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I've been hearing rumblings that they're going to give Garchomp a mega evolution. As in the only normal Pokemon that can KO certain legendaries in one hit given the right conditions.
Isn't it a bit soon to be banning anything?I mean, it sounds like they have to give up their held item for mega evo, which is a big deal in competitive battling. Pokemon without Choice Specs, Focus Sash, Leftovers etc.
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In the introduction to his book, Decolonizing the Hindu Mind, Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst argues that Western-based reporters and scholars fail to recognize biased and misleading terminology used by their Indian counterparts. We excerpt here his discussion of particularly problematic terms.
To find out about the thought animating a social, cultural and political movement, one must simply listen and read what its acknowledged spokesmen have to say. The need of the hour is to get acquainted with what Hindu revivalists are really saying and to restore objectivity to the discussion. Objectivity has been under attack on two fronts. One is the "postmodern" form of Marxism (quite powerful in American universities), which denies the very notion of objective knowledge, assumes that knowledge is conditioned by one's social belonging, and insists that "all research in the social sciences has a political agenda." In practice, this means that once an author has been identified as belonging to the wrong interest group, his arguments are ipso facto wrong or vitiated. In a large part of the academic publications, this position is implicit in their way of foregoing any serious evaluation of arguments formulated by Hindu revivalists, as if the identification of the propounder of the argument as a "Hindu fundamentalist" were sufficient to put his arguments beyond the pale of rational discourse. Thus, the Hindu litany of grievances against the inequalities imposed on Hinduism by the Indian state (a major issue) is commonly only mentioned as an object of ridicule, never of proper investigation.
The second problem is that many India-watchers who do believe in the principle of objectivity have nonetheless published books and papers on the present topic which suffer serious lapses from the normal scholarly standards. The exacting standards of objectivity are obviously a permanent challenge to scholars in any field, but this field, or at least its present-day state of the art, presents some peculiar problems. In some cases, the bias may be in the mind of the India-watcher, but the overriding problem is that even scholars and journalists who do try to be objective frequently rely on Indian sources which have considerable standing but are nonetheless far from objective. There is, apparently, an assumption of cultural solidarity in which Western India watchers regard their Indian colleagues, "our men in India," as representatives of enlightened modernity who stand above the ongoing conflicts between the native barbarians. This, in spite of the conspicuous fact that many Indian academics use very partisan language when addressing the issue of Hindu revivalism.
However, we shall show that the very basics of this research are highly problematic: numerous presumably non-partisan sources are tainted by a partisan involvement which outsiders tend to ignore or misunderstand, and even the terminology which conditions the whole discourse on India's religious conflict is often unclear and sometimes the object of deliberate manipulation. My intention is to avoid these traps and clear away the cobwebs at the only entrance to a real understanding of Hindu revivalism, viz. to let the primary sources speak.
What follows is a brief glossary of the typical terminology encountered in the primary and secondary literature on Hindu revivalism. A number of these terms represent false trails, theories or rhetoric which contribute nothing to our understanding of Hindu revivalism--this in spite of their tremendous popularity as explanation models in circles with little knowledge of the primary material. Others are very ordinary terms whose meaning suddenly becomes problematic when used in the context of "Hindu revivalism."
The focus of this study is most aptly termed Hindu revivalism, a broad trend in nineteenth-and twentieth-century India which seeks to revive Hinduism after a benumbing near-millennium of political, ideological and psychological subjection to Islamic and Western hegemony. Hindu revivalism is a many-pronged attempt to ensure the survival of Hinduism by integrating the gains of modernity in Hindu civilization (in that sense, it is of course not a revival of anything ancient in unchanged form), as well as by intellectually and politically fighting off the perceived threats posed by Islam, Christianity and a string of secular ideologies, of which Marxism is the most articulate.
The Hindu revivalist movement perceives itself as the cultural chapter of India's decolonization. It tries to free the Indians from the colonial condition at the mental and cultural level, to complete the process of political and economic decolonization. The need for "reviving" Hinduism springs from the fact that the said hostile ideologies (mostly Islam) have managed to eliminate Hinduism physically in certain geographical parts and social segments of India, and also (mostly the Western ideologies) to neutralize the Hindu spirit among many nominal Hindus.
It should already be clear that the movement under consideration cannot be called "Hindu fundamentalism." The reason is not that, as Hindu revivalists commonly argue, "a Hindu cannot be a fundamentalist because the concept of fundamentalism is specific to the Biblical-Koranic tradition." The role of "scripture" is, indeed, not exactly the same in Hinduism as in the "religions of the Book," among other reasons, because there is a plurality of Hindu scriptures. Rather, the key point is that that segment of Hindu opinion which we are considering in the present study does not belong to this scripturalist tendency, even though it may embellish its manifestoes with an occasional (and often creatively reinterpreted) Vedic quotation. Most certainly, it is "not fundamentalist in the sense of being scripturalist." Fundamentalist movements invariably oppose the lukewarm and compromising tendencies within their own religion; such is not the case at all in Hindu revivalism, which focuses on confronting non-Hindu doctrines or social forces and uniting all Hindus. Fundamentalism, in the true sense of the word, is not in evidence in the Hindu revivalist movement.
One of the most frequently used terms in India-watching is communalism, a term unknown to most Westerners. Its roots lie in the British colonial policy of taking "communities" as the relevant units in recruitment or in the allotment of seats in representative assemblies. Originally, the term had no pejorative connotation.
Today, communalism is one of those labels allotted exclusively to people who reject it; it is a term of abuse. This distortion of an otherwise well-defined and useful term started in the 1920s, when Congress leaders took to using it for (i.e., against) Hindu organizations, even though the latter opposed communal electorates and recruitment quota which the Congress had endorsed. Even when Congress became a party to the Partition of India on a communal basis (Pakistan for Muslims, India for non-Muslims), which these Hindu organizations kept on opposing, Congress kept on denouncing the latter as "Hindu communalists."
To justify this shift in meaning, a symmetry was assumed between minority organizations which favored the communal principle and Hindu organizations which opposed it, in the sense that both defended the perceived interests of their own community. The definition of the term was changed. The effective meaning of communalism in post-Partition India is explicated by the Marxist historian Bipan Chandra as "the belief that because a group of people follow a particular religion they have, as a result, common social, political and economic interests." This definition is generally accepted and used, e.g., by Saral Jhingran: "By communalism is meant the assertion that the secular interests of a group of persons are coextensive with its religious identity."
This definition, is, unfortunately, quite wrong. It does not satisfy the defining criterion of a definition, viz. that its semantic domain be coterminous with the phenomenon it seeks to define. When Bipan Chandra and Saral Jhingran talk about "communalism," they certainly include issues like the agitation against cow-slaughter, the Hindu and Muslim agitations concerning the temple or mosque in Ayodhya, and the Satanic Verses affair. These examples involve not "common economic, political, social and cultural interests," but purely religious concerns--that the birthplace of Rama or the fair name of the Prophet is being violated. Such controversies are not covered by Bipan Chandra's definition of "communalism."
