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AIDS AND THE AFRICAN A CONTINENT'S CRISIS AIDS and the African
'Unless there is a fundamental change in behavior, there will be
no drastic change in the evolution of the epidemic.'
By Kurt Shillinger, Globe Correspondent, 10/10/99
First of four parts
JOHANNESBURG - Two million Africans south of the Sahara died of
AIDS last year, five times the number of AIDS-related deaths in the United
States since the disease was discovered nearly two decades ago.
But that is just the beginning of the devastation to come.
More than 22.5 million people in the region carry the AIDS-causing human
immunodeficiency virus. Of the 11 people worldwide infected every minute
with HIV, 10 of them live in sub-Saharan Africa. Half of all babies born
there are infected with HIV.
Five countries bundled together in southern Africa now form the global
epicenter of the epidemic. South Africa counts 1,600 new infections a day,
the highest rate in the world, while in Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and
Swaziland, one in four adults carries HIV. It is estimated that 90 percent of
those infected do not know it, and therefore aren't aware when they might
transmit the virus to their partners.
Within five years, 61 of every 1,000 children born in the five countries won't
reach their first birthday, the United Nations estimates, and by 2001, it is
projected that there will be 13 million AIDS orphans in sub-Saharan Africa.
Companies are overhiring to keep pace with AIDS deaths in the labor force.
The statistics indicate what few officials are willing to admit: that this region
faces a crisis of shattered mores, where sexuality is no longer guided by
traditional norms. In an environment where old rules have clashed with, or
been eclipsed by, rapid social change, African men are killing themselves -
and their women and children - with sex.
Hiding behind a historical reluctance to speak openly about sex, African
political and religious leaders have failed to acknowledge this deeper cultural
crisis at the root of the AIDS epidemic. And international experts, averse to
sounding judgmental or racist, tread lightly on the epidemic's behavioral
undercurrents. Behavior, consequently, has been narrowly defined as simply
having safe sex. But as effective as condoms are in stopping the transmission
of HIV, they do not stop epidemics.
"Without addressing behavior, the response to prevention strategies will
always be limited,'' said Elhadj As Sy, head of the United Nations AIDS
program for Eastern and Southern Africa, based in Pretoria. "We'll create
some results here and there, but unless there is a fundamental change in
behavior, there will be no drastic change in the evolution of the epidemic.''
HIV is transmitted primarily through heterosexual contact in sub-Saharan
Africa. The alarming spread of the disease has been fueled by larger factors:
rapid political and economic change, Westernization, migrant labor, poverty,
and gender inequality. Promiscuity, however, is quickly dismissed in Africa
as a racist term: code, in fact, for the myth of the black man's unbridled
But AIDS experts throughout the region agree that far too little is understood
about sexual dynamics in modern African societies. Important questions thus
arise: Why, for example, are teachers the third highest HIV-infected job
group in Namibia, after truckers and the military? Is a man who lives at home
but takes many partners abiding by traditional sexual norms? Why does HIV
spread fastest among youths, the age group most informed about AIDS and
"People don't want to do this research, so there are patterns of black
behavior no one wants to acknowledge,'' said Mary Crewe, director of the
Center for the Study of AIDS at the University of Pretoria. "They'd rather lay
blame on the apartheid past, which I'm not sure is right.''
Contrary to what infection rates in sub-Saharan Africa suggest, HIV is not
easy to contract. In a stable and healthy environment, the probability that an
infected man will transmit the virus to an unprotected woman is less than 2 in
1,000, according to World Bank figures. But it is easy for that risk to rise. A
person afflicted by other sexually transmitted diseases, which are rampant
across the region, is two to nine times more likely to contract HIV if exposed
to it. And if a man has 10 partners, and the partners have each had 10
partners, he's potentially been exposed to 100 people.
In addition, several socio-economic factors lead to high levels of casual sex
in sub-Saharan Africa, experts say. The region has seen serious upheaval for
decades, the past 10 years being among the most turbulent. Genocide in
Rwanda and the end of apartheid in South Africa caused the movement of
masses of people; porous borders, regional development corridors, and
political change have reshaped and extended sexual networks. Poor health
care facilities, meanwhile, leave many without access to quality treatment and
prevention, while high unemployment leaves youths idle.
"When you see such an epidemic as we have, it points to a very stressed
society,'' said Clive Evian, a South African doctor who helps industries cope
with AIDS-related labor costs. "HIV epidemics go with a package: an
emerging economy, transitions from traditional cultures into industrial
economies, high levels of other sexually transmitted diseases, and economic
stress on families.'' Among the factors fanning the AIDS epidemic, migrant
labor and gender inequities have perhaps been the most damaging.
