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Is this possible to reconcile individual happiness and social justice? It is the paradoxical search several foreigners installed in Brazil. Charlotte Rampling incarnates a British esthetic surgeon given to dissuade whoever would like to pass under the lancet. Irène Jacob is an anthropologist Frenchwoman whose of libido concerns override its political conscience. Bill Pullman camps a disturbed American ambassador who flees his most dangerous responsibilities while hiding in one for the favelas for Rio. There, it becomes accessory to the schemes of Fisher Stevens, a tourist guide, doubled of a romantic swindler. All these stories meet in a whimsical comedy nevertheless anchored in the reality of Rio de Janeiro, known rightly like "the town of wonders."
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Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. has not been encouraged by the performance of India, Brazil and South Africa during their temporary tenure on the UN Security Council, Ambassador Susan Rice said yesterday.
Splits between the so-called IBSA group of countries and the U.S. arose as protest movements swept the Middle East. India and Brazil, along with Russia, China and Germany, abstained from a UN resolution that formed the legal basis for military intervention in Libya.
As Syria sent troops out to suppress protesters, Brazil, India and South Africa blocked UN moves to pressure the Assad regime and sent diplomats to Damascus last month to engage leaders there. All three countries are serving two-year temporary terms on the Security Council and aspire to permanent seats, a goal the U.S. may block.
"It's been a very interesting opportunity to see how they respond to the issues of the day, how they relate to us and others, how they do or don't act consistent with their own democratic institutions and stated values," Rice said at a briefing with reporters. "Let me just say, we've learned a lot and, frankly, not all of it encouraging."
Rice said that issues related to the protection of human rights, democracy and the protection of civilians raised U.S. concerns about the IBSA group.
"Whether in the context of Libya, or Cote d'Ivoire or Sudan even," Rice said, the countries have taken positions "that one might not have anticipated, given that each of them come out of strong and proud democratic traditions."
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That criticism is simplistic, said Fabienne Hara, the vice president of multilateral affairs at the International Crisis Group. Hara, who recently returned from meetings in Brazil and consults widely with other diplomats, said the IBSA countries approached the Libya situation with their own set of concerns.
"They were all quite surprised that this turned into a NATO-led operation with a bombing campaign, with a variety of targets including Tripoli," Hara said.
For countries with colonial histories that now champion non-interference, as India and Brazil do, the NATO action had ugly historical echoes, said Mark Quarterman, director of the program on Crisis, Conflict and Cooperation at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
"There's almost a third-world sense, a post-colonial sense, that they were meddled in, in ways that didn't redound to their benefit, and now the same countries are claiming humanitarian reasons for meddling," Quarterman said.
The IBSA countries have pointed out that while there was an arms embargo and a call for a cease-fire, it applied to Qaddafi's forces, while France sent arms to the Libyan rebels.
An oil embargo was put in place against Qaddafi and his officials, while Qatar helped the rebels sell oil with the NATO- led coalition's awareness.
All this led to concern about what the UN would do when Syrians began taking to the streets. "The reason why there is no resolution on Syria now is because of Libya," Hara said, "the aftermath of this very bitter debate that members of the Security Council had after the Libya bombing.
''They were extremely reluctant to authorize any kind of resolution that could be the first step to'' another Western intervention, Hara said.
Brett Schaefer, an analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said that political positions of South Africa, India and Brazil should not come as any surprise.
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''Most often, they've chosen to ally themselves with countries that are not democratic, are not politically free and are not economically free, and at times have shown themselves to be hostile to promoting those very values in the United Nations,'' Schaefer said in a telephone interview.
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In computing, an avatar is the graphical representation of the user or the user's alter ego or character. It may take either a three-dimensional form[1], as in games or virtual worlds, or a two-dimensional form as an icon in Internet forums and other online communities.[2][3] It can also refer to a text construct found on early systems such as MUDs.[4] It is an object representing the user. The term "avatar" can also refer to the personality connected with the screen name, or handle, of an Internet user.[5]
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The use of the term avatar for the on-screen representation of the user was coined in 1985 by Chip Morningstar and Joseph Romero in designing LucasFilm's online role-playing game Habitat.[6] The computer game Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar was released in 1985, but does not use the word in this sense, only in its original religious sense; the player's in-game final objective is to become an "Avatar". Later games in the Ultima series use the term in the same sense as Habitat and introduce Habitat-style customization of avatars. Another early use of the term was in the pen and paper role-playing game Shadowrun (1989).[citation needed]
In Norman Spinrad's novel Songs from the Stars (1980), the term avatar is used in a description of a computer generated virtual experience. In the story, humans receive messages from an alien galactic network that wishes to share knowledge and experience with other advanced civilizations through "songs". The humans build a "galactic receiver" that describes itself:
The galactic receiver is programmed to derive species specific full sensory input data from standard galactic meaning code equations. By controlling your sensorium input along species specific parameters galactic songs astral back-project you into approximation of total involvement in artistically recreated broadcast realities...[7]
From the last page of the chapter titled "The Galactic Way" in a description of an experience that is being relayed via the galactic receiver to the main characters:
You stand in a throng of multifleshed being, mind avatared in all its matter, on a broad avenue winding through a city of blue trees with bright red foliage and living buildings growing from the soil in a multitude of forms.
Although William Gibson's notion of cyberspace as a consensual virtual reality hallucination representing data as a 3D matrix is not remotely how users access or perceive the Internet[citation needed], his cyberpunk novel Count Zero (1986) described in detail a character's representation socializing in an online world:
A square of cyberspace directly in front of him flipped sickeningly and he found himself in a pale blue graphic that seemed to represent a very spacious apartment, low shapes of furniture sketched in hair-fine lines of blue neon. A woman stood in front of him, a sort of glowing cartoon squiggle of a woman, the face a brown smudge. "I'm Slide," the figure said, hands on its hips...[She] gestured, a window suddenly snapping into existence behind her.
"Right," Bobby said. "What is this? I mean, if you could sort of explain." He still couldn't move. The "window" showed a blue-gray video view of palm trees and old buildings.
..."Hey, man, I paid a designer an arm and a leg to punch this up for me. This is my space, my construct. This is L.A., boy. People here don't do anything without jacking. This is where I entertain!"
