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Jammed Craftsman toolchest model # 706.659020
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Tool chest which I bought my husband some years ago basically has gone unused. Shortly after he loaded tools in, the chest appeared to jam. The key appears to lock and unlock normally...however, when unlocked only the top drawer opens...the others act as though they are still locked, they don't move at all.
Since there are tools in these other drawers, is there anything I can do to get into the chest without destroying it?
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Occassionally the drawers on the Craftsman tool chests do get stuck and it takes some patience to get them open. The link I have attached below may be helpful. An expert will respond to your specific model within 24-48 hours.
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So goofy...after staring at the paper with the model # in the top drawer, I just went and opened the top lid and all the drawers open like magic...
Problem solved! Thanks for being there!
Problem solved! Thanks for being there!
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9 Clevedon Road,, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1DA
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This is a great little hotel for overnight between jobs.
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very warm welcome on arrival, room very well appointed, nice sized en suite , extras such as plenty of tea, coffee and milk, mini fridge. very comfortable bed, very clean. offered a choice of breakfast times. Very good range of breakfast items and cooked to perfection
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The weather outside was awful but the welcoming accommodation helped to make our stay enjoyable. Lovely breakfast, the bacon deserves high recommendation. Everywhere clean & welcoming.
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Washington, DC—Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the following statement today after the Department of Labor reported that employers cut 539,000 more jobs last month and the unemployment rate jumped to nearly 9 percent:
"Today's job-loss numbers and our rising unemployment rate reminds us that the hole we've inherited is deep, and our long climb back up has just begun. The strong steps we have taken this year will ultimately anchor our recovery, but we must keep going to put middle-class families back on the path to prosperity.
"In the coming weeks and months, we will continue to strengthen our economy by getting credit flowing again, fixing our broken health care system and developing renewable energy. In order to recover we must make sure businesses can hire more workers, families can buy that new car and parents can send their children to college. We must make sure that Americans can get the care they need to stay healthy, get better or support their loved ones. And, we must make sure that we develop renewable energy, create clean-energy jobs in our own backyard and end our addiction to oil.
"These are not luxuries we want to pass. They are priorities we must pass because American families are still suffering and continue to worry about losing their jobs and their homes. But no effort to recover can succeed unless Democrats and Republicans work together to make it happen. Today's report underscores the importance of bipartisan cooperation in getting our economy back on its feet."
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I realize this may be difficult without photos. I had fat grafting to the cheek area a yr ago and it gave me terrible fold lines around my mouth I've never had before. It also made my under eye appearance much more hollow/wrinkled, especially when smiling. I am 31. Can any type of mini face or cheek lift help correct the lines around mouth/reduce the overfilled appearance of the cheek "apple" (and thus reduce the poor appearance of eyes when smiling)? Any info/suggestions are very appreciated
Cheek Liposuction or Mini Facelift for Bad Fat Graft?
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It is not uncommon to have problems from facial fat grafting.
Facial fat grafting tends to have a whole lot of problems. Some work out ok but many get lumpy, bumpy or shift. Yours sounds like you need to lipo correct the cheeks and fill in under the eyes and around the mouth. Minilifts wouldn't do much for you in this case. Sincerely,
David Hansen,MD
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Correcting a Bad Facial Fat Graft
This sounds like you have been over corrected. This over correction has made the places that were not treated appear hollowed out in comparison.
If it had been less than a year since treatment, I would advise waiting for the swelling to go down and for the fat to absorb. Approximately 40% of the fat will absorb within the first year. Since it has been more than a year, you could consider additional fat grafting in previously untreated areas to balance out facial features create harmony in your appearance.
A mini face lift may help because it could remove some extra fat.
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Liposuction or facelift
It is impossible to say without actually examining you in person and knowing where the fat was injected. From what you are describing you have several areas of concern, lower face, cheeks and under eye area. Some or all may be related to your fat grafting and some may simply be genetic or a result of normal aging. Focal fat deposits can be removed using careful facial liposuction. Lines around the mouth may be due to volume or fat loss or may be due to loose skin or wrinkles. Some combination of liposuction, minilift or full lift or midface lift and possibly laser resurfacing. It sounds like you need a complete exam by a qualified surgeon who offers all of these possibilities to see what is best for you
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You need a full examination and discussion regarding your expectation. Then all available options aand the correction of the fat graft can be also addressed. You may need both removal of the injected fat or part of it and a face lift fo a good result.
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IU Health to eliminate 800 jobs
One of the state's leading health providers announced the elimination of 800 jobs Thursday.
IU Health will eliminate 800 jobs, effective December 1. Affected employees will be notified by October 1. Some employees will be offered early retirement, for the first time, at age 62. The cuts will impact IU Health workers at Methodist, University, Riley, North, Saxony, Tipton and Ball Memorial hospitals.
Employees were notified of the cuts at 10 a.m. Thursday, but the exact people who will be getting pink slips has yet to be determined.
Riley Hospital promotes itself as a place where hope happens. But for staff on Thursday, a companion emotion is fear as they await word on which jobs will be cut.
"We recognize we will lose talented and dedicated team members. These are our friends and our colleagues," said Riley President and CEO Dr. Jeff Sperring.
"I can tell you this is going to affect every level of our organization, across the board. Every person at IU Health will feel the impact of this," said Jim Terwilliger, president of IU Health Methodist and University hospitals.
Hospital leaders say 50 percent of costs are related to labor and the cuts are prudent, because admissions are declining, as is money from Medicare. Complicating the equation is that under the Affordable Care Act, hospitals will be rewarded for keeping patients out of the hospital.
"No one wants it to end up here, but to position ourselves to be a professional organization, to provide access to the patients who come here and seek care, I think people understand that we have to make a decision like this at this time," said Terwilliger.
Toni Dowlen has transported patients at IU Health for eight years. She doesn't know if her job will be one that's eliminated.
"It's kind of scary, you know? Right now, I don't know what is going on, so it's kind of scary," she said.
She shares the uncertainty with nearly 36,000 other IU Health workers.
"We are trying to position the organization to be successful in what is a rapidly-changing industry," she said.
The news isn't surprising to many, like Dr. Lawrence Walsh.
"I think in the community, this has been happening, so I think we kind of knew things were going to happen at some point," Walsh said.
"I'm quite confident they started with the management ranks," said industry expert Doug Leonard.
Leonard represents the state's 172 hospitals as head of the Indiana Hospital Association.
"Whenever a cut in staff is considered in a hospital, you always start as far away from the patient as possible," Leonard said.
That is at least reassuring to students like Obasaju Patience, who is pursuing a medical degree.
"There is still a physician shortage, so regardless of jobs being cut, there are still jobs that are needed, so I kind of hope that when we get out and in real practice, there will still be jobs for us," Patience said.
In the meantime, hospital visits are down, as are reimbursements, so workers wait to see if their income and career is at risk - or safe for now.
The cuts will save IU Health a billion dollars over five years.
The layoffs at IU Health come after St. Vincent announced that 850 of its employees were losing their jobs across the 22-hospital system. That's five percent of its total workforce of 17,000 people. St. Vincent blamed the layoffs on what it called economic and competitive pressures.
Eyewitness News asked St. Francis Health for a statement about its situation. At this time, St. Francis is not planning any layoffs:
"For several months, Franciscan St. Francis Health has been evaluating various ways to achieve cost savings at its hospitals in Indianapolis, Mooresville and Carmel. Such measures will enable us to eliminate waste and to operate more efficiently well into the future. Presently, there have been no workforce reductions.
Declining reimbursements and the threat of decreasing inpatient volumes are among the many challenges faced by our hospitals and the entire health care industry. As the medical arena evolves, we too must adjust. As a division of Franciscan Alliance – whose health care ministry spans more than 138 years – Franciscan St. Francis Health has a long history of adapting as necessary to continue its health care ministry.
However, the mission of Franciscan St. Francis Health will remain constant. Whatever cost savings steps we take will not compromise our goal to provide patients the top-notch, timely and affordable care they expect and deserve.
