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LitRPG Podcast 141
LitRPG Podcast 141
Nov. 10th, 2018
Hello everyone, welcome to episode 141 of the LitRPG podcast.
I'm Ramon Mejia. I'm here to bring you the latest LitRPG news, reviews, and author interviews. I have 6 new LitRPG reviews just for you.
New Releases and Reviews:
World Tree Online: The Duchess of Hammers: 2nd Dive Begins (09:37)
It captures all the adventure from book 1 and kicks it up a notch with better pacing.
Score: 7.6 out of 10
Neverfall: Mark of the Hero (Book 1): (A Gamelit Lit RPG Series) (12:46)
There are hints at a good novel here but as LitRPG it was supremely disappointing and frustrating.
Score: 4 out of 10
Vortena: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.3) (22:38)
It lost me when the MC rapes his companion
Score: 4 out of 10
Sorcerer's Quest: A LitRPG Adventure (29:03)
Good aspects, but lost me at the end when it becomes more fantasy than LitRPG.
Score: 6 out of 10
Death Awoken: A GameLit Series (Death God System - Book #1) (37:07)
Has flaws but entertaining slice of life cultivation LitRPG.
Cursemancer: BlackFlame Online Book 1 (LitRpg Adventure) (44:14)
I fell asleep reading this, twice.
Score: 5 out of 10
Super Sales on Super Heroes 3 (50:43)
No review, just a note about it.
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LitRPG News
Dave Wilmarth had a video promotion for The Dark Elf Chronicles book 2 made. Give it a watch.
Dungeon Desolation (The Divine Dungeon Book 4) came out recently and did amazingly well. On launch day it hit the #15 spot on all of amazon and make #1 in like seven genre categories. The novel even temporarily displaced big names like Brandon Sanderson or JK Rowling in some categories. So congrats to Dakota Krout for writing such a good book and having such a great launch.
Lastly, I went to a writers conference in Las Vegas this week, which is why the podcast is out a little later than normal. I learned a few things there about marketing and analytics. But I met up with some wonderful LitRPG authors while I was there including: Matt Dinniman, Thom Hansen, Chris Carney, Dakota Krout, Rory Stathos, Daniel Schinhofen, Kevin McLaughlin, James Baldwin, and more. It turned into a kind of impromptu LitRPG meetup and I just wanted to thank everyone I met for being so cool. We have amazing people in our genre.
Out Now!
Fragments (Somnia Online Book 3)
New LitRPG Audiobooks
The Lost City: An Epic LitRPG Adventure: The Realms Series, Book Two
The Long Road to Karn (Realm of Arkon, Book 5)
The Merchant of Tiqpa - The Bathrobe Knight, Book 4
How to Train Your Kaiju - Kaiju Wars Offline, Book 1
The Planet: A Futuristic Dungeon Core
Upcoming LitRPG:
The Third Realm (Ten Realms Book 3) (Nov. 13th, 2018)
Apotheosis Boom (The Feedback Loop Book 8) (Nov. 14th, 2018)
For A Few Minutes More: A Book of Cerulea (Sam's Song 2)
(Nov. 15th, 2018)
Steel Soul: Yevelia Book 1 (Nov. 16th, 2018)
Guardians Of The Round Table 3: Singed Feathers (Nov. 18th, 2018)
A Song of Shadow (The Bard from Barliona Book #2) LitRPG series (Nov. 19th, 2018)
Island Kingdoms' War: Evolution Online III (A LitRPG) (Nov. 20th, 2018)
Fate of Camlan: A LitRPG Adventure (Camlan Realm Book 4)
(Nov. 22nd, 2018)
Limitless Lands Book 2: Conquest (A LitRPG Adventure) (Nov. 23rd, 2018)
Civil War: A litRPG Adventure (The Rogue Dungeon Book 2) (Nov. 27th, 2018)
Eden's Gate: The Omen: A LitRPG Adventure (Nov. 30th, 2018)
Hero (Level Up Book #2) LitRPG Series (Dec. 10th, 2018)
Redemption (The Rise Of Resurgence #3) (Dec. 15th, 2018)
Freehaven Online: Winter Dungeonland (Book 3) (Dec. 16th, 2108)
Dungeon Mauling - A LitRPG GameLit Novel (The Good Guys Book 3) (Dec. 19th, 2018)
Level Up: The Knockout (Book #1) LitRPG Series (Jan. 9th, 2019)
*A side story set in the same Level Up universe, different MC*
Onto New Releases and Reviews
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New Releases and Reviews
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World Tree Online: The Duchess of Hammers: 2nd Dive Begins
Bye-bye is back! Just a week since the 1st Dive came to an end, Bye-bye and his friends find themselves in Root City, a city built-up around the World Tree itself. This sprawling metropolis is filled with potential and danger in equal measure.
Barely logged in and just starting to put plans in place for the month-long dive into the World Tree Online, they are quickly entangled in a quest with far-reaching consequences should they fail. Charged with ensuring Duchess of Hammerton survives the next week to make it home. Standing in their way, a love cult bound and determined to kidnap her. If that wasn't enough, there are those who plot in the dark places hidden just under the surface of Root City.
Can Bye-bye and his friends survive the aptly nicknamed Duchess of Hammers and the trouble that follows her?
My Opinion: 483 pages, $3.49, Available on Kindle Unlimited
A fine sequel. It captures all the adventure from book 1 and kicks it up a notch with better pacing. The storytelling in book 2 is much tighter and though the plot arc sometimes gets a little twisty as you follow the characters on their many side quests, the path always leads you back to the main storyline. There's good level and skill training, good group banter, and of course good LitRPG action-adventure.
Score: 7.6 out of 10
World Tree Online: The Duchess of Hammers: 2nd Dive Begins
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Neverfall: Mark of the Hero (Book 1): (A Gamelit Lit RPG Series)
Four friends go on a quest to save players trapped in Neverfall Online, a virtual reality MMORPG, in this multi-book adventure saga.
Luke Stephens' three best friends are leaving their hometown for college, but he must stay home to care for his mother, who is dying of cancer.
He has accepted his fate, but just as in the video games they love, Luke and his friends are given a real-life quest that changes their lives forever. Dr. Armitage, a secretive man linked with an immersive fantasy roleplaying technology, has tracked Luke down to give him a dangerous mission: to rescue the several-hundred beta testers who cannot log out of the cyber world, and believe that their in-game lives are real.
Luke's companions won't let him go alone. All four students are assured that they will be transported into the game at the highest level so they can easily defeat the Dark Lord and reset the world of Neverfall.
But when they enter the game, Luke and his friends all begin at Level 1: defenseless, poor, and powerless. The party must level up as though their lives depend on it, for it's not just a game.
Luke, Cassie, Mack, and Christopher must stay alive because though the world is virtual, the deaths are very real…
My Opinion: 369 pages, $3.99, Available on Kindle Unlimited
There are hints at a good novel here but as LitRPG it was supremely disappointing and frustrating. The best parts of the story are the character developments moments. Especially the relationship between the main character (MC) and his mom at the beginning. Unfortunately, most of the other characters in the story come off as flat and two-dimensional.
