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If the past few games were must-win affairs, than tonight is unequivocally so.
The Pistons are (nearly) as bad as the Knicks, and the Wolves simply can't afford to drop any more games that they should win easily on paper. Detroit has lost five of their last six contests, with the only win coming against the Kicks, of course.
And get this — the Pistons haven't won a road game since January 18 in Dallas. That's insane. Overall this season away from The Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit is just 10-17. In the first meeting between the two teams back on December 10, Kevin Love dropped 26 points, 16 rebounds, and 7 assists in an easy 121-94 victory.
Brandon Jennings (20 points on 8 of 16 shooting, 7 assists) was the only true offensive threat for the Pistons in that game, but Ricky Rubio had a good performance too, putting up 15 points and 9 assists while forcing Jennings into an unsightly 6 turnovers on the night.
Andre Drummond was uncharacteristically quiet back in December against Minnesota, scoring just 8 points and pulling down only 8 rebounds in 29 minutes of playing time. It would be unfortunate to assume a repeat of that performance in Minneapolis on Friday night, so the Wolves will likely need to contend with a more active version of the Pistons near-All-Star.
There isn't much else to worry about on the Pistons roster, short of Greg Monroe. Hopefully his impact on tonight's game will be much lower than that of Tyson Chandler on Wednesday night, and that Nikola Pekovic will make the most of his still-limited minutes in combating Monroe and potentially getting him into foul trouble.
The Josh Smith match-up for the Wolves is intriguing, as Love will likely check Drummond on defense. Dante Cunningham is the clear choice to guard Smith, but it will probably be Corey Brewer from the opening tap. This should work out okay, as Smith will elect to settle for too many outside jumpers, rather than take Brewer/Cunningham to the basket with ease to set up his jumper, like Anthony did on Wednesday.
The Wolves should generally allow Smith and Jennings to fire away from mid-range and concentrate on crowding the paint and crashing the glass to keep Drummond and Monroe from finding too much success. Hopefully Gorgui Dieng and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute will see some time tonight to throw some additional big bodies (and personal fouls) at the Pistons' twin towers. Keep in mind that Drummond is a 41.2% free throw shooter. Love and Co. may need to fight against their nature and take some fouls if they struggle on the boards.
The game tips at 7:00 p.m. CT. We'll meet back here afterwards with some (positive, hopefully) commentary.
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Vodka Brand Tries To Distance Itself From Russia Amid Boycott
SPI Group, the Luxembourg-based parent company of Stolichnaya vodka, a well-known spirit, is taking action to distance itself from the the Russian government amid a global boycott of the country over its handling of gay rights. The company has added sexual orientation to its employee non-discrimination policy after people all over the world began to shun the brand, according to progressive blog AMERICAblog.
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Cold War Nostalgia
All this talk of Boycotting the Russian Olympics I can't help but think our politicians here in the U.S. are happy to revise some classic Cold War style tension.
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Growing Up Gay in Russia
Realizing I was gay in Russia felt like a terminal disease diagnosis. There I was, a secret pedik, one of the monsters I'd heard about so much yet knew so little about. Convinced that I was the only real gay person in Russia, I felt completely alienated from the human race.
Yet another garbage article provided by the Huffington Post. Lots of propaganda here trying to appeal to Western butt hurt allies. Article was all over the place. Real quality journalism.
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A CBS website based in Miami reported Bess was arrested at Fort Lauderdale International Airport around 6:20 a.m. ET on Friday, one day after the 28- year-old posted a photo on Twitter depicting a possible banned substance.
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Bess was placed on the non-football illness list for the final two games of this past season. He finished with 42 catches for 362 yards and two touchdowns in 14 games, including three starts.
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text: For more than two decades, Russian higher education has been undergoing fundamental restructuring that some experts compare to radical reforms of the Soviet communist regime in the 1920s. Currently, the Russian government is promoting its educational modernization to insure competitiveness of Russia in the global market. Proposed educational policies echo recommendations of the World Bank, the OECD, and the IMF, actively endorsing economic globalization and neo-liberal policies. As the market discourse came to dominate Russian state policy and practices, concerns for social justice have been replaced by the key economic concepts of competition and profit. In this book, Russian educational policies adopted between 1990 and 2006 are analyzed vis-à-vis economic and education related policies of the World Bank, the OECD, and the IMF. From an analytical framework combining globalization, welfare and neo-liberal state perspectives, the author identifies major policy discourses and establishes connections between proposals of the international agencies and the on-going educational modernization in Russia.


