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Thursday, legislation was introduced by U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and David Vitter (R-La.) to block the introduction of E15. In unveiling the bill, the Senators said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had acted irresponsibly and predicted a negative impact on families and businesses should E15 be allowed into the marketplace. Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA), took issue with statements and the bill itself.
"Clearly the motivation behind the legislation introduced by Senators Wicker and Vitter is fueled by emotion and loyalty to home state oil constituents. Now that ethanol represents 10 percent of the American fuel supply and growing, oil companies are panicked. They are fighting to preserve their monopoly, their unfair and outrageously expensive tax credits, and most of all, their record breaking profits. Ethanol is no longer a gnat nipping at their precious ankles. It is a threat to the oil-centric status quo. The RFA and the ethanol producers we represent would welcome a chance to meet with Senators Wicker and Vitter to explain the benefits of E15 and dispel myths and any lingering doubts.
"The facts are these: E15 is the most tested fuel in history with over six million test miles driven and no faults found. Expanded E15 use means healthier people and a cleaner environment. Ethanol displaces many of the toxins and carcinogens found in traditional gasoline while delivering benefits such as a 35 to 49 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Senators who represent Gulf states certainly don't need to be reminded of the environmental hazards of oil production. They, in particular, should appreciate a fuel alternative that is biodegradable and water-soluble.
"If improving conditions for families and businesses is indeed a primary concern then ethanol is the answer, not the problem. Ethanol biorefineries are at their heart small businesses employing on average 30 to 50 people while creating opportunities for other local small businesses in surrounding communities. In 2012, the ethanol industry created and supported 380,000 jobs across this country. Jobs that can't be outsourced. And as the next generation of ethanol comes online, additional jobs are being in created outside the Midwest in states like Mississippi." Dinneen continued, "On the finer point of families, ethanol is providing the fuel choice consumers desire while also helping them save money. Last year ethanol delivered a $1.09 per gallon savings, which translates into a meaningful annual savings of $1,200 per average American household."
Dinneen concluded, "As for AAA and concerns about car warranties, one has to wonder why the alarm over a handful of gas stations offering E15 in the Midwest when hundreds of gas stations in numerous mountain states are offering sub-octane fuel, which knowingly violates vehicle warranties and has been proven by the auto industry to cause vehicle failures, is allowed to continue. Where is the federal legislation to protect American drivers from sub-standard gasoline? What role do oil companies and their powerful political dollars play in supporting and killing legislation, which impacts their well-lined pockets? Big Oil vs. Small Town Biofuels, the David and Goliath story never gets old. In today's version, it is E15 that pains the giant."

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Located in Downtown Albuquerque, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, and New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Old Town Plaza is 3 mi (4.9 km) away.
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Along with a restaurant, this hotel has an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Free full breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, a 24-hour business center, and coffee/tea in a common area.
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Business-related amenities consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measure 1200 square feet (111 square meters). This business-friendly hotel also offers a library, barbecue grills, and a garden. An area shuttle within 5 mi and a roundtrip airport shuttle during limited hours are complimentary for guests. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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Katy Perry and Robert Pattinson have been spending quite a bit of time together, and we're starting to think that it's not just to comfort each other from their respective breakups. The 'Part of Me' songstress and actor were spotted (once again!), at a Bjork concert together in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
According to the X17, the pair arrived separately, but entered the venue together. Then they left apart from each other — maybe to throw off the scent of coupledom they are severely releasing into the atmosphere? We think so!
A source reportedly said, "They parked and then met at the door and went inside together." They continued, "Katy came out the back door by herself, trying not to be noticed. She was looking around to see if there were any photographers. She definitely didn't want to be shot with Rob." Why so camera shy, guys? Maybe they are dating. Or maybe they aren't and Katy and R. Patz don't want to kill their chances with any other romantic partners? Certainly both plausible explanations!
Though we're somewhat inclined to believe that they are seeing each other as more than friends. Katy reportedly considers Robert "The One," and they were seen watching a wedding rehearsal together. Maybe we'll all be keeping an eye out for their nuptials down the road!


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As regards the question why the Path of Purification is not put online for free: It will be put online as a PDF for free on the BPS website and the Access to Insight website. Hopefully somewhere next year when the newly typeset and slightly revised printed edition will be put out.
Those who quickly scan in books and put them online as PDFs such as the Russian who scanned in the latest edition of the Path of Purification (1991) and put it online without having asked for permission to the BPS (Manapa gives the link) don't realize the huge amount of work it is to proofread, format and typeset a book, especially a large and complicated book like the Path of Purification with its many headings and styles, etc. They also don't realize the cost of printing and distributing the book and the cost of maintaining an non profit publishing organization such as the BPS.
The Path of Purification printed in by the Corporate Foundation of the Buddha in Taiwan, to which one of the posts in this forum refers, is a photocopy edition done without the permission of the BPS. The Corporate Foundation of the Buddha is careless with respects copyrights and has photocopy-reprinted several BPS books such as the Great Discourse of Causation by Ven. Bodhi without seeking permission to the BPS.
The BPS is generally lenient in giving permission to reprint its books and regularly gives permission to organizations in Malaysia and Singapore to reprint books for free distribution. The BPS is also making all of its Wheel Publications and some other books available online on its website (http://www.bps.lk/onlinelibrary.asp), a project which I have been organizing and which takes a lot of work. Many BPS books are also viewable on Google Books. The problem with putting larger books online is that it takes a lot of work and funds to produce them and there is the concern that organizations such as the Corporate Foundation will use the online digital files to reproduce the books without asking permission and that the BPS and its distributors in the US and Europe end up with stocks of books which can not be sold because everybody has already got the free books from our Mahayana friends in Taiwan. Another problem with making books available online for free is that everybody starts to copy it to their own websites with little effort, and sometimes without properly acknowledging the source website.
I hope to find some kind of middle way between making Dhamma books available online for free and on the other hand keeping the BPS going as an organization dedicated to publishing Dhamma books.
