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The afternoon of Jan. 25, 2017, Moises Radcliffe interrupted a car prowl in the parking lot of Beaver Lake Park in Sammamish. The son of a cop, the 22-year-old grabbed a handgun from his vehicle and confronted the thieves, shooting at them as they ran him down with their car and dragged him to death.
Two days later, King County sheriff's detectives investigating Radcliffe's homicide gunned down 17-year-old Mi'Chance Dunlap-Gittens on a dark Des Moines street in a hastily arranged sting operation. Another boy — Dajohntae Richard, a 16-year-old who was the actual target of the operation — fled, to be arrested by a SWAT team later that night.
Within hours, deputies would learn they had it all wrong. Neither boy, it turned out, had anything to do with Radcliffe's death.
How the death of one young man, the son of a Seattle police officer, led to the death of another — a black teen killed by police — emerges through hundreds of pages of sheriff's documents and interviews to reveal a troubling string of investigative missteps, discrepancies in the stories of the deputies who fired, and assumptions by investigators made in the face of evidence that they were on the wrong track.
Indeed, sheriff's reports and records show that the day Dunlap-Gittens died, detectives had been following two teenage girls known to be involved in Radcliffe's death. Fingerprints had linked them to stolen items at the scene, and a surveillance photograph from a Renton Fred Meyer taken an hour after the homicide clearly showed one of them using a credit card taken from the homicide scene. They and another girl would later plead guilty to crimes related to Radcliffe's death.
Those same state crime-lab fingerprint reports specifically showed that Richard's fingerprints were nowhere to be found.
Still, records show the team was pulled off surveillance of the girls to join in the misguided sting to arrest Richard that cost Dunlap-Gittens his life.
"They left the suspects they knew were involved to arrest someone they knew was not," said lawyer Patricia Bosmans, a retired Des Moines city attorney who represents Dunlap-Gittens' mother, Alexis Dunlap, in a $10 million claim filed in January against the county. Her attorney says she plans to file a federal civil-rights lawsuit if the county does not respond.
The shooting has also raised questions about detectives' claims that Dunlap-Gittens pulled a gun on them; about "forensic evidence" that detectives were told tied Richard to the Radcliffe killing, when no such evidence existed; and about the supervision and oversight of an undercover operation that employed 15 deputies and detectives, a helicopter and a K-9 unit to arrest a 16-year-old boy.
The detectives have defended their actions and said the fact that the homicide victim was the son of a fellow police officer played no role in their response. Bosmans disagrees.
"They were primed," she said.
Hunt for the killers
Sheriff's Sgt. Todd Miller was among the first deputies on the scene at the park that afternoon. He pulled Moises Radcliffe's limp body off the blacktop parking lot onto the grass and performed CPR and first aid on the dying young man.
Known as "Moe" to friends and family, Radcliffe had been adopted as an infant from a Guatemalan orphanage by Seattle police Officer Todd Radcliffe. He had graduated from Issaquah High School and was working as a cook.
Shell casings at the scene indicated he fired several rounds into the prowlers' gold SUV as it bore down on him and dragged him through the parking lot as it sped away.
Minutes later, at 2:48 p.m., an alert of shots fired went out over police radios and computers. Two minutes after that, another alert went out stating the victim was the son of a Seattle officer. Miller, a 22-year sheriff's veteran, had been on his way to another assignment with his plainclothes team when the calls came over.
As other officers arrived, Miller joined the hunt for Radcliffe's killers.
Deputies found a discarded purse and other evidence at the scene and obtained fingerprints that were sent to the crime lab.
The sheriff's office had already been looking for a car-prowl ring responsible for dozens of break-ins at Seattle-area dog parks. The M.O. was smash-and-grab: break a window, steal a purse and toss everything but credit cards and cash, then go to the nearest chain store and purchase several $500 gift cards.
Reports show that barely 45 minutes after Radcliffe was killed, two people were caught on a surveillance camera at a Fred Meyer store 20 miles away in Renton using a credit card stolen from Beaver Lake.
Police identified one of the two as a female because her face could be seen and she was wearing a distinctive jacket with a fur-lined hood.
But they had a harder time identifying the second suspect — a thin African American person wearing a flat-brimmed cap and a pink sweatshirt with the sleeves pulled over the hands. They debated whether the person was male or female. At least one detective thought it was a girl, based on the sleeve-tugging and the color of the hoodie.
Sgt. Cynthia Sampson, the Major Crimes Unit detective assigned to the case, wasn't convinced. A bulletin to law enforcement issued that evening under her name contained the photograph and asked for help in "attempting to identify the black male suspect on the left, and the black female on the right …"
The next day, Jan. 26, the prints came back as those of 22-year-old Ka'Deirdre Rials and 17-year-old Tatiana Dickey — the young woman in the fur-lined coat in the surveillance photo.
A team of as many as eight undercover detectives began following them Jan. 27 but did not stop or arrest the young women, who spent the day hopping from one south-end store to another. Still, detectives believed a third person was involved, and the search for the "male" in the photograph continued.
Mike Garske, a 27-year veteran sheriff's office vice and intelligence detective, believed he knew a teenage girl from a previous case who might have information about the car-prowl ring, according to reports and his inquest testimony.
Garske has worked human trafficking and vice for more than a decade and was close to then-Sheriff John Urquhart, having been partners when Urquhart was a vice detective. Urquhart was in Garske's wedding party, according to the former sheriff. Garske's career has raised eyebrows over the years: In 2014, he drew attention when he allowed an 18-year-old prostitute during a sting in Vancouver to massage him and perform a sex act in front of a mirror before arresting her.
According to sheriff's reports, detectives arranged for the teenager to be caught in a prostitution sting at a south-end motel. They then questioned her about the photograph, but on Sampson's orders did not mention the Radcliffe homicide or why they were trying to identify the two people in the photo.
The woman identified the teenager with the fur hood as Dickey. The one in the pink sweatshirt, she said, "looked like" Dajohntae Richard, whom both she and her sister knew, according to the report, which did not elaborate on why she believed that.
Garske and Sampson concluded, based on that identification, that they had cause to arrest Richard for possession of stolen property — the credit card from Beaver Lake used at the Fred Meyer.
This point is important, says Bosmans, who retired from a career as a city attorney both for Des Moines and Tacoma, and knows about police work and defending officers. She doubts the girl's lone, equivocal statement was sufficient to justify Richard's arrest and that the entire sting was based on a flimsy identification and violated Fourth Amendment protections against illegal arrests and seizures.
Neither Sampson nor Garske returned telephone messages seeking comment. Liz Rocca, the chief of staff for Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht, said the sheriff could not comment because the office expects to be sued.
Garske, as a vice and human trafficking detective, maintained several phony social- media accounts. He used one on Facebook to try to lure Richard out.
