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Robin Brownlee
March 21 2011 09:38PM
Is it time for the NHL to eliminate fighting?
I've heard that question asked 100 times if I've heard it once in the last 28 years or so writing about hockey for a living, and I've always had the same reaction. I'd look at the Goody Two Shoes asking it like they were some sort of drooling fool, scowl or roll my eyes and say, "Hell, no." Quite often, followed by a barely audible, "Sissy."
When somebody raises the topic or poses the question now, I find I'm not reacting the same way. I'm not sure when my opinion on bare-knuckles fighting changed, and I'm not certain exactly how far it's shifted, but the question no longer offends me.
I don't see the possibility of taking the act of "dropping the gloves" out of hockey as some sort of sacrilegious assault on the integrity of the game. I don't perceive posing the question as a misplaced bit do-good-ism, as a query to be dismissed off-hand because it clashes, rather mightily in my particular case, with the way I've always viewed fisticuffs.
I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'm now of the opinion it's a question that is at least worth asking, even if some of you out there are bound to roll your eyes and utter, "Sissy."
When people used to raise the issue of fighting, I'd say," It's part of the game." It seemed like a handy default answer. Hockey players have been punching each other senseless since the first puck hit the ice, so, in that regard, yes, it's part of the game.
Then again, having goaltenders play bare-faced was once part of the game. I'm old enough to remember it. If you're in your 20s or even 30s, think about that. Goaltenders used to face shooters bare-faced -- slap shots, screened shots. Pile-ups in the crease, skate blades, sticks. Now, if a goaltender loses his mask, the referee blows the whistle.
Having players play without helmets was once part of the game. I used to figure that was a personal choice by players and so did the NHL -- use of helmets was grandfathered in and bare-headed players, Craig MacTavish was the last, disappeared. A bad thing?
Take something as basic as the netting required in the end zone of rinks to protect fans from wayward pucks. After 13-year-old Britannie Cecil died after being struck in the head by a puck in a game between the Blue Jackets and Calgary Flames in March 2002, the NHL mandated safety netting would be installed in rinks. There was great debate.
"Netting? We won't be able to see" or "You can't put netting in. We've never had netting." A young girl died but there was still debate. Do we give netting a thought now?
Times change. And when people are permanently injured or even killed because of what we do and how we do it, even allowing for reasonable risks that are inherent in a game like hockey, they should.
I don't like what doctors found when they looked at Bob Probert's brain. I'm uncomfortable Raitis Ivanans hasn't played a game since a Steve MacIntyre punch dropped him like he'd been shot in the head. There was a time when I wouldn't have given the brain injuries suffered by Probert and Ivanans a second throught. Part of the job.
Framed in what we're learning about brain injuries suffered by athletes and the long-term effects of those injuries, I'm wondering if we should take another look at what we consider "part of the game."
I'm conflicted about that. I've always felt something of a kinship with hockey tough guys, players who take up that last spot or two on a roster because they're willing to bend noses and kick ass, to take care of business and ride shotgun, to put themselves in harm's way.
Guys like Rudy Poeschek, the toughest player I have ever known, and Georges Laraque, a sweetheart away from the rink who I know well and spent many years on the road with. All the hammers, really.
I admire them and always have. Now, I fear for them, well-paid for being ruffians or not.
This isn't knee-jerk stuff for me. As long-time readers at Oilersnation know, I did the tough guy gig as a lacrosse player. I scrapped some as a hockey player. I had boxing gloves and a heavy bag hanging in my garage from the time I was 13 years old.
I was a big kid -- six-foot-two and about 205 pounds by the time I was 14. I liked to fight. I got my ass kicked more times than I remember because of it. Concussions? I don't know how many. Too many.
It was part of the game and it was my job and a way to be a part of the team. I did it until I got tired of getting beat up and hurting all the time. I got sick of seeing my mom with tears in her eyes because I'd busted my nose or a knuckle again or had punched out another kid. It was not part of the game for her.
Those days long gone, I still enjoyed fighting. I had all the fight tapes in the old VCR days. Later, I had all of the fight websites bookmarked on my computer. I've watched Poeschek and Craig Berube pound each other 1,000 times. Trevor Senn? Look him up. The arrival of YouTube? There's a smorgasbord of mayhem. Great stuff, right?
We didn't know then -- especially going back to when I was 15 or 25 or even 35 -- what we know now, what the medical evidence is telling us about brain injuries. About what happens to the players who bring the crowd to their feet when the gloves hit the ice.
So, if the NHL is taking steps to reduce the number of concussions its players sustain by eliminating headshots from the game, how long can it allow players to drop their gloves and punch each other because "it's part of the game." Because it entertains us?
I know the numbers in recent NHL studies on concussions -- Mark Spector at Sportsnet, among others, has written some compelling stuff on this -- show fighting isn't nearly the biggest culprit when it comes to brain injuries. Cheap stuff like Matt Cooke got suspended for and legal hits during the course of a game account for many more.
That said, based on what we know now, how many brain injuries are OK? What's the number? If the NHL is finds it unacceptable for a player to target the head of another player with a shoulder or an elbow, how much longer can it accept that doing it with a fist is part of the game? I don't have the answer.
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I enjoy a spirited ice hockey contest, but fighting is a relic of the past and has no place in the game anymore.
March 21 2011, 09:49PM
As relative as it will ever get: FIST!
Edit: Damn you, Fresh!!!!
Brownlee, this is one of those odd pieces that I can really relate to. I feel much the same way you do.
I loved the hockey fight compilations. I loved Dave Brown when he was an Oiler and always had a soft spot for the enforcer, but as you wrote, times change and we evolve.
I now find myself being one of those guys I used to mock. I just don't think it belongs in our game anymore. I think visors should be madatory too.
While I can understand the health risks involved, hockey is a violent sport. Players risk long-term injury just stepping onto the ice.
I think the NHL should increase punishments for violent behavior of all kinds, as that will be the only thing that will make a guy think twice before attempting to injure.
IMO, the most fair way of doling out this punishment would be to suspend a player the length of time the injured player is out.
Still, fighting is part of the fabric of the game and should have it's place.
It is interesting that the big cry today is the head shots and how the NHL has to get it out of the game yet they allow fighting which is in effect a licence to hit the other guy in the head.
I'm not sure if it still belongs in the game. It's a darn good question.
This is the first time i've notice Brownlee post on the flames sight, Ive only been here 100 or so times...
This article strikes me as an attempt to brew a controversial comment board.
The point about goalies playing without masks, and how we in our 20's or 30's should think about that??? I play D, and block a lot of shots, without face protection. : "facing shooters bare-faced -- slap shots, screened shots. Pile-ups in the crease, skate blades, sticks. "
Besides sticks had ZERO curve back in the day.
The only issue here is that we have room on the ROSTERS for 3 minute per game players. Drop the roster, watch the goons vanish. Look at Stortini, he got 200+ games and cant' even fight! (love the guy)
March 21 2011, 10:06PM
Somewhere Dana White must be grinnin from ear to ear. I'd hate to see what they'd call NHL players if they removed this element from the game.
Impressive article Robin. Good for you for going against the tide and being ballsy enough to present both sides of the dilemma. You raise some very good questions there. Instead of giving the cliche'd old answer, "its part of the game" or, "the fans love it" like some media types do, you analyzed that in a very fair manner. Truth is, some fans love it. But how many more fans would the NHL get if they got rid of it?
