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Nandamuri Balakrishna
|Nandamuri Balakrishna
నందమూరి బాలకృష్ణ
|Member of the Legislative Assembly
|Assumed office
May 2014
|Preceded by
|P. Abdul Ghani
|Personal details
10 June 1960
Chennai, India
|Political party
|Telugu Desam Party
|Vasundhara Devi (m. 1982)
|Nara Brahmani
Mathukumilli Tejaswini
Nandamuri Mokshagna Teja
|Taraka Rama Rao
Basava Tarakam
|Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
|Alma mater
|Nizam College, Hyderabad
|Film Actor, Politician
Nandamuri Balakrishna (Telugu: నందమూరి బాలకృష్ణ; born 10 June 1960) is an Indian film actor and politician, who works predominantly in Telugu cinema.[1] He is the sixth son of Telugu matinee idol and former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N. T. Rama Rao. He entered the film industry as a child artist at the age of 14 with the film Tatamma Kala.[2][3] In the mid-1980s, he graduated to acting in the lead role and soon became one of the sought after actors in Telugu cinema. In his film career, spanning 40 years he has acted in over ninety eight films, in a variety of roles.[4] Known for his dancing skills, Balakrishna has received two state Nandi Awards for best acting.[5]
Balakrishna was the guest of honour at the 43rd International Film Festival of India.[6] He is actively involved in politics and is a member of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founded by his father. In 2014, he was elected incumbent M. L. A. from Hindupur for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.[7][8] He is also the chairman of the trust board for The Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute based in Hyderabad, India.[9][10]
Early life and family[edit]
Balakrishna was born in Chennai (then Madras), Tamil Nadu to veteran Telugu actor and three-time former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and his wife Basava Tarakam, of the Nandamuri Family.[11][12] As the Telugu film industry was based in Madras at the time, he spent his entire childhood in Madras. During his adolescence, he moved to Hyderabad following the shifting of the Telugu film industry to that city. He earned a bachelors degree in commerce from Nizam College , Hyderabad, Telangana.[13]
In 1982, at the age of 25, Balakrishna married Vasundhara Devi.born at kakinada, daughter of srmt owner. They have 2 daughters, Brahmani and Tejaswini, and a son, Taraka Rama Mokshagna Teja. His elder daughter Brahmani is an alumnus of Santa Clara University and Stanford University. She is married to her cousin Nara Lokesh, the son of TDP president and present Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh N. Chandrababu Naidu. It is rumoured that his son Mokshagna Teja will make his film debut in 2016.[14]
Film career[edit]
Breakthrough (1974–1986)[edit]
In 1974, he acted as a child artist in Tatamma Kala which was directed by NTR. Over a period of time he acted in several films, many of them were directed by NTR. Out of which Dana Veera Soora Karna, Srimadvirataparvam, Akbar Saleem Anarkali and Sri Tirupati Venkateswara Kalyanam became memorable films in his film career. His roles as Abhimanyu in Dana Veera Soora Karna, Srimadvirataparvam and saleem in Akbar Saleem Anarkali, saint Narada In Sri Tirupati Venkateswara Kalyanam are highly praised. At the age of 16, Balakrishna acted in a movie titled Annadammula Anubandham, a remake of Dharmendra's Hindi movie Yaadon Ki Baaraat. After watching this movie, other legend of Tollywood Akkineni Nagewara Rao commented that 'Simham kadupuna Sihame puttindi'. In this film, Balakrishna appeared in brother role to his real life father Swargiya NTR. Balakrishna appeared as son to his real life brother Nandamuri Harikrishna in the movie Dana Veera Sura Karna. In 1984 he debuted in a hero role with Sahasame Jeevitham. Even though BalaKrishna acted in several films named as N.T. Rama Rao son, later his hard work, discipline, talent and dedication made him stand in the industry and to win the hearts of crores of fans. He then starred in a drama film Mangammagari Manavadu (1984) alongside Bhanumathi, Suhasini directed by Kodi Ramakrishna.[15] The film was a Block Buster at the box-office.[16] In the same year, he acted in Kathanayakudu and in Biographical film Shrimad Virat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra. Both the films were hits at the Box-office.[17] Again his role as Siddhappa in Shrimad Virat Veerabrahmendra Swami Charitra is critically praised. This movie was directed by his father NTR. In the year 1985, he acted with Akkineni Nageswara Rao in the film Bharya Bhartala Bandam alongside rajani, which is a moderate success. In the year 1986, he acted in hit movies like Muddula Krishnnayya, Seetarama Kalyanam, Anasuyamma Gari Alludu and Desoddarakudu which gradually increased his potential at boxoffice.
Commercial stardom (1987–1999)[edit]
In 1987, he acted in a dual role in the film Apurva Sahodarudu directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, was a box-office success. This year he had six super hit films in a row.[18] In the same year, he starred in Presidentugari Abbai directed by Tatineni Rama Rao and Muvva Gopaludu by Kodi Ramakrishna were biggest hits of the year.[19] Bhargava Ramudu, which is made from a novel, alongside vijayashanti is success at the box office. His other films like Inspector Pratap, Bharatamlo Bala Chandrudu, Tiragabadda Telugubidda, Rakthabhisekham were also critically and commercially successful at the boxoffice. In 1989, he paired with Vijaya Shanti in Muddula Mavayya directed Kodi Ramakrishna. The film was a blockbuster at the box-office.[20] Bhale Donga alongside Vijayasanthi and sharada was also success at the boxoffice. In 1990, he acted in Nari Nari Naduma Murari directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy alongside Shobana and Nirosha.[21] The film was a box-office success. In the same year he appeared in B. Gopal's Lorry Driver opposite Vijaya Shanti; the film was a Superhit at the box-office.[22] Talli Tandrulu alongside vijayasanthi was again a success at the boxoffice.
