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In This Issue
Director's Update: SAC Meeting, the Budget, BES Review, and Beyond
The Biological Implications of the PP2A Crystal Structure
Important Top-Off Progress
UEC Corner: Introducing the 2008 Committee
SAC Year-End Review and BES Dry Run
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Director's Update: SAC Meeting, the Budget, BES Review, and Beyond
This has been a busy period at the ALS, as we adjust to a reduced Fiscal-Year 2008 budget and prepare for the triennial U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) review of our facility that will take place March 4-6.
In December, we presented our Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) with a dry run of the material for the BES review, reports on progress and successes of the past three years, and our vision as we move forward in 2008 and beyond. The SAC provided valuable feedback, which we are incorporating into the materials being prepared for our review. Immediately after the SAC meeting, we held a focused, international workshop on High Average Power Lasers and High Harmonics and explored the state of such lasers for generating soft x-rays and seeding a next-generation, free-electron-laser-based soft x-ray source. This workshop was part of a continuing series sponsored by the Laboratory's Advanced Photon Science Initiative to examine how new technologies can help us meet the science requirements outlined in the BES Grand Challenges. (See the BES Workshop Reports Web site for a copy of the Grand Challenges report, which will help inform research directions at BES.)
Then in late December, the FY08 omnibus funding bill was announced, and federal science agencies received news of significant cuts in the President's proposed budget, and we were informed of consequent reductions in ALS funding. The scientific societies (e.g., the American Physical Society) encouraged all members, including users of facilities, to contact their congressional representatives, senators, and the White House to convey their concerns about the impact of the budget.
As we continue preparations for our BES review, I want to thank all of you who responded to our requests to update publications lists, awards, and invited talks based on work carried out at the ALS. Our productivity over the last three years, which is the primary metric, has been extraordinarily high. But the reviewers will also want to hear how we plan to keep the ALS at the scientific forefront. With the present budget, this is a challenge—one that we share with the other light sources.
Our plans include continuing our successful efforts toward full top-off mode, and a careful review and optimization of our current allocation of resources. Big questions include, how do we grow critical program areas, such as enhanced metrology/optics and more capable detectors, while also focusing on our mission, our core capabilities, and our most scientifically productive beamlines? One of our goals is to continue to hire young people with great ideas through our postdoctoral program, to make sure that our next generation of scientists gets trained. I am confident that the cuts in federal science budgets will eventually be restored, so we also need to continue planning for new areas of science and technology that we believe will be important.
Berkeley Lab recognizes that the ALS doesn't only serve the needs of its users; it plays a key role in the broader dissemination of science and technology. So despite the difficult financial situation, I'm happy to say that the Laboratory has given us funds to improve the ALS lobby area so that we can better communicate this role to our visitors, ranging from school groups to political leaders. These improvements will be completed by the beginning of March.
Several of our major construction projects also have been affected by the budget cuts—including proposals for the renewal of Sector 7, called COSMIC and MAESTRO (declined along with all BES midscale instrumentation proposals this year) and the User Support Building (USB). Although the USB is still going forward, its completion date has been moved from 2009 to 2010/2011.
I am planning to go to Washington in February to visit BES, as budget allocations are made clearer, to explore ways to mitigate the most damaging cuts for ALS. Our support from BES remains strong, and we will continue to work with our funding agency and our users to most effectively use our resources, both current and future.
The Biological Implications of the PP2A Crystal Structure
Phosphatases, enzymes that remove a phosphate group from amino-acid substrates, can be subdivided according to their substrate specificity. Myriad evidence has demonstrated that protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), a family of serine/threonine-specific (Ser/Thr) phosphatases, regulates many, if not most, aspects of cellular activities and is a critical tumor suppressor. A team at the University of Washington recently determined the first crystal structure of a PP2A holoenzyme (a form sufficient for full catalytic activity) composed of three different subunits (i.e., a heterotrimer). Their structure provides a foundation for understanding PP2A regulation, satisfactory mechanistic explanations for human tumorigenic mutations, and the structural basis for understanding PP2A substrate recruitment and specificity, a critical issue, given the high number of PP2A substrates. Read more...
Publication about this research: U.S. Cho and W. Xu, "Crystal structure of a protein phosphatase 2A heterotrimeric holoenzyme," Nature 445, 83 (2007).
Important Top-Off Progress
The ALS made a big step towards the successful completion of the top-off upgrade during November and December of 2007. The recommissioning of the injector complex was successfully completed and user operation was moved from injection at 1.5 GeV to full-energy injection at 1.9 GeV. Although all the hardware installations for this upgrade were completed at the end of 2006, the new power supply for the booster dipole chain failed during the final testing conducted by the vendor. This caused several days' delay in user startup in January 2007 and subsequently limited performance. A successful collaborative effort between the vendor and ALS engineers during the Thanksgiving shutdown in November resolved the problem.
Measured current waveforms during 1.9 GeV operation of the three main power supplies for the booster synchrotron. The bend magnet power supply delivers a peak power of about 2 MW.
The first beam operation of the booster synchrotron at up to 1.9 GeV occurred on December 3. During the following week, injection rates into the storage ring were improved, and full-energy injection became standard on December 11.
An immediate benefit of full-energy injection is that transients in air and cooling water temperatures—previously caused by the change in magnet currents for injection—disappeared (figure below), resulting in better stability of the accelerator. The goal in the coming months is to slowly increase the peak stored current to 500 mA and reduce the time necessary for refills from 20 minutes to below 10 minutes. This would make it possible to inject more often than the current schedule of eight hours between refills and could result in a significant increase in average flux and brightness even before full top-off operation. Migrating to full-energy injection concludes the major hardware part of the top-off upgrade of the ALS.
Average air temperature in the ALS accelerator tunnel for a typical day with injection at 1.5 GeV (blue) as well as with full energy injection (red), showing the improved thermal stability.
UEC Corner: Introducing the 2008 Committee
As Roger mentions in his Director's Update, the ALS—along with many other national facilities—is facing severe challenges due to the FY08 budget cuts. We will work closely with ALS management to minimize the impact of those cuts on your research programs.
Despite the budgetary situation, 2008 features two high points for the ALS. First, we will have the opportunity to present the excellent work that is performed at the ALS to a DOE Basic Energy Sciences review committee that will visit Berkeley at the beginning of March. Every three years the DOE reviews all of its synchrotron facilities to obtain an overview of their programs and their user communities.
