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It's been a while!
After the social media mania that was LeakyCon 2012, we've kind of left our dear readers hangin'. We're so sorry about that. We love and miss you all very much. There's just this thing called Mehera's moving to China today, Claire's studying abroad in Spain, and well Sara's primary excuse is her job.
Also, while we're all apart, The Witching Hour is currently off the air. That's right, for the first time since January 2010, TWHis not playing on KWCW 90.5 FM Walla Walla. Which means those magical moments in the studio aren't getting converted into podcasts for all our beautiful fans in Kentucky, Slovenia and beyond.
But it's not the end! Keep brewing those Pottermore potions, reading those new copies of The Casual Vacancy and reblogging those COS gifs. Because Claire will be back for you in a few short months, and 2/3 of us have already signed up for Leaky 2013 in Portland. (Meet us there?)
In the past we've discussed doing more mixtapes or starting a vlog. We don't want to make too many promises, but I (Sara) would definitely enjoy doing so if we can find the time, and if you wizards are interested.
So keep those chins up and those wands at the ready. You don't want to lose your buttocks while we're away.
PS. Sara's going to be doing some file transferring over the next few months, so you might notice some missing episodes. They'll be back up and available on iTunes as soon as our storage limit allows!
Welcome, Pio readers. Here I present you the emergency wizard kit to help you smoothly transition into the wizarding world of Harry Potter fan culture. I've curated the best and most important links, images, memes and even prepared a little wizard rock mix tape for download.
Wizard rock mix tape: Download
Fan/news sites:
The Leaky Cauldron
Harry Potter Lexicon
Harry Potter Wikia
Wizard rock sites:
Wizard Rock
Social justice activism:
The Harry Potter Alliance
International Quidditch Association
Fan videos:
Wizard People, Dear Reader (audio here)
Potter Puppet Pals
A Very Potter Musical
Fan fiction:
Harry Potter Fan Fiction
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Accio Brain!
But sorry, friends—if you weren't already on the Pottermore bandwagon, you'll have to wait until the indefinite Beta period ends.
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This is among the most accurate, succinct explanations of the fandom for people not in the fandom to understand.
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DALLAS, (UPI) — A Texas man said an exotic car stolen from him nearly 42 years ago in Philadelphia turned up at a Los Angeles auto dealership.
Bob Russell said his 1967 Austin-Healey was stolen from a Philadelphia apartment complex in 1970, when he was a graduate student at Temple University, and he searched for the cream-colored car for four decades until he found it listed this year on eBay, the Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday.
Russell, who still has the original keys and title to the car, said he contacted the dealership selling the vehicle and they offered to sell it back to him for $24,000, which he found unacceptable. However, he said Los Angeles police were unable to help him because there was no record of the theft in the national database.
Russell said he contacted Philadelphia police and they were able to determine the car had been listed under the wrong VIN number in the FBI database, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. They were able to fix the error without having to file a new stolen vehicle report.
The car owner said Los Angeles authorities were then able to impound the car and he was able to travel to California and retrieve it for a $600 impound fee in June.

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The intricate lines of sculpture that are carved by the rains in the soft shale or clay where it is not protected by a cover of vegetation or of broken rock are well shown in some badland buttes composed of maroon shale and clay of the Wasatch formation, a little more than 2 miles west of De Beque. (See Pl. LXV, A.) If the light is just right to bring out the minute lines the entire surface of the buttes will appear to be made up of a series of rill marks that resemble the delicate fretwork of an artist. (See route map, sheet 6, p. 182.)
The rocks across which the traveler has been passing since he left Newcastle are bent into a great downfold or troughlike depression (syncline) whose east rim is composed of the coal-bearing sandstone (Mesaverde) that forms the Grand Hogback. Figure 37 (p. 148) represents the section across this trough as it is exposed by Colorado River. The other rim of the trough is crossed by the railroad between De Beque and Palisade, and through this rim the river has cut a deep and narrow canyon very different from the gap through the hogback at Newcastle. It is here called Palisade Canyon.46 As the rocks are the same at both places the explanation of the difference in the appearance of the gaps cut by the river must be sought in the difference in the attitude of the beds, or, in other words, in the amount of their dip. At Newcastle the thick bed of sandstone dips steeply toward the west, and as it is underlain by softer rocks it weathers into a sharp ridge, which can be traced for 50 miles to the north and is known as the Grand Hogback. The dip of the beds on the other rim of the trough is very slight, generally not over 10°, and the river cuts through the rim for 16 miles in a canyon that increases in depth as it approaches the outer margin of the sandstone. Figure 37 (p. 148) represents the rocks as they would appear in a deep trench cut along the line of the railroad. Above the coal-bearing rocks lies the maroon Wasatch, and in the middle and overlying all the other beds, and consequently younger than the others, are the white beds of the Green River formation, but these do not appear near Palisade Canyon.
South of De Beque the railroad is built on a low terrace at some distance from the river, but near the entrance to Palisade Canyon, 4-1/2 miles south of De Beque, halfway between mileposts 48 and 49, it reaches the river (on the left) in a shallow canyon cut into one of the thick beds of sandstone near the top of the coal-bearing Mesaverde formation. As the beds rise gradually downstream the canyon slowly increases in depth from its head to Palisade, where it ends. At Akin siding (milepost 51) the canyon walls are about 300 feet high, and they show well the alternate bands of resistant sandstone and soft, easily eroded shale. Here and there some of the beds of sandstone are thick and massive and form cliffs 40 or 50 feet high, but on the whole the alternation of shale and sandstone gives rise to sloping banded walls which have a sameness in appearance that soon becomes monotonous.
At Tunnel siding (milepost 55) the walls of the canyon have increased in height to 600 or 700 feet, but they have the same general character. A mile west of this siding the train passes through a tunnel which pierces a long spur (shaped in plan like a beaver's tail, hence the name Beavertail tunnel) that projects from the right wall of the canyon and then comes to a diversion dam which turns some of the water of Colorado River into a canal on the other side of the river. This canal is in sight throughout the length of the canyon below this point, and its effects may be noted in the crops and orchards on the high bench lands east of the river.
