Persian Odyssey: Part XIV – Return to Esfahan

Leaving the sites of Persepolis and Pasargad I came to the crossroads where the tomb of Cyrus the Great is located. It just stands there in what I can only call splendid isolation. Unimposing, really, at first sight its sheer simplicity, almost blending with the surrounding desert, gives you the impression that the whole desert constitutes his final resting place. Unconfined to a mere rock face as is the tomb of Darius and others at Naghsh e Rostam, Cyrus's “greatness” seems as vast as the land itself.

Almost literally in the shadow of Cyrus's tomb I checked the drive train of the now considerably lightened Enduro, threw away most of the remaining gear that would no longer be needed for the final push back to Esfahan, turned away and headed west by northwest. The damaged sprocket had survived reasonably intact thanks, I suppose, to the constant attention and TLC I gave it and I no longer worried about making it back to Esfahan. It had come more than three quarters of the distance and would undoubtedly last for the final leg of the journey. I wondered (considering what I had seen in Kermanshah), as I rode along the highway, what I would find when I arrived back in Esfahan at the end of August, 1978 when, in retrospect, strikes and demonstrations began to paralyze the country.

Iranian kebab with roasted tomatoes

salad with various herbs

Superficially, things hadn't changed much in the week or so that I had been away. My third house looked unchanged as I opened the gate and pulled into the courtyard. I was looking forward to a good meal and a bath and sleeping in a real bed, but I let the bike idle while quickly dumping my gear in the courtyard. I was pretty worn out but there was nothing to eat in the house so I decided to go out for some lamb kebab and the green herbs on the side that I loved so much. I was probably not as alert as I should have been and the traffic on one of the main thoroughfares was very heavy. At any rate I hit a guy who was working his way on foot through the stalled bumper to bumper traffic. Being on a bike you can snake through traffic snarls and that was what I was doing when this guy suddenly appeared in front of me. I hit him and spilled right there on the street. 

Next thing I knew I was sitting, dazed, on the sidewalk with a crowd of people all around me. The bike had been righted and appeared not to be seriously damaged. I asked about the man I had plowed into and, although he was nowhere in sight, they insisted that he was not seriously injured either. Nevertheless, they were anxiously urging me to get back on the bike and get out of there. My head was clearing up by now and I could sense the urgency of their entreaties. They were frightened about something. I tried to ask what was bugging them, but my Farsi was totally inadequate. They realized, of course, that I was a foreigner, probably American, and someone managed to speak enough English to let me know that it would be best if I made myself scarce before the police came. I don't know if they were trying to help me or simply didn't want any hassles with the police, but I picked up their nervous vibes and did, in fact, get back on the bike and, a little shakily at first, returned to my house unfed. I locked the gate then took a long hot back and went to bed. I had some trouble getting to sleep even though I was exhausted, with the incident leaving an uneasy foreboding in my mind. 

To be continued...

RESULTADOS DEL DJJM 2012 EN HOCKENHEIN, ALEMANIA

ESTAMOS EN ECUADOR Y CENTRO AMÉRICA - NICARAGUA

DI CASA CAPUTI

EL CRIADERO CON MÁS PODIOS EN EL SIEGER ARGENTINO 2012

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Estimado ovejerista:

Ha  finalizado el clásico anual mundial de las juventud ovejerista, el DJJM 2012 que se realizó del 25 al 28 de mayo en Hockenhein, Alemania.

En esta ocasión Ecuador estuvo representado por Roberto Caputi Jr., quien en una gran Primera Categoría machos presentó al VA2 Quattro von der Partnachklamm, obteniendo un extraordinario segundo puesto, detrás del Sieger 2010 Ober Bad Boll.

Un hecho relevante fue la participación de Iván Weikop de Argentina, hijo de nuestro amigo Marcelo, quien en su debut en las pistas alemanas obtuvo un también fantástico SG2 en Segunda Categoría machos con Jarno Val di Vara, ¡FELICIDADES, BIEN POR AMÉRICA LATINA!

En las próximas semanas estaremos cubriendo las exposiciones más importantes de la temporada 2012.

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Roberto Caputi (padre e hijo) con el VA2 Quattro von der Partnachklamm

PRIMERA MACHOS Gebrauchshundklasse Rüden, Richter: Meyer Reinhardt

V 1 *Ober von Bad-Boll 2169889, 21.07.05, SchH3 (Giovanni Kapellenberg - Aike Gigelsfelsen) Rieker Hans-Peter,73101 Aichelberg

HF: Reuschel Nina

V 2 *Quattro von der Partnachklamm 2216142, 11.03.08, SchH3 (Zamp Thermodos - Ora Müdesheimerland) Dieterich Reinhard & Gill Kuljit Singh

HF: Caputi  Roberto

V 3 *Ustinov vom Römerland 2188759, 15.09.06, SchH3 (Quantum Arminius - Kira Lacroz) Send Peter & Hupperich Horst,68519 Viernheim

HF: Carrubba Rosario

V 4 *Yankee vom Feuermelder 2255307, 22.04.10, IPO1 (Joker Eichenplatz - Amanda Seeteich) Gumbel Ute,34590 Wabern

HF: Maibüchen Yannick

V 5 *Wallaby vom Kapellenberg 2233829, 05.02.09, SchH1 IPO2 (Yoker Leithawald - Zahira Kapellenberg) Benitz Winfried & Gutmann Günter

