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Frederick L. Kirschenmann, a longtime national and international leader in sustainable agriculture, shares an appointment as Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University (created by the Iowa Legislature to develop sustainable agricultural practices that are both profitable and conserve natural resources) and as President of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York. He also continues to manage his family's 2,600-acre certified organic farm in south central North Dakota, and is a professor in the ISU Department of Religion and Philosophy.
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Paper tiger
A paper tiger is a person, country, institution, etc, that looks powerful, but is actually weak.
Parrot fashion
If you learn something parrot fashion, you learn it word for word. A parrot is a bird from South America that can talk.
Pecking order
The pecking order is the order of importance or rank.
Pet peeve
A pet peeve is something that irritates an individual greatly.
Pick of the litter
The best person or item in a group is the pick of the litter.
Pig in a poke
If someone buys a pig in a poke, they buy something without checking the condition it was in, usually finding out later that it was defective.
Pig in clover
Someone who is very happy and pleased is as happy as a pig in clover.
Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered
(USA) This idiom is used to express being satisfied with enough, that being greedy or too ambitious will be your ruin.
Pigs might fly
If you think something will never happen or succeed, you can say that 'pigs might fly' (or 'pigs can fly' and 'pigs will fly'- the idiom is used in many forms)
Play possum
To pretend to be dead or sleeping. His younger sister jumped on him because she knew he was just playing possum.
Proud as a peacock
Someone who is as proud as a peacock is excessively proud.
Pull a rabbit out of your hat
If you pull a rabbit out of a hat, you do something that no one was expecting.
Pup's chance
A pup's chance is no chance.
Puppy love
Puppy love is love between two very young people.
Put lipstick on a pig
If people put lipstick on a pig, they make superficial or cosmetic changes, hoping that it will make the product more attractive.
Putting the cart before the horse
When you put the cart before the horse, you are doing something the wrong way round.
Queen bee
The queen bee is a woman who holds the most important position in a place.
Queer fish
(UK) A strange person is a queer fish.
Quiet as a cat
If somebody is as quiet as a cat they make as little noise as possible and try to be unnoticeable.
Quiet as a mouse
If someone's as quiet as a mouse, they make absolutely no noise.
Raining cats and dogs
When it is raining cats and dogs, it is raining very heavily.
Rat race
The rat race is the ruthless, competitive struggle for success in work, etc.
Red herring
If something is a distraction from the real issues, it is a red herring.
Rode hard and put away wet
(USA) Someone who's been rode hard and put away wet has had a very hard life. When a horse is ridden hard and sweaty, it needs to be walked and cooled down before being stabled.
Root hog or die poor
(USA) It's a expression used in the Southern USA that means that you must look out for yourself as no one's going to do it for you. (It can be shortened to 'root hog'. A hog is a pig.)
Sacred cow
Something that is a sacred cow is held in such respect that it cannot be criticised or attacked.
Salty dog
A salty dog is an experienced sailor.
Scarce as hen's teeth
Hens do not have any teeth, so something that is as scarce as hen's teeth is extremely rare.("Rare as hen's teeth" is also used.)
See which way the cat jumps
(AU) If you see which way the cat jumps, you postpone making a decision or acting until you have seen how things are developing.
Separate the sheep from the goats
If you separate the sheep from the goats, you sort out the good from the bad.
Shaggy dog story
A shaggy dog story is a joke which is a long story with a silly end.
Shanks's pony
(UK) If you go somewhere by Shanks's pony, you walk there.
Sharks are circling
If the sharks are circling, then something is in danger and its enemies are getting ready for the kill.
Shooting fish in a barrel
If something is like shooting fish in a barrel, it is so easy that success is guaranteed.
Short horse soon curried
A convenient and superficial explanation that is normally unconvincing is a short horse soon curried.
Sick as a dog
If somebody's as sick as a dog, they throw up (=vomit) violently.
Sick as a parrot
If someone's sick as a parrot about something, they are unhappy, disappointed or depressed about it.
Sing like a canary
If someone sings like a canary, they tell everything they know about a crime or wrongdoing to the police or authorities.
Sitting duck
A sitting duck is something or someone that is easy to criticise or target.
Sleep well- don't let the bedbugs bite
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Slowly, slowly catchy monkey
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Sly as a fox
Someone who is as sly as a fox is cunning and experienced and can get what they want, often in an underhand way.
