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Sotheby's sold a Mark Rothko abstract for $75 million on Tuesday in a contemporary-art auction whose total—$375 million—surpassed any in its company history. Fittingly, the Rothko painting is titled, "No. 1 (Royal Red & Blue)."
The sale of the 1954 Rothko—with its floating red, pink and blue rectangles—pushed the auction house's sale total over the $362 million it got from a similar evening sale in May 2008 that marked the peak of the last market cycle. It's unclear whether Tuesday's performance amounts to a similar cresting, but in the short term it could boost collectors' confidence in art values—especially after last week's disappointing sales of Impressionist and modern art.
The sellers of the Rothko, John Marion, a former Sotheby's president, and his oil-heiress wife, Anne, only expected their painting to sell for up to $50 million. But at least five bidders chased after the abstract, and bids came quickly for a few minutes before the competition slowed to a pair of dogged telephone bidders. The winning bid was ultimately fielded by Charlie Moffett, a Sotheby's specialist who typically works with American collectors....
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By JOHN KIFNER
Published: February 7, 1999
HUSSEIN IBN TALAL, a pivotal and sometimes heroic figure in the Middle East, will be laid to rest with all the pomp and pageantry of royalty: the Bedouin desert warriors in their red-checked keffiyahs and smartly crossed leather ammunition belts; the Circassian palace guards -- Muslims uprooted from the Caucasus -- in high-booted, fur-hatted uniforms like cossacks; the crown, the banners, symbols of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, a dynasty stretching back through the mists of time to . . . May 25, 1946.
In the Middle East, the Egyptian diplomat Taseen Bashir likes to say, only Egypt and Iran are real countries, places with a cohesive history of nationhood; the rest are ''tribes with flags.'' And of all the artificial countries created by the victorious European powers who drew arbitrary lines on maps after World War I, none was more artificial than the tiny, poor, lawless leftover patch of desert that would become Jordan.
Even the flag was artificial. The green, red, white and black banner that fluttered over Arab raiders led by the Hashemite family against the Ottoman empire -- the basis for today's flags of Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization -- was designed by a British Foreign Service officer named Sir Mark Sykes and produced by his army's supply shop in Cairo. But he is not remembered as the Betsy Ross of Arabia. He is better known as half of a secret double-cross -- the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 -- in which the British effectively sold out their Arab allies by recognizing French interests in the Middle East.
And yet, from this unpromising land, King Hussein and has grandfather, King Abdullah, forged, largely by sheer force of personality, the most modern nation in the Arab world. They did it through dangerous decades of war with Israel and the frequent hostility of their fellow Arabs.
Even while clinging tenaciously to the old symbols -- Hussein's personal aircraft is named the Qureish for the tribe of the Prophet Mohammed, from whom he claims descent -- these unlikely survivors developed a legitimacy far more in tune with the 20th century, one that rests on a social contract with the royal family's people.
''It is a social contract that harks back to the monarchy of older times,'' said Fouad Ajami, a leading scholar of the region. ''The record of the Hashemites stands out as one of great moderation and tolerance; they were temperate, merciful rulers.
''It was always a turbulent realm, and when necessary there was an iron fist in the velvet glove. But there was a legacy of forgiving; even assassins were forgiven and rehabilitated. They made a going concern of this modest realm and helped their people escape the furies of the region around them.''
The back story of the Hashemite monarchy begins on the eve of World War I, in which the decaying Ottoman Empire would be allied with Germany and Austria-Hungary. At the center of Ottoman rule was the Caliph, the supreme religious leader of Islam. But in the Arab lands there were secret stirrings of nationalism, chafing against Turkish rule.
The British military commander, Lord Kitchener, and his fledgling Middle East experts wanted to fan the flames of Arab resistance; they hit on a scheme to create a new Caliph, beholden to them, in hopes that Britain could control the region after the war. Their candidate was King Hussein's great-grandfather, Emir Hussein of the Hejaz, the Sharif of Mecca, or guardian of Islam's holiest places at the far southern edge of the Arabian Peninsula.
He duly declared the Great Arab Revolt in 1916 -- an affair of machinations, blunders and betrayals all around that is told in admirable detail in ''A Peace to End All Peace'' by David Fromkin (Avon Books, 1989). For the less rigorous, this is the tale told in the movie ''Lawrence of Arabia.''
The Arab revolt was actually not all that great, historians now say. It enlisted only a few thousand tribesmen and its exploits were inflated by two master storytellers, the American correspondent Lowell Thomas and Capt. T. E. Lawrence himself. Nevertheless, the Arab army under Hussein's youngest son, Feisal (Omar Sharif in the movie), led the victorious allies into Damascus, the regional capital, on Oct. 1, 1918.
The Arab nationalists planned for Feisal to become King in Damascus and his older brother, Abdullah, to be King in Baghdad. But the European powers, carving up the Ottoman remains, had other ideas.
Feisal reigned in Damascus only momentarily, until the French took control there under the Sykes-Picot understanding. Then, with British help, he moved his franchise to Baghdad, where his family ruled until they were killed in a 1958 military coup.