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Earlier this week, new Colts receiver Darius Heyward-Bey suffered a sprained left knee. He was forced to miss most of the week's practices with the injury, however, he found himself back on the field for Thursday's afternoon practices.
Heyward-Bey said this, in an interview with ESPN's Josina Anderson after not being able to fully complete the practice,
The trainers decided to hold me back because right now I am day-to-day. The training staff and I did a good job of communicating out there. We just decided to shut it down for the day and hopefully give it another try tomorrow. I felt good enough to go out there and give it a try, so far I just haven't been able to go full-go yet. I did make it to a good amount of the first team period in 11-on-11 in pads. It is always good to get out there and do something.
Luckily for the team, Heyward-Bey' MRI results were negative, and will be ready to go by the start of the season. The Colts will be looking to Heyward-Bey a lot, along side Reggie Wayne, and T.Y. Hilton.


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- "All living things are born to die. No one can defeat me, the Vampire!!"
- —Vampire
The Vampire (Named VAMPIRE in the NES version) is a boss from the original Final Fantasy, fought on the third floor of the Cavern of Earth. When the Light Warriors arrive to Melmond, they find the earth rotting and the people suffering. As the Vampire had attacked the town earlier and destroyed the church, the townsfolk believed he was also responsible for the earth rotting. The Light Warriors travel to the Cavern of Earth to confront him.
After defeating him they find out the land in Melmond keeps rotting, and thus they go to the Sage's cave, where they find out the Vampire was working for one of the Four Fiends, the Lich.
Other Vampires are fought as random encounters in numerous areas of the game. They can be fought in the Mirage Tower in groups, and they can be fought alongside other enemies in parts of the Chaos Shrine. In the Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls and future releases the Vampire of Melmond can be found and battled again in the room of spirits in the Whisperwind Cove.
At this point of the game, 280 HP is weak; it even has less HP than the Earth Elemental, which appears as a random encounter in the same cave. (The original version is even worse, at a piddling 150 HP, which is barely more than Garland.) Vampire's regenerating and Gaze attack can be tricky, and catch a player off-guard, but it is not a challenge. Using Fire-based attacks or casting Dia can help end the battle fairly quickly; a lucky shot with Fire 3 or Dia 3, particularly in the NES version, can end the fight in a single spell.
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- "Forgive me, Lich..."
- —Vampire
Whisperwind Cove has a room which contains restless souls of various monsters who had died. The player can find the Vampire of Melmond's soul, as well as that of Astos. The Vampire recognizes the Light Warriors and attacks them, but as he retains the same level of power as before, he is no match for the stronger Light Warriors and is defeated easily. After the second defeat, Vampire begs Lich for forgiveness before disappearing for good.
- Before the battle with him, the Vampire says that "all living things are born to die." This is the phrase Minwu uses before the king dies in Final Fantasy II.


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In 2012, Belarus found itself in political and economic stagnation, which is reflected in its low, but stable scores in the Index. Belarus lags far behind the other countries in the region, both in its links with the EU and in its approximation of European standards
Belarus's 2012 parliamentary elections were marked by serious violations of international and domestic standards for fair democratic elections. The elections took place in an atmosphere of political persecution of the government's opponents that prevented voters from making an informed choice. The use of administrative resources for the benefit of pro-government candidates was widespread throughout the campaign. State media published compromising materials about the activity of opposition forces. Compared to the 2008 parliamentary elections, the rules for campaigning were nevertheless better. However, authorities restricted the campaigning opportunities envisaged by the new legislation. Ballot counting was not transparent. In the end, not a single opposition candidate gained a seat in the legislature.
Belarus refused to cooperate with the newly appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Belarus, who issued the first report depicting systemic restrictions of fundamental freedoms and abuse of human rights by the authorities. Despite the fact that the number of politically-motivated administrative arrests fell in 2012, from 323 in 2011 to 100,[1] the persecution of human rights activists, journalists, political opponents and other activists continued. Three political prisoners were released during the year, while nine still remain behind bars.
During 2012, the EU expanded its sanctions against Belarusian officials accused of human rights violations. The EU list contains 242 individuals who under a travel ban and have had their assets frozen. Moreover, 30 Belarusian companies are also subject to the asset freeze. In retaliation, Belarusian authorities put together a list of about 40 opposition politicians, civil society activists, independent journalists and analysts who have been banned from travelling abroad. Only after civil society representatives challenged the ban were the restrictions removed. Continuing checks by the Ministry of Taxes and Duties on some public figures suggest that pressure on dissidents has not diminished. Furthermore, in June 2012, the Belarusian legislature introduced administrative penalties for carrying out unsanctioned public opinion polls, which is likely to seriously limit the activity of independent sociologists.
