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What a painful handball game. It looked like the A-youth playing the national team, the game between the Berlin Foxes and the Rhein-Neckar Lions this evening in Berlin.
The Lions bought up lots of national players who are considered "old". Didn't see much of that tonight, Andrej Klimovets weighs in at 105 kilograms, but flies through the air, grabbing balls and depositing them in some far corner of the net. Christian Schwarzer may be the elder statesman of the troupe, but is always just where he needs to be. And Oliver Roggisch, with a good 90 kilos on his almost 2 meter tall frame, just towers above the little Fox players. They can't throw over him, around him, or underneath him. He is impermeable.
The game finished somewhere around 17-31, the "baby" Foxes only managed 4 (four) goals during the first half. That must be a record of some sort, a sad one.
They let the hero of the World Cup, Henning Fritz, take a few 7m throws. The crowd cheered him when he took the floor. The first time the Foxes Konny Wilczynsiki met him he was very flustered and missed (something he rarely does, he is in the top 10 of the league for goals). Fritz went up to him and rubbed his hair, just like you would do to a 15-year-old who just missed this chance. Konny did get even, though, getting the rest of his 7m past Fritz and Szmal.
Oh well, still a lot of games to play, can't give up hope yet!
The Baby Foxes
What a painful handball game. It looked like the A-youth playing the national team, the game between the Berlin Foxes and the Rhein-Neckar Lions this evening in Berlin.
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What a wonderful launch party this evening! Directmedia has started a new company, zeno.org, that is in the process of putting lots of full-text, digitized texts online. They have been publishing books on CD-ROM/DVD for years - they take old books which are now in the public domain, scan them in, correct the text, wave their magic index wand over the mass, and make them searchable.
Now they are dumping everything online, and including a German-language copy of the Wikipedia in the search. This needs a little tuning - the search only gives a maximum of 400 hits, and for many terms, there are more than that on the Wikipedia. They need to have a button for "exclude Wikipedia". But there are some fun links in a "see also" box, in which a program tries to decide what could interest someone looking at the current keyword.
They are hoping to make money on the advertising - I wish them luck, it is really great to have all of these old texts online, things like old dictionaries and encyclopedias, works of literature and philosophy, some historical stuff and a lot of pictures. Interesting stuff here for sure.
The party included lots of Wikipedians, so it was just like our monthly pub night, but with good Kreuzberger food: Curry Wurst from Curry 36, Döner, vegetarian stuff, and some really, really good champagne. They were planning on having a garden party, but it has been pouring all day AND it is marathon in Berlin, so the caterer could not get through on time and we had to wait for the food. But it was really, really worth the wait.
I wish them luck - if this succeds everyone wins - more free content available, and they earn enough to pay for the servers and the scanning. If you want to sponsor a book that you feel is missing, they are willing to do it for you for a fee.
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Web-based Research
Just finished up a small research program that I spent the last half of a year on with the help of a student research assistant. We published our results on the web in a manner that is what I was thinking I wanted to have done over at the Wikiversity, before it got taken over by a hoard of people determine to completely mirror the (broken) university system on the Internet.
I wanted to have a place for scholarship. A place where persons come together to think - write - create - discuss, or as I sometimes put it, for teaching - learning - discusing - creating - thinking. What has happened is that some zealous person or group of persons has gone around and "created" schools and departments for every conceivable area - except that most are stubs with nothing in them. The "original research" page leads in with a "quote" attributed to Benjamin Franklin. Except that this is one of those typical "A said B" things, but no one knows the exact source. I find this also listed as a Chinese saying, and I am unaware of Ben Franklin having been Chinese...
The whole point of the Internet is that we don't have to be in departments, which is what you do when you group things and can only group one thing in one place. On the Internet you can do research that transcends departmentalization. You can link to it from many places. You can publish your data and let others derive alternative conclusions from it, and these can be published there as well.
And this is exactly what we did. We had started out using a Wiki as the basis for our work, on account of me and my assistant normally not occupying the same space-time area. We used the school's wikifarm, which is unfortunately Atlassian Confluence. This is a system which lets me happily write for an hour and then, upon attempting to store the page, announces that it does not feel well and just drops the page (and no, the back button does not work, as they initialize all fields on entry to the page). No, it is not on my list of favorite tools. It would also store pages with umlauts in the name, but refuse to retrieve them. The syntax was primitive and its tendency to really screw up tables just exasperated us to the point that we quit using it.
Since there were only two of us, we just Skyped, sending files back and forth, and set up a WordPress server, which we also used for publishing the findings. WordPress has it's own quirks and needs some interface icing to be really good for this, but in principle it is a great system and did not interfere too much with our work (except for creating tables, which is an exercise in frustration, we ended up making them in Dreamweaver and doing copy & paste on the code).
The research itself ended up being recorded on paper. We had this schema we set up and printed out, but we ended up using the backs of the pages as we discovered that what we wanted to record wouldn't work, but there was lots of other interesting stuff around. We just produced a big pile of paper, and then transcribed the lot. Luckily, my assistant did most of the writing, his handwriting is 10 times better than mine is.
Having it on paper was really good, because we could sort and resort the mess on the floor, until it made sense.
We put together a report, wrote a page on our test methodology and our analysis criteria, linked up all the tests in a big table (including links to the test cases and anything else around), and then we informed the companies we had been analyzing where their report was, and we offered to include a rejoinder, if they cared to write one.
Four actually did, with one going to the trouble of re-analyzing our data for their product (not with the others, though) in order to show that they would come in second. Of course, they would need to have looked at the others and probably given them extra points, too. Whatever - they wrote a four-page rejoinder, which I published and linked from my page.
Of course, understanding the data is not trivial. This is a very complex area. But I have a good feeling that we have our findings, our data, and room for alternate findings, all in the same place. It's not a wiki - so there are no trolls around defacing it. They send me emails with the usual complaints of me "wasting" taxpayer's money on this research. If I'm in a good mood I point them to the constitution of Germany, which ensures freedom of research and of teaching. Of course, if I don't have money I can't do much research. But this was relatively cheap research. And now we can sit down and start to write traditional papers about what we do, linking to the online research collection, which can be updated as I get more data in, I can even include more tests if I so desire!
So I am kind of lukewarm on the topic of Wiki-based research. I would have liked to have had a system that would let us record our results smoothly and reorder them as necessary until we had our findings. And then I need an archive. We piled all the bits of paper on top of each other, printed out the online stuff (I am paranoid) and made a lot of CD backups. A lot of this stuff should not be online, we took a ton of screenshots, only using a few. I like to keep them, but that would just be clutter if I posted them all, and part of research is about inducing order into chaos.
Just some thoughts, maybe this will turn into a paper sometime. Now, gotta get some papers graded.....
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Jo Nesbø
The Norwegian author and musician Jo Nesbø is in town, he is on a book tour because a new translation has just appeared in German. There was a good crowd that showed up in Babylon to hear him read and speak, and to hear Jochen Krol, who is apparently a famous German actor.
Or at least he was introduced as such: "Jochen Krol needs no introduction!". Oops, yes he does. I have no idea who he is or what he has played. Just looked him up on the Wikipedia. There is a guy there called Joachim Król who looks a lot like the guy who was on the stage, so I guess its him. Ah, okay, he's the detective in the Donna Leon films.
Anyway, he has a great voice. It was so great to close you eyes and listen to them read. Jo read a few pages in Norwegian. I realized that I read Norwegian with a Swedish accent, I picked out some words here and there, but not the sentences. Joachim did three longish pieces, and then left us hanging on a cliff, meaning people had to go out and buy the book. I have so much to read, I figure I'll wait for paperback.
Nesbø is a great storyteller. Let's see if I can recall a few:
- The dog - in this book there is a made-up race of dog that is described in detail. People keep hounding a Norwegian dog expert for more information on this race of dog and to find out where they can be purchases. So the expert calls, and Nesbø tells him that it is just a made -up race. The expert is angry at him.
- His Russian translator calls:
- Jo, I will be in Norway, can I come to visit you? (They are speaking English).
