Yes, that's right folks! A five-topic post, and it's 8 AM in the morning when I'm starting to post it! First off, we have an interesting news story about the Miami Heat's biggest star: LeBron James. It appears that he has been making ill-advised comments on his Twitter page, much the same way that Chris Bosh had before he bolted out of Toronto for the aforementioned Heat. On Fanhouse's NBA section, there is currently an article entitled "The Works: LeBron James Does Battle with Himself". According to the article, LeBron tweeted about the January 11th loss by the Cleveland Cavaliers to the Los Angeles Lakers by saying that it was crazy how "karma" works, it gets you every time, it's not good to wish bad on anybody, etc. LeBron even meaninglessly brought God's name into the picture as well. At that moment, people were chiding LeBron - rightly so in my opinion - about kicking a team when they're down and rubbing it in. However, the article attempts to defend LeBron by pointing out that the reaction is "justified" by Dan Gilbert's famous letter that he wrote to Cavs fans about the infamous "Decision" special that ESPN hosted about LeBron going to Miami. Mr. Gilbert's reaction may have been childish, but after the special happened, I really can't blame him. To brazenly go on TV and "announce" to everyone what they already knew is also childish and self-serving. You can't excuse your own failures by pointing the blame at others; you are responsible for whatever you do. However, the rest of the article recovers from that liberal claptrap piece by putting the blame on LeBron for his ill-advised comments and seemed to suggest that the actions themselves put LeBron at odds with the NBA public and that his damage control assertions about not wishing to offend anyone and "offering advice" to a friend are incredibly poor and seem to be just lies. To all of that, I say AMEN! To read the article, click here.
Next up, we must address the atrocious arguments of a tough and prominent Youtube atheist by the name of Dhorpatan. He claims to be an "objectivist" meaning that he wants to base his views on facts and not on anything subjective such as emotions. It also refers to the founder of this worldview whose name was Ayn Rand. In his recent video entitled "His Name was not Jesus Christ" Dhorpatan discusses the fact that Christ's name actually isn't Jesus Christ but rather Yeshua which is the Hebrew and therefore the truest name for the Saviour. I have a few problems with his video. First, the manner in which he presents the video is one of shock, surprise, and an attitude of "Ooh gee, this is DEFINITELY going to send the Christians into panic mode and this will destroy their religion. I have disproved Christianity for good. I found something that they don't know about," etc. Never mind the fact that there ARE Christians who know about this such as myself and who can give a reasonable explanation for such facts. Second, Dhorpatan goes beyond stating the fact about Christ's Hebrew name and goes on to imply that language changes of Christ's name indicate corruption of the Bible and of Christ himself and that English people are responsible for the said corruptions! This is simply ludicrous reasoning since no language translates perfectly. It isn't the language that corrupts a document, but rather the fact of whether the teachings, concepts and ideas of the author are preserved faithfully in whatever language the material is translated in. Got Questions Ministries, an online-based Christian apologetics and resource website, has a very good explanation which you can read here. The gist of the article is that Yeshua is the Hebrew name for Jesus while the English spelling is Joshua. Our Jesus name comes from English translations of Greek New Testament manuscripts, since the New Testament was written originally in ancient Koine Greek. The name is a transliteration from the Koine Greek to English. In other words, the name was changed according to language and related needs. The Hebrew Yeshua was changed to the Greek Iesous and this is how we get the name "Jesus". So, it's not an exact translation but this is what happens when you need to change from one language to another. As I said, no language does a perfect job. If Dhorpatan knew these facts, he wouldn't come off as ignorantly as he does in the video. To see the video, click here.
Next up, some sad Raptors news to report. Last night, they played in San Antonio vs the Spurs. Toronto had a double-digit halftime lead but failed to hold onto the lead and blew up in the 3rd quarter. They eventually lost the game 105-94. I didn't watch the game last night because I was watching the CHL Top Prospects game on Rogers Sportsnet. It only comes on once a year, so I figured, "Nothing to it...I'll just watch this hockey game and see if I enjoy it." Anyways, here's the recap.
Now, onto that Top Prospects game I mentioned...it was on last night on Sportsnet and it took place in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre. This is an annual junior hockey event that pits the players most projected to be drafted against each other in a hockey game. This game is for NHL general managers to guage talent and see how well the players play as this will help them determine their draft choices for their NHL clubs. The team names in this contest are Team Cherry and Team Orr because the head coaches for the teams are usually Don Cherry of CBC television Hockey Night in Canada fame and Boby Orr of NHL legend fame. This year, Don took his usual coaching spot behind the bench for his Team Cherry group, while Team Orr was coached this year by Doug Gilmour, another famous NHL legend who once played for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Anyways, about the game...Team Orr defeated Team Cherry 7-1 in a 3rd period blowout where the Orr team scored 4 unanswered goals in that frame to put the game away. It all started around halfway through the first period when Team Cherry was on the power play. Daniel Catenacci scored on a short-handed breakaway during the power play to put the Orr team up 1-0. At that time, it was only the 3rd shot on goal for team Orr. Catenacci plays for the OHL's Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds during the regular junior hockey season. The MVP of the game for Team Orr was WHL's Red Deer Rebels player Ryan Nugent-Hopkins who collected two assists in the game. The only goal scorer for Team Cherry was OHL's Shane Prince of the Ottawa 67's. Two London Knights played in the game: Vladislav Namestnikov of the winning Orr team and Scott Harrington of the losing Cherry team. Harrington picked up an assist on the Shane Prince goal for Team Cherry. Here's the recap.
Lastly, I need to rant about the newest version of Windows Media Player (Windows Media Player 12). Before I start with my negatives, some positives are in order. The Player is now located conveniently on the bottom of the computer screen for easy access. Also too, the Play, Burn, and Sync options are easily located in the top-right corner in the main Player album screen. The music and audio files play quicker than they did on the previous version of the Player (Windows Media Player 11) which is also a nice plus. However, that is where the positives pretty much end for me. The negatives are:
1. There is no Color Chooser (the option that let you change the colour of the actual player from blue to green to red, etc.) This option is absent in the newest Player version.
2. Whenever I try to manually change the album art for any album in the Player library, a message pops up stating that I cannot change album art for an album that is in use (has a song playing). However, I am NEVER playing songs when I try to change the art. When I try to save the album art that I see online to the appropriate artist folder, it does change either the mp3 or the album art temporarily, but whenever I restart the computer or the Player, the changes are no longer in effect. This also happens for the copy and paste album art method of manually changing album art.
3. Whenever I start or restart the Player, the Player has to put the albums BACK onto the Player library and it also keeps "updating" the library and my music folders, all of which takes an EXTREMELY long time to finish - about 30 mins to 1 or 2 hours because I have a lot of music and audio files in the Player library. The same things happen whenever I restart the computer as well.
4. The Burn option is a complete ripoff because the Player help manual indicates that I should be able to burn up to 80 minutes to a regular blank audio disc. However, when I have tried to do this, the Player indicates that I have to put the remaining audio content on a SECOND disc! It turns out that I am only allowed to burn up to 72-73 minutes onto a single blank disc instead of the 80 I was SUPPOSED to be able to burn! The SAME problem existed in the previous version of the Player as well. I'm not sure if it's the discs themselves or the burner, but this really makes me angry sometimes.
Well, that's about it. Hope you enjoyed this whopper of a long posting. I'll see you later!
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