In 1991, he acted in another blockbuster science fiction film Aditya 369 directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao. The film is about a time machine that goes into the past and the future. And now they are trying to remake it again[23] This is the only science fiction film in Telugu cinema, during that period of time. He then had two releases in 1992 Dharma Kshetram was an Average and Rowdy Inspector directed by B. Gopal, was a "Super Hit" at the box-office.[24] In the year 1993, balakrishna had two releases on the same day which are Nippu Ravva alongside Shobana and Vijaya Shanti directed by A. Kodandarami Reddy and Bangaru Bullodu alongside Raveena Tandon and Ramya Krishna directed by Ravi Raja Pinisetty,[25] out of which "Bangaru Bullodu" was a super hit.[26] His next appearance was a folk role in Bhairava Dweepam (1994) directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao.[27] The film was a critical and commercial success and one of the milestone of his acting career. In Brahmarshi Viswamitra, directed by his father, he played as Satya Harischandra and Dushyanta. Between 1994–1999, he acted in super hit movies like Bobbili Simham, Vamsanikokkadu, Peddannayya and moderate successes like Muddula Mogudu, Maatho Pettukoku, Yuvaratna Rana and Pavitra Prema. In the year 1999, he acted in B. Gopal's action film Samarasimha Reddy opposite Simran and Anjala Zhaveri. The film went on to become one of the biggest hits of Telugu cinema of its time.[28][29]
Recent work (2000–present)[edit]
In 2000, Balakrishna acted in Goppinti Alludu directed by E V V Satyanarayana with Simran. The film was a hit at the box office.[30] In 2001, he starred in B. Gopal's directed faction film Narasimha Naidu opposite Simran. The film broke several box office records and it completed 100 days in as many as 109 centres in the state and neighbouring states and silver jubilee in a record 17 centre.[31][32] He won his first Nandi Award for Best Actor for his performance. In the same year, he appeared in Bhalevadivi Basu with Shilpa Shetty, Anjala Zhaveri which opened to average reviews.[33] His 2002 and 2003 films include Seema Simham, Chennakeshava Reddy neither of which were well received, but the later one did an average business at the box office. In 2004, he performed in a remake of the 2003 Tamil hit Saamy titled Lakshmi Narasimha with Asin Thottumkal. The film and Balakrishna's performance won critical acclaim and was a box office hit.[34][35]
The years from 2005 to 2009 saw a lull in Balayya's career. Action-drama flicks such as Vijayendra Varma, Veerabhadra, Allari Pidugu, Okka Magadu and Maharadhi bombed at the box office.[36] Balakrishna paired with Sneha and Tabu in the mythological movie Panduranga (2008) directed by K. Raghavendra Rao. He played the dual roles of Krishna and Panduranga.[37] Rediff described his performance as "Balakrishna does justice to both the roles of God and Ranga. He shines in the climax of the movie. It's quite a task to step into NTR's shoes but his son has done pretty well, though one does miss NTR in the role of Krishna!".[38] The film was an average success and his performance won him the Santosham Best Actor Award.[39] In the year 2009, he starred in family drama Mithrudu alongside Priyamani in a slightly different role – that of a dependable friend and confidante to the female lead. The film opened to average reviews.[40]
In 2010, he acted in Boyapati Srinu's film Simha alongside Nayantara and Sneha Ullal. NBK played dual roles as father and son. The film opened to positive reviews,[41] and went on to became one of the highest grossing film of the year.[42] A review in Rediff said about his performance "Balakrishna has put in a restrained performance. Though his character is supposed to roar at times, he seems subdued most of the time. But he's given plenty to be pleased about as it is his show all the way."[43] In 2011 he acted in a mythological film Sri Rama Rajyam based on the epic Ramayana.
In 2014, he acted in Boyapati Srinu's film Legend alongside Sonal Chauhan and jagapathi babu. NBK played dual Brother roles. The film turned out to be a Blockbuster and entered into 40 Crore Club.
International Film Festival of India (IFFI)[edit]
The Goa Governor, B V Wanchoo, the Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and Balakrishna were seen along with award winners and other dignitaries at the closing ceremony of the 43rd edition of the IFFI. Balakrishna, in his speech, said that although Telugu film industry finds no place in the film festival by way of representation to its films, 80 per cent of the movies that are produced in India are in regional languages, out of which 50 per cent are from South India. "Today, film industry is facing competition from radio, and television as also from piracy," the South Indian superstar stated. He also maintained that the film festivals have enlarged his vision towards his career.[44]
Article on National Geographic[edit]
While shooting, SrimanNarayana movie in Switzerland with the cast,the National Geopgraphic Traveler Andrew Evans,wrote an article named "Dream Sequence" about the dance sequence on hero Nandamuri Balakrishna and heroine Isha Chawla, and he wrote the discussions happened with the cast and Rengarajan Jaiprakash regarding films and Swiss.[45]
Shooting controversy[edit]
Nandamuri Balakrishna was involved in a shooting controversy. The incident took place on 3 June 2004 around 20:50 hrs at his residence in Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad. It is alleged that the actor has fired shots at the producer B.Suresh and his associate, Satyanarayana Chowdhary. Later both the wounded were admitted into Apollo hospital.[46] The circumstances under which the case was handled led to much controversy as purported by the Human Right Forum (HRF). The HRF has questioned the authenticity of people who handled the case, and the circumstances under which the actor was shielded from police by giving refuge in the CARE Hospital with out any justifiable cause.[47] The two victims have given statements before the magistrate alleging that Balakrishna had fired shots at them during their treatment in the hospital but soon they were retracted and made volte-face of their earlier statements.[48] The actor was arrested later on 6 June at around 3:30 AM and produced before fifth Metropolitan Magistrate. A show cause notice was also served on his wife Smt. Vasundhara Devi (married: 1982) as the weapon used was licensed under her name and she could not give sufficient protection to her licensed weapon. But later the actor was granted bail.[49]
Political entry[edit]
Ever since the Telugu Desam Party formation, Balakrishna always campaigned for it in every election but never entered the electoral battle. He contested in the 2014 Legislative Elections on behalf of TDP and won the Hindupur Assembly Constituency seat with a good majority (16,397).[50] Hindupur, in Anantapur district, has been a TD stronghold since 1983. It was once represented by NTR himself and later for a term by his elder son Nandamuri Harikrishna and Balakrishna will be the third from the family to represent State Assembly.[51]
- Best Actor – Narasimha Naidu (2001)[52]
- Best Actor – Simha (2010)[53]
- Won
- Nominations
- Best Actor – Telugu - Narasimha Naidu
- Best Actor – Telugu - Simha
- Best Actor – Telugu - Sri Rama Rajyam
- CineMAA Award for Best Actor - Male – Simha (2010)[54]
- Best Actor – Pandurangadu[39]
- Santosham Best Actor Award – Simha[55]
- Best Actor – Sri Rama Rajyam[56]
- TSR-TV9 Film Awards
- Best Actor Award for the year 2010 – Male – Simha[57]
- Best Actor Award for the year 2011 – Male – Sri Rama Rajyam[58]
- Other Awards
- Award for Best Child Actor - Thathamma Kala[59]
- Samman Award - Highest taxpayer in the charge of Commissioner of Income Tax.[60]
- Bharata Muni award for Best Actor of the year 2009 – Pandurangadu
- Bharata Muni award Best Actor of the year 2010 – Simha[61]
- Bharata Muni award Best Actor of the year 2011 – Sri Rama Rajyam[62]
- A.P. CINE Goers Association Best Actor Award – Narasimha Naidu[63] Chennakesava Reddy[64] and Pandurangadu.[65]
- Akkineni Abhinaya Puraskaram for the year 2007[66]
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Here's a thought: walk into a bar, order, and pay with your phone. Why not? Japan as an entire nation has been doing it widely for at least the last five years. I know it sounds crazy but it's time the wild wild West looked beyond what the mobile giants are pedaling today and ask themselves, "Why haven't we done this yet?"