The EU's sanctions provoked a harsh counter-reaction. Belarusian authorities expelled one of the European ambassadors in August 2012 and increased persecution within the country. The two diplomatic crises were followed by intensified political and diplomatic contacts at the end of 2012. This trend continued in the first half of 2013. Both sides were firm about their interest in constructive dialog and improved relations. Still, official Minsk consistently demonstrated reluctance to fulfill the EU's demands on democracy and human rights.
Meanwhile, Belarus continued informal communication and negotiations with Brussels. Despite conflicted relations at the political level, trade and business relations continued to develop successfully, as well as bilateral relations with individual member states. For instance, Belarus enjoys the highest level of trade in services with the EU among the EaP countries. Surprisingly, Belarus citizens receive the most EU and Schengen visas per capita among EaP countries.
When it comes to domestic reforms, business climate marked slight improvement, mainly due to lower expenses for construction permits and de-bureaucratisation of tax procedure. At the same time access to credits and declaring insolvency became more cumbersome. Belarus also improved its record of approximation with EU standards in most sectors and its record of fighting corruption: legislation was improved and the number of corruption crimes decreased from 2416 in 2011 to 1779 in 2012.
In spring 2012, the EU launched an exclusive initiative for Belarus called the European Dialogue for Modernisation with Belarusian Society (EDM). The new mechanism offers an additional platform for communication and cooperation among civil society, business and the authorities. The EDM can be also used to build capacity in civil society and a human resource pool capable of developing and implementing modernisation programs. So far, however, the EDM has not proved its effectiveness. Its ultimate goals remain unclear, it lacks financial resources and there is little interest among Belarusian authorities to cooperate with it.
The dynamics of Belarus-EU relations remain largely dependent on how relations go between Minsk and Moscow. Overall, Belarus continues to adhere to a policy of maneuvering between its two major partners. Belarus approaches the EU only when it has problems with Russia. Its foreign policy is guided by tactical considerations and highly dependent on external political and economic circumstances. European integration is not one of the goals being pursued by Belarusian authorities. Under such circumstances, there is little hope for any breakthrough in EU-Belarus relations.
[1] Viasna Human Rights Centre database http://spring96.org/persecution/?DateFrom=2013-01-01&DateTo=2013-12-31&Page=0 (In Belarusian only).


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Yuletide 2010 Contest Prize Recap And Some Decisions
Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, December 12, 2010 in Contests - 1 comment
OK, enough with the categories and on to the prize giving. So far, we have a winner for beer and snow, one for beer and babies, another for beer portraiture and one for beer and place. Then there is the cham-peen of all cham-peens. How to give away prizes based on that. Just to remind you, here … read more »
Beer And Place: Yule Photo Contest 2010 Entries
Posted by Alan McLeod on Saturday, December 11, 2010 in Contests, Beer Art, Language and Writing - 6 comments
It's a bit odd suggesting that these are entries under this categories seeing as I only thought up the idea of judging by category after the contest closed. And I am still not sure if I am going to award prizes entirely based on the categories. Maybe I should do a draw - why not? Well, one reason …
Your 2010 Contest Winners for Beer Portraiture
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, December 10, 2010 in Contests, Beer Art, Language and Writing - 2 comments
Did I really write "tomorrow" on Wednesday meaning that this post would be up on Thursday? Surely I meant "day after tomorrow" knowing that an oatmeal stout or two would get in the way. Whatever has happened, here we are with the beer portraiture category. Consider these: • Let's think about …
2010's Contest Awards For Snow And Beer Art
Posted by Alan McLeod on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 in Contests, Beer Art, Language and Writing - 6 comments
OK - here are all the photos about snow: • Which is the winner? I have to post these and think about this for a moment... • [Ed.: ...taking that moment...] • First, I am cutting photo shopped images and, while we are at it, pictures of closed beer. I just can't see putting the bottle back in …
2010's Contest Award For Babies, Beer, Babies, Beer...
