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Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Player Power Rankings - Who's Up, Who's Down and What's What.
Why? Because everybody loves power rankings. Also, people love to tell us that we're wrong, so there's nothing quite like some improvised rankings to provide you with the fuel you need.
How Do You Rank Them? However we please, though we'll look at the Fangraphs version of WAR, weighted runs created plus (wRC+), Win Probability Added. Since it is early in the season, we'll grab whatever seems to make sense at this point. We'll jumble it up, get an impression and lay it out there to see if it hangs together.
Are You a Big Dummy? Don't You Know That (Fill In Stat Here) Means Nothing With This Small Sample Size? Hey, we're just trying to have some fun. If you'd like, we can wait until the season is over before we blog again, so as to ensure that there is a sufficient sample on which to comment. But failing that, these are the Player Power Rankings. Proceed at your own risk.
And here we go!
1. Edwin Encarnacion - Leads team with wRC+ of 150, slugging .565, Four HRs. Doesn't contribute a ton with the glove, though he has looked good at 1B so far. Hits everything hard.
2. Kelly Johnson -Leads team in fWAR (0.7). Impressive 18.1% walk rate. Has looked surprisingly good in the field.
3. Luis Perez - Has yet to allow a run in seven games and 11.1 innings of work. 9.53 K/9. Might have been lucky with .167 BABIP so far.
4. Ricky Romero - Leads pitchers in fWAR (0.5). Has bounced back nicely since his first inning against Cleveland. Low K/9 (5.93) is a concern.
5. José Bautista - You worried? Don't lose too much sleep. Yes, he's been chasing some bad pitches and swinging through some good pitches, but still rocks a .378 OBP, best among regulars. Expect that to go up, too.
6. Kyle Drabek - Advanced stats don't like his performance as much as the standard metrics (2.00 ERA versus 4.37 FIP), but he's still posted the best strikeout rate among the starters.
7. Darren Oliver - Only five innings so far, and got lost in the bullpen shuffle for the better part of a week, but has struck out a batter per inning and given up just one run.
8. Colby Rasmus - Isn't walking enough, but is hitting the ball hard. Isolated power of .224 so far is equal to Johnson's.
9. Brett Lawrie - Low slugging percentage is a concern, and baserunning blunders add up, but still has a knack for coming around to score. 0.6 fWAR is tied for second on the team. Has looked good with the glove.
10. Jeff Mathis - wRC+ of 264! Slugging .900! Oh come on. Just let him have this moment. When's the next time he's in the top 10?
11. Henderson Alvarez - His last outing was lousy, and he (like all the starters) isn't striking enough batters out. But two of three starts were pretty good.
12. Casey Janssen - Victimized by the home run so far, but a K/BB rate of 7.00 augurs well for future success.
13. Yunel Escobar - Isn't quite on track yet, and is as streaky a hitter as the Jays have. His win probability added still sits in the negative side of the ledger.
14. Brandon Morrow - Where have the strikeouts gone? 4.05 K/9 rate is troubling.
15. J.P. Arencibia - Far fewer donuts in his stat lines lately. Still carries highest strikeout rate and lowest walk rate among regulars.
16. Rajai Davis - Has been less than awful in spot duty. Tied for team lead in steals with three in limited duty.
17. Francisco Cordero - Has been neither great nor awful to this point. Hard to read too much into his .360 BABIP this early in the season.
18. Ben Francisco - For a guy who rarely steps out of the dugout's shadow, has had some decent at bats.
19. Jason Frasor- Still infuriatingly slow on the mound. Has the highest K/9 rate among Jays pitchers (12.79), but that's offset by a 7.11 BB/9.
20. Travis Snider - Sure, it's the Pacific Coast League. But he's still killing it, with a 1.200 OPS. If nothing else, he's jacking up his own trade value.
21. The entire Lansing Lugnuts roster - 14-4 in the Midwest League, with some great individual performances.
22. The entire Dunedin Blue Jays roster - If we're going down that road, might as well point out that the high-A team is 14-3 in the Florida State League.
23. Sergio Santos - Got off to a terrible start and is now hurt, but last few outings were better, and his slider is getting swings and misses.
24. Drew Hutchinson - His first four innings of work were pretty stellar, and he made some nice pitches on the Royals' better hitters.
25. Joel Carreno - His one start wasn't as bad as Carlos Santana made it look. Probably got lost in some bad timing, or else he would have been recalled to make Hutch's start.
26. Adam Lind - Still sporting a sub-.700 OPS. Why he gets at bats in the cleanup spot is a mystery to us.
27. Evan Crawford - Still has yet to give up an earned run, but his line of three walks versus one strikeout in two innings isn't great.
28. Carlos Villanueva - Sat on the shelf for too long and has walked everyone and your grandma so far this year (8.53 BB/9).
29. Omar Vizquel -Still looks thrilled to be there. His bunting skills are probably lost on us.
30. Eric Thames - Yes, we're probably stretching this to make a point. Lowest WPA (-0.33) on the team. In spite of Spring Training stories about his work in the field, has been as bad as last year. Slugging .300. His facial hair is annoying.
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Any idea when the last time is that a starting pitcher has seen their K rate drop 60% over one season? I like the results, but Morrow should be striking out at least 6 per 9.
- April 24, 2012 at 11:21 AM
hey Tao - assuming roughly similar performances by both Snider and Thames going forward, how many games until you call Snider up to replace Thames as the everyday left fielder?
I'm inclined to say 40.
- April 24, 2012 at 11:33 AM
- Chaosbeard said...
The issue with Snider is he's out of options. If they call him up and he struggles they can't send him back to LV without him clearing waivers.
Don't think the Jays are ready to take that risk yet.
