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The recent presidential election in Sri Lanka has opened up new doors of opportunities for India's foreign policy makers. The election of Maithripala Sirisena has ended the decade long rule of the strongman of Sinhalese chauvinism – Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Sri Lanka, under Rajapaksa, had darted along a course away from India and the liberal western nations and into the arms of China. Rajapaksa's regime which was marred in nepotism and human rights abuse took the help of China and Pakistan for diplomatic and military assistance. This Source of assistance was out of limits of western sanctions. This tilt towards China was unprecedented in Sri Lanka's history and Rajapaksa played the China Card very effectively with India, which was averse to the idea of a strong Chinese presence so close to home.
India, which had serious concerns for the Tamils of Sri Lanka was a hindrance to Rajapaksa's anti-Tamil pogroms and he tried to offset the influence of India, which is the preponderant power in South Asia, by bringing in China into the equation. With the continued help from China, Rajapaksa was able to wipe out the dreaded LTTE but not before thousands of innocent Tamil civilians were massacred. This approach led to increased isolation for Sri Lanka in the realm of International relations and its relation with India suffered. Now with Maithripala Sirisena in power the relations between India and Sri Lanka are set to thaw.
One of the prime concerns for India in Sri Lanka had been the deep inroads made by China. The construction of the Hambantota port by China in Sri Lanka still continues to worry Indian security analysts. The port will give access to Chinese naval ships and increase the range of supply for the Chinese Ships in the Indian Ocean.
A few weeks back the stationing of two Chinese nuclear Submarines in Sri lanka caused quite a panic in India's security establishment. The Sri Lankan government gave no inputs to India regarding the submarines in a blatant disregard to the existing agreements between the two countries. In a future conflict hostile Chinese naval ships can be stationed in Hambantota- at the centre of Indian Ocean, which Indian Navy considers its own backyard. The massive supply of Chinese military hardware to Sri Lanka is another matter of worry.
China has become the largest arms supplier to Sri Lankan Army. It was the Chinese military aid that changed the balance of power to advantage of Sri Lankan Army and it resulted in the complete obliteration of LTTE. The Sri Lankan Army has become, to a large extent, depended on Chinese arms and ammunitions. The increased Chinese investment in infrastructure, Telecom and defence sectors has made India apprehensive about Chinese intentions in Sri Lanka. It is believed that Sri Lanka is just another 'pearl' in the Chinese 'String of Pearl' strategy of encircling India and manifesting a strong Chinese presence in the vital Indian Ocean Region.
Unlike Rajapaksa, the new President Sirisena is considered as an India friendly Politician. During his election campaign he had called for greater ties with India. He promised to reconcile with the marginalized Tamil populace of Sri Lanka- a task that wouldn't be complete without increased trust and cooperation between India and Srilanka. Soon after Sirisena became the president of Sri Lanka his foreign minister Mangala Samaraweera visited India.
While in India he talked about readjusting the 'Tilt' in Sri Lankan foreign policy – a clear reference to the Pro China policies of the previous regime. There exists a growing concern in Sri Lanka on the country's increasing dependency on China. From ports, roads to defence, China has entered almost all sectors in Sri Lanka. Sirisena has shown intent to diversify the sources of investment and may call for a review of many projects that were awarded to Chinese companies by the Rajapakse Government. A new balanced foreign policy will go a long way in strengthening Indo-Lanka relations and usher in a new era of cooperation between Sri Lanka and its only neighbor- India.
The unexpected change in regime in Sri Lanka is being largely seen as a great setback to China and a boost for India's Sri Lanka policy. But it would be too early to hail the election of Sirisena as a great positive change. Sirisena, despite his reputation of being a non-controversial honest politician, has to face the challenge of reconciling the Tamil minorities while being in an alliance with of strong Pro-Sinhalese parties.
Sirisena himself was a past ally of Rajapaksa and played important part during the civil war. He himself escaped five assassination attempts by the LTTE. Doubt remains on how sincere Sirisena will be in bringing the marginalized Tamils to the mainstream and in safeguarding their basic human rights. As Sri Lanka's relation with India is directly related to its internal politics and the Tamil issue, thus the future of Indo-Lanka relations will depend on the progress made by Sirisena in those fronts.
When it comes to China, it will not be easy for Sri Lanka to sever all ties with China. It is neither in a position nor willing to do so. Sri Lanka needs Chinese investment for its economic development and it would be interesting to see how Sri Lanka balances its relation with India and China. It is difficult to predict what the future may hold but as far as the recent presidential election in Sri Lanka is concerned, it provides a much needed opening to India's Foreign policy makers to engage with Sri Lanka in a far constructive manner.
The ball is in India's court and we must take the initiative and follow a proactive and an effective Sri Lanka policy.
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The sequel to Agenda 21, from number-one New York Times best-selling author and nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck.
"I knew those men were our enemies, but they, like everyone else in the Republic, were nothing more than servants. Rule followers. They had no choice. But I did. I had a choice and I made it. I knew then and there that, no matter what happened, I would never go back. Never."
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Citizens mainly keep their heads down and their mouths shut - but Emmeline is different. When the Authorities took her mother away, she started questioning the world around her. What happened to her mom? Why is everyone confined to grim living spaces and made to eat the same food cubes every day? Why was her own baby taken from her to be raised in the Children's Village? And are the rumors that somewhere out beyond the fence live those who got away during the Relocations - the so-called shadow people - really true?
