Neither of these is me, Image source.
Here is the harsh reality – any man or woman who has lost more than 100 pounds to reach their 'goal weight' will NEVER look the same as someone who has maintained that goal weight for their entire lives. Well, perhaps with surgery, skin removal and liposuction they can get pretty close. Nor will they look the same as they thought when they started the weight loss process.
The "Changing Room" photos place Kozerski in the conventional story our culture tells about weight loss: the no-brainer cause and effect of "Look Great, Feel Good!," as cheerfully suggested by People magazine's weight-loss cover stories and The Biggest Loser's original theme song. The "Half" photos, by contrast, explore Kozerski's surprise at eventually finding that happily-ever-after image lacking.
As I noted in my first 'Running Story', I lost more than 175 pounds during 1989 and into early 1990. When people I knew saw me, they were stunned at the differences, and I got loads of compliments … and also comments and observations. Things about the proportions of my body – my head, neck and so on. I know part of it was them seeing me differently, but part of it was physical – my body needed time to adapt.
And your body does adapt for the most part – I haven't gotten a comment about my head looking out of proportion with my body in 23 years. But there ARE ways the body never adapts. Your skin never seems to truly forget. I have stretch marks and loose skin – nothing compared to the woman from the article, but enough that I know my body will never really look the way I would like.
If I had a dollar for every time Lisa has told me 'it is just loose skin', the kids' college funds would be over-flowing with cash. I like to joke with myself that at best I have a 4-pack! If you look at my 'about' picture you see me as I am – thin and fairly well defined. Yet when I come back from a run, I can see my ab definition mixed with a 'dunlop' (your belly done-lopped over your belt)! Again it isn't a huge problem – that orange shirt is fitted and not hiding much!
It is a reminder that actually applies to everything – we get a mental picture in our heads: if I do this, that will happen. Whether it is money, a job, a romantic interest, a house, car or whatever … even as adults we attach unrealistic expectations to these things, and buy into the images pushed by people who make money off of us grasping at those dreams. If you wonder why so many people fail at weight loss even after a huge success … this 'post loss depression' feeling certainly plays into it.
I had taken a couple of other pictures that I guess I'm not really ready to share, but I found a perfect one from the Wineglass Marathon. At this point I weigh 200 pounds less than when I graduated RPI and 100 pounds less than when I turned 46 in April 2012. Here I am going across the bridge towards Market Street and the finish, and if you look at my inner thigh you can see the significant amount of loose skin I am dealing with.
Running and eating healthy are two big things in my life right now, and for nearly 25 years I have done my best to keep my weight under control. I know that my body will never look like that mental image I had way back when I started – but that is OK. I am very healthy now, and in the best shape of my life. I have a great many things to be thankful for in my life with a great marriage and wonderful kids … so if I have to deal with loose skin and stretch marks, that is something I can handle.
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I struggle with this also. I have stretch marks that I struggle with. Not many compared to a lot of women, but nonetheless I have them. I hate them…sometimes. There are times when I am like you know what, these were from my kids and whatever it takes, I will do it! Other times (like when trying swimsuits on), I get discouraged by them. A fitness model/competitor I follow on Facebook actually posted a picture the other day about stretch marks. She is one of "those" bodies that I have in my head as my goal when working out. But here I think, ahhh my body won't look like that because of my stretch marks. Well, she has them too! You just can't see them in her pictures (of course) because of the make-up, editing, etc. Will I ever have "that" body? Probably not. My skin had been stretched too much for too long, but you are right, I am healthy now and have a great family that loves me marks and all!
I had my two oldest son's in my early twenties and bounced back pretty quick with very few stretchmarks but when I had my youngest son I was in my late thirties. He's 6 now and my belly area just didn't bounce back like it did before. Thirteen years made a difference and although I will never have that taut belly again he was worth every bit of it.
Thanks for sharing this! While I've never lost more than 15 pounds and don't have stretch marks, I relate to it because there are always parts of our bodies that we don't love, but have to force ourselves to appreciate anyway. You've come SO far, and you look amazing!! I truly never would have noticed the skin on your thighs unless I was specifically looking for it because you pointed it out! Be proud :).
Thanks Megan – I have to admit having an issue for a while when I first lost weight with people who would only have a few pounds to lose. It took me a while to realize that our struggles with our weight and appearance and our body image issues are our own … and like you say they are something we all have to deal with.
I completely understand and think that's justified! Yes, everyone has body struggles, but undergoing such a massive weight loss is something that I will never be able to relate to on a completely personal level. I CAN admire it, though!
I don't let myself off so easily, Megan – one thing with obese people is not liking the feeling of being judged in all things because of weight. For example, the thought is when someone is obese, they are also lazy, weak, not a hard worker,slow, unwilling to do what it takes to succeed, impulsive, and so on.
So for me as someone who was obese and had those feelings (you really CAN feel the eyes of judgment on you), to then as a thin person turn around and judge others … shameful.
That said, I very much did see a distinct difference in how people treated me. And since I have always been very good remembering faces, I could go to a social situation and see the same person who was very dismissive before suddenly be very engaging.


This is all so good -- and good for us, as we place our lives at His disposal. Often I'm not clear on the boundary between talent and gifting - or even just the things I like to do (and don't like to do), but am learning to put it out there as an offering to Him and to let Him create opportunities (or not) as a means of guidance.
Thanks, Laura, for this carefully crafted series.
This was great! I think so many times we are confused with gift, talent, and calling. This really helped explain it. We can get so consumed with what our calling is when everyday we can live out our calling in all that we do.
That is so true Maree!
Alexandra, I think the most exciting thing about knowing what my spiritual gift was, was the process of discovering it! I look back on my life and can see very clearly where God has orchestrated events that would eventually lead to me doing what I do today. For example, when I was singing, for some inexplicable reason I felt compelled to take a writing course. I could not, for the life of me, get over the feeling that God wanted me to write more than just songs. At the time I thought, "Okay, I suppose it would make a great hobby." I never realized then that He was setting in motion what I'm doing today - writing Bible studies. And then there was the time that I attended a Kay Arthur conference and my spirit longed to be able to become a Precept Teacher, but at the time I didn't have the funds. So I sat there, never telling anyone that I would love to do that. Much to my surprise at the end of the conference, I found out that someone had paid for the course for me. They said God had told them to pay for it and so they obeyed and I eventually became a Precept Teacher. All that to say this - God reveals to us in subtle and not so subtle ways what our gifts are and He will prepare us to use them for His glory.


