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Album Review - L.A. Guns Checkered Past

Album Review – L.A. Guns Checkered Past

L.A. Guns Checkered Past L.A. Guns will never die. You can throw what you want at them (mix-ups, screw-ups, numerous member changes, and lawsuits), but L.A. Guns was born again when Phil Lewis came back. Since then, they have been full of a creative drive that has delivered three albums of L.A. Gun‘s finest work. The band is tight, the songs rocking, and the music is powerful and diverse. Now…

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001. “Pull over. Let me drive for a while.”

002. “It reminded me of you.”

003. “No, no, it’s my treat.”

004. “Come here. Let me fix it.”

005. “I’ll walk you home.”

006. “Have a good day at work.”

007. “I dreamt about you last night.”

008. “Take my seat.”

009. “I saved a piece for you.”

010. “I’m sorry for your loss.”

011. “You can have half.”

012. “Take my jacket, it’s cold outside.”

013. “Sorry, I’m late.”

#014. Fated to End Up (Dying) Together // (1/1) > 2,073 words

Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug

Rating: Mature

Archive Warnings: Creator Choose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Pairing: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug — LadyNoir

Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Tikki, Plagg, Alya Césaire (mentioned), Nino Lahiffe (mentioned), Gabriel Agreste (mentioned)

Prompt/s: "Can I have this dance?"

Summary: Ladybug and Chat Noir will always find each other, no matter how far apart they are. Always falling in love, even if their fate always end in a tragedy.

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015. “I made your favorite.”

016. “It’s okay. I couldn’t sleep anyway.”

017. “Watch your step.”

018. “Here, drink this. You’ll feel better.”

019. “Can I hold your hand?”

020. “You can borrow mine.”

021. “You might like this.”

022. “It’s not heavy. I’m stronger than I look.”

023. “I’ll wait.”

024. “Just because.”

025. “Look both ways.”

#026. let me fix this // (1/1) > 1,602 words

Fandom: Dream SMP

Rating: Teens And Up Audiences

Archive Warnings: Major Character Death

Pairing: Alexis | Quackity/Karl Jacobs/Sapnap — c!Karlnapity

Character/s: Karl Jacobs, Sapnap, Alexis | Quackity, Clay | Dream (mentioned)

Prompt/s: “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.”

Summary: "I'm sorry—" Karl's voice cracks, voice trembling while he holds Sapnap in his arms, the pool of blood spreading further. "I'm so sorry, my love—" He couldn't stop it–

"Fuck." Quackity cursed through gritted teeth while tears were rolling down his cheeks. They were going to lose their fiancé and they couldn't do anything about it. Dream has gone who knows where, the only one with the knowledge of the revive book. "Fuck!"

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027. “Try some.”

028. “Drive safely.”

029. “Well, what do you want to do?”

030. “One more chapter.”

031. “Don’t worry about me.”

032. “It looks good on you.”

033. “Close your eyes and hold out your hands.”

034. “That’s okay, I bought two.”

035. “After you.”

#036. It's Over // (1/1) > 3,050 words

Fandom: Dream SMP

Rating: Teens And Up Audiences

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Pairing: Alexis | Quackity/Karl Jacobs/Sapnap — c!Karlnapity

Character/s: Karl Jacobs, Sapnap, Alexis | Quackity, Dream SMP Ensemble (mentioned)

Prompt/s: “We’ll figure it out.”

Summary: Karl stands still, blankly staring at the destroyed Egg while the blood vines are withering away as it disintegrates into nothing. He doesn't look anywhere else, afraid that The Egg will come back to life and command those in control to kill the remaining members in the server.

But when he turns around and looks at his fiancés, all he can think about is that everything will be okay now that he's with them.

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037. “Can I kiss you?”

038. “I like your laugh.”

039. By Your Side Until the End // (1/1) > 1,010 words

Fandom: QSMP | Quackity SMP

Rating: Teens and Up Audiences

Archive Warnings: Major Character Death

Pairing: Jaiden Animations & Roier

Characters: Jaiden Animations, Roier

Prompt/s: “Don't cry.”

Summary: Roier is holding her hands like she'll disappear from his grasp and she doesn't understand why.

She's right here.

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040. “I made this for you.”

041. “Go back to sleep.”

042. “Is this okay?”

043. “I picked these for you.”

044. “I’ll drive you to the hospital.”

045. “What do you want to watch?”

046. “You can go first.”

047. “Did you get my letter?”

048. “I’ll do it for you.”

049. “Call me when you get home.”

050. “I think you’re beautiful.”

051. “Are you sure?”

052. “Have fun.”

053. “Sit down, I’ll get it.”

054. “I made reservations.”

055. “I don’t mind.”

056. “It brings out your eyes.”

057. “There is enough room for both of us.”

058. “You don’t have to say anything.”

059. “Wow.”

060. “Happy birthday.”

061. “I’ll pick it up after work.”

062. “It can wait until tomorrow.”

063. “Cross my heart and hope to die.”

#064 - the mark of a camellia // (1/1) >

Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs

Rating: Teens and Up Audiences

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Pairing: Dazai Osamu/Nakahara Chuuya

Characters: Nakahara Chuuya, Nakajima Atsushi, Oda Sakunosuke, Sakaguchi Ango, Armed Detective Agency Ensemble, Port Mafia Ensemble

Prompt/s: “It's two sugars, right?”

Summary: Chuuya still hopes to meet his soulmate despite not meeting them at least once for the past twenty-two years. But what happens when a writer enters his life and he gains his soul mark at the same time?

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065. “I’ll help you study.” - BSD

066. “Stay over.”

067. “I did the dishes.”

068. “You didn’t have to ask.”

069. “I bought you a ticket.”

#070 - only for the night // (1/1) > 1,224 words

Fandom: Bungou Stray Dogs

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Pairing: Nakahara Chuuya/Dazai Osamu

Characters: Dazai Osamu, Nakahara Chuuya

Prompt/s: “You're warm.”

Summary: There's only one bed and Dazai's being stubborn, not wanting to sleep in the same bed as Chuuya. Little did he know, he doesn't have a choice in this.

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071. “No reason.”

072. “I’ll meet you halfway.”

073. “Take mine.”

074. “We can share.”

075. “I was just thinking about you.”

076. “I want you to have this.”

077. “Call me if you need anything.”

078. “Do you want to come too?”

079. “I’ll still be here when you’re ready.”

080. “Is your seatbelt on?”

081. “Sweet dreams.”

082. “I was in the neighborhood.”

083. “Stay there. I’m coming to get you.”

084. “The key is under the mat.”

085. “It doesn’t bother me.”

086. “You’re important too.”

087. “I saved you a seat.”

088. “I’ll see you later.”

089. “I noticed.”

#090 - My Journal Entries // (1/1) > 6,682 words

Fandom: Original Work

Rating: Mature

Archive Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Pairing: Original Female Character(s)/Original Female Character(s)

Characters: Original Female Character(s), Original Child Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Original Characters

Prompt/s: “You can tell me anything.”

Summary: To whomever may find this, I have already been turned into a zombie or I lost this journal.

I hope it's not the latter; this journal is something very dear to me.

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091. “I hope you like it.”

092. “I want you to be happy.”

093. “I believe in you.”

094. “You can do it.”

095. “Good luck.”

096. “I brought you an umbrella.”

097. “I’ll pick you up at the airport.”

098. “Take a deep breath.”

099. “Be careful.”

100. “I love you.”

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Frase functionality Now, let’s take a quick observe the four key areas of the tool.

Create Content with Frase At the core of the Frase platform is a text editor with contextual topic studies strolling inside the background.

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Last Saturday night I was at a David Duchovny concert in Vancouver.  The concert venue was at the Imperial - a great venue- but in a neighborhood that the Urban Dictionary says is the worst neighborhood in all of Canada and some homeless advocacy groups argue  is the poorest neighborhood in all of North America.  Many of us at the concert had traveled to Vancouver from across the globe and there was some fear and trepidation which I over heard from other concert goers about this neighborhood. I had worked as a homeless advocate and have been on the board of a homeless shelter in the 90′s in Albuquerque.  I want to share my viewpoints of my experience in the worst neighborhood in Canada from an X-File frame of view because what brought me to Vancouver on October 14 was, of course, to see David Duchovny in Vancouver where the X-files was and is being filmed during a week-end which included 1013 Friday.  How does homelessness and the X-file find a theme together?  That is outlined in the link to the video above.  

