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Q: Call C functions from 64-bit assembly On ubuntu 16.04
$ cat hola.asm

    extern puts
    global main

    section .text
main:
    mov rdi,message
    call puts
    ret

message:
    db  "Hola",0

$ nasm -f elf64 hola.asm
$ gcc hola.o

/usr/bin/ld: hola.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol
  `puts@@GLIBC_2.2.5' can not be used when making a shared object;
  recompile with -fPIC
  /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Use:
$gcc -fPIC hola.o -o hola && ./hola
Hola

The docs:

-fPIC If supported for the target machine, emit position-independent code, suitable for dynamic linking and avoiding any limit on the size
  of the global offset table.  This option makes a difference on
  AArch64, m68k, PowerPC and SPARC.
Position-independent code requires special support, and therefore
  works only on certain machines. When this flag is set, the macros
  "pic" and "PIC" are defined to 2. Position-independent code
  requires special support, and therefore works only on certain
  machines.

The -static option with gcc works:

use -static to completely avoid external calls to dynamic libraries

$nasm -f elf64 -l hola.lst hola.asm && gcc -m64 -static -o hola hola.o && ./hola
Hola

and also:
$nasm -f elf64 hello.asm && gcc -static -o hola hola.o && ./hola Hola

Including wrt ..plt also worked
 global main
    extern puts

    section .text
main:
    mov rdi,message
    call puts wrt ..plt
    ret
message:
    db "Hola", 0

$nasm -f elf64 hola.asm
$gcc -m64 -o hola hola.o && ./hola
Hola

from ..plt description
..plt
      Referring to a procedure name using wrt ..plt causes the linker to build a procedure linkage table entry for the symbol, and the reference gives the address of the PLT entry. You can only use this in contexts which would generate a PC-relative relocation normally (i.e. as the destination for CALL or JMP), since ELF contains no relocation type to refer to PLT entries absolutely.

A: I wrote up this program to do the same as the hi.c program, without the c lib call. Then followed a suggestion to use the -S gcc option on hi.c then to dissect the resulting hi.s program.
$ cat hiasm.asm
section .text
    global _start

_start:

    mov     dl, 5
    mov     esi, msg
    xor     di,di
    xor     al,al
    inc     di
    inc     al
    syscall

    xor     rdi,rdi
    mov al,60
    syscall

msg:    db "Hello"

$ nasm -f elf64 hiasm.asm && ld -m elf_x86_64 hiasm.o -o hiasm && ./hiasm
Hello
$ echo $?
0
So this works fine
again, here's the simple hi.c
$ cat hi.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    puts("Hello");
    return 0;
}

$ gcc -s hi.c && cat hi.s
    .file   "hi.c"
    .section    .rodata
.LC0:
    .string "Hello"
    .text
    .globl  main
    .type   main, @function
main:
.LFB0:
    .cfi_startproc
    pushq   %rbp
    .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16
    .cfi_offset 6, -16
    movq    %rsp, %rbp
    .cfi_def_cfa_register 6
    leaq    .LC0(%rip), %rdi
    call    puts@PLT
    movl    $0, %eax
    popq    %rbp
    .cfi_def_cfa 7, 8
    ret
    .cfi_endproc
.LFE0:
    .size   main, .-main
    .ident  "GCC: (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516"
    .section    .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits

$ gcc hi.s -o hi && ./hi
Hello
The labels .LFB0 and .LFE0 do not appear to be referenced within the .s file
After removing both the file still works as expected,
referencing 'as' assembler docs:
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/index.html

Local symbols are defined and used within the assembler, but they are
  normally not saved in object files. Thus, they are not visible when
  debugging. You may use the `-L' option (see Include Local Symbols) to
  retain the local symbols in the object files.

So as a pure executable with no need for bells and whistles, they can be chopped
So I got rid of the easy ones
Next the function wants to call main, there's not much use for this, so I'll call _start

For ELF targets, the .size directive is used like this:
 .size name , expression

This directive sets the size associated with a symbol name. The size
  in bytes is computed from expression which can make use of label
  arithmetic. This directive is typically used to set the size of
  function symbols.

