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This simple and delicious pie recipe will satisfy your craving for a sweet treat and can be adapted for a low-fat version (substitute low fat cream cheese and sugar free instant pudding). This recipe is great topped with fresh strawberries or blueberries and walnuts.
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- 2 vanilla wafer ready-made pie crusts
- 1 small container Cool Whip
- 1 10 ounce package of cream cheese (softened)
- 1 cup of white confectioners sugar
- 2 small boxes of lemon instant pudding
- Milk (amount will be specified on the lemon pudding mix)
- Walnuts and/or fresh fruit for topping
- Soften cream cheese by setting out a half hour before using or microwaving in a bowl for 30 seconds. Divide cool whip and cream half of it with the cream cheese until smooth. Add confectioners sugar and stir until most of the lumps are gone. Spread the cream cheese mixture into the two pie crusts and set aside. In a separate bowl, mix the lemon pudding according to manufactures directions, stirring until slightly thickened. Pour the pudding over the two pies. Use the remaining cool whip to spread over the pies. Garnish with walnuts and/or fresh fruit and chill in the refrigerator for 2 hours before serving.


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Recommended :: Operating Instructions
After Norah was born my friend Wendy loaned me "Operating Instructions." I've read Anne Lamott's books before but not for quite some time and this one is biographical – her experience raising her son that first year. I snorted my way through it surprised that Norah didn't wake up as I identified with what she was saying and my belly shook from laughter. Whether you have kids, are expecting kids or are just looking for a fun light and hilarious read this book is great!
The synopsis reads "It's not like she's the only woman to ever have a baby. At thirty-five. On her own. But Anne Lamott makes it all fresh in her now-classic account of how she and her son and numerous friends and neighbors and some strangers survived and thrived in that all important first year. From finding out that her baby is a boy (and getting used to the idea) to finding out that her best friend and greatest supporter Pam will die of cancer (and not getting used to that idea), with a generous amount of wit and faith (but very little piousness), Lamott narrates the great and small events that make up a woman's life."

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Vishva Hindu Parishad of Australia Inc.
(World Hindu Council of Australia)
(ABN: 78862155168, Reg No: Y2898719, Charity No: CFN10709)
Inauguration of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, Western Australia Chapter.
The Inauguration of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, Western Australia chapter in the Butler Community Centre, Butler WA6036, Perth, was launched successfully on the Auspicious occasion of Diwali, the 29 th of October, 2016 .
The registration opened at 3:00pm and around 65 people showed up to support this launch. Everyone was greeted at the desk by volunteers and directed to the seating area in the hall.
At 3:30pm, the chief guest, honourable mayor, Tracey Roberts from the City of Wanneroo council graced the occasion with her presence.
The evening started with a prayer to Lord Ganesha, "Ganesh Vandana" by Durba ji on her harmonium and Pandey ji on the tabla. She enthralled the audience with her melodious bhajan and set the stage for the evening.
Neha Shinghal, President VHP Western Australia Chapter did a presentation about the Vishva Hindu Parishad, Australia (VHP Inc.) in the service of the society. She spoke about the work that this 53 year old institution does, not only in Australia but around the world and the fact that VHP Australia believes in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam which means that the "The world is one family".
In her speech she mentioned how important it was to bring together people from India so that they can still feel connected to their roots and rich cultural heritage while living abroad. Neha talked about integrating Indian values in the Australian lifestyle and raising responsible children who would become contributing citizens of the society. She concluded with a mention of working closely with Aboriginal communities, getting more active in social services, establishment of Hindu Schools and working in partnership with the local Government as the future plans.
Mayor Tracey Roberts did an emotional speech about how she felt being a part of the evening. She also did recognise the fact that Indians were really well integrated with the local community.
She mentioned about the importance of the work being done by the VHP and that if the smaller groups were doing well, it would benefit the society at large. To show her respect for Indian culture, she dressed up in the traditional salwaar kurta for this event.
In her speech she commended on the work that VHP has been doing in Australia and how wonderful she felt that the launch of the WA chapter was happening in her council. Both the mayor and her husband enjoyed the evening with traditional Indian and Bollywood dance performances and classical bhajans.
The mayor lighted the lamp in front of the deity of Lord Ganesha as he is the God for auspicious beginnings and officially inaugurated the evening. Neha presented her with a scarf as a mark of respect and welcomed her for being a part of this event.
The first dance of the evening was a group performance by Disha, Nirjari and Hazel who learn dancing at the Academy of Indian Classical and Bollywood Dance on "Hanuman Chalisa". It was followed by another beautiful performance by a very talented duo- Khushi and Nahla on "Chittiya Kalaiyan". The third dance was a solo performance by Gayatri on a Gujrati garbha song called "Dhol Baaaje". It was followed by the final dance "Prem Ratan" by Avni, Janvi, Bianca and Khushi. All these young talented girls from the dance performances were called once more on stage for another round of applause.
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Ozodi Osuji
What is the madness that Chukwuma is modeling for me to look at? Look at what he said about me (put down everything about me), put down my father and mother and put down my town.
This is what Igbos do, put Nigerians down, and put down every person in sight. Why do they do it? They do it because they have a neurotic need to seem important, big and see those around them as small.
They must insult all people so as to seem big in their eyes. They want to be as important as God himself; they want to replace God and become God.
When he is not putting down my folks by telling us that my father was his father's gardener and that my mother was his mother's babysitter he is pretending to care for my parents by saying that I did not go home when they died.
Why is it important to him if I did not go home when they died (where is home...the man does not know what home means).
Since when is my business his business? Of course he does not care for me or my parents. Is he not an Igbo self-centered man? Who has ever accused an Igbo of caring for other people?
Most Igbos care only for themselves and do everything they do to seem superior to other people, as the man is trying to seem superior to me (I accept his ego superiority; I accept his mad egos grandiosity).
They quest for importance and significance to hide their existential sense of unimportance and insignificance, their utter sense of inferiority.
They must put other people down to feel vicariously up. They put down Hausas, put down Yoruba's. Even when none of these put downs are called for they do it automatically.
Chukwuma put down my folks, folks he has no idea who they are. First of all, they are not part of any discourse that he is involved in. I do not bring my folks into public discourse except when the other deluded Igbo, to put me down, said that during the war my folks suffered kwashiorkor, and I felt a need to defend them from the mad man's accusation).
Chukwuma has a need to put my folks down and put down my town so as to put up his people and his town up.
Here is the deal; these people have existential insanity. That insanity is that as human beings who denied God they feel that they are egos and egos must feel unimportant and insignificant and then seek to make themselves important and godlike.
The ego cannot make itself important, for importance can only be derived from identification with Christ and his father, God.
The madness that I am supposed to learn from this mad man called Chukwuma is that as an Igbo I was tempted to see me as important in ego terms. I know that as an ego I am not important. I can only be important in God and his son, Christ.
Crazy Igbos teach me not to be like them, not to seek a self-given importance but to seek only worth in God, not in ego.
In God, heaven and eternity we are all equal and the same; God created all his sons the same as him. God and his sons are coequal and the same.
The only difference between God and his sons is that he created them and they did not create him or create themselves. Besides that, the authority question, who created whom, God and his sons are equal.
God is a true giver, a true giver gives all he has to those he gives to; God gave his children all his self and power. The entirety of God's self and power is in each of us, but we must acknowledge that our power is derived from God and is not self-conferred, hence Jesus Christ would say: by the power of God in me I can do everything but by myself I have no power and can do nothing.
While in the sameness and equality of heaven we desired to seem special; we wanted to create God, create ourselves and create each other. We wanted to chase God away from his creatorship throne and usurp it and become the creator of the universe. We could not do so in heaven, in reality and slept and do so in dreams.
In the world of dreams, our empirical world, each of us has a sense of specialness. The ego is a self that feels special, that feels better than other egos.
