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Gluten Free Lemon Cake Recipe
I'll add a photo next time I make it...
2 cups Almond Meal Flour
1/2 cup tapioca Flour
1 1/2 cups brown rice flour
2 cups of sugar
1 Tsp xantam gum
1 Tsp salt
4 Tsp baking powder
1 Tsp baking soda
3 TLB vanilla extract
1 cup of milk
1 1/2 cups melted butter
2 tsp lemon extract (optional)
8 eggs
1 cup powdered sugar
1/3 cup of lemon juice
Mix dry ingredients together
Add milk, butter, and vanilla and blend well.
Add one egg at a time and mix well between eggs.
Bake at 375º for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
Cool cake
Poke holes in cake with fork or cake tester.
Mix lemon juice and powdered sugar to form a glaze. Pour over cake and spread evenly.
This cake is WONDERFUL and is best served cold.

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URC buys into Kuwait building materials company
KUWAIT, March 16, 2017
United Real Estate Company (URC), a leading real estate development company in Kuwait, said it has acquired a 39.17 per cent stake in leading Kuwaiti building materials company Insha'a Holding.
A leading player in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region, URC said the transaction was made by its wholly-owned subsidiary, United Building Company (UBC), which represents the company's contracting and building arm.
UBC has been taking serious steps towards its planned expansion and growth to become a leading company in its field, remarked URC's chairman Tariq AbdulSalam.
The deal, he stated, represents the company's first acquisition in the building and construction sector, and comes as a step towards the implementation of URC's new strategy.
"The focus will be on creating a balance in the sources of income and structuring a diversified portfolio of assets and various businesses that achieve a steady and sound rate of return," noted AbdulSalam.
Commenting on the deal, Ahmad Kasem, URC's deputy chief executive officer, said that the acquisition was aligned with the company's strategic direction to build and support its subsidiaries, in addition to enhancing their respective operating profits and diversifying its sources.
Kasem also stated that the acquisition will lead to further operational efficiency for UBC, as Insha'a has outstanding activities in readymix concrete, building materials, construction chemicals and manufacturing, which will add greater value and complement the construction and engineering expertise of the company.
URC's chief investment officer Augostino Sfeir pointed out that the deal was in line with URC's and Insha'a's business structures, in addition to being in line with URC's strategy to increase its returns and profit margins.
The acquisition was in partnership with Qurain Petrochemical Industries Company (QPIC) a sister company of URC, for a total acquired interest of 97.93 per cent and total value of KD13.75 million ($44.9 million) , where QPIC's share is 58.76 per cent.
UBC chief executive Mohammad Al Wetayan said Insha'a Holding is a local leader in building and construction materials and its acquisition will add significant value to UBC for all of its current and future projects.
UBC and Insha'a have a similar strategic vision and a long history in the Kuwait construction sector that will allow both companies to create greater capabilities and growth, he noted.
According to him, UBC is positioning itself for further expansion in Kuwait's public and private construction sector.
"Classified as a Grade "A" building and contracting company since 1984, UBC is a pioneer in the construction industry with a long remarkable track record and numerous iconic projects in Kuwait," he added.-TradeArabia News Service


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In the debate this week, Hillary Clinton closed by saying "I am not a single-issue candidate and I do not believe we live in a single-issue country."
It was a knock on Sanders, of course, and it might turn out to be an effective one. But Clinton is right: she's not a single-issue candidate. So let's have a look at where she stands on a number of issues and compare her positions to those of Bernie Sanders.
But, first, full disclosure. While I respect the remarkable strength Hillary Clinton has shown in the face of the sexism and outrageous attacks she has contended with in her career, and while I think she has an excellent record on some issues, I am, for reasons that will become clear, a supporter of Bernie Sanders.
Sanders supports a $15/hour minimum wage. Clinton favors a more modest increase to $12/hour. For families trying to survive, the difference between making $24,960 (at $12) and making $31,200 (at $15) is huge.
Sanders opposed the 2001 bankruptcy bill that would have made it more difficult for consumers to escape past credit card debt (it failed, but a similar bill passed in 2005). Clinton opposed the bill before she was elected to the Senate, but then voted in favor of the bill.
Sanders opposes the disastrous Trans-Pacific Partnership, as does every union and environmental group, because it gives corporations an unprecedented, extra-judicial process to enforce their interests, and includes no such protection for labor and environmental standards. Clinton advocated for the TPP 45 times as Secretary of State. In October, she abruptly changed her mind and says she now opposes the TPP.
Sanders wants to expand social security by raising the amount of income that is subject to the payroll tax. Clinton wants to protect it but has said (as she did in this week's debate) that she wants to aim the extra benefits at poor people. That sounds good, but such means testing always been opposed by Democrats because as soon as social security begins to look like welfare, it is vulnerable to being dismantled.
Sanders is in favor of making college tuition free, and would pay for it through a tax on Wall St. speculation. Clinton is not in favor of this proposal.
Sanders is for breaking up the biggest banks, the ones that almost took down the world economy in 2008, and for reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act, a 1933 law that was repealed by Bill Clinton in 1998 and that was one of the underlying causes of the financial crisis of 2008.
Clinton is opposed to breaking up the banks and to reinstating Glass-Steagall.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have been paid more than $6 million for speeches to Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital, UBS, and Morgan Stanley. These companies have made additional contributions to the Clinton Foundation. (Their total earnings from corporate speeches alone is a staggering $153 million). These banks do not want to be broken up, nor do they want Glass-Steagall.
Sanders opposed the KXL pipeline and opposes offshore drilling and fracking.
Clinton supported the pipeline, offshore drilling, and fracking (which she promotedaround the world as environmentally safe) until just a few months ago: she came out against Keystone in September, offshore drilling in December, and fracking just last month.
Sanders supports putting a price on carbon, which most environmental groups see as necessary. Clinton's climate change platform, almost inexplicably, does not address carbon and is not in favor of banning extraction of fossil fuels on public lands.
I wrote "almost inexplicably," but the Huffington Post reported that "Nearly all of the lobbyists bundling contributions for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign have at one time or another worked for the fossil fuel industry."
As I wrote above, Clinton's past support of the TPP (in 2012 she said "This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade") is troublesome because (among other things) it gives corporations the right to sue a government, in private tribunals, for unlimited cash compensation over nearly any policy that might reduce its profits. See the Sierra Club report, A Dirty Deal, on how the TPP threatens the climate.
Sanders supports a single payer system but amended the Affordable Care Act to fund Community Health Centers and voted for the bill. Clinton opposes a single payer system.
Clinton has taken in roughly $13.2 million in campaign contributions from the health sector. Since 2013 she has received $2.8 million in speaking fees from the industry.
Sanders has called for the end of prohibition of marijuana, letting states legalize it if they choose to. Clinton opposes legalization but supports medical marijuana.
Sanders was one of the few dissenting voices when he voted against the Iraq War in 2001, as he was when he opposed the Gulf War in 1991, saying,"It is my belief that a war in the Persian Gulf now—an absolutely unnecessary war—would be a terrible mistake that this country would regret for decades to come."
Clinton voted for the Iraq War, as well as for the 2011 Kyl-Lieberman amendment that pressed the country toward war with Iran. Sanders opposed that amendment.
Clinton is now touting her relationship with Henry Kissinger, a war hawk and friend of the Clintons who is widely seen as a war criminal responsible, says historian Greg Grandin for "at least 4,124,000 civilian deaths."
Sanders voted against the Patriot Act in 2001, 2005, and 2006, saying "I believed then and am even more convinced today that the law gave the government far too much power to spy on Americans and that it provided too little oversight or disclosure." Clinton voted for the Patriot Act all three times.
