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No. 1, January 2007
President George W. Bush was widely expected to propose ambitious new initiatives to control greenhouse gas emissions in the State of the Union address on January 23. The week before the speech, his top environmental advisor told a Washington Post columnist that a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system would be "the most elegant" solution to climate change, raising expectations that a proposal along those lines might be forthcoming.[1] In the end, however, the president proposed a remarkably modest (and poorly conceived) initiative to cut gasoline consumption by 20 percent in the next ten years. This was an important lost opportunity for leadership at a crucial juncture.
New federal legislation on climate change is certain to be enacted in the next few years. If President Bush leaves office without convincing Americans that there is a genuinely credible alternative to the Kyoto Protocol–the 1997 international treaty to reduce the developed world's greenhouse gas emissions–his successor is all but certain to put American climate policy back on the Kyoto path in one form or another. The result will be potentially disastrous for both our economy and, in its own way, the environment. Sacrificing the former for the latter is at least a debatable proposition; committing vast resources in pursuit of politically popular but environmentally meaningless goals would be pure folly.
President Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol in 2001 was well-publicized, but most Americans are only vaguely familiar with the reasons for that decision or the administration's alternative policies. Meanwhile, the Protocol remains a favorite of environmental advocates and their political allies, as well as a growing number of rent-seeking businesses that stand to profit under such a system, and America remains an international pariah for its refusal to participate in it. President Bush has been able to prevent ratification of the Protocol, but he has not made the effort needed to convince people that there is a better way to approach the issue.
Kyoto's advocates claim that the only possible solution to climate change is an international agreement that requires rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. This intuitively appealing perspective has dominated the public debate in both the United States and Europe. But a successful climate policy requires a much broader and longer-range perspective. The scale of emissions reductions necessary to retard warming significantly is vast, and our ability to achieve such reductions is severely limited by existing technologies and economic realities.
A clearheaded analysis of this problem calls for a greater commitment to pursuing a long-term strategy of success rather than a politically popular quick fix. In truth, if the dire predictions of some scientists are accurate, then the prospects for success may be poor. But if we are to make the most of our chances, we must chart our path carefully now. Ironically, the environmental advocates who are most concerned about this issue are almost uniformly pushing policy in the wrong direction, while the much-scorned Bush administration has, at least, the seeds of the right approach. The question now is whether it can make them grow during his remaining time in office.
The Kyoto Problem
Given Kyoto's serious and insurmountable flaws, the unshakable international commitment to the Kyoto approach is one of the greatest obstacles to crafting a successful strategy to combat global warming. Paradoxically, it is President Bush, nearly alone among world leaders, who seems to understand this most clearly–although he has been nearly universally condemned for this insight. Unfortunately, the Bush administration has never capitalized upon this opportunity by making a sufficient effort to change domestic or international opinions on this subject. If the president really wants to overcome the Kyoto problem, he must accomplish two things in his remaining time in office: convince Americans of the futility of the Kyoto approach, and persuade them that an alternative is viable.
The first of those tasks should be easier, of course. Kyoto's numerous flaws are beyond repair. Three critical flaws are well-understood and largely undeniable: it would have been unreasonably expensive for the United States (and several other countries) to meet its targets; it did not (and will not, in any future agreement) require China, India, or other developing nations to reduce their emissions; and even if it was implemented faithfully, its emissions-reduction targets are too low to matter. Kyoto's reach is too short, its grasp too weak, and its costs too high.
Even if the United States had ratified Kyoto in its original, more stringent form, it would have had almost no impact on overall global emissions or temperature trends. Kyoto's basic structure was so unfavorable to the United States that we would have paid a disproportionately large share of the costs. It is unreasonable to expect America to bear such costs when emissions in developing countries remain uncapped–and can be expected to rise even more rapidly if America's energy-intensive industries are driven overseas.
Without emissions limits for China and India, no Kyoto-style international agreement can be effective–yet adopting such limits is not in those countries' national interests, so it is foolish to expect them to do so.[2] (Indeed, Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism perversely reinforces their incentives to avoid accepting emissions limits in the next commitment period.) Having agreed in Kyoto that the developing world has no obligation to reduce its emissions, it will be nearly impossible for the developed world to reopen that question in the future.
Any country with a buoyant economy and large reserves of coal will pay a disproportionately high price for agreeing to Kyoto-style emissions limits. Serious caps would be very costly for the United States, Australia, Canada, China, India, and Russia. There is growing pressure on these countries to reduce their emissions, but little chance they will agree to do so.2 China, India, and Russia are especially unlikely to make economic sacrifices in the name of climate policy. The growth in their emissions will overwhelm any reductions that may occur elsewhere, and those countries will inevitably become havens for energy-intensive industries fleeing carbon-constrained countries.
Meanwhile, among the countries that have accepted emissions caps under Kyoto, progress toward meaningful emissions reductions has been hesitant at best. Many European countries (and possibly Japan) will not meet their Kyoto targets; some will miss them by wide margins. Others may only meet them by buying large numbers of "hot air" credits from Russia–an act of pointless symbolism, since Russian credits are the result of natural changes in the post-Soviet economy rather than efforts to cut emissions. The net environmental benefit of Kyoto, therefore, will be nearly zero.
Perhaps the most fundamental of Kyoto's problems is its surrender to the politically irresistible desire for a quick fix (or, at the very least, tangible signs of short-term progress). Climate change is a challenge that must be met over the course of the next century, not the next few years; the scale of technological transformation that would be required to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases can only be accomplished over the course of decades. The critical issue for policymakers, therefore, is not how quickly emissions can be cut, but how much they can be reduced in the long run. (Or, failing that, what else can be done to adapt to warming or prevent it through other means, such as geoengineering.)
