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Those of you who are actually interested, feel free to comment, criticize, and suggest any albums that you may have heard that I might have missed in any of the heavy metal or hard rock genres. Also, feel free to post your Best of 2010 lists. There are so many things out there these days, that I know I missed a great multitude of things.
I'm open to any listening suggestions!
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d61/Coffinwood_Mill/bullet-black.jpgAlso, if you are interested in other genres of music aside from those covered in this journal, feel free to visit my other journal entries covering the Best of Neofolk / Martial / Neoclassical / Etc.(link) and Indie / Misc. (link) in 2010.
Enjoy! :-]
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text: On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:12:12 +0930 (CST) firstname.lastname@example.com (Brett Lymn) wrote: > Bummer - is there any way around this? I cannot think of any way > around this apart from DVMA - oh for a Sun architecture ;-) Unfortunately, DVMA required support from the hardware. Wouldn't it be nice if you only had to do a little double-mapping to get bounce-buffers! (Note, the SPARC and Sun3 ports essentially require bounce-buffers for their SCSI controllers ... the DMA buffer must live in "DVMA space". The Sun hardware is designed such that the DMA controller gets the benefit of address translation provided by the MMU. No matter where the individual pages of the buffer are in core, the DMA controller sees one large, contiguous chunk. All that software has to do is provide the additional mapping and guarantee that the pages are actually in main memory ... kind of a neat design, I think :-) One way around this is to allocate, early during boot, a chunk of core, which is designated as "ISA DMA space". When sound card drivers need to allocate buffer space, they can reserve a chunk of this space. When it's determined that an ISA device needs a bounce buffer, the bounce buffer code can reserve a chunk of this space, etc. When a bounce buffer is done, it can release the space it reserved. A sound card would keep it forever ... or, maybe only reserve the chunk during open and release it at close. If no devices found during autoconfiguration need this ISA DMA space, then those pages could be freed and reused by the system. This might not be the best approach, but I will admit that I haven't spent much time thinking about the ISA DMA thing... I've been working on an "extent" manager (sort of like resource maps on steriods) which attempts to address the special needs of DMA applications and other sundry items like I/O port accounting. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason R. Thorpe firstname.lastname@example.com NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939

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How to remove comma before an String?
mySrting = bhanu,balaji,guddanti
i want output = bhanu,balaji guddanti
I'm new to java ..any suggestions will be appreciated in advance..
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How to remove comma before an String?
mySrting = bhanu,balaji,guddanti
i want output = bhanu,balaji guddanti
I'm new to java ..any suggestions will be appreciated in advance..
Have you checked the String API for useful methods?
use spilt function
The split function will turn that string into three strings. "bhanu" , "balaji" , "guddanti"
Gentlemen, I think String.replace() can be useful to him?
myString = bhanu,balaji,Guddanti
i need my output will be = bhanu,balaji Guddanti
i'm using jdk1.4 & pl/sql..actual output what i'm getting is select name,sno,sname,from stable
what i wnt is select name,sno,sname from stable
myString = name,sno,sname,from stable
i want my output like below
newString = name,sno,sname from stable(want to remove comma before from)
What determines which comma is to be removed?
Is it always the last comma?
Have you read the API doc for the String class? There are methods that will find the location of Strings and methods that will get parts of a String.
Find the location of the last comma, get the String before it and the String after it and concatenate them
What Norm said.
And to the other guys trying to "help", you'd be much better off pointing the OP to the API than offering incorrect solutions. Spoonfeeding is not helping, and usually it's wrong anyway.
@KevinWorkman, I agree. The OP doesn't want to browse the API, otherwise the OP would have completed the project by now. He wants to be spoon fed, which is why I offered no advice.
int index = s.lastIndexOf(",");
System.out.println(s.substring(0, index) + " " + s.substring(index + 1));
Wow. We're really impressed. What about spoonfeeding not being helpful?
I wish there was a face palm emoticon on this site. I bet it would be overused quite a bit however.
What do you mean spoon, this looks like a shovel's full.
The OP was very patient. Waiting long enough he didn't have to think or work at solving the problem (and maybe learn something), there was a show-off that came along and did his work for him


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Green River - Aint Nothing To Do
Aint Nothing To Do(Difficulty: undetermined)
This is one of Green River's more punk-ish songs. It's in standard tuning (EADGBe), and it doesn't use capos or anything. I'm pretty confident about the powerchords, but the solo's a little odd. If you have any questions, comments, correct (guitaretab.com)


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Two famous English crime trials of the 1930s are captivatingly performed with ominous curiosity and detailed clarity by Edward Lustgarten.
