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Finally, we can start talking about a basketball game again. As much as I love digging into random topics and hitting the mailblog, the games make us go. Not to mention they keep the fodder fresh. A scribe without fresh fodder is like a computer without an Internet connection. After a while, playing Solitare gets pretty darn boring.
No worries today, though, Cashmere Wright, Sean Kilpatrick and Mick Cronin met with the media yesterday in preparation for Wednesday's home game against Rutgers, the first following an eight-day layoff.
For those of you looking for TV coordinates, it will be on FoxSportsOhio for 7 p.m. tip. Here's a link to the FSO channel finder for your neck of the woods. You can also check it out at WatchESPN.com, which I talked about in the mailblog yesterday.
As for Wright, he's only three away from passing one of my favorite all-time Bearcats Darnell Burton for second place on the schools all-time steals list. Dude could fire it, and can we please get a throwback jersey from these days. Love these.
Time to dig in, let's eat ...
--- Quick update from Cash on his sprained knee. He says he wasn't quite 100 percent and still isn't to the perfect triple digit mark, but obviously the long layoff helped him quite a bit.
He gave a laugh when asked what percentage his knee was against Syracuse, suggesting it was a process to get in the lineup.
"I was able to play so I had to be good enough," Wright said.
He'll be the player to watch on Wednesday to see how close he returns to the level he was playing before the injury. Watch for cutting, attacking with purpose and those diving defensive steals we've become so used to. More than shooting percentages, those are the intangibles he needs to regain along with confidence in his knee.
--- For a deeper look into Wright, his injury and what the last few weeks have been like for him, read Bill Koch's piece in today's Enqy.
--- Much of the conversation became about playing this Rutgers team for the second time and Cronin pointed out how difficult it can be and the lack of success teams in the Big East and the country have had pulling it off.
Which, of course, sparked my inner stat nerd wanting to take a deeper look at the trend. Mick mentioned Cuse losing to Nova the second time around, Creighton-Drake splitting along with Rutgers-St. John's.
I decided to take a look around the Big East and Top 25 and find the teams who have played a team twice and how the results fell:
Big East
Rutgers 58, @St. John's 56, St. John's 72, @Rutgers 60
@Syracuse 72, Villanova 61, @Villanova 75, Syracuse 71 (OT)
Top 25
Indiana 74, @Penn State 51, @Indiana 72, Penn State 49
@Florida 77, UGA 44, Florida 64, @UGA 47
Wichita State 69, @Bradley 63, @Wichita State 73, Bradley 39
Ole Miss 92, @Tennessee 74, @Ole Miss 62, Tennessee 56
@Creighton 91, Drake 61, @Drake 74, Creighton 69
@Minnesota 69, Northwestern 51, @Northwestern 55, Minnesota 48
--- Both Big East games saw a split and two of the six repeats in the Top 25 saw the score flip. And both of the score flips came after 18+ point victories.
--- Last year, in UC's regular season double-ups, two of the three saw the scores flip and both dramatically:
- @UC 82, Villanova 78, UC 72, @Villanova 68
- @Marquette 95, UC 78, @UC 72, Marquette 61
- St. John's 57, @UC 55, UC 76, @St. John's 54
--- The results of the last few years and this season across upper-echelon college basketball prove there's no reason to believe UC 68, Rutgers 58 should have much if any bearing on Wednesday's game.
"We have to play Rutgers Wednesday night like it's the national championship," Cronin said.
--- All the rankings updated yesterday, wanted to give everybody a look at where UC currently falls in the major metrics:
- Coaches: 23
- KenPom: 17
- Sagarin: 16
--- Been talking all year about the leadership of the top three players on this team and what it means, Mick's talked about it quite a bit but what he said when discussing the big three yesterday I thought reiterated a point everyone should be focusing on going forward right now:
"We've had a real chance all year because those guys care," Cronin said. "The leadership of our team these guys are on a mission to try to have a great year and make a run in March. Whether it happens or not, who knows, but it won't be for lack of effort and caring on their part."
--- Forbes ranks Mick ninth among all college basketball coaches in value. Interesting read and love for Mick.
--- Pittsburgh did a nice job hanging around last night, but was generally outclassed by Louisville. The game seemed to be a pretty good representation of where these two teams are at right now. The Panthers shooting 3 of 12 from the FT line didn't help.
As Tim Sullivan writes here, Russ Smith might have to carry short-handed Louisville down the stretch.
--- Kansas broke out their version of the single color jerseys UC has been wearing. I know it's just cranky scribe talking, but any jersey that makes names and numbers nearly indecipherable lives in my doghouse.
--- Akron was trying to wear Twitter handles on the back of their jerseys. Love the concept, but the NCAA didn't agree with me. What's wrong with adding some freedom and creativity? Allow some of these smaller schools a way to stand out, even if a small one. Now, if they were putting each players Twitter handle on the back of the jerseys, that would be one thing, but promoting the school basketball handle shouldn't step on any toes. Thought it was great when UC put #Bearcats on the court, would like to hear what the major difference is.
Of course, nobody was happier than Fox Sports Ohio's Zac Jackson, who now has a jersey with his Twitter handle on the back so rec league teammates can tweet at him to pass the freaking ball.
--- Commish Aresco trying to add a 12th team and keep the Big East name. Andrea Adelson and Matt Fortuna debate the topic at ESPN.
Randomness ...
--- My guy Mo Egger is concerned about the watchability of college basketball. Great points and thorough. Despite the wide gap in execution between the NBA and college, I'll take the energy and intensity of college kids caring about wins over the six-month malaise with the periodic two minutes of effort trotted out by the Association.
--- Coachella tickets go on sale today. Lineup is strong with Chili Peppers the major draw. I think they should hologram in eight Fleas and let them loose on stage.
--- Cakes have come a long way. I remember being happy when they would spell the name in cursive.
--- Next slate of ESPN's 30 for 30 coming in March. The topics aren't as intriguing as others they've done. Much prefer more unknown, off-the-beaten-path storylines. The '83 Draft has been discussed ad nausem over the years. That said, I'll be watching.
--- Going with The Hold Steady today. The Swish seems fitting for basketball season.
Remember, I want to hear from you. Shoot me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com or hit me up on Twitter @pauldehnerjr with any questions, comments or your record for most games of solitaire played during a single 8-hour work shift. Have a great day.


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Ah - you bought the fancy ipad with the wireless didn't ya :)
Lowry isn't playing tonight - advantage sixers
something to keep your eye on, wright, jrue, thad and evan all played 35+ minutes last night
So for those who watched last night, did Jrue look better than Rondo? Collins is kind of letting him play the Rondo role now (minus the Hall of Famers around him) jrue needs to cut down on the turnovers quickly, though.
He looked way better than Rondo, to me. But mostly because he's more versatile and more of a threat at things Rondo isn't. Rondo was dishing last night, but it was almost quiet I thought, after it was over. Jrue was magnificent last night on both ends of the floor.
Yes, his turnovers were of the maddening variety (though some weren't of his doing), but he's growing every single mintue of every single game.
I'd like to extend a bit of credit for that to coaching too.
7 more turns last night. You must love that. Rondo had a pretty good game on the O-side but couldn't guard him for the most part - or at all really. You pointed out once that RR is not a very good man-to-man defender, and you're right. Jrue was a genius with dribble against the Celtics -he never seems to over dribble. Still looked to pass though.
Really want to see the same selfless type execution that occurred last night to repeat itself. That was a sight to see for many reasons.
No telling what to expect though, tuning in to find out can be quite unpredictable with this bunch so far. Here's to hoping...
So it seems like Phil Jackson should now be known as Billy Martin the second?
Is he going back to LA? Guy really loves a challenge, huh?
Lots of reports leaking out that it's his job to give up and that he's already contacting potential assistants to come back with him...
The Lakers weren't going to NOT hire a big name - for a variety of reasons.
Though you can't learn the triangle fast - and steve nash is kind of useless in the triangle isn't he?\
Can dwight pass?
Wonder if he'd scrap the triangle with this group. Nash would essentially stand in the corner and hit threes.
I think to be good this season he'll have to - takes a long time to learn and howard and nash aren't going to learn it
Damn A&M learn to play defense
Oh - see - there you go
Raptors feed in HD for me.
Glad you're back in the confines and comforts of home. Nothing like good ol' home. You better not jinx this winning streak.
Lowry in a suit is a pleasant sight. That guy kills us.
Let's Go!
What channel is this on? CSN is playing tennis. I just got Fios.
Comcast network dont have fios so i dont know the number
I found it. Fios does carry CSN in philly.
Aaaaaaand we're off....Lavoy loses the tip.
ET initiating the first possession. But play was designed for Jrue off the screen for the J all the way.
Jrue off the curl, good.
Thad or whoever has to stay glued to Bargnani.
Come on, put a fucking body on the rook.
Spencer coming in quick.
Thad J.
wright 3
Bang. Wright from the corner. Nice find by ET
Phew. Hawes bailed out on the sissy drive.
Spencer w/ the fake, drive, and foul. Two shots, it's perplexing how bad he is at free throws but can knock down 20 footers.
Bullshit call there. He was out of control.
Jrue to the stripe.
Jrue to the line. Keep going to the post, kid.
They're free.
Spencer with another fake, drive, and finish this time.
Good up-fake Thad. He's fouled going to the line. Good job.
Atta boy, Thad.
I'd sure like to see Evan follow up his performance last night with one similar. Or even close would suffice.
Get your mess together and get this lead.
Thad brick. ugh
Good find by Jrue, brick by Thad. Doubling Hrue
Jrue does struggle when double teams come though.
First turn for Jrue.
Not sure why they keep sending screeners to Jrue on the sideline, makes it easy to double. Isolate him and let him beat Calderon off the dribble.
He had no trouble beating Rondo, you know he can get by Jose.
They've got to score, or at least shoot better.
Hawes with a charge.
Man, Ivey is playing too many minutes.
