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Pig Feet Souse Is No More Bahamian Than Duff Is
Posted On : May 10, 2019 Published By : The Bahamianologist
The Bahamian staple food dish of pig feet 'souse' is not of native island origin. Souse is, in fact, an old English and continental European, Middle Ages, cooking method. This means that wherever in the New World, Europeans who enjoyed souse landed, they brought their recipe with them. How souse crossed substantial borders, crossing the great divide of the Atlantic Ocean, to become a staple food and cooking method, in the Bahamas, is a pretty direct one. It was an essential food preservation and preparation method, passed down by the British, during slavery.
1882 near Sheffield, England The "Souse" Food Poisoning Affair
The 20 persons suddenly prostrated at Handsworth, Woodhouse, near Sheffield, through eating "souse" prepared by a local butcher, are progressing favourably. An official analysis states that an examination has been made for the presence of an irritant poison with wholly negative results, but the uneaten portion of the "Souse" was in a condition of incipient putrefaction.
(The Jersey Weekly Press and Independent, Saturday Morning, March 18, 1882)
ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "SOUSE"
Souse in modern day Bahamas, is both a verb and a noun. As a verb it describes a method of cooking. As a noun it describes a type of prepared food.
As a noun, "souse" represents boiled meat or fowl dishes. Sheep tongue, chicken, pigeon and of course pig's feet, in which the liquid is seasoned with copious amounts of lime, lemon, pepper, a bay leaf, thyme and salt to taste. The liquid becomes a soup like broth. The broth trstretches the offering of the meat. This was a necessary adaptation of the original European way of serving souse. Turning the traditional "sousing liquid" into a soup, when the Bahamas was a slave colony, made better use of the very little meat that was available for slaves to consume.
Souse, since it's origins in the European Middle Ages, has undergone what some linguists would term "semantic bleaching." Bleaching in terms of language means that part of the original meaning has fallen away over time as it crossed borders and cultures. The word, in new geographic spaces, begins to carve its own path, differentiating itself from original associative words.
Interestingly enough, the words salad, salami, sausage and souse, all originate from the same root word 'salt.'
Salad, a popular ancient Roman dish was originally "salted vegetables" or "vegetables seasoned with brine."
Sausage comes from the Latin word "salsicus" meaning seasoned with salt.
Salami came into English through Italy but is derived from the old Latin "salare" to salt.
Souse, crossed into England from Germany. The German "salz" salt, means to keep food in a liquid such as vinegar. It was originally a kind of "pickling," to preserve meat for later consumption.
RECIPE FOR SOUSED HERRINGS
(The Lancashire Daily Post, Wednesday, December 19, 1934)
SLAVERY'S STRANGE LEGACY
Bahamians today can't trace a lot of things regarding their ancient ancestral history, but they can surely trace their long, perfunctory relationship with food. Before African slavery, Europeans had developed a traditional, almost reverential appreciation for food, largely based on the new ways they had invented to control it. Bitter European winters meant that they had to become really clever in ways of preserving food; especially during their long, cold months.
When Europe stumbled upon the agricultural lushness of the New World, this was a major reason why they fell to their knees in prayer. All year round warmth, to grow as much food as they could possibly want, was all their long prayers suddenly answered.
Once slavery was introduced, food moved from being a gift from god for Europeans in the New World, to becoming a method of control over their slaves.
Food, and our relationship with it, is something little considered in the overall social equation in the Bahamas. Moving into the present day, the legacy of slavery remains in subtle psychosocial ways. For many West Indian slave colonies, like the Bahamas, food serves a perfunctory, functional purpose. Its context within Bahamian negro culture has been almost static due to the hundred and thirty years or so of pronounced post emancipation negro poverty.
Food's present overabundance on the average Bahamian lunch or dinner plate is purposeful. It is meant to fill you. Keep you. Rice and potato and the pigeon pea and some sort of cheap meat, in the Bahamian diet, are truly historical in nature.
Over the past one hundred years or so, Bahamian food also has created its own unintended ends, within the physiological structure of the population. Our food relationship now, some surmise, has moved from functional to adversarial. Traditional food now, as some see it, is almost our physiological enemy.
THE ENGLISH BRING THEIR POTS FOR THE SLAVES TO COOK
When the English began to settle the Bahamas, they brought with them all their traditions and customs, including those related to food. Slaves who worked in the kitchens were taught to cook for their masters in the traditional British way. The same held true for other European slave colonies. On plantations, reared livestock, which represented meat as revenue, as well as plantation food, was the lifeblood of the master's household. Offcuts and the bones were given to slaves, once the master's revenue was ensured and his household had eaten. Favoured slaves ate more and better than field slaves.
For the negro, food was a gift from the master. Food was a weapon. Food was scarce. Food represented competition for the master's favour. For all these reasons, the negro had to learn how to stretch what they got and eat as much as they could, because they never knew when it could be taken away or become scarce.
For runaway slaves, food took on an even more vital role. Food, like a soused pig's foot, had to last a very long time for the slave on the run. It is not too hard to envision a runaway slave boiling a piece of preserved soused pig's foot in an old tin pan, in the jungles of an uncultivated Nassau in 1807. They would sit in the bushes, being as quiet as they possibly could, drinking the salty seasoned souse liquid, in order to keep from starving.
Throughout the archipelago, these were the beginnings of the Bahamian negro's relationship with food. Bahamian culture is borne out of its past. It's past was rooted in violence, social separation, economic poverty, slavery, colonialism, and scarcity of resources like food. There are countless adopted traditions that are used today, for which many have no idea, as to how and why we do the things we do.
PSYCHOSOCIAL LEGACIES – HOW FOOD IS SEEN IN THE MODERN DAY BAHAMAS
In the Bahamas, nobody really looks passionately at a piece of raw chicken, or a leg of lamb or a side of beef or pig, or at the sea creatures we catch, to wonder in their minds for hours, if it had a good life or not. Then go home to agonise over how we we are going to cook it, and whether or not we will do its brief life justice. That is just not in our food history.
Bahamian food history is more pragmatic rather than romantic. It is more functional than esoteric.
Colonisation left a lot of legacies, but a romantic view of food was definitely not one of them. Unlike in so many places in Europe, where for example say Italians, when painstakingly rolling pasta at home, talk about how they harvest the wheat from the fields to roll the fifty different types of pasta, which was in their history. Or say in Scotland, where some can trace the very meat that they eat straight to the deer, and straight to the highland plains it roamed on, and even to the grass it ate at 3:00 o'clock on Wednesday March 8, 2015, just before slaughtering, is nothing short of incredible. It the long view of food.
This just doesn't happen in Bahamian food culture. Romanticism towards food was not a tradition that was passed down by the British. These sorts of traditions were never really part and parcel of the islands' historical relationship with food. Few today in the Bahamas know, or really care where the base ingredients of their prepared food comes from. Present day large scale food imports, coupled with the history of colonialism, slavery and poverty means that attitudes towards food, for the Bahamian, is an interesting one indeed. It's a "belly full, ass glad" kind of a relationship.
FROM BARBADOS, ANOTHER FORMER ENGLISH SLAVE COLONY WHO ALSO HAD SOUSE AS A TRADITIONAL MEAL
(The Ottawa Citizen, Canada, Sunday, April 11, 1999)
TRADITIONAL SOUSE FOR CHRISTMAS IN MEDIEVAL BRITAIN
Europe, before its incursion into the New World, had long perfected many ways of food preservation. From the Middle Ages, food preservation was hugely important, especially for meats and fish.
Middle Ages preservation methods like burial, where meats, grains and even butter was buried in the ground, where to cold damp earth acted as a preservative.
"Parching" was another preservation method used for seeds and grains. Grain was spread over clay and heated by fire from below. This stopped them from sprouting or rotting. Grains and seeds could then be stored for long periods.
Bahamians today talk of "parching the benny" to make benny cake, a sweet desert made from parched benne seeds and copious amounts of sugar.
"The benne seed is derived from the same plant as modern-day sesame seeds, Sesamum indicum. Like many heirloom ingredients from the South, benne has a fraught history. "Benne" is the word African slaves used for the seeds, which were brought on slave ships from West Africa—along with many other crops."
"Benne" seeds, a type of sesame seed.
Benne cake, a Bahamian hard sweet cake.
"Smoking" was another method of preserving meat and fish, which were hung in an enclosed room with a nearby simmering fire.
Then there was salting. "Salting" speeded up the preservation process for flesh food, by drawing out the bodily fluids. This gave some protection against bacteria infection in the food. Meats and fish could be dry preserved in salt or wet preserved in brine in jars. When these salt preserved products were ready to be used, they had to be soaked to get rid of the excessive saltiness.
Well before Christmas in the large manor household, one or more boars or boar-pigs from the domestic herd, were killed, and the head and shoulders put into a pickle of brine or brine and vinegar to make brawn for the festive season. Other parts of the animals were similarly pickled or 'soused,' and served up as 'souse' to the servants and lesser folk.
A short-term method of keeping meat or fish was to cook it, and then lay it in a 'sousing-drink' of salted water with the addition of bran or oatmeal or brewers' grains or whey. It was an excellent way of keeping pigs' offal, which otherwise had to be eaten immediately, or given away.
1867 – THE POISONINGS FROM EATING SOUSE
Pig Souse was once notorious for giving humans food poisoning. Improperly prepared souse, or souse made from a diseased pig, or even souse kept too long, could produce bacteria that was dangerous, even fatal to humans. Before proper animal meat handling laws, food poisoning, was quite common, in England.
(The Sheffield and Rotherham Independent, Saturday June 8, 1867)
1923 Souse Causes Student Strike, Maryland USA.
(The Baltimore Sun, January 23, 1923)
FAMILY POISONED BY SOUSE – Georgia USA 1904
(The Atlanta Constitution, Tuesday, 05 January 1904)
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Earthquake hazard and risk: Explanation of what it means
Every year, millions of earthquakes hit Europe — although the majority are too small to be felt, let alone pose a danger to life or infrastructure. However, according to the European Facilities for Earthquake Hazard and Risk (EFEHR), the larger earthquakes that struck Europe in the 20th century alone accounted for more than 200,000 deaths and more than €250billion (£210billion) in financial losses. While quakes cannot presently be prevented or precisely predicted, hazard and risk models can help develop mitigation measures to reduce their impact when they do strike.
To this end, researchers from EFEHR have today released new quake assessments for Europe — including both an updated earthquake hazard model and the first risk model.
In this setting, hazard refers to the potential for ground tremors in the future, and is calculated based on knowledge about past earthquakes and the local geological conditions.
Risk, meanwhile, considers the estimated economic and humanitarian consequences of these potential quakes — and includes such factors as population density, local social conditions and the vulnerability of the built environment to seismic activity.
In Europe, buildings in active seismic zones must be built or retrofitted to meet the so-called Eurocode 8 standard, which aims to protect human lives, limit damage and ensure that vital civil infrastructures remain operational.
EFEHR said: "The development of these models was a joint effort of seismologists, geologists, and engineers across Europe.
Leading support, they explained, came from members of the Swiss Seismological Service and the Group of Seismology and Geodynamics at ETH Zurich.
"All underlying datasets have been updated and harmonised — a complex undertaking given the vast amount of data and highly diverse tectonic settings in Europe."
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The updated model has also confirmed that the European countries with the highest earthquake hazards are Turkey, Greece, Albania, Italy and Romania — followed by the other Balkan nations.
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In 2001, 16% of people in their 20s were partners in a couple with children, compared with at least 40% of people in this age group in 1976.