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Dave and Dieter,
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Former Roman Catholic Dialogue Co-Chair Passes
Bishop Michael E. Putney, until 2013 Catholic Co-Chair of the international dialogue with the World Methodist Council died on 28th March, aged 67. After doctoral studies in Rome, he was a lecturer in the Brisbane Seminary for many years, and was appointed Bishop of Townsville, his home town, in northern Queensland, Australia, in 2001. He had been for many years a leading figure in the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the Vatican's ecumenical agency. He had been diagnosed with inoperable cancer in December 2012, and inspired many with the serene way in which he continued his ministry until the end. In his last week, his autobiography was launched. His notable contribution to the dialogue, and his often-declared love for the Methodist tradition, will be reported in a tribute in the next edition of First Friday Newsletter.
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Search of the Menai Strait for survivors from a sunken motorboat.
Multiple 999 calls received by the U.K. Coastguard of a capsized vessel between the two bridges on the Menai Strait. At 1.34 pm on Saturday 5 September 2020 they requested that the volunteer crew members of the R N L I Beaumaris lifeboat launch.
RNLI/A J Robinson
Beaumaris Lifeboat approaching the Menai Bridge
The Beaumaris lifeboat Annette Mary Liddington was launched a 1.42 pm and made her way towards the incident. In addition to the lifeboat the following had also been tasked, Coastguard Rescue Helicopter and the Bangor Mobile Rescue Team.
By the time the lifeboat and the helicopter arrived it became clear from debris that the boat had sunk in a position south of the Britannia bridge near the training centre Indefatigable Further information obtained by the lifeboat crew from other craft at the scene indicated that the survivors had been rescued by a passing speedboat.
As it was unknown how many persons had been aboard the sunken vessel the helicopter continued to search the area whilst the lifeboat, went to Menai Bridge to obtain more information.
It transpired that the rescue vessel had taken three people and a dog ashore and then left the area. The lifeboat crew managed to speak to a survivor who confirmed that all aboard now accounted for.
One of the casualties had been trapped under the water and suffered a shoulder injury but was being attended to by a paramedic prior to transfer to the hospital.
In view of this information the U. K Coastguard released both lifeboat and the helicopter to return to their station at 2.23 pm the lifeboat being refuelled and prepared for her next service call by 3.30 pm.
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My father was raised in the town of Tayabas and I consider Quezon as my second home province. Yearly, I visit my Tayabasin relatives for our annual family reunion and sometimes on occasions such as Pahiyas and Mayohan festivals. Last September 29, on the feast day of St. Michael Archangel and the town's fiesta, Radney and I went there to see my dad's siblings and my cousins. It was the perfect time to distribute the invitations for our upcoming October wedding, everybody was there plus a buffet lunch welcomed us. We intended to just have a quick visit and planned to go back to Manila at night but suddenly we felt very tired for another 5-hour drive so we decided to find a place to spend the night. Through google search, we were able to find a nearby place to stay and it was at Samkara Restaurant and Garden Resort in the town of Lucban. It is a Bali-inspired resort where the nipa huts and the pool are overlooking a wide rice field and numerous coconut trees. Long time ago, I've been wanting to blog something about Quezon Province and finally I have this entry.
It was such a breath-taking, fresh and peaceful sanctuary where guests can eat, relax and meditate. I cannot take my eyes off the rice terraces with actual hardworking farmers doing their day-to-day job.
For the accommodation, each room is located uphill, made of finest nipa hut materials and windows are made of capiz. We stayed in their "Kalawili" room. It may look vintage but it has comfortable features. It was airconditioned, there was an LED TV with cable channels, the bathroom was clean with toiletries and has water heater (much needed for naturally cold water). The bed with stylish kulambo (mosquito net) was so inviting. The rattan rocking chair near the large sliding glass door was very nostalgic, it reminds me of our grandparents. Opening the sliding glass leads to the veranda with another perspective of the yellow-green rice fields.
The restaurant was tidy and has a relaxing Filipino atmosphere. As our complimentary breakfast, they served the famous and delicious Lucban longganisa and Pancit Habhab and even gave us free watermelon shakes. Instrumental music of OPM love songs was playing on the background while we were eating. I can consider this as one of the best breakfasts of my life!
The pool area was my favorite, it is actually the resort's main attraction. Unlike any other pools, it is chlorine-free! It is not tiled and looks like a natural basin of fresh water coming from Mt. Banahaw. It was not a big pool but we savored every moment of peace and tranquility while swimming, we were not sharing it with anyone as there were only few guests at that time. As we stand in the middle, the 360 degree view surrounding the pool was more than perfection! At the edge of the pool was a closer view of the rice fields. We got caught in the rain but that didn't stop us from having fun, instead we enjoyed it even more! It was a one of a kind provincial experience. Just notice how unexpected this trip was, I wasn't prepared to bring a proper swimming attire.
The places I saw here are really wonderful, celebrating a special event like this with the beauty of nature is really cool. When you are in this event venue, there's nothing you can do than to be happy. I really liked it here.


Growing up I ate a lot of beets. But I never ate fresh roasted beets. I always ate the can ones; not that there is anything wrong with eating canned beets I was just never introduced to the fresh ones as a child. *Just want to make that clear since my mom reads and I'm sure I'll catch hell for it later. It wasn't until earlier this year I started experimenting in the kitchen with fresh beets.
Last week, while shopping at my local produce market I decided to give them another try and challenge myself to cook with them. I scoured the internet for recipes and found this recipe from good 'ol Martha. I also found a recipe for beet greens… yes, as in the greens that are attached to the top of the beets. I tried both, and loved both recipes; however, did not photograph the beet greens so that will be a later blog post!
Ultimately, I wanted a refreshing summer salad that was light and super healthy. This recipe did just that. Served chilled with bold colors and flavors Since I love basil and cook with it just about in every meal I decided to add the aromatic herb to the dish. It complemented all the flavors wonderfully. If you are looking for a flavorful summer salad to serve… this is the recipe for you.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Chop the tops of the beats off (save the greens for another meal), scrub the beats, and then place beets on a large piece of foil on a baking sheet. Top with 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil. Fold foil around the beets and crimp ends to form a packet. Roast beets in oven until tender (when pierced with a knife: about 45 minutes). Remove beets from foil and let cool preferably in the refrigerator. Once the beets are cooled they are very easy to peel. Once the beets are peeled cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices.
In a small bowl, whisk together remaining 3 teaspoons olive oil, thinly sliced shallot, lemon juice, and lemon zest and red wine vinegar; season with salt and pepper to taste. On a large platter or on individual plates, arrange beets and tomatoes (every other one being a beet) add 3 artichoke hearts per plate. Drizzle with dressing and sprinkle with thinly sliced basil leaves.
*You can refrigerate this salad up to 2 days; however, note that your tomatoes will become stained from the beet dye.
My husband won't even TRY beets because he was so traumatized by the canned ones. I've tried explaining that there's no comparison but he's not buying it. Oh well, when I make this yummy salad I'll have all the delicious beets to myself!
Awe that's horrible. I loved canned beets growing up, so its taken me a little bit of time to get use to the fresh ones. Hopefully, you will one day be able to convince him to give the fresh ones a try!
