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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Trump and the Idolatry of Safety
Yesterday Christian leaders gathered in New York at Donald Trump's behest. Aside from bizarre elements (e.g., Trump wondering whether he could bring us back to the day when attending Sunday School was "automatic"), the attraction of many Christian leaders and laity to Trump based on their understandable longing for safety in a dangerous world, particularly when the price of that safety is the abandonment of certain Christian values and principles, stands as a stark reminder that golden calves come in many forms.
Shortly after the Orlando massacre, I noted that Trump retweeted someone's undoubtedly heartfelt message imploring the candidate to "please make us safe." This simple retweet, to me, captures one (of many) disturbing element(s) of Trump's candidacy. He is inhabiting the biblical role of Aaron, playing on the people's fears and anxieties and offering a golden calf for their worship -- in this case, the idol is our own safety.
Though the dangers take new forms, we have lived in a dangerous world since the Fall. Political candidates can and should offer new ideas to address those dangers, but unrealistic promises that safety is achievable should be met with skepticism. A candidate's promise of safety rises to the idolatrous level, in my view, when the prescribed means of guaranteeing safety require us to reject the God-inspired lens through which we are called to view the world. Trump's statements and policy proposals regarding Muslims and Mexican immigrants, for example, are in significant tension with the Gospel's demand for solidarity and recognition of human dignity.
I do not mean to suggest that debates about stricter immigration policies or the consideration of religion's role in terrorism are categorically beyond the pale. The more obvious problem comes from stigmatizing groups -- as Trump frequently does -- instead of engaging ideas -- as Trump appears to avoid whenever possible.
On this front, John Inazu's important book, "Confident Pluralism," is instructive, especially chapter six. Building on insights from Erving Goffman and Lee Bollinger, John explains why confident pluralism "rejects stigmatizing others through our speech," but does require us "to distinguish between stigmatizing and causing offense."
Trump suggests that safety is achievable if we reject "political correctness" and demonstrate the courage to do what needs to be done to root out the dangerous "others" in our midst. It is an illusory promise of safety through a quite real imposition of stigma, and we should reject both the means and the ends. God calls us to faithfulness, not to safety.
June 22, 2016 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Conscience claims by government officials
For those who have not grown weary of the debate over Kim Davis, I have an op-ed on the topic in today's Minneapolis Star Tribune. I consider myself a strong supporter of the liberty of conscience, but I am troubled by her actions. Here's an excerpt:
I believe that our debates over conscience should focus on whether accommodating the claim of conscience would jeopardize access to a good or a service deemed essential (by the state) for full participation in society. Because of the importance of religious liberty and the unavoidable messiness of living in a world of moral conflict, I have objected when the state's disregard of a provider's claim of conscience appears to be animated by a desire to avoid potential affronts to a customer's sense of dignity — for example, when the state penalizes a photo agency for refusing on religious grounds to shoot a same-sex wedding even though many other competent photographers are available. While I object to dignity-driven state prohibitions in the market for goods and services, an employer could legitimately decide that an employee's conscience-driven refusal of service sends a message inconsistent with the moral claims embedded in the employer's marketplace identity.
By the same token, the government should have some discretion to decide that its public officials must execute the full scope of the law and serve all members of the public legally entitled to a good or service. If the state of Kentucky wants to create an accommodation for Davis that still maintains full access to marriage for same-sex couples, I wouldn't object. The problem is empowering Davis to decide on her own whether her denial of access is consistent with the public norms that the state wants to champion. If we value a vibrant moral marketplace, institutional actors, not just individual employees, must have a degree of discretion to shape their identities and messages within the marketplace. The government should have similar discretion.
September 16, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Reflections on a shared mission
Last week St. Thomas Law School's Murphy Institute co-hosted a conference with the Von Hugel Institute at St. Edmund's College of Cambridge University. At the conference dinner, I offered brief remarks on why such partnerships are so important:
My colleagues and I are grateful for the hospitality you've shown us, and for the time and effort you've invested in helping us organize this conference on the religious and moral dimensions of questions regarding the patentability of life products and processes. It is not often I feel almost apologetic explaining that we represent a 130-year old university, but by Cambridge standards, I feel obliged to reassure you that we are really here for the long haul and are not just a flash in the pan. This collaboration between our institutions is well-suited to the test of time for reasons that warrant at least a few moments of reflection.
The University of St. Thomas School of Law has a mission statement that dedicates us to "the integration of faith and reason in the search for truth through a focus on morality and social justice." One of the many ways we try to live out that mission is through the work of the Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy. The Murphy Institute's work, in turn, is greatly enhanced through institutional partnerships, such as the one we are building with the Von Hugel Institute here at St. Edmund's College at Cambridge University. As a preface for my toast, I'd like to articulate three reasons why this partnership is so crucial to our work.
First, this partnership will produce a broader and richer conversation. As a gathered assembly of law professors, theologians, philosophers, practicing attorneys, and policy advocates, I hope we can agree that conversations matter; the conversation has intrinsic value that is not contingent on any particular outcome or lack thereof. Both the Murphy and Von Hugel Institutes are committed to bringing insights from the Catholic intellectual tradition into some of our most pressing legal and policy conversations – conversations where, too often, such insights are raised only on the margins, if acknowledged at all. By partnering, we can widen the circle of participation, expand our platform, and reach new venues.
Second, this partnership will produce insights of greater scholarly depth and real-world impact. The concepts we explore – human dignity, the preferential option for the poor, the universal destination of goods, solidarity, and subsidiarity, among many others – can fruitfully be engaged by individual scholars on their own initiative. But these concepts are sufficiently important to warrant sustained and serious engagement over generations of scholars – a quality of engagement that can best be facilitated by institutions. By partnering, we can leverage our distinctive strengths, pool resources, and tap into new circles of expertise and influence.