We came into the phenomenal world because we want to seem special, and different from each other, some better than others.
In our world some people seem special. It is a world of specialness. In our world each of us is tempted to see himself as better than other people.
In that light, many Igbos want to see themselves as better than Hausas and Yorubas and other Nigerians.
Are they better than other Nigerians? Of course not but they want to seem better than other Nigerians. They see their tendency to go to school and seek jobs in the white man's new dispensation, the modern world as evidence of their presumed advanced status vis a vis other Nigerians hence feel superior to other Nigerians.
Igbos like Chukwuma with some sort of college education (I understand that the man has a bachelor's degree in some sort of mechanics) look down on other Nigerians.
The more they look down on Nigerians the more Nigerians hate them, for no son of God likes it for other sons of God to look down on him.
God created all his sons equal so if you look down on a son of God you are a sinner and is hated. Most Nigerians do not have good feelings towards Igbos because they perceive Igbos as arrogant and vain glory seeking.
Indeed, Igbos do not only feel superior to other Nigerians but to other Igbos. See, Chukwuma has put Owerri people down.
There are many Owerri people. They are not all like me, forgiving. Many of them do bear grievance and seek vengeance for affronts to their self-esteems; such Owerri persons would feel angry at him for insulting them.
You do not make friends by putting any one down; Chukwuma has not made friends of my people by putting them down.
He may not know it, when that Eldorado of his, Biafra comes into being, Igbos from different clans would be at war with each other and the result is that Biafra would be worse than Somalia.
If the man had any kind of sanity in his dumb head he would build intergroup good feeling by respecting and loving all Igbos rather than insulting some of them.
The lesson that mad Chukwuma taught me is that if ever I had a desire to feel important and look down on other people that I should not do so.
I have supreme self-confidence and tend to see me as the best of humanity; there is nothing that I can do about that self-confidence. Nor is it bad to have positive self-confidence.
Chukwuma told me to be humble. I thank him for reminding me of the need to be humble (even mad men can give you good advice).
However, we must first understand what humility is. If by humility he means feeling inferior to other people he is misguided and misinformed.
I do not feel inferior to any human being born of woman, black or white. I am a son of God and have all the grandeur God's sons have.
In the temporal universe my sense of specialness does not see Chukwuma as anything to admire; to my ego he is a primitive savage; in my ego life I would not want him around me. I like only sophisticated folks around me.
In eternity we are the same and coequal but in time we are not; on earth he is a riffraff, an unwashed peasant boy with little or nothing in his thick head. Be that as it may, I love the Christ in him.
I have been told by some perceptive Nigerians that Chukwuma and his Igbonkwo crowd sees me as their superior and resents it; they subsequently have a need to put me down.
Chukwuma's childish behaviors towards me, I am told, are rooted in his perception of me as his master. I believe that this is also how his people perceive Nigerians. They see Nigerians as their superior and then feel a need to pull Nigerians down.
We have to teach these neurotic people to stop seeing people in terms of inferiority and superiority and, instead, accept the sameness and equality of all people.
I overlook Chukwuma's ego self, his false self and see the Christ in him and love that real self. The lesson he teaches me is for me to forgive his ego, to see his ego as his sleeping, dreaming self, to overlook what his ego does for what he does is done in a dream and what is done in a dream has not been done in God's reality.
Chukwuma's real self, the son of God, still remains as God created him: innocent, holy, sinless and guiltless. His ego madness and penchant for insulting people is part of the delusion and hallucination of his ego but since being ego is done in dreams and the son of God is not an ego, he is not an ego; I overlook what his ego does, his insults for my ego, and see the Christ in him.
When I see the Christ in him I see the Christ in me. But until I acknowledge the Christ in him I cannot acknowledge the Christ in me.
Does this mean that I should validate his ego madness, his desire to seem superior to me and all people and insult people. No; one does not reinforce and affirm insanity; one merely learns from insanity what sanity is not.
One (via the Holy Spirit, Christ mind) corrects insanity and show the insane person corrected behavior, sane behavior.
Sanity lies in love for all people.
By love I do not mean love for the ego but love for the Christ in people. I overlook Chukwuma's insane ego and love the Christ in him.
I do the same to me; I overlook my arrogant ego and love the humble Christ in me. The Christ in me accepts that God created him and that he did not create God hence is humble and in his humility has all the power of God.
A lesson not learned is repeated until learned and when it is learned it is no longer repeated. Over the past ten years, Chukwuma's insanity has repeated itself for me to learn the lesson of my own insanity, my arrogance; that lesson is learned, I am now humble and do not need to see an insane Chukwuma in my world to learn from.
From now on he teaches other people by acting insane for them; he is no longer my teacher for I do not need his insanity to heal my insanity; I am no longer insane (I no longer identify with the ego and its false grandiosity that looks down on some people to feel superior to them; I accept our existential sameness and equality). I can no longer gratify Chukwuma's childish ego of war by responding to it. This subject is now closed. I resume deleting whatever the insane brother mails to my mailbox.
Post Script:
Do I really expect the country bumpkin called Chukwuma and his benighted crowd to understand the metaphysical metaphors that suffuse my writings? No. I do not expect them to understand anything that I write. They are too dense, too concrete to understand abstract metaphysics. I write for me and those like me; the lesson that I am teaching through my writing is for me to learn it; when I learn it and behave accordingly, I am an enlightened person.
Ozodi Osuji
October 18, 2016


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Audiobook Review – Hunted by Evangeline Anderson
Written by: Evangeline Anderson
Narrated by: Anne Johnstonbrown
Length: 16 hrs and 53 mins
Series: Brides of the Kindred, Book 2
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:05-15-15
Publisher: Evangeline Anderson Books
I really liked the progression of the plot with the AllFather and the Scourge, unfortunately, other parts of the book were drawn out so far my mind started to wander. I get it, Sophie has major issues from her past and is unwilling to even try with Sylvan. I get having fears, but he had to prove himself way too much. He was a touch stilted in his narratives, but you get used to it after a time.
This is a spicy read, although most of the story for the leads is just foreplay. It has to do with the whole Mating Bond, I find that is a pattern for this series, saving the sex for the end. There is plenty of steam in the beginning, we get an extra naughty wedding night for Baird and Olivia. I knew he had that Dom thing in him!
The audiobook was once again narrated by Anne Johnstonbrown, who I thoroughly enjoyed! She has a great smooth tone and swift pace that helped move the story at slower moments. I enjoy her energy throughout the read. She has a terrific balance in the male and female voices. Definitely hope she stays with the series.
The narrative is mixed between the two leads and then supporting characters as well. It was great for understanding the motivations and endless issues. While I could see one of the past events as a roadblock for the couple, the medical one was annoying. I just wanted to shake some sense into her, because he was just so terrific. The scenes with Kat and the twins were interesting and made me salivate for their story. I enjoy these books, however, I find myself preferring the storyline and wishing for less steam. I know, it was a surprise for me too. All the back and forth repetition distracted from things in my opinion.
I am still eager for the next book in the series. I enjoy the plotlines, they are very intriguing! BTW, beware tears at the end! You see it coming a mile away, still it pulls those heart stings! Oh the feels.


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Published by the British Science Association
Feb 2013
Following feedback from the engineers involved in the BSA's Strictly Engineering workshop, DesignScience produced this online resource for scientists and engineers on how to design a poster.
This concise, online publication includes tips about text and typography, colour, imagery and using grids, as well as advice on production and copyright issues including how to make the most of the freely available design programs.
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Are IT Budgets Driven by Demand or Demands?
Article by Charles Williams and John Carnegie.
Today's economy has boardrooms scrambling to create new strategies to cope with revenue pressures.