Throughout the century, men from around the region were drawn or
conscripted to work in distant gold, mineral, and diamond mines. They left
their families behind in rural villages, lived in squalid all-male labor camps,
and returned home maybe once a year. Lacking education and recreation,
the men relied on little else but home-brewed alcohol and sex for leisure.
A man who makes his living deep inside a South African gold mine has a 1 in
40 chance of being crushed by falling rock, so the delayed risks of HIV
seem comparatively remote. Mining companies pay out $18 million a year in
wages to 88,000 workers in the pits of Carletonville, the center of South
Africa's gold industry. The wages buy, among other things, sex. Some 22
percent of adults in Carletonville were HIV-positive in 1998, according to
UNAIDS, a rate two-thirds higher than the national average.
"High alcohol and sexuality are symptoms of things going wrong on a big
scale,'' Evian said. "They reflect a kind of aggression, the sad social state of
the man. They have been thrown into horrible lives and become frustrated. It
would happen to any man anywhere.''
Most African women, meanwhile, live in poverty. They have little or no
economic control, and therefore virtually no say in sexual relationships.
"Women know they are in danger, but there is nothing they can do about it,''
said Lahja Shiimi, HIV/AIDS health program officer in northern Namibia.
"Men decide when to have sex, with whom to have it, and how.''
Physiologically four times more susceptible to HIV infection, women in the
region are contracting the virus at a faster rate than men, and at a younger
age. Most of the women who tested positive for HIV in Namibia in 1998,
government figures show, were in their early 20s, while most men were in
their mid-30s. According to the latest UNAIDS statistics, 46.7 percent of
Namibian women at rural prenatal clinics tested positive in 1996.
If mobility, migrant labor, and gender imbalance are conducive to the swift
spread of HIV, they also underscore the breakdown of social cohesion.
When truckers and miners go home, they take the virus with them.
Sometimes they infect their wives, sometimes women become infected
through sexual contact with other men while their husbands are away. Rural
infection rates are catching up to urban figures. The role men traditionally
played as head of the family has broken down. Boys grow up without
fathers. Wives are left impoverished and unprotected. A South African
woman is raped every 26 seconds, the highest rate in the world.
But socio-economic arguments about AIDS do not fully explain how sexual
relationships are changing as African societies evolve. Notions about
masculinity and fertility vary widely among Africa's diverse ethnic groups.
Health workers across southern Africa agree, however, that traditional
cultures had strict rules governing sexual relationships. Those codes have
broken down and nothing has replaced them.
"In our culture, having a lot of women is a kind of status,'' said Milka
Mukoroli, the HIV/AIDS coordinator at Rundu Hospital in Rundu, Namibia.
Under the old rules, "a man might marry two or three women, but he would
never stray from home, and the first wife had to be consulted about each
new wife.''
Now, Mukoroli said, wives never know about their husbands' other women.
Men take lovers furtively. Many traditional cultures frowned on premarital
sex. Today, older men look for young girls to take care of, seeking sex in
exchange for providing school fees and nice clothes, often in the mistaken
belief that sex with virgins can cure AIDS. Health workers say many male
secondary-school teachers sleep with their female students. A new study of
Carletonville conducted by the Pretoria-based Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research found that 60 percent of women are HIV-positive by the
time they are 25. Throughout sub-Saharan Africa, infection rates among
teenage girls are significantly higher than for teenage boys. Infected by older
men, the girls then infect boys their own age.
"Social pressure should be put on older men to avoid forcing or coercing
young girls into sex, or enticing them with sugar daddy gifts,'' a UNAIDS
study on behavior released last month concluded.
Changing behavioral patterns are not restricted to men, AIDS workers say.
Traditionally, women were not supposed to enjoy sex. Increasingly,
however, they are asserting their own sexual needs and priorities.
"Promiscuity is prevalent predominantly because heterosexual relationships
are changing,'' said Peter Schmidt, a German doctor serving as chief medical
officer in the AIDS-afflicted Ohanguena region of Namibia. "This is a very
sensitive subject and very difficult to tackle. So many dependencies in
African societies relate to sexual relations.''
The heterosexual nature of the epidemic does not rule out the probability that
HIV is also transmitted between men, but homosexuality is deeply closeted
in African societies and there are comparatively far fewer same-sex
infections, according to AIDS experts. Youths provide a compelling reason
to think differently about behavior. Across the region, young people have
been exposed to more education about HIV and condoms than their elders,
yet they have the highest infection rates. Knowledge about risk and condoms
hasn't slowed the epidemic.
A new study of sexual behavior among youths between the ages of 11 and
24 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa's hardest hit province, indicates why:
Young people are on their own in an aggressive and evolving sexual
environment without the communication skills necessary to negotiate the
function or frequency of sex in relationships.
Consequently, the social ills governing gender relations among adults
reappear among youths. Both men and women in the study said that
condoms threatened trust within the relationship. Most women said they
were powerless against male sexual coercion. Many from both sexes said
they would prefer abstinence or monogamy, but said peer pressure is a
strong influence.