Don't need function symbol sizes, got rid of the .size at the bottom that references main
$cat hi.s
        .
file    "hi.c"          ##tells 'as' that we are about to start a new logical file
        .section    .rodata     ##assembles the following code into section '.rodata'
    .LC0:                   ##.LC0, .LFB0, .LFE0 are just local labels; symbols that
                    ##  are guaranteed to be unique over the source code
                    ##  that allow the compiler to use names/simple notation
                    ##  to reference sections of code
                    ##But here, only .LC0 is actually referenced in the code

    .string "Hello"         ##
    .text
    .globl  _start
_start:
    .cfi_startproc          ##used at the beginning of each function that should have an
                    ##entry in .eh_frame. It initializes some internal data
                    ##structures. Don't forget to close by .cfi_endproc
    pushq   %rbp            ##push base pointer onto stack

    .cfi_def_cfa_offset 16      ##modifies a rule for computing CFA. Register remains the
                    ##same, but offset is new. Note that it is the absolute
                    ##offset that will be added to a defined register to
                    ##compute CFA address
    .cfi_offset 6, -16
    movq    %rsp, %rbp
    .cfi_def_cfa_register 6
    leaq    .LC0(%rip), %rdi
    call    puts@PLT
    movl    $0, %eax
    popq    %rbp
    .cfi_def_cfa 7, 8
    ret
    .cfi_endproc            ##close of .cfi_startproc

    .ident  "GCC: (Debian 6.3.0-18) 6.3.0 20170516"
    .section    .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits

Trying that:
$ gcc -o hi hi.s
/tmp/ccLxG1jh.o: In function `_start':
hi.c:(.text+0x0): multiple definition of `_start'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o:(.text+0x0): first defined here
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

$ ldd hi
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffb6569000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe7456e7000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000055edc8bc8000)

It's definitely using libc, which explains our multiple definitions of _start
So I'll try getting rid of std lib with the -nostdlib gcc option
$ gcc -nostdlib -o hi hi.s
/tmp/ccV5QYaT.o: In function `_start':
hi.c:(.text+0xc): undefined reference to puts'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Right, still need C for puts, getting rid of puts
.file   "hi.c"          ##tells 'as' that we are about to start a new logical file
.section    .rodata     ##assembles the following code into section '.rodata'
.LC0:                   ##.LC0, .LFB0, .LFE0 are just local labels; symbols that
                    ##  are guaranteed to be unique over the source code
                    ##  that allow the compiler to use names/simple notation
                    ##  to reference sections of code
                ##But here, only .LC0 is actually referenced in the code

.string "Hello"         ##
.text
.globl  _start
_start:
    .cfi_startproc          ##used at the beginning of each function that should have an
                    ##entry in .eh_frame. It initializes some internal data
                    ##structures. Don't forget to close by .cfi_endproc
    pushq   %rbp            ##push base pointer onto stack

.cfi_def_cfa_offset 16      ##modifies a rule for computing CFA. Register remains the
                ##same, but offset is new. Note that it is the absolute
                ##offset that will be added to a defined register to
                ##compute CFA address
.cfi_offset 6, -16
movq    %rsp, %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa_register 6
leaq    .LC0(%rip), %rsi     ##this reg value and others were changed for write call
movq    $1, %rax
movq    $1, %rdi
movq    $5, %rdx
syscall

movl    $0, %eax
popq    %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa 7, 8
ret
.cfi_endproc            ##close of .cfi_startproc

$ gcc -nostdlib -o hi.s && ./hi
HelloSegmentation fault
Promising
.file   "hi.c"          ##tells 'as' that we are about to start a new logical file
.section    .rodata     ##assembles the following code into section '.rodata'
.LC0:                   ##.LC0, .LFB0, .LFE0 are just local labels; symbols that
                    ##  are guaranteed to be unique over the source code
                    ##  that allow the compiler to use names/simple notation
                    ##  to reference sections of code
                    ##But here, only .LC0 is actually referenced in the code

.string "Hello"
.text
.globl  _start
_start:
    .cfi_startproc          ##used at the beginning of each function that should have an
                    ##entry in .eh_frame. It initializes some internal data
                    ##structures. Don't forget to close by .cfi_endproc