The fact that nowadays the label "communalist" is systematically applied to people who never describe themselves as such, and most of whom go out of their way to deny that they are "communalists," should caution scholars to handle it with utmost care. It may be legitimate to sit down and collect evidence for the thesis that "the Hindu nationalists are communalists," but it is not legitimate, at least not from the viewpoint of scholarly or journalistic duty, to routinely replace their chosen self description with the externally imposed label "communalist."
Most Hindu revivalists do accept the term Hindu nationalist. After the Ayodhya-related excitement, with its media exaggerations, died down, the more responsible Western media decided to use this term when discussing the RSS and BJP. It should be kept in mind that in India, nationalism doesn't have the negative connotations which it has in Western intellectual circles. On the contrary, the term is hallowed by its association with the freedom movement. For the people concerned, it simply means "love of one's country," and in all other respects its meaning can vary. Another term which Hindu nationalists themselves often use, and which is now effectively a synonym of "Hindu nationalism," is Hindutva, "Hindu-ness." It is distinct from "Hinduism," in that it designates the "Hindu nation" rather than "Hindu religion." The "Hindu nation" is conceived as including Indians belonging to semi-Hindu religions like Sikhism and Buddhism (whose sacred sites associated with the founders lie in India), but whether it also includes Indian Muslims and Christians is a point of disagreement within the movement.
In Leftist writings, it is not uncommon to see Hindu revivalism, particularly its political section, described as "the Hindu Right." Though there is nothing pejorative in the term right in itself (on the contrary, for ages this was the "right" side, while the left side was associated with abnormality and evil), ever since the French Revolution it has become associated with the reactionary defenders of social injustice, the moribund forces of the past. In practice, the very word rightist carries an inherent leftist bias. The parties journalistically described as "rightist" (British Tories, German Christian-Democrats, American Republicans, etc.) very rarely call themselves that; only "extreme-rightist" parties do that. Most parties to which the metonymic term rightist is applied identify themselves by means of descriptive terms, like conservative.
The term Hindu Right only applies if an extreme Leftist viewpoint is assumed, as is effectively the case for numerous Indian Hindutva critics: only from that angle is Hindu nationalism consistently found to one's right. To the extent that Hindu revivalism rejects the Marxist reduction of history to economic factors--a refusal which Marxism construes as a camouflage for support to the status-quo in economic power equations--Hindu revivalism is, of course, non-Marxist and, if you want, non-Left.
But the decisive objection against the term Hindu Right is that the people concerned will not accept it. In fact, the BJS explicitly described itself as "centrist," e.g.: "As a centrist party, the Jana Sangh has been subjected to attacks both from the extreme right as well as the extreme left." One workable measure of objectivity and neutrality in news reading and scholarship is whether people and groups are classified with terms in which they recognize themselves. When we apply this simple yardstick of objectivity to the available literature on Hindu revivalism, we find most of it wanting.
Macaulayism is named after the British administrator Thomas Babington Macaulay, who in 1835 initiated an education policy designed to create a class of people Indian in skin color but British in every other respect. "Macaulayites" are those Indians who have interiorized the colonial ideology of the "White Man's Burden" (as Rudyard Kipling called it in a famous poem): the Europeans had to come and liberate the natives, "half devil and half child," from their native culture, which consisted only of ignorance, superstition and the concomitant social evils; and after this liberation from themselves, these Indians became a kind of honorary Whites.
Macaulay's policy was implemented and became a resounding success. The pre-Macaulayan vernacular system of education was destroyed--even though British surveys had found it more effective and more democratic than Britain's then-existing education system. A Hindu revivalist diagnosis is given by Ram Swarup: "Above all, there appeared a class of Hindu-hating Hindus who knew all the bad things about Hinduism. Earlier invaders ruled through the sword. The British ruled through Indology. The British took over our education and taught us to look at ourselves through their eyes. They created a class Indian in blood and color, but anti-Hindu in its intellectual and emotional orientation. This is the biggest problem rising India faces--the problem of self-alienated Hindus."
It is this class of Hindu-born "Macaulayites" which has inherited the mantle of the colonial ruling class. Its most conspicuous representative was the first Prime Minister of free India, Jawaharlal Nehru, then sometimes nicknamed "India's last Viceroy," and recently evaluated as "the English gentleman who came to ruin India." Reviewer Joseph Shattan describes Jawaharlal's father, Motilal Nehru, as "in Macaulay's famous phrase, 'Indian in blood and color, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect' .... There being no vacancies at Eton, in 1905 he packed 15-year-old Jawaharlal off to Harrow, determined that the boy grow up a proper English gentleman. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams; and years later, at Cambridge, Jawaharlal wrote his father asking permission to transfer to Oxford: 'Cambridge is becoming too full of Indians.'"
Hindu commentator S.R. Goel, in Hindu and Hinduism, Manipulation of Meanings, observes: "One has to read Nehru's writings and speeches, and evaluate his policies from a Hindu point of view, to realize that, so far as Hindus and Hinduism are concerned, he was a combined embodiment of all the imperialist ideologies--Islam, Christianity, White Man's Burden and communism--that have flooded this country in the wake of foreign invasions or interventions." This class of mostly Hindu-born Macaulayites has shaped the institutions of post-1947 India, including its de facto state ideology, secularism.
In Europe, its continent of origin, secularism is not an ideology in its own right, it is only a practical arrangement between Church and State, viz. their separation. Secularism means that the State shall not in any way promote any religion, whether by propagating it through official channels, by discriminating in favor of its votaries, or by imposing its commandments through the rule of law. In a broader sense, secularism, as a cultural tendency, means that religion is "kept in its place," if not discarded altogether, in order to let people decide their destinies on the basis of purely human and this-worldly considerations.
In India, the Constitution of 1950 affirms the secular character of the Republic implicitly, but not until 1976 did the Constitution explicitly affirm that India is a "secular" state. Surprisingly, this non-involvement of religion and specifically of Hinduism in the Indian polity is not much of a concern to Hindu revivalists. The reason may simply be that they have more pressing concerns, while some lip-service to Hinduism in the Constitution would not make much difference to the flourishing of Hinduism in civil society anyway. The anger of Hindu revivalists is directed not against "secularism" in its proper meaning but against what it calls "pseudo-secularism"--the alleged practice of favoritism toward non-Hindus under the cover of "secularism."
European secularists wanted man to be emancipated from the mind control exerted by the dogmatic and irrational belief systems of authoritarian religious establishments, a situation which did not obtain in India at all. To be sure, religion in the sense of belief in supernatural interventions was and is widespread in India. Moreover, a religious conception of political authority also prevailed; kings were enthroned with Brahminical rituals. But Hindu states always supported religious pluralism; Hindu tradition never stifled debate, never stood in the way of science, and in its early stage even incorporated and encouraged it.
Hindu India has had no history of book-burning, of executing heretics or confining dissidents to lunatic asylums. The Buddha could preach his heterodox doctrine till his old age without ever being persecuted. As Dutch indologist Sjoerd de Vries writes: "In Indian society, an amazing tolerance vis-a-vis people of unusual opinions has existed for ages.... Only very few instances are known where conflicts have erupted for the sake of religion. Not until the advent of Islam did India get acquainted with religious persecution."
