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From my parents it is 8 minutes to alternate.de. So I am a bit lucky here. And half of the tech people I know from my time at university. When I tell them I need a silent machine to concentrate while doing maths they come up with some nice ideas sometimes I wasn't even considering. But I have to admit: If alternate wouldn't be the closest for me I would probably buy at a local dealer with support too.

Local band (singing english): Germany, Hessen, Lahn-Dill-county, Wetzlar I think the uncle of the drummer is a grandson of my mother. Something like this. Lives same village as my parents and the rest of the band are from his schooltime, so probably local too. I think they do something like speed metal. lyrics of 'Do me a favour and die' Cloudburst homepage Local Band A band from the village of my parents is singing local slang, sadly the texter died a few years ago. Blues sung in hessian slang Place I go to listen life music I used to visit the Franzis at Wetzlar quite often when I was younger. They have always a wide mix of bands with all different styles as life acts. Nowadays I have to read the program weeks in advance to get a ticket and ask my parents if they can babysit. Music I listened while typening this: When you are paid to do maths you can't listened to something loud and quick.

The extra power consumption of super high end cards can easily reach 100+ euro a year if they lack in power saving features. I do my buying normally at a local seller. Luckily the local one is one of europes biggest sellers, so I save costs for delivery and more important: I can talk to the tech people who do repairs and warranties face to face. So I get normally warnings when I buy stuff that they have a high return rate of a product. Stuff you won't see at their homepage. I think there is now also an www.alternate.nl ?

I guess this is the opposite, an actor being in a video before she was really popular. I think she was just 16 at the time of the video.

Yesterday we saw an european hamster. And there was of cause the question put by my daughters: Why has it a black belly while all the hamsters you can buy as pets have bright ones. Nearly all animals have a brighter belly than back, why not the european hamster? I was smiling because I remembered that I did nearly the same question as a kid. And I gave the same answer: I put up a Kaspertheater (puppet theatre) from our store room. I think you call them Punch and Judy. Funny video with Elvis playing in a Kaspertheatre and singing. I used adhesive tape to make a brown glove black on the palm. I did white tape around the finger tips, exept the middle finger. I put a little head on this finger. Then I darkened the room and joked a bit with Kasper (the hero puppet), Gretel (his love) and the crocodile (the normal enemy). But this time the crocodile seemed to win, when suddenly the Hamster appeared. He stood up raising his forelegs and roared. And then it was obvious: the black fur looked like an open fang and the 4 feet like canine teeth, ready to kill the attacker. Sadly there are almost no wild hamsters around anymore, (there are tries of repopulation in our district, and I guess the hamster we saw was one of them). In germany they were nearly extincted in the post war years 1945-47 when germany suffered from war and a mis-harvest. People learned quickly that the food store/cache of a hamster could hold up to 100 pound of grain or fruits and dug them out. My grandpa told me when I was young how to look for hamster stores, just in case.

It is a bit like the 1997 flood. A cyclone from the mediterrane was rotating into the eastern alpes and slowed down while being forced to cross the alpes. Then the cyclone hit the carpathian mountains which are even higher. But clouds climbing to 5000+ metres cause rain. So a whole cyclone released the water it would in 2 month in a wide area in just one day in a small area. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2010_Cent...European_floods

That you can play for years and still find some funny stuff: crime scene like in CSI car exhibition with wooden cars a bus stop with a skeleton because noone invented a bus yet statues and graves with funny comments (probably diffrent from country to country), like the one statue of Prinz Poldi, which reads that at every big battle he was sitting on a bank. (Podolski is a german soccer player who was only replacement at very big match ....

Flood warning level 4 (highest possible) reached today in east germany. The pump units (same which were in New Orleans after Katrina) of our local THW are already in poland to do disaster relief. The damm units are in readiness for departing to east germany.

@Groosum Manufacturer page of the Sommer 462 Diesel-Bike PDF with all the technical drawings and data of the engine The engine used is from Hatz ,a 1B40. I added a link to the data sheet. If you want another language than english visit the www.hatz.com. Hatz builds the water pumps we use at THW and firefighters. Hope I could help. @gogo We will keep our old beast and my wife will try to do a bus license. The problem is mainly shopping at the inner cities like Frankfurt where 'dirty cars' are no longer allowed. So we would have to park at the suburbs and use train/metro to reach the inner city. If we visit Frankfurt then it is mainly for shopping clothes. Our oldest daughter is already at 190 centimetre and shoe-size of 46(german size), which is 11 UK or 13 US(women size). So no chance for her to find any good looking stuff in her size for a 14 year old girl. You need a bigger town to find this.

