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Mailbag: Sports Randomness Rankings, Important Holder Question
anecdotal comparison demonstrates that the best basketball player ever, Michael Jordan, was considerably better than the best baseball player ever, a chimpanzee named Carl who led the 1883-1884 Erie Mudjacks with a .546 batting average.
Question about randomness in sports that evolved into a very long answer with rants about how to fix hockey.
Hey MGoBlog team,
I'm of the opinion that individual games in any sport are decided by a combination of four things: player athleticism, player skill, player/coaching strategy, and chance. If you want you could also pull refereeing out of the chance bucket to make a fifth. Do you think this is a valid and relatively complete model and if not how would you change it? A related question is which of the five major sports (football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and hockey) relies most on chance to decide the outcome of a single game? How does that affect the fan experience?
My answer is basketball and hockey as the most reliant on chance, which I think negatively impacts my ability to get too caught up in the outcome of those games. That could be because I'm relatively ignorant of the strategy and skill elements in those games though, which is why I seek your most esteemed opinions.
Those four things cover just about everything, though athleticism and skill are sometimes difficult to parse out from each other.
As far as randomnesss goes, basketball in fact seems like the sport least impacted by chance, especially at the NBA level. The best NBA teams win something like 80% of their games, and teams that good generally plow through four rounds of playoffs without issue. A whopping 14 of the 20* teams with the best regular season win percentage in NBA history went on to win the championship. Two that didn't (the 96-97 Utah Jazz and 1995-96 Seattle Supersonics) lost in the finals to teams ahead of them on the list.
Meanwhile, no baseball team in a much longer history has touched an 80% win rate and only five of the 14 teams that Wikipedia references made it through much shorter playoff structures. Also, eight of them played before WWI. Baseball is the king of randomness. They've done studies and everything.
And when you think about it, it makes sense. Basketball is structured as 60-90 random trials worth 0-3 points for each team. That's a lot of trials. Baseball has nine. Football has 10-12, though that's a bit different because those trials are a lot less independent of previous ones. Hockey defies this sort of categorization. But just think about the MAXIMUM THUNDERBOLT LEVEL possible in any particular sport as a proxy for randomness:
- A man makes a three pointer and is fouled for four points out of 100.
- A goal is scored!
- A grand slam!!
Despite the high thunderbolt rating of the top football plays, the sport as a whole is less random than hockey and baseball, primarily because each play has an impact on the one that follows it in a way that doesn't happen in sports with less memory. You can load the bases in baseball and come away with nothing; ripping off a 30-yard run in football is always worth something.
Soccer also defies this analysis, as goals rank high on the thunderbolt scale but soccer Cinderellas are exceedingly rare. When Cypriot club APOEL made the final 16 of the Champions League a couple years back there was a veritable tizzy; they were immediately bashed out by Real Madrid 8-2.
And that makes sense, too. The structure of the game is such that good teams always have the ball and bad teams give up on the idea of competing on equal footing, instead preferring to pack everyone in front of their goal in hopes of a tie or a fluke goal. Outmatched teams regularly get outshot 10-1, compared to 2-1 in hockey. Hell, when Barca comes to town even teams backed by Russian plutocrats have a tendency to park the bus and hope for fortune.
Your randomness rankings, then, from least to most random:
- Basketball
- Soccer
- Football
- Hockey
- Baseball
It's a wonder they bother to play baseball instead of just guessing what color the ump is thinking about.
College basketball is quite a bit more random than the NBA, primarily because the game is shorter, possessions longer, and three pointers more readily available. Michigan just lost a 55 possession game in which the opponent went 8 of 13 from three primarily because one guy was unconscious. If that was an NBA game it would be the middle of the third quarter and they would have a chance to right the ship.
But overall, college basketball still spits out the "right" team enough that it's satisfying to me. The playoff structure very rarely sees top teams not reach the Sweet 16 and even more rarely puts a true interloper into the Final Four. Meanwhile, the single elimination nature of it makes any team vulnerable. March Madness straddles the line between unsatisfyingly random (baseball) and boringly rote (the NBA) almost perfectly.
I am with you on hockey, though. I find myself increasingly discontent with 2-1 games in which goals are mostly a matter of which plinko ball makes it all the way through the mass of bodies. Watching MSU and Michigan play in the GLI was illuminating, as Mickey Redmond took some time to compare MSU's defensive strategy of packing all six players in or near the crease to the current NHL vogue, then complain about how the game was better when people were checking guys on the points. The game has shifted such that save percentages added in with the number of shots that don't get to the goalie means that maybe 1 of 50 point shots does anything useful.
Meanwhile, the single elimination format that works so well in less-random basketball is a complete disaster in college hockey. Hell, the addition of the shootout and the loser point in the NHL has made even the 82 game regular season(!) way less predictive than you'd think. This then bleeds into the playoffs, where 8 seeds beating 1 seeds is commonplace. While it's somewhat controversial, these days statisticians struggle to find meaningful differences between most NHL goalies.
As a result I'm in favor of rather radical changes that would help teams who dominate in shots and attack time win more games, starting with expanding the net by approximately as much as goalies have improved in the last 20 years. Nine of the top ten save percentage marks in NHL history have been posted in the last five years. The only guy in the top 35 to post his mark before 2000 was Dominik Hasek, who owns five seasons in that range. There isn't a season older than 1993 in the entire top 250. This kind of goalie dominance makes hockey unsatisfyingly random.
I prefer a world were everything that goes off the post now is a goal. This gets goalie save percentages back down to a place were .900 is pretty good, differentiates the goalie pool, and makes standing around waiting for a hail of rubber a worse idea. Then gradually introduce Olympic ice in new buildings, do something to fix the wreck that is the offsides rule**, and maybe futz with goalie pads so they're more like they were back in the day—heavier, harder to cover your five-hole with, more cumbersome.
Death to plinko hockey.
