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Competitors in the Paragliding Aerobatic competition require great skill to demonstrate their ability to fly a synchronized and artistically appealing sequence of aerobatic manoeuvres with a paraglider wing. The manoeuvres they perform consist of spins, wingovers, helicopters, SATs (where the pilot and wing rotate around a central point), continuous loops, and more. The best pilots perform these manoeuvres with a minimum of altitude loss, so they can demonstrate more manoeuvres within the available altitude. Particularly spectacular is the section when two paragliders perform together, sometimes touching their wings in breathtaking manoeuvres. These are called the Syncro pairs and provide a team element to this event.
Competitors are judged according to the number and difficulty of the manoeuvres they successfully complete. Points are awarded for clean, accurate and smooth flying. Each pilot or pair flies a freestyle routine. The pilot gaining the most points at the end of the rounds is declared the FAI World Air Games Champion.
A Paragliding Aerobatics contest is judged by a panel of experts, just like gymnastics. The judges look for control of speed, control of heading, altitude management, precision of manoeuvres, smooth transition between manoeuvres and variety of manoeuvres. All programme elements are the competitor's choice. At the end of the routine the competitors land on a 82m square raft with the chance to get additional style points or a very wet arrival.
Although a relatively new sport, paragliding demonstrates the pureness and simplicity of flight and has become one of the most popular recreational airsports. Paragliding Aerobatics is one of the most recent development in this air sport and requires experienced pilots to control their wings through their full flight envelope. Pilots have to demonstrate their ability to fly synchronized and artistically appealing sequences of aerobatic manoeuvres, either as individual athletes or in teams of 2 with synchronized manoeuvres. In order to improve pilots' safety, this event may only be performed above water.
Paragliding is a very popular and rapidly growing sport which is practised all over the world. The pilot sits in a harness attached to a canopy wing, similar to a parachute. The wing is double layered, creating cells between the layers which fill with air. This gives the wing an aerofoil shape, enabling the paraglider to fly.
Pilots usually fly with a reserve parachute in case their main canopy should malfunction although this is rare. Modern paragliders weigh approximately 15kg and have a speed range from as little as 20kph up to 80kph or more on some of the latest competition designs.
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Ken Warner was born in Ireland and has played & performed music for the past 20 years. He was classically trained and achieved 7th grade on piano from the London academy of music. Self taught on guitar, he performed as lead guitarist in a 5 piece original band for 7 years. Later he left the group after travelling for miles, gaining experience playing to audiences and appearing on television. After this time, Ken played piano music in various restaurants and bars. In 1997 he travelled to Lanzarote and entertained for 8 years as a one man show singing and playing acoustic & electric guitar. At present Ken works as a solo act in Denmark playing a very broad repertoire of music gathered from his experiences performing & entertaining live. This debut CD Through The Long Night has taken ken to another dimension as a songwriter with imaginitive musical instrument talent.


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this will be a downhill path and could well hurt the most important alternative browser available which would be truly a shame
-fouls up log/referrer data if pretech requests can only be identified by the http header
-unecessary page requests may hinder site performance for real users
+Looking for prefetch tags in SERPs may give some clue into what results are most popular
+Possible to gain insight into what searchers are searching for even if they don't click your link. With advanced tools, could even figure out when your result is getting skipped over.
My opinion:
You can't really stop a user-agent from doing whatever it wants to do, but I would've left this feature off by default in Mozilla (the same way that simultaneous http connections aren't cranked up by default out of courtesy to web servers). Would also be more webmaster friendly if user-agent was modified/different for prefetch requests.
give it a few days and then check your server logs to look at the level of prefetches
GoogleGuy: I wish I could. However, this information is not included in the server log. It is included in an obscure HTTP header that isn't logged. While some web servers (like Apache) can log this, others (like IIS) can't.
This isn't a Google issue. The issue is Mozillia including support for what is esentially a site scrapper tag. It is time to take this up with Mozilla.
Brett: I agree that Mozilla should take some heat here. Hopefully they will turn this off by default in a future version of Firefox. I realize that this feature can currently be disabled by the user, but should we really expect all mainstream Firefox users to have to do this to protect their online privacy? I think that is asking too much. IMHO Google has always been a do-no-evil kind of company. Now I feel that they are abusing my trust by sending my traffic to sites that I didn't go to.
