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Magic 2013 Event Deck Decklists
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M13 Planeswalker Videos
M13 Fat Pack
Magic 2013 Promo Cards
M13 Booster Packs
Magic 2013 Art
M13 Card List
Face a Greater Challenge
Number of Cards: 249
Prerelease Events: July 7-8, 2012. Release Date: July 13, 2012. Launch Weekend: July 13-15, 2012. Game Day: August 4-5, 2012
Official Three-Letter Code: M13. Twitter Hashtag: #MTGM13
Design Team: Doug Beyer (lead), Aaron Forsythe, Graeme Hopkins, Ryan Miller, Mark Purvis. Development Team: Zac Hill (lead), Ethan Fleischer, Mark L. Gottlieb, Tom LaPille, Max McCall, Ryan Miller
I'm willing to bet that none of the Titans will see another print cycle.
True. They have to come up with something even better.
yeah golems of every color!
when r they gonna make a blue green or white green planeswalker?
the blue green could be the plans walker that is from the duels of the planes walkers game
You're probably right. Seems kind of boring when every single 6-drop bomb is a titan. Decks might see a little more creativity without titans.
ugh you guys are missing the point. first of all, not all 6d's are titans- let's not forget about wurmcoil. also, your 6-mana slot SHOULD be a bomb and there's one for every color. it's a little unbalanced because frosty nippletan sucks, but if its not titans its gonna be another round of 6 drop bombs lol. It took me a long time to acquire ten grave titans, and the last thing I want is for their price to drop. That being said, they're getting old because they are the star of most decks they're in, not just spiciness. Thus, i'm just seeing the same thing over and over even in my own! I LOVE grave titan but i think its time to move on… at least until m15 ;)
Its obvious that bolas is back as a walker. no doubt there, and its obvious that his creature form sucks- why would they reprint that horrible horrible card? However, until return to ravnica comes out, titans are with us. watch sun titan keep bringing back vexing devil like crazy.
Let's be serious; Consecrated Sphinx ("frosty nippletan"s replacement) and Wurmcoil Engine are basically titans.
Wurmcoil? Terminus? Mikeus? Rooftop Storm? Consecrated Sphinx, Contagion Engine, Massacre Wurm..?
maybe not in the next decade… hopefully they do though… i just like them…. Domain Deck Titans and Bringers FTW :I
I hope doom blade and mana leak make another reprint
just because they are staples in so many decks, i think it be dumb for wizards not to reprint them.
thats exactly why they should NOT reprint them.
I want go for the throat
Too powerful with so few Artifact creatures
I hope WoG comes back…. hell, even another print of DoJ works
DoJ is awesome and has come out a lot recently, so WoG would be an epic change-up
maybe a new variation on damnation, that would be nice.
either reprint damnation, or a watered-down version like WoG/DoJ
they removed WoG because of the title of the card saying God
Wrath won't be reprinted because of the whole God thing, but I'd Damnation and DoJ are both possible, I wouldn't expect more than DoJ though…
too bad the world will end and we wont be able to see this set…
Doesn't the world end in December? And doesn't this set come out in July?…
I would like to see more Knight cards. They rock!
sengir vampire will reappear, I bet fling, and fireball as well. They should put some of the alara block in it.
fling is in the innistrad block already….
Fireball is horrible..
Does anyone know what "hook" is?
If anyone knew for sure what "hook" was, it wouldn't be labeled as hook anymore. Seriously, does no one have common sense or use logic anymore?
Return to Ravnica
Reprint form of the Dragon! Make Form of the Demon, Angel, Ninja, and Wurm!
thats the name of the set after M13, HOOK? WHAT KINDA DIMWIT THOUGHT OF THAT, i could make some more creative name than HOOK! WTF
It's obviously just a placeholder. Note the quotation marks around the word "Hook".
Umm… it's the development name. Like "Hook," "Line," and "Sinker." The next block after Innistrad is the "hook" block, like the Innistrad block was developed as "Shake," "Rattle," and "Roll."
Fail… on an interesting side note, the codename for the entire block is "Hook" "Line" "Sinker" and you sir, fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
path should come back
I want milling to stop, that shit is crap learn to build a real deck.
Milling is a viable deck format don't be a pussy and complain about a certain deck cause it stomps on you…
So true, its annoying as hell to see all your good stuff thrown to the graveyard, but I agree, it is a viable deck, although flashback and other certain cards kill it instantly, learn how to fight against it, don't whine about it
just use Blightsteel Collosus in your sideboard to counter mill all cards just shuffle back in when he hits
wrong blightsteel shuffles not everything
Eldrazi, done your deck is almost mill-proof >_>
Yes, because I feel SOOO bad when I hit your Liliana, Jace, and Sun Titan with a Dream Twist.
Give me lightning bolt, and give me dark ritual.
I wouldn't count of Dark Ritual ever coming back. It's a shame, though… I love that card.
they'll reprint it eventually… i mean come on, they're reprinting bone splinters in avacyn restored, and the morbid synergy is AWESOME…. if they did DR in M13 it'd be a real archtype.
We're not going to get Dark Ritual while Tamiyo is in Standard. I don't think Wizards wants an infinite mana combo in the format.
Hey, Wizards liks bans, they could juts ban Tamiyo, personally I'm ok with that:P i'd rather have dark ritual
But then you could have a turn 4 Griselbrand
Turn one if you draw four of them XD
Just another reason blue gets almost no new cards and their old good cards are considered "too powerful" in the eyes of wizards, its because of dumb asses like you that mana leak isnt being reprinted in this set, and its because of dumb asses like you they might consider Tamiyo a mistake and make more blue planeswalkers like Jace, Memory adept at 6 or 7 mana. Grow up and stop posting this bullshit online where wizards can take it seriously. I mean i know they want to add new players front he game but at this rate blue will just be removed from the color wheel altogether. the only things that blue has right now are things like delver and snapcaster, things mark Rosewater has admitted to being mistakes in design and shouldn't have been as powerful as they were. It is because of people like you that in a creature tribal heavy meta they created caver of souls just to balance out how "over powered" control was. When was the last time control won a major tournament? Huh? It has been a long time, so stop crying about not getting freaking black ritual spells so you can play for 8 mana spells turn 1, and stop hating on things like Tamiyo, who makes play only in 1 or 2 deck builds that still dont win major tournaments.
They specifically said that it was to prevent Snapcaster Mage…. Which wins just about all the tourneys. And I don't think that Tamiyo is OP anyway. But don't whine about how Blue gets no love in a time when Fish-like decks (Faeries, Caw-Blade, Delver) have dominated so many recent formats. I get your point; MaRo and the rest are too coddling to the newbs, but still. No reason to complain about blue being UNDER-powered.
1) not whining. I am addressing someone else's complaint with my complaint about their complaint.
2) delver was an accedent just like snapcaster was. It was addressed by WotC.
3) blue really Isn getting new cards, we re getting a pretty heavy steam of reprints and amass the components. The blue in m13 is just evidence of my claim
Dude stop sperging out. Mana leak is op, i mean come on cancel anything for 2 mana? Sure they can pay 3 mana to stop it, that would mean a one mana drop is gonna cost you 4. Nobody has that THAT early. Cancel was just fine, or at least make a mana leak multicolored black/blue maybe.
I think they banned mana leak because cavern nullified it didn't they? Mana leak has been annually reprinted since 8th, other that m10. And it existed before then. It has always been a good card.
Uhm Alexander Hayne won with blue white control/angels so chill out. However I do agree with the fact that blue is being trashed by wizards. Honestly this set needs way more of a control element and not a merfolk/flying element.
1) You don't need to call him a dumbass just because you're angry with wizards. You can behave like a gentleman believe it or not and people will respect your opinion more.
2) It's hard to feel like blue is being phased out all together when blue is one of the most succesful colors in standard, with Delver being one of the most popular cards, Mana leak being the most common instant played of all instants in standard, SNapcaster being amazing, giltaxian probe (sp?) also a strong card.
3) It's not like nothing good is being printed for blue, Jace phantasm is pretty sweet for one and works very well with the entire theme of Jace, just because their printing something other than "blue control" doesn't mean you have to get so upset, as far as you know it'll be back next core set.
Also, this is his origional post:
Hey, Wizards liks bans, they could juts ban Tamiyo, personally I'm ok with that:P i'd rather have dark ritual"Please reread your post and tell me that amount of rage was necessary.
They don't mind it they already made infinite mana with Lych and Priest of Urabrask. Not to mention infinite life gain or damage with the avacyn being released.
How is Havengul Lich + Priest of Urabrask infinite mana?
That combo is so easy to interrupt, though.
2 Myr Galvanizers + pallidium myr is another infinite mana combo. Infinite mana combos are not a problem, as long as it is difficult to set up. Tamiyo ult + dark ritual is very impractical. Another possible infinite mana combo is Tamiyo ult + heartless summoning + priest of urabrask. So far im counting 3 standard infinite mana combos, anyone want to list some more?
The 2 Galvanizers + Palladium is kinda a bad example, since you need both mana from the Palladium just to untap everything and repeat. You'd need another Palladium Myr (or any other mana producing Myr) for it to reallly be an infinite mana combo.
Nah, it just takes the one palladium. Tap palladium for two mana, pay 1 and tap a galvanizer to untap palladium. You have one mana in your pool. Retap your now-untapped palladium for two more mana, pay 1 mana and tap your other galvanizer to untap both the palladium and the other galvanizer. You now have 2 mana in your mana pool. Tap palladium for two more, pay one to untap, continue ad infinitum.
