37 DAYS UNTIL THE DRAFT LOTTERY
Sharks have been so kind to us and now have a perfect scenario to pick up a 3rd win in a row against Arizona! Everyone else has a playoff team matchup so it could be rough.
News from the western front

Blues 5, Blackhawks 3 ❌
Ducks 1, Kraken 4❌
Golden Knights 3, Sharks 4 (OT)✅

News from the Home Front

Jackets 1, Bruins 2 (OT) ❌
Presidents trophy winning bruins couldn’t muster up an ounce of energy. Actually a fun game but killed the cushion

*3/30 Tank Grade: B- *
CBJ Tank Cushion: Tied with Chicago. We would lose the tiebreaker if we both lost out so I’m keeping the odds the same.
Current Bedard Odds: 25.5%

Notable Battles Tonight

Panthers@ Jackets 7PM
Devils @ Blackhawks 8:00PM
Ducks @ Oilers 10PM
Sharks @ Coyotes 10:00PM

Here’s why you should be optimistic for each game!
Florida has beaten Columbus 9 out of the last 11 times they’ve met. Keep it up.
Toews is back in the lineup for Chicago tonight and looking to put a cap on his career.
The pressure is on Edmonton tonight to clinch a playoff spot on home ice. They have folded under pressure before.
Sharks have won two in a row and bring that momentum to a matchup against a terrible Arizona team.

Remaining schedule for the top 4 Bedard Contenders.

Team	Games (Home/Away)	Games vs Playoff Teams	# of B2Bs
54 Columbus	8 (5/3)	4	2
54 Chicago	7 (3/4)	4	1
56 Anaheim	7 (3/4)	5	2
57 San Jose	7 (3/4)	4	1

I'm not arguing about rotations being good or bad, I'm just curious. This is a question specifically for unhappy players with the argument "I can't play my favourite card anymore".
Do you play for competition or for fun ? Because it seems to me like "I can't play my favourite card anymore" isn't the greatest argument against rotations since you can in fact still play your favourite card, it's just not a competitive card anymore. Which I think is better than being nerfed to the ground since you can still play for fun and play for the win at the same time, you just won't see your number go up anymore.
Would you have protested the same if there was a big nerf instead? Or maybe protested more 🤔 ?
Or maybe you had a particular reason to play non competitive decks in a competitive forma. If that the case please tell me I'm curious about players mentality.

Now that the EMEA superweek is done, I just want to make a small thread praising how well done everything was.
The content was very well produced, the desk was fun, the half time interviews were a nice touch, and for a completely new venue everything ran pretty smoothly, all things considered.
Of course, we all know and love Panpoc and Mitch and Tom, but Ender and Exwarrior were a very pleasant surprise for me. They bounced off each other very nicely and had a good understanding of when to hype things up, rather than just shouting at everything. Ender's analysis was great, I didn't feel like he was talking just to talk at any point. I'm really excited to see how they develope as the season goes on, these two have the potential to be my favourite caster pair for sure.
But also, I want to make a special note about how great the venue was. Designing the venue so that the audience sits so closely behind the players makes for a very intimate atmosphere, and 150 audience members is a small enough number so that even for teams with less fans, their cheers don't get overpowered by the opposing teams. Even watching costreams where the audio is lowered, I can still hear everyone getting involved when their team wins a round. Vitality's celebrations were really cool to see especially!
Anyway, all this is to say I'm really happy that this is what we have as the centre stage for our region. If any member of the production is reading this, you did great :)