HF: Benitz Alexandra

V 6 *Chicco  Dogshof 2271652, 20.12.09, SchH3 (Joker Eichenplatz - Oxana Schindbachtal) Koch Günter,40764 Langenfeld

HF: Büttgenbach Niko

V 7 *Ixus zur Worringer Rheinaue 2244480, 26.10.09, SchH3 (Gigolo Bärenschlucht - Lady Worringer Rheinaue) Krumnack Wolfgang,44795 Bochum

HF: Thiel Jocelyn

V 8 *Baru vom Fürstenbrunn 2232182, 05.07.08, SchH3 (Bruno Vierhundert Hertz - Wega Almhof) Kilic Hakan,TR-34750 Istanbul

HF: Grimm Saskia

V 9 *Sky vom Eichenplatz 2237997, 07.04.09, SchH3 IPO3 (Bojan Pendler - Toga Heinrichplatz) Schimanski Elisabeth & Paksoy Naim Can

HF: Niermann Lea

V 10 Ulivo del Rione Antico 2277326, 05.03.10, IPO2 (Vegas Haut Mansard - Yasmin Rione Antico) Mantello Domenico,68519 Viernheim

HF: Weikop Ivan

V 11 (*)Rocco von der Karl-May Höhle 2251035, 18.02.10, IPO2 (Kanto Karl-May Höhle - Xara Baruther Land) Schüßler Dietmar,85309 Pörnbach

HF: Limmer Selina

V 12 *Lennox vom Hofjägerhaus 2236452, 02.02.09, SchH1 IPO2(3) (Unkas steilen Ufer - Jina Haus Munsingerdunn) Leder Nadja,76297 Stutensee

HF: Leder Nathalie

V 13 Kerry vom Usinger Schloß 2251181, 15.03.10, IPO1 (Yukon Bastillie - Holly Usinger Schloß) Busch Rainer,61250 Usingen

HF: Loll Maurice

V 14 (*)Wamos von Sendling 2261320, 04.05.10, IPO1 (Nino Tronje - Olly Sendling) Kapidzic Ognjen,82538 Geretsried/Gelting

HF: Hinz Marco

V 15 *Fax vom Elzmündungsraum 2243366, 09.09.09, SchH3 (Hatto Hühnegrab - Jana Bertenau) Brauch Richard,74915 Waibstadt

HF: Brauch Martin

V 16 *Graf v.d. Falkenau 2250591, 03.02.09, SchH2(IPO3) (Zeckel Mäusespitz - Bessie Falkenau) Geissler Renate,66687 Wadern

HF: Buchmann Lara

V 17 *Hill vom Terdannenhof 2204597, 06.07.07, SchH3 IPO3 (Yukon Bastillie - Gwenndy Terdannenhof) Hemmers Nadja,47574 Goch

HF: Hemmers Nadja

V 18 *Bachus vom Haus an der Schiene 2248648, 09.11.09, SchH1 (Remo Fichtenschlag - Enea Casa Veronica) Schmitz Georg,68519 Viernheim

HF: Hügel Alina

V 19 Maximus De Tierra Salvaje AGPA 4662, 10.12.09, SchH1 (Ober Bad-Boll - Ulme Wutachtal) Rexroth Heinz,67069 Ludwigshafen

HF: Aschke Patrizia

V 20 (*)Imex vom Terdannenhof 2245774, 13.12.09, IPO1 (Peik Holtkämper Hof - Gwenndy Terdannenhof) Kröll Jochen,47574 Goch

HF: Kröll Justin

V 21 *Jonas von Fidelius 2213312, 18.01.08, SchH3 (Yerom Haus Salihin - Diva Berghofer-Heide) Feldhoff Alexander,58091 Hagen

HF: Mielchen Fabian

V 22 Ikon von der Zenteiche 2253750, 20.05.10, IPO1 (Nino Tronje - Phanta Zenteiche) Schipek Hans-Peter,56179 Vallendar

HF: Mackey Melissa

V 23 *Xanto vom Hof-Niederzier 2200297, 22.03.07, SchH3 (Ilbo Holtkämper See - Mira Arlett) Flücken Hans sen.,57539 Bitzen

HF: Langhorst Franziska

V 24 *Vietus von Flori-Tina 2218229, 23.03.08, SchH2 (Wotan Worringer Rheinaue - Polly Flori-Tina) Thul Volker,50374 Erftstadt

HF: Lipp Robert

V 25 *Ghandi von der Wilhelmswarte 2229338, 05.08.08, SchH3 (Uran Wilhelmswarte - Fanta Treiser Wasserburg) Nagel Sandra,67158 Ellerstadt

HF: Jung Ann-Kathrin

V 26 *Mark aus der Schloßstadt 2242644, 02.10.09, SchH3 RH1 FH1 (Ballack Worringer Rheinaue - Fraya Farbenspiel) Vastering Alfred & Pöpping Reinhard

HF: Lösing Karin

SG 1 *Hooker vom Grey Power 2213757, 01.02.08, SchH3 IPO3 (Max Königsgrube - Flo Grey Power) Liedtke Michelle,59065 Hamm

HF: Bögge Lara

G 1 Wolf von der Bergschlucht 2245713, 07.12.09, SchH1 IPO2(3) (Bomber Wolfsheim - Shari Bergschlucht) Nondorf Jana,46286 Dorsten