The swiftness of this downturn has caught many companies flat-footed – they typically have a growth
plan, but not a survival plan. Management reacts by reducing costs to conserve cash. But ramping back on
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Significant migration cues are required to guide and contain newly generated rodent subventricular zone (SVZ) neuroblasts as they transit along the lateral ventricles and then through the anterior forebrain to their ultimate site of differentiation in the olfactory bulbs (OB). These cues enforce strict neuroblast spatial boundaries within the dense astroglial meshwork of the SVZ and rostral migratory stream (RMS), yet are permissive to large-scale neuroblast migration. Therefore, the molecular mechanisms that define these cues and control dynamic interactions between migratory neuroblasts and surrounding astrocytes are of particular interest. We found that deletion of EphA4 and specifically ablation of EphA4 kinase activity resulted in misaligned neuroblasts and disorganized astrocytes in the RMS/SVZ, linking EphA4 forward signaling to SVZ and RMS spatial organization, orientation and regulation. In addition, within a 3-week period there was a significant reduction in the number of neuroblasts that reached the OB and integrated into the periglomerular layer, revealing a crucial role for EphA4 in facilitating efficient neuroblast migration to the OB. Single-cell analysis revealed that EPHA4 and its EFN binding partners are expressed by subpopulations of neuroblasts and astrocytes within the SVZ/RMS/OB system resulting in a cell-specific mosaic — suggesting complex EphA4 signaling involving both homotypic and heterotypic cell-cell interactions. Together, our studies reveal a novel molecular mechanism involving EphA4 signaling that functions in stem cell niche organization and ultimately neuroblast migration in the anterior forebrain.
The SVZ neurogenic stem cell niche generates highly migratory neuroblasts that transit the anterior forebrain along a defined pathway to the olfactory bulb. Postnatal and adult brain organization dictates strict adherence to a narrow migration corridor. SVZ neuroblasts are aligned in tightly bundled chains within a meshwork of astrocytes; however, the cell-cell cues that organize this unique, cell-dense migration pathway are largely unknown. Our studies show that forward signaling through the EphA4 tyrosine kinase receptor, mediated by ephrins expressed by subpopulations of neuroblasts and astrocytes, is required for compact, directional organization of neuroblasts and astrocytes within the pathway and efficient transit of neuroblasts through the anterior forebrain to the OB.
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
We would like to thank Joshua Klein for illustrating our theoretical model; Patrick Malloy for assistance with creation of the Euler diagrams in Figure 5 and Stephen Daniels for assistance with electron microscopy as presented in Figure 1. Funding is from the NIH/NINDS (R01NS50338).


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2004 Chevrolet Suburban 1500 LS 4WD 4dr SUV (5.3L 8cyl 4A)
This is the best truck we have ever owned it hauls like a big truck and rides like large car. The engine is powerful and very smooth. This is the longest production run of a SUV and it shows. Chevy suburban has it all .
Heated seats memory seats and ajustable pedals handles great and love the auto 4X4
It would be nice to see better mileage but I think it already tops the list for fuel mileage but still we get an average 14,5 mpg to compare to others it is the biggest.
As a owner of a 2004 suburban, I have only one simple problem, the battery went out the day after I got it. I have had no real problems with, the vehicle runs great, take care of it, and will take care of you.
I have put over 63,000 miles on my Suburban since buying it off lease. Unfortunately, it has been a constant source of problems. Starting around 60- 70,000 miles, things just started falling apart. I replaced multiple suspension parts, a window regulator, a fuel pump, water pump, and some other miscellaneous items, and I am now faced with a transmission job costing over $2500. All this with only 93,000 miles. The interior is about as bad as they come, with badly fitting plastics and cheap everything. The gas mileage is horrible. The power is nice, and the towing capacity is also a plus, and mine seats nine. These cannot, unfortunately, outweigh the cost of poor reliability.
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The interior is as cheap as they come. Fuel economy. RELIABILITY. Stock stereo is very low quality. Chevy really skimped on quality here.
We had a 97 Tahoe we traded in on the suburban because we needed more room I have driven chevys for over 30 years this is the best one yet it pulls well it rides great and is the most comfortable one yet this is one great suv
the heated seats and the sun roof
We average 15.3 mpg we wish it was better but it a very heavy truck so I guess we should be happy it gets what it gets
First off, Why are all of you marking this vehicle down for Fuel Economy? For what this thing tows and hauls, including people, you would need 2 Toyota camarys to haul 8 people. Some interior parts are cheap and come loose from time to time, but the space is better than any of the full size imports. This Vehicle is bullet proof Mechanically, and except for the steering shaft problem ($74 at Autozone) This is the toughest, most economical, Extra-Large SUV on the market, and gets the best fuel economy of all of them (non-Hybrid) We moved from a mini van to this and our fuel expenses only increased about $400 a year, that's only $33 per month. Go Drive one, you will be impressed.
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text: Might this be the best defensive play of the season? Or, is it possible that Milwaukee Bucks' big man Drew Gooden has something else going on? Yup, it appears as if he's afraid of the basketball. Surely the ball don't lie, but as far as I know it don't bite either. Then again, this is Milwaukee, home of the "beast." It's possible that there's something we don't quite know about basketball in the the great state that once ruined Todd Day's draft day. [SB Nation, via Reddit]


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Texas Two-Step for Bayne
By: Pete Pistone - @PPistone | MRN.com on April 11, 2013 | 11:20 P.M. EST
"I love Texas. Somehow we've always been fast there and it seems like big things happen there every time." (Photo: Getty Images)
FORT WORTH, Texas - Trevor Bayne will be doing double duty at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend, running in both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series.
His weekend will begin with Friday night's O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 Nationwide Series race behind the wheel of the Roush Fenway Ford. Bayne enters the weekend sixth in the series point standings and hopes a return to the track where he scored his first career win will kick-start his year.
"I love Texas," Bayne said. "We've always been fast here and it seems like big things happen every time. In 2010, I got my first Cup start. In 2011, we got our first Nationwide win. I'd love to get another Nationwide win and (wear) that cowboy hat in Victory Lane."
Bayne has had some success in the early going in 2013 but has struggled, too. After a couple weeks off, he's hoping to return refreshed and ready to resume his charge for a Nationwide Series title.
"It was a good reset button for us to be able to go test at Kansas and learn some things that, hopefully, we can use in Texas," Bayne said. "We were fast in Las Vegas and that's our Texas setup so hopefully, we can lead laps and win. We need that to give us a kick in the butt, move us up in the standings and get us rolling for the rest of the season."
Bayne's driving duties won't end when the checkered flag flies Friday night. He'll transition to the Wood Brothers Sprint Cup Series ride for Saturday night's seventh race of the season. Bayne has five career Cup starts at Texas, more than any other track except Daytona. That has crew chief Donnie Wingo looking forward to the weekend.
"Trevor's experience at Texas gives him more confidence going in," Wingo said. "And with it being a night race, he seems to do better when the track has more grip."
Wingo took a pair of Ford Fusions to Texas this week, one specifically for Thursday's open test, and the second one prepared for Friday's practices and qualifying. The veteran crew chief says there's a method to his madness.
"Even though the test Thursday was with a different car, it'll help us get a baseline setup for the race," Wingo said. "And with two practices on Friday, the first one will allow us to get a better handle on the race setup."
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The village of Stamford, the quintessential chocolate-box English scene, seemed an impossible dream for foster kid Toby Prentiss. Now he's found a home among the haystacks and village fairs as the general manager for the Duck and Drake Hotel. With the fears and demons from his youth hidden away in this bucolic oasis, he's very protective of who he lets in. Until he stumbles across shirtless carpenter Rain Engel building the hotel's new custom-designed bar.
Working in the countryside, Rain prepared to face his biggest fear: sheep. He didn't expect to deal with his second biggest fear: commitment. Toby's controlled tough-guy façade coupled with his "find happiness where you can" optimism calls to Rain like nothing before. While Rain may be an exhibitionist, his romantic history forces him to hold his emotions close. As their relationship develops, secrets from their pasts drive a wedge between them: the ex-boyfriend who tore apart Rain's trust and Toby's history with the law. But can the secrets hiding among the quirky villagers bring them together? With missing sheep, pole dancing at the winter festival, and a crippling drought, everyone is waiting for Rain.