In their unease about the semantic manipulation of secularism, Hindu revivalists question the very use of this term. Seeing that the policies actually carried out by the secularists are not in conformity with the dictionary meaning of secularism, they allege that India is controlled by "pseudo-secularists." Some of them sum it up in one simplistic sentence: "Secularism means being anti-Hindu." They profess not to reject the principle of secularism, meaning "genuine secularism" or "positive secularism," and accuse the establishment and the other parties of "pseudo-secularism," meaning "discrimination against Hindus justified in the name of secularism."
Ever since Jawaharlal Nehru gave it currency, the term secularism has been very popular in India. Most parties and politicians call themselves secular. Even Muslim activists, whose counterparts in Turkey or Egypt denounce secularism as a demonic betrayal of Islam, call themselves secularists.
This general enthusiasm for secularism in itself should indicate that the meaning of the term has undergone a drastic change in India, and that it is irresponsible to use the term as if it had its established Western meaning (which most India-watchers do). Just as the English word deception has a radically different meaning from its French look-alike deception (which means disappointment), the British-English word secularism differs radically in meaning from its Indian-English look-alike secularism. A professional interpreter who translates deception as deception is incompetent, and an India-watcher who translates the Indian-English term secularism into standard English as secularism has a similar problem.
The self-described "secularism" of the Indian elite is a special case meriting closer inspection. Secularism in India is certainly not a neutral position, as Western India-watchers tend to assume. In fact, it is one of the warring parties in India's religious conflict. This is a rather consequential insight, for it means that reliance on the presumed neutral Indian sources describing themselves as secularist (a reliance which pervades the entire non-Indian literature on the present topic) is actually a reliance on the version of one of the warring parties, which is the very last thing to do in scholarship.
In allotting political labels to persons, I intend to be more circumspect than the Marxists, who systematically label all Hindu revivalists as RSS men if not Hindu fascists. Of course, I don't pretend to know every author's personal involvement, and allowance should be made for changes in people's commitment. So, the safest criterion is simply to go by the presence or absence of a conspicuous Marxist viewpoint or conceptual framework in an author's writings, then proceed to label that particular argument--rather than the author himself--as "Marxist." In a number of cases, however, the Marxist label is certified by Marxist sources. Thus, Romila Thapar and R. S. Sharma are quoted at some length as representatives of Indian Marxist thought in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought.
To Marx, according to this same dictionary, Hinduism "was the ideology of an oppressive and outworn society, and he shared the distaste of most Europeans for its more lurid features.... he was as sceptical as his Hindu followers were to be of any notion of a Hindu 'golden age' of the past." Marx upheld the colonial view that India was not a country properly speaking, merely a stretch of land with a meek conglomerate of peoples passively waiting for the next conqueror. For him, the question was not whether it was right to colonize India, merely whether colonization by Britain was preferable (and in his view, it was) to colonization by the Turks or the Czar.
Marx's Indian followers have remained true to his view. They reject the very concept of India as a national unit and only accept India's unity and integrity to the extent that they consider it strategically useful--e.g., in 1970-75, when they sincerely believed that they were about to come to power in Delhi. In an interview in Le Monde, Romila Thapar cheerfully predicted that India won't be able to stay together. CPM Politburo member Sitaram Yechury calls India a "multinational country" with "many nationalities."
After the Soviet implosion, many an Indian Marxist, or Left-talking opportunist has switched to free-market liberalism but remained a determined Macaulayite and secularist. Indeed, the intense polarization for and against Hindutva in the early 1990s is partly due to a regrouping of Leftist forces on the cultural front after they found that their fortunes on the socioeconomic front were down, as observed by G. Jain: "Deprived of the old legitimacy which the non-existent but effectively advertised success of the Soviet Union and China conferred on them, leftist intellectuals must now hang on desperately to Nehru. Secularism ... and not socialism has to be their battle cry." The effect on international opinion is that "the 'secularist' and 'anti-Hindu-communalist' platform assures them the support of not only the Muslims at home and abroad but, interestingly enough, of a lot of people in the West," Jain concludes.
At the academic level, at least, this is very much the situation: Indian Marxists are welcomed in American seminars as privileged commentators on "Hindu communalism." It is ironic and disturbing that a movement which still swears by Lenin--whose October 1917 coup d'etat deposed the first democratic Russian Parliament--and Stalin is hailed in Western universities as the guardian of a civil polity against the encroaching barbarism of Hindu revivalism.
Majoritarianism is the position that a majority has the right to determine the face of a country, whether in symbolic respects or in actual legislation. It is in effect a pejorative term for democracy, especially democracy in its unalloyed "one man, one vote" form, in which a majority can take decisions without bothering about the religious background of the decision's supporters or opponents.
One curb on unalloyed "majoritarian" democracy could consist in veto powers conceded to smaller units (though this means that a minority can impose its will on the majority, which obviously detracts from the "democratic" character of the system). This is what David Ludden refers to in his book Making India Hindu with his criticism of BJP majoritarianism: "As a majoritarian movement, Hindu nationalism defines the Indian nation as a whole and seeks to displace and remove alternative, pluralistic definitions." A "pluralistic" definition seems to imply a recognition of subnationalities or other units below the level of the nation.
This critique of majoritarianism intrinsically presupposes a communalist perspective: the nation is not one, is not a single unit which can take political decisions, but it is a composite of communities, one of which may be the majority, but each of which has its own sovereignty. The citizen does not participate in the decision-making process as just a citizen, but as a citizen qualified by his membership of a subnationality. Moreover, in the present debate, it is minorities defined by religion which are accepted as legitimate contenders for the status of a "minority" entitled to "get justice."
In secular countries, there may be subnationalities defined by religion or language (and that only for very limited purposes), but it is unconstitutional and, in fact, unthinkable that a proposal of law in France, the US or any other secular country were to be subjected to the approval or disapproval of groups defined by religious identity. Thus, no matter how sinful the Catholic community may consider the legalization of abortion, there is no question of a modern government giving representatives of the Catholic community a veto right against a democratically enacted law permitting abortion, nor even the right to have a separate minority law applying to Catholics alone. In those countries, a citizen is simply a citizen, and his adherence to a majority or minority religion is strictly ignored. That is real secularism.
That very policy, accepted as a matter of course in Western secular democracies, is precisely what Ludden describes as the majoritarian program of the Hindu nationalists: to treat "the Indian nation as a whole," in particular, to have a Common Civil Code which applies to all citizens regardless of religion--replacing the present "pluralistic" Civil Code, which differs according to religion. By contrast, the "alternative, pluralistic definitions" envisaged by Ludden introduce the notion of separate communities as relatively sovereign building-blocks of the nation. But that is exactly what the British in India used to call the "communal" principle. This example of a controversial term may serve to illustrate how easily outside observers get entangled in the intricacies of India's "communal" problem; how they lose their neutrality even in the stage when terms are defined; and how they may even end up on the side which they imagine they are criticizing, i.e., "communalism."
