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Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Armaghedon Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
"Private LP edition of 300 copies in 1984. This record is the soundtrack for a film with the same title, produced and directed by Maurizio Bianchi. For obscure reasons, the original LP remained unavailable for a long time, and was distributed only 1 year after it was printed. Moreover, most of the copies were destroyed. Less than 100 actually exist. This was MBs last vinyl production, and also the only one featuring recordings of the artists voice. It was made during a period of huge change in MBs life." - EEST. 2014 repress. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Carcinosi Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
"Originally issued as a private LP in an edition of 400 copies in 1983. De-composition for bionic organisms and concrete sounds. A sound that refuses both the cold logic of the fetish electronic computer-man-of-the-year and the sterile exasperation of the negative. A sound that dilutes and coagulates, eluding the listeners with minimal variations that make the cyclic style of Phillip Glass resemble a carousel of colors. This CD also features two untitled tracks first issued on compilation cassettes. Compositive discipline." - EEST. 2014 repress. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Colori Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $17.00 |
A new subdivision of Alga Marghen, to deal with MBs music. "The very first new recording from Maurizio Bianchi (MB) since his decision to quit the arena of sound in 1984. Yes, hes back, the world-wide recognized master of apocalyptic electronics has decided to come back to music, opening up a new phase for his creativity." - EEST. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Dates Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $17.00 |
"EesT records is happy to announce a further step into the Maurizio Bianchi new production, a new compact disc which completes the Trilogy starting with the previous Colori and First Day-Last Day . This time the author concentrates on Time, or the inevitable. A sound counterpointistic journey beginning with the creation of the first human being, in autumn 4026 B.C.E. and passing through the two big planetary cataclysms. Then the individual experience of MB himself is investigated, a sort of electro-biography. The climax of this work is represented by the dramatic collaps describing the imminent destruction of todays society. MB explains that this is not an utopical perspective but those feelings rise from the Revelator of all the secrets, the One who knows the future in advance and all the connected events. The Creator of the majestic universe and the One to whom all of us will give account when the final war of Har-Maghedon will break up on 60.. A.M. Will there be any survivor then? Hopefully there will be among the listeners of this work who will delight their ears and fill their hearts with the compelling and intense emotional sounds of Dates ." - EEST. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Endometrio Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
"Originally issued as a private LP edition of 400 copies in 1983. De-composition for synthetic sounds and electronically generated noises. Here MB distanced himself from the movement of the industrial bruitists, introducing his bionic music. Notwithstanding the difficulty of listening, especially upon initial impact, you are facing treated and filtered synthetic sounds that become new organisms -- sound cells analysed under the microscope. This CD also includes excerpts from private tape editions originally issued on compilation cassettes. Personal and obsessive."- EEST. 2014 repress. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: First Day -- Last Day Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $17.00 |
"One year has passed since MB/Maurizio Bianchi decided to come back to the music arena with his very personal new sound exploration. Conceived in the same direction of the previous CD titled Colori , this new work found its bases in the revaluation of the events the started the Creation, when an intelligent and complex act of sublime love started our physical universe off, transposing them in form of 8 electronic compositions elaborated in a 2 year work. A darker atmosphere marks the background sounds giving to the whole program a more obscure and less easy impression while the more melodic traces fluctuate without direction in an empty space. MB has always worked in a very direct way following his true inspiration; he has devoted his music to the sincere listeners who will now immerse themselves in these sound waves and in the sea of primordial sonorities. The connection to his past recordings is to be found in this attitude and a reference to these feelings was already existing in the early 1980s as reported in some interviews and statements soon to be included in the full documentation of ArcheoMB boxset 2 (not a reference to the specific religious themes but anyway a more general idea of spiritual collapse and chancing). What could be interesting is to notice this continuity and consider the past and present works as a whole. Of course with a huge formal difference in the material sound approach." - EEST. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Frammenti Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
"Frammenti, i.e. fragments, is the new direction in Maurizio Bianchis music. An acoustic-bionic composition for electromagnetic waves and cyclic sonorities. Left now are all the indeterminate atmospheres gently fluctuating, in order to reach a more formal and structured work. Still dealing with the fragments of our memories made of joy and tribulations, sensations and awareness, aspirations and disappointments, with the carnal and the spiritual assistance. This new composition, quite as literally as the title suggests, consists of two long sound-collages reminding some of the techniques that MB was using in the late seventies under the name of Sacher-pelz. The music is not that brutal DIY intensity of analogic treatments, but more a digital version of nowadays oscillating clinic sonorities. As the author stated: "Those who will have the courage to listen to and investigate it, will remain mentally upright when confronted with the opposition of todays music -- which is so mechanical, hybrid, aseptic, narcotic, obsessive -- while in their heart nothing will be left but the principal fragment, which originated the sonorous universe: the sacredness of infinity!". Available now in an edition limited to 500 copies." - EEST. 2014 repress. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Mectpyo Bakterium Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
2008 repress. "First issued by Mnemonists label (DYS in the US). M.B.: proto-electronics, compositions, arrangements. Mektpyo Bakterium is a work furnished of implacable plastic exasperation. The icy oppression, the hallucinative electronic wounds, are a precious and singular fact in a technological society brought to the limit. The emotion is pushed into dangerous zones, and unusual zones, and unusual tensions -- free biological groans of extreme effectiveness. A vivid expression of a world in extinction! Bonus tracks: Placenta, first issued on the 40 Days 40 Nights picture-disc LP in 1982, and the M.B. contribution to the International Friendship compilation LP from 1983." - Eest |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Menses Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
