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A full day of fun for the entire family is promised during the 2013 Freedom Celebration to be held at the Hardin County Fairgrounds on Thursday.
The festivities begin at noon with a car show. Sign-in is at 11 a.m. and trophies and door prizes will be awarded at 3:30 p.m.
A bumper to bumper truck tug will be held in the grandstand at noon.
The Hardin County Tractor Pullers are hosting the fourth annual Hardin County Fireworks Fund Truck and Tractor Pull. The first session will begin at 3 p.m. with the second session slated for 6:30 p.m. Admission is $6 with children 12 and under admitted for free.
The Independence Day parade will begin at 4 p.m. from the parking lot behind Liberty National Bank in Kenton. Participants will travel north on Main Street to the Hardin County Courthouse, take Columbus Street west one block and turn south on U.S. 68 (South Detroit Street) to the fairgrounds.
A chicken and pork chop barbecue sponsored by Pomona Grange will begin at 5 p.m.
A firecracker golf cart pull will take place at 5 p.m. in front of the grandstand and a children's pedal tractor pull will be held in the shelter house at 7 p.m.
There also will be an antique tractor display.
The day will conclude with the fireworks display at 10 p.m.
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Little libraries build community and love for books
Some parents buy a dog or cat when their children leave home. When her son Jack Gavron heads to college in the fall, Mindy Fox will get a library.
The library, a handbuilt wooden box decorated to look like the family's Craftsman-style home, already sits in Fox's front yard in the Land Park neighborhood in Sacramento, but Gavron is the primary steward. When he built it for his senior high school project this spring, he joined a community of approximately 15,000 Little Free Library stewards worldwide, and nearly 30 registered in the Sacramento area.
Gavron said neighbors, classmates and friends love the library, which took him months to build. He estimates that his library attracts at least one visitor a day, and it has sparked conversations and led to an outpouring of donated books.
"The main goals for the Little Free Library are, first, just basically to get a sense of community," Gavron said. "Then the second one is to get a general love for reading and books."
The Little Free Library project began in 2009, when a Wisconsin man named Todd Bol built a model of a one-room schoolhouse, filled it with books and placed it in his front yard in honor of his mother. Bol built several more and gave them to friends and family members. Gradually, the libraries gained fans eager to establish their own. By 2011, Bol and friend Rick Brooks had set up a website (littlefreelibrary.org) to share information with aspiring Little Free Librarians worldwide.
Today, Bol, Brooks and volunteers act as coordinators for the growing global network of Little Free Libraries. To start a library, simply build or buy a sturdy, weatherproof container. Mount it securely in an accessible place and fill it with books. For $34.95, new librarians can receive a packet of information from Little Free Library and an official plaque imprinted with the library's charter number.
The organization's website urges budding librarians to check with their local jurisdictions about where they can legally place their project. A 9-year-old boy in Leawood, Kansas, recently made headlines when he was forced to remove the library from the end of his family's driveway. The Leawood City Council voted recently to stop enforcing a zoning regulation that bans such structures on front lawns.
Anyone can take a book from a Little Free Library, though patrons are encouraged to leave a book behind as well. Stewards like Gavron and Georgiana White, who established her library in 2012, said they enjoy tending their libraries' collections and seeing what others contribute.
White's late partner, John Kizziar, built the miniature yellow house in June 2012. He died in October of that year. The couple dated throughout high school and college in Sacramento, but when Kizziar was shipped to Vietnam, White moved on. They rekindled their romance in 2010. A bench dedicated to Kizziar now sits in front of the little library.
White, who retired from her position as university archivist and head of special collections at California State University, in Sacramento, in 2001, said she gets to use her skills as a professional librarian to help people in the neighborhood discover new books and find free copies of titles they've always wanted to read.
"There is a sense of purpose about it," White said. "There's nothing more rewarding than sitting in here and seeing a grandmother and two or three grandchildren sitting on the bench, reading."
Recently, 13-year-old Chloe Baker stopped by White's Little Free Library to see what was new. Baker, a voracious reader, said she checks the library at least three times a week. Though she doesn't always find books to take home, she loves the library and thinks its impact goes beyond books.
"I've noticed it kind of acts as a meeting place," Baker said. "You can get conversations started and it's a nice way to get out of your house."
Baker asked White if she had any titles specifically for teen readers. White admitted that the library's offerings were lacking in that area and rushed inside to search among the hundreds of donated books she keeps in her spare bedroom. In a few minutes, White returned with three books she thought Baker might like: the classic "Black Beauty," an advice book for teenage girls by Maria Shriver and a nonfiction book about the people of Alberta, Canada. Baker took home all but "Black Beauty," which she had already read.
"I've still got the touch," the not-quite-retired librarian declared.
In some neighborhoods in Sacramento, Little Free Libraries stand in where "real" libraries have closed.
Shortly after RosaLee Hangstrom moved to the town of Oak Park, Calif., in the early 1990s, McGeorge School of Law purchased the local library and closed it to the public.
"It always bothered me so much that neighborhoods like this where people are the least able to get to a library, that the city didn't feel the need to provide a library," Hangstrom said. "When I heard about the Little Free Library, I said, 'Well at least I can do my part!'"
Hangstrom and her family set up the library in spring 2013. Because she works as a school administrator during the day, Hangstrom doesn't know who stops by her library.
"It's a total mystery, that's what's funny about it," Hangstrom said. "But I know people come because all the books will be rearranged when I check it."
Meanwhile, Fox said she's looking forward to caring for the Little Free Library when Gavron leaves. It's easier to tend than a dog, she noted, and far likelier to provide fresh reading material.
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The Hinds County Sheriff's Department has made multiple busts in its newest operation -- a crime crackdown in an area of northwest Jackson.
Deputies have seized around 10 pounds of marijuana, 3 and a half ounces of cocaine and a number of other drugs.
Several guns and thousands in cash were also taken off the streets.
The crackdown was in a section of northwest Jackson between Medgar Evers Boulevard, Livingston Road and Northside Drive.
This is the first community where the sheriff's department plans to do a crime crackdown.
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Remember last week when the mysterious eyeball washed ashore on Pompano Beach, Fla.? Testing revealed it likely came from a swordfish.
Local Cake Artist Sarah Jones used her amazing decorating talents to recreate the eyeball through this cake rendition.
See more of Jones' creations on her 'Cake Artist Sarah Jones' community Facebook page.


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Dolores "Geri" Kanaley nee Lynch, 82, of Winnetka, passed away on October 15.
Beloved wife of the late Byron V. Kanaley, Jr.; loving mother of Christine Hehman, Kerry Baughman, Byron V. III (Marianne) Kanaley and Kathy (Paul) Clarke; cherished grandmother of 13; great grandmother of 2; dear sister of the late Frank Patrick Lynch.