When Emmeline's questions lead to the realization that she will never see her child again, she decides to escape the Compound with her partner David and their baby Elsa. Fleeing the armed enforcers of the Earth Protection Agency, and facing the unknown for the first time in their lives, Emmeline and David run into the shadows in the desperate hope of finding something they'd only heard stories about from those who'd lived before the Relocations: freedom.
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India Infoline News Service | Mumbai | January 29, 2015 09:46 IST
The stock has hit a high of Rs. 74.55 and a low of Rs. 70.10.
The booked consolidated net profit of Rs. 17.49 crore for the third quarter ended December 2014, as against Rs. 7.51 crore in a year ago period. Total income also increased by 28.5 per cent to Rs. 2,279 crore from Rs. 1,774 crore.
The stock so far has zoomed 9.8% to touch a high at Rs. 74.55. Now, the stock has pared some of its earlier gain, but still is up 4.9% at Rs. 71.25.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With producers of USA, this movie of 2010 has been brilliantly directed by Enzo Zelocchi. You can watch My Little Princess online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2010.
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Runtime: 94 minutes
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Even if I hadn't been reveling in our newly-wedded bliss, I would have been amazed by La Residence Hotel. Set among private vineyards in Franschhoek, where springbok and ponies frolic, this drop-dead gorgeous oasis along the edge of a picturesque lake was made for honeymoons. I had been to Franschhoek several years before so knew a few of the good stopsâHuguenot Chocolates for a mid-morning snack, The Common Room for lunch, and La Motte for some serious Shiraz (a varietal that John claims to dislike, and yet not a drop remained in any of his tasting glasses). But La Residence, in its secluded location behind the town's suburbs and away from its main street, had escaped me. This time, we were so lucky to stay in the Frangipani Suite, where a marble quarry had seemingly exploded, and the bathroom was larger than our apartment. And will you just look at that pink chair? It's possible I have never been so sad to leave a hotel. more»


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The extraordinary tale of a refugee youth soccer team and the transformation of a small American town.Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical Southern town until it was designated a refugee settlement center in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world's war zones, from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Clarkston's streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colors playing soccer in any open space they could find. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to unify Clarkston's refugee children and keep them off the streets. These kids named themselves the Fugees.Set against the backdrop of an American town that without its consent had become a vast social experiment, Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees and their charismatic coach. Warren St. John documents the lives of a diverse group of young people as they miraculously coalesce into a band of brothers, while also drawing a fascinating portrait of a fading American town struggling to accommodate its new arrivals. At the center of the story is fiery Coach Luma, who relentlessly drives her players to success on the soccer field while holding together their lives and the lives of their families in the face of a series of daunting challenges.This fast-paced chronicle of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town becoming a global community and an account of the ingenious and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world.More
Gather 'round, friends, and listen to a story. That's the feeling you'll get right from the start of Warren St. John's Outcasts United, narrated with warmth and precision by Lincoln Hoppe. The book expands on St. John's 2007 New York Times article about The Fugees, a group of soccer teams in Clarkston, Georgia, made up of relocated refugees from war-torn countries across the globe. "On a cool, spring afternoon, at a soccer field in northern Georgia," Hoppe reads, "two teams of teenage boys were going through their pre-game warm ups when the heavens began to shake." From that opening line on, Hoppe's voice never breaks from its steady narrationhalf reporter, all storyteller. Be prepared to settle into the tale, equal parts heartwarming and heartbreaking, of families and lands immediate and far away, made accessible by Hoppe's even, yet emotive rendition.
The heart and soul of The Fugees is their volunteer coach and founder, Luma Mufleh. St. John wisely begins with her, tracing back to her upbringing in Jordan, and the circumstances of her relocation to the US. It's a trick St. John keeps up throughout, deftly weaving multiple narratives and back stories that ultimately play out during hard-fought soccer matches. As Hoppe narrates, his voice takes on a friendly professorial vibe when going into the history of conflict in, say, Liberia, then switches cadence and tone to connote suspense. The story itself is as much about the new immigrant experience and the changing face of a small southern town as it is about the boys and soccer. Nothing's easy. Each chapter contains a battlewhether on the field, at city hall, with the police, or between the YMCA and no-nonsense Coach Luma as she fights tirelessly for the rights of her team and their familiesturning the details of individual lives into a sweeping epic. Sports fan or not, you'll root for The Fugees the whole way, hanging on every detail of their lives and games as the last seconds tick off the clock, driving home the big conclusion. Kelly Marages
"Wonderful, poignant...highly recommended." (Library Journal)
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We already learned that super saturated color is not going to save a boring photo.
But how do we bury boring and evoke expressiveness? How do we give our imagery a chance to speak instead of mutter?
Where do those good photographs hide?
If we look at paintings that are considered pieces of mastery, we find that the subject of the work isn't really all that sensational. I mean, look at Van Gogh's works we admire. A starry night and silhouetted skyline. A vase of sunflowers. A flock of blackbirds wheeling over a wheat field. From the painting masters we can see that subject selection might not be the crux of an effective image. Many beautiful images have been made with content that was everyday and ordinary.
Every day we are surrounded by the ordinary. We rarely have the option of jetting off to an exotic location to photograph exciting subjects that somehow arrange themselves in pleasing harmonies when we point our lenses in their direction. How do we coax good photos from an ordinary life?