*[I'm setting aside the 1946-47 Washington Capitols from Wikipedia's list since that season was considerably shorter than a regular NBA season, and it wasn't even the NBA yet.]
**[Current position: allow play to continue as long as the offsides player immediately moves to tag up at the blue line. Any other action by the player brings a whistle. There's no reason for rushes to get broken up because a guy is one foot offsides.]
With Dileo departing, an overlooked change that will take place next year is at holder. Who do you think will assume this role? My preference would be Norfleet or Peppers since I could see them executing some razzle dazzle that would lead to me dumping marinara sauce on my head in joy.
I have bad news, Mike: it's almost certainly going to be Kenny Allen, the backup punter, with an outside shot of one of the backup quarterbacks.
Dileo was uniquely qualified to be the holder because he secretes a sticky substance from his fingers that gives him super catching powers. Peppers and Norfleet are unlikely to be in Dileo's class in that department, so Michigan will replace him with someone who takes a ton of snaps as part of his daily routine. This is the way of the world.
Yeah, that change will limit Michigan's ability to fake field goals. Michigan will probably just go for it instead, which is fine.
Was wondering if you could project who you think the starting CB will be next season. I may be in a minority but I was really impressed with Jourdan Lewis.
Peter F
It's going to be tough for Lewis to fight his way past either incumbent starter, especially with Jabrill Peppers arriving on a cascade of hype, torrent of praise, and all other water-related-muchness of thing.
First, the incumbent starters. I know both Raymon Taylor and Blake Countess had issues with Tyler Lockett. This puts them in good company, as everyone who played a healthy Lockett this year got shredded. Overall Michigan finished 47th in yards per attempt and in a big pile at 23rd in interceptions despite having a mediocre-at-best pass rush. Countess and Taylor acquired ten of the seventeen interceptions, nearly all of them great plays instead of fortunate deflections. The eyeball test was pretty kind to both when in non-Lockett situations. (Also non-Indiana-tempo'd situations, which are a problem but one of a different sort than not being able to cover dudes.)
Meanwhile, the freshmen behind the starters were game but did give up a ton of yards in big chunks, whether it was because they phased out of reality or irritated the wrong gypsy. I don't think either starter is getting passed.
Then: Peppers. Historically, guys like Peppers have a breaking-in period of about half a season before emerging into a starting job late in their freshman year. Woodson, Hall, Countess, Jackson: all followed this path. With Michigan short on boundary corner types that seems like the most likely path for Peppers as well, starting the year as the third corner and gradually displacing Taylor as the season plugs along.
This doesn't leave much room for Lewis or Stribling this year. Michigan's corner depth is such that 247 is reporting that redshirt freshman Ross Douglas has been flipped to tailback despite being 5'10" and 180—the opposite of the rough and tumble brawler Michigan seems to want. While I expect both sophomores to get spot duty, a breakthrough is unlikely this time out.
Upon Further Review 2013: Defense vs MSU
FORMATION NOTES: On passing downs Michigan sometimes went with this 3-3-5-ish look with the line in a wide three-man front and the SAM hanging out next to one of the ends;
They also went with a weird wide even line against Ace, once:
M rolled down Gordon in their under early:
And occasionally split their nickel package, leaving just one LB. I called this 5-1.
Oh and on the final drive MSU pulled out an unbalanced formation with two inline TEs to the same side of the line.
Deliberately trolling Borges's unbalanced lines? Probably not, but I hope so.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Taylor, Countess, and Gordon went the whole way. When Michigan went to a nickel it was always Jourdan Lewis; Michigan also brought in Avery from time to time to spot Wilson, with iffy success.
Linebacker was the usual, except Brennen Beyer was moved to SDE, leaving SAM mostly Ryan with Cam Gordon backing; the three-man ILB rotation was still in place. Gedeon was sent to the bench again.
On the line Michigan did some weird stuff. Black(!) played nose tackle to open the game and would end up there periodically. Henry flipped between nose and three-tech; when it was Washington and Henry Michigan seemed to regard them as interchangeable. Clark went almost the whole way at WDE; very little Ojemudia. At SDE it was Beyer and some Wormley; no or very little Heitzman. Glasgow made a cameo or two.
[After THE JUMP: I mean, what did you expect?]
This Week's Obsession: What's the Matter With Kids Today?
Watch the birdie.
In my day freshmen appeared on the scene knocking down Bobby Hoying passes, shutting down Terry Glenn, and cleaving Eddie George. Then they'd switch to offense and fold Mike Vrabel in twain. What's the matter with kids today? The cast today:
- Ann-Margret as Brian Cook
- Dick Van Dyke as Seth Fisher
- Bobby Rydell as Ace Anbender
- Jesse Pearson as Brandon "Birdie" Brown
|Of the young linebackers, we've seen a lot of Bolden but not much from him. [Upchurch]
The Q:
It's an expectation (or a conceit) at Michigan that recruits follow a "track" of progression that should see them all-conference and worth drafting after four years in the program. Of the 2012 class and the few '13 guys who've seen action, who do you see as ahead of schedule, or worryingly behind?
Ace: I'm not even going to bother with the 2013 class because it's beyond too early to discuss their progression versus expectations; frankly, that's the case for the 2012 class as well, but they at least have a handful of guys who have broken through and seen extensive time.
Three players who are clearly ahead of schedule are Devin Funchess, James Ross, and Willie Henry. Funchess has gone from dangerous-but-terrible-at-blocking tight end to dangerous-and-oh-god-so-dangerous wide receiver, and he's got an NFL future even if his blocking never develops as much as we'd hope. Ross has had an up-and-down year but still has a stranglehold on the weakside LB starting job; he's a future all-conference player once he adds a little more weight to take on blocks—his instincts are already there. Henry's initial expectations weren't as high as the other two, nor has he played at their level consistently, but he's easily exceeded expectations for a late three-star pickup just by seeing the field and holding his own.
