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Sprawling NEGOMBO is of interest mainly thanks to its proximity to the international airport, just 10km down the road – many visitors stagger off long-haul flights straight into one of the beach hotels here, or stay here as a last stop before flying home. Negombo's beach is very wide in places, but rather shabby compared to the more pristine resorts further south, although the surrounding resort area is often one of the liveliest places around the coast if you're in search of cheap beer and late nights. A couple of miles south of the beach, Negombo Town offers an interesting introduction to coastal Sri Lankan life, with a lively fish market, a dash of olde-worlde colonial charm and hundreds of colourful wooden boats.
Brief history
The hordes of international tourists who descend on the town annually are merely the latest in the long line of foreign visitors who have done so much to shape Negombo's decidedly cosmopolitan history. The town was one of the first to be taken by the Portuguese, who converted many of the local Karavas, and the area remains a stronghold of Christian Sri Lanka, as borne out by the imposing churches and florid wayside Catholic shrines scattered about the town and its environs. The Dutch transformed Negombo into an important commercial centre, building a canal (and a fort to guard it) on which spices – particularly the valuable cinnamon which grew profusely in the surrounding areas – were transported from the interior to the coast prior to being shipped abroad. Nowadays much of the town's economy revolves around tourism, although fishing also remains vitally important, with the sea providing plentiful supplies of tuna, shark and seer, while the Negombo lagoon, backing the town, is the source of some of the island's finest prawns, crabs and lobster.Read More
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The people of Negombo are Karavas, Tamil and Sinhalese fishermen who converted en masse to Catholicism during the mid-sixteenth century under the influence of Portuguese missionaries, taking Portuguese surnames and becoming the first of Sri Lanka's innumerable de Silvas, de Soysas and Pereras.
The Karavas are also famous for their unusual fishing boats, known as oruwas, distinctive catamarans (a word derived from the Tamil ketti-maran) fashioned from a hollowed-out trunk attached to an massive sail. Hundreds of these small vessels remain in use even today, and make an unforgettable sight when the fleet returns to shore.
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Boat trips, watersports and diving
Local boatmen sometimes hang out on the beach touting for custom and offering pricey oruwa trips either out to sea or into the Negombo lagoon. Some guesthouses and tour operators arrange boat trips along the Dutch canal north of Negombo. These usually include a visit to a coir factory and some low-level birdwatching along with the chance to watch local toddy tappers at work, and perhaps to sample some of the resulting brew – Negombo's very own booze cruise. None of these trips, however, is as interesting at the boat ride through the nearby Muthurajawela wetlands.
The watersports and diving centre between the Jetwing Beach and Jetwing Blue hotels offers diving, sailing, surfing, windsurfing and kitesurfing tuition, and also has kayaks, sailing boats, boogie-boards and other equipment for hire. Diving can also be arranged through Colombo Divers. Negombo is particularly good for kitesurfing (best Jan–March), including a fine, 8km-long downwinder along the coast from Waikkal to Negombo.
There's heaps of accommodation in Negombo, ranging from inexpensive guesthouses through to a growing range of chic modern resorts – although some of the cheaper hotels remain stuck very much in the 1970s, catering to an endless supply of all-inclusive package tourists who appear to demand nothing more of Sri Lanka than cheap beer, execrable quasi-European cuisine and ping-pong tournaments. Most of the budget places are in Lewis Place, at the southern end of the beach area; more upmarket options are concentrated to the north along (or just off) Porutota Rd in the suburbs of Ettukala and Palangatura. The landmark Brown's Beach Hotel had been demolished at the time of writing; it will eventually be rebuilt and reopen as a posh new five-star in around 2014. All the places listed below appear on the Negombo Beach map.Book a hostel in Negombo
Negombo has one of Sri Lanka's better selections of places to eat – although disappointingly, most are strung out along the main road, rather than on the beach itself, and the majority are identikit tourist dives with largely undistinguished cooking and ambience. The town's proximity to the Negombo lagoon, source of some of the island's finest prawns and crabs, also makes it a good place for seafood. All the places below appear on the Negombo Beach map apart from the Icebear Century Café and New Rest House, which are shown on the Negombo town map. Some restaurants close down in the sleepier months from May to October.
During the season, Negombo is usually the liveliest of the west coast resorts, with most action concentrated along the northern end of the strip around the Rodeo bar and Pub Sherry – about as rowdy as Sri Lanka gets, which isn't very.


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|Mystic falls. I was born here. This is my home . . . For centuries, supernatural creatures have lived amongst us. Vampires, werewolves, doppelgangers, witches, and even hybrids.
— Main Characters in Growing Pains
Mystic Falls is a picturesque town located in central Virginia with a population of 6,923 people. Aside from the town's foundation in 1859 (in the series timeline) by the Founding Families, the town also has a long history of vampires, witches and werewolves, causing Mystic Falls to be an uncanny village with a dark secret. Many famous historical occurrences have taken place in Mystic Falls.
Mystic Falls, which was once a hotbed of supernatural events, is now one of the rare places (if not the only one) in the world where non Traditional Magic has no effect; therefore, most supernatural species, which were created by any form of magic other than Traditional Magic, and magical artifacts have no effect in the town. As a consequence, if a vampire or a hybrid enters Mystic Falls, the magic that keeps them alive will be stripped away bit by bit and they will be brought back to the last stage of their life before vampirism: Death. They will then die the way they died when they went into transition as a vampire. Only this time around, they won't come back.
