“The Yeti Rider” Nunu

Nunu is a high mobility champion that can be played effectively as a tank, support, damage dealer or a hybrid of these. He has strong buffs and debuffs built-in to his ability kit. Nunu’s passive is Visionary which allows him to cast any spell without using mana after 7 normal attacks. This buff clears if Nunu dies before utilizing it.

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“The Berserker” Olaf

Olaf is a unique melee DPS (damage per second) champion who scales up and  damage by build up more hit points as well as conventional damage items. Olaf’s passive is Berzerker Rage which gives Olaf bonus attack speed as his hit points lower with incoming damage.

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Krobelus The Death Prophet

Death Prophet is an Intelligence caster Hero who excels at pushing lanes. Like other casters, her abilities allows her to be less item dependent during the early game. As she skills Exorcism, Death Prophet can deal a huge amount of damage to towers and lone heroes alike, while healing at the end of the duration. Despite being a caster, Death Prophet has a relatively high Strength compared to other Intelligence heroes and she is mostly built as a Tank. Her passive ability, Witchcraft, grants her the highest permanent movespeed among Intelligence heroes in the game and a decent buff to her spells.

STR: 74 at 25 (19 + 2.2/level)

AGI: 49 at 25 (14 + 1.4/level)

INT: 95 at 25 (20 + 3/level)

HP/MP: 1499/1196 at 25

Damage: 44 - 56

Range: 600

Armor: 1.96

Movement Speed: 285

Faction: The Dire

Primary Attribute: Intelligence

Attack type: Range

Roles: Carry/Semi-Carry/Pusher/Tanker

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“The Lady of Clockwork” Orianna

Orianna is a completely unique champion with an all-new way of casting spells: All of Orianna’s abilities utilize The Ball, sending it across the battle field as the main method of destruction and focus of her spells. Using The Ball, she can deal plenty of damage as a mage or manipulate the battlefield as a support champion. Orianna’s passive is Clockwork Windup. All of Orianna’s basic attacks deal bonus magic damage, increasing with ability power. Attacking the same target multiple times in a row will increas that bonus damage.

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Dota 2 Brewmaster

Valve’s Dota 2 update today involves minor bugs and gameplay fixes, and the addition of Brewmaster (known as Pandaren Brewmaster in DotA). Also we can now expect Lone Druid on Captain’s Mode!

Brewmaster totally have a different look from its original design in WC3 DotA. He now depicts a fat drunken wolf image carrying a huge barrel in his left side and a chako/flail weapon on his right hand.

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“The Artisan of War” Pantheon

Pantheon is a melee assassin who is actually quite frail and does not have strong escaping capabilities. Focusing on Heartseeker Strike for offense and making him able to withstand punishment from opponents will make him a formidable champion. Pantheon’s passive is Aegis Protection which allows him to block the next incoming attack after attacking or casting spells 4 times.

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“The Iron Ambassador” Poppy

Poppy is a fighter melee assassin that does a ton of damage especially in early games. With enough defensive and offensive capabilities, Poppy can be a formidable champion either as an opponent or a teammate. Poppy’s passive is Valiant Fighter which any damage dealt to her that exceeds 10% of her current health is reduced by 50% but does not reduce damage from structures.

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Ish’Kafel The Dark Seer

Dark Seer is a support caster hero that employs his skills to fully disorient his enemies through vacuums and illusions, as well as support his allies. As a melee hero, his overall attack and natural movement speed doesn’t improve over time, making any follow-up melee attacks very risky. He’s also a very versatile hero; He can gank with Vacuum, push with Ion Shell, initiate with Wall of Replica, support with Surge, giving him a persistent role on a team.

STR: 79.5 at 25 (22 + 2.3/level)

AGI: 42 at 25 (12 + 1.2/level)

INT: 96.5 at 25 (29 + 2.7/level)

HP/MP: 1613/1209 at 25

Damage: 60 - 66

Range: 128

Armor: 5.68

Movement Speed: 305

Faction: The Dire

Primary Attribute: Intelligence

Attack type: Melee

Roles: Semi-Carry/Pusher/Ganker/Initiator

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“The Armadillo” Rammus

Rammus is a jungling tank. He employs exceptional map mobility and amazing single-target disables to lock down high-priority targets, ensuring kills for his team. Rammus’ passive is Spiked Shell where a percentage of Rammus’ armor is converted into bonus attack damage.

