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The Food Storage Blog Food Storage for the Rest of Us Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:00:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /blog/wp-content/themes/yashfa/favicon.png The Food Storage Blog Quick Post: Interesting Freeze Dry Experience /2025/03/quick-post-interesting-freeze-dry-experience/ /2025/03/quick-post-interesting-freeze-dry-experience/#respond Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:00:47 +0000 /?p=1927 We’re big bread eaters in my family. A few years back, I freeze dried some tortilla’s (March 2019) to try to put something vaguely bread-like into our storage. They were normal, from Kroger, nothing weird about them. My primary question was whether something with so little water content to begin with would come out well […] The post Quick Post: Interesting Freeze Dry Experience first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> We’re big bread eaters in my family. A few years back, I freeze dried some tortilla’s (March 2019) to try to put something vaguely bread-like into our storage. They were normal, from Kroger, nothing weird about them. My primary question was whether something with so little water content to begin with would come out well in the freeze dryer. They are a difficult food to store because you need a big bag to store them in (I ended up using a 12″x17″x6″ bag, which held maybe 8 tortilla’s due to the way they bend, and most ended up broken.) So I did maybe 2 trays and ended up with 2 Mylar bags of tortillas. I found them early last year, sometime at the end of Winter or start of spring, and I opened up a bag. They were 5 years old or so at the time. They were crispy, tasty, and certainly did well in the freeze dryer. So, when all is said and done, this was a successful experiment. Now this is where it gets interesting. Those open (still in ziplock) tortillas have been sitting in a warehouse since last year when I opened them. I’ve been cleaning out the warehouse as we prepare to move, and I found them. My assumption was to throw them out, because certainly they must be bad after spending all summer, fall and winter just on a table. However, after all this time, they were still perfect. Ok, not a that great of a story, but it goes against what my gut thought. In general, tortilla’s go bad in weeks, so to have them last 6 years, 1 of those years with no oxygen absorption or moisture control, makes me consider looking at adding them to my storage, no matter how bulky they are. While they would break trying to use them for actual cooking, they taste good right out of the bag, and would be good with soup or stew. A second thought I had about them was I wonder if I could just dehydrate them instead of freeze drying them. It might only take a few hours to do a load. I just moved my dehydrator into my food storage area, so I am going to give that a try also!The post Quick Post: Interesting Freeze Dry Experience first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> /2025/03/quick-post-interesting-freeze-dry-experience/feed/ 0 A Very Spicy Rice and Beans Adventure /2025/03/a-very-spicy-rice-and-beans-adventure/ /2025/03/a-very-spicy-rice-and-beans-adventure/#respond Sun, 16 Mar 2025 04:13:33 +0000 /?p=1922 (Sorry about the lack of photos, I didn’t think about writing it up until I was putting it in the freeze dryer) This weekend, I decided to dig into a food storage project and test out a recipe I’ve been working on for my updated one-year supply plan: a Spicy Turkey Sausage Chili with Rice. […] The post A Very Spicy Rice and Beans Adventure first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> (Sorry about the lack of photos, I didn’t think about writing it up until I was putting it in the freeze dryer) This weekend, I decided to dig into a food storage project and test out a recipe I’ve been working on for my updated one-year supply plan: a Spicy Turkey Sausage Chili with Rice. I’m trying to modernize the traditional LDS food storage recommendations, focusing on shelf-stable ingredients that the average American family would enjoy, with less reliance on a more particularly LDS bent (Their recommendations are good if you’re a homesteader, but out of place in the average American neighborhood). This chili seemed like a perfect candidate—packed with stuff from my food storage: canned chili beans, dried onions, rice, plus a hefty dose of spices that would keep things interesting during a long-term emergency. But man, while this dish was a winner in terms of flavor, it was HOT! Turns out when I wrote the recipe out I had used ‘tsp’ correctly, when I actually started adding the spices, I added 2 Tablespoons of cayenne instead of 2 Teaspoons. I did the same with the garlic. Doh! Anyway, I started with one of those massive 110 oz can of Bush’s chili beans I keep on hand (This one with a best by date of 2021!)—perfect for a big batch—and paired it with turkey sausage and rice. Overall, I’m trying to find a rice and beans recipe that uses both staples and tastes good with a minimum amount of ingredients. Because I wanted to get a full freeze dry load (15lbs for me, 5 trays), I actually used 2 10-quart crock pots and did 2 full batches. Each used 2.75 cups of uncooked rice (about 10 years old in my food storage!), which I cooked separately as the rest was simmering, and I went for more spices than I ever have (I had AI pick me out some spices that might help give it a Cajun flair): cayenne, paprika, oregano, black pepper, thyme, and garlic. These spices align with the top 10 most commonly used ones (as I learned during another AI search recently), making them a practical choice for a food storage meal. Dried onions kept things simple, though you could easily use fresh onion. And the whole dish (all 19lbs worth!) came together in a bit over an hour. I always check older cans prior to opening. The chili ones are showing some wear on the tops, but overall they looked good, though I did discard one with a bad dent. After opening the can (reminder: I need a new can opener) I could immediately tell they were still good, with no off smells, just chili beans in sauce. The aroma as it simmered was great—rich, smoky, and savory, with the Thyme maybe being the odd note out, as its something I never use (I’m very plain Jane when it comes to spices). When I added the rice to the chili, it looked hearty and comforting, something I could easily eat after a hard day in any kind of survival scenario. I could very easily make this in a dutch oven over a fire or a big pot over one of my propane mini-stoves. The first bite was a flavor (nuclear) explosion: I couldn’t tell whether it was the Thyme that seemed a bit overpowering, even over the cayenne. The turkey sausage added a bit of protein (more on that later), the beans were fine even 4 years out of date, and the spices were…spicy! Except for the Turkey Sausage which I bought this morning, it was made entirely from shelf-stable ingredients I already have in my food storage. But: it was hot. Like, really hot. I know it wouldn’t be for many of you, but you have to remember that my idea of spicy is adding garlic pepper to my macaroni and cheese. And the 2nd bowl I had for dinner was even HOTTER. I don’t know if it setting for a few hours made it spicier or what, but it was like Mount Vesuvius and I burned the roof of my mouth. This was after I ended up adding a half cup of water to each Crock Pot while it was cooking; that helped, but I think next time I’ll dial the cayenne back to 1 tablespoon. I also think I need a bit more liquid; I’m going to try maybe a cup of chicken broth to give it a nice touch of oil on top. Overall, this Spicy Turkey Sausage Chili with Rice is a win for my updated food storage plan. 15 of the 19 pounds made it into the freeze dryer, with one leftover tray in the freezer, and one pound in my belly. It’s easy to make, uses ingredients that store well for years, and delivers on taste (if you can handle the heat). I’ll definitely tweak the spice level for my family’s palate, but it fits into my goal of creating a more diverse, practical one-year supply—less reliance on wheat-heavy recipes and more on comforting, familiar dishes like this. If you like a good plate of rice and beans, give this a whirl. If you have better spice substitutions than what I have, please let me know. Again, I was hoping to lean more to the Cajun side and while it was delicious I don’t know if I really succeeded at that. One thing to remember: I’m not a cook, and I don’t even play one on TV. I’m a prepper just trying to be a bit more prepared and learn a bit more about flavors, spices, and what things go well together. Ingredients: 2.75 cups uncooked rice 1 can (110 oz) chili beans 1 cup dried onion 4 tbsp garlic (minced or powder) (Should be 4 tsp or to taste, I’m just recreating what I did) 2 tbsp cayenne pepper (Should be 2 tsp or to taste) 1 tsp paprika 1 tsp oregano 1/2 tsp black pepper 1 tsp thyme 13oz pack of turkey sausage (I used the Kroger brand) Instructions Add Chili Beans to Crock Pot, putting it on high heat. If you like your Turkey Sausage crispier, brown on the stove, keeping the pieces 1/4″ thick or smaller (for freeze drying), as well as halving or quartering if desired. If the texture doesn’t matter, you can cut and add to the Crock Pot and have it cook with the beans. Add 1 cup dried onion and 4 tbsp garlic to the pot with the sausage. Stir for 2-3 minutes until fragrant. (If using dried garlic, you can add it with the spices in the next step.) These chili bean cans are big, so mixing thoroughly is important. Add Spices: Stir in 2 tbsp cayenne pepper, 1 tsp paprika, 1 tsp oregano, 1/2 tsp black pepper, and 1 tsp thyme. Mix thoroughly. Leave Crock Pot on high for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes or so, then turn to low. In a separate pan (I did it in a Aroma Rice Cooker) Prepare the Rice: Cook 2.75 cups of uncooked rice according to package instructions (typically 1:2 ratio of rice to water, so 5.5 cups water). The instructions for the Aroma cooker were odd…it suggested 1.3 cups of water to rice. This had the entire batch of rice end up pretty dry as well, which didn’t help the consistency of the whole dish. While the cooker wouldn’t hold a full 1:2, I will up the water to 1.5 cups/cup of rice the next time I try this to see if I can get a bit stickier rice. Combine: Add the finished rice to the Crock Pot, stir thoroughly. Turn to warm and serve. Finished each Crock Pot ended up with 9.5lbs of food! Notes Servings: A 110 oz can of chili beans is big (about 12 cups), so this recipe serves 12-15 people a pretty hearty portion. I ate mine with Scoops. Part of this experiment for me is figuring out what I would actually do at the end of the world with these giant cans of Bush’s beans. Most likely I wouldn’t be the one cooking, but it never hurts to learn something. Shelf-Stable: This recipe uses mostly pantry staples (dried onions, spices, canned beans, rice), making it ideal for food storage. I could just as easily freeze dry the turkey sausage as well (I think I have some tucked away in one of my totes) to have the complete recipe. However, if you don’t have a freeze dryer this recipe can get away without the turkey sausage. Honestly, 13oz wasn’t enough sausage for a recipe this big; I will double it next time (and end up with over 10lbs per crock pot!) Adjusting Heat: The 2 tbsp cayenne makes this very spicy. I’ll reduce this to 1 tbsp next time, plus lower the garlic and see how that does. It should be a little thinner, so next time I’m going to add at least a cup of chicken broth as it cooks, maybe 2. That should also give it a nice savory shine. The post A Very Spicy Rice and Beans Adventure first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> /2025/03/a-very-spicy-rice-and-beans-adventure/feed/ 0 5 Mil vs. 7 Mil…again. /2024/09/5-mil-vs-7-mil-again/ /2024/09/5-mil-vs-7-mil-again/#respond Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:08:48 +0000 /?p=1878 Back in the old days, I used to love getting into a good ole’ Facebook (or forums before that) row. Nowadays, it makes me sick to my stomach. As a father, I try to give good advice to my daughters; a consequence has been I try to take any advice that I give them (ugg!). […] The post 5 Mil vs. 7 Mil…again. first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> Back in the old days, I used to love getting into a good ole’ Facebook (or forums before that) row. Nowadays, it makes me sick to my stomach. As a father, I try to give good advice to my daughters; a consequence has been I try to take any advice that I give them (ugg!). Kindness, forgiveness, sharing, compassion etc. I really struggled with that last night.=) I basically had a Facebook person telling me that I was lying when I said you could store food long term in 5 mil bags, and that I was a horrendous person trying to kill people because I had too many 5 mil bags on hand I couldn’t get rid of. Of course, most of us know you can store food in 5 mil bags because we’ve done it; I even have food from 2007 still stored in 3.5 mil and 4.3 mil bags. These products have been around for decades, and if they DIDN’T work, we’d know it. The Internets would be full of stories of failed bags and ruined food. And yeah, occasionally one of those stories pop up, and the culprit is usually user error. I had my own share of failures back almost 20 years ago when I first started and I didn’t know what I didn’t know; but again, that was on me, and not on the products involved. The good news is we also see the stories about folks opening up their Y2K food in 4.3 mil bags and its all still awesome. So today, I’m going to break down the argument that there is something intrinsically better about a 7 mil bag that makes it so superior that 5 mil bags should never be used. You can find lots of this info in our video here, I’m just going to go into a bit more detail in this post. Let me start with some premises: 1: Yes, the best 7 mil bags will be better than the best 5 mil bags. I think this is where some of this argument stems from. A good manufacturer of bags cares about both their products and the materials they are made from, and so our 7 mil bags are ‘better’ than our 5 mil bags from a technical standpoint, because there’s more quality material there. As examples, we add Nylon for tensile strength, we use real Mylar because its inherently stronger than the materials people replace it with. These things make a difference, and the testing shows it. However, here’s the rub. Just because the 7 mil bag is ‘better’ by a few percentage points doesn’t mean its going to keep your food fresh any longer, because the amount of oxygen and moisture getting to your food is so small due to the incredible barrier properties of the primary barrier layer, which isn’t actually Mylar…its aluminum foil. The harder truth for some folks to realize is that there are some 5 mil bags that are measurably better on some performance indicators than some 7 mil bags, depending on who is making the bag. It’s like how you can have a $25,000 automobile with better acceleration than a $40,000 automobile. 2: Aluminum foil – The best Mylar bags (4.3 mil and up usually) on the market use a .00035″ layer of aluminum foil (some also use a thinner .000285″ layer). It’s a common laminate, and used in all kinds of things, from reflective insulation to metallic tape. And in perfect condition, it has zero oxygen and zero moisture pass-through. This is the main reason why 5 mil bags have nearly identical barrier properties to 7 mil bags…they are both starting from a base of zero. Now, there is a measurement regarding the aluminum foil layer, ‘pinholes per meter squared’, and this is why when in actual use Mylar bags don’t have perfect scores when it comes to oxygen and moisture penetration. Both in the manufacturing process, as well as in the process of storing food, it has and can develop tiny pinholes. In many places on the Internet, you can see people freaking out about pinholes…but they are just part of the process, and they are inevitable. And this is why your Mylar bags have several other layers that are NOT prone to pinholes. 3: Other Layers – In our case, our 5 mil bags are made of 5 total layers, and our 7 mil bags have 7 total layers. We are the only Mylar bag seller we know still using Mylar as one of those layers. So why Mylar? It has good barrier qualities, exceptional tensile and mechanical strength and is very easy to work with. Others replace Mylar with lower-performing materials because it is expensive. LLDPE, the most common replacement for Mylar used by some of our competitors, is up to 500 times worse (yes, the numbers can be crazy) on OTR (Oxygen transmission) and up to 10 times worse on WVTR (Water vapor transmission) than actual BoPet. Our 7 mil bags (and now our Steelpak 4 mil bags) have a Nylon layer. Why? Because it too offers added puncture protection. Most sellers sell 3-4 layer bags because they are cheaper to produce and offer sufficient protection for many uses. The good part for them is that a thick bag feels like a thick bag, however its made, which is why when you ask ‘what’s your favorite Mylar bag’ you get so many answers, because they all FEEL good and sturdy, and most folks think that correlates to being made from quality materials. However, ask other producers what their bags are made of, and WHY, and you’ll likely be greeted by blank stares. Most other sellers are white labelers, meaning they create an e-commerce business around selling a product that’s profitable. And there’s nothing wrong with that. But they are not Flexible Packaging companies, of which Discount Mylar Bags is the only one specializing in food storage packaging solutions. Even though most folks know us as Discount Mylar Bags, our official name is ShieldPro Flexible Packaging, because we design packaging solutions for both the retail and corporate marketplace. Our customers range from the Department of Defense, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, multiple university research labs (One which said our bags tested better for pharmaceuticals than some products designed for it), multiple food and supplement companies, the USAF (to protect parts from corrosion) and hundreds of others. 4: The Science – I know, I am very skeptical of that term as well. However, in this case, it is just the measurement of how products perform. I’m not even going to use the fancy OTR/WVTR numbers (though you are welcome to email me about them)…I’m going to break it down even further. So how much oxygen does a Mylar bag let through each year? For a quality 5 mil 1.25 quart bag, the answer is .22cc/year. For a quality 7 mil 1.25 quart bag, the answer is .19cc/year. Both of those numbers are ridiculously low. If you are using a 300cc oxygen absorber from us, with around an 1100cc actual rating, and you assume 300cc of that capacity is used when you first seal the bag, you will have enough oxygen absorption for another 3,636 years with a 5 mil bag, and another 4,210 years with a 7 mil bag. So yes, that 7 mil bag will do better for you if you are an Egyptian pharaoh, but not so much if you’re a rural mom or dad like me.=) Of course, your food will break down long before you open the bag, but at least there still won’t be any oxygen in it a couple of centuries from now. The numbers for moisture are actually closer than they are for Oxygen, and are essentially a rounding error, with no measurable improvement in MVTR between 5 and 7 mil and between .19 and .22cc/year. So assuming you are using good bags, and good oxygen absorbers, you will get exactly the same results (unless you live 4000 years) using 5 mil bags instead of 7 mil. I know this post and others like it can make folks feel a little weird. After all, the ‘Internet’ tells me to only use 7 mil bags! And the Internet is never wrong, right? 