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The Founders Council is an association of the Founding Families, town people descended from the original settlers of Mystic Falls, as well as various municipal officials. Outwardly, it appears to be a civic organization dedicated to celebrating local history. Secretly, the council's mission is to protect the town from supernatural beings, especially vampires. Journals written by members of the Founding Families describing vampires and how to catch and kill them are passed down through subsequent generations.
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- Main article: Media in Mystic Falls
The Mystic Falls Daily is the local daily newspaper in Mystic Falls.
- WPKW9 is the major network television affiliate where Logan Fell worked as field reporter for the newscast and Brady works in tech.
- Andie Star was also a local newscaster for WPKW9.
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Founding Events
- Founder's Party and Heritage Display (seen in Family Ties)
- Founder's Day Fundraiser and Bachelor Raffle (seen in A Few Good Men)
- Founder's Day Kick-Off Party (seen in Under Control)
- Miss Mystic Falls Pageant (seen in Miss Mystic Falls and My Brother's Keeper)
- Founder's Day Celebration (seen in Founder's Day)
- Mystic Falls Historical Society Volunteer Day (seen in Kill or Be Killed)
- Due to legal conflict, the town was named Mystic Falls, instead of Fell's Church in the novels.
- Mystic Falls is located between Lynchburg, Virginia and Charlottesville, Virginia according to the map on episode Rose.
- Amusingly, in the vicinity of where Mystic Falls is shown on the map, there is an unincorporated community named Damon.
- Mystic Falls is the place where Esther created the first vampires over a thousand years ago.
- Mystic Falls is the place where werewolves have resided for more than a thousand years.
- Mystic Falls is the birthplace of most of The Originals.
- Mystic Falls High School was built on a land that was once an Indian village.
- The town square is where the natives gathered to worship when The Originals were still humans.
- Mystic Falls was marked by an Expression Triangle through the deaths of twelve Town Council members, twelve of Klaus' hybrids, and twelve witches part of Aja's Coven.
- However, the Travelers' spell to purge Mystic Falls of "impure" magic may have disempowered the Expression Triangle, rendering it inaccessible to practitioners of Expression.
- Mystic Falls will remain a vampire free town during Season Six.[1]
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The Celtics' corporate offices, which are located next to the TD Garden on Boston's Causeway Street, are decked out in old photographs paying tribute to the team's rich, 66-year history. Many of the walls, like the one pictured here, are covered entirely with framed photos, conjuring up memories of the team's legendary players, coaches and big wins.
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Five things we're thinking aboutPosted on June 11th, 2007 – 10:45 AM
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1) This Rolling Rock commercial, which has made the rounds like Paris Hilton. On a certain level, and we're not sure why, viral marketing bothers us. The Internets started out all organic, like a free-range chicken, and they have turned into a place where mega-bucks companies court the youth of America. It won't be long until the Internets aren't any fun at all. And then there will have to be a new invention. Like the Supernet, which will be like the Internet but instead of merely being a series of tubes, it will be a series of tubes built into a waterpark, and all the users can splash down in the middle. And we'll all enjoy some cold beverages, but not Rolling Rock because they're viral marketers who make a beer that tastes like you accidentally drank the almost-empty bottle someone has been using as an ashtray. Yeah, it's going to be great.
2) Michelle Wie might be more Marinovich than Tiger. And this whole golf thing might be over before she exits her teens. It could end with a hailstorm of clubs flying over the edge of a gorgeous Hawaii cliff. Just sayin'.
3) If you type "dog space shuttle" into Google Images, what will happen? (Answer is above). As for why those three words popped into our head, we really don't know and we don't want to know.
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Linda is a professor and Chair of the Department of Reading and Language Arts at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. She teaches children's literature, young adult literature, and qualitative research methodology to undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students. Each year, she brings as many as 12 authors and illustrators to her campus for an intensive children's literature class: The Authors and Illustrators' Art and Craft. She has been involved in education since she was asked to tutor struggling readers – as a middle school student. Altogether, she has taught for over 25 years. Linda has published and presented papers at conferences in the US, IBBY World Congresses and other international meetings. She spent three months at the International Youth Library in Munich, Germany, researching the artistic styles in award-winning international picture books. She served as a board member of the United States National Section of IBBY (USBBY), then as president-elect, president, and past president. During her term as USBBY president, she travelled to Nami Island, Korea and Santiago, Chile to address the need for books for all children, a cause she whole-heartedly supports.
Marilar Aleixandre (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) was elected at the 33rd IBBY General Assembly in London, UK to serve on the 2012-2014 EC. She previously served as a member of the 2010-2012 EC.
Although born in Madrid (1947), she has been living in Galicia for many years and adopted Galician as her literary language. She graduated in Biology and is currently science education professor in the University of Santiago de Compostela, and the author of papers and books on argumentation and critical thinking.
Marilar writes fiction for children and adults, as well as poetry, having being recipient of a variety of awards, particularly for her poetry and novels for young readers. She believes that true adventure is tied to misadventure, and her novels address conflicts such as the violence in the Basque Country or the social abuse following physical rape. Two of her books have been selected for the White Ravens' list. She has also translated children's literature into Galician, and her translation of Lewis Carroll was included in the IBBY honour list in 1998. She contributes regularly to literary journals and magazines, including Bookbird, and has also served in a number of literary juries.
She is active in the IBBY Galician section, having served as vice-president for two terms. She was also part of the executive committee organizing the IBBY 2010 conference in Santiago.
Gülçin Alpöge, (Istanbul, Turkey) was elected at the 33rd IBBY General Assembly in London, UK to serve on the 2012-2014 EC. She previously served as a member of the 2010-2012 EC.