Milepost 57 marks the largest diversion project in the canyon, known as the Grand Valley or High Line project of the United States Reclamation Service, which is intended to furnish water for the irrigation of the high bench lands on the north side of the river from Palisade as far west as the western boundary of the State. The diversion dam, shown in Plate LXVI, is completed, and the canal is constructed as far west as Loma (see p. 153) and in the near future will be extended to the State line.47
The great High Line canal is crossed by the railroad a short distance below the dam and may be followed by the eye on the right until it is hidden in a tunnel that carries it through a projecting rocky point. It is carried as high as possible, and though it has descent enough to enable the water to flow readily, it is soon above the level of the railroad and can be identified only by the regularity of its banks and the new rock dumps that mark the portals of its tunnels.
Half a mile below the High Line dam Plateau Creek enters the river from the side opposite the railroad. This creek heads on the mesa far to the east and flows in a narrow valley between Battlement Mesa on the north and Grand Mesa on the south. The main automobile highway down the river is carried over the low plateau east of the river, but at Plateau Creek it descends to the river and for the remainder of the distance to the lower end of the canyon it follows the opposite bank. The walls of the canyon here are about 1,000 feet high and are therefore very imposing, especially where the beds of sandstone are particularly thick or resistant.
At the little coal-mining town of Cameo the canyon attains its maximum depth, about 1,500 feet. Its sides generally present the appearance of gigantic walls of masonry, the beds of sandstone forming the courses and the soft shale filling in between them like the mortar in an artificial wall. On the projecting points between the main canyon and the canyons of the tributaries the sandstone seems to form most of the wall, as it stands in gigantic pyramids that tower far above the bottom of the gorge. The pyramid on the projecting point just north of Cameo is shown in Plate LXV, B, Although the Mesaverde is the great Cretaceous coal-bearing formation in this region, it contains very few coal beds in Palisade Canyon. At Newcastle it contains more than 109 feet of coal in beds thick enough to work, but in Palisade Canyon it contains only two beds. The upper of these beds is mined at Cameo and is generally known as the Cameo coal bed. Mines may be seen just south of the station on both sides of the track. The coal from the mine on the left is brought across the river on a high trestle, which serves as a tipple for screening the coal and loading it into railroad cars. The coal mined here is of medium grade and satisfies the local demand, but it is not equal to that which is mined south of Newcastle, or in the Crested Butte region, on the east, or at Sunnyside and Castlegate in Utah, on the west. At the Cameo mine the coal bed has a thickness of 10 feet 11 inches, of which 9 feet 8 inches is clear coal.
About a mile below Cameo the High Line canal passes through the plateau by a long tunnel which brings it out on the high bench land west of Palisade.
Nearly 2 miles below Cameo the river makes a big curve to the right, and on the opposite side there is a low terrace not more than 150 feet high. This terrace has been built up by material brought down by a small creek that heads on Grand Mesa, to the east. This material is so abundant and so indestructible that it has crowded the river gradually against the opposite (west) side, so that the river has been forced to cut under a great cliff, several hundred feet in height. From the train the traveler may see that this terrace is composed almost entirely of boulders of a dark rock, which close examination would show to be basalt, or hardened lava. Grand Mesa, which here and there may be seen on the east (left) and which over-tops all other features in this region, has been preserved almost entirely because it is protected by a cap of this basalt.
Below the terrace two small water-power plants have been constructed for pumping water to higher levels to irrigate land that could not be reached by the existing gravity lines. One of these plants supplies enough water to irrigate 2,300 acres of land and the other enough to irrigate 6,000 acres. The canals and pumping plants which the traveler has seen in Palisade Canyon are more extensive than any that he has seen heretofore on this journey, and he may wonder why so much money has been spent to obtain the water of Colorado River, but when he has passed out of the mouth of the canyon and has seen the wonderful change that the water has made in the one-time desert plain he will no longer question the wisdom of the expenditure.
As the railroad makes a great bend to the west at the mouth of the canyon the traveler may notice some small coal mines that are operating on the lowest or Palisade coal bed. This coal bed, which ranges from 3 to 7 feet in thickness, overlies the sandstone that is regarded as forming the base of the Mesaverde formation. The coal bed and the sandstone are well exposed across the river, where a number of small mimes have been opened to supply the local demand for fuel. Another small mine is also in operation just above the station at Palisade. The rocks here rise more rapidly than they do farther up in the canyon, and the lower slopes of the cliffs are composed of the marine shale (Mancos) that underlies the coal-bearing formation.
Near milepost 63 the canyon opens, and here begin the orchards of peaches, pears, apples, and other fruit that have made the town of Palisade famous. Its situation at the foot of the Book Cliffs protects it from late frosts in spring and from early frosts in autumn, so that almost every foot of the land is under irrigation and has been planted with fruit trees. (See Pl. LXVII.) Every year hundreds of cars of fruit are shipped from this place.
Here begins the great southward-facing cliff which in the early days was named Book Cliffs because of the fancied resemblance of the sandstone cap and the curved shale slope below to the edge of a bound book. A typical view of the Little Book Cliffs as they appear back of Palisade is given in Plate LXVIII. The Book Cliffs begin at Palisade and stretch westward to Castlegate, Utah, a distance of about 190 miles. They everywhere form the southern rim of the great trough of rocks on the north known as the Uinta Basin. Just west of Palisade the cliffs are formed and protected by a few beds of sandstone at the top, below which the slope consists of shale (Mancos) that was deposited there before the Rocky Mountains were in existence, when the entire region was below the waters of the sea.
These shale slopes have been intricately sculptured by the rain, and the traveler has many opportunities to examine them, for they are visible on the north from the train most of the way from Palisade to Castlegate. The appearance of these slopes, like that of most of the land forms in a semiarid climate, depends largely upon the light under which they are seen. When the light is strong and strikes squarely against the face of the cliffs the slopes are expressionless and dead. One slope is like another as they shimmer in the hot rays of the sun, but when the sun is low the shadows show every detail of the slopes, and thus revealed in black and white the surface of the cliffs looks as seamed and wrinkled as the face of an old man. Each slope is then full of individualityit shows intricate and wonderful sculpture.