The use of Avatar to mean online virtual bodies was popularised by Neal Stephenson in his cyberpunk novel Snow Crash (1992).[8][citation needed] In Snow Crash, the term Avatar was used to describe the virtual simulation of the human form in the Metaverse, a fictional virtual-reality application on the Internet. Social status within the Metaverse was often based on the quality of a user's avatar, as a highly detailed avatar showed that the user was a skilled hacker and programmer while the less talented would buy off-the-shelf models in the same manner a beginner would today. Stephenson wrote in the "Acknowledgments" to Snow Crash:
The idea of a "virtual reality" such as the Metaverse is by now widespread in the computer-graphics community and is being used in a number of different ways. The particular vision of the Metaverse as expressed in this novel originated from idle discussion between me and Jaime (Captain Bandwidth) Taffe...The words avatar (in the sense used here) and Metaverse are my inventions, which I came up with when I decided that existing words (such as virtual reality) were simply too awkward to use...after the first publication of Snow Crash, I learned that the term avatar has actually been in use for a number of years as part of a virtual reality system called Habitat...in addition to avatars, Habitat includes many of the basic features of the Metaverse as described in this book.[9]
Despite the widespread use of avatars, it is unknown which Internet forums were the first to use them; the earliest forums did not include avatars as a default feature, and they were included in unofficial "hacks" before eventually being made standard. Avatars on Internet forums serve the purpose of representing users and their actions, personalizing their contributions to the forum, and may represent different parts of their persona, beliefs, interests or social status in the forum.
The traditional avatar system used on most Internet forums is a small (80x80 to 100x100 pixels, for example) square-shaped area close to the user's forum post, where the avatar is placed in order for other users to easily identify who has written the post without having to read their username. Some forums allow the user to upload an avatar image that may have been designed by the user or acquired from elsewhere. Other forums allow the user to select an avatar from a preset list or use an auto-discovery algorithm to extract one from the user's homepage.
Some avatars are animated, consisting of a sequence of multiple images played repeatedly. In such animated avatars, the number of images as well as the time in which they are replayed vary considerably.[10]
Other avatar systems exist, such as on Gaia Online, WeeWorld, Frenzoo or Meez, where a pixelized representation of a person or creature is used, which can then be customized to the user's wishes. There are also avatar systems (e.g. Trutoon) where a representation is created using a person's face with customized characters and backgrounds.
Another avatar based system is one wherein an image is automatically generated based on the identity of the poster. Identicons are formed as visually distinct geometric images derived from a digest hash of the poster's IP address. In this way, a particular anonymous user can be uniquely identified from session to session without the need for registration or authentication. In the cases where registration has occurred, the identicon serves as a means to associate a particular user with a particular geometric representation. If an account is compromised, a dissimilar identicon will be formed as the attacker is posting from an unfamiliar IP address.
GIF avatars were introduced as early as 1990 in the ImagiNation_Network (also known as Sierra On-Line) game and chat hybrid.
In 1994, Virtual Places offered VOIP capabilities which were later abandoned for lack of bandwidth.
In 1995, KeepTalking, a product of UNET2 Corporation, was one of the first companies to implement an avatar system into their web chat software.
In 1995, Cybertown first introduced three dimensional avatars to internet chat.[citation needed]
In 1996 Microsoft Comic Chat, an IRC client that used cartoon avatars for chatting, was released.
America Online invented instant messaging for its membership in 1996 and introduced a limited number of "buddy icons," picking up on the avatar idea from PC games.[11] When AOL later introduced the free version of its messenger, AIM, for use by anyone on the Internet, the number of icons offered grew to be more than 1,000 and the use of them grew exponentially, becoming a hallmark feature of instant messaging.[12] In 2002, AOL introduced "Super Buddies," 3D animated icons that talked to users as they typed messages and read messages.[12] The term Avatar began to replace the moniker of "buddy icon" as 3D customizable icons became known to its users from the mainstream popularity of PC Games. Yahoo's instant messenger was the first to adopt the term "avatar" for its icons.[13] Today, many other instant-messaging services support the use of avatars.
Instant messaging avatars are usually very small.[citation needed], AIM icons, have been as small as 16x16 pixels but used more commonly at the 48x48 pixels size,[14] although many icons can be found online that typically measure anywhere from 50x50 pixels to 100x100 pixels in size. A wide variety of these imaged avatars can be found on web sites and eGroups.
The latest use of avatars in instant messaging is dominated by dynamic avatars. The user chooses an avatar that represents him while chatting and, through the use of text to speech technology, enables the avatar to talk the text being used at the chat window. Another form of use for this kind of avatar is for video chats/calls. Some services, such as Skype (through some external plugins) allow users to use talking avatars during video calls, replacing the image from the user's camera with an animated, talking avatar.[15][16]
American Online began to use AIM buddy icons as a marketing tool, known as "Expressions," for music, movies, and computer games in 2001. Since then many advertising firms have as well[17][18]
Although blog comment pages can sometimes act like Internet forums, there is no single way to provide avatar support on blogs. One solution is to link to an image file controlled by the user. Another solution is to use a service like Gravatar and resolve the user avatar from his/her mail address.
Avatars can be used as virtual embodiments of embodied agents, which are driven more or less by artificial intelligence rather than real people. Automated online assistants are examples of avatars used in this way.
Such avatars are used by organizations as a part of automated customer services in order to interact with consumers and users of services. This can avail for enterprises to reduce their operating and training cost.[19] A major underlying technology to such systems is natural language processing.[19] Some of these avatars are commonly known as "bots". Famous examples include Ikea's Anna, an avatar designed to guide users around the Ikea website.
Such avatars can also be powered by a Digital conversation which provides a little more structure than those using NLP, offering the user options and clearly defined paths to an outcome. This kind of avatar is known as a Structured Language Processing or SLP Avatar.
Both types of avatar provide a cost effective and efficient way of engaging with consumers.
Avatars in video games are essentially the player's physical representation in the game world. In most games, the player's representation is fixed, however increasingly games offer a basic character model, or template, and then allow customization of the physical features as the player sees fit. For example, Carl Johnson, the avatar from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, can be dressed in a wide range of clothing, can be given tattoos and haircuts, and can even body build or become obese depending upon player actions.[20]
Aside from an avatar's physical appearance, its dialogue, particularly in cut scenes, may also reveal something of its character. A good example is the crude, action hero stereotype, Duke Nukem.[21] Other avatars, such as Gordon Freeman from Half-Life, who never speaks at all, reveal very little of themselves (the original game never showed the player what he looked like without the use of a console command for third-person view).