Disclaimer: Some of these have unknown April dates. They are identified with a '*'
1968 - The J5 perform at a campaign rally for Richard Hatcher in Gary with Bobby Taylor and Diana Ross & The Supremes among others. Hatcher was the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana for 20 years, from 1968 to 1988. At the time of his first election on November 7, 1967, he and Carl Stokes were the first African-Americans to be elected mayors of a U.S. city with more than 100,000 people*
https://imgur.com/a/QPykxSx
1970 - The J5 rehearse for their first concert tour, which would start on May 2nd*
1971 - The Jackson 5 play at the Mid-South Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee
1972 - J5's cover of Bobby Day's “Little Bitty Pretty One” is released by Motown. It is also the first song where you can clearly hear Marlon's voice. It will reach #13 on the Hot 100*
https://imgur.com/a/77uT4hU
1981- Michael does backing vocals on Carole Bayer Sager’s song “Just Friends”. Michael had previously recorded Sager's "It's the Falling in Love" for Off the Wall. He was visiting Carole in the studio when she invited him to join the session. He came up with such a special part on the Bacharach/Sager composition "Just Friends" that they happily offered him a co-production credit*
https://youtu.be/bfGtCjIgnsU
1985 - Michael and seven members of USA For Africa are on the cover of Life Magazine
https://imgur.com/a/ZnDLbeA
1987 - Michael withdraws from The Jeovah’s Witness, a step that normally means he must be shunned by family members and friends who remain in the religious sect.
A representative of the Woodland Hills congregation where Jackson belonged said that the entertainer “disassociated” himself from the congregation and “no longer wants to be known as a Jehovah’s Witness.”
The official would not state what the implications of “disassociation” are, but when asked if they are serious, he responded, “Correct.”
Though Jackson’s anti-drug stance in public appearances was in keeping with the Witnesses’ clean-living codes, the entertainer’s Grammy-winning album Thriller produced tensions with the sect leaders in 1983 because of allegations the record and short film encouraged occult beliefs*
1988 - Michael plays the last of three nights at the Civic Center in Hartford, Connecticut
https://imgur.com/a/g5555p4
The story of Anne Miner: Anne is a great-grandmother who never attended a rock concert and prefers Big Band-era music. She says she is 'excited' about going to see Michael Jackson with tickets she won from a radio station but plans on taking cotton with her for her ears
'I'm excited. It's a chance of a lifetime experience,' said Anne Miner, 70. 'How many times are you going to see Michael Jackson in concert?'
The Greenfield woman, who admitted her favorite group was the Glenn Miller Band, big in the 1940s, won the tickets in a Michael Jackson Trivia Contest sponsored by WHAI radio and the Pepsi Co.
A chauffeur-driven white stretch limousine complete with champagne were to pick up Miner and a guest at her home and drive them to Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut and back.
She even considered wearing her old black-leather coat to the concert. She intends to go with her 20-year-old nephew, Michael J. Smith.
Smith said he prefers hard-rock bands like Bon Jovi over Jackson, but still expected to enjoy the concert. 'I'm just glad (Jackson) doesn't wear that white glove anymore.'
The two were given floor seats worth $22.50 each to the concert, which sold out just hours after tickets went on sale.
To earn the tickets, Miner answered three questions:

• What's Jackson's current record label?
  
  • What's the identity of the celebrity who discovered him
  • Where did Jackson grow up?

