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Solo top AP Offtank
Nautilus Build
Ability Sequence
Before my guide starts, please DO NOT downvote my guide just because you own other Nautilus guide. Also don't downvote just because you found some little grammar mistake (I'm not native speaker but I think it's still readable) or one of items doesn't fit for you. I will cover more possible items in section "Items". These are just random items for random match. EACH match requires DIFFERENT defensive items, depending on the enemy team.
Welcome to my Nautilus guide. In this guide, I will cover two main build posibilities:
- 1. Solotop build (AP/tanky)
- 2. Solomid build (pure AP)
- 3. Jungle build (Pure Tank)
Most of this guide is concern on 1st and 3rd build because they were my starting ones. For 2nd (Pure AP), there's individual section.
Nautilus is very attractive and fun-to-play champion (IMO) with strong disrupting and battlefield control equipment. I think, he's not difficult champion to play, but still takes some time to get tricky moves with his Dredge Line and Depth Charge (Classic quote: Easy to learn, hard to master). I will describe everything around Nautilus, viable Items, Masteries, Runes, Summoner spells and also Jungling route for starting players. Later on, I will add more details and some tips & tricks so please keep this guide alive by positive voting ;)
For starting players, I recommend to play one or two matches against intermediate AI. Just to learn how his abilities work, their delay etc.
|Health: 432 (+86)
Health regen.: 7.45 (+0.55)
Mana: 200 (+50)
Mana regen.: 7.45 (+0.7)
Range: 125
|Attack damage: 52 (+3.3)
Attack speed: 0.613 (+0.98%)
Armor: 19 (+3.25)
Magic res.: 30 (+0)
Mov. speed: 345
(skip this and return if you dont know something)
U.C. = Under Construction (Not completed part of guide).
IMO = In my opinion.
Crowd controller = Champion who has heavy crowd control (non-slow).
Squishy = Low-health champion / Easy to kill (Mostly focused during the teamfights).
Glass-cannon = Squishy champion with high damage output.
Spawn = Your spawning pool, place when you are rebirthed if you die. Spawn include shop.
Shop = Place when you buy new items (oh really?).
Burst = High damage output over short time.
Poke/Harass = simple attack on enemy champion, during laning, to make him issues with sustain.
Bait = To attract enemy champion with your low-health, to ambush and kill him with help of your hidden teammates.
Laning Phase = Early-game phase when players (excluding Jungler) are staying in their lanes (to Farm and get XP).
Teamfight = Battle between entire teams (Only mid-late game).
Mana-starving = Champion having problems with mana, not enough mana.
Facecheck = To check brush by simply walking into it (Risk to get ambushed by enemy).
Turret aggro = when turret focus you because you attacked enemy champion.
Towerdive = to follow enemy champion to its own Turret, to kill him before Turret kills you.
Pull (Jungle term) = To hit Jungle creep with one ranged autoattack/ability, helps Jungler at start of match.
AoE = Area of effect ability (Can hit multiple targets at once).
DoT = Damage over time.
Blue = Blue buff, obtained by killing Ancient golem jungle (Helpful for AP carries standing in Solo-mid).
Red = Red buff, obtained by killing Lizard king in jungle.
CDR = Cooldown reduction.
CC = Crowd control (stun, slow, snare, fear, knock up, taunt, suppress etc.).
Root = Snare = Being immobilized.
Jungle = space between lanes, occupied by neutral creeps.
Gank/Ganking = Quick action leading to advantage (1v2, 2v3), mostly performed by Jungler.
Farming = Obtaining gold from last-hitting enemy minions.
Last-hitting = using autoattack on enemy low-health minion to obtain gold from. (Tree with last-hit priority: AD Carry -> AP Carry -> Tank -> Support).
Pushing = Quickly killing enemy minion waves to get your own minions to enemy turret.
AD carry = Champion using his autoattacks (and AD-scaling abilities) as main damage source.
AP carry = Champion using his abilities as main damage source.
Tank = Champion who is built to take big amounts of damage.
Jungler = player/champion using jungle to obtain Gold and Experience.
Fighter = Usually AD based champion with better survivability than normal AD carries.
Support = Champion who is helping other teammates (Giving them possitive auras, Healing them, shielding them etc.).
(More about pushing and ganking HERE)
There's still Google, if you dont know something just type it HERE
Pros Cons
+ Great Crowd control equipment
+ Versatile champion with many possible builds
+ Strong Teamfighter, can initiate with Depth Charge and Dredge Line combo, good at disrupting enemy team
+ With some ability power, he can burst down squishy targets (I don't think full AP build, but AP/Tanky build, which is impressive)
+ Good jungler, Great ganker, Strong pusher (with Titan's Wrath+ Riptide combo)
+ He has flying animation! Pretty mindfu*king!
- Slow
- Not best clearing speed and sustain in early jungle.
- No supportative abilities for your teammates (auras, healing etc.)
- Top/Mid Nautilus is often considered as trolling by other players :(
- No ranged spammable poke (compared to tanks: Galio, Shen, Dr. Mundo etc.)
- Early game mana-starving if played recklessly (like almost every mana-using champion)
Greater Mark of Magic Penetration
Greater Seal of Armor
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist
Greater Quintessence of Ability Power
|Increases your total magic damage output. Useful especially at early game
|Will help you alot either Solo top or Jungle. Solo top is covered mostly by Physical damage dealers (cca 70-75%)
|Helps you late game to stay longer in teamfights. I chose "per level" because early game it's less useful than mid-late game
|You have good AP ratios and 15 ability power at start comes handy during Jungling/Ganking/Laning
I think, some additional defensive stats (Armor) for Jungling are unnecessary since Jungle is much weaker now. Titan's Wrath and Riptide makes your Jungling comfortable enough.
Alternative Runes:
Greater Quintessence of Movement Speed - Usable on every champion with 300 base movespeed, less or more. I don't recommend these but it's still viable option.
Greater Mark of Armor or Greater Mark of Magic Resist - Absolutely ignoring your damage output? Exchange magic penetration with one of these runes.
Standard tree for tank with magic damage potential.
Points from Though Skin can be spent on Resistance , but I like better jungle sustain. Wanderer is important because you are slow early game and you need to travel for jungle camps and of course ganks. Rest should be easy to comprehend.
Starting Items on Solo top Nautilus:
- Good for starting Nautilus players since it offers nice survivability.
Dont forget on some sight wards when laning. It can save your life and prevent enemy ganks. I don't have time to make my own In-Depth warding guide. More HERE.
I love this item, I use it as core item on my AP/tanky Nautilus. Built from Catalyst the Protector which gives awesome sustain on solo top early game. Another item which offers both AP and some kind of survivability. Also gives aura. Really great item. I get this in 75% cases. I don't think it's good item on Nautilus since he has already great crowd control and he doesn't need additional slow. But it's still viable item on Nautilus and for those who don't want to use Rod of Ages as a core item, this is the right choice. It can be useful under certain circumstances but I dont prefer this item.
Rarely used item, but sometimes it helps more than additional survivability. Perfect item against HP stackers like Vladimir or Cho'Gath. Don't forget to use it at start of teamfight. Offers great aura for your team and gives some AP. But Nautilus DOES NOT benefit well from spellvamp and there are much better items to get on Nautilus so ask someone in team (especially AP carry) to buy it.Shard of True Ice I like this item so much. Combined with fighters like Nasus or Aatrox, you will get nice advantage in teamfight. But it gives no survivability so it fits better for support's inventory.