HF: Staeck Vanessa

G 2 Odin zur Krombach 2231195, 06.11.08, (IPO1,2) (Olennox Salztalblick - Cora Hermannstein) Lindemann Klaus,56428 Dernbach

HF: Mildner Lisa

PRIMERA HEMBRAS Gebrauchshundklasse Hündinnen, Richter: Setzer Henning

V 1 *Jaci vom Eichenplatz 2203727, 09.03.07, SchH3 (Yukon Bastillie - Alisha Eichenplatz) Patten Willi,41466 Neuss

HF: Thiel Jocelyn

V 2 Daisy von Melanchthon 2252245, 08.02.10, SchH1 IPO2 (Remo Fichtenschlag - Zad Feetback) Hohmann Harald,75438 Knittlingen

HF: Hohmann Sari

V 3 Romana v. Ghattas CBPA 4095/SP, 28.04.09, SchH1 (Quenn Löher Weg - Valentini Ghattas) Musolino Luciano,I-21033 Cittiglio (VA)

HF: Caniello Salvatore

V 4 *Arriba von Veterinaria 2206111, 30.08.07, SchH3 FH2 (Balko Gleisenauer Schloß - Holly Bellissimo) Krafzel Margret,97204 Höchberg

HF: Maibüchen Yannick

V 5 *Juri vom Schollweiher 2217697, 05.04.08, SchH2 (Vegas Haut Mansard - Fraya Ulmental) Benitz Liliane,85084 Reichertshofen

HF: Benitz Alexandra

V 6 *Ida von der Zenteiche 2253751, 20.05.10, SchH1 (Nino Tronje - Phanta Zenteiche) Ludwig Christoph & Schipek Hans-Peter

HF: Hügel Alina

V 7 *Gucci vom Hanneß 2224259, 20.08.08, SchH2 (Nando Gollerweiher - Viola Hanneß) Limmer Hans,93358 St. Johann

HF: Limmer Selina

V 8 (*)Fanta du Val D'Anzin LOF 635689, 06.04.10, IPO1 (Adel Val D'Anzin - Tabata Val D'Anzin) Trentenaere Eric,F-78440 Fontenay St. Pere

HF: Kistler David

V 9 Quenny von der Rochele-Ranch 2247612, 12.12.09, SchH1 IPO1 (Zamp Thermodos - Riva Wittelsbacher Schloß) Kugakolova Alexandra,RU-127287 Moskau

HF: Dieterich Lisa

V 10 Siria  Veracruz 2249596, 06.01.10, IPO1(2) (Furbo Achei - Kessy Veracruz) Siderno Destefano Antonio,

HF: Mackey Melissa

V 11 *Destiny von AnDE-HeNA 2198405, 04.04.07, SchH2 (Joker Alcudia - Chipsi Heuchelberg) Schmitz Georg,68519 Viernheim

HF: Hügel Alina

V 12 *Romina vom Baiselsberg 2196360, 07.01.07, SchH1 (Nobody Baiselsberg - Olivia Baiselsberg) Jung Jürgen,67475 Weidenthal

HF: Jung Ann-Kathrin

V 13 *Emma du Val D'Anzin LOF 623926, 26.03.09, SchH2 (Vegas Haut Mansard - Vladine Terrils du Ch'ti) Trentenaere Eric & Benitz Winfried

HF: Kistler David

V 14 (*)Pia vom Hirschmorgen 2251537, 29.04.10, IPO1 (Dux Glockenheide - Uda Eckkopf) Woldrich Reiner,69181 Leimen

HF: Wulf Raffael

V 15 Yanni vom Akrobat 2243408, 05.09.09, SchH1 (Ebafarmens Izaro - Thora Fichtenschlag) Greiner Manfred & Meißner Bärbel

HF: Brauch Martin

V 16 *Ulme vom Wutachtal 2183743, 07.06.06, SchH2 (Winner Assaut - Selma Wutachtal) Rexroth Heinz,67069 LudwigshafenPlatz Name des Hundes SZ-Nr., Wurftag, Abkz Eltern Eigentümer

HF: Stecher Saskia

V 17 (*)Helen vom Fiemereck 2251416, 03.05.10, (SchH1) (Nino Tronje - Fraya Ritterberg) Hartomulyono Paulus Slamet

HF: Kranicz Julia

V 18 (*)Era-Evita vom Lamorak 2251197, 23.04.10, IPO1 (Joker Eichenplatz - Alma Lancelot) Bretschneider Silke,39264 Steckby

HF: Büttgenbach Niko

V 19 Cheyenne von der Stadt Mosbach 2253584, 29.03.10, (IPO1) (Hatto Hühnegrab - Alba Haus-Farrenkopf) Keil Reinhold,74838 Limbach

HF: Ruland Nadine

V 20 *Jella vom Ritterberg 2193013, 06.12.06, SchH1 (Zamp Thermodos - Lena Ritterberg) Flücken Karin,57539 Bitzen

HF: Flücken Bernhard

V 21 *Henni von der Brossmerhöhe 2202128, 05.02.07, SchH2 (Eiko Brossmerhöhe - Fanny Brossmerhöhe) Schwörer Andreas,79341 Kenzingen-Nordweil