I guess one way to set the mood is to say that my friend and I were only spending a week-end in Vancouver, but many other David Duchovny fans had been in Vancouver a week and had been to many famous filming sites.  My friend and I were staying at a Ramada fairly near the venue.  We drove through the area at first looking for parking before deciding that the valet parking at the Ramada was the best choice.  As we drove by I said- looking at the homeless and the city streets and remembering the video above- “oh, my God, this is the neighborhood they shot “Home Again” in.”  I realize, of course, the complete insensitivity to the plight of homelessness to see it in such focused X-file terms, but it was my frame of mind at the time.  My friend and I did in fact look for the filming sites of “Home Again” as we walked around the neighborhood, but because it is from the last season which we have not yet seen hundreds of times (only dozens) we were unable to locate exact locations.  We did watch the episode again back in Seattle the night before I flew home.  

On Saturday morning we decided to walk to the Ovaltine Restaurant (the filming location of a scene in Jose Chung) and to go by the venue.  We found ourselves walking down what I now realize is the area considered the worst two blocks in at least Canada and possibly North America.  The poverty was clear- people living in tents on the street a few blocks away from some fine, upscale and beautiful neighborhoods.  We then went to the Ovaltine Restaurant, the venue, back to the hotel for an hour of two, back to the venue to stand in line (starting at noon), walked back through the neighborhood to gastown for a bite to eat and back to the venue to stand in line again, before taking a cab back to the hotel after the concert.  

I want to state fairly clearly that there was not one time I felt scared or fearful (although I would not walk back to the hotel in the evening because I am not foolish) and the only time I was asked for money was after leaving the venue after the concert.  As we walked down the blocks at 9 a.m on a Saturday morning, we were greeted with “Good morning Ladies” and comments that our coffee cups were pink.  When our way was blocked and I said “excuse me” people moved out of the way politely.  There was nothing unpleasant about that walk except for being confronted with the fact that poverty exists and people (human beings) live in horrific conditions day in and day out.  

As we stood in line for 6 hours to see a concert, there was an need on an occasion to use a restroom.  The coffee shop sometimes let you and sometimes said that it was just for customers so my friend and I started using the community center on the corner which was truly more of a homeless center.  Again, I was greeted, offered water and shown the restroom.  My friend found blood in one of the restrooms so we climbed the stairs to use one on the other floor.  There were food being served, there were disposable containers for needles, there were signs telling people where to go if they were overdosing.  People were being afforded respect and dignity.  I was impressed.  

Here are some statistics from “Addressing Homelessness in Metro Vancouver” a white paper published in February 2017.  

An estimated 80% of homeless people suffer a chronic health issue (45% suffer two or more health conditions concurrently)15 b. 44% of sheltered and 55% of unsheltered homeless have an addiction (2014)16 c. 33% of sheltered and 36% of unsheltered homeless suffer mental illness (2014)10 d. 30% of sheltered and 27% of unsheltered homeless have a physical disability (2014)1

As we stood in line several neighborhood people talked to us.  We actually had sandwiches we did not want to eat, but couldn’t find any person that wanted the sandwiches.  Again most neighborhood people were polite, courteous and curious about why so many of us were waiting in line in front of a concert venue 6 hours before the doors opened.  I laughed on and off for hours at a woman who said “what are you protesting?”  I told my friend that we were the laziest protesters ever - no signs, no marching, no chanting- worst protest ever.  At one point a women who appeared to be suffering from withdrawal of some time fell.  Other people in line offered her assistance but she could not focus on them enough to accept their help.  She was in her own world.  After a few minutes when I witnessed her getting her shaking under control and her checking her legs to see if she was hurt, i went up to her.  From her perspective I was a big brown blob walking up to her and I startled her.  I told her that when she was ready I was willing to help and she desperately reached for my hands.  I helped her up and she grasped a tree until she was ready to stand and walk on her own.  I offered her food.  She did not want it.  She never asked for money.  Never threatened me.  

The next morning I woke up thinking of that episode “Home again” and the point of the episode.  I wondered how many of us X-Files fans might have thought back to that episode that night having experienced these and other moments.  The point - people are not trash.  They are not disposable.  They are not to be discarded.  I can walk away from that neighborhood and I can avoid the similar downtown areas in Albuquerque, but the people and the problem still exist.  From my experience in Albuquerque I know the underlying issues of homelessness - mental health issues, substance abuse, traumatic brain injuries, lack of literacy, lack of job skills, disenfranchisement from society, family and friends having giving up on them.  I know that veterans make up a large percentage of our homeless population in America, I know that senior citizen homeless numbers rose drastically in 2008 and subsequent years when retirement savings were loss and, like Vancouver, native people are a higher percentage in the homeless population than in the general population.  We can look to our educational systems, our prisons systems, our health care services (especially for the mentally ill), our foster care systems and juvenile care systems and to our economy.  The reality is a whole lot of us who go through our lives as hard working, normal citizens are closer to homelessness than we would like to admit.  In the past year I had to borrow money from friends and move into a friends home because of unemployment and I actually consider myself a fairly successful human.  We are all just humans doing the best we can in our life with what we have.  Nothing could remind us more of that than having spent so much time in that area around people who despite their issues were polite and courteous to us. 

I know our fan groups are a socially conscious and caring group of people who donate to all kinds of causes - let David Duchovny issue a post asking people to donate to charities on his birthday and beautiful things happen.  The proceeds from this concert went to hurricane victim.  This is a fan group which organizes volunteer and donation events for charities in honor of Gillian Anderson’s and Scully’s birthday.  The holiday season is ahead of us .  I am especially asking something of every one who attended that concert and interacted that night with a person who lives on the street in the worst neighborhood of North America.  If you fall into this category, than this holiday season in honor of “Home Again” and the X-files they do something in your communities to alleviate the effects of homelessness, reduce the possibility of someone becoming homeless or end some of the underlying causes of homelessness - take blankets or socks to a shelter, donate to a literacy program, call your legislators and demand better services for addiction treatment.   Buy subways cards and pass them out whenever you see someone with a sign saying hungry.  

At the very least, the next time you are in a situation where you are going to interact with homeless individuals (perhaps because of a David Duchovny concert), please treat people with respect and kindness.  People are not trash.  They are not disposable.  I was reminded of this last Saturday.  

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LaVine's All-Star stats in a disappointing season

Zach LaVine is a star.

The numbers say so. The Bulls shooting guard will finish the season in the top 20 in the NBA in scoring, currently averaging 23.7 points per game. The 24-year-old established career highs in rebounds and assists and was one of 10 guards in the NBA to average at least 23 points, four assists and four rebounds. The others are James Harden, Stephen Curry, Devin Booker, Bradley Beal, Damian Lillard, Kemba Walker, Kyrie Irving, Donovan Mitchell and Russell Westbrook. LaVine scored at least 40 points three times, all in wins, accounting for 14 percent of the team's victories in just those games.

But it is difficult, at times, to see LaVine's brilliance.

Because it is obscured by the clouds of defeat hovering over this Bulls season that concludes this week Tuesday in the United Center against the Knicks and Wednesday in Philadelphia.

LaVine understands, which is also why next season is so crucial for the team and its young players who are hoping to shine for everyone.

"The main thing I learned (this season) is you'll have individual accolades. But a lot of everything comes from winning," LaVine said in a free wheeling session with reporters before Saturday's game with the 76ers. "I think I put together a really, really good year, especially for my position as a guard. But I didn't get the accolades I want as an All-Star or all-NBA. You're not on a winning basketball team. Those things come from that. You have to put winning first.

"We want to be in the position moving forward to where we want to be one of those competing teams," said LaVine. "Come this time next year to be in position to where we are not playing meaningless games. I think I haven't played in a meaningful game in five years of my career. So I think it's getting to the point where you really want to start looking past self things and moving toward (winning) basketball games. It's not fun to go home in April. I (do) think we're in the right direction moving forward, but we have to make some changes individually and as a team to get to that point."

I think I put together a really, really good year, especially for my position as a guard. But I didn't get the accolades I want as an All-Star or all-NBA. You're not on a winning basketball team. Those things come from that. You have to put winning first.

Zach LaVine

This has been a disappointing season for everyone associated with the franchise. The early season injuries to Lauri Markkanen, Kris Dunn, Bobby Portis and Denzel Valentine effectively crushed a season that was supposed to be competitive, if not ultimately fulfilling.