On reproductive rights, both Sanders and Clinton have a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood, which gave its endorsement to Clinton, saying, "Hillary Clinton holds the strongest record on reproductive rights of all presidential contenders in not just this election, but in American history."
The candidates have identical stands on affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. Neither supports reparations for slavery.
On gay rights, the two candidates have similar positions — now. But Hillary Clinton supported the Defense of Marriage Act (which Sanders voted against) until at least 2007. Hillary now says DOMA was a defensive measure taken to ward off a Constitutional amendment, but Rachel Maddow (in a very moving segment you should watch) pretty much calls bullshit on that line.
Hillary Clinton, in 2004, said on the floor of the Senate that "I believe marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman…. I take umbrage at anyone who might suggest that those of us who worry about amending the Constitution are less committed to the sanctity of marriage, or to the fundamental bedrock principle that it exists between a man and a woman."
She ran for president in 2008 while openly opposing gay marriage, and did not come out in favor of same-sex marriage until 2013.
Sanders has voted against the Brady bill gun restrictions several times. Clinton supports the Brady bill. Both support background checks and oppose immunity for gun manufacturers (Sanders has changed his position on this). Interestingly, Clinton called herself a pro-gun churchgoer in 2008 when she ran against Obama.
Sanders opposes the death penalty. Clinton supports it.
Sanders has always opposed the private prison industry. Clinton, under pressure from Black Lives Matters activists and others, cut her ties with the prison industry and gave their campaign donations to charity in October, 2015.
We know about the speech money: a remarkable $153 million in income for the Clintons since Bill left office in 2001. Hillary claims the money has never influenced her votes or policy positions.
But as she makes this claim, her campaign is planning to conduct a massive fundraising effort with corporations that have lobbying goals at stake; the DNC her allies control is dropping rules that limit donations from lobbyists; and her campaign is holding lobbyist-hosted fundraising events in Mexico City and elsewhere.
And there were at least 13 occasions— worth $2.5 million—when Bill Clinton received a six-figure speaking fee from corporations or trade groups that were at the time engaged in lobbying at the State Department while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. Regimes in Colombia and Haiti and elsewhere have been direct beneficiaries of her policies. Simon Head's reporting in The New York Review of Books reveals a shocking pattern of influence peddling that both undermines Hillary's claims to objectivity and makes her vulnerable in a general election. I've written about theColombia connection.
And now we're learning that the Clinton Foundation has received a subpoena from the State Department.
You can love Hillary Clinton, and I can respect that, but it's simply not true that their positions are essentially the same.
You can think Hillary would be stronger in the general election, or that she's more pragmatic, or that a woman ought to be elected this time, or that she's a better leader. But you cannot claim that their positions are essentially the same.
You can be pissed off, and rightfully so, at the sexist attacks on her by people on both the right and the left. But that doesn't make her a progressive candidate.
You can want a moderate Democrat, and that's totally fine.
But whether it's working people or war, climate change or criminal justice, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have fundamentally different records. I've summarized their records in a spreadsheet that has been read some 25,000 times so far. Feel free to share it with your friends.


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When is coffee more than just a Cup of Joe? At what point does the caffeinated liquid elevate beyond something every day and become a luxury item? Well, it really depends on how much of a coffee geek you are, or how finely tuned your taste buds really are.
Extraction Lab in Sunset Park believes that the right brew is worth every penny and have opened a cafe that is more than a little like a science lab. After all, making the right cup to its full potential is a science, factoring in all details from the origin of bean, roasting technique, grind texture, water temperature, extraction method and length. They use a speciality machine called the Steampunk, which allows the most precise control of temperature, volume, time, and agitation plus offers four different levels of filtration adding another dimension of control. This machine cost close to $14,000 for a set of two, but amazingly enough, that's not what makes this coffee shop able to push prices up.
The real price factor here is the bean itself. True coffee connoisseurs can tell you all the small details about why Arabica tastes the way it does and why Ethiopian Yirge Cheffe is something you really have to try, but many consider the crème de la crème to be a varietal called Geisha, an incredibly rare and highly valued bean. Coming from trees that only produce beans every eight years and has to be grown at a specific high altitude. An incredible light brew, Geisha is lusted over by true coffee nerds for its complexity, but to the average drinker is almost tastes like tea when made properly. These beans can sell for around the ballpark of $350 a pound, unroasted, but they're not even to everyone's tastes. Extraction Lab sells their Geisha coffee for £18 a cup.
For all the hype that Extraction Lab has received for this prestigious concoction, they are still a regular coffee shop at their core just with some really fancy equipment. They do sell normal coffee and tea for mear mortals at regular prices if all you really need is that morning jolt to get you ready to face the day.
Experiencing coffee at its geekiest form.
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Heart-attack survivors are usually prescribed all three drugs to help prevent a second attack and death. However, the beta blockers offer no additional benefit for patients who take the other two drugs as prescribed, according to the new study, which examined the trade-offs and consequences of using some of the medicines instead of others. The findings were published today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Researchers looked at more than 90,000 Medicare patients age 65 or older who had suffered a heart attack and were prescribed a beta blocker, ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker and statin as preventive therapies after they were discharged from the hospital. Patients who only took the ACE inhibitor or an angiotensin receptor blocker and statin, as prescribed, were no more likely to die than those who took all three drugs.
The research team from UNC-Chapel Hill, Monash University, the University of Iowa and the University of Eastern Finland was led by Gang Fang, an assistant professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and senior author of the study.
Fang stressed that patients should not stop taking beta blockers or any other prescription medicine without first consulting their physician. "We are not saying that beta blockers have no value. It's just that their benefits appear to have been eclipsed by the duo of ACE inhibitors and statins, which are relatively newer drugs," Fang said.
Beta blockers were introduced more than 50 years ago and reduce blood pressure and heart rate. ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers also reduce blood pressure and they have been around approximately 40 years. Statins reduce the amount of cholesterol and other fats in the bloodstream and have been in use for more than 30 years. For heart-attack patients, these drugs provide additional support to the heart.
For six months Fang's team followed heart-attack survivors who filled prescriptions for all three drugs to study how well they adhered to their prescription drug regimen. Being adherent was defined as taking the medicines as prescribed at least 80 percent of the time. The team then followed the patients for up to 18 months to see how many died during that time. Six months after their heart attack about half the patients in the study had stopped taking at least one of their medications as prescribed, the researchers found.
For patients who took all three drugs as prescribed, the mortality rate at one year was 9.3 percent. For patients who adhered to ACE inhibitor or ARBs and statin prescriptions but not beta blockers, the mortality rate was 9.1 percent, a statistically insignificant difference. For patients not taking any of the medicines as prescribed, the mortality rate was 14.3 percent, a nearly 54 percent increase over adherent patients.
"The problem with this three-drug regimen is that it is difficult for people to take their medications as they are supposed to in the long term. This is especially true of older patients who are likely to already be taking many different drugs," Fang said.
Fang also noted that patients in the study who had diabetes, dementia or both were more likely to die when taking beta blockers as prescribed. Further research is warranted, he said, and physicians should exercise more caution in prescribing beta blockers for elderly heart-attack survivors with diabetes or dementia.
Maarit J Korhonen, Jennifer G Robinson, Izabela E Annis, Ryan P Hickson, J Simon Bell, Juha Hartikainen, Gang Fang.
Adherence Tradeoff to Multiple Preventive Therapies and All-Cause Mortality After Acute Myocardial Infarction.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology Sep 2017, 70 (13) 1543-1554; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.07.783.


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Schlondorff's treatment is idly drab and antiseptic, indifferent almost, as though he felt Atwood's vision was cinematic enough.
The early '90s were also not exactly a robust period in political cinema, and the influence of the Moral Majority - so clearly felt in Atwood's text - wasn't as pronounced in the Bush I White House as it had been in Reagan's. But, sadly, it sure is now.
