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Each year I look back at the TSN.ca NHL Power Rankings, comparing the preseason to end-of-season results and see what kind of factors contributed to unanticipated results. Injuries, goaltending and unexpected individual performances, both good and bad, tend to play the largest role.
It's important to note that the pre-season rankings are not predictions, because they are based on current value of the team, with the understanding that there will be factors throughout the season (trades, injuries, unexpected performances -- both good and bad) that affect results. But if a team has a dramatically different ranking at the end of the season, compared to the beginning, there ought to be some reasons that are evident for that change.
Basically, what happened that wasn't expected?
Here are some of the reasons for differences in rankings between rankings in mid-January and those at the end of April.
ANAHEIM DUCKSPre-Season Rank: 22Final Rank: 6Average Rank: 7.13What's the Difference?: Bouncing back from a career-worst season, C Ryan Getzlaf made a significant difference for the Ducks' fortunes and the addition of goaltender Viktor Fasth gave Anaheim a strong tandem in net, which helped them stay on top of the percentage game that they needed to win in order to have the kind of success they did. Strong seasons from veteran defencemen Francois Beauchemin and Sheldon Souray exceeded expectations as well.
BOSTON BRUINSPre-Season Rank: 3Final Rank: 3Average Rank: 3.27What's the Difference?: High expectations, met, even if their place in the standings (fourth in the East) wasn't quite to that level. The Bruins remained a strong puck possession team and G Tuukka Rask made a successful transition to the starting job.
BUFFALO SABRESPre-Season Rank: 12Final Rank: 25Average Rank: 23.27What's the Difference?: The strong finish to the 2011-2012 season, particularly from C Tyler Ennis, LW Marcus Foligno and RW Drew Stafford, wasn't duplicated and they traded away RW Jason Pominville and D Jordan Leopold at the deadline. Mix in a step back in development for D Tyler Myers and the results were never in the cards for the Sabres. They were ranked 19th in the first two updates of the season, and that was their high point.
CALGARY FLAMESPre-Season Rank: 21Final Rank: 28Average Rank: 26.67What's the Difference?: I've tended to be more critical of the Flames than most others in recent years, which has played out just fine I must say, but even my own jaded view of that team wouldn't have forecast them as poorly as 2013 turned out. G Miikka Kiprusoff was injured, ceding the crease to the likes of Leland Irving, Joey MacDonald and Danny Taylor, but had a miserable .882 save percentage when he did play. As poorly as the season turned out, it wasn't a huge surprise when the Flames decided to deal face-of-the-franchise RW Jarome Iginla and D Jay Bouwmeester, cementing their status in the lower echelon of the rankings.
CAROLINA HURRICANESPre-Season Rank: 19Final Rank: 24Average Rank: 17.07What's the Difference?: There were a few positives, most notably the emergence of LW Jiri Tlusty, but G Cam Ward got hurt and the Hurricanes' goaltending went downhill after that. RW Jeff Skinner wasn't nearly as productive as hoped and veteran D Joni Pitkanen missed 30 games with a variety of maladies, including a season-ending fractured heel. Hard to imagine but, around midseason, the Hurricanes were as high as sixth in the rankings before the bottom fell out.
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKSPre-Season Rank: 6Final Rank: 1Average Rank: 1.60What's the Difference?: Expectations were relatively high for the Blackhawks coming into the season, but not to the extent that they would rule the rankings, unchallenged, after Week Three. A bounceback year for Corey Crawford in goal, nice production from rookie LW Brandon Saad and even RW Patrick Kane's return to elite point production helped take the Blackhawks from contenders to favourites.
COLORADO AVALANCHEPre-Season Rank: 26Final Rank: 27Average Rank: 24.93What's the Difference?: For all the young talent in Colorado, there have been legitimate concerns about their defence and whether or not G Semyon Varlamov is capable of handling the No. 1 job in goal. Nothing that happened during this season has changed those perceptions, so the ups (Matt Duchene, John Mitchell) and downs (Paul Stastny, David Jones) among the forwards didn't make much difference in the end.
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETSPre-Season Rank: 30Final Rank: 14Average Rank: 22.80What's the Difference?: After years of subpar performance from G Steve Mason, the Blue Jackets vaulted into playoff contention this year largely because of G Sergei Bobrovsky's special season. C Mark Letestu broke through and rookie D Dalton Prout was a solid contributor but, really, most of the difference should be attributed to Bobrovsky.
DALLAS STARSPre-Season Rank: 14Final Rank: 23Average Rank: 17.87What's the Difference?: One of the reasons that Power Rankings aren't considered predictions is that injuries might seem inevitable in some cases, but they don't get taken into account until they actually occur. With the Stars adding some veteran free agents (Ray Whitney, Jaromir Jagr) up front, it wouldn't be unreasonable to expect that at least one of them might get hurt and Whitney did end up missing 21 games. An injury to G Kari Lehtonen was a factor (since he was a significant reason for their decent preseason ranking) too, then trading away Jaromir Jagr, Derek Roy, Brenden Morrow and Michael Ryder (for an unproductive Erik Cole) sent the Stars' season down the drain.
DETROIT RED WINGSPre-Season Rank: 7Final Rank: 11Average Rank: 13.80What's the Difference?: It's not a massive shock that the Red Wings took a step back in the wake of Nicklas Lidstrom's retirement but, because of injuries, they got next to nothing from right wingers Todd Bertuzzi and Mikael Samuelsson and D Carlo Colaiacovo. Valtteri Filppula's production also dipped and while several call-ups, including Gustav Nyquist, Tomas Tatar,and Joakim Andersson, have gotten a taste of the NHL, they haven't been playing a big enough role to have a serious positive impact on the rankings.
EDMONTON OILERSPre-Season Rank: 16Final Rank: 20Average Rank: 18.53What's the Difference?: It looked like this could be a season in which the Oilers, who have been accumulating talent through high draft picks, could actually challenge for a playoff spot. It was a reasonable thought through the first three-quarters of the season before they lost nine of ten games to fall out of contention. LW Taylor Hall and C Sam Gagner were better than expected, RW Jordan Eberle regressed, but the most significant player, in terms of affecting rankings was C Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who endured a difficult sophomore campaign.
FLORIDA PANTHERSPre-Season Rank: 27Final Rank: 30Average Rank: 29.53What's the Difference?: A team with precious little NHL depth, the Panthers couldn't withstand injuries to, most notably, C Stephen Weiss, RW Kris Versteeg and D Dmitry Kulikov, among others. Nevertheless, they had overachieved in 2011-2012, which didn't alter my expectations much and they lived down to low expectations in 2013.
LOS ANGELES KINGSPre-Season Rank: 10Final Rank: 9Average Rank: 12.80What's the Difference?: Coming into the season there is always some segment of the population that demands the previous season's champs be ranked No. 1, no matter what the analysis says. Part of the reason for the Kings' depressed ranking at the start of the season was an injury to C Anze Kopitar, which only cost him a couple of games. The Kings struggled to get going early in the year, at least in part because of subpar play from G Jonathan Quick and it required a strong season from the rest of the team to overcome Quick posting a .902 save percentage this season, down from .929 last year. The defending champs had a lot of roster stability and many players didn't vary too dramatically from expectations, though the Kings' climb into the Top 10 was aided by the development of young defencemen Slava Voynov and Jake Muzzin.
MINNESOTA WILDPre-Season Rank: 20Final Rank: 17Average Rank: 16.00What's the Difference?: Even with Dany Heatley's descent in full effect and rookie C Mikael Granlund falling flat in the face of lofty expectations, the Wild finished three spots ahead of their preseason ranking. D Ryan Suter was a little better than expected, but young players helped make the difference. Suter's partner, Jonas Brodin, is a Calder candidate, and RW Charlie Coyle finished the year playing meaningful minutes on the top line. Trading for Sabres RW Jason Pominville also provided a late-season boost in value.
