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Disney Fairies
Disney Fairies | |
The official Disney Fairies logo.
Creator | Andy Mooney |
Original work | Licensing |
Print publications | |
Books | "Tales of Pixie Hollow" chapter books |
Novels | Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand Fairies and the Quest for Neverland |
Magazines | Disney Fairies |
Films and television | |
Films | Tinker Bell (2008) Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009) Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010) Secret of the Wings (2012) The Pirate Fairy (2014) Legend of the NeverBeast (2015) |
Short films | Pixie Hollow Games Pixie Hollow Bake Off |
Miscellaneous | |
Theme park attractions | Pixie Hollow |
Official website | Disney Fairies.com |
Disney Fairies is a Disney franchise built around the character of Tinker Bell from Disney's 1953 animated film Peter Pan, subsequently adopted as a mascot for the company. In addition to the fictional fairy character created by J. M. Barrie, the franchise introduces many new characters, and expands substantially upon the limited information the author gave about the fairies and their home of Neverland. The characters are referred to within stories as "Neverland fairies". The franchise includes children's books and other merchandise, a web site, and the computer-animated Tinker Bell film series, featuring the character and several of the Disney fairies as supporting and recurring characters.
In Barrie's 1902 novel The Little White Bird, in which he introduced the mythos of Peter Pan and the fairies, he wrote, "When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies."[1] The Disney Fairies are based on a similar idea: every time a newborn baby laughs for the first time, that laugh travels out into the world, and those that make their way to Neverland turn into a Never fairy.
The fairies generally reside in the Home Tree, a towering, massive tree located in the very heart of Pixie Hollow in Neverland. Various groups of fairies work and live nearby as well. Most of the fairy characters are young and female, but older, taller, and male fairy characters are also included. The males are sometimes referred to as "sparrow men", though the term "fairies" is used to refer to both female and male fairy characters.
Characters in the movies[edit]
- Blaze (Eliza Pollack Zebert) is a baby firefly that joins Tinker Bell on her quest to find the mystical Mirror of Incanta that grants only one of three wishes.
- Bobble (Rob Paulsen) is a tinker-talent sparrowman and Clank's best friend. He is small, very slender, and hand-sized with red hair, bright blue eyes, pointy ears, fair skin and wears water drop goggles, a leafy sleeveless top, and knee-length pants. His real name is Phineas T. Kettletree, Esquire and he has a Scottish accent.
- Bolt (Roger Craig Smith) is one of the dust-talent sparrow men.
- Buck (Rob Paulsen) is a new animal sparrow man of Welsh descent. He is Fawn's partner. He is small, slender, and hand-sized with brown hair, green eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears an orange sports shirt.
- Cheese is a cart-pulling mouse.
- Chloe (Brenda Song) is a new garden fairy of Thai descent. She is Rosetta's partner. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with brown hair, brown eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears. She wears a pink sports dress and leggings.
- Clank (Jeff Bennett) is a tinker-talent sparrow man. He has black hair and dark brown eyes, fair skin, pointy ears and wears a leafy sleeveless top and shorts. He speaks with a Cockney accent.
- Dewey (Jeff Bennett) is the Keeper of all fairy knowledge. He is small, portly, and hand-sized with white hair and mustache, aqua eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears a green coat, spectacles, and carries a staff and speaks with a Western accent.
- Dr. Martin Griffiths (Michael Sheen) is a British insect scientist and Lizzy's father. He is slender with fair skin, brown hair and eyes. He wears a green vest, a white shirt, and a black bowtie.
- Elizabeth "Lizzy" Griffiths (Lauren Mote) is a pretty 9-year-old British girl and the scientist's daughter. She is slender with green eyes, fair skin, and brown hair with braided pigtails and wears a pink long-sleeved dress and a white smock with small tulips all over.
- Fairy Gary (Jeff Bennett) is a Scottish-accented overseer of the pixie dust fairies. He is small and hand-sized with a big brown mustache, hair and eyebrows, and a large nose and wears a kilt.
- Fairy Mary (Jane Horrocks) is an overseer of the tinker fairies of English descent. She is small and hand-sized with brown hair and eyes, and fair skin and wears a green sleeveless shirt and pants.
- Fawn (America Ferrera, Angela Bartys and Ginnifer Goodwin[2]) an animal fairy of Latina descent.[3] She is small, slender, and hand-sized with an orange-and-amber dress, orange-yellow curl shoes, fair skin, light freckles, braided light brown hair, amber eyes, pointy ears, and clear fairy wings on her back.
- Fern (Zendaya) is a garden fairy of German descent. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with fair skin, green eyes, brown hair, and pointy ears and wears a pink dress and shoes.
- Fiona is Dewey's pet snowy lynx.
- Flint (Thom Adcox-Hernandez) is one of the dust-talent sparrow men.
- Glimmer (Tiffany Thornton) is a storm fairy of German descent. She is Rumble's partner. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with blonde hair, green eyes, fair skin, pointy ears, and pink blushing cheeks and wears a black/gray sports shirt.
- Gliss (Grey DeLisle) is a frost fairy and Periwinkle's best friend of Icelandic descent. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with white hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears a blue shirt, pants, and shoes.
- Grimsley (Rob Paulsen) is a troll who guards a bridge on a lost island north of Neverland.
- Iridessa (Raven-Symoné) is a light-talent fairy. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with a sunflower petal dress, yellow shoes, dark skin, black hair in a round up-do, brown eyes, pointy ears, and clear fairy wings on her back.
- Ivy (Kari Wahlgren) is one of Rosetta's garden fairy friends of Dutch descent. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with blonde hair, blue eyes, pointy ears, and fair skin and wears a red dress and shoes.
- Leech (Jeff Bennett) is a troll who guards a bridge on a lost island north of Neverland.
- Lilac (Jessica DiCicco) is one of Rosetta's garden fairy friends with Celtic descent. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with blonde hair, blue eyes, pointy ears, and fair skin and wears a red strapless dress and shoes.
- Lord Milori (Timothy Dalton) is a lord of Winter Woods and Queen Clarion's love interest and beloved boyfriend. He is tall, slender, and hand-sized with a frost sleeveless suit, ice pants, high leaf boots, and snowy owl-feathered cape that covers his broken right wing, fair skin, brown eyes, silver hair, and pointy ears.
- Lumina (Jessica DiCicco) is a new light fairy of Irish descent. She is Iridessa's partner. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with brown hair, green eyes, fair skin, pointy ears, and pink blushing cheeks and wears a yellow sports shirt.
- Lyria (Grey DeLisle) is a Scottish storyteller fairy. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with a long brunette braid with a curly hair on the front, green eyes, pointy ears, fair skin, and pink blushing cheeks and wears a white single-strapped dress that has a purple end, a tulip.
- Marina is a new water fairy of New Jersey descent. She is Silvermist's partner. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with brown hair and skin, green eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears a blue sports shirt.
- Minister of Autumn (Richard Portnow and John DiMaggio) is a minister of Autumn of Brazilian descent. He is slender with brown hair, brown eyes, and fair skin and wears clothing made out of gold leaves.
- Minister of Spring (Steve Valentine) is a minister of Spring of Irish descent. He is tall and slender with brown hair, green eyes, and fair skin and wears a leaf crown and clothing made out of violets.
- Minister of Summer (Kathy Najimy) is a minister of Summer of Australian descent. She is obese with brown hair, green eyes, and fair skin and wears clothing made out of lilies.
- Minister of Winter (Gail Borges) is the minister of Winter of Russian descent. She is slender with white hair, blue eyes, and fair skin and wears an ice crown and clothing made out of snowflakes.
- Mr. Owl (Rob Paulsen) is an owl whom some Never fairies go to for advice.
- Mr. Twitches is a cat belonging to the Griffiths family. He is the main antagonist of the third film.
