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(US) WIRED Magazine Article: "What Happens When Algorithms Design A Concert Hall? The Stunning Elbphiharmonie" (by Liz Stinson, 12 Jan 2017)
"The most interesting thing about Herzog and De Meuron's newly opened concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, isn't its wave-like facade, which rises above the city of Hamburg, Germany. It's not the gently curved elevator at the base of the lobby that deposits you into the belly of the Swiss architects' alien landscape. And it's not the Escher-esque stairways that guide you from one floor to the next.
Though Hamburg's $843 million philharmonic is filled with stunning architectural gems, its most interesting feature is the central auditorium, a gleaming ivory cave built from 10,000 unique acoustic panels that ...
(FR) Musicologie Book Review: "L'orchestre à cordes sous Louis xiv" (by Duron Jean et Gétreau Florence, 2016) (Review by Jean-Marc Warszawski, 15 Jan 2017)
Duron Jean et Gétreau Florence (direction), L'orchestre à cordes sous Louis xiv : Instruments, répertoires, singularités. « Musicologies »Vrin, Paris 2016 [472 p. ; ISBN978-2-7116-2619-9 ; 29 €].
"This book brings together 23 contributions relating to string orchestras, but also to strings in orchestras, under the reign of Louis XIV. With the center, Versailles practices: the tyrant had paid little attention to the expense to impress the world and erect to the and his royalty, in fact already declining and for this reason, an outstanding monument, including music. Versailles was a reference - certainly partly phantasmagoric - to the princes of the whole earth, even to those who never showed their majesty or the tip of their noses. ...
(FR) Musicologie Article: "Bertolli Francesca ....-1767 [contralto]" (by Jean-Marc Warszawski, 09 Jan 2017)
"Contralto, she is in 1728, she is at the service of the great Duchess of Tuscany and sings in two operas in Bologna and two others in Livorno.
Georg Friedrich Händel hired her in September 1729 for the season at King's Theater in London. Until 1733 she sang ...
(UK) Cambridge Early Music - Summer Schools 2017 (30 Jul 12 Aug 2017)
"'Venice in Cambridge'
Girton College, Cambridge
Venice was a major centre of music and culture in its own right. It was also the centre from which musicians, their music, and the instruments they played were exported and imported all over Europe. We may not be able to turn the River Cam into the Grand Canal, but over these two weeks we guarantee to evoke the musical culture of this most remarkable of cities in its heyday! ...
(UK) 30th Anniversary Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival (26-29 May 2017)
"2017 marks the coming of age of the much loved Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival, (Friday 26 – Monday 29 May) as the Festival celebrates its thirty years of music-making alongside an extraordinary year for culture in the region, as Hull is 2017 City of Culture.
Initiated by the local authority, with the aim of attracting visitors to the area to discover a rich medley of history, striking architecture and music of the past, over the years the Festival has grown to be recognised as a 'jewel in the cultural crown' of the region, attracting internationally renowned performers of early music to appear in a programme alongside emerging youth ensembles and engaging community projects. ...
Early Music Month of March 2017 - European Early Music Day 2017 (March 21st)
From both sides of the Atlantic, the month of March celebrates early music in a big way.
"Early Music Month of March 2017", promoted in North America by Early Music America (EMA) is "designed to raise awareness of early music throughout the North American music community. Early Music Month seeks to connect enthusiasts, performers, presenters, scholars, builders, students, venues, and more to bring early music to its widest audience ever."
Opting for a more specific day, "European Early Music Day 2017 - 21st of March" promoted in Europe by the Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne - European Early Music Network (REMA) "is held every year on 21st March, a day celebrating the beginning of spring, and the birthday of Early Music's period probably most relevant and known composers: Johann Sebastian Bach (born on 21st March 1685, according to the Julian Calendar)."
Now is the time to register ...
(UK) Gramophone Editor's Choice - Blue-Ray of the Month: " Alcina & Tamerlano, Handel by Les Talens Lyriques (dir. Christophe Rousset), Alpha" (by David Vickers)
"These productions began life a few years apart in Drottningholm before double-bill revivals at the Dutch National Opera and La Monnaie in Brussels. Pierre Audi's post-Baroque stagings are often astutely deliberate in pacing and action, and are designed simply but artfully (beautiful 18th-century-style costumes, economical lighting, use of mechanical stage flats). At their best, they function as compellingly psychological dramas reminiscent of tragedies by Shakespeare and Racine. ...
(BE) Outhere Music CD Release: "Sigismund von Neukomm - REQUIEM à la mémoire de Louis XVI" (Jan 2017)
La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy - Jean-Claude Malgoire
"In spite of the immense success he enjoyed in his lifetime, Sigismund Neukomm (born in Salzburg in 1778, died in Paris in 1858 at the age of eighty) is practically forgotten nowadays. Yet he left a catalogue of nearly two thousand works, including fifty masses and a number of oratorios and motets. ...
(US) WFMT Impromtu with Ronn McFarlane, lute (09 Jan 2017)
"For "WFMT welcomes GRAMMY-nominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane to Impromptu. He and fellow all-star veteran of the lute, Paul O'Dette, perform[ed]virtuoso duets from Elizabethan Italy and England at the University of Chicago on January 8."
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Sean Miller had his guys ready to play. And when you have great talent tapped into the rage tree, that is prepared to execute your plan, you've got something that is capable of winning National Championships.
And the Wildcats looked scary against Gonzaga. They destroyed Gonzaga in the first half and not only played with intensity but with great execution on both ends of the floor. Arizona had 13 assists and 1 turnover in the half and Gonzaga, whom averaged 11 turnovers a game this season, turned the ball over 11 times in the first half alone (They finished with 21 turnovers).
The only question I had was whether or not Sean Miller would be able to get the attention of his kids in the second half. Gonzaga did a nice job of closing out the first half by going on a run that made the score 47-34. I knew Sean Miller could stand on his head and scream profound warnings about Gonzaga and how dangerous they are and his kids might have ignored him.
That was not the case.
How good are the Wildcats? They came out in the second half and conquered their own complacency. And they actually played better in the second half than they did the first!
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Still trying to eat healthy whenever possible. Plain salad is getting boring, so why not add some steak to it and make it manly?
Took a flat iron out to defrost and then marinated it in red wine with some sprigs of rosemary and thyme from our garden, couple of bay leaves, 1/2 onion roughly chopped and 4 or 5 cloves of garlic roughly chopped for about 4 hours.
While that was marinating, I whipped up a horseradish dressing. First time grating horseradish...that'll clear up your sinuses nicely. Let it chill in the fridge for at least an hour.
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•1 tablespoon minced garlic
•1/2 cup grated horseradish (yes, freshly grated, not out of a jar. I'm not sure how much you would use if you use the jarred stuff)
•Juice of one lemon
•1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
•1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
•1/2 teaspoon hot sauce (we like Louisiana hot sauce, but Franks or Tabasco or whatever you prefer will be fine)
Fired up the Egg at around 600F and grilled the flat iron steak about 2 minutes per side and pulled it roughly around 135 and let it rest for 10 minutes before slicing.
While it was resting, we tossed the salad with the dressing. Time to slice, ain't that purdy?
Layed the strips of steak on top of the salad and then shaved some thin slices of Parmesan on top.
I was really impressed with the salad. It was filling and mostly healthy except for that cup of mayo (we did use light mayo, though). Horseradish always pairs nicely with beef and it gave the dressing just a hint of heat, but it was also, cool, creamy and refreshing. I went to bed satisifed. We've been so busy and out of town much, I haven't had much chance to get on the Egg, so it was nice to get back to grilling again.


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EDMONTON — Christmas came early for Jeff Stoughton at the Canadian men's curling championship on Saturday, as Ontario skip Glenn Howard — for reasons that will forever be known only to him and his team — decided to gift-wrap a berth in the Brier final for Stoughton.
