USCHO.com Fan Forum | board.uscho.com - USCHO Cafe http://board.uscho.com/ en Tue, 21 May 2013 11:48:17 GMT vBulletin 60 http://board.uscho.com/images/misc/rss.png USCHO.com Fan Forum | board.uscho.com - USCHO Cafe http://board.uscho.com/ 2nd Term Part 4: Donkeys, Elephants, and Porcupines http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?105033-2nd-Term-Part-4-Donkeys-Elephants-and-Porcupines&goto=newpost Thu, 16 May 2013 14:55:03 GMT Continue. :D Continue. :D ]]> USCHO Cafe FlagDUDE08 http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?105033-2nd-Term-Part-4-Donkeys-Elephants-and-Porcupines Geography Association Part VI http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?105028-Geography-Association-Part-VI&goto=newpost Tue, 14 May 2013 17:22:39 GMT ---Quote (Originally by owslachief)--- Texas Panhandle ---End Quote--- West Virginia Panhandle
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West Virginia Panhandle ]]> USCHO Cafe Ralph Baer http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?105028-Geography-Association-Part-VI Ding Dong The Ducks Are Dead! http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?105025-Ding-Dong-The-Ducks-Are-Dead!&goto=newpost Mon, 13 May 2013 04:42:08 GMT IALTO. Had to do it. Honestly, go Wings. IALTO.

Had to do it. Honestly, go Wings. ]]> USCHO Cafe Brenthoven http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?105025-Ding-Dong-The-Ducks-Are-Dead! The Cicadas are Coming! http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?105012-The-Cicadas-are-Coming!&goto=newpost Wed, 08 May 2013 14:23:32 GMT Queue media mass hysteria. From North Carolina to Connecticut, the 17-year cicadas are expected to emerge in massive swarms this summer, emerging from their underground burrows sometime in May before they pupate and emerge as flying, thrumming adults. It will be interesting to compare the... Queue media mass hysteria.

From North Carolina to Connecticut, the 17-year cicadas are expected to emerge in massive swarms this summer, emerging from their underground burrows sometime in May before they pupate and emerge as flying, thrumming adults.

It will be interesting to compare the pre-emergence breathless predictions with what actually follows. ]]> USCHO Cafe FreshFish http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?105012-The-Cicadas-are-Coming! App to help build winning fantasy teams http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104997-App-to-help-build-winning-fantasy-teams&goto=newpost Sun, 05 May 2013 20:47:02 GMT Hi I'm Jay and I'm making an app to help with roster management that will also do stats analysis on player performance and make intelligent recommendations about moves you might want to make based on all sorts of factors and statistical history.

I'm curious what problems/pain points other managers have making these decisions so I created a quick survey:

Fantasy Owner Survey

I'd love to hear your responses, many thanks in advance!

If you want to get in touch I can be reached at brainofjay66@gmail.com. Thanks for taking a look! ]]> USCHO Cafe BrainOfJay http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104997-App-to-help-build-winning-fantasy-teams Kentucky Derby http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104994-Kentucky-Derby&goto=newpost Sat, 04 May 2013 18:58:33 GMT No clue what I'm doing, since I've never bet on ponies before, but I just made a bunch of various bets for the little race we have this evening. Sounds/looks like it will be a sloppy track. ]]> USCHO Cafe hockeyplayer1015 http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104994-Kentucky-Derby NHL Playoffs 2013 - Walruses, Trolls and other assorted creatures. http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104993-NHL-Playoffs-2013-Walruses-Trolls-and-other-assorted-creatures.&goto=newpost Sat, 04 May 2013 05:14:51 GMT Continue. Continue. ]]> USCHO Cafe MountieBoyOz http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104993-NHL-Playoffs-2013-Walruses-Trolls-and-other-assorted-creatures. 2013 Weather Thread for non Minnesotans http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104992-2013-Weather-Thread-for-non-Minnesotans&goto=newpost Fri, 03 May 2013 21:40:02 GMT It's Tornado Week over on the Weather Channel, so I think it's time for the rest of us to comment on the weather.

Here's a start from the Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...ather-pattern/

And there was a tornado in Italy. Could it be a sign of Pope Francis clearing out the Curia??
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...nado-in-italy/ (scroll down a bit) ]]> USCHO Cafe joecct http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104992-2013-Weather-Thread-for-non-Minnesotans Guns, Guns, Guns!!! http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104990-Guns-Guns-Guns!!!&goto=newpost Fri, 03 May 2013 18:44:25 GMT I have quite a bit of interest in firearms, both new and antiques, and I'm hoping to have a place to discuss potential purchases, ammunition, performance, etc. I do not want this thread to turn into a ****ing match over "gun control", that is absolutely not what I intended, if this thread turns into that, I will delete it and go elsewhere for this discussion.