Ivey played good last night. Like to see him add a spark.
I don't mind his game, but he's not a rotational player on a good team.
I'm with you, but Wayns has not looked well at all in his limited burn. Overmatched.
Yeah, they need a legit backup point.
Sissy J
Hawes putback.
Spencer helped them eek it closer to close the quarter here.
Looks like they need to find their legs and get them under them. Long way to go, have to be much better than they have been.
Phi 20, TOR 26 after 1. Need to make a few simple djustments and calm down.
Perfect play for that three, but a miss
Good inside pass Ivey to Allen who then assisted Spencer's made J.
Spencer to the line. He's hustling his ass off.
Hawes is in better shape, gotta give him that.
NYoung with the too long continuation! and one!
Good job on the drive by Nick for the plus one.
Good defense. Ugh they got o-board. Good team d though.
Nick silky J.
Good D Ivey and good pass up ahead over the top.
Great job by this unit. Settled things on the defensive end and caught up.
Got the lead, now keep it please.
swaggy 3
I would expect some of these guys from this unit to play more than usual minutes due to the extended run by some of the starters last night.
NYoung for 3!!
Young smoking hot.
NYoung from the foul line J. Let's go...
24-7 run. Pretty much with no starters on the floor.
Is Jermaine O'Neal really that hungry?
Ha, thought I was the only one that noticed that.
"Filet of Phalanges" served by waiter Bargnani.
NYoung has been hustling on the defensive end too.
Almost halfway through, we're winning this quarter 16-3.
Man's board by Thad.
Jrue and Evan back in. Heck of a run for Ivey.
Turner and Jrue back in. Want to see them really aggressive for the rest of the half.
Hawes has been cleaning the shit out of the defensive glass.
Got blown by there though...
jrue and 1
Jrue taking the near 7 footer for the and-one!!
Thad clean-up dunk!!! Let's go guys ..... yeah!!!
Good find of ET by Jrue. ET fade-back baseling 8 footer. good.
Jrue with a nice pass out of the double finding ET.
Beautiful 2nd quarter!
Jrue off the dribble J! Man...
Awwwww, catch that Turner...
Ugh. Butterfingers. That's not Jrue's turn.
They gave it to Jrue.
They'll give that one to him as we'll, not his fault.
27-7 quarter so far. 3 more min of the same.
That's not Jrue's turn either. Lavoy w/ a bad pass.
Come on guys, finish.
That turn was on him. Ugh.
Not a good attempt at an entry pass Jrue. Need better than that. That one had no chance of getting thru.
sissy jumper
Spence J. He's on fire.
Two for one here. Guess not....
Well, Jrue 4 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hats off to the subs setting the tone defensively and offensively to start that 2nd quarter there. Picked up by the starters that trickled back in.
Spencer Hawes was the catalyst at both ends. Reminiscient of the first game of the year vs Denver.
Well - that's probably going to be the lowest scoring quarter of the year for any NBA team - good defense or the raptors are truly that awful?
Defense was awesome. Mostly by the bench guys.
Yeah, I could tell from the +/- on the box score who was building that lead ;)
Just spent 600 bucks on my dog - no way i can justify the league pass yet - hoping by January for at least the second portion of the system
a little of both
PHI 52, TOR 33 at the half.
Up 19 without much from Jrue. I'll take it. 32-7 in the second quarter. Great job by the second unit.
32-7 quarter. lol
Don't let the unis fool ya, Toronto is one soft bunch. Jus' standin' around, takin' turns shootin' Js. 1 half-assed shot & done. Missing Lowry, Philly tough and a catalyst. Spence & Swag took their heart, turned 'em into 2Q sissies.
You gotta wonder what Colangelo needs to do to get fired
Probably sleep with his biographer.
Is that the CIA guy or the incoming CEO guy who got fired (I don't read news - just headlines)
Yeah they've been treadin' water for a long while. It's not happenin' up north.
He makes some AWFUL decisions
24 million to Jason Kapono might take the cake.
NBA TV reporting that the lakers job is phil jacksons to take
Isn't that pretty much the case with any open coaching position in the league?
I wouldn't want him coaching the sixers personally - he just rubs me the wrong way - I know it's all zen but he comes off as a pretentuous twat to me...
The best joke I heard was someone suggest Stan Van Gundy :)
Keep this defensive pressure and tenacity up. Good viewing seeing that kind of effort.
Here we go...
Got to hit that Lavoy.
thad to wright
Should've been a Thad dunk there
Like that. Nice pass, ET
nice pass evan
Great look and pass ET to Thad. Slam!
Dorell deflection, ends in a Lavoy steal. Dorell draws foul at other end.
Catch that Evan... come on
Come on, Turner. They'll give that one to Jrue as well.
Yup. 5 turns, should be 2.
Jrue should have shot that. Ended in a Wright missed 3.
Raptors dunk. Down to 13. Goot TO Doug, he took two good timeouts last night.
Jrue should've shot that. Turner dropped the pass again, runout on the other end.
Come on, they're outscoring us by 6 almost midway thru. And a turnover. come on guys...
10-point game.
Bargs 3. Down to 10. Put Spencer back in, he's coming.
Thad wow
Great pass. Needed that hoop.
Anderson drives, Lavoy doesn't slide over to protect the rim. shit
Holdiay w/ a bullet pass, Lavoy missed. Thad misses an open J.
Get it back... Dorell misses. sheesh
ET steal! Dorell for an and-one!!!!
Yes. Huge play by Wright. Hit the freebie.
Shit bailout three...
NYoung with the savvy play, he was still behind the line no? ... 4 pt play right?
Wow. Was that a three?
Ugh toe on the line on replay, fooled the shit out of me til a saw it on replay ...
Ok lead is 12, push it back to 15 by the end of the quarter.
We're losing this quarter by 7 right now. Come on, just under 3 left. Finish strong here with a comeback for the 3rd.
Dorell draws a foul.
Wright needs to shoot that three. At least he got the foul.
Come on, wake up.
Good help D from Dorell, they kick it back out to his man, 3. shit
Good ass steal Jrue. Good ass FINISH JRUE!!!! yeah.........
Jrue is pissed. Big play.
Good D from NYoung. Spencer board.
Jrue kick out ... 3 sec violation? ugh
4 on 5 and they get called for an offensive 3 second violation. Come on.
PHI 69, TOR 62 after 3.
Bad third quarter. Need to come out with some intensity to start the fourth.
We lost that quarter by 12 damn points. Clean that up please.
Just dig deep and find some legs to finish this one.
Cause you're gonna need it on the jumpshots, being reluctant to use even more leg to drive into the lane.
Dig keep here squad, what do ya say...
Nick J, ugh a foul called before the shot
Ivey running the point even with Turner in there.
Don't press here. Ivey o-board!!!
Don't press here either. 4 on the shot clock.
Longhorn tough bound by Royal.
Spencer with no legs on that one. ugh
D3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yeah
Yeah!!! Wright again.
Ugh turnover Thad...
Where did Dorell foul Bargs there? I sure didn't see it, looked like a cheapie to me..
Play good D. like that, Bargs throwing it to the crowd.
Put Jrue in for Turner.
Yeah, I'd like to see Jrue play the 2 here with Ivey running point.
Royal with cheese!
Good pass ET. Thad gets the foul call. Make em Thad..
Up 12 w/ 7 to go... come on
Jrue in to guard derozan.
Play some more Snoop Dogg.. we got a stop
ET with good D. Score here.
Yes Thad easily done. ha
Raftery: "Kiss off the GLASS!"
Nice bounce between the double to Thad.
Man, take a look at Lavoy's line.
But weirdly, but not so weirdly, he's a +7 proving he def hasn't killed us either when in there.
Hold the ball EVan. Good D evan and others.
Evan J! no, a damn turnover by way of travel on somebody... ugh
5 on 4 and cant score
2 straight turns by Turner. Ugh.
Yeah, Jrue.
Jrue dagger!!!!! 4 min to glory.....
Tech on Demar
Huge Layup by jrue!
Turner shooting T's with Swag and Jrue on the floor?
Yeah, I don't get that. Charity, I guess.
Jrue is having a great year it looks like he's finally taking the next step
A potential, looking-likely 3-0 road trip to start the season without Bynum? I'll take it. These last two games has shown that team that dominated in preseason. Just taking games over, like tonight in that 2nd quarter. Talk about lockdown.
that shot
NYoung fading away, finally hits one of those.
Swag fades, perfect control even off balance.
36 bench pts to their 8. heh
Six turns on Jrue.
So that makes 3 legit ones? right?
Holiday looking much stronger this year which I have harped on for awhile. As key to his drives as Turner's jumper sinking is to his.
Turner is a vulture for these intentional foul freebies at the end of games.
Well he's shooting great from the line at least so far this year, so I'm ok with it until he comes back to earth in that department.
He shot 3 techs the other night earlier this week. Two of them with what you'd call more worthy guys by way of percentage on the floor. Looked token to me, like he wants him to work on his reps, and also showing confidence in the kid, to motivate him even more.
In other words, an intended vulture.
Yeah, I think there might be something to him wanting to shoot all the free-throws so he can work on his form in the middle of games. He is shooting free throws better than last year, at least.
Or he just wants to pad his stats. I dunno.
If he starts missing, Doug will not let him pad stats anymore, if that is what he is doing
7 turns, 4 legit. Ugh.
I don't think we should read too much into this game, 2nd night of a back to back, in Canada no less. We got the win, and we're 4-2. I'm happy
on him or not, when you're consistently getting more than six turnovers then the blame can't be pegged elsewhere. Not a bad thing, just a chemistry and comfort level deal.
Or not. 2 games in a row.
He leads the league in turnovers, so yes.
Except you didn't reference stats, but rather blame.
Vulture back to the line :)
His pre-shot routine and demeanor looks consistent. If he sinks them at a high rate maybe it's his reward, like Collins letting him initiate off of d-boards last year. If it takes a carrot, go for it.