Gülçin received her BA degree from the American College in Turkey in 1955, a certificate of Pedagogy from University of Istanbul and her MA degree in Education from New York University in 1959. She then worked with pre-school children for 13 years in two different countries. She worked as a teacher and later as a director and in the foundation of two nursery schools. Gülçin received her PhD in Psycholinguistics from the University of Istanbul in 1983 and became Professor in 2002. She is currently working part time at the Boğaziçi University in the Faculty of Education where she teaches "Children's Literature". Gülçin has written many articles, academic books, and designed curriculum programmes. She also writes for children, rewriting folk and fairytales for young children. She has been a member of IBBY since 1990 and is currently the president of the executive committee of IBBY Turkey.
Nadia El Kholy (Cairo, Egypt) was elected at the 33rd IBBY General Assembly in London, UK to serve on the 2012-2014 EC. She previously served as a member of the 2010-2012 EC.
Nadia is Professor and Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Cairo University, as well as the Undersecretary of the Supreme Council for Culture. Her research interests include writing and translation for children, Comparative and Postcolonial Literature, and Gender Studies. She has also published a number of articles on the modern Arabic and English novel. She was a member of the Hans Christian Andersen Award jury for the 2008 and 2010 awards. She has also contributed to the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children's Literature (2005). In 1999 Nadia won the Suzanne Mubarak Award for Children's Literature.
Azucena Galindo Ortega (Mexico City, Mexico) was elected at the 33rd IBBY General Assembly in London, UK to serve on the 2012-2014 EC.
Born in Mexico City, Azucena graduated in Business Management from the Intercontinental University. A few years later she earned a Diploma on Reading Promotion at IBBY Mexico. Since 2004, she has been formally involved in reading promotion activities. In November of that year, she accepted the position of managing director of IBBY Mexico/A leer. Before taking this responsibility, she had been involved in Market Research and other Marketing activities. Today, she combines ongoing studies of children's literature and reading promotion with her previous professional experience in order to expand the target and widen the impact of IBBY Mexico's programmes and projects. The Mexican section of IBBY now has more than 50 employees, approximately 6,000 volunteer readers and reaches, through its different programmes, over 225,000 young readers.
Azucena has been guest speaker at several national and international forums, including in Paris, Havana and Rio de Janeiro. She has also served on juries for literary prizes and reading promotion projects. Azucena will serve on the 2012-14 IBBY EC as regional liaison for the Latin American Region and is on the organizing
committee for the 34 IBBY International Congress in Mexico City in 2014.
Angela Lebedeva (Moscow, Russia) was elected at the 33rd IBBY General Assembly in London, UK to serve on the 2012-2014 EC.
Angela began her professional education in Librarian and Children's Literature Sciences in 1985 at Moscow State University of Culture and Arts (MSUCA) graduating as a specialist in Children's Literature and Librarian – Bibliographer. Five years later she completed her master's degree and the work for her PhD. Between 1997 and 2009 she worked as Senior Lecturer at MSUCA in the Department of Children's Literature and Library working with children and youth and then at the Moscow State Open Pedagogical Institute Named After M. Sholohov (MGOPU) in the Faculty of Journalism. Angela is the author of an original educational course under the title International Cooperation in the Field of Children's Literature, which was added to the MSUCA and MGOPU curriculum.
Angela is a member of International Research Society on Children's Literature (IRSCL) and joined Russian IBBY in 1995, where she has served as Executive Director since 2002. She served on the Hans Christian Andersen Jury for the 2004 and 2006 Awards, is the Bookbird Correspondent for Russia and has participated in all IBBY Congresses since 1998. Since 1998 she has co-organized the annual Days of Russian Children's Books Abroad events, which have taken place in the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Sweden, Canada, Denmark, Germany and elsewhere. She has more than 50 professional publications in Russia and abroad.
Kiyoko Matsuoka (Tokyo, Japan) was elected at the 33rd IBBY General Assembly in London, UK to serve on the 2012-2014 EC. She previously served as a member of the 2010-2012 EC.
Kiyoko was born in 1961 in Tokyo. She graduated from the Joshibi University of Art and Design, majoring Art History and Iconology of Christian Art and later with a Masters Degree from Chiba University on the History of Art Education in Japan. Since 1986 she has been a curator at the Itabashi Art Museum. In 1989 she became responsible for the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition in Japan and since then she has collaborated with the Bologna Book Fair in organizing the world tour of the exhibition.
Kiyoko has organized several series of exhibitions of picture book artists, such as Leo Lionni, Yasuo Segawa, Tomi Ungerer, Dick Bruna, Bruno Munari and Dusan Kállay. She has also organized workshops on the creation of books for children for young artists, as well as various events and courses for adults and school children interested in picture books. She is also a university lecturer on Art Production. In 2005 she was a jury member for the BIB.
From 2002 to 2006 and since 2009, she is a board member of JBBY, the Japanese section of IBBY.
Timotea Vrablova (Slovakia) was elected at the 33rd IBBY General Assembly in London, UK to serve on the 2012-2014 EC.
