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LoL Vayne In-Depth Guide
LoL Vayne In-Depth Guide by Boyenn
my op.gg = http://euw.op.gg/summoner/userName=koning+boyen
A few things you want to consider before reading this wall of text :
Read my other "guide" first because you might not understand some terms used here if you don't.
I want to apologize for my English not being perfect, I'm a belgian guy and english is not my first language.
Most of the info here is aimed at players between high silver and low diamond. A lot of this info is useless if you're in bronze because it's not one of the first things you should be looking to fix. It might be a good read anyway so you can know what's possible or what's to come in higher ranks, but focus on fixing basic stuff first if you're in bronze. (map awareness, csing, skill shots,dodging skill shots,builds,meta champs, etc…)
Most of the advice given in this guide is really black and white. You shouldn't blindly follow this guide as the game is a lot more complex than it is displayed in this guide and there's often a reason why you can't just do what I tell you to. Take everything written here with a grain of salt and just have it in your head so you can notice your own mistakes and where to improve them.
Some of this info may sound obvious to you. But don't expect that just because you know it that you actually apply it. Every gold player knows that caitlyn has to abuse her range vs vayne, but little to none actually do it.
I still recommend reading this even if you're higher elo than me because there are some points in here that even master players barely apply.
I don't go in-depth on enemy/friendly supports as it would make it way too long.
If you don't agree with anything written here you can tell me in the comments and I'll try to take your criticism positively and maybe adapt the guide for it.
I don't go in-depth on runes/masteries (I just blindly take them from gosu) , I don't go in-depth in item builds (blade – pd for lategame, blade – ghostblade for midgame/splitpushing/chasing are the best options)
This is not your everyday guide, I go in-depth on some topics other guides don't even talk about. I recommend reading this even if you already main vayne/AD.
Do not only read the matchup section and think you're fine for that next game against that graves, there are many matchupspecific tips in other parts of this guide!
ADC's you want a synchronized last hitting scheme against :
- Ashe
- Cait untill your blade
- Draven
- Jinx 1-4
- Corki untill blade
- Kog whenever he has W
- Lucian 1-4
- mf untill blade
- quinn
- urgot
- varus.
- sivir on melee creeps
ADC's you want an asynchronous last hitting scheme against :
- Cait after you have blade
- corki after blade
- ezreal
- graves
- jinx after 5
- kog when he doesn't have W
- lucian after 5
- mf after you have blade
- sivir on ranged creeps
- trist
The new ashe is really difficult to lane against for vayne because of her guaranteed slow (no matter how small it is) making it harder to trade back + if you do trade back she'll do amplified damage afterwards. It's in my personal experience not worth trading with ashe at all so try avoiding this.
Get a synchronized last hitting state and hide behind minions to survive the lane until you get a good engage from your support/jungle.
You can look for the same errors pointed out in the average cait's game below, but the problem is that unless its level 3 errors ashe will likely still out damage you for a long time. I myself have quite a bit of problems on laning versus ashe. I win it about half of the time which is still really decent, but after kog my worst record. The new ashe is in my opinion vayne's most reliable counter.
Unlike cait ashe doesn't have a reliable escape though, so fighting with a lockdown support can easily net you a kill.
Cait has for a long time been the stereotypical counter to vayne because she outranges you.
This however doesn't mean that you should lose the lane ! in theory you have "won" the lane if you're only behind under 15 cs by 10 minutes, but in everything below diamond 1 it's actually really easy to straight up win the lane and kill her a couple of times/outfarm her!
In my upcoming cait guide (look forward to it in the upcoming 2 weeks), I will explain everything that a caitlyn has to do to win against vayne. After reading this you'll notice that doing this actually requires the caitlyn to play really well in order to win the lane.
Unlike ashe/kog who also outrange you, caitlyn does not outdamage you! This means that whenever she makes a mechanical error you can punish her for it and easily survive the laning phase.
I have to give a small overview about what the cait should do in order to make you understand when she makes the mechanical errors. Cait has a 100 range advantage over vayne, I'm pretty sure you still have to deduct champion hitboxes from this, but for the sake of explanation lets not.
This range advantage creates a sweet spot of 100 range where cait can attack you but you cant attack her. BUT whenever cait attacks you she stands still for a second allowing you to get a little closer (not 100 units tho). This means that a really good caitlyn will stay at around 600 range from you and permanently attack you, and since you cant clear those 50 units in the time it takes for her to autoattack, you cant trade her back. HOWEVER What happens after every hit is really important. Right after autoattacking caitlyn has to mimic the exact movement you do in order to be able to hit you again without getting hit herself.
This means that if you move back scared, she has to move forward. If you move forward to trade back, she has to move backward. This is referred to as autospacing by doublelift and it's just as important as it is dank. Whenever she fails this and you get in range she has to E-Q immediately to not lose the trade. However, caitlyn's mana pool is only so big that she's allowed to make this mistake only a few times.
Mechanical errors from caitlyn you should look for :
Level 3 : huge mistakes :
- Csing while in range of your auto's. it's worth missing a cs here just to AA-Q-AA punish her
- getting caught by your support(you win fights like these!)
- Getting tumble-stunned
- laning without her support
Level 2 : rather big mistakes :
- Getting pushed into tower. (you can harass her while she cs'es)
- a synchronized wave.(you get free farm)
- not E-Qing you when you get in range(keep trading until she does ,save tumble for her EQ)
- not punishing you for every cs you get in an asynchronous wave.
- Not trapping the bushes
- Moving forward after a successful hit on you(hit her back!)
- Randomly using Q to try harass without clearing minions (tumble it and be happy that she has no EQ pressure anymore)
- not planning her headshots.
Level 1 : mistakes even pro's have difficulties with :
- not mimicking you exactly(this is extremely hard).
- not getting an auto attack in without moving forward at 650 range(this will be explained in the cait guide)
Any Caitlyn player under plat will make tons of level 3 mistakes, and caitlyn players under diamond 1 will make tons of level 2 mistakes. Punish them for it if you're confident in yourself, or just thank them for the free laning phase. When beginning the lane , just scan her play at lvl 1-2, if you see she makes many of those level 2/3 errors you can just trade with her when she's not close to headshot with AA-Q-AA-AA… Never just randomly tumble in to her just to get your first auto off ! This is a bad idea for multiple reasons :
- If she auto – E – Q – Auto's you you're fucked.
- if she moves backwards when you tumble then land 2 hits on you when you move backwards as well you're fucked.
- tumble is a good way of dodging her Q
- tumble is useful for csing.
- you don't deal more damage than her when you don't maximize your damage output with AA-Q-AA.
After you have your blade you can force a fight easily onto her, its worth blowing a flash to stun her since you'll have an almost guaranteed kill.
Corki's passive out trades your auto's early game, this is why you want an synchronized lane against him until you have your blade, Baiting out his skill shots with your auto-Qsideways-auto is usually a good way to trade early because of the cast time on his Q stopping him from trading you back effectively. After you have you blade you should destroy corki every time he goes in for a cs , this is why at this point you should be looking to have an asynchronous lane against him. You usually want the lane to be around the middle of the lane so you can threaten him with all in's. corki out pushes you early and will probably go for the early level 2 , you need to be really careful of this since his level 2 is really strong if he plays well.
Easiest lane of your life, dodge his Q's with your Q's and out trade him whenever he comes in range. Asynchronous for this reason.
Draven is a really hard match up for you, his double axes will out trade you every time you go for a cs, this is why you want the wave to be synchronized so he has to focus on cs + pick up his axe at the time you cs. SYNCHRONIZING THE WAVE IS IMPORTANT IN MANY MATCH UPS BUT MOST IMPORTANT AGAINST DRAVEN if you don't synchronize the scheme in this lane you will get destroyed so hard even
deft imp rolling in the grass can't make you happy anymore. If draven gets one kill on you early the lane is over and he will snowball hard, there will be nothing you can do. But if you manage to stay relevant in cs until level 6 without getting killed you actually can start building up pressure
How to all in draven as vayne :
When you're level 6 you can actually all in draven as vayne if you play it well. You need to play it almost perfectly in order to win this trade though ! Draven's damage relies on whether or not he can catch his axes, so when you want to all in him you need to .
