Ultimate Field Guidance
General Secretary Kim Jong Il of the Workers Party of Korea provided field guidance to the Kwangbok Area Supermarket just before opening, [the Korean Central News Agency reported from Pyongyang on 15 December 2011]. Kwangbok Department Store which was originally completed in October 1991 has been renovated as a supermarket thanks to the initiative and great loving care shown by Kim Jong Il being considerate of the people's well-being and improvement of their living standard. The supermarket is a commercial service base capable of providing every convenience for the customers with accurate and rapid service as all of its management activities have been put on IT and digital basis ranging from warehousing to selling. The three-storey supermarket has counters filled with household appliances and electronic goods, such foodstuff as confectionery, milk, tea, soy sauce, soybean paste and oil and such textile goods as children's clothes, toys, Korean dresses, towels, quilts and undergarment. Going round counters on each floor, Kim Jong Il learned in detail about the varieties of goods, state of display and sales plan. Saying that the supermarket is fitted with display cases, stands and tools and other facilities and furnishings needed for the storage and sales of goods to cater for the tastes of consumers, he expressed great satisfaction over the successful renovation of the commercial service center to be conducive to improving the standard of people's living. He, calling for meeting the people's need in any case, saw to it that necessary measures were taken. He set forth tasks facing the supermarket in its service. He went on to say: "It is the firm will and determination of the Party to provide the people with things best. Officials should become true servants for the people, who provide them with good things first and worry about their life before anything else." He underscored the need to strive to supply goods to the people before putting them in foreign markets.
http://kcna.co.jp/item/2011/201112/news15/20111215-45ee.html
Muodikas mies kasvattaa parran
Muoti seuraa poliittisia ja taloudellisia suhdanteita. Mitä ikävämpiä uutiset ovat, sitä pehmeämmäksi muoti muuttuu, kertoo stylisti Teri Niitti. Koska talouskriisi ja levottomuudet näkyvät uutisissa, muoti hakee pehmeitä ja kotoisia arvoja. Muodikas mies kääriytyykin perinteiseen mummon neulomaan villapaitaan. Myös karvat saavat nyt kasvaa. Miehillä on lupa kasvattaa parta. "Nyt ei mennä 80-luvun kovalla, sliipatulla lookilla vaan ollaan kotoisia ja pörröisiä. Pehmeä luolamies, se on muotia nyt", Niitti tiivistää.
http://m.yle.fi/w/uutiset/kotimaa/ns-yduu-3-3049651
Hitler's Wallet
Q: It is 1933. You are in Berlin, Germany. Somehow, you find yourself in a position where you can effortlessly steal Adolf Hitler's wallet. This theft will not effect Hitler's rise to power, the nature of World War II, or the Holocaust. There is no important identification in the wallet, but the act will cost Hitler forty Reichsmarks and completely ruin his evening. You do not need the money. The odds that you will be caught committing this crime are less than two percent. Are you ethically obligated to steal Hitler's wallet?
Swede Shocked by Elk Threesome
A man in Sweden was greeted by an unusual sight on Wednesday morning when he saw three elk engaged in what appeared to be group sex in his backyard. "I had just gone out on the balcony to get some fresh air," Peter Lundgren, a 43-year-old marketing manager from Lindome, told The Local. "They were eating apples and then suddenly they assumed the position," Lundgren said. He grabbed his camera to document the young male elk mounting an older female elk, which in turn appeared to be licking the rear end of another young male elk. “I'd never seen anything like it. Not with elk, at least,” he said. Elk are a common sight in his neighbourhood, frequently roaming from nearby wooded areas through people's yards. While he is used to seeing elk get tipsy from eating fermented apples, Lundgren said he was wholly unprepared to have a front row seat at an elk sex show taking place in his backyard.
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=36994&print=true
Soldier Dreams
Recently deployed to participate in counterinsurgency operations outside of Kabul, 19-year-old Pvt. Robert Welsh told reporters Monday that for as long as he can remember, he has wanted to serve his country by fighting in Afghanistan. "My most vivid childhood memories are of seeing the war on TV and imagining one day I'd be able to grow up and come over here to fight for my country," said Welsh, who has followed the U.S. struggle against the Taliban for more than half his life and once spent recesses at school make-believing he and his fellow third-graders were fighting the war on terror. "I honestly never thought I'd get the chance to participate all these years later, but here I am." Welsh went on to say that while he doesn't want to get his hopes up, he remains cautiously optimistic that his own children will one day follow in his footsteps by fighting in Afghanistan.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/newly-deployed-soldier-has-dreamed-of-fighting-in,26433/