U have one mana left after each tap with galvanizers u don't need another one
First tap 1 mana tap palladium again 3 galvanizer tap 2 left tap again 4 infinite
Arcane Melee, Tamiyo's ult, and Ghostly Flicker
Heartless summoning, Priest of Urberask,, Havengul Lich
Tamiyo Ritual is damn hard to set up. Tamiyo hardly ever gets to resolve her emblem.
heartless summoning+Havengul Lich+ Priest of Urabrask Infinite Mana without Tamiyo
deadeye navigator + perigrine drake
Battle Hymn + 3 creatures + Tamiyo emblem = INfinite mana in standard
Tamiyo ult+ Infernal Plunge+ a red or colorless creature that cost less than 2 mana
Infinite damage, if you also have a Blood Artist out
There are plenty infinite mana combos.
2 myr galvanizers, 1 palladium myr.
tap palladium- 2 mana
use one galvanizer- untap palladium -1 mana
tap palladium again- 3 mana
use other galvanizer- untap other myrs- repeat
*cough* battle hymn
Myr Galvanizer is still standard until Oct, so the proper statement would have been another infinite mana combo
See my post earlier, dark rit is never to be reprinted
They probably won't, ritual effects aren't in black's part of the color pie anymore…
i want bad moon!
I want CANDY
In soviet Russia, candy want YOU!
Go screw yourself you communist transvestite!!!!!
no,vexing devil is op…burn needs zero more support
i think if they added Fire Servant again and Vexing Devil is running, it would be a tad ridiculous, but if they brought leylines back it'd befine :P That white leyline fixes it lol
having hexproof doesnt stop vexing devil's ability….
Fire Servant is only for instant and sorcery spells.
that's why you fling it lol
Oh, you people who think burn is good… It's good in NO format and won't be good in ANY format. Same as Mill.
Looks like SOMEONE has never heard of the Dimir…
t1 Tome Scour. 48 cards left
t2 Glimpse the unthinkable. 37 left
t3 Mind funeral. should leave the opponent at about 24 cards left.
sorry for the delay
t4 snapcaster and replay glimpse 13 cards left.
t5, another funeral. There is a good chance this is game. If not, tome scour or glimpse for the win.
Vexing Devil is nowhere near op- where do you see it getting played?
nigga, you dumb
i have 3 vexing devils in my red blue burn control deck
agreed with a flame servant
Dark rit is on there NOT TO BE REPRINTED list, kinda like a banned list but for cards that wont ever be in standard again
Dark Ritual is not on the reserve list.
http://www.wizards.com/magic/tcg/article.aspx?x=magic/products/reprintpolicy <—- List of all cards on the list
lol that would be crazy
dark ritual would be nice but lightning bolt is overpowered and gay
Lightning bolt isn't as op as Dark Ritual. Nor is it alive, thus it is impossible for it to be "gay." They might print it in m14, if 3 toughness becomes more widespread in standard, but as of now, it is 2.
and ancestral recall
"Lighting Bolt, Lighting Bolt, Lighting Bolt… Root…Death, Death, Death"
Does it come with bean bags to toss as well?
Sorry I could not resist ( Wait I didn't Learn that spell ) lolz
Give me Hydra ( Primordial or Khalni )and Prey Upon any day of the week over Lighting Bolt and Dark Ritual. But I am not a Pro so I could be very wrong.
Your mom's a lightning bolt and a dark ritual…
i hope red will make a comback in this set, as there are no good reds in innistrad and dka after the scars set
are you retarded?
umm red deck wins. idiot.
He's actually kinda right. Red didn't get any actually powerful cards, besides Faithless Looting and… IDK, Hellrider?
Vexing is pretty weak, look at the top 8s. Faithless is only played in decks feeding the gy for Unburial Rites pretty much.
gime mo walkers!!!!!!!!!
like 5 each coler!!!!
lolol not gona hapen
You may see 1 each colour again if you're lucky :P
i would like to see a demon planeswalker
like the new demon thats in avacyn restored? I think his name is grisilbond or something.Idk if he is a planes walker but he looks epic.
not a planeswalker…
he ant no planswalker
Tibalt, the fiend blooded. Avacyn restored.
Not a demon! He is a human who was infused with the devils that surrounded him as his spark ignited.
Tibalt, the fiend blooded. Avacyn restored.
Demons cannot be planeswalkers, they are beings of pure mana, and just like angels cannot become planeswalkers, so everyone just needs to stop talking about angels/demons being planeswalkers, also Tibalt is a human that was fused with some devils when he gained his spark, not a devil and not a demon, also Ob Nixilis was a not a demon when he was a planeswalker, he went to Zendikar, his black mana went out of control and consumed his body, he lost his spark and became a demon…
What about Feather as a planes walker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why would she be a planeswalker if no other angel so far has been?
Lightning Bolt & the Titans =)
theres no way they'll reprint the titans. its just not going to happen. as for lightning bolt, probably not.
Wizards has decided that lightning bolt is to strong for a 1 drop, so we may never see lightning bolt again. Hence why they came out with shock and such. :(
Please, return us back the counter-spell and the wrath of god
WoG?? but u have DoJ….
Titans, Counterspells, and Burn. That's All I Ask!
the titans will never see another reprint as per wizards
not never but atleast 2 base sets
I will be very disappointed if the Titans come back to many people rely on them. Aslo dont really care about what planswalkers show up. What i really wanna see is more u/b spells that would help out the Zombies from the Innistrad block and i want Death boron back.
From what I have heard the Titans will NOT be back.
Death Baron, AWESOME with gravecrawler
.. what is going to happen to green ramp T~T
we will possibly see a layline reprint
bring back 4th edition modernised woudl be interesting.
bring bolas back
Hell no.
The creature or the planeswalker?
Both? haha
looks like your wish has been granted
another set of dual lands!
No… The same sets of Dual Lands. That way we don't have to go in and spend a pile of money for the same damned thing with a different name.
Bringing back the pain lands would be cool with me. But having a new cycle see print would be irritating to say the least.
I know this is a longshot, but I think Swords to Plowshares should come back. With all this undying and "I'd rather have my creature card in my graveyard than in my hand" bs, more available exile is sorely needed.
too good. But i do think we'll have some new white exile. And an O-Ring, hopefully.
Red counter-magic!
lightning bolt, vampire nighthawk and path to exile…
broken as hell bud, it would be some kinda awsome though :D
any confermation on titans yett cause i want primeval gone asap….
People are constantly saying Wizards said they would be excluded. I see no reason not to believe them considering they make every other legal 6 drop worthless by their mere existence.
I have heard alot of buzz about no titans, i have a friend of a friend who works for wizard and he says no m13 titans
Titan's won't be gone until Return to Ravnica in October.
Path to Exile is going to be in the next Duel Deck
the "next duel deck" has every color BUT white…
Wait, scratch that, you meant Venser vs. Koth didn't you?
Everybody's obsessed with the Alara-Zendikar years… Don't be so nostalgic.
Elvish piper, please; and leveler for my self mill.
Cards I'd like reprinted: black – yawgmoth's will, blue – intuition, green – aluren, red – mana flare, white – wrath of God, artifact – ring of gix, land – vesuva. I'd like to see the changeling type return, and maybe a new set of avatars, and colorless non-artifact creatures and spells.
yeah, cause vintage-restricted material is appropriate for core sets. about that… Also, DoJ is plenty fine for standard instead of WoG. Vesuva, not bad. Aluren, broken. Yawg, i hope you're joking (look at past in flames). Intuition? A little OP for standard, but it should be in modern, so not a horrible choice. Unless they do an echo theme, you won't see the ring. No colorless creature/spells are gonna happen. Neither is changeling.
"COUNTERSPELL is in M13!" that is all.
Well, I think that Mana Leak has demonstrated to be superior to Counterspell as you can splash it in any deck and is almost always a hard counter.
I'd like to see M13 (and a Standard format) with Counterspell instead of Mana Leak and less powerful dual lands
mana leak is NOT better than counterspell. i don't care if needs 2 blue, counterspell can be used past turn 5. they need to print a card that costs one blue that says "counter target mana leak spell" and call it Counter Leak.
counterspell is not strictly better than mana leak, and if you look at ones ability to get 2 blue mana turn 2 and not screw themselves over outside mono-bue (a very weak tactic in most formats) you will see counterspell is not the BEST option. Mana leak is meant to allow you to get more land more often with your opponent not doing anything. Then you can start smashing later game with things like norn.
In modern, and other formats that are too recent for counterspell, counterspell would make a significant impact on the game. Multi-lands up the yin yang, means there is no such thing as being color screwed, which is likely there wont be a counterspell reprint any time soon. When you can run remand and counterspell at the same time, the game stops being good and fun.
I personally prefer a remand reprint. THAT is scarier by far than silly counterspell. Just reprint remand with Jace art and I will be happy. Jace was my favorite planeswalker pre-worldwake, and remand is much better in terms of game control and speeding you up than counterspell is.
Both counterspell and remand are viable options to be reprinted, though, since cavern of souls now exists.
So true, Wisdomeyes, Remand is a much better card, and since it was ravnica, it's a possibility that it could be reprinted in return to ravnica if it's not printed in m13. I would love to see it come back.
name it mana fill.
Then they should make a card call "Counter Leak Leak" that has "Counter target 'counter target mana leak spell' spell" XD
screw blue
hey you know what jfagerstorm screw you
kids, chillax.
Keep fighting!
Agreed. Blue decks are so unoriginal anymore.
wizards has done a good enough job.
Lol i'm a legacy player so blue kidna beasts everything else out there
i agree, and thats what cavern of souls is for
If it is, I have 7 old ones >:D
Very unlikely, at least until after Snapcaster rotates.
snapcaster + counterspell is 1UUU, and that doesnt suggest heavy in color towards blue to you?
Ah, but blue always has been the best color, so who cares.
Cryptic Command. And I'd be ok with running Mono Blue if they gave me a 2 mana hard-counter.
Force of Will has been spoiled as Mythic.