Since 1991Timotea has been a research worker at the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, working on the literary culture of the 17th and 18th centuries and children's literature. She gives lectures and seminars on Children's Literature, Psychology of Children's Observation, Creative Writing. Between 1992 and 1998 she co-created a project to establish a bilingual primary school (Slovak/English) in Bratislava, and created the curriculum as well as the teaching-resource materials. In 1999 she created the project The Path to a Book, which was launched in children's clubs that had been introduced all over the Slovakia. The aim of the project was not only to encourage reading and develop reading skills, but also connect 'words' with acquisition of life skills. Since 2007 she has been working for the Book Revue magazine and BIBIANA, the professional journal of arts for children and young adults of the Slovak Section of IBBY. Since 2008 she has been working for Slovak Radio, and currently has a programme aimed at creative reading for children called Little School Year. Since May 2010 she has been the President of the Slovak Section of IBBY.
María Jesús Gil (Spain) was elected to be the Hans Christian Andersen Jury President 2014. She previously served as Hans Christian Andersen Jury President 2012.
After her Bachelor's Degree in Arts in the University of Valladolid (1976-1981), she travelled to United Kingdom to study Language and Literature in the Universities of Exeter, Manchester and Dundee. She worked at Ediciones SM for twenty years, starting as Foreign Rights Manager, and then as the Editorial Manager of the Department of Children and Young Adults for fifteen years. She also was Editorial Manager of Alfaguara Infantil y Juvenil and Altea (Santillana). After a time as a professional consultant for publishing firms, today is the coordinator of Reading Programmes for Spain and Latinamerica in the Foundation SM. She was an elected member of the IBBY Executive Committee (1996-2000); served as President of the Spanish Section of IBBY (2009- ); and as Member of the Jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award for the 2008 and 2010 awards. María Jesús was the Chair of the 32nd IBBY Congress in Santiago de Compostela in 2010.
Ellis Vance (Fresno, USA) was re-confirmed as IBBY Treasurer at the 33rd IBBY General Assembly in London, UK. He has served as IBBY Treasurer since 2008.
After receiving a Master's Degree in Education, Ellis worked as a teacher and school administrator for 40 years in the Fresno area in California. He supervised library services to children in 38 school districts in the country for a number of years before retiring. He has also taught reading methods, library services and children's literature courses at three universities in the Fresno area. From 2004-2007 he was Project Director for the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) reviewing resources for educators to use with children. CLRN's website is used throughout the US and in 80 countries.
After 42 years in education, he is currently an education consultant and devotes most of his time to USBBY and IBBY. He has received numerous awards in the fields of education and reading and been an active member of USBBY for many years. He is the current Bookbird Inc. Treasurer, and also served as the USBBY Treasurer until 2008. He is currently the Executive Secretary of USBBY and organizer of the 9th IBBY Regional Conference in Fresno, CA in October 2011.
Ellis served as Vice President of IBBY 2006-2008 having been elected at the 30th IBBY General Assembly in Macau, China.


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David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010 house band.
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Federal Agents Raid Locksmith Company's Headquarters
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A NewsChannel 5 investigation recently exposed some of the unscrupulous practices of a national locksmith chain operating in Middle Tennessee. Federal agents have raided the headquarters of Dependable Locks in Florida and arrested the owners.
Consumer investigator Jennifer Kraus said the company's owners face charges for doing many of the things the NewsChannel 5 investigation first uncovered.
Back in May, NewsChannel 5 Investigates showed how employees of Dependable Locks did business. Our undercover investigation revealed how they quoted customers one price over the phone, but then tried to charge a whole lot more. They first told our producer it would be $39 to unlock her car, but when the locksmith showed up, he wanted $150.
The owners of Dependable Locks are facing federal charges after agents raided the company's headquarters in Clearwater, Florida. They seized computers and documents and even took one of the owners off in hand-cuffs.
Moshe Aharoni, his partner David Peer, and an employee based in Missouri are all charged with money laundering, wire and mail fraud. They're also accused of instructing employees to overcharge and deceive customers.
After Wednesday's raid in Florida, Doug Smith with the United States Postal Inspection Service told reporters, "This reaches throughout the United States. It happens to be based here in Clearwater, Florida and this is where a lot of the employees were working."
The office in Florida also served as the company's national call center where investigators said calls for emergency locksmith services came in from across the country.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates found ads for dozens of locksmith companies that listed fake addresses and local phone numbers. Federal investigators confirmed that calls to the numbers were all forwarded to the Dependable Locks office in Florida.
That's where investigators allege that "dispatchers were instructed to misrepresent or understate" the cost of services. Investigators also maintain that locksmiths were told to charge significantly more than the quoted price.
Court documents also spelled out how Dependable Locks employees were "trained to use coercive and intimidating techniques to ensure" that customers paid up.
While the locksmiths NewsChannel 5 busted didn't want to talk about what we caught them doing, neither did the owner of Dependable Locks as agents led him away.
The raid and the arrests were coordinated by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Missouri Attorney General's office, who launched the investigation after getting dozens of complaints from consumers about being overcharged.
The state of Tennessee has also received dozens of complaints about Dependable Locks. As of yet, the Tennessee Attorney General's office has not taken any action against the company.