Posted by Alan McLeod on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 in Contests - 5 comments
OK, I realize that most beer related posts would be about babes but this is really about babies. Years ago I took a photo of my now pre-teen, then but a few months old, reaching for a well made craft beer during her first visit to a brew pub. For a few years now, I have tested the principle … read more »
Ranks, Statistics And Other Things I Doubt
Posted by Alan McLeod on Monday, December 6, 2010 in Contests, About A Good Beer Blog And Its Readers, Web Resources - 2 comments
While the 2010 photo contest results churn on a vast array of reel to reel servers that fill the basement, I have time to think of other things. Like the meaning of that line up there. Apparently, right before Christmas, there is a big bump in interest in beers of the month clubs. Having written a …
Day 22: The Final Group Of Yule 2010 Entries
Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, December 5, 2010 in Contests
It has been a great contest but the 2010 Hogmanay, Yuletide, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years Eve, Kwanzaa and Snow Ball Tourney Beer Blog Photo Contest is over. Another 44 entries came in at the end making for a total of 226 entries. When the dear old gent himself Stonch and I did …
Day 22: Only Four Hours Left To Submit Your Photos!
Posted by Alan McLeod on Sunday, December 5, 2010 in Contests, Web Resources - 1 comment
It took a twoot from Tom for me to realize that this was the last day. The end times as it were: • You have until 12 noon ET to submit your photos to the 5th annual Christmas Beer Photo Contest. Win beer schwag! • For some reason I thought I had given you until this evening. I know this will …
Session 46: On Contest Day 20 A Rare One Was Opened
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, December 3, 2010 in The Session, Belgium and the Belgian-Influenced, Contests, Web Resources - 2 comments
This is crazy. Three beer blogging themes meet on one night. This is the final Friday of the Yule, Christmas, Hogmanay, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa 2010 Good Beer Blog Photo Contest. It is also the weekend that Mark Dredge demanded we Open It! And it is the night of The Session's 46th edition. That is …
Day 17: Thank Stan Hieronymus - Not Me - Thank Stan
Posted by Alan McLeod on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 in Contests - 9 comments
OK, here is the thing about that super-dooper prize I mentioned a few days back. It's so super-dooper but in a really beer nerdy way that I can't believe it so I will type out the story from our prize giver Stan verbatum... except with some edits to make sure the private aspects of the story stay …


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Currently living in Rome (Italy) with my husband and daughter, I'm working on a project on totalitarian evil from the perspectives of Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt. My book Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature: Her Christological Interpretations of Classic Greek Texts appeared with OUP in 2008. I've also worked on the topic of infertility, and my booklet "Embracing the Cross of Infertility" (HLI, 2010.) has appeared in an expanded version in German, Hungarian, Croatian and Spanish. Before moving to Italy due to my husband's work, I was an Arthur Ennis Teaching Fellow at Villanova University from 2007 to 2010. My background is in philosophy and comparative literature.
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The Marshallin in Richard Strauss' wonderful opera "Der Rosenkavalier" sings a beautiful aria about time and what it is like to get older. "Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbares Ding", "Time is a strange thing" she sings in elegiac tones, bemoaning the fact that she is no longer young, and that the young man with whom she is having an affair will not be hers forever. She sends him away before he has...
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Christ's reasoning is shocking sometimes, nay seems downright unjust. To the one who has, more shall be given and from the one who has little, what he has will be taken. This seems like cut-throat capitalism. Then again, Jesus seems to go against justice in order to err on the side of mercy, when he tells the workers of the last hour that they will receive as much as those who have labored all day long. He shuts...
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Sin attempts to dwarf the other, sizes him down to the level I want him to be. If I gossip, the other simply becomes something to be gloated over, belittled, and judged. In anger, I try to strike him down, so that he is nothing more than my perception of him; in my eyes he is nothing but the despicable act or vice to which I have reduced him. I will lash out at him again, if he tries to...
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How can one experience joy in the midst of great suffering? I mean true and genuine joy, which comes from the heart, not stoically putting on a brave face, hiding one's inner Golgatha behind a fake smile; or narcissistically gazing at one's own courage in the face of great adversity while masochistically enjoying one's suffering. This question came to my mind recently, when writing an article for Crisis-Magazine on Chiara Corbella, a young Italian...
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I'm not speaking here of a boxing-match or of bullies who like beating up others. What I'm referring to is the widespread human temptation to put others into "boxes". What makes this so terrible, and yet so tremendously tempting? It can seem an innocent enough pastime. What I tell my spouse or mother, or what I talk about in the inner recesses of the family, won't hurt anybody, right? I can trust...
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"I am seeing more and more how the human idea of mercy is protection from truth. True mercy [divine mercy] is an encounter with Truth—which is extremely painful."
That is very well put, Katie. it is an excellent point as well, that this is what purgatory is about. The truths about ourselves regarding our sins and weaknesses, the sufferings we were trying to escape by running away from these truths, will become our purification in the afterlife. We will have to face up to them and see them for what they are. The idols we failed to give up will have to be burnt away from us, and this will be painful.The difficulty there, of course, is that we can't take a break from this purification, which is something we can do here (and often do to the point of trying to run away from it completely).
