Luvabella Mealtime Magic Mia is an interactive doll that brings the fun and excitement of mealtime to life. This doll is perfect for children who enjoy playing with realistic and interactive toys. One of the main features of Luvabella Mealtime Magic Mia is her ability to recognize and interact with her food. When she is given a spoonful of food, she will open her mouth, chew, and even make happy eating sounds. This realistic eating action adds an extra level of engagement and realism to the play experience. In addition to her eating action, Mia also has over 70 unique sounds and phrases that she can say.

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Magic Johnson Will Help Hire New Commanders Coach

Washington Commanders owner Josh Harris has enlisted the help of Magic Johnson to find Ron Rivera’s replacement as head coach.

The Commanders announced Monday morning they were parting ways with Rivera after four losing seasons. Now, Harris has assembled a small advisory committee to “make the best decisions for the franchise.”

“To deliver upon our ultimate goal of becoming an elite franchise and consistently competing for the Super Bowl, there is a lot to do and first we must establish a strong organizational infrastructure led by the industry’s best and most talented individuals,” he said in a statement.

Johnson will be a part of that advisory committee, along with investors Mitch Rales and David Blitzer, former NBA executive Bob Myers and former Minnesota Vikings GM Rick Spielman.

The committee will work alongside Harris to find both a new head coach and a head of football operations.

“I consider these decisions to be among the most critical I make for the franchise — attracting exceptional talent, empowering them to lead and holding them accountable,” Harris said.

“This is a crucial offseason for the Commanders, and we continue to be motivated and inspired by the way the fans have responded since we took ownership last summer. Stewarding this franchise is a responsibility we don’t take lightly, and we’re eager to lay the foundation for the next chapter of Commanders football.”

The Commanders finished 4-13 this season and last in the NFC East division. They lost eight-straight games to close out the year.

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In addition to her eating action, Mia also has over 70 unique sounds and phrases that she can say. These phrases range from asking for more food to expressing delight at the meal she is enjoying. This enhances the interactive nature of the doll and encourages children to engage in imaginative play scenarios.

Magic Johnson Steps Up In Role With Commanders

The NBA legend officially joined the franchise in July as part of an investment group led by Harris to buy the Commanders for $6.05 billion.

“It’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Johnson said at the time.

Since his retirement from basketball, Johnson has been massively successful in business.

In addition to his role in Washington, the 64-year-old has ownership stakes in the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Sparks and Los Angeles FC. His company, Magic Johnson Enterprises, also owned more than 100 Starbucks from 1998 to 2010. He sold them and made $100 million.

“Breaking these barriers and going through these doors is important to me as a proud Black man,” he told NBC News.

“I don’t know why God blessed me with these great opportunities. But I want to excel, not just for me and my family, but for all African Americans, making sure we can see ourselves in these seats. And I want people to know that we can do the job.”

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Johnson said he wants to help bring a Super Bowl win to a Washington franchise that hasn’t seen one in more than 30 years.

First step is finding a coach.

D&D 5E Does/Should D&D Have the Player's Game Experience as a goal?

I'd say the issue is relying on the GM to give them out at the right time. GMs may see it as a reward only given when earned, but if the system expects them, its a bad situation (see 3E).

4e resolves this problem via treasure parcels: encounters (combat or skill challenge) + quests => XP => levels; and levels => treasure parcels. (There is a loose correlation at a "lower" level, of encounters to treasure parcels; but the GM has a lot of room to move at that lower level.)

The upshot is, as @Imaro says and as @Hussar also noted, that magic items are not optional. They are a core component of PC build.

But @Imaro is wrong to say they are not part of worldbuilding. In my experience GMing 4e magic items are a big component in world-building. Of course they are not solely under GM control, but that's just one manifestation of the broader phenomenon that 4e does not treat worldbuilding as the sole province of the GM.

Imaro

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But @Imaro is wrong to say they are not part of worldbuilding. In my experience GMing 4e magic items are a big component in world-building. Of course they are not solely under GM control, but that's just one manifestation of the broader phenomenon that 4e does not treat worldbuilding as the sole province of the GM.

I don't think I am for the average 4e campaign where PC's were requesting items based on optimizing their build. maybe worldbuilding was a secondary concern. for some PC's but that wasn't my experience at all.

payn

He'll flip ya. Flip ya for real.

4e resolves this problem via treasure parcels: encounters (combat or skill challenge) + quests => XP => levels; and levels => treasure parcels. (There is a loose correlation at a "lower" level, of encounters to treasure parcels; but the GM has a lot of room to move at that lower level.)

The upshot is, as @Imaro says and as @Hussar also noted, that magic items are not optional. They are a core component of PC build.

But @Imaro is wrong to say they are not part of worldbuilding. In my experience GMing 4e magic items are a big component in world-building. Of course they are not solely under GM control, but that's just one manifestation of the broader phenomenon that 4e does not treat worldbuilding as the sole province of the GM.

haha, yeah there it is again "solves the problem". No, you didnt solve anything you just repeated how it works in 4E. Im just sayin some folks dont like how that works one bit.

pemerton

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haha, yeah there it is again "solves the problem". No, you didnt solve anything you just repeated how it works in 4E. Im just sayin some folks dont like how that works one bit.

