The new year is boston approaching a welcome to a year until a countdown of the top twenty five reports of the year here are three and five. Hands on bonnie dixon is a top commentary from britain. Pedal power presenting the worlds slowest porsche. As Good Samaritan meets a man from croatia and his bed friend. Falling into fifth place in our top reports ranking with an event that is synonymous with gemini the annual october fest one of the first things visitors do when they get to the festival is get a beer of course theres often an arm of family sets up their first bit of booth the type of fest one hundred fifty years ago today they run one of the events launches a bit tense and that is where the first keg is tapped every year for you bestie. Well six thousand revelers partying hard. But the thing that did manage to say. That the short and humble family has been providing a very in special days brass on pop music and cheering crowds for five generations. He couldnt i make him forget that kansan wire is for a whole day and a night by spending a funny name head friending people its something very special to have satisfied Customer Service is one of us so if we had to guess its. The continuity comes from the family never have been taking themselves too seriously while demanding a lot of themselves and is that down through the generations and i think it makes a difference and knowing the fourth measure has shut nama but it took a while for me to learn to do it right. Its just awful that is ticking off. The family Success Story at october fest began with the first mchale shopping hommel in eight hundred sixty seven for their one hundred fiftieth jubilee the Family History was chronicled in a commemorative book it runs to two hundred fifty pages. I would use the value of the october test above all of us and i always go to schottenheimer enough history to see it and it was just so incredible to go into the story and substantial on architects of design to shop in hamilton since the eighteen hundreds they used electricity early on among the odd jobbers screwing in light bulbs was a young albert einstein. Munichs october fest museum has staged an exhibition in honor of the familys jubilee. We tell every visitor who takes a tour with us a Little Something about the song. In addition to this exhibition just because the tapping ceremony was invented here. To museum shows old film clips of the second mchale shot in hobble talking munichs mayor into tapping the first kagan his tent in one nine hundred fifty. That before and it made him most friends with the mayor of munich at the time thomas very much one who was riding in the carriage with my grandfather that makes one man didnt care and she said you know why dont you tap the first cake. Now at that time tapping a kid was actually beneath the dignity of a man but he was a social democrat and a man of the people so he stood there and tapped it on soft. And ever since the mayor has tapped the first cake to mark the official start of october fest a team day long party. But what is it that makes october fest so special. So have a great is a crazy year yet its only made back here i think that better taint mens back then yeah i mean they are right that. October fest moves with the times in the one nine hundred eighty s. The bands here started playing other music besides traditional very unfold. As you know is it to stay right on top of the times and simultaneously keep the traditions on with soon to be developed or Payment Systems for patrons so they can pay over their cell phones because nowadays everybody has their cell phone a lot and its ongoing. But despite the changes october fest is very much about traditions and the shopping humble family plays an important role. Keeping those traditions along. The. Way. We turn now to a young artist whos keeping the art of poetry alive this is a form of skill dates back to the fifth century b. C. And its still a traditional technique used in india and this is today british profit maker Barnaby Dickson developed a new technique to give the puppets more agility and often layering that with some great characters hes made quite a name for himself online. Dont worry this dinosaur might look dangerous but its perfectly harmless. And some clever hand movements bring these featherweight creature to life. Its one of many finger puppets made by Barnaby Dixon the young man from bridgewater in southwestern england makes his puppets by hand. Deborah cheek the duck was his first creation. To me that the puppet id seen before more traditional puppets didnt really have the same kind of fluidity and gravity as youre able to attain with stop motion so the result of stop motion was kind of my starting point and i just think i was thinking how can i make live action puppets have the same sort of realism as stop motion character. The special thing about fun of these prophets is that though they are built around hes handsome they arent glove puppets. His latest character is minute. Barnaby can perform intricate movements that look amazingly lifelike. One of the often spends time in his workshop perfect thing hes puppets the joints are made of metal the bodies are made of a combination of resin silicon and plastic. He buys all his materials online. One of the main challenges in building these puppets is youve got kind of two starting points one that is the kind of ideal puppet they want to create but then you also have to accommodate for your own hands and a symmetry in the way that they move in a way that you wouldnt kind of imagine sometimes. So i think. Trying to marry those two things and finding something that works in terms of proportion but also and also. Tricky. Barnaby dixon has his pockets perform every day situations on. Plays the lead role. He posts a new video every week the British Seaside to feel the rush through my feathers software. Joy and lest we forget the pearl. Of the waves under a full. Id like to go home now please. Interesting. Technical skill the show