"For young people, sex is a must to be taken seriously by their peers,'' said
Christine Varga, research fellow at the Australian National University in
Canberra, currently based at the Reproductive Health Research Unit in
Significantly, said Varga, who conducted the KwaZulu-Natal study, young
people feel increasingly isolated from the adults in their lives. Traditionally,
cultures included some mechanism for passing on the rules of sexuality and
intimate relationships to adolescents. Parents, however, never spoke to their
children about sex. Unmarried aunts or older sisters informed younger nieces
or sisters coming of age. Uncles and older brothers did the same for boys.
Now confusion prevails. Rural youths in particular "are much more likely to
evince attitudes that are a combination of old conservatism and new
sexuality,'' Varga said. They combine new attitudes like "sex is a must'' with
traditional mores such as "condoms are for prostitutes.'' The result is
high-risk sex.
From 1997 to 1998, infections rose 65 percent among South Africans
between the ages of 15 and 19. All too quickly, HIV is claiming another
"The way to fight the epidemic is not just with condoms. We have to change
mores,'' said Patricio Rojas, the World Health Organization representative in
Namibia. "Openness happened fast in Africa, and it happened wrongly.
There is no grooming of boys and girls as partners in a relationship, so sex
has no aspects beyond the instinctively physical. We have to create an
environment of normality again.''
This story ran on page A01 of the Boston Globe on 10/10/99.
© Copyright 1999 Globe Newspaper Company.


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While it seems like half the geek world is busy doing nothing in queues outside Apple stores (apparently they have new gadget launching today), the rest have got all excited about the future of Multi-Touch in the company's product line. Greg over at theyshoulddothat.com is obviously as greedy as I am, and wants an ultra-portable tablet, iPod, Cinema Display and iMac all with the touch-sensitive screen. Meanwhile, Crunchgear reports that a "trusted source" tells them that the refreshed MacBook line coming in October – which will be temptingly slimmer than current models – will feature Multi-Touch trackpads.
Apparently the same pinching, gesturing and other finger tricks that help to make the iPhone so intuitive will be similarly implemented on the MacBook trackpad, an upgrade that while not as impressive as a proper touch-screen would certainly be far easier to include.
My own concern would be the usability of such an addition. When you're gesturing directly onto an object on-screen there's a perceived sense of where you're touching as well as the gesture that is far more accurate than aiming at a mentally-mapped point on a trackpad. Try using a tablet PC compared to a standalone graphics tablet and you'll have a similar experience. Crunchgear's story is probably the most believable, but I can't help wishing that Greg's would be the one to come true.
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HOOSICK, N.Y. >> Take some opening match jitters and add a young team with only one senior and that equals a tough first match of the year for the Hoosick Falls Central School wrestling team.
The Panthers won two of the contested matches and picked up a pair of forfeits in a 59-22 defeat against Whitehall-Fort Ann on Tuesday.
Jake Pine and Nolan Foster won their matches, Pine a 10-1 major decision at heavyweight and Nolan, a fall at 4:56 at 132 pounds, the final match of the night.
The bout started at 138 pounds and Whitehall won the first two by pin, Jason Ashline over Logan Powers at 138 and James Rozell over Michael Bolognani at 145 to take a 12-0 lead.
Ryan Sanders was tech falled at 152 and Taylor Bacon was pinned at 160, making it 23-0. Whitehall earned forfeits at 170 and 182 before Bryan Thomas faced off against Brandon Bolster at 195.
Thomas trailed 2-1 after one period, but Bolster chose to start down in the second and he took advantage with an escape and a takedown, then racked up three back points to take an 8-1 lead into the third. Thomas started down in the third, but he turned by Bolster for three more back points before getting pinned at 4:40.
"For the first match of the year, you expect mixed results," said Hoosick coach Landon Nelson. "All [the heavier weights] are at a place where they should be, they can only can improve from here. They'll play a big role this year."
At 220, state qualifier Jake Gregory topped Devin Fitzpatrick, but the Panthers got on the board with Pine beating Logan Dudley at heavyweight.
Pine used a football-style takedown in the first and second period to take a 5-0 lead after one and a 10-1 lead after two.
"The plan was to keep it close in the beginning and get on top and work some back points," Pine said. "I ended up getting a takedown for bonus points."
Nelson said Pine worked a lot in the offseason to prepare for this winter.
"He has lots of mat awareness, he's worked hard and it's paid off," Nelson said. "Whitehall is a tough team, all physical, and we're young this year, so we're trying to get the young guys ready."
The teams traded forfeits at 99 and 106, with Whitehall getting the win at 99 and Gabe Fisher getting the win at 106. Hoosick Falls' Ethan Mattison earned a forfeit at 113 to make it 53-16, but Sam Richard was pinned at 3:28 by Tyler Martel at 126 pounds.
