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Petite and utterly adorable, the French movie star Audrey Tautou will always be known as the Amelie girl for her delightful performance in the 2001 film. On closing night of this year's Rendez-vous with French Cinema, she was the guest of honor at a soiree at the Upper East side Cultural Services of the French Embassy, attending with a posse that included her hairdresser. Her new movie Delicacy, opening in New York this week, has an office romance at its core. In a far corner of the elegant Fifth Avenue townhouse, Tautou, dark curls bobbing, spoke about why her character would enter into an inexplicable love affair with a dull witted co-worker. "You don't know where love comes from. He touched her in a deep place," said Tautou her hands gesticulating wildly. Next up for her is a movie with Cedric Klapisch, Casse Tete Chinoise, an expression that translates loosely to "head crushing anxiety," to be shot soon in Chinatown. When asked if there is an American director with whom she'd like to work, she did not hesitate: "Alexander Payne. I adored his About Schmidt." The French do love what they love.
In the week following The Artist's big sweep of the Oscars, it was clear that the mutual love affair between American and French culture rages on. On opening night, James Lipton had a tête-à-tête with Mathieu Amalric. Each was honored to meet the other. Amalric is perhaps best known in this country for his starring role in Julian Schnabel's Diving Bell and the Butterfly, attended as a director, a role he prefers to acting. His film, The Screen Illusion, a contemporary remake of a Corneille classic in alexandrines, was a Comédie-Française commission. Turns out, the "Inside the Actors' Studio" impresario Lipton, a man of many trades, had translated some French drama himself.
Director Benoît Jacquot's take on the last days of Marie Antoinette, Farewell, My Queen, based on a book by Chantal Thomas, looks at history from the perspective of a maid with a talent for embroidery. I don't know another filmmaker who studies the behavior of women with quite the care and consideration of this director who comes to Rendez-vous every year with a new female-centered film. At the Q&A after a weekend screening he explained his casting of Diane Kruger as the ill-fated queen. Kruger "snatched" the role, insisting upon her similarities to Marie Antoinette: "I am Austrian, my mother is Marie Therese. I was born on July 14. I am the same age as Marie Antoinette when she was guillotined."
Gina Gershon greeted Chiara Mastroianni with a huge hug. Happy to be in New York with director Mathieu Demy for the movie Americano, Mastroianni will return in early April for the Film Society of Lincoln Center's tribute to her mom Catherine Deneuve. "The award has Charlie Chaplin's name," she exuded, "That's a very good sign."
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U.S. President Barack Obama has not visited Pakistan during his time in office as of 2015. He has visited other countries in South Asia, including Afghanistan and India.Continue Reading
President Obama has said that he will not visit Pakistan until it stops allowing jihadist groups to operate within its borders. Although the United States and Pakistan are allies in counter-terrorism efforts, in 2013, the U.S. State Department named Pakistan a terrorist safe haven. Pakistan's unwillingness to crack down on jihadist groups has created instability and has deterred foreign companies from investing in the country.
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Today, the golf trophy that I won for placing 2nd on my flight was shipped to me. I was so excited because I have never won anything other than getting certificates and ribbons before so it made me really happy to say the least. My credit card balance, my next paycheck, the stock market tumbling today all did not matter. Being a person that always thinking about money – how to save more, how to earn more, how to accumulate more, this prompted the question "does always thinking about money really make me happy?"
The answer to this question is probably pretty complicated. On the one hand, it stresses me out unnecessarily. I'm certainly not worried about survival since I have a good paying job and have very little expenses so far, creating a sizable positive cash flow every month. If I project my savings rate and investment performance, I will be way ahead of my goal. However, because it seems like I'm very far from my retirement goal (as I'm still young and I just started accumulating wealth), I try to save as much as I can, as early as I can just in case. I'm probably a little too frugal because I'm stressing myself out when I don't need to be.
On the other hand, my expenses in the future will only go up as I buy a house and start a family. Hopefully, my income will also grow but I shouldn't count on it growing faster than the rate that my expense will increase. This means that I cannot just project the same savings that I do now; I should plan for the future and start to save as much as I can. There's no such thing as saving too much right?
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Make Keegan-Michael Key Our Next Rom-Com Leading Man
Playing House is proof enough.
There hasn't been a truly great movie rom-com in an awfully long time. There are any number of reasons for this — the crippling of the mid-budget movie, general cultural malaise, superheroes. But today is not about lamenting problems. It's about presenting solutions. And the perfect possible solution to our rom-com dearth comes to us from television, where a mini rom-com boom is afoot. America — nay, world: Our next great romantic lead is Keegan-Michael Key. Make it so.
Key's brilliant work on Key and Peele — which ends its five-season run on Wednesday — has proven his acumen as a writer and performer (true even in his MADtv days), and the fact that the show is going out on such a high note demonstrates his self-restraint as a creator and executive producer. Plus, he made a patchy goatee still seem striking on Fargo. All of this can be said of Jordan Peele as well. But the distinguishing factor here for Key is Playing House, where he plays the upstanding, occasionally uptight Mark, the long-arc love interest for Jessica St. Clair's Emma. He's her high-school sweetheart, and he's stayed friends with her lifelong bestie Maggie (Lennon Parham), even after Emma moved away and came back. Over the show's 16 episodes, Mark has been a dutiful police officer, a supportive friend, a doting sociological uncle to Maggie's baby, a community-theater enthusiast, though just a so-so husband to his wife, Tina, who Maggie and Emma call "Bird Bones."