Miner said she determined Jackson's record label was Epic by going to a record store and that she learned his hometown was Gary, Indiana at the Greenfield Public Library. She admitted she guessed that Diana Ross was the celebrity who discovered him
'I'm always winning something,' said Miner, a retired waitress of 41 years. She said she's a compulsive contest player who occasionally gambles on the Massachusetts State Lottery and always buys raffle tickets.
Miner said she has seen Jackson 'shaking around' on television and thinks he is a lot like Elvis Presley, but adds he 'looks like a girl.'
1989 -Michael is on the cover of Ebony magazine.
https://imgur.com/a/UeLPsn8
1989 - Filming of "Liberian girl" short film takes place over 2 days. Veteran video director, Jim Yukich, was brought in to help craft a memorable clip.
“CBS Epic called and Michael Jackson wants to do a video for this song ‘Liberian Girl’ and I hadn’t heard this song yet,” said Yukich. “I’m thinking like ‘Off the Wall’ or ‘Rock with You’ or just I figure it will be one of those classic Michael Jackson killer songs, right? And ‘Liberian Girl’ is not a killer song. It’s funny — what do you do? So again, we’re throwing the kitchen sink at it, and so I pitched the idea to Michael that we would have him shoot the video while all these are people waiting to begin the video, and they don’t realize it until the end is that he’s directing.”
“He loved the idea. We started calling people, and we just called in favors from friends. I had just done a television special with Richard Dreyfuss, and Richard said he’d love to be in it. He said, ‘Can I call up Steven?’ and I said, ‘Steven who?’ and he said ‘Steve Spielberg and Amy Irving, and I said, “Yeah!” So he called Spielberg and Amy, and then you start calling people saying you have these people, and I’d start naming names and it was easy. It was very easy to get people because as soon as you get a couple of big names, everybody wants to be in it.”
The shooting day basically consisted of Yukich and his crew filming all the celebrities on a soundstage as they wait for Michael to show up. The final list of guest stars served as, in retrospect, a truly strange snapshot of that year in showbusiness.Comedy writers were given the task of writing some interesting things for the cast to say on camera while they waited.
“So we just had two days, and we had the live audio with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John doing the scene when they sang together, and they hadn’t sang together onscreen since ‘Grease’, so it was something to do that, and we just shot this grand stuff of people talking, and the outtakes are incredible because it’s just people talking. The song is not even playing! It’s just great getting all these stars in a room and you’re just filming and they’re saying, ‘What are you supposed to do?’ and we’d say, ‘We’ll get back to you,’ and you’d just mike everybody and shoot stuff.”
Yukich said that in a room filled with stars, Steven Spielberg’s uneasiness on the other side of the camera was the biggest surprise. Yukich used a push-pull camera shot on Spielberg, who was the director that made that camera shot popular, hence its industry nickname – 'The Jaws Shot'
“He was nervous. We did that push-pull move for that shot, and he was more nervous than I was, you know, being on camera. He wanted to try to do this favor for Michael because he wanted Michael for a movie.” Yukich also said that working with Michael was an amazing experience, but required some on-set preparation.
“Incredible,” he said. “I mean, at first, it was funny because he sent his handlers in first, and they check, and they said he is coming in 10 minutes. They go in all the different rooms to make sure that no bombs were there and there were no fans hanging out, and they kicked people out, and it was almost like going through airport security or something. They basically kicked people out there who weren’t supposed to be there, and they bring in a microwave oven with bananas for Bubbles the monkey and Max which was the baby monkey. It was like a real rigmarole, and then when he showed up, you know, he was unbelievably nice. Such a pleasant person and a nice guy.”
Jackson also had only one request involving the removal of a person from the final cut.“He called me a couple of times after he saw the edit. He would make us do some things, like he took out David Spade. David Spade was in the original cut. He called me up and he said, ‘Jim, this is Michael,’ and you think somebody was fooling with you, basically. You would never know if it was really him until he started talking about specifics and you could say, okay, that is Michael. So he called us up and he on a walkie-talkie phone or something, or he’s up in Santa Barbara, and says, ‘You know, in 3 minutes and 20 seconds, there’s a guy blonde here. Who is that guy?’ I said his name is David Spade. ‘I don’t know who he is, take him out.’ So Spade was out, and I’m sure Spade was, like, pissed!” (Spade had not yet joined SNL)
Yukich is still aggravated that the song, and hence the video, was never released in America.
When Jackson died suddenly, Yukich immediately thought back to the video and a conversation the two had.
“To this day, I’ve been – I guess not so much anymore, because years have gone by — but I was convinced when he died that he didn’t die. We made that video, and he said to me, ‘I would love to be hiding and see what people say about me, you know?’ I mean, having shot all that footage and then he died? It was just kind of weird.”
The video is dedicated to Liz Taylor, who is in fact not a Liberian girl *
1996 - Michael starts filming the “Ghost” short film in Van Nuys studios in California. During breaks, he visits his family at Hayvenhurst disguised as the “Mayor”*
2002 - Michael is about to start shooting the “Unbreakable” short film when Sony announces that they won’t release the single. The promotion of the Invincible album is over with only 2 singles!!! *
2002 -Michael’s former business manager Myung-Ho Lee files a $13 million lawsuit claiming that on September 14, 2001 Michael met him in Los Angeles and signed an agreement to pay him fees but he never got them. Michael’s lawyer Zia Moddaber answsers that his client never signed anything and was not even in Los Angeles on that date…
In his suit, Lee claimed that Jackson hired him in the late 1990s to put the musician’s finances in order, only to turn a deaf ear when it came to taking Lee’s advice by refusing to curb spending. Lee then claimed Jackson never paid him, instead relying on “charlatans” and “hucksters” for advice.
In his court papers, Lee called Jackson a “ticking financial time bomb waiting to explode” who owed banks hundreds of millions of dollars in loans.