Google it. =)
No it hasn't… Mythics are Jace, Omnisciense, and… mother of god. THEY HAVEN'T SPOILED THE THIRD BLUE MYTHIC 0.o IT COULD BE FOW! But seriously, they aren't reprinting Force of Will. That would be stupid.
if were not gonna see titans bring us back some Pit Legends from Onslaught, or at least some similar variants.
i need gatekeeper and nihthawk and other cool vampires
gatekeeper has kicker. not core set material.
The jace cards, the myrs, mana leak, cancel, counter spell, negate, grind clock and more
Phantasmal image would be cool for Green/blues, go for the throat being reprinted, mana leak, doom blade. I'd like to see Elspeth or Gideon making a return and Koth instead of Chandra.
My biggest concern is the fact that I think Koth is going to return as a BLACK/RED planeswalker, corrupted by the Phyrexians, but that's just a concept that popped into my head, if you look at certain cards, it depicts Koth being covered in a black substance.
Please DON'T REPRINT Mana Leak
screw you mana leak is awsome
bring back ajani wizerds
With the Nicol Bolas wallpaper release, it could look like the leaked trailer _is_ for M13. In that case, the PWs in M13 would be:
– Ajani (M11 reprint, or new)
– Liliana (INI reprint)
– Jace (M12 reprint)
– Chandra (M12 reprint)
– Garruk (should be new, as they can't reprint the DFC version from INI and he isn't not suddenly back to how it was in M12)
– Nicol Bolas (Conflux reprint, or new)
This also means the core set contains gold cards, and is another hint to that 'Hook' is a return to Ravnica.
I hope the titans don't get reprinted, as they have been dominating Standard for a long time. And I hope to see both allied- and enemy-colored dual lands reprinted (from M12 and INI).
Never mind the gold cards part: some suggest Nicol Bolas is going to be colorless (remember his interest in release of the Eldrazi), and that just makes more sense as the haven't included gold cards in the past.
Ajani will not return, since he died before m12 and unless karn resurrects him he wont return, since its only Karn and bolas there has power to do that to other planeswalkers
Um I'm not sure who lied to you and said that Ajani is dead, but he is alive and kicking, the only planeswalker printed on a card that's dead is Venser…
i can see them doing a new ajani liliana and nicol bolas but think about the previous cycles they will be printing jace in return to ravnica i just cannt see them printing him m13
I want to see Sanguine Bond come back. It left standard right before I got into MtG.
Not gonna happen with the new card in Avacyn restored that has been spoiled. Exquisite blood.
I'm not asking much. I just want FoW reprinted, that's all. Make it ubber mythic rare if you will…
jaces erasure needs to be reprinted
Angelic Destiny NEEDS to be Reprinted again in the M13 Set
id like to see a brainstorm comeback.. with me?? Ponder can jump cliffs.
Also! Some sphinx mayhem. Let's make it happen!
bring back plateau and underground sea
Things that will NEVER happen^…
i hope a comeback for wurmcoil engine would be possible
I agree man nothings better than wurmcoil
nic ur bolacs
Baneslayer Angel pls
YES! I want Baneslayer Angel to make a reappearance so badly.
I'll be happy if Memnite and Lightning Bolt see a reprint.
I REALLY want a Noble Hierarch reprint though. :D
we want a wurmcoil reprint
looks like the planeswalker killer bolas is coming back
I wonder if quicksilver amulet will be reprinted? My god that is such a great card
Exhume. This is the only card I want to be in this set. I've been wanting to play a winning reanimator deck in standard forever and seeing exhume in M13 would make that dream come true.
OMG finally a good set! TWO boring ones in a row, now something amazing, l ravnica, alara and lorwyn l=so far the best ones, in my opinion
reposting to: where it actually belongs
nicol bolas returns
Anyone notice the lines spreading outwards, similar to the Miracle card art?
Build a black zombie counter deck with white life given cards. GOOD IDEA ? OR BAD IDEA ?
they tried with humans and it isnt working right now because the humans rely too heavily on counters and the zombies all have undieing.
I just want Solemn Simulacrum back…
I agree, I have a playset and don't want them to go to waste…
Don't you guys want some different awesome big creatures! Come on make a diverse game, not just reprint after reprint.
They really should reprint Wrath instead of DoJ in m13. I really see no reason not to, so long as they keep doom blade over terror. And it would drop the price a bit for modern players.
Isuue being.. WoG was reprinted as DoJ for the fact of God being in the title
Hoping Knight Exemplar makes the list.
hope jace so badly
If they bring back dark ritual i want hatred too. man i loved that card I use it in me B/W cleric
Dark ritual will never be reprinted. They have said as much.
Sadly my beloved Wurmcoil Engines will be out soon.
are solem going to be back in m13
need a goyf reprint so i can actually play green in modern
its freaking bolas so happy im making my grixis deck right now
Lightning bolt would definitely make me happy
new bolas please one a little easier to play out and just as nice of abilities i wouldnt mind a 6 drop with only 3 abilities over the 8 mana cost that was kinda hard to reach fast enough. also we need the rack back so discard decks have some power to them for once in a long time. finaly what would top this set off is either swords of plowshares or path to exile maybe even tarmogoyf so i dont need to drop 120 bucks per goyf and bring in some true power house fun with splinterfright and boneyardwurm.
Two Nightscape Familiar"s drop his cost by 4, sir.
Honestly Bolas is easy to play in the new set, just have druids repository on a green deck, with creatures that can attack, then remove 8 counters from druids repository and play bolas.
Giant Spider? lol
Bring back Soulless One, Undead Warchief, Zombify, Unearth and by God bring back Phantasmal Image so Sigarda isn't invincible.
finally my master returns to standard.
add liches mirror love that card
linches mirror
he suits my style
I want. Hope they reprint ponder and mana leak, like they ALWAYS do, cuz i just started running delver.
wondering about the single color planewalkers, they need to make chandra op for once, i hope ajani comes back
they should bring elish a norn and the other praetors. plus that would be awsome +2/+2 o_0
That symbol definitely looks like Bolas's head
i hate bolas
Why? is it because he raped your mother? because he did :)
I hope they're making a new Bolas instead of reprinting the old one. I love the guy like no other, but he's just not playable in standard at that cost. I mean, I know there's kitchen table magic and stuff where this guy is fun, but I REALLY wanna be able to play him competitively at FNM. Cost him at [3][U][B][R], start him at 5 loyalty, and give him a good and usable suite of 3 abilities.
Have you seen the rare from avacyn Druids Repository? With it you can easily play Nicol Bolas as he currently is, one drop creatures that can attack each turn are preffered, but once you get 8 counters on druids repository just remove them and play bolas ;3 easy solution, and you don't have to mess with his epicness.
Lighting Helix!
Need moar black.
Dark Ritual and Counterspell, come on
I say make the remaining 4 Elder Dragons into Planeswalkers…..
hell yea
They're all dead though.
Actually Palladia Mors is just in a coma in a hill and Vaevictis Asmadi got blinked somewhere, but Arcades Sabboth and Chromium are both ineed dead…
What about Chromium?
He is dead, I said it right up there…
You didnt get the joke… He was talking about the chromium the OS from google…
That's called Chrome, I'm pretty sure you just made up a joke…
The open source version is called Chromium. I'm typing in it, right now.
That's not really the point, there wasn't any joke for me not to get, Chromium is one of the elder dragons, I seriously doubt that someone made an arbitrary joke about something completely irrelevant…
LOL umad
Not mad just trying to figure out how there was a joke there?…
Normally I find a lot of your too headstrong and huaghty, but I have to agree with you on this one. Not seeing how there could have been a joke. I wouldn't say it's an 'irrelevant' joke due to the pun work, but it did not sound like he was making a joke at all.
Thank you so much…
You're amazing! :D
Im a Dork Pthhhh……
I got to say the "Chromium" was not a good "Joke" if one at all… and I'm a Chem dork..
unless they are saying that they like the third heptagonal pyramidal number but being an egg head i find no hidden funny in that… Guess some people just don't like to say " I didn't read your post " and others like to type metaphors for " i really don't know whats going on but i am going to say its this…"
Trust me I'm 110% nerd and i found nothing to laugh about.
Burden of the World, Nauxitt, and Theholyeternalemperor are definitely not Jion Wansu trying really hard to cover for a mistake instead of just saying "oops". No, sir. Couldn't be.
Lily should reanimate them
Easier said than done, Arcades Sabboth was killed by a Planeswalker and presumably wiped from existence, and Chromium fell into a rift, so he's gone for good as well, nothing to reanimate, I'm sure Bolas would have already done that had it been possible…
couldn't they still come back when we revisit time spiral?
minus bolas killed them
Well Bolas is confirmed, and now we have… Garruk, Jace, Chandra, Lili, and Ajani. Garruk and Jace look to be the same as their M12 variants based on the video, but Chandra, Lili and Ajani all have multiple options. Keeping the M12 walkers around for Ravnica may not be bad though, they're still quite useful in the right decks. I feel like we are going to get the Red/White Ajani again though, which again, isn't bad.
Overall, this looks like a good start so far. Can't wait to see what comes next.
this is my guess
Cathedral of War = land comes into play tap?
tap to a one colorless
RWtap:creaturs you control gain haste and vigilance till end of turn
Geoxis lives
6 planeswalkers! woot
likely not, only bolas will see the light of day here .. unless sarkhan and tezz follow him…
Did you watch the M13 trailer? There will be 6 planeswalkers (at least…)
Anybody think we're gonna see some Ravnica stuff reprinted in here, and maybe stuff from older tribals like Thrulls and Thallids that re-appeared in the original Ravnica block?
Wonder if the goblins and goblin related cards from M12 are relived in M13?
In the original Ravnica there were a bit of goblins in red/white Boros guild. I think they're setting that up to bring goblins into being awesome again.
as long as icol bolas is in this set i dont care what else is, maybe vengevine or dragonmaster outcast
I would be interested in this but… in MTG 2012, my 100% complete decks, campaign, and foil deck keys have all been recently deleted for no reason. i think i will pass on MTG 2013.
