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Giving Tuesday – The Perfect Way to Kick-off the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
[November 2016]
Help Build an Innovative Emergency Department to Better Serve Our Region
[November 2016]
Great Falls Tough Enough to Wear Pink Raises $14,559 in Support for Cancer Patients
[November 2016]
Buzz Your Fuzz Brings $38,000 to Help Cancer Patients at Sletten
[November 2016]
Benefis Foundation's Healthcare Scholarship Program awards $81,250, passes $1 million mark
[August 2016]
Benefis Employees Can Give Now through the We Care! We Share! Campaign
[August 2016]
Grant Eve Joins Benefis Foundation Board of Directors
[July 2016]
Mayfaire Raises $607,900 for New Benefis Emergency Department, Photo Gallery
[May 2016]
Teen Outreach Program to Kick-off this Summer Thanks to New York Life Grant
[May 2016]
New York Life Awards Grant to Help Grieving Teens in Northcentral Montana - Join the Celebration on May 19
[May 2016]
Sneak Peek of Mayfaire 2016 Live Auction
[May 2016]
Support Your Favorite Benefis Foundation Fund or Program on MTGives Day – May 3
[April 2016]
Estate Planning Seminar Coming Up June 8
[April 2016]
Sun River Valley Community Center and Central Catholic High School Win Benefis Foundation's Grant Contest
[April 2016]
Vote Now through April 17 in the Community Grant Contest
[April 2016]
Apply Now for Healthcare Scholarships, Deadline June 1
[March 2016]
Submit Your Idea Now for 3rd Annual Community Grant Contest
[February 2016]
Mayfaire - May 13 & 14
[February 2016]
Makin' a Year-end Gift? Be Sure to Check it Twice
[December 2015]
Benefis Foundation Awards Scholarships to 33 Students
[September 2015]
Benefis Employees Can Give Now through the We Care! We Share! Campaign
[July 2015]
Safety First Rally Provides Helmets and Education for Safe Summer Fun
[July 2015]
Mayfaire Raises $297,600 for Benefis Emergency Services, Photo Gallery
[May 2015]
Healthcare Scholarships Available, June 1 Deadline
[April 2015]
Benefis Foundation Awards Grants to Contest Winners, Montana No Kid Hungry and Quality Life Concepts
[April 2015]
VOTE NOW through April 19 for the Community Grant Contest
[April 2015]
Buy a Raffle Ticket or Logo Gear to Support Benefis Emergency Services through Mayfaire
[March 2015]
Mayfaire - May 8 & 9, 2015
[March 2015]
Benefis Foundation Offers Grants to Improve Health in Great Falls and Region
[February 2015]
Benefis Memory Care Unit Photo Gallery
[January 2015]
Donations to Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute Changing Lives of Local and Regional Cancer Patients
[January 2015]
Wayne Linnell Joins Board of Directors; Chris Reiquam Chosen as Board Chair
[January 2015]
New Display Gathers Historic Plaques Recognizing Donors Who Led Philanthropic Mission for Hospital & Foundation
[January 2015]
Benefis Memory Care Unit Remodel Underway
[December 2014]
Year-End Gifts and Tax Rewards
[December 2014]
Town Pump Foundation Grants $1,000 to Sletten Cancer Institute
[November 2014]
Watch Director of Planned Giving & Finance Marilyn Parker on Benefis HealthBreak
[November 2014]
Kayla Adams to Perform Nov. 7 at The Front, Proceeds to Benefit 221 Children's Fund
[November 2014]
NDM Productions Gives $4,700 to Support Sletten's Circle of Hope Program
[November 2014]
Tough Enough to Wear Pink, Central Montana, Donates to Help Regional Cancer Patients
[November 2014]
Test Drives Bring $2,440 for Sletten's Circle of Hope Program
[November 2014]
Scheels Halloween Scare 5K to Benefit the Sletten Cancer Institute this Saturday
[October 2014]
Support the Sletten Cancer Institute at Mighty Mo Brewing Co. on Oct. 20
[October 2014]
Digital Artwork Enhances Healing at Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute
[September 2014]
Bob Anderson Estate Sale Sunday to Benefit Local Charities
[September 2014]
Help Raise Money for Cancer Patients through Ford's Drive 4 UR Community Event
[September 2014]
Benefis Employees Can Give Now through the We Care! We Share! Campaign
[August 2014]
Benefis Foundation Awards $68,500 in Healthcare Scholarships
[July 2014]
Benefis Foundation Welcomes Dean Nelson to Board of Directors
[July 2014]
Mayfaire Raises $293,000 for Benefis Heart & Vascular Institute
[June 2014]
Safety First Rally Provides Summer Safety Education for Children
[June 2014]
Foundation Awards Grants for Vocational Farm for Disabled Adults & Life Saving Training Equipment for Area Boy Scouts
[April 2014]
Buy a Raffle Ticket to Support Mayfaire
[April 2014]
Vote Now through April 13 for Community Grant Contest
[April 2014]
Benefis Foundation Offers Grants to Improve Health in Great Falls and Region
[February 2014]
Mayfaire - May 9 & 10, 2014
[February 2014]
Foundation's Planned Giving Expert Marilyn Parker Becomes CFRE
[December 2013]
Foundation Partners with United Luv to Provide iPads for Benefis Patients
[December 2013]
Donors Help SCI Provide Smoother Path to the Best Patient Care
[December 2013]
Honor Someone Special on "Giving Tuesday"
[November 2013]
Tough Enough to Wear Pink Events Raise $26,430 to Help Breast Cancer Patients
[November 2013]
Help Transform Benefis Alzheimer's Unit, Provide New Model of Care for Residents
[November 2013]
Benefis Employees Set Record in Community Giving Campaign
[October 2013]
"Who's in the Mirror" movie premier Sept. 21 to benefit Angel Fund
[September 2013]
Buzz Your Fuzz Raises $8,000 for Sletten's Circle of Hope Program
[September 2013]
Ford's Drive One 4 Ur Charity Event at SCI's Men & Machines Car Show on Sept. 14
[September 2013]
Sincere Thanks to the Mayfaire Donors Whose Names Weren't Included in Contributor
[July 2013]
Benefis Foundation Announces Healthcare Scholarship Awardees
[July 2013]
Benefis Foundation Raising Money for SCI Renovation
[July 2013]
Mayfaire Raises $320,000 for Alzheimer's Remodel, Gala Photo Gallery
[July 2013]
Peace Hospice House Dedication Photo Gallery
[June 2013]
Gear up for a Safe Summer at the Safety First Rally
[April 2013]
Mayfaire Raffle Tickets on Sale Now
[April 2013]
Healthcare Scholarships Available through the Benefis Foundation
[March 2013]
Mayfaire 2013 this Weekend
[March 2013]
See the Hospice House Expansion in the Works
[January 2013]
Great News for Taxpayers Wishing to Invest IRA Distributions Locally – But Act Now!
