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That joke was ripe for the taking.
I have determined that my giftee is trying to determine their giftee by process of elimination. If they never fill out their box and and I keep complaining they'll know that I'm sending them a bust of myself. I wonder if it's too late to mold something...
This weekend I should be getting that
bombgift for my giftee. Meant to get it 2 weeks ago, but I came across an offer I could not refuse.
I am starting on the construction of my gift today. It should be done and ready to ship by the end of the week!
I think the first part of mine is waiting at the royal mail depo, I was in bed when they tried to deliver
Do people usually post when they receive something? Part one of mine has been delivered. Someone needs to check they mail.
Anyone here plan on buying ASS Creed 3 for PS3/Xbox?
I have a $10 off code from ordering the PS Vita package from Amazon and I really hate the game, lol. I hope there isn't a logo on the Vita anywhere.....
PM me and you can have the code.
I was the someone that needed to check they mail.
My Supernatural bro Table done got me a Winchester shirt:
And a Star of David necklace because he thinks I'm Jewish:
Gonna have to wear 'em both to church on Sunday.
god, you supernatur-tards disgust me.
@ZP: Merry Christmas brah.
@Changarang: You sounding mad jealous you didn't get me as yo secreast santa. If those shirts weren't special print for that day only I'd nab you one too dawg.
My friend did agree that I'm probably Castiel. I still don't know what that means, other than it's Misha.
I'm so jelly of your shirt. So badass! Sent out my gift today. If it says my name on it that's paypal being a douche :3
hey usedtabe, you're my forever secret santa...what's the limit i can spend on ya this year?
Of pure muscle.
i should just make a towers of protein tubs


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What an Islam expert isn't
Most Catholics will remember the hysterical opposition to the so-called Ground Zero Mosque back in 2010. But what any may not realize is that one of the opposition's principal organizers is considered by some influential Catholics to be the church's chief expert on Islam.
Since the September 11 attacks, Robert Spencer has capitalized on the curiosity—and fear—that many Americans have about Muslims. While most of his sixteen books, including two New York Times bestsellers, attempt to convince all Americans that Islam is an inherently violent religion, Spencer has also authored books aimed at Catholics.
In 2003, he co-authored Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics with a Muslim convert to Christianity, Daniel Ali, and in 2007 he wrote A Religion of Peace: Why Christianity is and Islam Isn't. His newest book for Catholics, Not Peace But a Sword: The Great Chasm Between Christianity and Islam, was published earlier this year. In it, Spencer explicitly discourages dialogue and cooperation between Catholics and Muslims. The book's cover features a curved sword, with the Arabic name of Muhammad inscribed on the blade, piercing a red cross. The first line of the introduction reads, "Can't we all just get along? Maybe not. And if not, what then?"
He argues that Catholics and Muslims have virtually nothing in common, and falsely claims that Islam teaches that Christians should be persecuted. According to Spencer, Catholics put themselves in harm's way by engaging in dialogue. Not only does this view place him in defiance of the Catholic Church's teachings on dialogue and on Islam, it also reinforces the toxic belief that as Muslims as a group are a violent threat and should, at best, be avoided and, at worse, be opposed.
Praise for fear-mongering
Despite its anti-dialogical position and unvarnished attempt to instill in Catholics a fear of Muslims, Not Peace But a Sword has received praise in a review in the National Catholic Register. Father C. J. McCloskey, a well-known member of Opus Dei, wrote, that Spencer is "perhaps the foremost Catholic expert on Islam in our country." McCloskey affirms the mistaken yet pervasive belief that "the Muslims hate us," and writes, "at its worst, Islam is diabolical; at its best, it is a Christian heresy—not unlike Mormonism without the violence."
Catholic apologists and others—many of whom have authored their own critical books on Islam—have endorsed Spencer's work. Catholic television (EWTN) personality Fr. Mitch Pacwa wrote an introduction to Inside Islam, and former Boston College professor William Kilpatrick (Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West) wrote of Spencer's most recent book, "A great many Catholics know only a Disney-fied version of Islam, and still cling to the dangerous illusion that Muslims and Christians share much in common. But as Robert Spencer ably demonstrates, beneath the surface similarities lies a deep and possibly unbridgeable gulf. This is must reading not only for Catholics but for all Christians." Kirkpatrick's book, as well as Spencer's most recent one, was published by Catholic Answers, an organization responsible for publishing apologetic tracts and conservative voting guides.
Yet Spencer's fans rarely note that he lacks any formal education about Islam. His academic background is in Christian theology. Even more problematic, he often engages in controversial anti-Islamic activism. Along with Pamela Geller, he led the xenophobic campaign against the Park 51 Islamic Center in Manhattan, which, thanks to both activists, became popularly known as the "Ground Zero Mosque." Spencer and Geller also co-founded Stop Islamization of America and the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which have been designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-Muslim hate groups. Because of their fear-mongering, Spencer and Geller were banned from entering Britain earlier this year, when they attempted to attend a meeting of another anti-Muslim group, the English Defence League. His personal blog, Jihad Watch, consists of posts blaming Islam for violence around the world.
A dishonest look at history
In a December 10, 2012, interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, where he is a frequent guest, Spencer asserted that "traditional Islamic law does not allow for peaceful coexistence between believers and unbelievers." In fact, during the Middle Ages, Muslim rulers granted protection to Christians and Jews received, exempted them from, military service, and allowed them to run their own religious communities in exchange for a yearly jizya tax. Christians, Jews, and Muslims not only lived together but collaborated in the massive libraries of Baghdad and Cordoba, Spain, where they advanced science, philosophy, and theology. (Check out the books House of Wisdom and A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain.)
In trying to contrast Islam and Christianity in his newest book, Spencer provides a brief summary of the Crusades that is laughably fictional. "It may be useful to remember that the Crusades, for all their errors and excesses, were a defensive action after 450 years of unanswered Islamic aggression." While its true atrocities occurred on both sides, calling the Crusades a "defensive" measure is absurd, given that they were Christian military campaigns that originated in Europe and attacked lands and people in the Middle East.
Need for a new authority
Despite his lack of academic credentials, his habit of spreading misinformation, and his predilection for fear-mongering, Spencer has been invited to give speeches for U.S. law enforcement, government officials, and Catholic institutions like the Franciscan University of Steubenville. In pursuing Catholic bookstores in Washington, D.C., where I live, I've noticed that Spencer's books can often be found in the Islam section. (Nearby are often books by Scott Hahn, Peter Madrid, and William Kilpatrick, who praised Spencer's latest book.)