We are also looking forward to the 2008 ALS Users' Meeting. This meeting is the highlight for the UEC each year because it gives us the opportunity to gather the user community together and provide a forum to exchange ideas and experiences. The 2008 Users' Meeting program will be organized by Wayne Stolte and Phil Heimann, with the experienced support of the ALS User Services Office. Although we will not be having a joint meeting with the Molecular Foundry, as we did last year, we are discussing the possibility of doing so in the future. Again, we ask for your input on this important issue so that we can act in your interests.
We are looking forward to working for you in 2008.
2008 ALS UEC members:
SAC Year-End Review and BES Dry Run
Scientific Advisory Committee, 2008. From left to right: Roger Falcone, Dung-Hai Lee, Keith Moffat, Sunil Sinha, Friso van der Veen, Nora Berrah, Philip Bucksbaum, Peter Johnson, Erwin Poliakoff, Jeff Bokor, Carolyn Larabell, Tony van Buuren, Ference Krausz, Sam Krinsky, and Steve Kevan.
The ALS Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting on December 10 and 11 was extremely valuable, with preparation for the March 4-6 BES Review as the keynote agenda item. In addition to Facility talks, Committee members attended two poster sessions out on the ALS Floor, which were given as a dry run for the BES Review. SAC came up with very useful suggestions to help us prepare. In addition to the BES preparation, there were talks on detectors, nanomagnetism, the HELIOS project, and protein crystallography, and the Science for a New Class of Soft X-Ray Light Sources Workshop. All in all, it was a very valuable meeting.


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Frank, Marcus et al â Please exercise caution when checking specialist words in major dictionaries.In December 1993 I wrote to both Chambers and Oxford about what they had as codswallop, and we all know should be coddswallop.
Here you are Carolyn, all about Hiram Codd and his glass-bottled wallop. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codswallop
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Open source and the future of Super Bowl advertising | Opensource.com
Open source and the future of Super Bowl advertising
As we approach the most anticipated day of the year for brand managers, Super Bowl Sunday, I thought it appropriate to comment on one of the biggest pieces of news coming out the branding and marketing circles in recent weeks: in a bold move, Pepsi – historically one of the largest spenders of Super Bowl advertising dollars – has discontinued its investment in commercial advertising during what could arguably be the most-watched television event ever.
However, I am not as interested in this decision as I am in how Pepsi will be reallocating its advertising budget, and how this might signal the early signs of even the largest and most traditional companies dabbling in (and even embracing) open source models of business.
Via the recently announced Pepsi Refresh Project (www.refresheverything.com), Pepsi will be investing in a large scale crowdsourcing and cause marketing initiative that will award $20 million in grants for community improvement projects. From the website:
"We're looking for people, businesses, and non-profits with ideas that will have a positive impact. Look around your community and think about how you want to change it."
Anyone can submit an idea. Anyone can vote on their favorites. Each month, Pepsi will award up to 30 grants ranging in size from $5K to $250K to those ideas voted for most by the site's visitors.
Admittedly, this is not a completely original idea. A host of companies, from Target and P&G to Chase Bank and Starbucks , have launched similar crowdsourcing initiatives. Mountain Dew, another PepsiCo brand, recently launched its DEWmocracy "collective intelligence" project to develop its new projects, and Vitaminwater (owned by the Coca-Cola Company) released a Flavorcreator app on Facebook to crowdsource ideas for new flavors.
To many, it's not even a particularly good idea, and these companies have a lot to learn about truly opening up their processes. Crowdsourcing projects are pretty trendy right now, and an online voting contest can hardly be classified as an open source effort. You don't have to look too far to find reactions against crowdsourcing, at least in the way that many marketing organizations are utilizing the tactic today, and I am certainly not writing this post in advocation of crowdsourcing as a model of open source development.
(In fact, the long-term effects of crowdsourcing on the health of and affinity for a brand is a concern to be explored in whole other post ... but here's a great take on it to get started).
What I do think is noteworthy is that a major consumer goods company with highly valuable brand assets on the line is forfeiting the most traditional of advertising models in favor of a decidedly riskier strategy, placing the fate of its brands if not completely in the hands of its users, at least closer to it than ever before. I (optimistically) choose to believe that it represents some early shifts in long-held beliefs and practices in that industry, signaling that even the oldest dogs are willing to learn some new tricks.
What do you think consumer brands can learn and apply from the open development model within the technology industry? How are their current efforts flawed? And do you believe that these early initiatives represent an evolution within consumer branding towards a more open, collaborative model?
Oh, and who are you pulling for in the Super Bowl?
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That true open source is based on meaningful collaboration and interaction. Not just a vote on a website. You've got all these people in one place...encourage them to talk to each other! Exchange ideas. Not just log a vote.
I think Pepsi is onto something here. In the past organizations who used crowdsourced competitions to create an add for a product have had varying degrees of success. GM learned the hard way with the Chevy Tahoe advert competition. Ford learned a bit from that with their Blogger based Festiva campaign, but in the end neither IMHO managed to get the brand attention they desired.
By redirecting funding that would have traditionally been focused on promoting the product towards creating an ecosystem focused on a cause, I think Pepsi is being AUTHENTIC about demonstrating it's commitment to the improving communities.
It will be interesting to see how this unfolds.
I don't know...the money is certainly authentic, and it looks like this program will do some real good, but something still bugs me... the whole program doesn't feel all that authentic from where I sit... so I did some looking around.
In the FAQ they reference that the project is put on by a company called "Young America," and looking at their website, I could tell where I got the inauthentic vibe. Check their page on engagement marketing:
"At Young America, we provide measureable, strategic solutions and tactical services to engage your customers throughout their entire life cycle; from acquisition, continuing to growth and finally onto retention."
So I think Pepsi is "engaging" me with the hope of eventually "retaining" me. It's a marketing activity-- one with good motives, mind you-- but it is still a marketing activity as opposed to an authentic charitable activity.
To me, there's a deficit of trust, to borrow a phrase. I'm skeptical at best when a company announces an initiative like this, because they've been closed up for so long. Like Joshua said, collaboration and interaction is the base for openness, but I don't feel like investing myself if I get the impression that the company is after my wallet. I think that's the biggest obstacle to a business trying a more open source approach.
