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There are times that we need to exercise measures to ensure our safety. Oftentimes, they are employed to maintain peace of mind. Our contemporary world makes it easy for anyone to panic, just as most people do when disturbed by uninvited phone calls. If this happened to you once or twice then know that technology allows you to do something about it. There is never a need to simply live with the problem, not if there's mobile phone number lookup service.
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Thursday Dec 5 | Business Journal
Why a Dulles company is building a dark fiber route to Richmond
Should vaccinations for children be legally required?
Should government buildings be allowed to display religious symbols?
Richmond, VA Check out the Free Stuff I found for you this week, and check back often, I'm constantly updating with new finds.
A musical lesson against bullying
ASHLEY MCLEOD/HOPEWELL NEWS/NEWS-PATRIOT Students at Appomattox Regional Governor's School put on 'Carrie: The Musical' on Sunday.
4 Injured In Petersburg Apartment Fire
At approximately 10:00 this morning, Petersburg Fire, Rescue and Emergency Service units responded to an alarm at the Jefferson South of the James apartment complex located at 1800 Boydton Plank Road.
Petersburg reports dramatic drop in violent crime
It was once the most dangerous city in Virginia. But now, Petersburg is on track to report the lowest number of violent crimes in a decade.
Petersburg: Full of Holiday Cheer
The historic town of Petersburg, Virginia is ready to celebrate this holiday season! City Manager, William E. Johnson III, stops by to share about the festive events.
Anthony Thomas Kohlhepp Sr., 88 , of Northport, passed peacefully on Nov. 4 after a long illness.
Soldiers competing at Fort Lee for 'Best Warrior' title
Twenty-four of the nation's top soldiers are competing in the Army's annual 'Best Warrior' competition this week at Fort Lee.
Rehab hospital now largest in Va.
A recent expansion to HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Petersburg has made it the largest freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospital in the state.
New center offers support for vets
A dilapidated old storefront downtown has been transformed into a place where veterans can find help from a variety of sources.
Soldiers competing in Va. for 'Best Warrior' title
Twenty-four of the nation's top soldiers are competing in the Army's annual "Best Warrior" competition this week at Fort Lee.
Robert F. Grayboyes: We need a Steve Jobs of health care
American doctors continuously have introduced medical miracles. But today, every young health care professional ought to ask, "Can we keep it up?" Anyone who has witnessed the Obamacare meltdown can be forgiven for wondering, too.
Police raided six homes in Petersburg last week in an effort to stop the sale of illegal alcohol.
The colors in the American flag were a little faded and the once-pristine white stripes were slightly yellowed, but the weathering of Old Glory was not something to be ashamed of.
Why Are These Soldiers Reading The Atlantic During a Cockfight?
In June 1864, Union General Ulysses S. Grant launched a 10-month siege of the strategically important railroad hub at Petersburg, Virginia.
Operation "Shot House" Busts Six Petersburg Homes Selling Alcohol
The Tri-Cities Regional Strike Force, made up of area police officers, conducted Operation "Shot House" to investigate nearly 100 complaints received from residents living in the area.
Veterans center opens in Petersburg, Va.
Gov. Bob McDonnell and first lady Maureen McDonnell participated in a ribbon cutting Tuesday for the Freedom Support Center for Veterans.
Ex-Corrections Officer Admits to Smuggling Scheme
A former federal corrections officer has admitted accepting a bribe from an inmate and smuggling marijuana and cigarettes into a prison in Prince George County.
We need a Steve Jobs of health care
At some point, a freewheeling United States gave birth to the most innovative health care system in human history.
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The tightened lending standards are keeping a lot of young professionals on the sidelines in home buying today. That's where more parents are stepping in.
More parents are taking on the role as mortgage lenders to help their kids take advantage of low home prices and record-low mortgage rates. In fact, one in three first-time home buyers either received a gift or loan from their families for a home purchase made in 2011, according to National Association of REALTORS®' research.
But parents who enter into a gift-giver or mortgage lender role need to make sure they follow some tax guidelines.
For one, the federal government has rules on how much you're allowed to gift. For 2012, individuals can give up to $13,000 per one person tax free in one year without having to pay gift taxes. Married couples can give up to $26,000 a year or $52,000 per young couple ($26,000 for the child and $26,000 for their spouse) - check with your tax accountant for details.
Some parents, instead of providing a gift, are acting more as a mortgage lender.
Parents can set up an arrangement where they charge interest on the money they lend, but the interest charged must be based on the IRS's "applicable federal rate" minimum for various loan maturities. Still, those rates are even far below today's record-low mortgage rates (anywhere from 0.19% or even less for three-year loan terms to 2.63% for nine-year loan terms) – check with your tax accountant for details.
Parents will need to pay income taxes on any interest earned on the loans. Still, the return may be better than what they can get for a low-interest CD or money market fund nowadays. As for the children, they'll still be able to deduct the interest on their taxes for the mortgage interest deduction if these agreements are formally structured.