MONTREAL CANADIENSPre-Season Rank: 18Final Rank: 10Average Rank: 6.47What's the Difference?: A team that was so bad that it drafted third last summer, the Canadiens were a vastly improved outfit this year, and their possession metrics indicated that their wins weren't a fluke, either. As a result, Montreal was ranked in the top five for a good portion of the season before a late-season goaltending and defensive swoon dropped them. What made the Canadiens better? Head coach Michael Therrien deserves some credit, but his roster was much better too. D Andrei Markov stayed healthy. D P.K. Subban emerged as a star. D Alexei Emelin improved in his second season. C Lars Eller improved. The trade for RW Michael Ryder upgraded the offence. Rookies Brendan Gallagher and Alex Galchenyuk were very productive in limited ice time.
NASHVILLE PREDATORSPre-Season Rank: 8Final Rank: 29Average Rank: 23.40What's the Difference?: After years of underrating the Predators, they finally started the year with a strong ranking, only to fall flat. G Pekka Rinne was mortal, RW Martin Erat struggled before he was traded away to Washington, RW Patric Hornqvist and LW Colin Wilson both missed half the season and, for a team that wasn't blessed with scoring talent to begin with, they could ill afford to lose some of the players that could actually produce for them.
NEW JERSEY DEVILSPre-Season Rank: 15Final Rank: 26Average Rank: 17.60What's the Difference?: I was aiming in the right direction with last year's finalists, but they were even worse than I expected. The goaltending was a mess, and LW Patrik Elias may have been their only productive player. LW Ilya Kovalchuk's numbers were down, even before he got hurt, and the rest of the forwards weren't scoring. Even though the Devils actually had very strong possession numbers, they got killed on percentages (shooting and save) at both ends.
NEW YORK ISLANDERS Pre-Season Rank: 29Final Rank: 15Average Rank: 19.87What's the Difference?: The Islanders broke through, after consistently sitting in the 20s, thanks to a nice contribution from RW Brad Boyes, who helped keep the first line productive, and the development of the second line -- Josh Bailey, Frans Nielsen and Kyle Okposo -- made a real difference down the stretch, and was probably the biggest difference from the Islanders' preseason forecast. Getting D Lubomir Visnovsky to finally agree to join the team paid off too. He played well and landed a contract extension.
NEW YORK RANGERS Pre-Season Rank: 2Final Rank: 5Average Rank: 10.87What's the Difference?: Expectations were sky-high for the Blueshirts this year and they were nowhere close to meeting them, thanks in large part to lower-than-anticipated production from C Brad Richards and RW Marian Gaborik. However, some roster changes (subtracting Gaborik, but adding LW Ryane Clowe, C Derick Brassard, LW Mats Zuccarello and D John Moore) helped contribute to their late-season surge and the Rangers, getting top-tier goaltending from Henrik Lundqvist once again, finished the season not so far off the preseason projection, even if they took a rather indirect route to get there.
OTTAWA SENATORSPre-Season Rank: 13Final Rank: 4Average Rank: 8.13What's the Difference?: Injuries wreaked havoc on the Senators' lineup, with C Jason Spezza, D Erik Karlsson, D Jared Cowen and G Craig Anderson the most notable to miss significant chunks of the season but, by season's end, Anderson, Cowen and Karlsson had returned, giving the offensively-challenged Sens the top goaltender (in terms of GAA and SV%) and the league's best defenceman. Rookies made a big difference for the Sens, from C Mika Zibanejad and RW Jakob Silfverberg in secondary offensive roles to G Robin Lehner, who was outstanding while Anderson was sidelined.
PHILADELPHIA FLYERSPre-Season Rank: 9Final Rank: 18Average Rank: 20.80What's the Difference?: Maybe it should have been assumed that defence would be an issue for the Flyers but, aside from Kimmo Timonen and, to some degree, Luke Schenn, it was a revolving door of injured and replaceable parts. Lack of production from veteran forwards like Daniel Briere and Scott Hartnell hurt the cause, too. Even G Ilya Bryzgalov performing worse than 2011-2012 caused the Flyers to be ranked lower than expected.
PHOENIX COYOTESPre-Season Rank: 23Final Rank: 21Average Rank: 18.47What's the Difference?: Pretty close to expected. G Mike Smith didn't duplicate his 2011-2012 season, but that wasn't a major surprise. The ceiling is only so high for a team whose top centre, Martin Hanzal, finished with 23 points, even if that is a fair expectation based on his previous offensive track record.
PITTSBURGH PENGUINSPre-Season Rank: 1Final Rank: 2 Average Rank: 4.93What's the Difference?: The only thing keeping the Penguins from top spot, by season's end, was Sidney Crosby's broken jaw. By the time the Penguins added LW Brenden Morrow, RW Jarome Iginla, C Jussi Jokinen and D Douglas Murray in trades as well as rookie RW Beau Bennett, they had done plenty to improve an already-formidable lineup. With Crosby having the best season of his career, prior to his injury, and the team getting healthy by season's end, the Penguins are legit Stanley Cup frontrunners.
ST. LOUIS BLUESPre-Season Rank: 4Final Rank: 13Average Rank: 10.47What's the Difference?: St. Louis remained a grind-it-out physical team that was tough to go against, but their goaltending was a mess for most of the year. Jaroslav Halak struggled, got hurt. Brian Elliott was terrible and couldn't be trusted, so Jake Allen got his chance. Allen played okay, then Halak returned. Halak got hurt again and Elliott rose to the challenge with an unbelievable April. Adding defencemen Jay Bouwmeester and Jordan Leopold helped by season's end, too, but if the goaltending was better, the Blues would have been closer to their preseason rank for much of the year anyway..
SAN JOSE SHARKSPre-Season Rank: 11Final Rank: 12Average Rank: 9.87What's the Difference?: A team skilled enough to comfortably make the playoffs, but have modest expectations once they get there, the Sharks scored less than expected, with big names like Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau and Martin Havlat producing less, but that was countered by G Antti Niemi performing at a very high level, with a career-best .924 SV%.
TAMPA BAY LIGHTNINGPre-Season Rank: 24Final Rank: 19Average Rank: 13.53What's the Difference?: For much of the season, the Lightning were ranked significantly higher than their place in the standings because they still held a positive goal differential despite their losing record. Their goaltending was terrible, again, but if they got even mediocre goaltending, it could have saved them. By the time they made a move to address that need, acquiring Ben Bishop from Ottawa at the trade deadline, it was too late. The Lightning have great skilled forwards and have some pieces that can be part of a competent defence, but the Lightning need more pucks stopped.
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFSPre-Season Rank: 25Final Rank: 7Average Rank: 10.80What's the Difference?: If you want some idea how beaten down the Maple Leafs fan base has become, there was barely a whisper of complaint regarding their preseason ranking. This from a fanbase that swamps our website on most matters, but who knew that James Reimer would get his game back? Who knew that Nazem Kadri would not only make the team but shine? D Cody Franson was a lot better and LW Joffrey Lupul was great, when he managed to stay in the lineup. Not everything was positive, however. C Mikhail Grabovski saw his production fall off and D Jake Gardiner spent an inordinate amount of time in the press box or the AHL, but the Maple Leafs, despite having the worst shot differential in the league, won more than expected. For that, they should thank Reimer and backup Ben Scrivens, both of whom were above average at a position that was clearly below average in previous seasons.
VANCOUVER CANUCKSPre-Season Rank: 5Final Rank: 14Average Rank: 11.67What's the Difference?: In previous seasons, the Canucks have outscored opponents by a large margin and, justifiably, have been ranked near the top. This season, when they start to talk about learning how to win ugly, well, that's the kind of thing that teams do when they can't dominate play any more. Injuries played a part -- C Ryan Kesler, LW David Booth, D Kevin Bieksa and D Chris Tanev were among those to miss significant time -- but the Canucks weren't dominant this year and their ranking reflected as much.
