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On this weeks episode of Triple Advantage, the echoes take us way outside the realm of 5e, law and order is reestablished as we wrap up the Outer Planes, and we discuss your favourite gods and patrons in this week;s Talk of the Town.
Season 3, Episode 10 · 1 year ago
Ep. 37 - Beyond the Known World
On this week's episode of triple advantage. The echoes take us way outside the realm of V but don't worry,law and orders re established as we wrap up the outer planes and we discussyour favorite gods and patrons in this week's talk of the town. As always, follow our social media and see what we have planned. Enjoy the show. Welcome, members of the society. On today's echoes of the outlands,I want to take us away from DND v welcoming in this episode we haveour regular show runners, Jordan Britain and myself, Carlos, taking on takingyou through this expository adventure away from what most of us are used to.I think with regards to TTRPG Games. So Britain and Jordan, is talkingabout anything else other than five a little bit sacrilegious on this podcast? Orshould I go on right ahead, complete heresy? Yes, yeah, you'reexcommunicated. I'm sorry. We need a neither new host and with that wewill post a job opening on twitter. We do not pay. There isno money here. But one of the things that got me really interested thisweek, guys, is we've been talking to a couple local DM's and I'mreally excited for Sciety to hear some of the conversations. I'll be coming andthen your future. But one of the DM's that we know plays call ofcthulhu at one of our local game stores and it got me thinking that Kalakafuliis, I think, the only other game system that I am readily awareof when it comes to d ND or cheat. See when it comes toTTRPG's, the the two words are almost intertwined at this point, I think, for the majority of people. So I wanted to take a little bitof time and look at some top ten lists to see if there's any othergame systems that intrigue me and while taking a look through here, I actuallyfound some that might intrigue you guys, and I wanted to see if you'veactually heard about these before. I'm sure you have heard of some, butlet me know what you think. So obviously the most popular one is dungeonsand dragons fifth edition, but we're not talking about that today. We're goingto move right on. I was unaware the call of Kafulu was actually ona seventh edition. I guess it's been running around for running for a reallylong time and Britain. If I'm not mistaken here, because I've known youfor a while, you're a pretty big fan of U Fuloo and HP LoveCraftian Lore. has there ever been an for you to run any campaigns likethis? Oh, one hundred percent. I've got the starter set actually sittingright behind me. My birth phone guy for me for my birthday and unfortunately, covid is a thing that is still happening in our group and our worldand it's just not slowing down. So the problem with call of cthulho versussomething like Dd d d You can really run over online settings. Call ofCTHULHOO, from what I understand it, from what I've read, with thisdarter set, is a decently prop heavy game, as opposed to dd whereyou can do the entire thing theater of mine, like we just talked aboutwith David in our last interview, you don't even need to have anything besidesa set of dice. Call of CTHUL that you kind of need to beif not in person, you need to be able to access these resources thatare given to you by the GM. So while it's something that I amdesperate to try out at some point, it is something that I think I'mgoing to have to wait on for a bit still. We should look into see if tabletop simulator has something for it. Yeah, it's good.It's not the same, I know, I know it's not the same exactly, but I play gloom haven with a group and we use tabletop simulator andit actually works out pretty well. I I don't know how well it wouldbe for, you know, call of Fulho or how different it would be, but we should look into it see what happens. I think there's alot of like when you're talking about props for Kulla Cthulo, what do youmean? Is it props a directly impact how you play the game or howplayers might sort of navigate the world? Mostly how you play the game.From what I understand, there's a lot of visual clues to further the story. There's a lot of when we think of puzzles in dd it's more oflike not mind games, but riddles and different things. They can be solvedwith maybe a pen and paper, not with a whole other hand out that'srequired, a whole other visual aid that...
...has to be given to the playerif they have a hope of solving this now with Kala cthulo. Do youknow if it's like more based on player knowledge? Because one of the thingswhen I think of puzzles and DD is that if, let's say, aplayer is having a hard time figuring out they could kind of just failed backto their character and say something like Hey, does my character know how to solvethis puzzle? Rule an intelligence check, and then you can kind of getaway from like this little lock on like player knowledge. But if you'resaying that it's more prop base and is it generally a more complicated game torun, you think, well, I don't know about complicated to run,but I think that it does give less handouts to the player. Not Handoutsis in the right word, but less with something like DD. You're right, like you're able to kind of fall back on these rules like, Oh, yeah, your character would know how does the necessaris if you don't directly, as the player hints here intent. Yeah, from what? Again,having not run it, from what I understand, I think it's very muchreliant on the ingenuity of the player and the ability of the player to beable to solve these puzzles that are before versus the character. Yeah, I'mreally excited to talk to to one of the DMS that runs called cut througha little bit more, because I think it's we're coming at this from apurely top ten lists online surface level understanding of these game systems. I haveany of you guys actually played in a different game system? I know Iactually haven't, unfortunately. Yeah, no, I think the closest I've gotten isthe mansions of madness. But like that's not really a that's not yeah, that's just a working yeah, interesting and I think it's got a dealwith a lot with like when you're getting into TTRPG's right, you're likely goingto find dd right away, versus something else. One of the ones thatactually still set out to me was star Finder, and this purely on asci fi basis, a kind of like the genre, and this would kindof fall in line with the same thing, I would imagine, as the StarTrek Adventures. Not Saying that they're mechanically the same. I don't knowwhat these games have been to play like, but just with regards to alien racesand Space Travel, which is interesting because in the Star Trek Adventures GameOne of the points when I was selling points is saying that it's easy tobridge crew vibes without the busy work, which is something that I'm always lookinglike. I'm always looking to keep, you know, travel exciting, butI, as a DM, don't particularly enjoy it. So it's interesting withsome games, like in the sci fi genre, because your you you wouldspend so much time on a spaceship, you know, if you're running itlike that, I guess, and it seems that it's more of a scenariobased game system. Have you guys looked at any sci fi or do youparticularly say in like the fantasy realms? For most of your RPG interests?I consider doing star wars for a while. HMM, oh right, yeah,the hound like, you know, like Knights of the Old Republic andall these old school star wars video game RPGs. So it is pretty excitedto see what a ttrpg version of that was. I never got around toit because I'm fundamentally lazy as a person, but it is something that I wouldbe interested. I've never heard of star finder, but I just knowme neither it's it's from the same people as pathfind or, which makes sensecorrect. Okay, I'm guessing it's probably mechanically similar. Yes, you're justchanging up a lot of the races and I would imagine just a setting mainly, but mechanically it does seem like it overlaps a lot with pole finder.Makes Sense. If I'm saying anything that's completely wrong here, I feel freeto call me out. Just add US on twitter and we'll make sure toinclude those corrections. That's why we're dumb. It tell us why we're dumb.A fun little one that I saw, and I don't know why it's inthis page, doesn't actually seem like it's. It fits with the RPGrum, but it's called fiasco. That's from what I'm reading here. Itsays the tagline saying a game of powerful ambition and port and poor impulse control, which immediately sells it to me and I think it would be a greathit within our group. So if it says, let's see here, improvisingcinematic scenes, Britain, check, I'm...
...in. You'll have a fantastic time. So as long as we're good at doing that, we should. Ithink it seems like a good maybe among US type game system. It lookthe interesting thing about this one that I'm reading is that it's marketed is gmless. Yeah, don't need it. M which is is highly attractive to bea stem designed to be played in a few hours, was six sided diceand no preparation. I'm in. I don't try this. There's I meanlike the prep of DD is half the half the battle. So if withthat out of the wave, you're just like taking it with friends. Yeah, absolutely, after this. The thing with with the ND is part ofme loves the PREP and part of me hates the prep. Yes, it'dbe. As a DM, it falls in line with any sort of writersblock or you know, sometimes you just get in that creative flow and youcan just, you know, plan for like five sessions in advance. Sometimesyou're like I I'm stuck, you know, I don't want and you end upsort of improving most of the sessions throughout, which I think it ispretty fun. But because of that, because I've gotten so accustomed to doingthat now, I think this would be perfect. For sure. I'm alreadythey're comparing it to a when it says cinematic tales, some of the filmsthat it gives example of. One of them that's list is Fargo. I'ma huge and ago. So I like the art style. To you knowwhat, it reminds me of team fortress to a little bits. I wasthinking archer, like almost like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Iagree. I love that. A said I to very incredibles as well,if we were a lump them in the yes, yeah, more Pixar.Ask I always this looks like a fun one. We download the standard rulesbecause, yeah, I want to try this style. I might give ashot. Yeah, right, society will keep you posted. This is howthis is happening. DD anymore as its welve seconds. The last game systemthat I wanted to talk about was one that actually I hold personally. Thereit's going back to Scifi, but have you ever heard of the expanse roleplaying game? Know that, I know you're a big fan of the expanse. So, yeah, actually, so this is a bit of an interestingstory. Right. So the expanse, the hit TV show that is nowon Amazon prime. I I'll show this one for free. I love theshow. Everybody should watch the expanse and talk to me about it. Butthe show started out as TTRPG game between a couple of friends and I guessthey found that the story in the game was compelling enough to create, youknow, some books for it and create an expanded war and history for thisworld, and eventually it became a TV show, which is interesting because itsort of resembles a little bit of what critical role is doing now with withregards to their animated series. Right. It all started out as a homegame and it expanded into this phenomenon and now they're making a TV show forit, which is really cool. But I was wondering if you guys haveheard of the game system itself. It's something that I've wanted to run justbecause I'm a huge fan boy of of the the whole expanse universe itself offas a reader, I love it and I've actually tried to incorporate a littlebit of the characters into my DD games as much as possible, which bringsup another you know, you know how much you wouldopt from different game systems. To me, it's one of these things where it's like, as aDM, My v campaign is going to like, at least with you guys, with my friends, it's going to start out very rule blocked with regardsto what the players handbookused on me. I can I can't do. Butas I've sort of progressed and grown as a DM, I've actually incorporated andchanged some of these rules in the back end where you know what you guysaren't really like privy to. You know my DM notes and how checks mightwork in the get in the world. But it's interesting to me just thatI've taken from this completely different genre and added it into V so I'm excitedto see like where our custom like home game systems will end up being inthe next couple of years. But this was just a really big excuse forme to talk about the expanse and get a little bit of airtime on largelyfantasy related show. So I hope that I can actually run this for youguys at some point because I have particularly like the universe. The setting isthree main factions, being earth, Mars and the outer belt, all withtheir thriving will not so thriving for the belt civilizations and the little bit ofa sci Fi juice that triggers, you know, a war between the factionsand the political tension and whatnot. So...
