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Vitiligo (vit-ih-LI-go) is a condition in which your skin loses melanin, the pigment that determines the color of your skin, hair and eyes. Vitiligo occurs when the cells that produce melanin die or no longer form melanin, causing slowly enlarging white patches of irregular shapes to appear on your skin.
Vitiligo affects all races, but may be more noticeable and disfiguring in people with darker skin. Vitiligo usually starts as small areas of pigment loss that spread with time. These changes in your skin can result in stress and worries about your appearance.
There is no cure for vitiligo. The goal of treatment is to stop or slow the progression of pigment loss and, if you desire, attempt to return some color to your skin.
Picture showing vitiligo patches on top of the hand Vitiligo
Illustration of the layers of your skin Skin layers and melanin
Vitiligo is a condition in which the skin loses its pigment cells (melanocytes). This results in white patches appearing on the skin in different areas of the body. Vitiligo can affect any part of the body.
The main sign of vitiligo is:
* Pigment loss that produces milky-white patches (depigmentation) on your skin
Other less common signs may include:
* Premature whitening or graying of the hair on your scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows or beard
* Loss of color in the tissues that line the inside of your mouth (mucous membranes)
* Loss of or change in color of the inner layer of your eye (retina)
Although any part of your body may be affected by vitiligo, depigmentation usually develops first on sun-exposed areas of your skin, such as your hands, feet, arms, face and lips. Although it can start at any age, vitiligo often first appears between the ages of 10 and 30. Vitiligo generally appears in one of three patterns:
* Focal. Depigmentation is limited to one or a few areas of your body.
* Segmental. Loss of skin color occurs on only one side of your body.
* Generalized. Pigment loss is widespread across many parts of your body, often symmetrically.
The natural course of vitiligo is difficult to predict. Sometimes the patches stop forming without treatment. But, in most cases, pigment loss spreads and can eventually involve most of the surface of your skin.
When to see a doctor
See your doctor if areas of your skin, hair or eyes lose coloring. Although there's no cure for vitiligo, treatments exist that may help to stop or slow the process of depigmentation and attempt to return some color to your skin.
Vitiligo occurs when melanin the dark pigment in the epidermis that gives your skin its normal color is destroyed or not produced. The involved patch of skin then becomes white. Exactly why this occurs isn't known.
Doctors and scientists have theories as to what causes vitiligo. It may be due to an immune system disorder. Heredity may be a factor because there's an increased incidence of vitiligo in some families. Some people have reported a single event, such as sunburn or emotional distress, that triggered the condition. However, none of these theories has been proven as a definite cause of vitiligo.
Preparing for your appointment
You're likely to start by first seeing your family doctor or a general practitioner. However, you may then be referred to a doctor who specializes in skin disorders (dermatologist).
Because appointments can be brief, and there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be well prepared for your appointment. Here's some information to help you get ready for your appointment, and what to expect from your doctor.
What you can do
* Compile your family medical history. Find out if anyone in your family has a history of vitiligo, or a history of any thyroid or autoimmune disease.
* Write down key personal information, including any major stresses, recent life changes or recent sunburns or skin rashes.
* Make a list of all medications, as well as any vitamins or supplements, that you're taking.
* Write down questions to ask your doctor.
Your time with your doctor may be limited, so preparing a list of questions may help you make the most of your time together. For vitiligo, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
* What's the most likely cause of my symptoms?
* Are there other possible causes for my symptoms?
* Do I need any tests?
* Is this condition temporary or long lasting?
* What treatments are available, and which do you recommend?
* What types of side effects can I expect from treatment?
* Are there any alternatives to the primary approach that you're suggesting?
* Are there any restrictions that I need to follow, such as avoiding the sun at certain times or wearing a specific sunscreen?
* Can you recommend a cover-up or self-tanning product?
* Are there any brochures or other printed material that I can take home? What Web sites do you recommend?
Don't hesitate to ask additional questions during your appointment at any time that you don't understand something.
What to expect from your doctor
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Being ready to answer them may reserve time to go over any points you want to spend more time on. Your doctor may ask:
* When did you first begin experiencing pigment loss?
* Did you have a sunburn or skin rash prior to the appearance of your pigment loss?
* Do the areas of pigment loss itch or cause you any other symptoms?
* Have you ever had this type of change in the past?
* Does anyone in your family have a history of vitiligo, autoimmune diseases or both?
* What is your occupation and what are your hobbies? Are you exposed to any harsh chemicals in either?
What you can do in the meantime
While you're waiting to see the doctor, be sure to limit your sun exposure and wear a broad-spectrum sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30. If you're feeling self-conscious about the changes in your skin, you can use cosmetics or self-tanners to cover the depigmented areas.
Tests and diagnosis
Medical history and exam
If your doctor suspects you have vitiligo, he or she will ask about your medical history and examine you. Important factors in your medical history include:
* A family history of vitiligo or an autoimmune disease
* A personal history of sun sensitivity or other skin conditions
* A rash, sunburn or other skin trauma within two to three months of the start of pigment loss
* Premature graying of the hair (before age 35)
* Stress or physical illness
Your doctor will also examine you to rule out other medical problems or skin conditions, such as dermatitis or psoriasis.
Skin biopsy and blood draw
Along with gathering your personal and family medical history and examining your skin, your doctor may also:
* Take a small sample (biopsy) of your affected skin
* Draw blood to check your blood cell count, thyroid function and to look for the presence of anti-nuclear antibodies (a type of autoantibody) that would indicate an autoimmune disease
Additionally, your doctor may recommend that you see an eye specialist (ophthalmologist) for an eye examination to check for inflammation in your eye (uveitis).
Treatments and drugs
Medical treatment for vitiligo isn't always necessary. Self-care steps, such as using sunscreen and applying cosmetic camouflage cream, may improve the appearance of your skin. For fair-skinned individuals, avoiding tanning can make the areas almost unnoticeable.
Depending on the number, size and location of the white patches, you may decide to seek medical treatment. Medical treatments for vitiligo aim to even out skin tone, either by restoring color (pigment) or by destroying the remaining color.
Treatment for vitiligo may take as long as six to 18 months, and you may have to try more than one treatment before you find the one that works best for you.
Medical therapies
* Topical corticosteroid therapy. Corticosteroids may help return color to your skin (repigmentation), particularly if the medication is started early in the disease. Milder topical corticosteroid cream or ointment may be prescribed for children and for people who have large areas of depigmented skin. It may take as long as three months of treatment before you begin to see any changes in your skin's color. This treatment is easy and effective, but your doctor needs to monitor you closely for side effects, such as thinning of the skin (atrophy) and streaks or lines on your skin (skin striae). Calcipotriene (Dovonex), a vitamin D derivative, also may be used topically and is sometimes used with corticosteroids or ultraviolet light.
* Topical immunomodulators. Topical ointments containing tacrolimus or pimecrolimus are effective for people with small areas of depigmentations, especially on the face and neck. This treatment may have fewer side effects than corticosteroids and can be used in combination with UVB treatments. However, studies conducted on these treatments have been small, and there is concern that they may be associated with an increased risk of lymphoma and skin cancer.
