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Great. Two years in the making. . . . and still not done. As citizens, we want our money back.
It makes me wonder about those drafts and why they were sent back for "changes". What was in them? Why has it taken this long to make this a story Mr. Coleman?
As members of the press you are asleep at the wheel on this one. Where is the outrage after a young man dies at the hands of the police and you are not asking the Chief of Police, City Manager, and City Council why the report that is supposed to be the thing that makes corrections to possible police policies so such a thing does not reoccur not completed for two years?
Have another drink of your cool-aid.
It is common for the LE gangbanger class to sandbag all investigations into their own murderous conduct at least until most of the limitation statutes have expired. It's their version of saving the taxpayer money.
Wow Raul G, it sounds like you had to pull one of your own teeth just to concur with me.
But you've achieved a milestone. In spite of your knee-jerk predilection to ad-hominem deviate away from a rational conclusion, the facts of a matter some times will still fail to escape you.
Apparently, it's happened again, and I do appreciate your spontaneity.
to prevent the need for future reports:
a) don't rob people
b) don't run when police tell you to stop
c) keep your hands out of your pants (wearing a belt might help)
And the oppressive tragedy of this preventative point-of-view is that --whenever confronted by an emotionally arrogant badge-dangler -- we* should always act like pant-wetting peons regardless of how innocent we actually may be?
*the overwhelmingly unarmed general public
DanD - you should comply, especially if innocent. You have nothing to gain by not following orders. Oh yes, the anarchist in all of us wants to run, or tell the officer to f-off, but we must be rational, prudent, and SMART. Also, we must be able to see things from the officer's point of view and know that they are often in very dangerous situations.. and they should, as a matter of survival, approach situations expecting the worst. Therefore, we should behave in a manner that does not cause concern.
If the officer behaves in an unprofessional manner, file a report after the fact, but don't be stupid and put yourself in jeopardy in the heat of the moment.
True Freedom;
Yes, I'm not a young person, I've been to many countries where police forces don't play nice, and I do realize that anybody confronting a bully with a gun and an attitude requires slow deliberate movement and speech.
Even so, I will still not degrade myself or scrape and tap-dance to appease his/her secret inferiority complex. Indeed, I have survived my anarchy-complex. But many more young people (of all colors) will not because America's police-state IS getting worse.


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#111179 - 08/29/03 07:19 AM yegg
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of unknown origin
Tsuwm?...you have anything on this one?
#111180 - 08/29/03 07:48 AM Re: yegg
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Get in line, Juan -first, he's got to find out whence huckery (as used here) comes.
#111181 - 08/29/03 08:46 AM Re: yegg
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here's what M-W had to say about yegg when it was their daily word* : http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwodarch.pl?Jul.17. OED2 offers "Said to be the surname of a certain American burglar and safe-breaker."
huckery? as used where?**
* do you think that possibly there are just too many daily words?
**huckery is probably just from hucker, a back-formation from huckster.
#111182 - 08/29/03 09:22 AM Re: yegg
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There were once the forms "John Yegg" and "yeggman". The words were associated with tramps (perhaps among other associations) ca. 1900. Claims about the origin include:
(1) from the name of a famous safecracker/criminal, John Yegg;
(2) from the German "Jaeger" = "hunter".
I do not know that either of these has any substantiating evidence.
The Pinkerton Web site gives another derivation (supposedly pre-1900):
**The word 'Yegg' or 'Yeggman' originated with the gypsies. When a particularly clever thief is found among a gypsy tribe, he is selected as the 'Yegg' or chief thief.**
I don't know that this is reliable at all. But note that many Romany dialects have something like "yek" meaning "[number] one" ... as do other Indic languages.
#111183 - 08/29/03 04:24 PM Re: yegg
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>huckery? as used where? huckery is probably just from hucker, a back-formation from huckster
Citation, s'il du please? As I mentioned in my email, huckery as used in NZ appears to be pretty much uniquely Zild, and there is no online mention of its origins anywhere, anbd that includes here the last time I asked. Also "huckster" is not used here, at laeast not now, nor since I was a child, but huckery is still in common use. Finally, the transformation from "con-man" to "old, decerpit, broken-down" seems a bit (although only a bit) of a stretch. Stretch or not, I will be happy to accept that it is so when I see proof from someone less fecal, if that's OK with you.
#111184 - 08/30/03 08:19 AM Re: huckery
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1377 She hath holden hokkerye al hire lyf time
The business of a huckster.
From B&M OED
#111185 - 08/30/03 04:39 PM Re: huckery
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>1377 She hath holden hokkerye al hire lyf time
The business of a huckster.
Ok, Geoff, care to translate for me? Is the word there being used in the sense that is used up here, as an adjective, or is it being used as a noun? I am genuinely interested in figuring this one out, and definitely the help of those further up the evolutionary ladder to do so. Please.
#111186 - 08/30/03 05:37 PM Re: huckery
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The business of a huckster
Sounds like a noun to me.
used up here
I'll echo ron, as used where?
If huckery is a modern backformation from huckster it has merely revived the 1377 usage. AHD4 claims that the origin of huckster is Middle English with Low German origin and references the Middle Dutch hokester. My German dictionary has Höker, but no corresponding Hökerei.
#111187 - 08/30/03 05:41 PM Re: huckery
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well, I'm not Geoff, but few amongst us are; here is the compleat OED entry, fwiw:
[f. HUCKER n. or HUCK v.: see -ERY. Cf. also HUCKSTERY.]
The business of a huckster.