[January 2013]
Foundation Raising Funds to Buy Webcams for NICU
[December 2012]
New Member Elected, Two Re-elected to Board
[December 2012]
Support Group to Provide Healing for Mourners of Suicide
[December 2012]
10 Reasons to Renew the Montana Endowment Tax Credit
[November 2012]
Buy a Paver to Support the Future of the Peace Hospice House
[November 2012]
Mayfaire Raises $301,000 for Peace Hospice House Expansion Campaign
[June 2012]
Quilted with Love for the Hospice House
[June 2012]
More than 400 Helmets Given Away at Safety First Rally
[June 2012]
Local Couple leaves $168,000 to Hospice Residential Expansion Campaign
[June 2012]
Matt Haynes Memorial Golf Tournament Coming Up July 14
[June 2012]
Safety, Prevention and Free Bike Helmets
[June 2012]
Fairfield 2nd Graders Raise Money for Benefis Pediatrics
[May 2012]
Healthcare Scholarships Available through the Benefis Foundation
[April 2012]
Mayfaire to Benefit the "Hospice House"
[April 2012]
Foundation Board Member to Perform Senior Recital Saturday in Billings
[March 2012]
Benefis Peace Hospice Residential Expansion Campaign
[March 2012]
First Money Allocated to Help Family through 221 Children's Fund
[March 2012]
Fire Fighters Donate $6,000 to the Sletten Cancer Institute
[February 2012]
New Members Elected to Benefis Health System Foundation Board
[February 2012]
221 Children's Fund Banquet, Jan. 20
[January 2012]
Foundation Announces Spring Scholarship Recipients
[December 2011]
Knights of Columbus Help Benefis Dialysis Services
[November 2011]
Big Sky Hogs Help Breast Cancer Patients through Sletten Cancer Institute
[November 2011]
Valier Students Raise Money for Hi-Line Cancer Center
[November 2011]
Chicks N Chaps Raises $12,385 to Help Women With Cancer
[October 2011]
Aramark Manager Raises $2,200 for 221 Children's Fund
[October 2011]
Knights of Columbus Breakfast to Help Dialysis
[October 2011]
Benefis Partners with Cruise 4 Kids
[September 2011]
Montana Charitable Estate Planning Conference, Oct. 6
[August 2011]
Benefis Healthcare Foundation Announces Healthcare Scholarship Awardees
[July 2011]
Foundation Receives Grant to Provide Free Mammograms
[June 2011]
GE Energy Financial Services Awards $10,000 to Gift of Life
[June 2011]
Mayfaire Raises $255,000 for Benefis Dialysis Services
[May 2011]
Safety First Rally Exhibits Dangers of Texting While Driving
[May 2011]
Mayfaire to Benefit Dialysis Services
[April 2011]
221 Industries Raises $3,700 to Help Children
[February 2011]
"Fight Against Youth Cancer" Fundraiser Friday
[January 2011]
Great Falls Fire Fighters Raise $9,500 for Fight Against Cancer
[December 2010]
Senior Services Leaders Gift Piano to Benefis Extended Care Center
[December 2010]
Foundation President Elected Chair of Montana Nonprofit Association Board
[November 2010]
Foundation Earns Grant to Aid Mercy Flight
[November 2010]
Sounds of Christmas Coming to Benefis
[November 2010]
Vote for Sletten to Receive LIVESTRONG Grant
[October 2010]
Foundation Funds Bone Marrow Donor Screenings, Helps Save Lives
[October 2010]
Free Planned Giving Seminar Oct. 6 at the Hope Education Center at Sletten
[September 2010]
Free Bone Marrow Screenings at Sletten Oct. 13-14
[September 2010]
Teen Retreat – Where Grieving Teens Find Themselves Again
[August 2010]
Montana Charitable Estate Planning Conference "Opportunities Amidst Change" Sept. 16
[August 2010]
Volunteers Provide Foundation for Camp Francis
[August 2010]
Matt Haynes Memorial Golf Tournament Raises $1,000 for Angel Fund
[June 2010]
More than $200,000 raised for Rehab Endowment through Mayfaire
[May 2010]
Ron Hall Sprinklers Supports Fight Against Cancer
[May 2010]
Hundreds of Free Helmets Handed Out at Safety First Rally
[May 2010]
Benefis Healthcare Foundation Provides Funds for da Vinci Robot
[August 2009]
Foundation Provides Funding For Specialty Nurse's Training
[January 2009]
Gift of Life Provided Home Away from Home for Lewistown Residents
Premature Baby is Now Healthy Thanks to the Generosity of Others
Our Savior Lutheran Recognized for Nearly $30,000 in Donations to Benefis Foundation
Annie Wilson and Her Late Husband Doug Received Immeasurable Gift from Benefis Peace Hospice
Great Falls Twins Find Healthy Ways to Grieve at Camp Francis
Nursing Student One Step Closer to Becoming RN Thanks to Benefis Foundation Healthcare Scholarship
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Molteni&C and Salvatore Ferragamo will present "Eclaté"(Exploded), an installation by Parisian designer, Constance Guisset, winner of the Paris Grand Prix du Design, the Prix du Public at the Noailles Design Parade and the Audi Talents Award.