5: Yes, it feels WEIRD to think a great thick bag isn’t protecting your food much better than a thinner one, but it is true. Take a look at the below chart; these are various types of films used in various products. Please note the HUGE variations in these numbers, a difference by a factor of over 100,000 between some of the products. What films you use in manufacturing matters. However, please note that EVERY one of these films has its place, depending on the application. Some have a better melting point, some are easier to laminate, some bind better to aluminum or another material, etc. But the statement made to me last night, that a 5mil bag CAN’T ever be used to store food long term and that I must be trying to kill people by selling them, is just a statement made from a lack of information. One type of plastic at 2 mil might not be able to hold up a 12oz cup of coffee, while another 2 mil film of a different plastic might hold up a brick. That’s how big a variation there can be. A plastic bag you put in your fridge might have an oxygen pass-through rate of 1000cc/day. A better one that is lighter than the first might have an OTR rate of 100cc/day, just through the use of different materials. So if you’ve had a bad experience with a particular bag, please don’t make the assumption that every other product like it will also be bad. There’s as much difference in Mylar bags as there is between a Chevy and a Toyota in terms of quality of materials. And so just because your Ford broke down that time doesn’t mean even every Ford will, let alone another brand. 6: The one actual benefit of a good 7 mil bag: tensile strength and the ability to resist punctures. Yes, if you have puncture prone food, by all means use a 7 mil bag. But if you are only worried about longevity, you can’t go wrong with a 5 mil bag produced by a manufacturer who cares about a quality product, and there are several on the market.The post 5 Mil vs. 7 Mil…again. first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> /2024/09/5-mil-vs-7-mil-again/feed/ 0 Should Your Mylar Bags Contract? /2024/06/should-your-mylar-bags-contract/ /2024/06/should-your-mylar-bags-contract/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2024 17:50:13 +0000 /?p=1839 It’s been a while since I did a too-long post, so this one’s been cooking for a while.  Being more active in Facebook groups has made me start to re-examine every bit of advice I’ve both given and received as ‘conventional wisdom’ over the years.  I’ve put up over a hundred bags of food recently, […] The post Should Your Mylar Bags Contract? first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> It’s been a while since I did a too-long post, so this one’s been cooking for a while.  Being more active in Facebook groups has made me start to re-examine every bit of advice I’ve both given and received as ‘conventional wisdom’ over the years.  I’ve put up over a hundred bags of food recently, and I’ve gone back over my thousand+ other bags and it’s made me change my thoughts on one bit of advice I’ve been reading recently.  The question I’m posing today is an easy one: should your Mylar bags contract when using an oxygen absorber?   The reason I felt the need to write this is to clarify some information I see people giving out on this subject.  Additionally, there was a gentleman in one of my earlier threads that said essentially none of his bags contracted and he thought it was OK because of what people were saying, and that started to worry me.  We (as a community) may have let the contraction issue slide too easily, and here’s why.  One of the most common answers to the question is a variation of : ‘they don’t have to, as air is only 20% oxygen, and that’s all that’d being absorbed.’  While true, that’s not nearly a complete answer. TL; DR:  My new concise answer to this question is now:  Assuming your bag is mostly full and barring powders, yes, your Mylar bags should contract if using an oxygen absorber.  If they don’t (or haven’t), I would test a bag or two.  Of the dozens of food types, both dry goods and freeze dried foods I have stored (a partial listing at the bottom), the only ones where I can’t see some contraction are powders:  mainly flour and eggs.  There are a couple of other food types that show less contraction, such as bread or oats. Food in 7 Mil bags show less contraction than in 5 Mil bags, due to higher tensile strength and less ‘printing’ (This is where you can run your nail down a Mylar bag and see a line). Finally, heavy small bags, such as 7 mil 5″x7″x3″ bags, will show very little contraction vs. larger or lighter bags, especially if not completely full. My concern is that some of the food storage supply companies may be deflecting from the fact that their absorbers are under-weighted (see experiment in a few paragraphs) by saying that its OK for your food to not contract.  And some of the freeze dry and prepper user base has picked up on that and there’s very little concern over bags not contracting. So I did an experiment with samples I recently purchased from one of the most popular food storage companies.  I’m not going to name names, because I’d rather have folks reproduce this on their own than take my word for it if they feel my methodology has some holes. Experiment Part A: 1:  2 brands of Oxygen Absorber, Brand A and Brand B; the Brand A oxygen absorbers are rated 300cc, and the Brand B oxygen absorbers are rated 400cc.  Generally speaking, 300cc is considered the right amount to clear a 1 gallon bag filled with food. The 300cc Brand A absorbers weigh approximately .303 ounce per packet; the 400cc Brand B absorbers weigh approximately .094 ounce per unit. Oxygen Absorbers – Brand A on Left, Brand B on Right 2:  20 8”x12”x4” 9 Cup 5 Mil (2.25 quart) Mylar Bags; both absorbers should have 0 issues with clearing this size bag, and this experiment should have ended here. 3:  Half the Bags are filled with Macaroni (approx. 2.75 lbs), and half with Quick Oats (approx. 2 lbs, they are way less dense).  Each Brand of Oxygen Absorber was used in 5 bags of Macaroni, and 5 Bags of Quick Oats. I thought the initial part of the experiment would be a 1 and done.  Either all of the bags would contract or all of the pasta bags would contract (but not the oats, because I’ve heard for 15 years they often won’t, and it’s not something I’ve added to my storage until just recently) and that would be the end of the experiment.  However, when I came in the next day to check, something I didn’t expect had occurred.  All 10 bags of the Brand A oxygen absorbers (the ones I generally use) had fully contracted, all 5 of the brand B pasta bags had contracted, but all 5 brand B oats bags had either not contracted or ran out of capacity before they fully contracted.  A few of the brand B oat bags had the beginning stages of contraction, but not completely. Brand A Contracted Bags What does this tell us?  My thought is that the Brand B absorbers, which you can tell from the pictures are very small compared to the ones I normally use, had enough capacity to clear the Pasta, but not enough capacity to clear the Oats.  So what does THAT tell us?  A 300cc rated absorber, at exactly its rating, should clear 1.5 liters of air of oxygen.  A 400cc rated absorber, at exactly its rating, should clear 2 liters of air of oxygen.  The 2.25 quart bags I was using = 2.13 liters of air.  Meaning, both absorbers should be able to almost clear the bags with NOTHING IN THEM.  The fact that the 400cc absorber struggled to clear full bags of oats is a strong indication that its given capacity rating is suspect. (and potentially dangerous if people are relying on them in  2 quart+ bags)  Brand B, Half the Bags Contracted, Half Didn’t (or didn’t complete) I don’t know if any math geniuses out there want to help me with this, but even if the full bags of oats had 50% internal airspace, the absorbers would only have had to clear 1.07 liters of air, well below the 2.0 liters 400cc absorbers SHOULD clear.  The pasta bags specific density WAS high enough for them to clear, so we know the actual capacity of those 400cc absorbers is somewhere between the Food Density (my made up word to describe how much internal airspace a particular food has) of Oats x 2.13 liters and the Food Density of Pasta x 2.13 liters.  In any case, I think I can state with certainty that those 400cc absorbers don’t actually rate 400cc. Yes, that sentence is hard to read, but I think it says what I want it to.=) BUT, this made me need to add an extra step to this process.  Because the Brand B absorbers did work on Pasta, I decided to re-test using 1 gallon bags, the size that both absorbers should be able to clear, assuming a Food Density of 60% or higher (meaning a 300cc is supposed to clear 1.5 liters in a 3.7 liter bag, or about 40%). Part of me didn’t want to do this test, because I knew the likely result and I hate rebagging food.=)  But its ‘For Science!’  If the Brand B absorbers had trouble clearing a 2.25 quart bag, they weren’t going to clear a 4 quart bag.  And I know the Brand A 300cc absorbers have an actual rating north of 1000cc, or 4.0 liters, which is greater than the size of the bag empty, so I knew it wouldn’t be an issue clearing even a much bigger bag. Experiment Part B:  I was running out of food to put up and the gallon bags are way bigger, so this is more ad hoc. 1:  Same absorbers as in Part A 2:  12 10”x14” 5 Mil 1 gallon (4 quart, 16 cups) Mylar bags. 3:  The bags are filled with either Flour (another food I’ve always heard won’t contract) or various kinds of pasta (Medium shells, Penne, Macaroni, all of which should have a bit of different Density). Brand A 1 Gallon Test, all Bags Contracted Results:  The results were exactly as expected.  All of the Brand A absorber bags were fully contracted, and none of the Brand B absorbers contracted at all.  Note about flour:  flour doesn’t have any ‘kernels’ or anything to contract around and show a nice pattern, but you call tell they contracted based on the little ‘bubble’ of air that sits at the top of the bag.  The Mylar on both sides of the bubble pulled together; its hard to see from the photo, but if you do it yourself you’ll see what I mean.  So yeah, the wisdom that says flour won’t contract seems accurate enough from a visual standpoint; you actually have to feel the bag to know it worked. Brand B Absorbers did not contract any of the 1 gallon bags. So what’s the verdict?  Almost every food I’ve ever done other than powders (flour and eggs) have visibly contracted.  Some were much milder than others (grilled cheese in small bags, for example) Even though the Pasta bags for the Brand B absorber contracted, I’m not confident they have enough capacity left to last 30 years to continue removing the very minor bit of oxygen passing through yearly. The 5 mil bags handled all the kinds of pasta just fine, even though I’d consider some of it ‘pokey’.  Another win for quality 5 mil bags. I’m updating my documentation and FAQ’s to more clearly represent that in almost all cases, yes, your food should be contracting, with these addendums: 7 mil bags ‘print’ less than 5 mil bags, so your contraction won’t be as deep and noticeable as with 5 mil bags. Bags that are not mostly full may not appear to have contracted, but if you hold the bag you’ll feel that the sides have pulled toward each other. It may takes some fiddling to see what I mean, but if you do flour in full bags you should be able to get the gist of it. Flour will not look contracted when complete, you’ll need to examine the bags closely to know for sure, especially the ‘bubble’ at the top of the bag. Oats have more internal airspace than macaroni.  This one surprised me considering macaroni is kind of hollow.=) Smaller bags show contraction less, but it should still be noticeable.  This is the list of foods I’ve done that have shown contraction, stored in 5x8x3 and larger bags: Dry Goods: Rice, Beans, Oats, Pasta, Wheat A small sampling of my Freeze dried foods:  Chili, chicken and rice, turkey pepperoni, shredded cheese, chicken nuggets, fish sticks, turkey kielbasa, turkey sausage, breakfast sausage, hash browns, tater rounds, sliced chicken, chunked chicken, apple fries, lasagna, strawberries, Skittles. And many more. My totes are all stacked and sealed, but looking into them I don’t see ANY that AREN’T contracted other than eggs. Complete list of foods that don’t look contracted when properly sealed: Eggs (freeze dried), Flour (My assumption is other powders will show the same) If you have food that’s not a powder you are confident is sealed correctly with a properly sized oxygen absorber and doesn’t show contraction, please let me know and I’ll do some testing. Finally, and I stress this. These are my results. They have been consistent for these two brands of absorbers every time I’ve tested them (which is often), but that still doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do your own testing. If you would like to test the Brand A absorber, this link will let you purchase 1 pack (including shipping) for $6 (basically my cost and shipping, so I’m not making anything here) so you can test for yourself. And then please send me a note with your results! Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or complaints! Thanks! The post Should Your Mylar Bags Contract? first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> /2024/06/should-your-mylar-bags-contract/feed/ 0 Food Storage Calculator Updates /2024/03/food-storage-calculator-updates/ /2024/03/food-storage-calculator-updates/#respond Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:34:32 +0000 /?p=1817 So as I mentioned last time, I’m trying to update the LDS Food Storage Calculators of old into something that fits my family (and hopefully many other families) better. To show you where I’m starting from, and where most of the other Food Storage Calculators are basing their numbers, here is an example: LDS Food […] The post Food Storage Calculator Updates first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> So as I mentioned last time, I’m trying to update the LDS Food Storage Calculators of old into something that fits my family (and hopefully many other families) better. To show you where I’m starting from, and where most of the other Food Storage Calculators are basing their numbers, here is an example: LDS Food Storage Calculator Now, if you are a good cook and are prepared to use those ingredients, more power to you! But right off the bat, in the grains section half of it is devoted to Wheat. First, at least in our family, we have multiple Celiacs and gluten sensitive folks. Those sensitivities are also growing in the general population. So having that high a percentage of wheat is a likely recipe for requiring 2 extra outhouses. Plus, if its a grid-down situation, grinding wheat is a labor-intensive process, and you’ll be burning a good bunch of the calories you’ll get by baking bread. The legumes is another minor challenge. Again, most families aren’t regularly cooking split peas or soybeans, so I’m adding more of what we eat, and removing things we don’t. As an example, I’m bumping the Peanut Butter up by a factor of 10. It’s easily portable and stores for a couple of years (if you don’t get the organic). One jar of peanut butter (1lb) is basically the equivalent of 1 short day’s worth of calories; you could live on it. Again, Peanuts and Peanut butter are both good storage foods, though like wheat, there’s a lot more people who are allergic to peanuts today than their were 40 years ago, so plan accordingly. At the end, I hope to have a more usable point to start a conversation on food storage with a bunch of y’all! If you have a favorite shelf stable (at least 1 year) food you’d like to consider us putting in the new calculator, please let me know! As always, if you need anything, hit us up at Discount Mylar Bags. Links: This is an interesting link to a pioneer crossing the US in the 1800’s, and what they would take with them for a 6 month journey. He was the one who came up with the original ‘year’s worth of food’ recipe back in 2008 or so, and updated in for inflation for about 5 years. I can’t find the original list, but I’ve seen in online. You can find his new more modest lists here now. This list is also an inspiration for our new updated FSC. He has an older looking site, but it has a lot of cool stuff available. The post Food Storage Calculator Updates first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> /2024/03/food-storage-calculator-updates/feed/ 0 Updating the Food Storage 1 Year Plan for a New Generation /2024/03/updating-the-food-storage-1-year-plan-for-a-new-generation/ /2024/03/updating-the-food-storage-1-year-plan-for-a-new-generation/#respond Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:16:14 +0000 /?p=1806 There are a lot of great preparedness resources out there in a world. There are hundreds of awesome blogs, Youtube channels, Instagram feeds, etc related to prepping. However, I’ve been looking around at the Food Storage Supply ecosystem (the sellers of food storage products), and I realize that even though there are some slick new […] The post Updating the Food Storage 1 Year Plan for a New Generation first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> There are a lot of great preparedness resources out there in a world. There are hundreds of awesome blogs, Youtube channels, Instagram feeds, etc related to prepping. However, I’ve been looking around at the Food Storage Supply ecosystem (the sellers of food storage products), and I realize that even though there are some slick new brands out there, almost all of them are regurgitating products and information that’s been around for years. Some of them have taken information directly from my websites and passed them off as their own. (including one of my own suppliers lol, that was a shock!) A couple have based their entire bag size lines on what we’ve done. They do say imitation is the greatest form of flattery, so I guess we’re doing something right! No company other than Discount Mylar Bags (us) has really added anything new to the space (Such as SteelPak Bags, foil-packed desiccant, slow-acting oxygen absorbers and heat and serve meal pouches) in years, and it doesn’t look like any of them care to. Sure, they’ve got great photos, beautiful packaging and awesome marketing, but that’s what many of the modern companies are…marketing outfits who picked a product that did well over the past few years. Not 2 decade preppers who really want folks storing food. (I apologize if I sound a little frustrated! I am in fact jealous of their marketing talents!=)) One of the most egregious copy and paste jobs I’ve been examining are the Food Storage Calculators that have popped up on some competitors’ pages. The original source of info, the LDS, put together a recommended food storage list based on their average congregant. So yes, I think its a great starting point for a discussion on food storage, and I based my original food storage on it…in 2007. But almost 20 years prepping now and I recognize that for my average customer, these guides are outdated or unrealistic, recommending foods most folks have never cooked with. I would never make these recommendations to beginning preppers. I also think it’s funny that the folks copying these Food Storage Calculators to their websites have the original mis-spellings that have now been copied for multiple generations.