Most of the novel however is just frustrating, mostly because you can almost see that it could have been good. The premise of the story is one that I've read at least a dozen times this year, and like most of those times, it's not done well. People are trapped in a full immersion game and if they die in the game they die in real life. The only person able to save them is the MC. Why? Cause it's suddenly discovered his dad is the CEO of the company and coded his only recently discovered son's DNA into the game to give him access. Oh, the MCs dad is also trapped in the game and thinks he's his character, a bad guy fantasy version of Darth Vader. Oh, also the only way to save everyone is to defeat his father, which for no explained reason ever, is supposed to reset the game. Yeah, that old premise. Also, the fact that the MC is named Luke and the dad thinks he's a fantasy version of Darth Vader make their interaction pretty predictable. The added twist with Darth Vader dad aside, the premise doesn't work and only serves to setup the fact that no one in the main cast is ever going to die because if they did, they'd die in real life.
The game mechanics in the story are shown throughout with character sheets, stats, HP, mana, and even damage notifications. However, they don't really matter to the story. Time and again, the rules established are broken to stop someone from dying, or just cause it makes a fight more exciting. The MC is given gear that power levels him for fights he should never win, or in one particularly bad example, the MC just seems to fire off an stream of fireball spells when the reader was just shown he should only be able to fire off 3 at most according to spell cost and mana supply. Other squishy characters should die in several places but are saved because of conveniently missing damage notifications and a magically infinite healing mana supply from the healer.
Ultimately, as the story goes on, the part that made me actively dislike the story is that all the game stuff that was written just doesn't matter and is basically filler. The MC discovers 'Matrix' like powers that let him create spells, portals, and other effects that have no basis in the game mechanics and that's how he solves all the conflicts by the end. Also, the only real progress on the main arc of the story, confronting Darth Vader Dad, is accomplished with these sci-fi powers and have nothing to do with the RPG game. You could literally skip from the 35% mark (which is when the game stuff starts) to that point and the story would be the same. The adventuring game stuff before and after that point just seem to be there to fill space.
Overall, while I liked the character development of several characters the rest of the story was actively frustrating since the game stuff didn't matter.
Score: 4 out of 10
Neverfall: Mark of the Hero (Book 1): (A Gamelit Lit RPG Series)
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Vortena: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.3)
What happens when one takes a murderous psychopath and forces them to team up with a cowardly tinkerer? Though not a question that Jeremiah ever expected to ponder, he is nevertheless looking forward to seeing what the aforementioned duo will cook up. Success or failure does not matter to Richard, only that the journey be entertaining.
Things are far less jovial for the one under Tom's 'care,' however. Stuck in the monster-infested wilderness, lacking the usual backup, hunted by the Empire's top brass and tasked with an incredibly vague and obtuse Quest, Boxxy will face a world of uncertainty and adversity. However, this is nothing new. Pain, suffering and loss are things that have been commonplace since day one, and Boxxy is not only entirely undaunted, but also eager to share those valuable lessons with its new 'companion.' With things both shiny and tasty on the line, the crafty killer has every intention of showing that lich who's boss.
Assuming Boxxy manages to find it, of course.
CONTENT WARNING: Profanity, gore, violence, explicit adult content
My Opinion: 444 pages, $3.99, Not Available on Kindle Unlimited
Note: Lots of violence, but also graphic sex and rape.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to drop this series. I really enjoyed the beginning of this novel when it was just Boxxy and the gnome tinker-paladin, Fizzy. But once Boxxy got his warlock class back and summoned his demons the sex started back up, I just lost interest. Add into that the rape that is added to the story and it really lost me. The slice of life adventuring and is still going to be enjoyable for most people, but the novel lost me with the graphic sex and rape by the MC.
The author in the back of the novel says that he had Fizzy get raped by the MC so that she could become a better character. "I grew a bit attached and wanted to keep her around, but to do that she had to undergo some...unpleasantness." "I did my best to make her transition from wimpy tinkerer to heavy metal badass as believable as possible." This true for the story. The rape is an inciting incident for that character's development. But there were a lot of ways that could have been done and for me it was such a turn off that I'm dropping the entire series.
Score: 4 out of 10
Vortena: Everybody Loves Large Chests (Vol.3)
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Sorcerer's Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
With the real world in ruins, Arantor is the place of refuge: A virtual game world set in fantasy that anyone can play, but not everyone is equal. Jane has played for years but by no fault of her own is hamstrung compared to other players. All she wanted was to not be a burden on her friends. One day a glitch changes everything, but her new found power comes with a price, and soon Jane finds that there are plenty of guilds and players that will try to use her for their own gain.
Follow Jane as she navigates - and tries to avoid - the world of guild politics, and as she quests to the far ends of Arantor, to places where the rules of the game can change.
My Opinion: 265 pages, $4.99, Available on Kindle Unlimited
This story has a rough start but I ended up enjoying the first part more than I thought I would. Unfortunately, it lost me near the end when it becomes more fantasy than LitRPG.
This is a LitRPG story with a strong female lead. The main character (MC) and most of the world plays a FIVR game because the world in ruins. She has played for years and never been able to do well though because of an issue with her low alignment, a game mechanic that is frustratingly ill defined but serves the purpose of creating a flaw beyond her control. When an update seems to reset her character with a good looking avatar and a new rare class, she becomes in demand. Most of the first part of the story is about her dealing with this change in dynamics. It has a definite "She's all that" kind of vibe where the MC was ugly and underpowered and a sudden reversal in that changes her life. She has to deal with the emotional developments that brings her as well as the new attention from competitive guilds including a Mean Girl type guild.
The game mechanics in the story are mostly solid. The MMO world that the story takes place in is detailed and the MCs character is well balanced with detriments that balance out her classes potential power. There is also lots of details about player behaviors, guild tricks, and gamer culture that shows the author has real experience with MMOs and guild politics. The few issues I noticed are that the XP calculations are off for companion leveling, and the alignment mechanic is so frustratingly vague and contradictory I almost put the novel down at one point.
I will note that while the story does a good job detailing RPG stuff, that's not the focus of development. The story is mostly about the MCs emotional, personal growth, and some minor romance threads. There are lots of fights and XP grinds but the action is never well described, the majority of the fights are summarized, and there are several big level jumps without any details.
Additionally, the story takes a hard turn into a fantasy chosen one plot after the 60% mark. It's all very much in line with the story and is foreshadowed, but it loses me because all the powers, including ones used to advance to plot, are suddenly wand wavy fantasy and have more to do with feeling the magic and imagination than anything game related. Additionally multiple story threads, prominent characters, and romantic interests from the first half the novel are just abandoned after the 50% mark.
Overall, this was almost a good story. Though RPG stuff isn't as important as I'd like it to be, the character development and plot lines with the guilds almost made up for it. However, a definite lack of any well described action and the fantasy turn at the end stopped me from enjoying as much as I could have. However, if you don't care as much about those issues or you just want a story focused primarily on character development, you might enjoy this more than I did.
Score: 6 out of 10
Sorcerer's Quest: A LitRPG Adventure
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Death Awoken: A GameLit Series (Death God System - Book #1)
On a small planet, an unknown presence was stirring.
