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More Ristolainen? You are definitely trending the way of the forum.

You won’t. You’re ur are spelling his name wrong, so you won’t hear that. ?

They need to execute here. It has to happen. The hole will get deeper if they don’t..

Also Shawshank Redemption is on Paramount Network... that helps getting through the game.

So far I can say Eichel is doing everything he can so far to try and pull this team along. That’s good to see.

These officials are going to turn this into a penalty fest. Not good for the Sabres PP.

They look like a team that is trying too hard now. they feel the pressure. No excuse, they should, but they need to find a way to get through this..

I’m glad my manny is a great recipe. a good drink cures the ills. if you’d like to feel better about this game, go play NHL 19... now that’s a bad experience.

That’s not a nice thing to say about our community.

This is where the wheels come off SabreSpace.

Love the EWI. Never had one.. I do have my Yamaha wx5 though. ?

I started drinking at 10:30. glad I have tomorrow off. this isn’t a board repost flaw.

I started drinking at 10:30 tonight. glad I have tomorrow off.

I read the article and am wavering on this being discrimination rather than just marketing. In this article they are talking about recruitment letters and not admissions policies. So, as I read it and took into account the Dean's statement it came across to me that they are targeting groups that might not consider applying because they consider their SAT scores too low for Harvard. It would make sense to have varying ranges by race because there are varying average SAT scores by race. I can understand the argument being reversed to say that they should only recruit using the same cut-offs. I also wonder that if you consider the SAT to show an unnatural race bias if you wouldn't correct against it in your recruitment. For example, if the SAT tends to score African-Americans 250 points lower than Asians and Harvard accepts and recognizes this so they recruit at 250 points lower in their recruitment letters are they not actually equalizing the playing field more than discriminating? Very true. I am glad to know a guy who is all "inner city" and has lived his life in the traditional "hood" way but who is also busting his butt and not giving his kids any excuses to not get educated. He is working his butt off to put them into private school and his oldest just started at University of Rochester. I think he's a great role model on how to break the cycle... but there's no doubt that the hurdles to overcome are significant. I wanted to add on that some percentage of that poverty cycle is self-induced. In some ways people have wanted the quick fix for these poverty problems but the only real fix is to get the kids educated and stabilized so they have a fighting chance. Unfortunately you can't make the kids go to school and you can't make them learn and in some cases kids are being fed lines of garbage about how to deal with the system that is stacked against them. Rather than get educated they are encouraged to seek other means of succeeding in life and this only perpetuates the problems. The discussion of SAT scores applies both the the Harvard standards as it does to a demonstration of education in America. Harvard actually uses other factors than just SAT and that's what is really in question. Your indication was that the spots go to the top 200 applicants and it was asked how that should be determined. The SAT was recommended and thus the discussion of racial bias in SAT scores was born. It's relevant to the thread. These standards that Harvard uses are not going to be very dissimilar to what other institutions use although there may be varying scales and weights. Certainly higher end colleges are more selective but overall admission rates versus application rates are low for many institutions. https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/lowest-acceptance-rate For example, Duke is 10% (Harvard is 5%). This article doesn't speak to applications received though. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2017-09-14/10-colleges-with-the-most-applications California Universities are usually ranked the highest because of the free tuition (I think they have that still) for residents. But Boston University had 57,000+ applications... and admitted 16,907... roughly 29% https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/massachusetts/boston-university/admission/ That's a lot of people getting turned away who I am sure are fairly similar in standardized metrics.

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".