2008 repress. "Reissue of the private LP edition of 300 copies from 1981; the pyramidal construction of these two suites, with its intentionally brutal and grotesque deformations, elaborates on overflowing and apocalyptical collapse, dragging a completely dissolvent conception of the world and of the para-industrial sound. Bonus tracks: Milan Bruits from the Fix Planet! comp (Ata Tak) and the two tracks first issued in the very limited Nowhere To Play in 1981. Let M.B. be your executioner!" - Eest |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Mind Us Trial/Ihc Naib Oizir Uam Format: Double CDR Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $34.00 |
"EEsT presents two new works by Maurizio Bianchi: Mind Us Trial. Phonological de-composition in eight dissections for tapes, noises and neurologic piano. This paleogenetic work wants to be an epitaph, and at the same time a commemoration, of those corrosive instants when M.B. was an equalized disciple of the industrial delirium. With respectful thanks to the electroacoustic influence of the decadent and palpitating past. Ihc Naib Oizir Uam. Cyclic improvisation for chaotic piano, apocalyptic guitar and final frequencies." -EEST. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Neuro Habitat/Moerder Unter Uns Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
2008 repress. "Reissue of a private LP, issued in edition of 300 copies in 1982; a skeletal extremist project that will then transform into the soundtrack of a movie with the same title, edited and directed by Paul Hurst. Its the setting of the griable pre-apocalyptic fossilization, the supreme lapidation of the meanness which creates the myth. There are actual melodies present -- dense and dark that mutate into harsh electronic outbursts. The CD also features Plutoniumetrico from the Fur Ilse Koch LP compilation." - Eest |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Regel Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
"Reissue of the private LP, issued in an edition of 300 copies in 1982; his experimentation with noise syndrome has developed into a powerful stylistic electronic music that on Regel is coherent and dynamic. A dense synthetic melange sets the backdrop over which he uses various rhythms/effects to achieve maximum intensity. Acido Prussica, first issued on the Neuengamme LP compilation, is also included on this CD edition. Maurizio is ready to unload this death cargo." - Eest. 2014 repress. |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: Symphony for a Genocide Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
2008 repress. "ArcheoMB is the title given to the complete reprint of old M.B. records and here is part 1. EEsT Records and M.B. collaborated in this project, well understanding the value of these early works and their importance in the evolution of M.B. The sound has been improved for this digital edition from original master tapes and under the supervision of M.B. himself. All CDs feature the original artwork plus the complete historical documentation (liner notes, reviews, statements). First press of 1000 copies each. Symphony... was first issued on the Sterile label in the UK in an edition of 200 copies. M.B.: electronics, effects, rhythms. Symphony... is the most extreme music youre ever likely to hear. There are 7 tracks, all consisting of a never-changing hissing or clanking rhythm, electronic effects over the top and a wall of distortion somewhere in the middle. This is the sound of industrial music, not T.G. Maximum electronics! 3 bonus tracks first issued on Bain Totals International Compilation 2 in 1980." -Eest |
Artist: BIANCHI, MAURIZIO Title: The Plain Truth Format: CD Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $20.00 |
"First issued on the Broken Flag label in the UK in an edition of 500 in 1983. A different style, providing some distance from all his previous works; a more expansive experimentation with multiple layers of synthesizer sounds. Still very intense. MBs recordings come closest to classical electronics, but always with a very personal style. This CD edition also features an interview on Radio Popolare in Milan from 1/1/83. An English translation is included in the liner notes. Dedicated to all the redeemed people." - EEST. 2014 repress. |
Artist: SACHER-PELZ Title: Mutation For A Continuity Format: 4CD Box Set Label: EEST Country: Italy Price: $76.00 |
"Very few are aware of the beginning of Maurizio Bianchis adventures? Before starting the complex and compelling production of many records and tapes in the early eighties under the M.B. trademark, Maurizio Bianchi was documenting the new music scene writing essays and reviews for independent magazines. It was August 1979 in Milan, Italy and his sound was strengthening when he felt the time had come to prove his desire for something new. So he started his first solo project, under the name Sacher-pelz. He assembled a concrete equipment -- the endurance of M.B. had started. During the following few months four C60 magnetic tapes were created Cainus (August/September 1979), Venus (October/November 1979), Cease to Exist (December 1979/January 1980) and Velours (February/March 1980), a couple of copies for friends, never getting an official distribution. Surely a very private moment but still the first and only production at that time in Italy to go beyond the TG movement, the direct reference. EesT records got into possession of the original masters and decided this was the right moment to let those obscure sonorities see the night light. The tapes were remastered for a more powerful digital sound featured in this four CD boxset including the original graphics and liner notes as well as a new visionary essay, written expressly for this edition. After a long research in the archives spread around the Italian territories a few more documents were found (the original presentation text titled Sacher-pelz: mutation for a continuity, a collage titled Pure art for crime people, more graphics and reviews) and they are also included here. Edition of 480 copies." - Eest. |


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THE WORLD HAS BEEN INVADED BY ALIENS! It's up to a nerdy, lazy high school kid to save it!
3.82 / 5.00 7,889 ViewsGraphic by Awaken Dreams Studio.
Programming by Arief Raditya P.
Game Music by Tony Sugianto.
It's Tactics Role Playing Game, there were two kingdoms, Doven and Dogfire. Dogfire Kingdom expanded their territory and destroyed all of the villages of the Doven Kingdom. Most of the Doven Kingdom Army was killed and the King of Doven, named Fayla, ran into the Dark Forest, powerless and without soldiers or guards to protect him. His wife, children and the Doven General were imprisoned at the Icegreen Island.
Your missions: find and rescue Fayla family and destroy all the enemies of the Land of Doven.
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1. 28 missions and battle areas.
2. 27 characters, vehicles and buildings.