"Sam is up a weight class, he moved very well," Nelson said. "This is only his fourth year wrestling, he's come a long way."
Foster showed why he'll be a strong candidate for a state crown, thoroughly dominating at 132. He led 4-0 after one and 6-0 after two before sticking Jacob Moore at 4:56 for the final margin.
"I'm proud of the guys, we wrestled a tough physical team, now we focus on the rest of the season," Nelson said.
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Looks like Charmeuse or Satin, would put my money or Charmeuse as it looks quite light.11|00|0
Never heard of Charmeuse before, how did you know that?
I do a lot of sewing and have done dress making before and most women would often confuse silk with charmeuse!
In reply to your update - It is certainly not taffeta, that material is too crisp to be on that dress and wouldn't have provided that shine. I've worn satin before, quite comfortable, silky and floaty - very delicate though. I had a charmeuse bridesmaids dress before and it's quite durable, it's a blend which includes satin so it's not all that different, however it's more flattering on shaped clothes not so much floaty items.


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Dealing with complexity, the finite capacity of human mind, divide and conquer, abstraction.
Dealing with complexity is the essence of software engineering. It is also the most demanding part of it, requiring both discipline and creativity. Why do we need special methodologies to deal with complexity? The answer is in our brains. In our immediate memory we can deal only with a finite and rather small number of objects--whatever type they are, ideas, images, words. The ballpark figure is seven plus/minus two, depending on the complexity of the objects themselves. Apparently in many ancient cultures the number seven was considered synonymous with many. There are many folk stories that start with "Long, long ago behind seven mountains, behind seven forests, behind seven rivers there lived..."
There are essentially two ways in which we human beings can deal with complexity. The divide-and-conquer method, and the abstraction method. The divide-and-conquer methods is based on imposing a tree-like structure on top of a complex problem. The idea is that at every node of the tree we have to deal with only a small number of branches, within the limits of our immediate memory. The traversal of the tree leaf-to-root or root-to-leaf requires only a logarithmic number of steps-- again, presumably within the limits of our immediate memory. For instance, the body of academic knowledge is divided into humanities and sciences (branching factor of 2). Sciences are subdivided into various areas, one of them being Computer Science, and so on.
To understand Kernighan and Ritchie's book on C, the CS student needs only very limited education in humanities. On the other hand, to write a poem one is not required to program in C. The tree-like subdivision of human knowledge not only facilitates in-depth traversal and search, it also enables division of work between various teams. We can think of the whole humanity as one large team taking part in the enormous project of trying to understand the World.
Another very powerful tool developed by all living organisms and perfected by humans is abstraction. The word "abstraction" has the same root as subtraction. Abstracting means subtracting non-essential features. Think of how many features you can safely subtract from the description of your car before it stops being recognizable as a car. Definitely the color of the paint, the license plates, the windshield wipers, the capacity of the trunk, etc. Unconsciously the same process is applied by a bird when it creates its definition of a "predator." Abstraction is not 100% accurate: a crow may get scared by a scarecrow, which somehow falls within its abstract notion of a "predator."
Division and abstraction go hand in hand in, what one can call, divide-and-abstract paradigm. A complex system can be visualized as a very large network of interconnected nodes. We divide this network into a few "objects"--subsets of nodes. A good division has the property that there are as few inter-object connections as possible. To describe the objects resulting from such a division we use abstraction. In particular, we can describe the objects by the way they connect to other objects (the interface). We can simplify their inner structure by subtracting as many inessential features as possible. At every stage of division, it should be possible to understand the whole system in terms of interactions between a few well abstracted objects. If there is no such way, we give up. The real miracle of our World is that large portions of it (maybe even everything) can be approached using this paradigm.
This process is then repeated recursively by dividing objects into sub-objects, and so on. For every object, we first undo the abstraction by adding back all the features we have subtracted, divide it into sub-objects and use new abstractions to define them. An object should become understandable in terms of a few well abstracted sub-objects. In some way this recursive process creates a self-similar, fractal-like structure.
In software engineering we divide a large project into manageable pieces. In order to define, name and describe these pieces we use abstraction. We can talk about symbol tables, parsers, indexes, storage layers, etc. They are all abstractions. And they let us divide a bigger problem into smaller pieces.
Let me illustrate these ideas with the familiar example of the software project that we've been developing in the second part of the book--the calculator. The top level of the project is structured into a set of interrelated objects, Figure.
This system is closed in the sense that one can explain how the program works (what the function main does) using only these objects--their public interfaces and their functionality. It is not necessary to know how these object perform their functions; it is enough to know what they do.