I think I don't know if Ican run this with every player. Brandon, you might be a little bit morekeen to the sort of political intrigue kind of campaign. Let be done, but definitely something I want to check out in the future. Is thereany game systems that you guys that are that we haven't mentioned, that youguys have had interests? Yeah, I mean I I looked into, Iguess, the fate system a while a while back, which was which ismore of a if I'm remembering correctly, it's a system where people are ableto kind of run scenarios and be more cinematic with their actions and that kindof thing, and it just comes down to you get to basically do whatyou say you're going to do and then you can roll the dice. There'slike, I think. I think you only use for dice total to seewhether the action succeeds or fails and that and that's it. That's all ituses. It's like, does it succeed or does it fail? And youget like points based on whether you have failed in the past or if there'ssome sort of way that you're being creative with your character or you know,you get those fate points and then you can add dice rolls and things likethat using fate points. I think, is how the system works. I'mnot a hundred percent sure, but this was a while back. I thoughtthat was kind of interesting. The only other one that I've heard of ismutants and masterminds, which is a superhero based one, where you get tocreate superheroes with different powers and things like that, shooting energy beams, beinginvulnerable, web slinging, regeneration, whatever you can think of kind of thing, and you put points into those powers and then you also have to comeup with different complications, which is, you know, different things that youmight have weaknesses to or, you know, you have someone that you deeply careabout or something like that, something that the DM can use against youas a character, and then when that comes up, then you get what'scalled hero points, and then you can use hero points as basically a luckpoint. I think. Is what I'm is what I remember, but again, I've only really read through these different things that I've never actually played them, just because it's another system that you have to, you know, learnand teach to other people then and it would be really cool, I think, to like try out once, but then like I'm not sure if Iwould want to continue with it, and then is it really worth it?Not sure. So if there's someone out there who knows one of these systemsor is played it before and knows whether it's worth it, like let meknow. I want to I want to find out and maybe try it outone day. So maybe after we're done the dunion master's guide, will pickup another DM guide for Anim system and continue on from there. I thinkwe're almost done, right. We're like yeah, very, very close tofinish it. Apart one of three, you know, chapter two of nine. Whooo what? That being said, I think I've ran my time forthe segment. So I'll keep doing a little bit of digging game systems,especially because I'm trying to pull mechanics and rules and I guess in my brainif I'm pulling them from different game systems they're already somewhat balanced. So ifI can find like game systems, maybe we can find some home rules forthe real city side to customize our own little lore and one day open itup to the to the rest of the world to see. But with thatsort of vague statement made, Jordan, please take over. All right.So we're going to get back into divining the DMG. We are on pagesixty six we're talking about the outer planes. We're going to finish them up todayand then next week we will finish off the chapter going over the otherplanes that exist. So we are on our Karra acorn. Sorry, atUrn, not sure how you pronounced it. Really these these names, I feellike they should have like a here's how you pronounce it, beside it, because I've never really heard of them. But yeah, so we're going togo through the outer planes here at Tron or Acron is a lawful,neutral, lawful evil. It is the last of the evil planes that willbe going through. And here we go. So atron has four layers, eachmade up of enormous iron cubes floating through an airy void. Sometimes thecubes collide. Echoes of past collisions linger...
...throughout the plane, mingling with thesounds of armies colliding. That's the nature of atron. Strife and war,as the spirits of fallen soldiers join an endless battle against the ORCs devoted toGroomsh goblinoids loyal to maglebeate, are maglue be itt and legions assembled to otherwar mongering gods. So I did look up my glue be it. Heis a Goblin Deity, the number one chieftain, also known as the mightyone, because I've never heard of him and he wasn't in any of theother stuff that we've read so far. So I thought that was kind ofinteresting. The optional rule here, as per usual for these kind of planes, is called blood lust. Atron rewards a creature for harming other creatures byI'm viewing them, or that creature with the strength to keep fighting. Whileon Atron, a creature gains temporary hit points equal to half its hip pointmaximum whenever it reduces a hostile creature to zero hit points. That's a prettyawesome perk, guys. So it seems like the plane of endless war then. Yeah, I'm sure from the first description, but with that optional rule, that seems like what they're painting, which is interesting because we've already gonethrough a plane that has endless combat, right. Yeah, remember. Yeah, the next day if you die and this one you don't. Yeah,yeah, no, grip. Yeah, it's a it rewards you for fighting, though, which is cool. So the other plane, like you cankeep fighting forever and you don't have to worry about dying, but this one, like, if you die, you die still it but there's an advantageto killing other people. It's kind of cool. I like it. It'sjust kind of reminds me, sir, this has a very do you guysremember the Guard Dot Ioh web game where you'd kind of just like, Ohyeah, other little bubbles and you grow bigger and bigger. Oh Yeah,yeah, actually, that makes yeah, I could see a little bit ofthat game mechanic. It's just a wrinkled cross here. Yeah, to thebig BLOB. Everybody's a Gelatinis Cube Keating other gelatinis cubes Yis it strikes meas kind of two sides of the same coin where I can't what was thename of the other plane I am looking at up here, this one,these hum pieces and a boreas are yeah, a borea. Here we go.What's the intense yearning? Now? Now that's the one of extreme emotions. Yes, not limbo, not the abyss pandemonium. No, Car Straihate. He's Gehenna. We're not good at our jobs. My goodness,we'll put a pin in that. But this car that's go one. Mygood not that way. Seem that this, that one seems like it's focused onthe glory of battle and the idea of like honor and six sens andfine, yeah, carving your own way on the battlefield. It's for heroes. Yeah, acorn seems like the flip side. That seems like the bloodycarnage of war. Like, yeah, side the endless death and the sacrificeand just the the senselessness of it. Hmm, Jack, kind of likeit's funny that you mentioned like this. It's funny that you mentioned the senselessness, because is car it is a chaotic, neutral, chaotic good, and thenatron, the infinite battlefield, is a wafful neutral, lawful evil plane. That's interesting. Yeah, it's weird that I think like there's law here, because it doesn't seem like it, like I'm not seeing where. Idon't know, like it's all like think about World War One and all thewars that kind of predated World War One where it was almost war was kindof considered a gentleman's game, like the rules you had to meet on thisbattlefield at this time, right, the people still died in mass numbers,but it was quote unquote, civil yeah, that they like they were there wererules, and that's kind of what this reminds me of. Like yeah, yeah, it's terrible and people are dying everywhere and it's just chaos andcarnage everywhere, but it's there. Rules, HMM, structures do it. Iguess it is like the spirits of fallen soldiers kind of come here.So it makes sense that. And it's...
...like whole armies, I guess,instead of just like everyone is immortal kind of thing. So you just kindof go around and kill whoever you want, if you want to. Exactly.There is still, I guess, a cost to the war if youdo end up losing. All right, we'll move on here to mechanis.I really like this one. It's very interesting. On mechanis, law isreflected in a realm of clockwork gears, all interlocked and turning according to theirmeasure. The cogs seem to be engaged in a calculation so vast that nodeity can fathom its purpose. Mechanis embodies absolute order, and it's influence canbe felt on those who spend time here. Modrawns are the primary inhabitants of mechanis. The plane is also home to the creator of Modrons, a godlikebeing called Primus. I find it interesting mechanis is a hole on it isa lawful, neutral alignment place. I find it really interesting here that itsays that it's engaged in some sort of calculation that no deity can even fathom. Its purpose, despite being a place of absolute order. Like why isthere something like why is the whole like plane of existence running this seemingly purposeless, I don't know, MC mechanical thing? Who says, I know, thisis where it it Mechan is is embodied as a mechanical system. Right, but when use? When you mentioned that? Right, to me thatkind of sounds like stake, like gravity, for example. Right, like gravitykeeps everything in order, but it's not necessarily the quantifiable and measurable,Right, whereas in this mechanical system it's keeping order of something, right,but it's not necessarily something that you can grasp or understand. Right, likeI think the I think the logic falls into the history of clockwork as well, right, like sure, you can see that there are gears moving,even in a even in a small watch, but you can't comprehend what each oneof those parts does. Right, but not even like deities can understandthis. Yeah, yeah, so I'm taking it more of like a thisis just the way the order is kept. This is the machine that keeps orders. The keeps order and it wasn't created by anybody. It can justbe observed by whoever exists within right. You know the setting. So that'skind of where I'm I'm taking it a little bit, Braden. We're goingto say something just that. Maybe it's like it's seems purposeless. I don't, I don't read this actually purposeless. I just read it is, yeah, exactly. I mean like it it. It could have a purpose, butif no one understands what that purpose is, does it have a purpose? I don't know what I meant with the gravity thing. Yeah, yeah, it exists. You just can't understand wow, or why? Yeah,the creator of the plane, God like being called Primus. HMM. Wecan probably assume that he created this system as well. Right, and itjust like. I mean maybe you don't. I do like about. I can'tfathom string theory. HMM. That doesn't mean it doesn't have a purpose, right. Yeah, I just thought it was interesting, but you guyshave good points. So I guess my point was, well, yeah,there's this plane. Sorry, just because Braden has more in Kanis Tome offoes, but does this talk of? Is this the plot? I don'tknow. Maybe I'm just getting confused with the artwork, because the artwork inthat book is very clockwork like. Does that have anything to do with theLore it all? This plainly does. I don't have more than Kinnon soonbeside me, so unfortunately, call to check that for you. What Ido know this from is there is a clockwork soul sorcerer. Now, HMM, yes, is that's what I mean? Did to talk about that recently?Yeah, it was really cool. I love it. Mechanis means tome that in steam punk, but I got ever on for that. SoI'm so optional rules. Yeah, so there are actually two optional rules herefor mechanics. Art Mechanis the first one...