Bhikkhu Nyanatusita
It is perhaps of interest to know that only in recent history, the last hundred years (after printing of books became common in Asia, etc), the Tipitaka has widely become available in its original language as well as in translation. The Pali Tipitaka was written down by monks in Sri Lanka in the 2 century BCE, before that it was only orally transmitted by monks (some laypeople would also have learnt some suttas by heart but this would be a minority). After the writing down of the Tipitaka monks copied the manuscripts, which is very time-consuming work. Laypeople generally had no access to the Tipitaka because most would not know Pali and there were no complete translations of the Tipitaka available, although there probably were (interlinear) translations of some individual suttas such as the Dhammacakkappavattana, etc. Especially Jataka story translations were popular. Laypeople could get copies of texts but they would have to pay a scribe to copy it, which would have been costly and time-consuming. Manuscript were precious and treasured sacred possessions, handled with great care and respect.
The Mahavamsa(the chronicle which describes how the deeds of kings affected Buddhism in Sri Lanka) mentions that some kings has the Tipitaka copied by scribes and would have festivals in honour of the manuscripts. Some gave copied manuscripts to the Sangha and some kings rewarded monks for copying manuscripts by giving land to them. For the great majority of laypeople the way to learn the Dhamma would be to come to the temple and listen to sermons given by monks. If they really wanted to learn more then they would normally have to become monks or nuns and stay in a monastery. So, the Tipitaka and other Pali texts were only accessible to an elite minority.
In contrast, nowadays, many people in developed countries are used to have immediate access to any information they want at any time and any place through the internet and other media. If they can't get what they want immediately then this leads to frustration and anger. It is good to reflect on how privileged and fortunate we are nowadays to have access to so many free and inexpensive resources. Many people in the past would envy us. Some might have wondered how we could handle such large amounts of information without becoming confused.
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BudSas wrote:The late Ven Abhinyana, an Australian monk, had the following declaration at his website:
"Since all the words we use come to us from other people, there is no copyright on any of my books. If anyone wishes to reprint anything from them, or even all, they may do so without permission; all I ask is that they do not copy wrong!"
see: http://www.abhinyana.com/
BudSas wrote:The late Ven Abhinyana, an Australian monk, had the following declaration at his website:
"Since all the words we use come to us from other people, there is no copyright on any of my books. If anyone wishes to reprint anything from them, or even all, they may do so without permission; all I ask is that they do not copy wrong!"
see: http://www.abhinyana.com/
Manapa wrote:Hi Chula,
have a look at the BPS website!
but do you are anyone have any answers to the op questions?
mikenz66 wrote:Greetings Chula,
We went through some of these issues on the other thread that was mentioned above:
http://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... =40#p32363
Remember that PTS and BPS are non-profit organisations that have been producing high-quality translations for over a century and half-century respectively, through many generations of printing and distribution technology. (I'm not sure how long Wisdom have been going but they are also non-profit and the recent Nanamoli/Bodhi and Bodhi translations seem to be joint Wisdom/PTS efforts). These publishers are obviously aware of modern developments of wide-spread internet access in the last decade or so, and their support model will presumably evolve (BPS has stated that they will make the Visuddhimagga available on the Internet next year - see the link above).
As I said on the other thread, if I were a trustee of one of these organisation I would want to ensure the continuation of the translation projects. PTS has almost all of the Vinaya, Nikayas and Abhidhamma available in English, (http://www.palitext.com/subpages/canon.htm) but translations of the Commentaries are sporadic (http://www.palitext.com/subpages/comm.htm) and I presume that PTS wants to finish that off over next few decades.
Meanwhile, if you can not afford the translations of the Nikayas from Wisdom/PTS, there is plenty available for free at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/index.html and http://awake.kiev.ua/dhamma/tipitaka/
Chula wrote:Thanks for your post. This doesn't have anything to do with affordability - it's really a matter of principle. I also am aware of the great work that BPS and PTS have been doing all these years. It's just that if they don't adapt their models to the times quickly it will seem like they're withholding the Dhamma for no good reason.
Chula wrote:I know that BPS has many publications available online for free - I was just pointing out that since putting them online is practically costless, it doesn't make sense that they only selectively make them available.
Zen wrote:Any breach of copyright is illegal and is stealing. That's why we have copyright laws. These days everyone seems to make a lot of poor excuses about it, like if you don't want it stolen don't put it on the net, or it's not really hurting anyone, or it should be free... But the fact remains that taking and using anything that is not freely given is stealing.
I also think it is appropriate to have a copyright on the translated version of a text, because someone has taken the time and effort to translate the text therefore the translation is thier intellectual property. It doens't matter if the copyright holder intends to make a profit or distribute the work freely, they are entitled to control how that text is used.
Ben wrote:
Its a mistake to assume that the only cost of publication is the printing. Having worked for one book publisher, the cost of printing as a total of all production costs was less than 10 percent.
Ben wrote:And if one can't afford to purchase this or that Dhamma Book and it is not available online, then one can borrow (even if via inter-library loan) via the public library.
BudSas wrote:Ben wrote:Its a mistake to assume that the only cost of publication is the printing. Having worked for one book publisher, the cost of printing as a total of all production costs was less than 10 percent.
Alternatively -- to minimize costs of printing, distribution, overheads, etc -- I wonder if the authors/translators/publishers could operate on the basis similar to the "shareware" concept in computer software? They can make their material avalable on the internet and the readers would send donations to keep the work going.


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The Safety and Effectiveness of Ritonavir in the Treatment of HIV-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma
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To evaluate the safety and anti-Kaposi's sarcoma activity of ritonavir.
|Sarcoma, Kaposi HIV Infections
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|A Phase II Safety and Activity Study of Ritonavir in the Treatment of HIV-Associated Cutaneous Kaposi's Sarcoma
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Concurrent Medication:
- Patients may receive oral acyclovir and may continue prophylactic treatment for PCP, fungal infection, MAC and toxoplasmosis.
- Topical treatment and intralesional chemotherapy will be allowed for lesions which will not be used as indicator or biopsy lesions.
Concurrent Treatment:
Localized radiotherapy will be allowed for lesions which will not be used as indicator or biopsy lesions.