That night, Richard had come into several bottles of liquor and was trying to sell them on his Facebook account. Transcripts of the account show Garske, posing as a 15-year-old prostitute, ordered five bottles for $100 — three bottles of Grey Goose vodka and two 0f Remy Martin cognac.
Richard was cagey about exactly where he would be, but eventually provided an address on 29th Avenue Southeast in Des Moines — the home of his close friend, Dunlap-Gittens.
Garske called a hasty meeting in a parking lot in SeaTac and assembled more than a dozen deputies. He pulled in the detectives who had been watching the girls they knew to be involved, and came up with an arrest plan based off the ruse he had begun on social media.
A female undercover detective, Valerie Kelly, would play the part of the prostitute and contact Richard by phone. She would sit in the passenger seat of an unmarked van driven by another plainclothes detective.
In the back would be an arrest team consisting of three plainclothes officers. Two of them, Joe Eshom and Reed Jones, had been following the female suspects much of the day. The third would be Miller, who just the day before tried to save Radcliffe.
Garske set several cars around the perimeter of the area. Guardian One, the sheriff's helicopter, would hover just out of earshot, and a K-9 officer was on hand in case they needed a tracking dog.
Garske said he expected Richard to run, that his criminal history included possession of a firearm, and that he might have gang affiliations. The plan was to lure him as close to the van as they could, then the arrest team would spring out of the back and subdue him.
He told the detectives to be vigilant of a "rip" — a robbery — either by Richard or someone else in that tough neighborhood.
And Garske told the team that Richard had been tied to the Radcliffe homicide through "forensic evidence." In a later sworn statement, Jones — one of the deputies on the arrest team — said his understanding was that Richard "was believed to be the driver of the vehicle involved in the Sammamish homicide."
In several reports on the incident, deputies — including Miller — refer to the victim by his nickname, "Moe," and to his girlfriend by her first name. The implied familiarity has led Bosmans, the attorney for Dunlap-Gittens' mother, to conclude that the deputies may have had revenge on their minds when they climbed into the back of that nondescript silver Toyota van.
The confrontation
Dunlap-Gittens, who went by "Chance," was at his mother's apartment with Richard as the family was packing to move to Federal Way. Alexis Dunlap, Chance's mother, said her son had done his laundry, folded his clothes and finished the packing she'd asked him to do.
She said Chance was a good son with a big heart. He was poised to graduate from Federal Way High School and had big plans for college and, eventually, law school. He wrote poetry and made people laugh, she said.
He and Dajohntae had been friends since grade school, and while Chance had never been in any trouble, Dajohntae was in it all the time, she said. Chance was a loyal friend, though, and that night he and Dajohntae had been partying and trying to come up with money to go to Red Robin for burgers.
She doesn't know where Dajohntae got the liquor, and she wasn't home when the shooting occurred. But she knows now that Dajohntae didn't think he could carry five bottles of alcohol himself, so he asked Chance to come along. Chance picked up three, according to Richard's later testimony and evidence at the scene, and Richard had two in his arms and was talking on the phone to the undercover detective when they left the apartment.
Dajohntae would later testify that he had a gun because he was afraid of being robbed. He said Chance had tucked a gun in his sweatshirt. His parents both say they didn't know he had one.
The detectives had only expected to arrest Richard, but now Jones, in the back of the van, spotted two people coming from an apartment. He thought they looked suspicious and was concerned, saying in a sworn statement that their hands were concealed and they "had tension in their shoulders." He does not mention any bottles.
Miller sprang the trap when the pair was just a few feet away. He slid the door wide, began to move out of the van and says he yelled "Police!"
The sergeant said he saw Richard look startled and immediately reach for his waistband, and then Miller said his attention was pulled to Dunlap-Gittens, who he said was raising a handgun. Miller said he yelled "drop the gun," drew his .45 and fired once from the hip.
All of this happened, he said, in less than a second.
Jones, who was behind Miller and whose view was partially blocked, heard the shot and saw the muzzle flash illuminate Miller, who he thought had been shot, according to his written statement of the incident.
Eshom said he saw the gun in Dunlap-Gittens' hands as soon as the van door slid back. Both men testified they were sitting ducks in the back of the van in a gunfight, and they jumped out behind Miller.
The detectives said both suspects were running at this point. Richard had bolted around a corner and was gone, the report said. Dunlap-Gittens headed back up the inclined driveway as Jones and Eshom continued to fire at him until he fell.
Both detectives said he was carrying the gun and looking back, and they worried that if he crested the incline he would be above them and have a tactical advantage.
In all, the detectives fired 12 rounds as Chance tried to run back toward his home. Miller fired once, Eshom three times and Jones eight times. Chance was struck in the right buttock, the backs of both legs, in the groin and in the back of the head — an ultimately fatal wound fired by Eshom. Four of the wounds came from behind, the medical examiner said.
Eshom, a 15-year law-enforcement veteran with nearly 13 years with King County, had been singled out previously for statements he reportedly made in a 2009 use-of-force incident that ending up costing King County $10 million. He and his partner — neither clearly identified as police officers — chased a man for several blocks in downtown Seattle before his partner shoved the man into a wall, resulting in a catastrophic brain injury. According to sworn testimony, a paramedic said Eshom told him the man ran into the wall head-first and injured himself. Surveillance video surfaced showing Eshom's partner pushing the man hard and intentionally into the wall. The county settled the lawsuit. The victim died in 2015 from his injuries.
The rounds that didn't hit their target carried on into the apartment complex. Two bullets tore through the living room wall of an apartment occupied by two women.
The sound of gunshots brought every deputy in the area. Among the first to arrive was Deputy Eric Gagnon, a trained medic who immediately began to try to control Dunlap-Gittens' bleeding. Broken liquor bottles lay scattered around the scene. Gagnon later said he knelt in broken glass and smelled alcohol as he applied tourniquets to both legs and tried to staunch the groin wound. There was nothing to be done about the head wound.
As he approached the injured boy, Gagnon said he noticed a small black handgun down the driveway, about "eight to 10 feet" from where Chance had fallen, according to his report and inquest testimony.
Eshom and Miller said the gun was at Dunlap-Gittens' feet, "three or four" feet away. Jones said he never saw it. Garske said it was as close as two feet away.
According to reports and testimony, there were no photographs orienting the gun to the crime scene, and Dunlap-Gittens' body was moved before anyone took pictures.
Neighbor Dan Stevenson, 62, was watching television when he heard gunshots. In a recorded statement that night, Stevenson said he went to his window and saw Dunlap-Gittens on the ground receiving aid. He said he also believes he saw an officer pick up a gun and move it closer to the body.
"I thought I heard him say, 'He dropped his gun,' and then I saw one officer come down the driveway and pick something up that looked like a revolver, then walk back up the driveway," he said.
Bosmans questions how someone could display a gun when their hands were full with liquor bottles. The detectives say Dunlap-Gittens had a small semi-automatic handgun in his right hand when they fired. His mother, a longtime Metro bus driver, says her son was left-handed.