In The Brighton Trunk Case & The Blazing Car Chase the listener has the misfortune to meet both Tony Mancini, a low-level thief accused in 1934 of murdering his prostitute lover and stuffing her in his bedroom's trunk which he then used as a coffee table, and Alfred Rouse, accused in 1930 of picking up a hitchhiker and then proceeding to burn the car with the victim still inside.
Both trials received an enormous amount of press, and the two defendants were destined to very different fates. Recommended for historical true crime fans.
The Blazing Car Case
For this famous 1931 murder, Norman Birkett was prosecuting counsel. His brilliant attack in this complicated trial has been debated ever since.
© and (P)1976 Ivan and Inge Berg
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I love the style and the narrative. Cases of course were also interesting. Wish there were more of these series.
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My old high-school, Takapuna Grammar. It's an impressive looking building and despite the name is a public school for everyday people. Funny how in England they call "private" schools "public", I've never understood that one.
Monday, January 4, 2010
My local loop - The missing photos
My old high-school, Takapuna Grammar. It's an impressive looking building and despite the name is a public school for everyday people. Funny how in England they call "private" schools "public", I've never understood that one.
7 comments:
- coastkid said...
antonine whats the frame bag you have on your CC?...
be cool to see more pics of some of those old coastal defences...
having been hit twice at work with golf balls i dont recommend it!,imagine cycling on fairways here!..the gentry would have a heart attack!,ive been all over the course last week in the snow though on the pug!
- January 4, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- cyclotourist said...
Great posting and tour of the local route, although I'm sorry to read of your mother's death.
- January 4, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Antoine said...
@coastkid: Frame-bag is a Jandd. I mail-ordered it from the States with some parts when I was building the Pugsley. Good size and location for quick access to camera, snacks and phone with enough room for keys and a pump. It's handy on the Pugs because a seat-bag doesn't fit to well with a Thudbuster suspension post.
@CT: Thanks and thanks. It was 30 years ago.
- January 4, 2010 at 2:44 PM
- coastkid said...
looking for a bag like that for the KM and maybe use my epic design tankbag ontop,,want a bag leaving both bottle cages and ability to shoulder carry..will check it out..thanks
- January 5, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Antoine said...
@coastkid: You would have to modify the velcro closure at the top to use a tank-bag as it is one long flap that goes along the top tube.
- January 5, 2010 at 11:51 AM
- gnarlees said...
Antoine-You definitely live in a beautiful country. Love the pictures!
coastkid-I use the Jandd bag with an Epic Designs tank bag. It fits fairly well, didn't have to modify.
- January 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM
- Antoine said...
Thanks Marla. Auckland has some nice scenery for a city of one million and thanks for the heads-up on the tank-bag combo.
Glad you like the photos as it takes ages for them to upload, even at this reduced size.
- January 6, 2010 at 9:13 PM


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The system allows players to customize their champion before the start of the game by choosing from a number of Runes, which add or enhance champion abilities and statistics.
The player picks a Keystone Rune and five Secondary Runes that are then combined into a Rune Page. Each Rune has a significant effect, with Keystone Runes being more powerful (see below for a detailed description). The active Rune Page may be changed before each match; pages can be edited freely outside of matches.
It is not possible to enter a match without an active, valid rune page. The game will provide a pre-constructed page for the player if the selected rune page is not valid.
Sobered by the threat of annihilation, Ryze and his mentor manage to convince many of the World Rune's holders into sealing their World Runes beyond the reach of man. But many refused. After the death of his mentor, it fell to Ryze to continue the quest with only an ancient scroll for guidance.
Forward to the present day, the World Runes have begun to emerge once more, and the world has forgotten the price of wielding them.
