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From the safety of the ridge, a half-dozen skiers watched with satisfaction. All was well on that stormy day in 2012, the avalanche intentionally triggered by the Snow Basin Ski Patrol. The airbag that had risen from the debris had been strapped to a dummy, not a real person. The slide was a test. And until that moment, Black Diamond JetForce Technology had been just simulations, theories and assumptions. This slide was the first real-world proof of concept for the system—it was a revolutionary avalanche safety tool, and it worked.
Avalanche airbag systems have been used and proven in the field for more than 20 years. But Black Diamond's goal in creating JetForce Technology was not to add another compressed air canister system to the market, but to come up with a design that answered the numerous limitations of this existing paradigm. The current packs weren't allowed on airplanes, they needed to be reloaded between each deployment and there was no way to test or practice with them before a real accident occurs. So Black Diamond's product team, led by design engineer Pete Gompert, decided to start from scratch. And in this case, starting from scratch meant begging an old computer fan from the company's IT department and pairing it with a plastic bag.
Gompert had been toying with concepts that could possibly reinvent the current system—chemical reactions, mechanical springs—but nothing stuck. Then, on a whim, he placed a plastic garbage bag over the small exhaust fan on a computer. Much to his surprise, the bag filled with air in only 10 or 15 seconds. So the team stepped up their game, ordering some high-powered, duct fans and a high-tensile airbag. The inflation time quickly shrank to just a few seconds.
Inflation and Deflation
When deployed, JetForce's battery-powered fan inflates a 200-liter airbag. The bag fully inflates in 3.5 seconds.
A puncture recovery cycle follows inflation, helping to maintain the bag in the event of a tear. At one minute and 30 seconds, a volume maintenance cycle begins.
After three minutes of inflation, the jet fan reverses and the airbag deflates, aiding in extraction, creating an air pocket and facilitaing repacking.
Rechargeable Electronic System
Powering JetForce Technology is a rechargeable, travel-friendly lithium-ion battery. An external port makes recharging as easy as plugging in a cell phone.
JetForce can redeploy multiple times on a single charge, costing nothing—in time or money—to practice as often as needed.
Automatic System Self-Diagnostic
Electronics perform a "good-to-go" system check on every start-up, and LED lighting in the handle indicates system status.
All JetForce Packs feature a dedicated avy-tool pocket, a HiLo helmet holder and internal accessory pocket.
In addition, all JetForce Packs feature tuck-away diagonal ski carry that allows the airbag to deploy, even while skis are attached. The Saga 40 also accommodates for snowboard carry.
The Halo 28 Pack features a single ice-axe attachment, while the Saga 40 features ice-tool PickPockets™.
"The standard tests only goes so far," Jon Coppi, the lead QA engineer on the JetForce project says. "These extra tests may not be necessary to achieve certification by the standard, but for a customer using it over the lifetime of the product, we think it's incredibly necessary."
Outside of the in-house lab, a wide-ranging and dedicated team of field testers put JetForce through more than two full winter seasons and thousands of user days of real-world testing around the globe.
And Coppi was one of them. A dedicated backcountry skier, he was voluntarily buried in a control chamber under several meters of snow to ensure the system could pull air from compressed avalanche debris. He passed on the chance to ride JetForce Technology through a real avalanche, however, bestowing that honor instead on the department's test dummy, watching from the ridge instead as JetForce underwent its first real-world test.
"That day was the beginning of the culmination of a lot of hard work," Gompert says. "To see JetForce emerge as a truly new technology in the snow safety space and to know that it has the potential to save lives makes it all worth it."
Words: Andy Anderson
Photography: Scott Markewitz & Adam Clark
Videographer: Hennie Van Jaarsveld
Production: Advent Integrated


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8Ball & MJG - Pimp Ride lyrics
Pimp Ride by 8Ball & MJG
[Intro: Eightball]
Ah yeah! Eightball & MJG in the mothaf*%kin house,
And we came here today to talk to you about this thang called pimpin.
It has been misunderstood over the years, so now, we come to set the record
Straight. Niggas don't do this sh*I right it takes a special kinda nigga,
Knowatimsayn'? Yeah!
It takes a nigga that's hard from the start, you gotta have heart,
To meet a b*ich, mack her then rip her apart.
It's all in the game, a nigga can't change,
If you don't break a b*thc then your game is lame mane.
See I'm from Tennessee, with curls and gold teeth, so everywhere I go
B*thces strike up conversations with me.
About the way I talk, about the way I dress,
About how my gold teeth look so fresh.
See how I bait 'em in soon as a nigga speak,
That G's voice just make a bitch knees weak.
I'm in my caddilac, chillin like a fat mac,
Smokin on a fat sac, drinkin on a pint of 'yac.
I pick up my car phone 'cause a freak beeped,
It's my niggas baby mama but some times I creep.
That's just the way it is niggas have to take a chance,
When you ain't around anybody could be in that ass.
But I'm just a young nigga tryin to make a dolla,
And the way I live, to some it's hard to swallow.
See living down south ain't what you think it be,
Nine times outta ten niggas like me, pimps.
(Yeah, that's right, tryin to teach all these lames
How to do this shit, 'cause it's really a hard job.