On tonight's "Officer of the Year," he is also a stone-cold fox. (That episode and the season finale, "Celebrate Me Scones," air tonight, but are already available on-demand.)
Here, Emma is running the annual policeman's ball, which Mark is attending with Maggie (just as friends). Watch this one minute and tell me you wouldn't watch an entire movie of this:
"Officer" almost works as a stand-alone 20-minute romantic comedy even if you've never seen a full episode of the light and delightful Playing House, though honestly, remedy that: Even if you marathoned the entire series, it's still only around five hours of show. The episode is a high point for Playing House, as focused and driven as any in the series, but still buoyed by the show's overarching good nature. Everyone on the show is decent, including the antagonists; even Mark's divorce from Tina was gracious and tender.
Part of House's appeal is how much of the humor is for the other characters' benefit. Yes, some oddball behavior is there just to make the audience laugh, but more often than not, funny lines are delivered within the universe of the show as characters joke around with one another. The cast glows with affection, but Key in particular seems to burn extra bright.
That's an essential aspect of a romantic lead, that warmth and closeness. Lots of good actors can play action leads or dramatic leads, but rom-com lead is a different beast: Humor helps, but it's the low-key vibe of adoration that really makes a rom-com work. Harry worships Sally, even as they drive each other crazy. It's not an overwhelming feeling, and it's not even a grandly stated one until it has to be, but a constant, background-radiation devotion is essential to making a rom-com tick. (The flip side: Straight female rom-com leads need to portray trust. That's why a lot of the male leads tend to be jerks; "Sure, he's a dick, but he's not a liar." Then the crisis occurs when he does lie. But then he's contrite! And the trust returns. Starring Hugh Grant.) On Playing House, Mark is often frustrated with Emma, sometimes disappointed in her, sometimes nudging her to be better, sometimes goofing around with her like college roommates. And yet it doesn't slip into that "oy, too much" zone because Key keeps that admiration right on the exact amount of heat on the back burner: still cooking, but at a simmer state.
In the next year or two, Key has a pretty full dance card. But Keegan-Michael Key is meant to be running through airports, or showing up at a funeral to be supportive even if you're broken up, or opening a rival business. Police Academy reboots are not enough.


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The bodies in Santa Barbara were barely cold before feminist clicktivists were exploiting this horrendous mass murder to boost their campaign against sexist trolling and online misogyny. The revelation that the shooter, Elliot Rodger, was a visitor to those saddo-packed 'men's rights' websites, and had produced a badly written 140-page screed about how much he hated women for showing no interest in him, was all that the victim-feminist lobby needed: within minutes it was saying that Rodger's outpourings and actions confirm that we need to 'stamp out misogyny'. He is no 'mere glitch in the system', they claimed, but rather the 'product' of a society that apparently hates women.
Let's leave aside the fact that this kind of argument is indistinguishable from the blue-rinse, conservative insistence that violent movies make men into maniacs or that saucy novels churn out real-world rapists. Truly are radical feminists the heirs to the backward Mary Whitehouse view of human beings as the amoeba-like products of their cultural surrounds, in this case of sexist websites - a view which not only treats us all as easily brainwashed by movies and literature but, even worse, lessens actual killers' and rapists' responsibility for their actions by depicting them as simply the warped end products of big, bad culture. More pointedly, the reading of profound social meaning into losers' and loners' manifestos gives way too much credence to these individuals, overlooking the fact that more often than not they are simply grasping for a serious-sounding reason for their already existing desire to commit a crime and cause hurt.
Twitter is responding to Rodger's shooting spree with the pro-woman hashtag #YesAllWomen, as if Rodger's shooting was an attack on womankind itself rather than the action of one clearly disturbed individual. This response overlooks the general misanthropy of Rodger's manifesto, which was more anti-human than anti-woman. 'Humanity is a disgusting, wretched, depraved species', said Rodger, echoing mainstream eco-miserabilism more than isolated men's rights nonsense. Maybe we should fret over green websites that depict humanity as destructive rather than men's rights websites that express fear and loathing of women? To the extent that there is anti-woman sentiment on the web today, it speaks to a broader alienated, anti-human sentiment, a view of all people as problematic, polluting, poisonous.


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Several years ago Mac66 set out to find information about the Remington Nylon Rifles on the web. Since he happened to acquire several of these guns and was intriuged by their design and history he wanted to get as much info as he could as far as how to care for them, repairs and any other tips and tricks that would help with these plastic guns. What he found was a very scattered hodge-podge of information that many times seemed to counterdict itself. As Mac66 dug deeper he discovered that there were many other collectors and enthusiests out there that were also searching for details on these rifles.