Book-based cautionary tale has violence, sex, and language.
overblown paranoid crap based on same.
Pretentious, self-righteous melodrama about the evils of patriarchy
Harold Pinter's adaptation has its powerful moments, but ultimately the narrowing of the novel's scope dilutes the story's message too much.
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The best thing to be said about this is that Natasha Richardson is really, really beautiful in the film. What a dull adaptation of a slightly less dull novel.
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The screenplay and the film fall short of Margaret Atwood's novel. It seems more like Lifetime porn than a disturbing look at a possible future. Disappointing.
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The film adaptation of a dystopian future as envisaged by Margaret Atwood. Part morality tale, and part cautionary, told with a touch of intrigue. Natasha Richardson plays a woman caught in a web of moral rationalization and becomes the chosen vessel for the Commander's (Robert Duvall) seed. His wife (Faye Dunaway) holds the reigns of power. This film does not hold up well, as most tales of the future do not. The prop master is limited in what technology he can predict and therefore the film looks dated. However, the moral and religious climate still makes the basic premise a possibility and for that, the story still resonates. Well done, but this viewer would recommend the book over this. The three main actors do a credible job, as do the supporting actors, Aidan Quinn and Elizabeth McGovern.
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Michelle & Michael's Wedding Day: Valley Regency, NJ
We had a blast at Michelle & Mike's wedding last weekend at the Valley Regency in Clifton, NJ. The venue was absolutely beautiful and they decorated the main ballroom and cocktail hour perfectly... I am not sure if I have seen more food at a wedding lol. Thank you for having us with you for your wedding and enjoy this little preview of the day. Have a blast on your honeymoon!


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Females make up a large portion of the gaming community, but an overwhelming majority of games cater to men. Games that star female protagonists are few and far between. Those that do tend to feature sexually charged protagonists. Bayonetta is a good example of this — her body is thoroughly stunning and her finishing attacks involve her removing all of her "clothes".
NPR (National Public Radio) recently did a feature on this issue that examines a teenage girl gamer's views on the over sexualization of female protagonists, as well as the lack of respect girl gamers receive from the gaming community as a whole. Naturally, Bayonetta is a subject of discussion. This feature can be listened to here.
This is a really interesting issue and one that I think needs to be addressed at some point. It's not difficult to notice things like the disturbing lack of a female presence on gaming sites. This feature claims that 40% of gamers are females, which is a stat that seems accurate, but gaming communities are certainly not reflective of it. I have a lot of strong feelings on this issue, so it's good to see it addressed by someone, especially a third-party news outlet in a relatively unbiased, constructive way.
[Sources: Destructoid, NPR]


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JUPITER, Fla. -- Orioles manager Mike Hargrove has said he's hopeful of making the last of his roster decisions by Thursday, when the club finishes the Florida portion of its spring schedule. He'd like to know his fifth starter by then, as well as the composition of his bullpen. And there's the matter of settling on a utility infielder, a task that didn't appear as complicated a few weeks ago.
When Jeff Reboulet was traded to the Kansas City Royals during the winter meetings, Jesus Garcia clutched the baton. Syd Thrift, the Orioles' vice president of baseball operations, brought up Garcia's name when explaining the club's willingness to part with such a reliable fielder as Reboulet. There didn't seem much room for debate.
Garcia lacked the experience, Thrift conceded, but it was time to give him a look. He had shown an ability to move around the infield, and offered at least the potential to bring more offense to the table than Reboulet, a career .238 hitter who batted .162 in 99 games last season.


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The Benders are able to put distance between them and the pink slime. Ice takes them back to the T intersection and goes down the other branch. The passage goes about 100 feet and looks to open into a room. However, Ice stops before entering the room. Just ahead of him is a 5 × 5 × 10 pit, which looks to have been roughly dug to block part of the passageway. At the bottom of the pit are pieces of what may have been a thin flagstone to cover the pit. Pieces of the flagstone are resting on and around the unmoving body of some kind of lizard which looks to have six legs.
Kitty corner from the Benders, there is an exit from the cavern which continues to the south.
"Hmmm, heya, Bex, JohnE?" Ice turned to his friends. "Any idea what that thing is? Perhaps you guys came across some book on local fauna sometime back?" The knight then peered more closely at the lizard-thing, being careful not to fall into the pit.
"I may be able to make it across, given a running start. What do you guys think? Some rope would be handy as well."
;;; Correction: 5 × 5 × 10 feet deep. That leaves room around the edges to walk around.
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Upper East Side hairdresser Rodolfo Valentin is in a squabble with his high-end Madison Avenue neighbor Fabergé over storefront construction. Valentin's store is above Fabergé and neighboring restaurant Nello, but has a front door at street level. Furious Valentin claims Faberge's alterations have shrunk his entrance from 48 inches to 35. Things got so heated that Fabergé exec Brian Dolan and Valentin had an argument on the sidewalk Thursday. Nello managers have complained to workers that the job was interfering with outside tables. Valentin — whose clients include Italy's Princess Maria Beatrice di Savoia, former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres and actress Shenae Grimes — says, "Fabergé stole my front door and won't give it back . . . They also took my awning and replaced it with one where the letters of my name are now ¹/ of the size . . . Fabergé should be classy and respectable, but they are not. They have broken their promises. What they are doing is vandalism. I have lost money because my clients won't come through this narrow, messy opening . . . I'm talking to my attorneys." Fabergé's Dolan could not be reached.
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Hello everyone,
This is the first of several emails we will be sending out to all of Alfred and Edith's descendants that we can find to let them know about the upcoming Lycett Family Gathering and to give everyone updates. I have put everyone's email address as a Bcc (blind copy) so please let me know if you are happy for others on the mailing list to have your email addresses. Everyone is family, except for a few hangers-on, who are interested in the Gathering as they are related in some way e.g. to Kate and Pheme.
WHAT: LYCETT Family Gathering
WHERE: ST. JOHN'S CHURCH HALL, Cnr. Birchgrove Road and Spring Street, BIRCHGROVE. Parking is one block away.
WHEN: 7TH January 2017 from 10.00 AM TO 4.00 PM
WHO: Everyone who can claim a link to Alfred and Edith and their families and anyone else who is interested in attending
WHY: It's about time and it will be LOADS OF FUN
STUFF: There will be a small charge for name badges, tea, coffee, cordial, etc. on the day. You will also need to bring a plate of food to share at lunchtime – more details in a later update
On the day there will be a Family Tree displayed together with memorabilia and other interesting "stuff". We want to take a group photo around noon as well as individual family photos around the same time. We will let you know more details closer to the event.
Alfred and Edith had 9 children, of whom 5 had descendants – Norman, George, Bert, Edith and Julia. To make things easier on the day each family branch has been assigned an arbitary colour as follows:
Norman Green
George Blue
Bert Yellow
Ethel Red
Julia Orange
Others Mauve
In-laws will also have the colour of the branch they married into and will be distinguished as in-laws.
Please check out our Facebook group LycettsofSydney under Marcus Kitchen's Facebook page – his photo will let you know if you have the right facebook page.
A facebook events page – please register your interest in coming along to the Gathering
There is also a blog LycettsofSydney
and a webpage
Could you please pass this email on to others in your family as they may very well be interested in coming to the Family Gathering. Could you please also let me know their email addresses.
We desperately need PHOTOS please – family groups and individual photos for the family tree. We also need details of all your family (if you haven't already given us that information), including DOB, place, marriage date and to whom, children's information.
Do you have any memorabilia you could bring on the day such as medals, clothing, photos (people houses, etc), post cards, certificates, scrap books, embroidery samples, newspaper clippings, heirlooms (e.g. cigarette case, door knob, boat lights, etc.)