1377 LANGL. P. Pl. B. v. 227 She hath holden hokkerye [v. rr. hukkerye, hukrie; C. hockerye, also huckerstrye; A. hoxterye] al hire lyf tyme.
so, she has held the business of a huckster all her lifetime. the citation is evidently from "LANGLAND, William
The vision of William concerning Piers Plowman."
an additional aside: Mencken gives huckster as an American equivalent to the English coster, costermonger or hawker. maybe the latter bears some relationship to the obviously rare hucker ([f. HUCK v. + -ER, or back-formation from HUCKSTER, q.v. (Perh. only a glossarist's word.)] A petty dealer; one who bargains or haggles.
edit: I continued to be puzzlepated by "as used up here" until I realized that was just max being parochial again. I kept looking for previous usage examples from NZ here, which all seem to have been deleted.
#111188 - 08/30/03 05:54 PM Re: huckery
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My German dictionary has Höker, but no corresponding Hökerei.
sounds pretty hokey to me..._________________________
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In one of the first issues of "Love and Rockets," Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez's largely influential alternative comic, the characters Maggie and Hopey break the fourth wall, asking the reader why their creator picks on them. Talk continues of a protest, of refusing to go along with the strip until something changes, but it's a playful and loving and short-lived tease that feels forged from a deep bond, like a sister ragging on her brother about a school crush.
Three decades in to publishing their seminal comic (aside from a few off years), the brothers have lived with their "Love and Rockets" characters longer than most spouses. In a phone interview with Jaime in advance of the Hernandez brothers' appearance at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum for an artist's talk, it showed.
Jaime spoke of his characters as though they were old friends, suggesting that even if years might pass between visits with certain fan favorites, he usually knows where they are and what they're up to, even if their final destination is unknown.
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Three Israelis were killed when their apartment building was struck by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, an attack that intensified tensions between Israel and Palestinian militants. The incident came after Hamas' top military commander and others were killed in a series of airstrikes by the Jewish state. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports.
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TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel has called up army reserves, the standing army is poised for a ground invasion of Gaza, the air force and navy are attacking a list of specified targets, mostly Hamas fighters and weapons facilities. All is set for war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The only sure thing, in this fog of war, is that nobody actually wants the war to take place -- not Israel, not Hamas.
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Israel: Three civilians killed by rockets fired from Gaza as violence escalates
Israel is resolved to end the Palestinian rocket attacks on its southern cities and communities -- 100 rockets fired in the five days before Israel's response and, at the time of writing, 150 since.
Israel's surprise attack Wednesday killed the man who has been on top of Israel's hit list for a decade, Hamas military commander Ahmed Jabari, accused of being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Israelis, as well as taking part in the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was held hostage in Gaza for five years.
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Two sides exchange deadly airstrikes, rocket attacks.
But just as significant, according to the Israeli military, its precision air attacks destroyed most of Hamas' stockpile of long-range Fajr rockets, whose 47-mile range threatens cities in central Israel, including the country's largest, Tel Aviv.
Not only would that end the threat, but it would end the threat of unplanned escalation. For if Tel Aviv suffered casualties from rocket attacks, the government would have no choice but to order the ground invasion of Gaza.
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A Fajr rocket would likely kill and injure many if it exploded in an unprepared city.
Israeli leaders indicate that a new offensive against Islamic militant commanders is underway. NBC's Martin Fletcher reports.
PhotoBlog: Deadly day along Israeli-Gaza border
Israel's southern cities, subject for years to Palestinian rocket attacks, are well prepared. There was no school for children within 25 miles of Gaza, which is the range of the smaller Fajr 3 rocket, and residents were told to stay within a hundred yards of a bomb shelter as air sirens sounded every few minutes.
The three Israelis killed when a rocket hit their apartment building in Kiryat Malachi were standing by the window, looking out, instead of following instructions and staying in a safer place.
In their building, an older one, there was no bomb shelter. The advice, which they ignored, was to shelter in the more solidly constructed central stairwell.
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A man sits inside a damaged house after Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on Thursday. Israel exchanged the fiercest fire with Hamas in years after assassinating the Islamist militant group's military mastermind and threatening a wider offensive in the Gaza Strip to stem Palestinian rocket salvos.
Israel kills Hamas military chief, officials say
Israeli war planes and navy ships continued to pound Hamas targets in Gaza Thursday, while warning that a wider operation could ensue. Hamas is returning fire -- while the United Nations has appealed for an end to the violence.
So far, that appeal is being ignored as each side here tries to gain the advantage.
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Sen. Bernard Sanders has found himself accused of something he has seldom been accused of: selling out the little guy to the big corporations.
In an unusual move, Sanders on Monday inserted himself into a state issue, coming out against a proposed moratorium on ridgeline wind development. He said the moratorium would send a harmful message to the nation that Vermont, an environmental leader, was turning its back on efforts to combat climate change.
Opponents say ridgeline wind development will have a negligible effect on climate change and is not worth the destruction of pristine mountaintops. They say wind developers are in it for the tax breaks and the credits that they can sell to polluting industries. Thus, a group of state senators has introduced a bill calling for a three-year moratorium on ridgeline wind development so Vermont can examine the question more closely.
Sanders may now be feeling the wrath of passionate wind opponents, who have been stirred to activism and civil disobedience by Green Mountain Powers wind installation on Lowell Mountain. Aware of the controversy in Lowell, opposition has become more pronounced at other wind sites, as well, notably the Ira region, the Hubbardton-Pittsford region and Windham County.
Sanders announcement was welcomed by environmental leaders in Vermont who support wind power. And most polls suggest that, despite the bitter feelings in specific areas, public opinion in Vermont supports wind power. So Sanders opposition to the moratorium may not hurt him badly politically.