The valley that the railroad enters at Palisade is broad because the soft Mancos shale, in which it is carved, is about 3,000 feet thick, and its erosion has produced flat or rolling lands except where terraces have been cut by the streams into badlands or steep slopes. Although the shale contains considerable alkaline material, which is objectionable in farming, it makes in general some of the best farming land in western Colorado. Near the river it forms flat valley bottoms, as at the village of Clifton, but by proper underdraining even such flat lands may be made very productive. Orchards abound in this valley, and much fruit is shipped from Clifton. Before the water of Colorado River was diverted and carried onto this land it was a waste desert, inhabited only by jack rabbits and coyotes, but irrigation has transformed it into a fertile land, figuratively "flowing with milk and honey." Is it any wonder that millions of dollars have been spent in diverting water from Colorado River in the canyon above Palisade and in constructing great canals for delivering it to the thirsty land? But even after all our great irrigation works have been completed there will still be millions of acres of waste land, which could be converted into sites for homes of peace and plenty if water were available. The great problem of the future is to conserve all the water that is produced by the melting of snow in the high mountain regions, by holding it in storage reservoirs until it is needed, and then to distribute it to the desert land. Such work will require enormous sums of money, but it will in return supply homes to many thousands of people and bring immense wealth to the country.
General views of the valley may be obtained from places near Clifton. On the east tower the wooded slopes of Grand Mesa; on the south, far in the distance, may be caught glimpses of the gently swelling surface of the Uncompahgre Plateaua surface composed of the massive sandstones which at some places underlie the Mancos shale and which everywhere overlie the granite that forms the basement upon which all this country is built.
The railroad traverses the flat land of the river bottom to the point where Colorado River is joined by Gunnison River, which heads in the high mountains near Marshall Pass and which is followed throughout most of its course by the narrow-gage line from Salida to Montrose and by the standard-gage line from Montrose to Grand Junction. At the junction of these roads stands Grand Junction, a division point on the railroad and the largest town in western Colorado. Grand Junction is the center of a vast irrigated district whose climate is favorable to the growth of almost all kinds of grain, as well as forage crops, sugar beets, garden truck, and fruit. It is particularly noted for its beet-sugar industry and for its fruit.
The description of the country along the main line west of Grand Junction is continued on page 185.
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Most people will walk next to a bench, but forget its existence. A bench is nothing but a structure made of wood and metal. Yet, they don't understand that a bench has many memories stuck in the bo...
"Okay you win! You win!", I breathed.
"Say I am the coolest guy friend you ever had!" his fingers poked.
"NEVER!" I giggled on the top of my lungs. Laughing tears hugged against my round cheeks but never reached my chin as my body wiggled around, instead, they flew through the air and came to there splendid fatality against the carpet.
"Okay I give up! You're the coolest guy friend I ever had! Mercy! " finally I said surrendering. A smile of defeat spread across his lips, cheek-to-cheek. He jumped up from my body and raised his arms above his head.
"The undefeated champion of the world-" I interrupted his victorious speech with, "I wouldn't go that far short-shit". My face turned a bright berry and my hair tangled up with a hint of static from the carpet. Mist of sweat covered my face as my ribs frantically proceeded up and down as I gasped for large amounts of air.
That smirk was still placed upon his lips and he chuckled, "Your just jealous of my prettiness"
I rolled my eyes and smiled as well, " Yeah I am jealous, I wish I looked as girly as you."
With that he took his hand and waved it in an unmanly way and said with his highest voice, "Do these pants make my butt look big?" I couldn't stop myself from laughing.
As I finally collected myself, I tugged at his sleeve, "Gah, were going to be late. You have to meet my friend she is great, I pinky promise and lock it."
Then he gave me the 'you've got to be kidding me, not another one' facial expression, "Oh like that one great girl you told me about who ended up knocking me out and I ended up falling down hill. Thank God that tree was there to break my fall...and also my arm."
That was a long night. Sarah always had what people called "crazy arms". When Pete snuck up behind her to do his 'amazingly annoying but pretty fun' tickle attack, she swung her body around to ask him something and then before we knew it, we had the flashing lights of an ambulance and Pete in an arm cast. It was fun to be the first one to sign it though.
"Well, she is different. She doesn't have crazy arms, or freakishly long fingers, or a huge nose, or a lisp-" I was interrupted by a catchy ring-tone that came from Pete's pocket. He always did his little dance before answering it.
He flipped open the phone and answered the person on the other line "Hello? Oh hey baby..."
I looked at him in disgust, the side of my lip cocked. His lips said no words but mouthed , "Shut up". So I did and just stared with furrowed eyebrows. He then spoke again, "No I can't baby because-no I promised Audrie-look baby I told you this a long time ago-don't do that-baby-no I do love you but-" he stopped in the middle of his sentence and looked at the phone which declared 'Call Ended', "she hung up on me..."
"Damn it Pete, dump her she is a bitch-" his fingers quickly covered my mouth.
"Not now Audrie, I don't need it", his hand tugged at my arm which was his signal that he no longer wanted to be here "come on, lets blow this popsicle stand and meet another friend of yours".


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Today some scary news was released regarding the main event of UFC 166. Junior Dos Santos, according to Combate.com, does not remember most of his UFC 166 fight against Cain Velasquez. The really disturbing part of this news is that Dos Santos believed he was finished in the second round, and from that point on he was fighting on auto-pilot. Dos Santos could not remember the post-fight interview he had with Joe Rogan either.
Dos Santos was battered yet again at the hands of the champion, Cain Velasquez, in the main event of UFC 166. The fight was finished in the fifth round, when JDS hit his head on the Octagon floor very hard in an attempt at a submission. Dos Santos was simply too battered and beaten to continue.
The fight was almost stopped in round 3 when Herb Dean literally touched Cain Velasquez with intention to stop the fight, but pulled off. Dana White said that Junior 'was too tough for his own good' in that fight. Today's disturbing news definitely raises some questions as to why the fight was not stopped earlier either by the referee, his corner throwing in the towel, or the ringside doctor.
Dos Santos is a man with a ton of heart, but news like this brings to light the brutality of this sport. We all love this sport and the fighters, but safety must be of the utmost importance. The Heavyweight title fight should have been stopped multiple times. Junior was prepared to go out on his shield, but is that really the safest option?