=) These competitors aren’t actually looking at them, its just another widget for their website. However, the main problem is the original guide was intended for a group of people who practice homesteading, farming, and being self-sufficient. In 2024, that’s not most preppers. Now, if that IS you, that’s amazing! But from the beginning, I have been trying to get anyone and everyone prepping. Urban young adults, rural octagenerians, suburban moms…everyone! A week at a time, a month at a time. Just something so that when something bad happens, you have a little to fall back on. Sure, I still think a full year’s worth of food for each person is the gold standard, but if you have an a 20-lb bag of rice, an 18-pack of Kraft Mac and Cheese and 3 boxes of Pop-Tarts put back, you are literally doing better than most of America. Over the last 5 years I’ve revamped my food storage to more closely match my very picky, not homesteady family…because that’s who we are. Not folks who are prepared to grind hundreds of pounds of wheat when the power goes out, or folks who are going to forage my 30 acres of miserable scrubland looking for herbs. In other words, we’re #preppernormal, not #prepperhardcore. I respect and honor you if you have a homestead and survival skills, it’s just not something that fits our lifestyle. I have enough on my plate trying to keep several small businesses going, helping to home school 4 kids, and find the time to pursue a couple of my own dreams (writing a book, publishing a board game). And somewhere in there I’m trying to squeeze time in to make videos, write a blog, and read some good books.=) So I prep where I can (which mainly means putting stuff back), but I’ll never be Les Stroud. And I long ago came to the conclusion, that’s OK. It’s possible the world may not end, at least not in the post-apocalyptic manner many talk about. It’s possible we go through a long, slow decline a la many empires, where who’s in charge is less important than making sure our families are fed. So while I wish more folks were super preppers (including myself in a universe where there are 95 hours in a day), from my conversations with 100’s of preppers over more than a dozen years, most are more like my family. Folks putting stuff aside to give a little leg up in an emergency or grid down situation…but we’re not the folks overhauling our entire lifestyle. So over the next little bit, I am going to revamp and unveil a new, more up-to-date food storage recommendation guide. Yes, it’ll be a little less healthy than the original LDS guide, it’ll have a bit more focus on long shelf-life processed foods, but for many families, it will match our current diets and lifestyles more. And of course, you should always add or subtract foods that fit your family, but I’ll also have the reasons for recommending each food based on my family and experiences. Next blog, I will let you know what I am using as my starting point, my criteria for including a product on my storage list, and the specifics of how many calories I’m aiming for.The post Updating the Food Storage 1 Year Plan for a New Generation first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> /2024/03/updating-the-food-storage-1-year-plan-for-a-new-generation/feed/ 0 Living Free in Tennessee and More /2023/10/living-free-in-tennessee-and-more/ /2023/10/living-free-in-tennessee-and-more/#respond Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:35:28 +0000 /?p=1790 Hey y’all, I know its been a while! God blessed us with an amazing new opportunity, and we’ve been pouring a lot of time and energy into that. One of the things that Discount Mylar Bags has taught us over the years is how to ship things. Since we started, we’ve shipped out over a […] The post Living Free in Tennessee and More first appeared on The Food Storage Blog.]]> Hey y’all, I know its been a while! God blessed us with an amazing new opportunity, and we’ve been pouring a lot of time and energy into that. One of the things that Discount Mylar Bags has taught us over the years is how to ship things. Since we started, we’ve shipped out over a million packages. Through a combination of providence and coincidence, we are now leveraging that skill set and shipping packages for a great local board game company. That includes their day to day shipments as well as their sometimes $2,000,000 Kickstarters. Over the years, we’ve always believed in diversification as a form of prepping, because we’ve slowly been pushed off of Amazon by our lack of ‘Amazon Knowledge’. And n


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aeon flux hu-HU blfr7@ ©2026 blog.hu a függetlenedés napja /2019/07/04/a_fuggetlenedes_napja Thu, 04 Jul 2019 17:30:00 +0200 14924976@ <p>Minden, aminek kezdete van, véget is ér <span>– </span> fogalmazta meg mélyenszántó gondolatait a <em>Mátrix: Forradalmak</em> plakátja, de bármily bárgyúnak is tűnt ez a szlogen tizensok évvel ezelőtt, igazabbat nem szólottak filmmarketingesek, forgatókönyvírók.</p> <p>Az aeonfluxra 2005-ben vésődtek az első sorok, akkor még egy személyes jellegű blogként, ám mikor én 2007-ben csatlakoztam a szerkesztői sorba, már javában élte popkulturális életét a honi online szférában. A fénykorban irtó friss filmkritikák és annál is frissebb hírek mellett, akár napi 4-5 bejegyzés között, exkluzív tartalmak és játékok is helyet kaptak, szóval meghatározó szerep jutott osztályrészül <span>– </span> amiért mindenki hálás, aki rendszeres energiát fektetett építésébe.</p> <p>Aztán persze, ahogy az - magától értetődően - lenni szokott egy hobbiból hajtott projekt életében, a gárdát másfelé sodorták különféle megkerülhetetlen tényezők, így vedlett át majdnem három esztendeje a box office-t lényegesítő felületté, ami vasárnap és hétfő este még biztos olvasnivalót jelentett a kitartó zarándokoknak, némi aktuális szinkronismertetéssel körítve. Mostanáig.</p> <p>Engem elszólít a kötelesség. Már így is sokáig halogattam. Sajnálattal jelentem be, hogy most már vége. Elmegyek. Ezennel elbúcsúzom tőletek. Ég veletek.</p> <p><br /><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">usa box office-szomjat csillapítandó a továbbiakban:</span></strong><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Box Office Mojo.</a> Lebontások, listák garmadája. Szombat este pénteki számok, vasárnap este hétvégi becsült értékek, hétfő késő este végső számok.<br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Numbers</a>. Olykor jó kiegészítés a fentihez, másfajta megközelítésekkel is.<br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ERCboxoffice a Twitteren</a>. A legfrissebb infók, a legjobb szombat és vasárnap délután/este.<br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Worldwide Box Office</a>. Nem túl up-to-date, de prímán áttekinthető globális toplista.</p> <p>bónusz:<br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Entgroup</a>. Kínai napi bevételek.</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">magyar box office-szomjat csillapítandó a továbbiakban:</span></strong><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Filmforgalmazók.hu</a> Hétvégi toplista hétfőn kb. 14.00 után és heti toplista csütörtökön kb. 13.00 után. Korábbiak is elérhetőek, összesítésekkel.<br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IGN</a>. Hétvégi gyorsjelentés (észak-amerikai is).<br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DVDNews FB</a>. Hétvégi toplista.</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>szinkron-szomjat csillapítandó a továbbiakban:</strong></span><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">DVDNews</a><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Iszdb</a><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mafilm Audio FB</a><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Active Studio</a></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>mozibemutatós naptár-szomjat csillapítandó a továbbiakban:</strong></span><br /><a href="/2018/08/20/hazai_bemutatonaptar_451" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2019 naptára még elnyeri végső formáját.</a><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IGN</a><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kritikus Tömeg</a><br /><a href="; target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Port.hu</a></p> <p><img src="; alt="closed2.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" függetlenedés napja"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/07/04/a_fuggetlenedes_napja#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14924976" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/07/04/a_fuggetlenedes_napja/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté 0 aeon flux magyar box office: no para /2019/07/01/magyar_box_office_no_para Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:25:00 +0200 14920846@ <p>A hazai mozik 26. hétvégi (csütörtök - vasárnap) forgalma: <b><i>Annabelle 3., Yesterday, Hercegnő Csodaországban</i></b>…</p> <p><img src="; alt="annabelle3.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/2019/07/01/magyar_box_office_no_para">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: no para"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/07/01/magyar_box_office_no_para#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14920846" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/07/01/magyar_box_office_no_para/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté horror box_office comedy animation intercom sequel yesterday eurocinema children_movie uip_duna_film brit_flick box_office_hazai ads_service the_secret_life_of_pets_2 annabelle_comes_home hercegnö_csodaorszagban 0 aeon flux usa box office: tegnapi filmek /2019/06/30/usa_box_office_tegnapi_filmek Sun, 30 Jun 2019 18:10:00 +0200 14919156@ <p>A <strong><em>Toy Story 4.</em></strong> őrizte az első helyet az amerikai mozikban, miközben az <strong><em>Annabelle 3.</em></strong> az előzményekhez mérten szerényebben, a <strong><em>Yesterday</em> </strong>pedig az előrejelzésekhez képest jobban nyitott.</p> <p><img src="; alt="yesterday.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p><a href="/2019/06/30/usa_box_office_tegnapi_filmek">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: tegnapi filmek"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/30/usa_box_office_tegnapi_filmek#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14919156" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/30/usa_box_office_tegnapi_filmek/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté horror box_office comedy warner universal sequel yesterday brit_flick avengers_endgame annabelle_comes_home 0 aeon flux magyar box office: játékháború /2019/06/24/magyar_box_office_jatekhaboru Mon, 24 Jun 2019 17:31:00 +0200 14909436@ <p>A hazai mozik 25. hétvégi (csütörtök - vasárnap) forgalma: <b><i>Toy Story 4., Csekély esély, Gyerekjáték, Casanova: Az utolsó szerelem</i></b>…</p> <p><img src="; alt="childsplay.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/2019/06/24/magyar_box_office_jatekhaboru">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; 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Ettől függetlenül mindkettő a várakozásokon alul nyitott...</p> <p><img src="; alt="ts4.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p><a href="/2019/06/23/usa_box_office_toy_s_play">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: toy's play"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/23/usa_box_office_toy_s_play#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14907862" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/23/usa_box_office_toy_s_play/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté horror remake disney mgm orion anna box_office animation action luc_besson pixar sequel united_artists summit lionsgate childs_play children_movie french_cinema toy_story_4 0 aeon flux magyar box office: szürke zsaruk /2019/06/17/magyar_box_office_szurke_zsaruk Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:53:00 +0200 14898804@ <p>A hazai mozik 24. hétvégi forgalma: <b><i>MIB - Sötét zsaruk a Föld körül, Három egyforma idegen, Csillagok határán</i></b>…</p> <p><img src="; alt="mib4.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/2019/06/17/magyar_box_office_szurke_zsaruk">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: szürke zsaruk"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/17/magyar_box_office_szurke_zsaruk#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14898804" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/17/magyar_box_office_szurke_zsaruk/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté box_office sci_fi mozinet spinoff intercom documentary men_in_black robert_pattinson high_life claire_denis box_office_hazai ads_service men_in_black_international three_identical_strangers 0 aeon flux usa box office: blackout /2019/06/16/usa_box_office_blackout Sun, 16 Jun 2019 17:23:00 +0200 14896950@ <p>A folytatások, és ezzel együtt a nyári szezon döcögése folytatódik a <em><strong>MIB - Sötét zsaruk a Föld körül</strong> </em>és a <strong><em>Shaft</em></strong> enervált nyitányával az amerikai mozikban.</p> <p><img src="; alt="shaft2019.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p><a href="/2019/06/16/usa_box_office_blackout">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: blackout"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/16/usa_box_office_blackout#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14896950" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/16/usa_box_office_blackout/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté sony amazon box_office comedy sci_fi warner spinoff samuel_l_jackson emma_thompson shaft jim_jarmusch men_in_black late_night zombiemovie focus_features men_in_black_international the_dead_dont_die 0 aeon flux magyar box office: sötét út /2019/06/11/magyar_box_office_sotet_ut Tue, 11 Jun 2019 17:30:00 +0200 14886084@ <p>A hazai mozik 23. hétvégi forgalma: <b><i>X-Men: Sötét Főnix, Egy kutya négy útja, Rocketman</i></b>…</p> <p><img src="; alt="dogs_journey.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/2019/06/11/magyar_box_office_sotet_ut">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: sötét út"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/11/magyar_box_office_sotet_ut#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14886084" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/11/magyar_box_office_sotet_ut/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté musical box_office elton_john forum_hungary sequel x_men biopic uip_duna_film box_office_hazai rocketman freeman_film dark_phoenix a_dogs_journey 0 aeon flux usa box office: kis kedvencek /2019/06/09/usa_box_office_kis_kedvencek Sun, 09 Jun 2019 17:41:00 +0200 14886086@ <p>A kopó utánzatok sora folytatódik: <em><strong>A kis kedvencek titkos élete 2.</strong></em> kevesebb mint az első rész nyitányának felével csatangolt az első helyre, miközben az <strong><em>X-Men: Sötét Főnix</em></strong> a franchise leghalványabb rajtját jegyzi.</p> <p><img src="; 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/><a href="/2019/06/05/szinkronhangok_x-men_sotet_fonix">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=": x-men: sötét főnix"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/05/szinkronhangok_x-men_sotet_fonix#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14880058" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/05/szinkronhangok_x-men_sotet_fonix/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté szinkron forum_hungary x_men mafilm james_mcavoy pataricza_eszter nicholas_hoult michael_fassbender jessica_chastain sophie_turner jennifer_lawrence molnar_levente bogdanyi_titanilla fekete_erno gacsal_adam hever_gabor dozsa_zoltan elöd_botond gaspar_kata dögei_eva palfi_kata doczi_orsolya feher_jozsef kajdacsi_brigitta elöd_almos illes_gergely kobela_kira dark_phoenix 0 aeon flux szinkronhangok: rocketman /2019/06/04/szinkronhangok_rocketman Tue, 04 Jun 2019 18:52:00 +0200 14878418@ <p>Eltölthetünk Eltonnal két órát anélkül, hogy új járnánk, mint Bill Nighy az <em>Igazából szerelem</em>ben, és még musicalbe oltott életrajza is vázolódik. Remek szinkronnal, de a feliratos verzió is bírja még, jobban mint bármikor, mint egy igazi túlélő.</p> <p><img src="; alt="rocketman.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/2019/06/04/szinkronhangok_rocketman">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=": rocketman"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/04/szinkronhangok_rocketman#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14878418" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/04/szinkronhangok_rocketman/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté szinkron musical elton_john mafilm raba_roland biopic miller_zoltan stephen_graham bryce_dallas_howard jamie_bell epres_attila mezei_kitty uip_duna_film rocketman speier_david kalid_artur halasz_aranka tabak_kata welker_gabor devai_balazs cs_nemeth_lajos zakarias_eva szatory_david timar_eva ösi_ildiko bozso_peter richard_madden simkone_varga_erzsebet gabor_daniel kablay_luca bognar_gyöngyver taron_egerton horvath_töreki_gergely eke_angela nagy_daniel_viktor laurinyecz_reka ember_mark rada_balint vida_balint 0 aeon flux magyar box office: a szörnyek koldusa /2019/06/03/magyar_box_office_a_szornyek_koldusa Mon, 03 Jun 2019 17:31:00 +0200 14876674@ <p>A hazai mozik 22. hétvégi forgalma: <b><i>Godzilla II: A szörnyek királya, Mami, Éretlenségi, Dominó, Hamupipőke és az elvarázsolt herceg</i></b>…</p> <p><img class="imgnotext" alt="ma2019.jpg" src="; /></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/2019/06/03/magyar_box_office_a_szornyek_koldusa">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: a szörnyek koldusa"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/03/magyar_box_office_a_szornyek_koldusa#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14876674" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/03/magyar_box_office_a_szornyek_koldusa/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté horror ma fantasy thriller box_office comedy animation godzilla forum_hungary brian_de_palma domino intercom sequel aladdin olivia_wilde eurocinema crime_movie children_movie uip_duna_film box_office_hazai teenager_flick vertigo_media ads_service nikolaj_coster_waldau godzilla_king_of_the_monsters booksmart cinderella_and_the_secret_prince 0 aeon flux usa box office: szörnyek mamija /2019/06/02/usa_box_office_szornyek_mamija Sun, 02 Jun 2019 17:36:00 +0200 14875170@ <p>A <strong><em>Godzilla II: A szörnyek királya</em></strong> vezetést szerzett az amerikai mozikban, ám jószerével felét termelte az első rész nyitányának. Szintén nem nyűgözte le az ipart a <strong><em>Rocketman</em></strong> című életrajzi musical, így hát az erkölcsi győztes a költségvetését már többszöröző <strong><em>Mami</em> </strong>lett, a negyedik helyen.</p> <p><img src="; alt="godzilla2.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p><a href="/2019/06/02/usa_box_office_szornyek_mamija">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: szörnyek mamija"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/06/02/usa_box_office_szornyek_mamija#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14875170" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/06/02/usa_box_office_szornyek_mamija/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté horror ma fantasy musical thriller box_office warner elton_john godzilla paramount universal sequel aladdin biopic tate_taylor octavia_spencer rocketman blumhouse avengers_endgame godzilla_king_of_the_monsters 0 aeon flux szinkronhangok: éretlenségi /2019/05/29/szinkronhangok_eretlensegi Wed, 29 May 2019 16:43:00 +0200 14868454@ <p>Az érettségit megzavarandó Olivia Wilde első rendezése bulihangulatot és irtó jó értékeléseket áraszt a magyar fiatalságra is. Szinkronizáltan, nyilván.</p> <p><img src="; alt="booksmart.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/2019/05/29/szinkronhangok_eretlensegi">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=": éretlenségi"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/05/29/szinkronhangok_eretlensegi#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14868454" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/05/29/szinkronhangok_eretlensegi/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté szinkron forum_hungary csifo_dorina mafilm nikodem_zsigmond dozsa_zoltan gaspar_kata hamvas_daniel markovics_tamas pekar_adrienn kablay_luca töröcsik_franciska nyirö_bea farkas_laszlo zalatnay_marta majsai_nyilas_tünde szekely_daniella rada_balint booksmart santa_laszlo 0 aeon flux szinkronhangok: mami /2019/05/28/szinkronhangok_mami Tue, 28 May 2019 17:37:00 +0200 14866484@ <p>Octavia Spencer most pár léhűtő fiatallal eteti meg a sz*rát, de annál is trükkösebb módon. A <em>Mami</em> amúgy a hét egyik filmje, melyben Diana Silvers megjegyzendő. Szinkronizáltan és eredeti nyelven.</p> <p><img src="; alt="ma2019.jpg" class="imgnotext" /></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="/2019/05/28/szinkronhangok_mami">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=": mami"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/05/28/szinkronhangok_mami#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14866484" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/05/28/szinkronhangok_mami/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté ma szinkron juliette_lewis mafilm elek_ferenc allison_janney ruttkay_laura luke_evans tate_taylor octavia_spencer uip_duna_film speier_david kiraly_attila menszator_magdolna bathory_orsolya bertalan_agnes nagypal_gabor illes_gergely bognar_gyöngyver bokai_maria gelencser_adrienne sodro_eliza agoston_peter szekely_daniella rudolf_szonja miller_david mentes_julia staub_viktoria diana_silvers 0 aeon flux magyar box office: százegymillió éj /2019/05/27/magyar_box_office_szazegymillio_ej Mon, 27 May 2019 17:30:00 +0200 14864458@ <p>A hazai mozik 21. hétvégi forgalma: <b><i>Aladdin</i></b>,<b><i> Átkozottul veszett, sokkolóan gonosz és hitvány</i></b>,<i></i><b><i> Fájdalom és dicsőség</i></b>,<i></i><b><i> A gyermek</i></b>...<em><b><br /></b></em></p> <p><b><i><img src="; alt="aladdin.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" class="imgnotext" /></i></b></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="/2019/05/27/magyar_box_office_szazegymillio_ej">[...] Bővebben!</a></p> <p><a title="Megosztom Facebookon!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Facebookon!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Twitteren!" href=" src="; alt="Megosztom Twitteren!"></a> <a title="Megosztom Tumblren!" href=" box office: százegymillió éj"><img src="; alt="Megosztom Tumblren!"></a> <a href="/2019/05/27/magyar_box_office_szazegymillio_ej#comments"><img class="item_ctp" src="/rss/image/post/id/14864458" border="0" /></a><br /></p> /2019/05/27/magyar_box_office_szazegymillio_ej/full_commentlist/1 Takács Máté horror remake disney fantasy box_office forum_hungary drama zac_efron pedro_almodovar aladdin cirko_film eurocinema cinetel brit_flick box_office_hazai big_bang_media ads_service extremely_wicked_shockingly_evil_and_vile pain_and_glory the_hole_in_the_ground 0 aeon flux