This is about the card game, not the video game.
Rid us of Titans, bring back Boomerang and Counterspell.
I pretty much just orgasmed at "
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker from the Magic 2013 Core Set. "
It seems like wizards is making 3 versions of each of the original power rangers. Note that there are only two ajanis as well as only two lilianas
Yeah, they still make Black pay for creatures an dspells liek they have Dark Ritual in the mix, Black isn't fast anymore since they neutered it. They need a Ritual card that gives 2 black mana for 1 black mana or something, cause black is slooow for the most part.
What sets have you been playing recently?
Ajani Vengeant?
I'm hoping they skip Birds of Paradise in 2013 and give us a new artwork in Return to Ravnica, the last time we got new artwork was the original Ravnica set, so it would be a perfect time for new art…
gorgen seems lame
I say let M13 have a reprint of the Conflux Nicol Bolas, because I have an idea on how to play him no problem :)
lightning bolt and unearth
cabal therapy
Exalted is coming back
is this fake? where does nichol bolas fit in with the storyline
Core sets don't follow a storyline
woot new pc game on the way, sweeeet
STASIS, that is al…
Black Exalted? Are they like, switching keywords between shards?
Seems to fit with black "going solo" in AVR. White is all about "working together" so exalted doesn't really fit with where white is going these days.
kinda sad to see the original versions of chandra and lilly
guys you know you can cast nicolbolas with somberwald sage turn 4 you can cast him
No you can't. Somberwald Sage casts CREATURES only. Planeswalkers aren't creatures.
Planeswalkers are now considered creatures too? Hell yeah!
wonder if bolas gets new art
Exalted coming back?…Oh boy, did white really
need the help? … I wish damnation was reprinted :/
It's coming back…on black. Who knows if it will be on white or not.
It's on white also but i think mostly on black. Plus, who says you can't use a black/white exalted deck?
I'd say Fire Elemental would probably be included. On one of the screenshots it is featured with the new art made by Sławomir Maniak who joined the team during the Innistrad block so it's a rather "fresh" card.
I say ajani 3.0
Here's what he should do….
Ajani, the game breaker
+1) prevent all damage dealt by any source next turn
+2) Gain life equal to the power of all your creatures you control
-4) destroy all permanents target player controls, they gain life equal to the power of all there creatures
What is wrong with u. That would be so ridiculously op. NO!!
I think they should reprint slave of bolas so that u can kill indestructible things.
Talrand shoul have Hexproof
I hope for Great Wall!!
Duress made me cum :P.
need lightingbolt now. burn was never the same afterwards. and it is NOT overpowered.
what are you, high? Lightning bolt is totally OP!!!! 1 mana for THREE damage, 2 damage from shock is a lot more balanced
Honestly, though, i cant think of any standard threat that need 3 damage to deal with in terms of creatures, 2 tends to be just fine (except maybe an undead messenger), so we are just looking what it does to the player. Of course, every damage counts when snapcaster mage is in standard, doesnt it. RU delver burn builds, or, more specifically, burning vengeance.
You still have vexing devil and thunderous wrath in standard one drop for 4 damage that you can fling or flickeri if your opponent chooses not to take the damage and possible one drop for 5 damage 3 damage is nothing plus lightning bolt can kill tokens it kills almost any human being played it kills delver it kills vampire nighthawk and just think of that with stromkirk captain still in standard
its overpowered
Your name makes me invalidate your comment on top of what I have already said. How can one think, I wonder, that shock is weak and LB is op… Outside if an unset, we can't have 2 and a half damage.
Lightning bolt is fair, and contrary to my previous comment, I wish it was coming back because of nighthawk. It won't though, we got the 2 mana lighting bolt this set.
Okay. From what you all are saying, your arguments are valid. A R spell that deals 3 damage to a creature is fine. The thing that makes Lightning Bolt insanely strong is the ability to target a player. You realize, that 3 damage is 15% of a players life total, right? Couple that with Shrine of Burning Rage, Shock, Galvanic Blast, Incinerate, Grim Lavamancer, Gut Shot…. LB would be ludicrous. Even without those, it is. We're talking about a spell that sees play in Tier 1 LEGACY decks. And not as a one-of, either. Canadian Threshhold, for example, runs 4x.
You guys are right to some extent, but we all have to realize the context in which we saw lightning bolt. The last meta in which it was included was still high curve casting creatures (titans, exarch, etc), all creatures outside of lightning bolt range. Wizard's wouldn't reprint a 3 damage, 1 cost removal spell if all the creatures they were printing were going to be mid range 2/2's and 3/3's again (innistrad block). Every creature that was played during the Scars/Zendikar meta passed the bolt test, with the exception of stuff like mirran crusader and caw blade stuff. People were saying the same thing about dismember as you guys say about bolt right now, because dismember forced people to play different creatures. The only reason bolt looks so tasty is because it would completely dominate the current meta, which is why it's not reprinted.
But its overpowered in a sort of charming way.
Lightning bolt is just fine in this standard token environment that we are stuck in it doesn't do a lot creature wise and any thing else being played is either for ramp or too big to die to lightning bolt and one more point of damage isn't the end of the world get over yourselves it's because of you people that we don't have variety or originality in the decks we play
Can't wait for my suductive Nighthawks. Those things are so cruel if you play them against the right enemy. Well, actually, their great regardless.
Rod of nin is sweet but its a 6 drop :(
Kinda disappointed that jace is reprinted but understand why
Guess were going to have 2 jaces in this set cause were geting one in return to ravnica
Would like to see a new bolas
it is possible we may see a new bolas later in the set. very slim possibility. Bolas has some pretty strong ties with Jace, especially since Jace essentially all but destroyed the Consortium Bolas created. Ravnica was also one of the more prominent cells of the consortium, which Jace took over if I remember things correctly. Thus a chance for a new Bolas.
There is also a slim chance for a new Gideon Jura, the last time he was seen in the storyline he planeswalked to Ravnica seeking any possible help with the Eldrazi situation on Zendikar, so he may be involved in the events set forth during the set.
Lolol dark ritual i op lol if it get reprint it cost something like 50-150$!!
5 bucks sez that each intro pack will have the maiin rare be one of the new legendaries like yeyva an odric and nefarox
Do any of you guys know if their reprinting Sorrin Markov? Thanks ahead.
I don't believe so. We're getting a new Lili, instead.
Mana Leak. Come on. Cavern of Souls made countermagic significantly weaker. There's no reason to not reprint it. But we got Essence Scatter/Negate, so… I guess all hope is lost. :(
Mana Leak is kind of op.
This is such a disappointing set so far.. *sigh*. It's awesome that the Crypt is coming back, and Sublime Angel is nuts, but otherwise. NOTHING (so far) is going to see play in any format other than casual..
sorry, forgot to realize that Nocturnus and Nighthawk are in this set. Vamps may come back (assuming that they get they're burn-spells and dual lands back)
so far we have ten revealed mythics, a total of twelve known if you count the unrevealed new versions of ajanni and liliana. if it follows the previous core sets, there should be three more to reveal, fifteen in all.
3 white, 3 green, 2 black, 2 red, 1 blue, and 1 multicolor this is including both ajanni and liliana.
any guesses on what the other 3 may be? Which colors, types, etc?
My personal theory is we will get another red that will most likely be a dragon. at least one other blue, maybe two, with severe doubts that we will get yet another time reversal reprint, since that has been in both M11 and M12. I am hoping for a Sphinx, but most likely we will get a powerful instant or Sorcery. There is a chance of another black if blue does not get two more reveals with that card most likely being a demon, or they may decide to make the first non-creature/Planeswalker Black Mythic in a core set.
Then again there is a chance they will have 16 mythics this time to allow all five colors three mythics each, due to Nicol Bolvs screwing things up for everyone, yet again.
So does anyone feel that Kiora Atua will be released finally? Kraken Hatchling and a Leviathan? Seems Legit
Nah, extremely unlikely for the Core. Keep in mind how many mythics we know about already, 12, core sets normally have 15 mythics so 3 more slots, maybe 4 if they want to go 16 and have a nice even 3 mythics for each color like they did for past core sets. Nicol Bolas is most likely the only muli-color in the set.
maybe she will be released for Return to Ravnica, but even that is unlikely to me. Keep in mind they DID say that some of the new planeswalkers in those games may never become a card. But I have a feeling she may show up, especially if my hunch about a return to Zendikar in the future is true. It only makes sense considering the threat of the Eldrazi.
Ah, I didn't clarify. I meant that she would make an appearance in Return to Ravnica. Just sort of referring to all the merfolk/levianthan/kraken action going on in the core set. I only have a hunch she may be appearing because she was on that big fancy poster they did awhile back annddd in the game. Plus (like I mentioned) all the crazy aquatic related things.
/shrug/ It could happen. I have a feeling Zendikar will be visited soon as well. It seems that Wizards is going in reverse. It started to feel like it in Avacyn (which in my opinion felt like I was playing an older set in comparison to the rest of the innistrad block). I'm really excited that she might show up though. Her story is pretty interesting and she reminds me of a "blue" garruk.
Yeah Rancor! Best pump ever!
holy day should totally be reprinted
Would someone want it partially reprinted?
for what purpose?
holy day is for queers and blacks!
It was, it's called fog
New Ajani is awesome!
Why are they Reprinting stuff that came out last set? And for the Diabolic Revelation it should have been 4+X So searching for 1 still equaled out to a Tutor.
red burn not oveerpowered… some1 isnt playing vexing devils and brimstone vollys …
then again what about snapcaster and increaseing vengance ? in responce to thunderous wrath ?
bolas is a load of bullshit, but the core set looks pretty neat. i can't wait for everyone to copy the next tourney deck!
looks pretty cool.
talrand, sky summoner then worldfire
wont work
dark ritual should not be reprinted just because of the new lilliana posible lilliana turn 1 either from inni or m13 overpowered and blue proliferate works wonders with tamiyo i was able to use her ulti by turn 7 getting her out by turn 6 and milling some1 out by turn 8 all standard but i hate mill so im disbanding it and mill is way to strong now btw
are the dual lands still gonna be in this set?
