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I will call this a GDT duet. Great work and I'm grateful for your efforts.

I'd interested in talk and interview with shootout participants. I've wondered if and when skaters decide what they're going to do on an attempt. How much is pre-planned and how much is in response to how the goaltender sets himself up or responds? How much to goaltenders prepare in terms of being aggressive or settling in? Darren Pang interviewed Allen last night on the St Louis feed. He asked Allen if he prepared for ROR and essentially had his glove waiting to catch ROR's shot. Allen replied along the lines of "No, I don't watch video or prepare for shootout tendencies". Seemed pretty nonchalant.

It's funny. Everyone slumps. Everyone's skills decline. Ennis looks like he forgot how to play hockey.

Great hockey game. This year rocks. Faceoffs! Ennis?

Looked like me with a sand wedge topped over the green - Ennis

Glad Oshie's gone

Short track speed skating

This is the first 3:3 I've enjoyed. Maybe teams are figuring it out.

Track meet

29-19 face offs --- Buffalo

Grateful ...

Reading his responses - Vestibule, for The Indifferent. Awesome question. Great work, here. Confession. I see No Goal the same way Smell does. Dallas beat us in hockey. I've wondered before I f I was a curmudgeon. I've learned I am. Wanna get my juices flowing about this game? James Patrick's goalpost in OT. (memory check?) "Lucic" tattoo where it doesn't show.

Now, you know my leanings, but given what I've read here, you're going to get hate mail from chimps. I'm stunned, too, although I've stopped saying it. I've not seen a brokered convention in my lifetime. I wonder .... LOL, auto correct gave me "I want Nader". The world's beautiful. Dig your posts, although our eyes look in different directions. 'This one's funny. I am already planning on pulling a lever in 2016 and saying "Pastajoe's cancelled".

If it's not our time yet, I'd love to see Lindy get a cup.

You don't find many Monets in magazine racks. I appreciate your thoughts on that one aspect of the article. The Lilies imagery is way cool. You did find it interesting enough to comment on. Come on, give me that. My interest isn't the internal religious debate. That's for the experts, our good friend included. My interest, in the politics of Paris thread, is in the policy implications when leaders make the same authority error you point out. The magazine points out non-Muslims lecturing Muslims with regard to what they stand for. I object to this. I think you do, too. I obsrve our leadership, see it doing the same thing, and worry the policy implications. I'll send your admonition to The White House.

Beautiful ...

I thought the same thing.

The balls and strikes thing is gold.

Awesome ... must read. Definitely a side of the aisle piece. http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/17/16-of-the-worst-ways-to-respond-to-isis-paris-attack/ Particularly interesting ... What ISIS is and wants ... in its words. Not for President Obama fans. Still, a great read. Read the satirical Facebook post in light of our back and forth.

Jindal's out. An interesting man. I hope we hear more. Just wait until you hear them ... almost weird. I still think he's formidable.

I'm torn on Syrian refugees. I'm not torn on candidates who suggest Christian refugees, only. What are they thinking? Heard Cruz, himself; also heard Jeb Bush had similar comments. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Grateful .... oops.

Some great posting. Optimization Methods Let f(x) be a given real-valued function on Rp. The general optimization problem is to find an xεRp at which f(x) attain a maximum or a minimum. It is of great interest to statisticians because both maximum likelihood estimation and estimation by least-squares method are special optimization problems. The function f is called the objective function. Since a maximum of f(x) is a minimum of −f(x), discussion can be restricted to function minimization only . In the following discussion it will be assumed that f is twice differentiable and has continuous derivatives with respect to each of the x’s over its range. If the function f is differentiable at its minimum value with continuous derivatives, then its gradient vector f′(x) = ∂f , ∂f ,···, ∂f T ∂x1 ∂x2 ∂xp (sometimes denoted by ∇f(x) in the optimization literature) has a zero at this minimum value. Hence, solving the minimization problem is equivalent to solving the nonlinear system of equations f′(x) = 0. Therefore, methods available for the solution of nonlinear systems of equations become a special class of optimization methods. However, those methods may not solve the minimization problem for several reasons. One of these is that, although at a stationery point of f the gradient function f′(x) vanishes, a necessary condition for the solution to f′(x) = 0 to be a minimum is that the Hessian matrix H = f′′(x) (sometimes denoted by ∇2f(x)), where f′′(x) = ∂2f ∂xi∂xj p×p be positive definite when evaluated at that solution. I'm only an undergrad. I have to cut and paste. Attribution: Iowa State University, Stats 580, Optimization Models.

I'm watching Ennis, tonight. He seemed lost last game. He's seemed lost for several spells. I'm also watching Girgenson's noggin after that late game hit.

One thing that the events of the past 35 years have done is lift the veil that covered the horror of dictatorship, no matter how convenient it may have been for the west. I understand the indigenous anger. That absolves no misbehavior, but it partially explains its birth. I understood your partial tongue.