in the creation. Of the pump is what makes people fall in love with them to some degree or at least want to come back for more. Also shows his puppets in local pubs. He likes keeping in close contact with his friends and only virtually. I think its nice to share the show the puppets to the public because you get a sense of the reception for three you tube comments and through you know people liking it and things like that you dont really get a sense of you know peoples faces when they see and when i see peoples reactions and its a positive one. In the flesh you know something different. That i value. The Main Attraction tonight is a special performance glows in the dark and dixons hands become almost invisible riveting stuff for the audience that is what. The. Place is you do look at your think its like a movie by itself and you kind of forget about the. And you just you just you just focus on this this puppet i just couldnt believe how much i lost myself. In the character of the piece with the birds you feel like its moving in a way that a real bad School Animal would move in with the dinosaur its obviously you know no one seen the dinosaur but i feel like thats how a dinosaur. Hes already working on new characters bob for now manu is enjoying his time in the limelight. Now someone else who spent a lot of time in the workshop is how does. He know the welds slowest porsche now though as slow and porsche dont usually go together i know i bought having the time to be slow these days is more of a luxury than growing fast for this luxury sports car speed is not the name of the game. I have porsche nine one one for many a dream on wheels the embodiment of power and speed but when the traffic light changes in minutes austria even cyclists overtake this porsche. Thats because this one hundred fifty kilos sports car is really a bicycle how does lie new to the austrian who built it powers it using his legs. For a simple i phone song and im a mom or of course its pleasant when you can be very slow its a special luxury. I think thats a bigger luxury than if you always have to be very fast. Everyone wants to be fast and everyone is always around but to be slow thats the real luxury. Underneath its golden surface the materials used to build the car are quite mundane. The artist created his mobile sculpture from plastic tubing and duct tape. Thats how the porsche named fanny now and three r. S. Came to be an artwork that questions the cult of cars while making a social and ecological statement. Europes museums already how is harness long a car art for example the lentils art museum for contemporary and modern art in linz. How does one aid us fabien and has taken laps around the porsche factory and stick out received an invitation to Frankfurt International motor show and appeared on the british t. V. Show top gear that happened after hundreds. I made a video to promote his car artwork which is racked up more than three million hits on the internet. To explore not every year spoiler holds down the rear axle for traction when you exceed five kilometers an hour. The oversized air intakes in the front spoiler keep the driver and passenger from overheating and perspiring too much. Seats in the seats are adjustable and come from the we come in by technology their form prevents wear and tear on the inside of the drivers. And to keep the price down to fatten and doesnt tire early without an engine. Driven by muscle power fabien and has the right of way downtown in austrian cities and people everywhere agree on like normal cars this mobile work of art is also allowed him to destry in zones. Thomas lung has created an entirely new form of mobility he even occasionally uses fabien and him self in daily life. You yourself would you feel a lot better than a normal porsche because you dont produce as much toxic emissions. And i havent calculated precisely how much c o two a human body emits but its certainly less than an internal combustion engine. A human being is an engine to an engine with a lifetime guarantee. But the shelf where you said you hold. A car designer fairy porsche once said the last car ever to be built will be a sports car he could be right because the fat in the g. T. Three you are us will still be rolling along with other cars have long run out of gas. Oh and down to our last hero holes in our countdown unfolding in second place is a heartwarming tale from croatia its all about an injured storm and a man whos taking care of him for the last twenty four years after the pension his wife passed on several years ago madalena the store is his top priority and taking care of his feathered friends. Its his way of giving Something Back to the well. Ben and the stork are a famous couple in croatia step on book which has been taking care of the injured stork for the past twenty four years molina has a broken wing and can no longer fly so the man and his bird often travel by car when the other stork set off for africa in the fall melinda stays behind without her fellow storks life can be dull and lonely so step on tries to get malina a normal life as far as is possible. Better your friends you have friends look. This is something im able to give back to our planet you cant always just kill and destroy we have to help nature to stalk so the only birds that like to live near people. Twenty four years ago. Found she had been injured by gunfire he rescued her but shes never fully recovered so he takes care of her he even built a nest for her on the roof and around so she can reach it. Every spring has made sickly petain joins them the two birds have been together for thirteen years and have raised fifty four offspring this year saw another four stork chicks hatch. Cant fly or see crude so step on bocage takes on her tasks and provides food for her and her chicks. Its assured we feed the little birds. Already fragile. Like a fish or you will ever hear it or hear of. Her or i do. Ive grown so fond of her that i will continue to gather food for her and