- Walk up to him and start autoattacking him
- E him about 0.5s after his 2d autoattack (this cancels his 3rd autoattack, and makes him unable to catch the axes from his first 2 autoattacks)
- tumble a little forward+ a little sideways to dodge a potential E from him while staying in range for your own autos.
- Keep autoattacking him until he dies / blows summoners.
This is even easier if he
- only has one axe spinning when you start
- has his E on CD
- autoattacks a creep with spinning axe (perfect moment to start the all in)
- your support also has a lockdown
- his support cannot lock you down
if you tumbled forward and he will E you and you can't dodge it you have to flash sideways to be able to keep the pressure up while not dying.
Kalista does terrible in early trades against vayne if she can't get enough stacks on her E or if her support can't land the W proc. the reason she wasn't mentioned yet is because you need a different mindset when playing against her, your biggest worry isn't synchronising. Against kalista you want to be able to stop her from autoing you, then autoing a 30% health creep and getting the 20 mana E with cd reset off. If kalista is allowed to do this a couple times you will get destroyed in lane (been there :( ). The best way to avoid this is only trade with her when there is no friendly creep at 30% health. you win those trade easily with AA-Q-AA ! Kalista wins most all ins pre 6 unless she gets locked down. but she should lose small trades against you so be looking for AA-Q-AA trades often (because kalista doesn't really have a skillshot (Q is neglible) you can use Q more often)
Twitch : I actually don't have much experience in this matchup, and I'm not sure wether or not twitch's E is strong enough in small trades to be scared of. if it isn't -> asynchronous, if it is -> synchronized.
It's a rather easy lane for vayne, but there's so much you can get out of this lane that people don't do ! The synchronising decision is a little more complicated than in most lanes because you want to synchronise the lane when she hits ranged creeps, and asynchronous when she hits melee creeps. the reason for this is if you last hit asynchronous when she hits your ranged creeps your more likely to get hit by her W (because W takes a while to get to you). If you last hit synchronized her W wont reach you before you can already back off and you avoid the poke. While she's hitting melee minions you want to trade her (so last hit asynchronous) because any decent sivir barely uses W against melee minions (because it hardly ever reaches the enemy adc). Always be aware of the position of the wave though, if the caster minions are in range of her W when she hits a melee minion you want to go synchronized again.
Trist just loves synchronized last hitting schemes against pretty much everyone, the reason is because she uses clearing to deal damage (trist E,trist E passive). If you're in a synchronized state with trist you are really likely to get hit by a few E passives because you are close to the caster minions to cs. Trist's E out trades you hard early but try baiting her to use it on you without getting any more autoattacks off, and then trade as soon as it explodes for effective trades.
When trist gets 6 she gets really annoying. you can't all in her because she will ult you away, followup with E – auto's and you're death. Don't underestimate how strong trists lvl 6 is. The only way you can win a 1v1 lvl 6 is if you come out of the bush and condemn her (she will probably still W ult and survive though). Janna is a really good support for this lane.
Jinx wins early levels 1-4 easily by pushing and abusing her Q range. What matters here is how hard you get poked down, try to cs when she has to cs and avoid as much early poke as possible. Be careful of csing while standing next to a low health creep because she can Q you to trade + cs! if you're not low health from lvl 5 on jinx and vayne do about equal damage in a 1v1 assuming you tumble her W so all that matters is how well you synergise with your supports. I often play vayne with janna in a duo queue and we use the shield uptime to trade 3 hits easily and start pressuring jinx like crazy. but this also works with other supports, kill pressure supports can go in on jinx because she has no dash, nami/sora/sona would have allowed you to trade earlier etc etc. So all you want to consider at lvl 5 is : is my support currently stronger in trades than their support and do I have enough health to trade? if so -> asynchronous, else -> synchronized.
keep in mind that its really easy to switch a synchronized lane into an asynchronous lane just by doing one extra hit ! Against kogmaw you want an asynchronous lane when he has his W down because you win trades then. But when his W is up he wins every trade so be careful and put the lane synchronized! If you get poked down with his W hard (you didnt back off right after he used it), you should never look to trade again untill you base.
a lot of the tips vs cait also apply versus kog, but just like ashe the problem is that he outdamages you anyway in lane. this is why you should only capitalize on level 3 mistakes and hope your jungler comes to grab that kog. You only win 1v1's if you come out of a bush he didnt know you were in.
A good lucian will be able to out trade you at many stages of the game, early game his Q + passive is really effective. Many lucian's will be looking to Q you through the minions and then use the passive to out trade you hard. You can however dodge his Q easily if you practice your reflexes for it with your tumble. If you dodge lucian's Q in the early game with tumble he will likely auto creeps with his passive instead, this is when you want to use the empowered auto from your Q on him and potentionally some extra hits to punish him for the missed Q. Overall you want a synchronized last hitting scheme against lucian 1-4 because your trades aren't as effective, but when he's trying to Q you through minions all the it's better to have an asynchronous last hitting scheme because this allows you to dodge his Q's better and make him run out of mana. After level 5 you can start trading with him because you have your 3 level's in W, this is why you want to start having the last hitting scheme asynchronized.
Lucian has a good antivayne at level 6 when you all in him because he will ult you then E backwards leaving you unable to damage him while he rapes you. This is why you shouldnt go all in at lvl 6 unless he makes a positional error or you can stun him. However you can still win small AA-Q-AA-AA trades if you dodge his Q with yours and wear him down untill he has to base. I personally think vayne has a really good laning phase against lucian.
keep his passive in mind , if he has many stacks on it it becomes really hard to trade, this is why after getting blade it's really usefull to freeze your lane against him because you can force trades whenever his passive is at 0 stacks. for this reason -> synchronized when full passive , asynchronous when no passive.
Keep in mind the trick posted below on baiting his Q with an auto and then tumbling backwards.
Tips/tricks on vayne :
- auto-Q-E combo. Three stacks of w, and no one can trade with that because of how instant it is plus it knocks you back.
- When trading early against lucian/graves/corki/… expect them to use a spell when you auto them. I like baiting this on purpose so I can tumble out of it (auto-Q backwards vs graves,auto -Q sideways vs lucian,corki)
- When you have finished one attackspeed item the fastest combo to get 3 hits for W is the relatively unknown AA-E-Q forward-AA. this way you cancel your E animation with Q , your auto with E and you get a quick auto reset after your Q. To pull this trick off you need to click your enemy accuratly while he's being knocked back from your E. This trick is nearly impossible on low attackspeed (try it in custom before ever trying in game as it's really hard.)
- When playing vs rengar(also works vs many other champions with gap closers) you can run away in the opposite direction to where they're coming from, and E right behind you all the time (in thin air , if you E thin air vayne won't start moving there) as soon as they use their gap closer it will get cancelled. This is really effective when you're not attacking and just want to run away. when you are attacking you want to use my other method right under this one.
- Everyone know that vayne has a weak laning phase. Yet I win my lane almost every time, this is because the reason that everyone thinks vayne has a poor laning phase is because of how poorly she is in small trades when she cant get her 3 W's off. This is true, but you'd be surprised how strong she is in early if you CAN get the 3 W's off. Vayne has pretty low manacosts compared to her pool, so doing AA-Q-AA-E in lane a couple of times can force a great trade with little to no reply.
- if you know you will get jumped on in a team fight by someone with a gap closer. (lets say you're fighting with their jungle shyvana, and you see an irelia coming in that you know will Q you). the best way to play this imo is right click shyvana, right click backwards, E irelia (EVEN THO SHE ISNT IN RANGE YET), right click shyv, right click backwards, E irelia right click shyv, infinitely. this makes it so that the moment irelia casts her Q to get in range she gets knocked back(doesn't even do the Q damage, and can't E you ! )
- You always want to keep track of the enemy support's exhaust cd timer. But on vayne it's even more important! Whenever the enemy support doesn't have his exhaust up, but you have your ult, you should be able to win a 2v2 !
- Never forget that vayne wins about every 1v1, even when behind! Wait in brushes you know they have no vision in when you expect their adc to soloclear the lane and grab that free kill to pull you back into the game!
- Actively look if it's possible to tumble and then stun the enemy as this gives you so much kill pressure.
