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Reactor 3 is using multi-oxid cores? Then these core rods would have plutonium in the mix. And in addition to its radioactivity: plutonium is high toxic... Embassy ordered the students including my niece to return. So she should be this moment on a flight from Chitose to Taipei. Depending on the weather and if Tokio is affected: her japanese guest family will probably give room to some kids from relatives of them who live in tokio area. They hope that the northern island stays unaffected. I think evacuation will be nearly impossible: too many people, not enough electric power, inner japan are mountains mainly, so a sort of barrier, ... We had a discussion yesterday at evening table when my oldest asked if it would be possible to do something like the Berliner Luftbrücke (Luftbrücke= air-bridge translates as airlift: Berlin airlift) at cold war. To bring food and energy to Japan, or help in evacuation flights. But Berlin had only 2 million people at this time and they were not evacuated but supported with food and coal, and all kind of planes were used: flying boats landing at lakes, passenger planes which landed, transport planes dropping cargo with parachutes, ... My dad used to say at the airlift monument which I visited as a kid: This was a war without weapons and the only modern war which wasn't won with bombers and fighters but with transport planes. But I fear this time the 'war' will be too big: In the Tokio case: If a 747 would pick up 500 people, every 3 minutes a start, 20 starts an hour 480 a day: that would be 'only' 240000 people a day. Tokio has 35million people: 100 days of air transport would be just enough for 24 millions. Even with 10 airports used and ignoring plane maintainance: still 10 days in radioactive polluted area... add that food for 35million people had to be organized, rooms, ... The pure number of possible affected people are terrifying.

As always close is relative: for countries like Canada, USA, China or Russia 1000 kilometres are only a fracture of their size. In germany it would be from the most north to the most south. At army and university I was moving through whole germany. When we married we did same the first 4 years, 2 of them with our oldest daughter. When we decided for more kids our new location had to be a compromise: close to my work, close to my wife's work (or alternativly allowing her to work in her own rooms as a doc). And of cause parents played a big part in the decision. Or should I better say grandparents? We wanted our parents close enough for some babysitting if needed, while at the same moment they shouldn't be too close. So when my cousin didn't wanted the wooden patchwork house of my grandfather we bought it. 18 kilometres to my parents, 31 kilometres to the parents of my wife. The barn next to the house is rebuild now to have some living rooms (planed for older daughters to have some distance to us and the younger ones). Also it allows to have our parents at our place in case of strokes, illnesses (toi toi toi that this won't happen)... Barn rooms will be ground level, easy chairwheel access (broad barn doors), washing room and toilets will be designed with space,... The same design allows to add a practice room for my wife (currently she works in a hospital and 1 evening the week she is at firefighter building, so old people(75+) can visit her as a doc. The room is always full because even if they are not ill they go there for some chatting. Conclusion: Kids have a big impact how far away from your parents/siblings you want to live.

Found this picture with recipe last 2 weeks ago: This weekend we tried to re-do it. Instead using french fries as in earlier posts it is using thin potatoe discs and the end result is like a blossom from potatoe chips. The blossom leaves (potatoe chips) stick together because the Nestbacklöffel was used at frying, so they are rounded like the surface of a ball. The leaves are glued together with some ricotta. The green in the picture is zucchini salade. About 5 years ago I started to grow 'Blaue Kartoffeln', blue potato, a variant of Vitelottes in our own garden here in germany. 2 years back I managed to harvest 20 pounds of my first bigger ones. I also have some different coloured sweet potatoes, each around 20-40 pounds. Luckily they stay fresh for almost a year in our cellar from ramped clay (300+ years old). So very much like the picture, only the chips are blue and orange. Whole blossom blue, whole blossom orange, or mixed orange and blue. We did 2 of each sort. You have to get used to blue chips, but hey, if you do it yourself you are not afraid of strange looking food. I did 6*6cm analog pictures with my Rolleiflex. Hope I can digitalize it at a friend in some weeks.