Visitation Friday, October 19, 9:00 a.m. until time of Funeral Mass 10:00 a.m. at SS. Faith, Hope & Charity Church, 191 Linden Street, Winnetka, IL 60093. Interment All Saints Cemetery, 700 North River Road, Des Plaines, IL 60016.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to American Heart Association, 208 South LaSalle Street, Suite 1500, Chicago, IL 60604.
Editor's Note: This obituary was provided by Donnellan Family Funeral Services. You can read more local obituaries on our obituaries page.


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nicola farnon
A classic singer/double bass player - whether in the Ella Fitzgerald swing or Dusty Springfield soul mould - and widely recognised as one of the classiest and accomplished jazz/swing vocalists in the UK and now NICOLA is currently making a name for herself on the international scene with her 'Divas of Song' show.
With her unique talent as swinging vocalist and double bass player she has accumulated many years of experiences and performed with some of the worlds top musicians - whether headlining or playing alongside such greats as Georgie Fame, Alan Price, Claire Teale, Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth appearing as guest artist on cruise ships or at festivals and theatres throughout Gt Britain and abroad.
"She's a remarkable performer on stage, a fine singer and an outstandingly swinging and propulsive bass player with an outgoing personality to match...I declare that she is a class act who should be on every jazz festival in the land….A sure fire hit!"
The late, great Humphrey Lyttleton stated about Nicola on his highly acclaimed BBC Radio 2 show The Best of Jazz:


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Yesterday, I shared some scanned hand-drawn Christmas cards from children (and their parents) in a K'iche' Maya village in Guatemala -- people who participate in the work of an international nonprofit I volunteer with there, along with family and friends.
This year, we included two additional elders in the foundation's Christmas festivities in the Guatemalan highlands, which brings the total number of participating elders in our Ancianos de Honor program to 22. Two of the most recently honored ancianos are blind. You can see them in the photograph below. They both completed their hundredth birthdays this month. They were brought to our foundation's center by some very caring young people.
Above, the elders receive their gifts from our local director in Sololá, Don Victoriano. It's the first time in the lives of these two new elders that they have received a gift or been honored in this way.
Upon receiving his gift, centenarian Don Juan expressed thanks to Ajaw (the Mayan creator god) and to the givers of the gift who had "the good conscience to remember the forgotten elders."
The Christmas gift baskets they are receiving typically include bread, dried pasta and rice, chocolate and candies, corn flour for making tortillas or tamales, dried beans, fruit, and household necessities. The local project directors, who are from the community themselves, make those arrangements and include things that are customary, and part of the local diet.
These elders are among the most at-risk and neglected members of the community, and often suffer malnutrition and health problems related to a lack of food, water, and protection from the elements.
They live literally on the fringes of the village, and fall through the cracks -- they become invisible.
Our foundation works to reach out to them, document their existence and their needs, and provide basic support, bringing them back into the center of the community where they belong, with honor and respect.
We are working toward establishing the same ongoing support system within the community for these elders that we are providing for the children of the village.
- Happy holidays to all of you from the people in our communities in Guatemala and Nima Mam Ajq'ij, Dr. M. X. Quetzalkanbalam, international executive director, and our international staff of directors: Anamaria de To and David To Quiñones, Guatemala; Jolon Bankey, Costa Rica; and Xeni Jardin, Mike Outmesguine, and Mar Doré, USA.
- Christmas Cards from a K'iche Maya Pueblo.
- BBtv WORLD: Through the eyes of the pueblo. (Guatemala) - Boing Boing
- BBtv debuts "BBtv World" series. Episode 1: El Molinero (Guatemala ...
- Ambient audio: Antigua, Guatemala, at night. - Boing Boing
- BBtv WORLD: Migration, and a Mayan Sweat Bath. (Guatemala) - Boing ...
- NPR Xeni Tech - Reporter's notebook: Guatemala - Boing Boing
- NPR "Xeni Tech" - Guatemala: Unearthing the Future (and new ...
- NPR Xeni Tech: Guatemala Project Builds Grassroots Tech - Boing Boing
- NPR Xeni Tech: Storm Victims' Remains Exhumed in Guatemala - Boing ...
- NPR Xeni Tech - Guatemala: digital archives may help find ...
- Xeni.net/trek: dispatches from Guatemala - Boing Boing
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(Photos: Top and bottom, courtesy Don Victoriano; center thumbnails, Xeni Jardin).Discuss
4 Responses to "Honoring Our Elders: Snapshots from Christmas in Sololá, Guatemala."
killdevil says:
I feel compelled to point out that Sololá is hard by Lake Atitlan, which is one of the most beautiful and internationally touristy places in Guatemala. As such it's quite prosperous and bustling as K'iche Maya communities go. What motivated the selection of Sololá as a target for these aid efforts, given how much more in need of assistance are some of the further-flung highland towns?
I spent a couple of months in Guatemala last summer and was struck by the degree to which aid workers tended to end up in close proximity to resort destinations, or (somewhat less egregiously) to metropolitan centers like Xela. Evangelical mission groups wearing matching t-shirts were by far the worst offenders in this vein, but running across NGO workers in more attractive and less impoverished locales turned out to be a central motif of my trip…
towtansua says:
cool! i'm an evangelical, and this is where we line up 100%. we try our best to not let the same thing happen here in montana.
Xeni Jardin says:
Right on, towtansua. The organization is not a religious organization, and it's worth noting that participants in the pueblo reflect the variety of faiths of that community: traditional Mayan beliefs, Catholics, and evangelicals. It's been pretty amazing to see the people there come together in ways they had not before.
Elvis Pelt says:
Wow. Thanks for this. Mad props to all the good work you're doing down there.
Always good to hear about the better side in people.


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For 26-year-old San Fernando Valley-based artist Timothy Garrett, the pin-ups of the '50s is a passion project. This past weekend at Cella gallery in North Hollywood, he launched the display for the public, and it will be around for the next few weeks.
The hair, make-up, and model coaching was done by Lauren Michelle, and the photography was done by Heather Landis for the pin-up models that are now compiled in a calendar. And, Samir Evol of The Seventh Letter also added his large artwork done solely with spray paint. The event was sponsored by Vallure Vodka.
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I strongly agree that we should impose seat-belt laws. My daughters deserve a better education and because your child cannot behave in the classroom, some of our teachers are spending half of their time parenting instead of teaching.
I want more for my children than a second-rate education and know that there are some teachers who want to teach but cannot due to this crippling blockade. It's time for parents to step up to the plate.
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Becerra's oldest daughter now attends Classen School of Advanced Studies.