Hopefully news like this will be kept in mind next time a fighter is 'too tough for his own good'.


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I actually like having the choice of whether or not I use RF while soloing. It's not a big deal, and maybe a little selfish, but when I'm doing my dailies in a close place with a lot of other people (basically anything in TB) I don't want to take damage for other people, since they're getting the credit for the kill I don't want to run around with a bunch of other people's aggro'd mobs on me, especially if I'm done and ready to mount up and go turn it in. More often than not people see that they tagged the mob, they will get credit for it, see I have aggro on it and leave it for me to deal with and loot it on their run back out. Sure I could just be more careful with my AoE but that makes me lose more of my (already low) dps.


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The best part of any road trip are the stopovers along the way—mostly it's the roadside food. But here in the Philippines we have roadside markets.
One of my mantras while traveling is to keep an open mouth (I think I heard that from a Miracle Whip ad), so I tried out this tiny delicacy called sundot kulangot. I've seen and heard of it before but never tried because it is the most offensive-sounding food I have ever heard, for the reason that literally, in a word-by-word translation, it means "pick booger."
I know.
Basically you eat it like how you pick a booger. (I am not making this appealing at all. I am so sorry.) You crack its tiny shell, like a nut, and stuck to the shell is a sweet, sticky, brown sugar thing that actually tastes good. In order to get it, you have to pick it out. Exactly like a booger.
Yes. OK.
I should write for food blogs.
Baguio City, Philippines.
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This has recently become one of my favorite spots in Pimlico -- simple and delicious Italian fare with a great wine list. Amazing fresh pastas, and shockingly reasonable prices (for London). The tiramisu is killer.
This small Italian restaurant and deli near Victoria has a pretty impressive selection of aged meats and interesting cheeses. However, I was by for a meal.
The roast eggplant salad hit the spot --- marinated peppers, well-cooked eggplant (though the skin was a bit tough), and a nice balance of flavors overall.
The spinach lasagne, however, was almost inedible --- overcooked spinach that tasted like it'd been in the freezer too long, rubbery cheese, and nothing else. No pasta, no veggies, no sauce --- just a congealing spinach-cheese mass.
The clientele was fun (especially an older tweed-clad table), the waiter was reasonable, and most of the food was good --- but stay away from that lasagne.
I opened the door of Gastronomica, walked in and my knees nearly gave out. Did I mention that I was 119 years old and have had 17 knee replacement surgeries? That was the first reason why my knees gave out. The second was the smell. Oh delicious. Oh scrumptious. Oh mouth watering delight. Even my 119 year old nose couldn't miss that.
And the foods from which these smells came? Italian cheeses, spicy sausages, crusty fresh breads, flavorful antipastos. There was a wall of wines singing out sweet serenades and I was immediately happy. The warm, rustic feel, the cheese and meat platters that delight the taste buds, it was all the goodness of Italy wrapped up in parcel form and sent to London.
If you're looking for a nice place to study, a tasty cafe to grab a bit, or a cozy environment to have a coffee, you've found your match.
There's nothing quite like the thrill (read: fear) of shoveling questionable market meat in your mouth. In most cases, you willingly sacrifice the sanitary for the delicious, cross yourself, and open wide. However there's nothing to sacrifice at Gastronomica and any patrons of their cosy Pimlico shop will fearlessly flock to the big red sign in stall or shop form.
Living in the area, Gastronomica was a perfect place to pop by for lunch and linger on an espresso (and free internet) for hours on end. Cheese, cured meats, salads and sandwiches are more than enough to nibble on and the atmosphere is like Walt Disney's impression of Italy. I'll be the lady, any tramps out there willing to join me?
I love a good cafe/deli that has charm and authentic ingredients packed inside. The cheese and wine selections are well-presented along the walls and you feel like this is where you should have been doing your charcuterie shopping all along.
Gastronomica really does wonders for people into 5 senses experiences. The tables have a sense of purpose, the cured pork leg greeting you on the way in looks straight out of an Italian shop window, the sounds of the espresso machines dripping and frothing and the smells & tastes I'll leave up to you, but it's really got the full package. They're not on the most glam street with suspecting surroundings, which really makes it a hidden gem. Well worth the trip!
My buddy and I were stumbling around town after having visited the Indian Visa Processing Centre-which was a bit stressful-trying to find a decent cup of coffee. What we found, initially, was a wee street market in Pimlico! One of the concessionaires chatted us up as we were drooling over his cheese selection. We asked if he knew where one could find good coffee is the area, and he said, "I have a shop just up the road..."
Viola! We found ourselves in Gastronomica! The space is beset with large, dark wood 'family style' tables, a few 2-top tables, and two outside tables. Gastro wasn't totally inviting, atmospherically speaking. -must've been all the dark wood. The vibe was kind of "heavy". However, that did not stop us from each having two rounds of espresso drinks (2 double machiattos, 2 lattes), a chocolate muffin, and three bit-sized puff pastry stuffed with Gorgonzola. The bill came to 11.10, and we caught a nice coffee buzzzz.
The nibbles were heated up before arriving at our table. My friend thought that that was a nice touch. I, on the other hand, am not a fan of "nuked" food. I was really taken with my double espresso-marked-with-foam drinkies. The espresso was smooth, easily drinkable (I did have two of 'em!) with no sourness that sometimes characterizes a not-so-well-pulled shot.
The service was friendly in a, perhaps, Piemonte, Italy sort of way. Hey!
Speaking of Piemonte, there is a large selection of Italian vino for sale on display here. I'd wanted to get my hands on a perky, little Lambrusco, but, feeling wimpy, didn't wish to carry a bottle home. :S -next time!
Originally this deli style shop, started with a stall at the glorious Borough Market, but business has been good, and now theyve opened a shop in Pimlico, and it is beyond yummy, if you pop by at lunch time, you can have a pick of the freshest loveliest ingredients to have in your sandwich, what's more, they have tasting trays of all the delicious food they sell, it is a great way to get you purchasing not only a sandwich, but some home made sun dried tomatoes, to actually make your own gastronomic experience at home. Slightly expensive, the place has simple décor, and a great selection of wines.