[Jump like a Funchess]
Upon Further Review 2013: Defense vs Indiana
FORMATION NOTES: Michigan spent every snap in their nickel. This was fairly typical.
That also shows what I called "shotgun triangle" for IU. Wynn is lined up in the backfield behind the QB, but it's shotgun depth, not pistol. Wynn would always motion out after a hand-wave from the QB; this was always a decoy.
Michigan did show a few okie packages. This is Okie two; I designate them by the number of safeties.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Boatloads. Avery went back to safety and spotted Gordon and Wilson from time to time. This led to a lot of Stribling and Lewis, as Michigan played every snap in their nickel. Countess and Taylor did not leave the field, IIRC.
At linebacker the usual Ross/Morgan/Bolden rotation saw Ben Gedeon join. The line was the usual profusion of bodies. Clark or Ojemudia was usually one end with one of Beyer/Ryan/CGordon the other. On the interior, Washington, Black, Wormley, Henry and Heitzman seemed to split snaps almost evenly. Glasgow also got in some.
[After THE JUMP: go go go go go go go go go go]
There Will Be Bombs
10/19/2013 – Michigan 63, Indiana 47 – 6-1, 2-1 Big Ten
Jake Butt's block gets Devin Funchess cupcake dog eyes. [Eric Upchurch]
Chris Tucker! Jackie Chan!
Autobots! Decepticons!
Someone mentions that 67-65 Illinois game!
And he gets thwacked!
This is Michigan!
I have confirmed this with people who do not care about Michigan football that much: that was not a collective fever dream brought on by the stress of the Penn State game. It happened, because Indiana is #1 in Big Ten offense and #546th in total defense. A team that put up 42 on them last week waddled towards their first and only offensive touchdown halfway through the fourth quarter of a game against Purdue. They gave up 35 to Indiana State while torching those guys for 70 points. They walloped Penn State by 20. Adam Jacobi has taken to calling the Hoosiers #CHAOSTEAM because at any moment they will break you or be broken themselves, leaving seven points and a flaming wagon wheel in their wake.
Pick literally any stat about offense you want and laugh. Indiana first downs: 28! Michigan's average gain: 9.0 yards! Indiana time of possession in a third quarter in which they scored 23 points: six minutes! Devin Gardner YPA: 17.3! Number of Indiana receivers with catches of at least 20 yards: 5!
This purports to be the same sport that Michigan played against Minnesota. I say it is not. I say it was a test pilot for TV executives from a dystopian future looking for something that will distract the masses from their slave-like drudgery in the fur mines. It was wildly successful. I barely remember anything about my day to day life in the fur mines.
In the aftermath, no one knows if anything means anything. Our ears are still ringing, shrapnel still falling, ham fragments scattered in the front yard. One of the children is walking with a limp and tilting his head funny in a way that seems worryingly permanent. The oil derrick is on fire.
In these situations it's hard to tease out judgments, especially when last week your offense was a few deep balls to Funchess and pain and your defense seemed rather good. A week later, Michigan's setting program records for total offense and getting eviscerated on the other side of the ball.
We had this debate last week about Raymon Taylor and now it's writ large: can any part of this team decide whether it sucks or it is awesome? Lewan and Gallon excepted, it seems like everything Michigan does is prone to insane swings. On the player level, hey look it's Devin Gardner, who explodes in all directions. Or Taylor, who was repeatedly roasted one game after having an awesome interception and was the primary hand in shutting down Allen Robinson for 3.99 quarters. Or Dennis Norfleet, who had an electric juke-you-out-of-your jock kickoff return and an electric reverse-field-twice-and-get-tackled-at-the-nine kickoff return. Even previously consistent Brendan Gibbons is now two for his last five with two line-drive blocks.
On the unit level, the defense waxes between perforated against Akron to crushing against UConn and Minnesota and most of the Penn State game. The offense nukes Notre Dame, nukes itself against Akron and UConn, reconfigures itself into a dump truck to out-dump-truck Minnesota, is bombs and turnovers and pain against Penn State, and then rewrites the record book this weekend. On a team level… well, you saw the Akron and UConn games. Michigan's quite a CHAOSTEAM itself.
Meanwhile, the opponent. In the second half, Michigan's game plan seemed to be max-protect pass after max-protect pass on which Funchess and Gallon would wander out in different variations of deep routes. Indiana would cover Funchess; Gallon would engage his cloaking device to become improbably open, then catch a ball and run for many yards. At some point in the second half, Gallon had already broken the Big Ten all-time receiving mark and one of these two man routes found him open by literally twenty yards.
Jeremy Gallon has three hundred receiving yards and the defense is blowing a coverage on him.
Blow a coverage on everybody else! Penn State intentionally blew a coverage and got an interception out of it! Are you recent immigrants from Malaysia? Do you think this is… Malaysiaball? I need Michigan to score a touchdown here and I am still slightly angry at you, Indiana. Incompetence so vast is a thing to behold, but how are you supposed to take this performance and extrapolate anything from it? It exists in a different world from football; it is for dystopian future distractions.
I probably shouldn't be looking for life lessons after that in any case. It's my natural inclination to search for What It Means For The Future after playing Indiana, since for my entire life as a Michigan fan Indiana games have been speed bumps on route to games Michigan might actually lose. This is a bad instinct after a game that will be That Indiana Game for the rest of time.
Here we should set those things aside and align ourselves in repose. Whatever just happened has no bearing on the future. Lay back, let your feet flop open, and breathe. Our neck muscles and inner ears could use the rest.
I'M FINISHED [Upchurch]
Brady Hoke Epic Double Point Of The Week. That Jeremy Gallon's epic, Michigan and Big Ten record-setting performance has the whisper of a challenge here is testament to the ridiculousness of this game. Even though Devin Gardner set some Michigan records of his own, Gallon's the guy.
