The spot-fixing scandal in Pakistan's cricket team has displaced the floods as a top news story (below). Surely this sort of thing wouldn't happen in English top league football? Guess aga...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Financial Times on IPCC
The Financial Times strikes exactly the right note on the IPCC (and its chairman). Here is an excerpt:Restoring public confidence in the IPCC is essential, because it is the main intermediary between scientists and politicians who have to decide on climate policies that could cost the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars. Given that most scientists believe...
What is a Conflict of Interest?
Several conversations that I have had off-blog suggest to me that the notion of "conflict of interest" with respect to scientific advisory panels is not well understood. The IPCC does not presently have any COI policies so it is impossible to judge whether its chairman, or anyone else, has a conflict. However, under the application of COI policies of other bodies,...
IUKL-ranker, Rix
IUKLIUKLs nya ranking tabell via Girevik Online: LÄNK.Fler olika rank-tabeller, nya och gamla, finner ni högerkolumnen.Andreas Rix: SM-kvalAndreas Rix berättar om sitt deltaganade i SM-kvalet i Motala i helgen: LÄ...
Nostalgic in the Airport
By Scott M SchoettgenWR at Willamette UniversityFellas-As many of you know, I spent a few weeks in Costa Rica this summer with Ryan Bourke and a study abroad program that is designed to allow athletes to study abroad, train, and share their love for sports with kids in other countries. The mission is to connect the world through sports. Working with these kids for the brief...
Monday, August 30, 2010
A Great Opportunity!!
We are on the hunt for a young, competent and deserving local rider (teenager or adult) to campaign Crossiebeg Brennan (all costs covered) locally this season.This rider would get the opportunity to compete (fairly limited outings) in dressage/show hunter/show jumping/eventing & attend lessons and clinics on our promising young Connemara pony stallion.This will be an UNPAID...
New Sports Illustrated Column on Roger Clemens Arraignment
I have a new SI.com column on today's arraignment of Roger Clemens. Here is an excerpt:* * *In the months ahead, Clemens' legal team will also consider whether to accept a trial by jury, as is Clemens' right under the Sixth Amendment, or to request a bench trial, which would leave the question of Clemens' guilt or innocence to Walton. Clemens is likely to accept a jury...
Should Rajendra Pachauri Resign?
If you want people to take action, then you obviously would make the arguments that require a certain set of actions.Rajendra Pachauri, August 2010, Wall Street JournalI spoke with a lot of reporters today in the US and UK about the IAC IPCC Review report. An overwhelming focus of their interest was on Rajendra Pachauri and his future with the IPCC. The speculation...
Leinhart wants an Explanation
Matt wants an explanation on why the Cards haventnamed their starting QB for the regular season.Here is one Matt, Anderson's had a good preseasonand you havent showed much at all.Good enough for you.PS: Please prove me wro...
As Expected: Cuccinelli Quashed
Exactly as expected, a Virginia judge ruled against (PDF) Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli's fishing expedition at the University of Virginia. The Washington Post reports:Judge Paul M. Peatross Jr. ruled that Cuccinelli can investigate whether fraud has occurred in university grants, as the attorney general had contended, but ruled that Cuccinelli's subpoena failed...
Handlebar Hoopla, What Now?
My Royal H Mixte is almost built up, save for the fenders, racks and lights. I don't want to post glamour shots before the bike is completed, but let's just say it has some unusual features! The build has been slow, but more or less trouble-free so far... until we ran into an unexpected glitch with the handlebar setup.My idea for this bicycle was to install VO Porteur...
Jerk
Jerk 2x20kg: 5Jerk 2x24kg: 5, 20Jerk 2x28kg: 5,9,6,5,5 (30reps)Jerk 2x24kg: 24Sore and stiff in upper traps from the outside swings yesterday. They hit other areas than ordinary swings. Probably, you will want to swing thumbs forward, so pay attention not to strain your biceps.I am still intrigued by how much heavier the 28s are than the 24s. 56kgs vs, 48kgs in cleans and...
