We have a wonderful new range of beautiful Christmas Cake toppers from novelty Christmas cake decorations, cake frills, Ribbon, cake boxes, Christmas cake cup cases, Cupcake Boxes, candles and traditional father Christmas cake Decoration Now available from our Sugarbliss cake decorating supplies shop, knowle, Solihull.
We also have a great range of stunning Christmas sugar pipings perfect to simply add to your special Christmas cake or Cupcakes.
From high end resin topper sets to individual sprigs of plastic holly, we have the most comprehensive range of Christmas cake decorations in the industry. New for 2018 are a resin Nutcracker and a luxury Paddington Bear Set and in the entry level plastics range we have Glistening Snowmen, Penguins and my personal favourite a Gleaming Gold Tree which coordinates perfectly with our Gold Reindeer picks.
We have a new fantastic range of Alphabet and number cutters for cake decorating. Our new range of cake star cutters are now available from our Sugarbliss cake Decorating shop, Knowle, Solihull or why not order from our sugarbliss cake decorating company online store. These fantastic cutters are perfect for birthday cakes or celebration cakes, simple to use and create a professional finish on your birthday cakes.
Personalise your novelty cakes & cupcakes with this complete upper case plunger alphabet cutter set. The 26 cutters are made from food approved plastic with internal spring mechanisms & give an attractive embossed edge to your lettering. Suitable for use with sugarpaste, however, for best results we suggest you use a modelling paste. The cutters are packaged in a stylish box which makes an excellent gift for a novice or experienced cake maker, and is also ideal to store them when not in use.
Perfect for personalising cakes and cupcakes these mini plunger cutters are a godsend! Simple to use, these upper and lower case alphabet cutters are made from food approved plastic, have an internal spring mechanism and each one will add an embossed edge to your lettering.
Each set is packaged in a box for easy storage, making these a fantastic gift for anyone who decorates cakes, whether they are a novice or advanced. Instructions for use are included.The upper case and lower case sets are both available individually but more cost effective if purchased together.
These cutters can be used with sugarpaste however for best results, we recommend using modelling paste.
We are really pleased to be be now stocking a full range of over 36 different natural food flavourings by Beau Product, now available from our Sugarbliss cake Decorating shop, Solihull, Birmingham.
Our new range of Beau Products natural food flavouring our ideal for for flavouring birthday cakes, wedding cakes, icing, ice cream and desserts. These concentrated natural food flavourings allow you to simply add flavouring to sugarpaste without changing the texture of the icing you are using.
Choose from strawberry, banana, white chocolate, elderflower to rum, butterscotch, coconut, and lime, just to name a few! to add delicious flavour to your special celebration cakje, wedding cake or desert.
Our range of food flavourings can be added to your cakes and icings, and are highly specialised, concentrated flavourings which can be added to a variety of cakes, desserts and have been developed for a bake safe consistent flavour. Many of our flavourings are suitable for vegetarians and vegans and are certified Kosher – most are also Halal but a few contain naturally occurring alcohol (from fruit sugars).
Ideal for flavouring Craft Bakery, Yoghurts, Frozen Desserts, Ice Cream and sorbets, Icing, Jellies and Fondants.
We now have Silver Round Cake drums & Silver Square Cake Drums in bulk packs of 5. Our new pack of 5 cake board drums are great valve especially if you are creating wedding cakes, birthday cakes and celebration cakes through out this summer. The packs of 5 drums are available in all sizes from 4 inch up to 20 inch.
Our Cake Board drums are used to display and support heavier cakes such as tiered cakes or fruit cakes. Our classic silver design cake boards are perfect for presenting sponge cakes, wedding cakes or celebration cakes.
All our cake drums are available to buy from our cake decorating supplies shop, Knowle, Solihull or from our online cake decorating shop.
We also have a fantastic range of coloured square and round boards in black, purple, green, red, cerise, blue and pink.
Wedding cakes for this year are likely to take on artistic flair with painted finishes, drips, splatters, spackled buttercream and chocolate spheres. That being said, the minimalist wedding cake trend is entering the sweet realm of cakes with buttercream icing and neutral florals being requested.
Naked cakes have enjoyed a popular few years, and the trend is here to stay this year. A fantastic option for those who want to save a little money and still have a gorgeous looking wedding cake. With semi naked cakes using a thin layer of frosting that keeps the cake visible.
Some things never go out of fashion and the classic white cake is still the go to wedding cake of choice for brides and grooms who are following a more traditional route.
There is little more opulent than a cake tiered with gold or silver and it is set be popular for wedding cake design throughout 2018.
At Sugarbliss Cake company we create beautiful bespoke wedding cakes all freshly baked in our very own 'Cakery'. We offer a professional wedding cake design service and a reliable wedding cake delivery and set up service through out the UK.
Wedding Cakes – How To make Sugar Peonies.
Peonies are such stunning sugar flowers to make with their beautiful thick ruffled blooms and vibrant colours, peonies make stunning decorations for wedding cakes and celebration cakes.
Peonies symbolise romance, honour, wealth and beauty so it's no surprise it is a particularly popular choice with brides to adorn their bespoke wedding cakes . If you would like to learn how to make your own sugar peonies then please see below for our handy step-by-step guide for beginners as well as more experienced sugar craft cake makers.
All the products needed are available from our Sugarbliss Cake Decorating Supplies Shop, Knowle, Solihull. From florist paste, food colouring gel pastes, cake boards to cake decorating tools, foam pads and sugar flower cutters, we are sure we will have every thing you will need to create these beautiful peony sugar flowers.
So if you are creating your very own special wedding cake or eggless wedding cakes, this How to Guide will give you all the information you will need. Also, our friendly experienced cake decorating staff will be more than happy to give you great advice if needed!
FMM's Easiest Peony Cutter is the perfect way to create beautiful and realistic sugar peonies, no matter what your skill level.
To create your paste you can use equal quantities of sugar paste and Cake Star modelling paste together, or simply use sugar flower paste. Knead well and add colour if required ( you may want to make the colour for the centre petals a darker shade, graduating to a paler shade for the outer petals). Make a ball of paste which, when measured against a petal in the small cutter, fits well inside it. Elongate the ball slightly.
Brush a line of glue along the length of the paste just above the centre. Fold in half lengthwise and brush another line of glue along the bottom edge. Roll up around the ball, starting the roll as tightly as possible. Take the second small piece and repeat the process. Repeat with the two larger pieces. This will give you a reasonably large peony, but you may add more pieces until you have the size required. Leave to dry.
We have a full range of Sugarpaste ready to roll icing available from our Sugarbliss Cake Decorating Shop, Knowle, Solihull west midlands. We stock all the range of colours in 250g and white sugarpaste & celebration sugarpaste in 500g, 1kg, 2.5kg and 5kg.
Whether you are creating a wedding cake or birthday cake Renshaw sugarpaste is of a perfect quality for you to create a flawless finish. With the new Wedding Cake trend of Marbled Wedding Cakes, Renshaw Icing is excellent for producing different marbled colour effect to match the grooms and brides decor. Adding some gold leaf or silver leaf to a marbled effect wedding cake adds another dimension to these fantastic and popular cake designs.
At Sugarbliss Cake Company we offer a professional wedding cake design service for us to create your perfect marbled wedding cake design. Our wedding cakes are available in various different sizes and heights and of course are delicious selection of flavours for you to choose from.
Gluten Free Wedding Cakes & Eggless Wedding Cakes By Sugarbliss Solihull.
Our gluten free wedding cakes and birthday cakes can be created in many different shapes, flavours and sizes to reflect you stunning wedding cake or birthday cake design.
We have a fantastic selection of mouth watering cake flavours and fillings to choose from, so if you are looking for a special cake flavour, whether an eggless wedding cake, gluten free birthday cake or diary free cupcakes we are sure at Sugarbliss Cake Company we will be able to create the perfect cake for you.
Available from our sugarbliss cake decorating supplies shop, Knowle, Solihull is our selection of cake mixes for you to simply create your very own delicious cake. We oiffer, vanilla sponge, chocolate, red velvet and eggless cake mix in 500g gfor you to bake your very own cake mastepiece. Ideal for wedding cakes, birthday cakes, cupcakes or celebration cakes, these easy to use mixes truely make cake baking a breeze.


