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Girls, it's time to learn some self-defense! Have you found yourself in a situation where you felt like you were being followed or in danger? Always trust your gut.
Last December, I got the ja-hebbies scared out of me when I was Christmas shopping at the mall. I noticed this guy constantly staring at me. Sure, one time that you look up and meet eyes with someone is one thing, but it kept happening! I would walk over to another department and then sure enough he'd show up and stare at me. I finally went to the ladies bra area (just to be sure, I mean really what guy is going to follow you there?) Well, yes he showed up. I finally looked at him and STARED HIM DOWN! He walked away but it really did freak me out.
So, I saw this video of Jeff's daughter Danna. Man, she's got some awesome moves! Can you say "Bad Ass"? I think it's time I checked this thing out! Ha! Jeff got beat up by a girl!
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The Yamaha DTX532K electronic drum kit is perfect for anyone looking for a professional kit with versatility. It is ideal for home practice, with eight training functions to improve your timing, speed and musicality, and 37 practice songs to play along with. The 1MB flash memory lets you load your own drum sounds into the module for extra variety.
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- Snare: XP80
- Tom: TP70 x 2
- Floor Tom: TP70
- Bass Drum: KP65
- Hi-Hat: RHH135 + HS650A
- Crash Cymbal: PCY135
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- Weight: 610 g
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- Samples: 20 waves (maximum)
- Sample Data Bits: 16 bits
- Sampling Time * Mono/Stereo: 44.1kHz: 12 sec (mono)
- Sample formats: WAV, AIFF
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It was sunny and the sky was clear on the day President John F. Kennedy was shot, but there was one man standing along the motorcade route with a black umbrella over his head.
He stood near where the shots were fired, and numerous conspiracy theories sprang up around what the man was doing there with his umbrella.
Josiah Thompson, a young, Yale-educated man asked that the man come forward and explain himself, and the man went to Washington to testify.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris recently conducted a six-hour interview with Thompson about Kennedy's assassination and the person Thompson nicknamed "The Umbrella Man."
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Kucana v. Holder,
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AGRON KUCANA, PETITIONER v. ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., ATTORNEY GENERAL
on writ of certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the seventh circuit
[January 20, 2010]
Justice Alito, concurring in the judgment.
I agree that the Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the denial of petitioner's motion to reopen his removal proceeding, but I would decide this case on narrower grounds. The controlling statutory provision, 8 U. S. C. §1252(a)(2)(B)(ii), states that "no court shall have jurisdiction to review … any … decision … of the Attorney General … the authority for which is specified under this subchapter to be in the discretion of the Attorney General." (Emphasis added.) The phrase "under this subchapter" refers to Subchapter II of Chapter 12 of Title 8, 8 U. S. C. §§1151–1381, see ante, at 3, n. 3, and, as the Court notes, no provision of Subchapter II confers discretionary authority on the Attorney General to decide motions to reopen. See ante, at 7–8, 14–15. The Court of Appeals, however, held that the Attorney General's decision in this case was unreviewable because a regulation, 8 CFR §1003.2(a) (2009), made that decision discretionary.
If this regulation had been promulgated pursuant to authority conferred by a provision of Subchapter II, we would have to confront the question that the opinion of the Court addresses. But it seems clear that 8 CFR §1003.2, at least insofar as it gave the Attorney General the discretionary authority that he exercised in this case, is grounded on authority conferred under Subchapter I of Chapter 12 of Title 8, 8 U. S. C. §§1101–1107. See 8 U. S. C. §1103(a) (1994 ed.) (giving the Attorney General the authority to "establish such regulations … as he deems necessary for carrying out his authority under [Chapter 12 of Title 8 of the U. S. Code]").
The amicus curiae whom we appointed to defend the decision of the Court of Appeals has attempted to link 8 CFR §1003.2 to Subchapter II. She notes that the Attorney General, in promulgating that regulation, cited not only 8 U. S. C. §1103(a), but also a provision of Subchapter II, 8 U. S. C. §1252b (1994 ed.). See 61 Fed. Reg. 18900, 18904 (1996).[Footnote 1] This latter statutory provision[Footnote 2] conferred the authority to reopen a narrow set of deportation orders, i.e., those issued after the alien failed to appear at the deportation hearing. Although this statutory provision does not apply to petitioner's motion to reopen, amicus argues that "the section's brief allusion to motions to reopen clearly presupposed that the Attorney General had in place a more general procedure for reviewing all motions to reopen removal proceedings." Brief for Court-Appointed Amicus Curiae in Support of Judgment Below 41–42.
Amicus' argument is ingenious but ultimately unpersuasive. At most, 8 U. S. C. §1252b (1994 ed.) may be read as implicitly authorizing the promulgation of a regulation giving the Attorney General the discretion to reopen certain deportation orders that were issued in absentia. Petitioner's second motion to reopen, however, seeks reopening on grounds outside of §1252b, and therefore 8 CFR §1003.2, insofar as it applies to petitioner's case, was not issued pursuant to Subchapter II and does not implement any provision of that Subchapter.
For these reasons, this case can and should be decided on the narrow ground that, even if some regulations can render a decision of the Attorney General unreviewable, the regulation at issue in this case does not have that effect.
Two other provisions in Subchapter II refer to motions to reopen, but both were enacted after the implementation of 8 CFR §1003.2 (2009), and therefore that regulation cannot be said to implement these provisions. See ante 7, n. 9. Title 8 U. S. C. §1229a(c)(7), which addresses the procedural requirements for filing such a motion, and §1252(b)(6), which requires consolidation of a motion to reopen with the underlying removal order, were enacted as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) in September 1996 and made effective in April 1997. See 110 Stat. 3009–593, 3009–609. Prior to that time, the consolidation provision was found in Subchapter I. See 8 U. S. C. §1105(a)(6) (1994 ed.).Footnote 2
This provision conferred the authority to rescind a deportation order "upon a motion to reopen filed within 180 days after the date of the order of deportation if the alien demonstrates that the failure to appear was because of exceptional circumstances … or upon a motion to reopen filed at any time if the alien demonstrates that the alien did not receive notice … or the alien demonstrates that the alien was in Federal or State custody and did not appear through no fault of the alien." 8 U. S. C. §1252b(c)(3) (1994 ed.).
A similar provision, enacted as part of IIRIRA, is now contained in 8 U. S. C. §1229a(b)(5)(C) (2006 ed.). As the Government notes, this provision does not apply in this case because petitioner challenges the denial of his second motion to reopen, which the parties agree is governed by §1229a(c)(7). Brief for Respondent 21, n. 13; id., at 6, n. 4.


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Taipei, Taiwan - The SBC86836 industrial-grade Mini ITX motherboard from AXIOMTEK features the ultra low power 45nm Intel Atom processor N270 at 1.6GHz and the Mobile Intel 945GSE Express chipset.
The Intel GMA 950 graphics engine is built into the chipset to provide faster graphics performance and flexible display options without the need for a separate graphics card.
The small footprint of 170 x 170 mm and low power consumption facilitate design of extremely slim embedded applications, such as in-vehicle infotainment, car PC, medical healthcare, POS, lottery machine, gaming, and kiosk.
The Intel Atom processor N270 has a 533MHz FSB and, combined with the highly-integrated Intel 945GSE Express chipset, offers high computing performance at extremely low power consumption. One DIMM socket supports up to 2 GB DDR2 400/533 SDRAM for high memory bandwidth.
The Intel GMA 950, by sharing the system memory, enables the SBC86836 to offer optimum 3D performance with a maximum video memory of up to 224MB. Displays can be connected via the onboard CRT (2048 x 1536) and LVDS with single/dual channel (1600 x 1200).
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The new motherboard supports eight USB 2.0 and six COM ports, DualView display, one 32-bit PCI expansion slot, Dual Gigabit Ethernet and AC'97 codec audio. The SBC86836 is suitable for high-resolution display solutions like gaming, POS, DSA, and medical health care.