3. 16 items, weapons and magic.
4. 6 game music.
5. 5 ranks (dragon archer, knight, sniper, power tank and destroyer).
6. 4 landscapes (grass, rock, snow and sea).
7. Load game and save game.
8. Tips and Tricks of game.
9. Hall of fame highscores board.
Thanks for playing!
Also thanks for anyone who played this game, any comment, feedback and review would be good addition in the future version of this game.
Games like these are the ones I'll stay and play untill there's nothing left to destroy.
Very nice.
Damm I lose at Lvl 19!!!!!!!!!! >:(
awww i almost win the game but at least i save!!!!
Good, very good
Well, this was a great game to waste a couple of hours on. It reminded me of Final Fantasy Tactics a lot. But I got stuck after FINALLY being able to turn into a tank. I know it has to be possible, but you should either lower the difficulty, or write a guide. It kicked ass other than that.
The graphics were accually well done. The music was a little annoying after a while. The grammer (hell, i can't even spell right, and I'm complaining about it) was really bad at some points. Storyline is important, so you have to make sure i can understand what your saying.
Also, why are you able to make so many save files? If you can use them for a practical purpose (like making a boss rush for metal gear soild, that was a fun way to use the).
Overall, it was kinda good. I give it a eight. Good job!


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The 17th century Mughal Emperor Jahangir upon seeing the spectacular beauty of Kashmir said, "If there is paradise on earth, It is this, it is this, it is this." Today, Kashmir is reduced to a veritable hell on earth. It has the dubious distinction of being the most militarized zone in the world. A rebellion against Indian rule, which erupted in 1989, has taken 70,000 lives. More than 8,000 people have been disappeared. Human rights violations are rampant. Yet barely any of this is the topic of media scrutiny or of concern to Washington policymakers who see New Delhi as a so-called strategic partner. India has successfully sold the line that Kashmiri resistance to its hegemony is illegitimate and is composed of terrorists who are linked to neighboring Pakistan, al-Qaeda and the Taliban.Speaker(s):
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It was the French psychologist Alfred Binet (1857-1911) who coined the term "sexual fetishism". He meant it to describe individuals with sexual interests in non-human objects such as clothing.
The word "fetish" comes from the Portuguese feitico, meaning "charm" or "sorcery".
In the past three years, sales of erotica literature have increased by 25 per cent (according to Nielsen BookScan).
A pair of high heels may be the world's favourite fetish, according to the largest ever study of sexual kinks. Asked to name their favourite body parts, sexually speaking, 47 per cent of those asked named feet and toes; where objects related to the body were concerned, footwear polled 64 per cent. Other objects that people were turned on by included hearing aids and pacemakers.
Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (1353) must be one of the most censored erotic books of all time. The Italian work features tales of lechery by monks and the seduction of nuns from convents and was banned in many countries after its publication. Five centuries later copies were still being seized and destroyed by the authorities in the USA and the UK and between 1954 and1958 eight orders for destruction of the book were made by English magistrates.
About 90 per cent of people often think about someone else during sex with their partners, according to a survey of British sexual fantasies. As well as imagining famous faces, around a third of respondents said they fantasised about sex with a work colleague or a friend, and a quarter with a friend's partner.
A study from the University of Montreal in 2007 found that women were more likely than men to visualise current or past partners (as well as celebrties) in their erotic imaginings. Men, by contrast, veered towards imaginary people.
Not everyone is turned on by feet. The Australian neurologist and existential therapist, Viktor Frankl, once noted a case of a man whose sexual fetish involved frogs and glue (at the same time).
Fifty-eight per cent of respondents in a global survey by the condom manufacturer Durex said that they deemed it acceptable for products aimed at improving sex lives to be available in mainstream stores.
The same percentage 58 per cent said, in a different survey (by psychotherapist Brett Kahr), that they regularly fantasise about sex with a regular partner. Other findings: 35 per cent of men fantasise about sex with two women; 19 per cent like to be watched; and 3 per cent fantasise about sex with animals.
The other widely shared fetish is BDSM which stands for Bondage, Discipline and Sadomasochism. Technically, it is illegal for a person to engage in S&M activities that leave a lasting mark on someone else's body.
The Marquis de Sade (left), whose licentious writings in the 18th and 19th centuries gave birth to the term "sadism", was only 5ft 2in tall. Known as the "philosopher of vice", he spent more than 30 years in prisons and lunatic asylums.
Sixty per cent of the visitors to last year's Erotica show in London were women
The Paris Museum of Eroticism contains more than 2,000 erotic objects, from sacred Indonesian phalluses to watercolours of the Kama Sutra.
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#22886 closed Bug (worksforme)
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Reported by: | Vlada Macek | Owned by: | nobody |
Component: | Internationalization | Version: | master |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
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Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
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Easy pickings: | yes | UI/UX: | yes |
This one is IMHO not bound exactly to i18n as I think the msgid itself could be improved too.
# unique_together else: field_labels = [capfirst(opts.get_field(f).verbose_name) for f in unique_check] params['field_labels'] = six.text_type(get_text_list(field_labels, _('and'))) return ValidationError( message=_("%(model_name)s with this %(field_labels)s already exists."), code='unique_together', params=params, )
For single field_label (one unique field constraint) there is a different msgid.
This one is used for the unique_together constraint so I'd expect 'these ... exist' or my favorite 'this combination of fields ... exists' would be better.
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I think the current version makes sense, e.g. "Book with this Title and Author already exists.".
As for your alternative suggestions:
"Book with these Title and Author exist." isn't correct.
"Book with this combination of Title and Author exists." seems okay, but I'm not sure it's much of an upgrade over the existing text.