IU Health President and CEO Dan Evans sent this email to employees:
"IU Health Team Members:
In my State of the System report to you last January, I outlined our goal of improving productivity by 25 percent – or roughly one billion dollars – over the next five years. We adopted this goal because we fully expect that the future reimbursement environment, from all payers, will look much like Medicare does today. In addition, we believe that managing the health of populations – helping to keep Hoosiers healthy rather than caring for them only when they are ill – is how we will increasingly be reimbursed by public and private payers in the future. To manage "population health" well, we will need to significantly invest in new technologies and processes – and we will need to do so in the face of worsening reimbursements.
Since January, we have made some progress. We have launched our Lean continuous improvement efforts, which are helping us to identify waste and improve productivity. And we have pursued other cost savings initiatives as well, such as centralizing our lab operations and consolidating other programs. We've also reduced some labor costs with flexible scheduling and by not filling open positions.
While all of these efforts are appreciated, they unfortunately have not been sufficient in achieving our targeted cost savings. This, along with declining reimbursement rates and inpatient volumes, has us significantly behind our budgeted operating performance. So much so that many hospitals and divisions across our system now must take more aggressive cost reduction measures, including workforce reductions. They include the academic health center, IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital, the North Central Region (IU Health North, Saxony and Tipton hospitals) and System Services.
Our team members – our colleagues and friends – are the most important asset to our organization's mission, and I assure you that the decision to reduce our workforce was reached only after much discussion and thoughtful analysis. While regrettable, these reductions are necessary if we are to offer affordable and preeminent care to the patients and families we have the honor to serve.
We are profoundly aware of the impact our decisions will have on the lives of our team members and their families. Consistent with our values of mutual trust and respect, we will make every effort to support all IU Health team members through this difficult transition.
Team members whose jobs are impacted by this workforce reduction will be notified in early October and will be provided with severance and outplacement assistance.
To minimize the number of team members affected by this workforce reduction, IU Health, for the first time, is offering an early retirement option to qualified team members who are at least 62 years old and will not turn 65 by Dec. 31, 2013, working in certain positions at the entities undergoing workforce reductions. Detailed information about this option, including the application deadline and eligibility criteria, will be provided this week to eligible team members.
We do not have a final, precise number of the reductions. At this time we estimate approximately 800 people will be impacted, but many will take advantage of our early retirement program, retraining opportunities and transfers, therefore reducing the number of reductions needed.
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These are challenging times. While we cannot control the external environment, we can control our response to it. Now more than ever, it is important that we remain focused on our Lean efforts, which are helping us adapt to this changing environment and more consistently deliver on our promise to patients. We also will continue to aggressively pursue our move to managing population health. We must maintain our focus on these crucial initiatives.
IU Health is a world-class organization with a long history of providing high-quality care. Our targets for achieving preeminent patient care, quality and service have not – and will not – change. I am confident that the difficult decisions we are making now will position us to continue to provide access to preeminent, nationally recognized care well into the future.
I know you have many questions and concerns. Your leaders are here to help guide you through these challenges. I will keep you updated in the weeks ahead; and, as always, I thank you for your commitment and hard work on behalf of the patients and families we serve."


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For Immediate Release
Torturer at Royal Wedding as Monarchies "Hijack" Uprisings
Dr. SAEED AL SHEHABI, mrsam13 at hotmail.com
General secretary of the Bahrain Freedom Movement, Al Shehabi said today: "We were able to prevent the crown prince from attending the royal wedding by stating that his attendance would be considered backing of human rights violations that are taking place in Bahrain. Now the attendance of the Bahraini ambassador who committed torture in Bahrain is even worse.
"Throughout the Mideast, the monarchies, especially the Gulf Sheikdoms, led by Saudi Arabia and in cooperation with the Western powers, are hijacking the Arab uprisings to leave the monarchies in place."
Background: The Guardian reports: "The former head of an agency accused of torture and human rights abuses is expected to be a guest at Friday's royal wedding, the Guardian has learned.
"Sheikh Khalifa Bin Ali al-Khalifa is a former head of Bahrain's National Security Agency and will attend the wedding in his role as the current Bahraini ambassador to London. …
"Khalifa was head of the agency from 2005 to 2008. The pressure group Human Rights Watch alleges that in 2007 detainees in Bahrain suffered torture including electric shocks and beatings."
The Christian Science Monitor reports: "Bahrain sentences four protesters to death, deepening anger among Shiites."
A nationwide consortium, the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) represents an unprecedented effort to bring other voices to the mass-media table often dominated by a few major think tanks. IPA works to broaden public discourse in mainstream media, while building communication with alternative media outlets and grassroots activists.


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i love cops!
I like cops too, fireman, rescue workers of all sorts and our military!
I don't understand why people talk badly about law enforcement officers, but, then again, I don't break the law (aside from a speeding ticket a while back), so I guess that's why they aren't a threat to me. ;) I think they're awesome to do what they do for so little pay or respect and so much danger.
I love the cops who truly love doing their job! Unfortunately, I have experienced law enforcement who have another agenda and take advantage of people in ways they shouldn't.
only criminals/shady people say they hate pigs/cops. I like sexy cops. mmm
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I like cops too, fireman, rescue workers of all sorts and our military!
Me too! They're our heros!
i am not a fan of cops in my area only because they are very currupt.. but its not just them i dislike its the whole govnerment system in my county you constantly hear abot curruption within the police department and the town government, but back where i am from i loved the police i loved how safe my town was and i thought they did an amazing job. ( and no ive never been in trouble with the law nor do i do anythign illegal)
me too...especially the ones that get their morning coffee at Starbucks!! haha nothing like a hottie in uniform...at Starbucks! lmao
I'm thankful for cops. Like any other job they don't all have the best personalities and some are dishonest/dirty, but they are necessary, important and deserve respect. Any time Ive ever been in a situation where I can say, " I hate that cop," I put myself in that situation by breaking a law. Not their fault.
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MSNBC's Steve Kornacki, Maggie Haberman, Josh Barro, Basil Smikle, and Maya Wiley talk about what they learned this week.
GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist Drew Magary shares details about his memoir which focuses on 21st century parenthood.
Actor Jeffrey Tambor joins Morning Joe to preview the new season, debuting this weekend on Netflix.
Author Raquel Cepeda talks with Melissa Harris-Perry about how creating identity is complex because "being Latina" is not purely racial, cultural or experiential, but can be a combination of all three.
One brother is the Mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of Staff, one is Hollywood's most powerful agent, and the third is a bioethicist and former presidential policy advisor. Dr. Zeke Emanuel joins Alex Wagner and the NOW panel to discuss what it was like growing up in their family.
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MALIBU, Calif., Feb. 14, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kids Only!®, a division of JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAKK), has signed a license agreement with Alpha International, Inc., to manufacture, market and distribute The Original Big Wheel Ride-On toys.
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Kids Only's new line of Big Wheel® Ride-Ons is expected to include the 9" My First Big Wheel, the 11" Big Wheel Sidewalk Screamer and the 16" Big Wheel Spin Out Racer. Each boys and girls Big Wheel Ride-On will capture the iconic look and feel of The Original Big Wheel.
"With millions of Original Big Wheel toys sold over the past 40 years, the 'King of the Sidewalk' has been a favorite with families for generations. We are excited to build on this classic brand and introduce this iconic toy to a new generation of young children," said Ron Cohen, President of Kids Only. "We are also excited to announce that our Big Wheel toys will be manufactured in the U.S.A., which will create hundreds of new jobs and give each Big Wheel a 'Made in America' stamp of approval."
Kids Only's new line of Original Big Wheel Ride-Ons are expected to launch at all major retailers this fall.
About JAKKS Pacific, Inc.
JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (Nasdaq:JAKK) is a leading designer and marketer of toys and consumer products with a wide range of products that feature popular brands and children's toy licenses. JAKKS' diverse portfolio includes Action Figures, Electronics, Dolls, Dress-Up, Role Play, Halloween Costumes, Kids Furniture, Vehicles, Plush, Art Activity Kits, Seasonal Products, Infant/Pre-School, Construction Toys, Ride-On Vehicles, Wagons, Inflatable Environments and Tents, and Pet Toys sold under various proprietary brands including JAKKS Pacific®, Creative Designs International™, Road Champs®, Funnoodle®, JAKKS Pets™, Plug It In & Play TV Games™, Kids Only!™, Tollytots®, Disguise® and Moose Mountain®. JAKKS is an award-winning licensee of several hundred nationally and internationally known trademarks including Nickelodeon®, Warner Bros.®, Ultimate Fighting Championship®, Hello Kitty®, Graco®, Cabbage Patch Kids® and Pokémon®. www.jakks.com
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Cambodia Advisory Panel
CEOP believes in 'making every child matter… everywhere'. In partnership with other government agencies, NGO's and industry members, we work to reduce the harm caused to children, families and society by child abuse in an international as well as domestic context.
Central to our efforts within the international context has been the creation of Advisory Panels in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Romania where traffickers and travelling child sex offenders from the UK and elsewhere pose a significant risk to the welfare and rights of children.
Providing a central function for mutual resource, support and information sharing, Advisory Panel members inform CEOP's and each others' work to prevent the exploitation of children in the region by British and other foreign Nationals. These groups are self-governing and made up of multi agency representatives from law enforcement, government agencies, NGO's, UN agencies and British Embassy officials.
The Panels act as a critical and constructive "friend" ensuring that our work in the region remains focused, informed and relevant to local need and demand. Each group ultimately aims to:
- Deliver a holistic approach targeting offenders and protecting victims
- Share expertise and cultural understanding
- Deliver joint education and awareness campaigns
- Inform in-country capability building initiatives
The work of the Advisory Panels and Panel members is supported through the developing ICPN webpages where members will have the facility to share resources and communicate, as well as share links to their individual websites in order to demonstrate the united approach we are taking to combat child sexual exploitation internationally and send a strong deterrent message to would be offenders.
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Overloaded by all the "new music" options you keep hearing about? We're here to help. Here's five songs, and in this week's case, a mixtape, we think you should fucking know (this week). Feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments too.
- AlunaGeorge – Your Drums, Your Love
Disregarding the fact that I feel like a failure for just now hearing about "UK's Most Blogged Artist of 2012", I am instead going to spin this into a brief commendation of Britain's ability to consistently produce great artists. Ever since Handel became a British citizen at the age of 42, the UK's square-footage to talent ratio has been untouchable. We find it crazy when areas like Brooklyn, Asheville, or Milwaukee pump out a handful of good acts in a short period of time, but the land of the Union Jack, an area almost 3 times smaller than the state of Texas has been doing this forever (and with a diverse array of scenes and styles to boot). It's kind of amazing to think about. And now that I have successfully diverted away from the fact that I should have been on top of this earlier, I can actually write about the song…
Sometimes, I understand where older generations are coming from when they lambast popular music these days for all sounding the same. The advent of easily-mastered electronic music-making technology coupled with the rebirth of the synthesizer has led to a fairly uniform sound dominating the musical landscape. There's such a fine line between the memorable songs that rise above the noise and those left in a sea of bass drum kicks, keyboard lines, and reworked vocal samples. So how do I distinguish between the great and the not-so-great? To quote Justice Potter Stewart's famous explanation on his view of the obscene, "I know it when I see it," or in this case, hear it.
Alunageorge is one of those great ones. "Your Drums, Your Love" is a minimalistic pop song that relies on seductive vocals and a simple but hearty beat to carry it along. The absence of clutter in it makes the exceptional moments of the song stand out that much more, whether it be the elevator-music sounding keyboard that fits just right into the background of the verses or the way lead singer Aluna Francis coos the the word "wrong" around the 0:56 mark. Producer and band member 2-of-2 George Reid cites minimal hip-hop like the Neptunes as a huge source of inspiration, and it shows in the pulsing, but not overpowering, beat that makes this song easily repeatable.
While this song, and the more timely new single "Diver," cement Alunageorge as a force to be reckoned with, what blew me away (and what originally turned me onto group) was their ballsy cover of Frank Ocean's "Thinking About You" that they performed 1Xtra's Live Lounge. The disco influence they brought to the song is unexpected, but somehow completely works; and don't even get me started about how much I enjoy the natural handclaps during the chorus. It takes true talent to take a already-iconic song and spin it into something new and equally enjoyable, and these two Brits have done just that.
Their debut album Body Music will be released in June of 2013, but expect singles to leak out until then.
- Pulp – After You
Apparently, Pulp was an important band in the mid 90's. They released a few well-respected albums that have been remastered and re-released recently, and are important enough to warrant lead singer Jarvis Cocker admittance on the S.S. Coachella this winter. However, I did not know this when I came across "After You", a song that apparently is their first release in over a decade, but enjoyable even without that superfluous information. After doing some musical backtracking, it's a solid addition to their catalogue, with more boisterous, confident vocals than I've heard on previous albums and a swagger that is stripped of their previous works' melancholy.
The reason I listened to this song in the first place, though, is because it was produced by life-hero James Murphy, and everything he touches turns to gold/I miss LCD Soundsystem terribly; I suspect I'm not the only one who was unaware of Pulp, yet eagerly clicked on the link after seeing Mr. Murphy's name attached. We as an information-hungry society are constantly plagued by FOMO (Fear of Missing Out, for those abbreviationally unaware), as there is nothing more deserving of shame than being the only person at the proverbial water cooler to not know about the latest whatever it is. I've realized, however, that as I start writing more and more, and referencing more and more bands, I have come down with/discovered FOMO's hyper-active twin (think about it like ADD and ADHD): FOMOOWAH (Fear of Missing Out on What Already Happened).
I enjoyed going back and listening to Pulp's music, whether it was 1995's Different Class, which in hindsight marks a stark transition between the 80's post-punk dance and 90's alternative/Britpop genres or "Party Hard" off 1998's This Is Hardcore, which sounds like a mix of Morrissey, early Radiohead, and Holy Ghost, but a nagging part of me wondered that if I had missed out on this apparently-important band because of the whole being 8-11 when they were popular, what other groups was I missing out on? There's a large gap that my admittedly sometimes cool parents, uncle, and friends' older brothers missed when passing down their musical knowledge to me.
After a minor freakout and a few Google searches for "best unknown bands of the 90's", I realized I just had to let it go and stop being such a FOMOphobe and trust that The Fates would let me discover those artists if and when I really needed to. Enlightenment stems from acceptance…or something like that.
- Kids These Days – "Bud Billiken"
I had a hard time picking what song from Kids These Days phenomenal debut album, "Traphouse Rock", I wanted to feature. These 7 kids from Chicago have crafted one of the most refreshingly diverse hip-hop albums I've heard in a long time. Honestly, how many hip-hop acts do you know have a brass section and make room for guitar solos in-between verses? Their songs vary from the single, "Don't Harsh My Mellow" that growls along until exploding into a vicious roar to the floating near-ballad that is "Doo Wah," featuring their female vocalist Macie Stewart (definitely one of those girls that you'd fall in love with about 2-3 songs into their set even though you never saw it coming). I went with "Bud Billiken", though, because I think it does the best job of running the gamut of their musical style. Rapper Vic Mensa's introductory verse over the old-school piano line lures you in, but does nothing to let you expect the sonic explosion that occurs when the full band comes in. Evolving to a fuzzed out beat that Pharell would be proud of (2nd Neptunes reference in this article, for those counting at home. Throw up the Spock fingers), sighing into a horn-based reprieve, and finally culminating with a shredding guitar riff climax, this track has it all.
And that's just this song. I cannot stress enough how much this album deserves a listen. As I was replaying "Bud Billiken" while writing this, the song "Who Do U Luv" came on afterwards, and I was again floored at the sheer scope of their music; Andre 3000, The Black Keys, and Travis McCoy (I refuse to call him Travie) could be jealous they didn't write that song.