We've already seen a number of mobile payment technologies break onto the scene since the start of 2010, including a few raised right here in Austin, and they are doing more than just introducing new portals to give our money away; they are actually ballooning a market that has the potential to disrupt how we view, value, and spend our hard earned dinero.
Get In The Game
The technologies exists to transition transactions from the ugly, cumbersome processes that we've all been accustom to for approximately the last 60 years – I am talking about scribbling by signature on a piece of paper with a bunch of meaningless numbers, or carrying around book of receipts/cash in my back pocket.
Of these technologies, there are number of interesting players in the game but Square is probably the most notable of the group currently leading the pack. Square allows merchants anywhere there is internet access to accept payments from credit cards via any mobile device that has a headphone input jack.
Square is extremely interesting to me because of the potential it has to significantly widen the transaction playing field and practically double the revenues of any delicious cash-only trailer on South Congress simply by facilitating credit card transactions.
Square provides a necessary technology for independent businesspersons to see more dollar signs while lessening the stress on consumers by providing a stellar alternative to the always-disappointing "cash only" sign, all while sexifying the exchange in the process. I'll ask it again: "Why hasn't this happened yet?"
Market potential seems to be growing hand-in-hand with the proliferation of the apple's products (i.e. the iPad and iPhone), and rumor on the street has is that apple themselves may be starting to smell the pie they are cooking up and want a piece of it.
There's no doubt in my mind that Square's tech should and will be included in every small biz startup kit from here on out. However, the more interesting question to me is not whether businesses are going to use it, but how this technology will influence how we as consumers spend?
To buy or not to buy?
In an effort to predict general US spending behavior, as well as an Austinite's spending behavior, I think it best we look to Japan as a sister culture example that is ten years ahead of us.
I make this assumption because Austinites have the disposable income and interest in technology to mimic Japan's mobile adoption behavior. "Austin residents are the No. 1 spenders in the U.S., averaging $67,076 in overall household expenses over 2009." And, as is in Japan, Austinites are technology cookie monsters in search of the next fun gizmo to ogle over until someone at SXSW tells us what the next shiny object could be. Long story short, our culture is composed of financially enabled, technologically savvy cool hunters.
Japanese residents use their phones for everything, including payments, and they shop a ridiculous amount via their mobile devices. According to a number of reports put out by Wireless Watch Japan, an English news source for Japan's mobile industry, Japan's mobile payment/shopping industry has encountered little resistance with user adoption. To shed some light, here are some of the more interesting stats I found:
· Revenues from mobile shopping and auctions started to outgrow mobile content revenues as early as 2005. The dominant players in this category are Yahoo! Shopping and Auctions and Rakuten, an online shopping site Aggregator which generates 25% of its total sales via mobile.
· 32% of Japanese mobile users use their mobile to make purchases online.
· 21.5% participate in auctions.
· 14.8% of mobile shoppers do so 5-9 times a year, and almost 1/6 once a month or more.
· The average amount spent on mobile purchases by shoppers exceeds US$300.
As our lives get busier and align more with web-savvy devices, we will start to mimic the behavior seen above, purchasing more: possibly a new Mac Book via your new iPad, bidding on ebay via your blackberry, or merely purchasing the right to read the content that until this point has been offered free for your reading pleasure!
Currently, we are faced with an infrastructure-level problem: If we don't have cash, we don't get a cupcake from the trailer. The introduction of mobile transaction software/devices, mobile digital cash, payment 2.0, or whatever we will eventually call it, will inherently remove this infrastructure level barrier leading to the deeper philosophical question, "It's possible, but do I need this cupcake?"
The introduction of these technologies goes way beyond cupcakes though, and will undoubtedly effect spending behaviors, businesses, and financial institutions.
Looking to the future
In the next few years we will begin to see Americans purchasing more and more from their iPads, iPods, and phones. I have not doubt about it.
To break it down, I see the paradigm shifts below happening in the next 10 years as a result of mass adoption of mobile transactions:
Cash use and physical currency will decline
This is bound to happen especially as more players like, PingPing, Paypal (using Bump's tech), and Austin's own TabbedOut enter the game with their eyes on the rapidly expanding gold rush opportunity.
(Even Starbucks has a mobile payment app… we should all be worried, very worried. Our nation is about to be cracked out and in debt thanks to Starbucks.)
Although all different now, with no clear victor in the pack, these technologies all share one common attribute: they come through when cash fails. Cash is limited, troubling to access on-demand, and ultimately unnecessary unless you are purchasing something shady.
