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SOE Live – The Norrathian Front August 19, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, EverQuest, EverQuest II, EverQuest Next, Sony Online Entertainment.
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SOE Live went off this past weekend in Las Vegas and, in my typical hope in the face of reality sort of way, I tuned in to watch several of the live streams with the idea that SOE might have some magic potion that would tempt me back to one of their games… or would tell me something about the one I was looking forward to.
So the keynotes for EverQuest, EverQuest II, and EverQuest Next were on my list, as well as a couple of the follow up panels and the main keynote. Norrath is clearly what draws me to SOE.
However, the one thing I did not do was take notes while watching the streams. Why would I? Any normal company doing big announcements for various products which they had been working on for weeks, and which obviously had time to get press briefing packs complete with graphics and what not together, surely would have all of that information posted on their web site shortly after the respective keynotes. Right? I mean Blizzard had everything from their Thursday morning live stream up for the world to see on their main page by early afternoon the same day. SOE had all the information together. It should have been tee'd up so that after each keynote, somebody pressed a button to update the respective site so that all of your user facing media is delivering the same message.
But no, this is SOE.
As of my writing this, there is none of the information from SOE Live on the respective sites or forums as though none of this had happened. So I had to thrash around looking for what other people wrote to get details that I would have written down had I not forgotten yet again how SOE runs their railroad.
EverQuest – A Return to Pirates
The EverQuest announcement focused on the upcoming expansion, as one would expect. This time around SOE is returning to the nautical theme last visited with The Buried Sea expansion. This time it is The Darkened Sea, which will launch on October 26 for All Access Pass members and on November 11 for the unwashed free to play masses.
The level cap goes up from 100 to 105 with this expansion. There are more zones, access to the bazaar from outside of the bazaar, and a few other goodies. As essentially an outsider to EverQuest content after… well… The Planes of Power really, though I have gone back for a couple of runs since… it is tough to find something to get excited about here. Even Bhagpuss seems relatively calm in his words, tucked in at the end of a long post about SOE Live. EverQuest is catering to the installed base, we have long known that. But even then, I don't recall The Buried Sea being a fan favorite back in the day. The blog review of it over at the past version of Mobhunter, when Loral was writing it (internet archive for the win, I miss Loral) seemed to be lukewarm at best.
But there it is.
EverQuest II – And Malice Towards None
Is EverQuest II the current standard bearer for Norrath? I cannot tell if it is more popular than EverQuest or not.
Anyway, there was a small disturbance in the community force a few weeks back as the EQII forum dwellers started getting a bit testy about SOE's trend towards social media and streaming and what not, to the point that information that would normally be in the forums first was falling all over the place. I have long complained that SOE has favored their forums and used them as their primary method of information distribution as opposed to the web site they allegedly maintain for that purpose, and which is the first point of contact for any new player. But at least with their forum bias they were concentrating in one spot, so at a minimum I knew I had to dive into the forums if I wanted current information. Now I am not sure where to find things.
Or I wouldn't be if it wasn't for Feldon over at EQ2 Wire. He keeps on top of that game like no other. So it was a bit disappointing to see that SOE left him off the list of sites to be fed information in advance of Altar of Malice expansion announcement at SOE Live. The embargo on that news dropped five hours before the EverQuest II keynote, so anybody paying attention knew all the details before the presentation.
So, yes, a new expansion, the Altar of Malice.
The expansion brings in a new race… the Aerakyn, another one with built-in wings that can fly, though unlike that vampire race from a few years back, you won't have to pay $80 to unlock all of its abilities… new dungeons, new raids, new overland zones, and a boost to 100 for most flavors of levels. (adventure, trade skill, guild)
The interesting bit for me are the level agnostic dungeons. These run from level 20 to 89 and are suppose to make the process of leveling up to the more recent content… and the main mass of the player base… more fulfilling or some such. I think the phrase was "not wasted." Currently, with the the state of abilities, both alternate advancement related and otherwise, jumping up through the first 60 or so levels tends to be challenging mostly in the form of figuring out what some of the outdated quest text really means. So I gather that this is suppose to be more of a challenge so as to make game play fun.
Sounds good to me. A pity that our past run in with EverQuest II with the instance group ended up with it on the banned list, as that sounds kind of like what we needed back then.
And, on the sea theme from EverQuest, there are also some islands involved, including the long lost Isle of Refuge, where we all used to start back in the day via the shipwrecked survivor video game trope. There is also an island with dinosaurs.