Small dog, tall weeds
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Small fry
If someone is small fry, they are unimportant. The term is often used when the police arrest the less important criminals, but are unable to catch the leaders and masterminds.
Smell a rat
If you smell a rat, you know instinctively that something is wrong or that someone is lying to you.
Snake in the grass
Someone who is a snake in the grass betrays you even though you have trusted them.
Snake oil
Advice or medicine which is of no use.
Snake oil salesperson
A person who promotes something that doesn't work, is selling snake oil.
Snipe hunt
A snipe hunt is a situation in which someone is tricked into chasing after something that does not exist. The origin comes from a hazing ritual in which someone would be led into the field to catch snipe (an imaginary animal) in a sack while the other hunters pushed the snipe in that direction. The other hunters would in reality leave the hunter there and go on their way.
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Oligopoly - Game Theory
Game theory is concerned with predicting the outcome of games of strategy in which the participants (for example two or more businesses competing in a market) have incomplete information about the others' intentions
- Game theory analysis has direct relevance to the study of the conduct and behaviour of firms in oligopolistic markets – for example the decisions that firms must take over pricing and levels of production, and also how much money to invest in research and development spending.
- Costly research projects represent a risk for any business – but if one firm invests in R&D, can a rival firm decide not to follow? They might lose the competitive edge in the market and suffer a long term decline in market share and profitability.
- The dominant strategy for both firms is probably to go ahead with R&D spending. If they do not and the other firm does, then their profits fall and they lose market share. However, there are only a limited number of patents available to be won and if all of the leading firms in a market spend heavily on R&D, this may ultimately yield a lower total rate of return than if only one firm opts to proceed.
The Prisoners' Dilemma
- The classic example of game theory is the Prisoners' Dilemma, a situation where two prisoners are being questioned over their guilt or innocence of a crime.
- They have a simple choice, either to confess to the crime (thereby implicating their accomplice) and accept the consequences, or to deny all involvement and hope that their partner does likewise.
Confess or keep quiet? The Prisoner's Dilemma is a classic example of basic game theory in action!
- The "pay-off" in this game is measured in terms of years in prison arising from their choices and this is summarised in the table below.
- No communication is permitted between the two suspects – in other words, each must make an independent decision, but clearly they will take into account the likely behaviour of the other when under-interrogation. This highlights the importance of uncertainty in an oligopoly.
Nash Equilibrium
Nash Equilibrium is an important idea in game theory – it describes any situation where all of the participants in a game are pursuing their best possible strategy given the strategies of all of the other participants.
In a Nash Equilibrium, the outcome of a game that occurs is when player A takes the best possible action given the action of player B, and player B takes the best possible action given the action of player A
Two prisoners are held in a separate room and cannot communicate
They are both suspected of a crime
They can either confess or they can deny the crime
Payoffs shown in the matrix are years in prison from their chosen course of action
Prisoner A
Prisoner B
(3 years, 3 years)
(1 year, 10 years)
(10 years, 1 year)
(2 years, 2 years)
- What is the best strategy for each prisoner?
- Equilibrium happens when each player takes decisions which maximise the outcome for them given the actions of the other player in the game.
- In our example of the Prisoners' Dilemma, the dominant strategy for each player is to confess since this is a course of action likely to minimise the average number of years they might expect to remain in prison.
- But if both prisoners choose to confess, their "pay-off" i.e. 3 years each in prison is higher than if they both choose to deny any involvement in the crime.
- In following narrowly defined self-interest, both prisoners make themselves worse off
- That said, even if both prisoners chose to deny the crime (and indeed could communicate to agree this course of action), then each prisoner has an incentive to cheat on any agreement and confess, thereby reducing their own spell in custody.
The equilibrium in the Prisoners' Dilemma occurs when each player takes the best possible action for themselves given the action of the other player.
The dominant strategy is each prisoners' unique best strategy regardless of the other players' action
Best strategy? Confess?
A bad outcome! – Both prisoners could do better by both denying – but once collusion sets in, each prisoner has an incentive to cheat!
Prisoner A
Prisoner B
(3 years, 3 years)
(1 year, 10 years)
(10 years, 1 year)
(2 years, 2 years)
Applying the Prisoner's Dilemma to Business Decisions
- Game theory examples revolve around the pay-offs that come from making different decisions.