Short-term progress in this undertaking is not worthless, naturally, but in the larger context, the modest improvements that Kyoto-style emissions caps might produce will not matter much unless they also inspire much greater progress in the long run–and there is good reason to believe they will not. Contrary to popular misconceptions, the two goals–short-term progress and long-term success–are not synonymous. Refocusing American–and, conceivably, international–attention on the more fundamental questions involved in the long-term challenge of climate change could still be one of President Bush's most important accomplishments if he makes it a priority in his final two years in office.
Emissions Reductions: Quick and Dirty or Slow and Clean?
Are rapid emissions reductions the best way to stop global warming? Most environmental advocates may consider that a silly question–but not all. More than a few serious scholars have looked at the strategic questions involved in meeting the real, long-term challenge of climate change and concluded that a very different focus is needed. (Although they may also advocate short-term emissions reductions, they must admit that a long-term focus is truly essential.) It is this line of thought that should guide American climate policy today.
What changes in energy production and consumption would come from short-term emissions caps of the sort that the Kyoto Protocol or the McCain-Lieberman bill would require? In general, they would be fairly modest. Carbon-intensive fuels such as coal and gasoline would cost more, so we would see a shift toward greater use of slightly cleaner fuels such as natural gas, and somewhat greater use of hybrid or other fuel-efficient vehicles. Renewable (and nuclear) energy sources might get a small boost, and some consumers and businesses might focus modestly greater efforts on energy conservation. (In fact, these trends are already apparent, and federal policies are promoting them. For instance, the president's latest budget proposal shifts solar-energy funding from research and development [R&D] to tax credits for consumers, thus subsidizing the use of existing solar panels rather than the long-term development of new, more cost-effective technologies.)
Environmental advocates will find these changes pleasing. But will they really help us meet the long-term challenge of climate change? We fear not. These efforts may be worthwhile, but the real question is whether they will help develop the breakthrough clean-energy technologies that will be needed to make dramatic emissions reductions possible (and cost-effective) in the coming decades–and the answer to that is no. Emissions caps are likely to prompt businesses to switch from using one existing technology to another, rather than to develop radically new technologies–and the entire challenge of climate change, at this stage, is in technology development, not deployment.
As University of Maryland economist Jae Edmonds has argued, emissions caps are very effective at getting clean-energy technologies off the shelf, but they are not good at putting new technologies on the shelf in the first place. Unfortunately, the latter is the vital challenge for climate change. Making long-term breakthroughs in how we generate energy is what is needed, not shifts among (or incremental improvements to) different existing technologies.
The development of new clean energy technologies is also the only possible answer to the Kyoto problems. Only new technologies that dramatically lower the cost of emissions abatement will make real reductions possible for most major emitters. When these technologies become available, the challenges of developing and implementing an effective international agreement to reduce global emissions will be vastly reduced. Until these technologies are developed, efforts to compel rapid emissions reductions are essentially futile.
Environmental advocates will object that a strategy focused on long-term technological development will not sufficiently reduce near-term emissions. That is true–but no politically feasible plan does. Even the most aggressive version of the McCain-Lieberman bill would have reduced global greenhouse gas emissions by a mere 2.5 percent by 2025, not even enough to noticeably lower the global emissions growth rate. And that bill was abandoned, deemed too expensive to be politically viable.
President Bush has been roundly condemned for emphasizing the importance of technological development. These critics are wrong–and wrong to overlook the flaws in his current efforts. What is needed now is a more robust effort to develop climate technologies, not a greater focus on short-term emissions trends. There are real questions about how to best do that, but the options are clear enough.
Conservatives may be inclined to believe that such research is best carried out by the private sector. And indeed, that is generally preferable–but perhaps not in this case. The kind of fundamental breakthroughs in basic science that are needed for climate technologies are not likely to come from the private sector. Most companies invest their resources in developing technologies that can be brought to market quite quickly–within, say, five years. These are typically incremental improvements over existing technologies, not radically new ways of generating clean energy. Much longer-term projects are significantly riskier, making them poor candidates for substantial private-sector investments.
The private sector's reluctance to pursue an ambitious R&D agenda is likely to be especially strong when it comes to the kind of research needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a large scale. Since no large emissions-free energy sources lie just over the horizon,[3] successful innovation in this area will require unusually high risks and long delays. Because developing these technologies will entail breakthroughs in basic science, much of the most essential work will be ineligible for patent protection, making this an especially unattractive option for private-sector R&D.[4] Emissions caps cannot eliminate these obstacles, and as a result, they will only generate modest increases in private-sector climate R&D.[5] Instead, emissions caps are likely to spur substitution among existing energy sources or incremental improvements to current technologies, rather than create fundamental R&D breakthroughs.[6]
Reforming the Federal Climate R&D Program
If the private sector is ill-equipped to conduct this basic science research, the obvious alternative is federal research. The president has embraced that strategy, but he has not done so aggressively enough to make it credible. Ironically, the president's critics concentrate so heavily on attacking him for his refusal to embrace short-term emission cuts they have usually missed or misdiagnosed the serious shortcomings in the administration's Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP). The president devoted some attention to crafting this policy in the beginning of his first term but has largely ignored it since then, leaving it to drift in a sea of bureaucratic malaise.
Although the president has supported development of some specific technologies, such as hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, the federal climate-related R&D effort is seriously flawed. Three problems plague the CCTP: its research agenda is insufficiently ambitious and too risk averse, given the need for such large scale improvements in technology; its strategic planning process is starved for resources; and its influence on program priorities is questionable. (Its funding is probably also too limited in light of the size of the challenge.)