Then there are all the other details. Rabbit mounts. A revamp of the extraneous deity system. Another rank or two for spell/skill quality. And a cross-server dungeon finder. I am curious as to how dungeon finder works for EverQuest II, though not curious enough to actually go ruin somebody elses' day by logging in a queuing up myself.
This all goes live on November 11, which is going to make for a busy week. The EverQuest expansion above goes live for everybody that same day and just two days later, Warlords of Draenor launches. (And then Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire come out less than two weeks after that. Where will I find the time?)
As noted, all the details, live blog of the keynote, slides from the game mechanics presentation, and more are over at EQ2 Wire. Check it out.
EverQuest Next – Dark Elf Disco
EverQuest Next is where my hopes truly lie. The idea that SOE could miracle their way into something that would tempt me back to the two remaining members of the Norrathian franchise (out of what, a dozen total EverQuest games according to Georgeons?) has always been a forlorn hope.
But EverQuest Next is the future. The lack of news on that front has banked the flames of passion for that title, they remain aglow, waiting for the day when we get something tangible. This was the keynote to which I paid the most attention, and which was both the most interesting and the least satisfying at the same time.
We got a look at some architecture, especially some of the dark elf stuff in its moody, pointed glory, some of which came from the fan base via Landmark. SOE's crowdsourcing/exploitation pays off. They also showed some examples of the dark elf character models. Dark elves are apparently the most popular race in both EverQuest and EverQuest II at this point, so it is important to get them right. (Screen grabs from the stream.)
The art all looked very good and very much made me want to go there… wherever "there" was… and explore.
Then the devs introduced the wizard, warrior, and cleric classes and went through some combat situations with them. This was by far the most impressive bit. Each was a quick run through of some combat encounters, followed by a step by step replay where he described what was going on at each point. The combat looked fluid and dynamic and exciting. Various moves flashed or blurred or exploded in very satisfying ways and there were no little damage numbers popping up, which helped with the visceral feel of the combat. The little kid inside of me was shouting, "Oooh! Oooh! Let me try that! I want to do that!"
I recommend watching the replay of the keynote, which is available on YouTube. The combat segment picks up at about the 29 minute mark and runs for about 20 minutes.
Of course, the downside to all of this was that there is no date in sight for EverQuest Next. Speculation is that a launch is at least two years away. Certainly they have to get all of Landmark nailed down first, as it represents the foundation on which EverQuest Next will be built. So until Landmark is solid and stable and fully featured and live there can be no EverQuest Next.
David Georgeson invited us all to go read the ebooks that are being used to build up the lore for the game to tide us over… which I was honestly tempted to do after the combat stuff… but publicly SOE still seems most focused on Landmark and likely will remain so for some time.
Return to Norrath?
So while I found bits and pieces of all of the presentations interesting, is there anything that would make me focus on EverQuest or EverQuest II as my primary game?
Probably not.
I am in the odd duck position of having been away too long for both titles at this point, so the new stuff being piled on top of the level curve is so far away as to be effectively unreachable given my reserve of patience, but the old stuff I would have to work through… well, it didn't interested me enough when it was new stuff to work through it. The 20-89 level agnostic dungeons in EverQuest II are interesting, though I probably wouldn't bother with them until level 40 or so, as the 1-40 game is the heart of my nostalgia for the game.
But who knows.
With the autumn I always seem to be hit with a bout of video game nostalgia. Maybe I will heed Norrath's call yet again? Though unless Warlords of Draenor slips, it seems unlikely.
How about you? Is Norrath in your future?
- 1. bhagpuss - August 19, 2014
It's been a long time since I was this interested in EQ2. When we moved to GW2 two years ago I was still enjoying EQ2 but I can't say I didn't appreciate the break. Although I've been back a few times since (and gotten one character to 95, which is hard work, I can tell you, and not something I am much looking forward to do doing again) at no point in the last two years have I really felt like making it my primary MMO.
Well now I do. GW2's relative stasis has something to do with that but mostly it's the information that came out of SOELive, not just about what looks like an excellent expansion, but also the rest of the out-of-expansion updates they have planned going well into next year. There's just a whole lot of stuff there that sounds really enjoyable.
And then I read EQ2Wire tonight and saw the almost throwaway line in the patch notes "With Kerafyrm's defeat, Freeport and Qeynos have finally broken the Awakened siege, and Luclin – now whole – shines brightly in the skies."