Between my penchant for well-written hip-hop, my high school-based love of ska, and my appreciation for courageous creativity, I almost think this band was specifically built for me. I will be sufficiently stalking this band and drooling over everything they release from now on.
Azealia Banks v. Angel Haze
Angel Haze – "On The Edge"
Azealia Banks – "No Problem"
Angel Haze – "Shut The Fuck Up"
I love Twitter. When it's well-curated, it's one of the most innovative news sources out there. Or it can be used to spark and fuel terrible and unnecessary rap beefs…
Azealia Banks and Angel Haze are two up-and-coming female rappers that, despite a lot of their differences, are relatively similar and fairly equally talented. However, when one took offense to the other criticizing people repping New York when they weren't from said city, the feud was on. Terms like "charcoal skinned bitch" were thrown out and then apologized for, text messages were leaked and then deleted, but the damage was done. Even Perez Hilton got involved and became a central figure in the whole messy narrative.
While the songs themselves are pretty solid, it's sad to see that this is the state of the rap beef. It's no longer anxiously awaiting Biggie's response to Tupac or wondering how Jay-Z was going to come back at Nas after "Ether." It's two girls using the immediate, unfiltered nature of Twitter to catfight, which unfortunately elevates their popularity while undermining their cred as artists. Take a lesson from Jay-Z, choose your responses carefully, and you'll end up looking like the winner when it's all said and done.


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Jol warns Premiership: Defoe is on fire
Tottenham boss Martin Jol has warned the Premiership that Jermain Defoe is hungry for goals.
Defoe struck twice as Spurs completed their pre-season tour to France with a 2-0 victory over Spanish side Celta Vigo, taking his tally for the trip to three in three games.
Jol believes the 23-year-old, who has been linked with summer moves to Liverpool and Manchester United, is already firing on all cylinders.
'Jermain's a poacher and he only started with us last Monday,' Jol told the club's official website.
'Everybody knows Jermain - he loves to play football, he wants to score goals and he's come back to us in good form.'
Republic of Ireland skipper Robbie Keane played for 70 minutes in his first outing of pre-season after recovering from a neck injury sustained in training.
'Robbie's had a problem with his neck but he wanted to play. That's Robbie,' said Jol.
'I think Celta Vigo saw he wanted to have a good test and they certainly gave it to him in the first half.'


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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - No. 13 Texas A&M doesn't need the homecourt advantage.
The Aggies just rely on good defense and hot shooting.
Acie Law scored 21 points and the Aggies led all the way in an 87-58 victory over Auburn on Friday night.
The Aggies (10-2) shot 57 percent from the field and never led by fewer than 20 points in the second half. It was Texas A&M's third straight win since consecutive losses in the team's only previous road games.
Aggies coach Billy Gillespie wasn't all that impressed.
"There wasn't a whole lot of fancy stuff," Gillespie said. "It was just we made more shots than they did."
There was more to it than that.
The Aggies wouldn't let the Tigers (9-4) get the ball inside to leading scorer Korvotney Barber in good position, holding Auburn to 33 percent shooting and had the game in hand by halftime.
"We didn't want to let them get back in," said Law, who was 8-of-13 from the field. "Once they got behind, it was like everything was going in our favor."
Josh Carter was 4-of-6 from 3-point range and added 12 points for the Aggies, while Marlon Pompeii had 11 points and Dominique Kirk and Donald Sloan each scored 10.
But Auburn coach Jeff Lebo was more dazzled by Law, whom he called "as good a guard as I've seen in a while." Law seemed able to drive at will against a quick Auburn team, and had four assists.
"They dominated us inside with their strength and Acie Law was the difference in the game," Lebo said. "He's good. We didn't have any answers for him.
"Law beat us off the bounce whenever he wanted to."
Quan Prowell led Auburn with 20 points. He was 4-of-8 from 3-point range while the rest of the team was 2-for-24.
Josh Dollard added 12 points for the Tigers.
Texas A&M used a 21-2 run and smothering defense to build a 43-23 halftime lead. Carter hit three consecutive 3-pointers early but the Aggies mostly pounded away inside the rest of the game against the undersized Tigers.
Auburn missed its first 13 3-point attempts. Unable to get the ball inside, the Tigers just kept firing away. Barber scored eight points, seven below his season average. But he only attempted two field goals, making half his 12 free throws.
"They packed it in and dared us to shoot the ball," Lebo said. "We just have to make shots. We had some wide-open looks but couldn't get them to go."
Texas A&M was efficient, scoring 21 points off turnovers and getting 30 points from its reserves.
"It's a big win for us coming into a (Southeastern Conference) team," Law said. "We haven't been playing that good on the road."
Gillespie said winning in an opponent's arena wasn't his biggest concern.
"We played a very difficult schedule not only at home but on the road," he said. "It's not so much winning on the road. Teams in the Southeastern Conference and Big 12 road are not the problem. The team that awaits you there is the problem.
"It's good to win anywhere."
Besides, the road losses were to No. 1 UCLA and No. 12 LSU.
This is the first time the Tigers have hosted two ranked nonconference teams in the same season. They lost to No. 7 Pittsburgh 74-66 on Dec. 3.
All four Auburn losses have come against ranked teams, none by more than 14 points until this one.


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CAIRO — Egypt's former military chief on Monday took the final formal step to run in next month's presidential election, submitting to the election commission eight times the number of signatures required, his campaign said in a statement.
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a retired field marshal, did not deliver the 200,000 signatures in person. His campaign said a legal adviser, Mohammed Bahaa Abou Shaqah, delivered them.
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IMMIGRATION/ Obama's amnesty
While the economy and jobs continue to be the big issues in the American election campaign, President Obama's announcement that his Administration will stop deporting young illegal immigrants who entered the United States as children if they meet certain requirements has dominated the attention of political observers and the media these last few days.
This announcement was obviously appreciated by the leaders of the Hispanic community, so far very critical of Congress and the White House for their inability to act on this subject. Potential beneficiaries of this decision, equally obviously, expressed their satisfaction with demonstrations throughout the country. Conversely, Republicans have expressed firm opposition, saying that this move violates the decision-making authority of Congress.
President Barack Obama presented his initiative, an executive order, in this way last Friday: "This is not amnesty. This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It's not a permanent fix. This is a temporary stopgap measure". He continued by pointing out that children of illegal immigrants "study in our schools, play in our neighborhoods, befriend our kids, pledge allegiance to our flag," adding that "it makes no sense to expel talented young people who are, for all intents and purposes, Americans". Indeed, that same subject was represented on the cover of Time magazine last week. The policy change, said Obama, is "the right thing to do".
Cohen describes the new policy as such: "Under the new policy, people younger than 30 who came to the United States before the age of 16, pose no criminal or security threat, and were successful students or served in the military can get a two-year deferral from deportation...It also will allow those meeting the requirements to apply for work . Participants must be in the United States now and be able to prove they have been living in the country continuously for at least five years." In fact, according to a 2009 study, 4 million illegal immigrant children are native-born citizens.
As Cohen also reminds readers, this move is similar to the DREAM Act proposed by Democrats that has failed to win enough Republican support to gain congressional approval. In fact, "Obama has been criticized by Hispanic-American leaders for an overall increase in deportations of illegal aliens in recent years". Last year, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed 396,906 illegal immigrants, the largest number ever. According to CNN, Friday's policy change is expected to potentially affect 800,000 people.


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NASA Satellites Analyze Tornado Paths in Oklahoma Wheat Fields
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Team Location: John C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Authors: Brandie Mitchell, Cody Dockens, Shelby Latino, Virginia Thomas, Shelby Barrett, Hunter Starring.