1. Change the vantage point.
When you're shooting, move around. Looking at something in a new way begins with a physical reference point, which is probably tied into the way you perceived things. If you moved from the vantage point that felt immediately comfortable, you'll also be challenging the way you see. Sometimes the best discoveries are made when you take a risk by looking at something in a whole new way.
2. Wait for the right moment.
Maybe today isn't the right day for that shot you wanted. Rarely does a photographer have total control over a situation. Cultivate flexibility. This enables you to set aside your expectations and engage creatively with the subject. You can find beauty even when things don't go the way you expected them to.
3. Look for shape, value, patterns, design.
You don't have to walk around with your camera looking for the meaning of life. There are so many more things to love in an image. The way patterns form and repeat, the way light and dark blend and contrast, and the geometry of objects are just a few of the things that could become images.
4. Use another technique.
Reinterpret the world in a way you haven't tried. If you've never taken slow shutter images before, set up a session with a tripod and the camera on timer mode, and make some images you have never tried to make. The novelty and the learning you experience might spark some inspiration.
5. Don't leave until the magic happens.
It's easy to give up when the photos don't seem to hold any luster.
Stick with what you're trying to do. Focus on composition, technique, perspective, time of day–change it up until the magic begins to happen.
There are no shortcuts to good photographs. There is only hard work, patience, perseverance, and commitment. And you can't just Photoshop those things in.
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It's Wednesday, and around here that means it's time to check out our Start 'Em/ Sit 'Em picks in the world of fantasy football. This is the Week 3 edition, and before you get your lineup cemented in let's check out some of those borderline matchup plays and sleeper calls.
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Joe Flacco, QB, Baltimore Ravens: Flacco works as a streaming QB this week, even though he's had a pretty flimsy couple of games to kick things off. He's scored a total of just 28 points so far.
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Eric Ebron, TE, Detroit Lions: Ebron is a nice matchup play this week as well, even though he's been somewhat unpredictable over the first two games.
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Stefon Diggs, WR, Minnesota Vikings: Diggs has been a revelation so far this year, and he's officially in must-start territory—especially after that Packers game in Week 2 with nine grabs, 182 yards and a TD.
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DeSean Jackson, WR, Washington Redskins: Jackson should have had a big game in Week 2, but Redskins QB Kirk Cousins missed him on a sure-fire touchdown. That left Jackson with just four points on the day.
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Tyron Taylor, QB, Buffalo Bills: Taylor is facing an uphill battle this week. He's got an ugly matchup against the Cardinals on the road, and you saw what Arizona did to Jameis Winston in Week 2.
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LeGarrette Blount, RB, New England Patriots: Blount has been pretty successful thus far through two weeks, but he runs into a buzzsaw on Thursday in the Texans defense.
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Fiora is an uncommon jungler, who specializes in rapid damage, with no chance of escape.
Passive Lifegain
Quick Jungle Clear
Decent Turret Diving
Long Early Cooldowns
Poor Counter-Gank Survival
Can't Really Bail if Things Go Wrong
Personally, I stick to the standard Flash, Smite combo. That said, for mobility, you also have the option of Teleport, Smite, or maybe Ghost, Smite.
Smite - Like any jungle, Fiora depends on Smite for her early buff clears. That said, except for maybe securing the Dragon or Baron Nashor , her camp clear late game is extremely fast, even without the bonus true damage.
Flash - One of the most common choices in any position, as the quick jump helps both aggressively or defensively. Since Fiora lacks a reliable wall-jump (Like Vi's Vault Breaker or Kha'Zix's Leap), Flash helps her make Ganks from unorthodox directions.
Teleport - If you often have trouble getting to a lane in time to secure a gank, Teleport can shorten your trips to only 4 seconds.
Ghost - This particular spell is far less useful on Fiora, as she has a high base movement speed, and a powerful movement speed active.
For Runes, you've got a couple of choices in each color. Though you definitely want to grab Primary Runes in all spots.
Basically, there are two good choices here:
Greater Mark of Attack Damage or Greater Mark of Armor Penetration.
The Mark of AD will both shorten her early camp clears, as well as increase her ganking power by reducing the hits required to kill. That said, she does gain damage passively on her W, Riposte.
Armor Penetration, however, stays valid at all levels, reducing the effect of any armor that your enemies build, as well as the armor on every jungle creep and minion.
You've got a couple of great choices for Seals:
Greater Seal of Armor, Greater Seal of Scaling Armor, Greater Seal of Health, or Greater Seal of Health Regeneration are all decent choices.
Flat Armor both reduces the damage taken from all physical damage sources, specifically jungle creeps, by 9 points of armor, if you take all of them. However, in later game, 9 armor certainly isn't going to save you many times.
Scaling Armor, however, while only granting you ~2 armor at level 1, matches its flat friends at level 5-6, and triples it 27 at level 18.
Health is another decent choice, as each rune gives you an extra 8 HP, for a total of 72 extra health, which, like flat armor, won't help your late game much, will definitely increase your survival in early ganks and jungle camps.
Conversely, 9 Runes of flat Health Regen will increase your health-per-second regen to 5/5 Sec, or 1 per second.
Unlike your Seals, your choices for Glyphs are pretty limited:
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist or Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction are pretty much your best choices here.
Scaling MR, like armor, doesn't outclass its flat counterpart until about level 6. However, since no jungle creeps deal magic damage, they're pretty worthless in the camps. However, since your earliest gank is usually around level 3-5, they are close to, or stronger than the flat version, once you actually need them.