With no physical body, all of its previous memories messed up and without a clear name, our MC starts his journey. Fused on its soul a strange System that will help him be stronger on this strange unknown new world.
To claim back all that has been stripped away, he must first generate a body. For this, the system reveals that it needs to collect sufficient XP points by absorbing forces, death auras, regaining fundamental skills like talking and weapon wielding to go on dangerous missions. One kill equals one death point.
Name: Unknown XP: 0 Death points: 0
The more quests he goes on, and the strong beasts and humans slew – the more the Death Core whispers in his ear and torments his soul.
The child, still without a name, falls into the company of Demon Ye (Ye Qing). He was a raging executioner, who tragically lost control when the family he loved were killed. Ye Qing names him Ye Bai, much the Death God's annoyance, but no matter the trial or task at hand, the child's thoughts don't stray far from the next kill. Once down Hell's Path, it drives his soul to the brink of insanity, and he's not sure he can restrain himself from earning another XP point.
"I know one thing, Death brings me peace."
This tale is a GameLit adventure that will have you rolling over the pages to see what consequences lie ahead! It is not for the fainthearted, it requires a steady hand, a strategic mind – and a strong stomach.
My Opinion: 388 pages, $2.99, Not Available on Kindle Unlimited
Note: There are noticeable technical writing issues that are mostly seen in the beginning and end of the novel. Issues: tense mixing, missing or misspelled words being the most common. It's not a huge issue but it will bug some people.
This is an OP reincarnation slice of life story with a cultivation power progression system. You still see lots of notifications though. The story starts off a bit differently than most reincarnation with the main character (MC) being an amorphous ball of energy for the first 12% and figuring out the RPG progression system and you can tell that the author was trying to figure out the kind of story he wanted to tell. But once it hits the 12% mark the MC gets a human body and it becomes a more familiar cultivation story with a wider look at the world and some human characters to interact with. The MC has some OP skills and most of the story from there on is about him traveling, adventuring, training, and doing slice of life stuff. No real plot or save the world stuff here.
On the game mechanics side, though it's cultivation based there are lots of familiar notifications that give it a regular game vibe. There's an XP system the MC can use to advance his various death themed powers and to cultivate Qi and Body aspects. There's a whole well described cultivation ranking system and it's a well thought out progression system. It's neat.
Overall, I enjoyed the story. The story isn't perfect. It loses some enjoyment because of the technical writing issues, that it gets a bit repetitive in the middle a bit, and that ends on a rather odd note. But if you're in the mood for a slice of life cultivation story with an OP main character, this is something I think you'll enjoy.
Score: 7.2 out of 10
Death Awoken: A GameLit Series (Death God System - Book #1)
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Cursemancer: BlackFlame Online Book 1 (LitRpg Adventure)
What would you do if you woke from a magical coma and found out you'd lost forty years of your memories?
Noah woke from a magical coma, losing 40 years of his memories. Even his body is not up to coping with this, so his only choice is to live in a VR-MMORPG game that would heal his brain and mind and help him recover his memories.
He accepts reality and decides to enter the game, but instead of a lush, beautiful human town, Noah is thrown into a cursed demon town.
Now every demon wants to kill him. There is no going back or hope of re-spawn in a human town. His starting location is fixed, and he has to somehow make his way through the nasty demon towns that sprawl between the cursed demon town and the nearest human city.
Join Noah in his epic adventure in BlackFlame Online.
My Opinion: 203 pages, $2.99, Available on Kindle Unlimited
Note: Technical writing issues. Nothing too bad but stilted, awkward phrasing, missing words, spelling errors. Stuff that may throw you off because it does appear semi-regularly.
This is a slice of life, trapped in the game story. Huge emphasis on the slice of life element. It starts out with an odd premise and then kind of devolves into a slice of life story without any real purpose or direction.
The main character wakes, chained up and imprisoned. He's told he's been in a coma for 40 years after he went crazy in this magical world and started flinging magic killing his fellow researchers. He's then thrown in a fantasy VR game and told to play it until his memories come back. Only something goes wrong and he ends up on the demon side of the world. He has to take a new class of cursemancer and side with the demons or he'll feel the pain of death for eternity. The rest of the story is him adventuring, talking to demon residents, and XP grinding.
On the game mechanic side, things aren't bad. There are lots of regular notifications that show the MCs RPG progress. His cursemancer class has some interesting features like turning opponent's attacks into curses to be used later.
However, the really big issue with the story is that it's frankly boring. The writing style is really dry and it put me to sleep, twice. The premise, while unique, doesn't make sense. In a world of magic and technology why would dropping someone in a VR game restore their memory? Also, why would you make a game with fantasy magic when the real world has real magic? There's not really a plot since it's a slice of life story. Which is not necessarily bad, but if there's no plot to keep readers interested then there is usually great world building, action, or character development to give the reader a reason to stick with the story. None of that happens here. All the characters are rather flat and lack personality and I was never given a reason to care about any of them. Both the game and real world feel empty. Action is ok but not good enough to carry the story on its own.
Overall, though there are a couple of good aspects to the story, I was mostly just bored reading it.
Score: 5 out of 10
Cursemancer: BlackFlame Online Book 1 (LitRpg Adventure)
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Super Sales on Super Heroes 3
My Opinion:
I could not finish this story, I was just so confused all the time about who everyone was, why there was such huge time jumps. Several other reviews mentioned that you'll only really understand what is going on in you've read the all the author's other novels, including the ones that he writes under a different pen name.
This is apparently a huge cross-over that requires that you've read about 6-7 other novels to understand what's happening and who everyone is. I hadn't so I was just lost. Especially since it didn't really feel like a Super Sales on Super Heroes novel either.
No real review since I didn't finish the novel but just a heads up.
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Music Credits
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The survey revealed that hope for new employments this year is rather fragile and downsizing may be inevitable.
Nigeria's private sector will downsize or at best, maintain its current level of workforce in 2013 as the nation's business environment remains largely constrained by rising socio-economic uncertainties, said the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI.
The LCCI, the premier chamber of commerce in Nigeria, in its second quarter 2013 'Business Confidence Index' (BCI) quarterly survey, reflected the thoughts and forecast of 600 top business executive respondents drawn from the coverage of 14 sectors and 37 sub-sectors over the period, February 15 to March 16.
The survey revealed that hope for new employments this year is rather fragile and downsizing may be inevitable, due to rising socio-economic uncertainties hampering on the nation's business environment, highlighting severity to the nation's already pathetic unemployment situation.
"For the second consecutive quarter, results from BCI survey shows that the private sector will largely keep their current workforce size or even slash it down in 2013. With official unemployment number already put at 23.9 per cent by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, as at 2011, the job market in 2013 looks ominous," the organisation said.
A number of variables have continued to constrain business growth in Nigeria. According to the survey, major factors that weakened the index score include: poor access to credit, inhibitive tendencies of monitoring and regulatory agencies, sustained insecurity situation across the country, dwindling public power supply and budget approval/implementation crisis. These, among other variables have kept the BCI scores trailing far below the global optimum levels.
"Macroeconomic factors such as exchange rate and inflation rate exerted neutral influence on the second quarter, 2013 BCI score. The neutral impact of macroeconomic prices on businesses at this time is informed by the relative stability achieved over the last few months. However, the downside remains that the current stabilization of prices through monetary tightening has been achieved at the expense of investment, employment, output and growth," it added.