Patients must have:
- Documentation of a positive ELISA test for HIV with a confirmatory test.
- Biopsy proven, cutaneous or oropharyngeal Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Vital signs, physical examination and laboratory assessments that exhibit no evidence of an acute illness.
- Patients must agree to report all current medications to the primary investigator and obtain prior permission to use them when feasible.
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following symptoms and conditions are excluded:
- Evidence of pulmonary Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Positive urine screen for recreational drugs.
- Current participation in another antiviral research study.
- Investigator anticipates poor patient compliance with the protocol.
- Patient has any condition that, in the investigator's opinion, may obscure the proper observation of the safety or activity of ritonavir.
Concurrent Medication:
- Antiretroviral therapy.
- Protease inhibitor therapy.
- Antiviral agent (e.g., oral ganciclovir or Foscarnet) or prophylactic medication for an AIDS defining illness which the patient cannot be removed from.
- Chemotherapy for Kaposi's sarcoma.
- Treatment with any medications that may interact with ritonavir.
Concurrent Treatment:
Radiotherapy for Kaposi's sarcoma.
Patients with any of the following prior conditions are excluded:
- History of psychiatric illness which is currently medically significant.
- History of pancreatitis.
Prior Medication:
- All antiretroviral therapy within 2 weeks prior to the start of the treatment phase of the study.
- Systemic chemotherapy of interferon within 30 days prior to study entry.
- Previous treatment with a protease inhibitor.
Risk Behavior:
Active substance abuse.
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Carr A, Milliken S, Lewis C, Mitsuyasu R, Miles S, Newell M, Cooper DA. A pilot phase II safety and activity study of ritonavir in the treatment of HIV-associated cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma. Conf Retroviruses Opportunistic Infect. 1997 Jan 22-26;4th:194 (abstract no 703)
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Skin Neoplasms
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Protease Inhibitors
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HIV Infections
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
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Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
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Sometimes, the best Corvette restoration projects are the ones that aren't done. That includes Jack Corso's L68 427-powered '68 Corvette coupe, which--outside of one seat repair and plenty of cleaning--is just the way it was when he found it. Corso had been looking for a documented high-performance Vette when he spotted this one about 10 years ago. "I'm a big fan of any kind of emblem or badge, like a '427' or an 'LT-1' that sets it apart from a stock 300-horse car," he says. He'd recently sold a '66 Sting Ray and was looking for another Corvette for his collection. "This car fit my budget, and it was pretty much complete and unmolested, with the documentation that the owner stated that he had," he recalls. "I just rolled the dice, and the guy sounded really honest. We made a deal on a Wednesday, and he brought it down in an enclosed trailer the following day." The Vette's owner, a long-haul truck driver and lobster farmer from Maine, bought the '68 in Detroit and hauled it home as a restoration project, but he hadn't done anything to it before listing it for sale. "It looked a little rough, but it hadn't been abused," says Corso of the 53,000-original-mile car that rolled out of the seller's trailer.
Included was documentation going all the way back to St. Louis Assembly, including the car's tank sticker, Protect-O-Plate, and other items that attested to its original-equipment list. In addition to the hydraulic-lifter, 400hp, Tri-power 427, the '68 was optioned with a Muncie M-20 four-speed, power steering and brakes, Positraction, an AM/FM radio, and P02 full wheel covers. Its International Blue finish was the fourth-rarest '68 Corvette factory color.
Once the car was in Corso's garage, he sought out expert help from NCRS Master Judge and Bloomington Gold judge Sal Carbone. "I asked him to evaluate the car for me," says Corso. "He looked at it for about an hour to an hour-and-a-half and said, 'Jack, if you bring this out to Bloomington, it'll be certified as a Survivor within the first 15 minutes. It's that much of a Survivor-level car.'"
Corso then performed a thorough cleaning on the car, which revealed its original factory chalk and paint-dab markings from its trip down the assembly line. It also showed off that rare shade of blue on the C3's all-original, never-hit body. "On a scale of 1 to 10, it's probably a five or a six," he says of the original acrylic lacquer finish. "But, from 10 feet away, the car looks fantastic."
Inside, however, one item did need replacing: a torn driver-side seat cover. "I called Al Knoch, and he was kind enough to make just one seat cover for me," recalls Corso. "I took the entire seat out of the car and took it to an upholstery shop. They did a nice job putting the new cover on, [but] they threw out the old one, which I wanted to keep. Unfortunately, they didn't think that it had any value." The rest of the '68's original interior, including its nylon loop-pile carpeting, had plenty of value, and it remains in the car to this day.
Along with plenty of value, Corso's Shark also has plenty of power, thanks to that triple- carbed 427 under its hood. Says Corso, "You're riding on that middle two-barrel, and then you kick in the other two two-barrels, and you get some real nice high-end torque out of these cars." He uses 100-octane, low-lead aviation gas in the car instead of pump fuel, since it sits for long periods of time between showings, and today's pump gas can deteriorate.
Corso has found that when he does show the car, other Vette enthusiasts who love original, unrestored ones are drawn to it. "What I really like about it is that a lot more people nowadays appreciate the Survivor-type cars, and they get more attention than they used to get in the past," says Corso. "People like to see them before they're restored."
What does he say to those who'd rather see fresh paint instead of original patina? "There's no way in the world that I would paint it, because it's only original once. I'd rather enjoy it as it is, and look at the folks who come by [to see it], and really appreciate what it is. That outweighs the urge to paint it, or to go and do something crazy to it."
He adds, "I'm very pleased with what the car is. It gathers quite a lot of spectators when I take it out--and people see it the way it's supposed to be."