The chipset consists of Intel I/O Controller Hub 7-M (Intel ICH7-M), which supports flexible I/O connectivity including one PCI slot for 2 Bus master 32-bit expansion; two SATA-150 interfaces; six powered COM ports (1 x RS-232/422/485 & 5 x RS-232); eight Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports; dual Gigabit LAN controllers; PS/2 ports, digital I/O; and audio. In addition, one CompactFlash Type II socket is available.
The Atom Mini ITX motherboard SBC86836 is RoHS compliant and will be available mid-February, 2009. For more information or specifications, go to www.axiomtek.com.


text: I received a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker for Christmas. Made my first batch -- strawberry lavender ice cream. Anyone have a favorite recipe they'd like to share as I experiment and learn how to make more ice creams and sorbets? Although I love all kinds of ice cream and sorbets, I suppose I'm partial to making ice creams that aren't easily bought in stores. Lemon verbena, cantaloupe sorbet, plum armagnac, and so on.


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We know this goes against what Oprah preaches every day, but Jalen Rose shouldn't listen too closely to his feelings.
The veteran Raptor had said on Tuesday he had a feeling his team was going to beat the Chicago Bulls last night. But that feeling was not backed up by fact, as the Bulls rocked the Raptors 94-85 before a crowd of 16,974 at the Air Canada Centre.
Rose's words had fallen far short of a solid guarantee, but he flashed a little fire last night when it was suggested his comments might have motivated the Bulls.
"I don't give a damn," Rose said. "That's fake. If they need me to motivate them, they're going to get bounced in the first round (of the playoffs)."
The Bulls and Raptors have met six times since the big three-for-three trade on Dec. 1, 2003 that brought Rose and Donyell Marshall to Toronto and sent Antonio Davis to Chicago. The Raptors are 0-6.
"It's ironic that's the team we have the longest losing streak against," Rose said. "It was good execution by them and a horrible display by our team."
Last night wasn't Rose's fault personally, though. He was a monster again for the Raptors, scoring a game-high 30 points.
Rafer Alston had 15 points and Matt Bonner chipped in with 14 for Toronto, but Chris Bosh -- who turns 21 today but whose bruised lower back still clearly is bothering him -- scored only nine points.
Marshall left the game in the fourth quarter because of a stiff lower back. He had scored only three points in 15 minutes and after the game he was obviously stiff and sore as he hobbled around the locker room.
As a team, the Raptors shot 31.8% from the field. Rose was 8-for-22 and Alston was 6-for-21, but Raptors coach Sam Mitchell strongly defended that pair.
"Sometimes they had to shoot the ball," Mitchell said. "We had other guys who were tentative and not looking at the basket. If other guys aren't going to take shots when they're open, what are (Rose and Alston) supposed to do, hold it for (shot-clock) violations?"
Five Bulls scored in double figures, led by Eddy Curry with 16 points. Davis had 12 points and five rebounds.
"That's Jalen, it's no big deal," Davis said when asked about Rose's comments from Tuesday. "I don't think anyone took offence to it. We mentioned it in our (pre-game) meeting and everyone kind of chuckled."
Raptors centre Loren Woods started for the second game in a row, amassing three points and five rebounds in 17 minutes. Mitchell said Woods and Rafael Araujo would "flip-flop" as the starter for the rest of the season, the hope being it doesn't turn into a "flop-flop."
Araujo had two points and one rebound in four minutes last night as the Raptors missed 18 of their first 20 shots.
Bulls starting point guard Kirk Hinrich was scratched just before the game (strained left hamstring).


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My daughter just returned from two weeks in Burma, and I thought her notes might be useful to others. She is the same daughter who, a few years ago, made good use of her study abroad in Singapore, covering much of the region on weekend backpack trips, and later spent half a year traveling solo through Europe and Asia. I took her with me to India in June for a wedding, so I was rather miffed when she didn't invite me along on this trip.
(only kidding...I think...
Her boyfriend was outside of Bangkok on a business trip, so she flew over to meet up with him in the middle of July. She had about 3 days to kick around Bangkok while he finished his work. She spent part of that time at Nira's hostel, and then they had a few days together at the Bangkok JW Marriott on his company's dime.
After his work was finished, they had two+ weeks to travel. They were hoping to go to Burma, but hadn't made any reservations as they were going to have to try for visas in person at the embassy in Bangkok.
One thing my daughter said was that anyone doing this should go online and check the latest rules before going to the embassy. They wanted a same day visa (as opposed to the regular 3-day process). To get this, they needed to have their air ticket to Burma purchased and in hand. They bought tickets to Yangon and back on Air Asia on Thursday afternoon, then went to the embassy early on Friday morning.
They arrived at the embassy at about 8 am. When it opened, they got their forms, then walked down the block to a copy shop that seems to exist soley for the Burmese visa crowd. They had sample forms with detailed instructions, and they can make the visa photos there. The staff know exactly what you need in the way of copies. They said the rules change every couple of months. Some of the changes involve things like which forms need the photos glued and which should be paper-clipped, so it saved them a lot of confusion!
After completing the packet, DD and BF went back to the embassy at about 9 am and waited in a short line to submit the passports and papers, along with the $30 fee for a same day visa. They were told to come back at 3:30 to pick them up.
She said the line was not long, and she didn't see anyone get turned away. It is low season in July, so this may not hold true at all times. She saw several men who looked to be agents. They had stacks of passports and the forms all ready.
They came back at their assigned time, waited a little while for their number to be called, and were given the passports with the visas. They flew to Yangon at 6 am the next morning on Air Asia.
When they arrived in Yangon, they were worried about having no air or hotel reservations, so went to "Good News Travel" an agency that was highly recommended in their Lonely Planet guide.
They were very impressed with this agency and the young man who seemed to be running it (William?) He helped them decide how to split their time between Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay and and Inle Lake, and the order in which to fly to them without having to backtrack through Yangon. Apparently the planes fly the same circuit each day, so you want to go in that direction. They paid about $300 per person for the Yangon-Bagan-Mandalay- He Ho-Yangon flights.
They discussed hotels, but since these were all budget places, he gave them his phone and helped them call the hotels directly. (He said they'd get a better price that way). They were very happy with his service and recommendations. While there, they emailed Min Thu to see if he could be their guide in Bagan. Surprisingly he was available fro two days and his brother Jaw Shewe (SP?) for one day.
They tried to get a room at the Three Seasons, but it was full, so they stayed at the Ocean Pearl for their first night in Yangon. It was $25 per night, and "okay". They had a private room with a bath.
When they returned at the end of their two weeks, they stayed at Motherland 2. It was a bit far from the center of town, but had a good breakfast and free shuttle to the airport . They had a private room with a shred bath for $23.
In Bagan,They stayed at the Bagan Princess for $40/night. The room was "very comfy" and they had great breakfasts there.
Like others who have posted here, they loved Min Thu. He was very thoughtful, had lots of good info ("And now, I will tell you about..."), and drove his cart very carefully. At the end of each day, he'd give them little handwritten notes and sketches of the places they'd seen. On their last day, he took them to his village, and then to his parents home for tea. They just adored him.
His brother has a very nice car, so they used him to go to Mt Popa. This brother was more "tour guide" than sweet friend, but they also were very happy to go with him.
In Mandalay, they stayed at the Royal City Hotel for $25/night. It was simple, but nice in a good location with very good breakfasts.
From He Ho they went to Nuang Shwe (sp?) and stayed at the Mingalar Inn. They said the owner is really sweet, and they served wonderful breakfasts. The room nice and $23/night. There was no AC, but as it was not nearly so hot as the other cities, it wasn't an issue.
The Inn arranged a boat for their sightseeing. It cost 15,000 for the 7:30 am to 1 pm trip, but they actually were out till 4:30 and they weren't asked for any more money, though she said they tipped the guy extra.
