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Townsfolke Personalities
November 8, 2021 by Uncle Andy · Leave a Comment
Hear ye, hear ye!
Introducing Townsfolke, a series of civilian miniatures appropriate for any medieval fantasy tabletop game!
All models are supplied without bases and print 100% support free. Townsfolke are scaled for standard miniature gaming (30mm scale), and 15mm scale versions are included as well!
This set includes 11 miniatures (Drunkard, Farmer, Hunter, Milkmaid, Minstrel, Oaf, Sailor, Scoundrel, and three varieties of nondescript townspeople).
Filed Under: Build-It-Yourself Kits · Tagged: D&D, dragon, drakenstone, dungeon, dungeons and dragons, pathfinder, role play, RPG, tabletop, terrain
Inner Sanctum, in Black Granite
June 6, 2018 by Uncle Andy · 2 Comments
Here is the Inner Sanctum, cast in Black Granite Resin. This set normally sells for $75. It will be awarded as a prize in the Dungeon Escape tournament at Eye of the Beholder Gaming Guild.
Filed Under: 2.5D Terrain · Tagged: D&D, dungeons and dragons, dwarven forge, miniature, role play, RPG, terrain
DrakenStone Castle Campaign Setting
February 12, 2014 by Uncle Andy · Leave a Comment
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All the adventures listed on this site have been playtested. Some at GatorCon, some at Total Escape Games in Broomfield, CO, some and some at Get Your Game On in Ann Arbor, MI, and others at Eye of the Beholder Gaming Guild in Taylor MI. Read a week-by-week synopsis of the latest adventure on our site just for players…
The premise: this world is criss-crossed with magic teleportation circles. These were created with an ancient, forgotten magic. The true number of circles is unknown. Partial maps have been discovered. Some circles lead to neighboring realms.
Each circle has a unique activation cycle, weather it be a puzzle, trap, or "pre-requisite" to activate. Each circle also has certain rules, such as "only teleports one creature every 5 minutes" or "resets every 24 hours".
DrakenStone Castle:
A great place to start a new campaign. The players start in a city under siege. For three generations, the ancient black dragon Zykquedoss has attacked the castle. Its once gleaming, white marble spires are now blackened and charred from a century of dragon breath. The scorched towers have survived, however, due to an enchantment placed on the stones by the dwarves, elves, and humans who built them.
To create background, the players role-play a scene as a child, when the dragon attacks. And a second scene, as a teen, under yet another dragon attack. And a third scene as a young adult, which sets in motion the intrigue of the rival factions inside the castle.
As the PCs begin the game at level 1, the dragon has disappeared. The council has chosen the group of adventurers to venture forth from DrakenStone castle. Their foremost mission: to discover the fate of the dragon, and if she will return. Secondly, to communicate with other surviving cultures, if there are any. The characters step out of the front gate. Which direction will they travel?
Roll initiative…
Filed Under: Campaigns · Tagged: 5E, D&D, dragon, dungeon, mini, role play, RPG, tabletop, terrain
Catch us at these game conventions…
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Bardicon 2019. August 16-18. 111 N Grand Ave, Lansing MI. We'll be showing off our modular magnetic stackable terrain. https://tabletop.events/conventions/bardicon
GrandCon 2019. August 30 to September 1. DeVos Place 303 Monroe Ave, Grand Rapids MI. Catch our booth at this year's game convention, where we'll show off our magnetic dungeon. Register here: Grand-Con.com
Filed Under: Magic Items · Tagged: conventions, D&D, dungeons and dragons, game, role play, RPG, tabletop
An Empress Betrayed: Introducing Afton
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series An Empress Betrayed
…and now, dear reader, the childhood of Afton the Elven Mage. When she was 8 years old, a band of High Elves came to conscript her father into the Army. Rather than hide in a tree trunk with her mother, Afton jumps out and tries to fight off the brigade single-handedly. The captain of this Elven unit has his eyebrows singed by Afton's child-sized fireball, and is impressed. He decides to conscript her as well.
The Army gathers to fight a huge dragon, a nightmarish beast of both red and black scales. The Army is decimated in minutes, and Afton's magic bounces off the wyrm's skin harmlessly. The dragon's tail swipes through the ancient oaks like tissue paper, and Afton and one other child from her village are buried beneath the timbers. When the smoke clears, Afton and Lagor are the only two survivors.
After living in a Wild Elf village for several years, Afton comes across a gruesome scene in the forest. A human caravan has been destroyed, all of its members slain. All valuables have been picked clean by some unknown thief, but Afton finds a magic wand of unspeakable power among the rubble. Instead of keeping it, she travels to the nearest human town to try to find its rightful owner. She eventually finds him; she gives the wand to Allbright the Ancient, a wizard of enormous power. Impressed by her selflessness, he takes her on as an apprentice. After years of tutelige, he tells her that he's taught her all he can, and encourages her to make her own way in the world. Allbright promises to remain her staunch ally.
As Afton travels to the Sarpadian capital to participate in the tournament, she finds herself in a tavern. Overhearing the local's conversation, she is flabbergasted: she hears the name of her father mentioned! Not only alive, but a famous dragonslayer? Although she did not find his body after the dragon attack all those years ago, she assumed he was dead just like all the rest of the Elves. But these townsfolk speak of him in fear, as they are afraid of his 'dark magic'. After asking for a bit more information from the townies, they begin to get curious. "Why do you want to know?" they ask. Afton elects not to tell anyone her true identity until she can find out more about this "DragonLord"…
Next week: The adventure officially begins, as the party travels to the Forests of Ultair (where the Ambassador was last seen) to gather clues. Ultair is one of the Brother Kingdoms. It used to be one Kingdom, but when the king died, the twin brothers split the land down the middle and created two kingdoms… Comment below and I'll send you the map…
-Uncle Andy
Filed Under: An Empress Betrayed · Tagged: 4E, adventure, D&D, dragon, drakenstone, dungeon, role play
Cage of Thorns: Introduction
October 8, 2013 by Uncle Andy · Leave a Comment
Each foe holds the key to the other's demise…
The wizard blew the dust off the map, then peered over his glasses at the parchment. It was filled with islands, each floating in a nether sea and connected with dark curving lines. His mind raced. "Can there be a pattern to the lines?" he wondered. Just as his finger traced what looked like a hexagon, his hand slid off the end of the map. It was then that he realized it; both ends of the map were torn away. The black lines extended off the page in both directions. Where are the missing pieces? How many Realms of Edeos are there?
The Cage of Thorns: a Realms of Edeos D&D 4E adventure for 3-6 PCs Level 7-10 (Heroic 3 tier) written by "Uncle" Andy Schiller
. Spoiler Alert! If you are playing a character in The Cage of Thorns, DO NOT READ THIS unless you want to spoil all the surprises, and take all the discovery out of your game.
Playtested at Total Escape Games, Broomfield, CO, June-August 2011.
Cartographer: Andy Schiller. Original Edeos Concept by: Josh Robillard and Andy Schiller
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This game can be played in 4 sessions, with each session being 3-4 hours. It is a great way to introduce new party members to each other, and makes an excellent story seed for an ongoing campaign.
This adventure provides a great premise to start a new group, and to introduce the PCs to each other. It also provides a recurring theme that will take Level 1 characters nine more levels to complete.
Each PC spends the night at a different inn. In the morning, they all regain conciousness in a jail cell. Having never met each other, the PCs are forced to form an alliance. "Who teleported us here, and why?". "How do we escape?".
The party finds themselves in the lair of a quartet of ill-tempered outlaws: a disgraced knight, a necromancer, an assassin, and a shadow priest. The 'four foes' have plenty of minion guards. These four evil-doers are capturing unwitting travelers through teleportation as they sleep, and siphoning their essence into a "death gate". When 1,000 souls are captured and stored, the outlaws intend to summon an other-planar being to do their bidding.
Of course, none of the brigands trusts each other. The shadow priest has a magic item that will immobilize the assassin, if the need arises. The assassin has a chisel that negates the wizard's arcane spells, that he keeps hidden. The wizard has an instrument that stuns, then weakens the fighter, in case of confrontation. And the fighter has an item that will blind and silence the shadow priest, that he keeps on him at all times.
If the PCs can learn this, they can use it to their advantage to take on the 'four foes' one at a time.
Inside the cell with the party is a skeleton. A brief search of the corpse reveals a diary. In this book, the deceased adventurer writes about being teleported into this jail cell numerous times, with his comrades. He describes escaping this dungeon by climbing through a pit of sand, and making plans to defeat "the 4 foes". Of course, it doesn't say how, except for some cryptic clues about a glass shattering ritual, and an harmonic hammer. The diary warns against "taking the southern corridor", which resulted in losing his entire party. It also eludes to a giant cage, which he escapes by shrinking to the size of a mouse, and fitting between the bars. He talks about escaping a second time through a labyrinth of blades.
After escaping, he was teleported into the jail cell again. On his third abduction, he escaped the jail cell by playing a ruse on the guards. In his wanderings through the dungeon, he came across a chasm filled with a river of molten lava. It does not say how he crossed it. Across the chasm he stumbled upon a huge, glowing glass cylander. It seemed to radiate dark magic. Perhaps his mind was just playing tricks on him, but the thought he saw the faces of his friends inside the jar.
The PCs can smell food as they sit in the jail cell. However, the guards do not bring the party nourishment. The party has no food, and keeps getting a -2 for each 8 hours spent without eating…
Filed Under: Cage of Thorns · Tagged: d20, dragon, drakenstone, dungeon, edeos, game, pathfinder, role play, RPG, wizard, wizards of the coast, WOTC
An Empress Betrayed: Introducing Valcora
"The companions returned to the Throne Room, victorious in their mission to free the Emissary of Ultair. Her Majesty stood stoically, facing the party with unblinking eyes. Wondering why the Empress was so still, they approached cautiously. Before them was poised a statue in the perfect likeness of Brelia. Her face was frozen in a pleading gaze, her hands raised as if to shield her eyes from a bright light. To their horror, they suddenly realized that in their absence, the Empress had been turned to stone…"
The first meeting of the companions is tonight, in beautiful Longmont, CO. In the group so far, we have three 4E Level 1 characters:
Valcora – a Dragonborn Cavalier, played by Angela
Afton – an Elven Mage, played by Shasta
Delsior – a Satyr Bard, played by Andy
As a child, Valcora disobeyed the direct orders of her parents, and ran into a burning building to save her two brothers. Unfortunately, she could carry only one of them, and had to leave the other behind. Upon exiting the collapsing home, her mother gave her the ring off her finger, saying "No matter what happens, make certain that you bring this ring to Master Simon."
Her mother then ran into the flames to rescue her still trapped son – but neither emerged. To this day, the brother she saved is bitter toward Valcora, as if it was her fault that they lost both a brother and a mother.
Years later, Valcora is in the Young Cavaliers program, learning about military discipline and defending the Empire of Sarpadia. During this time she takes an oath to obey every order she is given by her superiors. One evening, as she is walking past the Royal Alchemist's tent, he commands her to enter. "Drink this!" her orders, handing her a green, frothy potion.
Obeying the order, she drinks it without hesitation. The liquid burns her mouth and throat, as well as the inside of her skull, and the back of her eyes. Lightning shoots upward from the ground, and scars her with a purple streak from the bottom of her right ear, down her throat, and across to her left armpit. She is now spell-scarred for life. Sometimes the purple streak glows with a ghoulish light when she gets angry, or when she is in the midst of battle, but she does her best to hide it beneath her collar…
Later in her teenage years, Valcora is constantly teased by her rival, Xanth. He is a handsome human Cavalier, who pokes fun at her spell-scar and constantly tries to embarrass her. During a parade, she finds herself in several situations where she could push him in to a mud puddle, or embarrass him in a speech at an awards ceremony. She elects to do neither, taking the high road of honoring fellow knights. Upon graduation from the academy, Xanth pulls her aside and commends her on holding back, and a delicate truce is declared between the two as they both attempt to move up the ranks as Knights…
As Valcora takes her first assignment as a knight, her father dies of old age. Being a Knight himself, and having served decades faithfully for the Empire, the Dutchess of the Grey Mountains commissions a statue in his honor, to be built on the burned out ruins of the family home. The land is cleared, but before the project can get started, Valcora decides to take the budget for the project and give it to poor hungry children instead. Cleric Peltanis visits Valcora personally, and thanks her for the donation. It is more money than his charity has seen for three decades! He promises Valcora "If you ever find yourself in need of a favor from the Brotherhood of Light, name it, and I will see that it is yours."
Spirits high, Valcora walks the streets of the capital city as a celebrity. Roses pelt her from every direction, and dirty children and street urchins jostle for a touch of her cape. But the reverie is shattered as she passes her old home where the statue was meant to be – a merchant named Jardan is now building there, having bought the land from the Dutchess for ONE GOLD PIECE! Angered by court politics, she demands to know how her family's land can be sold off for pocket change, but she is dismissed by a wave of Jardan's hand. "Finders keepers, loosers weepers! You should have kept it, you fool! But now its mine and there's nothing you can do about it!" he says with a crooked grin.
DM note: Valcora role-played several non-combat situations as a child, which formed her backstory and personality. Without rolling any dice, we developed a clear picture of her motivations, allies, rivals, incomplete quests, and home city. As a DM, I plan on drawing these out as the story unfolds…
Tune in next week when I introduce Afton, the Elven Mage… Write a comment below to ask about the childhood non-combat encounters (I call them decision points. Remember "Choose Your Own Adventure?)
Filed Under: An Empress Betrayed · Tagged: 4E, adventure, D&D, dragons, drakenstone, dungeons, edeos, empress betrayed, role play