The installation will be shown in the Salvatore Ferragamo boutique in via Montenapoleone in Milan this week during Salone del Mobile, held from April 17-22 in Milan.
"Another highlight is the MO lamp. The various units form lightweight structures, animated by plays of lines in natural wood, which gracefully and discreetly join SOL, a small rocking chair with soft, delicate forms, designed for Molteni&C. A minuet of objects that match the elegance of Salvatore Ferragamo's creations," said Guisset.
In 2008, the designer won the Paris Grand Prix du Design in the debutante category, in 2009 the Prix du Public at the Noailles Design Parade.
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Helen Milroy is a descendant of the Palyku people of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia but was born and educated in Perth.
She studied Medicine at the University of Western Australia, worked as a General Practitioner and Consultant in Childhood Sexual Abuse at Princess Margaret Hospital for Children for several years before completing specialist training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
In February 2013, Helen was appointed as a Commissioner for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and currently holds that position until the Royal Commission is completed in December 2017. Prior to that appointment she worked as Winthrop Professor and Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Medical and Dental Health at the University of Western Australia; and a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with the Specialist Aboriginal Mental Health Service, Department of Health, situated at Graylands Hospital, Perth. She was the Australian Lead Investigator on the Tri-Nations NHMRC International Collaborative Grant "Educating for Equity" exploring how Health professional education can reduce disparities in chronic disease.
Helen has been on numerous State, National and College policy committees, Reference and Advisory groups. She was conjoint award recipient of the World Council for Psychotherapy's Sigmund Freud Award 2011 for contributions to the field of psychotherapy. She was also 2011 Yachad Scholar. She served as a 'headspace' Board Director; a member of the Western Australian Indigenous Implementation Board; and past President of the Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association (AIDA).
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He was in his office in the State of Illinois Center in downtown Chicago for an interview about his campaign for re-election as Illinois attorney general.
For an hour, Hartigan walked around and around a large conference table, piled with perhaps 100 reports, studies, binders, newsletters and forms, picking up and discussing this study by a blue ribbon panel and that binder of letters from state officials and these forms for reporting the activities of regional offices.
``There is nothing you`re going to see on this table that existed three years ago,`` Hartigan said. ``What we did, in simple terms, we`ve tried to create the best public law firm by making it comparable to the best private law firm.
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In campaigning for attorney general, Hartigan, 47, and Oberman, 40, often seem to be talking about two different offices. And given their greatly different visions of what an attorney general should be, they are.
``My job,`` Hartigan said, ``is basically the management of the legal resources of the state, to the degree I have control, and setting the legal policy.``
To show that he has done his job, Hartigan said his office has become ``a profit center,`` returning $4 to the state for every $1 spent. (Under questioning, he concedes that previous attorneys general also made money for the state but, he says, at a lesser rate.)
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Kasich will reveal his school funding plan this week and all signs point to an expansion of Ohio's failed charter school experiment.
Kasich kicked off the week-long, pro-charter party today by releasing a resolution officially declaring the next seven days School Choice Week in Ohio.
And in typical Kasich fashion, he'll be releasing the details of the plan in front of friendly audiences like the Buckeye Association of School Administrators (BASA).
While most of Ohio's education-related organizations are banding together in Strong Schools Strong Communities, BASA opted not to join the non-partisan, pro-public school group and now they will be rewarded by Kasich.
This Thursday BASA, along with the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education and Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools, will host a "superintendents' only meeting for a presentation on school funding with Dr. Dick Ross and Barbara Mattei-Smith from the office of Governor John Kasich."
According to the invitation, "the meeting will be held on January 31, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at the Polaris Hilton located at 8700 Lyra Drive, Columbus, Ohio" . It is restricted only to school superintendents. The invitation reminds potential attendees that "this is an emotional topic around which people hold strong views" and asks that superintendents wishing to attend "do so with the typical sense of interest and respect you demonstrate in all that you do."
In other words: sit down, shut up and trust that John Kasich knows what's best for you, for our schools and for all of Ohio's children.