HF: Schwörer Andreas

V 22 *Kira vom Himmeltal 2194731, 04.01.07, SchH2 IPO2 (Zamp Abtei-Eck - Umelli Noriswand) Rein Roland & Sauerwein Monja,63933 Mönchberg

HF: Sauerwein Monja

V 23 *Daymi-Jo von Willoby 2216283, 06.03.08, SchH3 IPO3 FH1 (Dack Königshöhle - Oxana Sternbusch) Lösing Karin,46325 Borken

HF: Staeck Vanessa

V 24 Akira von der Braunkohle 2230388, 01.01.09, SchH2 (Larry Röderburg - Asche Broichwald) Nesgen Natascha,50171 Kerpen

HF: Nesgen Raphael

SEGUNDA MACHOS Junghundklasse Rüden, Richter: Meyer Reinhardt

SG 1 Ne-Yo zur Worringer Rheinaue 2259320, 06.09.10,  (Paer Hasenborn - Shakira Farbenspiel) Itter Bruno & Lipp Robert,50769 Köln & 50181 Bedburg

HF: Maibüchen Yannick

SG 2 Jarno  Val di Vara POA 288896, 13.07.10,  (Airforce Haus Fer - Cara Val di Vara) Mackey Heike,68519 Viernheim

HF: Weikop Ivan

SG 3 *Frabo vom Fürstenbrunn 2258595, 28.05.10, IPO1 (Harry Real Favorita - Quina alma mater) Bernstein Helga,04277 Leipzig

HF: Kriebitzsch Nina

SG 4 Xero von Sendling 2257660, 10.07.10,  (Nino Tronje - Ardenburg Diva) Kapidzic Ognjen,82538 Geretsried/Gelting

HF: Hinz Marco

SG 5 Windsor von der Wasserkuppe 2254763, 10.07.10, IPO1 (Remo Fichtenschlag - Kimba Klostermoor) Vey Helmut,36129 Gersfeld

HF: Siegwart Tanja

SG 6 Djago aus Mecklenburg 2260081, 18.11.10,  (Pardo Baruther Land - Kelly alten Herrenhaus) Beckmann Lars & Kiel Tanja,21075 Hamburg

HF: Büttgenbach Niko

SG 7 Elmo vom Wasserloser-Adler 2259574, 01.11.10,  (Paul Bierstadter Hof - Finca Kirschental) Adler Friedolin,63755 Alzenau

HF: Reiter Manuel

G 1 Lesko vom Usinger Schloß 2260200, 18.10.10,  (Sambo Arlett - Holly Usinger Schloß) Busch Heidemarie,61250 Usingen

HF: Leder Nathalie

G 2 Brix vom Valtenberg 2262272, 15.10.10,  (Quattro Partnachklamm - Nelly Suentelstein) Dittrich Sven,01909 Frankenthal

G 3 Andy vom Harlinger-Hof 2259416, 01.08.10,  (Cim Dorneburger Bach - Isis Steenflage) Christians Silke,26487 Neuschoo

HF: Eward Vanessa

SEGUNDA HEMBRAS Junghundklasse Hündinnen, Richter: Setzer Henning

SG 1 Ella vom Holtkämper Tor 2255069, 01.07.10, IPO1 (Morret Holtkämper Tor - Illi Holtkämper Tor) Kilian Anke,26133 Oldenburg

HF: Meyer Alexandra

SG 2 Pana vom Hühnegrab 2255619, 03.07.10,  (Pasko Hühnegrab - Kressi Hühnegrab) Fischer Kevin,56218 Mülheim-Kärlich

HF: Caputi  Roberto

SG 3 Xie von Sendling 2257662, 10.07.10, IPO1 (Nino Tronje - Ardenburg Diva) Kapidzic Ognjen,82538 Geretsried/Gelting

HF: Hinz Marco

SG 4 Unna vom Gleisenauer Schloß 2259045, 08.10.10,(SchH1) (Estor Team Gleisenauer Schloß - Isabella Valtenberg) Siegwart Erich & Vey Helmut,91315 Höchstadt

HF: Siegwart Tanja

SG 5 Belissima de Domus Didacus LOP 435016, 10.07.10,  (Vegas Haut Mansard - Winnie Arminius 2000) Campos Diogo,P-2765-306 Estoril

HF: Martin Jan

SG 6 Hettie aus dem Aurum Zwinger 2257392, 18.06.10, IPO1 (Renzo Holtkämper See - Sina Lindenhayner Flur) Neise Rüdiger,06792 Sandersdorf OT Ramsin

HF: Uebe Stephan

SG 7 Quantessa vom Hühnegrab 2261468, 04.11.10, (IPO1) (Tyson Köttersbusch - Leevi Hühnegrab) Mohr Wolfgang,55124 Mainz

HF: Wolf Sidney

G 1 Kayenne vom Höllbachgrund 2258279, 28.09.10,  (Howy Höllbachgrund - Jecky Höllbachgrund) Meier Yasmin,78224 Singen

HF: Meier Yasmin

G 2 Cheila zur Krombach 2257298, 05.06.10,  (Olennox Salztalblick - Cora Hermannstein) Gertler Jens-Uwe,99706 Bendeleben

HF: Mildner Lisa

G 3 Mali vom Cap Arkona 2258406, 14.07.10,  (Jako Adelegg - Fenja Wartenberg) Wagner Hans-Dieter,66620 Otzenhausen