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Abstract: Agricultural crops in the United States are vulnerable to storm damage, yet regional maps of crop loss from storms are not routinely produced. Billions of dollars worth of drought, hail, and tornado crop damage is estimated to occur annually in the U.S. and is most prevalent in the Midwest and High Plains regions. Oklahoma, in the heart of tornado alley, is a major producer of crops vulnerable to storms, such as Hard Red Winter Wheat. This project aimed to determine the feasibility of using MODIS NDVI phenology products to assess storm damage and monitor the recovery of wheat fields in Oklahoma after severe weather events. The project employed methods and products used by the U.S. Forest Service in monitoring regional forest disturbances. It also leveraged a previous DEVELOP project for detecting lush vegetation areas and identifying points in the growing seasons to aid in wildfire mitigation. The results of this study will provide the agriculture-monitoring community with a new potential tool for assessing storm damage to crops and a better understanding of crops' ability to recover from storm devastation.
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Amumu Build Guide
How to make friends : A guide to Support-Tank Amumuwritten by Akathosh
Amumu Build
Table of Contents
|Playing a tank
|Masteries and Runes
|Summoner Spells
|Playing in a team
|Champion Overview
|Special thanks
Cursed Touch Nice passive, helps you to kill your enemy when they normally would survive. Try to attack once before using Tantrum/Despair/Ult. Also adds to your support, your caster/nukes will love you.
Use it to help your team take out their carries fast(er).
Got nerfed a bit with Patch v22.214.171.124, but it's not that bad. Just reduced to 15/25/35 from 20/30/40. I was not able to try that out yet, but I don't think it's that much of a difference, your playstyle should not be affected by this
Bandage Toss Manacost: 80 | 90 | 100 | 110 | 120 mana
Cooldown: 18 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 10 seconds
Damage: 80 | 140 | 200 | 260 | 320 damage (+1/AP)
Decent ability that allows you to catch up to your enemy without problem and makes it a lot easier to initiate. Note that the duration of the stun will NOT get longer on higher ranks, rank 1 stuns as long as 5 does.
It will take a bit of practice using this skill, as the hitbox is a bit, well, strange, often hitting creeps when you clearly did not hit him (you did, you just didn't see ;) ). After a few games you will know what you can and can't do. Nice AP-scaling, with good damage, becomes a nice nuke lategame.
Use it to initiate and get that damned runaway.
Despair Manacost: 10 per second on all levels
Cooldown: 1 second after triggered on/off
Damage: 8 + 1,5% | 12 + 1,8% | 16 + 2,1% | 20 + 2,4% | 24 + 2,7%
A good ability with a lot of damagepotential, but also with the potential to render you useless if used wrong. Always, ALWAYS deactivate it if no enemy is near you, and do not use this to harass early game. Lategame you should either have the manareg or if possible golembuff, so you can use it without problems.
Together with Cursed Touch it deals pretty good damage lategame, espacially against liftanks like Cho'gath or Mundo. Mundos ulti will be almost useless when Amumu stands besides him. Plus its an AoE, so you can just use it without a second thought at the beginning of teamfights (only when you have enough manareg!).
Use it to deal damage to there tanks and assist your team, no real use here, just toggle it on when the fight starts and end it when you are out of range.
Tantrum Manacost: 50 mana on all levels
Cooldown: 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 seconds
Damage: 75 | 100 | 125 | 150 | 175 damage (+0,5/AP)
That would be the thing Amumu would be famous for if he did not have his ulti^^ The passive is pretty good earlygame, together with the Masteries you will take 8 damage less on level 9. While that does not sound much, you WILL notice if you have it or not.
The active is your primary harass tool, attack once to apply your CT then throw a Tantrum to make them retreat. If they do not run away, make them pay by throwing a second/third tantrum a bit later. When you're attacked be a few creeps you cooldown will go down like its less then a second. Good sinergy with, mhh, with itself. The creeps that drop your CD will deal less damage, so you dont have to fear they might do more damage then your actual enemy. Just take care that you don't kill your precious CDR-creeps ;)
Use it to harass early, and do nice chunks of damage during teamfights.
Curse of the Sad Mummy Manacost: 100 | 150 | 200 mana
Cooldown: 170 | 150 | 130 seconds
Damage: 50 | 100 | 150 damage / second (+ 0,35/AP, remember thats per second, thus you have a total scaling of 5 * 0,35 = 1,75!)
Ah, here we have it : Your ultimate, the reason you play Amumu. Every enemy within range will get caught and be unable to move and attack for 2.5 seconds. In this time your team can hit them like you would hit anyone else you want to kill and who can't do anything ;) During those 2.5 secs you can throw a Tantrum( or before) activate Despair and deal at least 400 damage on level 6. That means carries with low live are almost dead.
Use BT and Ghost/Flash to get into their team and make them pay for their carelessness.
This is NOT a stun, it a snare. What does that mean? Well, the difference is that your enemies can still cast and you won't interrupt channels like Katarinas Death Lotus or Nunus Absolute Zero.
Thus champs like Kennen are horrible to fight against. You use your ultimate, your team tries to kill them and suddenly Kennen pops his ulitmate and your entire team is stunned. So KNOW your enemies.
Patch v18.104.22.168
Curse of the Sad Mummy corrected to state that enemies are rooted and cannot attack or move.
HELL YEAH. Root will now prevent enemy champions from casting Summoners. That means that Flash, Riftwalk and the likes WON'T work during your ultimate anymore. Highlander, Remove Scurvy and spells like that won't be affected though.
Heres a short summary of what's written below. If you have different Runes / prefer different Masteries, check the sections below.
Marks :
Seals :
3/23/4 (Cleanse and Ghost)
0/16/14 (teleport and flash)
0/16/14 (teleport and ghost)
-Core :
-against caster : [item_icon=Force of Nature]
-against PhysDDs:
-against Stealth: [item_icon=Oracle's Elixir]
-as much as possible : (or if you're against' stealthed champs)
Hi guys, Akathosh here. This is my first guide, and as you already know, it's about our dear friend Amumu. In this guide I will present you my way(s) of playing him and things I think you should know if you want to help him make many, many friends :)
I'm not a pro or high ELO player myself, so there might be a few things you think you can do better. If so, do it. This guide is a GUIDE, not something you HAVE TO FOLLOW. Some don't like the way I build him and can own with AP-Amumu. Then do so. This guide is meant as an advice, nothing more, nothing less.
Some abbreviations I will use :
CT - Cursed Touch, your passive
BT - Bandage Toss
Curse - Curse of the Sad Mummy
MPEN - Magic Penetration
MR - Magic Resistance
CD - Cooldown
CDR - Cooldownreduction
HPregen - HealthRegeneration
Manaregen - ManaRegeneration
MP/5 - same as Manaregen
CC - Crowd Control ( anything that is reduced be Mercury's Treads, a full list : stun / snare / slow / taunt / silence)
SS - Summoner Spells
Oh, and as already stated this is my first guide. So (constructive) critique is always welcome. Tell me your experience with these builds, suggestions what you would change, or things you would like to have in this guide. And please don't forget to rate it ;)
Now, let's finally start.
This guide is currently uptodate, but I won't update it anymore, since Amumu is amlost impossible to play in ranked games, simple because he's always banned. Plus I figured that the build in this guide is not bad, but it's without a doubt not the best. I currently use flat-MR for Marks/Quints, scaled MR for Glyphs and MP5 for Seals. So one level 1 I have around 60 MR. Now with Mercurys i usually have around 100 MR on level 4 then I simply stack sunfire and later on ( after first or second Cape ) a FoN. Maybe if facing heavy Phys ( Yi etc) also a Thornmail. Thats more then enough, you just won't die with this. Just so you know what I'm using.
If Amumu is changed at some point, I might delete or update this guide.