Fortunately, many Catholics have realized that Spencer does not deserve to be called an expert on Islam. In March, the Diocese of Worchester, Massachusetts, canceled Spencer from their slate of speakers for a men's event back. In Sacramento, the bishop canceled Spencer's July speaking engagement and barred him from presenting on church property. The National Catholic Reporter also called attention to and challenged the Register's positive review of his new book. Still, many Catholic institutions are welcoming Spencer, like Ave Maria Catholic radio station in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which is hosting an event called, "Is Islam a Religion of Peace?"
What the church needs are charitable, truthful authorities on Islam, who can bring their own experiences of the faith into their writing and speaking. Thankfully, there's no shortage of such experts. A Christian View of Islam is a compilation of essays by Georgetown University professor of Catholic-Muslim relations, Tom Michel, SJ. With a PhD in Islamic Studies, Fr. Michel has worked in the Vatican's interreligious affairs offices and has lived in many Muslim majority countries. Meg Funk, a Benedictine nun who wrote Islam Is: An Experience of Dialogue and Devotion, offers her own experience dialoguing with Muslims through a series of encounters sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. She leads Monastic Interreligious Dialogue as its executive director. Funk wrote the book shortly after the Iraq war, intent on explaining the religion making headlines. George Dardess's book Meeting Islam: A Guide for Catholics, explains core tenets and practices while offering a Catholic perspective. A number of books have also been published in recent years that focus on the medieval encounter between St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik al-Kamil and using it as a paradigm for contemporary Catholic-Muslim dialogue (see In the Spirit of St. Francis and the Sultan, also by Dardess, The Saint and the Sultan, and the DVD In the Footsteps of St. Francis and the Sultan.)
Though these authors often begin by addressing similarities of the two faiths, they don't shy away from addressing the differences. Differences need not divide, they argue, but can provide mutual illumination. Dialogue with Muslim does not threaten one's Catholic faith (or life!), as Spencer would have us believe, but instead it often strengthens one's understanding of and connection to Catholicism.
That's certainly been my experience. My time among the Muslim community during my years as a student at Georgetown strengthened my Catholic identity, which I had begun to lose despite (and maybe because of) my many years in Catholic school. Witnessing and often participating in Islam's unique rites and learning about Islamic belief made me not only appreciate and find beauty in Islam, but also in my own faith. My recommitment to my faith did not result from an aversion to Islam, but rather from a love of Islam that sparked my curiosity to rediscover the beauty of the faith of my childhood.
Yes, my Muslim friends and I often spoke about our similarities, but the more important conversations were often about the hard differences. My dialogue partners and I came out of these conversations not feeling threatened or upset, but heartened by the fact that both views were bolstered by deep charity and love. The differences—which Spencer says are so great as to preclude cooperation—are actually a source of mutual learning and spiritual enrichment.
Writers like Spencer are sometimes louder than the less confrontational voices we need to hear, but real Catholic authorities on Islam carry out what the church asked of them in Nostra aetate, the Vatican II document on non-Christian religions. The church, it reads, "urges its sons and daughters to enter with prudence and charity into discussion and collaboration with members of other religions. Let Christians, while witnessing to their own faith and way of life, acknowledge, preserve and encourage the spiritual and moral truths found among non-Christians, together with their social life and culture."
Instead of so-called experts who trade on fear, we need Catholics who echo the sentiment of Christian de Cherge, a Cistercian monk who devoted himself to living alongside Muslims in Algeria. Along with his community, he was murdered in 1996. Before his death, he wrote of his desire to "immerse my gaze in that of the Father to contemplate with him His children of Islam just as He sees them."
Inshallah, we too can learn that gaze.
Jordan Denari is a recent graduate of Georgetown University, where she studied Muslim-Christian relations. She is now conducting research in Amman, Jordan on a Fulbright grant.
About the Author
Jordan Denari is a research fellow at Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative, a project to educate the public about Islamophobia. From 2013 to 2014, she researched the impact of Christian satellite television on Muslim-Christian relations in Jordan on a Fulbright research grant.
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Jordan, your attempt to demonstrate that Spencer isn't an "Islam expert" would be more compelling if the "experts" whose works you recommend were.
The Amazon pages for the books by those you regard as "real Catholic authorities on Islam" are interesting. Here's a quotation from the Foreword to Sr. Funk's book:
"One of the insights shared in this book is that Islam owes much to its origins in Arabia." p. xi.
The Editorial Review from Publishers Weekly concludes with this information about Funk's notions of Islam:
"Does it foster violent fundamentalism? (Not necessarily.) Can women be considered equal partners to men? (Yes.) Can Islam be democratic? (Yes.) An afterword by her friend Shahid Athar, a Muslim American physician, gently corrects a couple of finer points, but thanks Funk for the deeply respectful attention she has given to Islam."
Deacon Dardess doesn't seem to be a scholar, either. In a Customer Review we learn that Meeting Islam has no index.
And, from a Customer Review of St. Francis and the Sultan:
". . . it is pure conjecture and fantasy. Words like "imagine," "guess," and, "we can't know for sure" are peppered throughout the text."
In an Editorial Review, Dardess's publisher admits that "He has a master s (sic) in theology but his doctorate is in literature."
Fr. Michel's book is not a scholarly treatment of Islam, either, but a collection of "Essays on Dialogue." The first one is from 1991. (The sample at Amazon does not go beyond the first essay. Are the other essays more recent?)
The hubris of a non Muslim telling us what the true tenets of Islam are.Like it even matters.Like it should matter to non Muslims.What matters is what Muslims profess to believe -whether he[this non Muslim] considers them heretics or not.His hate filled dishonesty is reminiscent of the oft heard phrase"people who hate us" which truthfully [is code for] means "people we hate".
I have to wonder a little about the level of scholarship demonstrated by a guy who writes 12 books in 11 years, starting 15 years after his M.A. degree but -- more significantly? -- right after 9/11. I note that only one of his publishers qualifies, to an extent, as an academic publisher. His other books are mostly from the same publisher, who specializes in, well, this kind of book. His publishing record is more like a propagandist's thlan a scholar's.
Does anyone know if Spencer reads any Middle Eastern languages?
Of course, he is saying what a lot of people want to hear. If it makes them fear and hate someone, it must be true, eh?
The Koran, like the Bible, has apparently contradictory passages. In Islam there is controversy about the interpretation of the word "jihad". Its literal meaning is "struggle". It is ofen interpreted as a Muslim's inner struggle with himself, but in some contexts it seems to mean a duty to conquor infidels by physical force.
It seems to me that until the Muslim theologians generally and publicly teach that there are serious problems of interpretation of "jihad", Islam is likely to continue to produce hot-headed radicals bent on violently suppressing all opposition both at home and abroad.
Granting all the great Muslim philosophical achievements in metaphysics and logic, so far as I know (which isn't, I grant you, a great deal) the Muslims have not been particularly interestedd in philosophy of language. Would that they would give it more attention. It might suggest some means to overcome some of the semantic problems of the theological meaning(s) of "jihad".
