'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/Ruun-nHCK5I/AAAAAAAAACk/790NzJVXIYA/s72-c/DSC00040.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3124470314692886361</id><published>2007-09-14T07:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T07:30:34.130+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Size of Alaska</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuobpXHCK4I/AAAAAAAAACc/019nb2-3nqs/s1600-h/AK-USA.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuobpXHCK4I/AAAAAAAAACc/019nb2-3nqs/s320/AK-USA.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109927124597353346" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alaska ist riesig. Auf die Karte der 48 Staaten gelegt, reicht es von der Kanadischen Grenze im Norden bis nach Florida im Süd-Osten bzw. nach Los Angeles im Westen. Würde man Alaska in 2 Hälften teilen, wäre Texas der drittgrößte Staat.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3124470314692886361?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3124470314692886361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3124470314692886361' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3124470314692886361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3124470314692886361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/size-of-alaska.html' title='Size of Alaska'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuobpXHCK4I/AAAAAAAAACc/019nb2-3nqs/s72-c/AK-USA.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-4610694320178354248</id><published>2007-09-13T06:33:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T06:39:45.376+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Moving ahead</title><content type='html'>Ich bin bereits mitten drin in meinen Kursen. 3 sind es, das klingt wenig, aber der Arbeitsaufwand ist sehr hoch. History of Alaska, Perspectives on the North und Comparative Environmental Policies. Außerdem muss ich mich bereits um ein Thema für die Diplomarbeit bemühen. Ich bin im Global Environmental Policy-Zweig, also wird es wohl irgendwas diesbezügliches werden, es gibt unzählige Möglichkeiten. Auf jeden Fall wird da ein Kommitee aufgestellt, ich weiss nicht genau wozu, und das muss bald geschehen. Na dann, auf zur Themenfindung!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-4610694320178354248?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/4610694320178354248/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=4610694320178354248' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4610694320178354248'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4610694320178354248'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/moving-ahead.html' title='Moving ahead'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2440767267410420287</id><published>2007-09-10T23:56:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T00:09:40.512+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Office hours</title><content type='html'>Meine Bürozeiten sind jeweils Montags von 13.00 bis 15.00 Uhr, wer möchte kann gerne auf einen Kaffee vorbeischauen. Die Bezeichnung "Büro" ist ein Euphemismus erster Klasse - meine Mum stellt daheim den Staubsauger in diese Art von "Büro", aber es ist mein Büro und ich mag es. &lt;br /&gt;Hier kommen Studenten vorbei (bislang noch niemand), die Probleme haben, den Unterrichtsstoff zu verstehen. Ich werde dann versuchen, ihnen zu helfen. Morgen sollten sie zum Beispiel in der Lage sein, die 4 Dimensionen repräsentativer Demokratie zu benennen. Das ist einfach, es handelt sich dabei um die 4 Dings, die die, na egal, ich hab meinen Abschluss ja schon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2440767267410420287?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2440767267410420287/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2440767267410420287' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2440767267410420287'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2440767267410420287'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/office-hours.html' title='Office hours'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-4663816338866088841</id><published>2007-09-09T03:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T03:51:17.679+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Golden Hearts Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuNQ76H1MdI/AAAAAAAAACU/eM3bdOZmnU4/s1600-h/DSC00037.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuNQ76H1MdI/AAAAAAAAACU/eM3bdOZmnU4/s320/DSC00037.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5108015392512881106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Noch sind die Inuitdenkmäler aus Eisen, bald aber aus Eis! In Fairbanks finden jährlich Kunsteisschnitzwettbewerbe statt. Oh, einen Webtip gibt´s auch: &lt;a href="http://www.yohap.com"&gt;www.yohap.com &lt;/a&gt;, hier findet ihr Hänsens Eindrücke von seinem Westcoasttrip!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-4663816338866088841?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/4663816338866088841/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=4663816338866088841' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4663816338866088841'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4663816338866088841'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/golden-hearts-park.html' title='Golden Hearts Park'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuNQ76H1MdI/AAAAAAAAACU/eM3bdOZmnU4/s72-c/DSC00037.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2295390214541449156</id><published>2007-09-07T21:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-07T21:29:45.360+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bürokratie</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuGk4aH1McI/AAAAAAAAACM/nAHZJjsrkD4/s1600-h/DSC00020.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuGk4aH1McI/AAAAAAAAACM/nAHZJjsrkD4/s320/DSC00020.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107544741406650818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als Ausländer in den USA Arbeitsverträge auszuarbeiten ist kompliziert. Ich weiss nicht, wie viele Steuerformulare, Aufenthaltsbestätigungen und dergleichen ich in den letzten Tagen unterschrieben habe - es war ein ganzer Haufen. Aber nun bin ich durch, und es kann studien- und arbeitstechnisch losgehen. Meine erste Unterrichtseinheit als Teaching Assistant hatte ich bereits, ist gut gelaufen. Ich versuche, den Undergrad-Studenten beizubringen, wie wichtig es ist, sich mit Political Economy zu befassen. Außerdem muss ich Tests und Papers korrigieren - das wird bestimmt hart am Anfang, vor allem, wenn man kein Native Speaker ist.  &lt;br /&gt;Egal, es ist Freitag Mittag und das Wochenende steht vor der Tür! Zeit, sich auch Downtown Fairbanks mal näher anzuschauen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2295390214541449156?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2295390214541449156/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2295390214541449156' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2295390214541449156'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2295390214541449156'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/brokratie.html' title='Bürokratie'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RuGk4aH1McI/AAAAAAAAACM/nAHZJjsrkD4/s72-c/DSC00020.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2505259069641759619</id><published>2007-09-06T05:48:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T05:56:48.238+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Internationals</title><content type='html'>Schottland&lt;br /&gt;England&lt;br /&gt;Schweden&lt;br /&gt;Dänemark&lt;br /&gt;Frankreich&lt;br /&gt;Deutschland&lt;br /&gt;Schweiz&lt;br /&gt;Österreich&lt;br /&gt;Kroatien&lt;br /&gt;Indien&lt;br /&gt;Pakistan&lt;br /&gt;Kamerun&lt;br /&gt;Kanada&lt;br /&gt;Mexiko&lt;br /&gt;China&lt;br /&gt;Japan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...und es gibt bestimmt noch mehr internationale Studenten hier in Fairbanks!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2505259069641759619?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2505259069641759619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2505259069641759619' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2505259069641759619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2505259069641759619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/internationals.html' title='Internationals'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3857611981766048899</id><published>2007-09-05T05:08:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T05:19:51.923+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Orientation</title><content type='html'>Heute standen insgesamt 3 "Orientation-Sessions" am Programm, die insgesamt 9 Stunden dauerten. Jetzt bin ich schon um einiges schlauer, wie das Leben hier am Campus so abläuft, übermorgen beginnen dann die Kurse. Ich weiß jetzt auch, dass ich als Teaching Assistant für Political Economy arbeiten werde, außerdem habe ich mit meinem Advisor sozusagen eine "road map" entworfen: Ich weiß jetzt genau, wann ich welche Kurse besuchen muss bzw. welche Termine ich für meine Diplomarbeit beachten muss, um in 4 Semestern fertig zu sein. Fertig bin ich auch jetzt, allerdings im angenehmen Sinn. Heute war ein ziemlich intensiver Tag, mehr darüber in den nächsten Einträgen. Ich hab mir gerade ein &lt;a href="http://www.deschutesbrewery.com"&gt;Deschutes&lt;/a&gt; aufgemacht, werde &lt;a href="http://www.quantic.org"&gt;Quantic&lt;/a&gt; hören und dann etwas Schlaf nachholen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, und ich merke gerade, dass man in meinem Blog eingefügte Links kaum erkennt. Naja, viel Spaß beim Suchen!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3857611981766048899?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3857611981766048899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3857611981766048899' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3857611981766048899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3857611981766048899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/orientation.html' title='Orientation'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-1349978242071127418</id><published>2007-09-04T00:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-04T00:57:25.523+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sonne</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RtyPK6H1MbI/AAAAAAAAACE/LzRLMTaWUUE/s1600-h/DSC00010.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RtyPK6H1MbI/AAAAAAAAACE/LzRLMTaWUUE/s320/DSC00010.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106113495094866354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auf dem Foto grinse ich extra blöd, aber das liegt daran, dass die Sonne sehr stark blendet. Ohne Sonnenbrille ist man um die Mittagszeit fast blind. Schauen wir mal wie lange das ein Problem ist. In der offiziell 7. kältesten Stadt der Welt müssen im Winter nämlich manchmal Studenten wegen Frostbeulen behandelt werden, wurde mir gesagt. Na dann komme ich mit meinen Crocs vielleicht doch nicht über die kalte Jahreszeit...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-1349978242071127418?