HF: Nickels Lena

G 4 Katara vom Höllbachgrund 2258278, 28.09.10,  (Howy Höllbachgrund - Jecky Höllbachgrund) Cruz Delia,78224 Singen

HF: Martens Delia

TERCERA MACHOS Jugendklasse Rüden, Richter: Zygadto Karl-Heinz

SG 1 Nemo vom Winnloh 2266566, 19.04.11,  (Nino Tronje - Vrancis Winnloh) Tepling Anton,45663 Recklinghausen

HF: Maibüchen Yannick

SG 2 Fulz v. Unitedhof TUR 102050, 16.03.11,  (Baru Fürstenbrunn - Immola Brunnenstraße) Grimm Sylvio,08312 Lauter

HF: Grimm Saskia

SG 3 Zarus d' Ulmental ROI 11/37607, 22.12.10,  (Fulz Zenevredo - Lyra Radhaus) Talasz Natalie,86570 Inchenhofen

HF: Liegl Julia

SG 4 Ando v. Tuni TUR 101826, 01.01.11,  (Dux Glockenheide - Tamara Rieser Perle) Resit Tuncay,TR-41050 Izmit Kocaeli

HF: Resit Soner

SG 5 Kondor von Rapicar 2263182, 14.12.10,  (Rono Bierstadter Hof - Raisa Rapicar) Lorösch Eugen Hartmut & Menzel Mandy

HF: Wucherpfennig Tabea

SG 6 King von Sofanga 18055/11, 27.03.11,  (Baru Fürstenbrunn - Helen Sadaghiani) Grimm Sylvio,08312 Lauter

HF: Geuthner Kristin

SG 7 Ghost v. Unitedhof TUR 102054, 26.03.11,  (Baru Fürstenbrunn - Azra Unitedhof) Cetin Cem & Beckmann Lars

HF: Grimm Sarah

SG 8 Amado vom Holtkämper Hof 2269779, 22.04.11,  (Renzo Holtkämper See - Daisy Kiama) Kriwath Kerstin,33829 Borgholzhausen

HF: Dälken Timo

SG 9 Eddie vom steilen Ufer 2261288, 12.12.10,  (Ober Valcuvia - Manu steilen Ufer) Hermann Reinhold,88441 Mittelbiberach

HF: Wieland Johannes

G 1 Kennedy von der Liebenburg 2267441, 27.03.11,  (Ryo Wannaer Höhen - Alpha Liebenburg) Schmeier Martin,66625 Nohfelden-Eisen

HF: Nickels Lena

TERCERA HEMBRAS Jugendklasse Hündinnen, Richter: van Dorssen Margit

SG 1 Fengie du Clos de Patmisand LOF 645360, 19.12.10,  (Eliot Ness Normont - Enjie Clos de Patmisand) Trentenaere Eric,F-78440 Fontenay St. Pere

HF: Kistler David

SG 2 Ursina vom Bad Wäldle 2264666, 03.04.11,  (Sammo Casa Beggiato - Lissa Bad-Boll) Rieker Renate,73101 Aichelberg

HF: Reuschel Nina

SG 3 Meite vom Winnloh 2265623, 10.04.11,  (Ypsilon Lärchenhain - Emely Winnloh) Tepling Anton,45663 Recklinghausen

HF: Maibüchen Yannick

SG 4 Mendy aus dem Haus Zygadto 2266468, 08.05.11,  (Franco Kuckucksland - Dani Haus Zygadto) Mackey Heike,68519 Viernheim

HF: Mackey Melissa

SG 5 Ulme vom Frankengold 2265758, 05.03.11,  (Fulz Zenevredo - Xsilke Brunnenstraße) Dittrich Sven,01909 Frankenthal

HF: Kriebitzsch Nina

SG 6 Nera von der Zenteiche 2264961, 19.03.11,  (Team Marlboro Tiger - Chipsi Zenteiche) Riehle Robert,77880 Sasbach

HF: Caputi  Roberto

SG 7 Herta di Poggio del Sole ROI 11/84876, 10.04.11,  (Homar Colli di Uzzano – keine Angabe) Raniolo Salvatore,I-97100 Ragusa

HF: Occhipinti Federica

SG 8 Yanka  Kalupus PKR-I 67961, 08.02.11,  (Bix Arlett - Armi Dobrego Kojca) Barjak Magda,PL-05-600 GrojecPlatz Name des Hundes SZ-Nr., Wurftag, Abkz Eltern Eigentümer

HF: Schmidtke Laura

SG 9 Eri von Bad-Boll 2265028, 24.03.11,  (Homar Colli di Uzzano - Eviva Bad Wäldle) Rieker Hans-Peter & Herzing Oskar

HF: Koop Kevin

SG 10 Asya v. Tuni TUR 1018270, 01.01.11,  (Dux Glockenheide - Tamara Rieser Perle) Resit Tuncay,TR-41050 Izmit Kocaeli

HF: Resit Soner

SG 11 Jacky von Rekas 2262502, 31.12.10,  (Quattro Partnachklamm - Heaven Rekas) Kastrup Reinhard & Dr. Kastrup Gina Nadine

HF: Aschke Patrizia

CUARTA MACHOS Nachwuchsklasse Rüden, Richter: Zygadto Karl-Heinz

VV 1 Tyson  Fixfrutta JR 739114, 14.06.11,  (Vegas Haut Mansard - Simba Panoniansee) Ravlic Zlatko,HR-31000 Osijek