I love beets and I know there are so many people who just hate them. I love the earthy flavor and with the right vinaigrette…heaven.
Love this, Katie!! I love beets…even when I was a kid and like Kristy's hubby, Curtis won't eat them either!
Thanks Julie. Jon is not a fan either. 🙁 o-well more beats for me!
When I first clicked through to this post I could have sworn it said "beef, tomato, and artichoke" salad. While I'm a a beef lover, beets make this sound sooo much more appetizing! Yum!
lol that is too funny, Rachel!
I LOVE all of the above: beets, 'chokes, tomatoes – great pairing and pretty pictures!!
Oh Katie, what a beautiful salad! I love beets.
Thanks Aggie! It looks as good as it tasted!


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Q: Real analyticity of harmonic functions Let $u(x,y)$ be harmonic on a domain $D \in \mathbb C$, Can we say that $f(x)=u(x,0)$ is real analytic on $D \cap \mathbb R$ if it is non-empty?
Clearly $f$ is infinitely differentiable on the domain, But what about analyticity?

A: Yes, that's true. One way to see this is to show that there exists (locally) a conjugate harmonic function $v$ such that $u+iv$ is holomorphic. This is shown in text books on harmonic maps or elliptic PDE of second order.
Another way is to find an integral representation for $u$ (again, it suffices to do that locally. Googling will find you resources for this, e.g. this one) and to note that the integral kernel admits a represention by it's Taylor series.

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Posted in Magic Online on 27 de Julho de 2015
By Alli Steele
Hey everyone! Alli Medwin here, the editor for this here Magic Online game. As ever, with the release of a new set, I'm going to share the scoop on what's going on behind the scenes. I'll be reviewing some of the more interesting cards from a digital implementation perspective, some of the challenges that we've come across with this set, and a few of the improvements that you've seen with this build. More than usual, this time I'll be going over some of the areas where we've made technical improvements to the client—some obvious and some mostly invisible.
Show, Don't Tell
So let's start with information. There's a lot of it. Magic's a very complicated game, and it's a difficult balancing act to find the right amount to show you. Too little information and you lose the ability to make informed strategic and tactical decisions. Too much and you start losing the ability to process everything you see. We don't want to overload you in the middle of your game with so much that it becomes arduous to read and understand, but we also need to give you enough (and in the right places!) to make the best decisions possible.
Historically, our philosophy has been that when you zoom in or right-click on a card, you get information about the current state of that object. After all, when you're mid-game, you generally accept that characteristics of objects change. It's more important that your opponent's Ugin, the Spirit Dragon is now at 11 loyalty than it is that it entered the battlefield with seven. Except that there are times when it matters—every time you have a line of play that involves bouncing or flickering, for example—and when it matters, you want that information handy. Before Origins, you needed to go to the Collection Scene to take a look at how much loyalty Ugin enters with. Or maybe load up a web browser, go to Gatherer, and search for the card.
Balancing the quantity of information the game displays is important, but this is actively hiding important information. So starting with Origins, we're showing the original loyalty count for planeswalkers when you right-click on one. After using Nissa's +1 ability, right-clicking on the card shows me, among other things, this:
Umezawa's Jitte has caused some frustration lately. When it's equipped to an untapped creature, the creature card covers the counter icon. In order to find out how many counters are on it, and thus what the Jitte's controller can do, you've needed to zoom in on the card. There are several ways to zoom in—mouseover the card, then middle-click, hold Z, or right-and-left-clicking—but even when you know how zooming works, the need to zoom in to get that information just isn't consistent with the way you gather information elsewhere. Now, instead of needing to zoom (although zooming still works!), you'll get the information you're looking for using the more intuitive right-click method.
Here's what that looks like:
And one last thing about displaying information: Zooming in on a card typically shows everything you see in the standard view—except for marked damage. And that's a weird exception.
If I see this:
I should also see this:
And starting with Magic Origins, you will. Showing information is important, being consistent is important, and that's why we've taken these steps to reduce the difficulty of accessing information.
Single Card Stories: Alhammarret, High Arbiter
Meddling Mage, the original "Name a card" card, asks players to do just that: "Name a card."
Alhammarret, High Arbiter asks players to "choose the name of a nonland card revealed this way."
These are almost the same. If I'm playing these cards at Friday Night Magic, then here's how they're each going to work:
I cast Meddling Mage. I think about what my opponent is playing, then I tank for thirty seconds. What outs might my opponent have? What's her plan? What am I going to lose to? Eventually I make my decision, name a card, and make my next decision.
I cast Alhammarret. I look at my opponent's hand. I think for a few seconds and point to one of the cards. "That one," I say, and my opponent scowls because that was her plan for the next turn.
Magic Online shows the "name a card" dialog whenever you need to name a card. It's important to be able to let you make whatever decisions online that you can in paper, so while you're probably not naming Camel when your Stoneblade deck casts Meddling Mage, the option's still there for you. Alhammarret, however, severely restricts the names you can choose. There's generally no "tank phase" casting him, so there's no need to display the full "name a card" dialog. Really, the only thing you need to do is choose one of the cards the opponent shows you.
What we ended up doing was similar to what we did for Cursed Scroll, but a step further. Where Cursed Scroll gives you the option to name any card you want, in case you want to bluff, Alhammarret doesn't. Since you don't need to have that option, we can dramatically simplify the user experience to a single click.
Single Card Stories: Demonic Pact
If I had a Mox for every time I saw people speculate about the implementation of this card online, my whole family could play Vintage. I'm happy to say that we are, yes, going to have a confirmation click in place for this card. After all, here's the menu that you'll use to put Demonic Pact's trigger onto the stack:
Without a confirmation click, I know there's a pretty good chance that I'd lose to a misclick at some point too. We never want to introduce new risk to cards that isn't there in paper, and while some degree of that is inevitable, it should be minimized. There are only so many confirmation clicks you should put into a game, and it's not a large number. So when your Pact's ability triggers, you'll click the mode you want to use, and the ability will be put on the stack, showing only the text of the mode chosen. If you choose the "lose the game" mode, perhaps because you're holding a Stifle, control a Sundial of the Infinite, or just want to see this lovely dialog box, you're presented with this:
If you click "Yes" here, that lethal trigger is put on the stack and you've got one priority pass to do something before the game ends. You'll also get here—without a confirmation click—if you're out of other options to choose. I hope that original bargain was worth it!
Single Card Stories: The Great Aurora
The Great Aurora is a card that's very complicated in paper and almost simple digitally: very operationally complex, but with minimal choices to make along the way. In paper, you need to first count the number of cards in hand, count the number of permanents you control on the battlefield, add them together, scoop them all up together, shuffle, draw a bunch of cards, then put out all of your lands. Or most of your lands. Probably.
