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To start with, if the game itself fails to dissuade the player from taking every item in every room then not doing so should only be a factor of the player's available time. If you want to "play a character" who doesn't steal, but the game never ever punishes you from picking up items in people's homes, then it's bad game design that fails to accommodate that particular play style. On the other hand, there have been loads of CRPGs in the history of the genre that punish you for stealing items. Many of them have NPCs that sound alarms or turn hostile, others reduce virtue or karma scores. Some reduce your reputation with various factions, while some have strict time limits that discourage searching through every single container.
Another point to make, specifically with Deus Ex, is that eliminating all those lootable items hidden away in containers will reduce the use of the lock picking and electronic skills. One of the key benefits of those skills is to reduce the amount of lock picks and multi-tools required to break in to places. Sure, they can still be useful during the non-optional parts of missions, but the game makes a point to supply you with alternatives so that you don't ever have to use them. And not only that, there's plenty of lock picks and multi-tools around to last you through the "vital" sections of the game. It's when you dive into those optional areas for loot that the electronic and lock picking skills become useful and beneficial.
On the topic of "leveling up", no, you don't need to strictly level up in an RPG. However, you do need to be able to define your character in another way, ordinarily through a character creator at the start of the game. The problem with this method is that the player can't learn the usefulness of various attributes and skills and adapt their character accordingly without restarting the game. Leveling up provides the means to learn about the game and grow a character in a decent way. Of course, in a perfect game where every skill is useful and every combination of skills results in a valid play style, a pure character creator system without leveling up would be just as good from both an RPG perspective and the player's perspective. However, no game has come close to this and so having leveling up is the best we can hope for right now.
You did mention something about getting experience for doing things the hard way, and I agree with you that this sucks. You should be rewarded similarly for killing everyone, playing diplomatically, and stealthing through a level. I'm all in favour of rewards for different play styles. Perhaps even different rewards catered to those play styles. Completing a quest in a stealthy way will reward you with a something useful for stealthy characters etc. Deus Ex's system of rewarding skill points for exploration is pretty bad if you ask me. Probably the worst aspect of the entire game.
Pretty much. 'Course, there are bad and easily-exploited mechanics for trying approximate the consequences of theft. The "karma" mechanic in the latter-day Fallout games comes to mind and the "stolen" tag in Morrowind and Oblivion are equally bad, because they both assume an omniscient deity who knows who owned what you pilfered and more or less informs the entire world of it instantly.
They're poor substitutes to a guy coming in, noticing stuff is missing, and putting two and two together when he sees you down the street wearing his shoes and selling his stereo. But I still think the theft thing is a subset of the fact that every merchant in the world is selling things to you at a 1000% markup.
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Because 95% of the time (ignoring those times where augmentations are needed to get to places) the exploration experience can be gained without any test to the character's skills and abilities. In other words the character is rewarded for something the player can do on his own, without the involvement of the character. Picking locks, hacking and killing enemies tests the character's skills in lock picking, electronics and weapons. There's a fundamental difference.
Now, if exploration experience can only be gained after using skills and augmentations such as swimming and super jumping, the situation would be a whole lot better and make far more sense. If only a character with a high swim skill or aqualung can reach a place which grants exploration XP then you've tested the character in doing so. If you only need to find a vent to get it then how is the character being tested?
Would a system of scalable XP rewards work well here? Taking your swimming example; characters with more ability, capable of reaching more distant locations receive a higher amount of XP compared to Joe Everyman who can swim maybe the length of a pool before drowning. Make the more obscure areas that require greater (character) skill offer the greater reward. They shouldn't get 10,000XP for finding the lobby.
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That would work only if you do the same for all different play styles. For example, killing a very difficult batch of enemies that are only killable with a high specialisation in combat skills and augmentations should reward you just as heavily as exploration that requires almost maxed out swimming and aqualung combined.
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Such a terrible idea. Completing that section will always net you the exact same experience, however you do it. So why complicate the level design? Why not just reward the experience once after getting past those three guys? Use the vent, get the experience. Kill the guys, get the experience. Kill the guys and go through the vent, get the experience only once.
Sure, I was only giving one example. I'd add that the system should limit the player to prevent him/her from OCD'ing the game to max every style in the name of not missing content while basically creating Superman/woman. You can always play the game again as someone else.
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Why bother with all this? All you seem to want to do is grant every single player the same amount of experience no matter what he does. Why not just give a fixed amount of experience at the end of each mission? Performance related experience is almost always a bad thing because bad players can start lagging behind without being able to catch up. It's why the vast majority of RPGs give experience for completing tasks and not for how well they are completed. If you don't do well on a mission, get less experience and find the next mission even harder because of it, there's an even greater chance you'll get less experience on that mission too. You'll then fall into that vicious cycle that you might not be able to climb out of.