In August of 2001, Mac66 set up the NylonRifles group on Yahoo Groups to collect and share information about these Remington Nylons with others. Over the nearly 6 years and several hundred members the group collected a great amount of information including articles, literature, repair guides, service manuals and photos. The discussions there benefitted the whole Nylon Rifle community and the sharing of stories and knowledge helped to gain a better appreciation for these plastic guns and better understanding of the history behind them. With this vast amount of information and the limitations of the Yahoo groups it became apparent that the Nylon Rifle and the community that had been build around it needed a proper home on the web.
In April of 2007 Mac66 enlisted the help of LouieMacGoo to help develop a website that would properly host the NylonRifle community as well as provide a place that the information that had been collected could be stored and be easily searchable On May 1, 2007 we opened up the forums on this website followed shortly after by the articles and other parts of the site.
Since both Mac66 and LouieMacGoo are just hobbiests and not professional web designers the site has been relatively small. But we are commited to supporting the community that we have formed here and continuing to gather and provide information about these fine Rifles.
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InterestingPick the odd one out: Basketball, badminton, baseball, boxing or bridge. Yes, bridge is not recognised as a sport, a situation its sedentary devotees are currently fighting in the High Court to have rectified. Could foreign exchange claim the same status? Well, at least it can sometimes be interesting to watch.
That was the case yesterday, with the safe-haven currencies heading higher as global share prices sank. Other than the unfolding story about covert software in Volkswagen diesel engines, which undoubtedly exerted a downward pressure on equities as a whole, there were no significant data or news to drive the move. It was more a matter of investors continuing to agonise over the timing, scale and effect of the Federal Reserve rate increase which most of them believe is imminent.
The US dollar was one of the main beneficiaries, strengthening by more than a cent and a half against sterling and three quarters of a cent against the euro. Not far behind, the Swiss franc added a cent and a quarter. The pound is half a cent lower against the euro and down by an average of -0.4% on the day.ExcitingCurrency action went from interesting to exciting early this morning when the first of the Chinese purchasing managers' indices came in at a provisional 47.0 for the manufacturing sector. It was the lowest reading in six years and marked the eleventh successive month of decline.
Investors are acutely conscious of economic developments in China, not because they have any direct interests in China itself but because of the influence the world's second-biggest economy has on everywhere else. The softer PMI reading this morning knocked a cent and a half off the Australian dollar and sent the Japanese currency one and a half yen higher, making it the day's top performer.
The euro and the US dollar both felt the benefit of the safe-haven buying. Sterling was less fortunate. As usual, when investors want to move quickly they go where the liquidity is greatest and those currencies are, in order, the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the pound. So sterling was left behind in the rush.PromisingAfter two days of ecostat scarcity, today brings a relative deluge. Although none will have the individual impact of the Chinese PMI, together they could make a difference. The provisional PMI readings will be of particular interest to investors, as will the ECB president's testimony to the European Parliament.
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So here's the thing, when I first heard Selena Gomez's single "Kill Em With Kindness," I was pretty much over it. I couldn't get into it, I didn't want to listen to it on the radio, I never wanted to hear the song if it were up to me. But when I heard that River Tiber decided to remix it and slow it down a bit, I thought – maybeeeeee I can give this a try. Sure enough, it felt like a completely different song – one that I would actually like to listen to on the reg. I can't embed it here, but you can listen to it over at The Fader.


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1966: A Collection of Beatles Oldies ...but Goldies!
Parlophone/December 10,
1966. PMC 7016 (mono) PCS 7016 (stereo)
Produced by George Martin All songs composed by
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She Loves You
From Me To You
We Can Work It Out
Help !
I Feel Fine
Yellow Submarine
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Can't Buy Me Love
Bad Boy (Larry Williams) This is the new one
Day Tripper
A Hard Day's Night
Ticket To Ride
Paperback Writer
Eleanor Rigby
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Just one new song, the rest is a compilation of previously released singles. Bad Boy had been previously available on a USA album.
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mandag 1. mars 2010
Overnight trip to Coles Bay
Last weekend I went to Coles Bay with 6 other friends by scooter. 2 of them were my Belgian friends who is visitting my this week, they had rented a scooter to join us on the trip. We where supposed to start at 9 am, but waking up early and packing sledges on a Saturday is a slow process... But when we finally got ready, I was really excited to start the trip. We where 4 scooters and 2 sledges, altoghether 7 people =)
We were a bit curious on how the scooters would make it up Longyearbreen, but we had no problems. Weather was quite good for a trip though, could have been a little less wind, but it was nice =) From Fardalen and to COles Bay is a little bit tricky, it is mostly ice and rocks there. We had to make some stopps to let the engine and belt cool down a little bit. When we arrived the bay, we got to se some of the Russian leftovers after they`re attempt of a coal industry there.