Playing a tank
Who's the tank? Thats you. So what's you job? You tank. Ok, now how do you do that? Well, actually I only consider three champions in LoL to be actual tanks : Rammus, Shen and Galio. I think you already figured out what those three have in common : Taunt. Taunt is the only way to force an enemy champion to attack you instead of your team. Tanks might be a good thing in MMOs, where you're playing against NPCs and you can build up threat. But if you're up against humans, they will just ignore you. So you have to find a way to focus you instead of your team. The only way to accomplish that is to be dangerous when left alive. If they have stealthed champs or someone like Teemo with his Mushrooms, [item_text=Oracle's Elixir] makes it more likely to get focused. And for Amumu, the thing the makes him dangerous is his ultimate. Your ulti can sweep away any team if used right. That's what defines your role in a team : Your ultimate and how you use it. The playing section will come later, but I wanted to make that clear :
I just told you to learn your champion, yes. But I also told you to learn every other champion. To know what you can do means, to know how you're team can benefit from your actions. Recklessly rushing in with Kayle, Gankplank, Galio and Anivia in you team is something different then rushing in with Soraka, Rammus, Shen and Alistar. Why that's a huge difference should be obvious. If not, reconsider playing Amumu.
I recommend reading this guide by Motas How-to-play-as-a-tank. It can give you a general overview about the main points when playing a tank.
Masteries and Runes
Ok, now things are getting interesting. Which runes and masteries you pick depends on you playstile. I use:
Greater Mark of Insight +0.95 MPEN (+8,5 total) helps to make more damage, and help your team.
Greater Seal of Clarity +16 MP/5 on level 18 helps to keep Despair up.
Greater Glyph of Shielding + 25 MR on level 18 makes it easier to tank and makes you less vulnerable.
Greater Quintessence of Fortitude - No real Option here in my opinion. Together with "Veteran's Scars" you get 90+40=130 more HP on level 1! Considering your normal health ( 552 ) that is a 20% boost (almost 700). And Amumu has a LOT health by himself, Ashe for example only has 438. This means you have almost 700 Hp against 440. Told ya you're a tank ;)
The runes I use when jungling are a bit different, I won't make another short section with Jungle-Mummy. Check out other guides about Jungling, would be to much to cover. About half the length this guide is...
Like I said, you can use different runes, here are the runes I consider useful:
Greater Glyph of Warding use this if you want to play more agressive, this way you can stay on your lane longer, but you'll be a bit weaker during mid-lategame.
Greater Seal of Evasion I don't like Dodge on Amumu, since it lowers your damageoutput, since the cooldown on Tantrum will not drop as fast as it would without. On the other hand it gives you a good survivability. If you want to be more a tank then damagedealer, take this.
Greater Seal of Shielding or Greater Seal of Wardingsame as Glyphs, though I don't think the seals provide a good enough bonus to be worth it.
Greater Seal of Resilience or Greater Seal of Defense if you prefer Armor over MR .
Greater Mark of WardingorGreater Mark of Resilience for more tankyness.
Greater Mark of FortitudeorGreater Mark of Vitalitymore survivability early/lategame.
Greater Quintessence of ResilienceorGreater Quintessence of WardingorGreater Quintessence of Evasionif you want to have other Quints, those are also nice
For masteries I usually pick either a 3/23/4 build, with cleanse and ghost OR 0/16/14 with teleport and flash, or a combination of both : 0/16/14 with teleport and ghost. When using Dodge, leave either MR or Armor and pick "Evasion" and "Nimblness" instead.
This brings me to the next section:
Summoner Spells
Your summoner spells are teamdependent, or at least can be altered depending on your team.
GOOD Summoners:
Cleanse - Cleanse is THE tank SS, it's probably one of the best spells you can have, and in the last patch it got buffed, so almost anything is cleansed now, including blind and silence, this includes Exhaust!
Flash - Flash is a very versatile spell. It has good synergy with BT and your ulti, it's a lot easier to escape when you have it, you can catch up easier and much more. Tricks with Flash will be listed down below.
Ghost - Ghost is a very helpful spell for Amumu. You can catch up easier ( together with Boots of Swiftness you can run with 510 runspeed! ) or escape, it's easier to initiate and place your ultimate right and it get's a lot easier to attack while chasing with Despair to get the full damage with CT).
Teleport - Teleport is an awesome spell, with a lot of neat tricks you can use. I almost ALWAYS pick it in a premade, and Solo I tend to pick it if Teemo, Shaco or anyone else with something to port to is in my team. Or if I see that someone else picked it up, then I ask him if we can try some tricks ( again, we'll come to that later). One might say that you won't benefit from Teleport as much as you would from Cleanse, but it just depends on how you use it.
Not-as-good Summoners:
Ignite - Ignite is also a good choice, in particular against healer like Soraka, Taric or Mundo. A Mundo who can't even heal 25% of his health will cry and flame you. Plus it's a bit of a nuke.
Bad Summoners:
[spell_icon=Fortify][spell_text=Fortify] - Fortify is not a bad Spell, but personally I don't like it. If your team does not make mistakes, you should not need it early in the game, and in lategame it does normally not make a difference if your turret is indestructible for 10 secs, as it will get destroyed afterwards, since you don't need creeps anymore. And you don't need creepkills that much, so the +9 damage is not really a big benefit.
Heal - Heal is a nice Spell, and can change the outcome of teamfights a lot, but only during laning on level 1 to 5. After that you have your ultimate and should kill them without problems (at least escape).
Exhaust - Exhaust is not really a bad Summoner Spell, but you should not be the one to pick it. As Amumu, you should not have to blind them, so let your carries pick it.
Smite - Smite CAN be used if your in a premade and you want to get Dragon fast and use 2 or 3 Smites. But during the rest of the game it's almost useless, one Minion every 75 seconds (70 if skilled (you'd seriously do that oO ?)) means 0,4 gold per second ( 30gold perminion / 75 secs) or 0,5 if skilled (you ARE serious right?). Like I said, it's only useful to kill Dragon early. And no, you should not need it for the golem, he drops like any other creep with Despair. Same goes for the Dragon lategame.
Clarity - You should not have any mana problems.If you have, then either you're still in earlygame, you had a clash a few secs ago or you did something wrong. Nothing more to say.
Clairvoyance - Always a good thing to have, but you should not need it. Let someone else take it, like Soraka or Blitzy No.8.
[spell_icon=Rally][spell_text=Rally] - I though about putting this in the next part, but well, it can be helpful. Yes it really can, no joke. In these occasions you will gladly thank god, me or your team/enemys that you survived. But their rare. Very rare. Almost nonexistent. Proof of their existence has still to be found.
NOOOOOO-DON'T-YOU-DARE-AND-TAKE-IT Summoners:
Revive - .... You really expect me to write something here? Congrats, you actually managed :(
No, honestly, do not even THINK or DREAM about picking Revive. There is only ONE, I repeat ONE, exception:
You ROCK. Nothing else. You are a god in LoL and just want to have some fun fooling around. Make anyone think your a retard and own them afterwards. If that fits you, your free to take it. If not : THIS SPELL DOES NOT EXIST!
Smite is listed with the "Bad SS", but that only goes for the laning build. If your jungling however, you HAVE to pick this
So now we come to the part you've all been waiting for : The itembuild. It's the a very interesting and important part of all guides. So without further ado, I'll present you my "I-wish-I-could-have-that-at-least-once"-build:
That's what I would like to build, most of the time I switch Boots of Swiftness with Mercury's Treads, as I'm against caster/CC morst of the time. I'll tell that once, twice or three times, it can't be said often enough : Be versatile. There is no such thing as THE itembuild. It's always, ALWAYS depending on whom you're opposing.
Facing a lot of CC? Mercury's TreadsandQuicksilver Sashs the way to go.
Facing a lot of Physdds? Take Thornmail and/or Warden's Mail / Randuin's Omen and/or Frozen Heart and/ or Sunfire Cape.
Facing a lot of Caster? Guardian Angel and Banshee's Veil and [item_icon=Force of Nature] [item_text=Force of Nature] help.
That's it for the general advice. On to the order you build them.
I decided to put everything into one build order, instead of making a few different, covering different enemy champions, because even that would be pointless. You'll find advices about what is good when facing whom.
I usually start with either Doran's Shield and 1x Health Potion or Mana Potion or Ruby Crystal / Sapphire Crystal .
Doran's Shield when I know I'll need more health then I'll need mana and im going to get harassed, so I'll also need some HPregen.