- April 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM
Actually, he can be called up and sent down as many times as they want this year - him being out of options just means that this is the last season they can move him up and down without going through waivers...
the bigger issue with Snider is that he's yo-yo'd up and down too much, and they are determined to not bring him up until they are thoroughly convinced that there is absolutely nothing for him to learn in AAA, and then it's sink-or-swim time for really reals...
- April 24, 2012 at 2:11 PM
Please, no need to critique the "really reals" - I regretted it the moment I hit "publish this comment"...guess that's why I went with "anonymous"
- April 24, 2012 at 2:13 PM
I love that Tao finds Thames' facial hair annoying. As the last sentence of the article it is the main message I will take away.
- April 24, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- Dewey said...
hey tao,
those strikeout numbers sure are troubling, when was the last time a playoff rotation had a combined k/9 that was THAT low...
ps. I'm biding my time in the hoe-down... prepare to fall!!
- April 24, 2012 at 5:21 PM
- Chad said...
I thought the Thames facial hair was universally beloved.
- April 25, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Snider is hurt again.
2013 of: Rasmus in left, Gose in center, Bautista in right. Snider/Thames continue to struggle.
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for the people who asked for photography tips, i hope this helps a little bit. my only real tip is to move around until you find the right angle.
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Chaya Kessler Named Director of Kent State's Jewish Studies Program
The Jewish Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University is under new leadership this fall. Chaya Kessler has assumed the position as director of the program in addition to teaching courses in elementary and intermediate Hebrew as well as introduction to Jewish Studies. Kessler takes over from Dr. Richard Steigmann-Gall, director of the program since 2004, who stepped down over the summer to return to his research and teaching full-time in the university's Department of History.
"I am honored to be the next in a long line of devoted directors and am completely committed to making Kent State's Jewish Studies Program the premier program of its kind in Northeast Ohio," Kessler said.
Born in Russia and raised in Israel, Kessler served in the Israeli Army Intelligence Unit before teaching high school. Following her army service, she earned a bachelor's degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in English literature and education. While raising a family, she resumed her studies and completed her master's in history with honors from Youngstown State University. Kessler was the 2004 recipient of the B'nai B'rith graduate award from the history department. She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.
"I am delighted that Chaya Kessler will continue and grow the strong tradition of excellent leadership and programming for the Jewish Studies Program," said Timothy Moerland, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State. "Her credentials are impeccable, and she has a vast network within the Jewish community, both here and abroad, that will greatly enhance our program. Her relationships, both on campus and throughout the community, dovetail perfectly with the goals of the university." Moerland also thanks Steigmann-Gall for his significant contributions to the Jewish Studies Program over the past five years.
The Jewish Studies Program at Kent State University offers courses and activities that promote understanding of all aspects of Jewish life. A minor or certificate in Jewish Studies enables students enrolled in any major to become acquainted with the culture, language, literature, history, philosophy, and religious customs of the Jewish people from antiquity to the present.
Kessler has three goals for the program this year: to increase enrollment in the Jewish Studies minor; to create collaborative partnerships with other departments and programs on campus in order to offer varied courses and activities; and to enrich student life by bringing exciting and relevant speakers, films, music and exhibits to campus.
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Link would totally belong to the "puzzle-solving Door-opening caste"
He fits into the reincarnation bit pretty well too!
Clearly, he's played many point-and-click and/or action adventure games and the like. And Mom said there was nothing to be gained from those!
Just noticed that Laz's hair seemed to have grown on us. lol.
And the people said that video games were evil
Yes, he does clearly play video games, of all kinds. He was even playing one during his "vision" where he heard "foster-mom" worried about him.
It looks like an unholy alliance is forming. Even though they snarl at each other, and Laz gets a well deserved face plant every now and then, they can't seem to avoid helping each other. It'll be interesting to see what they'll find in there.
As to what's behind the door, one rapidly retreating elf and an ominous 'hsssssss' advancing
So… If Laz wants to stop Satan, and demons are a part of Satan pretty much, then won't stopping Satan take out at least half of Laz?
An interesting proposition. Mortality in this world, especially for the gods and goddesses, seems to be a little ill-defined.
From what I understand, he would eithre die or turn into some form of male lilitu. >.<
Correction, it would be a possiblility for him to turn into a female lilitu since the Y gene would have had to have come from Satan also.
Actually, Laz is a demon completely, but not all demons are part of Satan. Deending on which demons, and how you define demons and devils,s ome were created from him, yes, but others are creations of nature infected with Satan's evil, some are angels fallen with him, and, according to this, many are simply creatures from older religion taken over by force.
Satan's simply Laz's dad. And if there's EVER a precedented thing in ancient mythos, it's patricide.
Often enough machinated by the mother. In fact, we could go even further and say that this is actually very classically like the Greek mythos, where Lilith, being an earth spirit (which Lilitu are from my understanding, albeit carnivorous ones) represents Gaia, who was so enraged at Uranus (the sky) that she had Cronos, their oldest son, kill him.
Yay, Latin class FTW.
So thats Latin for you dont know?
Latin class = where I learned all my mythology 😀
So it's English for your logic has holes. I'm not saying you're wrong, but it's got holes.
Greek!!!! GREEK!!!! This is a myth!
I'll concede that the Romans did adopt Greek culture and integrate it into their own, and this myth was one of them…
BUT, in that case, you're using the wrong names…!
Uranus is Greek. Caelus is Roman equivalent…Gaia is Tellus, Cronus is Saturn… and so on…
I hope your prediction about this comic being similar to classical myths is wrong though… while it would be very satisfactory in the "ah-ha, I knew what was coming" sort of way, it would make story itself kind of bleh.
clearly, he just took a level in Badass and two in SelfConfidence, and his hair is reflecting that
also, I sense that the Caste references are going to become a running dig
Caste systems may have been limited. but they did keep a certain amount of certainty to ones life way back when.