CDR, however, is useful in all positions, by lowering your cooldowns by ~7%.
For Quints, your choices are completely up to you. I personally like Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed, as it increases your already solid base movement, decreasing time wasted between camps, as well as your speed to set up ganks.
Greater Quintessence of Experience will increase your XP gains by 6%, making it easier to stay on-level with your allies.
Greater Quintessence of Gold helps you stay ahead with your gold, by providing you an extra 3/10 Sec.
Greater Quintessence of Life Steal is arguably one of the best choices for sustain in jungle, as you gain 4.5% of the damage you deal back as HP.
For Masteries, 21/9 is a good balance.
Offensively, focus on Attack Speed, Attack Damage, and Execute abilities. Make sure you also take Butcher and Feast, to help your jungle.
In the defensive, going hard HP helps you both in the jungle, as well as on any ganks, since armor only protects you from Physical Damage, and Magic Resist only from Magic Damage. Also, Tough Skin and Bladed Armor as before, helps your jungle.
Fiora's skills are very Damage Per Second focused, quickly shredding down your enemies HP before they can escape, as well as reflecting their own attacks back at them.
Duelist - Most jungles need some additional health regeneration to stay in the jungle longer. Fiora has a fairly decent one, increasing her health regen significantly as long as she keeps fighting.
Lunge - Fiora's primary engage is a solid option, good for sticking to your gank target. The range actually slightly exceeds Flash (600 over 400), and can be cast twice. Yes, you read it right, twice. As long as you can get back in range within 4 seconds of your first use, you can cast it again, snapping back onto them. This ability is also a decent escape from tower dives. If you chase your target past the minion wave, a second Lunge can help you get out of turret range before you're killed.
Riposte - Definitely one of Fiora's strongest skills. Riposte has two effects. It's Passive is the reason you max it first: It gives you 15 bonus AD at first level, plus another 5 each level after, for a total of 35. It's active is less useful in the jungle, absorbing only a single hit from the large monster in any camp. However, it is extremely helpful when ganking champions with powerful on-hit effects or Autoattack abilities. A chief example is Nasus's Siphoning Strike.
Burst of Speed - This is your primary damage ability. While it doesn't actually increase your damage-per-hit, it massively increases your Attack Speed, by 60% at level 1, up to 120% at level 5. Furthermore, if you land either an Autoattack or Lunge, you gain bonus movement speed, helping you chase down your opponent. Furthermore, the more hits you land, the more movespeed you get, up to 3 stacks.
Blade Waltz - A solid ability both in your level 6 ganks, as well as late game teamfights, Blade Waltz deals heavy damage to nearly every champion in range. This ability is especially useful for tower-diving, as while the ability is busy flaying down your enemies health, she becomes untargetable, unaffected by turret aggro. At level 16, when attacking a single enemy, your damage is a minimum of 1000 plus more than double your bonus AD.
One important thing to note: Both Lunge and Blade Waltz scale off of your BONUS AD, not your total AD. See Items for further information.
Skill Path 1, One-Shot Gank Lunge is mostly used merely to engage, so the extra attack and movement speed earlier help her both when taking down isolated enemies, as well as dealing damage in team fights.
Skill Path 2, Flash-Happy Counterganks Flashes, Arcane Shifts, or other evasive abilities, reducing both the cooldown and increasing the damage of her Lunge earlier.
Skill Path 3, True Balance Lunge and Burst of Speed equally, keeping her balanced between her Lunge-poke and Burst of Speed DPS.
Which skill you focus first, or to level them equally is up to your personal playing style. If you're a fan of all-ins, the extra DPS from Burst of Speed is more helpful. If you prefer slipping into a fight, dishing out some damage, then dashing to safety on an enemy minion, Lunge will help you do this.
Fiora's abilities all scale off of her Bonus AD, not total AD. Furthermore, Fiora's main source of damage is from autoattacks, so building lots of AD is a typically good decision.
As with any jungle, a Hunter's Machete, five Health Potions, and a Sweeping Lens will be your starting items. This build requires little explanation, but I'll do it anyway. Hunter's Machete gives her the bonus damage of a Long Sword, and the life gain of Doran's Blade, at least against jungle creeps, and all for only 300G. The bonus health off the Health Potions, totaling 750 additional HP, increases your sustain in jungle more than double. Lastly, Sweeping Lens makes your ganks much more reliable, as it will reveal the Stealth Ward or Warding Totem the laner has placed in the brush, allowing you to attack it, or reveal that none has been placed, and the laner can't see you coming.
Try to stay in the jungle until you have at least 775G, as it will allow you to get Madred's Razors and Boots of Speed on your first back. Any extra gold you have left over can be used to grab some more Health Potions, to further increase your sustain.
Perfect Build Items
Wriggle's Lantern - For Fiora, the Attack Speed this item gives you is the most important. The slight damage is also helpful, as is the lifegain and bonus magic damage on jungle creeps. Furthermore, the active lets you drop a Stealth Ward on important objectives, like the Dragon or Baron Nashor .
Mercury's Treads - Since Fiora focuses on her Autoattacks to deal damage, she is fairly vulnerable to Crowd Control. The Tenacity from these boots make it more difficult for someone to lock down or escape Fiora.
Infinity Edge - With Fiora's high natural attack speed, and the bonus off of Burst of Speed, she can land critical hits with alarming frequency. The bonus damage, plus additional damage on critical hits makes this item invaluable on Fiora.