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/1349978242071127418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=1349978242071127418' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1349978242071127418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1349978242071127418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/sonne.html' title='Sonne'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RtyPK6H1MbI/AAAAAAAAACE/LzRLMTaWUUE/s72-c/DSC00010.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2021607695726593753</id><published>2007-09-03T01:50:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-03T02:11:02.430+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tag 1: Ankunft in Fairbanks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RttMkKH1MaI/AAAAAAAAAB8/y00kuDEdemk/s1600-h/DSC00002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RttMkKH1MaI/AAAAAAAAAB8/y00kuDEdemk/s320/DSC00002.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105758786630791586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eigentlich hätte ich ja gestern schon in Fairbanks ankommen sollen - da ich in Anchorage aber mein Gepäck auschecken musste, war nicht genug Zeit, es erneut einzuchecken (ja, klingt blöd, war es auch). Also habe ich meinen Anschlussflug versäumt, musste mir ein Hotel in Anchorage suchen (Wucherpreise, unglaublich) und habe auch ein wenig Schlaf gefunden. Der Jetlag macht sich deutlich bemerkbar, 10 Stunden bedeuten ja quasi eine Komplettumstellung für den Körper. Tagsüber kann man nix essen und in der Nacht knurrt der Magen. &lt;br /&gt;Auf jeden Fall kam ich heute am späten Vormittag in Fairbanks an, mit mir ein Austauschstudent aus Schottland, und wir wurden direkt vom Flughafen abgeholt und zum Campus gebracht. Dieser ist riesig aber schön, viele Bäume und Grünzeug. Alaska besteht jedoch fast nur aus Bäumen und Grünzeug. Die Sonne scheint und es ist warm (ja, tatsächlich) - trotzdem herrscht Winterstimmung. Der Luftdruck sowie der Duft erinnern mich ans Snowboarden oder Langlaufen. Nicht ans Snowboarden oder Langlaufen an sich, sondern daran, wie es sich anfühlt, wenn man auf den Paß Thurn fährt und am Parkplatz aussteigt. Seltsamer Vergleich, trifft aber zu. &lt;br /&gt;Ich werde jetzt versuchen eine Stunde zu schlafen, heute am Abend beginnt das offizielle Programm. Und falls Rechschreibung, Satzbau und dergleichen in meinem Beitrag etwas seltsam anmuten, tut mir Leid. Erst Schlafdefizit aufholen, dann klappt´s auch wieder mit dem bloggen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morgen mehr! Ab jetzt täglich, versprochen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2021607695726593753?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2021607695726593753/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2021607695726593753' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2021607695726593753'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2021607695726593753'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/tag-1-ankunft-in-fairbanks.html' title='Tag 1: Ankunft in Fairbanks'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RttMkKH1MaI/AAAAAAAAAB8/y00kuDEdemk/s72-c/DSC00002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-7861067236694831513</id><published>2007-09-01T20:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-01T20:31:18.811+02:00</updated><title type='text'>First stop: Chicago!</title><content type='html'>Ich bin gut angekommen, in der Stadt der Commons, Kanye Wests und Al Bundys: Chicago! Nachdem ich mir beim Fruit Stand einen Apfel und eine Banane zur Stärkung besorgt habe, gab es nur ein Ziel: STARBUCKS! Und da sitze ich jetzt mit einem Riesenbecher Kaffee und warte auf meinen Flug nach Anchorage. In 2 Stunden, also um 15:30, ist es soweit. Ich hoffe, mein Gepäck lässt mich nicht im Stich und tritt den gleichen Weg an. Ich habe erst die Hälfte des Weges geschafft, aber ich bin noch fit. Das US-amerikanische Flair ist der beste Kraftspender! Bis bald!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-7861067236694831513?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/7861067236694831513/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=7861067236694831513' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7861067236694831513'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7861067236694831513'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/09/first-stop-chicago.html' title='First stop: Chicago!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2523021137344166764</id><published>2007-08-31T17:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-08-31T17:54:33.339+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Die Zeit ist jetzt!</title><content type='html'>Auf geht´s! Das Warten hat sich gelohnt, ich bin unterwegs nach Alaska!!! Sobald ich drüben bin melde ich mich mit News, Fotos und Geschichten! Bis bald!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2523021137344166764?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2523021137344166764/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2523021137344166764' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2523021137344166764'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2523021137344166764'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/08/die-zeit-ist-jetzt.html' title='Die Zeit ist jetzt!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2294269733610425430</id><published>2007-08-01T11:56:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T11:57:02.936+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Simpsons - Clap for Alaska</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zh6RwWQaehE"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zh6RwWQaehE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2294269733610425430?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2294269733610425430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2294269733610425430' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2294269733610425430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2294269733610425430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/08/simpsons-clap-for-alaska.html' title='The Simpsons - Clap for Alaska'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-6854219853079326708</id><published>2007-08-01T09:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-08-01T09:34:39.477+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Visum!</title><content type='html'>Montag und Dienstag war ich in Wien um mein Visum abzuholen. Alles hat geklappt, bis Mitte 2010 kann ich in den USA bleiben bzw. so oft hin und her fliegen wie es mein Geldbeutel zulässt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-6854219853079326708?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/6854219853079326708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=6854219853079326708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6854219853079326708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6854219853079326708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/08/visum.html' title='Visum!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-7143906964691998469</id><published>2007-07-19T13:22:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-19T13:26:02.419+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Kastl aufdrahn!</title><content type='html'>Am 2. August (Donnerstag) bringt der ORF in der Reihe "Universum" eine Alaska-Doku. Aus dem ORF-Pressetext:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Beeindruckendes Naturkino in seiner schönsten Form: ein filmisches Porträt über den nördlichsten und flächenmäßig größten Bundesstaat der USA - Alaska. Das Ende der Welt - so nannten die ersten Trapper die harsche Nordregion, in die sie vom Westen her vordrangen. Es ist eine Landschaft, die von hohen Gebirgszügen, kilometerlangen Gletscherzungen, dicht bewaldeten Hügelländern und zahlreichen Fjorden geprägt ist. Für die "Universum"-Dokumentation "Alaska - Wildnis am Ende der Welt" begaben sich ein französisches Forscherteam und Naturfilmer Nicolas Hulot auf eine abenteuerliche Expedition von der Brook Range im arktischen Norden bis zu den Aleuten, einer Inselkette zwischen Nordamerika und Asien am Südrand des nordpazifischen Beringmeers. Das filmische Ergebnis ist in der deutschen Bearbeitung von Andrea Gastgeb am Donnerstag, dem 2. August, um 20.15 Uhr in ORF 2 zu sehen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unzählige Flüsse und Seen bieten Grizzlys reiche Fischgründe, an den Ufern weiden stattliche Elche und an den Fjorden der Küsten tummeln sich Seeotter. Alaskas Wildnis ist keine gezähmte, geordnete Landschaft. Wild, rau und einsam ist es hier. Namenlose Flüsse mäandrieren durch von Eisströmen ausgeschliffene Täler, gigantische Gletscher bedecken viele tausend Quadratkilometer mit einer manchmal 300 Meter dicken Schicht aus Eis, die Berge sind wahre Giganten und viele Gipfel sind noch unbestiegen. Die Chugach-, Wrangell- und St.-Elias-Gebirgsketten bilden das Bergkönigreich Nordamerikas. Es umfasst die größte Ansammlung von Gletschern und Bergen mit mehr als 4.500 Metern auf dem nordamerikanischen Kontinent. Mit rund 5.500 Metern ist der Mount St. Elias der zweithöchste Berg der Vereinigten Staaten. Sein Umland ist geprägt durch die für diese Region so charakteristischen ungezähmten Flüsse, schroff erodierten Täler und eine vielfältige Tier- und Pflanzenwelt. Für Besucherinnen und Besucher ist diese Wildnis eine wahre Herausforderung, die zu jeder Jahreszeit ihre Besonderheiten zu bieten hat. Die riesigen Waldgebiete punkten vor allem am Ende des Jahres mit außergewöhnlicher Farbenpracht: Der Herbst färbt die Hänge der Berge mit dem Purpur der Bärentrauben, dem Gold der Pappeln und dem Blau der Fichten. Die vergängliche Pracht strahlt nur wenige Tage. Die Natur explodiert nur kurz in diesem Rausch von Farben, ehe das lange Grauweiß des Winters wieder Einzug hält."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-7143906964691998469?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/7143906964691998469/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=7143906964691998469' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7143906964691998469'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7143906964691998469'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/07/kastl-aufdrahn.html' title='Kastl aufdrahn!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-584913194468544839</id><published>2007-07-18T12:55:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-18T12:56:52.674+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Lange Liste...</title><content type='html'>Dies sind die Zutaten, die man benötigt, um für ein Masterprogramm zugelassen zu werden:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/Rp3xsQZcLBI/AAAAAAAAAB0/iRTo7D4PRSU/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/Rp3xsQZcLBI/AAAAAAAAAB0/iRTo7D4PRSU/s400/Picture+5.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088488896616737810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-584913194468544839?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/584913194468544839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=584913194468544839' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/584913194468544839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/584913194468544839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/07/lange-liste.html' title='Lange Liste...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/Rp3xsQZcLBI/AAAAAAAAAB0/iRTo7D4PRSU/s72-c/Picture+5.