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Neera is a chaotic neutral half-elf wild mage who appears in Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition. She can be found in the town Beregost on the north of town, south-east of where your party enters the area, seeking aid from a group of mages hunting her.
Neera's voice actor is Nicola Elbro, see external links for the information.
|You! HEY, YOU! Yes, you. I don't see anybody else around here. A little help, please?
–Neera introduces herself
Neera starts with a unique spell Nahal's Reckless Dweomer, which allows the caster to choose any spell they know on the fly and cast it as a first level spell, at the cost of raising the chance of having a Wild Surge to 100%. The caster also gets to add their level to the wild surge roll.
Recruited at level 1, Neera has 4 hp and one Weapon Proficiency:
- Quarterstaff +
She is wearing a Traveller's Robe and wields a special Quarterstaff:
She knows the following spells:
- Armor
- Burning Hands
- Chromatic Orb
- Color Spray
- Identify
- Magic Missile (memorized)
- Nahal's Reckless Dweomer (memorized)
- Sleep
She also carries a Gem Bag containing a Fire Agate Gem, Lynx Eye Gem, Sunstone Gem and a Turquoise Gem.
If you keep Neera in your party long enough (and, possibly, listen politely to her long, winding stories) she will ask you to help Find the Wild Mage Adoy.
In-game biographyEdit
|When asked about her past, Neera says she has been on the run from Red Wizards for months and months. She seems quick-thinking and a little glib, but you have heard that wild mages are among the most powerful spellcasters... as long as they don't have an accident. Despite her cheerful and capricious demeanor, you sense her past haunts her. As much as she loves unleashing the powers of her wild magic, she also seems to fear the harm it can cause.
In your JournalEdit
After you aid Neera against the Red Wizards, an entry is placed into the Journal section of your Journal:
- Triggered By: Aiding Neera
- Journal Section: Journal
If you accept her into the party:
- Entry Title: Something Wild
- Entry:
I met a half-elf named Neera on the road and rescued her from a group of Red Wizards intent on studying her talent for wild magic. Her spells are unpredictable but sometimes far more powerful than those of other spellcasters. Her personality seems just as unpredictable, so I hope I made the right choice in bringing her along.
If you do not invite her to join your party:
- Entry Title: Wild Thing
- Entry:
I met a half-elf named Neera on the road and rescued her from a group of Red Wizards intent on studying her talent for wild magic. Between her unpredictable spells and manner, I thought it better to let her go on her way. She said she would be at the Friendly Arm Inn.
- "You rang?" (on selection)
- "*yawn* Casting spells isn't as easy as I make it look, I'm tired." (when tired)
- "Uh huh?" (on selection)
- "What is it this time?" (on selection)
- "Stand back, and watch this!"
- "My turn to save the day!"
- "I'll do it!"
- "There was way more excitement in High Forest... " (if not doing anything for a while)
- "I could really use Tenser's Floating Bandage over here!" (when health critical)
- "EAT FLAMING - or... possibly frosty - DEATH!" (battle cry)
- "Oof... only take me... to a licensed cleric... argh... " (death)
- "All right, if you're sure. Oh, it's so fun to be in charge!" (when made leader of the party)
External linksEdit
- www.imdb.com[1]

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Strangely enough Event Viewer suggests the redirection was successful, however when checking the path of the folders they point to C:\Users\username
Been trying for a couple of days now to get folder redirection working on Windows 7. Currently works with no issues on Windows XP and Vista. However creating a new user and performing the first log on in Windows 7 has issues with Profiles and Redirection.
I have tested redirection in the following manner -
Create a New OU in AD
Block Inheritance to this new OU
Create a single Group Policy Object, defining only Folder Redirection
Create an account in the new OU
Define the Profile path and Home Drive as current users are set up
Define the Profile Path and Home Drive as new areas on a new share (even tested with Everyone - Full Access on share and NTFS permissions)
When logging in it does not work as it should.