Third, this partnership can be a source of mutual encouragement, support and even accountability as we work to stay faithful to our missions. Higher education is not immune from the general pressure in our society to produce measurable outcomes in the most efficient way possible. There's nothing inherently wrong with assessment or efficiency, but we need to be careful that this narrowing focus does not allow technical questions of "how" to obscure deeper questions of "why." As we've already seen at this conference, our mission is the impetus for big questions. What does it mean for law if all creation is a gift? What is the nature of the human person, and why should the political community care? Is human dignity an infinitely malleable concept, or does it have an unshakeable core that can shed light on our most intractable conflicts and confusions? These are just a few of the questions that may fall out of favor within the surrounding academic and policy-making circles, but that we must continue to revisit if we are faithful to our founding visions.
Human beings have an infinite capacity to empower our insecurities to distract ourselves from the pursuit of truth. For academics, the recurring temptation is to chase prestige. We pursue cleverness for the sake of appearing clever. We strive to be the first to proclaim an idea, not because the idea is worth proclaiming, but because novelty can too often be invoked as a proxy for insight. Our mission is too important to let this happen. And so, if you raise your glasses with me, I'd like to toast the new partnership between the Murphy and Von Hugel Institutes; my hope is that the partnership will extend over many years and be marked by a collaborative, thoughtful, and bold stewardship of questions that may otherwise recede from view.
September 8, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Patents on Life: the future of life-patenting
As the conference draws to a close, there was a roundtable discussion looking to the future of life-patenting:
Martin Gouldstone, Head of Lifesciences Advisory for BDO, reflected on industry concerns over gene patenting. Government funding of medical research has declined in many countries, and regulatory obstacles to approval have increased (for understandable reasons). Estimates of the average cost of bringing a drug to market range from $800M to $1.4B and chances of any particular drug making it to market are very small. Industry is under enormous pressure to replace lost revenue as some big-revenue drugs are going off patent. Companies are beginning to pool resources on research and development and are doing swap deals where companies trade inventories to leverage strengths. Genomics revolution is also driving innovation, and it's just beginning. Challenge is keeping up with speed of technological advances. There is also real danger with the innovation --presented with a future in which 3D printing permits individuals to download and create the bubonic plague, for example, the need for strong regulation is obvious.
Dr. Thana Campos, Van Hugel Institute Research Associate, discussed the phenomenon of universities securing patents for the fruit of its research. She explored the tension between the university mission of disseminating/extending knowledge and the premises of the patent regime. University patents boost university revenue, facilitate more transfer of technology from universities to business partners, and support further innovation and economic development. However, knowledge sharing and spillover are key paths of intellectual development in a university; this is hindered by patents.
Dr. Calum MacKellar, Director of Research at the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics, served as facilitator, and he prompted discussion by asking whether Dr. Frankenstein should have been permitted to patent his creation. Paul Heald pointed out that a patent doesn't give him the right to make the monster or let the monster run amok; it only empowers Dr. Frankenstein to prevent others from making his monster. The problem is not patentability.
A former patent judge asked why churches don't participate in the patent process itself, raising moral concerns as part of the process. A bioethicist speculated that the issues are sufficiently murky morally and technically complicated that churches don't feel comfortable jumping into the process in any particular case. A bishop in the audience observed that, at least in the U.K., people will listen to lay experts more than they will listen to bishops. Another representative of the Church pointed out that the Church is heavily engaged at the level of principle, and he was met with a response that engagement at that level is not sufficient.
Bishop John Sherrington recognized the need for the Church to translate its usual concepts (e.g., common good) into terms that resonate more broadly in these debates. He also reminded participants of Pope Francis's admonition to recognize the real persons before us as the starting point in addressing social issues.
The conversation was robust and relevant. As MoJ's Tom Berg observed in his closing remarks, the Church's rich history of reflection on the meaning of property and economic life, its interest in rigorous and empirical argument, and its global dimension make the Church an essential partner in these conversations.
September 5, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
Patents on Life: the patent system, human rights, and politics
The Patents on Life conference continues:
Ingrid Schneider, professor of political science at the University of Hamburg, discussed patent governance, ethics and democracy. She sees a legitimacy crisis because of an overexpansion in terms of size and an overreaching of traditional boundaries of patent protection. The patent system is governed by insiders -- a specialized epistemic community with too little responsiveness to the political process and civil society. Blurred boundaries: 1) boundary between discovery and invention (i.e., reflecting a judgment that technology should be accessible to all); and 2) the ordre public and public policy clause (i.e., reflecting a judgment that no one should have access to the technology in question). The ordre public exclusion is designed to function as an ex ante control of the social desirability of an invention. There is a concern that the patent community (applicants, attorneys, examiners, specialist judges) exerts more influence on patent law than the legislature does. Do patent offices view applicants as customers, and if so, what does that mean for the public policies underlying our patent system? She explored the patentability of human embryonic research techniques as an example of these dynamics.
Stephen Colecchi, director of the Office of International Justice and Peace at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, spoke about lessons from Catholic social teaching pertaining to life patents. What is the impact of life patents on persons who live at the margins? The Church has expressed concern that technological development has not been accompanied by development of human responsibility. He discussed resources that the American bishops bring to the debate: 1) Catholic social teaching; 2) relationships with the Church in the developing world; 3) experience on the ground working to address challenges in the developing world. He identified four principles to guide the debate: 1) respect for rights of indigenous people; 2) careful balance of property rights and social welfare; 3) concern that commercial interests are favored over common good; and 4) need for transparency. Nevertheless, multinational corporations exert much more influence on IP than Church or other civil society organizations do. It will be critical that the Church continues to engage in a manner that compensates for the power imbalance between richer and poorer nations, and between civil society and the corporate sphere.