Spec Sheet
|'68 Coupe
|Jack Corso; New Brunswick, NJ
|Stock L68 iron, PN 3916321 (casting date L277/November 27, 1967)
|427 ci
|Stock L68 iron (PN 3917215)
|Stock hydraulic
|Stock forged aluminum
|Stock cast-iron
|Stock forged steel
|Oil System
|Stock with mechanical pump
|Stock Tri-power aluminum, CN 3919850
|Stock Holley two-barrels; two R3659s (GM PN 3902353) front and rear, single R4055A (GM PN 3925517) in the middle
|Fuel Pump
|Stock mechanical
|Stock RPO K66 Delco transistorized ignition
|Exhaust System
|Stock with OEM manifolds and mufflers
|Stock RPO M20 Muncie four-speed manual
|Stock with RPO G81 Positraction and 3.36 gears
|Stock coil springs, control arms, sway bar, and Delco shocks (front); stock independent with lateral struts, control arms, transverse leaf springs, and Delco shocks (rear)
|Stock RPO J50 four-wheel discs with power assist
|Stock 15x7 steel Rallys with RPO P01 full covers
|Stock RPO PT6 Goodyear F70-15 bias-ply red-stripe
|Current Mileage
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Artist's BiographySaxophonist Stephen Lewis (b.1987) has been well established as a performer of classical and contemporary literature for the saxophone. Since his first studies with Calgary-based educator Brendan Hagan, Stephen went on to study saxophone performance at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada) with Wendell Clanton, and receive a Bachelor of Music Degree with distinction. He received a Master of Music Degree in performance from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada). Currently, he is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in saxophone performance and literature at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) with Professor Debra Richtmeyer. In summer of 2006, he studied at the Université Européenne de Saxophone in Gap, France, and worked in masterclasses with Claude Delangle, Arno Bornkamp, Jean-Denis Michat, Julien Petit, and Damien Royannais. He has also had the opportunity to work with Jean-Marie Londeix, Eugene Rosseau, Otis Murphy, John Sampen, and Michael Ibrahim.
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UnValentine's Day Event Set for Bay Street Theatre Tonight
Bay Street Theatre is hosting its first ever "UNVALENTINES" Valentine's Day event with the screening of the hilarious WAR OF THE ROSES tonight, February 14 at 8 pm. $10 at the door which includes a glass of wine. Romantic, right?
"Whether your single, married or divorced, all are welcome," says Tracy Mitchell, Executive Director of Bay Street Theatre.
The film stars Michael Douglas & Kathleen Turner along with Danny DiVito, who also directed the 1989 film. The story is about a married couple who try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle.
For more information about other Bay Street Theatre events and programming, log on to www.baystreet.org or call the Box Office at 631-725-9500.
Bay Street Theatre is a not-for-profit regional theater presenting new, classic and contemporary works, with a commitment to challenging and entertaining our diverse community. This commitment extends to innovative educational programs that highlight the power of live theater. It is our mission to be an artistic haven for an extended family of artists and audience, while continuing to provide a gathering place to share in the unique collective theatrical experience.


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October 3, 2012
Regular-Season Awards
Handing out the Hardware
Today we reveal the Baseball Prospectus staff choices for the major player awards (MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, and Manager of the Year) in the American and National Leagues. Each staff member's predictions may be found later in the article. Here, we present a wisdom-of-the-crowds summary of the results.
For the MVP voting, we've slightly amended the traditional points system in place that has been used elsewhere, dropping fourth- and fifth-place votes to make it 10-7-5 for the MVP Award, and the regular 5-3-1 for the Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, and Manager of the Year Awards (that's 5 points for a first-place vote, 3 points for a second-place vote, etc.). Next to each of these selections we've listed the total number of ballots, followed by the total number of points, and then the number of first-place votes in parentheses, if any were received.
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Pat Folz
Such language, Mr. Jaffe!
Oct 03, 2012 02:54 AM
Cespedes should get some 3rd place MVP votes. His slugging has fueled the As second-half surge. Certainly he has had far less help than Cano.
Oct 03, 2012 04:58 AM
I disagree. If you're choosing an MVP from the A's, to me it's clearly Josh Reddick.
Oct 03, 2012 10:01 AM
Russell left Miggy off his ballot completely? Wowsers!
Oct 03, 2012 05:53 AM
To his credit, I would have put Miggy 4th. In general, I'd personally rather see the MVP be a position player only award, but since pitchers are eligible, you gotta give props to Verlander who's having a fantastic year and is more valuable to the Tigers than is Cabrera. Cano's raw numbers aren't as pretty as Cabrera's, but he plays an above average second base compared to Cabrera's below average 3B. Plus, positional adjustments matter. And if you want narrative, Cano's been the only Yankee who hasn't been hurt this year... and the Yankees are going to the playoffs.
Oct 03, 2012 07:44 AM
Bryan Grosnick
Thanks for sharing all of these. I'd love to see the reasoning behind some of the more off-the-beaten path choices (Rodney for Cy, Rosario #1 for RoY, the no-Cabrera ballot, the no-Harper ballot, Adam Jones for MVP, etc.), because I'd love to hear the different viewpoints.
Oct 03, 2012 06:16 AM
I am curious as to why some of the voting slots were blank. Was that an oversight or intentional? If intentional is there an explanation? Thanks.
Oct 03, 2012 06:20 AM
It's intentional, and what you see is how my ballot was submitted -- not blank, but with dashes in place of names. It's all Manager of the Year voting, I think several of us think that ranking managers is hard to do well with the information we have currently.
Oct 03, 2012 07:14 AM
I want to hear the story behind Mr. Jaffe labeling the AL MVP and ROY as "MFT"! :-)
Oct 03, 2012 07:01 AM
Shaun P.
And thus, a new nickname was born. I, too, would love to hear this backstory.
Oct 03, 2012 07:32 AM
Jay just likes to swear.
Oct 03, 2012 07:52 AM
Jay Jaffe
BP staff
son of a [redacted], who cleaned that up?
