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We had cases of 'illegal hunting' here. We had temperatures around 10 celcius last week and you could watch a lot of common cranes and northern lapwings returning early in the year from their winter places. Last 3 days temperature dropped to -15 celcius and several of the returning birds landed in a river valley close to my parents to rest and save energy. What was happening was that many people arrived to watch them. But some of them had dogs, and from these some had dogs not on a rope. So the dogs started to chase the birds and the owners did nothing. My sister said she and some friends called police and police said they could do nothing as long no birds were injured. Nothing happened till an old man (around 80) threw his glasses at a policeman and said that the dogs would hunt swans and that swans are huntable birds by german law. So the dogs chasing the swans would do a illegal hunting which is forbidden and punished with up to 5 years arrest. The police stopped the illegal hunting by saying that unless a professor for biology would tell them that these grey birds would be no rare variant of swans they would take them for swans and black baby swans and would start to arrest people in a minute. And suddenly all dog owners vanished. Sometimes I do hard in understanding laws but I am happy for the strange solution for the problem.

Sadly I have to revive this thread. My daughter will be at hospital for 5 long weeks more. Nothing dangerous, just a skin grafting to the leg after her car accident. So she is now able to roll around in a wheelchair, but has to pull the vacuum pump for the vacuum therapy with her. So the keyboard access is a bit limited. Classmates meet at the youth club and help her with homeworks doing something like a video conference. So she won't miss much at school. But playing sacred with them proves to be a bit more complicated. She wants to try out a temple guardian or a dragon mage. since she didn't play them before. So I try to develope a weird combination with auto-targetting, which is also very robust. Dragon mage: A bug in combinations would be the biggest problem. You can't change a combination you have. For auto-targetting a fast combat art which needs no target would be needed as a starter: maelstrom? But the starter would be just for savety ,not doing any damage. Destroyer? TG: Deadly spears in a combination with jolting touch? Having 100% halve regen time on equipment and add 30% mana leech from JT: a 5 second combination would be recharged in 1s in theory, even without reg per hit.

The skin grafting was done a week ago at a special hospital. Sadly it is 500 kilometres away, so visits are only possible at weekends. It will take 5 weeks to know if nerves will be working. Nerve growing is like 1 centimetre a week. Some kids from her class meet at a youth club (it has broadband DSl already in diffrence to our village) and do homeworks via video conference. So she isn't missing that much stuff at school in the 6-7 weeks she will be away. My wife stays at the hospital for the first 2 weeks, perhaps adding a third.

Roasted noodles: Roasted noodles and tomatoes are tasty. But I prefer fresh tomatoes from garden and it is the wrong season. What we finally did with the spaghetti: roasting them with stripes of napa cabbage, carrots and some Mett and sun flower seeds (roasted they add a crispy and cross chewing). Our second daughter is in a hospital 500 kilometres away for at least 5 weeks. We visited her at weekend. So we used up all the stuff still in refridgerator sunday at 9pm when we returned home. Actually sun flower seeds are unused bird food. We had 100 pounds of them for feeding wild birds but the first green appears allready so no much need to feed them this much anymore. I think napa cabbage tastes best if cut in stripes and roasted. Sour Soup: The sour soup at fire fighters must have been tasty, because I got 3 emails asking for the recipe. Couldn't eat myself because we had to leave earlier because there was snow on the autobahn we had to travel to visit our daughter at hospital.

1 litre Diesel 1.41 euro today, 5.34 euro the gallon, 7.27 US$ the gallon, ... Outch...