He's having a decent year
The 9 or 10 guys getting minutes are to be commended. They're competing their asses off. Good, solid finishing-up win on an early road trip. Good coaching, good playing, good executing, good ass effort from everyone.
Good, good sign this early in the season. Reminiscient of their exhibition forays.
You just indirectly gave Evan Turner a compliment :)
Truce for the year, I was a dick to you during the preseason so my bad on that. Won't happen again, no more getting heated over basketball.
Cool. But see, reception is the key, I actually was giving the 'team' a direct compliment. Turner included. It's never been personal here, concering him, or you. Never will be. I just want, and have opinions (and many criticisms) on what I think is best for the team. That's all, nothing more nothing less.
I will take your word for it, let's have a fun season
PHI 93, TOR 83 Final.
4-2 on the year, back at it Monday night.
POTG goes to Hawes, with Nick Young and Ivey also getting serious consideration.
You can't stand him right ;-).
He played great defense and got 12 boards and 4 assists on 2nd game of a back to back. Give him a little break :-)
I didn't say anything bad about Turner, I don't think. Mentioned the 2 turns in a row in he fourth. And also the two passes he botched that went as turns for Jrue, but overall, he played a decent game. 8 points on 7 FGA and 5 FTA is poor efficiency, but nought he was definitely a plus on the floor tonight.
evan didnt play great on O, played good D for the most part though. i hope it was something about the ball and floor being slippery tonight cause ET especially was slipping and had butter fingers. i wish he'd step into some threes off drive and kick, he hit two that looked pretty true last night
The important thing for me is that when his jumper isn't falling and the defense can collapse on him, he doesn't start gunning and forcing the issue. If he can have his mind set to taking what the defense gives him, working off of Jrue, and testing the water with a few jumpers, then this should be a smooth season.
Wow, Nick Young was +25 and Royal was +22...good for them, we needed a big bench contribution tonight after the starters played so many minutes last night.
Royal with cheese! Underrated game for him - 8 points on 3 shots, 5 assists, 3 rebounds, 3 steals, 0 turnovers, and very solid D and hustle in 19 mins off the bench.
48 assists on 74 made fgs the last two games. Really like seeing that. Good ball movement and not much selfishness.
Hope he gives Thad, Jrue, and Evan the day off if they are even practicing at all today. Their legs have to be weary from all the minutes in both games of the back to back.
Collins' best coaching is done BEFORE Sixers take the court. He's a master at pre-game Psych 101, learned at the esteemed Players University, refined at Network School of Broadcasting. In-game work is tenacious but questionable at times in its tension and impulsive reactivity.
Early take: '12-'13 Sixers are scrappers, like recent versions, "fighters" as Jrue has posited, with more mistake-erasing firepower from deep than in previous seasons. Because of their individual game preparedness and their characteristic pugnacity, they'll feast on the lower portion of NBA franchises, will meet problems defeating upper rung 8 to 10 who can match their competitive intensity and depth.
[Evaluation formed without entering Bynum as a playing factor due to the fact that he's not playing, nor is there any indication that he'll soon been jumpin', pumpin' and showing Philadelphia somethin'.]
The Sixers are going to look good because of their easy schedule. 8 of their next 10 games are against teams that aren't expected to make the playoffs. They're going to struggle when Bynum comes back.
Should we be worried about the Knicks? They might be the 2nd best team in the EAST this year.
The Knicks have been the best team in the NBA so far, but i don't think they can keep this up. Their age will inevitably show up later in the season and Stoudemire's return might screw up their newly built chemistry (and spacing with Anthony at PF). I think the Knicks benefited from an easy schedule (only 4 games so far, whereas half the league has 6 or 7) and a prolonged training camp due to the postponed Nets game.
Knicks loaded with know-how, confidence it generates; long season attrition, a question. Woodson has their respect and attention.
Money on table, Boston will wake up, barring injuries to any of Big 3.
Team in Miami is hard to contain, could beat most others while wearing Tom McAn's.
Brooklyn has potential nice balance of scoring and boarding, defense their achilles. Secret weapon, Reggie Evans.
Return of Rose will bloom sweet for Chicago, even with changes from last year; still D-in' it up.
Sixers front office getting worried about Andrew Bynum rehab according to hoopshype.com/rumors
I believe Bynum knee is a little more hurt than the front office was letting on & I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't see Bynum on the floor until next yr sometime maybe Jan/Feb after all-star break.
Jrue Holiday -
"growing every single minute of every single game"
"genius with dribble"..."never seems to overdribble"
Facts: Leads league in turnovers with 34. (Runner-up, James Harden, 30) Assist/TO ratio: 1.68
Above voices are welcome to return to earth. Bonus: The Sixers play down here.
And your 'runner up' in your counting stat category with no context is the early season MVP in some eyes
So maybe you're over exaggerating the fact that it's a problem.
Haven't seen Harden; know he scored a ton in 1st 2 gms post-trade. (What numbskull considers an MVP at this juncture?) Have seen most of Jrue context. The turnovers are real, all too frequent. But that's secondary.
My main address was the unchallenged sentimental, unrealistic comments regarding Holiday, productive but sloppy point guard. As a fan, not into free rides on love trains.
Maybe you're overdefending the fact that those comments were posted.
You better watch out, my boy L.Sanders is coming to town. He looks like he finally is becoming a solid player while taking Sammy and Udoh's minutes away.
No worry here, spence - I'm not tryin' to get a shot past him. Have read some positives on him recently. Apparently, The Colonel is showing a ferocity this year that you've long predicted. Let's see Monday night. Sam will be on the bench fiddling with latest gadget.
Yeah, if only we had Jameer. Jrue is turning it over too much, but at the expense of creating offense (3rd in the league in Assists/Game), which this team sorely needs without Bynum.
There's two reasons to be alright with this. First, he's had a few charges go against him, but he's trying to get to the rim. I can live with that. Many of his shots last year were pseudo-turnovers. The live-ball turnovers are what you really want to avoid.
Also, those turnovers you reference can be a misleading number. For instance, last night's number was three too many (He hits Turner in the hands twice last night, Jrue's turnovers though. Lavoy gets stuck and throws a horrible pass to Jrue, which he half handles but then loses, also Jrue's turnover).
He's going to have to take care of the ball better, but again, he's never come close to having this sort of freedom/responsibility. So he should get better and some of this bad luck should normalize. Oh yeah, Bynum would certainly help the degree of difficulty.
You're a Jrue romantic.
Any turnover: scoring opportunity down the drain. If Jrue is attributed, Jrue is accountable. (Each of my traffic tickets had extenuating circumstances, yet the darn DMV assigned me points. Imagine that.)
With 6 of 82 precincts reporting, Holiday's ORtg 99, DRtg 99 [100 is avg.], WS O.6. Each number represents lowest of his career to date, in early contradiction of PR drumbeat. The next 76 "trombones" of JH directorship, in whole, will sound loudly, one way or another.
The young man has talent; I'm not yet sure if indivisibly helming an offense - as Collins has assigned - is his forte.
OK, so you don't understand how to interpret these stats. Defensive rating is points allowed per 100 possessions, so you want the lowest number. 99 is the best number of his career.
And win shares accumulate over a whole season, so of course it's at the lowest right now. He's on pace to smash it though, because his win shares per 48 minutes is at .115 when it was at .94 and .92 the last two years.
I believe in his talent, and think that so far he's done a nice job keeping the offense without Bynum. 99 is the same offensive rating he had last year, and now he's doing it up to this point with a bunch of shooters who have frankly struggled. Context is everything here. There are the signs that he'll get better, whether you believe them or not. And even if the team rating improves only a little bit, he's playing with a weak supporting cast. Nobody should expect this group of players to be Top 10 in offense.
Can you give me half-credit, teach? Because his offensive number - 99 - IS below average. And his 1st 2 yrs WERE slightly better offensively (100, 104) than year 3 & play to date this season, at least according to one advanced statistic scale. I participate in class, don't I? And I humbly appreciate your corrections. C'mon, have a heart.
Has anybody read what Spencer did this offseason? E.Turner needs to get on the same regimen. He is so much quicker and agile, even more so than the beginning of last year.
Hopefully our organization's patience pays off with this investment. Him, Thad , Evan and Jrue may live up to their salaries yet.
If Turner wasn't ball hungry he'd be a ball boy. His out-of-the-gate speed reminds me of Barney Google's bow-legged horse, Spark Plug. His doughiness brings "Hot Plate" Williams to mind.
Spence is in good shape. Shouldn't all 24 yr old pros be there? Easy at that age if you don't slouch and pig-out. It's called doing your job.
"Spence is in good shape. Shouldn't all 24 yr old pros be there? Easy at that age if you don't slouch and pig-out. It's called doing your job."
Absolutely! ET has to lay off the late night pizza urges and work out with Spence. They probably don't share the same political beliefs............
Why not? They're in the same 1% income bracket (adjusted gross income of $343,927 or more).
Pretty easy to say the heat, bulls, knicks, and pacers are all better than us right now.
However when/if bynum comes back, i believe we can leap frog the bulls, as long as rose is out. Well be better than the pacers (with bynum) until granger returns.
Thus i could envision 4th seed. But that requires bynum coming back soon. Spence wont be able to carry this production throughout the season as evidenced by last year.
i read somewhere the pacers were struggling. granger out, downgraded at backup pg from collison to dj augustine. i still like their squad though and think Paul George is gonna be an all star eventually.
The Grizzlies completely dominated the Heat yesterday. The Heat had huge problems defending their "post presence + three point shooters" show yesterday. Can't wait for Bynum to start playing and provide the Sixers with the same dimension.
P.S. Nobody talks about them but the Grizzlies are neck and neck with the Knicks so far as the best teams early in the season. If they can stay healthy i think they are going to be a major force out west.
Remember how happy everyone was at the Bynum press conference? Yeah, me too.