A bona fide Catholic expert on Islam:
Bill C. --
Thanks for the interview. I wonder about the most basic differences between the Muslims and the Christians. Our differences aren't just theological, they're legal. Many, many Muslim laws are found in the Koran or they are derived from Muslim tradition (hadith) and so are considered unalterable. Unfortunately they are often extremely different from Western laws, and I wonder whether our most intractable differences aren't matters of theology but, rather, of law.
It is easy enough to just ignore some theological differences because they have little practical effect, e.g., the teachings on the Trinity and Heaven, but laws have so many practical ramifications that our legal differences can't be so easily ignored.. Already, as more and more Muslims are moving into the West we see disputes happening over conflicting laws.
I was fortunate to hear Archbishop Fitzgerald in Rome at the Lay Center at Foyer Unitas in 2005 before he was "shuffled off to Buffalo (2006)."
Those of us who heard him there and then (most of whom were not familiar at all with him or his role (President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue) were impressed by his erudition and humble attitude. It was obvious that he had an informed outlook and was not the kind who was trying to impress us with his superior skill and cunning.
Long ago in another much more youthful life I took several courses on the history of the Middle East. That's as far as my expertise on the subject extends.
The most recent edition of Foreign Affairs has several articles I found of interest on the current state of affairs in that region. One is a fairly extensive piece describing the author's opinions of the motives and means attached to Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. I believe the article's author has fairly extensive experience in the region.
Another article's focus in on the brutality being inflicted upon Christians in the region. It is written by a fellow who is himself a Muslin and has on a number of occassions made clear his respect and love of much in Christianity.
I believe that Pope Francis emphasizes "mercy" for many reasons. One is that the concept of mercy is very Islamic (along with justice) and can serve as a bridge between Christianity and Islam.
A book entitled Law and Revolution by a Jewish Harvard Professor of Law throws some light on all this. The Revolution referred to is a papal revolution in the development of western law, whether English common law/case law codes of law or Napoleonic/inquisitional codes of law).
What was this revolution? It was a decision by a pope in the early 1000's to not go by the precdents in the Roman code of law summarized in the newly rediscovered (lost for centuries) Code of Justinian. The Code was found on land owned by the Papal States and as monarch the pope took possession. Fortunatel;y that pope was a scholar and had the code reviewed by a group of scholars to decide what to do about it.
They decided two big things: ... First, that the the principles behind the decisions and precedents in the Code should be distilled. Future legal decisions should be based primarily on these principles and the facts of a case, not by any particluar rule in the Code. They stated bluntly that they made this decision so that new and innovative decisions could be made as history evolved and brought up new situations. ... Scond, they decided to open the first university precisely to teach law but lso to revive the old Raman liberal arts. Graduates from these new universities went on to serve as the chief legal officers of kindoms and dukedoms. they recored all operative codes of law being used, then they rationalsized the leagal code based on legal principles as well as current practices.
Finally, here's my point in reagrd to islam. Some questions that might be asked of Shariah law:
1. Is a combination of mercy and juctice the underlying principle of Shariah law? Is the combination of justice and mercy the main message of the Qu-ran?
2. Is a Shariah law more merciful than any laws or customs preceding it? In other words, was the guiding intention to make the law more merciful as well as just?
3. Can a Shariah law be updated to better express a combination of mercy and justice relevant to modern societies, majority Muslim or not?
But thess are just thoughts of a non-schlar. No claims to any sort of expertise or wisdom. Just thoughts.
Thanks for this article. I know i am very late to comment. But it may still be worth mentioning that one expert worth reading is Gilles Kepel
see are write up on his work here
I notice you end the article calling on Catholics to echo the sentiments of Christian de Cherge. He was murdered by the Muslims he was reaching out to.
Christians are called to love those who hate us, and to reach out to them even at our own peril. But, you do exactly what Spencer says the liberals do, in your toward Christianity, you put blame on Christians for what you consider meanness toward Muslims, while completely ignoring what Muslims actually do and for the violence that Islam actually stands for.
The murder that Muslims commit is condoned not just in some communities of Islam but by the fundamental beliefs of Islam itself.
You can find examples of this throughout the book. No, I don't mean Spencer's book. Muhammad's book.

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The 5 Most Horribly Irresponsible Smart Phone Apps
Technology is a wondrous thing. Look at smartphones with all their fancy apps, for example: We tend to take them for granted, but Doc Brown would piss himself with excitement upon seeing how they can make our lives easier, make us more efficient ... even help us advance as a society. Even more impressive, though, is how they can go horribly wrong.
#5. Popular Sign Translator Gives Hilariously Wrong Information
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Word Lens has been widely advertised as the future of translation software ... today. According to the video demonstration, the app is a real-time translation miracle, the ocular equivalent of the Babel fish from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
With Word Lens, understanding something written in a foreign language is as simple as focusing your smartphone's camera on it, then the app instantly translates the words -- in the very same font, even! Something like this is a win-win for the consumer: You never have to bother with gaining a rudimentary understanding of a foreign language, and you get to be the pretentious wad of a tourist who holds his smartphone up to literally everything in his path!
So What's the Problem?
Just under the surface, you'll find that the problems with this app are many, and that they range from comical broken English to misinforming you on the details of traffic laws.
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Costa Rica apparently bans the fox trot.
For context, the app author admits that he didn't consult anyone fluent in Spanish while creating the app or designing the demonstration video, which was closing on 5 million views at the time of this writing.
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He'd have spent more time with Spanish speakers if he'd known about this "pot area."
The biggest problem with the app (other than the obvious one of not having anyone involved with it actually speak the language the app claims to translate) is that it attempts to translate individual words instead of phrases in context. Anyone who's ever used Bing to translate something knows that translating word by word is good for a laugh at best and that it shouldn't be used to inform you about important things like safety regulations, medicine labels, or all the food you're going to be eating while on vacation -- otherwise known as the precise types of things the developers advertise Word Lens as being perfect for.
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"Keep hands and arms car intimate always"?! That's illegal in almost all countries, Spanish-speaking or otherwise.
#4. Electronic Key App Also Makes Every Smartphone a Lock Pick
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Opening doors is pretty difficult, when you think about it. There's all that complicated business of digging in your pockets to find a key, aiming said key just perfectly to insert it into a tiny hole, and then fiddling with whatever that knobular mechanism on your door is called. Well, upstart company KISI plans to eliminate all that hassle via the magic of smartphone technology.
But the knobs stay, for style, so Barrow Street can remain classy.
The KISI digital key app relies on an electronic interface between your phone and the doors that keep you and your loved ones safe at night, eliminating the need for old-fashioned keys. If someone wants to enter your home while you're away, you just whip out your phone and activate the app. As KISI co-founder Maximilian Schuetz boasted to the BBC, "You can be in Bermuda and give someone access in New York." Additionally, the software allows you to give friends or family access via their own smartphones, presumably to avoid the major inconvenience of announcing their arrival or requesting permission to enter.