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Gave up listening :(
I have tried three times to listen to this book as I love Susan MacNicol's work but the narration of Rain put me off every time. I have read the book and loved it but the accent for Rain is just so weird it put me off. I've listened to this narrator on other books and he's been fine. I just don't think this book was right for him.
However, I will persevere and give it another try at some time but doubt I will be any happier with it.
- Lyn
Lovely story but ..... oh dear
This story is great if you are in the mood for a sweet romance. It has it all - two cute guys, slightly angsty pasts, great best friends, laughs, highs, lows, POLE DANCING and sheep jokes :-) Its a story that I will happily read again. READ.
I loved Toby, he had been through so much and really made something of himself. His past is heartbreaking (the cat bit really chocked me up) and I just want him to be happy forever!
Ah now the performance, this bit is hard. I have already said I liked the story. Also I have listened to other books narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davis and loved them. He has great characterisation and is very pleasant to listen to.
Until we come to Rain. Rain is from South Africa. The book states he has a SLIGHT South African accent. Sadly this somehow got recorded as full on Afrikaans. In fact it took me a while to work out what that accent was. And the narrator nails every other one. It is such a shame as it kind of ruined the listen for me. Either the accent should have been slight or only used when he was speaking allowed not for the full chapters he was narrating.
I am actually really upset about this as I don't want this review to upset the author or the narrator but I have to say it as I am always honest
I now eye haystacks in a different way!
Please Dreamspinner, get this re-recorded and do justice to the book, the author and the narrator!
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Dr. Maria New, a pediatric endocrinologist of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University, and psychologist Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg of Columbia University, are once again in the news with their controversial experiments on female fetuses with the experimental and dangerous drug dexamethasone (DEX) after Dr. Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics in Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, published a new report on the matter.
By treating pregnant women with DEX, Dr. New and Meyes-Bahlburg are hoping to prevent the effects of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH), a condition that leads to an excess of prenatal androgens and results in the masculinization of the genitals. CAH is a condition whose effects range anywhere from benign clitoral enlargement to a number of metabolic problems to serious, life-threatening deformations of the genitals that must be surgically corrected. As DEX might only mitigate the underlying disease's effects, but can't cure it, life-long therapy is required. This is the stuff most researchers who work with the drug are interested in. Dr. New and several colleagues, however, are also interested in something entirely different.
Studies have shown that females with CAH, in comparison to non-CAH females, have increased rates of behaviors more typical of men, tend to be less interested in motherhood as adults and are more likely to grow up to be bisexual or lesbian. And this is what bothers Dr. New and a bunch of others.
I'm going to quote New and her colleagues here, because nobody could convey their intentions clearer than they themselves. In a 2010 article that New and a colleague published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, they put it this way:
"Without prenatal therapy, masculinization of external genitalia in females is potentially devastating. It carries the risk of wrong sex assignment at birth, difficult reconstructive surgery, and subsequent long-term effects on quality of life. Gender-related behaviors, namely childhood play, peer association, career and leisure time preferences in adolescence and adulthood, maternalism [interest in being a mother], aggression, and sexual orientation become masculinized in 46,XX girls and women with 21HOD deficiency. … Genital sensitivity impairment and difficulties in sexual function in women who underwent genitoplasty early in life have likewise been reported. We anticipate that prenatal dexamethasone therapy will reduce the well-documented behavioral masculinization and difficulties related to reconstructive surgeries." (Nimkarn and New 2010a, 9)
So, according to New, "proper" women must be interested in Barbies, shouldn't want to play with boys (And god save her from soccer!), should become kindergartners – or better yet, exclusively stay-at-home moms -, should have sexual interest in only men, be submissive and want a bunch of babies.
New also told a group of parents of children with CAH that the treatment aims for the restoration of the
"[…] normal female appearance which would be compatible with her parents presenting her as a girl, with her eventually becoming somebody's wife, and having normal sexual development, and becoming a mother. And she has all the machinery for motherhood, and therefore nothing should stop that, if we can repair her surgically and help her psychologically to continue to grow and develop as a girl." (New 2001a)
I have to agree with her on that one: lesbianism really isn't conductive to becoming a man's wife and churning out his babies like a machine. As nothing should stop heteronormativity from claiming every single female on this planet, lesbianism and bisexuality must be eliminated.
In 1999 New's main collaborator Meyer-Bahlburg said:
"CAH women as a group have a lower interest than controls in getting married and performing the traditional child-care/housewife role. As children, they show an unusually low interest in engaging in maternal play with baby dolls, and their interest in caring for infants, the frequency of daydreams or fantasies of pregnancy and motherhood, or the expressed wish of experiencing pregnancy and having children of their own appear to be relatively low in all age groups." (Meyer-Bahlburg 1999, 1845–1846)
Meyer-Bahlburg was further interested in whether "long term follow-up studies of the behavioral outcome will show whether [prenatal] dexamethasone treatment also prevents the effects of prenatal androgens on brain and behavior".
Isn't it heart-warming how their main concern lies with the prevention of behavioral "masculinization"? Well, at least they're being honest.
Or maybe not. Another issue is that New hasn't been honest to mothers about the drug DEX and that follow-up studies – where existent at all – are shoddy at best. As Dreger et al. document, DEX has been advertised by them to patients in misleading ways and promoted for the medically illegitimate prevention of non-heterosexuality and tomboyism. Furthermore, the drug is supposed to be administered under Institutional Review Board (IRB) guidelines, which would have put individuals under clinical trial status. Notice "would have". New also hasn't bothered informing her patients of the experimental and controversial nature of this drug, thus they weren't even able to give informed consent.
You can access the complete report with all its seriously shocking facts for free here: Prenatal Dexamethasone for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia – An Ethics Canary in the Modern Medical Mine by Alice Dreger, Ellen K. Feder, and Anne Tamar-Mattis
Doctor Treating Pregnant Women With Experimental Drug To Prevent Lesbianism by Dan Savage
Shocking Report: Doctors Use Off-Label Drug to Prevent Lesbian, Bisexual, Tomboy Babies on The Advocate
Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb? by Alice Dreger, Ellen K. Feder, Anne Tamar-Mattis
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Campaign Issues, Vol. I: Ron Paul and bin Laden
On May 11, Ron Paul gave an interview with WHO Newsradio 1040 in which he stated that he would not have ordered the bin Laden raid to occur "the way it took place in Pakistan": This is a problem for a lot of people; it leaves them with the idea that Paul would prefer bin… Read More »
How to create an Insurgent
Anyone remember these scenes from The Patriot? (A warning for the faint of stomach, such as myself: this is pretty graphic.) I remember watching this movie for the first time, and it was pretty disturbing. One might say that I simply have a weak stomach or that I'm unable to deal with reality. To the… Read More »
Clinton on economics, Part One
It seems Comedy central finally found something funnier than Colbert. I will be reviewing a segment on the Daily Show regarding the current bailout situation. Part two of this blog will cover the second half of Clinton's interview. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Bill Clinton Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com… Read More »
the patriot
A man who is willing to speak like this in Congress is not out for his own gain. Feel free to read the transcript.
money makes the world go 'round?
Anyone who is interested in understanding the composition of our economy and the fiat currency system should watch this video. I've never come across such a clear and succinct presentation of this material. You may not agree with all of the opinions expressed, but the explanation of our currency system and how the Federal Reserve… Read More »


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"Elo" in general means link and it can be associated with emotional and subjective relationships. Here Elo refers to the connection between the life story of Elza Montal and the Suburban Railroad of Bahia (Brazil). The link – Elo – is expressed in this catalog through the photographs taken by Elza and her students at the suburbs of Bahia, during the photography workshops taught by her.
