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We eat thousands a year... But we saw them really dense so there will be no underground fruits. The green parts above ground are eaten like spinach. It is called Stielmus or Ruebstiel. http://en.foodlexicon.org/s0001050.php For the underground fruit, I think the english plants are softer in taste. We use to do: grated with some onions and wild carrots. Egg, some buckwheat and then baked in a pan like potato pancakes. Old recipe using local plants, less calories than potato pancakes. Found an english turnip pancake recipewhich is a bit different. http://andloveittoo.com/turnip-pancakes/ Most people just serve them cut in pieces with butter, but our local turnips are strong in taste. So pancakes or a stew with wild beef.

Offshore rotors at coasts can be smaller because of the different heat storage of water and earth there is more wind at coasts. In our region the constant wind ( as in numbers making it cost effectiv ) starts several hundred feet above ground, so big towers and big rotors are needed. The power lines would be using masts, so forests along he lines would have to be chopped.

The place the rotors would be is already used for a sort of sun energy. Squares with small trees of different ages for wood pellets heating. The valleys hold the centuries old trees which are high quality and it would be stupid to chop them for support roads for wind energy. Wood pellets have all what wind and sun energy doesn't have at the moment. Using the energy even if there is no wind or sun, very short transport because of local users, ...

Since germany did a law to stop all nuclear powerplants there is a search for alternatives. One obvious is to use offshore wind energy. But then how to bring the power to south germany where it is needed. So some crazy people try to place wind power plants on every hill in the mid german mountains. Sadly that is the place I live. The problem is that the government gives money for each new wind power plant and guarantees a certain price if selling the power. So currently we have the stupid effect that north germany is producing more power already than needed and sells it cheap to neighbour countries (because of the to few exisitng powerlines to south germany). So in these countries the prices drop while in germany the prices raise and raise because of the guarantee for the price and south germany has to buy water energy from alpes countries. So I see no sense in more wind power plants just for money making if there is no power grid or a power storage for calm wind days. The state government did a map where wind power plants could be built and six 300metre towers with 80m radius for the rotors would be around our house. So what to do? State interrest versus personal interrests, costly thing at court. The best quick solution are strangely endangered species. If an endagered bird of prey is having a nest closer than 1.5km or endangered bats or small birds are closer than 200m the rotors wouldn't be allowed. So I have some new friends: the Mopsfledermaus (pug dog bat or in english Barbastelle). Rotmilan (red kite) ... and some I hold in reserve to bring them up whenever a new discussion starts. I see a great future for biologists who are also lawyers. I may not be the only one who doesn't want a wind power plant in the backyard and not everyone grews up with knowing the animals as a young child already.

There are studies that nicotin may prevent or help against the Parkinson disease. So perhaps e-cigs are not so bad. But on the other side: most medical drugs have not just one effect and not every one is a good one. So if the Parkinson founds are new, I wonder what else is hidden and not found yet. People who stopped smoking seem to have a slightly higher chance to suffer from Parkinson later. But in my mathematical eyes the number of researched people is a bit to slow to allow a real test. A pepperoni (and its nicotin) in the salade is already the dosis needed to stop Parkinson with a higher than normal probability. So I see no sense for me personally to start smoking Nicotin is also in tomatos and potatos...

What was the final name? We gave 600 pounds of different fruits to the seniors homes nearby this week.

Vodka? I fear the last 10 bottles we got were used not in the sense of the producer. When we do parties ,people bring bottles. That's normal, but we both don't drink alcohol if the next day is a working day or when having readiness. So all the bottles remain untouched till autumn. Then we start to do x-mas presents for the next year. Big glasses filled with pieces of quinces (leftovers from marmelade and Quittenbrot making) and then vodca or Doppelkorn till all is well covered. Then the glass is closed and put in the storage cellar. After a year it is opened, filtered and each litre of f the alcoholic liquid is mixed with 400ml water and 4ßßg sugar and some vanilla rods. All short boiled and the vanilla removed. The result is a nice quinces liqueur. Filled in decorative bottles, etiquettes hand written and a nice rippon band woven around. Nice presents for these 'people who have everything'.

Today (3rd octobre) is reunion day in germany. So a lot of the Fall of the Wall documentation, Scorpions with Wind of Change, Nena with Wunder geschehen (miracles happen), Udo Lindenberg with Sonderzug nach Pankov ,... So if you ever wondered why this is in Sacred2: http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred_2:Berlin_Wall Watch this video, the time, the people leaving eastern germany via hungary the weeks before and then the stressed Schabowski misreading from his paper, a paper and a misreading that changed the world. I remember this night as being in the army (airport firefighter) and we went in full alertness from one second to the other because noone knew what was happening.

