Dear Martin,

             How are you my friend? It has been a while since we met. How was your trip to Africa? Hope you enjoyed it? I received all the postcards which you had sent me from there. Thanks a lot! I like them all.

            Hey! Guess what? My Aunt Annemarie has organized an early birthday party for me, and she has asked me to invite all my friends. You know very well that no party of mine is complete without you. So please be at my place this Sunday. The party doesn't start till 4, but do come early so that we can go golfing at Ebreichsdorf! Bring Max along with you, too. Don't be late.

             Hope you parents are alright? Give them my regards. I wish you all the best for your baseball match today. Miss you, your pal. See you this Sunday.

Take care,
Gotti

Atomic Power Plants: Are they necessary?

             Electronic is very important for mankind. Without it we could not live in such a way like today. In many countries atomic power plants are used, in order to produce energy. They are necessary for us humans, because they produce many quantities of energy. In addition with the production no CO₂is set free .

             Atomic power plants are pollution free with the production, however they are rather dangerous. If it comes to atomic accidents, radioactive jets can be set free and distribute themselves over many kilometers. The power stations are on the highest conditions, but heavy accidents are never completely avoidable.

             To build such power stations is very complex and costs much . Usually they cost several millions dollar, but they supply large quantities of energy.

             Energy can be produced also differently by hydro-electric power plants or the like. However not all countries possess hydro-electric power plants, therefore they fall back to atomic power plants. There is either one or no alternative to produce energy.

             Naturally many jobs are lost when an atomic power plant get switched off, so there is also an advantage to build such power stations. So jobs would be rescured.

             From planning to the completion of an atomic power plant decades offense. Whether the atomic current can be still produced then with the completion, cost-hitting a corner, is not under any circumstances safe.

Dan Lundquist

Dan Lundquist is 26 years old and lives in Mödling. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has a really big family. He is the eldest of 8 other siblings. Daniel is married. His wife lives  in Bregenz, but sometime she visits Dan, because he lives in Mödling at the moment, because of a school project.

Dan’s first car was a BMW. He was and is very proud of it, because he still has got it.

 He studied Animation. He started the exam in USA but he finished it in an English-School in Austria. So now he is an Animator. He is called “The ugly Animator” by his bosses and friends. He made two little animation films. The first is called “The Boris”. In this story is a boy who is called Boris. On his birthday he got a drum. He drummed every day, so after some time it was annoying to the other people, who lived in the village. So they made a plan…

In his second animation-story, there is a man, who is really ugly. This man is in a talk-show, where he told about his life as an ugly man and how he tried to get more beautiful. But he didn’t managed it.

To go back to Dan: Dan has not got a gun. He is a peaceful young man. He likes to be with people. He can deal with people very well. Daniel is very nice and I think he is really O.K.

The Tale of the Three Brothers

The story is about three brothers who, travelling together, reach an impassable river. They make a magical bridge over the river. Halfway across the bridge, they meet the personification of Death who is angry for losing three potential victims. He pretends to be impressed by them and grants each a wish as a reward. The eldest brother asks for an unbeatable duelling wand. The middle brother asks for the ability to resurrect the dead. The youngest brother doesn’t trust Death and asks for a way to stop Death of following him. Death gives him his cloak of invisibility. Afterwards, the brothers go their separate ways.

The eldest brother, bragging about his powerful wand, is robbed of it and murdered while he is asleep. The middle brother uses his ability to bring back the woman he loved who died before he could marry her. However, she is not fully alive and is full of sorrow. He kills himself to join her. The youngest brother stays hidden under his cloak of invisibility, so Death never manages to find him. Many years later, the brother removes his cloak and gives it to his son. Pleased with his achievements, he greets Death as an old friend and chooses to leave with him as an equal.

Babbity Rabbity and her Cackling Stump

This story is about a king who wants to keep all the magic to himself. But he needs to solve two problems: he must capture and imprison all sorcerers in the kingdom and he has to learn magic. He creates a “Brigade of Witch Hunters” and calls for an instructor in magic. Only a cunning charlatan with no magical skills responds. The charlatan proves himself with a few simple and ordinary tricks and begins to ask for jewelry and money to continue teaching. However, Babbity, the king’s washerwoman, laughs at the king one day as he attempts to do magic with an ordinary twig. This causes the king to demand the charlatan join him in a public demonstration of magic. The king warns that the charlatan will be beheaded if anyone laughs. The charlatan later witnesses Babbity performing magic in her house. He threatens to expose her if she does not assist him. She agrees to hide and help him at the demonstration.

During the performance, the brigade captain asks the king to bring his dead hound back to life. Because Babbity’s magic is not able to raise the dead, the crowd thinks the previous acts were tricks. As a result, the charlatan exposes Babbity, accusing her of blocking his spells. Babbity flees into a forest and disappears at the base of an old tree. In desperation, the charlatan states that she has turned “into a crab apple” and has the tree cut down.

As the crowd departs, the stump starts cackling and makes the charlatan confess. The stump cackles again, demanding the king never should hurt a wizard again. He should build a statue of Babbity on the stump so that he is reminded of his foolishness. The king agrees and heads back to his palace. Afterwards, a short old rabbit with a wand in its teeth hops out from a hole beneath the stump and leaves the kingdom.

The Warlock's Hairy Heart

The story is about a young and handsome warlock who decides to never fall in love so he uses Dark Arts to prevent himself from doing so. His family, hopping he will change, does nothing. However, one day, he hears two servants whispering about him not having a wife, so he decides to find a talented, rich and beautiful witch and marry her to gain everyone’s envy.

He meets that girl the next day. Though the girl is both “fascinated and repelled”, the warlock persuades her to come to a dinner feast at his castle. During the feast she tells him that she needs to know he has a heart. The warlock shows her his beating hairy heart inside a cristal casket in his dungeon. The witch begs him to put it back in his body. After the warlock does so she embraces him. However, being disconnected from its body for so long, his heart has developed savage tastes as it has degenerated into an animalistic state. And so he is driven to take by force a truly human heart. He tears out the witch’s heart to replace his own, but finding that he cannot magic the hairy heart back out of his chest, he cuts it out with a dagger. Thus he and the maiden both die, with him holding both hearts in his hands.

The Fountain of Fair Fortune

In this story, there is a fountain where once per year one person may bathe to have his or her problems answered. This is how three witches meet. The first witch, Asha, suffers from a disease. The second, Altheda, endures poverty and powerlessness due to a robbery. The third, Amatha, is distraught after being left by her beloved. The three witches decide to try to reach the fountain together. Along the way a knight also joins them.

On their path to the fountain, they face three challenges. The first involves a giant worm that demands “proof of their pain”. The second a steep slope where they have to bring “the fruit of their labours”. The third challenge, crossing a river, requires them to pay with “the treasure of their past”.

At the fountain, Asha collapses from exhaustion. To save her, Altheda brews an invigorating potion that also cures Asha of her disease and need of the fountain. Altheda realises that her skills are a means to earn money, so she also no longer needs the fountain. Amatha realises that washing away her regret for her lover removed her need as well. The knight bathes in the water, after which he flings himself at Amatha’s feet and asks her “for her hand and her heart” which she happily gives. Everyone gets an answer to his or her problem, unaware that the fountain held no magical power at all.