They had a great time in all the places, and of course wished they had a lot more time to visit. The weather was very hot, and it would rain a bit each afternoon, but it was not miserable.
They liked the fact that they saw very few tourists at any of the temples, and the hotels all seemed happy for their business. They felt sure they could have easily just shown up with no reservations at any of the hotels and even at the airports, but for a first visit, they were happy to have taken care of that in Yangon.
They didn't buy alot. my daughter got a tee shirt from the Jumping cat monastery, a lotus fiber scarf, and a few other small items. BF bought his parents a nice piece of lacquerware.
Oh...Getting money is no longer a problem. All the money changers charge essentially the same amount now, 860-880 per to the dollar, and there are lots of them. The airport was slightly lower, as was the owner of a small shop in Mandalay (he said it was difficult for him to exchange dollars). Everyone still wants unblemished $100 bills.
Anyway, I hope this helps. Since I have been trying to get to Burma for years, I intend to use some of the info myself...soon!
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Last Minute Burma, on a Budget
My daughter just returned from two weeks in Burma, and I thought her notes might be useful to others. She is the same daughter who, a few years ago, made good use of her study abroad in Singapore, covering much of the region on weekend backpack trips, and later spent half a year traveling solo through Europe and Asia. I took her with me to India in June for a wedding, so I was rather miffed when she didn't invite me along on this trip.
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Great report Lucy. Hope you get there soon...
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Thanks for posting your daughter's notes. In a way, she did "time travel" as this is the way people used to visit Burma with no advance reservations on a budget. She was very fortunate to do this during off season, as since Nov 2011, during high season, budget places are running full and there were those who slept literally in closets or guest house lobbies or on the tables in tea shops!
I'm so glad they were able to get Min Thu! He is a treat.
I hope you will be able to get to Burma soon. Even though the tourist numbers are vastly increased now, the number of visitors to Burma is still miniscule in comparison to other SE ASia countries!
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How delightful that your well -traveled daughter's experience can guide you as you plan your own trip, Lucy. Thanks for sharing this with the rest of us as well. I enjoyed reading this post and have taken note of a number of things that will be helpful.
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Thanks lcuy! Great report.
I got my visa in person at the embassy back in 2004, but it was December, and I had a very long wait, not helped by the agents with their stacks of passports. Sounds like the process is a lot more complicated now.
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Sounds like they had a wonderful trip with everything falling into place! So great when one can do a trip like theirs pretty spontaneously! How lucky for her and her bf. And for you--and us to have the benefit of her experience. (I've read good things about the Mingalar Inn in Naung Shwe.)
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Thanks for posting this. I'm not going, but my Mom is, in January so I'll make sure she checks it out.
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get real dumbass...since he became a starter, what game has he played well in lin's absence? he's garbage..
i didnt know baron was suppose to grab all those rebounds off anderson had gotten.
Berman's going nuts on JR...
@Marc_Berman: It's not that this is anything new but J.R. Smith is as big a punk as there is in the NBA and it's a shame Landry Fields was not in game.
this aint looking good with our next 3 games being @orlando, vs chicago and @chicago while the bucks have 5 home games in a row and the 3 first are against cavs, bobcats and portland.
And also, Woodson did a pretty bad job today. There's no denying he has a problem with fields. Fields was playing pretty well today, SUB HIM IN IN THE FOURTH.If Woodson does that again, he will be seeing some mad hate from me.
just wondering if there is a pg in the d-league or something that we can pick up or something who can do a better job than bibby and douglas of the bench. or is that too late now or what? anyone with any comments or names or whatever to that?


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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Stock-car champion Dean Roper died when a blood clot in a coronary artery caused his heart to stop during a dirt-track race Sunday at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, officials said Monday.
The death of Roper, 62, who had a history of heart trouble, came 10 months after his son, Tony, died in a NASCAR truck-series race in Texas.
Dean Roper crashed his Ford Taurus into an inside retaining wall on the front straightaway during Lap 17 of the 100-lap ARCA event at the fairgrounds.
"The autopsy found no bruises, no breaks, nothing. Absolutely no injuries at all," said Susan Boone, Sangamon County coroner. "The accident did not cause his death.


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I went to church today. It was Easter so I decided why not. I'm labeled an Atheist by society because technically I don't believe in a higher power. It's more or less still unproven. I have a lot of questions regarding religion and I've never met a person who could really answer my questions.
I don't get my hopes up when it comes to religion like it's going to be some amazing, life changing event in my life. Why? Because human beings run religion and human beings ruin everything. Religion is no different. The church I attended today was heavily commercialized. There were hoards of people wandering in; some dressed highly inappropriate for an Easter service. I saw young females in tight mini-skirts, kids barefoot, women wearing belly shirts and men practically still wearing their pajamas.
Once inside there was two huge tables for free coffee and small shops off to the right so people could buy all sorts of stuff. While I was gazing in my disbelief, I was rudely bumped into my some guy who didn't even bother to turn around and say "excuse me" or "I'm sorry".
Further inside the auditorium where the service was actually being held, the noise was so loud I could barely hear myself think. Then, of course, what Easter service wouldn't be complete without a full-on rock concert, right? I read somewhere in the Bible about being humble in the presences of God and then that one story where those dudes were trying to sell a bunch of stuff in the Temple and Jesus freaked out and tossed a few tables exclaiming religion isn't about profits and money. Hey, I'm an Atheist. What do I know.
The problem is when something (like a certain brand of religion) gets too large it becomes disorganized and unmanageable and then your product is reduced in quality. Wal-Mart is a good example of this and so is the Christian religion. It has become too large therefore it starts to drift from it's original meaning and message.
Sadly, I was not impressed by the super-church I visited today. I feel as though the quality of people within the walls of the church or too commercialized and don't really understand the true meaning of why they're there. Hey, let's rock out and take selfies and carrying around our designer Starbucks coffee cups right before service. What happened to dressing conservatively, walking in quietly, sitting down and listening to the Pastor?
We've simply outgrown ourselves.


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- The Financial Stability Oversight Council on Tuesday released Proposed Recommendations Regarding Money Market Mutual Fund Reform (Nov. 2012). The proposed recommendations were issued under Section 120 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which authorizes FSOC to determine that a financial activity or practice could create or increase the risk of significant liquidity, credit, or other problems and to issue recommendations for more stringent regulation to the primary financial regulatory agency; the primary regulatory agency in this case would be the Securities and Exchange Commission. FSOC proposes to determine that money market funds' activities and practices could create or increase these risks and to recommend three alternative reforms to money market funds. These reforms could be adopted in the alternative, in which case a money market fund could choose which reform applied to it. FSOC also requests comments on other possible reforms, including liquidity fees and gates.
FSOC is fairly candid in acknowledging the destructive impact these recommendations would have on the money market fund industry. It believes that the activities and practices of money market funds that have made them appealing to investors also contribute to their vulnerability to runs, and that reforms that would provide meaningful mitigation of the risks posed by money market funds would likely reduce their appeal to investors by altering one or more of their attractive features.
Floating Net Asset Value
This reform would require money market funds to value their portfolios as other mutual funds do, without using amortized cost or penny rounding. Each money market fund would re-price its shares to $100.00 per share, in order to be more sensitive to fluctuations in the fund's net asset value per share. In addition, this reform would involve the rescission of Rule 22e-3, which allows a money market fund to suspend redemptions and begin an orderly liquidation if the fund has broken or is about to break the buck, and Rule 17a-9, which allows affiliates of a money market fund to purchase portfolio securities from the fund in order to support the fund's stable price per share. The recommendations do not address whether the SEC would be able to issue no-action letters allowing sponsor support of money market funds, although FSOC seems to think that all forms of sponsor support would be unnecessary. Existing money market funds could be grandfathered and allowed to maintain a stable NAV for a phase-out period, potentially lasting five years.