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A defensive end who hails from Sandy Hook, Conn., Nacewicz anchored the Pride's defense in its Liberty League debut. He finished the game with six tackles, including 4.5 for a loss of 22 yards.
Nacewicz, who recorded three sacks against Rochester, currently ranks fourth nationally in sacks per game (1.75), and is tied for 23rd in the nation in tackles-for-loss per game (2.13).
The Pride will square off in a key Liberty League game on Saturday when it travels to Union for a 6:00 pm kickoff.


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Just a quick peek at the area around our house covered in lovely fresh snow!
This is the official front of our house...typically only used by the mailman lol. That lovely young maple in the front yard gives great shade in the summer. I never thought I'd live in a pink house (not my favorite color by a long shot lol) but the house was perfect for our rental needs at the time and has plenty of perks.
this is the side yard where peonies, roses, buttercups, and as of last year, vine tomatoes grow against the house. Those tomatoes Loved growing with the roses and did well, continuing to produce even after the first frost!
This is the "back" yard of the house with the frozen pool and deck. You can see the empty framework of our pavillion covered in snow like the frozen skeleton of a tent. Those pines are great singers and start the beginning of the Standing Choir that cups the back loop of our road as seen below...
The neighbor's tree across the street has taken some damage, yet something lovely remains in the way his branches caress the face of the house.
this is the little playground that sits in the center of the loop made by our street. Empty now, come summer it will be teeming with kids of all ages. I'm glad it's surrounded by gaurdrails though. People fly through here all too often.
Another neighbor's tree, it looked so lovely frosted with snow.
And there is the Gray Lady that I snap photos of so often.
And this is the road I walk to reach the subway that takes me to work. That lovely maple gave up one of it's bird nests for me this fall. And that's it, a quick look at the immediate neighborhood. Hard to believe with this lighting that it was 11 am! These were actually taken the day after all this snow fell. I got to see it before the snow plows came around and the serenity was breathtaking.


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It's Monday and it's time to head back to work. Concord Patch has compiled the latest gas prices at nearby stations for your commute today. The following prices for regular grade gas are courtesy of Mapquest.
Cumberland Farms: $3.58
Concord Exxon: $3.61
Mobil on the Run: $3.66
Mobil (Sudbury Road): $3.70
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WASHINGTON — Lt. Gov. Robert J. Duffy visits Capitol Hill today and tomorrow and will discuss cuts in defense spending with upstate lawmakers, congressional aides said.
Mr. Duffy was to meet this afternoon with Rep. William L. Owens, D-Plattsburgh, a member of the House Armed Services Committee. Meetings were also planned with Rep. Richard L. Hanna. R-Barneveld, and Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y.
Aides said the lieutenant governor is seeking information about the possible impact of deep cuts in defense spending — and perhaps additional base closing rounds — on Fort Drum, Rome Labs and other military installations, as well as the effect on National Guard and Reserve facilities and training in the state.
Proposed cuts in the Pentagon budget would hit the reserves harder than the active-duty force, said Mrs. Gillibrand, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committtee, today. But even the active duty Army expects a significant hit, including a gradual reduction in tens of thousands of personnel over the next five years. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has said the cuts will affect every state.
Some of the cuts are in the Obama administration's proposed budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. Further deep cuts are possible next year if Congress does not reach a deal on deficit reduction.
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---- — BEULAH — An Elberta woman is mentally fit to stand trial and face charges that she tried to kill her autistic daughter during a failed murder-suicide bid, a state psychologist determined.
Kelli Rai Stapleton, 45, is accused of attempted murder following a Sept. 3 incident in which she and her daughter Issy, 14, suffered carbon monoxide poisoning from being inside an enclosed van with two burning charcoal grills.
Stapleton is being held in Benzie County's jail without bond. Her lawyers requested a mental competency evaluation, and a licensed psychologist with Michigan's Center for Forensic Psychiatry met with Stapleton on Nov. 25 for a series of tests, said Benzie County Prosecutor Sara Swanson.
Swanson said the psychologist's report states Stapleton is competent, able to stand trial and help with her defense.
"The judge actually has to enter an order to see if she's competent to stand trial. I expect he will," Swanson said.
A competency hearing is scheduled for today at 3 p.m. in 85th District Court and sets the stage for a preliminary examination that could lead to trial in 19th Circuit Court or settlement through a plea agreement.
Stapleton's attorney Heidi Hodek didn't find the competency result surprising, based on her own conversations with Stapleton. Hodek said she didn't know whether it makes a pre-trial deal more likely.
"So far no (plea) offer has been made," Hodek said.
A Benzie County sheriff's deputy found Stapleton and Issy unconscious inside van parked on a wooded two-track south of Elberta hours after Stapleton's husband Matt Stapleton reported them missing. Both were hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning, but Issy suffered brain damage after lingering for days in a coma.
Matt Stapleton's sister Sarah Ross said Issy is doing well and continues to catch up on her academic studies, though she is not back in school.
"Physically, she continues to improve. We haven't seen a lot of regression," Ross said. "There's been a few things that have come and gone, but in general things are trending upward."
Matt Stapleton, principal of Frankfort High School, filed for divorce in September after the incident. Ross said Matt Stapleton and his three children, including Issy, are moving on together "in spite of the circumstances."
"(Issy) loves Christmas," Ross said. "She was recently able to attend the Benzie choir and band performances, which she really enjoys. And she's looking forward to the holiday traditions with her family."
Court documents state Kelli Stapleton told authorities that years of frustration with Issy's behavior and autistic condition led her to believe the best solution was if they both "went to heaven." Stapleton lured Issy into the van with the promise they would go camping and then drugged her with a larger-than-normal dose of autism medication before igniting the grills, the police report states.
Swanson said nothing has changed in the criminal case against Stapleton.
"The case has just been kind of on hold waiting for this (evaluation)," she said.


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The Loughran Machine Company building was located on the east end of Onondaga (Main) Street and on the south side of Duff Avenue. It later became part of Munn Lumber Company (its storage building). The Loughran buildng was built shortly prior to 1900 by Emund Loughran. In this 1905 photograph, the man to the far right is Stephen L. Loughran, the son of Edmund Loughran. Next to him on his right, the man in the straw hat and tie is his brother-in-law Harry Brown who was the company's bookkeeper for several years. Brown was the younger brother of Stephen's wife, Lillian Brown Loughran, and in 1910 would become the father of Farwell Tilden Brown. The workman in the center of the photograph and the two women looking out of the upper window in the left of the photo could not be identified. (See also: 51.256.1)
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From Reunion College presentations to the annual parade to class socials and many more events, there will be a lot to enjoy when the Classes of 1956, 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2006 gather on campus June 10-12.
