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Wolfgang Hampel, Founder of Betty MacDonald Fan Club and Society, author of Betty MacDonald Biography, winner of first Betty MacDonald Memorial Award, interviewed Betty MacDonald's family and many famous authors and artists. Wolfgang Hampel's Betty MacDonald Biography and Interviews are very popular all over the world. Wolfgang Hampel is also famous for his satirical poems and stories.

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Wolfgang Hampel, Betty MacDonald and a very special letter

Linde Lund shared Beautiful World's photo.

Beautiful World's photo.


 Betty MacDonald in the living room at Vashon on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Betty MacDonald fan club fans,

Betty MacDonald mentioned her favourite flower in several letters and in one of her books.

Tell us Betty MacDonald's favourite flower, please.

Deadline: January 31, 2016

Betty MacDonald fan club birthday card contest is really a great idea.

The winner who sent the best and most original birthday card will be Honor guest of the next International Betty MacDonald fan club event.  

Deadline: March 15, 2016

A Betty MacDonald fan club birthday exhibit with many very special birthday cards by Betty MacDonald's family and friends.

You'll be able to see wonderful cards for Betty MacDonald with very touching messages for example by her daughter Joan MacDonald Keil or her good friend Monica Sone.  ( see info below ' Betty MacDonald and The plague and I )

There will be a Betty MacDonald fan club birthday event DVD available.

We'll have several International Betty MacDonald fan club events  in 2016.

Join us in voting for your favourite city, please. 

I adore King Ludwig's  dream castle.

Wolfgang Hampel's  Vita Magica guest was a very famous TV lady, author and singer and she is our new Betty MacDonald fan club honor member.

I guess Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli  adores our new Betty MacDonald fan club honor member. 

I adore her too because author and TV moderator Tatjana Geßler is a very beautiful, charming and intelligent lady. 

Tatjana Geßler's books are outstanding. I've read several of them. 

Mr. Tigerli is back and we enjoy his new adventures very much.

Are you hungry? 

Let's have breakfast at the bookstore with Brad and Nick. 

Enjoy Betty MacDonald's very beautiful Vashon Island, please.

I adore this possible ESC song 2016. 

By the way I have a bad cold right now.

I have a bad cold too.

What about gargling with kerosene?

I'm so sorry that's not my cup of tea. 

Take care,

Walter

Don't miss this very special book, please.

 

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A Letter To Betty MacDonald

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Dear Betty MacDonald,

I am called a Newage Dreamer.

Your Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series are great. 

They are so funny that I once was about to fall off my chair.

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic is my favourite till now.

Please write more funny books for us children, if possible.

In Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle’s Magic, I liked the chapter, The Thought-You-Saiders cure the most. 

Like the part they said,”Marilyn’s mother said Marilyn fell off her coaster and hurt her head, and they thought she said, Marilyn fell in the toaster and was burnt up dead.” It was so funny.

The other chapter I liked a lot was, The Never-Want-To-Go-To-Schoolers Cure.

 I liked the time were Jody kept on tricking his mother, and his mother acted so dumply.
The other chapters were good, but not as funny as the others.

Your first book was also funny. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle the book that she told stories to teach people good lessons, was terrific for the first book of the series.

Betty MacDonald how nice it would be if you read this letter from me to you.
Best regards,

A Newage Dreamer

Germany's Merkel says refugees must return home once war is over

NEUBRANDENBURG, Germany | By Andreas Rinke






German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts as she addresses a news conference after a meeting with state premiers at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2016.      REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts as she addresses a news conference after a meeting with state premiers at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, January 28, 2016.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried on Saturday to placate the increasingly vocal critics of her open-door policy for refugees by insisting that most refugees from Syria and Iraq would go home once the conflicts there had ended.Despite appearing increasingly isolated, Merkel has resisted pressure from some conservatives to cap the influx of refugees, or to close Germany's borders.
Support for her conservative bloc has slipped as concerns mount about how Germany will integrate the 1.1 million migrants who arrived last year, while crime and security are also in the spotlight after a wave of assaults on women in Cologne at New Year by men of north African and Arab appearance.
The influx has played into the hands of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), whose support is now in the double digits, and whose leader was quoted on Saturday saying that migrants entering illegally should, if necessary, be shot.
Merkel said it was important to stress that most refugees had only been allowed to stay for a limited period.
"We need ... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained," she told a regional meeting of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Merkel said 70 percent of the refugees who fled to Germany from former Yugoslavia in the 1990s had returned.
Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's Bavarian sister party, has threatened to take the government to court if the flow of asylum seekers is not cut.
Merkel urged other European countries to offer more help "because the numbers need to be reduced even further and must not start to rise again, especially in spring".
A MILLION MORE
Fabrice Leggeri, the head of the European Union's border agency Frontex, said a U.N. estimate that up to a million migrants could try to come to Europe via the eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkans next year was realistic.
"It would be a big achievement if we could keep the number ... stable," he told the magazine Der Spiegel.
Merkel said all EU states should have an interest in protecting the bloc's external borders, and all would suffer if the internal passport-free Schengen zone collapsed and national borders were closed.
AfD leader Frauke Petry told the Mannheimer Morgen newspaper that Germany needed to reduce the influx through agreements with neighboring Austria and a reinforcement of the EU's external borders.
But she also said it should not be shy about turning people back and creating "border protection installations" - and that border guards should, if necessary, shoot at migrants trying to enter illegally.
No police officer wanted to shoot at a migrant, Petry said, adding "I don't want that either but, ultimately, deterrence includes the use of armed force".
Such comments evoke memories of Germany's Cold War division, when guards in the communist East, led by Erich Honecker, were under orders to shoot people attempting to cross the heavily fortified border into the West.
"The last German politician who let refugees be shot at was Erich Honecker," said Thomas Oppermann, a senior member of the Social Democrats.
(Additional reporting and writing by Michelle Martin in Berlin; Editing by Kevin Liffey)