Back home in the Hejaz, the Hashemite dream of ruling as Caliphs failed too. Sharif Hussein proclaimed himself Caliph on March 5, 1924, two days after the secularizing Young Turks now ruling Istanbul abolished the office. But Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, who bore Hussein's family many grudges, led the Wahhabis -- the Muslim fundamentalists of their day -- out of the desert and kicked Hussein out in 1925, seizing the guardianship of the holy places and creating Saudi Arabia. Many years later, when King Hussein would not line up against Iraq in the Gulf War against the Saudis, he would refer to himself as the Sharif, in echo of his great-grandfather's claim.
Meanwhile, another wartime promise -- the Balfour Declaration of 1917, anticipating a Jewish homeland in the British mandate in Palestine -- would shape events in the region for decades.


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"The Pasteur Institute in Dakar worked urgently all last night on samples taken from suspected cases here in Conakry which were all negative," said Sakoba Keita, the health ministry's chief disease prevention officer.
"So for now, there's no Ebola in Conakry, but haemorrhagic fever whose nature remains to be determined."
Medics and aid workers are battling to contain west Africa's first outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which has killed dozens of people in Guinea's southern forest region.
UNICEF said in a statement on Sunday that "the deadly haemorrhagic fever (Ebola) has quickly spread from the communities of Macenta, Gueckedou, and Kissidougou to the capital, Conakry".
Keita said however the Pasteur Institute was still working on identifying the virus behind the fever cases in the capital and would know more "in the coming hours". - AFP
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How about just plain demanding; or rude, pushy, pesky, annoying, a pest, impolite, bossy, domineering, controlling, a control freak, ...
I have just met a colleague and after telling her I'd missed her at the welcoming recepetion to new employees yesterday, she tried to justify herself repeatedly for having missed the event. I wanted to tell her that I never meant to demand an explanation, but I wanted to have said that in one word (an adjective most likely). What could it be? Something that could be used in a sentence like "Oh, I didn't mean to be..." or "Please, do not take me wrong. I wasn't being..."
How about just plain demanding; or rude, pushy, pesky, annoying, a pest, impolite, bossy, domineering, controlling, a control freak, ...
I think rude is your best choice.
Yep! Rude is the best! (Don't get me wrong! )
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What you didn't mean to be was accusatory. If you tell someone that you missed him at a meeting, that is not rude. If that person thinks that he needs to explain himself, then he mistook your sincere concern for an accusation of incompetence; he thought you were being accusatory.
I didn't mean to accuse you of anything.~R
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Hi Shawn, will the slides of the topics you will talk about -also demos/samples- be available for donwload somewhere after the conference?
> will the slides of the topics you will talk about -also demos/samples- be available for donwload somewhere after the conference?
I'm sure they will, but I don't know how useful they will be: I've written them very much as an adjunct for the talk, so I don't know how much sense they will make in standalone form!
For GameFest we had a requirement that the slide decks make sense in isolation (becuase lots of people read them on the web but don't go to the conference), which is useful in some ways, but also makes for kind of a boring deck if you just repeat all what you're going to talk about in bullet format.
When I have the option, I prefer to design the slide decks to accompany the talk, rather than just duplicate it...
Hi Shawn, will it be possible to have both 2.0 beta (to try the new features on PC) and 1.0 Refresh (to keep developing on x360) installed at the same time on the same computer?


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Hamish Pepper and Carl William on Leg 3 of Race 5 2008 Olympic Regatta - Day 10 - Star
Tom Ashley and Carl Williams comment on their racing yesterday in the RS:X windsurfer and Star class respectively.
Comments from Tom Ashley after race ten…
'Tough day today!'
'Very light, VERY shifty offshore breeze for the last fleet race of the Olympics.'
'I had a really great start at the pin end of the line, and was planning to go left. Unfortunately (!) my start was so good that I made all my rivals (FRA, GBR and ISR) tack off towards the right and I succeeded in getting to the left, at which point the wind went 40 degrees to the right and I ended up deep.'
'In those conditions, and being that far behind, there was no way that I would be able to finish in the top seven and make the race count (I was discarding an 8th until today) so I backed off and cruised the rest of the race to save energy for tomorrow's medal race.'
'So, the overall situation is very tight now, with three of us separated by a single point at the front of the fleet. Julien Bontemps of France is leading, followed by Nick Dempsey (GBR) and myself one point back. Shahar Zubari of Israel is another eight points back, and fifth place is nineteen points behind.'
'With the medal race counting double, this means that the medals will be fought out between the four of us tomorrow. It's all on! It'll be a great way to finish a very toughly fought regatta.'
Comments from Carl Williams after Tuesday…
'The mood is good, a strong performance is needed tomorrow and it will be a bitter fight to the end as nobody has any real buffer at this stage.'
'We are scheduled for 3 races on Course D from 11am. So an early start, but a day we are looking forward to.'
'All the best to team mate Tom Ashley who heads into tomorrow's RS:X Medal race with a winner take all battle. Tom is in seriously good condition and has backed it up with strong performances on the water all week. Go get them mate!'