We followed on the west side of the bay, to try to find the cabin we where looking for. Clearly, the instructions we got was apparently quite different from each other, but we managed to find it anyway! A russian cabin that is open for any traveler that needs it, with 7 beds and a oven =)with a view of Isfjorden (the fjord and the ocean.) We left our luggage there, had some lunch and started to get ready to go skiing. We wanted to drive up a little bit and then go skiing up, but it was very steep and tricky to drive. 2 of us capsized, luckily without getting hurt, but the belt jumped out of place, and we could not drive it. We tried to get it back on, but was not sure if we had the tools needed to loosen the belt and put it on place again. I called a guy I know on the mainland to ask what to do. Apparently we had the tools needed to do it, and it would not be too tricky, had it not been for the screws being completely rusted and unable to move...
We went back to the cabin, made a fire and started unpacking in stead. It was really cosy when we got some heat inside, had some chocolate and tea, hot chocolate or blackcurrant hotdrink. For those of you who have never been to a cottage with minus degrees inside when you arrive, and then getting warmer and warmer by the oven, I can`t explain it any better thant you eventually feel you live in a sauna =P But it was great! You just take more and more clothes of as it gets warmer =P WHile driving, I had a scooter suite on, my skiing pants and jacked, and 2 pairs of whoolen underwear =P At the end of the evening you only have 1 pair of whoolen udnerwear (or less). And then, imagine how it is standing beside the owen, making food! I was apparantly voted/ volunteered for being the chef of the evening (truly beeing my fathers daughter), and when the oven was warm enough to use for cooking, I was running to and from the oven and the hallway, either coocking or cooling down! Luckily we had a primus, so most of the food I could heat by using the primus. But, oh was I thankful for minus degrees outside! So Saturday`s dinner was rice and vegetables, and it was delicous! For dessert, orange and chocolate =P
And then we had entertainment for the night! (other than internal jokes that got more and more.... ) Above the room was a small storage room, and I think some snow must have entered the door up there, because suddenly it started dripping from the roof. Headlamps and moving drops is a great combination when you are sitting in a cabin without electricity!
And we got some Northern lights! And a beautiful night with a clear sky and almost a full moon! Me and my visitors where playing with a camera outside, with long opening time (or whatever it is called) in the dark! It was great!
Beeing in the middle of nowhere in high Arctic, what do you think we wake up to? A cellphone calling early in the morning on a Sunday! (Well, not that early, it was getting 10 ion the morning...) Hehe, then it was just to put on some more wool, grap the rifle, go to the "toilet", and wake up to the amazing mountains surrounding us, getting covered in sunlight! Dressing up in a lot of clothes, just to eat some breakfast =P And start to boil some snow to get some drinking water. (There can be a parazite in the snow here, so we have to let the snow melt and boil for a while to get clean, safe water.) After breakfast, we split up. SOme of us wanted to go skiing, and the rest of us took a hike along the shoreline. It is quite strange to see how the sea become ice along the shore,so it was a fascinating hike =) And we spotted a seal! Haha, the cute fellow where curious about us, so he/she was lying in the water, watching us, wondering what kind of strange creater we were! And it was swimming really close to the shoreline, so we got a pretty good look at him! =D
Tavelling back to Nybyen/Longyearbyen was mostly fine, sill a lot of ice and rocks from Colesdalen vally to Fardalen, but we managed. With one scooter less, we had 1 person sitting on a sledge, and hpoing that we would not get any trouble. But a lot of quite new snow made it really tricky for us to go up from Fardalen vally to Longyearbreen glacier! Either I am really lucky, or just skilled (=P), but I managed to get up without capsizing or getting stuck in the snow! Even though I almost capsized 8-9 times, I managed somehow to prevent it. And I an really impressed that a similar scooter to mine managed to get up with a sledge! ( I don`t really have a big engine, and in that snow I was struggeling with 2 people on my scooter). Luckily, we got some help from a local guy, driving up the second sledge and a person.
So I am really happy about the trip! No one got hurt, no frostbites, everyone were happy and had a good time, a succesful trip!
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- Silje S.13. mars 2010 kl. 16:32
Høres/ser helt fantastisk ut der oppe :) Virket så koselig i den lille hytta, gir gode minner til tidligere hytteturer på en liten seter i fjellene over dalen her ^^ Men kan tenke meg det ble varmt ja *ler* Men sett en sel tilogmed! De er så skjønne ^^SvarSlett
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Battersea has seen a lot of changes over time, moving from an agricultural region to an industrial area and is now a popular residential neighbourhood. Today Battersea, also called 'Nappy Valley', houses one of the highest numbers of young families in the whole of Europe.
Lots of housing options with a mix of modern and Victorian architecture.
Young families and professionals.
Northcote Road.
People looking for a posh neighbourhood.
Green spaces mixed with an industrial feel.
Average Price for property in Battersea is around £871,087 which varies based on type of property you are interested in and ranges from £1,992,442 for detached house to around £1,450,889 for semi-detached. Similarly terraced house is around £1,261,151 and a flat is worth £659,679. Values have been changing and have risen £1,378 in last 3 months alone. Similar historical trend can be observed in price changes e.g. prices changed £3,849 in last 6 months, £95,399 in last 1 year, £171,773 in last 2 years, £230,361 in last 3 years, £263,031 in last 4 years and £265,062 in last 5 years.Currently average asking price of a property in Battersea is around £1,014,070 based on approximately 1,149 properties for sale. Same is the case with rental options based on 754 properties up for rent, average asking rent is around £2,677 per month.