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Prison of the Hated Pretender - (0-1 Level Adventure) Lawful spirits of revenge, pitiable ghouls and a world creating astrological item - designed as an intro adventure. "The mind races to find excuses to use this adventure. That's a good supplement." - Bryce at tenfootpole.org
The Dread Machine - (2-6 Level Long Adventure) In the distant dust of the Yellowlands fragments of the Pretender's Empire linger and promise the power over life and death to those who can find and unravel them. Quasi-Sequel to Prison of the Hated Pretender
Hel's Crow's Final Rest - (1-3 Level OPD Adventure) Viking Themed one page adventure of moral ambiguity, undead reavers and shrine plundering. Originally for Great Khan's viking contest.
Brittlestone Parapets - (2-4 Level OPD Adventure) A one page dungeon contest, abandoned wizard battlefield with owlbear infestation. Winner of the 2013 "Best Wizard Duel" award for the One Page Dungeon Contest. "Everything in this contributes to the vibe of a magic-littered WW1 trench warfare feel. Highly Recommended." - Bryce at tenfootpole.org
Thunderhead Manse - (1-5 Level OPD Adventure) A an abandoned cloud mansion now held by flying monkey bandits. Was a finalist in the 2014 One Page Dungeon Contest.
Kugelberg Flood - (1-2 Level Short Adventure) A four page smash and grab expedition along the sea floor to plunder the drowned ruins of a tyrant's pleasure dome before the tide returns, drowning everything again.
Adrift on the Sea of Love - (1-3 Level Adventure) Pirates, treasure maps, tropical islands and ancient temples. It's all cliches but isn't anything with a pirate theme all cliches? Perhaps I should have gone with a tedious adventure focused on mediating conflict between Ching Shih and the Imperial Navy with an emphasis on the anarchic laws of pirate polities.
Lone Colossus of the Akolouthos Sink (1-5 Level Adventure) An eleven location lair adventure within the slagged guts of an Imperial war machine. Magical radiation, shadow curses, traps and those pesky verminous owlbears.
Stone Ships - (1-4 Level Short Adventure) A two page random generation experiment for adventuring in the superstructures of arcane battleships, scuttled and abandoned in a pestilential mangrove. Blood drinking monkeys included.
Along the Road of Tombs - (2-6 Level Long Adventure) A highway flanked by ancient tombs provides the best smuggler's route into the capital, but lately the shipments aren't getting through. Investigate a tomb complex filled with cultists, a bandits' oracle and a slumbering war god. - "Reading the module, I found myself with a keen appetite for cooking up a long and narrow hex crawl following the Road of Tombs and its environs for 100 miles or so outside the Capital." - Ben L of Mazirian's Garden.
The Fallen Throne - (2-8 Level OPD Adventure) A fallen Throne of Heaven is not to be taken lightly. more a lair then anything - written for the 2015 One Page Dungeon Contest. Angels/Celestials are just as bad as demons, but prettier.
Comes the Mountain - (3-8 Level Short Adventure) The doom of cities out of strange Vheissu comes. Encrusted with the dolmens and temples of dead cities, with thunderous cracking and crash its coming drives civilization before it. Once the most feared punishment of those who defied the Flame Magi, now forgotten and loosed upon the world by indifference. The Mountain's coming is slow but in a few weeks it will reach the capital to crush with its stone talons and burn with gouts of magma from within. 2015 One Page Dungeon Contest reject.
The Red Demon - (2-4 Level Adventure) A adventure locale from my ASE campaign, Science Fantasy, Frog Monsters, unstable munitions! "This is a nice little lair dungeon with a fair share of ancient death awaiting visitors." - Bryce at tenfootpole.org
The Wreck of the Anubis - (2-3 Level Adventure) A small lair adventure set in the Livid Fens and involving a paddle steamer wreck, an insane plant sorcerer and giant ticks. Best as a random encounter.
Obelisk of Forgotten Memories - (1-2 Level Long Adventure) A outdoor encounter area and small dungeon complex designed as a supplement for low level ASE exploration and with a focus on the Orbital Gods. Bryce at tenfootpole says:"This is the full on gonzo gross guys that fit in well with the whole Korgoth/ASE1 vibe."
Tempus Gelidium - (3-5 Level Adventure) A small indoor lair of a powerful monster and its minions, designed for insertion into mid-level (3-5) ASE wilderness adventure. Bryce at tenfootpole says: "pretty much a perfect example of the content that should go in to a good lair encounter."
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The modules, supplements, and dungeons you create are fantastic. I'd love to contribute or help to pay you back some for all of the awesomeness you've got here.
ReplyDeleteRepliesJust play them and enjoy them, I don't want to start thinking of any of this hobby stuff as a job. If I ever do put anything out POD or on RPGnow I'll surely let the world know though.
DeleteI can't seem to open The Fallen Throne, it just comes up blank for me. None of your other PDF's have that problem though.
- AnonymousJuly 20, 2015 at 7:16 AM
MOOOOORE Adventure locales.
Kugelburg Flood was brilliant. Thank you for your hard work! I love these. I'm going to run Kugelburg Flood next week as a transition module from a truncated 5e mod version of The Lost City I came up with. I was wondering, do you have a template for Kugelberg Flood you would share?
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Not sure, of the three that are larger I have fondness for all of them. Road of Tombs is an evocative Fallen Empire thing where I think I balanced evocative setting fluff well with content, but the map is cranped and it's a bit rough at places. Obelisk is pure ASE but a first effort despite its good faction balance. Dread Machine might be my favorite, but the main keyed location is a trap dungeon.
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Hey, what's wrong with trap dungeons?