- Mrs. Perkins (Faith Prince) is a neighbor of Lizzy and her father.
- Periwinkle (Lucy Hale) is a frost fairy. She is Tinker Bell's fraternal twin sister; born of the same baby's first laugh and match. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with fair skin, ice-blue eyes, snow white hair, pink blushing cheeks, and pointy ears and wears an aqua strapless dress that shimmers like ice with dark icy blue pants and aqua blue-colored shoes with white puffs on her toes and has clear sparkly fairy wings on her back, which are identical to Tinker Bell's.
- Queen Clarion (Anjelica Huston) is the queen of Pixie Hollow. She is slender and taller than hand-size with a light shimmering long yellow dress, a light golden shimmering large yellow butterfly shaped wings, tiaras for different occasions, fair skin, blue eyes, and light brown hair in an up-do style.
- Rosetta (Kristin Chenoweth and Megan Hilty) is a garden/plant-talent fairy. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with a rose petal dress in three shades of pink, fair skin, red shoes, shoulder-length red hair with curled ends, green eyes, pointy ears, and clear fairy wings on her back.
- Rumble (Jason Dolley) is a storm sparrow man of Austrian descent. He is the main antagonist of the fourth film. He is small, slender, muscular, and hand-sized with black hair, blue eyes, and fair skin and wears a black/gray sports shirt.
- Silvermist (Lucy Liu) is a water-talent fairy of Asian descent. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with a dark blue-green lily single-strapped dress, blue shoes, fair skin, long loose black hair, brown eyes, pointy ears, and clear fairy wings on her back.
- Sled (Matt Lanter) is a frost sparrow man of Southern American descent. He is small, slender, and hand-sized with black hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears an aqua shirt. He is Rosetta's romantic interest and one of Periwinkle's friends.
- Slush (Benjamin Diskin) is a frost sparrow man and one of Periwinkle's friends of Croatian descent. He is small, slender, and hand-sized with blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears a blue cap, an aqua shirt, and pants.
- Spike (Debby Ryan) is a frost fairy and Periwinkle's another best friend of Ukrainian descent. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with black hair, brown eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears a blue dress and blue boots.
- Stone (Roger Craig Smith) is one of the dust-talent sparrow men.
- Terence (Jesse McCartney) is a pixie dust sparrow man of French-Celtic descent. He has a big crush on Tinker Bell, and is also her best friend. He is small, slender, and hand-sized with blonde hair, blue eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears an acorn top hat.
- Tinker Bell (Mae Whitman) is a tinker-talent fairy. She is the main protagonist of the film. She is small, slender, and hand sized with fair skin, blue eyes, blonde hair worn in a bun, pink blushing cheeks, and pointy ears, and wears a dark green strapless dress with a mini skirt and green shoes with white puffs on her toes, and has clear sparkly fairy wings on her back.
- Vidia (Pamela Adlon) is a fast-flying-talent fairy. She has black ponytailed hair, gray eyes, pointy ears, fair skin and wears a purple vest with pink feathers, purple pants and black ballet shoes and has clear wings on her back.
- Viola (Grey DeLisle) is a summoning fairy of Irish descent. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with brown/blonde hair, brown eyes, fair skin, pointy ears, and pink blushing cheeks and wears a herald clothing and a black cap with a white feather on top.
- Zarina (Christina Hendricks) is a new misguided dust-keeper fairy, who steals the mystical blue pixie dust from the mighty Pixie Dust Tree, endangering all of Pixie Hollow. She joins forces with the pirates of Skull Rock in the sixth movie.
- Zephyr (Alicyn Packard) is a new fast-flying fairy of Greek descent. She is Vidia's partner. She is small, slender, and hand-sized with brown hair, green eyes, fair skin, and pointy ears and wears a purple sports shirt.
Characters in the books[edit]
There are several key characters that are not Never Fairies.
- Mother Dove: A dove who has an egg that is in Pixie Hollow that was broken but restored by Rani, Vidia, and Prilla in Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg. Mother Dove helps the people in Neverland stay young and is mentioned in every book
- Brother Dove: A dove who carries Rani on his back when she wishes to fly. He may be one of Mother Dove's chicks since he can talk to all the fairies, not just animal talents.
- Kyto: A dragon who has been caged for as long as anyone can remember. He is very sneaky and once, when Mother Dove's egg broke, he had to make it whole again with a trade of Captain Hook's double cigar holder, the golden hawk's feather, a mermaid's comb, and Rani's wings.
- Tutupia: The queen of the Great Wanded fairies (or Great Wandies). Great-wand fairies are about seven feet tall and have mystical wands or scepters that possess many magical properties.
- Fufalla: A wand fairy who loves to play pranks and practical jokes on others.
Some of Tink's book-only best friends who also may appear in a crossover special with the Fairies in the movies and with other shows
- Beck: An animal-talent fairy
- Bess: An art-talent fairy
- Fira: A light-talent fairy
- Lily: A garden/earth-talent fairy
- Prilla: A travel-talent pixie, introduced in Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg. The only pixie of her talent, Prilla can travel between Neverland and the human world.
- Rani: A water fairy. Rani plays a major role in Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, along with Prilla and Vidia. To save Mother Dove, the other fairies, and Neverland, Rani sacrifices her wings permanently, becoming the only fairy who cannot fly, but also the only fairy that can swim.
Terence, Vidia, Silvermist, Sweetpea, Rosetta, Iridessa, Fawn and Queen Clarion were from the books as well. They are the only fairies from the books to get in the movies. Sweetpea only appears in the sixth movie.
There is a set of supernumerary fairies, appearing a few times in the Chapter books
- Cinda, Liesel, Rhia, and Grace: They are the Queen's helper-talents who make sure everything is in tip-top shape for her.
- Wisp: A new fast-flying-talent fairy who is almost as fast than Vidia through training. She and Vidia will race through the Hollow. The two of them are later in a friendly rivalry.
- Elwood: A fast-flying-talent sparrow man who loves purple and talks as fast as he flies. He can be annoying, but he is very kind hearted.
- Pluck: A harvest-talent fairy who loves to find and collect delicious fruits and nuts.
- Pell: A harvest-talent fairy and Pluck's best friend (they look like twins).
- Sera: A scouting-talent fairy.
- Trak: A scouting-talent sparrow man. He is Myka's friend.
- Nettle: A fairy whose magical talent is caterpillar-shearing. She and Prilla and Myka are friends.
- Luna: A beautiful light fairy like the glue that keeps Fira and Iridessa together.
- Angus: An expert pot-and-pans sparrow man
- Twire: A scrap-metal talent fairy who melts down metal to recycle. She sometimes fights with Tinker Bell for who gets to keep the metal for melting or fixing.
- Ginger: A baking-talent fairy like Dulcie. She likes to show up Dulcie with her baking and tends to be very rude. She took over when Dulcie had a vacation. But, they soon learn to work together.
- Mixie: A baking talent fairy who helps Dulcie.
- Duncan: Also a baking talent, sparrow man. He has more patience than Mixie.
- Quill: An art-talent fairy who is quiet, shy, and is very good friends with Bess.
- Melina: A glass-blowing art-talent fairy. She has strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes and peach skin. Her main outfit is a blue shirt, teal pants, an emerald green leaf headscarf, a green apron, and olive green shoes.
- Scarlet: A new art-talent fairy. She is especially skilled in pottery and is friends with Bess.
- Violet: One of the cutest fairies in Pixie Hollow. She is a dyeing-talent who has corkscrew curls and is friends with Bess.
- Zuzu: A tinker-talent fairy who is very loyal to her job.
- Spring: A spunky message-talent fairy who is good friends with Fira and Lily.
- Hydrangea: A beautiful water talent fairy who always wears blue eyeshadow.
- Humidia: A water-talent who makes the jet at the top of the water fountain in Rani in Mermaid Lagoon
- Tizzywing: A fast-flying fairy who gets sick easily and, unlike Vidia, is very kind.