- Sure, why are you coming to Norway?
- Well, I am taking a Norwegian course.
- Um, aren't you my translator into Russian?
- Yes, I translate with a dictionary. But it is from 1957 and actually a Swedish dictionary. So I want to learn some modern Norwegian!
- One of his past books involves a plot to kidnap the Crown Prince. Someone in the audience asks if the court ever responded to the book. No, Nesbø says, but he met the Prime Minister when they were waiting to go on a talk show together. The Prime Minister said that he really liked that book, even though it got him into a bit of a spot. He was in an audience with the king and was making small talk. The king asked him what he was currently reading, and he answered that he was reading this great crime story. "What's it about?" asks the king. The prime minister realizes that he is about to put his foot in his mouth and hurriedly changes the subject, he is, after all, a seasoned politician.
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Jörn Donner on Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work
The Swedish Embassy was showing Jörn Donner's Om liv och arbete (On Life and Work) that was made in 1998 for the German/French TV station ARTE - with Donner himself in attendance to answer questions afterwards.
I love having the guys there to ask them questions about the production. The film has Donner asking Bergman questions and Bergman explaining and telling stories and being mischievous and being sad and thoughtful and mostly not being his normal ego-centric, overbearing self. Bergman comes across as a charming old gentleman and Donner as a much younger intellectual asking tough questions of the old guy. The film gives the illusion of this being an afternoon's chat.
Actually it was filmed over a 3-day period in the studio in Stockholm, said the shockingly old and thin man who did, actually, bear a resemblance to Donner. The IMDB shows him to be 74, just 15 years younger than Bergman. The cultural attaché for Sweden asked some questions, then the mike was opened - and of course, no one dared to ask, so I (as always) asked the question that had been building in my mind: what exactly was their relationship? Donner danced around this a bit, but settled on "good friend", they knew each other for 50 years. But he was closer to Michaelango Antonioni, who died the same day as Bergman.
And that was the questions, so we went to get some nice wine served upstairs. Donner did come up, so I went over to listen in some more and maybe get in another question or too. He spoke about producing "Fanny & Alexander" and about his book "Report from Berlin" which was published in 1958 and is apparently to be reprint next year, 50 years later, with a new chapter from him. And about some guys sitting on film material he wants to use and this and that and that other stuff and all about him and I thought: Who is he to be calling Bergman egocentric? He is just as much himself. The sparks must have flown when they had a disagreement!
An enjoyable evening, perhaps only marred by the embassy people forgetting to turn on the subtitles and in the ensuing commotion (I had no problem with the Swedish, but apparently many others did) they had to turn off the film, find the menu for the subtitles, and restart the film. Why don't people do a rehearsal for things like this?
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Rush Hour III
I wouldn't normally go to movies like Rush Hour III, but this was the birthday wish for a young woman who enjoyed it tremendously. I found it marginally better than Die Hard 4.0, and actually rather like the Gísli Saga with one of our heros taking out 2-4 others at a time. And since these are modern times, there ware women with guns and kung fu capabilities, not to mention that they swing a mean set of knives.
There is no plot to speak of, other than "find X" and "kill as many Y as possible", and apparently no need for a continuity editor. It jumps around, things just happen, the crowd roars (apparently some jokes they remember from I and II), and Jackie Chan seems to be getting old. Happens to the best of us.
In between gunfight (at least the bullets go out for some of them), car chases, car crashes, knife-throwing contests, lots of kung fu (apparently Jackie Chan, who does his own stunts, hurt himself performing one of them) there are actually a few funny lines. Oh yeah, and a happy end. Who would have thought that?
Are phishers really this stupid? I usually just delete them, but now that I have a PayPal account (had to set it up in order to reload my pre-paid mobile phone while travelling), I was curious. At least it was in German, or some semblance thereof (phishing mail in blue):
First, a copy of the image, inlined directly from PayPal to make it right - and if you click on the image, you actually land at paypal.com:
Then we merrily mix languages:
Unauthorized Zugang zu deinem PayPal Konto!
We beachtete vor kurzem mehr Versuche, zu deinem PayPal account anzumelden von einem fremden IP address.
If, das du dein Konto beim Reisen, die ungewöhnlichen LOGON-Versuche zugänglich machtest, kann von dir eingeleitet worden sein. Wenn du der rightfull Inhaber des Kontos bist, Paypal jedoch bitte so bald wie möglich besuchen, um deine Identität zu überprüfen:
The HTML code is hilarious, as this seems to have been an automated translation, and some of the HTML code has been translated as well:
Schriftkegelfamilie: verdana, arial, Helvetica, GROTESK;
class= " punktiertes "
align=" Mitte "
align=" verließ "
Took me a while to think what that last one was - align=left :)
Now we have the kicker (including a copy&paste error):
zu überprüfen
Really tricky - in the anchor tag we have:
And the fun continues (there were links embedded in this which I have removed, all going to the Bulgarian address):
title=" https://paypal.com/us/secure_verify?ID=pp468 ">
We fragen, daß du erlaubst, daß mindestens 72 Stunden, damit der Fall nachgeforscht werden kann und wir uns stark empfehlen, dein Konto in dieser Zeit zu überprüfen.
Thank du für das Verwenden von PayPal!
The PayPal Team
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PayPal email Identifikation PP468
Who takes stuff like this seriously? Of course, our spam detector passed this on as a relatively small chance of being spam, despite the links with URLs embedden in the title. Scary.
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Back in Berlin
It was so wonderful being away from Berlin for 6 weeks! I even forgot my telephone number and bank account number, not having used either for that length of time.
It is such a culture shock being back in this enormous, loud, dirty, and very complex city. Now, how did I normally get from A to B? There are new constructions sites and train work schedules that are of course not posted as that was reported in the papers when they started work. Lots of surprises every day.
Riding the subway / elevated trains was especially jarring. People are so loud and use their mobile phones constantly to discuss banalities. Or they conduct their real-life, face-to-face relationship dramas out in public, including screaming matches and sobbing.
On the other hand, there is a lot going on here. Your choices out in the country are severely limited, so reading is indeed a great option. I've been easing in, just took in a handball game on Wednesday. For this weekend the options just floored me that I took a cop out and invited a young friend who turned 20 yesterday out - she should pick what she wants to do and I'll just accompany her and foot the bill. Let's just hope it is not a hip-hop concert....
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Við sáumst, Ísland!
The course is over, back to "civilization" from the wonderful seclusion of the wild north. The locals had been telling us gruesome tales of planes not being able to land because of wind/cloud/hail/snow. A short overview showed that missing the flight Saturday evening would entail missing the flight to Copenhagen, so I was a bit anxious.
But all was fine, they said, not "much" wind, not "much" clouds. And let's go pick some blueberries in the berjamó. In the pouring rain? Oh no, next fjord over the weather is fine.
It actually was. We turned off the "main road" (euphemism for "at least it has tar on it") and tooled down a pot-holed mud track (known as a secondary road, that's why they all drive 4-wheel drives). We stopped at a deserted farm house.
We walked up the path alongside of a river that actually had a name, Small Weather River. Why it is called that, no idea. The red bits at the top are the blueberry bushes, perfectly ripe for the picking. And the sheep are too stupid to like blueberries.
We climbed and we climbed (I was quite out of breath), and suddenly we were in a landscape of krækiber and bláber. Big, fat, sweet blueberries. We picked and picked in the drizzle, was actually not that bad, as it washed the berries as you picked. I eventually lucked on to a patch where you could just grab into the bushes and come up with a handful of berries. Stuffing these all in your mouth is just wonderful - one bite and the cool sweetness fills your tongue.
When the baskets were filled we went to feast on blueberries. Just blueberries, brown sugar, and cream. I think I had four bowls.... I took a box of them with me on the plane for a friend in Reykjavik who was born up here.
I started getting nervous about the flight - it is at 6.20 pm, and it was already 5.30. No problem, they say. We'll leave around 5.45. And indeed - since the airport was just around the corner from the tunnel and you have the right of way that way through the tunnel, were did get there about 5.55.
