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My Malfoid rewrite of After the Burial (Chapter 22 of HBP, covering Aragog's funeral, when Harry uses Felix Felicis). This comes AFTER my sectum sempra scene in and reconciles Harry and Dracaena. There will be emotional damage. You have been warned.
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The Texas Rangers had 102 losses in 2021, with separate 3-19 and 9-32 skids.
The Arizona Diamondbacks had 110 losses in 2021, with a 5-40 implosion that derailed their season.
Both will be making the World Series only two years later.
Baseball is such a beautiful sport.
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Let’s go over the context of the maps.
UN partition plan: the entire southern portion is desert. The Jews get a strip of coast and an area of the Galilee - places they already had when under Ottoman/British rule. The Arabs also have everything to the north, south, and east - the West Bank being attached to Transjordan. So the Jews were supposed to have the two discontinuous strips and then a big sandbox.
But the Arabs rejected the partition plan, choosing war instead. The Jews then fought them to the ‘49 lines and wound up with much more territory than they would have if the Arabs had just accepted the UN plan.
In ‘67, Egypt’s President, Gamal Abdul Nasser, begins beating the war drum and pledging to drive the Jews into the sea. He tells the UN peacekeeping force to leave Sinai, which they do immediately to his surprise. His bluff called, he then positions the Egyptian army on the border and goads the Syrians and Transjordanians into mobilization. Transjordan is 90% Palestinian at this point and though King Hussein doesn’t really want to go to war with Israel, he doesn’t have much choice but to go along with it because his subjects are all chomping at the bits.
The Israeli PM Levi Eshkol gives the infamous “stuttering speech”. Everyone in Israel is like “it’s over”. It looked like the end fr. But the Air Force had a crazy plan in their back pocket, Operation Moked (Focus). It involved destroying the airfields of every hostile country — simultaneously. No one believed it could be done, except the pilots. They convinced IDF Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin that they could pull it off. And they did. In one morning they eliminated the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, and bombed the T4 airfield in Iraq.
President Nasser calls King Hussein of Transjordan and tells him not to worry, that the ground attack is underway and that Egyptian tanks will be rolling down Dizengoff St by sundown. Transjordanian units enter the war. They get pushed back across the Jordan River in less than a week. That’s how Transjordan became just Jordan. Egypt gets driven back across the Suez Canal. At that point there is no force in the way anywhere. Israel could have just rolled all the way to Rhodesia. They were back.
But once it became obvious that the Arabs were losing, and once the Arabs finally admitted it – six days after the fact, the UN Security Council stepped in and imposed a ceasefire.
The Israelis ended up with the West Bank and Gaza quite by accident. They made the mistake of assuming that Jordan and Egypt would want those pieces of territory back. But those pieces of territory were filled with angry difficult to manage people. Remember, it was a Palestinian sniper who murdered King Abdullah in the 50s at the Dome of the Rock. He would’ve killed Prince Hussein too - but the Prince was wearing a medal his grandfather asked him especially to wear, and the bullet lodged in that medal instead. In 1970, the PLO tried to depose him, and he responded responded by killing a bunch of militants and expelling thousands of Palestinian refugees to Lebanon. He didn’t want to have to govern the people in the West Bank again, and the Egyptians felt the same about Gaza.
So there you have the context. Every major attack on the Israelis somehow ends in Israel doubling its size. It is what it is.
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WAINO!!! Adam Wainwright reaches 200 career wins after throwing seven shutout innings! 👏
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Welcome to the 200-win club, @UncleCharlie50!
ALT Adam Wainwright 200 wins Pictured: Adam Wainwright in various parts of his windup and him celebrating.
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ADAM WAINWRIGHT BECOMES THE THIRD PITCHER IN FRANCHISE HISTORY WITH 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ WINS❗️#STLCards
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We need a live action clone wars show. Last of Us style/God of War style with Anakin / young Ahsoka.
RT if you want this
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People have long asked what will be the price of $XRP, when will this “utility” come? In my opinion, now more than ever I see a divided #XRPArmy! One side looking at only charts, taking cues from the past and trends that follow Bitcoin to draw short term price predictions. Whilst others cling to utility, believing that partnerships and the replacement of antiquated systems will drive price. Neither side has been correct nor in the future will either side be correct. XRP, for those not in the know is NOT a security! Why would we continue to pretend it is and make price predictions based on “Securities” in the crypto space? This logic seems counter intuitive and holds back what the team @Ripple set off to do so many years ago.
“If you dare to challenge the status quo you must first believe in what you own and know that anything is possible.”