With a stunning 7-6 victory over Ontario in the Page playoff 1 vs. 2 game Saturday afternoon — in which Manitoba scored a game-winning three in the 10th end thanks to a shocking tactical error by Howard — Stoughton will play for his fourth Brier title, and second in three years, Sunday night at Rexall Place (7:30 p.m., TSN).
In a game that Ontario controlled from the second end and which seemed destined to end in a Manitoba loss and relegation to Sunday morning's semifinal, Stoughton was still struggling to comprehend his sudden good fortune as he emerged from the ice to face reporters and was asked how it feels to be competing in his fifth career Brier final.
"I don't know yet. I haven't digested this win," said Stoughton. "When something like that happens, it's a little surreal. Just because you're not expecting to win yet. You're just thinking, 'OK, let's get our deuce and we go the extra end and you never know.' So to pull it off now, I can't wait... it's going to be fantastic."
Howard's tactical error in the 10th end will be discussed by Canadian curling fans for years to come, but Manitoba third Jon Mead summed it up succinctly: "We got horse-lucky."
Here was the situation:
With Ontario leading Manitoba 6-4, Howard was confronted with two Manitoba counters in the house and one more Stoughton rock still to come when Howard went to throw his last rock of the 10th end.
Howard had a myriad of options that might have won him the game in the 10th end or, at worst, sent it to an extra end. But there was also one other option — a very tricky double takeout of the two Manitoba counters — that offered Ontario the opportunity to win the game immediately, but which also presented the only scenario in which Howard could lose the game in regulation.
After a short on-ice debate about their team's options, Howard elected the high-risk, high-reward shot — and got all of the former and none of the latter when his double takeout attempt racked on his own guard and missed both Stoughton stones, leaving Stoughton needing only a simple draw to the full 12-foot for the game-winning three-ender.
Stoughton made it — after a vigorous three-player scrub — and a stunned Howard was left to explain what on earth he was thinking. "Yeah, that one got away. That was a little unfortunate," Howard offered in one of the biggest understatements you'll ever hear at a Brier.
Howard insisted he had no regrets about the call. "I have a shot to win the game which really isn't that tough and the yellow (Ontario) rock shouldn't have been in play," said Howard, adding his final shot curled way more than he thought it would. "The bottom line is I missed."
Asked about Howard's shot selection, Stoughton said he would have played more conservatively and lived to fight on in the extra end. And the statistics support Stoughton: According to curlingzone.com, Howard is 15-3 in extra-end games in which he has hammer going back to 2009-10. And Stoughton is 2-6 in extra end games in which he doesn't have hammer during the same period.
Stoughton will play the winner of Sunday morning's semifinal between Howard and Northern Ontario's Brad Jacobs. Howard won his first 10 games of this Brier, but the defending world champions limp into today's semi having lost two in a row.
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Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport
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"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" is a song written and recorded by Rolf Harris, about the last requests of a (possibly insane) dying man. Rolf, also known as ROFL, was said to have written this song after a wild night at Birdsville Pub, in outback Australia. The story goes that there he met a few "lovely ladies" who he spent the night with in the outback. Contrasting reports of Rolf leaving that night with two (rather irritated) kangaroos tied up in the back of his ute have been rumoured, however unconfirmed.
The fact that this song is still popular today as a children's song, having been recently re-recorded with The Wiggles, is both disturbing and also an indictment of the culture of Australia.
Rolf used pieces of a building in the instrumentation of this song. This effect has been lovingly labelled a "wobble board", but it's just a fancy way of describing a piece of masonite jiggled back and forwards.
edit Lyrics
(Spoken) There's an old Australian stockman, lying, dying,
and he gets himself up on one elbow,
and he turns to his mates,
who are gathered 'round him and he says:
Watch me wallabies feed mate.
Watch me wallabies feed.
They're a dangerous breed mate.
So watch me wallabies feed.
Altogether now!
- Tie me kangaroo down sport,
- tie me kangaroo down.
- Tie me kangaroo down sport,
- tie me kangaroo down.
Keep me cockatoo cool, Curl,
keep me cockatoo cool.
Don't go acting the fool, Curl,
just keep me cockatoo cool.
Altogether now!
Take me koala back, Jack,
take me koala back.
He lives somewhere out on the track, Mac,
so take me koala back.
Altogether now!
Let me Abos go loose, Lou,
let me Abos go loose.
They're of no further use, Lou,
so let me Abos go loose.
Altogether now!
Mind me platypus duck, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
Don't let him go running amok, Bill,
mind me platypus duck.
Altogether now!
Play your digeridoo, Blue,
play your digeridoo.
Keep playing 'til I shoot thro' Blue,
play your digerydoo.
Altogether now!
Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred,
tan me hide when I'm dead.
So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde,
And that's it hanging on the shed.
Altogether now!
edit Lyrical Analysis
The lyrics at first seem innocent enough, and many Australians sing this song rambunctiously, and pay little attention to the words. While sounding jolly and light-hearted, it actually tells of a fellow who is dying whilst in the company of his friends. (It obviously was that sort of party.)
He begins by asking an unspecified friend to "watch" his Wallabies after he's dead. For this to be a man's final wish on his death-bed may seem a little odd to a non-Australian, however anyone who is aware of the Demographics of Australia know of the long standing "relations" Australian bushmen have had with Kangaroos, and for such purposes Wallabies are not considered any different. He also warns them of a possibility of their violent nature, a trait of much of the Australian Wildlife.
Despite his condition he and his friends proceed to get quite excited and they join him (at his request) in the Chorus; an ode about preparing his his pet kangaroo for sodomy via what honestly sounds like an act of S&M.
After this delightful interlude, in each of the following verses he proceeds to ask individual friends to complete particular tasks for him. Each verse is separated by a repeat of The Ode to the Violation of the Kangaroo :
- He asks "Curl" to deep-freeze his Cockatoo, and to stop acting like such a twat. It is likely that "Curl" is an affectionate name for "Curly" - in most parts of the world this would suggest that he had curly hair, but in Australia it would mean that he was bald. This is considered humour in Australian culture.
- He requests that Jack return his Koala to the wild, but we can suspect that delirium has begun to set in, because he proceeds to give the directions to another friend completely (named Mac). These directions are ambiguous at best.
- Lou, he gives task of letting his *politically incorrect* Aboriginal slaves go free, quite simply because they're useless.
- Bill receives the honour of looking after his mischievous pet platypus.
- He asks his friend "Blue" to continue the simple act of playing his didgeridoo after he is dead. We can assume "Blue" is a Redhead (again with the Australian "Humour"), and is therefore not Aboriginal (despite the fact that he plays the didgeridoo).
- For his friend Fred, he saves the most horrible request for last. He asks Fred to turn his skin into leather. Requesting this at then end of his song was probably quite wise because if he'd asked it first, everyone else would have simply left.
- This then launches us into what is considered by many to be the MOST disturbing thing about this song. The last half of the final verse informs us that his friends have obliged the singer's request, and they have proceeded to hang the leather made of their friend's skin on the shed. They tell (another?) friend called "Clyde" this fact. Clyde's stance on this disturbing act is unknown.
All parties (except for the recently deceased, of course) join again for a final chorus of the kangaroo S&M again, and the song is done.
edit Public reception
Because of the questionable lyrical content of this song some country's governments have banned performance of it completely. Austria, as of 1992, has a death penalty for anyone caught performing the song in public. In Argentina it is acceptable to play the song, but not recommended, and musicians have been formally advised to wear a hardhat and safety goggles while doing so. Re-release of the song by "The Wiggles" in 2000 caused rioting in China and also caused the song to be banned by the American government, with a sentence of life imprisonment for ownership of a copy of the song still being enforced regularly.
Despite this, Australia and England love the song. The song is played, at the Queen's request, just after supper in Buckingham Palace every Tuesday.
"This is undoubtedly the best song ever. Let's have some tea and listen to it right now!"