- In the prisoner's dilemma the reward to defecting is greater than mutual cooperation which itself brings a higher reward than mutual defection which itself is better than the sucker's pay-off.
- Critically, the reward for two players cooperating with each other is higher than the average reward from defection and the sucker's pay-off.
Consider this example of a simple pricing game:
The values in the table refer to the profits that flow from making a particular output decision. In this simple game, the firm can choose to produce a high or a low output. The profit payoff matrix is shown below.
Firm B's output
High output
Low output
Firm A's output
High output
£5m, £5m
£12m, £4m
Low output
£4m, £12m
£10m, £10m
- Display of payoffs: row first, column second e.g. if Firm A chooses a high output and Firm B opts for a low output, Firm A wins £12m and Firm B wins £4m.
- In this game the reward to both firms choosing to limit supply and thereby keep the price relatively high is that they each earn £10m. But choosing to defect from this strategy and increase output can cause a rise in market supply, lower prices and lower profits - £5m each if both choose to do so.
- A dominant strategy is one that is best irrespective of the other player's choice. In this case the dominant strategy is competition between the firms.
- The Prisoners' Dilemma can help to explain the breakdown of price-fixing agreements between producers which can lead to the out-break of price wars among suppliers, the break-down of other joint ventures between producers and also the collapse of free-trade agreements between countries when one or more countries decides that protectionist strategies are in their own best interest.
- The key point is that game theory provides an insight into the interdependent decision-making that lies at the heart of the interaction between businesses in a competitive market.
Potential Benefits from Collusion – A Game Theory Example
An industry consists of two firms, X and Y. The Profit-Payoff Matrix in the table below shows how the profits of X and Y vary depending on the prices charged by the two firms
Price charged by Business B
Price Business A = £20
Price Business A = £8
Price charged by Business A
Price Business A = £20
£12m A, £12m B
£16m A, £-2m B
Price Business A = £8
£-2m A, £16m B
£0m A, £0m B
If both businesses chose to collude on price rather than act competitively, the two firms would be able to increase their joint profits by £10m. However, if they agree to collude at the higher price of £20, then there is then an incentive for one business to under-cut the other, charge a lower price of £8 and inflicts a small loss on the other business.
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Filmmaker Maggie Betts Documents Life with HIV in The Carrier
by V. Anderson
All too often, documentaries employ a dry visual style, tediously conveying information, leaving the viewer distanced and detached. Beautiful and engaging, The Carrier brings the viewer closer. Told through the unique voices of its subjects, this documentary adopts a narrative style, following Mutinta Mweemba, an HIV-positive Zambian woman, from the latter part of her pregnancy through the birth of her fourth child. In the introductory sequence of the film, Mutinta poignantly says, "As a child, I always dreamed of growing up into someone perfect, but I failed. It didn't turn out that way." The film not only addresses issues related to HIV/AIDS, specifically prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), but also, perhaps as a consequence of an achievement in filmmaking, it explores gender dynamics, family, and female empowerment. It is at once heartbreaking and hopeful, leaving the viewer wanting to know more about the family, the issue, and inspiring the viewer to take action.buy diazepam without prescription
Maggie Betts, a first-time director, discussed her inspiration for making the film, the shooting, and what's next for her in relation to the cause.ambien for sale
V. Anderson: Your film focuses on the mission statement: To see an HIV Free Generation. Is there any other reason you were particularly drawn to the cause?
Maggie Betts: It was a very slow thing. When I was a teenager, I had two uncles who passed away….My mother was really affected by it—they were two of her brothers. One was homosexual and in the closet, the other had been a drug user and they were very sick and I was quite ashamed. This is the 1990s, and as a teenager, I didn't want to go see them. I thought it was "yucky and dirty and gross" that they had AIDS. I felt very badly about how I was then. They died, and then later I thought these people who loved me died…Then when I got older I met [the former head of U.S. UNICEF], and we were talking about Africa and AIDS. He started talking about people dying alone, twenty-eight million people dying alone, without any larger world concern and attention. He started saying things like that, and then I started feeling bad about the way that I had been in my personal life.