According to documents from the state crime laboratory, the weapon police said was found at the 17-year-old's feet did not have a round in the chamber and had not been fired. Investigators did not find Dunlap-Gittens' DNA on the weapon. It was never checked for fingerprints, according to reports.
The King County Sheriff's Office does not require its deputies to wear body cameras, and its cars are not equipped with dash cameras or audio recorders.
Dunlap-Gittens was taken in gravely critical condition to Harborview Medical Center as deputies and a SWAT team flooded the area looking for Richard, who had gotten away.
A neighbor called Alexis Dunlap, and she rushed to the hospital.
"It still doesn't feel real," she said recently while sitting in her new Federal Way apartment, which she, Chance and her daughters had been packing to move to that night.
It wasn't until she'd been at the hospital for hours that she learned police had shot her son, and then she was told he had fired on the officers.
"So those police made a mistake, and they go home. They still have their jobs," she said, disbelief in her tone. "My son, a teenage boy, was called out of his home and down his driveway and lost his life for nothing."
Her intention to sue the county, she said, isn't about money. "It's about accountability," she said.
"I will never stop fighting for him," she said.
Chance's father, Frank Gittens, a car sales manager, said the death of his son has darkened his life. His living room contains a large oil painting of him and Chance together — painted from their last photograph. Beneath it is a blue plaster cast of his son's hand, taken by a nurse just before he and Alexis turned off his life support.
"He did not deserve to die like that," Gittens said. "Yeah, I know it's the gun. But sometimes it's about the approach, too — the way police approach things."
"If Chance had a gun, then that was a mistake," he added. "Like all fathers, I would like to have had the opportunity to talk to him about it."
"Our kids deserve to be able to make mistakes and not die for them," he said.
A sheriff's Use of Force Review Board cleared the deputies of any wrongdoing. Nonetheless, it acknowledged that the shooting has resulted in "internal differences of opinion" on the tactics used and whether Miller, who'd responded to the original scene, should have been on the arrest team. It reaffirmed that all of the detectives denied they treated the case differently because the victim was an officer's son.
Miller, a former SWAT sniper and firearms instructor, told sheriff's use-of-force investigators that he "was not traumatized by the homicide, that it was part of his job" and played no role in his reaction as leader of the team.
However, a separate administrative review of the tactics employed that night and the policies overseeing them made 19 separate "observations" critical of the sting and included recommendations to clarify the department's undercover policies.
The review found that some of the tactics used that night may have contributed to confusion, possible misidentification and evidence-gathering problems afterward. Among the findings: The arrest team wore inconsistent clothing, although all wore protective vests labeled "sheriff." The review called the uniform issue significant because it raised the question of whether they were "immediately identifiable as police under those particular circumstances and lighting." Four members of a six-member inquest jury found that the arrest team members were not adequately identified as police.
The inquest jury unanimously found Chance pulled out "what appeared to be a gun" and that all of the deputies feared for their safety when they fired.
But the startled response to three armed men jumping out of an unmarked van "could confuse people involved … and raises the question whether the suspects knew the people coming out of the van were police or bad guys," Capt. Jose Marenco wrote in the September 2017 review.
The Sheriff's Office can't say whether any of the recommendations in the review have been implemented more than 15 months after the shooting.
Rocca, the sheriff's chief of staff, said the incident occurred under the previous sheriff, Urquhart, and responded that "it has been challenging to find information about things that occurred during transition between the prior administration and this one.
"So far, I am unable to locate details on specific changes resulted from the (administrative review)," Rocca said.
Officials in the county's independent civilian-led Office of Law Enforcement Oversight (OLEO) — the agency responsible for reviewing sheriff's cases and ensuring public trust in the department — have expressed concern over Miller's involvement in the arrest team.
Deborah Jacobs, OLEO's civilian director, said a review by her office remains pending 15 months after the shooting.
"We are still working with the sheriff's office to obtain the complete file," Jacobs said in a March 25 email.
CORRECTION: Detective Mike Garske was misidentified as a sergeant in an earlier version of this story. Joe Eshom has 15 years in law enforcement; an earlier version of the story stated otherwise.


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Virginia Hyatt, who directs the district's purchasing under the school improvement funding measure known as Measure BB, could not be reached on Tuesday for comment on the panels.
The schools slated to get solar panels under the deal are: Grant, Franklin, McKinley, John Muir, Will Rogers, Roosevelt, Juan Cabrillo, and Webster elementary schools, and Point Dume Marine Science School.


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Since Mia was born, I became obsessed with Family traditions. I made a whole list of what I imagine they would be, and for the most part I've achieved them all, but my favourite one is the one on Christmas time that we just started last year.. giving back to others.
I know probably she is too small to realize what is to help others, but I want to make the holidays a "giving" instead of "receiving".. Here is the story: when I was a child, the whole meaning of Christmas for me was the toys I was expecting to receive, and nothing more than that.
That's definitely NOT how I want my kids to think. I want them to know how blessed they are and the value of sharing with others, so I started to look for some organization that we can give back in some way, and our 2 choices were the childrens hospital and baby go round.
If you don't know baby go round, they are located on Kinsgway, and they are dedicated to help Families, mommies and babies in need with clothes, products, strollers, blankets, everything they would need to survive the big times. I love the idea of helping them because I know the amount of things we need when a baby is coming and how expensive this stuff are!
We have been very lucky with all the support that we have had from our friends and the community that I cannot think of a better place to give back!
If you like the idea of giving, you can check out their website: http://www.babygoround.ca/


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When a local college is targeted in a mass shooting, citizens of Atlanta are disappointed with how the case is handled. With racial tensions on the rise, in part because the victims were African American, protesters flock to the streets in Trudy Nan Boyce's timely police procedural, Old Bones.
Sarah "Salt" Alt is a homicide detective with the Atlanta Police Department, who knows death all too intimately. At just ten years old, her father–who was also a cop–killed himself. Now, Salt lives her days tracking down killers and putting them behind bars.
When a gunman opens fire on the campus of Spelman, a historically black women's university, during a peaceful demonstration, one person is killed and ten more are seriously wounded. Salt pursues the shooter, who flees in a 4X4 donning a confederate flag, engaging them in a high-speed chase and wild shootout before her police vehicle is rendered useless in a crash, allowing the murderer to get away.
Furious with herself for letting the shooter escape, Salt wants to be put on the case. Instead, she's assigned to another homicide.
The body of a young teenager has been discovered, and the medical examiner believes she's been dead for months due to the advanced state of decomposition. The circumstances of her death are murky, but as Salt begins her investigation, she realizes she may have known the girl, whom she identifies as Mary McCloud. It turns out that Salt had arrested McCloud nearly two years prior for a crime that landed the girl in a juvenile detention center.