Much of the rhetoric of the wind foes centers on the corporate interests that stand to make money from wind farms, especially David Blittersdorf, president and CEO of All Earth Renewables. Blittersdorf has been politically supportive of Gov. Peter Shumlin, fostering notions of a wind-powered political cabal. So is Sanders really ready to line up with the corporations against the people?
In supporting wind power, Sanders is taking on corporations far more powerful and pernicious than Vermonts wind industry. To the extent that wind power grows, the hold of the fossil fuel industry weakens. That puts Sanders on the right side of the corporate battle for our energy future. And as with solar power, wind power depends on the development of numerous relatively small projects in order to have an impact to offset fossil fuels in a big way.
Sanders noted that he did not want to allow wind developers to bulldoze their way to a project. He said local communities must have a say about whether a project will go forward.
In fact, despite widespread support for wind power, opposition has been growing when specific projects are proposed. The poll showing that Vermonters support wind power would show a different result if it were restricted to Pittsford or Hubbardton. Opposition in those towns, as in Castleton and West Rutland, has effectively imposed a moratorium on the project contemplated by Reunion Power.
Shumlin also supports a local veto on wind projects, though opponents note that towns are at a disadvantage because they do not have legal standing to block a project. Nevertheless, Shumlins previous public service commissioner, Elizabeth Miller, has been clear that the state takes local sentiment seriously when formulating its response to a wind project. Shumlin and the new commissioner, Chris Recchia, need to assure Vermonters that their deference to local sentiment is more than lip service.
Shumlin has appointed a panel to examine the approval process for power projects, partly because local communities feel they do not have a meaningful say. In the meantime, Vermonters ought to keep the way open for wind projects that are able to win local support, while remaining sensitive to the interests of communities that oppose specific projects. As Sanders says, the moratorium sends the wrong message. Wind power is not a panacea, but halting the momentum in the development of renewable power is the wrong way to go.MORE IN EditorialsProtesters converged on a bank in Montpelier early this week to show their solidarity with the... Full StoryPhil Scott will take office next month after winning with a margin of 51.11 percent to 43. Full StoryIdeologues and partisans work from the outcome backward. Full Story
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I've had enough, I need a mascot who's tough
I've been tossing around a few ideas about improving the "Fan experience at Coors". You know me, it's all about having a good time and making memories.
1. The Sky Sox in Colorado Springs have a hot tub for their fans in their stadium. The Rockies should copy this amazing idea. It could be built over by the bullpens in the grassy waterfall area. If you catch a home run all while soaking in the hot tub you would win a season pass.
If you manage to stay in the hot tub for the entire game, you would receive a Rockies water bottle and beach towel.
2. I'm always hungry at a baseball game. It doesn't matter if I eat something just before I go inside. A ballpark makes you hungry. They're designed that way.
I want a really freggin good taco bar as long as it has some sort of state of the art sneeze guard. You know it and I know it, sometimes a big fat taco hits the spot like nothing else. If your a vegetarian/plant killer, just omit the taco meat. If your a vegan,.. your F'ked.
A good deal to me would be all you can eat tacos for ten bucks. You'd get a wristband and then later when your hungry you could go back again for seconds.
3. I think there should be a master craftsman on hand making actual baseball bats. How cool would it
be to have your own bat created right before your very eyes? You could then run down to the field and try and get a few autographs on it?
The "Bat Man" could demonstrate his craft for all while on display in a protected glass room. Sort of like "The boy in the plastic bubble" except at the end of the day this man can go home and have a nice clean cold crisp "Colorado microbrew" after a hard days labor of love.
4. I think ballplayers should meet and greet the fans as they enter the Stadium. There's always one or two players who are injured and can't play. There's not a damn thing they can do for the team while they're hurt.
Why not let them perform some "Public Relations work" by saying "Hello" to the fans who help pay their salaries and frequent the ballpark?
UPDATE 1/8/09: I was talking with Dan and apparently the Rockies attempted this a few times last season. I'm not sure how I missed that but I did..Credit where credit is due..Thank you Rockies…D
I believe that would be a win/win situation for a couple of reasons. It lets the injured player feel useful while he's injured and it gives the fan a more "personal" experience. Imagine entering Coors and having Jeff Francis standing there saying "Welcome to Coors Field" or "Thanks for supporting us".
If Willie Mays wasn't too proud to do it, neither should any other player be. It's the little things that make your experience. I think that would be a nice touch.
5. I'm sorry, Dinger's sweet and all (kids dig him), but to be honest the Rockies need a mascot that makes a statement when other teams have to play here.
A team's image starts with it's mascot. Our mascot's name rhymes with Winger. I can't tell you how wrong that is.
If you had to choose a different species of dinosaur and a new name for the Rockies Mascot, what would you choose?
It may really be time for this folks…Imagine seeing brand new badazz dinosaur mascot on opening day at Coors Field. The place would go nuts. I'm picturing a black purple and silver dinosaur with big mean boney spikes with one hell of an attitude.
I know, I'm thinking so far out of the box I'm driving the UPS truck.
Can you tell I'm ready for some baseball?
One more thing, MLBlogs.com is officially full of Blog names that contain the word Rant. I'm just saying…D
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I like the taco bar! The hot tub – come on D., you've seen some of the guys who go to the games! I would NOT want to see them in bathing suits through out the entire game! And yes, injured players should be meeting & greeting the fans. They should have to earn their pay like the rest of us!
Hey D,
I'm with you on the mascot thing. Dinger would be good to keep around for the kids but a triceratops on 'roids would be tough. How's Diablo for a name?
