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Pretty sure I could never bring myself to play that game...

Who will win this game?

I disagree but would have to look again. I believe Reinhart had been in front, but Okposo hesitated on the shot so Reinhart seemed to drop down for the pass. Okposo then took the shot but at that point it was a clear lane. Okposo never looked down to Reinhart, he was trying to look Fleury off, so he had no idea (unless peripheral vision caught it) that Reinhart had moved. There's no doubt that it shows they aren't on the same page regardless of where you put the blame. Overall they appear to be a better skating and puck moving team. I have the confidence it gets sorted out.

They gave up 5 in 6 games last year. It's not good, but it's not as bad. ?

In the interests of furthering conversation on the subject it would be good to post supporting evidence of both assertions made here. It is also important to note which version of the SAT you are referring to. It was recently revamped. I think it's important to examine the evidence because it will be critical to understand how controlled the data sets were. For example, to say that inner city youth with a high latino/black ethnicity scored poorly on the SAT and as such it shows ethnical bias may be misleading. The test may be fine but the education of those students may be severely lacking. As such they perform poorly compared to others from different backgrounds and ethnicity. The reference in the article on CNN shows the same overall demographic of Asian-Americans jumping up significantly in the year after the test was changed. On the surface that does make it appear that somehow the questions may be better understood by that demographic. Of course, it could be an anomaly as well.

Interesting tweet I saw last night... I don't even follow these people but it got pulled into my view somehow. This is the information war. The more we break our face to face relationships and turn people into digital avatars the less we can be convinced that anyone who writes anything is a real person or not being paid to say something. The company I work for uses a program to track how often we share corporate press releases onto social media platforms. We get criticized for not being corporate shills on things like Twitter and LinkedIn. It's to the point that I have hidden my LinkedIn account from them just so they think I no longer have one.

Last year he was blasted for not doing this and now he's blasted for doing it. You are the only one so far, but the silence from others over his willingness to do this twice now is interesting. Fans... Of course last year the showed they couldn't even hold onto the puck. At least this year they have moments where they do that. Just like last year, this team is learning. It's a younger team as well. Just like last year, the power play is terrible at the beginning of the year. The bright side is that they've not given up the shorties like they did last year. They've tried different things on the PP by moving players around, changing who is on the ice. It's not happening yet... I'm not going to go in on firing the coach, blaming Eichel, etc. The team is playing better than they did last year. I'm content just letting it play out at this point and judging the season as a whole.

Let's be honest, does Peterman know the playbook? Is it really inconceivable that you could take a random QB from the pile and insert them into the lineup and basically say "Don't throw to the other team" and get better results?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/14/politics/harvard-affirmative-action-asian-americans/index.html That's a CNN article referencing Harvard's process.

It is a good conversation. It's gotta be the finish with the extra throwing him to the ice that is what got him suspended. I don't think body size has anything to do with the concussion. The odds are good that any size person being thrown down like that is going to have the rotational skull impact that leads to brain trauma. You might argue that you wouldn't throw a bigger guy down, but once Matheson had leverage the body size wouldn't matter. Take into account that Petterson had just deked him along the wall and it probably leads to some thinking that he was extracting revenge rather than making a hockey play. I dunno.. I'm sure as hell not sold on the suspension.

They are as I understand it, but I'm not sure they will fair any better in creating a standardized test that doesn't somehow lend an advantage one segment of society over another based on the wording of questions. It's a huge dilemma. How do you compare the capabilities of two people from two different backgrounds against a standardized metric that is not standard between the backgrounds of those two people? It's easy to ask them what 2+2 is.. it's universal. It's less easy to ask them to read a passage that deals with a subject that is foreign to one and natural for the other and ask them to interpret it. The same can be true of mathematical questions that bring in "situational awareness".