- E is equal range of your auto, this means that to do the AA-Q-AA-E combo your last AA cannot be at max range because the windup will allow them to run out of your E range.
- If you have a support that's good at doing gromp or golems (janna/naut/sora are in my experience the best at this), abuse this to get level 2 early (ask for solo xp from your support) and start trading in lane with AA-Q-AA-AA
- If your jungler wants botlane to pull red(not golems), let your support help him and solokite the small golem for a bit of exp before getting to lane.
- I have mentioned before that you usually want to not use your Q to maximise damage output when the enemy support still has his CC spell up. But if you are really confident you can actually still do it by baiting their skillshot. The best way to do this is auto-Q forward-auto, move perpendicular to the direction you Q'ed in. The enemy support will likely use his skillshotCC spell as soon as you tumble and use it exactly to where you tumbled to. But if you expected this before you even tumbled you should be able to move sideways right after your tumble to make them miss that spell
- If you're kiting in a team fight and you're getting focussed a bit it might be best to use ult+tumble and then wait untill your stealth expires before you auto (autoing in stealth reveals yourself again).This forces the enemies to guess where you are going and gives your teammates some more time to peel for you.
- You can press E and then flash afterwards to instantly redirect the direction your E pushes the enemy to.
- You can walk one direction then ult+tumble in the other to confuse the enemy.
- Look out for scrying orbs and wards because they might fuck up the 1v1's your looking for bigtime!
Wave management on vayne :
If you've read my previous post. You might still be unsure a lot about where you actually want the lane to be positioned. I've thaught you all about creep wave asynchronisation, but the simple concept here is that you want to last hit when they do when you're weaker, and last hit at different times when you're stronger. This is a small concept of wave management, but we haven't gone undepth on where we actually want the wave to be!
BEFORE READING THIS: I won't go in-depth on how to manipulate the wave to where you want it to be.I'll briefly explain some methods when I feel like it , but if you want an in-depth guide on how to achieve that look up SoloRenektonOnly's guide. I will only go in-depth in how to decide where you want it in the first place.
There are many things to consider when deciding this. this is why I'll sum up reasons to freeze, reasons to have the wave in the middle of the lane, and reasons to push. You should make the final decision based on your own experience.
Reasons to push :
To make sure they don't get lvl 2 before you
You have a pretty strong level 2 spike with Q+W, if you get lvl 2 first you can abuse this by auto-Q-auto-autoing them when they're still level 1 and can't respond to this. This is a great scenario for you. However most ad's outpush you at level 1 and will look to use their level 2 powerspike on you. This is why your level 1 is really important ! Auto-Q-Auto a creep as soon as you get to lane to start pushing early. and try to hit the creeps as often as you can to deny them from getting level 2 before you. If they get level 2 before you don't go for cs and just stay in exp range untill you're level 2 aswell or you will lose your lane right there.
To base
If you plan to be the first one to base : The best sequence of basing is explained in my previous post and I advice you to read up on that. The problem with vayne however is that vayne pushes really slowly, so on vayne you want to plan your base 2 waves before actually basing. You gain about 130 gold per wave (if you cs them all + taking in account the amount of gold you generate over time), so a good time to plan a base is at around 1200 gold (you'll have enough 1500 gold after actually basing giving you cutlass+pots). The reason you want to plan your base 2 waves early is because you want to slowly build up a huge wave to go under their turret so you can still do the freeze thing explained in my previous post. If the enemy pushed out and will base before you : Push the wave out as fast as possible because you don't want them to come back with extra items and you being unable to base because the wave isn't under their turret. if they come back and you havent been 100% able to push the wave under their turret it's worth to take some harrass to do it anyway granted that you don't have to blow summoners or die for it.
To have a larger creep wave than they do.
This is most important against early graves,lucian, Kalista,thresh,naut,blitz,morg. If you have a smaller creepwave than they do they can usually all in you easily without having to be scared of your creeps. If you have a really small wave against blitz/thresh/morg/naut you're in huge danger of getting hit by their skillshot CC. Try always having a big creepwave against them so you can hide behind it. Blitz is the worst support in the game to be pushed under your turret against!
To allow a lanegank from your jungler.
Ganking bottom is usually really hard for your jungler early because double trinket allows the enemy to keep the side warded permamently. However if you notice that they are doing this you should push out your wave a bit and tell your jungler to gank through lane, this nets an easy kill.
To get dragon
You always want to push out bottom before you go to dragon because else you will miss too much for the time it takes to kill dragon.
To siege other lanes(mostly mid)
After you have won your botlane you should decide that it's time to extend that lead to other lanes. push out bottom, base, go mid , siege a bit, get scuttle, clear bot, siege mid, get red , clear bot, siege mid Keep rotating this so you don't miss too much farm while putting pressure on the midlane. This tactic is a lot harder versus waveclear mids like ziggs though.
Reasons to freeze :
Because you have a stronger all in
Vayne usually has a strong all in post 6 against most champions, and even stronger when you have your blade. When you have a stronger all in you want to softfreeze or hardfreeze the lane (difference will be explained below). This allows you to abuse your threat of an all in to win trades. Threat is bolded out here because you don't necessarily have to go all in to succesfully abuse your freeze. Going all in when you're freezing is really predictable, so they could have their jungle/mid coming bot to bait out your all in. This is always something you need to be careful about!
A frozen lane is the easiest lane to force synchronized or asynchronous last hitting schemes in
When you freeze the lane you basically pick when you want to last hit yourself because many of their creeps will not be under attack. This means you have the decision on when you want to cs. If you want to force trades you can cs asynchronous, when you don't you can cs synchronized.
To be safe from their jungle / mid /top tp
The only way their jungle/mid can gank bottom when you hardfreeze is through lane. A simple ward in the lanebush prevents even that!
To deny the enemy more creeps when they base
If you have no reason to base but the enemy does , you can hardfreeze the lane so that their minions kill yours before they come back and you deny them a lot more cs then you would've if you pushed it into turret (especially since vayne is a really slow pusher) Another advantage that you get out of this is that the enemy support usually has the habit of warding first before coming back to lane, and their ad will try to cs on his own , you can force a hard engage for this.
To full on zone them when you're ahead
If you push your lane while you're ahead and you have no other objectives to go for (their mid might be too good of a waveclear champ and dragon is down) you can freeze botlane and full on zone them whenever they come in
Reasons to have the minions around the middle of the lane
When you're too scared to push because of jungle pressure, but you can't freeze because their adcs wins all ins or can easily clear the wave.
Graves , sivir, corki early game are really hard champions to freeze against because if you do they will just clear your wave and then you have to cs under turret putting you under a lot of pressure, But you can't always push against them either because they either push quicker than you or you're scared of jungle pressure. The only thing you can do here is try to keep the wave in the middle of the lane as this is the safest option possible.
When you are unsure wether or not you win trades
If you're not confident in your matchup you can have the minions in the middle of the lane so you can do some small checks to see who's stronger and then later decide where you want the wave to be.
Reasons to want the wave to be under your turret :
You never want the wave to be under your turret because they can harrass you freely without you being able to harrass back + csing under turret is a lot harder than just csing in a normal lane. However there are just some moments where you have no choice but to cs under your turret and you have to accept this. Try to avoid it whenever possible!
Difference between hardfreezing and softfreezing:
Hardfreezing is keeping the minion wave right outside of your turret. This is most easily done by leaving 3 enemy caster minions extra up. it's hard to force a hardfreeze, but since enemies will always be atleast last hitting but usually using spells aswell and slowpushing the wave you can usually hardfreeze the wave whenever you think it's a good idea.
Softfreezing is grouping up the enemy wave a bit before allowing them to hit your minions, and then only last hit the minions, this will slowly push up the wave to your side, put the last hitting scheme asynchronous allowing you to get free harrass everytime the enemy goes in for a last hit, and doesn't deny you all ins because their wave is actually not huge enough to matter.
High elo players softfreeze the wave almost all the time when ahead because of how much of an advantage it gives you (try it!)
Blade – PD vs Blade – ghostblade
Blade – PD is a better lategame build, better for small trades and better for really long team fights while blade-ghostblade is a better build for splitpushing, 1v1, chasing, short team fights, early game, and cheaper. I personally like the double blade build the most right now.