"Tahrme kaingaroo down sport!!! Tahrme kaingaroo down!!!"
edit Effects on world culture and history
In 1968, during an attempted siege of Australia, George W Bush gave a terrifying speech specifically aimed at the Kangaroos of the outback. Although the exact phrasing of the lyrics of this song were not used, the reference to the song was unmistakable. - ...and if y'all gonna be jumpin' and hoppin' in our way, we'll be tying y'all down, d'ya hear me sport?. The last part was aimed at a rogue kangaroo called Skippy, who had forced his way through the barricades. Shortly after those words were uttered, Skippy managed a powerful blow to the President and the entire army retreated in terror as a herd of Kangaroos bounced out of concealed spaceships and forced the American army back to Asia.
Rolf Harris makes reference to this event in another song, "Six white boomers", an Australian Christmas song, by using the lyrics "Then he heard a far off booming in the sky" - i.e. the kangaroos were coming once again to save the day.
Many think that it is for this reason that Australians still revere the song to this day, and also is the reason thet let the kangaroos roam in the streets and cities as they wish. Despite the connotations of the content, the kangaroos themselves seem quite unconcerned. All interviews that have asked about their thoughts on the matter, the kangaroo will usually either give a blank stare, eat some grass, or jump away.
Swedish death metal band, ABBA, made a rare reference to the song during their tour of Antarctica in 1973. The Penguins were most shocked and ABBA have not been able to return there since.
In 1992, six half hour episodes of a Japanese game show were aired, called "Tie the Kangaroo Down!". The opening intro used the song theme, but only the melody was played on a Kazoo. In each episode, a single contestant was lured onto the show under the guise of it being a dating-related show. After a series of embarrassing questions were asked, the unsuspecting contestant met his date - A kangaroo. The man would then be offered $1,000,000 to be married to the Kangaroo, in a wedding ceremony which was conducted on the show. After four happy inter-species marriages and a successful lawsuit from the KPH (Kangaroos for Protection of Humankind), the show went bust and no further episodes were recorded.


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- A student who is without lawful immigration status must file an AB540 Affidavit (California Non-Resident Tuition Exemption Request form) with the college or university stating that he or she has filed an application to legalize his or her immigration status, or will file an application as soon as he or she is eligible to do so.
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Barroso labelled "dangerous" for European culture
The European film industry and European Commission (EC) at loggerheads over the question of the "cultural exception", as director Costa-Gavras and The Artist actress Bérénice Bejo weighed in to the debate.
Speaking in Strasbourg on Tuesday evening after a meeting of European film-makers with EC president José Manuel Barroso, Greek director Costa-Gavras could hardly contain his anger and frustration as he dubbed Barroso "a very dangerous man for European culture".
"After 1 ½ hours discussion, the man has only one idea in his head [and this] is to exclude the idea of cultural exception, that you can't exclude it [from negotiations]," Gavras said.
This new low point in relations between representatives of the European film community and the EC comes just over two years after a delegation of France's L'ARP, comprising Costa-Gavras, the late Theo Angelopoulos, Cristian Mungiu and Radu Mihaileanu met Barroso on the eve of the public hearing on the future of MEDIA in March 2011.
At that time, L'ARP declared:"President Barroso is a man of culture who shares the deeply-held belief of filmmakers that the MEDIA Programme should be upheld, in both its operational and budgetary autonomy."
Romanian film-maker Radu Mihaileanu added that he was "terribly disappointed" by the meeting with Barroso.
"Everything was decided beforehand," he said. "Culture is not a commodity, it is a human right. It is not up for grabs."
Referring to the so-called "red lines" described by commissioners de Gucht and Vassiliou, which would place audiovisual services "off limits" within the trade negotiations, Mihaileanu argued that such a strategy would be "a sign of weakness in a negotiation (…) It would be better now to completely exclude."
Moreover, he pointed out that the Americans, for their part, had already declared that the banking sector would be excluded from the TTIP talks.
And, before reading a letter from Wim Wenders stating that abandoning the cultural exception would be, among other things, absurd and suicidal, actress Bérénice Bejo observed that a film like The Artist – for which she received an Oscar nomination - "would not have been produced if we had complete free trade with the Americans."
Earlier in the day, Barroso had spoken after the meeting with the film-makers' delegation of "a misunderstanding" about the EC's motivation for not insisting on a cultural exception in the mandate for the TTIP talks.
While pointing out that he was aware of the "great sensitivities" about the EC's plans, Barroso stressed that it would be "a mistake from the beginning to exclude the audiovisual services. We believe it is better to put all the sectors in the negotiations, but with protection for the cultural sector."
"It makes sense that the European Union or Member States have special rules of protection for cultural goods and cultural exchange. This is my position and the position of the European Commission," he said.
Prism sours TTIP prospects
At the same time, the prospect of the forthcoming free-trade talks with the US was soured by the revelations this week of the secret American Prism programme used for mass surveillance of people's personal data.
Speaking on behalf of the European Commission at a plenary session of the European Parliament on Tuesday, Tonio Borg, commissioner for health and consumer policy, said that "programmes such as the so-called Prism and the laws on the basis of which such programmes are authorised potentially endanger the fundamental right to privacy and to data protection of EU citizens."
And in a press briefing, MEP Hanns Swoboda (S&D Group) declared with a nod in the direction of TTIP, that "data protection is not an element we can sacrifice for an agreement with the United States of America."
On Friday (June 14), the Council of EU Trade Ministers will decide on the negotiating mandate to be given to the European Commission to initiate talks with the US on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. (ends)
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The architecture world's most prestigious award – the Pritzker – was announced on Sunday, and the winner was Toyo Ito – an acclaimed Japanese architect whose works include the Sendai Mediatheque, the temporary Serpentine Gallery pavilion in London's Hyde Park, and the amazing solar-powered World Games stadium in Taiwan.
Born in 1941, Ito studied at Tokyo University's Department of Architecture before founding his own studio in 1971. His projects range from public, multipurpose buildings like the Mediatheque, to commercial buildings like his Tod's outlet in Tokyo, and also include deeply personal, intimate spaces such as the "White U" house that he built for his recently widowed sister in 1976.
In awarding the prize, the jury said:
Toyo Ito's personal creative agenda is always coupled with public responsibility. It is far more complex and riskier to innovate while working on buildings where the public is concerned, but this has not deterred him. He has said that architecture must not only respond to one's physical needs, but also to one's senses.
We've put together a slideshow of some of his most stunning works from throughout his career (and a picture of the prizewinner himself, of course). Read more


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Compared to planning issues like football stadiums, rapid transit, or major development proposals downtown, the business of zoning variances, floor-area ratios, and minimum parking requirements are often something of a snoozefest.
But behind the jargon and day-to-day un-sexiness of zoning and neighbourhood planning, there is a war being fought at City Hall between planners and councillors. This is a war over the direction the city will take in the coming decades.
The current battle came earlier this week, when planners made recommendations to council's property and development committee on changes to the zoning bylaw that will better align it with the city's long-term planning document, Our Winnipeg. Councillors on this committee were cool to the idea.
In its general and sometimes flowery language, Our Winnipeg calls for more dense and walkable neighbourhoods, including the conservation of existing ones. This is for the lofty purpose of gradually creating a city that is more socially inclusive, economically dynamic, environmentally responsible, and fiscally sustainable.
The city's zoning bylaw, however, continues to apply a very low-density and suburban standard to new development. Large lots, separated uses and a boundless supply of parking lots are the rule, while slightly more pedestrian-scaled developments are the exception. Development that meets the goals of Our Winnipeg (such as building a house on a vacant lot in an older neighbourhood) is often non-conforming in the eyes of the zoning bylaw. This means the builder must go before one or more council committees to make their case.
If these committees approve the development, it can go ahead. If it doesn't, the builder can appeal or head back to the drawing board.