Sorry mate but that's not an RPG you've described there. You're basically saying "what if Deus Ex has no RPG elements?"
No, what I want to do is simulate the real-world phenomenon of "If I practise and study something, I acquire the skill to do it". And I want to do this by aligning my growing skill at the game with my character's growing skill in the game.
That does mean I'd want to reward doing an action well, not just reward the attempt. To me, the real relationship at play here is player-to-game, not character-to-world. If I can't play the game well, then my character loses out on XP. If my character loses out in XP, then I find the next level even harder to pass. Yes. That's good. I don't want to be able to make it to levels I don't have the appropriate player-skill for.
This thread is a great thread =) Thanks, Wisq.
The XP facet of the discussion is pretty interesting, but my favorite part of the original post is that whole point about acting like a normal person, and how it's pretty weird for the head of security to spend his time breaking crates for soy food (or whatever). I have been playing through DX1 recently and for the first time ever, I decided to be largely straightforward. Even when I'm sneaking, I sneak toward my objectives instead of acting like the Lewis and Clark of high-security office buildings.
And you're right, it's hard to stick to that idea of acting in anything like the same way a real JC Denton would act. Sidequests have always had that problem of making the protagonist seem like an aimless hobo even when his killswitch is running down; and yet I love sidequests. =)
In terms of Quest Design, DX1 usually does a good job of not forcing you to act like an obsessive collector to get the best payoff. But sometimes the good quests are slightly ruined by the Environment Design encouraging this "Omniburglar" mentality (omniburglar...awesome word, that). For example:
In Paris, there is a house belonging to an out-of-town arms dealer, and it's full of nice and relatively rare things. There is also a "quest" for it, where if you kill some guy, another guy will tell you about the house so you'll know it's worth breaking in to. I think that's how it goes.
The thing is, you have already broken into the house. Of course you have, if you're playing optimally. You broke into that house because it was there, because even if it only has soy food in it, you need to *know*. And you know it'll be a good house to break into, because the door is strong; and of course nobody on Earth buys a strong lock unless it's to give JC Denton a good diversion. So when the guy gives you the tip about the arms dealer, you start to realize that if you were a *normal* person who doesn't eat up every row of offices or houses like a corn-on-the-cob, it would have actually been a really great tip. It would help you locate a useful hotspot in the midst of a normal city.
It's not all just a kleptomania problem, though that's the most noticeable case of weirdness. But as has been said, talking to EVERYONE you see, about EVERYTHING you can think of, until they stop talking to you altogether, is weird. And crawling around in EVERY sewer and dark corner is weird too, without some ulterior motivation or really extraordinary wanderlust. Weird behavior for a person.
But not, come to think of it, weird behavior for a kid in a kid's museum. In real life, you don't always explore every option because of a vague knowledge that not every option is *for* you. But in a museum (or a playground or a specialty store), if you want to appreciate it fully, you really do look at EVERYTHING that has been created; because you know that you're the real center of the universe and that everything has been created for you. (Much like The Truman Show in a lot of respects, and even *that* world broke in interesting ways when he started exploring it). No one finds it strange for someone to systematically do every possible activity in a place designed for you.
So we have this interesting mixture in games like Deus Ex; there's a world that *professes* to be living and breathing and autonomous, existing for its own sake and giving you a mere place within it. But we know the truth already, that it's All For Us...and it's hard to play along with the ruse. =) In fact it sometimes seems like walking past that line of seemingly-ordinary offices without exploring it would be a BAD thing to do (in the sense of making you a "bad game-player")...because the developers designed each of those offices for you to see, and if you walk past the doors without opening them, that's like throwing part of their creation into the garbage. And you can't say "Well, knowing the office is there is enough" because you don't really know if it's a unique creation until you've looked (in this age of false doors and duplicate dungeons).
I'm not even sure if I consider all this to be a problem (or in which direction I'd consider it to be a problem =). But it's certainly something to think about. And I don't have any general solutions, but I did think of something fun regarding the stealing:
In real life, stealing is a selfish act that takes away things other people would use, because you want to use them instead. It takes a strong imagination to face a (moral or practical) dilemma about in-game burglary, because you know that you are THE ONLY PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE who will ever use that pistol hidden in someone's desk. (Again, it's All For You -- it's not stealing if it's already basically yours!). So what about this...