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-5195911822522341651</id><published>2007-07-18T08:44:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-18T08:51:30.675+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Jetzt passt wirklich alles!</title><content type='html'>Obwohl ich den Aufnahmebrief der University of Alaska Fairbanks bereits vor einiger Zeit erhalten habe, war mein Online Application Status nach wie vor "incomplete". Das hat mich einigermaßen beunruhigt, da ja mein offizieller Titel ja "Bakk.phil" und nicht "B.A." lautet, obwohl es exakt dasselbe ist. "Womöglich," dachte ich "erkennen das die Amis nicht an, wundern würde es mich nicht!" Wäre das so gewesen, wäre ich wieder vor einem bürokratischen Übersetzungsmarathon gestanden, auf den ich echt keinen Bock mehr hatte. Heute habe ich aber folgende Nachricht erhalten:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hi Rudy,&lt;br /&gt;I apologize that your final transcript and award of the Bachelor's was over looked. We currently have several new staff who are learning the different admissions processes. I have checked in your documents and you are now admit clear.&lt;br /&gt;Have a good day!&lt;br /&gt;Jodi"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YEAH! Ich kann es nicht mehr erwarten, nach Fairbanks zu fliegen!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-5195911822522341651?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/5195911822522341651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=5195911822522341651' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5195911822522341651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/5195911822522341651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/07/jetzt-passt-wirklich-alles.html' title='Jetzt passt wirklich alles!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-4597919641997190751</id><published>2007-07-09T13:53:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-07-09T14:19:30.601+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tour de France, Tickets to AK and lastFM</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RpIkVyhCXvI/AAAAAAAAABs/fO-m5jtkeFI/s1600-h/IMG_0052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RpIkVyhCXvI/AAAAAAAAABs/fO-m5jtkeFI/s320/IMG_0052.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085166886010904306" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yipeee, le Tour de France is under way. I hope someone wins! &lt;br /&gt;Oh, and I purchased my tickets to Fairbanks. Take a look at the fabulous picture I took. I used my extraordinary out of focus-technique, that´s why it´s so extraordinarily blurry! It cost me € 1400 - the ticket, that is. &lt;br /&gt;Finally, if you like Jazz, Electronica and the like, you might want to check out my lastFM widget every now and then, maybe you get some inspiration.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-4597919641997190751?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/4597919641997190751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=4597919641997190751' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4597919641997190751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4597919641997190751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/07/tour-de-france-tickets-to-ak-and-lastfm.html' title='Tour de France, Tickets to AK and lastFM'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RpIkVyhCXvI/AAAAAAAAABs/fO-m5jtkeFI/s72-c/IMG_0052.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3362727754174741071</id><published>2007-06-29T20:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-29T20:09:32.492+02:00</updated><title type='text'>New York Fotos</title><content type='html'>Meine Fotos auf &lt;a href="http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2765233%26_index=5"&gt;derstandard.at/reise&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3362727754174741071?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3362727754174741071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3362727754174741071' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3362727754174741071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3362727754174741071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/06/new-york-fotos.html' title='New York Fotos'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2156990017990586909</id><published>2007-06-06T10:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-06T10:43:09.279+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Alternatives Logo für London2012</title><content type='html'>Auf bbc.com haben User ihre Meinung zum gestern vorgestellen Logo für die Olympischen Spiele in London gepostet...mein Lieblingsbeitrag kommt von Graham Coe: "The origin of the Olympic Logo?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RmZy5fT3FmI/AAAAAAAAABk/nlsMX1zP3_s/s1600-h/theoffice.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RmZy5fT3FmI/AAAAAAAAABk/nlsMX1zP3_s/s320/theoffice.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072868362262353506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2156990017990586909?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2156990017990586909/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2156990017990586909' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2156990017990586909'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2156990017990586909'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/06/alternatives-logo-fr-london2012.html' title='Alternatives Logo für London2012'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RmZy5fT3FmI/AAAAAAAAABk/nlsMX1zP3_s/s72-c/theoffice.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-417012988296539088</id><published>2007-06-05T11:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-06-05T11:33:01.582+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Jobangebot!</title><content type='html'>Alle die sich vorstellen können beim Hervis im Europark als&lt;br /&gt;SportartikelverkäuferIn zu arbeiten, bitte bei mir melden! Wichtig:&lt;br /&gt;Interesse an Laufsport. Arbeitszeit: 10.5 Stunden pro Woche, immer Samstags,selten unter der Woche - wie man es sich eben beim Bewerbungsgespräch ausmacht. Bezahlung: Etwas mehr als €300/Monat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;e-mail: r.riedlsperger@gmail.com&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-417012988296539088?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/417012988296539088/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=417012988296539088' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/417012988296539088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/417012988296539088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/06/jobangebot.html' title='Jobangebot!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3700708891479294253</id><published>2007-04-29T13:52:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-04-29T17:02:45.547+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Wunderbar! Fairbanks it is!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RjSzOzpQVgI/AAAAAAAAABc/8tTxzf5L0DA/s1600-h/ice_sculpture.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RjSzOzpQVgI/AAAAAAAAABc/8tTxzf5L0DA/s400/ice_sculpture.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058865348406695426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am going to be at &lt;a href="http://www.uaf.edu"&gt;UAF&lt;/a&gt; soon! From now on I will keep you updated about the preparation phase and once I am up there you will find lots of pictures on this site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take care!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Photo: An ice sculpture of a Native hunter stands near the Lola Tilly Commons on the UAF campus. Credit: UAF photo by Todd Paris.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3700708891479294253?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3700708891479294253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3700708891479294253' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3700708891479294253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3700708891479294253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/04/wunderbar-fairbanks-it-is.html' title='Wunderbar! Fairbanks it is!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RjSzOzpQVgI/AAAAAAAAABc/8tTxzf5L0DA/s72-c/ice_sculpture.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-6200381452640946246</id><published>2007-03-30T21:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T21:12:40.043+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bergen or Fairbanks?</title><content type='html'>ok, so now there finally is some news on my studying-abroad-plans. as some of you might know, I applied for graduate school in fairbanks, alaska. that´s my first choice, but not the only one. meanwhile I got accepted in bergen, norway, so if alaska says "no" you will find me &lt;a href="http://www.uib.no/info/english/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I guess alaska and norway do have some things in common and I am very happy for having the opportunity to study in scandinavia. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;more on this as soon as I know more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;take care!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-6200381452640946246?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/6200381452640946246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=6200381452640946246' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6200381452640946246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6200381452640946246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/03/bergen-or-fairbanks.html' title='Bergen or Fairbanks?'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3917962799071984320</id><published>2007-03-11T22:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-11T22:10:33.942+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Watch out, Gusi!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RfRvMbhd4_I/AAAAAAAAABQ/ht7KCxg8r1w/s1600-h/pearls2.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RfRvMbhd4_I/AAAAAAAAABQ/ht7KCxg8r1w/s400/pearls2.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5040776142271669234" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;("Pearls before Swine" by S. Pastis)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3917962799071984320?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3917962799071984320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3917962799071984320' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3917962799071984320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3917962799071984320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/03/watch-out-gusi.html' title='Watch out, Gusi!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RfRvMbhd4_I/AAAAAAAAABQ/ht7KCxg8r1w/s72-c/pearls2.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-7821256004181419440</id><published>2007-03-06T19:07:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-06T19:18:16.302+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Joe Wilson Show (2)</title><content type='html'>This is from the online edition of the &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/washington/06cnd-libby.html?