##deleted the base pointer push and pops from stack, don't need stack

.cfi_def_cfa_offset 16      ##modifies a rule for computing CFA. Register remains the
                ##same, but offset is new. Note that it is the absolute
                ##offset that will be added to a defined register to
                ##compute CFA address
.cfi_offset 6, -16
movq    %rsp, %rbp
.cfi_def_cfa_register 6
leaq    .LC0(%rip), %rsi
movq    $1, %rax
movq    $1, %rdi
movq    $5, %rdx
syscall

xor %rdi,%rdi
mov $60, %rax
.cfi_def_cfa 7, 8
syscall
.cfi_endproc            ##close of .cfi_startproc

$ gcc -g -nostdlib -o hi hi.s && ./hi
Hello
Got it!
Trying to figure out what a CFA is
http://dwarfstd.org/doc/DWARF4.pdf
Section 6.4

An area of memory that is allocated on a  stack called a "call frame."
  The call frame is  identified by an address on the  stack. We refer to
  this  address as the Canonical Frame  Address or CFA. Typically, the
  CFA is defined  to be the value of th e stack pointer at the  call
  site in the previous frame (which may be  different from its value on
  entry to the  current frame)

So then all .cfi_def_cfa_offset, .cfi_offset and .cfi_def_cfa_register are doing is computing,
    and manipulating the stack. But this program doesn't need the stack at all, so might as well delete that too
$ cat hi.s
.file   "hi.c"          ##tells 'as' that we are about to start a new logical file
    .section    .rodata     ##assembles the following code into section '.rodata'
.LC0:                   ##.LC0, .LFB0, .LFE0 are just local labels; symbols that
                    ##  are guaranteed to be unique over the source code
                    ##  that allow the compiler to use names/simple notation
                    ##  to reference sections of code
                    ##But here, only .LC0 is actually referenced in the code

.string "Hello"
.text

.globl  _start
_start:
    .cfi_startproc          ##used at the beginning of each function that should have an
                    ##entry in .eh_frame. It initializes some internal data
                    ##structures. Don't forget to close by .cfi_endproc
    leaq    .LC0(%rip), %rsi
    movq    $1, %rax
    movq    $1, %rdi
    movq    $5, %rdx
    syscall

xor %rdi,%rdi
mov $60, %rax
syscall
.cfi_endproc            ##close of .cfi_startproc

.cfi_startproc :

Used at the beginning of each function that should have an entry in
  the .eh_frame

What is eh_frame
"When using languages that support exceptions, such as C++, additional information must be provided to the runtime environment that describes the call frames that much be unwound during the processing of an exception. This information is contained in the special sections .eh_frame and .eh_framehdr."
Don't need exception handling, not using C++
$ cat hi.s
.section    .rodata
.LC0:

.string "Hello"

.text
.globl  _start
_start:
    leaq    .LC0(%rip), %rsi
    movq    $1, %rax
    movq    $1, %rdi
    movq    $5, %rdx
    syscall