Buyers are willing to pay high dollar prices to grab these properties because of the recent trend in real estate investment especially in Battersea area. In last 1 year alone average price buyer paid is around £773,996 based on approximately 1,149 sales in Battersea area alone. If you compare it to last 3 years sales of 4,018 properties where buyers paid around £651,706. It has been same for some time now for e.g. if you take an average of amount paid in last 5 years, it comes to around £607,798 for 6,738 and average amount paid for purchase of approx. 9,068 properties sold in last 7 years comes to about £575,228 per sale.
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Vladimir Build
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Hi, and welcome to my very first guide here on MOBAFire.
Vladimir is a very versatile character. His passive converts AP to HP and vice versa, giving him what all Mage classes usually lack: HP for survivability. Because of his passive, we start to think to ourselves.." ZOMG AP TURNS TO HP, MUST BUILD AP BUILD!" I, on the other hand, created this guide for the sole purpose of producing HP through AP and utilizing CDR items/runes as well.
Vlad has been my main character since I was Level 6, and I have won many of my games because of him. This guide is definitely for those who wish to have a strong, hybrid Mage/Tank build with the ability to control any given situation thrown at them.
Skill Tree
First off, let's look at Vlad's skill tree:
Every 25 points of bonus health gives Vladimir 1 ability power and every 1 point of ability power gives Vladimir 2 bonus health (does not stack with itself).
*This gives Vladimir superior survivability throughout the game.
Vladimir drains the lifeforce of his target, dealing 70 / 115 / 160 / 205 / 250 (+60% of ability power) magic damage and healing himself for 25% (+100% of ability power) of that amount.
Cooldown 8/7/6/5/4 seconds Range 550
*This is the first ability that should be maxed out. Transfusion enables Vlad to instantaneously deal damage and drain HP from enemy champions. With its cooldown at 4 seconds maxed, and with your CD Red Glyph runes, you'll have around a 2-3 second CD, allowing you to spam this skill. Also, it has no cost, so you should be harassing enemy champs and last hitting minions with this skill always.
Sanguine Pool
Vladimir sinks into a pool of blood for 2.5 seconds, becoming untargetable and slowing enemies above him by 50%.
Vladmir deals 15% of his bonus Health in magic damage over the duration and heals himself for 12.5% of that amount.
Cooldown 22 seconds Cost 20 percent of health Range 1050
*This skill will be the second most important skill for this build, however, be very wary of using it all the time. It drains 20% of your current HP with each use, so using it at full HP will definitely hurt you. I like to think of this skill as an escape mechanism in case I get ganked or as a chase mechanism because of its slowing properties. Also, because it makes you untargetable for 2.5 seconds, it will give your Transfusion enough time to cooldown, so keep that in mind. Transfusion+Sanguine+Transfusion+ Rylais = Super slows and massive damage and lifesteal.
Tides of Blood
Vladimir unleashes a torrent of blood dealing 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 / 180 (+45% of ability power) magic damage to nearby enemies.
Each cast gives him an Empowered stack (max 4), increasing his healing and regeneration by 8% each. Additionally, his next Tides of Blood deals 25% more damage and costs 50% more Health per stack.
Cooldown 8 seconds Cost 30 / 45 / 60 /75/ 90 health Range 300
*Tides of Blood is a very useful farming skill. It deals damage to nearby enemies, allowing you to hit almost every minion analogous to Vlad. Also, it increases healing and health regen, making your Transfusion and Sanguine Pool skills more viable for recovery. This along with Rylai's will help slow down enemy champions while allowing you to heal alot more.
Vladimir infects the target area with a virulent plague. Affected enemies take 10 / 14 / 18% increased damage for 5 seconds.
After 5 seconds, infected enemies take 200 / 300 / 400 (+75% of ability power) magic damage.
Cooldown 120 seconds Cost 15 percent of health Range 700
*In my opinion, Hemoplague is one of the best nuking Ultimates out there. Not only do enemies around you take increased damage, they blow up, taking more damage. This skill is extremely handy during team fights or ganks, as it allows your allies to dish out more damage to your enemies. Also, because enemies take increased damage, Transfusion and Sanguine Pool heal you for more HP. Yayyy!
Now that we are familiar with his skills, here's a quick overview of the runes I have selected and why.
Since Vlad dishes out magic damage, it would make sense to give him Magic Penetration. Getting MagPen Marks will greatly increase the amount of damage you do throughout the game.
Since his passive converts HP to AP, I go with flat HP Seals for Vlad. People often ask me "Why don't you use HP/lvl runes instead? MORE DAMAGE!!!" Well, I personally believe that early game really determines your potential for pushing. Since Flat runes stay constant throughout all levels, this will greatly help you early game. By the time it's late game, you should have the necessary items anyways. At low levels, you still need to be a threat. Flat HP seals adds survivability + damage because of your passive. Keep that in mind!