...that I want to talk about isimposing order. It's our basic you know, if someone isn't a lawful, neutralcreature and takes a long rest on this plane, they have to makea DC ten wisdom saving throw. Otherwise their alignment changes and you can dispelthat with a evil and good to spell, evil and good spell, or spenda day on a different plane. It's it's, you know, thebasic optional rule here for a lot of these different planes. The other oneis actually really cool. It's called the law of averages. So while onMechanis, creatures always use the average damage result for attacks and spells, forexample, an attack that normally deals one d ten plus five damage always dealsten damage on mechanus. That's interesting. I really like that. It withthe flow of the the theme rather of the plane. I think it's perfect. And this reminds me, Carlos. Didn't you run a series of adventuresone time where you were testing the idea of every attack doing max damage insteadof having to roll for it? No, I was as mostly just using averagedamnage for all NPC attacks for a little bit. So, just soyou're actually doing exactly this then? HMM. Yeah, in a way, Iguess. Yeah, I was trying to make it easier on the DMSand to handle horde combat for Fum just I didn't have to roll, youknow, fifteen different attacks with fifteen different damages. But I think it's aslightly different approach. But I can see definitely the overlap. I mean mechanicallyit's spent things up on my end for sure, and I think for theplayers it caused them to sort of maybe understand threat a little better. MMM, for the creatures, right, because, like goblins were doing a predictable amountof damage. So you could you know. I know how much HPI have there for this combat. I'm confident in how this combat is.I can't take three hits before you yeah something right, so it's something.I think it would be something. These rules are interesting because I've ended upfinding that if you really want to get into them and make them feel natural, right like, you must have to modify them. Purple are but likea barbarian would be able to go. Well, I can definitely take onseven goblins because I know how much damage they're doing, right, hmm.But it might not necessarily be something that the character itself might recognize within them, for it's they have like eight insight. Did you still roll for critical hitsand stuff like that, though, or did you always do the averagedamage then? So what I did was if I rolled for the attack andyou on a hit, it would always deal base damage. On a criticalI rolled in an age, an additional attack, dial it or right,additional damage die, so it would always get added onto the the baseline right. So if there was ten and a like a deep or sorry, likeif you're rolling, like let's say, the average damage is ten, right, like I do that, plus the d six set you roll afterwards.HMM. What do you guys think, like for the law of averages here, if someone were to roll a critical hit on an attacker spell, wouldyou double the damage or would you just say nope, mob of averages saysten damage on mechanics and that's it. I think that. Actually, Ithink that the second point makes the most sense for mechanics. Machans. Whywould mechanis allow for critical hits to happen? Yeah, but yeah, like Iwould say that the plane itself limits even if you do get a criticalhit, you're just rolling the Max damage for that hit, right, regardlessof the crit is. How I I'm thinking. I would rule it.HMM. It's very yeah, I don't know. I will have to thinkabout that one. That's an interesting question. Well, to me it's just moreon the why would do some people get a critical and some people notget a critical? In this makes sense plane of utter balance, right.Yeah, now another question then. Would you guys extend this law outwards toother things other than attacks and well spells that deal damage? Would you extendit to ability checks and things like that? Would you say, you know,it's either a success or failure kind of thing, or would you allowhigher stuff, maybe roll maybe in Mechanis? Nobody has modifiers for any of theirabilities. Yeah, like, would you change any of the like everybody'sthe same. HMM. It's an interesting concept that you could potentially extrapolate.Like I'll be like damage. It is fun to do and it would mamake it a lot. Well, yeah,...
...it makes it a little bit easierto control, but if you could extend that out further, that wouldbe pretty interesting world to go to, where everything's just kind of averaged out. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about abilities. HMM.Like, I mean the whole point of the whole point of abilities is thatyou are, you know, innately better at some tasks than your party.Yeah, right. So it's a weird thing because we're talking about these planarentities that are, yeah, powerful, right, like the are these theseplaner locations that have rules, HMM, as to they're like to their existence. Right. So I don't understand like how one player might you know,it's saying that not even deities understand this, right, like how can we haveany chance of I don't know how to rule any sort of abilities andwhatnot inside mechanis itself. I think, like with this law of averages,it's like it's still it still uses modifiers. So, for instance, it usesthe example of an attack that normally deals one ten plus five damage alwaysdeals ten points of damage, right, so it still uses modifiers. Thatway you can still have your innate like you as a person are normally betterat this kind of thing. Therefore, with the law of averages, youwill normally deal more damage than someone with a lower modifier, for instance,or whatever. That I understand what you're saying. That's where sort of Ithink I'm extending that rule onto it because, yeah, I'm not sure if,in my head, if it makes sense that players would be better atother things, you know, like these planes have such powerful sort of environmentalabilities. I don't understand that. I Don understand why I would let aplayer be like, Oh, you can still jump, you know, youlike your natural ability, like everybody's natural ability is now a little bit more. Yeah, average averaged out. HMM, it would mean that interesting. Thatcould be an yeah, like party like mechanics, like if you havelike different parties. Maybe that's something that you could incorporate. Something like youtake the average of everybody skills and that's what everybody has when they enter Mechanisas a group. You know, I don't know if you're entering via likethe yawning portal. You know, maybe there's a bit of a every everybodygets kind of intermixed a little bit. That we kind of fun if youwere running something with like a changing group. You know, it's like, Oh, this week we're going into mechanics, but we were able to take ourbarbarian so our collective strength is lower you by. Everybody's aware of this, right. Yes, yeah, that's true. You so keep this awarenessof balance and past. I don't know, the interesting there's a deeper discussion thatcould yes, as anything, the teas do real okay. So let'smove on, then, to the last outer of the outer planes. Thisis Arcadia. Arcadia is a lawful, neutral, lawful good plane. Itthrives with orchards of perfectly lined trees, ruler straight streams, orderly fields,perfect roads and cities laid out in geometrically pleasing shapes. The mountains are unblemishedby erosion. Everything on Arcadia works towards the common good and a flowish formof existence. Here, purity is eternal and nothing intrudes on harmony. Nightand day are determined by an orb that floats above arcadia's highest peak. Halfof the ORB radiate sunlight and brings about the day, the other half shedsmoonlight and brings about a starry night. The orb rotates evenly without fail,spreading day and night across the entire plane. The weather in Arcadia is governed byfour allied demigods called the storm kings. There is the cloud king, theWind Queen, the lightning king and the rain queen. Each one livesin a in a castle surrounded by the type of weather that the king orqueen controls. Hidden Below Arcadia's beautiful mountains are numerous dwarven kingdoms that have withstoodthe passage of Millennia. Dwarves born on this plane have the celestial type andare always brave and kindhearted, but otherwise they look and behave like normal dwarves. With that first little description, the first thing I thought into my headwas Singapore or some very Singapore kind of relid world. Everything very pretty estheticallypleasing, you know, clean ruler straight streams, like, even though wateris like must flow in a very specific way. It's so cool. Likeman, unblemish mountains. What does that...