So how does the program work? First, the Calculator is created inside main. The Calculator is Serializable, that means that its state can be saved and restored. Notice that, at this level, we don't need to know anything about the streams--they are black boxes with no visible interface (that's why I didn't include them in this picture).
Once the Calculator is created, we enter the loop in which we get a stream of text from the user and create a Scanner from it. The Scanner can tell us whether the user input is a command or not. If it is a command, we create a CommandParser, otherwise we create a Parser. Either of them requires access to both the Calculator and the Scanner. CommandParser can Execute a command, whereas Parser can Parse the input and Calculate the result. We then display the result and go back to the beginning of the loop. The loop terminates when CommandParser returns status stQuit from the Execute method.
That's it! It could hardly be simpler than that. It's not easy, though, to come up with such a nice set of abstraction on the first try. In fact we didn't! We had to go through a series of rewrites in order to arrive at this simple structure. All the techniques and little rules of thumb described in the second part of the book had this goal in mind.
But let's continue the journey. Let's zoom-in into one of the top level components--the Calculator. Again, it can be described in terms of a set of interrelated objects, Figure.
And again, I could explain the implementation of all Calculator methods using only these objects (and a few from the level above).
Next, I could zoom-in on the Store object and see a very similar picture.
I could go on like this, just like in one of these Mandelbrot set programs, where you can zoom-in on any part of the picture and see something that is different and yet similar. With a mathematical fractal, you can keep zooming-in indefinitely and keep seeing the same infinite level of detail. With a software project, you will eventually get to the level of plain built-in types and commands. (Of course, you may continue zooming-in into assembly language, microcode, gates, transistors, atoms, quarks, superstrings and further, but that's beyond the scope of this book.)
The lifetime of the project, cyclic nature of programming, the phases, open-ended design, the program as a living organism.
Every software project has a beginning. Very few have an end (unless they are cancelled by the management). You should get used to this kind of open-ended development. You will save yourself and your coworkers a lot of grief . Assume from the very beginning that:
Design for version 2, implement for version 1. Some of the functionality expected in v. 2 should be stubbed out in v. 1 using dummy components.
The development of a software project consists of cycles of different magnitude. The longest scale cycle is the major version cycle. Within it we usually have one or more minor version cycles. The creation of a major version goes through the following stages:
Time-wise, these phases are interlaced. Architectural design feeds back into the requirements spec. Some features turn out to be too expensive, the need for others arises during the design.
Implementation feeds back into the design in a major way. Some even suggest that the development should go through the cycles of implementation of throw-away prototypes and phases of re-design. Throwing away a prototype is usually too big a waste of development time. It means that too little time was spent designing and studying the problem, and that the implementation methodology was inadequate.
One is not supposed to use a different methodology when designing and implementing prototypes, scaffolding or stubs--as opposed to designing and implementing the final product. Not following this rule is a sign of hypocrisy. Not only is it demoralizing, but it doesn't save any development time. Quite the opposite! My fellow programmers and I were bitten by bugs or omissions in the scaffolding code so many times, and wasted so much time chasing such bugs, that we have finally learned to write scaffolding the same way we write production code. As a side effect, whenever the scaffolding survives the implementation cycle and gets into the final product (you'd be surprised how often that happens!), it doesn't lead to any major disasters.
Going back to the implementation cycle. Implementing or rewriting any major component has to be preceded by careful and detailed design or re-design. The documentation is usually updated in the process, little essays are added to the architectural spec. In general, the design should be treated as an open-ended process. It is almost always strongly influenced by implementation decisions. This is why it is so important to have the discipline to constantly update the documentation. Documentation that is out of sync with the project is useless (or worse than useless--it creates misinformation).
The implementation proper is also done in little cycles. These are the fundamental edit-compile-run cycles, well known to every programmer. Notice how testing is again interlaced with the development. The run part of the cycle serves as a simple sanity test.
At this level, the work of a programmer resembles that of a physician. The first principle-- never harm the patient--applies very well to programming. It is called "don't break the code." The program should be treated like a living organism. You have to keep it alive at all times. Killing the program and then resuscitating it is not the right approach. So make all changes in little steps that are self-contained and as much testable as possible. Some functionality may be temporarily disabled when doing a big "organ transplant," but in general the program should be functional at all times.
Finally, a word of caution: How not to develop a project (and how it is still done in many places). Don't jump into implementation too quickly. Be patient. Resist the pressure from the managers to have something for a demo as soon as possible. Think before you code. Don't sit in front of the computer with only a vague idea of what you want to do with the hope that you'll figure it out by trial and error. Don't write sloppy code "to be cleaned up later." There is a big difference between stubbing out some functionality and writing sloppy code.
Humility, simplicity, team spirit, dedication.