_r=1&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin"&gt;New York Times&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Libby Guilty of Lying in C.I.A. Leak Case - &lt;br /&gt;I. Lewis Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted today of lying to F.B.I agents and grand jurors investigating the unmasking of a C.I.A.operative amid a burning dispute over the war in Iraq. The jury rejected Mr. Libby’s claims of memory lapses as it convicted him of obstruction of justice, giving false statements to the F.B.I. and perjuring himself, charges embodied in four of the five counts of the indictment."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The "C.I.A. operative" is Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador Joe Wilson. Joe Wilson spoke at Willamette University a year ago, so, because of the new developments, I post my impression once again:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Joe Wilson Show - April 07, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;now it takes some background information, one can start &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_C._Wilson"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for example, to enjoy what I call "the joe wilson show". needless to say, with all his (diplomatic) experience it is hard to find a speaker more eloquent than joe wilson. willamette students and salem townspeople had the pleasure to be witnesses of what it means to "live" freedom of speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    "Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    Based on my experience with the administration in the months leading up to the war, I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;accusing the us-government of starting war in iraq under false pretenses, wilson´s article "what I didn´t find in africa" (first published by "the new york times" in july 2003) brought him into trouble. his wife´s identity as a cia-agent got revealed in an article by columnist robert novak. since this act of treason, "valerie plame" is a name well known in the united states. anyhow, the traitors have not been called to account for their felony yet. and just click on the novak link to get an idea of the variety of persons involved in this scandal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for wilson, one thing is clear: the government wanted his wife´s identity to be revealed because of three main reasons: to change the subject towards something more advantageous for the government, pure revenge for not supporting the war in iraq and, most important, to make an example of him. the ordinary us-citizens should know that if they did the same to the government than joe wilson, then the government would do to the citizens what it did to joe wilson and his wife.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;so wilson sees it as his mission to speak up against such injustice. "you must hold our government to account". the united states depends on the vigilance of the citizens for its success. in his eyes, the bush administration lied and twisted intelligence to get support for a war that should not have been fought under these circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;it´s his word against the governments. and, as always, one has to be very cautious to take every word that´s said for granted. but joe wilson shows that public dispute is far from being dead in the states. and climbing onto a podium and expressing ones believes is by itself an act essential to every vital democracy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-7821256004181419440?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/7821256004181419440/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=7821256004181419440' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7821256004181419440'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/7821256004181419440'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/03/this-is-from-online-edition-of-new-york.html' title='The Joe Wilson Show (2)'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-1248691778934216400</id><published>2007-03-04T18:51:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-03-04T18:53:48.642+01:00</updated><title type='text'>3rd world farmer...</title><content type='html'>...a &lt;a href="http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/index.html"&gt;"thought-provoking game"&lt;/a&gt; that is worth giving a shot.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-1248691778934216400?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/1248691778934216400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=1248691778934216400' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1248691778934216400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/1248691778934216400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/03/3rd-world-farmer.html' title='3rd world farmer...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2221331768065605669</id><published>2007-02-25T22:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-25T23:36:33.006+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Che</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/ReIODi-8sAI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ouBVsoFtFxg/s1600-h/che2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/ReIODi-8sAI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ouBVsoFtFxg/s320/che2.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5035602787446861826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He is a hero of the political left in Europe and he sure is one of the most charismatic  persons of the 20th century: Ernsesto "Che" Guevara - the Argentinian upper middle class doctor who got the Cuban Revolution under way in the late 1950's. With the other half of this "project" - Fidel Castro - being close to death, it is the right time (well, it is ALWAYS the right time) to recommend a book that does a good job in "separating the man from the myth", as the New York Times Book Review finds. JON LEE ANDERSON'S "CHE" is a classic by now. First published in 1997 this epic biography gives an insight into the weird struggle of the Cuban Revolution. It started with the journey of a group of men to the island south of Florida on what by today´s standards cannot be called a boat (the boat´s name was grandma - so is the title of a Cuban propaganda newspaper). It continued in the Cuban wilderness - with scarce supplies. Eventually, and I still don´t get how &lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;exactly&lt;/span&gt; that was possible, Che and his men managed to overthrow a corrupt and smugly self-confident system, a system, where nobody with a liberal-democratic mindset would want to live. But who would want to live in Che´s socialist Cuba either? There were plenty of downsides to this whole thing, you can still see them today. Other than the fact that Che´s beloved firing squads had a lot of work to do in the dawn of the revolution, life under his regiment reminds one of a George Orwell novel ("1984" or "Animal Farm" - choose your favourite). Free speech, free press, free choice of what to study? Non of these things existed, and mostly still don´t exist in 2007. That is particulary interesting since Che is extraordinarily popular among students. If you plan the economy, don´t plan on a prosperous future for your country (probably somone already put it like this, if not, I keep the credits).&lt;br /&gt;Until his death, Che's vision was to enable a revolution that would hit the Americas like a huge wave. That didn´t exactly work out the way he imagined. Maybe one of his biggest problems was that his closest comrades - first and foremost Fidel - were not as idealistic about Socialism/Communism/Marxism/Leninism than Che himself. They paid lip service to Che´s ideas and real service to power and influence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let´s wait and see how long Cuba will be like we know it. Of course, oil money comes in handy these days - but I have already talked about that &lt;a href="http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/05/von-friedman-zu-friedman-und-warum.html"&gt;elsewhere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anderson, Jon Lee: "Che Guevara - A Revolutionary Life". Publisher: Grove/Atlantic. 1st Pbk. Ed edition, April 1998.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2221331768065605669?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2221331768065605669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2221331768065605669' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2221331768065605669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2221331768065605669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/02/che.html' title='Che'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/ReIODi-8sAI/AAAAAAAAAA8/ouBVsoFtFxg/s72-c/che2.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-6282836187886650359</id><published>2007-02-16T23:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T23:42:13.764+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Filmvorführung: Mittelpunkt der Welt</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RdYyAOve75I/AAAAAAAAAAM/1Hil3Mrvt_U/s1600-h/mdw_color.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RdYyAOve75I/AAAAAAAAAAM/1Hil3Mrvt_U/s400/mdw_color.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032264613171752850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hingehen, anschauen - Ende der Diskussion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mehr Infos &lt;a href="http://www.willischwarzenbacher.com"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt;. Also, nochmal zum Mitschreiben: Am 2. März ist der SN-Saal in Salzburg Mittelpunkt der Welt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-6282836187886650359?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/6282836187886650359/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=6282836187886650359' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6282836187886650359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/6282836187886650359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/02/filmvorfhrung-mittelpunkt-der-welt.html' title='Filmvorführung: Mittelpunkt der Welt'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_w7PjicingD4/RdYyAOve75I/AAAAAAAAAAM/1Hil3Mrvt_U/s72-c/mdw_color.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3710213577221289380</id><published>2007-02-13T14:35:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2007-02-13T14:39:23.640+01:00</updated><title type='text'>delay...</title><content type='html'>...I admit it´s a bit frustrating but I received a letter from &lt;a href="http://www.uaf.edu"&gt;UAF&lt;/a&gt;, saying that they don´t accept the grades from the University of Salzburg. well, they do accept them, but not before they are sent to &lt;a href="http://www.wes.org"&gt;WES&lt;/a&gt; first. but before I do that, I will finish my B.A. here so I can submitt all the stuff, not just parts of it. what does that mean? I still don´t know whether or not I get to go to AK, at least for a couple more months...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and WWU wrote that they did not get my TOEFL scores. I keep sending and sending stuff but nothing reaches its destination it seems like. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well what can you say. things worth having don´t come easy. (or easily I think it is. man, I SHOULD take that TOEFL test again.