Topical psoralen plus ultraviolet A (PUVA). This option, which is also called photochemotherapy, may be effective for you if less than 20 percent of your body has depigmented patches. You'll have to visit the doctor once or twice a week for treatment. The topical psoralen is applied in a thin coating by your doctor or nurse about 30 minutes before the light exposure. Psoralen makes your skin more sensitive to ultraviolet light. Your skin is then exposed to UVA light, which turns the treated areas pink. As the skin heals, a more normal skin color appears.
Possible side effects include severe sunburn and blistering, though you can minimize your risk of complications by avoiding direct sunlight after each treatment. Hyperpigmentation over darkening of the skin is usually temporary and eventually lightens when treatment stops.
Oral psoralen photochemotherapy, or oral PUVA. If you have depigmented areas that cover more than 20 percent of your body, your doctor may recommend oral psoralen. For this treatment, you take the oral psoralen about two hours before exposure to UVA light. You'll have to visit the doctor two or three times a week, allowing for at least a day in between treatments. As with topical psoralen, the treated skin becomes pink after UVA exposure, and then eventually fades to a more normal skin tone.
This treatment can also be done using natural sunlight if you don't have access to a doctor's office with the proper equipment. Your doctor will let you know how much exposure you need, and will want to monitor your skin changes frequently.
Sunburn, nausea, vomiting, itching, abnormal hair growth and overdarkening of the skin are potential short-term side effects of this treatment, whether it's done in the doctor's office or using natural sun. Your risk of skin cancer may be increased if you use this therapy long term. Oral PUVA is not recommended for children under 10 due to a greater risk of damage to the eyes, such as cataracts.
You can reduce your odds of skin cancer and sunburn by staying out of direct sunlight for one to two full days after treatment. The use of sunscreen can also help reduce your risk of side effects. To protect your eyes from serious damage, such as cataracts, wear UV-protective sunglasses for up to 24 hours after each treatment when you're exposed to the sun.
* Narrowband ultraviolet B (UVB) therapy. Narrowband UVB, a special form of UVB light, is an alternative to PUVA. This type of therapy can be administered like PUVA and given up to three times a week. However, no pre-application of psoralen is required, which simplifies the treatment process. Because it is simpler to administer, this type of phototherapy is gaining wide acceptance. However, more research is needed to determine if it is superior to PUVA and to assess its long-term safety. Narrowband wavelengths of light can also be delivered to smaller areas of vitiligo using either an intense light source (focal) or a laser. Small trials have shown positive results. However, due to the added expense of these devices they may not be available in all dermatologists' offices.
Depigmentation. Depigmentation may be an option for you if you have vitiligo that covers more than half of your skin. Depigmentation therapy lightens the unaffected parts of your skin to match the areas that have already turned white. For this treatment, you apply a medication called monobenzene ether of hydroquinone twice a day to the areas of your skin that still have pigment. Treatment continues until the darker areas of your skin match the already-depigmented areas.
Redness and swelling are potential side effects of depigmentation therapy, and you have to be careful to avoid skin-to-skin contact with other people for at least two hours after you've applied the drug, so you don't transfer it to them. Other potential side effects include itching and dry skin.
Depigmentation is permanent and will make you extremely sensitive to sunlight permanently.
Surgical therapies
* Autologous skin grafts. This type of skin grafting uses your own tissues (autologous). Your doctor removes tiny pieces of skin from one area of your body and attaches them to another. This procedure is sometimes used if you have small patches of vitiligo. Your doctor removes very small sections of your normal, pigmented skin, often containing a small hair, and places them on areas that have lost pigment. Possible complications include scarring, a cobblestone appearance, spotty pigmentation, or failure of the transferred skin to repigment.
* Blister grafting. In this procedure, your doctor creates blisters on your pigmented skin, primarily by using suction. The tops of the blisters are removed and transplanted where a blister of equal size has been created and removed in an area that has no pigment. Blister grafting may cause a cobblestone appearance and scarring, and the area may not repigment. However, there's less risk of scarring with this procedure than with other types of skin grafting.
* Tattooing (micropigmentation). Tattooing implants pigment into your skin with a special surgical instrument. For the treatment of vitiligo, tattooing is most effective around the lips and in people with dark skin. Sometimes the tattoo color doesn't match skin color closely enough. Additionally, tattoo colors fade and they don't tan.
Experimental therapies
Doctors are continuing to try to find better ways to treat vitiligo. One newer option is a procedure called an autologous melanocyte transplant. Using a sample of your normal skin, researchers can grow melanocytes in the lab. These newly developed melanocytes are then transplanted to the areas on your body that lack pigment. This treatment is still considered experimental and isn't widely available.
Another treatment in development uses a compound found in black pepper called piperine. In trials on mice, piperine was found to be effective at causing repigmentation. Piperine was even more effective when it was used in combination with UV light. Redness and skin peeling were temporary side effects of this treatment.
Lifestyle and home remedies
Certain self-care tactics may help you care for your skin and improve its appearance:
* Protect your skin. If you have vitiligo, particularly if you have fair skin, use a sunscreen with an SPF of at least 30 that protects against both UVA and UVB light to protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays. Sunscreen helps protect your skin from sunburn and long-term damage. Sunscreen also minimizes tanning, which makes the contrast between normal and depigmented skin less noticeable.
* Conceal imperfections. Concealing cosmetics may lessen the appearance of the white patches and help you feel better about yourself, especially if your vitiligo patches are on exposed skin. You may need to experiment with several brands of concealing cosmetics before finding a product that blends best with your normal skin tone. Sunless tanning products (self-tanners) also may help conceal imperfections by adding color to depigmented areas. The coloring doesn't wash off, but it gradually fades as the dead skin cells slough off in several days.
Alternative medicine
In people with slow-spreading vitiligo, treatment with 40 milligrams of ginkgo three times a day may stop the spread of vitiligo. And, in one small placebo-controlled trial, ginkgo caused repigmentation in some cases. However, this treatment is not well studied, and as with any over-the-counter treatment, check with your doctor before taking ginkgo to be sure it won't adversely interact with any other treatments you may be on.
Coping and support
The change in appearance caused by vitiligo can affect your emotional and psychological well-being. You may experience emotional stress, particularly if vitiligo develops on visible areas of your body, such as your face, hands, arms or feet. You may feel embarrassed, ashamed, depressed or worried about how others will react. Young people, who are often particularly concerned about their appearance, can be devastated by widespread vitiligo. Certain strategies may help you cope with vitiligo. Consider these tips:
* Make a good connection. Find a doctor who's knowledgeable about vitiligo. A dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in the care of skin.
* Learn all about it. Find out as much as you can about vitiligo and its treatment options so that you can participate in making important decisions about your health care.
* Communicate your feelings. Let your doctor know if you're feeling depressed. He or she can refer you to mental health providers who specialize in helping people deal with depression.
* Talk with others. Ask your doctor about support groups in your area for people who have vitiligo. You can also contact the National Vitiligo Foundation at 513-541-3903 or Vitiligo Support International at 818-752-9002 to find support groups.
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Valve, Cloudius, and HSA Join Linux Foundation (Separately).
Subject: General Tech | December 5, 2013 - 03:03 AM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: linux, valve, SteamOS, hsa foundation, hsa
Valve may very well produce one of the near future's most popular non-mobile, consumer, Linux distributions. SteamOS will be marketed for gaming PCs (some very compelling ones at that) starting next year. CES will definitely be interesting. With such a popular distribution, and as an existing member of the Khronos Group, it makes sense for Valve to join the Linux Foundation... and they just did.