I think businesses attempting initiatives like this one will cause a rise of openness in business. I am skeptical about this one, but other companies may feel the need to adopt initiatives similar to it to stay competitive. I think it could lead to a higher level of collaboration, like I said in my other comment, and more meritocracy. These principles could help companies to better satisfy customer demands.
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FOGO. Our job is pretty straightforward. Faceoff, get off. As simple as this may seem, there is a wrong way to do this. Right now, I am sure you are saying to yourself, 'I'm not just a fogo!' Lucky you.
The point is, the faceoff is not over once possession is gained or lost. The actions a faceoff mid takes following the 10 to 20 seconds after the draw can mean the difference between playing college lacrosse and taking draws with grandma in the basement after a daily afternoon nap.
There are a few general outcomes that follow a faceoff: A neutral zone possession or loss, a fast break, and an illegal procedure call. Knowing what to do in these situations is important in order to put yourself in a position that will help your team the most.
Your coach will usually tell you what your role is following the face, however there are a few general things you want to keep in mind.
- Support the ball before subbing off the field. If your team wins possession off the draw, get open or get out of the way of the ball carrier. Get the ball settled in the offensive end, then sub off through the mid or elsewhere if that is what your coach has told you. Some coaches will also have substitution play but I will leave that up to them.
- Don't be over aggressive if you lose the draw. Making overzealous checks around the midline will often cause you to get a flag. Get back in the hole and substitute yourself with your opponent.
- Don't be afraid to make plays. A player on the field that is unable or doesn't have the confidence to make necessary plays when he is stuck on the field will only hurt the team.
- Listen to your coaches. Most of the time, the coaching staff can see changes that need to be made regarding your positioning after the face.
For me, Bart Sullivan and E. Covey were my second and third pair of eyes, and were highly responsible for successful post-draw situations that I was in. Not to mention, practicing face-offs in a parking lot lit by Sully's car headlights in the pouring rain had a major impact on the effectiveness of my post-draw play.
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Farmers never retire
Farmers never retire
While that may be the case, everyone can work on communicating farm succession plans.
By Corey Geiger, Hoard's Dairyman Assistant Managing Editor
"You understand, farmers never retire," was one of the astute observations that farm family coach Elaine Froese offered to those attending the World Holstein Conference in Toronto, Canada. That comment drew a delayed, but all true chuckle from the crowd as it was translated in multiple languages to the attendees from 40-plus countries. "In order to have a successful ownership transition, family members must understand and respect each other's perspective," noted Froese.
Each generation has different wants and desires. Life goals vary greatly by age.
"To boost the potential for a successful farm transition, each party must understand the needs of business partners," said Froese. Those needs include (by age):
20s: Making it
30s: Success, mastery
40s: Taking charge, ownership
50s: Quality of life
60s: Legacy, starting over, new life roles
70s: Mentoring
80s: Elder blessings on role of business partners
Each generation has his or her own list of concerns. The biggest concern for the young generation on farms, "their opinion is not respected, and their voice is not heard," explained Froese.
For the senior generation, Froese pointed out that the family farm is not the only potential legacy. "Your legacy is not just the farm and land. It is business and communication skills and other valuable skill sets," she said. "Also, it is not your responsibility as a parent, founder and business owner to make all your children economically the same."
Dynamics on the farm are also changing, and everyone needs to better handle the evolving situation. "More daughters are coming back to the farm — with their husbands — only to have husbands bossed around by their father-in-law," Froese pointed out. "When sons-in-laws leave good paying jobs to farm with wives (on their home farm), and those husbands get bossed around, conflict starts."
Communication and respect can overcome many obstacles. "Conflicts cost money," said Froese. "Farms are 21 percent more profitable with regular business meetings," said Froese, citing research from Virginia Tech's David Kohl.
Ultimately, Froese cautioned everyone to keep life in balance. "Workaholics don't have great relationships, especially on the farm. That situation can lead to the big D: Divorce," Froese reminded everyone.
To read more about Elaine Froese's communication and farm transition efforts, go to her website at www.elainefroese.com.
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Most commonly known as a member of the crew of an oil rig other than the driller. It can also mean cruel and brutal person.
Most commonly known as a member of the crew of an oil rig other than the driller. It can also mean cruel and brutal person.
Toby Keith used to be a roughneck, his father was also one.
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a hoodlum, a streetwise toughguy, typically from a heavily industrialized area. Roughnecks usually have a chip on their shoulder the size of Arkansas.
Those Pawtucket Roughnecks are always looking for a fight.
by T-Dog Jenkins April 30, 2005
A person who preforms manual labor in the oilfields, typically in a drilling capacity. Can be onshore or offshore. Personnel who work in the oilfields but are not involved with drilling are not true roughnecks. Roughnecks are know for their perverted sense of humor, frequent cussing, high pay, and as being some of the hardest working folks you'll ever know. Roughnecks can be oilfield-trash but not all of them are.
Look at those Roughnecks over yonder trippin' that string. Look at those boys go!
by westtexaswildcatter January 08, 2012
n. a construction worker, driller, miner, or roofer, from working outside in the sun, and because they often fit the definition given above.
c.f. blue collar, leatherneck
by wayfarer May 05, 2005
a guy, often one who has done time in prison, who is confident of his fighting skills and has been through hard times
I like them rough neck thugged, out guys.
by mia December 04, 2004
An uncouth, low IQ, blue-collar worker making more money than the average starting physician, lawyer, or engineer, yet nothing to show for it, unless it's a monster truck or double-wide trailer because they spend most of their money on booze and women. Most of them live on the Texas or Louisiana coast and Alaska's Mat-Su Valley when they aren't working. Roughneck women that work in those oilfield environments often have a chip on their shoulder and distrust or dislike of men that are kind, intelligent, or courteous.
Roughneck Redneck Good Ole Boy
by waspcoloredstain June 05, 2013
Bunch of whiny americans who play OFP and complain if they loose a game. Similar to MOD
Man 1: We won tonight!
Man 2: yeh? who against
Man 1: 3 guesses, they whine if they loose
Man 2: ahh RN, should have known
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Man 1: 3 guesses, they whine if they loose
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The act of inventing a number of words, but never writing any of them down.
After desperately trying for hours to spell the word he invented, in his serendoupidus nature, he had fallen asleep and awoke the next morning with no clue what so ever what he was going on about yesterday.
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The Wis. State Journal reported today that Dr. Cory Brimacombe, a dentist with First Impressions of Wausau, is one of four doctors there to share the 2012 Wisconsin Small Business Person of the Year Award. The doctors will be honored in Washington, DC, during National Small Business Week, May 20-22.
