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John Bucchino calls Stephen Schwartz his best friend and Stephen Sondheim his mentor. So how come he's not a huge fan of musical theater?
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If you look at John Bucchino's web page, you're immediately struck by how, under "biography," he lists only the compositions he's written and recordings made of his songs and awards he's received. No date of birth, no hometown, no pet peeves. It's as if his life story can be expressed through his work alone.
And the thing is, Bucchino doesn't really disagree with that.
"I guess I do feel that way," he says with a sudden flash. "I figure on a website, it's not about me as a person but me as a songwriter. I do feel the work — especially It's Only Life and the albums — are incredibly open and incredibly vulnerable insights into me. Ninety percent of them are directly from experiences in my life. I'm so wrapped up in what I do — probably unhealthily so — but I'm perfectly open. I need to get those two things in a better balance."
In fact, doing so might make for a good song.
It's not as if Bucchino doesn't have a fascinating story of his own. One of the most respected composers of cabaret songs for more than two decades, he broke into Broadway with the acclaimed 2008 musical A Catered Affair, which wraps up its regional premiere at Theatre 3 Saturday. But that's hardly your last chance to experience Bucchino. On Nov. 17 — his birthday! — he'll perform his one-man show at Theatre 3, and the next day, previews of his revue It's Only Life begin in the Theatre Too space. It's a mini-festival of Bucchino in Uptown.
It's surprising — to Bucchino, especially — that he's become a staple of Theatre 3's schedule, since he personally never had much interest in musicals. Even today, while he numbers Stephen Sondheim as a mentor and calls Stephen Schwartz his best friend of 25 years (he even claims credit for getting Wicked made; more on that later), he doesn't really "get" lots of theater references. In fact, he never intended to be a composer at all.
"When I started writing songs, my goal was to be a singer-songwriter," he says. "I started out playing piano at age 1; it became my favorite toy and still is. I just started noodling around with songwriting, which naturally evolved out of playing piano in high school. I figured I'd be a [piano playing pop star] a la Elton John or Billy Joel. But noooobody was interested in me — they wouldn't give me the time of day. It wasn't on my radar that other people could sing my songs, but that's what took off."
His songs have been recorded by everyone from Barbara Cook ("It doesn't get better than Barbara Cook — her version of 'Sweet Dreams' just knocks my socks off. But her version of anything knocks my socks off"), Kristen Chenoweth, Audra MacDonald and Patti LuPone; he wrote the music for a children's book by Julie Andrews and her daughter; he calls Grateful probably his most important work. The song was also a watershed for him.
"It was Saturday. I was cleaning house and suddenly found myself at the piano playing the chorus for 'Grateful' and I just started to cry. But that's as far as it went for month. Then came the sweat of crafting these lyrics and bridge around this perfect chorus," he says.
Bucchino invited his friend Art Garfunkel over to listen to it and give feedback. As soon as it was over, Garfunkel said, "Don't give that to anyone else: It's mine."
"From that reaction, I knew something was going to happen with it," he says.
Still, his ascension to Broadway was a long one.
"I didn't really know about live theater. I kind of thought of pop songwriting as somehow cooler — theater writing as less complex and two dimensional," he says. "But Stephen Schwartz is the one who encouraged me to write for the theater."
How can a gay guy involved in music not be a theater queen? Bucchino seems unfazed by the idea. He says he "wasn't entirely unfamiliar with Stephen Sondheim" when Broadway's greatest composer-lyricist called to say he was "really excited by my work." But then came the pressure to produce something he wasn't wholly conversant in. "It became terrifying to write for musical theater, because all these lofty people were encouraging me."
A Catered Affair is his only show to open for a Broadway run, but his song cycles have been staples of regional theaters; Theatre 3's Terry Dobson has been an especially enthusiastic supporter. ("I'm still not a musical theater geek just because I've done it," he says.)
So how does he take responsibility for Wicked?
"Holly Near [for whom he has been a long-time accompanist] and I had gotten a gig to do a lesbian music festival on Maui. Stephen [Schwartz] was working on [the score for the animated film] Prince of Egypt in Los Angeles. I told him to come with me and we could hang out. He did. We were on a snorkeling trip with Holly and her partner and she said, 'I just read the most interesting book.'" It turned out to be Wicked. When she described it to Schwartz, he immediately saw the potential to become a musical. "So if I hadn't invited Stephen to vacation with us, it would never have happened!" Bucchino crows.
Bucchino acknowledges some have called his songs "not immediately hummable," but that's a good thing.
"That's because you haven't heard them before. I'd like to think that's a reflection of my unique voice. What I go for in my writing is surprising inevitability — a chord progression or turn of phrase that makes you say, 'I didn't expect it to go there but, gee! How satisfying.' I think the songs that are immediately memorable are derivative or formulaic in a way," he says.
He also strives for a timelessness of sentiment, which is why, although often recorded by gay artists, his songs are usually gender neutral.
"If you look at the love songs on the Grateful CD, because I had not come out or to terms with my sexuality, I just decided not to use pronouns. There are no 'he' or 'her,' but 'you.' Maybe that's a copout but also makes them more universal. We're all people — gay or straight, male or female, we all go through the same stuff. I'm trying to reach that commonality which transcends gender or sexual orientation. Sometimes I wish my art were more overlapping into commerce, but I'm happy doing what I do."
What's the word? Oh, right: Grateful.
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition November 11, 2011.


text: I can't argue with that statement; it is the current trend, and not the trend for every military on earth, or throughout history. But even so, many militaries did create regiments, and people joined that regiment, and moved up through that regiment, never transferring outside of it. Just as, in early days of sailing; many ships would hire on a crew, and then use that crew for the entire voyage, and only recrew after the voyage was over, and a new voyage was being set up. So, in that aspect, I would suspect that you wouldn't have crew transfers. But, I would argue, that most of the time, the reason why there wasn't transfers, was simply that it wasn't feasible to have them. In the early days of sailing, when a ship left port, it was impossible to change the crew, or have crew members transfer out; because there was no way to move the personnel around. Even so, I suspect, that some history buff will point out, that when ships passed each other from the same nation, that some people did transfer. Just as I suspect, that some officers would transfer from one Army regiment to another regiment, when they weren't engaged in hostile territory. The reason why today's military conducts transfers, is because it is possible to do so; and in the Star Trek universe, they have the capability, unless they are on a deep space mission, to conduct the transfers. Even Kirk, on his five year mission, went past star bases from time to time; I suspect to restock on redshirts….LOL I guess the bottom line; I can see both arguments; and although it may not be the best model for a deep space exploration in Star Trek, like Voyager; I think it would have be a good model to pursue in a show like DS9 or TNG.

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North Korea Reiterates Commitment to Building Nuclear Weapons
North Korea's state media on Sunday reiterated Pyongyang's commitment to building nuclear weapons, dousing limited hopes that the isolated state might engage in talks about its nuclear program under pressure from China.
North Korea's highest policy-making body also directed a harsh verbal attack on South Korean President Park Geun-hye, suggesting prospects for inter-Korean rapprochement remain grim despite a reported agreement from a senior North Korean official to resolve diplomatic standoffs through talks.
That official, Vice Marshal Choe Ryong Hae, returned to Pyongyang late Friday after handing a letter from Mr. Kim to Chinese President Xi Jinping. North Korea's account of the letter and conversation between Messrs. Choe and Xi, carried in its state media, referred only to building friendship between the nations and hopes for the success of the two nations under their respective leaders.
In contrast, Chinese media accounts noted Mr. Xi's desire for denuclearization on the Korean peninsula and dialogue to ease a standoff between North Korea and its rivals. Chinese state media also reported that Mr. Choe agreed to unspecified dialogue and the possible resumption of six-party talks, which were used until 2008 to seek North Korea's reversal of its nuclear program.
The reported comments by Mr. Choe contrast with the unequivocal stance of North Korea in recent months that it won't negotiate over its nuclear development. On Sunday, its state media carried a number of reports that emphasized North Korea's commitment to nuclear weapons.
North Korea's "measures for bolstering up [our] nuclear deterrent are an exercise of the legitimate right to defend the sovereignty of the country and the security of the nation," said Rodong Shinmun, the nation's main newspaper and mouthpiece of the Worker's Party, the Korean Central News Agency reported.
Analysts said the contradictory reports about North Korea's stance on its nuclear program reflect the tension in the relationship between Beijing and Pyongyang. While North Korea is desperate to maintain the support of its only major benefactor, it is also determined to gain general acceptance as a nuclear power.