It is still unknown to what extent Valve joined Linux (members are classified by level of contribution from Platinum to Silver) and we likely will not know until their list is updated. While they probably will not be hanging out with Intel and others in the platinum category, Silver is not the most noteworthy of statuses... alongside Barnes and Noble (likely because of the Nook) and Twitter.
Another addition is the HSA Foundation. AMD is already a Gold member (y'know... HSA's faja) and ARM is Silver so I cannot see HSA being much more than that. Still, Linux will be an important focus for the heterogeneous computing architectures to endorse: both in terms of back-end server optimization and customer-facing devices.
Of course I am not belittling any contribution. Still, there is that desire to see Valve lead the pack. Ultimately, though, it is not the size of the badge: it is how you wear it.
AFDS 2012: HSA Foundation Joins AMD, ARM, Ti, Imagination and MediaTek with Open Architecture
Subject: Graphics Cards, Processors | June 12, 2012 - 01:31 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: texas instruments, mediatek, imagination, hsa foundation, hsa, arm, amd, AFDS
Today is a big day for AMD as they, along with four other major players in the world of processors and SoCs, announced the formation of the HSA Foundation. The HSA Foundation is a non-profit consortium created to define and promote an open approach to heterogeneous computing. The primary goal is to make it easier for software developers to write and program for the parallel power of GPUs. This encompasses both integrated and discrete of which the HSA (heterogeneous systems architecture) Foundation wants to enable users to take full advantage of all the processing resources available to them.
On stage at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit in Bellevue, WA, AMD announced the formation of the consortium in partnership with ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments; some of the biggest names in computing.
The companies will work together to drive a single architecture specification and simplify the programming model to help software developers take greater advantage of the capabilities found in modern central processing units (CPUs) and graphics processing units (GPUs), and unlock the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in heterogeneous processors.
There are a lot of implications in this simple statement and there are many questions that are left open ended to which we hope to get answered this week while at AFDS. The idea of a "single architecture specification" set a lot of things in motion and makes us question the direction of both AMD and the traditionally ARM-based companies of the HSA Foundation will be moving in. AMD has had the APU, and the eventual complete fusion of the CPU and GPU, on its roadmap for quite a few years and has publicly stated that in 2014 they will have their first fully HSA-capable part. We are still assuming that this is an x86 + Radeon based part, but that may or may not be the long term goal; ideas of ARM-based AMD processors with Radeon graphics technology AND of Radeon based ARM-processors built by other companies still swirl amongst the show. There are even rumors of Frankenstein-like combinations of x86 and ARM based products for niche applications.
Looks like there is room for a few more founding partners...
Obviously ARM and others have their own graphics IP (ARM has Mali, Imagination Technology has Power VR) and those GPUs can be used for parallel processing in much the same way that we think of GPU processing on discrete GPUs and APUs today. ARM processor designers are well aware of the power and efficiency benefits of utilizing all of the available transistors and processing power correctly and the emphasis on an HSA-style system design makes a lot of sense moving forward.
My main question for the HSA Foundation is its goals: obviously they want to promote the simplistic approach for programmers, but what does that actually translate to on the hardware side? It is possible that both x86 and ARM-based ISAs can continue to exist with libraries and compilers built to correctly handle applications for each architecture, but that would seem to me to be against the goals of such a partnership of technology leaders.
In a meeting with AMD personnel, the most powerful and inspiring idea from the HSA Foundation is summed up with this:
"This is bigger than AMD. This is bigger than the PC ecosystem."
The end game is to make sure that all software developers can EASILY take advantage of both traditional and parallel processing cores without ever having to know what is going on under the hood. AMD and the other HSA Foundation members continue to tell us that this optimization can be completely ISA-agnostic – though the technical blockages for that to take place are severe.
AMD will benefit from the success of the HSA Foundation by finally getting more partners involved in promoting the idea of heterogeneous computing, and powerful ones at that. ARM is the biggest player in the low power processor market responsible for the Cortex and Mali architectures found in the vast majority of mobile processors. As those partners trumpet the same cause as AMD, more software will be developed to take advantage of parallel computing and AMD believes their GPU architecture gives them a definite performance advantage once that takes hold.
What I find most interesting is the unknown – how will this affect the roadmaps for all the hardware companies involved? Are we going to see the AMD APU roadmap shift to an ARM-IP system? Will we see companies like Texas Instruments fully integrate the OMAP and Power VR cores into a single memory space (or ARM with Cortex and Mali)? Will we eventually see NVIDIA jump onboard and lend their weight towards true heterogenous computing?
We have much more the learn about the HSA Foundation and its direction for the industry but we can easily say that this is probably the most important processor company collaboration announcement in many years – and it does so without the 800 pound gorilla that is Intel in attendance. By going after the ARM-based markets where Intel is already struggling to compete in, AMD can hope to create a foothold with technological and partnership advantages and return to a seat of prominence. This harkens back to the late 1990s when AMD famously put together the "virtual gorilla" with many partners to take on Intel.
Check out the full press release after the break!
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ArchiMate 2.0 is developed by the ArchiMate Forum of The Open Group and is now more aligned with TOGAF, an Enterprise Architecture framework.
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Selaginella selaginoides (L.) Link
Low Spike-moss
- State Rank: S1
- Global Rank: G5
- State Status: Threatened
Habitat: Damp shores, mossy banks, etc. [Open wetland, not coastal nor rivershore (non-forested, wetland); Non-tidal rivershore (non-forested, seasonally wet)]
Range: Circumboreal, south to Nova Scotia, and northern Michigan and Minnesota.
Aids to Identification: Spike-mosses are inconspicuous, spore-bearing, vascular plants related to the clubmosses (Lycopodiaceae). They resemble mosses that are frequently overlooked. This evergreen herb can be distinguished from other spikemosses by its spirally arranged 10-ranked leaves, which are thin, toothed, and lacking bristle-tips. The fertile erect stems usually grow to 6-10 cm, and the sterile prostrate stems grow to 2-5 cm.
Ecological characteristics: The occurrences of this species in Maine are associated with circumneutral fens, and it is the only spikemoss or clubmoss that grows in circumneutral fens.
Phenology: Fruits July - August.
Family: Selaginellaceae
Synonyms: Former names include Lycopodium selaginoides L. and Selaginella spinosa P. Beauv.
Known Distribution in Maine: This rare plant has been documented from a total of 6 town(s) in the following county(ies): Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis.
Dates of documented observations are: 1904, 1917, 1989, 1992, 1996 (2)
Reason(s) for rarity: At southern limit of range; habitat naturally scarce.
Conservation considerations: Maintain hydrologic integrity of its open fen habitat.


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What's your story? No, not once upon a time … what's your story of who you are, where you've been, and where you're going? Your stories package and share your experience. They help you stand out if you share the right things. What are the right things? Share your unique experiences, your values, and your strengths … and even relevant flaws. Your human after all and everybody has flaws. It's not what happens to you, but how you respond and you're the author of your life. Choose your adventures. Write your stories with might. Lead yourself first and use your stories to guide yourself and others. It's not about happy endings. Life's about learning and responding. Happy endings are a by product of making the most out of what you've got, standing strong when tested, and enjoying the journey along the way.