LCCI said the second quarter 2013 aggregate Business Confidence Index (BCI) recorded a modest improvement of 16.5 per cent from the 10.5 per cent it achieved in quarter one 2013, a six point movement of the index along a positive trajectory. This improvement notwithstanding, BCI scores for quarter one and two of 2013 continues to trail far below the 50 per cent global confidence threshold. Investors and business leaders are still wary about the state of the economy and the challenging business environment.
Access to credit worse in the last three months
The difficulty of getting credit remains on the top of variables that significantly pool down the BCI scores. The survey showed that access to getting credit by businesses especially the SMEs over the last three months is getting worse.
"Expectations for credit access in the second quarter 2013 even look somewhat gloomier. Regulatory and monitoring agencies in the states and the Federal Government are another source of major concern for doing business in Nigeria. Incidences of informal/reckless charges/fees, frequent and unscheduled visits, intimidation and seizure of all kinds, collection of excess sample with attendant cost on the intellectual property of the agencies," LCCI said.
The survey highlighted that the impact of regulatory and monitoring agencies weighed down the aggregate index by scoring -15.1 per cent and -11.1 per cent in quarter one and quarter two 2013 respectively. New employment also followed the same path.
The negative impact of price, (inflation and exchange rate) volatilities on doing business seem to have moderated significantly. From index score of -32.3 per cent and – 29.4 per cent respectively in quarter one 2013, inflation and exchange rate posted a neutral impact on business with 0 per cent and -0.5 per cent index scores in quarter two, 2013. The downside, according to the survey, is that this is being achieved through monetary tightening at the expense of investment, employment and growth.
No confidence in public power supply
The concern of companies over power supply is still very high, going by the survey. It stated that the index score for public power supply which was impressive at 3.01 per cent in quarter one, 2013 has fallen back to the negative corridor.
"Companies are increasingly casting "a vote of no confidence" on public power supply" the survey highlighted.
BCI indicators such as capacity of firms to produce, export prospects, turnover/sales expectation, deals closed, strength/patronage of domestic market, new investment/expansion and the impact/size of non-performing credit have consistently boosted the aggregate index over the last two surveys.
"Interestingly, these indicators did not only post a positive confidence, but the levels of confidence achieved this time are more significant and itching closer to the global business confidence threshold," the organisation said.
The BCI is a leading economic indicator designed to measure the degree of optimism on the state of the economy that business leaders are expressing through their activities of investing and spending. The survey, according to LCCI, covered most sectors sufficiently, though Solid mineral sector in particular is a concern. The participation of top private players across all the sectors was secured in a responsible fashion.
While ideally the sample would reflect the sectoral composition of the economy, gathering the responses per sector, may not be absolutely feasible, LCCI said, adding that it used GDP contribution weighting for each sector to balance the sample outcomes.
The organisation, which has as primary objective to promote, support or oppose legislative or other measures affecting trade, industry, commerce and agriculture as well as represent the opinion of the business community, said the idea is that the more confident business owners and managers feel about the economy, the more likely they are to make new investments and create opportunities. It added that a decreasing business confidence is often a pointer to slowing economic activities because business owners are likely to decrease their investment.
With the progress made so far on the privatization of Nigeria's power sector, the commencement of the implementation of the 2013 budgets across the states and the Federal Government, and the new momentum given to the consideration of the Petroleum Industry Bill by the National Assembly, the organisation said, "we look to see how far this will reflect in the outcome of our quarter three, 2013 BCI survey and outcome."


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27th Annual Performances of Salado Legends
July 27 @ 8:15 pm - 10:30 pm
Central Texas' favorite outdoor musical drama with over one hundred cast and crew members. Written by playwright/lyricist, nationally honored Jackie Mills and directed by Donnie Williams. Salado Legends was chosen by the Library of Congress for depicting life in the 1850's to serve as a record of life in America and "preserve our nation's diverse cultural traditions for generations of Americans, present and future."
Reservations are required for the optional BBQ dinner. Dinner at 7:15pm: $13.00 adult or child. Show at 8:15pm: $20.00 adult, $5.00 for child under 12 years old. Tickets are online at www.tablerock.org or CentralTexasTickets.com. Call for group tickets at 254-947-9205. Tickets for sale in Salado are at Fletcher's Books & Antiques, and Horizon Bank. Show tickets only (no dinners) at gate on show nights. Concessions and ticket office open at 7:15pm.
Only three performances of this epic tale–don't miss it!


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Tips to Energy Conservation
For you to conserve energy you that is within the environment or your reach, you have to have a lot of effort to ensure that you do so because it is a decision that every person should make.Conserving energy has a lot of benefits. For instance, conserving energy within your house that you use daily for different reasons, saves you a lot of costs when it comes to paying bills. When you conserve the energy you also preserving the environment that is very important to you because most of the energy is sourced from the natural resources such as water.
Energy conservation is a big topic on media nowadays as people discuss ways they can ensure that energy is conserved because of insufficient resources as the government tries to supply enough energy to all citizens but because of resource depletion, there has been many issues. There are different steps people can take to ensure that they conserve energy as discussed below.
One of the contributing factors to misuse of energy by many people is that they don't know best ways of conserving the energy and saving themselves a great fortune. The first step therefore to people conserving the energy is by educating them on different methods that they can use to conserve energy and it is a step many governments have taken. It is possible to come up with a very effective program when it comes to energy conservation different to learn more about other programs that have succeeded in educating the citizens, you can visit any homepage and you find such information.
Additionally, more resources should be put aside by the government to ensure that a lot of research is done on different methods that can apply in conserving the energy. Putting resources into research is the beginning of it but also can join the rest of the NGOs who are trying different techniques to ensure energy is conserved.
Also, you can use an alternative method whereby you increase the energy tax on any carbon energy used so that you reduce energy consumption. Additionally, if you want to conserve the energy and reduce the carbon energy that is being consumed, then increasing the energy tax on carbon sources of energy can be a great alternative to shifting to other sources of energy such as nuclear energy.
Many appliances consume a lot of energy and that is what is important to invest in the best effective appliances such as bulbs that consume less energy and you can know more through an online site.Additionally, make sure that the appliances are working because if they are and functionally can consume a lot of energy.


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Real Estate – Serious Drawback Investment
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Age of Aquarius
After almost seven years with the MegaBug, I added another bug to my swarm.
This 2005 1.8T convertible is Aquarius blue has been elusive until just last month. After purchasing the MegaBug it's been on my list to find one of these (which they only made for about two years) and she's now in my driveway!
As Aquarius is also my astrological sign, I decided to name her Aquarius.
(Thank you, Shelby, for snapping these shots of me and my new bug! Taken at Nanny's new house.)
As for the MegaBug, she's going into semi-retirement. I could never let her go.


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Have the recent falls in the Chinese stock market and currency been caused by the US tariffs of $34 billion and the potential trade war? The stock market and currency falls may look as though they are correlated but there may not be a direct link.