Sure, there are reasons to not put out all of your lands. Maybe you have an Armageddon in hand (you jerk!) and maybe your opponent's just going to kill you with an unearthed Anathemancer if you put out too many. Or you want to drop three lands to cast your Seismic Assault so you can discard your lands to just straight-up win. But most of the time, let's be honest, you're going to put them all out.
There's literally no precedent for what we did here. It's not huge either, but it'll certainly save a few clicks.
In the prompt box, you can see that "All Lands" button, and it does what you probably imagine it does: It puts all the lands in your hand onto the battlefield during that step of resolving the spell. I've talked a few times before about balancing the need to keep the complexity of Magic intact while making the most common decisions easier, and this is one of the more offbeat ways we're applying that principle in Magic Origins.
Putting a Premium on Premium Cards
Back in April, in my Dragons of Tarkir article, I mentioned that we had a new premium card treatment coming. I'm happy to announce that, as of the release of Magic Origins, it's here! In addition to being much more noticeable and snazzy, this new color-shifting animation is one of several recent performance enhancements that we've been putting out lately. This one is certainly the most dramatic, but it's hardly the only one.
This isn't exactly what you'll see in the client, because the conversion to this image format cost some detail, but it's pretty close.
To check it out for yourself, you can always just open up the client. The animation is off by default, but you can also turn it on (or off) by going to the Account Scene and checking the box labeled "Animate Foil Treatment".
An Original Performance
When we were doing pre-planning for the Origins build, our team identified a problem with the way that the frame for the double-faced planeswalkers would have to be built: the way that the client displays frames, we would need to construct an entirely new pair of frames to account for these five cards. It's no small task, and even if we did that, the client would need to load yet another frame type in order to show the cards properly. The more frame types being drawn simultaneously, the more system resources the client needs.
This wasn't technically a problem that needed to be solved, because we could have gone with the original plan, built those frames and released without a hitch. Instead, though, the team came up with a solution that meant that not only did we not build new frames, but we could reduce the number of card frames in the game: while this is complicated, the one-paragraph version is that our technical artist, Jesse, built a template and several modules that can be independently controlled. Now, when we have individual cards with slightly different frame needs (a color indicator, a power/toughness plaque on a land, etc.), those cards can use the same frame plus the required modular components. Ultimately, this meant that we solved not only for the planeswalkers in Magic Origins but also were able to give some significant performance increases and even some small visual upgrades to 63 cards, including existing double-faced cards, Dryad Arbor. Perhaps best of all, it means that we can use this template going forward when there are other things that call for new frames to be created. I think it's fair to say that we like creating new frames every so often.
There's one other thing you might have noticed: the Collection Scene loads a lot faster now. This went live before the release of Magic Origins, but it's worth touching on, because it was a result of a huge effort to refactor the code that underlies that scene. Because this was a refactor and not a redesign, I don't have a lot to say here, but everything about this scene is smoother and faster now: searching for cards, building decks, maintaining trade binders, and even just sorting large lists. I think everyone who plays Magic Online knows that this scene has historically been really slow, and this addresses a significant pain point that every player experienced at least occasionally.
Let Me Draw a Picture for You
On a similar front to the above, we've made some adjustments to the way that animations of cards work. When cards change zones, tap, or even slide up to the "red zone", that movement (however slight) is animated according to specific rules. It's a brief animation, but an animation nonetheless.
We've recently made some upgrades to the way that those animations work for two reasons. First, we found some significant performance gains to make in the code that defined the behavior of that movement, so it fit into our agenda of upgrading the client's overall performance. Second, up until now, the animations were deliberately limited to a handful of frames that gave many people the impression that the client was stuttering or that they didn't exist. (In fact, they can even be turned off and on from the Duel Scene options menu, found in the lower left corner by clicking on the gear icon.)
Implementing these performance upgrades also gave us the opportunity to increase flexibility in a pretty significant way. For each distinct animation (hand to stack, graveyard to battlefield, etc.), we made sure to include a lot of knobs that we can turn for each animation: frame rate, whether it's defined as a set duration or set velocity, the value of the duration/velocity, etc. With these knobs in place, the whole design team sat down and tweaked them until we got them into a spot that we liked. Then we had our internal beta testers play with it—we run a tournament every Wednesday afternoon that lets us test these things—and we tweaked them some more. Once everyone was satisfied, we locked the values in for this release, but one of the virtues of the knobs is that we can now change these things pretty easily.
So I want to make a request of all of you: please let us know how these animations—cards moving around the screen—feel when you're playing. If you like where we landed, great. If you think there's a way we can improve them, we'd love to hear that too. Our goal with this work was for them to be smooth without being slow, fast but visible and not jarring. Again, this loses some detail in the conversion to an image, but the below animation will give you a general idea of how card movement looks in Magic Online.
We definitely read feedback on Twitter, Reddit, and other social media, and we definitely want to get this right. You can talk directly to several of the design team on Twitter: Magic Online Design Manager Ryan Spain at @RyanSpain, yours truly at @trulyaliem, and Game Designer Rob Schuster at @RobertJSchuster.
Until next time, when I'll have an article for you that's legen… wait for it…
Alli Medwin
Digital Editor, Magic Online
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Museums, motorcycles, art, pop culture, literature, Gen X, history, politics, baseball, Pennsylvania. I direct the activities of Pennsylvania's statewide museum association. I am like Mad Max driving a mini van with properly installed car seats.
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8 responses to "Where Have All The Rainbow Pooping Unicorns Gone?"
K W Mundstock ⋅
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Karlito is feeling lazy today. Karlito will therefore dip into the well of awesomeness that is GenX Says… and share this awesome post of awesomeness whilst I go track down Thesaurus Rex and my Muse and get them back into their cages.
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This post ended up being pretty timely. It was announced today Taylor Swift gave $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
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Ha ha! Great post. Just to clarify where I was coming from in my talk since the CFM post was a summary: The main gist re: Boomers is that they're getting to a, umm, "mature" stage of life and, in the past anyway, people at that life stage become less future-directed, have a retrospective desire to take stock of the past, think about leaving a legacy, etc., which in turn could be an opportunity for history museums. Also, I pointed out that history museum boards and donors tend to run scary old, with many elderly non-Boomer members still serving and donors still giving in their 80's and 90's, a over-reliance leaving the possibility of a leadership and funding support gap as they pass on without Boomers stepping up. Of course, many Boomers have a lot of money at this point in their lives and there are a lot of them too, so getting them engaged should be a priority purely from the practical standpoint of institutional self-preservation. But I cautioned that, so far, Boomers have defied expectations and have generally tried strenuously to do everything differently than their predecessors, including being in denial about getting old, even eschewing all of the traditional terms of aging like "senior," "elderly," "retirement," etc., etc. I noted that Boomers are primarily interested in themselves, as evidenced by their even stronger than anticipated showing at The 1968 Exhibit at the MN History Center (48% of visitors between the ages of 60 and 70 alone!) Though I am a late Boomer myself (b.1959), I'm pretty cognizant of the shortcomings of our generational cohort and share a lot of the frustrations of the GenXers.