In the book Emotional Capitalists: The New Leaders (J-B Foreign Imprint Series – EMEA) , Martyn Newman writes about authoring distinctive stories.
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Here's my key take aways:
- Stories improve effectiveness. Stories are the most powerful tool. Leaders achieve effectiveness through the stories they tell.
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- Stories should feel real. Leaders must live their stories. Leaders must embody stories. Stories have identity.
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Stories are your most powerful tool. They inspire and connect. Newman writes:
Harvard leadership guru, Howard Gardner, also believes that leaders achieve their effectiveness mainly through the stories they tell. In addition to communicating stories, however, Gardner believes that leaders must embody those stories: 'Stories have identity. [They are] narratives that help people think about and feel who they are, where they come from, and where they are headed. [They] constitute the … single most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.'
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Newman asks a set of questions to help you test your story:
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Is there a claim somewhere he was paid off? All I see are the YT comments like "Yi Long was dominating.. Why would he just let himself get punched? That is pretty stupid.."
Yeah...either stupid, intentional, or both. My money is on both, whether it was fixed or not.
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Is Shen's father going to used more? and Is Shen's lore going to be changed?
Let's see... dark techniques that were hidden away long ago, resurrected by a vengeful individual who challenged the strictures and stance of an established organization. Sounds like Zed has an awful lot in common with Diana. What would these two think of each other? These dark techniques are assumed to be corrupting (with no proof) and the Solari apparently saw no benefit in living in balance with a Moon-worshipping society; might there be a link here?
Will Zed be raising an army against the balance, or at least his own faction of ninja's who oppose balance as Shen, Kennen, and Akali maintain it? What is Zed's reasons for joining the league, instead of just killing the other ninjas beyond politics? Will Zed get a Shredder Skin or have a hidden passive with Ramus that's a TMNT reference?
Has the skin Bladestorm Zed any relationship to his lore? Is it pre-shadow box Zed uniform? and if it is Shall we wait for a Shen "matching" skin? One last thing, Great job i am looking forward to see him in action.
As were Zed and Shen friends outside of their rivalry? What does Zed think of the other two of the Kinkou Trio? Finally, if Zed and Shen were equally strong before Zed learned the forbidden arts, does that mean that Zed is stronger than Shen is right now? If not, what did Shen have to do to catch up to his former rival?
This is probably a little too much speculation, but Zed ordered his followers to kill the other ninjas. Was Zed just sitting around doing nothing while Shen saved a few of his clanmates? Because according to the lore, Zed had surpassed Shen in power, and if he had fought him head on, then none of them would have escaped alive, while the shadow ninjas slew everyone, and while Zed deals with Shen, unless Shen had grown stronger by following the path of balance through and true.
I believe Zed never came out of the temple and he didn't kill shen's father,physically he did of course but I don't think it's the same Zed that came in as the one that came out,can you give some hints about what happened in that temple?


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It's really funny, if she wasn't specifically pregnant with Kanye West's baby, I'm most certain she wouldn't be saying "Our baby is not really on TV. It's not going to be on our show," "That's just a personal choice that Kanye and I have made. From the start, we're just going to try and keep it as private as possible." I'm sure it's because Kanye has friends like Jay-Z & Beyonce and she's really trying to get in with them, and follow in their footsteps for the hope that maybe she would be respected as they are. There's no way you go from sex tapes to televising your marriage then divorce, basically living out your life on a tv show to OUR BABY ISN'T GOING TO BE ON TV. It just doesn't make any sense. Sure maybe she's really thinking for the child but she's going to be followed no matter where she goes with her baby. So either way, her baby is going to be seen some way or another. She either learned from her mistakes or she's really smart & knows how to attract even MORE attention. JUST MY THOUGHTS.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Quick Fat Quarter Bag Tutorial
Today I'm sharing a new tutorial over at Make and Takes. This tutorial is for a quick little bag made from one fat quarter and some ribbon. Perfect little summer project.
Make and Takes is an awesome blog full of activities to do with your kids, craft projects, and quick recipes. Marie is amazing and is continually coming up with great ideas. It is one of the first blogs I ever started following consistantly and I'm SO excited to be hanging out there today!
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE all of your ideas!!! Thank you for:)
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- angela said...
Cute - and thanks for adding one more blog to my lit that must be followed :)
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Wow! I can't believe that it is only one fat quarter.
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- Simone de Klerk said...
What a lovely tutorial. So fast to make with such a great result!
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This is a cute project and one that could be completed quickly when you need a little gift. Thanks for sharing it and the link!
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Oh, I just realized YOU wrote the tutorial, too! Great one. Thanks. I left a comment on the other blog asking if it was okay to post a link from my blog, along with your photo (so people can see what the project is). I would, of course, give you all the credit for the photo and the tutorial! Thanks!
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Very cute! Thank you. I will definitely use this.
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Anna Politkovskaya Анна Политковская | |
Anna Politkovskaya during an interview in Leipzig, Germany (2005) | |
Born | Anna Stepanovna Mazepa (Ukrainian: Га́нна Степа́нівна Мазе́па) 30 August 1958 New York City, United States |
Died | 7 October 2006 Moscow, Russia | (aged 48)
Occupation | Journalist, writer |
Nationality | Russian[1] |
Ethnicity | Father of Ukrainian descent (village Kostobobr, Semenivs'kyi rayon, Chernihiv oblast, Ukraine) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Period | 1982–2006 |
Subject | Politics, freedom of the press, human rights, social issues |
Notable works | Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy |
Notable awards | Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism 2001 |
Spouse | Alexander Politkovsky |
Children | Vera Ilya |
Anna Politkovskaya Анна Политковская | |
Anna Politkovskaya during an interview in Leipzig, Germany (2005) | |
Born | Anna Stepanovna Mazepa (Ukrainian: Га́нна Степа́нівна Мазе́па) 30 August 1958 New York City, United States |
Died | 7 October 2006 Moscow, Russia | (aged 48)
Occupation | Journalist, writer |
Nationality | Russian[1] |
Ethnicity | Father of Ukrainian descent (village Kostobobr, Semenivs'kyi rayon, Chernihiv oblast, Ukraine) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Period | 1982–2006 |
Subject | Politics, freedom of the press, human rights, social issues |
Notable works | Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy |
Notable awards | Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism 2001 |
Spouse | Alexander Politkovsky |
Children | Vera Ilya |
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (Russian: А́нна Степа́новна Политко́вская; IPA: [ˈannə stʲɪˈpanəvnə pəlʲɪtˈkofskəjə]; Ukrainian: Га́нна Степа́нівна Політко́вська; 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was a Russian[1] journalist, writer, and human rights activist known for her opposition to the Second Chechen War and President of Russia Vladimir Putin.[2] Politkovskaya was assassinated on Putin's birthday.