You know, I always figured a demon or devil's tail would be thicker at the base, and slim down towards the tip, and not be the stereotypical thin cord attached above the rear. I am by no means ripping on your comic or anything, I'm just saying if I was drawing this the tail would be thicker and slim down to whatever type of point.
I regret nothiiiing! :U
Not sure why but Esh's eyes in panel 4 are really awesome in their expressiveness to me. Also is it just me or has she looked much younger since her reappearance than she did when she first showed up?
Hm. Careful there Laz. While I'm happy to see a certain level of confidence and attitude coming out, don't let it get out of control. Remember who/what you've got locked up inside yourself.
Yay! New update! :3
It took me a moment to really notice where that stick had come from… yay for my RPG skills! Obvious Laz and I have played enough Legend of Zelda/Metroid/Final Fantasy/Tomb Raider to know what to look for…
Not to mention survival horror. *shudder*
I learned all of this in Latin class, but I'm NOT using the Latin names BECAUSE I'm reciting the Greek versions, which are what we learned. Just because it is Latin class, DOES NOT MEAN we did the Roman versions.
Because "Classic GREEK mythos" clearly means "Roman".
I was also comparing plot points thus far and refuting an earlier statement, rather than predicting the direction of the comic. Please read posts completely if you're going to complain about minute details? Thanks.


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• After a rowdy night at the MTV Movie Awards, Cameron Diaz kept the party going at Teddy's inside the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, where she sipped white wine and chatted up Hayden Panettiere and Zachary Quinto. Later, the trio was joined by Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, who were wrapped up in each other. "[They] were holding hands, dancing close and always had their arms around each other," says a guest.
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I know this isn't System Center Essentials specific but I thought you might want to know about a great training opportunity we have coming up at the end of the month for Office 365. On May 24th through 26th Microsoft Learning is hosting a free 3-day Jump Start tailored for IT Pros interested in learning more about preparing for and deploying Office 365. This is the first public training for IT Pros on Office 365. The course will be streamed live from 10:00-am-4:00pm PDT on all 3 days, and the recordings will be published later on TechNet Edge for later viewing.
We'll deliver an overview of Office 365, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online. Top subject matter experts for each technology will be delivering the content and you can find more info in this MSL blog post.
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Cosmetic dentistry is a field of dentistry which aims to improve the overall appearance of the face by making corrections to the teeth. Cosmetic dentists in Pascagoula is not a distinct branch of dentistry. Rather, it is a combination of various techniques with the sole motive of improving the appearance. Cosmetic dental procedures are somewhat costly when compared to normal dental procedures. It also takes a lot of training and expertise to become a cosmetic dentist.
Pascagoula Cosmetic dentistry differs from normal dentistry in a number of ways. General dentistry places more emphasis on restoring the functionality of teeth that have been damaged by various diseases and conditions. On the other hand, cosmetic dentistry is mainly about the aesthetic appearance. However, it should be noted that the domains of normal dentistry and cosmetic dentistry overlap in a number of places.
There are a number of procedures available today that can improve the appearance of the person. Some of the common dental procedures include teeth whitening, shaping, false teeth, dental veneers and dental implants. In some cases, cosmetic dental procedures may be used in combination with other cosmetic procedures that are aimed at improving the appearance of other parts of the face.
Not all procedures offered by Pascagoula cosmetic dentists are costly. For example, teeth whitening is easily affordable for everyone. However, it is not a specialized procedure and doesn't require a lot of skill on the part of the dentist. It is also performed at most dental clinics. It can also be performed at home by using teeth whitening kits that are readily available in the market today.
Finding a good cosmetic dentist in Pascagoula. There are a number of reasons why cosmetic dental procedures are costly. First and foremost, it takes years of training to become specialized as a cosmetic dental surgeon. Cosmetic dental surgeons acquire their skills over a long period of time by working at various clinics as interns. For this reason, they charge exuberant fees. Additionally, the materials involved in the surgery are also very costly. Diagnostic and screening equipment can also be very costly to operate. All of these overhead costs add up and make cosmetic dental procedures very costly.
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One of the first features that others will notice is your smile. If your teeth are looking dull, discolored, or have gaps and chips, you might want to think about what a cosmetic dentist can do to restore them. Sometimes, all it takes is one simple procedure to transform your smile and make you feel more radiant from the inside out. There are many different choices when it comes to cosmetic dentistry, as dental technology has grown in leaps and bounds in the past few years. Procedures that used to be considered exotic or prohibitive in price are now accessible for a far wider range of patients. These are meant to make teeth straight, white, healthy, and uniform in size.
A dental implant is crafted from titanium, in most cases, and is surgically implanted directly into the jawbone to serve as a root replacement. This is permanent, unlike other forms of tooth replacement such as dentures or dental bridges. The implant then serves as the anchor for a crown. Crowns can also be used to cover discolored or damaged teeth, and are one of the older forms of cosmetic dentistry. It's a good idea to have a consultation with your cosmetic dentist to get started with exploring these options.


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Alright, time for another System Guide Update... the long-neglected Ultimate Budget Box.
(yes, we realize it's a confusing name; maybe time for a slight change... Bargain Box? Bargain Budget Box? Something else?)
In any case, this box is the boring Mom-box, Office-box, the probably-better-off-buying-a-$399-Dell-prebuilt-box but because you INSIST on building all your boxes, you're going to build it from parts anyway box... gaming is not a focus; the focus instead is on the best bang for your buck that'll get the usual office and lightweight chores done: running an Office suite, browsing internet, maybe streaming some video, and since everyone and their great-aunt today has a digital camera, it should probably have a bit of CPU power for some photo collection sorting.
