There are a lot of resources on the Internet that offer free family tree charts and free family tree software. Read on to find out what these freebies can do for you.

Benefits of downloading free family tree charts and software

There are a lot of free family tree chart designs available for downloading. These graphical representations will help you organize your ancestors and relatives. There are a lot of designs available for every personality and taste.

What’s great about these free family tree charts is that they can help you add names and dates electronically, usually using your browser window. These charts make it very simple to keep tabs on your progress, because with one click, you can see right away what boxes still need to be filled out.

Free family tree charts and software typically let you complete everything on the web, so it’s very easy to email your relatives and put up a website, once you have finished. Free family tree charts are also usually printable.

What do I have to do to get free online family tree charts and software?

Most websites that give free family tree charts and software require you to sign up. This will instantly give you access to online tools that can generate ancestor, descendant and pedigree diagrams for any name you type into your family tree. These charts are usually hyperlinked - just click them and you can access photos of these individuals, if they exist.

You can also upload your own photos right from your hard drive. Your uploaded photos will appear alongside the names you have inputted in your free family tree chart. Best of all, the free family tree software can instantly calculate the age of and the degrees of relationships among the names in your tree.

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A school brand can start off as an intangible positive image that attracts the public to enrol their children there. An example is the perceived high teaching standards or an impressive list of sporting achievements. Many school administrators do not take a structured approach in developing the school brand and assume that through word of mouth, the school brand will prevail.

This view is erroneous and arrogant. This article will provide relevant tips about developing a school brand.

Alumni Feedback

The best way to start is to conduct a feedback session with the Alumni who are presumed to have experienced the unique culture of the school for a number of years. They can be asked about what they perceived are the strengths of their alma mater.

Teachers’ Expertise

Many school administrators are ignorant that their school’s unique teaching materials and techniques can be legally protected as intellectual property of the school. This is to prevent competitor schools from using these as their own. However, it is also important to develop a culture of exchange and mutual research with other schools.

School Website

Another cost effective way is to develop the brand from the school website. This can be easily achieved by hosting online forums which discuss about various aspects of the school. Teachers, current students and alumni can use these online forums to interact and bring out new ideas and strategies. There can also be a feedback section to improve the running of the school.

Individual School Email Address

A quick-fire way of creating a sense of ownership and branding is to provide stakeholders with a personalized email address from the school server. This will provide free email storage and create online exposure for your school. However, it is imperative that email users are briefed about privacy and confidentiality clauses. They must also be reminded not to “spam and flame” using these complimentary email addresses.

White Papers

It is very difficult to have credibility if the school does not provide research and white papers that are accessible to the public. These white papers are a quick way of differentiating your school and to highlight your research strengths. Of course, the way forward from here is to create a school press and publish the materials of your teachers. This is crucial as it provides an avenue for your teachers to be rewarded for their specialized writings and inculcates school loyalty within your own teaching community.

Contributing To Society

Every school should develop innovative ways in contributing back to society. In the area of school branding, the public can be provided with free talks in the area of the school’s competency or even free tuition for disadvantaged families.

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1770 was when the accommodation Chamonix was opened up in Chamonix Mont Blanc. Before this Chamonix embodied a savage and craggy rural town where folks caught their own animals and harvested their own cereals.

Chalets at this time were used to raise dairy cows over the summer months. Milk was conserved by making it into different types of cheese and kept down in the valley for consumption over the harsh wintertimes. Throughout the snow season the barns were fastened, and valuables were put safely in a small shed.

Quite who devised the chalet vacation is unknown, however it was probably some keen folk who realized a pattern which people liked. With Erna Low it began when she was a unhappy postgraduate and could not afford to visit her family back home in Austria as much as she liked. Thus in 1933 she took a punt and placed a small advertisement in the Times to ask guests on a ski break. The cost was £15 and they journeyed to and from the town, had breakfast and dinner and board in the sole pub lodging, and paid for ski equipment and instruction. The holiday was laborious , there were no ski lifts, no quick release fixings, simply heavy leather boots, it was so successful that Erna continued to take people on holiday, making sure she sourced superior accommodations and ski guides.