Phantom Dancer - As with Infinity Edge and Wriggle's Lantern, the stats synergize well with Fiora's focus. Plus, the ability to walk through units prevents her from getting bogged down by having to walk around anything that gets her in the way. (Read: Minions)
Atma's Impaler - I don't see this particular item in many games, and I have trouble sometimes understanding why. It gives a decent chunk of Crit Chance, and, more importantly, a big pile of armor. (The same amount as a Sunfire Cape, interestingly enough...) It also gives you, if you get everything perfectly, another 30 AD.
The Bloodthirster - Finally, this is one of the most common items on any AD-Carry, mostly due to the fact that at full stacks, it gives you the reliably highest bonus AD scores. 100 AD at full stacks, plus 18% lifesteal.
Mercury's Treads - Furor - This enchantment is a solid choice on Fiora. As long as you're on the aggressive, you can stick to nearly anyone, even an ulting Master Yi, while Burst of Speed is active.
Alternate Items
Guardian Angel - Occasionally, you'll find yourself unable to stick around long enough to shred an opponent or two. This is especially true against super-burst champions like LeBlanc or Vi, because, while you kill them quickly, unless their abilities are on cooldown, they'll put you at zero before you can even touch them. I'd trade this out with Atma's Impaler, and maybe build it one item sooner.
Last Whisper - Against a super-armor team, you'll often be unable to deal much damage, since it's all coming from your Autoattack. Champs like Rammus or Nasus who can deal serious damage without building any damage items make this particular choice often necessary. Again, you'll probably replace Atma's Impaler.
Executioner's Calling - I don't really see this much on the Rift, since it has a very niche role. That said, when you need it, it's an amazing item. It gives you a slice of crit chance, some bonus AD, and HALVES the effects of any heals your opponents use. Either team-healers like Soraka and Sona or self-healers like Fiddlesticks or Tryndamere will have some serious difficulty keeping their health totals in the positives.
Mercury's Treads - Homeguard - By far the most commonly used boot enchantments, Homeguard will help you if your team is losing. The ability to kill a champion, slip to the Fountain to heal, then rush back into the fray is invaluable in protecting your Inhibitors or Nexus Turrets.
Guardian Angel - Occasionally, you'll find yourself unable to stick around long enough to shred an opponent or two. This is especially true against super-burst champions like LeBlanc or Vi, because, while you kill them quickly, unless their abilities are on cooldown, they'll put you at zero before you can even touch them. I'd trade this out with Atma's Impaler, and maybe build it one item sooner.
Last Whisper - Against a super-armor team, you'll often be unable to deal much damage, since it's all coming from your Autoattack. Champs like Rammus or Nasus who can deal serious damage without building any damage items make this particular choice often necessary. Again, you'll probably replace Atma's Impaler.
Executioner's Calling - I don't really see this much on the Rift, since it has a very niche role. That said, when you need it, it's an amazing item. It gives you a slice of crit chance, some bonus AD, and HALVES the effects of any heals your opponents use. Either team-healers like Soraka and Sona or self-healers like Fiddlesticks or Tryndamere will have some serious difficulty keeping their health totals in the positives.
Mercury's Treads - Homeguard - By far the most commonly used boot enchantments, Homeguard will help you if your team is losing. The ability to kill a champion, slip to the Fountain to heal, then rush back into the fray is invaluable in protecting your Inhibitors or Nexus Turrets.
Although Fiora is an autoattack central champion, for your first camp you'll wanna go Blue buff. The extra cooldown on her abilities helps ensure each is ready when you reach the next camp, but more importantly, it increases your mana regeneration, making using all your abilities on each camp not cost-prohibitive. Of course, if you expect to need to make an early gank near your blue buff (Toplane on Blue Side, Bottom on Purple Side), you can still safely start on Red.
Typically if you land your abilities right, you can get through your first buff, Wolves, Wraiths, and your second buff and still have most of your health (After using your Health Potions). Always be watching for ganks after you get to level 3 and take a point in Lunge. The double-dash will let you stick to enemy champions, even if they try to Flash away. Otherwise, you can hit either the Double Golems or the Wight (Depending on which end of your jungle you're at), and maybe Wolves or Wraiths again before you back.
Most of the time, you'll be rolling quickly between jungle camps using Burst of Speed to shred down the large monster, then slicing apart the smaller ones, and ganking whenever the opportunity appears. Jungling depends on map awareness far more than any other position, as you'll have to watch, not only the area around your champion, but each lane as well. If a lane is getting pushed, it might be time to gank. If a lane is getting ganked, you can try to hurry over to save them.
Once you finish your Wriggle's Lantern, always try to keep a ward up right outside the Dragon pit. It will give you plenty of warning if a gank is heading bottom, and also allow you to see if the enemy team is trying to take the Dragon. You can also ward the bush by Blue or Red buff on either side, especially if you're a fan of counter-jungling, as taking a buff will deny your opponent both the buff's effect, and a healthy chunk of XP.
Team Work
This build creates a Glass Cannon. Immense damage extremely quickly, but very little solid sustain. You can't tank half a dozen turret hits, you can't distract the enemy AP long enough for your own assassins to take them down. You can, however, blow up an enemy AP. Dive under a turret for a kill, then escape before it really locks onto you.
In the late-game teamfights, you'll definitely want to focus the enemy Carries first. Your quick damage can put their team's real damage dealers out of commission quickly. In my experience, the double-dash on Lunge and the proc on Burst of Speed is especially helpful as a gap-closer.