Oct 03, 2012 09:55 AM
T. Kiefer
If Miguel Cabrera gets the Triple Crown, but doesn't get MVP, I don't know what I'm going to do. The hypocracy in the stat/baseball pundit world is driving me nuts. When the MVP was Cabrera vs. Hamilton a couple of years ago, everyone (incl. this site) was saying that Hamilton should get it because the Rangers were going to the playoffs and the Tigers weren't, even though Cabrera's secondary numbers were better than Hamilton's. Now, going to the playoffs doesn't matter, but 'individual achievement' and secondary numbers. Pundits will then say, 'But if Trout had broke with the club in spring training, the Angels would be going to the playoffs'. Well, pundits, these hypotheticals can work both ways --maybe if Trout broke with the club in April he would have sprained his wrist and been out six weeks and then tanked from there, or maybe he would've choked and had a miserable month or season due to the irregular playing time in the overloaded Angels outfield, or got a concussion trying to steal a base and lost time there. By the way, if Trout were in line to get the Triple Crown, the press would be all over him and the MVP voting would be unanimous in his favor.
Oct 03, 2012 07:29 AM
"When the MVP was Cabrera vs. Hamilton a couple of years ago, everyone (incl. this site) was saying that Hamilton should get it because the Rangers were going to the playoffs and the Tigers weren't, even though Cabrera's secondary numbers were better than Hamilton's."
Oct 03, 2012 07:36 AM
Citation? What? He grumbled vaguely and then mentioned intellectual honesty and you have the audacity to challenge him, you dirty pundit?!?!?!
Oct 03, 2012 08:06 AM
T. Kiefer
Oct 03, 2012 08:44 AM
Shaun P.
I don't really recall the Hamilton vs. Cabrera MVP debate.
Oct 03, 2012 07:43 AM
Pat Folz
Here's what I don't get: why is winning the Triple Crown automatically equated to "must be the MVP!" this year? By my count, four Triple Crown winners did not get the hardware: Ted Williams twice, Lou Gehrig, and Chuck Klein. Each of them won MVP awards in years that they DIDN'T get the Triple Crown, so clearly the voters back them were using additional criteria. Why are we beholden to this Triple Crown = MVP idea all of a sudden? Why does Interesting Non-MVP-Guaranteeing Statistical Coincidence + A Long Time Since It Last Happened = Automatic MVP And You Are Hypocritical And Intellectually Dishonest If You Disagree?
Oct 03, 2012 12:19 PM
Who cares about winning the MVP award, 'winning' a triple crown is 100 times more important and 100 times more memorable than a common and garden MVP award that 2 guys win every year!
Oct 03, 2012 16:26 PM
It's because it hasn't happened for so long, unlike the names you cited. It's not right or logical but thank god baseball still has a bit of the old tradition intact, it's one if the reasons it's so great.
Oct 03, 2012 23:06 PM
There is nothing hypothetical about the playoff bound Detroit Tigers having the 7th best record in the American League, for those that like the "player A," carried his team narrative.
Oct 03, 2012 15:35 PM
Josh the most important thing in the regular season is to win your division
Oct 03, 2012 16:30 PM
And the Angels had the misfortune of playing in a much better division. The Tigers had an embarrassing record of 13-20 against the American League West. The Angels had a winning record in each of the divisions in the American League. The Angels also were in the mix for a Wild Card spot, so it's not as if they were playing "meaningless games." Furthermore, the Angels have a better record in crunch time (i.e September/October), so it's not as if the team wilted in the playoff chase. Miguel Cabrera has had an outstanding season, but I don't think he should get bonus points in the MVP race based on where his team's home city is located.
Oct 03, 2012 17:40 PM
Dan Evans' ballot doesn't make sense to me. He's got Kimbrel 3rd in MVP, but 2nd behind Dickey in Cy Young. Yet he didn't vote for Dickey for MVP. Weird.
Oct 03, 2012 07:31 AM
No surprise Trout has 27 first place votes. On the elements that can be measured he has performed the best.
Oct 03, 2012 07:42 AM
This may be true, but you're talking about a handful of writers for each player at most, out of ~700 total ballots. Any inside knowledge of "intangibles" that these few writers have is almost assuredly not going to impact who wins the award.
Oct 03, 2012 08:56 AM
If you're going to apply the logic that clubhouse presence counts, you have to apply it fairly. You can't simply assume that Cabrera (or Trout) "made their team better" while ignoring the fact that the other might have done so as well.
Oct 03, 2012 09:18 AM
Exactly, you have to rely on anecdotel evidence - which i'm sure the baseball writers will.
Oct 03, 2012 09:26 AM
Jason A. Churchill
Detroit may be headed for the postseason and the Angels headed home for the playoffs, but LAA ends the season with a better overall record than the Tigers and have done so in a significantly tougher division. So the team issue doesn't truly help Cabrera, either.
Oct 03, 2012 07:47 AM
A team only has to beat what is put in front of it. The Tigers were in a penant race and won. I know the cult of personality has long been overstated but that doesn't mean it should be ignored completely - just because it's impossible to measure a a metric.
Oct 03, 2012 08:36 AM
Do you really think that renowned drunk driver Miguel Cabrera is that much nicer than notorious hard worker and team player Mike Trout to make up for the extra three wins or so in value that Trout generated, or is it just that you think Cabrera should win regardless and you are spouting assorted rubbish to try and muddy the waters a bit?
Oct 04, 2012 02:02 AM
Does this dignigify a response..... no, i don't think it does
Oct 04, 2012 02:29 AM
On reflection, none of us know who should win the MVP because we haven't spent the whole season in locker rooms and talking to the players.
Oct 04, 2012 02:50 AM
Larry Granillo
BP staff
Apologies for not getting my ballot in. It wasn't intentional.
Oct 03, 2012 07:51 AM
Churchill's Manager of the Year vote makes me think that he has also been partaking in some nose candy.
Oct 03, 2012 08:56 AM
Is Yonder Alonso not eligible for RoY?
Oct 03, 2012 09:14 AM
As an aside - who do people think will win the MVP?. I really have no idea.
Oct 03, 2012 09:32 AM
I presume the BP staffers are eligible to vote?
Oct 03, 2012 09:37 AM
Marc Normandin
Today we reveal the Baseball Prospectus staff choices for the major player awards
Oct 03, 2012 09:41 AM
No one who has a ballot for the actual award is supposed to publish anything about how they will vote ahead of the results announcement. So, I wouldn't expect any of the BP staffers listed above to have votes for any of these awards.