Luclln now whole?! If an interrobang was ever mandated this is the time. Just seeing that sentence in cold print had more emotional impact on me than the entire destruction of Lion's Arch. I'm logged in right now waiting for Luclin to rise so I can get screenshots.
Unfortunately I have yet to persuade Mrs Bhagpuss of the attractions of a return to Norrath so my own time there may end up being split between that and GW2. I am sure as heck buying the expansion for both my accounts though and annoyingly I may have to bump the old Silver one up to All Access for a while because that's where my level 95 is. Unless I can get the Beastlord on the AA account to 95 by then, which isn't likely.
As for Everquest, I'm playing it and enjoying it a lot but I definitely don't need more top-end content yet.
Haven't watched the EQNext combat footage yet. I'll do that at work tomorrow. I just hope it's not that annoying center-screen, fixed-cursor style like DCUO/Neverwinter. I bet it is though.
- 4. Scree (@TheScree) - August 19, 2014
As a long time "watcher" of EQ and EQ2, EQ Next was already on my radar. I was super hyped for it, especially since they made it seem as if the title would be out in a few short months. Much to my surprise, this isn't remotely the case.
They failed to showcase the "AI" upon which this entire games hopes and dreams rest. Without this component functioning in the glorious manner they described during the first reveal, EQNext will die a horrible subpar themepark death. This was the biggest disappointment out of this recent SOE Live event.
Combat in Landmark being in such an early first draft, makes me wonder at the actual release date. Speculating two years out is likely to be painfully true.
In the end, SOE games haven't pulled me in since the launch of EQ2. Based on their progress in EQ Next/Landmark, they aren't likely to pull me back in anytime soon.
Chalk this SOE Live event up as a big dud.
- 5. anon - August 19, 2014
"(…) jumping up through the first 60 or so levels tends to be challenging mostly in the form of figuring out what some of the outdated quest text really means. So I gather that this is suppose to be more of a challenge so as to make game play fun."
Jeesh, man, and that was followed by "Sounds good to me.". I love myself an impromptu irony.
- 9. Wlad - August 21, 2014
I loved EQ2, though it's showing its age now. I'm still of the opinion that it is the best MMO out there. I think if they kept the content and mechanics, and just upgraded the graphics and rereleased it, they'd have a phenomenon.
- 10. bugaboo - August 22, 2014
Yeah, the post-40's aren't much fun, but it picks up again (for me anyway) at level 70 (Kunark, Cinderella lizard girl, the 70s and 80s dungeons are boss, unlocking Kurn's Tower, werewolves, those are fun). Of course there always WERE dinosaurs if you went to the right place… I could spend my life finding lost areas of that game, or trying to convince people to unlock obscure dungeons just because we can and have never seen it. But in the end, people will just want the endgame content, and they don't actually follow any of the story. Even at endgame they click through dialog, and the dialogs close sometimes even before you can read them. The devs don't even expect that anyone is reading them. After years of play, it finally got to me after the idiotic Dragon level that couldn't be accomplished by an overlevelled group even a year later. And of course, you HAD to finish that because it was STORY and it flagged you for goodies. I'm not one to rush to be first to kill every beastie, but if I still can't kill it when I'm in a group where everyone is on level with the creature, it's no fun. And forget about it if you also want to do something that requires people to wait a sec while you go swim out and get an obscure quest (even if you share it, no patience people). I've met my share of jerks in that game and I'm not going back. Too much depends on cooperation and people don't cooperate. I've had more cooperation from total strangers in Rift and other games, than I've had from guildies in EQ2. I've had them say things like "no I won't duo that with you, nothing in it for me" and then turn around and solo it later. This is despite SOE carefully making it worthwhile for people to cooperate in that expansion. Maybe I should've moved to another server. I've heard that my server was the worst (Freeport), but that's another shellout of real $$$ and there was already plenty of that happening. And don't get me started on the power difference between Wizard and Warlock. That tired old horse is completely dead. Forget it if you have a backstory for your toon, forget it if you care about where your toon came from, forget it if you did all the quests for your city to really flesh out your toon. If Wizard is better… betray! Yeah that was part of the final insult.