Honorable mention: Gardner, obviously. Thomas Gordon's interception was the biggest defensive play of the day, by some distance. The line kept Gardner clean for long stretches.
Epic Double Point Standings.
2.0: Jeremy Gallon (ND, Indiana)
1.0: Devin Gardner (ND), Desmond Morgan(UConn), Devin Funchess(Minnesota), Frank Clark(PSU)
0.5: Cam Gordon (CMU), Brennen Beyer (CMU)
Brady Hoke Epic Double Fist-Pump Of The Week. After a couple weeks during which it was a stretch to pick anything, here the problem is paring it down form an explosion symphony to a quartet. Or singlet. Whatever. Music things!
But there is a pretty obvious item: Thomas Gordon undercutting a badly-thrown deep ball to intercept moments after Devin Gardner had fumbled a snap on the two yard line. Indiana got to the line instantly, caught Raymon Taylor off guard, seemingly had burned him for yet another immense touchdown, and Sudfeld left it short. A catch and return later, Michigan was once again in position to regain possession of the two-possession lead that was the only thing between Michigan fans and mass chaos. More mass chaos, anyway.
Honorable mention: Gallon catches ball, Gallon catches ball, Gallon catches ball, Gallon catches ball. Etc. Gardner scrambles, gets flipped into the endzone. Funchess leaps damn near out of the stadium to near the endzone in the second half.
Epic Double Fist-Pumps Past.
8/31/2013: Dymonte Thomas introduces himself by blocking a punt.
9/7/2013: Jeremy Gallon spins through four Notre Dame defenders for a 61-yard touchdown.
9/14/2013: Michigan does not lose to Akron. Thanks, Thomas Gordon.
9/21/2013: Desmond Morgan's leaping one-handed spear INT saves Michigan's bacon against UConn.
10/5/2013: Fitzgerald Toussaint runs for ten yards, gets touchdown rather easily.
10/12/2013: Devin Funchess shoots up the middle of the field to catch a 40 yard touchdown, staking Michigan to a ten-point lead they wouldn't relinquish. (Right?)
10/19/2013: Thomas Gordon picks off an Indiana pass to end the Hoosiers' last drive that could have taken the lead.
[After THE JUMP: Gallon catches ball, Gallon catches ball, Gallon catches ball.]
Upon Further Reviewy Hokepointsy Thing: Kickoffs
So I kind of misunderstood a direction by Brian when I said I wanted to address special teams—he wanted stats on dinosaur punting and I thought he meant UFR all the things he doesn't.
What sparked my interest was coffin corner kicking. NCAA moved the kickoff spot to the 35 and made touchbacks start on the 25 as in incentive to cut down on kickoff return (and ensuing concussions). Inadvertently (or maybe not) they took away the advantage gained by teams with big-legged touchback machines. To regain that advantage, schools that can recruit kickers are teaching them to put the ball higher and in a spot where returners have to field it but are likely to be swallowed short of the 25 after they do.
|D-E-D zone.
Against CMU I noticed Wile seemed particularly good at placing balls right in that deep left corner, the same thing I've done on every football videogame ever once I mastered the timing of the kickoff bar. This seems very hard to do in real life: you need to put the ball high enough to let your coverage get there but not deep enough that they let it go through the end zone, and far enough from the sideline that it won't go out of bounds, but far enough inside of the hash that you can use the sideline as a force defender. Do it well consistently and that's perhaps 50 yards of field position a game.
It's my first time UFR'ing these so gonna have to set some ground rules:
Points: Number of points given out reflects where the play ended up, figuring 1 point roughly equals 5 yards of field position, baseline: 25 yard line.
Glossary: The "From" column is where the kick originated, given as yard line then horizontal position ("L"=left hash, etc.). "Rtn" (return) is how far the returner ran it, "Rlt" (result) is where the ball's placed. "Tchbk" (touchback) means it's on the 25. "Corner L" means they kicked it from the left hash and try to have it come down near the goal line and relatively near the sideline; "Deep L" means they just kicked it deep along the hash mark. "Center" means they kick it toward the middle and come down the same.
Things: Note that Michigan typically kicks off from the left hash despite their right-footed kicker.
Okay, got a UFR macro reverse-engineered in Xcel. Got some torrents. Got a…oh, bolded, chart-demanding subconscious, you there?
Okay let's do this.
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WILMINGTON — Bruins forward Milan Lucic said Monday that he is pursuing legal action after being punched twice in the face in downtown Vancouver Saturday night after the Bruins' loss to the Canucks. (For video of the aftermath of the altercation, click here.)
"I was part of an unprovoked attack on Saturday night where I was punched in the face on two separate occasions, like I said, unprovoked," Lucic said. "From this point forward, I'm just exploring to pursue this in a legal manner. That's probably as much as I can say right now. Like I said, I was the victim of the attack. As you can see in the video, I showed restraint by not retaliating in a physical manner. That's basically it."
Lucic, who hails from Vancouver, said he was trying to "blow off some steam" and have some fun after the Bruins concluded their four-game road trip, but was punched once inside a nightclub and once outside. Both punches came from the same person, whom Lucic does not know.
The Bruins forward has had a frustrating run with his hometown, as Canucks fans threw popcorn at his grandparents during the 2011 Stanley Cup finals. In 2012, his Serbian Orthodox church was vandalized with such things as "[Expletive] Lucic" and "Go Canucks Go" spray-painted on the church. Lucic said he is "disgusted" with Vancouver.
"That's one of the worst parts. It's in my home town," Lucic said. "Going back to the spray painting of the church and my grandparents and parents and family getting harassed during the Final against the Canucks in 2011. Now it's escalated to a point where I get attacked for just minding my own business.
"I have no reason left to defend my city and the people in my city. I'm kind of just disgusted and outraged that it had to come to something like that. As far as that goes, other than being in Rogers Arena, nobody will ever see me in downtown Vancouver ever again."