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Aestas Book Blog Romance book reviews. Reviews of books that make my heart race, have a beautiful love story, and a happy ending. Mon, 08 Mar 2021 04:01:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 SALES, PRICE DROPS, NEW RELEASES & UPCOMING BOOKS /sales-aug-30-2013/ /sales-aug-30-2013/#comments Fri, 30 Aug 2013 14:35:32 +0000 Read More  >]]> $0.99 Sale Alerts $0.99 — Hopeless by Colleen Hoover. This is a must-read for absolutely everyone!! It is one of my all-time top recommendations. Beautiful, heart-wrenching and uplifting. Read my review. $0.99 — Bully by Penelope Douglas. An addictive standalone New Adult romance that put a twist on the bad boy meets good girl tale. I loved it! Read my review. $0.99 — Lost & Found by Nicole Williams. This is the first of the Lost and Found series. I’ve heard such good things about it! Can’t wait to start! $0.99 — Ruin by Rachel Van Dyken. This book made me laugh, cry & swoon. Everyone should read it!! It’s a standalone New Adult romance with a HEA. Read my review. “I can tell you have a good heart… because the minute I met you, I wanted to fight for it.” $0.99 — Branded by Abi Ketner & Missy Kalicicki. This is a dystopian forbidden romance that is fast-paced and action packed! I loved it! Read my review. $0.99 — Beyond Shame (Beyond #1) by Kit Rocha. An erotic dystopian set in “a dangerous world of sex, lust and violence…” I’ve heard this is H.O.T. $0.99 – The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher. This is book #1 of a phenomenal, completed 5 star trilogy that I promise will leave you with an epic (but wonderful) book hangover! One of my top favs! Read my review. $0.99 — More Than This by Jay McLean. This is a standalone New Adult Romance. A very sweet and sometimes heartbreaking book about love, loss, healing and friendship. Read my review. $0.99 Series Sale!! There Is No Light In Darkness and Darkness Before Dawn are only $0.99 each for a limited time! They were the perfect blend of romance and mystery and the hero was SWOONY! The series is completed and has a HEA. Here are my reviews of Book #1 and Book #2.         $1.99 Sale Alerts & More $1.99 — Own The Wind (Chaos #1) by Kristen Ashley. Alpha male fans, you MUST get this book!!! It is hot, badass and flat-out awesome!!!! Highly recommended! Read my review. $1.99 — Afterburn (Afterburn #1) by Sylvia Day. Short, hot and sinfully delicious! Here’s the latest new romance from the creator of Gideon Cross! Read my review. $1.99 — While It Lasts (Sea Breeze #3) by  Abbi Glines. Despite this being the 3rd in the series, it can be read as a standalone. From what I hear, this book is fan-yourself-hot! I can’t wait to read it and meet Cage! Regular price is approx $8. #1.99 — Just For Now (Sea Breeze #4) by Abbi Glines. Again, like the one above, this too can be read as a standalone despite it being part of the series. Regular price is approx $8. Series sale!! The Education of Sebastian and The Education of Caroline have dropped in price from $4.99 to $2.99 each. If you’re a fan of forbidden love stories, this is definitely a series to check out! I loved them both! Here are my two reviews: Book #1 & Book #2. “Everything had a price: every glance, every kiss, every stolen touch… I knew it was wrong; I knew it was right.”   Special Sales – These are rare publisher sales on highly recommended books. Regular price is approx $8 each. $3.79 sale — The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay. This book is a beautifully written New Adult standalone and has one of the most powerful endings I have ever read. Absolutely everyone should read this book at some point in their lives. It was unforgettable. Trust me, its totally worth it! Read my review. $3.79 sale — Ten Tiny Breaths by K.A. Tucker!! This is a must-read standalone New Adult romance about a girl who was drowning in the pain of her shattered life and the boy with a dark past of his own who pulled her out and helped her to breath, to live, and to love again. Read my review. $3.79 sale — Point of Retreat (Slammed #2) by Colleen Hoover. The Slammed series is a must-series! One of my all-time TOP favorite 6-star reads! Be sure to read book #1 Slammed first though because this is not a standalone! $3.99 sale — The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. A beautiful but heart breaking story… it’s hard to say anything about this one but just… bring tissues. $3.99 sale — Simple Perfection (Rosemary Beach #5) by Abbi Glines. This is a pre-order sale but be sure to read the first 4 books in the series first! Here’s the reading order. $5.00 sale — Entwined With You (Crossfire #3) by Sylvia Day. This is not a standalone and should only be read after both Bared To You and Entwined With You but I can’t recommend this series highly enough. One of my TOP favs!! $5.00 sale — Breathe (Sea Breeze #1) by Abbi Glines). This is the first of a series of interconnected standalones that is on many of our reader’s favorites list. I can’t wait to read them! Abbi’s writing is absolutely addictive!      New Releases Tears of Tess by Pepper Winters. I’m really excited to read this! It’s a New Adult Dark Contemporary Romance and this line from the blurb grabbed my attention: “My life was complete. Happy, content, everything neat and perfect.Then it all changed. I was sold.” Good (Too Good #1) by S. Walden. Holy taboo!! This is a well written, rebellious student/teacher romance that defied rules and crossed lines!! Bold. Daring. Forbidden! It’s the first of a 2-part series. Read my review. Nocturne by Andrea Randall and Charles Sheehan Miles. This is a standalone romance and is next on my reading list! It sounds amazing and these are some very talented authors! Price of a Kiss by Linda Kage. A cute, swoony, heartwarming standalone New Adult romance. The hero is a gigolo and the heroine is determined to be his friend no matter what. I loved it! Read my review.  “He could be my soul mate…except for one teeny tiny glitch. He’s a gigolo. Boy, do I know how to pick them.” Wethering The Storm (The Storm #2) by Samantha Towle. The sequel to one of my most favorite rock star romances, The Mighty Storm. This is the last book centering on Jake and Tru’s story and has a HEA. Shooting Scars (The Artists Trilogy #2) by Karina Halle. What a wild ride this series is! Be sure to read them in order! First is Sins & Needles, then the prequel On Every Street, then this book Shooting Scars, and the last book will be out next month called Bold Tricks. Arsen: A Broken Love Story by Mia Asher. I have never ever felt as conflicted over a book as I did with this one. It was a raw, compelling, strong debut novel that took the reader through the beautiful and the ugly side of love. Read my review. Beyond Pain (Beyond #3) by Kit Rocha.  I haven’t read them yet but they’re on my list and are set in a dark, gritty, futuristic world but I hear they are H.O.T.!!! Book #1 is Beyond Shame, Book #2 is Beyond Control. Sometimes It Lasts (Sea Breeze #5) by Abbi Glines. This continues the story of Eva and Cage from While It Lasts. For the full reading order of this series, click here. Origin (Lux #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout. The next installement in the Lux series. This is a mature Young Adult paranormal romance series that recently scored a movie deal! Book #1 is Obsidian. I loved it! Sweet Thing by Renee Carlino. This was a sweet, heartbreaking and romantic story that kept me up reading all night! It’s a standalone romance with a HEA and has now been re-released by Atria with a new cover. Read my review. Vain by Fisher Amelie. This is actually a paperback re-release now that the gorgeous new cover has been launched. I loved this book. It was a beautiful, unique YA romance. Read my review.           Upcoming Releases Sept 2 — My Unexpected Forever (Beaumont #2) by Heidi McLaughlin. I loved the first book in this series, Forever My Girl, and can’t wait for this one. Just read the blurb, it’s amazing! Sept 3 — Conversion (Conversion #1) by S.C. Stephens. I adored this vampire series from the author of Thoughtless! It’s very unique and I think it will appeal to all romance readers regardless of whether they are fans of paranormal romance or not. Sept 3 — Breaking Nova (Nova #1) by Jessica Sorensen. The blurb calls this “a powerful story of love, scars, and impossible choices . . . “ Sept 3 — Everything For Us (Bad Boys #3) by M. Leighton. Love this series! Be sure to read the first two books first: Down To You and Up To Me. Sept 16 — Finders Keepers (Lost & Found #3) by Nicole Williams. This is the 3rd book in the Lost & Found series by Nicole Williams. I can’t wait to read this series. They are not standalones though so be sure to read Lost & Found and Near & Far first. Sept 17 — A Little Too Far by Lisa Desrochers. Oh my! This one looks sinfully good! A double taboo forbidden love triangle! The blurb says she’s “torn between falling in love with the man she shouldn’t want and the man she can’t have.”  Sept 17 — Covet by Tracey Garvis Graves. One of my most highly anticipated books of the year! I can’t wait to read it! “What if the life you wanted, and the woman you fell in love with, belonged to someone else?” Sept 17 — All of You by Christina Lee. This is a standalone New Adult romance and get this: the hero is tattooed and a  virgin!! Holy unicorn! Sept 23 — Simple Perfection (Rosemary Beach #5) by Abbi Glines. Be sure to read the first 4 books first! Here’s the reading order.         **Prices are set by Amazon.com and are subject to change at anytime without notice.  ]]> /sales-aug-30-2013/feed/ 2 Book Review — Arsen: A Broken Love Story by Mia Asher /arsen-by-mia-asher/ /arsen-by-mia-asher/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2013 22:55:42 +0000 Read More  >]]> Buy ARSEN (Kindle) Love can destroy you. Love can erase you. Love can heal you. Love can reinvent you, And if you are lucky enough, Love can make you whole again. For the first time in my blogging life, I have no idea how to rate a book. My feelings are just too all over the place. Let me try and explain… I’m not going to lie, when I first heard about it, I was 99.99% sure that I would hate this book. It basically seemed like the polar opposite of what I might love and truthfully, in a way, it was. It had almost all of my “no-no’s” in it, the biggest one being cheating, which is almost always a deal breaker for me. But… it wasn’t as clear cut here as I expected it to be and even though I’m not sure about where I stand on it, I can certainly understand why readers are loving it. So hear me out and see if maybe this book might be for you. I think every reader will just have to decide for themselves on this one. But I’ll be honest and tell you that the only way I was able to bring myself to read this was because a good friend gave me all the gory details in advance. There was no way I was going into this one blind but all the insanely high ratings had my curiosity peaked. So, she told me everything and knowing those details pushed me over the edge and made me decided to give this book a shot. Warning though: THIS. BOOK. WILL. RIP. OUT. YOUR. HEART. For real. You WILL want to throw your eReader at the wall. You WILL be angry. You WILL roll your eyes and want to throttle people. You likely WILL cry. And you’ll probably hate the heroine at some point (or several). But… you might also end up loving the book. It’s just one of those books I guess that really hits home with some people. So, about the book…. Cathy has the perfect life. Or so it might seem on the outside. She has a gorgeous, sweet, kind, thoughtful, loving husband, Ben, who thinks the world of her, is always there for her and who cares for her more than anything. But after three miscarriages, she begins to fall apart. Her sense of self-worth (which has always been shaky at best) shrivels leaving her sad, lonely, and miserable. She can’t bring herself to accept her husband’s unwavering support and can’t bear the thought of not being able to have a child. Emotional numbness begins to take over and she just slips away. Enter Arsen. Young, confident, handsome egotistical playboy who doesn’t remotely try to hide his attraction to her and, for the first time in a long while of being closed off, he makes her feel and… she’s drawn to that. “When our eyes connect, I see danger, and maybe something exciting. Something forbidden. Some basic instinct in my instantly recognizes that this man doesn’t make love to a woman. He fucks her.” The more she spends time with Arsen, the further she pulls away from Ben, the perfect man who has unquestionably loved her since the day they met, until the lines between love, lust and friendship have not only been blurred but are utterly shattered. Now, about my feelings… For the entirety of the book, my heart bled for Ben. I mean BLED. He was one of the good guys, y’know? The keepers. The kind that you fall down on your knees and thank the high heavens for and the fact that Cathy couldn’t see it was just fucking tragic. He was the one. The hero. There was absolutely no question in my mind. Ever. “For you I will do anything. Anything.” “Babe, talk to me. You’re scaring me. What’s the matter? Tell me so I can fix it… please.” Breaks my heart just reading that. Cathy… hmm… ok, brutal honesty here. My conclusion based on the entirety of the book was that she needed help. I mean that in a very serious, non-judgmental way. She needed professional therapy. She was going through some serious depression and had a whole mix of issues going on and the way she was coping on her own ended up destroying years of many people’s lives. Again, truly tragic. It was hard not to see her as flat-out ungrateful and selfish. She had a lot of issues and truly was an anti-heroine. The only way I can come to terms with, no.. more like ‘deal with’, her actions is by feeling pity for the fact that she was in a bad place and just didn’t receive the help she clearly needed. I think it was because she didn’t know how to love herself that she couldn’t accept Ben’s love for her. Now Arsen was interesting because in all honestly, I didn’t connect with him as a character until the epilogue. He raised my hackles because of the threat he represented and I wavered back and forth on my feelings for him. Maybe, in another book, away from this situation, I might have felt differently for him but in this book, I never personally fell for him. I couldn’t relate to Cathy’s obsession with him and because of the cheating aspect, I just felt a little ill during most of his scenes with Cathy. Especially the sex scenes. I think the best description of Arsen was this quote right here: “Arsen, a friend gone wrong.” I think what hurt the most was that there was no justification. This wasn’t a situation where Cathy and Ben fell apart, no, this was Cathy, just Cathy, drifting away. And a big part of me hated her for it because she had Ben. She loved Ben and she threw him away. “I wish I could save you, Cathy. Take the pain away; erase it from your body. I wish I could hurt for you, but I can’t. You have to save yourself. All I can do is love you. Through it all, just love you. But you need to let me back in.” While the story is primarily told from Cathy’s POV, we do also get a few scenes from Ben’s side partway through and later on, some from Arsen’s. The first half is actually fairly slow building. I was enjoying my read and I liked all the flashbacks that built the foundation of Cathy and Ben’s relationship but at the same time, nothing was really putting my heart in my throat per say. But then one tiny lie started the downward spiral… and that sick feeling in the pit of my stomach began to grow as I watched bit by bit as something that I’d come to love got torn to shreds. The real cheating didn’t begin until the second half and even when Cathy was in a place where she felt like she needed Arsen, I still just didn’t feel anything for him. It was like a total emotional disconnect and I just felt sick to my stomach for what they were doing to Ben. There was never a point where I was torn between Ben and Arsen. I didn’t blame Arsen though… he was just being Arsen. I wouldn’t have expected different or better for him. He just came, he saw, he conquered and in a weird way, he was trying to help her. He did have real feelings for her. But Cathy… fuck. I was pretty disgusted with her because what she wanted from Arsen wasn’t something that Ben wasn’t offering, it was just something she wasn’t in a place in her life (I guess) where she was able to accept it. And she was the one in the position to say no. And she didn’t. And I hated her for it. “No one said cheating was pretty but hell, it’s downright disgusting. Yet, I can’t stop myself from doing it… I feel revulsion turn my stomach upside down by my own actions. I want to scream, I want to throw up, I want to die. I’m repulsed by me, but that’s a price I’m willing to pay to be with Arsen.” But as much as I hated that Cathy needed Arsen, I won’t deny that he did help her in a way. For some unfortunate reason, he was the person who was able to help her reach a level of healing that she sadly wan’t able to get from Ben even though he was offering it to her. My heart just broke for Ben over and over again. Every tear I cried was for him. The first time was around the 60% mark and just suddenly… TEARS and full body chills. That man just did not deserve what he was delivered. Dear Lord but he did not deserve it. It was tragic and just… heart breaking. It wasn’t until the very, very, VERY end that I came to terms with some of what had happened. There was one line in particular that actually made me reconsider a lot of what I’d read and look at Cathy in a different light. Not that it made me understand her, but more that it made me understand something about her. The ending… well, I’m not going to give it away directly but it’s a bittersweet, tragic HEA. “Technically” I’m happy with the ending. Even though “happy” really does NOT seem like the right word. Relieved, maybe? “There never was a choice for us, was there?” To tell you the truth, I have NO idea how to rate this book. Was it good? Yes. It absolutely was. For sure. But a part of me wants to give it 2 stars because I’m so fucking angry and then another part of me wants to give it 5 stars because holy hell did it make me feel. I don’t feel good rounding out that number though because 3.5 honestly doesn’t feel right either. Ben was a 5 star character and, tragic as what happened was, I think they had a 5 star love. Most of my ratings are based on my feelings but at the same time, I don’t just want to ‘feel’ any emotion, I want to feel specific ones and… this book made me feel some things I wish I hadn’t felt. *sigh* I just don’t think it’s possible in this case to generalize my feelings down to one specific number. Overall I’d say it was partly 2 star and partly 5 star but not an average of them. It just was what it was. There’s a line actually that kind of resonates with how I feel about the book as a whole: “I hate you as much as I loved you.” Mia Asher has written a strong, compelling debut novel that takes you through the beautiful and ugly sides of love and betrayal. Truly, a broken love story in every way.  Buy ARSEN (Kindle) ]]> /arsen-by-mia-asher/feed/ 32 Book Review — Price of a Kiss by Linda Kage /price-of-a-kiss-by-linda-kage/ /price-of-a-kiss-by-linda-kage/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:00:21 +0000 Read More  >]]>