I also like the taco bar idea but if they couldn't manage the bar part maybe they could sell them like Taco Bell. And maybe a punch card type deal so that you get a break on the price?
It would have been totally amazing last season if Todd Helton would have done the Meet and Greet while he was on the injured list. Yeah, I'm lovin that idea.
D, you have great ideas. Hopefully someone from the FO is reading this.
I like the taco bar idea, as long as they have your sneeze guard idea! Now I really want tacos! Hahaha! It'd be really nice for the injured player meet and greet thing. If not for the adult fans, then at least for the kids. And for what it's worth, you and Julia are the only "ranters" in my book. 🙂 I noticed the use of "rant" when I made mine…hence "diatribe." They're all just jealous of you and Julia! Hahaha!
I agree that we defenitly need to get a different mascot. or at least give Dinger a makeover. The "Bat Man" idea's good, too. And I'm completely for the injured player meet and greet! when there are a hundred fans on the first baseline wanting to meet you, I don't see any reason why you can't talk to them for a little while!
Fenway has something like the Bat Man idea. They have a demonstration on how they're made, and you can buy a bat which they'll laser-engrave your name on on the spot.
I just checked to see if I could see anything about this online, and I found an old article that says they have one at Coors Field, too! It's called Rawlings Making the Game booth.
I know that we have $1 hot dogs on Friday nights at our games and it is s huge success for the team. And the hot tub idea does have a huge amount of merit during the summer time.
I might even bring my snorkle for that. Or it can be a prize that you win in the first couple of innings and they give you Rockies swim trunks and a towel and the rest of the game in the tub. As for Dinger, well like most teams the Rockies took the only thing they could at the time. It is not like they can get a guy to dress up as Bam Bam with a huge wooden bat.
The Seattle Mariners have a Louisville slugger outlet right in their stadium and you can pay about, I can't remember, maybe $ 70-80 for a personalized bat. The Rays also have a bat producing area down on left field street, but it is a Rays customized bat and for some people they want their teams logo on it.
Awesome ideas, maybe they should use you in a consultants capacity and give you a free season pass……..just another idea.
Rays Renegade
I guess I am one of those "Rant" bandwagon jumpers, sorry I wasn't more original. I hope you'll be able to overlook that!
I like some of your ballpark ideas, and I agree that Dinger is somewhat Barney-like, being purple and all. Also, when my son was 5 or so, "dinger" was a euphemism for a certain body part. Why a dinosaur? Why not something mountainous, like a bighorn ram? Just an idea🙂
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Do we want people to be able to buy bats at the game…hmm change the 7th inning stretch into the 7th inning beat down. I'll pass.
COB-Where the hell do you live? 7th inning smackdown..C'mon dude I hope you were just kidding.
SUE/RRRT-Welcome to the Rant and congrats on making the cover, it's always cool to see yourself up there. Feel free to chime in when or wherever you want, it's all good here. Dinger does kind of make you think of Ding-a-ling…that's funny, you'll fit in fine here.
RAYSREN-LOL- I'm with you on the snorkel..funny stuff. We have dollar dogs at Coors too. Cheap food is good…D
Some excellent ideas, especially the Taco bar. Nothing would be better than grabbing a pre-game taco and then being able to stock up on 4-5 tacos in the middle of the game to go with beer and italian sausage…incredible.
As a Nationals fan, I'm hopeful that some of your ideas will make their way to the front office and we can get that hottub in while Nationals Park is still young. The Caps have a special where you pay a little extra and get access to a gourmet buffet before and during the game, so it's not totally out there.
Our mascot is Screech, a bald eagle, but he's pretty cuddly like Dinger and kids like him so it's cool. I've always wanted the Nats to somehow train a real bald eagle to fly into the stadium and onto the field before each game…how awesome would that be? If we could have it land on Ryan Zimmerman's wrist, that would be even more awesome.
Maybe a velociraptor for the new "tough" mascot would work. They were smart, super fast and bad-a**, just ask the saps stuck in Jurassic Park.
SOUTHPAW99-Welcome to the Rant brotha…I was thinking that but I couldn't spell velociraptor..Although, a velociraptor might look strange as an oversize dinosaur…D


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#142372 - 04/23/05 12:28 PM Kangaroo Words
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From Dr. Bill, this link to Richard Lederer's page on words containing their own synonyms. The letters can be separated, but must be in order.
#142373 - 04/23/05 03:11 PM Re: Kangaroo Words
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This seems a little stretched:
[quote]I have also spotted two kangaroos that carry a joey and its antonym:
*encourage transports urge and enrage
Enrage as an antonym of urge?
#216887 - 06/02/14 07:57 AM Re: Kangaroo Words [Re: inselpeter]
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I have just been looking at this old thread. There are a surprising number of other "kangaroo words". Here is another containing both a synonym and an antonym:
fabrication fiction [synonym]
fabrication fact [antonym]
Other kangaroo words I have come up with:
ungainly ugly
cornet cone
gigantic giant
traitor rat
indolent idle
stellar star
discourteous curt
median mean
regulate rule
education Eton
routine rote
enthusiast nut
eliminate mate (in chess)
Wordsmith wit, worth
absorbing boring [antonym]
#217072 - 06/13/14 09:24 PM Re: Kangaroo Words [Re: inselpeter]
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#217073 - 06/13/14 09:34 PM Re: Kangaroo Words [Re: inselpeter]
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Kangaroo Words is a great link for reference_________________________
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#217090 - 06/14/14 08:08 PM Full Circle [Re: Bazr]
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Isn'i that the very link that began this thread?