This is right on time. I had a very heated debate (rant) over lunch yesterday about how too many leadership position openings in museums are designed to make sure that no one of my generation has a snowball's chance in hell of even coming close to qualifying for them. I tried to make my argument more coherent at the time, but that was the gist of it. I'm waiting (perhaps with futility) for current leaders to step up and truly mentor, rather than hoarding all of the career goodies for themselves.
Thanks for all the comments, and thank you Dan for fleshing out your remark in the summary. Almost all museum issues are more complex than most of us can articulate in thousands of words, and that's probably why that particular recommendation seemed out of place next to the others and such an easy starting point for me.
James G. Leventhal ⋅
Love me some Dan Spock and starting to like me some Rusty Baker, too. This is a fantastic post and I love your prose style that feels so personal, engaging and entertaining. We have a responsibility to get edgemecated, though.
We can't just sit back on our Smiths records collections and bemoan the fact that we can bemoan really well.
You can take six years to get through a two year MBA program, with a kid in between. I think…I don't remember most of it. I didn't sleep much. Don't now neither.
And the more we apply for those jobs, the more we are going to get them.
Director of Honolulu Academy of Art: Stephan Jost http://blog.honoluluacademy.org/?p=2260 when the job was announced in Jan 2011, "…And he turns 42 on Saturday…"
Dennis Kois, DeCordova Museum (Lincoln, MA) http://legacy.artnewengland.com/issues/Aug_Sept_2008/dennis-kois.html in 2008 "..Kois, thirty-nine, a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, studied museum design and management at institutions including the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; New York University; and the Getty Leadership Institute…"
The challenge is how to then be really, really good when you get there. These two men are doing it. And well, "I was looking for a job, and then I found a job. And heaven knows I'm miserable now…" 😉
"And the more we apply for these jobs, the more we are going to get them." That made my morning. Right on.
damn straight you all. We (Bay Area Discovery Museum) have a new CEO (Karyn Flynn, Gen X), a new Executive Director of our Center for Childhood Creativity (Elizabeth Rieke, Gen X), a Board probably 90%+ Gen X, and we're hiring for a Director of Development and a Director of Learning & Educational Content – the finalists I've met with have all been Gen X.
So it's probably because we're a children's museum so our current adult constituents are parents (lifestage + demographics = Gen X). And we're not huge ($4m budget, 300,000 visitors).
But still – maybe we as a generation need to look at museums that are more likely to attract younger stakeholders – and that's where we can make our mark higher up, if that's what we seek?
And this: "The challenge is how to then be really, really good when you get there." YES YES YES
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Nowadays, a name has been on everyone's mouth i.e. Elon Musk. For those who don't know and thinking Who is Elon Musk? I tell you who he is. Being an entrepreneur, Elon Musk is the CEO, lead designer of SpaceX CEO, product architect of Tesla, Inc. Founder of The Boring Company, Founder of Starlink, and X.com Co-founder of Neuralink, OpenAI, and Zip2 Chairman of SolarCity. Because of his astounding achievements, people have started comparing him to renowned billionaires like Steve Jobs, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford, and Bill Gates. Musk encountered many problems in his childhood, but then also he created a relentless work ethic (he works for 80 to 100 hours per week) and a determined single-minded vision. ( elon musk quotes )
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.
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"You should take the approach that you're wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong."
"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve"
"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better."
"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact."
Elon Musk Inspirational Quotes
"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold."
"The first step is to establish that something is possible then probability will occur."
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It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
Elon Musk Motivational Quotes
"No, I don't ever give up. I'd have to be dead or completely incapacitated"
"I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I'm just trying to think about the future and not be sad."
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." Elon musk quotes
When Was Elon Musk Born and his early life?
Elon Reeve Musk was born in 1971 in Pretoria, one of the capital cities of South Africa. Musk's father was an engineer and his mother was a model and nutritionist. He has two siblings. Being the oldest of three children, he holds the responsibility of an ambitious family. His brother Kimbal Musk is presently an enterprise tycoon and environmentalist. His sister Tosca Musk is a producer and a director and has also won many awards in the same.
When he was nine years old, his parents decided to move apart and get divorced. After the divorce, Musk lived primarily with his father. Musk began his schooling a year early. He got admission in a private school named Waterkloof House Preparatory School. Later, Musk graduated from Pretoria Boys High School. He was fond of reading and was also a great lover of comics. He considers himself as a bookworm. He tells that he was bullied in school and withdrew to his books at the cost of his life.
Musk was first introduced to computers when he was at the age of 10, with the Commodore VIC-20. He soon learned programming and then, at the age of 12, was able to sell his self-designed game called Blastar to Spectravideo for $500.
From this very first deal of his life, at that time, Musk, along with his brother, planned to open a video game arcade nearby school. Eventually, their parents disallowed the idea. But clearly, the only thing stopping them was the need for a city permit that had to be applied for by an adult.
Musk's studious nature helped him in his childhood. He made few sharp-minded Afrikaner culture friends that encountered in school.
"I had an awful upbringing. I had a lot of difficulty growing up. One thing I bother about my kids is that they don't face enough hardship as I did," he said this when asked in an interview.
Musk got admitted in an English-speaking school named, Waterkloof House Preparatory School, and later he went to Pretoria Boys High School to complete his graduation. Elon Musk was bullied in the school by the bad boys. Those years were lonely and vicious, from his explanations.
"They got my best friend to draw me out of hiding so they could beat me up. And that hurt," Musk said. "For unknown intention, those bad boys decided that I was it, and they were going to go after me nonstop. That's what made my childhood a hell for me. For a number of years, there was no relaxation. You get chased around by gangs of bad boys at school who attempted to beat the hell out of me, and then I'd return home, and it would just be tragic there as well."
If there was a chance of escape for Musk then it came in the form of technology. When he was only 10, he became proficient in programming via the Commodore VIC-20, an economical home computer. Before long, he had become so proficient, that he created a video game in the style of Space-Invaders called Blaster. He exchanged the BASIC code for the game to a magazine called PC and Office Technology for $500.
Musk shifted to Canada at the age of 17, because he didn't want to serve in the South African military, whose primary responsibility in the late 1980s was to enforce apartheid. He later received Canadian citizenship through his mother.
Elon Musk Education
After moving to Canada, Musk took admission to Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. There he came across Justine Wilson, an aspiring writer. They married and had five sons together, twins and triplets, before divorcing in 2008.
Subsequently, two years at Queen's University, Musk shifted to the University of Pennsylvania. He took on two majors, but this time, there wasn't all work and no play. With a fellow student, he bought a 10-bedroom fraternity house, which they used as an ad hoc nightclub.