Shaken retail investors have caused the Shanghai Shenzhen composite to fall in to bear territory. Slowing economic activity had already dampened the expectations of investors before the prospect of the trade war had been raised,
A clampdown on speculative loans by Chinese authorities has put the brakes on the economy, with the dispute with the US acting as a 'double whammy' for the Chinese market.
The reverse is now happening as the Chinese authorities are raising the personal income tax threshold to RMB60,000 from RMB42,000 generating RMB125 billion in potential consumption, boosting GDP by 15 basis points and benefiting over 80% or 340 million people. An increase in infrastructure spending has also been mooted.
The currency however, is more sensitive to trade concerns. The renminbi would be negatively affected by the lower exports caused by a trade war. It has been suggested that the lower value of the RMB could be intentional on the part of China, however, this could lead to capital outflows that could exacerbate the problem rather than being advantageous for China.
Policy will likely continue to cushion the domestic economy of China in anticipation of further headwinds courtesy of the US.
Your financial adviser can help to make sure you are sufficiently diversified and in the right investments that will help you to achieve your long term goals.
The value of investments and income from them may go down as well as up and you may not get back the original amount invested.
Information is based on our current understanding of taxation legislation and regulations which is subject to change.
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The Company Also Added the Creator of Redis and Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster (RLEC) Customers Across Several Industries
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 26, 2016) - Redis Labs, the home of Redis, today announced explosive 2015 growth and reported a 300 percent year over year revenue increase. In addition to being named a leader in Gartner's 2015 ODBMS Magic Quadrant, Redis Labs also saw tremendous adoption by enterprise customers across several industries and named Mr. Salvatore Sanfilippo, the creator of Redis, as Open Source Development Lead of Redis Labs.
Redis Labs provides enterprise Redis, both as a service, Redis Cloud and as downloadable software, Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster (RLEC). Redis Cloud provides a robust, always-on, Redis service that scales seamlessly without downtime or performance impact across four different IaaS clouds: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Compute Engine and IBM Softlayer. RLEC is downloadable software that extends open source Redis with enterprise class high availability, real-time auto-failover, consistently stable high performance and automated linear scaling.
"2015 marked the year of Redis for the enterprise," said Ofer Bengal, co-founder and CEO of Redis Labs. "Redis Labs continues to remain the preferred choice for developers. We are experiencing enormous momentum and skyrocketing demand from enterprises of all sizes. With organizations expecting high-performance and stability from their applications, we expect the interest in high performance in-memory databases such as Redis Labs Enterprise Cluster (RLEC) to continue to accelerate in 2016."
Highlights from the past year include:
For more information on Redis Labs, visit: https://redislabs.com/.
About Redis Labs
Redis Labs is the open source home and commercial provider of Redis, a database benchmarked as the world's fastest. Gartner has named the company as a Leader in its 2015 ODBMS Magic Quadrant. Redis Labs' software and service solutions power cutting edge applications with blazing fast enterprise-class Redis and are trusted by thousands of customers for high performance, seamless scalability, true high availability and best-in-class expertise. These solutions enhance popular Redis use cases such as real-time analytics, fast high-volume transactions, in-app social functionality, application job management, queuing and caching.
Redis is ranked the #1 NoSQL (and #2 database) in User Satisfaction and Market Presence by G2 Crowd, the top database technology on Docker by Datadog, the most popular NoSQL database in containers by DevOps.com and ClusterHQ, the #1 NoSQL among Top 10 Data Stores by Stackshare and both the fastest growing database since January 2013 and one of the top three NoSQL databases by DB-engines.
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Napa Valley's Hidden Gem - Hill Family Estate Winery
"Great wines start in the vineyard" – a truth universally acknowledged.
There's only so much manipulation that a winemaker can have on the overall wine, great wines start in the vineyard, and with over 25 years growing grapes for some of the most prestigious wineries in Napa, Hill Family just gets it.
Hill Family Estate Winery is the product of the love for beauty of Napa Valley and respect for the individual characteristics of the microclimates in the area. Doug and Darci Hill settled in Napa Valley after being enchanted by the fog rolling over the hills of Napa Valley, an impression echoed on the Hill Family Estate logo. Doug Hill has been managing vineyards in Napa Valley since 1981, and has managed and grown grapes for wineries including: Silver Oak, Duckhorn, Ramey, Stag's Leap Winery, Quintessa, Robert Mondavi, Raymond Vineyard, Mumm, Caymus, and Cakebread.
The Hills planted their own vineyards in the Los Carneros and Oak Knoll districts of Napa, becoming premier producers of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. The Hill Family –including children Ryan and Carly, help manage the estate and the winery. Alison Green-Doran joined the winery in 2001 and has been with Hill Family Estate Winery ever since. After earning a degree from UC Davis and being the head winemaker for Lewis Cellars, Doran spent time in Alsace, France, and studied under the reknowned winemaker Andre Tcheliestcheff.
Brand ambassador and family friend of the Hills, sommelier and featured guest at the Hill Family Estate Tasting, Wes Kollar, reveals that one of the most intriguing and distinguishing facets of Hill Family Estate is that "[Hill Family Estate] Winery is always thinking outside of the box." They were pioneers for planting different varieties of grapes in Napa, including the Spanish grape Albariño.
Kollar has been with Hill Family Estates since they first started selling outside of the tasting room in 2004, when he and Ryan Hill hit it off at a trade show. Kollar has sold every vintage of Hill Family Estate and has seen the winery grown –from producing two wines to twenty-four. With a history of cultivating grapes for illustrious Napa Valley wineries, Hill Family Estate Winery only reserves a fraction of premium fruit for themselves –producing a mere 14,000 cases over 24 wines, these wines over-deliver.
Not widely publicized is the family's commitment to celebrity collaborations and passion projects. The popular Barrel Blend is a result of a collaboration between Hill Family Estates and pro surfer Kyle Knox. Knox took part in creating the wine and then helped partake in the staining of surfboards. Staining various objects is a point of focus for Hill Family Estates, with staining collaborations from surfboards and Fendi guitairs to baseball bats. A recent collaboration is the outcome of a collaboration from former 49ers and current Denver Broncos tight end Vernon Davis, who helped create a custom blend and also provided the artwork for his wine "Love." Hill Family Estates also puts an emphasis in family and compassion; over the Labor Day weekend they donated 50% of their online sales to the JJ Watt Foundation to help victims of Hurricane Harvey in Houston.
Hill Family Estates may fly under the radar, but with the knowledge of viticulture, courtesy of proprietor Douglas Hill, and viniculture, courtesy of Alison Doran, these wines are not to be missed.
Third Street Wine Shop's distinguished guest, Wes Kollar, owner of Decant Wine Events, graduated from Sonoma State University and is a personal representative for not only Hill Family Estate Wines, but also for Master Sommelier Michael Jordan's (no relation to basketball legend hahaha) limited production Word wines (which you can find a few of under the Disney label – "Olelo." Kollar, himself, has worked his way through Sonoma County, from working the cellars at DeLoach to various vineyards, tasting rooms, and labs in Sonoma, Santa Rosa, and Napa. Wes Kollar has worked all facets of the wine industry and is a wealth of knowledge for interested parties.