Thanks, I know parmesan, but I never tried asiago or pecorino. What I used allready is Hobelkäse (plane cheese, cheese which is cut in small slices/tolls using a plane=Hobel) or Sbrinz. Both are swiss hard cheese which has to ripe for several years too, same as parmesan. Each of the hard cheese variants tastes a bit different. But I consider expensive variants as a waste of money as long as the kids are gourmands and not gourmets. ------------ Mett: raw minced meat Leftover from yesterday's Polterabend party. A firefighter-friend is going to marry today and so the day before a Polterabend is done at the house of the bride. After all guests arrived and had thrown their porcelan on the street they moved to the firefighting building because the house of the bride had no room for 200+ guests. Another common leftover in our region is Mett. At parties often a bowl with Mett, a smaller bowl with chopped onions and a basket with half bread rolls and dices of sour dough bread are on a table. So guests can smear their bread rolls/bread and add onions at their tasting. When the party ends there are often some pounds of Mett left. Since it is raw you have to use it right away. I did a rough cleanup after the party with my oldest daughter and we saw the Mett,2 pounds left, and there was no refridgerator in the firefighter building . So I taught my daughter an old family recipe, normally done when we slaughtered a pig at the farm of my grandparents., but I had to improvise. I did a 10 litre pot, added the met, the rest of onions, pieces from the bread rolls, a cup of vinegar and a cup of sour cream from the salade bar and cut the herbs which were mainly as an ornament to fine pieces and added them too. While sweeping out the room the soup boiled. Then I added pieces from the sour dough bread dices. Instead of eating I put a blanket on the pot and we left. At our house slaughterings my grandma did something similiar and called it sour brew. It was a sour soup which was refreshing and had an interesting taste. I think there is some fermenting done while it rests because of the sour dough. So today's evening when we are at firefighters and help to carry all the tables and chairs away we may try the soup. Hope I did not too much wrong remembering the old recipe. I wonder: is Mett used outside germany too? And what do you do with leftovers. In difference to normal unspiced minced meat Mett is spiced and roasting it will remove fat while spices stay: result it is too sharp and too much pepper. So a soap sounded like a good idea: the spices have one day to spread in whole soup.

Forens- a guess Concordia domi, foris pax. (unity at home, peace abroad) It's a writing on the Holstentor, an Unesco World heritage and the old city gate of Lübeck. Foris is latin and has the meaning of a city gate. The meaning shifted a bit to places outside the city gates. Forenses were people from outside the city gate. My boss is from netherlands and I had to fill dutch tax formulas more than once without knowing the language more than I good guess from comparing to german. One word I remembered was Forensisme. I had to write down the kilometres I was driving in the companies car for private reasons and how much for work. In dutch Forensisme has the meaning of commuting, to travel from home to work and back. Add that the book of Forens reads that she travels from place to place... Given that Ascaron at Aachen was very close to german/dutch border...

Kuan Watched this movie recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Cliff_(film) And a general in the main battle later got the status close to a war-god. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guan_Yu The 'problem' with languages having a different alphabet is how to translate names. So it seems that Kuan, Kwang, Guan are all tries to adapt the chinese name to a german spelling. Nowadays there are tries to have name translations standardized, but old writings still remain in literature. I do not know if Kuan is related to Guan Yu, but some german books shorten his name just to Kuan. I studied maths and I had always great frustration to find articles by searching for a name which was written totally differrent in differrent languages, often different in the same language: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev original Pafnutij L’vovič Čebyšëv new standardized german writing: Pafnuti Lwowitsch Tschebyschow old german writing :Tschebyscheff or Tschebyschew or Tschebyschev or ...

F.P.1 antwortet nicht is correct. English titles were just F.P.1 or Flight platform 1. Before transatlantic flights became routine there was the idea to build a big swimming platform in mid of atlantic for refueling. A cheaper solution was in use for some years: freighters with cranes as swimming islands and flying boats. Note that this movie is pre-nazi. The writer and his brother later fled to america and became famous for there werewolf movies.

I got this idea while being a Strohwitwer (a man whose wife is away for a time) and reading the related words game. Our second is in hospital for at least 5 weeks and 500 kilometres away. My wife will stay there for the first 2 weeks so it is my job to keep the rest of the family alive meanwhile. What I am doing: I press boiled potatoes which are left over through a a sort of sieve. I mix them with fine cut raw potatoes and a bit of citron juice, fill them in 750gramm vacuum boxes and cool (not freeze) them in our clay cellar (around 7 celcius even in summer). They are eatable for maximal 3 weeks this way. We call this potatoe mix 'Klossteig halb und halb' which translates as Dumpling dough half(boiled) and half(raw). The lemon juice is needed so the mix stays white and not becomes gray. You can buy the mix here in shops too. So whenever we have no time we use this mix: Potatoe pancakes: Open a Klossteig bag. Add an egg, 4 spoons creme fraiche, cut a carot in fine stripes, fine cut an onion, mix all and ready for the pan. Potatoe croquettes: Open a Klossteig bag, add some fine cut herbs, form croquettes, boil till the croquettes start to swim, open an egg, roll the croquettes in egg, roll now in breadcrumb, deep fry, ready Potatoe dumplings (Wetzsteinklösse): Wetzstein is a whetstone and so normally it is without lemon juice and gray. Open a Klossteig bag, add some fine cut herbs, add egg, form big finger shaped dumplings, boil till dumpling start to swim, serve with roasted onions and bacon Klossteig Pizza Open a Klossteig bag, use it as dough for a pizza: add roasted Speck (fat bacon), champignons, herbs, onion, garlic, creme freche and cheese ---ready for the oven, ... Small microwave potatoe dumplings: Open a Klossteig bag, form small balls, cut a leek in small rings, add some seasonal fine cut herbs, a pepper mix, a cup creme fraiche, 100gramm bacon and 100 gramm cheese (we are used to Handkäse, but more common is same as you use for pizza). Microwave 15 minutes, 600 Watt. So I know what to do with leftover boiled potatoes. So the start would be: We have a pound of spaghtetti left from the day before....