Justin Turner, barrister and former member of the Gene Therapy Advisory Committee, discussed the treatment of embryonic stem cells before the European Patent Office. To draw a conclusion about the morality of a patent claim, an examiner must draw on the constitutional traditions of the country as well as international treaties. One must take a broad view. Is terminating an embryo generally contrary to morality? No -- there is no unitary principle that terminating embryonic life is immoral; we have the morning-after pill, embryos are necessarily terminated in the course of IVF, etc. Embryos do not have a right to life for purposes of patent law's morality exemption. Patent claims have been rejected but tribunals have not directly answered question of whether it is contrary to morality. He believes that religious politics are playing an important role in the patent system's treatment of the issue; his concern is that the religious objections are not vented properly in the decisions. The legal tribunals should squarely address whether these patents would be contrary to morality.
September 5, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
Patents on Life: shortcomings and ideas for improvement
More from the Patents on Life conference:
Dr. Julian Cockbain, a European patent lawyer and bioethics expert, compared European and American law on the patenting of human body materials. European patent law has taken a wrong turn by claiming that a discovery is not a discovery as such if it has a "technical effect" when in use -- e.g., a gene producing a protein, adrenaline producing an effect on the heart. Also, elements isolated from the human body are patent-eligible even if they are identical to elements occurring naturally in the human body. This renders the exclusion of discoveries toothless. American courts have been much more reasonable on this front. Dr. Cockbain sees a potential way out for European courts because Article 52 of the EPC requires an inventive step, and discoveries do not entail an inventive step.
Dr. Katerina Sideri, an IP advisor at the Agricultural University of Athens, discussed germ line interventions as an example of patents and the moral limits of markets. Patent law's morality exclusion should address not just access and delivery, but problem of commodification. Our understanding of morality must go beyond individual rights and autonomy. Can we find alternative ways to incentivize the development of technology? Especially in biotech, patent offices should be science/technology offices that link to broader political processes.
September 5, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
Patents on Life: a view from the European Patent Office
Day 2 of the Patents on Life conference has begun.
Christopher Rennie-Smith, former chair of the Biotech Board of Appeal and former member of the Board of Appeal at the European Patent Office, spoke on life-form patents before the European Patent Office. There is no overall provision re patenting life forms in the European Patent Convention (EPC), and general exclusions do not include any life form, so life forms that are novel, inventive and industrially applicable are patentable. Article 53 excludes when contrary to "ordre public" or morality; and excludes plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals. "Morality" has been defined in case law as the belief that some behavior is right and other behavior is wrong founded on the totality of accepted norms rooted in the culture inherent in European society. There is no definition of "animal variety" or "essentially biological process." He discussed the case of the Harvard oncomouse, which presented the question whether Article 53 would function as a bar given the suffering of the genetically manipulated animals and possible risks to the environment posed by the release of manipulated animals. In the end, claims limited to a transgenic mouse (but not a transgenic rodent) succeeded. The method of producing the transgenic mouse was deemed not "an essentially biological process."
September 5, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
Friday, September 4, 2015
Patents on Life: Okediji on International Regulation of Access to Genetic Resources
University of Minnesota law professor Ruth Okediji presented on the protection of genetic resources and its Judeo-Christian justifications: dominion, stewardship, and reward. Other theories of IP have strengths but also shortcomings: utilitarianism (tends to ignore obligation to steward creative gifts), natural law/continental approaches (tend to ignore the source of creativity), user rights (tend to ignore accountability), and human rights (tend to marginalize command to exercise dominion and can de-value moral basis of reward). She believes that patent system is consistent with biblical precepts, but patent system is not a God-given institution; patents are a tool. Sovereign countries have the mandate and obligation to regulate, use, and steward natural resources.
An international legal framework to regulate access to and use of genetic resources is morally and ethically required. Historically, genetic resources were not patentable because they didn't involve human ingenuity and owe their source to no human. (But isn't this true of all innovation? At what level of abstraction do we draw the line between what is of man and what is of God?) The phenomenon of biopiracy -- i.e., patenting inventions derived from genetic resources and/or traditional knowledge without compensation to the country that is home to those resources/knowledge -- is creating additional pressure to protect these resources. We don't yet have answers given the multiplicity of stakeholders and interests. Given the stalemate on the international front, we may need to consider relying more on national law and encourage less developed countries to invest more in IP systems and institutions. We may need to reconsider the role of international institutions as the appropriate fora for the debate.
September 4, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
More from Patents on Life conference
University of Virginia law professor Margo Bagley presented biblical insights on misappropriation in life science patenting. She discussed the passage from Leviticus that instructs landowners not to reap to the edges of the field, leaving some food for the poor. Any lessons for our law today? Our legal prohibition on "stealing" self-replicating inventions (e.g. landowners sued by patent-holder after neighbor's GMO plant seeds drift onto their land) can seem unjust because there is no de minimis exception. Stealing pharmaceutical products is also thorny -- Thailand exercised TRIPs rights and issued compulsory licenses on several drugs. Abbot responded that Thailand would not receive new drugs. Many countries didn't grant pharmaceutical products until relatively recently. Margo offered data on pharmaceutical companies' expenditures on research/development and sales/marketing --the latter being higher -- and profit margins (higher than other major industries). Question today is: who's stealing from whom?
Michael Kock, Global Head of IP at Syngenta, discussed the ethical use of patents in plant innovations. He noted that the world must produce more food in the next fifty years than it has in the last 10,000 years. Every second, the world loses on football field of farmland due to urbanization and erosion. Climate change is also affecting agricultural production in some regions. He pointed out that carrots are orange only because breeders created an orange carrot in the nineteenth century. Other than some mushrooms and berries, all crops have been changed by humans -- none are "natural." So how much genetic interference is acceptable? Plant variety protection through conventional breeding is generally accepted but plant variety protection does not protect specific attribute, just entire plant variety. We have an increasing need for innovation and increasing need for investment given technical complexity compared to traditional breeding. Can we minimize the problematic effects of a patent on life without losing the benefits? New international licensing platform shows promise -- "free access but not access for free." The platform is based on fair pricing, MFN principle, transparency, "pull-in effect" (if you want access, you have to grant access to your inventions). Voluntary efforts such as the licensing platform, though, may not be sufficient.