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Bronx buildings need rehab, once again
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A handful of crumbling buildings on Kelly Street in the South Bronx are once again in need of rehabilitation. For Harry De Rienzo, the broken windows, moldy rooms and halls filled with garbage are reminiscent of what the buildings looked like close to 35 years ago when he organized the Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association, which renovated three buildings on the street and started his career in providing housing for poor and working people. Now, De Rienzo is back again, trying to save 920 Kelly Street and four neighboring buildings, which are considered among the city's worst, with more than 2,000 housing code violations between them, according to the New York Times.
De Rienzo and others worry that the buildings' state of disrepair may be a sign of trouble for the South Bronx and beyond. These buildings were once passed back and forth among landlords and banks. However, since the housing bust, the properties have fallen into financial limbo, with many owners unable to pay for the mortgage or repairs. While city records identify John Abraham as the owner of the buildings, no deed can be found in his name. Ridgewood Savings Bank holds a $5 million mortgage on the buildings and has started foreclosure proceedings. De Rienzo said he would try to force the bank to either repair the buildings or assign ownership to his community group. The city, which continues to make repairs, is now in discussion with Banana Kelly to see if the group can take over the buildings and coordinate the loan and repair programs. [NYT]
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USCIS Extends Relief Measures for Filipino Typhoon Victims
WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds those affected by Typhoon Haiyan, which struck the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013, of agency efforts to provide relief to victims of the typhoon.
Filipino nationals in the United States should visit www.uscis.gov to learn about a series of existing relief measures that may be available to them if requested. These relief measures include:
A change or extension of nonimmigrant status for an individual currently in the United States, even when the request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired;
An extension of certain grants of parole made by USCIS;
An extension of certain grants of advance parole, and expedited processing of advance parole requests;
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In addition, USCIS has proactively identified and is expediting pending I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, forms that have been filed by U.S. citizens for their Filipino immediate relatives. Our standard security checks remain in place.
Form I-130 petitioners may check their case status online at www.uscis.gov or contact the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283 or 1-800-767-1833 (TDD assistance). In addition, a petitioner can sign up to receive automatic case status updates by email as the case is processed. If a Form I-130 petitioner receives a request for evidence or any other type of communication from USCIS, the petitioner's response must be addressed to the same USCIS Service Center which sent the notice.
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In the wake of the successful ouster of Hosni Mubarak by an unprecedented and, until recently, unthinkable uprising of the Egyptian people, many observers have failed to notice a peculiar feature of the coverage of these events in the American media. News organizations reporting on Egypt in the last two and half weeks have repeatedly raised the specter of the Muslim Brotherhood taking over the government in the absence of an organized secular opposition. At the same time, most have been at pains to point out that the protests for reform represent a granular, grassroots movement, largely "secular" in its orientation. The narrative hook of the story is therefore the danger of a secular movement being taken over by more fundamentalist Muslims if the transition is not orderly, or if it is managed incorrectly. The problem with this story, of course, is that the vast majority of Egyptians, those in Tahrir Square and elsewhere, would not describe themselves as secular in any meaningful sense. There are so-called secularists among them, and certainly also many Coptic Christians, but most are pious Muslims. Polling data by Pew Research and other organizations has consistently shown that Muslims in Egypt support the idea that Islam be a guiding concern for any government in their country. Such data has also consistently shown that they support democracy, freedom, and human rights. This combination has confounded most Western observers. So they fall back to the comforting dualism between religious commitment and secular reason when describing events that happen in the Muslim world. If the Muslim Brotherhood represents Muslim politics, then protesters must represent secular politics. It is a simple dualism, and it is also simply wrong.
Underlying the continuing utility of this trope is the presumption that Muslims as political actors face a stark choice. Secular, liberal democracy vs. Islamist, religious theocracy. There is no middle ground. It is for this reason that the AKP in Turkey continues to be called "mildly Islamist" by The Economist and other publications, while the GOP (which in many ways is far more Christian than the AKP is Islamic) needs no such qualifier. It is this same trope that Hosni Mubarak has used to great effect over the last three decades to justify his repressive regime to his friends in the West. In fact, when James Clapper, the Director of National intelligence, recently tried to make the case to Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood had disavowed violence for participation in democratic politics, he could find no other language to describe it except to call the group "largely secular"! Although he was immediately assailed by folks from the left and the right for this supposed faux pas, he was only giving voice to the internal contradiction built into the dualistic trope through which the West continues to miscomprehend both Islam and Muslims. Recent events in Egypt and elsewhere are unequivocal signs that Muslims will no longer be held hostage to this artificial and corrupt dualism. They are democratic and Muslim. Deal with it.
For a whole host of reasons, it is important that we recognize the people who carried out this magnificent and peaceful revolution as Muslim. In the last ten years, we have been subjected to a constant barrage of villains from the Muslim world. If we are going to call the terrorists Muslim, and the radicals Muslim, and the fundamentalists Muslim, then why not the heroic men, women, and children who have braved the threat of violence for the last two and half weeks to fight for their rights? By calling them "secular" protesters, we diminish the value of their sacrifices. More, we fail to understand the true nature of what is happening in Egypt. Muslims are rising up against an oppressive regime, in the absence of any organized secular opposition. And they are doing this without any notable assistance from the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. There is no communist party in Egypt. No great secular hero like Mustafa Kamal Ataturk. No liberal stalwart to educate the population about their universal rights as human beings. In between shouting for their economic and political freedoms, Egyptians prayed in the streets. According to numerous news reports, they constantly chanted "jihad" in the original, authentic meaning of the term, struggle against injustice and suffering in this world. And they demanded a voice in the affairs of the state, or, as Mr. Obama put it, an opportunity to control their own destiny. This they did as Egyptians. But also as Muslims. But we choose not to see the truly profound statement that was made here—that Muslims are different from those in the West, and yet not so different after all. Both at the same time. Not one or the other. Revolutions have a wonderful way of clarifying that which is obscure. Let us hope that this one has put to rest, once and for all, the myth of Muslim obscurantism.
Images of men praying in Tahrir Square and of hijab clad women crying out for change have a far more profound meaning than has been acknowledged by the Western media. Other than demanding the fall of the Mubarak regime, Muslims in Egypt today are also challenging the false and restrictive choice between secularism and Islamism. What is happening in Egypt is a Muslim revolution, not an Islamic revolution, or a Secular revolution. We in the West would do well to acknowledge that.
Khurram Hussain is a doctoral student in the Religious Studies Department at Yale University, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Islamic Studies at Lehigh University, and a guest contributor to here & there.
Khurram Hussain is a doctoral student in the Religious Studies Department at Yale University and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Islamic Studies at Lehigh University. His dissertation, titled "Islam as Critique," focuses on the theology of nineteenth-century Indian Muslim reformer Sayyid Ahmad Khan as a mediatory discourse between Western modernity and traditional Islam by putting Khan in conversation with the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, Hannah Arendt, and Alastair MacIntyre.
Good point! Though I would go further and call it, not a Muslim revolution, but an Egyptian revolution in Egypt, encompassing all the emotional, spiritual and intellectual diversity, and contradiction, that goes into a people's notion of statehood, including their religion.