Mark your calendar to catch up with old friends and make new ones. The Reunion website provides more information, including a tentative schedule, plus highlights of Reunions past.
Register by April 28 for a $15 package discount. To receive your class uniform or memento, register by the final deadline of May 9.


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Device setting caused Super Bowl outageBy KEVIN MCGILL
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Fans and members of the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers wait for power to return in the Superdome on Sunday during an outage in the second half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans.NEW ORLEANS An electrical device that had been installed expressly to prevent a power outage caused the Super Bowl blackout, the stadiums power company said Friday as it took the blame for the outage that brought the game to a halt for more than a half-hour.
Following the announcement, the manufacturer of the device, known as a relay, released a statement implying that the problem was not with the part but with how it was used.
Officials of Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of New Orleans-based Entergy Corp., said the device, called a relay, had been installed in switching gear to protect the Superdome from a cable failure between the companys incoming power line and lines that run into the stadium.
The switching gear is housed in a building known as the vault near the stadium that receives a line directly from a nearby Entergy power substation. Once the line reaches the vault, it splits into two cables that go into the Superdome.
Company officials said the device performed with no problems during Januarys Sugar Bowl and other earlier events, but has been removed and will be replaced. All systems at the Superdome are now working and the dome will host a major Mardi Gras event this weekend, said Doug Thornton, an executive with SMG, the company that manages the stadium for the state.
The power failure at Sundays big game cut lights to about half of the stadium for 34 minutes, halting play between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers.
The FBI had ruled out cyberterrorism as a cause.
Entergys announcement came shortly before officials appeared before a committee of the City Council, which is the regulatory body for the company, to answer questions about the outage.
Not long after the power companys announcement, the manufacturer, Chicago-based S&C Electric Company, released a statement saying that the power outage occurred because the electric load was too much for the equipment, exceeding the trip setting for the switchgear relay as set by the system operators.
Based on the onsite testing, we have determined that if higher settings had been applied, the equipment would not have disconnected the power, said Michael J.S. Edmonds, vice president of strategic solutions for the company.
The statement did not name the system operators, but the equipment was owned and installed by Entergy New Orleans.
Entergy officials could not immediately be reached for comment after the statement was released Friday.
Entergy New Orleans CEO Charles Rice and Dennis Dawsey, an Entergy vice president for distribution, told the City Council that SMG agrees the cause of the outage was a relay failure. Asked if the two corporations still plan to hire a third-party investigator, Rice said that possibility remains open.
Committee member Jackie Clarkson pressed for such an independent probe. Weve told the public were going to have an outside investigation, she said.
Well work closely with SMG and if there is a need for a third-party investigation, we will do that, Rice said, adding that Entergy was also working with the manufacturer.
Shabab Mehraeen, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana State University, said the relay device is a common electrical fixture in businesses and massive facilities such as the Superdome.
They are designed to keep a problem they sense from becoming something bigger, like a fire or catastrophic event, said Mehraeen, who holds a doctorate from the Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, Mo.
The devices vary in size, and while Mehraeen noted he was not familiar with the specifics of the relay at the Superdome, he added, I wouldnt be surprised if it was bigger than a truck.
Mehraeen said the reasons the devices fail are the subject of much academic research into the interaction of relays with the complex electrical systems they regulate.
Its not unusual for them to have problems, he said. They can be unpredictable despite national testing standards recommended by manufacturers.
Entergy and SMG had both upgraded lines and equipment in the months leading up to the Super Bowl. Rice said the new switching gear, with the faulty relay, was installed as part of a $4.2 million upgrade by Entergy, including the installation of a new power line dedicated solely to the stadium.
In a separate project, SMG replaced lines coming into the stadium after managers expressed concerns the Superdome might be vulnerable to a power failure like the one that struck Candlestick Park during a 49ers Monday Night Football game in 2011. That outage was blamed at least partly on a transformer explosion.
Thornton stressed Friday that the dome was drawing only about two-thirds of its power capacity Super Bowl night, and said typical NFL games in late August or September can draw a little more.
City officials had worried that the Super Bowl outage might harm New Orleans chances of getting another NFL championship game.
But NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell downplayed that possibility after the outage, saying the NFL planned to keep New Orleans in its Super Bowl plans. Mayor Mitch Landrieu said the city intends to bid for the Super Bowl in 2018.
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By now, long after the first Earth Day in 1970, the moral war has been won. Everyone knows that being kinder to Earth is the right thing to do. Now we need to move on to the real work: doing the right things, hundreds and thousands of them. This challenge is bigger than one Earth Day can handle—it will take an entire Earth Year, and after that an ongoing, permanent Earth Life.
That doesn't mean it is wrong to keep celebrating Earth Day. Some things are simple enough for children to understand. We should continue the litter pickups and recycling demos on the 22d of April. We should keep fighting pollution and waste. But there are larger matters to consider, and the mayor's proclamation will give us little guidance.
In fact, the mayor needs to hear from us more than we need to hear from the mayor. The next few decades will be as wrenching as any period in human history as the world emerges from poverty and learns sustainable ways. Some facts have the weight of the planet behind them: At some point, we won't be able to burn more things to make electricity. At some point, atmospheric carbon dioxide will make the ocean too acidic to support coral reefs. At some point, we will need to manage the sea in all its complexity like a farmer's field. At some point, there will be no new soil for planting. At some point, the human population will stop growing. At some point, our mines will run short. None of this is in the Earth Day proclamations.
The future that will follow "some point" must first be imagined; all of us need to imagine it to take our part in making it happen. The usual "top-ten" advice for reducing global warming won't get us there. Long-term visions are needed, as ambitious as a child's career dreams. Then the visions must be turned to programs, as focused as an adult's retirement planning.
I recommend reading more science fiction, especially the "hard" kind, to help in envisioning alternative futures. (This isn't just my idea; the Washington Post's Joel Achenbach has said so too.) Consider the late writer Arthur C. Clarke, who popularized geostationary satellites 20 years before the first one took orbit. He didn't originate or design it, but he helped the rest of us understand and welcome it. And Isaac Asimov envisioned, in detail, how electronic intelligence might interact with human beings. Today their successors are looking even farther ahead.
Then appropriate technologies will need to be imagined, then devised, commercialized and adopted. Geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, advanced conservation, photovoltaics, alternative fuels, genetic engineering, nanotech and more are all fine, but more ideas are needed. The new ideas will come from tomorrow's engineers and scientists. Tomorrow's political leaders will need to administer that work, funding and monitoring the researchers—and all of these people are today's children. All of these people and efforts will be guided by what the geosphere permits.
