 and picked up a win against a very tough Los Angeles team.
As stated before both Chad Kuhl and Jameson Taillon have made their MLB debuts this season, however there are still two prospects waiting to get the call and if the struggles continue with the current roster players we may see them sooner rather than later. One of those being first base prospect Josh Bell. Currently playing at Triple-A Indianapolis Bell has posted a.319 average on the season 11 home runs, 47 RBI’s, and getting on base at a.402 clip. Over his last 10 games he has gone 16 for 44 at the plate, and he could be exactly what the pirates need to get going. Current pirates first baseman John Jaso is hitting around.200, and getting on base at about.350 in the last 10 games. Jaso after being one of the Pirates better hitters to start the season has ultimately cooled down and that’s exactly what the Pirates didn’t need.
The last prospect Pirates fans are waiting on is 6’8” pitcher Tyler Glasnow. Glasnow has a 7-2 record with a 1.70 ERA at Triple-A Indianapolis. While those stats seem to be good enough to get the call up to the bigs, he has had command issues throughout his young career. In his last few starts he’s been throwing a little over half of his pitches for strikes, and even though the Pirates could use the pitching help I’m okay with him staying down at Triple-A to polish his game just a little more.
Every team has that one knock your socks off prospect that everyone is waiting on, but for the Pirates there’s three or four waiting in the wings for their shot at the big leagues. Whether it be someone I didn’t mention such as Alen Hanson, Austin Meadows, Elias Diaz, or Ke’Bryan Hayes the Pirates future is brighter than a lot of people may think.
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At least 162 were killed and 14 were wounded:
In Mosul, the bodies of 20 civilians were discovered in the rubble of a building believed destroyed by Daesh; however, they could have been killed in Wednesday’s heavy artillery strikes. Three women were executed for not following commands to evacuate. Clashes left 20 militants dead. Three suicide bombers were killed.
Gunmen killed two Turkmen in Kutan.
A father and his soon were killed by gunmen in Kirkuk.
An I.E.D. in Abu Ghraib killed one policeman and wounded two more.
Near Mansouriya, a bomb killed an oil police officer and two bodyguards.
A bomb killed one civilian and wounded another in Arab Jabour.
Nine civilians were wounded in six separate Baghdad bombings.
Turkey announced that strikes targeting Kurdistan Workers Party (P.K.K.) on November 11 left 29 guerrillas dead near Zab.
An airstrike at a gathering near Tel Abta left 70 militants dead, including 20 commanders.
Security forces killed five militants and wounded others in Mizeri.
Five militants were killed in a strike on Rawa.This essay engages with the commodification of land in an urban periphery of India. It argues against the tendency to reduce commodification of land to “primitive accumulation” or “accumulation by dispossession.” It presents an ethnography of the process of the commodification of land under speculative conditions. The growing demand for land for urbanization and industrialization, along with the availability of speculative finance capital in the real estate market, has made land a scarce commodity. In this land market, local capitals piggyback on finance capital and bid up the prices exponentially in the micromarkets. Speculation makes it impossible for the state to match the market price, and its compensation for the land losers is always quite low, which the latter refuse to accept. The landowning farmers, on the other hand, have developed a capacity to adjust to the speculative conditions and to control the supply of land in the market. Even though they can receive a very good price for their land, they show no urgency to sell it. As a consequence, the state's plan to urbanize a given area, to create a stable arrangement of clear property titles, and to control land prices become uncertain.
This weekend was one of AKKA’s bi-annual black belt tests. We 41 people testing for everything from Junior 1st Black all the way through 5th Black. A couple of my former (and sometimes current) instructors were the 5th degree guys.
My son was a support person for a guy from our school who was testing for his Junior 1st Black. I was there to keep an eye on my son and generally help out.
So, a quick congrats to everyone who tested, you all did a great job! BTW, Invincible was the theme this year.
The Lion Dance from the opening ceremonies.
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Prior to joining Watsi, Harry led institutional fundraising for the largest US-based foundation dedicated to nuclear disarmament, and supported large-scale public health and global development projects. In his free time, Harry enjoys being outside, climbing tall mountains, and tending to his humble garden in San Francisco.If what he says about the mechanics themselves is true, it also checks a few boxes for me, and leaves me wondering about other things.

All lanes played at the same time with less units is something I had wondered about before, because it sounds like it solves a few issues with the current Artifact, while making new ones.

One of the things that makes having initiative cards so broken was the fact that you could use them to force an advantage, on a lane where that advantage will avoid the opponent from ever doing anything. This is fine, in my opinion, but it's not very fun. Since lanes happen in a certain predetermined order, the victim player would have no other better use for their cards on the previous lane to take advantage of the fact the opponent already blew the initiative card and won't do anything. Uninteractivity is rather frustrating, and yet the game fostered it tremendously. This was one of a couple reasons that makes colors rather lopsided, as Green not only had no initiative cards, they also had no really good cross-lane answers whatsoever. Just compare it to Blue and Red (the initiative aggressors) and Black (the cross-lane denier) and it's obvious why no one wanted to play Green.

All lanes at the same time avoids this issue (a bit. Not completely...). Now players using initiative cards to hold it for next round only makes sense as *the very last move for all three lanes*, and they can only use it to take advantage in *one single lane per round*.

The other issue is heroes. **Maybe**, it depends.  They're boring, and vulnerable. They have abilities that don't really do much and they can often only pull it off twice, maybe three times, in a whole match, and this is because there's not enough rounds in a game for it to make a difference, and they're big juicy targets anyways. 

Now if the game is played all at the same time, with full hero placement, and we have a less units per board, and lane creeps are weaker, it is much more likely that you'll get crucial hero abilities to play off - even without making the heroes any less