xor %rdi,%rdi
mov $60, %rax
syscall

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Don Rockey reported preliminary data from a study of an antifibrotic drug at the DDW conference.
Despite improvements in response rates for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, many patients will not respond to standard therapy or have contraindications. Given the complications of HCV are due to fibrosis and ultimately portal hypertension, an alternative strategy would be to target fibrosis. We previously found that interferon-gamma has potent anti-fibrotic effects on stellate cells. Thus, the aim of this study was to determine the safety and efficacy of interferon gamma-1b in patients with HCV. It is not expected that Interferon-Gamma would decrease HCV viral load, only that it might slow or regress fibrosis, liver disease. An anti-fibrotic drug would be for patients that are unable to achieve an antiviral response to Peginterferon plus ribavirin until more effective treatmemts for HCV are available.
Twenty patients with chronic HCV who failed previous interferon-alfa based regimens or were intolerant to interferon-alfa therapy were enrolled. All patients received 200 mcg of interferon gamma-1b (Actimmune, Intermune, Brisbane, CA) subcutaneously three times weekly for 24 weeks. Patients underwent liver biopsy prior to and at week 24 of treatment. Biopsies were evaluated by a single blinded pathologist using the modified Knodell scoring system of Ishak. Fibrosis was quantitated by morphometric analysis after Sirius Red staining of specimens. The primary endpoint was a reduction of 1(absolute percentile) in fibrosis area by morphometric analysis. The study results showed Interferon-gamma did not change HCV-RNA.
The study population was 75% male and 70% Caucasian. Mean age was 47.9±7.5 years. All were genotype 1. Eighteen of 20 patients completed therapy. One discontinued therapy at week 1 due to constitutional symptoms; one discontinued at week 4 due to an increase in liver enzymes to greater than 2X baseline. No dose reduction was required. No serious adverse events occurred. Liver biopsy results are presented in the table. By morphometric analysis, 6 patients (30%) had a reduction in fibrosis area greater than 1 (absolute %). Just by coincidince or the fact that fibrosis can measurement can be variable in patients these number that showed improvement are not adequate. However, 3 (15%) had greater than 1% increase in fibrosis area.
The authors concluded that Interferon gamma-1b therapy is safe and well tolerated in patients with chronic HCV infection. Although there was no reduction in fibrosis overall, interferon gamma-1b led to a reduction in fibrosis in selected patients. The small sample size, potential for sampling error, and short duration of treatment limit our ability to conclusively comment on efficacy. However, these data provide a basis for further study of interferon gamma-1b in patients with chronic fibrosing liver disease. Supported by a grant from NIDDK. Interferon gamma-1b provided by Intermune.
In speaking with Intermune representatives at this conference they are committed to Interferon Gamma studies and larger studies are in progress. Although the data from this study was not impressive the study is only 24 weeks. In addition, there are other anti-fibrotoc agents in research.


Free advertising options for landlords letting property.
Can landlords really market their property for free?
One of the Property Hawk team recently came across a landlord discussion forum where a landlord had asked which were the best free letting websites? We set out to investigate.
The internet has seen a boom in recent years of property marketing websites; many of these however require an advertiser to pay a small fee. Recent research indicates that between 85-90% of us now use the internet to find property. Property Hawk thought that the topic of websites allowing landlords to advertise their investment properties for free demanded further exploration.
How can I save money on property marketing?
This site only advertises London property. Another free letting site we found for landlords with London properties was freeflats.com.
The problem for landlords is that whilst London is a strong lettings market, landlords really need a site offering national coverage to deliver the volume of potential tenants they require.
One long established national website that deals with sales but also letting is Houseladder. This seemed to have a good national presence and with a reputed 400,000 visitors every month is was clearly popular. However, when testing precise location for properties advertised there appeared to be few properties in certain locations. This would inevitably reduce it's attractiveness to tenants.
Another free site is Letalife.com which offers landlords an opportunity to advertise their property without charge although if landlords then want to enhance their listing there is a small £10 charge. This website appears to have a good selection of property to let UK wide and is easy to use.
Gumtree is another free site which is growing rapidly. Gumtree is owned by e-bay and originally started in London in March 2000 and has since spread to many towns and cities in the UK. Gumtree is an online community which promotes various goods and services but is particularly popular with tenants looking for rental accommodation. Where it stands out from Letalife.com is the ability for landlords to use visuals to market their buy-to-let investment property. Landlords can add up to 3 photos for free and even a URL to a U-tube video for the technology savvy landlord.
The experience of the Property Hawk team with Gumtree has been promising. One of the team had a number of responses to a recent ad although the nature of free property marketing is that a landlord seems to have their fair share of 'weirdoes' which a landlord then needs to filter out.
The reality is that the property marketing world is still dominated by one website Rightmove. This is where many tenants start their search for rental accommodation. It is therefore vital for a landlord to get on this website. Rightmove is only available to letting agents. To get on it a letting agent or a web marketing site has to pay a pretty hefty fee. Therefore in order for a landlord to be featured on this site they will need to go through a letting agent or marketing site who will look to recover these costs by charging some form of a fee to the landlord.
Landlords therefore should be aware that using a free letting site could be a false economy. In property marketing it is all about a landlord getting their buy-to-let investment property viewed by the highest number of suitable tenants. Where a letting market is very local in nature then this could be best served by an advert in the local paper or even the corner shop.
All my 3 tenants in the last 2 years , in 2 properties have come from the local Solicitor web site.
This local approach all works fine if a landlord is prepared to limit themselves to local tenants. Increasingly landlords rely on tenants that might be moving into an area and therefore who will use national websites such as Rightmove or Fish4homes to find their rental properties.
How does a landlord go about writing a rental advert?
How can a landlord get effective national coverage?
In this case landlords need to get onto the main national websites such as Rightmove if they are to maximise their buy-to-let investment properties exposure to the maximum number of potential tenants.
One service that enables landlords to do just this is Discount Letting Direct Service Ltd. Its' name is a bit of a mouthful but like all great ideas what it does is pretty simple. For a sum of £59 Discount Letting Direct Service Ltd will get the marketing details of a landlord's buy-to-let property featured on all the following national websites.
For landlords wanting to maximise their marketing exposure, Discount Letting Direct Service Ltd could just be the service they are looking for without having to go to the expense of employing a letting agent.
If landlords find themselves in a highly competitive letting market it might be worth them trying FREE and PAID because a void period of a week or two can quickly wipe out any savings in marketing costs.