The recommendations acknowledge that floating-NAV money market funds still would be vulnerable to runs, particularly if they continue to be used as a cash management product. They also acknowledge that moving to a floating NAV may cause the money market fund industry's assets under management to contract, which would diminish the funds' capacity to invest in the short-term securities of financial institutions, businesses, and governments, and that if the transition to the floating NAV prompted investors to redeem suddenly and substantially, the transition itself could create financial instability.
NAV Buffer and Minimum Balance at Risk
A second reform alternative would require that money market funds (other than Treasury funds, which would be exempt) (i) maintain an NAV buffer, which would be a tailored amount of assets in excess of those needed for a fund to maintain its $1.00 share price and which would absorb day-to-day fluctuations in the value of the fund's portfolio securities, and (ii) apply a minimum balance at risk requirement to shareholders. The NAV buffer would be calculated as follows: no buffer requirement for cash, Treasury securities, and Treasury repos; a 0.75% buffer requirement for other daily liquid assets (or for weekly liquid assets, in the case of tax-exempt funds); and a 1.00% buffer requirement for all other assets. To fund the buffer, a money market fund sponsor could contribute assets to an escrow account pledged to support the fund's NAV; a fund could issue a class of subordinated, nonredeemable equity securities that would absorb first losses in the fund's portfolio and that could be sold to third parties or purchased by a fund's sponsor or affiliates; or a fund could retain some earnings it otherwise would distribute to shareholders. FSOC notes that the second and third options would require the SEC to amend Rule 2a-7 to allow funds to maintain a $1.00 NAV even when the value of the fund's assets is above $1.00. Half the buffer would be required to be in place one year after the effective date of any rule, and the full required buffer in two years after the effective date.
The NAV buffer would be coupled with a requirement that 3% of any shareholder's highest account value in excess of $100,000 during the previous 30 days (the shareholder's minimum balance at risk, or MBR) be available for redemption only with a 30-day delay. The MBR requirement would apply to each record holder, including financial intermediaries, unless the intermediaries provide the fund sufficient information to apply the requirement to the intermediaries' individual customers directly. If an investor with an MBR chose to redeem all (or nearly all) its shares, the fund would be required to delay redemption of the MBR for 30 days, during which time the MBR would be subordinated to other investors. In addition, a portion of an investor's MBR could be subordinated if the investor had made net redemptions in excess of $100,000 during the prior 30 days, with the extent of subordination approximately proportionate to the shareholder's cumulative net redemptions during the prior 30 days. In the event that a fund suffered losses in excess of its NAV buffer, losses would first be absorbed by the subordinated portions of shareholders' minimum balances at risk, then by the remaining portions of investors' minimum balances at risk, and only then allocated proportionally among the remaining shares in the fund. Money market funds would be required to file as exhibits to their registration statements plans of liquidation providing for the liquidation of their assets in accordance with these priorities.
The recommendations again acknowledge that this alternative would make money market funds less appealing to investors in a number of respects, and that these considerations could reduce the size and assets of the money market fund industry as funds exit the market to avoid the NAV buffer and MBR requirements or as investors choose other investment vehicles.
NAV Buffer and Other Measures
The third reform alternative would incorporate a larger NAV buffer requirement with several additional measures. There would be no buffer requirement for cash, Treasury securities, and Treasury repos; a 2.25% buffer requirement for other daily liquid assets (or for weekly liquid assets, in the case of tax-exempt funds); and a 3.00% buffer requirement for all other assets. Treasury funds again would be exempt from the requirement. The NAV buffer requirement would be phased in over a multi-year transition period, with one-sixth of the total amount effective after one year and one-third of the total amount effective after two years.
This alternative also contemplates several complementary additional measures. First, the existing diversification requirement, which requires that most money market funds limit their exposure to a single issuer to 5% of their assets, could be strengthened by reducing the 5% limitation by some unspecified amount and by extending the limit to cover an issuer's affiliates. Second, the minimum liquidity levels could be increased by raising the required level of daily liquidity from the current level of 10% to 20%, and the minimum weekly liquidity requirement from the current level of 30% to 40%. Tax-exempt funds would remain exempt from the daily liquidity requirement. Third, the level or frequency of required disclosures of portfolio holdings could be enhanced and the current delay before public disclosure could be reduced or eliminated.
The recommendations acknowledge that this reform option, and particularly the larger NAV buffer, would likely impose additional costs on money market funds or the sponsors who would need to raise the capital. However, this alternative apparently is seen as being less harmful to the money market fund industry than the other two reform alternatives, which have more emphatic discussion of the negative effects on the industry's assets under management.
Comments on the proposed recommendations will be due 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. FSOC will then consider the comments and may issue a final recommendation to the SEC. The SEC then is required by the Dodd-Frank Act to impose the recommended standards, or similar standards that FSOC deems acceptable, or explain in writing to FSOC within 90 days why it has determined not to follow the recommendation. If the SEC accepts the FSOC recommendation, FSOC expects that the SEC would implement the recommendation through a rulemaking, subject to public comment, that would consider the economic consequences of the implementing rule as informed by the SEC staff's own economic study and analysis.
Now, the striking thing about that process is its complete impossibility. It is beyond the bounds of plausibility that the SEC could conduct an economic study and analysis, write and issue a rulemaking proposal, receive and analyze public comments, and write and adopt final rules, all within 90 days. However, FSOC also states that if the SEC moves forward with meaningful structural reforms of money market funds before FSOC completes its Section 120 process, FSOC expects that it would not issue a final Section 120 recommendation to the SEC. Renewed attention by the SEC, apparently, is the option that FSOC considers most promising. It is possible that FSOC also hopes that the rather onerous nature of some of its reform options would make an SEC reform more appealing to the industry.
The FSOC press release, with a link to the proposed recommendations, is available at
For my post on Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's September letter preliminarily outlining the options now proposed by FSOC, see
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Defending state champion Oceanside softball outlasts pesky Camden HillsBrooke Dugan's bat, Tyler's arm help key Mariners to season-opening victory
Thomaston — The defending state Class B champion Oceanside softball team was embroiled in a nip-and-tuck, competitive, one-run, season-opening affair with Midcoast rival Camden Hills on Wednesday afternoon, April 23 when the complexion of the contest changed with one swing of Mariner Brooke Dugan's powerful bat.
In a tight affair, the Mariners led 4-3 in the bottom of the sixth inning when Brooke Dugan, who powered several balls over the fence last year in a stellar all-around campaign, belted a ball over the center fielder's head and cruised around the bases behind two of her teammates with a three-run home run to give the hosts breathing room.
Brooke Dugan, a senior, finished her first day of diamond work with a single, double, four runs batted in and three runs to help spearhead the Mariners to a 7-3 victory.
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The contest, played in high-50s temperatures and occasional light rain, was at Thomaston Grammar School because the Mariners' home field next to Oceanside West Middle School was not playable by the 1 p.m. game start.
Oceanside's Paige Tyler (4 hits, 6 walks, 8 strikeouts) and Camden Hills' Hannah Corney (10 hits, walk, 4 strikeouts) worked in the pitching circle for their respective teams. Tyler earned the victory.
Keying the offense for the Mariners (1-0) were Trittany Penn (2 singles, stolen base, 2 runs), Brooke Dugan (single, double, home run, 3 runs, stolen base, 4 RBIs), Alexis Davis (single, double, run, RBI), Kayln Grover (double) and Brianna Dugan (single, double, run). The Dugans are sisters.
"Brooke Dugan picked right up where she left off last season leading us at the plate with three hits and a huge blast in the sixth inning to push us to victory with a three-run home run over the center fielder's head," said Oceanside coach Rusty Worcester.
For the Windjammers (0-1), Juliana Haynes (single), Bekah Hilt (single), Corney (single, run, 2 stolen bases), Marissa Libby (run, steal) and Hannah Bode (single, run) led the charge.