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) are the source of the most varied and sophisticated avatars.[citation needed] Customization levels differ between games; For example in EVE Online, players construct a wholly customized portrait, using a software that allows for several changes to facial structure as well as preset hairstyles, skin tones, etc.[10] However, these portraits appear only in in-game chats and static information view of other players. Usually, all players appear in gigantic spacecraft that give no view of their pilot, unlike in most other RPGs. Alternatively, City of Heroes offers one of the most detailed and comprehensive in-game avatar creation processes, allowing players to construct anything from traditional superheroes to aliens, medieval knights, monsters, robots, and many more. Robbie Cooper's 2007 book "Alter Ego, Avatars and their creators" pairs photographs of players of a variety of MMO's with images of their in-game avatars and profiles; recording the player's motivations and intentions in designing and using their avatars. The survey reveals wide variation in the ways in which players of MMO's use avatars.[22] Felicia Day, creator and star of The Guild web series, created a song called "(Do You Wanna Date My) Avatar" which satirizes avatars and virtual dating.
Nintendo's Wii console allows for the creation of avatars called "Miis" that take the form of stylized, cartoonish people and can be used in some games as avatars for players, as in Wii Sports. In some games, the ability to use a Mii as an avatar must be unlocked, such as in Mario Kart Wii.
On November 19, 2008, Microsoft released an Xbox 360 Dashboard update which featured the introduction of Avatars as part of the console's New Xbox Experience. With the update installed users can personalize the look of their Avatars by choosing from a range of clothing and facial features. On August 11, 2009, the NXE Avatar program was updated with the inclusion of an Avatar Marketplace feature that allows users to purchase additional product and game branded clothing, jewelry, full body suits, and animated props. On initial release of the update, game branded content included items from Gears of War 2, BioShock 2, Star Wars, Fable II, Halo 3, and The Secret of Monkey Island special edition. The Xbox LIVE Avatar Marketplace is updated weekly with new items.
PlayStation Home for Sony's PlayStation 3 console also features the use of avatars, but with a more realistic style than Nintendo's Miis or Microsoft's Avatars.
Avatars in non-gaming online worlds are used as two- or three-dimensional human or fantastic representations of a person's inworld self. Such representations are a tool which facilitates the exploration of the virtual universe, or acts as a focal point in conversations with other users, and can be customized by the user. Usually, the purpose and appeal of such universes is to provide a large enhancement to common online conversation capabilities, and to allow the user to peacefully develop a portion of a non-gaming universe without being forced to strive towards a pre-defined goal.[23]
In non-gaming universes, the criteria avatars have to fulfill in order to become useful can depend to a great extent on the age of potential users. Research[who?] suggests that younger users of virtual communities put great emphasis on fun and entertainment aspects of avatars and their practical functionalities (such as whispering). They are also interested in the simple ease of use of avatars, and their ability to retain the user's anonymity. Meanwhile, older users pay great importance to an avatar's ability to reflect their own appearance, identity, and personality[citation needed]. Most older users also want to be able to use an avatar's expressive functionalities (such as showing emotions), and are prepared to learn new ways of navigation to do it[citation needed]. Social scientists at Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab[24] examine the implications, possibilities, and transformed social interaction that occur when people interact via avatars.
Avatar-based non-gaming universes are usually populated by age groups whose requirements concerning avatars are fulfilled. For example, most users of Habbo Hotel, Ty Girlz and Webkinz are aged 10 to 15 years, while users of Gaia Online and WeeWorld are 13 to 18. The reason may well be the properties and functionalities of the avatars of these virtual communities, as well as what the games are able to give to their players. In contrast, There and Kaneva Game Platform target users aged 22 to 49 and their avatars allow for a wide range of social interactions, including the expression of emotions: laughing, waving, blowing kisses, and rude gestures. The Palace, most of whose users seem to be older, allows users to use their own images as avatars. This turns the avatar into a direct reflection of users' real-life appearance, as desired by older users.
Lisa Nakamura has suggested that customizable avatars in non-gaming worlds tend to be biased towards lighter skin colors and against darker skin colors, especially in those of the male gender.[25] In Second Life avatars are created by residents and take any form, and range from lifelike humans to robots, animals, plants and mythical creatures. Avatar customization is one of the most important entertainment aspects in non gaming virtual worlds, such as Second Life, IMVU, and Active Worlds[citation needed]. Many virtual worlds are providing users with tools to customize their representations, allowing them to change shapes, hair, skins and also genre. Moreover there is a growing secondary industry devoted to the creations of products and items for the avatars. Some companies have also launched social networks[26] and other websites for avatars such as Koinup, Myrl, and Avatars United.
Cartoons and stories sometimes have a character based on their creator, either a fictionalised version (e.g. the Matt Groening character in some episodes of The Simpsons) or an entirely fictional character (e.g. Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series has been said[27] by J. K. Rowling to be based upon herself). Such characters are sometimes[citation needed] known as "author avatars".
To meet the demand for millions of unique, customised avatars, generator tools and services have been created.[28]
As avatars grow in use, services to centralize design, management, and transportation of digital avatars start to appear.[citation needed] They can offer to deployed in virtual worlds, online games, social networks, video clips, greeting cards, and mobile apps, as well as professional animation and pre-visualization projects. For example, Evolver (3D Avatar Web Portal) seems to be the first solution to bring together complex 3D modeling, consumer ease of use, and fully interoperable avatars.[29]
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I've been really happy with almost every tea I've tried from Yunnan Sourcing, & it's also been fun sharing them with my BBBB Sisters. And by the way, girls, I'm still covered on my box offerings for at least a couple of months, & there is another box, somewhere between here & China, with a few more goodies in it. I'm hoping it will arrive in time for my birthday :)
This is a gorgeous tea! Beautiful buds in the straight 'needle' shape, in shades of gold, caramel, rust, wheat, & with an occasion hint of olive drab (one of my most favorite colors in the world). Opening the bag, the aroma of Maltomeal drizzled with honey rises to greet me this morning.