Its really close to the Pimlico Tube.
Very good, authentic Italian cafe serving light meals, wine and also deli items. They source direct from small, rural producers in Italy and specialise in facilitating a direct to the UK market service for them so that the small producers get a decent return (as middlemen cut out) and UK customers get great produce at reasonable prices. Commended!
A lot of the products are organic and carefully selected. Strange that the cafe does not highlight this to the sky?? They really ought to provide more printed information up front about their wines which are very good and some are organic too. Instead, there are just small card labels advertising name and price .... their written menu on the wall has got to be sorted out!!! It is not big enough for customers to read with ease - letters are too crowded. They also need to provide more information about their offerings e.g. what is an 'assagi' (apologies if spelt wrong) up front and not suppose that customers 'could' ask them; most would just get confused and walk out. What a loss! The food is very good indeed.
This would be an excellent place for a light evening supper with wine in comfortable surroundings. The star really is their food! The decor is not bad either. It really is somewhere where one pays for the food and not the decor!
i admit, i've been holding out on this one... this used to be my sleepy retreat... you know, the place you while away in for *hours* sipping your latte while using the free wifi. but a few weekends ago i came here on a sunday and it was *packed*... apparently it is my personal coffice no more.
though you'd never know from the outside with its hideous red awning or its locale in an equally hideous red brick shop block, INSIDE - it's Italy!!!
Italian waitstaff, immense wooden tables for Italian-sized families, Italian smells, Italian wine, Italian espresso, and, **most shocking** Italian prices! a sandwich served *to you* with a nice side salad (read: NOT iceberg lettuce & with high quality olive oil) for under 4 pounds - ?? and a proper espresso concoction tops out at 2 pounds - MAX. it confounds the mind. clearly, they are still thinking in euros... or *something.* shhhhh...
I'd skip the lasagne and such if I were you and stick with the platters and sandwiches they put together with their imported Italian ingredients, but still, I've never been anything but pleasantly surprised with this place.
Not that I expect many of you to make the trek to this random street of Pimlico... and frankly, i'd prefer that you didn't!
Walking into this deli you find your leg of cured pork to your right followed by an open fridge case of Italian cheese and then one of cured meats. On your left are shelves of Italian wines. There are a spattering of other Italian sundries for sale in the front. There are a smattering of tables--big community tables and small tables, and there is table service. They have a nice menu of Italian sandwiches, cheese and meat boards and salads. The sandwiches were delicious. It is a bit of a disorganized mess as you head to the bathroom, as if they don't realize their customers will see back there. Also the latte left a bit to be desired. But it is a nice place to sit down, enjoy Italian delicacies and pass the time.
Okay, time to admit it, Gastronomica have upped their game and their ambitions. I don't know if the service in their shop is any better, but they've now taken that out of the equation by occupying a huge stall at the Tachbrook Street Market. No more waiting for your piadina, pizza, cheese, olives or sandwiches: now you can simply stroll up to any of the friendly people on the stall and get served there and then. Only downer is the price, which is kinda on the high side at £4 for a not-so-filling small piadina or £1.50 for a similarly limited slice of pizza. But at least they're making progress.
I went here tonight on my own as I've lived in Italy and love Italian food. Good vibes when you walk in, lots of Italian speakers so that's always a good sign. Bruschetta was nice, very fresh and really tasty. I had the tagliatelle with bolognese sauce which was super bland, very surprising. They were "out of house red" so I had to go for the next glass up which was £9- that's a lot even for London! With a 10% service charge added to my bill and no water or bread offered, very bland pasta, I won't go back. Nice waiters though.
Okay place, though not as hip as some reviews suggest. Italian meats a bit greasy for my taste, and left me a bit queasy. But my wife's special of the day was sublime, despite the fried mashed potatoes arriving cold. Good coffee. The kitchen is not as spic and span as your mum's, and the service a bit casual. Good value, low stress. Lots of Italian goods like cheese and pesto to take away and cook at home. Overall, a good choice if you're staying in the neighborhood, but if you're only in the area for one morning meal, you're better off at Pimlico Fresh.
Just terrific cheeses, hams and pastas at this very cool Italian deli in pimlico. Very affordable prices in a terrific homey style seating arrangement. The chefs and waiters are Italian and are proud to answer questions about what they are serving you. I had the ham and cheese for two, plus the ravioli, and a crostini and finally a canoli. Totally bill was about 23 pounds. Terrific place. amazing.
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Be very careful with the materials you look at to investigate druidism. The sources recommended by the author should be avoided, as druidism is specifically a Celtic belief and position. Tao and indigenous beliefs, while possibly contrasting with the modern worldview, will not expose you to the Celtic culture from which druidism springs.
While druids did venerate nature, the chief purpose of a druid was to act in the roles of priest, judge, scholar, teacher, and musical storyteller, serving as the guardians and repositories of Celtic culture. While mostly pagan in religious belief, some current orders will accept pagans and Christians, as the traditional Celtic branch of Christianity was not incompatible with the druidic worldview. However, Celtic Christianity was superceded by Roman Catholic Christianity, which was incompatible.
The danger in druidic research lies in the large amounts of sheer fiction generated by the misunderstandings and misconceptions from 200 years ago and the outright fabrications of certain individuals, such as Iolo Morganwg. While these more romanticised and spurious works might be of benefit to the roleplayer, since WoW druids are highly stylised exaggerations, serious students should avoid them.
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Of course, this article was directed more towards roleplayers than serious students of any religion, so the author is not at fault in his links. However, the few people who truly want to delve into other religions would perhaps do well to heed your warning.
Um, I hate to poke hole in your argument... But the Celtic system of 'druidism' is VERY different from 'druids' in Warcraft. The best source for this is world outside your window and the WoW-RPG books.
Malorne, Elune, and Cenarius are not Celtic deities, are very different from Celtic deities, and if you tried to be a warcraft druid with Celtic deities you would not be rolepleying correctly, but rather snowplowing in whatever YOU feel that the world should be. :(


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I'm not sure how to put my complete thoughts about Cowboys & Aliens into an appropriate review so I'm going to make a list of things I learned from the film…
Overall, Cowboys & Aliens is an okay movie. Each individual viewer's opinion of the movie will be affected by their prior expectations for the film. For viewers, like myself, who go into the film questioning how the movie even made it to production, you may be surprised and find it better than you thought. However, for viewers who expect a masterpiece, you most likely aren't going to find it with this Cowboys & Aliens.