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The city administration is hyped about an updated version of a records-management keeping system and other crime-fighting technologies meant to identify drug houses and dealers of heroin and other......
At least the mayor is getting the federal government to pay for the cameras. It's not coming out of local tax dollars. The budget's already tight. You'd think it was an election year the way the mayor's been cracking down on crime. Maybe it's something he believes in.
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A black person of the darker variety such that the gums are of a blue color.
Billy-Bob: No officer, I ain't robbed the liquor store. It was a damn blue-gum what did it.
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A person of African American Heritage who has a purplish hew to the dental margins.
" Boy you-all doan want to get bit by one uh them Blue Gum N-Words! They bite is poisonouser than a rattlesnake!"
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Usually refers to a lazy black American who refuses to work.
Look at that ol blue gum just watching us do all the work!
Stop blue gumming and get to work!
Stop blue gumming and get to work!
por Chauncee Irving 18 de Janeiro de 2005
A person of african american decent. Also see nigger
Damn blue gums stole me bicycle
por GG 24 de Janeiro de 2004
A synonym of African American, this word describes the bluish color typical of a black mouth.
Hey! Somebody hang that bluegum!
por myname 12 de Outubro de 2004
An African or African American with exceptionally dark skin.
He ain't high yellow, he's a bluegums.
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Any black person whose gums are blue in color. Used to differentiate from the more common pink-gummed black person.
Officer "Ma'am, is this the man who robbed you?"
Woman "No officer, this man's gums are pink, the man who robbed me was a bluegum"
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10th Annual Galena Oktoberfest
Annual German celebration featuring live music, kids games, wiener dog races and lots of food and beverages.
49th Annual Tour of Historic Homes
Tour five of the many privately owned and beautifully furnished houses in Galena. The tour also includes admission to the Galena & U.S. Grant Museum, housed in the Daniel Barrows Mansion built in 1858, and free shuttle service. Guided tours run from 9 am - 5 pm, rain or shine.
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A fun-filled day celebrating the fruits of our labor: Food booths, art show featuring the talents of the Galena Cultural Arts Alliance, vineyard tours and hayrides. Live entertainment. Fun for the entire family including pumpkin painting and grape stomps.
With more than 150 vendors selling original, handmade arts, crafts, and fine arts there is something for everyone. Choose from a variety of fair food, enjoy live entertainment, and fresh fruit and vegetables from the local farmers' markets. Children will enjoy the many games and contests provided to keep them entertained throughout the day.
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It's not for everyone.
Unlike the newest Bachelor couple, Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici – who are saving sex for their wedding night – Ashley Hebert and her Bachelorette-winner hubby, J.P. Rosenbaum, didn't wait for marriage.
"I don't even know where to go with that one," Rosenbaum tells PEOPLE with a laugh on Thursday, when asked his thoughts on the topic. "It's a belief and we don't share it."
That said, the pair – who wed in December at the picturesque Langham hotel in Pasadena, Calif. – respect Lowe and Giudici's decision.
"Those are their own personal beliefs and we're not going to judge them," Rosenbaum says. "We do our thing, they do their thing."
Adds Hebert with a laugh: "More power to 'em! I admire people who can do that, you know what I mean? I'm not interested in it, but ... I think that shows a lot of strength."
But the newlyweds have something big in common with the newly engaged, aside from finding love on TV. Like Hebert and Rosenbaum, Lowe and Giudici plan to wed on air.
"If they've decided they've spent enough time with each other that they're ready to go ahead and get married, I would say definitely doing it the way that we did it on TV was amazing," Hebert says. "Everything about the whole wedding process was seamless and simple and beautiful."
Rosenbaum – who, alongside Hebert, recently teamed up with Valspar paint to help raise money for Habitat for Humanity – says he originally feared that filming their special day in front of cameras would make it "feel like a show and not a wedding."
Luckily, he says, "It felt like a wedding. Our friends and family and everyone was there. They were happy and feeling the love. We had nothing but a wonderful, positive experience."
Moving forward, the couple expect to have kids. "[I] want one kid and J.P. wants two kids, so we'll probably have two," Hebert shares. But they aren't in any rush.
"Ashley has to finish her dental residency, which will be a year away in June," explains Rosenbaum. "Once she's done with her residency and we figure out where she's going to work, then we'll start thinking about family. But it's not far off."
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I am aware that you will most likely not personally read this letter, as I am sure you have plenty of well paid staff to handle that arduous task for you. That, however, will not stop me from voicing my opinion. Your hypocrisy is despicable. As you ask the working to middle class teachers of this state to "tighten our belts" I also wonder why you have not done the same. Why do you fly around on a chopper paid for by OUR taxpayers' money? Why do you work for the highest possible salary allowed for your position? Why doesn't your new budget call for a pay freeze for you and your cohorts? Why don't you contribute towards your health benefits? Well, I have the answer. You are a pompous, egotistical, callous fascist who lied his way into office. You think the public is too far below you to catch on to your shrewd, scapegoat tactics. You would also love to demolish public education in favor of charter schools. You would love to broaden the gap between the 'haves' and 'have nots.' You are a divisive, disrespectful, classless bully.
Using teachers and children as pawns for your own political gain is the lowest of the low and, in my opinion, abusive. I do understand that public education means nothing to you and that you have no faith in the hard work that goes on in public schools. If you did, you wouldn't be paying for your own children to attend private schools. Oh, how lovely it must be to rape the entire public school system and not have to worry about it ever affecting your family. How simple- minded you are to attempt to pit the public against the most selfless, caring, and hardworking professionals our state has to offer. I love children and I believe in their futures. You love yourself and believe in ignorance. You are in fact banking on the public's ignorance in order to benefit your personal agendas.
You must have very little faith in your own abilities as governor if you must resort to lying to the public about teachers. I do recognize your distraction techniques. I have seen them before. As a teacher, I often encounter such shoddy attempts at clouding the issue at hand when children make excuses for not having their homework done. Well, Chris Christie, the teachers did not eat your homework. Why don't you just tell the public the truth? It is not the teachers who have bankrupted the state. Years of reckless spending and borrowing (from our pensions, might I add) and short- sighted politicians such as yourself, have single handedly robbed this state blind. There is no hidden money in our profession. We DON'T DOUBLE DIP. We don't get PAID OVERTIME. We don't FLY TO WORK ON HELICOPTERS. We do NOT EARN WITHIN THE TOP ONE PERCENT. Keep stealing from the future of New Jersey's youth and you will see that ignorance is far more costly than the debt that we already know.