University of Illinois law professor Paul Heald presented a sociological history of religious objections to patenting life, asking: why is there no significant religious objection to patenting life in the U.S.? One major reason is the rise of Christian libertarianism and Christian materialism. Business interests succeeded in convincing Americans that business interests and Christian interests overlap. Because patent rights are property rights, criticizing patent rights is akin to criticizing property rights. There have been a few statements made, but they failed to gain traction. There are high information costs in developing an educated position, and this is a relatively low-priority issue for American Christians compared to abortion, the death penalty, etc. Even within the world of corporate agricultural practices, this may not be the most pressing issue; what's more of a problem: seed patents or the seed company's corruption of lending practices in developing countries (forcing local farmers to buy expensive patented seeds by persuading banks not to lend to farmers unless they use the advanced seed technology)?
September 4, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink
Patents on Life: Morality-based exclusions under patent law
Dr. Kathleen Liddell, director of the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences at Cambridge University, addressed the exclusion of "immoral" inventions from patent law. In addition to discussing potential levers for improving current law, she raised questions that must be resolved. When we're proposing morality-based exclusions, are we focusing on the morality of performing the technology itself (e.g. letter bombs), the morality of granting patent rights (e.g. life-saving drugs), the morality of patenting an invention based on unethical research (e.g. embryo-based technologies), or all three? And is morality determined by a harm-benefit calculation, the fact that granting of the patent would be universally regarded as outrageous, or more modestly, that granting a patent would be contrary to a particular country's norms?
She asked theologians to develop a more nuanced understanding of IP law and realistic opportunities and constraints for ethical/religious touchstones within IP law, and she encouraged IP lawyers to develop a better understanding of epistemologies other than law.
September 4, 2015 in Vischer, Rob | Permalink


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Neoseeker.com Forum Thread: What's a good party? - page 1
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Author: Isaacph
Date: Aug 11, 10 at 8:01pm (PST)
Subject: What's a good party?
I currently have Hero, Maya, Meena, and Borya as my party. Does anyone know any good party members to have at the end of the game?
Author: LaFoL
Date: Jul 23, 11 at 5:30pm (PST)
Subject: re: What's a good party?
In my opinion, you have lots of wizards in there, you need a sweeper with good attack stats.
Personally, I really like playing with Ragnar. He is a good attacker with lots of HP.
Alina is also quite good but she can't equip as much as Ragnar does, so it's up to you.
Author: Balviet123
Date: Jan 29, 12 at 3:31pm (PST)
Subject: re: What's a good party?
I typically have the Hero, Alena, Kiryl, Maya. The hero and Alena are excellent fighters, and Alena with the Falcon Knife Earrings is great because of her high Luck stat. Kiryl can use Buff to beef up your party, and Maya's Debuff spells are exellent, not to mention her magical attacks are great!
Author: jamzookaTV
Date: Oct 8, 12 at 3:34am (PST)
Subject: re: What's a good party?
Hey bro! Are you still looking for a party? Probably not since you posted this 2 years ago, but if you still are I can help you!
So everyone is helpful during a battle! But using the right combination in the right situation is the important thing:
If you are moving around the map and you encounter monsters a lot, I would recommend Hero, Ragner, Alena and Psaro since those 4 have the highest attack and can defeat the monsters quickly just by attacking.
If you are hunting metal slimes, I would recommend Hero (or anyone who can equip the liquid metal sword), Borya, Maya and Psaro. All 4 of them have a guaranteed hit on metal slimes. As long as if the Hero has a liquid metal sword, Maya and Borya have poison needles and Psaro has his metal strike.
Try all the different combinations! Not just mine.
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In 2011, King Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa restored constitutional rule in Bahrain.
Regions / Middle East & North Africa
Darren Aronofsky's film "Noah" sends a clear message: take care of the earth or the consequences will be fatal.
The likely perpetrators of the Ghouta sarin attack, Al Nusra, failed to generate the results it sought.
Unless every nation ramps down military spending and invests in clean energy, we'll all lose the next big war over the fate of the Earth without even firing a shot.
When the public abandons voting and attempts to veto a policy or even an entire government.
Israel and Iran: It takes one to know one ― or think it knows one.
Iraqi-American poet Dunya Mikhail talks about her experiences writing provocative poetry in two different countries.
Do the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks herald the end of the two-state solution? If so, what comes next?
Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki may not be as bad as Saddam Hussein, but he's only slightly less worse.
We're in the middle of a sixth mass extinction, and this will be the first one—and possibly the last—we will witness as human beings.


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Russian Toffee
Total Time
Prep 1 min
Cook 15 mins
Called Russian Toffee, as the recipe came from a Russian lady. Very easy to make.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (12 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1⁄2 lb sugar
- 1⁄4 lb butter
- Put milk, butter and sugar into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Stir constantly (to prevent sticking or burning) and cook gently until it becomes a caramel colour,it usually takes about 15 minutes.
- Pour into greased dish to set.
- When half cold, cut into pieces.
- Eat when completely cooled down.
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I have been looking for this recipe for years. I remember having it at a friend's home one Christmas when I was about 10. I made this as soon as I found it, as soon as I could cut and taste it, I was 10 years old again. Easy to make, just have to have patience for it to get "just right".
an easier conversion for recipe in metric (europe) is quarter cup butter and one and one eighth sugar.
workd for me. also make sure you cool and stir it long enough.. and beat it a littel with spoon before putting it in dish.
it is not supposed to be hard but also not runny. just smoothy creamy toffee. yum


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World Series Notes From Cub Country
to be fair to the Cubs
to be fair to the Cubs though, they didn't pay much of Kendall's contract and got a few of his good months.
True. I'm still honored to
True. I'm still honored to have one of our guys finish second in all of MLB...in anything.
I'm looking at news of the
I'm looking at news of the California wildfires and thinking ... does San Diego have to burn to the ground every time the Cubs make the postseason? Is this some kind of karmic retribution?