Although China is unlikely to withdraw its support for the North Korean regime, Beijing remains troubled by the North's buildup of its weapons program and the response from South Korea and the U.S. in bolstering their own firepower in the region, analysts said.
"The North Koreans might be willing to make small concessions [to the Chinese] and even agree to remain calm for a while. But the nuclear issue is not negotiable. They are a nuclear power, and will remain as such," said Andrei Lankov, a North Korea expert at Kookmin University in Seoul.
In order to keep China's all-important aid and energy assistance flowing, North Korea could be open to some sort of bilateral dialogue, but that is likely to have little significance, said Yoo Ho-yeol, a North Korea specialist at Korea University in Seoul.
While the U.S. says it will only talk to North Korea if the North first shows it is prepared to meet previous commitments to denuclearize, South Korea's new leader, Ms. Park, has been seeking dialogue with the North for weeks to restart a jointly run industrial park and to coax the North into a gradual process of building better relations.
Those efforts have been met with firm rejection from the North, which frequently depicts a general conspiracy in the South to undermine its own leadership.
On Sunday, North Korean state media reported commentary from a spokesman for Pyongyang's top decision-making entity, the National Defense Commission, that represented some of the most aggressive criticism of Ms. Park from the North since she took office in February.
Ms. Park "has kicked up confrontation hysteria…through a spate of malignant invectives and sheer sophism since she was busy with a shameful presidential campaign," the report said.
"We will closely follow the future behavior of the present ruling quarters of south Korea, including Park Geun-hye," the report said, using a lowercase "s" in South because North Korea doesn't acknowledge South Korea as an independent country.


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In the News: West African lions nearing extinction
The report, by conservation group LionAid, says that as few as 645 lions may now remain in the wild in western and central Africa, following a worrying decline in recent years. This decline has been mirrored across Africa, with estimates suggesting that only around 15,000 wild lions remain across the whole continent, compared to about 200,000 a few decades ago. This iconic species is now extinct in 25 African countries, and virtually extinct in another 10.
"There has been a catastrophic decline in the populations of lions in Africa, and particularly west Africa," said Dr Pieter Kat, LionAid Trustee. "These lions have been neglected for a very long time and do not have adequate protection programmes. They are in real danger of extinction."
Lions under threat
The report follows a series of studies that have raised concern about the future of African lions. In one study, researchers found that about three-quarters of Africa's savanna habitats had disappeared over the last fifty years, and used this information to estimate the number of remaining lions, which they put at around 32,000. LionAid suggests that the real number of lions left in the wild is actually far lower, although calculating the species' exact population size is difficult.
"We put the figure... at around 25,000 lions, but whether you use these figures, the LionAid report or the Duke study, there is common agreement among everyone involved in conservation of African lions that the situation is extremely serious," said Will Travers, CEO of the Born Free Foundation.
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Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $12.6 billion, operating income of $2.5 billion, net income of $2.0 billion and EPS of $0.40. The company generated approximately $4.3 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $1.1 billion, and used $533 million to repurchase 25 million shares of stock. Our readers are mostly PC users, so it should be noted that the Intel PC Client Group had a revenue of $8.0 billion, down 6.6 percent sequentially and down 6.0 percent year-over-year.
Q1 Key Financial Information and Business Unit Trends
- PC Client Group revenue of $8.0 billion, down 6.6 percent sequentially and down 6.0 percent year-over-year.
- Data Center Group revenue of $2.6 billion, down 6.9 percent sequentially and up 7.5 percent year-over-year.
- Other Intel Architecture Group revenue of $1.0 billion, down 3.9 percent sequentially and down 9.0 percent year-over-year.
- Gross margin of 56 percent, down 2 percentage points sequentially and down 8 percentage points year-over-year.
- R&D plus MG&A spending of $4.5 billion, in line with the company's expectation of approximately $4.6 billion.
- Tax rate of 16 percent.
"Amidst market softness, Intel performed well in the first quarter and I'm excited about what lies ahead for the company," said Paul Otellini, Intel president and CEO. "We shipped our next generation PC microprocessors, introduced a new family of products for micro-servers and will ship our new tablet and smartphone microprocessors this quarter. We are working with our customers to introduce innovative new products across multiple operating systems. The transition to 14nm technology this year will significantly increase the value provided by Intel architecture and process technology for our customers and in the marketplace."


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Okay, the rest of this tr has been a LONG time coming, I've just been really busy and/or lazy to finish it, so here it is.
Day 7 -- Friday the 14th
Left the hotel at 11 for WWoS.
Yanks Game
It was a great game, but I really don't wanna talk about it, considering that my Jeter's out for AT LEAST 2-3 months all b/c of Huckaby and his attempt to cover 3rd base. We left WWoS at 3:30.
Animal Kingdom
We STILL hadn't seen the Mickey's Jammin' Jungle parade, so we headed there. Caught the parade at 4 and then left.
Went back to the hotel to chill for awhile, and then headed to DD to do some shopping. Ate at PH and went back to the hotel.
Day 8 -- Saturday the 15th
Woke up, left at 10 and parked at MGM to catch a bus to AS Movies.
AS Movies
My auntie works here, so we went to hang out there for awhile. Michael and Chelsy did some swimming while I hung out poolside to do some seriously needed tanning. We left around 1 for MGM.
My parents and the other 2 did Playhouse Disney, while I went on ToT for my last few rides of the trip. While waiting for my FP to kick in, I went on RnR and then stood in the standby line for ToT and got on. Then I went one it again b/c my FP had like 37 mins. left by the time I got off of ToT the first time, and got me another FP when I got off and got right back on it again! After my 3rd ride, I headed to MuppetVision and Star Tours, and for the hell of it, did the Backlot Tour. Then I saw WWTBAM and saw One Man's Dream one more time. Caught VotLM and then went to grab a seat for Fantasmic!
At the last min. we decided to go to Epcot for one last taco in Mexico. I hit TT and JIIwF and HIStA one last time and then we waited for Illuminations! to start. Saw that and then went back to the hotel to pack.
My WDW withdrawl began the second I got into the car.
Day 8 -- Sunday the 16th
We piled into the car and headed home.
Luckily, I had planned it just right and guess what was waiting for me when I got home: My WDW DVD!!!!! WHOOO HOO!!!!
All in all, it was a great trip. And I miss it so much that I'm actually heading to WDW today at 2pm for about 2 days (the rest of today, tmw, and until 2pm on Wed. b/c I gotta work.) and I can't be any happier! [/b]
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Leslie's Trip -- The End (FINALLY)
Posted 07 April 2003 - 12:03 PM
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Posted 07 April 2003 - 12:34 PM
Thanks for posting(finally) your trip report Les!
Posted 04 June 2003 - 08:14 AM
Great report
I was working Fantasmic that night
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Caught VotLM and then went to grab a seat for Fantasmic!
Caught VotLM and then went to grab a seat for Fantasmic!
I was working Fantasmic that night
Posted 04 June 2003 - 08:35 PM
lol really? We prolly passed by each other too!
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Jane Shuring is a Russellville native and daughter of long-time resident Duahn Walter and the late Herb Walter, former owner of Walter's Flowers and Gifts shop.
She had a long and successful career, despite obstacles of gender bias, as an airline pilot and has an unwaivering passion for flying. She makes her final flight captaining a Boeing 737 into Houston to mark her retirement from United-Continental Airlines on June 26.
Shuring played clarinet in the band and was a member of the summer swim team before she graduated from Russellville High School in 1966. She attended Arkansas Tech University until she left to take to the skies as a Continental flight attendant in 1969.
"I moved to Chicago and attended Northeastern Illinois University for a while," Shuring said. "I was going to be an English teacher."
"I was a flight attendant for Continental airlines while in college there. A friend told me there were openings to work in Guam as an attendant, so I transferred in 1972."
Shuring met her future husband in Guam. In 1975, they returned to the states and married. Her first son, Arend, was born three years later. They then returned to Guam for four more years.
"I still wanted to go to school," she said. "I attended classes to learn reading, writing and conversational skills in Japanese at the University of Guam. I remember most of what I learned and can still use the language now."
Shuring and her family moved to Houston in 1981, where her second son, Austin, and only daughter, Savannah, were later born. She worked as flight attendant until 1989.