My niece is still near Sapporo and waits what the german embassy at japan will order. My oldest niece was born 7 month after Chernobyl. Even west germany was quite away from Chernobyl the cloud reached germany at a bad weather period with lots of rain. So rate of mutations at babies were 2 (trisomy)-6(open spine) times higher and this thousands of kilometres away. I was at army when it happened and I remember how afraid my sister was for her baby. We were quickly trained at army to help with radioactive pollution. Radio, TV and newspaper said not to use milk, vegetables from the open, milk powder was given to young mothers, ... And that we were ordered to guard containers with 'milk' and that even we army firefighters were handed loaded guns. (In difference to USA in germany a soldier has to do a lot of paperwork for every ammunition he receives, so this was absolutly not normal). The whey in milk was conterminated with caesium and filtered away, placed in big steel containers and handled as radioactive waste. It was brought to army garnisons till government knew where to put it. Probably most of you are too young to have been affected or live in areas which were not affected by the cloud. I really hope that it is not happening again: Having or waiting for a newborn this year and not knowing what radiation might have done to it. Like a contant fear which lasts for years.

The cook is named Poul Gemühs in the german version. Gemüse would be german for vegetables. The character has a french accent in the german version so I thought it would be related to Paul Bocuse or inspired by the 2007 pixar movie Ratatouille. To he honest: I didn't know Paul Prudhomme before.

While sitting at breakfeast table the whole family discussion is: Will there be a Super-GAU. GAU is german for Grösster Anzunehmender Unfall = greatest accident which was put into consideration at construction, A Super-GAU is something which wasn't considered to happen and can lead to a core meltdown at nuclear powerplants. Some radio channels already speak of a core meltdown in one of the nuclear power plants at the coast which were hit by the tsunamis. Our oldest still remembers the kids from Tschernobyl who were invited by state government for several years of summerbreaks at nearby camping places. I can only hope that it is not happening again: radioactive pollution even affecting the unborn generation.

Yes, keep it short for the moment. For me, playing the german version, I read Reinfall and thought what a nice play with words with double meaning and thought everyone who think the same. --- But when reading the related word game hippocampus I was puzzled why the area in english was Pratfall which had nothing to do with water and then it hit me: Pratfall was just one of the words listed at Reinfall in the dictionary.

My niece is on this northern island: Hokkaido, near Sapporo. She studies at Munich which is a partnertown of Sapporo since 1972 olympics: summer olympics in Munich, winter olympics in Sapporo. I think she is at a german speaking family more countryside and on mountains, but have to ask.

I am not knowing where in the world darkmatters is read. Some place may have no risc in eating self-collected herbs, others have a high risc. So for myself: Reasons for boiling are parasites. Even carefully washing sometimes isn't removing all the eggs from a Fuchsbandwurm (fox-bandworm, Echinococcus multilocularis). Only read the wiki page if you have a strong stomach. Each dead fox in our district is examined and we have an infection rate of 7%. There were only 559 cases of infected poeple in whole europe from 1982 till 2000 but the number of infected foxes jumped a lot with free travel in europe now. Add that an infection in a human body stays undetected for 10-20 years--- noone knows how many infections are really there. So better save than sorry. International car travel spreads all kind of parasites really quickly here in germany. Most of the north-south and west-east travel in europe is using german autobahns. The biggest west-east and north-south autobahns cross only a dozen kilometres away from our area. Most people who do holidays with dogs use a resting place at this crossing for a walk,... So all these nice parasites from the more tropical holiday places are brought there. I use only fresh wild herbs if I am sure that it isn't fox or badger territory. But as long people don't know --- boiling/heating self collected forest herbs is a save way: 80+ Celcius kills the eggs. And these are parasites we are used too, but I have no experience with all the other little bugs from all over the world. And nowadays foxes, badgers, weasels, raccoons are no longer limited to countryside. they found a way to survive even in big cities. For salades from garden: we use the outer leaves as animal food right away and wash the rest. Normally all eggs are on outer leaves.

