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Nidalee Build
Ability Sequence
Not Updated For Current Season
The masteries shown here are not yet updated for the current season, the guide author needs to set up the new masteries. As such, they will be different than the masteries you see in-game.
Masteries / Runes
Setup 1 is Standard
Setup 2 is Standard but best against hard AD carries
Setup 3 is for anti casters such as kassadin / anivia / annie, it's setup so that your auto attack harass can out harass their spells with your heal.
If you like this guide plz check out my Miss Fortune Guide.
:: Update :: 4/4/11
- I have decided to revamp this guide for current times. I'm currently 1527 elo and have learned alot more when I first started this guide. The meta game has extremely changed as well.
- I'm reworking the how to lane against section, and I added a metagame section. I also changed the late game section. Most important of all I added a how to carry section from my MF guide.
Wanna make friends ??
If you are lonely and looking for fun people to play with add me in game (PinkPWNAGE). We play everyday around 7pm-2am Pacific time (whenever i get back from the laboratory I work in). Must be kind, friendly, willing to listen to me bark orders occassionally, and erm... Nice?? Arguative people are annoying on skype 0_o. People who talk a little too much are also a little annoying.[/b][/u] The people we play against in normal are extremely high ELO. My normal ELO is most likely around 1800 elo. There is not a single game we que there isn't someone in ranked solo que below 1500 elo. Usually there are 2 people in 1600-1800s depending on how low the peoples elo we que with are. Yesterday we got paired against Haoz (number one player in 3s atm), teddefreddeh and negrpl0x (people in top 20 in 3s). Also went up against transambird (2k+ solo que was top 25) recently. These games are great practice for ranked.
Update: we've been extremely full recently, if i dont respond to you its because im getting spams of messages, just keep messaging me for game if u see me sitting in lobby. Once we will were usually full for a couple hours.
1. Excellent Ganker
2. Extremely Mobile
3. Superior Mid-Lane control, un-matched by many champions
4. Great pusher! You can solo towers easily late game.
5. Great farmer after level 6 (once u get cat form)
6. Great jungler after level 6 and jungle control with ur traps
7. Great early game carry / pusher till about 25-45 mins.
8. Great poker / harasser / an indirect initiator - ( This is due to her javelin, if farmed correctly your javelin will do 20-60% of someones health. This with your heal, allows your team superior poke / harass in a stand off. The health you take for your javelin will also give your team the edge it needs to intitate, which is why I labeled her as an indirect initiator.
1. If your teem excessive feeds you will not be able to carry the team alone. As you are pritty squishy, and you do no damage to tanks
2. Takes a high skill cap (intensive microing required, this is why i enjoy her)
3. Very weak late game against (tanks / AoE / Stuns and CC)
4. Fed tanks will destroy you
5. Easily focus fired
Nidalee is very much like a feral druid in WoW and I have the most fun playing her out of any other toon. You will be constantly clicking like a mad man. So if your micro isn't at least average Nidalee might not be for you. If you play starcraft it'll be a piece of cake lol.
Many people don't understand the power of Nidalee and will fail against you because of it.
I will constantly be updating this guide. Especially the How To Lane Against part.
Your first trip to base should consist of items 2-4 or as close as you can get (explained late). But if your forced back to base get in this order.
Start- Doran's ring / Health pot
Doran's ring
2. Ideally you will want to get lichbane on your first back, or get rank 1 boots and whatever you can of lichbane. Prioritize sheen before blasting wand.
3. Deathcap or crystalized scepter
4. Deathcap if you got crystallized scepter, zhonyas is great, since the current meta game is alot of anti carries such as malphite and xin
5. Void scepter if they have heavy magic res or mejais because at this point if you haven't won it's going to be massive team fight trading
6. Crystallized scepter for max ap, you can get a survivability item such as banshees if you feel u need it
Lichbane - This is another core item for Nidalee, better than trinity force and cheaper. This is what gives you immense burst. Don't go wasting the proc on a minion if an enemy is in range.
Getting Started
1. ALWAYS go mid with nidalee or take a solo lane while someone jungles. This is extremely important: Nidalee is an excellent carry, and I can solely carry any team including a PUG to victory as long as they aren't noobs and feed (SADLY RANKED SOLO QUE IS ALL FEEDERS). All they have to do is hold their own. It's funny when you get the people who haven't seen good nidalee players, and they are like "nidalee in mid?? Shes just gonna get owned when she transfers lanes" and then they are quickly silenced when I'am 13/0/0.
- The reason for this is you NEED the level advantage as Nidalee, without it you will not succeed.
Reason behind cleanse and flash- (Ghost / Flash is perfectly fine as well, maybe teleport flash if u are solo top)
1. Cleanse not only saves you from certain death (saves me at least 4-8 times during a game). But it also helps you lane early against certain heros. This is like your PvP trinket in WoW, would you dare step into WoW arena without a trinket??? Hell no...
2. Flash + pounce is GODLIKE, you can obviously use it to get away from ANYONE attacking you, but you can also use it to gank. THey will never expect you flashing / pouncing them from a mile away. Use this wisely.
3. If the enemy team does not have very much Stuns etc, then get ghost or teleport or exhaust. Clarity is not necessary if you are playing right.
I hope this helps someone out there, any feedback you have is totally appreciated.
My last 2 games were 13/0/0 and 10/0/6 or something. They were an early surrender right before base went down.
Current Metagame
- With the types of new champions coming out and various buffs/nerfs, the meta game has completely changed. A couple months ago this game was dominated by ranged AD champions supported by supports and tanks. This is still true today for arranged, but for solo que the meta has changed to tanky dps / anticarry champs / diving champs. For example to counter ranged AD champs nowadays the popular champions are Irelia / Urgot. However at this current point the game is evolving to kill these type of champions.
The now current popular champs are teemo, renekton, urgot, corki, zil, shen of course, nocturne, sion.
The good news is nidalee is great for this changing meta game. The current meta game at decent elo involves pushing/tanky dps (hence teemo is so popular and is a popular ban). Nidalee excels at pushing and poking tanky dps.
Early Game
Early Game
1. Start with Doran's ring
2. Peck at your opponent with auto attack and javelin if they get sloppy. You don't want to force a toe to toe battle until level 6
3. Gank them if they get about 30-50% hp (you must be at at least lvl 6 for cougar). You must lure them into a false sense of security, don't play too agressive the entire time. Just peck at them from time to time, pretend that your main focus is creeps. When your in cat form don't just pounce them when they get in range, run bak a bit i they auto attack you let them feel like they are dominant. Then once minions are fighting each other and they are wide open, either use takedown then pounce, or use flash to pounce to takedown. You can jump on them from a mile away with flash and pounce and they will never see it coming. It should be GG for them, if they manage to get away switch quickly to human form for auto attack and pray you throw a nicely aimed javelin that finishes em. Even if they get away don't worry, use this to your advantage. Now it's time to out level them, keep farming those creeps and make that tower pay with as much damage as possible. Put the pressure on and make him regret using his Blue pill, make him understand that if he leaves the lane again that tower will go down. If you played right you should be probably a level or half level above them. Try to have their jungler get rid of their flash on his first gank attempt if he has no easy ganks open.