My daughter and I had our first go at paddle boarding today, and we really enjoyed it. We checked in with Jay and Rod, filled in a quick form and then were given our boards. These were selected to suit our individual height and build and our paddles were altered to give us a personal fit. ...... Jay took us into the water an encouraged us for the whole lesson. It was great value for money ... Thank you so much Rod and Jay, we had an amazing time!
Talk about fun! And absolutely no dramas. Staff were so friendly and explained everything well. We were on the water just a couple of minutes after arriving on the beach. Great value too.We will definitely book again next time we're there.
I signed up for a half hour and was given a thorough lesson. My instructor really explained it well and I felt the respect she has for the environment and loves her job. I enjoyed it so much I want to buy one of their boards! Great thing about SUP is the exercise and having time and a perfect view of what's in the water and the distant setting. Great value for money and quality instructions. Not just a hire facility but an education and responsibility to the sport and environment.
Shoal Bay is Located an hour North of Newcastle , two hours from the central coast and tree hours from Sydney. It is a great location within Port Stephens to learn and experience Standup Paddle-boarding (SUP).
For a tourist visiting the Port Stephens a day paddleboarding in Shoal Bay is a essential experience. At Shoal Bay SUP we want to provide you with the ultimate Port Stephens Paddleboarding experience.
Our ASI (Association of Surfing Instructors) accredited instructors Rod (ph: 0428604460) and Jay (ph: 0431910648) will get you on your paddleboard and doing it the right way. All our paddleboard hires come with a introductory lesson for beginners included in the hire fee. Your lesson is prior to your hire and is not included in your hire time allowing you to learn the basics of Stand Up Paddleboarding before you get out on the beautiful waters of Port Stephens.
Our SUP school is located on the beach 100m west of the Shoal Bay boat ramp, towards Tomaree Headland. This location has been especially chosen for our Port Stephens paddleboard school as it is less crowded and is the most sheltered part of shoal bay. The area around our site is also a designated 8 knot zone which ensures your paddleboarding experience isnt disturbed by the waves or wake of jet skis or other boats travelling at speed.
Our site is also beautiful as the area in front of our site is relatively shallow 4-8m so you have a very clear view of the seagrasses and the marine life below. You will see fish but also may see dolphins, turtles, cormorants and other types of wildlife.
Our instructors and staff will also with permission take photos of your paddleboarding experience so that you can enjoy what you have come here to do and still get the photo memories to take home with you.
Our paddleboards are mostly bought this season. We will match you to a stable board that will match your size so that you have the best experience possible.
For the already experienced we also have full carbon race/training paddleboards for hire or demo.
If you are visiting Port Stephens and Standup Paddleboarding is on your list of things to do, make sure you visit us at Shoal Bay SUP. We will make sure you get onto the water doing it the right way and have fun at the same time. down near the boat ramp is very sheltered except from the summer prevailing north east winds. This area is also an 8 knot zone so very safe to learn to paddleboard.
We have very family friendly prices and special pricing when you come back again as we know you will do time and time again when visiting Port Stephens.
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Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time review — On the clock
By Matthew Smail On Sep 28, 2018 0
If you've ever wondered what the term "gateway game" meant, then look no further, because you've found it. Alongside Ticket to Ride, Carcassonne and Catan, there are only a select few games that I would risk my friendships on when it comes to attempting to teach someone who either isn't interested (or isn't experienced) to play board games. Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time is most certainly one of them; let me tell you why.
Firstly, don't let the title fool you. Professor Evil is nothing of the sort — he doesn't dismember anyone, imprison them in carbonite, attempt to eat their brains or do anything even remotely aggressive. The worst he can do is kick anyone he catches out of his mansion, although the evicted player will still be free to re-enter on the next turn. And they'll need to because Prof. Evil and the Citadel of Time is a game about pinching treasure and every second — every turn — counts if you want to maximise your cooperative point-scoring capability.
Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time is a cooperative game about stealing from a bad guy then, and it takes place on the same board every time, albeit with a fair bit of randomisation with regard to the details on the board. Professor Evil has laid a number of traps, closed all his doors and placed his treasures strategically about the place in order to dissuade would-be thieves, but our crew is not so easily turned away.
Using the unique skills of each player characters (and their one-time use superpower, once activated) players will roam the mansion, avoiding the automatically controlled Professor, attempting to disarm traps. When certain combinations of traps are disarmed, it becomes possible to steal certain treasures. Act too slowly though and a timer for each treasure will run out, condemning it to, umm, the box, until at least the next game…
Honestly, Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time looks great. It's made from lovely, smooth cardboard with a nice, soft matte finish and the artwork is bold and colourful. Each of the characters (including The Professor) is represented by a standee, whilst the treasures all have a wooden token placed on them, as well as one of the matching colour on a central clock face that counts down the minutes until they disappear.
Each player has a deck of oversized cards that display their abilities and these are drawn at the beginning of each turn, subtly randomising the abilities of each player without ever compromising their core ability — I mean, one simply doesn't mess with the Mistress of Time, does one? The characters are diverse and well realised, with superb artwork and real personality — think of the art style as a cartoonish impression of the 1920's and you won't be far wrong.
There are a few more pieces that make up the game; a few custom dice, large cardboard tokens for the treasures and small (admittedly fiddly) wooden bars that act as doors. The manual is excellent as well, and in true gateway game fashion, it had me up to speed with what I needed to do in the game and how everything worked within about fifteen minutes. A few practice turns later and I knew exactly how to teach the game and how to play it. This, I should say, is what I'd like from as many of my games as possible.
Turn Structure
Professor Evil the Citadel of Time is one of those games that is so simple that it's likely that I'll make it sound more complicated than it is simply by describing it. Turns last about a minute or so and simply consist of the active player drawing their two action cards, taking three actions and then playing one of their cards. Actions are basically limited to move a space, open or close a door, switch a switch or collect a treasure. Cards vary, but most of them allow the player to break the normal rules in some way.
Once the player has done everything that they need, or want, to (usually some combination of the above that moves the collective team closer towards gathering their next treasure) then they must roll for Professor Evil and his Citadel of Time. Professor Evil will often move through the mansion based on the combination of faces shown on his two die — if he enters a room with a player in it, then they'll be ejected, just as I mentioned at the beginning of this review. The Citadel die simply shows how far the clock will turn — if it reaches one of the coloured tokens that sits on a treasure, then that treasure will be removed from the game.
The player abilities do introduce additional complexity, but none are more complex than the cards explain. For example, you may be able to remove four or five doors on a single turn, but if you do, you might then need to roll the Professors dice twice. Some abilities slow the clock or affect other players, but none are game breaking by any stretch of the imagination. The players win if they can secure four treasures, whilst they lose if the Professor manages to reclaim the same number.
Game Experience
Playing Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time is all good, light fun and it retains a relatively breezy feeling throughout, despite also introducing a reasonable amount of tension as a result of the countdown towards each treasure being removed. What might begin as a simple gateway game can also be ramped up in difficulty by making just a few slight tweaks to timing and other factors, as explained in the rule book.
Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time is easy to set up once you understand the randomised nature of the switches and treasures, so it can be ready to play in minutes, or replayed just as quickly, should your gaming group decide that it's a game they have enjoyed and want to see more of. On that note, it takes less than an hour to play a game from start to finish (including setup) so it's a great game for either beginning a night of heavier games, or closing one out with something fairly undemanding.