We aim at a price point of less than $500 including monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
OS is not included in this total (and why the argument for a $399 prebuilt from your OEM of choice often makes a great deal of sense), but let's not go off on too much of a tangent.
Since by building it yourself you get to pick all of your own components, while this is a low-end box, we still try to pick components that are pretty good, or would add value. This means USB 3.0 is nice, a high-efficiency power supply is always good, and the 1366x768 piece of crap LCD is probably worth skipping over in favor of the extra $10 for the nicer 1600x900 or 1920x1080 one...
Given the sheer amount of computing power available for $500 today, we feel that's a reasonable setup.
A possible Intel-based crack at this is:
- Pentium G620 (2.6ghz) retail = $69.99
- MSI H67A-G43 w/USB3.0 = $99.99 ($79.99AR)
- Seagate 500GB 7200rpm = $84.99
- Samsung 22x DVD-RW = $15.99
- NZXT Source 210 case = $39.99
- Seasonic SS-300ET 300W = $39.99
- Hanns-G HF225DPB 21.5" 1920x1080 = $119.99
- Microsoft Wired Desktop (mouse and keyboard) = $27.99
- Total: $498.92 ($478.92 after rebate)
An AMD variation (we could discuss both) could substitute:
- AMD A4-3400 (2.7ghz) = $69.99
- Gigabyte GA-A75M-D2H motherboard = $79.99 ($69.99AR)
- Total = about $20 cheaper, so $478.92 ($468.92AR)
It's not quite a fair comparison, the Intel board selected has four DIMM slots compared to two in the AMD board; getting four DIMM slots in the AMD board equalizes much of the price difference... but then for H67 motherboards, they really don't get much cheaper anyway, at least if you require USB 3.0.
We could save $10 with a smaller (250GB) harddisk, but given the prevalence of digital cameras, this seems like $10 worth spending. Processor; this is about as slow as we can go in Intel's lineup, and the Celeron dual-core below doesn't save much.
Monitor, $120, could maybe save a bit here but we're already pretty low-end without getting into drastic suck. Case and power supply; we can save $20 easily by going back to the way-old In-win Z589T or some other old standby, but those cases all tend to have ancient power supply designs with low efficiency, which stinks.
Or are we off base...? Feedback is appreciated!
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We think it needs a little explanation.
Why just tell us her first name? That's what emcees do when the woman is there for appearances, not real communication. It's what happens with game show contestants ("let's welcome Jeff, from Houston"), or fashion models ("now we have Niki on the runway"), not with people who have something serious to say. We wonder what Doreen would have to say about the risks of allowing smoking in the workplace, but we're not going to find out. If she were a doctor placed on the page to comment on the risks of domestic violence, we doubt that she would be identified just as "Doreen."
Pure abstraction: The new logo reinforces the corporate strategy of starting fresh with no psychological baggage. If there's any connotation at all, it's with modern art-as far as possible from the ugly realities of cigarettes and lung cancer. With its black, red, green, yellow, and blue squares, the logo recalls Piet Mondrian's "Composition A"-a painting one might find in an air-conditioned museum, not in a smoke-filled bar.
False mustache and wig? Altria is a new name for an old company-the one formerly called Philip Morris, which is now reduced to fine print. "Altria" isn't a dictionary word, but a made-up name that gives the company a fresh start in the public mind. Given the nature of this ad, we suspect that the company not only wanted to assume a new identity to escape association with the death toll of the cigarettes it continues to sell, but also hoped to capitalize on subconscious associations with "altruism," which is in the dictionary, defined as "an unselfish concern for the welfare of others."
You can't injure your lungs? Pointing to "safety" keeps the focus on a definition of injury that neatly excludes disease. A thoughtful reader might wonder, does Altria think safety is important but protection from disease is not?
Do as we say, not as we do: The admonition to "your company" implies that in buying this ad, Altria is providing leadership in social responsibility, when in fact its own performance has been one of the most irresponsible of all the companies in the world.
Do the math: If you add medical expenses to the productivity losses, the total losses from smoking rise to $150 billion-nearly 50 times the losses from domestic violence. That's not to diminish the importance of eliminating domestic violence, but where's Altria's recognition of a workplace danger that's 50 times larger?
False. Data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics show that "injuries purposely inflicted by spouse or other intimate" rank 9th among causes of injuries to women-accounting for slightly over 2 percent of all injuries. Motor vehicle accidents and accidental falls account for nearly 20 times as many injuries as domestic violence.
Yes, that's bad, but... since the advertiser is one of the world's largest producers of cigarettes, we might also ask what does smoking cost businesses? A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta (CDC), published in 2002, found that productivity losses from smoking cigarettes were over $81 billion per year. The ad neatly deflects attention from the fact that Altria's share of the smoking damage alone causes about 10 times as much loss to the economy as domestic violence does.


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I was late.
So, I slipped into the back of the crowded room and crouched on the floor.
I couldn't see the face of speaker, Tom Davis, CEO of Children's Hope Chest at the Together for Adoption Breakout Q&A Session. But it didn't matter, his words still pierced.
He is a modern-day abolishionist, rescuing young girls from the terrifying grips of sex slavery. Every minute a child in our world is trafficked. Every minute.
I listened as he answered questions about the unbelievable life these girls lead, most servicing a dozen or more men every day and the dangerous covert rescue operations that his organization orchestrates with the local police.
It was terrible and beautiful to hear.
One of the questions: "How many girls do you know about that need to be rescued right now?"
Tom Davis: "Three. It costs about $2000.00 per rescue."
He went on to describe the safe house the girls are taken to and the elaborate process of rehabilitation.