Michael would countersue claiming Lee and Union Finance swindled millions from him and destroyed financial records to cover up their misdeeds.
2003 - Michael and Chris Tucker visit lawyer Willie Gary in Stuart, Florida.
2003 - Vanity Fair (#tabloidtrash) reported that Michael Jackson had attended a voodoo ritual in 2000 where a witch doctor promised that Steven Spielberg and 24 other people would die. The people noted were on Jackson's list of enemies. Jackson also wired $150,000 to a voodoo chief named Baba who sacrificed 42 cows for the ceremony. The article also reported that Jackson wore a prosthesis that serves as the tip of his nose
https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2003/4/losing-his-grip
2004 - Michael attended the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington DC to support The African Ambassadors' Spouses Association (A.A.S.A.). He was accompanied by the ambassador of Niger's wife, Haoua Piatta, and Mazie Green Holland. He watched a children's group dance before being awarded the Golden Elephant award for his worldwide humanitarian efforts, particularly the fight against AIDS in Africa.
https://imgur.com/a/HEpLUIO
https://youtu.be/gFBUiPkfisU
2005 - Trial Day 24
Michael goes to court with Katherine & Joe. Testimonies of Jeff Klapackis, Jack Green, Larry Feldman & Jesus Salas.
Larry Feldman, the attorney who first interviewed Michael Jackson's accuser testified that he was never asked to file a lawsuit against the singer.
However, he did acknowledge under cross examination, that the boy and his younger brother could file civil lawsuits until they turn 20 years old, the accuser being 15 years old now.
The prosecution had called Feldman to explain how the alleged molestation came to the attention of the authorities, but the defense used his appearance to try to show its belief, that the accuser and his family were out to get money from Jackson.
Jackson's defense lawyer, Thomas Mesereau grilled Feldman about the the impact of a criminal conviction, whether or not it would make a financial judgment easier.
"If Mr. Jackson was convicted of felony child molestation in this case, (the boy or his brother) could use that case to win a civil case alleging similar of same facts against Mr. Jackson, is that correct?" asked Mesereau.
"That is correct" said Feldman.
The two lawyers sparred over the exact requirements of a civil suit, and Feldman denied accusations of encouraging the criminal action, in an attempt to avoid incurring costs involved in preparing a civil lawsuit.
However, Feldman insisted that there would still be litigation expenses.
DA Tom Sneddon asked Feldman whether he was planning a lawsuit at the time, that he referred the accusing family to Santa Barbara prosecutors, to which Feldman replied "There was no lawsuit and there were no plans to file a lawsuit. It was up to you to investigate"
Feldman was permitted to tell jurors of a previous accusation against Jackson in 1993, where Feldman represented another boy, who won a monetary settlement. Jurors were not told how much the boy was paid, but Feldman said there were no trouble collecting it. An amount which has been reported to be millions of dollars.
Sneddon projected a photograph of the boy from the previous allegations on a courtroom screen, and asked Feldman to identify him.
"He was much better looking at that age. He was adorable," Feldman said, a remark which the judge ordered stricken from the record.
The picture showed a boy who many believe bears a striking resemblance to the current accuser.
Feldman said that while he met with the current accuser's mother many times after he ceased to represent her officially, he has "never been asked to file any lawsuit against Michael Jackson"
When Feldman walked outside the courthouse in an afternoon break in testimony, fans yelled "liar", "tell the truth" and "you're making money off the backs of these people"
Feldman said, he was first contacted by the family because of a dispute over the boy's appearance in the documentary, Living With Michael Jackson where he appeared holding hands with Jackson. Feldman then referred the family to psychologist Stan J. Katz "to make out some heads and tails of what was being told to me by the family"
Katz reported suspicions of molestation to authorities after interviewing the family.
Also on the stand Friday, was an an investigator who testified that linens seized by police from Michael's bed, had failed to yield any DNA linked to the teenage accuser or his brother.
In other testimony, Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Klapackis defends the scale of the effort, when 69 investigators served a search warrant at Neverland on Nov. 18, 2003.
The large number of investigators were needed, he said, because they had only been allowed one day to carry out the search, because the district attorney didn't want to "burden the ranch and its employees with our presence longer than that," Klapackis said. He also said that there were large buildings to search at the 2,800-acre ranch.
Klapackis also said, that they took all bedding during the search, because that is where the accuser and his brother claim to have frequently slept, and where they allege the molestation took place.
During cross-examination, Klapackis said authorities did not test bottle and glasses containing alcohol for fingerprints - found in Jackson's bedroom as well as the home's wine cellar and kitchen. Nor did investigators test furniture, boxes, mannequin toys and rails along Jackson's stairwell, or his bedroom doors for fingerprints.
When asked on redirect why, Klapackis said, "It didn't enter in the investigation at the time."
However, they did test pornographic magazines. The boy's brother testified how Jackson showed them magazines. A fingerprint analyst has testified earlier, that the prints of Jackson and his accuser were recovered from the same magazine.
Jack Green, president of a Ventura telephone systems company, testified that he had inspected Neverland's phone systems. He explained that it had a function to allow someone to listen in on other's calls, but there was nothing to prevent anyone from calling 911.
Prosecutors allege the family's calls were monitored by Jackson, whereas the defense say the family could have called for help, if they truly were captives.
https://imgur.com/a/DNEfibQ
2005 - Whoopi Goldberg defends him on Real Time With Bill Maher
https://youtu.be/wwDmVnXIT2Q
2009 - Michael has a business meeting with Dr. TohmeTohme at the Bel Air Hotel
https://imgur.com/a/XEhBA68
2009 - Miko Brando, Michael Bush, Dennis Tompkins & Karen Faye are back on the MJ team*
2014 - The album Xscape was made available for pre-order on iTunes, Amazon and MichaelJackson.com.