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Natalie is a senior this year majoring in History, with a minor in English, and hopes to attend the University of South Carolina or UNCG in the Fall of 2005 to work on her Masters in Library Science and Masters in Public History. Natalie has been working with Mr. Richard Pipes and Ms. Marilyn Brown as a "cataloging assistant" for the past 2 years . She says that she likes working in cataloging "because it really gives you a chance to see the process behind exactly why books have the specific call numbers that they have." Natalie, a native of Marshville, NC, is also very active in her volunteer work with the Mephibosheth Angelic Riders Horse Farm, which provides therapeutic horseback riding for handicapped children.
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Heroes of Newerth Nomad Guide
By syllable - 14th December 2011 - 12:14 PM
This is a guide about Nomad, a hero that's all about mobility and teamfight awareness, if you can pull it off it's one of the strongest heroes and you'll wreck in teamfights, but if you play him wrong you'll probably get killed in one big CC chain before you can do anything.
Writers Foreword
There are many ways to play this hero, it's a very versatile pick. I'm going to tell you in this guide what - in my experience and logical reasoning - works and what doesn't, and more importantly why. It's fine to disagree, I encourage it, but put some thought into it instead of randomly saying things like "that's not how astonL played this hero, therefore it's wrong!". Thanks.
When to (Not) Pick This Hero
You can pick this hero in most scenario's, but there are some situations you'd want to avoid, and others where Nomad would thrive. This is when Nomad is not a good pick.
The enemy team has a lot of "fat" tanky heroes, for example Kraken, Zephyr, or Electrician.
The enemy team has a lot of disables that are very hard to dodge. Like Tempest's ultimate, Aluna's stun, Witch Slayer's Miniaturization, ...
When your team already has enough farm intensive heroes. It's not optimal to pick more than two heroes that need a lot of farm to be effective.
And lastly, when the enemy team has Plague Rider and / or Keeper of the Forest. These two heroes, if played well, will armor up their team, giving even the supports about 30 armor, and the carry heroes will have between 40 and 50 armor. Plague rider is a major annoyance.
On the other hand, there are teams against which Nomad will be a very strong pick:
The enemy team has a lot of squishy heroes, like Nymphora, Slither, Bubbles, ...
The enemy team has a lot of abilities on which you can easily trigger your ultimate, such as Glacius' ultimate, Corrupted Disciple's Electric Tide, ...
You can kite and mess with their heroes, they don't have any AoE target ground slows or stuns like Fayde or Pyromancer, or silly heroes that silence and snare you at the same time like Emerald Warden.
Basically, Nomad is a hero that when uncontrolled in battle, will win said battle for his team. He's one of the strongest mid heroes, even against ranged enemies, but doesn't thrive against a team of stunners
Stats and Abilities
Attack Range:
Attack Speed:
Move Speed:
18 (+2.0)
22 (+2.6)
20 (+2.2)
As you can see Nomad has average early game stats, and a reasonable growth on everything per level. His starting armor isn't too good, but early game you can build a defensive item for that. One thing to note is his high base damage. 54-58, is a lot. Nomad also has good starting movement speed, making him a mobile, high damage, somewhat squishy hero. We'll try to exploit his strengths as much as possible while fixing his weaknesses.
On command, the Nomad envelops himself and nearby allies with a cyclone of sand, granting them with increased speed and invisibility while slowing enemies.
The Sandstorm applies a movement speed buff to all allies and a movement speed debuff to all enemies in the radius.
Sandstorm effects:
buffs/slows movement speed by 5 / 10 / 15 / 20%
Type: AoE
Radius: 300
Mana cost: 75
Cooldown: 24 / 20 / 16 / 12 seconds
Note: this is an ability used for mainly three purposes: escaping, chasing, and during teamfights to avoid being focused. You can save allies with the invisibility, or movement speed buff, and you can slow enemies down with it so your allies can catch up for a kill.
Mirage Strike
Learning Mirage Strike grants you True Strike and Mirage Strike, allowing you to confuse your enemies with illusions of yourself. Deals 60/100/140/180 bonus Physical Damage on impact.
Cooldown is reset upon enemy death within 500 distance.
Target: enemy units
Type: physical
Range: 500
Mana cost: 90
Cooldown: 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 seconds
Additional effects: using True Strike will grant you 20 / 40 / 60 / 80% increased attackspeed. Using Mirage Strike will turn you invisible while an illusion attacks your target.
Note: your bread and butter. Not only does this ability deal massive damage to your target, but it also gives you a huge tactical advantage. There are two sides to this ability, the True Strike, which is fine to use late game on disabled targets if you get free time to hit them, or when you are chasing someone. Then there is Mirage Strike which will be your main ability throughout the game. Early game and lategame you might be able to do more damage with this ability than with your 80% increased attackspeed. How? Well the advantage of using Mirage Strike over True strike is that you get an illusion attacking for you and it turns you invisible. This means you can hit your target at the same moment your illusion does, and you will have the Wanderer bonus damage applied both time. When using True strike you will only hit once with Wanderer, then again on the third hit, if you are still close enough to your target that is. I'll explain more about this later, but Mirage Strike is the reason why this hero is such a powerful mid hero, and can even out harass a Thunderbringer. Basically when using Mirage Strike you get two hits in, when you use True Strike you expose yourself to all sorts of nasty nukes or stuns.
A master of movement, the Nomad's blade gains strength as he contemplates his next move against an opposing hero.
Gain a charge of Wanderer for every 10 distance traveled. Each charge grants your next hero attack 0.4 / 0.6 / 0.8 / 1% bonus damage, up to 40/60/80/100% bonus damage.
Wanderer is discharged and used only when you have 20 charges. If you attack with less than 20 charges, 25 charges are added. Only works against heroes.
Passive ability
Type: self buff
Note: the second reason why you are such a powerful mid hero. This is also your ticket into lategame. As you see it scales on your damage, not base damage, which means that if you were carrying 5 doombringers you'd be dealing around 1350 extra damage on top of your own 1350 damage every hit you had 100 charges on wanderer.
Edge Counter
Blink and you might miss it. The Nomad responds to a threat with a deadly show of force, nullifying the next attack and sending a massive shockwave at the assailant.
Type: magic
Damage: 200 / 310 / 420
Stun duration: 2 / 2.5 / 3 seconds
Range: 625
Mana cost: 10 / 125 / 175
Cooldown: 60 / 45 / 30 seconds
Note: great ability, but you shouldn't rely on it. Most abilities are too hard to predict for exactly when they're coming, or easily canceled so they can fake it. For example Soulstealer Demon Hands, I've had plenty of times that a Soulstealer will fake to try and make me use Edge Counter. There are, of course, situations when you are certain it's going to proc, for example a slow projectile hit is coming your way (Pyromancer auto-attack), Andromeda Comet stun, Soul Reaper's Judgement, you can even use it while standing in things like a Chipper ultimate and it will proc.