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I'm a big fan of enterprise use of video as there is no other medium that provides the same value as video. Video is far more memorable than text. Studies show that one minute of video is equal to 1.8 million words. People remember 50% of what they see and hear vs. 10% of what they read. With that said, there are still many companies that don't have a strategy that incorporates video.
The Aberdeen Group recently released a complimentary report, "Business Class Video", that provides some excellent insights on how video is being utilized, what Best in Class companies are doing that differentiates them from the rest and recommendations for incorporating streaming video and/or video conferencing into your business strategy. You can download the report on their website, but here are a few tidbits:
- 100% of Best-in-Class companies can measure the ROI for their video solutions vs. only 36% of Industry Laggards being able to measure ROI
- Learning & Development departments lead the way in the use of video solutions
- Lack of organized strategy is the top challenge for companies considring business video
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In 1865, Henry Hughes, a timber merchant engineer, began building horse-drawn tramcars and railway rolling stock at the Falcon Works in Loughborough. His first company was known as the Hughes's Locomotive & Tramway Engine Works Ltd. It appears that he began producing steam locomotives about 1867 for the Paris Exhibition. His main business, however, was tram engines, which were lightweight steam engines (usually with condensers) and drew passenger cars, made possible by the Tramways Act 1870. Among these was "The Pioneer" for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway. Amongst the first steam locomotives built there was "Belmont", which ran on the Snailbeach District Railways, and three 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) gauge 0-4-0STs for the Corris Railway supplied in 1878. In 1881 the company ran into legal problems and in 1882 it was in receivership. In 1882 the company reformed as the Falcon Engine & Car Works Ltd. Production included tank locomotives for Ireland, Spain and the Azores, some subcontracted from other firms, such as Kerr Stuart. In 1889 the assets were taken over by the Anglo-American Brush Electric Light Corporation, which had been set up as the British arm of Charles Francis Brush's Brush Electric Company in America. It then became known as the Brush Electrical Engineering Company. In all, about 250 steam locomotives were built in addition to the tram engines, but this production finished after WW1. Being close to Derby, after WW2 the company retained its contacts with the railway and in 1947 joined with W. G. Bagnall to produce diesel locomotives. In 1951, the company Brush Bagnall Traction Limited was formed. When British Railways began to replace its fleet of steam engines, Brush entered the market for main line diesel-electric locomotives. In 1957 it and Brush Electrical Machines were bought up by Hawker Siddeley to become the Brush Electrical Engineering Company Limited. As part of Hawker Siddeley Electric Power Group it then passed to BTR plc and became Brush Traction. It is now part of FKI Energy Technologies (owned, since 2008, by Melrose plc). The locomotive works is still occupied by the Brush Traction Company and is in use for the building, overhaul and repair of locomotives. Locomotive production for Britain: Class 31 "Brush Type 2" mixed-traffic diesel locomotive Class 47 "Brush Type 4" mixed-traffic diesel locomotive (manufacture shared with BR) Class 53 "Falcon" prototype diesel locomotive Class 57 re-engineered diesel locomotive (rebuilt from Class 47) Class 60 heavy freight diesel locomotive Class 89 prototype electric locomotive Class 92 dual-voltage electric locomotive It also manufactured the Eurotunnel Class 9 electric locomotives operated by Eurotunnel through the Channel Tunnel. Locomotive production for export: 800 bhp A1A-A1A main line diesel-electric locomotives for Ceylon in 1952 (Sri Lanka Railways M1) 1000 bhp Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotives for Sri Lanka in 1981 (the M7 class) 1730 bhp Co-Co narrow gauge diesel-electric locomotives for Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 1963 Various Bo-Bo diesel electric freight locomotives to Cuba, Tanzania, Gabon, Morocco Battery electric locomotives to Hong Kong EF class heavy freight electric locomotive (New Zealand Railways) Class 18 shunter locomotives for Malayan Railways in 1978 Brush was also a major supplier of traction equipment to rapid transit systems, in particular London Underground and Docklands Light Railway in the UK, and to Canada and Taiwan. Traction equipment was also supplied to British Rail for various Electric Multiple Unit trains, the Class 43 HST diesel locomotive, similar equipment also being supplied to Comeng Australia in 1979, and the Class 56 and 58 Co-Co freight locomotives.
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The Italian phrase tirami su literally translates into "pick me up" which makes sense once you hear that this espresso laden treat was served to Venetian courtesans between romantic conquests to provide them with an energy boost! Ooh la la! (no that's French)
Actually, I haven't been able to find evidence to support this and it appears this dessert is of more recent times. Who cares! Is what I have to say! This dessert is too good to worry about who made it first and when…
Anyway, I have always loved this dessert and have a recipe for it that is quite easy to prepare and then enjoy!
My version has light sponge lady fingers around the edge with layers of the same cake soaked with espresso flavoured simple syrup. Then there is a filling made with mascarpone and cream with a few other ingredients thrown in for good measure. I'm salivating just thinking about it so I will get the recipe typed up as quickly as possible for you! PLEASE don't be deterred by how long this recipe looks… I have just spelled it all out step by step which makes it look a lot longer! It's absolutely worth the effort!
2 lb. 12 oz. Ladyfinger batter
9 fluid ounces Simple Syrup
2 fluid ounces Coffee or almond liqueur
1/2 fluid ounce Coffee extract
1/2 fluid ounce Vanilla extract
3 pounds Mascarpone Cream Mousse
Chocolate Ganache for decorating
Chocolate decorations, as needed
Ladyfingers are made from a spongecake batter that is piped into finger-length strips. After baking, these soft cakes may be eaten plain as a cookie or petit four. They are equally good when dried out in the oven, like biscotti. These versatile cakes are used to line the mold for a Bavarian dessert. For convenience, the batter may be piped close together to form a strip after baking and used to line a mold or torte ring.
3 ounces Cornstarch
4 ounces Bread flour
6 Egg yolks
6 ounces Granulated sugar
6 Egg whites
1/2 teaspoon Lemon juice
1. Sift the cornstarch and flour together.
2. Whip the egg yolks with 2 ounces (60 grams) of the sugar until thick and creamy.
3. Whip the egg whites until foamy. Gradually add 2 ounces (60 grams) of the sugar and the lemon juice. Continue whipping to soft peaks, then add the remaining sugar gradually and whip to stiff peaks.
4. Fold approximately one-quarter of the egg whites into the whipped yolks to lighten them, then gently fold in the remaining whites. Fold in the flour mixture.
5. Place the batter into a pastry bag fitted with a large plain tip. Pipe 4-inch- (10-centimeter) long cookies onto paper-lined sheet pans.
6. Bake immediately at 425°F (220°C) until lightly browned, approximately 8 minutes.
Ratio: 2:1
16 oz Sugar
8 oz Water
Place water and sugar into saucepan and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and allow to cool before adding flavourings.
Mascarpone Cream Filling
Yield: 3lbs
1 lb. 5 oz. Mascarpone , warmed to 105°F (40°C)
9 Egg yolks
8 ounces Granulated sugar
5 fluid ounces Water
1/2 ounce Sheet gelatin, softened
1 pint Heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks
1. Place the warmed mascarpone in a large bowl.
2. Make a bombe batter by whipping the egg yolks in the bowl of a mixer fitted with the whip. Cook the sugar and water in a saucepan until the syrup reaches the soft ball stage 240°F (115°C).
3. Pour the sugar syrup into the yolks, with the mixer running at high speed. Pour in a steady stream between the side of the bowl and the beater. Once all the sugar is incorporated, whip one more minute at high speed then reduce to medium speed and whip until the bombe mixture cools to approximately 110°F (49°C).
4. Add the softened sheet gelatin to the warm bombe batter. Stir until the gelatin dissolves completely.
5. Fold the bombe batter into the mascarpone cream.
Yield: 2lbs
1 pound Bittersweet chocolate
1 pint Heavy cream
1 fluid ounce Almond or coffee liqueur
1. Chop the chocolate into small pieces and place in a large metal bowl.
2. Bring the cream just to a boil, then immediately pour it over the chocolate, stirring with a rubber spatula to blend. Stir gently until all the chocolate has melted.