Shuring took a leave of absence and started taking flying lessons in 1986 while working part-time as an attendant. Besides experiencing a rough ride during Continental's 1983 bankruptcy proceedings, Shuring also faced the looming obstacle of gender bias as many male pilots of the day were not supportive of women working in the cockpit.
"In 1983, when Continental had one of their bankruptcies, I was out of work," she said. " I returned spring of 1984 with a 60 percent reduction in pay. I knew I had to search for a new career.
"When I was at work one day the following year, I was watching the pilots do their checklists. A light bulb came on in my head, I thought maybe God was talking to me, and I knew I could do that job. I went up to the cockpit after take-off and I told the pilots I've decided to take flying lessons — I'm going to fly these airplanes one day.
Both pilots turned around and told Shuring that all flight attendants say that, but it's too hard, none make it into a pilot's seat.
"Three years later, I showed up at the airport in a different uniform," she said. "I ran into one of those pilots who had said it was too hard. He just looked at me and said, 'You did it.' I smiled and said, 'Yep, I did it.'"
Shuring has certifications in private, commercial, multi-engine, instrument, flight instructor, instrument flight instructor and multi-engine instructor. She, in a male dominated career, proved to all she had merit as a female pilot and a trainer of pilots.
Shuring recalled many challenges of being an airline pilot. She said she was fortunate to be at home during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and remembers watching the horror on television.
"It was surreal," she said. "I woke up that Tuesday and turned on the television. I watched it for five days — I saw it all. When the flying ban was lifted, I told my kids that I needed to go fly. I needed to be in an airplane.
"I picked up a turn around flight to Guatemala City and on descent to land the controller announced the airport was closed. Ironically, a small commuter plane had crashed off the end of the runway and we were diverted to San Salvador until the wreckage was cleared. We eventually flew safely to Guatemala, then returned to Houston."
There were plenty of opportunities to take advantage of the eerie but beautiful scenery at some destinations, she said.
"Flying in Micronesia had its own challenges and rewards," Shuring recalled. " We would fly into Rota, Saipan and Tinian. That is where the planes which dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki took off during World War II.
"We flew over the Truk Lagoon where many Japanese planes and ships were sunk. We would often fly there on days off and snorkel or scuba dive, 75 feet waters in some places, to see the wrecks."
Shuring and her family will make one final flight to signify her retirement. Shuring will pilot a 737 from San Fransisco to Houston on June 26. When the plane arrives, the airport's fire trucks will shoot water cannons on each side of the jet-liner to greet her. This celebratory tradition is referred to as the "Salute to the Captain."
"It seems like it all just started yesterday; it went by so fast" she said. "I decided on my goal and figured out a way to achieve it."
"I was blessed to have a career I loved. One where I could fly to San Fransisco and be back in time for my kid's soccer games in the afternoon."


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Ummmm....That whole 10% of your brain thing isn't true....Its a myth....Just like Columbus being the guy who figured the earth was round...
Every case of incest has ended up with offspring at a disadvantage either mental retardations, mongloids, and other various genetic disorders or learning disabilities. I can't believe you are actually sitting here..wanting to claim mankind in your view GOD's CREATION...would support incest.
Jesus did not exist either so its a moot point.
There is a reason no one in the bible gives an exact number of animals. The only reason it states two by two..is because the simpler primitive people knew of male and female...and just made the assumption it was one male one female of each animals...that's how they got two by two. They had knowledge of genetics and evolution as we do today.
Adam living to be 930? Thought he was supposed to surely die....MAKES GOD A LIAR DON'T IT??
Nothing wrong with scientists disagree about whom the common ancestor is...but they all agree there was one in the first place, PERIOD. Unlike what your trying to suggest with POP UP BOOK CREATIONISM.
I support Jehovah fulfilling his purposes in any ways he sees fit, because he is always righteous in his decisions. He cannot be anything less. And again, once his purpose was fulfilled, he gave the Israelites a law forbidding incest. So clearly it was not his eternal purpose that inbreeding continue, rather it shows that is how life was purposed to start.
This is stated in second Peter 3:8
8 However, let this one fact not be escaping YOUR notice, beloved ones, that one day( meaning one day of 24 hrs to us) is with Jehovah as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.
So this bible verse is saying that 1000 years of living to us is equal to 1 day of our lifetime to Jehovah. So if you could live to be one thousand years old, to Jehovah you have turned 1 day old. GET IT?
This would explain why ADAM CAN LIVE 930 YEARS OF LIFE ON EARTH AFTER GOD SENTENCED HIM TO DEATH, BECAUSE TO JEHOVAH, ADAM DIED WITHIN THE SAME DAY HE WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAD ADAM REACHED 1000 PLUS, JEHOVAH WOULD BE A LIAR. SINCE HE DIED 70 YEARS SHORT OF 1000, ADAM DIED RIGHT ON TIME!
And that means all that Jehovah had originally purposed for Adam still came true (procreation) Even though Adam was to die. Therefore Jehovah can still live up to his name which means in Hebrew HE WHO CAUSES TO BECOME.
That might be too heavy for a Guy of your superior mind, with all those degrees and all, but I tried to make it as simple as possible.
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You still haven't answered the question of how Adam and Eve, or two individuals of any species, could have created all of the humans and animals on earth. It's genetically impossible. It comes down to the lack of available genetic (chromosome) combinations. The only answers you've come up with are: they were really, really healthy (which doesn't apply and doesn't account for the animals on the arc) and God changed the rules at some point (total bullsh*t).
Do you see, the bible is not perfect or scientifically accurate. Your believing in impossible stories.
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Do not flatter yourself...that was a typo on my part. It was supposed to say...THEY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF EVOLUTION, WHICH IS WHY THEY AND YOURSELF BELIEVE THAT ENTIRE POPULATIONS CAN BE CREATED FROM TWO PEOPLE. WHICH IS GENETICALLY STUPID, INSANE, AND MORE DAMAGING TO ANYTHING ELSE.
NO NO NO...GOD said unto Adam eat from the tree and you will surely die....that's pretty damned specific. The very fact Adam lived for even one second after he at the fruit in the first place and did not DIE makes GOD A LIAR!! PERIOD!!
The scientists you quote that you say support creationism actually don't...because you only use partial quotations and since you have no comprehension for using the actual full on quotation just makes you a dishonest intellectual.
But we've learned you support INCEST, SO HEY.
Well if you take the I believe impossible stories approach, then I guess we're in the same boat, because the monkies to man story just somehow does not apply for me. You choose to believe what they have as proof, and I choose to disregard how a monkey of any kind could become a man.
The bible does not use genetics to explain how this all came about, so you won't get a scientifical answer on it. I try not to pull answers without the proof, and there is no real proof outside of the bible that the events of Adam and Eve and Noah took place.
However, I totally believe those things have taken place based on other infathomable truths in the bible such as prophecy. You can believe what you want about it, but when I see your version, I pray and thank Jehovah that he has granted his people the accurate understanding of his prophetic word, and that even if the world does not choose to see it, it is very plain to every eye looking, he has done just as he said he would.
The prophecy in the bible Gives Jehovah a track record. Science has failed just as much as it has succeeded. When I weigh one against the other it's not a contest.
Jehovah is 100 for 100 while science is at best 50/50. And I am being gracious.
This is the only argument you can hang your hat on. And the only reason you can is because the bible does not explain genetics and such, as it is just designed to help people understand why suffering goes on, who plays a part, and how they can come to know God. Every nook and cranny about science is really irrelavent in comparison.
But you fail miserably in every other facet, so I can understand why you hang for dear life on this topic
But hey, where do humans get their morals from? Explain that please. You have not done so yet.
Say I'm dishonest all you like, BUT CAN YOU LOOK AT A MONKEY AS SAY HELLO COUSIN, AND MEAN IT? LOL....
So, you admit, you CHOOSE to believe in impossible stories. You DON'T WANT to believe in evolution. Even though there is far more evidence for evolution (we've actually seen evolution occur in small species today!!) than there is for the bible. Again, wanting to believe in something and it being the truth are two different things.Well if you take the I believe impossible stories approach, then I guess we're in the same boat, because the monkies to man story just somehow does not apply for me. You choose to believe what they have as proof, and I choose to disregard how a monkey of any kind could become a man.
The bible does not use genetics to explain how this all came about, so you won't get a scientifical answer on it. I try not to pull answers without the proof, and there is no real proof outside of the bible that the events of Adam and Eve and Noah took place.
This even proves that Jesus was not the son of God. If he was, he would have known it was either impossible or it didn't happen and therefore would not have talked about it as truth.