This ability is an unseen barrier between you and death, and all the enemy heroes know you have it, and will be careful about casting abilities on you, but if they know that you wasted it, if they see you use it too fast, you're an easy target. Point being here, don't use this ability unless if you're certain things will turn out allright for your team. You might die afterwards, but your team will have had the opportunity to get in position and get their own abilities off, which will in most cases secure an easily won teamfight for you, even if you die.
Skill Builds
There are two Nomad builds as far as I'm concerned, and it's the mid build, and the lane build. Mid obviously focuses on faster levels, while the lane build is also a bit team oriented.
The mid build:
Mirage Strike
Mirage Strike
Mirage Strike
Edge Counter
Mirage Strike
Edge Counter
Bonus Stats
Edge Counter
Bonus Stats...
This build is all about the one on one that mid is about. You don't need to worry about teammates or multiple enemies (most of the time), and since there is only one enemy, the faster you can kill him the better.
The sidelane build:
Mirage Strike
Mirage Strike
Mirage Strike
Edge Counter
Mirage Strike
Edge Counter
Bonus Stats
Edge Counter
Bonus Stats...
The difference here is that you grab a level of Sandstorm early on to help your laning partner out a bit. Mind you, there is a 24 second cooldown on this ability on level one, so don't use it lightly. Securing a kill while chasing can be done with it even though it slows for almost nothing, but saving allies with it is all the more viable using the invisibility it provides.
Item Builds
Early game:
Regardless of where you lane, and who you face, you will always need these two items:
Now depending on whether or not you are mid and who you face, you want to choose between a set of items. Against melee you would always want to get a
Against ranged heroes you again have a number of options. Depending on what kind of hero they are, you choose between
If you roll mid, then you always, always want to pick up a
as first item. Then boots. For starters Nomad is a mobile melee agility hero, who relies on quickly killing enemy heroes with huge burst. The more distance he travels between hits, if not stationary rightclicking a target, increases his damage done. Which brings us to the obvious choice of making
Now, depending on the enemy lineup and how well you are doing you want to consider whether or not to get a defensive item. An item you'd almost always want to pick up even if you're basically steamrolling everything is
and a
, and then start building straight damage items. Though since you won't go 6/0/3 in every game you play Nomad, it's safe to say one of these two will help you in the lesser games to remedy your squishiness:
I am a fan of both, Nullstone grants you plenty of mana to spam all your abilities as much as you please, where a Helm of the Black Legion actually makes you incredibly tanky, allowing you to play even more agressively. Nullstone works in a lot of games, the ones where it's usually not that good of an item, it's where there's heroes like Witch Slayer, Armadon, or Thunderbringer, .. Put simply: heroes that can get rid of your Nullstone with a very low cost and cooldown ability.
Once past the essential basics, you can start building towards more damage and lategame potential. This is one of the most core items for Nomad, to be effective in a game he needs it as much as any hero needs his boots. Of course, I'm talking about
It might not look like a big bonus, but trust me, it is. The -5 armor usually brings the enemy team back to 10 minutes earlier, where your Strikes still dealt stupid amounts of damage. Obviously, you'll want put the item on negative armor, not on positive.
Once we passed these items, you are in dire need of MOAR damage. We're in the midgame right now (usually past 18 minutes, if you made a Nullstone past 25, if you didn't make any defensive item usually past 12). Here you have a few options:
All three are valid items to get on this hero, but of course, they'll work the best in certain situations. The first thing I'll say is that Brutalizer is only a good item to get when you are not the only real source of damage your team is doing. Being Nomad is all about dropping heroes almost instantly, chasing is allowed and fun, but spending too much time on one hero is not good when you should be able to take down their Flint in a matter of seconds. So again, Brutalizer is fine, if you have other people on your team that deal copious amounts of damage.
If that is not the case however, there is still the Nullfire Blade. This is a situational item to pick up. If the enemy team has heroes that really need their mana to stay in fights (like a Torturer or Soul Reaper), and has effects you would like to remove (Jeraziah shields, Dark Lady buffs, Corrupted Disciple Conduit) this item is perfect! It won't give you as much damage Shieldbreaker would, but you can use the Purge effect to chase as well.
Very important
about this item: don't blindly upgrade it to rank two. There's an 8 second increase on the purge cooldown, which is huge. I've had games where I just replaced my level one Nullfire Blade with a new one rather than upgrade it, just because I really needed the purge all the time and I had plenty of money anyways. Always think about this before upgrading. And even if you'd upgrade it, just keep the recipe in your stash until you run out of charges.
Then there's the Shieldbreaker. It's a recently buffed item, and very powerful, due to the fact that you deal physical damage with all abilities except your ultimate.
Very important
: Mirage Strike will not apply the armor debuff to your target. This kind of sucks for us, but Nomad is strong as he is, and he'd be downright overpowered if it did apply the debuff. This means that we need to actually hit our target before using Mirage Strike. The other option is to use True Strike. I don't recommend this unless if you're certain that you won't be interrupted during the charge. Using this ability usually leaves you wide open for any form of stun, disable, ... It's even safer to just Sandstorm up to someone, hit them, then Mirage Strike them. Or simply keep using Mirage strike first as it doesn't put you in a dangerous spot.
And lastly we have the Frostwolf Skull. More of a strength item these days, but the change was a general buff for melee heroes. If you make a frostwolf you will be virtually unkillable, and you will never lose hold of your target, as it slows for insane amounts and you're an incredibly mobile hero. Just like the Brutalizer, this item doesn't really add a lot of damage for you, so you'll have to rely on your team for this, or farm the item quickly.
There are two items I didn't mention: The first, I don't like because of its purpose, and because I just think there are better items out there to spend money on. I'm talking about
The Runed axe is good if you can get it before the 18 minute mark. Even then I just would've gone with a fast Shieldbreaker or Bulwark. This item increases your farm, but if you play Nomad you shouldn't be playing a farm oriented game. You have too much hero killing potential in you to just afk farm all the time. If your team is doing fine 4v5 then by all means, keep on farming, but you can usually be more effective with other items.