HF: Jovovic Milan

VV 2 Hulk vom Fürstenbrunn 2272233, 29.05.11,  (Baru Fürstenbrunn - Kurina Urbecke) Grimm Sylvio & Bou Nahed Antoine,08312 Lauter

HF: Grimm Saskia

VV 3 Kirby von Melanchthon 2271694, 05.08.11,  (Lennox Regina Pacis - Zad Feetback) Hohmann Harald,75438 Knittlingen

HF: Hohmann Sari

VV 4 Xavi von Tronje 2272412, 06.07.11,  (Paer Hasenborn - Nadja Jabora) Meßler Nikolaus & Rath Roland,50933 Köln

CUARTA HEMBRAS Nachwuchsklasse Hündinnen, Richter: van Dorssen Margit

VV 1 Goda von Bad-Boll 2268845, 20.06.11,  (Enosch Amasis - Quena Hiss) Hepp Sigrid,88521 Ertingen

HF: Hepp Jasmin

VV 2 Scarlett vom Hühnegrab 2267521, 29.05.11,  (Urbo Leithawald - Samie Hühnegrab) Scheerer Heinz,56357 Geisig

HF: Caputi  Roberto

VV 3 Margman Lacoste EST 03428/11, 08.08.11,  (Conbhairean Uno - Margman Ultima Thule) Kuusman Margit,EF-78250 Pölli (Raplamaa)

HF: keine Angabe

VV 4 Zora  Casa Silvia ROI 11/132018, 20.07.11,  (Homar Colli di Uzzano – keine Angabe) Blois Ferdinando,I- Amendolara

HF: Weikop Ivan

VV 5 Veggasa v. Team Panonian See JR 808897, 06.06.11,  (Warell Contra - Landrina Contra) Ravlic Zlatko,HR-31000 Osijek

HF: Jovovic Milan

VV 6 Quera von der Zenteiche 2270393, 09.08.11,  (Tyson Köttersbusch - Yanka Zenteiche) Ludwig Christoph & Lelieveld Hans,56357 Gemmerich

HF: Hügel Alina

VV 7 Heaven von der Lars-Aue 2272712, 19.07.11,  (Italo Casa Nobili - Coffee Lars-Aue) Kühnemann Lars,04600 Altenburg

HF: Kriebitzsch Nina

VV 8 Uma von der Blautalhalle 2271511, 16.08.11,  (Chacco Freiheit Westerholt - Paula Blautalhalle) Moser Anton,89081 Ulm

HF: Rauner Markus

VV 9 Charline von Sendling 2269424, 26.06.11,  (Vegas Haut Mansard - Qana Sendling) Kapidzic Ognjen & Battistini Emilio,Geretsried/Gelting

HF: Hinz Marco

VV 10 Keya von Cleo 2270237, 09.06.11,  (Enosch Amasis - Karma Hattorfer-Land) Nickels Lena,54413 Gusenburg

HF: Wagner Mareike

VV 11 Fernanda vom Natzental 2268011, 14.06.11,  (Hatto Hühnegrab - Uschy Fürstenstein) Bazin Michael,78532 Tuttlingen

HF: Fuchs Lisa-Maria

VV 12 Fanta vom Natzental 2268009, 14.06.11,  (Hatto Hühnegrab - Uschy Fürstenstein) Iaconeta Guiseppe,78054 Villingen-Schwenningen

HF: Iaconeta Anna

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Persian Odyssey: Part XIII - Persepolis...

Map - Shiraz to Esfahan, Iran

… the climax and crowning glory of my journey through ancient Persia and modern Iran.

Shiraz - tomb of Hafez
Wikipedia image

Although I had one or two students from Shiraz in my class I had made no arrangement to visit them in the course of my journey. Time was running short as well and I was due back in Esfahan to start the next leg of my contract. I was scheduled to be an in-flight tutor with the students who had graduated from the classroom part of their training program. More on that later. At any rate, I more or less bypassed Shiraz, which is known in Iran as the “city of poets”, two of whom, Hafiz 14^th Century and Saadi 12^th and 13^th Centuries, have monuments (tombs) there.

panoramic view of Persepolis looking west - Wikipedia image

first impression - double stair to the site

Gate of Nations

Persepolis turned out to be largely for my eyes only. There was hardly anybody there on the sunny morning I pulled up to the massive double staircase that leads up to the archeological site. I spent the entire day wandering around the site including the nearby sites of Naqsh e Rostam [tomb of Darius and other Achaemenid kings}and Pasargad [palace and tomb of Cyrus the Great], taking photographs until the breathtaking sunset at Persepolis ended a memorable day. I will simply post pictures, some of them my own, some taken from the web to fill in the gaps in what I either lost or failed to record at the time, and let Persepolis speak for itself across a span of some 2500 years. 

Tachar Palace, Wikipedia image

Persian Soldiers, Wikipedia image

lion biting bull, Wikipedia image

Nagsh e Rostam - tomb of Darius the Great

plan of the archeological site
Wikipedia image

Apadana audience hall - Persepolis

Darius and attendants

Pasargad

Soldiers, Wikipedia image

sunset - Tacher palace 

Apadana Palace, Persepolis - sunset

To be continued....