But them lame niggas, they make me get so high)
[Chorus: Woman/Eightball]
And I just can't stand to get my feet off the ground
(I get so high)
And I just can't stand to get my feet off the ground
(I get so high)
Now let me explain a pimp a nigga about the m-o-n-e-y
See a hoe break a hoe, and try to influence the bitch
To turn a trick for the nigga who, presuaded her to sell ass
Like a hoe is supposed to
Now how the fuck you think as pimp is slippin?
Surrounded by all these hoes that's going and giving me money
It's funny how a hoe could make you thinks she's with 'cha
When all the time she's just another niggas gold digger
MJG got a bitch for a rich trick, take of your business,
Bring me my money, yeah this shit is thick
Hoe don't violate, bitch you know I taught you better,
Take all his cash, grab on his ass, write that trick a love letter.
Train your woman to break a man, man meaning another nigga
Just some shit in the game same 'ol same to make your pimpin bigger
Slicker the pimpin gets, freaker gets the bitch,
MJG is rich, I'm coo-coo for these tricks, I'm a pimp.
(Yeah that's right baby, I'm pimpin so what you need to do is
Set that ass out and uh, right about now I'm finna fire up one of these
Spliffs, and get so high)
[Chorus: Woman/MJG]
Part two, it's all the same g,
Trying to school fools on this P-I-M-P
Lesson 1- first you should, pull a bitch fuck her good
The next time tell her no, but the next time take her dough.
Oh! you gotta watch your back too mane
'Cause there's a lot of bitches in the world with much game
Lesson 2 watch that hoe, don't trust her with none of yo dough
Never let a bitch know how you make your cash flow
Lesson 3- if you don't tell that how who is boss,
Bitches like to run shit but end up gettin smacked in the mouth
See a real nigga believe in beatin them hoes down
Push her head into the wall til you hear the crackin sound
Drown in the tub, rub-a-dub dub
Some niggas get pussy whipped then fall into a love bug
Buyin hoes this, buyin hoes that, then braggin to your friends
How you fuck her from the back
Never how you took they cash, never how you beat they ass
Never how you pull hoes, fuck 'em then drop 'em fast
I don't understand your plan at all man
You should be around niggas like me pimps
(Yeah man these niggas a trip knowatimsayin?
But niggas like me, I have to smoke them spliffs to keep my mind off that
Shit, but when I smoke, I get so high)
[Chorus: Woman/Eightball]
Where ever there's a hoe there's bound to be a pimp
The pimp supplies his bitches with some tricks that they can attempt
A sucker will spend all his money 'til he ain't got nothing left
Instead of blaming a bitch he needs to blame it on himself
It wouldn't be a hoe if it wasn't for the trick
But I suggest we keep 'em so a pimp can keep his bitch
It needs to understood, there wouldn't be one without the other
So why in the hell these folks tryin to sweat a mother fucka
Jealous sucka just maaad they can't hang with the pimp thang
Looking to sprinkle some salt in a pimps game
How in the fuck do you figure that pimpin is dead
When nigga you know it's alive pimpin been misunderstood
By those who can't that's why they said it died
Others tried pimpin but was only making chump-change
One track minded niggas never run a m-train
Re-arrange shit that they done seen in a movie script
Damn ain't that a bitch [echo]
Niggas like me, a pimp
(MJ fuckin G, P-I-M-P, stand down on this pimpin
About these hoes, but some niggas fucks it up for real niggas
And that shit just makes me get so high)
[Chorus: until fades out]
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GM's $5M Jumpstart for Bright Automotive
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GM's $5M Jumpstart for Bright Automotive
General Motors and Bright Automotive have forged a new strategic relationship just two months after GM launched its venture capital branch to fund advanced transportation projects.
Bright Automotive, spun off from Rocky Mountain Institute in 2008, now has bragging rights as the first investment of GM Ventures, LLC. The $5 million investment announced by the auto giant earlier this month couldn't have come at a better time, providing a solid shot in the arm to drive the company's 100-mpg plug-in hybrid electric fleet vehicle, the IDEA, into mass production.
"It's fair to say that almost every global car company is getting serious about efficiency and electrification," said Michael Brylawski, vice president of corporate strategy at Bright Automotive. "In particular, getting funded from GM's Venture unit puts the deal in the right context. GM can invest in us as a 'high risk/high return' entity, and it lets us commercialize our innovative business model and vehicle concept."
Designed as a utility van for businesses, the IDEA was originally slated for mass production by 2012, with Bright hoping to put as many as 50,000 cars on the road each year. However, the economic downturn brought challenges and uncertainty that the company could acquire the capital necessary to get the IDEA to market.
Where It All Started
Bright's origins at Rocky Mountain Institute reveal how a new approach can breathe life into a stagnant industry. By starting with a completely fresh palette, Bright was able to create a wholly different kind of service vehicle.
Bright adopted the approach that enormous fuel savings (and therefore cost savings) could be achieved by focusing energy on the biggest gas guzzlers -- and that platform fitness and innovative design would drive down the cost of electrical components. In addition, a focus on educating consumers on the total cost of ownership of an efficient vehicle vs. a traditional vehicle gave Bright a unique segment of the market.
Bryalwski, a former vice president with RMI's transportation practice, said making a lightweight, aerodynamic commercial truck focused on government and business customers was the right move. "If we can execute with proven technologies, we're going to offer our customers a breakthrough product that will save them money while saving a lot of carbon and oil. It's the ultimate RMI strategy."