The second item is
You can literally one-shot squishy heroes with this item and a Bulwark. Flint with Ghost Marchers? Dead. Arachna with Ghost Marchers? Dead. In fact, most ranged carry heroes that don't opt for Steamboots (strength Steamboots), can be easily killed if you have an early Shroud. Support heroes will fear you throughout the game. The one big disadvantage is that you will orient yourself even more around being invisible, making the enemy even more likely to get a Bound Eye. Usually Bound Eyes aren't that big of a deal for you, if you just try to avoid the carrier and kill everyone that doesn't stick on him like white on rice, or kill the carrier and take the Eye, but this is usually not too easy. The key to this item is getting it early on.
A last quite random item that's also a possibility for you:
When I say this is a possibility for you I say it in the same way it's a possibility for every hero that has 400+ GPM at 15 minutes in to the game. It works well for Nomad though because you're typically near enemies while invisible and it's a huge damage increase.
Then on to the next item, you now already have three or four items in your inventory: Ghost Marchers, Mystic Vestments, a Brutalizer / Nullfire Blade / Shieldbreaker + Sol's Bulwark / Mock of Brilliance, and last but most certainly not least: a Homecoming Stone.
The item you want to get next is dependant on the enemy lineup, but usually this works:
The damage you will dish out with this baby is just monstrous, turning you from a early-mid game ganker / carry into a fully worthy carry hero. Usually if you can get only three or four items on Nomad (and I mean real items, boots + Bulwark + defensive item of choice + weapon of choice + Savage Mace) the game is won for you. If you farm slowly, you won't get many items at all, if you're doing well you will completely annihilate enemies with just a few items. I've never had a game where I was able to stack my Nomad all the way before the enemy team conceded, but here's some luxury items that are a viable option for Nomad as well.
Great to add on top of your burst, 20% increased damage taken, Silenced, mana regeneration, damage, attackspeed. Overall not your weapon of choice, but it's just one of the better items in the game.
More movespeed, more confusion, more damage.
Big numbers, big damage, only get if you really don't need any survivability anymore, or your problem is that the enemy is simply too tanky.
Upgrade that Bulwark, gain some armor for you and your allies, not to forget the insane attackspeed.
Of course only if you don't have an attack modifier yet. Great survivability, great for chasing down enemies leaving them even more chanceless against you.
Again only if you don't have an attack modifier yet, it's a good item, activate to get back to full HP, passively grants a lot of HP and armor already, and adds a bit of damage.
Now here's the real kicker: That one item you might need to get in some games in order to be an uncontrollable force for quickly taking out heroes:
Depending on the enemy lineup, and how good they're playing (like really, this matters) you might want to get a Shrunken Head. If, however, you're playing against a bunch of noobs that didn't get any heroes with big stuns or control, then don't bother getting it. Example lineups against which you should probably get this item: Myrmidon / Magmus/ Soulstealer / Hellbringer / Corrupted Disciple. This team obviously has a ton of magic damage, and heroes like Magmus and Myrmidon will stack all of their disables on top of you as much as they can, if you are the big threat that you ought to be.
"Fun" Builds That Almost Never Work
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in there, and a
, and if you feel like you need some extra HP when you're not invisible, you can always opt to get a
. Seriously though, this almost never works.
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September 29, 2014: Mark Teixeira
A chart looking at his value, and the value of other players that have been involved in transactions involving Teixeira. September 28, 2014: Derek Jeter
It would be very easy to be snarky, as the Internet shows every day, but we would all love a job and career as great as Derek Jeter's. September 25, 2014: Naptime
It must be tiring being a pitcher sometimes. September 24, 2014: Between the poles
Two drawings of the areas between the foul poles at major league stadiums. I kinda like that this combines the idea of an infographic with "art." September 24, 2014: On the moor
Go for a walk on the moor. Feel the wind on your face. Clouds, grasses, heather, birds. Get away from the city, away from life. No cellphone reception, no scores, no line-ups, no statistics, no baseball. A break in the clouds, and the sun reveals the brightest of greens. And there, in the middle of that patch of green: a baseball game. September 24, 2014: Let's make baseball games longer and more boring
It seems like at least once a season, there will be a bevy of tedious articles where people flap their hands and faint like ladies in Victorian novels about the length of baseball games and how that means people will soon stop going to games and watching on the television. Baseball is long and boring, they say, something has to change! I say NO! It's too short and not boring enough MLB is not doing enough to stop people watching! This is my 20-point plan for making baseball better. September 17, 2014: Adiós, Foro Sol
This week's NotGraphs post is about Foro Sol, the ballpark of my local team, los Diablos Rojos del México. September 10, 2014: October 27, 2011
This week's NotGraphs post is a short story called October 27, 2011. The day of game six of that season's World Series. September 5, 2014: New stuff Field of Dreams II: An Abridged Novelization. link The Curse of the Chicago Cubs. link Cleef Van Lee. link An island where a baseball-like sport is played. link Another drawing of my local ballpark. link Another drawing of Dodger Stadium done with my weaker right hand. link A drawing of a baseball game. link August 6, 2014: Spam baseball cards
For this week's NotGraphs post, I took images from images embedded in spam emails that I received last week and made baseball cards for them. July 30, 2014: Walking around Nápoles
I was stuck for an idea for my NotGraphs post this week, so I went for a walk around my neighbourhood and made an audio recording. It's essentially a rubbish version of NPR or something. http://www.fangraphs.com/not/walking-around-napoles/ July 29, 2014: More new things
My latest thing for NotGraphs, There's a village on the infield grass. Elephant as ballplayer. Some ballplayers. I've started learning how to use SketchUp, so did a couple of baseball-themed 3D things: a ballplayer and a volcano. And finally, Nicki Molina or José Minaj (possibly NSFW). July 16, 2014: A few new things
For NotGraphs, I baseballized some photos from the World Cup: link Also for NotGraphs, I wrote a post about having a shy bladder, and an imagined double play: link A drawing of a pitcher: link Another drawing of Dodger Stadium: link And the All-Starr Game: link July 3, 2014: Dodger Stadium
Dodger Stadium is my favourite ballpark. I could happily do a drawing of it every day and never get bored. Well, maybe. Anyway, here are a couple of drawings of it: an ink-on-paper drawing, and one using the iPad app, Adobe Ideas. July 2, 2014: Eighteen paintings of ballparks
It's five years since I visited a US ballpark. On this anniversary, here are eighteen paintings of the parks I went to. July 1, 2014: Some new stuff
For NotGraphs, I did all of the MLB teams' names written in the colour code that Peter Saville used on the sleeve for Blue Monday and a couple of other records: link Also for NotGraphs, I wrote about going to Puebla, a town about two hours from Mexico City, to watch baseball: link Not for NotGraphs, I did a pie chart re. AT&T Park: link June 16, 2014: World Cup dates
If, as is likely, you come to this site for baseball-y stuff, then you may well be sick of all the soccer stuff of late. Bear with me, though, it's the World Cup. Important stuff. And here's a chart that's not actually particularly interesting, just it's a way to show some basic information in one place: when during the year each of the World Cups has taken place. June 11, 2014: Summer 2014
An animated GIF that I did for NotGraphs. About sport in the summer of 2014. June 6, 2014: Liverpool F.C. at the World Cup
A quick one, looking at Liverpool players who represented their nation at the World Cup. June 4, 2014: "¿Tacos, Güero?"