Summoners may choose two Paths: one Primary and one Secondary. You may not pick the same path twice. There are five paths to choose from:
- Precision (Improved attacks and sustained damage)
- Domination (Burst damage and target access)
- Sorcery (Empowered abilities and resource manipulation)
- Resolve (Durability and crowd control)
- Inspiration (Creative tools and rule bending)
The Primary Path has one Keystone slot and 3 Lesser slots, while the the Secondary Path has a choice of 2 of the 3 Lesser slots. Each individual slot provides a unique selection of runes, similar to the branches of the former Mastery trees, but you can only chose 1 rune out of each horizontal segment. You also gain an additional bonus based on the combination of your paths, referred to as a Set Bonus or Trait.
|Slot 1
|Slot 2
|Slot 3
Precision Edit
Become a Legend
Domination Edit
Hunt and Eliminate Prey
Sorcery Edit
Unleash Destruction
Resolve Edit
Live Forever
Inspiration Edit
Outwit Mere Mortals
Set BonusesThe Set Bonus is an additional passive based on the combination of your chosen paths, although not all combinations have distinct effects. The set's Title is currently only used within the in-game client, with the passive being unnamed when viewed within the out-of-game Rune Inventory.
|Secondary ►
|Primary ▼
|The Merciless Elite
|The Brazen Prefect
|The Eternal Champion
|The Savant
|The Twisted Surgeon
|The Aether Blade
|The Immortal Butcher
|The Wicked Maestro
|The Incontestable Spellslinger
|The Calamity
|The Ancient One
|The Cryptic
|The Imperious Behemoth
|The Leviathan
|The Arcane Colossus
|The Enlightened Titan
|The Elegant Duelist
|The Ruthless Visionary
|The Stargazer
|The Timeless
The following substitutions will automatically be made where applicable:
- On modes without the river, is exchanged with .
- On modes where wards are disabled, is exchanged with .
- On modes without minions, is exchanged with .
- On modes without structures or structures are impervious, is exchanged with .
- On champions without mana or energy, is exchanged with .
- On champions without mana, is exchanged with .
- On champions without immobilizing effects, is exchanged with .
- On
- is exchanged with .
- is exchanged with .
- On and , is exchanged with .
- On Ascension, is exchanged with .
- On ARURF:
- is exchanged with .
- is exchanged with .
- is exchanged with .
- is exchanged with .
- is exchanged with .
- is exchanged with .
- is exchanged with .
- This list may be incomplete.
These substitutions are noted in chat when the game starts.
Rune Pages
All accounts have access to 5 Preset Pages from level 1 that cannot be edited. Players can begin creating/editing rune pages at summoner level 11, but are limited to only editing the keystone rune. Starting at level 13 they can edit their primary rune path and at level 15 they unlock the secondary path aswell and can therefore customize the full rune page. The ability to hide Preset Pages was added in V7.23.
As with the previous system, accounts begin with 2 slots for personalized rune pages and may purchase the convenience of additional pages in the store for 590 or 6300. Any Rune Pages the player owned in the previous system were transferred across to the new system, in addition to the compensation received.
In the former system there was a limit of maximum 20 rune pages per account, but this is no longer true. The current limit is 25 Rune Pages as of Patch V7.22. The presets are not counted toward the limit.
- Presets and Example
Compensation for legacy Rune purchases
Note that IP and Blue Essence are being merged into a single currency in Season Eight. [4][5]
Players who bought any legacy Runes or Rune Pages in the retired system receive a compensation according to the following table. This is only relevant for accounts created before the introduction of Runes Reforged in fall 2017.
To spend all that compensation on, there has been a substantial Blue Essence Blue Essence Sale as part of the End of Season Event.
- During development, Precision and Sorcery were originally going to be Primary-only. [6]
- Runes and their surrounding areas have distinct visual appearances similar to Runeterran factions, which may be intentional and reflect the real-world location of the World Runes:
- The following statements generalize the changes made to compensate the loss of AD from Marks and Health/Armor from Seals, which were almost unanimously used due to the lack of options (and thus the game has been balanced, for example, around most champions having +9 Armor from Seals). The exact values may vary for specific cases, as Riot also took this opportunity to better distinguish classes (e.g. tanks from non-tanks; ranged from melee), as well as buff/nerf specific champions.
- AD champions had the base damage on their abilities increased by 5.
- Most champions had their base armor increased by 9.
- Every rune that gives bonus Adaptive AD or AP, will always grant about 60% of the amount of AP as AD, or about 166.6% of the amount of AD as AP.
- Riot has stated that they already have a number of additional runes in the works that will not be finished before the initial release.
- Players may also see additional paths in the future, although none are currently in development and they would not be added outside of the mid- or pre-season patch.
- There are 48600 possible rune combinations, factoring that:
- There are 20 possible combinations of the 5 Rune Paths, of which 8 are with Resolve.
- There are 81 possible combinations of primary runes, other than Resolve with 108.
- There are 27 possible combinations of secondary runes, other than Resolve with 33.