Oct 03, 2012 22:40 PM
Thanks, great post
Oct 03, 2012 22:51 PM
Voting is restricted to BBWAA members, of which there are a few around here (Jay and Ben, I believe).
Oct 04, 2012 06:50 AM
I think Cabrera wins the MVP for three reasons:
Oct 04, 2012 07:20 AM
I don't think your 3rd point holds water. Voters don't vote on all of the awards. From my understanding, some writers get one award to vote on, others get none. I don't think that anyone will be partaking in the actual MVP and ROY awards in the same year.
Oct 04, 2012 07:23 AM
You are correct, but I don't think that changes the philosophy any. Trout is a shoo-in for the ROY, so enough MVP voters will go for Cabrera, figuring the handing of two pieces of hardware to Trout would be overkill.
Oct 05, 2012 11:54 AM
If Josh Hamilton had hit two more home runs, how would that affect Cabrera's MVP case?
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St. Paul, MN (SportsNetwork.com) - Ilya Bryzgalov stopped all 20 shots he faced for his third shutout of the season, and Minnesota continued to push for a playoff berth with a 4-0 decision over Pittsburgh at Xcel Energy Center.
"I think not only the good lead in the first period, the whole game the team was playing unbelievable. They did a tremendous job," Bryzgalov said. "I'm just trying to enjoy the hockey and help the team and help the guys like they helping me to get these points and help to win the games."
Erik Haula, Mikko Koivu and Stephane Veilleux tallied in a strong first period for the Wild, owners of the first wild-card spot in the West who remained five points up on Dallas -- which won at Tampa Bay.
Cody McCormick added the other tally and Charlie Coyle supplied two assists.
Jeff Zatkoff made 16 saves for the Penguins, who took their foot off the gas and sat several regulars, including Evgeni Malkin, having clinched the Metropolitan Division. In addition, forward Jussi Jokinen (upper body) and defenseman Olli Maatta (lower body) were on the sidelines.
Haula chipped one home from the slot thanks to a bouncing lead pass by Matt Moulson for the opening goal at 1:42.
Koivu put the Wild up 2-0 at 8:47, using Zach Parise and a Pens defender as a screen and whipping a shot home from between the circles and Veilleux notched his third of the season at 14:56 with an off-balance shot which trickled off Zatkoff's glove and in.
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Bryzgalov only needed to make five saves in the middle frame and then seven more in the third to keep his team's winning margin intact.
"We have to play the right way," Pens captain Sidney Crosby said. "We know what that is. We've done a good job of it. It's just a matter of making sure we find that urgency for the last bit."
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Bryzgalov improved to 5-0-3 with two shutouts and a goals-against average falling towards two-per-game since joining Minnesota ... Pittsburgh has been shut out three times in its last 13 games despite ranking second in the Eastern Conference with 237 goals ... Attendance was a record 19,409.


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LOS ANGELES -- Rookie catcher Tim Federowicz was thrilled to be on the Opening Day roster for the Dodgers and made his first start of the season on Sunday, but he appears likely to be optioned to the Minor Leagues this week following the club's acquisition of veteran Ramon Hernandez.
The Dodgers are stacked with three catchers after trading right-hander Aaron Harang and cash to the Rockies for Hernandez on Saturday. A.J. Ellis remains the primary catcher, Hernandez will be a back up and Federowicz appears to be the odd man out. Manager Don Mattingly said Sunday the club would not carry three catchers for an extended period.
The Dodgers expect to activate right-hander Chad Billingsley from the disabled list on Wednesday to start at San Diego and will likely option Federowicz to open a roster spot.
As Saturday's trade was in the works, the Dodgers discussed its potential impact on the psyche of Federowicz.
"It's one of the areas that was probably one of the biggest concerns with this deal," Mattingly said before Sunday's series finale against the Pirates. "We don't want to crush the kid. We think he's going to be really good. It becomes a matter of making sure we have conversations where he knows where he fits, where he's not just out there on an island guessing how we feel about him. We need to make sure he knows how we feel about him, what we think, give him our reasoning and our thinking for our club for the whole and you go from there."
So how do the Dodgers feel about Federowicz?
"Everybody likes Fed and the things he can do as a catcher," Mattingly said. "We think he's going to develop offensively. We think he's really smart. We feel like he fits right in. We're going to do what's best for him and best for the organization in the long run."
Austin Laymance is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Marquess Wilson, one of the top receivers in the Pac-12, has quit the Washington State football team and in a statement released to his hometown newspaper, the Visalia Times-Delta, accuses coach Mike Leach and his staff of "physical, emotional and verbal abuse."
Wilson wrote an open letter to the team's fans. He was suspended indefinitely on Wednesday for a violation of team rules. In the letter, Wilson disputes any wrongdoing and hurtles potentially damaging accusations at Leach, the Cougars' first-year coach who was fired at Texas Tech amid abuse claims made by Adam James.
According to the Times-Delta, Wilson walked out of a conditioning session on Sunday night after the team lost 49-6 to Utah the day before.
Wilson blames the staff for destroying the team's goals and says that instead of building up the team and the players, coaches instead "preferred to belittle, intimidate and humiliate us."
In an excerpt of the statement, Wilson writes:
"My teammates and I have endured this treatment all season long. It is not 'tough love.' It is abuse. This abuse cannot be allowed to continue…I was raised by my family, and many previous coaches to exhibit dedication and embrace sacrifice, but there comes a time when one has to draw a line in the sand."
Washington State played UCLA Saturday night. Athletic director Bill Moss issued a statement in response to Wilson's decision.
"Unfortunately, during times of coaching transitions, departures are not uncommon. We have procedures in place that were developed to monitor student-athlete welfare in all of our sports programs. We will continue to follow those procedures and modify them if needed.
"I believe I join many Cougars in wishing Marquess well in his future endeavors. WSU athletics plans no future statement at this time."
Last season, he set a school records with 82 catches for 1,388 yards.