...even look like? Does that evenmeet like seriously, like I don't know if any mountains that I had withblemishes? Yeah, well, it's seemed like there. It isn't affected byerosion at all. So what does mountains are? Yeah, that's what I'mplaying. Like, what are you trying to say here? I'm confused.Is it a triangle, like like a cone? Maybe? So, Idon't get it. Yeah, the entire people of this plane have just beenbrain wiz they're been parramids are not mountain skies. Is the largest conspiracy theoryany multiverse. Just wave your hand and go that's it. It's magic,Mash. It's just magic. I like. I like the night and day.Is Really Cool for this to a spinning orb so that the sun,the sun, quote unquote, rotates in this case and like half of itbrings about night and the other half brings about day. There's a big subsetof people in the real world that should never play on this plan. Thein a little too close to anymore than wizards. All right, so let'slet's it's an interesting concept for sure. Toward. Yeah, yeah, Imean I really think it's cool just to have like, I don't know,it's a different world, but different fantasy world. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's just it's very interesting. It would looks so, so weird,like watching this or spin at a perfectly even rate and like, you know, day slowly becomes night kind of thing. I don't know, it's really weirdbut cool. So the optional rule for this place is called Planar vitality. While on this plane, creatures can't be frightened or poisoned and they areimmune to disease and poison. That's pretty cool. Yeah, I you know, if a character was diseased already and ended up on this plane, theywould still have that disease, right, like. They wouldn't like lose thatdisease, like I wouldn't be cured. They just be immune to other diseases, right, I don't know. Until you want to rule it, HMM, it's very interesting. Could could be. I mean, do you could justenter the plane and be cleansed of all disease? Yeah, it's gota fun I mean monks have that ability later on. Right. Yes,yeah, they become Amun soil and then and also Paladins, I think,are immune to disease. I'm not sure about poison, but I know thedisease immune works of a door. I think have resistance to poison damage andbeing poisons, they have advantage against saving throws, HM, or on savingthrows against poison and resistance against poison damage, which, yeah, makes sense thatthey live on this planer existence of Arcadia. So, guys, thatis the last of the outer planes. Oh my God. Next week we'regoing to talk a little bit about the outer the other planes that exist,so demmi planes, and also how all of these different outer planes are connected. It's going to be really cool. I'm excited to talk about that,but there's a lot to go over. So I'M gonna call that for thisweek and I will hand the reins over to Braden for sure. This episodeof triple advantage is sponsored by the new module from the Rosee Society, intothe jaws of the Mimic Queen, available now on DM skilled, a fullthree to five hour adventure for little five players, penned by our good friendif Gepta, who we just interviewed about not only the module but his wholedum style. That episode can be found wherever you listen to our podcast.The module can be found on DM skilled for what you can. And nowit is time for talk of the town, the segment where we ask you,the members of the society, a question and discuss those answers on here, as well as considering our own answers, and answer the question, rather,that I have for you guys this week. What is your favorite deityor patron to have for your character?...
Who? There's a lot to choosethink care is a lot to choose from. I've never actually played a character thathas required any of these. Really need to require whatever should be apart of your character, that they're just devout to something without actually having amechanical resent. Yeah, it's very true. It's really enlightening me on how couplekinds of player characters I've been making good. They've all been abos forthe maturity nakup line. Yeah, I guess you have like monks. I'veseen you play a bardbarian. YEA, so it is a day. CanI have memes of the day? Is a day? Or the tricks forcod maybe, and a sorcerer. I think you've done so. You're alllike about innate power and about finding my own inner strength. All right,yeah, strong individual characters. I, on the other hand, have playedquite a few characters with some sort of patron or eighty. I played clerics, I've played warlocks and and I have multiple different characters that are currently possessedby daily being much. If I had a nickel for every time your charactergot possessed by I would have two nickels. Yeah, yeah, and I've onlyjust begun my career here, guys, as a DD fanatic. So we'llsee how many characters can Jordan get possessed? Yeah. So, withregards to favorite des and patrons, I I would say there is one thatI was looking at for one of my clerics. Why can I not rememberhis name? It's like in mater or something like that. It his hiswhole deal is like pain and suffering and he kind of takes on the thepain and suffering of others. He kind of stands in front of other peopleany like covers for them. So when I play life clerics or order ofRedemption Paladin, that kind of thing, like he's kind of my Goto dateI cannot believe that I can't remember his name off the top of my headright now. It's kind of pissed me off. He's not a like superwell known one, I don't think, but he I I really enjoy hiswhole like persona. When I'm playing warlocks, I usually go with something a littlebit more on the lines of like a fiend. I love the ideaof like the great old one, the idea of like this disembodied voice thatkind of seeks knowledge or power or something like that, some unknown being that'stoo great to comprehend kind of thing, just telling you, you know,like seek after this particular thing or, you know, collect or absorb asmuch as you can kind of thing. Like I just really like that wholeconcept is it's really cool. Yeah, I'd say that, you know,those are that's kind of like usually where I end up. There are likelike I've gotten over a little bit more in the Day da Realm when I'mrunning my wild mount campaign. You kind of get to know the day daysa bit better when you're actually running a campaign as opposed to when you're beinga player with with those guys. I think it's kind of interesting to havelike these, like the Dada's in DD, really don't come into play too oftenunless your campaign is kind of built around it or you're at a higher, high enough level that it would become important. I think we've talked aboutthis a little bit before. So I've built the campaign that I'm running alittle bit around like different day days that other creatures might might worship or whatever, or might try to help out in exchange for power or something like that. But in the end I've never found it to be overly important for mycharacter which one I choose. It helps define the character a little bit,but if it doesn't come up too much, then it's not going to affect yourplay too much either. So for new playerss and stuff, I findthem often like it's whatever, you know...
...what they do, do you suggestDM, that kind of thing. That's that's interesting. That's part of whyI find it really important to work with your DM constructing characters, because,I mean, I've played in you and I both Jordaner in a campaign thatruns over Tuesday that I play a warlock in, and my DM is very, very good about specifically connecting what my deity is directly to my character andand frequently bringing them into the narrative and having my actions in relation to thisdeity effect the world, you know, which is really awesome. Yeah,like that's super cool. I mean, the closest I get is possession,again, of course. So then my actions are directly related to said datedAy or being MACs Carlos. Final answer is atheist. Yeah, pretty much. Just that one down enough. I actually I'll say mine. That isn'tone that I play as my character worshiping them, but it's one that Iplayed the deity which is the one possessing your character show. Yes, thatis. That is Bishabah, who is in one of it's one of theofficial pantheons of DD. The exact one escapes me right now, but sheis the goddess of bad luck. HMM, opposite of her sister time Moura,the better known goddess of Good Luck in this world. She's gone.He's a lot of fun. She's kind of seeking everybody worships time or becauseeverybody wants good luck, but nobody ever worships set bishopess. So she's kindof seeking a following and she's she's using you to do that and you're you'repretty happy to just going to go along. Yes, I mean bad luck canbe just as good as good luck. Absolutely make other people have bad luck. It looks like you have good luck, and that's one thing thatI've been experimenting with because you I kind of got a renake about ten episodesago, maybe maybe a little longer. We were talking about giving your playersrewards for role playing and I remember taking the stance up like, wow,would I do that? That's dumb. But I did that for you becauseyou you've played this really well and you accepted the possession by this deity.So you now have this ability that, because she's the goddess of bad luck, you can now impose disadvantage. Is that correct? Yes, at will, kind of like a reverse luck point MM, which is awesome. Onand yeah, I've had a lot of fun playing, playing that and seeingit's weird to play a God. It's one thing to play as a characterwho worships to goad or who is like as a close relationship to a God. Weird to play a God. Yeah, you've played a couple in that campaignnow, because you've done as Modius as well. That's well, you'vegot this is a strong word for I guess they you know, leader ofthe nine hells. But yeah, let's let's take a look at what thesociety said on our instagram. Good friend to get up to power plant.I responded with the Raven Queen being his favorites. Oh yeah, that's that. Having an impartial arbiter of death can make cool narratives strong agree. II'm using her in wild bount actually, AH, her back stories like thatI've I've seen. I looked it up online just to like get an ideaas to what it is. It's awesome. I mean there's a bunch of differentones, I guess. Like there's the one where she was immortal andlike basically took over the position from the previous God of death or became aGod and and just was the only one who could ever do that. Herwhole like stick, I guess, is like finding memories or getting memories fromother people and kind of like using them as her power, which I thinkis really cool. At least in my campaign, that's kind of where she'sgoing. It's really cool. I like it, I love it. It'ssweet. That's it death. But yeah, that's interesting that you run her inwild bound because, as Carlos and I both know, but I don'tthink you do. She plays a huge, huge part in the critical role,HMM, course, and in that specific narrative that they tell. Takinga look over at our discord are we have an answer from long time memberhext, who says for cleric's or just...
...the general populace of worshippers, theytend to stick to forgotten realm deities, but mostly out of familiarity. Ifthey're doing warlocks, cultists or really unique and PC's, they try to dosome kind of a strange homebrew hybrid that's based in world religions. So theytend to take from things that are actually worshiped in our society or were worshipedat some point in world history and was off into d d versions, whichis cool because a lot of pantheons are already recognized as official pantheons or theGreek I think. Well, so I'm curious to see what this this friendof ours, is doing for other gods that he's having to adapt. I'mcurious. Yeah, taking a look over at our twitter, at apparel RPGSAS mainly any God that shows up when the party is at its highest,like todd the God of Reeves. I dig it. Parties, that ishigh are we talkuing. Charriculo, is what you make it. Man,part of Party, is what you wanted to be. But I can digthat. Everybody, everybody is to play their God so seriously and everybody tabletends to play like their devotion to these guy do. It's Jordan not seeingyou do it's the mean. The interactions with the shabbare kind of goofy sometimes, but yeah, the devotion is pretty real. So I'd like to seesomebody that just plays a got like like dionysis or Bacchus, where they're justalready God and their whole vibe is just like they're trying to party all thetime. That would be cool, HMM. I'd like to see that in thegame. At our final final entry here comes from at Jay's cave.They said their favorite was a homebrew daily that they have called brew care orBrew Care, I'm not sure how it pronounced. A fire goddess who resemblesa panther to back see. Her circles are fire and also closely related todeath and funeral rates, with the idea being she's a fire goddess and sheembodies the idea of destruction and rebirth through fire and she's worshiped by all kindsof passionate types people. Basically, I it's fire in the literal sense,but it seems like the worshippers in the worships of this goddess is fire inthe really abstract sense, which is cool. Give me a bit of a Phoenixe vibe. Yeah, yeah, for sure, because a lot ofpeople like I mean, if you're playing day of Hephastus, you're probably goingto be really mechanically incline. HMM, it's got at the for it's areally literal interpretation of that or side and you're probably going to be a sailorof some kind or some kind of a close tie to the seat, likesuper literal interpretations of what these Gods Represent. But I like that this this kindof a skeews that and goes to words like fire as passioned and fireas MMM, rebirth and destruction. I like that. I like that alot. Yeah, theming it rather than like a super literal interpretation. HMM. But yeah, that's that does it for this week's talk of the town. Listeners, keep an eye out. We post these questions every single weekso that we can talk about them the following week. So keep an eyeout on our twitter, our discord, our instagram. We would love tohear from you about that and anything that we've discussed in here. especially.Thrown it back to our first segment. Are we wrong about anything that wetalked about those systems? Please tell us for wrong tell us if we shouldjust turn this into a fiasco podcast, because I'm already halfway there. I'mreforming domain names and everything. We're doing it. But yeah, keep aneye out for new stuff coming from us, new episodes of triple advantage every Mondayand we'll see you next time.