Gym? Never was in any if you exclude 8 years army. Breast muscle training is feeding the horses, using a 7 feet fork to move 60 pounds hay packets, or cleaning the horses. Onetime the left hand is front of thefork, the next time right... Rubber band running... Have Dogs Bicycle , use one for transports below ground at work,... Stepper, same muscles as driving my bike crosscountry to work... Okay it helps to have a doc as wife who made a list which muscles I have and which normal activities would train them if doing certain moves. Next gym is 20 minutes away with the bike, 30 with car. Changing clothes, shower,... All in all 3 hours for 45 minutes at the gym?

I have a telephon contract which allows to choose a new phone every 2 years. Since I am quite comfortable with my old one I asked if our 14 years old wants a new one. She said she has to look up the photography forumfor a good one. Never heard this argument before. But it seems you can attach certain phones to DSLR cameras as an extern monitor and remote control. I feel like an dinosaur still using my old analog cameras. She is doing nature photography a lot and currently photographs badgers.

I use to carry some of these cherry size radish with me. Whenever I feel hungry I eat one. Worked fine when I was in exams mainlyreading books and not moving around. I got so used to it that I still do it. So no other snacks between the main meals

Yes it is this becoming bored factor that makes a good character. The DM-shopper is probably able to play the silver campaign as a dragon-berzerker. Then the next difficulty can be a hybrid who recharges dragon strikes with weapon hits. On platinum it could be destroyers and on niob a GoW sniper build (by changing camera view to ego shooter and aiming the long way for maximum damage). So a good character should not become boring easily. The problem is that this Jack of all Trades are too splitted to be real powerful. Bargaining even robs a skill probably needed elsewhere. So with starting as a berzerker it takes just one skill. The same skill which will modify and boost the ca-levels of the companion. The companion will give a third of the damage to the other aspects. Personally I would have taken 5 points in concentration instead dragon magic lore to unlock dragon magic focus.

But how long does it take to get a mutation set, how long to play to level 200?

The picture is for 15kg concrete powder, 35 kg quartz sand, 10litre water. That is for one box. When We did ours we had a pipe build in for the bass reflexes and we used quite flat speakers. Technic developed meanwhile, but my brother in the audio lab a friend has our old ones are still comparablec to a pair of 1000 euro boxes. My brother stll uses this old amplifier With vacuum tubes.

After the problem with the GustOfWind character of my daughter (bug in regeneration system:)) she decided to start the ultimate shopper. Simple, easy and a berzerker to remove frustration after the fiasco with the GoW DM. So the idea is: Using the CM-patch and play a dragon berzerker. The Berzerker just needs dragon magic focus and ca-levels. A bargainer needs high skills. So by socketing +allSkills the berzerker wins in power while the bargainer gets better in its job less time needed to swap netween the bargaining and the play gear The 40s cooldown + regeneration time after berzerking can be used for shopping Of cause the berzerker will run into problems around end of gold. But at this time other spells should be made running. So far at level 12: bargaining 12 dragon magic lore 5 alchemy 1 dragon magic focius 6 armour lore 1 Alchemy is a bit weird: the berzerker-form won't have alchemy skill, but the trophies are unlocked. So at bosses for 20 seconds some reg per hit, attack speed and evasion... My daughter considers DM-berzerker as a nice alternative for low level shoppers, what are you thinking about it?

The destroyers without a combination and 3.9s reg time recharged faster than the 3ca combination which islisted as 3.7s. Above 1s faster.

Do we have a page for this. And for the different regeneration systems? Our 14 years old was throwing her dragon mage at level 65 away because she choose the wrong ca-regeneration system. She did the new one instead the classic. When playing her new GustOfWind build she was running into something intresting or annoying, dependant who you are. For her it was annoying: A Combination with Maelstrom (3.4s) --- Destroyers (0.7sCD+ 3s) --- GoW (1s) Another combination with just destroyers. So what we had: 100% chance for half regeneration time 10% from combat discipline, so regeneration is just 40% of the normal time You would exspect that the combination with just destroyers would recharge slower than the 3-CA one. But it isn't. You could do another destroyer one before the 3-ca recharged. Tested again A 3.4s Maelstrom in one slot and the destroyer combination in another. Doing the destroyers, they were recharged and the maelstrom had still a long way to got.... Could it be that half regeneration time just halves the aspect regeneration time in the new regeneration system? I always used the classic system so I have no experience. But everyone with a character using the new system: could you try with other classes (the DM might be bugged with combinations) if it is same in your case? This is one of the earliest thing you have to choose in a character and it seems to be really important for caster characters which system they choose.