- 11. bugaboo - August 22, 2014
How many people have actually played any of the Plane of War content? Raise your hands… That should rest my case right there. You can play that game for years, even raid, and never even touch it, and wonder all the time where those "other raiders" are getting their gear from. This is bad design. It also gates a lot of the storyline. People don't know what's happening in that game because it is only revealed in the nastiest dungeons anymore. Then the endgame moves forward and nobody ever goes there anymore, or the PoW area… it's too hard for anyone who doesn't already have maxed gear. So the only people who know the stories are the raiders who have done is so much they've finally learned the story from osmosis because they sure didn't take time to read anything, most of them.


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For 2014, the company is planning to launch a line of three Blu-ray players. I'm going to take a minute to talk about each of them and what makes them different.
Panasonic Smart Network 4K Plus 3D Blu-ray Player
The top of the line model from Panasonic is this DMP-BDT360, which does just about everything. It plays regular Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D discs. It can up-convert Blu-ray discs to 4K UltraHD resolution, which is a very cool option if you are thinking of making the leap to a 4K television in the next few years.
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Like the PlayStation 4, the XBox One also sold over 1 million units on its first day. If approximately 150 of those one million users reported a hardware problem, that puts the failure rate for the XBox One at about 0.015% – an extremely small number. This is not nearly as bad as the "Red Ring of Death" problem which plagued the XBox 360, which is reported to have affected 27% to 54% of consoles at various points in time.
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HAWAII (KRON) — Happy Birthday Hawaii.
One of the most popular vacation spots for people from the Bay Area, Hawaii is celebrating the 55th anniversary of becoming America's 50th state.
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In 2008, Blue Marble Ice Cream founders Alexis Miesen and Jennie Dundas teamed up with Rwanda's only all-female drumming troupe, Ingoma Nshya, to launch the tiny African nation's first-ever ice-cream shop, Inzozi Nziza (which translates to "sweet dreams"). A new documentary, in theaters today, captures the collaboration: Sweet Dreams, directed and produced by Academy Award winners Lisa and Rob Fruchtman, follows women living in the small town of Butare, who are still recovering from the devastation of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Miesen and Dundas provided the emotional and financial support needed to launch the ice-cream shop, and now the Rwandan women are the sole owners of the business. Grub spoke to Miesen, who recently decided to devote herself full-time to the Blue Marble Dreams nonprofit initiative, about her experience.
So how did this project first come about?
Jennie, my business partner, used to be an actor a special one, a working one! The Sundance Institute has a theater component, and they invite established actors and pair them with emerging playwrights. One of the writers that they selected was this woman from Rwanda named Kiki [Katese]. When Kiki learned that Jennie owned an ice-cream business, she had this ah-ha moment and asked if we'd ever consider coming to her community and helping women open the countrys first real ice-cream shop.
In Kikis writing, a common theme is the power of dreams. Life in Rwanda is hard and there's all this trauma and grief and guilt that has come about from the 1994 genocide. When youre sad and tired and hungry, thats not a time where you dream very big, and she wanted people in her country to dream big.
Kiki created the first contemporary dance company in Rwanda and started the very first drumming group in Rwanda. Shes a poet, a visionary, and a jack of all trades. She wanted to set up an opportunity for parents to engage with their children in a very joyful and playful way. On top of all that, we could create jobs for local women and support local farmers and producers, which is something were keen on doing here in New York. So, it was just like, "Holy cow.
We decided that we were just going to go for it, so we established a 501(c)(3) and took trips back and forth to figure out how it was going to work. We had no budget for it. It took us two years to open in Rwanda in 2010.
And when you started this project, in 2008, your own business in Brooklyn was only one year old.
We had many managers and family members who thought we were not only crazy, but absolutely reckless because its so hard to run and grow a business, especially here in New York City. We were just starting out and we had so much to do to ensure our own survival. It made complete sense [to wait], but it just didn't work out that way.
Once we took the initial trip and met the women wed be working with, it took on a new sense of urgency. Its not like they were going to die without opening an ice-cream shop. But these kinds of projects are seemingly so big and complicated, and if you sit on it too long, you can talk yourself out of it.
Is there anyone that you turned to for guidance?
There's a group that we've been involved with since the beginning, Bpeace, which is a tremendous organization that promotes peace through creating jobs. They dispatched professionals who went over to Rwanda and trained the women in everything from quality control to basic business finance and customer service.
How do you separate your emotional involvement, and the process of teaching these women to work independently, from the decisions that have to be made for the good of the business?
It's definitely still is a challenge. The best piece of advice that we got was to really approach these women as partners and to be as tough with them as we would with anyone we partnered with here obviously allow for a steeper learning curve and some cultural differences, but to really hold them to a high standard. The goal is to create a sustainable business, and its been hard.