Guess i'm not looking at the flames SITE afterall!
March 21 2011, 10:14PM
On a serious note; quit being such a sissy, Brownlee!
Emotions run high in a physical sport, so un-staged fighting is as much a natural part of the game as hitting. Doubt they could rule it out if they wanted to. ~Maybe the NHL should look at minimizing head shots... in a fight!~ Sheeesh.
What's an average salary in a Canada these days? $60K? Compare that to a minimum NHL salary of $500K. Ivanins doesn't have to fight, he can probably drive a truck instead. But I'm guessing even he won't share your opinion.
Heavy stuff RB. I've been a it's part of the game crowd for a long time too, but it's definitely something to ponder. Probably my biggest fear taking fighting out of the game is being able to protect the skill players properly. Having the Otts, Burrows and Clutterbucks taking liberties with Hall and Eberle and not being able to make them accountable would be tough to watch.
And at what point do you draw the line? Body checking causes injuries. Slapshots cause injuries. Poor ice conditions cause injuries.
Hockey players choose to fight and know the risks. I choose to drive race cars. I stalk bears with a bow and arrow. I sled in the mountains. I drive my quad like a maniac. I know the risks involved in those things and am thankful I am able to do these things if I want. If two hockey players in the heat of a game want to drop the gloves, I still think they should be able to choose to do so, knowing the risks involved.
March 21 2011, 10:19PM
I think there's still a place in the NHL for fighting, but more and more I'm starting to see less reason for the super heavyweights/goons. The MacIntyre's, the Gillies, the Boogards, etc. The guys who hardly take a regular shift and who's soul purpose is to fight each other. Honestly, when was the last time we saw Mac take on someone other than his doppelganger on the other team? Have we ever seen that?
These guys are always fan favorites and I'm sure all the boys in the room enjoy them just as much, if not more, but I don't think there's any need for them. They're clearly not out there protecting anyone, so what exactly are they there for? Bring on more Lucic's, Dorsett's, Simmond's, etc. Guys who can chuck em when they have to but can still play at least 8+ minutes a night and contribute.
I worry about how chippy the game will become if there are no consequences for your actions.
March 21 2011, 10:23PM
I'm one of those fans that loves his fighting. I might get labelled a dinosaur, but that's fine by me.
I don't wish anyone a brain injury, but concussions will never be eradicated until hockey is no longer a contact sport. Maybe I'll enjoy flag hockey, but I hope it doesn't come to that.
(American) Football is to Rugby As No Fighting Hockey is to Hockey
That makes me wonder how many mins Lucic averages, but i'm too lazy to look it up
March 21 2011, 10:26PM
I worry about how chippy the game will become if there are no consequences for your actions.
Pretty sure we're already well past that point. And unfortunately with all this head shot stuff putting fuel on the ban fighting argument I don't think we'll ever see the instigator be removed, which is a shame. You think Matt Cooke would still be throwing elbows and hits to the numbers if he got his nose broken three or four times at the beginning of his career because of it? I doubt it.
March 21 2011, 10:27PM
That makes me wonder how many mins Lucic averages, but i'm too lazy to look it up
Last five games were 16, 20, 18, 19, 17. 53 points and 106 PIM's so far. That's the type of player I wish everyone in the NHL was like. More power forwards!
Instigator rule would help. If I'm Matt Cooke I'd think twice knowing macintyre was coming for me. I'd still probably throw it, but I'd think about it. After I got tooled I may not throw it again.
Dirty players don't seem to like getting hurt
Goalies faced shots when the blades of players sticks were straight and couldnt shoot it 90+ mph. Still goalies back then were guttsy and rather crazy in my opinion.
The NHL is becoming a joke and it is really starting to drive me crazy. They wanted to fix the game so badly for their US fans cause it was to slow and to many stops in play ( and americans are raised on football so I never understood that fact). So they tightened up the hooking and holding plays and this resulted in a faster game but it opened up a new problem in my eyes. The only way a player can get the puck off an opposing player is by taking the body. If you watch the Oil from the 80's you dont see many big thundering hits to lodge of puck off the players stick, you saw so much holding and grabbing and hooking and it often resulted in a quick easy way to get the puck. But now the only way you can stay in the NHL is if you arent soft, you need to finish your checks and take the body hard. The NHL has now made it esseintial to lay someone out or hammer them into the boards cause that is the only way you can dismember the man from the puck. This resulting in the concussions that are happening so often.
Also teh NHL got rid of the instigator rule so there isnt any line brawls but instead you get guys like Matt Cooke, Patrick Kaleta, Sean Avery running around hitting guys and star players with no regard cause they know no one is going to fight them if those turtles dont want to.
The nhl is a joke and run by a bunch of people that have never played the game and dont understand why it was run the way it was 30 years ago
March 21 2011, 10:34PM
IMO, the day that boxing is outlawed will be the day fighting in the NHL should be outlawed.
I'm curious if we are a bit misguided in our thinking about concussions ending careers. I remember when bad backs and torn ACL's were the end of careers. Now we patch those injuries up and sent the troops back out to war. I would like to know what the average career expectancy is now vs. then.
Many sports have inherent risks. They need to be managed. That doesn't necessarily mean the sports need to be changed.
Fighting, when precipitated by emotion is ok by me. The staged battles between goons seem pointless.
March 21 2011, 10:38PM
I'm all for a meaningful tilt (presupposing there is such a thing as 'meaningful') between two hockey players.
but the "Wanna go?" "Wanna go?" from two guys who belong in that gong show on ice in BC a couple of years back...that needs to be legislated out of the game. (and it wouldn't really be that hard)
Guys like Macintyre and Ivanins - they have absolutely no part left in the game whatsoever. Their role is meaningless - they don't DO anything, they intimidate no one.
March 21 2011, 10:38PM
Brains and knees.
That's the same.
Ohh and Proberts brain was probably fried from the amount of coke he did why do you think no one wanted to fight with him. He was a demon haha. Still have a mad amount of respect for him and what he was for the game. Most B.A player in the histroy in my mind.
@Zamboni Driver
Sorry Zamboni, I forgot connecting the dots was hard for some people. What I am asking is, has the ability to mend otherwise career ending injuries increased the career length of the average NHL career. If so, it would follow that players are subject to more and more hits/fights over time, thus leading to greater overall head trauma. I would be curious to find an answer to that question.
You are right...knees and heads are not the same.
March 21 2011, 10:51PM
This should go over great at Flamesnation. That punch drunk Calgary Flame photo looks awesome. This is what they may all look like about 10:30 on Saturday. Season over, turn out the lights Flamesnation.
Players are not only bigger(Dave "The Hammer" Schulz was 185 pounds), they're more specialized. Have players always spent the offseason taking boxing lessons? The strength and punching skill of modern enforcers makes fighting exponentially more dangerous than it once was. Just like curved sticks and slap-shots necessitated goalie masks, so to does this change physicality call for change.
My bold solution? Get rid of fighting in juniors. Something that doesn't often get mentioned is how much worse brain injuries are for developing brains. Everyone knows it's bad to get a fetus drunk, but it's also not great to give a teenager a concussion. This will also greatly cut down on the number of super-punchers in the big leagues, because they'll have no place to develop those skills, and it's my personal opinion that enforcers cause a lot more violence than they prevent (eg. Tie Domi was one of the dirtiest players of his era. Enforcers don't do anything anyway- when was the last time someone jumped Chris Pronger?)