The design of the letters, inspired by the classic railroad pictography, was sewn on parchment paper. In the book the idea of sewing is used as a metaphor to the link – Elo. The parchment paper was very appreciated and used by Frede Abreu, father of Elza, who was responsible for conveying part of this link with the suburb.
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We are intermitently getting an Application Error with our fortran console application. The error is a popup window that says "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000018). Click OK to close the application." So it appears like it is not even getting in to the code at all.
This is happening often (maybe always now) when we give the application to other users, but does not happen immediately on the machine on which the code was compiled. But then, sometime later, this same error may occur on the computer that was used for the build. Sometimes restarting the computer will temporarily eliminate the problem. This just started in the last couple of months, and we have even recompiled older versions that never had this problem, and now they do.
We recently noticed that the problem occurs when the stack reserve is set to 2GB, but the stack commit is not set. If both are not set, or they are set to the same, it seems like it might be ok. Do you know what might be going on here?
We are using Intel Composer XE 2011 Update 4 package 196 and Visual Studio 2010 Professional.
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Best Female Pop Singers of 2013
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Jessie is the queen, no one can beat her voice it's iconic, she's so underrated, her songs are so honest I feel like I find a part of myself when I listen to her, she's beautiful, honest, funny and caring she's everything and I adore herV 1 Comment
She is awesome! She can hit a high note pretty good. she sings awesomely. she makes great songs. powerful lyrics in songs. she is a awesome good singer
Why is she on here. She's not even a real singerV 2 Comments
Amazing singer and beautiful
You pretty I like your songs
Ok... so she is a rapper but most of her songs are pop... Starships, Pound the Alarm, Super Bass, Va Va Voom, etc.
Lorde actually writes about real issues like homeless people she is by far the best, all the rest just write a load of rubbish
She is really good singer and actress. Love her movies
She good not that much
5 words to describe this angel: Beautiful, Talented, Wonderful, Amazing, and Underrated. Her songs "Replay" and "My Baby" are fantastic, and her voice is the most unique. I wish she got a grammy instead of Lorde.
She is an amazing vocalist, with an incredible range.
She's my favourite singer I love her voice n l love her sooo mch I'm the biggest fan of her n also I listens her every song
She is above all of them.
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Last weekend was full of so much excitement. On the schedule were 3 half marathons in 2 days. The first was the Revel Canyon City Half Marathon, a mostly downhill course that starts in the forests and canyons of the Angeles National Forest and finishes in the foothills of Azusa (in Southern California).
I played this one pretty close to the chest and didn't tell too many folks that I was aiming for a PR. This race was a couple of weeks after New York and I hadn't been doing much speed work since I bonked in Philadelphia. There were a couple of things in my favor:
Downhill Course (see map below)
Michael and Andrea waiting at mile 12:
Since it's a point-to-point race down a two-lane highway, there are no spectators until 11.5-ish. Michael and Andrea decided to wake up way early and cheer me on. They were the only two people aware of my PR-dreams. The pressure was on to be at mile 12 on pace.
My last "race" for the year:
Going into this weekend I was all in for Saturday. I couldn't think about Sunday's races. If it meant struggling through two half marathons in one day to get a year-old PR, I was willing to do it.
At the start line, I ran into David (a SA2LV crew member) and he was aiming for a similar pace. I let him know my plan (to pace with the 1:40 a 7:30 pace, then make my move at 9-10 to low 7's). He was on board and soon enough we were getting ready to fly down a hill
Mile 1: 7:05
Mile 2: 8:00
Mile 3: 7:57
Mile 4: 8:27
Wow. 1:40 just took off. I never even came close to the group, even with a 7 minute start. This is not uncommon as some pacers start off fast then ease into their pace. I knew the first mile was fast and took note. The first 4 miles had some climb in them in between the down hill. I made sure not to "attack" the uphill knowing I would make it up on the down.
Mile 5: 7:28
Mile 6: 7:01
Mile 7: 8:14
Mile 8: 7:31
David had studied the course well and was commenting on how most of the climb was behind us and these miles were downhill. We didn't talk much, but what David was saying was exactly what I needed to hear. He knew 1:40 was going too fast and thought we would catch him around mile 8. He also said we were exactly on pace and where we needed to be. It was the perfect reassurance I needed and with him running next to me, there was no way I was going to slow down or be tempted by a walk-break.
After mile 8, I decided to start chipping away at 1:40. It was probably a mile earlier than I would have liked, but I needed to catch him before Mile 11 if I wanted to give myself a chance. I knew after mile 8 that there were no more climbs and it was either downhill or flat remaining. This was my moment. This was where I needed to make my move.
Mile 9: 6:38
Mile 10: 6:57
Mile 11: 7:04
I took advantage of the downhill and just kept falling forward. I stopped looking at my watch and I'm glad that I did. If I had seen that I just clocked two sub-7 minute miles, it probably would have burned my confidence: "You can't hold this." I was creeping up on 1:40 and slowly picking people off to catch him. David could tell that I was making my move around 9-10 and gave me something along the lines of a "go get em." I couldn't hear what the words were exactly, but I knew what he was saying.
I was tired at 11. I was ready to call it. Not because I didn't think I was on pace, because I had been pounding my legs for 11 miles down a hill, then up a hill, then down again. My legs are not used to that type of running. "Michael and Andrea are at 12. Get to 12. Get to 12." That was my thought process for most of mile 11. "They made signs. They got up early. I said I would be there. Be there. C'mon" I passed 1:40 somewhere in mile 11 and I was where I needed to be at this point in the race.
Mile 12: 7:05
I knew exactly where they were going to be. There was ONE turn on the entire course. One left hand turn to the finish line. I saw the signs. I heard the cowbell. I wanted to say something. I may have. I was pretty much out of it at that point. If I had the PR made I would have gone over and high-fived or hugged, but I was down to minutes. I think I threw a thumbs up. But I know I was smiling and feeling all the warm fuzzies inside.
I had about 7 minutes to get to the finish line if I wanted to PR. Once I hit mile 12, my body almost called it a race. I was so focused on getting to 12 on pace that my mind did a tiny celebration. I'm looking at my watch and thinking, can I do it? Judging the distance, trying to figure out if it's possible. This is going to be really close.
Mile 13: 7:14
Half Marathon: 1:37:04 (a 49-second PR)
Overall: 49 out of 888
Age Group: 7 out of 42
Unofficially, I knew I was under my previous 1:37:XX, but I never put the seconds to memory. I knew they were high, 45 seconds? 50 seconds? I actually had to pull up the blog post from my previous PR to see what my official time was. I always just referred to my half time as 1:37. It's funny that even though I PR'd my half time is STILL 1:37, but I'll take it. I accomplished my goal of setting a PR and I was smiling from ear to ear.
The success of this race is broken into two parts. Miles 1-8 with David. We had no plans of running together, but he helped me keep my "ish" together for the first 8 miles. He was the perfect voice the entire way. With a "we're right on pace" or a "these next few miles are downhill" he was exactly what I didn't know I needed to get me through it.
The second and most important part of the equation was Michael and Andrea. I told them that with a 7 am start time, I needed to be at mile 12 by 8:30 to have a chance. I also told them that if they see the 1:40 pass before me, I busted. With the 1:40 flying, I made it a personal goal to catch them BEFORE 12 so they didn't freak out or look disappointed. No one wants a disappointed cheer crew. Miles 9-11 (6:53 avg. pace) happened because I needed to get in front of 1:40 before 12. THAT is where the PR happened. Those three miles is why I was able to be successful… and that credit goes to two runners who woke up early to cheer me on.
With Saturday done. I found comfort in the fact that Sunday would be for fun. I had accomplished my goal and had heck of a time doing it. Saturday will be one of those races that sticks in my memory for how the running community played a HUGE role in my success. If I'm not running with David and if Michael and Andrea are not out there, the PR doesn't happen. FACT. The right people, at the right time, in the right place. It couldn't have been staged any better.