In the beginning, we owned the shop in partnership with them, and we both had shares of the business their cooperative and our nonprofit. We didn't set financial goals or milestones, but we waited for two-and-a-half years before we transferred our shares over to them.They knew that they had to prove themselves as capable businesswomen. They've made some decisions that we've agreed with, and some that we havent. But my hat is off to them for maintaining a business in a poor, rural community for three years with very little financial assistance from us. It's absolutely miraculous.
One woman learned so much that she and her husband decided to open up their own business, and that's a good sign to me. The women are applying what they've learned and pursuing their dreams. It was all about triggering that question, What else is out there for me?
One of the most emotional moments in the film is when the Rwandan women taste ice cream for the first time ever. What was that like for you to experience firsthand?
A lot of the women had never really had something cold in their mouths before because most people dont have electricity. Its a rare thing to be able to see an adult tasting ice cream for the first time. We've seen that initial shock in children inside our shops. The ice cream settles down into this beautiful, delicious, creamy sweetness and then you see a face totally change. To witness that with adults just to see the playfulness come out of them it was just such a fun experience. Once they got past the initial shock, they settled into this absolute ecstasy.
Do you have plans to expand?
Yes. Its important to us that things happen organically. Our objective is not to go into communities and be like, You need an ice-cream shop and this is what it is going to do for you. We have a few different potential partners in Kigali that were talking to, and the idea there is to almost make it into a franchise, which as far as I can find, is a completely new model of nonprofit work.
The idea is that in Kigali, the money-making potential is far greater than in the city, Butare, where the shop is located. So, the women in Butare would go and train the Kigali women, and we would provide all the recipes and intellectual property the branding, the logo, all the training manuals, and everything that they would need to get started. In return, that business would pay a royalty fee back to the Butare shop. Its another income stream and a way to boost the sustainability of the existing shop, because it'll never have customers with disposable income like the folks in Kigali.
And on top of that, were in the beginning stages of developing a plan to open a shop in Haiti, and theres potential for a partnership in Ethiopia. Im particularly interested in going to places that are still recovering from some kind of trauma. The original idea for the Haiti project came out of three women from Haiti who saw the documentary. The film has been a catalyst for action.
In turn, what has this experience taught you about running a business in New York?
We worked with the women for two years before opening and they didn't even taste ice cream until about two days before the shop opened. The faith, the bravery, and the audacity in that was really inspiring. Sometimes, it's hard to take chances and be brave in a place like New York City because the consequences if you fail are so grave, so this was emboldening. I realize that its going to sound kind of silly because its just ice cream, but it isn't just ice cream; its the whole symbolic power of ice cream. This has encouraged us to try new things, be brave, and hopefully prosper.
Sweet Dreams is now playing at New York's Quad Cinema, and will open at Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles on November 29.


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Tim Troutman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Huntsville, said that despite seeing high rainfall totals in years past, the rainfall has been out of the norm for the month of January.
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Off the Beaten Track Restaurant Finds for Our (Slightly) Off the Beaten Track Sicily Itinerary?
Looking for restaurant suggestions for our Sicily itinerary in early May. We'll be in ERICE, MENFI, ARAGONA (20 min. north of Agrigento) MODICA, PIAZZA ARMERINA , GANGI (Madonie Mt. area) and ONE day in PALERMO.(As Palermo is the last day, wouldn't mind having the world's best pizza!
(Many threads that I've read are 4-6 years old - hence my desire for current information) THANKS!