I clocked about 3 years on this game and I still can't overcome this. I'm a medic player, and I know I could be really FUCKING GOOOOOD if I can flow into the game. But I crack like a GODDAMN EGG the moment my numbers are disrupted. One moment I am doing things prim and proper. My metrics for success are 5 or less deaths, top the leaderboards, good ubers, and give the needy "fair" morsels of healing. These games happen very often. And that means I'm a perfectly average good player. It's not much, but atleast I gain the LOOOOOOOVE AND ATTENTION I SOOOO DESIRE. LOVE ME! OH SWEET CATHARSIS!
AND THEN IT JUST GOES ALL WRONG. I once had this disgusting memory. A smelly, drivelling, gang of 3 spies gun me down in a FUCKING BACK ALLEY? Why have you done this?! That's. Not. Possible.
One thing leads to another. The intense shellshock I felt from that shameful moment makes me sloppy, distracted, and in a very very foul mood. We won, BUT IT'S SO SHAMEFUL THAT I'M SO USELEEEEEES.
My beautiful 0 death record that I've had the entire match, is taken away from my loving arms. 0, 1, 2, 3, 10.....
I'm just about ready to pack up, go to another server, and perform much better. BUT THEN OF COURSE MISTER BACKBURNER PYRO SAYS I NEEDS TO HEEEEAL. That's what I've been doing. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I'VE KILLED FOR YOU?! I do it for you. Because I love you all so much. And because I love you so much I'M GOING TO PUNISH YOU. i know you're at 137 health Pyro. I know you're soon to die once you peek that sightline Pyro. I know there's a sniper there Pyro. BOOM! HEADSHOT! Ha ha. I win. I can't believe meanies like him bully me >:(
Ok. So I DO NOT have competitive level play. I do not. I accept and know that I have to work up to it for a very very long while.BUT MY FAILURE PAINS ME SOOO MUCH
How do I keep calm during these unreasonably intense situations?