WASHINGTON CAPITALSPre-Season Rank: 17Final Rank: 8Average Rank: 20.93What's the Difference?: For more than half the season it was looking optimistic to have the Capitals at 17 in the preseason rankings, but once RW Alex Ovechkin caught fire and D Mike Green started scoring like he did a few years ago and, further down the depth chart, RW Eric Fehr and defencemen Steven Oleksy and Jack Hillen also contributed more than expected.
WINNIPEG JETSPre-Season Rank: 28Final Rank: 22Average Rank: 21.93What's the Difference?: Winnipeg's preseason ranking was affected negatively by D Zach Bogosian being injured, but that could have been a precursor to the whole season as the Jets had a hard time keeping all of their top defencemen healthy. Even once Bogosian returned, Tobias Enstrom missed more than half the season and C Olli Jokinen was a flop as a free agent addition. All that said, the Jets still pushed for a playoff spot right into the final week of the season, even with a goal-differential that ranked 23rd.
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Writing in his TIME Magazine column, Andy "Eduwonk" Rotherham offers up a largely exculpatory take on Pineapplegate. The media jumped all over a bowdlerized version of the test passage, he notes. New York state officials should have been clearer in explaining that nothing makes its way onto standardized tests by accident. And in the end, Andy writes, what is needed is "a more substantive conversation rather than a firestorm" over testing.
Very well, let's have one.
In the unlikely event you haven't heard, a minor media frenzy was ignited a few weeks back when the New York Daily News got hold of a surreal fable, loosely modeled on the familiar tale of the Tortoise and the Hare, which appeared on the just-administered New York State 8th grade reading test. In the test passage, a talking pineapple challenges a hare to a foot race in front of a group of woodland creatures, loses the race (the pineapple's lack of legs proving to be a fatal competitive disadvantage) and gets eaten by the other animals.
Rotherham points out that the passage picked up by the paper was not the actual test passage, but a second-hand version plucked from an anti-testing website. "The passage the paper ran was so poorly written that it would indeed have been inexcusable," he wrote. Perhaps, but the correct passage wasn't exactly a model of clarity and coherence either. Indeed, the fable's author mocked the decision by the testing company, Pearson, to create multiple choice questions about his story on a state test. "As far as I am able to ascertain from my own work, there isn't necessarily a specifically assigned meaning in anything," Daniel Pinkwater told the Wall Street Journal. "That really is why it's hilarious on the face of it that anybody creating a test would use a passage of mine, because I'm an advocate of nonsense. I believe that things mean things but they don't have assigned meanings."
Ultimately the real version of the test passage was released by the state to quiet the controversy. But it did little to reverse the impression that this was a questionable measure of students' ability. Rotherham's big "get" in Time is a memo from Pearson to New York State officials detailing the question's review process as well as its use on other states' tests as far back as 2004. The message: nothing to see here, folks. Show's over. Go on back to your schools, sharpen those No. 2 pencils and get ready for more tests.
"Standardized tests are neither as bad as their critics make them out to be nor as good as they should be," Rotherham concludes. Perhaps, but they're bad enough. The principal problem, which Pineapplegate underscores vividly, is that we continue to insist on drawing conclusions about students' reading ability based on a random, incoherent collection of largely meaningless passages concocted by test-makers utterly disconnected from what kids actually learn in school all day. This actively incentivizes a form of educational malpractice, since reading tests reinforce the mistaken notion that reading comprehension is a transferable skill and that the subject matter is disconnected from comprehension. But we know this is not the case as E.D. Hirsch and Dan Willingham have pointed out time and again, and as we have discussed on this blog repeatedly.
So this is not a simple case of an uproar based on bad information and sloppy damage control. What Rotherham misses in a somewhat strident defense of standardized tests and testing is that we are suffering generally from a case of test fatigue. The entire edifice of reform rests on testing, and while the principle of accountability remains sound, the effects of testing on schools has proven to be deleterious, to be charitable. Thus the conditions were ripe for people to overreact to perceived absurdity in the tests. And that's exactly what happened here.
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A 30,000-psi (2,000 bar) piezo-actuated fuel injection system – capable of operating on ASTM grade B20 biodiesel – tht ensures more precise fuel delivery, improving emission performance.
To meet the more stringent emissions requirements, the LGH Duramax was designed with a robust EGR cooling system, along with revised turbocharger tuning that helps enhance EGR performance. It also has a large-capacity selective catalytic reduction system. In fact, the engine features the latest in emission control technology, making it the cleanest Duramax engine ever produced. NOx emissions are reduced by at least 63 percent, compared to the 2010 model. NOx emissions are controlled via a Selective Catalyst Reduction aftertreatment system that uses urea-based Diesel (Emission) Exhaust Fluid (DEF). The DEF is housed in a 5.83-gallon (20 L) tank and needs to be replenished about every 5,000 miles (8,000 km). Electrically heated lines feed the DEF to the emission system to ensure adequate delivery in cold weather.
The Duramax also includes GM's second-generation diesel particulate filter system. Unlike most competitors, the Duramax regenerates its diesel particulate filter using a downstream injection of diesel fuel directly into the exhaust stream and can travel up to 700 miles (1,125 km) between regenerations – a 300-mile (482 km) increase over the previous Duramax engine. The use of downstream injection also helps improve engine life by eliminating concerns surrounding the possibility of diesel fuel contaminating engine oil, which can happen when fuel used for regeneration is introduced directly into the cylinder.
The Duramax also provides outstanding cold-weather performance, with microprocessor-controlled glow plugs capable of gas engine-like start performance in less than three seconds in temperatures as low as -20 degrees F (-29 C), without a block heater. The engine has been developed to operate for at least 200,000 miles (322,000 km) on a rough-duty cycle without the need for a major overhaul; and it is backed with a five-year/100,000-mile powertrain warranty.
A fuel-operated heater (FOH) also is available for vans equipped with the Duramax 6.6L to quickly provide heat to the vehicle interior in cold weather. The seamlessly integrated system is designed into the Express chassis, saving customers the time and labor of upfitting an aftermarket system. The electronically controlled, fuel-operated heater operates automatically, turning on and off within parameters that include outside air temperature, fuel level, coolant temperature and whether the engine is running. It features a self-contained, pressurized auxiliary coolant heater (with a surge tank) that uses diesel fuel to generate up to 17,200 Btu/h (5 kW) of heating energy.
The Duramax engine is backed by GM's Hydra-Matic 6L90 heavy-duty six-speed automatic transmission.
Express powertrains – gas/FlexFuel engines
Chevrolet Express offers a choice of five gas/FlexFuel engines. The base engine for light-duty is the 4.3L V-6 with multi-port fuel injection. It delivers 195 horsepower (145 kW) and 260 lb.-ft. of torque (353 Nm) and features a central fuel injector that delivers a separate flow of fuel to six individual hybrid injectors for better performance and improved emissions.
A 4.8L V-8 is standard on some models and cranks out 279 horsepower (208 kW) and 294 lb.-ft. of torque (398 Nm), while other models are powered by the 5.3L V-8. It delivers 310 horsepower (231 kW) and 334 lb.-ft. of torque (453 Nm), providing segment-leading acceleration.
A FlexFuel E85 version of the 5.3L V-8 is available. It delivers the same horsepower and torque as its gasoline counterpart, while running on E85 ethanol fuel or a mixture of E85 and gasoline. E85 comprises of 85 percent ethanol, a renewable fuel produced domestically.
Those seeking more power can opt for the 6.0L V-8 – the segment's most powerful V-8. It delivers 323 horsepower (241 kW) and 373 lb.-ft. of torque (505 Nm), and for 2011 features a fast-idle option, making it easier to run a host of accessories while idling at a worksite. The 6.0L is also offered in a special version with hardened valve seats for the available Dedicated Compressed Natural Gas model.
The 4.8L, 5.3L and 6.0L engines are part of GM's Gen IV small-block V-8 engine family. Designed for quiet operation, these engines include:
Backing the engines' quietness is the assurance of long-lasting performance. The engine family was validated under extreme conditions, with the 6.0L engine dynamometer-tested to the equivalent of 200,000 miles – 50,000 miles more than other engines in the family. The engines also feature many long-life engine components that can reduce maintenance intervals and costs. The iridium-tip spark plugs, engine coolant, accessory drive belt and sealing gaskets are some of these items.