You said "the issue is relying on the GM to give them out at the right time". I replied that "4e resolves this problem (=issue)" via a system, treasure parcels, that tells the GM when to give them out.

If you don't think there is a "right time" then why do you say that that is an issue?

payn

He'll flip ya. Flip ya for real.

You said "the issue is relying on the GM to give them out at the right time". I replied that "4e resolves this problem (=issue)" via a system, treasure parcels, that tells the GM when to give them out.

If you don't think there is a "right time" then why do you say that that is an issue?

I saying folks dislike the entire concept altogether, not that there is some mechanic problem that needs to be solved with it. It doesn't matter if the game tells you to, folks don't want to be told that. Also, no this doesn't make 4E bad, this is a matter of taste.

hawkeyefan

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This seems self-contradictory - the gaps those 3pp are trying to fill are more often than not gaps (or perceived errors) in the design intentions of the game. and thus the whole point of said 3pp product might specifically be to not adhere to those design intentions. This is unrelated to whether or not said 3pp product is any good: it could adhere faithfully to the design intentions and still be garbage, or conversely could blow up the design intentions and be excellent.

Let me clarify… a third party product (aside from settings and adventure modules) typically seeks to fill in some gap. Let’s say Matt Colville’s “Strongholds & Followers”, for example.

My concern with a product like that is that the designer doesn’t understand the base game enough to design their addition in a way that fits well with the base game. That it doesn’t disrupt the game’s balance.

Who can say which 3rd party providers are actually good at game design, and also actually understand the 5e system enough for their designs to fit well? Sure, a handful if providers may rise to the top… but there’s a morass of just amateur level work to wade through. Just example after example of poor design or poor integration.

Colville seems like a solid game designer. He’s worked in video games. He’s provided dozens of hours of advice, most of which was clear and had a point of view, even if I may not always agree with him. And yet “Strongholds & Followers” still has plenty of design concerns. It doesn’t fit perfectly with the base game. Is it workable? Sure. But I think it serves to show how even someone like that will still have issues.

I hope that’s clearer.

hawkeyefan

Legend

I saying folks dislike the entire concept altogether, not that there is some mechanic problem that needs to be solved with it. It doesn't matter if the game tells you to, folks don't want to be told that. Also, no this doesn't make 4E bad, this is a matter of taste.

I think the point being made is that if people don’t want to be told when the right time to dish out treasure may be, then why is not knowing when to dish them out described as an issue?

Hussar

Legend

I think it helped gameplay to make magic items optional. but then I don't understand how you set up assumptions and/or an economy for something that is optional.

The minute you say magic item X should be assigned to level Y characters. and put them in the PHB they aren't optional or a worldbuilding element, they become expected (The thing that kept this in check in 3e was that they were still, for the most part, under the purview of the DM). The strong reaction to 4e wasn't because of transparency but because magic items weren't treasure or a reward any longer. they became a PC build component, which in turn inherently dictated truths about the DM's world and made magic items about pure optimization. They patched this with inherent bonuses, but that came later.

Not interested in beating this particular dead horse.

The point is that the magic item system in 3e and then 4e were both transparent and explicit.

5e has backed away from that and I would argue that this has not been a positive step. DMs are largely left in the dark as to how adding items will affect play.

Take flaming weapons forex. A flaming weapon in 5e effectively doubles a fighter’s dpr. Not quite but very close. Players are very quick to realize that at uncommon (rare?), flaming weapons are the best magic weapon for the value.

It’s a very badly done system and basically relies entirely on the dm to sort it out.

Hussar

Legend

I saying folks dislike the entire concept altogether, not that there is some mechanic problem that needs to be solved with it. It doesn't matter if the game tells you to, folks don't want to be told that. Also, no this doesn't make 4E bad, this is a matter of taste.

I’d much rather have a transparent system I can choose to ignore than an opaque system with zero guidance.

pemerton

Legend

in 4E getting new upgraded items wasn't really a reward, it was more of a hamster wheel. You didn't get better because of the +5 weapon, you just needed it to keep up.

This goes directly to one aspect of player game experience.

One feature of classic D&D (LBB, AD&D, B/X) played in the manner that the rulebooks present, is that the game play experience changes quite a bit over time:

*Low level PCs are highly vulnerable, and the play experience will be heavily shaped by the dungeon the GM has built;

*Mid-level PCs (say, 3rd to 6th-ish) are able to assert quite a bit of control over their dungeon play - I would say this is where the whole scout-prep-assault approach that Gygax sets out in his PHB becomes viable;

*At the same level, wilderness/hex-crawl play also becomes feasible, and this opens up a very logistical/wargame-y aspect of play (tracking rations, putting together mule trains, etc);

*At name level, the game gives PCs (especially clerics and fighters) military forces, opening up a literal wargame aspect of play, together with the logistical/economic aspects of domain management.​

At name level, one-on-one/skirmish combat is not normally going to be all that exciting as a component of play: the maths of to hit chances vs the range of ACs the game typically supports produce this outcome. A module like D3 tries to compensate for this - by creating scope for name level PCs to have one-on-one/skirmish combats that have the same sort of excitement as low- and mid-level ones - by giving the Drow NPCs magic items sufficient to balance the to hit bonuses of high level PCs.