The main justifications for modern fighting is that players are adults who are well-compensated- juniors are none of those things. They are in a much higher risk group.
good to read.
The game of hockey doesn't need to be childproof at the NHL level. Don't want fighting, go play inline hockey.
March 21 2011, 11:28PM
The game of hockey doesn't need to be childproof at the NHL level. Don't want fighting, go play inline hockey.
Tell that to these guys
March 21 2011, 11:33PM
Good question. I enjoy fighting, but I don't think I'd miss it, if hockey banned fighting.
The game of hockey doesn't need to be childproof at the NHL level. Don't want fighting, go play inline hockey.
So you agree we should take it out of juniors? Good.
I think fighting needs to stay in the game, but fights for the sake of fights don't. When two players get frustrated and fight, I have no problem with it as it's a lot less likely to cause an injury than a cheap shot or dangerous crosscheck into the boards. It serves a purpose or reducing frustration and can turn the game around.
Fighting is much safer and much less likely to cause long term complications in regular (non-goon) players than the alternatives. A blind side hit to the head, or an elbow, or a cross check that sends player headfirst into the boards have a much higher probability of causing a serious injury with lasting effects
As for fighting in juniors, I'm all for largely eliminating it at that level as concussions have much more devastating long term effects at that age than in 20 - 30 year olds. At least require the players to keep their gloves on at that level (maybe make that the rule in the NHL too if your worried about injuries from fights)
How many times did the stretcher come out before the instigator rule was implemented. How many times did the stretcher come out before obstruction penalties showed up? I don't have the numbers myself, but I have a gut feeling that both of those rule changes have lead to a increase in these more serious incidents.
Also, I love a good fight in the heat of the game. However, I have really grown to dislike the pre-arranged, staged fights that the heavyweights generally engage in these days. You can't call these guys enforcers anymore. Would SMac have jumped Cooke if he had hit Hemsky or Hall in the head? Unlikely because he's out of his weight class and Cooke would have to agree to the fight these days (unlikely). Did big Georges or Smac ever call out Regehr for taking liberties on our talent? If the answer is no, then why keep the big boys around?
I understand that Probert's brain didn't look so good when they looked at it. However, it would be nice to protect the majority of players brains from dangerous elbows by making on ice sheriffs legal again.
March 22 2011, 12:20AM
Players are not only bigger(Dave "The Hammer" Schulz was 185 pounds), they're more specialized. Have players always spent the offseason taking boxing lessons? The strength and punching skill of modern enforcers makes fighting exponentially more dangerous than it once was. Just like curved sticks and slap-shots necessitated goalie masks, so to does this change physicality call for change.
My bold solution? Get rid of fighting in juniors. Something that doesn't often get mentioned is how much worse brain injuries are for developing brains. Everyone knows it's bad to get a fetus drunk, but it's also not great to give a teenager a concussion. This will also greatly cut down on the number of super-punchers in the big leagues, because they'll have no place to develop those skills, and it's my personal opinion that enforcers cause a lot more violence than they prevent (eg. Tie Domi was one of the dirtiest players of his era. Enforcers don't do anything anyway- when was the last time someone jumped Chris Pronger?)
The main justifications for modern fighting is that players are adults who are well-compensated- juniors are none of those things. They are in a much higher risk group.
Take it out of junior and watch the rookies get dumbied by the vets in the NHL because the rooks don't know how to fight. Probably more dangerous this way.
Either take it out at both levels or none at all. And none for me please. The guys who fight, chose to fight. Pronger doesn't because he choses not to. No need to baby sit them.
My dad was a boxer and I grew up fighting, but you know it all just seems silly now. I think it seems a bit silly in the NHL as well.
Some pretty good hockey is played without fighting. Ban headshots, elbows, etc. Make those five and a game.
On another note, anyone who thinks that nobody disrespected other players in the 1960s probably is operating with selective memory.
March 22 2011, 12:24AM
A good read RB. I think the comments before me by Kodiak, velo, and jeanshorts, have nailed this one: fighting is a choice, and see if the players will wake-up and move away from the goon staged fights to a more spontaneous kind-of scrapping (i.e. the Hall/Dorsett bout from a few weeks back). I worry about the days when hockey is stripped of it's violent heritage, whittled down to a game of non-contact puck chasing by those clamouring for a cleaner, safer product. I already think the modern game to be overproduced and hyper-regulated as is. Every game has 25 HD cameras on it, leaving no player/coach/fan safe from public scrutiny. Ovechkin, one of the game's most talented players, wears a visor so dark you can hardly see his face. Players are so well conditioned they don't even look tired after 3 rounds of playoff hockey anymore. And, jerseys are mostly black, dark blue, or white, rendering the game asthetically dull and bland (Though the Oilers' home blues are an exception. Especially with similar road whites to be introduced next season - wooo!). The NHL, not unlike it's other professional relatives, has become a homogenized sport in look and feel: one lacking creativity and personality from top to bottom. Do away with fighting and the need for players with heightened levels of brute strength and toughness will go with it. That would be a shame, no doubt.
Take it out of junior and watch the rookies get dumbied by the vets in the NHL because the rooks don't know how to fight. Probably more dangerous this way.
Either take it out at both levels or none at all. And none for me please. The guys who fight, chose to fight. Pronger doesn't because he choses not to. No need to baby sit them.
That Pronger chooses not to is exactly my point; enforcers only fighting willing participants has little to no effect on dirty play.
First off get rid of the goons who play one or two shifts a night for one fight. Bring in guys who can play hockey again, how many monsters played in the past. If they couldn't contribute in some way, other then fighting they didn't play in the NHL. That should leave you with fights from the heat of the moment which will probably happen even if you were to ban fighting. Look at it this way even Sidney Crosby had a fight this year, and he is definitely not in the NHL for fighting and neither is Taylor Hall. That said it would be interesting if you had guys who could play the game, as well as fight. How many guys would be out of jobs 10 maybe 15 super heavy weights who aren't good enough to play a regular shift. That's all i have to say!!!!
Great article Robin, always enjoy your thoughts. My 2 cents are this... everybody has a job. Some of the jobs out there are jobs that "pay well" but inherently threaten your health in the long run. Take the lobstermen fishers, paid great but risky buisness out on the Beaufort Sea. Chemical plant workers, again paid good but inherint long term health affects. Fire Fighters, Insulators, Mine Workers, the list goes on and on. Fighters in the NHL.... paid great and like other populations in society may also be very detremental to your health in the longterm. Is it right or wrong I don't know, but there are many professions out there that offer the same sort of risk reward benefit. It feels like society has changed in regards to hockey fighters anyways, either that or I'm just getting old lol.
Cheers.... Forrestt
PS: The people I fell most sorry now are for the poor engineers working on that nuclear recator in Japan. They truely are heros working for the greater good, but shortening there lives by far.
The fight is necessary. Stars get hurt and if the fight doesn't happen, someone is getting a knee taken out, or worse.
I agree with RB. But there is no other form of flagrant foul, late hit, late (soccer) tackle, or hit by pitch, that is accepted and safely replaces hockey's fisticuffs.