Wes Kollar will be representing the humble Hill Family Estates Winery today for our limited tasting of Hill Family Estate Wines, he may even be bringing a few extra goodies, including a wine stained surfboard (Kyle Knox's Barrel Blend inspired) to MLB stained baseball bats and perhaps a few exclusive Hill Family Estate goodies to sip on.
Our Hill Family Estate Tasting is a singular tasting of an unpretentious Napa Winery, led by a hand selected brand ambassador and sommelier, Wes Kollar. Our packaged tasting includes a tasting of five wines, including their premier Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, and light appetizers provided by Third Street Wine Shop and the Corner Butcher Shop. Participants in the packaged tasting will also receive bottle discounts on wine purchased that evening. Interested parties, please call for any available tickets.
Visit Hill Family Estate Winery, in the heart of Yountville, close to some of the most distinguished restaurants on the west coast, any day from 10 am to 6 pm. Groups of 7 or more, please call the winery to discuss tasting options (707.944.9580).


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Our Mission
Our herstory begins in 2016, as the Sexual Assault Action Coalition which we created in response to the overwhelming disclosures from survivors during the Ghomeshi hearings in February 2016. Like all grassroots organization and movements, we saw many incredible leaders and supporters leave their mark on our movement and carry their important work forward in different ways. To all those who built this with us from the steps of city hall to delivering our Safer Bars & Spaces Training, we are forever grateful and we will never forget your support, guidance and contributions.
From there our Founder, Viktoria Belle and current board of directors built the Dandelion Initiative, a symbol for the resiliency and power of survivors, dandelions can grow through concrete against all odds and so shall we. The Dandelion Initiative prioritizes the voices of ALL survivors and believes in the power of education as a form of resistance to sexual violence.
We would like to honour the many women and people who have done life saving and transformative work, before us, during our time and after us. There are too many to list here but we want to honour that we never do this work alone, that no idea was ever ours to claim and that we can participate and lead movements with integrity and humility. Please visit our resources section for a non-exhaustive list of inspiration and learning.
The Dandelion Initiative is led by survivors of sexual violence for survivors. We prioritize the voices of LGBTQ2s+, Black, Indigenous, racialized survivors and believe in the power of education as a form of resistance to violence. We work under an intersectional and trauma-informed framework, applying survivor centric practices to all of our work.
We have organized community events and forums with over 100+ participants, bringing together diverse groups of people committed to ending sexual violence in the food, hospitality and live music industry, providing opportunities for marginalized women/feminized people to access live saving supports.
We have been honoured to present our work and knowledge to organizations like: CAMH, Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, CUPE Ontario, Ryerson University, The City of Kingston, The Municipality of Thunder Bay, Intersections Conference city of Ottawa, the Violence Against Women Roundtable, Maggie's Toronto and The City of Toronto. Our Safer Bars and Spaces Training program is transforming workplace culture by preventing sexual violence through education and policy development.
We have grown from whisper networks to developing policies and programs for organizations like Restaurants Canada and Canadian Music Gallery that ensure all people can have workplaces free of sexual violence.
Our Safer Bars and Spaces training has reached thousands of people across Canada, increasing public awareness of preventing sexual violence in the food, hospitality and live music industry while empowering survivors to resist and thrive. Our commitment to sustain and grow as a survivor led initiative is rooted in our dedication to enhancing healthy working opportunities and increasing access to resources and education for women/feminized people working to end gender based violence. Building networks that strengthen the not for profit sector through policy development, survivor centric supports, resource sharing and knowledge exchange is our path to grow and sustain.
About our Founder
Viktoria Belle is a survivor, LGBTQ2s+ community member and immigrant, she began her work in the early years community and developed a deep connection with community, families, survivors and children. Viktoria worked many years as an Early Childhood Educator, was the coordinator at The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, she worked as the Program Manager at Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project and has contributed to many different projects, publications and movements to end gender based violence. She has a deep devotion to survivor centric programming and research, her commitment to creating safer spaces in the bar, hospitality and live music industry is based on lived experience and thorough knowledge and community outreach. She has been an educator in Ontario for 10 years with a background in public policy and gender based violence prevention. She prioritizes working with diverse organizations and movements to develop and implement feminist and trauma informed practices through various programs to prevent and respond to sexual violence. She developed the Safer Bars and Spaces Program which has delivered safer spaces training across Canada, transforming workplace and industry cultures.
"I remember sleeping in a coffee time when I was 17 years old determined to find a way out of my circumstances. The truths of peoples intersecting identities and lived experiences has to stay in the forefront of everything we do to ensure that movements are not built on the backs or necks or marginalized women/feminized people"."
We call-in community members rather than calling out, holding one another accountable through restorative justice models that are trauma-informed.
We believe in the power of all Women (Womyn)
We recognize we are on stolen land where our Indigenous sisters and Two Spirit folx have been oppressed, colonized and stigmatized. We are dedicated to amplifying the voices of our Indigenous community members, and approach our language and work with a decolonized framework.
Trauma informed practices are new and in constant development, we are dedicated to continuing our understanding of trauma through feminist and anti-ableist frameworks.
We believe in a integrated anti-oppression approach to peer outreach and support, honouring lived experiences as truth and knowledge.
There are no hierarchies. There are branches and mentors who guide and help build on our movements but ultimately, we are all students and peers.
We will ALWAYS celebrate one another's work. You will never be nameless. Honour your work and expect to be recognized for it.
The Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape (TRCC/MWAR) has been a groundbreaking and crucial network of survivor informed and led care and advocacy. We wish to continue honouring the work of these womyn and folx, through our work and hopefully many future collaborations.
We will not tolerate the status quo. Our policies are built based on extensive research, lived experiences and shared vision.
Survivors are experts of their own lives and healing.
All survivors choose what language they wish to use and how much they wish to disclose.
We will always aim to prioritize our community members to facilitate paid workshops.
We believe that survivors should be paid for their work. When we can, we will always make this a priority.
We believe in the power of community sharing by honouring our time together with food, music and art.
We DO NOT tolerate any form of homophobia, sexism, transphobia, racism, ableism, ageism, sexual harassment, sexual assault, discrimination in any form and any form of violence.
We recognize that as people who have experienced trauma we are more likely to find ourselves navigating internal violence, we have ZERO tolerance for any form off abuse through power or intimidation. We will always call-in when possible.
Sex work is real work. Sex workers are always included in our community and movement.
We are dedicated to sharing our policies and practices openly to support other organizations and establishments to challenge the status quo and develop a community practice based on the liberation of survivors everywhere.
Develop and strengthen our internal policies and practices, along with the community board structure and by-laws.
Continue our "Safer Bars Training and Education" with bars/restaurants and venues.
Collaborate with other community partners like GNO Vancouver, PLURI, AASK MONTREAL, and other grassroots and non-profit survivor led organizations and movements.
Receive funding to secure a permanent location for The Dandelion Initiative, where we can provide direct services for survivors by survivors. This space would serve as a multi service drop in for survivors led by survivors, and we would also be able to use our space for community events, training, workshops and group sessions.
We aim to find a location that is accessible.
We will always aim to provide child care and TTC compensation for community members during our events.
We recognize the power of animals and creatures in our healing journey, all pets welcome to any of our future events when we secure a location.