The problem, of course, is that Kasich has taken tens of thousands of dollars from for-profit charter school operators while sending his own kids to a private Christian school.
Kasich has absolutely zero connection to public schools in Ohio, evidenced by the fact that officials at his local public school district in Westerville have to choose between a new school levy or eliminating school sports after Kasich's severe, statewide education cuts hit very close to home.
While we'd all like to believe Kasich spent the past two years coming up with an amazing school funding plan that will be constitutional, fair and effective, I don't believe anyone is actually expecting that type of plan to emerge this week.
Instead… all signs points to fail!
"After Gov Kasich wings back from the annual meeting of the 1% in Davos, he will introduce an educational funding program to help private and religious schools."
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4 more years than 60 and if things haven't improved in many ways I am out.Good luck and god bless public education and tax payers dollars.
John Kasich doesn't care for the public schools . He wouldn't give them any money at all if he could get away with it. If Kasich could get away with it, he would give ALL the money to charter and religious schools and put public schools out of business all together. The public schools are supposed to fail and have been deliberately degraded.
The public schools were said many years ago to be deliberately put into the position they are in today.
And this pretentious American governor instead of trying to make sure that the public schools improve , goes out of his way to help put them out of business. Maybe he might want to re-model the closed down schools and make homes for all the homeless people the conservatives like him want everyone to believe are living and sucking up their hard earned tax money.
Hey , John Kasich: do you have any more of the Conservative agenda programs to accomplish. Maybe you might want to get some education ideas for Americans from your old conservative pretentious American friends at Fox Broadcasting.
They didn't like any American unless he was a republican or claimed to be a conservative when they stagnated our country and government for four years telling Republicans and conservatives to wait for presidential election as they would win Presidency or Senate or both.
But they didn't win the Presidency and Senate and now your old friends at Fox, you know ; Shawn Hannity, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levine and some others have suddenly decided that they like all the rest of us Americans- You know -the ones your old friends at Fox called -communist, socialist, lazy, liberals. homosexuals, gays, queers, lesbians, to lazy to work, laying around getting pregnant so we wouldn't have to work and could live off of welfare, stupid, jerks, dumb, gun haters, gun grabbers, too dumb to understand the Constitution and Bill of Rights, homeless, wetbacks , people whom you conservatives resented because you didn't want to see your tax money go to support our lifestyles, and many others. Also, didn't one of your old friends say that not everyone should go to college. ? Rush Limbaugh is very good at making up and calling the rest of America names. Shawn Hannity has suddenly decided or realized that "Our children's future is being stolen from them."
He never cared about any body's children's future before the conservatives lost the last election.
Yes, now that your conservative friends have lost the last election, they suddenly have decided that they need to cater to the rest of us voters so we will put Republicans like you back in office the next time and after you conservatives get our votes, you'll have a chance to really ram your agenda down America's throat while you all have the chance.
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Hey, this is my first build on Mobafire, I'm relatively new, been playing for a month, and recently Season 1 came out, exciting, and along with it, Xin Zhao: The Seneschal of Demacia.
Xin Zhao, as you may know, is a spear wielding champion similar to characters from the Dynasty Warriors games, he is a physical champion, who uses mana with relatively short costs and cooldowns. What inspired me to make a build is the large amount of fun I'm having with him, and how good I seem to do with him or whether that's just because he is new and no one knows how to play against him yet.
Now i know many people choose to build him tank/jungle spec, but this build is different. It's main focus is AS, while its two 2nd focuses are Crit/AD. The reason I chose to build him like this is because I wanted to be a little more original, as I hear most people settle for a tank spec, I thought i would try and build a good DPS build.
Now on to the good stuff....
Tireless Warrior-
Xin Zhao is healed for 30 points for every 3 attacks that he lands. This amount increases by 5 every 2 levels.
This is Xin Zhao's passive ability, very useful when stacked with attack speed, as he can attack faster, and thus, heal faster, this definitely helps most mid game in my opinion, as with this build, your AS gets pretty high and the heal is still good for the amount of health you have.
Three Talon Strike-
Xin Zhao prepares to unleash a fearsome combo, causing his next 3 standard attacks to deal his attack damage + 15 / 30 / 45 / 60 / 75 to enemy targets, with the final attack knocking his opponent into the air.
This is personally my second favorite move of his and his 2nd best move or possibly his best. With attack speed, and its low cooldown and mana cost, you can easily be knocking opponents up multiple times in a fight, that's assuming that they last that long.
Battle Cry-
Passive: Increases Xin Zhao's attack speed by 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35%.
Active: Xin Zhao unleashes a battle cry, increasing his attack speed by double the passive amount for 7 seconds, and causing his standard attacks to reduce all other ability cooldowns by 1 second.
This ability I choose to get first, it helps you get first kill relatively fast, and allows you to kill minions faster if you're pushing, which I like to do. Besides this, Three Talon Strike is probably better for a first choice, its just not my personal preference and if you feel like Three Talon Strike is better for you for easier and faster kills, then by all means, choose it above this one first.
Audacious Charge-
Xin Zhao charges an enemy unit, dealing 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+40% of ability power) damage to all nearby enemies and slowing them by 40% for 2 seconds.