Local products We have market days were local farmers offer their products. Our house is more than 200 years old and its cellar is deep in earth and rammed clay. Always cool and no light. So if we harvest late potatoes in septembre they are fresh till we can harvest early potatoes the other year. We can use our own apples normally till around february for eating and till may for cakes or cooking. Schnitzel If I read the menu of a local restaurant there are probably 20 or more different types of Schnitzel: Wiener Schnitzel, Zigeuner Schnitzel, Cordon Bleu, Jägerschnitzel, Schnitzel Holstein, Pariser Schnitzel, the (ugly) Berliner Schnitzel, Brandenburger Schnitzel, ... It's not even easy for a german to find out which Schnitzel another person likes My favourite would be Cordon Bleu. Vegan Vegan, at least being consequent. One of my cousines is married into a dairy, which makes Handkäse (sour cream cheese). She invited us to watch the production and our 7 year old listened carefully (she is the only of our daughters who is at least a bit intrested in cooking). Weeks later she watched her teacher eating cheese. The teacher said that she would be a vegeterian and not eating animals and would be against gen-manipulated food too. My daughter saw her eating the cheese and suddenly said loud that the teacher would be a liar (she is always very direct, no way diplomatic ,well being 7). The teacher asked why, and my daughter said that the rennet needed to produce the kind of cheese she was eating would be made from the stomachs of young calfs. And that the demand for rennet would be so big that most of the calf's were slaughtered just for the rennet and most of the flesh being used for dog food. The alternative would be gen-manipulated rennet. Either way you look at it, the teacher was either a liar or very inconsequent. Being send to the school decans room the decan started to laugh, he grew up on a farm and knew about the rennet. Only thing he said was that she should be more diplomatic the next time, and that there would be a diffrence between lying and not knowing. And that even teachers would not know everything.

Swearing, kids slang, ... having 5 kids who span 12 years I sometimes feel like needing a dictionary to understand my own language. How you call these tattoos just above the buttocks? Tramps Stamps or more political correct lower back tattoo's ? In german we call them 'Arschgeweih' (slang for buttock antlers). So 3 weeks ago my oldest told a girl in her class Arschgeweihexhibitionistin. I translated it myself into: the girl was wearing her pants and underwear in a way that her tattoos were visible in the most advantagous way(exhibition). And that probably a boy my daughter likesd couldn't keep his eyes away from the girls buttocks..... German and the long words we can do, even works with insults.

The swiss are even more crazy, or very strong to keep this beast in balance: Without joking now, I was planing to really build a wood gasification engine some years back. But then to heat our house. The idea was to use the heat for heating (obvious) and use the gas to drive an engine as a generator for electric power. We live outside village with power lines above ground. So a lot of blackouts at storms and branches hitting the cables. So having an emergency power supply was one of the ideas. But the savety laws and some calculations convinced me that it would be cheaper to buy a real product. Individual savety checks, chimney checks, gas exhaust checks were far costly than the money you save when doing such a heating system yourself. There is a do-it-yourself in a german thread, using a 2l Ford engine to drive a stationary generator. http://www.holzgibtgas.com/viewtopic.php?t...asc&start=0 engine with generator heat exchanger (pipes left) and gas filter (black barrel in front of engine) wood gasification system with a big tank for wood pellets mounted above. A savety valve to burn away gas if necessary (most in front) And then the needed changes to make all this legal: isolation to prevent damage to people touching, coverings for moving parts, all electrics properly connected in a box with savety switches, ... Add that we are surrounded by forest so eve nstronger rules would apply in our case. Short, it was cheaper to buy a system. But since we have our wood for free it is like 8000 litres oil saved an average year and electric power is more or less free in winter. In summer is less heating, so less power.

So the trick would be just for old Sacred2, w/o AddON and not working on consoles. The booster slots could be useful for trophies before you do boss fights. So another thing on my ToDo-list checked, thanks people.

Rammstein- Engel But the version of Gregorian. Gregorian translates modern pop songs into old gregorian chant. It is a wonderful mix: one of Rammstein's best songs and the gregorian style of singing. I own all gregorian discs, they are like a mix of 40 years of music, all song in the gregorian style.

Well its an Audi 80 it seems, so definitly post war. The second picture is a car build with the thing already in. The bike with sidecar is self made, the Opel had it as a AddOn-Kit, same for the tractor. I remember that this AddOn-Kits were still in several barns in my childhood.

A long weekend (monday being a celebration day) I wasn't playing sacred at all. I planed to update my german Alchemy guide but had no time to do the tests. The question is how a hero statue and a mentor work together. It was reported that both- duration and power- are not added but that always the bigger number of the two is taken. Hero statue: +100% experience rate, 30 seconds strong mentor in niob: +50% rate, 75seconds So touching a statue and then drinking a mentor you will get 100% with the 75s duration of a mentor? Could you get minutes instead seconds of +100% experience rate if having alchemy? Is alchemy affecting duration of statues? (doubt it, but has to be tested) I need volunteers for console and pre-addon. And if you don't want to wait one or more weeks, testers for the AddOn too. If it is really the way that a mentor potion restarts the counter you could touch a statue once and then use 4-5minutes long mentors to keep the 100% all the time?

I wondered if I should get creative and build something similiar: gasification of wood. Heat wood that much that it transforms to gas. But it seems that it is forbidden nowadays. I remember that similiar stuff was laying around a lot when I was a kid. People got creative when there was no fuel available in WW2 but a lot of wood and seem to kept their builds in case the cold war would change into a hot war again.