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New video tutorial following on from the aligning text to a shape, this one is How to turn a frame into a solid shape from which you can cutout text from.
New video – How to make a lattice heart frame in Silhouette studio.
I have made a new video tutorial on how to turn a lattice and a heart in heart lattice frame.
I have made two new videos for Silhouette Studio.
The first is how to make a swirl/spiral and then use that to make a filigree component which can then be used for pattern repeat or adding as an embellishment to card making or any other mixed media project.
The second is how to turn that filigree component and make a repeat pattern then add it to an oval frame.
This tutorial shows you how to make a tattered rose in silhouette studio then take it one step further and make the rose embellishment.
How to turn your lattice into a frame in Silhouette studio.
Follow up video to my creating a lattice. This one is making a cutout for the lattice and turning it into a frame. Watch out for a couple of bloopers.
how to make a simple lattice in Silhouette studio.
Where has the year gone. I can't believe that's it 2013 already.
I have been busy designing for Silhouette America. If you want to take a look at what I've been creating then please click on the link.
I am also thrilled that currently one of my designs is No.1 on the popular designs page. Roman clock with gears n cogs http://www.silhouetteonlinestore.com/php/?page=browse-popular-designs.
The weather is dark and grey ATM and we have been threatened with snow. But no sign of it yet. However, I have managed to sneak in two more tangles called 'Ruffles' and 'Soutache'.
You can get the step by step on how to create these patterns on my tangle pages.
I have been a bit quite lately from blogging but not from creating. I now have been accepted as a contributing Artist for Silhouette America. I create designs that are used on electronic cutting machines for personal or commercial use. So I've been busy designing for them, and finally earning some money from all my crafty efforts.
However, I've still managed to keep up with my Tangle pattern designing as I find it a welcome change from sitting in front of a computer all day, staring at the screen and becoming bugged eyed.
The new patterns are called 'Votive' and 'U-Bend'. You can find the step by step guides on my tangle patterns pages.
New Pattern 'Pozi' and exciting news for me.
It's been a while since I have blogged but I have been busy getting to grips with my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine, plus I've been distracted with a new i-Pad.
Two things; one I have a new pattern for you called Pozi and the other is that…sooooo excited. I have been accepted as a contributing artist for Silhouette America for designing and selling Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) cutting files for electronic cutting machines. I love dabbling in patterns and digital imagery so now hopefully will earn a bit of pocket money in something that I love doing. I'll post the link later when they have been put up on their website.
Anyway here's the pattern. Click on the thumbnail for a step by step guide in how to create the pattern, plus you'll find oodles more on my Tangle patterns page.
It's been really lovely having family here for the weekend. One daughter on a visit from Uni and my husband's parents. Generally the house is so quite, it was nice to hear it sounding vibrant again. When you have guests you don't stop feeding. cleaning, tidying up after them but I did managed to get out the two tangles as promised. These were done in the early hours of the morning while my visitors were tucked up in their beds. Plus I got to play with my super new cutting machine, not for long though as the dog had to be taken to the vets. Poor thing is getting on and is becoming incontinent. So I have been non-stop washing of pet bedding and floors (Yuk!).
These are the results of my playing about.
The flowers are the images I used from the Tonic flower pairs punches. I downloaded the images and traced them in Illustrator and made them into a cutting file. Not sure that is legal, but I am only playing around with the machine.
The Butterfly was cut out 3 times out of 160 gsm paper and coloured with Kurecolor markers. I added a bit of Perfect Pearls medium. (Note to self, use a heavier card stock next time.) The Silhouette Cameo cuts nicely but the mat is extremely sticky and the first time I used it my paper stuck fast to the mat and ripped when I tried to remove it. I tackled that issue by placing the mat over my jeans and pressing on the fabric to remove some of the stickiness. I do have an issue with the Silhouette Studio software. It's really slow and jerky on my PC. I have Windows 7, anyone experience the same problem? I have emailed the support team, they made a few suggestion but to no avail. They are forwarding the problem onto their Programmers. Meanwhile I used a trial version of SCAL (Sure Cuts A Lot) software. That works like a dream and will except Illustrator files as a cutting file. So I am more than happy with that and purchased a full working copy. It works well with most cutting machines except Cricut.
I had one piece of excitement that happened to me. I was interviewed by Cindy Angiel from http://lineweaving.com and http://rainbowelephant.com/. I will be a featured artist on her new line weaving blog and you'll be able to hear the interview there. This was because I uploaded all of my Tangle patterns to her new Line Weaving forum. Cindy had seen them and loved them (Yay). I'm so glad that my patterns are being appreciated and incorporated into her artwork. This is a great new site for those who are interested in repetitive patterns.
I was very excited and honoured to be interviewed and hopefully this will drive some traffic toward my own blog.
At the moment I am trying to get a new page organised called Textures. These will be free to download for anyone interested in using them for digital imagery. There will be T&C's on how the photos can and cannot be used.
One last thing that made me smile. My Mother in Law (Bless her, I love her to bits). presented me with 4 knitted rectangles. I looked at her quizzingly, she said that they were knitted pan scrubbies made from acrylic chunky yarn and when dirty, they can be flung into the washing machine and re-used – very green. They have to be knitted in acrylic yarn as it's slightly harsher than 100% wool, but gentle enough to not scratch your pans. They work quite well. What a great idea for using up your scraps of yarn.


