February 2023

Former THHS exchange student speaks about fears for prolonged war. Connected to Lake County through his experience as an exchange student in 2010-2011, Bohdan Paladiychuk checked in via a video call from Kyiv, Ukraine last week, one year after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

Tony Xzcerlippy, of Tony’s Underwater Limousine Service, had certainly grown busy during the many months of the encampment of the Great March for Community Newspapers. He had ferried folks to dental and doctors' appointments and laundromats, had supplied many of the camp kitchens with mountains of canned salmon emerging from the voluminous trunk of the Commissioner of Stress Relief ’s 1964 Delta 88. He’d even assisted a local midwife deliver a baby in the backseat of the limo in a snowstorm. He was on call 24-7 and it was getting to be a bit much for the longtime skydiver who’d lost his nerve.

Government Regulations The recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, which as I write this has a human death toll soaring past 41,000, got me thinking about the rules, regulations and standards required by modern societies— and the costs incurred when governments are too weak, corrupt, or poor to implement and enforce them. Building codes and reasonable zoning regulations that lead to resilient structures save lives and money, and in the case of the recent quake the number of dead would be radically lower, even when considering the quake’s intensity.

Here is your big chance! I mean, come on, you have been the 'unofficial' WILD GM for many seasons already haven't you? I review a lot of hockey stats, but I wouldn't say I'm a stats geek. I've seen thousands of practices and games, but I can't say that I'm an official 'scout.' And being from the old school I can't say that I've dove into the world of hockey analytics very deeply, but I do have the material available and intend to dig in. In particular, I'm interested in what some upper-level hockey folks would consider being the three to five most important analytics available to utilize for their impact on hockey decisions.