A programmer is a human being. Failing to recognize it is a source of many misunderstandings. The fact that the programmer interacts a lot with a computer doesn't mean that he or she is any less human. Since it is the computer that is supposed to serve the humans and not the other way around, programming as an activity should be organized around the humans. It sounds like a truism, but you'd be surprised how often this simple rule is violated in real life. Forcing people to program in assembly (or C for that matter) is just one example. Structuring the design around low level data structures like hash tables, linked lists, etc., is another example.
The fact that jobs of programmers haven't been eliminated by computers (quite the opposite!) means that being human has its advantages. The fact that some human jobs have been eliminated by computers means that being computer has its advantages. The fundamental equation of software engineering is thus
Trying to write programs combining human speed and reliability with computer creativity is a big mistake! So let's face it, we humans are slow and unreliable. When a programmer has to wait for the computer to finish compilation, something is wrong. When the programmer is supposed to write error-free code without any help from the compiler, linker or debugger, something is wrong. If the programmer, instead of solving a problem with paper and pencil, tries to find the combination of parameters that doesn't lead to a general protection fault by trial and error, something is badly wrong.
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Nice range damage.
Fast combo of damage.
Hard to cacht.
No mana problems at mid game and at late game.
Nice ulti to dont let enemy escape or to help team when you are far away.
Have a flash "E".
You can be mid, bot, top or even solo top!
Low HP that makes you 1 or 2 hit most of times.
Bad against tanks.
No Stuns, No fear, no silence...
Bad against Stuns, fears, silence...
Not easy to play.
Maybe mana problems at early game.
Why Item Build is like this?
Ok, first of all, The tear of the goddes, is in order to stay more time on line and most important of all, to be able of spamming spells without running out of mana. Then i pick the Jonian Boots in order to gain some cooldown reduction. Then i pick a hextech so i can have some more spell damage due to AP and have some Spell vamp so i can heal my self. Now i decide what i need most, or more cooldown reduction or maybe i need more spell vamp. If i need more spell vamp, i take the will of the ancients but if i need Cooldwon i take Nashor tooth begining with a fiendish codex, with the nashor tooth i get a nice cooldown reduction some nice AP and some useful attack speed. Now with all this bought i must decided if buying an archangel staff or the manamune(look what tanks are wearing and what your teams need for example) Now to end all, a rylai can be useful making your ulti stronger and letting you more HP so you can endure more in fights or you can pick a Tryniti force. A Lich Bane is pretty good too with this build.
I used this build for a long time and dont have much problem.
Why Those runes?
As marks, the better option i found was magic penetration in order to make more damage with "W" "E" and with ulti.
As Glyphs, I took Ap per lvl because at begining im practically ok, so its to make easier late game.
As seals, i take or Ap per lvl or cooldown reduction if i think i wont be able to take cooldwon reduction at begining.
As Quintaessence, i take the +5 Ap in order to have a nice ammount at beginning.
Yep, all masteries are in order to have more AP, Cooldown redution, Some attack speed, but most important is "The executioner" Which will make you a nice killer when enemies are running away from you.
How should i made the skills?
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I hope its pretty clear.
Summoner Spells? Why a Flash?
Yep, Even with Arcane Shift, i take a Flash which can make you escape easily against the enemy team if you combo with Arcane Shift. This is a must or you can take ghost too.
As second, i usually take Ignite, but in dominion Surge is a nice one too. You can take Clarity which will make your early game more easy but this will be a bit waste at late game. Exhaust is not a bad option too ofc.
To sum up, Your role play must be like a spell spammer wich will make the enemy's life going down, slowing his attacks ,dont letting them escape and ofc help team with long range spells.
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The groom figurine is winding up to pitch (how appropriate!) while the bride figurine is poised to swing her bat. After the wedding, the figurines will serve as a lovely decorative reminder of the special day, and I bet they'll continue to bring a smile for years to come.
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Cluster a bouquet of baseball-shaped novelty balloons filled with helium in the corners of the room, or create a whimsical arch of baseball balloons and pennants over the doorway of the reception hall, for the newlyweds grand entrance.
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Directed by Sudhir Mishra, 'Inkaar' stars Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh. It is produced by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures.
In the film, Arjun Rampal plays the role Rahul Verma who is a CEO of an advertising agency, KK & Doyle, in Mumbai and Chitrangada Singh plays the role of Maya Luthra who works for a small time company in Sola, Himachal Pradesh. Rahul meets Maya in a corporate function and gets impressed by her. Rahul offers a job to Maya in his company. Maya accepts the offer and moves to Mumbai to work in Rahul's Advertising agency. In time, the relationship between Rahul and Maya gets stronger. Maya gets promoted to the post of Chief Copy Writer in the firm. However, in a turn of events, Maya accuses Rahul of Sexual Harassment. Rahul, in turn makes a counter allegation that Maya used him for her benefit.