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package com.cardpay.pccredit.customer.model;

import java.util.Date;

import com.wicresoft.jrad.base.database.model.BusinessModel;
import com.wicresoft.jrad.base.database.model.ModelParam;

/**
 * @author chenzhifang
 *
 * 2014-11-3下午3:55:08
 */
@ModelParam(table = "customer_overdue")
public class CustomerOverdue extends BusinessModel {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	private String customerId;

	private String productId;

	private String numberDaysOverdue;

	private String currentBalance;

	private String minimumPayment;

	private String reminder;

	private String reminderWay;

	private Date reminderDate;

	private String overduePaybackAll;
	private Date lateDate;
	public String getOverduePaybackAll() {
		return overduePaybackAll;
	}

	public void setOverduePaybackAll(String overduePaybackAll) {
		this.overduePaybackAll = overduePaybackAll;
	}

	public Date getLateDate() {
		return lateDate;
	}

	public void setLateDate(Date lateDate) {
		this.lateDate = lateDate;
	}

	public String getCustomerId() {
		return customerId;
	}

	public void setCustomerId(String customerId) {
		this.customerId = customerId;
	}

	public String getProductId() {
		return productId;
	}

	public void setProductId(String productId) {
		this.productId = productId;
	}

	public String getNumberDaysOverdue() {
		return numberDaysOverdue;
	}

	public void setNumberDaysOverdue(String numberDaysOverdue) {
		this.numberDaysOverdue = numberDaysOverdue;
	}

	public String getCurrentBalance() {
		return currentBalance;
	}

	public void setCurrentBalance(String currentBalance) {
		this.currentBalance = currentBalance;
	}

	public String getMinimumPayment() {
		return minimumPayment;
	}

	public void setMinimumPayment(String minimumPayment) {
		this.minimumPayment = minimumPayment;
	}

	public String getReminder() {
		return reminder;
	}

	public void setReminder(String reminder) {
		this.reminder = reminder;
	}

	public String getReminderWay() {
		return reminderWay;
	}

	public void setReminderWay(String reminderWay) {
		this.reminderWay = reminderWay;
	}

	public Date getReminderDate() {
		return reminderDate;
	}

	public void setReminderDate(Date reminderDate) {
		this.reminderDate = reminderDate;
	}

}


Head of the IMF team that visited the island this month, Bert van Selm, said Barbados continues to make good progress in implementing its ambitious and comprehensive economic reform programme.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Wednesday February 13, 2019 – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised government for its execution so far of the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) plan, which is funded by a US$290 million Extended Fund Facility (EFF) from the Washington-based financial institution.
An IMF mission said in a statement issued yesterday that the Mia Mottley-led administration had met all indicative targets up to the end of last year.
"Barbados continues to make good progress in implementing its ambitious and comprehensive economic reform programme," Bert van Selm, head of the team that visited February 5 to 8, said as the IMF pointed out that targets for foreign exchange reserves, domestic assets and the primary surplus of income needed to pay back its debt, were all met by a wide margin.
The IMF added that a detailed assessment of the budget will be made when it is finalized.
It also suggested that government is well on the way to striking a deal with international creditors, following its decision to default on those payments last June.
"Progress being made by the authorities in furthering good-faith discussions with external creditors is welcome. Continuing open dialogue and sharing of information will remain important in concluding an orderly debt restructuring process," the IMF statement said.
The team will return in May to conduct the discussions for the first review under the EFF which was approved last October.


I only learned of this solution relatively recently, and I know experienced Haskellers who also only understood this recently or still don't. Hence this quick write up. Here's the thought process.
Quality. But writing tell every time is so boring! How about we use the IsString class so that we can just write the string literals like this?
What do you say, GHC?
In _ >> return () :: Writer String (), the type of _ is Writer String a, so we really need an IsString instance that matches that. But we already tried that. Oh, woe!
Some people reading this will be nodding in recognition of this same problem they had while writing that perfect API that just won't work because of this niggling issue.
show _ = "MyTuple <some value> <some value>"
Question: Does that change whether GHC decides to pick this new version of instance over others that may be available, compared to the one above? Have a think.
The answer is: nein! The constraints of an instance don't have anything to do with deciding whether an instance is picked from the list of instances available. Constraints only apply after GHC has already decided it's going with this instance.