So What's the Problem?
Let's just ignore the fact that people likely to lose their keys -- the primary means of gaining entry to their home or workplace -- might also be just as likely to misplace their talkbox. Actually, no, let's not ignore that. People are literally being asked to pay hundreds of dollars to solve a problem that could just as easily be solved with one of those biker key chains that clip onto your belt loop.
And chains jingle, so you could delete at least three of your percussion apps.
But looking beyond that, consider the fact that this whole thing is premised on remotely opening your door while you're not in a position to verify who's actually standing in front of it. And since the app can enable other smartphone users to unlock your doors, it's not only you, but any friend, colleague, or cleaning person with clearance who can unlock your door from virtually anywhere. Planning on having your mom feed the cat while you're away? Think about how long it took her to learn to send you an intelligible text once she finally decided to reluctantly trade in her flip phone. Now, do you really trust her to have your digital door unlocker bopping around inside that big-ass purse of hers?
Add in the fact that smartphones are becoming the Grade A prime target for hackers and the foreboding really begins to set in. Given the choice between sticking with an outdated technology that's served the human race just fine for a hundred and some odd years and giving some Nigerian prince unimpeded access to our front doors, we'll stick with the outdated technology, thank you very much. Anyway, there's really no need to give our doors a techno-upgrade until science can perfect that Star Trek whooshy noise.
#3. Cry Translator Tells You How to Soothe Your Sobbing Baby (By Guessing)
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Becoming a new parent is tough. It's like being thrust into a locked room with a tiny version of yourself that depends on you for every damn thing, and the only language Tiny You speaks is scream. Oh God, the baby's crying again! Is he hungry? Did he just drop a toxic load in his diaper? Did he swallow my car keys? How the hell are you supposed to know? All crying sounds the same.
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Yeah, swallowed the keys. Maybe you should have used the unlocker app after all.
Well, that's where the wonder of the modern smartphone steps in to ease your parenting woes. The Cry Translator app boasts that after analyzing just 10 short seconds of recorded crying, it can tell you exactly what your baby wants or needs. You've found the equivalent of a DRM hack for child rearing!
So What's the Problem?
If the one-star rating on iTunes isn't enough to tip you off, the fact that all of the so-called reviews of the product by reputable tech sources are just parroting the developer's product announcement might. While everyone's quite keen on announcing that the app exists, no one's claiming that it actually works -- except for the very trustworthy-sounding Dr. Antonio Portugal Ramirez, whose clinical pediatric research determined that the app's suggestions are 96 percent accurate ... and who also just so happens to be the leader of the app's development.
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"I don't know who could have come up with such a brilliant translator, but he sure sounds handsome."
Real reviews of the app report that recording the same cry twice often results in completely different results, or that the app encourages users to overfeed their babies or change their diapers at WALL-E-apocalypse-inducing rates. So at worst the thing is giving outright incorrect parenting advice; at best it's using your iPhone as an unnecessary middleman for the natural instincts/guesswork evolution blessed you with. So we'd recommend just following the old "try everything until something works" method that worked for our parents and using the five bucks that you might've blown on Cry Translator to instead download that premium fart app you've been eyeing -- because fart is the one language scientifically proven to be 100 percent effective at cheering up your kid.


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Pottermore - 07-31-2011, 08:14 PM
I don't see a thread for this yet.
So, Pottermore. It's hard for me to explain it, because I'm not all that darned sure the exact details, but what I do know is that this is like J. K. Rowling's new way of keeping Harry Potter alive after the books and movies are over.
You know how there's never been a legal online/web version of the books?
Well, she's finally going to start selling them. Via Pottermore.
But that is not what the hype is about ( as much as we'd love to get our grubby hands on a web version, we wouldn't stay up to all hours just for that ).... No. It's an interactive Harry Potter themed environment, in which you basically start your own journey, go to Diagon Alley, personality tests which lead you to your own wand...
And you get sorted.
And it's coming out this October, to free to everyone.
Official Pottermore website: [ x ]
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....If you've been following Pottermore you will know that a lucky one million will be selected to join it early. Everyone else has to wait until October.
The way you get "selected" is every day, for seven days, there will be "clues" dropped on the Harry Potter page for a limited time. The clues are in forms of questions; the example given is "How many books are in the Harry Potter series? Multiply this number by 7." ( The answer, of course, is 70 )
Yesterday's clue was " "How many breeds of owls are featured on the Eeylops Owl Emporium Sign? Multiply this number by 49." ( The answer was 245. )
After you get the answer, you simply type that into the end of this:
So, last night the answer was http://quill.pottermore.com/245
If you got the answer, then you could get the "magical quill". If you got the quill and click the validation link sent in your email fast enough, you are included in the quota of the people who got into Pottermore early!
...I hate to gloat ( not really ), but I'm one of that million, which makes me really happy and excited for it to begin.
* V * !!!!!! Stayed up until four, got into Pottermore! It's suddenly all worth it.
I wanna know, did anyone else get the Quill last night? : D Put your username here.. I'm not sure if we'll be allowed to add each other once the thing starts but just in case, you know. And for those who haven't, there's still six more chances! ( the clue was released from 8~9am British time, but I'm not sure about tomorrow. ) I just managed to get it on the first try because I was sitting there, with about 40 other gaia people, spamming the darn page for seven hours straight, researching our little butts off in the middle of the night, and I had a web copy of the book ( remember, no legal copy ) so I could just Ctrl+F the final question which turned out to be quite easy. ( No joke - PROOF )
Alright, enough of that. * v * Tell me if anyone decides to stay up tonight. Some of my friends on Gaia didn't get their validation link which sorta made me sad. </3
I ran out of internet on the morning before the clues came out, so my friend registered two accounts- one for her and one for me!
My username on there is WitchDust200.
My dolls are made with this dollmaker!
UPDATE! Day 5, I got in! Woo-hoo! Lol when you're in the quota...a million seems like an awful lot, haha. Of course not getting in s.u.c.k.s...speaking from the college experience lol
Anyway, my user name is DawnChaser104. I liked it cause i'm a night owl and stay up late on my laptop, you could say I'm "chasing the dawn" (ha, I made a lame joke)
Noirmali, you didn't say what your username was...?
I'm so mad because I wanted to get in for my friend today... But it's a rant I've posted 6 times already and I don't fancy re-writing it.
@belladoggy - that's a nice name! There's a lot of weird ones I've heard... Like Wombatchaser or something. I was like wth.
Mine are~
Thank you ^^
But you know, the welcome emails haven't come out yet >_< '' Only the verification emails!