There were several strong defensive plays by both teams, with perhaps the best being Windjammer third baseman Maddie Bowman, who made a stellar play in the infield.
The Mariners took a 2-0 lead in the first inning as Penn led with a single, stole second and moved to third on a passed ball. She scored on Brooke Dugan's single. Brooke Dugan stole second and moved to third on passed ball. She crossed the plate on Davis' two-out single.
Camden Hills knotted the game with two runs in the second inning, as the Windjammers took advantage of walks. Corney walked and stole second and third, before she crossed the plate. Libby also walked and stole second and moved to third on a passed ball. She also scored. Bode had a single in the inning as the Windjammers sent eight batters to the plate and drew four free passes in the stanza.
The Windjammers threatened in the third inning as Hilt and Corney had hits, and Libby walked, but Tyler escaped further trouble.
"Paige Tyler gutted it out today. She recently had a displaced hip that was pinching a nerve, she got it realigned and was cleared to play today and she worked on her control and was able to finish strong in today's performance," said Worcester. "She struggled early but didn't walk a batter after the fourth inning and was able to command her change-up in the end very well."
Oceanside took a 3-2 cushion in the third stanza as Brooke Dugan doubled with one out and scored on an outfield error.
Camden Hills tied the game 3-3 in the fourth stanza as Bode reached on an error and eventually scored.
The Mariners grabbed a 4-3 advantage in the fifth inning as Davis ripped a two-out double and scored on Grover's double.
"We played good defense, we only committed one error on the day," said Worcester. "We will continue to work at our game, but I was pleased with our performance today."
While Tyler recovered from early wildness to set down the Windjammers in order in the fifth through seventh innings, the Mariners added three insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth, as Brianna Dugan walked with out, Penn singled and Dugan smacked her three-run home run to center field with two outs.
"I felt like I barely even hit it and it kept going," said Brooke Dugan. "Then I thought, 'Oh, God, I hope [the outfielder] doesn't catch it. I just kept running … I was looking at coach [Worcester at third base] and he is telling me to go and I just kept running."
Brooke Dugan said it is a lot easier to see one of her batted balls sail over the fence for a home run because then she can relax and trot around the bases. When it goes over a fielder's head, like on Wednesday, then it is a race around the bases.
"It feels good to win the first [official] game of the season," she said, as the team lost all of its preseason games this spring. "It felt good. We are finally coming together."


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Milk & Cookies
Antonis Achilleos
Milk & Cookies by Tina Casaceli
Milk & Cookies
From Tina Casaceli's Milk & Cookies: 89 Heirloom Recipes from New York's Milk & Cookies Bakery (Chronicle Books), these chewy, fudgy bars are the pinnacle of brownie achievement. "The secret is in the flour/egg ratio," says Casaceli, noting the relatively small amount of flour — only 3/4 cup — used in the recipe. She also emphasizes the importance of using good-quality chocolate, as the brownies "require a deep chocolate flavor." Try them on your grandchildren, and see if they're not impressed with your attention to detail.
1 1/2 pounds bittersweet chocolate, chopped into chunks
1 cup plus 1 1/2 tablespoons (9 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
5 large eggs, at room temperature
1 1/2 cups (10 1/2 ounces) sugar
1/2 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup (3 1/4 ounces) all-purpose flour, sifted
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Lightly coat a large jelly-roll pan with nonstick vegetable spray. Lay a piece of parchment paper into the pan, taking care that it fits neatly at the sides and corners. Set aside.
3. Combine the chocolate with the butter in the top of a double boiler over simmering water. Heat, stirring frequently, for about 5 minutes, or until the chocolate and butter have melted and blended together. Remove from the heat and set aside.
4. Place the eggs in the bowl of a standing electric mixer fitted with the whisk. Beat on low speed to combine. Increase the speed and beat for 1 minute. With the motor running, slowly add the sugar and beat until the mixture forms a soft ribbon when lifted from the bowl with a spoon.
5. Reduce the speed to medium and, with the motor running, beat in the chocolate mixture along with the vanilla to combine.
6. Add the flour and beat just to combine.
7. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and place in the oven. Bake for about 30 minutes, or until the edge begins to pull away from the side of the pan and a cake tester inserted into the center comes out clean.
8. Remove from the oven and set the pan on a wire rack to cool.
9. When cool, use a serrated knife to cut the brownies into 2 1/2-inch squares.
10. Store, airtight, at room temperature for up to a week.
Makes 16 to 24 brownies
Excerpted from Milk & Cookies © 2011 by Tina Casaceli. Reprinted with permission of Chronicle Books. Photographs by Antonis Achilleos.
Good catch, MiJul. The comment should read "bittersweet." I'll fix it right now. -Kris, Food Editor
I hate to sound stupid, but in the comments she says "semi sweet" chocolate, and in the ingredients, she says "bitter sweet" chocolate. Aren't they two different things?
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It's his biggest play since the Los Angeles Scorers beat the Cincinnati Crazies in the final of the US Supreme World Series soccer finals earlier this year, but David Beckham is certain he will put in his best ever performance in the big showdown between the mighty Sloppy Giuseppe's of AC Milan and the Scottish team, Manchester United, tonight.
'I'm ready to give it my best shot' announced an upbeat Beckham. 'United are my old team so I'm looking forward to showing them what they're missing nowadays.'
So is Beckham looking forward to shooting some 40 yard scores from outside the penalty zone? 'Sure I am, if the gaffer, Leonardo gives me a chance on the pitch. But in the meantime I'll be trying my hardest to get as much camera time as possible on the bench by stroking my beard as if appearing to be deep in thought and looking a little bit moody. Occasionally I might break into a cheeky smile if the United fans sing one of their really funny songs. Perhaps I'll get off the bench and jog up and down the sideline clapping and waving when they see me. I'll then do one of my stretches and look up and grin some more when there's a camera close to me. Then I'll go and sit back down again, pick up a bottle of water and swig it, and lift up my shirt to wipe my face revealing my toned six-pack.'
Beckham also hopes that Great Britain soccer coach, Fabio Capello, will be watching and will be impressed by his performance in preparation for the upcoming World Cup tournament in early fall.
'Fabio is a big fan of being caught on camera, pulling faces and shouting things in English that sound Italian so no one knows what he's actually saying. If I put in a good performance on the bench tonight then I'll be guaranteed a place on the bench in the World Cup, right next to Fabio. The camera will never be off us'
You can see highlights of the game tonight at 22.30 Eastern Seaboard time, 19.30 Western Coastal time on Fox Sports Extreme right after the live World Series College Cheerleading finals from Starksville Tenesse.


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Ok, I have been using epo-grip on the facial areas of my whitetails and love it there. A few times I have tried it on the full form and hate it only for the reason that I can not get the cape to slide around on this stuff. How do you guys taxi a skin over this stuff?
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I cover the entire mannikin and use an upholstery tool. If your hide is aligned to start with, there really shouldn't be that much taxiing to be done anyway, but if you need it, it slides like any other paste.