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With the recovery of five bodies today, the death toll in the boat tragedy in Tandava Reservoir in Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh rose to six.
Six other occupants of the boat which capsised in Tandava reservoir yesterday are still missing and are feared drowned, a senior police official said here.
Naval divers, who launched search operations in the morning, fished out five bodies( all in the age group of 9 to 12 years), the official said.
The search operation was suspended in the evening and would resume tomorrow morning, the official said.
A country-made boat ferrying 14 villagers, most of them children of Ammapeta in Golugonda mandal who were returning after worshipping a local deity on a hillock, capsised yesterday on its way back.


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(PRWEB) February 11, 2014
ICANN President and Chief Executive Officer Fadi Chehadé has arrived in Beijing for several days of meetings with leaders of China's Internet and telecommunications community.
Chehadé will confer with several Chinese government agencies and representatives from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the Internet Society of China (ISC) ,the China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR) and other Internet community stakeholders.
"As evidenced by our opening of an Engagement Center in Beijing, ICANN is very determined to include Chinese stakeholders in our processes," said Chehadé. "The number of Chinese citizens going online is increasing dramatically and collectively they have a voice that needs to be heard."
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The California Court of Appeal recently determined that a contract clause limiting liability between parties was valid and prevented a food disinfection company from proceeding with its suit against a safety inspection company. Food Safety Net Services v. Eco Safe Systems USA, Inc., 147 Cal.Rptr.3d 634 (Cal. Ct. App. 2012). The case reaffirms parties' ability to limit tort liability through contracts.
Eco Safe and Food Safety entered into a contract to test food disinfection equipment sold by Eco Safe. Eco Safe hired Food Safety to perform a "challenge study" that would compare Eco Safe's ozone wash with a chlorine rinse to determine which did a better job of removing bacteria from lettuce and tomatoes. Food Safety applied three types of bacteria to lettuce and tomatoes and then washed the sets of vegetables. The study showed the ozone wash did a significantly better job of removing E. coli from lettuce, but there was no significant difference for tomatoes or the other bacteria. Eco Safe was unhappy with the test and refused to pay Food Safety. Food Safety sued for breach of contract, and Eco Safe then filed a counterclaim for breach of contract, negligence, fraud and related claims.
The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Food Safety on the counterclaim, and the Court of Appeal affirmed. Eco Safe's counterclaim failed because the parties' contract limited Food Safety's potential liability. The court found that the contract specifically excluded Food Safety's liability to Eco Safe for indirect, incidental or special damages. The contract limited damages to direct damages suffered by Eco Safe or an amount equal to what Eco Safe paid Food Safety, whichever was less. The damage limitation was important because Eco Safe was attempting to show it lost business with Carl's Jr. after the study. Because Eco Safe had not paid Food Safety, the contract clause prevented Eco Safe from recovering anything.
The court explained that the limited liability clause was a valid provision of the parties' contract. The clause protected Food Safety not only against Eco Safe's breach of contract claim, but also against Eco Safe's claim of negligence. Eco Safe's fraud claim also failed because it was barred by the economic loss rule, which limits a purchaser's remedy against a seller to a breach of contract claim when the purchaser is disappointed with the product. Robinson Helicopter Co., Inc. v. Dana Corp., 102 P.3d 268, 357-58, 34 Cal.4th 979, 988. (Cal. 2004). The court awarded attorneys' fees to Food Safety.
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Healthcare professionals working within the growing field of convenient care convened Tuesday for the sixth annual Retail Clinician Education Congress, a three-day educational and networking forum that is accredited for both nurse practitioners and physician assistants.
Declining use overall of healthcare services drove down spending on medicines in the United States by 3.5% per capita last year, according to a new study.
Healthcare analytics firm IMS Health has acquired social media analytics company Semantelli Corp., saying the purchase would allow it to provide real-time monitoring and delivery of insights into consumer and physician behavior and sentiments.
Galderma, whose brands include Cetaphil, and The American Academy of Dermatology have announced the creation of the American Academy of Dermatology Translational Biotechnology Fellowship.
The Foundation for Health Smart Consumers has announced a major expansion of its smoking cessation initiative through the Inspire Program, which will launch at the annual Retail Clinician Education Congress held in May in Las Vegas.
Diplomat Specialty Pharmacy is among several Flint, Mich.-area companies that have signed on to a council to support a local business that makes scrubs and is interested in expanding beyond traditional markets.
President Barack Obama sent his $3.8 trillion budget proposal to Congress on April 10, and the plan includes a number of provisions designed to cut spending on health care and promote health and wellness.
Overall, the budget is something of a mixed bag for the healthcare industry. While it would provide incentives for expanding the use of generic drugs, for example, it would also cut spending on Medicaid that have drawn opposition from pharmacy retailers, and even generic drug makers disagree with some of its provisions for that industry.
"It's time to unlock the gates to the primary care club" and allow nurse practitioners to practice to the full extent of their education and training. That was a key message of a physician-authored article in Slate magazine.
The Physician Assistant Review Panel has granted its approval for CME credit for physician assistants at the upcoming 2013 Retail Clinician Education Congress.
A MinuteClinic location at a CVS store in downtown Columbia, S.C., got a visit from one of the state's top health officials recently.
BioPlus Specialty Pharmacy will notify physicians within two hours whether a patient has been accepted for treatment, the company said.
Take Care Health, which is owned by Walgreens, has announced it is expanding the scope of services within its Take Care Clinics to include chronic condition management and additional preventive health offerings.
Three bills that were introduced in California would recognize pharmacists as healthcare providers and would enable pharmacists, nurse practitioners and optometrists to practice to the full extent of their education and training.
The reality is that industry observers can expect to see more states considering similar measures as they all prepare a roadmap to lower costs by allowing pharmacists and NPs to practice at the top of their professions.