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Hemingway woke up on the floor of his bedroom, facedown, the bedsheets wrapped in a knot around his left ankle, which had a fat, heavy, slightly damp plaster cast on it, toe to knee. What the, Hemingway's face said, in a fisted scrunch. His eyes were, in Robert Capa's mother's phrase, pissholes in the snow. His cheeks, he could feel them hot with a few newly booze-ruptured capillaries. He became dimly aware that the inaccessible bottom of his foot itched. Outside, breakfast-time Key West fanned itself with coconutty tropical breezes like the queen of Sheba on a chaise lounge.
Early May, 1956. What had happened: Hemingway had been hunting geckos in his courtyard the previous afternoon, and hunting them meant rampaging around the gardens like a 230-pound kindergartner pretending to manhunt Iroquois with a pop-gun. An entire day's worth of tequila battering his liver, and a 1924 Winchester elephant-stopper in his sweaty hands. His favorite gun, if he had to pick a favorite. The house cats, only two of which had six toes on two feet each, helped, crawling low and melodramatically through the shrubbery and jungle grass, targeting a hapless lizard on the tile walk or high on a palm tree clearly enough so Hemingway would come to see it, too, and then open fire. Each shot from this gun shook the top of each tree even if Hemingway had not in fact shot that particular tree. As it was, one palm took a solid hit and promptly died. Hemingway would have to hire a local gardener and his crew of illegal Nicaraguans a week or so later to remove it completely, before it could topple and perhaps take the house's second-floor veranda with it.
The tile walk could be replaced, and so could the cats. The servants stayed in the cellar.
After more than a red-faced hour of this, Hemingway had, he thought, obliterated every gecko in the vicinity. But then, following a cat's sudden, twitchy head turn, he saw one of the sticky-fingered crawlers high on a gutter. As the two of them watched, the lizard scampered up and onto the roof.
Hemingway ran full bore into the house and up the stairs. The cat followed, and ran underfoot on the second staircase. The feet came down on cat, let up, a split second, and then balance was lost. The man collided and grappled with the mahogany banister, kicking two of the balusters into splinters. Curses, some spittle, and then onward, to the third-floor study, past his old writing podium, and to the gable window overlooking a thin stretch of roof. Hemingway heaved his girth up onto the windowsill, atop a carved chest he had bought in Nairobi between safaris and in which, he remembered now for merely a second and then forgot all over again, he'd left love letters received from a Loyalist secretary twenty years earlier, what was her name, Camilla, when he was in Spain and just as Pauline was busy spending all of that money on the notorious saltwater swimming pool he was looking down into right now, kneeling and then standing on the steep, terra-cotta-shingled roof.
The pool was empty, Hemingway ruefully noted. If only it hadn't been. But good thing it was. A dive from where he stood was too tempting, and would've snapped his neck like an ice-cream stick.
The gecko was nowhere to be seen. The cat did not come out onto the roof.
Hemingway harumphed, stamping down with the butt of his rifle. Which broke two terra-cotta tiles, which cascaded down, over the edge and then, after a few pregnant seconds, shattered on the patio with the thick, startling concussion of first-rate skeets.
The cracked tiles around the first two began to shed heavy clay shards, raining down two and a half stories, and when Hemingway attempted to step backward, toward the window, every old shingle under his feet cracked, folded, came loose, and gave way. He landed flatly on his rump, which loosened virtually every tile on the roof, and a monsoon of deadly clay shrapnel poured down to earth. Hemingway instantly began sliding downward, and the rounded clay tiles he grabbed came off in his hand. He thought about the empty swimming pool again, too bad, and also how even if he managed to survive the fall, three floors onto baked tile and concrete, the storm of terra-cotta debris trailing behind him—featuring fractured chunks weighing up to two solid pounds—would surely finish him off.
He looked up. It was a sterling, pitch-perfect Key West day. I wonder who's fishing for what out there, he thought.
He had to let go of his gun, which was soon airborne. As he closed in on the roof's edge, his legs made a decision, a decision his back and his head were certainly not in complete agreement with, to leap up and off at the last possible second toward the head of a young palm. Just a foot shorter than the roof edge, the tree stood almost fifteen feet from the house, but its fronds hung closer, like a dozing girl's hair. Hemingway's legs figured that if he was to land atop the tree, he could thereafter shimmy down its trunk and be saved. If he came anywhere near it, perhaps he could grab a frond and break his fall, at least to some degree. How the wrought-iron patio furniture beneath the tree would figure into the calculus of either scenario was not something Hemingway's legs had apparently considered. In the two and a half seconds it took for the whole ordeal to transpire, not every contingency could be properly weighed.
Hemingway leapt. Too far, as it happens—like a flying squirrel, the man's khaki-dressed, potbellied frame soared narrowly over the top of the tree, immediately beyond which lay a rock garden, rose bushes and more cement. So Hemingway grabbed one of the palm's long fronds as he nearly passed over it, and held on tight, swinging him back to the tree as if he'd grabbed onto a passing streetcar.