In a recent televised speech, you stated that you did not want to be known as the governor who didn't make a difference. Well, you are certainly making quick work out of alienating the entire state. And, if it all goes as you have planned, you will certainly hold a legacy. You personally will have ruined the lives and futures of our children. Your legacy will be that of the evil governor who stole opportunity from the most fragile members of our society. You will be the man responsible for failing test scores and neglected students. Hopefully, after you are done with New Jersey, there will be enough money left in education to purchase the new Social Studies books that will highlight your strong-armed fascist politics. You and Mussolini can share a chapter. Children can read and learn about rotten, tactless, hateful politicians with personal agendas and no redeeming qualities.
What you don't seem to recognize, Chris Christie, is that most intelligent people understand the value of an excellent education. The public knows how well we teachers in this state do our jobs. They support us. You underestimate New Jersey, and the people who live here, when you spew such misguided and ignorant hatred towards teachers. You only make yourself look worse. Teaching is at the CENTER OF EVERYTHING. The public knows how well our schools run. That is why people live here, in New Jersey, you silly man. That is why your attempts at vilifying us teachers will never work.
I invite you, Chris Christie, to come into my classroom. Do my job as well as I do. Scramble to put together interactive and differentiated lessons for every single period of the day. Follow Individualized Education Plans for special needs students in a mainstream setting as seamlessly as I do. Come to my Intervention and Referral Services meetings. Attend Back to School Night. Tell a crying student they will survive the TAUNTS OF A BULLY. You tell the children why some of their favorite teachers are no longer employed. Explain why there will not be an afterschool math club. Tell these children that their education is PRICELESS and that THEY COUNT. Reach into your pocket to buy supplies the district cannot afford. Reach every student and change their lives. Become a teacher.
Oh .wait. That would mean foregoing your helicopter rides, generous salary, and lobster dinners. And those private school tuitions for your children would have to go, as well. Thank goodness you can afford that privilege, so that your children don't have to slum it with the rest of us common folk in the public sector. How nice it must be to sit at the top, with all of you minions who are too afraid of you to speak out against you. Enjoy your reign while it lasts, and best of luck getting re-elected.


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What might be done about high prices of journals?
Following the suggestions from Richard Taylor and from Teresa Krick, we would like to gather your statements pertaining to pricing for mathematical journals.
Quoting Richard, "Maybe instead the IMU could consider what if anything it can do about the unreasonable prices of some mathematics journals that are taking badly needed money from our universities? And, Teresa Krick wonders "how to fight against the outrageous rates publishing houses are charging the scientific communities, for a job the scientific community does for them from the beginning to the end."
This topic has been discussed at great length in librarian circles, and also written about in professional math periodicals. Purchasing journals is nowadays done mostly at the national license level: bigger deals, larger aggregations of content. Are mathematicians having any say on prioritization, or usage of funds in this way? Where will this all lead as time goes on? Please comment on this issue. ?
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If journals are paid for at national level, what about publishing at national level? Wouldn't it be cheaper to have a national science publishing house? Maybe an economist can calculate it...
Scientific journals are expensive because large companies such as Reed-Elsevier and Springer have a monopoly on them. Why are academics eager to publish in these expensive journals instead of switching to cheaper ones? Because the expensive journals are "prestigious", and academics need that prestige for tenure and promotions. Why are these journals "prestigious"? Because academics are eager to publish in them. Mathematicians can break this vicious circle by creating boards that rate the quality of math papers on the arXiv. These ratings, if they become accepted, can serve to help evaluate mathematicians for tenure and promotion decisions. The IMU is a great position to make this happen. Please do it!
An open review system
There is already a database with almost all the recently written math papers: the arXiv. To get rid of journals, all that is needed is a system to assess the quality of these papers.
Now imagine a website where each paper on the arXiv would have an associated discussion board, where people could make comments, ask questions. People would also be able to write (anonymously or not) referee reports on the papers they feel they understand. To avoid spamming and incompetent reviews, one can imagine attributing to each contributor reputation points, much like what is currently done on mathoverflow.net. Similary, the message threads pertaining to each article could be rated, with the purpose of displaying the most interesting and relevant ones first.
All the technology is there and running such a website would cost a tiny fraction of the price currently paid for journals. Moreover, the discussion boards would provide an invaluable resource for the community, would make it much more easy to spot mistakes and conceptual issues and would make this knowledge instantly available to everybody. The reputation system would provide a strong incentive for the referees to write serious reports, and these would be available to anyone to consult.
Of course, the main problem would be to get a significant fraction of the community to use this system, as well as getting it to be recognized by funding agencies. Endorsement by the IMU and ICIAM could probably help a lot.
I've recently blogged on this topic: my suggestions were similar to the ones above. However, moving to a completely different system of evaluation is not going to be easy when the current system has a considerable stability to it. In the short term, an easy measure that would destabilize it would be for the IMU to endorse a boycott of the most expensive journals. The effect of such a boycott could be that when an individual mathematician is asked to referee a paper for, say, Elsevier, he or she would be able to say no without any feeling of guilt. Since we'd all like to save ourselves a bit of work, this could be very harmful to the journals in question. If that leaves a need for journals of comparable prestige to the ones that have been boycotted, it would be an easy matter to found some. Alternatively, existing journals could simply come to be regarded as more prestigious in the new and smaller field.
It seems to me that a simple statement by the IMU that mathematicians do not have a moral obligation to provide a free service to journals that charge exorbitant prices, together with a list of such journals, would be very easy to produce, and could make a real difference. There may be legal niceties that I am not aware of, but it's hard to see on what legal grounds the publishers could object to the withdrawal of a voluntary service.
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arXiv is _not_ already used
Personally, I think the arxiv is great-- I put all my preprints on there. But it is simply not true to say that "almost all the recently written math papers" are on the on arXiv. I would think that not even half of all (reasonable quality) papers are on the arXiv. I personally wish this wasn't so, but it is.
So there are significant barriers to just using the arXiv. It seems to me that if we cannot convince a great many of our colleagues to use the arXiv then it's going to be even harder to get these same colleagues to abandon journals. After all, why have there been so few editorial boards willing to do as the board of Topology did, for example?