Ruby Crystal when I know I'm going to build [item_icon=Heart of Gold][item_text=Heart of Gold] and later Randuin's Omen.
Sapphire Crystal when I'm going to build Glacial Shroud and later Frozen Heart.
Normally I'm taking Health Potion instead of Mana Potion because I'm fine with my Manaregen from runes and masteries and I don't harass that much. If you tend to play agressive and/or did not take Manareg-runes feel free to get a Mana Potion.
On your first trip back get Boots of Speed.
This is were you have to decide what you're going to need. Against caster and nukes you want MR, against autoattacker you'll need Armor. But even if your up against Annie, Malzahar, Ryze and Yi, you'll have to get more Armor, when Annie, Mal and Ryze got all killed 4 times and Yi is already dominating. At this time of the game you can't really tell who will kill you/do the most damage. Thats why it's really important to learn your enemy. Not just the champion, that's easy, but also the player. In the above example the three caster suck, and Yi seems to either be a really good player, or your team is bad ;) (Or it's AP-Yi, but that's something else).
Ok if your facing strong CC, you want to have Mercury's Treads ASAP. Thats a MUSTHAVE. So if you can effort it, get it on your first trip back, or if you have teleport, go back and buy it when you have enough money.
Actually, you should get them even if the have only 2 or even 1 Champ with CC. You WILL notice the difference. If the have no CC at all: Congrats, you won a game. Boots of Swiftness or Ninja Tabi for Dodge/Nimbleness Amumus is what you pick at these times.
Quicksilver Sash is also a good item. A second cleanse? You won't hear me complaining. Imagine how they will cry when you escape from Galios taunt, and immediately after that you run into Ashes Frostarrow to safe a Carry, and still go on like nothing happened. It's a real pain. Plus it's cheap and the CD is relatively low. Just don't forget to use it^^ It's cheap enough to buy it on your second trip back.
Also don't forget to buy at least one Sight Ward or Vision Ward. The Vision Ward is extremly important if you're up against Stealther (Eve, Shaco, Twitch, Teemo). They don't have to be on your lane, it becomes a lot easier to call miss or counter ganks. Warding will be mentioned later.
On your second trip back when you hopefully got some kills, or better assists ( yes thats better, you are not there to get kills, let your carrys get them), you can look for the next important thing : Caster or PhysDDs?
Going against Caster? Obviously you want MR so Mercury's Treads also helps here.
Banshee's Veil works really good, especially against nukes, but good players wont' use there ult on you while your shield is still around you. But it also gives you Health, Mana and Mr by itself, so thats pretty much everything you need combined in one item.
Guardian Angel also helps against both, Caster and PhysDDs, so it's a good choice almost all the time. Armor and MR are good by themselves, but the really nice thing here is the passive. There are some funny tricks to make it a lot easier to win a normally lost teamfight. You can use a handy trick with this.
Patch v188.8.131.52
Guardian Angel now revives Champions at 750 health and 375 mana instead of 40% health and mana.
With this nerf, guardian got a lot weaker. I would not handle it as a core-item anymore. As your third or maybe second ( depends on you playstile ) item it still is good with the Armor and MR though, which further increase your survivability.
Against PhysDDs? Randuin's Omen and Frozen Heart help. Or you get Thornmail for a bit extra damage ( it's funny to see a Warwick kill himself with his ultimate^^).
So these are the items you want to have later on.
If you want to get Banshee's Veil build Catalyst the Protector, you can use your Ruby Crystal or Sapphire Crystal to make it.
[item_icon=Force of Nature] [item_text=Force of Nature] gives you a better MR bonus then any other item. Thus your tankability against caster increases significantly. Plus it gives you a bit movespeed, which helps to initiate and chasing with Despair. And it gives you a good HPregen, almost as good as Garens passive!
For Guardian Angel wait till your able to buy Chain Vest and either Null-Magic Mantle or Cloth Armor (or all three in one go). The item itself is very expensive (1200 gold), so if everythings going good, you can be able to get it on your third trip back.
If you want to build Randuin's Omen upgrade your Ruby Crystal into [item_icon=Heart of Gold][item_text=Heart of Gold]. On your third trip back get Warden's Mail (and if possible Randuin's Omen, it's not very expensive, only 600 gold, so thats possible). Don't forget to use it, it really helpful, whether you want to catch up or disable autoattackers.
If your going for a Frozen Heart start building ( or upgrade Sapphire Crystal to ) Glacial Shroud.
You can also keep your Glacial Shroud, it's a very good item earlygame, with relatively low costs. If you do so, start building you next item.
If you did not get Tier 2 boots already, then now is the time to do so. Pick what you prefer.
Sunfire Cape helps a bit against PhysDDs with a bit more Armor ( it's not bad, but if your going to be a Armor-Tank, you need something else), but also against Truedamage (fore example Olafs Reckless Swing). And with it's passive you can farm better, get Golem faster, chase better with Despair and do a good amount of damage. It simply makes you and your ultimate more dangerous.
Also don't forget Sight Wards / Vision Wards. Vision Ward only if needed, for example if you know they also set a ward there, you're up against stealthed champs and you don't have enough money for [item_icon=Oracle's Elixir][item_text=Oracle's Elixir].
[item_text=Oracle's Elixir] also makes it more likely to get focused, which increases your tank ability.
After your third trip back you should have your boots and first item finished and started building your next.
As I already mentioned, this is just a guide. There are so many ways to play Amumu, to counter your enemys effectively that i can't list them here. Here you found what helps against what. Decide for yourself what suits you and is good against your enemies.
Remember : Be VERSATILE! One of the worst things I've seen till now, was a Kassadin buying Mejai's Soulstealer. The item itself is very good, if not needed for Kassadin. Only problem here was his KD : ZERO kills / five Deaths / two assist ( 0 | 5 | 2 ). This did not really change. Only his deaths increased significantly. That's just an example...
Also don't forget to buy Elixirs (Elixir of Fortitude>Elixir of Brilliance>[item_text=Elixir of Agility]) if you have finished your build.
On to the next Part.
Well, recently I were able to try a funbuild. And I noticed that it is awesome. Here are my stats
Laning is the second most important parts of the game, after teamplay. Here you get the advantage over your enemy, in money, towers and experience. If you are good during this part of the game, it becomes a lot easier later on. It does not necessarily mean you're going to win. Because as already stated it's just the second most important thing, teamplay is FAR more important.
If you're playing in a premade, your partner knows what you'll pick, if you're solo ask what you should pick first, stun or damage. If it doesn't matter, wait for your enemies to appear, then decide. I usually pick Tantrum, because it deals almost the same damage as BT, but consumes less mana with a lower CD and it comes with a nice passive. If your against caster/ranged or are together with someone who can make good use of a stun (like Malzahar) BT is normally better. Try to always have enough mana for a BT + Tantrum combo if they get reckless and you want to punish them.
If you co into the grass with you partner or not is up to you ( DON'T do so if they have a Stealther in their team).
If you picked Sapphire Crystal and got a sufficient Manareg you can use Tantrum to lasthit creeps, otherwise try to outharass them and get them out of Exp-gain range. I recommend watching this:
Shurelias made an excellent guide here, which will help you a lot in your laning phase. And she plays Soraka, nothing more to add :P
When you get to level 6, your partner will most likely get there too, if he did not reach it yet. So are you opponents. You should get the advantage over them ASAP. So try to spare some mana on level 5, so you have almost full mana to start a gank. Position yourself in the brush early on, and try to get your levelup without them noticing. Activate ghost and Despair ( or Despair and Flash ), hit once, use tantrum and then your ulti. Coordinate with your partner so your not engaging them alone. There are not many champions who will survive this on this level. This normally leads to a doublekill or at least to one kill. Try to let your carry get the kills. But also don't let them escape. Use your BT right after your ultimate ends to keep them where they are. This way you can have it ready a second time while chasing. I think this should be clear, but use Tantrum whenever possible. With a few creeps around you, you can almost use it nonstop. Just be careful not to OVERUSE it. You should always have enough mana for a BT. Deactivate Despair if needed.