The question today isn't so much about what our government is doing but what our society is doing. We have become disillusioned into the belief that we are untouchable and above all others. We spend more time arguing between ourselves than paying attention to the world. We are, by all counts, a self-absorbed society that has no awareness of the world going on around us. Much like the the citizens of Rome were glued to gladiator matches, we are glued to our entertainment venues. Whether it is news about events or celebrities, games (both computer and sporting events, or movies and television shows, we are constantly distracted from life. The Romans, too, were distracted from reality. The United States, through its continued involvement in the affairs of other countries, has long been engaged in world domination. It's not physical occupation but rather control over the resources of countries to benefit the corporations that line the politicians pockets. Any attempt at war the scale of which the Roman Empire embodied or even WWI or WWII would only end in the near destruction of civilization at this point. As maniacal as any leader has been to date, none of them are necessarily ready to give up the planet (thankfully). This is what I mean by the fall of the United States via the 21st century way. It won't be direct military action, but to decay our society from the inside out until such point that we destroy ourselves. Outside agencies fueling the fires of organizations like Antifa and white supremacists to escalate conflict. Pushing the hot buttons of society until even average citizens are swearing back and forth and threatening each other on Internet forums. Of course, the United States maintains a massive military and the costs of maintaining that military are felt by cuts in other programs that could benefit society. This is hardly different than what happened with the Roman Empire as well. Certainly they were involved in more conflicts, but simply maintaining armies comes with a great cost. By all estimations, the United States spends more on its military than any other country, and its not even close. Recent 2017 estimations put the US Military budget at $610B. The 2nd largest budget is estimated at $228B (China). From there it's Saudi Arabia ($69.4B), Russia ($66.3B), and India ($63.9B). In fact, the United States spends more than the next 7 highest countries combined. (https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2018-04/sipri_fs_1805_milex_2017.pdf) Meanwhile, when comparing military expense inside the US budget alone, the discretionary spending budget of $1.11T sees the military spending roughly $598B compared to education $70B. The total budget of $3.8T (mandatory and discretionary) puts the military at $609B and education at $229B. It's certainly a lot of money to spend on education when we see the US spending more on education than any other country spends on its own military, but relative to its military spending, one can see that massive amounts of funds are used just to support the military. (https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/) - 2015 budget.

Time to nap so I can stay up and watch the game!

I've read a few things regarding the case throughout today. If there's one thing I am positive of is that the ruling in this case is going to cause more division regardless of what the actual ruling turns out to be. My personal take is that race should never be a considered factor. It's irrelevant. In many cases race is substituted for ethnic heritage which inherits many more factors than just the color of one's skin. The assertion mentioned in the article is that "Asian-Americans scored lower in the "personal" ratings". Of course without a clear set of metrics I am not sure how one determines the "personal" rating. Regardless, my guess is that if we were able to change the skin color of triplets such that they appeared as different races at birth and were raised by the same family there's a good chance they would share similar "personal" ratings. They'd also likely suffer from racial bias despite basically being the same except for color. As a rule of thumb I've always been against affirmative action because it's a band-aid to the real problem. The entire concept of diversity policies is that you will, inevitably, be required to act in a way that demonstrates racial bias. I understand why they exist and it's clear we aren't going to eradicate racial bias anytime soon so policies are put in place to help police it, for better or worse. A simple example I always think of works like this: A school has a requirement to score 100 on a test to gain entrance. The school admits 25% each of race A, B, C, D to allow for diversity. No group can comprise more than 25%. There are 100 spots open each year. Race A has 37 applicants score 100. Race B has 25 applicants score 100. Race C has 24 applicants score 100. Race D has 65 applicants score 100. The only way to fill the incoming class would be to allow 24 applicants from each racial group. This would fill 96 of the 100 slots and each group would be 1/4 of the admission class. However, because Race C did not do well, the school is forced to not allow admission to someone from Races A, B, and D simply because they are not Race C. This is a racial bias. The fear, of course, with this lawsuit, is that if race is no longer allowed as a consideration then schools may actually trend towards only admitting students of a certain race because they can now create a scale that favors them (as subtly as possible I am certain).