Not must-have item for all situations, but when paired with enough armor and magic resist, you will become super-tank. Offers huge bonus for your Titan's Wrath. Be vary of things like Demacian Justice or Deathfire Grasp. I used to build it frequently but now I think that It's better to go for more auras and active items. When are you facing heavy AD team, you MUST have this item. Offers aura which helps your entire team. Also gives mana and CDR. Great item even if you aren't facing heavy AD team. Gives nice active. I don't recommend this item. It's more useful for armor stackers like Rammus or Malphite. Better to get some armor item, which have bonus for your entire team. Usable only in case of heavy AD team. I used to love this item so much. It's amazing during towerdiving aswell as saving your ally who got trapped inside turret with things like Impale or Rocket Grab. Not that amazing after into-support-item remake. Another useful item. Especially useful during towerdiving since it instantly throws turret aggro on you. You are tank, you have to tank turrets. This item is so WORTH after rework, general magic resistance item for you, since you get no advantage from Spirit Visage's healing bonus. This item is supposed to be for champions who have survivability issues and are frequently focused by enemy team. I don't use it anymore.
Riot made great job when they invented this item. It's viable for every tank/jungler and its tenacity passive allows you to get other boots than Mercury's Treads!
This item is even more amazing after fusion with Aegis, useful in most ways.Shurelya's Reverie I know what you think, another item for supports. But I know alot of teams with more than one shurelia's reverie in their team and it's working. Livestreams are proof.
(Don't get me wrong, I don't say: "Buy all of these together", just one of them when comes handy. Otherwise you will lack strong survivability, your main target is still to be tank!)
Evergreen. I grab this in 90% cases.
Since you got Spirit of the Ancient Golem, you can afford one of these instead:
Just more survivability against autoattackers... GG Improved ganking potential and better initiating.
Pretty standard ench. and in my opinions most viable for any situation.
When enemy team is pushing like mad and/or during defending your base. Also viable during laning phase to get you back after recall quickly.
I'm still thinking about this one and I'm not sure.
I don't want to be ignored during the teamfights!
This item is getting more and more popular on Nautilus. Why? It's amazing. It gives nice DPS that doesn't make him killer but enemy team just can't ignore you anymore. Combined with Armor items like Sunfire Cape offers even more DPS and overall you aren't squishy at all. Another choice is Frozen Heart because of its great passive effect.
Skill sequence
Both Builds uses almost the same skill sequence, only difference is at 3rd and 4th level. That's because sometimes I want to make ganks at level 3 and without my Dredge Line its much difficult to perform succesfull gank.
Autoattacking immobilizes your target for 0.5/0.75/1sec and deals additional physical damage. Can be applied on same target once per 12 seconds. Many people compares this ability to passive part of Bear Stance. Well, this passive have similar mechanism. It's not as strong, but still useful ability for Nautilus. Useful during ganks, teamfights, saving other teammates.
Fires anchor, hitting enemy unit will move it towards you and you towards it, dealing magic damage. Hitting terrain pulls you to terrain and reduces it's cooldown. This is really unique ability. Not as powerful as Rocket Grab but is more spammable and it can be used to travel across the map, once you get enough mana to spam it. Using this ability distinguish good Nautilus players from great ones. Don't forget, this skillshot isn't istant so estimate enemy's position before landing it. Because of mechanism, not damage source, Im maxing it last.
Places shield for up to 10 seconds. When holding shield, your autoattacks are empowered by AoE, applying DoT over 2 seconds to all nearby enemies, dealing magic damage. Great farming tool, can save your life and it scales with you own BONUS health. I'm getting this ability first and give one more point (because many times, it will save your life), then max after Riptide
Causes three waves around you, dealing magic damage and slowing nearby enemies. Enemy takes reduced damage from additional waves. Combined with Titan's Wrath, makes you amazing farmer, pusher and also jungler. Use it on fleeing enemies so they will be hit by all 3 waves when moving out of you. Has fairly low cooldown so don't be afraid of spamming. But when solo toping, don't push your lane too much or you will deny help of your Jungler. Im maxing it first because of nice scaling and great additional slow
Fires projectile on target enemy, dealing magic damage and knocking up all enemies standing in way and deals double magic damage to targeted enemy, knocking him up and also stunning him. Your ultimate. This thing can turn tides of battle. Use it to interrupt channeled spells such like Death Lotus. Combined with other ultimates like Enchanted Crystal Arrow during the teamfight or gank means certain death to your target. Max it on lvl 6, 11 and 16.
Detailed abilities
- Don't forget, Nautilus will start autoattack target after using Dredge Line on that target, so you will automatically root him.
- If you want to save your root for later (useful when ganking/teamfight then chasing). Be careful about landing autoattack on target enemy. Usually pressing S will prevent from autoattacking. But another action will broke this effect so it's a bit complicated.
- At start of match your root has only 0.5 duration. At levels 7 (0.75sec) and 13 (1sec) gets improved. Don't forget on this fact, since your early ganks will have root with weaker effect then later at mid-late game.
- It has slight delay between throwing anchor and dragging yourself. When you land your Dredge Line and in next ~0.3sec get Stunned/Feared/Taunted etc., you will still be pulled to terrain.
- Consider which target you should use to initiate with your Dredge Line during mid-late game. Pulling tanks like Amumu isn't good move because they can take advantage of it and ruin your team. Also forgot about slippery champions (e.g. Shaco).
- While casting Dredge Line, you can still cast Titan's Wrath and Riptide even if it's channeled spell (~0.2sec)
- When used on enemy with low health and Dredge Line will land killing blow, you will be pulled to it's target location instead of half-way.
- If used on Baron Nashor/Dragon, Nautilus will simply move half-way and Baron stays at place
- When used on enemy under stealth, It will still do damage and pull each to other, but enemy remains stealthed (except Teemo, his stealth will be broken)
- Also can be grabbed to already ruined turret, aswell as ruined inhibitor
- Doesn't work on Wards and any targetable ( Noxious Trap) or untargetable ( Yordle Snap Trap) objects
- If you cast Dredge Line on some enemy or terrain and immediately use Flash, Dredge Line will be interrupted.
- Use your Dredge Line wisely because you can make more mess than help. (e.g. Your ally is being chased by enemy bully, you are going toward your ally, casting your anchor in this position will help your enemy to close gap with poor ally)
- Remember, you gain AoE magic damage from autoattack only if you are having shield. Once you lose your shield, you also lose its offensive bonuses. If you want to deal bonus damage for full 10 seconds, you have to stay untouched.
- On first look it seems to be useful for pure AP build too. But look on previous tip... Pure AP doens't build much health and has weak shield. So it's relatively easy for enemy to pop 80-280 points of your health and then completely interrupt your damage source from this ability.
- Because DoT doesn't stack with itself, theoretically you need to touch your enemy only once per 2 seconds to deal biggest possible magic damage from it.
- Underneath the enemy turret be vary of using Titan's Wrath because even attacking minion can cause turret aggro when enemy champion is standing nearby because of AoE. However, when you attack turret, AoE isn't applied.
- Don't forget it deals massive damage to minions when maxed. so be careful when you don't want to push your lane.