Where we publish also doesn't just affect tenure and promotion. Here in the United Kingdom, we have the REF (http://www.hefce.ac.uk/research/ref/) which judges us all on "outputs". While no doubt the official line is that any pre-reviewed work is fine, I can see that my head of department would be pretty unhappy if my 4 outputs were in strange new venues. Again, it's a critical mass problem...
It seems to me that the pricing issue cannot be solved as long hiring decisions are almost exclusively based on the publication track record in traditional journals (and, even worse, on the metrics of those journals).
In other words, when it comes down to it, we only value researchers by the metrics of the traditional journals they've published in. This gives the publishers incredible power over the development of our community and there's no conceivable reason why for-profit publishers wouldn't use this power to maximize their profits.
The pressure to publish is immense and getting published has turned into a game rather than an effort of communication -- with many adverse effects to a functioning community.
None of the comments so far have addressed the issue that the monoculture of "publishing papers" is limiting the way a scientific community can develop. Journals used to be a necessary evil to enable a minimal degree of communication within a community that is spread around the globe. But now the community is fully connected, in real time, and there is no difficulty to stay in touch with any researcher as long as they use the internet to some degree. In turn, we can now communicate every detail of our academic work effortlessly; not just individual papers, but refereeing, student interaction, Q&A's, video lectures, expository writing, research exchanges, live-broadcasting talks and seminars etc
I think the key problem is that we need to find ways reduce the pressure to publish the traditional way. The only way this is possible is if we find a way to publish less.
Therefore we need to spend time (and money) on finding ways to evaluate other activities of researchers.
For example, wikipedia has de facto a peer review system, especially the "Good Articles". It's not as easy to evaluate a wikipedia author, but an active author offers a lot of activity to evaluate them by and there is precedent for considering this a research activity.
Similarly for MathOverflow and other research-level Q&A sites: The so-called reputation points are a poor metric per se, but they nevertheless indicate an activity that is worth evaluating, i.e., a high "reputation" indicates at the very least a high activity, an amount of data that could be used to evaluate a researcher.
Fortunately, these new platforms of academic activity allow us to get started right away.
On the one hand, mathematicians can (and should) invest time in making their efforts outside of traditional journal publishing more visible, in particular on their professional homepage and their CVs (in the research section, that is!)
On the other hand, the professional societies should start taking the activity of mathematicians on the web seriously. They could support and invest in new ways of doing research online and, above all, investigate the development of standards for evaluating such activities.
I thank John Baez for encouraging me to make this comment.
I believe that the best way to fight the present system is to erode it. A small hole in a bucket of water will empty it after a while.
A small group of (prestigious?) mathematicians may create a journal XYZ published in the arXiv. A paper accepted in XYZ should be tagged "published in XYZ" very clearly. A published paper should be frozen in time: it should be impossible to cover it with a later version. The published papers
should be grouped as in an ordinary electronic journal. I hope the Arxiv can welcome the experiment. If the XYZ journal works well, it will be imitated. The IMU may encourage the initiative.
I would like to propose the creation a universal archive of *published* mathematical papers. With the goal of making the published papers of all times freely accessible to everyone.
The papers could be transmitted to the archive by the
mathematical journals. Potentially, the archive could contain and preserve the collected work of every mathematician, past or alive.
The archive could be created progressively, starting small.
Of course, the for-profit journals may demand a high price for their copy rights. The true nature of their activities will be revealed. Peoples may eventually decide to stop publishing in this kind of journals.
If we can get adoption of the arxiv to 100%, then the question of where we publish is less relevant, and the only value from journal subscriptions becomes access to their archives. These are two independent problems.
For access to archives, Andre Joyal's suggestion is worth pursuing. For submissions to arxiv, we should at least start refusing to referree (or, more importatntly, if an editor, refuse to consider submissions of) papers which are not on the arxiv.
I believe the best way to combat overpriced journals is the so-called
"Open Access First, Copyright Reform After"
movement that is championed by Steven Harnad. This is also known as the "Green Open Access" philosophy. The idea is that universities mandate staff to submit final drafts of papers on university repositories, which then show up in Google. In other words, you still submit your paper to a "normal" overpriced journal, but you deposit the final preprint version (after the referee process) onto the university repository. Harnad says that 95% of publishers already allow self-archiving. For the remaining 5%, you ensure that the university repository has a clickable "Email me an eprint copy" button. When someone clicks on this, an email automatically gets sent to the author, who then personally sends an eprint to the requester.
In this way, the dominoes of the journal publishing industry will organically begin to fall, and new systems (such as the arXiv overlay idea) will present themselves organically in time. This is precisely in line with most of the comments above, for instance that of Andre Joyal.
Steven Harnad has given many talks on this subject, and I encourage you watch his 10 minute talk on this topic at vimeo.com/32241747.
Great as the arXiv undoubtedly is, we should require it to make some contractual commitments before we lean on it any more heavily.
When you submit a paper to the arXiv, you give it a perpetual, irrevocable licence to publish your work. But you get no commitment in return. The arXiv does not commit to keeping your work available. It does not commit to staying free. There is no guarantee that they won't sell up to Elsevier. There is no guarantee that the next time you look at one of your abstracts on the arXiv, it won't be surrounded by advertising.
I have no reason to think that the people who run the arXiv have anything but the highest motives. But if we're going to make the arXiv any more central to mathematics publishing than it already is (and frankly, even if we're not), we should ask them to match authors' legal commitments with legal commitments of their own.
The journalists writing for the Huffington Post are working for free and they must give their author rights. Sounds familiar? The Post was sold to AOL for more than 300,000,000 dollars. The journalists working for the Post received nothing. See the blogpost of Lionel Maurel,
Who owns our research papers?
André Joyal's first two comments are interesting because they call for two things that are (conceptually) available since more than a decade.
The first one is arXiv overlay journals, for which I am sceptical, the second one is the DML, of which I am an enthusiast. I will try to underline why.