While the prefetch issue is clearly bigger than Google, having a top tier internet site like Google endorsing it like this sends the wrong signal to other webmasters. They should remove this "feature" from Google, and Mozilla should disable prefetch by default in future versions of Firefox.
Google only inserts this tag when there is a high likelihood that the user will click on the top result, but clearly this heuristic is not right 100% of the time.
Does this give us insight into human behavior? Can we now tell whether or not people have been clicking on the number 1 result, based on whether or not the prefetch is offered up? There's a lot of variables, but we might be able to learn how to increase click-thrus on organics.
I don't use FireFox, can anyone tell me how often this is actually coming up?
Will they be prefetching Javascript, or images? Will the JavaScript execute if the user doesn't click? Will my tracking show only my image bugs tracking and not the javascript? How will Analog/ AwStats / Webalizer handle this?
Does the Mozilla prefetch send another query if the link is actually clicked (I think this was asked in a different way before, concerning blocking the pre-fetch header. I want to know if another request is sent, prehaps just for the header if the user actually clicks.)
Like I don't have enough to think about at the moment! lol
Getting all sorts of cookies that I don't want to get. Does anyone else feel that this is a huge violation of online privacy?
I can't find any information on the prefetch that actually explains how it works. Does it simply load the page into the cache without setting any cookies or running any javascript, or does it set cookies/run javascript when the prefetch happens.
If cookies, javascript, ActiveX etc... are not run until the link is clicked, then security should not be too much of a worry.
But I could find no evidence one way or the other?
If cookies, javascript, ActiveX etc... are not run until the link is clicked, then security should not be too much of a worry.
But I could find no evidence one way or the other?
i have been looking for confirmation either way too, but so far nothing.
any members know for sure?
Does this mean that there's no way to sort out the difference between a prefetch and a visit after it's made its way into my logs?
With a default Apache combined log, no, there's no difference that I can see (a couple of my sites have the rel="prefetch" tag in the Serps).
However, it does ONLY prefetch the html - no css, images etc. So any stats that show the proportion of users using stylesheets, or browsing with images off, will be skewed (unless a high proportion of the prefetched users do indeed click on the first search result).
If a users does click on a link to a prefetched document, while the prefetch is still in progress, the document will be requested again. That screws your logs even more.
What happens if I click on a link while something is being prefetched?
When the user clicks on a link, or initiates any kind of page load, link prefetching will stop and any prefetch hints will be discarded. If a prefetched document is partially downloaded, then the partial document will still be stored in the cache provided the server sent an "Accept-Ranges: bytes" response header. This header is typically generated by webservers when serving up static content. When the user visits a prefetched document for real, the remaining portion of the document will be fetched using a HTTP byte-range request.
The na�vet� behind the next paragraph is even more revolting.
Are there any restrictions on what is prefetched?
Yes, only http:// URLs can be prefetched (https:// URLs are never prefetched for security reasons). Other protocols (such as FTP) do not provide rich enough support for client side caching. In addition to this restriction, URLs with a query string are not prefetched. This is done because such URLs often result in documents that cannot be reused out of the browser's cache, so prefetching them often has little benefit. We found that some existing sites utilize the <link rel="next"> tag with URLs containing query strings to reference the next document in a series of documents. Bugzilla is an example of such a site that does this, and it turns out that the Bugzilla bug reports are not cachable, so prefetching these URLs would nearly double the load on poor Bugzilla! It's easy to imagine other sites being designed like Bugzilla, so we explicitly do not prefetch URLs with query strings. (It might make sense to allow prefetching of these documents when the rel=prefetchrelation type is specified, since this should not appear in any existing content.) There are no other restrictions on the URLs that are prefetched.
Every dynamically generated page has a query string in its URL. Yeah, sure!
Brett, I knew the OR was there for a purpose ;-) Looking at my Ethereal dumps I realized that it isn't active yet on WebmasterWorld - at least I didn't get a 404 for the prefetch. I beg your pardon for screwing up your logs by using Firefox.
I have run a few tests, and cookies are set and stored during the prefetch.
I since searched for intel and the SERP resulted in a request from intel .com to set a cookie.