I caution the reader that certain commonly held opinions about India and Hindu revivalism are just that--opinions. Views on a large phenomenon like Hindu revivalism naturally stretch across the whole opinion spectrum, but those which dominate the international media and the channels likely to have influenced my readership are almost uniformly hostile, sometimes ferociously hostile. About Hindu revivalism we may say what an earlier researcher has said about the Middle-Eastern Druze religious community, viz. that they "were judged almost entirely in the light of sources written by their adversaries; hence many misconceptions about them persist to this day." This complaint is also heard from the people directly concerned here, the Hindu revivalists themselves.
Dr. Koenraad Elst was born in Leuven, Belgium, on August 7, 1959, into a Flemish (Dutch-speaking Belgian) Catholic family. During a stay at the Benares Hindu University, he discovered India's communal problem and wrote his first book about the budding Ayodhya conflict. He has frequently returned to India to study various aspects of its ethno-religio-political configuration and interviewed Hindu and other leaders and thinkers. Decolonizing the Hindu Mind is available at www.amazon.com.
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I have made a class called ProgressGUI, which is an extension of JDialog. Right now, I am attempting to get an instance of ProgressGUI to show progress as the values of a function are stored into a cache (so that the values don't have to be computer again upon regraphing of the function). However, when the ProgressGUI pops up, its contents are not rendered properly...
The ProgressGUI window pops up okay, but then all of its content area shows up white, and the progress bar doesn't show at all. I'm confused as to why this is happening... No errors occur and the dialog goes away when all the values have been stored into the cache.
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public void setFunction(String equation) { func.function = equation; repaint(); valueCache = new double[(int)((xMax - xMin) / xstep)][(int)((yMax - yMin) / ystep)]; ProgressGUI p = new ProgressGUI("Storing Values", "Computing and storing to cache..."); int n = valueCache.length * valueCache.length; int f = 0; for(int x = 0; x < valueCache.length; x++) { for(int y = 0; y < valueCache[x].length; y++) { valueCache[x][y] = func.evaluate(xMin + x * xstep, yMin + y * ystep); p.setProgress((++f * 100) / n); } } cacheReady = true; p.dispose(); }
See the images below for what it is supposed to look like, and what it's doing...
The ProgressGUI is small and in the center, but you'll get the idea.
Any help would be appreciated!


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I played with my well known Fallen Radagast, which scored 36, 20, 38 and 36 points. Mainly because I know how this decks works and also what the opponents can play against it, so I al-ways have a good alternative on nearly everything.
Round 1 Henrik (Balrog) 6:0
He couldn't play very much on the hazard side and I was able to stop him with The Way is Shut and with my Maias/Elf-Lords. I could play My Precious as an Agent and was able to prevent him to play the Orcs of Moria. So again the Maia-Elf-lord combo proved to be very effective against Minion. Final MP Score 36:12
Round 2 Karsten (also Fallen Radagast) 5:1
We both played Fallen Radagast, but I was lucky enough to draw him on my first turn. This was really good because everything is a little bit easier then. But the main reason for winning was my hazard deck. I use the same hazard deck against Minion and FW, so he had to face all my Maias and Chilled Dwarves. His Fallen Radagast plays all the resources in the free-holds and therefore he had a hard time. Nevertheless he was able to score enough points to avoid a 6:0; which is quite good if you don't have your Wizard and are facing a hazard deck which can attack you most of the time. He had two companies at free holds and you can't always tap everyone. And of course I could never wound one of his characters – you have to play let's say two Maias each round and sometimes one character stays untapped, too, because he rolls very well. But I won't complain on that; he just has a very good Deck. You can see that in the fact that he made it to the Finals, even if he lost 1-5 to me.
Final MP Score 38:21
Round 3 Pawel (Balrog) 2:4
I knew that this would be a difficult game and therefore I was surprised that until round 3 I was quite a lot in the lead. I could play my Maias quite well and also was able to wound his Buth-rakaur in round 1 (too bad that he had a foul smelling paste). But he avoided the double wilder-ness pretty well, so I couldn't play my Elf-lords on him. My deck worked very well and I had an item, three or four wolves and also my fellowship at Rhosgobel worked pretty nicely.
At round four everything changed…I played Hiding and he played Blind to the West to discard my Hiding. I thought with all my wolves I still can face two or three cave drakes…but he played Minions Stir (Doors of Night was already in play) and an Uruk-Lieutenant. I played in response a Marvels Told and he canceled this card with Ire of the East, too. So I had to face 3 strikes with 11. After that he played an Orc-Lieutenant (3 strikes with 16) and Mouth of Sauron and for an-other 3 strikes with 16. So he kept this 6 hazards just for the right moment to crush my compa-ny. He killed nearly all of the characters and nearly every ally. I was able to concentrate on Rhosgobel but I had to forget the Scroll. And I needed one Item because otherwise he would have won easily (he killed my guy with the dagger and everyone was wounded). At my last turn I calculated the points and I was quite confident to win the game. I moved with two Dwarves from Rhosgobel to Dwarven Mines and played my item there. Somehow I made a mistake when calculating the points, because maybe I should have risked a little bit more. I thought it would be enough to win the game. He played an Assassin on my second company, with Faramir. I decid-ed not to risk anything because I thought I already had enough points and canceled the attack with Farmer Maggot. I was moving to Old Forrest, which also turned out to be a mistake, be-cause now I had to beam to a different site and I had WhctK, Tom and another Character in my hand. So I should have tried to face the attack. At the end he could play 1 card for -1 MP and he won with 21 to 20 MP. This was a very close and interesting game where I had my chances and he also played really well. I have never seen an attack with 6 hazard cards timed together so well.
Round 4 Mario (Hero) 6:0
I played my corruption deck vs. heroes, so he was quite busy with tapping his characters to re-move the Lure card or to play Marvels Told. I saw that he also was playing in the Arthedain area and suspected, that he would surely play Tom Bombadil. Obviously, my first Sideboard card was Tom and I was able to get him before Mario. I also attacked his Wizard with an Assassin while he had Forewarned is Forearmed in play. He killed my first Assassin, but my second As-sassin was able to kill him on the second body check. I could play my game without any big problems. So I ended up with a final MP Score: 36:12
After 4 games we had the following placement:
1. Pawel 20 Points – Balrog
2. Patric 19 Points – Fallen Radagast
3. Karsten 14 Points – Fallen Radagast
4. Roland 13 Points – Minion
5. Heiner 12 Points – Balrog
6. Mario 12 Points – Hero
7. Mark 12 Points – Hero
8. Eric 12 Points – Fallen Wizard
9. Henrik 11 Points – Balrog
10. Wolfgang 10 Points – Hero?
11. Nicolai 6 Points – Maybe Dream Cards
12. Christian 3 Points - Hero
And as you can see it was really close to become fourth this time…and surprisingly Heiner and Mark didn't make it to the finals. There were not that many players but the level was very high and each game was against a decent opponent. Heiner's comment was "oh my dices", which Mark can imitate very well
At the evening we got a really great tour from Bernd through the Greisinger Lord of the Rings Museum. But it took quite a while and I knew that I had to adjust my One Ring Deck. Meanwhile my Family had arrived also in the hotel, and I built my deck until 2 o'clock. In the morning I had to prepare myself and my kids for breakfast and after that I walked with them together to the Museum. They supported me with all the luck which is necessary if you play a One Ring deck. ☺
I changed my Fallen Radagast deck to One Ring…The main reason was: Of course I thought Heiner and Mark would also make it to the finals and they would be well prepared against my Fallen Radagast. At the European Championship last year in Munich I had played Fallen Radagast in the qualifier and in the Finals. Heiner was angry because he always had to discard hazards that he could play against me. Of course he could play nearly every single hazard card in his deck against me…so I had no chance to win this game and therefore I became second.