In a perfect world, you'll activate Burst of Speed, Lunge to an enemy, often a minion or tank, (which procs the movement speed on Burst of Speed) Riposte an enemy counter attack, then Lunge again, this time at your actual target. Your Burst of Speed will have two of the three movement speed stacks on it, and more than half of it's duration left, you'll be right on top of a nice squishy carry, and you'll have ignored a chunk of damage. If they look like they're going to try to run, targeting them with your Blade Waltz will not only deal massive damage to them (And any other enemies in the area), but you'll still be right on top of them when you're done.
Fiora has a lot of variability in her builds. Many people like building her tanky, but I prefer the glass assassin. It's what she was designed to do, and she does it well. If my team needs a tankier jungler, I'll more likely go with Shyvana or Volibear. I don't like having all this destructive power available without using it.


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CALLING all surfers, the Rip Curl Pro Search at Supertubos is forecast to pump should local wind conditions allow. A north-west swell forecast to peak at around 16ft at 14 seconds on October 21st and 22nd could well provide classic conditions for The Search, an event which frequently comes up with the goods. Look out for the swell to start to pile in on Wednesday the 21st with perhaps the best conditions being on Thursday 22nd. It will all be decided by a few degrees of north wind, too much west and it will just be molten lumps of slush; just enough north-east and it will keep those gaping left-hand barrels open. Watch this space.
Frankly the Billabong Pro Mundaka was somewhat of a disappointment swell-wise and the Quik Pro France was held in small conditions, not really conducive to showcasing the world's best surfers. Not that this is the event's fault, in general this has been a pretty dire autumnal season for North Atlantic surfers.
1000mb low
A 1000mb low pressure system with associated winds is starting to form off the coast of the Eastern United States and should, if forecasts hold true, spin across the Atlantic and produce epic conditions from Ireland to North Africa.
It's a relatively simple picture for North Atlantic surfers, high pressure over the Azores (cunningly named the Azores High) will force low pressure systems north-eastwards up an over Scotland. Unfortunately we cannot all surf Thurso East. Central Europe has been suffering one of the worst autumn seasons on record with low after low being forced north towards Scotland and beyond. This is all about to change.
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I've taken a break from writing music the past two to three months and have been working on being able to sit at my modular and play something, also working out new stylistic strategies etc. Here are two efforts from this week:
thank you for sharing this!
i like working with test tone records as well and thanks to the comments I just discovered that there is a midi kit mod for pdx2000's. maybe of interest?
all of this is live from loop test tones (far from properly mixed etc).
you can hear the commentator's voice announcing the frequencies.
That's a cool option too! It's too bad Vestax went bankrupt, they had some really innovative thinking!
Really cool work. Thanks for the info. Never realized any turntables were controllable In that way.
Here is the last thing I posted online, nearly two weeks ago... Its a sort of tribute to the writer W.G Sebald... I am not posting much online at the moment as I am working on a film soundtrack but hope to post something new soon... Have a listen and comment
A rough 'n' ready mix of room and desk recordings from my opening set at Aural Ataraxia's Electronic Madness night at Akusmata Gallery in Helsinki. Thanks to Kenneth Kovasin for organising and Wellenform and bin.exe for performing.
P.S. There wasn't much madness going on in my set by the way...
went through some recordings and found a few modular bits from my first days with White Whale. found the intro in that pile and laid a bassline under it (been very fun playing bass with these in-the-box projects), pulled both into re:mix. sampled @glia's supreme v_z to glue it all together.
new SOUND + PROCESS on the way, as well!
I'm building a live set these days, here's an extract from a training session ..
'stars, earth, we all return
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I recently did a (for me) fairly rare live set. It was the first time I used a monome in performance, and it worked out pretty well. The last track, however, was just programmed to play itself-- it's a tribute to/story about my father, who died earlier this year, and a nice piece of Max Programming-- I've learned quite a bit about Max this year, thanks to a desire to actually use the monome; I'd like to think my father would have liked a song that was also a program triggered by a nicely machined piece of hardware:
my first recording with ansible + arc and mannequins mangrove. ambient improvisation for piano, modular, and birds. as autumn approaches here in california, warm winds rush through honeyed leaves; costa's hummingbirds and northern mockingbirds sing from their cactus perches.
Alt take of the same set as the previous video ...
Note that the title is a nod to the film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Classe_am%C3%A9ricaine .. "wish lauren" just sounds like the french "ouiche lorraine" which is actually a quiche but Dustin knows best .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBW7FohL65I
sick stuff. thanks for sharing
Moi, j'aime pas les voleurs et les fils de p*te.
here's my most recent one. It steals content from FM radio as a starting thread/kernel
album is done and just finished writing brief linersthis interlude should give yall a taste
This is on the visual side, but I used a 128 and Arc2 to control live visuals for Nosaj Thing last week. Here's a video of it: https://twitter.com/jonobr1/status/783650447345217536
But we actually released the application for anyone to run: https://lesi.wearecollins.com/ (unfortunately the monome compatibility isn't available on the site)


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How can I use certain column from my stored procedure? I have written the below code but doesnt work
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You should really use a view or function instead of a sproc if you want to use one like this.
