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  Hockey stick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In climatology, the "Hockey Stick graph" is a nickname for a rising temperature prediction
A hockey stick is the equipment used to handle a man in ice hockey, field hockey or roller hockey.
In business a "hockey stick graph" [9] is an absurdly optimistic projection of business growth which is flat for a long time like the handle of a hockey stick and then suddently turns upward like the blade of a hockey stick.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hockey_stick   (922 words)

  
 Hockey stick - Simple English Wikipedia
A hockey stick is a long, wooden pole used to push, pass, or shoot in the sports of ice hockey and field hockey.
In ice hockey, the end or blade of the stick is normally curved, to help the player get better control of the puck and better shots at the goaltender.
A hockey stick is also a move in the ballroom dances Rumba and Cha Cha.
simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hockey_stick   (212 words)

  
 Articles - Hockey stick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A hockey stick is used to move a ball or puck in field hockey, roller hockey or ice hockey.
Hockey sticks have traditionally been made from wood, but in recent years, sticks made of more expensive carbon fiber and other composite materials have become common.
In business a "hockey stick graph" is an absurdly optimistic projection of business growth which is flat for a long time like the handle of a hockey stick and then suddently turns upward like the blade of a hockey stick.
www.healwater.com /articles/Hockey_stick   (625 words)

  
 World Climate Report » Hockey Stick, 1998-2005, R.I.P.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The “hockey stick” representation of the temperature behavior of the past 1,000 years is broken, dead.
The “hockey stick” graphic gives the appearance that left to its own devices, nature displays very little in the way of temperature variation, but that during the past century, humans have come along and thrown everything out of kilter.
In the case of the “hockey stick” this process was turned on its head—the “hockey stick” immediately was held up as the symbol of “mainstream” thought and anyone who did not wholly accept it was labeled as a skeptic.
www.worldclimatereport.com /index.php/2005/03/03/hockey-stick-1998-2005-rip   (2049 words)

  
 RealClimate » Myth vs. Fact Regarding the "Hockey Stick"
MYTH #3: The "Hockey Stick" studies claim that the 20th century on the whole is the warmest period of the past 1000 years.
MYTH #4: Errors in the "Hockey Stick" undermine the conclusion that late 20th century hemispheric warmth is anomalous.
The first falsehood holds that the "Hockey Stick" is the result of one analysis or the analysis of one group of researchers (i.e., that of Mann et al, 1998 and Mann et al, 1999).
www.realclimate.org /index.php?p=11   (3390 words)

  
 evelethmn.com: Parks & Recreation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
On September 16th, 1995, the Stick was dedicated, with much fanfare, to the hockey players of the past, present and future and to the spirit of Hockey in Eveleth.
To add to the attraction a hockey puck that is 5 feet by 20 inches and weighs 700 ponds was added in addition to a 30 foot high by 80 foot wide mural of a goalie poised to stop the puck which adorns the wall of the local hardware store across the street.
Utilizing the identical process that is used to build standard size hockey sticks right down to the “pro 1000” logo and “slap sock,” Christian Brothers built the 107 foot Stick of white and yellow aspen with a finishing weight of 7,000 ponds.
www.evelethmn.com /rec/rec_att_stick.htm   (525 words)

  
 The Sports Authority - Coach's Corner
This means the stick has to fit properly, and the length, curve and lie angle need to match both your size and body type as well as the type of game you play.
Fiberglass sticks have a wooden core and are wrapped/reinforced with a fiberglass outer coating
Hockey sticks are identified as "left," "right," or "straight." This refers to the curve of the blade.
www.sportsauthority.com /sm-hockey-stick-buyers-guide--bg-222796.html   (1016 words)

  
 World's Largest Hockey Stick & Puck, Duncan, British Columbia
Built in 1985, the 205-foot hockey stick is built from Douglas Fir wooden beams reinforced with steel, and weighs in at a staggering 61,000 pounds (28,118 kgs).
In 1994, the society formally transferred ownership of the huge hockey stick and puck to the citizens of the Cowichan Valley, by donating the artifact to the Cowichan Valley Regional District.
The shaft and blade of the stick are made in sections with steel-reinforced Douglas Fir beams measuring 3 foot by 4 foot (91.44 cm by 1.2192 m) for a total length of 205 feet (62.48 metres).
www.vancouverisland.com /attractions?id=58   (397 words)

  
 Hockey Equipment - Pro Hockey Guide to Hockey Equipment
Hockey equipment has kept up with the changes and is now built for the modern day player.
Some purists say equipment makers may have gone too far in their eagerness to keep up with the times and are blaming certain articles of equipment for causing serious injury because of its strength and hardness.
Hockey is one of the fastest and roughest sports in the world so you should comfortably try and protect as many body parts as you can without hindering your movement and flexibility.
www.prohockeystuff.com   (394 words)