As far as I know Andreas Liebeskind was/is a music composer? He is mentioned in the music for some games. Schleichfahrt (Silent running?) a u-boat game. Music of Schleichfahrt at you-tube and he is listed as one of the composers. A site which collects a lot of data about games. A good start place to search for games some person did: http://www.giantbomb.com http://www.giantbomb.com/person/ http://www.giantbomb.com/andreas-liebeskind/72-99348/

Was informed about it 30 minutes ago. 5 minutes ago my sister informed me that her daughter is okay. She is currently in an exchange program in Japan. Toi toi toi to all the people in that area.

In german Reinfall had the original meaning to fall into something: be it dirt or this nice stuff cows drop at their back end. Modern use of the word is more like a flop or a non-starter - an idea which failed. As so often there is no exact translation. My old latin teacher used to say: translation is like crossing a river. The exact meaning is just on the other side of the river. But to ge to it you use a ferry, and the water streams don't allow an exact transition of the word. I wouldn't stick too close to the writing Libi too. Perhaps it was a Libby and they didn't want to make it to obvious that one of her ideas failed. Or the Ascaron embloyee Andreas Liebeskind found close to it was nicknamed Libi for his family name. We can only guess at the moment. I think it started with the waterfalls looking like the Rheinfall, then someone made a joke about a Reinfall (flop of someone) and then Reinfall was translated as pratfall in english.

While posting in the related word game I discovered a possible new easteregg: Reinfall is german for pratfall But Rheinfall is german for rhine falls. Europes biggest waterfall: Compare with this picture of Pratfall Now I want to know who Libi is , and what pratfall he had. Also a thing to researched: the diving bell quest near blue stone lake. The Rheinfall gets it water from the Bodensee (lake constance). I see no connection to Bluestone-lake, a small perhaps (my french is nearly non existant): The french partnertown of the german town Konstanz(Constance) is named Fountainebleu. Diving bell quest: 2006/7 diving bells got a tourist attraction at german coasts. It was considered to build one at lake constance too, but the project was cancelled in 2008, any relations? Multilanguage-Homepage of the Tauchgondel (diving gondola) http://www.tauchgond...frontpage&mid=1

A funny variation of this build is the HardRocker. You want to jump around the stage (well battlefield), stun your audience (targets), use all these nice instruments which play the blind guardian song, have your own groupies (skeletons), ... and want be able to escape invisible as soon the audience starts to throw rotten tomatoes, ... Then the Hardrocker would be your character: Maximum damage in all 3 aspects is possible, quickest possible jumping (which also stuns), ... You have to be a bit more careful, taking away constition and shield lore and replacing it with tactic lore and toughness. Weapon of choice for our family hardrocker was a two-handed staff with a skull, but the instruments from blind guardian quest are also nice. A weapon skill is not needed, but you can take good use of all 15 combat arts: Attack speed: To jump as fast as possible you need 50% casting speed. Casting speed speeds up weapon Combat Arts in Ice and Blood (see Kungfu Dryads). So if we have 50% casting speed we also have fastest possible weapon Combat Arts. Hit Chance: http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16530 In this thread it is discussed how hit chance is calculated. To do a fast and easy optimization: kill a hard to hit boss. Teleport to town. Remove all OCE and COCE gear. Equip a weapon which has no weapon skill and no buildin hit chance modifiers. Write down your hit chance for normal attacks Look at spells.txt and calculate how many +x% attack value your main weapon ca will give at its level Fill dummy equipment with whet sockets till you reach this x% attack value Write down your hit chance for your main weapon ca attack Calculate 100-this_hitchance Add equipment with OCE and COCE till you reach this amount. (caution use scaled values, see linked thread) You should now have a nearly 100% hitchance without a weapon skill, strike as fast as possible with any weapon you can wield, you just miss the unlocks on weapons. But you can now fight with a staff, a drum stick, a guitar, ... It is a bit hard to start, but getting a 100% hit chance is easier the higher you are in level and difficulty. The reason is simple: the values in COCE and OCE are 5 times higher in niob so you need only a fifth of the slots to get hit chance. Same is valid for casting speed, the higher your equipment, the higher the casting speed on it.