More than ever before, the ages of 20 to 29 years are a time of transition. While people legally reach adulthood at 18 years, the years which follow are, increasingly, a time of growing independence. This article compares Australians in their 20s at the start of the new millennium with those who were in the same age group in the mid-1970s and focuses on changes in their demographic characteristics, living arrangements, family life, and participation in education and work. These two groups experienced their 20s 25 years apart, and in many ways their characteristics reflect the different social environments and trends of their times. Most social change occurs slowly, over a period of years or decades. Considering the impacts of such changes on the characteristics of particular population groups can highlight how the nature and needs of society have changed over time.
In 2001, there were 2.6 million Australians aged 20-29 years, accounting for 14% of the population. In comparison, the 2.2 million people in this age group in 1976 made up 17% of the total Australian population. The lower proportion of people in this age group in 2001 reflects population ageing over the period, as fertility continued to decline and the large generation of people born between 1946 and 1965 (known as the baby boomers), continued to age.
The main source countries for Australia's immigration intake varied greatly over the latter half of the 20th century, and our national identity also evolved alongside changing social trends and values. The differing composition of the population in their 20s in 2001 and 1976 reflects this. In 2001, 19% of people aged 20-29 years had been born overseas. The main birthplaces for this group were Asia (42%), Oceania (18% - predominantly from New Zealand) and the United Kingdom and Ireland (14%). In comparison, a larger proportion of people in their 20s in 1976 had been born overseas (22%), in keeping with larger migrant intakes in the 1960s and 1970s than in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1976, 40% of people in their 20s who had been born overseas were born in European countries other than the United Kingdom and Ireland. This reflects the large numbers of displaced people from these countries who resettled in Australia in the two decades following the Second World War (see Australian Social Trends 2001, Coming to Australia).
There was a shift in the religious affiliations of people in their 20s over the 25-year period between 1976 and 2001, consistent with both the secularisation of our society generally and our increasingly multicultural community. The proportion of people aged 20-29 years with no religious affiliation in 2001 (23%) was higher than in 1976 (14%), with people in this age group being the least likely of all age groups to report a religious affiliation (for more information see Australian Social Trends 2004, Religious affiliation and activity). That said, in 2001, the majority of people in this age group regarded themselves as Christian (67%). This compared with 84% of people aged 20-29 years in 1976. Conversely, higher proportions of people in their 20s in 2001 reported an affiliation with Buddhism, Hindu, and Islam than in 1976.
The data presented in this article are mainly drawn from the 1976 and 2001 Censuses of Population and Housing. Overseas visitors have been excluded from the data.
Some definitions and classifications have changed between 1976 and 2001. These changes have been adjusted for in the analysis to enable comparison over time, unless otherwise stated.
Source: ABS 1976 and 2001 Censuses of Population and Housing.
Since the late 1970s there has been an increasing delay in the ages at which young people reach a range of milestones in the life cycle. This delay is very evident when comparing the living arrangements of people in their 20s in 2001 with those in the same age group 25 years earlier. In 2001, the most common living arrangement for people in their 20s was to be living in the parental home - 30% of people in this age group were living with at least one parent. In contrast, 21% of people in this age group were living with at least one parent in 1976. Conversely, while 16% of people aged 20-29 years were partners in couples with children in 2001, 40% of people in this age group were partners in couples with children in 1976, and this was the most common living arrangement for this age group at that time. In both 2001 and 1976, 21% of people in their 20s were living as partners in couples without children, and in both years, 8% of people in this age group were living alone. A higher proportion of people in their 20s in 2001 were living in group households (12% compared with 1%), suggesting a shift towards transitional living arrangements after leaving home but before forming partnerships.
The trend towards marrying later in life (and specifically towards entering a registered marriage) occurred among all ages within the 20-29 year age range. In 2001, nearly all 20 year olds had never been married (97%), with the proportion of people never married decreasing with each successive year of age. Almost half (49%) of 29 year olds in 2001 had never been married. In comparison, 76% of 20 years olds and 13% of 29 years olds in 1976 had never been married. In keeping with this, the median age at first marriage was 29 years for men and 27 years for women in 2001, compared with 24 and 21 years respectively in 1976. (endnote 1) This is partly related to young people being more likely to be studying in 2001 than in 1976 and therefore not in an economic position to marry, but also reflects the trend towards de facto partnerships rather than registered marriages.
The changes in living arrangements described above, as well as changing attitudes towards women and increased access to birth control, post-school education and a greater variety of paid work, had a particular impact on the role of women in their 20s between 1976 and 2001. A woman's 20s are physiologically her prime childbearing years and in 1976, 90% of first births within current relationships were to women aged under 30 years (13% to women aged under 20 years). However, (following on from the lower likelihood of people in their 20s to be partnered or married) women in their 20s in 2001 were less likely to become mothers for the first time than in 1976, instead delaying having children to older ages (or not having children at all). Around half (51%) of first births within current relationships in 2001 were to women in their 20s, compared with 77% in 1976. And in 2001, most of these births were to women in their late 20s, while in 1976 most first births within current relationships were to women between the ages of 22 and 24 years. In 2001, 48% of first births within a current relationship were to women aged 30 years and over, compared with 10% in 1976. (For more information on the trend since the 1970s for women to have children later in life see Australian Social Trends 2001, Older mothers).
(b) and not living with a partner and/or child of their own.
People in their 20s in 1976, were born between 1946-47 and 1955-56, and are among the older members of the baby boom. They grew up over the 1950s and 1960s. Many of their parents were born around the time of the Great Depression, and experienced the Second World War as young adults.
People in their 20s in 2001, were born between 1971-72 and 1980-81, and form part of that generation often referred to as Generation X. In many cases, their parents were among the earlier baby boomers, i.e. the group of people in their 20s in 1976.
Over the 1980s, there was a steady increase in the proportion of students completing school, and while this levelled out over the 1990s, school retention rates remained at higher levels than in the preceding decades (see also Australian Social Trends 2001, Trends in completing school). Further, young people have become more likely to participate in post-school education and to obtain qualifications than in the past (for more information see Australian Social Trends 2005, Multiple qualification holders).
Consistent with this, people in their 20s (and in particular those in their early 20s) in 2001 were more likely to be attending an educational institution than those in the same age group in 1976 (23% compared with 12%). Throughout the 20th century, women's participation in post-school education was lower than men's. However, in 2001, 24% of women aged 20-29 years were attending an educational institution compared with 23% of men in this age group. In 1976, the proportion of women aged 20-29 years attending an educational institution was almost half that of men in the same age group (9% and 16% respectively).
The increased likelihood in 2001, compared with 1976, to be participating in education, occurred for both men and women and for all ages between 20 and 29 years. However, the differences were greatest for people in their early 20s, decreasing with each successive year of age. This suggests that, although there has been an increase in the propensity to return to study in later life, young people going directly onto study after leaving school, or after taking a relatively short break, account for much of the increase in educational participation since the mid-1970s.
Following on from this, more people in their 20s in 2001 had obtained a non-school qualification, than in 1976 (45% compared with 31%). Further, over the 25-year period, the type of qualifications gained changed, reflecting a shift towards higher education and away from vocation education. In 2001, of people in their 20s with a qualification, 36% indicated their highest qualification was a bachelor degree compared with 13% in 1976. And while a certificate was still the most common highest educational qualification obtained among people in their 20s in 2001 (44%), the proportion of people in this age group who indicated this was their highest qualification in 1976 was much higher (67%).
Much of the growth in the proportion of people with Bachelor degrees is related to the increase in the proportion of women in their 20s who held such qualifications. In 2001, 43% of women aged 20-29 years with non-school qualifications indicated their highest qualification was a Bachelor degree, compared with 12% in 1976. For men in their 20s, the corresponding proportions were 30% and 14% respectively. Further, the proportion of women aged 20-29 years who held non-school qualifications was 45% in 2001 compared with 24% in 1976. For men in the same age group, 45% held a non-school qualification in 2001 compared with 38% in 1976.
Over the latter half of the 20th century, people's participation and experiences in the labour force changed, along with the nature of paid work itself. Many of these changes are evident in the differing levels of participation for people in their 20s in 2001 and 1976. The labour force participation for people aged 20-29 years in 2001 was higher than in 1976 (81% and 75% respectively). However, this increase was driven entirely by increased participation for women in this age group over the period (75% in 2001 compared with 57% in 1976). This reflects increasing opportunities for women to participate in a greater variety of paid work, in some cases while studying or raising children, and to delay having children throughout most of their 20s (for more information see Australian Social Trends 2003, Changes in labour force participation across generations). In contrast, participation for men in their 20s was lower in 2001 (87%) than in 1976 (92%), largely reflecting increased participation in education beyond school for people in this age group over the 1980s and 1990s.
For men in their 20s, the reduced likelihood to be participating in the labour force in 2001 compared with 1976 was fairly constant across all ages in this age range, although the difference was largest for men in their early to mid 20s - the ages when educational participation was also highest. For women in their 20s a different picture emerges. The higher participation rates for women in 2001 compared with 1976 are most marked from the age of 23 years onwards. This is consistent with delayed fertility among women in their 20s and a greater propensity to continue to work while raising children in 2001, while women in their 20s in 1976 were more likely to have children and to leave the labour force completely while raising them.
Labour force participation rates in 2001 and 1976 were the most similar for women in their early 20s (within 10 percentage points of one another, compared with differences of over 20 percentage points for women in their late 20s). However, the reasons for and nature of their participation differed. In 2001, women in their early 20s were more likely to be working part-time while studying before moving into full-time work. Those in the same age group in 1976 were more likely to be working full-time before having children in their mid-20s.
In addition to changes in labour force participation over the last three decades of the 20th century, there were changes to the nature of paid work itself, most particularly in relation to the number of hours worked each week and the availability of part-time jobs. Because they were more likely to be participating in education (particularly in their early 20s) or to be combining work and family responsibilities (mainly women in their late 20s), people in their 20s in 2001 were more likely to be working part-time than those in this age group 25 years earlier. This is reflected in average hours worked per week. In 2001, 28% of employed people aged 20-29 years worked less than 35 hours per week on average. In 1976, 11% of employed people in this age group worked less than 35 hours per week.
In addition, employed people in their 20s in 2001 were less likely to work an average of 40 hours per week than their counterparts in 1976 (22% compared with 52%), reflecting a shift away from standard working hours over the period. However, they were more likely to work longer hours on average - 28% of employed people in their 20s worked more than 40 hours a week in 2001, compared with 22% in this age group in 1976 (for more information see Australian Social Trends 2003, Longer working hours).
1 Australian Bureau of Statistics, Marriages collection.
2 ABC Online <www.abc.net.au/archives/timeline/1950s.htm> <www.abc.net.au/archives/timeline/1960s.htm> <www.abc.net.au/ archives/timeline/1970s.htm> <www.abc.net.au/archives/timeline/1980s.htm> <www.Abc.Net.au/archives/timeline/1990s.htm><www.abc.net.au/archives/timeline/2000s.htm> accessed 27 April 2005.