I have been asked to give my price prediction – with no time frame, no clear understanding of circulating supply or firm dollar amount that equates to a start. All listed items are subject to change and will over time. We are just over 2 weeks from the SEC vs Ripple ruling, 1 week after the FedNow announcement, Congress has just passed the proposed crypto regulation bill to the Senate and we are just 9 days into testing FedNow with banks. Now, @ValhilCapital has written a whole white paper on XRP price, and I will not pretend to think I know any of that math they did. People look at that document in shock and say there is no way. Most of this is due to our own chart analyst's stating it is not in the charts to do that.
Here is the small problem I have with the charts…If you set a range for XRP say $1.00 - $5.00 you are ultimately saying that if one company owned ALL the XRP, YES, all 100 billion they would have a Liquidity Strength (LS) from $100B to $500B. Keep in mind there is a very small burn rate on each transaction regardless of amount. This LS does not account for any growth in the economy, the action of messaging and settling, nor the 24/7 365 benefits we receive using XRP. #SWIFT handles about 44.8M messages a day – these are just messages not settlements and only half of what XRP can do. Now let’s say that dollar value for SWIFT is $7T a day (not 24/7 or 365) – if Ripple through its 10 years of innovation and partnerships were only able to grab 30% of SWIFTs value that would be 2.1T in daily value (approx. 13.2M messages). Now you may say that XRP settles in 1 -5 seconds and that the liquidity would be there. Yes, settlements are quick, however if I were to send a $750M transaction with a LS of say $1.00, that is roughly 10% of all that banks XRP. Furthermore, there is more than one client, and no one wants to break that $750M into 750,000-$1,000 transactions (each having a burn rate).
You still want a price prediction – let’s account for ALL the banks globally, all the XRP that has been burnt, all the XRP you and I own, all the XRP given to other large banks and the XRP given to the creators. Now take the XRP that is on liquidity hubs and exchanges and present an amount that represents a range (make it simple). If I had to guess 50 – 75B XRP at any one-time supporting LS. Now spread that across say 300 – 1000 different banks, liquidity providers and governments.
$1.00 * 75B = $75B
$75B / 1,000 (banks) = $75M XRP/dollars for each bank and/or liquidity provider
Assume all big banks will have more XRP and that small banks will use more liquidity providers.
Assume banks and liquidity providers will purchase from exchanges/us.
Assume Ripple has released ALL of their XRP from escrow to get to 75B
(If circulating supply is less than 75B, price per XRP is exponentially higher)
Given LS is roughly $75M per bank, and J.P. Morgan being a top-tier bank moving more than $8T a day and say due to service overlaps with SWIFT and the assumption that Ripple only captured 10% of that market, equaling ($800B) (remember only 75B XRP is out there) $1.00 is not enough to move that kind of money but that should go without saying! This is just cross border transactions, not derivatives, real estate, CBDC (to include but not limited to foreign countries, banks and projects) technical parallels and NFTs. So, is it hard for you to still believe Valhil Capital and their price prediction?
Now, the part you all have been waiting for, my price prediction is anywhere from $100 - $500 near short term (4 -7 months) why? It all boils down to LS if XRP is $100 at a supply of say only 50B that makes an LS of $5T and at $500 that gives us an LS of $25T. This gives the market room to breathe, allows for growth and ensures no one company needs to own billions of XRP to perform day to day operations. Now how and when will this happen? How and when for me are tied together. It has always been what the creators have stated, “A flip of the switch” I say this as I believe there will / has been an evaluation for XRP, like gold. This is how they will price you out, this is what I believe @RosieRios meant when she stated, “The train has left the station” and this is how the governments control the next world of finance! #IHopeThisAgesWell 😂
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Does the Cardinals FO understand just how bad they’ve looked this year? Do they even care? Their handling of player relations has been nothing short of embarrassing, and somehow just keeps getting worse. I do not understand how they think that radio silence is their best move.
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Let's keep it going!
If Jordan Walker extends his hitting streak to 17 games tonight, I'll give a '700 Club' shirt to someone who RTs!
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How bad are the Cardinals?
Historically bad. And none of this is acceptable. It’s ridiculous.
Sounding off on the Cardinals organization and why it has gotten to this.
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Bernie: The 'Blackberry' Cardinals - 25-35 And Worst In The NL - Have Failed To Adapt And Evolve. scoopswithdannymac.com/berni…
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It's simply amazing how things play out sometimes...
• Yesterday's game is postponed due to poor weather.
• Drew Maggi gets optioned, but was named the 27th man for the double-header v the Nationals, and stays with the team.
• The Pirates surge ahead 12-0 so Maggi gets a pinch-hitting opportunity in the 7th and he gets his first hit, an RBI single.
• The Pirates pile on. He gets another opportunity in the 9th, likely his final MLB plate appearance, and smokes a double.