Some excellent stuff here btw... this can't be just an on-the-side hobby, can it? How much time are you investing in these and why aren't we paying for them??? Well my HMS Apollyon players really hated the "Sigil Maze" which was almost all trap dungeon. I think players tend to find them aggravating.
I have invested some time in the above, but hey it's my time and I think selling hobby items is a bit gauche unless one needs to pay for artists and editors. I obviously don't...not saying I shouldn't.- AnonymousMarch 25, 2017 at 1:52 AM
Fair enough.
I think players find traps annoying because they have little to no player choice with them... It's either they see the trap or they don't, and that has everything to do with numbers on their character sheets and nothing to do with player ingenuity, so they feel cheated when they happen to not see the trap and it goes off, possibly insta-killing one of them. I was reading an article on The Angry GM's blog that sums up these feelings very well and gives some possible solutions to the trap problem: http://theangrygm.com/traps-suck/ Well that's not really how I run traps or what I mean by trap dungeon. I don't run 3,4 or 5E so there's no perception checks and whatnot to make them a purely character skill activity. Traps are puzzles, and they go off (sometimes lethally) when players fail to notice clues or fail to take precautions.
Good traps:
A) Are obvious or if in-obvious provide clues to their existence that the GM should include in description. This does not mean they are obviously traps, but obvious unknown things that can be dangerous.
B) Good traps have a clear mechanism - mechanical or logically magical that can be determined by examination.
C) Good traps present multiple options for a solution.
D) Obviousness and clarity in how a trap works should increase the more instantly lethal a trap is.
Now one can also have traditional instant traps (poison needles in door handles, pits or in the case of my games grenades tied to tripwires) and I don't feel bad about these unless I include them in areas where there's no prior indication that there are likely to be traps. Most of these should have a save associated with them however.
That's my trap philosophy - I think Dread Machine provides a decent example.- AnonymousMarch 26, 2017 at 2:45 AM
Very cool philosophy: I agree with it wholeheartedly. It rewards players for paying attention and makes them feel smart.
I'm actually going to be running Dread Machine for my players at some point, I printed it out a while ago. I'm just trying to find a good way to bridge it with Hated Pretender... the only good hook for Dread Machine seems to be the untimely death of a character, which can't exactly be scripted.
When I do run it, I'll type up some play reports if you're interested? I'd love to hear about it! I really enjoy knowing how people's games go with the stuff I've hacked up.
Dread Machine and Prison aren't linearly connected - though I've been tempted to do another in the same setting (I think the corpse of the Beaked God, crashed into a distant jungle near its moribund holy city after being slain by the Pretender's cadres) - but the idea isn't so much to have linearity but linked items in the game world that will be visted by the players at a later date so they can have the "Ah Ha - that creep - again!" feeling.
I like that Prison introduces (and likely kills off)the villainous ancient evil himself in a 0-level funnel and the idea of unraveling the remnants of this Empire of Misrule at a later date feels like a fun campaign element. Not the whole campaign though, just a background set of points on a big map.


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All eyes are on Iran right now because of the Iran Nuke Deal… or are they?
As previously reported, that whole thing is likely theater. It usually is. America is the only nation that's ever used nuclear weapons anyway in 70 years.
So while attention is diverted talking about the nuke deal and Cecil the Lion or whatever, is anyone mentioning that a meteor impact (actually multiple impacts) hit Iran just a few days ago?
Via Trend News Agency, July 31st:
Iran has confirmed that a meteor has hit somewhere in the northern part of the country.
The meteor landed in Avaj in the province of Qazvin, Mohammad Ali Ahani, director of Qazvin Crisis Management Staff said, Mehr news agency reported July 31. Also, there have been reports that some pieces of rock have hit areas in Eshtehard, Alborz Province, Arsalan Qasemi, governor of Boeen Zahra, county in Qazvin Province, said.
Local sources are talking and the claim is destruction on an unimaginable scale.
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Why the deafening silence?
Even media outlets in Italy are reporting on this event.
Do a simple news search on this on somewhere like Google News and you will see… a whole lot of nothing. Search NASA Iran meteor and the most you will find are blogs admonishing NASA for failing to publicly acknowledge this even happened.
(While NASA did put out a report debunking claims that an asteroid would wipe out Earth this coming September, people might have a hard time believing them when they can't even respond to a real meteor impact in Iran…)
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Kids grow up in the blink of an eye. One minute they are snug in your arms, the next they are hastily kissing you goodbye to run off with their friends. No matter what life stage you are in with kids, moms are often left to deal with a constantly rotating wardrobe of clothes that are quickly outgrown and clothes waiting to fit. This is the dilemma of a mom with each holiday, birthday or clothes sale. I will share my rotating system for a kid's wardrobe to help you navigate through these rapid growth stages.
Why a Rotating Kids Wardrobe?
No one ever talks about the mountain of clothes that you need to keep organized for your kids. New moms can always count on getting unsolicited advice, and veteran moms can always be counted on to give unsolicited advice. There's a lot that new moms just don't know and veteran moms just want to help ease the blow. I'm here to give it to you straight.
There's a lot of clothes you're going to have to keep organized.
I have been the blessed recipient of hand me downs all of my son's life, we're talking nice hand me downs too. When the clothes began pouring in, I knew I needed to get a system in place to keep everything straight in my head and in my kid's closet.
Creating a Rotating Kids Wardrobe
To create a rotating kids wardrobe you need foresight and planning. What sizes do you have? What's the best way to store it? How will they be used later? These are the types of questions to ask, and for kid's clothes, the answers will be pretty straightforward.
The goal is to take all the clothes you have, organize them by size and store them away for later. Sounds simple right? Let's do this!