'Inkaar' brings together Arjun Rampal and Sudhir Mishra for the first time. Sudhir Mishra, however has already worked with Chitrangada Singh in 2 other films - 'Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi' and 'Yeh Saali Zindagi'.
It remains to be seen whether the On-screen chemistry between Arjun Rampal and Chitrangada Singh is able to weave its magic at the Domestic Box Office. - BTM (Bollywood Tadka Masala)


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The Big Mac: The Royal Member of the Hamburger family. Some sources state that a Big Mac contains up to 73 ingredients – and we are not talking about Beet juice for color…
Nonetheless I do have a soft spot for the cheap, fast, artery – clogging and fatty piece of lunch/brunch/dinner! Surely there must be a way to make a Big Mac healthier because looking at the list of ingredients one would think drinking a gallon of fuel is less toxic.
So, today the Quest for a healthy Big Mac begins, the only way to talk about an experiment is implying a Jury.
Meat the Jury:
1.Mathias – 33 years – Male – Loves Lamb Chops – Hates Pasta ( Yes!! You heard it right 😦 )
2.Buddy – 2 years x 7 = 14 years – Male – Loves Meat – Hates everything non-meat.
3.Me 🙂 -28 years – Female – Loves Cheese – Hates Salsify
To limit the number of ingredients I made the Hamburger Buns following a recipe from Smitten Kitchen. The Classic Big Mac :
"A double layer of sear-sizzled 100% pure beef mingled with special sauce on a sesame seed bun and topped with melty American cheese, crisp lettuce, minced onions and tangy pickles."
Here is the recipe for the Sauce: 1/2 cup of Mayo // 2 tbsp of Relish // 1 tbsp of Mustard // 1 tsp of White Vinegar // 1 tsp of Sugar // 1 tsp of Onion powder // 1 tsp of garlic powder // 1 tsp of Paprika I used as many Organic ingredients as possible ( 100 % pure organic beef, organic onion powder etc.)
PRICE: € 3.90 or $ 5.20 € 8.70 or $ 11.5
NR OF INGREDIENTS 73 37 (relish=15)
TASTE Mat 3/5 B 5/5 M 4/5 Mat 4/5 B 5/5 M 4/5
TIME 2.04 min 3h45
CONCLUSION: Buddy likes every Burger, Mathias preferred mine because "you could taste what you ate" and I shamefully have to admit that I thought my bun was too thick therefore equal scores but! the taste of the Organic Pure Beef was packed with flavor compared to the Big Mac.
In terms of time and costs I think it's worth having a Burger that you know how it was made and where it comes from… Sorry Big Mac. (this doesn't mean I will never eat you again 😉 )
Hope you enjoyed my first experiment!!
Some Funny Big Mac facts:
* Most expensive Big Mac : Norway
* Cheapest Big Mac: Croatia
* Fattiest Big Mac in Kcal is served in Japan


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Recipe: $1.00 | Yield: 4 Tablespoons (16 servings)
Homemade sausage in 5 minutes? It's possible! Well, sort of → easy Italian Sausage Seasoning to the rescue! There are a few posts on here about sausage soup and bolognese and homemade sausage, but I'm lying…just a little bit. Sausage requires aging and curing, and that is not something I do.
This post is here to clear it all up! I've been making sausage SEASONING (of various types) for the last couple of years. I love Maple Sage Breakfast Sausage for breakfast, but this Italian Sausage Seasoning mixture is perfect for…basically all other situations. If you live in Italy…or New Jersey…and you regularly hit up the butcher shop for high-end sausage, I'm sure this isn't the same thing. It is, however, a much cheaper (& probably healthier) way to get your sausage fix. And since it's a seasoning blend, you can add it to roasted potatoes (OMGyum), bolognese, lentils, roasted chickpeas, etc. Or when you're having spinach & eggs for breakfast, mix it in with the spinach for a totally meat-free awesome sausage flavor. It's awesome. Versatility, my friends.
You can also just make ground beef, pork, chicken, or turkey "sausage" with this stuff. Just mix it into the ground meat and cook it as normal. The earlier you mix it into the meat, the more "sausage-like" texture the meat will get. (Check out this awesome article by The Food Lab for more deets on that.)
As for the price. I generally assume between 5 cents – 10 cents for dried herbs & spices. This will become more accurate soon because I'm going to measure how many teaspoons are in a jar of spices. BUT that has to wait until I'm back in the states. So for this, you're getting 4 Tablespoons, which is probably something around $1.00. Sorry it isn't more accurate, but it's the best I can do right now. Also, if you'd like to use this for making soup or cooking beans, I recommend omitting the salt and adding it to the final steps of cooking instead. This way you can have more control over how much salt you use.