FYI: David finished right behind me with a 5-minute PR. I saw him cross the finish line with a huge smile.
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Quasimoto is cool. The voice is too gimmicky and annoying for me these days. I prefer the instrumental version. Lyrics are on the weak side, but "Bad Character" is one of my old favorites.
These albums are fucken awesome. Love 'em.
I wonder if Madlib will ever drop a full solo album where he raps over his beats in his normal voice?
Check for my latest one man band hip hop songs here...
Yeah I own both albums. I enjoy them but I can't really play them straight through, only bit by bit.
"I pledge allegiance to the hip hop"Method Man
I'm listening to both albums again as im posting this. madlib is genius.
Top 5 from Unseen(it was hard):
Basic Instinct
Low Class conspiracy
Come on feet(i find this song funny as hell, the clanking feet sound is awesome)
Axe puzzles
Return of the loop digga
The whole Unseen album is 10/10, I mean wow madlib
Top 5 from Further adventures:
the clown
Dont blink
Bartender say
life is
Again great album, but imo this album is just all over the place. 9/10
yeah, I've gone threw em'.....really creative and of course, the production is top notch....
I won't lie though, when it comes to bumpin' some Madlib they aren't the first things I reach for.....
I love the Lord Quas character though......still tryin to find some T-shirts with him on em'.....
Don't like the voice but good productions.. Madlib was raw on Madvillainy.


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Main → Afghanistan → Velayat Vardak → Bangi Qol
Map of Bangi Qol Velayat Vardak, Afghanistan
Other Names: Bang-e Qowl,Bangi Qol,Bangikul',Bangikul',Bangiqol,Bangiqowl,Bangiqōl,Bangī Qōl,Bangīqowl, Bangī Qōl
Bangi Qol
Welcome to the Bangi Qol google satellite map! This populated place is situated in Velayat Vardak, Afghanistan. Original name (with diacritics) of the place is Bangī Qōl. See Bangi Qol photos and images from satellite below, explore the aerial photographs of Bangī Qōl area. This placemark was added 2010-08-09.
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- Country: Afghanistan
- Province: Velayat Vardak
- Category: populated place
- Altitude: 0 m
- Population: 0
Asia/Kabul +4.5
- Local Time: 21:08
- Sunrise: 07:00
- Sunset: 17:18
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Lux Build
Middle Lane
Ability Sequence
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The masteries shown here are not yet updated for the current season, the guide author needs to set up the new masteries. As such, they will be different than the masteries you see in-game.
I'm not a pro. I don't play ranked often. I'm aware of high elo levels of play and I try to employ them as best I can. This isn't a guide on how to play Lux in every possible elo. It is, however, a guide for how to play Lux in various situations, which are much more important than anything else.
Lux: An Introduction
Lux is a mage/support hybrid who is full of versatility. Her charm is in her powerful CC and high burst damage, as well as her heavy AoE and the fact that she can be played as both a support with CC and a straight up mage.
To those of you looking at her and thinking: "She's so skillshot based! She must be difficult!" I'd respond to that first impression with the idea that she isn't difficult, but simply different. You can't simply pick her up and master everything about her within a few games. Sometimes I feel like I'm still mastering her even to this day.
Her skillshot based kit may put you off playing her, but to those of you who want a powerful supportive mage with high damage, amazing CC, and a high reward for playing her properly, I absolutely recommend you pick her up and enjoy everything she has to offer.
My rune set as above gives a nice boost to your early game damage, gives a nice amount of flat magic penetration for that troublesome magic resist early game. You may wonder where the per level runes are, but I find them pointless for a simple reason.
Much of Lux's early game damage is rather weak. It's certainly not useless by any means, but her AP ratios on her offensive skills are decent, with a 0.7 AP ratio on Light Binding, a 0.6 AP ratio on and a 0.75 AP ratio on Finales Funkeln Finales Funkeln. However, her early game bases are quite weak, hence the flat increase in power.
The mana regen is because early game, even the best Lux can blow through her mana surprisingly quickly, leaving you going back to your base before you'd like to. This massive flat mana regen will prevent early game starvation, and mana should never be a problem if you take a break for ten seconds when your mana gets below 25%.
Please DON'T look at these runes and think "I need to get to level 20 to unlock these.. These are expensive. I shouldn't play her until I have all these runes." This is absolutely not the case. They're nice to have, certainly, and make the laning phase a breeze, but they aren't necessary. You can supplement the mana regen with a Tear of the Goddess at lower levels/pre rune. I certainly did, and it made up for the fact that I bought her at Summoner Level 10. Call it noobish if you want, but for a newer Lux, it's a nice little crutch while you work up the EXP and IP you need to start ideally.
The masteries listed above are designed to utilize Lux's strengths and, again, increase her AP while also decreasing her rather high cooldowns and giving her a little extra mana regen on the side.
Unlike most, I would say that Lux's masteries are versatile. If you feel you don't need the extra damage; if her cooldowns aren't giving you trouble; if your mana regen is good enough with runes, feel free to switch around my masteries with what works for you.
Again, newcomers, you don't necessarily need these masteries to start playing her. For the most part, masteries give an early game advantage in my experience; an advantage that is later replaced or amplified by items. Very rarely do masteries mean a game changing advantage.
Summoner Spells
The summoner spells I use,
Flash and
Teleport, tend to be the ones that work the most for me, but for the sake of completion, I'll go over all of them.
Flash is a short distance blink that casts instantly, and can be used both offensively as a gap closer, or defensively as an escape mechanism. It's remarkably versatile and will both save your life and secure you a kill several times over the course of your average game. Using it to blink over walls is a valid strategy you'd do well to master.
Teleport is my second Summoner Spell. It allows me to get from base to lane quicker in a crisis, and also allows me quick transportation to other lanes for tower defence or to pick up a kill or two. It's invaluable for me to be able to go from place to place quickly, and can save a lane during a clutch situation by transporting your CC and an extra load of damage to that lane.
Although I don't carry it personally, Ghost can be a valuable spell for running down an enemy or escaping. The reason I don't carry it is because Exhaust and other slowing, snaring or stunning skills negate its use, and if you're caught out of position like that, chances are Ghost won't save you like Flash can.
A nice spell for slowing an enemy and suppressing their damage output, but most definitely a summoner spell best employed by a carry or someone with consistent, sustained damage. Using Exhaust in a one on one situation will be unlikely to make much of a difference. If you're in range to cast Exhaust, you're in range to fire all of your other skills. And with your high cooldowns, Exhaust is likely to have worn off by the time you're ready for another cycle of spells. Much better on your assassin or AD carry.
A useful tool for removing CC and getting you on the move, but is unlikely to be as useful as Flash in that regard. In a fight against someone CC heavy, Lux is much better staying away from them in the first place, taking advantage of superior range and her own CC to do so. Prevention is better than cure.
A nice spell for getting that last tick of damage necessary to kill an enemy. It's one of those spells I'd actually consider taking in the right situation, such as if we had one or two people with Teleport and I knew I wasn't going mid. It also hard counters healers, so that's good too.
Surge nicely supplements your burst and enhances it nicely...every 187 seconds with max Summoner Spell cooldown. To be simplistic about it, its reward isn't worth the Summoner Spell slot.
I used this as a crutch in the laning phase after weaning myself off a Tear. It works nicely when you're halfway towards completing your rune page if you're trouble staying topped up, but it just isn't worth it at later levels, especially when late game rolls around.
A situational spell at best, I don't find it very useful because of its rather high cooldown and the fact it can only be used on a siege minion. Better taken on a traditional support or a tank.
I wouldn't shut its use down, but it's better on a more traditional support. It can help you aim your laser here and there, and if you want to sacrifice your Teleport slot for it, then go for it. But for the love of God, don't just use it for that. Use it to scout for ganks and baron/dragon as well.