While seeking justice for McCloud, Salt is still keeping tabs on the Spelman case. Department standards require her to undergo an evaluation with a psychiatrist to ensure she's fit for duty, something she dodges at all costs. With her city divided, a little girl dead, and her own past still torturing her, Salt wants nothing to do with sitting on a doctor's couch to talk about her feelings.
As both investigations heat up, rioters continue their protests–which begin to turn violent. As seen in real-life situations where well-intentioned protesters start looting and lighting things on fire, so too does the situation in Atlanta worsen. Salt and other officers are called on to help keep the peace, but as she stands in the streets, Salt finds herself questioning which side she agrees with.
Gritty and authentic-feeling, Old Bones examines what has become an all too common occurrence in city streets across America. Nan Boyce does a nice job of showing both sides of the issue in a favorable light, though because the topic is somewhat controversial, readers may draw their own conclusions as to who's right and who's wrong.
The bigger issue, though, is that the plot feels extremely choppy at times because there is so much going on within the story. While that may be a realistic approach, as police officers and detectives usually have more than one task or case to investigate at a time, it does cause some confusion. Stricter focus on one of the cases would have provided depth, whereas the author's approach and bouncing around instead waters down each incident the heroine is facing. It also leaves little time for any of the characters besides Salt to be developed, making it hard for readers to connect with them.
While Old Bones manages to accurately capture what life is like for a police officer, its strongest accomplishment is featuring a relevant plot that far too many readers will understand and share frustration with–regardless of which side of the discussion they tend to argue.
Book Details
Author: Trudy Nan Boyce
Series: Sarah Alt #2
Pages: 352 (Hardcover)
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Release Date: February 21, 2017 (Order Now!)


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A fruitful business venture is a culmination of all the decisions taken. The better you are at making the vital decisions, the higher is your success at the end of the day. However, being able to do just that means you need to stay keyed into the market alerts, trends, and also relevant business dealings worldwide.
So, when things start to get overwhelming, it is quite natural to feel lost. It can feel like you are taking on too many things at a time. However, according to entrepreneur and also marketing professional, Eric Dalius, there are five simple ways to learn to make better business decisions.
So, without further ado, let us have a look.
Updates regarding the company
According to EJ Dalius, it is vital to understand that it is after all your business, and also therefore you must have all the crucial information at your fingertips. You need to be aware of the performance and also the business processes. It will ensure that better handling of the business without the opinion biases from onlookers, customers, and observers.
Have a clear outcome in mind
Here is another industry trade secret for you; most successful brands and also ventures are aware of their potential outcome, and also they concentrate all their efforts on achieving the desired results. Keep in mind you will have both short-term and long-term goals, and it is vital to strike a balance while trying to accomplish both. When you are sure of the outcome, you can modify and change operational protocols accordingly.
A second opinion matters
Another vital point to keep in mind is that you need to consider the perspective of your employees, business partners, and also customers. It is essential to understand the value of differing viewpoints and also how it can change for the better for a business venture. Any smart entrepreneur will make sure to indulge in brainstorming sessions alongside managers, business partners, and employees to make sure that everyone is on board. Business advisors and litigation managers are vital as well and complete the core brain of any organization.
Keeping true to the course
Managing a business is all about all the business decisions taken in the right sequence and also on-time. Therefore, it is vital to avoid delays and also focus on crucial decisions, especially following the COVID-19 pandemic. Organize costs and finances to make sure that you are on target for the financial year. Make sure that your customers and financial backers are happy. If not, then you might need to rethink your strategy.
Mistakes are great educators
Every entrepreneur makes that occasional wrong decision. However, failed experiences are still valuable experiences, and that builds up the expertise. Make sure that you learn from your mistakes, be it a promotion, marketing, or designing, and correct the errors for the subsequent runs.
As you can understand, building a successful business is to keep going despite odds being stacked against you. You need knowledge, and also you need experience. So, keep in mind our expert tips and also make it big.
Eric Dalius is The Executive Chairman of MuzicSwipe, a music and content discovery platform designed to maximize artist discovery and optimize fan relationships. Eric is also the host of weekly podcast "FULLSPEED" which is a podcast that features interviews with groundbreaking entrepreneurs from a variety of industries.Eric is also the founder of "Eric Dalius Foundation" where he has created 4 scholarships for US based students. Follow Eric on Twitter,Facebook,LinkedIn,Instagram & also on Entrepreneur.com


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NEW YORK (AP) — The United States' opening 1-1 draw with Wales at the World Cup was viewed by 11.7 million for its English- and Spanish-language broadcasts.
The game Monday, which kicked off at 2 p.m. EST, was seen by 8,306,000 for Fox's English-language telecast and 3.4 million for the Spanish-language offering on Telemundo, Telemundo digital and Peacock, part of Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal.
Fox said the match was viewed by 563,000 on streams, the network's group-stage high since taking over U.S. English-language rights for the 2018 tournament. There were 1.0 million streams on Telemundo and Peacock, the most-streamed Spanish-language World Cup match.
The 2014 U.S. opener in Brazil, which started at 6 p.m. EDT on a Saturday in mid-June, was seen by 11.1 million on ESPN and 4.8 million on Univision.
That was down from 17.3 million on ABC and Univision for the Americans' opening 1-1 draw against England in South Africa in 2010, a game that started at 2:30 p.m. EDT on a Saturday in mid-June.
Fox's average of 4,026,000 for its first three telecasts this year was up 193% from the 1,374,000 for the first three matches in 2018, when the U.S. failed to qualify.
Telemundo's coverage averaged 2.6 million for the first four matches, up 73% from 1.5 million for the first four matches four years ago.


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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office revealed Wednesday that the Obama administration has yet to show members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence seven additional opinions laying out the legal basis for targeted killing.
Disclosure of the existence of the additional seven opinions from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel came the day after President Barack Obama pledged greater transparency during his State of the Union address.
Feinstein (D-Calif.) said there were a total of 11 OLC opinions related to targeted killing. Senators had already seen two of them and an additional two were made available to senators -- but not their staffers -- last week, leaving seven that haven't yet been disclosed.
Feinstein said the committee "has devoted significant time and attention to targeted killings by drones" and receives "notifications with key details of each strike shortly after it occurs, and the committee holds regular briefings and hearings on these operations—reviewing the strikes, examining their effectiveness as a counterterrorism tool, verifying the care taken to avoid deaths to non-combatants and understanding the intelligence collection and analysis that underpins these operations."
She also said the committee staff has held 35 "monthly, in-depth oversight meetings" with government officials in which strike records, including video footage of the drone attacks, are reviewed.


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Maple Glazed Whole Wheat Pumpkin Donuts
Is there any such thing as too many pumpkin recipes? Given pumpkin's great flavor—and super nutritional value, I'd say no! It even comes dressed for fall! My latest recipe is for Whole Wheat Pumpkin Donuts and I've done them two ways—first with a simple cinnamon sugar coating and then with a maple glaze.