So this time, I wanted to surprise them and therefore for the first time again (the last time I had done that, was long ago) I built a new deck
The idea was to play it with a lot of characters – and a friend or three at Mount Doom. For card draw I played with Radagast, Stealth and Bridge or Master of Esgaroth. I wanted to get a card advantage and tried not to use the Easterling Camp combo. The new thing was that I wanted to play the Scroll in Cirith Ungol because I was looking for a card that could do something against Seized by terror, which can be really ugly if you get Seized two or three times. So I played with Gates of Morning and Quiet Lands. I made one test game using this new deck against Hans-Werner Milpetz and I lost, because of the time limit. I had a really bad draw, too, but I was think-ing too long where to go and what to play in which order. Thank you, Hans-Werner, for this test game, it was really good to understand the weak points of this deck. And I must say I haven't had any game in which my opponent was about to call the council, so in most of the games the limiting factor was the time. With that in mind, I tried to play as fast as possible in the whole tournament on hero and on hazards side. Even if you play not the best way and you miss some-thing you have at least one turn more to correct that problem. And often something goes wrong and you have to do it in a different way, which is longer than the normal 4-5 rounds. Maybe you can dunk in 4-5 rounds but not with a Scroll and three Gold Rings and all necessary cards to dunk. And I don't believe in the perfect opening hand like Radagast, Stealth, Bridge, Gold Ring etc. Even if your opponent has the 25 points, then he also must be through with his whole deck. Because of Radagast I should be faster in this case, so I can concentrate more on my resources than on my hazards.
Round 1 Roland (Minion)
I have changed my hazard deck and I knew that Roland and Pawel still are playing Minion. Ro-land played a Sauron deck, so I added 3 Pukel-men and some other nice cards, but of course mainly against Pawel, because I thought that this would be the toughest match. So I could slow him down quite a lot and I had enough time to dunk in 6 rounds. The reason why it took so long was, that I got my Radagast in round 4 and I drew my first gold ring also in round four. Then I moved in round 5 to Lorien with my two companies and then with Bridge to Cirith Ungol for the Scroll. I also tried to play really fast, because every turn more was good for me. At the end I had one gold Ring and two Brooches plus the Scroll and was able to dunk.
Round 2 Pawel (Balrog)
Pawel won 6:0 against Karsten, so I knew I had to dunk against him if I wanted to win the World Championship. And the funny thing was if Karsten dunked against Roland, then I also would have to dunk against Karsten…so my goal was to dunk every time even when I thought two times would be probably enough.
I could slow Pawel with my hazards quite well, even when I was not only going for the hazards.
I added three Gates of Morning in my deck because I knew his Doors of Night hazards and I also wanted to avoid him always cycling two cards back into his deck with Unexpected Outpost. Which will of course be one Outpost and maybe a Rolled Down…The problem in my game was, that I had two Gates of Morning right in turn 1. So I played one even when I preferred to play it in response to his DoN. So later in the game I was not able to compete against his DoN, therefore some of my Dwarves died because of his Minions Stir Orc combo. In turn 4, I moved to Cirith Ungol to get the Scroll. I decided not to enter the site even though I had a cram, because of the Orc attack pushed by Minion Stir. Then I took a wrong decision... I had one Gold Ring and two Leaf Brooches and two Gold Rings in my hand (for Rolled down). I had to discard one of my resources and it could be either a Wizard's test or a Gold Ring. I was greedy and went for the Gold Ring. But Pawel of course managed to play Rolled down three times against me, so there was only one Gold Ring left. Now I had only two instead of 4 checks if my decision would be to discard the Wizard's test instead. Only Radagast, Faramir and one Dwarf were left at Mount Doom. I knew I had only two rolls for a 10 or more and I knew I could have lost this game. First roll was 6 and the second a …yes a 10!
I jumped and thought oh yes you did it, and now you are World Champion, because Karsten was not able to dunk against Roland. But Pawel said I had to make the corruption check. I played two A Friend or Three and tapped two characters in support used a cram for another one so no snake ice.
Round 3 Karsten (One Ring)
In this game I could play quite easily because I had already won…but of course you want to win anyway.
He has a very interesting deck which plays everything directly on Mount Doom with Lucky Search and Enduring Tales (you are allowed to discard on top of your Deck). Because he also moved to Easterling Camp and Mount Doom I was allowed to draw a hell of cards including my own draw engine with Radagast. So this was my fastest dunk, I guess it could have been round 4. I was lucky to get the Scroll right away and played it in Moria in turn 1. But Karsten also man-aged to play at least two Gold Rings at Mount Doom. I couldn't play my Rolled down against him successfully because of Enduring Tales and somehow I wasn't able to play it twice in one m/h-phase. He played a Wizard's test in turn 4, luckily for me it was no 10. But I was a bit afraid this time, so I decided to dunk as fast as possible, as well. I discarded both of my Cram's in Lorien and moved straight to Mount Doom. I was pretty confident but Karsten still wanted to know how much hazard limit he has. While I was moving with 7 characters and he was discarding Daelomin for a total of 11 Hazard Limit, I became a little anxious. He tapped one of my rangers with Adunaphel, played two rivers and thought I couldn't do anything in my Site phase, but he didn't notice my untapped Oin. So I was there with one ring, two Leaf Brooches and the Scroll and could easily dunk. But after the game Heiner told me that he would have been able to stop me. He would have had Kahmul in hand, and if he had played him twice probably my whole hand would have been discarded. But Karsten didn't think about this because he had played Enduring Tales and I would have drawn everything after the m/h phase again. Moreover, he also had Many Sorrows Befall to cancel his own long event. Maybe I could have tested the One Ring in response…who knows how this would have ended.
At the end I want to thank Christian and Alex for the organization and Bernd for the great location and the museum tour. And for letting my children take a look into the hobbit hole
I will keep this weekend in fond memory and am looking forward to the Lure!!!
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Great report! It's a pleasure to read these detailed experiences and learn from the insights beneath the story of every match. I've never played a dunk deck, but after reading about your's and Karsten's, I'll not hesitate to build one (btw, It would be great to see these decks listing ).
Thank you, and congratulations!
Thank you, and congratulations!