IMO google should think again, this feature wasn't designed for them and they should leave it alone.
The feature itself could be useful but two things i think should be addressed by Mozilla:
quotes taken from: [mozilla.org...]
There is no same-origin restriction for link prefetching. Limiting prefetching to only URLs from the the same server would not offer any increased browser security.
IMHO limiting the prefetch to the SAME domain wouldn't have any effect on its usefulness either.
and the disabling procedure
there is a hidden preference that you can set to disable link prefetching. Add this line to your prefs.js file located in your Mozilla profile directory
but this is a start
By popular demand, Mozilla 1.3+ includes a preference in the UI to disable prefetching. See Preferences->Advanced->Cache to disable prefetching
just my thoughts
Brett, trust you lol
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Its an invasive feature and I want to opt out! Google is going too far with all this stuff. I don't like it at all!
I have many friends I like a lot. I have business associates I like a lot too. I have a long term admiration for Google ... but that doesn't mean I will allow any of the above to invade my computer without my knowledge or consent!
Out damn spot ... out I say!
By popular demand, Mozilla 1.3+ includes a preference in the UI to disable prefetching. See Preferences->Advanced->Cache to disable prefetching
I have not been able to find this option anywhere. Is it different for Mac users?
Some other testing confirms that only the HTML page is fetched; with static pages, the prefetch request fetches the whole page, clicking on the link produces a 304 response.
Sending a 301 or 302 redirect from the prefetched location doesn't seem to have any effect on the original page.
JavaScript is not executed.
By popular demand, Mozilla 1.3+ includes a preference in the UI to disable prefetching. See Preferences->Advanced->Cache to disable prefetching
I have not been able to find this option anywhere. Is it different for Mac users?
It's available in Mozilla but not Firefox (at least not anywhere I can find it).
"One wonders what would happen if you prefetched your favorite Google search from your page? hmmm "
I suspect that if enough webmasters did so (i.e. in the footer of their pages) it would cause unwanted traffic to Google's servers that they would be less likely to monetize.
That is, it would do pretty much the same thing that Google is doing to other webmasters but on a different scale.
1) Enter "about:config" in your address bar.
2) Scroll down to the "network.prefetch-next" preference line (or use the filter to locate it).
3) Right-click on that line to select it, and pick "toggle" from the context menu.
4) Verify that the option is now "false".
This method should apply to any recent Mozilla-based browsers that are prefetch-capable.
At first blush this seem like it has the potential to make my user/vistitor statistics totally meaningless
they'll be glad to introduce you to urchin
so, i take it then that the 302 problem/issue/myth/confusion has been fixed? i mean, obviously, other more pressing problems were attended to before unloading this bit of fluff on the world?
in view of the recent request by the FBI for the server/phpbb logs of a site in the last week, anyone using firefox to query google ought to consider their searches carefully. your ip is going to show up in server logs even if you never clicked through. do you want to have to educate someone reviewing those logs on the finer points of prefetch? rather, do you want to pay to educate a lawyer on how to explain prefetch to another lawyer?
btw, i wonder how many affiliate accounts google has opened up? say the serp is for something hot in affilate markets, like mortage refinancing? google forces prefetch using it's affiliate link id. affilate program sets cookie. user later types in the url when he gets around to visiting the site. buys something. who do you think gets the affiliate commission?
then again, since affilate managers watch referral logs, an increase in referrals, real or imagined, might encourage the affiliate manager to consider increasing his spend on adwords.
this is all so dotcom'ish
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When coders implement stuff nobody asked for.
First, OSS often is great, because it is developed to get some task done. And since this is the only goal, it gets the task done better then commercial software.
But who asked for Link-Prefetching? Nobody. I know a lot of people who use computers. Bloody beginners and full-time professionals. No one runs around asking "Do you know a program to get the Link-Prefetching-Task done?" nobody.
Mozilla had this sudden boost when it released FireFox. A less bloated Mozilla. Hint hint...
If someone were paying for impression based ads and had a position 1 in Google against a keyword, the results would be shown and indepdent of whether the position 1 is clicked on then google would pre-fetch the page, using the Mozzila browser agent as a cover, and the destination site would have recorded a unique visitor? All in all, the publisher wins (but looses on bandwidth?), the advertiser doesn't.