3. Stir in the liqueur.
4. Allow to cool, stirring frequently with a rubber spatula until the desired consistency is achieved.
1. Butter and flour two paper-lined full-size sheet pans. Using a plain medium tip, pipe half of the Ladyfinger batter into 4 disks measuring 7 inches (17.5 centimeters) in diameter.
2. To make the strips of ladyfingers to line the ring mold, pipe the remaining batter into ladyfingers 4 inches (10 centimeters) long placed close together so they join at the sides and form a strip the entire length of the sheet pan. Bake as directed.
3. Lightly oil and sugar 4, 7-inch (17.5 centimeter) torte rings. Place them on a paper-lined sheet pan.
4. Cut the strip of ladyfingers in half lengthwise. Trim the strips of ladyfingers on each long edge to fit evenly inside the ring molds.
5. Position the ladyfinger strips inside the rings, cut to size to make a tight fit. Place a ladyfinger disk on the bottom of each ring.
6. Combine the simple syrup, liqueur, coffee extract and vanilla extract. Moisten the cake with half of this syrup.
7. Divide half of the Mascarpone Cream Mousse between each mold.
8. Place the second ladyfinger disk in the rings and moisten with the remaining coffee syrup.
9. Fill with the remaining Mascarpone Cream, leveling it to the rim.
10. Refrigerate or freeze the tortes for 2 hours.
11. Remove from freezer and cover the top surface with a thin layer of chocolate ganache, or sprinkle lightly with cocoa powder to garnish. Remove the rings then decorate the tortes with chocolate decorations of your choice (I made roses from chocolate modeling fondant).
I made this fancy tear shaped cake by placing cardboard and heavy plastic strips in a large 14 inch round pan to achieve the shape I wanted. LOTS of tape and smaller plastic molds were used to get the shape right.
Original recipe source: OnBaking – Labensky 2005
I love your version. It looks amazing!
Thank you Reeni!! It was pretty yummy!
My favorite dessert!!! This looks awesome!
Thanks Raquel! Mine too!! :-))
superliscioustastic that's is how I can describe how I feel about this recipe
LOL… glad you knew how to spell that!! Well I hope you try it out and enjoy it! Would love to see yours when you do! Cheers :-))
wow yours look so pretty!
Thanks much pigpigscorner!!
That looks soooo good! I'm a sucker for dark chocolate and coffee.
wow, this looks fantastic.
There's a very real danger that I'd eat most of the components before I could assemble it into something as lovely as yours!
This must be coming from a fairy tale. Incredibly beautiful!! I cannot imagine or describe its taste. In Turkish, for such masterpieces, we say "Ellerin dert görmesin!", meaning May your hands healthy forever.
Thank you all for your lovely comments! I hope you will give this recipe a go… it's worth it!! Cheers for now. 🙂
wow what a nice cake . I love tiramisu :)) this is great!
Hi Snooky, I think Tiramisu is one of my absolute favourite desserts!! I must get over to your blog today and check it out!! 🙂
I was going to make a simple tiramisu for dessert this V.day. But nothing compared to yours. Yours look absolutely stunning.
Oh I do hope you make any sort of tiramisu… I believe it is one of those romantic desserts so suited to V.day!! Who can resist the combination of coffee and chocolate! 😉


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Kolkata: Dismissing West Bengal Chief
Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee`s criticism of Duronto
Express, Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee today said the
importance and success of the train cannot be diminished.
"Duronto Express has been a successful train and it
cannot be belittled by any criticism or ridicule," Banerjee
said while flagging off four EMU trains at Majherhat station
in southern suburbs.
She, however, said dedicated tracks were necessary for
smooth running of high speed trains.
"Train operation is not a matter of joke. Daily, 1.50
crore people travel by trains. Considering the importance of
the Indian Railways, there should be no hue and cry over petty
things," Banerjee said while referring to suspension of three
employees by her ministry in connection with the decoupling of
Duronto Express a few days ago.
"We take steps within the system for dereliction of
duty as negligence of duty is a criminal offence," she said
adding corrective measures had been taken for food served on
the trains.
Without naming CPI(M), she criticised political
movement to stall train movement, and said it was to be kept
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Monday, 5 May 2014
Good Morning from "not a morning person".
This morning I feel awake. I mean awake, awake. Before I go any further, I should clarify, this is not normal for me. I am NOT a morning person... really not. Those who know me well will attest to that. It usually takes me at least an hour and two coffees before you get anything more than a grunt from me. So this awake feeling is something of a novelty to me. I'm not sure where this energy has come from, but I like it...a lot.
My husband is in shock. He is not used to so much talking in the A.M, my new found energy has left him reeling. I wouldn't go so far as to say I could do some exercise this morning, but if this feeling awake stuff continues, I wouldn't rule it out.
So is this how other people feel in the morning? Awake, well rested and ready to do things? Why am I feeling so good? Perhaps this is to do with all that birthday cake I ate yesterday at that kids party I went to... Yep, I'm sure that's it, cake is the answer!
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Google's Waze Acquisition in the Bag
It didn't disclose how much it's paid to close the deal, but the Israeli paper Globes put the price at $1.3 billion
By: Maureen O'Gara
Jun. 14, 2013 08:00 AM
Google made its much anticipated move Tuesday and pocketed Waze, the Israeli real-time traffic map maker.
It didn't disclose how much it's paid to close the deal, but the Israeli paper Globes put the price at $1.3 billion. Bloomberg put it at $1.1 billion. Either way it's reportedly cash money.
Google said in a short blog announcement that the "Waze product development team will remain in Israel and operate separately for now." Waze reportedly has 100 people in Israel.
Facebook tried to buy Waze for a reported $800 million to a billion dollars in cash and stock, but negotiations supposedly broke down when it insisted the Waze folks move to California.
The start-up has an office in Silicon Valley where it has a small staff and where its CEO Noam Bardin is located.
Bardin said in a blog posting on Waze's site that "Nothing practical will change here at Waze. We will maintain our community, brand, service and organization - the community hierarchy, responsibilities and processes will remain the same."
He suggested that it would either get bought by Google or IPO and "Choosing the path of an IPO often shifts attention to bankers, lawyers and the happiness of Wall Street, and we decided we'd rather spend our time with you, the Waze community. Google is committed to help us achieve our common goal and provide us with the independence and resources we need to succeed. We evaluated many options and believe Google is the best partner for Waze, our map editors, area managers, champs and nearly 50 million Wazers globally. Together, we can accelerate our mission to outsmart traffic. We will continue to make a real impact on drivers globally, helping them save time and money while making everyone's daily commute a bit more efficient and fun."
No mention was made of a possible regulatory review, especially since Bardin said recently that Google was Waze's only competitor.
Google snagging Waze keeps it away from Apple, which proved it needed help finding Paris on a map when it replaced Google Maps with its own last year.
It reportedly offered $500 million for Waze earlier this year. Why it didn't close the deal is a mystery since it seemed to need the hot property.
The expectation now is that Google Maps with be enhanced with some of the traffic update features provided by Waze and Waze will get Google's search capabilities.
It'll also get Google marketing muscle and money.
Waze uses crowd-sourcing to direct users away from traffic jams, construction sites, accidents, detours, police speed traps and cameras on both Android and the iPhone.
It has 50 million users, mostly in the US and Israel, up from 36 million six months ago and 10 million at the end of 201. It makes money from ads.
Google called its community of 70,000 spotters and map editors "the DNA of this app" and said it would "ensure they have what's needed to grow and prosper."
Waze raised $67 million since it started in '09 from Horizons Ventures (11%), Kleiner Perkins (4%), iFund, Magma Venture Partners (17%), Vertex Venture Capital (12%), Qualcomm Ventures (5%), BlueRun Ventures (19%) and Microsoft (10%). The ownership figures come from Globes which went through the files in Israel.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014 The Greenfield Recorder
When a much loved family pet goes missing, one often thinks the worst, but hopes for the best. In our case, the best is what we got in having Animal Control Officer Jack Cavolick and Highway Superintendent Scott Sullivan on the scene.