Mere are some names at any rate from our soon to disappear database - maybe some other can post some comment. Id recommend you ordera copy of the Gambero Rosso Mangiar Bene (Lowcost ) guide, which is inexpensive and has many recommendations (many listed below) in your destination area, big overlap with Slowfood guide.) Available through Amazon.it or other online (Italian sources)
Da Vittorio
Il Vigneto
De Vittorio
092 578381/ 092 574270 - Via Friuli Venezia Giulia,9, Menfi, Sicily 92013, IT
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Contrada Gurra di Mare, Menfi Agrigento, Sicily 92013, IT
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0923.869099 - Via Gian Filippo Guarnotta,17, Erice,Trapani, Sicily , IT
Pasticceria Maria Grammatico
0923/869390 - Via Vittorio Emanuele,14, Erice, Sicily 91016, IT
Monte San Giuliano
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pasticceria, gelateria, Slowfood
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0923 28673 - Via Giudecca,32, Trapani, Sicily , IT
Slowfood, GR Lowcost recommendation
La Rinascente
Via Gatti,3, Trapani, Sicily , IT
0923 21464
La Bettolaccia (trattoria, Slowfood,sea cuisine, cuscus
)0923 21695 - Via Generale Enrico Fardella,23, Trapani, Sicily , IT
Calvino (pizza - square sicilian style, slowfood GR recc
)0923 21464 - Via Nunzio Nasi,71, Trapani, Sicily 91016
AGRIGENTO and ARAGONA area
0922 20712 - Via Panoramica Valle dei Templi, 23, Agrigento, Sicilia 92100, IT
winebar, good cooking GR Lowcost guide, closed Sun lunch
0922 412788 - San Leone,Via Nettuno,35, Agrigento, Sicilia 92100, IT
Da Carmelo
0922 631376 - Via Roma,16, Joppolo Giancaxio Agrigento, Sicilia 92010, IT
(meat a veg, slowfood, GR lowcost guide)
Ruga Reali
0922 20 370 - Cortile Scribani,8, Agrigento, Sicily 92100, IT
Trattoria del Templi
0922 403 110 - Via Panoromica dei Templi,15, Agrigento, Sicily 92100, IT
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Oh, I'd forgotten--I went to Spizzulio in Agrigento last spring. Nice little wine bar, very relaxed ambiance and a friendly owner who loves to talk about wine. Don't come if you're in a hurry. Or anyway, when we went we didn't realize that the owner was also the cook, the host, and the server all rolled up into one. We would not have ordered so many different cooked-to-order items had we known. Though he might have said that he was short staffed because someone had called in sick (?). A bit of a language barrier.
Anyway, if not in a hurry, I would definitely return. Very pleasant with some excellent dishes and wines.
Sicily is a joy.
Piazza Armerina
Trattoria La Ruota
0935680542 - contrada Casale I, Piazza Armerina, Sicilia 94015, IT
Michelin 1-fork
Al Fogher
0935 684123 3391579005 - Contrada Bellia - S.S. 117 Bis, Piazza Armerina, Sicilia 94015, IT
Michelin and Gambero Rosso recc
are you visiting Gangiavecchio?
Casale Villa Raino
0921.644680 - Contrada Raino, Gangi Palemo, Sicilia 90024, IT
Slowfood, http://www.villaraino.it/vecchio_sito...
Da Salvatore)
0921 680169 - Piazza San Michele,3, Petralia Soprana, Sicilia 90026, IT
Slowfood snail (highest recc
Petrae Lejum
0921 641947 - Corso Paolo Agliata,113, Petralia Sottana Palermo, Sicily 90027, IT
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The Tornabenes at Gangiavecchio have written several well regarded sicilian cookbooks and have a cooking school and offer meals, in addition to lodging at their property. Unfortunately, I havent made it to this area yet but ive cooked with pleasure from their book that I have
It looks like Villa Raino will be a great place to eat too.
Hope we will hear back from you about this great trip!
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I checked out Gangiavecchio and I may see if, just for fun, we can take a cooking class/lunch there. I have to see what time we will arrive in that area from the previous night's location and how far it is from Villa Raino. I'm planning this trip by myself so I get a little intimidated by details at times...but I'll keep going! In any event, I will certainly report back and thanks again.
Any hints on great "little finds" (needn't/shouldn't be fancy) for our last night in Palermo - as I said, even great pizza will be marvelous! I'm already salivating on reports of cannolis in Erice!