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Kenya Red Cross tackles urban climate-risk - in all its forms
19/03/2013 - by the Climate Centre
Water shortages, disease, crime, rising food prices, house fires, uncontrolled urbanization (migration from rural areas): these are all potential risks faced by people who live in Nairobi's "informal settlements" - its slums - amid the hotter, wetter conditions predicted by most climate models.
Not all are obvious, and little has been written about the effects of climate change on sprawling urban and peri-urban areas in East Africa.
Take house fires. In Nairobi neighbourhoods like Mukuru Kwa Njenga, Blue Estate, and Mathare, people illegally wire up their mabati (corrugated iron) homes to mains cables; when it rains, the resistance of the grounding point changes and the result can be short circuits and fires.
Extreme heat is also associated with fires spreading more easily; when it's cold, fires are started in accidents with space heaters.
Or crime. The din of torrential rain on iron roofs provides thieves with ideal cover, residents say. Neighbours can't hear cries for help, they add, and people are reluctant to go out into the rain to investigate.
But most residents agree on one thing: fires have decreased since 2010 due to the work of the Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS).
'Multi-hazard approach'
With support from the Danish Red Cross (DRC), the KRCS is implementing a two-year "urban risk reduction" (URR) project in seven informal settlements in Nairobi.
The KRCS uses a "multi-hazard approach" to tackle disease, including HIV, prevent fires, and promote public health, first-aid training, and structural improvements to homes.
As part of this project, the DRC and the Climate Centre conducted a detailed climate assessment in all the project sites, to develop tailored recommendations for adaptation measures it can incorporate.
"Climate change is expected to increase the probability and frequency of heavy rainfall events and warmer temperatures," writes Erin Coughlan, the report author and a Climate Centre specialist.
"A number of long-term interventions can be taken by community members to reduce their risk of disaster.
"In addition, the establishment of an early-warning system for rainfall, and possibly also flash floods, would enable community members to avoid the worst consequences."
The Kibera slum in Nairobi - the Kenyan capital's largest. The Kenyan Red Cross, with Danish Red Cross support, is working on a two-year programme to address the urban hazards potentially being aggravated by climate change. (Photo: IFRC)


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Police break up party with over 300 people and live DJ set in country park
A pub was also shut down for hosting a beer festival
Anna LewisSenior Reporter
Police were called to Brixworth Country Park (Image: Google)
Up to 300 people gathered in a Northamptonshire park to listen to a live DJ last night.
Police put a stop to the live music event in Brixworth Country Park on the first night pubs and restaurants were allowed to open in the county.
Members of the public were peacefully moved on by 11.30pm within an hour of police arriving, the force said.
Across the night, officers investigated a number of reports of potential illegal raves and music events across the county and shut down a car cruising event that had been planned.
A pub in east Northamptonshire was also shut down at 9.30pm for breaking social distancing rules after it was discovered to have a beer festival in the back garden. On the whole, however, Northamptonshire Police reported an "overall good compliance" with the new rules on so-called Super Saturday.
The Wellingborough pub that has no choice but to stay closed while others open
Northamptonshire pubs stay closed or quiet on Super Saturday as Wetherspoons also fails to draw a crowd
Assistant Cheif Constable Simon Blatchly, Gold Commander for Op Talla, said: "I'd like to thank the many pub, bars and restaurants which, in the overwhelming majority of cases complied with the regulations and ensured customers had an enjoyable, but safe night.
"Northamptonshire Police had a well-planned operation for what we understood might be a potentially difficult evening, but footfall overall was low and some venues chose to either stay shut or close early to minimise the risk of any disorder.
"Some excellent proactive policing ensured we minimised the potential disruption caused by illegal music and car cruising events. This was an important first step and we'll continue to monitor the situation closely, but I'd like to thank everyone for their co-operation as well as the many officers out and about keeping the public safe last night."
In London photos of crowds swarming the streets of Soho on Saturday night have been widely criticised.
Pictures shared from the capital have been received with dismay by many after showing people flouting the "one metre plus" rule, with few people wearing face masks.
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Northamptonshire NewsIt is in a bid to measure whether employees are more productive with longer weekends