#217095 - 06/15/14 05:56 AM Re: Full Circle [Re: inselpeter]
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Just emphasizing it's a great reference._________________________
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine recently unveiled its new supercomputer that is helping researchers unlock the intricate mechanisms that lead to human diseases, and hasten the discovery of treatments for them. The computer, named Minerva, after the Roman goddess of wisdom and medicine, was custom-built by Patricia Kovatch, the school's first Associate Dean for Scientific Computing.
Minerva provides 64 million hours of computation per year. It has 7,680 processing cores, a peak speed of 70,000 gigaflops, and 30 terabytes of random access memory, making it one of the nation's highest-performing computers in academic medicine.
"With its tremendous strength and speed, Minerva enables scientists to analyze and manipulate large data sets by running longer, more complex simulations," says Ms. Kovatch. "This state-of-the-art technology will empower Mount Sinai's researchers to expand the boundaries of their scholarly inquiry." The computer's ability to provide researchers with real-time computation of advanced molecular models and a quick analysis of genomic patterns will help Mount Sinai usher in a new era of personalized and precision medicine. Eric Schadt, PhD, Director of the Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, and his researchers have been using Minerva extensively in their work.


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Grants are awarded to each of the 10 regions, and projects provide technical assistance, information and training on interpretation and implementation of ADA to covered entities. Projects also provide information, technical assistance and training to education-based entities on accessible information technology. Additional projects provide technical support, program evaluation research, outreach, coordination and dissemination activities.
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We hope you've decided to at least try breastfeeding. Even if you only nurse your baby for a few days or weeks, that early milk, called colostrum, provides an important source of antibodies to protect against disease as Baby's own immune system develops during the first year.
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- It can delay the return of your period (although you should still use some form of birth control when you resume intercourse).
- It saves money (no formula!).
Breastfeeding is a learned process; none of us (not even Baby) are born knowing how to do it. To improve your chance of success:
Try to breastfeed within the first hour of birth. This helps your uterus contract and provides that valuable colostrum. Also ask to have Baby room in with you at the hospital so you can feed on demand.
Have a nurse or lactation consultant check how Baby latches on while you're still in the hospital. While it might be uncomfortable when Baby latches on, it shouldn't be painful. If it hurts badly enough to make you grimace every time, then you may not have the right position.
Prepare for your milk to come in. This occurs on about the third or fourth day after birth. You'll know it's happened because your breasts suddenly increase several cup sizes! Speaking of which, make sure you have several well-fitting nursing bras, and don't forget to pack one in your hospital bag.


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Diablo 3 ReviewBy Kevin Kelly - Posted May 21, 2012
You've been patient and waited for this game to come out in the four years since it was announced. Was it worth it? Is it a worthy successor to the Diablo franchise? Will your mouse love you or hate you? Find out in this review.
The Pros
- Gorgeous graphics
- Loot whores: this is your brand-new bag
- Lots of variety in gameplay
The Cons
- What's with that abrupt ending?
- Limited follower outfitting
- Where's the PvP?
- My mouse finger hurts
Diablo 3 Review:
It's hard to believe that it's been 12 years since Diablo 2 came out and continued the loot-frenzy, mouse-clicking adventure RPG Diablo series from Blizzard Entertainment. Since the game announcement in 2008, the title has had multiple revisions – no more Mystic artisan, delayed PvP, the addition of a controversial auction house that has the option to use real money – and plenty of criticism, including the much-maligned color palette that fans said didn't truly represent the franchise.
But it's now been a week since the game launched, which unfortunately meant a crippling period of time where Blizzard's servers didn't cooperate with the vast majority of players, keeping thousands of players from accessing the game. Because Diablo 3's DRM requires an internet connection to be signed into Battle.net, this left the majority of players unable to play the game they had purchased. Complaints littered the internet, but quickly vanished once the servers were able to handle the load.
Are You Playing This For The Story?
Blizzard has a rich history of providing complex stories for their games: see StarCraft, WarCraft and of course the previous Diablo titles as examples of this. But it's easy to lose to the entire scope behind all of those mouse clicks. Diablo 3 has a rich story with some of the most gorgeous cutscenes ever to grace a video game. (Seriously, if there was a feature-length Diablo movie told in this animation, it would sell tons of tickets). But much of the lore and history is told in dialogue with NPCs that you don't' have to access, and we wonder how many people will skip it altogether in the search for yellow epic items.
For those of you who might be curious, Diablo 3 is set 20 years after Diablo 2, with demon lords Belial and Azmodan trying to gain control of the Black Soulstone and destiny itself, either by freeing Diablo, or taking the power for themselves. The events are touched off by a meteor that opens an enormous hole in a Cathedral near New Tristram, swallowing wise man Deckard Cain along with it. As a Nephalem, the direct offspring of angels and demons, you have access to great powers, and must use them to try and stop hell from spilling into Sanctuary.
In order to do that, you'll team up with Cain's niece Leah and trace the path of the Dark Wanderer from Diablo 2. Along the way you'll also meet several followers you can hire to join your party: the Templar, the Scoundrel, and the Enchantress.
Who Do You Want To Be?
Diablo 3 features five characters classes: four brand-new ones, and the returning Barbarian from Diablo 2. What is impressive here is that Blizzard has managed to pack different types of gameplay options into each class, meaning you can have a Witch Doctor who fights up close and personal, or one who hangs back and deals DPS and uses minions do deal damage. Plus, each class has it's own "fuel" that powers the special abilities. Choose carefully your first time around, because you'll be stuck with that character through your entire campaign unless you want to start over.