We hope to engage in political action, policy development and knowledge transfers between The Dandelion Initiative community and staff and local leaders and politicians.
We recognize the broken judicial systems that survivors have to navigate here in Ontario and throughout Canada. Because of this we will continue to challenge the current legislation and regulations that continue to fail survivors.


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Chlamydia is a type of sexually transmitted infection (STI) wherein a patient is infected with the Chlamydia trachomatis bacteria strain. This bacteria strain then resides in the cervix or vagina of a woman or in the urethra and rectum of both men and women.
Chlamydia can be transmitted from one person to another via unprotected sexual contact (vaginal, anal or oral sex) or even by touching the genitals of someone who already has the disease.1,2 Chlamydia may also be transmitted during childbirth. A mother who has chlamydia may pass on the disease to her child when the baby passes through the vaginal canal.
Eye damage and pneumonia are known side effects of chlamydia infection in newborns.3 The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that infants who were born to women with untreated chlamydial cervical infection during delivery had chlamydial conjunctivitis or the redness and swelling in the clear membrane of the eyes4 (18 to 44 percent of infants) and chlamydial pneumonia (3 to 16 percent of infants).5
Rectal or genital chlamydial infections may also continue for up to one year for an infant who has been infected by chlamydia at birth.6
There is a myth that chlamydia can be transferred to another person by kissing each other, but this is not true. The same goes for sharing items such as clothes, toilet seats, bed linens or silverware7 with someone who is affected with chlamydia.8 It's important to note that there are factors that increase your chances of getting chlamydia. These include:
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Less than two weeks after an ugly brawl among star Major League Baseball players, commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr., found himself answering some tough questions about the league's stance on fights and sportsmanship — from a Grade 4 class at Toronto's Humbercrest Public School.
The students — who describe themselves as nine- and 10-year-olds in Ms. Stevens's class — didn't mince words when they wrote to Manfred following the May 15 game, which saw Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista punched by Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor.
"We think what happened on Sunday was wrong," the letter states. "Major athletes were acting like children, even though they should know better."
The brawl led to discipline for a total of 14 players and staff, including Odor, who was suspended for eight games. Blue Jays manager John Gibbons and pitcher Jesse Chavez each received a three-game ban.
The players likely had reasons for resorting to fists, the letter says, but the but the reasons didn't matter to the fourth grade class. Fighting should never be an option unless it is the only way to protect yourself or someone else, they wrote.
Read the letter from teacher April Stevens's Grade 4 class here:
The students also questioned the league's decision to suspend Odor for just eight games.
'That's not right'
"In elementary school in Toronto, students who fight or assault someone can be suspended for up to 19 days. Odor only received an eight-game suspension and that's not right," the letter states. "Because he didn't show restraint, he should receive greater consequences."
"We look forward to your response," the students wrote. The letter was signed with the handwritten signatures of some 23 students.
A week later, a reply came from the commissioner himself.
"I echo your premise that some of the behaviour demonstrated in the game was wrong and deserving of serious consequences," Manfred wrote.
He stated that Odor's suspension (seven games rather than eight, after the player's appeal) is the longest that a player has received for an on-field altercation in more than three years.
"It is a responsibility of our players and on-field personnel to rise above such circumstances and carry themselves with dignity and professionalism."
Here's what baseball commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr. had to say in response:
The reply had the class stunned, even those who aren't big baseball fans.
'I couldn't believe my eyes'
"I couldn't believe my eyes. That's a letter from the MLB … from their commissioner. What? How?" Aldwyn Lipton said.
It was a happy surprise for student Jackson Galanyck.
"I was really surprised that we got something back from him … I kind of just expected one of those letters that they just give out to people who write in, but there was much more thought given and time spent," Jackson said.
Student Shannon Von Fintel said she was worried the fighting might dissuade parents from letting her watch baseball.
"I hope that parents see that we know it wasn't right, so that the kids can still go to all the games," she said.
For her part, teacher April Stevens said, "It's such an opportunity to say kids have opinions. They know what's wrong and what isn't, and they care deeply."
The class has reached out to Bautista directly, who couldn't reply because he was busy preparing for his game against the Boston Red Sox Friday night.
But student Julian Simardone told CBC News that if the Blue Jays catch wind of their letter, he wants them to know they did the right thing.
"I think Bautista and the whole Blue Jays team is a great team that they didn't fight and just keep on doing what they're doing."


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Creating Categories, Zones, and EncountersTo make all of the Spell Timers/Triggers/Strategy guides work, you will need to start with the Spell Timer Editor. NOTE: Some of this functionality also exists in the Trigger Editor, but it is easier to just start with the Spell Timer Editor Once you have completed all five steps, the other editors will function as they now have category/zone/encounter data to work with. Select Edit->Spell Timers
Initially you will start with nothing defined, the editor will look like this:
Step One: Create a CategoryA category is anything you want, and is used to group Zones together. Using the current expansion is a good idea. Right-Click in the category section, and select Add Category
Enter a name for the Category in the dialog box:
Hit OK, and you will see the new category in the listbox:
Step Two: Create a ZoneNext, you need to create a Zone. This is the exact zone name that EQ2 displays when you zone inside. For this example we'll use: Kraytoc's Fortress of Rime. Select the Category you just created, then in the zone listbox, right-click and select Add Zone
Enter the name of the zone and a filename to store it. Note: The actual file is an XML file, do not add ".xml"
The editor will now look like this:
NOTE: Nothing has been saved at this point, you must create an encounter and a spell timer to save. If you hit cancel, you will have to start over!
Step Three: Create an EncounterFor this example we'll use: Brendegor Bitelimb Select the new zone "Kraytoc's Fortress of Rime" and right click in the Encounters listbox, and select Add Encounter
Enter the name of an NPC, for this example we'll use Brendegor Bitelimb
The editor will now contain:
Step Four: Create a Spell TimerThe last step is to create a Spell Timer. If you don't know anything about the NPC, just create a fake one, and mark it "disabled" This example continues with Brendegor Bitelimb. Select Brendegor Bitelimb in encounter listbox, then right click under the Spell Timers section and select Add
A new spell timer is inserted into the listbox:
In the spell name, change to "Crushing Boot", and set the interval to 50
Hit SAVE
Step Five: Upload!In the main window, select Tools->Definitions->Upload Pending Definitions
You can now go to the Strategy window and enter strategies for the NPC. You can also go to the Trigger Editor to add triggers.


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By Michael Podgurney
EDMONTON – Bonnie Patton was inspired to create 1984 Cranes, a visual arts piece, by two stories that have more in common than you might initially think: George Orwell's seminal novel 1984 and the story of Sadako Sasaki as a historical figure represented in Elenor Coerr's 1977 novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. War and oppression might be the obvious connection but both narratives have parallel aspects of defeat and grit which are the themes that pervade Patton's work.