It appeared the Bulls had made an unusually fast turnaround for a rebuilding with the Jimmy Butler trade and then drafting Wendell Carter Jr., the latter who was hurt in January as most of the others returned. It seemed before that the Bulls could be in theoretical playoff contention perhaps into April, like Charlotte, Miami, Detroit and Orlando. Not all will make the playoffs, but they have been in playoff-like settings the last few weeks scrambling for that goal.

LaVine, Dunn and Markkanen would not commit to whether they would be playing if the Bulls were in such a position now. Though draft lottery positioning and player analysis seemed to become a factor once Otto Porter Jr. suffered some physical issues after the trade of Portis and Jabari Parker. Though LaVine's point is significant. Habits are developed. Losing can become one, also, if success is withheld too long.

That it's a concern of LaVine's as much as the organization is a positive.

It's what everyone will do about it.

LaVine dunks

Not much can be foreseen yet with the draft lottery May 14 with several exceptional talents in the draft, and free agency possibilities. The Bulls are expected to be a player for other than the few elite free agents. So the roster could undergo yet another makeover with coach Jim Boylen going into his first full season after replacing Fred Hoiberg.

But much of that success will be focused around the 6-5 LaVine, who has been the team's best player this season.

Though he only played 63 games in his first full season after ACL surgery in February 2017, LaVine was the team's most reliable scorer and a regular playmaking facilitator, second on the team in assists. It's an impressive redemption from a free agency when many local critics argued the Bulls should not match his $78 million/four-year offer from Sacramento.

"Now it's looking like I'm a pretty good deal, right," LaVine said with a laugh.

The Bulls have hoped Markkanen would break through, and he showed signs after missing the first two months with an elbow injury. But he faded in March and then experienced a potential heart issue, which seems under control. Porter added a nice bounce to the team after the trade, but he's had a series of minor injuries. Carter showed promise, but was hurt, and Dunn has been inconsistent. There are potential luminaries in the draft, but they are teenagers without pro experience.

Come this time next year to be in position to where we are not playing meaningless games.

Zach LaVine

The Bulls are fortunate to have a talent as outstanding as LaVine. But he also understands there is another level of excellence he has to reach before the Bulls can begin again to achieve those post season goals.

LaVine said in his interview session he believes the Bulls will be a playoff team next season. But what else would he say? Put it this way: If he said anything else, who would even want him on the team.

But because of his immense talent—and it is unique with his extraordinary athletic ability and incredible recovery from serious injury—LaVine is most likely in line to be the team's leader. Markkanen and Porter tend to be quiet and Carter is young. Plus, no one else makes (and takes) as many big shots at the end of games. That's mostly what NBA leadership is about.

Leadership is not about saying it; it's about doing it.

LaVine to his credit understands he's not quite there yet even though his statistics project excellence.

Greatness in sports is consistency, being able to produce exceptional numbers regularly and thus take the pressure off your teammates so they can perform. LaVine showed he could do that this season, averaging more than 20 points for the first time in his career. That's the first step on the superstar ladder. But if LaVine is to climb higher and take the Bulls with him, he understands 63 games is not nearly enough, and the 23.7 points per game probably is not quite enough. The 3.4 turnovers per game certainly is too much, though Michael Jordan averaged more than three turnovers per game his first six years in the NBA. If you have the ball, you are going to make mistakes. But having that ball also requires you to make the deciding and determining plays that separate winning and losing. That's now on LaVine.

"I just have to keep trying to improve my game," LaVine agreed. "You have to look at yourself in the mirror and try to improve the faults you had. I think I had a really good year this year, but there are a lot of things I think I could have done much better across the board, get to the line more, slow down the turnovers. I'm going to take this just as serious if not more serious than last year. I think if you can improve yourself first that will help the team.

"I want to continue to be consistent, somebody who (you) can pretty much stamp in and know what you're going to get from them on a daily basis," LaVine explained. "Obviously, I have to (also) look at my defense on both ends. I've always felt like I've been a really good individual defender, but off the ball I think I have to put a lot more effort. I expect to improve each coming year. I think that's what you have to do to take your game to the next level. I help the team offensively in a big way, so if I can do it on both ends of the floor that elevates my game and the team's chance to win."

LaVine drives

The individual progression LaVine made from a third option averaging 18.9 points per game in Minnesota before his injury to a first option averaging almost 27 per game after the All-Star break is exceptional in the NBA. Sure, the Bulls had injuries, forcing LaVine to average a career high 18 field goal attempts and 34.5 minutes per game. It's a breakthrough only the potential All-Stars can make.

But they don't get into the conversation without team success, which players understand better after being relieved of the pressure of their first major contract.

That's where LaVine has come, and he'll be under the microscope as much as the team next season. Their fates are intertwined.

"I think we're on the right path (toward the playoffs)," LaVine insisted. "I think we'll be there. Because stuff has to eventually turn. You can't as a player continue to be on the lower end of the totem poll. I think it has to switch the mindset for you personally and for the team. I think next year we have to start off really early and have that be our main goal. It doesn't matter about individual things. You have to put that first. I think we have enough talent. There's things we have to do better. But talent wise on paper, I don't see a lot of teams better than us in the East.

"I like how we always fought," LaVine said. "I think our record didn't show actually how good we were. We were in pretty much every game that we played. There were some games where the score was out of reach and we didn't play, but I feel like that's (common) for everyone. You're going to have games like that. But we were better than what our record proved. We just have to learn how to win. It's a tough thing. I don't think it just happens at this level. Sometimes you get lucky and you're blessed to go to a team that's championship level or a contender. But I think going through these tough times you're going to look back on them and be more humble and happy that you went through them.'

LaVine was in the top five in scoring the first month of the season with most of the regulars out. It was a test, an opportunity and a burden. LaVine passed and was also among the league leaders in free throw attempts early. But with the mounting losses, the coaching change, an ankle sprain he fought through missing only five games when it was feared he could miss a month—did anyone mention all the losses—the usually upbeat LaVine began to retreat. He was the most accessible team spokesman all season with his garrulous personality and leading attendance. He never evaded the media and proved a thoughtful subject. But he clearly began to wear out over the defeats until a reprieve for a month following the Porter trade. He says it further proved to him his hopes for the team are accurate and reasonable.

LaVine and Otto Porter Jr. high five

"We just couldn't find a way to win," LaVine said about those dark days in December and January. "It's tough when you get to those stretches because it just feels like the world is against you. But we're going to come out better on the other end of those. We'll remember those days and how it felt. You've got to go through those bumps and bruises. Sometimes you've got to get beat up by a bully before you beat him up.'

Zach and the Bulls say they're going to come out fighting next time with perhaps a little twinkle in their eyes and their souls. Wish he does, wish he might, have next season go right.

Source: https://www.nba.com/bulls/news/lavines-all-star-stats-disappointing-season

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Why are my eyes such an intense purple colour today? no criminal generation nothing but crooks eustace uhg crime gets everywhere fewn 1916! startime crime wave! bul no no more milk human hatred click loud noise screams muckymirta zzzzz Gored through the chest you fall down as bloody foam comes out of your mouth, lay in a pool of blood you struggle to stand up as the burly man with a timmed 'T' on his toe meets stabs the sword into your chest again and again and again! hear sirens in the distan cops could use some history dust too much dust too many dead souls and too much neglected knowledge Meanwhile hit men go on hit zzzzzzzzzz strange human contraption Talk about hard corns, look at the head on that thing! zipper of a tent wears out and I hear a man slurping up a noodles light heat ay careful of my tank such an awesome coat hat outfit Polaronia wool not the cheap stuff either zombie hear something outside zombie! 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Game Preview | Tried and True Method Guides Brown's Teaching Approach

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At the heart of every good coach, there more often than not is a good teacher.

The professions may go by different words, but their core missions are similar.

Educate. Improve. Enrich. Mentor. Lead.

In Brett Brown and Gregg Popovich, the 76ers (20-11) and San Antonio Spurs (15-15) have two of the NBA’s preeminent teachers coaching their respective teams.

This statement that can be made about Brown given the strong track record for player development he’s built up in nearly 20 years in the league - first, as an assistant under Popovich, and now as the Sixers’ leading man.

As for Popovich, you probably don’t need a Sixers.com article to tell you why the fourth-winningest coach of all-time is probably the best to ever do it. We’ll simply leave you with this opinion - it would be oversight to attribute his heady accomplishments to Xs-and-Os alone.

Given the extent to which Brown and Popovich worked together - 12 years, 663 wins, four championships, and five NBA Finals appearances - it would almost be shocking if there weren’t some parallels between them.   