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On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 01:41:24PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > The primary reason for this is that the existing messages were sent to > > > debian-private with an expectation of privacy. > > As Matthew pointed out in [0] this expectation of privacy isn't really > > that strong, fundamentally because -private is open to anyone who joins > > Debian, and Debian's open to anyone joining it. > But even taking into account anybody being theoretically able to join > Debian, a -private post being readable in tha archive is still a huge > difference to the same post being available via google and other search > tools. This kind of brings to mind the opening chapter of the HHGTTG, where the plans on "public display" were in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory in attic with no stairs or lights, with a sign saying "beware of the leopard", and a policy that no one should ever tell you about the plans in advance. The reason it brings that to mind is that if you're letting anyone access stuff, but possibly requiring them to go to some trouble to do so, then that's not actually that different from a pre-internet concept of "public availability". Right now, getting some of the more detailed breakdowns from the Australian Bureau of Statistics will easily cost you as your time going through n-m is probably worth, eg. Don't get me wrong, there's a real difference between having -private accessible to anyone as long as they go through n-m, just as there's a difference between ABS stats being available free or not. And you can certainly expect the less available info to be substantially more exclusive in both cases. But that's not enough to give you a pass for privacy concerns -- certainly in the ABS case, you don't want the for pay information to include private information of individual citizens any more than you want that in the free information. As far as I can see, similar reasoning applies for -private: sure, less people will see it, and maybe they'll be nicer people, just like you might hope that it'll mostly be university statisticians not organised criminals looking to steal identities or nosy neighbours looking for gossip buying data from the ABS. Basically, that's a "security by obscurity" approach -- things stay private as long as no one goes to the effort of snooping. And I mean, that's okay -- I'm not trying to argue -private should be done away in favour of purely public lists -- I'm just trying to get the point across that the idea that -private is a good place for secrets that shouldn't see the light of day already doesn't match reality. (As you might guess, I've been thinking about making -private less of a dark underbelly for Debian for a while already, and I hadn't thought the above through until writing it just now; so I'm not trying to say that the above's the final word or anything, just that, IMHO, there's more to this beyond the simple public/secret dichotomy) Cheers, aj
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Clash planned at anti-gay marriage rally tonight
An anti-gay marriage rally in Perth is set to be gate-crashed by LGBT rights campaigners tonight
An anti-gay marriage rally planned by the Australia Family Association in Perth tonight is set to be challenged by up to 100 students standing up for gay rights.
The organiser of the counter-rally Sam Cavallaro told The West Australian:
'We want to stand up for our rights and against homophobia. We need to show [Margaret] Court and [Prime Minister Julia] Gillard that that are isolated in their views and put pressure on the government to change the law.'
The rally is being held at former tennis player Margaret Court's Victory Life Centre, a church where she is pastor. On a blog on the church's website in February, Court said:
'I believe that a person's sexuality is a choice. In the Bible it said that homosexuality is among sins that are works of the flesh. It is not something you are born with. My concern is that we are advocating to young people that it is OK to have these feelings.'
These views caused fellow tennis legend Martina Navratilova to comment that to believe homosexuality is a choice, Court must have felt attracted to women and decided not to act on those impulses.
Court views caused a floury of controversy at the Australian Open tennis competition earlier this year when LGBT rights campaigners called for a tennis court named in her honour to be renamed.
For tonight's counter-rally, LGBT rights campaigners will meet at Perth's Glendalough train station at 5.30pm this afternoon (Tuesday 24 April) and march from there to the Victory Life Centre as gay-marriage opponents arrive at the church.


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League of Legends Guide
League of Legends 101 (Champion Roles)written by Vystic
Table of Contents
|Roles(What are They?)
|Why This Order
Now what I've outlined here is...how the roles should be played. You can get by by doing much less then this...it just won't hold up on a truly 'competitive' level. Also these are generalities here, not doctrine. Take the rules to heart, understand why they exist, but above all use your own judgment, common sense, before practicing them. I simply couldn't cover every exception to these guidelines so make sure it makes sense to follow them before doing so. The last thing I wanna do is start telling people how to live their lives.
I am not going to go into specific's here. If you want a guide on how to play a champion this isn't the right place for you. I'm focusing on general information applicable to everyone regardless of if they pick a LeBlanc or a Shen. These guides are meant for everyone who wants to confirm what they know, or hopefully learn something they haven't realized yet.
Roles(What are They?)
A role basically is a way to link similar champion responsibilities together so you can improve your metagame. The four roles of League of Legends are(in order of difficulty to play):
Off-Tank: responsible for not dying, disrupting the enemy team
True Tank: responsible for protecting the carries
Carry: responsible for doing the damage, 'carrying' the team as it is.
Support: responsible for doing whatever is needed as it is needed.
Why This Order
Off-Tanks: making a mistake as an off-tank isn't that bad as you will generally survive it. Simply put this role is the most forgiving for mistakes.
True Tanks: this is not an easy role, because you got to protect carries and they rarely make it easy for you, but it does belong here as your entire purpose is very well defined: stay in front of the carry, save their ass. Yes the execution of this is hard, but it's easier then everything below it. And don't get me started on your survivability...
Carries: Carries, when played right, not only have to combine their spells for maximum devastation but also have to get in position to focus the right targets(the team should be helping them) properly without dieing too soon(preferably at all). Considering how low their health and defense, with respective to the previous roles, will be...this isn't easy to be done 'right'.
Support: support champions are hardest, hands down, for the simple reason that...their purpose is the least defined and most complicated. It is the supports job to do everything they can to make everyone else on the team 'prosper'. This means they must know how to play Off-Tanks, True Tanks, and Carries. This means they have to be able, generally from just watching the minimap, see what everyone is doing, why they are doing it, if they need any help, and if you can provide help in time and to do so. This compounded upon their low health and low damage output makes for a very tricky role that's infinitely more complicated then just 'sitting back and letting their laning partner farm' as people think like to think it is.
Responsibilities(in order):
*Not die
*Disrupt the enemy as much as possible
*Do a decent, sustain amount of damage
*Initiate(If possible)
Definition: This role is usually merged into the True Tank role as they are both roles with a lot of health. But they are in actuality very separate roles with completely different skill sets and responsibilities. To clarify they are your beefy damage dealers. Dr. Mundo is an Off-Tank. They are great at running around and being a general nuisance to the other team, using their health to survive when carries normally wouldn't. Their burst or sustained damage outputs are never 'carry' level but they are close, definitely the second most damaging role. The big 'job' this role has is in a team fight is to get as much 'damage' burned off on them as possible. You want them to focus you, this is why initiating with them, or directly behind a tank, is such a good idea. You can tell you're playing an off-tank when you're beefy(Lot's of health) with a solid method of healing(Dr. Mundo's ultimate, Vladimir's Q, etc.) or a bonus to armor and magic resist or maybe even a spell shield, your 'damage' related spells have a low enough cooldown that you can spam them, and you have a distinct lack of 'strong cc' to make you a True Tank. Off-Tanks love 'slows' but they rarely have anything else 'more disrupting'. This is why they, despite common perception, they cannot be a true tank. They can survive, they can initiate, they can disrupt, but they can't consistently protect anyone but themselves.
How to Not Die
Off-Tanks are never at a 'True Tank' level of survivability but they can take quiet a beating, and usually heal very quickly afterwords. In fact you have so much survivability that I dare say you should never die. A True Tank will sacrifice himself for the greater good, even the best carries and supports get focused down eventually but an Off-Tank? An Off-Tank doing his job won't die....usually(If they are focusing you 5 v 1 in a teamfight you'll die but I don't conciser that your fault so it's not being mentioned.) At the very least you should always have always have a positive K:D ratio. So...how do they do it? How do Off-Tanks not die?
Know how long you can stay in a fight while still being able to get away safely for starters. If you want to be technical here, approximately take into account everyone's damage and your effective health, offsetting your healing as necessary but the main point here is simply that when fights happen you should be perfectly aware of when it's time for you to GTFO.
Now he's the secret towards not dying, the secret that most people forget – actually GTFO. Breaking off when you can't take anymore is hard, everyone wants to keep going(that 'just one more' mentality) but show some self control and do so. If you have a healing factor find some creeps and regenerate so you can help mop up(or help people retreat). If you don't then stick around at a safe distance to help your carries mop up. Don't abandon your team but if they start chasing you it's time for you to get out(unless you can kill them obviously). When done properly you'll live with a few hundred hp(including Karthus pressing r) Mastering this is hard but definitely required on a competitive level.
Disruption: the most unappreciated thing you can do in this game
In teamfights it's your job to take as much damage as possible before GTFO'ing and living(as stated above) however it's also your job to, while taking this damage, cause as much confusion as possible for the enemy team. When being focused dart in, dart out, bait, switch, do a barrel roll, etc. If the teamfight begins and the enemies are separated this job is easy. Leave the closer group to the True Tank and act as a big scary barrier between the groups, keeping them from uniting. Either the surrounded group will die or you'll severely damage the second group before the teamfight ends. Either way this is a big advantage for your team.