- Nollie: A brunette, cute, grateful animal-talent fairy.
- Sweet Pea: A new fairy.
- Idalia: A garden talent fairy with dark brown hair.
- Magnolia: A leaf talent fairy.
- Rune: A story-telling fairy.
- Luminaria: A cheerful, blonde light-talent fairy.
- Glissandra: A cheerful,blonde light-talent fairy who wears makeup a lot.
- Dewberry: A fruit-talent fairy who wears eyeshadow a lot and is very kind and more emotional then everyone except for the water fairies
- Olwen: A young garden fairy who loves planting seeds and looks up to Tinker Bell and Queen Clarion
- Abby: A tinker fairy who is beautiful, unique, blonde, and very good at her talent. She secretly has a crush on Baden. She is very musical, although she actually isn't a music fairy. She loves animals almost as much as the animal fairies do. Many fairies think she may be the first fairy with multiple talents, but for now she is just a tinker fairy
- Baden: A scout fairy who is brave as well as cautious and is protective and is a safety-freak. He secretly has a crush on Abby.
- Nilsa: A scout fairy who dies of disbelief in "Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg."
- Temma: A shoemaker fairy who dies drowning in a flood in "Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand."
- Crystal: A beautiful water talent fairy. She's very musical and often helps Lyria in her plays in "Play's Buddy." She has her own pet rabbit named Bunny in "Never Mermaid's Sister." Her older sister is Crystaline, a mermaid.
There are a set of key Never Mermaids.
- Soop: A beautiful and generous mermaid of middle rank who can be impatient.
- Pah: A beautiful mermaid of middle rank who talks funny and is Soop's best friend.
- Voona: She has yellow-orange hair, yellow-orange tail and a violet scarf.
- Oola: A mermaid with yellow-green hair, green eyes and a yellow-green tail. She's the first mermaid to actually befriend Rani, but has a weird way of showing it.
- Crystaline: A beautiful and kind mermaid with a high rank that also has a sour plum personality like Vidia. In "Never Mermaid's Sister" she has a fairy sister named Crystal.
- Numi: She has blue hair and a magenta tail.
Author | Gail Carson Levine |
Illustrator | David Christiana |
Language | English |
Genre | Fiction, Fantasy, Children's book |
Publisher | Disney Publishing Worldwide |
Publication date
2005 |
Pages | 208 |
At the opening of the 2005 Bologna International Children's Book Fair, the Walt Disney Company revealed its plan to introduce a children's illustrated novel for girls 6–10 years of age.[4] Disney Fairies debuted September 2005, when Disney Publishing Worldwide unveiled the novel Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg, written by Newbery Honor-winning author Gail Carson Levine. The book's illustrations were inspired by the tradition and craft of early twentieth century European children's book illustration.[5] It was released in 45 countries and 32 languages with a US$1 million marketing and publicity campaign. It became a New York Times bestseller and has already sold over 1 million copies worldwide [6]
The story begins in Fairy Haven/Pixie Hollow, located in the heart of Neverland. Prilla, who is a brand-new fairy, born of a baby's laugh, arrives in Neverland and discovers that she has no talent for any of the fairy avocations. Tinker Bell takes Prilla to see Mother Dove, but before the wise bird can advise Prilla, Neverland is shaken by a terrible hurricane. Mother Dove is thrown off her nest, and her precious egg, which holds all the secrets of Neverland, is shattered. Immediately, all those who live in Neverland begin to age. The island's only hope is for some brave fairies to take the egg pieces to Kyto the dragon and ask him to restore it with his fiery breath.
The book was followed in 2007 by a sequel, entitled Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand. Another sequel, Fairies and the Quest for Neverland, was released in 2010.
In the Year of a Million Dreams celebration, book stores released a form submitting a fairy character. The winner is said to be put in his/her own fairy's book.
Chapter books[edit]
Random House has published a series of chapter books under the banner "Tales of Pixie Hollow".[7]
- The Trouble with Tink ~ by Kiki Thorpe
- Vidia and the Fairy Crown ~ by Laura Driscoll
- Beck and the Great Berry Battle ~ by Laura Driscoll
- Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand ~ by Gail Carson Levine
- Lily's Pesky Plant ~ by Kirsten Larsen
- Rani in the Mermaid Lagoon ~ by Lisa Papademetriou
- Fairies and the Quest for Neverland ~ by Gail Carson Levine
- Fira and the Full Moon ~ by Gail Herman
- A Masterpiece for Bess ~ by Lara Bergen
- Prilla and the Butterfly Lie ~ by Kitty Richards
- Tink, North of Neverland ~ by Kiki Thorpe
- Beck Beyond the Sea ~ by Kimberly Morris
- Dulcie's Taste of Magic ~ by Gail Herman
- Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse ~ by Gail Herman
- Fawn and the Mysterious Trickster ~ by Laura Driscoll
- Rosetta's Daring Day ~ by Lisa Papademetriou
- Iridessa, Lost at Sea ~ by Lisa Papademetriou
- Queen Clarion's Secret ~ by Kimberly Morris
- Myka Finds Her Way ~ by Gail Herman
- Tinker Bell Takes Charge ~ by Eleanor Fremont (included in Tinker Bell: Two Pirate Tales, published separately by HarperCollins)
- Lily in Full Bloom ~ by Laura Driscoll
- Rani and the Three Treasures ~ by Kimberly Morris (included in Rani: Two Friendship Tales, published separately by HarperCollins)
- Vidia Meets Her Match ~ by Kiki Thorpe
- Art Lessons by Bess ~ by Amy Vincent (included in Bess: Two Colorful Tales)
- Four Clues for Rani ~ by Catherine Daly
- Trill Changes Her Tune ~ by Gail Herman
- Tink in a Fairy Fix ~ by Kiki Thorpe
- Rosetta's Dress Mess ~ by Laura Driscoll
Step Into Reading books[edit]
- The Great Fairy Race (Step 3)
- A Fairy Tale (Step 3)
- A Game of Hide-and-Seek (Step 3)
- Tink's Treasure Hunt (Step 3)
- Beck's Bunny Secret (Step 3)
- Vidia Takes Charge (Step 3)
- The Fairy Berry Bake-Off (Step 4)
- Pixie Hollow Paint Day (Step 4)
- A Dozen Fairy Dresses (Step 4)
- A Fairy Frost (Step 4)
Other books[edit]
- In the Realm of the Never Fairies: The Secret World of Pixie Hollow ~ by Monique Peterson. (Contains information about Pixie Hollow.)
- Mysterious Messages ~ by Tennant Redbank
- Prilla's Prize ~ by Lisa Papademetriou
- Secret Fairy Homes
- A Poem for Tink - Terence writes a secret poem about Tinker Bell and in the end she receives it.
- The Disappearing Sun
- The Shell Gift
- Fairies in Flight ~ by Posner
Disney Fairies magazine[edit]
In June 2006, Egmont Magazines launched a new monthly magazine for girls for 5–9 years old, produced by The Walt Disney Company Italia, S.p.A. and published in Italy a couple of months prior to the Egmont translations. The magazine, entitled Fairies, began with an initial print of 110,000 copies and a cover price of £1.99. The magazine's content is centered on Tinker Bell, and her fairy friends from the Pixie Hollow. Each issue features a collectable pull-out story, games, puzzles, posters and colouring pages.[8] Fairies Magazine has been launched in Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, Poland, Russia, Spain, the Nordic countries, Portugal, Germany, and Benelux.[9]
In addition to the Published work, The Walt Disney Company provides support for the Disney Fairies across all business units. The campaign includes The Disney Fairies Website, where visitors can explore and discover information about the Disney Fairies. The website allows users to learn about the fairies, create a fairy, visit the Pixie Hollow, and explore related merchandise.