The piece will include 984 paper cranes fashioned from the pages of Orwell's book hung from the ceiling and spaced evenly throughout the exhibit. Sadako's story revolves around these cranes. She was diagnosed with leukaemia as a 12 year old girl, ten years after she survived the Hiroshima massacre, and embarked on a mission to fold 1000 paper cranes, a Japanese tradition known as Senbazuru. The idea is if you fold the 1000 cranes, within a year the gods will grant you one wish. Sadako's wish was to live. 1984 is the story of Winston Smith, a citizen of a totalitarian regime who yearns for freedom from the oppression of his society. He inhabits a world where nothing can be taken for truth, life has no meaning or enjoyment and Big Brother watches your every move. But, where's the connection? The answer lies in the interplay of the themes of failure and resilience in the stories.
"The cranes are fragile and delicate," explains Patton, noting Orwell's story will not be completely discernible within the exhibit.
"The proliferation of words like 'Winston,' 'Goldstein,' 'Julia,' 'Big Brother,' 'newspeak,' and 'doublethink' make it clear what book the cranes are from."
As the cranes hang from the ceiling and flutter to the unpredictable whims of the atmosphere, Patton hopes that people will get a sense of vulnerability, but recognize the strength of people when they come together.
"While an individual may fail, many individuals together have power and opportunity."
It is important to have an understanding of both Sadako's story, as well as the Orwell novel to pick up on one of the major themes within the piece. The exhibit is framed by the content of the stories and the character's struggles. Winston and Sadako face similar conflicts but their physical circumstances are drastically different. Winston inhabits an imaginary totalitarian dystopia, forged in the imagination of a visionary writer, while Sadako faced a horrifying reality, created by the good intentions of a world superpower.
While Sadako is defined by the legacy she left behind, Winston is defined by neatly ordered words on the surface of precisely cut pages.
These pages, which contain the story of unrealized resolution to suffering, are the perfect vehicle for the concept that the cranes symbolize in relation to Coerr's story of Sadako. Sadako and Winston wish for escape from circumstance; both fail to reach this freedom despite achieving their goals, and Patton plays on this angle. Sadako made the requisite 1000 paper cranes she needed to fulfill her life's wish but was not granted the realization of this wish; in the novel she falls short of her goal.
Though Patton "freed Winston from the confines of the book, his wish still didn't come true;" the wish to find freedom from the box in which he is forced to live. Whether or not these stories and the resulting art piece are about hope or hopelessness is entirely up to the one beholding them.
1984 Cranes will debut on December 7th, and will run to January 20th at the Art Incubator Gallery at Hartcourt House (Edmonton).1948 Paper Cranes, Art, Art Incubator Gallery, Hartcourt House, Visual Art


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it's taken me a few days to recover from the london mind body spirit festival. it ran for 6 days and whilst i wasn't on the dekhomai stand every day i was shattered by the end of it. fortunately i've managed to get a few days off this week and am just about bouncing back before the ReSource weekend in Reading this weekend (which i'm looking forward to).
taking inspiration from john drane, ben edson and sanctus1, steve hollinghurst, mark berry and others we decided to take the plunge encouraged by colin from edenpeople to book a small stand in partnership with him, cms, grace and moot. the name dekhomai seemed to capture the welcome we hoped to provide for people (the word is greek and means the welcoming place or welcoming a stranger or to receive). the thinking was that if this is a place where spiritual seekers (and shoppers) go, then why not have something representing the christian tradition which has so many riches in terms of spirituality (the christian reflex in these festivals has often been to avoid them). those of us planning the stand were coming from the alternative worship tradition and/or charismatic tradition so we blended the two approaches on the stand. we had some stations - a laptop with the online labyrinth and the lavalamp prayer, images of christ from around the world, a plasma ball meditation, and we offered foot massage, a destiny words table, and free healing with the laying on of hands and anointing with oil...
once the first hour had drifted by and it got busier we pretty much had people visit us non stop - nearly everybody that came was open to being prayer for. some specifically wanted prayer for healing, others had a foot massage and were then open to being prayed for. to be honest the hands on massage, talking and praying with people seemed to interest people more than the stations though the destiny words table was used quite a few times.
so reflections in a random fashion...
it was brilliant to be there
there seemed to be about 70% women at the festival. we need more women on the team if we do it again.
we hardly sold anything - people wanted the free stuff.
people were amazingly open, very happy to talk and very happy to be prayed for. the challenge was that their openness to us meant that you might then see them on the next stand trying something else out! so jesus is in danger of being reduced to another god in the pantheon or a consumer choice among many others.
the blend of alt worship and charismatic was great. for me and many others the gifts of the spirit seemed to make so much more sense in thsi context than in church circles. we needed to trust god to come and speak and lead us.
god was present. i often had a sense of god's presence when i prayed with people but what was more interesting was how many visitors we had who came in and pretty much said the same thing. they weren't christians but said things like - god is here; there is a lot of energy in here; can i sample your energy?; ooo - it's the old holy ghost i sense; when i came round the corner i could sense something different and it's you guys; it's very peaceful in here; i've been told to come and visit this stand - i've heard it's interesting... and when we had prayed for people they might have shed tears, sensed tngling, healing, heat or peace and so on...
i was surprised how many healers we prayed for. maybe it's because they are amongst the spiritual seekers as opposed to the shoppers and tourists? but one of the days i was there we prayed for a lot of reike healers in particular - and they were very open to being prayed for. why were they coming to us?
we didn't have many negative reactions. a few were turned off when they found out we were christians or saw the images of christ but not many.
it was a privilege to pray and bless people and simply to be there.
it did our faith the power of good.
there is a big challenge about what we think is going on when we pray for people and what they might be thinking - there is no theological capital that they bring on the whole.
anyway lots to think about and lots to learn... lots of others have done this before and we have much to learn from them and their experience and wisdom. it's no surprise but the thought police are always out when you do this kind of thing sniffing heresy on the wind and a slide down a slippery slope. it drives me nuts though i try not to react to it. but better to be stepping out and taking some risks than sitting at home knowing everything, being pure and avoiding the world methinks...
there is a photo album of pics here. gareth has a set on flickr.


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San Antonio police said a paramedic crew had left the F-150 pickup truck running while they treated a patient inside a business near the corner of North St. Mary's and Houston streets.
Police said a man walked up to the idling pickup truck shortly before 8 a.m. and climbed into the driver's seat.
"He took off," said Police Chief William McManus. "He drove around the block, or halfway around the block, then came back and was confronted by two EMS personnel."
Instead of stopping, the man barged through the area, hitting several other vehicles in the process, according to witnesses.
"I heard the noise. He hit my car and he ran away," said Mohammad Saed, whose minivan was rear-ended. "I thought it was the city, but when I asked, they said somebody stole the truck."
Saed said the damage to his vehicle was minimal.
But for Juan DeLeon, it was a bit more of a headache.
The sedan he bought just three days ago lost its front bumper and took a hard hit to the back one.
"Hopefully, the insurance will pay for it. I haven't even reported to my insurance that I just bought it," DeLeon said.
Another man suffered what appeared to be an injury to his arm when he dodged the oncoming truck. He was riding a scooter in Southtown at the time, and the pickup truck plowed right over it.
Police chased the stolen truck for miles, south of downtown and then onto Interstate 35 north.
The wild ride finally came to an end on the far Northeast Side after the driver sideswiped an 18-wheeler on the highway near The Forum shopping center.
Police said the driver put up a fight but was eventually arrested.
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