To start, I have mentioned this elsewhere, but I will repost here. I came across a very interesting gun in an online estate auction yesterday, and I ended up buying it. The listing said that this gun was a "Esterr.WAFFFB.GES Model 71 Bolt Action". Before I bought it, I had a pretty good idea that it was some form of a German Mauser, from 1871, though, it wasn't like anything I had found online up until that point.

I did some more digging, and found out that this is in fact a Mauser, manufactured by an Austrian armory, that went by the name Oesterr.Wafffb.Ges. which is an abbreviation for 3 very long German sounding words. That same company is now the company that we know as Steyr Arms. The stock was still not right for the Model 71, even though I could see in pictures that "Mod. 71" was stamped right in the steel on the receiver. More digging, and I found that this is most likely a "Sporterized" Model 71 military rifle. Meaning that after it was decommissioned from the whichever military it was used in (presumably whatever incarnation of Austria was around at that time), it was converted into a "Sporter" which was then sold to the public to use for hunting and other sport. Even after finding this out, something wasn't right, the sights still weren't right.

Late morning I went to pick this thing up from the auction house, and much to my surprise, my Mauser rifle is actually a shotgun. None of the pictures posted showed any indication of this, except for the sights, which now made sense. I did some more digging, to figure out how a Mauser Model 71 military rifle can turn into a shotgun. I found that there were some of these, possibly many, that were converted to shotguns, again for sport use. Apparently many were shipped to Australia. But, I still haven't found any of the Model 71's that were converted to shotguns online, they were almost all the later model rifles from the 1880's and 1890's that were converted. So I'm thinking that the model 71 is pretty rare. Also, this appears to be a .20 gauge, whereas almost all the information I found said that they were converted to .16 gauges and .12 gauges, with .20 gauges being quite rare.

Overall, the gun is in great shape. The wood looks really good, and the metal has a nice patina, that hasn't been messed with. I think I got a pretty good deal for the price I paid for this thing.

I still have some more digging do, though! I will post some pictures this weekend, when I get some time. ]]> USCHO Cafe bigblue_dl http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104990-Guns-Guns-Guns!!! Eine Kleine Classical Musikgespräche http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104981-Eine-Kleine-Classical-Musikgespräche&goto=newpost Thu, 02 May 2013 18:25:08 GMT Does classical / choral / sacred music talk have a place in the Cafe, or is this more of a latte-sipping jazz crowd?

Sample post:
Hey our choral group's doing Bach's "O Jesu Christ mein's Lebens Licht" and I think our tonal color is rounding into shape. I'm thinking of asking herr Maestro if we can call our show "Bach Joy"

Me: Lettuce call it "Bach Joy"
Maestro: I like the title, but I won't leek that yet. ]]> USCHO Cafe owslachief http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104981-Eine-Kleine-Classical-Musikgespräche A Little Internet History http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104974-A-Little-Internet-History&goto=newpost Wed, 01 May 2013 00:50:35 GMT Here's a link to a website that is pretty interesting - the first ever use of www. Ancient history - it goes back to 1992.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html ]]> USCHO Cafe Siouxfaninseattle http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104974-A-Little-Internet-History Happy Birthday LynahFan! http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104967-Happy-Birthday-LynahFan!&goto=newpost Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:25:44 GMT Happy Birthday LynahFan! Happy Birthday LynahFan! ]]> USCHO Cafe leswp1 http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104967-Happy-Birthday-LynahFan! Happy Birthday, Mr. Shakespeare! http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104951-Happy-Birthday-Mr.-Shakespeare!&goto=newpost Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:34:58 GMT Although no one really "knows" on what day the world's greatest playwright was born, April 26, 1564 is often celebrated as his birthday because that's the date that is reported as the day he was baptized, and since infant mortality was so high back then, many babies were baptized on the day they were born to make sure that they were baptized at all. Some people like to say he was botrn on April 23 because he died on April 23, 1616 and they like the symmetry that would bring.


There's an apocryphal story about an anti-intellectual who sniffed, "I don't understand why there is so much fuss about Shakespeare: all he did was take a bunch of famous quotes and string them together."


So many of his plays have been performed so well by so many of the world's best actors; the stories have been recast into many different settings and have produced hit after hit after hit through the centuries that followed.

Some people are surprised at how many great movies and shows have derived from his plays.

and then on top of all those great dramas and great comedies, we have all those sonnets as well?

Happy Birthday! ]]> USCHO Cafe FreshFish http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104951-Happy-Birthday-Mr.-Shakespeare! The 2013 New England Patriots http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104946-The-2013-New-England-Patriots&goto=newpost Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:32:28 GMT Figured I'd kick this off, with the draft starting tonight. The Patriots are in a much different position this year, with only five picks (and no picks in rounds 4-6). Wide receiver is the most glaring need, but several mocks I've seen have them picking a cornerback. Likeliest is probably a trade down and out of the first round. There's some noise about trading Mallett to pick up a pick too, but I doubt that happens. ]]> USCHO Cafe Jason A http://board.uscho.com/showthread.php?104946-The-2013-New-England-Patriots