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Systemic and renal hemodynamic changes during acute unilateral renal arterial stenosis
W. P. Anderson, R. L. Kline, R. L. Woods
The acute effects of unilateral renal arterial stenosis on systemic and renal hemodynamics were studied in chronically instrumented, conscious dogs. Graded stenosis of one renal artery for 90 min produced graded increases in arterial blood pressure and plasma renin activity and falls in contralateral renal blood flow and total peripheral conductance. There were no significant changes in cardiac output. The changes were transient after mild or moderate renal arterial stenosis but were sustained after severe stenosis. Pentolinium treatment did not significantly affect the hypertension or contralateral renal vasoconstriction caused by moderate or severe renal arterial stenosis. This indicates that the autonomic nervous system did not play a major role in the response to stenosis. In contrast, teprotide abolished the increases in arterial pressure, the contralateral renal vasoconstriction, and the fall in total peripheral conductance in response to stenosis. Thus the acute hypertension following unilateral renal arterial stenosis was due to a decrease in total peripheral conductance caused by decreased conductance of the stenotic kidney due to the stenosis itself (about 20%); vasoconstriction of the contralateral kidney (about 20%), and vasoconstriction of other systemic vasculature (about 60%). The results suggest that angiotensin II was responsible for the vasoconstriction of both the contralateral kidney and the other systemic vasculature.
American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology
Anderson, W. P., Kline, R. L., & Woods, R. L. (1985). Systemic and renal hemodynamic changes during acute unilateral renal arterial stenosis. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 18(5).
Anderson, W. P. ; Kline, R. L. ; Woods, R. L. / Systemic and renal hemodynamic changes during acute unilateral renal arterial stenosis. In: American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 1985 ; Vol. 18, No. 5.
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T1 - Systemic and renal hemodynamic changes during acute unilateral renal arterial stenosis
AU - Anderson, W. P.
AU - Kline, R. L.
AU - Woods, R. L.
N2 - The acute effects of unilateral renal arterial stenosis on systemic and renal hemodynamics were studied in chronically instrumented, conscious dogs. Graded stenosis of one renal artery for 90 min produced graded increases in arterial blood pressure and plasma renin activity and falls in contralateral renal blood flow and total peripheral conductance. There were no significant changes in cardiac output. The changes were transient after mild or moderate renal arterial stenosis but were sustained after severe stenosis. Pentolinium treatment did not significantly affect the hypertension or contralateral renal vasoconstriction caused by moderate or severe renal arterial stenosis. This indicates that the autonomic nervous system did not play a major role in the response to stenosis. In contrast, teprotide abolished the increases in arterial pressure, the contralateral renal vasoconstriction, and the fall in total peripheral conductance in response to stenosis. Thus the acute hypertension following unilateral renal arterial stenosis was due to a decrease in total peripheral conductance caused by decreased conductance of the stenotic kidney due to the stenosis itself (about 20%); vasoconstriction of the contralateral kidney (about 20%), and vasoconstriction of other systemic vasculature (about 60%). The results suggest that angiotensin II was responsible for the vasoconstriction of both the contralateral kidney and the other systemic vasculature.
AB - The acute effects of unilateral renal arterial stenosis on systemic and renal hemodynamics were studied in chronically instrumented, conscious dogs. Graded stenosis of one renal artery for 90 min produced graded increases in arterial blood pressure and plasma renin activity and falls in contralateral renal blood flow and total peripheral conductance. There were no significant changes in cardiac output. The changes were transient after mild or moderate renal arterial stenosis but were sustained after severe stenosis. Pentolinium treatment did not significantly affect the hypertension or contralateral renal vasoconstriction caused by moderate or severe renal arterial stenosis. This indicates that the autonomic nervous system did not play a major role in the response to stenosis. In contrast, teprotide abolished the increases in arterial pressure, the contralateral renal vasoconstriction, and the fall in total peripheral conductance in response to stenosis. Thus the acute hypertension following unilateral renal arterial stenosis was due to a decrease in total peripheral conductance caused by decreased conductance of the stenotic kidney due to the stenosis itself (about 20%); vasoconstriction of the contralateral kidney (about 20%), and vasoconstriction of other systemic vasculature (about 60%). The results suggest that angiotensin II was responsible for the vasoconstriction of both the contralateral kidney and the other systemic vasculature.
Anderson WP, Kline RL, Woods RL. Systemic and renal hemodynamic changes during acute unilateral renal arterial stenosis. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 1985;18(5).