These Skiing trips in the beginning were a far cry from the luxuries we enjoy nowadays. Back then hot water was in limited supply, the bathrooms were shared with all of the guests, and there wasn’t a chef; the clients had to muck in. It was a real gamble who may be in the accommodation for the week, one might be agreeably surprised to meet fresh acquaintances, or spend a week of hell with people you didn’t get on with.

Chalet holidays were later on advertised on its extra benefits. A chalet chef, who served you continental breakfast and a plentiful evening meal and baked you a cake, ensuites warm water for washing.

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A glaze is a specially formulated glass applied to ceramics.

In the case of electrical insulators the glaze must maintain specific electrical properties even in inclement weather.

For chemical porcelain the glaze must have high chemical durability.

For fine china, porcelain, and semi-vitreous china, the glaze must have high gloss and be resistant to dish washing chemicals, cutting by knives, and abrasion.

For floor or wall tile a glaze must be resistant to abrasion and scuffing.

In all cases a glaze must be resistant to thermal shock. (Yes, even for tile. A thermal shock test can prove the glaze is in proper compression. More later.)

The properties of a glaze are determined by its chemical composition. Potassium feldspar is a single-component high-temperature glaze for chemical porcelain. Lead is a component of fine china glazes because it “fixes” many of the application and flow problems of glazes and adds high gloss. Lead is not used as it once was, in the white lead form, which was desired in dipping glazes. All most all lead is now contained in frits.

A frit is a special glass used in compounding glazes. It ties up toxic and soluble materials and sometimes coloring oxides.

To form the final glaze compositon, clays, alumina, alkaline oxides and or carbonates, etc., may be added to the frit.

To learn how to formulate a glaze, frit, or ceramic body, see Ceramics: Industrial Processing and Testing, John T. Jones and M. F. Berard, Iowa State University Press.

While not all ceramic bodies are ground, all glazes are ground to a specific particle size.

Over grinding can cause crawlingof a glaze. Firing does not always fix this particular application problem.

The glaze is sprayed on to the ware in most cases. Many shapes are dipped.

Have you ever wondered how the innards of a toilet bowl can be glazed? A Nerf Ball® is soaked in glaze and sucked through the trap.

In the porcelain process the body is porous after a low-temperature bisk fire. Therefore it is easy to dip. This process is automated for dinner plates and such in modern factories.

In the china process the ware is vitrified and it must be heated during the glazing process. This is usually done by burners in the first section of the glazing tunnel.

Glazes can also be applied in powder form by electrostatic spraying. This is a good way to put enamel on household appliances. I have little experience in this area.

I might mention that in the zillion tile factories I have toured in Italy (and one in Columbia, S.A.) a water fall works well for glazing.

The tile industry has many clever ways of glazing and decorating the tile as it moves down the line. I’ve learned that people are generally not required in modern tile factories. Everything including lunch break is automated.

Typically most glazes have for binder a small amount of montmorillonite. This can be a refined synthetic white material in glazes for fine china or Wyoming bentonite for less restrictive glazes.

Methocellulose, dextrin, and gum Arabic are also used as binders. Crawling is a problem that can be prevented by using a proper binder system and avoiding over-ground glazes and overly-thick glaze application. Crawling usually appears during the firing process but it can occur on drying of the glaze.

Some glazes tend to craze after firing. This can occur during decorating operations (or sooner) or much later with time.

One form is delayed crazing that occurs when a porous body (semi-vitreous ware) absorbs water which can expand the body, stretch the glaze, and crack the glaze.

Usually adding nepheline syenite to form more glass in the body, adding silica to raise the body expansion, or other body adjustments can prevent this.

Crazing during decorating operations indicates that the glaze needs reformulating. This may be done by simply adding a small portion of silica or low-expansion frit to the glaze batch. Changing the cooling cycle during the decorating process can help.

I’ve seen large shapes crack on cooling during glost firing, sometimes crazing the glaze. The solution was always in controlling the cooling cycle especially though the silica conversions. (See the reference.)

It is interesting that silica can raise the thermal expansion of a body and lower the thermal expansion of the glaze. Can you figure out why? (Answer: the silica is in crystalline form in the body and in the vitreous form (or very-low thermal expansion form) in the glaze.)

For all practical purposes the thermal expansion coefficient of the glaze must me lower than that of the body. This keeps the glaze in compression after firing.

Glazes always fail in tension.

Keeping the compressive forces higher than the tensile forces is the key.