He suggested that I go to South Africa. I was very, very moved. At this clinic there were lines and lines of very sick-looking people waiting for treatment. I just thought it was so unfair. I remember they said that the clinic closed at four. So the people sitting there had come from really far places and were desperate, desperate for treatment, and they were telling us it was going to close at four and the people were going to have to walk back home and come back the next day…and so it just kind of evolved from there.buy soma online no prescription
Why did you choose PMTCT as the arc of the film?
When I heard about PMTCT it was so hopeful and pure and so unmired in all the things that make people uncomfortable about HIV. It's positive…and it's essentially focused on a mother's love, which is an unimpeachable idea and thing to support. It brings you into the larger discussion of HIV/AIDS in Africa through something that's so non-threatening, and you couldn't come up with a reason why you wouldn't want to support a mom who doesn't want her baby to be born sick and die.
The film really succeeds in personalizing the virus. With so many African countries deeply affected by HIV/AIDS, how did you choose Zambia and the Mweemba family for the film?
I had travelled with UNICEF over the past four or five years, maybe once or twice a year, to visit their various countries in Africa and see their programs and work with children and PMTCT, and so I contacted them obviously first when I decided to make a film.
Zambia's quite progressive in regards to PMTCT, and UNICEF had started a couple satellite PMTCT programs there that were flourishing and the administrative power was very supportive. And, for the sake of beauty, and feeling, and atmosphere, I wanted a rural environment.buy alprazolam without prescription
When we went on our first scout trip, we were there for twelve days going around to different doctors, going back and forth to the clinic, going to hospitals, looking for a woman who was HIV-positive, somewhere between four to six months pregnant, and obviously willing to participate…there were five women [who qualified], but only three showed up, and quite ironically, or a bit symbolically, they were all named Mutinta, which in this area means "change in pattern." I thought this was beautiful, sort of like changing the pattern of HIV infection/passing on infection….provigil online no prescription
So [Mutinta] came with her husband [Abarcon]. I didn't want to make it about a polygamous marriage because I thought it would layer on this different discussion topic that I thought may be distracting from the main idea of an HIV-free generation or PMTCT, but you could just tell there was something going on with them.buy phentermine without prescription
Then we went to their house the next day and started filming her, and she was so vibrant on film, even when she wasn't talking. It was immediately recognizable that she could communicate a lot by doing very little on film.klonopin online no prescription
How long did it take to shoot?
We shot it from October 2009 to April 2010, but the filming was only four months. We went in four different trips, sometimes for a month, sometimes for three weeks.
Often in documentary filmmaking, it can be difficult to gain the trust of your subjects. Yet even with the language barrier, you were able to achieve a level of trust that resonates vividly onscreen. How were you able get the Mweemba family to open up to you, especially on such a sensitive issue?
It wasn't overnight. It's very difficult to describe what it's like to be in a culture where they don't have film and you have a film camera, because they don't have that self-consciousness and awareness. They know that they're participating in something like a fairy tale or a story, where once it's told people will know more
about them…but they don't know much beyond that. In [Mutinta's] environment she thought that her opinion didn't matter at all. But I think that human nature is that if you're carrying things that are weighing heavy on your heart and somebody asks you once, twice, and a third time, then you're like, "Thank you so much for asking me that."
Brenda, the first wife, is an incredibly strong presence in the film, even though she is seen and heard from very little. Her impact is greatest (and most heartbreaking), for both the Mweemba family and the viewer, after her hospitalization and death. What factors contributed to your decision to include her in this way?
I only met her once outside the hospital. The film was made over the course of four trips, and…by the time we came back she was in the hospital and it wasn't good. Apparently she had been in and out before, and then she died on Christmas right after the third trip so basically I never saw her well, except for that one shot….It was the only shot of her alive and healthy and not wasting in the hospital, but she was a huge presence in her absence because of what her situation meant to all the others. I think they'd kind of been, not in denial, but they all had HIV and they took their medicine and were active and physical and more or less full-bodied, and so her presence became so profound around the house even though she wasn't there, and her name carried so much weight.
You also captured the incredible loneliness that the subjects felt as a result of the virus. Why were you drawn to making loneliness a prominent theme in the film?
I thought it was so fascinating again about a culture that doesn't put a lot of emphasis on sharing your emotions. When Brenda was there, Mutinta and Brenda used to talk about how they were scared. I think that's one of the things about the impact of her death, is that there was nobody to talk to anymore.