4. If they come back from blue pilling they will be alot stronger as they have bought an item and you have nothing, so don't try too much to push a kill, just keep farming the lane knowing that you are ahead in EXP and gold. If you can push the kill by all means go for it. There are times when I'm 3-0 before leavin the lane.
helps with your early ganks. You should be able to pull a gank if your opponent has not blue pilled yet. Granted, your team may need your earlier than you want, help if you can of course. In no way am I saying deny leaving your lane when necessary.
6. Now that you got your items and your about lvl 13-14. You have to pressure your opponent back to base, which should be easily achieved. When you do, now it's time to go gank in other lanes. Since you have an enormous EXP and item advant you will rip through anyone. I'm not saying that you can only leave your lane now, there are plenty of earlier times you can, but I feel this is standard.
The First Jungle Gank-
Around 4 minutes in the enemy jungler or your jungler is going to gank an exposed lane. The exposed lane will be clear, it will be whoever pushes out past halfway of their lane. They will also gank a second time at around 6-8 minutes.If you know the enemy jungler will gank your friends, you may have to head to that lane to help, 30% of the time you will make it to either get a kill or save a friend. When you hit 6 theres probably around an 80-90% chance you will get there and be useful with cougar pounce and ghost. Nidalee runs super fast with cougar pounce spam. Noone will expect you to be there so fast and you will almost always be there to help keep your teammates alive, or be there to clean up the enemy scraps. Just remember that since you were mid and your early game is good, they should not be able to stand toe to toe against you (most champs).
If you see your champ leave his lane -
IF AT ANY TIME You see the champion leave, you call the MIA, or mad Ping it. And run safely towards the direction you think he is going. If the lane he is heading to isn't in danger then push your mid lane hard. If he is going somewhere into a team fight YOU FOLLOW AND HELP, you are the carry, there is no excuse for you to miss a team fight. If you are low you are just gonna either have to push your lane hard to put pressure on their tower or back.
The first dragon kill -
The first dragon team fight really dictates momentum of game. Everyone should be there except maybe the top laner. It is important you either have this warded around 5-7 minutes onward. Your trap is a great tool for control of dragon, keep this trapped at all times if possible.
Mid Game
Your job is to push push push. The higher ELO you are the more towers matter, they give gold / exp to your entire team. If you farmed right you should be able to stand toe to toe with most champions.
Ask your jungler for blue and red if possible. If you are not an extremely aggressive player you should probably let your jungler have it. If your not using buffs to full potential don't gimp the junglers potential.
Buy 1 or 2 wards every time you back.
Trap everywhere and anywhere. Exspecially around dragon and baron, whoever controls these wins the game.
Don't forget to heal those in need.
Ward the map so you can constantly harass with javelins.
Late Game
This will be around 30-45 minutes. At this point the tanks may be strong enough to take your harass. You will have to push towers as a team. What you will do is just poke them until they have to back or they make a stupid engage. Nidalee is perfect for tower poke because you can not only do insane damage with your Q, but you can also heal any poke your team receives. A great combo for nidalee in arranged is Lux your AD damage could come from ezreal. Late game with this combo all you need to is have the entire map warded. If they walk out in the jungle, snare + Javelin + lux ult + AD carries harass and they will either die or have to back. You will have complete map control and can baron / drag all day long.
At this point of the game you will be more of a support / pushing role. Heal your teammates exspecially your AD carry for the attackspeed buff. Your heal should heal most squishes from half to full. Poke towers, lichbane will destroy towers. Poke champs with javelins. Cougar form in when safe for max damage.
How to Lane Against
(If your enemy plays super defensively and doesn't even bother leaving their turret, don't force it, just farm and gank other lanes)
Ashe: Whenever I lane and play against a Ashe I know I'm going to rape em. It's a very simple lane strategy against Ashe. Stay behind minions to eat up her multi shot if possible, sometimes you will get hit but that's what your heal is for. Harass her with auto attacks, you will win if you go toe to toe since you have your heal (obviously not if shes spamming W on you). Pre heal before an auto attack harass if you got the mana the attackspeed bonus is awesome. Watch out for that stun arrow at level 6, save your cleanse just for it. If Ashe gets a dorans blade its a auto win for you (dorans blade is very common). Simply peck and harass her, when shes at 30-50% hp pounce in or flash / pounce in for the kill. If she has flash and is getting away or just getting away, finish her with a nicely placed javelin and any auto attacks you can get in. You can even turret dive 100% safely if you have flash up. If she does get doran's shield, it'll be a bit more challenging to gank, you will have to play a little bit more agressive to get her at the gank range. If you gank her just once, it'll make it that much easier to do it again. However if she did get lifsteal she will OOM trying to keep up laning with you as long as shes using abilities and have to go back, you might want to make her use as much mana as possible before level 6 (her ultimate).
Difficulty = Easy
Tristana: This will be alot tougher for a gank, don't force it. She will always have a lifesteal item at start so any harass you do will be negated unless its heavy harass. Focus on your last shotting on minions, out farm her till level 6. Now comes gank opportunity, if she is dumb enough to jump in on you punk her in cat form. When she knocks you back with her ulti either flash / pounce to her to kill or away from to heal. DO NOT fight at her tower and if you do be prepared to switch to cat quickly to pounce away, if she jumps in front of you and knocks u back into turret could be death for you. Shes going to be killing minions quickly as levels progress, but you can match her with cat form, make her hesitant about getting close while your killing her minions. You may have to stay her longer than the basic strategy i provided. If she dare leave her lane, wipe the minions ASAP and destroy that tower, and warn your partners of course. If you can destroy her tower your in great shape as if she's dumb enough to come into the open it'll be an easy gank. Outlaning her is tougher than most others but takes a lil practice, your tower push is probably gonna be your ticket to safely leave your tower out of your lane to gank. Tristana's DoT lowers your heal, remember to wait till its over to heal.
Difficulty: Hard
Ezreal is another champ I'm completely confident laning against, as long as you understand him than it's 100% guaranteed lane domination. First off my past main champ was ezreal so I know him well. Since the standard and usual Ezreal item builds never have any type of life regen or life steal they will never ever be able to keep up with your healing, the most they will usually have is 2 health pots. All you have to do is avoid his long distance shot by standing behind a minion of yours just like Ashe (except it's easier). His 2nd spell, the one that goes through minions and hurts enemy champs and heals allys literally was nerfed a while ago and tickles, just heal through it and laugh knowing he wasted mana using it.