I have to give credit where credit is due! In the case of these Whole Wheat Pumpkin Donuts it goes to one of my blogging friends, Abby of The Frosted Vegan who kept posting amazing looking donuts. So when a mini donut pan appeared at TJ Maxx, I was ready to jump.
The original donut recipe is from King Arthur but I have made it healthier by using whole wheat pastry flour. Whole wheat pastry flour is a great way to get whole grain goodness in non-yeast baked goods while still keeping them light! The original recipe had a cinnamon sugar coating, which I loved—and which is the healthier of the two toppings. But for a fancier pumpkin donut I tried a maple glaze from Sally's Baking Addiction. Mmmm.
Despite the success of this recipe, I have to admit to a little quilt on buying another one-use kitchen item. Is "just one more pan" really worth it? While this recipe can be made in muffin cups (a little less successfully), I was really glad I had the pan. These were so easy and so popular everywhere I took them that I've made them
three five times in one week.
In fact, I brought two dozen of these Whole Grain Pumpkin Donuts to the annual (fun and beautiful) Rare Earth Farm CSA harvest party and they disappeared almost immediately. There are clearly more donuts in my future!
And back to the nutrition—a serving (two mini or one full size) of donuts has nearly all of your RDA of vitamin A. How many times can you count donuts as a serving of vegetables? If you substitute a cinnamon sugar dipping mixture for the glaze, you will save about 100 calories!
Yes it's for good reason that 'tis the season of All. Things. Pumpkin.
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 cups pumpkin purée (canned pumpkin)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice, or 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon plus 1/4 teaspoon each ground cloves, allspice and ginger (and nutmeg if you like)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (or 1 3/4 c + 2T unbleached all purpose flour)
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Beat together donut ingredients until smooth.
- Lightly grease two standard doughnut pans.
- Fill the wells of the doughnut pans about 3/4 full. I found that a pastry bag (or a zip loc bag with a corner cut off) made this super-easy.
- Bake full sized doughnuts for 15 to 18 minutes (I went 14 minutes for mini-donuts), or until a cake tester inserted into the center of one comes out clean.
- Remove the doughnuts from the oven, and after about 5 minutes, loosen their edges, and transfer them to a rack to cool.
- Melt butter and maple syrup together.
- Whisk in confectioners sugar and beat until smooth.
- Let cool slightly then dip in cool donuts.
- Alternatively, mix a few tablespoons of sugar and a teaspoon of cinnamon in a bag and shake warm donuts in this (see note)
- If you substitute the cinnamon sugar dipping mixture for the glaze, you will save about 100 calories per serving (2 mini donuts or 1 full size donut).
- King Arthur says that if you don't have doughnut pans, you can bake these in a couple of standard muffin tins. Muffins need to bake for 23 to 25 minutes. (I haven't tried this.)
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8 thoughts on "Maple Glazed Whole Wheat Pumpkin Donuts"
I love donuts Inger, but never attempted to make myself…and yes, I like the idea of baked instead of fried…they sure look delicious!
Have a wonderful week 🙂
i wouldn't go for these except for that glaze–delicious!
I have often wondered about baked doughnuts… Glad to have a recommendation for them! The glaze and the sugar coating both sound great!
Thao @ In Good Flavor
I love a donut with health benefits! The only problem with these donuts is deciding on the maple glaze or cinnamon sugar. I think I'll have to have both!


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Mikhail Botvinnik became world chess champion after winning the chess world championship tournament 1948 which took place in Den Haag and Moskow. This five-player tournament was organized for the first time by the International Chess Federation FIDE to determine the new world champion as the previous champion Alekhine died in Portugal two years before.
Mikhail Botvinnik was a Russian grandmaster and a computer scientist. He was the first world champion who lost the title twice and regained it again in a rematch.
His parents were dentists in St. Petersburg/Russia. He learned chess fairly late, when he was 12 years old, but he improved fast.
World Chess Championship 1948
The selected five players were Euwe, Smyslov, Keres, Botvinnik, and Reshevsky.
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Double Elvis Productions and iHeartRadio have released the trailer for About a Girl, a new podcast that explores the lives of women who shaped and influenced music's most iconic male artists.
Hosted by writer and director Eleanor Wells, About a Girl is a scripted anthology series that highlights 12 women from popular music history, including Angie Bowie, Jane Asher, Rita Marley, and Pamela Courson.
"The women featured in About A Girl have made an impact on music that is often overlooked," Wells says. "This show is an inside look at some of the most exciting milestones in music history, and a glimpse into the private moments and characters that changed the landscape of music forever."
Brady Sadler, the co-founder of Double Elvis Productions, added: "Double Elvis spotlights untold music stories — from up-and-comers to the beloved. About A Girl celebrates the resilient women who inspired and helped shape some of the most prolific music of a generation — the partners of famous musicians. Eleanor dives into the untold stories of these women behind your favorite songs, albums, and artists, lending them the credit they deserve while bringing fans closer to the art they love at a time when live music isn't an option."
The first two episodes of About a Girl will debut on November 30th, with subsequent episodes premiering every Monday.


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BIRD, V., PREMKUMAR, P., KENDALL, T., WHITTINGTON, C., MITCHELL, J. and KUIPERS, E., 2010. Early intervention services, cognitive-behavioural therapy and family intervention in early psychosis: systematic review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 197, pp. 350-356.


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Don't drink the water
Portland's fluoridation battle shows how tricky it is to integrate science into debates that have as much to do with values as policy.
Late one night last April, a teenager had to piss. By itself, this was not terribly newsworthy, but it became so when a security camera caught him unzipping his fly and leaning against the wrought iron fence that surrounds Reservoir #5 on Mount Tabor, in Portland, Oregon.
In response, the city water bureau decided to flush all 38 million gallons from the reservoir. "Our customers don't anticipate drinking water that's been contaminated by some yahoo," a spokesman told the Associated Press. It was a question more of optics than science. A few ounces of urine in so much water posed little threat to anyone's health.
To Alejandro Queral, though, it was also a question of politics. One of the most liberal cities in the country was showing that selectively drawing on science to support a conclusion that contradicts what the scientific community accepts is not the exclusive province of extreme conservatives. "Portlanders can get pretty crazy about their water," he says. And he would know.
In September 2012, the Portland City Council voted 5-0 to add fluoride to the city's drinking water starting the following March. Many thought the move was long overdue: Portland is the largest U.S. city that doesn't fluoridate its water, and while voters had rejected fluoridation three times since 1956, the council was confident this time would be different. But they were wrong. A local group calling itself Clean Water Portland filed paperwork almost immediately to put the decision to a referendum in a special election that May.
