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

Wolfgang Hampel - and Betty MacDonald fan club fans,

in 1996 Betty MacDonald's family had been interviewed by journalist and author Wolfgang Hampel .

The family members shared very interesting details regarding fascinating life and work of Betty MacDonald.

Especially Betty's youngest sister Alison Bard Burnett had a perfect memory and shared golden Bard memories.

She got the same talent as her famous sister Betty MacDonald.

Betty MacDonald Interviews published 2009 on CD/DVD by Betty MacDonald Fan Club incl. the biography of Betty MacDonald written by Wolfgang Hampel - The Kettles' Million Dollar Egg, The Egg and Betty, The Tragic End Of Robert Heskett, Betty MacDonald in Hollywood, BettyMacDonald's Illness and other biographical stories.

Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel's outstanding Betty MacDonald fan club items and interviews are included in

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

THE EGG AND US:

CONTEXTUALIZATION AND HISTORICIZATION

OF BETTY MACDONALD’S WORKS

SAMANTHA HOEKSTRA

A Thesis submitted to the

Department of History

in partial fulfillment of the

requirements for the degree of

Master of Arts

Degree Awarded:

Spring 2014

Wolfgang Hampel's new project Vita Magica is fascinating because he is going to include Betty MacDonald, other members of the Bard family and Betty MacDonald fan club honor members.

Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli and our 'Italian Betty MacDonald' - Betty MacDonald fan club honor member author and artist Letizia Mancino belong to the most popular Betty MacDonald fan club teams in our history.

Their many devoted fans are waiting for a new Mr. Tigerli adventure.

Letizia Mancino's magical Betty MacDonald Gallery is a special gift for our Betty MacDonald fan club fans.

Don't miss Brad Craft's 'More friends', please.

I'm rereading Onions in the Stew and I'd like to live on Betty MacDonald's very beautiful Vashon Island.

Wishing you a great Thursday,

Mats

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Jamie-Lee Kriewitz to represent Germany

"Unser Lied für Stockholm" took place in Cologne tonight, and televoting decided the winner out of 10 acts

Published 25 Feb at 22:18

Written by

Marco Brey

Cologne, Germany Tonight, the German TV public has chosen which song will represent the country in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest: It's Ghost by Jamie-Lee Kriewitz, a young singer with her very own colourful style - and a strong voice! Unser Lied für Stockholm featured 10 acts, both famous and new, presenting a huge variety of styles from Gregorian chant all the way to a modern version of German Schlager.

17-year old Jamie-Lee Kriewitz will represent Germany in the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. The young singer, who had previously won The Voice of Germany 2015, will enter the stage in Stockholm with her first big hit Ghost. The song already reached the first place in the German iTunes Download charts and the 11th rank in the German music charts. Jamie-Lee is famous for her manga style, which was well visible in her outfit tonight.
In the super-final, Jamie-Lee Kriewitz had won against third-placed Avantasia and second-placed Alex Diehl. These three acts had first topped the ranking in the first round of voting among the 10 candidate acts. 1.89 million votes were cast by televoting, SMS voting and the official Eurovision app.
You can watch Jamie-Lee's winning performance of Ghost below!

<a href="//youtu.be/pGep0qfqED0">Watch video on YouTube</a>

Topics 2016 news national selection Germany Unser Lied für Stockholm Jamie-Lee Kriewitz

Opinion

Merkel, Isolated and Under Pressure, Needs American Help

By Damon Wilson On 2/24/16 at 9:18 PM

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a Christian Democratic Union party election campaign rally for Julia Kloeckner, a deputy leader of Merkel's Christian Democrats, in Landau, Germany, on Monday. U.S. deference to Berlin on European matters has forced Merkel to step up as Europe's leader, but she clearly needs U.S. help to get the continent through a series of historic crises.Ralph Orlowski/Reuters

U.S. deference to Berlin on European matters has forced German Chancellor Angela Merkel to step up as Europe’s leader. But she clearly needs U.S. help to get the continent through a series of historic crises.
In 1989, George H.W. Bush, addressing a then-divided Germany from the city of Mainz, called for Germany and the United States to act together as “partners in leadership.” With the Cold War coming to an end, Washington saw the potential in a new, soon-to-be reunited Germany to become the United States’ leading partner on the global stage. The Germans demurred, neither yet comfortable nor perhaps capable of assuming a position of leadership alongside the U.S. day, Berlin has been forced to take up this offer.