My name is Kay Kitchen (nee Lycett) one of Mac Lycett's girls. Marcus Kitchen is my husband. Cousins Robyn Taylor, Louise Yeomans and I are organising the gathering.
My phone contact is 0417074943 and my email is email@example.com.
Look forward to hearing from as many of you as possible.
Kind regards
Kay Kitchen


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Hey gang, I finished Oxenfree yesterday. So great if you're into story games. It's part adventure game, part walking simulator. The atmosphere is amazing. The music is great. The writing and banter? Excellent. Definitely recommend. :)
I am a huge fan of banter, so that's a few points on the review scale for me.
(This is probably also why I rate Dragon Age 2 much, much higher than everyone else does. Some of the best banter in gaming.)
Oxenfree is almost one long, continuous conversation. Even when you click on a hot spot and interact with your surrounds midway through a sentence, the characters will seamlessly pick up where they left off afterwards. You're rarely alone in the game too, so there's always someone to banter with. Really pretty impressive. :)
Good morning all, and welcome back Mark, hope all is well with the MKII.
(Insert mortal kombat jokes here)
Good morning my imaginary lovers!
Hope everyone is well this fine day.
Saw a movie for the second time at the cinema for the first time ever.
Obviously that movie was Star Wars.
I could totally go watch it a 3rd time.
Mornin' TAY!
Had a swell weekend. Went and saw The Hateful Eight on Saturday, then we went for ciders and dessert at the Sydney Festival. There's another festival coming up in February, thinking it might be nice to gather some TAYbies for that one if it's as surprisingly-not-busy as this one was.
On Sunday I bought a smart TV because the old one was, uh, old. It's so shiny and new! Even Mario Maker looks completely different. Gonna take some getting used to with all the fancy new things this TV does. I can control it with my phone? Whaaaaa-
Anyway, now I'm eating out of the garbage for a few weeks. Big purchases panic me, even when I'm financially A-OK.
And now, Mondaaaaaaay
We went to go buy a new TV yesterday - 60"
In the end we didn't get it though because Heidi started melting down, so we chose to GTFO the shop because it wouldn't be fair to keep her in there while we went through everything.
Nicely done, Heidi.
Nicely done.
Now we'll be waiting until the next sale comes.
How was Hatoful 8? As good as it looked?
May I recommend doing a thorough calibration on your TV? It's probably set to quite high vibrancy settings, quite possibly with some form of motion smoothing, which I'd definitely recommend turning off for gaming. With all this you'll lose a bit of the "pop" of the screen, but it'll be a hell of a lot better at subtlety.
Now let's all pretend that it didn't take me until Wind Waker HD was released before I did any monitor calibration. >.>
Is there actually a calibration thing it can run itself or do you just mean fiddling with the settings?
I had to turn off all the fancy motion settings because it was making Xenoblade look like poo.
Yeah, fiddling with the settings. Some TVs come with a calibration sheet, though you usually have to print it out yourself (and if you have a bodgy printer it can be a little bad). It's a bit laborious, but worth it in the long run, if you ask me.
Good morning err body how's every little thing?
My weekend was the opposite of a hoot.
Friday I had a job interview which I think went well and then that night we had fondue and a board games night that everyone thought I'd be really into...We played Family Fued and then Scattagories...I now know how @trjn feels when someone brings out monopoly.
Saturday I was sick so stayed home and watched movies with Cathryn, watched Havoc for the first time..that's definitely a movie. Also watched Hotel Transylvania 2 which is really funny for an Adam sandler movie. Goosebumps is good too however the acting can be a bit annoying. Sisters is also a very funny movie, John Cena is surprisingly good in comedies.
Sunday I woke up late, and watched some how to get away with murder. Then we had to go to my parents for a goodbye dinner for my nan which was fine..until my brother got there. Within 10 minutes he had yelled at the dogs for play fighting and tried to hit them to stop which made Cathryn tell him to stop and then he went bezerk yelling at her which ultimately ended up me getting in his face and telling him to leave and if he ever does that again the next time he'll see us is when hes getting taken away by police. So that was a real weekend killer.
Anywho question of the week what's your one pet peeve? Can be gaming related, can be just in general anything
I want to take a minute to talk our lord and saviour; Jackson Howard.
Jackson Howard is one of the most important cards in Android: Netrunner. He does one job and he does it very well. That job is to stop the Corp from losing. He's not overpowered. He is not broken. He simply addresses a design flaw in the game and gives the players the tools to deal with it. He is so important that there will be three copies in most Corp decks. He is so important that the data pack he is sold in, Opening Moves, has been basically impossible to find for the last year. He is so important, he's the only card tournament organisers will allow proxies of.
I don't think Fantasy Flight expected a fraction of this when they printed him.
Which is why I find the short story revolving around him that's included in the Data and Destiny rulebook pretty funny. Lots of Netrunners praised the story for giving this lovable looking scamp a more sinister look. He designed a toy that gave detailed psychographics of whole households and was rewarded with the role of Vice President of Child Programming. In the Android universe, that's a pretty sinister thing because evil corporations are all evil corporationy.
The story isn't from his perspective. It's from his boss's. His boss who was planning to grill him for going over budget. His boss that realised he had done so much to advance NBN's goals without her knowing and looked to take advantage.
You know, kind of like Fantasy Flight that didn't know what they had created with this card.
So. Goddamned. Meta.
Plus, the toy that he made is Dinosaurus. One of my favourite cards.
Damn it, Trjn.
I already have enough on my plate with Conquest.
That card is sooo cool. I just LOVE the look on his face.
This store championship season (read from Feb to whenever), you win alternate art versions of him just by competing! Admittedly, that version looks a bit crappier but it exists. Did I mention that Melbourne has a thriving competitive and casual scene for this game? You live near there, right?
Also, their doing special editions of the world championship decks with full art version of all the cards used. That pesky yellow frame will be replaced with MOAR TOYS!.
Yeah - I'm literally living about 15 minutes from the CBD - SO yeah, you could say i'm close to Melbourne.
My FLGS does android leagues/store championships (along with a butt-load of other games).
I've actually joined the league at my FLGS for Conquest - I've never entered a league before , but the alt art cards, card boxes and play mats you can score this year look AMAZING.
Unfortunately I've still only got one core and about 4 expansions, so I'm not going to be competitive for the mat, but I'm hoping to at least score a door prize in the alt art cards or a deck box.
I'm quite keen to also join the X-wing store champs, but again, i doubt it would be competitive due to the whole needing multiples of the killer cards, which means more money than I will ever be able to spend.
15 minutes of the CBD in which direction? also whats the learning curve on this game because I've heard both "Its easier to get into if you have friends playing it" and "The learning curve is ridiculous and you need to spend the next year of your life 24/7 on it to be slightly good"
West - just over the bridge - in Kingsville bordering Yarraville.
The learning curve is quite forgiving. My 12 year old brother and i played a demo game at pax and we both picked it up really easily.
Plus there are card sized reference sheets that detail what you need to do each phase, which is really REALLY handy.
I'm not sure on what it takes to be good, but i think it's less about time and more about money and knowing what you're looking for. To be competitive at tournament level you need 3 of the core set, plus some expansions. To have fun and play casually all you would ever need is one core, anything else is a bonus. There are some really neat cards to be found in expansions, though.
Plus, cardgamedb.com have a wicked skilled community and a list of various deck builds from previous championships and messing about, so it's easy to make a good deck, all you need to do then is learn how to drive it
Living card games aren't about dumping a huge pile of money into your collection so that you can make the greatest deck in the history of decks. They're about knowing the metagame and which cards are going to present a problem to you. Then you buy a handful of packs to get the answers (or learn to play around them with the core set tools) and you're good to go.