However if i log into a machine running Vista, then log out and back into Windows 7, there are no issues at all! Windows 7 cannot create the profile properly perhaps? As i have seen issues where the users roaming profile has confused folder redirection (Points it at C:\Users\%username%) and deleting the users profile has solved the issue.
Either way, profile is created and populated, redirection creates the areas on the home share, however cannot map them properly
Anyone had this issue and conquered it?
Many thanks,
Strangely enough Event Viewer suggests the redirection was successful, however when checking the path of the folders they point to C:\Users\username
Strange one.
Logged into Vista with my newly created home drive area and profile area. Everything worked as intended, redirection took care of everything, and the user profile uploaded only the ntuser and appdata folder.
When i then logged into Windows 7 with this account, folder redirection DID NOT work, and the user profile uploaded the folders for Music, Docs, Videos etc...
Folder redirection is not applying to Windows 7 at all
Thought i had it solved but after deleting the profile to test a fresh first time logon back to square 1.
I have seen different results with the Grant user exclusive rights option, if you have it enabled try setting it to disabled.
Tried both with no luck unfortunately. I am confused as to why it works perfectly fine in Vista, yet not in 7.
I have got it to the point where logging into a Windows 7 machine creates a user profile, and "Applying Folder Redirection..." creates the folders on the network share.
However when i go to the users folder on the start menu / desktop all of the shortcuts for Docs, Pics, Music, Downloads point to C:\Users\
Been looking at this for 2 days now
Sorry for the delay, this is a weird one for sure. If it was me I would create a new GPO incase the error is with the object (rare but happens). For testing I also would not use home folders at all as this is against Microsoft best practice. There is also a GPO for having logon wait until the network is ready, enable this.
I have already created a new GPO with only the folder redirection settings defined after it wouldnt work on the production network.
I have also played with the settings in the System\Folder Redirection and System\Group Policy with no luck.
The Windows 7 user is local user or a roaming/mandatory user?
Long shot but I have seen the Current User settings in ntuser.dat overwrite the GPO settings on Win 7 boxes. A quick test is in the account remove the profile path to make it a local user (and it will copy the default profile) and log onto a clean machine or delete the cached profile first if you previously logged in with that account.
If it works as it should you will need to delete the folder paths out from the registry.
Just had a go at local profiles with no luck.
For some reason Event Viewer shows no problems at all, all folder redirection events are successful.
Every now and then "Contacts" and "Searches" work, but nothing else.
At the end of the road here, only so much I can think of without having the environment in front of me. Last ditch woulld be to boot up the 7 box in Safe Mode with Networking or use MSCONFIG to disable all non-MS services and startup programs to ensure a third party app is not mis-behaving. Failing this I would even try a clean 7 image (no patches or any other programs). Since Vista is working my hunch is something on the 7 image is at fault.
Try and delete the local user folders. Redirection should work then.
You might want to delete the local user folders on login.
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Limited Edition White Twilight Saga Books Will Be Available In The UK!
TheBookSeller.com has reported that there will be limited edition white copies of Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn available to the UK this fall -
The four limited-edition titles: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, will be published by Atom on 14th October as £7.99 paperbacks, available only in the UK and Ireland, and Little, Brown's territories including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. The white editions will not be available in the US.
The white titles will only be published between October and Christmas 2010, replacing the usual black jackets. The titles will have crimson-edged pages and crimson back covers, with text confined to the spines.
A £75 hardback box-set of the Twilight Saga, plus the novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, is also being released on 12th October.
You can preorder your copies at Amazon UK here and Play.com here!
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Dr. Neal Jackson, is the pastor of the Beulah Baptist Church, in Bennett, North Carolina the church where he was born when his father, Nolan Jackson Sr., was serving the church as Minister of Music in the 1970's. Dr. Jackson is the third generation of preachers to be driven by the mandate of taking the gospel to the world. His grandfather, Maze Jackson, traveled the country in evangelism for over forty years and was heard across the country through his radio broadcast, The Truck Drivers Special.