Sure enough, a prominent one lies in their shared belief in a teaching style commonly referred to as the Whole-Part-Whole method.  

“Pop taught us in San Antonio ‘Whole-Part-Whole,’” said Monty Williams, who was a coaching intern during San Antonio’s 2004-05  title run, when Brown was also on the staff.

Williams is currently in his first season on Brown’s bench, after spending the past two years as the Spurs’ Vice President of Basketball Operations.

“You show [players] everything, you break it down, then you put it back together.”

Across the board, Whole-Part-Whole influences how Brown runs the Sixers. One example, Williams said, is the way assistants are tasked with structuring their one-on-one development sessions with players.

Take the case of Landry Shamet.

Over the summer, when the promising rookie first started working with Williams, they would (as they continue to do) devote a tone to focusing on how Shamet’s role and position was supposed to function in the context of various situations.

How could a dribble hand-off, for instance, or coming off a pindown hold the key to unlocking an optimal 3-point shot? What should he do depending on the type of set the Sixers are in?

Whole-Part-Whole instruction has helped the 2018 no. 26 learn.

“I think anybody can go in the gym, dribble the ball, and hoist up a three or something,” Shamet said. “That’s just not realistic. I think workouts and skill development should be realistic and replicate what you’re going to see in a game.”

“When you get into the laws of teaching, [Whole-Part-Whole] is the overarching thing,” Brown said.

While Brown’s stint in San Antonio reinforced to him the value of Whole-Part-Whole, his appreciation for the teaching tactic goes back much farther in life, to within the walls of his childhood house.

Brown’s father, Bob, was a school teacher and an accomplished high school and college coach. Whether the subject matter was books or basketball, Whole-Part-Whole was ever-present.

These days, it’s also a central component of Brown’s film sessions with the Sixers. He’s a big believer that “vision trumps all senses.”

“If you see it, you have a chance to do it.”

So, Brown first introduces the big picture, then zooms in on the finer details. Finally, he pulls back out to 30,000 feet.

“When you drape that notion over a Whole-Part-Whole method, you kind of end up there.”

After so many years as a coach, evolution is important to Brown. But his successes seem to have taught him this: by making sure the parts are great, the whole can be even better.

“How you teach, how people learn, how you set things up where there’s a logic progression, as you get older and you coach longer and longer,” he said, “it might be the single thing that interests me the most.”

Opponent Outlook:

We’ll readily admit it.

The other night, on the eve of the Sixers’ match-up with Cleveland, we were monitoring what was happening in San Antonio’s game against the Chicago Bulls. When the Spurs got up big in the first half, leading by as many as 21, we stopped paying attention.

Well, the joke was on us.

Chicago, on the road no less, outscored San Antonio 55-31 in the second stanza to emerge with an impressive 98-93 victory. The Spurs hit just 5 of 21 shots (1-7 3fg) in the fourth quarter, and subsequently saw a season-high tying four-game winning streak end.

In his debut campaign with San Antonio, All-Star DeMar DeRozan is averaging 23.6 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 6.1 assists per game. No player in Spurs history has ever posted a 20.0 / 5.0 / 5.0 season.

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Bitcoin's True Stress Test Is Yet to Come

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Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative.

The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers.

Rekt? You should see the other guy.

For anyone concerned about bitcoin losing another 4 percent in October to post its third straight monthly loss, it’s worth comparing that loss to those seen by traditional financial markets.

By standard measures, last month was the worst on Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis. The Nasdaq lost 9.2 percent, the Dow Jones Industrials, 6.9 percent, and the S&P 500, 5.1 percent. Riskier markets such as tech stocks and emerging markets were hit especially hard.

A 4 percent decline is still hefty. But given its past volatility, the lead cryptocurrency’s relative stability amid the angst on the Street is notable.

The general impression produced by last year’s wild crypto bubble was that bitcoin and all other such tokens exist at the extreme end of the speculative class of assets. So, if world markets become risk-averse, as they did severely last month, the thinking was that people would dump bitcoin along with every other high-risk asset in their flight to dollars.

Instead, up until Monday, October 30, when bitcoin suffered a $200 drop, it was more or less stable. By crypto standards, it was a boring month.

It might be tempting to conclude that bitcoin is attracting a safe-haven bid, that people are looking to hedge their risks with a stable-yet-liquid asset that’s immune from the politics of financial crises. The idea is that bitcoin is starting to assert itself as a new type of uncorrelated reserve asset, a digital gold for the digital age.

But the truth is there is very little of this safe-haven buying going on in bitcoin prices right now. There was no noticeable spike in transactions last month, just more of the very, very gradual increase that has occurred off the low base reached during the post-bubble period of the late winter.

While there are surely some newcomers shifting their assets into bitcoin, especially in places like Venezuela, there’s no great wave of people suddenly realizing that this new digital asset might be a hedge against future political and economic turmoil.

Community turnover

So why did this notoriously volatile asset have a relatively quiet October?

One way to think about it is to reflect on the changing nature of the bitcoin investment community, which can be divided into speculators and buy-and-holders – better known as hodlers.

The speculators who dominated the community last year have gone – certainly the newcomers who drove the bitcoin price to its ridiculous peak above $19,000 in December. You know the type: your mother, your cousin or that high school friend you hadn’t spoken to for years who asked for tips on what coins to buy.

That leaves the hodlers, the true believers, those in it for the long term. These people are far less likely to care about turmoil in world markets putting their dollar-based wealth at risk. Many don’t even measure their risk exposure in dollar terms.

They don’t – at least to a point. You see, here’s the thing: This remaining community of hodlers may soon be the guinea pigs in a much more important bitcoin stress test.

What if things get ugly?

What happens if, as a number of market prognosticators believe, things get truly nasty economically?

I mean 2008-like nasty, when a financial crisis morphed into a full-blown economic crisis. Will these diehards resist liquidating their bitcoin assets then?

The answer may be a function of their real-world economic profiles. Do most of them comprise developers and entrepreneurs paid in bitcoin and ether whose expenditures are also largely for goods and services remunerated in the same? If they can subsist in the crypto economy, then maybe they’ll keep hodling.

If they do hang on, they’ll give bitcoin an impressive show of stability. Amid economic chaos, such resilience would look quite impressive to the outside world, potentially drawing another round of newcomers into the mix – not speculative “too the moon” lambo-hunters but people who get the idea that this is a valuable hedging asset for the digital economy.

The number of people who live in that crypto-dominant economy is bigger than is recognized by crypto critics, who tend to see every action of this community through the lens of investors marking their profits and losses to market in dollar terms. Still, it’s difficult to say whether this group is big enough to offset the many others for whom a serious 2008-like blow to their fiat incomes will drive them to liquidate bitcoin along with other assets.

Complicating matters is the fact that a host of new exchanges, custodial services and trading platforms are coming that could attract large institutions into this market. There might be a sizable amount of Wall Street money coming into bitcoin over the coming year.

Bitcoin speculators hoping to turn their holdings into dollar-based fortunes tend to see this as a positive prospect, assuming the influx of funds will drive up the price. But while that might happen in the short term, the experience of last year, when short-selling accompanied the introduction of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s and Chicago Board Options Exchange’s cash-settled bitcoin futures contracts, is that these professional solutions can also invite volatility.

These new institutional tools give the big guys greater capacity to get in, but they also give them the means to get out. Hedge funds are definitely not interested in hodling for holding’s sake.

This stability may not last, in other words. It’s another matter whether that provides the kind of stress test that bitcoin needs to prove itself as a reserve asset.

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President Donald Trump's reaction to Sen. John McCain's death fueled a CNN debate on Monday night, after a day of mixed messages from the White House.

President Donald Trump's mixed reaction to Sen. John McCain's death fueled a heated CNN debate on Monday night.

Lawmakers from both political parties rebuked the president for the way he handled McCain’s passing, which included criticism over the lowering of flags at the White House

President Donald Trump's mixed reaction to the death of Sen. John McCain fueled a CNN debate on Monday night, during which panelists took verbal shots at each other over the proper way to honor the longtime senator and Vietnam War veteran who died Saturday after a long battle with brain cancer.

A discussion between former Democratic South Carolina representative Bakari Sellers, CNN host Chris Cuomo, and former Republican Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, went off the rails as they examined Trump's action and inaction in the first 48 hours after McCain's death.

Trump first sent out a tweet offering condolences to the McCain family.