- Full math: 81 × 27 × 12 + 81 × 33 × 4 + 108 × 27 × 4 = 48600
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Patch History
Future changes will only be documented on the respective rune's page.
- General
- Added to the live servers.
- Base damage changed to 35 - 105 (based on level) from 40 / 52 / 64 / 76 / 88 / 100.
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 40% bonus AD from 35%.
- Removed: Triggering the healing yourself.
- Bug Fix: The first loan wasn't suppose to be free.
- The previous bug where Lethal Tempo was removing the attack speed cap is in effect.
- Editor Note - Undocumented Feature Discovered: The received is actually a knock-off.
- Bonus movement speed reduced to 15% - 40% (based on level) from 20% - 50% (based on level).
- Damage type changed to Adaptive from True.
- Unit death requirement reduced to 8 from 10.
- Damage type changed to Physical from Magic.
- Cooldown reduction reduced to 25% from 30%.
- PBE Patch - October 30th
- Minimum amplifier increased to 4% from 2%.
- Maximum amplifier increased to 10% from 8%.
- Bonus damage reduced to 40 - 80 (based on level) from 60 - 120 (based on level).
- Bonus AD ratio increased to 25% from 15%.
- AP ratio increased to 20% from 10%.
- Soul essence required to unlock bonus increased to 150 from 100.
- Soul essence gained from champions reduced to 6 from 8.
- Soul essence gained from minions reduced to 4 from 5.
- Editor Note - Clarification: Always deals magic damage.
- Editor Note - Undocumented Feature Discovered: Allied wards that time-out (i.e. aren't killed) also create a Zombie Ward.
- PBE Patch - October 27th
- Bonus damage reduced to 60 - 100 (based on level) from 60 - 120 (based on level).
- Champion soul value reduced to 8 from 10.
- Initial ranged slow reduced to 20% from 25%.
- Initial melee slow increased to 40% from 35%.
- Per-target cooldown increased to 7 - 4 (based on level) seconds from 6 - 3 (based on level).
- Base item cooldown reduction increased to 10% from 1%.
- Empowered armor reduced to 5% from 8%.
- Base magic resistance reduced to 5 from 7.
- Empowered magic resistance reduced to 5% from 8%.
- Base heal reduced to 6 from 10.
- PBE Patch - October 26th
- General
- The game now auto-substitutes runes if they are not appropriate for the map or your champion.
- Movement speed increased to 4% from 3%.
- Armor and magic resistance increased to 8 from 6.
- AD reduced to 4.6 from 5.
- Armor increased to 5 from 4.
- Bonus armor increased to 8% from 5%.
- New Effect: Bonus armor is now also triggered when shielded.
- Magic resistance increased to 7 from 4.
- Bonus magic resistance increased to 8% from 5%.
- New Effect: Bonus magic resistance is now also triggered when shielded.
- Renamed to Unflinching from Perseverance.
- Damage increased to 30 - 60 (based on level) from 20 - 60 (based on level).
- New Effect: Healing now has a base amount of 10.
- Editor Revisions - October 25th
- Previously Unspecified: Stacks fall off one at a time when out of range.
- Correction: Damage type is Adaptive, not the scaling.
- Correction: The effect does not require unique abilities or attacks, rather you're capped at 1 stack per ability or attack.
- Correction: The effect does not require unique abilities or attacks, rather you're capped at 1 stack per ability or attack.
- Previously Unspecified: Aery can be picked up early.
- PBE Patch - October 24th
- General
- Slots are now named per path, e.g. Precision's Slot 2 is now called Quest.
- Bonus attack damage reduced to 24 from 28.
- Damage increased to 10% from 5%.
- Bonus attack damage reduced to 9 from 15.
- Bonus attack damage per eyeball reduced to 0.6 from 0.7.
- Completed collection bonus attack damage reduced to 6 from 7.
- Removed: Limit on how many enemy champions Freeze Ray can target. Previously 3.
- No longer triggered by right clicking on an ally.
- New Effect: Guards all nearby allies.
- New Effect: Guards allies hit by unit-targets abilities.
- Shield now benefits all Guarded allies when the conditions are met, not just a single ally.
- New Effect: Affected allies also gain 20% bonus movement speed.
- The effect now only goes on cooldown when the shield is triggered. No longer goes on reduced cooldown if the shield isn't triggered.
- Maximum shield changed to 10 (+10% maximum health from 30 (+8% maximum health).
- Shield AD ratio increased to 40% bonus AD from 25% bonus AD.
