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May 8, 2013
Political Correctness and Honesty—Time for a Change
The bombing of the Boston Marathon last month has called into question some notions that have been close to sacrosanct in the civil rights/human relations communities for decades.
That act of terror has raised profound questions about the nature of our democracy, the rights of individuals and groups, the tolerance level of the public towards minorities and the balance between individual rights and the public good.
The Boston Marathon bombing has, by virtue of the alleged perpetrators, raised the question as to how far law enforcement has gone and ought to go to prevent the recurrence of similar "lone wolf" acts of terror by Islamist jihadists.
The facile and oft repeated response is that no group should be "profiled." Lacking "probable cause" that a crime is being planned, no group should be watched nor individual members of a group monitored more closely than others. The traditional notion is that unless a crime is imminent individuals and groups are to be viewed and treated equally and at a distance.
But the Boston Marathon bombing (committed not by foreign nationals sneaking their way onto our shores) callously and murderously executed by seemingly normal neighbors validates the position taken by the New York Police Department (for which it has been widely vilified) that certain groups warrant closer scrutiny and, yes, profiling.
Last year, the NYPD's Demographics Unit was found to have been gathering information on Muslims not only in New York but in other parts of the northeast United States. They were vigorously criticized in some quarters (the Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for writing about the NYPD's practices). The ACLU ridiculed the NYPD's concept of terrorist "radicalization"---however, the Department's analysis of likely terrorists reads like a primer on the brothers Tsarnaev. Some believe that had the Tsarnaevs been in New York they would have been on the NYPD's surveillance list and closely watched.
A recent Wall Street Journal column pointed out that the NYPD has thwarted 16 terrorist attacks in the city since 9/11. A fact that it is easy to be blasé about, but the countless lives that weren't snuffed out or destroyed in the absence of terror is a significant accomplishment.
In response to his critics, Mayor Bloomberg has been refreshingly honest,
The NYPD was equally clear in response to the critics of its monitoring of Muslim student activities and Muslim Student Associations ("MSA") on college campuses. The NYPD spokesman, in a rather prescient observation last year noted that "Some of the most dangerous Western al Qaeda-linked/inspired terrorists since 9/11 were radicalized and/or recruited at universities in MSAs."
To acknowledge the obvious is not to stereotype Muslim Americans or Arab Americans; it is simply to state what most Americans can glean from reading their newspapers and watching the news over the past decade--- there is a problem that Islam must deal with.
As The New York Times' Thomas Friedman recently wrote:
The tendency of opinion molders and other leaders to skirt the obvious and pretend that Muslims and Quakers should be viewed similarly is partially grounded in a belief that breaching political correctness could degenerate into dangerous bigotry and stereotyping of Muslim and Arab Americans (the internment of Japanese Americans haunts our memories).
That fear seems not to be warranted, even if it should always give us pause and temper our actions and words.
Americans have absorbed the message of the civil rights era well---we have learned not to extrapolate from the individual to the group. A problem with some youthful Muslim males does not extend to the colleague at work or the worshippers at the mosque. We have learned to parse bad guys and potential bad guys from normal folk.
In the light of the series of incidents that have occurred over the past decade---Ft. Hood, the Christmas Day bomber, Times Square, etc. ---there would be ample grounds for suspicion, hostility and nastiness against Muslim Americans were that our tendency. Yet, an August, 2011 Pew Study found that:
We ought to give ourselves the credit that we have earned and receive honest and frank assessments on matters that can and have impacted life and death (even if some profiling, warranted by data, occurs).
Most of us have learned to resist Islamophobia and the facile resort to stereotyping and bigotry. Religious leaders and civil rights activists have successfully imparted that message to several generations of Americans, and it seems to be sticking.
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from Chicago
Comments about Epson Wireless WXGA 3LCD Projector:
The projector is easy to set up with my Mac, projects clearly and is quiet in the resting mode. It is light to transport. My only regret is the case could have been more protective when in transport.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Great Projector
By cndirector1
from East Earl, PA
I needed to replace a projector for one of my consultants. After doing research I chose the EX7220, the wireless capabilities are excellent. It is true to the description being lightweight and very bright and clear. I just ordered another...GREAT Projector!!
This was my first ...
By Pastor
from Amarillo, Tx
This was my first experience with a projector and I use it in our church sanctuary. It was very easy to set up and use. I now use it with Bible classes and other presentations. I use both the Powerpoint and Keynote slides. I highly recommend this projector.
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epson 7220 projector
By Anonymous
from Undisclosed
I am pretty technical - but no way could I figure out the wireless ability of this projector after 2 hours. Downloaded all the manuals and software - nope, can't figure it out - and that was my main reason for getting one with this ability...
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I love the projector but the wireless doesn't work
By Natacha
from Weare, NH, USA
I am quite happy with the projector itself but the extra money I paid to have ease of wireless was a total waste. Something is missing and Epson does not have ease of use to connect to wireless. The projector wants a password to get onto its network which I have no idea where the password came from as it was always there from the outset. My ipad or iphone are useless with it and I can't connect with wireless at all even with my laptop. The app that I downloaded does not work at all in this setting so its useless. How I wish Epson cared enough to go to the trouble of having a very comprehensive tutorial on how to do it, I have followed all the available instructions it came with which don't work. If not then re-design the app to be logical and do all that is necessary for the wireless to work.
nice projector
By art
from Mission, Texas
I bought this projector for church and so far it's working fine without wires,
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knocked off
By daddy
from concord ca
This knocks me offline and that was not told to me why it keeps doing that?I connect to my Epson 7220 and it knocks me off line. No wifi I have to reboot my lap top
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By DGReid
from Austin, TX
As of yet, I cannot get my Galaxy S3 or Galaxy Note 12.2 to connect to the projector using the Epson app. I can connect from my laptop or desktop with a wireless adapter using the Epson PC software (must be downloaded - doesn't come with projector). I am hoping the smart apps will be fixed, but if you need to use them now, verify your device first. When showing movies, I get some pauses which I assume is my old laptop - again, check it out. The speaker is adequate for most uses. It isn't for audiophiles, but is clear. No audio out, but that would add significant cost (amp, cntrols, etc.). Use your video source. Keystone adjustments are fine. Video is bright and clear in moderately lighted rooms which is all I need. Overall, it looks good. As is common these days, the documentation is very weak. A lengthy pdf file is available, but more attention to the setup description would help.
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By cali
Very good quality image, easy to operate, good value.
Amazing Picture
By BigTScott
from Central Square, New York
This is the absolute best picture I've ever seen on a projector. Very Bright and crisp. Works great in my game room with the lights on. I would recommend this to everyone.
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There are many different types of amino acids products out there on the market. They all serve a singular purpose: to help build muscle. We have whey- and egg-based amino acid products, free form EAAs and BCAAs, just to name a few. Depending on the application, you would choose one amino acid product over another, all in the hopes of adding that extra lean mass.
When it comes to the EAAs and BCAAs, you're taking these aminos around your workout to help enhance your performance as well as kick start the recovery process. With the whey, egg, and other milk-based aminos, you're taking them either in between or along with meals to jack up your total daily protein intake for better results. Amino acids products are a nice and convenient way to add addition protein to your diet.