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MANILA, Philippines—Cash remittances reached a five-month high in May as overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) continued to send more money home to their families, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.
The BSP on Monday said cash remittances reached P1.867 billion in May, up 5.3 percent over the same month last year. This was the highest level since December 2012 when OFWs sent home $1.975 billion in cash to the Philippines.
The increase in remittances in May was in line with the government's full-year growth forecast of 5 percent. Remittances are the economy's largest source of foreign exchange income which, apart from fueling domestic demand, ensure the country has enough dollars to cover import needs.
Personal remittances, which include gifts and other products sent home, rose to $2.07 billion, up 6.2 percent from last year.
"Remittances remained robust due to sustained strong demand for skilled Filipino manpower overseas," BSP Governor Amando M. Tetangco Jr. said in a statement.
The BSP cited the latest reports from the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, which showed that one-third of the 431,394 approved job orders since the start of the year had already been processed.
These processed job orders for services, production, professional, technical and related workers were mainly intended for the manpower requirements of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Hong Kong and Qatar.
Tetangco also cited efforts of banks and nonbank remittance service providers to expand their international and domestic market coverage, which has supported the growth of inflows.
Remittances in May brought the five-month total to P8.78 billion, or a growth of 5.6 percent over the same period last year.
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Cocinar Madrid is a project in which ethnography and cooking are brought into play to investigate what is happening in local markets and neighbourhoods. For Idea Camp they propose participatory methodologies related to the act of cooking in order to draw the collective map of biographical and culinary itineraries of people participating at the event. This invitation to cook, in a simple but tasty manner, is the opportunity to tell our personal stories through food, to add ingredients, to unveil those secrets that are only told when we are amongst pots and steam, to get to know each other, by reconstructing personal and collective memories and by inhabiting differently the places we share.