- Attack damage increased to 11 from 10.8.
- Domination AP increased to 27 from 21.5.
- Domination AD increased to 16 from 13.
- Precision attack speed reduced to 20% from 21.6%.
- Resolve health reduced to 145 from 216.
- Sorcery AP reduced to 27 from 30.
- Sorcery AD reduced to 16 from 18.
- Bonus health reduced to 130 from 180.
- Bonus attack damage reduced to 1.2 from 1.4.
- Cooldown reduction increased to 30% from 25%.
- Bonus attack damage reduced to 18 from 21.
- PBE Patch - October 18th
- Cooldown reduction increased to 20% from 15%.
- Cooldown reduction is now reduced to 10% for area of effect abilities.
- New Effect: You now also gain increased maximum mana if you sell the biscuit.
- AD per stack reduced to 5 from 6.
- Bonus damage increased to 4% from 3%.
- Heal increased to 2% from 1.5%.
- Resolve health increased to 216 from 84.
- Health increased to 180 from 70.
- Revert: You can once again only swap spells at the store.
- Revert: Newly acquired spells are no longer put on an initial cooldown.
- PBE Patch - October 16th
- Base resistances increased to 20 from 10.
- Lifesteal per stack increased to 0.8% from 0.6%.
- AD ratio increased to 40% from 20%.
- AP ratio reduced to 25% from 30%.
- Renamed Unsealed Spellbook.
- New Effect: You can now swap your spells anywhere, not just at the store.
- New Effect: If replacing a Summoner Spell that is on cooldown, the newly acquired Summoner Spell is unavailable to cast for a time equal to 50% of the remaining cooldown of spell that is being replaced.
- PBE Patch - October 13th
- Removed: Gaining bonus movement speed toward immobilized minions and monsters. Champions only.
- Triggering the cooldown refund now has a 0.5 second cooldown.
- Cooldown refund reduced to 15% from 20%.
- Cooldown refund for DOTs reduced to 5% from 10%.
- Damage reduction increased to 10% from 8%.
- New Effect: Now tracks Ward assists.
- Removed: Moving while channelling. Editor Note: Not sure when this changed.
- Editor Note - Undocumented Feature Discovered: The first loan appears to be free. This could be a bug.
- On-hit gold reduced to 5 from 25. Editor Note: Not sure when this changed.
- New Consumable: : Grants 10 (+1/level) attack damage or ability power (Adaptive). Lasts 45 seconds.
- Editor Note: Updated the list of possible consumables.
- Attack speed per stack reduced to 1.5% from 3%.
- Maximum stacks increased to 10.
- Legend Points per stack reduced to 20 from 30.
- Legend Points per large monster increased to 5 from 4.
- Life steal per stack reduced to 0.6% from 1.2%.
- Maximum stacks increased to 10.
- Legend Points per stack reduced to 20 from 30.
- Legend Points per large monster increased to 5 from 4.
- Tenacity per stack reduced to 1.5% from 3%.
- Maximum stacks increased to 10.
- Legend Points per stack reduced to 20 from 30.
- Legend Points per large monster increased to 5 from 4.
- Set title for Resolve + Precision changed to "The Leviathan" from "The Imperious".
- Assist window increased to 10 seconds from 2.
- PBE Patch - October 12th
- New Effect: After collecting 100 Soul Essence, the timer to trigger the empowered attack increases to 300 seconds.
- Editor Note - Correction: Apologies. The tooltip previously listed that the AD or AP ratio was Adaptive, but this was incorrect. Rather, it scales with both and it's actually the Damage Type that is adaptive.
- Damage increased to 50-220 from 40-220.
- Damage increased to 60-180 from 60-140.
- Channeling is no longer interrupted by minion damage.
- Activating no longer breaks stealth.
- Cooldown reduced to 180-120 (based on level) from 180.
- Editor Note - Correction: Apologies. The tooltip previously listed that it reduced mana costs, but this was incorrect. Rather, it refunds mana spent. This is a subtle difference, but prevents abilities from being activated if you do not have sufficient mana to start with.
- Damage reduced to 30-120 from 30-180.
- PBE Patch - October 11th
- New Effect: Damaging an enemy champion with ability damage reduces Arcane Comet's remaining cooldown by 20%, or 10% for damage over time effects.
- Damage increased to 20-60 from 10-40.
- Shield reduced to 30-80 from 40-100.
- Ability power increased to 18 from 10.