You must watch out for burst attempts, as thats all he will really be able to do against you in a lane. He will be waiting to get you with his teleport/attack ability in then his mystic shot (the long range shot) along with his auto attacks. This can take out about half your HP but thats only if his teleport shot hits you and not a minion, just stay huddled in minions and you'll be fine. At level 6 when he gets his ultimate is also when you have to worry a bit. His ultimate can take out about a quarter of your hp, he will do this and then his burst chain that I just explained. To counter this just make sure your at full hp.
The reason this is easy to lane against, is that Ezreal cannot constantly keep up his harass and burst attempts, after maybe one or 2 bursts he will be out of mana and be useless. The other reason is as i mentioned earlier he will have no health regen or lifesteal so all you have to do is pick em to about 20-35% and then gank him like you would ashe ( takedown/pounce/swipe / flash when he teleports). He will HAVE to go back to base probably 2 times before you must, just take advantage of that time and get as much EXP as possible. You should be about 1 full level above him without a gank, I have a feeling this is where EXP runes would prob help if you had a zilean on your team.
Tip: Play passive for the first 4-5 levels. EZ has one of the strongest early game lanings.
Extra Tip: Ezreal needs ganks and gold to be effective; AP Ezreal is gimp now and AD requires alot of gold, starve him of a gank and keep the pressure on and it'll be urs eventually. If he dare leaves his lane to gank a teammate for that money he needs, make that tower pay. You can easily take out a tower in 2 openings if u push the minions right and are about lvl 7-9.
Difficulty: Easy
If you took cleanse this should be not much different from other champions. It is IMPERATIVE that u took cleanse. Anivia's ranged stun can be devastating when trying to harass her. Otherwise do just as you would with ashe or ezreal, peck at them, keep them at no more than half health at level 6, play very non-agressively, then go all out on a pounce and maybe flash in and burst them once you hit level 6. Make sure of course you let the minions push to just ouside your turret range: this way your opponent should be in the middle of the lane and gives u plenty running space to gank them on escape. If the anivia plays extremely defensive your just going to have to keep farming, or harass their tower. There's really no reason you shouldn't get a gank unless the Anivia knows how this plan. If they have flash, alot of them do, save your flash for his, or for his ice wall. You have all the tools, use them wisely. Remember to keep your health at at least 80% as anivia can put up a good burst attempt, keep your finger over cleanse for the stun.
Difficulty: Easy to Moderate
Twitch (updated mad)
I decided to update this as Twitch is the flavor of the month and times have changed.
Twitch is now one of the hardest carrys in the meta game. His mid / late game is an unstoppable force if fed.
CONSEQUENTLY YOU MUST PRESSURE HIM HARD EARLY GAME. It is your job to make sure he gets a low Creep Score (CS). I REPEAT IT IS YOUR JOB TO MAKE SURE HE GETS A LOW CREEP SCORE. EVERYTIME U SEE HIM DISAPEAR CALL AND PING THE MIA. Get that mia call ready, because if he gets kills on your lane mates it might be GG later. Warn them not to be noobs and push past midway of their lane unless they got a pink ward.
Everytime you see twitch running up to last hit a creep you MUST CHARGE HIM WITH AUTO ATTACK HARASS / Cougar and make him back off. Eventually he will start popping his ult to farm creeps and peck you a bit. Jump out of the way and continue to keep him low on CS. He will eventually have to back at some point if your harass is strong. Use this opportunity to push the lane or go back and buy yourself and get a FREAKIN PINK WARD. If you have a pink ward or you have lots of HP and you know he doesn't your safe to push that tower to hell. Don't forget about junglers. Keep traps in the bushes.
Nidalee is one of the best tower pushers!! IT IS YOUR JOB TO PUSH SO HARD EARLY / MID GAME that their team has no opportunity to farm up their carry. Push hard and push early. The more passive the game gets early on the worse it is for you
He will destroy an entire team in his ult if fed late game.
Your lane presence should own him early on.
Difficulty: Medium (nerfs have made him alot weaker)
At mid ELO and up you will not see a mord in mid. The middle carry needs to be a hard/soft carry to win it for the team. Mord is great early / mid game, however his end game lacks any type of carry potential. Knowing this, your gonna have to farm up. Don't stand near minions when he uses his cone ability. Harass him as much as possible, exspecially after and before he uses his one attack to charge his shield. Farm your gold, get your items, and know that in team fights you'll carry harder than him (if he gets fed kills, that may be another story).
Make sure you don't get caught in his cone AoE. Don't stand with minions, standing on the side making him use his cone on you is a great idea.
Difficulty: Hard
Arguably the best mid out there right now, he's weak before level 6. Knowing this, once he uses his Q harass him instantly and harass him hard. His cooldown on Q is long until about level 9. Push minions hard early on to deny him gold.
Early game you will dominate in the team fights more than he will. As mid to late game progresses you will become noticeably weaker. Push hard and push fast, encourage your team to push hard and be agressive when youve got the strength.
Difficulty: hard
Miss Fortune:
I'm currently midding MF now, and shes fun as heck and carries harder than nida mid to late game. Nida is a great counter to MF when it comes to laning. You can easily out heal any burst she can put on you. She will OOM at some point and have to back at least twice before lvl 10. During those backs you just do what u do best, farm minions and make that tower pay when she leaves. Watch out for jungler when u push hard or mia.
Karthus is an extremely good person for you to lane against. All you must do is live through his harass and harass him with auto attacks. To live through his harass you have to heal through his q / e spam. Clearly u dont wanna get hit by ALL of them, but you should be able to live through most of it. Your rune should be Flat ap quints, arpen reds, yellow mana regen or dodge or armor or attack speed or magic res per lvl, blue magic resist flat. With these runes theres no way you will lose to a kasadin in lane. If ur doing ranked, and you know the kass will solo switch ur runes up.
All your going to do in lane is last hit, auto attack harass him as much as possible, heal through his harass, and push the tower. Prioritize our E skill to heal through harass. Trap your suroundings to not get gankd by jungler. If you are successful his CS should be relatively low.
The starting items you should get will be a little different. Get your dorans ring to start, fist time you back pick up the pick axe. This will make your auto attack harass on him even more potent, then boots. If kass doesnt get farmed he is useless in mid game team fights as long as he doesn't get fed kills. Make sure if you see him on the other team in ranked, you tell your team to pick up stuns.