Flags at the White House were lowered to half-staff.

The flags were returned to full-staff on Monday morning.

Trump later released a longer statement applauding McCain, after numerous complaints from lawmakers and veterans groups.

The CNN panelists on Monday night acknowledged McCain's sacrifices to his country, but Santorum insisted that Trump's response was not relevant to the public discourse.

"I just don't think it does anything to the memory of John McCain to use him as a cudgel to beat up the president at this point," Santorum said. "Let's focus on the man and what he did, and his life — but the media seems to have this fascination to try to use the death of John McCain to further betlittle and beat up Donald Trump."

Cuomo asked, jokingly: "You think we need this to find reasons to criticise him?

Sellers said of Trump's behavior around McCain's passing:

"I think what we're seeing right now is that Donald Trump has turned this Republican Party into one of cowardice," accusing Santorum of trying to "contort themselves into pretzels" in order to defend Trump.

Sellers continued: "You have a president this week who did not stand up and show the best of what we can be."

"You don't have to cow-tow like Rick's doing right now on TV and make excuses for a president who does not deserve excuses," Sellers said.

Santorum fired back with a reference to Cuomo's older brother, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was chastised after claiming America "was never that great" during a speech on Wednesday.

Gov. Cuomo's earlier remarks, which were made during a bill-signing ceremony in New York City last week, drew some sharp response. He later walked back the comment. Here's the full quote, via The Washington Post:

"We're not going to make America great again; it was never that great. We have not reached greatness. We will reach greatness when every American is fully engaged."

On his CNN interview Monday night, Santorum said Gov. Cuomo's comments amounted to an indictment of America. He "doesn't think America is exceptional, that America is a deeply flawed country," Santorum said.

"You're so petty," Sellers said, shaking his head.

The CNN host Chris Cuomo jumped in: "Come on, don't play cheap," he said. "You talk about my brother ... you can't do better than that? I'll give you a hundred things about my brother that are true that are much worse than that."

Amid all the bickering, Sellers sought to bring the focus back to the late Arizona senator: "I will just say this, John McCain deserves a better dialogue than what we're having right now."

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Boku no Hero Academia TCG - Review of Booster Set 1

Another review! And this time we’ll be covering the first booster set of the Boku no Hero Academia TCG. This set has quite a few cards to offer, and came out at the same time as the first two starter decks of the game. This set contains a total of 65 cards, and I dunno about you guys, but having 65 images in one post seems a little overkill to me. What I’ll be doing instead is link you to the official card gallery, where you can see all the cards yourself. You can find the cards for this set at http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/heroaca_tcg/card/item_ha01.html

 On to the review!

HA-01-001 Midoriya Izuku (U)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

BATTLE PHASE: [6 Doryoku] All characters in your battle area get +5 Power and +1 Critical.

Judgement: Overkill! This ability is really expensive, but it has a few good things going for it. First is the Battle Phase tag, meaning it can be used offensively and defensively. Second, it affects the other character as well, giving you a massive boost in damage potential for the turn. I wouldn’t bet on being able to use this effect continuously, but it has the potential to be a dangerous finisher. The high cost does lower my rating though. 4/5

 HA-01-002 Midoriya Izuku (S)

[Student – Male – Gym Clothes]

ATTACK: [Place the top card of your deck in your damage area] This character gets +6 Power and +1 Critical.

Judgement: Before the release of the awakening mechanic in Set 3, I would’ve given this card a really bad score. But now that there’s an incentive for reaching a damage threshold of 4, you can use this Deku to accelerate yourself to that point and then dominate with strong awakened characters. 3/5

 HA-01-005 Uraraka Ochako (U)

[Student – Female – Hero Suit]

TAG ATTACK: [2 Doryoku] When you tag attack with a “student”, place one of your opponent’s battle area characters on top of their deck and this character gets +1 Critical.

Judgement: This is a really powerful effect, guaranteeing you to send the chosen character to the trash, as long as your attack goes through. The tag attack requirement means you’ll have an absolute minimum of 7 Power, but don’t bother using her with any character that has less than 5 base. With her own base of 4 she’s quite frail though. 3/5

 HA-01-006 Uraraka Ochako (S)

[Student – Female – Gym Clothes]

ATTACK: Return 1 opponent’s battle area character with 6 or less Power to the hand.

Judgement: This effect isn’t too bad, and it costing absolutely nothing makes it better. Like many other cards, though, the stats make this card a less than optimal choice, and sending cards back to the hand doesn’t actually get rid of them. 2/5

 HA-01-009 Bakugou Katsuki (U)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

BATTLE PHASE: [Trash 1 “Bakugou Katsuki” from your hand] This character gets +5 Power and +1 Critical.

Judgement: A very simple enhancement effect that can be used during either player’s turn. In exchange for being able to directly trash an opponent, this Bakugou just becomes stronger and deadlier. I personally prefer the direct removal from the start deck, but this one’s not too bad, either. 3/5

 HA-01-011 Bakugou Katsuki (R)

[Student – Male]

STANDBY PHASE: [3 Doryoku] Trash an opponent’s battle area character.

Judgement: In case you wanted to play some removal, but didn’t want to build a deck around Bakugou, this version of him can be put into other decks as well. He works surprisingly well with the Doryoku-intense decks, like the Deku ones, which is kinda funny. That said though, he isn’t too great due to his lower Power. 3/5

 HA-01-013 Iida Tenya (U)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

ATTACK: [Trash the top 5 cards of your deck] If there was an extra card among those cards, this character gets +3 Power and readies after this battle.

Judgement: This bad boy’s ability is very powerful, but I can’t help but feel that the cost might be a little too high. If it was 3 cards I’d give him +2 points, but unfortunately, in his current state, he’s just too expensive. 2/5

 HA-01-014 Iida Tenya (S)

[Student – Male – Gym Clothes]

EFFECT: If this character is the only “student” character in your battle area, draw 1 card.

Judgement: Drawing cards is always nice, but with those stats this card isn’t really worth the slot in your deck. 1/5

 HA-01-015 Iida Tenya (R)

[Student – Male]

EFFECT: [2 Doryoku] Trash an opponent’s battle area character with 5 or less Power.

Judgement: A slightly cheaper and less powerful version of the Bakugou removal effect, but with pretty bad stats to back him up, especially considering the effect is one time use only. Still, it’s removal, and removal is good. 2/5

 HA-01-017 Todoroki Shouto (S)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

BATTLE PHASE: [5 Doryoku] Return all opponent’s battle area characters to the hand.

Judgement: OH BOY! This is a very powerful card. Not only does he have a base Power of 6, but his ability is able to swing the game back in your favor! Whether you use him offensively or defensively, he’s sure to turn the tides of battle. The cost is fairly high, but that’s to be expected for such a heavy impact. 5/5

 HA-01-018 Todoroki Shouto (N)

[Student – Male – Uniform]

SINGLE ATTACK: This character gets +3 Power.

Judgement: I don’t have much to say about this card, positive or negative. He’s a decent, efficient attacker. 3/5

 HA-01-020 Asui Tsuyu (S)

[Student – Female – Hero Suit]

TAG ATTACK: When you tag attack with a “student”, return one “student” character from your trash to your hand.

Judgement: With 5 Power, she’s an excellent tag attack partner, and that ability helps you get back the pieces you need to use on the next turn, or to defend with. It’s a great card. 4/5

 HA-01-022 Asui Tsuyu (N)

>I already went over her in the review of the first starter decks. She’s great.

 HA-01-023 Aoyama Yuuga (S)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

BATTLE PHASE: [Trash 1 “Aoyama Yuuga” from your hand] Draw 1 card, this character gets +3 Power.

Judgement: Similar to Bakugou who wants to discard himself, but instead of raw strength or destruction, pretty sparkly boy lets you refill your hand, which is nice. Think of him as trading an unwanted Aoyama for something that’s probably gonna be better anyway. The only thing holding him back is other Aoyamas being mediocre at best. 3/5

 HA-01-025 Aoyama Yuuga (N)

>He’s in the starter decks, so go check that review for my opinion (hint: he’s eh).

 HA-01-026 Kirishima Eijirou (S)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

STANDBY PHASE: [3 Doryoku] Draw 2 cards, then trash 1 card from your hand.

Judgement: Kirishima bias aside, this card is neither good nor bad. Drawing is really nice, having to discard a card is fair, but the cost might be just a bit too high for my tastes. Still alright, though, so he gets a pass. 3/5

 HA-01-028 Kirishima Eijirou (N)

>The same as in the starter deck, he’s pretty neat.