The first casualty were the phone lines, which passed near the tree and which Hemingway missed on his maiden voyage off the roof but in which he successfully entangled his legs upon whipping back. Desperately, he gripped the top of the palm, but the fronds couldn't support his weight, and so they snapped off. Hemingway proceeded to grip the tree itself, with both arms and phone-line-entwined legs. He started to slip downward, fast. The phone lines snapped off, the gun hit the pavement. The great man soon met the ground, hugging the tree with his eyes closed. His left ankle snapped on impact. He was largely unaware of this, soused as he was, and so he hobbled over to the wrought-iron patio furniture, sat down and yelled for Marisol, his favorite of the current kitchen help, who couldn't hear him until he was bellowing at the top of his lungs because she was in the cellar with the rest of the staff playing cards. Finally, she brought him a bottle, a glass, a lime and some cold crabmeat, but when she saw his ankle, which was already the size and hue of a ruby red grapefruit, she called the doctor. By the time the doctor arrived, Hemingway was asleep.
This was how Hemingway woke up the next morning with a cast on his foot he had no foreknowledge of, and how, when Peter Cuthbert called that evening with the dreadful sound of blood in his voice, no phone in Hemingway's house rang because the line was down. Nobody, therefore, even knew that Cuthbert had called except Cuthbert, and by midnight he was dead.
Excerpted from Hemingway Deadlights by Michael Atkinson.
Copyright 2009 by Michael Atkinson.
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Posted on: May 26, 2011 2:31 pm
Edited on: May 26, 2011 2:58 pm
DatDudeBP was DatGoat for Reds
PHILADELPHIA -- On one side, the longest game of the year was all about Wilson Valdez.
Great story.
On the other side, it was all about Brandon Phillips.
Not so great story.
Valdez is the utility man who pitched a hitless 19th inning for the Phillies in the early hours of Thursday morning, becoming (according to the Elias Sports Bureau) the first player since Babe Ruth to start a game in the field and end up winning it on the mound.
Phillips is the sometimes spectacular Reds second baseman who spent the hours after the game apologizing to Reds fans for getting picked off at a key moment in the 11th inning.
The Reds had runners at first and second, Phillies pitcher J.C. Romero was struggling to throw strikes, and cleanup hitter Scott Rolen was at the plate with a 3-1 count. Phillips, on second base, got caught talking to Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins, and Romero picked him off.
Reds manager Dusty Baker said Phillips apologized when he returned to the dugout.
After the game, Phillips, who tweets regularly and sometimes amusingly under the name @DatDudeBP, wrote on Twitter: "I want 2 apologize 2 all the #Reds fans 4 my mistake tonite. It was my fault 4 the loss, but I will keep my head up and get ready 4 the next game."
Asked Thursday morning if he planned to talk to Phillips about the play, Baker said: "I don't have to talk to him. The whole world is talking to him. All the great things Brandon has done, that [pickoff] could be shown for years. I still see [Jose] Canseco getting hit in the head."
Meanwhile, Valdez was back in the Phillies lineup for Thursday's day game, playing third base. He got a standing ovation when he came to the plate in the second inning.
A few other noteworthy developments on Thursday:
-- Baker said that had the Phillies not scored in the 19th, shortstop Paul Janish would have pitched the 20th inning for the Reds. He planned to put outfielder Chris Heisey at second base, move Phillips to shortstop, and insert pitcher Sam LeCure in the outfield. He said LeCure and Jay Bruce would have alternated between left and right field, depending on which hitter was at the plate.
-- LeCure and Matt Maloney were in the Reds bullpen, but both were unavailable to pitch because of heavy workloads early in the week. The Reds put Maloney on the disabled list Thursday, and called up Daryl Thompson. The Phillies also made a roster move, sending Daniel Herndon to Triple-A and activating Jose Contreras from the DL, but that was planned.
-- Since Valdez was in the game, he didn't warm up in the bullpen before pitching. Bullpen coach Mickey Billmeyer quipped: "He's a reliever, but he's not a bullpen guy."
-- One Phillies executive joked, "We can go with 11 pitchers now, because we have Valdez." But Phils PR man Greg Casterioto admitted he missed a chance, when he didn't list Valdez in the bullpen section on his daily notes.
Category: MLB
Tags: Brandon Phillips, Dusty Baker, Paul Janish, Phillies, Reds, Wilson Valdez
Posted on: April 22, 2011 10:01 am
3 to watch: The 'No extra significance' edition
Some Reds try to play down their new-found rivalry with the Cardinals.
"There's no extra significance at all," Jay Bruce told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Oh yeah? Tell that to Brandon Phillips.
When the Reds' team plane landed in St. Louis on Thursday night, Phillips went straight to his Twitter account .
"Just landed in St. Louis! Sad face," he posted. "But these wins will make me happy!"
One hour later, he was at it again, saying he told teammates that the best thing to eat in St. Louis was Lunchables.
No extra significance?
How about those T-shirts they're selling in St. Louis , the ones that read "Mike Leake stole this shirt for me"?