Looks tasty. Good restaurants--- it is a paradox. I can't visit most of them with a swarm of all devouring grasshoppers (5 kids) and when I am on long sales travels I am homesick after a week and look for food I am used too rather than trying out something unknown. The restaurant I visit more often has a funny menu. The restaurant is located at a walking/bicycling road and so many people who do a bicycle tour visit it on weekends. But it also used for sales meetings. So the menu has 3 columms: Kinder(children), Wanderer(walking or bicycling guests) and Geschäftsessen(business meeting). So the amount you get is way less at a business meeting in evening than for a Wanderer or kids who arrive with a lot of hunger. The cook hates it when there are remains left. I considered it as a good idea, because I hate big portions at a business meeting when I have no hunger and I really like the big amounts after walking 30 kilometres.

Obviously im a not a girl and I can't answer from this point of view. My oldest daughter is 15 and changed from a local school to a german dual school: highschool degree and fully trained medical computer sciences assistant if finished. She started school at the earliest possible age because in our small village there would have bee no kids her age the following year. When she was 10 we moved into another state with a different school programm and she had all the stuff already done in her old school, so we requested a jump in class and she was visiting a full day school (my wife just started as assistant med in a hospital and I had a job 100 kilometres away). So currently the age of her classmates is 16-18 and she the youngest by over one and a half year. The second problem is that she is tall: 194cm and growing ,will stop around 198cm docs say. She was used to country life. So if a boy had bad manners everyone in village knew and so the boys normally learned to behave. It was a shock for her how different it was at the new school in a 100000 people town. She often returned home, slamming the doors and refusing to talk. She used to say that some boys behave as if they would do a girl's collection and she would be the missing piece. If she was asked for a date and said yes the boys asking for the date refused to dance with her because she is so tall. And this while sitting at a place in the dancing hall that all the other boys in the boy gang could see them and laugh. So she had a philosophy that the boys who are below her size and asking for a date only see her as a possible trophy and the boys taller as even bigger trophy hunters, because they are normally the local handball/basketball champs. And it is hard to answer when she asks if all boys are such idiots. And it is hard to say no. My sister (as big as my daughter) reported the very same problems when we were teenagers. Later she found her husband when she studied in another state and walking with her dog. For 3 months she met a boy doing the same with his dog each evening after university and so they had something to talk about: dogs. Only after 3 month he was brave enough to ask for a date. She said even he is 'only' 186cm, he is a funny talker and counters all stupid questions about why he has such a big wife with humour. And in 4, 8 and 12 year when my other daughters are 15 the same questions will arise again. And I couldn't even answer the simple question to name a single movie where an actress in a main role is above 195cm and has an happy end. Attack_of_the_50_Ft._Woman and Monsters_Versus_Aliens taken away. ----- Back to your questions: It is a shame but I wasn't any better when I was 18-26. I did 8 years at army and changed garnison 7 times in these 8 years. So if I looked for a girl I looked at a pub or similiar for a girl which just wanted to have fun too and I probably exspected all girls there to be there just for fun too. When I finally left army and studied maths I was 8 years older than the other students. I was driving an ancient BMW GS bike which I bought while at army. One day I saw a 1950ties racing bike at the parking place. So I left a paper at the bike that I would be interested to talk about the bike and that I would drive the BMW next to it and would wait in the university cafeteria... I was very surprised to see a girl 2 hours later, who was puzzled that I didn't know her and it was not a trick to talk to her, ... It turned out that she was the daughter of an actor and already doing a smaller role in a soap opera, which I never watched because of army. She said she made a lot of bad experiences but she would be optimistic and give everyone a first chance. Buying or renting a BMW oldtimer bike to impress her -as she was thinking- would have at least been a new approach and she was curious. We were talking for 4 hours and then her brother called and she left. We had quickly noticed that she was too much town and party and I am more rustical and country. We had a lot of fun talking without other thoughts after we knew that we wouldn't fit. She is now the godparent of our twin daughter, and the mechanic of the racing bike the grandgrandfather. So sharing a hobby seems to be a good start, be it dogs, bikes, sports...