 HA-01-029 Mineta Minoru (S)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

BATTLE PHASE: [Trash 1 “Mineta Minoru” from your hand] All opponent’s battle area characters get -3 Power.

Judgement: If the other Minetas were better, this card’s rating would’ve had the chance to be perfect. But most of them, just as with Aoyama, are mediocre. 3/5

 HA-01-030 Mineta Minoru (R)

[Student – Male – Uniform]

BATTLE PHASE: When a “female” character supports this character, this character gets +4 Power.

Judgement: Mineta harem deck, here we come! Please don’t take that suggestion seriously. While he can reach pretty high numbers with the support of one of the girls, do you really want to do that when other characters can reach the same numbers while having useful abilities? And in the case of you not having any females to support him with, he’s incredibly weak. 2/5

 HA-01-032 Kaminari Denki (S)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

EFFECT: [Trash 1 other character in your battle area and 1 card in your hand] Trash 1 opponent’s battle area character.

Judgement: Bad card, way too expensive, and a big waste of cool artwork. 1/5

 HA-01-033 Kaminari Denki (R)

[Student – Male – Gym Clothes]

TAG ATTACK: This character gets +2 Power and +1 Critical.

Judgement: Aside from the fact that I want the artworks of this card and the previous one to switch, I have 0 complaints here. He’s one of the best tag attack partners available. 5/5

 HA-01-035 Shouji Mezou (R)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

YOUR TURN | OPPONENT’S TURN: This character is unaffected by your opponent’s cards’ abilities.

Judgement: Immuno to removal and having his Power reduced, this guy is a solid addition to many decks that have the space available to them. The lack of anything that directly influence with the state of the game takes away a point, though. 4/5

 HA-01-037 Tokoyami Fumikage (R)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

EFFECT: If there are 1 or fewer characters in your opponent’s battle area, draw 1 card.

Judgement: Unfortunately he relies on others to fulfill the conditions of his ability, which limits the kinds of decks you can put him in. 2/5

 HA-01-039 Yaoyorozu Momo (R)

[Student – Female – Hero Suit]

STANDBY PHASE: [3 Doryoku] Return 1 “student” character from your trash to your hand.

Judgement: While I do like Momo quite a bit, the cost and Standby Phase tag of her ability make her an, in my opinion, objectively worse Tsuyu. But since the ability is still useful, Momo gets a pass. 3/5

 HA-01-040 Yaoyorozu Momo (N)

[Student – Female – Uniform]

SUPPORT: If there is a “student” character in your battle area, add the top 3 cards of your deck to your Doryoku gauge.

Judgement: A really nice addition to decks that rely on having a steady flow of Doryoku available, but practically worthless in anything else. 2/5

 HA-01-042 Jirou Kyouka (N)

>Another card from the starter decks, and my opinion remains the same.

 HA-01-043 Ojiro Mashirao (R)

[Student – Male – Hero Suit]

STANDBY PHASE: [Trash the top 5 cards of your deck] Return 1 opponent’s battle area character to the hand.

Judgement: No. 1/5

 HA-01-045 Ashido Mina (R)

[Student – Female – Hero Suit]

TAG ATTACK: When this character tag attacks with a “student”, look at the top card of your opponent’s deck. Return it to the top of your opponent’s deck or trash it.

Judgement: This is a deceptively good card. It’s your choice where that card ends up – if it’s a character, put it back on top of the deck, and if it’s an extra, into the trash it goes! Such a versatile effect deserves a good score. 4/5

 HA-01-051 All Might (U)

[Hero – Male]

ATTACK: [Trash 1 card from your hand] Trash all opponent’s battle area characters.

Judgement: What a devastating blow! Attacking with the big man himself is sure to leave a sour aftertaste in your opponent’s mouth. 4/5

 HA-01-052 All Might (S)

[Hero – Male – Hero Suit]

ATTACK: [2 Doryoku] This card gets +1 Critical.

Judgement: While not as devastating as the previous version, this is still a strong card. 3/5

 HA-01-054 All Might (N)

[Hero – Male]

EFFECT: Add the top card of your deck to your Doryoku gauge.

Judgement: Perfectly viable in a Doryoku-heavy deck, but near useless in others. 2/5

 HA-01-055 Aizawa Shouta (S)

[Hero – Male – Hero Suit]

ATTACK: Place 1 opponent’s battle character with 5 or less Power in their Doryoku gauge.

Judgement: Now this right here is the most powerful form of removal available in this game. If your opponent’s cards don’t utilize the Doryoku gauge to pay for their abilities, you basically banished a character into the abyss, and even if they do use it, they’ll have to go the extra mile to get that card back. The Power limitation does take away a point, though. 4/5

 HA-01-056 Aizawa Shouta (N)

[Hero – Male – Hero Suit]

EFFECT: Look at the top 3 cards of your deck and return them to the top in any order.

Judgement: This card offers a great deal of flexibility, either to prepare for a damage check during the opponent’s turn, or to let you draw whatever you need most. 4/5

 HA-01-057 Present Mic (R)

[Hero – Male – Hero Suit]

EFFECT: Draw 2 cards, then trash 1 card from your hand.

Judgement: It’s just a nice draw effect, and we like those a lot. 4/5

 HA-01-058 Shinrin Kamui (N)

[Hero – Male – Hero Suit]

ATTACK: When this character battles, your opponent can’t Support from their hand.

Judgement: His ability all but guarantees a successful attack. 3/5

 HA-01-059 Backdraft (N)

[Hero – Male – Hero Suit]

EFFECT: [2 Doryoku] Draw 1 card.

Jugement: Slightly underwhelming, I’d say. 2/5

 HA-01-060 Mt. Lady (N)

[Hero – Female – Hero Suit]

ATTACK: This card gets 10 Power.

Judgement: Well that’s certainly one way to get a successful hit in. There’s actually just one single card in this game that can block 20 Power, so she certainly has her uses. 4/5

  And there you have it, folks! The first booster set of this game adds a lot of cards to improve your deck with, and it’s only the beginning. Several of these cards, especially extras, are still viable nowadays, so if you feel like picking up a couple of card, why not get a few packs of this set while you’re at it? Now, GO BEYOND! PLUS ULTRA!

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How the Saints Can Win Superbowl LII (Part 2)

Read part 1 of “How the Saints can win Superbowl LII” here: 

Welcome back to the second part of “How the Saints can win Superbowl LII”. Last time, we discovered our overarching goal for the regular season: get a first round bye. To do that, we found out the Saints really need to win 12 games this season. So in this article, we’ll take a look at what the Saints rushing offense must produce in order for the team to have a chance to receive a first round bye. To do this, I went back and took a look back at the last 32 teams to receive a first round bye (all the way back to the 2009 Saints), pulled the same numbers for the 2016 Saints, and compared them. We can then talk about trends and what needs to happen in 2017.

I looked at a few basic stats and a couple of advanced stats for this article. I started by looking at rushes per game, yards per game, yards per attempt, touchdowns, and fumbles. I then added a formula to look at fumbles per rush, and I used Football Outsiders’ stats for Adjusted Line Yards. These are pretty basic except for Adjusted Line Yards, so I’ll explain. Basically, adjusted line yards credits (or discredits) the offensive line with a % of each rush. The breakdown is as follows:

Rushes that result in a loss of yards: 120% given to offensive line

0-4 yards: 100%

5-10 yards: 50%

11+ yards: 0%

A key factor to consider in this is that consistency is more highly valued than variability. A 5 YPC average is great, but if a rush will gain 4-6 yards every single play, that’s much more valuable than a team that will rush for 12 yards one play then -2 yards the next. Rushes that result in few yards or losses are almost always the fault of the offensive line: it’s difficult for a running back to gain yards when he’s being hit 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage. Hence, we see the extra % being given to the offensive line for negative plays. Also, once a rush has reached 11+ yards, the running back is past all his blockers. At this point, the offensive line has done its jobs and the rest of the yards gained are really a product of the running back’s speed and effectiveness. So for example, let’s say the first play, the running back loses 1 yard. The adjusted line yards for the play is -1.2. The next play, the back gains 4 yards. The ADJ LY is 4. The next play, the running back gains 8 yards. The ADJ LY is 6 (4 for yards 1-4 and 2 for yards 5-8). The next play, the running back breaks off a 50 yard touchdown. The ADJ LY is 7 (4 for yards 1-4 and 3 for yards 5-10). This brings us to an average of 3.95 adjusted line yards. If you want a longer description, click here. Remember, the following chart consists only of teams that have received a first round bye since 2009.