The fighting GOON is all but gone though. Thank God.
March 22 2011, 02:41AM
Come gather 'round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You'll be drenched to the bone If your time to you Is worth savin' Then you better start swimmin' Or you'll sink like a stone For the times they are a-changin'. - Bob Dylan
weird, how lyrics can be written 30+ yrs ago and be relevant now...great article robin, its a piece to consider for sure, even if I think the fighting should stay, it appears to be unsafe for the players but who is to say...a thinker good sir...and for better men then me to say.
well done.
March 22 2011, 02:44AM
on a seperate note, the NHL and Daly got this one exactly right...my prediction of rest of season and entire 1st round was right, but well done NHL...I honestly expected a 5 gamer, as the suspension dept has missed on so many prior to this one.
Excellent job for a change. cooke is a bum.
good piece RB.
you cant have change without discussion. the mere fact more people are willing to listen the arguements for and against fighting is a positive.
personally i think removing the instigator penalty would prove nothing and accomplish less.
flow of the game intensity and heat of the moment umbrage players have for one another im completely fine with. the production needs have the curtains closed on it for good.
@ Robin, what does it say about you liking to be fighting? Most sane people don't like to get hurt or to hurt other people.
For someone to enjoy both? Scary.
This goes far beyond violence in sport. It's a much deeper psychological thing. Violence doesn't usually start and stop on the playing field.
March 22 2011, 07:46AM
I'm not against getting rid of fighting or forcing rules to change it.
Alter the gloves, so a player wanting to fight is at least taped up. Force players to use mouth-guards and bring in the basic medical standards every other fighting body is required to follow, ie mandatory drug testing, medical review sessions after each fight that could require players to sit for up to 6 months, etc.
If fighting is PART of the game, then the league should be required to actually govern and protect the players engaging in it at a real level.
I get that chipiness and stickwork would be expected to go up, but honestly saying that a referee could not be empowered to actually control the hockey game and enforce zero tolerance policies is a joke. They can, just like the hooking changes there would be a big adjustment period but in the end they would get it.
Hell this entire blindside hit suspension debate is just that, the league removing dangerous acts from the game without requiring one team to clear the benches and brawl.
With pukes like Cooke in the game.The inability of the NHL to punish the kind of hits that are worse than fighting. For me if we could get rid of those plays the need for fighting would decrease markedly.


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By JOEL WEBSTER
Those of us who enjoy the traditions of hunting and fishing know that Utah has some of the finest fields, forests and waters in the nation. Whether hunting buck mule deer on the Book Cliffs, chasing elk in the Uintas or fishing for cutthroat trout in the Strawberry Reservoir, sportsmen can pursue a seemingly endless array of outdoor opportunities in the Beehive State.
Hunting in Utah wasn't always this exceptional. After a period of unregulated hunting of wildlife during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Utah legislature placed a ban on doe hunting in 1913 because settlers had nearly wiped out the state's mule deer herd. The ban lasted 37 years. After the herd was rebuilt through careful management and a strong conservation ethic, hunters experienced the highest mule deer populations on record during the 1950s and 60s. While drought and other factors have affected Utah's mule deer populations over the last 40 years, opportunities for high-quality hunting experiences in Utah are still some of the best in the nation, thanks to responsible big game management.
Despite a century of hard work from conservation-minded Utah hunters and wildlife managers, a developing threat now exists that may have major implications for the future of the state's big game herd. Poorly planned oil and gas development may significantly impact wildlife habitat and, consequently, decrease the quality of hunting in Utah.
To date, 3.9 million acres of Utah's public lands have been leased for energy development - much of it in prime big game habitat and without adequate planning for the needs of wildlife. After buying a lease, a company has a contractual right to develop the land for at least 10 years. Most of the leased public land in Utah hasn't yet seen the drill bit, but this soon could change. Given that many of these sites contain some of the finest deer and elk habitat in the world, the potential impacts of such development on our outdoor heritage are alarming.
The Books Cliffs are a perfect example. Despite the amazing terrain and world-class hunting found there, the Bureau of Land Management has sold a large portion of the area's mineral leases without the necessary upfront planning to reduce development impacts on big game and sage grouse. It's only a matter of time before the BLM receives applications for extensive road building and drill rig traffic within the Book Cliffs Management Area on crucial winter ranges for mule deer and elk.
What does this mean for Utah sportsmen? To see how developing natural gas the wrong way can impact hunting, look to Utah's neighbors. Outside of Pinedale, Wyo., unbalanced energy development on top of serious drought and habitat loss has resulted in shorter seasons, fewer available tags, and a lot of outdoorsmen wondering what happened to the area's legendary mule deer hunting.
Most folks agree that increasing our domestic energy supply should be a national priority. Oil and gas development, however, must be guided by science to ensure that the needs of fish and wildlife are met. Recent studies illustrate how poorly conceived energy development can seriously impact big game and sage grouse populations, as well as water quality.
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a conservation organization working on behalf of sportsmen's interests, has developed a science-based approach to energy development called FACTS for Fish and Wildlife, which is designed to help conserve our hunting and fishing resources during energy development. If federal agencies use this model and plan for the needs of fish and wildlife while working closely with the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, the impacts on our outdoor traditions could be significantly reduced.
Fortunately, the BLM recently made the right decision and temporarily withdrew 46,000 acres of critical mule deer winter range in Utah from energy development due to habitat concerns. Hopefully, the agency will use this action as a stepping stone to begin planning energy development in a way that that minimizes impacts on fish, wildlife, and the public's hunting and fishing opportunities.
Now is the time to support a century of hard work by Utah conservationists and wildlife managers in order to maintain big-game herds that the public can enjoy. The BLM needs to balance the development of our energy resources with the maintenance of quality fish and wildlife habitat. Our hunting traditions are too precious to sacrifice to poorly planned energy development.
Joel Webster works to protect America's hunting and fishing traditions as a field representative for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.


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Spring Racing Takes Off At Virgin Australia Terminals across the Country27/10/2011
Research released today by Virgin Australia1 shows that over the next few days, baggage carousels will be filled with up to 40 000 hats and over 55 000 lip glosses, which will be flown especially to Melbourne for The Cup and the Victorian Spring Racing Carnival.
With most believing that the Spring Racing Carnival is more about the social occasion, champagne and fashion (74%) than the racing (22%), it's no wonder that getting their luggage there on time and intact is a top priority. Virgin Australia's research revealed that the baggage carousels may be filled with an estimated $40 million worth of luggage this racing season.
Virgin Australia Group Executive Corporate Communications, Danielle Keighery said the Victorian Spring Racing Carnival is a positive boost for the Australian economy and the tourism industry in general.
"The Victorian Spring Racing Carnival has developed a reputation as one of the most important events on the sporting calendar, attracting domestic and international visitors alike. Last year, the carnival generated $728 million2 for the Australian economy, with a similar contribution expected this year".
"We are committed to supporting the Australian tourism industry and will be putting on 36 additional flights into and out of Melbourne over the key racing period3. Virgin Australia is well-prepared to transport Australia's latest fashion trends as 40 000 hats, 110 000 dresses and pairs of heels make their way through carousels across the country", Ms Keighery said.