This is my least favorite but it is very useful, and I usually only use it for when they are running away or pursuing an ally(obviously), I usually get this last, around lvl 10-12, most people probably get it sooner, I don't, because I think the attack speed and damage provided by Three Talon Strike and Battle Cry helps you much more in encounters, as enemies healths are lower and easier to kill, usually Three Talon Strike with Battle Cry is enough to kill any non tank before they can run to their turret or escape through some other method.
Crescent Sweep-
Xin Zhao unleashes a fierce spear sweep on targets around him, dealing 150 / 275 / 400 + 25% of their current health in physical damage. His magic resistance and armor are increased by 30 / 40 / 50 for the next 8 seconds.
This is my favorite ability, and it is great, for basically every purpose. I personally love to use this when the enemy is in the air, or chasing down, but its great at scaring people in team fights as it does so much burst damage at once, and any mage/caster is torn up by it especially if focused down. With it's low cooldown(for an ultimate), you can use this to kill large waves of minions that have been stockpiled in one hit, and have no fear of it not recharging or wasted by the time you need to fight(assuming your smart and you used it when you weren't about to go into a large brawl)
Summoner Spells:
I go with Ignite and Exhaust, I find these two spells to be incredibly useful for him, as this build focuses on DPS, and in a lot of match ups, both these spells help you survive 2v1 encounters. I think all the champions i use, these two mastery's help ME the most, especially for first bloods and endgame against master yi's and warwicks.
When i think about it a lot of spells could be used, the effectiveness I don't think compares to these two, but if you think you won't survive long enough, grab heal/flash, personally I kill them too fast to think about survival, and it's just counter intuitive to me.
Of course I go 21/9/0, as it is a DPS build. I don't think there's much to talk about here as it's obvious.
Early Game:
Get boots and 3 health pots, get into the shrubbery quickly with your teamate, ambush the other team if they come into it, push them back or kill them if they aren't very good. I've never died in the beginning, I usually have a melee dps ally with me, I think the best champion I've teamed with is Teemo, his snares and DOT's help kill the opponent after they escape(if they escape). Other good ones are Garen or Fiddlesticks, high dps and silence and fears, stuff that pushes and doesn't forgive if you make a mistake.
Be aggressive, don't be afraid to get hit, because your dps>their dps(most, most, most of the time), use your health pots! You can usually get first bloods or a good amount of kills here, use that money to buy berserkers, and if you have some extra money, get some more health pots, THEY HELP!
Mid Game:
Usually by this time their turret is gone, so keep pushing the lane, or go into other lanes and gank enemies, Xin is a great ganker, he is also good at jungling, so if you have time, get the monster buffs, they also help.
Your main focus, like with anyone else, is to push and get kills, you want to be focusing on attack speed here, it really helps with survival and farming minions, taking advantage of Three Talon Strike and your passive.
Late Game:
You've most likely gotten a lot of attack speed by now, around 2.0, so its time to focus on AD/Crit, you can focus on one or the other more, I like both, and it doesn't really change much, although Crit probably goes farther with getting an infinity edge and doing lots of damage quicker then anyone else.
Use your CC effectively, and at this point, you can sometimes take on 2v1, although its not recommended, if you really need to for the team, you can probably last longer 2v1 then your allies.
AD is more helpful for taking down those turrets, so if you're a turret killer type, take AD over crit, and vice versa, you want more kills, take Crit in my opinion. Also, your last item, which I haven't included, is totally up to you, I've tried all types of things, such as lifesteal, health, damage, slows, etc etc, all work, depending on the situation.
Link to me getting over 20 kills with it-
I'll provide more pics if wanted.
I'll also work on this if needed, thanks for reading, try out the build at least once if you want success, if it doesn't work, please tell me what problems you had so I can give you advice or I'd be welcome to advice if something is wrong with my guide or not as effective, and I will try it out.
This is my first guide, tell me what you think! Thanks!
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Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
reply to post by LeatherNLace
I'm still not getting this connection so many are trying to make.
Are you saying Feinstein works for the NRA?
That the 1994 AWB was just an elaborate 10 year long ploy?
Source or poppycock. You make the call.
Originally posted by xedocodex
...don't pay attention to his actual policy on guns...he's going to do it secretly.
Originally posted by dc4lifeskater
reply to post by xedocodex
Trust me no one who has a gun or buys a gun will be thinking to themselves anytime in the future.. Why do I have this gun...
Perhaps they will think crap, I have all these guns but I can't buy ammo for most of them anymore because they made it illegal...
Originally posted by xedocodex
The fear of a black man as President was a big marketing advantage when you know your audience is racist as hell.
So please, give you your sources on how there isn't public support for gun control..
I agree very much in your analysis of the problem here. The number of laws or regulations isn't the problem and never has been. We have, by some estimates, over 30,000 laws, regulations and ordinances relating to firearms in the United States from Federal to City municipal level. If anything, we have FAR TOO MANY laws and that creates problems by itself.
Originally posted by DrNotforhire
reply to post by LeatherNLace
Too bad you can't blame Bush anymore
its been five years.... get a new tactic, stop using the same kool aid sheeple tactics...
seriously.. how long can you blame bush?
Originally posted by xedocodex
reply to post by beezzer
Source or poppycock. You make the call.
LOL, so you make a claim out of your ass...then you ask me to prove you wrong?
My sources are all the polls showing publice support for gun control legislation, here is a nice little website that has many different polls all on the same page.
And the rate of gun ownership in America has always been estimated at around 30%
So please, give you your sources on how there isn't public support for gun control...or should I just say your are full of poppycock???