The wonderful thing about this coming time is that if we act well there will be little or no bloodshed. Yes there will be conflict among nations and within communities; there will be displacements, adjustments, species extinctions. But cooperation will be demanded, and rewarded, just as if aliens had descended from spaceships and ordered us to get ourselves together and become climateers. And the scientific and technical advances to come will seem just as marvelous and unexpected.
At the opposite end of the calendar from Earth Day in mid-October, a group of geological organizations has sponsored Earth Science Week for the last 10 years. But as I said, an entire Earth Year is needed. It just so happens that the International Year of Planet Earth, which UNESCO and the International Union of Geological Sciences supported in 2009, is planning a followup body called the Planet Earth Institute. I hope that it can take the lead in helping teach today's children, so that a great collective Earth Life may follow.
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As the long, cold winter nears an end, area residents' minds begin to focus on... running?
Yes, the 2013 edition of the North Coast Road Racing Grand Prix is on our doorstep, with the first race occurring March 16 at 9 a.m. the Ashtabula Campus of Kent State University.
The Shamrock Kickoff 2 Mile will be the first of 26 races under the new direction of the recently formed Ashtabula Distance Runners Club. The race series has been a loose configuration since its inception in 1992, with five races and has now grown into an exciting way to stay in shape, meet other people and raise money for worthy causes.
The ADRC, yes I am the president, has a board of directors of 13 who are volunteering to improve the series and a reach out to help fill the needs of the running, and walking, community.
The NCRRGP has an ongoing points-scoring system and runners, or walkers, do not have to be members to qualify for a dinner at the end of the year or for age group and overall awards. A banquet will be held at the conclusion of the season. New rules do make it essential for runners, or walkers, to compete in at least six races to be eligible for a free dinner and awards.
An injury prevention clinic will be held Friday, March 1 at 6 p.m. at Wychock Physical Therapy, located on Lake Avenue in Ashtabula, with an RSVP at 964-2035 requested. We are excited about encouraging people to get in shape but to be aware of the importance of seeing a doctor before starting a physical education program and understanding basics of injury prevention.
A race directors' seminar will also be sponsored by the club at Sunday, April 7 at 3 p.m. at Wychock Physical Therapy.
The Ashtabula Distance Runners Club presently provides information at bridge2bridge.webs.com, but will soon be moving to www.ashtabuladistancerunners.org. Please feel free to review an application for the club, $20 dues a year, which will provide reduced entry fees on several races, reduced cost on running club gear and access to educational seminars and group runs.
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Changing gears slightly, a committee seeking to form an Ashtabula County Track and Cross Country Hall of Fame is seeking information from the public concerning state champions in both sports. Our research has provided the following state champions, but we are interested to learn of more area state champs that can be documented by newspaper clippings or other means.
Our listed state champions include:
Bob Garvey, 1939, Harbor, Paul Halek of Wayne High School, Carl "Bus" Stancliff, the county's first state champion, 1926, from Geneva, and Duane Stewart, 1954, Edgewood; Mark DeBevc, 1967, Geneva; Tom Sassler, 1976, St. John; Nadine Cox, 1980, Geneva; Jon Lyons, 1981, Ashtabula; Scott Campbell, St. John; Mike Shoaf, 1986, Grand Valley; Tracey Miller, 1987, Ashtabula; Alonzo Hatchette, 1987, Jefferson (state-record holder for many years); Mick Shoaf, 1987; Theresa Dyer, 1987, Jefferson; Brenda Weaver, 1988, Grand Valley; Scott Short, 1990, Edgewood; Ray Isco, 1991, Harbor; John Bliffin, 1992, Conneaut; Zack Miller, 2002, Edgewood and Mallory Krieder, 2009.
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After an eventful day that saw Robert Gallery retire from the NFL, the Patriots had even more new to announce. In the dead heat of the fullback Training Camp battle, the team announced that Tony Fiammetta has been placed on the exempt/left squad list, and will miss the entire 2012 season.
According to the team, Fiammetta needs to deal with a "family issue", before resuming his football career with the Patriots. Fiammetta said in a press release that he is "excited" to return for the 2013 season with the team.
In a corresponding move, the Patriots announced that they have signed fullback Kareem Huggins to an undisclosed contract. He last played in the NFL in 2010 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he began his career. He was out of football in 2011. In six career NFL games, Huggins has four carries for 11 yards.
With Fiammetta out of contention, the fullback race could be Spencer Larsen's to lose. Larsen has split time on the first team with Fiammetta, and has versatility as a linebacker and special teams player. He's also got experience in the Patriots' offense, having played for offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels when he was the head coach in Denver.
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There has been a warning that Government plans to scrap a £347 million fund used to provide emergency support for households will leave poorest and most vulnerable destitute.
The Local Government Association (LGA), which represents authorities in England and Wales, said the fund was used to help families faced with being made homeless and paid for food vouchers for those struggling to afford meals.
The organisation said it was "extremely disappointing" that the latest funding settlement for councils revealed that the fund would not be renewed in 2015.
Families forced out of their homes during this year's floods were assisted with food, clothing, new bedding and utilities using the fund, the LGA said.
LGA chairman Sir Merrick Cockell said: " This fund has been used by councils to provide crucial support to people facing personal crises in their lives, from help paying the rent to putting food on the table.
"By helping people at an early stage and targeting support at where it is needed most, we have been able to give essential support in people's time of need and prevent short-term problems escalating.
"It is extremely disappointing that Government has removed the funding for this safety net without first honouring it promise to discuss with councils what the consequence of such a move might be.
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"Until now, Romney largely has ignored Pennsylvania and its 20 electoral college votes on the belief that the Democrat-leaning state could not be swayed. Fresh polls have shown the race tightening," Itkowitz reported.
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The Bellevue School Board has announced the top three finalists for the position of superintendent and will interview the three candidates within the week. The Board narrowed the applicant field to three finalists in an interview session on Saturday. The three finalists are:
- Dr. Alex P. Apostle has been the Superintendent of Missoula County Public Schools since July 2008, a district of 8,400 students. Prior to Missoula, Apostle served as Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Education in the Tacoma Public Schools. Apostle also served as Principal of Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma, Riverview High School in the Finley Public Schools near Kennewick, Sedro-Woolley High School in Sedro-Woolley, and Liberty High School in Issaquah. Apostle holds a bachelor's degree in physical education and science from the University of Puget Sound His master's is in secondary education and he holds Ed.S. and Ph.D. degrees in educational administration from the University of Idaho. Apostle will interview in Bellevue on Tuesday, May 22.