The scope of the CCTP's research deliberately excludes several of the most promising technologies. Ironically, it concentrates excessively on making incremental progress rather than on making the fundamental breakthroughs needed to cope with climate change–thus reproducing the flaws of Kyoto's short-term vision in the very area in which they should be corrected. And the strategic planning process is underfunded and ineffectual.
Incomprehensibly, the CCTP's research agenda excludes technologies that could aid adaptation to climate change, as well as geoengineering technologies that might counteract the effects of continuing greenhouse gas emissions. The latter omission is particularly troubling because if sudden large-scale and highly damaging consequences of climate change were to appear, solar radiation management (or some other form of geoengineering) would be the only option. It seems prudent to do R&D to learn more about potential costs, benefits, and side effects of the technologies that might be deployed under these conditions. It is hard to understand the administration's refusal to explore this option, as well its refusal to develop adaptation technologies and strategies. This may be due to fear that working on these approaches would be seen as admitting that the administration has failed to stop global warming. Whatever the reason, these decisions should be reconsidered.
The administration's R&D program almost certainly requires reorganization. Many scientists and engineers have voiced these criticisms, and thoughtful members of Congress such as Representative Tom Davis (R-Va.) have offered bipartisan proposals to reorganize these programs to address this problem. So far, however, the Bush administration, siding with turf-conscious bureaucrats at the Department of Energy, has rejected all such reforms.
One option would be to create a new R&D organization modeled on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (better known as DARPA). This would not be a panacea, but if properly implemented, it might significantly ameliorate some of the known institutional problems with the existing federal program, especially its unambitious style. An independent agency could study solar-radiation management strategies and other geoengineering technologies, as well as strategies to help people here and abroad adapt to, and minimize the damage from, changes in the climate that are already underway.
With additional resources, there could also be opportunities for innovative engagement with the private sector. Environmental advocates think of President John F. Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon as a model for the sort of federal climate program they would like to see–a well-funded government-led enterprise–but history offers another model worth considering: in 1714, the British government offered a £20,000 prize (a vast fortune at the time) as an inducement for inventors to create a device that would allow ships to accurately determine their longitude, and consequently, to reliably navigate across vast ocean distances. It took John Harrison, a carpenter and amateur clockmaker, almost fifty years to win the prize, having invented the first marine chronometer. This is precisely the sort of long-term research effort that federal climate scientists need to undertake now. While much of that research will be done in federal energy labs, there is no reason why comparable prizes could not be offered to private companies as an inducement for the development of specific clean-energy or climate-related technologies.
A Carbon Tax
The Bush administration faces two challenges: designing an effective long-term climate policy and stopping the growing momentum toward inefficient, Kyoto-inspired policies. These are complementary efforts; a long-term alternative to Kyoto may help lessen its appeal. But the desire for short-term action is irresistible; politics demand action. An R&D-focused "do nothing until the technology ripens" policy is simply not credible, either domestically or internationally. If for no other reason than to halt momentum toward economically inefficient Kyoto-style emissions-trading policies, the Bush administration needs to reconsider its long-standing opposition to mandatory greenhouse gas-emissions controls. Federal emissions limits are now inevitable; the only question is which president will craft them.
Given the importance of precedent in American politics, the answer to that question is critical: once the federal government embarks on a given approach to curtailing greenhouse gases, future policies are likely to follow that path. For the last decade, most Americans have assumed that emissions trading is the best approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Cap-and-trade programs have been effective at controlling conventional air pollution in the United States, but greenhouse gases are very different. Establishing economically efficient emissions caps is an exercise in arbitrary and inevitably politicized policymaking. Creating a well-run multibillion-dollar market in carbon emissions is a vastly greater logistical challenge than trading sulfur dioxide credits among a relatively small number of utilities. The evidence we see so far from Europe's experience with Kyoto is hardly encouraging.
Most economists agree that a carbon tax would be the most efficient way to limit greenhouse gas emissions. A carbon tax would apply moderate, even pressure across the economy to reduce emissions rather than selectively raising the cost of politically unpopular forms of energy production and consumption, such as automobiles and power plants.[7] A carbon tax may seem anathema to the Bush administration, but as several economists (including AEI's Kevin A. Hassett) have noted, carbon-tax revenues could be used to finance reductions in the marginal rates of other taxes.[8] The net result would be a revenue-neutral tax reform, not increased taxation.
Properly structured, such a tax reform could stimulate the economy, rather than depress it as emissions trading would. Another unappreciated problem with emissions-trading programs is the risk that most of the potential revenue will be captured by rent-seeking corporations, rather than be available for socially productive purposes like tax cuts. Unfortunately, the loss of Republican control of the Congress may have doomed this option, but it is still worth considering. It is our best hope for accomplishing both the administration's tax-reform goals and climate-policy objectives.
If a tax is politically impracticable, the president should at least insist that any cap-and-trade program incorporate a "safety valve"–which would, in effect, make it function much like a tax, limiting wasteful spending on excessively expensive emissions reductions. (A safety valve provides for the sale of unlimited emissions credits at a certain price, establishing a ceiling on their cost.) Bills of this type have been introduced in both houses of Congress, a demonstration of the level of support for this approach.
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In his remaining time in office, President Bush must think strategically about how to make his well-intentioned but anemic climate program robust enough to garner bipartisan support, and prevent his successor from reengaging, in some form or another, with the Kyoto system. A more robust R&D program must be the centerpiece of America's long-term climate policy, but establishing the principle that taxation rather than emissions trading is the best way to limit emissions in the short run may be the most important element of crafting an efficient near-term policy. Such a tax will be hard for President Bush to swallow, but it may be the price he needs to pay to make his alternative to Kyoto credible and buy time for the next generation of clean-energy technologies to develop. If that cannot be done, there may be no way to control global warming–but we will waste a great deal of money trying.