A nice early game spell for baiting and sustain, I suppose, but near useless late game. A waste of a summoner spell slot.
You aren't jungling, mister. You can gank just fine without needing to spend the entire laning phase in the jungle, wasting your amazing harass and CC for a third of the game. If I see a Lux with Smite, I hope to God Warwick has killed her and stolen her skin, or I'm not buying it.
These are a basic rundown of the abilities. More detail on how to use them will come later, as well as my reasoning on why I max the skills as I do.
Lux's passive and a core aspect of her laning phase. Each of Lux's offensive abilities charge her enemy with light for 6 seconds, displayed by glowing light at the centre of their model. basic attacks landed while they're charged with this light will deal 10 damage, plus 10 per level.
Light Binding is Lux's primary form of CC, a line skillshot with decent range that snares the first two enemy units hit, minions include for two seconds, while dealing magic damage. The second unit snared will take half damage. I take Light Binding at level 1 and max it second.
Prismatic Barrier is Lux's only traditional support ability, an AoE shield that travels in a boomerang fashion similar to Sivir's Boomerang Blade, shielding allied champions including Lux on its way out and as it returns to Lux. I take Prismatic Barrier at level 4, and max it last.
Lucent Singularity is the primary damage skill the way I max Lux's skills. It sends out a sphere of light that lingers in the area for a short time, granting vision in a radius slightly higher than its area of effect. Enemies that walk into the area are slowed, and the light can be detonated to deal damage to all targets within the area. I take Lucent Singularity at Level 2, and max it right away.
Finales Funkeln
The ability that attracted most Lux players to her from the beginning, myself included. Finales Funkeln releases a thin beam of light at a long range (about the distance from one turret to another), damaging all targets caught in its range. It's notable for its low cooldown and the fact that aside from death and Skarner's Impale, once the very short channel time has commenced, this ultimate cannot be interrupted or stopped. It also ignites an existing Illumination debuff, dealing additional damage.
Core Build and Skill Order Explained!
You may be wondering; "Why am I levelling up Lucent Singularity before Light Binding? Lucent Singularity has lower damage, a lower ratio, and higher costs!"
To put it simply, Light Binding is harder to land. Its hitbox is rather small, and it can be interrupted by minions. In the laning phase, where minions have such an impact, you'll either have to reposition yourself awkwardly and constantly to land your Light Binding, and you'll also have to deal with having Lucent Singularity remaining weak for half the game.
If you don't level up Light Binding, you'll still have a two second snare, a drastically effective moment of CC. If you don't level up Lucent Singularity, you'll have a tool only truly useful for a small slow and as a method to illuminate your foes. Puts it all into perspective, doesn't it?
Assuming you have the runes recommended in this build, start with a Doran's Ring. When you can, get a second one. This is for the early game ability power, making up for your comparatively low bases by taking advantage of your decent ratios.
If you don't have the recommended runes, I suggest you get a Meki Pendant and two health potions, building them into a Tear of the Goddess or a Chalice of Harmony, depending on how bad you find your mana issues are. You'll be missing out on a little AP, but assuming you got a Tear, you can always get an later.
When first going back, I suggest getting Boots of Speed to speed you up a bit, allowing you to position yourself and land combos a little faster. Get a and next.
Ionian Boots of Lucidity are next. They give you increased cooldown reduction, and your cooldowns act as weaknesses in your early and mid game power, so this along with your masteries will reduce them a little bit.
Finish your and build it into a ASAP. This gives you survivability, mana and a nice chunk of AP. I used to rush a Rabadon's after my Ionian Boots of Lucidity, but after a friend become much more effective than me by building an RoA first, I decided to follow suit and my gameplay went up in quality. The mid game survivability, mana, and the amazing passive from Catalyst upon level up is priceless.
Now we get to the raw damage, and we build a as soon as we can. This is when you'll notice your damage begin to spike noticeably. Your full burst combo will demolish squishies and force most carries out of a fight, either by blue pilling or death.
And now we go into the murky waters of situational items. Wear scuba gear and make sure it's working.
Situational Items
A Void Staff is a fantastic item if your enemy is stacking magic resist, while also giving you a healthy amount of AP for a reasonable cost. If an enemy Banshee's Veil is giving you trouble or an enemy's Merc Treads are negating your magic damage.
Zhonya's Hourglass, the other half of Rabadon's Deathcap that once made up Zhonya's Ring. I often find myself getting a Zhonya's against predominately AD teams that aren't giving me so much trouble that I need a Thornmail. The boost in Armor and AP, as well as the temporary untargetability as an active is nice to have. Also a viable option against Karthus and the like.
Kage's Lucky Pick Not really an offensive item but I might as well put it here since it gives you a little Ability Power. This makes for a nice item if an enemy is stopping you from farming, preventing your kills, or doing anything else that's starving you of gold. But do make the decision whether or not to buy it early on. The gold per five doesn't mean a lot if you don't grab it within the first fifteen (preferably ten) minutes of the game.
Again, since this seems more offensive than not, I'll put it in here. Nice against bursty AP champions such as LeBlanc and Kassadin, as well as AP carries such as Annie, Swain, Fiddlesticks and Malzahar. It gives you a nice boost in AP and magic resist, and as a bonus, also reduces the magic resist of nearby enemies, something AP carries, other aggressive supports, and AP assassins will love you for. However, because Void Staff is cheaper and more effective at it, I don't suggest getting this purely for the aura. Think of it as an MR and AP boost, with the aura as a nice bonus.
With a nice slow added to your abilities as well as additional health, this is nice to toughen you up a bit as well as keeping enemies just escaping you within your grasp. It's a bit much on top of the RoA, and do make sure to get it AFTER the core build, unless you're struggling that much.
Banshee's Veil is another great item against troublesome AP burst mages like LeBlanc and Kassadin. As champions who rely on bursting you down with multiple abilities, blocking one of those abilities with the Banshee's Veil Shield can really mess with them. On top of the HP, MP ad magic resist, this is a good pick to keep yourself healthy.
A good Tenacity Item, while also giving you a little AP. If you're finding CC is messing with you a little (or a lot), buy this item. It'll really ease your worries.
Thornmail acts as a deterrent for AD carries who use basic auto attacks and abilities that apply on hit effects. It's the next step up from Zhonya's Hourglass if Tryndamere and his kind are giving you a lot of trouble. On top of your Rod of Ages, a Thornmail doesn't make you an attractive target to the AD carries in a fight, potentially allowing you to get off your full burst on the team before retreating.
Pre Game
If you have the luxury of a premade or the rarity of a team that actually listens, there are several good laning partners for Lux that supplement her style of play.
If you manage to get a laning partner with non repositioning CC, you can have a very easy time in the laning phase. Riven, Morgana, Xin and Swain are all characters with very good early game damage to supplement your own, and also have nice CC that you can chain together with your own.
The reason that someone else with CC is a good plan with Lux is that you want to push that early game power that you have. You'll notice that the four champions I mentioned above can scale amazingly well with a few kills under their belt. Get a few kills for yourself, a few for them, and you'll have a very happy carry and a nice income for yourself to boot.
Yes, now and then you'll find yourself forced to lane with the tank. However, don't despair. If this is the case, the tank should be struggling to feed you. Again. the three mentioned above are riddled with CC that doesn't move the enemy, but rather keeps them in place for your skillshots and burst, making it much easier to land.
If you do lane with the tank, get as many kills as possible and remember to wait for Leona's Sunlight passive to be applied to an enemy if you lane with her. Illuminating an enemy, letting Leona attack, and then igniting both your passive and her own can lead to a superb damage output early game.
AD carries will love your CC and damage output. Try to hold back and let them get the last hits, taking only every few kills or so.