Some of the stringent durability testing included cycling engines between the peak torque and peak horsepower rpm points – the equivalent of towing a heavy trailer up a steep grade – for 600 straight hours.
The Gen IV V-8 is also engineered to meet stringent emissions standards. In fact, compared to truck engines of a decade ago, the Gen IV engine family is approximately 90-percent cleaner. Cast iron exhaust manifolds matched with dual close-coupled catalytic converters help reduce cold-start emissions, which is the largest source of vehicle emissions.
Models equipped with 4.3L, 4.8L and 5.3L engines are matched with the Hydra-Matic 4L60 four-speed automatic transmission. The 6.0L V-8 is backed by the Hydra-Matic 6L90 six-speed automatic.
Express chassis and suspension
The Express is built on a strong, ladder-type full frame architecture. The frame features fully boxed sections for greater strength and rigidity, while extended and tapered front frame rails are used for improved crashworthiness. Also, additional tubular frame cross members are used to increase torsional stiffness.
All models feature an independent short-long arm (SLA) front suspension. A 33mm front stabilizer bar is featured on 1500-series models and a 35mm bar is used on 2500 and 3500 models. Two-stage semi-elliptic multi-leaf springs are used in the rear suspension and help locate a semi-floating axle.
Additional chassis and suspension features include:
Express safety and crash avoidance features
Express is equipped with a host of safety features, including available head curtain side air bags, which provide a higher level of protection in the event of a side impact or a vehicle rollover. Additional safety features include:


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Are blocked shots really valuable?
Cam Charron
March 31 2012 11:51AM
If you're going to quote blocked shots in analysis, make damn sure that you're looking at an overall percentage of shot attempts blocked rather than the raw number of blocked shots.
And even then, it still may not matter.
You may remember a short time ago when I looked to dig through a few of the NHL's real-time stats and found that blocked shots actually correlate negatively with winning. When you think about it a little more though, it does make sense. Teams that block a lot of shots are more likely to both:
A - Spend time in their own zone
B - By proxy, give up a lot of goals
This is one of the principle factors behind Corsi, a puck possession metric that counts the number of shot attempts directed at the opposing net minus the shot attempts directed at the defensive goal. Teams that have a high Corsi number are very likely to spend a lot of time in the offensive zone, and vice versa.
So why do many analysts continue to bring up blocked shots as an indication of defensive play? Well, I don't really have an answer for that. Our Pass it to Bulisian friend Daniel Wagner, and a fellow write at the Backhand Shelf, introduced me this year to "Blocked Shot Percentage".
Blocking a shot is not inherently negative. In general, if an opponent is shooting the puck and you have the opportunity to block the shot, you do so. At the same time, blocking a shot is not inherently positive. Preferably, you are the one shooting the puck rather than blocking it.
Wagner's piece was inspired by something written by Derek Zona, who divided a player's even strength blocks divided by even strength shot attempts against in an effort to find out who the best shot blocker on the Edmonton Oilers was in December.
While Ladislav Smid had blocked 51 shots compared to Andy Sutton's 27 at that point, it's worth noting that Smid was on the ice for 434 shot attempts against his own net, and Sutton just 204, allowing Smid to rack up his shot block totals.
But it's easy to find that data for players, but I wanted to see if it had any real world application, as in, does ESBS% correlate well with winning? The answer is "no, but it doesn't correlate with losing like blocked shot totals do." I enlisted the help of Josh Weissbock who stripped team data from timeonice.com for the last three seasons, giving me team numbers in goals, saved shots, missed shots and blocked shots for and against each team.
The r-squared value (0 implies no correlation, 1 implies perfect correlation) of blocked shots to point percentage was -.144. For ESBS% to point percentage, it was only -.032. Not necessarily a good thing, still, to block a high percentage of shots, but it's still better than looking at the raw data alone.
We can logically assume why blocking shots isn't necessarily a positive, but can we also speculate as to why blocking a high percentage of shots doesn't clearly predict good teams? The easy solution would be to look at NHL scorer bias, since different arenas will have different criteria on what a shot block is, but I'm looking a bit beyond that.
If you check behindthenet.ca's shot block tables, you'll see that many of the players who lead the league in having their shot attempts blocked are defencemen. Defencemen not only score at much lower rates than forwards (I calculated 3.9% to 9.6% at this season, respectively) but they also shoot from further away, usually taking shots from the points.
Getting a shot through the first defender and blocked by a scrum in front can create all kinds of chaos and rebound chances, and those are the types of shot blocks that we mostly see.
Most of the shots turned away by skaters aren't generally opportunities that would have resulted in goals in the first place. Perhaps if we looked at away numbers only, we'd start to see a more favourable correlation between blocks and wins, but I still have yet to think of any reason why blocking lots of shots as opposed to simply not giving them up is a positive.
March 31 2012, 01:34PM
I agree with all that, I think there's just something to be said about guys who are willing to do it (and have a knack for it) rather than always need to do it because they're always locked in their own end.
"I still have yet to think of any reason why blocking lots of shots as opposed to simply not giving them up is a positive"
Your comment has been stated before:
http://www.arcticicehockey.com/2010/7/1/1548346/bryan-murray-wants-other-team-to ""It's great to block shots," Murray said in reference to Volchenkov's specialty, "but I would like the other team to block shots. And you do that by having the puck, helping your forwards get the attack going and by being creative, particularly from the (defence)."
How many hockey games have you watched where one team had no shots on goal and/or scoring chances? Are we ever likely to see such a disparity in teams that this would be a regular occurrence?
I would think that we are never likely to see teams that are so good that they never give up shots on goal attempts or scoring attempts. And in the situation where two such teams met, perhaps blocking one shot might keep you from being on the short end of a one to nothing score.
If blocking shots is such a worthless passtime, why is it even tracked, and why do some GMs/coaches/players/fans seem to value it?
Either the people who value it are deluded, or, blocked shots is a too general and variable stat to have any value the way its currently tracked, or, perhaps it is being used in the wrong way (eg, wrong situation, wrong outcome, etc) to try to measure its value?
A look at the variability is given here: http://www.inlouwetrust.com/2010/7/8/1559914/blocked-shots-the-new-jersey
Blocked shots:
1. may nullify a definite scoring chance...these types of blocked shots are just lumped in with the total of all shots blocked unfortunately
2. may avoid shots on goal (which won't be counted as a scoring chance) which otherwise might go in directly or on a tip or deflection
3. might be more valuable in front of a goalie who has a lousy save percentage
4. might be more valuable in some situations than others (like when the other team is on the power play)
Esoteric value of blocked shots:
1. Its a way players can show they are contributing to the team
2. They occasionally allow for odd man rushes the other way (exciting for fans, may create a scoring chance, etc)
3. Players who can get their shot around other players on a consistent basis are looked on more favourably than those who can't and who seem to constantly have their shots blocked (especially on the power play)
4. Players who block shots may be looked upon with more favor by fans than players who don't.
5. Does the defending team gain possession of the puck after a blocked shot more often than the team who took the shot? I don't know if anyone has ever looked at this.
6. Does shot blocking cause the other team to change the way they try to score, especially on the power play? Do coaches plan strategy around this stat?
7. Is shot blocking demoralizing to the other team in some way?
There was an article about how managers of fantasy hockey teams might take advantage of this stat: http://www.leftwinglock.com/content.php?131-Navigating-Home-Bias-in-the-Blocked-Shots-Category
It may be that it is too early in the statistical life of the blocked shot stat to pay much attention to it, and until there is some standard way of keeping track of "critical" blocked shots at every rink, it is a stat best dealt with skeptibility...unless you are in contract talks with your team :)


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A jury on Wednesday ordered a Santa Ana hospital chain to pay a physician $500,000 in punitive damages on top of $5.2 million it awarded him Friday in a 2006 planted-gun case.