After nearly 24 days missing, our beloved cat of 11 years was heard mewing; stuck in the underground drainage pipes of a heavily traveled roadway with no way out, and very little time left to live. Thanks to the caring hearts, determination and skillful strategizing of these two men, I carried my cat home in a state of euphoric shock and disbelief.
I am painfully aware of what was in store for our Gideon had these two not chosen to get involved. I am also aware of the time, energy, patience and professionalism they both displayed seeing this through in the grueling July heat. On behalf of our entire family, heartfelt thanks and appreciation go out to Jack, Scott and the Colrain Fire Department for being there to assist us. It is a privilege to be part of such a superlative community!
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"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably." –C.S. Lewis
This recipe is from Emilie. I have made it with whatever cheese I have available and it still tastes great. Original recipe source.
Serves approx. 6-8 as a main dish or 10-12 as a side.
- 1 lb. pasta
- 1/2 c. butter
- 1/2 c. flour
- 4 c. milk
- 6 c. sharp or white Cheddar cheese
- 1 T. salt
- 1 T. pepper
- 2. T. butter
- 1/2 c. Panko bread crumbs
Boil your choice of pasta (she used half a pound of generic macaroni) in water salted with a teaspoon or so of salt until al dente.
While the pasta is cooking, melt 1/2 c. (1 stick) of butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Sprinkle in 1/2 c. flour and whisk together for 2-3 minutes to let it cook.
Add in 1 T. salt and up to 1 T. pepper. Slowly pour in 4 cups of whole milk whisking as you go until smooth.
Grease a 9×13″ dish with butter and add the cooked pasta to the dish.
Over the top of the pasta sprinkle 6 cups freshly shredded White Cheddar.
Pour the cream sauce over the top of the cheese and pasta and let it sit a couple minutes to begin to melt the cheese.
Then, stir everything together and make the topping.
In a small skillet, melt 2 T. butter over medium heat. Add in 1/2 c. panko bread crumbs. Stir constantly until golden brown. Sprinkle over the pasta and cheese.
Bake in a 325 degree preheated oven for 12-15 minutes.


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The European Commission is ready to impose a fine of 2m Euros ($2.5m; Ł1.4m) a day on Microsoft. The Commission is expected to rule that Microsoft has failed to fully implement its 2004 antitrust decision. Under the ruling, Microsoft had to supply rivals with information about its Windows operating system.
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Huh? What are you talking about? They've been convicted because of their anticompetitive behaviour (as already happened in several other countries, USA included), they've been given a chance to amend their position, and they wilfully refused to do so. To pretend they're the "victim" is just absurd, I say fine them until judgement day comes if this is what they want.


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Wow!! Finally something is happening after all the hype and controversy about stem cells. This woman had her windpipe replaced using her own stem cells: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1860891,00.html
This is really a major breakthrough. Because her stem cells were used on the skeleton of a donar windpipe, her body won't reject it. No need for all those awful drugs organ transplant patients have to take to stop their body rejecting a donor organ.
I'm sure the drug companies aren't so happy, but it will be a good few years before this type of procedure is routine so they should have time to come up with something else to sell! However, both patients and insurance companies should be happy about this.
Just think of all the things that could be helped by this – repairing spinal cord injuries by regrowing the damaged nerves – would help with multiple sclerosis too. Maybe Alzheimer's and Parkinson's too by repairing the damaged brain tissues.
The other interesting point of this article is that the stem cells used were from the patient – her marrow. So no controversy about stem cell lines, etc.
Jan 19th:
News of another stemcell inovation – and by a Scot's company: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090118/thl-uk-stemcells-reneuron-8004a53.html
Notice the comment about not being allowed to do this in the US. I hope there is some good traction from this research and that it leads to more breakthroughs.


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This fascinating memoir illuminates their journey and how their world imploded. Ilina vividly describes their years at the trade union CMSS, led by the iconic Shankar Guha Niyogi, where Binayak and three doctors started a hospital and she organized workers' education, joined the feisty women mine-workers' struggles and discovered the rich local history, cultural and farming traditions. These experiences later found expression in Rupantar, their own NGO and when the new state's government sought their advice for its women's policy and for Mitanan, a precursor of the national rural health mission. Candid and deeply felt, the book celebrates Chhattisgarh but also laments the lost opportunity for its inclusive and violence-free development.
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Glen Gondrezick, the UNLV basketball Hall of Famer who received a heart transplant in September, died today at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, apparently as a result of complications due to the surgery.
He was 53.
Bonnie Griffin, a close acquaintance, said he died around 5:30 p.m. while waiting to be airlifted to UCLA Medical Center after becoming ill.
Gondrezick was one of the stars of UNLV's first Final Four team, averaging 14.7 points and leading the 1976-77 Rebels in rebounding. He was a second-round draft pick of the New York Knicks and spent six seasons in the NBA, two with the Knicks and four with the Denver Nuggets. His most productive pro season was 1981-82 when he appeared in 80 games for the Nuggets, averaging 8.3 points off the bench.
After he retired from professional basketball, Gondrezick returned to UNLV where he served as the Rebels' broadcast analyst for the past 17 seasons.
Gondrezick had been suffering from heart disease for nearly 10 years. He was placed at the top of the transplant list shortly after the 2008 UNLV basketball season and finally received a donor heart on Sept. 20 of last year. Although he returned to his broadcast duties and seemed on the road to recovery his health recently took a turn for the worse.
In a March 29 interview with the Sun, Gondrezick said he started feeling ill during the Rebels' final road trip of the season at San Diego State.
Since the transplant, he had been making monthly trips to UCLA Medical Center where doctors were monitoring his progress. Griffin said his next scheduled appointment in Los Angeles was going to be May 6.
She said she last spoke to Gondo, which is what his friends and teammates called him, at around 4 p.m. today. She said although he still wasn't feeling well, he was conversing freely with friends and medical personnel at that time and appeared to be in good spirits.
Soon after that, she said, his blood pressure began to fluctuate.
"It happened all at once," Griffin said, trying to hold back tears.
Former Rebels coach Jerry Tarkanian said he was crushed to hear of Gondrezick's death because the last time they spoke, he looked and sounded good.
"I'm just so devastated, so sad," Tarkanian said when reached tonight. "He was the most competitive guy, and the toughest. He'd take a charge on anything that moved. He was incredible."
Tarkanian said that while Gondrezick's legacy will be helping lead the Hardway Eight to the Final Four with his hard-nosed style and tenacity, he'll remember him more for another trait.
"We always talked about being loyal to UNLV, and Gondo epitomized that," Tark said.
"I just loved that guy."
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Thomas & Mack Center at UNLV.


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The African sun is just past its zenith and starting a slow descent into a horizon obscured by scrubby thorn trees. For Chief Israel Mokate, it is the measure of another day away from his ancestral home.
"I want to go back there," he says, his eyes squinting into the distance. "Our fathers' graveyard is there. It's our tradition for the old men to join them. I also want to rest there."
The elderly African chief takes comfort in the belief that there is a place of reverence waiting for him in the collective memory of his people.
His is a faith that has sustained countless generations of his kinsmen, a deeply spiritual union that links Africans, their forebears, and their land.
However, Chief Mokate's wish, sanctioned by centuries of tradition, to "sleep where our forefathers are sleeping" will most likely be denied him -- by a government that he had no part in choosing.
The government is, of course, the white-minority government of the Republic of South Africa. And its policy of apartheid, or racial separateness, aims at the political, economic, and -- insofar as possible -- physical segregation of the races in this African nation.
Apartheid invariably provokes worldwide condemnation. Much of the criticism, however, dwells on the more obvious aspects of racial discrimination here -- the segregated toilets, segregated buses, segregated neighborhoods, and segregated schools in South Africa's cities and towns.
But it is here in the rural areas of South Africa, in places like Rooigrond, where the overreaching design of apartheid is being executed with steely determination, in a manner that is ony vaguely understood in the outside world.
For, over the past 33 years, the South African government has uprooted between 2 and 3 million black people and placed them in impoverished rural tribal reserves. The people involved in this mass relocation were, for the most part, not consulted. Moreover, they have virtually no legal way to oppose what amounts to their own dispossession. The process is continuing even now, and constitutes one of the largest forced relocations of humanity in recent history.