This season Wilson had 52 catches for 813 yards, an average of 15.6 yards per reception.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Dozens of people showed up at Latitude 30 to meet some Jaguars players, have dinner and bowl a few games Monday night. Many of those in attendance were already aware of "Movember," and the diseases it tries to highlight.
The "Movember" movement has men across the United States growing mustaches during the month of November to draw attention to men's health issues like prostate and testicular cancer. Eben Britton and fellow Jaguar offensive linemen like Eugene Monroe and Brad Meester joined with cancer survivors to spread the word about the diseases.
"This is about getting the word out there, this is such a prevalent disease for men," said Britton.
Bob Hauser knows about these diseases all too well, he's fighting and winning a battle with prostate cancer.
"We have to go officially two years before we can say we are cancer free," said Hauser. "I'm a cancer survivor."
Javier Miranda was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1993 and was cancer free until 2002, then the cancer came back. Miranda said after another fight against the disease, he's beat the disease again.
"This disease can be very dangerous, get themselves checked earlier," said Miranda.
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As Free and as Just as Possible
In the preface to his latest book, As Free and as Just as Possible: The Theory of Marxian Liberalism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Jeffrey Reiman, the William Fraser McDowell Professor of Philosophy, writes: "I think that the time is ripe for a philosophical theory of justice that combines Marx's insights—about capitalism, and about the conditions of freedom and the mechanisms of coercion—with the liberalism that socialist states have lacked. Marxian Liberalism is such a theory of justice."
Reiman recently talked about his theory and Marx's impact on his thinking.
The phrase "as possible" is a key part of Marxian Liberalism, whether you're talking about freedom or justice.
I think of Marx as someone in the liberal tradition. He was a Kantian and Hegelian liberal. He believed in freedom of speech and all of the familiar political freedoms. But he discovered another threat to freedom that people didn't notice. That threat to freedom is built into a social structure where a small number of people own the means of production—factories, land, resources, machines, and so on. Because Marxian Liberalism aims to protect freedom against this additional, often unseen, threat, it makes for a society that is as free as possible.
The tricky part is once you accept the private ownership of means of production, force can be exercised through free negotiation. But there's not much talk about the force built into the property system itself. That for a Marxist is ideology. You just don't see it; you're just too used to it. It's just there.
On the other hand, I think that capitalism rapidly and dramatically raises people's material standard of living, and that this amounts to providing them with the means to additional freedom. It gives them the possibility of acting more and more on their personal choices. So ultimately I argue that people can be compensated for the structural coercion of the property system by the way it raises the material standard of living. I think that's one of the marvelous things about capitalism. It constrains you in this other way but it quite dramatically increases freedom by raising the material standard of living.
And the justice part of the equation?
I think justice is a special moral ideal. If you look at the way justice is treated by people like Kant and Mill, justice always has to do with what can be required of people. In that sense it must take into consideration their actual needs and abilities and desires and level of altruism and so on. So justice is not really an ideal value; it's more of an applied value. So there too, but in a different way, you can only have as much as possible.
That's not to say you can't speak about ideal justice. But what you're doing is speaking about where you think people can go. So that's why this is as just as is possible. It's as just as they can get now.
Many philosophers, among them Kant, Locke, and of course Marx, are important to Marxian Liberalism. But none more so than John Rawls, especially his use of the difference principle.
The difference principle is the distributive principle that Rawls thinks it would be rational for people to agree to in the original position. The basic idea is something like this: In the original position you imagine people are rational. They have general knowledge but no particular knowledge of their own situation. They stand behind a veil of ignorance. They don't know their talents, race, gender, and so on. They will have some way they want to live; they just don't know which way it is. They have to agree on principles that they would be willing to live by knowing that they have the general interests of human beings. So in that situation you are forced in a way to choose as if you could be anyone, because in a way you could. That forces a moral point of view on you.
The point of view of morality is the point of view of anyone or the point of view of everyone taken together. Everyone has an equal say or an equal veto. So if you were talking about distribution your first thought would be to divide everything up equally. So then Rawls supposes that somebody comes forth and says, 'Look, suppose by allowing a certain amount of inequality we could raise the amount that everybody has.' So everybody would have more, even the people on the bottom of the inequality. This leads to the difference principle which holds that inequalities are justified if and only if they maximize the share of the worst-off group. It's based on the use of inequalities as incentives to make more available to all.
You defend Marx against people who associate his ideas with failed communist states.
Marx was a democrat; he believed in liberal freedoms. He thought the development of the French constitution, The Declaration on the Rights of Man and the Citizen, was a great step forward. And he believed the American constitution was a great step forward. He was a student of the constitutions of the newly independent American colonies. He saw their progressiveness. But because he saw the other threat to freedom, the threat posed by private ownership, he viewed political rights as providing only partial liberation. Getting political freedom without getting control of the means of production was not fully emancipation.
As for the failure of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union claimed to be socialist, but it basically was a kind of bureaucratic tyranny. There have been Marxist economists who argued that the Soviet Union basically followed the laws of capitalism; it just made the state the main investor. And, since it concentrated economic power in the state, it became a tyranny that left little freedom to its citizens.
Marx has had a great influence on your thinking. Do you recall when you first encountered his work?
Oh, goodness. It must have been as an undergraduate, at Queen's College.
I have to say this. I didn't really seriously learn about Marx until after I got here. I came here in 1970, during the Vietnam War and civil rights struggles, and AU then and I think even still now was a very '60s place. I started sitting in on some of the courses my wife [AU economics associate professor emerita Sue Headlee] was taking as part of her doctoral work in political economy, and I realized that I didn't really have a serious knowledge of Marx. I had this fluffy knowledge of Marx. I loved the liberation part of it, the radicalness of it.
Yes, he has had a big influence on me. My mother was sure I was going to become a communist. She wasn't exactly right, but I'm still working on it, my own brand of capitalist-communism.


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World Wrestling Debacle: Suvivors, Goats, and Cena?
Hello fellow bloggers and blog readers, I'm Dennis and today I'm going to be writing a duel blog with a seasoned blogger here on EWrestlingNews, Bearkg88. This is going to be a continuation of our blog series, even though we haven't had a blog in quite some time. Today we are going to discuss five topics that are prevalent in today's
A Dennis Blog: The Good Parts Of The Divas Division.