Silica and boron compounds can lower the expansion coefficient of the glaze. Replacing alkalis with alkaline earths can help.

There is a thing I call multiplicity in glaze formulation: The more different materials used in compounding a glaze, the better. It minimizes the negative effects of a particular material while retaining the good effects. (Anyway, that is my theory and I’m sticking to it.)

Kiln contamination can be a problem in some operations. Pits, pin holes, and pocks caused by impurities dropping on the glaze during firing can be removed by grinding. The ware is resprayed with a thin coat of glaze and then refired. The thickness of a glaze before firing is always a concern so you don’t want to over do it.

Keep your kilns clean. This should be a routine for the kiln loaders.

Pinholes can be caused by body contaminants. If body impurities are still releasing gases on refiring your problem may not be resolved until you fix the body problem.

There is a discussion of glaze defects at http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/122000.htm. One of the defects discussed there is shivering caused by too low a thermal expansion coefficient for a glaze.

In all my days I’ve seldom seen this except in the laboratory. The problem is almost always the opposite (crazing).

Anyway, what can be easier than raising the thermal expansion coefficient of a glaze?

I forgot to mention something of importance when I first put this article up. The foot of glazed ware can be a problem area. For green ware the foot is usually waxed before glazing. The glaze runs off the foot during the glazing process. This leaves a less than desired foot but is satisfactory for the price range of such ware. After firing, the foot is usually rubbed with an abrasive stone or polished on an abrasive belt to remove any burrs.

Bisk fired ware can be glazed and then the foot cleaned before firing the glaze by running the ware across a sponge belt. After firing, the foot must be polished to prevent scratching of stacked ware and to protect furniture, etc.

Also, ware can be pin-fired that leaves a glazed foot which is desirable. The pin marks may have to be removed by grinding but some setters use very small refractory balls at the contact point that leave very little after-firing work.

If your process will allow a glazed foot, then that is the preferred finish.

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine, Jones is Executive Representative of International Wealth Success. He calls himself “Taylor Jones, the hack writer.”

More info: http://www.tjbooks.com

Business web site: http://www.bookfindhelp.com (IWS wealth-success books and kits and business newsletters / TopFlight flagpoles)

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Armorial bearings, or coats of arms, take us back to the glamour of the middle ages. In days of old, knights displayed heraldic devices on their horses’ caparisons, their servants’ liveries, and on their banners and shields. As war medals are awarded today, so coats’ of arms and other heraldic devices could be awarded to knights for their service in battle. But the primary role of coats’ of arms was identification in battle - the bright, vibrant colors and symbols identified the knight to his men, and his flying banner was a rallying point for them.

Heraldry refers to the study of coats of arms, and takes its name from the Heralds, who were the special ambassadors and messengers of feudal times. They were employed by all great lords, and by the king. Because Heralds traveled freely around the country, they were also the armorial officials. They granted armorial bearings. At tournaments, it was the Heralds’ job to check that no knight appeared in the tournament lists displaying the heraldic devices of another. In battle, it was the Heralds’ job, on both sides, to identify the living and the dead, and to declare the winner.

Heralds still exist today. Many countries in Europe have offices of Heralds, including Britain. If you find that you have a British ancestor, you can apply to be granted the right to bear your ancestors’ coat of arms. If your British ancestor didn’t have a coat of arms, you can choose your own devices (symbols), and a coat of arms may be created for you.

What does coat of arms mean? In medieval times, knights wore a thickly padded coat over their chain mail to protect them from sword thrusts, and their armorial bearings were painted on this coat. After a battle, it was the Heralds’ unpleasant duty to identify the dead, and the deceased knights were identified by their painted coats: their coats of arms.

The Language and Symbols of Heraldry

Heraldry can seem complex to us, with its many colors and symbols, but 600 years ago you would have been able to read the colors and symbols on a knight’s livery, banner, and coat of arms as easily as you can read a billboard today. In those days, although most people (even the wealthy) were illiterate, they understood heraldic symbols, and what they meant. Everything on a coat of arms had meaning to them: the colors, the quarterings or other divisions, and the symbols, which could include swords, shields, crowns, animals and mythical beasts.

Are You Eligible for a REAL Coat of Arms?