- Dr. Mark Mitrovich has been the Superintendent of the Naperville Community Unit School District since 2009—a district with more than 17,000 students. (Bellevue Patch note: ) Prior to his role with Naperville, Mitrovich served as Chief Academic Officer for EDmin.com, a web-based student assessment, technology use and implementation software company. He was Chief Executive Officer and co-founded Ed-Gate, an educational software company which later merged with Edmin.com. Prior to EdGate, Dr. Mitrovich served as superintendent for the Peninsula School District in Gig Harbor and was the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction for the Kennewick School District. He has served as a principal in the Clarkston School district and started his career as a teacher working in the Shelton, Oak Harbor, Dayton and Central Valley School Districts. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, a master's degree from Eastern Washington University and his PH.D from the University of Santa Barbara. Mitrovich will interview in Bellevue on Wednesday, May 23.
- Dr. Justin (Tim) Mills has been the Superintendent of the North Clackamas School District in Oregon since 2009—a district serving more than 17,000 students. Prior to his role in Oregon, Mills was superintendent in the Mesa Valley County (22,000 students) and Brush Public School Districts—both in Colorado. He served as a middle school principal and assistant principal in Mesa Valley County and began his career as a teacher in Colorado and Arizona. Mills holds his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Colorado and his Ed.D from Nova Southeastern University. Mills will interview in Bellevue on Thursday, May 24.
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Microsoft has acknowledged their recent Xbox Live Dashboard update has a problem in the form of "Error 801540B7".
The error stops some users of the XBox 360 gaming console from getting their daily media fix by ejecting them from the Microsoft Live network and locking them out from purchased content.
Microsoft said that they are aware of the problem and that a solution is in the works.
Apple Denies Creating iOS Backdoor For Government Snooping
A celebrated Apple jailbreak hacker by the name of Jonathan Zdziarski told the HOPE/X hacker conference in New York that iOS has too much background traffic, and has asked Apple what is going on.
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The first 1000 customers who pre-order LG's new G3 smartphone with Vodafone or Telstra will get a free LG Android Wear G Watch. The Vodafone deal kicks in from today and the Telstra deal from August 5.
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Nuance has released a groundbreaking new version of Dragon Naturally Speaking 13 with a simplified interface, that can works without a headset, it gives users complete voice control of a PC.
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As tipped by SmartHouse LG Australia has entered the tablet market with a new 10" Android tablet that has a $399 recommended retail price Vs $599 for the Samsung model.
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24 hours after arch rival LG announced the World's First Curved ULTRA HD 4K OLED TV Samsung has put their 105-inch Ultra HD television which was first shown at CES on sale for a cool $120,000.
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Great news for PlayBook owners - A new free version of IM+ is now available to download from BlackBerry App World. Why is it free you may ask? Simple - it is a port of the free Android version. This means that the version does have a few services missing from it, such as Skype, but if you need the Pro version you can already pick that one up.
You will see from the video that the user interface is totally different with the free version in comparison to the Pro one. This is due to the Pro edition being a specifically designed PlayBook app and not an Android port. If you haven't used or heard of IM+ before it is worth checking out. IM+ is a instant messaging client that incorporates many services. So if you enjoy using Google Talk, Facebook chat, Yahoo just to name a few you can run them all from within IM+. Makes sense don't you think?
There are many tweaks that can be made within the settings of the app - such as switching between a light and dark theme. I have used IM+ for some time, not only on the PlayBook and BlackBerry smartphone, but also on Android and iOS and with each version it makes keeping in touch with your buddies just a little easier.
Below you can see the list of other features which will definitely take your mobile IM experience to the next level:
More information/Download IM+ free for the BlackBerry PlayBook
BruvvaPete Aug 11, 2012 at 12:53 pm
Cool app. I wish I had a PB but still holding out for the 10" PB. Long wait but worth it. Let's hope BBM on the BB10 has all the great features naively instead of having to d/l different apps. The again choice is good.
edwolfgang Aug 11, 2012 at 12:54 pm
Where is BBM for my PlayBook?
Bobert_123 Aug 11, 2012 at 1:10 pm
"Coming Soon"
BB_Bmore Aug 11, 2012 at 1:52 pm
They need to get bis working with Qnx before we can expect to see BBM and I wouldn't get my hopes up for BBM on the wifi PlayBook.
Do people still use IM?
nah.uhh Aug 11, 2012 at 1:31 pm
Swipe across the bottom bezel (across the word blackberry) to perform the "back" gesture
Yes I know rim says diagonal, but that doesn't work 100%. If you don't get the angle right, it goes to the homescreen.
Swiping across the blackberry logo is the easiest way to go back in the android player
randall2580 Aug 11, 2012 at 2:18 pm
I wonder if this version has less lag that the one specifically designed for PlayBook has anyone used this new version?
Seriously, that thing crashes, hangs and lags like it was made for Windows Mobile 5 or without any quality control. I'm not unhappy about my purchase, I can afford it, but feel dejected for being let down by the experience. Not sure how many people remember the noise Shape Services made last year about RIM's prolonged app approval process when they were delivering a sub-standard product themselves. Just to give IM+ the benefit of the doubt, maybe QNX is to blame for not being able to support their product completely. On iOS & Android, IM+ shines, same on BB OS. So, what is making it fail so badly on the PlayBook?
TLS2000 Aug 11, 2012 at 2:57 pm
I'm glad to see them do this, but the version the paid version that they have for the PlayBook is garbage anyway. It's never worked properly and was always slow and clunky.
mikepraba Aug 11, 2012 at 4:20 pm
Are you Kidding? This is useless. if you can make phone calls or skype features. Its a waste of time without the key feature. Who uses IM any more? I hope you aren't posting this because no other news to get by the weekend? As a 12 years loyal BB user, I am really disappointed with the Lack of RIM's effort to bring the key apps to Playbook and Blackberry phones. I hope BB10 changes this if not the game is over!!
Concession Aug 11, 2012 at 7:55 pm
There are other IM services than skype, and people use them. Not every app is tailor made for you.
walt63 Aug 11, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Let's all stop getting our pannies in a bunch over not having Skype yet. RIM heard us, I'm sure they understand the importance of it.
The rant over it is so last year.
sjc1963 Aug 11, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Isn't this already available for quite some time?
Concession Aug 11, 2012 at 7:51 pm
The android version of im+ is solid. I've been using it for a while.
deloreancowboy Aug 12, 2012 at 1:10 am
Not to mock IM+ and all, but I'm all about my sideloaded Trillian Android app. I love how it syncs with my PC version and my BlackBerry version. Just wish they would get to making the BlackBerry app free like iOS and Android, but whatever.


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"Moneypuck" *cringes*
by Tyler Dellow • October 7, 2011 • Hockey • 62 Comments
James Mirtle's series of pieces on the inventor of hockey statistics Gabe Desjardins and hockey analytics generally in the Globe and Mail a little while back touched off a bunch of interesting stuff. I always enjoy reading smart people who are intellectually honest and disagree with me. Elliotte Friedman, Tom Benjamin and my buddy Rajeev all fit that description.