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Thanks, Kate and Katie! You are right, Katie. One doesn't even realize that one is "unreal and earthbound", before one is being stripped. One thinks that a general wanting to do God's will and be holy (and even working hard at it) is enough to make this happen; but it isn't. Suffering has a way of anchoring one in reality that is hard to achieve otherwise. To quote approximately one of my favorite philosophers, Simone Weil: we live in a dream-world, lying to ourselves about our past, present and future; only great affliction, the close-encounter with extreme evil or sanctity pull one out of it.The question remains then whether we follow up on this or try to blend it out again by diverting ourselves. If one does not embrace the cross, then addictions appear or become stronger, and one easily becomes cynical and bitter.
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Furthermore, much about fashion and modesty is relative; while showing one's ankle in Victorian times was considered indecent, this would hardly make anybody in the West blush today. However, there are some things, which, I'd say, are not relative.
Having taught at a fairly liberal university myself, I found it interesting that my male colleagues, who were anything but puritans in their morals and ideas, complained about the scanty clothing of their female students in the summer. "They don't know what they are doing to us", they would say. They would try to avoid looking in their direction. Hence, I don't think that women showing their breasts on the beach is a good idea in our culture. Yes, being puritanical can make one uncomfortable with one's body, self-righteous, rigid etc., apart from not being a virtue in the first place whilst pretending to be so. But not having a sense of modesty, being oblivious to the fact that showing too much skin will put one at greater risk of being objectified or intentionally flaunting one's sexuality is not good either (not that you are saying so).
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Similarly with regard to good and evil. The real, absolute good is above evil and not its contrary. "[Relative] good as the opposite of evil," writes Weil, "is in a sense equivalent to it… That which is the direct opposite of evil never belongs to the order of the higher good". The kind of relative good, which replaces evil is itself evil, but in the guise of the good. Thus theft and the bourgeois respect of property, or adultery and being a "respectable woman" are on the same level, according to Weil. Though the bourgeois and the respectable woman feel far superior to the thief and the adulterer, they are hardly above. Their righteousness is of the pharisaical kind, and not a true adherence to virtue. Analogously one could say that the puritanically modest is not really better than the immodest.
Hence I agree with you that modesty talks that speak about the details of fashion are not helpful. Often they make one think of rules rather than of the heart of the matter; they can lead to puritanism and self-righteousness.
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The conversation has moved on, since I wrote this up this morning. But I thought it might still be of interest (especially what Weil has to say).
I'm with you in your critique of American puritanism, Katie, which one finds both in its religious as well as its secular form. Having been raised outside of the US, I never found that aspect of American culture appealing.
Having said that, I think there is a danger to go from a reaction against libertinism to a reaction against puritanism. In each case, one is only getting at part of the truth. Simone Weil was very insightful in this area, and saw "the right" and "the left", for example, as being in reaction to each other, and therefore more similar than they would like to think. The truth is not in a reaction to various sides, but is above this.


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'Magic' the 'Largest Game Brand'
It's somewhat tangential to RPG news, but has relevancy in that Magic: The Gathering is D&D publisher WotC's largest brand by far - and thus speaks to WotC's importance as a division of Hasbro, their RPG lines notwithstanding. ICv2 is reporting that M:tG is the largest game brand in the US.
Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner told analysts in the company's conference call this week that Magic: The Gathering is "…the largest game brand in the U.S." (apparently excluding videogames from the comparison). And for the first time, a Hasbro exec has characterized the size of the brand, implying that it's $200 million or more. In praising the Wizards of the Coast management team Goldner noted that the team had taken Magic, "which totaled less than $100 million in revenues in 2008 and was on the decline, to where it is today,… more than double the size it was just three years ago."
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I am wondering if has anything to do with the new D&D? Maybe with Magic doing so well they have eased off of D&D needing to be a 100 million dollar contender?
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Whenever Magic does something new, all the shipments of D&D and Pathfinder stuff at my FLGS gets delayed by 2 weeks. Always 2 weeks exactly.
This news kind of helps explain why that happens. Still not happy about it though...
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If you look at some of the comments they've made about D&D Next, it's clear that they've formed into a Design team and a Development team, which is how Magic sets are created. As well, some people from the Magic side have moved to D&D.
Doubling the sales of Magic is a very impressive feat, especially when you consider that most CCGs are fads, and build to a peak before dying out. Maybe WotC thinks it can do the same with D&D.