Dr. Jackson has pastored churches in Pensacola, FL and Atlanta, GA. He began his broadcast ministry with the Rejoice in the Lord telecast while pastoring in Florida. His preaching is characterized as verse-by-verse exposition, and his passion has always been that of encouraging people to love God's Word. God has given him the ability to answer the modern day problems people face with the truths of scripture.
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|Weight Capacity: 500 Pounds
|Country of Manufacture: China
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Alan Alda starred in and wrote the script for this observant take on the rise of a liberal senator loosely based on the career of Ted Kennedy. While lacking the bite and wealth of detail of The Candidate (1972), it casts a similarly jaundiced eye on the world of politics, although it deals with life in Washington rather than on the campaign trail. Alda plays a character not too far from his good guy persona, and in the course of the politician's everyday, almost banal transactions, makes one see just how omnipresent and alluring are the temptations that spring up in the path of even the most well-intentioned person of power. When he slips into an affair with a coltish labor lawyer played by the young Meryl Streep, their scenes have a sense of playful eroticism rather than an air of guilt-ridden adultery, as Alda temporarily suspends judgment. But it's the larger perks of power and influence that the title addresses, and it is these which will test his mettle. While the shell games and horse-trading of politics are sharply noted, the motivations of Alda's character remain somewhat elusive, and the film's best and most revealing scene deals not with politics per se, but with Alda's marriage to a wife, played by Barbara Harris, who hates his profession. Among a stellar cast, Harris is by far the best as a woman with penetrating vision, but Streep, Rip Torn, and Melvyn Douglas, an actor who knew politics from the inside, are also superb.
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Hunters can currently, and often do, roll on tanking trinkets or strength weapons. This will be a problem in the random raid finder.
I hope that "roll regardless of main spec or off spec" doesn't become the norm for this. It's a bit different when you've got a once-a-week shot at loot versus once-a-day. I would hope that anyone rolling for offspec loot against a main spec player would be VTK'd. But that's probably naive of me.


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It's the first day of the midnight sun at the Lakselv Banak North Cape golf course, a modest 9-hole layout cut out along the shoreline of Norway's Porsanger fjord.
Two solitary figures, Jeremiah and Bret Dandoy, are dressed warmly, including wool caps, and they carry mats along with their clubs to protect and preserve the tundra, which has yet to fill in for the summer.
It's a good day to play golf.
So it went for a Utah father and his son, who from May 2-19 completed the Awesome 8 Golf Challenge, an exhibition of extreme golf that includes the hottest, coldest, lowest and highest courses in the world. It also features the most northerly and southerly and the greatest.
The best memory, according to Bret Dandoy, was spending two weeks with his dad.
In 18 days, the duo traveled more than 50,000 miles, spent 100 hours in airports and less than 30 hours playing golf.
The Dandoys had to pack heavy coats for Alaska and sunblock for Death Valley. They probably could have used oxygen while trekking to the extremely elevated tee boxes in Boliva.
The rain soaked them in Scotland, and throughout the trip winds played havoc with golf shots. There were those 80-yard putts on the huge greens of St. Andrews.
But they never lost a bag while in transit, and did the whole trip without any other major travel mishaps.
"It went so smoothly that I have no real complaints," said Bret Dandoy, a 48-year-old who works for Deutsche Bank in Tokyo, one of three Dandoy children. "But that said, I would not do it again as of now. In a few months that view might change. … We knew the purpose of this trip was different."
Technically, the Dandoys must return to Fairbanks, Alaska, and complete the North Star course. There was too much snow to play May 9.
"It was disappointing ," said Jeremiah Dandoy, a 78-year-old retired Utah transplant who splits time between Salt Lake City and St. George. "[Bret's] figured out he can go back the last couple weeks of September.
"It was grueling, sometimes tiring," he added. "I don't think I'd do it again for a couple years. It was just fun and I was glad at my age I was in good enough health to do it."
The Awesome 8 was the creation of Robin Sieger and Neil Laughton, two British golf crazies who wanted to bump the excitement level of their beloved game. So, they sought the most extreme courses — but those with established membership lists — and set out to go around the world in 18 days.