Standard FFG not knowing how to balance. I have to admit though that the Netrunner setting is probably one of the better cyberpunk universes to have been created so kudos to FFG for that.
I really don't think this is a case of imbalance and if it is, the imbalance goes back to Richard Garfield's original design.
The game is won by either side scoring seven agenda points. The runner steals those points from the corp while the corp tries to advance agendas to do it. If the corp never draws those cards, they'll find it increasingly hard to win as the runner gets more and more set up to steal them. If the corp draws too many too early, it becomes trivial for the runner to steal them.
Action Jackson merely plugs that gap. Literally the only problem with the card is that he is in NBN instead of a neutral card, so players not using an NBN ID have to spend precious influence to slot him into their decks. He should've been a one influence neutral card.
Huge weekend. Spent the last three days making use of the empty house by embarking on the gargantuan task of attempting to clean my room.
And was met with some success! Started just moving as much as I could out into the family room, and already started getting pretty encouraged by the newfound empty space. Didn't quite get as much done in the end as I'd hoped, but there's a whole tonne of floorspace now, so I at least have room to shuffle things around as I reorganise what's there and continue putting things away. Came across one box that had a bunch of chilli sauces, a bottle of Herrljunga and a box of Lindors. Between the mid-2012 Best Before dates and the sealed 2012 calendar that was also in there, I guess they must've been 2011 Christmas presents. I'm sure they're fine :P
Best of all though I managed to have exactly enough space between the pinball machine and my door to move this corner unit of shelves that had been sitting out in the middle of the family room for the last ~ever, so Mum'll be happy that's finally gone once they get back. Brownie points get!
Speaking of, looks like they mightn't be back til Wednesday now. Thankfully I'm supposed to be out the next two nights so won't have to worry about dinner. Fridge is started to look pretty barren :P
Also, yesterday I noticed I have a huge sore lump under my arm. I figure it's just a swollen lymph node or something, though it feels like it's gotten even bigger today. Surprising just how in-the-way it seems to be able to get. Good thing (sorta) I'm being forced to skip climbing tonight I guess, probably would suck to try and do that atm.
I'm still in bed getting cuddles from the new addition.
That was basically my weekend!
I fudged that a little - we finished watching Making a Murderer. Leaves me feeling highly disturbed.
There was also a home invasion down the road from me. 2 guys ended up shot, not fatally thankfully. Went to leave for swimming on Sunday morning and there were cops everywhere and the news trucks parked on the side of the road.
Time for more cuddles.
Oh yeah, that crazy psycho storm last Thursday. Walking to the station this morning, the path I usually take was covered in fallen branches, and at one point even an entire tree.
If I'd missed my train that afternoon, not only would I have ended up completely soaked I probably could've ended up squashed too :/
Hi all.
I have an interview at a gallery for possible work.
Also, I may need to get a new HDMI splitter.
Oh, and I've been watching Steven Universe in my downtime.
Steven Universe is my go-to show for when I just want to have fun. It's a nice comparison to Adventure Time (when I stopped watching it a few years ago) because while it does deal with some adult stuff, and does hit mature themes, it's still quite happy to be a kids show.
Which has reminded me, I think there's a few new episodes since I last checked, need to get on that.
Saw a cool mod the other week for the iPhone 6/6S where you replace the back Apple logo with one that lights up when the screen turns on & dims when the screen does. I'm kinda wondering why Apple hasn't done that already given they have it on the MacBooks..
Another Xbox Games with Gold review
D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die
I loved the style of this one, the gameplay was a bit odd at first but thankfully it's point and click with very limited QTE "stunt" action scenes thrown in. The story really got me hooked with it's batshit weirdness and intrigue and then... it ended. Season 1 was limited to a prologue and a couple of episodes which was all they had ready for launch as an Xbox One exclusive. I can understand why people who paid $15 for this game would feel ripped off, not because you don't get $15 worth of content (in my opinion) but because with no season 2 on the horizon, you feel like your time got wasted. Most of the achievments are linked to collectibles and getting perfect "sync" which means nailing the QTEs and picking the "in character" responses to dialogue which is kind of a trial and error thing since there's no real consistency to it. your character, David Young, is an asshole at sometimes and a nice guy at others. He reminded me a lot of Bigby from Telltale's The Wolf Among Us, but at least that game let you choose your personality and only really penalised you for inconsistency.
I hope there's a season 2 at some point, it'll convince me to reinstall this game and chase some achievements. As it stands I have 285/1000 which includes finishing the story, finding some collectibles, and nailing one stunt sequence (which was the first one in the game - the rest were significantly tougher).
Pneuma: Breath of Life
A fairly interesting puzzle game with some kind of annoying narration which seems silly at first but you realise that every line of dialogue is really a clue to the puzzle, which makes it essential to listen. You get used to it after the first couple of puzzles. I guess it was trying to have a philosophical message about the nature of free choice and the illusion of self but it was ultimately a bit pretentious and underwhelming. 850/1000 achievements just for finishing it (which took about 2 or 3 hours?). The rest of the achievements were for collectible. Couldn't be bothered even with a walkthrough. Fun, but in the sense that it was better than doing nothing. A very pretty game and I'm sure that some people worked very hard on it, but I wouldn't have paid money for it.
A beat 'em up sidescroller with an overly complicated fighting system. Combat feels unsatisfying and dull. The game gives you a gun but you run out of ammo so quickly and do so little damage that it's pointless. You have to beat a par score on each level to earn points to buy upgrades which feels like artificially forced replay. Maybe if I'd stuck with it past the third level I might have seen something new and interesting but I feel like I gave the game a fair chance and got very little in return. I may return to it on a rainy day... actually no, that's exceedingly unlikely. No.
In other news, went out on Saturday for my wife's birthday, checked out the Spawn Point gaming bar and proceeded to the Retro since my wife and I haven't been there since we got married. Dismayed that "retro" is now 80s & 90s instead of 70s & 80s. Several middle-aged women who were upset with their husbands insisted on dancing with me while my wife wasn't around then getting upset and asking me if they were ugly when I tried to decline.Last edited 18/01/16 10:17 am
Stayed out til 4am for the first time in forever. Remembered how much Nightride buses sucked. Slept all day sunday because old and also have a toothache. :/
So i had been feeling like garbage for a few days and decided to bite the bullet and go to the doctor on friday which i despise doing. The doctor told me i had a viral infection which means im gonna be super lethargic for over a month. The best part is theres nothing to do about it except drink some sugar free redbulls and hope they keep me awake. I dont feel as bad today but i was struggling on the weekend.
Had a rad time at DC's birthday do, Teasing Mrs Freeze is sooo much fun.
Back to the ole grind this week i guess.
Moseys off
I've played 90 hours of xenoblade and I STILL haven't found any auroran bones! I've have this stupid quest taunting me for 80 hours now...
I also picked up several games for my xbone care of that Harvey Norman sale. Dead rising 3 is significantly less fun than the first one, nick is less fun than frank, and the way kinect and smartglass integration is constantly pushed in your face gets wearing.
Sunset overdrive is better, it definitely picks up, but the tower defence sections are as lame as can be. Spiderman 2 didn't have tower defence, why try to improve on perfection?
Forza 6 has my mr2 in it, so that's pretty cool! Handling is a bit hilarious, and you can't hear the supercharger, but the model detail is nice.
It's very stupid that my Peugeot 205 gti isn't in the game though, as literally every rival it had is (even the really bad ones, like the xr2!). They even have most of the model already in there thanks to the t16!
I have one single item missing from my collectopedia that I haven't found in over 160 hours of game time :P I'll find it one day...