At the time, Queral was a program officer for the Northwest Health Foundation, a nonprofit that works on health issues in Oregon and southwest Washington. A native of Mexico, he has advanced degrees in law and ecology. "I studied water snakes," he tells me in a Portland coffee shop, grinning through his black beard. He sits on both the Public Health Advisory Board and the Oregon Environmental Council, and when the referendum went forward, he was asked to co-chair the group Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, which supported fluoridation.
Set against him was Clean Water Portland's Kim Kaminski. She is pleasant and soft-spoken but with a steely edge. Like Queral, she has a law degree. She grew up in Illinois with fluoridated water and had no problem with it, other than that she still seemed to get a lot of cavities. But by 2012, her feelings had evolved. She and her allies launched an attack dazzling in its variety. They pointed out that the proposed additive, hydrosilicofluoride, was a byproduct of pesticide production, and that a factsheet from the National Sanitation Foundation showed detectable levels of arsenic (43 percent of samples) and lead (2 percent) in hydrosilicofluoride-treated water. A 500-plus-page brick of a report from the National Academy of Sciences raised questions about whether high levels of fluoride led to a dental condition called fluorosis, caused brittle bones or even certain types of cancer, and perhaps lowered intelligence in children.
It was, in a way, a battle for the Rose City's uniquely liberal-libertarian soul. Portlanders take pride in the cleanliness of their Bull Run watershed, and here, Kaminski thought, were the city fathers making backroom deals to fill it with chemicals. She and her allies framed fluoridation as a matter of personal choice, or its lack; to embrace it was akin to allowing the government to forcibly medicate you. "We live in a creative city. We could do better than just pouring chemicals into our water," she says, in what would become the battle hymn of the fluoride foes.
Assertion for assertion, Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland challenged Clean Water Portland, listing all the big medical organizations that endorsed fluoridation, including every surgeon general and U.S. president since Kennedy. The group noted Oregon's spotty dental health statistics: It is 48th in the nation in residents having access to fluoridated water. Nearly two-thirds of Portland's third-graders show signs of tooth decay, and many of them come from the city's less-affluent minority communities.
It wasn't enough. Queral was unprepared for the campaign's heat. "It was never explicitly personal, but there was a lot of underlying nastiness. Typical Portland," he says, as two coffee-shop patrons shoot him dirty looks. He watched in dismay as the numbers in support of fluoridation declined from over half, to half, to under half, and on down. When the election arrived, fluoridation was pummeled, 61-39 percent.
Water fluoridation began in the 1940s. Back in the early 1900s, Colorado Springs dentist Floyd McKay noticed that many of his patients' teeth were mottled, a condition called "Colorado Brown Teeth." But their teeth were also unusually strong. McKay linked their lack of cavities to naturally high levels of fluoride in local drinking water.
In 1945, the U.S. Public Health Service began its own ambitious experiment. In four metropolitan areas, one community's water was supplemented with fluoride, and another's was not. The study was supposed to last 10 years, but produced dramatic results after just five: The incidence of cavities had declined more than 50 percent in those communities with fluoridated water.
Supplementation programs sprang up across the country. As of 2010, close to 75 percent of U.S. citizens drank fluoridated water (and, as Queral has pointed out, "no one's head has exploded or anything"). Very little is needed to have a significant effect; the current standard is 0.7 milligrams per liter. The number of cavities has dropped, and in 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed water fluoridation as one of the 20th century's top 10 advances in public health, along with vaccination, seat belts and the recognition of tobacco's harmful effects.
As fluoride use spread, resistance against it hardened. Objections ranged from its efficacy to its role as a form of socialized medicine and government intrusion. (The John Birch Society called it a communist plot.) Nearly three-quarters of Americans may drink fluoridated water, and it might seem strange to have to adjudicate something that has been around nearly unchanged for more than 60 years, but ever since 1950, when fluoridation comes on the ballot, it loses nearly 60 percent of the time.
The idea of political conservatives dismissing Science (in its capitalized, deified form) when it suits ideology, particularly when it comes to climate change and evolution, is a familiar media trope. The left, however, has hardly covered itself in glory with some liberals' attitudes toward vaccinations, homeopathy and other issues. In Portland, in fact, fluoridation opponents employed many of the methods more commonly associated with the right.
"Their goal was to destabilize the science," says Philip Wu, a pediatrician who participated in several forums as a pro-fluoride expert. It hardly mattered, he says, that almost every objection could be contextualized. (The authors of the National Academy of Sciences report explicitly said their work had nothing to do with water fluoridation; the arsenic and lead detected in water samples occurred at levels far below what the Environmental Protection Agency considered unsafe.)
But Kaminski and her supporters, though they prided themselves on their skepticism, didn't see themselves as anti-science. Rather, they considered themselves diligent if amateur students of science, who saw their lack of expertise as an advantage. "My one credential," Kaminski says, "was that I know how to read." When she first encountered fluoridation as an issue in 2005, she dove into the literature and saw a lot of things that scared her not only as a citizen, but also as a mother. "The new science raises questions," she says. "That's why it's best to be cautious. You err on the side of uncertainty."
For Wu, that attitude shows how a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. A single study suggests that something might be rotten in the state of fluoride. Fair enough. But one study is only one study. It can and should spur further investigation but, as a study, its reach should be limited. "It can't lead to grand conclusions," he says. "That's the way science works."
However, he notes ruefully, that is not how politics work. "Once the other side had introduced doubt, that opened the door to talk about other sets of values," he says. "Not values that say science is bad, but values that perhaps supersede science." Fluoridation ran into a city that loved the idea of a pristine watershed remaining pristine, that resented being condescended to by a bunch of medical and dental organizations, and was confident in its ability to think for itself. More broadly, the assurances of science can seem abstract if a person wants to protect himself or his family, no matter how miniscule the risk actually is. The difficulties your own child may face are a tragedy; the benefits to thousands of other kids, a statistic. "When the council just rammed it through, a lot of people were like, 'Let's take a step back and think about it,' " Kaminski says. "Even people who might have supported it under other circumstances."
In hindsight, Queral feels, fluoride advocates should have spent more time doing groundwork. "I would have spent a lot longer educating people, like two years," he says. "You explain the nature of the problem, explain who is most at risk, and then talk about what fluoridation does to solve that problem." He shrugs, pained. "Who knows? Maybe we'll do better next time."
Soon after the election, Queral left the Northwest Health Foundation. He now directs the local chapter of the United Way, working on childhood poverty issues. The job has other attractions as well: "It's nice to be behind the scenes."
Kaminski, meanwhile, is still in the thick of things. On the day I meet her in northeast Portland, she is carrying three petitions: one for a women's equal rights amendment, one for a measure on the labeling of GMOs, and the last for the formation of a people's water trust. She is excited to support the water trust, which will ensure that no one gets blindsided by the city council and its social engineering experiments ever again. (It will eventually fail to get enough signatures, showing that Portlanders' love for enlightened contrarianism has its limits.)