It was time for the session to end. As Tom shared his final thoughts, a man from the crowd pressed towards the front. He was nervous as he spoke, but their was authority and anointing behind his words, "I don't know Tom Davis and his associate. I don't know any of you. But I know there are about 80 people in this room. And there are 3 girls who are in slavery, being forced into the unthinkable, waiting to be rescued. If we all gave $30 each, we would have enough money to rescue one of them right now. My company will match whatever is given today," he urged in the hushed room.
Tom Davis concluded the session with prayer.
My own tears splashed onto my $30 check as I ripped it from the checkbook. The room was noisy with silent tears and generosity.
Within minutes the table at the front of the room looked like this:
On my own, I couldn't rescue a girl being sex trafficked. But my small check added to 79 others, makes a powerful impact.
It's the power of working together for the cause of Christ. It's ordinary mixed with God's extra.
It's taking 3 minutes to pray for the 3 girls raped every 45 minutes in Kenya. It's giving $3 a month.
That off-the-cuff gesture by one man listening to the urging in his inner man didn't raise enough money to rescue one girl or three.
That pile of money will rescue six girls being sex trafficked. Six!
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The issue of the handling of structured (e.g complex XML and multimedia) datatypes by the Ontology Web Language was raised at the A'dam F2F. I have written it up, and given it a URI at http://www.openhealth.org/WOWG/IssueStructuredDatatypes Structured Datatypes and the Ontology Web Language A proposed issue for the Web Ontology Working Group Integrating structured (e.g. XML and multimedia) datatypes into the ontology web language falls within the charter and an explicit requirement of the Ontology Web Language. Dan Brickley has posted a terrific (IMHO) summary of the requirement: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webont-comments/2002Apr/0004.html The XML and before that, the SGML, communities have had a long interest in the graphical representation and manipulation of structured, including multimedia, information, which has been called "Groves" (Graphical Representation Of property ValuES) [1,2]. Such representations lead themselves naturally as RDF descriptions [3]. It has been the explicit hope that an RDF Schema description of the XML Infoset will allow "validation" of an RDF/Infoset representation of an XML document [4]. I propose that WebOnt accept this challenge (my preliminary work suggests that we are up to the task). Integrating XML and XML Schema datatypes in this fashion will provide a concrete and tangible benefit provided by OWL to the XML community, as well as properly allowing OWL to reason about structured XML and multimedia datatypes. RDF Core is developing MT extensions for simple or concrete datatypes. The proposal which is outlined below is not a duplication of this effort, rather directed at complex or structured datatypes. I will discuss why the approach taken by RDF Datatypes, while perfectly reasonable for concrete datatypes, cannot be directly extended to structured datatypes, primarily due to some technical details with respect to XML Schema. To summarize: 1) There is a desire to incorporate and reason about structured datatypes (e.g. XML Schema complexTypes) 2) RDF Datatypes, and by extension OWL's DatatypeProperty deals with concrete or string based datatypes (e.g. XML Schema simpleTypes). A preliminary WD is at http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sw/rdf-datatyping.html 3) Technical issues involved with integration of general XML types, XML Schema datatypes and XQuery formal types are discussed below. 4) A proposed solution to the problem of integrating general XML Schema datatypes is presented. Issues involved with integration of XML types and XML Schema datatypes into OWL: In a perfect RDF world there would be a URIreference for each XML Schema type (otherwise known as an XML Schema particle). It turns out that XML Schema has defined URIs for a fixed set of basic datatypes but this involves doing a bit of weirdness with internal XML subsets and labelling these specific XML Schema particles with "id"s. Suffice to say that 99.9% of XML Schemas in the wild don't go to this effort, nor should our solution mandate it. See http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.xsd for details. For those of you at home, XML Schema type names are XML QNames (e.g. xsd:string) and at face value it should be, and is, possible to derive a URIreference from a QName, the problem being that an XML Schema may use the same QName for each of an element, attribute, simple and complex type definition. That is the QName does not uniquely define an XML Schema particle. RDF Datatypes assume XML Schema simple types, so for this specific purpose a URIreference would work -- although there is nothing in the XML world connecting an XML Schema particle name="foo" attribute value to a URIreference but that is another issue. XML Schema's overloading of particle names was an explicit design decision taken directly from how XML 1.0 itself defines types and type names. XML 1.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml) defines an element type as the GI or name of the element. Element and attribute names are, however, not disjoint. e.g. the following is perfectly legal XML: <foo foo="12345" /> An attribute itself has a type, either CDATA which is text, ID which is a unique identifier, IDREF whose values reference an element with such a uniquely identifying attribute, NMTOKEN which provides constraints on the string (e.g. no whitespace), NMTOKENS which allows multiple NMTOKENS, IDREFS etc. It is apparent that creating a URIreference by composing an XML document's base URI with the element or attribute name will not uniquely identify the element or attribute type definition i.e. the part in the DTD or document type definition (this is because elements and attributes share symbol spaces). This has been carried over to XML Schema. In XML Schema: <xsd:element name="foo" /> <xsd:attribute name="foo" /> <xsd:simpleType name="foo" /> <xsd:complexType name="foo" /> are all allowed in the same schema, indeed: <xsd:element name="foo" type="foo" /> defines an element "foo" which has a type defined by the complex type whose name="foo". XML Schema does however define a type heirarchy, and it is the goal of this proposal to seemlessly integrate the XML Schema type heirarchy into the OWL class heirarchy. Indeed an XML Schema processor, which accepts an input XML infoset and adnorns it with types (and other bits of information) to produce a "post schema validation infoset" or PSVI in XML Schema terms, can be seen as a specialized 'classifier' that operates on 'StructuredProperty' values. A proposed solution Class membership of instances can be represented by a subClassOf relationship between the class composed of a single individual and a particular super class. An individual represents some particular RDF graph. In the case of an XML document, or part of an XML document, there exists an Infoset representation. The