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The Mutants
Posted on June 11, 2018 by Roger Pocock
There are a few Doctor Who stories that I can't help but love, although I know they are sub-par when I look at them analytically. I suppose that comes down to style over substance, or actors transcending the material they are given. Likewise, there are a handful of stories that have everything going for them, but I just can't get enthusiastic about them, and The Mutants is one of those.
On paper it has the makings of something very interesting. This is one of those where Doctor Who tackles a big theme. At the time this was made there was the apartheid regime in South Africa, and it was all over the news. The regime was nothing new, stretching back to 1948, but things were getting worse with forced resettlement to group areas and the early days of resistance to the regime with the growth of the Black Consciousness Movement. And here is where The Mutants comes in, a story about cruel, racist colonialism. The Marshal goes off hunting the mutants for sport, and bandies around the insult "mutt". In the original scripts this was "munt", a term of racist abuse from South Africa dating from the 1940s, based on the Zulu word for a person "umuntu". It was changed because for a Western audience it sounds too close to a blending of the "m" from "mutant" with a very strong swear word, but the compromise chosen is a clear reference while also working cleverly within the storyline about mutants.
This is strong stuff from Bob Baker and Dave Martin. A plot with the message that divisive colonialism is bad might seem like preaching the obvious, but in the UK we were far from having political unity on the issue of South Africa, and would still be a long way from that point for over a decade. And part of the problem with The Mutants is that Baker and Martin are perhaps too careful to avoid being open with their politics within the story, shutting down any possible opposing interpretation by quite clearly making the Marshal a monster of a man. So the message gets somewhat lost in amongst a story of somebody who is pure evil from beginning to end, not just treating the native people of the planet with contempt, but happy to kill his own people and commit genocide. The writers also hedge their bets with a scientist who is a Nazi parallel, and Ky who is a Christ figure, ascending to an angelic being of light. Ky is almost certainly a reference to the Greek letter Χ (chi) as in Χρ (used to represent Christ). So the waters are muddied with two alternative interpretations of oppression throughout history: the Nazi oppression of minorities, and the oppression of early Christianity. Then we have a theme that pops up from time to time in Doctor Who: ugly doesn't equal evil. It all fits together seamlessly, and that's an amazing achievement in itself, but it does feel like a bit of an exercise of dodging the critic bullet by hiding a political message in plain sight. And if you are going to go big on what at the time was left-wing politics, it would be at least helpful not to write a story that excludes female characters entirely, with the exception of the one you have no choice but to include.
The fact that I have got this far without even mentioning the ecological issue of mankind affecting the natural life cycle of the inhabitants of a planet shows how much is going on here. All the issues are tackled within a story that has some real depth and beauty to it. We also have Stubbs and Cotton to provide some much-needed humanity. But yet again the Pertwee era stumbles when it comes to how to handle the Doctor himself. Despite being exiled by the Time Lords for interfering, they send him to interfere. The distinction has been made that they are putting things back on track so that's fine, but it's not, because that's what the Doctor generally tries to do anyway. And the way they use him is as a bizarre sort of postman with a relatively useless message, as if they just want to send him on a fool's errand to somewhere dangerous and get him killed off. Then, at the resolution to the story, he stands and watches a murder without comment or any attempt to intervene. The moment is reasonably justified by the murder victim being the Marshal, who is beyond redemption, but what is the Doctor for? If we wouldn't be happy with him killing somebody himself, we should at least be a little troubled by him watching somebody else do it and saying nothing.
But none of that is the reason I can't warm to this story, as I mentioned at the beginning of this article. I referred to style over substance in other Doctor Who stories, and actors transcending the material. This is the opposite. There is substance but little style, and actors who take great material and phone in their performances. The Marshal is a giant ham, there are few likeable characters and most of the ones that are likeable are acted poorly, and the Third Doctor when removed from the coziness of UNIT is lacking in much charm that would, for example, make us want to keep watching just to see Hartnell or Troughton light up the screen. I can't condemn a story that is so interesting, but I would rather Doctor Who combines interesting with fun. RP
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It's possible that I've mentioned that I started watching Doctor Who around 1980 with repeats of Tom Baker's era. One of those, a marvelously eerie gothic story called The Brain of Morbius, opens with this horrible looking creature crawling out of the wreckage of a spaceship only to get beheaded Well, this was one of those magnificent moments where Doctor Who appeared to be a part of a cohesive universe because that creature was encountered before in a Jon Pertwee story called The Mutants. The weird thing about The Mutants is that I have a weird reverse earworm situation going on and it's gone on for ages! Typically an earworm gets a song stuck in your head. Maybe I have an ear bore-worm which dug a hole and dropped the Mutants into it because every time I watch this story, I like it and then promptly forget so much about it as to make it nonexistent in my mind. So this last time I watched with my son, I was determined to find out why I couldn't hold onto more than the CSO for the caves. (CSO, color separation overlay, is like green screen done by a 5 year old, which was once high tech and is now a bit sorry looking, but still has a charm that makes it fun to watch regardless of how far we've come!)
I'm all for science fiction that has a message. Arguably, that's what makes science fiction better than most other genres; you can say things without saying them outright and offending people. For instance, most people probably would not rate Star Trek's Let That Be Your Last Battlefield as a great story, but the idea of using science fiction to drive home a point about the idiocy of racism is an idea I can get behind. Bele (Frank Gorshin) discussing why Lokai (Lou Antonio) is inferior to him because one has black on the right side of his face, while the other is on the left, is using a clever storytelling idea to make an obvious point; namely racism is ignorant. But maybe that's also what worked heavily against The Mutants for me, because we've been there and done that with Trek so many times before and, I hate admitting it, to better effect. The fact is, in this case, Trek got there first! There's a very distinct anti-racism and anti-colonialism sentiment to this story, which is great, but it is also hindered by what so many of Pertwee's stories suffer: it drags on for 6 episodes (coming in around 2.5hours). This, to tell what Trek pulled off in 50 minutes, gets tedious. With so many episodes, there's got to be a lot of filler and it feels that way throughout the episode. Like much of Pertwee's series, having cut the story down to a 4 part tale would probably have made it more palatable.
The thing is, taking it on its own merits, it's a good story. It's a proper sci-fi tale in the middle of an era that is very largely Earth based, so it's refreshing in that regard. On top of that, as a fan of the classic video game Starflight, this episode really meant something to me for another reason. See, in Starflight, there was a race called the Ng-Kher-Arla that every ten days would metamorphose between one of its three distinct races (the Ng, Kher and Arla). Rumor had it that one day out of the year, they'd become all three races at once. I never verified this. Each looked different and had different skills and attitudes. So the idea of a race that goes through multiple transformations is ingenious and having never seen it done on television before made this story even more enjoyable to me. I have a lot of respect for that. Realizing that the mutants are merely a phase in a cycle makes for more great science fiction storytelling and I have a lot of respect for it, but for me, Trek and Starflight came first.
The Mutants suffers because all of those "firsts" came from other places and even the cast really isn't very memorable (with the possible exception of Cotton and Stubbs who make a good double act). So we rely on a story that had been told before in better ways. I think I can safely say I have successfully identified why the bore-worm kept removing The Mutants from my memory banks.
What were we talking about? ML
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The Mutants, like The Tomorrow People, Star Trek TNG's Transfigurations and of course X-MEN, is reflectively more significant today as a story about a coming-out diversity. Namely for what the New Age Movement is calling either Star Seeds, Earth Angels or Indigo Children. There's also of course the breakthrough about accepting autistics or Aspergians as potential diversities rather than mental challenges. Speaking as an Aspergian myself, despite my share of challenges which (as you've all noticed by now) includes occasional grammar errors in my comments), it's comforting enough in an obvious sense that there's always more to us and our world than we know. So regardless of all the noteworthy flaws of The Mutants, it's one of those SF stories that we can simply enjoy for the story. It's a reminder of how universally important we all are, that every action, or even thought or feeling, is an intervention. Even not intervening at all. Therefore taking responsibility for our lives, as Ky's awakening certainly teaches us, is the greatest power of all. Especially against corrupt villains like the Marshal.
It's worth noting that Garrick Hagon who played Ky also played Biggs (Luke Skywalker's old friend and doomed comrade) in Star Trek IV: A New Hope.
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Le groupe est formé en 2005 à Pomona, en Californie. Chacun des membres se rencontrent grâce à des amis en commun. L'idée de former un groupe vient du chanteur Jose Barrales, qui a des antécédents punk hardcore et crossover thrash, influencé par des groupes comme The Blackheads, Cryptic Slaughter, D.R.I. et Black Flag. Il apprécie également le heavy metal, mais ce n'est pas avant qu'un ami lui recommande Exodus que Barrales se met au thrash metal. Le premier album d'Exodus, , influencera profondément Barrales.