According to RMI Chief Scientist Amory Lovins in "Hypercars: The Next Industrial Revolution," efficiency, environment, fuel security and affordability goals are widely assumed to be in conflict in vehicle design. But, if designers start from scratch, using a whole-systems approach to maximize platform efficiency, they could instead meet these key goals simultaneously and without compromise.
The IDEA is just that: a wholly different service car that integrates its customers' needs into the fuel-saving design. Key fleets like PG&E, Cox Cable and Duke Energy were brought in to collaborate during customer-driven design workshops.
As a result of this hands-on engagement, the IDEA comes equipped with some interesting features beyond fuel efficiency, such as a passenger seat that can be converted into a mobile office and an interactive touch screen that provides drivers with efficiency and battery charge feedback, GPS, inventory tracking and more.
What's Next for Bright?
Ready to shift out of survival mode, Bright is preparing to scale to an order of magnitude over the next year. And if the company can gather the capital needed to get the IDEA on the road, it has the potential to entirely change expectations of what a service vehicle can be.
The cash infusion from GM Ventures will help catalyze Bright's next big funding push, targeting private equity and a "green factory" loan program administered by the Department of Energy. "The initial response about our partnership from GM from the press, potential investors and the DOE is extremely positive," said Brylawski.
EV World reports Bright's President Reuben Munger hopes to capture 5 percent of the Class 1 and Class 2 commercial vehicle market in North America and is sizing their factory plans to produce 50,000 vehicles a year. While the company is still evaluating possible plant locations, Munger believes Bright will eventually hire up to 1,000 plant workers and provide employment for 5,000 people at its various parts suppliers. Production could begin as early as 2013.
From Ideas to Implementation
Like a proud parent, RMI is celebrating the news about Bright and its promise of future growth. For Brylawski, Bright's achievements are much more personal.
"To see an RMI spin-off raise significant capital and bring about Amory's vision in a big way is very rewarding," said Brylawski. "Bright is an embodiment of where RMI has gone the last few years: to go big because we can't afford to let our thought leadership stay contained in the Rockies."
Kelly Vaughn is a public relations specialist at Rocky Mountain Institute.
Images courtesy of Rocky Mountain Institute and Bright Automotive.


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Imagine that the pain you feel from a physical injury and a bad social interaction aren't just metaphorically linked...they're actually two aspects of the exact same thing. So does that mean you could take aspirin to soothe your interpersonal pain?
That's the idea put forward in a 2010 study by psychologists at the University of Kentucky. They suggest that physical and social pain could rely on the same neural and behavioral processes to register feelings of discomfort. They then suggest that acetaminophen - a pain suppressant that works on the central nervous system and is found in most over-the-counter painkillers - could actually be effectively in easing the pain that comes from rejection and other interpersonal setbacks.
It's maybe not the most intuitive idea, but their experiments suggest there might be something to this:
"In two experiments, participants took acetaminophen or placebo daily for 3 weeks. Doses of acetaminophen reduced reports of social pain on a daily basis (Experiment 1). We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure participants' brain activity (Experiment 2), and found that acetaminophen reduced neural responses to social rejection in brain regions previously associated with distress caused by social pain and the affective component of physical pain (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insula). Thus, acetaminophen reduces behavioral and neural responses associated with the pain of social rejection, demonstrating substantial overlap between social and physical pain."


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TROY -- At 21 years old, Scott Morrissey has done more while being a student at Clarkson University than those who are five years out of college. After returning from a week-long stay in Florida for his baseball team at school, Morrissey visited a business attorney to establish Morrissey Contracting LLC, a company he would own and operate to do home renovations or other construction work. Currently in his senior year at Clarkson in the Business Innovation and Entrepreneur Program, Morrissey has been managing time between attending classes and playing baseball for Clarkson, and fielding calls for his construction company. It will be work he plans on starting in the summer with two of his friends from high school who he said are his employees. "I'll get a lot of calls and I am constantly putting together estimates, just trying to get stuff set up for the summer," Morrissey said. "I'm booked for the first two months of the summer. It's definitely exciting." When his family began building a new home in Troy when he was younger, Morrissey's grandmother would drive him over so he could watch the contractor do work on the house. He continued to follow the developer as he did work on other houses in his neighborhood. Morrissey then asked his father, Joe Morrissey, if he could do work on the home; he was allowed to do some of the tiling. At around 15 to 16 years old, he remodeled the basement. Morrissey said he learned literally just by doing. "Most people would think the parents are crazy to let their 15 year old go crazy with a hammer in a brand new home," Morrissey said. "But the better I got, the more they tapped into it. Now there are begging me to do stuff." It also helped that he got a lot of support from his professors who gave him tips on how to start a company, with one convincing him to hire a business attorney as he said it would be someone he wants in his corner down the road. What has informed Morrissey's work ethic, though, was his love for the sport of baseball. He gave a lot of thanks for his coaches from his high school team at La Salle, as well as his coaches in the Troy Dodgers and at Clarkson. "Playing a sport all the way up help me develop a work ethic and dedication," Morrissey said. "Those are qualities I have to echo in my business if I want to be successful." One of his former coaches, Parks and Recreations Director George Rogers, said Morrissey was one of the kids who received a $500 scholarship through funds raised from the Twilight League, and said he always demonstrated his exemplary work ethic and dedication. "It's about time kids like him get recognized for not only what he does on the baseball field and in the classroom," Rogers said. "It's nice to know he's being recognized for being a good citizen." After graduation, he said he plans to dedicate his time to both his work and baseball, adding he plans to play in the Twilight League in Troy. He also plans to give back to not only just the baseball league but also the community as a whole, as Morrissey has no plans of leaving the city any time soon. He said him and his brother have had discussions about getting involved in real estate once his business becomes successful so they could start renovating homes in the city and either selling them or renting them out. "There's a lot of rebuilding going on in Troy," Morrissey said. "I am definitely excited to be a part of that." Andrew Beam may also be reached at 270-1294.