- Basic tip: use this ability to chase your opponent, since it has big chance to hit him with all three waves because target is moving out of you = in direction of waves
- Also it has chance to hit target with two waves even if target isn't moving. When you want to farm minion waves, don't stay directly at them but go a bit farther.
- If you are using full tank Nautilus and you aren't supposed to deal damage, don't pop your Riptide immediately after teamfight starts, but save it for chasing. However, with some CDR, you can overlook this fact.
- Additional waves will start from same location when you casted it so when you will use Flash or Dredge Line on terrain immediately after you used Riptide, additional waves won't follow you.
- When Twitch or Evelynn are preparing on stealth (has ~2 second delay) focus them with Depth Charge. It will follow stealthed enemy (you can see animation of your projectile, seeking them) and when stops, that's the place where it hit them (and knocked-up / stunned them). That's especially useful if you have strong skillshoters in team like Lux or champions with reveal like Lee Sin or Kog'Maw. Then you/your team can kill stealthed champion easily even if you/they don't have Oracle's Elixir. (However, Depth Charge will not reveal champions by itself, but if will only shows area where they got catched by projectile)
- Testing experiment about "Will depth charge hit Master Yi with full movement speed stuff?". EDIT: I tested Depth Charge on Master Yi with five Phantom Dancers and Boots of Mobility (+ Ghost and Highlander). Outcome: Projectile is still accelerating until reaches its target = Projectile succesfully chased him before Ghost and Highlander expired
Summoner spells
Some people wants Flash, others Ghost. Both spells are good for our Nautilus. Choose what you want. I added some Pros and Cons for that choice.
+ Can get you over the wall
+ Useful after towerdive, to survive Turret aggro
+ To land killng blow
- Nerfed distance
- Long cooldown
- Can be countered by enemy Flash
+ Can help you travel longer distances
+ Since you have low base movement speed, its very useful for you during teamfights etc.
+ Will help you with chasing much better than Flash
- When caught by someone with Frozen Mallet and better mobility, Ghost comes useless
- Still useless against things like Cataclysm
- No possible tricky moves like with Flash
Should I grab Ignite or Exhaust?: Pick what your team needs, or in Ranked games against certain types of enemies ( Ignite counters guys with high regeneration ( Vladimir, Dr. Mundo, Swain etc.) Exhaust counters AD carries)... I marked Exhaust as one of recommended summoner spells because it's useful on solo top and can be used defensive too (for escape).
Also consider getting Teleport: Good for early-game solo top Nautilus because of minimal experience loss and also to prevent pushing your turret. Mid-Late game if can be used to save your turret or farm minion waves.
I pick Cleanse for 1% of my games. Can be used in draft mode only, because you can see your enemy team before match starts. If there is truly insane CC enemy comp, capable of countering my entire initiation (even with Banshee's Veil), I consider getting it.
Heal is good spell for beginners. It used to be more popular back in the days, now its nerfed again, it loses sense in higher level play.
Jungle route
Blue Route is your first Round
then recall and grab your Boots of Speed or Spirit Stone (and 1-2 health pots), choose between mobility and sustain. Now when you have boots, your ganks are much more valuable. Don't forget on ganks, it's key to become a succesful jungler.
Red Route is your second Round
Ask your teammates to help you damage first camp (ancient golem). Starting players should finish Ancient Golem (Blue Buff) with Smite.
Once you get used to jungling, you can make both Blue Buff and Red buff in one round, while not spending Smite on Blue Buff and using it on Red buff instead.
Using Health Potion: At: 2, 3, 4, 7, 8
Then you can repeat it or make some gank. Always read what you teammates wants. Synergy with them. When the enemy team lacks jungler and your Solo top player is standing against two enemies, help him as much as possible to keep him alive (After first round).
Don't forget to let next blue buff to your AP mid carry. Leave the ancient golem with cca 300 health remaining and then let your teammate to pick-up blue buff. (Write him to chat before it, let he knows)
Pure AP section
I decided to finally reveal my Pure AP build. After some testing I think it's decent build and isn't focused only on offensive side so you will do "Tons of damage" but still be able to survive some less-dangerous situations.
I wanted to have tough caster, since Nautilus isn't kind of champion who can cast and be safe during it (like some other champions: Veigar with AoE stun, Xerath with long-range etc.). You need to stay close to your enemies.
Rabadon's can be rushed early but isn't recommended because you have to stick to the enemies.
- Surprised? Why? Look at your cooldowns. Don't worry, later on you will buy Void Staff for shreding their resistances. (There IS option to buy Sorcerer's Shoes for early-mid game and later on exchange them with Ionian Boots of Lucidity. That's because early-game, 20 flat magic penetration is big bonus, unlike late-game)
- Once again, gives all you need early game. Built from catalyst the protector which gives you great sustain on lane.
- Just like Annie, you will love to combine Rod of Ages and Rylai's Crystal Scepter. Mid game you should have these three items in your inventory, I hope you won't have problems with gold (You are pure AP, you are supposed to get kills and farm on your mid lane).
- I know you aren't Tanky AP now, but this item is just awesome, gives AP for power, Magic penetration aura for even more power, and still some defensive stat. (If you aren't threatened by AP enemies, buy it after Rabadon's Deathcap)
- This item doesn't need any any comment...
- You are pure AP, you need to shred their resistances! If enemies are doing nothing but stacking magic resist, get this before Abyssal Mask
Optional items:
- have problem with AD carries more than AP carries? exchange it with Abyssal Mask. If playing against enemies without strong magic resist, exchange it with Void Staff instead. - have enemies with are rather health-stacking than AP based? exchange it with Abyssal Mask. UPDATED: This item is very attractive last months, recommended. - this item is valuable too. Exchangable with Abyssal Mask.
Greater Mark of Magic Penetration
Greater Seal of Scaling Armor
Greater Glyph of Scaling Ability Power
Greater Quintessence of Ability Power
|Increases your total magic damage output. Useful especially at early game
|My build lacks Armor items so I decided to use armor per level runes (Also can use flat armor)
|To get AP advantage later in game. You are pure AP, you need great ability power.
|You have good AP ratios and 15 ability power at start comes handy during Laning
I think it's resolute. Get as much AP as possible. I chose Defensive tree instead of Utility tree because you need some additional toughness. You aren't much mana-starving, once you get catalyst the protector. Spellsword is actually GREAT mastery because you will proc your passive alot and this will do even bigger impact.
Nothing revolutionary. Just level-up Riptide as soon as possible, excluding lvl6
Pretty standard spells.
Nothing much, but think it's enough.
Could I play Nautilus as a support?
This is pretty new section. I saw many Nautilus players on bottom and I have several inconsistent opinions on them.
As a support, your roles (to a teammate = AD carry) are:
1. Letting him farm.
2. Buying wards, preventing enemy gank.
3. Offer your teammate improved sustain.
4. Save your teammate in dangerous situations.
5. Help your teammate to get some kills.
While first two are same for all supports, others depend on current support champion.
First of all, Nautilus have NOT any natural healing or shielding abilities castable on his allies. Also, he haven't any natural buffs castable on his allies (e.g. Blood Boil, Time Warp...). He looks like he's not real support. But...
