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  1. unclevlad
    That is just one example of my wisdom, yes...
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    Methinks there will be many hangovers in Denver and Edmonton tomorrow morning...... And man....Mr. P is HAPPY right now. Well, baseball season will take over soon enough.....
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    You HAVE to be kidding me...... A critical package finally arrived...coffee restock. Not long after the Avs tie the game at 4. OK, I'll go grab.... Neighbors left the interior light on, on their car. Me being nice guy, I let them know. By the time I can get back, it's 5-4 Avs...and I missed it!!!!!! ARGH!!! OK, well, no big, cuz the Oilers just tied it at 5. Defense is for football, apparently....
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    I think they'll find that when the volcano starts sounding like Kate Smith, it's time to get far, far, far away...........
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    ....a stingray has fins? toucan
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    Despite my deep reservation about wishing good things for any of your teams, Mr. P...I'm hoping for a blitz tonight, for the Avs. Just switched to it, actually. One nice thing about games in Canada is, the anthem singers are a) usually a good cut above the singers in US arenas...not always, but often, and b) they almost never feel the need to add their "personal spin" on the SSB. It's not a good song to begin with, but the stylized versions are simply horrific, far too often.
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    The NHL goes gutless...again. At least IMO. Evander Kane cross-checks Nazem Kadri...from several feet away, lines him up, skates in with clear intent, then hammers his stick straight into the back of Kadri. RIGHT into the boards, head first. In-game, Kane only gets a 5 minute major...not a game disqualification. Today, the league suspends Kane...for 1 game only. it was a DIRTY hit. Flagrantly against the rules, because it's VERY risky...and Kadri required thumb surgery, so it looks like he's out for the rest of the playoffs. Hockey can be a pretty fun game to watch, but their refusal to deal with some of the fighting issues, and hits like this...they need to clean up their act.
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    Heh.... Fortunately not. It'd never sell. Article I'm reading says about 300 miles. Looks like that version's for track purposes only. It's NOT a street-legal one.
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    Ugh. It is early June, 2 weeks until solstice, so it's not surprising, but the upcoming stretch is gonna be brutal. 103, 104, 100, 104, 105, 106, 104, 104, 105, 102, 102, 100. Counting yesterday, if those are right...12 days in a row of triple digits.... And 105 is...not close to the all-time record, but by and large, it's about the highest we typically get. Anything over that is very unusual, in my experience. Which means, at least we're nowhere near as bad as Tucson or Phoenix.
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    Looked like it varied. The criteria were also not necessarily consistent. Yeah, Oakland's the other one...bad field, bad conditions, bad everything. You can get early September day games on MLB Network from time to time...and people are in coats. But I was also leaving room. Oakland and the Trop are often 1 and 2. Rogers Center (Toronto), another pretty old park, gets mentioned. Guaranteed Rate (White Sox) might get a composite #3, it rarely does well.
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    And for another reference point...culinary training. Found this a while back, it's full-time training program. 800 class/practicum hours. The entire program is 30 weeks *with* a 6 week internship, so I'm thinking those class hours are in 24 weeks. https://azculinary.edu/about/diploma-culinary-arts-baking-restaurant-management/ So you can get solid, but entry-level, chef's training in the same time as you can complete police training.......
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    The Trop is consistently ranked as one of the bottom 3 (at best) stadiums in baseball. It even ranked #4 in a reader poll from ESPN, about worst *ever*...and that included a couple of the 70s-90s dual-sport abominations that everyone hated: http://www.espn.com/page2/s/list/worstballparks/010503.html
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    So just for grins, what does it take in New Mexico? https://golawenforcement.com/police-officer-requirements/new-mexico-police-officer-requirements/ The last: complete a basic LEA course. What's that? Well, the state's only recently set up a Law Enforcement Academy. https://www.cnm.edu/programs-of-study/programs-a-z/cnm-law-enforcement-academy Also note that this is a rather new program...the 8th class starts in a month or so. So even this hasn't been in place for long. By contrast, if you want a full paramedic certification...it's 72 academic credit hours.
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    The state of the NBA at that time can be inferred from the fact that the game was in Hershey...not Philly. Once you realize...Hershey's about 80 miles from Philly. It was worse. From Wikipedia: It also says something about pro sports generally...players from the Eagles and Colts getting together to put on an exhibition like that, today? For charity, possibly. Otherwise...no way.
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    So not only will the driver get hit with a pretty serious traffic offense, odds are both of em could get hit with public indecency charges that appear to rate...a 3rd degree felony. And that's likely to land them on the sex offender registry, which is a very, VERY nasty black mark that will not come off. Experian's sent 2 notices of sex offenders in my area in the last...6 months or so. Name, address. It's public info. And it's just part of the credit monitoring. I deleted this one; I'm not that worried about em. But hey, I'm single and retired. I can be blase about it. Others? Won't be...