What if, stealing a pistol or some ammo or a medkit actually affects the NPC who it belonged to? Maybe you steal some ammo from the locker room and then, when it comes time for the siege, all your allies run out of ammo in like 5 seconds and start yelling "Need Ammo!!! Where are my boolets!?" because the boolets are in your cargo pants of infinite capacity. Or you take that pistol from the desk drawer, and you come back later to find out that person was shot to death when the office was raided...or else you find out that by taking the pistol you foiled the plot of someone who was going to go postal. So would you rather steal from your friends to further your goals; or would you rather have friendly NPCs who are well-equipped and happy? It could apply to other items besides weapons of course (consequences that aren't life-and-death but still interesting). Basically the idea being that sometimes, NPCs will act differently if you deprive them of items. (But steal only trivial things, and they may never miss them).
Only example of this behavior I can think of is in Oblivion where you can poison someone by stealing all the unpoisoned food from their house and leaving a poisoned replacement, or some RPGs let you pickpocket someone's weapons before you fight them. You can kind of reverse-burglarize Mr. Renton and Gunther in DX1 by providing them with weapons, too, which is cool...
yeah. I guess I'll go back to work now. :P
I am not truly afraid this will turn into the same RPG-definition discussion again (partly because I think people are slightly bored of that and will not do it again, and partly because it's not truly frightening ;) but I will still say before it becomes a Thing... Wizardry et al, when Keep says this, or when other people want player skill to play a factor, this does not mean they want to destroy games that are all character-skill. It does mean that they are talking about new ways to mix up the playerskill+characterprogression formula by exploring different links between skill and progression. That is okay, and nobody need be confused or pretend not to know this is a discussion about a particular type of game. =)
Edit: having articulated those silly desires for the discussion about the way we act in games to remain a discussion about suchlike and related topics...I will also say, the idea of not getting to upgrade your skillz until you've mastered other ones, works surprisingly better than it sounds, in Bastion. There, some upgrades and special abilities for a particular weapon are locked until you have completed previous training grounds with that weapon.
Maybe it'd be useful to use different language? We could talk about earning "ranks" in particular weapons or abilities in twitch-based games, as opposed to earning "levels" by gathering generic XP and applying it how you see fit.
Yes...ranks and levels. I have fixed every disagreement forever. ^_^ >_> -_-Last edited by Berzee; 24-08-2011 at 04:41 PM.
There was a major exception with Deus Ex 1, in that it didn't give you any points at all (beyond the basic "progress" XP) for accomplishing a pure stealth run, with no kills or knockouts whatsoever. I seem to recall that The Nameless Mod revamped this by offering you a potentially very large stealth bonus at the end, which was higher the more guards that were still standing and had never seen you.
But that's not how it works. Think about it. Deus Ex gives you bonus points for exploration and completing missions, just like a lot of old FPSes where you'd find secret areas and finish levels. Difference is that you can then redeem these points for permanent power-ups.
It's roughly the same degree of RPG-ness as OMF2097, where you earn money from fights and upgrade your robot; ie, not very. Deus Ex can be appreciated on its own merits without lamenting that it's not an RPG. As you've said with other games, it's a hybrid, and in this case it's about 90% FPS.Last edited by TillEulenspiegel; 24-08-2011 at 05:09 PM.
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Great post. I completely agree. I'm obsessive with exploration in games, and the thing is with those like Deus Ex actually reward that behaviour even if it's not "in character". Of course I've entered the arms dealer house (through the window is the best option). Because the game has been telling me that if I can go, something will be waiting there for me. How can you reward exploration without enforcing that kind of behaviour is beyond me.
That's a great idea. You could even stealthy steal all the enemy ammo before a confrontation. Weakening them (like destroying the enemy resource collectors in an RTS).
I'm pretty sure it would be an implementation nightmare though.
Just to clarify, your suggestion was (since people seemed to be sad about how sneaking or minmaxing gives you the most XP in DXHR) to just have people gain XP to spend at predetermined stages throughout the game, right?
You're right, I can't think of too much wrong with that. =) In a mostly-FPS game, that's what it ends up feeling like anyway (I just kind of play however and check my skills screen now and then to see if I have played "long enough" to get more upgrades).
The idea here was that taking approach A or approach B might net you different amounts of XP, depending on which one is harder / smarter. But taking approach A and approach B is worth only one of the two.
But yeah, I suspect the "skill cap per area" might be more appropriate here. Let's say the enemies are hard and the vent isn't too tricky to find (say, 100 XP), so the enemies are worth more (say, 50 XP each, 150 total). Put all those skill bonuses under a single cap of 150 XP. Don't make it obvious to the player, just stop giving rewards for any of those once they hit 150.