Vers 2006, le groupe attire l'intérêt de quelques labels indépendants, mais refuse de s'y associer avant d'être prêt. Après plusieurs concerts et quelques chansons, ils enregistrent l'EP  en août 2007. Comme pour beaucoup de ses contemporains, Bonded by Blood publie l'EP sur MySpace, et attire l'intérêt d'Earache Records, qui signe le groupe en septembre 2007. En fin octobre, Bonded by Blood devient l'un des soutiens d'Exodus à sa tournée mexicaine en trois dates.

Bonded by Blood commence l'enregistrement de son premier album studio, , en janvier 2008 aux J Street studios à Sacramento, en Californie, avec le producteur Michael Rosen. À première vue, les sessions se passent bien, mais une fois terminées Rosen began manipule les chansons à tel point qu'elles conviennent pas aux autres membres. Le groupe décide de réenregistrer l'album au même studio dans lequel a été enregistré l'EP . Earache publie  le 9 mai 2008 au Royaume-Uni, et le 24 juin aux États-Unis. Bonded by Blood soutient l'album avec la tournée . Ils tournent aux États-Unis entre juin et juillet avec Fueled by Fire et Merciless Death et en Europe entre septembre et octobre avec Gama Bomb en tête d'affiche.

Le 8 octobre 2011, ils accueillent Jessie Sanchez (ex-Holy Grail) comme nouveau bassiste.

Membres

Membres actuels
 Carlos Regalado – batterie (depuis 2005)
 Juan Juarez – guitare (depuis 2006)
 Mauro Gonzales – chant (depuis 2010)
 Jessie Sanchez - basse (depuis 2011)

Anciens membres
 Alex Lee – guitare (2005–2011)
 Jose  Barrales – chant (2005–2010)
 Ruben Dominguez – basse (2005–2009)
 Jerry Garcia – basse (2009–2011)

Discographie
 2006 : Four Pints of Blood (démo)
 2007 : Extinguish the Weak (EP)
 2008 : Feed the Beast
 2010 : Exiled to Earth
 2012 : The Aftermath

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Artiste d'Earache Records
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Maybe my answers will help someone else. I didn't have anyone to say these things to me and I wish I had.
Name: Lissa or Jac
County of Residence: Allegheny County, previously Westmoreland County
Pronouns: Lissa: her/hers Jac: him/his
How do you describe your identity? Gender fluid, gray ace, poly, pan romantic, sapio romantic and sexual, bipolar, PTSD
Please describe your coming out experience. Where did you find support? What challenges did you face? My mom was a little dubious when I told her in middle school that I was bisexual. It was a fair way to feel at that time. Everyone was "bisexual" in middle school because we were all trying to figure out who we were. She asked me if I wad certain it wasn't just a phase. I'd known for years that I was interested in boys and girls, but I humored her. I told her I'd come back to her in a few years. That was in 7th grade. In 10th I did just that. I was still interested in both genders and mom accepted that.
My step father didn't know still for a few years, but he didn't react poorly. He still thinks one day I'll find the perfect man and get married and have kids and all that, but he's a man over 60 who doesn't really understand how all this works. My biological father, though supportive of my sexuality, treated all of my partners, boys or girls with suspicion and that was a little rough.
In college I started my first official polyamorous relationship with the woman of my dreams. I think I was more scared to tell my family about being poly than I had been coming out as bi. I hid it for months and that hurt my mom when she found out. She was worried I was getting into something I wasn't ready for. She did calm down, but in retrospect she may have been at least a little right. Now, she loves all my partners like her own children. My step dad is confused, but not unsupportive.
As for my biological father, he was surprisingly the most difficult. He had always been the open-minded parent. Suddenly he was accusing me of being homeless or in a cult. He turned his entire side of the family on my loved ones. They called the love of my life "that girl/woman" until very recently. We've patched things up a bit, but it took moving hundreds of miles away and six months of no contact to get my point across.
How would you describe yourself NOW in terms of "being out"? I don't hide who I am anymore. I don't have the energy to be someone else just because other people are prejudice. I don't flaunt my sexuality or anything. I am who I am. Others are who others are. I don't hide my affections with any of my partners whether at home or in public. There are of course standards for what is and is not acceptable, but that goes for any kind of relationship.
Tell me about the first LGBTQ person whom you met. What impact did they have on your life? The first person I remember knowing wasn't heterosexual was my mom's high school friend. He's a professional pianist and a really good one at that. He's one of the nicest men I've ever met. Now, he didn't come out to anyone for years, but he really didn't have to. His closest friends had guessed it long ago, but everyone was respectful of that and never brought it up so he could approach it at his comfort.
I remember thinking that this man was different from most of the other ones in my life. He was fun and full of life and love. I don't really know how I figured out he was gay. It was something is kind of always known, but didn't originally have a label for. He was a kind, generous man who filled the room with good feelings when he came in. I wanted to be like him.
That's clearly not what "made" me not hetero, but him being such a positive person in my life compared to all the awful people I've had that he made it easier for me to transition into who I am today.
Past or present, favorite LGBTQ character or creator in television, film or literature? Please tell us why. Definitely Holtzman from the new Ghostbusters movie. I know it wasn't outright stated in the movie, but the actions of the character as well as the actress herself showed that she was at least not hetero. She was amazing. Confident, smart, unafraid to be herself. I wish I'd had her as a female role model as a kid. She really helped me gain more confidence even as the world turns against us.
How do you stay informed about LGBTQ issues? Mostly Facebook or Reddit. My family keeps me fairly informed, but I'm often out of the loop due to not having many outside of my house contacts.
Describe your geographical community. Pittsburgh in general seems to have a good community in there. The city is super open. They hold pine of the most popular furry conventions in the country. Most people hear Pittsburgh or Western PA and thru think coal, steel, and conservative thinking. They're not wrong for some areas, but Pittsburgh has changed. It has turned its eye to the future instead of the past. It isn't perfect. No where is. It's better than anywhere else I've been, though.
Describe your local or regional LGBTQ community. I don't know a lot, sadly. I'm just starting to toe the waters of the groups in my area due to my social anxiety, but it's a slow process.
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Have you ever experienced discrimination based on your identity? Specifically, in a job setting, when applying for housing or while in public. I've been very lucky to not have a lot of prejudice aimed at me for my gender or sexuality, but mostly because I'm not a very obvious target. The worst I've experienced happened one my college campus.