On the other hand, his abilities offers great utility for your teammate, and have high potentional to either save your teammate or even get some kills (ALL abilities excluding Titan's Wrath). This is reason why support Nautilus IS viable. Although I won't add build for support Nautilus (Build would be hybrid between early game suppports and mid-late game tanks), I wanted to create this section becuase it's attractive topic.
- Nautilus utility can set up perfect positioning for Vayne and her Condemn. Also effective.
- Why? Because pulling enemies into Yordle Snap Trap is fun! Also useful when she wants to land Ace in the Hole even if theres enemy who can intercept the bullet. Catch one of them with Dredge Line at right angle and problem is solved!
I'm answering on any serious questions about nautilus, tips to make this guide better or just funny situations. I'm regularly viewing your comments and mostly anwsering by commenting too.
Many of them helped me alot and contributed to current form of my guide. Thank you all.
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Patch and Guide history
White: Guide updates/ fixes
Orange: Patch notes/ Buffs and Nerfs
Cyan: Guide statistics
2012-02-14 : Released patch V1. 0. 0. 134 including Nautilus
2012-02-24 : Published my Nautilus guide
2012-02-25 : Added some more info about abilities and fixed some mistakes
2012-02-26 : Added alternative runes, fixed some mistakes, added some items
2012-02-27 : First day being the TOP guide, thanks :)
spaaaaaaaaceAdded more info about viable items. Made support items section (I know you are tank)
2012-02-28 : 80%+ rating, Mini-fixes
2012-02-29 : 100.000+ views, Mini-fixes, Reworked "Summoner spells" section
2012-03-03 : Mini-fixes (mostly grammar), "Dictionary" section expanded a bit.
2012-03-05 : Added "Feedback" section, list of the top priority Chapters (in "Welcome" section)
2012-03-06 : Reworked examples of random builds.
2012-04-11 : Rewrited Jungle build (Accidentally deleted), and Added "Could I play Nautilus as a support?" Section.
2012-05-05 : Added "I don't want to be ignored during the teamfights!" section. Explains Wit's End popularity.
2012-06-02 : Returned to keep my guide fresh. I see no nerfs/buffs, no general changes, so it's good to know that Nautilus is pretty balanced champion :3
2012-06-29 : Here comes Draven patch with first nerf for our Nautilus. But nothing significant. Over one million views and four months of first place. yay!
|2012-07-11 : Here comes Jayce patch with some nerfs. All of them are focused on early game, max ranks are same.
2012-09-09 : Updated. No serious business added...
2012-09-30 : Updated.
2012-12-04 : Here comes Nami patch and we got slight buff of Titan's Wrath!
2012-12-23 : S3 update. More to be added.
2013-04-10 : Nautilus BUFF is coming! More base armor and lower W cooldown at earlier ranks.
2013-04-20 : Added new version of Jungle build + tweaked old build items.
2013-06-01 : Im back! :) Tiny fixes and added Astronautilus ingame screen, because I dont know what else to add. \_(シ)_/ So many views (currently 3,37 M), that's insane! Thank you guys, especially those who are backing up my dubstep channel. I like how Nautilus is relatively popular jungler on tournaments.
2013-06-13 : Here comes Aatrox patch with slight adjustment of his W damage part
2013-09-18 : Updated jungle section, some little changes in item section. More updates for sake of new patches soon.
2013-10-17 : Finally noticed there are outdated things (biggest issue being Runic Bulwark, which was completely removed from the game). Sorry I overlooked it.
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I'm wondering how to store essential meds, i.e., beta blockers, insulin, statins, pain meds and what is their shelf life?
It varies greatly according to the meds.
As a general rule of thumb, solid pills can be effective for years after their expiration date. Store them in a dry, dark place, slightly cool. Keep out of heat and light.
Capsules should be stored the same way and are good well past the expiration date. Keep very dry and keep from heat, light, and freezing temps.
Liquid medications should be stored at room temperature away from light. They do last past their expiration date when stored at room temp, away from heat light, and freezing temps (approx 2 years), but will not last as long as pills or capsules. Once frozen and thawed, they are pretty much useless since most medication compounds will break down during this process, and you cannot test which ones are still good.
Insulin must be stored refridgerated. It loses effectiveness very rapidly when at room temperature. Unless you have access to a working refridgerator, your entire stock of insulin will not last more than 30 days. If frozen or overheated, it's gone.
IV antibiotics (levaquin, vanco, ancef, unasyn, etc) lose effectiveness rapidly after their expiration date, but if stored perfectly as described above, they should be of some use several months after expiration.
I'd advise finding pill or capsule versions of your necessary meds and storing them correctly. All the meds you listed above, except insulin, are available as pills or capsules.
Hope this helps!
Another question ref meds. Since large quantities of meds are hard to come by but vet meds are easy, can vets meds be used for people? Like antibiotics and ointments?
Basically, veterinarian antibiotics and fish antibiotics would be equivalent to human antibiotics as listed on the label. This would also hold true for veterinary pain control meds. However, many vet antibiotics and all pain control meds that are Type 11 are still regulated by the DEA and you have to have a scrip. The only difference in vet vs human drugs is fewer quality controlls during the manufacturing process (not a big deal). I recommend visiting the link Davarm posted above.
Vet meds, in many cases, ARE different than human meds based on the different carriers/buffers used. The safest cross-over medications are the fish antibiotics which ARE exactly the same as "human" antibiotics even being produced in the standard human dosage form. Any Vet medication other than fish antibiotics should NOT be used for human treatment/dosages.
Also freezing tablet/capsule forms of medications does not interfere with or harm the effectiveness of the medication and will extend the useful life of the medication by years and years!
Well, the M.D. who suggested to me about freezing tablet and capsule form antibiotics has been the base camp doctor for National Graphic sponsored climbs of Mt. Everest at least 3-4 times, having with him only the medications that he and a couple sherpas hauled up there on their backs. He uses frozen antibiotics and other tablet and capsule form medications in those situations with no adverse effects, so that is good enough for me too. I also do not understand where the water/ice crstals would come from if the medications are first vac-packed which totally prevents freezer burn on anything packed that way. But to each their own. I am just sharing my personal experience and what medical folks have shared with me over the years. But I will share with you that I personally would never take a tablet/capsule form of an antibiotic made for a 1000# cow who has 4 stomachs to digest it nor one made for a 150# goat who has 3 stomachs to digest it! Nor would I take one formulated for a 1500# horse whose digestive enzynes are geared to a raw grass and raw grain diet. When occasions arise that will respond to a less conventional antibiotic and are not an immediate life threatening illness, I always reach for my herbal stuff first anyway.


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Rondal Muhlenkamp founded Muhenkamp & Company Inc. in 1977 and since then he has served as its president. The company manages accounts for individuals and institutions.
The business is committed to making money for its customers within the bond and stock markets. Generally, the company prefers stocks to bonds because they prefer to own than to lend. Its strategy is based on finding good companies with sound balance sheet, lots of cash and doing useful things.
Here are some of the fund´s top buys:
EXELON CORP (NYSE:EXC): Exelon Corporation is a utility holding company whose subsidiaries primarily produce, purchase, transmit, distribute and sell electricity to its customers. Its customers include residential, commercial, industrial and wholesale customers. In addition, it is engaged in the distribution and sale of natural gas.
EXC runs low cost power plants. This low cost is translated into big profits. Moreover, it benefits from the rise in coal prices and better industrial demand.