Look, we know rivalries can be overblown. Most teams don't really hate each other as much as the fans would like them to. Players change teams. As Reds manager Dusty Baker told reporters Thursday, it's not like the Reds have anything against Lance Berkman or Ryan Theriot.
Besides that, the Cardinals and Reds know better than most teams that head-to-head meetings often don't decide division titles. The Cardinals won 12 of 18 games against the Reds in 2010 -- including six of the final seven -- and the Reds still won the National League Central.
But please don't tell me that these games have "no extra significance."
On to 3 to watch.
1. As we mentioned in the last 3 to watch, the Indians and Royals are on top of the American League Central -- right now. And one scout who just finished watching the White Sox said they "look uninspired" and "look like they're still going through spring training." Perhaps they'll look more inspired this weekend in Detroit, starting with White Sox at Tigers, Friday night (7:05 ET) at Comerica Park. Mark Buehrle (5-0 in his last eight starts against the Tigers) faces Justin Verlander (5-0 in his last five starts against the White Sox). It's the first Buehrle-Verlander matchup in more than three years, since an April 2008 meeting when the White Sox won, 13-2, in a game where Nick Swisher and Pudge Rodriguez were the two leadoff hitters.
2. Mike Leake won't be starting in this weekend's Reds-Cardinals series. Chris Carpenter will be. All he's done against the Reds is win each of his last 10 starts, dating back to 2006. Last year alone, Carpenter was 5-0 with a 1.78 ERA against the Reds. He goes against Travis Wood in Reds at Cardinals, Saturday afternoon (4:10 ET) at Busch Stadium. The Fox network even thought enough of the matchup to send its top crew (Guess the Yankees and Red Sox aren't playing this weekend). ESPN even noticed. "We haven't been on the Sunday night game in I don't know how long," Baker told the Enquirer.
3. Remember when John Lackey was the Angels' ace? Remember when it seemed like another black mark against Angels owner Arte Moreno that he allowed Lackey to leave as a free agent, the same winter the Angels tried but failed to trade for Roy Halladay? Now Jered Weaver and Dan Haren are a combined 9-0 with a 1.20 ERA, while Lackey carries a 9.82 ERA into his start in Red Sox at Angels, Sunday afternoon (3:35 ET) at Angel Stadium. That's not to say the Angels couldn't use more rotation depth. While Weaver and Haren are 9-0 (going into Haren's Friday night meeting with Jon Lester), the rest of the Angels pitchers are 3-7.
Category: MLB
Posted on: October 19, 2010 12:22 pm
Edited on: October 19, 2010 12:57 pm
Cubs hire Quade as manager
For a decade now, the Cubs have gone with celebrity managers.
First Don Baylor, who stayed 2 1/2 years and had one 88-win season. Then Dusty Baker, who stayed four years and inspired the 2003 "Dustiny" run that ended a win short of the World Series. And then Lou Piniella, who won two division titles, won 97 games in 2008 and then presided over a year and a half of more disappointment.
Piniella retired in August, and when it came time to name his permanent replacement, the Cubs didn't go high-profile this time.
Instead, they've given the job to 53-year-old Mike Quade, who today signed a two-year deal with an option for 2013.
Quade is a baseball lifer, as colleague Scott Miller detailed in a column last month. He earned plenty of respect for his work during years in the minor leagues, and as a major-league coach. He earned even more for the way he handled the job of interim manager after Piniella left, and the Cubs' 24-13 record under his watch no doubt helped convince general manager Jim Hendry to give him the job full-time.
Hendry had other options, higher-profile options. He could easily have handed the job to Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg, who deserved a chance after going to manage in the minor leagues (and by all accounts doing his job very well). He could have tried throwing money at Joe Torre. He could have waited to see if Joe Girardi would leave the Yankees.
Instead, he stuck with Quade, who was barely known when he took over for Piniella and not much better known now. He never played in the major leagues, spending five seasons as a player bouncing around from Class A to Double-A and back. He worked all over the minor leagues as a manager, and even won the Caribbean Series once as a manager in the winter league in the Dominican Republic, but that doesn't exactly get you notoriety.
He'll be known now, all the more so if he can do the impossible and become the manager who finally takes the Cubs back to the World Series.
It's a huge challenge. It always is on the North Side of Chicago. If anything, it's a bigger challenge now, because the Cubs are a flawed team stuck with a bunch of bad contracts.
Is Quade the right guy? That's hard to tell. If September is a bad time to judge whether players are ready for the big leagues, it's just as bad for judging managers, and many teams have made mistakes holding onto interim managers who had once good September.
You wonder what this says about Sandberg, and also what it says to Sandberg. So many star players have refused to go manage in the minor leagues, and many of those have been given managerial jobs (Don Mattingly, for instance). Sandberg not only went to the minors, but Cubs people said he worked hard to learn every part of the operation (asking for advice on how to write scouting reports).
You wonder how this affects Girardi, who was never all that likely to leave the Yankees, but now is left without much leverage in his coming contract negotiations.
But Hendry knows that this hire needs to be a good one. He has enjoyed great support so far from the Ricketts family, who just finished their first season as the Cubs owners. Hendry knows that support could easily fade if the Cubs keep losing.