Oooh, Diabolic Revelation looks like a sweet EDH card. Way to assemble combo pieces! Also another combo Omniscience and Null Profusion/Recycle. Basically play your whole deck! Academy Rector says I want this card!
Sublime Archangel: Other creatures you control have exalted.(If a creature has multiple instances of exalted, each triggers separately.) So +2/+2 with exalted on the same creature never happens? Not sure im reading that correctly.
A creature attacking alone gets +1+1 for each creature that has exalted. you cant have it twice for one creature with that ability, that would be like having double double strike.
In Duels of the Planeswalker it uses exalted twice if the creature has already exalted
Ahhhhh is Birds of Paradise or Mana Leak gettin' reprinted??
Tierras dobles… por fin!
Rancor aggro =).
anyone else crap their pants whith happyness when void to nothingness was spoiled?
i think they should NOT do titans and reprint the swords
Nice to see the M10 dual lands back again.
nice reprint mutilate, monoblack will show great power, then until october, with lashwrite and vault skirge, will be a nice playing again, and things like duress, phyrexian obliterator and undying… very nice, well i whant lightning bolt comes back because red will be weak with this things, need more power.
a very disappointing set so far
how very 2 dimensional of you.
oh wow this set is totally over powered
haha holy shit my sides you read my mind…gimme holy day and safe passage..and martial coup and i will be happy, since there are no longer any good white walls like wall of omens and reverence
wasnt there a nessa shown on here a few weeks back? i wonder where that went…
So that's how this spoiler ends…
I really dislike this CoreSet
where is ajani on the new complete spoiler?
30% of all white cards cost exactly 4 mana. what the hell is up with that .
Am I blind, or was Birds of Paradise not in there?? And I just got some hoping they would be reprinted…
It appears they're nerfing red quite a bit… more expensive demolish and blaze, along with non-regen-blocking incenerate. But hey, 1 mana artifact removal is nice. Plus Worldfire sounds fun.
Terra Stomper FTW
Is it just me or does red suck in this set?
blue just needs to be balanced like black , white and red because blue has many answers to a lot of plays. plus the greatest blue one drop evar.
MTG is the most queerosexual bullshity game ever invented
i love switcheroo
There are several infinite mana combos in the standard format… Tamiyo, omniscience, battle hymn.
I want alot of cards
I want the alot as a card
This comment chain… too long! suffocating.. me. . . *bleh*
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Against Me! Frontman Tom Gabel Comes Out as Transgender
Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel has just come out as transgender and will begin living life as a female named Laura Jane Grace. Gabel will remain married to wife Heather, and a parent to the couple's 2-year-old daughter, Evelyn.
In the Against Me! track 'The Ocean' from the band's 2007 album 'New Wave,' Gabel sings, "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would have named me Laura." Five years later, we can now hear the desperation and despair within those words.
In Gabel's decision to begin living life as a woman, the singer will being the transitional treatments of taking hormones and undergoing electrolysis procedures.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Gabel speaks about coming out as gender dysphoric to wife Heather. "For me, the most terrifying thing about this was how she would accept the news," says Gabel. "But she's been super-amazing and understanding."
Gabel also addresses fears of switching genders in the public eye. "I'm going to have embarrassing moments, and that won't be fun," the singer adds. "But that's part of what talking to you is about — is hoping people will understand, and hoping they'll be fairly kind."
Against Me! have been churning out punk-rock anthems for a decade now, scoring a handful of rock hits, including 'Thrash Unreal,' 'Stop!' and 'I Was a Teenage Anarchist.' Their most recent album was 2010′s 'White Crosses.'
The full story of Tom Gabel's transformation will be available in the next issue of Rolling Stone, which will hit newsstands Friday, May 11.

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Janice delves into the history of the Justice System in Upper Canada (present day Ontario) and walks the reader through the often confusing maze of available records. Her focus in this book is 1791 to 1841 and even that seemingly brief time span provides the genealogist with 243 pages of material.
Each section (topic) has a history and explanation, followed by examples both in text and images, and then Janice's inventory of what records have survived, where they are housed, and what we might expect to find in them.
It is a challenge for genealogists to find early Ontario (Upper Canada) records and Janice's book is a treasure trove. The examples are fascinating reading for historians or those interested in the circumstances of various crimes and their meted out punishments. Case studies are of actual individuals whose court cases were heard or who were charged with crimes.
The inventory list of resources made me drool! I am at a stage in my Ontario research where I need to find more obscure records - those that are challenging to discover. Janice's book has given me so many new leads and so many new avenues of research to investigate that I will be busy for quite some time.
Crime and Punishment in Upper Canada: A Researcher's Guide (Genealogist's Reference Shelf) is a must-have for any serious genealogist or anyone struggling to find an ancestor in early Ontario.
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Dundurn Press (September 20, 2010)
Co-published by: Ontario Genealogical Society
Language: English


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It has been a really weird week. I expected the boys back Tuesday but then the house was not done and then there was that storm that blew in and dropped snow on our place and all the roads around and so that delayed things. And so I am still here, alone. Sitting here, listening to Pandora and various public radio shows at a distractingly loud volume to detract my thoughts from being alone.
I have made things, I have cooked meals, I have worked steadily. But I still have more free time than the previous 4.75 years and some of it has been spent right here, in front of the screen, clicking, reading, seeking. Finding some pretty dismal stuff. Pinterest claiming images for their own, the evil-doer of the internets now when a few months ago they were lauded as The Best Thing Ever at AltSummit. People publicly annoucing the spilt of their marriage and the terrible things that are then said. Other people saying marriage should never end even if someone is beating the shit out of them.
What the fuck happened to you, Internets? It is so naive to say that, I know. But jesus, it is like civility, humane behavior, privacy ... out the window. The last few days I feel like showering the guck off. And mainly because I have had the time to click through links, read, seek.
I remember a few months back searching an old friend and I came up with his dad's obituary. A CHP officer off-duty killed on the road by some teens driving illegally in the family minivan. The comments underneath were horrific. People who did not know my friend, his father, his loss ... the things they said burned my eyes and heart and I prayed he never saw that page. Never.
I am looking forward to their return more than I can say. This world, this online one, it not one to live in. So rough.
A bright spot in my lonely week, one far removed from the screen. Lunch prepared by my lovely upstairs neighbour. 90 next month. She made me German saurkraut and sausage and crispy potatoes and we talked for hours over a properly dressed table about aging and hospice and Germany and immigration and violence and dissociation and the definition of cooperative living. And I felt much more real than I ever do here.
I did my hair proper to visit her. Because she deserved properly done hair. Call me a dreamer but I wish the whole Internets would stop, do their hair, sit down with someone who is almost 90 and survived the Holocaust and listen and shut the fuck up.
As I will right now. Some calming images of my home because now I am all het up.
M upstairs also introduced me to the publication The Sun, a magazine of really lovely print writing. Reading it reminded me of when blog reading was inspiring, ad free and clearly written to be read, not inflame, defame, destroy, wound.
Though this current issue (not up online yet) shattered a part of me. The piece Underneath the Armor of the young Marines in Afganistan, in and out of battle gear. 20 year old battle hardened warriors when out of gear look like... 20 years olds.
How I wish this world could be so different, so much better, so less saddening.....


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Sometimes when you run an island in the Bahamas, you'll need a business card that reflects the surrounding beauty. This textural business card was designed by island director Cathy Daly for Musha Cay, David Copperfield's lush 700 acre tropical retreat.
These cards were letterpress printed in three colors on an appropriately sandy colored Mohawk Loop Antique Vellum Husk, custom pasted to a 220lb weight. Note how the island seal is printed in with just tonal transparent white ink. After the letterpress printing, these sheets were pasted back to back with digitally printed sheets (with the island beach image) for a 320lbC final weight. Those sheets were trimmed into oversize 4 x 2 inch business cards and edge colored in a matching blue.


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New Holland Construction debuted its new skid-steer and compact track loader lines at the National Farm Machinery Show. It was the first time the construction division appeared at the show, and it did so to introduce its new customer-driven products to the farm market.
New Holland has been in the skid-steer loader business since 1972. Its unveiling of the new 200 series with seven skid-steer loader models is one of its biggest introductions since then. It also introduced three new compact track loader models.
Dave December, marketing manager, says New Holland Construction spent five years surveying and interviewing customers and then redesigning the loaders to meet customer needs. The company learned customer requests for loaders include easy maintenance; few work disruptions; stability; visibility in critical areas; a well-sealed cab; the ability to run all day on one tank of fuel; higher lift and more reach on the boom; the latest attachments and hydraulics; and start in cold climates.
New Holland incorporated the customer requests into the all-new machines. December says the changes fall into these four key areas:
Super Boom
The Super Boom lift linkage provides extra forward dump height and reach. As a result, the loaders can easily load material into the center of trucks, and the bucket with a 53° angle dumps material quickly. A self-leveling bucket feature included on five Super Boom models lets attachments maintain a preset location during a lift cycle. The benefit of this feature is that workers can work quickly and efficiently.
Machine stability
New Holland increased the wheelbase of the new loader models; they now have the longest wheelbase in the industry. The new models also feature a low center of gravity.
Comfort and visibility
New Holland redesigned the cab to increase operator comfort and visibility. The foot well is flat for comfort. The cab was widened to increase room for the operator; it has more head, shoulder and leg room now. The controls are easy to grasp and operate. An air-ride heated seat is an option. A new rear window and an ultra-thin screen protection system provide superior visibility.