Often, development that does not conform to the zoning bylaw is approved in the end, but not without a lengthy process and less predictability. This not only makes modest infill development more costly and time-consuming, but also ties planners up with writing the same old reports for council committees. The proposed zoning alignments will streamline the process a little more.
Councillors may argue that is just an attempt by planners to get out of continually writing administrative reports for council committees, and do the more glamourous work they envisioned as idealistic university students. Maybe so, but planners are well aware of their marginal place within the city's political and administrative structure. The proposed alignments are simply small changes that intend to create a bit more continuity between Winnipeg's official plan and its official zoning bylaw.
More than that, there is a growing need to readily allow for affordable housing and other development in neighbourhoods that need it, and to more efficiently respond to neighbourhoods with infill development pressures (Corydon, River Heights, or Old St. Boniface).
Writing fewer reports for every small development that comes along, planners at the city could develop more secondary plans for neighbourhoods. Official plans that fall under Our Winnipeg but reflect the uniqueness and demands of a particular neighbourhood, secondary plans are a more consistent way to conserve a neighbourhood's character than relying on the whim of the local councillor.
That some councillors seem wary of the proposed zoning alignments suggests they are neither pro-developer or pro-resident, but simply interested in holding on to their parochial power rather than focus on bigger, tougher issues facing the city.
This can't go on forever. More and more, the City of Winnipeg is forced trudge cap-in-hand to the legislature to pay for the most basic infrastructure improvements. Many older suburban neighbourhoods continue to lose population and face emerging social and infrastructure challenges, while much of the inner city and North End have the same problems they have for decades. Zoning alignments will help free up both planners and the market to help meet these challenges.
Our Winnipeg, it should be remembered, was not dreamed up by activist planners hell-bent on turning your neighbourhood into Manhattan, but involved a lengthy public consultation process. So, too, were the zoning alignments that are currently being recommended.
In the current reactionary planning system, decisions are often shaped by citizens' fears of change, and councillors' fears of losing power and the next election. This system is inconsistent, inefficient, and ineffective. While far from ideal, Our Winnipeg was at least shaped by citizens' desires and many of the practical long-term realities Winnipeg faces.
If even the modest alignments proposed for the zoning bylaw cannot pass through Council, then Our Winnipeg becomes a dead letter, and the city will have no effective way to act on both its hopes and its needs for the future.


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Deirdre Connelly to Deliver 169th Commencement Keynote Address
April 29th, 2010 | SMWC
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) will celebrate its 169th commencement, Saturday, May 8, 2010. Graduation activities begin at 10:30 a.m. with the traditional baccalaureate mass in the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The class of 2010 will receive degrees during a ceremony at 2 p.m. in the Cecilian Auditorium of the Conservatory of Music. Read more about the commencement agenda.
During the ceremony, Deirdre Connelly, president, North American Pharmaceuticals, of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) will receive an honorary degree and will deliver the commencement address.
Deirdre Connelly joined GlaxoSmithKline in 2009, where she leads an organization of approximately 10,000 employees and over $14 billion in sales. As part of her current responsibilities, she helps shape the future of the company as a member of its global corporate executive team and co-chairs its research portfolio management board.
Prior to GlaxoSmithKline, Connelly worked for Eli Lilly and Company for 24 years. She held a variety of executive positions at the company, including senior vice president of human resources, vice president of human resources for pharmaceutical operations, executive director of global marketing for Evista, leader of the U.S. women's health business unit and most recently president of U.S. Operations.
A native of San Juan, Connelly holds a bachelor's degree in economics and marketing from Lycoming College in Pennsylvania. She graduated from Harvard University's Advanced Management Program in 2000. Connelly serves as a member of the board of directors at Macy's Inc., one of the nation's premier retailers.
Connelly is widely recognized by her colleagues as a strategic leader and passionate advocate for patients. The Healthcare Businesswomen's Association named Connelly the 2010 Woman-of-the-Year. Recognized for three consecutive years by Fortune magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in business, Connelly is currently ranked 37th. Also Forbes magazine listed her as 74th among the 100 Most Powerful Women of 2009.
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New Fellowship to Encourage UF Jewish Community
Read this story in The Independent Florida Alligator
A house divided didn't stop Alyssa Baron from getting in touch with her Jewish roots.
Baron grew up in Boca Raton, Fla., with a Jewish mother and a Catholic father. Growing up mostly under Catholic influence, Baron as a young teen confided in her family about her interest in the Jewish youth group BBYO.
After six years of involvement, Baron, a 19-year-old business administration sophomore, earned the BBYO Community Engagement Fellowship on Nov. 19.
The fellowship aims to make Jewish students' transition between high school and college easier while enhancing Jewish life on campus, said Elyse Goldberg, BBYO communications coordinator.
About 40 students across the nation applied for the fellowship, and Baron is one of nine recipients.
"I was already doing the duties of a fellow at UF before the title," Baron said. "The fellowship will just help me to further my connection to the Jewish students on campus."
BBYO, formerly known as the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization, helps Jewish teens in middle schools and high schools build leadership skills, and it provides an outlet to make friends within Jewish communities, Goldberg said.
This is the first year the organization offered a fellowship for college students. Baron said each recipient is offered $1,000 each semester to put on events for the Jewish community.
Baron said she is planning career services events for UF's Jewish community members so they can network with each other and BBYO alumni. She plans to recruit one member of BBYO's board of directors to help with resume and interview critiques for Jewish students in Gainesville next semester.
Baron said one of the most important aspects of her leadership role is getting students involved with organizations that fulfill their cultural needs.
"When I was a freshman at UF, my BBYO mentor was a senior who basically took me under her wing," Baron said. "She helped me get involved on campus, and now I want to provide that connection for students."


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Arcata receives "A" rating from American Lung Association
ARCATA- Arcata has received an "A" grade from the American Lung Association after passing their smoking ban ordinance last year. The city has a better grade than in 2012 when the received a "C" grade for the category of 'smoke free outdoor area.'
In June, the city council voted unanimously to pass the ordinance that prohibited smoking within the downtown area, Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary and Community Forrest.
The city has a better overall rating, up from D to C, from the association that grades cities countrywide on their tobacoo control.
Environmental Services Director, Mark Andre, said the ordinance has gone further than just helping prevent second hand smoke, but by reducing litter and trash from discarded cigarettes.


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You can frame it or hang it directly on the wall, this print is a cute one to hang alone or mixed with other artworks in a full-of-frames wall.
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HTCs / VBScriptHTML Components (HTC) and VBScript code when used inside of an IE9 or IE10 standards mode page are no longer executed in compatibility view.Consequently, DOM APIs used by the HTC or VBScript code now behave according to the IE standards mode version of the same APIs.
However, the MS HTC documentation has several examples of basic HTC implementation that works on IE9 (eg. Microsoft MouseOver Hilite Sample)
I tried to copy over the exact same example MS used and place all the necessary files on my server (My MouseOver Hilite Sample), but it doesn't work on IE9.
I tried a simpler version, but it also didn't work (Testing IE9 HTC).
While viewing the Developer Tools window, all three examples show the same browser mode (IE9) and the same document mode (Quirks).
The only difference I can find is when I have Fiddler2 loaded to log the headers.
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My Simple HTC Example:
As you can see, the HTC file is not even being loaded on the pages on my server, but is on the MS site.
I've tried adjusting the security settings via Internet Options in IE9, but no luck. All three examples work in IE8, though...
Have I forgotten something basic like adding a semi-colon somewhere or is it more complex like I need to be facing south by southwest while chanting the Star Wars theme music as I'm about to sacrifice a goat?
The example page and your page are both loading in quirks mode in IE9.
Try using a strict doctype, rather than transitional.