More about Parent Financing: Become Your Kid's Mortgage Lender
NOTE: I am a REALTOR, not a tax accountant. For TAX advice always contact a CPA Accountant.
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UT Southwestern Medical Center physicians are nationally recognized experts in both clinical care and research. We have one of the few fellowship-trained physicians in Texas who has advanced training in endoscopic skull base surgery.
The assembled expertise includes a range of hard-to-find specialties: otorhinolaryngology (head and neck surgery), neurosurgery, neuro-ophthalmology, neurologic oncology, radiation oncology, interventional radiology, and pathology.
Our team provides skull base surgery patients with support throughout the entire process of diagnosis, treatment, and after care. Oncology-certified nurse practitioners serve as Patient Navigators, collaborating with the physician team to streamline the patient experience.
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Protecting Your Child From Dehydration and Heat Illness
With the hot days of summer come summer sports -- baseball, tennis, football practice -- both in the neighborhood and at camp. Before you send the kids out to practice -- or just for a long day of play in the sun -- learn to protect your child against the dangers of dehydration and heat illness. WebMD turned to Albert C. Hergenroeder, professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and chief of the sports medicine clinic at Texas Children's Hospital, for answers to parents' common questions.
1. What puts my child at risk for dehydration?
This year, start a new tradition pack a healthy school lunch for your kids. A nutritious lunch from home helps kids stay away from the high-fat, high-sugar, and high-sodium stuff in school cafeterias and vending machines. Research shows that America's children are missing out on five essential nutrients to their growth and good health: calcium, fiber, magnesium, vitamin E, and potassium. An ideal lunch provides good nutrition plus just enough calories to fuel body and brain throughout the...
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The same things that put you at risk for dehydration: prolonged exposure to high temperatures, direct sun, and high humidity, without sufficient rest and fluids. The difference is that a child's body surface area makes up a much greater proportion of his overall weight than an adult's, which means children face a much greater risk of dehydration and heat-related illness.
2. What signs of dehydration should we watch for?
Early signs of dehydration include fatigue, thirst, dry lips and tongue, lack of energy, and feeling overheated. But if kids wait to drink until they feel thirsty, they're already dehydrated. Thirst doesn't really kick in until a child has lost 2% of his or her body weight as sweat.
Untreated dehydration can lead to three worse types of heat illness:
- Heat cramps: Painful cramps of the abdominal muscles, arms, or legs.
- Heat exhaustion: Dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headaches, weakness, muscle pain, and sometimes unconsciousness.
- Heat stroke: A temperature of 104 or higher and severe symptoms, including nausea and vomiting, seizures, disorientation or delirium, lack of sweating, shortness of breath, unconsciousness, and coma.
Both heat exhaustion and heat stroke require immediate care. Heat stroke is a medical emergency that, when untreated, can be deadly. Any child with heat stroke should be rushed to the nearest hospital.
3. What can I do to prevent dehydration in my child?
Make sure they drink cool water and sports drinks early and often. Send your child out to practice or play fully hydrated. Then, during play, make sure your child takes regular breaks to drink fluid, even if your child isn't thirsty. A good size drink for a child, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics is 5 ounces of cold tap water or sports drink for a child weighing 88 pounds, and nine ounces for a teen weighing 132 pounds. One ounce is about two kid-size gulps.
Get them acclimatized before summer practice. "If you're going to send your kid off to tennis camp, they shouldn't be sitting around doing nothing in May and then going out to play tennis eight hours a day in June," says Hergenroeder. "They should be outdoors jogging, riding a bike, and otherwise slowly building up their fitness and ability to handle the heat." The fitter children are, the sooner their bodies will start to sweat after beginning to exercise -- and that's a good thing!
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NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - Three of the four teenagers accused of raping a University of Massachusetts student in her dorm room faced arraignment Monday.
Justin King and Emmanuel Bile, both 18 and from Pittsfield, and 17-year-old Caleb Womack of Connecticut were arraigned on aggravated rape charges.
A fourth teenager, 18-year-old Adam Liccardi of Pittsfield, will be arraigned at a later date.
The four are accused of raping a student in her Amherst dorm room last fall.
None of the defendants is a UMass student.
Authorities say the woman knew the teens, but asked that they not visit. They were signed into the dorm by another student.
The suspects' lawyers insist the sex was consensual. They all pleaded not guilty.
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The Hostel International was full, this was unfortunately the closest place available. Alarm bells started ringing at check-in, but it was getting late and I needed somewhere to crash for the night. The receptionist was gobby and full of her own crap jibes. It certainly wasn't her pleasure to be checking you in and was very unhelpful. The room was... More
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MONTREAL - A former leader within Quebec's student movement is taking flak from some of his old allies now that he's an elected politician and tuition fees are going up.
Leo Bureau-Blouin, who was elected last fall under the Parti Quebecois banner, says he's gotten threats and attacks on a Facebook page he uses to publicize a monthly meeting with constituents.
Some of the posters on the page called him a "loser" and "traitor."