Virgin Australia's top tips for packing for the Spring Racing Carnival:
- Check the dimensions of your hat box. If it exceeds the carry-on allowance, check it-in at least 30 minutes before your flight.
- Pack an extra pair of shoes. A day at the races carries the high risk of broken high heels, mud and sore feet.
- Prepare for all weather conditions. With the unpredictability of the Spring season, you never know when you might need a warm jacket or an umbrella.
Other findings from the survey included:
- For most women Melbourne Cup is an excuse to splash out on new clothes and accessories with 80% of women willing to purchase a new dress for the race
- The average amount Australian women are prepared to spend on new items to look their best at Melbourne Cup is $370 – and that's even before they have placed a bet
- Dirty shoes (48%), broken heels (42%) and fashion faux pas (23%) at the top of peoples 'stress list' when it comes to attending the races, explaining the sheer volume of luggage that travels to Melbourne
- The must-have beauty items for the race include lip-gloss (51%) and concealer (36%)
Virgin Australia group of airlines announced yesterday that it would add a further 64 domestic services over the next two weeks to meet market requirements. This will see 9000 extra seats offered on Virgin Australia flights between Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide for travel between October 31 and November 13, 2011.
1 Galaxy Research conducted 6/10/11, with a sample of 1510 respondents aged 18-64 across Australia.
2 Figures provided by Victorian Racing Club and based on National Gross Economic Benefit – the total amount generated by the MCC in Australia by all Australians and international visitors.
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^ I think that the big flat part is where the Jyubi is standing, while the pointy one is growing because the alliance members are gathering there.
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It's confirmed that Naruto will become a Hokage... even if he looses . Looks like every person will see it's own dream, because fulfilling dreams of all people in one world, even an illusionary, is simply impossible when they contradict each other.


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Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Double High-Top Sneaker - Womens
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The nostalgic retro styling of the high-top classic Converse® Chuck Taylor® All Star sneaker will never go out of style and this one is double the laces with a whole lot of height! Incorporate the vintage extra high top shoe into your casual wardrobe and make it your own, footwear for ladies in classic grey.
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In comments yesterday during a cybersecurity conference at the New America Foundation, the Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers faced vocal criticism from the tech community (including cryptography expert Bruce Schneier and Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos). The criticism focused on the Obama administration's insistence that it should have access to everyone's encrypted communications via a backdoor, sometimes called a "golden key." Security experts caution that such a magic key, usable only by the "good guys" is—like magic—not actually possible.
We recently learned that PC manufacturer Lenovo is selling computers preinstalled with a dangerous piece of software, called Superfish, that uses a man-in-the-middle attack to break Windows' encrypted Web connections for the sake of advertising. (Here's a list of affected products.) Research from EFF's Decentralized SSL Observatory has seen many thousands of Superfish certificates that have all been signed with the same root certificate, showing that HTTPS security for at least Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari for Windows, on all of these Lenovo laptops, is now broken.
Over the weekend Russian IT security vendor Kaspersky Lab released a report about a new family of malware dubbed "The Equation Family". The software appears, from Kaspersky's description, to be some of the most advanced malware ever seen. It is composed of several different pieces of software, which Kaspersky Lab reports work together and have been infecting computer users around the world for over a decade. It appears that specific techniques and exploits developed by the Equation Group were later used by the authors of Stuxnet, Flame, and Regin.
News broke last night that Lenovo has been shipping laptops with a horrifically dangerous piece of software called Superfish, which tampers with Windows' cryptographic security to perform man-in-the-middle attacks against the user's browsing. This is done in order to inject advertising into secure HTTPS pages, a feature most users don't want implemented in the most insecure possible way.
More needs to be done to protect cyberspace and enhance computer security. But President Obama's cybersecurity legislative proposal recycles old ideas that should remain where they've been since May 2011: on the shelf. Introducing information sharing proposals with broad liability protections, increasing penalties under the already draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and potentially decreasing the protections granted to consumers under state data breach law are both unnecessary and unwelcome.
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Why is it acceptable for a Time columnist to blame British cyclists killed by trucks?
Re the above column, I've sent this letter to Time.com…
Would it be acceptable for Time to apportion blame to the victims of indiscriminate shelling by Assad's forces in Syria? Of course not. So why is it acceptable for a Time columnist to apportion some blame to cyclists in Britain killed by trucks?
Matt McAllester may wish to reflect on why many cyclists "get too close to trucks." When such a truck overtakes a cyclist, the cyclist is automatically "on the inside" of this truck. Cyclists are often put at extreme risk when trucks come from behind, and then cut in front to turn.
Instead of blaming victims, a Time columnist ought to be asking why so many of London's citizens (pedestrians as well as cyclists) are killed by a certain type of construction vehicle, the so-called tipper truck? Might it be because of the piece-work pay structure of the drivers of these trucks? Tipper truck drivers are under enormous financial pressure to get through London as fast as possible. Sadly, squishy humans often get in the way and it's almost always not their fault when they're maimed or killed.
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Prime 7 of Star Academy 8 hosted guest stars Tony Hanna and Star Academy's very own Joseph Attieh. Mohammaad Dakdouk performed with Tony Hanna "Yaba Yaba Lah" and Mohammad rafeh and Frem also performed together with him. Frem sang with Joseph Attieh "Ya Habibi L Gharam" and then the latter sang "Kel El Deni" solo, to be joined again by Ahmad Ezzat and Mohammad Dakdouk in the song "Taab El Shaw2". And did anyone notice Karim's red T-shirt which he had worn one almost exactly the same at a previous prime?? Are they in need of a new stylist to dress the students?! Nina and Layan performed Haifa Wehbe's "Naughty" and Layan did not seem very happy to be singing that song, although the stage, wardrobe and dance routine were great. Another great performance for Nesma who never seems to disappoint us, where she was accompanied by Gilbert with the song "Phantom Of The Opera". The top 5 for this week were: Mohammad Dakdouk, Gilbert Simon, Oumayma Taleb, Sarah Farah and the first spot went to Efram Salemeh. His prize was a trip to Britain to visit the city of Manchester and watch a game for the Manchester United team. Nesma is out of the top 5 for the first time ever since season 8 started! The students will also be going to Efram's house on Sunday to have lunch with his mother. When the time came for the viewers' votes, Ahmad Ezzat got an impressive 88.01% and the students votes were and it was up to him to choose between Houssam Taha and Mohammad Rafeh. Ahmad chose Houssam to stay and so Rafeh made his final stand on the Star Academy stage.
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HUNTINGTON-Dessia Taylor Cox returned to her heavenly home on Monday, July 21, 2008, at the age of 85 at her home in Huntington, Utah. Dessia was born March 5, 1923, in Draper, Utah to James A. Taylor and Marintha Deseret Harrison. She married Allen Reve Cox on Nov. 27, 1941, in Evanston, Wyo. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple.
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dessia served in the Relief Society, Young Women's program, and the Primary at various times in her life. Dessia raised her family in Hiawatha, Utah, where her husband, Allen was a miner. They later moved to Huntington, Utah where she spent the remainder of her life.
Dessia loved to cook, often tempting family and friends alike with some special recipe. She loved her beautiful flower garden and was comforted in her final days with a bouquet of some of her favorite blooms. She enjoyed crocheting; creating beautiful beaded doilies and crocheted slippers for her grandchildren.