Term Rushes RPG Yards YPG Y/A TDs FMBs FMBs/RSH ADJ LY Saints (2016) 404 25.25 1742 108.9 4.31 17 17 .042 4.59 Average 456 28.47 1907 119.2 4.17 16.28 18 .039 4.15 Median 460 28.75 1917 119.8 4.14 15.5 17 .040 4.11 High 526 32.88 2762 172.6 5.26 25 27 .059 4.82 Low 366 22.88 1294 80.88 3.33 10 9 .020 3.64

  First let’s compare last year’s Saints and talk about what NEEDS to happen this year. First of all, look at what jumps out: the Saints had a ridiculously good adjusted line yards last season. Listen to any form of NFL media, and they’ll tell you how incredible the Cowboys’ offensive line was last season. However, the Saints led the league in adjusted line yards last season, and it wasn’t close. The gap from the Saints to the #2 team in the NFL in adjusted line yards was larger than the gap between #2 and #9. Take that along with the Saints’ yards per attempt compared to teams with a first round bye, and it’s really not close. The Saints are far more effective than even your typical top 4 team in the league at running the football (the Saints are more than a whole standard deviation above the average in adjusted line yards).

  So if the Saints are such an effective rushing team, why does it feel like they haven’t been among those NFL elite rushing units? And we know how lethal the Saints’ passing attack is. If the rushing game is this elite as well, why has this team seen so little success. Well your answer lies in those first two numbers. The Saints simply haven’t run the ball enough. Now don’t immediately blame Sean Payton and the play calling. This isn’t a situation where if the Saints simply ran the ball 3-4 more times per game, they magically turn into a 12-4 team. A lot of this is anecdotal: the team is constantly in shootouts. If the offense comes out balanced but sputters on a couple of early drives, all of a sudden, they might be in a 10 point hole because of the defense. And although the team could’ve tried to commit to remaining balanced, that chews up more clock, and, as we all know, this passing offense is more than capable of putting up yards and points on its own. And the same goes for the other way around. One reason the number of rushes for a lot of these great teams is so high is that these teams are jumping out ahead in games, so they are running in the 4th quarter. And Sean Payton has proven in the past that he’s more than willing to run the ball if it’s effective and if the game is within reach. In 2009, the Saints ran the ball 468 times, almost a full rush per game above the average among teams with a first round bye.

  There are ways around running the ball more. As you can see, some teams won 12-13 games despite having an inept running game. But these teams got by on other areas of the game: namely, they usually had an elite defense and quarterback to go along with a very good passing offense. One common trend occurs with these teams though that’s very crucial. Although their running games were very ineffective, each team with a dreadful running game had among the fewest fumbles and fumbles/attempt of the 32 teams analyzed. So the Saints can get away with a few games of being one-dimensional so long as when they are running the ball, they aren’t making critical mistakes and turning it over.

But somehow, someway, if the Saints are going to be a team that is hosting a Divisional Playoff game, they’re going to have to run the ball more within the regular flow of the game. That means 1) the defense needs to improve enough where the running game can get going, and the Saints can stay balanced throughout the game and 2) the running game needs to be as effective as we know it can be from the start. These two can also feed off each other as they really go hand-in-hand.

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An effective defense keeps the game in reach, allowing the offense to stay balanced and the running game to wear the defense down. An effective running game throughout the course of a game also helps the offense sustain drives, keeping the opposing offense off the field, and giving the Saints’ defense much-needed rest. These two work like clockwork together, and if they’re each operating effectively, we’ll see the Saints in more situations where they’re reaching 30 rushes simply because the game is out of reach so they’re running against an exhausted and defeated defense to run out the clock.

So now to the main question: can the Saints do this? Can they be a team that maintains its rushing effectiveness from last year? (Note: we’re going to assume passable defense because the rushing attempts can’t be 100% fixed by the running game. The defense needs to keep it close)

The answer is a clear and resounding “yes”.

Look at the incredible numbers from this past year. I have a very hard time seeing a scenario where the Saints don’t surpass each of those numbers. The defense should be more effective. The offensive line lost Terron Armstead for at least a significant part of the season, but he only played about 35% of snaps last season when the Saints had an elite rushing attack. The team added Larry Warford who was the 16th highest graded (for rushing) offensive guard in the NFL per Pro Football Focus. The Saints also drafted Ryan Ramczyk who led all FBS offensive tackle in run-blocking grade per Pro Football Focus this year. Even if Armstead is never fully healthy this year, the Saints should have a much better run-blocking offensive line this season. Oh, and did I mention the line was already very good last year?

Then look at the running backs. Mark Ingram has turned into one of the better running backs in the NFL. He cracked 1000 yards last season on a stellar 5.1 yards per carry, graded well per Pro Football Focus, and stayed healthy all season. He’s become a consistent 70 yard per game running back for the Saints who’s been improving the last few seasons. A little step up from Ingram could move him into a tier just below the elite running backs in the NFL. But Sean Payton has found that the most effective way to utilize Ingram is by limiting his carries. While Ingram’s very effective, it appears Payton has found that 12-14 carries per game maximizes Ingram’s production and keeps him on the field. So let’s say Ingram is running 14-15 times per game next year at his usual effective rate. That leaves another 13-15 carries per game which, judging from last year, 10-14 of those will go to the #2 back.

While Alvin Kamara will have a larger impact on the passing game, he still will likely receive a few carries per game, and I believe he’ll be effective because he’ll likely be running against nickel or dime sets. But Adrian Peterson will be receiving the bulk of the carries outside of Ingram. And it’s hard not to get excited about his prospects. He’ll be running behind one of the best offensive lines he’s ever been behind against 6 and 7 man fronts as opposed to the constant 8 man boxes he faced in Minnesota. And while Peterson likely won’t be as dominant as he was in his MVP season or even 2 seasons ago, running only 10-15 times per game in these opportune situations, it’s hard to imagine Peterson won’t be incredibly effective.

While Tim Hightower was a remarkable story and a great person to root for, the step up to Peterson cannot be overstated. We’ve all watched him play, and we’ve all seen the rave reports about him in minicamp. If Peterson can be as effective or almost as effective as Ingram with his carries, the Saints are looking at 27-30 carries a game at over 5 yards a carry. That wouldn’t be just a great rushing offense, that’d be a historically effective offense. And not only does that not seem out of the question, I think it’s likely.

This Saints rushing offense doesn’t have to be elite for the team to have a chance to win 12 games. But it very well may be anyway, and if this team can run the ball at the elite level it’s capable of, this offense could soar to 2009 or 2011 heights… or above.

And if that happens, there’s a chance.

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I've Been Reborn! An Exclusive Interview with a Rustic Barn

From Old Barnwood to Beautiful Rustic Reclaimed Furniture

It looks quite beautiful to the average eye. But when you’ve seen what it was before and what it is now, it’s hard to think anything would have come out on top of the situation other than bunnies and any other grass grazing animal in the area.  An overgrown green pasture with fallen fence and wildflowers sprouting throughout. You can see an area of pasture to the North where a barn used to stand; tall, strong, and full of use. This is the exclusive interview with that barn. Its rise to fame and glory, its depleting use, the big fall of defeat, and when it found its purpose again.

LFP: How old are you? Barnwood: Is this how you start all your interviews?  That’s sort of a blunt question. Let’s start off by stating that barnwood is like a fine wine, it gets better with age.

I am a third-generation barn, my great grandpa was one of the first barns ever built in North America. I was the first in my family to be built with a metal roof; man, was my mom proud…. I was built in 1880- you can do the math from there.

LFP: Metal roofs, I bet that was a huge upgrade back then. What was your purpose when they built you? Barnwood: I was built for a family of farmers. I had a multitude of uses. I housed the work horses, the hay to feed them, the equipment they would hook up to plow and plant the fields. I gave the barn cats a cozy place free from weather and generations of kids a place to play and use their imagination. I loved it, I was happy! I stood tall and strong nothing could bring me down.