The reported January target time frame for Bynum's return is disappointing, but somewhat expected at this point. The article says it could take 1 to 4 weeks for his conditioning after he's back practicing next month, so maybe Bynum could be back sooner if he can get in shape quickly?
Do you have a link to the story?
Not sure on the original source but here's one
I don't have faith in him to do anything quickly. It's a bummer.
Amusing new year, at minimum.
I'm glad you think you'll have an amusing new year.
This Bynum news really isn't surprising. Disappointing but not surprising.
I mean, is anyone surprised that the sixers got the shaft in a trade like this?
You got that wrong, chief. I was thinking bigger, all-inclusive. It included even you, sunbeam of Santa Barbara. 2013, don't miss it.
I'd be careful getting all crazy about the long term outlook for the Grizzlies or the Knicks. In a small sample size they are tough ... and the Knicks are a bad matchup for the Sixers ... but at the end of the day neither team has enough defense to be a serious contender.
The Knicks are a lot better on D when Carmelo decides to play defense ... but I'll want to see that for an extended period of time before I'll be sold.
If Mo Speezy is getting serious minutes on a team, eventually they are going to come back to the back because he can't be bothered on the defensive end.
You can't really make any predictions based on 6-8 games - but people will do it anyway.
The knicks still have the Amare Conundrum when he comes back
The Grizzlies aren't really a surprise though. They've been pretty good for a while. The only thing that has kept them frmo truly contending were injuries and if they can stay reasonably healthy this year they can be as good as anyone.
The Jeff Ruland parallels are becoming more and more striking. Ruland played 5 games for the 86-87 Sixers, who still made the playoffs without him behind the emerging Charles Barkley (but lost in the first round). 26 years later, we have Jrue in the Barkley role, Bynum as Ruland, Jason Richardson filling the Cliff Robinson role (the secondary player the Sixers got from the trade), Iguodala filling the Moses role (primary prayer they traded away), Vucevic as Catledge (the secondary player they traded away), Harkless as Harvey Grant (mid-first-round pick they traded away), and one more first-rounder in both trades. I didn't realize until today that the two trades were so structurally similar (Sixers traded 2 players and 2 first-rounders and got 2 players back). I'll just be happy if Bynum plays more than 5 games for this year's Sixers ...
Except that Ruland was never as close to good as Bynum is when healthy.
Dude has bad knees, he was going to miss games this year, he has a history of stalling treatment that could have been done earlier...none of this should surprise anyone
I would put up Ruland's two best full seasons (82-83 and 83-84) against any of Bynum's seasons, especially considering Ruland was the #1 guy in Washington and Bynum was never more than #2A for the Lakers. I do agree that Bynum is better, but not that Ruland wasn't even close to his level.
One big difference between that trade and this one, though, is that Ruland was two seasons removed from a healthy season when the Sixers made that trade, while Bynum just had one of his healthiest seasons. So in that sense, these Sixers are more unfortunate.
So you're going to mark down Bynum because he played with one of the best in the game for most of his career? That's the kind of thinking that makes no sense to me. Bynum would be the #1 option on more than half the teams in the league (when healthy) and you're discounting him cause the Lakers were smart enough to draft him.
Sorry - if that's part of your argument it has no legs
My main argument was a narrow one: that Ruland's best two healthy seasons were as impressive (if not more so) than Bynum's best season. Plenty of players across all sports have flourished as a #2 option but couldn't handle it as a #1 (in the NFL, I call this the "Peerless Price Effect"). If you are optimistic that Bynum will flourish as a #1 option for the Sixers once he is healthy, that is fine -- but that opinion is not based on any hard evidence to this point in his career. Personally, I'll be surprised (but pleasantly so) if he ever averages a 22-12 for the Sixers like Ruland did in his best season.
Agree that at the same age they both were top tier centers. Don't think you can really argue that Bynum was a clearly better center than Ruland comparing them from age 23 to 25. Their teams had different degrees of success, but likewise they had very different teammates.
I used Ruland at 25 becasue I thought it was unfair to compare his 2nd year in the NBA (age 24) when Bynum at age 24 was in his 7th.
The numbers can argue that Bynum was a bit more productive on a per minute basis. But Ruland carried a bad team to the playoffs- which certainly counts for something- sspecially when you look at how his scoring was both more effecient and greater than Bynum despite having to carry a much bigger burden.
Ruland would have made the HOF without the injuries. The Sxiers still made a huge misttake given he was injured well befoer they traded for him. But I don't agree that Bynum was somehow a class above Ruland.
Anyone see the incident that got Cousins suspended?
I hate Cousins and still side with him against Sean Elliot. He's tougher to stomach than Heinsohn.
Here's some video - not on the court though
question, did we give up this year's draft pick in the bynum trade? just looking forward if he doesn't play and it actually ends up being a high pick.
No, but we traded this year's draft pick to get Moultrie.
We gave up a 2014 1st round pick which is lottery protected.
To see it you would have had to be in San Antonio and hung around court bside after the game. It's really something to observe this guy. I actually had hoped the Sixers would draft either Cousins or Turner --- and while the guy seems to have tremendous upside it seems like a cloud just follows him around.
He went back out on the court out of the locker room 20 minutes after the game because he didn't like what an announcer said about him.
Once you get a rep like his, the last thing you need to do is keep giving people reasons to say you are a bad guy. Not sure I get it with him, but kind of like Iverson, he's gonna do what he's gonna do I guess.
Bynum was interviewed on CSN Sportsnight about 30 mins ago. He said he could play if it was the playoffs and the Sixers were chasing a ring like he did in the past with the Lakers. Bynum also said the bruising started in LA while running and doing individual workouts (ie - he did not bang his knee on anything).
j-rich back tonight
real american hawes is also back tonight
What a relief! I was worried he turned Commie or something :)
Jrue I'd assume on Jennings. Who's the best bet to guard Monta? He'd be too quick for Turner and JRich no?
id try jrue on monta and evan on Jennings and just dare Jennings to shoot
JRich secures the tap and fires away. Good.
So anyone have any idea how extension talks will go with Bynum this offseason?
Re-signing a talent like Bynum is a no brainier but considering his injury prone career, is the requisite max contract worth it?
Monta left wide open for the corner three.
Come on Evan.... sloppy turnover
Jrue at the shot clock buzzer.
bad shot jrue
They need to go to ET in the post here early w/ Monta on him just to see if they can exploit it.
Need to tighten the D up mightily. Too many easy looks for MIL.
Sammy gets booed.
Defense is lousy so far. They've come out flat again just like in TOR and BOS.
ET J off a horns play.
So glad to see JRich back out there.
Tighten up the D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! geez
Man, they're on pace for a +30 pt quarter at this rate.
8-8 so far.
JRich is on fire!!!! J is so smooth, silky-like.
BUcks finally misss... ET turns it over though
careless TO there ET
Spencer in for Lavoy. This defense is atrocious. They should be ashamed.
et to thad
Sammy D hasn't lose a step with the stupid goaltending plays
ET good pass for the oop to Thad.
JRich overplays passing lane up top. Steal! 360 dunk! Like that guy... a lot.
Come on Jrue. Be aware son... two the other way and a foul. sheesh Jrue
sit down Evan, another turn and then a bad shot on the way back down
34-26 Bucks. Really bad defense that quarter. Half court D sucked. Transition D was just as bad. Not too many more ways to say it. They blew on that end.
On the other end, senseless and what should be controllable turnovers. Just careless shit.
If it wasn't for Richardson, this game might be over already. Ugly ass quarter, just terrible defense
Hawes with a damn wide open airball. ugh
Jrue drive, dish to Dorell at the arc. BUCKET!
Jrue drive, dish to JRich at the arc. Too long though.
Stop with these silly turnovers. Spencer 3 sec violation.
NYoung steal and finish.
God I hate hawes.
So darn weak with that attempt.
Jrue grabs the ball right out of mid-air off Udrih pass. Heh, he takes it right at Sanders with the left hand. Foul. To the line.
Sweet hesitation two times by Jrue. Finally drives for a layup after the sea parted.
And again! Then Holliday! Tie game!!!
Jrue P&R on strong side. Cross court pass to weak side to Dorell. BANG! for 3!
Man, Jrue is getting anywhere he wants with his dribble.
Dorell again layup!!
Jrue! leaving Udrih at the foul line in cement. Left hand finish this time. They have no one that can guard him.
His dribble is a serious weapon this year. That, along with the added spacing from the shooters spotted up.
God, shooting guards that can actually shoot. So foreign, yet so wonderful.
Not a good shot from Dorell there.
JRich steal!
D for 3333333333333333333333333333333
Wright again!!!
Dorell steal b/c of his length.
ET drive... ugh
Turner must be the worse finisher in the nba.
Who should have had Jennings there? Three guys collapsed down on Dunleavy when he received the entry pass and Jennings left all alone for a triple. Sheesh
IT was Evan's man, and he's down in the paint gazing at the rim hoping for a rebound. It was a KICKOUT Evan, stay home with your man please!!!
Dammit Ivey, play under control. These turnovers are just flat out senseless. So unforced, nearly every one of them so far.
Turner misses a freebie
Get over the hump before the half. Get this lead and keep it.
Dorell in for Spencer? We're really small here I think.
Ivey, Jrue, ET, Dorell, Thad. wow
Ellis layup. Terrible transition D and matching up there.
Jennings fouled on bad transition D again.
Hey guys, get the EFF BACK!
Woooooow and a collapse to end the half.
Ugh, Jrue w/ a nice pass to cutting Dorell. He missed the pass.
Jennings 3. shit Jrue
Jrue turnover again!!!!!! Jennings layup. SHIT
11 pt lead now, and it was just tied at 48. man......
Fuck you hawes
Jennings 3 again. dammit
Spencer is going to have to step out. Or Jrue has to recover much more quickly. Come on ..... terrible.
Jrue really fucked that one up though and he wasn't even really screened.