Haven't been yet myself, but I have these ideas saved:
If you'd like a somewhat fancy meal in Modica, I really enjoyed my meals at Fattoria delle Torri, but that was at least 6 years ago. If you can read Italian, this is a recent review:
This one appears to be from 2008
I don't know when this was written
You might be able to dig up other reviews on the web
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Golly, Sorry, forgot to put up the list for Modica from the DB that is disappearing in two days which inclused BB's recc - its close to Ragusa which has other restaurants you might want to consider:
La Rusticana
trattoria, a slowfood pick,Closed Sun eve, in summer also Sun lunch
0932 942950 - viale Medaglie d'Oro 34, Modica, Sicilia , IT
La Locanda del Colonnello
Restaurant with both local land based and fish dishes, Slowfood 2010, closed Wed
0932 752423 - Vicolo Biscari,6, Modica, Sicilia , IT
La Magnolie
Terroir cuisine with some creative touches, meat and some fish, Slowfood, closed Mon lunch and tues
0932908136 - Frigintini,Via Gianforma n.179, Modica, Sicilia , IT
Maria Fidone
trattoria with good quality home cooking, Slowfood 2010, eves only except holiday lunches
0932 901 135, 335 8207153 - Frigintini ,via Gianforma 6, Modica, Sicilia , IT
Taverna Nicastro
Trattoria open evenings only, Slowfood 2010 (closed Sun and Mon
)0932 945884 - Via Sant'Antonino, 28, Modica, Sicilia , IT
Fattoria delle Torri
Closed Mon, one week in Sept
0932 751286 - Vico Napolitano 14, Modica, Sicilia , IT
Osteria dei Sapori Perduti,
trattoria, hard to find local dishes, recc by GR Lowcost guide
0932 944247 - Corso Umberto I,228, Modica, Sicily , IT
Ristorante La Gazza Ladra
restaurant, Michelin*
Via Blandini, Modica, Sicily 97015, IT
La Rusticana
viale Medaglie d'Oro 34, Modica, Sicilia , IT
La Locanda del Colonnello
Vicolo Biscari,6, Modica, Sicilia , IT
La Magnolie
Frigintini,Via Gianforma n.179, Modica, Sicilia , IT
Maria Fidone
Frigintini ,via Gianforma 6, Modica, Sicilia , IT
Taverna Nicastro
Via Sant'Antonino, 28, Modica, Sicilia , IT
Fattoria delle Torri
Vico Napolitano 14, Modica, Sicilia , IT
Osteria dei Sapori Perduti
Corso Umberto I,228, Modica, Sicily , IT
Ristorante La Gazza Ladra
Via Blandini, Modica, Sicily 97015, IT
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I can personally recommend La Gazza Ladra based on a visit last March.
I wouldn't return to Osteria dei Sapori Perduti, which had good firsts but carelessly served (lukewarm) main plates.
Fellow travelers at our hotel enjoyed La Rusticana and La Magnolie.
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Off to Sicily next week but cant get any reply to Gangivecchio. Phones seem to be dead and e-mails bounce back. Anyone any ideas?
re: webbo
Are you using the contact info on this page?
there is not a lot of recent info on individual visits on the web, tho I am seeing at least one tour operator which has a cooking class/meal visit /stay scheduled there http://www.sicily-tour.com/1769/1872.... which indicates they are still in operation.
If you go, hope you report back!
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Just tried again with the link that you have and it again bounced back:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at yellocello.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
22.214.171.124 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 553 sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1) Giving up on 220.127.116.11.
will try the tour operator
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I heard from Sicily tours and they have changed their itinerary because they could not get into contact with Gangivecchio through any electronic means and havent been there for 5 years, I guess MarkC is correct but other sites do have visitor comments from the last year. I am giving up! but thanks for your help. webbo


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It appears Congress is as much at fault for this invasion as Bush and Obama. They passed a law last year allowing alien minors to stay in our country, but " didn´t anticipate this reaction."
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I was always part of the plan. The GOP never sees what´s coming down the road with the seemingly benign lefty bills.
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Sorry, it was always part of the plan.
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There´s a solution...but it will anger the source of campaign money for the Establishment Republicans...close the border.Just simply close it down.
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They´re not "migrants".
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They are not immigrants.
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Completely orchestrated.
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The solution is simple. Put the national guard/military on the border and shut it down. That stops the influx. The people we have elected to office both Republican and Democrat are to blame for the opportunity that our evil president exploited. The parties are too afraid of the backlash from Hispanics to follow our immigration laws. Now Obama has created a crisis by seizing on the fact that we are too weak to insist the law be enforced. Who are the winners and losers in this charade? The democrats will get the credit for being compassionate and gain many voters. The Republicans will get the slave labor they want. The American taxpayer will literally pay the price of betrayal by both parties. As usual, the American taxpayer is the loser all the way around.
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Consider this - how many Middle Eastern terrorists are swarming across the open border while we are all focused on these children and the border agents are baby sitting?
