SC Kittsee were clearly the better team on Friday night. Still, after knocking in a single goal at 36 minutes, the SC Kittsee attack decided to take a fifty minute break until the last ten minutes. SC Kittsee came out winners despite living dangerously this time. There was no reason to leave the result of the game in doubt and leave a lifeline in SV Gols hands until the very end. In the last eight minutes, the SC Kittsee attack came alive again and enjoyed several excellent chances on goal.

Unnecessary yellow cards continue to be the bane of SC Kittsee’s starting eleven. There were games last season where up to five players were sitting out due to cards. Tomas Bastian picked one up, as did Patrick Pail. Pail at least was dragging down a Gols player who might have broken away one on one.

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There’s a lovely tradition in Austria, called Lanternfest (Lantern Festival) which comes on the 11 November. The kindergarten children go for a walk with their lanterns, singing songs. Parents are invited and it’s a chance for the whole kindergarten to work together on a joint project, and parents to see how well the teachers are preparing their progeny for the next step in life, school.

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The above is a short video of this year’s Lanternfest in Kittsee.

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SC Kittsee struggled to beat a club in the top four last week. ASV Deutsch Jahrndorf controlled the game. This weekend at home we faced FC Illmitz who is the third of the three clubs including SC Kittsee contending for second place in II Liga Nord fall season.

The substantial crowd for the last home game at 17h on Saturday faced an unpleasant early surprise when Thomas Wickl scored after two minutes. The rest of the first half was fairly evenly matched with Mustafa Atik equalising at the end of the half. In the second half, SC Kittsee enjoyed breakaway after breakaway and notched two more goals. A decisive win over a worthy opponent, which bodes well for the spring season.

The game was very exciting and I have a lot of photos. Here’s the first seventeen including mostly the goals.

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SC Kittsee and ASV Deutsch Jahrndorf came into this game, second and third in the standings in II Liga Nord close to the end of the fall season. After last year’s struggle, such a result is a heroic turnaround for SC Kittsee. Both teams are big scorers with +11 and +14 goals respectively, but the story of tonight’s game was defence. Kittsee could do little beyond midfield, while Deutsch Jahrndorf struggled to finish their attacks.

There wasn’t much work for Deutsch Jahrndorf keeper Michael Unger. SC Kittsee keeper Manuel Schiszler had to work harder to keep our side in the game.

Here’s some photos. ASV Deutsch Jahrndorf have the weakest lights in all of II Liga Nord, which means sometimes faces are in shadow and ISO is very high.

Jozef Szombat was always guarded by at least a couple of Deutsch Jahrndorf defenders who did a good job shutting him down.

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It was a tough fall season for SC Kittsee with just two wins and 8 points sharing the bottom of the standings with Apetlon, positiond for relegation. The spring season has started off much better with a 1-1 tie with top tier SV Wimpassing on 26 March followed by 5-0 drubbing of fellow cellar-dweller Apetlon on Wednesday 30 March. On Saturday night, March 30, SC Kittsee earned another point, tying a lively mid-standings Tadten team, 1-1. That’s three games with one win and two ties in a week. Saturday night was very cold and ended in a snow storm. Here’s some photos.

Tadten team posted an excellent write-up of the game play in German. Here’s a quick translation:

After the draw at home against UFC Pama, a “tricky” away game awaited us in Kittsee.

From the beginning, we were well in the game against the somewhat unsettled home side.

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In the comments to Austrian Police Patrol Shops, Highways Hunting For The Unvaxx’d, gregga7 darkly notes:

Impfen macht frei! [Injection builds freedom!]

LadyDaze cynically adds:

The likelihood is that impfen macht Tot …

oldschool states the important obvious.

Tot ist frei. [Death is freedom/]

Why have so many Russians, black Americans, NASA scientists and PhD’s not gone to get vaccinated?

It’s about trust in the government. Russians learned over seventy years not to trust the government. Black Americans have two hundred years of negative experience with government and government health inspectors (before they were ex-patriated, most dangerous medical studies were done on blacks). NASA scientists know you can’t trust the government. Critical thinking PhD’s have strong reason to believe we should not trust the government.

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In the comments to Hungary staying in the EU will cause more problems than leaving R Famulus offers a dark description of how the EU expands

True. The scheme is as simple as this:

Admit a country in EU and open borders.
Buy the profitable businesses there far below their value.
Absorb the workforce from that country into Old Europe to the degree that 80-90% of young able-minded and/or bodied men and women (who usually have a work ethic and motivation far above their “Old European” counterparts) leave their homeland.
“Elect” the traitors you want as a government using simple political technologies under the rule of US/EU embassies.
And finally, turn this Nation/Country into a territory inhabited by feeble old native geezers, and gangs of predatory gypsy/migrant/homegrown psychopaths.

From my time in Slovakia, Austria, France and the UK, I can attest first-hand this is how it happens.

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Last Friday, SC Kittsee notched its first win in league play in 2021 with a clean sheet against USC Wallern. The game was quite choppy with eight yellow cards distributed evenly between the sides. Kittsee enjoyed a clear advantage most of the game, with their own goal rarely threatened. Only the fine work of lifetime Wallern defender Simon Steiner at the back kept the game close.

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Last weekend SC Kittsee made the short trip down Pamastrasse to face long time rivals UFC Pama. The game started with a bit of rain and fairly even play. As the sun came out, it shined harder on UFC Pama who slowly outplayed SC Kittsee, scoring first at 34′ and knocking a second in at 59′. It was a welcome change to see such a cleanly played game with no attempt by either side to injure players on the other side. The clean play was reflected in the game sheet with no yellow cards.

Our SC Kittsee is still not in form but it was a well-deserved win for UFC Pama on clean play, hard work end to end and will to win. UFC Pama relies on team work rather than any individual star.

What’s afflicting SC Kittsee?

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I’ve always liked vintage lenses. The metal, the smooth mechanical focus motion. It’s what taking pictures is really about. A precision mechanical instrument, not video game controls.

I have some nice Leica R (wide Leica R is much better on mirrorless than Leica M as it doesn’t distort around the edged), Nikon and even a drawer full of Pentax lenses. I tried every kind of special focus screen for my Canon 5D (the 5D Mk III doesn’t allow special focus screens) but none of them were accurate enough. Yes, those focus screens do get you into the ball park but if you want to be sure of a sharp picture at wide aperture you have to focus bracket with about four pictures. Not particularly good for catching special moments.

When focus peaking first appeared on the Sony A7, I thought my issues with focus on manual lenses were solved.

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