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The second book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, is the only one of the series that I read when it first came out, which was when I was 11. When the third book came out, I felt less than eager about reading it. So I didn't.
Rowling maintained throughout the entire series this notion of how incompetent the Ministry of Magic is. They are a bunch of paper-pushing bureaucrats who mindlessly follow rules and ordinances, and they have a tendency to insulation and confirmation bias, in particular Cornelius Fudge's refusal to acknowledge the return of Voldemort.
But I don't think Rowling ever realized just how incompetent the Ministry really is.
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, an old diary unleashes the spirit of Voldemort from the past. Taking over the body of Ginny Weasley, this phantom unleashes upon the school an ancient beast of legend that stalks the school grounds at night, turning hapless bystanders to stone. In the chaos and confusion caused by this, we learn the events that led to Hagrid's expulsion from Hogwarts and the revocation of his wand.
Way back when, Hagrid was for whatever reason a Slytherin in Hogwarts, and his roommate just happened to be Tom Riddle, who would become Voldemort. I don't know how House Slytherin makes any sense in terms of Hagrid's character, or why Hagrid would be such a die-hard Gryffindor fan, but whatever. Hagrid used to be Voldemort's roommate. [edit: I swear, I read this in the book, but I can't find it on the internet; Rowling is now claiming Harid is a Gryffindor, which just makes what follows even worse. 2nd edit: I may have fallen asleep after reading this part and dreamed the rest, then forgotten it was a dream. That happens to me a lot.]
Even back then, Hagrid had an affection for dangerous magical animals, in particular his giant spider, Aragog, that he kept in a box in his room.
During Hagrid's stay at Hogwarts, someone (I'm sure you know who...) unleashed the monster from the Chamber of Secrets, and it went about at night terrorizing the campus. Solid citizen and all-around good-guy Tom Riddle tipped off the authorities that actually it was Hagrid who was doing this, Hagrid the half-giant who is quite obviously the heir of famous wizard pure-blood idealist Salazar Slytherin, who has opened the Chamber of Secrets and is keeping the dangerous legendary Basilisk in a shoebox in his room, except it isn't a Basilisk and is actually a spider with no known ability to cause petrification, and Hagrid who is unleashing it on the muggle-born students he pretty obviously hates.
And so when they found the spider, they knew that it just had to be true.
So, right up front, the Ministry is pretty dumb for believing this for even moments. Aragog is a spider; the monster in the Chamber was known to be a Basilisk. The monster in the Chamber was petrifying students; acromantula venom does not have that effect. Hagrid is a half-giant; Slytherin hated half-breeds.
But maybe Rowling was making a point about unfair accusations from authorities? So I'll let that slide, as it isn't even the worst part.
At the testimony of Tom Riddle and pretty much no one else, and against the testimony of Dumbledore and pretty much everyone else, the Ministry of Magic is now convinced, convinced, that Hagrid has opened the Chamber. Hagrid has killed those students. The Ministry is convinced that Hagrid has been using dangerous magical beasts to kill students on the Hogwarts campus. They believe this fully. As punishment, they expel him from Hogwarts (I guess the Ministry can do that?). They break Hagrid's wand. They forbid him to practice magic ever again. This prohibition against magic is in place for the majority of Hagrid's life.
As consolation, they instead hire him on to be the Keeper of Keys and Grounds.
Here is the job description, according to the Harry Potter wiki:
The Hogwarts gamekeeper had many duties, including:
Looking after the school's keys.
Escorting first year students on the boats to the castle.
Tending to the gardens at Hogwarts.
Performing special tasks for the Headmaster and Professors at the school.
Looking after magical beasts on the school grounds.
Tending to matters in the Forbidden Forest.
Bringing the twelve Christmas trees into the Great Hall during December.
Defrosting the school brooms during winter.
Making the pumpkins for the Hallowe'en feast.
Did you catch that? Fifth bullet point down. Looking after magical beasts on the school grounds? The guy just convicted for using magical beasts on the school grounds to KILL STUDENTS? And what sorts of beasts are these on the school grounds? For starters, the very same spider you believe he was using to kill the students. Now not only is he enabled to spend time with dangerous magical beasts in the creepy forest of doom in the very scene of the crime, he is in fact now being paid to do this.
They really handed the fox the keys to the henhouse there, didn't they?
Like, seriously, imagine if a football player expelled from high school for beating up kids in the locker is then hired at that same school as the staff member in charge of monitoring the locker room. That's not as obscene as this hiring decision.
And then it gets worse, because the Ministry keeps on believin' that Hagrid is the murderer in question and keeps on forbidding him the use of magic. At the time of the first book, the prohibition still stands. They still believe him guilty a full ten years after the death of his accuser Voldemort, the infamous Parsel-tongue pure-blood wizard idealist, literally descended from Salazar Slytherin, most well-known for capturing and murdering muggle-born wizards during the First Wizarding War -- less well-known for also being mild-mannered do-gooder Tom Riddle.
The Ministry has known for decades that Tom Riddle, the single witness and accuser of Hagrid, is a pure-blood idealist, that he is a murderer, that he is a Parsel-tongue. They have known that he wishes to expel all muggle-borns from Hogwarts. They have known that, hey, he was also at Hogwarts at the time the Chamber of Secrets was opened. And he was so forthcoming with information back then, then suddenly went all rebel and starting killing mudbloods like that unscrupulous Hagrid.
The Ministry continues to hold its ruling on Hagrid; definitely guilty, definitely can't do magic.
Almost worse, is that even after the reveal on Tom Riddle, Dumbledore -- Albus Dumbledore, the greatest wizard alive, the brilliant brain behind all the workings of the series -- Dumbledore never thinks to appeal the decision. Never calls it to the Ministry's attention that, hey, no one accused Hagrid but Voldemort and maybe he's not such a reliable witness. Dumbledore just lets his half-giant friend go on, magicless.
And I know what you're thinking; maybe Dumbledore did try to appeal it, but the Ministry was so set in their ways that they wouldn't listen.
Except that the Ministry does listen. By the end of the second book, they do revoke their sentence. They don't revoke it because anyone points out that charges made by Voldemort are pretty obviously bogus, that Hagrid has never been linked with pure-blood ideology, nor has he been linked with a basilisk, nor linked to anything related to Salazar Slytherin's mad scheme of revenge. They don't revoke it because they realize that Tom Riddle was almost definitely the real culprit, based on his known motives and means and actions and ancestry. None of that persuades them; in the face of it, they remain convinced. Hagrid did it.
What does persuade them is the testimony of three school children -- the one unleashing the monster, her brother, and her boyfriend -- that a little-understood and little-known magical artifact that contained the essence of Voldemort's soul possessed the little girl and caused her to open the Chamber, and then, in front of precisely the culprit, her boyfriend, her brother, and absolutely no one else, the Spirit of Voldemort began reciting its grand plan of revenge, confessing to all of the recent crimes as well as all of the past crimes committed by the children's favorite teacher, exonerating all of them from the charges. And then the spirit disappeared and will never show up again, but here's this empty book with a tooth in it as proof. Also, we concussed this teacher.
Upon hearing this unshakable testimony, the Ministry of Magic is compelled to revoke their previous sentence of Hagrid. They are forced to acknowledge Tom Riddle, alias Voldemort, as being the true culprit of the 1942 crimes. Hagrid is re-instituted as a wizard, his wand is repaired, and he is allowed to practice magic and teach wizard lessons, and probably given many heart-felt apologies from the Ministry.
Let's recap the actions and thought-processes of the Ministry of Magic, the agency responsible for the governance of the entire Wizarding community of England, as revealed in Chamber of Secrets. They bought trumped-up charges that a half-giant in [apparently] the Gryffindor House with no history of violence or prejudice at all was in fact the Heir of Slytherin and had opened the Chamber of Secrets, and was using the monster found therein -- a juvenile acromantula that had somehow not aged in hundreds of years locked in a cavern -- to petrify muggle-born students at Hogwarts, despite acromantulas having no reported ability of petrification. Fully buying these charges, they forbade Hagrid the use of magic -- magic, and not magical beasts, which he can still own and train -- and used their political power to have him expelled from Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft. But then they -- and all the wizarding community, really -- turned a blind-eye when this half-giant convicted of murdering students with magical beasts is then hired back on at Hogwarts, the scene of his crimes, to be explicitly in charge of magical animals. Whatever... not worth their notice. But despite not caring that Hagrid is employed in the vicinity of the children he was murdering with increased access to murderous monsters, they still definitely believe Hagrid is guilty. They continue to enforce their sentence on him, right up to the events of the story. They continue to enforce it even when it is later revealed the only witness -- that is, Voldemort -- is in fact an evil and maniacal genocidist who tortures his own friends for fun. They continue to enforce their sentence when it is later revealed that the only witness is also the single best possible culprit to the crimes, as Voldemort was there, was involved in the crime investigation, was a pure-blood idealist, was capable of murder, was a Parselmouth, and was descended from Salazar Slytherin. The (probable) pleas of Dumbledore for an appeal and re-evaluation based on the tainted character of the witness doesn't phase them one bit. But, some decades later, this same Ministry of Magic is swayed by the completely unverifiable and incredible account of three children -- well known for trouble-making -- who stand to be held accountable for the recent spree of Chamber-of-Secrets-related crimes, an account that conveniently excuses them from all activity in the Chamber and for their apparent assault on a documented hero and professor at the school, and likewise an account that exonerates the charges against Hagrid, their close friend, and places all the blame on the typical bogey-man of legend who has been dead or missing for ten years, without any evidence (besides a dead basilisk and empty book) in support of it. This is the kind of testimony that the Ministry of Magic finds credible. So much so, that they overturn their standing conviction of some fifty years, a conviction that they have upheld even in the face of the (surely) fervent protests of the most famous and revered hero of the Wizarding Wars, Albus Dumbledore. His arguments weren't any good, but this -- this new and impossible story from some kids -- this changes everything.
Who are these people, anyway?