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Fruit Ninja

The worldwide gaming phenomenon which was first introduced in iOS is now on Kinect. Fruit Ninja KInect lets you become the fruit-slasher ninja, and with Kinect’s controller-free system, the experience of slicing those delicious fruits will never be more fun than this.

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Recipe Buttermilk Oven-Fried Chicken With Coleslaw

Cracker meal gives the coating more crunch; look for it on the baking aisle of your supermarket. If you can’t find cracker meal, make your own by pulsing 10 saltine crackers in a food processor until they’re finely ground. Or place them in a zip-top plastic bag and crush them with a rolling pin.

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Food and Recipe Moroccan Chicken With Squash And Dried Plums

The Arabic Food Recipes kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Moroccan Chicken with Squash and Dried Plums recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and  learn how to make Moroccan Chicken with Squash and Dried Plums.

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Recipe Pom Koek (Belgian Coffee Cake)

I found this vintage recipe on the Internet while looking for unique recipes to submit for the Zaar World Tour. It comes from the recipe files of Margaret Dens Buytaert, a Belgain who resided in Wisconsin. The idea of coffee as the liquid in this quick bread intrigues me. Sorry that I will not have a chance to prepare it for a while. If you try it, please share your reactions.




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Recipe Pork And Black Bean Stew

My Brazilian friend makes this for me occasionally and it is fabulous! Well today was that very day! My cravings seem to consist of absolutely anything sweet at the moment and I as I said in a comment yesterday I could eat my own body weight in haribo and chocolate, I hoped that buy adding sweetcorn and carrots to this Mexican influenced stew that it would be a healthy way to beat those unhealthy cravings for something sweet.

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Recipe Kung Pao Chicken

Spicy chicken with peanuts, similar to what is served in Chinese restaurants. It is easy to make, and you can be as sloppy with the measurements as you want. They reduce to a nice, thick sauce. Substitute cashews for peanuts, or bamboo shoots for the water chestnuts. You can’t go wrong! Enjoy!

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Recipe Colombian Arroz Con Pollo

This is a pretty chicken and rice casserole that is made from chicken wing pieces. You can buy them already separated or cut them up yourself. This is how my husband remembers his Grandma made it back in Bogota (with a little tweaking from me, heh heh heh). DH likes it served with maduros and patacones. Feel free to substitute with brown rice, but it will need to cook about 10 minutes longer, or more.

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Recipe Seaweeds Salad With Salted Eggs

I didn’t realize quite a number of people (like you) didn’t really know lato or seaweed (the subject of my last post), or didn’t like its taste when they tried it. some prefer to have paku salad instead. these are edible fern fronds. then you throw in some slices of tomatoes, salted egg, fried peanuts, and boiled shrimps. this salad is almost always on the menu of the native kapampangan restaurants. this one was from the bulo restaurant in clark (more on their food in future posts). the dressing is a simple sweet-sour vinegar-sugar mix. delicious!

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Recipe Greek Sausage: Sheftalia

Nice change to eat at a barbecue. Crispy seasoned sausages with a nice flavor. Eat in a pita with chopped tomato, parsley, onion, cucumber, and tahini. Add plenty of lemon. Yummy!

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Recipe Tropical Salad with Pineapple Vinaigrette

An easy salad to make with a bag of salad greens, pineapple, bacon bits, nuts and toasted coconut. Use fresh pineapple, if you can, and substitute toasted almonds for the macadamia nuts, if desired.

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Recipe Indonesia Sate (Meat Kabobs)

This is a fabulous treat for summer barbecues with a fresh salad and French bread or even a quick supper with Indonesian fried rice. Simple and delicious, beef kabobs are full of flavor when marinated in garlic, herbs and honey.

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Bernhard Langer wins Champions Tour event.