If that gets thrown into Adsense equation does that have any implications? Going out on a limb but if efficient ads are set by Google as rate of clicked on vs number of times served what then happens to ad efficiency? Would this not go down?
Can't believe in this Broadband high speed internet days, at least in Western Europe, that this is being done so a 100k webpage (which is considered heavy) can be downloaded quicker. That's just over 1 second on most connections!
If that gets thrown into Adsense equation does that have any implications? Going out on a limb but if efficient ads are set by Google as rate of clicked on vs number of times served what then happens to ad efficiency? Would this not go down?
Only the HTML page is prefetched; no JavaScript or anything else is executed, so the prefetch hit won't count as an AdSense impression.
I knew folks here would be skeptical
Well, you were right. This "feature" has apparently angered a lot of people. Look at the activity on this thread alone! I have also seen negative feedback in the press [news.com.com], on a few other mailing lists that I am on, as well as on other prominent web sites like Slashdot [it.slashdot.org]. Some view this as a privacy violation since it can result in unwanted third party cookies for sites that one never visited. Some are concerned that they could get in trouble with their employers for visiting sites that they never went to, since those requests will show up in proxy logs. Others are angry that this inflates their web stats with requests from people who never visited their web sites.
As a result of this "feature", I see people talking about switching from Google to other search engines. I see people talking about switching from Firefox to other browsers. This is clearly not the desired effect of this "feature". I have yet to see much positive feedback about this "feature", have you? From your comment above, you clearly anticipated this kind of reaction. Why did nobody else at Google listen to you?
So my question for GoogleGuy is, what is the official method that all of us skeptics can take to formally request that Google remove this "feature"? Is this something that you can help us with, or should we all just shut up and switch to other search engines and web browsers?


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Helen Nienhueser has made a difference in Alaska ever since she arrived, by devoting the past 56 years to protecting, enhancing and promoting Alaska's natural greatness through writing, activism, volunteerism and land planning. ~ Nominators
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The 28th Annual International Monadnock Conference
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Setting high standards for instruction, competency, documentation and positive regard are common goals of education and business entities. Few, however, get it right, and even fewer survive the test of time.
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, best known for quality police batons, was one of the first in the world providing law enforcement with excellent products, support and standardized training.
Although all use-of-force instructors have their personal preferences regarding training and less-lethal weapons, few can argue that Monadnock has not defined the proverbial "bar" for high standards in training. Monadnock is now owned by BAE Systems Product Group, the third largest worldwide defense contractor. BAE continues to evolve to develop quality products and training for "those who protect us," which was evident by the success of this annual conference.
The 28th Monadnock International Conference was held in Lowell, MA. More than 35 staff members from around the world facilitated the Boston-are training for more than 130 participants seeking certification or recertification in PR-24, Straight Baton, the Monadnock Defensive Tactic System or Defense Technology Aerosol OC Instructor courses.
Interestingly, although about half of the 130 attendees were instructors seeking recertification; those remaining were new instructor candidates. Of those new instructors, nearly two-thirds were seeking PR-24 certification, which could indicate resurgence in the popularity of the PR-24 as a control and restraining device.
More Than Just Baton Training
According to Dave Stanton, international instructor and Advisory Board member, the strength of the Monadnock programs is that the training methodology has moved past unconnected individual skills and into a realm of linking all defensive tactics. The "protect and restrain" philosophy professed by Monadnock instructors has now evolved to "O.S.C.—overcome, stabilize to cuffing." Instructors are encouraged to instruct and test their students employing realistic stressors and conditions.
During my evaluation of the breakout sessions, instructors were learning how to better instruct and evaluate their students in confined spaces, on the ground, in stairwells, cars and even toilet stalls! Although static training was used to develop the basic skills of the students, once basic proficiency was established, they were instructed to immediately monitor the response of the subject, and evaluate options of disengagement or application of linked skills to overcome resistance and handcuff. While speaking with staff member Doug Sprague about this change in evaluation compared to that of the past he said, "Linking all the skills is the proficiency."