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Ever-evolving Brooklyn indie outfit Dirty Projectors return next week with Swing Lo Magellan, the highly anticipated follow-up to 2009's superb breakthrough LP Bitte Orca. The group's overachieving mastermind Dave Longstreth has purposefully taken a different tack with this album, as he recently explained to The New York Times, "These are songs without any context. They're less about arrangement. They're less about orchestration." That commitment to songcraft and melody over arrangement was evident on the LP's great lead single 'Gun Has No Trigger', as well as on the deceptively breezy 'Dance For You', and now you can stream the rest of the album and find out how it compares to Bitte Orca courtesy of The Guardian. The Projector's line-up has shuffled once again, with vocalists Amber Coffman and Haley Dekle returning to fill the void left by Angel Deradoorian, and the substitution of drummer Brian McOmber by Mike Johnson. This new line-up ably assists Longstreth's new direction – which is less conceptual and markedly more earnest than ever – resulting in the group's most accessible and intimate effort to date, but also their most beat-driven. As expected from a new Dirty Projectors release, there's a lot going on here and it demands many spins, but on first listen I can say this much with certainty: Swing Lo Magellan is an exceptional album which is absolutely worthy of inclusion in the Album of the Year conversation. Dirty Projectors released a fascinating trailer today for the upcoming Longstreth-directed film Hi Custodian, which you can also find below.
Swing Lo Magellan is out July 10. Stream it below (via The Guardian).
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Addressing the convergence and impact of technology and economics on evolving practice strategies and emerging opportunities for the law firm library and information professional
Given the legal profession's rolling state of uncertainty and change - fueled by budgetary pressures and intense pricing competition, disruptive technological advances, the rise of outsourcing and low cost centers, as well as competition from alternative legal service providers - library and information resource professionals find themselves in a state of transition, as they aim to integrate within the firm's broader business plans and strategies.
Ark Group's 11th annual Law Firm Library, Research and Information Services conference will once again provide an ideal platform for discussion, debate, and skills development around the convergence and impact of technology and economics on evolving practice strategies and what this means to the law firm information professional.
Discussion topics and focal points of the forum will include
• Developing a plan for (re)integrating and reimaging the library into the future business plan of the firm to put the library's resources to greater use servicing the firm's business needs
• How traditional librarianship can transition into other management roles and functions within the law firm
• An evaluation of a firm's mobile application strategy for the library
• Skill sets and competencies of the next generation of law librarians
• How the library can best contribute to the law firm's client intake process
• Utilizing the library as a firm resource to assist firm attorneys in managing outside counsel guidelines
Law firms have always depended on library and information services to support the resource needs of its lawyers. However, we have grown from a narrow profession - managing print collections and serving associates - into strategic advisors, providing curated and personalized knowledge - supporting partners and business unit leaders with critical intelligence for decision making and client support.
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Mumbai, Feb 22 (UNI) Top notch football clubs including Goa's Vasco, Mumbai's Rashtriya Chemical and Fertilizers and Mumbai Football Club will be amongst the 28 teams for the fifth All India invitational Abhijit Kadam Memorial knock-out football tournament to be held in Pune from February 27.
For the first time in its history, five professional teams will parade their skills in the 11-day tournament, which is sponsored by Reliance Industries and organised by the Abhijit Kadam Memorial Foundation in association with Deccan XI Football Club, Pune under the auspices of the All India Football Association (AIFF), Western India Football Association (WIFA) and the Poona District Football Association (PDFA).
Speaking to the newspersons here today, Abhijit Kadam Memorial Foundation Managing Trustee Viswajeet Kadam said, ''We have tried our level best to include a team each from each zone of the country and I guess the field has surpassed expectations.'' He, however, rued that a team from the East, the home of Indian football could not confirm their participation since most of the clubs there are participating in the IFA Shield.
He further said that since the AIFF has decided on conducting the second division I League preliminary group matches at Pune and Kolhapur, five teams - Mumbai Football Club, Osian's New Delhi Heroes, Vasco Sports Club, Goa, Indian Bank, Chennai and Pune Football Club will be utilising this tournament as a build-up to their campaign.
The tournament will have 14 local teams taking on 14 outstation teams who will vie for a total prize money of Rs 1.71 lakh, which is a whopping 45 per cent increase from last year.
The winner will get Rs 1 lakh apart from a trophy and certificates, while the runner-up will be richer by Rs 51,000. There will also be prizes for Best Goalkeeper, and Best Player with both standing to gain Rs 10,000 each, the organisers announced at the conference.
Besides this the organisers will also be arranging a charity match between Bollywood stars and a Pune Select team on March 4 to generate funds for various NGOs, it was announced.


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Alberici Enterprises
An Alberici joint venture constructed this $178 million campus-style automotive assembly plant using the design-build approach. The facility was awarded LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, making it the first manufacturing facility in the world to achieve any level of LEED certification.
The campus includes a 690,000-square-foot body shop and a 590,000-square-foot general assembly facility, interconnected by 101,000 square feet of elevated conveyor/utility trestles. The team also constructed a 120,000-square-foot administration building, featuring a 15,000 square-foot state-of-the-art data center, which controls the entire 3.4 million square foot complex.
To accomplish design and construction within a 20-month time frame, GM and the Alberici design-build team utilized 3-D technology that continuously merged building design information with material handling, product, and process tooling design information into an interactive model.
The project attained the GM Safety Excellence award for an exceptional safety record of 900,000 work hours and zero lost-time injuries.


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Unbelievable. The press is brazen, anymore, in their attempt to influence this election.
Drudge has a headline, "Reporters applaud Obama slam on Romney's wealth."