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    Casper Ruud tapped out early in the French Open final. Nadal won the first set 6-3; Ruud managed to be up a break at 3-1 in the second when the roof caved in. And the walls. And a sinkhole opened up underneath and swallowed the entire house. Nadal didn't lose another game. Rafa Nadal has just won his 14th French, and 22nd major. 2 ahead of Roger and Joker. He is now 112-3 at the French. Update: Not, not not good. Rafa says he played the match with his foot asleep. From AP:
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    Baseball is great for dreams...until reality slaps you upside the head. So the local NMSU Aggies had a season to forget for the most part. 10-20 in conference. 20-32 overall, going into the WAC tournament. But baseball being baseball...anything can happen. They won 4 straight...pretty handily from the scores, and lo and behold, they're in the NCAA tournament. Friday night, they battle #3 *national* seed Oregon tight...lose on, of all things, a bases loaded, walk-off walk in the 10th; pitcher missed with 4 straight. Gut drop. So today they have to come back semi-quick. Not going tooo bad...3-1 after 4. Then the head slap. Vandy scores 5 in the 5th, and basically proceed to take the Aggie pitches behind the woodshed. 18 runs in 5 innings...9 in the last 2, when it was pretty much garbage time. 21-1. That, however, was NOT the biggest blowout of the day. Georgia annihilated Hofstra...13 runs in the 3rd. Final was 24-1. Hofstra pitchers gave up 10 walks and 16 hits...including 7 home runs.
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    Under Pressure, David Bowie and Queen
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    The American electorate can hardly claim higher moral ground, tho.
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    Just saw on ESPN Bottom Line: not at all surprisingly, Alexander Zverev has torn ligaments in his foot. Given the foot...it's so complex, and obviously it's weight-bearing so extra care's necessary, my completely non-professional guess is, this feels like over a year to recover. Significantly over a year. It would not surprise me at all that his next big event will be the Aussie Open...in 2024.
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    Kevin Na chose to resign from the PGA Tour to play the LIV. He's 38, ranked #33 in the world...5 titles. So a solid player but not exactly a top player. And getting up there in age. He's made $37M on the PGA tour. And like Johnson...probably moving out of his prime. I don't think the PGA's particularly worried yet...annoyed, yes. And ya can't blame Na for taking the chance. The $$$ is just too attractive.
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    Pain alone sometimes is misleading. Today, no more details, but Zverev himself is calling it "very serious." So that's very Not Good. The degree to which that ankle bent was BAD. Iga Swiatek is taking a stranglehold on the #1 ranking. I love tennis' rating system...every tournament, every match gives points to the winners; even making it into the first round at a big event is worth points too. (That matters a LOT for the lower ranked players.) Rankings are based on points over the last year, as a rolling calendar. (So the points from the 2021 French Open are removed once the 2022 started.) So after the final today, the players ranked 2-6 have between 4325 (#2) and 3966 (#6) points...a 400 point spread. Swiatek, OTOH, has over 8600. Coco Gauff's run to the finals elevated her to #13, a new career high. Tennis is actually seeing something of a youth movement. Women's side...Swiatek is just 21, Raducanu is 19 with a major under her belt (but the rest of her results have been so-so, so she may plummet hard when her US Open points come off), Gauff is 18, and Leylah Fernandez is 19. They're all top 16. Men's side, there's the crew that's been coming on...Zverev, Tsitsipas, Shapovalov, Auger-Aliassime, Fritz....but you've got Alcaraz who's been BLAZING (started 2021 at 141, now #7), Sinner, and Holger Rune, who's jumped up to #28.
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    But that was all the way back in 2E. In terms of concept development, 2E is still at the vacuum tube level. The rationale simply doesn't carry over. Some of the argument was that, with figured characteristics, STR was way, way, way too cheap. Those are gone. The chain-link fence...that's an SFX argument, much like arrows versus skeletons. The bullet WILL knock a pretty good-sized hole in a brick wall, thank you. We're talking rounds about as big as your index finger, with LOTS of powder. The projectile itself weighs about 2 ounces. High impact mass, high impact velocity. The NE 600 was used to hunt elephants and water buffalo. The brick's natural fragmentation should create the explosive shock wave on impact, fragmenting it...and making a good-sized hole. Heck, if we wanna push to extremes...depleted uranium APFSDS is a beam attack. It'll only punch a hole in the chain link; it won't even notice it was there. The brick wall might not be a lot better unless it's thick, but the radius of damage should be fairly significant. These are designed to punch through the main armor on tanks, penetrating through, and making the armor itself fragment into *very* high-powered grenade, basically wiping out the crew. OK, some of this is these are very, very high DC weapons; DU APFSDS is nastier than 155mm artillery, and that's rated as 9 dice killing...with a +1 stun mult. DU APFSDS is probably 8d6, double armor piercing (because modern armor is hardened). Possibly more. Equipment Guide has *light* armor piercing sabots. These are heavy armor piercers. And if we go into plausible, relatively near-future...the rail gun takes that DU round and kicks it to about Mach 2.5, possibly more. KE = 1/2 m * v^2. Hit a 3' thick stone wall? Explode it, because the KE will form a *massive* shock wave.
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    Simply awesome presentation. Gorgeous. Could see doing this with family...OLDER kids, or at least kids who completely understand knifework. Julienne isn't the safest.
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    Putin's uglier than Palpitine. I believe it was the Guardian that had the comment that Ukraine's actually, in some places, taking back territory. Not simply that Russian objectives continue to shrink, and progress even then is slow. Another article suggested that, not only are they losing staff officers...the mid level officers are almost certainly getting gutted too. They're forced to be in the forward elements, and that's never a safe place to be. Yeah, here it is. Couple days old. Goes into more of the argument than the story about the generals. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-suffering-devastating-losses-among-junior-ranking-officers-uk-1711320 Yeah, they are all Ministry of Internal Affairs...click on the Pravda report. That's the police...the other term for them is MVD. So perhaps it's related to the leaks; possibly also failures to squelch protests.
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