Credit cards will likely remain the primary payment option (as perpetuated by technologies like Square) as we've already been trained and accustomed to this primary payment process for the last 60 years.
Quickly following credit cards as the current preferred method payment is cash, but the main differentiator between cash and credit cards is that credit cards are not yet immediately threatened by mobile payment technologies — cash definitely is.
All of the companies listed above will likely substitute cash in small transactions to start, but will grow in popularity because they are fundamentally easier and more similar to the credit card-like behavioral tendencies to which we are accustomed.
Cash is also threatened by businesses that may reinforce mobile payment methods because of the added business value they offer. This could be a number of things: graphically representing transactions, gathering data about your customers, branding transactions, or by providing a better system for personal finance by allowing users to electronically tracking each transaction in with e-receipts waiting for them in their inbox.
Point being: cash is limited, and phones are everywhere. Businesses and consumers will put one and one together eventually.
NFC enabled phones will increase micro payments
Not long ago, Richard McManus wrote this article on ReadWriteWeb explaining the tech and potential of Near Field Communication technology in mobile phones.
Pay Pay with bump is an example of NFC hard at work. The days of "I'll have to pay you back" just won't cut it in the future, not when the act of returning owed money can be accomplished by simply bumping phones together (assuming you have the money in your account).
This technology could allow for payments of all sizes, but practically speaking, it directly targets cash because that is the preferred method of smaller transactions. No one wants a check made out for $4.50 – it would cost you that much in gas just to cash it.
NFC is a valuable technology, especially within the context of mobile payments. While Apple or Android products haven't yet adopted it, I wouldn't be surprised to see this technology wrapped into new products as the competitive landscape for mobile payment methods matures.
Smarter Recommendations: spending data will open all kinds of doors
Transactional data will dramatically improve search. When transactions go mobile and through a device, data is being generated and potentially captured. While some don't want this data to go public, there are valuable uses for it that have real world value.
In a recent interview with John Battelle, he explains how services can communicate with each other to use such data to better serve your goals:
Say I use the New York Transit application to navigate my way through New York for 3 or 4 days… all of the questions and back-and-forth that I use that app for, which is essentially a structured search session—right? Now, match that against a set of data which is the transit map. I say, "I need to go over here. I want to go over there. I prefer this route over that route,"—that becomes a dataset that should inform other searches that I'm making on things that seemingly are unrelated but may not be. That should be available as metadata for future searches. And figuring how to inform that is as important as parsing the line or the spoken phrase that I'm making in the moment.
Now, if I take that spoken phrase and go and search for "Chicago rental car" four months after interacting with that New York Transit map application, how can we take the metadata from that interaction with New York and inform the appropriate response in Chicago. Perhaps the best suggestions would be, "Hey, you know what? You don't need to rent a car. You can use the Chicago Transit. Here's an app for it. You can get from the airport to everywhere you want to go without having to rent a car. Plus, you'll save $150 which we know is a goal of yours because you've been interacting with the Mint application and it said that a goal of yours is that you want to save $200 a month and here's a way that you do that"?
Tying all that together, that's the Holy Grail because then it starts to understand you. If you only parse just the query, even if you get the natural language right and the intent right, you're missing the whole person.
Spending behavior can paint a more accurate picture of who you are and can thus allow services to better understand our needs and make better recommendations.
While scary, spending behavior is one of the biggest missing pieces of the puzzle that helps machines identify what we need, what we don't [cupcakes], what we value, and what alternatives may better suit our long-term objectives.


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The number of consumers currently using a mobile device to visit a retailer's Web site is 13.3%, while 8.5% are using smartphones to make a purchase.
Online sales were the standout over the Thanksgiving weekend, with comScore reporting a 26% increase in sales to $816 million. This made Black Friday the heaviest spending day on the Internet so far in 2011.- Reported by Jeanine Poggi in New York. Follow TheStreet.com on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.
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Ingredients3 eggs
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A Recession Rollback at the Tibet House Benefit
Although the recession seemed to be taking its toll at the Tibet House's silent-auction benefit last night, which took place at Christie's in New York City, the event was an ideal place for Christmas shoppers looking for bargains: plenty of lots had their reserves reduced. Slyly kicking off her shoes for a moment while she talked to me, model and host Petra Nemcova shared her gift-buying tactics: "I spotted something where you only have to exercise for 20 minutes a week, which I thought would be ideal for friends." Arden Wohl flitted around the room chatting to a gaggle of ex-Daltonians, including artist and singer Rebecca Schiffman, who discussed her Thanksgiving while her pen hovered above the bidding sheet for a pair of Emmylou Harris's jeans: "My family finally realized this year that we weren't that into turkey, so we actually had a barbeque chicken." Donna Karan, Beatrix Ost, and Ludvig Kuttner were among the mix of guests. Also circling the room was Bob Thurman, who founded the Tibet House to preserve Tibetan culture. During the live auction, his daughter the actress Uma Thurman, who was in attendance with her daughter, nudged her financier fiancé, Arpad Busson, to get the bidding going on some of the higher-priced lots. As writer Darsi Monaco headed out to dinner, she laughed about her disappointment over the auction: "We had a three-way bidding war going on over a 10th-century limestone Buddha, but when one of the parties hid the pen and did an interesting energy-transference ritual over it, I had to bow out."


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Yards. I meant yards
Tardis in Metro form?100 years down the side street
*Edited to add. I once had a Metro. The gears were labelled as 1, 2, 3, E (for economy). I sold it after 2 months due to embarrasment and brought a Peugeot 205 GTI.
Yards. I meant yards
When someone has a knife, it is deemed reasonable force to do whatever it takes to get the knife out of their hand.
Some knuckledragging retard broke into my Astra MK3 while it was parked one night. Bent the door out, and unlocked it. Smashed the column after ripping the interior light out, tried to hotwire it.
3 reasons he epically failed...
1. It was an Automatic with a shifter interlock. No key, no shift release.
2. It was a Phase2 with the V-Grille...with ECU integrated immobiliser.
3. I had the fuel pump fuse on the book case.
He then scattered the cars contents round the carpark before legging it. 7 cars were done that night, mine was the only one not nicked.