Your so called accurate prophecies have been shredded multiple times. One of your favorites about the city of Tyre:
[I]"I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves. They will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations, and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army. He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you. He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons. His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the war horses, wagons and chariots when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. The hoofs of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea. I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more. I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I YAHWEH have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. " (Ezekiel Chapter 26 verse 3)[/I]
Tyre was supposed to be destroyed and never rebuilt. It was never destroyed. Today it is the 4th largest city in Lebanon having a population of approx 117,000 people. It is one of Lebanon's largest port cities.
You've claimed that it is a "place to spread fishnets" and therefore is a true prophecy. Hardly difficult to predict when it was already a port city on the Mediterranean Sea. Your whole prophecy relies on that alone. Plus Tyre was supposed to be conquered by Nebuchadnezzar. He was never able to do so.
And the Alexander the Great prophecy is hardly a prophecy since it was written after it occurred to make it seem like a true prophecy.
Plus, in Daniel, after Alexander the Great in Chapter 11 doesn't explain that in response to Antiochus' defilement of the temple and insults against religion, Michael, the archangel, would bring about the end of the world and the raising of the dead. Well, obviously the world hasn't ended.
100 for 100. Hardly not. More like 0 for 100.
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It's simple. From the rule of law. When the rule of law is gone, even the most religious people lose their morals.
Chimpanzees also show many of the same emotions and feelings we have. They are self aware too.
My dog knows when he's done something bad before I punish him. God didn't give him this, I instructed him what was bad.
But you want to believe a spooky invisible man gave it to us. LOL
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What I said is if I do believe in impossible stories, you surely do as well, and are worse off imo. Which is essentially the argument in reverse of course, that Carl Sagan has against creationalism that you call me a liar for. Same reasoning.
1st corinthians 3:18 Let no one be seducing himself: If anyone among YOU thinks he is wise in this system of things, let him become a fool, that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God; for it is written: He catches the wise in their own cunning. 20 And again: Jehovah knows that the reasonings of the wise men are futile.
Your wisdom is far beneath Jehovah's, this is why you don't understand what you read, you are trying to be wiser than the wisdom giver! Not good.
"This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah has said, Here I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up against you many nations, just as the sea brings up its waves. And they will certainly bring the walls of Tyre to ruin and tear down her towers, and I will scrape her dust away from her and make her a shining, bare surface of a crag. A drying yard for dragnets is what she will become in the midst of the sea. . . . Here I am bringing against Tyre Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon from the north, a king of kings, with horses and war chariots and cavalrymen and a congregation, even a multitudinous people. And I will make you a shining, bare surface of a crag. A drying yard for dragnets is what you will become. Never will you be rebuilt; for I myself, Jehovah, have spoken, is the utterance of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah."Ezek. 26:3-5, 7, 14.
Now clearly what you are failing to take into account is the MANY NATIONS PART OF THE PROPHECY. Jehovah said he was bringing many nations. That would clearly mean more than 1. If he had stopped at Nebuchadnezzar, then it would not have been many nations, plural, but one, singular. THAT WOULD HAVE INDEED MADE THE PROPHECY FALSE, RATHER THAN TRUE. THAT IS, IF YOU HAVE PROPER RENDERING OF COURSE LETS READ WHAT SECULAR HISTORY REPORTS.
Secular history reports that Nebuchadnezzar began a siege of Tyre sometime after destroying Jerusalem and the temple of Jehovahs worship in 607 B.C.E. The Jewish historian Josephus, drawing upon Phoenician annals and other previously written history, states that Nebuchadnezzars siege against Tyre lasted thirteen years. The Bible indicates that Nebuchadnezzars forces inflicted considerable damage upon Tyre.Ezek. 26:8-11.
Tyre recovered from this blow struck by Babylon.
However, centuries later, Grecian forces under Alexander the Great moved against Tyre, which at that time was located on an island about half a mile (0.8 kilometer) from the mainland. When the inhabitants refused to capitulate to Alexander, he became enraged and had his men scrape up the ruins of the mainland city and throw them into the sea, thus building a causeway out to the island city. Then a sea battle took place in which Alexanders forces prevailed. After a siege of seven months, Alexanders men took the island city. When its inhabitants put up desperate resistance, the city was set on fire. It proved to be as another prophet, Zechariah, had foretold: "In the fire she herself will be devoured."Zech. 9:4 Look! Jehovah himself will dispossess her, and into the sea he will certainly strike down her military force; and in the fire she herself will be devoured
Now, it is notable to pay attention to the emboldened verses. First, we have another nation attacking Tyre. Just as Jehovah said would happen, that you apparently seemed to miss being wise in your own cunning. Secondly, Alexanders men scraped up the ruins from the now destroyed mainland that Babylon destroyed! Just like Jehovah said would happen! Alexander went on to destroy the island city of Tyre, the place the Tyrians took refuge in when they fled Babylonian armies, during the 13 year siege. But take into how precise the detail of the prophecy was fulfilled, here military force was struck down at sea, and when the inhabitants on land put up resistance, the city was literally lit on fire!!! HOW MUCH PROOF WOULD ONE NEED? ZECHARIAH WROTE THIS LONG B EFORE GREECE WAS A POWER! Now would that be the end of the Nations pummeling Tyre? secular history again says..
Though Tyre kept trying to make a comeback through the centuries, the city repeatedly fell before hostile forces, just as Gods prophet had foretold. (Ezek. 26:3) What is the present condition of Tyre, which was one of the great sea powers of the ancient world? Ruins and a small seaport, called Sour (Sur), mark the site. Nina Jidejian, in her book Tyre Through the Ages (1969), declares: "The port has become a haven today for fishing boats and a place for spreading nets," exactly as prophesied through Ezekiel.Ezek. 26:5, 14.
So Tyre went from a worldwide great sea power, to a nation pummeled by nations, to being ruins and a small seaport. And you say it has been rebuilt? HAS IT? Do you think Tyre can withstand 13 years of seige from the US? Hope not. You call it how you see it.
I'll see it for what it is, a place of ruins Jehovah has allowed to exist to make it a drying place for fishnets, to prove that whatever he wills, must take place. Prophecy.
0 for 100? lol. k.
Morals do not come from GOD. I'll explain this tomorrow using the smallest word I can find to explain why morals coming from GOD can't possibly be correct, and the alleged one's that did from scripture are completely asinine.
More power to you though.
For a true Christian, there is no such thing as no rule of Law. Our law Giver has never left us without law. So those who don't follow him are not truly his people. Very simple.
Just because we are similar does not mean we come from them.
So the question remains, who gave people morals? Someone had to do for us what you have done for your dog, correct? If you don't have a beter answer than rule of law, can I say as you like to say, that's bs?
Explain the Conscience? Why do we all have one? Could it be that the Law giver of humans inbedded it in us to help us abide in law? And if we evolved, what part of evolution accounted for this part of us?
Will you get the last laugh, or Jehovah?


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First of all, I would like to say that I am a proud supporter of the statewide GOP ticket of Ken Cuccinelli, E.W. Jackson and Mark Obenshain. It is quite refreshing to have the opportunity to vote for some true conservatives. In far too many elections, as was the case in last year's presidential election, we are stuck with choosing between a far left liberal and a mushy middler.
But I am concerned about the direction of the campaign so far. Cuccinelli has been allowing his opponent, Terry McAuliffe, to play the ridiculous "I'm a moderate, Cuccinelli's an extremist" card. And this has had a somewhat adverse effect on Cuccinelli in the early polls.
It seems to me that Cuccinelli is missing a great opportunity here. He should be making this election a referendum on Obamacare, much in the way that Jim Gilmore successfully turned the 1997 gubernatorial election into a referendum on the car tax.
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SALT LAKE CITY – Sophomore outside hitter Chelsey Schofield turned in a match-high 15 kills on a season-high .448 hitting percentage to help the University of Utah volleyball team sweep Nevada, 3-0 (25-18, 25-15, 25-14) and clinch the Utah Classic title in its final non-conference match of the regular season at Crimson Court on Friday.
Utah (9-4) earned its third straight win after earning a .450 to .050 advantage in team hitting percentage. The Utes' previous high mark for hitting percentage in a match was .359 at UC Davis on Aug. 31.
The Utes held an 11.0 to 1.0 edge in team blocking over the Wolf Pack.