If not you gotta get creative. I find the easiest way to do this is to at the start of the teamfight(in smaller ganks this becomes a bad idea quickly) rush their squishes(they like hanging out together usually) and chasing them around the map as they run from you(if the squishy is fed enough to 'not' be afraid of you then don't chase him). Even if you don't kill them(if they're good you won't) you'll separate them from their team for this teamfight, winning you a huge advantage because that carries significant damage is now not in the fight. But ultimately though it doesn't have to be the carry(keeping the true tank from being in the fight can be even worse in some situations). You want to split them up as much as possible and if you can't focus on cutting off their escape(before they escape, if the battle looks like it's going good) as much as possible. Divide and conquer.
Doing Sustained Damage
As an Off-Tank you should not have to worry about the costs for your abilities. You should only have to worry about the cooldown. It's okay to spam here. In fact it's not just okay it's encouraged but be intelligent with your spammage. Make sure to maximize your ability combos as much as possible. You hurt, make sure they know that.
Initiation will be covered in the True Tank section
Responsibilities(In order):
*Protecting the Carrying Champion
*Protect the other Carries/Supports
*Initiate(If possible.)
*Not die
*Protect the Off Tanks(Shouldn't ever really be needed)
Who to Protect and Why
As listed above protecting the carries is the number one job of a True Tank so let's go into it a bit. What I mean by this is not 'protect every champion who is a carry on your team'. No that'll spread you too thin. I mean 'protect the champion who is carrying currently on your team.' Now I'm sure some of you are wondering the difference. It's simple. Brand and Caitlyn are carries. If Brand is going 0/6/3 Brand is clearly not carrying your team currently. But on the other hand if Caitlyn is going 12/2/6, Caitlyn is clearly carrying your team currently. That's the difference. Under this situation your responsibility is to Caitlyn first and Brand second. Now I'm sure you're asking yourself 'how can I tell whose carrying on my team'. Luckily for you the answer to this issue is simple too. Press TAB, look at the scores. The person with the best K:D:A ratio is who is carrying currently(9 times out of 10), protect them. For the record that 1 time out of 10 is when a fed carry, usually do to their builds, is not doing damage. In this situation your first priority should be to the highest damage dealer and so on. Finally you might be wondering about what to do early game or if the scores/damage outputs are evenly matched. Protect them both equally then to the best of your ability. The primary carry of the team will soon show him/herself and then adjust accordingly. Final note: I am not saying you should only protect the champions carrying this game. I'm saying they should be first on your list. Help everyone else too as you can, but remember your duty is to keep that damage alive. Do so, at any cost.
Initiating and Teamfights
True Tanks, and Off-Tanks, account for most of the initiations you're going to see in LoL but how do you do it? Well it's actually not that hard. All an initiation is is you 'leading the charge' or 'devoting' your team to a fight. Firstly check everyone's positioning before running in(else your initiation will lead to a pointless death). Generally you want to make sure that they can be right behind you as you go in. Taking into account different movement speeds can be a lifesaver here. And then use your abilities properly. Ideally you want the first round of enemy burst to be focused on you, which you should be able to live though(otherwise don't initiate), and your team will be able to come in to do some significant damage before the second round of burst comes up. After that your job as an initiator is over, the fight has started.
During the teamfight don't focus the tanks(usually). Be aware that generally the team(or at least a random team) will focus the target you're attacking. This isn't necessarily a bad thing so go for the squishies or the deadliest champion you can. If somebody is fed on the enemy team, that's who you are, or at least your cc, aiming for. If not then the squishiest first as you are able. Do not be afraid to change targets as the enemy team moves around you if you have too. Don't let yourself chase and be separated from your team. Your goal right now isn't to do damage, but to be scary enough that they keep focusing you as long as possible, then to use your cc to help your team as much as possible, so your team can kill the targets. So get in there, be disruptive. Go booga booga booga but even now remember your first priority. Protect your carrying champion at all costs!
When it's Okay to Die
True Tanks die. It happens. That being said ignore the people who say "I'm a True Tank so it's okay that died anytime a fight happened." Even True Tanks should try to minimize their deaths as much as possible. That being said it is your duty to sacrifice yourself if it can save pretty much anybody else on your team, especially the carrying champion. A good True Tank only dies when he chooses too and that should be rarely. Yes you can dive under a turret for a possible kill with one health bar and live 50% of the time, that doesn't make it a good idea, that doesn't make it right, that doesn't inflate your e-cock, that doesn't make you pro. It makes you needlessly reckless and needlessly reckless people, not matter how good intentioned, lose games.
Those pesky Off-Tanks
If you have a good Off-Tank on your team you should not have to worry about saving him throughout most of the game, he'll go and do his thing( and live) but this is in a perfect situation(or maybe a pro ranked team). Generally speaking sacrificing yourself to save him, if he isn't carrying, isn't worth it. So try and save him as much as possible when he's in trouble, but don't die for it...unless he's carrying.
Responsibilities(In order):
*Balance out you're teams damage output with the other carries
*Maximize your damage
*Focus the right targets in order, depending on the situation
*Not die
How to Balance your Damage
There are two main types of damage in this game: Magical damage and physical damage. Yes there is true damage but that isn't relevant to this discussion as it can't be countered. Ideally your entire teams damage output should be as close to a 50 50 split between these two as possible. Pro players do this calculation subconsciously almost in the champion select screen, using this as one of the main reasons to pick one champion over another. If you have a Leona, Vladimir, Singed, Leblanc, and Ryze as your team comp yes you do hurt a lot. Yes you even have a good amount of CC...but your enemies can just buy magic resist and nobody can hurt them(easily) anymore. This is not ideal so when picking a carry make sure to balance your total damage output with the other carries. If you want to be technical about this take into account that non-carries do less damage and effect the 'magicalness' and 'physicalness' of the team less although this isn't extremely more useful then just giving everyone the same value.
Certain champions excel at this balancing damage output over others. Teemo comes to mind. Teemo can be built as a magical carry(Shroom-tastic~!) or a physical carry(Auto-attack-centric~!) so you can even go so far as to adjust your build according to the enemies counter build(counter counter building). Note: this is only viable on a select few champions. If I see a Vladimir going physical damage citing this as the reason that person clearly didn't read the disclaimer. (>_<)
Your Damage Output and You
This is where your build is put to the test. Ideally as a carry you're going to have to balance quite a few things in order to get the optimal amount of damage out. In fact I'll probably make this into a completely separate guide later on but for right now I'm going to only cover some basic stuff. There are three 'quantities' towards your damage output. Damage quantities(attack damage, ability power, crit chance) directly translate into damage. These should always be your top priority for reasons discussed next. Then you have your Modification quantities(spell vamp, lifesteal, attack speed, cooldown reduction, crit damage, crit chance.) These stack upon your base damage, improving them. A good end game build uses these optimally but early on you need damage quantities to have something to 'build' upon for end game. If you just get attack speed, but do no damage, that's not going to help you much now is it? Finally we have your counter, or penetration, quantities(Magic penetration and armor penetration since dodge is all but removed.). These are used to 'counter' your enemies existing, or built, resistance to your damage. Usually it is best to get damage first while this on the side but exceptions exist. Example: the damage gained from a Brutalizer, usually by the time you could get it(~lv 7), is greater then the damage gained from a B.F. Sword.
What is this 'Focus' You Speak of?
Focus is attacking one champion over another due to their threat during a teamfight and is your main 'active' responsibility. It is your job to know who hurts on the enemy team(a quick 'whose fed' check on using the TAB key combined with your own experience should answer that) and kill them before they can actually hurt. If it's a squishy champion then usually your damage alone should be enough, if that champion is well defended(the enemy team is doing their job) or durable(that champion in particular is smart) then you're going to need to enlist your team to help you out here. If it's not widely known who to focus, tell your team who to focus. If it is known who to focus...focus that champion. That's the easy part of this step.