My work is a lot different in the different seasons: winter and early spring is a lot of bodily work, late spring and summer is a lot of sitting and calculating, autum is mainly sales traveling, ... So I have strangely no weight problems around x-mas and new year, all the sweets and cakes are catched by 12 hours working in a forest, my problem is summer and working at the computer. I am used to carry dozens of Radish with me. From wiki: Radishes are rich in ascorbic acid, folic acid, and potassium. They are a good source of vitamin B6, riboflavin, magnesium, copper, and calcium. One cup of sliced red radish bulbs provides approximately 20 calories, largely from carbohydrates. Some variants give a fresh breath, are spicy, .... So cola or sweets doesn't taste good after eating one... Several square metres in garden are used for radish. We don't buy potatoe chips, we make our own Apfelchips (apple chips), cutting apples in thin slices and drying them in an oven, using pepper or chilli so you don't eat that much of them. English page how to do them: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Apple-Chips There are several different sorts of apples, but best are ones you can store for months and are used for cookies: like Boskoop apple Even they have a small amount of sugar in (from fruit, not added), they have no oil and more plant fibres than potatoe chips. But we are lucky and live countryside so we have more than enough apples to do it. Would be a bit expensive seeing how much townfolk has to pay for an apple like Granny Smith, Pink Lady: 50cent, outch. Also self made apple chips are gluten free, milk free, nut free, egg free, ... At potatoe chips you never know if a machine used to do potatoe chips isn't used to produce other snacks too, which is bad if your daughters appear with classmates having an allergy.

I took this movie for the song (the movie is good, was called science fiction when it came out, now transatlantic flights are common). A good friend from my glider flight club died to cancer last year and he would have had birthday tomorrow. He could imitate the actor of this movie and how he performed the song and often performed it at flight club meetings. The movie has a lot of old airplanes: first picture shows a Dornier_Do_X, the third a variant of the Junkers_W_33, the plane which did the very first atlantic crossing in east to west direction. Then there are is a Junkers_G_38, biggest land plane at this time, .. Scooter robbed the melody Extrabreit made a punk version And this is the original

Tarkowski's "Stalker" perhaps. 20 years ago that I saw this one. But the first picture with the wolf, hmmm, dark memories...

Using a Realtime OS at work and not having Windows7 and the naming looks different. But the manual says: The cooling policy kicks in in case the CPU gets too hot. Then "Fan controlled (= active?)" means that first fan speed is increased and if this is not enough the CPU is clocked down to prevent more heat that may destroy the CPU. "Clock controlled (= passive?) settings slows down CPU right away because their might be no fan, a constant speed fan, a dead fan(dust), water cooling ... So the heating up of the CPU is stopped right away, without waiting for a result by fan speed controlling. Waiting for something that isn't there might destroy the CPU. Is their no help menu for Windows7 in which case you use a passive setting? I have a fan-less machine at work so setting is passive automatically, the motherboard reports to the OS there is no fan.

Had some talking with my boss at the first open door day at firefighters. He does fishing as a hobby. The recipe for pike in the dryad cooking book could be found in a magazine for fishing. Just the cinnamon was replaced by another spice. So it is a eatible recipe too. Pike has low fat meat, so it is mainly boiled here in some sort of marinate. I like my grandfathers recipe to boil it in a mix of white whine and Sauerkraut. If the slime surrounding the fish was not damaged at catching, I try to make it blue, using vinegar, but else the same recipe, except the pike has now a bluw skin. The area I live has no water big enough for pikes, so if I am lucky I get one 10-pounder a year from a friend who does fishing. For grilling a pike fat has to be added, mainly Speck: either the Speck is cut in stripes and placed in holes cut in the pike skin, makes it look like a hedgehog fish or stripes of bacon are wrapped around a filled pike before grilling or it gets a mantle of spiced dough (often beer instead water used) or it is either filled with Speck and some herbs or...

Perhaps someone who has the luck of finding a direct damage weapon and a weapon of same type and damage without direct damage could do a test. By using a weapon of same type damage from stats should be same. Remove all equipment except the weapon. Now put on equipment piece by piece which has only whet-sockets, but adds no stats, other damage, skills, --- Plot the curve with damage in tooltipp on y-axis and x% damage on x-axis, it should be a line. Now do same with the direct damage weapon. Compare the ratio of climb of the 2 lines. The difference should be just the factor brought in by direct damage.