- Difficulty : Easy
1. THE MOST IMPORTANT TIP TO BE ABLE TO CARRY : YOU MUST KEEP UP WITH THE TOTAL KILL COUNT OF YOUR OPPONENTS!!! This means that if you are 3-0 and opponents on your team are like 5 kills - 8 deaths, even though you and your team are doing well, you will not be able to solely carry your team as your opponents will be more powerful than you. This may seem like common sense, but it's imperative as Nidalee that they don't get this advantage: you are a squishy carry.
2. Play her like a feral druid in WoW. Use javelins at distance, jump in with takedown and spank, jump out when in danger and heal and javelin / auto attack, jump back in and repeat.
3. Jungling - you can dragon easily once you have your sheen and at least one other DPS item you got (a piece of your guinsoo or your guinsoo). Your DPS rotation for jungling should be , Javelin / Trap / Heal / Cat / takedown / Swipe / pounce / repeat cat DPS cycle twice / Javelin / Trap / heal / cat form dps rotation. Obviously your not gonna want to really solo dragon unless ur 100% sure its not warded.
4. Cleanse is your life saver, USE IT. Save flash for your oh shiet moments or when u know its safe to jump in for a gank.
4. Last hit as many mobs as possible, her attack speed is slow for first few levels so its a lil tougher then.
5. Setting up a standard level 6 gank (Ideal) : Constantly auto attack harass them here and there between level 1-5, make sure they are at 20-50% (depends on the hero) right when you turn level 6. Right before your about to turn level 6, ease off his minions, and let the minion line (the place where your minions and his fight) is just outside your turret range. This way your opponent should be in the middle of the lane, far away from his turret. Once you hit 6, get your cougar form, then either pounce and flash in, or just pounce in if u can. If they are getting away and are extremely low (30% f the time) you will have to quickly switch to human form, get in as many auto attacks as possible, and get that well placed javelin in. If your opponent has life regen items you will have to harass him hard before level 6. If your opponent also has Health Pots you must play agressively to get those pots used by level 6 and him at half health.
How to Truly Carry
(taken from my MF guide)
You hear this all the time, I have 40 kills and 2 deaths yet MY TEAM STILL LOSES??
A good KDA DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE CARRYING
Carrying is leading your team to victory. This is done by.
1. Dominating your lane so hard it doesn't matter what happens in the other lanes because you will be tough enough to handle it - this means out farming them, getting kills on them , pushing their tower down.
2. Making sure every fight is a team fight and winning those fights. For example, if a lane gets ganked, be there if possible.
3. Playing extremely aggressively
4. Communicating effectively with team mates and keeping them from arguing - once a team starts arguing it's over for them. Keep this from happening as much as possible. Ping when people are in danger, ping when a gank is open, ping when you think they are doing baron or dragon. Communication is everything.
5. Control dragon and baron, whatever team controls these wins 90% of the time.
6. Ask for wards and ward a bit yourself, try not to delay the BF sword
7. Ping good engages
8. Steal neutral buffs
This means you do not have to be a carry champion to carry, you can be a tank / support.
How to do these with the different types of champions is out of this guides scope. I will however say how to carry with a carry champion.
Carry With A Ranged AD Champion
Your job is to farm as much minions as possible, shut down your lane and win it, make sure you are there for as many fights as possible (even ganks on sidelanes), never stop the momentum of pushing for your team (stay agressive exspecially on towers if possible), ensure that your there to support your team at a dragon fight whenever possible, do not die at all costs. If you die in the team fight the chances of quickly pushing after a successful wipe greatly diminish, also the chances of getting baron diminish.
If you can do all these things your KDA will come naturally.
To put this in better perspective lets exhibit these things on Miss Fortune.
1. Ensure you have the best minion farm in the game, the more the better
2. Get kills in your lane and damage his tower substantially
3. Ghost and run to a lane thats getting ganked if you can make it there to help in time. Know the diff. jungler times and when they will gank. Most junglers gank around 3:30-5:40 mins, know this and be ready.
4. Make sure your jungler or someone wards dragon
5. Poke towers as much as possible! It's your job to kill towers.
6. Let your team be aware of what ur capable of, if they are about to initiate and your oom or low on HP just spam BACK
A good carry, if given a little fed, will take advantage of that feed and win the game with it. When noobs complain about going 6-0 first 6 mins and still lose a game it's their fault for not using that gold to it's fullest potential.
- For example, If i get a kill in my lane, I'm going to use that money to be even stronger than him again, so I can do it again since I did it the first time with even money, or just shut him out.


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Trundle Build
Ability Sequence
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The masteries shown here are not yet updated for the current season, the guide author needs to set up the new masteries. As such, they will be different than the masteries you see in-game.
This trundle build focuses on having great damage output while still keeping heaps of survivability. Together with trundle's unique game-style you should be an asset to any team.
Summoner spells:
[Ghost]: Ghost supplies trundle with even more speed. Mixed in with his Contaminate and Pillar of Filth you should be easily chasing down any escapees
[Cleanse]: Cleanse in my opinion is a staple ability for any melee dps. If you can't hit someone theres no chance you will get a kill.
[Exhaust]: Exhaust is situational. If the team is mainly physical dps then pick this, otherwise theres not much point in bothering.
The reason I get sword of the occult so late on in the game is due to wanting to make sure that it will be put to good use before I've bought it. Absolutely do not buy this item unless you are positive you will be getting kills.
Later on in the game you can sell Youmuu's Ghostblade and buy a bloodthirster. This should make your damage output even better.
Skill Sequence:
I like to put at least one point in Pillar of filth early on, Early in the game if a ganking opportunity arises this will almost surely give you the extra time to pull off the kill. Make sure you max out rabid bite ASAP because it is your main source of damage.
Make sure to fight inside your Contaminate as much of the time as possible and always save your Pillar until you begin to chase. This will most of the time allow your team mates to catch up and ensure the kill. While in combat always spam your Rabid Bite apart from being your main damage move it also gives you a lot of extra attack damage.
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Monday, December 11, 2006
Beaded Shells and Wool
Can't wait to move on to creating my own buttons! Now, I don't have to throw away those old boring jackets and blouses. I'll add some beads and unique buttons and recycle!
The rust color is a commercial 'burnt' velvet, for lack of a better description. Sorry...I never know the correct terminology. The blue is dyed wool, stitched with some eyelash and angelina.
Now...how to display it. I am perplexed over whether I should mount it on a background or not. I'm leaning towards not...but your thoughts are important to me. Please post your suggestions here.
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Hi Ann,
It's incredibly cool!
How big is the piece? Whether or not you mount it might depend on a whole bunch of things, including whether it needs the structural support, needs mounting in order to be properly hung, requires some sort of physical protection from being touched or simply needs something around it that will make it feel larger without diminishing it's visual appeal. If anything, I'm inclined to go with a minimalist approach and mount it on an artists' canvas. Whether you pick on that doesn't extend beyon the periphery of the piece is entirely your call. I'd have to "audition" it in various settings before deciding....