ArXiv overlay journals were invented years ago based on the very obvious idea that what a journal is, from the scientist perspective, is a brand or quality stamp placed by a more or less prestigious committee on some paper. This is especially true in math where good journals are just repositories of good theorems in any area of math, a mathematician reads very seldom a journal issue cover to cover. The other aspects of journals, such as providing a smooth reader experience through common layout, copy-editing, checking that proofs are not only correct, but also readable and understandable, are vastly overlooked by the profession (and there are numerous examples where the copy-editor changed the author's manuscript in such a way that the English is more familiar to a native reader, but says something wrong). However, this never took up, I suspect for sociological reasons, and even the Annals of math--everyone thought they could do whatever they wanted being The Annals--stepped down from arXiv overlay to a mere MSP charged access journal. I think one of the very important aspects of journals, often overlooked, is that they *regulate* the system's entropy to a manageable one. When we are hunting for a reference for a certain result, we want that reference to be reasonably reliable, so that we can at first sight, relying on a journal reputation, assume that the found result is true enough to start elaborate over it--checking it thoroughly when we will start later on using it in a more organic way in our own research.The traditional publishing way, where a reference version of a paper is produced using many stages (refereeing, copy-editing, proof-reading) and involving a number of different people slows down publishing and insures a minimal quality check. It is not perfect and flawed papers appear in good journals, but this doesn't seem a sufficient reason to drop the whole system, we have corrigenda for this, which is again a heavy enough process to stabilize things. And future generations will rely on this stability to build their math results. Math being math, a dynamical system like arXiv seems very appropriate as a helper for *current* research, but which version of a paper should we read, trust when journal X stamped version y and author's version y+1 claims a stupid error was corrected while other papers whose results we use stepped from version y-1, z+12, etc.?
On the other hand, the DML (Digital Mathematics Library) is the grand idea that the mathematical heritage is a public common and should as such be faithfully archived, curated, and made accessible as widely as possible. This seems so obvious as math pervades everywhere in science and technology that it seems it should not need any selling. Making all not-so-recent (let's say a conservative 5-10 years after publication) math papers archived and open access in an independent digital library would be almost cost neutral to publishers and provide a clear benefit to all potential users of this (carefully validated and published) knowledge. This would yield maximum visibility to all publishers achievements (and failures) and enable further research as we all know that no one can predict which math result will be useful to which scientific or technological area few decades after.
This is not so much related to math journals pricing, I confess, except that these prices raised so high that it has become profitable to close access to old articles and sell them separately, which seems quite successful so far to profit-driven publishers (some of them run by not-for-profit organizations).
In conclusion (I'm afraid, a cross-section of the three topics of this blog), there is not so much possibilities to go beyond journals while keeping the system manageable for future generations, but rankings should not prevent experimentations in this area--maybe a variation on overlay journals will finally take up? We should keep journals prices low so that mathematical knowledge be affordable to all and stay a valuable asset to mankind; and we should store this knowledge over the long term so that mankind can exploit it whenever relevant.
Besides, best wishes for a creative and affordable 2012!
Th. Bouche
I thank Thierry Bouche for expressing his views. Let me point out the article "Cracking Open the Scientific Process" which just appeared (january 16, 2012) in the Science section of the NY Times. The author is Thomas Lin.
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A French initiative
In my lab, Institut Fourier in Grenoble, France, considering that the big deal being negociated with Springer by national partners (CNRS, INRIA, Couperin wich is a consortium representing the universities) could threaten the subscriptions of not-for-profit journals, we launched a petition to claim that we prefer not to get the access to most Springer journals rather than being forced into a big deal. You can read the precise statement here:
(in french).
Note that the wording makes it suitable only for mathematician working in France, a choice we made because we wanted to stay focused on a concrete point (the deal under negociation).
For now, it is difficult to say what impact this initiative will have, but we can say the petition has strong support: in a little more thant two weeks, it has been signed by more than 1500 individuals (over about 3000 mathematicians in France, if I am not mistaken) and 21 laboratories (over 57 that have contract with the CNRS institute for mathematics).
It seems to me that breaking the big deals is a good way toward decreasing prices of journals; these prices are actually difficult even to determine right now, since in some bundles (e.g. Elsevier bundle) the top journals seem reasonably cheap, but are used to sell many other ones that we would never buy if not forced to. Moreover, bundling soften the threat of topology-like movements: if a journal quits a bundle, the overall price of the bundle need not decrease accordingly.
The time for action has arrived:
A possible initiative
A possible action of the IMU might be to invite every mathematical institute of the world to create a journal that would reflect its history and personality. For example, the Fields Institute could create a journal called *The Fields Institute Mathematical Journal* or one called *The HSM Coxeter Mathematical Journal", since Coxeter spended most of his career in Toronto.
The editor-in-chief of the new journals may prey on the editorial board of for-profit journals to create their own.
Real prices of journals
It seems, according to some of the posts on Gowers's blog, that it is not so easy to determine the actual price of a mathematical journal due to the bundle policy of publishers and the secret surrounding the deals made with libraries. Maybe the IMU could try to obtain more transparency in this matter and gather all data so that we have a better view of what is truly inacceptable and decide what to do about it.
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The side bladders are part of the active seat feature that helps brace you when you change direction, responding to what the vehicle is doing. Some find it a good assist; I found it annoying. Thankfully, it is easily switched off.
Some of the gee-whiz technology in Mercedes-Benz's top roadster truly is impressive. The hardtop, which descends quickly into the trunk under a hard tonneau cover, features a glass panel roof that is actually one large LCD. Mercedes-Benz calls it Magic Sky Control. At the touch of a button, the entire glass roof darkens or goes transparent, letting less or more sun shine through. A function called Air Scarf directs a flow of hot air from behind the seats onto passengers' necks, enabling comfy top-down cruising in cooler temperatures.
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The SL65 features nearly all of Mercedes-Benz's top technologies, including Bluetooth, smartphone compatibility and the mbrace2 multimedia app system. Everything is controlled though a knob selector in the center console; the large screen in the dashboard is not a touch-screen. Operating the system does take some getting used to, but most operations go smoothly once you've got it down. Navigation is standard on the SL65, but the map needs an update. Driving through northern Ohio and suburban St. Louis revealed relatively new major four-lane interstate highways that had not yet made it onto the Benz's map, prompting the nav system to tell us we were zipping through a cornfield at 75 mph.
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The 2013 SL65 AMG has not yet been crash-tested. Crash-test ratings will be posted here once they become available. See standard safety features listed here.
Value in Its Class
The base price for the SL65 is $214,445, which includes a $1,300 gas-guzzler tax and $905 destination charge. My test car added $3,950 for the special Magno Alanite matte paint, $1,000 for red-painted brake calipers, $500 for upsized black chrome wheels and $3,570 for an exterior carbon fiber trim package, bringing the grand total to $223,465. Price your own SL with options here.