They say the welcome emails will come out sometime between after mid-August and September.
Which means they won't be coming out until at least Tuesday. xD
Okay, what with it now being a month later...I still have no e-mail. Have any of your accounts gotten in? Tomorrow (today?) is Hufflepuff Pride day, but I can't participate cause I'm not in yet, sad day
Does anyone know when the second book will come out on Pottermore? I JUST got my username last week and that's A LONG TIME after this whole site was put up, I will say I was utterly SHOCKED that only 1 book was up??
What house did everyone get? Did you get the house that EVERY SINGLE QUIZ ONLINE PUT YOU IN???? Because that was NOT the case for me, lol. I was always always always Ravenclaw, but I'm actually Slytherin, LMAO.
A little girl I know actually cried when she was put in Slytherin, poor thing. Her Mom signed her up a new account. Does anyone else feel that's wrong? I DO. And I must say I was relieved after a while. Here I thought Ravenclaw was absolutely PERFECT, when OMG Quirrel came from Ravenclaw! My jaw literally dropped!
Also, what's your wand specs!!! I absolutely LOOOOVVVVEEEEDDD reading up on all the wandlore! I've got a 10 1/4 inch Ash wand, hard, with a dragon core. Wasn't expecting that one either, but after I read up on it, it actually fits, lol.
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It's not surprising that Clark and Judy Megill, both lifelong fans of historic architecture, chose their current dwelling on South Fourth Street when they relocated to Louisville from Maryland, three years ago. Built in 1880 by Alexis DuPont, the imposing, three-story brick building is one of the oldest structures in Louisville.
"I love old houses, we've lived in several," Judy exclaimed. "I just like the charm and the warmth, and all the architectural details you get in an old home that you just wouldn't find in a (modern house)." Details like the stately, winding wooden staircase, visible as one first steps inside the foyer of the home. And the striking stained-glass window, colorfully filtering in daylight on the north side of the building from where it sits, just above the stairwell's first landing.
The historic structure has undergone multiple renovations over the years, at one point even being converted into six separate apartments with full kitchens and baths. In the 1970s the building was transformed back into a single family dwelling, and has remained so up to the present, housing 10 bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths. "It's amazing that there's as much intact as there is," commented Judy.
For example, the large interior rooms – especially unusual in homes built during the Victorian era – have managed to survive, despite the extensive remodeling. Light pastel wall colors, also not traditionally found in houses from the time period, highlight original architectural details and enhance the airiness of spaces like the formal dining room. The Megills chose to keep the color scheme, selected by the home's previous owner, an interior decorator. "I kind of like that combination, of the old detail-work and the light colors, which makes it feel much more open," Judy explained.
That openness extends to the home's kitchen as well, a large, airy space with shelves lining the walls for storage, rather than closed-door cabinets. Positioned at the rear of the house, its large windows overlook Judy's favorite feature, an inviting courtyard and garden that make up the home's backyard. "It's our living room in the summertime," she smiled.
It's plain to see why. Stepping out the back door onto a small deck, one finds oneself in the midst of a myriad of flowering plants and greenery, including peonies, Japanese roses, mint, hostas and clematis. A multilevel goldfish pond softly babbles to the left, while to the right lies an inviting in-ground swimming pool, which the Megills typically enjoy in the evenings after its water has spent the day warming in the sun. Next to the pond stands a romantic wooden pergola covered in wisteria vines – complete with an overhead fan – serving as a cool, shaded sitting space. Clark and Judy frequently dine under the pergola, occasionally hosting dinner parties for other couples in their local gourmet club.
Just beyond the courtyard stands an elegant brick carriage house, which was recently featured along with the Megills' garden in the 2012 Old Louisville Hidden Treasures Garden Tour. Although the original structure was demolished, the existing rebuild, which sits atop a five-car garage, seamlessly meshes with its surroundings. The newer building was honored in 1982 by the Preservation Alliance, receiving the organization's award for modern design and construction of a new structure adhering to the historic nature of Old Louisville.
Inside the two-bedroom, two-bath carriage house, home to tenant Michael McCoy, details such as stained-glass windows and an antique mantle over the fireplace complement the original house. The feeling of openness carries over into the carriage house as well, which features high ceilings and ship-like stairs leading up to an airy, second-story loft.
One needs only to step out of the newer building's sliding glass doors and back into the green courtyard to see, and appreciate, the collective beauty of home, garden and carriage house. "It's a nice mix of updates and originals," Judy summed up. "It's pretty cool." From the shade of the wisteria, in the soft breeze of the pergola's overhead fan, it would be hard to disagree.
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It was a great win for us; it was not very pretty. Sort of like the UAB game, but only the score was higher at UAB. I knew we were going to be challenged by a philosophy and that philosophy was to bunch up and run dead at you with an offense that had some big guys and good runners. We were going to have to do a lot of moving and getting in position on defense as far as adjusting to those things. We did a pretty good job, we certainly weren't perfect. They were (combined) 3-of-17 on third and fourth down conversions and that's pretty good. On critical downs, that's pretty good.
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Alina Somova's Performances Highlight of 2008?!
Posted 22 December 2008 - 10:00 AM
Did anyone else read this! Were Gia and I watching the same performances!? I might give Somova the acrobat or gymnast of the year award, but her dancing certainly was not a highlight of 2008.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 10:38 AM
i personally heard from a very prominent, former Kirov dancer in the NYC, who made a point of telling me to me that Somova was for him the highlight of the Kirov's recent season in NYC.
i'm not necessarily comparing them at all, but Suzanne Farrell's rise at NYCB had a good dose of negativity surrounding her at the start of her years under Balanchine.
time will tell if Somova's career will carry her to a pinacle that pales the waves of negativity sometimes greeting her earliest years.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 11:59 AM
...a point was established already that it is yellow.
a halo of platinum hair." .
Posted 22 December 2008 - 12:18 PM
Posted 22 December 2008 - 01:00 PM
...a point was established already that it is yellow.
a halo of platinum hair." .
LOL! Is there a Hair Style Talk site somewhere? I'm guessing there is.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 01:55 PM
On one thing we can all agree, I think: Love her or hate her, Ms. Somova is a lightning rod for discussion.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 02:05 PM
...a point was established already that it is yellow.
a halo of platinum hair." .
LOL! Is there a Hair Style Talk site somewhere? I'm guessing there is.