Lee Lane ([email protected]) is a Washington, D.C.-based consultant specializing climate policy and related issues and the author of Strategic Options for Bush Administration Climate Policy (AEI Press, December 2006). In 2000-06, he served as executive director of the Climate Policy Center. Samuel Thernstrom ([email protected]) is managing editor of the AEI Press and director of AEI's W. H. Brady Program in Culture and Freedom. An earlier version of this essay appeared on AEI's website before the president's January 23 State of the Union address.
1. Sebastian Mallaby, "The Other Team's Playbook: A Bush U-Turn on Climate Change?" Washington Post, January 15, 2007.
2. Russia ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which established its emissions limits far above their actual level of emissions. The relevant question, therefore, is whether Russia would ever accept a real limit on their actual emissions–and the answer is almost certainly no.
3. Martin I. Hoffert et al., "Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet," Science 298 (2002): 981.
4. Jae Edmonds and Gerry Stokes, "Launching a Technology Revolution," in Climate Policy for the 21st Century: Meeting the Long-Term Challenge of Global Warming, ed. David Michel (Washington, DC: Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2003), 163.
5. David Popp, "R&D Subsidies and Climate Policy: Is There a 'Free Lunch?'" (working paper 10880, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, October 2004), 15.
6. William D. Nordhaus, "Modeling Induced Innovation in Climate Change Policy" (working paper, National Research Council, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2001), 284.
7. A moderate carbon tax might be something in the range of $15 per ton of carbon, for example, which translates into a five-cents-per-gallon increase in the price of gasoline. A tax in the $10 to $30 per ton range would generate between $15 billion and $45 billion annually in federal revenues.
8. Kevin A. Hassett and Gilbert E. Metcalf, "What Would a Rational Energy Tax Policy Look Like?" Tax Analysts, November 27, 2006, available at www.aei.org/publication25199/.
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G does nothing to clean up the shipyard which city officials are seeking to take over before the federal government finishes its cleanup work and notes that the initiative is full of vague and noncommittal words like "encourages" that make it unclear what benefits city residents will actually receive.
"Prop. G's supporters are pushing the misleading notion that if we don't give away all this land including a state park to Lennar, then we won't get any money for the cleanup," Rizzo said. "But you don't build first and then get federal dollars for clean up! That's a really backwards statement."
The "Yes on G" campaign claims its initiative will create "thousands of construction jobs," "offer a new economic engine for the Bayview," and "provide new momentum to win additional federal help to clean up the toxins on the shipyard."
Michael Theriault, head of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades, said his union endorsed the measure and has an agreement with Lennar to have "hire goals," with priority given to union contracts in three local zip codes: 94107, 94124, and 94134.
"There will be a great many construction jobs," Theriault said, though he was less sure about Prop. G's promise of "8,000 permanent jobs following the completion of the project."
"We endorsed primarily from the jobs aspect," Theriault said. The question of whether the project helps the cleanup effort or turns it into a rush job is also an open question. Even the San Francisco Chronicle, in a January editorial, criticized Newsom, Feinstein, and Pelosi for neglecting the cleanup until "when it seemed likely that the city was about to lose the 49ers."
All three denounced the Chronicle's claims, but the truth is that the lion's share of the $82 million federal allocation would be dedicated to cleaning the 27-acre footprint proposed for the stadium. Meanwhile, the US Navy says it needs at least $500 million to clean the entire shipyard.
Sup. Ross Mirkarimi said the city should wait for a full cleanup and criticized the Prop. G plan to simply cap contaminated areas on the shipyard, rather than excavate and remove the toxins from the site.
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MLB Game Picks - Sunday: May 24, 2015
As good as Friday was for picking baseball games, Saturday was just as bad on the flip side. Everything that went right on Friday went wrong on Saturday. There were three extra-inning games. They all went against me. Matt Harvey was rocked. CC Sabathia was rocked (thanks also to bad defense). The Rays and Cardinals lost pitching duels. It was a bad, bad day. Oh, and for the thousandth...
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HOUSTON (AP) The Houston Astros have signed right-hander Roberto Hernandez to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. The Astros made the announcement Thursday. The 34-year-old Hernandez went a combined 8-11 with a 4.10 ERA for Philadelphia and the Los Angeles Dodgers last season. Hernandez has spent nine seasons in the majors and formerly pitched under the name...
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Astros sign Roberto Hernandez to minor league deal
The Astros have signed free agent pitcher Roberto Hernandez to a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training. Hernandez, 34, could not find a major league deal this winter after posting a 4.10 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, and 105/73 K/BB ratio in 164 2/3 innings last season between the Phillies and Dodgers. The Astros could use Hernandez – who formerly was known as Fausto...
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Prospect Nation 2015: #20 Second baseman Jesmuel Valentin
Jesmuel Valentin, image- MiLB.com A product of last season's post-trade deadline deadline that sent Roberto Hernandez to the Dodgers, infielder Jesmuel Valentin has loads of potential and could be an eventual successor to six-time All-Star Chase Utley at second base for the Phillies. Selected with the 51st overall draft pick in 2012, Valentin was quickly a well-hyped prospect...