Come on bunny...let's see some facts...I gave you mine.
Most estimates range between 39% and 50% of US households having at least one gun (that's about 43-55 million households). The estimates for the number of privately owned guns range from 190 million to 300 million. Removed those that skew the stats for their own purposes the best estimates are about 45% or 52 million of American households owning 260 million guns).
Some recent estimates:
•A 2011 Gallup poll estimates that 47 percent of US households own a gun.
•A 2007 Small Arms Survey estimates there are 88.7 guns per 100 Americans (#1 in the world for guns per capita)
•A 2010 estimate from the NRA states "Privately owned firearms in the U.S.: Approaching 300 million, including nearly 100 million handguns. The number of firearms rises over 4 million annually."
Originally posted by Helious
reply to post by xedocodex
So please, give you your sources on how there isn't public support for gun control..
Lets start with the thread title. Yes, that's 8 numbers. How many people took your supporting poll?
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The following is an excerpt from Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon (Chelsea Green, 2010). In his humorous, anecdotal manifesto, Logsdon imparts how to transform farm, pet and human manure into fertilizer and humus, describes the crucial role manure plays in keeping food production in line with our increasing population, and explains how we can conquer our societal fear of feces. This excerpt is from Chapter 7, "No More Poop Coops."
The chicken is the easiest and most productive animal for the small garden farm, especially in terms of handling manure. Humans have known this forever, which is why in almost all so-called Third World countries — and now even in First World countries (indicating that we First-Worlders are advancing, too) — chickens are usually a part of the local scene. New regulations are now allowing hens (but not roosters) in American suburbs. I love it when I am listening to a radio news report from someplace like Afghanistan, Liberia or Somalia, and suddenly I hear a hen clucking in the background or a rooster crowing. I know that this is the real news. If only a reporter could interview the chickens, I bet we'd get a much truer picture of what's going on in the world.
Reporter: "How do you feel about being occupied by U.N. peacekeepers, Mrs. Hen?"
Mrs. Hen, ruffling her feathers: "We are occupied enough just staying alive. I wish the foreigners would get the cluck out of here."
Reporter: "Do you agree with that, Mr. Rooster?"
Mr. Rooster, nervously wagging his head from side to side: "Well, cock-a-doodle-doo, I hardly think so. Those of us who cooperated with the foreigners would get our bloody heads chopped off."
The best indication that we are entering a new era (or returning to an old one) is that I am hearing about websites where gardeners offer to clean out chicken coops for free — in exchange for the manure. I am not surprised that chickens are first in this undertaking. Chicken manure is the easiest of all barn manures to handle, mostly because chickens do not urinate in the same way that, say, a horse does, flushing out enough in one session to drown a chicken or two. Nevertheless, I am often shocked at the mess I sometimes see in the coops of even very small flocks. There is not enough bedding. Little stalagmites of pure crap rise up under the roost. Or there's a roost with an old-fashioned, screened-off catch board under it covered with gooey manure 6 inches deep and swarming with flies because the chickens can't get to them. Invariably, the coop itself is so small a rooster would have to go outside to find enough room to crow.
None of this is necessary or practical or economical. It all comes from a mistaken notion that if something is right for a big hen factory, then it must be right for six hens in the backyard. First of all, if you have a manure catch board under the chicken roost, take it out and burn it. Then, if the manure is a problem building up on the floor, use more bedding, or, better, knock out one or two walls and double, triple or quadruple the size of your coop. A coop for 10 hens year-round with the addition of 20 broilers fattening for three months should have at least 200 square feet of space in it. That is roughly 7 square feet per chicken for the three months when the coop is occupied by broilers and layers. The rest of the year, your 10 layers have 20 square feet of living space each — about 20 times that of poor factory hens shut up in cages.
You may think that a coop of that size for so few chickens costs more money than it's worth, but it depends on how you view the numbers. As long as you are building a coop, how much more time and money does it really cost to build a 10-foot-by-20-foot coop rather than a 5-foot-by-10-foot one? The cost of the wood may be double (unless you tear down an old building or otherwise find waste wood that you can use). But your time is about the same, whether you use your own labor or hire someone else. Furthermore, the coop should last a lifetime — or at least 80 years. Prorate the yearly cost of a 50-square-foot coop versus a 200-square-foot coop over 80 years and the difference is small — and certainly worth every cent when you're stepping into a cleaner, pleasant coop versus a crappy one. Then add on the value of the litter in your generously bedded coop, which preserves the fertilizer value of the manure in the best possible way. Then add in the savings achieved by your hens turning table scraps into valuable fertilizer. Add on the savings from not having to build and maintain a composting bin because the hens will do it right there in the coop — present you with a nice loamy fertilizer, and not charge you a cent. You are going to be saving money and you'll also have the best tomatoes in the neighborhood, unless the neighbors are all raising chickens, too.
But keeping a coop generously bedded costs money, say the experts in agricultural economics. Not necessarily. You can bed with dry lawn clippings all summer and with dry tree leaves all winter if you have a place to store them. You can pile leaves against the coop's walls to use as needed, and, in the meantime, the leaf piles will keep the building warmer and cozier in winter. When we lived in the suburbs, we built a small loft under the roof of our coop to store the wheat that we grew and didn't need for bread-making. The roof joists were already there. All I had to do was put a few boards over them to make a floor. Every day I fed a couple of bundles of wheat to the chickens. They ate out the grain and the straw added bedding to the floor.