The Daily Routine
The Monadnock Seminar actually starts on a Sunday so that attendees can benefit from reduced transportation costs. The six-day conference format consists of four days of Monadnock Expandable Baton or Pr-24 programs, two days of Monadnock Defensive Tactics System programs and one day of Defense Technology Aerosol OC Instructor Training. The instructional groups were divided into teams with the instructor-student ratio averaging 1 instructor per 5 participants.
Each training day generally started out with the entire group of participants and staff meeting in a large ballroom for Active Isolated Stretching Exercises with longtime international instructor Jerry Konrad, following which students would report to their individual breakout groups.
After lunch, the participants were often reunited for mini training sessions on topics such as "Men Training Women; Women Training Men," by international instructor Kat Kelly or "Hindi Baton Cap & the Police Duty Belt Safety and Survival System" by staff instructor Robert Hindi. Both of these presentations were highly regarded in seminar evaluations.
Following dinner, participants had the opportunity to attend personal and professional growth certificate programs in topics such as: Instructor Development, Managing the Silver Screen, the Golden Age of the MEB, the Golden Age of the PR-24, First Responder Crowd Management, AutoLock Service Kit and Behavior Analysis Screening System.
Hall of Fame
Midweek during the conference, the Monadnock Advisory Board, along with the Program Manager Terry Smith unveiled a new distinction within the Monadnock family the Hall of Fame Award, recognizing individuals who have significantly contributed above and beyond the call of duty to their bother and sister officers. Hall of Fame Awards were presented in the names of:
Lon R. Anderson (Posthumously)—Master PR-24 Instructor and Developer of the PR-24
Richard E. Bearor (Posthumously)—Founding Advisory Board Member Craig H. Best (Posthumously)—Canadian International Instructor Robert (Coach) Lindsey—Founding Advisory Board Member
Edward J. Nowicki—Founding Advisory Board Member, Director of the International Law Enforcement and Educators Training Association Arthur N. Sapp—Founding Advisory Board Member
Larry H. Smith—Founding Advisory Board Member
Terry E. Smith—Program Training Manager for Monadnock and Founding Advisory Board Member
Paul D. Starrett—Founding Advisory Board Member and former President of Monadnock Lifetime Products
Joseph J. Truncale—Founding Advisory Board Member
John P. Vazquez—Founding Advisory Board Member
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The Monadnock International Training Conference is a one-of-a-kind experience. The intimate student-to-instructor ratio allows for personal one-on-one training with some of the most phenomenal trainers in the world! It is more than techniques and procedures; it's about networking and family. Although formal instruction, followed by certificate programs, generally end by 8 p.m., it is not unusual to find attendees working into the night sharing "spitballs of wisdom" in hallways and open conference rooms throughout the facility.
Not Just Work…Some Play
On the fourth day of the conference, international instructor Art Sapp, who is well known for his innovative training methods and devices, set up a Monadnock Skills Competition. Each team elected one representative from its group who proceeded to a physically challenging gauntlet of fitness, agility, baton and defensive tactic skills.
The competitors crawled, ran and fought through 10 stations reminiscent of Olympic and Roman Gladiator events. Participants cheered on their colleagues as they battled the station challenges that capitalized on endurance, fine and gross motor skills, ending with control arm restraints into a handcuffing position. When it was all said and done, the victor was Mark Cassola of the Essex County (MA) Sheriff's Department.
The Bottom Line
Overall the intensity and realism of the training has greatly improved to adapt to a changing society where less-lethal options are now expected to be deployed by law enforcement personnel. Although every attendee quickly learns the fundamentals of instructing a program that has become the "standard" for excellence, the real assessment is the knowledge that they walk away with and can pass on to save lives.
What sets Monadnock instructors apart is that they pride themselves in the interaction between the instructor and student. Everyone is valued, regardless of body size, language barriers or personal assignment. Instructors are coached on how to deal with instructor-trainee interaction, time constraints, civil liability and, most important, threats to the personal and professional survival of law enforcement officers.
The Monadnock Training Council and Seminar staff members have done their homework to make the seminar an intense, realistic and enjoyable training event. For first-time attendees, this seminar will not place you in a room with a multitude of internationally recognized experts in officer survival; it will expose you to a network of brother and sister officers who truly "share" their lessons learned the hard way in the streets, courts and classrooms of the world.