Bernhard Langer watches his drive from the first tee during the final round of the SAS PGA Champions Tour golf tournament at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, N.C., Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. Langer was 7-under after playing 14 holes, taking the lead from Fred Funk. (AP Photo/Ted Richardson)

Bernhard Langer managed to win the SAS Championship last Sunday to take the lead against the leading score in the Charles Schwab Cup points race, shooting a 9-under 63 to beat Jay Don Blake by two strokes.

Four shots back entering the final round, Langer birdied the final two holes to finish at 13-under 203 at Prestonwood Country Club. The German star has two victories this year and 16 overall on the 50-and-over tour.

Blake closed with a 68. He needed a birdie on the par-4 18th to force a playoff, but hit a tree with his drive and bogeyed the hole. Mark Wiebe also shot 68 to finish third at 10 under.

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Italian Marco Marcato wins the 2012 Paris cycling race

Marco Marcato of Italy celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the Paris-Tours cycling race in Tours, central France, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Christopher Ena)

Italian Marco Marcato wins the 2012 Paris-Tours cycling race in a 300-m sprint finish last Sunday.

Marco Marcato was beaten to the line by Greg Van Avermet of Belgium in a head-to-head sprint last year, but this year he held firm and accepted a challenge from Laurens De Vresse of Belgium and Dutch rider Niki Terpstra.

A 146-mile (234.964 kilometers) trek from Chateauneuff-en-Thymerais to Tours is favored sprinters in recent years, and this was the case again as the three riders broke away.

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Elena Baltacha foot surgery went successful

Elena Baltacha – Getty Images

The former British number one and 29-year old Elena Baltacha foot surgery went successful after she announced last July that she will be undergoing a six months off from the court to recover from injury.

And she has now posted photographs of her foot in plaster on Facebook.

“I had successful surgery on my right foot yesterday to remove a little piece of bone that was causing a lot of problems around my ankle,” she said.

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Andy Murray sees easy on into quarter-finals

Andy Murray eases into Japan Open quarter-finals – BBC Sports

US Open champion Andy Murray defeats his Slovakian opponent Lukas Lacko in straight sets scoring 6-1 6-2 only for 25 minutes at the Japan Open.

Andy Murray broke the world’s number 65 twice in the opening four games, concluding the opening set in just 25 minutes.

Murray managed to score opponent to love in each of the Lacko’s first two service games into a 5-0 lead in less than 20 minutes. Also, he beaten Stanislas Wawrinka in seven of their 11 encounters, 5 of those victories are on hard courts.

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Lewis Hamilton ‘more exciting’ to join on Mercedes.

On Formula 1: Lewis Hamilton ‘more exciting’ to join on Mercedes.
Photo credit to AFP

The British former Formula 1 world champion is more excited to drive for Mercedes this 2013 rather to stay with McLaren where joined in since teenager.

He said: “It was one of the most difficult decisions I’ve faced in my life up to now.”

Lewis Hamilton, 27, denies that he has taken risk by decided to leave an established McLaren team for one win in the past three seasons.

“I could stay in the great car that I have, which I’ve worked really hard to help develop with the team, or go to a car that’s not so well developed and help it

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UFC Chad Mendes fights Hacran Dias on December 15

UFC Featherweight fighter Chad Mendes looking for his second victory on December 15 fight against Hacran Dias in Gold Cost, Queensland, Australia.

Mendes confirmed the fight last Monday on Twitter.

“It’s official like a referee whistle!” Mendes tweeted. “I’m fighting Hacran Dias Dec. 15 in Australia.”

Mendes steps into the Octagon for the second time where he is suffering from a first-round knockout last January 14 to 145-pound champion Jose Aldo at UFC 142.

It is also the first time that Chad Mendes lost a mixed martial match during his 13-bout professional career.

Last July 7, he rebounded from a setback by an impressive first-round knockout against Cody McKenzie.

The announcement of the fight against Dias comes a little more than a month since Mendes was hit with a battery charge by the Kings County (Calif.) District Attorney’s Office.