Cowboys & Aliens does push the idea of aliens further by setting the story in the past rather than the present or future, making it a more original story. While the film is better than some alien movies, I'm still holding out for an epic Alien invasion story that blows all previous ones out of the water. For now I will continue to wait for this to happen.
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Where The Sea Meets the Stars
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Everything was beautiful! All my questions and concerns were addressed. Maggie did a great job! The food was delicious! All my guests loved or wedding!
Wedding: 09/04/2014
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Thank you for organising our special day for us. It was lovely to have such a wonderful friendly team to support us prior to and after the wedding day. The day was just what we wanted quiet and simple and all our needs were met perfectly. All went smoothly and all the other services recommended by the team were fabulous from photography, flowers and Rev Sigi, we loved her.
Thank you all for a fabulous time at Cocoa Beach, I am sure we will be returning sometime in the future.
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Wedding: 08/27/2014
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Our wedding was absolutely perfect. Maggie was amazing to work with. We are so happy we decided to have our wedding weekend at the Hilton. Could not have asked for a better hotel and staff to work with us. All the staff went above and beyond to make it a flawless weekend. Thank you!
Wedding: 08/02/2014
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Maggie at Hilton Cocoa Beach had everything covered! I chose a destination wedding... I did not get a chance to go to the venue prior to the wedding date but it did not seem to matter because everything turned out PERFECT! Every little detail was taken care of, and all went smoothly! Maggie was great about returning all of my emails right away without issue! I wish I could get married every month!! Loved every moment :)
Wedding: 07/19/2014
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We had our wedding on May 25th and the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront and it could not have been better!
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I have made this Palestinian dish before using boneless thighs or bone-in chicken pieces; this is the first time I try it with cornish hens. The cornish hens lend themselves very well to this dish, because one hen will suffice per piece of (lavash or markouk) bread. As a result, each person will be presented with their little cornish hen encased in bread and onions.
Can't find this bread? Use pita bread, the largest one possible.
- 1 Cornish hen per person (or per two people)
- one large onion per hen
- 3 Tablespoons of sumac per hen
- olive oil, as needed
- salt, to taste
- 1 1/2 teaspoon of seven-spice seasoning or a mixture of cinnamon and allspice and pepper
- 1 1/2 cup of chicken broth
- Rub the cornish hens with a cut lemon and sprinkle evenly with some seven-spice or a mixture of cinnamon and allspice, white or black pepper and salt.
- Heat some olive oil in a pot and brown the hens all over until golden-brown throughout. Add two cups of water to the pot and let the water cook the hens for 20 minutes and change into a broth.
- Slice the onion into rings and pan-fry in a skillet with some olive oil; when the slices are soft and start to caramelize, sprinkle with the sumac and a pinch of salt and remove from the heat.
- Lay a piece of lavash or markouk or pita bread on a greased pan. Place the hen in the middle and surround by the onions placing some onions on top of the hen. Fold the bread over till the hen is completely enclosed. You may need to start off with the bread on top of the hen and tuck the bread in to enclose the bird. Sprinkle the entire bread with about a cup or two of the broth. Place in a preheated 350F oven for about 20 minutes or until the bread is golden-brown. Serve.
NOTE: If you cannot find lavash or markouk bread, you can use a large pita bread instead, splitting it open and stuffing the bird inside.


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Bruce Springsteen 's latest album, High Hopes , hits stores on Tuesday, but if you head over to Amazon you can purchase an limited-edition and exclusive deluxe version of the release that comes packaged with a bonus DVD. The video disc features the Boss and his E Street Band playing his classic 1984 album Born in the U.S.A. in its entirety at a London concert this past summer.
Fans can check out a preview of the DVD by visiting the online retailer, which has posted a video of Springsteen performing the song "Cover Me."
Meanwhile, coinciding with the arrival High Hopes , Springsteen will be a guest Tuesday night on NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon . The show airs at 12:35 a.m. ET/11:35 p.m. CT.
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H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) Update, May 1, 2009
The number of cases of swine influenza (H1N1) continues to rise around the globe at a modest rate. On April 29, 2009, the World Health Organization
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Everton legend Dave Hickson turned 80 years old on Friday.
The Cannonball Kid is a much heralded figure throughout Merseyside, having played for Everton, Liverpool and Tranmere.
But it's Goodison where he is most fondly remembered, becoming a popular figure around the stadium on matchdays following his remarkable playing career.
Coached by the one and only Dixie Dean as a youngster, Hickson first played for Everton in 1951 and went on to make 243 appearances for the Toffees, scoring 111 goals.
There's much more on the Cannonball Kid's career in our history section, click here
There was a special surprise party for Dave at Goodison on Friday evening, attended by numerous Everton heroes and former teammates.
And be sure to look out for a special mention for Dave at the Aston Villa game on Sunday.
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What age does the marathon runner challenge add your extra life to? If so, does this count as strategy, or as not allowed? Also, while I was trying to work out where it adds the extra life span to, I found on the wiki that being vegetarian also increases your life span. Again, where, and is this allowed?
This even is closed. You can play it for your own amusement, but no more scores are being accepted, so it doesn't really matter at this point what is allowed for the challenge. Plus, unless i something is specifically banned in any challenge, that means it's allowed. Try doing a search on the Forum for your questions. I'm positive they've already been discussed in great detail.
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The Much Belated SPX 2013 Report
Otherwise known as "The Con Helen Thought Would Be Kind to Her Wallet and Realized Her Mistake Right Before the Con"
So, whenever a webcomic author I like says "Oh I'm going to X in a few weeks, here's where to find me!" I try to find where X is and was surprised to see some people saying that they were going to a con in Bethesda which was going to be not terribly far from where I was going to be living in September (well, if you have a car, I had some adventures riding buses to and from the con and took me about an hour and a half each time, in a car it would have been only 15 minutes). I was a little hesitant but then saw that if you volunteer for four hours you get a free weekend badge (which admittedly isn't that expensive) and thought "yeah I can do that, $10 to save for comics and something that I know I'll be doing to make staying there for a day worth my time? Awesome! And it's SMALL press expo so my wallet will have time to recover from Otakon/moving right?" As mentioned earlier, I figured out how wrong I was about a week, two weeks before the con when suddenly more and more webcomicker's said they were going and had to start seriously planning out my budget.