  
 FIELD HOCKEY STICK INFORMATION
Depending on your preference, the weight may be evenly distributed throughout the length of the stick or concentrated in the stick's toe or head.
Generally, forwards prefer a lighter stick for quick maneuvering in the circle while defenders often choose a heavier stick for powerful clearing hits and to prevent attackers from casually "pushing" the stick aside.
The more Kevlar in the stick, the less shock is felt, yet the fibers still allow for flexibility and a smooth "feel" of the ball when hitting and receiving.
sparky.kentdenver.org /faculty/science/jlindley/sport_sub/stickinfo04.htm   (752 words)

  
 Skate FAQs: Rollerhockey
One of the best sticks to use on any street surface is the KOHO 2200 Ultimate, with a poly-tech blade on the end of a wooden hockey stick.
Sticks are labeled either L or R, but since French-speaking Canada generates large numbers of hockey players, the stick may be labeled G (gauche) or D (droit).
Hockey balls are usually used for street hockey and DEK hockey (a game played in rinks built with a special plastic surface by Mylec).
web.skatefaq.com:81 /skate.7.html   (6555 words)

  
 - Prometheus: On The Hockey Stick Archives
The great irony here is that in many instances the supporters of the hockey stick have often been their own worst enemies and fed the flames of this debate, which now threatens the integrity of all of climate science, and to turn all of climate science into climate politics.
With the hockey stick established as a symbol it is to be expected that it attracted both support and opposition as a tactic of politics.
The hockey stick is debated because it is a key symbol of a an intense and meaningful political debate.
sciencepolicy.colorado.edu /prometheus/archives/climate_change/000480on_the_hockey_stick.html   (9686 words)

  
 US Field Hockey: Selecting a field hockey stick
Field hockey sticks range in length from 26 and 28-inch youth sticks to 38-inch sticks for taller and more exprienced players.
A flexible stick that absorbs shock is often the stick of choice for beginning or novice players.
The more Kevlar in the stick, the less shock is felt, yet the fibers still allow for flexability and a smooth "feel" of the ball when hitting and receiving.
www.usfieldhockey.com /hockey/stick_selection.htm   (542 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Setting the record straight | "Hockey stick" broken?
The scientific consensus that humans are heating the planet is propped up, in part, by a hockey stick.
The work of University of Virginia climatologist Michael Mann, the hockey stick suggests the planet is hotter now than any time in the past millennium.
But two Canadians argue the hockey stick underestimates past climate swings because of a computing flaw that fails to distinguish the effect of temperature from other environmental factors, such as nutrient levels, that influence tree-ring size or coral growth.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002549473_globalhockey09.html   (296 words)

  
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Since the introduction of the composite hockey stick, there has been a need for a proven reliable repair process for the hockey community.
Stick Fix offers high quality repairs to composite, graphite and fiberglass hockey sticks.
Stick Fix is the only company that can offer this service, and we back it with our 30 day
www.stickfixcentral.com   (221 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Row over climate 'hockey stick'
The hockey stick graph originally appeared in a research paper published in Nature in 1998 by US scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes.
The new controversy surrounds a mathematical technique used to construct the hockey stick graph.
He points to a paper published in February in Nature by Anders Moberg and colleagues that found the late 20th Century was the warmest period in at least the past 2,000 years, using data from climate proxies such as lake sediments and stalagmites.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/4349133.stm   (814 words)

  
 Advantages of the PROCURVE Hockey Stick Curver
Problem: Hockey stick manufacturers are unable to provide every possible curve for each model of stick manufactured.
When purchasing hockey sticks you can always find the shaft stiffness and lie, but it is almost impossible to find the stiffness, lie, and curve.
Curving the stick blade is the only adjustment you can make to a hockey stick.
www.procurve.ca /advantage.htm   (281 words)

  
 RealClimate » Temperature Variations in Past Centuries and the so-called "Hockey Stick" Variations de ...
The term "Hockey Stick" was coined by the former head of NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Jerry Mahlman, to describe the pattern common to numerous proxy and model-based estimates of Northern Hemisphere mean temperature changes over the past millennium.
This pattern includes a long-term cooling trend from the so-called "Medieval Warm Period" (broadly speaking, the 10th-mid 14th centuries) through the "Little Ice Age" (broadly speaking, the mid 15th-19th centuries), followed by a rapid warming during the 20th century that culminates in anomalous late 20th century warmth (Figure 1).
Use of this term perpetuates the myth that "The Hockey Stick" Reconstruction is based solely on two publications by climate scientist Michael Mann and colleagues (Mann et al, 1998;1999).
www.realclimate.org /index.php?p=7   (2308 words)

  
 Climate Audit » Spot the Hockey Stick!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Clearly the use of the Hockey Stick as a totem for climate change is as strong as ever, despite the downplaying of the reconstruction on realclimate.org.
The hockey stick, along with the “warmest in 1,000 years” argument, has become a central theme of debates over the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty to limit emissions of greenhouse gases, in governments around the world.
Alas, the Hockey Stick affair is a clear warning about the value of skepticism in science, especially of results which confirm your private prejudices.
www.climateaudit.org /index.php?cat=3   (2161 words)