The chain's attorney, David Robinson, argued that money-losing Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc., owner of Western Medical Center Santa Ana "simply does not have the money."
The punitive damages award was a fraction of the $46.8 million sought by Ted Mathews, attorney for infectious disease specialist Michael Fitzgibbons. But he and Fitzgibbons both said they were pleased by the total $5.7 million verdict.
It's unclear what IHHI will do next. Chief Executive Ken Westbrook said he will discuss the verdict with his board of directors.
Fitzgibbons, a former WestMed chief of staff, was arrested and handcuffed in the physicians' parking lot and strip-searched in the Santa Ana city jail in June 2006 after police discovered a gun and black gloves in his car. Fitzgibbons denied the gun was his, and no charges were ever filed.
He said – and the jury apparently believed – that the arrest was a set-up arranged by then-IHHI chief executive Bruce Mogel to silence Fitzgibbons, who led a group of doctors dissenting over management of the hospitals.
"I'm grateful and humbled (by the verdict)," Fitzgibbons said Wednesday. "The jury found that IHHI committed these acts, these outrageous acts."
Fitzgibbons handed each of the jurors a thank-you note as they left the courtroom.
The trial leading to the $5.2 million verdict took two weeks.
The trial leading to the $500,000 punitive award took all of one day.
Since jurors already had decided IHHI was at fault, the one-day mini-trial revolved around the ability of IHHI to pay.
Robinson, the IHHI attorney, portrayed his company as if he were offering it to a particularly undiscriminating undertaker. With a stock price ranging over the past year between 3 cents and 11 cents per share, and $70 million in debt, the company's true value is at best $23 million, he said. It rarely has even $10 million in cash to spare.
"I submit you really have sent a message," he told the jurors. "On the best of days, you've taken half of IHHI's cash" for Fitzgibbons.
Mathews, Fitzgibbons' attorney, saw things differently.
Even at IHHI's lowest ebb, in the fall of 2009 when its lender, Medical Capital Holdings, was seized by federal regulators for operating a Ponzi scheme, shutting off $16 million in IHHI assets, the company still managed to make payroll.
"Anytime they need the money, they get the money," Mathews said.
On Tuesday, IHHI reported that it had lost $13.4 million in the three months that ended Dec. 31. Since the company was founded in 2004, it has run up an accumulated deficit of $86.1 million.
Nonetheless, Chief Financial Officer Steven Blake said under questioning by Mathews that the company was doing all right.
"Absent the settlement (with Fitzgibbons), probably we'll be fine," Blake said.
With the trial over after six years, Fitzgibbons returns to WestMed as a doctor rather than a litigant.
Asked how he felt about that, Fitzgibbons replied, "I don't know. I'm afraid. I'm concerned. The management that engineered this conspiracy, some of them are still there. I have the greatest respect for the nurses, the physician staff. My only concern was to protect them."
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Hennalucent Hair Toner and Conditioner
- Overview
- Ingredients
- Features
- Delivers long-term shine and colored highlights
- Penetrates hair shaft naturally and organically
- Professional henna product
- Repairs split ends
- Adds new strength and vitality
- Great for dry, damaged, or chemically treated hair
- Includes formulation of micro-refined henna, hydrolyzedprotein, and pH neutralizers
- About the brand
100% organic. A professional henna product that penetrates the hair shaft through natural, organic absorption to deliver long-term shine, body and beauty color highlights.
Hennalucent is a unique formulation of micro-refined henna, hydrolyzedprotein, pH neutralizers and rich, organic conditioners that revitalizes all types of hair. It repairs split ends and adds new strength and vitality to dry,damaged, chemically treated hair.
Henna, Hydroxyethylcellulose, Sucrose, Quaternium-19, Hydrolyzed AnimalProtein, Guar Hydroxypropyl Trimonium Chloride, Citric Acid, Glyceryl StearateSE, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Stearalkonium Chloride, Fragrance, Plant Extracts and other ingredients.
How to mix Hennalucent:
Pour Hennalucent into a plastic or glass bowl. Add very hot water, stirring constantly until blended to a smooth, honey-like consistency. Let mixture sit a minute to stabilize. If it thickens, add more hot water. Mixture should remain creamy and moist during processing.
How to apply Hennalucent:
Apply HP3 Intensive Conditioner along the hairline and wear
gloves with all shades except Neutral to avoid staining. Apply Hennalucent to clean hair. If hair is very soiled or
lacquered, shampoo and towel dry. Use tint brush to apply Hennalucent generously to the parts,
starting at the crown. Touch up the hair line last. Then gently
work mixture through the hair, making sure all ends are
Wrap a cotton strip around hairline to prevent dripping. No cap or foil is needed. Do not use a hair dryer. To determine the proper process time, see Hennalucent timing guide. When desired results are reached, rinse hair thoroughly with warm water. Then shampoo with a mild shampoo.
Note: To insure color continuity and superb conditioning apply every4-6 weeks. Complete instruction booklet and timing guide enclosed.
Hennalucent is 100% organic hair color line based on henna and full of nourishing proteins. Products are gentle and help restore shine, bounce, and elasticity to hair. Hair color is temporary and fades gradually after 6 to 8 weeks. It is also safe to use on chemically treated hair. These are the only professional henna products that naturally penetrate the hair shaft instead of just coating the hair.
Hennalucent is a part of the Ardell company. Ardell is well known for its faux fashion lashes, Lights and Brights Color enhancers and Correctors line, and its Surgi-Care hair depilatories, waxes, and bleaches.
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Do Not Like The New FormulaFor the last 12 month's I have been looking to find the original Hennalucent formula. I have used this product on my fine hair since 1983, with fabulous results. . The site I purchased this product from (Amazon) displayed the original box, but sent me the new formula. I decided to try the new formula again, and was very disappointed and frustrated when I opened the package
The sparkling burgundy didn't look anything like a burgundy at all (more like a brown ashy dull ugly color, with no life or fashion. I threw it away. It was a waste of time and money. I purchased 5 boxes, 3 sparkling burgundy and 2 neutral. Hopefully, the neutral will give satisfactory results. Poor color quality, maybe the wrong colors are inserted into the wrong boxes. Two thumbs down ï??ï??