I had problems with sacred2 only 1 time. Updating a virus scanner and it had automatically heuristic scan activated. And the **** SecuROM was considered as potential danger and blocked.

Before we had kids we bought an euro-ticket once, the old one: 3 month free trains whole europe second class for 250 german marks. We took our bicycles and tents with us. Hardest mountain climbing with bicycles on that tour was norway: Trollstigen (ladder of the trolls). Nowadays with kids, animals and work we are more or less limited to one day tours. Biggest hill we can reach in a day trip is around 900metres above sea level. We live at 340m above sea level. The tandem isn't build for alpine mountains. Even ours has 2 disc brakes and 1 u-brake, all hydraulic. 2 persons and travelling bags are a lot of weight downhills. Edit: had to search for Trimph Daytona. I have to admit that I am no longer uptodate with motorbikes as I used to be as a teenager or even a twen. When I was at army I had a BMW-Bike, which strangely still exists somewhere in our barn. But the restoration of the bike would have costed more money than a new bike. So it is there till I find time to repair it. It is the menpower which would be expensive, not the needed pieces. I fear I bought my bike out of logical reasons (do I hear Mr-Spock speaking?). I needed a bike which would be quite fast on german autobahns but able to survive farm roads and would allow to travel europe. So I bought a third hand BMW R80 GS

Pentecosta sunday was travelling from one sport tournament to to the next, have 3 who do diffrent sports. Luckily the twins are still to young. At Monday we used our old Mercedes Transporter and a trailer to make a mixed canoo and bicycle tour. We drove to Wetzlar where my parents live. Waiting at the old market place till 2 more families joined. We put our canoos into the Lahn river below the old Lahn-bridge. Paddling downstream we passed the monastry of Altenberg Looked at castle Braunfels from the river but didn't stop at Braunfels. We visited it already on several bike tours. Our goal was Weilburg It has the only tunnel for ships in germany. The slove around the castle mountain was tunneled for more easy transport of iron ore. You can tell them to dim down the lights and it is a thrilling feeling for kids paddling in a dark tunnel. We were visiting the old town of Weilburg on feet, watching germany's biggest house build from rammed earth. We put the canoos on the Mercedes and unloaded the bicycles and tandems. We drove to the crystal cave at nearby Kubach. We did some evening meal at the close animal park and watched the evening feeding of the bears and lynx at sun fall. My sister was waiting with the Van already and we loaded the bikes on the trailer and drove home. It was a very nice weekend and the reason I wasn't posting anything for 3 days.

Belligerent vault and spectral hand are in a combination, If the mouse pointer is centered at your character no jump will be done and the spectral hand is auto targetting to something in your reach. But you can use BV to jump nearly on place to stun close enemies too.

Lager is german for storage. Old brewery laws forbit beer brewing in the summer months. So breweries did a special beer which ended fermenting in the barrels and was cooled to be drunk in the summer months and stored in cold cellars. Old german brewery laws didn't allow to add fruits to beer. The favourite brewery of my girls: One of the few in germany which still have cold blood horses to pull a beer carriage at festivals. I remember Licher brewery from school. Each year we did a visit at Licher with nature science classes. They have a nice TV-Ad: a kingfisher diving for a fish while 'Solveigs song' from Peer Gynt. Licher was drunken by Elvis Presley while he was as a GI in germany, not far away from the brewery. There are photos of Elvis visiting a Licher Pub in his white time. White time: Elvis used to drive a white BMW 507 but was angry that girls kissed the car all the time and it was full of lipstick. So he ordered that the car was repaint red. He bought even a red BMW Isetta to drive unregnozed.

CM Patch, community patch, .... Currently it is for AddON, but not for closed.

Schnaps is created with distillation to raise the alcohol from 8%-10% to above 15%, normally 38%. Fruit wine is before distillation. After distillation it would be called Obstler in the alpes region. (Obst = fruits). Apples we bring to a company who is specialized in doing apple wine and applie juice. The fruit wine I use for cooking is mainly elder berries, blue berries,... The wine will turn into vinegar after 1-2 days in the open. And I use it to marinate meat for half a week. So first at marinating it is wine and at end of marinating it is vinegar. Sauerbraten Most often in my house the meat is from 'wild boars' which had to be softened. Depends on the type of meat how I marinate it. There is a lot of forest around our house, owened by an earl who likes to hunt but not to eat what he shoots. So we have a lot of wild boars or venison for free.

spectral hand, just looked up. I am at work and typed the earlier post a bit in a hurry. I have a cordless logitech trackball for years, use it at train too. I never got used to this touch pads on notebooks and netbooks. At train I just press it at the upper part of my leg when I found a nice and relaxing sitting position. I was even able to do some presentation with the cordless trackball this way (demands a bit training). But buying a trackball is a bit troublesome. Trackballs have to fit in my hand, and since I am 192cm my hands are too big for most of them. So I travelled to a shop which had several types to compare.