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3710213577221289380?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3710213577221289380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3710213577221289380' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3710213577221289380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3710213577221289380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/02/delay.html' title='delay...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-4786868129674254420</id><published>2007-01-22T17:22:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-22T17:24:40.335+01:00</updated><title type='text'>365 days...</title><content type='html'>...until the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_primary"&gt;new hampshire primaries&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-4786868129674254420?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/4786868129674254420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=4786868129674254420' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4786868129674254420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4786868129674254420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/01/365-days.html' title='365 days...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2088446089919655160</id><published>2007-01-21T15:40:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2007-01-22T11:22:37.006+01:00</updated><title type='text'>how are you today?</title><content type='html'>the austrian remainings of the ATTAC movement complain about the decreasing opportunities for citizens to express their opinions. "attac finded das schon lange verheerend" ("attac thinks that´s awful"), and so they have installed an "act now" section in their homepage, giving visitors the possibility of sharing their thoughts on a variety of topics. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well, "variety" may be the wrong word. "insufficient variety" seems better. the only two &lt;a href="http://community.attac.at/4276.html"&gt;questions asked &lt;/a&gt;are "how are you today?" (68.8% are doing great) and, for people who are not overchallenged already, "how do you like our new homepage?".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;another world is possible.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2088446089919655160?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2088446089919655160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2088446089919655160' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2088446089919655160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2088446089919655160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-are-you-today_21.html' title='how are you today?'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-2507511120930900360</id><published>2006-12-31T21:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-31T21:05:04.366+01:00</updated><title type='text'>happy new year everyone!</title><content type='html'>thanks for checking my blog every now and then...watch out for '07!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-2507511120930900360?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/2507511120930900360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=2507511120930900360' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2507511120930900360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/2507511120930900360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-new-year-everyone.html' title='happy new year everyone!'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-3799472521261349648</id><published>2006-12-13T11:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-12-13T12:33:09.843+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Anti-fair trade mit gutem Gewissen</title><content type='html'>Im "Economist", Ausgabe December 9th-15th, lautet die Schlagzeile: "Good food? Why ethical shopping harms the world". Argumentiert wird mit klassisch liberalen Prinzipien, kurz gesagt: "Only free trade is fair trade".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Konkret werden drei Aspekte unserer derzeitigen Einkaufskultur kritisiert. Zum einen wäre da der Hang, "biologische" Produkte zu kaufen. Zum zweiten sollen die Produkte im Einkaufskorb am besten "zu fairen Bedingungen", also "fair trade", hergestellt sein. Schließlich wird auch Wert darauf gelegt, so "lokal wie möglich" einzukaufen, also am besten direkt vom Bauern am Rande der Stadt. Das klingt super und damit soll die Welt durch unser Kaufverhalten besser werden. Warum schreibt der "Economist" dann: "If you think you can save the planet by buying ethical food, think again"?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Probleme mit Bionahrung&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Herstellung von "biologisch einwandfreier" Nahrung, also ohne Verwendung von Pestiziden usw. ist sehr "raumintensiv", dh es besteht schlicht nicht genug Platz, unsere gesamte Nahrung in dieser Weise herzustellen. Durch die Verwendung von Düngern etc. ist es möglich, das gleiche Stück Land ständig zu bewirtschaften. So ist es auch der "Green Revolution" aus den 1960er Jahren zu verdanken, dass zwar die Produktionsquote von Nahrung seit den 50ern verdreifacht wurde, dafür aber nur 10% mehr Landfläche vonnöten ist! Man kann auch sagen: wer bio-food kauft, unterstützt die Abholzung von Regenwald, weil irgendwo muss der Platz ja herkommen. Übrigens gibt es keine Studien darüber, dass Bioessen gesünder oder höherwertiger wäre, als konventionell hergestellte Nahrung, solange gewisse Regeln beachtet werden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Probleme mit "Fair Trade"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Idee hinter "Fair Trade" ist folgende: Der Konsument ist bereit einen höheren Preis als den Marktpreis für ein Produkt zu bezahlen. Die Differenz kommt, theoretisch, direkt den Erzeugern zu Gute. Sie bekommen mehr Geld für die gleiche Arbeit, werden also "fairer" entlohnt. Der "Ungerechtigkeit der niedrigen Preise" soll so entgegengewirkt werden. Dahinter versteckt sich klassischer Protektionsimus, die Selbstregulierungsfunktion des Marktes wird ausgehebelt. Es ist einfach: Die Nachfrage bestimmt das Angebot und den Preis. Niedrige Preise sind Zeichen dafür, dass es schon zu viel von einem Produkt auf dem Markt gibt. Nehmen wir unsere Milchbauern und ihre "A Faire Milch", die es seit kurzem zu erstehen gibt. Würde man den Gesetzen des freien Marktes folgen, wären viele Milchbauern gezwungen, in andere, ertragreichere Bereiche als jener der Milchproduktion zu investieren. Durch die subventionierte Milch kommt dieses Signal nur ungenügend an, sie verharren in der Milchproduktion. Darüber hinaus werden andere Bauern animiert, noch mehr "Fair Trade" Milch zu produzieren, weil sich damit ja mehr Geld machen lässt, als eigentlich vorgesehen. Jene Bauern, die konventionell Milch erzeugen und die große Mehrheit darstellen, haben es dadurch noch schwerer. Sie verdienen weniger als zuvor, gleichzeitig wird der Vielfältigkeit ein Riegel vorgeschoben, da sich alle auf subventionierte Bereiche stürzen.&lt;br /&gt;Dasselbe gilt für Kaffee: es ist nicht so einfach, als Produzent "Fair Trade" Status zu erlangen und so schauen zum Beispiel ausnahmslos alle Plantagenarbeiter durch die Finger. Kaffeeplantagen im großen Stil entsprechen nämlich nicht den Fair Trade Kriterien.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Probleme mit lokaler Produktion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viele ehemalige Fair Trade Befürworter haben die Probleme erkannt und sagen: "Buying direct means producers get a fair price, with no middlemen adding big margins along the distribution chain." Außerdem muss die Nahrung nicht um die halbe Welt geliefert werden, man spart also an "food miles" (jener Weg, den ein Produkt von seiner Entstehung bis zum Endkonsumenten zurück legt). Das größte Problem liegt darin, festzustellen, wo denn ein Produkt am besten und umweltfreundlichsten hergestellt werden kann. Es ist klüger, Tomaten aus Spanien zu importieren als diese in einem britischen Gewächshaus über den Winter zu züchten. So verhält es sich mit vielen Produkten. Außerdem ist das Zuliefersystem der Supermärkte mittlerweile äußerst effizient. "Another surprising finding was that a shift towards a local food system, and away from a supermarket-based food system, with its central distribution depots, lean supply chains and big, full trucks, might actually increase the number of food-vehicle miles being travelled locally, because things would move around in a larger number of smaller, less efficiently packed vehicles."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die Revolution durch Fair Trade - sie wird wohl nicht passieren.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-3799472521261349648?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/3799472521261349648/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=3799472521261349648' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3799472521261349648'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/3799472521261349648'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/12/anti-fair-trade-mit-gutem-gewissen.html' title='Anti-fair trade mit gutem Gewissen'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-4328677861965114198</id><published>2006-11-27T23:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-27T23:27:20.017+01:00</updated><title type='text'>long time no see...</title><content type='html'>...aber viel tut sich nicht zur zeit. sobald es us-unitechnisch etwas neues gibt werde ich das hier posten, aber das wird noch eine weile dauern. jetzt sind alle nötigen unterlagen auf dem weg nach alaska und wenn ich glück habe, werde ich ab august nächsten jahres ordentlich frieren. :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ausserdem zerbreche ich mir gerade den kopf über mein thema für die bakk-arbeit. wird wohl etwas mit liberalismus zu tun haben. und legitimtiät der EU. ich rätsle nur, wie ich das am besten verbinden soll. der plan sieht vor mit der schreibarbeit mitte dezember zu beginnen und anfang märz mit allem fertig zu sein. ist schaffbar, denke ich. leider bin ich zur zeit sehr abgelenkt und es fällt mir schwer, mich zu konzentrieren. warum laufen nur ständig so gute serien im fernsehen?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-4328677861965114198?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/4328677861965114198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=4328677861965114198' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4328677861965114198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/4328677861965114198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/11/long-time-no-see.html' title='long time no see...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-116351482740587588</id><published>2006-11-14T15:31:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-11-14T15:33:47.420+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Hegel died 175 years ago</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/hegel%20funny.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/400/hegel%20funny.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, born 1770 in Stuttgart, died on the 14th of November in the year 1831.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-116351482740587588?