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The change in the immigration laws that took place under the G.W. Bush era liberalizing the immigration laws regarding young illegal aliens was designed by the very liberal ethnic and immigrant advocacy groups and other special interests, was supported and passed through the Congress by the liberal Democrats, and of course with the Republicans as usual just going along to get along. Now when you read articles in the media concerning why the USA is defenseless in being able to repatriate the tens of thousands of young illegal aliens who are walking across the borderline and surrendering to the border patrol, the media is making G. W. Bush, the compassionate conservative, the sad sack in all this.There are clearly a couple of hundred million young aliens living in foreign countries today where poverty is prevalent who are exposed to violent cultures, and as it is now, if they all somehow appeared at the US border, the US Government would be defenseless in attempting to turn them away and would have to allow them into the USA. Congress should immediately change that law and bring young illegal aliens back under the enforcement and removal provisions of the regular immigration laws. The problem now is that Obama and the liberal Democrats will oppose any such change, as they are using this G. W. Bush era liberalization of the immigration laws to build up underclass minority groups throughout the USA that are the liberal Democrat´s natural future voter base.As long as the liberal Democrats design US immigration laws and policies with the Republicans going along for the ride the illegal alien situation will only get worse, as Obama gets money from the Congress to hire lawyers to defend illegal aliens making mass uncontrolled illegal immigration a cash cow for leftist immigration lawyers.
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"We are being lied to"...Indeed!And the most egregious presidential "lie" ever uttered in the two-hundred-thirty-eight year history of our magnificent Constitution Republic?---"I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of The United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of The United States."
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How much are the parents of these children being promised or given to just put them on buses and send them to another country? The U.S. taxpayers are being fleeced multiple times in this amnesty scheme.Riot squads are being sent to the cities that resist allowing the aliens to be dumped off. The shooting will begin soon, be prepared.
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Call them what they are.... Illegal aliens..
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i have a young friend who came here illegally from uganda. while i won´t tell her story here, i will say it was compelling and she sought refuge from a terrible place (15 years ago). she worked at a number of very low level and poor paying jobs where there was tacit understanding that she was here illegally, hence, they paid her less than the minimum wage. she did everything in her power to become legal and finally succeeded in getting a green card. she has told me that she cannot (and would not) go on welfare for 5 years because if she does, she will not get citizenship. my point in all of this is, how can all the illegals that are coming across (the adult ones) go on and stay on welfare and then become citizens? is my friend wrong or is there yet another accommodation being made for the illegals?
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#16. There are all sorts of public charge waivers built into the law for illegal alien children. They can receive welfare benefits today, and then gain US citizenship tomorrow. In many cases US citizenship is virtually automatic for alien children.No problem, and if Obama heard that there were a hundred such alien children in that same boat, and he could somehow make some political hay out of that, he would invite them to the White House, praise them and the adults with who they are related along with the local welfare workers for seeing that the children got all the welfare benefits that they could get.
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August 18, 2010 3:48 by Sam Potter
The only tangible benefits I can think of, therefore, would be extra hotel income from the crew, and a little excitement around the event, translating into more interest in the domestic film industry (hopefully) and a higher gross when the film opens at the cinema here.
In my opinion, all this should be weighed against a potential – and important – negative consequence of hosting the film here. As with all these productions, there is an almost inevitable fear that Hollywood will once again misrepresent Arabs. If they're setting a film about secret agents here in the Middle East, it seems likely that Arabs will feature, but their historic representation in Hollywood has been terrible.
In his highly regarded book, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood vilifies a people, author Jack G Shaheen says, "What is an Arab? In countless films, Hollywood alleges the answer: Arabs are brute murderers, sleazy rapists, religious fanatics, oil-rich dimwits, and abusers of women."
"Arabs-as-villain images have been around for more than a century, reaching and affecting most of the world's six billion people. From the earliest silent films of the 1880s, damaging portraits have become so prevalent that viewers of film and TV shows demonstrating these stereotypes may come to perceive reel Arabs as real ones."
Shaheen's book takes the form of a list, which charts the depiction of almost every Arab character in Hollywood as a terrorist or other bad guy. So far the Mission: Impossible films have managed to avoid inclusion on this list, but none of them have so far been set in the Middle East. Hopefully the fourth installment will stick to this trend, but if not, the benefits to the UAE may not outweigh the harm to the region and the people.
As Shaheen observes, "Heinous images do not fade into the sunset. They continue to impact viewers without let-up, via TV repeats, big screen revivals, the internet and movie rentals. Regretfully, they wreak their damaging psychological havoc on us all, inflaming bigotry and xenophobia."
Hardly worth it, just to say, "M:I IV was filmed partly in Dubai."
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