Going in another direction, this might work instead of relying on an HTC file, but it seems to be a little glitchy in IE9
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Kevin Hand
Planetary Scientist/Astrobiologist
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The best chance of discovering life beyond Earth may not be where you'd expect. Today's weather forecast for Europa, Jupiter's fourth largest moon, is 280 degrees below Fahrenheit. A layer of ice several miles thick coats its fractured surface, with 1,000-foot ice cliffs piercing a pitch-black sky. It's devoid of atmosphere, bombarded by fierce radiation, about 485 million miles from the sun, at times nearly 600 million miles from Earth—and Kevin Hand can hardly wait to get there.
Hand works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is under contract with NASA, researching Europa and preparing to send an orbiting probe there. "When it comes to the search for life beyond Earth, NASA's mantra has long been 'follow the water.' Well, the water is on Europa." Planetary scientists believe a global ocean of liquid water swirls beneath the icy surface. "Europa is about the size of our own moon," Hand explains. "Its vast ocean is likely more than 60 miles deep (Earth's ocean depths reach only about seven miles). That means Europa may harbor two to three times the volume of all liquid water on Earth."
How do we know the ocean exists? When the Galileo spacecraft explored Jupiter's neighborhood, it detected an induced magnetic field between the planet and Europa. Hand notes that "ice isn't conductive enough to create such a field, so the best explanation is a region of salty, liquid water below the frozen surface, which supplies a conductive layer. When you go through a metal detector at the airport with a conductor such as keys in your pocket, the alarm goes off. Likewise, when Galileo flew by, Europa set off the alarm."
Today Hand helps plan a NASA mission to Europa to give Earthlings a closer look. The precise timetable is uncertain, but an orbiting probe is projected to launch sometime around 2020, make its six-year journey to Jupiter, then spend two years touring the planet's four largest moons before spiraling down into orbit around Europa. "By the time we get there," Hand observes, "I'll be a much older man. This business is not for the faint of heart." A large antenna and several cameras will transmit pictures and data. The probe's ice-penetrating radar will gather clues about the frozen shell's interior structure, possibly identifying where ice and ocean meet. Other instruments will analyze surface chemistry, examine the magnetic field, and investigate radiation environments.
To create instruments that will travel hundreds of millions of miles through space, Hand voyages to the most forbidding environments on Earth. "I'm trying to understand extremes of life here, so we can better assess and investigate habitable environments on alien worlds like Europa." He has explored the north slope of Alaska, the glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro, the valleys of Antarctica, and the depths of our oceans to see how microbes eek out a living in our world's harshest climes. "One of my key challenges is figuring out how best to detect, characterize, and map complex organic chemistry out there in the solar system to see if Europa's ice-covered ocean is, in fact, inhabited. The new tools we're developing at JPL will evolve and hopefully someday wind up bolted to the side of a spacecraft or strapped to the end of a robotic arm."
Of course, no place on Earth can match Europa's true conditions. "That's why my colleague Robert Carlson and I have built what we call Europa-in-a-can, here in our lab," Hand explains. "It replicates low-temperature, low-pressure, high-radiation environments, so we can study the chemical processes and dynamics that may drive what we'll see on distant worlds." Their experiments also help interpret data gained from the Galileo mission, and inform the design of future missions and instruments.
"The fundamental questions we're trying to answer are questions humanity has asked ever since we first gazed into the night sky: What is life and could it exist out there beyond Earth? I want to know if DNA is the only game in town. Are there different biochemical pathways that could lead to other kinds of life? That's at the heart of why I want to go to Europa—to find something living in that ocean we can poke at and use to understand and define life in a much more comprehensive way."
For someone focused on a world millions of miles away, Hand is remarkably engaged in his own planet's problems. "When I think about the desire to connect with life elsewhere in the universe, it gives me an incredible sense of the fragility of life here on Earth and how crucial it is to protect our collective home." This led him to found Cosmos Education, a nonprofit working to advance critical thinking skills and empower some of Africa's poorest children through science, health, and environmental education. "You can do all kinds of fun experiments with everyday items; you don't need elaborate resources. The activities we bring into schools can be easily reproduced with materials found right in their villages. We also do a lot of mentoring and career counseling. Our local teams are made up of African engineers, teachers, scientists, health activists, and development leaders who are amazing role models. We want to inspire the next generation of great teachers, doctors, lawyers, and politicians."
Hand speaks from experience. His own inspiration to study planetary science came in part from an engaging elementary school science teacher and growing up under clear night skies in Vermont. "Our complex industrial, technological society has really disconnected us from the stars above. We need to remember to stop, look up, and let the wonder take over."
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
By AL SIMON
One of my favorite exercises to use in our sales training classes is to ask the group to list the most important attributes of a "good" salesperson. Answers will always include persistent, quick thinker, excellent public speaker, knowledgeable, hard worker, etc. It usually takes a few minutes before someone finally says, "a good listener."
Early in my sales career, my boss told me that my job was to convince the prospect to buy from me – that I had to educate the prospect into submission. In the age of the Internet, prospects do not need to be educated as much as they need problem solvers.
Prospects want salespeople to listen to them, to understand their business. This point was driven home for me one day when I was on a sales call with a client to observe her performance. She did what I thought was a good job, asking several excellent questions and the prospect responded with a lot of valuable information. As we were leaving, the salesperson excused herself to visit the restroom. Standing there at the elevator with the prospect, he said to me "that salesperson seems very sharp." I had to chuckle – the salesperson had not said much else besides asking questions!
Today's best sales professionals employ a concept called active listening. It means we should listen with our eyes, our minds, our whole being, not just our ears. Maintaining solid eye contact without staring, having relaxed yet attentive body language, and being comfortable with a little silence between thoughts the prospect is sharing, these are all components of Active Listening. Another important component is paraphrasing back what you heard the prospect say.
A recent sales call of my own is a good example. Calling on the CEO of a construction materials company, I heard him say, "I want our salespeople to be able to grasp (and he made a fist with both hands as he said this) the basic concept that we must make more sales calls on builders and contractors that we haven't yet met."
I said I took that to mean they needed to be more aware of their prospecting activities and asked if that's what he meant? "Not really," he said. "I want them to grasp (and he did the fist thing again) that we have to make cold calls!"
This time, when I paraphrased back, I used the word "grasp," and made a fist. He said "That's it!" I truly believe I would not have been awarded the business without him hearing me say that word back to him. He might have thought to himself that I didn't understand him or his business very well.
Another important skill that salespeople need to develop is the ability to stay with the prospect's thought process and not think too far ahead or behind. For example, if you are in a sales call and there is an interruption – an important telephone call or someone sticks their head in the door to ask a quick question – and after the interruption the prospect asks, "Now, where were we?" You need to know! If you are able to respond, "you were in the middle of explaining to me about..." then you will score some major points with your prospect.
If you are unable to remember conversation from even a few minutes back, it will be painfully obvious to the prospect that you aren't listening and don't care about their issues. How much business do you suppose you will win that way? To be effective in today's business climate, really listen to the prospect and then help them solve the problem.
Al Simon is president of Simon, Inc., an authorized licensee of Sandler Training. He can be contacted through www.Simoninc.sandler.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @SandlerSimon


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Ten Trades That Made Our Childhoods
1. The Tigers Trade John Smoltz to the Braves for Doyle Alexander
No, the trade didn't make or break the Braves. But they got John Smoltz, along with all the other pitchers. I got the tapering years of Gullickson/Tanana and something called "Brian Moehler."
Once again—and this is for all the general managers who are dads out there—before making a deadline trade, consider the children. My son deserves to grow up watching Steven Moya mash home runs in Comerica Park, and this year's middle relief will get better. —Matt Sussman
2. The Dodgers Trade Pedro Martinez to the Expos for Delino DeShields
Quotes with real color. ''Even if we'd had five strikes against him, we couldn't have hit him," said Rich Donnelly about Pedro.