Politkovskaya made her reputation reporting from Chechnya.[3] Her post-1999 articles about conditions in Chechnya were turned into several books;[4] Russian readers' main access to her investigations and publications was through Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper known for its often-critical investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs. From 2000 onwards, she received numerous international awards for her work. In 2004, she published a personal account, Putin's Russia.[5]
On 7 October 2006 she was shot and killed in the lift of her block of flats, an assassination that attracted international attention.[6][7][8] In June 2014 five men were sentenced to prison for the murder, but it is still unclear who ordered or paid for the contract killing.[9]
Politkovskaya was born Anna Mazepa in New York City in 1958. Her parents, diplomats at the United Nations, were Ukrainian. Politkovskaya grew up in Moscow; she graduated from Moscow State University's school of journalism in 1980. While there, she defended a thesis about the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva and married fellow student Alexander Politkovsky. They had two children, Vera and Ilya. At first Alexander was better known, joining TV journalist Vladislav Listyev as one of the hosts on the late-night TV programme Vzglyad. Apart from her childhood years, Politkovskaya spent no more than a few weeks outside Russia at any one time, even when her life came under threat. She acquired a US passport, but never relinquished her Russian citizenship.[10]
Politkovskaya worked for Izvestia from 1982 to 1993 as a reporter and editor of the emergencies and accidents section. From 1994 to 1999, she worked as the assistant chief editor of Obshchaya Gazeta, headed by Yegor Yakovlev, where she wrote frequently about social problems—particularly the plight of refugees. From June 1999 to 2006, she wrote columns for the biweekly Novaya Gazeta, a newspaper with strong investigative reporting that was critical of the new post-1991 regime from the outset. She published several award-winning books about Chechnya, life in Russia, and President Putin's regime, including Putin's Russia.[11][12]
Politkovskaya won a number of awards for her work.[12][13] She used each of these occasions to urge greater concern and responsibility by Western governments that, after the 11 September attacks on the United States, welcomed Putin's contribution to their "War on Terror". She talked to officials, the military and the police and also frequently visited hospitals and refugee camps in Chechnya and in neighbouring Ingushetia to interview those injured and uprooted by the renewed fighting.[14]
In numerous articles critical of the war in Chechnya and the pro-Russian regime there, Politkovskaya described alleged abuses committed by Russian military forces, Chechen rebels, and the Russian-backed administration led by Akhmad Kadyrov and his son Ramzan Kadyrov.[citation needed] She also chronicled human rights abuses and policy failures elsewhere in the North Caucasus. In one characteristic instance in 1999, she not only wrote about the plight of an ethnically-mixed old peoples' home under bombardment in Grozny, but helped to secure the safe evacuation of its elderly inhabitants with the aid of her newspaper and public support. Her articles, many of which form the basis of A Dirty War (2001) and A Small Corner of Hell (2003), depict a conflict that brutalised both Chechen fighters and conscript soldiers in the federal army, and created hell for the civilians caught between them. As Politkovskaya reported, the order supposedly restored under the Kadyrovs became a regime of endemic torture, abduction, and murder, by either the new Chechen authorities or the various federal forces based in Chechnya.[11] One of her last investigations was into the alleged mass poisoning of Chechen school children by a strong and unknown chemical substance which incapacitated them for many months.[15]
After Politkovskaya became widely known in the West, she was commissioned to write Putin's Russia (later subtitled Life in a Failing Democracy), a broader account of her views and experiences after former KGB lieutenant colonel Vladimir Putin became Boris Yeltsin's Prime Minister, and then succeeded him as President of Russia. This included Putin's pursuit of the Second Chechen War. In the book, she accused the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) of stifling all civil liberties in order to establish a Soviet-style dictatorship, but admitted
[It] is we who are responsible for Putin's policies ... [s]ociety has shown limitless apathy ... [a]s the Chekists have become entrenched in power, we have let them see our fear, and thereby have only intensified their urge to treat us like cattle. The KGB respects only the strong. The weak it devours. We of all people ought to know that.
She also wrote:
We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial—whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.[16]
"People often tell me that I am a pessimist, that I don't believe in the strength of the Russian people, that I am obsessive in my opposition to Putin and see nothing beyond that", she opens an essay titled "Am I Afraid?", finishing it—and the book—with the words "If anybody thinks they can take comfort from the 'optimistic' forecast, let them do so. It is certainly the easier way, but it is the death sentence for our grandchildren."[17][18][19][20][21][22]
In May 2007, Random House posthumously published Politkovskaya's A Russian Diary, containing extracts from her notebook and other writings. Subtitled A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia, the book gives her account of the period from December 2003 to August 2005, including what she described as "the death of Russian parliamentary democracy", the Beslan school hostage crisis, and the "winter and summer of discontent" from January to August 2005.[23] Because she was murdered "while translation was being completed, final editing had to go ahead without her help", wrote translator Arch Tait in a note to the book.[24]
"Who killed Anna and who lay beyond her killer remains unknown", wrote Jon Snow, the main news anchor for the United Kingdom's Channel 4 in his foreword to the book's UK edition. "Her murder robbed too many of us of absolutely vital sources of information and contact", he concluded, "Yet it may, ultimately, be seen to have at least helped prepare the way for the unmasking of the dark forces at the heart of Russia's current being. I must confess that I finished reading A Russian Diary feeling that it should be taken up and dropped from the air in vast quantities throughout the length and breadth of Mother Russia, for all her people to read."[25]
Politkovskaya was closely involved in attempts to negotiate the release of hostages in the Moscow theatre hostage crisis of 2002. When the Beslan school hostage crisis erupted in the North Caucasus in early September 2004, Politkovskaya attempted to fly there to act as a mediator, but was taken off the plane, acutely ill, in Rostov-na-Donu (see Poisoning).[26][27]
In Moscow, Politkovskaya was not invited to press conferences or gatherings that Kremlin officials might attend, in case the organisers were suspected of harbouring sympathies toward her. Despite this, many top officials allegedly talked to her when she was writing articles or conducting investigations. According to one of her articles, they did talk to her, "but only when they weren't likely to be observed: outside in crowds, or in houses that they approached by different routes, like spies".[11] She also claimed that the Kremlin tried to block her access to information and discredit her:
I will not go into the other joys of the path I have chosen, the poisoning, the arrests, the threats in letters and over the Internet, the telephoned death threats, the weekly summons to the prosecutor general's office to sign statements about practically every article I write (the first question being, "How and where did you obtain this information?"). Of course I don't like the constant derisive articles about me that appear in other newspapers and on Internet sites presenting me as the madwoman of Moscow. I find it disgusting to live this way. I would like a bit more understanding.[11]
After Politkovskaya's murder, Vyacheslav Izmailov, her colleague at Novaya Gazeta—a military man who had helped negotiate the release of dozens of hostages in Chechnya before 1999—said that he knew of at least nine previous occasions when Politkovskaya had faced death, commenting "Frontline soldiers do not usually go into battle so often and survive".[28]
Politkovskaya herself did not deny being afraid, but felt responsible and concerned for her informants. While attending a December 2005 conference on the freedom of the press in Vienna organised by Reporters Without Borders, she said "People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it."[29] She often received death threats as a result of her work, including being threatened with rape and experiencing a mock execution after being arrested by the military in Chechnya.[30][31]