The charge, which was handed down Aug. 24, stems from an alleged physical altercation involving Mendes on July 29 at a Hanford, Calif., bar. Mendes is a resident of Hanford.

Dias (21-1-1) made his UFC debut on June 23 with a unanimous decision over Yuri Alcantara.

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World T20 Cricket Sri Lanka beats Pakistan by only 16 runs

World Twenty20 – Sri Lanka vs Pakistan – Reuters

The host country Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan by 16 runs in a thrilling match to secure their slot in the upcoming finals against Australia or West Indies in the World Twenty20 cricket match.

Chasing 140 on a slow Colombo pitch, Pakistan looked in the game at 91-4, but Rangana Herath managed to struck twice in two balls make them score 123-7.

Earlier, despite captain Mahela Jayawardene’s 42, Sri Lanka looked to be struggling before taking 14 from the final over to get up to 139-4.

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James Graham banned for playing 12 games for biting Billy Slater.

James Graham – BBC Sport

England’s international player James Graham is suspended for playing 12 games after biting the Melbourne’s player Billy Slater during the NRL Grand Final.

Not only the Graham is suspended but also the Canterbury Bulldogs which Graham is in, England is included in the ban consisting of two upcoming Tests against Wales and France, plus two trial games for Canterbury.

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NBA sets flopping penalties with fines and possibly suspension.

Manu Ginobili and James Harden tangle, lose all their money (Tom Pennington / Getty Images).

NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA has announced anti-flopping rules that will fine repeat offenders.

The NBA league said last Wednesday that flopping will be defined as “any physical act that appears to have been intended to cause the referees to call a foul on another player.”

Players will get a warning the first time, then be fined $5,000 the second time. The fines increase to $30,000 for a fifth offense, if the flopping still goes on, the player will be suspected to sanction and possibly suspension.

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Jim Tracy resigns after 98 losses on record

Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy (4) argues with umpire Mark Ripperger after thinking that Andrew Brown was hit by a pitch during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012, in Phoenix. The Rockies defeated the Diamondbacks 2-1. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Colorado Rockies manager Jim Tracy resigned last Sunday, after setting down the team set a franchise record for losses.

After the resignation of Tracy, The Rockies said that they are looking immediately for Tracy’s replacement. Colorado finished last in the NL West this year with records 64-98.

Jim Tracy was promoted from bench coach to manager last May 2009. He was voted the NL Manager of the Year that season after making the Colorado into the playoffs.

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Ways How to Increase Your Water Intake

How much water should you drink each day? Every day you lose water through your breath, perspiration, urine and bowel movements. For your body to function properly, you must replenish its water supply by consuming beverages and foods that contain water. Every system in your body depends on water. Your water needs depend on many factors, including your health, how active you are and where you live.


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Sleep Apnea Condition May Bring a Greater Risk to Some Individuals?

Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder that occurs when a person’s breathing is interrupted during sleep. People with natural sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes hundreds of times. This means the brain and the rest of the body may not get enough oxygen.

An individual who suffers sleep apnea is frequently not aware of having difficulty in breathing even upon awakening. Symptoms may be present for years without identification, during that time a person who has this state may become conditioned to the daytime sleepiness and fatigue associated with significant levels of sleep disturbance. Sleep apnea can affect anyone at any age, even children. This also appears disorder to bring with it a greater chance of dying sooner, especially for middle-aged and senior men.

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Tips Get Rid of Your Dry Hair

Everyone has bad hair days, but with dry hair you may have those terrible days waiting for you. If your hair seems to be extraordinarily dull and lifeless, then you have dry hair. Dryness in hair is primarily caused by lack of moisture and oils in the scalp. Sun, salt water, chlorine, heat, bitter cold, chemical treatments, bleach, harsh brushing, scorching hair dryers, hot curling or straightening irons, even poor nutrition or age can all dry and damage hair in a matter of months. If your hair feels rough, brittle, breaks easily, or lacks vibrant color and elasticity, your hair is too dry or has been damaged. Treating dry hair will not consume much of your time. You just need to know the structure of your hair and then look into the specific problem areas.

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