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MinuteClinic, the retail healthcare division of CVS Caremark and North Shore-LIJ Health System, one of the nation's largest healthcare providers, have signed a clinical collaboration to enhance access to high-quality healthcare services in Nassau and Suffolk counties and the boroughs of Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island.
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Differences of iron and steel:
• The main difference between iron and steel is iron is an element and steel is an alloy comprising of iron and carbon. The major component of steel is iron and various other metals can be added so as to produce alloys that have different properties.
• Steel is stronger than iron and it has better tension and compression properties.
• Iron that containing less than 2 % of carbon is called steel. Iron containing more than 2% is called pig iron.
• The derivative of iron is steel and steel is discovered later whereas iron is known since the civilization began.
Differences of cast iron and wrought iron:
• The synonymous of worked iron is wrought iron , cast iron is also known as brittle iron as it can withstand all the harsh environmental conditions
• The main difference between cast iron and wrought iron is in the way of formation. During the manufacture of wrought iron, the metal has been constantly pounded by some tools so as to get the desired shape.
• The manufacture of cast iron is completely opposite to the manufacture of wrought iron. Cast iron is manufactured by pouring the liquefied metal into a preformed molding container.
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Paula Hamilton teaches in the public history program and has supervised many post-graduate research students in history and other areas of the Faculty. During her career she has taken an active role in building the post-graduate and research culture within the Faculty and was Research Director 2000-2001. She is now a member of the University Research Management Committee and has taken up a University readership for the 2002-4 period. She has conducted consultancies and research with museums, including Powerhouse, Australian Museum and National Museum of Australia. She has strong links with the oral history community, indicative of her long-term interest in cultural memory, particularly collective remembering through oral narratives. She has extensive experience interviewing working women, migrants, journalists and women survivors of disaster. With Paul Ashton she edits 'Public History Review' and also 'Locality: a community history journal', both of which act as a link between the academe and the wider community. Paula is also Co-Director of the Australian Centre for Public History (with Paul Ashton), and, a member of the Key University Centre in Communication and Culture, Transforming Cultures http://transforming.cultures.uts.edu.au. She remains committed to facilitating historical work for wider audiences and promoting links between the academe and the public sphere.
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Australians and the Past
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Popular culture and memory in Australia
Completing a book, 'Popular culture and memory in Australia' being considered by UNSW Press. This work explores the role of memory in constituting identities, particularly gendered identities, the ways in which mass media narratives have shaped identities, and, the impact of modernity on Australian culture.
A History of the Australian Heritage Commission
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Oral History and Public Memory
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Memorials in Australia post-1945
ARC Grant application (with Paul Ashton).
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We had stayed in the campground for a vacation a couple years back. There are 45 trailer and tent sites. Each has fire rings and tables, so no need to pack for that. It costs $20 a night, and I believe there is a limit on how long you can stay. Now, the park has some larger, circular tent structures and even some cabins that can be rented. Those sites are $30 and $40 a night respectively. The showers and other personal facilities were adequate and well maintained.
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Unlike Harvest Moon, Rune Factory allows you to craft food items as well as items (like weapons and armor). Here are some of them.
- Recipes - Pot
- Recipes - Frying Pan
- Recipes - No Utensils
- Recipes - Blender
- Recipes - Oven
- Recipes - Steamer
Creation Instructions
Crafting is the process of combining different ingredients to make something new. You'll need recipes, ingredients, and crafting areas to craft. Crafting areas can be found on various places on Fenith Island. You can also have crafting areas built inside your house.
When you access a crafting area, a list of your recipes will be displayed. You can only make a recipe if you have all the ingredients for it.
Select a recipe to start crafting!
Once you start crafting, the marker will start rapidly moving back and forth in the crafting bar. Stop the marker in the blue section to craft successfully!
Three Sisters Inn Kitchen
There are three different areas for cooking on the counter in the Kitchen of the Inn. The first is for 'No Utensils' Dishes. The second is for Frying Pan Dishes and the third is for Pot Dishes. You need to stand in front of the appropriate Utensil to gain access to the Menu that allows you to cook. You will be able to cook only Dishes that use a maximum of two Ingredients here.
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FCC plans to nix wireless network that may jam GPS
NEW YORK Federal officials plan to kill a proposal to build a new national high-speed wireless network after concluding it would in some cases jam personal-navigation and other GPS devices.
The Federal Communications Commission sought comments Wednesday on revoking LightSquared's permit after a federal agency that coordinates wireless signals, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, concluded that there's no way to eliminate the risk of interference with GPS devices.
The FCC had seen LightSquared's proposal as a way to make more airwaves available to feed consumers' appetites for movies, music and games on a variety of mobile devices.
Makers of GPS devices and those who rely on them feared that GPS signals would suffer the way a radio station can get drowned out by a stronger broadcast in a nearby channel. The problem is that sensitive GPS receivers, designed to pick up relatively weak signals from space, could be overwhelmed by high-power signals from as many as 40,000 LightSquared transmitters on the ground. LightSquared planned to transmit on a frequency adjacent to that used by GPS.
When the FCC gave LightSquared tentative approval last year to build the network, it said the company wouldn't be allowed to start operations until the government was satisfied that any problems are addressed. LightSquared and the FCC had insisted the new network could co-exist with GPS systems.
After government and industry groups conducted tests, the NTIA said Tuesday that it found interference with dozens of personal-navigation devices and aircraft-control systems that rely on GPS.
The agency said that new technology in the future might mitigate the problems, but it would take time and money to replace GPS equipment already used extensively in the U.S. The NTIA, a branch of the Commerce Department, also said adjustments to LightSquared's network could cost billions of dollars and might not solve all of the problems.
LightSquared, which is based in Reston, Va., chastised the FCC for withdrawing approval after the company had already spent nearly $4 billion.