"We finally started blocking some balls and playing defense behind it," Utah head coach Beth Launiere said. "We were a lot more in control. We talked about keeping it clean on our side of the net and I think we improved on that as the day went on."
The Utes swept all three matches of their Utah Classic matches with 3-0 victories over Utah Valley, Cal Poly and Nevada.
"Like I told the team, it wasn't about who was across the net from us, it was about us getting better at the things we worked on this week in practice," Launiere said. "And that is what we did. We played pretty good volleyball and executed on the things we were working on."
Schofield took 29 swings and only committed a pair of errors for her 15 kills to record a season-high .448 hitting percentage.
Junior outside hitter Morgan Odale was the only other player in the match who hit double digits in kills as she collected 12 on 18 swings and only one miscue for a season-high .611 efficiency on the attack. The Star, Idaho, native recorded her third double-figure-kill match out of her last four outings and her sixth in 2012. She also tied for team-high honors with six digs.
"Obviously, Chelsea and Morgan had big matches tonight," Launiere said. "Our middles had good numbers for both matches today. Overall, all of our hitters were pretty good."
Junior middle blocker Erin Redd contributed eight kills on 11 attempts with a pair of errors for a .545 clip. She was Utah's most effective server throughout the match as she tied her career-high for the third time with three aces, all in the first set against Nevada. The last instance came at against Washington State on Oct. 7, 2011 at Crimson Court.
Setters Kendall Cygan and McKenzie Odale totaled 37 assists in the match as Cygan posted 20 and Odale dished out 17.
Sophomore middle blocker Bailey Bateman posted a match-high six blocks against the Wolf Pack, the 10th time this season she has tied or led the Utes in blocking. In the back row, junior libero Nikki Sim tied Morgan Odale for the team lead with six digs.
The Utes took four of the first five points of the match and extended their lead to as many as many as six, the last time coming at 13-7, before a 6-1 stretch by Nevada brought the Wolf Pack to within a point, 14-13. Nevada was within a point on three more occasions before a crucial run of six consecutive Ute points gave them a 23-16 edge on the way to a 25-18 first-set win. Schofield had five kills and Bateman had three blocks as Utah hit a blistering .538 in the opening-set victory.
Utah got off to strong start in the second frame by scoring the first four points of the set, but Nevada answered with a 3-0 stretch to pull within one score. The Utes would regain its three-point edge at 8-5 before going on assume a seven-point lead at 16-9, a run that included three straight aces by Redd. Utah would lead by no fewer than five points the rest of the way and would eventually come away with a 25-15 win to take a 2-0 lead in the match. Morgan Odale went for seven kills on eight swings without an error in the second set for a .875 hitting percentage to help the Utes to a .357 to -.042 advantage in team hitting. Utah also picked up a 3.5 to 1.0 edge in team blocking over the Wolf Pack.
The Utes earned another quick start in the third frame as they claimed an early 3-1 edge. Utah then managed to gain a seven-point lead at 11-4 after putting together a 6-0 stretch.
Nevada (1-10) was led by a match-high eight digs from Kelly Chang.
The Utes begin Pac-12 Conference competition on Wednesday at Colorado. First serve from the Coors Events Center is set for 8 p.m. MT. The match will be televised live on the Pac-12 Network with Chris Marlowe (play-by-play) and Amy Gant (analyst) calling the action. In Salt Lake City, Pac-12 Networks is carried on Comcast. Pac-12 Mountain is channel 37, the national Pac-12 Network is channel 410 and Pac-12 Mountain HD is channel 757.


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For eight years, Gov. Jeb Bush and the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature have been largely unchecked while advancing a conservative agenda in areas such as standardized testing in public schools, tax cuts and the privatization of government services. Now it is time to restore some measure of political and ideological balance in Tallahassee. In our judgment, that goal can be best accomplished by electing Jim Davis as governor.
Both Davis and Charlie Crist are from Tampa Bay, and we know them well. They are decent, ethical men whose strengths and shortcomings are familiar to us. At times, each has been underestimated. Neither possesses Bush's political skills or penchant for pursuing big ideas. Both would be more receptive to suggestions from outside their inner circles and more open to compromise than the outgoing governor.
Davis best reflects Florida's mainstream values. Over eight years in the state House and a decade in Congress, he has methodically built a centrist record of supporting available and affordable health care, protecting the environment and improving public education. The 49-year-old Tampa Democrat has never been among the most partisan or the most vocal, and he is more comfortable working behind the scenes than grabbing headlines. But do not mistake his low-key approach for a lack of determination. In Tallahassee, he helped persuade his colleagues to ban fundraising during the legislative session. He first ran for Congress as an underdog in a crowded Democratic primary and won against several better-known opponents. And in Washington, he fought hard against those who wanted to drill off Florida's coast and intervene in the Terri Schiavo feeding tube controversy. While we did not recommend him in the Democratic primary for governor, Davis impressed us by aggressively responding to millions of dollars in negative, sometimes misleading attack ads by the sugar industry.
Looking ahead, Florida faces serious challenges even if it manages to avoid a major hurricane in the next year or two. On the most pressing issues, Davis has the more thoughtful approach.
The Democrat has a reasoned plan to restructure the way Florida measures the performance of its schools. The obsession with standardized testing and grading schools has frustrated many teachers and parents. Davis would transform the FCAT into a diagnostic tool instead of a punishing club by abolishing the letter grades that simplistically label schools. Students would get their FCAT tests back, along with study guides to help them address their weaknesses. And Davis would add more variables when evaluating a school, including parental involvement, school discipline and graduation rates. While both Davis and Crist would raise teacher salaries, Crist is a strong supporter of the current FCAT testing. It's encouraging that the former education commissioner is open to fine-tuning the system, but he has not offered specifics.
Similarly, Davis has the most thorough response to concerns about high taxes driven by soaring real estate prices and the inherent inequities created by Save Our Homes. Davis would reduce state-required school property taxes by $1-billion next year and stop the state from continuing to shift its financial obligations onto the backs of local property owners. He would cap assessment increases at 10 percent for owners of businesses and investment properties, the taxpayers who are suffering the most. That offers reasonable relief until there is a broader overhaul of the tax system.
In contrast, Crist would not do anything immediately for business owners or owners of investment properties. He wants to allow counties to double the $25,000 homestead exemption, and he would let homeowners take their Save Our Homes tax break with them if they move. Doubling the homestead could force cuts in services by local governments, and making the Save Our Homes tax break portable only exacerbates its unfairness. These ideas have little support even among other Republicans.
Neither candidate has the perfect solution for solving the property insurance crisis. Davis offers a more creative approach to spread the risk by requiring all policyholders to pay part of their premium into a state fund that would cover hurricane damages. The governor and Cabinet would determine the coverage limits; private insurers would keep a portion of the premium to cover other risks and process all claims. This is an intriguing concept, but it would require more analysis of the potential financial risk to the state and to taxpayers. Crist supports a widely accepted plan to make it easier for insurers to tap into the Hurricane Catastrophe Fund for reinsurance, but that might not be enough to ease the crisis. His proposal to force auto insurers who sell homeowners coverage in other states to sell it in Florida is a nice sound bite, but it might not be legal and it could create new problems with auto insurance.
Crist has grown as a leader since he drew attention as a state senator a decade ago by promoting the return of prison chain gangs. His willingness to consider ideas generated by others and to reconsider his positions can be refreshing. For example, he recently said he now supports the automatic restoration of civil rights for convicted felons. But his political agility also can be frustrating. As attorney general, he remained silent during the Schiavo controversy and this year's insurance debate in the Legislature. As a candidate for governor, he now says he disagreed with Bush and Republican lawmakers who attempted to intervene in the Schiavo case. He said last week he probably would have vetoed the insurance bill that Bush signed into law, then backed off a day later.
The 50-year-old St. Petersburg Republican has an appealing populist streak, and he does not get bogged down in divisive social issues such as abortion and gay marriage. He exceeded expectations as attorney general, hiring good people, fighting utility rate increases and persuading the Legislature to expand the office's authority to pursue civil rights violations. While Crist has an approachable style that is appealing, his eagerness to please everyone could be a handicap as the state faces harder choices.
Our decision in this race did not come easily, and the general election campaign has not been nearly as substantive or engaging as we had hoped. What is clear is that Florida is more moderate than the rhetoric and policies coming from the Republican-controlled state capital often suggest. The state's most immediate challenges demand solutions that are more pragmatic than partisan or ideological, and finding those answers will require a governor who can provide some political balance in Tallahassee.