My boss left for good on Friday /o\ so now we're without a store manager, the manager from the BWS in town is gonna be checking in on us, but officially we have no one in charge of us, and it'll probably be at least 2 weeks maybe 3 or 4 until they find us a new one.
Edit: the area manager knew about this for months (like 6+ months) that my boss was leaving (transferring up Brisbane) and she still didn't line up a replacement. Apparently they only started interviews for the position last week, uh...Last edited 18/01/16 10:28 am
Morning, TAY.
Went and saw some tennis on the "weekend" (technically Friday but I had the day off work, so...). It was great! Bit of rain but didn't delay things too much. Got to see a Legends match too which was hilarious (basically they trot out some popular retired players, hook them up to mics and they just muck around). The womens final was underwhelming though. The loser just got dominated the whole time. No contest :P
Saw Hateful 8 as well which was pretty fantastic. Not his best movie but it's up there for me. Starts off a bit slow but ramps up really well and just tells a small, complete story which I liked. Doesn't really leave any major loose ends.
Also, if any Sydney people go to the doughnut bar in the Sydney Festival village, get the "Better than Vanilla" doughnut. Easily the best thing they have! (Second favourite is the Bearded Lady ice-cream)Last edited 18/01/16 10:34 am
Hi everybody, feel like I haven't properly "checked in" on here in a while.
Weekend was good. I did the last of my unpacking and my bed frame got delivered so I'm now "fully" moved in to West End. What? Yes I still need to pick up my microwave, shut up! And... yes, part of that unpacking was putting a misc box of cables away in the cupboard, shut up! You've got a problem. I'll tell you when I've had enough! *cough*
My reward for "finishing" unpacking and keeping up my exercise goals (Goal: M, W, F, Su swimming / T, T, Sa running) was @dc's birthday dinner & drinks which was a blast as always. Was great to see those who were able to make it, lots of laughs, lots of smiles, lots of memories to be filed away and never spoken of again.
So Sunday I spent some time getting to know Netflix (still don't have any chill though?) and then decided to do another photo from my balcony. I know, I know, they're getting old, but I haven't done a HDR stack yet and I'm again happy with how it came out considering I haven't done anything like that in years. https://t.co/19eoo2PZDM - I particularly like the cloud motion. Feels "dramatic"
Monday question: What are you reading, and why?
A: Terminator Gene (Ian Irvine) - Sequel to a book I picked up in the early 2000s "The Last Albatross" and I've been trying to get in to it for ages but it's just not capturing me. I'm at the stage where I'm going to give it one last go and then shelve it for good if I can't slog my way through it. This feels bad to even think about.
Thanks for the invite buddy! Sorry again that I couldn't come, and I hope lady @strange passed on my gratitude to @transientmind for his kind offer.
I may have been able to make it had my dad been in mobile reception range, but he didn't get my message til the day after, so as such, I didn't even have enough money to get in there, unless I parked in Valley Metro and walked to the BBC, but with my leg the way it is, that was never going to happen.
Was glad to see people tweeting pics of the good times though :) Not the same as being there, but at least I could feel somewhat included ;)
Last Albatross / Terminator Gene / The Life Lottery aren't SF. They revolve around worldwide eco collapse, and they're set in the near future (e.g. 20ish years from now?) but ... I dunno. I guess that sort of qualifies them as SF but they're supposed to be about the people, not the science.
Raises an interesting question. At what point does SF become SF?
Science Fiction is any fiction that involves a change in conditions brought about by technology or anything else that happens either before or during the story, and then speculating forward what the impact would be on humans as a result of that change. There's a grounding in theory and things are properly explained, theories put forward are used consistently etc.
I like Heinlein's definition: "Realistic speculation about possible [...] events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method."
I am in between books right now, im trying to decide if i read something fun or i delve into the world of battery enclosure design and battery protection circuits. I want to design a electric skateboard and i feel like i dont know enough about LiPo cells to work with them safely.
Also i really love electronics books but the people who write them need to take a class in how to energize their writing. I know the subject matter isn't dragons attacking a village but a joke or pun never goes astray when dealing with relatively dull subject manner.
a joke or pun never goes astray when dealing with relatively dull subject manner
I'm getting mixed signals here...
I'm reading World War Z. A podcast I listen to mentions it every time they talk about zombies and they made it sound really interesting. But I'm finding it a bit boring, too fragmented in its presentation and not engaging enough as a result. Some really cool ideas in it though, pretty inventive for a zombie narrative.
I agree that the presentation is a bit wonky with it hopping around a lot. It reads more like an anthology of short stories set in a zombie apocalypse rather than a simple linear narrative. Some of the individual stories/chapters are downright fascinating (my favourite was the one about the ISS) but some of them were pretty bland.
Unfortunately I couldn't make it to @dc's birthday on Saturday but it looked like everyone had fun. Sorry again about not being able to make it. I had to be involved in driving a Macharius Vanquisher in a long lapsed game after the GM was in a better mental state than he was a few months ago. His brother was up from Melbourne as well so it was good to hang out with them again after such a long time.
On Sunday I was former gang thug turned mercenary turned voluntary drug tester. And then I was mind controlled by a vengeful spirit and almost killed our priest. That was an interesting experience.
What up TAY?
I had a pretty cool weekend. Spent Saturday morning/afternoon binge watching Daredevil (TV series) with @rocketman. Spent Saturday night with the Brisbane TAYbies for @dc birthday. It was a blast, it's been a while since we've done a proper meat-up.
Didn't do too much on Sunday. I started playing Dragon's Dogma(n) on PC and it's a pretty cool guy. I love the combat in the game, it can get pretty hectic and climbing a giant cyclops to attack it's eye is pretty great and makes you feel pretty epic.
I enjoyed your shouts of "really, REALLY" at dragons dogma while i was watching Lord of the rings. I was like "man nob really doesnt like Frodo or Sam."
I was going to write an article about my experiences with Android: Netrunner. How I bought into the game a few years ago and let the cards collect dust until I started recently going to my FLGS for casual game nights. How I went to a tournament and got completely trounced. How I initially blamed my loses on not having as many cards as my opponents.
Except a story about how I'm improving feels a bit silly. Every time I try to sit down and get all of this down, I realise that there are more areas that I need to improve on and, more importantly, there are areas that I have already improved on since last trying to get my thoughts together.
In a few weeks, the local Netrunner community is starting a league where you play a new opponent every week. I'll be doing this (and losing, with gusto!). That seems like a much more solid thing to base the story around.
Also I'm learning to play bridge.
Except a story about how I'm improving feels a bit silly.
tell that to every sports movie ever made.
I used to know how to play Bridge (I could probably remember if I tried) but I gave it up for Canasta. I think I just prefer matching games (Rummy, etc) to trick taking games.
I played a ridiculous amount of 500 in high school. Although one of the main reasons I'm doing this is that Freya's dad has represented Australia while playing Bridge. Seems a waste of a perfectly good resource. There's also a guy at the dog park who is apparently quite good at Backgammon.
Well, yeah if that's the case you kind of have to. Would be like living next door to Bobby Fischer and not asking for help on your chess moves.
Plus, if I start doing a series on classic games I can finally bust out this pesky Mahjong set I've had sitting on shelf for the last 3 years.
I've only ever play Mahjong on digital devices. Don't know what I'd do if suddenly faced with physical tiles.
Are we talking about proper Mahjong, which is basically Rummy, or Shanghai, which gets called Mahjong all the time because it's a solo game that uses Mahjong tiles?
@beeawwb real mahjong is very different. Not terribly difficult to get the basics, but man.. some of the people I met in Shanghai would walk circles around most people who 'think' they know how to play!
Except a story about how I'm improving feels a bit silly. Every time I try to sit down and get all of this down, I realise that there are more areas that I need to improve on and, more importantly, there are areas that I have already improved on since last trying to get my thoughts together.