Wizard: If you liked the Sorcerer or Sorceress from past games, the Wizard fills that slot and offers a slew of different spells from slowing down time, to blasting out beams of ice and energy. This class is fueled by Arcane Power, which regenerates quickly.
Monk: A strange (but very fun) new addition to Diablo despite the Monk class in the Hellfire expansion to the original Diablo game, the monk uses extreme speed and powerful combination moves to vanquish enemies. Powered by Spirit, the monk isn't one you'll want to use for ranged combat, but they offer a unique melee combat option.
Demon Hunter: This class uses two types of resources – hate and discipline – to deploy traps and rain ranged fire from dual crossbows down on their enemies. With a powerful hatred of all things demonic, there are a lot of fun options like bombs and gadgets in their arsenal.
Barbarian: The powerhouse of the group is the Barbarian, who you will definitely want to have in your lineup if you form a party with friends. Powered by Fury, the Barb leaps, whirlwinds, and pounds into foes. If you're into tanking, look no further. Barbarians also tower over the other classes, and as a result their gear stands out more as you outfit them.
Witch Doctor: Arguably the most visually impressive of the new classes, the Witch Doctor is powered by Mana and can raise zombie dogs, corpse spiders, acid clouds, gargantuan voodoo-fueled companions, and more. Favorites include the Enormous Toad option that swallows enemies whole, and the Fetish that turns enemies into chickens. This was the class that I took all the way to the end of the game the first time around, and I'm in love with them.
Click Click Click Click
Diablo 3 doesn't vary from its mouse-clicking heritage, but it does offer up some tweaks. You'll use your mouse and the left and right mouse buttons to move and trigger attacks, while the number keys 1 through 4 trigger additional abilities. Q will instantly quaff whatever potion you've slotted in there, and … that's it. You can hit various other keys for menus – I for inventory, S for Skills, and so on, but as far as gameplay goes, you're going to rely on the first three fingers of your left hand, and your index finger on your right hand to play through this game.
As with other Diablo titles, things can get frenzied and hard to follow when you're swarmed with multiple enemies. Combine that with followers and abilities, and there are plenty of times where you're going, "Well, I know I need to click a ton right in the middle of this mess, but I'm not entirely sure what's going on." In those situations, you'll play the "Watch The Health Meter" game and pray for globe drops and fast potion recharge times.
To streamline the process, Blizzard has introduced Health Globes that occasionally drop from enemies, and you can augment that through abilities and gear as well. For instance, higher-end gear will give you more health from globes, if imbued with that ability. You can also pick up gold now just by walking over it, but you'll quickly find that the name of the game is loot juggling. You'll have to click on each piece that you want to pick up, and once you get to higher levels and start finding the really good stuff, it's hard to let it go.
Thankfully, you have a Stash in town once again that you can store stuff in to be used by any of your characters, but it's both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing to have, but a curse that it's so small. Still, if you find a great piece of epic gear meant for another class, it's nice to have the option to hand it off to that class or even sell it. Right now, the real money auction house hasn't been activated in Diablo 3 yet, although we're already seeing some exorbitant prices in the ten million gold range for high-end items. Like the futures market, this bears keeping an eye on. We'll be interested to see who actually turns a decent profit from loot whore-iteering.
One Time, At Diablo Camp…
While Merchants are a long-standing staple in Diablo, allowing you to buy and sell new items, Diablo 3 introduces a very robust artisan system that has a blacksmith and a jeweler following you from town to town and setting up camp. You can use them to craft new gear and gems using supplies: elements from breaking down rare and epic items for the blacksmith, and lower-quality gems for the jeweler (who is hilariously voiced by James Hong).
You can also level these artisans up by training them (at a cost in gold), and when you're ready to boost them into higher levels after completing the game and moving into Nightmare mode, you'll find additional supplies that can improve them even more. The smith can create rare and epic items with random magical properties and break down the same into their base elements, eliminating the faithful Horadric Cube. The jeweler will create new gems from lesser gems at a ratio of 3 to 1, and he can also remove jewels from sockets, which means no more permanently fused sockets.
Blizzard had announced a Mystic as an artisan who would accompany you as well, creating magical items for your character, but they aren't currently in the game. With the blacksmith able to create magic items, it isn't missed that much, but it would be nice to tinker more with the magic properties that are bestowed on things. But there are enough merchants in town that have enough variety on display to tide you over for now. Hopefully the Mystic will appear in an update or an expansion.
Besides buying/selling and artisaning, you'll also come back into town via Waypoints or the Town Portal spell (which is now automatic and unlocked early on and not reliant on finding Town Portal scrolls) to hire or swap out Followers. These range from the melee/tankish Templar, to the ranged Scoundrel, to the DPS/effect Enchantress. You can only have one in your party at a time, and if someone joins your game via co-op, your Follower will head back to town.
These Followers will level up alongside you, allowing you to choose abilities for them along the way in a "Choose A or B" option, and you can outfit them as well, but only with rings, an amulet, a weapon, a shield, and a focus. A focus grant additional stats to your Follower, and take the form of things like a pair of dice for the Scoundrel, spear shards for the Templar, and a mirror for the Enchantress. You'll find these randomly, although not as often as you'd like.
Unfortunately, you can't change your Followers armor, which would have been helpful because you find so. much. of. the. stuff. Besides selling it, saving it, or breaking it down, it would be nice if you could dress up your buddies and improve their stats as well.