He knows that his fate could be tied to the next manager. Now, it's tied to Mike Quade.
You may not know Quade very well. Soon, you will.
Category: MLB
Tags: Cubs, Don Baylor, Dusty Baker, Lou Piniella, Mike Quade
Posted on: June 24, 2008 7:48 pm
Edited on: June 24, 2008 7:50 pm
Friends don't let friends ... win games?
Jim Leyland hates managing against his friends, because either you lose or they do. Dusty Baker says the same thing.
"You'd rather manage against adversaries," the Reds manager said today. "It's more fun."
As it turns out, though, there are a whole bunch of friendly matchups around the majors this week. Leyland against Tony La Russa. Baker against Cito Gaston. Bobby Cox against Ned Yost. Cox against Gaston.
Leyland worked for La Russa in Chicago, and worked with him in St. Louis. Yost worked for Cox in Atlanta. Gaston played with Cox, played for him and then coached under him in Toronto. Gaston and Baker were teammates when Baker broke into pro ball in Austin, Texas, in 1967.
"My first game was in Little Rock, and I dropped a fly ball," Baker said. "I cried, and I said I was going home. Cito said, "Don't worry, kid, I'll take care of you. . . . He helped raise me in the game."
So how does Gaston feel about facing both Baker and Cox in his first week back on the job? He doesn't mind it. He has no problem facing his friends.
"I've always felt that if someone's going to lose, let them lose," he said.
Tonight's A.J. Burnett-Bronson Arroyo matchup didn't attract any special-assignment scouts to the Rogers Center, something of a surprise since both starters are candidates to get traded.
While the Jays are willing to move Burnett, they're said to be setting their sights high, looking for an established outfielder (preferably left-handed hitting) in return.
As for Arroyo, it's just as well for him and for the Reds that no scouts were here. He didn't record an out in the second inning and left trailing, 9-1, after the shortest start of his career.
Atlanta advance scout Bobby Wine was at the game, because the Braves play the Blue Jays this weekend. Wine was just happy to be somewhere where a manager isn't about to be fired.
"I was in New York the weekend before Willie (Randolph) got fired," Wine said. "Then I was in Seattle for (John) McLaren's last game. Then I was in Milwaukee for (John) Gibbons' last game (with Toronto). Holy cow, I'm like a black cat."
You've seen the numbers that show the American League is once again dominating the National League in interleague play. The difference between the two leagues isn't lost on the players.
"We know what we're capable of doing against the National League teams," Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels said, after the Phils lost five straight to the Red Sox and Angels.
Did he mean that the Red Sox and Angels are better than any NL teams?
"Hands down," Hamels said. "They're a lot better than the NL teams. Even playing in an NL park."
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Japan condemns China fishing curbs; vows to defend islands
Japan's Defence Minister Onodera reviews troops from the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force 1st Airborne Brigade during an annual new year military exercise in Funabashi
By Kiyoshi Takenaka
NARASHINO, Japan (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday joined the United States in criticising China's new fishing restrictions in the South China Sea, saying the curbs, coupled with the launch last year of an air defence zone, has left the international community jittery.
Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera made the comment after observing the Japanese Self-Defence Forces' elite airborne brigade conducting airdrop drills designed to hone their skills to defend and retake remote islands.
Earlier on Sunday, Chinese government ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near a group of disputed East China Sea islets, in the first such action this year.
"Setting something like this unilaterally as if you are treating your own territorial waters, and imposing certain restrictions on fishing boats is not something that is internationally tolerated," Onodera told reporters.
"I'm afraid not only Japan but the international society as a whole has a concern that China is unilaterally threatening the existing international order" with its new restrictions in the South China Sea and the creation of an air defence identification zone, he said.
Japan's Defence Minister Onodera inspects the annual new year military exercise by the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force 1st Airborne Brigade in Funabashi
The fishing rules, approved by China's southern Hainan province, took effect on January 1 and require foreign fishing vessels to obtain approval to enter disputed waters in the South China Sea, which the local government says are under its jurisdiction.
Washington called the fishing rules "provocative and potentially dangerous", prompting a rebuttal from China's foreign ministry on Friday.
Ties between China and Japan, the world's second- and third-largest economies, have been strained due to a long-running row over ownership of the group of tiny, uninhabited islands called the Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
Tensions soared in recent months after Beijing announced the air defence identification zone covering a large swathe of the East China Sea, including the disputed isles, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a controversial Tokyo shrine seen by critics as a symbol of Japan's wartime aggression.
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Looking for a place with good bagels, deli and salads in Breck. Thoughts?
For bagels, my favorite place in Breck is Clint's Bakery and Café, which is in the 100 block of South Main Street. It has awesome breakfast sandwiches and lunch options too. Another great deli for sandwiches and salads is Park and Main. It's located in La Cima mall on the south end of Main Street. Both these places are very yummy!
Great ideas Angela! Thanks. We like bringing in breakfast once in a while and packing sandwiches for hikes. So, finding food takeout at deli's is a must!