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My FLGS has weekly scheduled regular and junior Magic tournaments and they fill all the tables in their gaming room.
An awesome FLGS, for sure - they have regularly filled Board-Game nights, Tuesday and Wednesday Encounters, open RPG nights, Pathfinder Society, and I think Yu-Gi-Oh.
But the Magic evenings, when I have stumbled in to browse by accident, are PACKED. Young and Old.Game on, gang!
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I think one reason for this is might be because the costs involved with the production of one Magic expansion could be insignificant compaired to the costs involved with the production on one run of DnD books. That and the very nature of collectable card games causes the players to buy multiple copies of a product (a booster or starter set) unlike DnD where each table can have as little of one copy of each book (if any).
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Anyway, these predictions will be all over the place. I'll do some awards, league-leaders, win totals, playoffs qualifiers, eventual deceptions, comeback years and other random stuff.
They won 56 games last year with Vinny Del Negro as a coach. I think this speaks to the talent level on this team. However, this is a team built for the regular season and I honestly don't trust their bigs to perform in high-stakes games when the playoffs come around. Teams like OKC and San Antonio will give them a lot of trouble even if they might have "less" talent overall. They will be fun to watch though.
Stephen Curry will make the West All-Star Team and will probably start. At the same time, John Wall will do the same out East (but will not start).
Look, it's a travesty he didn't make it last season, and he made it clear after the mid-season break. He averaged 26 points on 48% shooting, including 46% from 3-point land (and more than 4 makes per game...), 7.4 assists in 39 minutes per game. And he had a postseason for the ages, even his team didn't make it past the second round. The absence of Kobe might make room for him and enable him to be voted on by fans. As for John Wall, he was very good when he came back last season. Now that he has a whole season and he's getting older - at his age, older is better - I expect him to flirt with Chris Paul-like numbers of 20-10 (let's say 18-8 to be realistic) and make the All-Star Game 10% more entertaining by himself.
Kevin Durant will average (at least) 32 points per game and win the MVP award.
Westbrook will miss the first few weeks of the season, which might force KD to take over more often than he would do usually. I wouldn't go as far as Jalen Rose did when he said he would average 38, but he certainly is capable of it. He's the "easiest" scorer in the league (more than Carmelo, I'd argue), averaging massive percentages (the famous 50-40-90 club) and has virtually no weakness on offense. And everything I read and watch lately speaks of how much he's focused and "angrier" coming into this season. I wouldn't be surprised if his average jumped to 34-35. As far as his case for MVP is concerned, I think voters are getting tired of voting for LeBron, like they were in the 90's when Barkley and Malone both won MVPs in seasons where Jordan was clearly the best player in the league. This will come into play.
Brooklyn won't get past the second round of the playoffs.
I think the Nets will finish fourth or higher in the Eastern Conference, but I don't see them beating Chicago, Indiana or Miami in any 7-game-series anytime soon and they will have to face one of these to get to the Eastern Conference Finals. Not only that, I think they might blow it up after this season if they don't make it to the ECF, considering they're waaay over the salary cap and that Garnett/Pierce duo might not last very long.
The New York Knicks will implode.
I've said for more than a year that this Knicks team was doomed to implode at some point. They don't have a "true" leader in Carmelo Anthony, they have maybe the two worst defensive forwards in the history, their owner doesn't look overly competent (that's an understatement), they're paying 16 millions in luxury tax, they're wildly inconsistent, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if they fell to the 7th spot and get blown out by Chicago 4-0.
Stephen Curry will try 650 3-pointers.
The current record is 678 by George McCloud. Steph tried exactly 600 last season, but shot close to 9 trifectas per game after the All-Star Break. I think this continues and he shoots a lot more, and still hits a very high percentage, and maybe, just maybe, drill 300 of them and shatter his own record set this past season.
JaVale McGee will be a serious contender for the MIP.
I don't know why, but I feel like McGee has massive potential in this league, even if he's a very strange man with a very peculiar history of doing weird s*** on the court. So we've got a slightly mad, über-athletic big man with massive potential. I like this combination.
The Thunder will acquire a "real" third option.
They just have to.The lack of Harden showed too much last season for them not to act. They need someone else than Durant or Westbrook to produce something on offense. Who? I don't know, but they will act.
The Cleveland Cavaliers will make the playoffs.
They just have to. I don't know what else to tell you. If they don't make the playoffs with a healthy squad I think my brain might explode.
Luol Deng won't lead the league in minutes played per game.