Season 3, Episode 44 · 7 months ago
Ep. 66 - An Astonishing Amount Of Releases
On this week's episode of Triple Advantage, we dive into a storm of news with the Feywild, Strixhaven, and Exandria Unlimited. Next we complete our journey through the travel section of the Dungeon Master's Guide. Finally, we reminisce with the society about some of our favourite Critical Role moments.
Ep. 65 - The Challenge Continues
This week on Triple Advantage, we check in on our new one-shot writing challenge, argue about underwater encounters, and check out the most shocking moments in our campaigns.
Ep. 64 - The Great Music Challenge
This week on Triple Advantage, we stumble our way into a new one-shot writing challenge, discuss urban dangers mentioned in the DMG, and look at your most intense moments in a campaign.
Ep. 63 - Back To Normal?
On this week's episode of Triple Advantage, we finally see light at the end of the tunnel as we anticipate in home games in the future. Next our divination tells us to fill out maps with settlements and buildings. Finally, we discuss some of the worst in character mistakes we have made to date.


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Edinburgh Zoo has officially unveiled its biggest ever event, The Giant Lanterns of China, featuring hundreds of gigantic lanterns inspired by mythical creatures from Scottish and Chinese folklore and endangered animals across the world.
Scotland's only Chinese lantern festival has returned with a new theme inspired by the Scottish tradition of storytelling, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's (RZSS) wildlife conservation work and the cultural heritage of Sichuan – where the Zoo's resident giant pandas were born.
The enchanting trail around the Zoo was created by 200 specialist artisans from China and took over 100 days to construct. It will feature more than 450 bespoke handmade lanterns constructed with 50,000 metres of fabric and 80,000 LED lights.
Barbara Smith, chief executive at RZSS Edinburgh Zoo, said: "Over 50 nights, Edinburgh Zoo will be transformed into a winter wonderland of myths and legends brought to life through hundreds of colossal Chinese lanterns. This year's event is bigger and better than ever and visitors will come face to face with herds of unicorns, kelpies, a sleeping dragon and Nessie the Loch Ness Monster."
"Each installation tells a story from Scottish legends and Chinese mythology as well as the crucial conservation projects we undertake with our partners to help preserve the world's most vulnerable species. "The event is a chance for us to illuminate the critical conservation work of RZSS to protect endangered animals and the real risk of them becoming myths and legends for future generations."
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Wall Street is a major player in this year's elections.
Wall Street is on track to spend more on this election than it ever has during a campaign season.
With two months to go before Nov. 6, Wall Street firms have so far spent $164 million on campaigns and donations to political groups designed to influence the elections, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That puts the industry on pace to surpass the spending record of $170 million that it set during the 2008 race.
The presidential and congressional elections are expected to be the most expensive on record. The Center expects the final tab to hit $2.5 billion, most of which will be spent on television advertising, campaign infrastructure and staff as well as logistical efforts to help voters get to the polls.
Securities and investment firms are one of the biggest powerhouses aiming to influence the elections, according the Center. Individuals from Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs (GS), Bain Capital and Blackstone Group (BX) have contributed millions of dollars directly to campaigns and through political groups.
"We're going to see a lot more [money] from the securities and investment firms going to both members of Congress and presidential candidates," said Bill Allison, editorial director for the Sunlight Foundation, another watchdog group that tracks political influence.
Related: How much should the rich pay in taxes?
Included in that $164 million is some $50 million which has flowed from the hands of several high-profile hedge fund managers to so-called super PACs, secretive groups that can raise unlimited amounts of cash. More than $40 million of those super PAC dollars went to conservative groups, including some that support Romney.
Donors who have contributed at least a million dollars to super PACs include: John Paulson of Paulson & Co., Robert Mercer of Renaissance Technologies Corp., Julian Robertson of Tiger Management and Paul Singer of Elliott Management.
The fact that Romney is so popular on Wall Street is no surprise, considering his long career in finance, which included creating Bain Capital in 1984. Romney has raised $11.4 million directly from Wall Street donors, according to the Center.
But, Wall Street hasn't entirely forgotten Obama, even though he once criticized Wall Street "fat cats" early in his presidency. Wall Street donors have so far contributed $4.1 million to his efforts to stay in the White House, according to the Center.
Many in the industry are interested in easing or rolling back parts of the 2010 Dodd-Frank reforms that added a new layer of regulation to financial markets, Allison said. But Wall Street is also concerned about the eurozone, taxes and the economy.
"They're trying to engender the good will of politicians, and they want someone in the White House who understands their issues," Allison said.
While Wall Street may be a favorite on the fundraising circuit, it's become a political punching bag on campaign television commercials for both parties, according to Kantar Media's Campaign Media Analysis Group, which tracks such ads.
Kantar's Elizabeth Wilner said Wall Street is the "bogeyman" of this year's election cycle, just as Big Oil had been during the 2010 election, in the wake of the BP oil spill. She said the green Wall Street sign and the famous golden bull in front of the New York Stock Exchange have become all too common in congressional political ads, as legislators look to blame each other for the economy's current woes.
By contrast, Wilner said, both presidential campaigns have been mostly silent about Wall Street.
"Despite everything we saw from Obama's populist campaign, he goes to New York every once in a while to try and raise money from (Wall Street). So he's not attacking them," Wilner said.
-- CNN's Ali Velshi contributed to this report.


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Q: Angular JS spawn ng-switch with ng-repeat As the Angular's documentation says

the attribute values to match against cannot be expressions. They are
  interpreted as literal string values to match against.

But what if I wanna spawn all the markup blocks (say, some divs with nested content) I may need with ng-repeat, fill it with specific for each of them content and set ng-switch-when of each of them to value of some variable, say, some id field of the object that depicts certain markup block. AFAIK things like ng-switch-when="{{data.id}}" won't work. How can I reach the goal? Is it possible at all with ng-switch or, maybe, there's no such way and I have to use ng-if or something?
As it was asked in the comment I'll try to illustrate what I mean. The thing I'm talking about should look like something like this:
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{{item.content}}

js:
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The Power of the Sun
November 30, 2013 November 16, 2014 / wrightsolution	/ 2 Comments
The part I really love about my new job is the opportunity to meet with Nepalis and see new and exciting developments in the country. Alternative energy has great development potential in a country with many sunny days and plenty of raging rivers. I had no idea that there was a eco-school near Kathmandu, Vajra Academy, that runs solar cookers for the kids from an elaborate solar system on the roof. They also have an organic garden as a real source of their food, recycling programs, a couple of dairy cows, and an academic and practical sustainability program built into their curriculum.
Viewing the solar panels up on the roof
They demonstrated to me how the discs turn with the sun each day. The center raised pipework is a rainwater harvesting system.
I wish I had longer to view all the other initiatives at the school. But I was there to pick up a three-man eco-rock band from New York, who had been sponsored by the academy during their first solar trek in Nepal. I was taking them to meet the kids at a couple of Kathmandu schools where they could play music, demonstrate portable solar energy devices and share the potential of a solar powered future in Nepal.
Warming up the kids at the start of the show
Solar Punch, playing a message of alternative energy in Nepal
Showing the kids how the power of the sun can start a fire
It took them a little while to warm up, but once the band played a Nepali folk song, everyone knew the words and the kids started to dance. That was the best part for me!
After the performance, we were given front row seats to watch the school put on a small cultural dance
A pretty Nepali cultural dance from a couple of the older students
Nepal has a lot of environmental challenges. Its easy to see the problems: pollution, deforestation, garbage, litter, water pollution… But this was a sincere attempt to touch a nerve with Nepal's future generation. Hopefully, everyone took away a little taste of the country's potential for clean, renewable energy. And, hopefully, somewhere in the audiences that day, were one of two individuals who would grow up take a lead in the environmental solutions that this country so desperately needs. A fun and meaningful day!
Power Mad!
November 29, 2013 June 26, 2014 / wrightsolution	/ 6 Comments
Some days when I go to plug something in you can hear some pretty choice four letter words ring through the house! Yet again, someone has removed the only adapter that will run my laptop/hairdryer/whatever from the chosen socket. I keep buying more….but there's never, ever enough! All I want to do is dry my hair and I have to go through an IQ test of adapter puzzle pieces and there's always one missing!
Basically here's the problem:
Small version of round three pin socket.
Here in Nepal we have our own, very original, socket design. No, that's not a British pin configuration….the holes are round. To add to this… the Nepali sockets come in two sizes: small and large. I guarantee that no plug adapter that you own comes with a round three-pin choice. I know ours doesn't. No problem. You can buy them on the local market.
Large version of same. They look pretty similar, don't they?