I clocked about 3 years on this game and I still can't overcome this. I'm a medic player, and I know I could be really FUCKING GOOOOOD if I can flow into the game. But I crack like a GODDAMN EGG the moment my numbers are disrupted. One moment I am doing things prim and proper. My metrics for success are 5 or less deaths, top the leaderboards, good ubers, and give the needy "fair" morsels of healing. These games happen very often. And that means I'm a perfectly average good player. It's not much, but atleast I gain the LOOOOOOOVE AND ATTENTION I SOOOO DESIRE. LOVE ME! OH SWEET CATHARSIS!
AND THEN IT JUST GOES ALL WRONG. I once had this disgusting memory. A smelly, drivelling, gang of 3 spies gun me down in a FUCKING BACK ALLEY? Why have you done this?! That's. Not. Possible.
One thing leads to another. The intense shellshock I felt from that shameful moment makes me sloppy, distracted, and in a very very foul mood. We won, BUT IT'S SO SHAMEFUL THAT I'M SO USELEEEEEES.
My beautiful 0 death record that I've had the entire match, is taken away from my loving arms. 0, 1, 2, 3, 10.....
I'm just about ready to pack up, go to another server, and perform much better. BUT THEN OF COURSE MISTER BACKBURNER PYRO SAYS I NEEDS TO HEEEEAL. That's what I've been doing. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I'VE KILLED FOR YOU?! I do it for you. Because I love you all so much. And because I love you so much I'M GOING TO PUNISH YOU. i know you're at 137 health Pyro. I know you're soon to die once you peek that sightline Pyro. I know there's a sniper there Pyro. BOOM! HEADSHOT! Ha ha. I win. I can't believe meanies like him bully me >:(
Ok. So I DO NOT have competitive level play. I do not. I accept and know that I have to work up to it for a very very long while.BUT MY FAILURE PAINS ME SOOO MUCH
How do I keep calm during these unreasonably intense situations?

