29/03/16

[Maik]

Where was Baldrick?

[Maik]

Penalty shoot-outs could be made fairer by switching kicking order
Researchers at New York and Maastricht Universities have come up with a ‘catch-up rule’ to ensure a more level playing field

Penalty shoot-outs could be made more fair by simply swapping the order in which they are taken, according to two maths experts.

Traditionally, shoot-outs favour the team kicking first, who will win 60 per cent of the time because of the psychological advantage.

Now New York University's Prof Steven Brams and Maastricht University's Mehmet Ismail have come up with the ‘Catch-up rule’ to ensure a more level playing field.

Under their system, if the teams both score or miss with their first kick, then they swap the order for the following kicks.

But if one team misses and the other scores, then it is the side who fluffed their attempt who then get to go first.

Currently, a coin toss determines which teams kicks first on all five penalty kicks, giving a significant advantage—determined by chance—to the team that leads off.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12205854/Penalty-shoot-outs-could-be-made-fairer-by-switching-kicking-order.html

[Maik]

Heard the Channel 4 series A Place in the Sun will be filming on Kef in April.

[Maik]

Commercial Association of Sami have requested the bank there be re-opened.

[TonyD]

Heard the Channel 4 series A Place in the Sun will be filming on Kef in April.

Presumably good for sellers?

[Maik]

Two in every five hotel enterprises in Greece are at risk of bankruptcy, as the tax burden on them is too heavy for them to be sustainable, according to a survey presented at a sector conference.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/207393/article/ekathimerini/business/hoteliers-struggle-to-stay-afloat


Apparently one 'reliable'(?) source is saying UK bookings to Kef are up 80% this summer, other tourism sources reckon 3-5%.

[Maik]

Chocolate shortage sparks violence at Easter family fun day in Skegness
When organisers ran out of Easter eggs, one mother lashed out

Site manager Sue Shelford told the Grimsby Telegraph: "No one volunteers to get assaulted.

"We are partnering with the Children's Charity, they had brought along 80 Easter eggs and we had brought kilos of them.

"We were handing them out and there were some people who got aggressive when we said we had run out of eggs.

"A lady with her large family was aggressive and she grabbed my volunteer by the scarf round her neck, she pulled her across the counter and demanded her money back.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12206303/Chocolate-shortage-sparks-violence-at-Easter-family-fun-day-in-Skegness.html

Ah, the true spirit of Easter.

[Maik]

Greece Plans to Accommodate Refugees on Uninhabited Islets

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/03/29/greece-plans-to-accommodate-refugees-on-uninhabited-islets/

Still no mention of Kef