So here's the possibilites:
- Take the vent: 100 XP
- Kill / stun the guys: 150 XP
- Anything that involves taking the vent and killing / stunning at least one of the guys: 150 XP
- Not possible: Take the vent, kill / stun the guys, 250 XP
Problem here is, what happens if the player doesn't find the vent and just stealths past the three guys? Isn't that potentially harder, and potentially worth even more? How do you factor that in?
Maybe the Nameless Mod's approach was best. Stealth bonus for every enemy that remains standing and doesn't see you. It's different than Deus Ex 3's "Ghost" bonus because you get "Ghost" even if you do kill / knock everyone out. If the stealth bonus is a little higher than the XP you would earn for taking them out yourself, then there's a strong incentive to just avoid any enemies you can't directly deal with. At that point, it's an XP vs. loot tradeoff — more XP for avoiding them, but less loot for not looting the bodies.


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This crap is what the cancled Avenger's Earth's Mightiest heor's for? really? That is super ultra f*cking LAME. The art style looks like ass and the voice acting is cheesy as shit. WTF marvel? WTF!?
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This crap is what the cancled Avenger's Earth's Mightiest heor's for? really? That is super ultra f*cking LAME. The art style looks like ass and the voice acting is cheesy as shit. WTF marvel? WTF!?
Agreed!....I didn't even make it past the first 15 second of the first trailer before turning it off.
I'm diggin' it big time. I like the art and the animation too.
They can count on me tuning in for sure.
Yep, does not look good at all. and WHY the hell is Thor now the ''Prince'' of thunder instead of God of thunder? ''Nooooo, Disney will never meddle in Marvel's affair, Noooooo, Disney won't bring their ultra touchy politically correctness to Marvel''.....stupid religious not jobs have won again.
I was curious about that "Prince of Thunder" line as well, Definitely looks like an inferior show compared to Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Sad...very sad.
Didn't bother to watch... The stills look like ish
marvel may rule Hollywood but DC rules in cartoons
DC stepped on thier dicks when they canceled Green Lantern and Young Justice. So their decisions in the animation dept haven't impressed me at all. The last couple of DVD movies haven't been very good either.
I actually have high hopes for this. The animation isn't that different for AEMH, and I think they are using the same voice talents. And it takes off right from the movies. this way we will see the comic stories, that will never see the screen, in the movie universe.
Yeah, ever since DC canceled Young Justice, their animation is dead to me.
Not as good as AEMH but ill give it a shot. But why do BOTH shows have such a crappy voice for Tony Stark?
And the Prince of Thunder is ridiculous. The legend of Thor is ancient. He is a GOD. Get over the PC crap. next we'll have a black Asgardian... oh wait.
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eggplant curry recipe
Well, I've finally made that eggplant curry I was talking about making a while back. I've actually been quite amazed to see cheap eggplants already making their ways into stores this early on in the season, but you would never hear me complaining! Oh no, no. I'm really loving them right now. That being said, it has been a long and winding road, learning to love eggplants. I've never not liked them, I think it's been more a case of working in too many cafes where the done thing was to slather slices in way to much oil and chargrill. Ick.
Prepared in this way, the eggplant cooks down into meltingly soft mouthfuls that are full of flavour having soaked up all those fragrant spices and tomatoes.
I know a lot of people are scared off by long winded Indian recipes, with numerous ingredients and steps to follow. But this one I assure you is really straight forward. I have eliminated a few of the usual steps to not only make it faster to prepare, but a damn site healthier too. The recipe this was based on, deep-fried the eggplant first. I have chosen to use a onion base to give the same rich, deep flavour without all the fat. The trick is though, you really do have to cook the onion out for the full 10 minutes. Watch it, and stir often. But don't be scared to take it to almost burning point! I mean, you obviously don't want it to be burnt, but get it as close as you can. The depth of flavour this gives is mind-boggling, even more so if you use the ghee or clarified butter to cook it in. (I've included a recipe below for both).
I also don't bother with salting my eggplants. This step used to be essential to release the bitterness in most eggplants. But I find nowadays, that most eggplants if they are nice, young, freshly picked ones without big black seeds inside, they don't require this step.
As with most curries, the flavour of this really improves over time, so making it a day ahead is not a bad idea. Or make more than enough, so you have some leftovers for the following day.
