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^ +1 Rep. Also, love the 'Top 5 Referrers' feature!!

Yes, but it depends mainly on: 1) The future of Harden and Ibaka; 2) Kobe's health; 3) Mitch Kupchak's moves.

Favorite Robert De Niro Movie? Favorite De Niro Comedy? Top 5?

Why don't you change only the one you might use on other sites (to promote our new board's name), and keep the original name here? Anyway, in before 'OTR-Player' became 'DH-Player': http://i.imgur.com/uOADc.png ^ I'll miss 'OTR' on those...

'Move' of the year.

Japanese dock torn off in tsunami floats to beach in Oregon A large dock that floated ashore on a beach in Oregon was torn loose from a port in Japan by last year's tsunami and drifted across thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean, a state official said on Wednesday. "This is a very clear threat," said John Chapman, a research scientist at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon, where the dock washed up early Tuesday. "... It's incredibly difficult to predict what will happen next." http://www.onenewspage.co.uk/n/World/74rah805e/Japanese-dock-torn-off-in-tsunami-floats-to.htm http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60747000/jpg/_60747002_60746994.jpg Officials worry about creatures on tsunami dock When the tsunami hit the northern coast of Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents. One floated up on a nearby island. Two have not been seen again. But one made an incredible journey across 8,050 kilometers of ocean that ended this week on a popular Oregon beach. Along for the ride were hundreds of millions of individual organisms, including a tiny species of crab, a species of algae, and a little starfish all native to Japan that have scientists concerned if they get a chance to spread out on the West Coast. A dozen volunteers scraped the dock clean of marine organisms and sterilized it with torches Thursday to prevent the spread of invasive species, said Chris Havel, spokesman for the state Department of Parks and Recreation, which is overseeing the dock's fate. The volunteers removed a ton and a half of material from the dock, and buried it above the high-water line, Havel said. Biologists have identified one species of seaweed, known as wakame, that is native to Japan and has established in Southern California but has not yet been seen in Oregon, he said. While scientists expect much of the floating debris to follow the currents to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an accumulation of millions of tons of small bits of plastic floating in the northern Pacific, tsunami debris that can catch the wind is making its way to North America. In recent weeks, a soccer ball washed up in Alaska, and a Harley Davidson motorcycle in a shipping container was found in British Columbia, Canada. How the dock float — 165 tons of concrete and steel measuring 20 meters long, 5.8 meters wide and 2.1 meters high — turned up on Agate Beach, 1.6 kilometer north of Newport, was probably determined within sight of land in Japan, said Jan Hafner, a computer programmer in the University of Hawaii's International Pacific Research Center, which is tracking the 1.5 million tons of tsunami debris likely floating across the Pacific. That's where the winds, currents and tides are most variable, due to changes in the coastline and the features of the land, even for two objects a few meters apart, he said. Of particular concern was a small crab that has run wild on the East Coast, but not shown up yet on the West Coast, and a species of algae that has hit Southern California, but not Oregon. The starfish, measuring about 7.6 centimeters across, also appears to be new to US shores. Once the dock float got into the ocean, it was pushed steadily by the prevailing westerly winds, and the North Pacific current. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/06/08/officials-worry-about-creatures-tsunami-dock.html

Don't be so harsh, man. I mean, they always got a 'second shot' at it (Guatemala, looking at you).

Good find. Thanks for sharing.

http://contenti1.espn.com.br/foto/pequena/6afaf593-4033-38c0-842a-76f8489ed609.jpg ^ #49 - a tribute to his mother (year of birth).

http://images.ctv.ca/archives/CTVNews/img2/20120605/600_venus_in_transit_ap_120605.jpg That must've been dope! Sucks I couldn't get to Roraima to see it live... <_<

^^ No, that's clearly a Serbian/former Yugoslavian PC. No question about it!

2012 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Venezuela Preliminary, July 2 | Monday, 2012 RUSSIA vs KOREA GREECE vs JORDAN ANGOLA vs. MACEDONIA NIGERIA vs. VENEZUELA http://london2012.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/12/olym/p/asid/6229/eid/6232/lid//rid//sid/6232/schedule.html

Biggest frustration I've seen....

Any Given Sunday.

Favorite Alfredo "Al" Pacino Movie?

They should've stuck to the comic theme and made Hawkeye purple, and not black: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/72/H-5.jpg/250px-H-5.jpg

Lakers pick up option on Bynum for next season LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Lakers have exercised their $16.1 million contract option for next season on All-Star center Andrew Bynum. Los Angeles announced the move Monday. General manager Mitch Kupchak confirmed last month the Lakers would exercise the option. Bynum is coming off his best NBA season after averaging career highs with 18.7 points and 11.8 rebounds while making his first All-Star team, starting for the West. He was the NBA's third-leading rebounder and 20th-leading scorer while also ranking sixth in the league with 1.93 blocked shots per game. Bynum also avoided the injuries that have dogged him throughout a seven-year career since the Lakers made the New Jersey high schooler the youngest player ever drafted in 2005. Bynum played in 60 of the Lakers' 66 regular-season games, missing four due to suspension. http://www.nba.com/2012/news/06/04/lakers-bynum.ap/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2

When Kobe calls it a career... will the Lakers retire only his #24 jersey or both (#8 and #24)?

http://i.imgur.com/x5JiC.jpg

That's exactly why I said:

Damn, now CP3 gon' have to be a player, coach and a GM. <_<

All so true, esp. that last line. I'm pretty sure OKC will close the series on Wednesday night. In a OKC - MIA Finals, I got the Thunder coming on top! http://i.imgur.com/dUegt.gif

^ What he said! Los Angeles hockey, baby!!

Brazilian TV sucks -- all they show is soap opera.. almost 24/7! <_<