In our last edition, we featured research suggesting chronic back pain may lead to mental health problems including depression, stress and even psychosis. But the reality gets more grim, particularly if you're a senior: Back pain may increase the risk of falling, and when you're older, that can be a serious health issue with serious consequences.
Here's why: According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), more than 1.6 million older U.S. adults visit the ER for a fall-related injury every year. In fact, falls are the No. 1 cause of fractures, hospital admissions for trauma, loss of independence and injury deaths among the elderly population.
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A federal grand jury in New Mexico has indicted five Muslims who allegedly trained children to carry out school massacres on terrorism-related offenses, conspiracy to commit murder and kidnapping.
The five were arrested Aug. 3, 2018, after authorities in a raid found 11 hungry children living in squalid conditions in a remote, makeshift training compound.
The leader, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, is the son of Imam Siraj Wahhaj, a former board member of the Council on American-Islamic Relations who is on record urging a violent overthrow of the "filthy" U.S. government. The elder Wahhaj gave an opening prayer at an event at the Democratic National Convention in 2012, pointed out Matthew Vadum in an column for FrontPage Magazine. The imam also has been called a spiritual adviser to jihad promoter and Bernie Sanders supporter Linda Sarsour. Vadum wrote that the "openly anti-Semitic Sarsour sits on the board of the Women's March organization and openly admits membership in America's largest Marxist group, the Democratic Socialists of America."
The imam has insisted his son's problems with the law amounted to a domestic conflict that has nothing to do with Islam.
The defendants previously were indicted on weapons and conspiracy charges. The new indictment, issued Thursday, alleges "the defendants conspired to provide material support in preparation for violent attacks against federal law enforcement officers and members of the military," said Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers.
"Advancing beliefs through terror and violence has no place in America, and the National Security Division continues to make protecting against terrorism its top priority," he said.
The defendants, along with Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, are Jany Leveille, Hujrah Wahhaj, Subhanah Wahhaj and Lucas Morton. Leveille, Wahhaj's "Islamic wife," is an illegal immigrant from Haiti who also is under investigation by federal immigration authorities for overstaying her non-immigrant visitor visa.
During the raid, authorities found the remains of a 3-year-old disabled boy who later was identified as the son of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj. The indictment accused Wahhaj of kidnapping the boy from his legal wife and transporting him from Georgia to New Mexico.
Leveille allegedly told the children the boy would be resurrected as "Jesus Christ" and would tell the group which government institutions they should target.