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Congrats Patric! Well done! You proved all the people who thought you can play only one deck wrong.
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According to the CRF:Patric wrote:I had one Gold Ring and two Leaf Brooches and two Gold Rings in my hand (for Rolled down). I had to discard one of my resources and it could be either a Wizard's test or a Gold Ring. I was greedy and went for the Gold Ring. But Pawel of course managed to play Rolled down three times against me, so there was only one Gold Ring left.
The item being replaced by the Leaf Brooch being discarded must be in play to satisfy any targeting restrictions.
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I know there has some time past...but in my Company they wrote an article about the World Championship 2016 in Jenins. If you want you can take a look
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Great report Patric, and a nice/interesting detail from your company! I wish all the companies and wives of the world could understand the importance of meccg
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hear hear!!
C'mon, not the Elves of Lindon AGAIN...
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SWANSBORO � With the end of a building moratorium looming, recommendations on the building height issue are headed to Swansboro�s planning board for consideration.
The planning board meets Tuesday, Nov. 27, and will discuss a recommendation from the town board to return to a 35-foot height limit along the town�s highway corridor.
A corridor of 800-feet on either side of N.C. 24 along the commercial district is currently in place that allows a building height of 75 feet by special use permit. But building height has become a topic of debate over the past year, and a building moratorium on structures over 40 feet remains in place through December while the town reviews the issue.
Commissioner Jim Allen made a motion that recommends that the town rescind the corridor and change the height limit from 75 feet to a 35-foot mean height and eliminate the special use requirement.
While the recommendation, if approved, would eliminate the current corridor overlay, Allen said it doesn�t necessarily mean higher height limits couldn�t be studied for specific areas.
The corridor stretches from Wise�s Branch near the intersection of N.C. 24 and Old Hammock Road west to the town limits.
Allen said the corridor is mainly commercial but also goes through some residential areas, and he has specific concerns about the 75-foot limit potentially allowing large apartment or townhouse complexes, which he said is not a fit with the town�s goal of preserving a single-family home character.
�I�m not saying there aren�t places where we could increase the building heights, but we need to study and identify those places,� he said.
Town commissioners have agreed that 75 feet may be too high, but not everyone has favored a return to 35 feet.
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Efficacy and Safety of Lixisenatide Versus Insulin Glulisine on Top of Insulin Glargine With or Without Metformin in Type 2 Diabetic Patients (GetGoal-Duo-2)
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|A Randomized, Open-label, Active-controlled, 3-arm Parallel-group, 26-week Study Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of Lixisenatide to That of Insulin Glulisine Once Daily and Insulin Glulisine Three Times Daily in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Insufficiently Controlled With Insulin Glargine With or Without Metformin
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Taylor Sandlin pitched six one-hit shutout innings on her senior night Tuesday to help host South Lenoir beat East Duplin 6-0 in the regular season finale for both teams.
Madison Herring, Madison Beyer and Meredith Sanderson had two hits each and Morgan Mentz tripled in the win. Sandlin struck out two.
South Lenoir�s other senior, Brittany Lassiter, drove in a run on a single.
The Blue Devils (18-3, 12-2 East Central 2A) finished second in the conference behind Topsail and will host a first round state playoff game at 7 p.m. on Friday. The Panthers (15-8, 7-7) finished tied for third with Swansboro and Richlands.
WAKE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY 10, PARROTT ACADEMY 6: At Wake, the Patriots fell in a non-conference contest.
Savannah Hill doubled and drove in four runs, Sarah Riley went 3-for-3 with a double and two RBIs and Brianna Casey went 2-for-4. Michelle Ballard gave up seven runs, three earned, on six hits, struck out six and walked three in five innings.
The Patriots (13-5) will find out this afternoon if they made the 3A state playoffs. The two-time defending 2A state champions host Lawrence Academy on Thursday in the regular season finale.
PARROTT ACADEMY 4, CARTERET LACROSSE 3, OT: At Parrott, the Patriots ended their season with a win.
Wyatt Webster scored three goals and Dale Delaney added a goal for Parrott, which ended the season at 7-9.
WILSON CHRISTIAN 5, BETHEL CHRISTIAN 0: At Wilson, the Trojans were eliminated from the state playoffs in the loss.
Bethel was outshot 41-2, with its only shots coming from Lydia Crain. Keeper Kelsey Worthington had 24 saves in goal.
Jensen Worthington and Kelsey Worthington were named to the NCCSA 2A all-state team.


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OpenGL 3.1 leverages the evolutionary model introduced in OpenGL 3.0 to dramatically streamline the API for simpler and more efficient software development, and accelerates the ongoing convergence with the widely available OpenGL ES mobile and embedded 3D API to unify application development. The OpenGL 3.1 specification enables developers to leverage state-of-the-art graphics hardware available on a significant number of installed GPUs across all desktop operating systems. According to Dr. Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Research, a leading graphics market analyst in California, the installed base of graphics hardware that will support OpenGL 3.1 exceeds 100 million units. OpenGL 3.0 drivers are already shipping on AMD, NVIDIA and S3 GPUs.
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For the week ending 23 September 2006 / 1 Tishri 5767
The Shofar Shows Up
There will be no shofar blowing on the first day of Rosh Hashana this year because of the rabbinical injunction against doing so on Shabbat.
Back in Moscow under oppressive Czarist rule, the community was faced with an entirely different situation preventing it from fulfilling this mitzvah on a weekday Rosh Hashana – there was no kosher shofar to be found. A disqualifying crack had been discovered in the only shofar it had, and bringing one from outside the city meant risking death at the hands of the anti-Semitic authorities.
The rav of the community, Rabbi Chaim Berlin, was greatly pained by this situation and decided to do something symbolic. He stayed up all night reviewing the laws of shofar and then set out early in the morning to the synagogue for the services which would be marred with the sadness of missing the shofar blowing.
On his way he came across a gentile wagon driver who had decorated his wagon with all sorts of horns. Amongst them he was surprised to see a beautiful kosher shofar and he approached the driver to ask him where he had gotten such a shofar. He was even more surprised when the fellow came running towards him with this shofar and begged him to take it.
It turned out that this driver had stolen the shofar from a local synagogue and was afraid that this was its rabbi who would report him to the police.
Never was the sound of the shofar so appreciated in that town as on that Rosh Hashana.


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This one is another "must-have" as far as I'm concerned. Available atwww.pvanvalkenburgh.com now that he has had it republished. Greatstuff on Camaro in here & also for all Chevy racing activities from the1957 racing ban up to 1972.
Another good one... but get the other two first.
I seem to recall a lot of photo mistakes in this book, but I still refer to it a lot.


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I've mentioned this before, I think. I leave things to the last minute. It must be the clarity or firey nature that I know deadlines bring to me. It's why I work in news. I thrive on deadline. However, I must say, making sausages on a deadline and not the oh well, month, I had to do it. Probably not the smartest thing I've done. I will say it was fun, however.