"If service is easy, then it gets done," December says. The company grouped the ground-level maintenance points together with easy access through a back door on the machine. A service technician can easily gain access to the major components. Only two nuts and washers are removed to tilt the cab forward for servicing.
The five new skid-steer loader models with the Super Boom are the L218, L220, L223, L225 and L230. They range from 57 to 83 hp. Two new radial lift models are the L213 and L215 with 43 and 49 hp, repectively. Prices range from $20,000 to mid-$50,000 for a fully equipped L230 model.
The new compact track loaders include two Super Boom models: the C232 and C238 rated at 76 and 84 hp, respectively. A new compact track model with radial lift is the C227 with 70 hp. Prices for the track models range from about $30,000 to $60,000.
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As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, crime in New York City has declined for the nineteenth straight year. In 2009, crime fell citywide, across nearly all categories. If crime goes down every year, why does the number of people – make that mostly black and Latino people – being stopped by the police under the Bloomberg administration's "stop, question and frisk" policy keep on rising?
Under the stop and frisk policy, officers are supposed to stop someone who they have reasonable suspicion to believe is committing, is about to commit, or already has committed an illegal act. Yet in the first nine months of last year, police officers stopped 400,000 innocent New Yorkers – even as crime went down.
As a person of color, I would love for a police officer to describe to me exactly what "reasonable suspicion" looks like. Then maybe I can practice not being so suspicious when I walk, drive or jog down the street. Maybe I could have avoided being pulled over one August day a few years ago on 110th Street and Fifth Avenue, when I thought I was very unsuspicious driving down the street and adhering to our traffic laws. Still, I wasn't surprised when I was pulled over by plainclothes NYPD officers. After detaining my passenger and me by sitting us on the curb, the officers explained they had reasonable suspicion to believe the crime that we were, had been, or were about to be involved with was the kidnapping of a little girl. Once they established that she wasn't in my glove compartment, they let us go on our way. Who knows, maybe they stopped everyone that day who drives a white Honda Accord.
A friend apparently was considered suspicious while riding his bike in Clinton Hill just a few months before that incident. What was the criminal activity they thought he might be engaged in or about to engage in? There had been a rash of purse snatchings in the area. True, he had just bought an apartment in the neighborhood, so he was low on cash, but what kind of neighbor would he make, snatching purses just after moving in?
I suppose the officers who hopped out of an unmarked van in Chelsea must have had reasonable suspicion to detain my own older brothers while they were parked on West 24th Street one day. What did they do that was suspicious? The officers explained their suspicions were aroused at the way my brother approached the driver-side window. What criminal activity did the police think they might be engaged in? There were a lot of carjackings in the neighborhood. Here I thought crime in the city has been steadily decreasing. I had no idea Chelsea was being plagued by carjackings.
NYPD Sergeant Reginald McReynolds may also be wondering why he looked suspicious, when he was recently harassed by fellow officers – according to a Daily News article – for no apparent reason other than walking (or bringing takeout to his girlfriend) while black.
These are just a few stories, but ask any black or Latino person and chances are they will have their own personal stories and experiences with "stop and frisk." After all, they made up 82 percent of the 531,159 people stopped by the NYPD in 2008 for "reasonable suspicion," according to a New York Times article. The numbers make clear something that people have been saying for years: The color of your skin is enough to make you reasonably suspicious.
Yet the suspicions prove to be unfounded: according to records obtained by the New York Civil Liberties Union, nearly nine out of 10 stops yielded no charges or citations. Those stopped were innocent.
Who will speak out against this practice? Black leaders have the kind of access to City Hall that they never had under Mayor Giuliani, and Mayor Bloomberg has been widely praised for improving race relations across the city. Prominent black pastors including Rev. Floyd Flake, Rev. Calvin Butts, and Rev A.R. Bernard all exhorted their congregations to support Mayor Bloomberg's bid for a third term, and Rev. Al Sharpton has been pals with Bloomberg since his first term. Yet Bloomberg backs the current stop and frisk practice. Will black pastors call on him to end the practice in his third term? They asked their congregations to support Bloomberg, so why not ask the mayor to end state-sanctioned harassment of their members?
What about the City Council and the state legislature? For the first time since he took office, Mayor Bloomberg has been visibly weakened, by barely beating the massively outspent Comptroller Bill Thompson. Will our representatives use this opportunity to help end the racial profiling of thousands of New Yorkers? What about the Council's black, Latino and Asian caucus – why aren't they up in arms about ending "stop and frisk"?
Maybe it's time we asked them: Where do they stand?
In 1968, the Supreme Court ruled that a police officer could stop someone without "probable cause" if that officer has reasonable suspicion that the person has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime. Basically the highest court in America gave the police carte blanche to stop people for any reason they can pull out of their caps. But the Supreme Court opinion in Terry v. Ohio also said, "[I]t is simply fantastic to urge that such a procedure performed in public by a policeman while the citizen stands helpless, perhaps facing a wall with his hands raised, is a 'petty indignity.' It is a serious intrusion upon the sanctity of the person, which may inflict great indignity and arouse strong resentment, and it is not to be undertaken lightly."
May inflict great indignity? It does inflict great indignity. It's demeaning, frustrating, angering, and generates deep resentment against the police, who are supposed to be protecting and serving all citizens.
If we truly lived in a post-racial society, parents wouldn't need to have the talk with their children about how to react when unjustly stopped by police, at the same age they have the talk about the birds and the bees. "Remember to remain calm. Don't make any sudden movements; reaching for your wallet could get you killed." In a post-racial society, a policy as frivolous and ambiguous as "stop and frisk" wouldn't be tolerated.
Maybe not in a low-crime society, either.
If we are ever going to try a new approach to policing in New York City, isn't this a great time to start?
Kesi Bem Foster is a student at City College can be reached at www.twitter.com/peacebem.


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Yes, that's right: Now that she's made her farewells to Adam Dalgliesh (The Private Patient, 2008, etc.), Baroness James has turned to a Jane Austen sequel.
Six years after the marriage that ended Pride and Prejudice, Fitzwilliam Darcy and his wife, the former Elizabeth Bennet, are on the eve of giving their annual Lady Anne's Ball when their preparations are complicated first by intimations that Darcy's sister Georgiana is being courted by both her cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam and rising young lawyer Henry Alveston, then by the Colonel's sudden decision to take his horse for a solitary late-night ride and finally and most disastrously by the unexpected, unwanted arrival of Lizzy's sister Lydia. Bursting from her coach, Lydia shrieks her fears that her husband, Lt. George Wickham, has been murdered by his friend Capt. Martin Denny, whom he followed into the wood when Denny abruptly insisted on abandoning the coach carrying them to Pemberley. In fact it looks very much the other way around: Denny is the one who's dead, and Wickham, bending over his body, blurts out that he killed him. Readers of Pride and Prejudice know that Wickham is a thorough scoundrel, but can he really have murdered his only friend? His averrals that he meant only that his quarrel with Denny sent him out into the wood, where he met his death at unknown hands, don't impress the jurors at the coroner's inquest or the trial that follows. Most of these developments, cloaked in a pitch-perfect likeness of Austen's prose, are ceremonious but pedestrian. The final working-out, however, shows all James' customary ingenuity.
The murder story allows only flashes of Austenian wit, and Lizzy is sadly eclipsed by Darcy. But the stylistic pastiche is remarkably accomplished, and it's nice to get brief updates on certain cast members of Persuasion and Emma as a bonus.


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I have been on edges since 2008 riding over 200 days a year on extremely rough "beach" and have not had one problem with anything. Kites are fragile treat them like tissue paper.
Great photos and write up on the new kite Rick!
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|2013-03-15, 19:19
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
(I'm remembering what happened to the Templars when it turned out they were owed a little too much money.)
|2013-03-15, 20:08
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Toji Affairs Secretary
Join Date: May 2009
Location: the Philippines
Protestantism, commercialism and war.
The Southern Triad is pushed into a corner as the Central Church and the Merchant Alliance race to who will claim greater power. And the Merchants are clearly on the lead; the concept of "worry" establishes the concept of "demand" and "supply", and he has forced everyone, the Southern Triad included, to play this dangerous waltz.
However, this is not the only problem the Southern Triad has. The sudden shift towards independence, not to mention the threat of losing their precious resources on the hungry citizens of Central forces them into a scenario that a full-scale war is inevitable.
Without the guidance of Maou, the way ahead would be a treacherous one.
|2013-03-15, 20:31
|Link #1563
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Midwest USA
You would need a substantial amount of money to manipulate a county's economy. But this may not be an ideal, efficient market, so he may benefit from having better information and communication than other players.
(I haven't read the novels or manga, this is just my interpretation.)
|2013-03-15, 20:36
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
Go back to ep 3. they control 60% of all wheat trade (pretty much anything that isn't local) and if so desired are powerful enough to dethrone nearly any of centrals kings and according to Maou human life rests on "this monster's back". They are centrals suply lines. You also assume they will have the needed money to pay people to do anything. They have a nasty inflation spiral going and reniging on contracts doesn't set much trust with the mercenary armies the central lords use.
|2013-03-15, 20:39
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
If anything this merchants ploy could actually destabilize the power base and lead to the collapse of the central nations, what he's basically doing is making coin currency worthless and making food the new currency.
Which begs the question how is central going to feed it's invading army, as the old saying goes an army marches on its stomach.
If the Southern Triad can hold the central armies they'll be in a strong postion bacause they'll only be 2 players with lots of food reserves them and the Merchants, which begs the question what do the merchants want?
|2013-03-15, 20:49
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Emperor of the Expected
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Florida
|2013-03-15, 21:08
|Link #1567
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
When your starving who are you going to listen to the Church or the people paying you with food?