I think there is plenty to criticize in her dancing without making fun of her hair. I wouldn't exactly call it a halo, but I was much more interested in Kourlas' description of her fouettés:
she certainly did "kick" a lot in her fouettés--but I thought this was awful, she looked jerky and off balance. In fact with the exception of Tereshkina, I didn't think any of the Kirov stars had very pretty fouetté turns. But Somova's were absolutely the worst--she positively lurched in my view. So to see those turns especially praised is rather shocking to me.
fouetté turns embellished with darting kicks were full of juicy aplomb
I found this on youtube but one, they look considerably better than what I saw in NYC, and two the angle obscures her lurch when she comes off pointe. Still I don't see them as model turns
Posted 22 December 2008 - 03:45 PM
Well, there are whole threads dedicated to the length of a dancer's hair, ,some body art displays-(tattoos), and so on...Hair color is not that far from the topic, considering how restricted the female members get to be about their choices-(usually long, dark...you know, in case maybe a Giselle part suddenly pops ...)
multiple writers have found it necessary to comment on such seemingly-trivial facts of a dancer's personal grooming.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 06:41 PM
Arlene Croce wrote memorably sometime back of a male soviet dancer she much admired as 'another one of those soviet men with implausibly colored hair.' this was an aside, as noted, for a dancer whose DANCING she admired.
i'm sure however there were others, in the case of the dancer Croce was writing about - if memory serves it was Vyacheslav Gordeyev - who might have admired his hair color but not his dancing.
as noted above, i think it is important to remember that not every thinks ill of Somova, not by any means.
also, i doubt very much that gia kourlas would say 'platinum' if she didn't think that was the right word for her recollections.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 06:53 PM
Model fouettés consist of the working leg giving the illusion of a whipping (not kicking) motion. Fouettés aren't supposed to bounce either. She has very long legs, hyper extended knees and weak feet, so it's hard for her to complete the rotations and fully extend the working leg to create that whipping motion. By the time she fully extends her leg, it's time to begin the pirouette again. She barely gets through doubles and triples. I've seen her a few times in "Swan Lake" she can only just complete the standard singles -and these with the minimum of momentum. If you want to see exemplary fouettés on YouTube, input other dancers, especially Maximova's or Terekhova's Kitri.
I found this on youtube but one, they look considerably better than what I saw in NYC, and two the angle obscures her lurch when she comes off pointe. Still I don't see them as model turns . . .
Somova's appearances are unique precisely because they're attention getting in all the wrong ways. Likewise, they're "entertaining" for all the wrong reasons. She's the Maryinsky's newest Principal Dancer, and we're discussing technical survival issues and the other "incidentals" that make up her stage persona. And that's the point: These shouldn't be issues in light of her promotion. It's these incidentals and technicalities that are impossible to ignore or overlook, particularly in a performance. You can't miss them; they're so in your face. I agree with Natalia that it's surreal that not only her appearances are controversial, but her stage persona "package" is as well. She's allowed to go onstage without sanction re her appearance with carte blanche, and it's mums the word. Personally, I think we're eyewitnesses to an international classical ballet conspiracy (or) ponzi scam. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 07:11 PM
THe fouettes described (with the kick) are just the Russian way of doing fouettes - extending side instead of having the stirring motion. I'm surprised Kourlis doesn't know this. Not my preferred way of seeing fouettes but not surprising in a Russian trained dancer.
Posted 22 December 2008 - 08:20 PM
THe fouettes described (with the kick) are just the Russian way of doing fouettes - extending side instead of having the stirring motion. I'm surprised Kourlis doesn't know this. Not my preferred way of seeing fouettes but not surprising in a Russian trained dancer.
well, yes and no. First I agree it is surprising Kourlas doesn't know this, but to expand upon the subject a bit...
One it seems more typical of the Kirov dancers than the Bolshoi dancers. So perhaps it should be called the Kirov or Maryinsky version, not the Russian.
see Osipova:
at 7:30 (sorry I have seen her do better fouettes than these but it was the first I found)
or for a very different example, Ananiashvilli:
which is more kick, but still does have a degree of whipping motion.
furthermore, I do think Somova's lurching is distinctive from others, even within the Kirov. Yes the "Russian method" is more kick than "stir" but look at Tereshkina (who is the best technician of the Kirov dancers I saw in NYC):
at around 8:43. She most definitely does the "stir" variety (and they are lovely, despite the bad video quality)
or watch her in the don q fouettes (the same as I posted earlier for Somova)
big difference, and to me, much better!
Posted 22 December 2008 - 09:08 PM
Personally, I think we're the eyewitnesses of an international classical ballet conspiracy .
Posted 23 December 2008 - 02:19 AM
Russian dancers and their hair: Another universe as far as I'm concerned with both sexes constantly surprising me in the frequency and variations in hair colour. At one time having black hair was considered the balletic ideal, with Taglioni, Karsavina, Pavlova, Markova and Fonteyn all being brunettes. How time has changed.
Personally, I think we're the eyewitnesses of an international classical ballet conspiracy .
I'm beginning to think so too.
Posted 23 December 2008 - 05:43 AM
Now let's turn to the dancing and the much-commented Somova foutees. I call them the Russian Can-Can, as in "I can! I can! I can! Look at me! Look at me!" My point is that there is a general bombast and crudeness to everything that she does. That's my -- many of us -- our problem with Alina Somova. General crudeness from the top of her rooted hair to her can-can feet.
More power to the esteemed critic, Gia Kourlas, for being able to see through the crudeness at some artistry. Kourlas is a very knowledgeable and esteemed critic. That we cannot deny. I hope to be able to see some of those glimmers this January, when I see Somova's Kitri at the Kennedy Center.
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These are the notes from the The 272nd Meeting of Noisebridge. Note-taker: FIXME YOUR NAME HERE; Moderator: FIXME THEIR NAME HERE.
- One or two bullet points of high-level meeting summary.
Moderator User:Maestro
Explanation of how the meeting works.
Hat of doom points to someone to explain Noisebridge.
Everything is up for change, in legal terms were a 501c3, exist thru and depend on donations, be excellent to each other.
99% of things are done thru, just do it, ignore the little voices in your head. The other pillar of Noisebridge is process, for when we have to decide on something for the whole community.
Explanation of consensus.
Shiatsu moderation technique and attempt to get these things done quickly/soon.
Short announcements and events
- 1st Friday and sudo room
- RockIT http://www.rockitcolabs.com/hackers-invite
- Board meet and believes did legal requirements
- Thursday Rev Mik will be throwing all food with garbage
- We Steal Secrets WikiLeaks Documentary Movie Screening Roxie 8:45p tonight
- August 10th Shindig Here, 10 Year TPB Anniversary (Talk to James)
- Wednesday 21st of July Johny Radio build night
- Rebase meeting discussed kitchen and made progress https://noisebridge.net/wiki/RebaseMeeting07022013
- Video Project for NoiseJam, talk to Johny
New/Stale Events
Review of events...
- Lit crawl event? Almost certainly happening.
- This week Post Waste moved meeting, will update wiki
- MSP Group? Looks dead, april last event
- Tahoe, not really happening
Membership Binder
Tom gives a detailed overview of the membership process.