Universal Nutrition has now come up with a brand new type of amino acid supplement, one derived exclusively from the highest quality beef. 100% Beef Aminos, in the Universal brand, is a highly potent blend of superior beef amino acids derived from premium beef protein isolate, beef albumin concentrate, and Argentine beef liver. With 100% Beef Aminos, you get the nutrient density of beef, the essence of beef, and the anabolic power of beef-anytime, anywhere.
100% Beef Aminos contains a full spectrum of highly concentrated amino acids as well as many other necessary and essential nutrients, all harnessing the anabolic potential of beef. Best of all, 100% Beef Aminos is priced very nicely and would be a great, value-driven option for any bodybuilder looking to add extra protein to his diet.
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Serving Size: 2 Tablets
Servings Per Container: 100
Amount Per Serving
Calories - 12
Protein - 3g
Vitamin A - 25IU
Vitamin C - 8mg
Niacin - 2.6mg
Vitamin B6 - 2mg
Typical Amino Acid Profile
Grams Of Amino Acids In 100g Of Beef Protein.
Essential Amino Acids
L-Leucine (Branched Chain Amino Acid) - 3,900mg
L-Isoleucine (Branched Chain Amino Acid) - 1,700mg
L-Valine (Branched Chain Amino Acid) - 2,800mg
L-Threonine - 2,100mg
L-Lysine - 5,100mg
L-Phenylalanine - 2,300mg
L-Tryptophan† - 300mg
L-Methionine - 1,200mg
L-Histidine - 1,200mg
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L-Arginine†† - 7,300mg
L-Aspartic Acid - 6,200mg
L-Alanine - 8,800mg
L-Cysteine - 500mg
L-Glutamic Acid - 11,300mg
L-Glycine - 20,100mg
L-Hydroxyproline - 9,700mg
L-Proline - 11,100mg
L-Tyrosine - 900mg
L-Serine - 3,400mg
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Made In A GMP Facility That Uses Milk, Soy, Egg, Peanuts.
As a dietary supplement, take 2 tablets with each meal to help increase the amino acid content of the meal or take in between meals to help supply a steady flow of quality amino acids into your body. Daily intake can be increased gradually to 4 or 6 tablets per sitting.
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Tony didn't have to worry about job hunting as he approached his final months at North Central College. The accounting major had already accepted a full-time position, which started after graduation, in Deloitte's global tax department.
Lots of hard work—plus a supportive faculty—set the Chicago native up for quick success.
"My professors played a crucial role in helping me get to where I am today," says Tony, whose long-term goals include earning an MBA and becoming a partner in an accounting firm. "There's an enormous amount of opportunity for a student who decides to major in accounting at North Central."
Tony served as vice-president of the Student Accounting Society and played on the football team. He enjoyed the College's relatively small size, calling the campus atmosphere "close-knit and family-like."
"What's most unique in a small school setting like this one is the opportunity for one-on-one relationships with our professors," he says.
North Central's close proximity to one of the country's largest markets was a major selling point for Tony. He and many of his classmates secured internships with large companies based in Chicago. A previous internship experience at Deloitte led to Tony's full-time job offer.


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Olentangy High School football coach Ed Terwilliger summed up senior Joshua Perry's night in one sentence: "I'm glad he's on our team."
The Ohio State recruit rushed for 148 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries, caught a 64-yard touchdown pass and returned an interception 22 yards for a touchdown as visiting Olentangy defeated Dublin Jerome 42-17 on Friday, Oct. 7.
The Braves improved to 4-3 overall and 3-1 in the OCC-Cardinal Division, and Jerome fell to 2-5 and 2-2.
"Joshua is starting to come into his own," Terwilliger said. "They started to bottle us on up in the second half, but he made some big plays."
"The good news is he's going to be a Buckeye, and I don't have to worry about him going against us," Jerome coach Mark Hundley said with a laugh. "The kid's a player. He's got a big body, and he runs so well. He's one of the most patient running backs I've ever seen."
Perry rushed for 139 yards, including touchdown runs of 74 and 12 yards, on nine carries in the first half.
The Braves' defense also stood out in the first half as Olentangy outrushed the Celtics 216-9 as Donovan Wilson was limited to 7 yards.
The Celtics' lone scoring opportunity of the first half came in the second quarter. Facing fourth down, Jerome punted but the ball bounced off a Braves' player and Jacob Zamary recovered it on the Olentangy 17. Mitchell Keller then hit a 27-yard field goal.
With the running game faltering, Jerome went to the air in the second half, and Logan Williams hit Cameron Wilson for a 62-yard halfback back pass to cut the deficit to 21-10.
The Braves answered immediately. Quarterback Andrew Horstman hit a swing pass to Perry, his only pass attempt of the game, and Perry broke it for a 64-yard touchdown.
Quarterback Joe Bano brought the Celtics back within 11 points, rifling a pass that was tipped by the Braves' Christian Brett and then snared by Cameron Wilson for his second touchdown, a 14-yarder.
However, things fell apart for Jerome in the fourth quarter. Perry returned an interception 22 yards for a touchdown, and he later added a sack and tipped a pass that defensive back Zachary Tyler intercepted to set the Braves' final touchdown, a 4-yard run by Matt Winings.
Winings also opened the scoring with a 2-yard run.
"I've never had an interception for a touchdown so that was extremely exciting for me," Perry said. "We did a good job of getting after it. We weren't going to let them come at us. We're going to come at then."
O--Winings 2 run (Baumbach kick)
DJ--Keller 27 FG
O--Perry 74 run (Baumbach kick)
O--Perry 12 run (Baumbach kick)
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Red, ripe and gorgeous, tomatoes are at their peak! With vitamins A and C plus potassium, tomatoes also provide lycopene and fiber and may help protect against some cancers. Here are five of our top-rated healthy tomato recipes.
Terrific Tomato Tart
This recipe is fabulous! Fresh, colorful tomatoes, feta cheese and prepared pesto perfectly complement the crispy phyllo dough crust.
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Fried Green Tomatoes
A quick and easy homemade salsa makes a mouthwatering addition to these fried tomatoes. The golden coating is so crispy, no one suspects the slices are light.
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Heirloom Tomato Salad
This is a simple yet elegant dish that always pleases my guests. Not only is it tasty, but it is healthy, too. The more varied the colors of the tomatoes you choose, the prettier the salad will be.
—Jessie Apfel, Berkeley, California
Tomato-Basil Chicken Spirals
After tasting a wonderful pasta dish at an Italian restaurant, I experimented until I came up with this recipe. It's become one of our favorite low-fat meals. The riper the tomatoes, the better it is!
—Sandra Giguere, Bremen, Maine
Tomato Basil Soup
After just one taste of this slightly sweet tomato and herb soup, my family never went back to canned soup again! I adapted this recipe from one I seen in an old cookbook.
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I wanted to answer a simple question: Is fancy Italian flour better for making pizza dough than the more basic bread flour?
Bread flour has more protein than traditional all-purpose flour, which will make the crust chewier. The supposed gold standard is Caputo double-zero flour, which splits the difference between all-purpose and bread flour in terms of protein, and is finely milled. (Savour has a good primer on Caputo 00 flour.)
I also wanted to have a simple, go-to dough recipe. I've tried a few different ones, and haven't been happy with the results. I turned to Cook's Illustrated, and used the recipe published in their Jan/Feb 2011 issue. You can find that recipe and the step-by-step instructions republished at Serious Eats.