If you have a British ancestor, you may be eligible. But claiming entitlement to a coat of arms, or applying for a new coat of arms, is a complicated process because you must apply to the College of Heralds of your ancestor’s country. Bear in mind that those kiosks you see set up in malls, or the various websites that “specialize” in providing coats of arms based on your last name, are really just for fun (if you want to be generous in describing their motives). What you’ll receive from these places really has nothing to do with a true coat of arms that may have been granted to your ancestors.

Resources to Help in Applying for a Real Coat of Arms:

* College of Arms (England and Wales): www.college-of-arms.gov.uk

* The Heraldry Society of Scotland (Scotland): http://www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk

* Office of the Chief Herald of Ireland (Ireland) at the National Library of
Ireland: http://www.nli.ie

Chris Simeral is the creator of the 7 Day Family Tree Genealogy Research Toolkit. For more information on last name origins, researching your family’s past, or a free genealogy mini-course, visit http://www.7DayFamilyTree.com.

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Today, as various companies & directors are looking at online video websites as a terrific place to circulate content to grab the interest of their potential consumers, it is critical to tell between the key principles of using web video promotion channels.

Here are one or two basic things you have to be familiar with prior to you beginning to circulate promotional videos on internet video channels.

Always try hard to use videos that offer meaningful material to your viewers - A great deal of business people wrongly believe you can just put any brand of advertisement on a video website, but nothing could be closer from the truth. Every single video must provide some worthwhile material to the target market, if not then at least topic of discussion.

Conduct some market research on the video sites before adding your first video - It’s a tremendous plan to assign some considerable amount of time typing your market’s main keywords into the search engine on the site, in an attempt to find out what other videos are at this time around. Next scribble down the profile names of the most key companies in your sector. Maybe somewhere down the line you can make a joint venture or even have some kind of partnership with these companies.

Remember that each and every video portal has a society built into it - Because of this you should value the other members and it is suggested that you add positive annotations to your rivals’ videos. First & foremost you must be a member of the community, providing advice, ideas etc. And only then should you think of yourself as being a video marketer and begin to broadcast your very own 1 and services.

Commit yourself to developing numerous videos - You must have an obvious strategy for producing & distributing quite a few videos. Otherwise, your video organisation’s page on the video portals will give the impression of being blank if it simply has one solitary video on it. As a result, give time planning the creation of a sequence of short corporate videos, instead of one significantly long video.

Internet video marketing is one of the most successful and quickest techniques of marketing your organisation at this point in time. If you are looking to make the most of online video as component of your marketing mix, then Vidify has the video productions services your will need.

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News Release: it was a disruptive time between the winter of 1959, throughout 1960, and the spring of 1961. Elvis Presley was in the Army, in West Germany; Antarctica was agreed by the 12-nations who had claims on the continent, to use it wisely, and only for scientific reasons, no nuclear testing. Then the 1960-Olympics started in Rome. It was the year Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe at the United Nations on his desk; and Castro addressed the United Nations as well, asking for support with Cuba’s “struggle” against the United States. The Soviet Union put the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin; Pablo Picasso, at age 79 marries his model, Jacqueline Rogue, 35-years old, 42-years his junior…

and the author of, “Cold Kindness,” had his first poetry published in his High School newspaper journalism class; and within nine years, he would be in West Germany.

Towers and Rain Drops

Two hearts never seem to beat
the same, and
two minds never dream alike
we are towers left alone it seems
fighting for our lives.

If only the sun

would remain out, melt
the ice away,
then we could live above the clouds
and watch it rain all day.

We are but drops of rain
you know…
evaporating, in the sun
most people know how to mix, it seems
while others flow as one.

dlsiluk

Inside the Dieburg Tower

Introductory Chapter
Winter in Garmisch
[1959]

She stopped the car on the road, it was full of ice and snow, the road leading into Garmisch that is, Garmisch, Germany; Carmen’s right forearm resting on Adam’s arm for a moment; in the distance ascending into the sky were the ski slopes. The wind was whistling around the car windows and the pine trees were swaying, it was a chilly winter’s morning. The mountain pass had to be made by car or bus; no trains could make it through the pass only around the mountain, and within a certain distance of the areas ski resort. She stopped the car, rested the motor, there was a lodge behind them, about a mile back down the road; and just beyond the pass ahead of them was the village (or town-let), called Garmisch, a ski region, a wintry haven for all of Europe; and a simple old tourist village the rest of the year.