Disgusting. Down 12 now. I hope Doug peels the paint off the damn walls just like he was reported to have done down in New Orleans. In-ex-cusable!
Lavoy and Evan are lost in the abyss again.
These turnovers from the supposed two main ball handlers have got to decrease, or just stop altogether. They're turnovers that can be controlled. They're not forced at all. So frustrating.
What the fuck just transpired over the last 2 minutes of the half?
Shitty defense, not getting back and matching up properly, careless turnovers by Ivey, Dorell (charged to Jrue, and Jrue mishandling one in traffic. Jennings hitting 3's off of high ball screens. Getting killed in quick outlet passes by the Bucks.
MIL has 15 fast break pts, shooting 64%, and has 14 free throw attempts already. Recipe for disaster.
They better bring it to start here or they're gonna get blown out of the gym.
Defense can't possibly be that porous again, no?
Evan postup on Monta. kickout to JRich for 3
Evan postup on Monta. Baseline floater.
He gives it right back losing Monta on D.
Turner can't stay with Monta, or Jennings as the first half proved. These two quick guards are a bad matchup for us.
Sheesh, Thad dribbles off his knee.
It is time to start worrying about our young PG's turnovers. 5 again tonight and it's early in the 3rd quarter
Jrue turnover. Jennings layup. Down 15. F me!
Why did we get a delay of game call out of that timeout?
clear path foul, no question
JRich 3!!! come on, got it down to 11. Get this thing back to around 7 or 8 before the end of quarter.
Thad steal!! That was a clear path no?
Let's go 7-0 run, got it to 9 already.
sissy floater
6 TOs for Jrue
And Dunleavy with the rally killer three
Another Bucks turnover. O-foul on Sanders. 9-0 run. come on bucket here.
Shit, turnover on us. An o-foul on Jrue?
Why no D-Wright yet this quarter?
Bad shot by Thad, it drops. 14-3 run. Down 5.
O-foul on Bucks!!!! come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jrue to thad
Good dish Jrue to Thad inside. 3 pt game.
Spencer wouldn't know a hard foul even if it was that headband on his head. Dammit
Back up to 8 after Udrih J. ugh
NYoung bailout 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! needed that
NYoung steal, JRich 3!!!!!!
Thad block!!! ugh JRich rims a 3 out.
Holding for last shot to tie.Jrue BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When did J-Rich get so good?!?
Wow - way to tie the game! Thad, JRich, Swaggy, Jrue & even Spence stepped it up!
Won that quarter by 12. Gonna be a battle til the very end, I can feel it. NYoung came in for ET, but still no Dorell. Maybe he closes the full quarter here (or he's dinged up?)
If you want anyone on this team taking a contested fadeaway, it's Nick Young.
sissy jumper
Get this lead please.Spencer J on cue. Let's go!!!
Jrue and JRich resting to start the 4th. Ivey and ET back in. Key stretch here.
no way this lineup holds a lead
You are correct
Spencer frustrates me just as much as Turner does when he drives. arrrrgggghhhhhh
Jennings eating up Ivey now. We're still lax on getting back on D. Bailed out that time by an Ivey steal.
Spencer J.
Dorell steal. Ugh, Ivey screwed up that break royally. Ends with a Dorell miss from corner 3.
Turner always sticks out like a sore thumb when he plays. He's doesn't look like he belongs there out on the floor with the rest of the guys. He's just not in the same realm of athleticism. Whenever he goes up for a dunk, I'm always worried he'll miss.
Get Jrue back in. NOW
And get Turner out too.
all things considered, I am ok being down only after that dogshit lineup played half of the 4th quarter
What was that story they told about J-Rich getting fired up? Was it a Philly fan who called him washed up?
no a bucks fan did when he was with the magic
Jrue back in. ET out.
Royal layup. Down one. Stops!!!
7 motherfucking TOs on Jrue, again
Dammit Jrue Holiday!!! Just a fucking careless pass to Hawes there. Layup on other end. Dammit Jrue.
Tell me Jrue isn't turnover prone. That pass to Spence was almost #8. Getting to the line though
Get. This. Lead.
SPencer brick from deep. Not the shot we want big guy.
Monta floater. ugh
8 now, that is just not acceptable
Jrue WTF man!!!! Just a dogshit of a pass to JRich there. Come the EFF ON MAN!!! That's just terrible and really why we arent leading this game. Can't give away so many possessions.
Turnstile D
Jrue w/ last 2 shots blocked. It's over, Dunleavy 3.
11-2 MIL run, Mother F me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jrue came in and sank them. Growing pains?
No idea how Collins doesn't see his errant passing all training camp and doesn't immediately get a backup PG.


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If you cast your minds back to October last year (a long time in technology, I know) you may recall the stunning BenQ X720 which at just 12.5mm thick still holds the record for the world's skinniest seven megapixel shooter. Well, guess who has done it again...?
This time the successfully diversifying Taiwanese giant (mobile phones apart *cough*) has come up with the T700: the world's slimmest digicam to sport a 3in touch screen display.
With a depth of just 14.9mm this elegant 7MPer cuts as equally striking a figure as its older brother and with a choice of red, black, silver and white finishes and a 232k colour screen it looks just as good from the front or back.
A 'Super Shake-Free Mode' claims to be an anti-blur mode on steroids, while a 1200 ISO should be capable of lighting up dingy environments. Video is shot at the now customary 640 x 480 VGA resolution at 30fps but it has a trick up its sleeve with a remarkable 4000 ISO in movie mode which promises to deal with even the darkest scene (the mind boggles).
Elsewhere there's a 3x optical zoom, 12MB of built in memory, an SDHC compatible memory card slot, PictBridge and it weighs a mere 120g (without battery). The T700 also ships with a touch pen for editing photos on the screen.
There's no UK RRP yet but the Yanks can get it now for just $300. Expect that to translate to somewhere near the X720's excellent £169.99 debut price and expect just as big a queue when the T700 eventually appears in shops.
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The Paralympic Biathletes Don't Need to See to Score
The Paralympic Winter Games offer an opportunity for people with a wide range of disabilities to compete in adjusted versions of popular Olympic sports.
However, you probably wouldn't expect someone with a visual impairment to be championing an event that has a gun. But Nordic skier Kevin Burton is a biathlete representing Team USA in the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Games, and he is hoping the team lands its first gold medal.
Burton became visually impaired due to a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa. To compensate for his lack of sight, Burton and the other competitors in his event have guides to ski in front of them and give them directions on when to move and in what direction, and where other skiers are in proximity to themselves.
The aforementioned gun is actually an electronic rifle, not dissimilar to a high tech laser pointer, that emits varying beeping pitches depending on how far the shooter is from the bullseye. Burton says the hardest aspect of shooting isn't the lack of vision, but rather slowing his heart down enough to be steady with this aim.
He joins The Takeaway to discuss what inspired him to become a competitive athlete and how the Paralympics brings people from very different backgrounds together.


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It is sometimes said that there are only seven showbiz stories, with "X has splashed out on a new X" one of the great ur-myths. Within that category, though, Lost in Showbiz has a special weakness for a notable subgenre: "Celebrity has splashed out on a private island."
All you can be absolutely sure of, whenever you see a variant on that tale, is that the one thing the celebrity has not done is splash out on a private island. To read the headline "Celebrity has splashed out on a private island" is to know that the opposite is axiomatically true.
This week, it was the turn of Angelina Jolie. "Angelina Jolie is splashing out £12.2m to buy Brad Pitt a heart-shaped island," the Daily Mirror informed us of an island 50 miles north of Manhattan. Or as a representative of the family who own the island told the New York Post: "I don't have any idea where that came from. The family threw it out there to see if anyone was interested, but so far no [potential buyers] have [come forward]."
Excitingly, this isn't even the first time Jolie has not splashed out on a private island – the last one she had absolutely no intention of splashing out on was in that much-vaunted Dubai development, The World. Do you recall that thing? It was one of those artificial archipelagos dredged out of the sands of the ocean shallows off Dubai's coast – created in the shape of a world map, with each country its own island – and was rumoured to be the most highly sought residential address in the galaxy or something. It seems to have gone mostly tits-up since the financial crisis, with subsequent descriptions ignoring its intergalactic desirability, and referring to it instead as "the world's largest shipping hazard". Anyway, back in the day, celebrities were reported to be splashing out on it left, right and centre. Rod Stewart had splashed out on Scotland, and Angelina and Brad … well, they had splashed out on Ethiopia. (It was just after the couple had adopted an Ethiopian-born daughter, so you can imagine The World's marketing "guru" reckoning it was worth a punt.)
Alas, we'll now never see Rod powerboating over from Scotland to Ethiopia to borrow a cup of sugar from Brangelina, perhaps calling in at Greece, which – if I recall correctly – was being not splashed out on by Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee.
And we'll certainly never see armed vessels patrolling Spice Island, the subject of a classic of the genre written by a late friend. Its premise? "Posh and Becks plan to buy a £6m private island … just off the coast of Essex!"
No. No they don't – but long may such non-splashings-out continue, in a genre that should really be labelled Isle Be the Judge of That.


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Mason Raymond, defenseman Cody Franson, Tyler Bozak and Nikolai Kulemin also scored for the Maple Leafs, who improved to 11-5-2 against Atlantic Division opponents and are 8-1-1 in their last 10 contests. Nazem Kadri collected three assists, Phil Kessel notched two and Jonathan Bernier made 35 saves.
Nick Bjugstad and Sean Bergenheim scored to give Florida a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the Panthers allowed the next five goals. Blue-liner Dmitry Kulikov also tallied and Scott Clemmensen stopped 26 shots in just his second start this month.
Franson's point shot through traffic cut Toronto's deficit to 2-1 with 3:11 remaining in the first period. The Maple Leafs took the lead less than a minute into the middle session as Raymond buried a wrist shot at the 27-second mark and van Riemsdyk tipped Kessel's shot past Clemmensen 31 seconds later.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Bergenheim has recorded a point in each of his last five games. … Kadri has collected 12 points in his last seven contests. … The Maple Leafs finished 2-for-3 on the power play.