Clints for bagels dugans deli for sandwiches both are super close to ea other
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Raya Meddine has been let go from The Young and the Restless.
No final airdate has been announced for the character of Sabrina, but a few clips/The Young and the Restless spoilers make it seem as though Sabrina is involved in a tragedy that will unfold around the time of the Charity Ball.
Raya Meddine, who has been let go, poses alongside co-star Eric Braeden.
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I am at the Zanesville Day Nursery awaiting the appearance by Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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2:20 p.m.: Obama says Barack talks a lot about unity. Women have been saying, "I can do more. I can suck it up ... so we keep taking on more instead of stepping back and saying, 'This is crazy.' " The plans and policies have been there for so long, but we have to decide to make huge sacrifices for the greater good.
Mathes says we are our sister's keeper. We need to unite and be strong.
But the philosophy has been the opposite, Michelle says. If you're taking care of your own, you don't need to worry about anyone else.
Stevens says it's so frustrating when you can't afford fees and books for college. Scholarships just aren't enough.
How do we come to some agreement on which way to go and try some stuff and invest in some big, bold things, Michelle asks.
Christy says it's frustrating that the language people use is so negative. It's hard to communicate with people who don't even hear what you're saying.
Mathes asks, how do you get to people who see everything in black and white, with no shades of gray?
Barack starts with empathy, Michelle says. His natural instinct is to tone down the rhetoric and try to understand where a person is coming from. The truth is, most people aren't on the polar opposites. There are extremes on every issue, but the vast majority of Americans are right down the middle.
Having the opportunity to tour the nation, she says, most folks are in the same spot when it comes to the future of the nation. How do we do it and how do we start trusting each other? How do we change the tone in this nation to a more positive tone? That's what has dominated Barack's conversations because shifting the tone will be the hardest thing to do. If you can do that, the policy changes can be done.
One of her assistants says it's time to go.
Snoddy talks about rising gas prices and the struggle that her husband faces by commuting to Columbus.
Michelle thanks everyone for attending. We're done at 2:18 p.m.
2:10 p.m.: Haven is talking about a friend with a latchkey child. That child can't participate in extracurriculars, and they feel left out and not included. As teachers, we are confronted by that.
Stevens says she has maybe four hours a day of good time with her son. That's really sad. But she has to work the overtime so she can provide for his education.
"You have to," Michelle says, if you want to send your child to college.
Mathes talks about her daughter's scholarships, but she also works 30 hours a week in order to do what she needs to do. We weren't able to save for her education and had to tell her she had to work her tail off and get good grades.
Many good students aren't going to college because they can't afford it, not because of her grades, Michelle says.
Christy says she wants her daughter to be able to go to the school of her choice so she can take advantage of her gifts.
Haven says she hopes to get her own student loans paid off before she has to start paying for her child's loans.
Michelle says the only reason she and Barack were able to pay off their student loans early was because he wrote two best-selling books. We are asking young people to become teachers and health care workers, but then they won't be able to pay of their loans. Young people are desperate to teach or leave teaching because they see the financial dilemma.
Mathes's daughter wants to be an English teacher so she can make a difference in somebody's life. I tell her to keep chugging away at it, and it's not necessarily all about the money. But when you have to figure out how to pay off student loans, it's all about the money.
Christy says Zanesville City Schools do a good job teaching kids. Her daughter loves social studies and math because of her teachers, but they aren't valued enough.
Stevens says kids are reluctant to teach because the profession doesn't cut it financially.
When we bought our first condo, Michelle says, their combined student loans still cost more than their mortgage.
Williams says we need to make mortgage companies, real estate brokers, title companies and others accountable. We ended up bankrupt because of problems with a house they built.
1:55 p.m.: Mrs. Obama is talking about the choices that working mothers are often forced to make. Child care and health insurance are prime concerns. And everyone I meet is concerned about the structure of public education. No Child Left Behind has sucked the life out of the classroom. Art, music, theater have to be bought outside of the classroom, if you can afford it. She says she spends $10,000 a year on summer camp, dance, music and additional sports for their daughters.
What do we do? What is this doing to the psyche of women and families? At some point, folks feel like they're debilitated. People worrying that nobody gets really sick.
Stevens talks about the lack of support because her family and friends are all in Zanesville. She works 40 to 60 hours a week and so does her husband, so their son spends more time in day care than they would like, but they don't have a choice. We pay almost $190 a week for him to attend day care. It's expensive, but it's something we have to do. As women, I think we're strong, so we just go along with the flow. But it's definitely a problem.
Mathes has worked outside the home so she can get health care, but she would rather stay home and help her husband's business grow. Women have to stand together and health care is a major problem that has to be fixed. Even though I have health care, it's very expensive.
Williams says it's a privilege to sit down with Michelle. We have felt so disengaged. We're here, but it's like to Washington we're not here. Barack has planted a seed of hope, it's not delusional or a fairy tale, and it's brought the American people back to the forefront.
1:37 p.m.: Michelle Obama arrives for the roundtable. "I've been playing with kids!" she tells the roundtable participants.