Everything was shinny white, in the frosted weathered morning sunbeams; so much so, it was almost blinding you could say; thought Adam staring with his sunglasses on. Adam, he was Carmen’s American boyfriend. He was discharged from the American Military Armed Forces in Europe, about a year earlier, and had gotten a job as a manager at the local Babenhausen Military PXand for the most part, he seemed to brave the elements of this trip without much difficulty. Carmen looked at him, a brief smile, a comforting intake of air, and drove forward through the pass.

“Is this Garmisch?” asked Adam with a vibrant blow to his diaphragm, trying to absorb its wintry wonderland beauty.

“Yes, yes, but it’s not quite the way I remember it to be, it was long ago you know when I was last here.”

They now had driven closer to the village where they both could get a better view of the whole countryside, a breathtaking panorama; for a moment, a fairytale moment you might say, Adam was taken back, a bit awe struck from its beauty; then as they drove a little further they were in the village itself; a little quaint Bavarian Village by the Alps.

“The hotel is farther down,” Carmen instructed.

Adam looked over his shoulder, out of the back window, it was a long ride from Dieburg and the incline was steep and slippery, he was adjusting.

“Happy to have made it up here in one piece;” he commented.
Carmen burped out “We’ll have to cross this small bridge ahead of us,” turn to look at Adam’s expression, then added “…the hotel is right beyond that (pointing straight ahead).” Adam noticed a stream went under the bridge she was pointing at, and all the way (seemingly) through the village up to some farm pastures towards the mountains.

Said Carmen hesitantly, but with pride, “This is lovely country in the spring as well as summer: streams and forests all mesh together and give out many shades of green; and as you can see, most of the houses still have that old Bavarian architecture.”

“I see,” said Adam.

“Across the bridge is the hotel,” commented Carmen.

“And where exactly is the skiing area?” Although in Adam’s brain, the whole area could be considered, for it was all mountainous.

“There, over by the big hill, mountain I mean, you can’t see it fully, got to get a little closer, but it’s over a mile run down those smaller slopes alongside, there are several you know. We’ll be able to see it closer later; the mountains all kind of blend together, as you can see.”

As Carmen pulled up to the hotel, Adam cleaned his sunglasses a bit. At times, things were so bright, it was blinding, therefore, he rubbed his eyes, shut them for a moment. The snow was heaped up several feet high along side the hotel. Carmen parked the car. This was their first trip together; they had only known each other going on a month.

“There’s no bellboy here,” said Carmen.

“I see the ski-lift now,” the young man said, tucking in his shirt as he got out of the car, grabbing the two suitcases in the backseat.

“Perhaps we can ski this afternoon,” Carmen explained, walking into the hotel. “The weather is perfect for it,” it being twenty-five degrees out.

“How many folks are skiing do you think?” he asked, pointing now at the ski lift, way in the distance, or where he thought it should be, although a configuration, shadow of one was noticeable.

“Perhaps (she paused to look about, think before saying another word)…conceivably about one fourth of the normal folks that would normally come on a holiday or weekend, you know today’s only Thursday, we got a few days before the rush starts.”

“Great, great, I don’t like its crowded now, or will be, in particular.”

“Do you wish to ski as soon as possible?” she asked.

“Depends, ah, depends on what we have to do now I suppose!” he said aloud not realizing he was being overly loud; overcompensating for being tired I’d expect. She did a double-take on him when his voice had exceeded her calm zone.

“Yes, yes, I hear you…!” the young woman said. “But we should eat a fine, if not resilient meal first, rest a bit, and go later on towards early afternoonwe’ll be fresher and not so…(she hesitated, lost her thoughts, said), you know, not so loud please.”

“I’ve forgotten I’m hungry, and I didn’t mean to be so sharp, I suppose I’m just ornery from being tired, it does that to me some times,” said Adam.

[Inside the hotel] “Guten Morgan,” a voice said behind a counter, noticing Adam as an American he changed his language to English: “My name is Koln, do…” before he could finish his statement Carmen interrupted.

“I am Carmen Schmidt; you should have our reservation here?”