The goal goes beyond the mere physical removal of black people from proximity to whites; the eventual aim is to denationalize them, stripping them of any claim to political rights within South Africa.
Chief Mokate is only one among the masses of black people affected by this policy. He, along with hundreds of his followers, was moved off land the tribe had occupied for generations and placed on a desolate plot of ground here in the far northern part of the country, near the town of Mafikeng (formerly known as Mafeking).
The South African government has plans to do the same thing to perhaps a million more black people.
"This is one of the ugliest aspects of the apartheid policy," says Gatsha Buthelezi, chief of the Zulu tribe -- another of South Africa's ethnic groups that has been dispossessed under the apartheid policy.
"Hundreds of thousands of black people are being shunted around as if they were inanimate things."
The ultimate objective: creation of an archipelago of isolated islands of black people, existing within -- and, according to some analysts, providing a labor reserve for -- a predominantly white South Africa.
"There are a lot of archipelagoes in South Africa," posits the Rev. James Palos, a Methodist minister in Johannesburg.
"What we're seeing is a massive system of social engineering," says Dr. Margaret Nash, an Anglican (Episcopalian) Church worker.
"They're creating a storage system -- for people."
Over the past several months, this reporter visited dozens of the islands to which tens of thousands of black people have been forced to move. More often than not, they are in isolated rural areas, far from South Africa's cities and job opportunities. They sometimes lack even rudimentary health and sanitation facilities.
In some areas, black families have been jammed onto tiny plots of land, forbidden to grow crops or raise livestock, and left to fend for themselves. Many times, they weren't able to. That is why one of the first things to be built in many of the relocation camps is a graveyard.
Virtually all of these islands have one thing in common: a grinding, wrenching poverty as bad as -- or, in some cases, worse than -- Africa's poorest countries.
Yet they exist within the borders of Africa's richest nation. Moreover, they exist because of official South African government policy.
A 1967 internal government memo clearly spelled out the guiding government attitude toward black South Africans.
It states, "It is accepted government policy that the Bantu [blacks] are only temporarily resident in the European [white] areas of the republic, for so long as they offer their labor there."
That statement summarizes the prevailing government viewpoint even now: that black people are useful in "white" South Africa as long as they are productive. Once they aren't, they should be removed.
The same memo described those people specifically targeted for removal. They are blacks who, "for some reason or another, are no longer fit for work or superfluous in the labor market . . . the aged, the unfit, widows, women with dependent children."
The results of that policy of removing "unfit" people are painfully obvious in places like Rooigrond. It is a community with abnormal proportions of the very young and very old, with a scattering of the disabled.
These are people like old Chief Mokate; like the 78 small children jammed into a 12-by-14-foot front room of a mud-and-dung hut used as a school; like the woman in a pink dress who wanders aimlessly around Rooingrond, loudly recalling the days when she worked as a maid for a white woman in a city. Her fellow villagers make polite excuses for her verbal meanderings; her mental condition has worsened since coming to Rooigrond, they explain.
Rooigrond offers a useful starting place for an examination of what is happening in many of South Africa's tribal reserves. In this article, and four others following it, this newpaper will detail just how the South African government goes about disposing of its unwanted black populace.
Details of what happened to Chief Israel Mokate's tribe, and how it found itself here at Rooigrond, must come largely from the tribe's members; South African government officials gave only a sketchy account when questioned on the subject.
Unlike the mid-1960s, Chief Mokate's tribe -- describing themselves as part of the Moroka clan of the Botswana nation -- lived a pastoral life on several hundred hectares of land (one man claims the total was 1,200) near the town of Potchefstroom, in the western Transvaal Province of South Africa. The area was known as Machaviestad.
"Our forefathers stayed there for a long time," recounts Chief Mokate.
"When the white men came, they found them there."
The "white men" were most likely the Voortrekkers, descendants of early Dutch settlers at the Cape of Good Hope, who thrust into Africa's interior in 1835 to escape British rule and claimed what is now the Republic of South Africa for their own. Today, their descendants -- the Afrikaners -- control the South African government.
It was this government that informed the chief that the tribe's pasturelands could be owned only by whites.
"These were people on badly situated black areas and black spots," explains M. T. Cilliers, director of land matters for the South African government's Department of Cooperation and Development. That, he elaborates, means they occupied "ground in an area which is not proclaimed for residency by blacks."
That statement requires further explanation. By law, every inch of South Africa's land is proclaimed to "belong" to one or another racial or ethnic group. Whites, who make up about 17 percent of the population, claim for themselves 86 percent of the land. Blacks, totaling 71 percent of the country's populace, are allocated only 14 percent.
This 14 percent is made up of scattered parcels called, at various times according to the government's lexicon, native reserves, Bantustans, homelands, or, most recently, national states. Government policy holds that every black South African is, in fact, a citizen of one of these reserves by reason of ethnic lineage.
Each of South Africa's 10 major black ethnic groups is assigned a particular "national state"; they are speckled across tha map of South Africa in patchwork fashion.
The government allows blacks to live outside these reserves only to take up work in "white" areas, and ever since the present National Party government came to power in 1948, it has striven to group as many black people as possible into these reserves.
Thus it was that Chief Mokate's tribe was uprooted from its traditional grazing lands and placed here on a 300-hectare (740-acre) site at Rooigrond.The tribe was told the move would be only temporary until a suitable new site could be found.
That, however, was 10 years ago.
"We were forced to come here," Chief Mokate says.
For the first two years, the tribe lived in tents provided by the Government. They did not build houses, he explains, because authorities assured them "they would give us land as big as that at Machaviestad."
Over the years several sites have been offered, "but the land was not good," says the chief.
So the tribe's 470 people remain in a squalid settlement of 44 corrugated-iron, wood, and mud huts. The only water supply comes from a windmill. The nearest formal school is nearly 11 miles away, the nearest hospital 12 miles.There are no jobs in Rooigrond, and no regular bus to the nearest large settlement.
The land itself is unpromising, strewn with rocks and thorn tress.
"It's not good land," Simon Makodi, a resident, says.
The tribe's slippage is chronicled in the slow depletion of its cattle herd, the traditional African symbol of wealth. When the tribe came here a decade ago , says Mr. Makodi, it had 250 cattle. Today it has 80.
"The grass is no good for them, so the cattle die," he says.
The process by which his people were dispossessed of their land is only vaguely understood by Mr. Makodi. He keeps a dogeared copy of a 1949 book, entitled "Native Administration in the Union of South Africa," in his small hut and sometimes consults it in an attempt to make some sense of past events.
It is an unrewardng exercse. Since the book was published, the old Union of South Africa (formerly a self-governing dominion in the british Empire) has become a republic outside the Commonwealth. And, the white-minority government insists, the reserve into which the Mokate tribe was moved has become an "independent country."
In 1976, this reserve for Tswana-speaking people -- originally seven parcels of land scattered widely over central and northern South Africa -- was proclaimed the sovereign Republic of Bophuthatswana. It is a "country" only in the minds of apartheid's ideologues, its independence recognized by no other country except South Africa (and two other reserves-cum-republics, Transkei and Venda).
In the South African government's view, that means that Chief Mokate's tribe no longer has South african nationality. Consequently, when the group petitions the South African government for relief, it is referred to the Bophuthatswana government. That government, in turn, disclaims any responsibility for the tribe -- and has threatened it with eviction.
In the meantime, white farmers have taken over the tribe's land at Machaviestad.
"I can't understand why they did it," Mr. Makodi says. "The government wanted our land, so they just pushed us out."
What has happened to the Mokate tribe goes to the very heart of apartheid. For as Francis Wilson, a labor researcher at the University of Cape Town, points out, "The heart of apartheid is dispossession.c
The physical removal of black people from "white" areas is "absolutely crucial" to the apartheid policiy, says Sheena Duncan, national organizer of the Black Sash, a white women's organization so called because its members sometimes wear a black sash to mourn repressive government legislation.
Therefore, she adds, the government "moves all those unskilled workers as far as possible into the Bantustans, where it eventually sheds all responsibility for them."
Some people see removals of black people as simply a way of insulating South Africa's highly developed "first world" economy -- centered on its cities -- from the "third world" backwardness of the tribal reserves.