The 29th Less Lethal Instructor Conference will be conducted in September of 2009 and will be advertised through law enforcement periodicals and other electronic media. For further information, consult the Monadnock Web site or contact Terry Smith at (800) 772-4872.
Guy Rossi is the former program coordinator of Curriculum Development for Law Enforcement Training Programs at the Public Safety Training Center of Monroe Community College (Rochester, NY) as well as a sergeant with the Rochester Police Department. Rossi is a Monadnock international instructor and New York State Bureau of Municipal Police Master instructor. He can be reached through his Web site at www.guyrossi.com.
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Vayne had heard the music,that dramatic music from dominion, and she instantly knew from the time the bridge became finished, that this was her JAM! Hello everybody, this is my guide that after playing many games of dominion i have found a wonderful build that I hope will help you in domininating your games. A little bit about myself i have been playing LoL for almost a year now and ever since Vayne came out i have always chosen her for any Ranged dps. With the release of Dominion Vayne can excel like when she was first released. And this is just my tips and tricks to help YOU play better as vayne.
Greater mark of desolation- These are possibly the best runes you could get with vayne. + Dominion gives you a FREE 15% ARMOUR PENETRATION synergyzing well.
Greater Seal of Focus- Dominion gives you increased mana regen so mana is not a problem + there are health and mana packs around the map. USE THEM. These runes give you some pretty nice reduced cooldowns.
Greater Glyph of warding- Those pesky AP champions, reduce their damage with this rune.
Greater Quintessence of Desolation- Much like Greater mark of Desolation, Syngeryzes well with dominion. Remember armour penetration runes = greater damage every time.
The standard masteries.
Taking higher in Offence for many reasons.
Increased Attack speed, Even MOAR armour penetration, Increased damage both on crits and regular autoattacks. And just 1 tiny bit of cd reduction to go in there. Synergyzes well with your Seals of Focus.
Going 3 in reduced time of death because THIS! IS! DOMINION! You WILL die its a event that you cannot avoid. The key to dominion is to control the points and its hard to when your sitting in the death screen, They help you get back in that fight.
Besides the recommended build there are some other things you could do.In case that they are SO TANKY that you cant do sack and all that armour penetration you already recieve just isnt enough, THIS is the item you need. It wrecks tanks, squishies, you name it. Just use this instead of the ionic spark.
Need that extra extra extra survivability? This item gives you a SACK LOAD of health and theres a great bonus to it as well. It comes with a FREE SLOW!, QQ'ing as you watch that teemo runs away and with 200 healthyou cant keep up with him? this item will solve all your problems + it gives you some attack damage. Replace Entropy with this item if you need too.
The Banshees veil. A free save from you going down that poop chute. This will save your sack so many times you will think you are olaf. A all around item that you can get if they are super ap and you just need that extra sheild.
Skill Sequence
I max out Tumble first for a reason. Now your no gangplank but you still can crit with this and its got a pretty low cooldown. Jarvan ult you? Get the hell outta dodge with that tumble.
And at level 4 i get condem for a reason as well. Dominion has SO MANY walls and terrain around this gives you an almost guarrenteed stun. But i dont max this out until last because for one, Silver bolts just own everybody. And second, Its not a huge damage dealing spell and is only supposed to be used to stun.
Silver bolts I max second because THEY JUST OWN. With a set true damage deal + percents of their max health = damage that cannot be avoided. You could have 1k armour and if vayne gets 3 hits on you consecutivly your still getting dealt a set amount of damage. Nothing can hold this back.
Your almighty ult, gives you extra damage, Triple movement speed from your passive, and lets not forget the special stealth you get when you tumble. Use tumble with your ult up to catch up to that last person, come in for a gank, escape. You can do anything you want to with this given you have the imagination and ability to do it.
Beginning game almost nobody can be faster than you with this. Its not the best passive as you lose it facing away from enemies but this will get you kills,
Summoner Spells
I go the standard flash. Ultimate escape tool why wouldnt you use this?
Use this on their ranged dps in the back and laugh as they struggle to deal above 40. Its great for stopping somebody from catching up to you or getting away from you.
Ah yes Ghost. Its perfectly viable and i only use flash and exhaust as in personal preference. In Dominion though this can sometimes be SO USEFUL to get to those points faster than the other team.