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I have to say that I like the books overall, how some things were put for the sake of story-telling, but the one thing I can't possibly understand is Harry Potter himself. He is just a extremely lucky kid(ex. Narcissa Black? Come on!), he never listens to anybody, breaks the rules about 7500 times yet he gets rewarded every time. What? Sirius Black is killed because Harry's own stupidity and impatience, but nobody rebukes him. Why? He gets to be spoiled by every teacher except Snape(Lupin, Hagrid, Dumbledore etc.) yet he makes a huge drama about Snape favoring Draco. Seriously?
Harry Potter, the hero of the Harry Potter series is my least favorite character in the series (sharing the place with Hagrid the imbecile.) Which is a problem because I don't think that I am supposed to hate the hero of a fantasy series.
Hey anonymous, I agree about Harry's character. What's worse is that he progresses to that stage. He starts off as a self-conscious, unloved boy who doesn't understand his past but who wants to move on to the future. He gets overly molly-coddled by professors who treat him as supremely special; he breaks the rules constantly, often in ways that might endanger the safety of others, he's a mostly average student, and the only thing he really excels at is athletics, but he's still treated as special and important. Because of this, by about the fourth book Harry starts to get an inflated view of himself, and by the seventh book he's pretty openly arrogant. His character arc is to a spoiled jock that thinks the world revolves around him, and everyone else in the world is kind enough to let the world revolve around him.
I think the series would been so much better if Neville had turned out to fulfill the prophecy, right at the end, by cutting off Nagini's head then stabbing Voldemort with the sword of Godric Gryffindor. Turns out Harry isn't the special chosen one, and actually he's pretty normal, while Neville is the real hero of prophecy and goes on to become famous.
Anyway, thanks for commenting!
Finally I have met some people know how dumb Harry as a character really is and let's not get started on how lazy the writing of novels really is. I mean come on why couldn't Lily or James be their own Secret Keeper? It would have ensured that they were well protected and actually it would have made the story much better.
Don't forget the basic misunderstanding of the tort law that muggles seem to have down pat, yet wizards completely misunderstand. It's not all about intent. Students shouldn't have dangerous creatures for pets, no matter how unoffending their purpose. You're still responsible for whatever happens if you have a pet tiger, even if you didn't kill anyone on purpose. The same goes for Buckbeak. My sixth grade teacher wouldn't let us go on a field trip because we were too irresponsible. Why do wizards allow 13 year olds to come in contact with dangerous magical creatures? In law, it's attractive nuisance, and Hagrid would definitely be fired and probably get jail time. Because let's face it, in every group of 20 third years, at least one either is going to disobey or just not be listening to directions. What did you really expect, Hagrid? A beautiful friendship to blossom? Muggle law, at least, has never been kind to animals.
The skrewts as well.
The important detail, if I recall, is that Hagrid is *in prison* when Harry is assaulting teachers and almost getting killed by a snake. Apparently in the Harry Potter universe a basilisk will not kill, even in self defense, without a command. It is this undeniable forensic evidence, and not anybody's testimony, that makes the wholly racially motivated attempt to imprison Mr. Hagrid come to an end.
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Art Sold Separately: Why Are People Buying Free Felix Gonzalez-Torres Posters?
the show is over the piece is back in the private collection the sneakerheads still want wool swag
How much sense does this not make? People buy the sheets from Felix Gonzalez-Torres stacks at auction, on eBay, and at various artist book & ephemera dealers, and it just seems…what's the word here? Hilarious? Sad? Stupid? Embarrassing? Ridiculous? Wrong? Inexplicable?
Well, no. There's an easy explanation. People sell Felix posters because they want money. And people buy them because they are for sale.
Felix made his first work that includes a stack of paper in 1988, and his first to consist of a stack constantly replenished with "endless copies" in 1989. Then there was a burst of stacks in 1990. By the time of his death in 1996, the artist had produced 47 stacks. Four were declared after his death to be "registered non-works." One consisted of rubber doormats, which are not to be taken. One consists of an edition of 200 signed, silkscreen prints which together comprise a single stacked work, which are not to be taken. One was an edition of 250 of which 89 were sold separately, and the remaining 161 were sold together as a stack, which are not to be taken. The first one, it is not clear whether they can be taken. One is made of little passport-sized booklets, which can be taken. So that makes 38 stacks made of posters infinitely replenishable with endless copies. Along with a registered non-work stack created with Donald Moffett, three stacks were collaborations with another artist, who provided the image or text: Michael Jenkins, Louise Lawler, and Christopher Wool.
"first" [sic] edition
The Felix Gonzalez-Torres catalogue raisonné quotes the text the artist included in the certificates of authenticity for each stack:
A part of the intention of the work is that third parties may take individual sheets of paper from the stack. These individual sheets and all individual sheets taken from the stack collectively do not constitute a unique work of art nor can they be considered the piece…its uniqueness is defined by ownership.
So these are not artworks. Or, they're not the artwork. But they are something of value, even though they are free for the taking in an endless supply. And people trying to explain and justify the value–or the price, really–use paradigms that the artist himself critiqued, rejected, and sought, to some extent, to undermine. Sellers, including auctioneers like Wright who know what's up, invoke an edition model, calling sheets "original" "prints" and "lithos" from "an unknown edition size." This framing resonates with the investing community that has grown up around mass limited editions from print mills like Murakami and Hirst, Kawsian art toys and artist-designed skatedecks, and even Richter-style "facsimile objects."
Rago, an auction house whose business is liquidating New Jersey's vast collections of silkscreen editions assembled in the 60s and 70s, gives the sheets made-up names like "Untitled (water ripples)" and "Untitled (The Show is Over)", and gooses the provenance with statements like "Created originally in 1993 for the Printed Matter exhibition at Dia."
One eBay seller's allusions to photography and rare book connoisseurship to justify a $12,500 asking price for a single sheet because it was taken from "the original piece" during a gallery show "in October, 1991," have not gone unchallenged:
Please note that I have received some comments about this one… that is, since it was conceived of as an open edition, there are numerous ones out there from other exhibitions, and possibly a reissuance from the estate.
That could be true, however, the original litho is a "first" printing; subsequent printings are of a subtlely diiferent (sp) size, color, paper, etc. This makes the first edition the most coveted, and hence the valuation.
That stack, like so many of Felix's work, known as "Untitled", was acquired from that show at Luhring Augustine Hexler by the Walker Art Center. And despite being in a public collection and widely exhibited since its creation, the sheets from the Walker's "Untitled" are among the most frequently and expensively sold separately. Unusually, the Walker's description of the piece includes the number taken during the work's public exhibition in 1999-2001: "approximately 660 posters per month." Frankly, 8,000/year seems low, unless I were being charged $1,000 for one as an "edition", in which case it'd be insanely high.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled", 1991, offset print on paper, endless copies, collection: Walker Art Center
Felix wanted as many viewers as wanted them to take sheets from his stacks for free, but this turns out to be not the same as free to obtain or endlessly available. They're not all in publicly accessible collections. They're not always on view, and they're probably not close by when they are. So the constraints and complications of getting in a room with the Felix stack you want have real costs, and the way we weigh these costs against the desire to possess a thing is called money.
Then there's the reality of the work itself, the stack whose "uniqueness is defined by ownership." The artist's certificates also say "The owner has the right to reprint and replace, at any time, the quantity of sheets necessary to regenerate the piece back to the ideal height." There's a concept worth studying in a work doesn't just exist at various heights, but that depletes and is regenerated. If you find that dissertation, please lmk. What jumps out to me is the apparently fundamental link between uniqueness and authenticity and ownership, and the dependence of that existence on a right, not a responsibility.
Study for "Untitled" (Crystal Bridges), 2015, a stack of Walton Family money, endlessly replenished
For all the freedom and openness and sharing of Felix's work, it rests on a foundation of rights granted to collectors, not obligations assumed by stewards. The market for sheets is thus the trickle-down effect of these private decisions that make stacks scarce through unavailability.
Could the artist's wishes be better served by adapting his stacks to the digitized world he didn't live to see? What if the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation made all of the stack sheets available for download and individual printing? It'd be several kinds of complicated, I know, but it wouldn't disrupt the existence of "the piece," the uniqueness of which, remember, is defined by ownership. [Having recently pulled out around 100 sheets I've collected over more than 25 years, I can say this is not an obviously great idea; stacks vary in size, paper type, and finish in ways that DIY printouts will inevitably get wrong, and the artist's generosity for everyone else's shitty reproduction of his work will be sorely tested.]
Letting sheets loose in the wild will result in large-scale printing and distribution, probably at poster-scale commercialization. But a line in an eBay auction seems to indicate this is already happening.
I have wholeheartedly celebrated a billboard of a billboard, and would fully support a poster of a poster, but ebay, this is a poster of a painting.
After comparing it to a poster that sold for $750 on artnet, the seller of this $1200 poster "by Christopher Wool & Felix Gonzalez-Torres" notes, "NOTE this is an original edition from the Dallas Museum's run and not from China." But something ain't right. The dimensions of the Wool&FG-T sheet are 37×55, and this one from Dallas is 24×36. Also, there's a giant border, and it says Dallas Museum of Art on the bottom. Also, the letters don't line up. Because this is a poster of a painting, a painting [right] the DMA acquired in 1991. Meanwhile, the related painting that became the stack is hanging [left] behind Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner. They gave it to the Whitney in 2014.
When everything's Untitled… Westreich/Wagner/Whitney Wool on the left, which is presumably related to the Felix stack, though it does show some underpainting the poster lacks; DMA Wool on the right, which is not. src image: Bill Orcutt/Whitney via artforum; DMA
Isn't this the real source of the Felix stack flipper problem: hypeboys looking for cheap Wools? And at hundreds to thousands of dollars a pop, wouldn't YOU set up a #ChineseWoolMill to meet their demand?