Now, the company is closing a deal to merge with Constellation to create the cleanest power generation fleet. After the merger, Exelon will keep its name and will settle in Chicago. This deal is expected to close in 2012.
The merger will allow for the concentration of nuclear power generation and bring economies of scale.
As regards its segments, the Generation segment is very strong given its large, low-cost, low emission nuclear fleet.
Exelon continues to concentrate on organic growth. Actually, it is planning to invest in its Illinois-based nuclear power plants. This $4.6 billion investment will enhance the plants and enable the company produce more carbon-free power.
Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE:ADS): Alliance Data Systems Corporation is a leading provider of transaction services, credit services and marketing services to retail companies in North America. It is made up of three segments, namely, Epsilon, LoyaltyOne and its private label credit card business.
Despite the last recession, Alliance has been able to see its earnings grow. This was boosted by the outlay of $2billion to buy back stock.
In future time, ADS expects to improve its balance sheet thanks to $800-$900 million in free cash flow generation on over $3 billion in annual sales.
Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD): Gilead Sciences Inc. is an independent biopharmaceutical company that seeks to provide accelerated solutions for patients and the people who care for them. GILD particularly focuses on developing and marketing drugs to treat patients with infectious diseases, including viral infections, fungal infections and bacterial infections, and a specialized focus on cancer.
One of its famous drugs is Atripla, which includes Truvada and Bristol-Myers' Sustiva. It is the first drug that has been approved by the FAO to treat HIV.
Now, the idea of the company is to extend the HIV franchise by incorporating a new combination pill, Complera. This drug has been developed jointly with Tibotec Pharmaceuticals.
Gilead's strategy of creating fixed dose combinations of existing HIV/AIDS drugs has been an enormous success.
The company has carried out some test studies to compare the combination of some of its drugs.
Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA): Apache Corporation is an independent energy company that explores for, develops and produces natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids. Apache's portfolio includes a mix of oil and gas, offshore and onshore, domestic and international, and near-term and longer-dated assets.
Apache is characterized for being a patient and deliberate company. Indeed, it has only made very few deals: Australia in 1993, Egypt in 1996, the North Sea in 2003, Gulf of Mexico deep water in 2010. All of them have been profitable for APA.
APA follows a price discipline and its balance sheet is rather conservative. This enables the firm to have a leg up on the market.
Last but not least, the company is undergoing expansion initiatives. It has acquired properties in Egypt, Canada, the Gulf Shelf and Permian regions.
In terms of last quarter results, the stock has been trading at $100, the market cap is $37 billion and the P/E ratio is 10.2. Moreover, revenue and EPS growth stand at 6.7% and 0.3% respectively. Operating margin is 45.3%, and net profit margin is 25.8%. Fortunately, the company does not need to worry about debt. Actually, debt/equity ratio is 0.3.
In terms of future expectations, the company forecasts that it will continue growing, especially in Australia and Egypt thanks to a steady asset building. Cash flow will surely grow given start-ups in these countries.
AT&T INC (NYSE:T): AT&T Inc. is a premier communications holding company. Its subsidiaries and affiliates, AT&T operating companies, are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. Among its offerings, anyone can find IP-based business communications services, the nation's fastest 3G network and the best wireless coverage worldwide, and the nation's leading high speed Internet access and voice services.
Its customer base is made up of residential and business customers.
In terms of business segments, the directory publishing sector is the most profitable as it generates high free cash flows.
Financially speaking, earnings per share for the quarter were $0.61. According to Brooks McCorkle, senior vice president, investor relations, "Cash flow was superb. Cash from operating activities for the quarter totaled $10.4 billion and free cash flow was $5.1 billion, which brings us to $12.4 billion through the year."
The dividend was just increased 2.3 percent to 44 cents per quarter, for an annual yield of over six percent.
Rondal Muhlenkamp founded Muhenkamp & Company Inc. in 1977 and since then he has served as its president. The company manages accounts for individuals and institutions.


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It is unfair to tar Alberto Zaccheroni with the brush that brought him here, but the Japan Football Association's search for a new national team manager has been a messy affair.
Former AC Milan and Juventus boss Zaccheroni was named on Monday as the man to replace Takeshi Okada, two months and a day after Japan's World Cup second-round exit to Paraguay in Pretoria. Rushing such an important decision would unquestionably have been foolish, but the JFA's handling of the situation has left much to be desired.
The World Cup marks a natural end for many international managers, and so it was for Okada, who gave ample notice before the tournament began that he would retire as soon as his work in South Africa was over.
That understanding gave the green light to begin the search for a replacement, and the JFA was shrewd enough to recognize that hiring someone from inside the Japanese game was not an essential requirement. The four-year World Cup cycle allows an outsider plenty of time to bed in, and reputed targets such as Jose Pekerman, Marcelo Bielsa and Manuel Pellegrini were certainly worth pursuing.
But if everything appeared rosy as Okada stepped down, the JFA was struggling to pass the baton. Technical director Hiromi Hara was dispatched overseas to try to secure a signature, but it soon became clear that attracting the desired standard of candidate in the foreign market would not be easy.
Hara returned empty-handed after a month unsuccessfully wooing a host of European and South American names — being knocked back by Pellegrini and Spaniard Ernesto Valverde in the process — and conceded that he would have to take charge of the team himself for friendlies against Paraguay and Guatemala in early September.
Hara's determination to hire from outside Japan, however, remained undimmed. That refusal to look inward not only excluded accomplished Japanese managers like Gamba Osaka's Akira Nishino, but also foreign J. League heavyweights such as Kashima Antlers' Oswaldo Oliveira — a man who has won the title in each of his three full seasons in Japan and who explicitly stated he wanted the job.
But even from a diminishing list of overseas targets, Zaccheroni's name still came as a surprise. The Italian has pedigree from his Serie A win with Milan back in 1999, but that was a long time ago and his three years without a club until January this year should have set the alarm bells ringing.
If the appointment felt underwhelming, however, it was hardly Zaccheroni's fault. When a search takes as long as this, and feels confident enough to ignore the best of Japan's domestic talent, it had better deliver something spectacular.
The fact that Hara — a former player and manager — was put in charge, rather than someone with greater negotiating experience, did not help. But neither, it must be said, did the expectations of the fans and media who demanded an unrealistically glamorous name.
Now we must hope the stigma does not follow Zaccheroni into his new job.


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Henceforth, Turbomeca (Safrans world leading helicopter engine business) will assume global responsibility for the design, production, product support and services (spares and MRO services - maintenance, repair, overhaul) for the RTM322 engine, which powers the Apache, EH101 and NH90 helicopters. Rolls-Royce will provide full support during a transition phase enabling progressive transfer of all their activities to Turbomeca under this programme.
The RTM322 is a priority programme for Turbomeca and the company is committed to the continued technical and commercial development of this programme to improve its global performance, as well as to investments to serve in the long term the strategic market segment of the most powerful helicopter turbines (3,000 shp and above).
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Posts Tagged router
problems with urls in Merb HEAD?
I actually run into a small problem when updated an older Merb app. Here was how my router looked like:
Merb::Router.prepare do |r| r.resources :channels do |channels| channels.resources :shows do |shows| shows.resources :episodes end end end
But after updating to the latest version of Merb, I got links looking like:
The first thing to do is to read Carl's wiki about the latest Router changes.