Bureau-Blouin's constituency office was targeted in protests earlier this week and had red paint splattered on it during the night.
Premier Pauline Marois announced at the end of a summit on education on Tuesday that the government was rejecting calls for a tuition freeze. Instead, fees are being hiked three per cent in accordance with the cost of living.
That's about $70 per year.
Angry students, who have been fighting tuition increases for a year, took to the streets and ended up clashing with police.
More than a dozen people were arrested. Students say they plan to resume demonstrations next week.
Many vented their ire on the Facebook page, criticizing the man who was once one of the most recognizable faces of their movement.
Camille Robert, one of the spokespeople for the more militant ASSE student group, asked if Bureau-Blouin could help pay for the tuition increases.
"Would it be possible to find out if your salary as an MNA could help us pay for the increase?" she asked the 21-year-old member of Quebec's national assembly, who has already committed to donating a quarter of his salary to charity.
Other members of her group, including spokesman Jeremie Bedard-Wien, said they planned to attend the event for constituents.
Poster Samuel Cote says he won't miss the chance to see Bureau-Blouin.
"This time, I'm going to have a pocketful of red squares," he said, citing the symbol of the student movement which were worn by members of the PQ caucus until just before last year's provincial election.
Cote finished his post with a blunt "RESIGN!"
There were a number of supportive messages, too: "You're doing exactly what you said you'd do Leo and you have all my respect! Politics isn't easy, stay strong!"
While he didn't address tuition fee increases, Bureau-Blouin said in an interview with The Canadian Press on Monday that he was pleased with the student summit.
"Quality of education, funding of universities, affordable loans and bursaries programs — all of these issues will be addressed."
His optimism wasn't shared by many of the posters on the Facebook page on Wednesday, some of whom left sarcastic messages.
"Increases over five years with the Liberals (equals) increases over 15 years with the Pequistes," wrote Pedro LeChasseur. "COOOOL."
Added Eric Robertson: "Thanks for the increase, Leo."
Bureau-Blouin says he will go ahead with the meeting but called for respect.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Basics
- Survivablity
- Creeps and Towers
- Items
- Hero Classifications (coming soon)
- Credits
I thought I would write some of the information that I constantly say in games online to new players or via the in game comms. It is a joint effort with friends the guide will be updated, so if you have any piece of information you want to contribute with, feel free to post it in this thread.
Text in Red is the Heroes of Newerth item name
Text in Green is the same item but the DotA name for it.
- Don't assume you always have to be fighting to win the game.
- You get experience for being about 2/3 of the screen width away when something dies, you don't have to kill it yourself.
- You get gold from a kill if you make the final, killing blow on it.
- Early on, getting experience is more important than getting gold.
- Killing enemy heroes gets you roughly 200 gold and some experience.
- Dying costs you a %age of your gold, and means your opponents level ALOT faster than you. **[[EDIT 30*Your Level rather than a percentage of your current gold. So a level 4 hero will lose exactly 30*4 = 120 gold.]]**
- Press the quote key ' (or you can remap this in the control's section) to show units health/mana bars above them.
- Heroes abilities decide games.
Therefore, if you don't recognise the hero you are against in your lane, ask your teammates what to watch out for. They will tell you the nastiest things you will face.
Early in game, stand nearby action but don't be involved all the time, don't make yourself a target for enemy heroes. Sit levelling up for a while and you gradually get a small amount of gold in the "background". If you make a few creep kills you get even more gold.
- When you have little health early on, creep hits on you hurt quite alot.
- If you don't have much health and you stick around near combat, the enemy will try to ambush you.
- Your skills are weak early on, and it takes many hits and spells to kill a hero. It is best to conserve your mana.
- Skills increase along with damage and combat later in the game can be brutally fast.
- If you conserve your mana it could be the difference between life and death either for yourself, allys or enemy heroes. (Stuns for example)
- Sometimes no matter how hard you try to play well, you will get beaten on.
If you are levels behind in your lane and getting hurt badly every time you go into combat, CALL IT EARLY and request a swap. Other people in your team doing better may be able to swap with you and stop the rot. You could also ask team mates to come and "gank/ambush" the people in your lane.
Always try to be staying alive, don't go for the jugular until you are sure of your capabilities, and the enemies.
Safe Buys
I would suggest people who have a problem with survivablity take into consideration and perhaps buy these items to help.
Fortified Bracelet / Bracer: + 3 to Strength, +3 to All Attributes. (found in the Initiation Recipe shop)
I would try and get two of these to begin with, the reason for this is so that you have some extra stats and more importantly a lot of extra health which will help you survive, if you have picked a strength hero you will get extra damage.
Steam Boots / Power Treads: +65 Movement speed, 10 Strength, and +30 attack speed. Click to toggle stats. (found in the Initiation Recipe shop)
To make these you need to get [ Marchers / Boots of Speed: +50 Movement Speed - 500 gold ] - which are extremely important for most people as it helps you get into or out of fights a lot quicker (aswell as into Lanes to creep). The reason for this item is so that you can have improved movement speed, attack speed and gain some extra health again. Combined with the Bracelets you won't be extremely squishy and most likely the enemy will have a harder job killing you which is what we want to avoid to begin with.