Now imagine showing up that late for a flight anywhere else. You probably don't fly. But not here. You check in by giving your first name, dump your bags, and get a little slip with a bar code on it. The suitcases get put on a conveyor belt that slips them outside - and you can watch them get loaded up. No one asked to see my passport. Seems if you made it up here, you must be all right, so you can leave again.
We leave right on time, punch through the clouds, and 35 minutes later we land in Reykjavik. What a large place it has become! And so flat, no mountains! And so noisy - I got used to sleeping with the window open (so as not to suffocate, the heat can be turned up but not down, so your regulate by opening a window. There is so much noise here through the open window of the bedroom.
Gotta get up at 3.30 to catch the 4.30 bus to Keflavik. Ugh. Even though it goes late, we still get to the airport in time. The lines are long, but proceed efficiently. Iceland Express does a great job. And no one complains about that extra 5 kg of luggage, the plane is only half full.
You get one last chance to spend your Icelandic funny money, I got some "Black Death" at the Duty-Free Shop and some breakfast. Last chance for skýr! This plane, too, leaves right on time, but there are 3 hours of sitting behind some Icelanders who are partying on their way to Copenhagen...
I got into my book, I am reading Dáuða Rósir by Arnaldur Indridason ("Dead Roses"), a mystery story. It is hard going, but it is actually a good story, and I am making some headway guessing what words mean. My little dictionary does not have translations for words and phrases like óforbetranlegur eiturlyfjafíkill, nauðgun, samfarir, marbletti víða um líkamann, vændiskonur (no male ending??), þjófnaði and melludólgurinn. Better not translate them, or this blog will be labelled NSFW.
Landing in Copenhagen went fine, suddenly everyone speaks with potatoes in their mouths. Danish sounds really horrible! Suitcases take forever to come (one gets spoiled in Iceland), then the train to Sweden is late and crowded. The Swedish conductor on the train speaks a slow, broad Skanska, uff. After the machine gun speed of Icelandic I feel like she is going to fall asleep in mid sentence!
A friend gives a lift to the cabin, I try to converse with her, but now the words keep popping out in Icelandic! Speaking German, English, Icelandic, Danish and Swedish during one day is very tiring. How nice it is to start a fire in the fireplace and contemplate the rain.... I want to go back to the West Fjords, they were just awesome. What a shame I have to go back to work!
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Dental Implants: The FAQ
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Published in 1970
Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox features three horrid farmers - Boggis, Bunce and Bean - who really hate cunning Mr Fox...
Three horrid farmers - Boggis, Bunce and Bean - hate cunning Mr Fox, who outwits them at every turn. But poor Mr Fox and his friends don't realise how determined the farmers are to get them...
Roald Dahl lived with his family in Great Missenden, a village in Buckinghamshire, UK. Their house was surrounded by fields and woods. As a passionate lover of the countryside, there was one particular tree - known locally as "the witches tree" - that sat on the lane near the Dahl home and came to inspire one of Roald's own favourite stories: Fantastic Mr Fox.
The "witches tree" was a large, 150-year-old beech. Sadly the tree is no longer standing but when his children were growing up Roald always used to tell them that it was where Mr Fox and his family lived, in a hole beneath the trunk, just as the Fox family do in the story.
Published in 1970, the story of Mr Fox and his feud with Boggis, Bunce and Bean has gone on to inspire many other artists, including a 1998 operatic version of the story composed by Tobias Picker to a libretto by Donald Sturrock, and a critically acclaimed stop-motion film directed by Wes Anderson featuring the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep.
During the making of the film version of Fantastic Mr Fox, Wes Anderson returned to the Great Missenden countryside that had inspired the original story, staying with Roald's widow Felicity "Liccy" Dahl while he wrote the screenplay.
In the original book Mr and Mrs Fox don't have first names, but in his version Wes gave Mrs Fox the name Felicity. Much of the film's art direction was inspired by the house and gardens where Roald had lived, and many of the scenes you will see in the finished film are based on places in the area including local pub The Nags Head, previously frequented by Roald himself.
On a hill above the valley there was a wood. In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole. In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes.
...Mrs Fox said to her children, 'I should like you to know that if it wasn't for your father we should all be dead by now. Your father is a fantastic fox.'
Mr Fox looked at the four Small Foxes and he smiled. What fine children I have, he thought.
Boggis was a chicken farmer. He kept thousands of chickens. He was enormously fat. This was because he ate three boiled chickens smothered with dumplings every day for breakfast, lunch and supper.
Bunce was a duck-and-goose farmer. He kept thousands of ducks and geese. He was a kind of pot-bellied dwarf. He was so short his chin would have been underwater in the shallow end of any swimming pool in the world.
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Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox


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In destroying the Aether Realms, dragons were able to engineer the creation of the Multiverse. The reasons behind the destruction of their home universe and exactly what the original dragons were attempting to do has been lost to the Fogs of Time however.
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Reviews of Chirk Giant Car Boot, Wrexham
Review by Sue on 12th February, 2017
Add your review Date visited: 12th feb
We arrived here today and there was nothing here
Date visited: 12th feb
Review by Maggie Kay on 8th October, 2015
Add your review Date visited: 4/10/15
I love Chirk car boot sale, many bargains to be had. But the lack of toilets on the site is a real problem. There used to be three ladies toilets at the start of the market, and as many mens. The whole of this summer they have been closed. There is one portaloo for men and one for women and the queues are ridiculously long, two toilets for hundred if not thousands of people. The farmer makes a lot of money every weekend and should put toilets in for the people who make him that money.
Date visited: 4/10/15
Review by Mike Clark on 4th August, 2013
Add your review Date visited: 4 August
The phone number given for this venue (Chirk Car Boot Sale) is not correct
Date visited: 4 August
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I am a fan of the Independent Commission against Corruption. Reading through their investigations is a clear indication that New South Wales have really gone after dodgy buggers. When you then look at Sydney Morning Herald archives or AFR archives with certain "names" you can see a clear trend towards stamping out corruption.
New Zealand doesn't take the Australian approach to stamping out corruption. I know Cam Slater is an advocate of an ICAC in New Zealand, but is that really possible? Does any Kiwi politician have the gumption to front a campaign for an agency with teeth?
We are the nation of the wet bus ticket. When it comes to answering the question "Is New Zealand less corrupt than New South Wales?" I think the answer is NO.
New Zealand's "low corruption" claim to fame is based on perception of corruption surveys that have very low sample sizes. They are as meaningless as "freedom indexes" or "ease of doing business surveys". Fodder for the likes of publications that are the shells of their former selves like The Economist or Forbes Magazine.
The creation of an ICAC for New Zealand is a solid policy idea. It's not like the Commerce Commission, Serious Fraud Office, OFCANZ, NZ Police or Financial Markets Authority have any tendency to aggressively hunt down corruption.
We need to bring back the Latin phrases like "cui bono?" (who benefits?). An ICAC could ask the questions and get some real answers. It would either confirm that New Zealand is an amazing country with no corruption at all, or, like the NSW ICAC has shown time and time again, that there is a rotten core at the top of New Zealand society.


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text: xerpo 177 Posted August 8, 2018 So, looking and looking again up to the Chewie stats card I saw that terrible white defense dice. Any rebel player who has run an AT-RT a couple of times knows what that means, they last one or two blows depending on what hits them, now im terrified about Chewie because unlike the AT-RT, he does not have armor. So he will save with natural sixes from every hit, it doesen`t matter his life he will go down crazy fast. I made a very simple comparison in a melee combat, where Chewie si supposed to excel, between Chewie and a single stormtrooper unit with 6 soldiers. Bare in mind how expensive Chewie is in comparison with that unit. Chewie: 4 red dice means 3,5 wounds per blow with a 87,5% chances to hit and an offensive surge. From wich the ST unit will take 1,75 wounds in that attack due to their 50% red dice save.Chewie will do 1,75 wounds to a STunit, not very impressive. STunit: 6 black dice means 3,75 wounds per blow with a 62,5% chances to hit and an offensive surge. From wich Chewie will take 3,121 wounds in that attack due to his 16,6% white dice save.STunit will do 3,121 wounds to Chewie. Quite impressive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The Frictionary # 106 (Bye Bye 2006)
Here is another page from The Frictionary:
966. Man is the only animal that builds tombs. (Michel Leeb)
967. Love? We should not speak ill of a subject that has survived romanticism and the bidet. (E.M. Cioran)
968. Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. (Terry Pratchett)
969. Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. (Winston Churchill)
970. Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. (?)
971. Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound. * (Charles Anderson Dana)
* This was at the end of the 19th century.
972. An idea is an unbreakable toy, free, and sometimes lethal. (Georges Henein)
973. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play, (...). In other words, it is war minus the shooting. (George Orwell)
974. I think it's wrong that the game Monopoly is made by only one company. (Steven Wright)
975. When trust is limited, there is no trust. (Lao Tzu)
That's all for this edition, the last of 2006. Best wishes for a Happy New 2007 Year.
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Data Science in Business and Economics - Master
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New program starting winter semester 2019/2020.
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This four-semester M.Sc. program reflects these requirements for a unique skill set, and students who enroll in this programm specialize in econometrics and they select from a broad set of modules on different aspects of business and economics. On top of that, they enroll in modules on data science techniques, which includes programming in R and python as well as the possibility to enroll in courses in Machine Learning in collaboration with the computer science department.
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Our programs start at the beginning of October.
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We publish all news concerning the application process on our website so you can stay in the loop.
Initially, only applications and admissions for the first semester are possible.
Admission to the M.Sc. in Data Science in Business and Economics requires a Bachelor's degree in Business Studies or Economics or a comparable degree with excellent grades. Applicants are expected to have a solid intermediate level knowledge in Statistics / Mathematics / Econometrics, Business Administration and Economics.
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June 27, 2017
WASHNGTON—Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces arrested 1,012 suspected child predators from more than 40 states during a two-month nationwide operation following the investigation of more than 69,000 cases, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) announced today.
The arrests marked the end of Operation Broken Heart, a coordinated investigative operation to intensify efforts to identify and arrest suspected child sexual predators during April and May 2017. The 61 ICAC Task Forces, funded through OJJDP grants, comprise more than 4,500 federal, state and local, and tribal law enforcement agencies that participated in the operation.
"As technology and social media evolve, predators are quick to figure out how they can use these new tools to reach—and exploit—our children," said OJJDP Acting Administrator Eileen M. Garry. "Our greatest strength on this ever -changing battlefield is the partnerships we have with federal, state, and local agencies. Our combined efforts across jurisdictional, state, and even national boundaries make both the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force program and Operation Broken Heart effective."
The operation targeted suspects who: (1) possess, manufacture and distribute child pornography; (2) engage in online enticement of children for sexual purposes; (3) engage in the commercial sexual exploitation or prostitution of children; and (4) engage in child sex tourism—traveling abroad for the purpose of sexually abusing children in other countries. ICAC Task Forces first conducted Operation Broken Heart in 2014.
The task forces also delivered 1,245 presentations on Internet safety to more than 99,000 youth and adults during these two months. In 1998, OJJDP launched the ICAC Task Force Program to help federal, state and local law enforcement agencies enhance their investigative responses to offenders who use the Internet, online communication systems or computer technology to exploit children. To date, ICAC Task Forces have reviewed 705,963 complaints of child exploitation, which resulted in the
arrest of 75,688 individuals. In addition, since the ICAC program's inception, 585,604 law enforcement officers, prosecutors and other professionals have been trained on techniques to investigate and prosecute ICAC-related cases.
For more information, visit the ICAC Task Force webpage.
The Office of Justice Programs, headed by Acting Assistant Attorney General Alan R. Hanson, provides federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, administer justice and assist victims. OJP has six bureaus and offices: the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the National Institute of Justice; the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Office for Victims of Crime; and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART).
More information about OJP and its components can be found at www.ojp.gov


text: Andrew Baloun is in his eighth year as an assistant coach. The Amherst, Ohio native played four years in goal with the Cavaliers. Baloun has an NSCAA National Diploma and a USSF E license. He coaches club soccer for Canton United as a U15 and U16 head coach and club wide goalkeeper coach. Baloun also works at Walsh University as an adjunct mathematics professor. He graduated from Walsh in 2011 with a BS in high school math education.


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Spring Break '15
March 13, 2015
It doesn't take long to feel the love and FUN when you combine these babies and their Grandparents!!
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Update: Despite my video being briefly showcased on the Chicago Sun-Times website and my overwhelming (quite literally) desire to do this, I'm sad and a bit surprised (along with my friends) to say that I didn't make it to the next round…
Here is video application to be a roommate at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
I can't express how much a dream it would be to live day and night for a month in the museum and explore and report on all the amazing science. And, I would love to make a display of my bicycle and photos and all the discoveries I made while cycling around the world. And, of course, be part of the experiment to see how this experience changes me and everyone I meet. Wish me luck and stay tuned to vote.
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20th May 1915 saw the first meeting of the Wandsworth Battalion recruitment committee, held in the Town Hall. The request from the Army Council and Lord Kitchener to raise a battalion was reported at the Council meeting on 5th May, and this was the first meeting about doing so. The first decision taken by the meeting was to form a Committee, in fact to form two Committees – both a General and an Executive Committee. It was also considered important to establish that the name of Wandsworth would be attached to the battalion if they raised, say, less than 1000 men. Councillor Prince also suggested that the various wards of the borough should be identified with the battalion by name, this was to receive consideration rather than being automatically approved, presumably due to the earlier concerns over numbers, and in the end only the borough name was recorded. Officers of the Battalion were to be Wandsworth men only, this was clearly felt to be important to maintain a properly local battalion and also to encourage local men to join up and to be supportive of the endeavour. A recruiting officer had already been found, and the Mayor (Archibald Dawnay) was sure than in a large borough like Wandsworth 150 men could be found from each ward. There had already been a hundred applications to join the battalion and when it reported the meeting, the Wandsworth Borough News further encouraged all man of military age resident in the borough to join up. The same day also saw the regular meeting of the Putney Relief Fund Committee. Numbers applying to the Fund for help had reduced considerably since the early days of the war and only 5 applications were being considered at this meeting. Four of them had applied at least once before, although one of them was turned down on this occasion as her distress was held not to be caused by the war. That applicant returned in subsequent occasions and was granted relief, all the way through to July 1916 when the minutes stop, and two other applicants this week also continued to rely on the committee. They were Harriet Andrew, Marie Gibson and Margaret Kelly. Harriet Andrew is probably the same one who lived at 125 Lower Richmond Road in 1911, she was a widowed needleworker who was living with another, older, woman and very probably would have suffered in the reduction of available work – laundries in Battersea also reported a downturn in business as a result of the war. The other two applicants have proved difficult to find more information on, as the minutes don't give addresses. The other applicant who received a positive outcome this week was Elizabeth Pigott, enquiries were to be made about her circumstances by Miss Kitson and Miss Lecky (of the Eileen Lecky Clinic) and if those proved favourable was to receive an emergency payment. She was eventually granted 13s a week for two weeks and referred to the Fulham committee instead. For earlier meetings of the Relief Fund committee, see this post. Wandsworth Battalion minute book, ref: MBW/2/25/1 Putney Relief Fund minute book, ref: MBW/2/32/3 Wandsworth Borough News available on microfilm
Tag Archives: Prince of Wales Relief Fund
2-8 February 1915: Tooting Relief Fund and the Home Defence League
The Wandsworth Borough News of 5 February carried several stories relating to the effect of the war on the borough. The Tooting Relief Fund Committee, had an argumentative start to their work at a public meeting over the make up of the committee back in September 1914, and more than once feature in the local press with debates over their ongoing duties. The meeting reported in the Borough News included a local vicar expressing disappointment that the committee's work appeared to be mainly giving out "doles" [money], as he felt they should be devising schemes to provide work instead. He approved of the workroom for women which had been set up at the Wesleyan Hall in Tooting, and claimed that it was Socialists on the committee who were doing nothing but give out money. That last remark caused protests that "if the Borough Council was composed of socialists then they would move Heaven and earth to provide work". Another committee member asked if they were to allow people to starve if they could not find work? Official figures apparently showed unemployment in Tooting to be low, and reliable figures were needed to prove that unemployment work schemes were successful. Reverend French agreed that if work could not be found then the only way to help was by making payments, but if that was the case his time was more usefully spent elsewhere and he resigned from the committee, as did Reverend Bevill Allen, Mr Cooper Rawson and Mr W J Mellhuish.