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BFC 13: The Time Machine (spoilers Jul 4, 2017 6:09:20 GMT
Post by omega on Jul 4, 2017 6:09:20 GMT
BIG FINISH CLASSICS » 13. THE TIME MACHINE
Imagine a man who defies convention. A man prepared to risk everything to push science to its limits.
Imagine a far distant future where humanity has changed beyond recognition. Where peace may come at a terrible cost, and where violent creatures lurk beneath the surface of the Earth.
Imagine a leap into the unknown, into discovery and adventure.
Imagine a journey in… The Time Machine.
Written By: HG Wells, dramatised by Marc Platt
Directed By: Ken Bentley
Ben Miles (The Time Traveller), Nicholas Rowe (Mr Wells), Anjella Mackintosh (Uweena), Nicholas Asbury (Mr Filby), James Joyce (Mr Pollock), Hywel Morgan (Morlock Leader), Christopher Naylor (Mr Naylor). Other parts played by members of the cast.
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It was constantly playing.
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BFC 13: The Time Machine (spoilers Sept 5, 2017 8:03:01 GMT Wolfie likes this
Post by number13 on Sept 5, 2017 8:03:01 GMT
Tick! Tock! Out now!
The Time Machine is materialising in our download accounts at this very instant of Time.
www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-time-machine-1602
It's worth reading the news story for a short interview with Marc Platt about the adaptation:
www.bigfinish.com/news/v/out-now-hg-wells-the-time-machine
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Post by mark687 on Sept 5, 2017 9:40:56 GMT
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Post by johnhurtdoctor on Sept 6, 2017 9:08:33 GMT
Anyone know why they renamed the character of Weena?
I have a soft spot for the George Pal version, hope this is good too I will be purchasing soon.
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BFC 13: The Time Machine (spoilers Sept 6, 2017 10:26:51 GMT
Post by number13 on Sept 6, 2017 10:26:51 GMT
Sept 6, 2017 9:08:33 GMT johnhurtdoctor said:
So that American listeners who have never actually read the name won't start chortling at every mention of a character who might sound to them (at best) like a small sausage...?
(Serious suggestion. Otherwise why rename a character from a classic novel?)
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Sept 6, 2017 10:26:51 GMT number13 said:
In the Incredible Hulk TV show Bruce Banner was renamed David Banner because the name Bruce was perceived as gay or something like that. People are strange.
And then the PC brigade hit Enid Blyton.
Tempting fate on Skaro.
Post by Wolfie on Sept 7, 2017 4:50:04 GMT
Adaptation by Marc Platt. Nice. I will definitely be getting this next time I sweep through the BF site.
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BFC 13: The Time Machine (spoilers Sept 7, 2017 8:23:12 GMT elkawho, shutupbanks, and 1 more like this
Sept 7, 2017 4:50:04 GMT Wolfie said:
I strongly recommend getting the bundle if possible. This has been a great Wells series by BF full of oustanding performances and every story adapted extremely well by some of BF's top writers.
'The Invisible Man' - Sir John Hurt and a great production.
'The First Men in the Moon' - it's "the quirky one" of the novels, an authentic adaptation plus a twist or two. Wells' science fiction comedy where the ending turns serious.
'The Shape of Things to Come' is my favourite to date, a stunning, creative adaptation of a most unusual novel (originally written as a history textbook from the future.)
'The Island of Dr. Moreau' - Ronald Pickup in a scientific horror story of creation and identity. Some have found it 'slow' but I think it is perfectly done, in keeping with the novel and magnificent sound design. My second favourite so far, just ahead of 'The Invisible Man'.
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Sept 7, 2017 0:07:15 GMT omega said:
There is no "PC brigade".
But anyway, staying ON TOPIC(!) does anyone know why they changed the name of Weena?!?
Post by omega on Sept 7, 2017 21:32:55 GMT
Sept 7, 2017 20:42:08 GMT johnhurtdoctor said:
The extras don't mention it, but then Marc Platt wasn't one of the interviewees so there wasn't anything about adapting the story for audio. Possibly he wasn't in studio for the recording.
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Post by Stevo on Sept 8, 2017 10:35:48 GMT
Well Big Finish know but they haven't said... but I'd genuinely think that number13 is close enough with his theory above.
Sept 8, 2017 10:35:48 GMT Stevo said:
Stupid reason if true. They didn't change it in the 1960s movie which was an American film.
BFC 13: The Time Machine (spoilers Sept 11, 2017 23:57:26 GMT
Post by number13 on Sept 11, 2017 23:57:26 GMT
The short version of my review: I loved it, what a fantastic Wells series this is! I will now wait (fairly) patiently for 'The Martian Invasion of Earth'...
Marc Platt's excellent and very faithful adaptation of H.G. Wells' most famous novel is another terrific entry in this Big Finish series. The original story is exciting and visionary (if also bleak and pessimistic in its outlook for the future of humanity) and this adaptation brings that excitement and vision vividly to life. You don't have to agree with Wells' politics-inspired vision of the future to believe strongly in the world he has imagined; it's a great novel and for any 'Doctor Who' fan this is clearly the mother-lode, the source of inspiration from which our favourite show was born. The journey depicts beauty and skin-crawling horror side-by-side and finally a vision so awesome it sends a shiver through me at every reading - and it did again here.
The (unnamed) Time Traveller makes his fantastic journey alone and returns to tell his friends, specifically his literary friend Mr. Wells (Nicholas Rowe), about his adventures. So the novel is structured as a narrative and the adaptation keeps this structure; there are full-cast moments, some in the future and some as the Traveller talks with his friends, but most of the story is told as a chronicle. This worked perfectly for me, partly because hearing the novel spring to life from the page carries its own excitement and partly because the adaptation of the narrative is excellent and very faithful; where there were small changes and omissions (that I noticed) I thought they all added to the story.
There was one significant addition that I was aware of on first listening, a short scene with a new character (who might very well have been there, unseen, in the novel) which again felt just right and was a very dramatic moment both in itself and for its surprise value. One key moment of discovery is I think shifted forwards to provide the half-time 'cliffhanger' (and it's a good one!) as the Traveller realises with horrified certainty, and slightly earlier than originally, exactly "what foul villainy" happens "under the new moon"...
Ben Miles' superb performance as the Time Traveller matches the brilliance of the novel and the high quality of the adaptation for the whole gripping production. The first half is an excellent story of mystery and discovery in a future world while the second half is better still, an increasingly desperate, exciting and tragic struggle to escape from that world's unforgettable horrors. And then the final vision...
{Spoiler}of the truly cosmic vastness of Time, which comes so unexpectedly after the main adventure,
took my breath away when I first read the novel in my teens - and it still does...
Very highly recommended.
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Post by paz on Sept 14, 2017 15:18:54 GMT
For some reason, I have never been as familiar with The Time Machine as I have with other HG Wells' stories. And so, I had forgotten a lot of this. This is a charming adaption, the highlight being the relationship between The Traveller and Uweena - so much so that I was really dreading the possibility that her fate was not to be good (her calling him 'Better' is very appealing). The central section of this story soon became an adventure tale that concentrated more on conflict and escape than time travel, which, when this well told, is fine with me.
The cast are excellent throughout, with Ben Miles compelling and Anjella Mackintosh charming as Uweena. This might be edging towards my second favourite of these HG Wells adaptions, just behind The Invisible Man. I wonder when we'll be lucky enough to here The Martian Invasion of Earth?
Post by cwm on Sept 16, 2017 15:23:20 GMT
Has anyone received their CD copy of this?
Sept 16, 2017 15:23:20 GMT cwm said:
Yes, a few days after release.
But I only received the email telling me the CDs had been dispatched a couple of days ago - a week after the CDs arrived.
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Post by acousticwolf on Sept 18, 2017 13:50:06 GMT
Just finished this, another cracking tale. It's been years since I read the book and yet this sounded so familiar (so it must be a pretty good adaption). I was completely immersed, which is possibly not a great thing as I'm at work .
Another winner.
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Q: r - Convert output from sf::st_within to vector Im trying to use the sf package in R to see if sf object is within another sf object with the st_within function. My issue is with the output of this function which is sparse geometry binary predicate - sgbp and I need a vector as an output so that I can use the dplyr package afterwards for filtering. Here is a simplified example:
# object 1: I will test if it is inside object 2
df <- data.frame(lon = c(2.5, 3, 3.5), lat = c(2.5, 3, 3.5), var = 1) %>%
st_as_sf(coords = c("lon", "lat"), dim = "XY") %>% st_set_crs(4326) %>%
  summarise(var = sum(var), do_union = F) %>% st_cast("LINESTRING")