Davis offers the best opportunity to steer state government back toward the middle and the most substantive approach to addressing the pressing issues facing Florida. In a close call between two public servants from Tampa Bay, the Times recommends Jim Davis for governor.
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He obviously wouldn't preach iso after iso, but you can tell how average (or less) of an offensive coach Casey is. Whenever the offense breaks down, the tendency to run the iso/p-&-r is almost 100%. Which is telling that Casey has poor adjustment methods to how a defense is playing the team.
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I'm watching the magic game and their offense looks better than ours. Much more drive and kicks, we need more of that. Then from that kick you swing the ball to get open drives and shots.
Watching the spurs is just incredible, probably gives all coaches in the NBA an Erection watching that oiled machine working.
It may not necessarily be the coach failing to drill the concepts of the different hot spots for penetration (ie. free throw line extended & corner of the backboard, etc.) & the idea that one big flashes high as the other big rolls down the middle. There is a definite imbalance caused by the nature of the roster & the small ball concept accentuates this imbalance.
I can't blame the coach fully because I have seen better ball movement & effective pinch post action with Demar & Boss Davis as well as the high low action with Ed and Amir back when Ed & Jose were still on the team.
So that leads me to question .... why is our ball movement awful since the trade?
#1 - Rudy Gay
Gay is ball dominant & when you have a player who uses up 25% + of play calls, you can bet that any semblance of ball movement is gone. Additionally, he's not the strongest pick and roll player because his tendency is to half ass going off a screen, call for a clear out, then isolate.
#2 - The Small Ball Approach
Naturally, a perimeter player have certain tendencies on the court that is different from a big guy. Therefore, when you spend 30 - 40% of the game with a small ball line-up, there is an imbalance created due to different tendencies of your players. Simply put, you cannot ask Rudy Gay or Alan Anderson to do the things that Ed Davis excelled at (presenting himself in the paint, flash high when Amir rolls down) because they are not programmed to do this.
#3 - The Kyle Lowry Effect
For all of Jose's shortcomings, he did excel at is delivering crisp passes in the shooting pocket, hitting the big man rolling & using screens properly. Lowry is not Jose .... He fails at making quick reads, the quality of his lead passes are not the same & he is usually too short to make passes in tight spaces.
Therefore, if you ask Lowry to make smart reads and be a facilitator, your offense will not run as smoothly as Jose's line-up. To hide this weakness then, you need another guy on the court to shoulder the facilitating. The Raptors, as it stands right now, do not have this next player.
I can see potential in JV orchestrating from the high post, but in terms of perimeter players, ANDERSON - GAY - DEROZAN - LUCAS - ROSS - FIELDS are not necessarily creative ball handlers where you can demand facilitating responsibilities.
#4 - Roster Imbalance
We have too many chuckers in this roster and not enough play makers that stems from the lead guard position to the wings to the front line.
Adding it all up, running a "read and react" offense with a faulty point guard as your facilitator (since he can'r get into the offense fast enough), asking your wing player to assume the responsibilities of a big man & having an avalanche of shooting guards in your line-up (with Gay dominating the basketball 25% of the time), what you get is offensive breakdowns & lots of it. The team then defaults to what their natural tendencies dictate -- shooting.
I believe Tom Sterner talked about this when he was assessing what was up with Terrence Ross. He said that when Ross gets into stressful situations, his natural tendency is to shoot. Now, multiply that by 3 at a time (given a small ball line-up) & you have 3 players whose instincts suggest "shoot" -- never a good recipe for success.
To conclude it all, I believe that what we see as on court performance is simply a product of the imbalance this roster really has. That is ALL on Colangelo. He has built a roster where players don't compliment each other & whose skills overlap each other. However, I do not condone everything Casey has done thus far, but I simply cannot place ALL of the blame on him.
Casey has shown the ability to adjust his philosophy depending on his personnel but I do think he caters and encourages isolation basketball simply because he doesn't talk about offensive schemes/strategies enough. His rotations are another thing, but it's like being asked to pick what flavor of ice cream you want as part of your 3 scoops when all of the selections in front of you is vanilla.
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I put the blame more on coangelo than casey. The ball doesn't move because we don't have players who could move it. If you sub out Lowry and sub in JLIII... if you sub out derozan and sub in anderson... if you sub out amir and you sub in andrea...
You can't glue a guy to the bench when his replacement is going to make the same mistakes, except faster and more frequently. I really don't think Casey is the issue, and I'd like to see what he does next year with this squad. I really think it's a personnel issue rather than a coaching issue, and that falls on bryan. If only he could have managed to get rid of bargnani in the gay deal instead of Davis, and we'd have made the playoffs this year.
Edit: of course if we could have traded calderon+bargs for Lebron, we would also have made the playoffs, I'm assuming BC tried to swap bargs instead of Davis but memphis wouldn't bite.
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"They're going to have to rename the whole conference after us: Toronto Raptors 2014-2015 Northern Conference Champions" ~ ezzbee Dec. 2014
"I guess I got a little carried away there" ~ ezzbee Apr. 2015
"We only have one rule on this team. What is that rule? E.L.E. That's right's, E.L.E, and what does E.L.E. stand for? EVERYBODY LOVE EVERYBODY. Right there up on the wall, because this isn't just a basketball team, this is a lifestyle. ~ Jackie Moon
I don't think you can blame the lack of ball movement on individual players (Gay, Lowry). I mean, seriously, even the knicks share the ball, and they are full of cocky ball dominant players. Melo and JR share the ball because its how their offense is run
You simply rarely have time to run another play if your first doesn't work - resulting in quick response. Thats not Casey's fault, thats the fault of the shot clock.
The Raptor's problem is they don't have players who are good enough to run the plays (or allow plays to run) efficiently or effectively (they make bad choices, shot instead instead, don't have the skills necessary to keep opponents honest, don't execute etc). Resulting in missed plays and breakdowns - which either effectively become isos or result in isos.
So what does Casey do now? Go to bench guys who who are generally the same but less effective? Even if he does, how does Colangelo react to that? He's hardly been pleased when 'his guys' (see: 'his investments') don't see the floor.
Exactly. A coach can only work with what he has - and when you have a team that either doesn't or can't effectively move the ball you aren't going to get good ball movement.I put the blame more on coangelo than casey. The ball doesn't move because we don't have players who could move it.
The spurs were brought up, and they are a great example of this. There is a world of difference between Parker/Ginobli/Duncan's ability (and willingness) to pass the ball vs Lowry/Derozan/Gay (and previously Bargnani). People may love Pop, but that offense is so good because they have players that are extremely good offensively. Not just in their ability to score efficiently, but in their effectiveness and willingess to pass the ball, and to make good decisions on the fly.
And this is why we see over and over again, the quality of a coach is dependant on the quality of the team's players. With only the rarest of exceptions (ex. Jerry Sloan)
Talent wins in the NBA. But people confuse what 'talent' really is. Its not just the ability to run fast, jump high or a desire to shoot the ball. Its also the ability to make good decisions with the ball, and execute those decisions effectively. Its the willingess to humble oneself and finish plays instead of just taking a shot along the way. Or to pass up your shot for a teammate who has a better shot. And then ofcourse execute that (actually make a good pass). (Thats not even getting into off the ball 'talents')
This is why Jose always made alot of sense on this team. His 'talents' didn't overlap with everyone else's 'talents'. He was a good decision maker, a good passer and a good shooter. Yet didn't need to be the guy who finished the play. As opposed to Lowry who is a worse decision maker, but a good penetrator and shooter (among other things). However he is also a guy who needs to be the one to finish the play to be at his best - which overlaps with Gay, Derozan and Bargnani.
This isn't to accuse or blame Lowry for anything either. He is who he is, and I think it makes alot more sense to use him more often - but that means alot less usage out of those other players. But then they become less effective as players as thats where their strengths (and I use this relatively) lay aswell. (Derozan and Bargs basically becoming useless without the ball in their hands).
Colangelo has effectively given Casey certain players to use, players whose sum are worse than their parts. Its been big investments in a bunch of guys on offense who want to shoot, either don't or can't pass well, and are questionable (or atleast inconsistent) decision makers.
Instead Casey gets blamed for not 'getting the most out of them'. But how do you expect to get guys who don't want to and can't pass the ball, to suddenly pass the ball and pass it well? To get guys who can't shoot well, to shoot well? To get guys who make bad decisions to make good ones? And then after all that, to be limited in who you use to those very same guys? These are established NBA players with known abilities and limitations we are talking about.