  
 Hockey Stick GRIT TAPE and Stick Reinforcer - Chiri Enterprise Products
We have used WHAT A STICK for the past three years and with a growing house league organization of forty teams and ten teams at the representative level, we supply each team with a set of goalie equipment, which includes a stick that has had the blade coated with the WHAT A STICK product.
Some of the players at the representative level also used WHAT A STICK and the feedback was positive especially with reference to puck control, grip, shooting and again the lifespan of the stick.
She is the girl who went to the Supreme court of Canada to fight for equality in Hockey.
www.chirienterprise.com /Stickweb/Stick.html   (689 words)

  
 Ice Hockey Glossary
when a hockey player bumps or slams into an opponent with either his hip or shoulder (the only legal moves) to block his progress or throw him off-balance; it is only allowed against an opponent in control of the
used by professional ice hockey skaters; the gentle curve in a very sharp blade of an ice skate produced by rounding the toe and heel of the blade to make it easier for hockey players to turn quickly.
a shot in which the player raises his stick in a backswing, with his strong hand held low on the shaft and his other hand on the end as a pivot.
www.firstbasesports.com /hockey_glossary.html   (2965 words)

  
 About This Sport: Ice Sledge Hockey Equipment: Stick
The word hockey comes from the French word hocquet, which means hooked stick.
In ice sledge hockey, players use two sticks with a hooked wooden blade at one end (for puck handling and ambidextrous shooting) and a pick at the other end.
Each stick has a maximum length of 75 cm/2 ft 5 in and is made of wood, plastic or aluminum/titanium.
saltlake2002.paralympic.org /sports/ice_sledge/ish_ats/stick.html   (198 words)

  
 STICK LOCKER - Americas Finest Portable Drying Rack for Your Hockey Gear!
is a revolutionary new patented drying system that allows you to turn your hockey stick into a drying rack for your gear.
The base holds your stick in a near vertical position.
Also included are aluminum hooks from which you hang your gear, that easily attaches and detaches from your stick, plus a sturdy and convenient storage bag for all the parts.
www.sticklocker.com   (225 words)

  
 Iain Murray on Global Warming on National Review Online
This proposition is most dramatically expressed in the "hockey stick" graph contained in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's third assessment report.
It should also be noted that the blade of the hockey stick consists of actual temperature readings from thermometers, not the proxies, which themselves do not show nearly as great a spike.
If true, this conclusion is devastating to the "hockey stick" argument, and we must conclude that 20th century was not unusual at all.
www.nationalreview.com /comment/murray200311030813.asp   (828 words)

  
 Past, Present, and Future Temperatures: the Hockeystick FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The graph got its name because its shape resembles a hockey stick, with the blade end representing the sharp temperature rise over recent years.
As is typical of the scientific process, independent teams of researchers have worked to reproduce the results of the "hockey stick" by using their own approaches and even by using slightly different data.
The short answer is "very little." The hockey stick graph constitutes only one among literally thousands of pieces of evidence that have contributed to the present scientific consensus on the human influence on global warming.
www.ucsusa.org /global_warming/science/hockeystickFAQ.html   (1513 words)

  
 Hockey Stick Bags & Puck Bags
The Mission Stick bag features a heavy nylon construction and adjustable snaps that allow the bag to adjust in length to achieve a custom fit.
The Hockey Equipment Utility bag serves as a puck bag or laundry bag.
The Itech BGS Team Stick Bag is ideal for transporting lots of sticks with little hassle.
www.inlinewarehouse.com /HocBagStick.html   (389 words)

  
 Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact
In his original publications of the stick, Mann purported to use a standard method known as principal component analysis, or PCA, to find the dominant features in a set of more than 70 different climate records.
Suddenly the hockey stick, the poster-child of the global warming community, turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics.
PCA is mostly concerned with the data sets that have high variance, and the Mann normalization procedure tends to give very high variance to any data set with a hockey stick shape.
www.technologyreview.com /articles/04/10/wo_muller101504.asp   (600 words)

  
 NHL Shop
The shaft can always be cut down if it seems too long, or you can choke up on the shaft to make it easier to handle.
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All NHL logos and marks and NHL team logos and marks depicted herein are the property of the NHL and the respective NHL teams and may not be reproduced without the prior written consent of NHL Enterprises, L.P. © NHL 2005.
shop.nhl.com /sm-hockey-stick-buyers-guide--bg-222796.html   (1116 words)

  
 USA - Canadian Flag Hockey Stick Tape
Hockey stick tape with great looking country flags.
Hockey shaft or hockey stick replacement and extension end plugs.
As well, stick wax protects the blade and prolongs the life of tape.
www.icewarehouse.com /descpage.html?pcode=UCST   (623 words)

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