Here was my experimental set-up: All the ingredients would remain the same, except for the flour used. I used King Arthur Flour's bread flour as my control flour, and Caputo 00 flour as my experimental flour. I also wanted to test the ideal fermentation time. The recipe calls for fermenting the flour in the fridge for at least 24 hours and up to 72 hours. I baked two pizzas after 24 hours, and then two more another 48 hours later.
While I generally like to knead my dough in a stand mixer, so there is less danger of the dough overheating, this recipe calls for a food processor. The main advantage was I had my bread kneaded in just 45 seconds. Then I transferred each dough to lightly oiled bowls and immediately stuck them in the fridge to sit for a day.
This was going to be a blind test. Only I would know which crust was which, while my three tasters would have no idea. I noticed one difference between the two doughs right when I took them out the fridge. The dough with the bread flour rose noticeably more than the Italian flour.
After letting the dough rest and return to room temperature for an hour, the next step was shaping the pizza. Here, the difference between the two doughs was striking. The bread flour dough was firm and very springy, and difficult to shape. The Caputo flour dough, on the other hand, took half as long to shape into a 13-inch-wide pizza.
The final, and most important test was to actually taste the crust. The differences were subtle but present. In the baked crust, the Caputo 00 flour dough actually had a little more chewiness than the bread flour dough. There was also an extra depth of flavor, with a little hint of sweetness. There was a difference in oven spring, too, with the Caputo flour dough rising higher when it was baked.
I returned the remaining dough to storage bags and let them ferment in the fridge for two more days. Then I did another bake-off. While I didn't have a 24-hour fermentation crust and a 72-hour fermentation crust to compare back-to-back, I didn't sense a huge flavor increase. The main difference was in how the crusts rose and baked in the oven – they clearly didn't rise as high.
So, what is the final verdict? First, the recipe I used is definitely going to be my go-to pizza dough recipe from here on out. It is easy to make and the 24-hour fermentation time makes the time calculation easy. Just make the dough the evening before you want pizza.
Caputo 00 flour is harder to find and more expensive than bread flour. I bought a 3-pound bag at my local specialty foods store for $10, while a 5-pound bag of King Arthur Flour bread flour costs less than $5. But, without question, there is a difference. The dough is easier to work with and tastes better when baked. You might save Italian pizza flour for special occasions, but it's absolutely worth it.


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One of the most common tasks across all product management roles is to manage the product roadmap. The roadmap has become so ubiquitous that customers and analysts have been trained to ask for it as a shortcut to understanding your commitment to a product. A good roadmap is a useful product management tool: it informs the business, guides our tactics, and prevents us from getting distracted. Unfortunately there are big problems with how roadmaps are built and communicated today.
The roadmaps I have seen (and built!) in my career fall into a few categories:
- The Sunny-Side Up – hugely optimistic, contains the CTO's and CEO's wishlist for the next five years shown in the next three releases this year. Everyone knows it has 0% chance of reality.
- The Void – only covers the very next release, in the least amount of detail possible.
- The Lewis & Clark – this roadmap covers the next 10 years.
- The Houdini – items appear and disappear on this roadmap so frequently that only a select few are allowed to present it.
- The Spinning Compass – your company doesn't understand what it is good at or what it wants to be, so your roadmap wanders in the wilderness trying to drive a product in lieu of a company strategy.
- The Card Deck – friend of the Houdini, the items don't change but are constantly re-prioritized in a vain attempt at eeking out more efficiency.
- The Zen Master – says everything while saying nothing, and contains only the highest level themes. It can (and is) interpreted by Sales to mean anything they want.
- The Nirvana – a clear, concise, stable roadmap that communicates the product strategy quickly and easily, and has prioritization driven by real market data.
Nirvana is hard to achieve. In companies of all sizes, the various stakeholders in the product want to insert their own features: support wants better trouble tickets, sales wants better reporting, the architect wants to rebuild the platform, partners want an API, current customers want support for a new OS, prospective customers want Feature X. Before you even get to requirements, a good product manager needs to balance all of these wants and make some trade-off decisions. Some of these are very easy, and some are very difficult. Depending on the political dynamics of your organization, it can be hard to push back on stakeholders who aren't used to hearing "no," even for the right reasons. You need data on your side, and more importantly you need a structure and process to transform that data into decisions.
There are a million ways to turn the data you've gathered into information. You can look at the number of requests for a given feature and weigh them against one another, or you can attempt to "carve out" percentages of your development bandwidth for bug fixes vs. new features vs. internal requests. Measuring what you can do is tricky, because much of development is not fungible – you might have only one GUI resource but you have several backend developers. Focusing on volume of requests risks servicing the squeaky wheels first, which trains your customer base that screaming louder gets your attention. In short, you have two problems: filtering down a huge list of items you could work on to a manageable list, and then brutally prioritizing based on a set of criteria that works for your business.
About nine months ago, Pragmatic Marketing extended to me the opportunity to be an early adopter for a new training course they call Pragmatic Roadmapping (see disclosures below). The course is a departure from Pragmatic Marketing's normal in-person training classes and is offered online. You get a PDF of the training materials and view a high-def video of Steve Johnson and Jim Foxworthy taking you through how to roadmap the Pragmatic Marketing way. During the course, they describe a process to solve the various problems I outlined above, and get to a "Nirvana" state in your roadmap. The training was good at explaining very clearly and with examples how to use their processes and tools to achieve your goals. If you've been to a Pragmatic Marketing training it has the "feel" of a classroom session. On the downside you only get a PDF, not a nice bound book like the in person training, and there's no live Q&A, although you can email them. You can also only view the video once, you can't go back and re-watch a la YouTube.
As part of the class you learn their process for getting to what is important on your roamdap, and how to use two tools: the project evaluator and the strategy matrix. It is hard to describe the tools without giving away the farm and drawing them for you here, but I can tell you that I put them into practice in my last planning cycle, and they work. The project evaluator is a tool that helps you drastically cut down the number of projects that you are being asked to undertake by mapping who they are for and what they will do. You'll find that you can quickly eliminate two-thirds to three-quarters of the asks on your list. After you narrow your list, you use the strategy matrix tool to prioritize what's left based on some defensible criteria. In the end, you can build out your roadmap into a much more usable document. Beyond the document, you can show that your product strategy is sound and based on market-data and process-based decision making, not emotion or product de jour.
It's not rocket science – in fact you probably already know in your gut what the roadmap needs to look like. What the tools and training give you are a process and method to explain your decision making instead of saying "I think this is right" and getting ripped by your CEO who doesn't understand why his/her pet feature didn't make the cut. The roadmap is really important, and it impacts everything downstream. Before you write your first MRD you need to get a project onto the roadmap – if we can collectively raise our game in this area then we can cut out a lot of unnecessary product churn and lost opportunities by focusing on what matters. I still recommend splitting your roadmap from your release plan, depending on the maturity of your processes and team. Good luck, and happy roadmapping.
If you've got any questions about the training, feel free to email me.
Full Disclosure: Pragmatic Marketing allowed me to take their new Roadmapping class for $1 (normally $695). I was not asked to write a blog post. Pragmatic Marketing is a sponsor for ProductCamp Austin, an event that I organize. I have brought Pragmatic Marketing training into several companies that I have worked for and sent many employees to their public training courses. I consider several people who work at Pragmatic Marketing to be friends.


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Adam Wilk pitched three scoreless innings in his start Sunday and has allowed one run in 10 innings this spring.