Snow staying till mid spring is better than snow melted away and then a -15celcius period hitting plants no longer protected by snow --- at least from a farmer's view. Tonka- I had to look up. This toy brand is rather unknown in germany. But I found a bobby-car version of a firefighter unimog, including a trailer which could be used as a big water gun: You know we crazy germans do gravity races for adults with these kids toys? Speed record is around 108 kilometres an hour: In the unimog brochure you find more unimog kid(and adults) toys: http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/media_library/hq/hq_mpc_reference_site/unimog/products/implement_carrier/brochure_pdf_/unimog_collection.object-Single-MEDIA.download.tmp/U-Collection%20GB.pdf The newest Unimog of our company and the unimog at firefighters have this nice 'Variopilot- Wechsellenkung'. Sadly even second hand unimogs with this technique have a price well beyond good and evil. You pull a level and can move the steering wheel from the left to the right. So it is easier to control a crane, snowplow or bush cutter if being forced to drive as much right as possible. Whole shifting of the steering wheel can be done in less than half a minute. Too bad that my 50 and 40 year old beasts are too old for this technique.

My daughters use the tool posted above to store saves on backup media, or do automatic backups of savefiles every 15 minutes and stuff like this. You can enter where you want your backups stored - including external media. So backup on stick, play a bit in youth-club with friends, save on stick ,continue playing at home, ...

There are GUI's for some basic settings, doing backups, .... like this (hope it is the english version): http://clubs.4gamers.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=277 Edit: I answered to your dying computer thread 2 minutes before you did another post, so probably you haven't read it.

Our second currently recovers from surgeries following her car accident. She is at a special hospital at Munich, which is sadly 500 kilometres away from our home. So when she is back home we want her to drive bicycle again. With her old bike having a frame which I don't trust anymore (x-ray examinations after the car crash would be as expensive as a new frame) we need some quick solutions. We need 2 different bikes, or a way to convert existing bicycles to our needs: We need a transport for our oldest, which she can use to drive our third and the twins. So an idea is to use the Pino tandem from first post in this thread and add something like this: I saw pictures that it is working with tandems: And it can hold a number of kids: If not needed to transport the twins it could be used to raise the wheel base of a mountainbike for more cargo at bike tours. All what would be needed would be chains of different lengths. Anyone knows anyone who has experiences with wheel base extensions? --- The second thing would be a new bicycle for our daughter who is currently at hospital. Lot of gears, gear shifting should be possible at a read light while standing, a frame with a low entry for leg, not becoming useless once she recovered, a robust frame for lot of cargo at bike tours (still 6 years till she can do a car license)...

Ever considered selling your car and buying an Unimog? Unimog-canada is selling some used ones: http://www.unimogcanada.com/implements_snow.php In winter you could blow all the snow to the other side of the road: In spring you can plant all the herbs for the dark kitchen: In summer you would be the friend of your whole neighbourhood: when driving home you can mew all the gras in their gardens without leaving the street:

Virus is not very probable since it must have affected Linux too. Check all connections at the motherboards: cards, cpu, ram, cables, ... All have good contact? Haarriss(german) = very fine rupture in material A conductive trace on the motherboard could have a Haarriss. As long the whole motherboard is cold the rupture may be closed, at higher temperatures it may open--- at 8 and more layers motherboards: repair not possible= way more expensive than a new motherboard. A test if such a failure might be the reason can be done with electric cooling spray. Working for few minutes everytime the spray is sprayed might indicate it. Spannungswandler(german) = dc-dc-converter? I saw a few destroyed motherboards by bad dc-dc-converters or however they are called in english. They have no fan but are normally placed in the airflow of cpu-fan or power supply-fan and located close to the cpu. They can get really hot if they are not cooled -up to a temperature which would melt tin. Once such a temperature is reached a Haarriss in tin may happen or they get destroyed. Pictures of motherboard at different CPU speeds: CPU mid, dc-dc-converters lower part of images: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,644498/Waermebildvergleich-CPU-und-Spannungswandler-bei-Uebertaktung/CPU/Test/bildergalerie/ If a card, a cable from an additional harddisc or whatever stops the ventilation of these converter: they can get extremely hot, even destroy a motherboard.