Early in 2001, Politkovskaya was detained by military officials in the southern mountain village of Khattuni.[32] She was investigating complaints from 90 Chechen families about "punitive raids" by federal forces. She interviewed a Chechen grandmother from the village of Tovzeni, Rosita, who endured 12 days of beatings, electric shocks, and confinement in a pit. The men who arrested Rosita presented themselves as FSB employees. The torturers requested a ransom from Rosita's relatives, who negotiated a smaller amount that they were able to pay. Another interviewee described killings and rapes of Chechen men in a "concentration camp with a commercial streak" near the village of Khattuni.[33][34][35]
Upon leaving the camp, Politkovskaya was detained, interrogated, beaten, and humiliated by Russian troops: "the young officers tortured me, skillfully hitting my sore spots. They looked through my children's pictures, making a point of saying what they would like to do to the kids. This went on for about three hours."[36] She was subjected to a mock execution using a BM-21 Grad multiple-launch rocket system, then poisoned with a cup of tea that made her vomit. Her tape records were confiscated. She described her mock execution:
A lieutenant colonel with a swarthy face and dull dark bulging eyes said in a businesslike tone: "Let's go. I'm going to shoot you." He led me out of the tent into complete darkness. The nights here are impenetrable. After we walked for a while, he said, "Ready or not, here I come." Something burst with pulsating fire around me, screeching, roaring, and growling. The lieutenant colonel was very happy when I crouched in fright. It turned out that he had led me right under the "Grad" rocket launcher at the moment it was fired.[36]
After the mock execution, the Russian lieutenant colonel said to her: "Here's the banya. Take off your clothes." Seeing that his words had no effect, he got very angry: "A real lieutenant colonel is courting you, and you say no, you militant bitch."[36]
In 2006, the European Court of Human Rights found the Russian Federation responsible for the forced disappearance of a suspected Ingush militant, Khadzhi-Murat Yandiyev. Colonel-General Alexander Baranov, the commander of the Russian Caucasus deployment mentioned by Politkovskaya's camp guide as the one who ordered captured militants to be kept in the pits, was filmed as he ordered Yandiyev to be executed.[37]
While flying south in September 2004 to help negotiate with those who had taken over a thousand hostages in a school in Beslan (North Ossetia), Politkovskaya fell violently ill and lost consciousness after drinking tea. She had reportedly been poisoned, with some accusing the former Soviet secret police poison facility.[38][39]
In 2001, Politkovskaya fled to Vienna, following e-mail threats that a police officer whom she had accused of atrocities against civilians in Chechnya was looking to take revenge. Corporal Sergei Lapin was arrested and charged in 2002, but the case against him was closed the following year. In 2005, Lapin was convicted and jailed for the torture and subsequent disappearance of a Chechen civilian detainee, the case exposed by Politkovskaya in her article "Disappearing People".[14][40][41] A former fellow officer of Lapin's was among the suspects in Politkovskaya's murder, on the theory that the motive might have been revenge for her part in Lapin's conviction.[41]
In 2004, Politkovskaya had a conversation with Ramzan Kadyrov, then Prime Minister of Chechnya. One of his assistants said to her, "Someone ought to have shot you back in Moscow, right on the street, like they do in your Moscow". Ramzan repeated after him: "You're an enemy. To be shot...."[42] On the day of her murder, said Novaya Gazeta's chief editor Dmitry Muratov, Politkovskaya had planned to file a lengthy story on the torture practices believed to be used by the Chechen security detachments known as Kadyrovites. In her final interview, she described Kadyrov—now president of Chechnya—as the "Chechen Stalin of our days".[43]
Politkovskaya was found dead in the lift, in her block of flats in central Moscow on 7 October 2006, the birthday of Vladimir Putin.[44] She had been shot twice in the chest, once in the shoulder, and once in the head at point-blank range.[45]
The funeral was held on 10 October 2006 at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in the outskirts of Moscow. Before Politkovskaya was buried, more than one thousand mourners filed past her coffin to pay their last respects. Dozens of Politkovskaya's colleagues, public figures, and admirers of her work gathered at the cemetery. No high-ranking Russian officials could be seen at the ceremony.[46] Politkovskaya was buried near her father, who had died shortly before her. There was widespread international reaction to the assassination. Some of her colleagues and friends accused the Russian authorities of negligence in doing nothing to prevent her murder, or even of actual involvement in her assassination.[citation needed]
In May 2007, a large posthumous collection of Anna's articles, entitled With Good Reason, was published by Novaya Gazeta and launched at the Gorbachev Foundation in Moscow.[47] The event came soon after the birth of Anna's namesake grandchild: Vera's daughter was named Anna in honour of her grandmother. A few months later, 10 men were detained on suspicion of various degrees of involvement in Politkovskaya's murder.[48] Four of them were brought before the Moscow District Military Court in October 2008.
Three men were charged with directly aiding Politkovskaya's killer, who was allegedly the brother of two of the suspects. There was insufficient evidence to charge the fourth man—an FSB colonel—with the murder, though he was suspected of a leading role in its organisation; he stood trial at the same time for another offence. The case was held before a jury (a rare occurrence in Russia)[49] and, after the jurors insisted, was open to the press and public.[50][51][52]
On 25 November 2008, it was reported that Politkovskaya's murder might have been ordered by a politician inside Russia. Murad Musayev, a lawyer for the men on trial, told journalists that the case notes—as one of the interpretations of the crime—mentioned that a politician, based in Russia (but not named in those notes), was behind her death.[53][54]
On 5 December 2008, Sergei Sokolov, a senior editor of Novaya Gazeta, testified in court that he had received information (from sources he would not name) that defendant Dzhabrail Makhmudov was an agent of the FSB. He said Makhmudov's uncle Lom-Ali Gaitukayev, who was serving a 12-year jail sentence for the attempted murder of a Ukrainian businessman, also worked for the FSB.[55][56]
Russia's Investigative Committee—with help from the Belgian police—arrested Rustam Makhmudov, the man suspected of killing Anna Politkovskaya, after he was detained in the Chechen Republic and transported to Moscow for questioning.[57]
After all three men were acquitted of Politkovskaya's murder in February 2009, her children Vera and Ilya, their lawyers Karinna Moskalenko and Anna Stavitskaya, and senior Novaya Gazeta editor Sergei Sokolov gave their reaction to the trial at a press conference in Moscow.[58] In his comments on the end of the trial, Andrew McIntosh, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's Sub-Committee on the Media and Rapporteur on media freedom, expressed frustration at what he perceived to be a lack of progress in investigating the murder, or the inability of the Russian authorities to find her killers:
Two years ago, in its Resolution 1535 (2007), the Assembly called on the Russian Parliament closely to monitor the progress in the criminal investigations regarding the murder of Anna Politkovskaya and hold the authorities accountable for any failures to investigate or prosecute. The closure of the trial yesterday can only be regarded as a blatant failure. I call on the Russian authorities and Parliament to relaunch a proper investigation and shed light on this murder, which undermines not only freedom of expression in Russia, but also its democratic foundation based on the rule of law. There are no excuses for these flawed investigations into murders of politically critical journalists writing against corruption and crime within government, such as the murders of Georgy Gongadze in Ukraine in 2000 and Paul Klebnikov in Moscow in 2004.[59]
Before the trial ended, Stanislav Markelov, a lawyer who had investigated many of the abuses documented by Politkovskaya, was assassinated in Moscow on 19 January 2009.[60] Journalist Anastasia Baburova, who was with Markelov at the time, died later of injuries sustained while trying to intervene.[60] Baburova was a freelance contributor to Novaya Gazeta, and Markelov represented the newspaper on many occasions. In November 2009, the first public results of the investigation into the double shooting suggested that the murders had no immediate connection to the Politkovskaya assassination.[61]
More closely related to Politkovskaya's work as a journalist was the 15 July 2009 murder of Natalia Estemirova. A board member of the Memorial human rights society and one of Politkovskaya's key informants, guides, and colleagues in Chechnya, Estemirova was abducted in Grozny and found dead, several hours later, in the neighbouring Republic of Ingushetia.[62]