Creeps & Towers
Your hero will automatically attack units that are close by to it such as creeps(term: Auto Attacking). Here is a run down of why this is a bad thing and hopefully teach new players the reasons why last hitting is something that all HoN/DotA players should aim to perfect.
- Creeps will give gold for getting the killing blow on them.
- Friendly creeps can be denied.
- You kill your own creep to deny your enemy experience and gold, and thus giving you an advantage.
- Creeps are only deniable when on 50% health or lower.
- To deny creeps you should press A and target the friendly creep
- The creep waves are ALWAYS equal to each other, so any interference from players will make the creep wave move down or up a lane.
- If you put equal amounts of damage into friendly and enemy creeps then when the creep waves meet again they should fight in exactly the same place you were just at or extremely close by.
- If you auto attack and push the creeps forward and continue to creep this means that you could become vunerable to being ambushed.
- Towers hurt alot early on.
- Towers target ANYTHING which is attacking a friendly hero (or should).
- You have to take towers down, but it is much easier late game than early.
- The final hit on a tower gets you hundreds of gold.
- You can attempt to deny a tower by last hitting it
- Towers can only be denied when they are on 10% or less health.
- Denying a tower grants you & your team mates 100/150gold each and non for the opposing team
It is never really a good idea to be pushing towers early on unless your team has decided you need to win the game early and you are a team that is based around early mid game wins. If you kill a tower early the likelyhood is that the creep wave will end up on the enemies side of the map for huge portions of the game until it is either pushed back by enemy heroes (which they should try and attempt not to do by last hitting and denying to keep the creep wave safe in a friendly area) or until they push and take down 1-2 towers to equal each side.
Later in the game you must group up as 3/4/5 players and push one lane, usually the middle to take barracks down. Once you have done this, go another lane. If your team starts grouping you should NOT be alone unless you know what you are doing and why and when. (hint : if you need to read this post, you are dozens of games away from knowing what, why and when.)
- Buying items suited to your heroes helps quite a bit.
- Buying the wrong items just plain sucks.
Therefore : if you are not sure what to buy, ask a team mate with more experience for a build order. Even among experience players there are disagreements and opinions, but they won't be significantly different. Remind them it is a build for a new player so they don't make it too ambitious for you.
Starting Items
(This is what I personally like to buy to start off with in 90% of games I play)
- Pretenders Crown / Circlet of Nobility: +2 All Attributes - 185 gold -
- I buy TWO of these to turn into Bracelets.
- Found in the Accessories section of the shop.
- These will give you extra health/mana/damage.
Now you need some regeneration or healing items so that you can stay in lane for a longer period of time, because its going to be 99% sure you will be taking some damage from creeps or heroes in the lane.
- Healing Potion / Healing Salve: Heals 400 HP over 10 seconds on a friendly unit. 1 Charge. Dispels on attack. - 100 gold.
I also buy TWO of these (found in the Supplies section of the shop). You need to make sure that you stay away from any incoming damage when you activate this heal potion on yourself as any damage will stop the regen effect.
Alternativly you can buy
- Runes of the Blight / Ancient Tango of Essifation: Allows the bearer to consume a tree, restoring 115 hit points over 16 seconds. 3 charges. - 90 gold.
Usually people buy TWO sets of these runes. The good thing about the Runes of Blight over the Healing Potions are that they don't stop the regen effect should you take damage.
Overall it is best that what ever items you decide to go for at the start you should always look to take some health regen items in the form of items or consumables. If you turn up to a lane with no health regen items the likelyhood is that you will get pushed out of lane quickly by enemy heroes that have noticed this and get some attacks in on you trying to force you out of lane.
Hero Classifications
So this section is to explain to people what class or role each hero is/plays within Heroes of Newerth. A lot of the heroes are good at several things and not just one - I will try and give a little run down of what they are good at.
Heroes which specialize at killing other heroes through physical damage. Most heroes that have windwalk, an invsisibility skill, or blink can fall into this catergory. Often these heroes need to get more gold than other classes.
Heroes who possess the ability to disable other characters, basically forcing them into a disadvantage while they attempt to fight or flee. Disables include any spells that move the enemy without his or her consent, stun an enemy, reduce movement speed, disallow movement, reduce damage, reduce attack speed, reduce armor, prevent physical attack or prevent spell casting. Though many spells fall under these catergories, the general rule of an effect disable spell is a spell that can extend and enemy's precence in combat against his or her will, which therefor only includes the first four of the listed effects. Also, passive abilities are often ignored as disables. Pollywog Priest and Puppeter are examples as they both have two skills that are classed as Disable.
Heroes whose skills are meant to directly aid the rest of the team. Heroes with healing or protective skills fall into this catergory. Pushers can be counted as support, although somtimes they can be used individually instead of working together with the team.
Heroes which possess the ability to cause an significant amount of damage in a single instant via use of an activated spell in lieu of a physical attack. E.g. Pyromancer.