infoset is modelled as an RDF graph in a very straightforward fashion. Indeed a simple XSLT transform converts an arbitrary XML document into the RDF graph form (e.g. http://www.openhealth.org/WOWG/XMLtoSchema.xsl) Any of an XML Schema [5], or XQuery formal type [6], or other schema language represented as a DOM Abstract Schema [7], may represent constraints on a particular piece of XML such that the type defines a class whose instance set is the set of XML data values whose Infoset conforms to the constraints defined by the type declaration. As such, one can develop, in principle, an OWL class definition such that instances of infoset graphs which represent pieces of XML conforming to a particular type, are members of the class. This work has begun by the development of XSLT transforms that transform instances of XML Schemas and XQuery formal language type declarations into OWL Class definitions: http://www.openhealth.org/WOWG/XSDtoSchema.xsl and http://www.openhealth.org/WOWG/RNGtoSchema.xsl -- although these transforms are not yet complete, this serves as an outline of how the proposed solution would work and how an OWL processor might actually go about deciding, for example, whether a piece of XML does belong to a particular class. It should be noted that this approach will work both for classes defined by an XML Schema QName as well as classes written directly in OWL. Jonathan Borden, M.D. Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Tufts-New England Medical Center Boston MA firstname.lastname@example.com References: a.. [1] Groves: http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/groves.html b.. [2] Groves illustrated: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ht/grove.html c.. [3] The XML grove as RDF: http://www.openhealth.org/XSet d.. 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'The Blacklist' Creator Reveals Some of the Show's Secrets
If you are like me, you have been in "The Blacklist" withdrawal for the past few weeks. While the hit show didn't leave us on a dramatic cliffhanger when it took its winter break, the adrenaline rush of the storming of the FBI black site, the kidnapping and torture of Red, and then Red's confrontation with the mysterious and powerful character played by Alan Alda left all of us out of breath and eager for what would come next.
So, in my quest to figure out what will come next, I went straight to the source. I spoke with the show's executive producer and creator, Jon Bokenkamp.
So, I hear one of the reasons you agreed to this is that you actually read my blog.
Yup and I love it. We're so in the show and have no life at the moment and I'm not really aware of what is going on out there. My one way to connect with other people outside of the writer's room and know what people think of the show is on these various blogs. Your blog has really smart people who are watching. They have great theories. I had one of the guys in the writer's room make a big list of all the theories. Who knows, maybe there's some great idea out there that we haven't even thought of. We'll take the ideas wherever we can get them.
All of us are having a lot of fun speculating about it. Did you know you were making a hit when you were working on this?
No! I really just love the character of Red and the larger mystery at the core of this. That's what drew me to it. And now it is fun to look at all the different angles the show can go. But there's never any sense that you have a hit. There's such a strange confluence of things that have to happen; from the right script to the right actor to people connecting with the show. There's so much out of your control that it's a surreal experience when it all happens just right.
I feel like you've created this hybrid of a show. It's a procedural and a mystery. Sort of "CSI" meets "Lost" or "Law & Order" combined with the "X-Files." Is that what you were going for?
Yeah, absolutely. I am not really interested in a straight-up procedural, case-of-the-week show. That isn't the kind of television I am interested in. I'm drawn to the bigger mysteries of serialized storytelling but that seems to have a shorter shelf-life and isn't really network TV. We always talked about this being a 70-30 split. We're still trying to find the right mix of serialized and case-of-the-week storytelling. What's special about this is we have the ability to do both.
There were a couple episodes early on that felt like there wasn't much that happened with the mystery story, but that certainly hasn't been the case the past couple episodes!
I worry about that in returning because it is a show that has a lot of those stand-alone episodes. We always intended for it to be that way. But it has been more heavily serialized the past few episodes and will continue to be for the next one or two. I hope people aren't disappointed when we have more of those episodes that are just a good Blacklist case and don't have as much about the mystery of our central characters.
We get that you can't just tell your serialized story. You are making a show that you hope to be on for many years. You'd probably run out of story if you did nothing but the mystery.
Yeah, we could burn through it very quickly. It's tough. The mystery stories are more fun in the writer's room but we don't want to burn through it. We've got a lot of good mythology to tell and it's hard to resist going there. When you're having trouble with a story and are wondering how it will hold up, it's easy to say let's go back to the larger mythology and tell a little nugget of that. But we can't always do that because we do hope to be on the air for a while.
Well, while we like catching the Blacklist bad guys, the mysteries are what keep us coming back. We have Red's history, and his relationship with Liz, and we have Liz's relationship with Tom and whether Tom is who he says he is. What is your favorite mystery on the show?
I'm really intrigued by the mystery of Tom and who he is. That's one where it's really interesting to me to read the blogs and see what people say. I love seeing how much people love or hate this guy. It's a storyline that people really want to talk about. It makes it kinda fun.
I call him Tom Bond on the blog, because I am convinced he is a spy. Can you tell me if he is?
Oh please! You know I can't tell you that. Ha! I will tell you that we are going to start exploring him a little more closely. We are going to have some answers about Tom and Liz coming up. That's not a story we are going to be putting on the back burner.
Do you worry about what happens if you give answers and people aren't satisfied?
Not really. I figure if I am surprised by it and the other writers in the room are surprised by it that's all we can do. I've had movies and scripts that I loved that people didn't really like. I don't think anyone knows the magic formula for what connects or why this show has connected so well. I try not to think about how well things will be received. If I'm surprised and enjoy it, that's all I can do.
I think back to what happened when "Lost" gave answers and people were not satisfied and to when the "X-Files" took too long to give answers and viewers stopped watching. What do you do?