About the difference of sprouts and micro-greens: http://www.freshorigins.com/microgreens.html I visited a microgreen factory in netherlands 2 years back. The plants there never saw earth or sun. The seeds were layed on meshes forming plates. The mesh was lowered into a fertilizing liquid. When roots were appearing the mesh was lifted above the liquid level so only the roots were still in the liquid. At harvest the whole plate was put out of the liquid and a big knife cut along the root side of the mesh. So no cleaning needed. Probably I grew up with the feeling that plants need earth and sun which affected my taste at a unconscious level or that there was really a difference: I liked the herbs from a garden more. Young plants taste fantastic. But outdoor plants need a lot of cleaning, or you have to boil them. One of my favourites in spring is what we call Wissegemois in Hessen (state in germany I live), it would translate into german as Wiesengemüse or field herbs in english. Take a walk with your kids and collect the young plants of: Löwenzahn - dandelion (which is just french for lion's tooth, which is the german meaning) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum_officinale Beinwell - comfrey - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfrey Giersch - ground-elder - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-elder Sauerampfer - sorrel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorrel Brennnesseln - nettle - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettle 2 pounds of the mixed herbs: cleaned, boiled and put in a meat grinder. Roast some fine cut fatback till lard is liquid and the remains are cross, add a fine cut onion and roast. Add 1-2 table spoons flour and some of the water used to boil the herbs, so the heat reduces a bit. Add the herbs and wait till it boils again. Add some salt and pepper to your taste. Serve with egg and potatoe in skin (remove skin if it is not nice). Young sorrels have far less oxal acid than older plants, rest is pour good tasting medicine. You walk and collect the herbs and it are all healthy ones. Walking in fresh air, sun shine, .... century year old recipes to fight the all the illnesses you got in winter. Other winter and spring recipes use Winterpilze you collect while walking the forest: winter mushrooms- which are more known in their cultivated form as Enokitake. Again I like the self collected ones more. A bit later in year Bärlauch - bear garlic - will be ready, another old herb which found its way back into cooking. I think collecting the herbs while walking with your kids and preparing the food with whole family also adds to the taste - at an unconscious level. And speaking about micro-herbs, micro-greens: google says that town-folk can now order micro nettle, micro-sorrel, ... Microgreens seem to fit very well with the fact that nettle, dandelion and other herbs have to be eaten young. So instead being forced to collect them while doing a walk at nature and listen to the annoying alarm chirps of birds--- you can relax and listen to good music at full power while driving to the supermarket... Instead walking and loosing all the fat from all the too much calories you got in winter,--- you can order online and keep your weight at its normal level. Instead answering questions from your kids about all the animals they saw while collecting the herbs, --- you can talk about the new car type you saw when driving home