Jan 22, 2013Sharon H. / United States
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Actually You Are Wrong It Can Turn Your Hair GreenUsed the henna for grey hair on my GF Linda twice and both times we had crayola green results. Odd part is it was in various areas of the hair. First time it was the entire crown. Second it was about an inch up from regrowth! Over time the green fades away. There is not mistaking that color green. Its not some crazy hairstylist conspiracy to bring down the world of popular henna enthusiast! How funny! Didn't realize you could submit photos I will see if Linda has any and up load them. Cause it was a huge scene! Never seen anything like that before.Mar 7, 2010Indus / USA
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Works For Some But Not For AllI used earth brown hennalucent mixed with 1/4 regular red henna. It seemed from my strand test that this matched my darkest hair which is a medium red/brown. I was using it to make the hair on the top of my head, which gets bleached to a yellow from the sun, the same color as the rest of my hair. I used the mix and instead of getting the red highlights the earth brown box promises, my hear turned a drab grayish brown. I have did some research and got clarifying crystals from sally's to try to lift the color. some of the reddish hints of my natural hair are not visible.i am going to repeat the clarifying treatment to try to get my hair back to a color that matches my skin tone. Be careful before you use this - even mixed with straight henna it might not make your hair anywhere near the reddish color on the box. it might make your naturally reddish hair a terrible mousy color.Dec 29, 2009Sabby
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Need "old" Formula Back!I have used Hennalucent since '84- neutral- that gave me absolutely astounding results that lasted at least two months or more- shiney, healthy great hair. Since changing the formula, this product is no longer effective. Terrible consistency, terrible results. I used to buy this product by the case, but unless I can find an outlet that sells the original formula I won't waste another dime on it. VERY unfortunate for the company AND me....Aug 31, 2009Linda / Billings, MT USA
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Hennalucent Hair ColoringI have used Hennalucent continuously for approximately 15 years with great success. I hope I will be able to continue to purchase this wonderful hair coloring. It is easy to use and gives great natural color. I am not at all happy that I am unable to purchase it anymore.Jul 15, 2009Anonymous / Tacoma, WA
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I Agree With LeslieThe "new and improved" formula is worthless. Hennalucent used to mix up to have the consistency of thick honey and it coated the hair shaft and worked nicely. Now its like soupy mud and it made my hair even dryer . . .couldnt get the comb through it! Pitiful. Too bad they "improved" it.Sep 19, 2008J. Lynn / Indiana
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First TryI had purchased Hennalucent in Bark Brown, but after reading some of the reviews, I wondered whether I should have gone with the Earth Brown instead. I found a handful of reviews that claimed that the Bark Brown turned their hair jet black, so that was a concern.I have fine hair, that is porous, so I decided to leave it on for just 10 minutes. I noticed a very subtle change, but its almost imperceptible.I only used half of the product, so I am going to try it again in a few weeks. Maybe Ill let the product stabilize longer before applying it, and leave it on my hair longer before rinsing it out.Jul 1, 2008Taryn
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Best Mixed With Colora HennaOver 30 years ago my hairstylist told me to use 2 brands of henna together for the best results. I have done this off and on since then, and have always loved the results. My hair is untreated, fine, limp, and stringy even when pretty short. This combo Im going to tell you about makes it much shinier and have more body and look thicker. In the past, with the same stylists approval, I have even used it on permed hair--just wait 2 weeks after perming to apply. Here is what you use. One package of COLORA henna in a shade that is closest to your natural hair color. I use "Brown" because my hair is naturally dark brown with warm hi-lights. Then you add in 1/2 package of HENNALUCENT neutral, and mix well (dry). Add the Hottest water that you can stand (just off of the boil, if possible). Mix really well until the goop is about the consistency of spinach pureed in a blender, but liquid. Kind of like thick junior baby food. You keep adding water a little at a time to get the right consistency. Put on like you would bleach--in slim sections with a bleach brush. Cover both sides of each section with the brush, and make sure it is thin enough to soak in, but not drip. The more hair you have, or the longer it is will determine how much you use. If you have a lot of thick, full or LONG hair it may take 2 pkgs of COLORA henna and one whole pkge of HENNALUCENT neutral henna. By the way, the COLORA henna goes on GREEN and smells pretty awful--kind of like burning spinach, but it is worth the smell! When you have all of your hair covered (if your hair is very long, you have to section it in such a way as to have it all packed on top of your head by this time). Then you wrap a cotton coil (available at the beauty supply) around your entire hairline, cover your head with a disposable plastic cap or just plastic wrap, and sit for one hour. It is easier to rinse out if you put a lot of conditioner on and mix it in first, but is still somewhat hard to rinse out. You have to keep adding conditioner until all of the goop is rinsed out and the stream of water running through your hair is clear. Then wash once with shampoo,(not one that strips)and style as you normally would. On my hair, it seems to take about 24 hours for the shine to fully develop. Also, one time I tried Hennalucent for my color, and my hair turned out much redder, and not as shiny or bouncy. I think the two types together work best. After you buy a box of Colora henna in what you think is the most appropriate color and buy a box of Hennalucent neutral, then both products ttell you inside the expected result of each color.Mar 20, 2008JennyHAIR TYPESynthetic Hair
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8 Years And Never A ProblemI have been using this brand of henna on my hair for the past 8 years and it always looks great. I attribute my long hair to using it since I have very very fine hair that now reaches my waist. I never could have grown my hair this long without the conditioning it provides. Ive hennad my friends hair in the past and all except one had amazing results. To those of you who say that it turns hair green or grey or blue. The only reason this happens is because you have other chemicals in your hair that react to henna!!! The friend whose hair didnt turn out denied having dyed her hair previously, and it turned silvery-blue-green. I would never use anything else on my hair.Feb 11, 2008ErinHAIR TYPEFine or Thin Hair / Long Hair
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Hennalucent Still Reigns!I used to get Hennalucent done in my salon in the 70s whenit was all the rage. I was so thrilled recently to see itin a beauty supply store, and bought it for my daughter whohas med. brown hair like me with red highlights. We mixed Earth brn w/ Sunset Glo like I used to and she was so pleased with the results we are doing it again next wk.Feb 10, 2008Sharon Paladino / Kerrville, TX
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On average, Americans wolf down 12 pounds of this sweet stuff each year. How much do you know about how your favorite chocolaty treat goes from bean to bar -- and the science behind it? Sink your teeth into this quiz to find out.
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Question 1 of 20
Cacao (cocoa) beans can be as varied as wine grape varieties.
What a lovely vintage … of beans? There are three main varieties of cocoa beans (Forastero, Criollo and Trinitario), but their flavors and intensities differ depending on where they're grown.
Question 2 of 20
Most cacao beans are grown in South America.
Can you say "chocolat"? Although cacao beans originated in South America, the number-one producer of them today is the Cote d'Ivoire in Africa.
Question 3 of 20
Cocoa beans are harvested by machines.
Cacao beans are plucked by hand, the pods carefully cut from the tree and split open to remove the beans.
Question 4 of 20
Originally, people drank chocolate as an unsweetened beverage.
It's hard to imagine today, but sugar wasn't added to chocolate until it reached Europe in the 1500s. And it wasn't eaten in bar form for a few hundred years after that.
Question 5 of 20
Aztec Emperor Montezuma was rumored to drink as many as 50 cups of chocolate a day.
After meeting Aztec emperor Montezuma II in 1519, explorer Hernando Cortes reported that he drank nothing but chocolate with his meals, out of a golden goblet.
Question 6 of 20
Eating chocolate lowers your risk of diseases like diabetes and cancer.
Kind of a trick question. There is some evidence that eating very dark chocolate may lower the risk of some diseases, but it's not carte blanche to chow down on the good stuff.
Question 7 of 20
Only chocolate contains flavonoids, compounds believed to have antioxidant properties.
Flavonoids also pop up in many other plants, including tea, citrus fruits, berries and red wine.
Question 8 of 20
Chocolate may be a popular Valentine's Day gift, but there's no proof that it's an aphrodisiac.
Sometimes, a chocolate is just a chocolate. Chocolate contains a chemical called phenethylamine that causes feelings of euphoria. Unfortunately, it's broken down in the body before it can reach the brain.
Question 9 of 20
A 2006 study found that women who eat chocolate every day have higher libidos than those who don't.
Close, but no cigar (or rather, chocolate bar). Although this initially seemed to be the case, the daily-chocolate-eating women in the study were also younger than the others, and libidos tend to drop as women age.
Question 10 of 20
If you find white spots on your chocolate, that means it's gone bad and you need to throw it away.
Known as "bloom", it's the bane of chocolatiers -- and chocolate lovers -- everywhere. It probably wasn't stored properly and it may not taste the same, but your chocolate's still fine to eat.
Question 11 of 20
White chocolate isn't really chocolate.
It depends on what you mean by "really chocolate." White chocolate doesn't contain any cocoa solids, but it does have a base of cocoa butter.
Question 12 of 20
There are strict rules governing what can be labeled dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate.
It depends on where the chocolate is sold, though. For example, dark chocolate sold in the European Union must contain a minimum of 35 percent cocoa solids.
Question 13 of 20
Chocolate is just crushed, melted cacao beans with some sugar added.
While dark chocolate can have cacao as its sole ingredient, it usually includes many others. Making chocolate also involves much, much more than just crushing up some cacao beans!
Question 14 of 20
You can actually create chocolate from cacao beans at home, in your own kitchen.
While it's a complicated (and expensive, if you want it to be high quality) venture to make your own chocolate, it can be done.