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Tigers released LHP Adam Wilk.
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Adam Wilk was knocked around by the Mariners Wednesday, allowing six runs on eight hits and two walks over just two innings.
Adam Wilk had a rough night against the Rangers on Thursday allowing three runs on ten hits in just four innings of work.
Adam Wilk left Saturday's game after being hit by a foul ball while sitting in the Tigers' dugout between innings.
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A late game smile tells the story as Prince Albert Raiders forward Collin Valcourt celebrates his empty netter, which put his team up 6-4 against the Saskatoon Blades on Saturday evening at Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon. It clinched at least a one-game playoff tiebreaker for the Raiders. Herald photo by Perry Bergson
SASKATOON - With a 6-4 triumph over the Saskatoon Blades, the Prince Albert Raiders did all they could on Saturday at the Credit Union Centre as their attention now turns to the out-of-town scoreboard.
The Raiders second-straight win guarantees them a one-game playoff for the Eastern Conference's eighth and final playoff spot, but a Red Deer Rebels loss on Sunday will clinch a post-season berth.
Scoring three unanswered goals in the first period of Friday's tilt with the Blades, the Raiders failed to come out the gate with the same level of intensity on Saturday.
Raiders coach Cory Clouston said after a solid first couple of shifts, he noticed his team's lack of energy throughout the first period.
"I thought we really played nervous for the rest of the first period," Clouston said. "We were very quiet, the energy and the emotion wasn't there and they (Blades) came on that much stronger."
As the Raiders failed to swing the momentum in their favour in the first period, the Blades tested rookie backstop Nick McBride, outshooting the Raiders 14-7.
Just under seven minutes into the opening period, the Blades broke through onto the scoresheet as centre Chase Clayton netted his 11th of the season.
With just over six minutes to go in the opening period, Blades leading scorer Nikita Scherbak added to his squad's lead with a behind-the-net feed from left wing Cory Millette to carry a 2-0 lead into the second frame.
With the Raiders season on the line and the Blades looking to finish off their season on a high note, Clouston said it's the teams with nothing to lose that can be the most lethal.
"They wanted to play hard for their fans and they did," Clouston said of the Blades who finished their season 16-51-5. "Those are very dangerous teams to play. They are hungry, they know they don't have anything to lose, they are playing for pride, themselves and their fans."
About four minutes into the middle frame, forward Carson Perreaux ripped a wrist shot from the point past backstop Troy Trombley to cut into the Blades lead.
Just over a minute after Perreaux's 18th of the season, the Blades restored their two-goal advantage with a marker by right wing Graham Millar.
The Blades 3-1 lead would last all of 24 seconds as Jayden Hart ripped a shot through the pads of Trombley to once again cut the deficit down to one.
Midway through the second period, Scherbak took the game's first penalty and the Raiders capitalized on the ensuing power play.
After a one-time shot by Raiders defenceman Sawyer Lange's missed a wide open cage, Dakota Conroy fed centre Leon Draisaitl who buried the puck from a wide angle to tie things up at threes.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the ice, Clouston agreed that McBride was giving the Raiders one of the best games of his career.
"I thought he played very very well in the last part of the second and third periods," Clouston said of McBride, who made 39 saves on Saturday. "We've said all along that when we get good goaltending we're a pretty good team."
While the Blades were afforded a five-on-three advantage in the second half of the middle frame, McBride did all he could to bail the Raiders out.
After the 17-year-old keeper made a series of big stops, robbing Scherbak with a spectacular glove save, Blades Clayton eventually stuffed his second of the night in the net to carry a 4-3 lead into the third period.
With the Raiders working on a second period power play which carried over into the third, Trombley gave up a juicy rebound that Conroy pounced on and stuffed into the wide open net to tie the game early in the frame.
In what was probably the most tense final minutes of a hockey the Raiders had played all season long, they continued to apply pressure in the Blades zone and finally with two minutes and 19 seconds to go, Hart snuck the puck into the short side of the net.
As former Blade Colin Valcourt stuffed the puck into the empty-net, Hart's 14th of the season would stand as the game-winner as the Raiders hung on to stay alive in the playoff race.
When asked what he attributes the Raiders ability to claw back into the playoff picture to, Clouston looked to McBride, who has been phenomenal between the pipes over the last seven games.
"Nick's been good, really that's all it is," Clouston said. "We were losing games where we were outshooting opponents, losing games we had no business losing and Nick had come in and played extremely well."
The Raiders are now ahead of the Rebels by a pair of points in the standings, hanging on to the eighth playoff spot.
RAIDER NOTES: Not dressed for the Raiders on Saturday were Graeme Craig, Craig Leverton and Tim Vanstone ... Former Raider Tyler Dea was scratched for the Blades on Saturday. Dea has posted one assist in 24 games with the Blades this season after he was dealt by the Raiders prior to the WHL trade deadline ... The Raiders entered Saturday's tilt with a record of 6-1-0 against the Blades this season. The Raiders are 18-20-2 against their Bridge City rivals in the last five years.


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Book a flight to Vancouver and discover the city's prolific cultural mix. Feel the spirit as First Nations dancers spin and chant behind vivid-coloured, hand-carved face masks at Klahowya Aboriginal Village. Find tranquillity along the gurgling brooks and immaculately-groomed footpaths of the Japanese Nitobe Memorial Garden. Get colourful at Punjabi Market, where Bollywood dance tunes resonate in the streets and smiling shopkeepers beseech you to buy saffron-coloured silks and tinkling bangle bracelets.
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Tuck into smoked king salmon within view of icy English Bay where your fish likely lost its battle with an angler just hours before. The vendors at Granville Island Public Market promise picnics with panache: organic heritage tomatoes, melt-in-your-mouth duck prosciutto and artisan chèvre cheese. Food carts cook up alternative take-away treats – Korean tacos and Japanese hot dogs included – just call it fusion confusion. Local ice wines and ginger-garnished martinis add zing to the nightlife in Vancouver's warehouse district, Yaletown.
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Population: 2.3 million residents call the greater Vancouver area home, making this the third largest metropolitan area in Canada.
Key dates: British Royal Navy explorer Captain George Vancouver sailed to the Pacific Northwest in 1792. In 1886 Vancouver was incorporated as a city, thus 2011 marked the city's 125th birthday.
Did you know? More than half of Vancouver's school-age children have been raised speaking a language other than English. Among the most common are Chinese, Punjabi, German, Spanish and Tagalog (Filipino).
Getting about: The high-speed SkyTrain light rail whisks visitors from the airport to stops throughout Vancouver. For water travel, climb aboard the electric, rainbow-coloured Aquabus ferries.
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Want to spend your Vancouver holiday in the great outdoors? Or immerse yourself in the designer shops of Robson Street? Our accommodation picks set you in the middle of both worlds, and pedestrian-friendly Vancouver means you can move easily between the two.
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Whether they meet a pauper's budget or charge a king's ransom, Vancouver restaurants worship local produce and fresh-as-can-be Pacific seafood. Sample this fare in simple, unadorned sandwich shops, Asian-inspired bistros or sophisticated, linen-and-crystal dining rooms overlooking the water.
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If the weather dampens your spirits, cheer yourself by scooping up funky foul-weather gear at the Umbrella Shop. The latest one-off Canadian fashions fill the racks at designer mecca Obakki, while Granville Island sells everything from souvenir candles to smoked salmon.