Musk completed his graduation with a Bachelor's degree of Science in Physics, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the Wharton School. The two different degrees gave direction to the Musk's career, but it was physics that made a genuine impression on his thinking.
"Physics is a good framework for thinking," he said. "Boil a sings down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there."
Musk then moved to California at the age of 24, to pursue a Ph.D. in applied physics at Stanford University. With the internet-breaking out and Silicon Valley banging, Musk had entrepreneurial visions dancing in his head. He left the Ph.D. program after just two days from its start.
In 1995, with $28,000 and his younger brother Kimbal at his side, Musk started Zip2, a web software firm that would assist journals to develop online city guides. The organization got bought out, and Musk used his Zip2 buyout money to build X.com, which he aspired to shape into the future of banking. X was integrated with a company called Confinity and the emerging company came to be known as PayPal. Musk was then expelled from the company before it was acquired by eBay.
After PayPal slipped away, Musk assisted to acquire funding for an electric car startup company called Tesla. You perhaps know the rest.
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We need to cut out a small vertical section (12" high x 3" wide) on the back of the fountain in order to accommodate a small pipe that extends from our wall. We can reinforce the area around the section we remove, but is the material that the fountain is made of be a type that can be cut and is there room in the rear of the fountain to for the pipe to extend into it 1-2")? We would appreciation suggestions or help you might have. Thank you!
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From Volume 1 Issues 2 on Poverty in America
The subject of granting financial reparations to American descendants of slaves has long provoked discourse between academics and social justice advocates alike. For centuries, enslaved Africans and their descendants were kept on American plantations against their will, brutally harmed and forced to perform labor every day. In 1619, slavery was first introduced in the United States, in the Jamestown colony of present-day Virginia. It was not until January 1, 1863, when the abolition of slavery was announced under the Emancipation Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln ("Slavery in America"). The amount of time slavery existed in America is still longer than the amount of time since its abolishment. The effects of slavery still remain today. In The New York Times' " The 1619 Project" examining the history of slavery, author Trymaine Lee acknowledges modern examples of systemic racism. Legal segregation and Jim Crow laws plagued American society for the greater part of the twentieth century. Redlining and housing discrimination against black Americans created a wide economic gap between the average black and white families in America (Lee). While segregation has since been outlawed, many schools are still arguably segregated, with majority-white schools receiving visibly more funding than their African-American-majority counterparts. Academic achievement and police brutality continue to threaten the lives of black Americans.
These systemic, economic ills of racism can be linked to America's past involvement in the slave trade. A Pew Research study indicates that 63% of Americans today believe that the legacy of slavery continues to impact the position of black people in modern society, while also citing how "more than four-in-ten U.S. adults think the country hasn't gone far enough in giving black people equal rights with whites..." (Horowitz). The persistent economic gaps between Americans of different racial groups can be reduced through granting of financial reparations. The implementation of financial reparations for American descendants of slaves will reduce historical and systemic racial inequality and can be implemented via the approval of federal legislation that already exists.
Racial inequality has been continuously apparent in society. Since the origin of slavery in early world history, the oppression of black people has perpetuated the wealth and economic success of their white counterparts. As described in "The 1619 Project," a special report on the history of American slavery by The New York Times Magazine, slavery "provided political power, social standing, and wealth for the church, European nation-states, New World colonies and individuals," (Elliott Hughes). If the inhumane practice of enslaving people was used to create mass amounts of wealth for white oppressors, reparation payments can be used to account for this unjust creation of wealth. In an essay analyzing the faults of capitalism in America, Matthew Desmond asserts that early economic success in America was due to "our nation's unflinching willingness to use violence on nonwhite people and to exert its will on seemingly endless supplies of land and labor," (2). His statement furthers the notion that the financial well-being of white people has historically existed at the expense of people of color.
The widening of the gap between black and white Americans has not been accidental. In fact, the federal government has played a significant role in the creation of wealth inequality. As Lee writes for the New York Times, "plundering of black wealth was...etched in law and public policy," (3). He continues to assert this idea by examining specific examples of the federal government's failures to create economic equality. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's G.I. Bill was one of his "most enduring legacies," (Lee 4). However, while giving veterans easier access to mortgages, this legislation allowed for the Veterans Administration to adopt "the same racially restrictive policies as the Federal Housing Administration" that granted loans to racist developers (Lee). Trymaine Lee's article also reminds us that, while Roosevelt's economic policies provided a foundation for a successful American middle class, domestic and agricultural workers, the majority of whom were black, were ineligible for these "wealth-building programs" such as Social Security (Lee). The impossibility of attaining the same economic privileges as white Americans thus led to a greater economic gap between black and white people. Lee's article on the racial wealth gap in America also quotes Duke University professor William A. Darity Jr., who argues that because one's wealth is largely dependent on the financial success of their family's previous generations, black Americans are at a disadvantage because of recent injustices preventing the accumulation of generational wealth (Lee). As a professor of both African American studies and public policy at a prestigious university, Darity clearly possesses the credentials necessary to offer an insight as to what the underlying causes of the racial wealth gap are. Irina Ivanova of CBS News also provides quantitative data highlighting just how large the gap is, showing white families are worth about $171,000 on average, as opposed to just about ten percent of that figure being the average wealth of a black American family (1).
Proposed federal legislation, titled H.R. 40, would divert federal funds towards the study of reparations. Congressional attention would be diverted towards the subject of reparations for slave descendants, and while the bill would not yet implement these reparations, Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times explains that a congressional commission would be created "to develop proposals to address the lingering effects of slavery and consider a 'national apology' for the harm it has caused," (Stolberg). Such a commission would be made up of thirteen members and would receive $12 million in federal funding, as noted by The Philadelphia Inquirer (Russ).
A reasonable question to be raised regarding the implementation of reparations is who would be eligible. This is a question that could be studied and answered by the congressional commission. Professor William Darity, mentioned in Lee's article for "The 1619 Project," is cited in the Huffington Post with an answer. Darity proposes that for one to qualify for reparations, that individual would have to provide identity himself on a formal document as "black, African-American, colored or Negro" and have legitimate proof of an enslaved ancestor (Craven). This article also quotes Darity as stating that $9.12 billion would be owed, while economist Larry Neal estimates $6.4 trillion (Craven). This same article responds to questions regarding just how reparation payments could be made, pointing to statistics showing that "in fiscal year 2014, the U.S. government spent $3.5 trillion...only 20% of the nation's gross domestic product" (Craven). While a lack of widespread support and an abundance of questions surrounding the achievability of reparations casts doubt on the issue, simple questions regarding the issue can be answered through the congressional approval of a commission to study reparations.
Numerous questions surround the subject of reparations. Political gridlock and economic debate have resulted in no legitimate blueprint for implementation. While the subject is controversial, with many skeptics, there is no debate that the legacy of slavery is detrimental to the current lives of black Americans. At the very least, productive research and discourse on the issue are owed to the people who have suffered economic misfortune as a result of centuries of discrimination. Education of the public and outspoken criticism of political leaders who refuse to act will result in long overdue financial compensation for this country's most painful legacy.