“A moment…bitte…please (he corrected himself back to English),” Koln said as he thumbed through some reservation cards: ‘hmmm,’ came from his mouth.

“Ya… (a pause) Ms Carmen R. Schmidt, and…dd, of-courseyour guest…” (He said with a reluctant voice, or so it seemed).

“Yes, that’s me,” replied Carmen.

“Kabine sieben,” said the desk clerk [Room seven], adding in English, “…second floor, I see you’ll be here just three days…”Es ist schon” [fine], “…it’s good skiing weather,” he smiled and gave her the key, trying to readjust his earlier tentative sneer. Adam knew many German’s knew English, or at least conversational English, he himself knew a little German, enough to get a meal, a beer and an occasional date. And both Germans and Americans tried to use what little they knew; either out of respect, or simply for the recognition of knowing it.

“Danke,” said Carmen as they left the counter area, heading toward the main lobby, down the hall, Adam saying: “Tschus”[by]; then asked Carmen: “What is the ‘R’ for?”

“I told you I was a German-Jew, it’s my father’s last name, Rosenbaum, is that a problem?” she said with a higher defensive voice.

“No, no-oo… (a pause) not at all; what’s a Jew got to do with anything anyhow? I mean, I’m Russian-Irishman, Americanbig deal.”

She didn’t look his way, just asserted herself forward as she found the room and opened the door, smiled at Adam as she laid her suitcase on the bed, as if to say, the adventure of the weekend is about to start, let’s not draw back from each other.

[The Ski Lift] “We must have climbed a mile?” said Adam, stopping to rest by a farmyard fence; two cows came up to the wooden fence, with two big bells tied around their necks, Adam was leaning against the fence.

“How charming,” commented Adam, satirically? He walked up the path a little further, toward the farmyard; two little boys came running down the path towards him, and two cows followed along side them, along the other side of the fence. It was as if one boy ran after the other, and the cows just followed. They were twins.

“Guten Morgen” said one of the two blond haired boys, the one by the name of Cody.

Said Carmen with a perfect pitch to her voice, as if it was a soft flute playing (wanting to know where is the ski lift): “Wo ist…der Schilift?”

Said Cody with an impetuous smile, “Er ist…gehen Sie… geradeaus… (go straight ahead).”

Carmen looked straight in back of her, where the boy was pointing: ah, she could see it now.

“Gandige Frau…” said the boy, “wie heissen sie?”

“Carmen,” she said, was her name, to the boy. And she explained that Adam was her American friend.

“Aha…” said the boy with a bright smile again.

Then with slow and broken English, the boy commented, “He’s…my cow sir, isn’t…he big?” Adam looked at them, “H…mmm, they are big and healthy looking cows are they not?” Possibly it was a statement-question, but the boys both looked up and understood most of what was said; then they looked at each other, and were indifferent to it, as if they were holding back a laugh.

Both boys now looking at Adam, Cody said in English, “My name is Cody, and he’s my brother Shawn, we live there (pointing to the house up the path).”

Carmen thanked the boys in German, saying: “Danke,” as the two boys stooped under the fence and ran towards the cows at which time the cows started to run, and then all of a sudden the cows stopped turned to them (the cows, stopping and turning about) the boys jump back and laughed.

Said Carmen to Adam, “They are quite interested in Americans I think, they took a shine to you Adam,” Adam didn’t say nothing; it was more of a statement he thought, than a question.

“Nice boys, cute blond hair, just like little Germans. Anyhow, do you mean we got to walk all that way over there, I mean we’ve been walking for two hours, I think, or is it three [?]” He looked at Carmen, she didn’t say a ward, I suppose nothing to say, then finished his thoughts, “It’s just a little ways now.” Having said that, they started to transverse over to the area the boys had pointed towards.

Then she got thinking: perhaps she was a ting cold hearted, she should ask how he is doing, and asked, “How are you doing Adam?”

“I suppose all right, I’m a bit fatigued, I mean, I mean, I only rested, not slept but an hour at the hotel. And this long walk, and the long ride up here, don’t you German-Jews ever get tired?” She smiled; not saying a word, figuring it was a rhetorical question at best.

Adam, at the present, took off his jacket, he had a sweater under that, and a wool-shirt to boot, and a cotton undershirt under all that, and as a result, he was starting to overheat.