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UPDATE: Neighbors Aid Sandy Victim Living in Backyard
A Long Island man whose house was flooded out by Sandy 10 months ago is living in his backyard, on an air mattress among mosquitoes, now that his federal aid has expired.
Chuck Burgio's backyard in Lindenhurst, N.Y., is outfitted with a makeshift bed, gym equipment and a patio table. It's home for now, since his actual house is gutted -- there's no floor, just standing 2-by-4s and exposed piping.
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"I've been in the backyard right here, getting bit up by mosquitoes and gnats," he said.
Sandy dumped 4 feet of water in the area and devastated much of the neighborhood. While Burgio's neighbors have rebuilt, he's been left in the cold.
"Where am I going to go? I have no money," he said.
Up until a week ago, Burgio was living in local motels, but then federal aid ran out. So now Burgio says he's making the best of the situation, accepting food from charities, going to the bathroom at a nearby diner and letting neighbors lend a helping hand.
John Warry, one neighbor, said he was worried for Burgio when it rained Monday morning.
"We tried to wake him, and we weren't sure if he was alive," he said. "He's not moving, we're getting worried. We can't have that."
But things seem to looking up. NBC 4 New York was there Monday evening when a good Samaritan dropped by with a gift.
"He just came here and put $500 in my hand and told me he's going to do this whole house for nothing," said Burgio. "I'm going to have a heart attack."
One nonprofit on Monday offered to put him in another hotel until his home is rebuilt.


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S: Maggie & Hector 5.12.10 Forever yours babe <3
BC: Happy Valentine's Day!
FC: I wanna spend the rest of my life with you by my side; Forever and ever;With every little thing that you do; Baby I'm amazed by you -Lonestar<3 | Be Mine
1: A Valentine book made especially for you...with all my love
2: 6/15/08 | I love you
3: Best Buds!
4: Always thinking of you...
6: You'll always make my heart skip a beat!
9: If I had to choose between loving you and breathing, I would use my last breath to say I LOVE YOU.
10: Funny Faces
11: I will love you forever and ever and ever and...
12: Be Mine
14: you | June 15th 2008
15: me
16: I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
18: Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
19: You being in my arms, heart by heart feels like our love would never end. | XOXO
20: I'm so grateful to have you in my life!
21: You know you're in love when reality is finally better than your dreams.


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TOKYO – Ni no Kuni: The Jet-Black Mage is a very traditional role-playing game with a quite unconventional twist.
One of the biggest games of Tokyo Game Show is Ni no Kuni, publisher Level-5's collaboration with Japanese animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli.
The first thing I noticed when I entered the Level-5 booth was a thick, ancient-looking tome sitting next to every Nintendo DSi. After flipping through a few pages, I could see it was filled to the brim with magical and monster-oriented information. At first, it seemed like a cute player's guide. It wasn't until I started up the game that I realized just how important the included book is to playing Ni no Kuni, which Level-5 will release in Japan on December 9.
The demo begins with the main character Oliver, a male fairy named Shizuku and a female character, making for three party members. They enter a desert town where a peddler sells them a strange pot with a lid that won't open – something Shizuku soon recognizes as a Fusion Pot. To open the Fusion Pot, however, they must first call out the Pot Demon within, using the magic words written in the Fusion section of the magic manual.
So, I flipped to the section as I was instructed and searched for the magic words: "Ide yo Nabe Majin," or "Come to Me, Pot demon!" Entering the words allowed me to continue with the game. This is a very interesting mechanic, which reminds me of similar tactics used to thwart players in StarTropics for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a game that turns 20 years old this year. The game contained a letter with hidden words written in invisible ink on it, and a certain point the player was told by the game to try dipping it in water. I like this kind of player interaction in theory – it's adventurous, adds variety to the game, and really establishes a deeper connection between the player and the virtual world they're exploring. (It's also a naked attempt to deter piracy.)
However, while the Ni no Kuni book is beautiful by itself and a joy to read through, I can't help but feel rather unenthusiastic about the entire concept. This version of the game is coming out for the DS, a portable system. Does Level 5 really expect Japanese children, whether on a school commute or a vacation road trip with family, to slog around this thick book with them the entire time?
Yes, the answers could be found quickly by searching on a mobile phone, but that really ruins the experience of cracking open the age-worn volume and searching for the magic answer. It's mind-boggling that they would introduce this aspect only to the portable version of Ni no Kuni, and not the home PlayStation 3 version.
After releasing the Pot Demon, I then had to prove my strength so I could become his master. As the demo took place in the middle of the game, the battle with the Pot Demon was no cakewalk, and I had to keep my eye on the HP of my party members while experimenting with different spells to see what worked best. Characters have their own HP and MP, and everyone can use magic.
I was surprised to find that Shizuku, the fairy in the game, had only one spell available, and it was a defensive one. During battles, the three characters are positioned on a 9x9 grid on the bottom screen, where they can move around to avoid grid-shaped spells and attacks from the enemies, who are on the top screen. When a character attacks, he or she will run up to the top screen and bash the enemy with whatever implement they're equipped with.