So rather than concentrating on specific improvement examples, a big part of how you're getting better is the awareness of what to improve as well as what has already been improved.
Hi all! Spent entirely too much time in Warframe after vowing my weekends to SWTOR... Also worried I might annoy friends in party chat with my frantic button mashing... :P Upside: have my first two new frames crafting with a third to be kicked off tonight. Downside: I think I need to buy frame slots to be able to use them once I've crafted them... Time to look at the trade market.
Aiming is getting easier - the Boltor basically forced me to learn, but once I got the hang of it, Boltor is amazing fun - reminds me of the HV Penetrator from F.E.A.R (which I used at every opportunity :P). Moved on to try a bow now that my aim's improving - still undecided.
Yeah, start doing those void missions with your tower keys ASAP so you've got prime parts to trade for plat.
I highly recommend that you do anything within your power to grind up a Frost. They're invaluable for Defense missions. Borderline necessary for the harder ones.
I find Oberon is also pretty great for Defense missions. Certainly one of the better healer frames around unless they've added something else recently.
Spent hours and hours trying to get Control Modules to drop for me - then I tried a T1 Survival, and got be about 8 in the one run, and a BP for a prime archwing part (most useless prime part :P). New bane is Neurodes - cannot get them to drop anywhere... Have Rhino and Nyx crafting now - heard Rhino was a good starting support, but more offense-focused; Gonna start putting Valkyr together tonight. Will look into Frost, but need to unlock the rest of the planets, first - only just unlocked Phobos and Sedna.
You really wanna make it rain prime parts and get great value-per-key, you wanna be doing the defense towers. Preferably with some friends. Pop the snow globe up on the middle part, then everyone just can sit back and plink away at oncoming hordes. One drop of something (rare mods or prime parts) every five minutes. Pretty great. Survival can be good too, but things start getting stupidly ridiculous at the 40min mark. As in, frost globe getting popped within seconds, finding it near impossible to kill heavy gunners.
Captures are AMAZING for blitz runs. If you simply ignore all the enemies, run directly to the target, capture, then run back out, you can probably manage a prime part per five minutes that way, too. Sabotages can be good once you've learned the tile-sets intimately. Every sabotage has three caches hidden in the level, which can also yield gold cores, credits, and prime parts in addition to the part you get from mission completion.
Oh, get a Loki ASAP, too. They're one of the best frames to cheat your way through spy, sabotage, and capture missions. Get the mods which max out duration for invisibility. It's a kind of god mode, really.Last edited 18/01/16 1:38 pm
I've been strongly considering a Loki (and eventually Ivara) - the spy and rescue missions are starting to get ridiculous, after barely making it through the Corpus Spy mission for the artifact quest. Might look into getting some cyphers - the hacking in my most recent rescue missions (Alerts especially) have been insane. Sabotage is awesome fun, tho, just flying past everything in both directions. :P I guess that's why the caches exist.
I've got a couple T1 capture keys, might quickly run them. Have something like 6x T1 sabotage missions, which I might save until I know the tilesets better and where the caches spawn.
Shitty thing about some of the spy missions is some terminals don't actually have a Cipher option at all!
Don't feel bad if you can't get all three caches in the sabotages, though. Some of the maps seriously fuck with you on it. My youngest brother has been playing nearly every day for the last couple years and knows most tilesets like the back of his hand and STILL has trouble getting them all, sometimes.
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Sunday, September 5, 2010
Art For Sale On the Pearl
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Thanks for mentioning Blackfish Gallery - still going strong after all these years. It was a bit hard to read the names of the two artists in the grey color you chose. I thought there would be a link because of the color change. You must have studied psychology or you're psychic to get all that from a glance at the eyes of the 'middle aged man' from the West Hills (just kidding....)ReplyDelete
I like the description of you following the couple. Pretty amusing. Two questions:ReplyDelete
1. Why no critique of the art you saw, Portland art critic?
2. What's wrong with art meets commerce? Don't you think artists should sell their art?
Thanks for the two questions.ReplyDelete
1. I probably should have critiqued some of the art. It kind of felt like the scene was the important art there as opposed to what was in each stall.
2. I don't think I overtly stated that art shouldn't be sold. On the other hand, creating art with a focus on selling it changes the art. An artist inevitably has to make choices around how he's going to make up his or her costs and hopefully turn a profit. It would be a different mind set then a bunch of Tibetan monks would have when they are creating a sand painting. People can decide for themselves whether it's good or bad. I have been in a lot of cultures where the art created isn't a commodity and I think about that when I am at commercial events like `art fairs'.
That's a pretty broad stroke bringing up Tibetan monks making sand paintings. Do you really think that art selling via the galleries you mentioned - Elizabeth Leach and Blackfish- is somehow immune from being referred to as commerce? What makes the art fair more distasteful to you?ReplyDelete
Just saying - since I know 2 gallery artists with respectable work who were showing at the Pearl art fair : Kim Hamblin and Allison O' Donahue.
I guess I distinguish gallery art a bit because even though galleries are commercial enterprises, many do have a mission or function beyond pure commerce. In the end, though, both are part of a system where the success of an artist equates to sales. I think it is good not to just take that for granted and intersting to consider how that changes the choices any artist might make in the creative process.ReplyDelete
I think that most galleries are in it to make a living - and I don't see anything wrong with that. Perhaps you have a higher and more precious attitude towards art than I do. I do not see hoarding art as a more noble practice than selling it. My paintings are material objects that I exchange for money - that does not demean the process or the product.ReplyDelete
It actually makes it a helluva lot easier to paint when I have money to buy supplies, food, etc.
Hey Dante, thanks for the article. I wanted to suggest you do a review of Portland Open Studios. I know it would be a challenge to do, because by it's nature it's all over the place. I haven't gone in a few years, but I was thinking about going this year, because there are 2 weekends for it instead of one. Of interest to you (possibly) is that one of the participants bought YOUR work. I'd like you to meet him. Email me to find out who. painter(dot)celeste(at)gmail(dot)comReplyDelete


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Breakbot, Greg Wilson, Irfane, Le Family Club @ XOYO, London
It's always a real thrill when a gig goes beyond being just a sum of its parts – the date, the venue, the artist, the audience. Going above and beyond and creating an effortlessly flowing and flawlessly intact music experience was exactly what Breakbot, Greg Wilson, Irfane and Le Family Club did on the 14th of February.
44 years after David Mancuso unknowingly gave the start of a new musical era with his "Love Saves the Day" Valentine's day party, disco, its past and its future, were skillfully homaged and feverishly danced away last Friday at XOYO. Imagine this grumpy, anti-social, rarely dancing and always tired person (that would be me) actually closing the club and wondering where all the time went.
I would've taken notes, believe me, I had a flip notebook and a whole lot of enthusiasm but how could I when my feet couldn't stop dancing? So excuse me but you'll have to take my post-party-that's-what-I-remember word for it.
The impeccable music selection spun across years and years of feel-good anthems. I distinctly remember being squished between two tall blonds during Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You" (I swear the two tall blonds are not the reason why I remember this so distinctly). Then I clearly remember Breakbot playing Todd Terje's gem "Strandbar" because it made me think how mind-blowing the month of April is going to be when we finally get a whole album by that man.
And then there's Greg Wilson. I've been waiting to go to a Greg Wilson gig for a while and now that I live in this glorious city of London I plan on going to as many as possible. It's not just his DJing that makes him so fascinating to me – it's his brain. Anyone who has spent some time reading his analyses and commentary pieces on www.gregwilson.co.uk must have thought at one point "What an interesting person that Greg chap,ey!" As someone who finds the actual clubbing part of dance music a bit difficult (confined spaces, hoards of people and general social overload are not my forte), the other ways of experiencing it, including thinking critically about it, have in a way become my "clubbing".