I am letting you in on my secret to a rotating system for a kid's wardrobe… 3 boxes. That's it. The key to a rotating system for a kid's wardrobe is 3 simple boxes that will get your kids wardrobe organized in a snap! Aren't you glad it wasn't as complicated as you feared?
The Little Box
This box fills up quick. I use the little box to store the clothes that my son has outgrown. Rotate clothes as you do laundry or even as you dress your kids. If you pick something out and it turns out to be too small, pop it in the little box right away, don't put it back in the dresser. Once it fills up, that means it's time to get a bin to store those clothes for later hand me down use.
The Later Box
This box keeps the gifts we get for our son organized and saves me a trip to exchange clothes. I rarely exchange the clothes my son gets as a gift because I know he will need them eventually. I put all my son's clothes that don't quite fit him yet in the later box and can easily bring something in as the little clothes get rotated out.
The Donation Box
This one is pretty obvious to have, but it is a key addition to your rotating wardrobe system because you don't need to keep all the clothes that you have. I have limited myself to one bin per age/size range, so I keep my favorites and donate the rest. This not only helps to maintain a reasonable amount of hand me downs, but it also helps me to gift it forward. Since I was a blessed by someone else's hand me downs, I want to be a blessing to others.
Location, location, location
Having your rotating system in a key spot is crucial to being able to maintain the system. I am fortunate enough that my son has a huge closet. And because he doesn't have a ton of clothes to hang, I just use the closet shelf right above his dresser drawers. My rotating system is in a strategic place so that it is easily accessible.
It really is that simple. A whole lot of clothes can be kept under control and all it takes is three simple strategic boxes. They don't have to be fancy, as you can see. I used clear bins with fun scrapbook paper and a large label to hide the eye clutter in the bin. If I had the means, I would use a nice big canvas bin or even a wicker basket, but I'm using what I have and the scrapbook paper works just fine for us now.
Do you have a rotation system in place for your kid's wardrobe? Did you think it could be this simple? Let's chat in the comments.
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Almost every single traditional reason to cover Sherwood could be applied better elsewhere. Villa have had bad results? Well, Sunderland are bottom of the table without a win. They spent a lot of money this summer? Let me just show you Liverpool's balance sheet this summer. He says wacky things in the press? You've clearly yet to be introduced to a man called Jose Mourinho...
This is largely the same side which has fallen short two seasons in a row now, and in the few years before then didn't come close at all. Arsenal may be contenders now, they may still be in February. But come May 2016, when it matters the most, will Arsenal really be in a position to challenge History suggests not.
With every passing season, it seems like peaks and troughs in form are played for more and more importance. A run of wins means that a team is on a charge to the title, but a single draw means that the run has ended, they've been found out, they'll be lucky to finish in the top four... You know the deal.
It is over the next three weeks that we can only begin to cast true judgement over this current United team's credentials as potential champions, and whether or not they can be a force in European football once again.
Considering the Champions League revenue the country's elite earn on an annual basis on top of their domestic pot, there's a big case to be made that English clubs should really be using their muscle to dominate European competition. To buy the best players, play the best football and sweep all before them.
Spurs fans would have been sweating over the future of Lloris too however, Daniel Levy managed to hold on to the French number one, which also feels like an enormous victory in itself. Lloris' unstoppable progression to becoming one of the world's greatest goalkeepers has not gone unnoticed, not least by United.
How does one best describe Arsenal's transfer policy - frugal, thrifty and economic? Or miserly, close-fisted and stingy? Opinions on the subject are closing in on the latter after Arsene Wenger's total summer signings numbered just one first team player - Petr Cech.
Oh dear, Liverpool. A season which started with cautious optimism has swiftly descended into #RodgersOut crowdfunding campaigns and Twitter rants and it looks like it's only getting worse as we move towards the end of September.
The 29-year-old can't follow on those lines, and inevitably it's going to have to go one of three ways for the Spaniard in sky blue; either he drastically improves, he remains content with a place on the bench when better players are fit, or he departs. Whether Pellegrini is vigilant enough to send him on his way remains to be seen, but perhaps that job will fall to the man that inevitably succeeds him.
Whatever happens next, wherever he goes, whatever he does, Emmanuel Adebayor deserves respect. To have gone through his career, with detractors and personal issues at every step and still have made a success of it? He might just be one of the strongest people in English football, and it's time to start treating him like it.
The Premier League is highly regarded for its competitiveness, where anyone can genuinely beat anyone else on a given day - that kind of thing rarely happens in Spain and other European countries. There is no mystique or aura for defending English champions and it all means that when the naivety kicks in, as it has done in recent years, giants will always fall.
The beginning of a new season is crunch time for a lot of footballers, as they find out whether they still have a place in the side following a summer of wholesale changes. With not much time to impress between now and the winter transfer window, here are 10 players who need to up their game quick, or may find themselves on the move very soon indeed.
If it was naive to think that Chelsea were automatically favourites to win a second successive Premier League title ahead of the 2015/16 season - and it most certainly was - it's even more naive to think that now. Quite simply, Jose Mourinho's team have been left behind by their competitors and a terrible transfer window has now left them playing catch-up.
The reality is that, on the pitch at least, United are no longer the European giants they were four or five years ago and even then there a was a team from Catalonia on a completely different level above.
If City were beating chump teams, the way that Liverpool fans held up 1-0 wins over Stoke and Bournemouth as proof that they were flying, then City flying out of the blocks could be dismissed as nothing. An illusion of the fixture list. But they aren't.
Even last year's shining beacon of brilliance Harry Kane has struggled and if Spurs are to genuinely progress this season, then the 22-year-old striker is going to require a great deal of assistance.