Interesting research: "Reviewing all trades made in the last quarter century, one finds that there was not a one-for-one deal involving proven major leaguers age 25 and younger rivaling this one in terms of talent and potential. On Dec. 8, 1977, the California Angels dealt second baseman Jerry Remy to the Boston Red Sox for pitcher Don Aase, and on Oct. 18, 1973, the Pittsburgh Pirates sent second baseman Dave Cash to the Phils for pitcher Ken Brett. None was older than 25 and all were good players at the time, but neither deal was on a par with DeShields for Martinez."
Backstory: "The roots of this trade reach from May 1992 when DeShields was in a batting slump and L.A. prospect Eric Karros wasn't getting much playing time at first base. The Dodgers did some research on DeShields in contemplating a possible swap, but within a few weeks DeShields got hot while Karros moved into a starting role and was on his way to becoming the National League Rookie of the Year. Then, at the end of last season, Montreal began looking around. The Expos needed a righthanded starter, and they also had to move a high-salaried player if they wanted to keep their 1994 payroll under $20 million. DeShields was coming off a .295 season, and with Mike Lansing (.287 as a rookie) a suitable eplacement, the Montreal brass decided DeShields was their most marketable asset."
Pedro: "Now he wants so much to remain in Montreal that he says his goal in 1994 'is to marry a French Canadian woman.'''
I enjoyed that article so much that I started hoarding SI whenever I could find it--granddad's house, dentist's office, etc. Before long, I was subscribing. That was a trade with a clear winner. (Me. I was the winner. In case that was too subtle.) —Sam Miller
3. The Indians Trade Joe Carter to the Padres for Sandy Alomar, Carlos Baerga, and Chris James
Despite how sad it was to see Carter go, the trade did net the Indians Carlos Baerga (back when he was good) and Sandy Alomar Jr. As an added bonus, they also got Chris James, who is still the answer to an Indians trivia question for once driving in 9 runs in a game. If trading Carter was the symbolic statement that the 80s were over for the Indians, then in retrospect, that was also the day that the 90s began. At the time, we had no idea how much fun the 90s would be in Cleveland. Alomar and Baerga would go on to develop into solid, middle-of-the-diamond players and eventually, part of the first Indians team to make the World Series in 41 years. At the time though, it hurt. My brother had a Joe Carter Starting Lineup figure, and it's not like you could change the jerseys on those things. Other players had come and gone, but Carter? Now that figurine was now just an echo of the glory that once was. Looking back—oh dear, I think I'm about to go all Wonder Years on you—it was the first time I had experienced the transition from one era to another in my fandom and for a kid, that's always a little traumatic. The Indians teams that followed gave Cleveland (and me) some magical memories, but that day in December of 1989 turned out to be one of those strangely formative moments in life. —Russell A. Carleton
4. The Braves Trade Brett Butler, Rick Behenna, and Brook Jacoby to the Indians for Len Barker
Then, pow: After the 1983 season, Butler was traded, along with Brook Jacoby and Rick Behenna—who had thrown a no-hitter in Durham in that same 1980 season—for Len Barker. Butler and Jacoby were PTNBLs two months after the deal was made; the Braves had thrown in an additional $150,000 in late August, when they acquired Barker to help them in the stretch run (they fell short, missing the playoffs).
Barker himself had thrown a big-league perfect game in 1981, when he was an All-Star, but the trade rattled me. Just like that? Butler gone? And Jacoby, who had been so highly regarded in the minors that he skipped high-A Durham altogether? I had thought of the minors as a place with more sanctity than that, where the assets were prized and protected. These were the Braves' guys, stocks just starting to pay off. How unceremoniously they could be flipped.
Having finally accepted the trade (and appreciating that Barker was a pitcher of no small talent), I then felt the second shock of the deal: the Braves had made a bad one. Butler became one of the game's premiere leadoff hitters for a decade, and Jacoby was an All-Star, locking down third base for the Indians for the rest of the 1980s. Len Barker was done as a Brave—and, effectively, as a ballplayer—by the end of 1985. —Adam Sobsey
5. The Yankees Trade Rickey Henderson Back to the Athletics for Luis Polonia, Eric Plunk, and Greg Cadaret
I knew of Rickey's legend, but his playing for the local nine meant that I could witness the Rickey Show first hand. He made quite an impression on a nine-year-old kid who was in the early stages of baseball addiction, and I immediately identified with him as the rare big-leaguer who threw lefty yet batted right-handed, just as I did, and whose greatest asset was his speed on the basepaths. Rickey made baserunning look more fun than hitting, a seemingly impossible concept for a nine-year old to fathom.
Henderson was a spark plug atop the A's order for the rest of that season, and he virtually carried the team offensively in the playoffs. He won MVP honors in the ALCS versus Toronto and continued rolling through the World Series sweep of the cross-bay Giants. His combined numbers for the '89 postseason include a .441/.568/.941 line with 12 runs scored, eight extra-base hits (including three homers), and 11 steals in 12 attempts, all in just nine games. The A's would go on to sign Rickey to a lucrative free agent offer in the off-season, retaining his services and his swagger, and Rickey responded with the best season of his career, culminating in the 1990 AL MVP award and yet another World Series birth. Rickey is responsible for copious memories of my youth, but what I remember most is not the crouched stance, the "I am the greatest" speech, nor the fluorescent-green Mizuno batting gloves that were too expensive for my allowance; what I remember most is how he helped to enhance my enjoyment of the game, whether from the stands, on the field, or reading the sports section of the newspaper each morning. —Doug Thorburn
6. The Rays Trade Fred McGriff to the Cubs for Manny Aybar and Jason Smith
7. The White Sox' White-Flag Trade With the Giants
Sure, they straight-up lied to me about Mike Caruso, but in the end they knew what they were doing, even if 11-year-old Mauricio vehemently disagreed. —Mauricio Rubio
8. The Red Sox Trade Nomar Garciaparra to the Cubs in a Four-Team Deal
For Red Sox management, enough was enough. They noticed the dramatic contrast between Jeter's heroics and, on the other hand, their own star shortstop. Nomar Garciaparra did not play in that July classic. He was resting from an Achilles' injury, and his absence from such an important battle compounded the ugly, nagging question of his contract extension. Garciaparra was a superstar in New England—he had five seasons of at least 6.0 WARP in six years—and he wanted to be paid like it.
But Theo Epstein and his bosses didn't feel like they needed to sue for Garciaparra's loyalty. The team didn't lack for offense (Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Kevin Millar), starting pitching (Pedro Martinez, Derek Lowe), or fan favorites (Ramirez, Ortiz, Johnny Damon). What they needed was a healthy contributor at shortstop who could help the Red Sox finally get a World Series title in 2004. Theo said in announcing the deal, "If there was a flaw on this club, it was that the defense on this team was not championship-caliber," Epstein said. "We might have gotten to the postseason. But, in my mind, we weren't going to win a World Series with our defense the way it was." So, in a four-team deal, Garciaparra was shipped off to the Cubs while the Sox received Orlando Cabrera from Montreal and Doug Mientkiewicz from Minnesota—both of them Gold Glove winners.
As a Yankee fan of 15, I took it as a sign that the Red Sox wouldn't be serious contenders to the Yankees. Yankee dominance would remain eternal. Why would a contending club trade away one of its most recognizable and talented players mid-season? But, as it turned out, the removal of "NOMAH" was actually a blessing for Boston. The team went 42-19 the rest of the year, and Cabrera tacked on 151 points to his OPS at his new home. He also hit .379 and had five RBI in the infamous 2004 ALCS against the Yankees. Boston ice cream chain JP Licks renamed its "Cherry Garciaparra" flavor "Cherry Ortiz," and all of a sudden the Red Sox became a juggernaut. —Dan Rozenson
9. The Reds and Yankees Swap Roberto Kelly and Paul O'Neill
After his age-27 swan song in the Bronx, Kelly had his uses but became a journeyman, roaming from the Braves to the Expos, Dodgers, Twins, Mariners, Rangers and, finally, back to the Yankees, for whom he played 10 games in April of 2000. He surpassed 500 plate appearances in only one subsequent season. O'Neill, free of Reds skipper Lou Piniella's needling and fixation on turning him into a pull-happy power hitter, blossomed into a batting champion and an on-base threat and remained productive into his late 30s. Along the way, he became a classic example of a player who's beloved at home and hated everywhere else: Yankees fans interpreted his tantrums as the byproduct of his will to win, while everyone else (including Piniella) called him a crybaby. His batting stance and home run stroke are burned into my brain; I'm still trying to make that left-handed toe tap, leg kick, and level swing look anywhere close to as cool from the right side of the plate.