"There can be no more devastating blow to private industry and confidence in the consistency of the FCC's decision-making process," Sanjiv Ahuja, chairman and CEO of LightSquared, said in a statement.
Ahuja said the company still believed it could find a working solution "if all the parties have that same level of commitment."
The FCC said it was accepting public comments on its revocation plans until March 1.
LightSquared had hoped to compete nationally with super-fast, fourth-generation wireless services being rolled out by AT&T, Verizon Wireless and other traditional wireless companies. It hadn't planned to sell directly to consumers. Rather, it would have provided network access to companies including Leap Wireless, parent of the Cricket phone service, and Best Buy, which planned to rebrand the service under its own name.
LightSquared is owned by Harbinger Capital Partners, a private-equity firm that made billions betting against subprime mortgages ahead of the collapse of the housing market.
Part of the problem stems from the fact that today's GPS devices have been designed to screen out low-power signals in the adjacent wireless spectrum used by LIghtSquared, not the high-power ones planned.


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Deborah Meaden: multi-millionaire Meaden, 54, from Dragons' Den, previously took part in Let's Dance for Comic Relief. She said that she would not be able to live with herself if she turned down Strictly and added: "I did ballroom dancing at school, but I was atrocious! I was distracted, I didn't like it - in honesty I was looking at the boys more than anything else as that's what you do as a teenage girl!"


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Delicious appetizers wrapped in prosciutto from Top Chef star Fabio Viviani.
25 dried dates, as large as possible
1 lb. ricotta cheese
25 slices prosciutto, cut in half length-wise
Extra-virgin olive oil
Step 1: Preheat the oven to 450°F.
Step 2: Cut the dates in half and use a teaspoon to place a dollop of ricotta in each half.
Step 3: Wrap each half-date in a half-slice of prosciutto and place them in a baking pan. Drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil and dust with pepper.
Step 4: Bake for 10 minutes. Serve warm.
See more recipes from Fabio Viviani.
Reprinted with permission from Fabio Viviani's Fabio's Italian Kitchen (2013 Hyperion Books).
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Net neutrality shouldn't mean continued ISP threat neutrality - but regulatory dice roll.FCC considering classifying some ISP services as "Common Carrier" services
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Since it was first published in 1967, Anthony Wilhelm's Christ Among Us has become America's most popular guide to modern Catholicism. Perfect for both new Catholics and those returning to the faith, this classic presentation of the Catholic faith provides a thorough, up-to-date discussion of Catholic theology, traditions, and practices and traces Church teachings from Vatican II to Pope John Paul II.
The sixth revised edition of Christ Among Us has been fully updated to reflect...
Since it was first published in 1967, Anthony Wilhelm's Christ Among Us has become America's most popular guide to modern Catholicism. Perfect for both new Catholics and those returning to the faith, this classic presentation of the Catholic faith provides a thorough, up-to-date discussion of Catholic theology, traditions, and practices and traces Church teachings from Vatican II to Pope John Paul II.
The sixth revised edition of Christ Among Us has been fully updated to reflect the Church's teaching on current social issues and including excerpts from the new Catechism of the Catholic Church. Including discussion questions with modern relevance as well as suggestions for personal reflection, Christ Among Us is the ideal handbook for anyone interested in the practice of Catholicism today.
What is life all about? Is there a God? If there is a God, does he care about us? Can I make contact with God? To answer these questions, we begin with something all people seek...
Something To Live For
If there is one thing that people seek from life, it is fulfillment. We need a purpose, something to live for, a goal that will truly fulfill us and bring us happiness.
Many live for a successful marriage and a good home; some want a pleasant job with financial security; some seek power, or a life of pleasure and leisure, or friends and social position.
Many today, including many younger people, find their purpose in the service of others. In this age of great social change and consequent confusion these highly motivated individuals have brought about great good in our world.
Yet we must acknowledge that none of these things can completely satisfy our aspirations. No matter what we have, there is always something else we want. We also realize that these things cannot give us lasting and secure happiness, nor a lasting sense of accomplishment, for human weakness, tragedy, or death can destroy what we have. "Human beings are like a breath; their days like a passing shadow" (Psalm 144, 4).
The conviction of the Christian believer is that two thousand years ago Jesus Christ revealed to us an ultimate purpose to our life: to live forever with God after death. We know that our greatest happiness in this life comes from love. From childhood everyone has an insatiabledesire to love and be loved. Our happiness in human love, Christ tells us, is but a dim reflection of the immense, unending joy of loving God and being loved by him forever.
Jesus told us that this unending life of happiness after death is such that we could not even begin to dream of it. It is as if someone lived in a closed room, never seeing or hearing anything outside. Then one day someone opened the door to the outside to display the world with its marvels. Christ did this for us, but he revealed that our destiny is infinitely more wonderful — so staggering that we can grasp it only bit by bit.
Jesus told us that we begin our life of love and happiness with God while still here on earth. But this happiness is different from what many people think. It does not come from satisfying our desire for pleasure or material things or social achievement. It comes from truly loving and often involves suffering and sacrifice. It is realistic. It brings not freedom from pain but a deep peace and sense of fulfillment even in the midst of pain.
Jesus showed us how to get along with others and how to bear sufferings and frustration. He told us and showed us what we can do about our loneliness and fears, our guilt and uneasiness, and how to have true peace and security.
Jesus revealed that God has a plan by which we are to share in his love and happiness, in other words, that there is a meaning to human history. He told us not only that we have a place in God's plan but that (as is becoming more apparent today) the working out of this plan depends on us, on our free cooperation with God as coauthors of history. Jesus' great follower, St. Paul, put it this way:
To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ, and to make all humanity see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things; that through the Church the wisdom of God in its rich variety might now be made known.. . . This was according to the eternal purpose which he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord (Ephesians 3, 8-11).