The Dandoys began with The Toughest, Ko'olau, Hawaii. They followed with The Highest, La Paz, Bolivia, 10,350 feet above sea level; followed by The Most Southerly, Ushuaia, Argentina, near Tierra del Fuego.
Then came The Coldest, North Star, Alaska; The Lowest, Furnace Creek, Calif., 214 feet below sea level; The Greatest, St. Andrews, Scotland, (no explanation needed); The Most Northerly, North Cape, Norway; and The Hottest, Alice Springs, Australia, where golfers meet kangaroos and 120-degree temperatures while playing the Outback.
"Until it was over, I didn't think we could pull it off," Bret Dandoy said, thinking about his father, who became ill in Bolivia, but fortunately recovered. "While we had plenty of time to think and talk about it, we were always tired and just trying to get that day in and plan for the next."
That the duo did not have a canceled flight or travel troubles in some of these tough-to-get-to areas was a bit of a minor miracle.
"That's what really sticks in my mind," Jeremiah Dandoy said. "We were able to do the schedule in small pieces and the whole trip fell into place. If we would have missed one of those flights in South America, it would have wiped out the whole trip."
The venture took a year to plan. The cost included two $12,000 Star Alliance Round-the-World tickets. Lodging, food, rental cars and local flights came to $3,000. The shortest stay was eight hours in Alaska.
The sweetest moment, however, came on the final hole when Jeremiah drained a 25-foot putt in the shadow of Australia's Ayers Rock to end the trip.
"I hugged him on the 18th green," Bret said. "'We did it.'
"I guess it was really about doing something unique together and this happened to be it."
Awesome 8 Golf Challenge
The Most Northerly • North Cap, Norway
The Coldest • North Star, Alaska
The Highest • La Paz, Bolivia
The Most Southerly • Ushuaia, Argentina
The Greatest • St. Andrews, Scotland
The Lowest • Furnace Creek, Calif.
The Toughest • Ko'olau, Hawaii
The Hottest • Alice Springs, Australia
Travel journal
Airline tickets • $12,000 (each)
Food, lodging, rental cars • $3,000
Shortest stay • Alaska, 8 hours
Hours in airport • 100
Hours playing golf • Less than 30
Golf balls lost • 2 dozen


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November 7, 2007
Albany - - An Albany group that serves people with disabilities is asking for your help. The Georgia Rehabilitation Association helps people with special needs get the services they need to function at home, get through school, and even work. But the only money the group gets is through private donations.
Once upon a time, everything was going great for Matthew Barnes.
"I was 14. I was real athletic. I was good in school, had a lot of friends."
Until suddenly, doctors discovered he had a complex brain tumor. After a 10 hour operation, things got worse.
"Three days later, I had severe strokes and cardiac arrest."
Barnes was left with a physical disability and limited activity of his hands. It didn't stop him.
"Even though you may not have the opportunity to choose what's put in front of you, you always have a choice on your attitude," Barnes says.
He graduated high school, went to college, and then went back to get a Master's degree. He's a supervisor at a thrift shop. He also counsels people with disabilities on getting to work.
"Matthew's been a good representative for us," says Al Weaver with The Georgia Rehabilitation Association.
His group helped Barnes. The Southwest Chapter is a volunteer group of about 50 people. Many of them are employed by the state to work in advocacy full time, but a few go above and beyond to care for those in need.
"It's a wide range of services. Home modification, vehicle modification, assistive work technology," Weaver explains.
But they only have a small budget, and receive no government funding. They want others who believe in their mission to support.
"We help people with ramp building from time to time...we operate purely on donations and fundraising activities," Weaver says.
Money they raise is put to good use. Just ask Barnes.
"It's just a blessing to me in a way because I get to help others," he says.
So with his awards of achievement hanging on the wall, he's inspired to keep at it, knowing someone else out there can also overcome their odds. Not letting a disability stop them from living.
Georgia Rehabilitation Association will hold its annual fundraising auction on December 14th. For more information on how you can help, just call their office at 430-4170.
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