"Everybody hears the horror stories," O'Neill said about playing in New York, at the time of the trade. "I hope there are some good ones too." As a Manhattan kid living a few subway stops from the Stadium in the mid- to late-90s, I got to savor more than my fair share of good sports stories. And in many of them, O'Neill played a central role. —Ben Lindbergh
10. The Yankees Acquire Tim Raines for Blaise Kozeniewski
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If these are childhood memories, you all have just made me feel very, very old.
Jul 03, 2014 05:58 AM
Agreed! The trade that made my childhood was more like Doc Medich for Willie Randolph, Dock Ellis, and Ken Brett.
Jul 03, 2014 07:38 AM
You should appreciate your youthfulness.
Jul 03, 2014 09:39 AM
that was the first one that jumped into my head as well, though I don't really remember if I actually remember the trade itself or just the aftermath.
Jul 03, 2014 10:25 AM
On further review, I DO remember Frank Robinson for Milt Pappas. That was a pretty memorable trade....
Jul 03, 2014 10:27 AM
Matthew Trueblood
Love this concept. Adore it, really.
Jul 03, 2014 06:20 AM
The Joe Carter/Roberto Alomar for McGriff/Tony Fernandez was a pretty big one too. I remember as a kid being really fascinated by that one even though I wasn't a fan of either team.
Jul 03, 2014 06:52 AM
Cory Snyder , boy when he hit one it stayed hit, sounded like cannon fire when he got one right , much like I imagine it would sound when Stanton or Jose Abreu catch one right. Memories :)
Jul 03, 2014 06:56 AM
Ed Carroll
Not to be "that guy," but Brook Jacoby finished out the 1980's as the Indians 3B, not the 1990's. Love this article though, really fun.
Jul 03, 2014 07:07 AM
I remember being upset when the Cubs traded George Bell for Sammy Sosa. All I could understand was that Bell was an MVP winner and they practically gave him away.
Jul 03, 2014 07:55 AM
Tony Perez to the Expos for Woody Fryman. Thus ended my innocent childhood. Still don't understand what they were thinking.
Jul 03, 2014 08:03 AM
Bobby Murcer for Bobby Bonds -- straight-up.
Jul 03, 2014 08:54 AM
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Jul 03, 2014 09:15 AM
Andrew Mearns
Bobby Abreu for shortstop C.J. Henry & prospects, forever. That move in 2006 pretty much cemented my admiration for Brian Cashman. As I recall, the Phillies had been trying to pry better prospects out of Cashman for weeks in exchange for Abreu, an obvious fit for the Yankees since both Hideki Matsui & Gary Sheffield were hurt. Cashman stood his ground though, and eventually got Abreu for essentially peanuts. The Yankees caught fire with Abreu and eventually won the division over Boston & Toronto, and they made the playoffs twice with him.
Jul 03, 2014 09:29 AM
I still think about the Royals trading Bret Saberhagen to the Mets for Gregg Jefferies, Kevin McReynolds and Keith Miller way too much. It stings.
Jul 03, 2014 09:31 AM
At least they got eight years and two Cy Youngs out of Sabes before trading him. The one that still eats at me is David Cone for Rick Anderson, Mauro Gozzo, and Ed Hearn. I hated it then and I hate it now.
Jul 03, 2014 11:04 AM
The Cone trade was so nice they did it twice! Got 50 games out of Chris Stynes...so that's good.
Jul 03, 2014 12:00 PM
Frank Cashen securing the young Coney from KC from that package has to be one of greatest steals ever.
Jul 03, 2014 18:02 PM
The Cone trade sticks with me, as well. Painful to think of even now. Scheurholz is commonly thought of as one of the best GMs in baseball. I have often wondered if trading Jermaine Dye to the Royals for Michael Tucker was his way of apologizing for the Cone deal . . .
Jul 04, 2014 15:12 PM
The trade that killed Washington baseball for 34 years - On October 9, 1970, Denny McLain was traded by the Detroit Tigers with Elliott Maddox, Norm McRae and Don Wert to the Washington Senators for Joe Coleman, Eddie Brinkman, Jim Hannan and Aurelio Rodríguez. Bob Short needed more votes for his intended move to Texas, and found one in Detroit.
Jul 03, 2014 10:30 AM
Heathcliff Slocumb for Derek Lowe and Jason Varitek
Jul 03, 2014 11:18 AM
I was far, far past my childhood when this deal was made but, as a life long Red Sox fan, I knew this was the start of something great. It began with addition by subtraction, Slocumb was awful, but what Tek and Lowe gave the Sox makes this the greatest theft of all time.
Jul 04, 2014 17:35 PM
Nomar and the trade to the Cubs. I lived in Boston at the time. One thing that I remember -- which seems to have been dropped from the narrative about that trade -- is that Nomar may well have been faking (or at least nursing) his injury. I recall that Theo called the Cubs, they asked if Nomar was ok, Nomar said he was fine and Nomar played the next day for the Cubs. I checked Baseball Reference and Nomar did play on Aug 1 in Chicago.
Jul 03, 2014 11:29 AM
Ahh the White Flag trade would have been mine, so I'm glad it made the list. I was 9 and was oddly enough in Cooperstown on vacation with my parents. My Dad woke me up to tell me what he heard on ESPN and didn't believe it, so he rushed out of the hotel to find a newspaper (oh technology these days) only to find it to be true. While it turned out to be the right move, the pieces the White Sox got back failed to really materialize to change their franchise the way the deal should have.
Jul 03, 2014 11:44 AM
Broken Arrow
The trade that first caught my attention as a young Phillies fan was the Von Hayes deal, where the they sent Manny Trillo, George Vukovich, Jay Baller, Jerry Willard, and Julio Franco to the Indians for one young prospect. It seemed crazy then, and feels like the sort of trade that would never happen now. Interestingly, the only players that had any real value out of these deal were Franco and Hayes, and although Franco's career WAR is significantly higher than Hayes, until 1992 (Hayes's final year with the Phillies), the two had similar output. It was a totally wild trade, that probably worked out better than it seemed, given the number of players involved and Franco's longevity.
Jul 03, 2014 12:57 PM
my Indians trading their most popular player (in my 8 year old eyes) Buddy Bell straight up for Toby Harrah, who was older, more expensive, worse with the glove, but ostensibly better with the bat. but not that much better. I remember buying a rangers batting helmet at the first tribe game I went to the next year.
Jul 03, 2014 13:46 PM
Is it bad karma to mention a trade where I was happy to see two players leave?The Padres unloading Keith Moreland and Chris Brown on the Tigers for Walt Terrell was such a relief. Brown I now feel sorry for given his sad demise but, man, he was hard to root for. Meanwhile Moreland might have had the worst year in the history of baseball in 1988 (.256/.305/.331 for a LF/1B! And that doesn't even account for his atrocious defense.) Then after leaving he ripped the Padres fans for not being enthusiastic enough or something. This didn't endear him to anybody either.
Jul 03, 2014 14:48 PM
I'm constantly amused by the persistent narrative of Jeter "diving into the stands to make the catch," which appears to be immune to the actual facts.
Jul 03, 2014 17:50 PM
I think it has more to do with the effort than where the ball was actually caught. I just watched it. Just like you say, he caught it in the field of play and then ends up in the stands...but it still seems like a great effort to me. Full sprint when he catches it leaving about a step and a half to stop, which is not nearly enough room.