Does David Ortiz even own a
Does David Ortiz even own a mitt?
O. Julius, I live in CA and
O. Julius, I live in CA and was in San Diego in 2003 and my old roommate said the exact same thing.
On the positive side of the
On the positive side of the ledger, the Cubs 2007 free agent class finished as the fourth best value in the game. Seattle, Tampa Bay, and Detroit led the way.
That's pretty impressive, considering how much money they spent. Apparently, they spent wisely.
This series is far from
This series is far from over. Coors Field will bring out the Bosox big weakness their Unathleticism with the size of that park and the altitude. A Rockies sweep in Denver isnt out of the question. Of course they still need a Fenway win. The Rockies pitchers need to attack the zone because as Carmona, Francis, and Sabathia proved that if you nibble they will run up the pitch count and attack hitters pitch in hitters counts. If one COL pitcher should be able to attack the zone with his stuff it should be Jimenez.
Also Iike to call
Also Iike to call schannigans on that FA win share as it seems they are counting FA signings from previous seasons.
i'd call shenanigans on a
i'd call shenanigans on a lot of what's written on that site.
for all the good stuff there's a lot of stuff where someone picks a cause, picks an effect, and then fills in 10 paragraphs linking it...many times not bothering to look at externalities.
its one thing to present data for people to mull over and give your conclusions, but too many articles are pushing "fact" that's more of a logical conclusion based on THEIR data independent of externalities which may/could invalidate their entire point of why theyre writing the article to begin with.
problem is they got a real stable of real journalist-types and real smart number crunchers who can present their material mixed with a stable of hack-ass produced articles with the problems i talked about above.
btw, this problem isnt
btw, this problem isnt unique to them...its almost becoming an "independant media" problem from some of the bigger niche journalism markets.
before anyone jumps on my
before anyone jumps on my back...yes, the hardball times does work im glad someone is doing, especially in the field of defensive research.
i just have an issue with how some present their views and/or report their research.
somebody told David Ortiz
somebody told David Ortiz that he doesn't need a first baseman's mitt in colorado cause they play 16" softball there, he'll just need cigars for the humidor.
Is Ortiz still giving
Is Ortiz still giving America the bird during the National Anthem?
Even without him in the lineup, the Red Sox are a better ball club. Better at Catcher, 2nd, 3rd, center and right with a draw at first. Better #1 #2 and probably #3 in the rotation with all the off time and better in the bullpen. The time off is going to kill the Rockies, just like it killed the Tigers last year.
*jumps on Crunch's back*
*jumps on Crunch's back*
Have to agree that as a Cub,
Have to agree that as a Cub, neither Kendall or Monroe approaches top 40 in that list of worst contracts.
I would also have some bones to pick about how they're doing their defensive numbers when they list Ramirez, Pena and Fielder as such great deals.
And finally, I am sure I am misunderstanding this, but this statement is either a indictment of wins shares (which I have previously established as a flawed measurement 1=.5 blah blah blah) or an indictment of HBT's application of them this year
"On a technical note, I should tell you that total Net Win Shares Value actually increased overall this year (from around $600 million to $800 million),
Either there were a lot more wins in MLB this year than last year, or payrolls climbed 33%. I will bet my 2007 salary that neither was the case.
When was the last time Ortiz
When was the last time Ortiz laced up a mitt, I'm wondering. Did he play in the field during any of their interleague games? Can he even make a stretch for a wayward throw with that bum knee of his? He may make Daryl Ward look like a competent fielder.
Ortiz has played first, very
Ortiz has played first, very seldom, every year. He even played first for the two games in the World Series in 04
It's difficult to draw many
It's difficult to draw many conclusions after one game. Boston may sweep - we know the Rockies won't - but sounding the death knell seems very premature.
If they played best of, oh say, 21, then you can be a lot more sure the best team won. I think Boston is better but in a best of seven, it's a small edge.
As I recall, Pittsburgh got waxed by the Yankees in at least three games of the 1960 World Series, yet won in seven.
It's not always easy to tell which team is the better team, even on paper. I remember reading for a lot of years that the '19 Black Sox were clearly a better team than the Reds, and the mere fact that they lost was cited as proof of the fact that they threw the Series. But when you actually look at the two teams on paper, the Reds were just as strong if not stronger. Contrary to what is still-conventional wisdom, the Reds may well have won even in a straight-up series.
Booooo to Taco Bell. That
Booooo to Taco Bell. That was ludicrous.
It's a tough call for
It's a tough call for Francona. I think I'd have to bench Lowell as hot as Youk is and as crucial as he is in their 2-spot. As least for them they don't lose Varitek for a game for Wakefield's dumb ass.
i'm just glad the taco bell
i'm just glad the taco bell thing is over...between "Frank" and taco bell my postseason "whored out to advertisers" level has reached its max.
Either there were a lot more
Either there were a lot more wins in MLB this year than last year, or payrolls climbed 33%. I will bet my 2007 salary that neither was the case.
Neal, you're misunderstanding Studeman's point. What he is saying is, because proportionately more Win Shares were earned this season by players at the lower end of the salary scale, MLB teams in total realized greater payroll value than last season, when the big-money players were accumulating a greater proportion of the Win Shares. He is not saying there were more wins in MLB this season.
The altiude factor may keep
The altiude factor may keep Ortiz on the bench. I doubt Ortiz is contditioned enough to play in that atmosphere. Their lineup w/o Ortiz is still strong and Having a weapon like Ortiz on the bench is a nice option.
" I doubt Ortiz is
" I doubt Ortiz is contditioned enough to play in that atmosphere."
You have to be kidding, right?
#22: i'm just glad the
#22: i'm just glad the taco bell thing is over...
That was truly awful. I'm not an ad man, but was any viewer really swayed by that? Did it really create a better impression of TB in anyone's mind? Isn't the main question "why is MLB helping to shill for one of the top purveyors of disgusting drunk munchies?"