The other slight controversy of the meeting was the receipt of a large quantity of flour from Canada, to be distributed among the poor. Two Tooting bakers had, at the request of Mr Shepherd, offered to make this into bread free of charge, but the committee objected to this offer as both the bakers were German. Councillor A J Hurley acknowledged that it was kind of them to offer to do it, but felt that there were plenty of English bakers who would have been equally kind had they been asked. He also wondered what the Canadians would think if they knew their flour was being baked by Germans? The matter was then dropped, with no record of which bakers eventually made the bread.
The newspaper also reports on the various home defence forces that had been set up around the borough. These were localised versions of what was the Home Guard in World War Two, and reports of their activities included the Athlete's Volunteer Force: Wandsworth and Southfields division, the Southfields Defence Force and the Home Defence League, South West London division. The report for the Athlete's Volunteer Force referred to the donation of 6 rifles to the Wandsworth Rifle Club by Sir Henry Kimber and to plans for divisions to be founded in Tooting and Roehampton. The headquarters of the Athlete's Volunteer Force was Wandsworth Rifle Club, so presumably the two were closely linked. Southfields Defence Force was based at the London, County and Westminster Bank, Southfields Station. The paper carried their orders for February, including parades, exercises and recruitment – they were keen for existing members to encourage others to "be prepared to take their place to defend their hearths and homes against a ruthless enemy" and wanted to keep numbers at around 800 men. The Home Defence League was based at Trinity Road and had the same commanding officer as the Wandsworth Regiment of the Volunteer Training Corps, so presumably it was formalised later. It was divided into several platoons which each had instructions in different areas of the borough for drills, with the whole regiment due to parade for General Sir O'Moore Creagh on the upcoming Saturday.
Wandsworth Borough News available on microfilm in the searchroom
12-18 January 1915: Putney Relief Fund
At the end of September, the Putney Relief Fund made its first payment, (see this post for details). Since then the numbers applying had dropped, the meeting on 14th January 1915 had 9 applications to deal with – considerably less than when the Fund first opened. One of the names was still the same, Alice Barham had originally been given some money until her sons in Canada could be contacted, but at the end of October she had to apply again and was being granted 2/6 per week. The Committee recommended that she contact her son at Salisbury but had been granting her a weekly allowance ever since. On 21st January this was suspended for the time being, her name does not re-appear in 1915 and there is no record as to why they stopped the allowance. Hopefully one of her family was able to help her or she managed to obtain work.
Other applicants had to find work, Mary Brown's case had been adjourned from the previous week until the Committee heard from her employers – presumably to ensure that her hardship was due to the war. A workroom had been set up at the Wesleyan Central Hall in Tooting and employment was to be obtained for her there. One case, that of Mrs Featherstonehaugh, was eventually referred to the Central Committee for the borough and then to the Committee at Assington. Assington was presumably where the headquarters of the Prince of Wales Relief Fund was based. Interestingly, unlike all the other applicants, Mrs Featherstonehaugh is only ever referred to as such – all other applicants are referred to using both names – and she received more support than the majority, getting £1 a week whilst the most received by another applicant this week was 13s. Her full name was Emily Featherstonehaugh, she lived in Warwick Mansions on Lower Richmond Road and her husband Thomas was a commercial agent for silk. Full case details are not given in the minutes, so it is impossible to tell what caused difficulties for any of the applicants – it could be that business dried up due to the war, or that men who joined the Army were not able to send pay home immediately. The Committee was very clear that distress which was not caused by the war was not their responsibility, any applications which they deemed to fall in to that category were turned down.
The Putney Committee also reported on matters decided on by the Borough Executive Sub-Committee with other issues relating to who received money. The question over how to deal with men who had served for a short time then discharged from the Army as unfit was reported as having been referred up to the Central Committee for a decision. If applications from men who had been employed in hut building were received by the Ward Committees then they were recommended to refer the men to the Distress Committee as relief works were being opened. The minutes do not say what the "hut building" was, nor do the minutes of the Executive Committee – although there were earlier notes of men being given work to do in clearing vacant land for cultivation. It is possible that the huts were for the 3rd London General Hospital, but there is no evidence to back that up.
Minutes of the Putney Ward Relief Fund, ref: MBW/2/32/3
Minutes of the Relief Fund Committee, ref: MBW/2/32/2
29 September – 5 October 1914: Relief Fund payments
Over the last few weeks there have been a lot of mentions of the Prince of Wales National Relief Fund and the local Relief Funds. Each borough set up committees as part of the national effort, which co-ordinated local collection and distribution of relief, or money to help relieve hardship caused by the war. Wandsworth Heritage Service only holds one local committee book, for the Putney Ward, and so far committee meetings had been very much administration and fundraising related. The Putney Committee met in Putney Library and was chaired by Alderman Lindsey, with members including Eileen Lecky (see here for more about her and her work), the local councillors and Rev Canon Rivington, vicar of St Mary's Putney. A register of assistance had been prepared and enquiries made round all the charitable organisations in the area to gather more information. In order to deal with applications for employment the committee had started to use the windows of the Board Room in the Library to advertise vacancies for temporary servants and charwomen.
The local committee met on October 1st and the minute book records the first applicants and the decisions made. There were 45 applicants, six of whom had their applications turned down as their case was not due to the war. A further six were declined as "undeserving", and one case was considered both undeserving and not war-related. Fifteen were placed on the unemployment register to help them find work – three of those were given some money in the interim, and in one case it was actually the applicant's mother who went on the register, whilst in other's both husband and wife were placed on the register. Some applicants had already found work and their applications were withdrawn. Eight applications were referred to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Family Association (who still exist today, see www.ssafa.org ), one to the Putney St Mary's Relief Fund and one awaited a decision from the Putney Benevolent Society. That left five applications, two of which were adjourned for further investigations and one of which has the intriguing entry of "Chairman to see Borough Engineer and endeavour to get husband reinstated on the Wandsworth Borough Council staff".
Of the 45 applications only two were granted financial help without also having to find work. Gertrude Hannah Brookes was to be allowed 5s per week temporarily and her child was to be fed at school – a somewhat mysterious entry in a few weeks refers to contacting the "Roumanian minister" with reference to her case. Alice Barham was granted 5s for one week and her sons in Canada were to be contacted to see if they could assist. A labourer would have averaged from 14s to 22s a week in 1914, so the amounts being given out were not large, and the fact only five people were awarded any relief at this point shows that it was not an easy process. Less than two months into the war the effects on ordinary people were starting to show, particularly with the amounts of people who were out of work.
Putney Ward Local Relief minutes, ref: MBW/2/32/3
8-14 September: Battersea Borough Council responds to the outbreak of war
Battersea Borough Council held their first meeting since the outbreak of war on 9th September. In fact, two special meetings were convened for that evening, the first was to deal with reports from the Committees and the second to consider the war. The Committees were largely reporting on schemes of works to do with the Central (Unemployed) Body, which was a London wide body set up to help create jobs – work on the Latchmere Estate was done using labour via the Central (Unemployed) Body, and one of the schemes agreed at this meeting was to finish laying out the Latchmere recreation ground. Another scheme agreed was the building of a Municipal Rifle Range – why or where is not given.