I bent the door back in line, couple of dabs of paint. Set of locks for £7 from a breaker, new shroud for £1, couple of hours...back to normal.
Interestingly, you want to pay attention to how many key fishing incidents occur in your area. If a large number of vehicles get stolen from such incidents, you can get a discount from parking on the road. That way the thief has no guarantee that the car parked outside a house has the keys in the hall without prior observation.
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Or leave an amusing set of fake keys in fishing reach, which when attempted to be used, emit an ear piercing alarm....hmmm.
Edit: once fished the keys from the ignition of my locked MR2 once. Had to force the window down a crack, use a long welding rod to and push the key in and turn it, then unlock the door. Took ages!
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I had to fish for my own keys once. It was 6-30 am in the winter. I was just on my way to the gym and accidentally locked my keys in the car. I was able to get a long cane from the garden and fish my wife's keys off of the stairs and unlock the door, otherwise I would have frozen to death.
I once had to explain to the police what I was doing at 1am outside my own house trying to open a Ford Escort with a bent coat hanger. The car belonged to me and my wife had locked the keys inside - both sets of keys......
The locking on my Chrysler Neon was getting so temperamental that I doubt someone could have stolen it even with the keys.
Maybe that's why not many get stolen.
Looking at Dos Box's list, you'd think that Ford were still only using 20 differs on their locks!
My mum had her MK2 vauxhall astra stolen in about 2001. Was a sad day really, as before it was my mums car it was the family car, and took us on holidays all over the place throughout my teenage years. How a 1.4 Astra coped with 4 people plus luggage plus trailer tent on some pretty long drives I will never know, but it was a trooper and never let us down.
Anyway, it was found abandoned about 10 miles away and recovered by the police, eventually written off by the insurance due to the damage done during the theft. The funny thing is they'd tried to steal the radio, but couldn't get it out - kudos to me for fitting it properly. Shame they saw the need to shove a screw driver through the front of it in their efforts thou, they didn't even have the front panel for it so god knows what they thought they could do with it if they got it out.
Also had a very old golf I owned stolen once, for which I was pleased because I was trying to get rid of it. That was also found abandoned several months later.
My 1st car (4 years ago) was a 1990 mini, and 3 of my mates also had old minis as we found out we could get then cheap, good on fuel, fun to drive and most of all Classic Insurance about £350 a year for 18 years olds (they have since changed it to 25 + ) The key for my mini opened the other 3 minis doors and my ignition key would actually work on 1.
Saying this I did however open the door on my mini with a piece of slate more then once
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15) Twitchy: Michelle Malkin's new Twitter based news site.
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San Francisco, CA (Sports Network) - Tim Lincecum fired seven innings of three-hit shutout ball, and the Giants bats produced a second straight solid effort in a 9-0 win against the Astros.
Lincecum (9-2), fresh off being named the NL's Pitcher of the Month for June, won for the fifth time in his last six starts and for the ninth time in his last 10 decisions.
The reigning Cy Young Award winner for the Senior Circuit struck out nine, walked two and walked twice himself, scoring both times. He has now allowed two runs or less in eight of his last nine outings and has fanned at least eight batters in each of his last five starts.
"He is one of the best. Those elite players get on a roll and it's impressive. He is commanding all his pitches. It's enjoyable to watch," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
San Francisco pounded out the nine runs on 12 hits one day after taking the opener to this three-game set in similar fashion, 13-0. Aaron Rowand and Randy Winn had a pair of RBI each, while Pablo Sandoval reached base four times with two hits and two walks, driving in a run in the win.
Former Giants right-hander Russ Ortiz (3-4) was tagged for nine hits and eight runs with five walks in a 5 2/3-inning start. Houston had entered the series winners in six of its previous eight but have managed just seven hits in the first two games versus the Giants.
The game was actually scoreless after 4 1/2 frames but the Giants scored twice in the fifth and broke it open with a six-run sixth. Sandoval knocked in Lincecum with a single to right to open the scoring, and Winn scored on a passed ball to close the fifth.
Lincecum walked for a second consecutive inning to load the bases with two outs in the sixth, and the Giants went on to rally for six runs. Rowand drove in two with a base hit to left and Winn doubled to right-center to plate two more. After Sandoval was intentionally walked, Chris Sampson came on but Bengie Molina greeted him with an RBI double and Nate Schierholtz followed with a run-scoring single to center.
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International: Overlaps Between Oil, Gas, And Agriculture Shed Light On Social Conflicts And Land Competition
New Oxfam America report maps land use, competition in Peru and Ghana
A new study by Oxfam America and Clark University's Graduate School of Geography maps the intersections between extractive industries and agricultural land uses, illustrating potential social and environmental conflicts.
The study , which focuses on Ghana and Peru because of the recent dramatic growth in their mining and hydrocarbon sectors, depicts in detail the oil, gas, and mining concessions that often overlap with agricultural, indigenous and protected lands.
"Throughout their histories, Ghana and Peru have witnessed conflictive relationships between local communities and extractive operations," said Keith Slack, global program manager for extractive industries at Oxfam America. "These conflicts are often rooted in small-scale farmers' concerns about negative impacts on land and water. Addressing the causes of these conflicts is critical to ensuring more beneficial outcomes from investments by extractive industries."
Mining, oil, and gas extraction have exploded across Latin America and Africa in the past decade, driven by high prices for oil, gold, and industrial metals like copper. In many countries, mining and oil activity have come into direct competition with small-scale agriculture. Tensions over control of land and, most importantly, water have led to community protests and violent conflict. Reconciling these two important development drivers has become a critical governance and development issue. Local civil society organizations supported by Oxfam have highlighted the urgency of government action to address issues raised in the study.
"The Peruvian government needs to take urgent action to protect agricultural land from the negative impacts of oil and mining," said Ana Leyva, a lawyer and environmental officer with Fundación Ecuménica para el Desarrollo y la Paz (FEDEPAZ, Peru). "This includes adopting stronger land-use laws that help protect indigenous and local communities' health, resources and livelihoods."