Anyway, it's a delicious seasoning blend and I highly recommend it. :)
- 2 teaspoons salt*
- 2 teaspoons fennel
- 2 teaspoons spicy cayenne
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- Combine all ingredients in a jar or small dish and stir well. Store in an airtight container. (Refrigeration not necessary.)
- To use: Stir 1 Tablespoons seasoning into 1 pound ground meat. Mix well and use immediately, or let rest for 30 minutes (up to overnight (in the fridge). Form into patties, or cook as you would any regular crumbled sausage. Alternatively, you can brown beef and sauté vegetables as usual, and add the seasoning during cooking.
Use 1 Tablespoon for 1 pound of meat.
It's also a delicious addition to potatoes, vegetables, soup, beans, rice, and more.


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- 29 years old
- Date of birth: Dec 22, 1985
- Date of passing: Feb 17, 2015
|Let the memory of Edward be with us forever
"Sleep well, sweet dreams, I hope you are with loved ones now. x"
"Who will I sing along to Mama Mia with? Or play Disney monopoly with? Who's going to play table top RPGs with me? There is no replacing you...you have left such a space in so many lives. My only consolation is the knowledge that you are no longer in pain. Sleep well, sweet dreams."
"Hope you've found the happiness and freedom you never really found here. Like to think you're reunited with your beloved seme enjoying a yaoi anime in anime heaven. Thinking of you so often."
"RIP Edward."
"The world is a little dimmer without you in it. Miss you, buddy."
"Not quite the same with you around."
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- "When I hear most music, I begin to analyze it rather than enjoy it and let it transform me as does the music of the masters. Brian Lutz writes that kind of transforming music. I keep thinking, did this young man write this?? Seriously?? I have not been this excited about delving into the language, colors, storyline, style of a composer since I was in college and told by a wise professor not to dare break the album seal off the Beethoven Ninth as "our freshman ears were not ready for it." We did it immediately. Brian has something to say that we need to hear, but maybe you're not ready for it?"–Joan Torbett, Violinist, Imperial Symphony Orchestra


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Cities silhouettes with splashes of of chalk and ink drops streaks landmarks. Cities : Kiev, Sydney, Amsterdam, Singapore, Berlin, Moscow. Font is located on a separate layer out from the city.
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Join this lively racket game for all ages! Two, Three or four players use solid paddles to hit a perforated polymer ball - similar to a wiffleball - over a net. It is fun and designed to be easy to learn and play.
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Hand blown Swedish glass vase. Bought at the Kosta Boda glass factory in Stockholm, Sweden. 6 inches. Weighs about 3 pounds.
My family went to Europe the year I turned 19 and at one of our stops we toured a glass factory.
In each country I had been collecting charms for a bracelet – Mother's great idea. This was totally my own: impractical, breakable and odd. I didn't have a house or even an apartment but I loved its weight and color.
A measure of that love is that I've managed to keep it intact through 13 major moves. (I wrote them down to count, ignoring little moves like the summer I housesat for various ballet dancers in NYC, trying to get a foothold myself.)
The vase is now displayed in the cabinet my sister gave me. You can see it sitting next to the conch. I would put it out where it could catch the sun but our dogs have very active tails and complete disregard for furniture – bumps while playing are part of the fun!


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The parent company of Lake Forest-based Del Taco will announce Thursday a major financial restructuring that involves the selling off of a key fast-food brand.
Nashville-based Sagittarius Brands, which bought Del Taco in 2006, is refinancing company debt and selling its Captain D's seafood chain to Sun Capital Partners. The latter is a private equity firm whose portfolio includes Boston Market, Souplantation parent Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp., Bruegger's and Fazoli's.
Under the restructuring, Del Taco will reduce its overall debt by about $250 million and operate under a new parent company called Del Taco Holdings. Goldman Sachs Mezzanine Partners in New York now owns a majority stake in Del Taco Holdings, which will remain headquartered in Lake Forest.
The sale price of Captain D's was not disclosed.
A new credit line combined with "a significantly lower level of debt" allows Del Taco to improve cash flows and invest in the business, Chief Financial Officer Steven Brake said in a prepared statement.
That investment includes sprucing up older restaurants and creating innovative menu items to keep the chain competitive, officials said during a conference call late Wednesday.
The door is now open for Del Taco to become a "more aggressive brand" in a tough economy, Chief executive Paul Murphy said.
In 2009, Del Taco had system-wide sales of $568 million and currently operates 287 company-owned units with 231 franchised locations. Same-store sales, a key indicator of a restaurant's financial health, have been positive over the last 15 months.
When Sagittarius bought Del Taco for an undisclosed amount three years ago, the Mexican fast-food chain had 461 stores in 13 states. Annual sales were at $335 million.
Del Taco plans to add more company and franchise locations in key markets. Currently, Del Taco's strongest regions include Southern California, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. The chain is expanding in Colorado, Michigan and recently opened its second location in Florida.
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