Just my $0.024 (currency conversion)
- December 11, 2006 11:46 AM
- Linda Teddlie Minton said...
Ann, this is beautiful! If I were you, I'd mount and frame this piece, for two reasons ... framing it in a relatively large frame gives it "importance", and enclosing it behind glass protects the fragile shells.
I agree with you, Larkin's book is wonderful, and a must for any bead-and-fiber artist.
- December 11, 2006 1:07 PM
Hi Ann!
My immediate reaction is to frame it in a shadow box type frame-but I am torn. Because I also want to reach out and touch it, putting it behind glass would frustrate me.
Can you mount it in the center of a frame on a neutral fabric or even on a pane of glass, without covering the front of it? It is too luxurious to force our detachment from it.
Amazing work as always.
Love you
P.S. I read your revisited 9/11 piece.
Sadly, I couldn't watch the CBS special: I was overwhelmed and shocked by the amount of pain I still feel from the events of that day.
- January 21, 2007 11:39 AM


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Such is the way in which they receive the blessings showered by the orderings of the Almighty, that one never hears a Mussulmaun offer thanks to his earthly benefactor, in return for present benefits; but 'Shooghur Allah!'[8] all thanks to God! I was somewhat surprised when first acquainted with these people, that they accepted any kind of service done them with the same salutation as when first meeting in the morning, viz. salaam, and a bow. I inquired of the Meer if there was no word in Hindoostaunie that could express the 'Thank you!' so common to us in England? He bade me remark that the Mussulmauns return thanks to God whenever they receive a benefit from mortals, whom they consider but as the agents appointed by God to distribute His gifts. 'All thanks to God!' is repeated with every benefit received; and this follows every meal or cup of water as naturally, as to eat or to drink is preceded by 'Bis ma Allah!'[9]—In the name, or to the praise of God!
Amongst the many choice things I have gleaned from the work so often quoted in my Letters, viz. 'Hyaatool Kaaloob', the following, through my Meer's aid in translation, may here be inserted.
'Observe, ye faithful, there are five things most acceptable to God the Creator, from man, His creature:—
1st. 'A generous gift, made when you have the greatest necessity yourself for that which you give away.
2nd. 'All gifts that are free-will offerings of the heart, neither expecting nor desiring your bounty, should be rewarded, either by returns or acknowledgements.
3rd. 'To be most humble, when in the enjoyment of the greatest prosperity.
4th. 'To promote peace, when the reason for indulging your anger is most enticing.
5th. 'To forgive freely from the heart, when the power to revenge is present with you.'
You perceive a system of charitable feeling is inculcated by the laws of Mahumud; and in every-day practice it is found to be the prominent feature in their general habits. It is common with the meanest of the people to offer a share of their food to any one calling upon them at meal-time. I have seen this amiable trait of character in all classes of the people; and often on a river voyage, or a land journey, when the servants cook their dinner under a tree or by the bank of the river, if a dog, which they consider an unclean animal, advances within their reach, a portion of their food is thrown to him with that kindliness of feeling which induces them to share with the hungry, whatever gifts they receive from the Author of all good.[10] Except in seasons of famine, no one need despair of having sufficient to support nature, wherever the Mussulmauns congregate. I speak it to their credit, and in justice to their character.
[1] See p. 67.
[2] Known among Indian Musalmans as dasaundh, 'tithes'.


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A roadside bomb planted by the wall of a store that sells alcoholic beverages in the main thoroughfare of Mansour neighbourhood, western Baghdad was found by a police patrol and later detonated at 10.45 p.m. Friday under control causing material damages to the store.
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Abdulmajeed al Nuaimi, member of the incumbent provincial council in Mosul reported a strange object next to the outside wall of his home. When the Iraqi army responded, they found a roadside bomb, and were able to detonate it under control causing no damages or casualties.
Police forces found and safely defused a 5 km bomb planted by the outer wall of the mosque in Iblah neighbourhood, northern Basra, where Ali al Safi, one of the prominent representatives of Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani gives sermons.


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|Hungry Joe. Would you trust this face? Oscar Wilde did. BIG mistake...
It was not a merry Christmas for Wilde, who realised he was at the mercy of the 'bunko men' (sometimes called banco or bunco steerers) far too late, after he had lost over a thousand dollars in a rigged game of chance. Although he later recovered the money (bizarrely, Joe and his cohorts left the uncashed cheques at a police station), Wilde was badly shaken by the ordeal. He was petrified that the story would be leaked to the press. His fear was realised within days.
Wilde wrote home to England, frantic for cash to pay for his return ticket. In the meantime he tried, in vain, to avoid the many reporters so desperate for a story that they bothered him at dinner and followed him into his bank to interrogate the tellers.
Earlier in the year, I narrated a series of contemporary newspaper articles that tell the story of the scam for the Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 029 at Librivox.org, the public domain audiobook website. You can listen to the 10 minute audio clip by clicking here.
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Whose Line is it Anyway? reinvented for the twentyeleventyteens, though lacking a certain something from the earlier show.
Mostly what it's lacking is any feeling of spontaneity. The show may be called Fast and Loose, but it's neither fast enough nor loose enough; every game seems to be "you do your line, good, you've done your line, now you do yours", and there's no sense of performers bouncing off each other or ever taking a sketch in an unexpected direction.
Actually, even calling the rounds "games" is stretching the point. There's one proper game, and it's the undoubted highlight of the show: about halfway through the programme, "guest performer" David Armand comes on to do an "Interpretative Dance", acting out the lyric of a popular song in a highly literal (though frequently punning) manner, and two of the performers, having worn noise-cancelling headphones during the performance, are asked to guess the song.
In the end, it feels like everyone's so desperate to avoid WLIIA? comparisons that they're running scared of the very things which made that show so popular. And it's a silly approach to take anyway, because the lineage is so obvious that comparisons are inevitable, and not just from us. Sadly, we have no real choice but to end on just such a comparison, and here it is: compared to Whose Line is it Anyway?, this show isn't very good.


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Three Shaw football players signed Wednesday to continue their careers. Tayshune Davis is going to Union College in Kentucky. Both JaCorey Butler and Keith Green will play at Georgia Prep Sports Academy in Atlanta.
Shaw coach Kyle Adkins said Davis, Butler and Green all worked diligently on the field and in the classroom and that is how they earned the opportunity to continue playing.
Davis played safety for Shaw. He had 39 tackles and an interception.
"Signing today means the hard work paid off," Davis said.
He said he is ready to go to Union college and "take somebody's job."
Green and Butler hope to play well enough to move on to a bigger school after two seasons in Atlanta.
Green played offensive tackle this past season, It was his first season at that position, switching from defense. Adkins said Green graded at 89 percent for the season, very high for someone new in the role.