Loosely based on a spiced eggplant recipe in The food of India by Priya Wickramasinghe and Carol Selva Rajah.
eggplant curry recipe
As mentioned above, like most curries this recipe keeps well, and actually improves with time. If you have leftovers simply reheat the next day, re-check seasoning, adding more salt if needed and serve on freshly steamed rice. I like to use ghee (see recipe below) in curries for the authentic flavour it gives. It is lactose-free, but if you avoid dairy altogether simply use a neutral vegetable oil like rice bran oil. I like to use whole cumin seeds, but by all means use ground cumin if that's what you have. Make sure you use regular brown onions in this recipe, red onions have a higher sugar content and tend to burn too easily in curries like this, where long, slow cooking is required. Serves 4-6
- 2 medium (800g/1lb 12oz) eggplants (aubergine)
- 3 Tbsp ghee/vegetable oil
- 1 medium onion, finely diced
- 2.5cm (1 inch) piece of fresh ginger, grated
- 6 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 1 tsp cumin seeds/ground cumin
- 1 Tbsp ground coriander
- 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
- 1/2 tsp cayenne or a small pinch of chilli powder
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 400g tin (14oz) chopped tomatoes
- a small handful of fresh coriander/cilantro leaves to garnish (optional)
Wash eggplants and dice into 2 cm cubes.
Heat ghee/oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally for about 10 minutes until a deep golden brown colour. (Be patient and don't be tempted to rush this stage).
Add the grated ginger, crushed garlic, fennel and cumin seeds. Cook for about 2 minutes until garlic and ginger are fragrant. Add ground coriander, turmeric, cayenne/chilli powder and salt. Cook for 30 seconds. Add the diced eggplant and stir well to coat evenly with spices. Pour in the tin of chopped tomatoes, give it a big stir, then place the lid on and continue to cook over low-medium heat for about 10-15 minutes. Check and stir a few times to ensure it's not catching on the bottom. Turn temperature down a little if need be.
When the sauce has thickened and the eggplant is meltingly soft, check the seasoning once more. Serve sprinkled with coriander/cilantro leaves and steamed rice. Enjoy!
ghee recipe
Ghee is so easy to make at home and is a great lactose-free alternative to butter in cooking. It heats to a high temperature without burning and gives a lovely buttery flavour. Clarified butter can be used in place of ghee and also has very low levels of lactose, if any. Because ghee has no milk solids it keeps really well at room temperature. I store mine in a glass jar on the bench for up to 1-2 months. You can make it in any amounts you like, but I tend to make at least 500g (1 pound) at a time.
- 500g (1 pound) unsalted butter
To take it further to ghee, simply cook for the full 10-15 minutes. In this time any foam left will drop to the bottom, combine with the milk solids and go all nutty and brown. This gives the ghee a lovely toasted flavour. Carefully pour the clear amber liquid into a glass jar, leaving behind the white sediment. Allow to cool and store either at room temperature or in the fridge.
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- Julie PercivalDecember 6, 2010 at 4:05 AM
mmmm! Just made this for dinner and it was SUPERT og FANTASTISK (super + fantastic in Norwegian). Thanks for the recipe :)
ReplyDelete Hi vi vian,
When you talk about the curry being bitter, are we talking about eggplant curry or just curries in general? If it is eggplant curry you are talking about, make sure you choose nice young eggplants that don't have large black seeds inside. If they are older and have large seeds you need to salt them to remove the natural bitterness. Simply chop the eggplant, sprinkle with a little salt, leave 30 minutes, rinse off with water and pat dry before continuing on with the recipe.
If it is other curries you are talking about, are you using tinned tomatoes by any chance? In the sauce base? These are way more acidic than regular tomatoes and I like to add a few teaspoons of sugar to counter-balance the bitterness. Failing that, are you burning the spices at any stage? These can cause bitter flavours too. Make sure when you cook the spices you add them in the order given in the recipe. Generally the whole spices get cooked first before briefly adding the ground spices.
Hope that helps. Please to write back if you had any further questions I may be able to help you with -emmOooh is that how ghee works. I never thought it was lactose free simply from boiling a while. I love your bowls!
ReplyDeleteHello there,
I made this tonight and it was beautiful. I haven't always been a fan of eggplant but my local indian place makes a great Eggplant dish and I had been looking around for a recipe for something similar. This was it. Have to say again it was fab.
Quick question though. My family like their food a bit milder. Would you suggest halving the spices or maybe removing one of them?
Thanks so much.
MichelleI made this recipe but it looks a lot more dry than in the pictures. I used one large eggplant so im wondering could that have been it?
ReplyDelete- AnonymousApril 7, 2013 at 5:20 PM
Hi Emma,
I am planning on cooking this tonight (as in tonight European time) and just on the off chance you see this...
Do I put in the fennel seeds without crushing or grinding them? I have never made curry from scratch and it is just something I stumbled over, since I don't know whether they soften or taste good when left whole.