Of course we make the Nepalese power socket confusion a lot worse by adding our own variety of world plugs into the mix:
That's a Greek plug on the left, a British plug in the middle, and an American two prong plug on the right. How to get a these square plugs into round holes?!
This is the required adapter. Don't forget….you need them for both the large size sockets and the small size ones that are randomly dispersed around the house. If you like puzzles you can figure out how the various different style plugs fit in. We have them all!
We won't even get into the necessary colour-coding required not to blow up our 110v devices in 220v power sockets:
Red is 220v. Green is 110v. All power here is 220v, but the Embassy supplies step down voltage adapters so you can run your US equipment off the local power supply. Just plug it in right!
So let's take the example of this very laptop which is — fortunately– dual voltage so you can forget about the need for orange or green tags. Much more relevant here is that the laptop has an American three-prong grounded plug. THE worst offender of the bunch. Of course from a safety point of view that isn't true….but from a "how the f**k am I going to plug this in?" perspective…its a nightmare. Let me explain:
This is what it takes to plug in my laptop in some locations: Converter from 3-pin round Nepali to two-pin American, plus a second converter to three pin. Oh…and make sure you have the right size Nepali converter before you run all the way upstairs again…. Oh and the housing for the Nepali to US 2-pin isn't very tight. One yank and it sparks or falls out.
To date, I have only managed to fry one device: a 110v Cuisinart mini-blender with no green tag that met its demise in a 220v socket only days after Amazon delivered it. (Gotta have the tag!) But I was recently talking about kitchen appliances with FS friends where we were agreed that buying cheap appliances is a waste of money. They don't work well and break in five minutes. But when you invest hundreds of dollars in a quality blender that will last forever, you need to remember that "forever" may come sooner than you think if someone (most vulnerably household help) absentmindedly plugs the darn thing in the wrong hole. Of course, the odds go down here in Nepal because someone has already taken the friggin' adapter anyway!
November 25, 2013 December 10, 2013 / wrightsolution	/ 2 Comments
Sometimes I think that if you blindfolded me and put me in a Star Trek transporter to an unknown natural destination, deprived of giveaway clues like language, I could still tell which country I was in my the smells and sights of nature around me. Certain smells like mandarin oranges remind me of childhood Christmases, smells can be so evocative or time and space and memory.
For me the smell of newly cut grass, marigolds, annual flowerbeds and roses are the England I knew when I was growing up. Here is Nepal all of these are everywhere, looking very English and completely foreign all at the same time as they mix in with some very Nepali surroundings.
In fact if was dropped blindfolded in a Nepali garden, I might have a really hard time figuring out where I was at all. Its all here…everything…from so many different places I have lived:
Salvias…very English
Zinnias….very English
Busy lizzies and marigolds…to name a few..
And yet the Himalayas and Hertfordshire are not the only mix I see. Let me explain about the Greek contingent going here too:
There's no shortage of cacti like this classic paddle cactus that's so common growing wild on the Greek mountainsides
…And there's plenty of large trumpet-like flowers which I've seen all over the Med…but I don't know their name…
…and most strikingly, there's bougainvillea everywhere. Sometime growing colorfully up a pergola – just like in Greece – except that in the background you can see snowy mountain peaks. Bougainvillea and snow in the same frame is hard to believe.
And before you think that Nepalese gardens are very European…let me shake it up a bit by introducing The Philippines into the mix:
Papaya….
….palm trees…
..and ancient Banyan-like, gnarly trees
And finally, just for good measure, a little North American Fall and Christmas….
Is there anything that DOESN'T grow here ?!!
Review of Fishtail Lodge, Pokhara
November 24, 2013 / wrightsolution	/ Leave a comment
The attractive landscaped surroundings of Fishtail Lodge
One in a very occasional series of hotel/resort reviews…
I thought our stay at Fishtail Lodge was worth writing about because it seemed unusual in a world of hotels that largely don't care so much, filled with employees who are just doing their job, Fishtail was different in that it actually seemed to respect itself. When you enter the reception there's a big board on the left showing dozens of famous dignitaries, royalties and international stars that have stayed there. Its quite a dazzling display. Although I didn't recognize many of the Indian dignitaries, many I did know: George Harrison, Prince Charles, Jimmy Carter…to name but a few. Nowadays it may not be their first choice. There are other newer, probably fancier resorts, but for somewhere more than fifty years old, it was in pretty good condition. The landscaping and flowers are beautifully cared for, and the hotel buildings are well maintained. The rooms weren't fancy and had their problems – our shower head was busted and the phone wiring was iffy – but room maintenance came to fix it and because everything else in the room was ok we forgave them. I think largely why I liked was because it delivered what I wanted, a comfortable space, a great view, somewhere to read and privacy. And it was the last advantage -privacy – that really helped justify the price. There are plenty of places to stay in Pokhara that are a lot cheaper. And there are other fancier places that cost the same or more. But I liked that the place had a staff culture and a sense of self, it made me feel comfortable.
Each room with its own little terrace
The room design was interesting. Large circular buildings were cut into twelve slices of "pie", each slice being a room, with the slender tip of the wedge being the bathroom in each unit. Air conditioning and plumbing etc. were centralized in the center of the pie, which is a practical way to take care of maintenance.
We ended up in room 17, one of their heritage rooms, that had prime views over the lake and mountains (if you are lucky enough to be there at the right time, of course.) We were also in good company and the plaques outside told us that Prince Charles and Jimmy Carter had both stayed in our very same room — but not at the same time, of course…..( that would just be weird! )I don't think it was really the same bed 30 years down the road, but it was a first for me none the less!
Lastly one of its unique features was how the resort was set on opposite side of the lake, very much "on it" in a beautiful, natural setting. Yet it was only a short peaceful ride over on a small floating pontoon to the town on the opposite bank. It gave the Fishtail the advantage of quiet and privacy, but with easy access to the town's shopping and restaurants. A nice touch. We spent four days which was just about right. I liked Fishtail very much.
Sarangkot: First Glimpses of the Himalayas
November 19, 2013 / wrightsolution	/ 6 Comments
I was warned before I arrived here. Seeing the mountains in Kathmandu isn't a daily occurrence. The monsoons, mist, fog and pollution all play their part in keeping the giants hidden from us valley dwellers. But I was also told that the early part of Winter (now), after the monsoons, is the best viewing season– before the pollution levels rise with the increased emissions that the cold weather brings. That was the rhetoric. The reality has been quite a bit different: Nothing. Nada. Zip. Not a snowy peak. Not even a suggestion of one. Certainly nothing like a majestic Himalayan view to frame the backdrop to my day. I was starting to joke that the whole Himalayan experience was an elaborate hoax. How could something be so big and yet so elusive?
Even our journey to Pokhara was unable to deliver on the promise, even though it is the is the gateway to the Annapurnas and the Pokhara guidebooks are full of tantalizing photographs of crisp blues skies and rugged perfect peaks just sitting as an indisputable, omnipresent backdrop to the town. For us, the Annapurnas remained stubbornly absent during our entire stay. We would never have seen one glimpse if we hadn't made the decision to take an early morning side trip to Sarangkot.
Sarangkot is a popular viewing destination as it is an a higher elevation than Pokhara. Above the bowl of the town and lake, the odds improve that you can grab a view of Machapuchare (or Fishtail) and the row of Annapurna mountains that are unimaginatively named Annapurna 1, Annapurna 2….3 and 4.
Everyone wants to take you up to Sarangkot at dawn to see the sun rise over the mountains, and the early morning offers the best odds of a clear view. Dawn required something like a 5.15am departure and Robert didn't want to do it. He also didn't want to do it with a crowd of bus tours, so we decided that we didn't need to see the sunrise but would go just a bit later in hopes the crowds had left.
We arrived just as the last of the bus tours departed. Their giant buses were parked along the roadside and our taxi had to squeeze past them as we drove up; the narrow mountain roads certainly weren't made for tourist buses. We walked up the dirt track to a viewing platform and climbed the stairs to the flat, empty rooftop. It was covered with plastic chairs and we were the only ones there. I sat and drank hot ginger tea and looked out at the mist. No mountains, only mist. It didn't look very promising. The waiter told us that there had be no visible mountain sunrise that morning and everyone had gone home empty-handed.
Sarangkot viewing platform
Only birds and the occasional small plane broke the monotony of the mist…
And then it happened….very slowly. The barest outline of a corner, of a peak, started to appear. Then a little more, and a little more, until a whole peak was revealed. Very, very slowly over the next 30 minutes, like a giant curtain being pulled back, the range came into view. There they were…not a hoax after all!
Not the best picture ever taken of the Annapurnas…but one patiently waited for. I hope to have a clearer view one day. But, for now, I take this one!
Sign Language: Nepali Elections
For the last month or two, Kathmandu has been strewn from one end to the other with election posters from the ranks of its 100+ parties running for election on November 19. Usually, I steer away from political topics on this blog, but its hard to ignore politics these days. The posters are particularly poignant for me. As someone who can remember the Eastern bloc, the days of Soviet Communism, and Mao as leader in China, its a very weird "blast from the past" to see the hammer and sickle plastered around the city. Yet in Kathmandu, the Maoists are a force to be reckoned with here. A 33-party alliance of Maoists have tried to hold the city to ransom for the last 10 days with a transportation strike to disrupt the elections, and it has been a nuisance at best for those of trying to get things done. The strike was only partially effective for the first day, after which it was downgraded to a night-time transportation strike so no-one could safely drive around at night. This morning, the day before the election, ironically the streets were quieter than during the strike because most citizens have left to return to their home place to vote.