Carl explains that things got cleaned up in the router code and my routes should now look like:
Merb::Router.prepare do |r| r.resources :channels do resources :shows do |shows| resources :episodes end end end
However that won't be enough.. You see my url used to look like that:
url(:channel_shows, :channel_id => channel)
Now I can simplify it to:
url(:channel_shows, channel)
That still won't fix the problem, since the real problem comes from the fact that I was on Merb HEAD but not DataMapper HEAD. Updating DM clears things up. That's the price to pay to be on HEAD
FYI the problem comes from the fact that DM doesn't add a to_params method to its objects. Rails users might recognize that method used to convert an object into a string to create a route, something not really ORM agnostic and frowned upon by the DM/Merb teams.
Merb lets you specify the param to use for your routes using the identify method. Read Carl's wiki page for more cool stuff and see how to create some cool stuff like url slugs etc..
Note that even if you are using ActiveRecord, you'll need to update merb_activerecord as the new identify rules were updated in the ORM plugins.
News from the front line – Sept 24 2008
Dear Merbivores/Merbists/Merbians,
It's hard to believe that in less that 20 days, Merb 1.0 will be released! We are all really happy to to be almost there but we have to be honest and admit that we are also under pressure.
We are all dreaming of a post 1.0 world but in the meantime we have to focus on last minutes bugs and optimization.
During the last week or so, we made a lot of progress, the API is now "almost" frozen and General Katz is focusing on making sure everything will be fine for D Day.
That reminds me that Katz showed me something amazing yesterday! I shouldn't really talk about it but I'm sure it will stay between us. He was been working on optimizing the general memory consumption and my testing app (real app) went from 120MB of Private Memory used, to 70MB (using 4 processes). I can't wait to use that on the field. I also hope my old Rails comrades will realize that running ~100Mb processes (x4) really isn't efficient and event dangerous for the free Ruby world!
I also heard rumors that the higher officers are now using a new strategic tool called http://www.pivotaltracker.com which should help us streamline the process. We are still using LightHouse to track bugs and patches though. I'm not sure if this new "agile" tool will help, but I thought the approach is pretty interesting. What do you think?
You probably also saw my early report on bundling Merb apps, I'm quite happy about the process. Do you think you will deploy bundled/frozen apps or just use the system-wide gems?
Finally I hear a lot of talk about the new Router that's available on Edge/HEAD. Officer Lerch wrote a nice wiki article covering the changes, you might want to read it.
Ohh before I forget, some courageous privates went to HEAD and use the 3rd party plugin called merb-auth. What they don't know is that they need to change their routes to use the slices with the new router. (the new router requires no block variable) Also, if they look at the merb-auth branches they will notice a new mauth branch which is the new version of merb-auth, even better, more flexible than the previous version.
I hope everything is well for you, say Hi! to our friends for me.
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JERUSALEM (Mar. 19)
Reports that Israel is being pressured by the Nixon Administration to disown the Jackson amendment were denied here today by "authoritative sources. A source close to Premier Golda Meir told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that President Nixon made no such request of Mrs. Meir at their White House meeting March 1.
According to the sources, the subject of Soviet Jewry was raised at that meeting. Nixon said that he understood the Israeli leader's concern and added that he believed in the value of quiet diplomacy. But he did not speak of Mrs. Meir's intervention in the debate over the Jackson amendment and it would have been unthinkable for him to have done so, the sources claimed.
The sources were commenting on a report today by the syndicated Washington columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak who said the Nixon Administration was getting tough with the Israeli government over the latter's support of the measure that would deny most favored nation trade status to the Soviet Union unless obstacles to emigration were lifted.
According to Evans and Novak, the President informed Mrs. Meir that he was not about to risk the U.S.-Soviet detente on the extraneous issue of Jewish emigration from Russia. They said that since then, Presidential emissaries have let the Israeli government know that "Israel, through the powerful lobby of the American Jewish community must share major responsibility if the Jackson amendment passes, "The columnists added: "Then Israel would have to answer to Richard M. Nixon himself."
Informed sources here said Premier Meir has stressed many times that the Jackson amendment was proposed on the Senator's own initiative. They said the amendment's strong support was by no means altogether due to pro-Jewish sentiment. They said that many Congressmen wanted to demonstrate opposition to the administration and the free emigration issue was one that attracted many sympathizers in the U.S. apart from its Jewish ramifications. According to the sources the amendment also has the support of die-hard anti-Soviet elements in Congress.


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Struggling economy leads to closure of popular fly shop in Montrose
With no more splash than a mayfly landing on a pond, veteran guide and fly shop retailer Bob Burke quietly closed the doors in September on a 20-year venture with Cimarron Creek Fly Shop in Montrose.
The surprise end (at least to those of us not in the retail business) to one of western Colorado's premier fly fishing shops emphasizes the economic doldrums plaguing the region.
Burke was one of the more-knowledgeable shop owners in Colorado, particularly when it came to the Gunnison River and the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.
His shop's closing leaves a huge gap in the information stream and also poses a challenge to Montrose-area fly anglers looking for rods, reels, flies and other equipment.
The realities of life, particularly cruel in an area hard-hit by the slowdown in construction, made the decision necessary but no less painful.
"We've been pushing it uphill for too long," said Burke when reached by cell phone Wednesday. "We were hit hard by the building decline in Montrose and Telluride, and everybody is feeling the pinch."
When the building slowed down, the workers started leaving town.
"We lost a lot of the worker bees, who were our bread and butter," said Burke. "And people just don't have the discretionary income they had a few years before."
Burke said he had a record year in 2007, but everything collapsed when the recession began in 2008.
"We had a peak year in 2007 but 2008 was a huge drop and 2009 was below that and 2010 below that," Burke said. "At some point, we had to throw in the towel."
The phone still rings in the shop, but the answering machine simply says the shop is closed and no calls or e-mails will be returned.
On my second call Wednesday, former Cimarron Creek guide Marshall Pendergass answered the phone.
Pendergass was there working on some plans for Gunnison Gorge Anglers Chapter of Trout Unlimited, which has an office in the same building.
"Yeah, we're going to miss him," said Pendergass, who guided for Burke for the past four years. "We closed the shop the first week of September. Fishing season was over and that's a critical time when you have to place your orders for next year."
Burke tried to get some new owners for the business but couldn't entice any of the other fly shops in the region to expand to Montrose.
"We always had good information and high-quality equipment and I would have preferred knowing my customers were taken care of when I left," Burke said. "But after we couldn't find anyone to take over the shop, the only option was liquidation."
Some of his former customers have visited Western Anglers Fly Shop in Grand Junction but most of them, including Pendergass, had to think ahead during Cimarron Creek's final days.
"We had to think long-term and buy all the leaders and other stuff we'd been needing in the near future," Pendergass said. "This place isn't going to be easy to replace."
Burke, like many people who tackle fishing as a living, has many talents, including building high-end furniture,.
He built all the cabinets and display cases in the fly shop and since closing the fly shop has been concentrating on his woodworking business.
Still, it's hard to leave behind 20 years of fly fishing.
"Yeah, it's strange to think it's all over," Burke said. "I've been pretty much out of the business since I became a liquidator on September 8. But things change and life goes on."
BLM pulls key habitat areas from energy leases – The Bureau of Land Management has withdrawn 10,364 acres of national forest roadless areas from an upcoming energy lease sale.