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Posted by Reineke Reitsma on August 12, 2011
Do you remember the last trip that you took? In this season, chances are that it was only last week or last month. As much as we love to travel, ideally for leisure, we are often overwhelmed by all the planning and coordination that are involved in the process — flights, car rentals, lodging, just to begin with. And if you are truly a planner, you want to add the places to dine, events to attend, and attractions to stop by to the itinerary.
Luckily, we are in the technology-centric era. We have websites, software, and devices that help us make life easier. Two companies that I recently came across, TripIt and Traxo, are designed to take care of travelers' concerns. Much like TripIt, Traxo aims to simplifying travelers' lives by aggregating all of their travel information in one place, but it does so in a more elegant auto-pull manner versus an email push one. Traxo users just need to link their travel accounts to Traxo via a one-time, upfront process, and then Traxo automatically detects all of their trips, miles, and points and intelligently combines them into a single travel dashboard. It also allows members to share experiences with friends and possibly discover where they might have an overlapping trip with another.
But what makes this really interesting is that these services are available for smartphones. In his recent Forrester report "Why Smartphones Will Become One Of Travel's Two Most Important Touchpoints", my colleague Henry Harteveldt points out that "travelers are up to three times more likely than all US adults to have a smartphone."


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* Non-Traditional Careers - Nontraditional careers with Online Courses for learning about specific careers
Study Abroad, Internships and other educational and volunteer opportunities
* Internships with the County of Orange
* Volunteer Center Orange County
* TeachSoCal - Southern California Teacher Recruitment and Support Center
* Cal Teach - Statewide information on teaching in California
* Edjoin.org - Search all jobs for k-12 school districts in Orange County
* Study Abroad - One of many companies to assist to place you
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* Hoover's - Research Companies and the people that work for them (via library hoovers.com)
* FireCareers.com - Testimonials and Bulletin Boards - not non-profit
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WEST BERLIN, N.J. (AP) — A 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card sold for more than $2.1 million at auction.
The T206 card, originally released by the American Tobacco Co., went for $2,105,770.50 in an online sale, Goldin Auctions said Saturday.
While the company said the price was a record for a baseball card sold at auction, a similar Wagner card in mint condition was purchased for $2.8 million in a private sale in 2007.
Chinese boxer wins debut match
UNDATED (AP) — Zou Shiming won a unanimous decision in his professional boxing debut Saturday, dominating all four rounds against Mexico's Eleazar Valenzuela at Macau.
Zou's high-profile flyweight debut was the centerpiece of a show at the Cotai Arena at the Venetian Macau casino. The two-time Olympic gold medalist didn't disappoint the crowd, which waved flags and cheered for the most successful amateur boxer in Chinese history.
Earlier in the show, Juan Francisco Estrada beat longtime flyweight champion Brian Viloria by split decision to claim the popular former U.S. Olympian's WBA and WBO belts. Rocky Martinez also retained his WBO super featherweight title with a split decision over Diego Magdaleno.


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Unicef UK annual report 2015
In 2015, supporters helped Unicef UK raise a record £100.7 million for children in danger, according to our latest annual Trustees Report.
Your support helped us provide:
- Emergency aid for children in 19 countries and regions
- 24 million tetanus vaccines for mums and babies through our Pampers 1 pack = 1 vaccine campaign
- 1 million sets of winter clothing for the children of Syria
- 1,400 temporary schools for children affected by the earthquakes in Nepal
- and much, much more.
In the UK:
- 90 per cent of maternity units are working towards our Baby Friendly standards
- More than 1.3 million children now attend a Rights Respecting School.
- 76,000 people signed our petition to protect children caught in wars and disasters.
Thank you to everyone who helped us achieve so much for children in 2015.


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- Only 45 percent of respondents said they would consider purchasing wine with a screw-cap. Seventy-two percent said they would consider wines with a synthetic closure.
- For gifts, dinner parties and special occasions, as many as 90 percent of respondents said they would prefer wines sealed with cork. Sixty percent of respondents said wines with synthetic closures were inappropriate for gifts, and 78 percent indicated they would not consider giving screw-capped wines as gifts.
- Compared to similar Tragon studies conducted in 2004 and 2007, consumer opinion changed the most for screw-caps, with the closures having reached their peak of popularity in 2007. Compared to four years ago, the closure is now seen as less appropriate for all occasions.
- Half of respondents thought that wines with a screw-cap were of low quality. Only 11 percent indicated that screw-caps conveyed high quality.
- Synthetic closures have gained acceptance among consumers for everyday use, although respondents showed little preference for one closure over another for this category of use.
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Dec. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Natural cork remains the overwhelming choice for U.S. wine drinkers because it conveys higher quality than alternative closures, according to a recent survey by Tragon Corp., the Company announced today. According to the survey, 94 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to purchase wine with natural cork. A nearly equal number, 93 percent, said that natural cork conveys high or very high quality. "These results are remarkable because we rarely find such overwhelming agreement among consumers," said Rebecca Bleibaum, Tragon's Vice President, Sensory and Consumer Insights. "We consider 70 percent to be a powerful plurality, but 94 percent positive purchase interest is almost unheard of." Other key findings included:


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Hello beauties! Today's post is a Nike Pro Hero Womens Sports Bra Review. As you all know, I love trying new types of exercises. My favorite activity is weight lifting, but I also sometimes do yoga, go on hikes or jog. Lately, I've been obsessed with HIIT exercises. HIIT stands for High Intensity ... [ Read More ]
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Hello beauties! Today's post is all about my experience with Roxy Fitness in Huntington Beach. Roxy had an event that involved Paddle Boarding, a 5k and Yoga on the beach. You could participate in 1, 2 or all 3 events. I enrolled for the 5k and yoga on the beach. I am so excited to tell you all ... [ Read More ]
Whats in my Gym Bag
Hello beauties! Today's blog post is all about Whats in my Gym Bag. As most of you know, I am a beauty professional and fitness fanatic. I need to make sure that my gym bag has the tools I need for a great workout. But also, I need to ensure I have the best products to stay beautiful. When I started ... [ Read More ]
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Hi beauties! Today's blog post is a Brita Water Bottle Review. Drinking the right amount of water daily has so many health and beauty benefits! It's great for your skin. It's great for your metabolism and energy levels. It's no secret that drinking enough water daily is important, yet we sometimes ... [ Read More ]
Fitbit Flex Review
Hi Fit beauties! Today's blog is a Fitbit Flex Review. As you all know, I have been on quite the fitness journey. I've gone from skinny fat to a more toned and healthier lifestyle. I love tracking apps like MyFitnessPal and NikeRunning to map my progress. Of course, I wanted to see what the Fitbit ... [ Read More ]
5 Minute Face Makeup
Hello Beauties! Today's blog is about my 5 Minute Face! Let's face it, I wish I had time to slay every day like these IG famous muas our there. But I don't. I work full time. In the mornings before work, I make healthy breakfast for my fiance and myself. And, I love sleeping in as much as possible. ... [ Read More ]
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text: The Expendables Game Rating: The Expendables Game is the official game of "the action film of the year", so is the game actually full of action too? You take the role of the Sylvester Stallone character from the movie and it's your task to defend the island of Vilena from then troops of General Garza. Of course if you have watched … Read More


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June 27, 2010
To Ventura we go!
June 26, 2010
It's Hot, Go Cold!
Confession: Yes, I realize this is the second consecutive post about ice cream. I'm an adult child of ice cream addiction.
Joy the Baker is one of my new favorites to follow...and she's downright hysterical. Do me a favor - please go read her post It's Hot. Go Cold. Please just do it, you'll thank me. Here are some photos to get you excited...
June 25, 2010
It may be bad form, but YUM!
After posting about my last day...and feeling rather down, I immediately came upon this deliciously amazing post via cannelle et vanille - and it made me happy. Check out her wondrous recipes for Butterscotch Smoked Almond, Raspberry Vanilla and Peach Basil frozen treats - don't they look amazing!?
The BIG Day
Today's Spokane Countdown is a special one...it's my LAST day at Mercy! Yesterday the marketing team took me out for delicious French food to celebrate my departure and now it's just a matter of wrapping up a few last projects and turning in my badge.
As I was going through all the documents on my computer I cam across some old photos that I had forgotten even existed... like when Numi was a tiny lad:
June 23, 2010
Summer lovin
I have spent the past few weeks planning a summer soiree to take place this Saturday - and I'm just putting on the finishing touches. Paper lanterns, linens, seating cards, summer bbq, ice cream sandwiches, good friends, cool drinks, and lots of fun! This time of year there is ample online inspiration, and I thought I'd share a few of the photos that got my wheels turning...
June 22, 2010
Weekend Fun
Busy, yet blissful.
June 21, 2010
Happy Monday!
Also, check out my new website! I've spent that last few months developing the business plan, website, etc., and am excited to launch
{la lune} events once we relocate to Spokane. It is an event design and coordination outfit that specializes in boutique events - and I'm so excited! It's a way for me to channel my detail-oriented tendencies with my creative passions, and I'm looking forward to exploring the new market that Spokane will provide. Shameless plug: if you're in the Spokane area and would like to inquire about a complimentary events package - please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com!
Tonight it's off to dinner with a dear family friend...and another round of goodbyes. Let the countdown continue!
June 18, 2010
Let's hurry up....and wait
But as we creep closer to our departure, I can't help but be reminded of what we have built and fostered here in Roseville - our family, friends, neighbors, jobs, and our precious church - things that will not be easy to leave. We have loved our time here, and the people we have been close to. This last week and a half will be spent in fellowship over dinners, outings, and family time. I feel myself wanting to squeeze every little bit of time left out of our family and friends...because I know that once we move, and the dust settles, and the job hunt continues...I will be prone to homesickness. And folks, I get that reeeeal bad.