There were "preachers" who showed up once or twice a week to scream hateful vitriol at passersby. They had those signs about all the people they say their god hates and condemns to eternal damnation. Muslims, lesbians, people of color in general. Slurs that they wouldn't dare call someone to their face.
Why didn't anyone stop them? The school couldn't tell them not to be there. It was a public university and they had every right to stand on public property. The school was very specific, though. They stayed on the grass, we stayed on the sidewalk, anyone who crossed those lines was asked to leave the area or campus depending on who had broken the rules.
I got a little revenge on them once. A younger man was yelling about how lesbians had just never been with the right man and one day they would be put in their proper place. I was watching the spectacle with one of my lesbian friends. We decided to make the bigot angry by making out in front of him. Now, I was in a relationship at the time, but I was forgiven due to circumstances. That man yelled so loud I think he hurt his throat. It was really gratifying to stand up for my community.
Tell us about your access to health care in Western PA. Has it been LGBTQ competent (or not?) It's not bad. I haven't had great access to health insurance, but I've managed. The doctors I've gone to have been a bit of a mixed bag. Most of them don't say anything either way. Some will give you that disdainful look of people who don't like our kind, but accept that society says they shouldn't say anything. I've not really had anyone try to change me or my life choices.
Are there issues impacting your LGBTQ neighbors that aren't visible or part of the local dialogue? Our community, and our country at large, has faced many issues in the past year. It has been trying and heartbreaking at times. Issues are far more visible these days, but I know there are more still beyond the surface.
What would you like to see elected officials do to improve life for LGBTQ Pennsylvanians? I'd like to see more done about discrimination against the community, but the issue is larger than that. Discrimination of all kinds needs addressed. In this climate of growing turmoil and animosity, all communities must come together. There are more of us than them if we stop fighting each other. Strength through unity.
Please share a lived experience, anecdote or fact about life as an LGBTQ person in your community. Though much of society still looks down on us, we are stronger than their hate and their ignorance. Though you may feel alone and isolated, we are everywhere. Finding others can be hard, but keep looking. We're around. We are strong together. Stronger than we coud ever be alone.
Beyond discrimination, what other barriers create challenges for your LGBTQ neighbors? It's really hard for trans people to get recognized as their gender sometimes and people often make a big deal out of making mistakes. Often the last thing a trans person wants is their friend calling attention to the issue. Politely correct yourself and move forward.
What LGBTQ friendly resources are available for your neighbors? Facebook has been mine recently. I'm bad at finding friends.
What is your greatest fear for the LGBTQ community in Western Pennsylvania? That the conflict ravaging our country's political and social systems will cause many to hide who they are. Fear is a terrible thing that makes people act like animals. Sadly, we're one of many easy targets society turns on when things go wrong. I don't want us to separate through fear, but together through bravery.
What is your greatest hope for the LGBTQ community in Western Pennsylvania? That we can help shape how the future handles people of all walks of life. Be the change you want to see.
What can allies do to support your LGBTQ community? Learn all you can from your loved ones. What kind of misconceptions has society given you? Which ones have permitted our society? Be there for us when the world is mean.
How can gay men and lesbians support the bisexual, transgender and queer members of our community? Remember that we are still part of the same community. Don't look at your bisexual friend and tell them they should just choose already. Can you choose to be attracted to only people of your own gender? It is the same. Sexuality, gender, romanticism, it all comes in a range. The rainbow is made of all the colors, not just a few.
What motivated you to take part in this project? Maybe my answers will help someone else. I didn't have anyone to say these things to me and I wish I had.
Finally, what question should I have asked? Please also share your answer. N/a.
Thank you, Jac.
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After Donald Trump was elected president, many people felt scared — and for good reason. Donald's comments on the campaign trail about Muslims, immigrants, people with disabilities, women and more were not only offensive, but scary because they could translate into discriminatory policy when he's in the White House. His running mate, Mike Pence, has spewed some horribly offensive ideas about people in the LGBTQ community, making this administration threatening for a lot of people.
For people who aren't in one of these marginalized groups, though, it doesn't mean you got lucky. It means you have a responsibility to be an ally. How To Get Away With Murder's Jack Falahee really got it right on Twitter when he laid out his plan to listen to, support and defend his marginalized friends.
"I spent election night with a few of my close friends, glued to the television," Jack wrote. "By the end of the night a friend of mine, who is gay, was sitting on the floor under a table crying. Exhausted by a campaign fueled by bigotry and hate, he couldn't face the reality of the next four years. He had every right to be afraid."
Jack plays a gay man on TV, one who's in a relationship with an HIV-positive man of color. While he's stayed silent on his own sexuality until now, Jack said he finally let his followers know he's straight because he wanted to show them he's an ally.
"In the past I've declined to discuss my own sexuality in an attempt to try and dismantle the closet," Jack wrote. "Now more than ever, I want to offer my support to the community as an ally."
After watching his friends march in the streets, stand up to harassers, and overcome fear and exhaustion to fight, Jack said he's committed to doing the same. His plan is to educate, engage, support, listen and donate - and each of these things is so important.
Oftentimes, allies get it wrong. When supporting a cause that doesn't directly affect you, it's absolutely key that you listen to the marginalized and march alongside them, never in front of them. Jack admits that he will probably screw up the support aspect of his plan, which shows he's aware that he doesn't exactly know how to support people against oppression that doesn't affect him personally. That's why you should always ask what you can do as an ally, listen carefully to the answer, and always, always try to support and raise up the voices of those who are directly affected.
Jack's words are inspiring, but the actions of those he's supporting are even better. If you're looking for ways to support communities jeopardized by this election, take a page from Jack's book.