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Vancouver's charms don't quit just because the sun sets. For your evening entertainment choose soaring classical airs at the Vancouver Symphony or irreverent barbs at late-night comedy clubs. After all that, get loose over a smooth BC pinot or a Vancouver mixologist's cocktail du jour.
Vancouver Attractions
Pedal your way through Vancouver's Stanley Park on a rented bicycle. Or do the 'Grouse Grind', a form of self-punishment some describe as a 1.5-hour walk up Grouse Mountain. After you've burned off last night's dinner, try the laid-back art galleries on bustling Granville Island.
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As we drive on paved roads, past concrete buildings and under modern power lines, it can be hard to picture our corner of the world as it was in 1852, the year that the St. Joseph Mission at Ahtanum was founded.
For a little historical context, in 1852 the Taiping Rebellion was raging across China and Bonaparte III became an emperor. Closer to home, the United States was consumed with the issue of slavery. Louis and Clark had passed through this area only 47 years prior, and Yakima County would not exist officially for another 13 years.
At that time apprehensive trappers, miners and settlers inhabited the area, along with an equally uneasy Native American population.
But one thing both settlers and Native Americans wanted was to build a church.
Chief Kamiakin of the Yakama people requested a mission to be placed near his summer camp. Wanting to spread the Christian faith, the Catholic Church also wanted to build a mission in the area. Thus Archbishop F. N. Blanchet, whose career was blossoming due to the growth of his parish in Oregon City, ordered a pair of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate to build a mission to satisfy Chief Kamiakin's request.
On April 3, 1852, Louis Joseph D'herbomex and Charles M. Pandosy, two who had prior missionary experience in the western territories, founded St. Joseph Mission on Ahtanum Creek in what is now West Valley. Not working alone, they toiled alongside the Yakama people, also producing rudimentary canals intended for farming.
Not only was this mission an important part of agricultural development, it also served as a cultural meeting place, where Native American people brushed up against early American settlers. Yakama people, including Kamiakin's own children, came to the mission to be baptized. It was a place for the outside world to learn about the Yakama people. Although the priests taught languages to the Yakama, they also learned language from them.
Cary Campbell, the mission's current caretaker, said she is particularly attracted by the optimism during the mission's development.
"I love this place," said Campbell. "It's part of me, and I couldn't imagine living without it."
There was a friendly relationship between the two groups that included much learning and help. The Yakama people even provided meat to the impoverished priests.
But things soon changed.
The Yakama Indian War exploded in 1855, born out of conflict between resentful local tribes and encroaching settlers. With new treaties, native peoples were being restricted to increasingly small plots of land, which they opposed with attacks against settlers. Conflicts between the U.S. Army and various local tribes escalated, and St. Joseph Mission was abandoned, its inhabitants in fear for their lives.
When the advancing U.S. Army entered the mission, it had already been vacated. One thing that remained, however, was gunpowder. It was found buried in the garden, discovered in a cask when soldiers were digging up vegetables. The gunpowder gave Army soldiers what they thought was justification to accuse the priests of colluding with the Yakama in earlier fighting. Historians nowadays believe this gunpowder was not intended for warfare, since gunpowder was often used for hunting and other purposes.
Still, with this scant evidence, soldiers burned the mission in 1855.
This could have been the end of St. Joseph if priest Louis Napoleon St. Onge and Brother John Baptist Boulet had not re-established it, beginning in 1867. The pair built a log cabin first. Then, just as the earlier Catholics had, they worked with the Yakama people to rebuild the mission. They finished in 1870.
Their work, unfortunately, was for naught, since the government gave an anti-Catholic Methodist minister authority of the area in which the mission stood – part of President Ulysses S. Grant's Indian Peace Policy that placed local missionaries in control of the Indian affairs agencies. As a result, the Catholic priests were banned from entering the area in which the Yakama people dwelled, and the mission was closed again.
Catholicism in the area did not die there, however, since following the mission's closure St. Joseph Church was built in what is now Union Gap. The church moved to Yakima in 1884 and was eventually replaced in 1900. And the Catholics' Knights of Columbus renovated the mission again. They bought the land from farmers in the early 1900s, and the Knights made the grounds around the mission a park.
When Campbell got involved with the mission, she was surprised that so few people understood its history and significance in the area. Thus, she has dedicated herself to making people aware of it and preserving it.
Now surrounded by a park and on the National Register of Historic places (it was listed in 1970), St. Joseph Mission on Ahtanum Road consists of a museum that describes the history of the site, a log cabin and what is thought to be the oldest functioning church in Washington state. Masses are held there on the first Sunday of the month at 9:30 a.m. The site is open from dawn to dusk, every day.
With its history, St. Joseph Mission is a place where people can get in touch with the past, consider tragedy or celebrate hope for the future.
Ahtanum Mission Park, 17740 Ahtanum Road.
In order to see inside the church and museum, visitors must call Cary Campbell. 509-966-0865.


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An introductory post/rant from a new contributor
Posted by Tim Kidman on April 16, 2009
To all of you in the Common Tragedies community I would like to introduce one more tragedy: my presence here as a contributor. My name is Tim Kidman, and I currently work at the Climate Action Reserve – an organization whose views and ideas I make no claim to represent in my posts here. What you read here are my thoughts alone, and do not represent my employer. This post has nothing at all to do with the Reserve. Of course, the Reserve has some pretty great ideas too, so I'd encourage everyone to check out our program. But you know the deal, so the above is my disclaimer.
When my friend Danny asked me to join the blog I immediately jumped at the opportunity. I am constantly intrigued by the power of economic theory to explain behavior and environmental issues, but I am far more amazed by the ingenuity and creativity of thinkers to employ these same theories to develop innovative remedies and policy mechanisms for the very same problems.
Now, none of what follows is to say that environmental economics is not one of the most valuable and powerful tools we have available to us today. I truly believe it is. What follows is simply to say that we need to always ask the question: are we trying to fit a square problem into a round solution? Because the truth is, no matter how many problems are round, a few are definitely square.
So, in my introductory post/rant I would like to echo a cautionary sentiment about market mechanisms, or at least our relationship with them, that Danny posted yesterday: "They are not a panacea, however, so don't be afraid to be a little skeptical now and then." The neatness and coherence of viewing environmental issues through a purely economic lens has immense intellectual appeal. It is scientific, structured, and at first glance offers a utopian vision of freedom, choice, environmental integrity, and that ever-present word – efficiency.
In grad school I definitely fell into this optimistic, almost religious faith in the ability of economics to explain and fix environmental problems as disparate as over-fishing and climate change – two that I actually believe it is particularly well suited for. In that context, I believe it served me and my classmates well; it allowed us to dig deeper, learn more, and think creatively without the constraints of the "real world." But now that I am back in the real world, that optimism has been tempered. I still have faith in market mechanisms and am a strong believer in a cap-and-trade system. However, and this brings me back to Danny's point, I think it's important to recognize that certain issues, or certain aspects of issues, simply do not lend themselves to market mechanisms.
At a carbon conference a few weeks ago, Carl Pope of the Sierra Club stood up in front of a room of 850 attendees, and told us all that markets were not the only answer. It was, in my opinion, the best speech of the event. This was a room full of offset project developers, brokers, investors, regulators, and non-profits, all of whom had a vested interest in seeing the carbon market mature (myself included). It took courage to stand up as a keynote speaker and speak openly to this audience, but more than that it highlighted a paradigm shift that I think has gone largely unnoticed.