Outch, the old trick to cut close to your fingernails for savety is not working at multilayer or rat-teeth kitchen knives, they are just too sharp? After an accident which nearly robbed my right eye I use a chain glove when I use my: Ausbeinmesser= boning knives for pork and beef, stiff and robust blade, so you can do some force if necessary Filiermesser= boning-knife with a thin, long and very flexible blade from multilayer damast steel, mainly used for fish Okuliermesser= budding knife which is used to bring different fruit types on a single tree. It is a very very sharp knife to do clean cuts so no infection can enter the tree. I often also stand on a ladder, the logs are flexible, wind blowing, so with a not so good 3-dimensional eye-sight: savety first I hope I got the english names nearly correct, I was a bit puzzled that the dictionary did both, the Filiermesser and the Ausbeinmesser, as boning knives. After repairing the wooden patchwork of the barn, we started to grew espaliers at the weather side some years ago. Juicy pears won't get ripe in our climate. So it is an old trick to use escaliers: so the sun is reflected by the wall of the barn. We also did storm shelters from connected small trees. So a lot of usage for the budding knife. I hope that the pear trees someday looks like this. Espaliers are something you have to plan a generation in advance at least. So the barn will some day be a guest house when our kids will arrive with their future families. Edit: I don't know how the Rattenzahn (=rat-tooth) knife technology is called in english. One side of the knife is hard as diamond the other is steel. So it behaves like a rat-tooth, self sharpening. http://www.nesmuk.de/nesmuk-diamor/en/index.php?autorun=1 A friend allowed me to try some cutting with one, extremely sharp beast. Do you call this a chain glove?

Bargaining, tactic lore, armour lore, toughness, astute supremacy focus, concentration, astute supremacy focus, alchemy, combat dicipline, nefarious netherworld focus --- first looks stupid.... Melee elves, kungfu dryads, lifeleech-polearm dragonmage, .... most of my characters started when someone told me that a certain character idea can't be played. Probably the most advanced character in our family is the Schockwellenreiter (name is from the book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider) played by my daughters. An inquisitor who bundles big groups of enemies with Clustering_Maelstrom and uses Ruthless_Mutilation to finish. Astute Supremacy got no lore in the build so casting speed had to be in equipment. Weapon Combat Arts use casting speed too - so one reason for a weapon skill vanished. After understanding how attack chances are calculated no weapon skill was taken in this build, giving room for toughness and adding a high damage mitigation approach. Add some deathblow, the enemies are damaged from CM already, use a long range lifeleech polearm and extend the range by riding your spider, you can kill dozen of enemies with a single melee blow, without abusing a bug. It is surely no character for starters. Your equipment slots are small puzzle pieces which, when put together, give the whole picture --- and the 10 skills in first line make a sense: leveling mainly outdoors so a lot of souls. When played indoors alchemy trophies cover the time till souls are available. You need bargaining to buy the puzzle pieces, combat discipline boosts damage in all 3 aspects, concentration allows 3 buffs later this and toughness is your way to reach high damage mitigation, alchemy gives also mentor potions lasting for minutes, ... But this is not a character for newbies and advanced players should have the general character idea by reading the above text already. WARNING: this is an ICE AND BLOOD character. Deathblow, casting speed, life leech may behave different on consoles.

Ahh, quails are another target for barding/larding. Remembered the larding discussion from another thread. I have to cut apart a 5 year old boar in evening when the results from the veterian arrived: check for parasites, illnesses. Hit by a car yesterday evening and I had to shoot it. A 5 year old grown out boar is probably not used in fine cuisine at restaurants. It will probably end as dried and cold smoked boar sausage and Sauerbraten: pork marinated in selfmade fruit wine (elderberries, forest strawberries, ...), fruit vinegar and spices for half a week to get rid of the strong boar taste and soften the flesh.

I think it would be best we would open a thread about sausage recipes from all over the word instead of stealing this thread: There is a thread about bratwurst already. Perhaps someone can volunteer to opn the thread and maintaining the first post with lists ti all the mentioned recipes. Sausage recipes are a bit tricky: different laws about raw meat, nitrat salt, ... Or the items you need: a room to do hot,warm or cold smoking, a drying room, a good meat grinder with holes of different sizes, a sausage press (best a hand driven one, not electric), access to bowel, bladder, (how are local laws), ... Access to meat: can you slaughter yourself, can you buy a slaughtered whole or half pig, again local laws, ... The legendary how to do make your own german Bratwurst thread; http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16339&st=0&p=6902041&hl=bratwurst&fromsearch=1entry6902041 Landjäger, Feldkieker, and probably Droewors are harder to do, since drying and smoking is involved, ...