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/116351482740587588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=116351482740587588' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/116351482740587588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/116351482740587588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/11/hegel-died-175-years-ago.html' title='Hegel died 175 years ago'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-116214127159015032</id><published>2006-10-29T17:59:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2006-10-29T18:03:37.666+01:00</updated><title type='text'>censorship</title><content type='html'>a nice sunday afternoon &lt;a href="http://jturn.qem.se/2006/more-pictures-of-iranian-censorship/"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-116214127159015032?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/116214127159015032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=116214127159015032' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/116214127159015032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/116214127159015032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/10/censorship.html' title='censorship'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-116092609150332236</id><published>2006-10-15T17:22:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-15T17:35:11.786+02:00</updated><title type='text'>some pearls before swine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/pearlsbeforswine2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/400/pearlsbeforswine2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/pearlsbeforswine.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-116092609150332236?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/116092609150332236/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=116092609150332236' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/116092609150332236'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/116092609150332236'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/10/some-pearls-before-swine.html' title='some pearls before swine'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115998235031346352</id><published>2006-10-04T18:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-04T21:56:04.313+02:00</updated><title type='text'>it´s in our hands</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/20060119_murraylarge.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/200/20060119_murraylarge.png" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;no matter who the new austrian chancellor will be, I recommend him to read charles murray´s "in our hands". the book is a plan to replace the welfare state. sounds utopian? well, sooner or later we will have to face the problems created by our welfare system anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;charles murray´s short statement of the argument goes like this: "America´s population is wealthier than any in history. Every year, the American government redistributes more than a trillion dollars of that wealth to provide retirement, health care, and the alleviation of poverty. We still have millions of people without comfortable retirements, without adequate health care, and living in poverty. Only a government can spend so much money so ineffectually. The solution is to give the money to the people."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;murray slates to give every american age 21 and older $10 000 a year for life. no other welfare measures would be available. the "plan", as he calls it, would be the end for social security, medicare and all other "income transfer programs". the result should be a prosperous society with poverty and unemployment reduced to the minimum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not going to judge on the strengths and weaknesses of his proposal here - murray himself is aware that his plan is far from becoming implemented policy. but on the same token it is another good reminder of why it is important to keep our government from throwing money down the drain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;charles murray: "in our hands - a plan to replace the welfare state". AEI press. american enterprise institute for public policy research. washington, d.c. 2006.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115998235031346352?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115998235031346352/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115998235031346352' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115998235031346352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115998235031346352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/10/its-in-our-hands.html' title='it´s in our hands'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115982226368898574</id><published>2006-10-02T22:34:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-02T22:52:24.670+02:00</updated><title type='text'>der tag nach der wahl...</title><content type='html'>... bringt drei kurze mitteilungen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;zum wahlergebnis habe ich den politologen franz fallend von der uni salzburg befragt. das interview kann man &lt;a href="http://freie-radios.net/portal/content.php?id=14058"&gt;hier&lt;/a&gt; anhören.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;außerdem war dendemann letzten freitag in salzburg. gut, das hat jetzt nicht unmittelbar was mit politik zu tun - trotzdem kam ein interessantes interview zustande, zu hören am 4. oktober ab 21.00 Uhr in der Radiofabrik. eine kleine &lt;a href="http://www.radiofabrik.at/alphabeat"&gt;geschichte&lt;/a&gt;  gibt es auch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;zur wahl selbst kann ich mir einen kommentar wohl sparen. im oben genannten interview werden einige interessante aspekte aufgegriffen und nach X spezial zeit im bild und vorgezogenen reporten im orf, mit noch mehr interviews von noch mehr politologen, scheint erstmal alles gesagt zu sein. schwarz-grün kann ich mir jedenfalls an den hut stecken.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115982226368898574?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115982226368898574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115982226368898574' title='14 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115982226368898574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115982226368898574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/10/der-tag-nach-der-wahl.html' title='der tag nach der wahl...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115969898495160560</id><published>2006-10-01T12:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-01T12:36:24.966+02:00</updated><title type='text'>der kurier gibt wahl-tipps</title><content type='html'>so, meine stimme habe ich abgegeben, das wäre also auch erledigt - und beim nachhause gehen habe ich mir den &lt;a href="http://www.kurier.at"&gt;kurier&lt;/a&gt;, äh, besorgt. der gibt auf seite 1 hervorragende wahl-tipps, um die besatzung eines wahllokals in aufruhr zu versetzen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Stocknüchtern, aber mit einem Doppler in der Hand die Bipa-Kundenkarte als Ausweis vorlegen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Vor Betreten der Wahlzelle neben dem Bleistift auch zwei Radiergummis verlangen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- In der Wahlzelle laut und vernehmlich telefonieren: "Heast, is der BZÖ jetzt des mitn Strache?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Mehrfach wegen Fehlversuchen einen neuen Stimmzettel verlangen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Oder den leeren abgeben und sagen: "Ich muss mir´s noch überlegen, ich komm' morgen wieder."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Sich in der Wahlzelle entkleiden und das Gewand wie über einen Paravent werfen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Wahlbeisitzer und Wähler mit dem Handy fotografieren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Bitterlich weinend den Wahlzettel vor dem Einwerfen in die Urne in kleine Stücke zerreissen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Danke Kurier, lange nicht mehr so gelacht. Leider war ich zu feig, um einen der Vorschläge auch auszuprobieren.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115969898495160560?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115969898495160560/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115969898495160560' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115969898495160560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115969898495160560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/10/der-kurier-gibt-wahl-tipps.html' title='der kurier gibt wahl-tipps'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115935050582123982</id><published>2006-09-27T11:40:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-27T11:49:23.146+02:00</updated><title type='text'>what do swedes think? (2)</title><content type='html'>I asked my swedish friends about their thoughts on the recent elections in their homecountry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://montyramberg.blogspot.com/"&gt;mans ramberg&lt;/a&gt; from vaxjo has something to say:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I voted for the center party for a number of reasons. A) They are proposing big changes in the current system of labor laws for the young, which will hopefully make for a more flexible labor market for people my age. B) They have the most consistent EU-policy in my eyes, with exciting ideas about federalism and restructuring of that old dragon. This is true about their ideas for the swedish system as well. Under the new government we can hopefully see the abolishment of such silly ideas as the pharmacy monopoly and other remnants of the social democratic centralistic state. C)They are the most honest of the right wing parties of today. They are consistent in most of their questions and do not follow populist tracks as so many of their co-operators as well as opponents.&lt;br /&gt;There are more reasons, but I would say those are my top ones. When it comes to the election in general, I must say that I am very torn personally. My friend Henrik who is an electrician commented on the election night: "It's a dark day for the swedish workers". To hear that and then see brat-kids from the rights youth movements dance on the street leaves me wondering where I really stand. I do hope and wish that the policies that I vote for will be for the benefit of the weaker in society, but I wonder if my elected politicans think the same. I am feeling the class dimension more than ever.&lt;br /&gt;One thing that worries me a lot is the relative good result for the xenophobic party Sverigedemokraterna in different parts of Sweden. I was hoping that they would never grow above 1 percent, and the current situation tells a lot about the undercurrents and tensions thet has been hidden for a number of yaers but now seem ready to show their ugly face."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115935050582123982?