After you made them retreat / killed them, start pushing there tower. Depending on you level and champs, you just might get it, which drastically improves your options and will help you get more kills. Don't push to far though! Try to let the minions clash at the river, so you are in range of your turret and can escape gangs easier.
After you destroyed there tower, you can go back to your base (one of you should stay and defend / get the exp).
Whether you go back to your lane and defend or you go jungeling or go ganking is up to you. Wait for your ultimate for a gank though, will be a lot easier (possible?) to kill someone. Always be aware of your lane, and remember to call miss.
Wards will give you a huge advantage over your enemies, which is often underestimated. A ward in the grass in the river will help you prevent ganks and on in the upper grass might enable you to lunch a surprise stun at them.
Playing in a team
Ok, heres probably the most important section : Your teamplay. Your teamplay determines whether you win or loose. Of course things will be a lot easier with a fed carry^^
So, the first thing you should learn is you team and there possibilities. Your team can only benefit from your ult when the know when and where you are going to use your ultimate. That also means, that you have to stay near them. NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND. It might be that you would like to push a lane or get Golem, because they are trying to defend somewhere else. But if that means to leave your team, THEN NEVER EVER DO SO. You're team has number one priority. If they won't stay together, remind them and ask to gather.
When a clash is about to start, you should be the one to initiate. Use either Flash (which is easier but also with a shorter range) or Ghost to close in to them and don't forget Despair ( f it's possible, try to NOT use your SS and get to them without it, that will make chasing/pushing/escaping a lot easier). If possible try to stun a carry with BT, most people won't be so stupid, but if they are, they deserve to be killed ;) Place yourself in a good position, so that your ultimate will snare as much champs as possible. Throw a Tantrum and start hitting there carries, pick the one with the least bit of MR, so your caster can kill him easier thanks to your CT. If everything went as well, one or two enemies are dead by now ( in a very good team you can also ace them....). Use your stun and if you picked it use Ghost and BT to catch up to them and stun them so your team can get another one.
This video was made by Eleventh, another Amumu-guidewriter.
This is an important section. Most players in low and mid ELO never or rarely use wards, maybe Oracle if needed, but even thats not often.
Warding might seem a bit expensive and won't prove useful all the time, but well placed wards will save and get you kills countless times.
That'd be a lot to ward, right? Don't worry, these are just places were wards are useful, where you actually place them is depending on how far you have proceded.
Heres the legend:
Black indicates wards that will always prove useful. The wards in the mid won't be needed of course if you are pushing down- or uplane. Same goes for putting a ward uplane if pushing down / putting one down if pushing up. You get the idea. Wards don't last that long. So place them in advance. A ward at Dragon just might enable you one or two kills if you're team is fast enough, so try to have one there all the time.[/color]
Green wards are wards mostly used during laning. The ward in the river can also be useful later on, though you should have other wards and your team checking these places.
Blue ones are wards that will help you if you're playing Blue, to check and surprise them if the are going after Lizard/Golem.
Purple is the same as Blue.
Red wards are situational. If you're pushing them back and got the second midlane tower, you might want to put a ward in the jungle by your side to see if the want to gank you. Or if you were pushed back and are defending your second tower, wards on each side will tell you if the want to kill you ( for Example against Fiddles, if you see him channeling his ulti --> RUN and he wasted his ultimate). The Nashor ward is also a bit situational, for he will only appear after I think around 20 minutes or so, don't know when exatctly.
Most of the time around 3-5 wards are enough. I try to carry 3 wards with me, so that I can ward whenever needed.
Why are the spots on the picture recommended? Well, those spots give a better view then most other places. Placing wards in straight line is just a waste. For they can't see through trees and stuff, so that part of there possible range is cut off. But if you place them at those corners, you can ward in 3 or even 4 directions thus increase there effectiveness significantly. Plus those points are points where you will come by often.
Also don't forget to place them in the grass if possible, so that you can see if someone is in there.
This section will show a few good synergies of you SS and your abilities.
Flash + Bandage Toss: With this combo you can initiate a LOT easier. Just stay out of your normal BT range, then suddenly flash in and throw, it's like a secured hit. You can also use it the other way round : Use BT to pull yourself to a creep, then Flash a bit further to position yourself better for your utlimate.
Teleport + Sight Ward : This combo is just sick. A lot of people don't even know that you can teleport to wards, especially in low-ELO. And then you are suddenly standing there in the middle of there team. It might take a bit of practice and only really begins to shine if your team knows how to use it, but if used right, you can easily get an ace ( or at least a few kills). Imagine this if you warded Nashor. If theres another AoE-Champ with teleport on your team, you can just wait for Nashor to be almost dead, then start teleporting, Curse them and you can easily get a ace for your team, plus Nashorbuff. That means --> VICTORY! most of the time.
Bandage Toss: BT can also be used to escape, either if you are running away after you towerdived them or if you're being followed in the jungle. Just use your BT to quickly move away.
Some notes about his : You should know though that, while you throw your Bandage, you can't move. So if your not hitting, it's like you asked them to kill you. Plus you can still be stunned while throwing.
Also note that this technique requires some experience when used in the jungle, for you can't pull through everything. It IS possible to pull through wood and rocks, but not if the angle / distance traveled through them is too high. Then you'll just stand there and look confused...
Curse of the Sad Mummy + Guardian Angel : This is a risky trick, but was really useful to me in some situations. You advise you to only use this if you know your teammates and they know you, otherwise, well, it's kinda useless.
The idea behind this was, to surprise the enemy team and make them careless. With an active GA you run into the enemy team, using despair and maybe Tantrum. Your team however WON'T follow you. At best they are out of sight otherwise they should be close by. In most situations your enemy team will gather around you, so the can kill you quickly and don't have to fear you could possibly escape. So before you come back to life, your team stars rushing towards you/your enemies and right after you come back, you use Curse of the Sad Mummy. If it's going as planned, you got the entire enemy team caught in your ultimate, which normally makes for an easy ace ( with the right team ). If not, mhh, then you dead.
Thats why I said that your team has to know you. And you also have to know your enemies. For good players will never ever close in to Amumu if possible. So this is REALLY risky.
Patch v22.214.171.124
Now that GA has been nerfed, I don't want to try this out. 750 HP are good if you're able to rush GA, but get a LOT weaker later on. So feel free to use this, I don't guarantee for the success though ( Well, I never did, but at least chance of success was a lot higher before ).
Champion Overview
In this section I'll try to say something about the champions in LoL. Enemy or Ally, Synergies etc. Of course this will take a while, plus there are new champs every now and then, so I can't guarantee it's up-to-date everytime.
Enemy: As an enemy Akali is a bit annoying, but she only becomes dangerous when she's fed. Just keep in mind that she can move quickly with Shadow Dance, and might escape your ultimate with it.
Twilight Shroud is not really useful against Amumu, for she can still be hit by skillshots (Bandage Toss), and your other spells are all AoEs, it just that your range does not completely cover here stealth zone.
Ally: As an ally Akali can make little use of your Ulti, for her only AoE is Crescent Slash. But she can kill their Carry in the 2.5 seconds of your ulti, so she can get a few kills and get stronger, which REALLY hurts :D
So at the end of my guide I'll place my changlog, not only for the guide but Amumu as well (though there weren't really much changes^^):
-09.09.2010: Finally finished the guide. Made a few changes on the itembuild and grammar.
-11.09.2010: Added a note to Guardian Angel, it's not recommended anymore. Started Champions-Overview.
Patch v22.214.171.124
Bandage Toss can no longer be cast while rooted.
Curse of the Sad Mummy corrected to state that enemies are rooted and cannot attack or move
Cursed Touch Magic Resistance reduction reduced to 15/25/35 from 20/30/40
Season 1 Release Notes
Fixed an issue where Amumu's attack timing was too slow.
Special thanks
I want to thank Altes Strontium and Vimorial Gray for the support and feedback about this guide. Thanks guys!
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