Disney Consumer Products have also produced a line of dolls and role play assortments. The first Disney Fairies Products were a series of 10-inch dolls, which were a Disney store exclusive in January 2006.[10] Since then, Playmates Toys Inc teamed up with Disney in October 2005 to design and produce a line of toys for the Disney Fairies, which will include 3.5" small dolls, 8" fashion dolls, playsets & activity sets with DVDs and collectible story cards. Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg was the inspiration for the line of toys.[11] Disney Consumer Products launched a wide variety of Disney Fairies branded items, consisting of everything from apparel to stationery.[10]
A series of ten postage stamps were issued by Japan Post in 2006. Each stamp has a face value of 80 JPY, and they were distributed in a hardcover case, including some information about the Fairies. The stamps could be ordered at some post offices in Japan, and were for domestic addresses.
Film series[edit]
A long series of 3D computer-animated films featuring Tinker Bell has been releasing since 2008. Produced by DisneyToon Studios, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, the series consists of four direct-to-video films and one TV special. The fifth film, The Pirate Fairy, was released on April 1, 2014.[12]
- Tinker Bell (September 18, 2008)
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (October 27, 2009)
- Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (September 21, 2010)[13]
- Pixie Hollow Games (November 19, 2011)[14]
- Secret of the Wings (October 23, 2012)[15]
- The Pirate Fairy (April 1, 2014)
- Legend of the NeverBeast (Spring 2015)
Theme park attractions[edit]
In October 2008, two Pixie Hollow locations opened at Disney Parks. One opened at Disneyland near the Matterhorn in the area where Ariel's Grotto was formerly located, and the other at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom in Mickey's Toontown Fair.[16] Another version opened at Hong Kong Disneyland on January 21, 2011 as one of the festivities to celebrate the park's 5th anniversary. At these Pixie Hollow locations, guests have the opportunity to meet and greet Tinker Bell and other fairies, Silvermist, Rosseta, Iredessa, Fawn, Terence, Vidia, and arriving in October 2012, Periwinkle, from the franchise, as well as dine with them.
The Magic Kingdom location closed in February 2011 as part of the ongoing Fantasyland expansion. A larger Pixie Hollow area was included in the original plans for the expansion, but they have since been abandoned.[17] On July 28, 2011, Tinkerbell and her fairy friends returned to the Magic Kingdom in "Tinkerbell's Magical Nook", located at the Adventureland Veranda.
Online game[edit]
Pixie Hollow (Fairies Online) | |
Developer(s) | Disney Interactive Media Group |
Publisher(s) | The Walt Disney Company |
Distributor(s) | The Walt Disney Company |
Engine | Flash |
Platform(s) | PC/Mac |
Genre(s) | MMOG |
Mode(s) | Online |
Distribution | Shockwave |
Pixie Hollow was an MMOG created by The Walt Disney Company and released September 8, 2008.[18] The basic version of the game was free to play online. The website was based partly on the Disney fairy books written by Gail Carson Levine. Players with free accounts could create a female Fairy or male Sparrow Man avatar who each came with a small selection of furnishings to decorate a virtual room. Basic accounts could make friends with other players and have access to both 'speed' chat with pre-selected phrases and full chat where they are able to type their own messages. They could also play various "Talent Games," or fairy themed mini-games, found in the various meadows and forests of Pixie Hollow. While playing, the player was able to pick up leaves, seeds and flowers which were the currency for buying items in the game. Players could also play games and visit places to earn badges that they could see in their "leaf journal," which also served as a handbook and inventory. Players could purchase a monthly, semi-annual or annual membership. The membership included: Clothes and furniture, badges (a reward for doing something good in Pixie Hollow,) and hair salon with spa. These were member only features.
You could also purchase Pixie Diamonds. Members were granted an allowance of Pixie Diamonds, (once a month.) People who were not members were able to buy clothing, but they had to use Pixie Diamonds. Members[19] In January 2012, "Pixie Diamonds" were introduced, an in-game currency that could be purchased with real-world money and used to buy or upgrade items without an active membership. Though the website was geared towards young girls, on April 22, 2010, the game introduced a male character named Slate; he was referred to as a "Sparrow Man" rather than a male fairy.[20]
On August 20, 2013, it was announced that Pixie Hollow would be closing on September 19, 2013. All the fairies were given unlimited access to the world until the closing date.[21]
To date, two of the characters from the Disney Fairies franchise have appeared in ABC's fantasy drama series Once Upon a Time. Tinker Bell appears as a recurring character played by Rose McIver and debuts in the third episode of Season Three. Silvermist appeared in the spinoff Once Upon a Time in Wonderland in the second episode of Season One where she is played by Jordana Largy.
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It's also that time of year when family and friends come in from out of town, and rather than waste valuable holiday time cleaning your house, you instead treat your relatives to a meal at a fancy restaurant where Uncle Ed will forget what year it is and Aunt Edna will spend the entire time with denture paste in the corner of her mouth, all the while remarking on what a lovely place you're in.
The Wellshire Inn wants to be that lovely place--and this massive complex certainly has the looks for it. Although the restaurant is located just off Colorado Boulevard on the edge of one of Denver's public golf courses, the seventy-year-old building resembles a Tudor mansion. But like an elaborately wrapped Christmas gift that turns out to hold a pair of socks, the Wellshire is all packaging: The blah food is not what you'd expect to find inside such a classy exterior.
Right now the wood beams, chandeliers and stained-glass windows are decorated with lights and pine boughs, which further warms the already comfortable and elegant atmosphere. Especially inviting are the bar and the banquet rooms--the former features a brick fireplace, soft couches, counters dotted with brass elephant heads and a unique ceiling fan composed of several vertical paddles. The spacious banquet spaces are perfect for parties; they have names like "The Oxford" and are filled with the same accents--white linens, silver flatware, stained glass and exposed brick--that make the main dining rooms so attractive.
The food, overseen by chef Steve Ford, is equally attractive. Too bad it doesn't taste as good as it looks.
An appetizer of seared duck breast slices ($6.95) included six pieces of tender duck fanned around a mound of fried leeks and slashed with an orange-chile vinaigrette. The meat itself was wonderful, but the vinaigrette tasted barely of orange and not at all of chiles, and the leeks were a mistake--they were bland on their own and added nothing to the duck. Our second starter was a duo of crab cakes ($10) that represented the Atlantic (a blue crab) and Pacific (a Dungeness) oceans. The blue crab had been pressed into a ball resembling a little croquette and was too heavily coated with breading; it rolled around ridiculously when the waiter set down the plate. The Dungeness, however, was fantastic: loosely packed, lightly breaded and simply adorned, the crab cake went beautifully with the garlic tomato sauce. But the kitchen could have held the second condiment, purportedly a picante mayonnaise, that seemed like plain old mayo to me.
And so it went with the rest of our dinner: nice touches here and there that failed to add up to anything special. The onion soup ($4.25) benefited from a mixture of Swiss and romano cheeses, but the base was lifeless and choked with bread. We had better luck with the soup of the day (it, or a salad, comes with the entrees); the red bean with sour cream was thick and hearty. The house salad was also a winner: The ingredients were fresh, and both dressings we tried--a raspberry vinaigrette and a red wine with blue cheese--were sound.
Which is more than I can say for our entrees. The prime rib cost way too much ($24.50) for the small (my guess is ten ounces), fatty, chewy slab I was given; the accompanying Yorkshire pudding, a favorite of mine since a trip to England five years ago, turned into soggy cardboard after a few minutes on the plate. Better was the impeccably cooked pistachio-crusted sea bass ($18.95), even if it wasn't really "crusted" but simply sprinkled with chopped nuts. The rice on the side, however, was dull and dry.
Not as dry, though, as the pepper-grilled chicken ($17.75). The tough breast bore none of the promised garlic and was covered with strips of red, yellow and green bell peppers, a prominent feature not mentioned on the menu (it's a good thing my companion likes peppers). And while the swordfish ($22) came dressed in a suave sun-dried-tomato beurre blanc, the fish must have occupied a bad place on the grill, because one side was tender and juicy and the other crusty and dry.