All three murders highlighted the impunity with which such activists were being killed (see List of journalists killed in Russia). After the first killing, Novaya Gazeta chief editor Muratov asked publicly for his journalists to be trained in self-defence, with firearms if necessary. When Estemirova's death was followed that August by the killing of two more human-rights activists in Grozny—Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Umar Dzhabrailov—Novaya Gazeta announced it could no longer take the risk of sending its journalists to Chechnya.[citation needed]
The Chechen authorities expressed their offence at this "slur." In an interview with Radio Liberty, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov voiced statements about Estemirova that contradicted his earlier expressions of public concern and regret.[63] She was a woman, he said, who had "never possessed any honour, dignity or conscience".[64]
On 5 August 2009, the prosecution service's objection to the acquittals in the Politkovskaya trial was upheld by the Supreme Court, and a new trial was ordered.[65]
In August 2011, Russian prosecutors claimed they were close to solving the murder after detaining Dmitry Pavliuchenkov, a former policeman, who they alleged was the principal organiser.[66] The following month Kommersant Daily reported that, according to Pavlyuchenkov, he was acting on instructions from businessman and Putin critic Boris Berezovsky.[67]
In December 2012 Dmitry Pavliutchenkov was found guilty and sentenced to 11 years in a high security penal colony.[68]
In May 2014 five men were convicted of murdering Politkovskaya, including three defendants who had been acquitted in a previous trial. The defendants were three Chechen brothers, one of whom was accused of shooting Politkovskaya in the lobby of her Moscow apartment building.[69] In June 2014 the men were sentenced to prison, two of them receiving life sentences. It is still unclear who ordered or paid for the contract killing.[9]
A Bitter Taste of Freedom was shown at the 27th Warsaw International Film Festival where it won the Best Documentary Feature Award. From the festival's programme:[73]
"She was brave, she was bold, and she was beautiful. In her fearless quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian State, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. An investigative journalist for Moscow's liberal 'Novaya Gazeta', she was the only spokesperson for victims of Putin's government. Hers was a lonely voice, yet loud enough for the entire country to hear. It was too loud. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job. A documentary about the bravery of the human spirit. As the director says, it 'is especially important now, when the world is so full of cynicism and corruption, when we so desperately need more people with Anna's level of courage and integrity and commitment'."
The 2007–2008 academic year at the College of Europe was named in her honour.
The human rights organisation Reach All Women in War (RAW in WAR), which particularly focuses on protecting women's rights during war time, announced in 2007 that they would be awarding an annual "Anna Politkovskaya Award" in Politkovskaya's honor. The award recognizes "a woman human rights defender from a conflict zone in the world who, like Anna, stands up for the victims of this conflict, often at great personal risk".[81]
The award was first given in October 2007 to Anna Politkovskaya's friend and colleague Natalya Estemirova,[82] who was herself found shot dead in 2009.[62]
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can we keep 2-3 but keep 1? I understand making brutilaizer not stack with YG or BC but BC-YG isnt that bad to stack is it?
Ok, this is my feedback, wwhich will likely never bee seen or cared about but anyway... The problem with black cleaver is that its not an AD caster item like we all thought, turns out its much better on AD carries and Bruisers. AD caster items should make their AD stacking multiplicative, like crit for Ranged AD carries. A caster's damage is front loaded, therefore stacking reduction for the team is not as good. Casters should be selfish with their pen. This item should be flat pen + percent pen. Not reduction. What about an item like DFG for AD, hydra's active is exactly was caster's need, not bruisers.
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It should but I doubt they want to touch the 1337 pricetag.
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I think it would be much more manageable, but it still comes off as the penultimate AD item. Health for survival Flat penetration for your squishy killing pleasure Scaling armor penetration for your team's tank killing pleasure 50 AD to use with your armor penetrated opponent Cooldown reduction for the offensive AND survival cherry on top of the cake. Black Cleaver is a valid answer to almost every situation and it's no big surprise that them stacking became problematic very fast. Who doesn't want to be some armor ignoring chogath-like hp beast who also was carrying multiple BF swords? That being said, there needs to be an item that helps ADs answer to ultra tanky built opponents in dominion if the BC is removed completely. AP Mages have plenty of items to help them get extra flat penetration along with their void staff if their opponents choose to keep stacking resists and AD mages need an option for that too. IMO: Bring the new version in, let the flat penetration items still stack (with each other, not themselves). If someone dedicates 3 items slots to some less then ideal picks just to make armor a generally less then worthwhile option, I'm okay with that. I can build HP to outlast them if that happens. Problem with BC is that they get way too ahead in the damage / survivability arms race just by building more black cleavers.
I don't play on the PBE so I can't say with first hand knowledge but looking at the numbers I don't think this nerf will stop BC stacking. The item just has too many good stats for bruisers to pass up. Health, check. AD, check. Stacking Armor debuff to mow down tanks/bruisers, check. The CDR is just icing on the cake. Limiting the flat Armor pen is a small nerf in the grand scheme of things. The counter argument is, "Well other items do those things better. BT gives more AD, FM gives more HP etc..." But none of them are rolled into a nice neat package like BC. Edit: After looking at math doing an extreme case of 4 BCs v BT, LW, BC, and FM the BC stacking come out with 50 more HP, and MAX CDR for the cost of 20 less AD and lower ArPen % (and no slow / LS % from FM & BT). But grabbing 2 BCs seems to be more common, from what I've seen anyway, and it's hard to find a comparable alt. build with just 2 of those other items (LW + BT is +40 AD, assuming full stacks for both examples, and better ArPen % but no health, CDR, or flat ArPen). Using a FM gives you more HP and stacked with a BT gives more AD but no ArPen, flat or %, and no CDR.
You still need at least 12k gold + boots to buy 4 BC's. It probably isn't as widespread as people are leading us to believe.
I've seen AD carries grab a BC or 2 quite a few times: Kog, Urgot, and Corki usually.


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Beaufort Gazette joins chorus of objectors to City's massive downtown rezoning proposal
Beaufort Gazette joins chorus of objectors to City's massive downtown rezoning proposal
The Beaufort Gazette, the daily printed newspaper serving the Beaufort area, today, January 17, joined a chorus of objectors to the City of Beaufort's plan to engage in a massive rezoning of the downtown waterfront area from Conservation Preservation to Core Commercial. In a strongly worded editorial titled "Beaufort must slow redevelopment project", the Gazette called on the City to "delay rezoning until the developers have offered their plans and the public knows what rezoning is likely to bring."
The Gazette also carried at the top of its front page today a news article by Erin Moody reporting on the grass-roots effort of local citizens to slow down or halt the City's plans.
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NEWARK, N.J. – A New York man was sentenced to a total of 93 months in federal prison today for his admitted role in a scheme to import of 1.9 kilos of cocaine from Panama into the United States via Newark Liberty International Airport, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
Reginold Estrada, 35, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton to an Indictment charging him with conspiracy to import cocaine. Judge Wigenton imposed a sentence of 75 months on the drug charge, to run consecutively to a sentence of 18 months for violation of supervised release.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:
Estrada and others agreed to import cocaine by arranging for a courier to transport the drug into the country via commercial aircraft. Estrada provided funds to a courier to purchase airline tickets to fly from Newark Liberty International airport to Panama. On March 27, 2011, this courier returned to Newark Liberty via commercial aircraft while transporting cocaine. Estrada attempted to pick the courier up at the airport and was arrested at the airport by special agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI).