For Glyphs, I go Flat CD Reduc. Again, Flat helps you alot early game, and you will want to be able to spam Transfusion almost always. These glyphs will definitely help you with that.
For Quints, I go with 2 MagPen and 1 Health, for reasons stated above. Don't forget, they are flat as well!
Overview of Gameplay
Early game will determine your threat level. If you can push your lane fairly quickly and efficiently while still being able to harass the champ as well, then you know you are doing well.
Start off with Boots of Swiftness and 3 HP Pots. You will want to stay in a line for as long as you can. You have no mana, so you want to focus on keeping your HP up, and Transfusion and HP Pots will help with that. Keep last-hitting minions to gain gold. Harass champs with your Transfusion skill and try to level up as soon as you can. The sooner you get to Lvl 6, the bigger threat you will become.
You should be able to get at least one kill before 6 minutes, or at least have a good amount of gold before level 6. On your first trip to base, you should get Ionian Boots, for movement and CDR that will help alot. If you've been doing well, and have enough gold to do so, grab either a Mejai's Soulstealer if you feel confident, a Giant's Belt if you aren't doing so well, or a Needlessly Large Rod if you don't want MS. The HP will increase survivability and increase damage output because of his passive, and vice versa for the NLR. By Lvl 9, you should be well on your way to Rabadon's Deathcap or a Rylai's Scepter .
Mid game is where things will get interesting. By now, you should already have Rabadon's Deathcap, which will significantly increases your total AP and HP. By now, anything you will be building from here should be situational. Assuming you're doing fairly well with a good amount of MS stacks, go get an Abyssal Scepter now. Otherwise, you can finish the Rylai's Scepter. The extra HP will help alot. Now that you have Transfusion maxed, you should be on a leeching frenzy, using it on everything around you. This build gives you an exceptional amount of CDR, reducing Transufion's CD to >3 seconds, which is wonderful! Harass champs every chance you get. If you know their HP is running low, hit them with Hemoplague and Transfuse them, following by Sanguine, and another Transfusion. All this is possible in the 5 seconds Hemoplague is active, and because it is active, your skills will do alot more damage. You should be able to kill champions fairly easy because of this. Keep helping out your allies with this skill order.
Usually games never last past 25 minutes, and you will usually never finish your Zhonya's Ring on time, but just in case it does, you should just do what you've always been doing. Harass, harass, harass. Unlike other Mage classes, you have HP! By this time, you would've stacked around 4-5k HP, giving you extreme survivability and AP. Don't be afraid to jump in and take out enemy champs if you know they're squishy!
Other Thoughts
Like all champions, and all games, everything is situational. The items listed above are your core items. You should always try to make them first, if possible;however, there are cases where you will need to adapt to different situations. Here are a few viable solutions to different problems.
Too man DPsers/AD champs?
Instead of building Rylai's first, go for Thornmail. This will benefit you greatly if you can scare them off. They will try to harass you, realize that their HP is dwindling and run. That will be your chance to chase and eat them with your Transfusion+Sanguine combo. Another great item to use would be Randuin's Omen Not only will the added armor and Health Regen save you, but it's CDR and Unique Passive that has a % chance to slow attacking Champions' ATKSPD will benefit you greatly. Also, activating it while enemies try to break will guarantee you those free kills!
Heavy Casters hurting your ego?
Build towards Banshee's Veil, Abyssal Scepter, or Force of Nature. I personally go for Abyssal Scepter because of the MagPen, Mag Res, and AP; however, lately, I've been using Force of Nature , solely because of its Health Regen, Passive, and it has the highest amount of Magic Resistance in the game.
Tanks too tough for you to kill?
Go for Deathfire's Grasp. Use its active ability in sync with your Hemoplague. This will help you mutilate their defenses, if not kill them. IF you don't kill them, do not fear. In most cases, you will have your allies to finish up the job.
That's all for my build. It is fairly simple, yet very effective. I personally love the idea of a Tank/Mage, and Vlad has answered all my calls. Try it out, you never know!
*I know the guide's kind of boring, and it looks similar to other guides, but bear with me. It's my first guide D:


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U.S. District Judge James I. Cohn on Friday issued a 22-page ruling rejecting Dania Beach's request for an injunction that would have called construction atFort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airportto a stop.
The county in January broke ground on an $800 million runway, and has spent $82 million on it so far.
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Dania Beach, just south of the airport, argued that theU.S. Army Corps of Engineersdidn't evaluate the possible deleterious health impacts of noise on the residents when it granted a permit last November allowing 8.8 acres of wetlands to be filled for the new runway.
The lawsuit represented a new phase in the long-running battle between Dania Beach and Broward County over the runway, after a settlement collapsed.
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As one might expect Riot Games did things in style again and assessed the prize pool for the 2016 League of Legends Worlds at the amount of $2.130.000 US-Dollars. Thereby the lion's share of one million dollar will fall into the hands of the tournament's winner – the undisputed 2016 League of Legends World Champion. While the second place team will go home with the quarter of a million, the amount of money for the teams on the rear seats will go downhill rapidly. Nevertheless even teams that won't win one single game will gain $25.000 USD of prize money. Whereas the tournament's prize pool didn't change for 5 years straight the League of Legends community became suddenly wide awake. As a successful organisation Riot Games has an annual turnover of approximately 1.6 billion USD, the game designer could easily pay the prize money of 2 million dollars from the petty cash. Similar games like Dota 2 throw much more money around at their big tournaments e.g. the International. Whether Riot Games will increase the prize money one day or not is still written in the stars.