FranziskaRepliesHi Franziska,
thanks for your message, I tend to just chuck the fennel seeds in whole, but by all means you can crush then if you'd prefer. It's only 1 teaspoon of them, so the flavour they give is not overly strong anyway.
xx Enjoy!- AnonymousApril 7, 2013 at 9:07 PM
Perfect timing Emma, thanks! I am about to cycle to a friends place to start cooking :) I'll go with chucking them in whole then! Will let you know how I went! Have a lovely evening!
xxx - AnonymousApril 8, 2013 at 7:39 PM
It was delicious! I ended up adding 2 sweet potatoes to the curry which I had on hand. This will be my new go to curry! Thanks again for your help Emma!
xxx Franziska
- Twinkie_hrSeptember 5, 2013 at 5:36 AM
I love eggplants and can eat them in any possible way. I just made this recipe tonight for my lunch tomorrow. I am doing the JJ Virgin week with no dairy, gluten, sugar- and this recipe is exactly what I need. But instead of canned, I used a fresh ripe homegrown-by-my-mom tomato and I can not wait until lunch tomorrow! This recipe is a keeper.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousOctober 29, 2013 at 12:28 AM
I tried this recipe some time ago and even my husband not being a big fan of eggplant really loved it. I would recommend it to anyone, it is so easy to do. Thanks for this great recipe. I have served it with some quinoa.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMay 7, 2014 at 5:18 AM
Hi, this looks delicious and easy! Do you think it would freeze well? If so, how would you thaw it? Sorry, i just love the thought of having portions of this ready to eat stashed away:)
ReplyDelete - AnonymousMay 8, 2014 at 1:02 PM
So excited to find this! I've got my first real hit of eggplants in the garden so I'm super keen to turn them into something delish :)
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Mets manager Terry Collins was concerned about how his players would respond to a trade coming the day after Matt Harvey's injury was revealed. He wanted to make sure everyone knows what the expectations are, and he has to be pretty happy with the way the Mets responded Tuesday night with a 5-0 shutout against the Phillies.
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Phillies catcher Carlos Ruiz is playing so well this month it could keep him in Philadelphia despite a long injury history.
Since July 28, he is batting .325 (26-for-80) with six doubles, four homers and 11 RBIs. He was hitting just .253 (38-for-150) with four doubles and nine RBIs in his first 46 games.
"Chooch is playing well," Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said. "We'll see how things play out through the end of the year. Obviously, we have some familiarity with Chooch. He's starting to play better overall baseball. He's healthy now and he's had a chance to get his feet on the ground. He was playing catchup for a while."
Worth noting
• Wright, who's been on the disabled list since Aug. 3 with a strained right hamstring, is heading to Port St. Lucie, Fla., on Thursday to continue rehabbing his injury. Collins said Wright will first track pitches but won't swing since he's not ready to swing "100 percent" yet. Then the team hopes Wright can play in games by Sunday or Monday, Collins said.
• The U.S. Open is currently underway in Queens, and Phillies infielders Michael Young, Kevin Frandsen and John McDonald stopped by Tuesday. They had the good fortune to meet tennis star Ana Ivanovic.
Kathleen Gier is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Creative, 'Homey' Designs Mark Family
by Daina Darzin
CHESTER, NJ - Designer Lois Perry Kirk of Kitchens Unique Inc. by
Lois is an NKBA award-winner whose work has appeared in national
magazines - and whose husband and both daughters work in her "very
family-oriented" business. It's this combination of "homey" and
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Originally a furniture designer, Kirk was taking time off and
working out of her home, only designing a few kitchens a year - and
her competition objected. "Other kitchen dealers were very upset
with that whole situation, that she was buying direct and didn't
have a showroom, [so] she was pushed into opening a showroom,"
explains treasurer Wendy Gizzi, who is also Kirk's daughter. Kirk
opened a tiny office in 1981 - and, ironically enough, was soon
eclipsing the very competition that forced her to expand her
Stepping up tile
The tile design division began, inadvertently, when Kitchens Unique
designers got tired of driving into New York with clients to look
at tile samples, and decided to start making their own. Gizzi
explains that designers at Kitchens Unique by Lois work with
several different artists on tile design, and keep current by going
to seminars and seeking out new tile looks from different parts of
the world. "We paint on stone, use matte finishes, apply more
texture and mix different things: tile with stone, some gloss
[with] some matte," she notes.
In addition to its tile division, the dealer stresses innovative
designs which have subsequently become major trends. "Fourteen
years ago, she started doing two-tone kitchen [cabinets]. Back
then, it wasn't the norm. The first cabinets she ordered that way,
the cabinet manufacturer thought the order was a mistake," Gizzi
recalls with a laugh. That particular kitchen became a national
award winner, and Kirk "started developing more furniture-quality
kitchens, incorporating legs and [multiple] door styles," says
Gizzi. "She's always been a pioneer, [and] she's always been into
textures and multiple finishes, heights, depths, bringing a lot of
warmth to a room.