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ÆtherCzar The Website of Hans G. Schantz Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:33:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 /wp-content/uploads/Favicon-Aetherczar-Smith-v3-150x150.png ÆtherCzar 32 32 New Arrivals – Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale /new-arrivals-black-friday-cyber-monday-based-book-sale/ Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:32:30 +0000 /?p=6223 These are some of the titles new to the Based Book Sale or that haven’t appeared in recent sales. Authors include science fiction grandmasters, established mainstream authors and emerging indie talent. The contributors include Tony Andarian, J.M. Anjewierden, D.S. Blake, Graham Bradley, Henry Brown, R.J. Burle, C.J. Carella, J.D. Cowan, C.M. Craig, Richard Davis, Mel Dunay, Jeff Dunteman, Declan Finn, Milo James Fowler, Julie Frost, Karl K. Gallagher, Mark Goldblatt, Josh Griffing, M. Anthony Harris, Seth Hobbs, Rob Howell, Michael F. Kane, Joseph Kellogg, Chris Kennedy, L.S. King, Robert Kroese, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Frank B. Luke, TJ Marquis, Russell May, Christopher Menkhaus, Diana Murray, Ron Nielsen, M.A. Nilles, Melanie Nilles, John M. Olsen, Chance Paladin, S.Kirk Pierzchala, George Phillies, Thomas Plutarch, Francis Porretto, James Pyles, Alexander Robb, David Rowlett, Denton Salle, Steve Stark, K Steele, Kevin Steverson, James R. Strickland, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, S.C. Vincent, Allison Wade, Matt Waterhouse, Thomas J. Weiss, David J. West, Ryan Williamson, Marisa Wolf, John C. Wright, and Page Zaplendam. And every title is either free or $0.99! Note: prices are set by the authors, so please confirm before you buy. And some of the offerings are short stories or novellas instead of full-length novels. A few titles won’t be on sale until Thursday November 23. With 80 titles from 58 authors, there’s sure to be something for every based reader. Sale Links: Main Sale Page Fan Favorites New Arrivals Non-Fiction Book of Feasts and Seasons by John C. Wright The Book of Feasts & Seasons is a beautifully mind-bending stroll with a grandmaster of science fiction through the annual Catholic calendar. Over the course of the year, from January to December, the author takes his inspiration from 10 different holidays and explores their meanings in a series of stories of marvelous imagination. The book begins with New Year’s Day and “The Meaning of Life as Told Me by an Inebriated Science Fiction Writer in New Jersey”. The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin is represented by “A Random World of Delta Capricorni Aa, Called Scheddi”, while “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds” is the story for the Feast of Pentecost. The calendar and the anthology culminate on Christmas Eve with “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”. John C. Wright is not only a deeply religious man, he is also a devout Catholic philosopher who regards reason as an intrinsic aspect of his faith. The Book of Feasts & Seasons is an imaginative embodiment of that faith, taking many different shapes and forms throughout the vast expanse of God’s creation. Grab it now! Guardians of the Twilight Lands: The Sixth Book of Unexpected Enlightenment (Books of Unexpected Enlightenment 6) by L Jagi Lamplighter (Author), John C. Wright (Illustrator), James Frenkel (Editor) An old enemy returns! With the Heer of Dunderberg dead, Rachel Griffin is determined to save her beloved Roanoke Academy before time runs out, but to do this, a new covenant must be forged with the island’s fairies. On top of this, an old enemy has escaped and might reappear any moment Rachel has learned not to wish on stars, but what should she do when she yearns for help? She is troubled by other questions, too: Where do the dead go? What became of her beloved late grandfather? Most annoying of all, with such a wonderful boyfriend, how can she be in love with two boys? As her fourteenth birthday approaches, the answer to these questions awaits her, along with wonders such as she has never seen. But there are terrible things ahead, too. Codex Babylon: A secret history sci-fi adventure (The Cross-Time Crusade Book 1)  by Robert Kroese The first book of The Cross-Time Crusade, the Kickstarter sensation that raised over $27,000! A secret cabal of demonic forces threatens to destroy civilization and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Humanity’s only chance is a shadowy organization called GRAIL–the modern day heirs to the Knights Templar–which has discovered the secret to time travel. The past cannot be changed, but if GRAIL can send an agent into the past to recover a lost book on demonology called the Codex Babylon, they may have a fighting chance to save humanity from utter destruction. Spanning 900 years and four continents, The Cross-Time Crusade is an epic saga of the eternal struggle against evil! “This is a compelling page-turner which also makes you think about how time travel might work and motivates you to learn more about the enigmatic Templars.” – John Walker, founder of Autodesk “…a whirlwind tale that jumps between the Middle Ages and 2023, with elements that reminded me of Connie Willis’ time travel sagas, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.” – Amazon reviewer “Robert Kroese is one of the few writers still pursuing truly new ideas in science fiction. In this series, he looks at demonic influence in a new way… [T]he meat of the book is the desperate search for the Codex Babylon, an ancient tome with the secrets to fighting the demons and reclaiming our world. you find yourself rooting for all the characters both past and present, and reeling with the many surprising twists.” – Amazon reviewer “Fans of Kroese’s Iron Dragon series will recall his combination of scrupulously researched historical detail, compelling characters, and gripping action – features on display again here.” – Hans Schantz, author of The Hidden Truth Escaping Fate (Paradox Book 1)  by Henry Brown Pete Bedauern began his life as a latchkey kid in a run-down trailer park with a single mom, living on stale hot dog buns and bleak prospects. Those were the cards Fate had dealt him, and Pete was on his way to becoming an angry young man. Then Pete’s estranged uncle burst on the scene to punch Fate in the mouth. Uncle Si is scarred inside and out; he’s a hard drinker; painfully blunt; a little mysterious and maybe even scary, but takes an interest in his nephew that Pete’s father never took. Most of Uncle Si’s life is a secret, but through the part of it he shares, Pete undergoes a master course on life, love, and full-contact sports. As it turns out, Uncle Si not only has tons of money, multiple businesses, and a fleet of fast cars, he also owns a time machine. Paradox is one good-hearted-but-alienated boy’s odyssey into manhood, and Escaping Fate is the opening leg of that journey. Before it’s complete, Pete will learn the guarded secrets of history, take on a pan-continuum conspiracy, contend for a world championship, crack the code for success with women…and even save the world. Well, one world, maybe…   Homecoming In Black (The Black Chronicles Book 6) by J. M. Anjewierden Home. For most the word evokes feelings of safety, but for Morgan it is a reminder of what she’s suffered and lost. Her chance to change that has finally come, to end the war raging between her homeworld and her adopted home. All she need do is smuggle a dozen Marines onto one of the securest space stations in the galaxy, penetrate to its core, and capture the man responsible for everything, right from under the fanatics who revere him. Easy, right? NOTE! Books 1-5 in The Black Chronicles are “Fan Favorites:” The Long Black (The Black Chronicles Book 1) Black Holiday   (The Black Chronicles Book 2) Running Black (The Black Chronicles Book 3)  Black Salvage (The Black Chronicles Book 4) Battles in the Black (The Black Chronicles Book 5) Drumlin Circus / On Gossamer Wings *TWO Titles in One!* by Jeff Duntemann (Author), James R. Strickland (Author) A starship malfunctions and strands its 800 passengers on a planet eerily like the Pleistocene Earth, complete with prehistoric mammals including woolly mammoths, dire wolves, and smilodons. And something else: tens of thousands of abandoned alien machines consisting of a bowl and two pillars that respond with drum-like sounds when touched. Tap 256 times on the pillars in any combination, and…something…coalesces in the bowl. It might be a spoon or an axe or a twisted lump of silvery metal. These artifacts (dubbed “drumlins”) help the unwilling colonists survive, but there’s something a little weird about what comes out of the “thingmaker” machines. High-pitched sounds sometimes make drumlins twitch and combine into more complex things. Stranger still, what drumlins do seems to depend on the thoughts of nearby humans. Wish hard while you whistle just so…and something amazing may happen. 260 years on, the castaways have created a civilization resembling late 19th Century America, based in part on coal, steam, iron, and hard work–and in part on the mysterious drumlin artifacts. Both short novels in this volume are set against this background. Drumlin Circus: Every spring, Bramble Ceglarek takes Pretty Alice’s Wonderland Circus down the dirt roads of the west country, dazzling townfolk with clowns, acrobats, calliope music, and trained animals — especially trained animals. His wife Julia trains them with a drumlin whistle, and they obey with peculiar precision. The cultlike Bitspace Institute, hoping to train animal assassins, sends agent Simon Kassel to steal the whistle. Unknown to him, Kassel has been set up to fail by his Institute rivals who want to be rid of him, and after Julia and her apprentice Rosa are abducted by Institute thugs who attempt to kill him, Kassel switches loyalties and joins the circus as a very scary clown. He returns to Institute HQ to rescue Julia and Rosa, only to discover that the training whistle is much more than merely a whistle: a mysterious “function controller” that compels animals, human beings, and even the alien drumlin artifacts themselves to obey its bearer. On Gossamer Wings: From out in the dry rye fields of the west, rumors have come to the Bitspace Institute that someone has drummed up something valuable from the alien thingmakers: a large sphere of pure iron. Institute agent Hiram König rides out to investigate, and discovers the strange, mute young woman who has done the drumming. He also learns that the Big Ball of Iron is just the beginning of the previously unknown drumlins that she has discovered in the vast “bitspace” of the alien thingmakers. Despite the slow progress of technology in the Valinor colony, where steam locomotives and the first primitive hydrogen airships are state of the art, Natalie Bishop is using her talents with the thingmakers to seek out the drumlin parts she needs to build a heavier-than-air flying machine. For her, the flier is her masterpiece, the work that will prove her worth to the people she cares about. The race is on for König to extract Natalie from the pressure-cooker of a small town that is her home, before it blows up around her and before she takes the dazzlingly risky final step and tries to fly. Cold Hands and Other Stories by Jeff Duntemann Veteran computer author Jeff Duntemann’s second collection of short fiction runs the gamut from spaceflight to mathematically rigorous witchcraft. The volume includes “Cold Hands,” (nominated for the Hugo Award) “Our Lady of the Endless Sky,” “Inevitability Sphere,” “Whale Meat,” “Born Again, With Water,” “Drumlin Boiler,” “Drumlin Wheel,” and “Roddie,” plus a new excerpt from his hard SF nanotech adventure novel, The Cunning Blood.   Ten Gentle Opportunities  by Jeff Duntemann (Author), Blake Henriksen (Illustrator) Having been caught cheating a powerful magician out of ten nuggets of pure uncommitted magic in a rigged card game, Bartholomew Stypek needs a place to hide. As a spellbender he is at best a partial magician, who can read and change magic spells, but, absent a stash of magical force, cannot cast his own. With his anarchic familiar spirit Pickles and the ill-won kitty of magical Opportunities, Stypek throws himself on the mercy of the all-powerful Continuum and leaps blindly across universes, hoping to be dropped someplace far away, boring, and utterly without magic. As the Continuum chuckles in the background, Stypek lands in the break room of a small-town advertising agency in Upstate New York. Fear the Four Towers: Hero’s Metal: Book III (Hero’s Metal – Dark Fantasy Adventure 3)  by TJ Marquis The Four Towers called, and Gorgonbane has answered. With the murderous falselight repelled for now, and the devastating ultra-buipolad reduced to cinders by the Sun, it falls to our mighty heroes to brave the ancient accursed Towers. What are they for? Who, or what, built them? Can whatever magics they hold contain the seemingly endless flood of corruption that is the falselight mass? Agrathor, Pierce, Scythia, and their teams must find a way into the Towers, and beat the ever-ambitious Ess, and the coldly calculating Asel, to the invaluable secrets within, all while Axebourne pledges to hold the line. But all is not as it seems within the Towers, as space, time, and even the purpose of the world are ripped away from apparent realities… Note! Books 1 & 2 in the series: How Black the Sky: A Heavy Metal Pulp Adventure (Hero’s Metal – Heavy Metal Pulp Adventures Book 1)  Out of the Deep: A Heavy Metal Pulp Adventure (Hero’s Metal – Heavy Metal Pulp Adventures Book 2) Are in the Fan Favorites section. Buy them all! A Lake Most Deep: The Edwardsaga (Firehall Sagas Book 1) by Rob Howell (Author) “Rob mixes intrigue, murder, and magic into his own cool blend.” – Larry Correia Edward sought a future of honor and hope, but only got murder and mayhem. He came to the Empire of Makhaira to join the Imperial Guard, who admit only the best. Instead, he pledges his sword—and his life—to an innkeeper rather than the emperor. In a land known for intricate plots and ancestral enmities, the empire’s corruption seeks to end his life with knives in the night and hidden treachery. And he must face these blades while memories of a father slain, a king defied, and oaths broken threaten his soul. Can he find the one bringing schism, death, and hate before that steel tastes his blood? Or will be just another who came to the empire to lose everything? Mister Friday by Graham Bradley In a near future, Black Friday is enshrined as an official economic holiday. The violence and competition that have come to characterize the start of the Christmas shopping season are now encouraged and regulated by the US Government. Jonathan Rigel Jr. quickly climbed the charts and became the greatest Friday Fighter of all time. When he finally decides that he’s out for good, he learns the hard way that you can’t just turn down a good deal… About the Author: Graham took up creative writing in the 3rd grade and has pursued it ever since. Alongside his childhood hobby of drawing on any blank sheet of paper he could find, this talent blossomed into his eventual career goal, and his is now an author-illustrator. Diving headfirst into just about any speculative genre, Graham prefers sci-fi and fantasy, with a focus on machinery and technology. Colorful worlds and aesthetics are a must, and above all, he wants readers to have fun. Originally from Nevada, Graham lives in the mountain west with his wife and kids. Armageddon Girl by C.J. Carella “Superheroes with style and wit.” – S.M. Stirling, best-selling author of the Change Series. (WARNING: Contains violence, adult content and strong language.) A world of larger-than-life heroes and villains with all too human failings. An action-packed tale, combining thrills with humor and more than a few pop culture references and nods to geek culture. This is the first tome of the New Olympus Saga. College student Christine Dark wasn’t happy. Her social life sucked, she spent too much of her time playing computer games or reading sci-fi novels (and the occasional paranormal romance) and she felt like she was missing out on everything. Fate had something special in store for her, though. Without warning, an unknown force drags Christine out of her world and takes her to a whole new universe, an alternate Earth where superhuman beings have existed since the end of World War One, a world filled with strange and dangerous characters. Christine soon learns she too is more than human, and that her choices may save her new home… or bring about its destruction. REVISED EDITION: The original novel has been updated and revised, with some typo corrections and edition changes. Decisively Engaged (Warp Marine Corps Book 1) by C.J. Carella (WARNING: Contains violence, strong language and adult content) They picked a fight with the wrong species. A NATION AT WAR: The United Stars of America. Born in the conflagration of unprovoked alien attack, the newest entrant to galactic politics took the few crumbs of hypertech gifted to it and ran with them, soon expanding over dozens of star systems and establishing a wide trade network, protected by its powerful Navy and the dreaded Warp Marines. A FIGHT TO THE DEATH: A single Marine platoon, tasked with protecting an embassy on a hostile alien planet. An embassy – and the human enclave around it – that soon finds itself surrounded by armed mobs. Can the Marines and a ragtag band of civilian and Navy personnel survive long enough to be rescued? Flower of Light: The Eternal Stones 1  by Allison Wade “At the dawn of the tenth spring, what was shattered will return whole.” For centuries, the Flower of Light has kept the balance of the Bluand Empire. Each generation, new Wardens are chosen to protect the sacred stones and master their incredible powers. But not everyone can bear the weight of destiny in the same way, and it’s easy to stray from the path of Light. Ten years ago, the circle was broken and the true power remained hidden. But now, the time has come for a new balance. The time has come for the fated Wardens to awaken and set things right. Fire and Water, Earth and Sky. Equals and opposites. Eight are chosen by the Constellations, from all corners of the Empire. Destined to cross their paths and rediscover what was lost, facing the darkness that looms over the World of Light. “Flower of Light” is the first book in the Eternal Stones series, a story of magic and adventure, ominous prophecies and unwavering hope. Against Three Lands (Thousand Isles Book 1)  by George Phillies (Author), Morineko- zion (Illustrator), Christopher Nuttall (Preface) .”