It's A Dead Man's Party
With PvP nonexistent (for now), the best way to blast through the game and pick up the good stuff is to party up. Battle.net makes it very easy to jump in and out of games with people on your friends list. Need help passing a boss? Belial was kicking my ass repeatedly, so I asked a cohort to help me out. He popped over, joined, and we were able to power through after a couple of tries. Then he hopped back into his own game.
It's very easy to see who is what and where, and the banner system lets you instantly teleport to a party member's location simply by clicking on their banner in town. You'll get zapped to their proximity, without any need for a Town Portal. You can also join public games, where your mileage may vary. Meaning, you might end up with a team of duds, or something rivaling the Avengers. You never can tell until you join. Without any sort of a real match ranking system, it's the best way to meet new players, for now.
Hopefully the PvP will expand horizons and make it easier to meet fellow players of equal skill levels and party up. Thankfully, when joining a public game, you can narrow it down to the portion of the act and the difficulty that you want to jump into. So if you've beaten the game, set your phasers on Nightmare and join a public party for maximum lootation. Within five minutes of beating the game, I was picking up new gear with a party of people I didn't know. This should become the gold standard for adventure game co-opping.
So What's Wrong?
Besides the occasionally confusing combat, which is also a staple of this series, the only real problem with the game seems to be the abrupt ending. We won't spoil what your final battle is (but it doesn't take Rain Man to figure it out), and when you're done with that, there's a "Hey, congrats!" message, and you're done. You can continue the game and start in Nightmare mode, or switch off and go outside and read a book.
With such a strong emphasis on story, it's strange and almost upsetting that there isn't some sort of endgame cutscene or event. It almost feels like they got to that point and just had no idea what to do, or despite their "We ship when it's ready" tenet… it just wasn't ready.
Besides that, it's more what isn't in the game that's a problem. Where is the promised PvP that was so hyped? With so many players loving that from Diablo 2, it's a glaring omission. What about the character-specific side quests? I found out a lot about the Barbarian though some of Deckard Cain's journals that I found, but what about background on my creepy/cool Witch Doctor? Perhaps there is more to be revealed on additional playthroughs, but I would hope I would learn about my own class while playing.
And What's Right?
What's more impressive, however, is what Blizzard got right. The game is truly impressive on nearly every level. From the graphics, to the fantastic soundtrack, to the towering scads of loot and extremely varied gameplay, there's a lot to like here. It was very disheartening to hear that Blizzard was jettisoning the Rune system where you would find and socket your own Runes, but the unlockable system they use now that improves skills is a terrific solution to rune-juggling.
Additionally, the Followers have so much recorded dialogue that you will hear as they tag along with you, and they'll even chatter back and forth with each other when you're in town. You'll learn all about their lives, loves, fears, and more as they ask you questions or banter back and forth. They even manage to crack a joke or two here and there.
Then, there's the crack factor. The game is as addictive as ever, and you'll find yourself saying "Okay, just five more minutes" for hours on end, often just hoping for a decent loot drop before you can finally turn in. The game keeps track of your playtime and progress with each class, providing a visual record of your addiction, and additionally the visual banner system lets you know how awesome both you and your friends.
The End Is Not Nigh
The bottom line is that Diablo 3 is a triumph for Blizzard, despite the painful server problems that plagued the launch. It's only because Blizzard themselves pull back the curtain so often to show us the development process that we are lamenting the absence of things like PvP and the Mystic. What you get in this package is an addictive, satisfying game that feels very polished, offers a wide range of gameplay options, introduces an insatiable lust for loot, and does co-op right. This is what PC (and Mac!) gaming is all about.


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- Title
- An apparatus for immersing trapped ions into an ultracold gas of neutral atoms
- Author(s)
- Schmid, Stefan; Harter, Arne; Frisch, Albert; Hoinka, Sascha; Denschlag, Johannes Hecker
- Abstract
- We describe a hybrid vacuum system in which a single ion or a well-defined small number of trapped ions (in our case Ba or Rb) can be immersed into a cloud of ultracold neutral atoms (in our case Rb). This apparatus allows for the study of collisions and interactions between atoms and ions in the ultracold regime. Our setup is a combination of a Bose-Einstein condensation apparatus and a linear Paul trap. The main design feature of the apparatus is to first separate the production locations for the ion and the ultracold atoms and then to bring the two species together. This scheme has advantages in terms of stability and available access to the region where the atom-ion collision experiments are carried out. The ion and the atoms are brought together using a moving one-dimensional optical lattice transport which vertically lifts the atomic sample over a distance of 30 cm from its production chamber into the center of the Paul trap in another chamber. We present techniques to detect and control the relative position between the ion and the atom cloud.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy
- Source
- Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 83, no. 5 (May 2012), article no. 053108
- Publication year
- 2012
- FOR Code(s)
- 02 Physical Sciences; 03 Chemical Sciences; 09 Engineering
- Keyword(s)
- Cold collisions; Hybrid vacuum apparatus; Neutral atoms; Trapped ions; Ultracold atoms
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- 0034-6748
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- Copyright © 2012 American Institute of Physics. The published version is reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
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Heuvelton Downs Belleville Henderson In JCC Tourney
The Jefferson Community College holiday basketball tournament is going on this week, featuring some of the best local high school basketball teams in the area.
Among the games Wednesday was a boys' non-league matchup as Heuvelton took on Belleville Henderson.
Click on the picture for highlights. Scores are below.