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"A little child, she was. But also a fierce killer... Now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood, with all a child's demanding."The Enfant Terrible is an adorable child. An angel, one might say, with a cherubic face. One just wants to pick them up and hug them. Pity they're psychopaths. An Enfant Terrible knows people think they're cute, and will use that to their advantage. When one person finds out, said hero usually has a hard time convincing others, who will turn on them for even suggesting such a thing about the poor, poor child. An Enfant Terrible may be supernatural, or simply a child born without a conscience. They may also be an Evil Orphan. A form of the Devil in Plain Sight. Might overlap with Girl Scouts Are Evil, if they do more than just sell you cookies, and with Kids Are Cruel, if the kid's behaviour also transpires in his relationship to other children. Akin to the Creepy Child, except Enfants Terribles are truly dangerous and vicious at heart, whereas a Creepy Child isn't necessarily psychopathic or evil. Of course, such a character almost always plays the Wouldn't Hurt a Child and Children Are Innocent cards to get away with their actions, which almost always works—for a while. They're unlikely to be directly killed by any heroic character in the story, but they have a habit of becoming Self Disposing Villains. Virtually defenseless in a direct physical battle and hindered by their undeveloped bodies, Enfants Terribles with no super powers are usually obliged to operate by proxy. Thus, Corruption by a Minor is often their favourite technique to get what they want. Sub-Trope of Superior Successor (assuming it's unusual). See also Undead Child for a common subtype. Often the nemesis of a Kid Hero. Not related to Child Soldier but the two can overlap. Compare Tykebomb, Little Miss Badass, Cute Is Evil, Fetus Terrible, Cute and Psycho and Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon. Contrast with Psychopathic Manchild, where a teen-aged or already grown psycho acts like a child. Contrast Goo Goo Godlike, in which the child is not evil, just playful and way too powerful. Not to be confused with Les Enfants Terribles. No Real Life examples, please! It is sufficient to say that psychopathy manifests itself in very young age, and there is some Truth in Television in this trope.
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Homeschool said...
I think the point is less about magic being inexhaustible, and more about whether running out of power is fun.
Most healers didn't pick their role because they found the bottom of the barrel exciting. They did it because they enjoy the contest with the enemy over the lives of their companions. "Can I protect and support my team in the face of their assault?" Reaching the point of OOM-ness is more of a feeling of "well, we're done. Time to sit back and die." The fight's not even over, but it's over. Frustrating.
I'd really prefer an active system. It has the same preference of efficient vs. powerful, since using the big heals will deplete your resources and make you less able to react NOW, not 5 minutes in the future when you run out 30 seconds ahead of schedule. So, yes, you still have to pick the right heal for the job.
Consider also, that the better your gear, the more mana you have. Instead of reinforcing the efficiency situation, it makes it easier to throw out your less efficient heals. Regen scales faster than efficient heals.
Active resource means you have to be aware of the fight, know when the big damage is coming and be ready for it, and have enough personal power to handle it when it comes. Isn't that what healing is really about?


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Elizabeth Banta and Chris Avore were aboard the Seastreak ferry that slammed into a pier in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday injuring 93 people.
Banta and Avore described the ordeal during Good Day NY on Thursday.
"We came to a crashing halt," said Banta.
"There really weren't too many cues that we were coming in too fast. As soon as the boat hit all the people who were standing were basically thrown. From there it was like damage control," said Avore.
At least 93 people were hurt. One of the victims was in critical condition with a head wound.
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April 13, 2010 by Bob Livingston
Healthy foods can help satisfy and nourish you—both inside and out. According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, fruits and vegetables high in vitamin C can help with fight wrinkles and age-related dry skin. Try this smoothie mask: Blend one cup of strawberries, raspberries or blueberries, with one cup plain or vanilla yogurt and 1 ½ tablespoon of honey. Apply to your entire face and leave on for about 10 minutes before rinsing completely. Enjoy any leftovers while you wait—it's delicious.


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HBO Monday announced that it is picking up Aaron Sorkin's"The Newsroom" for a second season, along with "True Blood" for a sixth.
I love the way "The Newsroom" calls out the press for losing its sense of purpose. Some members of the press didn't like being called out that way. (See my other blog posts about "The Newsroom" to the left of this post.)
A couple of pieces of very good news from HBO.
HBO picks up Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom' for 2nd season, 'True Blood' for 6th
Two series that show power, range and intelligence of the channel
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DispelAnnounce is a lightweight addon that informs your party or raid whenever you dispel a magical effect. It will also inform everyone when a dispel fails.
- Lightweight, clean and simple.
- Entirely automatic - no need to tell it you're in a party or raid, it just knows.
- Informs party/raid of unsuccessful as well as successful dispels.
- Also works when you remove poisons and diseases.
- Can be set to print details of your self-dispels to your chat window, rather than spam the party/raid chat.
- You can also turn off chat messages completely. Good for when you're doing a lot of dispelling.
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The Culture, Transformation and Subjectivity research theme is a thriving centre for interdisciplinary research which brings together several groupings from the fields of anthropology, psychology, sociology, education, social philosophy, cultural studies, science and technology studies, feminism and political theory.
Key areas of research
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- Medicine and science studies
- New social movements and local communities
- Sexuality and childhood
- Education
- Arts and cultural industries
- Migration and mobility
Researchers within this theme investigate the creation of identities and subjectivities within their cultural and material settings and address their political and social implications. There is a strong interest in research which uses ethnography, psycho-social techniques, phenomenology and socio-cultural qualitative methods in dialogue with post-structuralism, feminist and queer theory, theories of affect, and dialogic and discursive methods.
A particular strength of the theme is the focus on class, gender and sexuality, and their intersections with ethnicity, migration and childhood. In addition other core interests include research on medicine and knowledge politics, future and risk, the transformation of work and globalisation, marginal communities and regeneration, new political formations and social movements.
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Making sense of sustainability by promoting environmental futures dialogue: an arts and social sciences collaboration
Subjectivity and Psychosocial Research Group
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Family, Identities and Gender (FIG) research network
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Culture, Imagination & Practice (CIP). Engaging with social science, social philosophy, cultural studies, science and technology studies, psychosocial research and feminist theory, CIP addresses the political and cultural resonance of new social formations and social movements. The group investigates cultural, social and material practices as 'world-making' processes in the shaping of relations, and their consequences for ecology, geopolitics and social justice. CiP also provides and umbrella for the Medicine, Science and Culture Research Interest Group (MeSC) and the SOCSI Social Theory Forum.