The husband, Abarcon, becomes more rounded and likeable throughout the film as the viewer slowly comes to realize what's going on internally for him. A big part of this is understanding his relationship with his mother. How did you get him to open up about this?
When the first wife died, although he wouldn't admit it, my sense was he was so profoundly guilt-ridden that a lot of stuff was surfacing for him emotionally. I wouldn't describe him as a very emotional man, but clearly he was deeply affected by it.
It's a very Freudian idea that you're kind of eternally a child looking for a parent and that your romantic choices are informed in some way as a reaction to that. And in Zambia, where he would have no idea what implications his answer might [have], I asked him if he thought he might be looking for a mother and he's like, "Yeah, I think that's it." Really, just quite clear: "Yeah that's exactly what I think is going on with me."
The film is told from the perspective of a woman in a polygamous marriage whose husband continues to have sexual relationships outside the marriage. In spite of this, the wives exhibit a deep commitment as wives and mothers. Did you intend for gender to so strongly inform the issue in the context of your film?
It wasn't meant to be so deeply involved in topics of gender dynamics and [women's] issues….I do know in this place the women just seemed much more responsible, much more concerned, much more proactive, and the men were very casual about something that I thought seemed way serious to be so casual about, and I couldn't figure that out. I don't know why the husband doesn't feel like he's done a terrible, terrible criminal thing by infecting so many women with a terminal illness.
Where are you finding the most support for this film?
There's a big movement right now to see the first HIV-free generation and we've been working with RED, who have this wonderful campaign called [Attainable Goal of a Generation of Babies Born] HIV-Free by 2015, and the film is sort of a metaphor for that. The family is meant to represent a larger entity and the renewal and that you can start again and start fresh….And so any and all NGO groups that we've interacted with that are focused on an HIV-free generation, which is something I'm really excited about and really believe in, have responded well and wanted to connect with [the film].
It seems to resonate strongly with groups that are interested in sharing and discussing gender dynamics….It became really valid to me to see this one woman with all the obstacles that were in her way…just because she was a woman….So women, and women's rights groups, and activist groups seem to respond to that a lot.
Can you talk a little bit about the Dried Blood Spot test and PMTCT? It was fascinating to see Mutinta's baby's test travelling in an envelope on a woman's lap on a long bus ride to the lab.
Yeah, and that's the latest advancement, because previously that lab, which was quite nice and high tech and at the university in Lusaka used to test the baby eighteen months after it was born because that's when the baby had it's own antibodies. If you test a baby with a regular HIV test, it will always be testing the mother's antibodies if it's too young, and you'll always get a positive or false positive if the mother's already positive. So this is a special test, where they separate the mother's own antibodies from the baby's antibodies.
Screening in high-profile film festivals—DocuWeeks, Tribeca Film Festival and Zurich Film Festival—certainly reaches a wide audience and sparks awareness. But beyond the screening dates, what's your plan to hold viewers' attention to the issue? What are the next steps in furthering your mission?
In Zurich [we did] a special thing with Doctors Without Borders, a screening and panel discussion….Myself, I'm too small as an individual. Our goal is, we're at the early stages of this, but our goal is to partner with organizations that are really doing the most amazing pioneering work in regards to PMTCT and helping to create an HIV-free generation. I hope to have the message extend beyond the moment of being a really good movie or interesting issue.
With Maggie Betts's passion and dedication, surely the impact of The Carrier will endure. When I asked her about her next project, Maggie indicated that she was open to documentary or fiction, as well as a variety of subjects. If her first film is any indication of her abilities in both genres, then viewers have a promising next film to discover.
For more information, log on to www.thecarrierfilm.com.
V. Anderson holds an MFA in Film from New York University. She has worked in India, the Caribbean, and the U.S., and is currently based in New York City.
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Scott Sommerfeld had two hits in the loss.
March 9, 2011
COLUMBIA, Mo. - The Mizzou baseball team fell to Gonzaga, 4-1, on Wednesday night (March 9) at Taylor Stadium. The Tigers fall to 4-8 on the season, splitting the series with Gonzaga after a 5-2 victory Tuesday evening. A three-run first inning by Gonzaga was too much for the Tigers to overcome as they plated just one run and pounded out just five hits in the loss.