With the exception of the grid of squares, the battle was quite a traditional Japanese RPG form. The layout, magic, and graphics strongly reminded me of Level-5's Dragon Quest IX, a game I still play casually. Even when you're on the field, there is a map on the upper DS screen that looks exactly like the treasure maps from DQ IX. And then there's the Fusion Pot that can accept three items to make a new one, also mimicking a feature from that other game.
Utilizing healing, magical, and physical damage spells, especially Oliver's "Holy Ray" spell, which worked the best, I defeated the Pot Demon, but not without suffering lots of damage to my own party. The rhythm of the battle goes in order of characters' speed, I assume, but doesn't have the Active Time Battle feel of the PlayStation 3 version (which I will preview later).
To be honest, coming straight from playing the lush home console version, I was a bit bored by the static characters and "your turn, my turn" rhythm of the fighting in this game. Still, the graphics are beautiful, character portraits pop up to flow dialogue along, and the Studio Ghibli atmosphere is absolutely there. Maybe this will help DS gamers gain a little muscle with all the hauling around of a 350-page book that they'll be doing over winter vacation.
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We enjoy helping our guests plan the perfect getaway–romantic or otherwise–when they stay at the Bronze Antler Bed and Breakfast. And we enlist as many local Joseph Oregon businesses as we can to procure items for our guests.
Melanee's Cakes is one of those providers. Melanee creates all sorts of cakes, large or small, in a variety of flavors and with great enthusiasm for the decoration. Small birthday cakes suitable for a couple are pretty popular. As are special anniversary cakes. But she'll create a cake for any occasion and deliver them right here in Joseph, Oregon, so you don't have to worry about making a surprise. Let us know what flavor you'd like, what inscription (if any), what type of frosting, and your budget–and let Melanee run loose!
We'll have the cake awaiting you in your guestroom complete with plates, forks & napkins (although I think we might've had a few guests opt for the romantic "eating cake with their fingers" option).
One of our oft-returning guests, Teri, commented about the birthday cake she selected for her husband's surprise, "She does beautiful work and her cakes are scrumptious." Unfortunately we don't have a photograph of said cake–it disappeared too quickly!
Melanee's Cakes doesn't have a website, but if you're a Facebook user, you'll find Melanee's Cakes on Facebook. Her latest creation: Superbowl Denver Broncos versus Seattle Seahawks!


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Braun homers, but 'weird' rally breaks Brewers
Gonzalez's debut foiled by walk, bunt, broken-bat single in seventh
MILWAUKEE -- Give Michael Gonzalez some credit. The left-handed reliever was able to take one positive from his bizarre Brewers debut.
"I'm just glad Alex [Gonzalez] is alive," he said.
The Brewers' Gonzalezes did escape a weird seventh inning unscathed, unless you count Michael's record. He faced three Rockies batters and none of them hit a ball farther than 90 feet -- yet all three scored amid a broken-bat-aided rally that sent the Brewers to an 8-4 loss on Tuesday at Miller Park.
Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez each homered for the second straight night as the Rockies earned rookie manager Walt Weiss his first win.
That result rendered moot Ryan Braun's first 2013 home run, a go-ahead, two-run shot in the third inning that landed in a group party area just over the right-field fence, and a rare run-scoring hit for Brewers starter Marco Estrada, who managed only three RBIs all of last season.
In the end, it seemed the game was decided by the baseball gods.
On this night, they favored the visitors.
"What do you do about an inning like that?" Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said.
The seventh inning began with the teams tied at 4 and Gonzalez, one of the key players in Brewers general manager Doug Melvin's bullpen makeover, trotting in from the bullpen. He walked Dexter Fowler on five pitches before Josh Rutledge squared to bunt and directed the baseball right at the pitcher's mound. By the time Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy picked it up and fired to first, Rutledge was safe with an infield hit.
Gonzalez had even worse luck with Carlos Gonzalez, who hit a chopper toward Alex Gonzalez at first base that would have been routine had the barrel of Carlos Gonzalez's broken bat not followed. Alex Gonzalez flinched, Carlos Gonzalez was safe and Michael Gonzalez's Brewers debut was done.
Got that?
"Weird," Roenicke said.
Burke Badenhop arrived in relief and surrendered a tiebreaking sacrifice fly to Tulowitzki and RBI singles to Michael Cuddyer and Todd Helton. Cuddyer's hit didn't leave the infield. Helton's floated into center field.
"Luck's going to happen," Tulowitzki said. "You take a look at [Monday's] game and they ran into a little bit of luck, too, with some of the infield hits. We did a good enough job fighting to get back into the game, then we had some big at-bats and were able to extend our lead."
"The disappointing thing for me right there was walking that first dude," Gonzalez said. "You don't want to do that. That just opens up the inning."
The rest was just bad luck.
"The bunt, maybe we should make a play on. The broken bat, I don't know what you should do with that thing," Roenicke said. "Bloop to center. Swinging bunt to third.
"It just didn't go well."
The flying bat was a new experience for Alex Gonzalez, who had never played an inning away from shortstop in the Major Leagues before Monday's season opener. He saw both bat and ball at the same time and knew he was in trouble.
"That's a first for me. It was coming right after me," he said. "You can't do anything."