More water please, waiter.
By the time we reached dessert, we'd become quite enamored with our waiter, who had enough energy to take on the whole dining room's worth of tables and still keep our water glasses full. When he found we were having a tough time deciding among the Wellshire's many sweets, he confessed that he would let us have the whole platter if there hadn't been another table still eating that also might want to order some dessert. We settled on just four: the chocolate torte, the tiramisu, an apple cake and a Bailey's chocolate mousse (each $3.50). The torte was light and creamy, and the apple cake--a huge slice--was moist and sweet. But there were so many ladyfingers in the tiramisu that there wasn't enough cream and rum to moisten them, and the chocolate mousse, while quite chocolatey, apparently had yet to make Bailey's acquaintance.

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Welcome to New Worlds Coaching, a personal life coaching program specifically focused on unleashing your creativity to make a happier, more enjoyable life.
I believe, as Neils Bohr once said, that "An expert is a Man who has made every possible mistake in a narrow field of experience." I am the author of the novel The Coffee Shop Goddess, and a digital artist with a small following. In the years it took me to get that following and publish my first book, I made almost every possible mistake an Artist could make. I struggled with money, with my social life, with self-esteem, and to find my voice.
I was unhappy with the life I was living and the results I was getting, but I kept doing what I was doing because I believed five of the biggest lies that many young artists accept:
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These are stories we often tell about Artists, Craftspeople, Writers, and Musicians, and they can be pretty easy to believe. When we look at the lives of many of history's greatest creative minds, we can see a little madness, chaos and a lot of struggle, especially with money. The stories of the greats are almost always romanticized and compressed until they seem that way. The truth of their lives is often very different, and their finest periods of creativity rarely coincide with those of their greatest stress.
When a Creative person buys into these stories, it encourages him or her to accept a life that is far less fulfilling than they could have; one that makes creativity more of a struggle than it needs to be. In my case it led to a life full of depression, poverty, loneliness, and struggle that was completely unnecessary.
It is only after I published my first book, and looked back at what a hard road it was that I understood how buying into these stories about Creativity had made me so unhappy. It helped me realize three truths about Creativity that I had missed.
There is a perfect audience out there for every creative soul. You don't need to wait to be discovered, you don't need to struggle, and you don't need to be lonely. Finding friends and kindred spirits and being brave enough to reach out to them will allow you to go to your audience, rather than waiting for them to find you.
You create best from a place of happiness. You are at your wisest, wittiest, and most creative when you have overcome a struggle, and can look back on it with clear sight. Your creations will speak to people like yourself the most when they show both compassion for what your audience is going through, and give them hope that things will be better. From a place of happiness, you also create more, with greater energy and skill - unhappiness drains your creative battery.
All creative people are business people. And like every business person, they need to be likable, to manage their time, to stay organized, and to care for themselves. Like all other businesspeople, an Artist needs to have a vision for the world, clear goals, and a strong support network. And like all other businesspeople, a Creator succeeds by choosing to serve others.
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To eat humble pie, in common usage, is to apologize and face humiliation for a serious error. Humble pie, or umble pie, is also a term for a variety of pastries based on medieval meat pies.
The expression derives from umble pie, which was a pie filled with the chopped or minced parts of a beast's 'pluck' - the heart, liver, lungs or 'lights' and kidneys, especially of deer but often other meats. Umble evolved from numble, (after the French nomble) meaning 'deer's innards'.[1][2]
It has occasionally been suggested (by, among others, QI) that 'umbles' were considered inferior food and that in medieval times the pie was often served to lower-class people, possibly following speculation in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable but there is little evidence for this. Early references in cookbooks such as Liber Cure Cocorum present a grand dish with exotic spices.
Although "umbles" and the modern word "humble" are etymologically unrelated, each word has appeared both with and without the initial "h" after the Middle Ages until the 19th century. Since the sound "h" is often dropped in many dialects the phrase was rebracketed as "humble pie".[citation needed] While "umble" is now gone from the language, the phrase remains, carrying the fossilized word as an idiom.
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"Jonathan Maberry is addicting"
I loved this book; this series. Jonathan Maberry's PDT has given me a Book Hangover. I hope someday he revisits PD. I want to know what's up with Mike.
"A narrator can make or break a book for me."
I wanted to like the book but this narrator just wasn't for me. I thought she asked a question, and so I replayed that part and it was not a question. I couldn't get into this book at all. I kept rewinding it over and over, it just didn't work for me. I'll just buy the ebook and read it someday.
"The thrill is gone."
I don't know what's goin on with me, not carin for the last two Mercy books. Maybe I've out grown her and the pack. I never did care for Adam. He's too bossy for me, and yes I know he's an alpha so he has to act a certain way. I've read other books that had wolves and their alpha didn't act like that.
I used to drive all over Houston lookin for my Mercy Thompson books, buuuttt I can't spend anymore money on a series that doesn't really hold my interest anymore. This feels like a break-up, and I'm...more
"Story was good but I don't do parasites"
I don't care for the narrators voice.
His voice got better.(shrugs shoulders) This book was way to gross for me. I enjoyed the story but parasites ain't my thang. Ethan is soooo pathetic and worthless. I couldn't stand him; everyone else I liked. I really want to hear the 2nd book but I don't think I can.
"Not A Real Zombie Book"
Ok, so I finally bought this on audio, and now I can finish it.
I'm so glad I finally finished this book; it was indeed a struggle. I found myself daydreamin a lot, while listenin to it. I thought this was a Zombie book, and boy was I wrong. A book with only 2 Zombie scenes, isn't a Zombie book. This was a political book and I don't want to read about freakin politics in any book. I didn't like Buffy and yeah, yeah, yeah Georgia we know you have issues with your eyes. The Mason's are awful parents, and why adopt if you aren't gonna show them affection like a descent parent would. The word deadpan was over used. I almost bought the other two books, I'm glad I didn't. I will be takin 'em off my TRL.
Now, I need to listen to a real Zombie book.
"Sad and grosssss"
Wow. Paul had me crackin up in this one; it's not fair where is face landed when he fell on that female zombie. LOL, just gross. When is Mrs. Deneaux gonna get what she deserves? I hope it's slow and painful. This book made me sad, and I'm wonderin why did he make that person go out like that? It was so brutal, slow, and very painful. SMH
"It scared the sh*t out of me"
I had no idea what I was buyin, but I soon found out. This book scared me so bad. I don't do demon possession, and had I known I would not have bought it. It was a good book, despite it scarin me. Angela and her family spend a summer in Sacajawea, Washington in her late grandmothers home, and a chain of events happen that changes many lives, forever.
"Noway that just happened"
Maberry is awesome. I'm so freakin hooked. Everywhere I go I'm tellin people about The Pine Deep Trilogy.
"Small town Blues"
I truly enjoyed this book. Jonathan Maberry is now one of my favorites. Tom Weiner's voice is great.
"I wish a ***** would.........."
There were none.
I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. It pissed me off so much. I have a 15 yo and I see how some women look at him when they think that I don't see em and I wish one of em would try it.


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Dempseys Hostel Kinsale
Our hostel is a small 32 bed hostel and we are in that business now for 21 years. Located on the main road into town, the bus will stop at door on request. We are 5 min walk from the centre of town and the harbour. The town is internationally rewarded as one of the prettiest in the world and the harbour walks and pub entertainment is second to none. Famous for its nautical battles , piracy and cosmopolitan nature, you may hear 10 languages strolling around Kinsale. At present we are unable to accept any credit cards or debit cards when guests are paying at check in. Please note bookings for any kind of groups inc sports, stag, hen or 21st birthday parties will not be accepted there is quiet time in the hostel from 11:30am to 8am so no loud groups will be tolerated! Check out is 10 am please make sure you are cleared out of your room(s) by this time to allow us time to attend to room for following guests, thank you. |
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When departing the bus will stop outside our door if you put out your hand. Singles, couples and families are very welcome and we welcome all ages but we do not want stag nights, hen nights, sprorts or any groups or 21 birthday parties. If you have even the slightest problem please tell us and we will help if we can.