Senior Brad Buehler was charged with the loss after allowing the three runs in the first, all of which were unearned after an error by first baseman Scott Sommerfeld. Buehler settled in after that and rebounded to throw 3.1 innings without an earned run while striking out four. He threw 86 pitches. Reliever Jeff Emens kept the Tigers in the game after relieving Buehler as he threw 3.2 innings and allowed just one earned run. Emens pitched his way out of a tight spot in the fourth, escaping the inning without allowing a score by the Zags. He got off to a hot start in the fifth, striking out Keegan Acker on just three pitches, and finishing the inning with two strikeouts. Gonzaga went three-up, three-down again in the sixth with Emens on the hill and he did not allow his first run of the game until the seventh inning. He threw 59 pitches.
At the plate, Mizzou was led by Scott Sommerfeld and Eric Garcia, who both turned in two-hit nights. Sommerfeld scored the Tigers' only run on the night on an RBI single from Blake Brown, after Sommerfeld had reached on an error from Gonzaga right fielder Tyler Chism. But those three players were the only ones to record hits for Mizzou in the loss.
Gonzaga pulled out to the early lead in the first inning, scoring three runs on two hits. It was a lead the Tigers would not be able to overcome as all three runs were unearned. Sommerfeld got the bats going for the Tigers in the third inning, hitting a line-drive single on the first pitch he saw. Jesse Santo then raced to first on a fielder's choice, as Gonzaga tagged Sommerfeld out. But a double play by Gonzaga kept the Tigers scoreless heading into the fourth.
Sommerfeld led off with a single in the bottom of the fifth and advanced to second on an out by Santo. Gonzaga starter Marco Gonzalez kept the Tigers scoreless, however, as an out by Brown brought up the start of the sixth inning.
A base hit by Garcia to left field was the third of the afternoon for the Tigers, and with two outs, he advanced to second on a wild pitch by Gonzaga's Gonzalez. A high fly ball by Andreas Plackis was caught, however, and Missouri entered the seventh inning scoreless.
After Mizzou allowed another Gonzaga run in the top of the seventh, Sommerfeld led off the Tigers' half of the inning with a hard-hit ball to right field, which was dropped by Chism. He broke through and scored Missouri's first run of the afternoon on a single by Brown.
Garcia made it on base for the second time of the afternoon on a base hit in the eighth. A walk by Dane Opel brought Sommerfeld back to the plate, but a fly out kept the Tigers three runs back heading into the final inning.
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Isn't that Ankiel for just this season? How listing both players last 2-3 years? Nix...I'm no big fan of Ankiel, but he is a far better player than Nix.
Isn't that Ankiel for just this season? How listing both players last 2-3 years? Nix...I'm no big fan of Ankiel, but he is a far better player than Nix.
If we cannot upgrade our bat at SS (which understandably is hard to do save the oft-discused BP shift), I would like to add a boa-fide bug bat in LF. However, I generally do like what we have among Dickerson (LF/CF), Gomes (LF), Stubbs (CF), Bruce (RF), Nix (sub for any of the 3 spots) and either Balantien or Heisey as options also. I know Tavares is not listed and it is indeed no certainty tha he won't be in the mix, but with even just the above mentioned guys, I see no need for him, let alone if we actually acquire a bigger bat... Dead horse territory I know, but I cannot stress how disappointed I was with Taveras defensively this year. I knew he may well suck at the plate, but man he got horrid reads and jumps.
"I'm virtually free to do whatever I want, but I try to remember so is everybody else..." - Todd Snider
Ankiel only had 172 AB's in 2007 so I wouldn't give a lot of weight to that. He's had one good season, 2008, and dropped off quite a bit this year. His lifetime .770 OPS doesn't suggest the kind of starter we need. He's probably a better player than Nix despite this year, although it should be said about Nix that he really hasn't played in the majors since 2004 and thus it's harder to say just what to expect from him. I see Nix strictly as a backup guy, probably a 4th outfielder, though I doubt we'll be able to keep both him and Gomes (maybe neither) as I think they'll find places willing to play them more than we will--especially if the approach becomes to treat Stubbs as an everyday guy and not a platoon player [in that case, CD becomes clearly #4 or part of a LF platoon, Nix drops to at least 5, maybe 6, depending on Balentien, and goes in search of another job]
I know I can be called on this one for years, but IMO Stubbs will eventually be an everyday starter. He likely could use some time sharing the position with Dickerson early next year, but I am mightily impressed with his combination of power, defensive instinct, and speed. And in the minors he had on base skills, which probably will come along with major league time.