The D3-ish approach seems to have become more common over time.

In 4e D&D, there is no change in the basic mechanics of game play between 1st and 30th level: it is either one-on-one/skirmish combat; or skill challenges. The changes are predominantly (i) in the fiction (as per the tiers of play), and (ii) especially for combat, in the "sideways" growth of PC abilities (invisibility, flight, conditions like domination, etc).

In this sort of game, having the players get "better" in the sense of mathematically more likely to succeed will tend to produce boring play. A D3-ish approach is needed. Whether this is done via inherent PC elements or extrinsic elements (like magic items) is mostly about taste, and in the case of D&D also legacy.

I certainly think it would be good for a rulebook to talk about the risks (if they are there) of magic items making certain aspects of game play boring!

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In a complex and changing world, current scientific approaches to problem solving have drastically evolved to include complexity models and emerging systems. Breaking problems into the smallest component and examining its position inside a system allows for a more regulated and measured technique in investigation, discovery, and providing solutions.

Systems Research for Real-World Challenges is an essential reference source that explores the development of systems philosophy, theory, practice, its models, concepts, and methodologies developed as an aid for improving decision making and problem solving for the benefit of organizations and society as a whole. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as complexity models, management systems, and economic policy, this book is ideally designed for scientists, policy makers, researchers, managers, and systematists seeking current research on the benefits and approaches of problem solving within the realm of systems thinking and practice.

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Frank Stowell is Emeritus Professor of Systems and Information Systems at the University of Portsmouth. He has a PhD in Organisational Change and his research centers around methods of participative design. He has supervised a number of research projects from modeling complex decision-making in mental health care, knowledge management, through to methods for client-led information systems development. He has been co-chair of a number of research council funded projects notably the Systems Practice for Managing Complexity project, designed to help managers address complex issues, which has developed into a self sustaining network. His latest publication The Managers Guide to Systems Practice (2012, Wiley Chichester) is a text written expressly with the kind of managers in mind who have attended the workshops over the past decade. The text deals with Systems ideas and models that are discussed as potential methods of addressing the complex issues encountered in the workplace. He is past President of the UK Academy of Information Systems and the UK Systems Society (http://www.ukss.org.uk/). He presently occupies the chair of the Council of Information Systems Professors and has recently joined the Board of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics. He has published papers and texts in the field and presented papers at a number of international conferences in Europe and the United States. Prior to his academic career he was employed by central government as a consultant within the Management Systems Development Group and has experience of defining and developing IT supported management information systems. [Editor]

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Another interesting feature of Luvabella Mealtime Magic Mia is her ability to recognize and react to different foods. The doll comes with a variety of food accessories, such as bibs, spoons, and different food items. When a specific food item is placed in Mia's mouth, she will respond with a unique reaction or sound, depending on the food. Furthermore, Mia can even show signs of being full or not liking certain foods. If she has had enough to eat, she will shake her head or push the food away. This adds another layer of realism to the doll and allows children to practice empathy and caring for their interactive toy. Overall, Luvabella Mealtime Magic Mia is an innovative and engaging doll that offers realistic and interactive mealtime play. With her ability to recognize and react to different foods, this doll provides a fun and realistic play experience for children who enjoy imaginative pretend play..

Reviews for "Luvabella Mealtime Magic Mia: The Ultimate Companion for Tea Parties"

1. Emily - 2 stars

I was really disappointed with the Luvabella Mealtime Magic Mia doll. First of all, it was advertised as being able to eat and then poop, but the eating mechanism didn't work properly most of the time. The food would get stuck in the doll's mouth, or it would just fall out without actually being swallowed. It was really frustrating for my daughter who was looking forward to this feature. Also, the doll's hair was of poor quality and kept tangling easily. Overall, it fell short of our expectations and I wouldn't recommend it.

2. Sarah - 1 star

I regret purchasing the Luvabella Mealtime Magic Mia doll for my niece. The doll's eating mechanism was faulty right from the start. It would often get jammed or not work at all. Additionally, the doll's voice was extremely irritating and not pleasant to listen to for prolonged periods of time. The doll also required a lot of battery power, constantly needing new batteries. It was a frustrating experience overall and I would not purchase it again.

3. Jessica - 2 stars

The Luvabella Mealtime Magic Mia doll was a big disappointment for my daughter. The doll's eating feature was supposed to be one of the highlights, but it was very hit or miss. Sometimes it would work fine, but most of the time the food would either get stuck or fall out without being swallowed. It was also quite difficult to clean the doll after it had "pooped". The doll's hair also got tangled easily and was hard to brush. It's definitely not worth the price and I would not recommend it.

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