Prize Money: $ 5,070,000
Update 1: About one week before the start of Worlds 2016, Riot Games announced that 25% of the sales of all Championship Skin of Zed and the Championship Wardskin will be added to the total prize money of the World Championship. It is estiameted, that this action will at least double the prize pool. The total prize money of the World Championship might be only known after the end of Worlds since the Skin sale is running until November 6th. We will keep you updated!
Update 2: Just in time before the start of the quarterfinals Riot Games decided to share the first projections of the extended prize pool including the stake of all sold Championship skins. Therefore the prize money has already skyrocketed and doubled its amount to $4.134.000 USD. Because the final amount of prize money isn't fixed yet we breakdown the money for the ranks as percentage. Riot Games will keep us updated with new information about the prize pool, next time right before the grand finals.
>>Prize Pool of the LoL World Championship 2017
Distribution of prize money
You can find the exact listing of prize money for the tournament right here. As stated above, this years prize pool consists of about 2 million dollars (+ money from skin sales). Last year the reigning champions of SK Telecom T1 were able to go on homeward journey with one million dollars in their pockets. Who will win the World Championship this time?
|Prize Money
|World Champion
|40% of all prize money
|2nd Place
|15% of all prize money
|3rd – 4th
|7.5% of all prize money
|5th – 8th
|4% of all prize money
|Group Stage Position
|Prize Money
|Advance to Quarterfinals
|Advance to Quarterfinals
|2.25% of all prize money
|1.25% of all prize money
|If 3rd and 4th are tied
|1.75% of all prize money
LoL Worlds 2016 Prize Pool in comparison
Although the prize pool of over 2 million dollars seems ridicolous high at first glance, the biggest annual League of Legends tournament ranks among other games only in eleventh place. With a payout of $20.770.650,00 US-Dollars at the TI6 the game developer Valve blesses the best professional Dota 2 gamers with a stockpile of money. The top ranking places are occupied by different Dota 2 tournaments as well as Smite and Halo Championships. Despite the enormous popularity of Counter Strike (CS:GO) not a single tournament of the classic game can be found in the Top 15. (Image source: esportsearnings.com)
You might also be interested in:
LoL Worlds 2016 – Tournament overview
Schedule and Results – LoL Worlds 2016
Betting, odds and betting sites – LoL Worlds 2016
Outright / Tournament Winner Odds – LoL Worlds 2016
Teams Overview – LoL Worlds 2016


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Degree-level funding for prisoners in three-year pilot scheme
27 Mar 2017
Prisoners' Education Trust, in partnership with the Open University, has received funding to offer free level 1 courses to 150 prisoners a year as part of a three-year pilot scheme to help prisoners access Higher Education, a provision which is proven to improve employment prospects and reduce reoffending. The project, which will run in England and Wales from September, is supported by a grant of £600,000 from the Garfield Weston Foundation and £300,000 from the Open University Students Educational Trust charity.
External Engagement Director at The Open University, Steve Hill, said: "The OU has led in delivering education within prisons for nearly fifty years – we know that education has the power to transform lives and prisoners who study are significantly less likely to reoffend. The cost of current levels of reoffending by former prisoners is up to an estimated £13billion a year, something society can ill afford. This scheme will help prisoner learners gain confidence, improve their prospects on release and change the direction their lives have gone in. The Open University really can be truly life changing for those who study in prison."
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Rod Clark, Chief Executive, Prisoners' Education Trust, said: "PET is delighted to be part of this exciting project to support more prisoner learners take their first steps in university-level study. As Dame Sally Coates said in her review of prison education: "Education should be aspirational. It must offer a learning journey that is truly transformational". This includes giving people in prison the chance to pursue degrees inside. With the right support, people who may enter prison struggling to read and write can leave with qualifications and aspirations that change their lives and help them make valuable contributions to society upon release."
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- Currently over 1,000 offenders are studying with the OU
- OU student numbers within prisons have rapidly decreased from 1,787 in 2012 to 1,079 in 2015
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West Brom have confirmed striker Chris Wood is set to join npower Championship promotion-chasers Leicester - in a deal believed to be worth ?1.25 million.
Wood has returned to the Hawthorns after a successful loan spell at Millwall and Baggies assistant coach Keith Downing expects the move to Leicester to be finalised when the January window opens.
The 21-year-old is down the pecking order at Albion behind the likes of Shane Long, Romelu Lukaku, Peter Odemwingie and Marc-Antoine Fortune.
Downing said: "Leicester has shown a great interest in Chris and I expect the move to be done when the transfer window opens.
"He has done exceptionally well at Millwall and we have brought him back here."