Ethnography, Culture and Interpretive Analysis. A number of theme members are involved with the development and practice of ethnographic and/or qualitative methods, and interpretive analysis. The activities of the group focus on issues around ethnography — as practice and product — and cultural analysis concerned with the interpretive understanding of meaning, symbols and language. The research group members come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds including sociology, anthropology, psychology, education, social work, social policy and cultural studies. There is a strong tradition of ethnographic and interpretive work within the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, and this group provides a forum for sustaining and developing this work. This groups is also involved with the Art, Craft and Performance Research Network that is a collaboration between group members and the Exeter University based Sociology of the Arts Group.
The SOCSI based Young Sexualities Research Network is a thriving interdisciplinary research network for academic researchers working in the area of childhood, youth, sexualities and gender. It brings together existing expertise, makes new connections possible, and acts as a hub of knowledge and information. Live twitter feeds have been produced for recent ESRC seminar series on the sexualisation of culture and policy related events. The YSRN is now the official secretariat for the Welsh Government cross-party group: Childhood, Sexuality-Sexualisation and Equalities.
Members of the theme are also involved with the Sexualities and Gender Research Group and Childhood Research Group.
Prestigious Research Fellowships
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, Professor Valerie Walkerdine. This prestigious fellowship runs for 3 years from October 2012. It is called Roots and Routes: a psychosocial approach to intergenerational transmission and development. The fellowship explores concerns about these topics and uses 4 innovative methods to undertake a secondary analysis of longitudinal data on a group of working and middle class girls/women born in 1974/5. The methods of analysis use work from psychoanalysts Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudilliere, Christopher Bollas and Felix Guattari, as well as considering the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Dr Rachel Hurdley. Rethinking Openness, Space and Organisation is an ethnographic study of a university campus and aims to question underlying assumptions driving the architectural transformation of workplaces. The principal purpose is to inform policy, practice and theory at a critical turning point in organisational cultures, working practices and architecture. Design of 21st century buildings is frequently driven by a vision of 'space evolution', where architectural 'openness' transforms interpersonal behaviour and organisational culture. Yet no rigorous, comparative evidence supports this costly, often problematic vision. Also, the presumption that 'openness' is a universal good, while privacy and separation are detrimental and old-fashioned, requires empirical scrutiny. A year-long study in four differently-designed university campus buildings, based on observation, interviews and documentary research will provide a firm foundation for future design. It builds on her recent project, The Power of Corridors.
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Current research projects include:
Homing in: Sensing, sense-making and sustainable place-making: an arts & social sciences collaborative network
The purpose of this collaborative, cross disciplinary network combining the arts and humanities with the social sciences, is to develop creative and imaginative research strategies and methods for studying experiences of, and sense-making about, environmental risks, emotions about future uncertainty, and the transformative changes that are needed to respond to environmental risk and future uncertainty in the C21. A substantive focus of the inquiries is on homing: i.e. spatially and temporally dynamic ways of "being at home" in view of its possible role in promoting the kinds of narratives of care, attachment and security that provide people and communities with a sense of ecological knowing, along with the kinds of action-enabling connections people can make linking place and identity together at different spatial and temporal scales. Network events and activities are collaborative and participatory featuring a series of presentations and performances by artists and contributions from environmental thinkers about their work in inclusive World Café style discussions. Dissemination of outcomes will involve developing a policy briefing, building upon our engagement with provocative ideas and questions such as whether artists are committed to relinquishing notions of aesthetic autonomy, and can social scientists engage with the imaginative and affective potentiality of artworks to promote the quest for different ecological and environmental futures? Through our collaborative activities is it possible to provide insightful strategies opening out ways of thinking about sustainability practice and sustainable place-making?
ESRC, New Dynamics of Ageing Programme. Professor Joanna Latimer with M. Bagley (PI, Chemistry), D. Kipling & T. Davies (Medicine). June 2009 – 2012. (£300K ). An interdisciplinary collaboration between biogerontologists, chemists and social scientists at Cardiff University. The social science element of this work is scoping the science of ageing across the UK and the US, including expert interviews and site visits. Funding for this has been extended by the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics and the Cardiff University International Travel Fund – including networking with The European Network of Ageing Studies (ENAS), the Institute of Ageing, University of California, San Francisco and the Social Justice Group at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Cardiff University Ageing, Science and Older People Network (CASciOPE). Chair, Professor Joanna Latimer with David Kipling, Medicine. This network supports the University's strategic priority for interdisciplinary collaboration and public engagement, and builds on Cardiff's established international reputation for work across the humanities, neuropsychology, social geography, public health, medicine, genetics, health studies, the biosciences and social sciences. The network involves 15 schools and includes research groups and centres , such as CITER, & ARC. CASCIOPE's official launch funded by the University Research Committee Events Fund took place on 30th September 2010 at a multi-disciplinary event organized in Celebration of the UN's Older People's Day, including a poster exhibition to showcase research on ageing at Cardiff in which 15 Schools participated and the reading of a commissioned poem by the National Poet for Wales, Gillian Clarke.