On the Tuesday Sports Show this week - 31st August 2010
The world of cricket has been rocked by a fresh betting scandal involving the Pakistan test team. We’ll be discussing this unfolding story and Glamorgan’s county championship match against Sussex with special guest reporter James Herd.The Cardiff Devils have begun their new ice hockey season and our man Simon Williams has been out and about today chatting to some of the players...
Report of the IAC Review of the IPCC
The InterAcademy Council Review of the IPCC has been released. The report is remarkably hard hitting with constructive and far-reaching consequences. In the report's own words:If adopted in their entirety, the measures recommended in this report would fundamentally reform IPCC’s management structure while enhancing its ability to conduct an authoritative assessment....
Hurricane Earl in Historical Context
The image above is from the ICAT Damage Estimator and shows the current position of Hurricane Earl, along with the tracks of all historical storms that passed within 50 miles of that position. The histogram on the left shows the historical normalized damage in 2010 values for those 12 historical storms, which had a median damage of about $3 billion.Below is a map produced...
Sunday, August 29, 2010
The Lure of the Six Figure Income
I peruse the want ads on a regular basis, and I always manage to see one that says this:There are variations on this theme. Work at home and make a six figure income. Or it may be making a six figure income in some other way. But the one thing remains constant. It is that six figure income. There is something about that amount that makes people get stupid. Yet, we need to...
Cycling and the Beach
If you live in a beach town, it is easy to hop on a cruiser and pedal to the shore, have a swim, more or less dry off, and pedal home. But what about incorporating the beach into long, strenuous and hilly touring style-rides? This has been our dilemma when taking trips to Maine this summer. In the absence of folding bikes (and frankly, I don't think folding bikes would be...
Träning
Snatch 24kg: 5/5,30/30,5/5Snatch 28kg: 10/10Oa swing 36kg: 10/10Clean 2x24kg: 10Clean 2x28kg: 10Clean 2x24kg: 2x 10reps (with gloves and baby powder)Low outside swings 2x28kg: 2x 1minLördagI lördags var det öppet hus, alltså gratis, att träna på Hagabadet. Fick först en rundtur där. Vad snyggt det hade blivit. Jag hängde runt där lite på klubbar och med nån' teatergrupp för länge sedan.Åter till Hagabadet 2010, jag sprang på den duktige kettlebell-lyftaren Jesper Carlsson och fick ett par riktigt fina mobilitetsövningar som passar för GS att jobba...
Coach Ted Fairchild - Personal Story
An assistant football coach at Parkway High School in Rockford, OH shares some of his life and what he thinks helps turn boys into m...
Friday, August 27, 2010
TVNZ Nightly Sports News Does a Telfer
Not one mention of the Basketball world champs that tipoff in six hours. This is a disgrace, and a insult to theNew Zealand Basketball team.It's also deliberate attempt to keep any sport that theydeem to be a threat to their precious rugby out the publicsport light.If only all our Journos were like the great Tony Smith.Its a sad day for Journalism in this count...
Telfer Commits Another Crime Against Journalism
As World's sports second biggest championship is just seven hours away, Brendan Telfer has once again committed a crime against Journalism. New Zealand is about to compete in the Basketball World Champs and all last week, during his radio show this didn't get one mentionfrom Brendan Telfer.Although he did manage to mention severalinsignificant sports that have little bearingglobally,...
MLB financials and stadium funding
I don't understand finances enough to say much about Deadspin's (leaked) disclosure of the financial statements for a number of major league teams, which show that a number of the poorer small-market teams (including the Pirates, Marlins, and Mariners) actually have turned pretty good profits by keeping player payrolls way down and raking in (but not spending) revenue-sharing dollars. Several issues seem to be brewing here.First, some are questioning revenue sharing as a workable means of leveling the economic playing field (at least without some...
Seymour Blueskies
As some have already noticed, I recently acquired one more bicycle that I have not yet written about. It is a vintage Trek roadbike - fast and aggressive, with super-responsive handling. Don't ask how I got the bike; sometimes these things just find you. It was in exactly my size, and came along at a time when I had begun to experiment with more aggressive road cycling. I...