Hello members of the internet wrestling community, today I'd like to talk about something that isn't often talked about blogs here on eWrestlingNews, the divas division. Instead of giving you a generic rundown of the current roster that would make for a bland blog, I'm going to try to be a tad more entertaining. I'd like to offer you
Hey, this is Dennis back with another blog for you guys! This time I'm doing another duel blog but this time with my friend Kendon. I hope you guys like the subject matter we decided to discuss and as always feel free to tell us what you think and how we could improve.
Who do you think should take the belt off John Cena?
Dennis: John Cena is the most controversial superstar
Why the pg era is good for wrestling fans and the WWE.
So today I thought I'd take on an issue relevant to wrestling fans but many in the internet wrestling community, in my opinion, blindly hate with out realizing the benefits of it. The pg era, as a whole does have it's down sides but in this blog I will focus on the good things about the pg era. Trust me there are plenty of positive things
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Hey, this is Dennis again. An experince EWN Blogger and I thought we'd do another duel blog since the first one was so fun to do! Hope you guys enjoy Bearkg and my blog about Bully Ray, The Wrestlemania build up, and one superstar that we believe should be pushed by a major wrestling company.
What do you think about Bully Ray's heel turn!?
Dennis: I like that they switched him
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A Dennis Blog-- A couple of thoughts on the road to wrestlemania.
Welcome to another edition of A Dennis Blog, a blog that I am trying to keep going on a weekly basis. This weeks edition I'm going to do it much differently than before so, hopefully it works out for me but hey if it doesn't it's not that big of a deal, I will go back to my previous format and forget about this blog forever.
A Dennis Blog -- Why John Cena is Good for WWE.
Welcome to this weeks edition of A Dennis Blog, this week I am inspired to talk about another controversial issue among WWE fans, John Cena. During this blog I plan to show why John Cena has been pushed to the moon by WWE, but how this is actually advantageous for WWE. I am well aware that many of the IWC will disagree with this and as always
Why a face Miz is good for business.
Hello, fellow ewn bloggers and viewers. I have been writing blogs for the past couple of weeks on topics that I thought many other members of the IWC were misguided on their current viewpoints. I actually had a hard time choosing another blog topic for that reason, because I agree with other members of the IWC often. For some reason though, many members
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Welcome to this weeks edition of A Dennis Blog, OH HELL NO!!!
Hey, it's Dennis again back for my second. I have to admit I didn't really know what to write about in this second blog but then I was reading some forum posts on this site about two of the greatest superstars in WWE, who just happen to be the tag team champions. As I am not afraid to stir the pot, I decided I would tell you why I
Welcome to my first blog
`Hey, I have decided to start a blogging about random wrestling related issues that I think are currently prevalent with other members of the IWC. I will hit an issue in this blog and look forward to any feedback other members want to give me in order to make any future blogs better.
Why The Rock winning gold is a good thing.
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A friend's suicide leaves a reporter with questions that can't be answered and a pain that won't diminish
If there is any criminal act that leaves the victim's survivors more bewildered, frustrated and tormented than suicide, I can't imagine what it could possibly be.
Four months ago, I discovered one of my former college classmates and best friends of more than 40 years dead in his home, apparently by his own hand. The official ruling was suicide by a shot to the head with a handgun that I didn't even know he owned.
I now understand that he bought the gun for protection several decades ago. The idea that my friend would even own a gun for protection seemed ludicrous to me because I couldn't imagine anyone who was so loving, peaceful and gentle being capable of shooting anyone, let alone himself.
I've been told that some people buy guns for protection because they believe that the exhibition of one will scare an intruder away. That must have been what he was thinking.
I've finally decided to write about this because The Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow recently wrote a column noting that older white men are more likely to commit suicide than other groups of people. My friend fit in that category.
It is inconceivable to me that my friend — who as a young man had been beautiful, talented, athletic, affluent and charismatic — could ever succumb to such a fate. But if it could happen to him, I guess it could happen to anyone when they grow older.
My friend was a 61-year-old straight guy who had never been married, and his best friend was his elderly Jack Russell Terrier who was dying of old age. He became so depressed one time that he went to bed and was found later, nearly dead of starvation and dehydration.
As a young man, my friend was adored by both women and men. But when he grew older, the attention from everyone died away. He had trouble making dates and trying to form a relationship in his older years.
He also was experiencing devastating financial problems of which few people were aware.
My friend had suffered a similar depressive experience five years ago when his mother died of natural causes. But he seemingly had recovered enough to function for a few years before his death. But he apparently quit taking the medication that had brought him back to sanity in years past. He suffered a terrible relapse as a result.
My friend was admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit and later transferred to a mental hospital. Although his family and many friends rallied around him with loving care, he just never made it back to where he had been. His beloved dog was put to sleep while he was hospitalized.
He was released from the hospital, but it was clear he was not well. He was registered for outpatient care but apparently could not face it.
Within two days, he was dead.
Many things come to my mind about this on a near-daily basis now. It is so unbelievable to me that he could shoot himself or anyone else that I sometimes have trouble believing it was really a suicide.
I think that's what they call denial.
Logically, I know it was suicide, and I'm glad that he is free of the severe mental illness that he had apparently endured for a number of years.
Emotionally, I search for answers and often think, "What if?" I would never have left him alone for those two days had I known he was in such danger from himself.
The two lessons I believe that can be learned from this are that if someone has suffered a mental illness, they should never be left alone until it is ascertained they are again stable.
The other message is for the mentally ill who are considering suicide if they are able at that point of making logical decisions: The pain and suffering that will be wrought upon the surviving friends and family will result in a lifetime of utter agony for them.
A friend of mine whose mother went into her garage many years ago, started her car and died, said to me, "Your mind is going to be raw for a very long time." And it is.
David Webb is a veteran journalist who has covered LGBT issues for the mainstream and alternative press for more than two decades. He is a former Dallas Voice staff writer and editor. E-mail him at email@example.com.