I know Thibs tends to overplay his core players, but the rise of Jimmy Butler will allow Deng to sit a few more minutes per game on the bench and take a breather. This may not look like a bold statement, but Deng led the leagues in minutes per game for two straight seasons.
The Mavericks will miss the playoffs again.
I was very tempted by Bill Simmons' idea that Dirk is poised for a big year. That may be so, but the man is 35 and the other components on the team haven't really improved if you ask me. Monta Ellis will be taking shots away from Dirk (bad idea) and I somehow trust him even less than OJ Mayo. José Calderon is a competent leader, but that's about all you can say about him. Samuel Dalembert is a decent shotblocker, but can't really help them elsewhere. The Mavericks will be a non-factor once again.
Two 2013 All-Stars will be traded during this season.
My guesses would be Rajon Rondo and LaMarcus Aldridge, but David Lee might not be part of the Warriors' future either.
Frank Vogel will win Coach of the Year.
Up until midway through the ECF, Frank Vogel was still a very underrated NBA coach. Considering how impressive the Pacers were last year and the fact that they added bench support this off-season, I'm expecting a 55+ wins season from the Pacers and accolades for this young coach.
The Miami Heat will not threepeat as NBA Champions.
I cannot tell you who I think will win the 2014 NBA championship, because I have no clue (There are 4, and maybe 5, real contenders for me). But everything tells me Miami, who barely got past Indiana and San Antonio last playoffs, won't repeat, and here's why :
- I will not go as far as calling their triumph of last season's championship "luck", because that would be disrespectful to what this team has accomplished since they won fair and square, but let's just say the odds for the circumstances surrounding the Heat's triumph last season would be 10 000 to 1.
- This year will be a lot harder. History taught us that the third year after back-to-back titles is exponentially tougher than the two others. With that much success, motivation will be an issue. I don't think it will be an issue at the top (Pat Riley and LeBron James, mainly), but for the supporting cast, it definitely can be.
- Wade is clearly on the way down and their old supporting cast is getting even older. And this is a case where older is clearly "smarter", but not necessarily "better".
- I would not be surprised if they win, because they do have a 4-time MVP at his peak on their squad, but I would put their chances at 30-35% amongst all NBA teams. Which would be higher than any other team, obviously, but this is the first year since the Three Amigos joined forces that the Heat are not favorite against the "field", at least for me.
Please don't take this like a personal attack on LeBron James. Yes, I never was a big LeBron fan, but anyone with a working pair of eyeballs can see he's the best overall basketball player on the planet. I think he alone makes them a threat to win it all each and every year. But the rest of the Heat concerns me. And I think this might play against him wanting to stay in Miami when his contract expires after this season. I think there's more than a 50% chance he'll stay there, but that's about as high as I'm willing to go. As great a player as he is, he still needs 11 other men around him to make it to the top again. He said it himself, the 2013 Championship run was a lot harder than in 2012. And 2014 looks to be even harder.


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Like the Senior Division, OE Certified cars are judged against a set of standards rather than fellow competitors, only these standards are even more demanding than the previous. A mere seven cars are selected each year to be judged in the OE Certified class. This is the high water mark of the Mopar show arena, and the cars scoring top marks in this class are considered to be the best of the best.
If "restification" is more your game, the Modified classes offer a chance for good spirited competition that pit enthusiasts' restoration and auto craft skills against one another. Here, judges look mostly at fit and finish, and the consistency of the car's theme.
As mentioned earlier, the judges for each class have exceptional knowledge of the cars to which they are assigned. This is especially helpful, not only in ensuring that all cars are judged on their correct merits, but that proper consideration is given for a car's peculiarities. If a judge owns five A-Bodies of his own, for example, he or she will know the three or four spots that seem to get the most chips, hood rub points, and other natures of the beast. This is extremely helpful when factoring in the "driven" or "use" status of a judged car. The judges are also fairly consistent from one year to the next. By continuing the same judging teams each year (many of which are husband and wife), participants benefit from continuity and judging consistency.
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On a national level, people who do not normally trailer [their cars], do," says Mopar Nationals Head Judge Keith Rohm. "The reason is that to compete in a judged showfield type arena...you've been cleaning for so many weeks or even months, most folks aren't going to drive to the show even though they may drive [their car] to cruises, on sunny weekends, or to non-national level competitions.
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We joke and we kid, but it's true here in Morocco and probably across the Peace Corps board: There are two things that must happen at least once to every volunteer in order for him/her to have truly experienced PC Morocco.
1) You have to crap your pants.