Barack Obama has revived Bush’s offer to Germany in his own way by scaling back the U.S. role in Europe. There has been an explicit U.S. effort to empower and ensure Germany steps up to lead Europe, alleviating some of the burden on Washington. Indeed, in the White House today, the first question often asked about any European issue is, “What does the chancellor want?”
Obama’s posture has required Merkel to occupy center stage during an unexpected series of crises. But for her leadership, the Union would neither have weathered the worst of the Euro crisis, nor would Greece have remained in the Eurozone. The European Union would neither have adopted tough sectoral sanctions against Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, nor renewed them in the face of growing dissent within the Union.
On a recent visit to Germany, in the wake of the Munich Security Conference, it was clear to me that Germans, or at least those who work around the chancellor, now understand that they are in charge. While the public remains ambivalent about this role, Berlin’s leaders know they must help Europe find solutions or none will be found. They no longer instinctively turn to Washington on most issues.
And yet it’s not clear Merkel can succeed without help in the latest crisis facing Europe. Today we are witnessing the worst humanitarian catastrophe impacting Europe since the end of World War II.
Leading from a place of conviction, Merkel has ensured that Germany maintains a welcoming posture. As a result, more than a million migrants arrived in Germany last year. But Merkel is virtually alone in the European Council as other nations—except for Sweden—have rejected accepting large numbers of migrants.
Now isolated, she is vulnerable.
The chancellor is still the dominant actor both in her party and her country. Most Germans say no one is ready to take her place, in part because she has sidelined potential successors. But her personal approval rating has dropped from 75 percent in April last year to 46 percent at the start of this year.
Merkel has long been considered too moderate by many within her conservative party, but party loyalists have embraced her because she delivers votes. If that calculus begins to change, her position could weaken rapidly. A rocky Brexit debate, another Euro crisis and a surge in migrants as the weather warms could also dramatically change the equation.
Germany is heading into three bellwether Länder elections this spring. For the German electorate, the clock is ticking to bring order to chaos.
This is where the United States comes in. Washington is already taking the lead, reluctantly but decisively, on bolstering the NATO alliance in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his aggressive posture toward NATO’s eastern flank. But we have avoided such a catalytic role on the migration crisis.
Obama’s visit to Germany this spring offers an opportunity to reposition the United States into its traditional role as a facilitator of European unity. The president could join the chancellor as her “partner in leadership” by helping to organize a response to the migrant crisis. It’s not enough to help pay the bills, as we are generously doing.
Washington should join Berlin to organize a major initiative with Ankara and Athens that restores the EU’s external borders, prevents the flow of migrants across the Aegean, provides generous support for refugees in Syria’s neighbors and begins to organize orderly repatriations.
Only by demonstrating some control of the current chaotic situation will Germans be able to retain their humanitarian impulse. Otherwise, things could turn ugly.
As part of this initiative, the president should work with Congress to change the terms of the U.S. debate on this issue and dramatically increase the number of migrants from the Middle East that the U.S. will accept.
George H.W. Bush was a unified Germany’s strongest backer. But he could not quite count on Germany to be the “partner in leadership” he envisioned. Merkel, albeit cautiously, is finally prepared to lead. Yet too often she stands alone. Washington is deferring to her, rather than offering her a true partnership in leadership.
The Obama administration’s posture toward Europe, and the migration crisis, might make sense in a benign environment. Today, however, Europe faces a confluence of crises. And while the chancellor is central, American leadership and engagement may just determine whether she succeeds and the European Union holds.
Damon M. Wilson is executive vice president for programs and strategy of the Atlantic Council.

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"Unser Lied für Stockholm" took place in Cologne tonight, and televoting decided the winner out of 10 acts

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