Quite the fisherman, Dessia could give even the best anglers a run for their money. More than anything else, the greatest love of Dessia's life was her family many of whom were able to visit her in the days before her death.
She is survived by her three children, James (Claudia) Cox, Lehi, Utah, Paul (Nelly) Cox, Logan, Utah, and Vicky (Claron) Durrant, Huntington, Utah, 16 grandchildren and 41 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by one sister, Wanda Kinzer, Sandy, Utah and one sister-in-law, Doris Brown, of Murray, Utah.
Dessia was preceded in death by her beloved husband Allen, four brothers, one sister, and one greatgrandson.
She was surrounded by loved ones as she left this world behind. Each of her family members take with them a lifetime of memories.
Viewing was held from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Saturday before the funeral. Funeral services were held on Saturday, July 26, 2008, at 1 p.m. at the Huntington LDS Stake Center. Interment was in the Huntington City Cemetery. Services were in the care of Fausett Mortuary.


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Last football game at BMS was in 1961
BRISTOL, Tenn. - Before Monday's big announcement about the upcoming UT/VT game at Bristol Motor Speedway, the last football game played at the track was in 1961.
The announcement is 50 years in the making, thanks to Carl Moore's big idea to host a football game at the track he built with a business partner.
After a race in 1961, Moore approached the Washington Redskins' owner and convinced him to play ball. "[We] talked him into having the Redskins come here for an exhibition game with the Philadelphia Eagles, who were the champions the year before. And that's how it started," said Moore.
Moore says decades ago, they also tried to get UT and Virginia Tech to play at the track, but it didn't work out until now.


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Showcase your style in this sleek high heel beauty from Seychelles. The multi-tone leather on the Manchester is a hot way to dress up your fall wardrobe.
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Standing 19 feet tall and clutching a giant hot dog, this Paul Bunyon statue, not "bunyan" purposely spelled with an "o", is one of Route 66's mythic Muffler Man Statues. A few of these giants still proudly grace the roadsides of historic Route 66. This one is located in Atlanta, just across the street from the Palms Grill Café, which features fine fare from The Mother Road's golden age.
Located on the wooded Sunset Hill estate of the late Hazle Buck Ewing, the Ewing Cultural Center encompasses the open-air Theatre at Ewing (summer home of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival), the elegant Ewing Manor (which is open for tours) and the beautiful Genevieve Green Gardens.
Come experience three floors of unique, hands-on, larger-than-life exhibits! This museum is designed to create a sense of wonder that excites the love of learning in children of all ages. Be sure to discover the new Children's Discovery Museum.
This hand-built chapel in Lincoln is open for prayer and meditation 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Funk Prairie Home Gem & Mineral Museum
Located at the Funk Prairie Home, this museum houses the largest single-owner display of rare gems, minerals, fossils and lapidary art in the state. Also view the agriculture exhibit, along with several antique sleighs and carriages.
Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts
Built in 1922 to house the original American Passion Play, the former Scottish Rite Temple is the centerpiece of downtown Bloomington's Cultural District. The Performing Arts Center has a 1,200-seat theater and 1,000-person ballroom.
Lincoln Christening Site/Watermelon Statue
A life-size statue of a watermelon commemorates the day the City of Lincoln was christened by Abraham Lincoln on August 27, 1853. The town's founders, John D. Gillett, Virgil HIckox and Robert B. Latham, were all personal friends of Lincoln.
Prairie Aviation Museum has displays, static aircraft, education programs, air shows, group tours, and special aviation events for over 30 years. As an aviation and space museum, we honor military and civilian aviation. While visitors are quick to notice our displays, we love to tell the stories of the men and women who have contributed to the creation, development, expansion, and promise of aviation and space exploration. We are a family friendly museum, where visitors of all ages can touch our displays and static aircraft and visit with members who flew and maintained the aircraft in the Air Park. We love to hear visitor's stories about experiences that they and/or members of their family have had related to aviation and space.
Crossroads Global Handcrafts is a respected outlet for fairly traded handcrafts and food products from around the world including handmade art objects, utilitarian items, textiles, baskets, carvings, jewelry, ceramics, premium coffees, tea and chocolate.
Located on the campus of the only college named for Lincoln in his lifetime, the Lincoln Heritage Museum exhibits a rare and valuable collection of artifacts that tell the story of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln. The museum houses many rare Lincoln artifacts, including an 1860 campaign poster, a lock of his hair, Mary Lincoln's jewelry and Tad Lincoln's rocking chair. Also includes 9/11exhibit and other presidential artifacts.
The Community Players Theatre is committed to presenting quality theater at an affordable price. Call for current performances and tickets.
Located at the Atlanta Museum, these three exhibits and 20 other prints depict a variety of Lincoln and Logan County events. It is located at the site of an early political rally during Abraham Lincoln's campaign for President.
25 tons of granite memorialize 1300 veterans from at least twenty-seven states with the message, "Freedom is not Free." Fifty Flags of Freedom fly the following holidays: Memorial Day, Flag Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Patriots Day, Veterans Day, and Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
Elkhart Cemetery/John D. Gillette Memorial Arch
The cemetery is the final resting place of several notable figures, including Illinois Governor Richard Oglesby and John D. Gillette (Cattle King of the World). The Memorial Arch replaced the wooden bridge over which Robert Todd Lincoln walked during the Oglesby funeral procession in 1915.
Well-loved and highly respected, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra continues to provide residents of Central Illinois with beautiful music and stirring concerts. The Symphony Orchestra performs at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts where they hold five Masterworks concerts, two Pops concerts and three Chamber Orchestra concerts annually. With great performances for music lovers of all ages, the Illinois Symphony Orchestra remains the region's premier professional orchestra. Call or visit the website for more information.
A.L. Van Den Bergen Statue " Abraham Lincoln"
This bronze statue was originally dedicated in 1931 to commemorate Lincoln's "Fool the People" speech.
This walk-in information and environmental education center offers workshops on recycling, composting and energy saving.
Heartland Theatre Company performs a number of dynamic and provocative plays every season. Heartland's Annual 10-Minute Play Festival attracts playwrights from all over the country and their "New Plays from the Heartland" Midwest One-Act Play Competition allows winning playwrights from eight Midwest states to share their original works with audiences. Call or visit the website for tickets and showtimes.
This multi-purpose recreation and entertainment facility presents major concerts, trade shows, conventions and sporting events.
Illinois State University Planetarium
The night sky is recreated in this 100-seat celestial theater-in-the-round operated by ISU's Physics Department.
Logan County Genealogical & Historical Society
The genealogical and historical society encourages the preservation of Logan County's history and maintains a research center that treasures and collects Logan County family histories. They're the only research center that includes ALL of Logan County. Their research resources include historical books, maps, obituaries, cemetery records, marriages, births, family surname genealogy and more! Stop by for a visit to see the artifacts, old photographs, museum pieces, veteran's exhibit, as well as the new "Abraham Lincoln Room."
You are invited to shop the ever-changing collection of traditional crafts, folk art, candles, furniture, home accents, decorative accessories, and much more. Displayed in room design design settings. Country Junction treats you to an enjoyable shopping experience.
Twin Cities Ballet is a civic ballet company and school of dance which attracts guest dancers throughout the year. The Nutcracker is a local tradition each December.