"When you look in your living room, you don't see all one color,
one texture; you see a lot of [different looks]," Gizzi continues.
The idea of a kitchen is to blend with the rest of the home, not
where "you have friends sitting in the family room, [and] they see
the linoleum floor and cabinets the same height [and think], 'That
must be the kitchen.'"
Similarly, in bathrooms, Gizzi believes, "You really want that
warmth in there, natural stones, texture; [you don't want]
everything sleek and hard."
Current kitchen projects feature range hoods that seem more like
fireplace mantles and brick backsplashes, to bring more of a hearth
feeling to the kitchen cooking area, Gizzi notes. Unfitted,
free-standing pieces, such as islands with legs that resemble an
old-time farm kitchen table, are also a part of the equation.
"We're going back to the way things used to be, when people
gathered around that fireplace, and had the big farmer's table in
the middle of the kitchen," Gizzi explains. "We have three kitchen
designers [now] and a tile designer working with our clients, so I
think everyone's needs are pretty much met."
Home office design
In recent years, Kitchens Unique has also expanded to home offices
and libraries. "Everyone is going home to work now," says Gizzi.
"People usually work better in their own environment. We're finding
that everybody lives a little differently, so they really need a
custom [design] around them instead of putting up basic home center
cabinetry. We try to create an environment where people walking
into that room feel like they're in business."
Lighting that maximizes a computer area and executive
office-quality furniture are important components of this, Gizzi
elaborates. "They're used to being around a nice environment, so
why not at home? They can have beautiful cherry paneling, and a
rolling ladder [against a bookcase] with all their books on it, a
beautiful desk, a warm environment, someplace they want to
First incorporated in 1981, Kitchens Unique does full installation
as well as design, with some consistent, long-term relationships
with contractors for plumbing and the like. "Word of mouth was our
biggest asset," Gizzi says about the company's growth. Kitchens
Unique doesn't advertise in the Yellow Pages or
newspapers, preferring upscale, Architectural Digest-type
The firm's only two complaints? "We're looking for good employees,
[which] is hard," says Gizzi, who jokes that having all the
principals be family members can also have its disadvantages. "It's
hard to keep [work] away from us during down time," she
"On holidays, the conversation around the table is all
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Go back in time a decade or two to find Chinese Americans being called "opium eaters" and "opium fiends" ("Celestials" was another common insult), and go forward a decade to the time of the juke joints and find cannabis usage being tied to "Negroes", promiscuity, and licentiousness, and you have the corollary of today's "narco-terrorism".
The first lesson from all this is that human nature hasn't changed and there's nothing new under the sun. The second is that when the majority of a culture is already suspicious of some minority group, they will, with the slightest provocation, try to tie them to everything they fear -- foreign invaders, immorality, bombings and assassinations, and a desire to destroy the dominant culture.


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edema (eh-DEE-muh): swelling caused by too much fluid in the body.
electrolytes (ee-LEK-troh-lyts): chemicals in the body fluids and dialysis solution, including sodium, potassium, magnesium, and chloride. The kidneys control the amount of electrolytes in the body. When the kidneys fail, electrolytes get out of balance, causing potentially serious health problems. Dialysis can restore the balance.
end-stage renal disease (ESRD) (END-STAYJ) (REE-nuhl) (dih-ZEEZ): total and permanent kidney failure. When the kidneys fail, the body retains fluid. Harmful wastes build up. A person with ESRD needs treatment to replace the work of the failed kidneys.
erythropoietin (uh-RITH-roh-POY-uh-tin): a hormone made by the kidneys to help form red blood cells. Lack of this hormone may lead to anemia.
ESRD (EE-ESS-AR-DEE): see end-stage renal disease.
exchange (eks-CHAYNJ): in peritoneal dialysis, the draining of used dialysis solution from the abdomen, followed by refilling with a fresh bag of solution. See peritoneal dialysis under dialysis.
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fistula (FISS-tyoo-luh): see arteriovenous fistula.
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GFR (JEE-EF-AR): see glomerular filtration rate.
glomerular filtration rate (GFR) (gloh-MAIR-yoo-lar) (filTRAY-shuhn) (rayt): the rate at which the kidneys filter wastes and extra fluid from the blood, measured in milliliters per minute.
glomeruli (gloh-MAIR-yoo-ly): plural of glomerulus.
glomerulonephritis (gloh-MAIR-yoo-loh-neh-FRY-tiss): inflammation of the glomeruli. Most often, it is caused by an autoimmune disease, but it can also result from infection.
glomerulosclerosis (gloh-MAIR-yoo-loh-skluh-ROH-suhss): scarring of the glomeruli. It may result from diabetes (diabetic glomerulosclerosis) or from deposits in parts of the glomeruli (focal segmental glomerulosclerosis). The most common signs of glomerulosclerosis are proteinuria and chronic kidney disease.
glomerulus (gloh-MAIR-yoo-Glomerulus luhss): a tiny set of looping blood vessels in the nephron where blood is filtered in the kidney.
graft: in a transplant, the transplanted organ or tissue. See also arteriovenous graft.