Question 15 of 20
"Chocolatier" is just another word for "chocolate maker."
Chocolatiers create delicious candies and confections using pre-made chocolate; chocolate makers make chocolate from cacao beans and other ingredients.
Question 16 of 20
Chocolate-making is still a mysterious process.
We still don't quite understand what happens during conching, a necessary step in the production of chocolate that involves agitating chocolate liquor for hours.
Question 17 of 20
Chocolate liquor contains alcohol and is used as a mixer or imbibed by itself.
You wouldn't want to confuse these two! Chocolate liqueur is an alcoholic beverage, usually made with vodka. Chocolate liquor is pure, liquid chocolate.
Question 18 of 20
The conche machine used in chocolate-making was named for its inventor, Joseph Conche.
The original conche machine was invented by Rodolphe Lindt in 1879 and looked like the shell of a sea snail called a conch (or conche).
Question 19 of 20
Tempering, a process by which chocolate is melted, reheated and held at specific temperatures, is only done by really high-quality chocolate makers.
Temper, temper. Chocolate has to be tempered. Without this process, the chocolate isn't glossy, doesn't last as long and doesn't have that nice snap when you bite it.
Question 20 of 20
When chocolate cools, the cocoa butter inside it solidifies into small, uniform crystals.
Left to cool at room temperature, the cocoa butter crystalizes into different sizes. Tempering makes the crystals small and uniform, resulting in smooth chocolate.


text: Next → Evan Bayh and Haley Barbour Visit the Miller Center ← Previous Hispanics Often Lead the Way in Their Faith in the American Dream, Poll Finds You might also like... Miller Center Senior Fellows (11/30/16) Which of these presidents thought that "government is the problem?" (07/14/16) Ted Kennedy and the Fight for Civil Rights (07/02/16) Oral History: Oklahoma City Bombing (04/19/16) Anita Hill & Clarence Thomas Seen Through Oral History (04/15/16) Presidential Speech Archive American President: A Reference Resource Presidential Recordings Presidential Oral Histories ← Return to Riding The Tiger February 7, 2014 By Douglas Blackmon Is President Obama prepared to release thousands of prisoners? Attorney General Eric Holder was interviewed on American Forum on 1/23. The interview airs on public television beginning 2/9. The American Forum Interview With Attorney General Eric H. Holder Attorney General Eric H. Holder, in an interview to be broadcast on public television this Sunday (Feb. 9, 2014), made some remarkable comments about the American system of justice, including: There are "probably thousands" of Americans imprisoned in the U.S. serving sentences far longer than they should be, That the likelihood that many people currently imprisoned are actually innocent is the "ultimate horror" of our justice system, And the strong intimation that a wave of presidential commutations for drug offenders may be coming from the White House in the months ahead. "We have…to make people who are incarcerated aware of that avenue," Holder said, during a taping of American Forum, a public television program I host from the University of Virginia's Miller Center and carried by about 90 PBS stations around the country. "And so I've asked members of the private bar to somehow engage with the people who are in prison so that the appropriate papers get filed, are put into the system, and ultimately the White House counsel's office, and ultimately on the president's desk." "The president is willing to do these kinds of things," Holder said. Asked about the attorney general's comments, a White House spokesman on Friday referred back to the President Obama's statement in December accompanying the commutation of eight prisoners who had received long sentences for non-violent drug offenses. The president said then that "thousands of inmates" are imprisoned under an "unfair system" of sentencing requirements that are no longer applied in new prosecutions. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/19/statement-president-clemency Last week, Deputy Attorney General James Cole elaborated on Holder's comments in a speech to the New York State Bar Association, asking private lawyers to help identify inmates who may deserve sentence reductions and filing for commutations or court reviews on their behalf. In the American Forum interview, Holder also strongly endorsed legislation pending in congress that would create a new, presumably faster, channel for judges to review sentences now considered unfairly harsh. The number of imprisoned Americans who could benefit from these policies—if indeed they come to pass—is huge. The number of federal prisoners serving sentences related to crack cocaine—which until 2010 received penalties 100 times more harsh than for powder cocaine—approaches 30,000. And the legislation currently in Congress, if passed, would open the possibility of shortened sentences, or releases, for about 12,000 non-violent inmates. Moreover, evidence is mounting that far more innocent people are falsely convicted in U.S. courts than was long imagined. DNA based exonerations of death row inmates have rattled confidence even in what are supposed to be the most well-resourced and closely monitored proceedings in the system, because the life of the defendant is at stake. Earlier this week, an annual report from the National Registry of Exonerations, compiled by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, said nearly 90 falsely convicted prisoners were cleared of their crimes in the U.S. during 2013—more than in any previous year. A total of more than 1,300 exonerations have occurred over the past 25 years. http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Exonerations_in_2013_Report.pdf Citing President Obama's commutations in December (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/12/19/president-obama-grants-pardons-and-commutation) Holder said in the American Forum interview airing Sunday that the White House is prepared to use its executive power more forcefully in the second term in similar cases. The Obama administration has been criticized by many supporters for its relatively spare use of presidential pardons and commutations, compared to past presidents. Holder, the nation's first African-American attorney general, said the recent commutations should be interpreted as a signal that the president is ready to move on even larger numbers of such cases. "The president has indicated a willingness and has demonstrated that willingness by those commutations that he granted," Holder said. The Attorney General's comments came during an interview that has already triggered a small frenzy of news coverage in the New York Times, Politico, major networks and papers all over the U.S. Those headlines were mostly about Holder's surprise promise to make it possible for banks to do business with newly legalized marijuana sellers in Colorado and Washington, his criticism of former Defense Secretary Bob Gates's book and comments on whether TSA leaker Edward Snowden could get a plea deal from the U.S. But reporters largely overlooked what may have been some of Holder's most significant statements about the mass incarceration of more than 2.2 million Americans currently in state and federal prison systems—a total of 25% of all prisoners in the world. Holder made clear that he and President Barack Obama—who have been criticized harshly at times for allegedly moving too slowly to address mass incarceration, especially of young African-American men--plan to do much more in the administration's second term to facilitate the release of larger numbers of prisoners. That effort includes support for legislation currently pending in Congress to create a new, faster avenue of judicial review for federal prisoners serving jail terms longer than what would be imposed under current U.S. law. If passed, that law could lead to the release or sentence reductions of as many as 12,000 prisoners, by some estimates. That measure would address what is widely viewed as an gaping hole in the Obama's administration's highest profile effort so far to address mass incarceration: the 2010 Fair Sentencing Act. That law greatly narrowed the disparity between sentences mandated for offenses involving crack cocaine—a drug often associated with the very poor and African-Americans—and those with powder cocaine—a form of the same drug more used by whites and the affluent. But the 2010 changes weren't retroactive—meaning thousands of non-violent prisoners given very long sentences at the height of the drug war got no relief. "We put in place some pretty draconian sentencing measures," Holder told me. "Where people who were not engaged in the violent distribution of drugs ended up with ten, twenty, thirty, lifetime sentences. And without a violent component to those crimes it seems to me that some people are serving jail sentences that are far too long and that don't serve any particular law enforcement purpose." ProRes: http://web1.millercenter.org/temp/2014_0123/EricHolder_PrisonSentences_ProRes.mov H.264: http://web1.millercenter.org/temp/2014_0123/h264/EricHolder_PrisonSentences.mov More startling than Holder's support for allowing federal judges to more easily review—and shorten—older sentences, were his statements suggesting a faster process for seeking direct presidential intervention and a blunt acknowledgement that the justice system makes many errors. "With the laws that have been passed and the laws that are potentially going to be passed … there is going to be, I think, a greater capacity, a greater legal capacity for these kinds of claims to be raised," Holder said. "Having laid the foundation in the first term … the president, yeah, is going to be more willing to look at those things," Holder said. "But … for him to look at them we have to get them into the system and to him, and that is a process that is often times a long one. That is why I think the passage of this legislation is so important so that someone can raise those kinds of concerns and have an adjudication done by a district court judge. Perhaps not agreed to by the government, perhaps challenged by the government, but have a judge decide whether or not a person can be released. But I think both of those should be operating. Holder defended the U.S. judicial system as well-intentioned and ultimately reliable, but also said too many Americans have been too harshly punished for non-violent crimes, or for crimes they didn't commit. "Some people are serving jail sentences that are far too long and that don't serve any particular law enforcement purpose," Holder said. "My guess would probably be thousands if you look at the totality of our prison population." Holder called the growing evidence of false convictions of innocent Americans "the ultimate horror." "The notion that we have innocent people serving time … that's why we have pushed, for instance, to make sure that that the indigent defense system that we have in place…is much more effective," Holder said. "We have to really as a society say that is simply something that is unacceptable…As good as our system is, it is ultimately a system that is filled with men and women who are well-intentioned, but who make mistakes." ProRes: http://web1.millercenter.org/temp/2014_0123/EricHolder_DeathPenalty_ProRes.mov H.264: http://web1.millercenter.org/temp/2014_0123/h264/EricHolder_DeathPenalty.mov Tweet [0 Comments] Date edited: 02/07/2014 (4:36PM) Comments Rules for Comments We reserve the right to remove any post or user. 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Isaac Asimov was a fantastically prolific writer who shaped many ideas about technology and morality. How much do you know about him? Take this quiz to find out.