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Why Ted Simmons should finally get the call to Cooperstown
The wait has gone on far too long. It's time for 'Simba' to take his rightful place among baseball's greats.
Published: 4:54 PM CST November 20, 2019
Updated: 5:04 PM CST November 20, 2019
ST. LOUIS — In a few weeks, baseball can right a wrong that's been an injustice going on 25 years now. A National Baseball Hall of Fame-appointed electorate will have yet another chance to enshrine former Cardinal Ted Simmons in Cooperstown.
The wait has gone on far too long. It's time for 'Simba' to take his place among baseball's greats.
Ted Simmons has come up for Hall of Fame consideration five times. He fell off the BBWAA ballot in 1994 after his first year of eligibility, receiving only 3.7% of the vote.
He's been on multiple 'Era Committee' ballots since 2009, but has never mustered the votes needed for induction. He fell just one vote short of the 12 needed for induction in 2018, when Jack Morris and Alan Trammell found their way into the 'Hall'.
But in 2019, he's getting yet another shot.
The evidence that Simmons should be in Cooperstown is perhaps stronger than any player not already enshrined not named "Rose", "Bonds" or "Clemens".
Watch: Frankly Speaking - Ted Simmons should be in the Hall of Fame
So let's take a look at just why Simmons should finally get that call he's been waiting 25 years for. (And also, you should check out this great breakdown by Fangraphs' Jay Jaffe, who is one of the foremost experts on what it takes to be in the Hall of Fame)
There are currently only 18 catchers in the Hall of Fame. Third basemen are the only position with fewer representatives in Cooperstown (17). Of those 18, very few have better career statistics than Simmons.
Ted Simmons has the second most hits, doubles and RBI of any catcher that has ever played professional baseball.
He has more runs scored, hits, doubles, RBI, walks, a higher career batting average and a higher career OPS than hall of famer Gary Carter in less than 200 more games than the former star for New York and Montreal.
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Simmons has the same exact average and on base percentage as Yogi Berra.
Simmons is also ahead of Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk in just about every statistical category other than home runs, even though Fisk played more games than Simmons.
Ted Simmons has the eleventh highest WAR of any catcher to ever play. Nine of those ahead of him are in Cooperstown. The other player is Joe Mauer.
The numbers are easily there, except for home runs, which might be why Simmons gets overlooked sometimes. He could find the gap with doubles, but didn't quite have the power to be a long ball threat. He's twelfth on the all-time catcher home runs list behind names like Mike Napoli and Brian McCann.
Let's talk about Simmons' defense as well. In St. Louis we talk about Yadier Molina's defensive prowess behind the plate as the main reason he should end up in Cooperstown, so it's only fair to take a look at Simmons' play in the field as well. Fangraphs' Jay Jaffe notes that Simmons' defensive stats rank him as a "basically average" catcher with the glove, and "average or better" when it came to throwing out runners.
Yes, his defense wasn't close to the level of some other elite Hall of Fame inductees behind the plate, but his longevity and impressive stats at the plate more than make up for the fact that he was simply average in the field.
Simmons also played the majority of his career in St. Louis and Milwaukee. He never got the big city notoriety like Carter, Mike Piazza, Fisk or Berra, so his name recognition throughout the country isn't anywhere close to those guys.
Oh yeah, there was also some guy named Johnny Bench who relegated Simmons to "second-fiddle" status among National League catchers in the 70's while he was busy in Cincinnati becoming the greatest catcher of all-time.
An eight-time All-Star, Simmons was a key component on his Cardinals, Brewers and Braves teams. His durability and longevity at baseball's toughest position was almost unmatched. Only Fisk and Ivan Rodriguez played more games behind the plate than "Simba".
It's going to be a tough fight for Simmons in 2019, though.
He's on the Modern Era ballot with Dwight Evans, Steve Garvey, Tommy John, Don Mattingly, Marvin Miller, Thurman Munson, Dale Murphy, Dave Parker and Lou Whitaker.
That's some stiff competition, especially in Whitaker, Murphy and Miller.
The Hall of Fame hasn't yet announced who will comprise the Modern Era electorate this year, but that can be important as well. We just saw former Cardinals (and White Sox) manager Tony La Russa reportedly swing the vote for one of his former players, Harold Baines, on one of these committees to get Baines elected. If Simmons has someone championing his cause, it could go a long way in pushing him over the threshold.
It really should make no difference who comprises the committee, though. Ted Simmons did just about everything he could during his career to prove he was a hall of famer. The fact that he's waited this long remains frankly ridiculous.
On December eighth, all the waiting could turn out to be worth it. The results of the Modern Era vote will be announced live on MLB Network at 7 p.m. central time.
He's already a Cardinals Hall of Famer, but it's past time he gets the national recognition his distinguished career deserves.
Hopefully this is finally 'Simba's' year.
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I know the lot of you really like cool retro arcade games that sport huge, monstrous, ridiculous bosses throughout their span. But thing is almost every kind of game is taking advantage of this feature. And why wouldn't they? Boss fights in their core are overhyped, outrageous gameplay segments that decide your worth and mastery of the game. They get you tense, they make you feel good about yourself, they make you lose your cool and mind over them, as you waste countless hours of button smashing and thinking around the box in the process of overcoming the improbable odds and coming out victorious.
Sometimes, it hurts.
But what does a boss fight consist of? What are the main elements it requires to be classified as such? Usually boss fights take a set of moves previously used by the player as part of the gameplay and make you use them in a different way. For example, in Portal you are taught the incineration mechanism used in the final boss fight by doing so in the earlier game with the Love companion. Additionally, placing the portals to make a turret shoot missiles at itself is also introduced earlier in the game. That's the way the game designer is teaching you the elements/attacks that you will require to execute under different conditions and parameters to accompish your goal(s).
But what about genres that are less action-packed? Can boss fights be equally effective across genres? The answer is simple. If done right, yes. Take the sequel to Monkey Island. Le Chuck's Revenge was published back in 1991 and happens to be a shining example. Initially helping the player construct a basic voodoo doll by categorizing the basic four items it requires into four big differentiated themes, will prove immensely helpful when the player is required to repeat the process towards the game's finale. To me, even if Guybrush is almost immune to Le Chuck's attacks, the mental stress and tension that is built during the introductory scene, helps making this boss battle one of the most memorable and stressing I've ever encountered.
Does it get more soul-tearing than this?
And said tension and story-driven pace is what dictates all boss fights. It's about facing the last obstacle standing in your way in order to advance the story. It's not just solely to prove your mastery of the game's mechanics; these fights drain you both physically and emotionally. It's the confrontation of two diametrically different, yet so alike, paths.
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DualMondays: Press Start To Begin
In Greece we have a saying: "The beginning is the half of everything." I'm not sure this is in fact a proper translation, so please do excuse me in advance, if that's the case. Thing is, it sounds so much more impactful in my native language. This ancient saying by Pythagoras is something I've always kept in mind when I started work on a project. Whatever that may be, it applies for everything, videogame production included.
For some reason lack of composure and motivation - common difficulties that every developer has faced - were always magically transformed into challenges. Challenges that I *had* to overcome. And I knew, thanks to this particular piece of wisdom, that if I could get by the initial hurdles, the best was yet to come. Even when I was designing the boring parts of a game or a program, I knew that all that was needed, was to actually begin work, and then I'd see it through.
Recently, Mark Yohalem, member of Wormwood Studios and writer of Primordia (which I personally coded *cough* self promotion *cough*) wrote a blog post releasing information about Cloudscape. Cloudscape is a now abandoned project and Yohalem wrote a very interesting piece regarding the reasons behind said decision from his point of view. So, with that in mind, I came to solidify my thinking about abandonded projects throughout. It's not about there being enough talent on your team (regardless of team member number), but about whether someone/the team actually creates a portion of the product.
The baby steps of any project shouldn't be exclusively about brainstorming over a wonderful idea. Even though it does help to keep everyone excited and hyped, brainstorming alone doesn't contribute any actual work towards the main goal - which is to deliver a finished product to the market. Endlessly coming up with new, exciting ideas is a common loop in which even the most talented teams have found themselves.
Gradually the initial emotions get toned down and then everything is about creating the silliest, most dysfunctional alpha version of your dream, regardless of its countless faults. It stands to show to everyone in and out of the team, that this is doable. It's a proof of concept, it's a motivational wheel, it's to put it bluntly - the half of everything.
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Game Books From Transylvania to Na Pali
Reading is good for you, you know, and reading about games can be incredibly enjoyable too. Yes, odd, I know, but books about games do not have to be manuals on level or game design. Nor do they have to be about programming. They can be everything from wonderful strolls through alien worlds to exhaustive write-ups on classic series.
They can be just like HardcoreGaming 101 Presents: Castlevania or Escape to Na Pali. Two vastly different books I have really enjoyed reading and have somehow intrigued me enough to replay a game I had mostly forgotten and, well, properly give the Castlevania games a try.
The first of them two books, the first to be released that is, Escape to Na Pali: A Journey to the Unreal was written by Alan Williamson and Kaitlin Tremblay and is a 110 pages long exploration of the first cinematic FPS. It also is a very well written journey through Unreal's planet, history and culture, complete with essays on whimsical architecture, world building and even narrative design. Oh, and some interesting ideas on the fusion of fantasy and sci-fi elements.
Interestingly, I'm fairly certain that Escape to Na Pali can be enjoyed by people who have never heard of Unreal. I've even used it to convince a friend who hasn't played any games in over a decade, that some interesting things can and do happen in our interactive medium.
Surely, the same friend wouldn't be too interested in the book about Castlevania, but, being a huge fan of the detailed articles over at HardcoreGaming 101, I must admit I absolutely loved their Castlevania offering.
Yes, it's aimed at the gaming connoisseur, but it's brilliant, brilliant specialist stuff. It's complete, thoroughly research, exhaustive, lavishly illustrated and up to the usual lovely writing standard of HG101. And it does really cover everything there is to be written about Konami's genre defining classic, including more than a few installments I had never heard of.
Also, I'm out of words and very sleepy.
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Patreons Shout Out The Second
Well, cuddly reader, following an okay-ish summer and an already nasty autumn I'm delighted to announce my return to my humble and beloved Gnome's Lair. Yes, it's been a long time and things have happened, but we'll have time for everything only right after I give another shout out to more of the wonderful souls that have supported my Patreon campaign:
Ofer Rubinstein (twitter): developer of Afternoon Hero who keeps a devlog here and a YouTube channel here.
Ludicrously talented Robb Sherwin (twitter) whose site you can find here and who has created some of the best written interactive fiction this side of the Great Underground Empire.
Talha Kaya; an indie dev who has been creating absolutely bonkers games as part of the (super) Kayabros. Find them on twitter.
The great (and very dear) Erik Zaring of the exquisite Dream Machine. You can follow his handcrafted adventure gaming antics on twitter and facebook.
Also, a great big thanks to Rob, Anatoly, Alan, Francisco, Marcos, Dan, Ivo, Ben, Tim, John, Richard, Kurt, Delyth, Georgios, Dagda and Daniel. You people are just amazing!