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hematocrit (hee-MAT-oh-krit): a measure that tells what portion of a blood sample consists of red blood cells. Low hematocrit suggests anemia or massive blood loss.
hematuria (HEE-muh-TOO-ree-uh): blood in the urine, which can be a sign of a kidney stone, glomerulonephritis, or other kidney problem.
hemodialysis (HEE-moh-dy-AL-ih-siss): see dialysis.
hormone (HOR-mohn): a natural chemical produced in one part of the body and released into the blood to trigger or regulate particular body functions. The kidney releases three hormones: erythropoietin, renin, and calcitriol.
hyperkalemia (HY-pur-kuh-LEE-mee-uh): abnormally large amounts of potassium in the blood, often as a result of poor kidney function or inadequate dialysis.
hypertension (HY-pur-TEN-shuhn): a condition present when blood flows through the blood vessels with a force greater than normal. Also called high blood pressure. Hypertension can strain the heart, damage blood vessels, and increase the risk of kidney problems, heart attack, stroke, and death.
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immune system (ih-MYOON) (SISS-tuhm): the body's system for protecting itself from viruses and bacteria or any foreign substances.
immunosuppressant (IM-yoo-noh-soo-PRESS-uhnt): a drug given to stop the natural responses of the body's immune system. Immunosuppressants are given to prevent organ rejection in people who have received a transplant and to people with certain autoimmune diseases, such as lupus.
interstitial nephritis (IN-tur-STISH-uhl) (neh-FRY-tiss): inflammation of the kidney cells that are not part of the fluid-collecting units. Interstitial nephritis is a condition that can lead to acute renal failure or chronic kidney disease.
intravenous pyelogram (IN-truh-VEE-nuhss) (PY-el-oh-GRAM): an x ray of the urinary tract. A dye is injected into a vein in the patient's arm to make the kidneys, ureters, and bladder visible on the x ray and to show any blockage in the urinary tract.
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kidney (KID-nee): one of the two bean-shaped organs that filter wastes from the blood. The kidneys are located near the middle of the back, one on each side of the spine. They create urine, which is delivered to the bladder through tubes called ureters.
kidney failure (KID-nee) (FAYL-yoor): loss of kidney function. see end-stage renal disease, acute renal failure, and chronic kidney disease.
kidney function (KID-nee) (FUHNK-shuhn): the amount of work done by the kidneys. A decline in kidney function means the kidneys are not filtering wastes and fluid from the blood as well as they should. See glomerular filtration rate.
Kt/V (KAY-TEE-OH-vur-VEE): a measurement of dialysis dose. The measurement takes into account the efficiency of the creatinine clearance, the treatment time, and the total volume of urea in the body. Kt/V is also used in determining the adequacy of peritoneal dialysis. See urea reduction ratio. See peritoneal dialysis under dialysis.
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I have been thinking of you many times throughout the past months. I hope that you are doing well. Do you remember coming to our home in February? I believe your visit had an impact.. let me explain how.
Well, I (finally) resigned from Siemens, left there in mid-March. Since then, I got my life back—doing many things I've wanted to do for a long time… The first three months, I worked on the house, painted three rooms (your recommendations), cleaned out closets, got rid of lots of stuff. Per your suggestion, we put up lots of our western photos from our visits out west… Then, I spent the summer with my daughter. I always wanted to be a summer camp counselor, and I was one for the "Gummy Bears", a group of six-year-olds, at my daughter's camp at Westtown Friends. Eight weeks, sweating, moving around—- what was I thinking??? I was the oldest group counselor, and I felt it, but am proud to have "gone to the other side." Then, we DID go back out west to Wyoming—Jackson Hole, Yellowstone, rafting, horseback riding—it was Becca's first time out there and she had a ball.
We made some big decisions based upon our values—- since I left my corporate job, Becca is now (beginning this school year) in public school. For the first time, she is not in extended care in the a.m. and p.m., she rides the school bus and loves it! We are trying to unload some things we don't need anymore—- selling them on ebay, taking to consignment shops, etc. The only thing I miss is my own paycheck, but I'm getting over it for the time being.
And now, I am looking for work—aiming for part-time. I'll keep you posted.
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