…George Phillies is good at creating new and different universes. Mistress of the Waves features a world that is, in many ways, a work of art…The One World features a female-dominated society that seems plausible…In truth, George deserves to be known far better than he is…” … Chris Nuttall Clan MacDonald is surrounded by enemies. Clan Gunn wants its lands. Mysterious pirates assail its shores. The All-Conquering Generalissimo suspects it of treason. Foreign trade is interrupted by barbarian invasions. Angus Valentine Macdonald, seventh child of the One MacDonald, must travel to remote Mercia to defeat the treachery of the Lunarian Empire, the corruption of the Langwadooran invaders, and the rapacious greed of the alien Trell to protect his homeland and win the hand of his lady-love. Mistress of the Waves by George Phillies Orphaned Amanda Kirasdotr is a sailor on the lost planet Goddard. When she rescues a visiting starfarer from drowning, her reward is a trip into orbit. Now she wants to go there again, not easy when the hottest ship on Goddard has three masts and a full set of sails. The shadowy Brotherhood of the Bell realizes that Amanda wants to bring that most dreaded of all menaces, change, to Goddard. They’ll do absolutely anything to stop her. Amanda begins with her wits, her determination, and her dory Northstar. She’s up against typhoons, pirates, assassins, financial bubbles, starfarer ultratech, and the mythical giant ship-eating squid. Can she beat them all to find the path to her dream? Well Regulated Militia Kindle Edition by K Steele Julie Collins wonders why there isn’t an amendment in the Bill of Rights for the right just to be left alone. Eighteen should be one of the best years of her life, a time of optimism for the future. Instead, as she looks to the dawn of adulthood all she sees is pessimism around herself with little hope for improvement in the conditions slowly crushing her family. But her grandfathers instilled her with longing for liberty, one by his death and the other by his life of struggle against tyranny, and this yearning within her for freedom refuses to capitulate to greedy despots. “We mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor,” ended The Declaration of Independence. Inspired by these words of Thomas Jefferson, the words of John Locke, the Magna Carta, Aristotle and Cicero, Julie educates herself to the cause of liberty. More than just hollow words to her, with the shadow of oppression hanging over them she decides it is time to take a stand for justice; it is time for her to join the militia. The Spear of Destiny (Zarahemla Two Crows Book 2) by Ryan Williamson (Author) Zarahemla Two Crows is in the saddle again, and the warrior nun Magdalena has been dispatched from the Vatican to ride with him! Together they must race against time to find and secure the fabled Spear of Destiny before an evil power can unleash a plague of terror on the world. Join Zarahemla, Magdalena, and a cast of brand new characters in this exciting novella-length sequel to The Widow’s Son. About the Author Ryan Williamson is the author of many short stories, the novel “The Widow’s Son,” and its sequel novella “The Spear of Destiny,” which have garnered him a dedicated following. A unique sense of authenticity and realism marks Ryan’s writing, drawn in part from his experiences serving as a Cavalry Scout in the US Army. When he’s not writing, Ryan indulges his love for adventure by exploring the backroads of the Pacific Northwest on his motorcycles. His passion for storytelling and adventure is evident in all his work and continues to inspire readers around the world. The first book from his military fantasy series “Doomsday Recon,” co-authored with Jason Anspach, is set to release in early 2024 from WarGate Books. Note! Book 1 in the series, The Widow’s Son, is a Fan Favorite.   The Dungeon Runner’s Echoes: The Runners’ Echoes Part 1  by C. M. Craig (Author) When Evan starts playing Dungeon Runners, he isn’t expecting to find real people trapped in this game. But that’s what he finds. Tore, a young storm giant, has just been rejected by his master and is dying. Will Evan be able to save him? And even if he does, will the young runner then be able to find a way to save the giant’s brothers from a corrupted giantess who has enslaved them? And what about his plans of becoming a professional video game player? Evan is not sure he signed up for all of this when he started his ‘game’. After Moses by Michael F. Kane (Author) His gruff exterior hides a man who wants to do the right thing. But running from trouble won’t work when the planets need a hero. Arizona Colony, Mars. Matthew Cole doesn’t want anyone else aboard his ship. But the notorious solo freelancer is persuaded against his better judgment to guard a dangerous prison transport along with an exo-suit-clad former rival. Outmaneuvered when the crook’s cronies spring the inmate with heavy firepower, the poncho-wearing captain vows to scour the solar system to restore his rep and claim his paycheck Reluctantly banding together with his seven-foot partner in her powered armor, Matthew has his hands full leading an unwanted ragtag crew. But the headache of dealing with people again is nothing next to the prickling between his shoulders as he continues to run afoul of greedy politicians and criminal syndicates. Is this space cowboy’s moral compass sending him to a fatal crash landing? Wild Souls: A Werewolf Collection by Julie Frost Julie Frost is best known for her Pack Dynamics series. However, in this collection, she explores other aspects of lycanthropy, with stories running a gamut of timelines from the ancient Celts to American weird west to modern day—and even into the outer reaches of space. Ranging between humor and horror, with a cast of characters varying from witches to hunters to soldiers to angels and demons, there’s something here for everyone. Stories of families lost and found, new packs and old, love and loathing and loneliness… And, above all, what makes us human, and who the real monsters are. Life Support: A House Divided by Joseph Kellogg Waylaid by space pirates, medical missionary Father Tanner is offered a deal: cure the pirate captain of his recent strange illness, or be left for dead. But when the priest examines his patient, he fears the strange psychosis may be no mere sickness. Tanner prepares to grapple with the Devil himself, as the squid-like alien shows all the signs of demonic possession. As Tanner and the rest of his crew struggle to find the source of this mystery malady, his own captain, smuggler Damien Rogers, isn’t content to wager his freedom on an exorcism he doesn’t believe in. He decides to pursue his escape the old-fashioned way: fomenting a mutiny among the pirate crew. But the planet they take refuge on turns out to have more sinister dangers than just pirates. Friends are lost, allies are gained, and the truth is revealed in this action-packed sequel to Life Support: Secret Operations! Neighbors (Public Domain Agents Book 1) by Christopher Menkhaus For a girl obsessed with the past… And a boy with no future… There’s no time like the present… No time at all! Heather Worth is about to take the biggest step of her life. She is moving across the country for an art scholarship at a prestigious university. For Heather, everything is about to change. But, Heather has a secret motivation for her move. She recognizes one of the students in the background of one of the photographs in the university brochure. She’s sure it’s him. It’s been over a decade since she’s seen him, but she would know him anywhere. After all, he was her first crush…and it’s impossible to forget someone who looks like they have lights under their skin. Heather has finally found Chase Russet. This time, nothing is going to keep them apart. Not even Chase’s neighbors, who are harboring a dangerous secret. Chase Russet takes the same steps every day. No matter how many times Chase’s family moves, they still live in the same house, with the same neighbors. For Chase, nothing ever changes. Until the accident… Buy Neighbors today! Every story out there is made up of fictional facts, but only this book contains factional fictions. AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian! (Chronicles of AGROTHARN Book 1)  by Milo James Fowler “I will bring your demise!” Long ago, before the days of recorded history, during the Hyperbolean Age of a much younger Earth, AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian roamed the ancient volcanic lands in search of fame and fortune. These are his somewhat heroic tales, sure to enthrall the most adventurous of readers! When AGROTHARN learns that his long-lost witch-mother is still alive, he sets off on a perilous journey with his loyal triceratops to find her. Along the way, they meet a conniving trickster, a vengeful T-Rex, and a bunch of bloodthirsty aliens from a distant planet. Nonstop adventures take AGROTHARN deep into space and back through time as he unravels new truths about the reality he’s always taken for granted. What he discovers will forever change his life, setting him on a new path to rewrite the past and forge a glorious future for one and all! Jiao Tu’s Endeavour: Episode 1: The Kidnapped Mousling Kindle Edition by Donald Jacob Uitvlugt On a multigenerational colony ship five hundred years off course, a lagomorph warrior must survive using only his wits and his sword. Jiao Tu has been hired to rescue a young kidnapped mousling. A tip leads him to the Below, home to the engines that keep the world in motion. His mission has hardly begun when an encounter with a monstrous being plunges him into the midst of a struggle not only for control of the Below but for the world itself. Teamed with an untested ratling warrior and the ratling leader of a gang of thugs, Jiao Tu must stop the monster and save the mousling—and the world—before it is too late. Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Leigh Brackett’s planetary romances, Gene Wolfe’s Book of the Long Sun, Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane stories, Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, and the wuxia tradition starting with Water Margins and Journey to the West, Uitvlugt has created a world all his own that promises a far-future adventure unlike any other. — “Jiao Tu’s Endeavour is a rarity in the Sword & Planet genre. It’s like nothing that came before it. Drawing from John Carter, Usagi Yojimbo, and Orphans in the Sky, Uitvlugt has created a fantastic tale no fan of pulp adventure should miss.” — Henry Vogel, author of the Scout series — “In a world filled with anti heroes, Jiao Tu is a breath of fresh air. His virtues are on display for all to see. The mysteries around him unfold at just the right time. A real page turner.” — A.M. Able, author of the Uplift Protocol series — “An adventure of mystique and mystery in an industrial jungle. Every moment drips with intrigue!” — T.J. Marquis, author of Life City — “A loving homage to the pulps of old, an intriguing blend of Sword, Sorcery, and Planet. A story where the hero is morally strong, not just skilled and of strong will, is a delight.” — D.J. Schreffler This volume contains the complete first story arc compiled from the web serial Jiao Tu’s Endeavour, as well as the bonus stories “The Festival of Sweets” and “The Last Oracle.” Read more about the lagomorph warrior and his adventures at  Solarvoid  by Russell May For centuries, the worldship Solarvoid has roamed the cosmos. The might of an entire civilization contained in a colossal craft, a titanic triumph of science, engineering and culture, traversing the eternal night of space. But now, an ancient and monstrous evil stalks the ship. A sinister cult performs bizarre rituals in the half-forgotten bowels of the Solarvoid. Intrigue, suspicion and murder haunt even the mightiest of Great Houses. Crazy Moon A Short Story by Frank B. Luke Welcome to Lou’s Bar & Grill where the house special looks like a bargain but will cost more than you think. Lou and his staff have everything a person could want, and they know the best way to present it to you. After being stood up, werewolf fanatic Laney McMurphy went to Lou’s to forget her sorrows. To her surprise, Lou offered her a place in the local pack. To progress within the pack’s ranks, she’ll have to give in to her wild side. And most importantly, she’ll have to indulge her wrath. Each victory means a step up in rank. What she knows about wolves will help. What she doesn’t know just might get her killed. PNW Affliction 3: Combination Plaza by Chance Paladin (Author), Gem Gem (Illustrator) A relative calm has blessed the land in the six months since the collapse of the Pacific Northwest. It’s time to leave the safety of the farm with the team though to check up on allies at the Combination Plaza. Hopefully they are doing okay. Pacific Northwest Affliction 3: Combination Plaza PNW Affliction book #3: Combination Plaza About the author Chance Paladin lives in the Pacific Northwest between resistance-held city-states. He lives with his wonderful wife of 15 years, likes gardening and taking care of stray cats, and taking care of his rescued potted plants. He’s an amazing business analyst, and heads towards the worst projects while everyone else runs away. He’s seen every type of migraine doctor there is, most of them three times a piece, and finally found some new treatments that worked enough for him to function normal’ish. Panda Dreams and Other Hallucinations: A Collection of Short Stories by Denton Salle Do pandas dream? And if so, what do they dream of? That question is asked in this anthology of stories by the award-winning author of Daemonic Mechanical Artifacts and Deep School Tuition. Enter the weird and wonderful worlds of Denton Salle, where a Slavic myth asks for help, an Austin PI is asked to recover a demon-possessed blade, and a Countess recruits help in a Steampunk French Empire. Ranging from sweet romance to steampunk adventures to urban fantasy, with characters running from heroes to whores to ghouls, Salle’s stories range across genre and from North Texas to South France. Included in this collection are several never-published works, as well as two non-fiction pieces. Come in and see where too long in quarantine, with too much bourbon, and an overactive imagination can take you. The Brothers of Redemption: Technium, v. 1 by Diana Murray The Journey You Start Isn’t The One You Finish It’s 2165 in the Old Calendar, 0093 in the New. The world is a desolate realm of vast zones governed by the mysterious Council Of the Brotherhood Orders. Brothers and Settlers vie for control in what once was the developed world. Insurgencies plague the rest. The past is taboo, erased by the enigmatic “Before.” Jed and Max Kleer, half-brothers born into elite Brotherhood cohorts, share a mysterious bond that neither understands. They’re washouts living empty lives, adrift in the remnants of New York City. Jed, a disgraced Appraiser, works in the dreary Archives, feeding endless documents from the Before into Janus, the Council’s vast cloud drive. Max, a former combat engineer, lives in perpetual adolescent rage, smoking pellets, trading relics from “the Before” in a squatter colony. Jed gets a chance at redemption in the Sonoran Desert and Max, in trouble and needing to lie low, joins him there. When Jed wins Hannah Joyner, a settler abducted to be a sex slave, in a card game, their lives take an unexpected turn. They embark on a perilous journey across the continent to guide the lost girl home. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. The journey they start won’t be the one they finish. Technium defies the conventions of the dystopian genre by combining romance, humor and lyrical meditations on the America that once was and might one day be. It consists of two volumes, The Brothers Of Redemption and A Daughter Of Her People. My Life as a Dixie Darling by Mark Goldblatt Doreen Martinelli doesn’t understand the power of social media. It’s 2007, so no one really does. But her husband, Bobby, has an internet vision: Why not earn extra money posting pictures of her on an adult website called Dixie Darlings? They don’t have to be nudes, just sexy enough to get viewers to pony up for bonus photos and messaging privileges. Doreen’s not sold on Bobby’s vision. But her mom once worked as a Playboy bunny to make ends meet. How is this different? Doreen soon becomes the most popular Dixie Darling, and she and Bobby find themselves swimming in cash. They start up a college fund for their daughter. Gradually, though, they get drawn into the weird, wacky, and sometimes seedy world of online dreamers and schemers. Babe, the former #1 Darling, becomes a frenemy. She wants her top spot back… and a lot more than that. Meanwhile, Doreen is discovering that it’s hard to keep your life private when sexy photos of you are floating around the web, and it’s even harder to keep your husband in line when he’s coasting on your assets. Throw in a charismatic dwarf, misfit friends, and social media’s lust for scandal, and Doreen’s quiet life just took a turn for the complicated. Gods in Darkness by David J. West The Balance of Wonder and Terror Learn the truth of the secret war in space with both the Soviets and dark technomancers bent on world domination in Gods in Darkness. Thrill to incredible truths buried in the sands of ages or in our own Area 51 in The Dig. Ride along with some crazed truckers dealing with Lovecraftian horrors in At the Highways of Madness. Know the stark terror of reading a forbidden book of the damned when the stars are not right. Love knows no bounds through time and space–especially for one of Lovecraft’s Elder Things in The Queen in Shadow. And finally, go beyond the past and future in The Sleepers of Tartarus. All these and more lurk at the edge of reason waiting to pounce. Get your copy now! A Hot Dose Of Hell  by Steve Stark A deadly new drug has hit the streets of Scarmouth, one which turns users into bloodthirsty maniacs with superhuman tolerance for pain. Through insidious design a large quantity has fallen into the hands of squatters occupying the derelict Victoria hotel. It’s a bad place for a group of woke, virtue-signalling social media influencers to promote their new homeless charity, but they’ve got a PR story in the making. One of their party is searching for a long-lost sister and if they can find her they believe the stunt could bring them international attention. They’re not the only ones looking for something. Hired muscle, Fred and Pinkie have been tasked to recover that lost drug shipment. These men know what it’s doing to people. What they don’t know is just how many have been affected already, but within the bowels of that derelict hotel breeds a mindless, homicidal legion. Scarmouth is known as the coastal town they forgot to burn down. It’ll only take a few hot doses to finally set it alight. Marrying A Monster (The Jaiya Series Book 1)  by Mel Dunay New, professionally edited edition! Journey to the country of Jaiya, in a world not quite like ours. Here, humans ride trains, drive cars, and use cell phones, but they share their world with insect people and trollfolk, and stranger things lurk in the shadows… As a favor to her parents, Rina agrees to come back to her hometown and take part in an old local custom: a symbolic marriage between the town’s women and the Mountain King, a mythical guardian spirit no one really believes in. But the Mountain King really exists: a monstrous being that feeds on fear and suffering. Rina’s only hope for survival may be Vipin, the dashing scholar hunting the Mountain King, but Vipin is hiding a few secrets of his own… Note: Rina and another character are friends with or related to a few characters from the later books in the Jaiya series, but Monster is meant as a standalone. Salvage Title (The Salvage Title Trilogy Book 1) by Kevin Steverson The Salvage Title journey begins! They couldn’t afford a ship, much less the cost of registering one. But there is always a loophole… Harmon Tomeral wanted nothing more than to go to space. Sent to an orphanage when his parents were killed in a sandstorm, the odds were stacked against him. Despite that, he made it to the academy and graduated in the top ten percent of his class…only to find out the fleet did what it wanted, regardless of regulations, and he came from the wrong planet. He didn’t give up his dream, though, because where there’s a will, there’s a loophole, and Harmon and his friends found their loophole in the Top Fleet Marine competition—the winner would get 100,000 credits, which would just be enough to start their own salvage company. If they could build a mech and win the competition, they would be set. But the fleet had already shown they didn’t want him in space, so it would be an uphill fight. Good thing his friends and crew were very much against fleet regulations. The Lyons’ Pride (The Phoenix Initiative Book 1)  by Chris Kennedy (Author), Marisa Wolf (Author) No other Human is more enigmatic than the Lyon. On the African savanna, the male lion is the lord who watches over his family, while the females of the clan do the real work. Joel, “The Lyon” Lyons thought that owning a mercenary company would be similar—he could sit back and allow the Lyoness to run the Pride. Everything would go well, money from successfully completed contracts would flow like water into his bank accounts, and everything would be as easy as it had been for him when he’d owned a chain of highly-successful restaurants. It’s easy to be full of pride when everything is going your way. But when he runs afoul of Peepo, the Veetanho who is arguably the most successful mercenary general in galactic history, he finally meets his match—someone who is every bit the master of logistics he is—and he is brought low. The true measure of a man isn’t in never being knocked down, though—it’s in what you do when you are. When Peepo leaves him for dead on the battlefield, will the Lyon slink away from the galactic spotlight, or will he get back up again and let the galaxy hear him roar? Beneath the Caverns by R J Burle Is the enemy of my enemy my friend or another enemy? Of all the terrors in the Forbidden Zone, no place strikes more fear in the hearts of the survivors than the Caverns. But when Bryan’s young son is kidnapped and dragged into its depths, the Mountain Warriors must storm it. They know the caverns are filled with blood mad vampires, but there’s a lurking evil they didn’t expect and a depth of deception they aren’t prepared for. Despite their usual bravery, when the rescue turns into violent chaos, the warriors retreat and Eric is abandoned. No longer the inept fighter, Eric is ready to shed his reluctant hero status and wage war against the vampires. His only friend is a vampiress sent to kill or turn him and their only way out of the caverns is to go deeper into them, beneath reality as they know it. Can Eric rescue the child or will the unexpected encounters in the caverns make him forget what’s real and more importantly, what matters most? Outcast: Mountain Warriors Book 1  by R.J. Burle Despite facing an immediate firing squad, a down on his luck journalist, Eric, violates a quarantine zone to investigate the wild lands of the Southern Appalachian Mountains that are inhabited by zombies, vampires and other terrors. After a betrayal, the government permanently exiles Eric to the wasteland of The Forbidden Zone and sends the ruthless Specter to trail him. Eric is no longer a nonparticipating observer but must quickly learn the ways of the warrior, when a group of survivors, who live under a strict code of sword and gun, turn against him, as they face off against a horde of zombies. Will Eric be accepted by this band of survivors or will he be exiled again to face not only the undead, but the other creatures of the forest that might be even worse. Silk Unspun (Exopreneurs Book 1) by D.S. Blake (Author) It should have been a routine negotiation, an easy task for even a novice bailiff to handle. Jake Ambler, a disaffected youth searching for purpose in the cosmos, finds solace in the ranks of the disreputable “exopreneurs” – those who seek to profit from the exploitation of alien worlds. His assignment? Bug Space, a region of the galaxy where colossal, intelligent insectoids reign supreme. But when Jake arrives on the insect-infested planet of Telia, he quickly discovers that nothing about his mission is routine. The Spider Queens of Teila, a domineering race of arachnids, wield power like nothing he’s ever encountered. Their disdain for lesser life forms is only surpassed by their insatiable desire for supremacy among their own kind, especially the males. And his fellow exopreneurs intend to cash in on it. As Jake delves deeper into the tangled web of Teila’s intrigue, he finds himself embroiled in an uprising that threatens to consume him and those he cares for most. Survival is a high-stakes gamble, and the only way out is to unravel Teila’s greatest secret before Jake becomes yet another pawn in this galactic struggle for power. Silk Unspun is a pulse-pounding science fiction odyssey that explores the boundaries of loyalty, survival, and the pursuit of forbidden knowledge in a universe where danger is as limitless as the cosmos.


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noisen - Aeva Media et associ&eacute;s - Sujets There's a 'quick' solution, just disable 'lookups' in the Aeva settings. This should help, although you'll still have to manually modify protocols to '; instead of '; when posting a video.If you want a full-fledged fix, you'll have to do with my diff patches. I'll post updated versions of the AeMe 2.10 files, too, but please remember not to share these outside of this board. Feel free to share the diff patches, though.If you didn't change the original AeMe files, then feel free to just dropped the fixed files into your Sources folder.Or, of course, switch to Wedge. Important note: I only spent an hour or so on this fix. It's quite ugly, as it was backported from the Wedge codebase, and I didn't bother to make many tests for the Aeva-Embed.php changes.Code: [Select]]>]--- Sources\Subs-Aeva-Sites.php 2010-10-08 11:56:08.000000000 +-0200+++ Sources\Subs-Aeva-Sites.php 2015-05-13 16:07:02.000000000 +-0200@@ -139,27 +139,27 @@  array(  'id' => 'ytb',  'title' => 'YouTube',  'website' => ';,  'type' => 'pop',  'added' => '<4.0',- 'pattern' => 'http://(?:video\.google\.(?:com|com?\.[a-z]]>]]]]]]- 'movie' => ';,+ 'pattern' => 'https?://(?:video\.google\.(?:com|com?\.[a-z]]>]]]]]]+ 'movie' => '[url]]>]]  'size' => array(  'normal' => array(480, 385),  'ws' => array(640, 385),  ),  'ui-height' => 25,  // or v=MxGofCFHYCc (all hail Jochen Hippel!)  // On Google -   // - Example of "Embedding Disabled By Request"- 'fix-html-pattern' => '<object [^>]]>]]]- 'fix-html-url' => ';,- 'lookup-url' => 'http://(?:video\.google\.(?:com|com?\.[a-z]]>]]]]]]]]- 'lookup-actual-url' => ';,- 'lookup-final-url' => ';,+ 'fix-html-pattern' => '<object [^>]]>]]]+ 'fix-html-url' => '[url]]>]]+ 'lookup-url' => 'https?://(?:video\.google\.(?:com|com?\.[a-z]]>]]]]]]]]+ 'lookup-actual-url' => '[url]]>]]+ 'lookup-final-url' => '[url]]>]]  'lookup-title' => true,  'lookup-title-skip' => true,  'lookup-pattern' => array(  'id' => '<id>.*?:([\w-]]>]  'error' => '<internalReason>(.*?)</internalReason>',  'noexternalembed' => '<yt:accessControl\saction=\'embed\'\spermission=\'denied\'/>',@@ -160,19 +160,19 @@  'lookup-title' => true,  'lookup-title-skip' => true,  'lookup-pattern' => array(  'id' => '<id>.*?:([\w-]]>]  'error' => '<internalReason>(.*?)</internalReason>',  'noexternalembed' => '<yt:accessControl\saction=\'embed\'\spermission=\'denied\'/>',  'id' => 'ytp',  'title' => 'YouTube (Playlists)',  'website' => ';,  'type' => 'pop',  'added' => '<4.0',  // - 'pattern' => 'http://(?:(?:www|[a-z]]>]]]+ 'pattern' => 'https?://(?:(?:www|[a-z]]>]]]  'movie' => ';,  'size' => array(480, 385),  'ui-height' => 25,  'fix-html-pattern' => '<object [^>]]>]  ),  array(Then...Code: [Select]]>]--- Sources\Aeva-Embed.php 2010-11-19 11:29:34.000000000 +-0200+++ Sources\Aeva-Embed.php 2015-05-13 16:00:29.000000000 +-0200@@ -106,13 +106,13 @@  // For each enabled site to the end, attempt to embed  for ($upto = 0; $upto < $j; $upto++)  {  $message = aeva_match($message);   // If no active http links remain (making further embedding impossible), then stop- if (stripos($message, '<a href=";) === false)+ if (stripos($message, '<a href="http') === false)  break;  }   // Reverse protections and return the finished embedded content  return aeva_reverse_protection(str_replace('<aeva-begin>', '', $message)); }@@ -113,28 +113,28 @@  break;  }   // Reverse protections and return the finished embedded content  return aeva_reverse_protection(str_replace('<aeva-begin>', '', $message)); }  }   // Tidy up  unset($unaltered);   // No links remaining?  No further embedding possible, so set this variable before we return- if ($reverse === true && stripos($input, '<a href=";) === false)+ if ($reverse === true && stripos($input, '<a href="http') === false)  $context['aeva']]>]]   return $input; }  // Protect noembed & autolink items from embedding *before* BBC parsing - wrap quotes, but don't protect function aeva_preprotect(&$message, $cache_id) {- if ((stripos($message, ';) === false && stripos($message, '') === false) || strpos($cache_id, 'sig') !== false)+ if ((stripos($message, '://') === false && stripos($message, '') === false) || strpos($cache_id, 'sig') !== false)  return;   global $modSettings, $context;   if (!empty($modSettings['cache_enable']]>]  {@@ -202,19 +202,19 @@  return;   global $modSettings, $context;   if (!empty($modSettings['cache_enable']]>]  {   // Should haven't got here if autolinking of urls is disabled  if (empty($modSettings['autoLinkUrls']]>]  return $input;   // Parse any URLs....- if (preg_match('~;, $input))+ if (preg_match('~https?://|www\.~i', $input))  {  // Modified from SMF code, adding support for [center]]>]]]  $input = strtr($input, array('&#039;' => '\'', '&quot;' => '>">', '"' => '<"<', '&lt;' => '&lt;'));  $input = preg_replace(  array(  '`(^|[\s>\.(;\'"]]>]]]]]]]]@@ -705,19 +705,19 @@  {  // Modified from SMF code, adding support for [center]]>]]]  $input = strtr($input, array('&#039;' => '\'', '&quot;' => '>">', '"' => '<"<', '&lt;' => '&lt;'));  $input = preg_replace(  array(  '`(^|[\s>\.(;\'"]]>]]]]]]]]  global $context, $modSettings, $txt, $aeva_timer;   $aeva_timer = (isset($aeva_timer) ? (int) $aeva_timer : 0) - array_sum(explode(' ', microtime()));   if (strlen($message) > 10 & empty($context['uninstalling']]>]  {- if (!empty($modSettings['aeva_enable']]>]]+ if (!empty($modSettings['aeva_enable']]>]]  $message = aeva_main($message);  else  {  // Removes any noembed  $message = aeva_protection(  array('noembed' => false),@@ -1070,27 +1070,27 @@  $message = aeva_main($message);  else  {  // Removes any noembed  $message = aeva_protection(  array('noembed' => false),  global $embed_album, $embed_folder, $context, $force_id;   $link = preg_replace(array('~\[url=([^]]>]]]]]]]]  $thumbs = array(  'YouTube' => array(  'func' => 'youtubeCreateThumb',- 'pattern' => 'http://(?:video\.google\.(?:com|com?\.[a-z]]>]]]]]]+ 'pattern' => 'https?://(?:video\.google\.(?:com|com?\.[a-z]]>]]]]]]  ),  'Dailymotion' => array(  'func' => 'dailymotionCreateThumb',  'pattern' => 'http://(?:www\.)?dailymotion\.(?:com|alice\.it)/(?:[^"]]>]]  ),  'GoogleVideo' => array(  'func' => 'googleCreateThumb',- 'pattern' => '.(com|com?\.[a-z]]>]]]]+ 'pattern' => 'https?://video\.google\.(com|com?\.[a-z]]>]]]]  ),  'GoogleMaps' => array(  'func' => 'gmapsCreateThumb',  'pattern' => ';]]>]]  ),  'MetaCafe' => array(]]> Nao/Gilles ?action=post Wed, 13 May 2015 14:17:09 GMT Because PayPal only allows one website to be linked to one e-mail address, I've moved my website to be the new I'm working on. This just makes sense.- Create an account over there.- Go to your profile, and click the Subscriptions link. You should be taken there.- Click to purchase Aeva Media.- You'll be redirected to PayPal. Proceed with your payment.- You'll be redirected to Wedge.org.- You should be receiving an e-mail with a link to the software. If you didn't receive it, just go to the Media section of wedge.org, and look for the "Aeva Media" folder. If you can't find it, please drop me a PM and I'll look into it.- Download the package.- ???- Profit!]]> Nao/Gilles ?action=post Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:02:10 GMT I have time for here, but till now and posted, I wanted saver as I can post on the forum MEDIA AEVA to see a question I have.Thanks and regards]]> IpSiLoN ?action=post Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:16:48 GMT First of all sorry if I didn't post in the proper area, but is so hard to find how to create a topic.I've installed SMF 2.0 fresh install, without errors and after I installed Aeva-Media-1.4w without any errors, but when I try to access the admin menu: About or Settings i get "blank pages" so is impossible to be from another mod because is the only mod that I've installed and is installed on a fresh 2.0 SMF.I've try everything, I've uninstall aeva, drop sql tables, reinstall again, but the problem persist.Can someone help me with this bug?10x in advance!]]> marius ?action=post Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:16:14 GMT There is a fix for YouTube's new short links (youtu.be)pub/off/6583/youtube-using-short-links/ contains the change required.]]> Arantor ?action=post Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:20:00 GMT there are reports, that the latest version of AEVA 1.4b does not workcorrectly with SMF RC4 and PortaMX.See here:What about the AEVA 2.04 version ?I had no time yet to test this.I will try to test it this night.If anybody else has got those problems or solutions,please post it here.Many thanks.P.S: Was in 2.04 version already the drop-shadow text overlay integratedto mark the uploaded pictures or do I have to do this with another program ?What would be the best freeware program to do this... easily ?I really need drop-shadow text overlay.Without drop-shadow, the text just is barely readable on many pics...Many thanks.Regards, Stefan.]]> hartiberlin ?action=post Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:47:42 GMT ] JuxtapositionFor some time I've been worried about the course SMF is taking. New issues arose between the SMF team and us this week that just cemented how we felt, so we thought we'd actually announce something that's been going on.We both did our best to maintain a working relationship with the SMF team, and we both feel that we're the ones always expected to compromise, with unpleasant consequences as you've already heard.SadnessThe SMF team has been actively pushing away some of the most important contributors to SMF, such as us, Runic or the team that went on joining Yourasoft in January, simply because we were more vocal than others about the state of SMF and its team.Some of us got bored waiting for changes, and simply left SMF to die by itself. Others wanted to see the SMF software live on and be able to tackle the new challenges that await it. Unfortunately, with the SMF team insisting on keeping SMF compatible with 5-year-old servers and software setups, and the "feature-frozen" state that SMF has been for the last 2 years, it was impossible to even try doing something about it.So, in mid-August, Pete and I started discussing the possibility of branching off from SMF 2.0.SeparationWe figured, we can work together, away from the SMF team, away from the influences of as many wrongs as possible that SMF fell into.To us, the main problem was with the SMF team, and getting rid of that element in the equation would pave the way forward. The idea was really simple: make a fork on our side, where the project managers are also the only developers, and never let anyone get in the way without being sure that they share our vision of the ideal software. Then, make sure to collaborate with the SMF team to share our bug fixes and feature implementations, so that they can also freely be added to the SMF codebase.And without boundaries, everyone's a winner; just think of the possibilities!DivorceOn August 25, we got started on development, and we contacted the team to negotiate a licence to fork SMF. With 2.0 final, it's moving to a BSD licence, forking becomes inevitable anyway, so we figured offering them a way to mostly get rid of us much sooner wouldn't be a bad idea.It was intended in every way to be a friendly fork; as bugs got fixed, the fixes would go back to SMF (both of us fixed things for RC4, for example)The request was ultimately denied, both by the NPO and the LLC. It's understandable, knowing as we do the reasons for the no-forking clause in the licence originally, but knowing the eventuality of licence change - work commenced anyway.DeterminationYes, that's right: we are actively working on a fork of SMF - the licence doesn't prevent us doing that, all it prevents is distributing it and removing the copyright. (And if you think that's not the case, please read the SMF licence again.)If it did prevent private forks, you'd never be able to have private mods and customised sites. As for us, we're just waiting for 2.0 final and the result licence change to be able to go properly public about it.SuggestionBefore, I mentioned a new theme and new features - this was our way of saying that we're working on our fork. These are, or will be, in the fork itself, along with plenty more besides.Lots has been done already - for instance, SMF is filled with compatibility code, changing a feature tends to break something else.We must have pruned close to 15% of useless code by dropping support for many technologies that are either too old, or irrelevant in the SMF landscape: PostgreSQL, SQLite, PHP 4, MySQL 3.x, non UTF-8 character sets and many others. Things like the help manual were removed, because we strongly believe that if someone needs to read a manual to do something, then something's wrong and we should rethink how we do it.PreparationWe did originally plan and agree to keep this quiet, and we're not revealing where the discussion is taking place for the fork, for its features and development, but it isn't here (but on a dedicated, private site.)It is finally time to reveal because the team has shown hostility