"The Ghanaian government should ensure that the revenues generated from our current oil and mining boom go to support small-scale agriculture and fishing," said Solomon Kusi Ampofo, extractive industries program officer, Friends of the Nation (Ghana). "Careful monitoring of oil and gas projects is essential to protect our environment and the fisherfolk, farmers and citizens who depend on it."
The report, a collaboration between Oxfam America and geographers from Clark University, seeks to contribute to productive dialogue on the tensions between extractive industries and agriculture by graphically depicting where these activities overlap in two resource-dependent developing countries: Peru and Ghana. In both countries, Oxfam America has long experience in promoting sustainable agricultural livelihoods and better development outcomes from extractive industries.
The report shows how mining and oil concessions have expanded dramatically in recent years in agriculturally productive areas. Oil was discovered in Ghana in 2007, and since then the majority of coastal waters have been opened to exploration for oil and gas. An analyst recently concluded that oil is "poised to replace cocoa as the main driver of economic growth." Meanwhile in Peru between 2004 and 2008, hydrocarbon concessions in the Amazon increased from covering less than 15 percent of the basin to nearly three-quarters of it. Policymakers, corporate officials, and civil society should give urgent attention to promoting policy solutions to address the actual and potential conflicts this expansion creates. Zoning land for particular uses, for example, could help reduce conflict by establishing clear rules for how land will be used. Greater transparency and increased investment of oil and mining revenues to strengthen agricultural production should also be a priority for public debate. And greater dialogue between the extractive and agricultural sectors is needed.
"Reconciling extractive industries with agriculture in developing countries will not be easy," said Slack. "Seeing where these sectors overlap can help reduce conflict and violence."
"Mapping shows that agriculture and extractive industries are increasingly occurring in the same areas," said John Rogan, Associate Professor of Geography, Clark University. "Visualizing these overlaps gives us insights into areas of social conflicts, resource restraints, effective governance, and where careful coordination is needed."
Oxfam America has been involved in extractive industry issues for more than 15 years, supporting civil society engagement with governments, international financial institutions, and corporations to better protect the rights of rural communities affected by extractive industries.
Source: Oxfam America
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So I got to play around with an RDC machine today before I hit and found something rather interesting results.
B7/Iontec Hybrid: 38
Iontec Regular: 31
Iontec Hexa: 32
What's shocking is that the Iontec regular is shifty, notched, and thoroughly played with. One could even say that it's "dead" yet it measures the same stiffness as the [relatively] fresh bed of Hexa. Figure the Hexa only has about an hour of play on it so it's no where near abused.
On another note, I hit with a friend tonight and had the chance to try out a ProStaff 6.1 95 with Wilson Spincycle in it. The frame is stupidly off-spec even for a wilson. It's over 10g heavier, 4 points more head heavy and SW is 20pts higher. Having qualified that, I kindof liked this heavy frame. The true spec version felt nice but ultimately too light. It's not for me but it definitely opened my eyes to Spincycle. I never really thought anything about it but this string feels like it could have some potential. Feel @ 53 was comfortable and didn't reflect how stiff the string feels when stringing. Coupled with the 6.1 95, I didn't need a vibration dampener either. I'd love to see how it plays in my Youteks
Also hit with B7/It for a bit. I found this string much more comfortable when hitting a slower paced ball. When trying to hit out on fast paced returns-- I wasn't really impressed. The cross of these two strings nullified the characteristics I liked about each as a full bed. When just hitting a slower ball back and forth, the feel and spin seemed to come back.
Bright side is that I have an order coming in tomorrow w/ more B7 16 on the way. I'll definitely be trying that out to see if I can eek out some more performance while still keeping tension.
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The pub history sites are regularly updated by Stephen Harris and kevan, plus an 'open' group of like-minded individuals on a daily basis; and anyone is welcome to contribute. We are not a society, but a random group of people with similar interests in mapping the usage of old buildings, public houses, taverns, hotels and Inns through time. Why not join us, there is no cost in getting involved, and any contribution to pub history is welcome. To contact the pubs history site, please email deadpubs<
A listing of historical public houses, Taverns, Inns, Beer Houses and Hotels in London.
These all correspond to those public houses found in the London BT 1971 Telephone directories, although the telephone number is not registered as it would be wildly out of date. A few are from the 1970 directory. Links are back to the deadpubs site which shows a considerable amount of past history of the pubs and their past residents.
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Abingdon Arms, 54 Abingdon Road,,W8
Adam & Eve,163 Kensington High street,,W8
Britannia,1 Allen street,,W8
Builders Arms, 1 Kensington Court Place, R L Banks,W8
Catherine Wheel, 23 Kensington Church Street,,W8
Churchill Arms,119 Kensington Church street,,W8
Crown,80 Kensington High street,,W8
Devonshire Arms,37 Marloes Road,,W8
Elephant & Castle,40 Holland street,,W8
Greyhound,1 Kensington Square,,W8
Holland Arms,284 Kensington High Street,,W8
Kensington Arms,84 Pembroke Road,,W8
Kensington Arms,41 Abingdon Road,,W8
Live & Let Live,53 Marloes Road,,W8
Old Swan, Kensington Church street,,W8
Prince of Wales,8 Kensington Church street,,W8
Prince of Wales Hotel,De Vere Gardens,,W8
Princess Victoria,25 Earls Court road,,W8
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Thankfully, though, Coppola's days of driving audiences to drink with such anonymous, underwhelming endeavors as Gardens of Stone and Peggy Sue Got Married appear to be over. The 68-year-old Coppola, who acknowledged a decade ago to the New York Times that several disastrous pet projects forced him to become a "hired gun," is done making films for others.
Trumpeted as Coppola's long-awaited return to personal filmmaking, Youth Without Youth marks his first time behind the cameras since he jumped on the John Grisham bandwagon with The Rainmaker in 1997. His new film, an adaptation of Mircea Eliade's novella, follows a professor (Tim Roth) on the run in pre-World War II Europe.
He's also readying Tetro, a semiautobiographical drama chronicling the friction between members of an artistic-minded Italian immigrant family in Argentina.