Heroes which can quickly destroy enemy towers and creep generators due to their ability to summon additional units or deal damage to an area of enemy creeps.
Heroes who posses the ability to stun other characters. Certain heroes have passive skills enabling their attacks to have a chance of stunning. When such heroes are able to keep an enemy constantly stunned it is known informally as permastun or stunlock.
Heroes who can absorb huge amounts of damage with either high health or armor count. Typically used to tank towers or enemies.
Intelligence Heroes
[Pollywog Priest]
Pusher(Early/Mid Game)
[Puppet Master]
[Demented Shaman]
Disabler/Stunner (Snare Skill)
[Voodoo Jester]
Agility Heroes
[Moon Queen]
Tanker(Bear Form)
Pusher(Toxin Wards)
Maybe Carry
[Blood Hunter]
Disabler(Orb effect slow)
[Dark Lady]
Strength Heroes
Disabler(Slow & Armor reduction)
Disabler(Slow from Snot)
[Keeper of the Forest]
Carry or Tank
[War Beast]
Shamelessly stole some of the Item pictures/text from Hucklecats thread on Items which can be found here -> http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/showthread.php?t=521
Anyone who has given input that is now in this guide.
Last edited by Kaution; 01-11-2010 at 04:34 PM.
#4 I'd expand upon your idea here, of how having the lane near their tower is beneficial to the enemy team. Therefor, if they're able to keep the lane near this area by balancing out the damage the creeps take to make it remain neutral, you're in a very bad position. You can fix this by autoattacking or nuking the creeps into the tower. At first, this sounds stupid because it's exactly what you don't want to do. But this actually bounces the creeps back to a more favorable position. The best position to be in is right near your own tower, but out of range of it.
#10 Denying a tower in HoN grants the denying team 100 gold each, and completely denies your enemy any gold. It's extremely important to atleast make attempts to deny in HoN. In DotA, the enemies still all got 100 gold and the deny'ers got nothing.
Treads aren't really a safe buy on every hero, most casters do not benefit from the IAS whatsoever. Phase boots or travels are a safer bet on casters, with phase boots being cheaper with +armor +dmg and a clicky runspeed/phase buff while travels have that all important teleportation to friendly creeps that can be so essential lategame, letting casters port around to defend against creep pushes while carries are out killing heroes and pushing. Not to downplay the plusses of the phase boots though, they're excellent for speeding up to get that last spell in or to outrun a gank, a small speed buff for a few seconds makes ALL of the difference in HoN.
Also, my advice to new players: Last hit even if you're bad at it, you only get better by practicing. Auto attacking creepwaves pushes them into the enemy towers so they can farm much more safely and aggressively while you are forced to stay back to avoid lethal towershots. Proper last hitting and denying will keep the lane closer to your tower which means you will farm more safely as well as farming more efficiently.
Last edited by Kietharr; 06-18-2009 at 05:42 PM.
This is like a BASIC guide through to newer players which is why I've suggested such basic items.
You do realise that someone that is new to the game may not remember/know about Enchanced marchers or clicking on them and what not, it just adds complications. Steamboots allows them to get more health and can practice last hitting with them, its simple and effective. Don't complicate things, already lots of information for new players to take in without having to teach them the fine points of activatable items and such. All heroes have a basic attack animation and have basic dmg, until they start to learn each hero and each spell telling them about how to port around and push the creeps ect isnt a good idea.
How about you right a diff guide?
The second bit you just said is already covered in this guide? did you read it?
I am new to the game and have been spending time lurking around here reading all. Good info up top.
I have been trying to get into action to quickly as a noob it appears. If I am getting exp from 2/3 a screen away then a lot has been answered for me. That needs to be stressed to new players not familiar with DotA.
In the settings there is a nice tick box that will make everyones life easyier for those that choose to tick it.
In the "Control" section of the Settings there is a tick box that says "Show Experience" or something along those lines, it will have some purple numbers next to units that die that can give experience, so you can see for yourself how much a creep will give you and how much it will give if its denied and what distance you need to be to recieve said experience .
Nice guide.
It seems that when you last hit a tower, it says you are getting 200 gold, yet when a creep kills a tower a team gets 350.
What gives?
Unless the system is extremely broken, I'm sure it's just an additional 200 gold for last hitting the tower.
I'd also like to state the importance of letting players know how imperative it is that they understand if they disable a hero with non of their creeps around and all of yours, the creeps will attack the hero, doing a lot of damage. Example: Glacius vs Pest. Sent vs scourge. Scourge has 1 creep left and pest is right next to it, creep is killed and pest begins to run, but Glacius slows/disables him, creeps auto attack the hero for 4-5 hits doing a good amount of damage ontop of magic. I feel like this is "average" tip at the very most. Apologies if I came off intrusive. I understand what you said about new players, but things like this will be imperative in a bad lane, and is a good alternative to just taking the beatings. Also, I've go tto agree with kietar that you need to teach new players the right way, no matter how complex it is. Doing it like this is just going to teach them play left handed in a game that requires your right ( or some analogy like that,) ultimately they'll just be doing the wrong thing for a long time.