If you want your teenage daughters to waste less money with cellular phones. tell them that there is a study that looking at the tiny screen of cellular phones causes wrinkels. http://topnews.us/content/233942-smartphones-causing-wrinkles

The Spanferkel is no more: it was very tasty. We served it with dices of sour dough (baked fresh at the local baking house today) and a dip of bear garlic, horse radish and mustard. I sold the last piece half an hour ago. Without salt and pepper it was a wise idea to do the filling a day before so the aromic oils could find their way into the meat and do serve it with bread and a spicy dip. We used Altbier to spray it on the pig while grilling. Just filled a plant sprayer with beer to do the trick. Did a crispy and tasty surface. In spring we will try the pike. Okay have to leave, the semi-finals for kids firefighting tournament start soon.

Marc Oberhäuser was senior game designer at Studio2: http://www.gamona.de/games/sacred-2-fallen-angel,special-pc:article,571073.html So probably the grave is in memoriam of a very close relative, brother? I think it was also in some other games, Sacred1, ...

From Sacred2: Book_1_-_Orcish_Cooking : Main course: Bristly Grunting Thing Original: Kill bristly grunting thing. Remove teeth. Cook it. Adjusted: * 1 wild boar * 50 onion * 10 garlic * 20 liters of beer Remove the boar hide and let the boar bleed dry. Open it and remove all guts and organs. Fill with onions and garlic. Place on a spit and over a fire. Spin around for 9-10 hours. Baste with beer frequently during the roasting process. The wild boar is ready when the eyeballs begin to drop out. Okay this food actually sounds eatable. So a bunch of fearless bunch of german firefighters who played Sacred for years at Sacred weekends will give it a try. We have an open door weekend starting tomorrow so people can watch out new Firefighter truck, learn how to prevent and fight kitchen fires, watch kids of our firefighting club do firefighting tournaments versus kids from other clubs,.... One of our Spanferkel (suckling pigs) will be prepared in the dark kitchen way, using a original Sacred2 recipe. Well we replace the boar by a suckling pig and reduce the onions at bit and half of the beer will be drunk, We bought 3 dead suckling pigs and I just finished removing all the bones and a whining firefighter friend is ready to do the onion and garlic filling. Seems he never helped his wife in kitchen, cutting 25 onions and 10 garlic gives a lot of tears if not cutting them in water. To get an idea how much bones are cut away: 2 of 3 pigs are prepared as in the video. The third differs in the filling. The Sacred recipe is used and it is grilled on a pole instead in a cage and we use no salt, pepper or other spices. But I removed the eyes already, would be a bit to cruel to watch kids falling eyes out from a pig. The esitimated time to be medium is around 4 hours, it is not a full grown out boar. So brave players, try out the other recipes, some sound really tasty.

I do calculations all the time, because: power is more expensive on countryside internet is still no broadband- so it may be switched on 24 hours a day if someone sent high definition birthday videos as email a tree may hit the power line so big lead accumalators have to buffer till the diesel emergency power supply starts, and it has to supply all electric stuff in whole house the kids room under the roof will be extremely hot if such a computer is running in summer ... If I imagine that we parents, the au pair girl and the kids each would have such a beast and use the computer just 3 hours a day: 1000W *8 people in family, everyone 3 hours at computer a day, so total 24 hours a day 365 days a year, 20cent per kWh so 365*24*.2 = 1752 euro a year for the power it eats Or if you use a computer each day for 3 hours that are around 220Euro per year, 440Euro for 6 hours a day and 660 Euro for 9 hours, ... I fear I have to buy a way bigger diesel engine for my emergency power supply when all the kids want a computer. Okay, you take the 1000W power supply to have reserves, but still, ... So what is the record for a minimal computer able to play sacred2? Must be smaller than the 36W on our barebone. What would you choose if you would be forced to stay below 100W worst case?

Wolfen was 1981 and it is mainly around a church and a place full of rubble, not seen for a dozen years I think. So not really sure at the moment what this movie is.

Okay at least it seems to be same everywhere: at sudden and lasting heavy back pain visit a doc (or let him visit) right away. You will probably get an injection to fight pain and relax muscles. Injections work way quicker than pills and the faster the muscles relax the better. A (single) doc who visits you is not allowed to use Demoral and will use something new and similiar. Many docs like old drugs because they are used to them and know the riscs and are not sure which secondary effects brand new drugs may have. Even healthy food can be a risc sometimes: Countryside doctors know their people and what they prefer to eat. Some fruits/herbs can amplify or reduce drugs. Grapefruits nullify some anti-baby pills, grapefruits multify the effect of drugs versus high blood pressure and the pressure may fall way too low, garlic is dangerous if you take Aspirin to make the blood 'thinner', ... So whenever getting a pill, ask the doc which food you shouldn't eat while taking them.