If there is such a thing as capitalist karma, it comes in the form of Erika Hoffmann, the Berlin collector who, with her late husband Rolf, bought the Wool/Gonalez-Torres stack. In March she donated it, along with her entire collection, to the Dresden State Art Collection. It will become one of the most public and publicly available stack pieces of them all.
[This writing of this post was delayed several days by the outraged consideration of the vast preceding and ongoing corruption of the president, and it took place amidst the anguished, mounting fury at the systemic policy of terrorizing and torturing children and families seeking asylum from perils that drove them to flee their homes. The solace of art has its limits.]
A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER UPDATE: I swear I wasn't planning to do this, but then someone on Twitter feared it was coming, and so it had to happen.
"Untitled" (Ross in L.A.) in DC is now on eBay. It comprises an original Felix Gonzalez-Torres offset print acquired from the National Gallery of Art, and a full-scale, signed, stamped, and numbered certificate of authenticity. It is available in an edition of 2.
previously, related:
"Untitled" (Crystal Bridges), 2015–
"Untitled" (ArtEverywhereUS)
on the stack as medium, I loved this for annoying me so much: When Form Becomes Content, or Luanda, Encyclopedic City
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Sixty years ago on the linear timeline, Omega made a choice. He rejected his fate, and refused to become just another one of the clones on their mission to potentially do nothing with their lives. He doesn't know why, out of a pool of over a million men who are supposedly just like him, he's the only one who went off on his own. But because of it, their progenitor, a man by the name of Saxon Parker, had to take his place. This is the first time they're seeing each other since then, and it's even more complicated than that, because they never actually spoke in person. Saxon was always far too important to have even one conversation with every single one of his clones. The only time they spoke was via radio, and if Saxon has been in stasis this whole time, this incident was only minutes ago for him.
Obviously all of the clones look exactly alike, though at various stages of aging. To avoid confusion, each one gives off a unique neurological signature. Even when Omega's mind was mistakenly transferred to a different clone's body, his personal signature transferred with him, so others will still know which one he is, and it will remain this way if he ever returns to that body, or takes another. Being the original, Saxon is the only one which doesn't have one such of these signatures, which means he does have a signature, because the absence of a signal makes it incredibly obvious that he's different. He is standing on the stage, curtains down, along with Valencia, Omega, and Anglo 83, who has inserted himself as a leader amongst equals. It's possible that he feels entitled to some greater recognition since he presently has no substrate to return to in base reality. It's an awkward situation, which only Valencia can alleviate. "I can't tell you three apart."
Saxon and Omega are staring at each other. The former reaches up, and taps Valencia on the forehead, transmitting a little bit of code which will allow her to pick up on the clone signatures. In some cases, it's not necessary. She peeks her head through the curtain to find more diversity than she expected. Dozens of the over one million clones are already wearing different avatars, and more are selecting their own every minute. One is an anthropomorphic bunny who is trying to ride on the back of a sheep, who may or may not be another clone. Another is a three meter tall mech. A sperm whale is casually floating around in the air above the massive crowd. For a virtual simulation that only exists for an all hands meeting of clones, it sure has come with a lot of options. They're mostly concerning themselves with finding their respective ways to stand out, and aren't impatient about getting this meeting started.
"Okay," Saxon says, "I'm ready for you to explain what's going on. I have successfully driven the anger out of my body."
Omega and Valencia take turns explaining the True Extremists. They go over it in much more detail than before, pretty much briefing him on every single little thing they know about this interstellar threat. Saxon and Anglo 83 ask about their level of technology, the size of their fleet, and other tactical intelligence, but they don't have any of these answers. According to the logs, not a single module has encountered the enemy, which contradicts what they were told about the limits of the stellar neighborhood. So the True Extremists could be just as powerful as they've claimed, even more so, or almost not at all. It's unclear why they haven't attacked yet, but maybe the asteroid chain that they used to try to destroy the Extremus was more of a fluke, and less of an indication of their true might. Maybe they can't attack at all. There is just no way to know without a real recon mission.
"So that's the question," Saxon decides. "How we proceed is dependent upon the rest of the clones. Either we conduct a recon mission, and try to figure out what we're up against, or we just find some other way of defending the Project Stargate mission."
"So you believe us?" Omega asks.
"Why wouldn't I believe you?"
Omega frowns, and kicks at the wooden planks of the stage. "I just didn't think you were capable of trusting me."
Saxon places a hand on Omega's shoulder. "You're more like me than any of them. What you did was always a known possibility. But our ability to think independently is exactly why I was chosen as the basis for the cloning program. I mean, we were never gonna clone Hitler, but the perfect candidate doesn't exist either, does it? Anyone logical and unemotional enough to guarantee that none of the clones rebelled likely would have resulted in them—not quite rebelling—but just not caring enough about the mission to carry it onwards amidst a crisis. It's a balance, and I had to go through a lot of tests to prove myself worthy, but again, I was the best of the bunch; not the best, full stop."
"Well, what do you think we should do?" Omega invites.
"What do you think we should do?" Saxon asks right back.
"We don't even know where to go for a recon mission," Omega says.
"A time traveler led us to the region of space where we would ultimately rendezvous with one of the modules," Valencia adds, "but we saw no sign of the True Extremists there."
Saxon nods. "That seems like a dumb mission then, flying around aimlessly, looking for their home planet, or even just some kind of an outpost."
"Tell us about this reframe engine you're using," Anglo 83 asks.
They look over to him. "It's basically a warp bubble," Omega replies. "It forces the universe to experience the same amount of time that you are while you're moving at relativistic speeds. You're not actually traveling faster than light, you're slowing down the speed of all of time, instead of only the local time as experienced by you as an observer on the ship."
Anglo 83 nods in the same way that Saxon did and does. "Can we use those?"
"Use them for them for what?" Saxon asks.
"Project Stargate is meant to take a hundred and fifty-thousand years," Anglo 83 begins. "Now that we have this clearly superior technology, shouldn't we make the switch?" These ships weren't designed with reframe engines, and it would be impossible to retrofit them, so the only way to switch would be to scrap the originals, fire all the employees, and start over. Would it be faster? Absolutely. Is it necessary? Eh, no. Anglo 83 doesn't understand when Valencia explains as much. "Why not?"
"Even if you're chosen to stay on the modules—which you might not, because we would probably redesign the entire thing—it will still take you 216 years total," she explains. "You're on the same schedule as Extremus, just earlier, and on a different trajectory. What do you care what year it is when that mission is finally over? A hundred years, a hundred thousand; that's nothing compared to the trillions of years you'll eventually have behind you."
"I'm just saying, it seems weird that we would move on like this when we know there's a better way," Anglo 83 reasons.
"Faster, not better," Saxon contradicts. "Though not everyone back in the neighborhood knows about this mission, we are doing this on behalf of Earth, the Greater Sol System, and all vonearthans. If we message back from the other side of the galaxy in only a couple centuries, it will expose all time travelers to the truth, and that is not our place." He shrugs, "there's no rush. The stars beyond the neighborhood are about the same as the ones inside of it. There's no reason to reach the most distant once quickly. Again, it will be the same amount of time for you no matter what."
"I'm not sure about that," Anglo 83 says, unrelenting. "You don't want to change Project Stargate. That's fine, I understand. But something has to be done to protect our modules, because they are not equipped to protect themselves. They do not have weapons, they do not have a crew, they do not have tactical AI."
"Where are you going with this?"
Anglo 83 paused for effect. "Operation Escort."
"I've never heard of that," Saxon says.
"That's because I literally just made it up," Anglo 83 clarifies. "Keep the mission going as it is, but build those reframe engines. Normally, something catastrophic would be fatal to any aspect of the mission. But if you have a bunch of escorts who can arrive quickly, they'll have protection, and they'll have it in secret, over the course of the next hundred thousand years. No one who's not allowed to know has to know."
"How many of these escorts do you suggest we construct?" Saxon questions. "One for every what?"
"That's not my call, I'm just the idea man," Anglo 83 answers, shrugging, again just like his progenitor.
Saxon summons a chair out of nothing, and sits down on it to think. "I'll need to run the numbers, but it's a sound idea. It will allow us to maximize our technology while keeping the vonearthans in the dark about the true nature of their reality. With more ships, we might even end up gathering enough information to conduct a proper recon, like we were talking about."
"You run those numbers," Anglo 83 agrees as he's walking towards the curtain, "I'll tell everyone else about it."
"No, wait," but they don't stop him in time.
He steps out, and the crowd cheers, even though they don't know whether they should be excited, or what. Remember that he's just another one of the clones. Unlike Saxon or Omega, or the one who prefers to look like a sperm whale, he's not famous or notable. Not yet, anyway.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Anglo 83 announces once he's made it to the microphone. He motions for the noise to die down. "If you think you're happy now, just wait until I tell you how I'm gonna save all your lives!"
Not thinking it would help to go out there now, Saxon just pops up a floating screen that shows what it looks like on the other side of the curtain.
"Hi. My name is Deodatus.
"I think we know why September sent us to this particular region of colonizing space," Valencia says.
"Did you see this coming?" Omega asks Saxon.
The progenitor looks back, and stares at his offspring. He takes an uncomfortably long time to respond. "Yes."
"If he's gotten this taken care of, then maybe we should go look for Captain Moralez," Valencia suggests to Omega.
Saxon perks up. "Yitro Moralez?"
"Uhh...yeah?" Omega confirms, confused.
"Oh, don't worry about him, I know where he is."
Meanwhile, in the past, Yitro is finishing up his 72-hour mental health hold. He doesn't know exactly where he's going to go. The authorities tried to investigate the location of the lab, but of course, they found it completely abandoned and stripped of all evidence. Whoever was hiding out in there surely used temporal technology of some kind. Or maybe they were never really there, and the door he ran out of three days ago was actually a portal that sent him back to the year 2022. If that portal's now closed, then there's no going back. If true, that begs the question, why haven't those people come after him yet? If they're powerful enough to store him in a vat of acid that's strong enough to cause him agonizing pain for an extended period of time without killing him, why don't they just teleport into his hospital room, and pluck him out? What did they ever want with him in the first place, but also, did they get it, or what?