Effective or not, the strikes have created some real violence in places, and it is probably not over yet. Tomorrow is the actual election day and, again, the streets will eerily be bus, car, bicycle and motorbike free. Except this time it is a government-mandated transportation ban designed to avoid illegal busing of voters in a fledgling democracy. Tomorrow we are walking to work.
The upside is the city is silent, the skies are clearing and the Kathmandu's beautiful mountains are visible again in the distance.
This is my favourite poster based on the design. (I can't read Nepali – yet.) Driving past I swore it was Mao himself because of the pose. Someone needs to explain to me the significance of the traditional drum.
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for Nepal.
Pokhara: Peaceful Lake Life
A misty early morning start. The massive Annapurna range is in the background, but you would never know it.
Nepal is a landlocked country and after coming from the Philippines with its 7000+ islands, it slowly dawned on us that we hadn't see a stretch of water for quite a while. Pokhara has the country's second largest lake, and the idea of being back on water again was very appealing.
There's a small tourist industry here, built around the Annapurna trail which starts in Pokhara. On the perfect day with no wind and clear skies, apparently you can see the Annapurnas reflected in the lake, but we weren't that lucky. We arrived to a downpour of rain. Subsequent days were dry and sunny, but the Annapurnas remained obscured in mist for our whole stay. Fortunately the lake was there and beckoned us forth.
We stayed at a lakeside resort and it was an easy (and lazy) option to hire a boatman to take us across the lake to the trailhead up to the Peace Pagoda on the first morning of our stay. The lake sits in the middle of the town and its an easy paddle out to its center to enjoy the calm of the waters. There are no motorized vehicles and not much traffic. You can sit still and just hear birds and lapping of the paddle. Its very peaceful.
Heading out from the lake's sound bank
The town lies on one bank and the jungle lies on the opposite side. We skirted the green edges of the lake, past fishing nets and allsorts of aqueous plants (or weeds, maybe?). Daily life of laundry, fishing, and tourist activities went on around, but it never felt crowded or spoiled.
The quiet, green side of the lake
Getting an early morning load of laundry in
It was also a national holiday, and boat loads of visitors from the town were visiting the small temple island in the middle of the lake. For this reason we kept rowing past and didn't stop to take a look.
Locals being ferried back and forth to the temple on the lake's small island
Our destination was the trailhead for the Pagoda Peace Temple trail, which was at a small lakeside restaurant called "Typical Restaurant". I decided this was meant to mean "typical" in the traditional sense, although the geese didn't seem to care one way or another.
Watching the geese run riot
Robert deciding whether the place is typical or not….
Colourful boats on Phewa's shore
We made friends with a local who told us stories of the lake that he remembered as a child – a larger, less polluted lake that they would swim in as kids. But its still pretty clean compared to Kathmandu, and the water still looks reasonably clean. He tells me that there are environmental groups working to keep the lake alive, which I am sure is an uphill battle, but I'm glad to hear someone is working to protect it before it is too late.
Tihar in Pokhara
November 9, 2013 November 10, 2013 / wrightsolution	/ Leave a comment
Tihar Festival
Tihar, also known as the festival of lights, is celebrated throughout Nepal. We chose to spend the four day break in the mountain town of Pokhara, which is about a 5 hour drive or a short 25-minute airplane ride from Kathmandu. (We chose to fly, but as it turned out driving would have been much quicker. But C'est la vie! we made it finally, despite the weather.) The festival began a few days before our departure with the Day of the Crow, where offerings of food, coins, oil-wick lamps and incense in are set out in their honour. Unfortunately, I didn't get to see this for myself, but our driver filled me in on the details. He also explained that the second day is the Day of the Dogs, when they are anointed with the red tika, adorned with garlands and fed well, whether they are stray or pets. This I did see and it was adorable. Dogs were running around the city with little red dots on their foreheads and strings of marigolds around their necks. Unfortunately, it was a work day and I was not in camera-mode. But here is a sample from the interwebs…he doesn't seem too pleased about it:
The third day is the most important one in Tihar. In the morning, cows are also given tikas and garlands, and doused with yellow and red powder. People touch the cow's body with their heads, bow down to its feet, and even crawl between its legs on all fours, for the purpose of humbly asking for assistance and guidance for their souls when they leave this world. On the evening of this day, after the homes have been well scrubbed and cleansed with red mud and cow dung, each one is embellished with tiny oil lamps, and candles. From this comes the meaning of the pretty light festival, which also happened to be the second day of our arrival in Pokhara. That evening we watched shopkeepers lay down a line of tiny lights around their stores and a pathway was painted on the ground leading inside. I later learned that the pathways marked by the lamps and the footprints (or painted pathways) made from rice flour paste are to show the goddess Laksmi the way to the family's treasured possessions.
The fifth and final day is Bhai Tika, when sisters worship their brothers by making holy circles of water and oil around them and by feeding them specially prepared foods, and sweets. The brothers in return give their sisters presents. If a boy has no sister, then a close female relative may perform the ceremony.
I also witnessed another tradition that no-one has explained to me yet, and perhaps it was only local to Pokhara: street dancing. We went for a hike in the morning on the first day and saw groups of singing and dancing kids along the hiking trail up to the peace pagoda. The next morning a few dancers performed outside the stores in front of the Lakeside stores.
Early Tihar dancers getting into their act, near the Peace Pagoda, Pohkara
On the second day, it became clear that this is what everyone was doing, and it was quite a sophisticated affair. All down the main tourist shopping area of Lakeside, and in the main town away from the tourists, small dancing troupes were singing to shopkeepers. We saw traditional dancing groups, modern Bollywood productions and even the Gang-um Style horse dance. That evening, they kicked it further up a notch. In the darkness they had brought more candles and electric light displays, speakers, microphones and full-scale productions. The audiences were always passersby, gathered in a circle around the act in front of each store. You could spot them from a distance away. These performances were not one dance wonders, but well-rehearsed, multiple acts with musicians. After dinner from our hotel on the other side of the lake, the town was lit up with lights, music and dancing that went on until well past my bed time.
Rangoli, rice flour design at a Tihar offering
Kathmandu Domestic Sojourn
November 8, 2013 October 26, 2014 / wrightsolution	/ 2 Comments
Rather unbelievably, this is the domestic terminal in Kathmandu. I don't know what I expected before we pulled up for the first time. I certainly wasn't anticipating a small, clean modern place, but nor was I expecting this. When we arrived in Tribhuvan International Airport back in late August. I pretty much got what I expected. It was small, old and rough around the edges, but not a surprise in one of the world's poorest countries. The domestic terminal was a different story.
It was hard to believe that every trekker's flight out of the city starts here. My first impression was certainly made worse by the construction for what I am guessing is a parking area in front of the terminal. Word is there are plans to build a new terminal at some point in the near future, but who knows when…in the mean time this is the gateway to the mountains.
All of the poured cement rectangles (for the new car park?) were being dug out and leveled by hand using a spade and wheelbarrow. Passengers took shortcuts past the mounds of dirt.
We arrived on the first cool, crispy morning of the year. My light jacket wasn't doing enough, my sock-less feet were starting to feel the cold, and I could see my breath for the first time in three years. We negotiated our way into the terminal past the many obstacles and security blocks only to find that our destination, Pokhara , was currently closed due to bad weather and our flight was delayed at best. The terminal was crowded confusion and, with no working monitors, it made more sense to stay outside and wait where there was at least some seating available.
Waiting to hear if our flight was even going to take off today…
To cut a long story short, we waited over six hours in there. One hour outside, and five hours on the other side of security in a large room that felt like an old bus station. As rough as it was, it was also a marvel to see just how many flights they handled with just two gates and a handful of buses. It was relatively organized, and we were handled with courtesy by the airline staff. No one appeared to be misbehaving or having a meltdown because they had the wrong seat number. Finally, to everyone's credit, Pokhara airport opened, they caught up with the backlog of flights and we took off for a four day break in the mountains. Hopefully they really will do something about the domestic terminal soon. The Nepali tourist industry, the Nepali people and the rest of us deserve better!
Monkeys added to the confusion…and to the surprise…as monkeys tend to do
Yup. That's the baggage claim
Blazing Arizona ….
November 1, 2013 / wrightsolution	/ Leave a comment
The fabulous rock formations that form the backdrop to Saguaro Lake Resort
Far away from my usual habit of posting chronologically, I've been meaning to add a hiking trip to this blog that I did with friends over three years ago now in April 2010. It was after Carla and my big 2009 adventure on the Coast to Coast trail when I first starting blogging. It was the next natural next hiking adventure to add. However, it got buried in the many events of 2010 (including the great new Foreign Service adventure) and it never made it on to electronic paper. So, to take a giant dusty leap from the chaos of Kathmandu to the heat of Arizona, here's a small restropective of our day in the Arizona cactus forest.
In Phoenix for an annual conference, Carla, Michelle, Gretchen and I preplanned the best route to hike in the area in just one day…all we could manage before the start of the event. Most trails we found were "there and back" trails where you could hike to a destination and then turn around and retrace your steps. We really didn't want to do this and searched around for a hiking loop that would put us back where we started but not repeat the same scenery. However, "there and back trails" have their place in the desert as we later learned.
I insisted in staying somewhere "Arizonian" rather than a motel on the highway somewhere, before we switched to our large hotel chain accommodation for the conference. So we spent two night at the Saguaro Lake Ranch, a dude ranch, with great views of the mountains. It was clean, basic and friendly and I enjoyed experiencing where we were. I hope that, despite the bugs, everyone else felt the same.