"Tough luck," Michael Gonzalez said. "I've seen that a couple of times, but not to me. Seriously, at that moment right there, you want an out, but you want to make sure Alex is all right and he doesn't get one to the eye or something like that."
On the mound, Estrada struck out eight batters and walked none in five innings, but he also surrendered four runs on nine hits. Just like Yovani Gallardo the day before, he misplaced pitches to Tulowitzki, whose solo home run tied the game at 2 in the third inning, and Carlos Gonzalez, whose two-run homer tied the game at 4 in the fifth.
Both pitches were 89-mph fastballs up and away, and both were mistakes, Estrada said.
"Two got away from me, and two good hitters did what they were supposed to do," Estrada said. "They hit them over the wall. I thought I made some good pitches overall, [but] I was disappointed with the offspeed stuff."
Estrada had already accounted for a Brewers run in the second inning, when he battled Rockies starter Jorge De La Rosa for an eight-pitch at-bat and poked a two-out, run-scoring single to right field. It scored Carlos Gomez, who had just put the Brewers on the board with an RBI double.
Braun got to De La Rosa the following inning for home run No. 1. De La Rosa, a left-hander who pitched to a 6.23 ERA in parts of three seasons with the Brewers from 2004-06, allowed four runs on five hits and threw 77 pitches in 4 1/3 innings.
The Brewers had less success against five Rockies relievers, who combined for 4 2/3 scoreless innings. Edgmer Escalona pitched 1 2/3 innings for his first Major League win.
Cuddyer finished with three hits, was one of five Rockies with multiple hits in the game and made his presence felt defensively with a diving catch in the eighth to begin an inning-ending double play.
Colorado already has 26 hits in the first two games of a season-opening series that will conclude Wednesday night.
"They have a good hitting team, they do," Roenicke said. "And tonight, everything they hit went in."


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Technological advancements are generating exponentially more information about people's health than ever before, but there is no easy way to make sense of all of it.
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"Big data is the connecting piece that enables us to get research to the benefit of patients and study outcomes of the care being delivered," Minor told a roomful of researchers, doctors, statisticians, information technology specialists, health care executives and leaders in related industries. Stanford expected about 500 people to attend the three-day meeting, which began Wednesday.
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How big might all this data be? According to an estimate by Stephen Quake, a Stanford bioengineer, sequencing the genomes of everyone on Earth would create more than 5 petabytes - or 5 billion megabytes - of information. That work would cost at least $6 trillion.
No one is sure how to sift through all this data, or even where to put it. In a survey this year of 150 federal government executives in health care and health research, more than half said that in five years, fulfilling their agency's mission will depend on the successful use of big data. Yet only 29 percent of those surveyed had hired trained professionals, or taught senior managers, to manage and analyze big data.
Hospitals also seem to be reluctant to embrace data analytics. A survey of 1,800 health care professionals at 22 hospitals found that most saw big data as "one of the least important" areas, according to HIMSS Analytics, a market research firm for health information technology.
But if all this data were correctly interpreted, health care could be dramatically more efficient. A McKinsey and Co. report last year estimated that big data could help reduce health care expenses by as much as $450 billion by allowing providers to quickly identify high-risk patients, stage effective interventions and closely monitor those in need.
At the Stanford conference, scientists shared how large data sets had led them to discoveries, such as identifying populations at risk for Type 2 diabetes and respiratory diseases on a molecular level.
In 2012, biochemist Julia Salzman was combing through genomic data for RNA molecules, which typically serve as messengers between DNA and proteins. In the process, she and her team found an entirely new kind of RNA, "circular RNAs," which had gone previously overlooked because they didn't seem to fit what scientists understood about genetics.
"It's important to scrutinize the data that is traditionally thrown away in massive data analyses," said Salzman, an assistant professor at Stanford. "It presents huge new opportunities to make fundamental discoveries in biology and potentially inroads into understanding and monitoring diseases, but in order to do this, we need better quantitative and statistical methods."
The National Institutes of Health, which funds $30 billion in medical research annually, is developing an online network where geneticists can share and give feedback on their work. Philip Bourne, the agency's associate director for data science, said that he envisions a Dropbox-like depository to store data and a Yelp-like network where researchers can highlight the most useful data sets.
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That effort, along with many of the ideas discussed at the conference, is still in the works. But Todd Park, the United States' chief technology officer said the country is already moving, albeit slowly, toward using big data effectively.
Park, who oversaw and later helped fix the botched roll-out of the federal health care website, cited President Obama's Open Government Initiative, which directed federal agencies to make their daily operations publicly available; the recent release of Medicare payment information; and the Affordable Care Act, which penalizes hospitals for excessive patient readmissions.
"While still very much in the early phase, this work signals a fundamental shift in how the country will pay for health care," he said, "paying not for volume but for value, for better outcomes."
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Anthony scored six points during a 12-0 run in the first that gave the Knicks a 24-13 lead. He also had four rebounds, three assists and two steals in the quarter.
Dirk Nowitzki had 18 points and nine rebounds for the Mavericks, who lost their fourth consecutive home game.
Kenyon Martin scored six points in a 1:13 span early in the third quarter that gave New York a 58-39 lead. He had 10 of the Knicks' 15 points in the quarter and finished with a season-high 14.
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Joan Rivers kept the laughs coming for more than five decades, through stellar career highs and even during a virtual shut-out by the Hollywood machine in the 1980s.