her babies as long as im physically able to yes. Even if it rains or hales step on bocage drives fifty kilometers twice a day to the regions canals and ponds to catch lunch and dinner for money now. Its a challenge because shell only eat life fish of a certain size. Three and. More of it so it was a walk in life you have to sacrifice yourself for someone i happened to find this bird and i brought it here and helped it so how could i abandon her now after twenty four years its not going to happen no way. They will stop thought at all of your world you are. Well and or deal with god if he doesnt catch enough fish he feeds the storks with lean meat he spends most of his modest pension on the birds if he doesnt receive small donations from animal lovers he would have to go hungry himself. A mile of the. Baton mean a lot to me my wife died eight years ago so these two are my family now so i mean everything to me. On this for me so were. Going to suddenly find spend my last cent on the effort and will always make sure they are doing well. Or a lot of your karma. When clip it and sets off for africa at the end of the summer molina and remain behind and hope to see him again next year. Months of close cross species togetherness follow. Step on not only feeds the stork he also frees money in his legs of encrusted dead skin otherwise it would crack apart and get inflamed. Patiently allows him to work on her legs a sign of trust. The two in their day with a ritual watching films about storks on television. Or. The crazy heroine is attacking the stork. Look your stocks have flown off to africa this world this was. And so the two of them keep each other company and prove to the world not only dogs can be mans best friend. What i love the story the report that had over twelve point six million views on facebook this year though it was one that made people laugh for the First Time Ever passengers on a german train retreated to a multi stage there to production over a thousand local them volunteers performs different short sketches along a thirty kilometer stretch as each train went by it was surprising and on new years will entertainment for the past and this and our viewers love the story so much that it came in first place in our top twenty five reports of twenty seventeen. Hunted up being chased by his lookout post. A family who suddenly gets water. And a truck bomb phrase in a field the famous cop on the phone with east germany trying to keep up with a modern v. W. All parts of a not project stage the people on passing trains local residents pulled out all the stops to keep the passengers on the thirty kilometer train ride between nonbook and enough to entertain. Those months when whats so good not to just stare at your phone all the time but to look outside the countryside here is amazing and of course the individual pieces of drama that are on show a quite unique downs and show and spits it puts you in a good mood. A few kilometers further on residents are still preparing their props disguised as bush if they take up their positions this stage is the peeled their performance will last just a few seconds. Keeping their audience guessing is a key idea in the performances where the passengers sometimes wonder whats real and what staged this tree seems to be on fire then people from the stone age stop me appear on the scene. Of. A shock surprises a couple of fishing. The whole thing was the brainchild of un himself and young go poof now media artists and professors for experimental television. For. Little ones. Fifteen years ago you couldnt have imagined doing and each Search Online and scanning an average of fifteen thousand pictures a day as thumbnail so that has an effect on you in a train journey is similar its like a parallel to modern media you pass by all these things really fast you cant look at them properly so its like looking over thumbnail pictures. Of us a lot of the something of the muscle by. The trains passed through nine stations along the route here too there was plenty of action. In now on board the quiet santa passengers. Then rocco began his race against the train they were actually twenty five runners all wearing identical outfits giving the impression that one man was out running out peddling the machine. For the moment it was a chance to have some fun and for at least one resident it was a way of getting to know her new neighbors. It just seemed like something fun to do as a group and then also im really interested in getting more involved in the local culture so for me as a foreigner it was really exciting. The train of course had no chance against the racing roll call. All together the out just before the twenty fourth train loads of passengers over two days. For the moving bushs that meant running across the field twice an hour. We didnt know each other before hand. Its really interesting but you get to know nice people and have some fun. And i think its all part of the project to do things together with other people and im with them to. Performances for passing trains on the projects that inspired local residents and certainly entertain the passengers the full well that we are top twenty five countdown have come to an end ready for a new year stories in twenty eight i welcome all of the team here at your rock i wish you all a very happy new year take care of the sounds and all the best and. Next time on your own max the highlight show. Cowardly percents get lucian every art from britain. A star entertainer from the netherlands andre rieu. And a fantastic Adventure Park on cyprus all this and more next time on your own max highlands. Cooks. The gods house of music. This time with the color of tara soprano simone a coming. Together with opera star. Player. Gets used to display. Divides. In. What binds the continent to get. Answers and stories aplenty. Spotlight on people. Sixty minutes d. W. They live to surf leadin sure looks in the longer we were there. Surfing. 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