Bring him along appropriately, but as far as centerfield goes, I think this guy will be the team's full time starter within a year.
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I say stay with what we got.
Spend the money on pitching.
etc. etc.
Hide your power alleys; Hide your wife
You have to score runs to win games. Period. We could have guys out there with 3.00 ERA's across the board, but the 2009 team would still lose 80 games. LF should be upgraded at the least with a player who can hit the ball with power.
"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
I agree on Gomes. The biggest negative that I heard about him when we signed him was his defense. Albeit in limited times watching him, I haven't seen the stone hands and zero range I was reading about. I've seen several cannon shot throws to nail runners and several nice diving catches. He may be lacking range, but I'd say he's at least average out there on defense. And his bat, when he's on...he's lethal. Bring 'em back.
Also, his fire will be helpful with a youthful club.
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Gomes is starting to make a case for himself next year.
Fay noted in his blog that Gomes is hitting something like .255 against righties, which was the knock against him coming into the year. Small sample size? A sign that Gomes is turning a corner? Something else?
for the record I'm also(as someone said)for a Dickerson/Stubbs platoon...it seems that even a young/inexperienced Stubbs still brings as much to the table as Tavares. Gimme that platoon with Gomes and Bruce and I'll be happy.
I would invest our resources in J.J. Hardy. I think the OF will be fine.
I know I'm beating a dead horse, but seriously... Willy Taveras can't even serve a bench role for this team in 2010. "Stubbs can do anything he can do better!"
So, to summarize:
-trade whatever it takes to get J.J. Hardy
-sign another catcher to support Hannigan (Brian Schneider?)
-sign Octavio Dotel to shore up the bullpen
C - Hannigan
1B - Votto
2B - Phillips
SS - Hardy
3B - Rolen
LF - Nix/Balentien/Gomes
CF - Dickerson/Stubbs
RF - Bruce
BN - Schneider
BN - Janish
BN - Nix/Gomes/Balentien
BN - Nix/Gomes/Balentien
BN - Dickerson/Stubbs
SP - Harang
SP - Cueto
SP - Arroyo
SP - Bailey
SP - Maloney
CL - Cordero
SU - Dotel
SU - Masset
LS - Rhodes
MR - Herrera
MR - Fisher
LR - Owings
All of a sudden I don't feel so pessimistic about next year.
I think good health (500 PAs from Rolen and a full season of Votto) and smart managing (proper use of platoons, knowing when to bench the inferior player, productive batting order, etc.) could give us an above average offense.
That leaves us with the other side of the coin--run prevention. On paper the defense is excellent. Adding a veteran live arm to the bullpen further reinforces a strength of 2009. All that remains is the starting pitching (the toughest part of the equation). Given that Harang and Arroyo will combine for 400 innings of league average-ness, all we need is one of Cueto/Bailey to break through in a big way. That happens and something is cooking IMO...
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In this photo essay, Joy Ladin reflects on how gender is a covenant she has broken "with others and a covenant with myself."
The documentary Rites of Passage by Jeff Roy follows a 42-year-old practicing Muslim and Indian transgender to Bangkok for gender reassignment surgery and puts her Islamic faith and ethnic identity at the center of the journey.
by Emily Frost, guest contributor
When Jeff Roy first met Maya Jafer in Los Angeles, he had prepared a long list of questions. But he barely got in one; Jafer had finally found someone with whom she could share her story.
Ms. Jafer, a 42-year-old transgender woman and a practicing Muslim from India, spent the next hours detailing a cultural and religious background that never accepted her and describes a personal journey full of upheaval. Mr. Roy, who had never made a film, decided Jafer's story needed to be told.
The topic of gender and sexuality is on our long list of shows we want to produce in the coming year — in particular, a show on transgender people. The videos above and below are excerpts from Be Like Others, a documentary about a number of young men who are transsexuals living in Iran and pursuing surgical changes.
In these two clips, Iranian-American director Tanaz Eshaghian shows the complex, multi-layered conversations and struggles for transgender people living in an Islamic state — from conversations about proper attire and wearing of the hijab to familial struggles about cultural norms.