Oh, and gotta love those fake crowd shots with "fans" holding up obviously digitized signs. It's not just the constant barrage of ads that gets me, it's the assumption that we're stupid.
Bah, gunna go listen to Fugazi all day & clear my head.
Dusty Baker said: blah,
Dusty Baker said: blah, blah, blah, dude, blah, blah, blah...
(from the sun times)
"I talked to Mark Prior [Wednesday)..."
"The thing I'm most curious about is I haven't heard what was wrong with Mark,'' Baker said. ''Usually, you hear torn labrum or rotator cuff. I would like to know at least where and what was wrong."
''If I'm going to get blamed for it, I would like to know exactly what happened. Most of the time when you have surgery, don't you have surgery on something?''
As he did upon his arrival in Chicago, Baker is portraying himself in Cincinnati as a recruiter of talent. It never really happened with the Cubs -- unless you count the Neifi Perez signing in August 2004 -- but he promises to be more vocal about the hand he is dealt in Cincinnati.
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Cubster- Did you notice in
Did you notice in the article he knows what was wrong with Priot but "he wont say" what it was?
"Baker is portraying himself
"Baker is portraying himself in Cincinnati as a recruiter of talent..."
What about: "Holly", Neifi, Macias, Grissom, Mabry, Womack? AND - Troy O'Leary.
Ain't THAT talent?
jacos: yes. That part of the
jacos: yes. That part of the Baker interview was referring to Prior's DL start for "achilles tendonitis" but alluded to him also having elbow problems (that wasn't being disclosed to the press).
That kind of stuff is what really leads to wild press speculation and discredits the team medical trainers. There is a certain amount of confidentiality that a person/athlete may desire regarding any health condition but in such a public figure, trying to keep things confidential by giving out misleading info usually makes things worse. That kind of approach is why people thought Prior was malingering.
Remember that former trainer Dave Tumbas was fired after 2003, probably because of the handling of the basepath collision Prior had and his successors Dave Groeschner/Sandy Krum were at the heart of the ongoing PriorGate injuries Baker was alluding to and obviously played a role in.
Who was the unlicensed
Who was the unlicensed trainer that was one of Dusty's cronies from SF?
that was Dave
that was Dave Groeschner
(he was liscenced in California, just not Illinois (but each state has separate liscencing standards), and his credentialling for Illinois wasn't completed until after the 2004 season...but Krum brought that up to Cubs brass in August 2004 and Krum was let go over the issue, with some subsequent litigation over that)...leading to the Mark O'Neal era.
Cubnut, Neal, you're
Neal, you're misunderstanding Studeman's point. What he is saying is, because proportionately more Win Shares were earned this season by players at the lower end of the salary scale, MLB teams in total realized greater payroll value than last season, when the big-money players were accumulating a greater proportion of the Win Shares. He is not saying there were more wins in MLB this season. ,
Huh? Can you put it into an equation, because you repeated what he said, and again it makes no sense.
The average MLB team had 81 wins this season.
You have two groups of players, low salary players and high salary players.
Win Contribution from Low salary players = L
Win Contribution from High salary players = H
The sum of those two groups of contributions equals the total wins.
Regardless of what the value of L and H are, they are always (in theory, and this is where the math is incorrect) to equal 81.
The only way they don't equal 81 is if your math is incorrect. Pure and simple.
If you extend it to all 30 ML teams you get L + H = 2430. I
t's impossible for "MLB teams in total realized greater payroll value than last season" to exist, unless salaries decreased (which they didn't) or the teams won more games (which they didn't). They could have a greater desparity between the values provided by the lower players vs the high players in from year to year, but when you look at total payroll value, all contribution from all the players = all the wins.
oh come on... "If I'm
oh come on...
"If I'm going to get blamed for it, I would like to know exactly what happened."
that's funny...period.
Todd Walker came to the Cubs
Todd Walker came to the Cubs in a 'under market' deal. Garciaparra probably could have found more cash elsewhere if he shopped around after '04.
One of these days I will do
One of these days I will do a Marvel style 'What If...' on the Maddux signing or maybe the Palmeiro trade 'What if Raffy didn't bang that tramp Ryno shackled himself with?' for the TCR. Been thinking about it for a while. Lee Smith trade would be a good one too.
While everyone was pimping Marmol for closer in the playoffs I just kept thinking 'Calvin Schiraldi, Calvin Schiradli...'
damn, wrong blog!
damn, wrong blog!
Here you go, Cubnut. The
Here you go, Cubnut.
The WSAB (win shares above bench, which I would guess is HBT's method of monkeying BP's WARP) for 2006 is 2461 and 2007 is 2443. I don't know how they define 'bench', their links are broken so I can find out, and it's arbitrary nature is probably why they produce non-sensical numbers, but BP's replacement level players are assumed to go about 40-122 during a season. So their 'above bench value' (replacement level players should actually be worse than bench players), should be only be around 41 x 30 or 1230 wins, actually BP's replacement players are worse than that, as we discovered with the 2003 Tigres, so lets' say they only win 20 games, which makes the above bench (or baseline total) 1830. The maximum should be 2430 wins (if every game was played and there were no extra games), so how they get totals of 2461 and 2443 make no sense.
It's just another illustration of how flawed a concept Win Shares is.
The underlying base mathematical statement used to build win shares is this: 1 = 81/162. When that's the first statement you start working with, you're going to wind up with a lot of problems. Bill James had an excuse for doing it that way (time, lack of statistical availability and number crunching power). HBT has no such excuse. To fix win shares, they should start with the equation .5 = 81/162. The way you do that is only by evaluating player's contributions in games their team won.
Any system that attributes 'win shares' to a player who hit four home runs in a loss, is by definition, wrong.
Rob G will tell you 'There's a whole book filled with numbers to produce win shares', which I have never disputed. But when page 1 chapter 1 has an invalid equation, you're going to need a whole book to try to convince people that 2 really does equal 1.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Yeah, that's what I thought. Strike a medium between parroting and analysis if you want to post on ths blog, or just hide in the shadow of the tree-fort your daddy built you in 1992,
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Bear fans are so impatient! They signed that great All-American QB out of Columbia--Luckman--just a little while ago, didn't they? Now it's the Eagles' turn. After all, it's been almost ten years since McNabb.