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Prospect Nation 2015: #23 RHP Victor Arano
Acquired in the August trade that sent Roberto Hernandez to the Dodgers, right-hander Victor Arano is a talented pitcher that has made some considerable impressions in his young career. As a 19-year-old, the Mexico native looked sharp at Class A full season Great Lakes last year and now appears to be primed to be a buzz name in the Phillies' developmental ranks next season. Signed...
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2014 Dodgers In Review: SP Roberto Fausto Carmona Hernandez
G IP K% BB% ERA FIP xFIP WAR MLB (w/ LA) 9 31.2 15.4% 9.2% 4.74 5.51(!) 4.43 -0.5 What happened in 2014: The man with many names was acquired from the Phillies in August and was, predictably, bad. It's hard to believe the Dodgers, with all their resources, had to acquire guys like Kevin Correia and Roberto Hernandez Faustowhatever to fill out their rotation. That should have been...
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2014 Dodgers In Review: SP/RP Kevin Correia
G IP K% BB% ERA FIP xFIP WAR MLB (LAD) 9 24.2 15.7% 7.0% 8.03 6.33 3.85 -0.7 What Happened In 2014: That could have gone better. When the Dodgers traded for Roberto Hernandez, Andrew Grant posted this tweet: Gonna go with "at least it's not Kevin Correia" on this one — Biden Eating Cream (@realandrewgrant) August 7, 2014 At the same time, the front office was also hinting that...
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Let's Get To Know Joe Wieland
Just as we've done previously with Chris Hatcher, Yasmani Grandal, and Enrique Hernandez, we'll continue walking through the new Dodgers with righty pitcher Joe Wieland, 25 in January, and a 4th-round pick of the Rangers out of a Reno high school in 2008. Wieland pitched in the Texas system through 2011, when he was sent to San Diego along with Robbie Erlin for veteran reliever...
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Off-season league updates: Hernandez heats up
Once again, we're back with another weekly rundown of how Phillies players are performing in fall and winter leagues around the globe. Read ahead for all the latest stats and updates. Venezuelan Winter League- Cesar Hernandez, image- Jay Floyd After going 17-for-37 (.459 avg) in his last nine games, infielder Cesar Hernandez is batting .356 with five doubles, 13 RBI and three...
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Phillies off-season league updates: Altherr, Araujo, Franco, Hernandez, more
Baseball never stops and neither does Phillies Nation. It's another weekly edition of the Phillies off-season league rundown featuring updates on players from around the globe. Read ahead for all the info with activity through Saturday. Venezuelan Winter League- Aaron Altherr, image- Jay Floyd Aaron Altherr is done with his time in Venezuela. The righty batting outfielder...
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Off-season league updates: Biddle falters; Martin, Hernandez, Cozens debut
This week's rundown includes details on some Phillies players making their off-season league debuts including Ethan Martin, Cesar Hernandez as well as outfield prospect Dylan Cozens along with updates on key names such as Jesse Biddle, Maikel Franco and Aaron Altherr. Read ahead for all your fall/winter league updates from around the globe. Puerto Rico/Roberto Clemente League...
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2014 Player Reviews: Roberto Hernandez
Photo: AP There are moments in life where you don't forget where you were when you heard breaking news. Last year, I went down to the Winter Meetings in Orlando, FL, a half business, half vacation trip with my wife. We visited my brother and his wife, hung out at the meetings for a bit, did some reporting, and went to the Magic Kingdom. I remember very vividly receiving a text...
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October 10, 2014 | Discuss
Dodgers 7, Rockies 4: Six Run Sixth Propels Dodgers to Victory
Tonight's game didn't actually matter. The only thing that was actually at stake was pride, and the Dodgers did their best to boost their pride, winning by a score of 7-4. The meaningless nature of today's game took the edge off of another tedious start by Roberto Hernandez. He was a little bit better than he has been as a Dodger, but only slightly. He allowed three runs...
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Rockies @ Dodgers Sept. 26, 2014: Fauxto's Last Stand?
When I tried to take a guess at the 25-man playoff roster a few days ago, I think I must have come pretty close. Eric Stephen said his 25 were the same. So, today, did Steve Dilbeck. Rockies Dodgers 7:10 p.m. Los Angeles LF Blackmon 2B Gordon 3B Ynoa CF Puig 1B Morneau 1B Gonzalez RF Cuddyer...
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Cubs 8, Dodgers 7: Adrian Gonzalez Brings The Rain, Bullpen Brings The Pain
Roberto Hernandez wasn't particularly sharp today, which is becoming a usual trend. The Dodger offense was certainly active and gave the team a big lead, but depending on the bullpen this much was going to backfire at some point, and the Dodgers ultimately fell 8-7. Hernandez only lasted four plus innings, allowing two runs while striking out four and walking two. He has not...
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Dodgers @ Cubs Sept. 20, 2014: More Morning Baseball, And Who Should Start Tomorrow?
The "maybe" part in the headline is a pretty big deal, too. Check out this forecast: FYI, it's a noon game here. pic.twitter.com/WcStEk3vFa — J.P. Hoornstra (@jphoornstra) September 20, 2014 Dodgers Cubs 10:05 a.m. Chicago 2B Gordon LF Coghlan CF Puig SS Baez 1B Gonzalez 1B Rizzo RF Kemp RF Soler SS...
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Dodgers 8, Cubs 4: Greinke Labors, Cubs Bullpen Labors More
The Dodgers won tonight, but the path was certainly rocky. Before tonight's game, Mike posted a thread called "Finally a real pitcher." After Carlos Frias turned in one of the worst starts in major league history, and not great starts by Roberto Hernandez and Dan Haren before that, the promise of a Zack Greinke start felt like an oasis in a desert of mediocrity. Unfortunately...