At the most basic level its becomes Casey's fault for not being one of the rare coaches in the history of the league who makes his players better by phenominal play calling and/or have the freedom to make decisions? This is the history of Raptors and its coachs. They take the fall for Colangelo building incomplete (at times incompetent) teams, while wanting his investments and his assets to be the guys on the floor. And when the coach tries to use players more effectively they get fired or the players they'd rather use get traded. This is nothing but a team built on an ego trip - whose results are product of that same failed ego trip.
This is Colangelo's team. And its a team built upon mistake after mistake in decision making, team building, quality of talent, lack of patiences and where he makes his investments. Period.
While there are talented players here, those talents overlaps in some areas and are (effectively) non-existent in others. And the players who should be moved to eliminate that overlap and fill the gaps, either don't hold value (Bargnani) and/or are still part of Colangelo's ego trip (Derozan). Then the cap crippling contracts + wasted resources (picks) Colangelo so willingly pays (see previous names + Gay) and gives away (Lowry trade) make it even tougher to get players to fill the gaps. Thats not even getting into the players who are needed are tough to find (a good passing, shooting, rebounding big man and/or a good shooting, passing, defending wing). And the one player who could fill a gap atleast partially (Ross - a good shooting defensive wing to replace Derozan) can't find minutes because of the 'core' players Colangelo collected, and thats assuming he can improve enough to be an effective starter. AND I'm assuming Jonas improves enough aswell.
The bold part though: I am not aware of many guys who made the NBA without the ability to pass or cut - including current Raptors. The San Antonio example is interesting as you highlight their big 3 but the Spurs have routinely (and to the ire of Stern) sat their big 3 during stretches of 4 games in 5 nights or 5 in 7 and towards the end of season. When the less talented guys come on the same sets are ran and the Spurs remain extremely competitive (4 starters nearly beating HEAT earlier in season for example). I don't think off ball movement and quicker passing is something that is above NBA players head. I also don't think Casey is teaching these concepts or incorporating them in his sets.
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There really isn't much to say....I'll say what I've been saying for a while now.
As long as BC is still in charge...I HAVE NO FAITH in this team. How can a reasonable fan still believe in this guy? His results from the past 5 years screams FIRE ME! I hope MLSE sees through his desperate attempts to save his job and lets him go. Good riddance!
Trade/amnesty bargs and lets finally move on. The rest of the pieces (players) seem salvageable.
Anyways, I agree with your response on Colangelo running this team sub-par, and not being able to get A LOT. Ex: Derozan contract, Bargnani, Fields poison pill, etc.
My original point though with the breakdown of the play, is the fact that the team doesn't adjust. They just refuse to (relying on coach to make some changes). I personally think it's up to the coach to put or create a system if he wants the team to move the ball if things don't happen.
They run plays off down screens, as the point guard waits for the runner to come off. Or maybe a high pick-&-roll on the high side, and if it doesn't happen (or player doesn't turn corner - big man/players aren't open), they reverse it to the weak side, and they wait for another screen to come. If the defense shuts down, they don't do anything differently, they become predictable!
Which is another reason they go back to isolation, they rely on one guy to weave, and slice, and dice to become unpredictable, or to open up lanes via driving (which is really what they should originally do, drive, swing, swing, shot).
Which goes back to your "overlapping of talent" point. Jose fits better in this current system, because he's much better creating shots for others instead of having to run a dribble drive system, where the ball swings, and swings, and swings from a player initially penetrating until an open shot is available (most systems this way are fairly successful i.e Denver, Miami, SA, Boston [without Rondo], New York).
I sub-agree with this, but when the system is being ran, it's usually what I call a "ball-stopping" set. The players stays put, and waits, dribbles, waits, dribbles until something opens up. I definitely feel like the players are more than capable of moving the ball, heck, they probably are willing too, but it's the initial setup that predicts what they would like to do. Than there is always an opportunity to swing that ball, which goes back to your "players' willingness to pass".I put the blame more on colangelo than casey. The ball doesn't move because we don't have players who could move it.
"Okay, I'll come off the screen, and see if the big guy rolls. If not, I might be open, if neither doesn't work, I'll let the other guy do it, or maybe I'll have to run an iso depending on the clock."
My point? It's just as much the coach's fault it is the player's fault for not being able to run/adjust a set that counters the opposition's defense. It's up to the coach to MAKE IT WORK, rather than rely on office to get it to work.
An example of this, is the regression on the defensive end. I don't think there is anyone here that can argue how Casey approached this season.
He basically assumed the defense would stay the same (bad way to do that, especially relying your defensive identity on Derozan, Calderon and Bargnani - the key players of the previous season [obviously we all know they're poor defensive players]) and emphasized the offensive end. He was not consistent in his approach, which lead to Toronto being an average offensive team, and once again, a poor defensive team.
This team is SO much more capable than the previous season's team on the defensive end, and for sure more talented on the offensive end, but barely any improvement...
So, to summarize. The players did not live up to their expectations, Casey is a poor x's and o's coach (can't adjust, can't work WITH his team, and JESUS CHRIST his rotations are absolutely awful) and Bryan Colangelo has put in another wasted year of false hope and meaningless wins.
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text: Yesterday, while Carol and I were working on our quilts, she showed me a Cathedrial Window quilt she had started. I have always loved those quilts, but always figured they were much too difficult for my level of quilting. Then, she showed me how they are done... and I was hooked! We went right away to town (30 minutes away), in the drifting snow, and I got the stuff for my quilt. I will post pics as soon as I can. I can't wait for this one to be finished!! I already have my colors picked out


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BERLIN — More concerns surfaced this week regarding the lack of lighting in the Decatur Farms community in Berlin, resulting in the Mayor and Town Council promising to improve a situation complicated by pending litigation between developers.
"Several homeowners have come to us expressing concerns," said Kelly Soscia, president of Decatur Farms Townhome Association, at Monday's Council meeting.
The insufficient lighting has led to other issues such as vandalism and suspicious characters, according to Soscia.
"We've had an incident of vandalism where a homeowner has replaced their car … We've had windows that were broken, birdfeeders that have been shot out," she said. "We've had a home that was broken into that is currently in foreclosure."
Even more disconcerting were a few sightings of unknown or suspicious people in the neighborhood.
"We had an incident when a homeowner's fiancé was followed home by a gentleman while she was walking her dog," said Soscia.
There have been lighting issues at Decatur Farms since it was developed. The fight for more lights has been sidelined, however, by an ongoing court battle. While Berlin isn't involved in that litigation, Mayor Gee Williams was frank in saying that it does present an obstacle in keeping the town from lending a hand.
Complications aside, Williams promised Soscia that the council makes safety a priority in Berlin and will do everything to extend that to Decatur Farms.
"We'll take a very serious look at this. I know that the reason we have so much lighting in all neighborhoods is purely for this, for safety," he said.
The mayor also took a shot at the companies "who prefer to spend more time in court than they do talking" and allow litigation to stall a promise to install new lighting. He asked that Town Administrator Tony Carson and Town Attorney Dave Gaskill examine the situation to see what options the council has for helping Decatur Farms. The goal, said Williams, is to have something in place by the next daylight savings change in the fall.
Until more lighting can be added, Councilwoman Lisa Hall suggested that the BPD make extra trips to the development. Chief Arnold Downing agreed that it would be easy to do but told the council that the department already maintains a strong presence in the area.


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By Milton
Fall is around the corner and with a new season, some changes in our wardrobe are required. As I said before, sometimes spending money in a new wardrobe is not necessary. With some creativity you can transform pieces you already own or create new ones and accessories are one of the easiest. An outfit can go from boring to breathtaking just by selecting the right accessories. This time I'll show you how to make a necklace that you will often see in magazines and stores a lot this season. Why buy it when you can make your own unique version of it?
1 yard of 50mm Midori Gala Dupioni Silk Ribbon (the color I used was Pin Moon
- 1 strand of 14mm Baroque Pearls ( #41520)
- Scissors
- Straight pins
- Thread and needle or a sewing machine
How to:
First fold the ribbon in half and pin it along the edge.
Sew the two edges together which will create a tube.
Turn it inside out. You need to be patient in this step, since turning the tube inside out may take you a few minutes. You can use a chopstick to push the ribbon thru. You can also use a safety pin or a paper clip.
Now you can start putting the pearls inside the tube, make knots on the sides of it to make it stay in place.