This acoustically perfect performing arts center has played host to such shows as Sheryl Crow, Phil Collins, A Chorus Line, Chris Rock, Cats and children's concerts. Call for the current lineup of performances.


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Mike Driscoll is CEO of Metamarkets, a cloud-based analytics company he co-founded in San Francisco in 2010.
Mike Driscoll of Metamarkets talks about the analytics challenges and opportunities that businesses moving to the cloud face.
Interview conducted by Alan Morrison and Bo Parker
PwC: What's your background, and how did you end up running a data science startup?
MD: I came to Silicon Valley after studying computer science and biology for five years, and trying to reverse engineer the genome network for uranium-breathing bacteria. That was my thesis work in grad school. There was lots of modeling and causal inference. If you were to knock this gene out, could you increase the uptake of the reduction of uranium from a soluble to an insoluble state? I was trying all these simulations and testing with the bugs to see whether you could achieve that.
PwC: You wanted to clean up radiation leaks at nuclear plants?
MD: Yes. The Department of Energy funded the research work I did. Then I came out here and I gave up on the idea of building a biotech company, because I didn't think there was enough commercial viability there from what I'd seen.
I did think I could take this toolkit I'd developed and apply it to all these other businesses that have data. That was the genesis of the consultancy Dataspora. As we started working with companies at Dataspora, we found this huge gap between what was possible and what companies were actually doing.
Right now the real shift is that companies are moving from this very high-latency-course era of reporting into one where they start to have lower latency, finer granularity, and better visibility into their operations. They realize the problem with being walking amnesiacs, knowing what happened to their customers in the last 30 days and then forgetting every 30 days.
Most businesses are just now figuring out that they have this wealth of information about their customers and how their customers interact with their products.
PwC: On its own, the new availability of data creates demand for analytics.
MD: Yes. The absolute number-one thing driving the current focus in analytics is the increase in data. What's different now from what happened 30 years ago is that analytics is the province of people who have data to crunch.
What's causing the data growth? I've called it the attack of the exponentials—the exponential decline in the cost of compute, storage, and bandwidth, and the exponential increase in the number of nodes on the Internet. Suddenly the economics of computing over data has shifted so that almost all the data that businesses generate is worth keeping around for its analysis.
PwC: And yet, companies are still throwing data away.
MD: So many businesses keep only 60 days' worth of data. The storage cost is so minimal! Why would you throw it away? This is the shift at the big data layer; when these companies store data, they store it in a very expensive relational database. There needs to be different temperatures of data, and companies need to put different values on the data—whether it's hot or cold, whether it's active. Most companies have only one temperature: they either keep it hot in a database, or they don't keep it at all.
PwC: So they could just keep it in the cloud?
MD: Absolutely. We're starting to see the emergence of cloud-based databases where you say, "I don't need to maintain my own database on the premises. I can just rent some boxes in the cloud and they can persist our customer data that way."
Metamarkets is trying to deliver DaaS—data science as a service. If a company doesn't have analytics as a core competency, it can use a service like ours instead. There's no reason for companies to be doing a lot of tasks that they are doing in-house. You need to pick and choose your battles.
We will see a lot of IT functions being delivered as cloud-based services. And now inside of those cloud-based services, you often will find an open source stack.
Here at Metamarkets, we've drawn heavily on open source. We have Hadoop on the bottom of our stack, and then at the next layer we have our own in-memory distributed database. We're running on Amazon Web Services and have hundreds of nodes there.
PwC: How are companies that do have data science groups meeting the challenge? Take the example of an orphan drug that is proven to be safe but isn't particularly effective for the application it was designed for. Data scientists won't know enough about a broad range of potential biological systems for which that drug might be applicable, but the people who do have that knowledge don't know the first thing about data science. How do you bring those two groups together?
MD: My data science Venn diagram helps illustrate how you bring those groups together. The diagram has three circles. [See above.] The first circle is data science. Data scientists are good at this. They can take data strings, perform processing, and transform them into data structures. They have great modeling skills, so they can use something like R or SAS and start to build a hypothesis that, for example, if a metric is three standard deviations above or below the specific threshold then someone may be more likely to cancel their membership. And data scientists are great at visualization.
But companies that have the tools and expertise may not be focused on a critical business question. A company is trying to build what it calls the technology genome. If you give them a list of parts in the iPhone, they can look and see how all those different parts are related to other parts in camcorders and laptops. They built this amazingly intricate graph of the actual makeup. They've collected large amounts of data. They have PhDs from Caltech; they have Rhodes scholars; they have really brilliant people. But they don't have any real critical business questions, like "How is this going to make me more money?"
The second circle in the diagram is critical business questions. Some companies have only the critical business questions, and many enterprises fall in this category. For instance, the CEO says, "We just released a new product and no one is buying it. Why?"
The third circle is good data. A beverage company or a retailer has lots of POS [point of sale] data, but it may not have the tools or expertise to dig in and figure out fast enough where a drink was selling and what demographics it was selling to, so that the company can react.
On the other hand, sometimes some web companies or small companies have critical business questions and they have the tools and expertise. But because they have no customers, they don't have any data.
PwC: Without the data, they need to do a simulation.
MD: Right. The intersection in the Venn diagram is where value is created. When you think of an e-commerce company that says, "How do we upsell people and reduce the number of abandoned shopping carts?" Well, the company has 600 million shopping cart flows that it has collected in the last six years. So the company says, "All right, data science group, build a sequential model that shows what we need to do to intervene with people who have abandoned their shopping carts and get them to complete the purchase."
PwC: The questioning nature of business—the culture of inquiry—seems important here. Some who lack the critical business questions don't ask enough questions to begin with.
MD: It's interesting—a lot of businesses have this focus on real-time data, and yet it's not helping them get answers to critical business questions. Some companies have invested a lot in getting real-time monitoring of their systems, and it's expensive. It's harder to do and more fragile.
A friend of mine worked on the data team at a web company. That company developed, with a real effort, a real-time log monitoring framework where they can see how many people are logging in every second with 15-second latency across the ecosystem. It was hard to keep up and it was fragile. It broke down and they kept bringing it up, and then they realized that they take very few business actions in real time. So why devote all this effort to a real-time system?
PwC: In many cases, the data is going to be fresh enough, because the nature of the business doesn't change that fast.
MD: Real time actually means two things. The first thing has to do with the freshness of data. The second has to do with the query speed.
By query speed, I mean that if you have a question, how long it takes to answer a question such as, "What were your top products in Malaysia around Ramadan?"
PwC: There's a third one also, which is the speed to knowledge. The data could be staring you in the face, and you could have incredibly insightful things in the data, but you're sitting there with your eyes saying, "I don't know what the message is here."
MD: That's right. This is about how fast can you pull the data and how fast can you actually develop an insight from it.
For learning about things quickly enough after they happen, query speed is really important. This becomes a challenge at scale. One of the problems in the big data space is that databases used to be fast. You used to be able to ask a question of your inventory and you'd get an answer in seconds. SQL was quick when the scale wasn't large; you could have an interactive dialogue with your data.
But now, because we're collecting millions and millions of events a day, data platforms have seen real performance degradation. Lagging performance has led to degradation of insights. Companies literally are drowning in their data.