Now, noticing Adam quite exhausted, Carmen (shaking her head) stopped, said with a humbling voice, “You can wait here, I’ll go check and see if we can ski.”

Adam [brooding] “ONono, I came all this way here, walked all this distance, no need to stop and rest a few hundred yards from the site now.” It was more like a quarter mile, but the mannish part of himthe Id was the driving force, although not destructive at this point, and it was a little ego involved, that is, which got its demand from the Id, I suppose, thus, he felt in control; in any case, hethe mannish part of him was not going to allow the female species to have the upper hand.

Said Carmen to the husky, beer bellied man in the green ski-lift hut, sitting down operating some gears, occasionally looking through a window in front of him, and Carmen to his side, “Wo kann ich eine Fahrkarte kaufen? (Where can I buy a ticket?)”

“…Hier Schatzi!” (here darling) said the burly German, watching several ski-lifts going higher and higher up the mountain, threw the sparse wooded area. “Zwei…” (he said, implying she needed two tickets, as he looked, or tried to look, deep into her bottomless and blue beautiful eyes; Adam catching his gaze, the German paying Adam no heed.

Carmen responded in German: “Bitte…vielen dank” (please, thank you much).

Carmen was catching her breath, said to Adam in a low tone, “Three Marks for a ride, three each, that’s close to a dollar!”

“Swell,” said Adam [suddenly], “let’s go for a ride.”

“Guten Tag,” said the manhe now pointed to the ski-lift they were to go on.

Adam saying in English, as if to impress Carmen in the fact he understood a little German, and very little, “And good day to your sir…!”

“Are you able to ski?” asked Carmen, realizing how exhausted she was, and he seemed even more so.

“We shall see once we get to the top.” I think he was thinking if she would, he could, but if she gave a little hint she was tiredwell, I suppose he could go along with anything to get a long rest back at the hotel; anyhow, that was his answer.

He sat back tight against the ski-lift as it ascended up the mountain; Carmen by his side, the seat was made of wood, the rest was made out of steel. It was all painted green, like the woods around them; under him were some twenty feet of air, and accumulating more the higher they went of course. Adam gripped his hands tight onto the sidebars of the lift attached to the seat. Being somewhat fatigued, his eyes started to close. Carmen noticed that; she nudged him to wakeup: reinforcing the fact he needed to hang onto the side of the seat’s side-bar.

“To ski down this mile run is nothing,” said Carmen, “if you are not tired that is; but if you aretired like me or more so, youyou could possibly break a leg.” She was a much better skier than he, and Adam knew it, and so hearing that, he took in a deep breath of air and thought on what she had just said a moment ago. On the other hand, Carmen knew that men seldom listened to women when they sounded competitive, or she felt they could outdo them, so she added: “I’m more tired than I had previously thought,” and although she was tired, she could have skied a few hours more without much effort. But for the most part, this was the best she could do with a warning for him, in allowing an escape path for his ego; thus, let him do as he pleased with this kindest escape clause, she had done her best to create.

“Yes, yes, I understand,” he said with eyelids half open.

“Yes, I see you do,” commented Carmen. At the same time Adam started tapping with his fingers on the steel bar next to him.

Said he, “How do I determine if I’m too tired or not, or how have you determined you might be…?”

Carmen [interrupting] “You are not deaf, are you?”

“No,” said Adam wiping his brow.

“Well, I’m telling trying to tell you we both aretired, but if you’re not going to listen we’ll both break a leg togethergo ahead, I’ll risk it also, otherwise we can turn about and go back to the hotel; I mean we got three, or is it, two days [?] anyhow, we got more than enough time to go skiing, it’s no big deal, as far as I feel, we do not have to push ourselves beyond what we know is not safe”; having said that, they both got off at the next stop and jumped on the returning ski-lift and back to the hotel, not even stopping to warm-up.

When they got back to the hotel, they sat at a table, the bar area was behind them with stools and a few guests lounging about, but practically the whole place was emptyfor the most part, perhaps four or five other people were present. They stayed for a few hours talking and drinking. A man and his ten year old boy were both playing violins with German, Bavarian traditional festive cloths on.

As the waiter came up to take their order Carmen quickly took charge to order, “Ich moechte zwei Stueck Brot, ein Kruegel Bier, und ein Glas Wein…danke.”

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