It's the 15th of June, that means it's Charcutepalooza time. This month's challenge was to stuff sausage. I'll have to add I was skeptical here. Frankly, I find the casings disgusting. I hate touching them. I hate looking at them. Heck, there's a fabulous local market I can walk to where they make fantastic handmade sausages. Why in the name of all things good should I stuff my own?
I'll be honest. I rushed this thing. The sausage, a little more emulsified than I wanted. I chilled, I re-chilled, I'm telling you, chicken seemed a lot harder to keep from getting all sinewy than pork is. I probably should have used the pork fatback. I should have had my husband help me. I did it alone, and frankly, I'm pretty proud of it.
All these things aside.... the taste? Out of this world. Would I do it on a regular basis? No, definitely not. It makes a mess. A big, meaty, mess. However, if I were to spend a day making a huge batch and freezing a bunch, sure, I'd do that. Until then, I'm walking down the street and buying from my local market.
Spicy Garlic-Ginger Chicken Sausage
Makes: 6, 6-inch links
3 pounds boneless and skinless chicken thighs, cubed (1-inch pieces and include all fat, I'm not using fatback here)
1.5 tablespoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon chinese five spice powder
6 cloves garlic, minced
4 tablespoons freshly grated ginger
1/4 cup dry white wine
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1 tablespoon sesame oil
2 tablespoons sriracha sauce
4 feet of hog casings, soaked in tepid water, and rinsed.
First, combine cubed chicken, salt, pepper, chinese five spice, garlic, and ginger in a large bowl (if you have a stainless steel one, use that, it'll keep a chill better). Cover with foil or plastic wrap and stick in the fridge overnight. Chill all the pieces to your grinding attachment and sausage stuffer at this point. (I'll be giving instructions here for the kitchen aid grinding and stuffing attachments).
If you don't have time to let the chicken sit overnight, stick it in the freezer for at least 30 minutes. I did this anyway. After the chicken sat in the seasoning overnight in the fridge, I put it in the freezer for a half-hour. It's much easier to grind the meat when it's nearly frozen.
While your chicken is in the freezer, set up the rest of your ingredients. Measure out the wine, vinegar, sesame oil and sriracha and place in small containers in your fridge. You want them chilled. Then, set up your station. Mrs. Wheelbarrow of Charcutepalooza fame does the best job of explaining how to do this.
Taking small portions of your chicken mixture, feed it through the grinder, making sure the meat and fat are cleanly passing through the blade and die. Once it's all ground together, place entire stand mixer bowl full of chicken into the freezer. Let's chill it again before we stuff the sausage.
According your sausage stuffer instructions, you will now stuff the sausage. The one thing I can say about this is to have an extra pair of hands around. Someone should be feeding the meat into the grinder, the other forming the sausages as they come out of the stuffer. Store in the fridge for 3-4 days, or freeze and enjoy up to a month or two.
Spicy Sausage and Bok Choy Noodles
Bok Choy/Sauce recipe from: Cooking Light
Serves: 6
Bok choy and sauce:
1 large bok choy (about 1 1/3 pounds), cleaned, roughly chopped
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1/4 cup chopped sweet onions
1 tablespoon shredded or peeled fresh ginger
1 garlic clove, minced
1 cup water
3/4 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
3 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 1/2 tablespoons dry sherry
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 package instant rice noodles
6 links Spicy Garlic Ginger Sausage, grilled and sliced (you may sub any chicken sausage you'd like)
In the bottom of a large saucepan that has a steamer insert you can add later on, heat your vegetable oil up over medium-high heat. Once shimmering, add 1/4 cup onions, your ginger, and your garlic. Cook for 1-2 minutes. Put your streamer basket with bok choy in your pan.
Now combine water, chicken broth, soy sauce, sugar, crushed red pepper, and sherry. Pour over your bok choy and the steamer basket. Now, bring that mixture up to a boil, then down to a simmer. Cover and steam for 20 minutes.
While your bok choy is steaming, grill your sausage up to your preference and then slice it. Set aside and keep warm. Also during this time, prepare your rice noodles according to the package directions. Set aside as well and keep warm.
Once the bok choy is done steaming, remove the steamer basket from the pan. Add 2 teaspoons of cornstarch to the remaining sauce to thicken it up. Toss the bok choy, sausage, rice noodles, and sauce together in a large bowl. Serve immediately.


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Many have complained this winter that Southern Illinois doesn't get snow anymore. We only get ice that is not pretty and only leads to motor vehicle accidents. Those wishing for snow now have their wishes fulfilled, and in a dramatic way.
Many have complained this winter that Southern Illinois doesn't get snow anymore. We only get ice that is not pretty and only leads to motor vehicle accidents.
Those wishing for snow now have their wishes fulfilled, and in a dramatic way. Thanks. Now I have to walk to work again just like last winter.
But this winter I've been mainly staying at my girlfriend's house, which is only two blocks from work, so the walk is a minor inconvenience.
I couldn't get a vehicle out of the alley Tuesday, so I walked. I walked back from lunch once the ice and sleet became more of a slush and was then able to drive the truck in reverse to the street. But after work with an afternoon's worth of new sleet on the ground, I couldn't get up the alley, so I drove back to work and walked home.
Wednesday morning, after an additional 5 inches of snow, I was glad I had left the truck at work. It was a lifeline for the household.
A lot of residents were upset their driveways were blocked from snow plowing, but during times like these, the most good for the most people is the only option. The situation calls for rugged individualism and tough choices, a return to a survival-of-the-fittest mode. We will rise above our troubles and appreciate what we do have, like the piece of mail that came today containing no name or return address and claims there have been three confirmed cougar sighting in southwestern Hamilton County since 2002. Cougar reports do not halt just because of bad weather.
Incidentally, for all the talk of cougars around these parts, the snow provides an excellent opportunity to confirm cougar tracks. Maybe we could settle the big-cat controversy once and for all.
Main Street was deserted this morning. Cars were covered with what appeared to be inches of frozen rain and snow. The scene was ghostly. The only sounds were those of tires zipping uselessly and occasional scratching and whacking of scrapers on windows. The town was basically dead.
Throughout the day, various vehicles became jammed up in the snow near the office. Traffic gradually compressed the snow on Vine Street. As customers stopped at the paper box the vehicle exhaust melted down a patch of snow to an icy sheen which then caused people to slip as they walked around their vehicles to reach the paper box.
"Slick 'ere," one man said after he slipped and crashed against his truck.
And there was laughter in the sky as the truck drove away. A skein of Canada geese flew over honking and it struck me they were laughing at me and all of us inconvenienced by the winter storm.
It did not greatly help my mood when I got a call from William Hayes of Houston, who asked about our winter storm here and told me he had just finished mowing his yard.
Children down the street were having a snowball fight. I watched briefly remembering the joy of a snow day from school. But then came the inevitable.
"Stop it, you idiot," one said.
Then there came a cry.
That's the traditional ending to a snowball fight between brothers. One gets hit in the face, either accidentally or on purpose, cries and goes inside to tell mom.