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Dodgers 11, Rockies 3: Thank goodness for that 8-run inning
That could have been a lot more stressful/worse/terrible. Instead, it was a relatively easy 11-3 Dodger victory on Monday night in Colorado. With Roberto Hernandez starting, the chances he wouldn't last long were high — and that's what happened. But, he limited the damage: 3 2/3 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 K, 1 HR. Paco Rodriguez relieved him and was able to escape a bases...
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September 16, 2014 | Discuss
Dodgers @ Rockies Sept. 15, 2014: Roberto Hernandez, Shockingly Important
Dodgers Rockies 5:40 p.m. Denver, Co. 2B Gordon CF Blackmon CF Puig SS Rutledge 1B Gonzalez 1B Morneau RF Kemp RF Cuddyer SS Ramirez LF Dickerson LF Crawford C Rosario 3B Uribe 3B Ynoa C Ellis 2B Lemahieu P Hernandez (R) P Bergman (R) Roberto Hernandez has...
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Scott Van Slyke's Time To Shine
After a successful weekend series in San Francisco, the Dodgers continue their road trip by heading into Denver and Chicago, and something stood out to me when I looked at the expected pitching matchups: Mon @ COL: Roberto Hernandez vs. Christian Bergman (R) Tues @ COL: Dan Haren vs. Tyler Matzek (L) Wed @ COL: Carlos Frias vs. Jorge De La Rosa (L) Thurs @ CHC: Zack Greinke vs....
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On Why The Dodgers Have To Deal With Hanley Ramirez' Awful Defense
Hanley Ramirez, as you hardly need to be told, is terrible at playing defense. Ha ha! Here he is being terrible at defense, just last night: GIF Link Not that Roberto Hernandez was going to be good, of course, but that easy ground ball with two outs that didn't turn into a third out opened up the door to three San Diego runs in that inning alone, including another Ramirez error...
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While You Were Drinking 2014 Game 144 (SD at LAD)
Sometimes things get a little fuzzy after spending an evening in the pub. So here's a friendly reminder of what you might have missed while you were drinking. The Padres (67-77) defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers (82-63) by a score of 6-3 last night in Dodger Stadium. Andrew Cashner (3-7, 2.40) helped his own cause at the plate as well as throwing seven innings and giving...
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Padres 6, Dodgers 3: Fauxto'd
Well, I guess this is what I get for getting so many Clayton Kershaw recaps. Roberto Hernandez did his best Fausto Carmona impression at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday night, as the Padres took down the Dodgers 6-3. Carmona Hernandez didn't get any help from his defense. After allowing two runners to reach with two outs in the second inning, Andrew Cashner (the pitcher) hit a line-drive...
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Padres @ Dodgers Sept. 9, 2014: So Many Relievers To Choose From
I really don't have anything interesting to say about tonight's game. Roberto Hernandez is less interesting than Clayton Kershaw. Andrew Cashner is definitely better than Odrisamer Despaigne, but not as interesting. Even Don Mattingly's lineup isn't all that interested, since it's the same as last night other than swapping Juan Uribe and Yasiel Puig. Padres ...
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September 09, 2014 | Discuss
Week 23 Two Starts Pitchers
Week 23 Two Starts Pitchers Chances are if you're taking the time to read, it means you're moving on to the playoffs or quite possibly the semi finals of your Fantasy Baseball league, so well done! Let's not take the foot off the gas, though. Two-Start Pitchers is one of the better ways to get ahead of your opponent. Another is streaming starts, which Garion Thorne ranks...
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September 08, 2014 | Discuss
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Last Call? Minnesota Shutdown Hits Beer, Cigarette Sales
Bars and restaurants with no booze; stores with no cigarettes: that's the picture coming into focus in Minnesota, as the effects of the state's government shutdown ripple through society. The reasons range from expired liquor permits (which can't be renewed) to a lack of cigarette tax stamps (which can't be purchased).
With the sale of alcohol and tobacco closely regulated and taxed, stores are quickly running through their supplies, and they're asking for special dispensations that would help them serve their customers.
In a bit unintended and brutal irony, a bar in the Uptown district of Minneapolis has already closed; its liquor license expired on the first day of the shutdown. The name of the suffering bar, innocently caught in the middle of a partisan spat, is the Independent.
And a story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune raises the specter of watching baseball without a beer in hand — a state of affairs that's common for some, but unthinkable for others:
The Ugly Mug, a popular bar near Target Field, doesn't have enough beer to get through the baseball season.
"Our inventories are diminishing rapidly over the next month," owner Erik Forsberg said. He was among a cluster of bar and restaurant owners who appealed Tuesday to a court-appointed special master to be allowed to continue buying alcohol during the shutdown. "When [the Twins are] back on Thursday and people can't get Budweiser and they can't get whatever, they're just going to go somewhere else."
One cigarette distributor says he bought some $2 million in tax stamps to prepare for the shutdown. Those in the industry say that the state will run short of cigarettes in September.
By the end of July, around 425 businesses will be without the cards that allow them to buy alcohol from wholesalers, according to the Star Tribune.
"This doesn't just affect retailers, but wholesalers, and the manufacturers, and wedding parties, and church functions, and one day liquor licenses for charity events, and festivals and the list goes on and on and on," Frank Ball of the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association told KARE Channel 11.
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site_perl : lib/perl5/site_perl
site_arch : lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18
perl_man3 : lib/perl5/site_perl/man/man3
Modules without any .so will be installed at the same place regardless of the
I'm not exactly sure why or what, but these ports do something at install time,
and it only works as root, so, mark them as NEED_ROOT.