A teaching moment

One of the greatest rewards of being a teacher is when you break through and establish a personal contact with a student. Each becomes a person to the other, not just a label—I teacher, you student—a la Tarzan.  No, I am me and you are you. But that doesn't come as easy as you might think, unless you are in the game yourself.

I recently retired from full time teaching at 70 (well beyond the normal retirement age), but still felt I wanted to keep my hand in the game part time. So, I arranged to work at my friend and colleague's language school a few evenings a week teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) to elementary school kids. I started there soon after we returned from Prague.

One of my classes was a little unruly and seemed to be led by one certain boy—Ko-kun. His name is Ko, the “kun” is added to boys names—it is the child's equivalent of “san” for adults. For example, I am Joe-san. He was obviously the most outgoing and brightest student in the small class of four. Unfortunately he lacked self control. After a particularly exasperating day I decided to apply some behavior modification techniques I had used as a special needs teacher. (I had worked with emotionally disturbed children in a school in Massachusetts in the early 90s.) Of course, this kid isn't ED, just lacks self control. Boys will be boys, especially active ones confined to a classroom.

This week I announced and explained our new “Class Rules”. Rules are all well and good, but you need consequences for when they are inevitably broken. I had developed a 3 strikes = OUT! policy in my previous school, so I reinstated it here. It is useful because it gives the teacher a consistent disciplinary tool and it gives the kid a choice. Japanese kids know and love baseball and all understand that 3 strikes means you're out. I made two posters: one listing the class rules and consequences, the other a graphic illustration of a player making three strikes. 

The first strike out gains five minutes time out. The second, 10 minutes. The third loses the kid his break if before break time, or homework if after break. During the lesson my target kid, Ko-kun showed very good self control when shown the limits.  I breathed a huge sigh of relief, while quietly self congratulating myself. 

Naturally I praised the whole class for good behavior and staying on task, but singled out Ko-kun for extra praise. He was clearly tickled pink and started drawing happy faces on the whiteboard. I said: “I'm happy, too; I'm going to draw a happy face, too.” Ko-kun then drew happy faces for all the other kids and wrote their names under them, including mine, but misspelled it. “Hmm,” I said, “if you're going to write my name, spell it right.”--and corrected it. I then asked him to erase the board. He told me that he couldn't reach the top so I told him I would take care of that.

As I was leaving Ko-kun comes up to me and says: “Joe, I'm giving you some of my snack,” and hands me something junk foodie and cheesie. “Hey, thanks, this is very cheesie, isn't it!” says I.

No pun intended.

一緒 - ISSHO - “togetherness”

school athletic field

main school buildings

Japan is something of a hive society. The concept of individuality is more or less alien to the traditional Japanese spirit; the concept of social harmony is the driving force. To that end, children are conditioned to work together and cooperate to a degree unprecedented and incomprehensible to the western notion of individuality. There is a saying in Japan that tells what will happen if an individual stands out--"the nail that sticks up gets hammered down". As a westerner teaching in a Japanese elementary school for almost 20 years I have always had mixed feelings about this emphasis on discouraging the individual to stand out from the crowd and be a star.

1st Graders entering the field
for a little dance performance

relay race

An enormously important element of the educational system for encouraging group behavior is the annual semi-sacred “sports festival”-- 運動会 - UNDOKAI in Japanese. This is not an occasion for spontaneous fun and physical exertion as a field day in an American school might be. Not on your life! A whole month of the school term is devoted to practice and rehearsal of the events to be included in the days activities. Everything must be perfectly coordinated and timed! TIME is de rigeur. Rehearsals are timed with a stopwatch to ensure that everything runs like clockwork.

picnic tarpaulins

synchronized dance with pom-poms

Then, the big day comes with banners flying and tents erected. It is day for family togetherness. Picnic tarpaulins are laid out amid the school buildings and surrounding the athletic field. Parents have their digital cameras and video cameras at the ready. Then the “opening ceremony” with students passing in review as in a military parade, flags raised, anthem sung, speeches by invited dignitaries from the local government made and, then, and only then, do the various sporting events take place to lively musical accompaniment from classical--William Tell Overture--to martial music and everything in between.

me with former students --
now 5th Graders

As an alumnus teacher, I was invited to attend this years UNDOKAI as an honored guest. I went yesterday, brought my camera and took a few pictures to give you a glimpse of what the “sports festival” in Japan, or at my old school anyway, looks like.

doting moms--covered from head to
toe for protections from the
dreaded sun--not for fear of skin
cancer, but to keep skin white

not as easy as it looks--two kids have to
coordinate to keep the ball in the wheelbarrow

variation of a sack race with double wide short pants

a little overweight huffing and puffing

alley oop -- togetherness, they start 'em young

more doting moms and a dad

pre schooler prospective enrollees--
encouraged and helped by parents to participate
in a mini-event

school courtyard with coffee and
drink concession by PTA

human pyramid--the ultimate in cooperation and mutual trust--
the brave fellow on top is, of course, the smallest boy in the class

Last Dance

Love to Love You Baby

MacArthur Park

Last Dance - 2009

The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen.

For those of us who danced our asses of in the disco days of the 1970s, Donna Summer will probably live in our hearts and feet forever. And probably most every other part of the body as well. Here, as my final tribute to the wonderful voice that kept my motor running in those distant days, are three songs that, for me, show three faces of Donna—she's now got 'em dancing among the stars I have no doubt.