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115935050582123982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115935050582123982' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115935050582123982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115935050582123982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-do-swedes-think-2_115935050582123982.html' title='what do swedes think? (2)'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115926357209897012</id><published>2006-09-26T11:36:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-26T11:50:43.603+02:00</updated><title type='text'>home sweet dome</title><content type='html'>from the &lt;a href="http://www.neworleanssaints.com"&gt;website&lt;/a&gt; of the new orleans saints:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The Saints put the icing on the cake Monday night, and it sure was sweet. In the days leading up to their emotional return to the Louisiana Superdome, veteran wide receiver Joe Horn said that the game would be a win for the city and people of New Orleans whether or not the Saints came out on top against the Atlanta Falcons but they wanted to put the icing on the cake by beating their NFC South rivals and running their record to 3-0."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;word up, go saints!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115926357209897012?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115926357209897012/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115926357209897012' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115926357209897012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115926357209897012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/home-sweet-dome.html' title='home sweet dome'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115910139173712042</id><published>2006-09-24T14:31:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-24T14:36:31.756+02:00</updated><title type='text'>the road race</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/IMG_0056.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/320/IMG_0056.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;last day of the uci road worldchampionships 2006 in salzburg. the road race takes place, more impressions after the jump.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rudyriedlsperger2.blogspot.com/2006/09/road-race.html"&gt;continue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115910139173712042?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115910139173712042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115910139173712042' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115910139173712042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115910139173712042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/road-race.html' title='the road race'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115886042409749485</id><published>2006-09-21T19:35:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-21T19:40:24.136+02:00</updated><title type='text'>uci road worldchampionships in salzburg</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/IMG_0030.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/320/IMG_0030.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;road cycling is big in my hometown these days, here are some random impressions from today´s single time trial. 51 kilometers through salzburg and its outskirts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://rudyriedlsperger2.blogspot.com/2006/09/uci-road-worldchampionships-in.html"&gt;continue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115886042409749485?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115886042409749485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115886042409749485' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115886042409749485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115886042409749485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/uci-road-worldchampionships-in.html' title='uci road worldchampionships in salzburg'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115875923232921056</id><published>2006-09-20T15:28:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T15:46:24.613+02:00</updated><title type='text'>what do swedes think?</title><content type='html'>I asked my swedish friends about their thoughts on the recent elections in their homecountry. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sara ardic from norrköping is the one to start:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I think a lot of people voted for the right simply cause they want a change for the country, not necessarily cause they're so unhappy with the state of the country. We've had the same part governing the counntry for a long time. Alo, the right have tried to change their image into the new working class party.... we'll see about that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I voted for the socialdemocrats simply cause I feel they're more in the line with my values - that everyone should be taken care of. I'm both curious about what will happen with the new government, have to admit it is a bit exciting , but I have to say I´m a bit nervous too."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115875923232921056?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115875923232921056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115875923232921056' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115875923232921056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115875923232921056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-do-swedes-think.html' title='what do swedes think?'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115869769104055478</id><published>2006-09-19T22:20:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T22:28:11.080+02:00</updated><title type='text'>it changes...</title><content type='html'>I love to read johan norberg´s &lt;a href="http://www.johannorberg.net"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;, you know that already. and I love his analysis about swedish politics. so, of course, he is happy about the outcome of the elections - on monday he writes:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"At last Göran Persson has resigned. And the mood on Stockholm´s streets (where the social democrats have collapsed) is a little more open and free. When I took the bus earlier today the bus driver didn´t charge me and just waived me through with a big smile."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;unfortunately, bus drivers are not celebrating by giving passengers a lift for free:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Woops. I thought that the bus driver waived me through because he was happy with the election result. Imagine my double disappointment when I realised that this was because of a bus robbery on Sunday that made bus drivers afraid of handling cash..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;well. easy coming, easy going.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115869769104055478?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115869769104055478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115869769104055478' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115869769104055478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115869769104055478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/it-changes.html' title='it changes...'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115865333647103730</id><published>2006-09-19T10:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-19T10:14:05.186+02:00</updated><title type='text'>wahlkabine</title><content type='html'>heute bin ich in mich gegangen und habe versucht, die fragen der &lt;a href="http://www.wahlkabine.at"&gt;wahlkabine &lt;/a&gt;wahrheitsgetreu zu beantworten - dabei habe ich auch großen wert auf die gewichtung der fragen gelegt. das ist das ergebnis:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/wahlkabine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/320/wahlkabine.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ginge man nach diesen ergebnis, würde es für mich wohl sinn machen "taktisch" zu wählen, um schwarz-grün eher zu ermöglichen. mangels einer liberalen alternative ist das wohl das kleinste übel.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115865333647103730?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115865333647103730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115865333647103730' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115865333647103730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115865333647103730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/wahlkabine.html' title='wahlkabine'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115852460758307400</id><published>2006-09-17T22:20:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-17T22:29:03.816+02:00</updated><title type='text'>chuck close</title><content type='html'>and for no special reason: self portrait of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_close"&gt;chuck close&lt;/a&gt;, as seen in laure´s room in paris. for all you art freaks out there nothing new, but I was stunned by the fact that it´s a painting and not a photograph.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/chuckclose.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/320/chuckclose.jpg" border="0" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115852460758307400?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115852460758307400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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type='text'>us update for september</title><content type='html'>here´s the list of universities I am going to apply to for grad school:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.uaf.edu"&gt;university of alska fairbanks&lt;/a&gt; (first choice)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wwu.edu/"&gt;western washington university&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pdx.edu/"&gt;portland state university&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115850986321410839?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115850986321410839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115850986321410839' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115850986321410839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115850986321410839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/us-update-for-september.html' title='us update for september'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115826771369643748</id><published>2006-09-14T22:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-15T16:47:30.976+02:00</updated><title type='text'>schweden wählt am sonntag</title><content type='html'>am sonntag wird in schweden ein neuer reichstag gewählt. für einige zeit sah es ja so aus, als hätte die sozialdemokratische regierung schlechte chancen, wiedergewählt zu werden. von den letzten 70 jahren waren die sozialdemokraten gute 65 an der macht. nun zeichnete sich wie gesagt bereits ein wechsel ab, ehe sich die liberal-konservative "folkpartiet" mit einem spitzelskandal selbst wieder in den hintergrund gedrängt hat. computer der regierung wurden durchsucht um so "informationsvorsprung" für eigene kampagnen zu erlangen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;viele schweden sind aber nach wie vor der meinung, dass ihr modell des wohlfahrtstaats die anforderungen der nächsten jahrzehnte nicht mehr bewältigen kann. somit kann diese wahl richtungsweisend sein - und die liberale alternative möglicherweise doch noch zu ihrem erfolg kommen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115826771369643748?