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Question 1 of 30
Asimov predicted that by the year 2014, robots would have what characteristics?
They'd be integrated with human flesh.
They'd be clumsy and crude.
He was right; many of our robot technologies have developed more slowly than some people anticipated.
They'd be nearly autonomous.
Question 2 of 30
True or false: Asimov reportedly coined the term "robotics."
The word appeared in his story "Liar!" and may have led to the popularization of the term.
Question 3 of 30
What was the name of Asimov's first published novel?
"The End of Eternity"
"The Currents of Space"
"Pebble in the Sky"
"Pebble in the Sky" was published in 1950, and its plot includes time travel and explorations of human morality.
Question 4 of 30
What sort of business did Asimov's family open in Brooklyn?
a liquor store
a video shop
a candy store
The candy shop carried all sorts of periodicals and science fiction magazines, which greatly influenced the young boy's growing mind.
Question 5 of 30
Where was Asimov born?
He was born in Petrovichi, Russia, and moved to the U.S. with his family when he was 3 years old.
Question 6 of 30
Where did the Asimov family move when they immigrated to the U.S.?
New York City
Asimov attended New York City's public school system and then entered the Seth Low Junior College.
Question 7 of 30
How many novels did Asimov publish before "I, Robot"?
Published in 1950, this collection of nine short stories was only his second book.
Question 8 of 30
About how many books did Asimov have a hand in writing or editing?
In addition to the 500 books he helped to create, by some accounts he wrote 90,000 letters, a testament to his constant desire to communicate his ideas.
Question 9 of 30
During World War II, in which branch of the U.S. military did Asimov serve?
Air Force
He received an honorable discharge after less than a year of service in the Army.
Question 10 of 30
Asimov predicted that by the year 2014, humans would suffer greatly from what?
yellow fever
He called boredom a threat to humanity and said that psychologists would be in great demand.
Question 11 of 30
Asimov gained tremendous fame and respect within writing circles with the publication of which story?
"The Stars, Like Dust"
The 1941 short story explores a sunlight-saturated civilization that's suddenly enveloped by darkness.
Question 12 of 30
Which fear affected Asimov throughout his life?
fear of flying
He flew only twice, a fact that affected his ability to travel the world.
fear of enclosed spaces
fear of dogs
Question 13 of 30
Asimov once said he didn't think humans would make much headway into space until what happened?
We learn to get along.
He said that peaceful cooperation would be much more productive than warring and competition.
We invent new booster technology.
We create advanced robot assistants.
Question 14 of 30
In 1948, Asimov earned his doctorate in what field of study?
mechanical engineering
He spent much of his life in academic settings but used more of his time for writing than teaching.
Question 15 of 30
"Asimov's Laws" are often called what?
the Five Laws of Astrophysics
the Four Laws of Man
the Three Laws of Robotics
The author introduced the "Three Laws of Robotics" in a 1942 short story called "Runaround."
Question 16 of 30
Asimov had a daily routine of starting writing at 7:30 a.m. and quitting at what time?
6 p.m.
8:30 p.m.
10:30 p.m.
His work ethic, discipline and long days are what helped him complete so many projects during the course of his life.
Question 17 of 30
How did Asimov treat fans who pestered him for autographs?
He signed autographs for them.
Asimov was friendly and warm to most people he met and would spend time chatting with strangers.
He rarely left home to avoid interacting with other people.
He yelled at his fans.
Question 18 of 30
Asimov served as a "science consultant" during the production of which film?
"I, Robot"
"Star Trek: The Motion Picture"
He was friends with Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the "Star Trek" franchise.
"Star Wars"
Question 19 of 30
What is a positronic brain?
an android's brain
Asimov invented the term "positronic brain" when he wrote of robots that had computer-chip brains.
the computer inside a commercial jet
the results of thinking positive thoughts
Question 20 of 30
What is NOT one of the Three Laws of Robotics?
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with United States law.
The actual law as written by Asimov reads: "A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law."
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
Question 21 of 30
Asimov predicted that what technology would help cars and similar vehicles hover above the ground?
compressed air
He also said that these hovering vehicles would reduce the need for widespread paving and road construction.
hydrogen fuel
huge magnets
Question 22 of 30
What event abruptly caused Asimov to switch from science fiction to mostly nonfiction writing?
the launch of Sputnik
American fears of Soviet space superiority pushed U.S. publishers to create as much science content as they could, encouraging Asimov to move from fiction to nonfiction.
the moon landing
the assassination of President Kennedy
Question 23 of 30
Which celebrity approached Asimov for help in creating a science-fiction movie musical?
Paul McCartney
Asimov created an initial script for McCartney and his band Wings, but creative differences meant that the project never came to fruition.
David Gilmour
Mick Jagger
Question 24 of 30
True or false: Asimov believed in God.
He was an atheist and more than happy to share his views on morality and spirituality.
Question 25 of 30
Asimov wrote a detailed guide to which famous work?
the Bible
In "Asimov's Guide to the Bible," the writer explored many characters and background stories underpinning the Bible's verses.
the Quran
Question 26 of 30
Which of the following names did Asimov use as a pseudonym for some of his books?
Tom German
Paul French
He wrote the Lucky Starr series of books for young people using the name Paul French.
John English
Question 27 of 30
Which editor loved Asimov's "The End of Eternity" and helped ensure that it was published?
Arthur C. Clarke
Walter Bradbury
Bradbury, who was working as an editor at Doubleday, liked Asimov's story, which was published in 1955.
Gene Roddenberry
Question 28 of 30
Asimov once said that if a doctor told him he only had six minutes to live, he'd do what?
gaze at the stars
type faster
He had so many ideas that he'd just type faster, leaving behind a few more thoughts on the universe.
strip naked and run
Question 29 of 30
Asimov said that human dignity could NOT survive what?
He was keenly concerned about overpopulation and how it would affect civilizations around the world.
the burden of technology
the advancement of robotics
Question 30 of 30
Fill in the blank: Asimov said that "violence is the last refuge of the ____."
He said that only incompetent people had to resort to bloodshed and violence.


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I have got Eryton, Lewis, flo, striker, alexie, Dieter, Mojo, K Cube what rating would you put it.
If they are all maxed then that's a pretty good deck. i'll give it a 7/10. if you want to play elo, switch out Eyrton for ombre cause it's 26 stars if they are all maxed.
You need 2 (- dmg) cards IMO, hehe! is this for ELO?
I give8.5/10
Yes they are all maxed and i do not have an ombre
Buy a Lamar asap.
I don't have enough to buy a Lamar.
My tip, save money for ombre, and play in elo mode with ombre instead of Eyrton.
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