I guess you could use this not recommended though. I mean why would you sure give a minion steroids and let it free farm for you but in a 1v1 or in a teamfight or holding a point when will this help you? Plus if an evemy champion finds it say goodbye to that minion.
Dominion tips.
Dominion is entirly different to anything we have seen before. Your job is not what you would think. Holding points is ALL IMPORTANT. Getting kills is just a upside. You are pretty much going around making sure they dont backdoor the hell out of your points and helping where needed. You see a 4 man push bot and only 2 of your teamates are there? You ult, tumble in, aim for their squishys. Get that kill and then back up if you need to. You make sure they cant push a point anywhere. Some other dominion tricks are sending 4 men top and having a heim go bot to hold. ITS A DOUCHE MOVE but you will get that windmill first.
-Great damage dealer without attack damage items
-You cant get away from vayne
-her condem is great for dominion
-cant get out of crowd control such as jarvans with a quick tumble out and then condem him out the other side
- Silver bolts are her JAM!
-Squishier than your sack
-Got to have common sense to play her
So this is my guide to playing Vayne in Dominion. Remember this is not a STRICT set up, this is a tip and trick guide. Please comment and give constructive criticism so you can help me help you. Rate as well, i will only continue to dish out build and guides if i recieve enough rates and comments. My username is ONLYUSEmeDOG in game. As always have fun playing the game and hope to see you all in game :D.


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Why is it so essential that there is bi-partisan communication and cooperation in our congress in this crucial moment in American History?
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To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Most bad government has grown out of too much government.
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
We should not be supportive when we KNOW beyond any reasonable doubt, that the direction Obama is taking our Nation leads to higher debt, higher taxes, bigger government and less freedom.
Have you noticed that Businesses are laying people off in droves, cutting back employee hours to part time, or closing down their plants?
Since the day after Obama was re-elected this has been going on, and it is only going to pick up pace after 1 Jan 2013... why do you think all those businesses are doing that?
Maybe they are a bit smarter than the 'average' American voter (half of them anyway), and they know far better what the re-election of Obama meant for our Nation's economy, and its future, than those who voted for him.
You don't support a President who is only going to bring harm to your family and your country. You do what you can, to block him at any and every opportunity from accomplishing what he wants to do. Unfortunately, with Obamacare going forward, and the Bush tax cuts expiring, the damage is already done... even if he accomplishes nothing else, his re-election ensures those two things will now occur... and the middle class (those making between 45k and 110k) are about to be crushed under the new taxes, penalties, and higher costs.
Millions will lose their jobs (or be cut back to part time) between now and 2014.
And the man that is most responsible for this happening, does not deserve anyone's support.
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''president has made his promises, '' REALLY
We all can be the judge on his promises that have not been kept. The government needs to cut spending and not raise more taxes on anyone.
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Actually, this claim about bi-partisanship being a benefit to the country depends on how bi-partisanship is defined. Essentially, according to Obama bi-partisanship means disavowing one's fundamental principles while accepting the principles of the other party. For example the Reagan and Bush (41) administration gave into tax increases for spending cuts in the "FUTURE". Those cuts never occurred.
A second problem with this notion of bi-partisanship is that liberals want immediate tax increases without identifying one cut. In fact, what is offered by the left is a cut to the growth of government. That means instead of raising spending 10 percent Obama is suggesting that raising spending only 8 percent and this is defined as a CUT in spending. That definition is contrary to any sensible meaning of spending cuts.
Another area of "savings" liberals point to is "waste, fraud and abuse". Why has that particular savings not already occurred during the previous 4 years if it is such a significant savings? Should that not be a primary objective of government in the first place, and therefore it has no relevance in the current discussion.
The bottom line with bi-partisanship is that it is a red herring. The reality is that we do NOT have a revenue problem - we the government has a spending problem. Reduce spending first - then there is something on the table to discuss.
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It depends on which of his promises you're referring to. There are some things Obama wants to do that I oppose, such as raising taxes.
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Good question , Yes l! We should be yet will we? , I think not ! America is truely divided almost equally , and in that division there is blindness in the opening of minds, now that is of the left And the right ! Media and government are too much in cahoots to inform us neutrally ! Our real problem though ........? Congress! Senate!
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