# object 2: I will test if it contains object 1
box <- data.frame(lon = c(2, 4, 4, 2, 2), lat = c(2, 2, 4, 4,2), var = 1) %>%
  st_as_sf(coords = c("lon", "lat"), dim = "XY") %>% st_set_crs(4326) %>%
  summarise(var = sum(var), do_union = F) %>% st_cast("POLYGON")

# test 1
df$indicator <- st_within(df$geometry, box$geometry) # gives geometric binary predicate on pairs of sf sets which cannot be used
df <- df %>% filter(indicator == 1)

This gives  Error: Column indicator must be a 1d atomic vector or a list.
I tried solving this problem below:
# test 2
df$indicator <- st_within(df$geometry, box$geometry, sparse = F) %>%
  diag() # gives matrix that I convert with diag() into vector
df <- df %>% filter(indicator == FALSE)

This works, it removes the row that contains TRUE values but the process of making a matrix is very slow for my calculations since my real data contains many observations. Is there a way to make the output of st_within a character vector, or maybe a way to convert sgbp to a character vector compatible with dplyr without making a matrix?

A: Here is how you can get a logical vector from sparse geometry binary predicate:
df$indicator <- st_within(df, box) %>% lengths > 0

or to subset without creating a new variable:
df <- df[st_within(df, box) %>% lengths > 0,]

I cannot test on your large dataset unfortunately but please let me know if it is faster than matrix approach.

A: Instead of using the st_within function directly, try using a spatial join.
Check out the following example how st_joins works
library(sf)
library(tidyverse)

lines <-
data.frame(id=gl(3,2), x=c(-3,2,6,11,7,10), y=c(-1,6,-5,-9,10,5)) %>%
  st_as_sf(coords=c("x","y"), remove=F) %>%
  group_by(id) %>%
  summarise() %>%
  st_cast("LINESTRING")

yta10 <-
    st_point(c(0, 0)) %>%
    st_buffer(dist = 10) %>%
    st_sfc() %>%
    st_sf(yta = "10m")

With a left join all lines are kept, but you can see which of them that are located inside the polygon
lines %>% st_join(yta10, left=TRUE)

An inner join (left = FALSE) only keeps the ones inside
lines %>% st_join(yta10, left=FALSE)

The latter can also be obtained by
lines[yta10,]

A:
The result of is_within is in truth a list column, so you can work your
way out of this by "unlisting" it. Something like this would work:
library(dplyr)
library(sf)