This is the hard part. Don't get too caught up in dealing with the 'priority target' that you lose sight on how the battle is going. Battles are dynamic not static. For instance if you're chasing a fed Vladimir whose already used his pool(why else would you chase him?) and the enemy team is retreating around you with no health the 'focus' has changed. Don't chase Vlad now, he's out of position and can't help his team, turn around, and help your team mop up. Yes this will probably allow Vlad to live but it'll also probably secure a few more kills on your team, and might even save a few lives. In the ensuing push you will have a nice advantage to dive him on. In short: remember that the focus target is always changing in a team-fight and keep on target with who it is. Pings are perfect for coordinating the change in targets if you're quick with them.
For information on not dying see what I explained for it under the Off-Tank role. The stakes higher and now you have significantly less survivability to work it under. Carrying is hard work bro.
This is the art of appearing 'vulnerable' to the enemy so they focus you, so you can turn around unexpectedly and kill them(It's exactly as hard as it sounds). The only difference is who is doing this killing. Kiting is when it's all you. Baiting is when you're luring them into your team and while I'm only covering this in the Carry section this is by no means exclusive to them. Giving the right opportunity every role can do this, it's just Carries will have more opportunity(Off-Tanks are a close second).
Ideally you want to be low health for this to work, but not so low as to make you one shotable(if this one shot is a skillshot that's slightly more acceptable). Know how much damage you can take from the team/champoin you're facing and don't have any less health then that(If it can be avoided.). The more comfortable you become with this, and the team you're doing this with, the less health you can have while doing it. Next make it a point to always stay 'just out of range' of the enemy champions. You don't want to go too far away as then they'll stop chasing, but if you stay too close they'll kill you(if they won't why aren't you just killing them now?). Ideally you want to be close enough they can 'just' damage you, only hurting you minimally but do what you can with whoever is chasing(sometimes this just isn't possible.) Then run them into your team, or begin the arduous task of picking them down slowly. If kiting be prepared for them to eventually wise up and leave(Usually they don't but be prepared for it.) If they do, if they're now low enough, and if you can catch up, turn around and finish them off. If not let them go. You should never let the kiter become the kitee. When don't properly this is as pro as it gets...when done properly.
Responsibilities(In order):
How to do everything while not going insane
Support is the easiest champion to get away with playing badly(because their responsibilities are so vague) but the hardest to play properly(because their responsibilities are so vague). I would strongly recommend not playing a support champion in any competitive(ranked or tourney) setting until you have a deep understanding of the other roles. This is because it's your job to not only help your laning partner as much as humanly possible but also the other two lanes, and jungle, as much as possible. This is the most common misconception about Supports. You aren't just babysitting your lane, you're babysitting your entire team. You have to be able to tell, from your peripheral vision on the minimap(as you'll be busy keeping your carry alive. Yes that level of babysitting takes all your attention >_<) how the other lanes are doing, if they need help, if you can provide this help in time, and to do so if able. Supporting isn't easy bro.
Know your teammates
A good support knows who he is supporting. He knows who is really aggressive(and thusly in need of your supervision) and who is passive. In a random situation this obviously isn't possible but you should still be aware, if vaguely, on when certain champions are aggressive. You should know that most Vladimir's will be passive until lv 7 as their damage up until that point is horrid. You should know that Lee Sin jugglers love lv 2 ganks and will most likely start at a lane straddling their red. You should know the basic mentalities of the champions you're playing with and against and use this information to make your life easier(Example: if Vladimir is going to be passive until lv 7 then I can safely ignore mid after lv 2). If you don't then just watch everyone as much as possible and learn, learn fast.
Even then there are a few tricks for making this task even simplier. Watch the minimap and TAB screen as much as possible. That's 90% of the information you need to know. CS, and obviously score, tells you whose winning against who. The champions being beyond the 'midline' of the map means they're pushing an advantage. The longer they stay beyond this midline the stronger the advantage and the more likely the enemy jungler will come and gank. Sounds like something you can help with? Because it should.
Clairvoyance and you
Supports carry clairvoyance because without it doing their job becomes neigh impossible and after the last changes knowing how and when to use it is more important then ever. In general during the laning phase you want to use CV to watch the jungler and after the laning phase to finds people without face checking. Know where he's starting, where he is on his path, and for the love of god let your team know when he gets/loses any buffs or even appears to be coming for a gank. If you know where he is, he can't surprise anyone with a gank now can he? If you're perfect you'll never lose site of him, but you're not so what should you do if you do? CV the longestly held most aggressive position when it comes up next, letting your team know that he's mia immediately. Don't bother trying to find him until the buffs come back up. Remember the above section? This is half of what I'm talking about.
Now up until this point I've talked about using CV defensively but CV is an offensive spell too. You notice ezreal trying to aim his ult? CV. You notice a lane getting ready to dive but is a little 'unsure' of its safety? CV. People trying to juke through bushes? CV. Note: If the person is 'effectively dead' anyways it might not be best to waste CV on them. Don't be afraid to use CV as much as you think it'll help but on the other side of the coin make sure to save CV for when you're certain your team will need it. It's a delicate balance, you'll figure it out.
Letting your carry farm
Another nice thing that will assist you in your team babysitting is that most supports don't 'need' farm(gold per 5 items FTW) so they don't have to worry about last hitting. If your carry is certain to miss the creep take it, but otherwise just focus on monitoring your partner, watching the jungle, harassing the enemy champions as safely as possible, monitoring the other lanes(in this order).
The Main Reason for Watching Everyone
Most support champions can't really effect the other lanes, beyond a helpful CV, in case something goes wrong so I'm guessing you're wondering why I recommending every support watch these lanes so intently. Well if you're not Soraka(due to her ult obviously), or Blitz and Karma(they can rush to mid fast enough to help) then you're right, you won't be able to do much with the 'how the other lanes are doing' information...immediately. You see once the laning phase ends your job to your laning partner is over. It is time for him to leave the nest and be a big carry with the other players. However if another lane had done poorly during the laning phase you have to go back to babysitting mode and guard him as best as possible as you both(no more letting them get all the farm. You need it now too) have to farm up to get even with everyone else together. Knowing how shut down they are helps a lot here as you can plan around it and obviously two, or in worst case scenario's three, people farming together is safer and better then one person alone....assuming nobody has/gets a level disadvantage.
Coming to Grips with being Expendable
Supports are...expendable. It's okay for you to die. You shouldn't seek out death(see True Tank section) but you shouldn't be afraid of it. Provided you get your ultimate off, what happens next normally doesn't matter too much. If it comes between you dying and...anybody else dieing that's okay. Just make sure your sacrifice is necessary. I can't tell you how many Sona's have swapped 'death' with me as Vladimir just as my pool came off CD.
People say wards are the supports and junglers job only. People are wrong. Wards are everyone's job but supports generally are expected to buy the most. This isn't hating on support players and yes I know you don't get a lot of gold but you should always(except end game when your build is done) have 1 ward in your inventory and the rest across the map as needed. Why keep a ward in your inventory? That is for the precious seconds before a teamfight is initiated after it is inevitable to happen. Put the ward down in a very key position(usually a bottleneck or a bush the enemies will move through) without a ward and go to the fight. Now everyone can't be juked. One ward can literally win the teamfight for everyone. Don't worry about the standard 'placement' rules for this ward either. Teamfights can happen anywhere and this wards needed location can thusly be anywhere. Finally the reason this ward should be with you, opposed to anyone else, is because of the fact that your farm will be the lowest. This means that by end game you're the most likely person to have room for this ward. Until Riot gives us a ward slot in our inventory this is how the meta's gonna to be.
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