Some drawings of vendors at the Daiblos Rojo's ballpark, Foro Sol, in Mexico City. Also, I did a drawing of a ballpark in the shape of a fleur-de-lis for a Carson Cistulli post here. Click on the image in the post to see it bigger. June 4, 2014: World Cup squads
Here's a chart about the announced World Cup squads, and how many players play club football in their home country. Also an updated look at the history of the World Cup squads of Argentina, Brazil, Italy, and (West) Germany. June 2, 2014: World Cup kits
Looking at the logos on the kits of teams playing in the World Cup since the start of time. Well, since 1930, anyway. And I finished up an entirely-too-late chart about the Premier League relegation battle in 2011 that I did about 80% of the day after the end of that season, then forgot about it, but it felt like a waste to not finish it, and there may be a handful of people interested, so I did it. That one is here. May 31, 2014: London football teams
Not an infographic, rather an animation that uses data. Basically, since the 1958-59 season, English football has had four top tiers. Prior to that, there were the first two divisions and two third divisions, a north division, and a south division. Since that season, of the 92 teams in those four divisions, between 11 and 14 of them have always been London-based teams. This animation uses the places of those teams within the four tiers and the colours of those teams to create an animation. The longer a team is in a specific division, the closer to the edge of the circle that team is. May 28, 2014: Snow globe
New drawing for NotGraphs. May 19, 2014: Some soccer drawings
First, eleven drawings of teams from the last eleven World Cups. Not winners or great teams, just teams that took part. Partakers, if you will. And a couple of drawings of specific players: the best player in the world, Lionel Messi, and a pretty good Real Madrid player without a face. May 14, 2014: More drawings
A few more drawings for NotGraphs featuing Arthur Rhodes, José Altuve, Fibonacci, and some clouds. Plus a drawing of some baseball players with six versions, basically showing some of the tenchique and thought process going towards a final piece. See 'em here: http://www.fangraphs.com/not/author/craig-robinson/ May 11, 2014: Premier League 2013-14 chart
Well, as a Liverpool fan, that was a bittersweet end to the season. Amazing to finish second and have Champions League football next season. A bit disappointing to not win the title. Here's a chart about some aspects of the season. I've also updated the chart about Liverpool since 1990-91. April 10, 2014: Catching up
It's been a while. Off-season came and went, I spent a couple of months in London, lived in a hotel for a while, and now have a new apartment a stone's throw from the stadium of my Mexican soccer team of choice, Cruz Azul. I've not done any infographics about baseball in that time. Weird. Not sure why, but, that's life. I have, though done a bunch of drawings about baseball. Mostly because I have started contributing to NotGraphs. You can see all of the stuff I do for them (a new thing every Wednesday) here. Also of note, I illustrated Matthew Kory's article at Sports on Earth about player nicknames. That's worth a read/look, too. now that I'm a bit more settled in my real life, more infographics soon. March 26, 2014: Buying Tickets for a Mexican League Home Opener
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I'm bummed. I saw an add on Craig's list for stained glass and checked out today. I ended up spending $31 and really think I got ripped off. Gal is moving and I thought I could come home with a lot of beautiful glass. I should have figured out when i had to ask the price of a sheet i fell in love with but was marked 25.. well those were her prices. Now I am a newbie but looked at Delphi when I got home and I swear I payed more for some of my "sale" glass than it would be on Delphi... So.. i am bummed.
Then yesterday had a bad experience with Wholesalers USA. They are coming through for me and I have to say I ordered on Tuesday and got it on Thursday, it was beautifully packed. So kudos for that, but I didn't get one of my items. and instead of saying, well buyer is always right, they more or less said I was lying... But.. in the end , they are sending me another one.. still left a bad taste.. I had to tell them I was a member of this group to let them know I would be sharing my experiences. sorry i had to revert to that. And I noticed in the nicely worded email I got to say they were shipping it, "reshipment" of turtle.... so that more or less says it all. so.. i had a bad weekend and it is only Saturday night. Maybe I'm just being snippy. And who knows maybe some of those 4x4 sheets of glass were worth $4-5... Oh well.. Live and learn |
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Awwww - so sorry for your experiences - seems they come in clumps all at one time, huh? |
Awe Mermaid, I'm sorry that happened. Beware glass sellers on craigs list unless you know your stuff before hand. |
- Posted by mermaid4life (My Page) on Sun, Apr 27, 08 at 14:03
NT, Yep, it was my fault. I just ASSUMED other people were like me.. Ha ha.. You would THINK I would have learned not to ASSUME anything.... by the time I reached the half century mark!!! oh well, i did get some pretty glass ... |
- Posted by carolann_z8 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 27, 08 at 22:23
Don't feel bad mermaid, I've done things like this before. I get anxious to buy something and I've learned the hard way that it's best to know the prices first. I wish I had some stained glass to let you have so you'd feel better. |
Been there done that! It's the bummer part of the adventure. PJ |
- Posted by mermaid4life (My Page) on Mon, Apr 28, 08 at 17:43
Thanks, you all make me feel better. I just need to start another project to get back in the swing of things.. waiting for my sea turtle base.. at least they did send me one, hopefully it will come soon, and I can glue myself silly and feel all better. |
- Posted by slowmedown (email@example.com) on Wed, Apr 30, 08 at 9:12
There you go - mosaicing cures lots of pains. |
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In most years, the federal budget debate on Capitol Hill is an incremental affair – a few billion more here, a billion or so less there.