Saguaro resort cottages
It may have been rustic, but it was unmistakably Arizona, and we were sleeping next to the dramatic scenery of the Usery Mountain trail, our planned 7 mile loop for the day. The next morning a good breakfast was to set us up well, but I knew as we enjoyed the luxury of a second coffee cup, that their earliest breakfast service started way too late, and sure enough we didn't hit the trail until after 9am when the it was probably already 80+ degrees Fahrenheit in the shade.
start of the trail
The trail started among pretty desert scrub and more cacti than I had ever seen in one place. Our packs were filled with almost nothing but water. 2 litres per hour had been the recommendation, which seemed excessive at the time. But we listened and filled our packs with giant gallon jugs. The climb was slow and easy, but the heat soon made everything much, much harder. It was a lot harder to cover a mile in 100 degree heat than in the coolness of the English countryside.
Into the cactus forest
From the higher levels the views were wonderful. But boy was it hot! And we drank vast quantities of water as they warned we would.
Taking a photo break
Someone's not so subtle attempt at a directional sign
None of these photos convey the heat. But blazing hot and 100 degrees+ in the sun
We stopped frequently to rest and grabbed shade whenever we could. Around early afternoon we took a wrong turn and wasted an hour doing an unplanned loop back up to the trail that we lost. That wasted energy, water and emotional reserves, but thankfully a French couple were heading home to their car and left us the rest of their water. We'd have made it back without the extra, but it made a great psychological difference and was just the boost we need for the last section ahead.
As I stumbled on through the heat, I decided that "there and back paths" existed for a reason in the desert, offering you the opportunity to turn around at any given point knowing how much time and energy there was left to commit. With loops you just had to keep going into the unknown.
Enjoying the slow climb before the going got too hot
It turned out that the last part of the walk was probably the easiest. A gentle downward or level path in a relatively straight line, that eventually took us back to the car park where we started. But I see this only in hindsight as that last stretch felt like it nearly killed me. I am just not a hot weather hiker, and I wasn't to feel that kind of intense, brain-boiling heat again until Pinatubo or Pico de Loro in the Philippines.
Thank you ladies for sharing the adventure with me. We never got to blaze Oregon together the following year, but if you want a renunion in the the cooler Himalayas…let me know!
Hiking girls – off the trail


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What Are the Implications of Using LIFO and FIFO Inventory Methods?
By Neil Kokemuller
LIFO Cost Method
Beginning Work-in-Process Inventory
Step-by-Step LIFO Method of Perpetual Inventory Systems
Merchandiser Inventory Types
FIFO & LIFO Problems in Inventory Accounting
Last-in, first-out (LIFO) and first-in, first-out (FIFO) are two common inventory valuation methods used by companies in accounting. Inventory valuation is the process of assigning value to materials, works-in-progress and finished goods on financial reporting statements. Companies have to select one approach in accounting for inventory and each has inherent pros and cons.
LIFO Basics
A last-in, first-out inventory accounting approach means that when cost of goods sold is recorded on period income statements, accountants record costs of the most recently acquired materials or goods first. Assume a reseller buys five widgets at the start of a month at $2 and five more at the end of the month at $3. Three widgets are sold during the month at $5. Under LIFO, the three widgets sold are costed at $3 since that is the cost of the last received inventory.
LIFO Benefits
A main implication of using LIFO is that it always produces the highest profit, assuming normal inflationary conditions. By using more recent inventory in valuation, your cost basis is higher on current income statements. This reduces gross profit and ultimately net income. This is the implication of LIFO and many companies prefer LIFO because lower profit reporting means a reduced tax burden.
FIFO Basics
First-in, first-out means you are accounting for the first inventory received first when items are used or sold. In the previous example in which three widgets are sold and accounted for, with FIFO, the cost of goods sold is $2 for each of the three units, for a total of $6, versus $9 under LIFO. FIFO assumes that the first items used or sold are the first items received into inventory, though physical receipt of inventory does not have to flow in that way.
FIFO Benefits
Some accountants are willing to take on higher profits and higher taxes during inflationary periods with FIFO to hedge against unusual periods of deflation that could mean higher profits and higher taxes. FIFO makes more sense when sizes and costs of units are higher, according to the Accounting for Management website. Some companies also prefer to use FIFO simply because it is a more orderly way to account for inventory when first-received items are counted as the first used or sold.
AccountingCoach; Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold: Part 3; Harold Averkamp
Accounting for Management: First In First Out (FIFO) - Materials and Inventory Costing Method
Time; Retail Trade: LIFO v. FIFO; Feb. 18, 1957
Neil Kokemuller has been an active business, finance and education writer and content media website developer since 2007. He has been a college marketing professor since 2004. Kokemuller has additional professional experience in marketing, retail and small business. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Iowa State University.
What Is the Meaning of LIFO & FIFO?
Describe the Differences Between the FIFO and LIFO Methods of Inventory
What Is In-Process Inventory?
The Impact on Financial Statements When Switching to LIFO From FIFO
Accounting Basics for Inventory
Inventory Costing Methods Accounting Under a Perpetual Inventory System
The Advantage of the FIFO Inventory Method
What Are the Two Most Widely Used Methods for Determining the Cost of Inventory?
The Advantages of FIFO & LIFO Averages
1 What Is the Meaning of LIFO & FIFO?
2 Describe the Differences Between the FIFO and LIFO Methods of Inventory
3 What Is In-Process Inventory?
4 The Impact on Financial Statements When Switching to LIFO From FIFO


COLLINGWOOD, ON – Three years after launching as a contract brewer, Black Bellows Brewing has announced plans to open a physical location later this year.
Construction is currently underway on a building in downtown Collingwood that was erected in the 1860s as a blacksmith shop, providing a fitting connection to the name of the brewery. The property remained under the ownership of Dey family from its opening, and was most recently home to Dey's Body Shop.
Black Bellows is expected to open in late summer or early fall at 40 Simcoe St. in Collingwood.


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Pilots and Pitches, Sesame Street Episodes, Unfinished Sesame Street
Sponsors D, R, W, 2, 3
Behind the scenes of an Ernie and Bert piece featured in this show.
"There's Something Wrong" (Foot & Car)
Cartoon: "1 2 Erase My Shoe" -- A boy counts to 10 and erases objects.
"Two Song (Song of Two)"
"Three Song (Song of Three)"
Film: Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen kids' voices try to figure out what the constructions will be.
Bob sings "Feelin' Groovy"
Hi-Cam: Ball
Sesame Street Animal Films: Zoo Birds
Sesame Street Animal Films: Lizards (iguanas). Underscore by Joe Raposo.
Jim Henson film: Body Parts vs. Heavy Equipment
Everybody Dance
Cartoon: "The D Commercial:" Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fat. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for dice, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If you dig a dinosaur, drop your duck for a dime."
Cartoon: A small man and his assistant, Dudley, attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D.
Bert and Ernie attempt to fix their television when it keeps repeating the letter "D" over and over again. Once it is fixed, the TV drones "R" again and again.
Susan sings "Dry Bones"
James Earl Jones demonstrates "big" and "bigger."
Film: Sounds in the country and the city.
Magician James Randi demonstrates a rope trick.
Film: A group of kids play follow the leader and go over, around and through various obstacles, but one of them takes a while to catch on.
"Wanda the Witch"
Ernie paints a portrait of the letter "W."
The Man from Alphabet: "Read All About It" (Newspapers)
Buddy and Jim: Umbrellas
Sesame Street Test Show 4 Episode 0001


Anaglyph images are used to provide a stereoscopic 3d effect, when viewed with 2 color glasses (each lens a different color). Images are made up of two color layers, superimposed, but offset with respect to each other to produce a depth effect. Usually the main subject is in the center, while the foreground and background are shifted laterally in opposite directions. The picture contains two differently filtered colored images, one for each eye. When viewed through the "color coded" "anaglyph glasses" , they reveal an integrated stereoscopic image. The visual cortex of the brain fuses this into perception of a three dimensional scene or composition.
Anaglyph image of the protein DHFR (PDB ID 1RX1).
Anaglyph image of the ribosome (PDB IDs 3R8O and 3R8T).


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News: Cathedral Appeal launches its final push
Guildford Cathedral Appeal, which is raising £7m for urgent repairs and development, has reached more than 90% of its target, with a final £500,000 needed.
Last night, 150 valued supporters gathered at the Appeal Benefactor Reception to celebrate this success, including the recent award of a £4.6m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
The Dean, the Very Reverend Dianna Gwilliams thanked supporters for all their hard work and generosity: "We are so very grateful to all those who have given so generously and MADE THEIR MARK. With your support we have been able to achieve so much and, together with the recent news of the HLF grant, are so near to realising our goal."
Guests also heard from Cllr David Elms, Mayor of Guildford and Vice- President of the Appeal, who said: "Guildford Cathedral is a unique and vital community resource that brings people together".
Cllr Elms added: "So many have already responded – because saving the Cathedral matters. At the start of the Cathedral Appeal, I'm sure £7m seemed an enormous challenge. But now, as we stand together, we can celebrate that there is just ½ million left to raise."
Remaining funds are needed for repairs and improvements, such as the overdue restoration of the Cathedral organ. These vital components of the Appeal will enable the Cathedral to serve the community in the twenty-first century through art, music and outreach.
To make a donation visit www.guildfordcathedralmym.com, TEXT MARK02 £10 (or any amount) to 70070, or send donations (payable to Guildford Cathedral) to: Guildford Cathedral, Stag Hill, Guildford GU2 7UP.
To download the full press release, please click here
Added Friday 20th February 2015
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