On that note, perhaps the downside of Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time is that for all its inbuilt randomisation, it doesn't really change from one game to the next. As a result, this is a game with long-term appeal if played in moderation and it will certainly see more play with children in the eight to twelve years kind of range. Adult gamers might struggle to see long-term appeal beyond the first four or five plays, but given that it retails for a sensible price, that's still very good value for money.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Professor Evil and the Citadel of TIme. It's so easy to setup and teach, as well as to play that I think it's a fantastic introduction to modern games. It introduces concepts like variable player powers, efficient use of actions, managing multiple priorities and even very basic hand management. Luck certainly does play its role here, but there are no inherently bad die rolls — sometimes you'll need to push your luck and you'll be in the wrong place at the wrong time, simple as that.
I enjoyed the idea of pinching treasures from an evil professor and this is a game in which mechanics and theme are linked well and truly together. The countdown, the switches, the treasures — the way that doors delay players just enough to upset their plans; it's all here. I'm not going to suggest that Professor Evil and the Citadel of time does anything truly unique, but it does bring several mechanics together and make a simple, fun and rewarding game from them.
A copy of Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time was provided for review purposes. You can find out more about Professor Evil and the Citadel of Time on the website of publisher Funforge.
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Some of my readers may feel that I knock the left more than I knock the right when it comes to the promotion of gangrene junk science. Well the right wing is also making hay out of the "soiled greening" of America. Do you all remember a certain Henry Paulson who was GW's Secretary of the Treasury? Old Henry The Second was the king who presided over the economic bust in 2008 that came about because of his misguided economic policies under George the Second. The question from the green point of view is what is Henry the Second doing in "greentech" that makes him an equal plunderer to Alaric the Second? Old Hank is on the board of advisors of another want to be electric car company. Hank is advising CODA the pretend made in the USA electric car company. The components are essentially Chinese (batteries, drive-train, body etc.) but Hank the Yank has helped CODA secure Obama's recovery funds by performing the final assembly steps in the Ignited States. Yeah hundred of million of dollars of recovery act money will go to CODA. CODA has a 34 kilowatt hour battery pack that will propel the Yugo like vehicle 100 miles. CODA at least has cost accountants who can keep track of debits and credits and will charge over forty thousand dollars for their Balkan Beauty. Unlike the lefties who are helping Fisker get their hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars, CODA will only loose $10,000 a vehicle while Fisker will loose four times as much per vehicle.
The folks at Tesla who are also royalty living the life of luxury on your tax dollars and are now named Charlatan the Second have to eat some major crow and change their claims of range on their website. The Silicon Valley Business Journal reported today that the EPA will require Tesla to recalculate their range for the Roadster and reduce the claim by at least 30%. I quote from the SV Business Journal
"Tesla said in its quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday that there is no guarantee that the Model S will not be delayed due to production or engineering issues. Some who have placed pre-orders may cancel, as well, it warned.
Further complicating matters is an expected reduction on what it advertises as the expected mileage of the Roadster. Tesla said that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to cut the Roadster's estimated 220-mile driving range by about 30 percent after new testing."
The two seater Roadster gets a paltry 154 miles per full charge and it costs Tesla $300,000 to produce but they will soon offer us the S sedan that seats seven, has a larger mass, has a range of 300 miles and they will be able to sell this car for about $50,000 and make a profit to pay the good old US tax payer the half billion dollars they will borrow from us as part of our economic recovery. The word Charlatan is a French word for a snake-oil salesman. If only Tesla had some fossil fuel based snake oil it may have had a roadster with a range of 220 miles. In the seventeenth century the Charlatans of Paris had a stage and music to promote their quackery. Tesla has the internet, television, and an ex Vice President to promote the "convenient untruth" of a technological breakthrough of plug in vehicles. The suckers assembled in Place Dauphin in Paris 500 years ago that were taken in by the pseudoscience of their day did not have the knowledge of the second law of thermodynamics. Carnot published his paper on "the reflections of the motive power of fire" in 1824. We should now know that the laws of thermodynamics are inviolable. The third law of thermodynamics states that "as temperature approaches absolute zero entropy approaches a constant minimum." I propose a fourth law of thermodynamics that states "there is Gibbs Free Energy but there is no Gore Free Energy and any claims of the existence of an Automotive Free Energy will result in your investment in a company making such a claim approach absolute zero". One reader told me the British car that runs on human waste should be called the "Mini Pooper". The CODA has the order of their letters mixed up. It should be the CDOA that stands for Certainly Dead On Arrival.