In addition to the prison term, Judge Wigenton sentenced Estrada to four years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Fishman praised special agents of ICE HSI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Andrew M. McLees in Newark, for the investigation leading to today's sentencing.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Randall Cook of the U.S. Attorney's Office Narcotics/Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Unit in Newark.
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Justin Bieber, you did it. After pursing Selena for months, refusing to give up on your relationship, you've finally convinced her to be back by your side. Now, don't blow it!
Justin Bieber – you never gave up on Selena Gomez's love after she initiated her final split from you during this past Christmas 2012.
Justin Bieber, How You Won Selena Gomez Back
The two of you had been fighting ever since Selena learned you'd been flirting with Barbara Palvin and other Victoria's Secret models, backstage at the Victoria's Secret fashion show in NYC in Nov.
Arguments and on-and-off and short splits finally culminated in Selena's determined decision to make the breakup permanent after she left your Cancun vacation during the Christmas holidays, following another big blow up about Barbara on Dec. 30.
Selena first checked into another hotel and later hopped on a plane to go home to LA at the urging of her mother. So Justin, it was a long, hard road to win Selena back.
We know from sources that you never stopped calling her, texting her and trying to see her. You kept Selena's photo as the screen saver on your phone! You even sent mutual friends like Alfredo Flores to plead with Selena on your behalf.
Selena Gomez Tried To Move On
Meanwhile, Selena did her best to suppress her feelings for you and move on.
A source close to her told HollywoodLife.com exclusively that following the split, she was "flirting with as many hot guys as she can right now, because she's trying to get the last few years of her life back."
Furthermore, the source said "she wants to find a good guy. He ( Justin) was just a little boy and she needs a man … she will go on a ton of dates and be happy and forget about Justin."
Well, Justin, as anyone who's been through a tough break up knows, it's a lot easier to say you'll move on and date other people, than to actually do it.
When you've been deeply in love like you and Selena were for two years, those feelings don't just evaporate instantly when you split. You clearly learned that, too. Flirting with Victoria's Secret models or going on a date with model and nursing student Milyn "Mimi" Jenson, didn't fill the hole in your heart, when you were really still hung up on Selena.
Well Justin, I don't know what you said exactly or promised Selena that made her finally give in and hop on a plane to fly 14 hours to Norway to see you.
But it must have been a big promise that you'd give her your devotion, commitment and a full-fledged effort to make your relationship work.
Timing Is Everything For You & Selena
You caught her at a good time. Selena was feeling lonely and missing you, following all the excitement of promoting her film Spring Breakers.
"She was hanging out with her girlfriends from the movie, now that has stopped and she is lonely," a source close to the pair told HollywoodLife.com exclusively.
So Justin, you were in touch with her when she had a vulnerable moment, and she caved to the feelings of love that she still had for you. We know Justin, that you were super happy, that Selena flew to be with you.
You tweeted one word on April 18, "smiling," and then on April 20, you instrammed and then removed a photo of the pair of you, nuzzling. But if you truly want to keep Selena now and grow your romance to the next level, you can't quickly get into the mode of taking her for granted again.
You need to treat her like a princess. Pull out all the romance stops – romantic dinners, flowers, jewelry, and most of all, your time.
Spend quiet and private time with Selena so you two can share your thoughts again.
We know that you considered Selena to be your best friend, one of the few people you could truly trust.
She is after all, one of the only young women in the world who can actually really understand and relate to what you have to do, to be Justin Bieber – the musician and star. And also Justin Bieber, the person.
Justin, Don't Take Advantage Of The Precious Time You Have
So give her time. Listen to her because she'll want to share her own thoughts, concerns and hopes with you.
Be romantic, and do not disrespect her by flirting with any other girls. "The second he says something rude to her," she's out, warns another source to Hollywoodlife.com.
In other words Justin – don't pull any star crap with Selena! She's there with you tentatively.
She gave into her feelings because she was lonely. But she's not 100% convinced that it's the right move. And she has spent a couple months dissing you, even on The Late Show.
So #1, it was smart that you NEVER publicly dissed her back and you also told your friends not to. You always kept the door open to lure your little 'honey bee' back. And you did it.
Now, don't ruin the reunion by disrespecting her or ignoring her. Think back to how you treated your precious Selena when you first got together, over two years ago, and get back in that love mode.
If you treat Selena right, you two have a chance of going the distance again for a long time! Do you agree HollywoodLifers? And are you glad that Justin and Selena are back together?
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Posted at 10:48 PM on May 2, 2013
if everyone would leave them alone they might very well stay together. i can't believe taylor swift and gang are wanting an intervention. who are they to decide what she should do. despite all they have had to say to her she disregarded their advice? and went to justin because she wanted to be with him.
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which can screw up is if selena see justin only as a friend Friend
nificant treat as a baby and not as her lover as her man
justin will want to stay with selena but also want sex with her
selena will have to give
if not justin going to look for somewhere a whore who has sex with him
Posted at 11:40 PM on April 22, 2013
really I wish they still together forever & make things good again I wished so much to see Justin Bieber treat Sel like the first he was so perfect with her the past 2 years so he can let his feeling to her again as I am sure he loves her really and totally and she loves him too so if they show their true love to each other it will the best ever really they so cute & amazing together wish them to be happy together forever and thx for this amazing article I loved it so much really amazing it speaks with every thing I wanted to tell but I couldn't so thanks for the writer of this it's really awesome
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I vote/Yes!! But if he treating her bed and acting like Playboy again and flirting with girls behind her if he heart her again I'm gonna kill him!!! We see how sad you was without her and you still love her and you have 1 more chance so please don't be Stupid!!!! Be careful with her!!!
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[9]SMS Scheduler allows users to schedule SMS/text messages to be sent automatically at a predefined date and time. An SMS can be sent to one or multiple recipients; and it can be scheduled to be sent only once or reoccur (every X minutes, hours, every day, every fortnight, every month, every year and more). You can schedule as many SMS as you want and can have multiple SMS scheduled at a time; you aren't limited to only one SMS at a time.
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[12]Created by an undergraduate student at the University of Cambridge, Android REDUCE is an algebraic calculator for Android. It is named Android REDUCE because it is based on the REDUCE algebra system. Android REDUCE provides all the standard math expressions and operations plus algebraic expressions and operations such as log, sin, cos, tan, square root, pi, limits, matrics, and more. Android REDUCE provides an on-screen history of operations you do, allowing you to not only view what you have done but also recall the operations by tapping on them.
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[15]Kids Word World: Education is an app that helps kids learn English words and their spellings. The words in this game aren't simply three-letter words; so it isn't intended for very small kids. Rather, with words like 'schedule' and 'preschool', this app is intended more for elementary to middle school aged kids. What happens in this app is you are shown an image and given a bunch of letters. You must form the word for the image being shown out of the group of letters you are given. Whenever you tap on a letter, the letter is read out to you. Then when you successfully spell the word, the letters are again read out to you and the word is pronounced, too.
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