Energy Biographies. "Energy biographies: Understanding the dynamics of energy use for demand reduction" is a Cardiff University based project led by Professor Karen Henwood. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers and is co-hosted by the Understanding Risk Group. The project is part of the UK wide "energy and communities" joint venture funded by two research councils (ESRC & EPSRC, 2010-2015). The energy biographies study will create the empirical and conceptual space for making visible people's everyday energy use, how their energy practices are maintained, and their ways of interacting with demand reduction interventions at the local community level. The project recognises that achieving significant reductions in energy consumption will not be easy for individuals or communities as we are locked into energy intensive lifestyles and unsustainable systems of energy practice by habitual, routinely expected ways of modern living. Hence the project will be seeking innovative ways to enable people to engage with transformations towards more sustainable futures.
KLiC Project – Young People and Place. Principal Investigator: Prof Emma Renold. This project is concerned with exploring young people's understanding and use of local public and private spaces in a community experiencing regeneration and the implications for lifestyle choice and policy concerns. It is important to understand how young people are positioned in relation to the changes that are taking place within their locality, and how they feel about other places in the area as well.
KLiC Project – Local Knowledge, Spatial Practice and Urban Patrol. Principal Investigator: Dr Tom Hall. Researcher: Dr Robin Smith. The project is a study of the street-level management of problem populations in public space, taking the city-centre and abutting residential streets as a field site. The perverse – persistent and contrary – connection between public space and social exclusion, between (spatial) centre and (social) margin, provides the backdrop to this research.
Archive projects
Timescapes. Professor Karen Henwood has played an important role in the Timescapes research programme. Becoming a father for the first time can be a life-changing experience. The Men as Fathers project seeks to find out just how life-changing it is, by drawing on and extending a previous Economic and Social Research Council-funded project (ESRC) carried out from 1999 to 2001 (referred to as our heritage sample). The extended project explores ways in which men come to terms with becoming a first-time father and any implications this has for their identities, relationships and lives over time. Timescapes 2010 Conference, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
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Senator Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. (8th Senate District) is informing residents that New York State has designated the week from Tuesday, August 30 through Monday, September 5 as a tax free shopping week.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -Motorists can expect heavy traffic in the downtown Lexington area on Wednesday through Saturday, March 20-23, for the second and third rounds of the 2013 NCAA Tournament.
Traffic is also expected to be heavy on Sunday, March 24, if the University of Kentucky hosts an NIT Tournament game at Rupp Arena.
Lexington Police Commander Thomas Curtsinger said motorists will probably encounter the first delays on Wednesday, when there will be open practices at Rupp Arena. Police are expecting a crowd of 4.000 to 5,000 for each practice, with up to 20,000 total spectators during the day.
Games on Thursday begin at 12:30 p.m. and the last game starts at 9:20 p.m. Motorists can expect heavy traffic before and after the games, particularly for the University of Louisville game at 6:20 p.m.
Fans from Louisville are being asked to come into Lexington on the interstate, rather than on Versailles Road, where construction is underway.
On Friday, another NCAA practice day, practices are closed to the public, so traffic is expected to be lighter.
Times for Saturday's games have not been determined and won't be determined until late Thursday or early Friday, Curtsinger said. On Saturday and other tournament days, Lexington police will use the standard game day traffic operation, with officers on every corner, helping motorists enter and exit parking lots.
On Sunday, UK is expected to host an NIT game at Rupp Arena if they win their first round in the NIT earlier in the week. No time has been determined.
Parking for all the games will be the same for the tournament games as it is for the UK home games at Rupp Arena, Curtsinger said. Most fans will be directed to the Cox Street lot in back of Rupp Arena or to the large lot between East High Street and East Maxwell Street in front of Rupp Arena.
"If we have the NIT Tournament game, attendance is expected to be big," Curtsinger said.
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They're most often committed by whatever is playing over the supermarket P.A.
While in the Freddie today, I heard a version of the Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody" that managed to change the key and range, remove all the emotion and churn the arrangement until disgustingly homogenized to where it was indistinguishable from soft rock pablum.
I don't know whether it was because I was tired, hungry or both, but I found the song angering and almost physically painful; I wished death upon the singer (male) and the producer for turning an immediately identifiable tune into harmless mush. The persons involved with this arrangement stripped the longing, carnality & soul from it.
They managed to chain "Unchained Melody".
Death is too good for them. I thought of Shazam-ing the song, but realized I did not care to know who had created this aberrant perversion.


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Why Stella and cider is not a good mix
Stella Artois is about to launch a cider. Last week the brand's senior management team announced that British drinkers would get their first look at Stella Cidre in April. File it next to Levi's suits, Pond's toothpaste, Harley-Davidson cake decorations and Aston Martin's economy car. It's going to be a clunker.
Any doubt that Stella's new product will fail miserably was laid to rest for me by Stuart Macfarlane - the UK chairman and president of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the global brewing behemoth that owns Stella. He was in bullish mood last week while announcing his company's latest diversification. Alas, it pains me to point out that pretty much everything he said last week was wrong.
Let's start with his contention that Cidre will "prove once and for all that Stella is right up there with other leading FMCG brands, such as Coca-Cola, in its ability to reach new customers in new categories". While it's true that Coke has conquered a host of diverse categories like water, sports drinks and orange juice, it has done so using completely different brand architecture from the one Macfarlane is applying to his Stella launch.
For all Coke's brand equity, consumers would not have bought Coke water, Coke sports drinks or Coca-Cola orange juice. That's why Coca-Cola used a house of brands architecture instead (like Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Unilever and the other FMCG companies that Macfarlane aspires to follow) to sell Dasani - a failure in the UK, but not elsewhere - Powerade and Minute Maid. AB InBev should have followed suit. Leveraging Stella into the cider category is not a demonstration of the brand's strength, it's a sign of the parent company's branding weaknesses.