A good way to utilize almost all of the plant nutrients in chicken manure is to keep hens in a so-called chicken tractor. Such a coop is movable and can be pulled to a new spot at will. Inside it, the chickens scratch and eat weed seeds and bugs while depositing their droppings directly on the soil. This fresh manure enriches the soil with hardly any loss of fertilizing nutrients. The wake of a chicken tractor leaves a rich, ready-to-till garden plot. Lately, the chicken tractor idea has been transformed into the chicken bus. Innovative chicken farmers are turning old buses into coops parked out in pastures. Want to move the coop to another section of pasture? Drive on. Or if it is a bus with a dead motor, hitch the tractor to it and pull it — much easier than moving a coop on skids.
Where a garden farmer has the room, manure handling is made easy by allowing the chickens to roam over pasture, woodlot or lawn in spring, summer and fall. In some instances, even commercial growers intent on raising organic or all-natural meat or eggs can divide their pastureland around a stationary coop into several lots projecting out like wagon wheel spokes from the coop. The chickens are moved from one plot to another as necessary, like rotational grazing of livestock. One or two of these plots can even be planted to grain for the chickens to eat right off of the stalks, while clover grows up under the stalks to provide more good food. In such a system, the manure, except for what collects in the coop, is fully utilized without any work on the part of the poultry farmer.
The deep litter system — putting down generous bedding regularly and cleaning out the coop only once or twice a year — was welcomed by all of us farm boys of yesteryear. Before that, we had the weekly or bimonthly job of cleaning out the chicken coop. The experts, who did not have to clean out chicken coops, harped constantly on the myth that leaving the manure in the coop was unsanitary. Actually, there are vitamins and minerals in the deep litter that are vital to the health of the chickens. Because of the notion that they were saving money by using only minimal amounts of bedding, farmers were slow to realize the fact that there was the deep litter alternative — until they ran out of sons and daughters to do the weekly job.
I didn't much mind forking out the floor manure, which was relatively dry and loose. I pretended that the floor was the map of Europe and I was the advancing American army cleaning up the Nazis (obviously this was World War II times). The line between cleaned and uncleaned floor was the battlefront. And so, every Saturday, I liberated Europe in the chicken coop.
But cleaning off the catch boards under the roost was pure misery. I likened it to the battle of Iwo Jima rather than the liberation of Europe. My father, thankfully, had found a faster way to handle this stinking slime. The roosts were built along the back wall of the coop. The wall at that point was hinged and could be opened outward and raised high enough to get the manure spreader right up next to and under the catch boards. Then it was "simply" a matter of raking the gooey mess out into the spreader with a long-handled rake. The stuff didn't rake very well, but you get the idea.
That coop measured 15 by 30 feet, or thereabouts, and housed 120 hens year-round — that's about 3 square feet per hen. Had the coop been lengthened a mere 10 feet more, it would have meant 5 square feet per bird, which would have made the catch boards unnecessary, if they weren't anyway.
Then, instead of the weekly cleaning of the floor, not to mention the twice-yearly cleaning of the catch boards, I would have just had to spread a bale of clean straw on the floor every Saturday and let the manure and bedding build up. The deep litter that the chickens would busily scratch in and turn into compost would have to be cleaned out only once a year, and it would be dry and without offensive odor.
Presently, in a 10-foot by 20-foot coop, I keep an average of a dozen hens year-round and 20 fattening broilers for three months. The coop is divided into two rooms so the broilers have their own space. Otherwise the old hens would harass the broilers — even peck them to death. (It's a good idea to have a coop with two rooms, anyway, and a door between them, to separate new hen chicks from the old hens, who may otherwise bother them. They have to get used to each other on different sides of a screen partition, and then they can be slowly introduced by letting both generations meet outside, where the young ones can beat a hasty retreat if necessary.) For roosts, all I have is a 2-by-4 that stretches across one corner of each room, about 2 feet off the ground. In the morning there's a line of fresh manure under the roosts. By nightfall it has disappeared under the scratching feet of the hens into the composting litter.
I just looked into my nephew's new chicken coop. For a roost, he split lengths of tree limbs about 3 inches in diameter, nailing two of them about 6 feet long as verticals to three others about 5 feet long as horizontals. He leaned the assemblage against the wall and nailed the slanting verticals at the top to the wall. Voilà! A three-perch roost for a dozen chickens.
I sprinkle wheat or corn over the floor occasionally to encourage the hens to scratch in the deep litter, but they would do so anyway. Table scraps I just scatter on top of the litter. What little the chickens don't eat soon disappears and eventually decomposes into the litter.
When cleaning, I always leave a small amount of the composted manure on the floor for the chickens to drop fresh manure into, because that compost has a high, developed population of all kinds of microbial life that hasten the breakdown of fresh manure. I use a silage fork to handle the composted manure because it would fall right through a regular manure fork. Sometimes the compost is dry and loose enough to scoop up with an aluminum grain shovel. I haul it to the garden in a wheelbarrow, or more often with the pickup truck.
Reprinted with permission from Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, published by Chelsea Green, 2010.