The Mayor reported that he had been asked by the Lord Mayor of London to call a Town's Meeting on the events leading to the war and to urge recruitment, he had also been approached by the Colonel-Commandant of the 23rd County of London Battalion to help in assisting recruits. The day after the Council meeting that Town Meeting was called for 18th September, the Council having agreed to grant the free use of the Town Hall for it.
Several Council employees had obviously already been called up, as it was also discussed how they ought to be paid whilst on active service. The Council agreed that every facility should be given to those who wished to join, and that they ought to be paid the difference between their Forces salary and their Council salary, with the job kept open for them to return.
The second Council meeting of the evening duly considered their position on the war, and referred all matters to the relevant Committees. The minutes do not go into detail about their considerations, but fortunately the South Western Star was present at the meeting and can supply more information! Thirty-eight Council employees had either been called up or enlisted, and several Councillors expressed the hope that more would volunteer. Another Councillor took this to mean that the Council should not employ any able-bodied men young enough for active service, and argued strongly against that position and in favour of ensuring that no soldier's family would have financial difficulties. There was a lot of concern about the National Relief Fund and especially over the fact it did not benefit civilians – a local scheme ought to benefit all those locally in distress. Councillor Raynor said that all money given was for the relief of all distress, and that any employer saying to an unmarried man "if you don't enlist I'll sack you" was contemptible, then asked why it was that only workmen's sons were forced into the army. That comment, not recorded in the minutes, caused outcry amongst members and the gallery, and another Councillor accused him of raving. The Council then referred the matter of paying any of their employees who joined the Forces to the Finance Committee. How best to pay Council staff will be discussed a lot in future.
Battersea Borough Council minutes, 1914-1915, ref: MBB/1/15
South Western Star, 11 September 1914
18-24 August 1914: The Board of Guardians meeting and the Local Relief Committee
The Board of Guardians for the Poor were the management committee of the Wandsworth and Clapham union and its various institutions – also known as the workhouse. They were an elected body who met regularly to discuss management issues, including how their work was affected by the war and considering how to alleviate distress caused by the war. Their meeting of 20 August refers to the Local Committees being set up to deal with distress caused by the war.
This meeting was the first ordinary meeting of the Board to take place since war had broken out. So immediate were some of the potential effects of the war that the Board had held two Extraordinary Meetings in the past two weeks. They had concerns over whether or not they ought to stockpile food on 6th August, while several of their suppliers asked to be released from their contracts owing to foreseen difficulties in fulfilling them (all but the fishmonger were refused and were to be reconsidered). The second Extraordinary Meeting, on 13th August, again decided not to release suppliers from contracts so long as goods were reasonably available, and put up notices to remind everyone in their institutions to practice economy.
The meeting had a lot to consider – there was an argument over a mother's complaint about the treatment of a child at St James' Infirmary, which was extensively reported on by the Wandsworth Borough News. The News did not report any of the other discussions held by the Board, but their minutes had several updates following their Extraordinary Meetings. As with the Extraordinary Meeting, a big issue was how to deal with financial distress. Staff who dealt with Outdoor Relief (payments to those not in the workhouse, or Wandsworth Institution as it was then known) were recalled from holiday and they decided to co-ordinate with the local committees which councils were setting up to make sure that people were not receiving two sets of payments.
The Board meeting took place the day after the Wandsworth Committee was formed to administer the Prince of Wales National Relief Fund. That meeting was so well attended that the list of those present covers two pages of the minutes. Letters from the Local Government Board encouraging the temporary filling of vacancies were circulated to help prevent local financial hardship. A 45 person strong Grand Committee was formed, with sub-committees for each ward. The Putney ward committee alone had 40 members appointed. Each committee agreed to find volunteers for administration, with one secretary appointed by the Council, and were to have their first meeting on 27 August. It's hard to know if the incredibly high attendance at this meeting was concern for the cause, interest in a high profile fund or enthusiasm for doing their bit for the war. Certainly attendance at the next Executive Committee meeting in September was not quite so high!
Photo – J119, Wandsworth Union, Swaffield Road
Minutes of the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Board of Guardians – full records of the Union are held by London Metropolitan Archives, copies of the minutes can also be found at Wandsworth Heritage Service
Minutes of the Wandsworth Local Relief Committee, ref: MBW/2/32/2


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Friday, August 20, 2010
Jason Das Finally Gets Around to Scanning Some of His Symposium Sketches
I did a sketch on the plane on the way in. I was pretty sure everyone else would have a plane (or train) sketch and I didn't want to feel left out. I also figured it'd be smart to warm up a bit.
Yes, plunged into sketching pretty much as soon as we hit town. Here's Gérard Michel and Pete Scully as we found them upon arrival, sketching away!
A lot of the sketching I got down during the Symposium was snatched in odd, quick moments. I was so busy, I didn't find time for "proper" sketches. Here's three scattered quick views sharing a page.
(If you look closely, you'll spot Gérard on his little stool sketching this view of Jamison Park.)
Here's some more, even quicker ones of Union Station. Three minutes is plenty sometimes!
Sue van Etten caught me running up the Union Station footbridge (all of my Union Station sketches are from up there)...moving fast so I can squeeze in a little time for sketching if I'm lucky.
My sketch for Gabi is from that staircase, too:
Below, another view from the Union Station footbridge, and below that, fellow instructors Frank Ching, Isabel Fiadeiro, and Gabi Campanario relaxing after another crazy day.
Here's photos of that one happening, courtesy Pete and Gabi:
I led groups for the first three field sessions, so by the time Friday afternoon rolled around I was so relieved to not be on-duty that I splashed out to the middle of Ira's Fountain (perhaps my favorite place in all of Portland).
Can you spot Suzanne Cabrera, Lapin, and Liz Steele in there? Here's a closer view of Lapin and Suzanne:
And for more sketching the sketchers, here's Elizabeth and Carrie in Jamison Park on Saturday morning:
And finally (for this post), here's Lapin and Matt at dinner the final night. Lapin and I were sketching each other simultaneously. The original of this is rather huge, as I drew it right on the table cloth. (Here's his sketch of me.)
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These are gorgeous! You made a lot beautiful ones even though you are so busy.ReplyDelete
You've captured so many wonderful recollections of the Symposium! Thank you! I like ALL of them--"proper" sketches and quickies. It's your astute observation that counts.ReplyDelete
Charming Jason, just as you were in your field sessions. Nice to have met you.ReplyDelete
LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!ReplyDelete
Jason, you really captured the spirit of the days. I love your presentation here.ReplyDelete
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Rumor Control: North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un Did Not Have His Uncle Devoured Alive By Pack Of 120 Starving Dogs
North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un did not cruelly have his uncle fed to a pack of starving dogs after all! Instead, it's believed he simply had him murdered by firing squad. The dog rumors were started by a Chinese satire website.
According to NY Daily News reports:
The startling story of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un having his uncle devoured by a pack of wild dogs has turned out to be false, according to reports.
The account of the country's second-in-command Jang Song Thaek, 67, being stripped naked, thrown into a cage and eaten alive by 120 ravenous hounds, circulated throughout major American media last week.
The English media jumped on the story after Chinese outlet Wen Wei Po detailed that Un, along with 300 others, watched the sickening spectacle unfold.
But the story — which experts told the Daily News was perfectly plausible given the country's horrific history of flouting all basic human rights guidelines — was actually lifted from a Chinese satirist who was poking fun at the notorious North Korean leader on social media, savvy blogger Trevor Powell pointed out.
"I can understand why the media would pick up and run with it," Suzanne Scholte, chairwoman of the North Korean Freedom Coalition, told The News. "We're starting to realize they're capable of so many horrific actions."
Wen Wei Po copied critic Pyongyang Choi Seongho's fictional account almost identically in a Dec. 12 article. The Straits Times in Singapore wrote the first English-lanauge account on Dec. 24, prompting an avalanche of mainstream media reports.
Thaek had fallen out of favor in North Korea, with official reports labeling the official "an anti-party, counter-revolutionary factional element" and "despicable human scum" when it reported his Dec. 13 execution.