But Wednesday's release of the House Republican Budget Alternative sets up a clash of starkly different worldviews.
While President Obama's budget would expand the scope of government – "rebuild America for the demands of the 21st century," as he puts it – the House GOP alternative aims to return government spending to historical levels.
"The president's budget is little more than a thinly veiled attempt by Washington to spend its way into prosperity, tax its way into tax relief, and borrow its way into debt reduction," said Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the top Republican on the House Budget Committee. "This simply cannot work," he added in a press briefing on Wednesday.
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Kentucky's fabulous 2013 recruiting class got even better Saturday night when Dakari Johnson, the top-ranked center in the 2013 class, gave his verbal commitment to the Wildcats. He's the fifth top 20 recruit in Kentucky's 2013 class.
"They were just honest people from the get-go," Johnson said during his announcement on ESPN. "They told me that this wasn't the place to come if I were selfish, if I wanted the ball all the time or if I didn't want to work hard. I want to work hard, I want to get pushed. I want that pressure on me because that makes me a better player."
The 6-10, 250-pound Johnson, who briefly played at Sayre High School in Lexington, is a solid scorer inside who calls himself a "hard worker" on the court.
"A presence in the post on the defensive end and the offensive end. I'm a great teammate, too. … I'm a good person on and off the court," Johnson, a consensus top 15 recruit, said when asked to describe himself.Kentucky coach John Calipari now has commitments from Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, James Young,Marcus Lee and Derek Willis (according to Rivals.com). All but Willis are top 20 recruits and the Harrisons and Young are all top 10.And don't forget that Andrew Wiggins and Julius Randle, the top two ranked players in the 2013 class, still are high on UK.
Johnson said he wasn't worried about current UK centers Nerlens Noel and Willie Cauley-Stein do about the NBA draft after this season.
"I talked to Coach Cal and it wouldn't matter to me," Johnson told SportsNet New York last week. "Even if they stayed, they would push me harder in practice and I would just be better developed going against those guys every day."
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Howdy folks, the front yard veggie garden is complete and planted as of a month or two ago.
Everything is doing pretty well with much of the lettuce and chard looking ready to harvest. How do I know when it's done? Best to remove the whole head or can individual leaves be removed as necessary? In the past we let to lettuce go too long and it got a little bitter and went to seed.
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- Posted by stuffradio SW 8A BC (My Page) on Fri, Oct 26, 12 at 17:16
You can harvest the Lettuce and Swiss Chard as needed starting now. If you cut a bit higher from the base, it will grow back. I think you are supposed to harvest from the outer leaves first, and leave a couple leaves in the middle. Nice Lettuce and Swiss Chard though. :) |
Harvest away! You actually could have started harvesting awhile ago. I Harvest lettuce by breaking off the outside leaves at the base, then just cut the chard off at the base leaf by leaf. It doesn't make sense to me to harvest the whole plant, when it will regrow. Jay |
Definitely harvest chard from the outside - it will keep producing. |
- Posted by wolverine1012 6 SW OH (My Page) on Fri, Oct 26, 12 at 19:07
You've gort some good looking lettuce. I agree with others: harvest now by removing outside leaves. |
Alright, thanks everyone! Who's ready for salad?:) |
- Posted by nancyjane_gardener USDA 8ish No CA (My Page) on Fri, Oct 26, 12 at 20:47
I don't know how much chard you have, but I would let it get a bit larger before you harvest. You can certainly harvest now, but I think for the 2 of us, we would eat all of that chard in one meal! It cooks down to about an 8th of what you start with! Great with onions, garlic, mushrooms and some diced tomatoes, all saute'd or stir fried! MMMMMMMMM Nancy |
From the garden to my belly in under a half hour...I think I'm gonna like this:) |
I just started gardening but when my chard was young I used them as a salad. I definitely agree with eating the outside leaves first. My garden is still a work in progress but you can see the chard that I have cut and it is in the bottom right. I have been harvesting chard for over 2 months now. |
Both can be harvested by the individual leaf. Smaller chard leaves are more tender than great big ones, so I wouldn't let them get too big. If you don't live where there's frost, you'll still be eating chard next summer. |
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If the Longboat Key Town Commission doesn't pass a zoning-code amendment that allows the Longboat Key Hilton Beachfront Resort's application to expand to be reviewed, the Hilton flag is in jeopardy of disappearing.
The resort could no longer be a Hilton.
Delray Beach-based Ocean Properties Ltd., owner of the resort, has been working with Hilton Hotels & Resorts officials to delay a Hilton-mandated renovation of the property until the town approves a plan to add 85 rooms to the 102-room resort.
Ocean Properties Vice President Andy Berger said his company previously had signed agreements with Hilton for a May 1 deadline to begin renovations. That deadline has been pushed to June 1.
"There are several upgrades we need to make to the property to stay current to Hilton standards," Berger said. "(Hilton officials) saw we were working with the town and gave us more extensions."
But Hilton officials are concerned that because of court rulings against the Longboat Key Club and Resort's expansion plans the town has become unable to review the Hilton's expansion application.
"Now that we have this delay and potentially can't make even a June 1 shovel deadline, they (Hilton) could tell us to take the flag off because the property doesn't meet their requirements any longer," Berger said. "We don't want to just put new carpet in and make renovations now for something we want to completely redo."
The Town Commission took the first step to avoid that scenario at its Tuesday, Jan. 22, regular workshop. It moved a zoning-code amendment forward for first and second reading. The ordinance modifies the outline development process to allow a review of the Hilton application.
Meanwhile, the town is seeking to hire a planning consultant to perform a further review and modification of the town's current codes and comprehensive plan.
"We recognize we are in the process of hiring a planner to help us plan and map out our future," said Mayor Jim Brown. "But we also have to respond, and we can't allow the town to be shutdown for a year or two while we do these other things."
Commissioner Lynn Larson agreed.
"It's important to remember the voters spoke on this already," Larson said. "They went out and voiced support of the 250 tourism units, and we need to listen to that."
The goal for the Hilton is to shut down the hotel May 1 and not re-open until the second quarter of 2014.
After negotiating for a year, Berger said, Hilton officials are getting frustrated. "If we get delayed too much, we would be without a franchise. I honestly don't know what we would do with the property at that point if that were to happen," Berger said.
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