She was a tireless performer with a multi-faceted career that included work in stand-up comedy, late-night and daytime talk shows, writing (12 books), movie acting, screenwriting, film directing, fashion and jewelry design, and producing and starring in a web-based chat series.
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Rivers continued to fascinate right up until her death on September 4. The comedian was hospitlaized and placed on life support after she stopped breathing while having minor throat surgery at a clinic in New York City on Aug. 28. She was 81.
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After attending Barnard College, where she appeared in numerous campus performances, Rivers flirted briefly with a career as a chain store buyer but returned to performing soon after. She appeared in a number of small plays before abandoning acting for a life working the burgeoning comedy club scene of New York City alongside contemporaries such as George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Woody Allen and David Brenner.
"Everyone was down there!" Rivers said of the scene in an interview for SiriusXM's "Unmasked" series in July, making particular note of Lenny Bruce. "They would let us all in to see him. It was a magical time for all of us, because you knew how brilliant comedy could be. You know? There was a god there to say, 'Yeah, that's what I want to do. That's what I want to be.'
"You were suddenly able to talk about yourself," she added. "I was able to stand up there and talk about having an affair with a married professor. Which was shocking at the time!"
"The Tonight Show" and the 1960s
Years spent struggling in Greenwich Village cabarets and Borscht Belt showrooms paid off when Rivers was booked to appear on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" in 1965.
"You have to understand, it was after seven years of being told, 'You're too wild, you're too crazy, a girl can't say those kinds of things.'" Rivers told EW of the time preceding her big break on Carson.
"Three weeks before I was on the Carson show, my own agent said to me, 'Everybody's seen you, it ain't gonna happen.' And not in a mean way. Just, 'Sweetheart, go to law school.' And the night before I went on Carson, a comic bombed and Bill Cosby — who was white hot at that moment — he had seen me in the Village and he said to them, you might as well use Joan, she can't be any worse than the guy you had on last night! I was brought on in the last 10 minutes of the show — the worst slot. And God bless Johnny Carson, he said right there on the air, 'You're going to be a big star.'"
Rivers went on to make other appearances on "The Tonight Show" as well as "The Ed Sullivan Show" before landing a short-lived daytime talk show, "That Show With Joan Rivers." It was one of the first syndicated daytime talk shows, and Johnny Carson was her first guest.
She soon made television history as the permanent guest host of "The Tonight Show" and helped launch the nascent Fox Network in 1986 with "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers." In 1989, Joan triumphantly returned to daytime TV with "The Joan Rivers Show," winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host.
"Can We Talk?"
Rivers' appeal was all in the delivery. She told jokes to audiences of all sizes, both live and on television, as if she were talking to a girlfriend or trusted confidant. Her conversational, often gossipy tone allowed Rivers to crack wise about subjects taboo for women comics of her era: sex, men, marriage, infidelity, physical appearance, race and religion.
Her opening gambit of "Can we talk?" immediately put the audience on her side. It was Rivers drawing people into her world of barbed puns and social commentary. Of the catchphrase, she told EW it was developed in Vegas in the '80s. "It was probably about Elizabeth Taylor being fat and people gasped, and I went, 'Can we talk here?' What you're really saying is, 'Come on, are we going to talk the truth?'"
Rivers never played down her femininity. Instead, she celebrated her gender and used it as a tool to poke fun at everyone from audience members to celebrities to, most notably, herself. Flipping social mores, Rivers' message was that of a modern woman trying to make sense of rapidly changing modern times through laughter.
She was never a caricature, except perhaps in later years, and then it was simply a more outsized, plastic-surgery-enhanced version of herself. The furs and jewels became bigger, and her face became tighter – all the better to poke fun at while broadening her fan base (and bank accounts) through books, home shopping collections and more frequent forays back into television.
Late-Night Outcast
Throughout the 1970s Rivers was a regular on Carson's "Tonight Show," with the comic often sitting in for the host. But as the comic branched out on her own to host a late-night show on the burgeoning Fox Network, Carson blanked her both personally and professionally.
"The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers" aired from October 1986 to May 1987, but Carson's freeze continued. After Carson's death in 2005, Rivers said that he never forgave her for leaving, and never spoke to her again.
Rivers addressed the break in a 2012 article she penned for The Hollywood Reporter, writing that the first person she called after accepting the Fox gig was Carson.
"He hung up on me – and never, ever spoke to me again. And then denied that I called him. I couldn't figure it out. I would see him in a restaurant and go over and say hello. He would't talk to me," she wrote, adding, "I kept saying, 'I don't understand, why is he mad?' He was not angry at anybody else. I think he really felt because I was a woman that I just was his. That I wouldn't leave him. I know this sounds very warped. But I don't understand otherwise what was going on. For years, I thought that maybe he liked me better than the others. But I think it was a question of, 'I found you, and you're my property.' He didn't like that as a woman, I went up against him."
Carson's pull in Hollywood was so great that many in the industry turned their back on Rivers in deference to "The Tonight Show" host. The comic's ban from "The Tonight Show" was respected by Carson's first two successors Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien. The result was that Rivers did not appear on the show again until Feb. 17, 2014, when she made a brief appearance on new host Jimmy Fallon's first episode. She returned again once more on March 27, 2014, for a full interview.
Live From the Red Carpet
Only three months after she was fired from "The Late Show," tragedy struck when Rivers' husband Edgar Rosenberg committed suicide in Philadelphia. Rivers blamed the tragedy on his "humiliation" by Fox (Rosenberg was executive producer on the late-night show).