He had another article about the free beer that was flowing to the reporters, wondering if they were drunk during the debate.


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Etnaviv project member Christian Gmeiner has sent out the updated patches implementing the Gallium3D driver for Vivante GPU cores.
NVIDIA Linux developer Thierry Reding has posted some Mesa patches this Christmas weekend.
It appears that ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 for Intel Haswell graphics hardware might finally be merged soon into Mesa and thereby exposing OpenGL 4.0 support.
A huge series of patches landed in Mesa Git today for benefiting the Gallium3D Nine state tracker for Direct3D 9 support on Linux.
It's not as exciting as seeing a massive patch series arrive for like the OpenGL shader cache or other key features, but Collabora's Timothy Arceri sent out a set of 70 patches today providing some clean-ups and bug fixes for Mesa.
While it took a long time for Intel's Mesa driver to begin supporting the ARB_gpu_shader_fp64 extension for double-precision floating-point data types in shaders, fortunately it looks like Intel should soon land the Float64 support in their Vulkan driver soon.
While Intel's at OpenGL 4.5 compliance in Mesa with their open-source graphics driver, there remain a number of modern extensions that aren't currently mandated by an OpenGL version number, among them is ARB_transform_feedback_overflow_query.
A nine-year-old Mesa bug has now been squashed by Marek Olšák. This Mesa bug ended up affecting the RadeonSI driver and causing stability issues, which has now been addressed and should help open-source AMD Linux gamers run titles like Team Fortress 2 and Batman Arkham: Origins (Wine).
While it was disappointing that Fedora 25 shipped with Mesa 12.0, the Mesa 13.0 version has now been sent down as a stable release update.
Prolific Gallium Nine developer Axel Davy has published a massive patch-set today implementing support for internal multi-threading in this Direct3D 9 state tracker.
Mesa developers are discussing the idea of removing the Intel "ILO" Gallium3D driver from Mesa since it hasn't been maintained in a while and provides only limited functionality.
Mesa release manager Emil Velikov announced the availability today of Mesa 12.0.5, just another point release and what he expects will be the last of the Mesa 12.0.x releases.
Earlier this week I wrote about a release schedule coming out for Mesa 13.1 that culminates with this next big Mesa update being out in February. Some Mesa developers have now shared the work they still hope to see in this next release.
Rob Clark has landed his code for supporting EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync in Mesa and his Freedreno Gallium3D driver is the first in-tree Mesa/Gallium3D driver to support the native fence FD support, even beating out the Intel driver.
Mesa release manager Emil Velikov has laid out his draft of a release schedule for the next major Mesa release.
Fresh from the libdrm 2.4.74 release that had some Etnaviv API changes, the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver has been proposed for mainline Mesa as the open-source, reverse-engineered 3D effort for Vivante graphics cores.
Mesa DRM library updates aren't usually too notable, but that's different with this evening's libdrm 2.4.74 release.
Last week marked the release of libSoftFloat 1.0, the library working to implement double-precision operations in pure GLSL 1.30 via bit twiddling operations and integer math. This is the most hopeful effort yet for getting OpenGL FP64 support exposed for older GPUs that lack native support.
Eric Anholt at Broadcom has been focusing his latest VC4 driver efforts on performance tuning.
In addition to the big Mesa shader cache patch series hitting the mailing list over night, Ian Romanick at Intel sent out another big patch series: his revised work on ARB_gpu_shader_int64 support.
Timothy Arceri of Collabora has now revised the massive patch-set implementing an on-disk shader cache for Mesa with the work nearing completion, at least for the Intel i965 driver.
For those riding the stable Mesa release train, Mesa 13.0.2 is now available as the newest Mesa 13.0 point release.
While we have been talking a lot lately about performance optimizations and improvements to Intel's "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver, not all focus has been lost on the i965 Mesa OpenGL driver. In fact, a lot of code landed on Friday for i965.
For those riding the Mesa 13.0 stable release train rather than the adventurous Mesa 13.1-dev Git code, the Mesa 13.0.2 stable update is right around the corner with many fixes.
While AMD hasn't been doing much work lately on the Clover-based OpenCL support with focusing their open-source OpenCL efforts around ROCm / Radeon Open Compute, Edward O'Callaghan has been working on some much-needed love for the Clover OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker.
AMD developer Marek Olšák pushed his latest RadeonSI Gallium3D patch series into Mesa Git a few hours ago for further improving the open-source Radeon OpenGL driver stack.
Rob Clark on Friday sent out the patches for implementing the EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync extension within Mesa's EGL and Gallium3D code.
With Mesa drivers this year really improving a lot and reaching OpenGL ~4.5 compatibility for most drivers as well as the Intel and RADV Vulkan drivers getting into shape, they are becoming usable for day-to-day Linux gamers. While not all new Feral Linux game releases work with the Mesa drivers, a growing number of their games work well on Mesa 13.0+, and as such they are hoping Ubuntu will adopt a policy of making it easier to switch to newer Mesa releases.
Mesa 3D founder Brian Paul has added a relatively simple but useful improvement to core Mesa for dumping more debugging and performance information.
While there were initially concerns by users over OpenGL 4.4~4.5 support being exposed for open-source Mesa drivers due to the Khronos OpenGL conformance test suite for these newer versions and the associated costs, those concerns were laid to rest and the X.Org Foundation is moving ahead with becoming an official Khronos adopter for Mesa.
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