Her opening remarks, paraphrased: Thank you all for taking the time to be here out of this busy day. We want to do a whole lot of listening, not just talking. What she loves to do most is sit down with women to talk about their challenges and struggles. That way she can continue to feed Barack with information. He hears about her own struggles every day, she says to laughter. He wants to continue to be accessible to folks so he doesn't hear things third- or fourth-hand. "It's fun and therapeutic for me." She thanks the center director and Mayor Zwelling for the welcome.
Introductions from the participants:
Gina Williams born and raised in Zanesville. She has two children, a daughter at Zane State and a son at Zanesville High. She says she is a strong advocate for mental health issues, education and employment.
Heather Snoddy is a hairstylist and her husband commutes to Columbus to work every day. Her daughter attends the nursery.
Wilma Haven is an art teacher in Zanesville who was laid off and now works part-time. She's representing the arts and education in Zanesville and across the nation.
Sikia Stevens is an IP contractor from Cincinnati who grew up in Zanesville. She has a 4 1/2 year old.
Gerri Mathes works at Cardinal Health. She has a child at Muskingum College. Sorry, I didn't catch all of her introduction.
Elizabeth Christy has a 13-year-old daughter at Roosevelt Middle School. She teaches creative writing part-time and is a free-lance writer and poet.
1:30 p.m.: Mrs. Obama is continuing her tour of the facility. There are roughly 50 people here waiting for the roundtable to begin.
1:20 p.m.: Mayor Butch Zwelling spoke briefly and touted the good work done by the nursery and its staff. He was at the head table of yesterday's economic summit for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
"For those of you who don't know, I'm Michelle. My husband's Barack and he's running for president."
People wonder how on earth are we managing this with two young daughters. "I'm fine because I have this strong informal support network." But she's like every other woman, except her balancing act is before the cameras.
1:15 p.m.: Campaign volunteers (I assume) are asking the small crowd here to canvass for Obama. Presumably, she will be arriving shortly.
1 p.m.: The six women participating in today's roundtable have arrived in the basement of the nursery, where the roundtable is being held. They are:
- Elizabeth Christy
- Gerri Mathes
- Wilma Haven
- Sikia Stevens
- Heather Snoddy
- Gina Williams
Obama local volunteer Kathy Brantley announced that Obama national campaign chairman David Wilhelm will speak at an Obama rally scheduled for 5-7 p.m. Friday at Hartstone Pottery.


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Get ready for your close-up, Beverly Hills! One of the 1980s most iconic LA movies, "Beverly Hills Cop," could be getting a TV reboot.
CBS has committed to a pilot production of "Beverly Hills Cop," produced by Eddie Murphy (naturally) and Shawn Ryan, creator of "The Shield."
The script is a "continuation of the iconic Beverly Hills Cop universe," reports Vulture. But instead of old hero Axel Foley, the series will focus on his son, Aaron Foley. According to Vulture's sources, Foley Junior will "take down the criminal elements of the rich and famous, while simultaneously trying to escape the shadow of his larger than life father."
This got us wondering: if Aaron Foley wanted to escape the shadow of the Beverly Hills Cop, why work in Beverly Hills? But we digress.
Ryan has confirmed to HitFix TV reporter Alan Sepinwall that Murphy will reprise his role as Axel Foley, and that Los Angeles itself will be another major player in the pilot. Ryan also hints that improv could be part of the show:
Eddie is very excited about this and pumped to play Axel again. Perhaps the most exciting aspect for me is to do something more comedic than I've done before. We'll be doing a mixture of scripted and improvisational comedy that I don't think (to my knowledge) has been done in the 1-hour drama universe before. Also, in an era where most new shows are being shipped out of Los Angeles, we'll get to film this here, which will bring me closer to production after a run of shows ("Terriers," "Chicago Code," "Last Resort") that have all filmed out of town.
SNL's Jay Pharoah could be a natural fit for the role of Aaron Foley (check out his spot-on Eddie Murphy impression below), but there are some other actors we think could also be a perfect fit. Vote for your favorite!
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SNL's Jay Pharoah is being touted as a natural fit for the role of Aaron Foley because of his spot-on Eddie Murphy impersonation.
Keegan-Michael Key, half of Comedy Central's duo "Key & Peele," has played cops before. Here he is in a Mad TV sketch, playing an officer who falls in love with a woman looking for her son. But our favorite Key character is Luther, President Obama's anger translator on "Key & Peele."
Hear us out on this one. Long before he was Mr. Mariah Carey and the host of "America's Got Talent," he was known as a comedic actor (he was also a singer, but let's not go into that). Here he is making fun of himself by comparing Carey to a pimp.
Donald Glover is best known for his role on NBC's "Community." The stand-up comedian also recently released a rap song under the name "Childish Gambino, featuring none other than Tina Fey. We're just waiting for the music video.
Small screen star Michael B. Jordan definitely has the dramatic chops to pull off part of "Beverly Hills Cop." He made us cry as Wallace in "The Wire," made our hearts swell with pride as Vince in "Friday Night Lights" and made us swoon as Alex in "Parenthood." The only question is whether this guy can carry a comedy.