to both of us, and even more so in the last few days, and we feel it is totally out of line. You already know about Pete's issues with vbgamer45, and the SMF steering committee taking a stand to protect him, even though he's broken pretty much all of the SMF team rules -- several times.Hell, he's been accused of trying to kill SMF. He might as well actually try living up to that claim, but for the right reasons.VilificationI, on my side, had requested for the ?action=credits link to be visible in SMF, as it is currently not even linked at all in SMF. In order to make a point, I moved the SMF credits at noisen.com from the footer to the credits page, and proceeded to link to the credits page from the footer. This was denounced by the SMF team as a licence violation, and as retaliation I was stripped of my credits, SMF Friend status, beta tester membership and access to the bug tracker and SVN... before anyone said anything to me.RetaliationNow, considering that such a behaviour would be perfectly accepted in a few weeks (because of the upcoming license change), and that the copyright was still there (albeit on a different page, but still just as accessible from the footer), and finally considering my role in helping SMF's popularity in the last few years with Aeva, I could hardly be put on the same line as a random user installing SMF and removing the copyright to replace it with their own.What would have happened to Jeff Lewis, one of SMF's original creators, had he installed SMF on his website and removed the copyright? Would he have been banned for that? Oh wait... He'd been banned from the SMF website once before for less than that: questioning the team leadership, along with multiple others (see events in January 2010.)Setting this aside, I didn't mind (much) about the retaliation. I was much more annoyed by the fact that (1) nothing was done to ensure that the credits link would be indeed made active in a vanilla SMF install, (2) the SMF team actually chose to get rid of one of their most active community members ever (without even a warning), instead of discussing the issue with him and listening to his requests (i.e. to make the copyright more meaningful.)Not only that, but the SMF project manager, who is aware of our fork and accepted its very idea (without which we might not have started it, because we really wanted to be friendly to SMF), insisted personally on removing beta and SVN access.What that means is, we can't see some of the new bugs or suggest fixes, nor report anything on the bug tracker, be it bug fixes or feature improvements. The SMF team has, effectively, shunned us from any potential influence over the future of SMF.In short: SMF has turned our friendly fork into a hostile one, just like that.ProtectionBecause of that, our fork will not, initially, receive the same BSD licence that SMF will have at that point; the original SMF code will still be BSD licensed, but the package overall will have a custom licence, because we do not want the team making off with some of the code. If they don't want to share their work, we won't share ours, as simple as that.It won't be ready for public launch until after 2.0 is out, because there is so much we want to do with it that we haven't done yet, but it'll be out probably before 2.1 is ready, and with more features to boot (lots, lots more features, including ones the team would never consider putting in the core.)We originally wanted to release a first version by the time 2.0 Gold is out, but the more we worked on the software, the more we realized we could do to improve on it. So, we simply decided not to give ourselves a time limit. Those of you who are used to using SMF RC's won't be far away from home. Even better, since most complex mods will have to be partly (or completely) rewritten for the fork, we will encourage development techniques that ensure they don't touch the main codebase, which in turn will allow anyone to update betas without losing anything.VisionRemember this is Nao + Arantor, or Arantor + Nao (whichever sounds better ) at the helm - between us we have literally thousands of hours, and tens of thousands of lines of SMF related code under each of our belts.Our fork, while it has only been worked on for a bit over 10 weeks, already has some impressive statistics. 240 commits (some of which add large new features), thousands of new lines of code, huge changes in both the frontend and backend, all within a global patch that would total over 2 megabytes if applied to SMF.AnticipationWe're both committing ourselves fulltime to our project, and not expecting anything in return, if only for people's respect for what we're trying to achieve. That the SMF team themselves is no longer willing to respect us, only reaffirms the feeling that we took the right decision in forking.When the time comes to release our first version, you will be able to install it next to your SMF forum, and compare the two different philosophies. Switching to it will be your own choice. It's been a long time since you've had a choice to make, rather than have a choice imposed upon you, hasn't it? Let's hope it will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.Minification (for those who want the tl:dr version)We feel screwed by SMF, we got tired of taking it, so we're branching off from 2.0 now in a private repository and will go public once the licence to SMF changes.Common sense - What does this mean for Aeva Media users?Obviously, you all noticed that I slowed down work on AeMe in the last couple of months. This has probably been the hardest thing to do for me -- push the project aside to work on the fork. I'm still working on AeMe and playing with the layout and new features, as you may have noticed. The auto-embedding component of Aeva will be a core feature in our fork. I'm also considering integrating the gallery as well, although we haven't made a clear decision yet.]]> Nao/Gilles ?action=post Sun, 07 Nov 2010 13:00:50 GMT Now, some like Akyhne love my mods so much, that they are willing to insult me and get ridiculed in public, just to avoid uninstalling it from their website (or downgrading to a version I didn't make.)But there are people who, on the contrary, don't like Aeva Media, for whatever reason. I'm absolutely fine with that. I wrote AeMe for myself, not for anyone else. It does what I want it to do. If it doesn't suit you, well...Well, until today I used to say "use SMF Gallery, then. It sucks even more, but there are probably people who'll enjoy it more."Now I won't even say that.Arantor purchased vbgamer45's "Community Suite" package at $250 back in August.He never was able to download it. After months of sending e-mails to vbgamer and asking him to give him access to his software suite, he was simply banned from his forum, and his license was revoked (whatever that means -- he was never able to download that in the first place.)What's interesting is that not only did vbgamer NEVER tell Arantor why he banned him.But he actually kept the $250 for himself.Now, I've always been quite patient with that capitalist pig of an incompetent pseudo-dev, and never even mentioned him here even after all he's done to me in the shadows, but a point needs to be made because he went too far.vbgamer45 is a lying bastard and a thief!Thanks for your attention. (And Pete, I hope you won't mind that I posted this here. I just can't stand still and watch my friends be treated like shit.)]]> Nao/Gilles ?action=post Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:37:13 GMT ] Back in March, I resigned from my Beta Tester position at simplemachines.org, because I was going nowhere. I wanted to take some time off and decided to end development of Aeva Media as well. Two months later, the SMF team offered me a developer position, after which I also ended up resigning, very angry against the team for their behavior.At the time (July 28), after discussing with users and family, I decided to resume development on Aeva Media, but only on a commercial version of it. The free version would only be getting security updates (if needed.)In order to make a stand against the SMF team, I removed my downloadable packages off their mod site, and replaced them with a link to this website. After a while, instead of asking me whether this was intended, they simply deleted my mods and replaced them with a bastardized version, 100% alcohol free. Yikes. Plus, it was using a name that was confusingly similar to Aeva Media.I didn't appreciate this move on the part of the team, and things went downhill very soon. I managed to have the mod renamed to something else, and the mod page was re-enabled after I re-uploaded the Aeva Lite package. It was a lesser evil for me, as I could leave Aeva Media out of their website and have complete control over its distribution. However, less than a couple of hours after that, they permanently banned me from the SMF website.As a result:- I can no longer update the sitelist on the Aeva mod page. This was the only item I had left on that page originally, because deleting it could break functionality. Users of Aeva Lite should thus be using Aeva Media 1.x as a replacement, if they want to be sure the sitelist is updated automatically and quietly as soon as required. I will later release a new version of Aeva Lite with the auto-embedder additions from Aeva Media, as well as a new sitelist address that doesn't rely on the SMF team's good will.- I can no longer provide support for Aeva Media 1.x on their forum, obviously. They did a lot of changes (such as removing their Aeva Media board and merging all of the support topics into one), but I don't know why they did. The support topic is useless! The mod's author can't even VIEW it! (Well, okay, I can view it next time I change my IP address, but then what does it change...?) So, basically: don't expect support from me on their board. I have nothing else to bring anyway. I will no longer go over there.- I may in the near future open a support topic for Aeva Media 1.x and Aeva Lite over here. This is not the case for now. I need some time off to digest all of this crap.Thank you for your time. And thanks to the SMF team for having so much respect for their ex-developer, author of their most popular plugin, main French translator and most zealous beta tester ever. Now, onto another project... This time, I'll make sure it isn't full of self-adoring ninconpoomps.]]> Nao/Gilles ?action=post Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:31:00 GMT AeMe 2.x is deprecated. No official support is provided for it. The equivalent of AeMe 3.0 will be provided, for free, in Wedge 1.0.What is Aeva Media 2.x?Ah well, that is a good question, I'd like to thank myself for asking it.As you probably know, Aeva Media is a fantastic (trust me, I know it! ) gallery system for SMF forums. It is entirely free, but things happened, and it became impossible for me to keep maintaining it.I announced that I would stop supporting and maintaining it, but then a few persons indicated that they would be willing to pay for the software if I were to keep maintaining it. After discussing the idea, I decided to go ahead and do it.So, in simpler words, Aeva Media 2.x is the follow-up to Aeva Media 1.x, and it includes the Foxy! add-on directly inside the code (you no longer need to install it separately.)Here's the link to purchase Aeva Media (make sure you have created an account at noisen.com first, and that you're logged in!), and then you can download it on this very board immediately after your purchase. Support is only available to customers.Aeva Media 2.0For SMF 1.1.x and 2.x platforms---------------------------------------------------------Created and developed by Nao [noisen.com]]>]Main FeaturesEVERYTHING- It might seem obvious, but AeMe 2.x has all the features in AeMe 1.x... And adds the following:USER PLAYLISTS- Give membergroups the permission to create user playlists. Allowed users will be able to  create playlists by simply visiting any item page and clicking the Playlists drop menu and then  select "Add to Playlist". Organize your favorites easily and browse them like an album!JAVASCRIPT+FLASH PLAYLISTS- Show nice little Flash-powered playlists in these topics, or pretty much anywhere else,  based on user playlists or anything you want (one or more items, one or more albums...)- Make your own Foxprog () clone in a minute (or ten.) Visit the site  to see a demo of playlists applied to a music website. Remember you can also do this for  video or picture websites, the limit is your imagination!LINKED TOPICS- Create (or not) a linked notification topic automatically when adding/editing an album.  You can use this to close per-item comments and have everyone comment on albums instead,  or subscribe to topic notifications, or harness the power of other topic-related mods.- A linked topic's first message will feature a Javascript+Flash playlist of its related album.  Any new item (or group of items, if you use Mass Upload) will also be added as a new message,  allowing to 'bump' the topic. Each time you create a new album, your preference for linked  topics will be remembered (i.e., the latest board you posted to will be selected by default,  or no album if you choose not to use the feature the previous time.) Whether you locked  the previous topic or not will also be remembered.SMG BUTTON- Add a SMG button to the post area, which opens a popup that will allow you to upload  an item and insert it into your message in as few clicks as possible on SMF2.EXTERNAL PICTURE EMBEDDING WITH LOCAL THUMBNAIL & PREVIEW- Embed pictures hosted on another server (Picasa, Photobucket, Imageshack, anything  you can think of). Thumbnails and previews will be created as needed, but the main files  themselves will always stay hosted remotely. For this to work as expected, the Aeva mod needs  to be installed, and it is advised to enable Aeva's "External embedding" feature as well.RSS FEEDS- All albums and items now offer RSS feeds to keep you updated for:  * Latest items - user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.  * Latest comments - items, user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.What you can do with playlists- Click on "Playlists" in the gallery homepage, and select "New Playlist".- Enter a name, and a description. You're nearly done.- Go to any item page in the gallery, and if you want to add it to your playlist, select  your playlist at the bottom of the page, and submit. You're done.- After you've added a few items, just go to your playlist page (use the opportunity to see  how cool it looks), click on Modify, and you can re-order items inside the playlist.- You can also click on the Comment button to add a personal comment that will show up below  the item in the public playlist. Please note that this comment will appear *below* existing  author comments for the item. Consider they're your chance to explain why you chose to add  that item to your playlist -- just like user lists on Amazon.- And I'm done.How to install- If Aeva Media is already installed, don't forget to uninstall it before reinstalling it! You won't lose any data. (In fact, you'll never lose your data, unless you manually delete the files by FTP.)- Go to your forum's admin area, upload the zip file through the Package manager, install it and follow the instructions.License agreement (no crappy legal details, as usual with me.)- If you did not purchase this software, please be honest and do it.- You can modify the source code all you want.- Whether you modify it or not -- you are NOT allowed to distribute it.- If you are thinking of sharing the source code with someone, don't do it. It's not allowed.- Please do not use this on multiple websites with a single licence. Ask me for authorization if  you are looking into doing it. I'm listening and I'm open. I like seeing what people do with my software.Also, if you wish to use this software, you will be bound by the Aeva Media 2.x license agreement.Please make sure to read it online at Changelogv2.04 - October 24, 2010! Fixed order logic within the preparsing chain, to avoid broken br tags  when editing album and title descriptions. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.v2.03 - October 7, 2010! Fixed a security issue.! Fixed a potential crash during upgrade.+ Added mention in the readme about possible file corruption when doing FTP transfers- Removed support for deprecated functions (setInnerHTML, doUBBC) and browsers (IE4, IE5 Mac)* Tweaks to SMF2 RC3 styling to accomodate for the future.! Fixed to the menu system, in case submenus are added.v2.02 - August 28, 2010* Rewrote YouTube embedding to use their data API. This fixes permanently  broken lookups after a certain number of videos were embedded.* If a YouTube video is no longer available, a red exclamation mark  will now indicate it next to the video's title.* If an item description is short enough, center it on the page,  instead of left-aligning it. The limit is hardcoded to 200 characters.! If an item's filesize was changed after it was uploaded, Aeva Media  will show a warning. This usually means that the admin attempted to  re-upload pictures but did it in ASCII mode, rather than Binary.! Random items in homepage are now shown as a filestack if requested.! Fixed broken comments area when using code tags inside a comment.! Fixed broken captions when using the SMG tag on a SSI page, if the caption  has spaces in it. This is due to admins not preparsing strings as required.! Fixed broken captions when using the SMG tag, if caption had square brackets.! Fixed menu system not working in IE8. (Thanks, spuds!)v2.01 - August 14, 2010+ Replaced the main Aeva Media bar with a nice new dropdown menu system.+ Added automatic thumbnail generator to Google Maps embeds. Wasn't easy!+ Added support for HTML5 audio on audio files, with fallback if incompatible.* Rewrote much of the download manager-type presentation.* Split template into two files, for easier maintenance.+ Added "Icons-only" alternative descriptions to item boxes.+ Added the ability to disable RSS feeds, playlists, comments and ratings.! Fixed search engine logic, as well as page index not showing up in search results.! Fixed string cutter, which, apparently, didn't properly restore entities... Eh?!* Download count is now used as view count if a document can only be downloaded, not viewed.! Fixed various error messages that showed up on strict installs of PHP5. Or something.+ No longer telling you a new version is available, if you're using an unreleased beta.! Fixed aeva_getList() error message and cleaned up most of the Foxy! hook points.- Removed support for BBC News embed, as they made it too complicated. Heck.+ Added support for MP4 files at Ebaumsworld.v2.0 - July 28, 2010+ RSS FEEDS  All albums and items now offer RSS feeds to keep you updated for:  * Latest items - user profiles, user albums, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.  * Latest comments - items, user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.+ SMG BUTTON FOR THE SMF2 MESSAGE EDITOR  Add a SMG button to the post area, which opens a popup that will allow you to upload  an item and insert it into your message in as few clicks as possible.+ LINKED TOPICS  Create (or not) an associated notification topic automatically when adding/editing an album.  You can use this to disable per-item comments and force comments on albums instead,  or subscribe to topic notifications, or harness the power of other topic-related mods.  Any new item (or group of items, if you use Mass Upload) will bump the topic. Each time you  create a new album, the latest board you posted to will be selected by default, or no album  if you chose not to use the feature the previous time.) Whether you locked the previous topic  or not will also be remembered. See the feature in action at Foxprog (

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