Junkies

The Information Diet - Carl A. Johnson

If you Google “junkie” you come up with the usual Wikipedia headliner (or very near the top) followed closely by a listing of various kinds of junkies: sports junkies, romance junkies...urban dictionary junkies (?) but not, oddly enough, Google junkies. I, admittedly, am a Googler and Wikipedia devotee, but selectively so—of course. I am a discriminating junkie. 

So, what do I get from a friend in my email inbox recently but a link to a new kid on the block selling another self help book—this one for information junkies. It's called the The Information Diet, A Case for Conscious Consumption by Carl A. Johnson. An admitted food junkie, the portly but-you-should-have-seen-me-before Mr. Johnson compares overeating with the indiscriminate consumption of information (munching on sound bites perhaps?). 

If you're an information junkie you might want to get the book to learn how to wean yourself off of noshing on data junk. It isn't my intention to criticize the contents of the book since I haven't read it. Remember, I am a self-declared discriminating info consumer. I only consume what I choose selectively, which, according to Mr. Johnson's sales pitch cum lecture [link above], is what information dieting is all about. If I can do it, you can do it, too. 

 

The friend who sent me the link, I later learned, was thinking of Mr. Johnson's thinking as an extension of the theories of Marshall McLuhan in Understanding Media. Mr. McLuhan, you may remember (if you are old enough), predicted the advent of the Internet some 30 years in advance of his time. Prescient man that he clearly was, I, thinking of Mr. Johnson's book, wondered if Mr. McLuhan foresaw the way that modern marketing would manipulate media in an almost logical extension of his theories.

"The medium is the message" tells us that noticing change in our societal or cultural ground conditions indicates the presence of a new message, that is, the effects of a new medium. 

 

And if we discover that the new medium brings along effects that might be detrimental to our society or culture, we have the opportunity to influence the development and evolution of the new innovation before the effects becomes pervasive. **

Unfortunately, as the need for Mr. Johnson's book would indicate, the “effects of a new 

medium” have already become pervasive. We're all junkies now.

** What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message?

by Mark Federman
Chief Strategist
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology

http://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/article_mediumisthemessage.htm

 

Persian Odyssey: Part XII – a little light historical context

Open desert and oil fields and not much to do but think. How did I come to be here on a semi crippled bike with a civil war postponed and waiting to resume (for me at least) when I returned to Esfahan? Why is the US government, today, hellbent (verbally at least) on kicking Iran's butt? The eternal post-9/11 question: “Why don't they love us?”

Khomeini left (white beard);
Castro right (right)

What do oil and bananas have in common? Big business and big profit—British Petroleum, Exxon Mobile, United Fruit. The flag follows the money. There seems to be a connection with the US's preoccupation with Cuba and its obsession with Iran. It's more than likely a matter of face and pride as well as profits. Both countries, in the persons of Fidel Castro and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, humiliated the US and drove it out of their countries. And, in between, there was the added insult of the Vietnam War.

We can trace the linear progression of the US involvement with Iran from before the Iranian Revolution to its obsession with Iran's supposed nuclear weapons development program. I believe this latter is simply setting up a straw man, as with Iraq's supposed WMD, as an excuse to manipulate for regime change in Iran to a more pliant government that will let the US have its way as it did when I was working in Esfahan under the Shah in 1978. We could see a repeat performance of the Iraq debacle, but on a much larger and messier scale if the MICC hawks (military-industrial-congressional complex) have their way.

Mossadegh under house arrest

Briefly, then, Mohammad Mossadegh was the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953. While he was Prime Minister he instituted several social reforms like unemployment compensation, health benefits, etc. He is, however, most famous (or notorious, depending on your point of view) for nationalizing the Iranian oil industry from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, later known as British Petroleum (BP of recent Gulf of Mexico oil-spill memory). It's not hard to guess what happened next. Mossadegh was ousted in a coup d'etat engineered by Britain's MI5 with the participation of the US's CIA on August 19, 1953. He was arrested, tried and imprisoned for three years and died under house arrest in 1967.

The rest as they say is history. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was restored to the Peacock Throne and the new Prime Minister, Fazlollah Zahedi's government formed a consortium with foreign oil companies giving “the U.S. and Great Britain the lion's share of Iran's oil wealth.” With the Cold War in the background, the US regained business and military influence in the Shah's Iran. Iran's oil resources were exploited and strong ties between the US and Iranian military forces were forged. Anyone opposed to this arrangement would simply disappear into the dungeons of SAVAK (the Shah's secret police) or go into exile and plot the demise of the Shah.

the Shah (l.) meeting with Alfred Atherton, William Sullivan, Cyrus Vance, President Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1978

Military hardware was sold and training programs were set up and, voila!, here I was training soldiers as part of the military sales package. My English language training company out of Chicago was sub-contracted to Bell Helicopter International, which was, as I mentioned earlier, training Iranian helicopter pilots in Esfahan. Until the excrement began to hit the fan around mid-1978, soon to culminate in the downfall of the Shah and the American Embassy hostage crisis in Tehran which the US has never forgotten or forgiven the Islamic Republic of Iran for, and which brings me back on the road to Shiraz and a short pit stop before going on to Persepolis.

[All photos in this post courtesy of Wikipedia, which is also responsible for filling in the gaps in my historical memory.]

To be continued...