"I thought I was pretty good," Green said. "I want to get better."
Butler, a linebacker, had 80 tackles and two fumble recoveries.
"I have tried to lead by example, I want to continue doing that," Butler said.
Pitching three no-hitters easily explains why softball player Regina Falcon of Shaw High School drew the interest of Darton State College in Albany, Ga.
The senior signed with Darton in a ceremony in the Shaw auditorium Wednesday.
Shaw softball coach Laurie McInroy said that Falcon is someone who set a great example for the younger players both on and off the field. McInroy called Falcon a "gem."
"She represents Shaw in an outstanding way," McInroy said.
"I am looking forward to playing ball in college. I want to make a difference there," Falcon said.


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While Microsoft's Xbox Live online service has long supported various features related to your Xbox Live profile, those features vary from platform to platform. So it's no surprise, perhaps, that Xbox One expands on the profile features that were previously available on the Xbox 360. It also puts them up front and center.
The first change is immediately obvious: Access to your profile is now available directly from a new Profile tile on the default Home view in the Dashboard. With the Xbox 360, this stuff was buried in Settings.
When you select this tile, you're presented with the new Profile app, which provides a look at your activity feed—what your friends are doing on Xbox Live—by default. This app is very much like the People app in Windows 8, if you're familiar with that, but of course tailored to the activities that happen on Microsoft's game and entertainment service.
While the Profile app provides access to various Xbox Live features—your friends list, followers (new to Xbox One), messages, achievements and Game DVR (also new to Xbox One)—for today, we're focused on the new profile functionality. And if you select the top option on that Profile app's home screen—My Profile—you're presented with a new interface that lets you view and edit your profile.
From here, you can check out your reputation (new to Xbox One) and recent activity—that bit scrolls off to the right—and edit the following:
Presence. By default, you are shown as online and available when you sign in to the Xbox One. But you can appear offline to your friends, followers and others by selecting the "Appear Offline" option, much as you might in an instant messaging app.
Dashboard color scheme. Like Windows 8, Xbox One lets you choose a color scheme for the UI, and since this scheme is tied to your profile, you'll see it each time you sign in to the console.
Gamerpic. With the Xbox 360, you could make a gamerpic—an icon-like representation of your profile for others to see—from pre-made icons, your avatar or, for your friends, using a photo you took with an optional camera accessory. Xbox One turns things up a notch with much higher quality pre-made images, or you can make one with your avatar as before. Since the gamerpic you create on Xbox One is much better looking than the old ones ported over from the Xbox 360, you should consider taking a moment to make this change. (And there are hundreds of built-in images now, plus far more avatar-based customizations.)
Gamertag. Your Gamertag is the name that others see when they play against you or otherwise interact with you through Xbox Live. My Gamertag is my name—Paul Thurrott—for transparency's sake, but many people choose custom names of course. You can change your Gamertag through the Xbox One, as you could with the 360, and as before there's a $10 charge for doing so to prevent people from changing their names too frequently.
Avatar. While the use of an avatar has been somewhat deemphasized in Xbox One—kind of like Jar Jar Binks was "deemphasized" in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones—you can still access an on-device avatar editor if you wish to do so. I try to stay out of this area, personally.
Privacy settings. The Profile app provides this handy link to a set of features that are otherwise somewhat buried in Settings, and I recommend that anyone using Xbox One (or Xbox Live otherwise, for that matter) spend some time custom-tuning their privacy settings. There are defaults for children, teens and adults, but most people will want to step through Custom instead. There are many options related to what you can do and see and to what others can do with/to you and see what you're doing. Take the time to get this one right.
Note: You can also access profile settings by navigating to Settings and choosing the About Me tile. This Settings interface is another area where it's worth taking the time to step through everything: There are many, many options here and you'll want to ensure the console is configured properly for your needs.


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Bringing up Bates season 4 to premiere on June 02, 2016
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Summary and storyline
Bringing up Bates is a highly-rated American reality television show from the production company Figure 8 Films which is at the moment broadcasting its third season on the UP TV channel in the United States. The Bates family is a very large family that consists of Gil and Kelly Bates and their 19 children living in Rocky Top, Tennessee. The family first became known when they appeared on several episodes of the TLC reality TV series 19 Kids and Counting. Then they had their own reality show on the TLC channel titled United Bates of America which ran for nine episodes. Season 1 of their new reality show Bringing up Bates premiered on UP TV on January 1, 2015.
The reality series become UP TV network's strongest original series ever, so it came as no surprise when on March 4, 2015 it got renewed for a second season. Season 2 of Bringing up Bates premiered on UP TV in the US on June 4, 2015 and included 14 episodes. The highlights of the previous, second cycle of the show include Brandon's romantic engagement to Michaella in Washington, D.C. and the couple's plans leading into their just-announced August 15th wedding in Knoxville, TN.
Ratings, reviews and possible renewal
Season 3 of Bringing up Bates came out on the UP TV channel in the US on Thursday, January 7, 2016 at 9pm ET/PT and it is expected to consist of thirteen one-hour episodes. Perhaps, the most exciting event in the upcoming season will be Michaella's wedding (Gil and Kelly Jo's eldest daughter). Although, with nineteen children and a few grandkids life is always a one big and beautifully messy party at the Bates' household. The ratings of the current cycle of the show remain on par with the previous one, averaging around 0.3 million viewers per episode. It is very likely that the program will get picked up for another round. Meanwhile, come back to our website for the most recent news, or sign up for our notifications and receive an automated email when Bringing up Bates season 4 is announced.
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The Legend of Korra Recap: Missionary Work
Civil war brews and Korra is caught between two father figures.
Back in my teen years, I had friends who were a lot like Korra (minus the power to bend the entire spectrum of elements). Like the Avatar, they were hungry for spiritual understanding and fresh companionship. So they turned to the local church's weekly youth group, where investing a little belief provided a wealth of warm, fuzzy, do-gooder feelings.
But like everyone who slowly steps into the world of organized religion, Korra is about to hit a spiritual crossroads where casual religious expression doesn't cut it. At the end of episode two, her youth group leader Unalaq revealed an armada of ships docking on the shores of the Southern Water Tribe. "Civil Wars, Part 1" picked up seconds later, Korra looking a wee bit worried about her blind actions of opening the South Pole's "spirit portal." Unalaq, the man with all the answers, reassures her that all is well. "We have to protect [the South] from people who would do the spirits harm." Right.
Unalaq's "protection" involves waterbenders creating a frozen blockade across the ocean. No one can enter or exit, nullifying the city's trade industry and effectively transforming the Southern Water Tribe into a police state. He also gives Korra another mission: She must travel to the Northern Water Tribe to open a second spirit portal, which will allow members on either pole to travel to the other end of the world in mere seconds. It's essential to "unifying" the tribes, which sounds a lot more like forceful conversion when coming out of Unalaq's mouth.