In the 1970s, when the intelligence agencies first got reconnaissance satellites, there was this proliferation in the amount of photographic data they had, and they realized that it paralyzed their decision making. So to this point of speed, I think there are a number of dimensions here. Typically when things get big, they get slow.
PwC: Isn't that the problem the new in-memory database appliances are intended to solve?
MD: Yes. Our Druid engine on the back end is directly competitive with those proprietary appliances. The biggest difference between those appliances and what we provide is that we're cloud based and are available on Amazon.
If your data and operations are in the cloud, it does not make sense to have your analytics on some appliance. We solve the performance problem in the cloud. Our mantra is visibility and performance at scale.
Data in the cloud liberates companies from some of these physical box confines and constraints. That means that your data can be used as inputs to other types of services. Being a cloud service really reduces friction. The coefficient of friction around data has for a long time been high, and I think we're seeing that start to drop. Not just the scale or amount of data being collected, but the ease with which data can interoperate with different services, both inside your company and out.
I believe that's where tremendous value lies.


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Miss Bets is a baby elephant. She is an African elephant. Her weight at birth was 263 lbs and she is 35 inches tall. She is strong, healthy and nursing. Her mom, Amy, is a first time mother.
Amazingly, she was born here in Arkansas at the Riddle Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary on December 8, 2007.
Riddle's Elephant and Wildlife Sanctuary was established by Scott and Heidi Riddle in 1990 on 330 acres in the Ozark Mountain foothills in Arkansas as a non-profit home for elephants needing one for any reason. It is the only internationally recognized sanctuary that accepts any elephant regardless of species, gender, or disposition. This Arkansas elephant sanctuary currently houses Asian elephants and African elephants. Elephant care and elephant management are taught at this elephant haven. Programs include Elephant Experience Weekends and an annual International School for Elephant Management. Major goals of the sanctuary include the care of the resident elephant herd, but also elephant conservation in general, helping to ensure the long-term survival of these magnificent and highly endangered species. You can visit their site to learn how you can help elephants or to "adopt" an elephant!
Now for a little science--did you know that elephants don't sweat? So how do these warm blooded mammals regulate their body temperatures? One way is their ears! I think that is wonderful.
"Elephants have large ears which are packed with capillary structure through which sizable quantity of blood flows. Whenever there is excess heat that needs to be released, warm blood flows through these capillaries, while the elephant chooses a cold spot (like that of a shade) and uses the favorable thermal gradient to release the excess heat. In other words, the ear flaps of the elephant serve as an enormous convection fin - a flapping one at that - to enhance heat transfer from the elephant body to the environment."-- from Arunn Narasimhan post Elephant Ears And Thermo Regulation


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They are in their stock housing coming out of the camera, then they are apart for about half an inch as they go into a cat5 breakout board, then they are in a twisted cat5 pair for 8ft or so, then the reverse happens as they go into the LCD screen at the other end.
If you provide the 4A load with its own supply (with common earth) does this affect the problem?
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What size wire is used between the 12v battery and the 4a load, and how long is that wire?
Then it goes into a solid copper cat5 cable and back to pc
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Maxwell Taylor
Speaker: General Maxwell D. Taylor
Date: September 14, 1981
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1962-1964). Ambassador to South Vietnam (1964-1965). During the Kennedy Administration, Taylor was a consistent supporter of the President?s policies and provided crucial support for the nuclear test ban treaty in congressional testimony of 1963. An ambassador, he pressed South Vietnam to create a civilian-written constitutional charter. He supported the sustained bombing of North Vietnam but, after its failure in 1965, opposed increases of American troop level in the area. After his transfer to the position of a special presidential consultant, Taylor lost much of his political power, but continuously maintained a hawkish position on Vietnam and supported Westmoreland?s request for more troops after the Johnson Administration?s sentiment turned against further escalation of American involvement in 1968.


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The Democrat says he wants to raise awareness about food security issues.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Tuesday began his food stamp challenge, living on the groceries he can buy for about $30 a week.
That's the amount that New Jersey residents receive if they qualify for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as the food stamp program is officially known. It comes out to $4.32 a day, Booker said.
Booker's food stamp challenge was born out of a conversation he had on Twitter with a woman who uses the handle, @MWadeNC. In a blog post on Waywire.com, Booker said he wants "raise awareness and understanding of food security."
The Democrat has already posted his grocery receipts on Facebook and Twitter. Among other items, the vegetarian bought beans, corn and an apple. But he said on Twitter that he has to give up coffee because "it isn't in the budget."
"We have much work to do at the local level to address a legacy of structural inequities in the American food system," Booker wrote in the blog post. "As more and more working people and families -- many holding down more than one job -- face greater and greater challenges to juggle housing, medical, and transportation costs, meeting nutritional needs becomes a serious problem and a social justice issue."
Booker, who said this weekend that he is "definitely considering" running for governor next year, plans to document his experiences this week on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. He is the co-creator of Waywire, a video news sharing service.
Booker is not the first politician to do something like this. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Rep. Bob Brady, D-Pa., both lived on food stamps for a week this year. In the past, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and the mayors of Las Vegas and Phoenix have also done the same to highlight the challenges of relying on government assistance for food.


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At Staten Island University Hospital, our physicians have earned a reputation
for excellence and innovation in education,
research and patient care. Our doctors are
renowned in their fields and lead
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Staten Island University Hospital provides complete medical
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At Staten Island University Hospital, we strive to provide
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We provide accredited training and
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Electrophysiology Division
The Staten Island University Hospital Electrophysiology Division provides diagnostic and electrophysiology services to adolescent, young adult, adult and geriatric patients. The patient who is referred to the Electrophysiology Service requires diagnosis and treatment of symptoms of syncope and/or arrhythmias. A patient with these symptoms will be referred after evaluation from an internist or a cardiologist. A consult with Dr. Bekhelt can be obtained by calling (718) 226-8758 or (718) 226-8759.
A patient seen in the Electrophysiology Division may be evaluated during an office visit. Next the electrophysiology service may order tests such as electrocardiograms, echocardiograms, which are provided by the Cardiology Department, or a tilt table test which is provided by the Electrophysiology Division. Invasive testing may be recommended. This procedure or test is called an electrophysiology study, which may include such studies as "V-Stim" or "SVT" studies. The results of these tests are used by the electrophysiologist to guide the treatment appropriate for the patient.
Treatments recommended are guided by the patient's medical condition. Some patients may be managed with a pharmacological regime while others may require interventional procedures such as permanent pacemaker insertion and/or defibrillator insertion (ICD/PCD). These intervention procedures are completed in the Electrophysiologist periodically or as the need arises depending on the individual patient's condition.
Permanent pacemakers and ICDS (implanted defibrillators) are performed by the Thoracic Surgeons or a credentialed Cardiac Electrophysiologist in the Electrophysiology Division. Patients must be evaluated by a cardiologist prior to the scheduling of these procedures. These patients may be scheduled electively or as part of their inpatient treatment. Preprocedure preparation includes SMA 7, CBS, PT/PTT, Type & Screen and chest X-ray. The Electrophysiology Department has a waiting area for the families. After the procedure the physician meets with the family members to receive information about the patient.
The Electrophysiology Division is available Monday through Friday from 7:30am to 4:00pm. Emergency cases may be added at any time to accommodate the needs of the patients.
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