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|2013-03-15, 21:37
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: gs series
Age: 29
hero, female knight, winter king, etc wonder to do give after big speech big sis maid did among is free the serf while wonder little sis give everyone pie.
merchant is making plans to make scroll of also make lots of buys of everything of all.
which in most areas prices going messed-up with concern that if keep everyone will come winter land to take all food & etc on buy overload.
merchant had meet with dragon lady had some talk while flashback with red queen & head maid give how ideas red queen even had pic-book show hero as a baby want to have the hero.
with all going talks of war going on hero want no kills so hero & winter king need snow to stop the battle.
|2013-03-15, 22:30
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Young Merchant is dealing with a "market world" that has a time-lag that we're not used to. Smartly operating in it can net a lot of profits, which is pretty much what he's up to.
I haven't read the novels, but I think how he read the situation is pretty straight forward: Potatoes (so a new, major food stuff in the southern countries) is about to go off the market, which is going to drive Wheat prices up. Further, there is going to be War. This is going to put whoever controls the Wheat as the major player going forward.
So, he's taken this information and created a Futures Market. He's locked up a huge portion of next year's crop, while at the same time buying up a large enough supply of the Open Market wheat to drive prices up a lot. (It actually doesn't take buying too much higher, especially in this time period to create a minor "panic" in pricing) When everyone sees a major player in the Alliance start buying a lot of Wheat, the nobles will start hunkering down, to avoid getting hit latter. (This is still a heavily Feudal system, so a lot of Nobles need to buy Wheat)
What by a fairly small amount of work, just mostly being ahead of the market, has started off a nasty hording/deflationary spiral in Wheat prices. As Wheat goes up because everyone starts hording, moving an army becomes too expensive for the Kings/Nobles to do without relying on the Alliance for money. So, it's a chance to pretty much "end" the War before it goes anywhere. Oh, and Young Merchant is going to make a play to take over the Council and make a HUGE profit next year on Wheat. (Plus Hero has tried to setup him up with the Dragon Princess, there were some flags there... and some "umm... do I want to hit that?" anti-flags as well)
|2013-03-16, 05:35
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I disagree with you all.
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|2013-03-16, 07:12
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Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
I haven't read the novels, so I can't guess how much was actually bought, but from from the visuals of the store room, it's probably only in the 25-50 ton range. Not as much as you'd think to start a panic, but follow the information that everyone is working from.
1) A major player in the Alliance is buying tons of Wheat at a 25%+ premium for several weeks, mostly in Central Capital.
2) The same Alliance folks lock up much of the local crop for next year at roughly the same prices.
3) They're buying until the store house is full, which takes several weeks.
What this does is create a huge amount of uncertainty. "Central" is now buying Wheat at huge prices with the "business people" suddenly hording Wheat. When prices start going up, everyone else (especially the Nobles) start panicing and hording themselves. It starts a cascade effect of bad information going out from Central. What was previously just an Alliance merchant way over paying for Wheat morphs into a panic that something is wrong with the Wheat supply and if you don't buy & stock up now, you're not going to have Wheat. Which means you'll not have food and starve to death.
Most food purchases are based on trust of supply being available when you need it again, given yearly conditions. (You can't get fruit at certain times, for instance) When that suddenly comes into question, especially for *THE* staple food, suddenly everyone starts to panic as fear & doubt set in. That's the reason that Young Merchant had to keep buying at that high price for several weeks.
It's a great lesson (had they had more time to lay out the details) in old world market manipulation. It results in the Commodity Deflation (the value of a bag of Grain is increasing without any change in supply) and Currency Inflation (the utility of the current currency is falling like a brick, thus everything gets more expensive). The side benefit to this is that Young Merchant can gain massive leverage in the Alliance itself and parlay the massive profits into his own power. Further, it's going to make a large scale war all but impossible, given the cost to buying food.
|2013-03-16, 08:03
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Meanwhile, the Merchant's Guild keeps buying wheat at lower prices because of their contracts. This is an important detail, because it allows them to sell wheat not for high prices, but for lower prices, undercutting the market and making them the go-to source for wheat.
To illustrate with a theoretical example: The merchant's guild buys sacks of wheat for 5 silver a bag, while creating an artificial shortage. The price of wheat begins to rise. This spreads to the other merchants, who also begin storing wheat in anticipation of further price growth, which further increases the price of wheat. Then, as the price of wheat reaches... say... 15 silver a bag, suddenly the merchant's guild releases its stock and sells their wheat for 10 silver a bag. Since they bought the wheat for 5 silver a bag, they still make a massive profit, double their cost even, but in the eyes of the public, they're good Samaritans selling wheat way cheaper than anyone else.
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|2013-03-16, 08:53
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Which would have been a great plan if they'd sold their contracts last year.
The way things are, they need the prices to keep rising until next harvest when they collect the wheat (if they don't get stiffed by powerful nobles or royals with standing armies) when things are already at a breaking point. (as in, oops, they've already started a war.) And who knows what that's going to do to the price of wheat once the dust settles?
|2013-03-16, 09:21
|Link #1575
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Doing that in the major capital would cause a chain reactions of both higher trade and massively constrained supplies, as the open market for Wheat contracts rapidly. It's the opposite of the reason for an Economic Bubble, but its the same effect. It's just, if you can time the market, you can make a killing. Oh, and mess up any plans for a War.
|2013-03-16, 11:37
|Link #1576
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 38
Verse 10: So now their plans are finally coming to fruition?
Finally, we're back after a week of hiatus.
Basically, it impacted me how much the Merchants Guild responded to the possibility of the landowners and the nobles considering at freeing up the serfs.
I'm mean what I try to say is that the Merchants Guild thought up of a new alternative to save and increase fortunes, and to the landowners, nobles, and kings of the other Central Nations who signed with the purchase agreements followed the example.
Cornering the markets, stimulate the buyers and sellers that the prices are increasing not that the prices are really going up but the stratagem worked.
The farmers are concerned and want to be safe, if the supply is running out of stock.
The people are left impoverished without food at Central so they go to the Southern Nations to buy food, knowing full well that prices have not risen, but the problem is that the demand of people wanting to buy what they need exceedingly overcomes the supply of crops that the Southern Nations can produce.
The ratio is disproportionate, the Central Lords are getting filthy richer by buying and saving, and the economy in the Southern Nations will topple.
How the South responded to the inminent economic crisis by levying taxes on the purchased goods to protect their crops, however, they would likely played to which the Merchant anticipated a declaration of war issued by the Central Nations and the Church.
Of course, their plan is to ruin the Southern Nations in order to reestablish their authority again over that land, and, hence, monopolize the business, productivity, and the people.
People are made richer when they do and produce things by themselves, and this is possible with the proper education, acquiring the proper tools, and the rest is up to them using their willpower and attitude to go forward.
|2013-03-16, 11:42
|Link #1577
Senior Member
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|2013-03-16, 12:49
|Link #1578
Yggdrasil DJ
Join Date: Aug 2012
This is as far as I got on translating the document from the Lakeside Order, before the fuzziness of the text broke me.
Edit: Here is a letter from later in the episode, which was much easier to read.
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|2013-03-16, 23:01
|Link #1579
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
Oh yeah, we forgot to bring up the fact that Price Controls were implemented when the price got too high. This is known as "pulling a Louis XVI". It always ends badly, as you can't force sellers to work in a controlled market for very long.
|2013-03-17, 00:33
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→ Wandering Bard
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Grancel City, Liberl Kingdom
This is why Young Merchant was my fave character in this series xD
Edit: And so the war begins. We also get up to date with Maou's condition. Great episode ending. :3
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The MIT men's basketball team will host this weekend's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) championship on Saturday and Sunday, February 25-26 at Rockwell Cage. The Engineers earned the top seed and the right to host the conference tournament thanks to their 11-1 record in league play. Tech is currently 23-1 overall and ranked No. 4 in the nation in the latest D3Hoops Top 25.
The tournament semifinals will be played on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. with the NEWMAC championship game to follow on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
MIT will face Babson College, who defeated Wheaton, 62-58, in the opening round of the tournament, at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. No. 2 WPI and No. 3 Springfield College will square off in the second semifinal. Live stats and streaming video will be available for all three games to be played at Rockwell Cage this weekend.
Ticket prices will be $4 for adults, $2 for seniors and $1 for students with a valid ID. For more information, fans should visit http://www.newmacsports.com/sports/mbkb/championships/index.
The MIT Department of Student Life and MIT Dining Services will also be handing out free hot dogs and soda to the fans in attendance before and at halftime of the MIT game on Saturday.
2012 NEWMAC Men's Basketball Championship
Semifinals: Saturday, February 25 at MIT:
#4 Babson at #1 MIT - 1:00 p.m.
#3 Springfield vs. #2 WPI - 3:00 p.m.
Championship: Sunday, February 26 at MIT:
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Some other games he's worked on include the Prince of Persia Trilogy HD re-release and Tom Clancy's HAWX. You can check out more of his stuff at Bennun's Facebook and CGHub pages (thanks CAW!)
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Valentine's Day DIYs: Paper Hearts
It feels like we've barely caught our breath around here, after all the holiday madness. But now it's time to think about Valentine's Day! This is one of those holidays I let go of completely in my 20's. Now that I have a little girl to celebrate with, suddenly Valentine's Day is fun again - and the perfect excuse to add some cheery home decorations to a dreary time of year.
Better yet, there are lots of DIY decor ideas that won't break the bank, and can even be done with your kids. I always love finding craft projects that give you as much bang for your buck as possible. Especially paper garlands, because one project can cover several feet of space in your home. Plus it's easy to find a spot for a garland - whether it's windows, fireplaces, bookshelves, or even draping garlands over some favorite art along a wall.