The premiere episodes of Book Two blew through a ton of introductions and plot to plant Korra in a sticky situation. "Civil War, Part 1" slows down the pace dramatically to size up the big decision Korra will face in episodes to come: whether she can be a believer or a Believer. The latter is rubbing other members of the Southern Water Tribe, including Korra's father, the wrong way. He sees his brother's spiritual training as misguided and destructive. Korra can only regurgitate Unalaq's words with blind faith, praying that forcefully reintroducing spirits into the Southern Water Tribe is a needed move.
Korra and Unalaq's greatest adversary in the rebellious heathen department has become Varrick, the debauched shipping magnate who looked like simple comic relief in the premiere and now appears to be the Gaius Longinus of a scheming group of Southeners. John Michael Higgins still brings the laughs, lamenting cargos of stinky fish rotting away in his ships, but he's a vocal opponent with a pretty good point. Why is living "spiritless" such a bad thing? In response to the outcry, Unalaq gives Korra a piece of advice that won't win her any support: "As the Avatar, you must remain neutral in this conflict." And like that, two months worth of U.S. world politics headlines come flooding into Legend of Korra.
Books One and Two aren't expected to have connective tissue plot-wise, but the complexity of superiority, both overt and unspoken, continue to be an obsession for Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Last season saw non-benders and benders clashing; Book Two has Unalaq's religious righteousness as well as Tenzin's familial issues. As we learn during his vacation to the Southern Air Temple, many of his fond memories with his dad Aang don't include his siblings, Bumi and Kya. They weren't there for elephant koi riding at Kyoshi Island nor sand temple building Ember Island. Being Aang's only airbending son (Kya is a waterbender like her mother, Bumi can't bend at all) made him a clear favorite. As the trio dominate the episode's B-story, the instructor becomes the instructed.
DiMartino, who penned this episode solo, has an ear for the dysfunctional family dialogue that's especially humorous coming out of the mouths of these fantasy characters. After Bumi takes a nasty spill down the side of a waterfall, Tenzin and Kya go at it.
"You think you're the responsible one? Where were you when Dad died and Mom was all alone? I was the only one who packed up my whole life to be with her!" Kya screams.
"Says the girl who spent her life flitting around the world 'finding herself!' Tenzin snaps back.
Add a turkey and this is every Thanksgiving dinner ever. The three are searching for Tenzin's daugher Ikki but we don't have much of an idea of where or why she's gone. Which is nice — the characters are breathing and the scenes cut the parental figures down a notch. Newsflash: No one in reality ever has all of their life together.
With Korra's political woes — which veer dangerously close to Star Wars: Episode I "Trade Federation" with daredevil skill — Mako and Bolin find themselves sidelined for most of the episode. Their choice moments are snort-worthy funny; if their entire purpose this season is to demonstrate the hardships of boyfriend life, so be it. After Mako suggests Bolin "rips off the bloodsucking leech" that is Unalaq's daughter Eska, Bolin jabs him back. "I'm lucky you're so good at breaking girls' hearts." That'a boy.
The third episode caps with a bit of intrigue and action ... which may not be enough for adrenaline-starved fans, but serves the pressure-cooker scenario. After an intimate conversation with her mother, Korra worries that her father is behind an assassination plot against Unalaq. An investigation leads her to discover a band of Southerner kidnappers and snaps into action, spinning ropes around foes like Spider-Man and cutting her "father" off at the pass with a well-timed ice ramp. But it's not her dad. Unalaq's fear-mongering got the best of her and she walks back to her family's embrace in shame. They may not see eye to eye with her newfound spiritual drive, but they're not the enemy either. Except to Unalaq. They're definitely the enemy to Unalaq, who arrives in the final moments of the episode to call for Tonraq's arrest.
After months of living the youth-group lifestyle, many of my friends bailed from youth group and religion completely. Others stuck around and continue to practice to this day. A few found a comfortable agnostic existence between the two poles. With her father figure aiming to incarcerate her actual father, Korra is being tugged in both directions. As civil war brews between factions, the Avatar, a inherently spiritual being, may need to find that balance.
Odds & Ends
- Baby Rohan makes an adorable appearance early on in this episode. Part of me hoped for some indication of whether the newborn was an airbender or not. That doesn't seem to be clear but could have a major impact on all the familial drama. Perhaps we'll see Rohan let a powerful baby sneeze.
- "LAUGH AT MY HUMOROUS QUIP!" We all did, Eska.
- While fans love pointing fingers in hopes of being first to declare a "Big Bad," I'm not convinced Unalaq is our guy (even if he does sound like Emperor Palpatine when he says things like "Tenzin lacked faith in you"). We didn't see any spirits in this episode, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's Unalaq's endgame. It's not just about being a missionary for the spirit world, it's about helping an all-powerful spirit return to the physical world.
- Speaking to that, with the episode title going so far as to declare "civil war," how much will Unalaq's campaign have in common with the Taiping Rebellion? There's a can of worms for you.
- Where did Ikki wander off to? Obvious answer would be somewhere tied to Jinora and the glowing statue many believe to be Wan, the first Avatar. Judging from early looks at Book Two, all the airbender children may be taking a ride to the spirit world in the near future.


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Monday, January 7, 2008
Here Comes the Sun
Aten was the first asteroid found that orbits almost entirely inside Earth's orbit. As such Aten defined a new class of asteroids. Its semi-major axis (roughly the average distance from the Sun) is smaller than Earth's. In mythology Aten is the Egyptian god of the Sun.
Astronomers made radar measurements with the Goldstone antenna in 1995 to determine its diameter (0.9 km) and found that Aten has an unusually long period of rotation - nearly 41 hours.
4 comments:
- Edward said...
Very interesting...
From the title of this post "Here Comes the Sun" and the fact that the graphic shows the orbit intersecting with that of my favorite planet in our solar system, the Earth. I am hoping that it is on a different orbital plain. Have they determined the chances of the sun god making a visit to our planet any time soon? I am assuming that the answer is that it will not come close any time soon, but I had to ask.
Thanks for indulging me
- January 10, 2008 at 12:14 PM
- Scott Kardel said...
Aten's orbit is inclined almost 19 degrees. It has a Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance with our orbit of 0.1134 Astronomical Units.
That's around 10.5 million miles.
- January 10, 2008 at 12:27 PM
- BretSMK-F said...
can you tell me what approximate date your layout is placed on? I'm configuring a model of orbital patterns and I can accurately place Aten in my solar system if you know the date this picture is percieved... Thank you, please post back on bretshelmet.boggspot.com
- February 4, 2011 at 10:13 AM
- Scott Kardel said...