Jul 03, 2014 18:42 PM
It was so much more than just the catch, which was truly great, but it was also an act in one of the greatest games ever played during a period when the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry was more intense than any in baseball history. 2003 and 2004 and, to a lesser degree, the following couple of years had to be lived by a fan of these teams, and I attended my first game at Fenway in 1948, to understand and appreciate what was happening.
Jul 04, 2014 17:56 PM
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Don't let the tears drip into your lobster roll. I'm sure in the same situation you would have gingerly stopped yourself against the wall because you're probably a better athlete than Jeter, before you hurt your knee in little league. Our maybe you have a tiny bias... maybe .... just a little... tinsy tiny...huh...huh...
Jul 05, 2014 11:04 AM
Awesome read!
Jul 03, 2014 17:56 PM
There was a movie out at the time that described Piazza's stay in Florida - "Six Days and Seven Nights."
Jul 04, 2014 09:26 AM
The swap above may be my most favorite trade, being a Mets' fan. But the trade that made (wrecked) my childhood was Seaver's in 1977. I had just finished the 5th grade. The day it happened I remember a buddy and I were packing stuff for our first summer camp away from home (probably too excited and hyped as kids that age tend to get).
Jul 03, 2014 18:12 PM
Cleveland fans still haven't gotten over Rocky Colavito for Harvey Kuenn
Jul 04, 2014 05:03 AM
Zuleta's fleeting moment with the Cubs/MLB is long gone, but he is certainly not forgotten.
Jul 04, 2014 06:37 AM
My youth and my next twenty years of Orioles fandom were defined by the day I got out of class in 1991 to discover that Steve Finley, Pete Harnisch and Curt Schilling had been shipped off the Astros for Glenn Friggin' Davis.
Jul 04, 2014 09:50 AM
That was the baseball gods' revenge for the Frank Robinson trade!
Jul 04, 2014 10:15 AM
As a 50-something year old, no other trade had more impact on the 60's than F. Robby going to the O's for Milt Pappas and some batting practice balls. It change the whole dynamic in the AL for the next 7 -8 years. It was the catalyst for two World Series titles (should've been 3 or 4) and God-knows-how-many division titles.
Jul 04, 2014 10:14 AM
Shaun P.
All you younger guys and no one does Clemens for Wells, Graeme Lloyd, and Homer Bush? I fell out of the chair I was sitting in in the computer lab, cursing loudly, when I read it online (yes, we had the Internet in 1999).
Jul 04, 2014 13:59 PM
Ok, young'ns... To an 8 year old, the Red Sox trading Walt Dropo to the Tigers in June (June!) of 1952 was devastating. The Tigers sent Hoot Evers (sic) and Georage Kell, who was no longer the player who vied for the batting title year after year. He played 3rd base for a few years, until Frank Malzone took over.
Jul 04, 2014 14:36 PM
How about Norm Cash to Detroit for Steve Demeter to Cleveland
Jul 04, 2014 21:24 PM
Jul 05, 2014 04:51 AM
I was a wee lad of 8 or 9 when the Yankees traded Hank Bauer, Norm Siebern et al for Roger Maris. Luckily for me, we moved to Connecticut for the 1961 season and I got to watch every game of the M&M boys season. Any wonder I'm a lifelong baseball and Yankee fan.
Jul 05, 2014 10:28 AM
Mets traded Lenny Dykstra and Roger McDowell to the Phillies for Juan Samuel. Lenny and Roger were 12-year old me's favorite players and I never forgave the Mets for what they did. Samuel was the first of the new wave of Mets that wrecked them in NYC for 10 years (see also Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, etc)
Jul 07, 2014 12:35 PM
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So we are a day away. I just remember the eve of free agency last season when everybody thought the Rangers were about to get Dany Heatley, after they made the Scott Gomez salary-dump trade (in which they got Ryan McDonagh's rights, not to mention Christopher Higgins). And when the Heatley deal fell through, the Rangers had cleared the deck for Marian Gaborik's contract the next day.
I don't know if there will be any action going down tonight, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was.
Here, from TSN, is the unofficial list of players who will be free agents from Eastern Conference teams on Thursday.
Here is TSN's list of players due to be free agents from the West.
I'll try to publish the official lists when the NHL releases them.
I was hoping to get to the Garden Monday night, when the Rangers' top new prospects toured the new design of the building, and Glen Sather and John Tortorella were available. But of course, my "other" job got in the way and I couldn't go. And I was hoping to get over to the prospects camp one of these days, but of course my "other" job is preventing that so far.
Oh, well.
I do however, plan to be with youse all day Thursday, whether the Rangers take a dip in the pool or not. Should be an interesting day. Always is.
That is, if the world doesn't stop spinning for LeBron James.
MORNING UPDATE, 10:14 A.M.: Gotta tell you, I'm waffling now.
The idea of adding Kovalchuk, if he would come for little more than Redden money, is starting to appeal to me. It's just that, well, guys like that don't become UFAs very often, not in their prime. And if you can get him long term, and have Gaborik for four more years, and the goalie is in his prime, and there is still room for the young kids to be incorporated into the team, and Redden's contract will be gone in September, and Brashear's will be gone after this season, and maybe you can trade Rozsival and have only one remaining albatross contract (Drury), and still have enough left to sign Staal, well … why not do it?
Why not? Why wait for next year's UFA class?
Unless you don't like Kovalchuk as a player. Some don't.
One other thing: What is Erik Christensen thinking turning down a two-year deal for $750,000 per?


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"You don't go to the Middle Kingdom and tell them you know more than them about anything," he said in an interview following the release of the Gillard government's Asian Century white paper.
"They've been around a while and usually they know a lot of stuff. They might not be up to date in technology or some issues but if you have an attitude of sharing, we've found it to be very beneficial."
Mr Stokes enjoys closer ties with China than almost any other Australian businessman. For the past 17 years, Seven has operated in the world's second largest economy without serious incident. Its interests include advertising, a stake in the Agricultural Bank of China and a Caterpillar franchise covering the north east of the country. Mr Stokes said Seven's Chinese operations try to "act like a Chinese company", which includes holding all meetings in Mandarin.
Mr Stokes is supportive of the white paper, describing the 320-page document as a "good start". He agrees with the goal of a third of boards having directors with deep Asian experience and strongly believes every Australian school should have a sister school in Asia. But he warns that Australia has missed opportunities to forge closer trade ties with China over the past 30 years.
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"I would have liked to see us position ourselves, in trading terms, as the Switzerland of Asia," he says.
"There were times when China looked to us for a better opportunity and I think we didn't take advantage of that as much as we should of. I firmly believe that we are a trading nation, that we've always been a trading nation, and that our future lies on us performing as a trading nation. [It] doesn't diminish the English, European, American trade, but our future growth is centred in our own region."
In September, the 72 year old said he was repulsed by the presence of US troops on Australian soil not under Australian command. Mr Stokes remains highly critical of policies that could offend the Chinese, taking issue with decisions by Australian and US governments to block Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from winning contracts on national security grounds.
"I actually have the utmost respect for Huawei; I think that they're unfortunately targeted because commercially they're too efficient," he says. "The separation between US commercial policy and foreign policy is sometimes difficult, and I think that's a big influence on their position."
Mr Stokes argues that Huawei – which was excluded from working on the national broadband network – has joint ventures with big US companies such as IBM and Intel.
"Nobody seems to worry about that," he said.
Seven has previously used the Chinese company to help build wireless broadband network in Perth.
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The First Men in the Moon was one of the earliest films made.
The Food of the Gods has also been filmed, though not very respectably.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a Jules Verne novel.
Boy, just looked into the multitude of H. G. Wells' books; I had no idea that he wrote so many Fictional Short Stories!!!
These are the stories by H. G. Wells that have been made into films, as far as I know:
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