According to the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Alliance, the five proposed leases provide key winter range for elk and deer and valuable habitat for native trout.
Had the leases been sold, roads could have been built within the Sugarloaf North and Black Mountain roadless areas near Craig and the Battlement Mesa roadless area south of Rifle. This would have violated the 2001 national roadless rule and a roadless-area management agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state of Colorado.


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MINNEAPOLIS – Senior Alena Brooks has been named the Big Ten Conference women's track and field Indoor Track Athlete of the Week, the conference announced Monday.
Brooks led the Gophers at the Northwest Open over the weekend, posting first-place finishes in both the 600-meter run (1:29.65) and 4x400-meter relay (3:53.66). Her time in the 600m broke the Northwest Open meet record and is currently the fastest 600m time in the country this season.
The award marks the Gophers' first Big Ten track and field weekly award of the season and the second weekly award of Brooks' career. She also took home B1G Track Athlete of the Week honors on Feb. 4, 2013 after a stellar 800m performance at the 2013 Meyo Invitational. Brooks finished second behind Olympian Geena Gall with a personal record time of 2:06.24 to rank second on Minnesota's all-time 800m performers list. She also ran on the Gophers' winning distance medley relay team.
In addition to her weekly award in 2013, Brooks is the first Gopher to garner B1G Indoor Athlete of the Week honors since Samantha Sonnenberg was named Indoor Field Athlete of the Week in February 2011. Prior to Brooks' two awards, the last Minnesota runner to earn Indoor Track Athlete of the Week was Heather Dorniden in January 2009.
2013-14 Women's Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week: Jan. 20
Track: Alena Brooks, Sr., Minnesota
Field: Dani Bunch, Sr., Purdue
Freshhman Friday: Sam Baer
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Stater Bros. Charities has presented a check in the amount of $75,000 to City of Hope to train a social worker in geriatrics and serve as the primary point person for elderly patients.
The social worker will gain hands on experience working with the geriatrics team, participate in educational conference calls, seminars and conferences and develop a comprehensive resource manual for older patients that will provide information about support services on campus and in the community.
Stater Bros. has donated more than $3 million dollars to the research and treatment center.
"The Stater Bros. 'family' has a long history of giving back to our friends and neighbors in the communities we are privileged to serve," said chairman and CEO Jack H. Brown. "We are especially pleased to donate to programs that make a difference in the lives of so many people."
"The City of Hope is incredibly grateful to Stater Bros. Charities for their generous gift which will help so many older adults with cancer and their families," stated Dr. Arti Hurria, associate professor of medical oncology, president of International Society of Geriatrics Oncology and founder of Cancer and Aging Research Group.
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Pinellas district officials knew of early release day since March, memo indicates
Pinellas school district officials have known since at least March that schools will close one hour early every Wednesday next year, but parents didn't find out until a few weeks ago and were told their questions and concerns were too late to make any changes because of contract negotiations.
Parents have been pummeling the Pinellas County School Board with angry e-mails and phone calls this week, dismayed to find out that schools will close one hour early on Wednesdays beginning in August to give teachers more planning time. It's a change that will require some families to rearrange work schedules or child care, and both teachers and parents are raising concerns about the effect the weekly disruption will have on art, music, gifted classes and class time.
The news first broke May 8 that the teachers union and the school district had come to an agreement on next year's contract. One of the provisions: an early release every Wednesday to allow teachers some planning time.
The final vote came on May 27. In the weeks between the first announcement and the final vote, concerns started bubbling up slowly from parents. But only in the final days before the May 27 vote, when parents began circulating e-mails among themselves, did it sink in that the issue was no longer a matter of debate; it was a reality.
But the school district had known about it for months.
According to a memo obtained by the St. Petersburg Times from the Metropolitan Planning Organization, Michael Burke, the School Board's route and safety auditor, gave the MPO's Technical Coordinating Committee, an advisory board of transportation experts, a heads up about the coming change much earlier. The memo reads that "at the March 27th TCC meeting, Mike Burke of the Pinellas County School Board, said that he would provide information to be forwarded to the TCC members regarding the 2009-2010 school bell times that will be in effect due to the new Wednesday schedule."
An attachment on the memo includes a school bell schedule that closely mirrors the final schedule approved May 27, with the one-hour early release every Wednesday.
Two School Board members, Carol Cook and Janet Clark, told the Times they were not aware of this schedule change until late April or early May.
Cook said superintendent Julie Janssen announced at an executive board meeting that contract negotiations with the teachers union were progressing and that the union wanted to explore closing schools early on Wednesday to give teachers planning time.
"I didn't realize that by saying, 'Yes, go ahead and explore it,' that it was a done deal," Cook said. "I was thinking at that point they would vet the whole thing."
No letters were sent home to parents. The county's phone bank was never used to alert the parents.
As parents got wind of the idea, a mass e-mail went out alerting them of the coming vote and raising questions about the impact on teaching time and family schedules. The parent e-mail also raised questions about how strongly teachers felt about it. Some 3,000 of them didn't even vote on the issue, and of those who did, the vote was 45 percent against and 55 percent in favor.
"Did the majority (of teachers) vote for it?" Cook said. "I'm coming up with 38 percent who even bothered to vote for it, or I could say 62 percent did not vote for it."
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May 14, 2010 BY John Kim
All eyes are on LeBron and his free-agency but another championship-caliber franchise player might be switching teams as well. Dwyane Wade and his Air Jordan 2010 could very well leave Miami behind for another squad starving for a superstar, so it's not only LeBron's decision that will potentially shift the balance of power in the league. What we do know is that this colorway of Wade's shoe, the Air Jordan 2010, is set for a June 2010 release. Featuring a very Dark Knight-ish mix of black and dark charcoal on the upper and varsity red through the bottom sole, this pair would fit well in…Chicago? Check out these images and chime in with your thoughts on this latest pair of the Air Jordan 2010. Thanks got_those
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The Jell-O Girl With The Pueblos (no. 1)
The front panel features a drawn colored illustration of the Jell-O girl and her parrot in a pueblo village. The title ?The Jell-O Girl With The Pueblos? is written in white lettering at the bottom of the illustration. The back panel contains an illustration of an Imperial Salad. The inside panel begin with a story titled ?Among The Pueblos? and continue with two recipes including Imperial Salad and Jell-O Fruit Cocktail. All recipes are written in black lettering and entail directions on how to prepare the dish.View this piece: jpg pdf
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
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Publisher: Genesee Pure Food Co. (Le Roy, N.Y.)
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Citation: The Jell-O Girl With The Pueblos (no. 1). The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=1878


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4 Plastic Surgery Procedures You Need to Avoid
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Even in this age of medical advances and breakthroughs, there continues to be a number of plastic surgery procedures making big promises, yet failing to make the cut. In continuation of my "Plastic Surgery: Behind the Hype" campaign, I want to share my list of the most dubious plastic surgery procedures of the new decade, and urge buyers to beware!