Craven, Julia. "We Absolutely Could Give Reparations To Black People. Here's How." HuffPost, HuffPost, 23 Feb. 2016, www.huffpost.com/entry/reparations-black-americans-slavery_n_56c4dfa9e4b08ffac1276bd7.
Desmond, Matthew. "American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation." The New York Times, The New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/slavery-capitalism.html.
Ferris State University. "Slavery in America." Slavery in America - Timeline - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University, www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/timeline/slavery.htm.
Horowitz, Juliana Menasce. "Most Americans Say the Legacy of Slavery Still Affects Black People in the U.S. Today." Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 17 June 2019, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/06/17/most-americans-say-the-legacy-of-slavery-still-affects-black-people-in-the-u-s-today/.
Ivanova, Irina. "If Black Families Were as Rich as White Ones, U.S. Economy Would Be $1.5 Trillion Bigger." CBS News, CBS Interactive, 20 Aug. 2019, www.cbsnews.com/news/racial-wealth-gap-costs-economy-1-5-trillion-dollars-report-finds/.
Lee, Trymaine. "How America's Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder." The New York Times, The New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/racial-wealth-gap.html.
Russ, Valerie. "What You Need to Know about Reparations after the First Congressional Hearing Convened on the Topic in More than a Decade." Https://Www.inquirer.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 June 2019, www.inquirer.com/news/what-are-reparations-america-h-r-40-congressional-hearings-democratic-presidential-candidates-20190619.html.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay. "At Historic Hearing, House Panel Explores Reparations." The New York Times, The New York Times, 19 June 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/politics/slavery-reparations-hearing.html?module=inline.
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Yesterday I had another good day. I ate well, made good food choices. I will list what I ate below. I hope these food logs are not boring to anyone. They are really helping me stay accountible. So I will keep them up for now.
Breakfast yesterday was a bowl of wheetabix, and some fruit.
Mid morning snack was a slimming world bar, some fruit.
Lunch was a ham sandwich and a mug of tea.
Dinner was chicken curry and rice.
Evening snack was some fruit cut up.
Drinks throughout the day were couple mugs of tea, coffee and 2 litres of water.
Was happy with how the day panned out.
Well my food log for April 17th was not that great. I mean I did it, I logged what I ate. But to be honest, that wasnt that much.
I never really eat much on my weigh in day. But I did try to eat some small things.
Breakfast consisted of some fruit.
Mid morning, I ate some more fruit.
Lunch was some toast with some spreadable cheese on it.
When I came back from my dr. barry apt I ate a bowl of wheetabix.
I was going to cook dinner last night when I got home from slimming world, but then tiredness overtook me, and I didnt feel up to cooking.
So I just ate some hard boiled eggs and some toast.
Drinks yesterday consisted of a couple mugs of tea, coffee, and 3 500 ml bottles of water.
So that was my day in a nutshell. Not the best one, but oh well. It is what it is.
I was down again this week!
So guys, I did it! Not down by a lot this week but…I was still down!
I got weighed last night! And I was down half a pound!
I know it doesnt seem like much, but every little counts!
Now I am down a total of 2 stone 2 pounds, or for my US readers thats 30 pounds!
I'm going in the right direction! I will admit, I was a little disappointed when I stepped onthe scales, I really thought I'd be down more than I was, but what can you do!
At least it was a positive result!
So now to keep going, keep doing what I am doing. Keep motivated!
Author Carol AnnePosted on April 18, 2019 Categories PersonalTags Abuse survivor, Diary, Diet, fat, Healing, Journal, Life, Lifestyle, Losing weight, Mental illness, PTSD, Slimming world, weekly weigh in, weigh in, Weight, Weight loss2 Comments on I was down again this week!
Today had been a little hard. I didnt eat too much. I was too tired to cook. I havent been that mindful of what I ate, either. But I will log it anyway.
Breakfast was two slices of toast with some cooked bacon, and a mug of tea.
Mid morning I ate some fruit.
Lunch was just a bowl of wheetabix, and some fruit.
I didnt cook dinner yet, but I may have something in a while. If I do it will be some sweet potato fries with some chicken fingers and some baked beans.
No evening snack tonight, as its evening here already, but I may have some fruit later on tonight.
My water intake was pretty bad today, I only drank one 500 ml bottle. I've also had some mugs of tea and some coffee as well throughout the day.
I didnt do any exercise today either. I will have to get back to it tomorrow.
Hoping tomorrow things will be better. Sometimes you just have days like that I guess.
Today was a huge success. Yay. Am so delighted!
For breakfast I had some pineapple, and a bowl of wheetabix cerial, and a mug of tea.
For mid morning snack I ate an apple and a plumb.
For lunch I had a chicken sandwich, a bag of low calory chips, and a yogurt.
For dinner I had a baked potato, some chicken, and some broccoli rice.
Evening snack I had some more fruit, and two slimming world bars.
Drinks today were 3 litres of water, a couple mugs of tea, and a couple mugs of coffee.
Very pleased with my overall food intake today. I really should see a good result this coming week on the scales. I am hopeful about it anyway.
So once again, a fab day for me today! Food choices were all great! I am very happy with how the day has gone!
So here is how it went for me!
Breakfast was two slices of wholemeal toast, and a mug of tea.
Mid morning snack was a bowl of cut up fruit.
No lunch, as we had an early dinner, we always eat early on Sundays!
Dinner was ribs, mashed potato with no butter or cream in it, broccoli, and turnip. Gotta get in my speed for the day!
After dinner I had a mug of tea and a fibre 1 chocolate popcorn bar, yum!
Evening snack is going to be either a bowl of cerial or some rice cakes and some fruit. I haven't actually decided on it yet.
Drinks throughout today were 3 litres of water, couple cups of coffee, and couple mugs of tea.
I haven't really done much exercise this weekend, but I will get on the treadmill tonight for 20 minutes.
So that's it guys! Another day done! I am very happy with how the week has gone!
Its been a super super day! Food wise I've done great! I am so proud of myself! I am doing amazingly well with my food log. Logging what I am eating is helping me immensely!
So heres what I ate today!
Another bowl of soup, and some fruit cut up.
Drinks throughout the day were 2 litres of water, one cup of coffee, couple mugs of tea, and one can of diet coke.
And thats how my day looked today!


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As soon as they brought Thibs on board, I had a feeling this would happen. Then, when Butler came along, it was basically confirmed to me that he wanted to get the band back together.
This could be disastrous for the Wolves.
Voight and Avs_19 like this.
Especially since there's no way to move the Wiggins contract so they could end up moving KAT only to be stuck with Wiggins & the 2010 Bulls starting lineup
cgf, Sep 8, 2018
Not a great way to endear himself to the Celtics management team.