Hey ho, so i liked the event passes in the past but since a couple of patches ago i think they kinda got out of hand to a point where i never had finsihed a single pass again since the targon update.
I dont know if theres something im missing but the quests alone dont do much, ive played now for since patch for a good while and sitting at 140/740 and no quests left anymore except the repeatable.
With 39 days left i would need to win 450 mathmade or 900 Ai games. aka 12 game wins a day.
Lets say u win 50% of the games thats 24 games a day. Now a lot might say ok thats not a lot and i agree, alot of people have a lot of free time and when we consider that matches can only last like 10 min we are speaking of 4 hours a day wich is for most gamers a rookie number. I more want to talk about the fact that u need to spent at least 4 hours every single day to level a pass.
Lets compare this to other riot games. In Valorant for instance u have weekly missions that alone for themself give u more level then the whole pass needs. TFT Pass also levels itself with there monthly quests and League of Legends event pass is also quite comfy to level without a 4 hours/day time commitment.
Am i alone with this or am i doing something wrong, is there any other way to level the pass ? Will new quests come weekly ?
Thx for answers, and sry when this comes of like a rant, its more like a critique

Everyone was on Embiid’s head for ducking Jokic in Denver, but Jokic has sat out the past couple games. With that being said, Denver is awful without him, showing how much of an impact he has on the team. He is obviously a unicorn and has a good shot at taking the award again, but I just get the feeling voters don’t want to see him win another MVP. Maybe I’m wrong and will eat my words… but let’s go over the current Eastern Conference contenders in case I’m right.
Giannis had a “rough” game against Boston but I feel like if he outplays Embiid and gets the win against Philly on Saturday then he could narrow the gap on the MVP race. Light 40+ Triple Double against Indiana earlier this week, and will get the chance to play against Embiid, an arguable favorite to win MVP and also on national TV against a solid Grizzlies team on the road. He’ll have to take care of some tougher teams, but if they manage to win out Bucks should hang on to the 1 seed. No doubt the best player in the league and has great numbers to go with it, I think you can make the argument for him to take MVP virtually any year. Similar deal, however, to Lebron in the past in my opinion… will remain the best player in the league while not winning MVP every year.
Embiid gets to go to Milwaukee with the chance to keep 76ers in contention for taking the 2 seed from Boston. Even if they lose, he has been a consistent 30pt+ double double and will also get another chance to play the Celtics in Philly. However, if the 76ers lose both of these games, would Embiid’s MVP chances take a hit even if he goes for 30-40 points with 10+ rbs in these games? Would go 0-4 against Boston/2-2 against Bucks in the year. Still, you don’t ever see bigs winning the scoring title, and Embiid’s offensive game has continued to improve through the years. Also, while Embiid may not be dropping consistent triple doubles, it is clear to see that he has been the most dominant player this year. (Even though he lives on the free throw line, you can’t deny Giannis and Jokic get the whistle more often than they should).
*Brings me to a pointer for Tatum…. 79 points in past 7 quarters to go 2-1 against Milwaukee, no turnovers and insane efficiency. Just a thought, is there any situation where Tatum jumps back into the MVP discussion this late in the season? While it would be a wild scenario, what if Tatum somehow maintains his restored offensive scoring while winning out and taking back the 1 seed? Call me stupid, but I’d say there is a slim (really slim) chance he could get back in the discussion, but it would take an insane run on both his part and Boston. I feel like 35+ pts/10 rbs would have to be the minimum. Regardless, Tatum’s growth has been remarkable and even though he probably won’t be a top 3 MVP finalist, it would say a lot if he continues to pour it on and help Boston take back the 1 seed. (Would also go 4-0 against Philly in regular season).
Looking for unbiased feedback on my thoughts!

It feels like I'm never getting any of the psionic techs in any of my space wizard games, so I did some math.
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After reaching out to the shroud for the first time, you have a 25% chance of drawing a psionic tech event. Not bad so far right? well the event itself is 60/40 win/lose, so your odds just fell to 15% to draw and win the number roll on any tech with none unlocked. lets say there is a specific tech you want, your odds of drawing it and winning the roll are 5%. Even with all of the one time events out of the way, your odds are still just 7.5%. If you ascend within the first 50 years somehow, you will only get 30 total rolls before endgame starts if you're never late on a roll.
If they're going to make psionics one of the weaker ascensions, at least give us a real chance to make full use of it.

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Numbers:('0000','0001','0003','0004','0006','0008','0011','0012','0013','0014','0016','0018','0033','0034','0036','0038','0039','0044','0046','0048','0057','0066','0068','0088','0111','0113','0114','0116','0118','0129','0133','0134','0136','0138','0144','0146','0147','0148','0156','0166','0168','0188','0228','0237','0246','0255','0333','0334','0336','0338','0344','0345','0346','0348','0366','0368','0388','0444','0446','0448','0466','0468','0488','0666','0668','0688','0888','1111','1113','1114','1116','1118','1119','1128','1133','1134','1136','1137','1138','1144','1146','1148','1155','1166','1168','1188','1227','1236','1245','1333','1334','1335','1336','1338','1344','1346','1348','1366','1368','1388','1444','1446','1448','1466','1468','1488','1666','1668','1688','1888','2226','2235','2244','2334','3333','3334','3336','3338','3344','3346','3348','3366','3368','3388','3444','3446','3448','3466','3468','3488','3666','3668','3688','3888','4444','4446','4448','4466','4468','4488','4666','4668','4688','4888','4999','5899','6666','6668','6688','6799','6888','6889','7789','7888','8888')