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Q: (Why) does having a directive that "calls itself" in a finite ng-repeat lead to a stack overflow from infinite recursion? EDIT: See this plunker for a simplified version of the problem (an sscce).

The following code seems to cause an infinite recursion problem:
statement.directive.html
<textarea></textarea>

<button ng-click='statement.newStatement()'>New Statement</button>
<button ng-click='statement.newSubstatement()'>New Substatement</button>

<statement
  ng-repeat='statement in statement.curr.sections'
  curr='statement'
  parent='statement.curr'>
</statement>

I don't know why though. statement.curr.sections is zero (when I tested it). So wouldn't that directive not get "instantiated/implemented"?

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Doesn't cause any problems.
Wrapping it in an ng-if doesn't fix the problem.

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  <statement
    ng-repeat='statement in statement.curr.sections'
    curr='statement'
    parent='statement.curr'>
  </statement>

Edit: this doesn't work either (but I realize I chose bad variable names).
<textarea></textarea>

<statement
  ng-repeat='item in statementCtrl.curr.sections'>
</statement>

Code on GitHub.

A: I took a look at your github code but it's really confusing. The naming is definitely throwing my brain in circles, so I would start by clarifying that.
For a directive, you should use a prefix so that it's clear you're referencing a directive: ie. myStatements, elStatement, whatever.
For a service and controller, use a suffix: StatementService, StatementController.
What I don't understand:
<button ng-click='statement.newStatement()'>New Statement</button>

What is statement. referring to here? When does this become initialized/binded to the view? Edit: nevermind I see that's the controller.
OK, so you've got the template for the directive, referencing the directive itself...
Hmm, not sure if a directive can have a child directive that is itself. Seems like quite the infinite loop when the template is trying to render. Because even if the next layer/directive doesn't have data, it still needs to bootstrap the directive and its template, so that leads it to load the next directive... and it never finishes.
Seems like an anti-pattern. What is the use case? Are you trying to draw a fractal? lol
In terms of fractals, you need to pass a limit (ie. when a fractal becomes so small you can't see it, there's no longer a point to draw it). So by imposing some limit, you can stop it from infinitely trying to draw.
tl;dr: Even if the data is empty, the child directive is still being initialized/rendered.

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Was hoping to see Brasil vs Germany in the final or in a semifinal, but not with such Germany of course.


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Master of Kinesiology candidate Logan Townsend is representing Laurier at the Ontario Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition April 23, 2015.
Townsend won the Laurier 3MT competition March 19. He received a $1,000 cash prize and the opportunity to present at the provincial 3MT competition, hosted by Western University.
Watch videos of Laurier's winning presentations on YouTube.
Logan's research examines how females respond to high-intensity interval exercise and measures some of the hormones that control how much they eat. His goal is to see whether the hormonal fluctuations associated with the menstrual cycle may partially explain why females seem to have a more difficult time achieving weight loss than males.
"I'm still in shock that I will be representing Laurier at the provincial 3MT competition, but I will do my best to make my school proud!" he said.
Judges for the provincial event at Western include the Tragically Hip's Rob Baker, retired NHL player Eric Lindros, and Sleep Country Canada co-founder and chair Christine Magee.
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The 3MT competition was developed by the University of Queensland in 2008 and soon arrived at other Australian and New Zealand universities, culminating in the first Trans-Tasman competition held in 2010. 3MT has spread internationally to Tokyo, London, Edinburgh, Vienna, Vancouver and now Ontario.


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Which should come first: repeal or replace?
The future of the Affordable Care Act appears to be more like the age-old question: Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Only in this situation, the question is more like: Which comes first – repeal or replace?
Repeal? Or replace? It depends on whom you ask.
The Republicans in Congress seem headed for a full-out repeal of the ACA – or at least on bringing repeal up for a vote fairly soon in the new term. That was the word from House GOP leaders earlier this week.
But repeal would be the easy part. There are enough votes in a Republican-controlled Congress to send a repeal measure to the new president for approval. Voting to do so early in the new term would send a message to voters that Republicans intend to deliver on a promise they proclaimed in every campaign speech made during this most recent election cycle.
After repealing, lawmakers next need to answer the question: With what? That's where things get tricky. Approval of a replacement plan would require Senate Republicans to get some of their Democratic colleagues on board as the GOP does not have the required 60 votes in the Senate to get such a measure passed.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said earlier this week that it's possible Congress could vote on a repeal but put off the date for that repeal to take effect. This would buy time while both parties work out a replacement plan.
Meanwhile, Congress might be well advised to look at a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll that showed Americans are more concerned about the cost of prescription drugs than they are about the health care law itself. Of those polled, 74 percent said they believe the highest health-care priority for Congress and the new president should be improving the affordability of drugs to manage chronic conditions such as HIV, cancer and hepatitis. Only 37 percent said the top priority should be repeal of the ACA.
Americans also are divided on what the next steps should be where the ACA is concerned. Kaiser's poll found that a nearly equal percentage want to repeal the law versus expand it. Nearly one-third of those polled (32 percent) want the law to be repealed while 31 percent want to see it expand. Eighteen percent want to see the law move forwarded as it is and 9 percent want to see the law scaled back.


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