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we are a mere 3 minute walk from the town of kinsale
We now have complimentary tea, coffee and biscuits with mini kettle for convenience in EVERY room.
there is a LIDL right behind the hostel which is very convenient for groceries etc and a euro spar which is in centre of town.


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Hi, I just got two lucky bamboo plants, I put them in vases supported by marbles, and filled the bottom with a couple of inches of bottled water. A friend of mine has the same plants and said they suck up the water pretty quickly, but it's been a couple of days and I haven't noticed any change in the water level yet. Is that normal, or am I doing something wrong? Also, I have the marbles up to the top of the vase -- does that mean the water should be just as high?
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Mine suck up a lot of water. Maybe yours are adjusting to their new home and are stressed from being moved and replanted? Two days is not enough time to judge ther personality of a plant. The roots need to be covered in water. The stems should be out of water. How deep did you plant them? |
- Posted by scottshlaw74 (My Page) on Tue, Nov 28, 06 at 20:19
They are 19-20 inches high, each of them is in a separate vase about 8 inches high (so a lot of the stem sticks out), the marbles go up to the top of the vase, the roots are probably about 1 inch from the bottom of the vase, and the water is filled about two inches. So far I still haven't noticed any change in the water -- I suppose it's a bit early, but I just was concerned that if they weren't taking in water, they'd die. |
- Posted by scottshlaw74 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 30, 06 at 22:08
Anyone else have other ideas? The water level still hasn't changed, but I think I'm noticing new roots that I hadn't seen before. This is really strange... |
I think you should determine your success by how your plant looks rather than how much water it's taking up. If the plant cells were not filled with water as they are supposed to be, your plants would begin to wilt, brown, and die. If the room is on the cool side and the plants are basking in a lot of natural light, they won't be doing a lot of active growing. So not only is there less evaporation but less transpiration. This is pretty normal for this time of year in much of NA. If you grow other houseplants, you'll know that you have to greatly reduce watering in the fall/winter. |
Correction: if your plants are NOT basking in a lot of light. That makes more sense, right? ;-) |
- Posted by scottshlaw74 (My Page) on Fri, Dec 1, 06 at 17:22
Hah, yes it does, I figured that's what you meant. Thanks, I will keep an eye on them -- I have them away from the window because they aren't supposed to get direct sunlight. So far they are pretty green (alternating light and dark) and the leaves seem to be healthy, I was just a bit confused. Needless to say I do not have a green thumb (I've killed cacti before), and I had though these would be idiot-proof... |
Just because other's are having the water disappear faster doesn't mean that their plant is drinking it. Maybe its evaporating. It's very dry in my house and things dry out very, very fast. I have to watch all my plants for this and try to mist often. |
scott, you'd be surprised at how challenging it is to grow terrestrial plants (or those that are 'supposed' to be) in water. ;-) |
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I know they have it in the common areas of the resorts but what I'm not sure of is weather or not it's free. Last time I went I used that card from Verizon and with that it's free everywhere (well free after you rent or pay for that card)
Just wondering if there are any places on-property where free wi-fi is available.
I've been going through old episodes of the MouseTunes podcast (because I didn't discover Lou's work until he had already started the WDW Radio Show). In the installment I heard this morning, Lou and Nathan were saying something about Disney offering free wi-fi access at Wide World of Sports. I was curious as to whether that's still the case, and whether there are any other places where it might be available.
EDIT: Sorry; I meant to put this in the "Vacation Planning Tips & Tricks" forum. Maybe a moderator could move it …
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I don't know about Wi-Fi but I do know that you can get internet access in the room for about $10 a day. That probably does not help you at all, but I thought I would throw it out.
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Guinness Chocolate Mousse
- 8 oz. semi sweet chocolate
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tsp. Baker's Brew Coffee Spice
- 3/4 cup Guinness stout
- 3 large eggs, separated
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
In a small bowl set over a pot of simmering water, or a double boiler, combine chocolate, butter, sugar and Baker's Brew Coffee Spice. Stir until chocolate has melted and mixture is smooth. Stir in Guinness and whisk in egg yolks. Remove from heat. In a small bowl, whip cream with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Fold whipped cream into chocolate mixture. With clean beaters in a medium bowl, beat egg whites with an electric mixer until stiff peaks form. Fold whipped egg whites into chocolate-cream mixture. Fill wine or shot glasses, parfait bowls or ramekins with mousse and refrigerate until set.
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Serve topped with whipped cream and/or a light dusting of Baker's Brew Coffee Spice.
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The Centennial Campus Events collection consists of newspapers and printed materials that document the centennial celebration of San Jose State College. The collection of newspapers include the Spartan Daily (college student newspaper) and the San Jose Mercury News (1949-1957). Also included are awards from the San Jose State College Centennial Year Convocation event, posters, a calendar, and event programs. The collection is arranged in one series: Series I, Newspapers and Printed Matter, 1949-1957 (bulk 1957).
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In September, FTSE released the results of its annual country classification review, highlighting several ongoing developments in the emerging and frontier markets. FTSE's country classification is reviewed annually by the Country Classification Committee, which determines whether each country should be characterized as developed, advanced emerging, secondary emerging or frontier. Economic significance and market investability drive the decision. To be classified as developed, markets must meet all the criteria, while the standards for advanced emerging, secondary emerging, and frontier are progressively less-stringent.
Following FTSE's interim review in March that included no country classification changes, ten markets appeared on the "watch list" for further consideration in September. Of the ten potential changes, only two markets – Argentina and Morocco – were reclassified (Exhibit 1).
Argentina was demoted from frontier status due to its capital controls on foreign investors that limit investability. Morocco was demoted to frontier status from secondary emerging status due to liquidity concerns. These two changes will be effective in 2015. Additionally, two markets – Palestine and Latvia – were added to the watch list for potential classification as frontier markets. The resulting list of ten markets will be reviewed for changes in classification in September 2015.
Following the reclassification announcements, several differences remain between the country classifications of major index providers. Exhibit 2 shows notable examples. Some of the countries listed in Exhibit 2 are significant in size and can cause major exposure differences if not accounted for properly. For example, FTSE continues to classify South Korea as a developed market, yet it is one of the largest markets in the MSCI and Russell emerging markets indices. Additionally, for frontier markets investors, the differences in classification of Argentina, Kuwait and Qatar are significant, as each of these is among the largest frontier markets, where classified as such.
The next round of classification announcements in 2015 has the potential for a significant impact on global investors. In addition to several markets potentially moving among developed, emerging and frontier, most major index providers have begun to consider China "A" Shares and Saudi Arabia. These two large markets have historically been restricted to foreign investors. Both markets would be significant emerging markets if included, though foreign investment restrictions make such a reclassification in the next year unlikely and problematic.
MSCI Reclassification of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar
The reclassification of the UAE and Qatar by MSCI took effect at the end of May, with the two markets making up a combined weight of 1.15% in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index1. The decision to reclassify the two markets from frontier market status to emerging markets was announced in June 2013. In the year leading up to the reclassification, the UAE market returned 97% and Qatar returned 55%, far outpacing the MSCI Frontier Markets Index's return of 29% and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which returned just 4%.
In the month following the implementation of the reclassification, both markets reverted and lost more than 20% in June 2014. Some of this reversion can likely be attributed to profit-taking following the reclassification, but each market was also under stress from other concurrent events. In Qatar, as allegations of corruption mounted, rumours circulated about the potential for the country to lose its bid to host the 2022 World Cup. In the UAE, a wave of investor worry about the property market followed declines in Arabtec, a large developer in Dubai that came under pressure after its CEO resigned. Both markets recovered much of their June losses in July, with the UAE returning 17% and Qatar returning 12%2.