State	Draw Date	Draw Time	Winning Number	BOX Number	VTRAC Number
DC	2023-03-31	Midday	2271	1227	2333
DC	2023-03-31	Evening	4110	0114	1225
ID	2023-03-31	Evening	0291	0129	1235
IN	2023-03-31	Midday	6116	1166	2222
IN	2023-03-31	Evening	0608	0068	1124
MD	2023-03-31	Evening	1218	1128	2234
ME	2023-03-31	Evening	1410	0114	1225
NC	2023-03-31	Evening	1306	0136	1224
NH	2023-03-31	Evening	1410	0114	1225
NY	2023-03-31	Midday	5412	1245	1235
QCAN	2023-03-31	Evening	6024	0246	1235
TN	2023-03-31	Midday	7798	7789	3345
VT	2023-03-31	Evening	1410	0114	1225
WV	2023-03-31	Evening	4464	4446	2555

Congrats all Winners and Followers.

Lottery Website for Workouts and Tools - Lets Make Billion
All State - PICK 3 List Performance for 2023-03-31
Numbers:('000','001','003','004','006','008','011','012','013','014','016','018','033','034','036','038','039','044','046','048','057','066','068','088','111','113','114','116','118','129','133','134','136','138','144','146','147','148','156','166','168','188','228','237','246','255','333','334','336','338','344','345','346','348','366','368','388','444','446','448','466','468','488','666','668','688','888')

State	Draw Date	Draw Time	Winning Number	BOX Number	VTRAC Number
AZ	2023-03-31	Evening	083	038	144
CO	2023-03-31	Evening	348	348	445
CT	2023-03-31	Evening	714	147	235
DC	2023-03-31	Evening	318	138	244
DC	2023-03-31	Midday	860	068	124
DE	2023-03-31	Midday	134	134	245
FL	2023-03-31	Midday	435	345	145
ID	2023-03-31	Midday	834	348	445
KS	2023-03-31	Evening	416	146	225
KS	2023-03-31	Midday	816	168	224
LA	2023-03-31	Evening	638	368	244
MD	2023-03-31	Evening	864	468	245
MI	2023-03-31	Midday	386	368	244
MS	2023-03-31	Midday	118	118	224
NE	2023-03-31	Evening	463	346	245
NJ	2023-03-31	Midday	080	008	114
PA	2023-03-31	Evening	134	134	245
PR	2023-03-31	Evening	129	129	235
QCAN	2023-03-31	Evening	435	345	145
SC	2023-03-31	Evening	080	008	114
SC	2023-03-31	Midday	174	147	235
TN	2023-03-31	Evening	364	346	245
TN	2023-03-31	Midday	846	468	245
TN	2023-03-31	Morning	044	044	155
TX	2023-03-31	Night	460	046	125
VA	2023-03-31	Midday	606	066	122
VA	2023-03-31	Evening	060	006	112
WCAN	2023-03-31	Evening	863	368	244
WI	2023-03-31	Midday	010	001	112
WI	2023-03-31	Evening	614	146	225

Congrats all Winners and Followers.

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 57%. (I'm a bot)

Labor has won a by-election in the federal seat of Aston in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs.
The result is considered a major blow for the Liberal Party, which now only holds five federal seats across Melbourne.
"Mary Doyle will be the first Labor member for Aston since 1990.".
Aston has a higher proportion of families with children than other seats and a higher percentage of mortgage holders.
The seat has a large Chinese-ancestry population of 14 per cent, compared to a nationwide figure of 5.5 per cent and an internal post-election review of the Liberal Party's performance revealed that the government suffered heavy swings against it in seats with large numbers of Chinese voters.
The Aston contest was also seen as a referendum on Peter Dutton's leadership of the Liberal Party.

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Im actually the definition of hardstuck and in none other than gold 2 as support. I’ve been good since overwatch 1, but in overwatch 2 the number just won’t budge at all. I lose the same amount of games that I win. Or sometimes I win one more than I lose but it still keeps me in gold 2. I’ve tried using all of the supports and still hardstuck in gold 2. Is it me or the matchmaking at this point?

Hello guys! am currently in sudan, and I want to apply for DV lottery this year. I have a good sense that am going to win. If so, after I arrive to US and get my green card csn I apply straight to USMC?