Benjamin wrote a pretty lengthy post at his site that I think warrants some consideration – I encourage people to go read it. With that said, I have significant problems with what he said. Tom quite properly acknowledges that hockey analytics is pretty fantastic when it comes to blowing up media myths. He goes on to say that hockey stats will never provide enough insight though.
Hockey statistics will never do what we want them to do, which is to effectively evaluate individual hockey players. To give us answers when considering a trade or a personnel decision. To tell us whether this third line winger creates more wins than that number four defenseman. Baseball statistics can produce answers to these kinds of questions, while hockey statistics can only produce more questions.
Why? Because baseball statistics describe what actually happens in baseball games. The stats add up to runs and to wins. Hockey statistics do not add up to goals. Goals or proxies for goals like shots, shots and attempted shots or even quality shots, underpin all the analyses. None of these statistics say anything about how the scoring chance, the goal was achieved. The actual activities that go into creating the chance are not recorded. The fundamental problem is that hockey has the equivalent of runs, but the hits and walks that create those runs are missing from the statistical package.
I agree with Tom to a point on this. I can't agree that, even in their relatively primitive state, hockey stats can't give us answers when considering a trade or personnel decision. They may not be precise yet, to the point where we can say "Player X is worth precisely $Y." They can inform our decisions though. We can learn to avoid guys coming off percentage fuelled seasons. (Most of us can; some of us seem to be the sort of people who just keep touching the stove element.) This, in and of itself, is important stuff – a stack of money has been wasted by NHL teams on these guys.
He's right though, about baseball statistics describing what happens in a game, while goals and assists do not. Accepting that though, I don't conclude that hockey stats can never give us more precise answers. I conclude that we need to start generating better statistics.
Since I first got interested in hockey statistics and analytic stuff back in 2002 or 2003, I have learned a ton of stuff about NHL hockey that I didn't know before. The impact of randomness relative to the impact of skill on the percentages was news to me. The predictive power of things like Corsi and shots in terms of reflecting skill rather than randomness was too. The limited impact of shot quality was news. The way in which I think about hockey has been completely changed as a result of this stuff. I do, I think, have a more accurate view of things now than I once did. What's more, I can back up things that I say and think in a way that I couldn't when I started getting into this stuff. I've got a pretty decent track record of pointing out when NHL GMs do completely ridiculous things – I attribute a lot of that to the understanding of the game I've gleaned from numbers.
Tom does, it seems to me, concede the critical question:
With lesser players – the real challenge in objective evaluation – the individual numbers mean even less because different players contribute in entirely different ways. There are reliable defensive players who seldom make a mistake, but provide almost no offence. There are other defensemen who can make a good pass and score once in a while, but make too many mistakes without the puck. There are forwards who can score but do little to help the team move the puck into scoring position. There are forwards who can win puck battles, kill penalties and even move the puck, but their hands are stone. Goaltenders don't do anything except guard the net.
It is the mixture of all the skills, the collective skillset, that produces team strengths and team strengths win hockey games. Team speed. Team toughnesss. Team goaltending. Team defense. Team offense.
We can't objectively sort out the individual contributions to those team strengths. Until we can find the hockey equivilent of singles, doubles and triples from the organized chaos of the game, the statistical evaluation of individual hockey players with disparate skills is a mug's game.
I think we are, to a degree, closer than he thinks now. I don't quite agree with him on his hands of stone thing – when you start talking about lesser players in the NHL, you're talking about players who probably have true talent on-ice S%'s of somewhere between 7% and 8.5% or so at 5v5, with randomness smearing things so much in a single season as to make it effectively a wash for analytical purposes, assuming we're leaving out the real plugs, guys like Sandy McCarthy.
There are things we can do to tease out the impact that individual players make on the game. We know how important it is to have an edge in shots over your opposition. What we need to do is to come up with a way to start figuring out how to identify the players who create that and how they create that. The singles and doubles and triples of hockey. Soccer's enjoying a bit of a tactics moment right now, with people like Jonathan Wilson and Michael Cox writing intelligently about tactics. They (in particular, Cox) are greatly helped by the data that's available with respect to passes, average position on the field and such things.
As I've become a soccer fan, I've become really cognizant of the similarities between hockey and soccer. It's funny – I think Tom would concede that these exist, because in the comments to his post, he classes hockey and soccer as games that aren't susceptible to statistical analysis. I'd noticed it before, particularly when watching Olympic hockey, where players hold the puck longer. The dimensions and surface are different, and create some differences between the game, but ultimately, both are fluid games where you want to limit the opposition's quality shots while maximizing your own. Soccer has, I think, moved a long way in front of hockey in terms of tracking the right stuff to answer these sorts of questions – there was a great article in the Financial Times earlier this year that's worth reading if you're interested in quantitative data and sport. An excerpt:
Yet by the mid-2000s, the numbers men in football were becoming uneasily aware that many of the stats they had been trusting for years were useless. In any industry, people use the data they have. The data companies had initially calculated passes, tackles and kilometres per player, and so the clubs had used these numbers to judge players. However, it was becoming clear that these raw stats – which now get beamed up on TV during big games – mean little. Forde remembers the early hunt for meaning in the data on kilometres. "Can we find a correlation between total distance covered and winning? And the answer was invariably no."
Tackles seemed a poor indicator too. There was the awkward issue of the great Italian defender Paolo Maldini. "He made one tackle every two games," Forde noted ruefully. Maldini positioned himself so well that he didn't need to tackle. That rather argued against judging defenders on their number of tackles, the way Ferguson had when he sold Stam. Forde said, "I sat in many meetings at Bolton, and I look back now and think 'Wow, we hammered the team over something that now we think is not relevant.'" Looking back at the early years of data, Fleig concludes: "We should be looking at something far more important."
That is starting to happen now. Football's "quants" are isolating the numbers that matter. "A lot of that is proprietary," Forde told me. "The club has been very supportive of this particular space, so we want to keep some of it back." But the quants will discuss certain findings that are becoming common knowledge in soccer. For instance, rather than looking at kilometres covered, clubs now prefer to look at distances run at top speed. "There is a correlation between the number of sprints and winning," Daniele Tognaccini, AC Milan's chief athletics coach, told me in 2008.
It strikes me that there's probably a lot of stuff that can be mined in hockey, stuff that would tell us a lot about which players are most valuable. As I mentioned above, I'd be fascinated to see what sorts of things correlate well with possession and which players do those sorts of things. We're getting to the point now that we know a lot of the stuff that is tracked is useless, I think. Hits and giveaways and takeaways…nobody serious cares about the data the NHL is generating there. I have increasing distaste for assists and points.