And I'd like to give a shout-out to both the SPX tumblr and Panel Patter (which I may have found from the SPX tumblr) for helping me find some amazing stuff before the con and that also made me feel a lot better about going. For one reason or another I try a lot of alternative/indie comics (just about everything any of my libraries get) and don't like a lot of them yet I adore manga and webcomics so I like comics, I just didn't know if I'd like the comics at SPX. But after getting a chance to see everything people were working on before I got there I started to feel like "yeah, I like this and this isn't even everything that'll be there, I'll fit in, I'll find stuff I like!"
So, after some bus adventures in the morning I got there ("okay, I see a bunch of 20-30-something people all walking in the same direction towards a hotel, yeah I'm sprinting the right way" which was after an unexpected drive by my home until I was seven in Wheaton) and started volunteering and by the end of my four hour shift I had half lost my voice. I've seen at least one other person complain about the lack of volunteer organization and I'll admit it did seem like they had plans to assign people to specific tasks and instead had a bunch of us making badges (and I stuck there since I was at a registration table and didn't want to get moved to greeting people at the doors and my persistence paid off when one of the other volunteers had to leave my experience with using Square was needed!), I would almost wonder if they had too many except we could have used a few people on line control. And that's how I half lost my voice, we had two stations at each of the two registration tables and since people were in one line (not a line for each station) I had to keep yelling for people to come down. So, if you heard some girl very loudly yelling "NEXT!" in the first two hours of the con, yeah that was me, I apologize to the people at the table with me since apparently it was a bit unexpected. And we were slammed for the first hour and a half and it was still pretty steady until I left at 3, no one really had time for a break (aside from a quick run to the bathroom or to go refill my water bottle across the way) and it seemed like we had a nice and diverse crowd too, I've never had so many people recognize my shirt in my life (we were joking that since I told everyone "yeah and the people who made it, Johnny Wander, they've got a table near the back wall!" that I should ask for a discount, although when I actually got to their table they didn't seem to notice, guess it was a combination of being busy/my purse strap and badge covering it up a bit). And at one point Ed Sizemore managed to find me and say hi, hurray for meeting more of anime twitter (and, unlike Otakon where I was pretty tired by the time I met people, I was hyped up from all the interacting with people so I didn't feel like an idjit afterwards!).
Once I got done with my shift I ate a bit of my lunch and when went down to the Raina Telgemeier and Gene Yang in Conversation panel and that went pretty nicely, I hadn't been exactly sure what it would entail but the two of them had some interesting things to say and the moderator was also great at directing the conversation around when it started to lull (heck, one of my new goals in life is to be an awesome moderation like that guy, to be really familiar with people's work and prepared enough to be able to anticipate where the conversation might go and how to make it flow into the next topic, this seems like a good life skill to aim for). And it was funny to hear Telgemeier talk about her fanbase since when I was at registration there were a few times I saw a parent(s) and child come up with the kid clutching a well worn copy of Smile, to which I'd say "Oh yeah she's here/she has a new book out too" and they would say pretty happily "we know," you could tell that kid dragged their parent(s) out just to see her and it's always awesome to see kids who are so motivated to go out to meet a favorite author and to have the chance, I didn't have that chance until college (because publishing companies hate North Carolina apparently) and really hope they found more comics they liked (maybe we can drag them into the manga fanbase as well, we can always use more readers….)
After that I went to wander the floor with my tiny budget and I felt like I did pretty well!
Got a minicomic about Elle Skinner's cat (of Littlest Elle, Missing Monday, and the current artist on Erstwhile) and since I told her that I loved all her comics she gave me the mini-minicomic to the left about dealing with the heat in SanFran (she was super nice and whenever I have to meet people these days I remember the comic she made about cons and just pretending to be an extrovert, it helps some!).
The page of just cat stickers are from Alison Wilgus of A Stray In The Woods (which I read just before SPX and told her that I regretted reading it late at night, was a tad too atmospheric ^^) who tabled with Alisa Harris of Cooking Up Comics (who I had run into the bathroom briefly during a break, which was far less creepy than you'd think, I think it was the power of my CMK shirt) and I grabbed the cooking conversion magnet from her.
All the other stickers are from Johnny Wander which I already mentioned and my lone real comic book buy of the convention was the first volume of Galaxion (which I've been reading for three or four years now) and they were nice and said that if I did get more money I could come back and get the other two books for the special deal they were running. I didn't but I did go home, reread the first volume and then archive binged through the rest, it's a plot heavy story so sometimes I forget reading week to week how much I like it so it was wonderful to make time to reread it all at once.
Oh and I grabbed a ton of business cards/promo pieces!
Had a surprisingly hard time finding them for some people to which I must say, WHY THE HECK AREN'T YOUR BUSINESS CARDS FRONT AND CENTER? I just graduated with a degree in photography (which is basically if technology and art had a lovechild) and the head of my department told all of us if he was to ever meet us later in life and we didn't have our cards on us he would retroactively fail us (yes, I did have some of mine in my bag even at the con), guys these are SUPER important! Put them in a holder and make them easy to find, I had to actually start asking people where they had them (since even if I don't have the money to buy your stuff now doesn't mean I don't want to look it up later!). I have mixed feelings on some of the other freebies (which are practically worth their own post), bookmarks are a clever idea and postcards are still small enough to work but full sized pieces of paper are too big, I had to fold them up to fit them in my bag. Also interesting to note that people don't have the huge PVC stands I'm used to seeing at anime cons, probably because it's not that big a print con (although it sounds like some people would like to see that change) but guys make sure you have some elevation on your table, if I'm in the back trying to look over people to see your table and it's all low down I'm going to pass it by because I can't see!
Regardless, if anyone sees and interesting one and wants the info off of it message me, I'm going to hold onto them for about a week longer then they're off to the recycling, just don't have a good way to reuse them otherwise.