Girls' High School Basketball
Lyme 44, LaFargeville 42
Lisbon 43, Colton-Pierrepont 10
Heuvelton 42, St. Lawrence Central 38
Heuvelton 68, Belleville Henderson 28
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Still Leagues Apart
As a man, the sport simply speaks to the inherent barbarism that has trickled down my side of the species for time ad nauseum. Some of my fondest high school memories revolve around strapping on the pads and hitting people as hard as I possibly could, without getting in trouble for it. In fact, I can honestly say that I enjoyed getting hit — laid out on my back with stars circling overhead — more than doing the hitting (see Fight Club).
And the language of football is deeply connected to the language of our cave-dwelling ancestors:
Arggh. Me want. Arggh. Me take. Arggh. Touchdown!
Football provides that wormhole back to warriorism — where heroes are born for their stubbornness to quit, where the last guy standing reigns supreme, whether he's got all of his limbs or not. From this we have been treated to Jim Brown, Walter Payton, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Reggie White — WARRIORS the whole lot!!!
And I respect that. All of that. Every single bit of it.
Still, football ain't baseball.
It's not even close.
So, for me, when football playoffs come around, it's just not the same as when baseball playoffs come around.
I don't obsess over every matchup. I don't lose sleep at night wondering how the benches will play out. I don't break things or make women cry or have the cops called on me for repeated noise violations. And this is for games in which my team isn't even in it.
'Cuz if my team is in it, you can fuhgettabout me paying attention to anything else but the game, series, trophy, until it's over.
Hate me 'cuz it's the thing to do, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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Argh! I like football, but I love baseball. The only sports that are close to baseball for me are NCAA Basketball and when Michael Jordan played for the Bulls. The NFL comes after that. But that's just me.
This is the first year in a long time that I had no interest in the NFL Playoffs. Not because the Vikings aren't in it – and I was taken for a ride last year on that bloody ship. It's just that last baseball season simply couldn't be topped no hit on Brett Favre on a frozen field or a Brad Childress presser bamboozle (thankfully, supplanted by Leslie Frazier) could ever resolve my frustration and vitriol over the NFL this season.
To think that Jerry Jones would welcome the Steelers and Packers to his Megachurch of All Things Cowboys (except for a tiny mention of Tom Landry on the ark) in the guise of Super Bowl XLV. I think I'll start watching the Cardiac Wild until the pitchers and catchers report for camp…
– Randy
I agree, Jeff, that nothing can compare to baseball. I love hockey and enjoy it all winter, but am really starting to feel the baseball itch. Spring can't come soon enough, especially since it's -8 out right now…
Ron — Well, Jordan with the Bulls ought to get its own category. Still pinching myself that I got to be a witness!
Randy — Go Cardiac! Megachurch of All Things Cowboys? Talk about things that disgust my ears!
Mike — Exactly. It'll be here. Soon! And the Tigers look better than last year already. I mean, don't get all your hopes up (yet)… but still…
"Arggh. Me want. Arggh. Me take. Arggh. Touchdown!"
That quote reminded me of Bill Maher's line the other night about "Country Strong"; who came up with this title? The Hulk? "Here money!! Give ticket!!!"
Great minds think alike. I wrote a similar post over the weekend, although I don't even watch football. My husband had the Jets game on last night and got pretty excited when it looked like they might rally. Me? I cooked dinner.
Prince — Sounds about right!
Jane — Mmmm. Food! Me like food! Me like many many foooood!😉


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Moving from Minneapolis to Southern California can be an ecstatic experience, but knowing lies ahead can help you prepare adequately. There are many aspects of life that make these two regions different, especially if you have lived in the Minnesota city for many years. Here are important things which you should know when contemplating a move.
Cost of living
You should be prepared to spend more money on almost everything when you relocate to southern California. From rent to food and many other things, you should be ready to spend some more money than you were while living in Minneapolis. You will pay 8% more in rent, 10% more in food and 6.9% in groceries. (This is according to the latest statistical figures from Numbeo). If you don't prepare, you could wind of moving to LA then quickly needing to find out how to sell your house fast for cash in los angeles. However, this should not be something to worry about because the purchasing power of residents of Southern California is higher than that of Minneapolis.
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The Great Plains and the Midwestern regions experience tornadoes and hurricanes, but most of the Southern California has blizzards. Other things which you may have to worry about in Southern California are earthquakes, mudslides and fire.
Power Outages
Occasionally, shorter power outages occur in places such as Santa Clarita, so if you have a desktop computer, you may need to install a UPS which will protect you against power surges. This problem is mostly caused by power glitch and so it's nothing big to worry about. It's also good to remember that as power outage hits, your cordless phone may be affected, so having a cellular phone and a radio that is operated with a battery will help.
There are many wildlife species in Southern California. From mountain lions, coyote bears and rattle snakes, Southern California have got them all.
Buying a home
Just like when buying a home in Minneapolis, it's of importance that you exercise caution and make sure that you are on the safe side. Uninsurable homes are a common occurrence in Southern California. It's a always important to work with a certified inspector who will check the condition of the property and provide you with valuable advice on how better to move ahead when buying a home. However, there are all sorts of properties, from stand alone family houses, apartments and condos just to name a few. Nonetheless, it's advisable that you work with a reputable real estate professional with an in-depth experience about property market in Southern California. But you shouldn't just fall for the exaggerated price which is quoted by real estate agents.
If you need assistance on the road because of mechanical condition of your vehicle or because you are the subject of a road rage, you can get the help you need by calling #399 and 911 respectively on your mobile or cell phone. You are advised to keep a navigation system in your phone because there are instances where you will need to use it.
Important amenities
The entire Southern California has many world class schools, hospitals, healthcare facilities and entertainment spots among others. Also there are many shopping areas and malls, with fully working financial systems such as banks and automated teller machines.Read More


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