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Johnson 'gave into' pressure on protocol, Foster claims
Updated / Monday, 1 Nov 2021 06:36
Arlene Foster said she believes the protocol played a big role in her ousting as DUP leader earlier this year
Northern Ireland's former first minister Arlene Foster has claimed British Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave into pressure to accept the Northern Ireland Protocol "as proposed" by the Irish Government.
Mrs Foster also criticised Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Minister for Foreign Affiars Simon Coveney for their handling of the Brexit process, blaming their "aggressive nationalism" on the growth of Sinn Féin.
The UK and EU have brought forward proposals in a bid to resolve the dispute over the protocol.
The mechanism is part of the Brexit divorce deal negotiated by the UK Government and signed by Mr Johnson aimed at avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland.
The terms effectively kept Northern Ireland in the single market, creating a border down the Irish Sea.
Mrs Foster said she believes the protocol played a big role in her ousting as DUP leader earlier this year.
"We stood against this type of arrangement and were successful at resisting this type of outcome so long as we held the balance of power at Westminster," Mrs Foster told the Sunday Times newspaper.
"But, unfortunately, the moment the prime minister had a majority he made a decision to get Brexit done and deal with the fallout later.
"Of course it is hugely disappointing that Boris, under pressure, gave into the protocol as proposed by Leo Varadkar, and all that it has brought.
"When it came into being in January (2020), I and colleagues tried to deal with the problems as they arose but it soon became clear this wasn't possible and fundamental change was needed.
"There is no doubt the implementation of the protocol was hugely damaging to my time as leader.
"I couldn't have done any more to alert the Prime Minister to the problems that would arise, but when you are the DUP leader you are blamed regardless."
Mrs Foster also said the relationship with the Irish Government has never "been at such a low ebb", particularly with Mr Coveney and Mr Varadkar.
"They refuse to deal with the practical reality of the principle of consent, ie. that Northern Ireland is a full member of the UK," Mrs Foster added.
"They have used their position to undermine the constitutional position here.
"I can only put their aggressive nationalism down to the growth of Sinn Féin."
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Lal Lal
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Lal Lal is a town in Victoria (Australia), Australia.
Elevation:484 m
Local Government Area:Moorabool Shire Council
Lal Lal is a town in Victoria (Australia), Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moorabool and on the Geelong-Ballarat railway line, 108 kilometres (67 mi) west of the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Lal Lal and the surrounding area had a population of 476.Lal Lal Falls and the Lal Lal Reservoir on the Moorabool River are to the north-east and east of the town. # History The original settlement at Lal Lal was part of a substantial sheep run dating from 1845. The township became more firmly established after the mining of iron ore, lignite, kaolin (clay) and gold began in the area.The railway arrived at Lal Lal in April 1862 and Lal Lal Post Office opened on 18 July 1863 (closing in 1969). ## Heritage listed sites Lal Lal contains a number of heritage listed sites, including: Iron Mine Road, Lal Lal Iron Mine and Smelting Works 389 Yendon-Lal Lal Road, Rothbury # Weather # Things to do
Address: Moorabool Shire Council VIC, PO Box 18,Lal Lal,VIC,3352
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Mommy's Me Time blog. Amber is mama to a 2 1/2 year old, 1 1/2 year twins and is pregnant again! And she is the sweetest lady. Always encouraging words, pointing to God, giving reminders… I could go on forever. If you are a young mom, check her out!
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This lovely maxi dress. I've gotta get me one, or similar. Super flattering, great colours, and sooo good for summer.
So many lovely things. Check 'em out.
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