# object 1: I will test if it is inside object 2 - to make this more interesting
# I added a second not-contained line
df <- data.frame(lon = c(2.5, 3, 3.5), lat = c(2.5, 3, 3.5), var = 1) %>%
  st_as_sf(coords = c("lon", "lat"), dim = "XY") %>% st_set_crs(4326) %>%
  summarise(var = sum(var), do_union = F) %>% st_cast("LINESTRING")

df2 <- data.frame(lon = c(4.5, 5, 6), lat = c(4.5, 5, 6), var = 2) %>%
  st_as_sf(coords = c("lon", "lat"), dim = "XY") %>% st_set_crs(4326) %>%
  summarise(var = sum(var), do_union = F) %>% st_cast("LINESTRING")
df3 <- rbind(df, df2)

# object 2: I will test if it contains object 1
box <- data.frame(lon = c(2, 4, 4, 2, 2), lat = c(2, 2, 4, 4,2), var = 1) %>%
  st_as_sf(coords = c("lon", "lat"), dim = "XY") %>% st_set_crs(4326) %>%
  summarise(var = sum(var), do_union = F) %>% st_cast("POLYGON")

plot(df3)
plot(st_geometry(box), add = TRUE)

# see if the lines are within the box and build a data frame with results
is_within <- st_within(df3$geometry, box$geometry) %>%
  lapply(FUN = function(x) data.frame(ind = length(x))) %>%
  bind_rows()

# add the "indicator" to df3
df3 <- dplyr::mutate(df3, indicator = is_within$ind)
df3
#> Simple feature collection with 2 features and 2 fields
#> geometry type:  LINESTRING
#> dimension:      XY
#> bbox:           xmin: 2.5 ymin: 2.5 xmax: 6 ymax: 6
#> epsg (SRID):    4326
#> proj4string:    +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
#>   var indicator                       geometry
#> 1   3         1 LINESTRING (2.5 2.5, 3 3, 3...
#> 2   6         0 LINESTRING (4.5 4.5, 5 5, 6 6)

HTH
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Blog - NASA to gift public a portfolio of software products without any charge.
NASA to gift public a portfolio of software products without any charge.
Washington, DC: On its latest software catalog of 2017-2018, NASA releases the bundle of free software for public. It includes a wide variety of applications which does not include any royalty or copyright issue. "The software catalog is our way of supporting the innovation economy by granting access to tools used by today's top aerospace professionals to entrepreneurs, small businesses, academia and industry," said Steve Jurczyk, Associate Administrator for Nasa's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) in Washington.
Agencies from data processing/storage, business systems, operations, propulsion and aeronautics played a vital role in providing the free software to the public, available in offline as well as online. It includes many of the tools Nasa uses to explore space and broaden our understanding of the universe. One of the programs included in the new Nasa software catalog is LEWICE, developed to help study the effects of ice on an aircraft in flight.
In April 2014, NASA presented his first software catalog to the world which was not totally free to the public and included various other parameters to follow before proceeding to a certain level of its usage. There are a number of software packages which is releasing the first time, accompanied by a plain language description.
"Software has been a critical component of each of Nasa's mission successes and scientific discoveries. In fact, more than 30 percent of all reported NASA innovations are software," said Dan Lockney, NASA's Technology Transfer program executive. "We're pleased to transfer these tools to other sectors and excited at the prospect of seeing them implemented in new and creative ways," Lockney said.


Fifteen of London's fastest-growing female-led tech companies will head to Silicon Valley next month as part of an international trade mission organised by Silicon Valley Comes to the UK (SVC2UK) and the Mayor's International Business Programme (MIBP) – both run out of London & Partners, the Mayor of London's official promotional agency.
The fifteen female entrepreneurs, who lead businesses that are growing at an average of 115 per cent annually, will travel to the Valley on June 19 in a bid to learn from US founders about scaling businesses globally, drum up investment, develop new networks and identify new customers in the Bay area.
Women-led companies are growing rapidly in the UK. According to research by Founders4Schools, businesses led by women added over £3 billion to the UK's economy in the past 12 months. The Women are 'driving force' of UK economy report (March 2017) also revealed that in the UK, 871 companies with a turnover of up to £250 millon are led by women and are growing at a median rate of 28 per cent annually.
The three-day trade mission, which will be led by Rajesh Agrawal, Chairman of London & Partners, Sherry Coutu CBE, Co-Founder and Chair of SVC2UK, and Janet Coyle, Principal Advisor on Growth at London & Partners, will offer female founders the chance to connect with senior-level tech executives, pitch to international investors and meet with potential clients and partners.
Leading high-growth tech companies travelling on the trade mission include property tech platform Settled, which removes the need for an estate agent when selling a home, free app OLIO, which connects users with their neighbours to share surplus food and tackle waste, and online network Raremark, which connects families affected by rare disease.
The companies will be joined on the trade mission by Agrawal, who will be banging the drum for London as a leading destination for foreign investment and as Europe's fastest-growing tech hub.
This is the third time that SVC2UK has led a female founders trade mission to Silicon Valley. Last year, entrepreneurs met with Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook and author of Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
Launched in 2006 by Sherry Coutu, Ellen Levy and Reid Hoffman, SVC2UK is a not-for-profit programme run by London & Partners to promote stronger networks and entrepreneurship between Silicon Valley and the UK.
London & Partners is a not-for-profit public-private partnership, funded by the Mayor of London and our network of commercial partners. For more information, visit www.londonandpartners.com.
Silicon Valley comes to the UK (SVC2UK) is a not-for-profit volunteer-led invitation-only series of events that bring together early stage investors, successful serial entrepreneurs, students and alumni with leading serial entrepreneurs and investors to discuss and debate how and why they have come to create and fund today's most disruptive technologies that aim to change our world.
It was founded eight years ago by Ellen Levy (Investor, Advisor and tech company exec) and co-Chairmen Reid Hoffman (Founder of LinkedIn) and Sherry Coutu CBE (Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor) to support the ecosystem for entrepreneurs in the UK. It is now run out of London & Partners.
The Mayor's International Business Programme (MIBP), is a programme part funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), that aims to support high-growth companies in the life sciences, technology and urban sectors to increase their export success across a range of key markets in Europe, Asia and North America.
The three year programme, led by London & Partners, the Mayor's official promotional agency, in partnership with KPMG, PA Consulting, BDO, Benoy and London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Founders4Schools' mission is to improve the life chances of students by giving them access to inspiring business leaders in their community who help them discover the skills and pathways that will be relevant when they leave education.
It is a free nationwide service that enables teachers to connect with leaders of successful, growing businesses to invite them to visit their schools and inspire their students.