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115814091220385040</id><published>2006-09-13T11:46:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T11:50:24.650+02:00</updated><title type='text'>wahlkonfrontation</title><content type='html'>was ist hängengeblieben aus der konfrontation zwischen peter westenthaler (bzö) und martin bartenstein (övp) gestern abend im orf? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;DIE SCHULBEUTEL SIND ZU TEUER!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;das ist zwar nicht viel, aber auch nicht nichts, wie ich finde...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115814091220385040?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115814091220385040/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' 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type='text'>bündnis</title><content type='html'>die politische meldung des tages aus "liberaler" sicht ist das wahlbündnis zwischen der spö und dem liberalen forum. ich bin für jeden kommentar dankbar, der mir glaubwürdig einige vorteile einer solchen zusammenarbeit (für die liberale bewegung in österreich, wohlgemerkt) aufzeigt. ich sehen keinen - und auch der chef des lif, alexander zach, war im zib2 interview nicht gerade die überzeugungskraft in person. die liberalen haben mit der övp (wirtschaftsliberalismus) mindestens so viel oder so wenig gemeinsam wie mit der spö (kultureller liberalismus), daher scheint mir diese entscheidung äußerst willkürlich. ob hier die klassische liberale idee nicht zu einem äußerst billigen preis verkauft wurde, werden wohl bereits die ersten wochen nach der wahl zeigen. im ersten moment mag es ja opportun erscheinen, für ein paar wochen ins rampenlicht zu rücken, nach dem motto: weniger als keine wähler gibt es ja nicht, also kann man schon mal was riskieren. für einen längerfristigen aufbau einer wirklich liberalen partei sind solche aktionen jedoch ein bärendienst.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115740312521242488?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115740312521242488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115740312521242488' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115740312521242488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115740312521242488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/09/bndnis.html' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115506497165300949</id><published>2006-08-08T21:14:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-08T21:26:46.823+02:00</updated><title type='text'>12 is the magic number (?)</title><content type='html'>hopefully!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or let me put it like this...twelve OR five is the magic number. so, I chose option 3 (just read the previous entry) which means that I am going to stick around in austria for a while. I cancelled my flight to portland and I have to admit it still hurts a bit. but I am trying to get on track (or stay on track) with my us grad school plans. more updates on that within the next weeks, big promise. and if it´s not working out I am back at wu, fast as a lightbolt. oh, and I got an internship at a small &lt;a href="http://www.radiofabrik.at"&gt;radiostation&lt;/a&gt; in salzburg starting on the 11th of september - I need that for my bachelor´s degree. I am already hosting a &lt;a href="http://www.radiofabrik.at/alphabeat"&gt;show&lt;/a&gt; with some friends, but since this has nothing to do with politics it´s not counting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;alrighty, that´s it for now. have a nice week!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115506497165300949?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115506497165300949/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115506497165300949' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115506497165300949'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115506497165300949'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/08/12-is-magic-number.html' title='12 is the magic number (?)'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115445999959899139</id><published>2006-08-01T21:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-01T21:19:59.616+02:00</updated><title type='text'>us updates</title><content type='html'>from now on I am going to post the progress on my "returning to the us plans" on my blog. I am going to start with the options I have so far:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- returning to  salem on  august 21st.  advantages:  great place and responsible for the best year of my life. disadvantages: not enough time to plan everything out the way I want it to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- getting my bachelor´s degree in salzburg and applying for grad school in the states for august 2007. advantages: enough time for planning, would be easier (financially speaking). disadvantages: I have to stay in austria for 12 long months. what if I don´t get my bachelor´s during that time (well, that should be no problem) or if I am not being accepted for grad school?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- postpone my return to salem until january 2007. advantages: I can see where my salzburg bachelor´s/US grad school plans take me. if there are too many things going wrong I can always return to the states, getting my bachelor´s there and see what happens. disadvantages: can´t think of any, right now. so this is what I am going to do, as it looks like.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115445999959899139?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/115445999959899139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=115445999959899139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115445999959899139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/115445999959899139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/08/us-updates.html' title='us updates'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115429043334258165</id><published>2006-07-30T22:11:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T22:13:53.353+02:00</updated><title type='text'>"one day you return to the warmth of leaving home"</title><content type='html'>as some might know already, I am working on going back to the states. right now things are a bit complicated, but as soon as I know more you will be able to read it on this blog. so still, "rolling with the punches" seems to be an appropriate title for the future...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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home&quot;'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-115121954618609350</id><published>2006-06-25T09:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-25T09:12:26.196+02:00</updated><title type='text'>die wm berichterstattung...</title><content type='html'>ihr habt es ja bereits gemerkt, meine wm-blog hat sich aufgelöst. und das trotz des großen erfolges. :-) ab jetzt geht´s hier wieder mit anderen themen weiter!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-115121954618609350?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24561565.post-114988814422141137</id><published>2006-06-09T23:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-09T23:33:33.646+02:00</updated><title type='text'>congratulations ecuador!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/1600/wm_pol_ecu_0_2_gross_r.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3237/1851/320/wm_pol_ecu_0_2_gross_r.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;wow, I was hoping for them to do a good job and ecuador did not disappoint me. two-nil against poland, due to maintaining their discipline against a team that seems to have troubles being a team. let´s wait and see what else group a is going to reveal. oh, and I think susy, gabbycita and javier are going to party now - greetings to you, guys!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;tomorrow's matches:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;group b/group c:&lt;br /&gt;england - paraguay&lt;br /&gt;trinidad/tobago - sweden&lt;br /&gt;argentina - ivory coast&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;today:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;group a:&lt;br /&gt;germany - costa rica 4:2&lt;br /&gt;poland - ecuador 0:2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ranking:&lt;br /&gt;1. germany&lt;br /&gt;2. ecuador&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(pic: reuters)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-114988814422141137?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/114988814422141137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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type='text'>Ecuador : Polen</title><content type='html'>Gastkommentar des anonymen Fussballexperten.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Und da ist es auch schon vorbei, die erste Partie der Fußballweltmeisterschaft, das Eröffnungsspiel, Deutschland gegen Costa Rica, 4:2, also sechs Tore, ein Feuerwerk, und das ungefähr ein halbes Jahr vor Ende der Semesterferien. Über diesen Zufall spricht aber niemand, nein, es lässt sich gut an, die WM für die Weltgastgeber und alles was zählt ist die Begeisterung, auch wenn Paulo Wanchope kein Ronaldinho ist – aber genau das herauszufinden wird den Deutschen nicht erspart bleiben.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Und jetzt spielt Ecuador, und wenn sie es gut machen, dann spielen sie nicht, nein, dann zelebrieren sie Fussball, ja ist ihnen das denn zuzutrauen, wer weiß das schon, und es wird die Welle der Begeisterung hineingetragen in die Tiefe des lateinamerikanischen Raums. Und nicht nur das, auch in die Höhe, in die Höhe von Quito, der Hauptstadt der Gelb-Blau-Roten, die mit Polen zwar einen schweren aber doch bezwingbaren Gegner in der Gruppe A vorfinden – von Deutschland wissen die Ecuadorianer ja, das letzteres leider nicht zutreffen kann.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Costa Rica machte den Anfang, jetzt Ecuador, morgen geht es ganz in den Süden nach Argentinien, auch Trinidad und Tobago und Paraguay werden sich die Ehre geben – dann fehlen noch Brasilien und Mexiko und mit den USA werden dann die Amerikas, alle die es gibt!, erste Duftmarken gesetzt haben, die weitere Ausblicke erlauben.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 200%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma;"&gt;Vorerst möchte ich aber nicht weiter eure Zeit stehlen - &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;schließlich spielt ja Polen und der Anstand müsste mir eigentlich solche Wortspiele verbieten. Einundzwanzig Uhr, Anpfiff.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24561565-114987965941679430?l=rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/feeds/114987965941679430/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24561565&amp;postID=114987965941679430' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/114987965941679430'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24561565/posts/default/114987965941679430'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rudyriedlsperger.blogspot.com/2006/06/ecuador-polen.html' title='Ecuador : Polen'/><author><name>rudy</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01911614244565050409</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