And that's it! SPX had some problems, someone came up to the registration table when I was there to lodge a complaint that it was crowded and it was triggering her anxiety and I didn't quite get it until I was in the dealers room, holy balls that was crowded, 280 tables, best guess is 600 artists showing and I haven't seen any numbers yet for how many attendees but that needs a bigger room. I've been to some crowded cons (fun fact, I don't think the Baltimore Convention Center was meant to hold 32,000+ nerds, 2017 Otakon in DC can't come soon enough!) but that was among the most crowded, I wonder if people near the door were able to sell much at all for how people would just congregate there. Also, signings need their own room, having people line up and snake around into the dealers room just doesn't help and I think they need to just get a third panel room and dedicate it to that. Despite all of that I fully plan to come back next year wit a bigger budget and volunteer again. Just, remind me to do yoga or something a few days beforehand, apparently my back and my hips object to almost six straight hours of standing.


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its like DA is certain about not going old like with Kg or the next leel down with the Josh smiths but he's now undecided about reloading from the 3rd rung (brining in a dh or greg oden) or just rebuilding from the bottom in the draft (trading rr and likely even jg and/or AB at some later point as well). never good to be in the middle but i do get what he's trying to do. taking his last shot at not tanking. no need for a greg oden if ur tanking, ditto with rr and the other vet core (incl even bass, lee and definitely a wallace or humphries).
if ur going blow it up just get blowed out)... i say get all the picks u can get, tank this year for the lottery, then reload big time and then convert your picks for a kein loe or 2 as we did after 06.


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Hamburg, Germany
In Germany a pig is a traditional New Years Eve hostess gift, it's a symbol of luck and wellbeing. Normally people give each other little toy pigs or figures made of marzipan. So I've made one for our dear friends who invited us to celebrate together. But then I found it so cute that I kept it for myself and use it as a pincushion.
My husband called it the Voodoo Pig.
The idea is from Martha Stewart, there is a pattern and a tutorial under the following link:
Felt, pipe cleaner, stuffing
Nov 22, 2012, 06.30 PMby nancykers
He is such a cute piggy!!!
Nov 23, 2012, 03.56 PMby panifrau
Thank you. You should definitely make one too just download the pattern from Martha Stewart.
Nov 15, 2012, 05.00 PMby loisvolk
Really adorable project! I love it!
Nov 15, 2012, 01.20 PMby Mary Athey
Oh i love the story behind this and the pig pin cushions.adorable x
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October 16, 1946: Ten Nazi leaders are hanged at Nuremberg.
Of the twenty-four men who stood on trial at the "greatest trial in history", twelve were sentenced to death. Of these twelve, one had been tried in absentia and had probably died in May of 1945 (Martin Bormann), while another escaped the noose by committing suicide the night before his scheduled execution (Hermann Göring). Although these twenty-four men represented who the tribunal believed could be held most accountable for aggravating and planning a war of aggression (not to mention genocide), several key figures were missing from the trial. Hitler, Himmler, and Goebbels had all committed suicide months before the trial began. Reinhard Heydrich had been assassinated 1942, and Adolf Eichmann had fled to South America. The doctors' and judges' trials were conducted separately. The officials who were tried were each indicted for at least two of the following charges:
- Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace
- Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
- War crimes
- Crimes against humanity
The ten who were eventually found guilty and executed were:
Hans Frank,General-Governor of the Nazi-administrated portion of Poland. Like many of his colleagues, Frank earned a nickname for his fruitful career. His was the "Jew Butcher of Kraków". Frank, one of the few of the accused to show remorse for his actions, said before his death that "a thousand years will pass and still Germany's guilt will not have been erased."
Wilhelm Frick, Reich Minister of the Interior. Frick also co-authored the Nuremberg Laws, and his last words were "long live eternal Germany".
Alfred Jodl, colonel general and a high-ranking figure of the OKW. In 1953, Jodl was acquitted of the main charges brought against him at Nuremberg.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office. He was the highest-ranking SS member present at the Nuremberg Trials, and one of his last statements was that he regretted "that crimes were committed of which [he] had no knowledge" - an almost laughable statement (based on the evidence presented, the court had found him guilty of crimes against humanity and of war crimes).
Wilhelm Keitel, head of the OKW and Hitler's unofficial war minister. Keitel requested that the International Military Tribunal execute him as a military man (by firing squad), but his request was denied. In his last words, he asked for "God Almighty to have mercy on the German people".
Some maintain that the American executioner John C. Woods purposely botched the executions, because the length of the rope was not sufficient to snap the necks of the accused immediately; Keitel's hanging was particularly gruesome - it took twenty-four minutes for him to strangle himself to death.
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs. His last words were "I wish peace to the world". Ribbentrop's execution was also carried out poorly; according to most accounts, it took somewhere between ten to twenty minutes for him to die.
Alfred Rosenberg, Leader of the Foreign Policy Office, Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, party Reichsleiter, and, most importantly, primary author of many components of Nazi ideology. Rosenberg met his execution stoically, and his hanging was one of the swiftest.
Fritz Sauckel, Gauleiter of Thuringia and director of German labor. As "General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment", Sauckel was responsible for the administration of the hundreds of thousands (to millions) of people who were forced to labor for German industry. Sauckel went to the gallows defiantly, declaring "I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany!"
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reichskommissar of the occupied Dutch territories. His IQ was reportedly the second-highest of all the defendants, at 141. Seyss-Inquart was the last to be executed, and his last words were "I hope that this execution is the last act of the tragedy of the Second World War and that the lesson taken from this world war will be that peace and understanding should exist between peoples. I believe in Germany."
Julius Streicher, publisher of the inflammatory newspaper Der Stürmer and Gauleiter of Franconia. Streicher was not a high-ranking official, nor did he participate in the planning of the war or the Holocaust, but his role as "Jew-Baiter Number One" was enough for the IMT to find him guilty of crimes against humanity. His execution was the most melodramatic, and he made many theatrical statements as he went to his death ("Heil Hitler!" and "The Bolsheviks will hang you one day!" among them). His IQ was also the lowest of any of the defendants, at 106.
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