" . . . when he signed Edwin Jackson?"
He makes a lot of moves, people remember the ones that pan out. Kind of like MJ's approach to shooting. When it all shakes out, you get a formidable 25-man roster.
For the rookie hazing "dress up" day, the Mariners made him dress like the Farley Chippendales dancer.
Steven Matz to undergo "imminent" elbow surgery.
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John Arguello at Cubs Den with observations & photos from Monday's intrasquad game:
Pitchers are golfers
Getting tired of the caddy catcher excuse
Dan Vogelbach is working on his firstbase defense in Seattle. Seems to say the Cubs didn't teach him properly.
Oh my! Cards down 2-1 to Reds in the bottom of the 9th -- get a leadoff triple -- and don't score!
Gameday has stopped at the top of the 8th inning. Google tells me it ended up 8-4 Pirates but I can't get further detail. Guess I'll have to wait until the Cubs' website updates...
Phil, thanks for posting. Where do find the schedule? I have a condo in Surprise, yet I drove to Mesa and Tempe looking for a game today! Thanks!
Dear Baseball Gods--
My trip to Chicago has nothing whatsoever to do with the Cubs. In actuality, I am a Red Sox fan.
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Actress named this year's Ally for Equality
The Human Rights Campaign has selected "Ugly Betty" thesp Vanessa Williams as this year's Ally for Equality.
Williams, a Grammy-nominated recording artist and former Miss America, has publicly supported marriage equality and same-sex adoption. HRC president Joe Solmonese said her contributions to gay rights and work on "Ugly Betty" have "helped to change the culture of our country for the better."
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Padres' Maybin To Miss 2-3 Months
The Padres? sleeper status in the NL West has already taken a hit: center fielder Cameron Maybin will miss 2-3 months with a ruptured biceps tendon he suffered making a diving catch in Sunday?s game.
The injury comes after Maybin was limited to 14 games last season with wrist and knee injuries. So, the Padres are used to playing without him. Nevertheless, he is easily their best defensive center fielder and he?s had his moments offensively, too, though his chronic wrist troubles have taken away from his game there.
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Cool, wet summer brings mixed bag for Erie-area farmers
Joel Hunter isn't sure anymore what a normal summer looks like.
But Hunter, an agronomist, or crop expert, with the Crawford County Cooperative Extension, is pretty sure we're not having one.
Frequent rain and cooler temperatures -- including a dearth of fry-an-egg-on-the-sidewalk days -- have Hunter and many others believing this hasn't been a typical summer in northwestern Pennsylvania.
But for local farmers, unusual weather patterns don't necessarily add up to bad results.
Some crops, including grapes and apples, seem to be thriving under the conditions offered up this summer by Mother Nature.
At the same time, though, this summer has been a tough, wet slog for gardeners who dream of juicy, ripe tomatoes or farmers with fields of hay to bale.
Gordon Post, a North East Township farmer, can speak to both sides of that equation.
Post, who owns an orchard and has more than 350 subscribers to his community supported agriculture program, struggled to contain his enthusiasm Monday as he walked through his apple orchard, pulling excess fruit off the trees.
"This is our first good crop in like five years," he said. "There is going to be a lotta apples. It's very encouraging."
In broad terms, local fruit growers seem to have the most to be encouraged about this summer after two years when untimely spring frosts took a big bite out of potential fall harvests.
After poor grape crops in consecutive years, "grapes are going to be a heavy crop, a real good crop," said Andy Muza, a fruit expert with Erie County Cooperative Extension.
Evidence of that crop can be seen in thousands of acres of vineyards across Erie County.
At Nelson & Son Fruit Farm in Harborcreek Township, employee Barbara Briska said owner Rick Nelson is expecting his best crop in years.
"Last year he lost a lot of grapes," she said.
Muza said this year's grape crop looks good, but it faces a familiar challenge.
A big crop can be slow to ripen, especially in the absence of sunshine, which is needed to develop sugar content.
And in an area where the daily temperature hasn't topped 83 degrees since July 19, sunny days have been hard to come by. An additional six weeks of this same weather could turn out to be a recipe for failure, Muza said.
"We need for it to be a little warmer than usual, with more sunshine," he said. "It feels more like fall weather, and that is a little worrisome."
Mark Troyer, a Waterford-area farmer, is also waiting for the sun to shine. Troyer, who grows about 400 acres of potatoes and 1,800 acres of corn, said both crops got off to a rough start thanks to rainy spring weather.
"Honestly, the potatoes are kind of liking this weather," he said.
But the millions of corn plants growing in his fields could use some sunshine, he said. Without more sunlight to ripen the corn, the crop could be threatened by an early frost this fall.
Post, who is pleased with his apple crop but waiting impatiently for his tomatoes to ripen, is well acquainted with the idea that Mother Nature picks winners and losers.
"I raise 160 varieties of vegetables," he said. "If a certain class doesn't do well, we'll have something (to replace it)."
On balance, Post said, a mixture of good and bad should even out to make this an average year for farmers in Erie and Crawford counties.
While a cold, wet fall could transform an average year into a bad year for some local farmers, Hunter isn't expecting that to happen.
"I don't look for the bottom to fall out. I think we will be all right," he said.
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So I found this article last night and thought.... are they serious? Have a read: http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/119/1192308p1.html
In short, it's an article pretty much trashing the Zelda games against Skyrim. Which I usually would say 'everyone is entitlted to an opinion'. However it is this bit which made me think, have IGN not actually play OoT?
Correct me if I am wrong -As cool as it is to get new tunics, what if changing those colors, and perhaps all armor and accessories, was a routine part of the game? Maybe different outfits could alter some of Link's core attributes like health or speed?