Yitro doesn't have any ID, and isn't in any kind of system, since he's from the future, but besides some clearly accidental public indecency, he hasn't broken any law. The facility is just going to let him go, and the cops aren't going to pursue him. He'll apparently be on the streets, just like any native homeless person would be. All he has now is a set of clothes that the nurse retrieved from the lost and found, a single packed lunch, and a cup for panhandling. They actually gave him a paper cup; like, they're not even gonna try to provide him with any sort of social service. "The past sucks," he says to himself out loud as he's tying his new old shoes. He'll be fine, because he'll find someone to help, but a normal person would be totally screwed in this situation.
"You should try going back even further in the past. That's where I'm from." It's a young woman. She's dressed in what looks like a company uniform, but she's not hospital staff. Her shirt says Tractus Delivery.
"Everyone's from the past," Yitro points out.
She smirks. "Too true. Except for you. What year are you from?"
Yitro is smart, he didn't bother telling anyone that he's from a spaceship in the future, because it wouldn't do him any good. How would this person know anything about him? As suspicious as this is, he may as well be honest, because they're legally not allowed to keep him here for a minute longer. He sighs. "What year was I born, or what year was it when I left? For the latter, it was 2300."
She nods understandingly. "Okay, I think we can get you back there."
"Lemme show ya." She steps forward, and takes him by both shoulders. "Call me an n-word."
"Which n-word are we talking about?"
She laughs. "I'm kidding, I've learned to get my heart rate up on my own." She tightens her grip, and pushes him forward, all the way into a wall of fire that has spontaneously appeared before them.
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Microstory 1857: Bad One
Microstory 1858: God's Eye View
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Microstory 1860: Beater
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Microstory 1862: Full Sets
Microstory 1863: Magnetic
Microstory 1864: That's It
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Microstory 1866: Garden Path
Microstory 1867: Lottery Winners All
Microstory 1868: Walking Out
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Microstory 1871: Soft Peddle
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Why corporate loans can help your portfolio – Livewire column
June 18, 2019 – (Livewire exclusive)
Mandatory retirement savings in Australia are worth $2.7 trillion and growing. Equity markets are arguably looking fully priced, particularly as the rhetoric of a trade war between the US and China ramps up again. To top it off, bank deposits and bond yields are offering circa 2% yields at best.
Finding investment opportunities that are diversified away from the traditional asset classes of equities and bonds is difficult and explains the explosion in demand for alternative assets such as private debt or corporate loans.
Corporate loans broadly refer to loans made to businesses of scale (ie. not SMEs) for a specific business purpose (eg. working capital, capital expenditure, acquisitions etc). Returns are generated from interest, which is generally charged at a floating rate with an additional margin above the bank bill swap rate.
Corporate loans are categorised as a defensive investment in the context of capital and the credit risk spectrum because they are structured with embedded protective mechanisms, such as:
Access to private information not to available to public markets
Ongoing financial reporting from borrowers with covenants for the lender enabling them to proactively protect their exposure
Rank in priority to equity during insolvency events
Lending is usually secured, often by physical assets
The Australian corporate loan market is approximately $963 billion, accounting for 81% of the Australian corporate debt market (as at December 2018, ABS statistics).
It is over 20x the size of the $43 billion domestic corporate bond market.
Metrics Credit Partners is now one of the country's largest non-bank corporate lenders, having lent close to $6 billion to corporates since its first fund in 2013.
Generating income from corporate loans
Investors have historically had very limited ability to access the corporate loan market because it has been dominated by the banks, with the major domestics accounting for 71% of onshore corporate lending (source: APRA Monthly Banking Statistics September 2018).
In order to access the market, you need to have significant scale and established networks with borrowers and other market participants.
(Source: ABS Australian National Accounts Finance and Wealth September 2018)
Metrics was the first fund manager in Australia to float a listed investment trust (LIT) on the ASX that gives investors access to the domestic corporate loan market, via the MCP Master Income Trust (ASX:MXT).
For those that can access this highly specialised market, one of the key attractions of the asset class is the low volatility. This is based on ranking senior in a borrower's capital structure, low loss rates, floating rates, and the fact that they are not publicly traded instruments and are typically held by the banks.
We could distil the benefits of including an allocation to corporate loans within a portfolio into three key points:
They have low correlation to equities and bonds.
Corporate loans offer protection against inflation because they use floating rates.
In a listed structure they can provide a stable source of income and liquidity.
Metrics' approach
Corporate loans are not an asset class that investors can access directly, and therefore need to be accessed via a manager with scale and expertise in this market.
Metrics lends on a standalone basis or as part of a syndicate of lenders alongside banks. Many corporate loan transactions are on an invite-only basis. Referrals often come from other lenders building syndicates, or advisers, or via a direct network of relationships established with corporate borrowers.
Investing in the corporate loan market requires a very specialised set of skills, such as:
Credit assessment skills
Experience analysing corporate strategy
Understanding cashflow drivers
Structuring transactions to include downside protections
The ability to price risk appropriately
Taking all of these factors into account, Metrics understands that investors have different risk/return/liquidity profiles. Metrics has eight different wholesale funds in addition to the ASX-listed MCP Master Income Trust (ASX:MXT) and MCP Income Opportunities Trust (ASX:MOT).
At one end is MXT, which aims to deliver stable monthly income of the RBA cash rate plus 3.25% (currently 4.50% p.a. net of fees).
MXT was the first LIT in Australia with a clear mandate to invest in direct corporate loans. MXT has consistently delivered returns in excess of this minimum target since listing in October 2017, with monthly income distributions contributing to a 5.58% p.a. net return since inception to April 2019.
To support the premise of low capital volatility, since inception to April 2019 MXT has maintained a stable net asset value (NAV) with the unit price consistently trading at or above the daily NAV.
NAV/UNIT AND UNIT PRICE PERFORMANCE
(NOTE: First distribution end December 2017 and month thereafter. Entitlement Offer announced 26 February 2018 and closed 27 March 2018. Entitlement Offer announced on 16 April 2019.)
At the other end of spectrum is the recently listed MOT. MOT also invests in corporate loans but has a further mandate to invest in instruments that may provide investors with an equity like return, such as warrants, options or shares.
MOT targets a quarterly cash return of 7% p.a. with a total target return of 8% p.a. to 10% p.a., in each case net of fees and expenses.
Rules of investing in corporate loans
We have rigorous processes in place to originate and manage the risks associated with direct lending.
We assess every asset on its merits, using a bottom up approach. We conduct comprehensive due diligence covering quantitative assessments of financials and ratios, combined with qualitative assessments of management, industry and corporate strategy. We then manage this risk via appropriate controls, covenants and security.
Because everything is conducted on a case by case basis, loans can be structured to give the greatest possible lender protections to drive successful outcomes for investors.
Where are the best opportunities?
Investment-grade Australian corporates are continually looking to refinance as existing loans approach maturity and corporate actions often also trigger financing opportunities.
The domestic banks are under scrutiny in the aftermath of the Financial Services Royal Commission. Any pull back from them based on scrutiny, as opposed to the underlying fundamentals of individual borrowers, may provide opportunities for lenders.
We are active in lending to private equity sponsors and anticipate that there will continue to be high transaction volumes and lending opportunities in the near term. Warren Buffett recently highlighted that PE funds worldwide may be sitting on a war chest of about $US1 trillion to spend – a figure that could grow to $US3 trillion with leverage.
What are we avoiding
We try not to rule out any opportunity until we have done a detailed fundamental analysis of the transaction. In our view, investors are best served by Metrics completing an assessment of every transaction on its merits even though we may not lend or complete transactions with all borrowers.
For example, pricing is currently tight for investment grade companies as many lenders are competing for their business. We want that business too, but the risk reward ratio needs to stack up and we will assess other opportunities available to deploy our investors' funds.
Pitfalls of corporate loans
Corporate loans are less liquid than publicly traded investments. They are not generally bought or sold and usually lenders lend on a hold-to-maturity basis, reflecting the fundamental credit risk of the loan transaction.
Managers with smaller portfolios or weaker networks may not be able to generate a pipeline of high-quality transactions. Inexperienced managers can fail to appropriately structure loans to mitigate the key risks which are intended to protect the lender from capital losses. They can also fail to appropriately price the risk of an individual transaction and leave returns on the table.
Fundamental credit analysis, strong relationships, loan structuring skills and the ability to manage a loan portfolio (including any underperforming assets) are all required to mitigate downside risks and generate returns from corporate loans. Metrics' experienced investment team has a strong track record of avoiding these pitfalls and delivering above target returns for investors.
Our long-term return expectations
We have continued to grow our total AUM (>$4.0 billion) and the market cap of MXT. This should enhance net returns to investors by reducing proportional costs. Increased scale also makes Metrics a more appealing lender to borrowers, which should drive its own share of transaction flow.
Diversification is an important aspect of limiting downside risks to investors. MXT has exposure to over 100 individual borrowers and we anticipate this number to continue to grow as we raise further capital for MXT and underlying wholesale funds.
Our team has the experience and specialist skills required to generate strong performance, demonstrated by the track record of MXT.
We intend to focus on enhancing scale, diversification, and lower investment costs, while using the experience of our management team to continue to drive outperformance for all of Metrics' funds.
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