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Providing affordable loans and quality upgrades to private health SMEs
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Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda and expanding in Sub-Sahara Africa
Less than $1 Million.
approximately USD 100,000
approximately 20
The MCF focuses on clinics providing primary healthcare services to low-income groups. The purpose of the loans is to invest in quality improvement and expansion. Loans are provided incrementally, and depend on the clinic size.
First loans are USD 10,000 to 60,000 (channeled through local banks), average amount USD 20,000. Follow up loans are 30,000-90,000, third loans as of 90,000. As soon as the target clinics have built up a sound credit history, track record and reputation, local banks will continue lending at preferential rates at their own account and risk, possibly with a limited MCF guarantee back-up.
Operating for 1‐5 years
In most Sub-Saharan countries there is no significant track record of debt finance to lower-end privately owned primary SMEs: health centers, dispensaries, health posts, clinics, midwifery's and smaller hospitals. Local investors usually are hesitant to invest in such SMEs for a variety of reasons: crowding-out risk, reputation risk and project risk related to sub-standard bookkeeping and accounting practices and limited profitability prospects. Medical staff in such SMEs tend to focus on health services rather than business concerns, and at this level few can afford to hire competent financial staff.
Higher-end health facilities, medical insurance firms, distributors, manufacturers, pharmacies and larger hospitals, meanwhile have become investment targets for international development banks such as through the Health for Africa program of WB/IFC and the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA).
These new investment options, however, will not reach out to the SME segment in the private health market. The best option for leveraging private sector finance at that level is by targeting the involvement of local banks that have a track record in SME finance.
The MCF approach to effectuate that strategy is simple yet effective: partnering with local banks in a process of gradual transformation of risk position from MCF to the bank. At the same time clinics will be supported to improve their business model which reduces the overall risk position. This approach also represents the MCF's exit strategy.
Asymmetry of information, Informality, Lack of collateral, Lack of financial capacity, Lack of institutional capacity of financial intermediaries, Underdeveloped local capital markets (term local currency funding, exit options for SME equity), General barriers to SME development related to investment climate.
The program addresses the following barriers:
• Asymmetry of information
Often the private health sector is still seen as a socially undesirable phenomenon in emerging markets, only catering to the affluent. Reality on the ground provides a rather different picture. While the top end of the market indeed consists of high quality expensive clinics, the bulk is made up of struggling SMEs dealing with low-income clients and faced with considerable human resources, medical and business challenges. Low-income patients often prefer private over public facilities. The costs may be higher, but quality of services is much better, which shortens recovery time and income-earning capacity.
• Informality
Primary health SMEs are usually fully licensed under Ministry of Health regulations. However, their business status is not always reflected in a proper legal format. As a result, the financial affairs of the clinic and its owner may be insufficiently separated. MCF business training installs awareness to separate both.
• Lack of collateral
Some clinics can provide partial or full collateral (land titles and buildings), others not. The solution for them is to agree with banks on an overall debenture arrangement.
• Lack of capital - tailored financial products
This is indeed the most burning obstacle. Debt finance from MCF solves this problem by offering tailor-made solutions.
• Lack of institutional capacity
Installed capacity usually meets minimum standards. Further expansion requires medical and business upgrade, which is what the MCF provides.
• Local capital markets
There often is good liquidity in domestic capital markets in Africa due to growing savings mobilization and limited investment opportunities in the real economy. The point at stake here is to offer an attractive entry for local investors in order to engage in their own health sector at scale.
• Barriers for SME development
For health SMEs the major barrier is the high cost of capital related to lending in local markets. Offering affordable debt in combination with upgrade of business models will allow health SMEs to borrow in such local markets.
Although MCF was only established one year ago, and has no long term track record yet, the initial indicators such as uptake of participants in its lending and technical assistance programs, support from domestic stakeholders such as governments and business coalitions and networks in health, and willingness of investors and donors to become involved are quite positive. To date, the first solid partnerships with local banks and technical assistance providers have been established, training modules have been prepared and performance indicators have been installed. So far approximately 50 health SME's have been selected and the first loans will be provided in the coming months.
The performance of MCF is first of all captured by regular pre-loan performance indicators, such as number of participating clinics enrolled in the MCF program, number of clinics graduated from medical quality and business trainings, number of completed quality upgrade and business plans, number of loan applications submitted and number and volume of loans provided.
Post-loan performance indicators have been grouped in three categories: financial, medical and social performance:
• Financial performance is measured by overall loan portfolio quality indicators as well as by individual clinics' loan servicing records. Overtime, business performance uptake will show in the audited financial statements of clinics.
• Medical performance will be measured through the application of international standards, as per international medical quality standards (ISQua). This starts with base-line surveys per clinic and afterwards annual independent quality audits will be conducted. The medical performance area will include issuance of branded quality certificates which will boost both patient and investor confidence.
• Social performance will be captured by tracking key (MDG related) public health indicators in the clinics' catchment areas.
To date, pre loan-methodologies are in place and use already, whereas fine-tuning of financial and medical performance measurement methodologies is nearing completion. Before the end of 2010 a social performance tracking system will be fully operational.
As is common in the health sector, all performance tracking systems will be entirely evidence-based with extensive data-collection. In addition the MCF is working towards a performance presentation facility in the public domain (web-based) to allow for direct access by all stakeholders to latest performance data. This would also allow for public accountability of the MCF program.
MCF targets TA provision to 50-100 SMEs per country. Expectedly half of those will apply for first loans or 75 to 150 first loans per annum in three countries. Half of the graduates are expected to proceed to second loans: 35-70 per annum at full capacity of the program.