- Attack damage increased to 10.8 from 7.
- Domination ability power increased to 21.6 from 18.
- Domination attack damage reduced to 13 from 16.8.
- Precision attack speed increased to 21.6% from 16.8%.
- Sorcery ability power increased to 30 from 18.
- Sorcery attack damage increased to 18 from 12.6.
- Attack speed increased to 18% from 14%.
- Ability power increased to 25 from 15.
- Attack damage increased to 15 from 10.5.
- PBE Patch - October 10th
- Takedown bonus no longer stacks.
- Takedown bonus increased to 15 from 10.
- Base damage reduced to 125 from 375.
- Health ratio increased to 30% from 20%.
- Cooldown reduced to 45 seconds from 60.
- New Effect: Healing is only 60% effective versus minions.
- Armor increased to 4 from 3.
- Initial threshold changed to 60% maximum health from 80%.
- Initial bonus damage increased to 5% from 2%.
- Cooldown increased to 10 seconds from 6.
- Mana/energy restoration reduced to 8% from 10%.
- Armor increased to 4 from 3.
- Cooldown now begins when the shield triggers instead of when the shield expires.
- AD ratio changed to 15% bonus from 15% total.
- Base shield increased to 40-120 from 30-120.
- Movement speed increased to 20-50% from 15-40%.
- Removed: While below 60% mana, your basic attacks versus champions generate stacks that are converted into 13 / 21 / 29 / 37 / 45 mana on champion takedown or exiting combat.
- New Effect: Gain 100% reduced mana costs for 5 seconds whenever you score a champion takedown or level up.
- Removed: Attacks versus champions grant stacking attack damage. While over 3 stacks, deal increased damage.
- New Effect: Attacks apply stacks. At 3 stacks, the target takes X true damage and takes Y% increased damage from all sources for 6 seconds.
- Conversion rate from allies increased to 300% at all times from 100%-300% based on game time.
- Damage increased to 20-60 from 10-40.
- Domination ability power increased to 18 from 15.
- Domination attack damage increased to 16.7 from 10.5.
- Precision attack speed reduced to 16.8% from 18%.
- Resolve health reduced to 84 from 105.
- Sorcery ability power reduced to 18 from 22.5.
- Sorcery attack damage reduced to 12.6 from 15.
- Attack speed increased to 14% from 12%.
- PBE Patch - October 4th
- Removed: Bonus Lethality and Magic Penetration.
- New Effect: Completing the collection now grants 10 Ability Power or 7 Attack Damage.
- Cooldown reduced to 10 seconds from 20.
- Movement speed reduced to 15-40% from 30-60%.
- Bonus duration increased to 5 seconds from 3.
- Triggering the bonus now has a 4 second cooldown on expiration.
- Lethality reduced to 10 from 12.
- Triggering the bonus now requires dealing damage within X seconds of dashing, blinking, teleporting or breaking stealth.
- PBE Patch - October 3rd
- Damage amplifier increased to 5% from 3%.
- Takedown bonus duration increased to 10 seconds from 5.
- Stack time-out period increased to 3 seconds from 2.
- AD per stack reduced to 5.6 from 6.
- Stack reduction for changing target reduced to 2 from 4.
- Stacks to gain the ranged damage amplifier reduced to 3 from 5.
- Ranged damage amplifier increased to 8% from 6%.
- PBE Patch - October 2nd
- The damage amplifier now affects your damage versus all targets, while active, not just the last champion you attacked.
- PBE Patch - September 29th
- Bonus damage reduced to 3% from 10%.
- New Effect: Takedowns grant 10 Attack Damage or 10 Ability Power (Adaptive) for 5 seconds. This bonus stacks.
- Cap implemented at 20.
- New Effect: Upon completing your collection, gain 10 Lethality and 8 Magic Penetration.
- Fixed a bug where it didn't die upon timing out.
- PBE Patch - September 28th
- Temporary damage reduction increased to 8% from 5%.
- Temporary damage reduction now applies to monsters.
- Fixed a bug that caused Lethal Tempo to remove the attack speed cap, rather than its own bonus being able to exceed the cap.
- Now additionally triggers on exiting stealth and camouflage.