Ten years is a long time to wait for a new film from the director who admittedly went insane filming his last true masterpiece, Apocalypse Now, which was released in 1979. Coppola devotees still have to wait until the fall to decide whether Youth Without Youth should be uttered in the same breath as The Godfather. But the Miami Beach Cinematheque (MBC) is offering a sneak peak of sorts on May 13 with CODA: Thirty Years On, a documentary about Coppola's return to directing and his filmmaking philosophy and techniques.
Coppola will participate in a post-screening Q&A moderated by the Miami Herald's Rene Rodriguez, who recently wrote that Rumblefish inspired him to become a film critic. "An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola" also is the highlight of the MBC's Coppola tribute, which kicks off May 9 to 11 with the Godfather trilogy, and ends June 2 with the lucrative money job, Bram Stoker's Dracula. There also will be an exhibition of Coppola-related memorabilia.
The films chosen by MBC director Dana Keith portray Coppola as the fierce and daring maverick who ran amok for years in the jungles of the Philippines to deliver Apocalypse Now (screening May 25, preceded on May 12 by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper's riveting making-of, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse); the misguided visionary whose technically ambitious One From the Heart (screening May 26) and experimental teen drama Rumblefish (screening June 1) cost him his independence; and the downtrodden director who couldn't recapture past glories with The Godfather Part III.
Perhaps the most glaring omissions due to "availability" of prints or "space on the calendar," per Keith are the gripping 1974 morality tale The Conversation, Coppola's own favorite of his films, and the colorful, optimistic Tucker: The Man and His Dream, from 1988, which draws parallels between pioneer car designer Preston Tucker's fight against the auto industry and Coppola's Tinseltown struggles.
Coppola can't blame anyone but himself for selling out. The Godfather films gave Coppola the artistic and financial freedom to turn Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness into a hallucinatory antiwar screed. But he didn't learn his lessons from spending too much time and too much money on Apocalypse Now. The film's critical and commercial acceptance seem to have made him feel invincible, so much so that he could pour a then-astounding $26 million into One From the Heart. The Las Vegas-set musical tanked. With his American Zoetrope studio bankrupt, Coppola had no choice but to sell his soul to Hollywood.
A return to the franchise that made him a legend seemed inevitable but unwarranted. The Godfather Part III had its moments, and replacing a sickly Winona Ryder with his ill-at-ease daughter Sofia wasn't Coppola's undoing. It was the feeling that Coppola closed the book on the Corleones out of obligation rather than passion.
Coppola didn't intend to take ten years off. For years he tried and failed to nail the script to his ambitious sci-fi epic Megalopolis. He restored and re-released Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, and he served as the executive producer of many films, including daughter Sofia's Lost in Translation and son Roman's CQ. He also kept himself busy with American Zoetrope; his Napa Valley, California winery; and his literary and online ventures.
But filmmaking clearly remains Coppola's first love. And it's obvious that the conflict between art and commerce is very much on his mind these days.
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The final arrow drops the last Druid, ending their threat. With Mikhaere's expertise, you are able to extract the Atavistic Splinter from the standing stones and end the ritual. By the next day, Li Shuo and Uriel are their old selves again, though a craving for raw meat lasts for a week or two.
When you return to the logging camp, you find the loggers similarly cured and they are very grateful for your actions. Venture-Captain Brackett commends you for your actions in retrieving the Atavistic Splinter.
Combat over. Scenario over. Congrats! :D
Botting Uriel.
Uriel steps up to the Druid menacing Li, and momentarily giving into his bestial curse, goes to savage the man with his new teeth and claws, and strikes him with the latter. The Druid crumples to the ground.
Li re-aims his fire, and with Daeris' arrow as well, another Druid falls to the ground.
Another Druid advances laughs to see Uriel's change. "Join us, brother! Give into your bestial nature and kill the interlopers!" he says before swinging at Li, striking him a bone-rattling blow with his staff. 11 damage to Li
The other Druid struggles against the vines holding him and fails to escape.
DM Rolls:
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 21
1d3 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
1d3 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
2d6 + 4 ⇒ (6, 1) + 4 = 11
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (4) + 2 = 6
Round 3
Both sides were aware. No surprise round. And Uriel, at your speed, there's no way to get in and shoot this round.
Mikhaere begins the assault with his spell, resulting in the grass and vines of the area bursting into activity, trying to grasp anything standing in them. Two of the Druids are caught in the vines, while the other two try to get clear of the area. Daeris' arrow strikes home on one of the Druids. Then one succeeds in escaping the vines after the fact, and one remains caught.
One Druid makes it adjacent to Li and swings at him with his Quarterstaff, which shimmers with green light, missing badly. 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (2) + 3 = 5
DM Rolls:
1d20 + 1 ⇒ (20) + 1 = 21
1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
1d20 + 1 ⇒ (16) + 1 = 17
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 2 = 11
1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Round 2
DM Rolls:
1d20 + 7 ⇒ (14) + 7 = 21
Mikhaere creeps down the passage, and as he rounds the final corner and beholds the standing stones from ground level, there is a cry of alarm from one of the Druids. Attuned to their surroundings, they have spied Mikhaere!
Mikhaere 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (15) + 4 = 19
Uriel 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (6) + 8 = 14
Li Shuo 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (9) + 6 = 15
Jorag 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18
Daeris 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Druids 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
The Druids begin by all chanting spells.
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With the wand's magic, Mikhaere gets a faraway look in his eyes.
The middle path that Uriel was investigating leads to an open space in the center of the henge that is roughly oblong, with three gaps in the thorny walls to the south, west, and north. To the east is a rough wooden table with a leather satchel lying atop it. The table is surrounded by six cut logs planed flat and turned endwise to serve as stools. Two stiff linen banners hang on stands placed along northwest and southwest walls, carefully placed a few inches away from the thorns to prevent tearing.
To the North path, it winds back to the entrance and circles around to join up with the space in the center. This path continues to the East where it enters another long, wide area that is partially roofed by a sheet of woven bark. There is a path joining the center area from here as well.