Downing deputised for West Brom head coach Steve Clarke, who was been confined to bed on Friday with a virus, at the press conference ahead of Saturday's clash with leaders Manchester United.
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I just recently ran across this article over the weekend on Harvard Business Review blog site on the 9 Ways Successful People Defeat Stress by Heidi Grant Halvorson. Quite inspired and got a lot from it, I thought I would put an Architecture School twist to the nine points. Some of the nine points were things that I had to work on and realize in undergrad. It is good to read the actual article first before looking at mine architecture students. When I was an architecture student, there were many times I was stressed out. The key is to learn from those experiences by looking at what went wrong, what can be improved and find ways to improve your work ethic and handling of those stressful times. As a lot of students reach the end of the winter term, it might be good to take a breather and look back at how you handled the situation. We don't get any time at all to take a step from the stress of studio and projects during the semester to reflect.
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As I mentioned in my last post I have been putting together a special tutorial for you all :0) And the tutorial is for some Soutache style jewellery:
Soutache is a really interesting craft that I learnt about when watching Create and Craft one morning :) It is essentially a craft which uses braid and beads/gems which are all sewn in pretty, often swirled patterns to create beautiful jewellery and decorations- used to decorate military uniforms in the past. There is tons more information and soutache inspiration on This! website. When watching create and craft I really wanted to try making soutache items but... I didn't have any special soutache cord, backing material etc... However, after a bit of experimentation I found you could create soutache style pieces (see picture above) using items that most crafters will have in their stashes (+ a bit of imagination of course :)
The piece I made above is just to give you an idea of the kind of thing you can make- I encourage you to go with the flow really, I just 'free styled it really'- coming up with the design as I sewed, and just swirling the cords and adding beads however looked good.
To begin you will need:
- Some shiny/slightly silky fabric (remnants will do)
- Felt
- Flat back stones/gems or larger flat beads
- seed beads (optional)
- A pen/pencil
- A hot glue gun/craft glue (not needed if you are not incorporating flat backs)
- A roleau turner (optional- but it does make things easier)
- Needles and Matching colour threads.
- Scissors
- And as I said before a bit of imagination! :)
Now onto how to do it:
I mentioned that instead of using braid I came up with and alternative and that alternative is lengths of roleau (a cord made using long thin strip of fabric cut on the bias which is stitched and then turned through). There is quite an informative tutorial for how to make roleau cords Here! That page also shows you how to turn through your roleau using the needle and thread method. Whereas in my quick roleau tutorial below I just use a roleau turner.
Right so ad I mentioned to make your roleau cord take your chosen fabric and cut some bias (45 to the selvedge or straight of grain this gives the fabric more movement and stretch so helps when bending the roleau and turning it through) strips (make them about half the width of a standard ruler and just as long as you can get from your remnants :)
Fold each strip right side to right side and sew down the strip about 3 - 4 mm in from the fold. Then trim down your seam allowances to a few mm:
Turn through:
You now have your mock - soutache cord and can begin creating you design...
... Cut a square of felt big enough for your design and take the flat back or bead you want in the centre of your design/to start with and glue or sew it down in position on the felt:
Now, as I said before I didn't want to create a tutorial for the exact piece I made as it is often nice for people to explore their own ideas so I am not going to go through the exact positioning for my roleau but I will go though the special way of sewing them in so you can hide all your stitches- then you can just go with it and sew them in it whatever positions you like. Also just as a note you can sew two cords on together at the same time (just follow the stitch below but go through two cords at the same time).
Firstly put a no knot in your thread and come up from the back near your gem. Take the piece of roleau you want and pass the needle and thread through it from the folded edge to the front seam:
This is the stitch you use to sew on your roleau. Just keep going all the way around etc.. doing this until your cord is fixed down how you want it. You are effectively hiding your stitches in the roleau seam :)
If you want to secure two ends of a roleau together just go backwards and forwards through each end a few times (again hiding your stitches in the seams) before passing your needle to the back and knotting off:
You can play around and sew the ends how you want:
TO finish off the raw cut ends just glue them slightly to prevent fraying and over sew them down (or pass them through the back of the felt using a large needle).
Keep adding more roleau cords to your design- you can even get little Catherine wheel type swirls by rolling up the roleau and passing your needle and thread back and forth a few times through the wheel and down into the felt to secure:
Add more gems/beads by glueing or sewing :) sewing seed beads in between the roleau can look good (I deliberately spaced about my roleau when sewing it so I could do this more easily):
I sewed them on on bunches of three with a running type stitch:
Here is a close up of how I finished my ends (you could do this for each end individually if you didn't want to overlap them):
Thu back doesn't have to be too neat :p when you are happy cut around it- be careful not to cut any of your stitching though! :
Glue or sew this 2nd piece onto the back of your soutache style creation, add a brooch pin or whatever you want and you are good to go:
Look, all done! :-):
He he he, I hope you like the tutorial. If anyone makes any soutache style jewellery using my tutorial I would love to see pics so please do post a link or send me a picture (email@example.com)
Also if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask and I will try to explain things better :p
See you all soon, I hope you are having a lovely weekend,
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