I think I've written a lot about my GI issues in the beginning of my service. Alhumdullah, I haven't had anymore serious bouts in well over a year, so we can move on.
2) You have to have gotten thrown up on.
I shouldn't generalize, but I will for a moment: Moroccans are notorious for how easily they become motion sick. For a country that probably has more unpaved S-curve ladened roads, than nicely paved roads, you would think that the people would have stomachs of steel, but a lot of them do not.
I'm not sure what the fine print is specifically on real Peace Corps rule #2, but I had my backpack thrown up on once (culprit unknown) and I hoped and prayed that that was the last time I'd have to clean up someone else's puke from off of my property.
Welllllll, I'm sure by now you know where this post is headed. I wish I had a picture to accompany the following but that would have been rude of me to take it, and anyway I'm sure you're thinking how thankful you are that you've been spared a sickening sight. I still have two more months left here though, so don't exhale just yet. Bwahahaha!
Anyway, so today I'm coming back from basketball camp in Agdz, which is a small town about an hour south of me on the road to Zagora. I'm sitting behind the driver, and this is in a grand taxi so as usual there are two men sitting in the passenger seat up front, and 2.5 males sitting next to me in the back seat. I say 2.5 because one was my friend Karsten who was seated directly next to me, and next to him was a young boy maybe 12 years old or so, and his father seated next to the other window.
As we pull out of the city, Karsten and I finish up our lunch, sandwich and fries. I notice Karsten sharing the end of his fries with the kid sitting next to him. "Aww, so cute!" I think to myself. So we're going along, we're going along and the road becomes windier, and windier. I'm lost in thought listening to Van Morrison's Moondance album, and staring out of the window at the mountainous terrain we're speeding by. Next thing I know, I see Karsten looking over at the other window, where the little Moroccan boy is splayed across his dad's lap with his upper torso out the window, his head supported by hands cupping either side of his face.
My first thought was "Oh, how cute; he's enjoying the warm air and scenery too!" Then I spied, what looked like dirty water droplets on the lower right portion of the window. "Hmm, I wonder where that water came from?" I thought. "Weird." And then the father starts repositioning his legs so that the son can occupy the position next to the window instead of being spread out across his father's lap. And then Karsten turns to me and smiles briefly and knowingly to still-completely-oblivious-me and quickly puts his head down between his legs.
"What the heck is he doing?" I thought to myself, as I stared down curiously at my friend. And then it hit me! I looked over at the window and took note of the kid's position: head in hands, tilted downward, and a quarter of his body hanging outside of the window… Oh, yeah! That kid is puking!
But oh oh oh! Woe as me! The slow one, with the even slower reaction. As I'm realizing what's going on, the kid lets it rip, and the fries and whatever else he'd just eaten came spewing out like Vesuvius. And me, the poor unsuspecting Pompeii, got a nice light sprinkle of everything on the right side of my upper face as it caught in the stream of air circulating from the window through the car.
Now, to be fair, it wasn't a lot of puke, but it was still puke—someone else's puke— that was on my face. And it was still repulsive. At that point though, there was really nothing to be done except to wipe it off, and take cover just to be safe. And that's what I did. I kept my head down, for almost the entire rest of that taxi ride.
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I am swapping out my older X58 BIOS motherboard for a UEFI motherboard with a new Ivy Bridge i5. I'd rather not have to reinstall Windows 7, and just want to make sure I can swap the boards and CPUs without issue. Thanks!
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I don't know how likely that is.
Before you try any transplant, I strongly recommend that you image your HD. I've used Acronis True Image, although it's not completely foolproof.
You may be able to simply swap motherboards, Windows 7 detects the hardware changes, and off you go. You may have to install a few new drivers.
If that doesn't work, you may be able to use the sysprep utility on your WIndows installation, with the "generalize" switch. That's intended to allow producing a generic Windows installation for diverse hardware. (Drivers are removed.)
If all else fails, re-install Windows. I hope that you aren't using an OEM copy of Windows. Microsoft may not be willing to activate it on a new system.
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As Bob says, SysPrep on the hardware to be sure it will start on the new: SysPrep to move HD to another computer
There is a different method to install in EFI mode so you'll want to be sure the EFI boot disk listing is removed from the BIOS Boot order, and any setting for Legacy BIOS is enabled. You may need to read further in your mobo manual on it's SUpport Downloads webpage to see how to avoid EFI to use a normal MBR (not GPT) formatted HD.
If it starts up it should load all of the drivers while requesting several restarts, then run Windows Updates until all Important and Optional are caught up.
If not post back what happens along with any verbatim error message.
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