Die Zeit recommends corned beef for Labskaus, although it says salt beef is traditional, minced. Fortunately the corned beef comes from a tin (in Germany you can buy an inferior kind of corned beef, pronounced cornid beef, from delicatessen counters).

(Wikipedia picture of ‘Hamburg-style Labskaus with fried egg, gherkin and rollmops’)

Scouse, the Liverpool dialect, has the same origin. Wikipedia:

The word Scouse was originally a variation of “lobscouse”[2], the name of a traditional dish of Scouse made with lamb stew mixed with hardtack eaten by sailors. Alternative recipes have included beef and thickened with the gelatin sauce found in cowheel or pig trotter in addition to various root vegetables. Various spellings can still be traced, including “lobscows” from Wales, and some families refer to this stew as “lobby” rather than scouse, as in the Potteries (Stoke-on-Trent), where a ‘bowl of lobby’ is a welcome meal on a cold winter’s night. In Leigh, between Liverpool and Manchester, there is even a “Lobby shop”. The dish was traditionally the fare of the poor people, using the cheapest cuts of meat available, and indeed when no meat at all was available scouse was still made, but this “vegetarian” version was known as “blind scouse”.[citation needed] The term remained a purely local word until its popularisation in the sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, which some also believe to have introduced stereotypes about Liverpudlians. It is also thought that there may once have been a giant man that came from the area called “Jon Scouse”.[3]

Here’s something about the Hamburg variety in English. Pictures of scouse can also be found via the Google image search.

Fürth is slowly gearing up for the election campaign (it’s still the middle of the school holidays in Bavaria):

A party for me:

Reichtum für alle sounds good too:

On the way out of town, where it’s harder to reach the posters and deface them, the NPD has VATERland, MUTTERsprache, KINDERglück.

There’s been a lot of criticism of Facebook’s use of crowdsourcing in translation and desire not to pay translators.

Now it appears that Facebook long since applied to patent this method.

An article in Fürther Nachrichten (with photo) describes the planting of areas like traffic islands here with a mixture called Silbersommer. These are plants that like it dry (and this is a particularly sandy area) and stand up to traffic fumes.

The first time I saw them I was thrilled. But after I kept seeing the same plants out of the car window again and again, I stopped enjoying them.

I gather that the plants flower at different times. But I keep seeing yellow yarrow (Schafgarbe) in place after place.

It appears that more plantings are planned. It seems to be a nationwide initiative that was tried out for five years as an experiment.

Würzburg

Aus der Finanznot der Städte und Gemeinden heraus wurde das Konzept Silbersommer geboren, das inzwischen in mehr als 13 bundesdeutschen Städten umgesetzt worden ist und bei dem Würzburg eine gewisse Vorreiterrolle einnimmt.

Silbersommer with pictures and PDF.

DIY Silbersommer for your own garden (German).

Guerrilla gardeners would be nicer.

Eulita, the European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association, recently conceived, is being founded and having a conference in Antwerp on November 26-28. It does look good, although I don’t know how far it’s specifically for EU translators.

Meanwhile, Euleta, the European Legal English Teachers’ Association, is having a Legal English conference in Warsaw from November 13-15. (Correction: the Warsaw conference is not a Euleta one – see comments).

OK as long as one doesn’t get one’s Eulitas mixed up with one’s Euletas.

Jeremy Bentham invented the panopticon.

Wikipedia:

The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.”

A forerunner of Wolfgäng Schäuble, perhaps.

I remember seeing Jeremy Bentham in his glass case at UCL in the 1960s. Now Konstantin has published an entry and a picture. I had no idea that they’d wheeled him out to attend committee meetings twice.

Und nur zweimal seit 1850 wurden die sterblichen Ueberreste bewegt, zum 100sten und zum 150sten Jubilaeum des UCL. Bentham nahm selbstverstaendlich zu diesen Anlaessen an den College Committee meetings teil. In den Sitzungsprotokollen steht: “Jeremiah Bentham, present but not voting”.