Thaek — as analysts pointed out at the time — was most likely felled to a firing squad, a more likely cause of his death, Scholte said.
North Koreans that successfully defected recalled unimaginable horror of executions, imprisonment and deplorable conditions, Scholte said.
"It's an indictment on the conditions in North Korea," she said. "These stories have been pouring out for years."
Well… At least he didn't suffer — as much.
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Marie Cox from Bel Air was hoping someone would have the recipe for the creamed spinach that was served at Haussner's restaurant in Baltimore. Sadly, the restaurant closed a number of years ago, but many of their most popular dishes live on in people's memories. Cox said she has tried many recipes for creamed spinach but she has not been able to duplicate the special flavor of the restaurant dish.
Carol Hannan from Kingsville had the recipe for the Haussner's creamed spinach that she said was published in the Sunpapers many years ago. She does not know the exact date.
Laura Riley, who tested the recipe at the time, noted, "Since this a restaurant recipe, the quantity is huge. Make this for a large gathering." She also said that when she cooked and squeezed the spinach as instructed, she was only able to extract about a quart of spinach juice. Nonetheless, she said, "the resulting creamed spinach had plenty of sauce and a good, creamy consistency."
While this recipe does make a rather large quantity, it could easily be cut it in half. Also, now that prewashed and stemmed spinach is readily available, the dish is fairly easy to make. If you use the prewashed and stemmed greens, the only truly labor intensive part is extracting the liquid from the cooked spinach. I placed a fine mesh strainer over a bowl and used my hands to squeeze out the moisture. The seasoning is a little out of the ordinary but perhaps that was the secret to the popularity of the iconic restaurant's creamed spinach. The anchovy and nutmeg flavor is subtle and the Maggi seasoning, available these days in most grocery stores, really just adds a bit of saltiness. If you are not able to locate it, a splash of soy sauce is a perfectly acceptable substitute.
While I never had the pleasure of eating the creamed spinach at Haussner's, hopefully this recipe will produce a dish close to the one Cox remembers. I do know this recipe makes a very luscious dish that would be the perfect accompaniment to just about any main course.
Deborah Hess from Pikesville is looking for the recipe for a dish that was served at the now-closed Marconi's restaurant in downtown Baltimore. She thinks it was just called Shrimp with Ham. She said her husband loved it and she would like to be able to recreate it for him at home.
Sarah Fletcher from Davis, W.Va., is in search of a favorite cookie recipe she has lost. She thinks the recipe may have come from either Women's Day or Good Housekeeping magazine back around 1964 or 1965. She described the cookies, called "Lizzies," as being fruitcake like. As she recalls, the batter was made with butter, sugar, flour, raisins soaked in bourbon, pecans and citron.
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Haussner's Creamed Spinach
Makes 6 to 8 servings
2 1/2 pounds fresh spinach
2 quarts (approximately) reserved spinach liquid
1/2 cup butter
8 tablespoons flour
2 teaspoons chopped anchovies
Maggi seasoning (to taste)*
Nutmeg (to taste)
Salt and pepper (to taste)
1/2 cup onions (chopped fine and browned in _ cup fat or oil)
1 cup table cream
Stem and wash spinach well; pat dry. Saute over medium-low heat until thoroughly cooked and wilted. Depending on how large your pan is, you may need to do this in batches. Cool. Squeeze spinach in handfuls over a big bowl, reserving the juice, until dry. Chop fine. Melt butter in a large saucepan. Add flour and stir until smooth. Add reserved spinach liquid, anchovies, Maggi seasoning, nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste. This makes the sauce. Then add in the chopped spinach, sauteed onions and simmer, stirring for 5 minutes. Stir in cream and heat through before serving.
*Note: Maggi seasoning is a dark, hydrolyzed vegetable protein-based sauce similar to East Asian soy sauce, except it does not contain soy. It is sold in most food stores, however if unavailable, soy sauce may be used as a substitute.


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this is a discussion within the NOLA Community Forum; Originally Posted by saintswhodi That's easy, you ignored suite revenue, and you ignored the fact that teams with new stadiums are getting the Superbowls. I could find a lot of things that aren't evidence if I ignore them. That's not ...
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First of all, I edited to make my thoughts appear more concise, and to correct typos. Not to hide anything.
2: I have clearly conceded that the proposal has a better chance of passing while the Saints field a winning team
3: I know what the Saints mean to this region, and so does the league. I've lived here 25 years, and have no interest in the Saints leaving. The Saints are as much a part of this city as the FQ, or potholes. Losing the Saints would be devastating to the psyche of our citizens, and only Benson's abject greed and ego could bring that about.
4.The league has to permit moves by I believe at least a 2/3 vote. Benson can't just sneak off like Irsay, unless he shows NO isn't a viable market. That can't happen, unless fans abandon the Saints. They can't force him to sell, but you'd best believe they can force him to stay. What you think Tag's agenda was by convincing Benson to stay, and what he publicly stated, are two separate issues.
5. We've been through the issue of building many more suites. Our business climate simply can't absorb much more, due to all the reasons I've previously outlined. This is the reality of our worsening economy. We aren't creating more businesses and rich folks out of thin air.
Actually, they're fleeing.
6. Again.. The league usually awards SB to new stadiums. Yet again, NO is one of the top 3 destinations, and this isn't just my opinion. This is the owners, press, players and fans speaking. NO was passed over due to our uncertain ammenities here, hotels rebuilding, crime, Dome renovations, the proliferation of new stadiums, and the league wanting to see if we could yet handle lesser events so soon. A nicely renovated Dome will keep up us in the loop.
7. This is a discussion forum. Adults should be able to question the rationales of others. I'm done with this issue.
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We'll start at 4, since 1-3 were statements.
4) 2/3 of the owners will not vote against Benson if he can show he can increase revenue in a different market with a new stadium. Know why? Revenue sharing. As long as the rich have to share with the poor, anything that makes the poor rich is viable. As far as Tags agenda, well, let's see: He could go our being recognized for all he accomplished on the league, or retire as the guy who let the Saints leave New Orleans during the worst natural disaster in US history. Seems pretty clear what his agenda was, protecting his legacy.
5) Haven't we sold out the existing suites? So who's to say we couldn't sell out suites in a new stadium? You can't build a stadium overnight, so who knows what growth will have happened by that time. Plus, it's not up to the city to sell out the suites, it's up to Benson to sell out the suites. So he controls his own revenue on that, pretty much ending the "I am losing money cause of the lack of suites" argument, and preventing him from allowing an inferior product to be on the field again.
6) You know the last time New Orleans hosted a superbowl? 2002. 5 years ago. We weren't even in the running for another one any time soon, and the Superbowl is booked now through 2011. We won't be seeing one anytime soon without a new stadium.
7) You can question whatever you like, cause as you said, this is a forum. But just cause it's a forum, doesn't mean someone has to see it your way.
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Everybody keeps focusing on the economy of today, it's going to take time to either renovate the Dome or build a new stadium, the economy can't get no worst, so by the time anything is done, the economy will be strong enough to support it. Trump is in the process of building a hugh Trump Towers type building on Poydras st. with condominiums, upscale restaurants, and corporate business offices. With the world looking in on the recovery of New Orleans it's going to be very hard to go about doing business like before, you think somebody like Trump is going to invest that type of money in a project in a dying city, I don't think so. New Orleans will recover and be much stronger than before I believe that with my heart, I have to because it's my home. And as far as a new stadium goes, I would rather see them renovate the Dome, but if a new stadium is going to keep the Saints in New Orleans, than so be it because I can't imagine a New Orleans without the Saints. I wish there was somewhere else the Saints could temporarily play and build a new stadium on the present Dome site, but that's just wishful thinking. The river is the only viable site I can see making any sense, the Iberville Project site would cause to many logistical problems even though it's the perfect location for a downtown stadium, besides I hear that New Orleans Housing Authority is sending memos out to families that lived in housing projects before the hurricane that they have a certain amount of time to move back to the housing developments that are livable before they stop the current housing voucher program that they are living on, and the Iberville is the first site on the list because it was the lest damaged. So before they can even think about building a stadium on the Iberville site, there's a lot of political red tape they'll have to cut through and I don't think that's an avenue they want to travel.