Here are some favorites you might want to try:
- Magazine Hearts Garland, Fiskars Crafts
- Heart Paper Chain, Bless This Mess
- Valentine Garlands, Work in Progress Kits
- Crayon Hearts Garland, Sutton Grace
- Paper Heart Wreath, Arts for Life
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The VA keeps insisting it is getting its disability-claims backlog under control. Not according to this Government Accountability Office report released Friday:
…the average length of time to complete a claim has increased from 161 days in 2009 to 260 days in 2012. Moreover, in August 2012, 568,043 claims—approximately two-thirds of all compensation rating claims—were backlogged. In addition, timeliness of appeals processing at VA regional offices has also slowed by 56 percent over the last several years.
And note that the jumps represented by the highest bars, for 2012, doesn't include the entire year.
What a way to treat our troops…and it's not entirely the VA's fault. The nation has always been willing to pay to send them off to fight, but less willing to do what is necessary when some of them come home broken and need to be put back together.


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By RAELYNN RICARTE
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March 4, 2006
The crew of the Sternwheeler "Columbia Gorge" could lose their jobs if a deal goes through to keep the boat financially afloat.
Cascade Locks Port Director Chuck Daughtry said negotiations are underway to turn operation of the paddlewheel replica over to American Waterways.
If all of the details are worked out by the end of month as expected, he said all six full-time employees can apply for hire with the Portland-based company.
During the tourist season, about 60 more workers are added to the crew and Daughtry said they, too, will need to re-apply for their positions.
"The boat has not turned an operating cash flow in 13 years but this is not only money-driven. It's an opportunity to take the business to the next level. American Waterways runs the Portland Spirit line and has the resources to bring in more charters and groups," said Daughtry.
He said the sternwheeler, owned by the port for 23 years, has lost $3.3 million over the last decade in spite of increased marketing efforts.
Even though about $1.2 million is brought in each year, he said operating expenses run about $200,000 more.
It just makes good business sense, said Daughtry, to place the vessel in the hands of a firm with greater resources.
"We don't know if we've got a deal yet but, if this goes through, we'll bring more visitors into town.
"And that will mean more people eating at our restaurants and staying at our motels," he said. "We think it's going to have a better economic impact on Cascade Locks than what we could do," he said.
Daughtry said the port decided to explore the idea of turning the vessel over to a private enterprise in January. He had been approached by a California company wanting to purchase the craft but port officials did not want to sell it.
He declined to release details about the potential financial benefits of the pending deal.
However, Daughtry said the port would receive a share of the profits and not be burdened with maintenance, insurance, labor and operating costs.
The port would also retain ownership and the name of the sternwheeler would remain the same.
"It is more traditional for a port to serve as a landlord and provide the facilities necessary for entrepreneurs to flourish," he said.
Daughtry said the sternwheeler will continue to run cruises out of Cascade Locks from May through October.
But off-season excursions could be curtailed or kept in the Portland area — at the discretion of American Waterways.
"We feel that it is time to leverage what we've already accomplished.
"We've created the market and shown that you can make revenue with the sternwheeler," said Daughtry. "Now it's time to turn the sternwheeler over to a company that can make Cascade Locks the base for a much larger presence in the Gorge."
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Seib & Wessel: Are Bonds a Bubble About to Burst?
Vanguard chief executive William McNabb discusses with WSJ's David Wessel whether the U.S. bond market is a bubble waiting to burst.
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the ... it's the only Guinea love to hear what he means the Fed has been pretty aggressively buying bonds eighty five billion dollars a month ... and some people think that we are building a bond bubble that interest rates are so low that they can only go one direction up ... and that awful lot of people left money in bonds or don't understand the risks are taking ... you have lost a lot of investors who are bond funds we tell them ... well it first fall on the onthe broad plain dumb I'm worried about ... um you know I think it would be in the capital markets what's happening in the bond market is probably the most ... troubling issue we've got to know to put some math behind it ... if you look at historical rates ... and we were one in inflation between two two-and-a-half so of of of money market fund should yield two percent ... U one basis point ... young people farther up the curve ... aam ... the ... Treasury should be unit ten years in a thirty year should be doing a hundred fifty to two hundred basis points more than they are today ... so this is a real artificial dampening of what's going on ... so will we tell investors use to think about why your inbox ... and I think two of the three reasons ... why people invest in bonds are still very legitimate ... aam a lot of people invest in the health trust for the incompetent and Yemen only difference for me just want the income spun off by the bond fund ... aam actually they should hope for a ... gently rising up ... so to raise ... as if that happens they'll see ... their payments over time grow ... and aam ... if you would think of an income perspective ... if you're using of bonds to dampen the volatility of an equity portfolio so you can you read that a more balanced ... perspective ... it's still not a bad thing to do ... to invest in bond funds ... if you're investing in bonds Shirley for a total return perspective ... you can you get into the red for tech and in the next ten years are gonna look like the last ten years when people are buying time says the bond market has been going up so they say was great to put my money in bonds ... but we can know it's like the right so here's a look like so ... if you look at the last ten years pontiffs from five percent year ... and was in a relatively low volatility versus equities ... and so that people been attracted to that ... plus there are many you will options on the short term side ... so ... the next ten years just to yield to maturity of the ten year bond ... it's about two percent ... so that your best predictor of future returns so two verses to a year versus five-year huge difference ...


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For example, the prohibition of both cremation (the unnaturally speedy disposal of the dead) and embalming (the unnatural preservation of the dead), bespeaks a philosophy of man and his relationship to God and nature: Repugnance for the mutilation of a body expresses a reverence for man, because he was created in God's image. (...). "As he came, so shall he go," says Ecclesiastes. Just as a newborn child is immediately washed and enters this world clean and pure, so he who departs this world must be cleansed and made pure through the religious ritual called taharah, "purification." The taharah is performed by the Chevra Kadisha (the Holy Society, i.e. the Burial Society), consisting of Jews who are knowledgeable in the area of traditional duties, and can display proper respect for the deceased. In addition to the physical cleansing and preparation of the body for burial, they also recite the required prayers asking God for forgiveness for any sins the deceased may have committed, and praying that God may guard him and grant him eternal peace. Jewish tradition recognizes the democracy of death. It therefore demands that all Jews be buried in the same type of garment -- a simple white shroud. Wealthy or poor, all are equal before God, and that which determines their reward is not what they wear, but what they are. Almost 2,000 years ago, Rabbi Gamaliel instituted this practice so that the poor would not be shamed and the wealthy would not vie with each other in displaying the costliness of their burial clothes. The clothes to be worn should be appropriate for one who is shortly to stand in judgment before God Almighty, Master of the universe and Creator of man. Therefore, they should be simple, handmade, perfectly clean, and white. These shrouds symbolize purity, simplicity, and dignity. (...). Cremation is never permitted. The deceased must be interred, bodily, in the earth. It is forbidden -- in every and any circumstance -- to reduce the dead to ash in a crematorium. It is an offensive act, for it does violence to the spirit and letter of Jewish law, which never, in the long past, sanctioned the ancient pagan practice of burning on the pyre. The Jewish abhorrence of cremation has already been noted by Tacitus, the Roman historian of the first century CE, who remarked upon what appeared to be a distinguishing characteristic that Jews buried, rather than burned, their dead. In ancient days, the Talmud informs us, fragrant flowers and spices were used at the funeral to offset the odor of the decaying body. Today, this is no longer essential and they should not be used at Jewish funerals at all. Link: http://www.aish.com/literacy/lifecycle/The_Jewish_Way_of_Death.asp
Upon death, the soul goes through a painful separation from the body, which until now had housed the soul. This process of disengagement occurs as the body decays. When the body is buried, it decays slowly, thereby giving comfort to the soul as it disengages from the body. This decay is crucial, which is why Jewish law forbids embalming or burial in a mausoleum, which would in fact delay the decaying process. Also, Jews are buried in a wooden casket, which decays more rapidly. Similarly, Jewish law dictates that burial take place as soon as possible after death. (In Israel, funerals are often on the same day as the death.) All this is for the benefit of the soul. One reason that Judaism prohibits cremation is that the soul would suffer great shock due to the unnaturally sudden disengagement from the body. As the Talmud says: Burial is not for the sake of the living, but rather for the dead. (Sanhedrin 47a) What about the millions of Jews cremated in Nazi ovens? The Almighty certainly guarded their souls from needless agony. I think similarly in this case, where the man did not ask to be cremated, his soul is not accountable for what transpired. Link: http://tinyurl.com/4dasa
His embalmed corpse... MBZ
I was surprised to read that Pope John Paul II was not embalmed. I know the last 3 were, because of what happened to Pope Pius XII, whose body began to darken and his nose (shudder) fell off. I guess the Vatican was so embarassed that they started to have the popes embalmed.
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CRESTVIEW � A 47-year-old motorcyclist was killed Monday night in a wreck on State Road 85, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
CRESTVIEW � A 47-year-old motorcyclist was killed Monday night in a wreck on State Road 85, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Tracy Jay Tate was driving northbound around 7:45 p.m. when he approached the traffic signal on Antioch Road. Another vehicle, driven by 37-year-old Kiiya Sherre Dixon of Crestview, was at the traffic signal in the eastbound lane on Antioch Road and pulled forward when the light turned green.
Tate also entered the intersection on a red signal, crossing into the path of Dixon's 2002 Nissan Xtera, according to the FHP report. Dixon's Nissan hit the right front side of Tate's 2006 Yamaha motorcycle, sending both vehicles to the right side of the grass shoulder on State Road 85 north.
Tate's motorcycle sustained $12,000 in damages during the wreck.
It is not known if alcohol played a role, according to the FHP report.
Tate was transported to North Okaloosa Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead as a result of his injuries. Tate was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash.
Dixon and Dixon's passenger, 12-year-old Crestview resident Ayajah C. Coleman, were not injured. Both were wearing seatbelts at the time of the crash.
The Nissan sustained around $5,000 in damages.
The northbound lanes were closed to traffic while emergency responders worked the scene. They were reopened by 11:15 p.m., according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.


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