Would you drink a lager from Strongbow? How about a whisky from Guinness? Or a Bailey's gin?
Which brings us neatly to his next error. According to Macfarlane, Cidre will be successful because Stella brings "premium, craft, heritage and quality to the cider category mix - the same skills that have brought success in lager". Like so many British executives, Macfarlane needs a lesson in brand heritage. You cannot adjust your origins to fit your current strategic requirements. Brand heritage is where a brand was born and what it originally did. In Stella's case it is a magical story of Dennis Horeney's brewery in Leuven, a master brewer called Sebastianus Artois and a beer that was named after the Christmas star. It's a tale of beer three centuries long. And because it is a tale of beer, it is not a tale of cider.
Would you drink a lager from Strongbow? How about a whisky from Guinness? Or a Bailey's gin? These are brands, like Stella Artois, that have a clear and strong heritage but one also inextricably linked to a totally distinct and therefore inappropriate origin. Not only does Stella not have any positive heritage in cider, its ancient beer roots actually make it enormously unlikely to succeed in any other category.
Macfarlane's ignorance of brand heritage can also explain his casual dismissal of original cider brands like Westons and Aspall, which he regards as "delicious but not accessible and not with scale". He also claims: "That's what Stella brings: top quality and scale to the party."
Look back on most of the great product failures of the past and you will find managers with both a misplaced over-confidence in their offer and an ill-conceived disregard for their rivals. Now think about some of the most successful marketers you have met and rarely will you encounter a more paranoid or sullen bunch. Enthusiasm and confidence are the enemies of brand success.
To begin with, of course, Macfarlane's confidence will appear well placed. A stranglehold on distribution and an eight-figure marketing budget will ensure that Cidre will sell. But that initial success will end when the summer, the initial consumer trial and the launch ads fade.
But have no fear. I'll bet that the executives at AB InBev will be ready. Not to fix the Cidre brand or revitalise the original Stella Artois. Instead, they will come out with another innovation. And another. And another. I've seen this pattern before - it's the vicious cycle of product launching that fills a vacuum in companies unable to manage one brand well for decades. And it's a cycle that exists because AB InBev is not really any good at brand management. It is good at growing revenues through acquiring brands and increasing profits through achieving back-of-house synergies. But that's not quite the same thing as managing a brand.
With no more beverage brands left to acquire and all the back-of-house synergies from AB InBev's portfolio mostly realised, the brand owner must now manage its existing portfolio over the long haul. And Cidre is not a good start.
Many years ago, John Quelch, a branding professor from Harvard Business School, made the point that while brand extensions occasionally succeed, they usually fail. And in the worst-case scenario they not only fail, but also weaken the brand in its original category.
Like I said, not a good start.
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This is clearly a strategic "snake-bite":
tastes appetising at first
but soon makes you feel dizzy
you realise it was not a good idea
and ends up giving you a really bad hangover
I hope they have a recall strategy in place. Fermented apple juice in a beer bottle for a premium price? It does sound like a recipe for disaster, does not it?
Ultimately Stella's a strong brand and people are going to be intrigued what this tastes like. If it delivers on the taste then it could well fly.....
Me thinks Stuart Macfarlane needs to get on the phone to Alan Mulally urgently.
Will the next stop for this applecart-bandwagon be 'Stella Cidre Poire' ...pour les femmes!?
Design brief: Pink hues, slimmer bottle, feminised Stella logo
TVC: on ice, soft focus, pretty ladies (no string vests), sun-drenched orchards, refreshing but delicate fizz, etc
Mr Artois may then be far from reassured that this applecart is not one to kick.
Could not agree more with this article. A victory for market strategy wishful thinking over brand authenticity. Should get curiosity trial but that's about it. Can't help thinking of all those meetings where the Emperor's new clothes must have been paraded around.
"One bad apple spoils the bunch."
This follows in the footsteps of Stella Black and Bud 66 from ABInbev. Both have failed to find their feet. The cider market with the flavoured variants is booming, but it's also increasingly cluttered...Bulmers, Gaymers, Magners, Kopparberg, Thatchers, Westons, St.Helier, Stronbow, Blackthorn et al. ABInbev have jumped on the cider bandwagon, but it will ultimately fail as they have no brand heritage or true differentiation (ok it's from Belgium! - whoopee!). Stella Artois Cidre will simply be another shelf busting low price offer in the off-trade and fail to make any headway with the more discerning on trade customer - unless of course they target the young adult drinker. But that route will damage the brand. Whichever way you look at it, Cidre is a brand geared to drive short term profit!
Agree with everything above. But the unanswered questions remain, namely:
- How did InBev manage to do research that backs up their idea that Stella Cidre will work and wont damage Artois? Either they did not test the affect of Cidre on Artois perceptions or they have ignored the results
- Why did they not just acquire? There are plenty of (privately held) heritage brands out there. They could have gobbled one up for less than they will have to spend on Cidre advertising.
Maybe they truly do not get brand.
Loved your comment that the best marketers are Paranoid and Sullen.
It's true. I've worked with a few like that, and always hated working with them! - but they were always right to be controlling and paranoid, the ones who were slapdash and overenthusiastic were the ones who always ended up failing!
I agree, brand extension is almost always a bad idea.
What do you think of Innocent? To me, clearly a smoothie brand, but they seem to be launching 'Veg Pots' and Orange Juice?
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