BostonBob, Sep 8, 2018
"Towns won't sign his rookie extension until the Butler situation is resolved......."
By resolved does he mean Towns isn't signing unless they trade Butler? If so, that's one hell of a power play and it would mean things are even worse than anyone thought. The deadline for Towns to sign is October 15.
Avs_19, Sep 17, 2018
Well, at least the T-Wolves ended their playoff drought last year.
Sucks it's come to this though, I thought they had a good thing brewing.
Hawkman To be the man, you gotta beat the man
The Lakers will be a top 4 seed. It will be the Celtics vs the Warriors in the Finals.
Hawkman, Sep 18, 2018
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Sixers named Elton Brand GM.
Don't understand this at all.
Big Poppa Puck, Sep 18, 2018
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Sixers named Elton Brand GM. Don't understand this at all.
Agreed. Ex-players such as Baylor, Isaiah, Jackson, Kupchak, Paxson, and Kerr have been some of the worst GMs/Presidents ever.
The T-Wolves have made the playoffs once and won 0 series since 2004.
I think it means he wants to see whether Butler is staying or going - cause if Butler leaves, he may lose the incentive to stick around.
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Kupchak has a couple rings as GM.... he did pretty good.
Kerr wasnt that bad in PHX, the team had some good seasons.
If the reports are accurate, KAT and Butler want absolutely nothing to do with one another.
Butler wants to be traded! Lakers?
Butler has already reportedly shot down the Lakers
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Ainge, Riley, Bird, Dumars deserve some mention as a counterpoint.
b1e9a8r5s, Sep 20, 2018
I understand he wants to be "THE Guy" but you have to wonder if hes capable of doing so. Can he bring you past the 2nd round alone?
Agree 100%, I was going off whom he named.
I would of hired Brand tho.
I don't think Jimmy Butler is good enough to take a team past the 2nd round. He might believe he is, but he's going to be 30 soon and has never passed the 2nd round.
If I was a team with cap space, I'd be staying far away from Jimmy Butler given he probably wants max money AND to be the primary scoring option.
As much as I hate the Knicks, Butler's best option would be teaming up with Kyrie and Porzingis in NYC. Its a big enough market that he'll still get the attention he craves while being the 3rd guy instead of #1 or even #2.
...Kupchak has a couple rings as GM.... he did pretty good. Kerr wasnt that bad in PHX, the team had some good seasons.
They both inherited good teams (KOBE!), made them bad, and got fired. Name a good move Kupchak made after the Pau Gasol trade. The Lakers won 35 games last year and were still trying to recover from the horrible $136 million combined for 4 years contracts he gave Deng and Mozgov.
Kerr inherited a team with the best record in the conference and turned it into something far less.
bambamcam4ever, Sep 21, 2018
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They both inherited good teams (KOBE!), made them bad, and got fired. Name a good move Kupchak made after the Pau Gasol trade. The Lakers won 35 games last year and were still trying to recover from the horrible $136 million combined for 4 years contracts he gave Deng and Mozgov and the Suns were the worst team in the league. That's how they got the Ayton pick.
Aside from Kobe, Kupchak pretty much built the entire 2008-2010 roster than went 2-1 in the finals. Afterwards he tried a lot of win-now moves that didnt pan out but it doesnt matter, he managed to convince Kobe to stay and got 2 rings out of it.
His later moves, i.e. the two you noted were bad ill give you that but aside from that he had a great run, shocker the team started to suck when its best player got old/retired.
Also the Suns being bad last season had literally 0 to do with Kerr, who hasnt worked for them since 2010
Will be interesting to see where Butler ends up. He's a good talent but is the headache that comes with him worth it?
tony d, Sep 21, 2018
Embiid says Ayton is gonna get his ass kicked.
Lol I love Joel Embiid
Disagree with Smith. Lakers are a playoff team with Lebron but they're not reaching the West finals.
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I never want to count LeBron out or sell him short but it's going to be very tough to get to the WCF with this current roster. A couple of the young guys will have to take some big steps forward in a short amount of time for that to happen.
Just look at some of the other guys they have to work with:


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By Liz Butterfield
The fight for marriage equality for same-sex couples in Virginia continues to progress through the courts this week after a federal judge ruled the state's ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.
Federal District Judge Arenda Wright Allen struck down the law used in the controversial Bostic v. Rainey case as unconstitutional in Norfolk's federal court on Thursday (Feb. 13). Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring declared his support of the ruling against the same-sex marriage ban in the commonwealth.
"The ruling by Judge Arenda Wright Allen is yet another step forward in the long road toward ensuring that all Virginians are treated fairly and equally under the law," Herring said.
Herring announced just days after coming into office his administration would not support the commonwealth's law in federal court.
In her 41-page opinion, the judge cited violations of the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution as factors that ultimately reversed the ban.
"What Judge Wright Allen affirmed is that couples like them who are committed to sharing the marital bond deserve to be treated equally under the law," Herring said.
Opponents of the decision are expected to support an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
About 57 percent of voters ratified the same-sex marriage ban, known as the Marshall-Newman Amendment or the Virginia Marriage Amendment, in 2006. The law strictly defines marriage as exclusively between one man and one woman, and refuses to recognize similar legal status for other couples.
While the appeal progresses, same-sex couples will not be able to marry in Virginia because of a stay on the execution of the decision issued by Wright Allen.
Virginia Solicitor General Stuart Raphael argued the case on the behalf of the commonwealth. Timothy Bostic, Tony London, Carol Schall and Mary Townley acted as plaintiffs in the case before the Norfolk court.
Herring reversed Virginia's legal position on its stance in Bostic v. Rainey upon entering office in late January. During his 2013 election campaign, Herring said publicly he would investigate the constitutional issues of Virginia's law before changing the commonwealth's political position.
"When I ran for the office of attorney general I promised the people of Virginia that regardless of my personal support for marriage equality I would conduct a rigorous independent analysis of the constitution's questions before determining the state's legal position in this case," Herring said. "I concluded that based on extensive court precedent . . . marriage is a fundamental right protected by the United States Constitution."
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You got a few things backwards in your comment.
Let me elucidate for you:
1. The VA Government didn't pass any "gay laws".
2. The law in question was passed by referendum in 2006. Virginia voters passed it.
3. The law actually banned a couple from marrying should both happen to sport a ding-dong or a woo-woo and if that couple was legally married in another state, VA wouldn't recognize their betrothal.
4. A Federal, not State, judge just struck it down. The VA Atty General has voiced his support of the decision.
5. The word is written "Lord" never "lord". My 7th grade English teacher, Sister Catherine, equated not capitalizing a reference to Him, be it pronoun or proper, with blasphemy!
Peace be upon thee,
P.S. I think gay marriages can be fine…but gay weddings are always FABULOUS!
VA government is so stupid for passing gay laws..i guess these people don't believe in the lord…