LFP: Or so you thought…  When did you start to see your uses be depleted? Barnwood: A new family bought the land to farm in 1960, they farmed the land but horses were no longer needed for that and they didn’t raise livestock. There were no animals for me to house, no kids to use their imagination to morph me into a pirate ship or to play house. It was just me and a couple of tractors.  The animals talked with each other and me, but those tractors – they just stayed quiet and wouldn’t talk to me, I felt so empty and alone. This was also the year that they brought electricity in. It would be the beginning of the end of me. There was an electrical fire in 1972 that took a good quarter of me to the ground. What did the tractors do during the fire?  Not a darn thing!  The cows and horses would have at least called out warnings.  The family couldn’t afford the doctor’s (contractor) bill to repair me, so there I sat. Empty and alone, as they took the tractors out of me as well.  I was at the lowest point in my life I had ever been. It was then that that tumor of a shed was built…

LFP: Oh my! How sad! What happened? Barnwood: I sat, depleting. Watching as the new shiny shed get all the attention and use. I was neglected, crumbling physically and mentally for almost 30 years. The land was handed over to the bank in the 1990s, I was forgotten. Besides the occasional teenagers parking behind me to hide while they wrestled it looked like, odd creatures you humans are. It was in 2010 when I was found again. And that was by far, the best day of my life. At first, I was scared, all I heard was a bunch of guys talking about tearing me down. If wood could pee…. I would have created a river. Needless to say I had pitch streaming down my beams.  But as they started working I heard them say how this piece will work great for a vanity, and this would be great color for a dresser. All I could think was, they are only tearing me down to build me back up again.

LFP: That’s wonderful! It must have been uplifting to find purpose again. Barnwood: Yes it was! I was built into all sorts of rustic furniture. My beams were used for barnwood beds, my planks for reclaimed barn wood hutches, buffets, vanities, and tables. I was useful in SO many pieces. I don’t know what has happened to all of me throughout the years, but looking at how I turned out. I can imagine all the parts of me are happy. Being used in the practical rustic fashion they were meant for.

LFP: Have you been able to keep in touch with other pieces of yourself? Barnwood: ….. Did you really just ask that?  I’m remnants of an old barn.  Not a cell phone, not a tablet, not a computer, how would I have kept in touch genius?

LFP: Let’s move on.  What have you learned from your long life?  By the way I finally completed that math, you’re 137 years old. Barnwood:  And I still look better than you!  Over the years, I have learned that no matter how you feel, how low you fall… your life always has reason. Looking back, even when I was just a structure to block teens’ cars from view of the road… I was useful. But being reclaimed, it has been the best feeling in the world. I’ve been reclaimed!  I am beautiful and useful and ready to live on for another 100+ years!

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I've Been Reborn! An Exclusive Interview with a Rustic Barn

From Old Barnwood to Beautiful Rustic Reclaimed Furniture

It looks quite beautiful to the average eye. But when you’ve seen what it was before and what it is now, it’s hard to think anything would have come out on top of the situation other than bunnies and any other grass grazing animal in the area.  An overgrown green pasture with fallen fence and wildflowers sprouting throughout. You can see an area of pasture to the North where a barn used to stand; tall, strong, and full of use. This is the exclusive interview with that barn. Its rise to fame and glory, its depleting use, the big fall of defeat, and when it found its purpose again.

LFP: How old are you? Barnwood: Is this how you start all your interviews?  That’s sort of a blunt question. Let’s start off by stating that barnwood is like a fine wine, it gets better with age.

I am a third-generation barn, my great grandpa was one of the first barns ever built in North America. I was the first in my family to be built with a metal roof; man, was my mom proud…. I was built in 1880- you can do the math from there.

LFP: Metal roofs, I bet that was a huge upgrade back then. What was your purpose when they built you? Barnwood: I was built for a family of farmers. I had a multitude of uses. I housed the work horses, the hay to feed them, the equipment they would hook up to plow and plant the fields. I gave the barn cats a cozy place free from weather and generations of kids a place to play and use their imagination. I loved it, I was happy! I stood tall and strong nothing could bring me down.

LFP: Or so you thought…  When did you start to see your uses be depleted? Barnwood: A new family bought the land to farm in 1960, they farmed the land but horses were no longer needed for that and they didn’t raise livestock. There were no animals for me to house, no kids to use their imagination to morph me into a pirate ship or to play house. It was just me and a couple of tractors.  The animals talked with each other and me, but those tractors – they just stayed quiet and wouldn’t talk to me, I felt so empty and alone. This was also the year that they brought electricity in. It would be the beginning of the end of me. There was an electrical fire in 1972 that took a good quarter of me to the ground. What did the tractors do during the fire?  Not a darn thing!  The cows and horses would have at least called out warnings.  The family couldn’t afford the doctor’s (contractor) bill to repair me, so there I sat. Empty and alone, as they took the tractors out of me as well.  I was at the lowest point in my life I had ever been. It was then that that tumor of a shed was built…

LFP: Oh my! How sad! What happened? Barnwood: I sat, depleting. Watching as the new shiny shed get all the attention and use. I was neglected, crumbling physically and mentally for almost 30 years. The land was handed over to the bank in the 1990s, I was forgotten. Besides the occasional teenagers parking behind me to hide while they wrestled it looked like, odd creatures you humans are. It was in 2010 when I was found again. And that was by far, the best day of my life. At first, I was scared, all I heard was a bunch of guys talking about tearing me down. If wood could pee…. I would have created a river. Needless to say I had pitch streaming down my beams.  But as they started working I heard them say how this piece will work great for a vanity, and this would be great color for a dresser. All I could think was, they are only tearing me down to build me back up again.

LFP: That’s wonderful! It must have been uplifting to find purpose again. Barnwood: Yes it was! I was built into all sorts of rustic furniture. My beams were used for barnwood beds, my planks for reclaimed barn wood hutches, buffets, vanities, and tables. I was useful in SO many pieces. I don’t know what has happened to all of me throughout the years, but looking at how I turned out. I can imagine all the parts of me are happy. Being used in the practical rustic fashion they were meant for.

LFP: Have you been able to keep in touch with other pieces of yourself? Barnwood: ….. Did you really just ask that?  I’m remnants of an old barn.  Not a cell phone, not a tablet, not a computer, how would I have kept in touch genius?

LFP: Let’s move on.  What have you learned from your long life?  By the way I finally completed that math, you’re 137 years old. Barnwood:  And I still look better than you!  Over the years, I have learned that no matter how you feel, how low you fall… your life always has reason. Looking back, even when I was just a structure to block teens’ cars from view of the road… I was useful. But being reclaimed, it has been the best feeling in the world. I’ve been reclaimed!  I am beautiful and useful and ready to live on for another 100+ years!

Exclusive LogFurniturePlace Interview with an Old Barn

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Lebron James wears 'I can't breathe' shirt at Cavaliers game

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<p>CLEVELAND, Dec. 9 (UPI) — Cleveland Cavaliers forward Lebron James made a statement before the game against the Nets Monday by wearing a black shirt with the words “I can’t breathe.”</p> <p>“I can’t breathe” were the last words spoken by Eric Garner as NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo held him in a chokehold which resulted in Garner’s death. The failure of a grand jury to indict Pantaleo in the death of Garner sparked protests across the country with people holding signs with Garner’s final words. Now prominent athletes are joining the conversation.</p> <p>James was joined by fellow Cavaliers players and Brooklyn Nets players including Kevin Garnett, Kyrie Irving and Deron Williams. They all wore the shirts during warmups before the game Monday. </p> <p>“It’s just for us to make a [statement] to understand what we’re going through as a society,” said James. “I’ve been quoted over and over about what’s going on as far as it’s more of a notion to the family, more than anything. Obviously, as a society we have to do better. We have to be better for one another. It doesn’t matter what race you are. It’s more of a shout out to the family more than anything, because they’re the ones that should be getting all the energy and effort.”</p> <p>NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said he respected their right to protest. </p> <p>“I respect Derrick Rose and all of our players for voicing their personal views on important issues but my preference would be for players to abide by our on-court attire rules,” he said.</p> <p>NFL members were also seen showing their support for the protest. Detroit Lions running back Reggie Bush wore a shirt with the slogan during warm ups. Most coaches have stated support for their players, saying they have the right to free expression and have their support as long as the protests remain peaceful.</p> <p>Reggie Bush wears ‘I can’t breathe’ shirt during warmups – http://t.co/DmwRLulOLP pic.twitter.com/58vQRe5oRk— For The Win (@ForTheWin) December 7, 2014</p> <p> The St. Louis Rams received criticism from police after its players staged a “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” protest in response to the failure to indict the officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. St. Louis police pressed for the players to be punished for their display, but the NFL refused, saying they were fully within their First Amendment rights to use the gesture.</p>

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