Snowball fights end differently in Greenville, N.C., where they are serious business. Last week at East Carolina University police had to break up a remarkably passionate snowball fight with pepper spray. The officers were not playful sports. One got hit in the back by a snowball, chased down the assailant, tackled him and charged him with assault on a government official and resisting, delaying and obstructing a law enforcement officer.
I'm afraid I'm finding the older a person gets, the less magic he finds in a snow day. If anything, the snow and ice give me a chance to break out my military issue Mickey Mouse boots and stomp around with authority.
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Ray Lewis returned to practice Wednesday for the first time since tearing his tricep in Week 7. He's not eligible to play this Sunday, but the Ravens posted a photo of the new facemask Lewis will be wearing.
The Giants' Chris Canty started the grille trend to try and keep opposing players' fingers away from his eye, which required multiple surgeries before he entered the NFL. Justin Tuck added diagonal bars and a visor to his version, to keep players from twisting his head as he attempted to recover from a neck injury. Lewis's look isn't totally original—but he's the only player who has been indicted on murder charges, so he wins the intimidation battle.


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Over the next 50 years, as much as $50 trillion in wealth will transfer from one generation to the next, according to a study by the Institute for Preparing Heirs. At the same time, studies have shown that more than 95% of inheritors are likely to change their financial advisors upon receiving their inheritances.
The institute, an educational organization, does not speculate on the transition in advisors, but this trend may suggest that sometime before receiving their inheritances, the clients' children detached from their parents' wealth management principles. This is a serious issue, as it posits polarizing perspectives on the proper preservation of wealth.
Many financial advisors are skilled experts when it comes to offering advice on the generational transfer of wealth, via such instruments as trusts and the establishment of limited liability companies. But they may not provide the same degree of specialized guidance when it comes to the generational transfer of knowledge—measures to preserve prosperity and increase wealth, as well as the risks potentially thwarting these goals.
While many young people are earnest in their quest to make a mark on the world, unless they are properly educated about the myriad exposures to their inherited wealth, they may inadvertently deplete it.
Jim Kane, president of personal insurance at the large Chicago-based insurance brokerage HUB International Ltd., works with many high-net-worth families in his role as a risk advisor. He wonders if part of the problem with the high turnover in financial advisors is because parents have shielded their children from both the means of their prosperity and the threats to it. The subject is taboo. As Jim put it, "The vast majority of families haven't told their kids about their financial situations because they don't want them to feel privileged. Then the kids grow up, go to college and start their careers with their own views on what is right."
While many parents often point out the value of a diligent work ethic, discussions of wealth generation are rare. Equally atypical are conversations about wealth preservation. Jim says the general lack of knowledge about personal liability risks and whether or not they can be transferred is surprising. "I had a discussion about insurance recently with someone who inherited the family business," he recalled. "It was our first meeting, and the young fellow said he was looking to buy an insurance policy in case the invested assets of the business failed to provide a significant return. I told him there was no such thing. He looked at me like I didn't know what I was talking about."
The Age 26 Limit
No one is criticizing high-net-worth parents, their children or their advisors for not adequately discussing wealth preservation. Indeed, most families fall into the same trap, regardless of their financial status. Yet the risks and financial consequences for all families are the same, although the degrees may differ.
Here's a case in point. All children, once they reach the age of 26, no longer meet the policy definition of a "household member," and thus are not automatically covered by their parents' policy. They can, however, be added to their parents' personal lines policy, or they can buy their own renters and liability coverage.
Young people face a similar age limit for health insurance—children no longer qualify for COBRA (Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act) coverage once they turn 26.
Most high-net-worth parents have purchased a personal excess or umbrella liability insurance policy with coverage extending to their children—until the age of 26. At this age, however, a child might be on his or her own now and completely in the dark about the need for personal excess insurance, or even property insurance to protect his or electronics, furnishing, clothing and other possessions.
Making matters dire is that they truly need this coverage. Younger people are at greater risk of being at the costly end of an expensive personal liability lawsuit because of their lifestyles—they tend to drive more, blog more, use social media more, text more and be less careful in what they do, say or write from the standpoint of defamation, slander and libel.
It can be a challenge, however, to convince young adults that they are at risk. "I counseled this young man of 29 that he needed personal excess insurance at very high limits of financial protection," Jim said. "He was living in a mansion on a beautiful 10-acre, tree-lined property that his father permitted him to live in. Since he didn't own the property, he adamantly insisted he did not have an exposure warranting umbrella liability insurance."
Jim informed him that he certainly did have an exposure, and a large one at that. They then took a tour of the property, when the young man proudly showed off his collection of motorcycles—eight dirt bikes that his friends rode when they came over for parties. "I shook my head and said, `You've got to be kidding me,'" Jim recalled.
Education is the answer, of course, and the earlier a child learns, the better. Many families have discovered the wisdom of collaborating with their family offices and financial advisors to create fun games where their children learn about the generation and the preservation of wealth. Jim knows of several clients who do just that, effectively teaching the essentials of finance and risk management to children as young as five.
There is another benefit to this timely education—children perceive the financial advisors as working on their behalf, toward their economic well-being. When they become adults, they might be more apt to retain them.


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Lose yourself in the story of Robbie the robot, a sentient automaton astronaut that finds itself stranded alone in Earth's orbit for thousands of years after losing contact with Earth in 2045. His battery is dwindling. This is his last message to whoever will listen.
The eight-minute film, called Robbie, is the handiwork of Australian filmmaker Neil Harvey. It was created entirely from archival NASA footage (some of it dating back as far as the Apollo program), which, when combined with Robbie's strangely emotive voice and an unnerving ambient soundtrack, makes for a remarkably compelling narrative. Give it a go — you'll be surprised by its poignance. [Neil Harvey via It's Okay to be Smart]


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Cheltenham Festival ambitions must be shelved until after Flemenstar has run in the Irish Hennessy Gold Cup, according to his owner Stephen Curran.
The Peter Casey-trained eight-year-old will be given three entries at the Festival in March, including in the Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup.
But connections insist his current priority is the Hennessy at Leopardstown on 9 February.
Curran said: "He's in great order, but we will make plans for Cheltenham much closer to the time.
"He'll be entered in the Queen Mother, the Ryanair Chase and the Gold Cup, but we are just concentrating on the Hennessy.
"Cheltenham is two months away and you wouldn't know what was going on with the ground by then."
The issue of Flemenstar's Cheltenham destination has generated much debate since his exemplary winning run was ended in the Lexus Chase at Leopardstown over Christmas.
Andrew Lynch's partner travelled supremely well for most of the three-mile journey, but was overtaken as he tired close home by First Lieutenant and the winner, Tidal Bay.
Despite that defeat, his owner is convinced the three-time Grade One winner would last the distance of the Gold Cup, which is over two and a half furlongs further than the Lexus.
Curran said: "He's a big, long-striding horse and, in hindsight, we should have gone on a mile out.
"If we'd have done that, he'd have put a lot of the horses in trouble with his jumping, which is his biggest asset.
"The ground was also hard work the other day, so that was another reason.
"I think he'll definitely stay (in the Gold Cup).
"He's still only a baby and still has a great future."


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