Green = Normal
Blue = Breath like a fish!
Red = Heathproof!
Anywho, thought I would share as it made me quite confused !!
Write like a four year old and I'll treat you as such Haz, proudly supporting correct use of English and grammar on the forums.
Think before posting Ask a dumb question and prepare to be owned.FYI - Internet is always a capital I. Look it up!
IGN: a bunch of bigots. If they say something stupid, it's because they're stupid.
"... core attributes like health or speed"
Link's focus has never been speed in the sense of running speed, aside from a few items used to get around in a few zelda games. And indeed, as ya mentioned, Link's had plenty of clothing/tunics that change how much he's damaged, and even make him invincible.
So, yeah... IGN stupid.


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Bulls Crush Mavs In Predictable Manner
"You get what you demand and you encourage what you tolerate.''
It belongs on a bumper sticker ... no, no, better, in golden lettering upon an iconic and centuries-tested statue. It's the sort of thing that Shakespeare would write and that Lombardi would get credit for.
But how do you cause it to apply when you oppose these Bulls? Oh, this is a Bulls team that entered Wednesday's contest one game below .500 (at 6-7) just as was the case with the Dallas Mavericks, who with Tuesday's loss at Philly dipped below .500 as a franchise for the first time since Game 9 of last year's Odious Odom Era. But this is a Bulls franchise that in three consecutive meetings has dismantled the Dallas offense. Three straight meetings, three straight in which the Mavs haven't shot over 40 percent, three straight in which the Mavs haven't scored over 83, three straight in which the Mavs were the inferior club.
Make it four straight.
Actually, Dallas shot just 35 percent and never seemed destined to sniff 83 points ... or a win.
The Mavericks' issues were exacerbated by the absence of Darren Collison, made inactive for the game with a sprained right middle finger. DC underwent X-rays and they were negative. But the steady declining circumstances of Collison in the last 24 hours -- from starter going into Philly to benched to playing well for three quarters to being part of the fourth-quarter turnover barrage to being angry in the locker room to, well, this:
Derek Fisher is about to be your new Mavs point guard.
"I think he can really help our situation with experience, defensively and really all areas of the game,'' Carlisle said of Fisher. "Right now the point guard position is a challenge.''
Dominique Jones made his second straight start at PG, and for all his ups and down, this third straight loss and this D-Fish acquisition isn't his fault. In fact, DoJo's been competent enough that if you want to ponder whether his elevation is some sort of trade showcase, ponder away. The only problem with the concept is that with DC unavailable (and struggling since the team's 4-1 start), the Mavs needed to BRING IN a point guard, not ship one off.
So you start kicking around names like Derek Fisher and you settle on the five-time NBA champ even as you start wishing Delonte West wouldn't have dipped his financial discontent into so much hot sauce.
Another change. Another re-gathering. More self-assessment. And you have a club left to console itself with the muttered fact that this was a "scheduled loss'' of sorts.
Second night of a b-2-b. Bulls trying to prove that the other night's blown 27-point lead to the Bucks was a fluke, and no Dirk, of course.
The Mavs are 2-6 on the road and have now lost eight of their last 11. They have accomplished that unfortunate mark in all variety of ways. At this moment, losing a tight game in Philly almost seems like a treat for a club that in Rick's first three seasons here was 55-22 in "close'' (five-points-or-fewer) games.
Here, the Mavericks never even got close. Maybe it's the road, where Dallas is averaging more than 10 points fewer than it is at home (105.3). Maybe it's Dirk or it's Collison or it's a "scheduled loss'' or it's the fact that in the last four games against the Bulls, the Mavs are averaging 80.25 points.
"You get what you demand and you encourage what you tolerate.''
It's a powerful philosophy being wasted on a bunch that against the last three opponents cannot shoot, score or win, and that against Chicago in four straight meeting suffers from the same failings.
More on what's happening with the Mavs coming all night, including the signing of Derek Fisher, being discussed here now on DB.com Boards!
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Yuji Naka's Studio Reveals Rodea
The Nights creator working on a new "sky action" game.
Japanese publisher Kadokawa Games released the first info today on Tenku no Kishi: Rodea, the latest title from Yuji Naka's Prope studio and the first to be released on the Nintendo 3DS.
Rodea, which will be hitting both the 3DS and Wii systems, offers flight-based gameplay that's a bit like Naka's 1996 classic Nights, except with more emphasis on shooting enemies and taking down enormous bosses. Control on the Wii version is handled entirely with the remote -- instead of directly controlling Rodea, you point to onscreen locations and tap the B button to direct him over there. A, meanwhile, is the attack button; you can press it down to fire at will, or point to objects or enemies and hit A to target them.
"I've always wanted a game that captured the wonder of flying through the air, the sort of thing everyone's dreamed about at least once in their lives," Kadokawa producer Hitoshi Hasegawa told Famitsu magazine. "The idiosyncracies of player and camera control have always been a problem with that, but with his unique perspective and experience, Naka has been able to find a solution for us."
Rodea's story and world design is being handled by Takumi Miyajima, a game-industry veteran who's worked on RPGs like Tales of the Abyss and Arc Rise Fantasia. The game is set in a fantasy world where two kingdoms compete for natural resources. The titular character, an android who's just been woken up after 1000 years of stasis, is thrown into the midst of this conflict and has to figure out which superpower to side with as he fends off his pursuers.
"The developers wanted a story that both kids and adults can identify with," Miyajima said to Famitsu, "and so I wanted to emphasize the bonds and other feelings that people have for those they encounter in their lives. Seeing how Rodea, this mechanical creation with a very pure emotional outlook on the world, interacts with the other people in his world is something I think players will really enjoy."
No release date has been given for either version of Rodea yet.
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heyPosted: Jan 19, 2011 12:00AM PST by smile_kill
this dude created nights huh wow that sum news
Sigh....Posted: Jan 19, 2011 12:00AM PST by GenesisDoes
Not giving me a lot of confidence here Yuji.


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