But for now we're still here, in our familiar little town, with our loved ones, half remodeled house and all. Everything may be in a disarray of boxes and packing materials, but we're trying to enjoy our last little bit of time in the California sun.
She's heeeeeeeere!
Again with me and identifying inanimate objects as female...but whatever. The new camera is here! No longer will we have to fight our stubborn sometimes-I'll-flash-but-sometimes-I-won't-camera! No longer will be have to spend 10 minutes editing a picture just to get it to look "okay." No longer will our pictures look like we gave the camera to a toddler! (Well, hopefully...I'm still learning...)
We finally decided on the Nikon D90 after dancing around whether to go Nikon or Canon. So far, I love it! I've been reading the manual like it's some sort of sacred text and snapping photos of anything I see.
June 17, 2010
Cooking Trick
2 Pints in a Quart
4 Quarts in a Gallon
June 16, 2010
June 15, 2010
I have to share
Aside from being a truly brilliant king-of-all-nerds, brother, son, husband, and string-figure enthusiast (read: king of all nerds), Matthew is my best, best friend. Every birthday we writes me pieces of music, constructs elaborate handmade cards, and now writes things like this.
Could I be more blessed?!
Just had to share.
Latest Find
June 12, 2010
Our New Home!
June 11, 2010
For Dads everywhere
I came across this crazy cool idea on Oh Happy Day - a "Hero Supplies" kit for your hero-of-a-Dad.
It's a creative DIY project for father's day that any dad would appreciate – my favorite is the bag of breath mints that "Freshens Breath – 4 of 5 damsels agree!"
June 4, 2010
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To make an all-foliage vignette really come alive, combine plants of various leaf sizes, shapes, colors, and textures. In this Hawaii garden, the smooth, coffee- and apricot-hued leaves of ti plants (Cordyline fruticosa) contrast with a blue fan palm's corrugated fronds and elephant's ear's wavy green leaves. Mounded red and green tillandsias add punch in the foreground. Design: Davis Dalbok, Living Green, San Francisco (
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I'm doing a third-party giveaway again this year.
Here's how it works:
Post in this thread indicting your interest in getting a free PDF (or PDFs).
Each day, beginning on December 13th, I'll use Paizo's dice roller to randomly select a winner and I'll PM the winner to ask them for their choice of PDF(s) from Kobold Press, Legendary Games, Purple Duck Games, Raging Swan Press, Rite Publishing, Rogue Genius Games, Rusted Iron Games, Zenith Games, or Zombie Sky Press. Please limit selections to $12 (I can't afford to give away 12 copies of Deep Magic), but they don't have to be books that I've worked on.
If you've been chosen as a winner, you will be out of future rounds to make sure 12 different people receive free stuff. :)
I consider myself lucky that a lot of third-party publishers provide me with gainful employment, so I thought I would give back to them *and* give away free stuff to you.
Here's how it works:
Post in this thread indicting your interest in getting a free PDF (or PDFs).
Each day, beginning on December 13th, I'll use Paizo's dice roller to randomly select a winner and I'll PM the winner to ask them for their choice of PDF(s) from Kobold Press, Legendary Games, Purple Duck Games, Raging Swan Press, Rite Publishing, Rogue Genius Games, Rusted Iron Games, or Zombie Sky Press. Please limit selections to $10 (I can't afford to give away 12 copies of Deep Magic), but they don't have to be books that I've worked on.
If you've been chosen as a winner, you will be out of future rounds to make sure 12 different people receive free stuff. :)
Hello Customer Service Folks,
This has never happened to me before, so I'm not sure what the process is, but this order hasn't reached me yet. It could be that I'm being somewhat impatient for its arrival, but it has taken much longer than usual to arrive compared to other Paizo orders.
Please let me know what is going on, and if there's a way I can get the products in this order. Thanks!
Hi CS folks!
I just got my invoice for this order, and I noticed that the Pawns weren't discounted with the Pathfinder Advantage. Just to make sure I hadn't misremembered pawns being discounted, I checked previous orders, and they were indeed discounted. I'm not sure if this is a glitch in the ordering system or not, but I was hoping you could give me my discount on the pawns.
For all Piedmont Triad (and beyond) Pathfinder RPG players, this brand new convention features Pathfinder Society Play. Ron McClung and JustUs Productions (MACE, MACE West, and other fine Carolina conventions) are overseeing the general gaming, and I've put together a slate of low-level PFS scenarios that run the gamut of seasons.
Link to the ConGregate home page: http://www.con-gregate.com/
Link to the PFS schedule: http://ogre.justusproductions.com/index.php/ogre/browseschedule/rpgax
I apologize for the lateness of this thread, but I hope you can make it.
Doom Comes to Dustpawn
An unknown expedition to the stars returns to its point of origin—the unsuspecting village of Dustpawn. Strange disappearances and a blazing object in the sky mark the beginning of trouble for the sleepy village. Can the heroes save the villagers from fiery doom, reality-warping creatures that view the citizens merely as experimental animals, and a horrific threat from beyond the stars?
Doom Comes to Dustpawn is a Pathfinder Roleplaying Game adventure for 9th-level characters, who will advance to 10th level by the adventure's conclusion, which brings the characters directly into conflict with an emissary from the Dark Tapestry.
Adventure Background
Unknown to the apprentices, the craft's passengers had survived, continuing to record their observations and transmit them back to Golarion. They reached Aucturn and then reversed course for home, intending to present all their research to the astonished masses on their return. Unfortunately, the final planet on their itinerary undid their plans; their craft brushed against a planar breach, exposing the passengers to the Dark Tapestry, its bizarre energies forcing each wizard to merge with his or her familiar. As their bodies and minds warped, the gestalt beings went mad and turned on each other. The mission leader, in a brief moment of lucidity, triggered an emergency spell to place the ill-fated voyagers in stasis. Using a powerful staff imbued with an incredibly powerful word of recall, he shunted himself and four others to their launch site days ahead of the returning main craft. These survivors, still irradiated with dark energies, sought secluded areas near Dustpawn to regroup, unaware their subconscious desires would warp their new-found sanctuaries. The hybrids began abducting townspeople to their lairs, either to transform them into similar creatures or conduct bizarre experiments upon them. Meanwhile, the forgotten craft still hurtles towards Dustpawn, the creature known as the Emissary from Beyond following in its wake to turn the unsuspecting village into a beachhead for an incursion by the Dark Tapestry.
Delayed by the chaotic magic encountered during their journey, the wizards' communications suddenly pour back to Golarion, specifically to their apprentices' descendants. The first sign of impending doom comes from those afflicted with apparent madness, as years of information floods into their minds.
Getting the Characters Involved
Act I: First Contact
Dalviss prattles on enthusiastically about the object making its way to Golarion and guides the characters to his makeshift observatory. While at Crenn's observatory, a character succeeding at a DC 30 Knowledge (arcana, nature, or planes) check learns the amount of time remaining before impact. A subsequent DC 30 Perception check informs the character the meteorite will strike Dustpawn. With this advance warning, the party gains the opportunity to evacuate as many villagers as possible.
Alyssia takes the PCs to a home where they hear Laura Mulvayne lecturing, suddenly stopping, and then screaming and throwing herself against the walls. When Laura lectures, she speaks in monotone about the planets in detail, almost too fast for the characters to keep up. During or after this encounter, characters may attempt a DC 35 Knowledge (history) check to remember the cabal who traveled the stars, and a subsequent DC 30 Knowledge (history or local) check reveals the victim's relationship to one of the original apprentices. Ten minutes after the party arrives, Laura becomes placid and spends a few seconds to look at everyone in the room. She then unleashes a primal shriek that potentially stuns the characters, and her features bubble and shift as she transforms into a chaos beast. This encounter may alternately take place after Dustpawn's evacuation or the crash landing.
For added tension, the DM can designate any or all the PCs as unfortunate descendants of the apprentices. The maddening information flow and the Emissary's intrusions cause Wisdom damage once per day, unless the afflicted character succeeds at a DC 25 Will save. However, he also gains a temporary bonus for the day to Knowledge checks—also allowing him to perform untrained checks without the usual limitations—pertaining to the planets and the Dark Tapestry.
Two hours after the party arrives in Dustpawn, the craft enters the atmosphere, breaks up, and crash lands in Dustpawn, setting the village center ablaze. After the characters battle the blaze and rescue trapped townsfolk, they have the opportunity to explore the craft, where they discover a handful of stasis pods bearing bizarre hybrids that perished in the crash. Searching the craft rewards characters with partial transcriptions about the planets and the information that five creatures escaped. For several days after the crash, a dark haze that blots out the sun covers Dustpawn.
Investigation of the disappearances reveals the missing as: a pair of fishermen; a group of halfling explorers; and a goat herder, his wife, and their entire herd. The fishermen, currently prisoners of the Toad King, routinely fish the Conerica River for a week before bringing their catch back to Dustpawn. They were due back two nights prior to the party's arrival, and the delay has raised suspicions in the village. Meanwhile, the halflings became victims of the Warren during one of their many trips to the spent mines outside Dustpawn. While they normally keep to themselves, they carouse at one of the local taverns after they return from spelunking, so regulars notice their absence. Finally, the herder and his wife fell victim to the Night Hunters. Neighbors only recall hearing the bleating of goats as if something carried them through the skies, but they neither heard nor saw anything else. Individually, the villagers would regard the disappearances as unfortunate accidents, but the cumulative events set them on edge.
As the characters search for missing Dustpawn residents, they may encounter the following events in any order (with the exception of Emissary from Beyond, which occurs last):
Act II: The Toad King
The characters must traverse the newly formed swampland to reach the toad king and stop its depredations. On the way, they contend with hostile terrain, a rain of poisonous toads, and a mobogo compelled to serve the toad king. They must then discover the route into the creature's lair and reach its grotto before its victims succumb to the foul experiments.
Due to the reality-altering nature of the creatures in this adventure, their lairs are treated as mildly chaotic-aligned.