Today, though, her focus is on the GMO labeling measure. For her it's a no-brainer, but she says she knows she's facing an opponent skilled in the art of deception and obfuscation. Similar measures have been defeated in both California and Washington — places she would have thought they had a good shot. That just shows the power of the GMO interests, she says, and is a reminder that everyone needs to stay on their toes. "Those guys go in and create a seed of doubt that they can exploit," she says. "And they're very good at it."


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A hydration pack is a type of hydration system built as a backpack or waist pack containing a reservoir or bladder frequently made of rubber or flexible plastic. The reservoir contains a capped mouth for filling with liquid and a hose that allows the wearer to drink hands-free. Hydration bladders are a relatively new invention in the outdoor world that became commercially obtainable in the early 90s. They first showed up in the cycling world where athletes wanted hands-free access to water. Most hoses end with a bite value that opens when the user bites down on it. The assessment may be protected by a dust cover. Some hydration packs are insulated to keep water from freeing or becoming warm.
Primarily hydration bladders were just sold in hydration packs. However, it didn't take long for all backpack manufacturers to understand that this was a convenient way to drink while hiking, backpacking, running, and many other sports. As a result, almost all the backpacks sold today are hydration bladder well-matched in some way, either basically as a hole for the drink tube or as complicated as multiple compartments and ways to thread the drink tube from side to side the shoulder straps. Hydration bladders when empty are enormously lightweight and negligible in size to carry in your backpack. These characteristics coupled with the expandability of the material, can hold larger volumes of water that hard containers such as stainless steel and plastic just can't hold. As far as water volume storage is concerned, hydration bladders rock.
Global Hydration Bladder Market is segmented by Product Type as Plastic, Synthetic, Aluminum, Fiberglass, Nylon, PVC, Polyester Blend, Others. Global Hydration Bladder Market is Segmented by application as Travel, Military, Others. Global Hydration Bladder Market is segmented by Geographical Region into Europe, North America, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia, India. The Key Players include Mocke, HORN HUNTER, Rothco, GEIGERRIG, Tacprogear, Eberlestock, TSI, Ray Allen, GORUCK, and Hydrory Plastic Co. Ltd.
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For those who believe that "being your own worst critic" will toughen you up and ultimately make you perform better, Leah Weiss, PhD, who lectures at the Graduate School of Business, has another message.
Weiss, who teaches courses on compassionate leadership and Stanford's Compassion Cultivation Program, explains that self-compassion is necessary for success and mental well-being, whereas self-criticism can result in anxiety and stress that lead to procrastination and reduced productivity. BeWell Stanford spoke with Weiss recently to learn more.
Isn't self-criticism necessary for productivity?
Despite what is often taught, self-criticism is not necessary — and, in fact, is detrimental to productivity. Self-criticism causes you to procrastinate and hide from your mistakes rather than correct them. It also harms your relationships with colleagues rather than improving them. Contrary to what we have been educated and brought up to believe, self-hate — manifested as an inability to tolerate failure — actually impedes success and hinders you from the motivation to do better.
Conversely, self-compassion fosters reduced procrastination and a greater ability to accept and learn from failure and critical feedback.
Stepping back, can you define self-compassion? Is it different from self-esteem?
Simply put, self-esteem is an overall evaluation of yourself. In any given moment, if I believe that I am a good person and am performing well, I will have high self-esteem. If I feel I've fallen short compared to what I could do or what others around me are doing, I will experience low self-esteem. We move through our days vacillating in response to how we are judging ourselves and how we are stacking up against others.
Conversely, self-compassion is the capacity to be kind to yourself, especially when you are struggling:
- Self-compassion is predicated on the ability to be aware of what you are feeling, aka mindfulness — of your own suffering, recognizing your own physical pain, difficulties, negative (and often self-critical) thoughts and disappointments.
- Self-compassion also involves recognizing, while you are experiencing a challenge, that you are not uniquely bad nor alone in it; you are cognizant of a common humanity. Self-compassion involves remembering that we all experience pain, we all blow it from time to time, we are all 'works in progress.'
- When you are self-compassionate, you treat yourself with friendliness rather than piling on self-deprecation.
Why is it important to distinguish between self-esteem and self-compassion?
Self-esteem ultimately undercuts our capacity for resilience because it is an unreliable and unsustainable approach to mental well-being.
Self-compassion, on the other hand, allows for mental well-being, better metabolizing of stress, lower anxiety, decreased depression, and diminished dysfunctional perfectionism. Self-compassion stimulates happiness, greater motivation, greater initiative, healthier lifestyle choices and better interpersonal relationships. Furthermore, self-compassion bolsters you to be less critical of your mistakes and buffers you from the rollercoaster ride of a self-esteem mindset.
Why is perfectionism a quality worth avoiding?
The combination of exceedingly high standards and a preoccupation with extreme self-critical evaluation is what defines excessive perfectionism.
Perfectionism is associated with anxiety and worse performance, not only in work and in any educational context, but also in sports. Perfectionism cripples our ability to do our work and ultimately leads to burnout: we can't get something done, let alone started, because our standards are too high.
What simple thing can we do today to become more self-compassionate?
Think how you would respond to a friend or respected coworker that needs support. Try that response on — with yourself. Recognize that someone, right now, needs and deserves compassion. That someone is you.
This article, in a slightly altered form, originally appeared on BeWell Stanford.
Previously: Embracing hardship: A surprising secret to happiness and Stanford neurosurgeon-writer encourages people to practice kindness and compassion
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Despite consistently performing well as of late in the NCAA Tournament, Gonzaga has been put on blast by a lot of college basketball critics. The main reason for this is the conference that they play in: the West Coast Conference (WCC). The WCC, as compared to the rest of college basketball's powerhouse conferences, is very weak. One can make a strong argument that the majority of the Big Ten or ACC can defeat the vast majority of these teams in the WCC. The main contenders this year against Gonzaga are Saint Mary's and BYU, both who have played tremendously well over the course of the season. But is Gonzaga for real this season? Let's take a look.
Why Gonzaga Should be Respected:
Filip Petrusev is playing like the college basketball community never expected him too. After everyone though Killian Tillie was the guy to watch and the main focal point of the team, Petrusev comes out and surprises everyone like this. Granted, Tillie does deal with injury problems time and time again throughout his whole career, but having Petrusev step up into this new role he has fit into is looking great for the 16-1 Bulldogs. Averaging 16.6 PPG and 8.1 RPG, Petrusev should look to keep this performance up if they can close out the season strong.
The WCC isn't the best… but it isn't the worst. Although it happens to be that a powerhouse like Gonzaga is stuck in this conference, having BYU, Saint Mary's, Santa Clara, and Portland on the rise will allow for some competitive play. As they improve along the season, if Gonzaga can pick up some quality wins over these teams, it will only bolster their resume for the rest of the season.