I used about 9 pearls for this necklace, but you can do as many as you wish. Just make sure that if you do more pearls you have some extra ribbon, so you still have enough at the end to tie a knot. You can also do different variations of this necklace, by using more than one size of pearls or leaving more space in between. Use your creativity and specially have lots of fun!


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Bautista busts slump with style, lifts Blue Jays
BOSTON -- Maybe it was all about the pants.
In the midst of a slump that saw Jose Bautista hit .182 with seven extra-base hits in June, the slugger decided to make a change.Full Game Coverage
BOSTON -- Maybe it was all about the pants.
In the midst of a slump that saw Jose Bautista hit .182 with seven extra-base hits in June, the slugger decided to make a change.Full Game Coverage
He hiked up his socks, and because none of his trousers fit the new style, he borrowed a pair of pitcher R.A. Dickey's pants on Saturday before taking on the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
After hitting two home runs and throwing a player out at the plate in the Blue Jays' 6-2 win over Boston, don't expect the style to go anywhere soon.
So much for a slump.
His second blast of the game, which came on a 2-1 pitch from Junichi Tazawa, broke a 2-2 tie in the eighth inning and lifted the Blue Jays to victory.
After losing the first two games of the series, Toronto now has a chance to salvage a series split with a win Sunday.
Bautista, whose homers were the 200th and 201st of his career, had three RBIs and also threw Shane Victorino out at home in the sixth inning.
"That's who he is," manager John Gibbons said. "He's been cold over the last few weeks. He's got some big hits along the way, some big home runs. But that's a good sign today. Maybe that will get him going consistently, and that's going to make us better."
Whether the pants are to thank or not, Bautista feels he might have finally found a rhythm.
"I had a good day in the cage and good BP, so I felt like I had more rhythm than days past," he said. "I was able to lay off some tough pitches and get the ones over the plate. And when I swung, I didn't miss them, so it was a good day."
Bautista's heroics were too late to give Esmil Rogers the win, but the starter certainly did his part to put Toronto in position for victory.
The right-hander was sharp over six innings, holding the potent Red Sox scoreless while striking out six and walking one.
He scattered six hits against a Boston lineup that had combined for 24 in the first two games of the series.
"That's what he's capable of," Gibbons said. "We've seen that a few times since he's been in the rotation. He's got the great arm, and he's got the good breaking pitches, too. That's a tough hitting team, so I tip my hat to him."
By lasting through the fourth inning, Rogers managed to accomplish what Chien-Ming Wang and Josh Johnson -- Toronto's starters for the first two games of the series -- failed to do. The pair combined to give up 12 runs over just five innings in the two losses and struggled against a patient Boston lineup.
For the most part, Rogers avoided their pitfalls. To counteract Boston's patient approach, he threw strikes early in the count and nibbled on the corners after he was ahead.
"You've got to attack those guys and come in the zone early," Gibbons said. "That changes everything. It puts them on the defensive a little bit, and then you can come in the zone and expand late when you're ahead late."
Rogers said he lost faith in his breaking pitches during his last outing -- a 4-1 loss to Tampa Bay -- but the right-hander routinely came back to his breaking ball in tough spots Saturday.
The biggest threat came in the sixth inning, when Shane Victorino led off with a double. Dustin Pedroia then slapped an opposite-field single to right field. The speedy Victorino broke for home, but a laser throw from Bautista beat him to the plate and saved a crucial run after a collision. David Ortiz lined a base hit up the middle, but Rogers struck out Mike Napoli and Daniel Nava to escape the jam.
It wasn't the first time defense saved Rogers. In the fifth inning, center fielder Colby Rasmus made a diving catch on a sinking liner from Jonathan Diaz, who was making his Major League debut, with a runner on second.
"Unbelievable plays," Rogers said. "Both Bautista and Colby, both plays [would've] cost me a run, so I don't know how I'm going to repay that."
With the Blue Jays leading, 2-0, in the seventh, Steve Delabar gave up a bases-loaded single to Victorino that tied the game. The runs were charged to Darren Oliver, who had allowed a pair of singles before making a nice play to throw Jarrod Saltalamacchia out at home on a safety squeeze laid down by Diaz.
For the second straight game, the seventh inning was costly for the Toronto bullpen.
Luckily for the relievers, Bautista's power surge bailed them out.
His two homers marked the 21st time in his career that he's gone deep more than once in a game and the first time he's done so since June 10 against the White Sox.
"Very good player," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "Obviously capable of hitting balls out of the ballpark every time he steps to the box."
The Blue Jays tacked on a pair of insurance runs in the ninth inning, and Neil Wagner pitched a scoreless bottom half to secure the win.
Michael Periatt is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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Scouting out the Credit Union
The $570 million, 29,400-member Christian Community Credit Union in San Dimas, Calif., gave the young men of Tiger Cub Scout Pack 423 an inside look at a credit union's operations.
Highlights of the visit – part of the pack's Making Change and Banking "Go See It" –included a look inside the vault and watching a telle ruse a cash machine and ATM.
Lessons included a talk about banking and the importance of saving money, including how long it takes to save for an MP3 player, X-Box or even a car.
"I had fun interacting with the Cub Scouts. It was encouraging to see their enthusiasm in learning more about banking and saving money," said Charlotte Conway, Christian Community CU's vice president of operations.
San Dimas Tiger Cub Scout Pack 423 toured Christian Community CU with den leaders (from left) Hector Romero, Cathy Romero and Mitch Matheson.


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Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by Dusty Ayres, Jul 10, 2010.
Lions Gate, MGM in merger talks
Let's hope that both studios aren't destroyed in the process....
I wasn't aware that Ichan was after Lionsgate too...interesting. The bit about the MGM catalogue is out of date, according to what I've read. MGM sold off the best parts of it's vaults years ago during an earlier crisis.
^^MGM still owns a rather hefty library of movies and tv shows-the profits generated by sells are the only thing that's kept the studio aloat during recent years. They have several MGM branded cable channels operating around the world, and they are partners in the thistv network, a service set up to feed programming to local broadcasters; digital subchannels. The bulk of their schedule is MGM owned movies.
I hope Lionsgate comes out of this alright. Mergers of late haven't always turned out to be the best thing for the most solvent of the joining entities...And has anything ICHAN has done, benefited any company he's gotten his mitts on?
Damn...wish my daddy could buy me a studio. Yep, I'm hatin' on him.
How is Lionsgate still around after all the crap that they churn out? I hope that a successful merger will rejuvenate both studios, or else both will fall into the black hole of old media never to be seen again, and that would be bad for MGM. I'd like Lionsgate to go though. Never seen anything they did that was any good.
I just took a quick wikipedia look at what movies they've produced over the last decade. Wow. That's a lot of crap. The few exceptions usually have some stipulation indicating that Lionsgate wasn't the main studio involved.
The only good that can possibly, and not very likely, come from this is that somehow we get more Republic films on DVD. For crying out loud, there is still roughly 12 John Wayne movies they could release....
Lionsgate is showing up more and more in the DVD market as a distributer, and I've seen some pretty good movies lately that they released. They were also a partner in many of the Marvel animated DVD releases in recent years, and those were all good.
Ichan doesn't know crap about running a media company, his involvement in the Marvel bankruptcy proves that. Nor is he all that interested. He gets either MGM, Lionsgate, or both, and they're toast.
Yeah, most of the TV show DVDs that I've got recently for my kids have been distributed by Lionsgate.
^There are almost two Lionsgate's really: the film studio and the video distributer. The studio side does the "Saw" movies, which are a fairly decent earner. They're doing the Conan remake. The distributer side is the side that's "catch as catch can". Either you're getting DTDVD "B films", or you're getting stuff like the Marvel DTDVDs, where Lionsgate is a "moneyman" and distributer.
Cool, maybe they'll mate and pump out a couple of cubs.
Excuse me, but Affliction, Buffalo 66,Gods and Monsters, Mr. Jealousy, and Love and Death on Long Island are nothing to sneeze at; these films were the best ones of the 1990's! Just because they made some stinkers doesn't mean that they are a crappy company artistically (they also make Mad Men as well.)
The Year 1998 = More Than a Decade Ago
Mad Men = Not a Movie
Fair enough. Then 3:10 to Yuma, Precious, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Drag Me to Hell would all like a word with you.
Lionsgate isn't a bastion of high cinematic art, but it's not a hellhole.
Would seem to be a match made in Logo Heaven.
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