If you're with a melee carry or hypercarry like Trynd, Jax, or Akali, let them have every kill you can and support them until that stage where they can handle themselves. Basically, to melee and hyper carries, you're a babysitter and a walking CC machine. Charming, isn't it?
So now that we have the good combinations out of the way, we'll move onto the one kind of laning partner that just does not click with Lux. The dubious honour goes to champions with abilities that reposition their enemy.
Champions with movement modifiers simply don't work well with Lux, for the simple reason that she is skillshot based. Those who rely on moving their enemies around with their abilities don't gel with Lux because she relies on positioning and on an enemy staying in a set area to remain effective.
It isn't Lux's fault, and it isn't their fault. It's simply the way things are. It's better to send this kind of champion with someone who isn't skillshot reliant, that's all.
Laning Phase.
It's better to take the duo lane as Lux, supporting your allies with CC and making the laning phase that much easier.
Buy your starting items and go into lane. Feel free to fire Light Binding into the bushes. If it vanishes before travelling the full distance, it's hit two targets. The reason you should take Light Binding at level 1 is for the escape potential and the ability to chase down an enemy. Nowadays, level 1 ganks tend to be common, so taking Light Binding can reduce the effectiveness of an enemy gank, as well as secure the success of your own.
Assuming everything begins as normal, simply farm until level 3, when Lucent Singularity reaches level 2 and you can finally start doing some damage.
Try to lead the enemy with your skills. Pick out the weaker champion and focus on them. Your priority should be AP carry-AD carry-assassin-fighter-bruiser-tank from high priority to low priority.
Try to be predictive. If an enemy has encountered Lux before they're unlikely to stay still. Firing from the brush can make it so that they don't know where Light Binding will be coming from. If you can snare them, immediately throw down Lucent Singularity and launch a basic attack to ignite your passive, before detonating Lucent Singularity and auto attacking again. This can easily take 40% of a carry's life, 30% of a fighter's life, and 20% of a tank's life at early levels.
After launching this combo, retreat to wait for your cooldowns, and repeat until the enemy recalls or dies.
After reaching level 5, you can start harassing with Lucent Singularity alone if you can land it. Try to conserve your mana while doing so. You want enough to get your full burst combo off at level 6.
Try to go back before level 6 to get your second Doran's Ring and possibly your Boots of Speed, then teleport back to lane if it's in trouble, or run back if not.
Upon reaching level 6, turn your aggressiveness up a notch. This is when you have the ability to kill a champion easily. Launch a Light Binding, throw down your E, ignite your passive, detonate your E. If they have less than 300 HP, launch your ultimate at them. The 300 base damage of your ultimate with the ignited passive should finish them off. Don't rush firing your ultimate. You have time to take aim because of the range, so don't waste your shot. If you're having trouble getting things low enough, simply use your burst combo to force an enemy out of lane.
Lux works as a capable mid against most AD carries and AP carries. Due to their weaker early games and your good early game harassment with Lucent Singularity.
Obey the same instructions as above. Play aggressively from level 3 onwards and start going in for the kill from 5 or 6 onwards if you're doing well.
Try to buy a few Sight Ward Sight Wards, or Vision Wards if there are stealth using champions on the enemy team. This can alert you to a gank in advance if you put them in the mid river brushes.
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Mid Game
Ganking with Lux is a simple affair. It's easier for you if you're in mid, but it applies to the other lanes too.
Hide in the bushes and try to manoeuvre around the minions to land Light Binding. If an enemy is staying on the move, try to be predictive. Guess where they might go next. If you don't land it, chances are they'll know you're there and will either retreat or move in on you.
Assuming you succeed, your allies should initiate immediately. Toss down Lucent Singularity and detonate it, and if the enemy is playing aggressively, throw a Prismatic Barrier out to shield your allies. Every little helps.
If you think your allies will get the kill, then let them have it, and don't be afraid to fire your ult to assist if you're having trouble. Even at this stage it's on a low cooldown-anywhere from 70-36 seconds depending on our build, runes and masteries. If they Flash, Ghost, or use another escape mechanic, try to root them down again or, if they're low, simply ult them if you haven't already. Regardless, if you land your Light Binding, an enemy will either be returning to base or dead, guaranteed. (Unless they're just that fed, in which case sucks to be you.)
If they retreat, simply come out into the lane and start pushing it back a little to give your opponents an advantage. Just as you would in your own lane, try to land your combo and harass, and go back to your own lane if someone from the enemy team starts pushing it.
If you miss and they move in on you, throw a Lucent Singularity down AT your current location for the slow and go around to your turret. If they try to scissor you, don't be afraid to Flash. If in a really bad situation with3+ enemies, try to juke by going into a bush and then immediately leaving when an enemy pursues. This tends to disorient and throw an enemy off guard.
At this stage, you should have already discerned who is the biggest problem on your enemy team. During a teamfight, Lux's job is to apply CC to and burst down the dangerous, squishier targets. Try to lock down the AD or AP carry with heavy damage and/or CC and either kill them or force them out of the fight.
At this early stage, your ultimate can be two things. It can either amplify the strength of your teammates or you can use it to pick off low health enemies who have escaped the range of your other teammates.
It's up to you to decide whether your team can take advantage of this heavy burst. If so, toss Lucent Singularity into the fray, detonate it, and fire your ultimate at once. Try to hit three or more enemies. At this early stage, anywhere from 25% to 75% of a full HP enemy can be blasted away if you have a decent amount of AP.
If you don't think they can take advantage of your burst, back to plan A. Lock down and kill their squishy AD carry or AP carry, focussing on the assassin, the fighter, the support, the bruiser and the tank from there, in that order. Fire your ultimate to pick off fleeing enemies.
This is the stage I see many Lux players begin to deliberately KS. I can't stress enough what a bad idea that is. Lux is an early game and mid game carry. Her burst is AoE focussed, meaning she SHOULD capitalise on that burst with the whole team around. She falls off later in the game.
The only time your ult should be used for a kill is when you're securing a kill that someone else can't get. Please keep that in mind.
Late Game
Lux's power late game falls off a little bit. While she has high ratios and a high base on her ultimate, she's always better in a teamfight, and this is when she truly degenerates into a support. Escort your carry around and keep them safe with your CC while they deal damage.
At this stage, your laser should be off cooldown every 24-30 seconds, meaning that regardless of team competence, you should throw down Lucent Singularity, detonate it, and fire your laser into the illuminated team every teamfight, because it will be off cooldown by the time the teamfight is over or shortly afterwards.
Again, lock down the most dangerous targets. Always keep your distance where possible. At this stage, you should never be igniting your passive via auto attacks because that's just too close for Lux to be to an enemy at this stage.
While retreating from a teamfight or chasing, your priority is snaring or slowing an enemy for an ally to get the kill. Only if they're behind a turret and nobody can tower dive should you use your ult for the kill.
General Tips
Don't try to proc your passive with basic attacks after the twenty minute mark. It leaves you too open to retaliation unless you have protection.
Be predictive with your abilities. Guess where an enemy will go before firing Light Binding or Finales Funkeln.
Launch Prismatic Barrier at the start and end of a teamfight to soak up Ignites and get easy assists.
Pick off low HP, distant targets with your ultimate early game.
Try to catch three or more enemies in your ult every teamfight, to take advantage of its AoE nature. Just because the cooldown is low doesn't mean you need to use it carelessly!
Keep an eye out for enemies that are troublesome and allies that are having trouble. Try to attack said enemy and protect said ally.
If you're having trouble discerning an enemy you need to watch out for, try wiping out a weak link before a teamfight starts, leaving the enemy a champion down.
Use Teleport to get from lane to lane and protect it. Prioritise which lane needs the most help, and try not to neglect your own lane, even if you've pushed a tower or two.
Closing Word
I hope to see an influx of Lux players due to this guide. Please leave a review of my guide and what I can do to improve it. Don't feel confined by this guide. Do what works best with you as I do what works best with me.


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