Government officials argue that if they did not shield the cities from an influx of unskilled rural dwellers, the urban areas would quickly become ringed with shanty slums of squatters, and that could give rise to urban unrest.
But other critics argue that removals of black people go beyond mere protection of the urban areas, and suggest there are far more malevolent motives guiding the government.
"It is," says Dr. Nash, the Anglican Church worker, "a system of deliberate impoverishment."
Dr. Nash notes that the reserves are overcrowded -- and overwhelmingly poor. Indeed, over 97 percent of South Africa's wealth is generated outsidem the borders of the reserves.
Few black people are able to achieve self-sufficiency in them, Dr. Nash says. Therefore, the able-bodied ones are forced to take up migratory labor in "white" South Africa. And, she continues, their labor generates wealth for the white areas -- little of which is channeled back to the reserves.
"I see it as part of the whole process of taking over the means of production ," she says.
"This system [of migratory labor] generates wealth for the employer group, and at the same time assures the permanent servitude and debilitation of the black community."
The South African government, of course, doesn't see things that way at all.
According to J. L. Serfontein, director of political development for the Departmant of Cooperation and Development, "the crux of the matter" is the government's present policy "to have separate governments for each national [ ethnic] group."
Sometimes, Mr. Serfontein adds, black people aren't residing in the areas the government has set aside for their particular "nation."
But, he explains, "if you want to have a government ruling its own people, in their own area of jurisdiction, you must have a consolidation . . . of this particular area."
"And," he concludes, "as a result of that, you need to move people from one area to another."
"There is a kind of rationality behind the policy," concedes a white agricultural worker, who asked not to be nemed.
"It may be a twisted rationality, an inhuman rationality, but there is a rationality."
The South African government rarely attempts to justify removals on grounds that they are moral -- only that they are legal.
Indeed, they are. South Africa's treatment of black people is firmly entrenched in a bewildering array of laws, regulations, and decrees that control virtually every aspect of black life.
Some of those measures were inherited by the present Afrikaner-dominated Nationalist government from previous administrations. But the present government has promulgated a number of other far-reaching laws since coming to power in 1948. Armed with these legal instruments, it has set about separating the races in a manner that critics charge is unnecessarily harsh -- and unabashedly racist.
The Rev. Mr. Palos, the Methodist minister, singles out five particular laws as the "pillars" of apartheid. They are:
* The Population Registration Act of 1950.
This law set up a rigid system of race classification for every South African , legally dividing the populace into categories of white, Colored (mixed race), and native (African). (Other racial groupings, such as Indian and Chinese, were established by a 1959 proclamation.)
The act, along with subsequent amendments and regulations, empowers the government to issue racial identity documents. People requesting "reclassification" from one group to another are subject to humiliating physical examinations to determine their racial "purity."
* The Group Areas Act of 1950.
This act allowed the government to set aside residential areas for specific ownership or occupancy by one racial group. It forms the basis for South Africa's racially segregated neighborhoods. Enforcement of this law has forced hundreds of thousands of people -- most of them Colored and Indian -- to move because they lived in the "wrong area."
* Natives Land Act of 1913.
This measure created the "native reserves" that form the basis for today's "national states." Blacks are forbidden to own land outside these reserves and can reside outside them only with government permission.
* The Natives (urban areas) Consolidation Act of 1945.
The act declared South Africa's urban areas off limits to blacks, unless they have specific government permission to enter. This permission is entered in a small reference book carried by each black adult. The book is known as a "pass book," the various measures regulating black movement in cities as "pass laws." Any black person caught in an urban area without the requisite "pass" is subject to arrest and deportation to the reserves.
Since the Nationalists came to power in 1948, there have been 12 million arrests of black people for violations of the "pass laws." Fully one-third of the people in South Africa's prisons -- or about 33,000 people -- are "pass law" offenders. In most cases, their only "crime" was coming to a city to search for a job or live with family members.
* The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970.
This far-reaching law proclaims every black South African a "citizen" of one of the black reserves, regardless of whether he resides in these areas. As the reserves are declared "independent" of South Africa -- as three have so far been -- their "citizens" lose South African nationality.
These legal weapons give the South African government nearly total control over the movement of black people. And blacks, in turn, have few legal ways to resist removal to the reserves.
Many blacks are then left with a stark choice, says Michael Whisson, professor of anthropology at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. Simply stated, it is to accept removal to the reserves -- or be subject to arrest.
"They're offered a place in a resettlement camp," he says, "and there's nowhere else on the face of the earth they can legally live."
Tomorrow: How a white government "removes" its unwanted black subjects.


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Morning Five: 03.24.15 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on March 24th, 2015
- We aren't going to go over what happened last weekend because frankly you probably were sitting on the couch watching the entire thing. So that brings us to the Regionals which have plenty of intriguing story lines. In the East, we have a ridiculously wide-open field where we wouldn't be surprised to see any of the four teams advance to Indianapolis (ok, maybe North Carolina State would be surprising). In the South, it is pretty much all chalk except for UCLA and since they don't have an overseeded team or a Cinderella next so we don't expect they will be around much longer. The Midwest is basically Kentucky and a bunch of other teams that pretty much everybody expects to be pushovers although we think the Elite 8 game could be interesting. To us, the West is by far the most interesting region especially with a potential Wisconsin–Arizona match-up in the Elite 8, which could be a match-up of the second and third best teams in the country right now.
- Mississippi State will introduce Ben Howland as its next coach at a press conference tomorrow. The timing of introducing Howland as its new coach so soon after Rick Ray was fired makes it seem like this was either in place or essentially a done deal before Ray was fired. Landing Howland is huge for a program that frankly is a mediocre Power 5 program and that might be generous. There will be plenty of questions as to why Howland took the position so early in the coaching carousel when he presumably could have gotten a better position, but we would guess that it was because he was left without a spot last off-season.
- According to Gary Parrish, Alabama is set to offer Gregg Marshall over $3 million per year to try to lure him away from Wichita State. We are assuming that Alabama is at least waiting until after the Shockers are eliminated from the NCAA Tournament, but as we have seen in other cases that is not necessarily always true. Marshall was making $1.75 million a year at Wichita State according to the most recent reports we have heard so he would be making at least $1 million per year more not accounting for bonuses for performance and all the other ridiculous clauses they have in contracts to get more money (radio show, etc). With Bruce Pearl at Auburn, there is some pressure on the Alabama administration to improve their basketball program although we all know the fans of those programs judge success almost entirely by what their football team does. We will be interested to see if Marshall jumps at the chance to get more money and move to a Power 5 conference or if he stays at Wichita State with the possibility of even better positions (like Texas or Indiana) opening up in the coming weeks.
- President Obama has been more involved in college basketball (and sports in general) than most previous Presidents, but he has been especially involved recently with his call for student-athletes to receive guaranteed scholarships, but not financial compensation in an interview with The Huffington Post. While none of this is new–the Power 5 conferences are moving towards guaranteed scholarships and there is no official compensation–it is unusual to see a President speak about these issues. And as for his famous annual bracket, teams have started using it as motivation including Cat Barber who called out the President for picking Villanova to beat North Carolina State. It won't happen, but we wish we could see Barber get invited to the White House and try to explain that one.
- We found one championship that Kentucky won't win this year as the first men's college basketball national championship of the year was awarded to Wisconsin-Stevens Point, which beat Augustana 70-54 on Saturday to win the Division III title. They won't get much press for it, but it is the school's fourth title in 12 years, which is impressive regardless of the level of competition you are playing against. We doubt that this will get more than a quick highlight over the Final Four weekend (unless Wisconsin ends up playing for the Division I title) as they typically broadcast the Division II championship game instead, but it is still worth noting.


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Why become a Nurse in Australia?
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Here are some additional reasons why people are choosing a Nursing Profession these days:
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3. Recognition – Many people think that nurses are not appreciated enough but to the typical person, a nurse is a noble profession.
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There are plenty of nursing online courses available in Australia. The most popular being the Royal College of Nursing Australia. You can choose from a bridging course in Nursing, Postgraduate and even online nursing courses. The most common nursing course these days is the Bachelor of Nursing Online and usually runs for 3 years full time.
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