Modern boxes are designed to allow to make them into smaller carryable parts. To prevent heart attacks I won't post the prices of high end concrete boxes. But you can find them in this article: http://www.monoandstereo.com/2013/08/concrete-audio-n1-concrete-audio.html The manufacturer page: http://www.concrete-audio.com/en/concrete-audio/ Our costs for a pair of selfmade concrete boxes were around 350 german marks around 20 years back, very good ones but not as good as the ones posted above. Today it would be around 600 Euro. Not in the 350DM are like 30-40 hours of work. My younger brother was in an orchestra and he wanted good speakers. A friend was music teacher and he wanted some too - and some for the school. So by asking around we decided to do 15 pairs, all identical except the colours. School ones were red and green, for left and right boxes.

It are more different movements. Rollng the ball with fingertips for fine cursor movement, turning the ball with full hand for a arrow- key effect, ... It is not just the better control, it are different movenents which prevent a repetitive stress, however it is called in english. How the slimblade is in gaming, at least ot works for Patrizier2+3 another old Ascaron game. We use to buy mouses, keyboards after testing. It is like buying a car, if I am too big for it I wont buy. And I probably spend more time at the computers, so spending money for better health effect when using them, ... It is like all the extras at cars which easy your life and are more expensive. But if 15% of the people who work full day with computers suffer from hand injuries, we think you cant start early enough to look for more healthy controls than a mouse.

Discussed with this my wife and daughters: The old CRPG's had a nice mixed party on their covers. But they had their time when people played more pen and paper than nowadays. I remember my pen and paper times with boys and girls nearly equally in numbers. Also the clothes were more realistic: only 10% of the skin covered? The Dungeonmaster would probably have some rolling the dices to cast with frozen fingers at a cold night. So the hero's at the computer RPG's were dressed in a manner the pen and paper players would have dressed their characters. These half naked characters popped up when the RPG's were less turn based but fully animated and in high resolution. Anyone remember the naga priestess in one of the Wizardries decades back? There was a nipple-gate even before the superbowl one. But what was the old nipple gate: a stopmotion 400*400 image with the nipple being a pixel or two.

What is needed for a Gust of Wind build: elementalist focus elemental lore combat discipline ancient magic: does it work on physical damage mitigation? concentration: companion and runes of protection dragon magic focus: companion can do around one-third more in damage mentalist focus: runes of protection and maelstrom armour lore spell resistance: works great with the willpower from companion ... alchemy is what I would choose as last: healing potions which really heal 100% of health mentors lasting real long pink potions to stop these nasty undeads in swamps from standing up again ... Combinations: there is a nasty bug in dragon mage combinations You can't reduce the number of combat arts you have in a combination, but you can put in diffrent ones. So I normally have in my general elementalist build: 3: maelstrom, destroyer, GoW With CM-patch and its ca-range sigil set using the elementalist set as another ca-range giver maelstrom covers a big area. By doing it first the enemies have lower stats. So they hit weaker and have less hitpoints They also have less physical resistance. So both, destroyers and GoW, as physical attacks win from this. This combination is nice at bosses which summon beasts. 2: maelstorm, GOW Main usage is fighting throwing enemies in an hallways. By placing the maelstrom in front, their throws drop short. The same effects to the enemies as above are still valid. This scenerario has a lot of idle destroyers if using the 3-ca combination. 1: GoW The build has 100% chance to halve regeneration time. With combat discipline mastery another 20% are won in the regeneration clock. 70% less regeneration time, the reg-clock starts at 8. 1: Destroyers Late game when they are spammable with clock starting at 8. Early game the 3-ca combinations is dragon-strike, destroyers and energy blaze. It is used when a nice numbers of enemies is collected at an open spot.

My boxes are 20 years old. Some friends, my brother and me spend a weekend to make negative forms from styropor and then use the forms to pour fast hardening concrete in. Designed for 100 Watt sinus and having bass reflex pipes build in. We build 30=2*15 boxes. Six of them were for the local school. Each box was like 50 pounds. The speakers got a nice discount at the electronic dealer because of the number we bought. The frequenz mixer did our electronic expert who was doing his doctor title in electronic at this time. My job was calculating of the basses and the colouring of the concrete: Concrete does a lot less vibrations than wood or metal. The pictures are from a german doityourself magazin. Which we had this good material back then.

My daughter had it in a shopper build. Fire the god power at a boss and then use the waiting minutes for shopping.

Nice parody of the coat of arms of the french kings: 3 golden lilies on blue shield. But in game it is one up and two below, while the original is two top and one below. Wonder of the others are related to real life ones two.

The Wizardry series had whips, as had Sacred. You could get light whips by disarming certain foes.