(Sigh) It's hard. That is a concern. But we do and we will continue to give answers. It's not something we are going to tease out forever. We do know the answers, not to all of the questions, but we know the important ones We have signposts of where we want to be along the way as we get to the end. How we get there, the exact path we take, is the fun part for the writers. We're just telling the best story we can and hopefully people will be satisfied.
Do you have a long-term plan, are there things that aren't revealed today that you plan to get to in season three or five or whatever?
There's some of that. I have had long conversations with James Spader and other writers about where the show is ultimately going. What's difficult for me is I've never done TV before. I primarily write movie thrillers and in that medium it's all about the ending and reverse engineering your story from the ending to the beginning. But in TV you can't work in that reverse capacity because you don't know how long you are going to be on the air. It is exciting though to take our time as we arrive at some of these big turns.
Who is your favorite character… or should I reverse that question and ask you to tell me why Red is your favorite character?
Spader does a marvelous job. I think everyone's doing a wonderful job, but he has a strong perspective on who he thinks the character is. We've had lots of long conversations about what kind of person Red is, what kind of music does he listen to and things like that. Red loves being Red and living life to the fullest so we are always trying to find situations that are fun and funny and dangerous for him to experience.
Can you confirm for me that the scars on Lizzie's hand and the markings on the boxes that have been found are the same?
Uhhh, I cannot confirm that, but it sure is interesting that they look similar, isn't it?
Give me one hint at something that will be revealed in the second half of the season? Are we going to find out if Tom really is a spy? Are we going to know if Red really is Lizzie's father?
What's interesting to me is we do answer questions. We've answered both of those. In the last episode, Liz asked the father question and Red gave her an answer. A few episodes ago we took Tom into the blacksite and the FBI cleared him. But, I do think it is most exciting when we give an answer that raises more questions. So, do you feel like those two questions have been answered?
Actually, I am going to take Red at his word when he said he was not Lizzie's father. I believe him. I think the notion that Red was Lizzie's father was so telegraphed from the beginning that I never suspected it was true. But just because the FBI cleared Tom at the blackstite doesn't close the book on that to me. Red is warning Liz too much about Tom for there not to be something more there.
I will tell you that there are answers that we will be giving about… how do I delicately state this… we will be answering things about both Red's family and about his background. One of the interesting things to me is getting to know who Red is in a better capacity. And we are going to continue to explore Tom and Liz's relationship. I wish I could give you a better answer than that.
Okay, I will tell you one thing that will happen when the show starts up again. When we come back, we will see Red on fire. He is a man on a mission. That is going to be fun. We are going to see him dealing with the repercussions of what happened during the incursion into the black site.
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A lot has been made of Mitt Romney's charitable donations--as it should be. The man gives away a lot of money.
In 2010, for example, a year in which he made $22 million, Romney gave away $3 million.
A startling $1.5 million of this, in the form of a direct cash donation, went to the Church Of The Latter Day Saints. (Romney also gave the Church another $145,000 from a private foundation--see below).
The rest, a stock donation, went to "The Tyler Foundation."
What's the Tyler Foundation?
*CORRECTION: The Tyler Foundation described below does not appear to be the one Mitt Romney gave ~$1.5 million to. A sharp-eyed reader did some digging and discovered that Romney has a private charity called "The Tyler Foundation" that has been the recipient of millions of dollars of gifts from Romney over the years and now has more than $10 million in total assets. This charity then doles out much smaller amounts of money to the Mormon Church (Romney gave an additional $145,000 to the church in 2010) and other charities.
In 2010, Romney's Tyler Foundation gave away a total of $647,500. The gift to the church was by far the largest. Other recipients included MS Cure, Operation Kids, Harvard Business School, The George W. Bush Libary, Brigham Young University, and the Belmont Hill School. This pattern of giving is much more in keeping with that of many personal foundations (spray small grants around) than the gift of one big grant to a small charity. I apologize for the mistake.
The Tyler Foundation is a Boston-based charity that helps kids with epilepsy:
Here's what the Tyler Foundation uses the money for:
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The global trends documented in Vital Signs 2001—from the rapid increase in the use of wind power to the continued warming of the planet—will play a large role in determining the quality of our lives and our children's lives in this new century.
The tenth volume in the series shows in graphic form the key trends that often escape the attention of the news media and world leaders; trends that are often ignored by economic experts as they plan for the future. Written by the Institute's award-winning staff, this book gives readers easy access to indicators that show social, economic, and environmental progress, or the lack of it. The carefully selected data have been distilled into "vital signs" from thousands of documents from government, industry, scientific bodies, and international organizations.
Each year, Vital Signs presents emerging trends in more than 100 clear and compelling tables and graphs, accompanied by concise, thoughtful analysis. Among the findings in the 1997 edition:
- Although AIDS has grabbed the headlines in recent years, malaria remains one of the world's deadliest diseases, killing at least a million people a year.
- Of the 1,233 new drugs that reached the market between 1975 and 1997, only 13 products were designed to combat tropical diseases, which are some of the world's biggest killers.
- The United States, long the leader in milk production, was eclipsed by India in milk output in 1997.
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Wolstenholme Towne
Note: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has closed its Carter's Grove property to conduct a comprehensive assessment of all facilities, grounds and programs located on the 750-acre complex.
Ship left England in 1618 bound for plantation on James River
In October 1618, the ship Gift of God nosed into the Atlantic bound from England for Virginia. Its 220 male and female passengers planned to settle a new plantation on the James River. The skeletons of some may well have been among the graves of murdered colonists uncovered by archaeologists three and one-half centuries later at Carter's Grove.