Also creep pulling and blocking should be noted (Creep pulling IS possible, it's just a bit harder.)
Last edited by FuriousPeon; 06-18-2009 at 07:56 PM.
I see your point, but if I was going to teach them how to play the right way all the time I wouldnt tell them to build bracelets on most heroes would I? I personally can get away with not having to build health anymore but it's a good starting point and thats what I've put it for. I think the arguement would be valid IF I was telling them to auto attack because its a good start point but no thats not what I've done, it was merely some suggestions for start items that will help keep them alive so they can learn the game better and stay alive more.
The main focus of the guide is not to debate what items people should be going for, the main focus is getting to grips with the game itself and the importance of actions rather than what you buy. As I said - suggestions and hopefully people will read this thread and the replies and they can take on board some of the good input people have been posting(its all good input thanks ). I would ask though if you want to suggest such stuff please can you put it in the form of a guide/post so it fits in and people have all the info in one place or if its good enough can just edit the first post and put what some of you guys write into it .
edit: On discussions - a good point came up, they are base items which means they can buy these items on all heroes and this is good because its kinda all round, its not the best one but its good enough to help them learn and to help them survive.
Last edited by Kaution; 06-18-2009 at 09:24 PM.
I think Steam boots are a pretty safe bet for a new player - even on a caster we're not going to be trying to give them enough mana to do x y z every few minutes. We're talking managing to do x y z before they die.
I'd like to see a build, start to finish that's very generic and can apply to any hero - no it won't be anywhere near ideal, but it removes one element of the complexity so they can concentrate on being part of a team and being in the right place.
They should soon realise there are better items on different heros but they can tweak at their own pace.
With regards to Steamboots I usually get them on every hero (usually in STR mode) just so I can get that extra bit of health early on (I buy the Bolstering Armband along with a set on Runes of the Blight) as I find that even on a caster this could allow me to survive slightly longer, you can always change them later on to suit the game.
If you enter a lane with no regen (potions/blight runes/trinket of restoration) early on you may find you get a bit persecuted as opposed to your team mate who will be able to survive longer, other people will see this and try to go for you over your lane buddy.
Make note that you can share items of regen so if you have a trinket, blight runes or even a bottle charge then you could pass these on.
Although this may come up as a slightly more advanced part of the game in regards to new to average skill, but you may want to make a note of if the enemy hero which is in lane with you disappears for around 7-10 seconds as they may have either gone around to try to ambush you or to try to draw you forward into an ambush, have gone to check for a rune in which case they will come back stronger, or they may have left lane to try to gank someone else.
In this situation it's best to say through either chat or voice comms that the hero(es) in your lane is missing so the other heroes on your team can be on their guard. The element of surprise can and will win ganks and fights. If a hero then reappears once you've called missing you can just call him back in lane (otherwise known as "RE" e.g. Behemoth missing right lane.... Behemoth RE right...)
Hey thanks for this guide. I never thought about the creep tactic and always just beat on them while trying to get the last kill. Knowing now to stay back and just leech xp should help greatly in my early game.
Thread has been overhauled and added some extra stuffs.
Updated with Hero Classifications. Any Input on this front is welcome but this is how I see these heroes.
Let it be said that any hero if farmed well and in the correct hands can become what ever he/she wants to play it as even if its frowned upon by most. Example being that most Strength heroes can become carrys with enough farming and the correct items - its not set in stone but what I've put down is what I think they should be as default.
Don't forget initiation heroes. These are actually the most important on any team and are most likely the hardest to be handled by new players. Behemoth, Kraken, Tempest, Torturer, Devourer, Keeper of the Forest, Hellbringer. These heroes are most often used to start a fight, some may do it to do a large amount of damage early on, others may simply be used for positioning to help other heroes, but these are usually the most important heroes in a fight and take time to learn how to farm them up properly, etc.
Not sure if its been mentioned but Fortified Bracelet does +6 str, not +3, unless I've looked at it wrong.


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Years Active: | 2002-Present |
Amber Patrice Riley (born February 15, 1986) is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her role on the FOX TV series, Glee, as Mercedes Jones.
Early life and career
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Ukiah Daily Journal
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of articles about the county's mental health system, and the county's intention to contract out those services. See Friday's Ukiah Daily Journal for more.
In a long-awaited move, the Mendocino County Health and Human Services Agency is getting ready to launch its effort to contract out all of its mental health services, according to agency Director Stacey Cryer.
The county expects to release a request for proposals within a month, and service providers, non-profit agencies, businesses and other interested parties will have 60 days to submit bids for the contract, she said.
"We already contract out a large portion of our mental health services," Cryer said. "We're looking at having one contract versus 78 contracts to administer, and that will mean less administrative dollars will go to the administration of those contracts, and it puts more dollars toward service delivery."