Without getting too detailed... The Roman Empire was responsible for building a massive infrastructure that opened the world up where it ruled. This infrastructure allowed for information to move around much more easily than before. An increase information allowed people to know more, see more, obtain more. The end of the Roman Empire came when cultures who did not agree with the Roman rule increased efforts to fight back the Roman armies. The Emperors of Rome were undermined by power struggles and corruption of government and ruled a society that had become lazy and complacent. In essence, everyone wanted more of the good life and were too busy fighting each other to realize that their good life was on the brink of destruction. There are many other reasons that all feed off each other that helped precipitate the fall, but by and large that should be sufficient for now. The 21st century way is to use the speed of the Internet to spread messages to those who are against what this country and its allies have built. They cannot stand directly against the armies like the Germanic tribes did Rome. That said, they can use our complacency against us by engaging in information warfare. The concept of "fake news" isn't something just born of the last few years though the phrase might be. We've been slowly escalated against each other to the point now where people will attack each other over the smallest of things. We no longer see the fault of our own but attack those with the same faults. We are being coerced into disarray and distracted from events that really matter. While we are too busy fighting each other those states that would see our culture destroyed are waiting for the moment when we tear ourselves apart and at that point they can move. One only need to look at the divisions within the people in Germany, England, Belgium, France, United States, and so on to see that we are being set against each other in an attempt to weaken who we are. Are we so naive to think that those divisions and issues are not being driven by careful manipulation of information? That's why I am interested in what this book has to say. However, given the evidence at play in recent stories and those that go back 15-20 years on how information is being used against us, I'm not interested in determining if this is happening so much as being more informed on how it is happening. The similarities to the issues the Roman Empire experienced and what our society is experiencing are there. It's not exact, but it's not that far off either.

Well, here's the thing. At the moment, it's this particular person. It doesn't get dismissed. I don't care who she is married to and I happen to think Housley is a fine coach. It would have been posted here. If I were aware of it and so inclined I might have posted it. And I think you should step back a bit now and stop telling others why they do what they do. You've said you don't condone what she's said then stick to haranguing her about it and not attacking the other people on this board who posted it. They can't post what isn't said and you should keep that in mind. When a democratic candidate gets called out for something similar you can come here and yell it from the rooftops and but that won't make what Karin Housley suddenly justified, it will only add to the pile of ignorance.

First I have heard of it. Any recommended articles on it before I go searching?

Is there a statute of limitations? It matters only in that it sets a tone for the kind of person she is and the way she handles herself. She may have indeed changed and that would certainly be something to talk about. However, to intone that one need not be concerned, well, I think weave put it quite well. Ignorance and disrespect are not something that should be rewarded. I don't live in Minnesota either but the people elected to the US Senate, from there, vote on issues that will impact me. As such, I care.

Every day it's more and more the reality. Although one could say that we are repeating history, lots of people point to the Roman Empire and like to claim we are heading that path albeit in a 21st century way.

Came across this article, which is a lead-in to a book recommendation, but it still seems to frame up the aspects of how social media and other information outlets are being used as the new battlefield. I'll probably read the book as this kind of stuff interests me. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/12/17967544/likewar-social-media-pw-singer-interview My favorite is the reference to a US Army officer statement "Indeed, I often think about a quote in the book from a retired US Army officer, who described how every village once had an idiot. And now, the internet has brought them all together and made them more powerful than ever before."

Without even accounting for the ties to the Sabres, those are the kinds of comments that just don't need to be said and will never end well for you. Let's not even touch the sheer ignorance of using a chimp as a reference. She even states it will draw comments. But why even bother to say someone is not cool. Unfortunately this seems to be the way of society these days. Rather than champion oneself it's easier to tear everyone down. Moreover, it's not like we tear people down for significant items, but rather "not being cool" and having poor posture?

Once the author is done writing his narrative and sends it to me I will be sure to forward it on.

This is your second straight response that chooses to ignore things I have said in my prior posts. You never acknowledge when you get called out, you just ignore it and move your agenda train along its tracks. Have a great day.

You crack me up. Do you even know to what I am referring? In all seriousness though, thank you for entertaining me.

I always felt there was more... not a lot more mind you, but at least closer to 1500-2000... you would certainly know better than I would though since I don't go that often. I agree with a lot of this. One thing I also thought of while typing a reply is that these days people have their kids enrolled in 50 different activities such that the time to go to a game isn't even there. Couple that with everything you said and the rare free night usually doesn't result in an Amerks game being an option in the decision tree. I don't doubt there are a lot of other factors impacting the Amerks attendance. The area sucks, people are moving further away and traveling downtown is a pain in the butt and the city went and got greedier by extending the parking meter hours. The list goes on... A lot of it does start with being relevant however. They have to be a good team, otherwise it's a lot of fluff and hype over a mediocre product at best.