You can track Aten here:
- February 5, 2011 at 12:52 PM


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In May, Mayor Sam Adams took away oversight of the Portland Police Bureau from Saltzman, leaving the city's most experienced commissioner with just one major bureau assignment. Contrast that with Commissioners Randy Leonard, who has three bureaus, and Nick Fish with two.
More than five months later, Adams and Saltzman have hardly spoken. Saltzman, who still believes Adams acted vindictively, hasn't asked the mayor for more responsibility. Adams, meanwhile, thinks the workload is just fine and said he isn't considering a bigger role for Saltzman.
The upshot: Saltzman is finding side projects to occupy his time and said he wouldn't rule out a run for mayor, a notion he completely dismissed five years ago.
"It's not necessarily driven by Sam. I think
it's driven more by where I see myself and my experience here at City
Hall, the issues I work on," Saltzman said in an interview last week. "I
wouldn't rule out running for mayor. It's not necessarily a 2012
Saltzman is the first of Adams' potential rivals to tip his hand for the 2012 race. He emphasized, however, that he's focused on his fourth City Council term, which begins in January. He recently rehired Aisling Coghlan, his former chief of staff, to work part time helping him shape his agenda. Coghlan is married to political strategist Mark Wiener, who has advised both Saltzman and Adams.
Saltzman's main management responsibility is the Bureau of Environmental Services, a $300 million-a-year enterprise wrapping up Portland's most expensive public works project ever, the Big Pipe. He also oversees the bureau in charge of police and firefighter disability and retirements, which he acknowledges is one of the smaller offices. And he heads the Children's Investment Fund, a $12.5 million effort that he championed in 2002 to pay for dozens of youth services.
For a new politician, that might be plenty. But Saltzman, 56, is a trained environmental engineer who served five years on the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners before being elected to the Portland City Council in 1998.
"At one point he certainly had more bureaus," said Dean Marriott, director of the Environmental Services Bureau. "So you know he's capable of it."
"It seems pretty light to me," former City Auditor Jewel Lansing said of Saltzman's workload. But Lansing, who wrote a book on Portland history and politics, added: "I actually don't think it's that unusual for the mayor to give somebody a light assignment, especially if they're not on the best of terms. And one gets the impression that they're not."
Assigning bureaus is one of the mayor's major powers. The mayor can reward friends or punish foes, with certain bureaus or offices offering political headaches or clout. Firefighters are known to help campaign causes; taxpayers don't like increases in sewer or water rates.
When former Mayor Tom Potter took office in 2005, he took all bureaus and offices from city commissioners for six months while officials crunched the budget. Potter later resisted suggestions that he take Adams' beloved Bureau of Transportation to show he could flex mayoral power and put a then-rising Adams in check.
When Adams became mayor in 2009, he tapped Saltzman to manage the Police Bureau, a responsibility typically retained by the mayor. But Adams took control a year later, replacing Police Chief Rosie Sizer with Mike Reese two days after Sizer slammed Adams' proposed police budget at a surprise news conference.
Saltzman said he stands by his statements in May, when he called Adams' actions vindictive, and remains unhappy with how things played out. Saltzman said he hasn't asked Adams for more responsibility -- "It's his right and prerogative to assign bureaus or reassign bureaus" -- but would welcome the work.
"I'm always looking for more challenges; that's part of what we do here," he said. "I feel I have additional capacity."
Adams said he doesn't plan to review bureau assignments until after the budget process wraps up, which typically happens in the spring.
always looking and calibrating workloads and discussing with my
colleagues their wishes and desires of bureau assignments," Adams said.
"He hasn't mentioned (feeling underused) to me. If he would like
additional assignments, I'm sure he would raise that with me."
With his newfound time, Saltzman said he has focused on the recent opening of the Gateway Domestic Violence Center. He also played a role in the summer groundbreaking of the Miracles Club, a nonprofit serving recovering addicts, and the Bridge Meadows foster program.
"To the extent I'm not as tied down by bureau stuff, I'll be looking at other areas to pursue ideas," he said. "That's just kind of the way I've been."
Leonard, however, said Saltzman should ask Adams for more work if he's unhappy.
"I think that Dan has yet to take stock of the total situation that caused him to lose the Police Bureau," Leonard said. "So he is focused on what happened to him and has not yet taken stock of why it happened or taken some responsibility."
Leonard, an ally of Adams who oversees the fire, water and development services bureaus, said the mayor had no choice but to take control of the police.
Leonard said he thinks Saltzman may run for mayor, specifically because of his checkered history with Adams.
"I think Dan could run," he said. "I think Dan would be more likely to run if Sam was in the race."
Saltzman said he has never doubted whether he could handle the job but always dreaded the social responsibilities that come with being mayor. He said his priorities have shifted in the past two years, though, with his daughter now in college and Adams fighting to regain public trust in the wake of last year's sex scandal.
"That's probably when those types of issues started occurring to me," Saltzman said. "Again, not directed toward Sam, but recognizing at the time ... there was a possibility the mayor was going to resign, and would I be prepared to step up as a candidate for mayor?"
Saltzman said he wouldn't run if someone such as Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen, Saltzman's former chief of staff, announced his candidacy. "I would never do that, nor would he," Saltzman said.
If Adams runs?
"I'm not focusing on the mayoral election in 2012. I'm focusing on doing a good job," Saltzman said. "If those contingencies occur, then I would have to sit down and do a more honest soul searching to make sure this is something I would want to do."
Saltzman said his decision is months away. For now, he's focused on work within City Hall.
Earlier this week, Saltzman began shopping around a proposed ordinance to address concerns about sex trafficking. His plan would dedicate funding for victims, which would affect Adams' Police Bureau. Saltzman secured Adams' support on Monday.
Saltzman said it marked just the second time the two had met one on one since May.
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New steps to curb misuse of visit visas
Abu Dhabi, December 31, 2007
Abu Dhabi Naturalisation and Residence Department (ADNRD) plans to introduce new measures to curb the misuse of visit visas after it was found that most illegals had entered the country using them.
"A study of illegal residents who left the country during the amnesty period showed that most of them came here on a visit visa and chose not to go back," Colonel Nasser Al Awadi Al Minhali, director of ADNRD, was quoted as saying by Gulf News.
Some of them overstayed for more than three to four years. It is clear that these people did not come here to visit the place, he said.
"The person who is bringing someone on a visit should be able to financially support the visitor. We will also consider this factor while issuing visit visas."
Those wishing to bring close relatives such as spouses, children, parents, brothers or sisters on visit visas will be allowed to do so if they have sufficient income to support the visitor, he said.
"There is a proposal to introduce a refundable security deposit to ensure that the visitor leaves the country at the right time. However this is yet to be approved by the higher authorities."