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As violence in Ukraine escalated over the course of 2014, several governments, including the United States and the European Union, introduced a variety of sanctions against Russian individuals and other entities. As a part of these sanctions, governments prohibited transacting new equity or certain types of new debt of specified companies, with a focus on the financial and energy sectors. Until the specified companies issue new equity, the sanctions should have a limited impact on equity portfolios. However, should any of these companies decide to issue equity (none have up to this point), they would likely be viewed as uninvestable, since it would be impossible to distinguish newly issued shares from existing shares. Index providers are reviewing the sanctions and their impact as the circumstances evolve and engage asset managers in a discussion of the appropriate treatment of Russian securities. That being said, it is likely that, should any of the listed companies announce share issuances, these companies would be removed from major indices that include Russian stocks.
Saudi Arabia to Open Equity Market to Foreign Investors
Saudi Arabia is not currently included in any major global indices because investment by foreigners outside of the Gulf Coast Council is currently prohibited. That is beginning to change, as Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority (CMA) announced it will open the Saudi market for direct investment to Qualified Foreign Financial Institutions (QFFIs) in 2015. The QFFI program appears to be similar to China's QFII program, which regulates foreign investment in the China A-Share market. The draft regulation released by the CMA suggested that banks, fund managers, brokerage, securities firms, and insurance companies could submit applications for QFFI status, though the CMA would also have to approve the underlying clients as well.
The draft also suggested further requirements related to the regulation, size and experience of applying firms. The CMA is also expected to impose foreign ownership limits, with the draft regulation suggesting that individual QFFIs may not own more than 5% of any given company, and the maximum that all QFFIs in aggregate may own would be of 20% of each company.
If such regulations are enacted, it is unlikely that major index providers would immediately classify the Saudi market as an emerging market. Instead, it is reasonable to expect Saudi Arabia to remain a stand-alone index, much like the status of China A-Shares today, until regulations are further loosened.
The focus on climate change has been heating up around the world in the past couple of years. An unprecedented number of heads of state, government officials and more than 800 leaders from business, finance and society attended the UN climate change summit on 23 September 2014. The summit sought to crystallise a global vision for low-carbon economic growth and to advance climate action. The two largest takeaways were:
The "PRI in person" conference in Montreal followed shortly thereafter. This conference sought after signatories to the Montreal Carbon Pledge, an initiative where investors will measure and publically disclose annually the carbon footprint of their investment portfolios. The aim is to attract US$500 billion of portfolio commitment in time for the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2015.
Discussions have occurred for some time within the investment community about reducing fossil fuel exposure and stranded carbon assets. The focus has centred on scientific research stating that atmospheric CO2 levels must be kept under 450 parts per million. The world currently has carbon reserves up to five times higher than this limit, which has led organisations such as 350.org to call for mass divestment from certain portfolios. The near-meteoric rise of 350.org has been well-documented, with CNN calling it the "most widespread political activity in the planet's history."
However, whilst full divestment is unlikely, it has raised questions within the investment community about less-drastic options to reduce fossil fuel exposure. The strong investor interest has led to the creation of a flurry of funds and indices.
MSCI recently expanded its family of low-carbon products, offering two variants of a carbon reducing strategies (Exhibit 3).
With other index providers such as FTSE and S&P also providing low carbon options, the continued development and growth of these products is an important milestone for investors in the shift to a low carbon economy, which was discussed at length during the aforementioned UN Climate change summit.
Tax inversion refers to a company relocating its headquarters and incorporating in another country to attempt to lower the company's tax obligation. Generally, the relocation has no material effect on the company's operations. Several large mergers, including Burger King and Mylan, were announced that may trigger relocation and a tax inversion.. The U.S. government has changed some regulations to limit corporate tax inversions. The overall impact on index mandates depends on global classification methodologies for various index providers and whether a tax inversion will trigger a movement from a U.S. index to a non-U.S. index.
Recently, S&P Dow Jones Indexes announced that companies reincorporating outside of the United States will no longer be eligible for inclusion in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. While the Dow is often cited in the media, the overall size of the assets tied to the Dow is not likely to affect the underlying stock holdings. Larger indices, such as the S&P 500 and Russell 3000, employ more complicated methodologies to classify a company's country. Historically, Russell indices used incorporation only to determine the home country of a company. In recent years, index providers used a global perspective, so the assignment of a company's home country involves more variables. Russell uses incorporation, headquarters and the most-liquid exchange. When those items are not all the same, the secondary variables of revenues and assets are considered. While a company like Tyco may be incorporated in Switzerland, more than 50% of its reported revenues come from North America. Both S&P Dow Jones and Russell include Tyco in their respective U.S. indexes. Given these more-comprehensive factors, a merger classified as a tax inversion is unlikely to change the primary exchange of a stock, and the assets and revenues of the company are not going to be affected. So even though the tax inversion strategy has made news lately, for most index funds, the impact will be minimal.
With the Alibaba Group (BABA US) IPO pricing on September 18, the size of its capital raise has led to questions in the global equity investing community about whether the stock will be added to global benchmarks. Based on the corporate structure and the company's decision to solely list in the United States, Alibaba will not be added to widely used global benchmarks from MSCI and FTSE in the near future.
When assessing a company's eligibility for a benchmark, the first step is to determine the country assignment. When index providers determine a country assignment, they first look at country of incorporation and primary listing. Should these characteristics be the same and should that country be a member of the benchmark, the company is eligible for inclusion. Alibaba is incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and the company has decided to have a singular public listing on the New York Stock Exchange in the form of a depository receipt. Without uniformity, index providers then consider just the primary listing location and assess whether Alibaba could be assigned to that country.
Since Alibaba has decided it will not file Forms 10-K/10-Q with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and instead chose to file Form 20-F, it fails to qualify for U.S. classification, according to MSCI's methodology. With respect to FTSE, the fact that the U.S. listing is in the form of depository receipts precludes it from receiving a U.S. assignment.
The next step for index providers will be to examine the additional factors such as location of operations, geographic sources of revenues, location of headquarters, management and shareholder base. The examination of these additional economic and geographic factors has led to Alibaba receiving a country assignment of China. Thus, with China as the country assignment and given the lack of an affiliated listing there, Alibaba is not expected to be added to any of the widely used benchmarks in the near future. Certainly, this could all change should Alibaba choose to change its country of incorporation, begin filing Forms 10-K/10-Q with the SEC or have a local (Hong Kong) listing.
1 Source: Northern Trust, MSCI. Data as of 6/2/2014.
2 Source: Northern Trust, MSCI, FactSet. Return data as of 5/31/2014.
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PUBLISHED: 24 Feb 2012 00:02:58 | UPDATED: 24 Feb 2012 06:33:12PUBLISHED: 24 Feb 2012 PRINT EDITION: 24 Feb 2012Tim Parks
The e-book brings us closer to the essence of literature. Photo: Bloomberg
Interviewed after winning England's Costa Prize for Literature in late January, the distinguished novelist Andrew Miller remarked that while he assumed that soon most popular fiction would be read on screen, he believed and hoped that literary fiction would continue to be read on paper. In his Man Booker Prize acceptance speech last October, Julian Barnes made his own plea for the survival of printed books. Jonathan Franzen has also declared himself of the same faith. At the university where I work, certain professors, old and young, will react with disapproval at the notion that one is reading poetry on a Kindle. It is sacrilege.
Are they right?
In practical terms it is all too easy to defend the e-book. We can buy a text instantly, wherever we are in the world. We pay less. We use no paper, occupy no space. We can change the type size according to the light and our eyesight. Cooped up in the press of the metro, we turn the pages by applying a light pressure of the thumb. Lying in bed, we don't have that problem of having to use two hands to keep a fat paperback open.