A path from this area and one from the place you are in now leads to the South into a wide area on the South side of Briar Henge that has a roughly circular shape. Four tall, thin spires of ancient stone thrust up from the ground at irregular intervals like malformed teeth. To the west, two thicker stones are capped with a third horizontal stone, forming a crude gateway. A thick piece of charred bark is suspended in this gateway by a web of crackling energy. The crackling energy pulses outward from the bark into the dolmen stones, and from there into the ground. Four humanoid figures in hide armor, grasping staves, stand before the gateway and seem to be chanting something.
Uriel creeps up the center passage and peeks into an open space.
This open space is roughly oblong, with three gaps in the thorny walls to the south, west, and north. To the east is a rough wooden table with a leather satchel lying atop it. The table is surrounded by six cut logs planed flat and turned endwise to serve as stools. Two stiff linen banners hang on stands placed along northwest and southwest walls, carefully placed a few inches away from the thorns to prevent tearing.
You hear soft chanting coming from somewhere in that direction.
I'd certainly allow a circumstance bonus on something like that, Jorag. Neither of these are, but the roll on the wand is sufficient.
The wand is a Wand of Eagle Eye with 12 charges remaining.
Li and Daeris unleash a flurry of return fire. Two of their arrows strike home in the swirling melee of attacks from Mikhaere and Uriel. The Twigjack is rocked back by Daeris' shot, but Li's strikes the fey creature in its midsection, severing the vines that hold it together. The tiny figure drops to its knees as small twigs spill from its abdomen, its thorny hands trying to hold them in, before it collapses in an unrecognizable heap of kindling on the ground.
Combat over
Two arrows stick into the Twigjack's twiggy body, and it hisses in a remarkably insect-like fashion before aiming its arms at Li, Jorag and Daeris, and a storm of thorns erupt from its limbs.
Reflex Saves:
1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (9) + 5 = 14
1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
4d6 ⇒ (1, 4, 5, 5) = 15
Li, Daeris and Jorag take 7 damage each.
Round 1
There's not actually any way to avoid the damage from the thorns in the scenario.
As the others post themselves at the entrances, Daeris examines the chests. No traps are found, but the larger chest of locked, but she does locate a key in the bottom of the smaller chest which fits the lock. Inside the larger chest she finds, among other things, a Wand and a Scroll.
The passages are very winding, and neither Mikhaere or Uriel can see very far. Then, after a few moments, emerging from the brambles themselves is a tiny, vaguely humanoid creature that seems to be made completely of bundles of sticks wound with thorny vines.
Knowledge: Nature DC 13:
This is a Twigjack, an evil Fey made entirely of twigs and thorns.
They are vulnerable to fire.
They are able to travel via brambles and undergrowth as by magic for a limited distance each day, and eject a spray of flaying thorns a few times each day.
I will allow Knowledge checks and speech before Initiative occurs.
Mikhaere 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Uriel 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (4) + 8 = 12
Li Shuo 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (20) + 6 = 26
Jorag 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (12) + 2 = 14
Daeris 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
Twig 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (13) + 3 = 16
Round 1
DM Rolls:
1d6 ⇒ 2
1d6 ⇒ 2
1d6 ⇒ 2
1d6 ⇒ 5
1d6 ⇒ 1
The Pathfinders push their way through the gap, suffering cuts and scrapes along the way, but ending up more or less safely on the other side.
Mikhaere suffers 2 dmg.
Six hammocks hang suspended from the thorns here, crisscrossing along the thorny walls. Two oaks provide shade and shelter from wind and rain. A few clothes hang from the thorny walls. The hammocks and clothes seem simply made. Near one of the tree trunks is a large, sturdy chest. Near the other is a smaller chest, whose open lid reveals several scrolls and tomes. Gaps in the walls allow exit to the northwest, north, and northeast.
Taking 10 won't do it, unfortunately.
DM Rolls:
1d20 + 7 ⇒ (4) + 7 = 11
1d20 + 8 ⇒ (3) + 8 = 11
Daeris moves cautiously closer and looks at the briar walls of the Henge. She figures it can be climbed, but not without suffering significant harm from the thorns. She does not find any traps, though in searching along the outside of the wall she does locate a point where the briars are particularly thin.
'S' on map
Leaving the Elf and her companion to their own devices, after having confiscated her weapons, the Pathfinders resume their trek to the Briar henge.
There are four scrolls that haven't been identified, by the way.
Approaching from the South, Briar Henge is a bristling fortress. The compound is roughly circular and approximately 100 feet across. The walls are made of tangled thorn bushes twelve feet high, although the compound does not appear to have a roof. The only break in the prickly wall is a gap five feet wide and eight feet high. Hanging ivy covers this doorway and blocks the view of the interior of the compound.
The entrance mentioned is on the North side.
I use Google Docs. What I do is I create a jpeg of the map, and jpegs of all the tokens I want to use (usually I go to the character page of the game and do a print screen, paste it into MS Paint, and cut each individual portrait out and create files for each of them). I then create a Drawing on Google Docs and then insert the image, then insert all the tokens and then scale them to the map grid. I then make sure I set all the preferences to Anyone Can Edit so people can add their own tokens (like Mikhaere did when he summoned that Eagle) and move them around.
She has 20 mundane arrows, 16 Silver arrows, a +1 Str Composite Longbow, a Scimitar, Studded Leather armor, and four Scrolls. No incriminating evidence as such.
The Crocodile is indeed unconscious, and while Mikhaere tends to it, the others bind and stabilize the Elf - a rough-looking character, despite her Elven beauty. When she wakes, there is a flash of fear in her eyes that changes to defiance. "I'd rather die than become one of you!" she says. "Kill me now or bite me and I'll do the deed myself later."
Li's arrow flies true and the Elf drops to the leafy ground beneath the tree, a second arrow now protruding from her chest.
Li's action happened before Daeris's and the attack was enough to drop the Elf, so you can change yours, Daeris.
At that, the Crocodile lets forth a bellowing rumble and lunges at Mikhaere. 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (17) + 4 = 21
1d6 + 3 ⇒ (3) + 3 = 6 damage to Mikhaere.
Round 3


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