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LOS ANGELES, CA - JUNE 25: Vladimir Tarasenko, drafted 16th overall by the St. Louis Blues, poses for a portrait during the 2010 NHL Entry Draft at Staples Center on June 25, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
ST. LOUIS If Vladimir Tarasenko can live up to even half the hype that surrounds him heading into the start of training camp Sunday, the Blues should be in pretty good shape. The highly regarded prospect made his much-anticipated debut Friday, taking the ice at the St. Louis Mills to a standing room only crowd that featured many already wearing his No. 91 jersey. The 21-year-old Tarasenko arrived in St. Louis Thursday night and took to the ice the next morning for the Blues final informal skate before training camp officially kicks off Sunday morning at Scottrade Center. You can see he plays at a pretty high level, said Blues defenseman Alex Pietrangelo. He thinks quick. If you watch him, the skill he has is pretty amazing to watch. Hes got first line skill. He had a pretty good season over there and we know what hes capable of, seeing him out there for the first time today, you can see what he brings to the table. Its going to be fun to watch. The Blues selected Tarasenko with the 16th overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft but he remained in Russia to play in the KHL. He had 23 goals and 30 assists in 54 games in 2011-2012 before deciding to join this Blues this past summer. But after just a few weeks in St. Louis the NHL lockout started and Tarasenko decided to return to Russia to play until it ended. He played 31 games for St. Petersburg SKA and had 14 goals and 17 assists in just 31 games before leaving for St. Louis earlier this week. Im really excited to be here, Tarasenko said. I was here in the summer for three weeks and I know the city, the restaurants and shops. That makes it easier. Asked about the differences between the KHL and the NHL, the Russian sensation said, I think the first one is the rink. This one is smaller. The second one is the mental part. This is very difficult for me. Blues coach Ken Hitchcock has seen Tarasekno play 20-to-25 games on tape. He plans to play him on a line with Andy McDonald and Alex Steen. The puck is on the net and it comes fast, its on his stick and its gone, Hitchcock said. He can put pucks through people. Hes a good offensive player so the rest of the game, were going to teach him. Thats going to take long term but if he can do the things offensively that we think hes capable of, hes going to contribute to our hockey club and help us a lot. Tarasenko arrives as one of the most highly regarded and hyped forwards that the Blues have had in several years. He watched several Blues games on television last season from Russia to get a feel for his future teammates and how they play. And his teammates were easily impressed. I know its still early but he has a lot of speed, good awareness on the ice, pretty solid shot and he moves the puck well, McDonald said. Its exciting. Hes a pretty complete player. His hockey sense, the ability to read the play, where your teammates are, where the defenders are - players like that are easy to play with and hopefully they dont require any transition time. They are able to read off you right away and it makes the game easier. Tarasenko previously played for around 12,500 fans per game in Russia. Hell likely play for 19,150 on most nights at Scottrade Center. All of them will be watching his every move.
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Family Albums
By SUSANN COKAL
Published: July 18, 2010
By Rebecca Chace
292 pp. Scribner. $25.
By Carin Clevidence
285 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $25.
Long ago and far away, Aristotle called poetry (by which he meant imaginative writing in general) ''a more philosophical and serious business than history; for poetry speaks more of universals, history of particulars.'' He was describing the difference between the events we know to have happened to such-and-such a person on such-and-such a date and the wide scope of human reactions to those events. And, by extension, of the way imaginative writing can grab at our hearts to make history live beyond the limits of facts.
The best historical novels recreate the past as a series of intimate interactions and reflections punctuated by the wars, economic booms and busts, and acts of God that are readily checked by scholars. Recently, Hilary Mantel's ''Wolf Hall''; Colm Toibin's ''Brooklyn''; and ''The Help,'' by Kathryn Stockett, have, in their very different ways, brought history home, and without the gimmicks of ''Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.'' Now Rebecca Chace and Carin Clevidence are exploring the intersection of self with history in the first half of the 20th century, in ''Leaving Rock Harbor'' and ''The House on Salt Hay Road.'' Both novels are moody, with ominous beginnings and plucky protagonists who struggle for happiness despite the intrusion of outside forces. And both succeed as forays into small lives buffeted by great events.
Chace, the author of a previous novel, ''Capture the Flag,'' and a memoir, ''Chautauqua Summer,'' opens ''Leaving Rock Harbor'' on a note of despair. It is 1916, and Frankie Ross's father has attempted suicide, prompting his family's hasty relocation from upstate New York to the prosperous city of Rock Harbor, Mass. While her father readily finds work in a cotton mill, the fresh start is difficult for 15-year-old Frankie, who narrates the novel (sometimes distractingly) from the perspective of grown womanhood. Lonely and stifled, she's relieved to attract the attention of the wealthy Winslow Curtis, son of a conservative (and prurient) politician, and his friend Joe Barros, a Portuguese millworker who is also the star of the high school basketball team. In ''Jules and Jim'' fashion, these three share picnics and scantily clad swims. But when Frankie talks the boys into giving her a tour of the Curtis mill, the visit ends in disaster: through Frankie's carelessness, a young girl is pulled into a loom, mangling one of her feet.