The MCF aims to raise USD 8 million for loan capital and 4 million for technical assistance in the period 2010-2014. Approximately 25% is available already, 25% is under negotiation and 50% is targeted from international investors and 50% thereof through the G-20 Challenge (2M capital and 1M technical assistance).
PharmAccess has financed the first USD 1 million for business development and to start-up the operations for the period 2008-2010. A fund raising campaign has been started to raise USD 4 million on the Dutch private investor market. By early 2011 we expect to have 40% of overall targets committed. The remaining 60% is expected to be secured in 2011 and 2012.
Demand for loan capital is very high, but qualified demand is low. It takes time and effort to develop qualified demand and this process needs to be financed on a grant base. Raising support for the technical assistance fund is a critical success factor. Also capital provision to the MCF is of great importance to fuel our loan capital base. MCF relies on investors willing to trade a high financial with a high social return on investments.
MCF is confident that it will manage to grow with current commitments. However, to meet the large demand for its services additional investments and support from the G-20 Challenge will facilitate program acceleration.
For capital intake:
USD 8 million in total, consisting of initial capital grants (1M), longer term debt (7 years) from high net worth investors (3M), and longer term debt (5-7 years) and/or capital grant donations from institutional investors to the tune of USD 4M of which 2M from the G-20
For technical assistance:
USD 4 million in total; all in grants and donations, of which 1M from the G-20. In the regular (first loan) part of the program the loan-to-TA ratio is approximately 4:1, for follow-up loans it could be 8:1. However, for smallest type of SMEs (health out-posts, midwiferies) this ratio can be 2:1 or even 1:1.
From the onset, the MCF will not become over-dependent on public finance which is mainly pursued by leveraged already raised private finance.
Second, the loan provision policy of the MCF includes a double exit strategy.
• Although the MCF will finance first loans, the implementing bank assumes a risk position. Follow-up loans to the same health SME will see a larger risk position of the bank, and over time the bank will take over relationship management.
• The MCF has a three-tiered partnership strategy with local banks. High risk investments to SMEs will initially be financed by MCF. Graduating SMEs or lower risk entry SMEs will come under a 50-50 risk-sharing arrangement between bank and MCF. Lowest risk SMEs will be handled by the bank with a limited MCF bank-up guarantee.
In due course, it is expected that both domestic and international investors will become directly involved in financing health SMEs in Africa.
Maximum investment opportunities for private investors will be capped at approximately 20% each; in case of public investors it will capped at 50% collectively. This presumably will entail a form of consortium or syndicate financing.
In the technical assistance department collaboration with different donors will be sought, both local and international, and a variety of proposals will submitted. Also, the MCF intends to introduce peer-to-peer (P2P) funding options, reducing dependency on both private and public investors.
The MCF is building an elaborate partnership configuration.
• For program implementation MCF partners with one or more local banks and technical service providers (local medical associations). This secures local buy-in and allows for establishing effective relationships with Ministries of Health.
• For assertion of medical quality, MCF is partnering with Cohsasa and JCI, two renowned quality assurance institutions in the health sector.
• For program management MCF partners with PharmAccess Foundation, particularly in the area of medical and business upgrade. This partnership to date has also been very productive as regards fund and capital raising efforts.
• In order to complement its support at the supply side, the health SMEs, MCF partners with the Health Insurance Fund (HIF) with a view of installing risk pooling and insurance schemes at the demand side to reduce out-of-pocket expenditures of patients and to strengthen and stabilize revenue streams for health SMEs.
A major potential risk is the formidable medical human resources challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. Not only do educational institutions graduate insufficient medical professionals at all levels, it is also very difficult to retain them, especially in the public health sector due to low payment and substandard working conditions.
As a result, many health professionals operate one or two levels above their formal license, which represents medical quality risks. Whereas in due time 'under-licensed' staff increase their competencies in everyday practice, it continues to pose a problem in terms of quality verification and accreditation. MCF addresses this challenge in two ways. First by encouraging health SMEs to support their medical staff in acquiring higher level operational licenses in the context of quality upgrade policies and second by supporting health SMEs in strengthening their business models, allowing for competitive remuneration and, thus, higher staff retaining rates.
A second risk is that owners of health SMEs as a rule of thumb have higher medical than entrepreneurial skills. As stated, this challenge is covered by intensive business training and support by MCF.
A first level of scaling up is foreseen within the MCF program. Participating SMEs will come aboard with an entry loan, but upon successful completion will become eligible for larger follow-up loans which will be targeting capital investments mostly.
A second level is the gradually more active role of local capital providers in the forms of partnering banks. They will in due time take over the MCF's investment role in relation to medical SMEs that will develop a healthy appetite for continued expansion, both horizontally (expansion or branching of current facilities) and vertically (acquiring higher level licenses, becoming licensed hospitals).
A third level is the development of shared back-up facilities. Many health SMEs will expectedly not grow to a level where it will be viable to build and manage highly elaborate in-house laboratories and pharmacies. For them, an alternative could be to join forces and build such activities on a shared ownership platform (like central laboratory or diagnostic centers, shared waste management facilities), securing quality service delivery as well as an additional revenue streams through referral and ownership income.
Lastly, the MCF as of 2011 aims to link up with branding or franchise chains of primary health SMEs, especially those currently specialized in a limited number of medical services. The potential to be developed is to incrementally transform these SMEs into full-service facilities. Scale of operations in this area would also facilitate the introduction of larger scale insurance schemes for patients, especially at community level.
Growth potential is therefore unlimited, which also follows from massive demand for affordable quality healthcare by a large majority of low-income Africans. The main challenge is in implementing a growth strategy that combines capital injection with substantial medical and business quality upgrade efforts. The MCF is well placed to do so.


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