For decades, the environmental community and certain groups in particular have had the reputation of being idealistic, stubborn, and unwilling to place pragmatism over righteousness. In contrast, industry and investor advocates have cautioned against unbridled idealism and regulation– often very transparently – arguing instead that a pragmatic approach which balances societal and environmental goals should be considered. (I by no means condone the industry lobbying that has taken place, or the often disingenuous opinions proffered, but instead use this only to illustrate a point)
So back to Pope. The new environmental community, the one founded on economic theory, market mechanisms, pragmatism, and which has aligned itself much more closely with industry, risks falling into the same traps as past movements if we are not vigilant. Unbridled optimism and commitment to a single framework is risky. Whether that is a call for regulation, boycotts and protests, or a call for markets, no single framework provides all the answers. It may provide many, and I'd say most, but not all. Interestingly, it was an outspoken advocate of more traditional conservation that most recently brought this consideration into relief, grounding all of us and reminding us that results may be more important than the means.
Markets are great, and economics is a useful lens. But in the name of our ultimate goals, pragmatism and reality require that we recognize certain limitations. There are some issues that markets are simply ill-suited to solve. True, markets may not work because of imperfect information, too many players, etc. (not the theory itself, but rather its implementation), but if we really want to get something done then it is important to recognize that a different mechanism may be more appropriate. Skepticism of market mechanisms is important not just when considering the details of their implementation, but I would argue, even at the level of assessing their very appropriateness.
I recognize that this is a bit of a downer, especially for a first post, but I don't intend it that way. There are more problems that can be and should be solved by employing and considering environmental economics than I can list. And because of that, it is important that as practitioners we focus our energy on those.
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April 16, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I'm sort of confused by this recent string of posts. It's not that anything in them is hugely controversial — I doubt that very many people think markets are the only answer to environmental problems — it's just that I can't quite figure out what's motivating them. Do we really live in a world where environmentalists are overly enthralled with economics, or excessively reliant on market-based solutions? From where I sit, the broader environmental community is mostly looking for any reason to bolt from market-based solutions. I sort of get the sense that RFF and CAR folks are living in a rarefied world where environmental economics is widely discussed and generally respected. Most folks — across a broad ideological spectrum — still have a pretty touchy relationship with this stuff. Believe me, "markets are not the answer to everything" is hardly a boldly contrarian position these days. Nor does it seem particularly constructive, given the urgency around passing a good climate bill.
April 19, 2009 at 9:21 pm
"….it's important to recognize that certain issues, or certain aspects of issues, simply do not lend themselves to market mechanisms. "
This is another way of claiming a superior proerty right: something that is worth more than anything else, as a means to justify an argument that otherwise won't play out in free market.
There are various versions of this as in " We have to spend any amount necessary to fix global warming (or your other favorite cause) because the costs of not doing so might be infinite.
I think this is a well known logical fallacy.
April 19, 2009 at 9:27 pm
"…the broader environmental community is mostly looking for any reason to bolt from market-based solutions. "
I agree.
I think the reason is that environmental economics teaches that sooner or later thaey will have to pay for what they get: might as well make the correct tradeoffs up front.
They hate that idea and prefer to think that they environmental solutions not only have no cost but result in green jobs, and a bigger better economy. At the same time, some of these are ideals driven people who think that they can pay for their goals by taxing "the polluters", "execss profits", or the hyper rich – free, no cost.


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When I'm browsing the Internet, an irritating pop up keeps appearing which I can't get rid of: Welcome to Smart Update. How can I stop this irritation which means absolutely nothing to me?
What is Smart Update?
First, we need to figure out what Smart Update is and which program is generating the "Welcome to Smart Update" message box before we can figure out how to make it go away. The name "Smart Update" is fairly generic as many programs have update features. In doing a quick Internet search, it looks like PC Tools Spyware Doctor refers to its update feature as "Smart Update" and generates a screen that says "Welcome to Smart Update" when it's time to update the software manually. If you have PC Tools software installed, this could be the program generating the pop-up box. However, because of the generic name, another program could be involved.
Does the message box give you any other information as to what exactly is being updated? When does the dialog box appear? For example, does it only appear when you launch a certain program? If so, it's likely associated with that program.
Turning off the "Welcome to Smart Update" Message Box
If you're able to identify the program that's generating the pop-up box, you may be able to turn off the alert. Naturally, the steps will vary depending on which program is involved. For example, if you have PC Tools Spyware Doctor, try clicking Settings and remove the checkmark in the box labeled "OnGuard tools can display pop-up alert window." You should also see a section for Smart Update actions and scan settings. It looks like there's a drop down box with different options such as "Notify me about available updates." Click the drop down arrow and see if there's an option that downloads updates automatically without notifying you. If so, that's your best bet for removing the annoying pop-up box. The goal is to allow the software to update itself without prompting you.
If you can't identify the source of the dialog box, look to see if there's an option that you can mark that will stop showing the message in the future. Be careful though because unidentified, general security alerts could be spyware in disguise.
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Dave Wojeski / For The Recorder 2/27/2014 Glens Falls Assignment Amsterdam's Bryan Stanavich get a shot of over Scotia-Glenville's Mike Palleschi during Thursday nights Section 2 semifinal game at the Glens Falls Civic Center.
Recorder file photo Amsterdam's Marcus Prichard battles Catholic Central's Christian Englund for a rebound during their game last season.
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By MICHAEL KELLY
There is a slate of fall season sports that just started Monday, but head coach Tony Orapello is already excited for this winter's campaign for the Amsterdam High School Running Rams basketball team.
"They're all stepping up," he recently said of his players. "They've gotten taller, too. This is going to be the biggest team we've had in a long time."
A talented one, too.
"I've got people that can really play," said Orapello. "We've got depth."
Orapello's players went their separate ways this spring to play on a variety of AAU teams throughout the area. Then, this summer, the Rams came back together for a month's worth of early-morning workouts and a short season of hoops in a Schenectady-based league.
Forward Marcus Pritchard, who started last season as a junior, said the offseason had helped the Rams in multiple ways. First, the chance to play AAU with different teammates helped each AHS player to develop new skills; then, the opportunity to come back together for a summer league helped the group begin to mesh and crave the winter's season.
"The thing about summer league is that ... after school ball gets over, you play AAU and that keeps your love of the game going," said Pritchard. "But, coming off AAU, getting to play with your real team, it lights your flame again. It gives you that ... taste of what's coming next."
The Rams' summer ended with a literal look at what is to come for the squad. Amsterdam made it to the semifinals in its summer league before losing to Scotia-Glenville -- the same round and foe which felled the Rams in the 2014 Section II Class A playoffs.
AHS moves to the Tartans' league for this upcoming winter, and the Rams' first Foothills Council opponent is scheduled to be S-G, at AHS.
The Tartans are coming off an undefeated season and a state championship, and S-G figures to be a similar force in 2014-15.
Orapello said he liked the way his squad competed against the Tartans in the summer league, using a physical style of defense to match up with S-G's elite shooting and ball movement.
"We were not intimidated," Orapello said.
A lot of that physical play came from the players hoping to make the leap from the Rams' junior varsity to the big club. The upcoming AHS junior class is filled with forwards, and Orapello said he was happy to see guys like Gehrig Garner and Ben Rhodes mixing it up throughout the summer.
