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[waitingforwinterwinds]

A Clash of Kings - 49 TYRION XI (pages 640-649)

Tyrion starts finalizing the preparations for Stannis' upcoming attack on King's Landing, making the hard call for some unfortunate (and not so unfortunate) orders before catching up on some gossip with the boys.

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"-" Tyrion threatened, as the first load of Stone Crow pushed off from the quay.

Look, I know it's pronounced like "key," I know Galdin Quay is pronounced like "golden key," but that doesn't stop my brain from saying "kway" every. damned. time. >.<

... I just read an entire page and absorbed exactly zero words, my eyes were tracking but my brain was experiencing an AU. *sighs*

(Diaspro as one of Tyrion's hired swords, traveling around enjoying exile with Aryo, because she deserves her goddamned horse (and by horse I mean broken-horned alicorn with trust issues that tried to kill Diaspro's ex-fiance))

Children with swollen bellies were already fighting over the pieces of stinking fish.

oh dear. I know swollen bellies sounds like glutted-on-food or pregnant, but in this context it's more likely to be the swollen belly symptom that comes from starvation and rotten food-sources causing infections and disorders of the gut.

He remembered their godswood; (...) That wood was Winterfell. It was the north. I never felt so out of place as I did when I walked there, so much an unwelcome intruder. He wondered if the Greyjoys would feel it too. The castle might be theirs, but never that godswood. Not in a year, or ten, or fifty.

oh that's interesting, not just "ancient gods don't like you" vibes, but it also contextualizes some of Cat's thoughts from way back in GoT, feeling like an outsider still after all these years, iirc, that thought was directly linked to her being in the godswood.

"Yes, you have secret spells, how splendid, what of them?" "They, hmmm, seem to be workingbetter than they were." Hallyne smiled weakly. "You don't suppose there are any dragons about, do you?" "Not unless you found one under the Dragonpit. Why?" "Oh, pardon, I was just remembering something Old Wisdom Pollitor told me once, when I was an acolyte. I'd asked him why so many of our spells seemed, well, not as effectual as the scrolls would have us believe, and he said it was because magic had begun to go out of the world the day the last dragon died."

Okay, so iirc, that's now the Undying, Quaithe (and by extension her order I'm guessing), and the Alchemists Guild (also I think Mirri might have inferred something of the same but I'd have to go back and check) all saying dragons cause magic.

So we have a definitive belief that the two are related, but I'd be curious of the how. How are dragons related to magic, do they cause it to germinate? Or are they more like conduits and their living presence allows magic from some other plane into this one? Are they actually the cause of magic or just an inevitable symptom of the return of magic?

Hey, hey GRRM, come here a sec, I got questions for ya!

"My men have there instructions." "Which are?" "You commanded me to tell no one, my lord."

Ha! I like you Jacelyn. For now.

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[yogi-hof-marketer-blog]

Remembering Yogi: Hall of Fame Marketer

By John Ahlman, Vice President, Xerox Global Experiential Marketing

Isn’t it true, that quite often the simplest things are the most elegant. Think the Barcelona chair designed by Mies van der Rohe, the Nike logo or the user experience on any Apple device. They’re instantly recognizable and memorable.

Yet, it’s really, really very difficult to manufacture products or ideas to be popular. Ever try to “make” something go viral? Good luck. It’s virtually impossible to predict what will actually catch fire with consumers.

Yesterday, we woke up to the sad news that Yankee great Yogi Berra passed away at the age of 90. Yogi was a beloved figure. He won 10 World Series for the NY Yankees and a Hall of Famer. He was a baseball legend, yet he’ll probably be remembered more for his folksy sayings including: “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” “You can observe a lot just by watching.” And “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

Yogi-isms found their way into American culture and the media. He was exploited in advertisements from everything from Puss ’n Boots cat food, Miller Lite beer, but perhaps most famously, Yoo-Hoo chocolate drink. Asked if Yoo-Hoo was hyphenated, he is said to have replied, “No, ma’am, it isn’t even carbonated.” His quotes were all accidental—they were never meant to exist beyond the next day’s sports page. Yet they were genius, sticky and elegant.

Like Yogi, Xerox likes to help keep things simple for companies. Recently, Xerox launched a major marketing campaign to help communicate “Work Can Work Better.” It’s all about that notion that keeping it simple is good for business, that using the right technology can make work (and our lives) easier.

[smart-cities-make-it-flow-blog]

Is Your City Known For Its Flow?

By John Ahlman, Vice President, Xerox Global Experiential Marketing

If you’re marketing a major metropolitan area like New York or Los Angeles, what would you want it to be associated with? You’d want to promote the energy of the nightlife, the haute couture of Fifth Avenue and Beverly Hills, or the excitement of seeing attractions such as the statue of Liberty or the Hollywood sign.

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And typically, the bigger the city, the bigger the problem. Drivers in the ten most-congested cities in the United States sit around 42 hours in traffic jams every year, wasting more than $121 billion in time and fuel while doing so.1

There’s no disputing that jams reduce the quality of life for everyone. And with 85 percent of the developed world predicted to be living in cities by 2050,2 the problem isn’t going away.

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1 http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimgorzelany/2013/04/25/ the-worlds-most-traffic-congested-cities/ 2 http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/Highlights/ WUP2014-Highlights.pdf

[sebperrin]

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