The real difference between baseball and hockey is that baseball's essential data is largely public. The singles and doubles show in the statistical record. With hockey and soccer, that's not the case – someone needs to figure out what the essential pieces are and, due to the cost and proprietary interest in that not becoming known, it's unlikely to ever become public record. Soccer data is notoriously limited and controlled by the companies that collect it.
Hockey's at least a decade behind soccer though. There's no reason that has to be the case. There's also no reason, given the number of insights into the game that have been generated from the relatively crappy set of data that the NHL collects at present to expect that this will continue. You give someone like Gabe or me a database of every touch that happens in a season and where it occurs, and I suspect a lot of really useful stuff would come up. That's the future. I don't even think it's that expensive – if some guy put me and Gabe Desjardins in a room for a year and gave us a million bucks to spend on generating the data, I expect we'd find all sorts of stuff. That's pretty cheap – if the Oilers did it, we could pretty much pay for ourselves just by stopping them from making one signing. Until that time comes though, when someone goes out and puts that together, there's still a lot that we can learn from the data that does exist. I'm more of a believer than I've ever been that teams that don't get into this stuff will end up being left behind and having to play a significant amount of catch up.


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Homemade Insect Spray Basic Oil: May burn cauliflower, red cabbage and squash, test first.
Mix 1 cup of vegetable oil (peanut oil, safflower or sunflower oil) and 1 tablespoon of dish washing detergent. Place in a covered jar or container. To make the spray: Add 1 ½ teaspoon of the oil and dish washing detergent mix to 1 cup of water. Spray plants as needed and repeat in 7 days if necessary.
Oil and garlic spray: This homemade insecticide kills aphids, cabbage moths, mosquitoes, and also powdery mildew fungi.
Take one head of garlic and mince it or run it through a garlic press. Blend in 1 cup of vegetable oil. Cover and place in the refrigerator for two days. After two days check for a strong garlic smell. If the garlic smell is not strong, add more garlic and place it back in the refrigerator for another day or two until the garlic smell is strong. It is ready to use once garlic odor is heavy. Once it is ready, strain the garlic out. To mix this homemade insect spray, mix four cups of warm water, 2-3 teaspoons of the garlic mix, and blend in 2-3 drops of dishwashing liquid. Spray on all surfaces of the plant at the first sign of insects.
Geranium spray. The strong smell of geraniums is known to repel insects. (This spray can be made with other strong scented plants such as marigolds or garlic).
Using a blender, mix equal parts of geranium and water, blend until smooth. Strain with a fine strainer. To make the spray : Add 1 teaspoon of the geranium mix with 2 cups of water.
Alcohol oil spray: This homemade insect spray will kill many different types of insects.
Mix 1 cup of isopropyl alcohol, 1 quart of water and 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Pour in a spray bottle, ready to use, no more mixing necessary.
Bug spray: This homemade insect spray is not for the weak of heart. Kids (supervised) may enjoy helping collect the bugs for this homemade insecticide!
Collect enough of the bugs attacking your garden to fill at least a half of a blender. Place the bugs in an old blender, turn it on and watch them liquify. Once the bugs are liquified, strain them and add water to make the spray. Adjust the strength of the spray as necessary by adding more bugs or using less water to dilute the spray.
These homemade insect sprays are less expensive and safer than commercial insecticides. They are all made with natural ingredients and are safe for you and the vegetables in your garden.
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Robert Higgs on Economic Intervention
Recorded: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs, author of Delusions of Power, talks about the history of government intervention in the economy on the Peter Schiff Radio Show via Disposable Wisdom.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Economists
Full Video of The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
Recorded: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
Edward López with David Theroux on the New Book, The Pursuit of Justice
Recorded: Thursday, December 9, 2010
Independent Institute Research Fellow Edward Lopéz, Associate Professor of Law and Economics at San Jose State University and editor of the new Institute book The Pursuit of Justice, talks with Institute President David Theroux about the faulty incentives at the heart of government legal failures and whether market-based alternatives can provide viable solutions to the serious problems caused by the bureaucratization and politicization of the law.
Experts: Edward J. López, David J. TherouxType: RadioIssues: Criminal Justice/ Prisons, Law Enforcement, Privatization
Robert Higgs on The Decline of American Liberalism with ReasonTV
Recorded: Friday, April 17, 2009
Robert Higgs, author and Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses historian Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.'s book, The Decline of American Liberalism, in an interview with Reason TV.
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P.J. ORourke On the Wealth of Nations
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Irven "Jack" Brod
TITLE: Founder and president, Empire Diamond Corp.
FLOOR:76th floor since 2001. His company started on the 7th,
moved up to 14, then 15, then 66.
CLAIM TO FAME: Longest tenant in the Empire State Building;
he moved
in on July 1, 1931, two months after the building opened.
QUOTE:"They called it the 'Empty State Building' back
then. It was the height of the Depression. No one could afford to
rent space here."
Irven "Jack" Brod thinks he may have
met the queen of England once but he's not quite sure. Over the
years so many dignitaries have been ushered up to his office in
the Empire State Building to shake his hand that it's hard to remember
them all.
"I know I met Her Highness Princess Grace she used to
be Grace Kelly," he says from his office on the 76th floor.
"And then there was Fay Wray, who played the girl in the original
King Kong movie. She was very nice."
Brod, 92, is the founder of the Empire Diamond Corporation, one
of the largest diamond merchants in New York City. But he's best
known as the longest living tenant in what is once again the city's
tallest building. "He's a landmark in a landmark," says
Lydia A. Ruth, the building's director of public relations.
Brod moved into the building on July 1, 1931, two months after
its official opening. His first office, a tiny 400-square-foot box,
was on the seventh floor. Boards covered the floor of the lobby
and workmen were still finishing the interior above the 18th floor.
Though the building went up in 14 months, it took another two years
to complete the inside.
"There was no rush," says Brod. "There were no tenants.
They called it the 'Empty State Building' back then. It was the
height of the Depression. No one could afford to rent space here.
The building didn't fill up until World War II."
While other Depression-era businessmen were daunted by the high
rents, Brod knew that the Empire State Building provided more than
a stupendous view on a clear day. It was an unforgettable address.
Brod says he still works six days a week because he loves selling
diamonds. "When a young couple comes in to buy a diamond and
I see that young lady's eyes shine, it makes my day," he says.
"People ask me when am I going to retire. I tell them, not
till they plant me."
Last year, Brod vacated his offices on the 66th floor and moved
up to larger quarters on the 76th floor. "I signed a 10-year
lease," he says. "Chances are I'm going to work another
five or 10 years."
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