Why Gonzaga Should Not be Respected (as much as they are now):
Since the Bulldogs do play in a weaker conference, it is perceived by the college basketball community that it is easier to get into the tournament. The community cannot ignore these facts and simply put aside the fact that Gonzaga, who is easily a top-10 team of the decade, has been allowed to dominate their conference for years and years in the past. So the question to be asked is: Even in a weaker conference, can the Bulldogs still compete effectively against other teams in much better conferences? I believe the answer to that will only be found out in the March Madness Tournament.
This Gonzaga team is not as strong as we have seen the Bulldogs in the past. With the departures of Rui Hachimura, Brandon Clarke, Josh Perkins, and Zach Norvell, the Bulldogs have seen a significant change to their team. There is no knowing if these new players that have to fill in the big roles of the previous players will be able to effectively score as they have done in the past.
To conclude, I believe this Gonzaga team has a lot to prove. if they can play their conference matches effectively and win by a large margin I believe they have the best chance at getting the number one seed in the tournament when it comes to March, Looking forward, the 16-1 Bulldogs play Santa Clara on January 16th and BYU on January 18th.
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Another birthday report, from the 6th: a sushi lunch at Kanpai (Lytton Ave. in downtown Palo Alto), a gift from Kim Darnell — with mostly standard items, but featuring toro katsu (and there lies a tale of borrowing words from one language to another). Photo of a man, bowl of miso soup in hand, seriously contemplating Japanese food, wanting a photo of the meal, and really not wanting a photo of himself:
(#1) The author with a Kanpai lunch special
Your left to right: bowl of miso soup, salad of fresh baby greens with Japanese dressing, toro katsu (with tonkatsu sauce, sriracha mayonnaise, and cooked broccoli floret), bowl of rice; then a platter of California roll and sashimi (tuna and salmon), mug of green tea (with images of sushi on it, labeled in Japanese and English), glass of Chardonnay. The side order of eel (unagi) sushi has not yet arrived.
Earlier on this blog: my 7/2 3/18 posting "furūtsu sando" ('fruit sandwich') had a section on katsu sandwiches, with katsu 'fried cutlet'. The most common types of katsu: tonkatsu, pork cutlet (by far the most common, so that katsu by itself refers to tonkatsu); torikatsu, chicken; gyukatsu, beef (and wagyukatsu, prime beef). Served with brown tonkatsu sauce :
More on tonkatsu, from Wikipedia:
Tonkatsu … pork cutlet, is a Japanese dish which consists of a breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet. The two main types are fillet and loin. It is often served with shredded cabbage.
… The word tonkatsu is a combination of the Sino-Japanese word ton (豚) meaning "pig" and katsu (カツ), which is a shortened form of katsuretsu (カツレツ), the [borrowing] of the English word cutlet, which [in turn] derived from French côtelette, meaning "meat chop".
To summarize: French côtelette 'chop' (that is 'a thick slice of meat, especially pork or lamb, adjacent to and often including a rib' (NOAD) — the rib is etymologically significant, since the word is based on Latin costa 'rib') is borrowed into English as cutlet ('a portion of sliced meat breaded and served either grilled or fried; a flat croquette of minced meat, nuts, or pulses, typically covered in breadcrumbs and fried' (NOAD)); English cutlet is then borrowed into Japanese as katsuretsu, referring in tonkatsuretsu to a breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet; katsuretsu is clipped to katsu; katsu is extended semantically from tonkatsu to meats — and fish — other than pork; and Bob's your uncle: toro katsu,
like this toro katsu of rare maguro from the Meatman Nikuo Japanese restaurant / cafe / shop in South Jakarta, Indonesia:
The trick, and it's no mean trick, is to get it crispy on the outside and rare (to whatever degree of rareness you want) on the inside.
At Kanpai the toro katsu comes with not only the brown sauce in #2 but also with a yellow sauce: Sriracha mayonnaise, Sriracha mayo for short.
We start with Sriracha (sauce). From Wikipedia:
(#4) The biggest US brand, from Huy Fong Foods (with a rooster on the label)
Sriracha … is a type of hot sauce or chili sauce made from a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt. It is named after the coastal city of Si Racha, in Chonburi Province of eastern Thailand, where it may have been first produced for dishes served at local seafood restaurants. [Its origin is uncertain.]
In Thailand, Sriracha is frequently used as a dipping sauce, particularly for seafood. In Vietnamese cuisine, Sriracha appears as a condiment for phở, fried noodles, a topping for spring rolls (chả giò), and in sauces.
Sriracha is also eaten in soup, on eggs and burgers. Jams, lollipops, and cocktails have all been made using the sauce, and Sriracha-flavored potato chips have been marketed.
That's the sauce. Then to make the mayo from it.
For Sriracha mayo, combine grated garlic, mayonnaise, Sriracha (or any other hot sauce), lemon juice, and salt. Ah, but what mayo? It's not Japanese Sriracha mayo if you don't use Japanese mayo. Yes, Japanese mayo is different from American mayo.
From the Pogogi (Japanese food) site on 7/31/12, in "What Is Japanese Mayonnaise and How Is It Different from American Mayo?":
(#5) Kewpie brand Japanese mayonnaise
American Mayo is usually made from a soy-based vegetable oil along with water, eggs, distilled vinegar, salt, and sugar. Some brands will add their own seasonings or even some lemon juice and dijon mustard but those are the primary ingredients.
Japanese mayonnaise also uses soy-based vegetable oil and many of the same ingredients. They don't add water however and Japanese mayo uses apple or rice vinegar rather than distilled vinegar. Japanese mayonnaise also uses egg yolks rather than whole eggs [so it's yellow in color].
Using egg yolks and apple or rice vinegar and eliminating water gives Japanese mayonnaise a thicker texture than American mayonnaise and it is a rich and slightly sweet condiment. Some makers of Japanese mayonnaise also use monosodium glutamate which is a flavor enhancer that makes everything taste better.
American mayonnaise is typically used on sandwiches or hamburgers, mixed in with a can of tuna fish, used to make chicken salad, and is also used as a base for a number of other sauces. Japanese mayonnaise can be used in all of the same ways and it is commonly used to coat cooked vegetables and is often used as a side to a number of different Japanese dishes.
Japanese mayonnaise, pronounce in Japanese as Mayone-zu" or simply "mayo" (with a short "a" sound instead of the more familiar long "a"), is used in a number of other ways as well and some people think the Japanese might have an obsession with mayonnaise.
In Japan you can find mayo flavored ice cream, mayonnaise flavored snacks and potato chips, it can be used as a spaghetti sauce and it can be used as a topping for toast, noodles, even pancakes. If you think it will taste good, you really can put it on just about anything.
The Japanese fashion for mayo on almost everything seems to be relatively recent, having caught on in just the last 20 years or so.


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