Sponsored by: Absolight
Update to 0.25
ChangeLog: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FALCONE/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.25/CHANGES
Update to 0.24
- Drop support for www/rt38
- Remove all the @dirrm* stuff from pkg-plist.
ChangeLog: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ALEXMV/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.24/CHANGES
Update to 0.23
ChangeLog: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/ALEXMV/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.23/CHANGES
Update to 0.21
ChangeLog: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FALCONE/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.21/ChangeLog
Update to 0.20
Log: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FALCONE/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.20/ChangeLog
Update to 0.18
ChangeLog: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/FALCONE/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth-0.18/ChangeLog
- Chase r336083 and bump all ports using NO_ARCH so that users building
their own packages and still on pkg 1.1.4 can upgrade.
With hat: portmgr
Mark all my architecture independent ports using shell/perl/PHP as
While here, fix a few other niggles:
net/phpldapadmin -- remove indefinite article from COMMENT
www/p5-RT* -- fix comments referencing the different versions of RT
x11-fonts/gentium-{basic,plus} -- mention ${STAGEDIR} explicitly in the
install targets; rework the handling of ${FONTPATH}
Update all the RT extension modules to work with www/rt42 and make
that the new default.
Fix plist
Reported by: pkg-fallout
Remove some test code accidentally included in previous commit.
- stagify the last 4 remaining of my ports
- Add patch for a bug in Module::Import::RTx which doesn't take any
account of ${DESTDIR}. This is a known bug upstream which hasn't
been fixed in 7 years or so since it was first reported...
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
Convert all my perl-using ports to USES+=perl5
While here:
- add USES+=shebangfix to ports-mgmt/p5-FreeBSD-Portindex
- set $PERL in CONFIGURE_ENV to achieve equivalent to shebangfix
for www/rt40
- upgrade to 0.17 and fix pkg-plist for www/p5-RT-Authen-ExternalAuth
- trim Makefile header for www/p5-RTx-Calendar
Upgrade to version 0.13
Update to 0.12
-- Remove MASTERSITE_SUBDIR, as this was preventing portscout
finding updates since the module was transferred to a different
maintainer on CPAN
Submitted by: firstname.lastname@example.com
Trim remaining untrimmed headers on my ports
Where BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS have the same value, initialise
RUN_DEPENDS from BUILD_DEPENDS
Security update to 0.11
0.11 2012-07-03 Alex Vandiver
* Obfuscate passwords in RT's System Configuration page
* Set an empty CurrentUser on failure, instead of removing it entirely
0.10_01 2012-02-23 Thomas Sibley
* Escape usernames in filter values so special characters don't die
0.10 2012-02-17 Thomas Sibley
* Silence confusing log messages when $ExternalInfoPriority is empty
0.09_03 2012-01-27 Thomas Sibley
- Don't use SITE_PERL in *_DEPENDS
- Update CONFLICTS [1]
Approved by: shaun (mentor)
Submitted by: [1] Sulev-Madis 'ketas' Silber
- Convert all my remaining ports to OPTIONSng
Files affected:
Approved by: shaun (mentor)
- update png to 1.5.10
Update maintainer address to email@example.com
Approved by: shaun (mentor)
- Add support for www/rt40
- Add missing dependencies from Meta.yaml
- Add license
- Pet portlint
- Bump PORTREVISION
PR: ports/160953
Submitted by: Matthew Seaman <email@example.com> (maintainer)
Remove support for rt36 in preparation for its removal
Submitted by: maintainer
Mark FORBIDDEN the remaining ports that are vulnerable for more than
2 weeks according to portaudit (ranging from 23 days to 7 years).
The maintainers were notified by mail that this action would be taken
on 2011-09-03. (Ports for which maintainers responded have been/will be
dealt with separately.)
Also mark DEPRECATED ports that rely on the FORBIDDEN ports, and a few
ports that rely on those DEPRECATED ports.
- Update to 0.09
Changes: http://search.cpan.org/dist/RT-Authen-ExternalAuth/ChangeLog
PR: ports/157046
Submitted by: Matthew Seaman <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
- Get Rid MD5 support
Fix WWW in pkg-descr to http://search.cpan.org/dist/<MODULE> for unification.
No functional changes.
Sponsored by: p5 namespace
- Chase security/libksba shlib version bump
Requested by: kwm
Pointyhat to: glarkin
As reported by pointyhat: env(1) did not grow a '-u' option until
7.1-RELEASE, and we still need to support 6.4-RELEASE.
PR: ports/142940 ports/142941 ports/142942 ports/142943
Submitted by: Matthew Seaman <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
* Switch to using bsd.port.options.mk
* Track PREFIX settings from the parent www/rt38 or www/rt36 port: has to match,
or it won't work.
* Minor fix to pkg-plist.rt38
PR: ports/142135
Submitted by: Matthew Seaman <email@example.com> (maintainer)
- bump all port that indirectly depends on libjpeg and have not yet been bumped
or updated
Requested by: edwin
- Update to 2.12
- We busted something upstream and we need GMAKE now
- Bump PORTREVISIONS for p5-libapreq2 ports
b/c of shared lib bumps
PR: ports/133694
Approved by: maintainer timeout (skv; 1 month 2 days)
- Update to 0.08 for rt38.
When using other RT versions it is still at 0.05.
PR: ports/131425
Submitted by: Steven Kreuzer <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Approved by: email@example.com (maintainer)
RT::Authen::ExternalAuth RT Authentication using External Sources
A complete package for adding external authentication mechanisms to
RT. It currently supports LDAP via Net::LDAP and External Database
authentication for any database with an installed DBI driver.