Community Chickens suggests sand for litter in the coop and in the run as well. Any thoughts? Could I also compost with that? It was builders sand not play sand. I want to keep four to six hens in a very small yard in town where they would have to be penned in some way at all times. Maybe the neighbors would complain less.
mhollfi1949: If you are expecting apologies or mea culpas you have come to the wrong site. We are in the same damn mess as you. Big Ag wants to control everything in America, also. The seeds, the plants, the animals. Some are fighting at a government level by taking the llikes of Monsanto and Cargill to court. Bless them. Some are fighting quietly by only raising heirloom plants and animals. Some go to the elders to learn what they remember of the old ways and put those ways into practice.
You don't say where you are from but my advice to you is to find others who think as you do and band together. If your electoral process works, start at the local level and vote in like minded people. Begin small, go to the older farmers, even if they no longer farm the old way, they probably remember some very useful things. Order heirloom seeds off the internet. If you live in town and can only grow tomatoes in a planter, do it. Never register your farm animals with the government. Do not accept tax breaks for owning a farm or they will own you. These are all traps we have fallen into. Remember the biggest lie is "We're from the Government and we are here to help."
Oh and learn to barter because if you can't sell your goods out right because of unjust laws, you can trade for what you need and do what most of us in this country have to do who want to farm sustainably, get a day job. HTH
Until 50 years ago, in your country, the fertilizer were human waste, fish, animal waste. American came over and educated us not use those things, instead purchase chemical fertilizer.
Now, there are very few farmers left in our country and they are mostly old people. We are importing 90% food.
American destried our countries farm industry.
Congraturations for your great success!
I have been using the deep litter method for a little over a year. We have an 'egg mobile'-an old camper converted to a coop- for our free rangers that we pull around the pastures with a Polaris Ranger. I use (free) sawdust from an Amish sawmill in the roost area. Most of the time it has a bit of cedar in it, but the ventilation is good, so I'm not too worried about it. Sometimes I do get a slight ammonia smell, and I figure that is because I'm not putting enough sawdust down? When I do smell ammonia, I usually throw another layer of sawdust down and that seems to work. Any tips and/or advice from anyone would be greatly appreciated. BTW, I have this book and it is great! It maybe time to re-read it!
Ya know there was a day when this would be considered offensive, I long for those days.
I have 9 hens and 1 very happy rooster! My coop is an old barn built from straw bales that I sectioned off an area about 15' by 30'. They seem to like to poop ontop of there nesting boxes, so I take a scrapper and scrap it into a bag and put it in my garden and around my plants. If it seems to smell I make sure I cover it with a little dirt and the smell is gone. I also feed my chickens cloves of garlic, it is a great antibiotic and although its not the first thing they eat they will definately eat it. They are very very healthy!
I've been recieving Mother Earth for about five years now and enjoy every artical in every issue. I read and reread each issue and have learned so much over the years and can't wait for the next issue to arrive. I have a few chickens now, that I love to work with. I get my supply of eggs and sell a few dozen to help out on feed. Now that I'm not physicaly able to farm, I still raise a garden and use the chicken manure to help keep my garden rich in nutrients and have good sucess most years. My dad and grand-dad taught me much about the value of poop when I was a boy and I have not forgotten it. Thank you Mother Earth for all the great information and hours of entertainment.
I have 5 hens and 1 rooster in an 8 X 8 winterised coop. I have a few inches of straw on the floor covered by a couple inches of pine shavings. I am in the coop 3 times a day with an ash shovel from my woodstove picking up the chicken poop and that seems to keep the stink down, I completely empty and clean 3 times a year, I just add a little straw or shavings occasionally as needed. I haven't had any complaints yet.
I'm putting in a high tunnel next to my bird run & planned to use the poultry coop cleanings to fertilize inside the high tunnel BUT all the local farmers cringe & say it's highly ill advised because of salmonella. But I also realize that salmonella is a problem only in unhealthy, commercial production poultry. But once IN the bird house, it can certainly become a problem. HOW can I tell if my birds have / get salmonella, and, outside of horrendous amounts of antibiotics, how can I deter, get rid of salmonella? How can I insure that I'm not putting salmonella onto my garden? Will 6 mo of simple composting do the trick? Thanks for any suggestions.
I use the deep litter method also, but I do change it a more often then once a year. I would say probably about 4 times a year, I do it when it needs to be done. I spend a lot of time outside so I can usually tell when it's a tad gamey. It is great though and it does not smell, as the article stated chickens do not urinate liquid so it makes clean up easy. I use pine shavings and also throw down hay for nesting, and also insulation in winter.
I just did my first winter cleaning of our coop a week ago. I'm going to try just adding another bale of wood shavings next time, partly because I want to see if it'll really not stink, but also because trying to get the wheelbarrow through the snow to dump is a major chore! I took several wheel barrows full out to a garden and spread it around like I've seen farmers do with manure on their fields. A couple days later I had the chance to ask an organic gardening expert if I could count on the chicken bedding and manure being broken down enough to plant in without burning roots by May. His concern was actually about regulations for those who may wish to sell their organic produce. He said that here in Wisconsin, we can't plant anything that would fruit above the ground for 90 days after spreading and not for 120 days for things that fruit on the ground. I'd be interested in the feedback from others on this.
I use the deep litter method, and I can say it is awesome! Everybody that goes into or by the coop can't believe that it doesn't smell bad. I use wood chips mostly, but I do add straw to the laying area. I'll empty it in early spring. something that wasn't mentioned is that DL coops are a little warmer in winter because the litter is composting. This warmth isn't noticeable in summer.
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