To serve Mendocino County's mentally ill adults and mentally disturbed youth, the county contracts out some of those services to 78 contractors, representing between 60 and 70 percent of the county's mental health budget, according to Cryer.
About $14 million of the county's mental health budget goes to children's mental health services, according to HHSA Assistant Director Tom Pinizzotto. He said about 86 percent of that money goes to contractors -- often called "community partners" among county staff -- such as Redwood Children's Services, Tapestry Family Services and the Mendocino County Youth Project.
The county spent the last year and a half getting ready to contract out its other services, according to Cryer, starting in January 2011, when the county received the first of three letters urging the county to hand over more of its mental health services to community partners.
A Jan. 12, 2011 letter from the Mendocino County Mental Health Board urged the county to "form various contractual partnerships" to improve the county's mental health services, turning the county into a "fiscal agent and supervisor and contractual supervisor for services which are to be directly carried out by community contract partners."
The mental health board is a group of citizens, community partners and stakeholders in mental health services appointed by the Board of Supervisors to advise on mental health issues.
A March 14, 2011 letter from Redwood Children's Services urged the county to broaden its public-private partnership "to include contracts and agreements with a network of community-based organizations for the delivery of all of Mendocino County's mental health services for children and adults."
The RCS letter envisions the county "administering and managing the funding for (mental health) services and for assuring compliance and quality of services," while "delegating the provision of direct services to organizations with a track record in this community for effective service delivery and break-even financial management of these services."
A letter from Ortner Management Group in Yuba City, dated March 16, 2011, says the company wants to negotiate with the county "to be the provider of an integrated mental health service delivery system for the entire county."
Cryer said she was also affected by a mid-March 2011 meeting, one of a series of meetings between the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and consultant Steve Zuiback, who helped the supervisors develop a matrix system that ultimately gave numeric ranking to certain methods of meeting the county's financial and organizational goals, with privatization ranking high among those priorities.
It was then that planning began, according to Cryer. The past year and a half were spent cleaning up the county's mental health department, plugging its financial leaks and paring down its services so that only "core," or mandated, services were being provided.
"Initially, the idea was to stabilize the budget and restructure the department and build from there," Cryer said.
As an example, Cryer said the county's chief psychiatrist -- who she noted was one of the highest-paid county officials -- spent 20 hours per week treating mental health clients in the Mendocino County Jail. Meanwhile, she said, clients in the general population were waiting three months to see a psychiatrist. From that perspective, she said it made sense to cut the psychiatrist's jail hours from 20 hours a week to 8 hours a week.
In the last year and a half, the county's mental health staff dropped from 120 employees to 46, according to Cryer. The current fiscal year is the first time in years that the mental health budget has been balanced.
The county also cut other programs that were good, but not necessary, according to Pinizzotto -- a position Cryer stands firmly behind despite the ire it's drawn from employees and the community.
"County services for years have been fragmented -- not as coordinated as we'd like," Pinizzotto said. "The intent of the RFP is to develop a comprehensive, integrated, seamless, sustainable plan."
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August 6th, 2010: To give me a few days off to prepare for my wedding (which is TOMORROW), some pals gave me some comics! David Malki ! is a great guy, handsome and tall but not as tall as me but still tall you guys, and we get along really well. You should read his comic!
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The alleged gang rape of a woman near San Francisco earlier this month seems to be the punctuation on a series of high profile attacks against gays and lesbians around the U.S. this year.
Advocates say they aren't sure if the threats, beatings and killings reflect a true rise in attacks or increased reporting of hate-based crimes.
FBI statistics show the number of reported hate crimes based on sexual orientation climbed from 2005 to 2007.
But advocates point out not all states allow attacks motivated by anti-gay bias to be charged as hate crimes.
Also, some victims are reluctant to reveal their sexual orientations to police, leading some gay and transgender rights advocates to suspect the numbers to be much higher.
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Zimmerman is charged with the second-degree murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Since the incident occurred Feb. 26, Zimmerman has asserted he shot and killed Martin in self-defense.
In his initial phone call to the police non-emergency line that evening, Zimmerman reported Martin as a suspicious person in the neighborhood. Between his phone call and the time police arrived an altercation between the two occurred, with Zimmerman claiming Martin confronted and attacked him.
Included in today's release of evidence are seven non-emergency calls made between August 2011 and February that sound strikingly similar to the call Zimmerman made the night Martin was shot and killed.
Two calls made in August have Zimmerman beginning the same way his call on Feb. 26 does – stating there have been break-ins in the neighborhood and he sees suspicious black males that match the suspect descriptions from the break-ins around his neighbors' homes.
He makes a similar call in October reporting two black males he does recognize driving through the neighborhood.
Another call made in September has Zimmerman reporting that his neighbor left their garage door open – something he finds out of the ordinary. He also states the neighborhood just held a neighborhood watch meeting the night before.
"They told us to report anything suspicious," he said. "It's late and they usually don't have their garage door open all night."
In January the neighborhood watch captain makes another call to report that children have been playing in the street at dusk, and they would run in front of vehicles.