''There are such nights,'' Frankie reflects, ''when everything changes either by accident or intention.'' Nobody, she adds, ''actually chooses how they behave at a time like that.'' At first, Frankie makes few choices, and the accident has scant consequences. She and Winslow and Joe have fun until World War I plucks Joe away to Europe -- and Frankie quickly abandons both corset and chastity to Winslow, who soon becomes her husband. But the image of that little millworker, mouth open in a scream drowned out by the machinery, haunts the rest of the novel, especially since the victim will make her adult presence felt at pivotal moments.
Chace's novel shows earnest ambition as it addresses the history of the labor movement and factory reform in the years after the war. As the Massachusetts cotton industry lags, beleaguered workers protest pay cuts and factory conditions, and Frankie's father finds his calling in agitating for their cause. As Winslow Curtis's wife, Frankie is, naturally, placed in a difficult position, but Chace's social conscience seems stronger than her narrator's. Frankie may help her father in small ways, but she remains unengaged in the larger political struggles, eager to shrug off her responsibilities and her painful memories. The novel's descriptions of the mill are painstakingly thorough, and exposition intrudes into the dialogue as Chace's characters inform one another (and us) of what's happening in the wider world. Frankie is predominantly invested in her love life -- for Joe, wounded in the war but no less alluring, has returned to become a labor organizer, still unmarried and still in love with his childhood friend. Cue fireworks and sticky situations.
The fireworks in Carin Clevidence's first novel, ''The House on Salt Hay Road'' come early, but the novel keeps a steady flame burning until its final scenes. When an explosion in a fireworks factory rattles a Depression-era Long Island coastal community, 12-year-old Clayton Poole sets out on a panicked search to find his older sister, Nancy. The orphaned siblings are the central figures in a narrative that will be shaped by mourning and rescue. These two are deeply attached to each other, to the exclusion of their late mother's father, brother and sister, who have welcomed them to the now crowded house on Salt Hay Road.
On the day of the explosion, Nancy is distracted by a young museum curator from Boston, visiting the mansion where her aunt works as a cook. Their subsequent love affair, which Nancy is determined to bring to the altar (via the bedroom if necessary), disrupts the household's uneasy equilibrium. Clayton, for one, is devastated when Nancy announces her engagement. Taking refuge in the outdoors, he sketches dead animals, trying, his sister notes, ''to understand the meaning of . . . loss by studying the mechanics of decay.''
Clevidence's Long Island is a lushly described place of wild marshes, shallow bays and beckoning beaches. The people who live here hunt, fish and sail not for amusement but as a way of life that brings its own hardy pleasures. There may be a bit too much local color for some readers' tastes, but the eccentric characters we expect of a small town are evoked with a reverence that lifts them from the precious to the pageworthy. On a warm day, pet cockatoos roost in a tree outside a bird fancier's house. Clayton's crusty grandfather plays cribbage while telling tales of his former career rescuing shipwreck victims. Still grieving over a lost love, Uncle Roy begins a new courtship while his sister, Mavis, bakes with Depression-defying abundance and tries to bring religion and superstition to an understanding of her own failed marriage.
Driven gently by these tensions, and a few Nancy discovers in her own impetuous romance, the story creeps toward disaster, which arrives with the great hurricane of 1938. Again family members are separated as the storm demolishes homes and rearranges the landscape. Who will rescue whom? Are the family members defined by their responses to crises like the hurricane or by the small moments that make up most of their lives? The answers are wrenching, melancholy -- and yet, for some, surprisingly hopeful.
Clevidence has a gift for creating images that express the unspeakable. When Clayton walks along the beach just before the storm, he notices orange-and-black butterflies trying to fly while ''mixed with the salt spray.'' Then ''tumbling over the sand were bright scraps of butterflies that had been ripped apart in the wind.'' A storyteller with this fine an eye might put more trust her own powers and avoid plot-based fireworks. Clevidence's invented emotional lives convey truths that lurk below the surface of historical events, truths that, like those butterflies, bring pleasure even as they remind us how easily they can be torn to bits.


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