1. Gummi Bear Implants- Are not new. These have been around since the mid 1990's and have gained a reputation recently for not leaking, even if the implant ruptures. While it is true that the gel doesn't go anywhere even if the implant is cut open, there are tradeoffs! The implants can't be squeezed through a small incision due to the thickness of the gel, so a significantly larger incision has to be made, and it is almost always has to be in the crease of the breast. Also, the actual lifespan of the implant isn't really known yet as it hasn't been in use long enough. So. the speculation that it is a lifetime implant is merely that...speculation. In reality, they may fail to live up to a patient's expectations. Gummi Bear implants are also significantly more expensive than other types of implants.
2. "Cankle" Liposuction- The shape of a woman's ankle is only partially dependent on fat in the area. The rest is due to bone structure, which can't be "fixed". Removing fat from the ankle area may result in a modest degree of improvement, it cannot alter bone structure. Also, since the liposuction is done so far away from the heart, swelling in the feet may take several weeks or even months to resolve.
3. Abdominal Etching- 19 years of private practice has taught me that there are very few shortcuts in life, and abdominal etching isn't one of them! To create the "illusion" of musculature, lines of scar are created on the underside of the skin with the intervening fat now looking like bulging muscles. Sounds good so far! However, if the patient gains any weight (and most of us do as we get older) the bulges can stop looking like "muscle" and look just plain bizarre!
4. Non-Invasive Body Contouring- Non-invasive body contouring procedures, such as Thermage and Zerona make many claims, particularly how they can help you lose inches and tighten skin with no downtime. However, they cannot change the genetic makeup of fat cells, so the results are often modest, temporary, and expensive!
While these procedures do sound unique and ground-breaking on paper, in reality they yield little long term, beneficial results. It is patient satisfaction, not the "cool factor" that I care about.
These procedures are not only smoke in mirrors, but they are often ineffective. When patients do not understand the potential tradeoffs and risks of these procedures, they are often left financially hurt and without satisfactory results. The ultimate goal of my 'Plastic Surgery: Behind the Hype' campaign is to urge consumers to be safe and discerning when considering plastic surgery. Remember- there are no shortcuts in life, and certainly not in plastic surgery!
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This is ridiculous. The City of Philadelphia (run by progressives and liberals) is telling bloggers they have to pay $300 per year for a business license. Let me tell you, blogging is not very lucrative, and this will cost blogs that don't generate a ton of traffic more than they earn.
City Paper reported:
For the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small, low-traffic blog that features occasional posts about green living, out of her Manayunk home. Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she's made about $50. To Bess, her website is a hobby. To the city of Philadelphia, it's a potential moneymaker, and the city wants its cut.
In May, the city sent Bess a letter demanding that she pay $300, the price of a business privilege license.
"The real kick in the pants is that I don't even have a full-time job, so for the city to tell me to pony up $300 for a business privilege license, pay wage tax, business privilege tax, net profits tax on a handful of money is outrageous," Bess says.
It would be one thing if Bess' website were, well, an actual business, or if the amount of money the city wanted didn't outpace her earnings six-fold. Sure, the city has its rules; and yes, cash-strapped cities can't very well ignore potential sources of income. But at the same time, there must be some room for discretion and common sense.
When Bess pressed her case to officials with the city's now-closed tax amnesty program, she says, "I was told to hire an accountant."
She's not alone. After dutifully reporting even the smallest profits on their tax filings this year, a number — though no one knows exactly what that number is — of Philadelphia bloggers were dispatched letters informing them that they owe $300 for a privilege license, plus taxes on any profits they made.
Even if, as with Sean Barry, that profit is $11 over two years.
H/T Gateway Pundit
The Pirates Cove linked, with a few choice words for Philly liberal bloggers. Heh!
Support Your Local Gun Slinger linked also – and he's not happy about this since he's a Philly blogger. From what I can tell he's not of the liberal or progressive persuasion.


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I made this cake for my neice's graduation party. It is the first cake I made that had to travel (3 hrs) and withstand the heat (90 degrees) and humidity. It did perfectly. 10" layer chocolate fudge with chocolate ganache filling, 8" and 6" layers white confetti with whipped strawberry and fresh strawberry filling. Cakes crumb coated with Indydebi's buttercream then used Michele Foster's fondant recipe. Both recipes on cc.


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The Better Business Bureau is warning the public to beware of letters that appear to be from Publishers Clearing House and claim the recipient has won a grand prize drawing of $2 million or more. Despite these official-looking letters, recipients are the target of a widespread scam that is seeing a resurgence across the country.
The fake notification letters follow on the heels of a legitimate Publishers Clearing House award. Not only are letters popping-up in mailboxes, but some people report receiving phone calls from individuals pretending to be from Publishers Clearing House as well.
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Other fake Publishers Clearing House offers come by phone or email and claim funds are needed in advance to pay for insurance before winnings can be received. In this instance, consumers are instructed to put at least $400 on a Green Dot Money Pak Card from their local Walmart, Walgreens etc. and give the money card number to the "official" claims agent before winnings will be delivered.
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Former Mesa State Athletic Director Wayne Nelson passes away
Mesa State College lost one of its longtime coaches and advocates last weekend.
Wayne Nelson, who served in various capacities as coach and athletic director for 36 years, passed away on Saturday at age 85 at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
Nelson began coaching at Mesa Junior College in 1955.
His basketball teams won four Empire Conference titles and competed in the NAJA national tournament in 1958. He coached basketball through the 1973 season.
Nelson also was the men's tennis coach until 1989, coaching one of the teams to the national junior college tournament.
He also served as the school's athletic director for 26 years.
This past February, the basketball court at Mesa State College was named in his honor.
In June of this year, the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference announced its All-Century Team.
Nelson was selected as the tennis coach of the century.
Jay Jefferson, who served as athletic director at Mesa State during portions of the 1980s, worked with Nelson in the latter's capacity as a tennis coach.
"I know the coaches all respected him," Jefferson said.
As a coach, "He expected you to do your job," Jefferson said. "He was a good man."
As athletic director at Mesa College, Nelson was put in charge of team housing when the first JUCO World Series was held in Grand Junction in 1958, a position he held for many years.
Current Alpine Bank Junior College World Series Chairman Jamie Hamilton first met Nelson when Hamilton was a member and later a coach of Mesa State's baseball team in the 1980s.
When Hamilton joined the JUCO committee, Nelson was still serving on that committee.
"He's a guy who was passionate about student-athletes," Hamilton said.
Whether in his capacity as coach, athletic director or tournament committee member, "He approached all of them with the same level of integrity," Hamilton said. "He was a nice man."
Carter Elliott first met Nelson through tennis circles when Elliott and his wife, Lena, moved to Grand Junction in 1957.
"We used to drive our kids to Denver together for tournaments," Elliott said.
When Bookcliff Country Club built its tennis courts in 1960, Nelson was the club's first summer pro.
Nelson and his wife, Marie, helped the Elliotts with the first Western Slope Open tennis tournament, which eventually developed into the Taco Bell Open.
"We're going to miss him, that's for sure," Elliott said.
The family has requested contributions be made to the Wayne Nelson Scholarship Fund in care of the Mesa State College Foundation, 1450 North 12th St., Grand Junction, 81501.
A viewing for Nelson will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary in Grand Junction. Funeral services are Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 2542 G Road.


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Little Brian Wilcox s murder is the hottest story in Scotland. Every major newspaper crowds its pages with stories examining the crime from every angle. If only Paddy Meehan could get a scoop on the case. A nationally syndicated story would surely launch her fledgling journalism career out of the free local rag she s been working at.
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