"Obviously it's not an emergency, I'm just concerned for their safety and for the drivers in the neighborhood," he said.
Less than a month before the incident with Martin, Zimmerman makes a call to report another black male in the neighborhood, walking repeatedly around a home.
"I don't know what his deal is," stated Zimmerman. "I don't want to approach him personally."
The final non-emergency call from Zimmerman has him reporting Martin as a suspicious person – even using the same phrasing to the dispatcher – "We've had some break-ins in my neighborhood," and "I don't know what his deal is."
Police radio transmissions reveal little about the incident that hasn't already been released. In the most notable transmission the first responding officer can be heard reporting the situation when he arrived.
"I need someone ASAP. I've got one down with a gunshot wound and one secured," he said.
Transmissions also have police checking Zimmerman's license plate and gun registration with the dispatcher.
Zimmerman is currently out of jail on a $1 million bond. His attorney Mark O'Mara said he is currently in a safe house in Seminole County while being monitored on GPS as part of his bond release conditions.
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Suddenly, E-Bikes are Everywhere You Look
If you travel much, you've likely seen the e-bike craze for yourself. Touring by bicycle has long been the preferred way to see picturesque locales, but there was always the question of whether there was a hill involved. Or an Alp, in the case of Switzerland. While bicycle tours were once the property of the fitter among us, these days it's difficult to find an existing Swiss bicycle tour company that doesn't offer an e-bike upgrade, opening up new vistas for the more sedentary.
Exhibit A: The New York Times went for an electronically assisted Alpine spin last summer. Of course, in Switzerland, as writer Tim Neville, points out, e-bikes are just lying around:
For 50 Swiss francs a day, about $62 at $1.25 to the franc (with discounts for multiple days), you can rent an electric bike from one of 400 rental stations around the country and then set out on some 5,600 miles of well-marked bike paths.
Closer to home, it's the same story in Victoria, BC. I rented a non-electric hybrid bike from Cycle BC, $24 for a full day, but when I got back I noticed a row of e-bikes along the wall. They'd converted a few of their Norco hybrids to e-bikes, via a BionX kit, with the battery pack strapped to the bike rack. A motorized hub drives the rear wheel. The e-bikes rent for slightly more ($9 per hour, $35 for the day), but they open up a full day of biking as well.
E-bikes are terrific for touring because you no longer need to worry so much about knowing the terrain, or estimating your fitness. If they can get up and down the Alps, they can handle hills elsewhere just fine. And if you haven't been on a bike in a while, or ridden very far, touring all day on a bike can quickly come to seem overly optimistic. I always remember the pained look on a 60-ish man's face, on a Caribbean bike tour, when the humidity, heat, and distance to the beach we were visiting overwhelmed him, and he had to pull up while the rest went on ahead.
Here in the Northwest, electric bikes have enjoyed an elevated popularity for years, at least according to Google, which ranks Oregon's interest highest, Washington's second. ("E-bike" is apparently a Californian term.) Seattle's cliff-faced hills have long prompted a certain surreptitious interest in some kind of help getting up them. Electric Bikes Northwest was founded in the misty past of 1996. They remain the go-to source for e-bike information, with a guide to picking out the electric bike for you, and four different kinds of electric conversion kits.
But as of just two years ago, Sightline could run a whole series wondering where the e-bike excitement was. It still makes good reading, but the market is catching up fast. E-bikes can now be a low-end or high-end purchase. In Portland, you can pick up a top-of-the-line Kalkhoff for just $4,999. (Or you can rent a Kalkhoff and pretend you own a very expensive electric bike for the weekend.)
Here in Seattle, most of your new-bike options are in the $1,000 to $3,000 range. Besides Electric Bikes Northwest, there's also Greenwood's Seattle Electric Bike, who sell OHM electric bicycles; Pioneer Square's Seattle E-Bike, who sell Prodeco when they're in stock; and Laurelhurst's Bicycle Center of Seattle, who have an electric bike department with a variety of brands. (They also sell an electric trailer, which will push your regular bicycle around.)
Conversion costs for an existing bike vary widely, depending upon the kit, its weight, power, and the type of motorized hub–whether it's front or rear, or provides an integrated assist or a stand-alone boost.
Weight still remains an issue–electric bikes can push themselves around fine, but if you have to hoist a full-size e-bike at any time, you might notice if it weighs more than 50 pounds. (Smaller, lighter varieties fold up for traveling or storage on your boat.)
Speed tops out between 15 and 20 mph–that and power limited to 750 watts keeps the e-bike in the legal vicinity of a bicycle, as opposed to a scooter or motorcycle. The distance they can help you travel depends on you, how much you can or want to pedal, and how big a hill is involved. An "average" might be 20 miles, but speeding up an Alp, Neville reports, exhausted a battery in seven. (Of course, you can also buy a spare battery, just like you might with a cell phone.) In any event, batteries recharge quickly: they can get back to 90 percent of a charge in as little as 20 or 30 minutes, while taking three or four hours for a full charge.