News: Hockey Match 2011

News: Hockey Match 2011: If you adjust the figures slightly for Vancouver’s population growth and look at the annual playoff progress of the city’s beloved Canuc...

Hockey Match 2011

  

If you adjust the figures slightly for Vancouver’s population growth and look at the annual playoff progress of the city’s beloved Canucks, what you’ll find is that you can’t use these numbers to prove much of a link between NHL hockey and sexual violence. But if there is one, it’s probably negative. July is (at a high level of statistical significance) the worst month for sexual offences; it’s also the only one of these months in which hockey is never played. In months during which the Canucks were eliminated from Stanley Cup contention, the rate of sexual offences was, on average, more than 20% lower than in other months. There were more sex offences in months with less hockey even if you correct for pure date effects, and the lockout year (2005) had a higher rate of sex offences than either the year following or the year prior
 


Last Sunday, I saw a very interesting hockey match. It was played between the Khalsa School and Guru Har Krishan Public School. Mr Dhyan Chand and Balbir Singh acted as referees. It was played at Ram Lila Grounds.

A large number of students and teachers had come to see the match. The referee gave long whistles and the captains of both the teams forward. A coin was tossed in the air. The ralsas won the toss and chose their favourable side. Both the teams were in their proper uniforms. The Khalsa players of had blue shirts and white shorts while the players of Guru Har Krishan Public School had white shirts and white shirts.
The match started at 3 PM. It was quite brisk from the very beginning. The Khalsas pressed hard but could not score a goal They got two short comers but failed to score. Their centre forward rushed at an amazing speed. But he was! checked by the full-backs of the competitors. The ball was passed and re-passed like a shuttlecock. Neither side could score a goal. So, the first half was eventless.

                                   
After the half-time interval, the teams changed their sides. The game began again. The players of Guru Har Krishan Public School got a short corner and scored a goal. There were shouts of joy from the supporters of Guru Har Kishan Public School and also, from the spectators. Sticks went up in the air. But during the next few minutes, the Khalsas scored an equaliser. Shouts of joy from the Khalsa side dominated the sky. The game became more interesting. The Khalsas rushed forward. Their captain played very nicely. He ran with the ball into the D and hit it hard. But the goalkeeper of rivals was very active and alert. He checked the ball and therefore, foiled all the attempts of the rival team. The spectators raised shouts of joy.
                               
Now, the time was almost over. Each side tried it hard to win the game. But all their efforts came to a naught. The referee blew long whistles and declared that the game was over.

They were given extra time to play. Now, each side tried hard to score a goal. But neither team could succeed. Thus the match ended in a draw. It was really a well-contested match.

Djia 2011

The method I use to forecast swing points and trends is the most accurate and powerful I’ve discovered in 30 years of trading. It is also by far the simplest, requiring little more than junior high school math to do the necessary calculations. I first learned about this amazingly precise method of analysis from a floor trader on the Pacific Stock Exchange named Ira Tunik. At the time, Ira was using the cycles work of J.M. Hurst, a pioneer in the field of technical analysis, to make a very good living on the options floor.
                                                      
Over the next year-and-a-half, Ira delved exhaustively into the world of trading systems, reading every book he could find on Elliott Wave Theory, Gann Angles, Pyrapoint, Fibonaccis, oscillators, stochastics — even astrology. The system he finally settled on was called Lindsay’s Trident. But for reasons explained below, it took us both several more years and many modifications to tweak the system into its present, very powerful form. For starters, we discarded the core principle of Charles Lindsay’s trend-following system, substituting some stunningly effective corollaries that Lindsay himself evidently had failed to recognize. The result was a rules-based system that, combined with a little street-sense, can outperform some of the most powerful black box systems ever devised
                                         

Dow jones industrial average 2011

On the first day of trading after Standard and Poor’s downgraded U.S. credit to AA+ from the top-level ranking of AAA, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down more than 630 points, or 5.5 percent, according to Google Finance.That is the sixth-worst total point drop in the history of the Dow Jones.

US stocks booked heavy losses Monday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average losing more than 630 points, as Wall Street was rocked by Standard & Poor’s unprecedented downgrade of the nation’s debt late last week.
                                             
The Dow dropped 634.8 points, or 5.6 percent, to close at 10,809.9. It was the worst single-day point drop for Dow since 2008.The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dropped 79.9 points, or 6.7 percent, to 1,119.5. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index fell 174.7 points, or 6.9 percent, to 2,357.7.

Panicked selling on heavy volume resulted in the S&P 500′s worst day since December 2008, with every stock in the benchmark index ending in negative territory.
                                        

Ricky williams in 2011

The announced addition of RB Ricky Williams to the Baltimore Ravens created a buzz at the team's Training Camp, not just on the sidelines with the assembled media. Apparently, the players and coaches are intrigued by the addition as well, as evidenced by the excitement in their voices when questioned about Ricky coming to Baltimore.
                                                 
On BaltimoreRavens.com, both RB Ray Rice and QB Joe Flacco are looking forward to working with the former Miami Dolphins and New Orleans Saints running back. Williams also was the Heisman Trophy winner out of the University of Texas in 1999. Offensive Coordinator does not look at the controversial Williams as any more of a risk than any other player he's coached and says that Ricky is an excellent runner and pass protector and will give Ray Rice a break.

Kate gosselin

No offense, Kate Gosselin, because momming is hard work- but if I were one of your eight offspring, I think I might wish there was someone else around to take the heat every so often, too.

Gosselin- one half of the former Jon and Kate plus eight brood that became slightly smaller when Jon swanned off to make bad decisions all on his lonesome- says the Gosselin kids are keen on getting a stepdaddy up in there after their parents’ acrimonious and reality-TV chronicled split.
                                               
Kate has been doing a spate of publicity, and talks about dating again in interviews. But, the mega-mom admits, a relationship with her comes with a lot of complications, including her almost-half-a-Duggar-clan sized family. She recently told Billy Bush:

“Obviously, this time, I’m looking for somebody older, wiser, patient, strong… I have humongous obstacles… I’m doing mom things so it is a true concern, like how will I ever be out there to meet somebody?”
On the challenges of finding time to lure a fella while securing a sitter for eight, Kate says to Ann Curry:
                                                   
“I’ve said a lot of times that I’m ready to start dating. I think there are a lot of obstacles for me. I hope to sort of bump into somebody but in all honesty, I talk to my best friend about wouldn’t it be great if she could go around the country and collect suitable people?

New london

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature.

One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: at each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.
                                 
Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: “If only,” they love to think, “if only people wouldn’t talk about it, it probably wouldn’t happen.”