- Wayde Amesbury - 3rd Week
- Vincent Smith - 4th Week (not present)
- Richard Bottoms - 4th Week
- Several others who have been read off a bunch
- J.C. & James paperwork submitted
Financial Report
- Funds in bank: $36,851.83 (including Tor monies)
- Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary): $12Kish
Consensus items
Proposals from last week
- Discussion about history of keypad, and 24/7 or variable time parameters. This is about using a code to buzz someone in from upstairs, not related to using a code to let yourself in downstairs.
- Discussion about just doing this at night docraticlly, and not go thru consensus.
- Anonymous block by proxy on the table.
- Jake would like to see this consensused on when the time is right.
Proposals for next week
Tony Longshanks LeTigre
- Consensus about banning Tony, and the specific language there in
- Consensus about landlord reperations
Discussion about throwing people out policy as consensus item, moved to discussion
Discussion Notes
- Hygiene
- Clean dishes
- Use of toxic/chemicals
- Diatomaceous Earth (White Powder) for killing bugs
- Suggestion to keep food trash in kitchen bins
- Michael Clift (Occupirate)
- 10 minutes about Mike, maybe more
- Lief gives an overview of interaction w/Mike
- Discussion about letters that he may or may not have written
- 9:44pm continuing inqueizition of Mike
- 10:17pm still discussing Mike
- Discussion concluding with take your stuff and leave
- 10:28pm Discussion about Mike staying at the space
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Hilltopper batters struck out 16 times en route to a 5-1 loss to the Whalers at Walsh Field. New Bedford pitchers Jared Shuster and Dominic Souza kept the Durfee hitters off balance in the nine inning contest, limiting the Hilltoppers to eight hits.
"We were right there, just not enough offense tonight," said Durfee head coach Brad Bustin. "Give a lot of credit to their pitchers. I think we struck out 16 times. When their defense only has to make 11 plays, it's tough."
The Whalers (6-4, 1-0 Big 3) got a pair of runs in the bottom of the first inning when sophomore first baseman Andrew Rapoza hit a towering two-run homerun to left off Durfee starter Brendan Teixeira making the score 2-0. New Bedford added single runs in the second and sixth innings to take a 4-0 advantage.
Durfee threatened a couple of times but could not come up with the clutch hit. In the top of the first, the Hilltoppers loaded the bases on an infield hit by Mike Correia, a bunt single by J.P. Bonanca and Justin Martinho getting hit by a pitch. Shuster worked out of the jam by striking out Teixeira and Kyle LePage.
In the fifth, Colin Medeiros and Correia registered back-to-back base hits off Shuster. Both runners moved up a base after the freshman lefthander uncorked a wild pitch. They would be stranded there as Bonanca popped out to short and Alex Benevides hit a hard liner which was snared by Shuster.
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options @ center?? does that mean a return of Da Goodz to 'powah point pivot post' seemingly, DalemBeast is becoming the last option.Hide replies
It would be nice if they played Gooden in some of these upcoming games even if they are trying to move him. Just so the guy can stay somewhat sharp. I'm not sure how many teams would want a guy who would needs weeks of games before he could actually help.
no, it wouldn't be nice if they played Gooden. Why do we care if he is "sharp" if we want to trade him? I'm pretty sure every NBA team knows what Gooden can do on the basketball floor, which also answers the question of why we can't trade him, because everyone knows what he does on the basketball floor.
Play him where? Last year proved without a doubt he cannot play the 5. It's not physically possible on the D-end. You want to throw him in the rotation at the 4-spot for trade appeal?
Next question? Do you want the Bucks to win games?
If it helped us to actually get something useful for da Goodz, I would be on board for doing some "showcasing". Today's loss could be tomorrow's gain, especially while we are shorthanded.
as always, da Krakkens, 'building betahh tomorrows, tomorrow?'
Its always the coldest and suckiest just before the dawn.
Showcasing is a good term and what I meant. If Gooden can play well against a few lesser teams, his value might go up. I'm just not as down on him as the rest of you. I wish they'd keep him and play the guy. His defense isn't near as bad as the rest of you harp and his offense and rebounding make for it. We could use another shooter when Monta and BJ are off. Gooden has shown he can fill it up.
good point Rindy, U r a brave man.
What about Beno? Is he back or still out?Hide replies
Hint: See sentence #7.
My bad, totally missed that line.
Hey *CHARLES*.
Check your third sentence.
Your Last.
Weather right after this....
The Bucks are goin need every swingin-richard they can muster-up for the upcoming battles on the hardwood. How deep the contusion, how bad the sprain (swelling down) and I'm all for waiting until Michael is 100% (or as close to it) before suiting the gunner up again.
Sunny. Cold. Wind Chill factors apply.
Warming up progressively the next three days.
And finally, as a public service announcement....
Make sure you unplugged those garage fridge's.
Beer in the fridge days are over for now.
And, pitchers and catchers report in -81- days.
This Buds for YOU!!!
Skiles quote on Pryzbilla... "He always does well when he's out there. He's a good screener; he operates well within our offense. And he always plays good defense." NOW here my question Is skiles watching the same games as us? He put Pryzbilla in and he was dear in the head lights. Completely out matched. That was when Brooklyn almost pulled off a Chicago like comeback.. Here's my actual question, IS SKILES WATCHING THE SAME GAMES OR IS HE DUMB, SLOW, BLIND, OR ALL THREE?????
My answer is he must be all 3. Put Dalembert or Gooden in the DAMN GAME!!!Hide replies
Well, you're certainly living up to your screen name [Wannabe]. But, here's my actual question. Who's the coach and who's not? I've often wondered why the Dalembert disappearance myself, and even the Gooden inactivity,
but I can say with full certainty, Skiles is watching the same game as you, but evidently with more basketball acumen.
Man, that is sure one dum ?, looks like Brandon is the coach now, he the one tellin Marquise that he need to get in there an get shootin them shots. Don't see nobody else tellin nobody nothin worth a dam, you? An hey, Brandon and Montay with Marquise an Drew?, now that lineup would be shootin them dang shots! Whooo, put Tobias in there two an they would be whoopin it up real good. As for that dang Prizloc, better set him back down for he hurts someone good, like Brandon or Montay. If ya'll jus need to be settin them screens, jus use one a them other big dum stiffs, cuz it sure don't matter wich one. Bet that Dallybear sure sets a dang fine screen in the boofay line, hey?
and evahtime that I read a 'ghost post' I suffer from brainloc trying to figure out what a 'boofay line' is.
All 3 and he's deaf too, but i've heard he plays mean pinball!
how do you think he does it, Fandom, what makes him sooooooooo good?
He coaches by sense of smell, Wingnut?
Does Dalembert have BO or maybe Przybilla wears a more agreeable after shave?