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No one said the city will die. No one wishes it, either. I questioned where the new businesses will come from to fill 50- 70 more suites, and outlined why business shuns NO. I didn't base my view merely on the current (and worsening) economy, but this city's track record of attracting investment throughout her entire history. NO's economy is basically agriculture, oil, chemical, tourism, and the port. All volatile markets.
Luring residents from other parts of the city to Trump Tower is much easier than getting business and upscale residents to settle here from other states. My view may have seemed pessimistic on the surface, but shouldn't be discarded any more than those proclaiming NO will make some stunning metamorphosis into a grand utopia.
NO will have a much work to do on many core issues. The negative climate here is crushing. Progress will take a hell of a lot longer than the time it takes to build a new Dome, in order to convince others that we deserve to be mentioned along with Houston, Dallas or Atl as a hospitable place for business. It's a shame that one of the oldest cities in the nation has accomplished the least.
I responded in the hopes that you understand why I said what I did, not to convince others to agree.
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Plus you have to convince the voters in the northern part of the state to agree. That in itself will be a trick! Lest we forget they're mostly Cowboy fans. it sucks but thats the reality of it.
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Originally Posted by NemesisHmmm I am shocked…
and a bit confused last I checked that the city is still rebuilding from the storm. So my question is where the hell are they getting the money to do this?
Don't say taxes because half of the people in the city working right now don't have green cards let alone play taxes!
and need I remind every one how few wining seasons this ball club has had over the years...
just cause they had a good season last year doesn't make up for 25 years of losing
I say, give the city 5 wining season in succession or relatively close together and then we talk shop about a new home for the saints
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5 seasons. Great plan. The current agreement runs out in 2010 and the Saints, per this agreement, can leave. So let them play well until 2012, 2 years of which will be in Los Angeles, then we build a new stadium. Solid.
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Originally Posted by saintswhodi
ok good point but I ask again...
Where are they getting the money to do this when the city is still in shambles both socially and economically?
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When it's all said and done the Saints aren't going anywhere, the new Governor whoever that may be will do everything in their power to keep the Saints in New Orleans. Plus, Tom Benson didn't make his money being stupid, he knows L.A. is not a viable place for an NFL franchise, the Rams left L.A. for St. Louis for Christ sake, St. Louis. The Raiders jump ship back to Oakland and apologised for moving to L.A., which doesn't say much for LaLa Land, what makes you think they would support the Saints. Then there's San Antonio, home of the Spurs, winners of four(4) NBA Championships in nine years, and they don't even sell home playoff games, they had the worst playoff home attendance numbers in the league, and the Spurs were on they're way to winning a Championship, now that's support. The Saints could never survive in those cities, once the honeymoon is over, so is the attendance, Benson and the rest of the Saints brass know that no one will ever support the Saints like the city of New Orleans and the entire Gulf Region. So I think everybody involved is going to do whatever it takes to keep the Saints home where they belong, because without each other they both will suffer.
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I've seen silicone baking molds like this snowflake-shaped one for sale on sites like Amazon, and the concept seems pretty simple – you put food in it, bake it, and it comes out shaped like snowflakes. Easy! Or is it?
CraftFail reader Linda sent us a photo of her attempt to make snowflake cupcakes for her son's birthday, and it prompted me to scour the internet for an example of some perfectly popped-out silicone-baked beauties to use as comparison. And do you know what?
There aren't any.
I found snowflake-shaped cookies, Rice Krispie treats, fondant snowflake candy cupcake toppers – but no cupcakes. So I checked the Amazon reviews to see why the ratings were so high on a product that, according to the Internet, doesn't work.
According to the reviews, these non-stick silicone baking trays work perfectly… for making peppermint bark, candy and crayons. What happens when you try to make cupcakes?
Poor Linda was left with a messy mold and its resulting pile of cupcake lies.
Well, they do say every snowflake is unique, and these are definitely one-of-a-kind.
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I wouldn't eat stuff that color no matter what shape it was…
I tried using silicone baking cups to make cupcakes for a party once. I was a bit worried because they are rubber, after all, but everything I read insisted that the cupcakes would come out tasting great despite the strong rubber scent. I should have tried it out before the party but of course I didn't. And I found out the hard way that everything I read had LIED. My cupcakes tasted like rubber. No one would eat them, including me. So I washed the cups again, thinking that maybe I just had not cleaned them well or let them air out or something. Several months later I tried again, this time for home consumption, and the same thing happened. I am convinced that silicone molds exist to make cakes that are inedible due to their rubber flavour. I thought at least they would turn out nice-looking cakes…this seems to prove even that wrong.
It's true, I've use them once and can't wash them for a week! But they're perfect for something different – I use them for making my gliceryn soaps and they are perfect, look at this: http://goo.gl/PnHQlq :))
So it's not just me! I've tried a few shapes–I have some pumpkin ones, leaf ones, and the snowflake one, as well as some that are supposed to make regular shaped cupcakes minus the paper liner. They stick, the molds are impossible to clean, and the cake comes out soapy tasting.
I've never had an issue with my silicone molds. The cup cakes come out fine (first batch didn't, but then I buttered the mold next time and that worked) and they don't taste like rubber in the least.


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Athletes prepare to celebrate centenary of Cork's Lee Swim
Event set to attract hundreds of competitors and will draw thousands of spectators
The swim became an enormous attraction for the people of Cork in the early part of the last century but 1914 marked the first year that the race took place. Photograph: Irish Examiner
In its early incarnation the swim was not for the faint hearted as "the Lee was an open sewer". Photograph: Irish Examiner
War clouds may have been gathering over Europe but in the balmy summer of 1914 a group of intrepid swimmers took to the river Lee to establish what has since become a Cork tradition.
Swimming races had been held in the river in the early years of the last century, but 1914 was the first year that a race was held on an organised basis and it drew huge crowds.
According to Ossi Schmidt of the Cork Masters Swimming Club, which is organising this year's centenary race, the Lee Swim became a huge attraction for the people of the city.
"There are some really striking photographs from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s which show huge crowds lining the quays watching the race," he said.
Among those who participated in the swim during those decades was the late Tadhg Philpott who first entered in the late 1930s and continued competing up until the 1970s.
Philpott, who died in 2011 but is commemorated by the Tadhg Philpott trophy for the best club in the revived race, spoke to the Holly Bough in 2005 about the swim.
"You would want the heart of a lion to do the Lee Swim in those days. The Lee was an open sewer – there was no main drainage . . . this deterred people from getting involved," he said.
Polio outbreak "People from the Bovril company would be waiting for you with a hot mug of Bovril and you could have shower and change into your clothes at St Vincent's Hospital on Merchants Quay
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Mr Schmidt revealed that the swim, which was banned from the city centre during the 1952 polio outbreak, moved downstream to Blackrock and later Monkstown in the 1970s.
"It was moved downstream because of a deterioration in water quality and eventually it was discontinued, but the Cork Main Drainage Scheme in 2005 allowed us to revive the race.
"We got the idea it would a nice contribution to Cork's tenure as European Capital of Culture and Joan Lucey of Vibes & Scribes Bookshop chipped in with some generous sponsorship."
Ms Lucey continues to both sponsor and participate in the race which sees participants swim 1,700 metres down the North Channel and 300 metres up the South Channel to finish at the Boardwalk.
"The first year we had 110 swimmers and this year we have over 500 including many from abroad which makes it Ireland's largest outdoor swim," said Ms Lucey. "It also attracts crowds of over 5,000 along the route every year and we're hoping for the same again this year which would be nice given we're marking the 100th anniversary."
This year's race, which will include Oceans 7 champion Steve Redmond and 16-year-old Straits of Gibraltar conqueror, Rian Herlihy, takes place on Saturday at 4pm.
Participants swim 1,700m down the north channel and 300m up the south channel to finish at the boardwalk.