But let's go back to distinctive memories. Another one would be Greg Wilson playing "Inspector Norse" and me thinking "Let's just all accept the fact that that album is going to be everything in 2014." Complementary to my obsession with the idea of the "Love Saves the Day" night in 1970 and every party at The Loft after that, the night/morning ended with Patrick Cowley's classic 15-minute remix of "I Feel Love". I just like to imagine what those tracks sounded like to unspoiled ears who had never heard anything that innovative and exciting before. Also, excuse me if I'm wrong about whether it was the Patrick Cowley remix but you should know that I'm going by my after-4-in-the-morning memory. I remember a synth, man… it just has to be it. I remember a synth and a whole lot of greatness.
So what would be the review of this gig in a nutshell? Love and dance music did save the day the way they have for decades and the way they will undoubtedly continue to do in the future. I hope that I can continue to be a part of their present.
Sincerely loving,
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Constitutional law expert George Williams says Labor is right to say the High Court decision in the case of former senator Katy Gallagher sets a precedent.
However, he says the coalition also has a point in saying the court reached its conclusion - that Ms Gallagher is disqualified - by "developing and applying its prior decisions" such as the Sykes and Canavan cases.
"Labor is correct in that every High Court decision sets a precedent of some kind," Professor Williams told AAP on Thursday.
"That's the nature of the court deciding on each particular case.
"Here they have done so by establishing how the law operates in the context of someone in Katy Gallagher's position. The court had not previously decided how the law applies in this fact situation."


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Roundup: Goretti girls win 2
ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. - St. Maria Goretti, defending champion in the Maryland State Private Schools Tournament, took two steps toward defending its title Friday at St. Mary's College by winning its first two games.
The Gaels (No. 3 Herald-Mail, 18-2-1) didn't allow a goal on its way to a 4-0 win over Riverdale Baptist and a 3-0 win against Mt. Carmel. Against Riverdale, Erin Ryan scored twice and had an assist to back Janet McCullough's five-save shutout. Marrett Diamond and Valerie Cushwa also scored for Goretti.
In its second game against Mt. Carmel, Goretti got two more goals and another assist from Ryan. Bobbie Johnson assisted on Ryan's second goal and Diamond had a second-half goal for the Gaels.
SJPH 2, St. John's (D.C.) 0
FREDERICK, Md. - Liz Brokaw had two goals, Kim Henry and Noureen Khan each had an assist, and Michelle Burdette made eight saves for St. John's at Prospect Hall (14-5-1).


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Now before you say anything, I know this is a little out of character for me. But I plead the Fifth! Steve Green, the Vodkapundit, put a fifth of scotch into me and there is a deadline to fill so here we are, my friends.
Hanging around with Steve Green is an amazing experience. He has the constitution of a yak. Steve Green cannot die until the EPA can find a safe place to bury his liver. They dip surgical instruments in his blood to sterilize them.
I met Steve and Scott Ott back in CPAC 2009. This would have been a month after that communist swine Obama was elected. Yeah, you heard me. CPAC in 2009 was like a funeral viewing, only not so cheerful or peppy.
Today was very different. People are smiling. It rained in California again. The drought is over. Hooray!
That said, while the mood is better, it seems to me that there is nothing like the crackle and energy of that first CPAC of mine. I'd been an admirer of Steve's work at Vodkapundit, as well as Scott Ott's satire at Scrappleface. They were fans of my essays at Eject! Eject! Eject! Of course, we were not the glamorous, magnificently paid internationally known celebrities we are today. Just simple bloggers pounding away on the internet because we felt, in those post 9/11 years when we all started, that we had to do something for America... even if it was only blogging, for God's sake.
Steve, Scott and I met for the first time in the lobby of the hotel. We went across the street to a very cold booth, had breakfast, and a half-hour later we had the idea for Trifecta, which became Right Angle. We have done something like five thousand episodes since then.
One evening in CPAC 2009, I got a call from a loose acquaintance of mine named Andrew Breitbart. He asked me if I wanted to go to dinner with Ann Coulter. I said "boy howdy!"
We went to an expensive restaurant in DC. The night was historic, really: it was the last time in recorded history when Your's Truly shut up for a while and listened to these two people; titans, really, which was remarkable since all of us, Steve and Scott and I especially, seemed to be just regular shmoes called to try to do something about the fate of the country we all loved, and continue to love.
Even then, going to a restaurant with Ann Coulter was a unique experience. I have been around a few famous people before, and I know what it looks like when someone is staring at a person, trying to be sure if they were famous or not. I saw that with Ann, but I also saw real anger at her and after hearing some of her personal stories I simply marveled at her physical and moral courage.
Back then, politics on the internet was new and we all felt a sense of electrical excitement in the air: we regular guys – sad, isn't it? – were going to have to stand up and do what the immortals had done before us: get out there and defend the country in this new war of images and ideas.
It's been almost five years since Andrew died of a heart attack. Steve and Scott and I still have the passion to do four or five shows a week for eight years without missing a single week. CPAC 2017 is filled with bright-eyed young people who are now, suddenly, not just the campus weirdos but the ones speaking for a party that has won the Presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and at least one – if not two or three – Supreme Court picks. So things are better but not as exciting. Maybe we too felt the romance of being in opposition to the most powerful forces on the earth. And what was a passion remains a passion, but now it is a business as well, and we owe our livelihoods to our ability to convince people like you that while TV is free, and the internet is free, we need to get you to pay for TV on the internet. We all know that this is the future of news, but it takes a while for the dust to settle from the asteroid impact that wiped out the Mainstream Media dinosaurs.
What has not changed, however, is the most important thing of all. To actually meet our audience; to hear people tell you that you have helped to change their lives… that has the same, undiluted effect today as it did when we started the game in earnest in 2009. You people are so kind, so sensible and so fundamentally honorable that it has forced all three of us to become better people in order to rise to your standards. You have, through the rigors of a fire assay, forced us as individuals and as a movement to find the gold within ourselves and to present that gleam in the service of the idea of what America is, and for that we are genuinely and eternally grateful.


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Posted: November 27, 2009
Jacob went to the store last night with his mother and sister. Austin brought in a beautiful poster of the Canadian flag to take on our walk. He got everyone in the class to sign his poster. What a nice idea! Emma's nannie had a sleep over at her house last night. It was fun. Everyone is anxious to go see the torch this morning.


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This is the class of 1971 at St Colmcille's Girls' National School in Swords. A big effort is now underway to reunite as many of these classmates as possible so the photograph can be retaken in 2018.
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text: Hi Sergio & All, only to inform that RH isn't obsolete at all. Simply stated, they have changed their policy, in that RH will pursuit registrered owners. No more free downloads from RH site. At the same time, freeing 9.x Linux implementation, RH gave a gift to the GNU community, that will continue under Fedora mark. So that we have two distinct alive lines, so far. 73 Paolo, I3DLI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sergio" <ik2mmb@xxxxxxxx> To: "Linrad reflector" <linrad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 9:14 PM Subject: [linrad] Linux > Hello all, > I am in progress to switch distro from Mandrake to something else at > least on one of my machines. I played for a couple of days with a copy > of RH 9.A that I found on some magazine. Immediately I had to face > one-hundred of difficulties I didn't have with MDK but that was somewhat > expected. I was told that RH basically is now totally obsolete and > Fedora has replaced it. Before I get too much into it (RH) I'd like to > check some opinions here. > > I am obviously not looking for a 'standard' distro in a world where it > does basically not exhist one; anyhow, is anyone feeling like suggesting > something 'oriented' in that direction. > > Cheers and good 2004 to all of you. > > Thanks in advance. > > Sergio >LINRADDARNIL


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