@ times............so it seems Lemmy.............it's one of God's great mysteries?
"We're not gonna take it!!!"
But seriously #12, I agree, how hard is it to put in the guy you traded for to be the starting center? Bet he wouldn't mind stuffing one in DeMarcus's face for old times sake.
This can correctly be categorized into the coach-speak bucket. Even Skiles doesn't come out and bash on a player whose biggest problem is his that he lacks athleticism.
Nicely put, Jay. You might be convincing me with your even-handed approach
The fact that Pryzbilla is even active each night still amazes me? I'd much rather have Gooden active than Pryzbilla. Pryzbilla can't run, can't jump, can't play a lick of offense, but according to Skiles he can set good screens and he plays good defense? C'mon Skiles, your fans are a little smarter than that, they can all see that Joel is done, he's been done for about 2 years now. Putting in Pryzbilla in the last game was the catalyst for the Nets comeback. Tell Joel to get his suits dry cleaned, because that's what he should be wearing on game nights.
No reason to get excited, said the Skiles to the Hambone:
"20. Milwaukee Bucks
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Current Record: 10-9
Panicking or Relaxing: One Spot Panicked
Prior to the 2012-13 season, the Milwaukee Bucks were expected to challenge for a low playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. A quarter way through the season, and that is just where they are.
Milwaukee's 10-9 record has them in the No. 8 spot in the East and in the mix to leap three or four spots on any given night. For the most part, the Bucks have been healthy and are getting good production from their highly touted backcourt. Monta Ellis has been inconsistent, but when he is on, the Bucks are tough to beat.
Brandon Jennings has been one of the best guards in the conference thus far, averaging 17.2 points and 6.3 assists per game. Also of note is Larry Sanders, who has broken onto the scene as a talented reserve. The super-athletic center is still fine-tuning an NBA skill set, but in the meantime he has posted 7.7 points, 7.6 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game.
One cause for panic is the play of Ersan Ilyasova. Ilyasova really came on strong last season and made a name for himself as a potential star power forward in the league. However, in 2012-13 he has been a dud. His playing time has been limited due to awful 38 percent field-goal shooting, which in turn has limited his rebounding production.
Ilyasova's play has tarnished his trade value immensely, making it very difficult for the Bucks to make a move that would help them forge a path to the middle of the playoff seeding.
Instead, the Bucks remain on the outskirts of everything, which is both a cause for panic and calm."Hide replies
Another reference to 'trading Ersan'.?
Careful with those rough starts mister, or thy head maybe
thrwart from thy body kind sir>
While not reading anything on the local level provides little comfort
in this home, it still puzzles me why one signs a player, and
literally weeks later is attempting to unload said player. The
patients of this coach, and Ersan/Skiles willingness to change
saved Ersan's year. Less then twenty games in, and one is
already counting body bags. Took awhile for the Turkish Pipe
to grab hold. He's doing far better, and he'll be just fine
dressed in greeen and red.
Nothing here...move along please...nothing to see here....move along>
The Bucks won't trade Ilyasova. They re-signed him because his below average play fits in perfectly with the entire organization.
why are you 'locked and loaded' on the messenger, BigK and1? you should be more concerned with 'The Deputy'?
Don Corleone: Do you have faith in my judgement?
Wingo: Yes.
Don Corleone: Do I have your loyalty?
Wingo: Yes, always Blogfather.
Don Corleone: Then be a friend to Ersan. Do as he says.
WingNutt Enterprises has been retained by the bLogFather as proconsul.........we've studied the best 'Dewey, Cheatham and Howe'.
If the 'deputy" is the article/author-of... then that is exactly where I take aim.
Not at the 'errand boy' who delivers the 'groceries'.
That hurt.............BiggKand1.
Recall a young "HENRY" in *Goodfella's*,
caught and beaten by his father for skipping school.
(So he could hang with the G>fellas').
What did "Henry' say in the movie narration,
"Everyone has to take a beating"
Very similar in that all of us at some point,
find ourselves as 'errand boys'. Suppling the forum
with others work is indeed delivering the groceries
for the forum, and those that reside here. Yours truly
often wears that same apron of service.
"To serve and to be served are one and the same"
---Zen Saying
Now that you put it that way..............I feels much bettah, bLogFather.
Looks like a game that might have Gooden make a appearance.Hide replies
We've been showcasing 'da Goodz' for GQ Quarterly. Who do you thinks poppin for all that sharkskin?
Amir Johnson making Gooden look like we should keep him. You just never know what you'll get. Anyone have a shortlist of coaches?Hide replies
Devil's advocate here................. what if?????? da Skowling1 against all conventional wisdom and acumen takes the Buckos, say.......into the second round of the playoffs. The Herbies get togettah and offer him a big whoppin xtension .....AND................Scotty just walks away from the table. Then what?
'Devil's Cut' Fogerhtey, it ain't for choirboys.
I actually think the departure of Skiles is a foregone conclusion. There will undoubtedly be opportunities for him that are better fits for him.
bingo,he aint all bad, but situation could improve for him elsewhere
According to Bleacher Rapport, sitten in HoTT seat #5, our own baby daddy cue ball:
Scott Skiles is safe—for now.
His Milwaukee Bucks are currently eighth in the Eastern Conference after racking up an impressive 97-88 win over the Brooklyn Nets at the shiny, new Barclays Center on Sunday.
But the shorthanded Indiana Pacers aren't far behind, and the Derrick Rose-less Chicago Bulls, not the Bucks, are the leaders in the disheveled Central Division. Skiles has his squad playing decently well on the defensive end and at an offensive pace that suits the backcourt combo of Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis.
Except, those two have combined to hit just over 40 percent of their field goals. For every positive development (the play of Mike Dunleavy Jr., the growth of Larry Sanders as a shot-swatting force and the like), there seems to be at least one negative one (Dunleavy's knee injury, Ersan Ilyasova's no-show) to counterbalance it.
Hence, the Bucks are treading water at 10-9. Skiles might just be spared the axe if his team can hang on to a playoff spot in the East. If not, ownership figures to wait until the end of the season to make a change.
Either way, Skiles, like so many in Milwaukee, is essentially a lame duck and may well not be asked back as a result. With the coach, the GM (John Hammond), the inconsistent stars (Jennings and Ellis) and a host of other players probably bound for the open market, the 2013 offseason will be as good a time as any for Bucks ownership to get serious about an honest-to-goodness rebuilding project.
Of which Skiles wouldn't likely be a part."Hide replies
"Either way... the 2013 offseason will be as good a time as any for Bucks ownership to get serious about an honest-to-goodness rebuilding project."
Again, I reiterate, "EITHER WAY".
Kinda makes this entire season a huge waste of time, doesn't it?
G00dNight from the Hawthorne Wingo II Show.
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