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Nicklas Lidstrom:Greatest Red Wing Ever
Posted 05 March 2014 - 08:37 PM
Posted 05 March 2014 - 08:53 PM
When your nickname is Mr. Hockey, and you play for a team for 25 years, it's hard to say anyone was a better player for that franchise.
Posted 05 March 2014 - 09:19 PM
Bummer. Mr. and Mrs. I won't be able to attend Nick's ceremony.
In a statement, Mike Ilitch said: "While Marian and I would love to be there, we won't be at tomorrow's jersey retirement for Nick Lidstrom. This past year, I had a medical procedure that has kept me out of the spotlight for awhile. I feel much better now, and I'm stronger every day. While we may not attend every event, we never miss a game on TV and are very involved in all our businesses every day from home and the office.
Posted 05 March 2014 - 09:44 PM
No surprise. Mr I looks more and more like walking death every time hes seen in public.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!
Posted 05 March 2014 - 10:30 PM
When your nickname is Mr. Hockey, and you play for a team for 25 years, it's hard to say anyone was a better player for that franchise.
Lidstrom is one of a few that could make a case.
Vince Lombardi
When asked who won, Babcock said, "Well it doesn't really matter as long as you don't lose. It's like going bear hunting, you take a slow guy with you in case the bear is hungry."
Posted 05 March 2014 - 10:40 PM
Those names in the rafters, though. Quite a collection of franchise greats. I hope the Wings never get away from truly reserving the honor for the elite. Nick will fit right in.
Posted 06 March 2014 - 01:04 AM
Most nights, my posts are brought to you by some sort of IPA and a heaping dose of sarcasm.
Success has a thousand fathers, failure is an orphan.
We not score, is hard to win. - Pavel Datsyuk #13
Posted 06 March 2014 - 06:11 AM
Lidstrom's regular season and playoffs highlights:
Amazing job by awood40!
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-Steve Yzerman
Posted 06 March 2014 - 07:52 AM
I always go one step further: I call Mr. Howe the greatest complete NHL player of all time.
"Mess up tomorrow, don't mess up now".
- Harry James Benson, CBE.
Posted 06 March 2014 - 08:50 PM
Edited by TheXym, 06 March 2014 - 08:51 PM.
Posted 07 March 2014 - 08:55 AM
Comparing players from different eras gets you as far as comparing Jordan to LeBron. It just doesn't work. IMO, Jordan > LeBron. I grew up watching Lidstrom so I'm partial to him. Was a very impactful night watching one of my favorite players get his jersey raised.
Posted 07 March 2014 - 11:13 AM
Lidstrom 4 cups
Yzerman 3 cups
no cups after these guys....
My wish: A healthy roster
Posted 07 March 2014 - 11:40 AM
because of our ages and time, many don't fully understand just how good guys like Howe, Abel, delvecchio, Lindsey etc..... were. As much as I love The Captain, he isn't even our best all time C. Howe is regarded by just about everyone as the greatest of all time. Even Gretzky considers him so. hell the Soviet Union was always rumored to have patterned their entire hockey program on him.
This is not meant to cast Nick in a bad light or anything. He is either the best or second best Dman of all time. In some ways he gets overlooked. he was so quite and steady. Never hurt, never angry, never dirty play, just went about his business every day and did his job-which was to shut down the other teams top forward line.
Posted 07 March 2014 - 12:49 PM
He will always be the greatest to me.
Posted 07 March 2014 - 12:56 PM
Comparison of Lids to Yzerman is probably that Lids was by far the better player, but Yzerman seemed to give more. Playing on one or no knees and probably significantly shortening a career so he could give his all. Nick in a way was the opposite: playing as good as possible for as long as possible, with very little risk in terms of longevity, and even the individual plays on the ice. Nick made the best decisions, Stevie made the right ones. Both are incomparable but I got to watch more of Lids so will always hold him in the highest esteem. But having seen how Gordie is still revered in the locker room shows he's the man to beat.
Then again, Lidstrom played in the 2009 finals with a stitched up ball-sac after emergency surgery to quite literally save his testicles.
Posted 07 March 2014 - 12:58 PM
Comparing players from different eras gets you as far as comparing Jordan to LeBron. It just doesn't work. IMO, Jordan > LeBron. I grew up watching Lidstrom so I'm partial to him. Was a very impactful night watching one of my favorite players get his jersey raised.
IMO it goes even further. Not only shouldn't we compare players from different ages, it's also very hard to compare different positions. Plus, the number of titles you win depends on the teams around you and the strength of the league at that time. Therefore I don't see any reasonable way to compare players from different ages/positions.
Lidstrom: "Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me."
Posted 07 March 2014 - 01:05 PM
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"All done? Five bucks." - Pavel Datsyuk after an interview
"Very few cities in the NHL have the history or the following of the Detroit Red Wings." - Steve Yzerman
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Posted 07 March 2014 - 01:40 PM
I didn't see Howe play, so I cannot comment on him.
I suspect those who claim Lidstrom was the better Wing (and that's what this thread is titled--the better Wing not player) didn't see Yzerman carry this team on his back before Lidstrom arrived. Throughout the 80's, the Wings were Steve Yzerman and not much else.
Listening to Lidstrom speak last night, it's clear that he believes Steve is the greatest Wing of all time.
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Posted 07 March 2014 - 02:39 PM
2. Yzerman IMO people tend to forget how big of a part of shedding the dead wings label he was, he was the face of the org for a very long time. But I am biased because he is my favorite player of all time!
2B. Lids
"The more I know about people - the better I like my dog." - Mark Twain
"When I was looking for a captain, I wanted a guy with the Red Wings crest tattooed on his chest," said former Detroit coach Jacques Demers, who named Yzerman captain in 1986. "Steve Yzerman was that guy."
Posted 07 March 2014 - 03:05 PM
2. Yzerman IMO people tend to forget how big of a part of shedding the dead wings label he was, he was the face of the org for a very long time. But I am biased because he is my favorite player of all time!
2B. Lids
The way I see it, Nick carried this team on his shoulders for the majority of his career, but Stevie lifted the team out of the depths and restored it to glory. Yzerman always has been and always be my favorite player of all-time, so I am biased in his favor, but as others have said how lucky we are that we get to have the discussion about which of our hockey royalty best represents the greatest franchise in the history of professional sports.
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