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Landstalker Review (SEGA Genesis Classics)
By: Ben
Have you ever wondered what would happen if Link from Zelda, Locke from Final Fantasy VI, and Indiana Jones let their powers combine into one, ultimate being? No? Well, in case you WERE wondering, that would undoubtedly result in Nigel from Landstalker. The SEGA Genesis may not be the first console that comes to mind when you think of RPGs, but it was home to quite a few outside of just the Phantasy Star Series, with Landstalker being just one example. An isometric action adventure RPG platformer *takes a deep breath* is certainly not something you see every day, especially back in those days. But simply being unique will only carry a game so far, so let's see how it holds up to some scrutiny, shall we?
Nigel is a seasoned thief, but perhaps he prefers the term "treasure hunter", that has just finished his most recent endeavor to amass riches. But before he can even take a break, a fairy by the name of Friday bumps into him and desperately requests help in escaping some thieves that are hot on her trail. These thieves are chasing her because they believe that she knows the whereabouts of King Nole's treasure, a trove of legendary proportions. Of course, being the thief-um, treasure hunter he is, Nigel doesn't hesitate in helping her make an escape so that he just might find the treasure himself. And thus, the adventure begins…
Seeing as Nigel could pass as Link's SEGA counterpart and the prominence of treasure hunting thus far, it is reasonable to assume that Landstalker would have its fair share of puzzles, and it certainly does. You'll be diving into lots of dungeons filled with equal parts treasure and traps, but the latter is not the only thing that might serve as a gateway to your demise.
Landstalker requires you to utilize a diagonally-exclusive movement system, and this might be the most difficult part for some players. I remember this being the hardest part of the game as a child simply because it was so different than anything I had really played before it. Upon revisiting the game for this review, however, I've found the movement scheme to be much less frustrating than my recollections might have suggested before. I had no real issues with movement and positioning with a Pro Controller, but that is NOT to say that frustration doesn't occasionally flare up when precise platforming is required. Also, it could very well be a nightmare to play with standard joycons, but I cannot say for sure either way.
Due to the isometric nature of the game, platforming can also be particularly deadly or, at the very least, downright frustrating at times. It is not uncommon to misjudge jumps which end up costing you health and/or time, and there are many cases where a moving platform may look like it is oriented one way when it actually isn't (after finding out the hard way, of course). This is primarily due to a lack of shadows, making the movement in a pseudo-3D plane quite difficult at times.
The bane of my platforming existence has to be the timed puzzles though. Many times you will flip a switch and only have a limited amount of time to outmaneuver a puzzle and reach another switch (or open door) before having to start over. A lot of these timed events leave no room whatsoever for mistakes, so expect to have to try them over and over again. If you want to take the easy way out though, SEGA Genesis Classics does offer save states and a handy rewind feature, which will most definitely save you from sprouting a few less gray hairs from the frustration. I do have to give Landstalker credit for easing you into the more difficult pieces of content naturally though, as things start out pretty mild but gradually build up in complexity and difficulty as you go.
Surprisingly, the combat in Landstalker is probably the easiest part of the game. Most enemies only have basic attack patterns, and almost all of them can be exploited with relative ease. The biggest mistake you can make is rushing in and try to eliminate things with aggressive force. I've found it easier to wait for the enemy to make their move, and often you don't have to move or jump around at all. The more calm and calculated approach is especially crucial when facing multiple enemies, as they can easily flank and overwhelm you if you're not careful. However, being patient will reward you by wasting less resources in the long run. All of these tips apply to everything but those blasted skeletons – those guys can die in a fire for all I care.
No game touting the RPG label would be without some form of character progression, and Landstalker does that primarily through equipment upgrades and an item called life stock. Nigel can equip various swords, breastplates, boots, and rings, most of which have unique properties attached to them beyond the obvious upgrade in stat effectiveness. Although some can be purchased in shops, almost all equipment is found out in the world. Life stock is a rare item that grants you additional health, and occasionally boosts your attack power along with it. Purchasing and/or finding life stock when coming to a new area should be your main priority seeing as their benefits help you twofold.
I was fortunate enough to rock a Crystal Castles arcade cabinet as a kid, and ever since then I have had a soft spot for any game sporting a similar 2.5-dimensional look. There's just something about that step in between real 3D graphics and the more vintage 2D approach that is just magical to me. Its design limitations can also spawn some unique and interesting landscapes, structures, and character sprites. In Landstalker, NPCs have seen less love and care in their overall design but Nigel's excellent animations alone more than make up for it.
Landstalker is much more approachable than I remember it being as a child, but is still full of dangers and frustration to those who are up for the challenge. These challenges are primarily due to technical limitations and a lack of hand-holding on the game's part. Of course, having a guide ready at your fingertips and using the previously mentioned rewind feature and save states can make your life a lot easier (if you aren't personally affected by their use). Admittedly, the light use of RPG mechanics and emphasis on Zelda-like gameplay have never been my most favorite kind of game to play, but I will always appreciate Landstalker for its unique take on the genre.
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Welcome to the Hotel Summer Inn. It's captures the romance & beauty of snow lapped mountains and the River Beas. Hotel Summer Inn is located on Naggar Road, near Beas Bridge, about 200 mts. from main main bus stand & main market.
Hotel Summer Inn is havingly elegantly beautifully & luxurious rooms with all modern facilities for a comfortable stay like wall to wall carpeting, attached bath, 24 hrs running hot & cold water, colour t.v. with satellite channels, purified drinking water & valet services. Greet the morning sunlight sitting in the comfort of your rooms.
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Snow peaks, Rugged Slopes and wide valleys offer splendid opportunities, not only for Mountaineering, Rock Climbing & Skiing, but also for Paragliding & River Rafting. It is an ideal place for trekking enthusiasts, and the trekking routes take you to the remotes of the state.
Includes : Bed Tea, breakfast and dinner. Sight Seeing for Rohtang Pass & Local ( By Shared Taxi).
And m.a.p. Meal plan includes -- bed tea , breakfast and dinner for 2 days on pure veg. Fixed menu plan also includes one full day and one half day sight seeing by taxi on sharing basis.