Martin's Hundred owned by Virginia Company of London
In the 17th century, the sprawling farm was named "Martin's Hundred," and it was among the subsidiary "particular plantations" of the joint-stock Virginia Company of London. The Society of Martin's Hundred, named for Richard Martin, recorder of the City of London, was its owner. Sir John Wolstenholme was among its investors. William Harwood was the farm's commander.
Martin's Hundred (hundred defined a subdivision of an English county) fronted on 10 miles of the north shore of a bend in the James River, about nine miles below Jamestown. The administrative center was Wolstenholme Towne, a fortified settlement of about 40 souls finding shelter in rough cabins of wattle and daub woven on wooden posts thrust into the clay subsoil.
Land had belonged to Powhatan Indians
Like all of the land the English claimed along the river, the plantation's 21,500 acres had been part of the domain of the Powhatan Indians, an association of Tidewater tribes formed at the end of the 16th century by the Indian chief Powhatan. For seven years after the first English settlers arrived at Jamestown in 1607, the English and the Indians often fought for control of the Tidewater lands and resources. By the time the Gift of God arrived in Virginia, however, Chief Powhatan had died, the confederation was headed by his brother Opechancanough (pronounced O-pa-CHAN-ca-no), and the two peoples had been at peace since April 1614, when Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas had married Englishman John Rolfe.
Settlers' mortality rate nearly 50 percent
Although they were spared death in combat with the Powhatans, many of the settlers died. Mortality rates some years climbed so high the company worried its trading colony would get the name of a slaughterhouse. Of the 280 people shipped to Martin's Hundred by the winter of 1621-1622, only about 140 remained alive, scattered about the plantation.
Powhatans killed 400 English in Massacre of 1622
Still, fresh settlers came, and on March 22, 1622, the Powhatans rose to kill as many English as they could surprise in their homes and fields. From near modern Richmond to Newport News, the Powhatans burned and looted dwellings and desecrated corpses. Death counts vary, but about 400 English died. Martin's Hundred, the plantation hardest hit, lost more than 50, perhaps as many as 70. Wolstenholme Towne's death toll was not separated in the death rolls.
Called at the time – and for centuries afterward – "the Massacre of 1622," the attack is viewed by some modern historians as more of an uprising or even a revolt. By any name, it nearly accomplished its purpose. The English withdrew from their scattered settlements to the safety of Jamestown.
Wolstenholme Towne abandoned after 1645
Wolstenholme Towne was resettled a year or more later but abandoned sometime after 1645. It may be that no trace of the town was apparent by the time planter Robert "King" Carter bought the land about 1709. What remained of Wolstenholme Towne and its dead lay forgotten beneath the plantation's fields and woodlands until 1976.
Colonial Williamsburg acquired plantation in 1969
Archaeological examination of Carter's Grove was part of the plan from the day Colonial Williamsburg acquired the plantation in 1969. Preliminary work in 1970 turned up signs of 17th-century occupation. Five years later, excavations began.
Before they were finished in 1981, the archaeologists had discovered six sites of habitation dating from about 1620 to after 1645. Half or more of the village site had been lost to riverbank erosion, but much remained.
Archaeological dig reveals fort for fleeing attacks
The soil preserved shadows of 17th-century post holes, which formed outlines of buildings. The trapezoidal shape of a fort with a watchtower, a gun platform, musketeer platforms, and, perhaps, a flanker emerged as the loamy topsoil was scraped away. Inside the 10,000-square-foot enclosure were the remains of a well, a cattle pond, and Harwood's home. An outlying pen protected livestock at night. Less than one-fourth the size of the 42,800-square-foot Jamestown Fort, Wolstenholme Towne was built as a place for villagers to flee during attack.
As the excavations proceeded, the remains of a company barn, a company compound, and a palisade dwelling near the river emerged. Today, Wolstenholme Towne buildings are represented by schematic reconstructions on the sites where they stood.
First American find of armor found in well of fort
In the fort's well, diggers made the first American find of a hinged-faced (or close) helmet from a suit of armor. It had been reduced to a thin shell of rust, but it was carefully restored. A potter's pond protected a second close helmet, plates from an armor shirt, examples of 17th-century earthenware, and a spectacular piece of a colonial still called an "alembic."
Bits of broken crockery, tools, links of chain mail, fire lock muskets, frying pans, skillets, fireplace tools, and scores of other artifacts emerged from the soil. Many are displayed at the adjacent Winthrop Rockefeller Archaeology Museum.
Human remains reveal historic information
The ground also gave up remains of the dead. Two graves have strong associations with the 1622 uprisings. Survivors had slung into one grave the body of a man whose skull had been holed by a blow (perhaps from a spade) between the eyes.
In a trash pit, archaeologists unearthed the remains of a woman curled on her right side as if asleep. Perhaps she hid there after escaping an attempt to scalp her but bled to death or died of exposure in the night chill. She had rested in the same position for almost 320 years when she was found.


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Watch a brilliant short documentary upon SWL and some of its regular readers, made by Amelia Hazlitt, here: http://vimeo.com/103176010
And a feature length film of our first anniversary of SWL 'Anti-Hate', made by Timothy Lock, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk-TXhERNHo
You can also read an academic dissertation written on SWL here, by William Barns-Graham, on 'Lost in the Moment: Opening Up Utopian Performance With the Lost Generation at Spoken Word London':https://www.academia.edu/9916694/Lost_in_the_Moment_Opening_Up_Utopian_Performance_with_the_Lost_Generation_at_Spoken_Word_London


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WDWBurghGooner wrote:I don't know what to make of Belgium. Clearly they are loaded. But this generation of players has never qualified for a major tournament. I could easily see them being similar to Poland from the Euros, a team that everyone tips to be a darkhorse but doesn't get out of the group.
Yeah, they could very well be that trendy dark horse that fizzles at the tournament. It's just hard to rate them lower given the talent on that team.