"They all play hard and they will not take it from anybody," said Orapello. "That's what I noticed from the JVs last year."
The coach was encouraged with the way his prospective returning players developed this summer, too. Besides Pritchard, starters Kory Bergh and Bryan Stanavich are expected to return, along with likely starting point guard Andrew Druziak -- who missed nearly all of 2013-14 with an injury -- and others.
Both Orapello and Pritchard spoke glowingly about the way Bergh improved this summer after a breakout campaign in his first varsity season. As a sophomore, Bergh led the team in scoring and made 3-pointers to earn all-league honors, but the guard spent much of his offseason working on his dribbling and passing.
"Kory really became a ball-handler this summer," said Orapello. "He was working on distributing the ball and I didn't even tell him to do that."
Pritchard said he thought a lot of the improvement had to do with last year's JV players joining the mix, as they were the guys Bergh grew up with as teammates.
"He has that special connection with them," said Pritchard. "The thing I like a lot is that Kory -- and [Stanavich], too -- is getting to play with their guys again."
At some points this summer, Orapello said he had to remind Bergh that the club needs him to shoot the ball instead of looking to pass so much. The guard said he understood, and that he is on the same page with his coach.
"We're trying to get things together so we can get a good team," said Bergh. "We're trying to build things for [this winter], and that's what both Coach and I want."
After needing to play a frenetic style with constant four-guard lineups in 2013-14, Bergh said he expects the squad to use bigger lineups with multiple post players this upcoming season.
"Last year, we shot a lot (of 3s), more than going into the post," he said. "So, I'm definitely going to have to change my game a bit."
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Jon Huntsman: The G.O.P.'s New Voice of Moderation
Politico looks at the emergence of Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman as a leading moderate Republican: Largely under the radar of the national media and even ...
Politico looks at the emergence of Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman as a leading moderate Republican:
Largely under the radar of the national media and even out of sight of many in his own party, Huntsman, 48, is emerging as an articulate, unapologetic and unlikely spokesman for a new brand of Republicanism, one that seems out of vogue at a time when many in the GOP attribute their fall from power to a deviation from right-wing orthodoxy.
Huntsman thinks the party's challenge is more profound, owing less to its excessive spending practices during the Bush era than to sweeping demographic and political changes that threaten to consign Republicans to a long-term minority status and confine their appeal to narrow sections of the country.
The party needs to be more intellectually rigorous, and to compete for the votes of the young, the elites and minorities, he said in an interview with POLITICO. To do so, the GOP needs to tack toward the middle on environment, gay rights and immigration. And, yes, Ronald Reagan is to be admired - but as much for his oft-overlooked pragmatism as for his conservative principles.
Overall Politico's piece is spot on, but I do have one quibble: Huntsman isn't really an unlikely spokesman for Republican centrists, except in the most superficial way -- you wouldn't expect the governor of Utah to be a moderate.Huntsman strikes me as a logical intellectual heir to Nelson Rockefeller. His father is one of the wealthiest men in Utah. He's an internationalist, fluent in Mandarin Chinese and having served as an ambassador to Singapore (he also has adopted daughters from China and India).
More to the point, Huntsman's centrist streak isn't a new thing. Huntsman, perhaps the nation's most popular governor (although, at any given time, at least five governors seem to be claiming that title), hasn't faced much criticism as Utah's governor. But, when he has, just as often it's been from the right as the left.
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More recently, he's made the moves that prompted Politico's piece -- supporting same-sex civil unions, criticizing Republican congressional leaders and accepting federal stimulus money. As a result, Huntsman has a clear role in any discussion of the future of the Republican Party. As a presidential candidate, however, he'll struggle to be anything more than his party's Joe Lieberman.
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Can drink plain water, warm.
This is a discussion on what to drink as replacement for water during confinement? within the Confinement Period forum, part of the You and Your Family category; I was reading up the threads under the breast feeding mums support group and see that mummies need to take ...
I was reading up the threads under the breast feeding mums support group and see that mummies need to take in plenty of fluids to produce milk... During confinement we can't drink plain water right? I only know of the red date tea and milo, what other forms of fluids are available to replace water during confinements? Thanks!
Can drink plain water, warm.
Hot milk...
Some said have to drink longan red dates tea thru out the confinement. my CL and mum had the same mindset too but I cannot take in too much longan red dates tea cos too heaty for me so after few days of confinement, i resumed back to plain water.. I drank warm or room temp plain water. and also Hot milo, Hot soup. =)
how do we prepare the longan red dates tea?
how much longan and how much red dates to make a pot/jar/flash of tea?
i am a 1st mom and not getting a confinement lady.. so dont know how to go about preparing the drink....
can we drink during pregnancy or have to drink after giving birth? thanks
I rmb is cook together with water.. using red dates, dried longan.. but as for how much red dates and dried longan to use, i not very sure.. maybe you can 'agaration'? cos i dont think my CL 'measure' how much was used.
I drank once or twice during preg but didnt dare to drink alot, cos very heaty. best is drink during confinement..
I am the heaty kind.. So instead of longan etc... I drink black bean water as it 'huo xue' I think... And I drink lots of warm water on gyne's advices he says it is essential to prevent uti common amongst confinement ladies due to lack of plain water...
And I overheard the old experience staff nurse saying that drinking purely longan and glutinous rice water could up jaundice for some babies... So maybe some warm waters really good for us and babies?
Oh ok.. Thanks ladies! I asked my mum who will be doing confinement for me and she says strictly no water, only the longan red date tea or fried brown rice water :/
you can dilute the longan water with warm water....
thanks Tannie! i think i'll just tell my mum to make a teapot each day and i will just dilute with hot water when i need it... hope like that not too heaty and enough fluids intake i think she intends to make a big cooking pot each day for me to drink whole day... probably tell her no need so mafan
just did a search and found this so just to share
Singapore Motherhood and Parenting Forum - Confinement Beverages You Can Enjoy
I stopped red dates tea after 1 week because baby was getting yellowish and home-visit nurse said jaundice may be prolonged if mummy keeps drinking red dates tea.
In replacement, I drank Earth Mama Angel Baby milkmaid tea. Soak 1 tea bag in hot water, can refill up to 3 cups. Good to boost milk supply too.
Review here: Review, Discount & Giveaway: iherb | Mummy's Reviews
I bought a lot of raspberry leaf tea to drink in these final weeks before delivery. Caffeine and calorie free! But keeps me hydrated and full when I feel like snacking. Going to keep drinking that after delivery to help tone uterus and to supplement the bottle of red date that comes with my confinement tingkat lunch.
Red dates should I get big or small ones???
I drink red dates + 党参 + 南枣 and "rice tea".
I am also the heaty types and I was suffered with sorethroat since the first day of my confinement due to all the heaty drinks and foods.
So my CL prepared "rice tea" for me, which is less / not heaty.
She fried the normal rice in the pan till golden color then mix with hot water. Just like how we prepare tea.
Thanks MoMoMum!
Brown sugar water 紅糖水,but dont't consumed more than 20g per day
anyone did not follow e confinement strictly? like drinking ice milo instead of hot milo? actally wats e reason for not drinking cold drinks?