It also allows for authenticating cookie information against an
external database through the use of the RT-Authen-CookieAuth
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?RT::Authen::ExternalAuth
PR: ports/129783
Submitted by: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
28 vulnerabilities affecting 78 ports have been reported in the past 14 days
* - modified, not new
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(Reuters) - Japan's economy shrank in the September quarter for the first time since last year, adding to signs that slowing global growth and tensions with China are nudging the world's third-largest economy into recession.
The 0.9 percent fall in GDP was in line with expectations, although a decline in capital expenditure was much steeper than forecast. Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp have slashed spending plans to cope with massive losses as they struggle with competitive markets and a strong yen.
The fall in GDP translated into an annualised rate of decline of 3.5 percent, government data showed on Monday. While U.S. growth showed a modest pick up in the third quarter, Japan and the euro zone economies are shrinking, according to Reuters.
"The GDP data confirms that the economy has fallen into a recession," said Tatsushi Shikano, senior economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo. "It is set for a second straight quarter of contraction in the current quarter."
A recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of contraction.
The data kept government pressure on the Bank of Japan to boost monetary stimulus even after it eased policy in October for the second straight month as a strong yen and a territorial row with China exacerbate weak demand for exports.
Economy Minister Seiji Maehara said the central bank should pursue powerful policy easing to boost the economy, although BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa shot back that the government should do its bit too.
Many analysts expect the BOJ to leave policy unchanged at a review next week, but some see it boosting stimulus again at a December 19-20 meeting, shortly after the U.S. Federal Reserve is due to meet.
External demand accounted for 0.7 percentage points of July-September GDP contraction, matching the median projection. Japan's exports fell 5.0 percent in July-September, the biggest slide since a 6.0 percent decline in April-June last year, the data showed.
A row with China over sovereignty of some islands in the East China Sea sparked violent protests in China and the boycott of Japanese goods, which added to the slide in exports, particularly for automakers such as Nissan Motor Co.
Private consumption - which accounts for roughly 60 percent of the economy - fell 0.5 percent in the third quarter against a median forecast of a 0.6 percent drop.
Capital expenditure tumbled 3.2 percent, the fastest pace of decline since a 5.5 percent drop in April-June 2009, as companies turned more pessimistic about earnings from domestic and overseas markets.
In Japan's ailing electronics sector, Sony plans to reduce capital spending by 29 percent in the year to March 2013 and Panasonic plans a 27 percent cut, after incurring huge losses in their TV manufacturing businesses.
The companies are struggling to compete with more nimble rivals, such as South Korea's Samsung Electronics and America's Apple Inc, and with a steady rise in the yen, which makes exports from Japan more expensive.
Analysts said Japanese companies face too many uncertainties to plan future spending with confidence and that is unlikely to change in the current quarter.
Resolving the protracted euro zone debt crisis is no nearer, U.S. tax increases and government spending cuts in early 2013 could tip America into recession unless Congress acts, and adding domestic uncertainty Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has promised to call a national election "soon" to break a political deadlock.
Masamichi Adachi, senior economist at JPMorgan Securities, said business investment would fall again in the fourth quarter as the global economy recovers only gradually.
"If some of these uncertainties are removed, it is possible for things to improve," Adachi said.
He forecast capital expenditure will fall 0.5 percent in October-December and then rise 0.7 percent in January-March.
Japan's economy outperformed most of its Group of Seven peers in the first half of this year on robust private consumption and spending for reconstruction following last year's earthquake.
But growth has stalled since then. Indeed, second-quarter growth was revised down in the latest figures by half to just 0.1 percent. The last quarterly economic contraction was in the Oct-Dec period of 2011, when GDP fell 0.3 percent.
With the economic affect of rebuilding from last year's earthquake and tsunami fading, the government acknowledged last week that its index of leading indicators gauge fell to a level suggesting the onset of a recession.
"I can not deny the possibility that Japan has fallen into a recession phase," Maehara told reporters after the data was released.
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Okay so my husband gets paid on the 15th &30th each month. March 15th, they screwed up and didnt include any of his OTĀand he had been shorted the month before.ĀThis has never happened before, (He just recieved a raise, and there were some issues because technically he is not "supposed" to get OT, but they allow him to) and WE NEED HIS OT! So we were missing about $500 that pay period, and only had $140 for gas and groceries. Now back in the "old days" pre- Dave Ramsey, we would have used our credit cards, and this time it crossed our minds to get into our BEF.
But INSTEAD, I looked around the house, found some items to sell, some silver to cash in, and made an extra $200 which carried us through barely. Yesterday DH got paid the back OT they owed him, plus his current pay+current OT. It was about $500 than we were expecting it to be!! Soooooooo I Just threw $1500 on a credit card that I HATE!!!Ā
This may not sound like much, but to me its a HUGE accomplishment!! Normally before we commited to getting out of debt, we would have taken all that extra money and gone shopping with it, and virtually would have blown every last cent!! I am so proud of myself! Normally we only have about $400 to snowball with and last month since he was shorted his OT we could only snowball $200, and I was getting very discouraged.
I am so proud that we found ways to make it for 2 pay periods with his check being shorted, without using our BEF or credit cards, and that now with all the extra money we put it towards our debt!!
Sorry.. just had to share my excitement!!
We started this year with 6 credit cards totalling $13k.
We now have the 2 big cards left. totaling $7400. We are almost HALF WAY out of credit card debt in less than 4 months!!!!
Now I am really motivated to try and find other ways to make money so we can snowball more and more to get these bad boys paid off! My first goal was to get them paid off by next March (when we get our tax refund) but now Im thinking its very possible to pay them off before Christmas!!!!!
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