Angelique Kerber stuns Serena Williams to claim Australian Open title – as it happened

The German pulled off an incredible 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 win over the world No1 to secure her first grand slam title and deny Williams a record-equalling 22nd

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Angelique Kerber beats Serena Williams to win Australian Open title – video highlights





Then comes the champion, as Kerber holds aloft the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup. She can barely breathe when she comes to speak:

Serena, you are an inspiration, an unbelievable great person, so congrats for everything you did already. In the first round I was match point down so I was already one leg on the plane to Germany. I got a second chance and I take my chance. To win it, my dream came true tonight. My whole life I was working really hard, now I’m here and I can say I’m a grand slam champion. I have the best family, the best team in the world. I really enjoy this moment. Thank you so much. The best two weeks of my life, my career. I had goosebumps when I was playing. See you next year.


Apparently Kerber said she’d jump in the Yarra River a la Jim Courier if she won the title. She’s already welling up though as she finishes her speech and holds court on Rod Laver with the trophy.
Updated at 11.12am GMT
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10h ago 11:01
Wow. That was only Williams’s fifth defeat in a grand slam final. She’d won 21 out of 25 before today. It’s the first time she’s lost the final set in a major final. Kerber had never even been in a grand slam final before today. Kerber has confounded the stats by playing the match of her life on the biggest stage of her life.
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10h ago 10:57
Gracious from Williams, who comes straight over to Kerber’s side of the court to congratulate the victor. The pair embrace, Williams has some warm words for the German, who then resumes her celebrations by going to her players’ box. Williams can’t watch as she sits slumped in her chair. It was Roberta Vinci who ended Williams’s hopes of matching Graf’s grand slam record at the US Open; now it’s Kerber who has put history on hold in Australia. Unglaublich. I’m sure a certain German is watching in Las Vegas with a smile on her face.



Kerber wins the Australian Open title 6-4, 3-6, 6-4! 

Kerber’s face has the expression of a woman who thinks her moment has passed. She needs to shake that off, because if she were to win this game, she would still be the Australian Open champion. She manages to quickly get herself out of the funk by taking the first point. And the second! 0-30. Williams opts for her go-to serve down the T. Ace. 15-30. Williams goes for a rocket of a serve out wide but misses. The second serve lands in, the pair engage in a lengthy duel from the back of the court, Kerber, perhaps waiting for Williams to miss rather than going for a winner herself, retreats well beyond the baseline and is eventually beaten. 30-all. Will it be game point or will it be match point? Game point, when Williams sets the point up with a gutsy forehand down the line and then goes t’other way for the winner. 40-30. Now Kerber is behind in the game, she finds it within herself to attack. Deuce. Kerber goes toe-to-toe with Williams in a breathtaking cross-court exchange and brings up championship point! Williams comes to the net but inexplicably misses the volley which loops long! I can’t believe I’m writing this but Angelique Kerber is the Australian Open champion! Yes, Angelique Kerber is the Australian Open champion!

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Betty MacDonald Fan Club, founded by Wolfgang Hampel, has members in 40 countries. Wolfgang Hampel, author of Betty MacDonald biography interviewed Betty MacDonald's family and friends. His Interviews have been published on CD and DVD by Betty MacDonald Fan Club. If you are interested in the Betty MacDonald Biography or the Betty MacDonald Interviews send us a mail, please. Several original Interviews with Betty MacDonald are available. We are also organizing international Betty MacDonald Fan Club Events for example, Betty MacDonald Fan Club Eurovision Song Contest Meetings in Oslo and Düsseldorf, Royal Wedding Betty MacDonald Fan Club Event in Stockholm and Betty MacDonald Fan Club Fifa Worldcup Conferences in South Africa and Germany. Betty MacDonald Fan Club Honour Members are Monica Sone, author of Nisei Daughter and described as Kimi in Betty MacDonald's The Plague and I, Betty MacDonald's nephew, artist and writer Darsie Beck, Betty MacDonald fans and beloved authors and artists Gwen Grant, Letizia Mancino, Perry Woodfin, Traci Tyne Hilton, Tatjana Geßler, music producer Bernd Kunze, musician Thomas Bödigheimer, translater Mary Holmes and Mr. Tigerli.
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