The unique claim that Jesus made for his teaching was that he has a special knowledge of God and his plan for us, and that he alone can lead us to God. He said that he was sent by God, and is, in fact, God's only Son: "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but through me" (John 14,5).
Therefore the story of Jesus' teaching and God's plan begins with God himself...
How People Come To Know God
People come to a realization of God in countless ways. These are some of them:
Some have grown from childhood with a knowledge of God, are accustomed to pray and to make God a part of their thoughts and decisions.
Some reflect on the course of their life and have an unshakable conviction of God's providence over them. Particularly in times of crisis, they realize, someone was there who heard and understood.
Some find God's presence in nature. In hills and mountains, a peaceful lake, an expanse of sky, there comes the conviction of someone. A few might come closest while caught up in a moving piece of music, in the contemplation of an art masterpiece, or something similar.
Some are convinced that they have personally experienced God — a deeply moving, joyous, and unifying experience, giving great peace, clarity, and certainty, profoundly affecting their lives yet unexplainable to others. Many who testify to this — and it is usually with reluctance that they do so — are otherwise balanced and credible people.
For others, experiencing God is not as intense. It may be an experience of our human limitations or "boundaries," a sense of wonder that we exist at all, and a hint of an otherness that lies beyond. It may be a glorious sunset, the sweep of stars in a clear nighttime sky, a look from a loved one or a touch of an understanding hand, a child's laughter, an unexpected joy — all these tell of another that sustains, gives hope, and is always there.
|Our Life and God
|God's Plan for Us Begins with Creation
|God's Gift of Himself and Our Rejection of Him
|God's Plan Unfolds in the Old Testament
|Priests, Kings, and Prophets Prepare the Way
|Christ Comes Among Us
|Christ Reveals to Us the Father, the Spirit, and Himself
|Christ Saves Us by His Death and Resurrection
|Christ Sends the Holy Spirit to Form His Church
|Those Who Serve as Our Guides
|The Great Book in Which We Meet God
|The Great Signs in Which We Meet God
|Christ Unites Us to Himself and to One Another by Baptism
|Our Worship Together: The Mass
|The Eucharist in Christ's Church Today
|The Inner Life of a Christian
|Our Christian Presence in the World
|Sin and What It Can Do to Us
|The Christian's Continuing Conversion
|When Illness or Disability Comes to a Christian
|Christ Joins a Man and Woman in Marriage
|The Family that Is the Church
|The Greater Family to Which We Belong
|Christ's Church in the World Today
|Living Daily the Christian Life
|Fulfillment Forever
|Using Christ Among Us with the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)
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A closer look at Russian arms sales to Syria
The Kremlin has insisted that the continuing Russian arms sales don't violate any international agreements and scoffed at Western demands to halt the trade. Underlining Moscow's defiance, a Russian ship carrying a load of weapons arrived In Syria just a few weeks ago amid international anger over Assad's refusal to honor a U.N.-sponsored peace plan.
The new Russian weapons supplies add to Syria's massive arsenal of hundreds of Soviet-built combat jets, attack helicopters and missiles and thousands of tanks, other armored vehicles and artillery systems. Russia said it also has military advisers in Syria training the Syrians to use the Russian weapons, and has helped repair and maintain Syrian weapons.
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The RGB Cocktail, Fan Appreciation Month
Here is a cocktail that will bite you right in the bo jangles! A sweet flavor, a tart bite of fresh simple syrup with great acidity. This cocktail makes you want to keep drinking, super awesome.
Here is a cocktail that will bite you right in the bo jangles! A sweet flavor, a tart bite of fresh simple syrup with great acidity. This cocktail makes you want to keep drinking, super awesome.
Today we take a pink liqueur, not too unlike X-Rated in color (and market presence) with a slightly different flavor profile due to the cranberry being a nice dry cranberry finisher.
The gin presences is slightly muted in the Kinky Cranberry if you use a slightly more subtle gin because the other flavors are predominant. Using Greenhook ginsmiths gives us a bit of a juniper and camomile essence–a bit of the herbal quality, dryness of the cranberry and Kinky.
The Wim Gin Juice, a cocktail that contrasts a sour mix against celery bitters in a battle of flavors in your mouth. Does your brain get tired trying to decode the mysteries of this cocktail?
Submitted by Wim, we named this drink because it was just too darn hard to not! Shake, strain, enjoy your gin in a way you never thought possible.
Alcoholic lemonade, the only thing in this cocktail that is our "sweet" is the sprite soda via our sodastream. This is going to be a bit of a sour drink with a big dose of alcohol from your vodka/moonshine/core spirit. Help Fund Us: http://patreon.com/cmc Drink Responsibly.
Doug has to spill a bit because, that's just what he does and Daddy's Pear Juice is no different. Today, though, we create a cocktail with Xanté Pear Liqueur along with a few other cool spirits.
The Alien Piss, a potent cocktail with an epic color. Midori typically makes a drink super sweet, not in the alien piss cocktail! This is a cocktail that gets easier to drink as you continue to sip it.
We start our tiki contest for the Lewis Bag, we're looking for four winners with the best unique creation of tiki style. This contest is going to be hard because everything tastes so great in tiki.
A potent kick in the face with a bit of carbonation and lots of striking alcohol, top with extra soda to dim down the potent and allow some orange and citrus to flow.
Well balanced juniper against a dark berry finish that is neither sweet nor tart. The flavors build their own unique taste experience that is neither gin nor black current.
Sweet start with a lot of defining vibrant spiced flavor with herbal notes. The finish brings black licorice which jumps right out at you after the sweetness subsides
Citrus meets intense candied black licorice flavor with a light but tasty sweet finish of grenadine.
Orange juice and sprite combo creates a light and zesty rich orange juice flavor with a underlying hpnotiq tropical finish that's very distinct to hpnotiq. Not a huge gin or cognac flavor profile.


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