Act III: Followers of the Emissary
On a return trip to Dustpawn, the party notices a group of cultists on their way to the village. The cultists lie, claiming they want to help with recovery efforts after the crash and the fire. The cultists' leader owns a seed of madness, a new magic item that bestows greater powers of persuasion upon the bearer and causes his targets to become confused. If the party allows the cultists unfettered access to the craft, they try to murder any NPCs who remain at the site, since they are unfit to bear witness to the majesty of the Dark Tapestry. The cultists will fight only if cornered but will otherwise flee in an attempt to sneak into Dustpawn. Interrogating a captured cultist provides the PCs with the first warning about the Emissary's arrival.
The characters must also deal with new arrivals of other tormented descendants of the apprentices, who, like Laura Mulvayne, alternate between intoning facts streaming to them from the wizards' mission and screaming in agony. If the party works with these victims, they may discover a means allowing them all to share the burden, with each speaking in turn and gaining temporary relief while the others speak.
Act IV: The Warren
As with the toad king's habitat, the creatures' lair has reconfigured itself to accommodate their wishes. On approach to the warrens, the characters encounter large snakes that fled the newly inhabited mine and must negotiate with a large contingent of displaced goblins that blame Dustpawn for their problems. The tunnels have become cramped and difficult to traverse for Medium or larger creatures, and traps the goblins set to keep intruders out have become deadlier. A deathtrap ooze, drawn to the newly transformed dungeon, now haunts its passageways. Even more dangerous than the numerous traps, the rat creature attracted ticks, which reproduce at a prodigious rate due to the chaotic energies that infuse the hybrid. The tick swarm pours out of various tunnels in the warren to protect its new host. The party must then defeat the flesh golem and the lair's owners to rescue the surviving halflings.
Act V: Restless Spirits
Dalviss Crenn returned to his observatory shortly after the crash. His telescope still trained to the craft's trajectory, he looks through it and spots the Emissary, which in turn notices him. Dalviss breaks under the strain of the Emissary's attentions and surety of Golarion's oncoming doom. He requests the characters return to his observatory to show them the inky blot that follows the same path as the fallen craft. After a mental assault by the Emissary—something the characters should easily survive—Dalviss cackles and maniacally proclaims nothing the party does will stop the Emissary. He then attempts to commit suicide by throwing himself from the observatory.
Act VI: Night Hunters
The land has changed significantly where the two creatures lair. A giant tree towers over a clearing, surrounded by acres of tall, reedy grasses that grasp at intruders. As the characters approach the great tree at the center, giant owls harass the party from above, dropping some of the remaining goats on their targets, while a dire tiger stalks them on the ground. The owl creature roosts at the tree, while the tiger hybrid lazes at the base playfully batting at the kidnapped couple. Once the characters draw near, the owl creature announces that it has hostages and proposes a contest: a race to find the couple, one character versus the cat. If the characters refuse, the cat creature slays its captives, and the two creatures spring into action, working together to take down individual foes. They hope to leave some of their victims unconscious so they can hunt them later.
Act VII: Emissary from Beyond
Emissary from Beyond:
A new monster, this aberration possesses powerful transmutation abilities. It renders all terrain in a 30-foot radius sphere around it as difficult terrain, and three times per day may perform a coup de grace to transform its victim into a lesser chaos beast (using the young template).
If the party fails to defeat the Emissary, it converts the citizenry into an army of chaos beasts, creating a cancerous blot in Isger—one that will slowly spread out and consume the lands around it.
EDIT FROM THE JUDGES: Please read this information about playtesting these encounters. We've also added hyperlinks from the encounter's short stat blocks to the full stat blocks in the PRD so you have the information you need to run the encounter.
The Thanatopic Amphisbaena
Over 4,000 years later, Mehnit, an unusually intelligent Gebbite mummy with an affinity for handling snakes, arrived in western Geb searching far from the heart of the country for her favored reptiles. Mehnit viewed herself as an ascendant serpent goddess, given her gift of immortality and her ability to control snakes, specifically amphisbaenas that she viewed as the perfect representation of the dichotomy between life and death. She happened upon the partially uncovered, preserved corpse, and noted the colossal creature's resemblance to a serpent. Her curiosity piqued by the creature itself and the susurrus emanating from the worm, she approached the odd war monument. At the mouth belonging to the exposed head, a handful of spectres—remnants of victims of the worms' onslaught millennia ago—greeted her. The spectres taught her the secret of the Wormheart, whispered to them over the ages by the slumbering twin hearts, which would grant her control over the engine of destruction. Without corporeal forms, the remaining spectres could not manipulate the Heart and animate the creature, while the skeletons and zombies still within the corpse lacked the intelligence to operate the Heart. Mehnit, with the aid of her mindless servants, cored out the two stingers—fragments of which she bound to her wrists so she too could inject venom in her foes. She then melded the individual hearts to create the Wormheart and a burgeoning connection with the creature. Upon discovering the second head resting beneath twenty feet of sand, she grew assured of her destiny to bring this Geb-crafted weapon to life. Flush with dreams of becoming a great leader and awakening Geb from its torpor, Mehnit retreated to the submerged head to study the full power of the Heart. Unbeknownst to her, the spectres taught her about the Heart in order to lead to the fused worm's destruction, thus freeing them from their millennia of imprisonment.
Mehnit spent years of study only to achieve basic control of the creature's inner musculature. She nearly ended her research prematurely when she stepped on a spot inside the worm that triggered an involuntary convulsion, crushing a pair of zombies that accompanied her. After that incident, she meticulously mapped out all the locations of her new home's traps, sacrificing more of the mindless undead inhabitants. She then turned her focus to achieving mobility for the worm. Several weeks ago, Mehnit realized she required a closer connection to the Wormheart to gain greater control, so she gladly placed the necrotic organ within her own chest cavity. Shortly thereafter, she managed to move the creature's aboveground head; today she is certain she will finally get the worm's corpse to move fully. Only by navigating the mostly inert creature and finding the buried head can adventurers stop Mehnit from enacting her plans and bringing the foul creation to complete unlife.
The worm's interior remains remarkably well preserved, due to Geb's magic and the corpse's burial beneath desert sands. The smell of rot pervades the passageways, although not strongly enough to cause nausea. The entirety of the corpse's interior is unlit. The cylindrical passageways throughout the worm are 15 feet wide and 15 feet high, but a handful of chokepoints force explorers to squeeze through dead flesh, and many places on the floor feature an unusual trap where the worm's muscles squeeze together and crush nearby victims. Skeletons, zombies, and Mehnit's snakes patrol the interior of the worm, while the spectres remain hidden but report any activity to Mehnit.
6. The Submerged Head (CR 6 or 9)
This area benefits from an unhallow effect (for the low tier, no other spell effect applies; for the high tier, protection from energy (fire) applies). Entering this chamber through the choke point requires squeezing (refer to Pathfinder Core Rulebook 193). The last character going into the worm's head faces a haunt (detailed below).
Creatures: Mehnit has invested too much in her dreams of power—and she is too close to achieving her goal—to let this inconvenience thwart her. She shouts for the skeletons to attack, while her amphisbaena (or amphisbaenas, at the high tier) follows. The front (or only, for the low tier) row of skeletons steps forward 5 feet in order to trigger the worm's involuntary muscular action, potentially crushing hesitant adventurers. The skeletons start the encounter in the row(s) behind the trapped spaces, while the amphisbaena(s) start behind the skeletons. Both use straightforward tactics.
Because Mehnit bears the heart in her chest, she can concentrate on controlling the worm as a move action. She only attacks adjacent foes, unless a competent spellcaster targets her, in which case she moves to attack. Assuming the party does not incapacitate her, the following events occur:
Low Tier (CR 6):
Two-headed Venomous Snake CR 1 LINK
Skeleton (2) CR 1/3 LINK
High Tier (CR 9): LINK
Amphisbaena (3) CR 4 LINK
Skeleton (5) CR 1/3 LINK
Haunt: Ancient victims of the worms' attack have not been laid to rest; some linger near the entrance to the buried head. A haunt targets the last creature squeezing through the opening. For the low tier use the shrieking walls haunt (The Brinewall Legacy 41); for the high tier use the bleeding walls haunt (GameMastery Guide 243)
Trap: Any Small or larger creature stepping on an indicated square sets off the worm's reflexive swallowing. The trap affects all creatures in the row behind the trapped squares (towards the worm's interior). Use the falling block trap (Pathfinder Core Rulebook 420), except reduce the Perception and Disable Device DCs to 15, and reduce the damage to 2d6. Additionally, any character attempting to pass through the affected spaces must squeeze.
Development: If the characters do not search Mehnit specifically for the Wormheart, a spectre passes through the worm's mouth and exclaims, "Now that she is gone, I shall possess the Heart!" The spectre seeks the Wormheart's destruction to free it of its long, tormented existence, so any attack drives the creature away. However, any attempt to leave the worm with the Heart provokes an earnest attack by the spectre. The Heart has 15 hit points and hardness 5, but nothing can harm it while it is within another creature.
This preternatural humanoid's body parts fade in and out randomly, dripping gore and revealing its bizarre anatomy. A broken blade juts out at an angle in place of the creature's shinbone. Its demented grin reveals animal fangs, rocks, and glass shards for teeth. The creature's disturbingly mismatched eyes gleam maliciously.
Monster Reformation Alliance
When a doppelganger killed and replaced gnome adventurer Cornelius Flynn, it set upon a scheme to convince the world at large that monstrous humanoids deserved inclusion in society. Flynn searched out other doppelgangers and recruited well-meaning, former adventurers grown weary of their lives of slaughter. The Monster Reformation Alliance spread from Flynn's home in Kaer Maga to other cosmopolitan cities where citizens would be more receptive to their message of coexistence. Monsters have also joined the Alliance to make a show of their worth to society.
Structure and Leadership
Public Perception
Raptoring Gloves
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