I have a question. After delivery, usually mothers will have to be hospitalized for 1-3 days. During this period of time, do you drink longan/red date tea in the hospital??? Does the hospital provide such service for you??? And is such a tea service chargeable?
We can't drink cold during menstrual also the same reason, it affect the discharge of lochia.
I read from other forum, Mount A can provide red date tea, not sure is this chargeable.
I will bring thermo flask and ingredient, just soak hot water in flask.
Never Never COLD Drinks.....
ic... hard to tahan coz i have been drining cold drinks my whole life even during period n pregnancy...
mount A serves date tea but not every meal... only during tea break... no extra charge... morn they serve milo... lunch n dinner is soup..


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Effect of polysorbate 80 on oritavancin binding to plastic surfaces implications for susceptibility testing
Abstract number: 1733_609
Arhin F.F., Sarmiento I., Parr Jr T.J., Moeck G.
Objectives: Oritavancin (ORI) is a lipoglycopeptide (LG) with activity against most Gram-positive bacteria including drug-resistant pathogens. Broth microdilution (BMD) assays with dalbavancin, another LG, require addition of 0.002% polysorbate 80 (P80). To investigate whether P80 affects ORI susceptibility test results, we performed BMD assays for ORI with and without P80 and quantitated 14C-ORI recovery from assay plates containing cation-adjusted Mueller Hinton Broth (CAMHB) ± P80.
Methods: For recovery assays, 14C-ORI and 14C-ciprofloxacin (14C-CIP) were dissolved in water ± P80, diluted in CAMHB or CAMHB plus 2% lysed horse blood (LHB) ± P80, and dispensed into 96-well polystyrene plates (Sensititre) without cells. Recovery of radiolabeled agents was assessed by scintillation counting of supernatant over time to yield residual counts relative to input label at time 0. BMD assays with Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 29213, Enterococcus faecalis ATCC 29212 and Streptococcus pneumoniae ATCC 49619 followed CLSI guidelines. P80, where present, was at 0.002%.
Results: In the absence of P80, 14C-ORI was rapidly lost from solution: at 1 mg/L, <10% of input ORI was recovered at 1 h. ORI loss was concentration dependent: proportionately greater losses were observed at lower ORI concentrations, suggesting saturable binding of ORI to surfaces. Inclusion of P80 or LHB promoted recovery of 80100% of 14C-ORI at all concentrations tested up to 24 h. Quantitative recovery of input 14C-CIP +/- P80 was observed for all concentrations and time points tested. Concordantly, minimal inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of ORI for S. aureus and E. faecalis were 16- to 32-fold lower in the presence of P80 whereas P80 had no impact on MICs of vancomycin, teicoplanin or CIP. Assay plates with low-binding surfaces afforded 4- to 8-fold reductions in ORI MICs without P80, suggesting that ORI binding to plastic in the absence of P80 may underestimate in vitro potency. ORI MICs for S. pneumoniae tested in CLSI-recommended CAMHB + 2% LHB were identical ± P80.
Conclusions: ORI exhibits rapid, saturable binding to susceptibility test plates. P80 minimises binding of ORI to microtitre plate surfaces, thereby maintaining ORI available in solution for growth inhibition. 2% LHB in CAMHB promoted ORI recovery, helping to explain the lack of ORI MIC shifts for S. pneumoniae with P80. Current literature MIC data for ORI significantly underestimates ORI in vitro potency.
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The above should be:Originally Posted by freswood
Also it is easier to minimise
I keep trying this question over and over again, and keep getting the wrong answer. I was wondering if somebody would be nice enough to check my calculations, and see where I went wrong (or if Im going about it the wrong way!)
Find the minimum distance from the parabola y=x^2 to the point (5,0).
D = √[(x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2]
I substituted in points (5,0) and (x, x^2)
D = √[(x-5)^2 + x^2
D = √2x^2 - 10x + 25
d/dx = (4x-10)/ [blahblah not important]
0 = 4x-10
Substituting this into the D formula doesn't give the right answer ... the answr is apparently 4.06
Hi, freswood,Originally Posted by freswood
I can only think of 2 ways:
1. Use an iteration (for instance Newtons Method)
2. Use Cardanos Formula to solve a reduced cubic equation.
Never mind which method you use, there is only one real solution:
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Julia, that's nothing to be ashamed of. It's pure and simple. He only had eye for you.
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Camacho pulls the ropes down and Jey Uso goes over them outside the ring. Camacho tagged into the match outside the ring nails a clothesline and drives the back of Jey Uso into the ring. Camacho covers for a one count. Hunico tags in and both men double team Jey uso and slam him. Camacho tags back in and Jey Uso starts fighting back with punches but is met with a huge punch from Camacho. Arm neck hold locked on Jey Uso now as Jey begins to work his way up. Camacho with a power slam, Camacho running gets met with a super kick to the head out of the corner. Both men down and crawling to their corners, Camacho makes the first tag and Hunico knocks Jimmy Uso off the ring before Jey can ever make the tag. Hunico using the ropes and he forces his foot into the head of Jey Uso. Hunico rolls up Jey and immediately picks Jey up and slams him on the mat. Hunico cover and a close two count before Jimmy Uso makes the save. Camacho tags back in and he suplex's Jimmy. Hunico tags in and covers Jey for two. Jimmy Uso tags in and hits a couple of clotheslines and a kick to the gut of Camacho. Jimmy connects on the Samoan drop and gets a two count before Hunico makes the save. Hunico cowards out of the ring distracting Jimmy as Camacho attacks him from behind. Hunico now tags back into the match. Hunico leap frogs over Camacho missing a Jimmy pushes Camacho shoulder first into the ring post. Jimmy Uso super kicks Hunico. Jey Uso tags in and Jey hits the USOS SPLASH from the top rope!
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kreis you arse i can't respond to your vm good job man
i don't want to live through winteri can't stand to see everything ending
Most people use there phones for that reason, it's sad. I actually use my phone for what it's supposed to be used for, Texting people and arranging things.
God forbid that someone wants to use their phone for entertainment and not just for making calls and texting.
'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done
I need to be youthfully felt, 'cause God I never felt young
I play poker on my phone sometimes. The graphics suck and there's no multiplayer but it gets the job done.
My phone's a piece of ****. It's been turned off for months. I don't have much need for it, so I haven't bought a new one.
Cape Verde qualified and I have Community and Miami Vice on my phone.
As to what once, it now is. For this my retirement tour, let us commence, forevermore, forevermore.
Watch me tumble stuff:
I have a lot of apps that I use for work. Sure I crap around on my phone a lot, but it's also real damn useful. If I'm at a theatre with no internet access and I need to pull up an email or reference something online, I can do it. I can send out emails or place an order online for something we need for the show wherever I am, which comes in handy since theatre involves a lot of communication and last minute work.
I got my phone primarily to use as an investment for my job. Yeah, not everyone uses their phone this way, but some people do. Surprisingly.
there have been so many times where i'm like "oh man i need to transfer some money" or "oh damn i forgot how to get to a place better check my map" or for traffic warnings or whatever. i imagine most people under 18 don't have much use for them, because they don't really have enough going on for them to need those features. wait til you grow up kiddies, then you'll want (and probably need) a smartphone
i don't want to live through winteri can't stand to see everything ending
lol never mind i already posted that.
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prepare to be obliterated everyone
i don't want to live through winteri can't stand to see everything ending
as a completely serious suggestion you should ban kreis
I'd like to see him try.