But I want to go beyond practicality to the reading experience itself, our engagement with the text. What is it that these literary men and women are afraid of losing should the paper novel really go into decline? Surely not the cover, so often a repository of misleading images and tediously fulsome endorsements. Surely not the pleasure of running fingers and eyes over quality paper, something that hardly alters whether one is reading Jane Austen or Dan Brown. Hopefully it is not the quality of the paper that determines our appreciation for the classics.
It's true that on first engagement with the e-book we become aware of all kinds of habits that are no longer possible. We can't so easily flick through the pages to see where the chapter ends, or whether so and so is going to die sooner or later.
In general, the e-book discourages browsing, and though the bar at the bottom of the screen showing the percentage of the book we've completed lets us know more or less where we're up to, we don't have the reassuring sense of the physical weight of the thing (how proud children are when they get through their first long tome!), nor the computational pleasures of page numbers (Dad, I read 50 pages today).
But are these old habits essential? Mightn't they actually be distracting us from the written word itself? Weren't there perhaps specific pleasures when reading on parchment scroll that we know nothing of and have lived happily without?
What are the core characteristics of literature as a medium and an art form? Unlike painting there is no physical image to contemplate, nothing that impresses itself on the eye in the same way, given equal eyesight. Unlike sculpture, there is no artifact you can walk around and touch. You don't have to travel to look at literature. You don't have to line up or stand in the crowd, or worry about getting a good seat. Unlike music you don't have to respect its timing, accepting an experience of a fixed duration.
Literature is made up of words. They can be spoken or written. If spoken, volume and speed and accent can vary. If written, the words can appear in this or that typeface on any material. Joyce is as much Joyce in Baskerville as in Times New Roman. And we can read these words at any speed, interrupt our reading as frequently as we choose. Somebody who reads Ulysses in two weeks hasn't read it any more or less than someone who reads it in three months, or three years.
Only the sequence of the words must remain inviolate. We can change everything about a text but the words themselves and the order they appear in. The literary experience does not lie in any one moment of perception, or any physical contact with a material object (even less in the "possession" of handsome masterpieces lined up on our bookshelves), but in the movement of the mind through a sequence of words from beginning to end. More than any other art form it is pure mental material, as close as one can get to thought itself. Memorised, a poem is as surely a piece of literature in our minds as it is on the page.
If we say the words in sequence, even silently without opening our mouths, then we have had a literary experience – perhaps even a more intense one than a reading from the page. It's true that our owning the object – War and Peace or Moby Dick – and organising these and other classics according to chronology and nation of origin will give us an illusion of control: as if we had now "acquired" and "digested" and "placed" a piece of culture. Perhaps that is what people are attached to.
But in fact we all know that once the sequence of words is over and the book closed what actually remains in our possession is very difficult, wonderfully difficult to pin down, a richness (or sometimes irritation) that has nothing to do with the heavy block of paper on our shelves.
The e-book, by eliminating all variations in the appearance and weight of the material object we hold in our hand and by discouraging anything but our focus on where we are in the sequence of words (the page once read disappears, the page to come has yet to appear) would seem to bring us closer than the paper book to the essence of the literary experience. Certainly it offers a more austere, direct engagement with the words appearing before us and disappearing behind us than the traditional paper book offers, giving no fetishistic gratification as we cover our walls with famous names.
It is as if one had been freed from everything extraneous and distracting surrounding the text to focus on the pleasure of the words themselves. In this sense the passage from paper to e-book is not unlike the moment when we passed from illustrated children's books to the adult version of the page that is only text. This is a medium for grown-ups.
Add to that the e-book's ease of transport, its international vocation (could the Iron Curtain have kept out e-books?), its indestructibility (you can't burn e-books), its promise that all books will be able to remain forever in print and what is more available at reasonable prices, and it becomes harder and harder to see why the literati are not giving the phenomenon a more generous welcome.
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Tim Parks is a novelist and associate professor of literature and translation at IULM University in Milan.
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What makes matters worse is that the level designers seem to have realised how simple and unimaginative some of the stages are, and have tried to spruce them up by adding bizarre routes and obstacles that force you to break out the old platforming skills. But it just doesn't work. One example saw us climb out through the roof of a cavernous snow pirate base, only to be confronted with a cliff on one side, and a certain-death drop on the other. We uncovered a VS (ie, a mech) by digging it out of a snowdrift, and used it to try and jump up the side of the cliff. After sliding back down a few times, we managed to gain footholds on what we assumed were bugged-out sections of rock and eventually leapt onto the summit; which turned out to be our intended destination. But all the way through, it felt like we were cheating, and we half expected to get to the top of the cliff to discover the sort of void you come across when you're trying to break out of the gameworld. It was one of the most tragic pieces of level design we've seen on the 360 so far, and certainly not an isolated incident in this game.
You do get some assistance when you're navigating through the ill-conceived icy-wastelands of EDV III. Hitting T-Eng waypoints (which you open by rapidly tapping b under a hail of attacks from various Akrids) throughout each level not only restores your health, but also updates your PDA and shows you the right route to take by shooting out a bright beam of light in the direction you should be heading.
Thankfully, one aspect of Lost Planet that does stand out - and it makes trudging through the mediocrity of each level well worthwhile - are the bosses. The end of mission Akrids are colossal, and as you can imagine, they're tougher than Mike Tyson in a steel suit. Get knocked out of your VS while you're taking on the sort of monster that would eat Gears of War's Corpser for a mid-morning snack, and it usually means a quick, messy death for our Wayne. In keeping with the game's regressive feel, they've all got specific weakspots - and yes, you have to hit these to inflict the massive damage - but sometimes it's tricky to even find where they are. Fighting these creatures on anything above Easy is a real challenge, and one that harks back to Ninja Gaiden on the old 'box. If you're the type that sniffs at next gen games for being too easy we reckon these are the aliens to give you that hardcore fix you've been craving.
These epic boss battles wouldn't work, though, if Lost Planet wasn't a seriously handsome game. Being able to see every tentacle and pulsating Thermal Energy sack on the Akrids is a real bonus, especially when you're working out how to beat them. Nailing the smaller ones with a shotgun makes the Akrid fly apart in a satisfying mess of green-blooded chunks, and blowing up a band of snow pirates by shooting a nearby explosive barrel generates an extraordinary flame effect, followed by plumes of next gen smoke and a shower of dislodged snow. Impressive, especially on that HDTV you really should have invested in by now. The only drawback with these intense visuals (and we can't believe we're going to say this...) is that they can sometimes be too much. During boss fights, or encounters with other mechs, the amount of explosions and smoke being flung around onscreen means you're completely blinded and unable to either pick out a target to return fire at, or avoid incoming missiles.
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I got a cattleya and its leaf tips are turning brown and yellow. Some leaf tips are brown, others are brown with a yellow band, and others are just yellow. Only the tips (the top half inch) are affected. The affected leaves include both older and newer leaves. Several leaves are looking like this. The plant is otherwise large and healthy with good roots.
I haven't had the plant for long. I don't remember if the tips were like that when I got it...I think they were a little yellowish. Temp 65-70 deg indoors with humidity at around 40%. Sunlight...not as bright as it should be. Is this anything to worry about? What should I do? I really like this catt because it's very special and I want it to be happy! Thanks! |
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I have one like that too, and thought it was too close to the grolite so I moved it down, I had it on a block to raise it under the lite. It is about the same but hasnt got any worse, so will see. It almost looked sunburned thats why I moved it down. Tricia |
Most frequently this is cosmetic damage from overdosing with fertilizer. Give the tips time to thoroughly dry and then carefully clip close to healthy growth with sterile cutters, being sure you don't cut into firm flesh. If the tips do not just dry, you have another problem. |
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