It was two years before she returned to television full-time, this time with another daytime TV talk show, "The Joan Rivers Show." It ran for five years and won her a Daytime Emmy in 1990.
1994 saw Rivers and daughter Melissa begin their red carpet award show dominance, thanks to an initial gig hosting the E! Entertainment Television pre-awards show for the Golden Globe Awards. Rivers' biting fashion critiques and lack of reverence for Hollywood celebrity proved a hit with viewers, and the mother-daughter team went on to host pre-award shows for the network through 2003, then switching to the TV Guide Channel to perform similar duties up until 2011.
Asked during the 2011 Television Critics Association press tour why they stepped away from the red carpet, Melissa said, "We've done that. It's not fun anymore."
"When we were doing it, you could tell Julia Roberts, 'I hate your dress,'" added Joan. "Now publicists ice you if your insults are too incendiary."
"Police" Work, a Documentary and Constant Touring
By 2010, at age 77, Rivers was back on top, having won NBC's "The Celebrity Apprentice" and performed a string of sold-out stand up tours and had returned to E! as host of the weekly program "Fashion Police," which reaches more than 10 million worldwide, according to Rivers' website. She was also the subject of the critically-acclaimed documentary "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work." The no-holds-barred film examines her fondness for plastic surgery, how she deals with hecklers and her indefatigable approach to touring and work in general.
Just prior to her death, Rivers authored her twelth book "Diary of a Mad Diva," hosted the Emmy- and VMA-focused edition of "Fashion Police," and continued to produce and star in her weekly web series, "In Bed with Joan," in which she interviewed actors, singers and rising comics.
Rivers continued to perform live stand-up, including a gig in New York City the night before she fell ill and was rushed to hospital. And like everything else in life, death was merely a source for more laughter.
"She did a joke onstage, she goes, 'I'm 81 — I could go at any moment,'" Shade Rupe, who attended the Wednesday night show at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, told the New York Daily News. "'I could fall over right here, and you all could say, 'I was there!''"


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I enthusiastically recommend this book, and expect it will be highly valuable to students, teachers and researchers. The book provides a comprehensive, authoritative and modern view of our knowledge of gastrulation, and captures the excitement in this rapidly developing field. I imagine that many young readers will become intrigued by gastrulation and at least a few will become hooked by it forever after reading this book.
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This book is essential reading for biology teachers and scientists interested in developmental biology. The technical jargon is kept to a minimum and the glossary, placed at the beginning, can make any prospective reader comfortable....The photos and figures are truly magnificent, something for which developmental biologists have a reputation. In addition, there are supplemental data and gastrulation movies on several species at the accompanying Web site (www.gastrulation.org).
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I had a guy over the weekend who said almost the same thing you mentioned above: "I only want a page that shows my name and phone number. I don't need anything else." I also had a customer who after I had created a site, when I proposed that we now market it said, "I don't need to market it. Google with find it and it will show up." After 5 months he still doesn't rank for any of his precious terms. Now he blames me for not showing up on the internet.
Thanks for the column. Its good advice.
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Of course the 'energy vampire' you refer to in this blog is out there, and can suck a lot of resources out of you and your company, but at least these people are getting involved.
Surely the biggest 'energy vampires' are the clients that pay their monthly bills but don't want to write a blog, don't tell you about the newsworthy developments going on in their companies, or don't reply to your phone calls.
Maybe these guys should be the first to go?
Apr 5 2010
Good article – What are your thoughts on how to identify those "energy vampires" before they've signed your contract?
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FS#133 - Subdivision support
Opened by Mike H (SharkD) - Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 23:03 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Monday, 10 April 2017, 13:51 GMT
Someone built a version of Povray with internal support for automatic subdivision of meshes. See:
Would like to see this feature added natively to Povray.
I would love to see this implemented in 3.7! The size of the patch suggests it would not increase the .exe size appreciably. I would rather not have to rely on third-party includes to accomplish mesh subdivision in POV.
Why would this be a good feature to have?
1) small initial mesh size for distributing scenes
2) small initial mesh size for testing/previewing scenes
3) the patch can smooth any mesh, even without subdividing it
4) mesh creation in POV becomes possible for more people, since only basic meshes need to be created
5) it can crease the edges of any mesh
6) it supports uv_mapping
7) more shapes can be distributed with POV-Ray
8) it's pretty fast
I agree that subdivision is a nice idea to have, but not for 3.7, which is way to late in its release cycle to get new core features of this size.
I have a "small" issue with the current copyright/license of the subdivision code: it's ok for povray (future version included), but forbidden to other application (by default).
I believe it would corrupt the license of povray for source distribution. (how does the restriction survive in source distribution ?)
The license terms of that subdivision patch would be fine with the old POV-Ray 3.6 license, as that would forbid use of the code for anything other than POV-Ray (or a modified version thereof) anyway. (As a matter of fact, publishing any POV-Ray 3.6 derivative with code portions that don't go well with the old POV-Ray 3.6 license would itself be a violation of the 3.6 license).
However, the license is definitely incompatible with the AGPL we're aiming for with 3.7 (which to the best of my knowledge wouldn't per se prevent portions of POV-Ray code ending up in a coffee vending machine), and so ATM we can't just port that code. It would be a case of "ask the authors to re-license it under an AGPL-compatible license".
- Field changed: Status (New → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on github as issue #272.


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