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2nd Update: Baseball Think Factory has publicized the discussion.
Update: Just got off the phone with a MLB customer service supervisor.
"MLB no longer supports the DDS system" that it once used and so any CDs with downloaded games on them "are no good. They will not work with the current system."
Great. Just effing great. ... As I told the supervisor, this is right in line with how wrong-headed and stupid and ass backwards MLB does everything.
I was told there is absolutely nothing MLB can do about these lost games. Plus, they said my purchases were all "one-time sales" and thus "there are no refunds".
No refunds? As Lee Elia would say: "My fucking ass!"
My info has been submitted to some other MLB department which will review things and see what they can do about either getting me the games I paid for or refunding my $280.45.
So if you have downloaded any games prior to 2006, get those discs out and try to watch them ... then call MLB at 866-800-1275 and demand they refund your money.
MLB continues to steal money from baseball fans who have downloaded full games through its digital download service.
I have blogged about this problem twice this year -- April 5 and April 16.
Background: Beginning in 2003, MLB offered fans the chance to download full games to their computer at $3.95 each. When you attempted to open the media file -- either on your hard drive or after it was burned to a CD -- it connected with a MLB.com webpage to obtain a license. Once the license had been verified, the game would play.
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2. Why is a license used for my downloaded video?At some point during 2006, MLB deleted that essential webpage. Since then, none of the videos that fans purchased will play.
All MLB.com Downloads are encrypted with Microsoft Digital Rights Management technology. DRM security requires a valid license before viewing the material. You must have Windows Media Player (version 10.0 or higher) downloaded on your machine to view downloaded video.
3. What is DRM?
Digital Rights Management is a technology that allows for the secure management of digital media. This security protects the content provider from unauthorized distribution, viewing and use of the material.
7. Do I have to obtain a license every time I want to watch the downloaded video?This is a lie. Once MLB deleted the essential webpage, none of my CDs would play, even ones I had opened and watched previously.
No. When you first try to play the video, a license will be distributed to you and stored by the player. Unless manually deleted, the license will exist forever and will be used when you try to watch the downloaded video on that machine. If you watch the video on a different machine, another license will be required.
Here is a screenshot (from last night) of what happens when I try to play a CD with a downloaded game on it:
By deleting the webpage and making it impossible for fans to watch the games they have paid for and downloaded, MLB has stolen $3.95 for every game from every fan. That must runs into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Since MLB started this download service, I have bought and downloaded 71 games -- many of them from the Red Sox's August-September 2004 hot streak -- which works out to a total cost of $280.45 (plus the price of the blank discs). Thanks to MLB, I now have nearly six dozen coasters.
When I contacted MLB in April, the people I spoke with expressed surprise at my predicament and claimed to have never heard of this problem before (naturally!). They said that MLB was overhauling its downloading system -- this was true -- and they told me to be patient because even though they had never heard of anyone with this problem, MLB was working on it.
More than six months have passed and nothing has changed. The essential webpage is still gone and my games will not play. I tried about 35 of them last night -- all with the same result.
And now MLB IS SELLING GAME DOWNLOADS AGAIN! Various 2007 playoff games -- and other games -- are available for $1.99. MLB is still using the DRM technology. Will the page fans use to watch these 2007 games be suddenly deleted in 2009?
Despite MLB's claim that I'm the only baseball fan on the face of the Earth with this problem, I know there are other fans out there who have been similarly ripped off -- because they read the April posts and either commented or emailed me.
I'm asking that if you also have discs that are now useless, call MLB at 866-800-1275 and complain.
It would also be helpful if some Boston or national sports media picked up on this.
Diehard baseball fans have paid tens of thousands of dollars to MLB to download games -- and MLB has pocketed the money and is now making it impossible for those fans to watch the games.


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Kostas SV3ORA informed me of his oscillator circuit which has a single J108 Field Effect Transistor and three crystals, oscillating all at the same time on their three different frequencies. His article on this oscillator met with some scepticism. People thought that one crystal should dominate, ignoring the others. You can read the forum discussion that Kostas copy and pasted and has on his web page article. Kostas SV3ORA's triple crystal oscillator: http://qrp.gr/multiosc/index.htm Personally I can't think of any practical uses for this right now in any of my current or future projects. But I was interested to try out the circuit and see for myself, what happens... and it shouldn't take too long, there aren't very many components to connect together, are there. WRONG! Yes it's a simple circuit... but it is deceptive! It's a circuit that I feel I could spend days and days studying, or weeks, even. But I don't have days. So this is a simple write-up of what I did, with some points for further investigation another time (or by another person). The first problem was that I didn't have a J108 FET. I do have some J310 FETs though. As Kostas pointed out, the J108 has a significant amount of gate-source capacitance. Therefore he didn't need to add any external capacitance, he could rely on the internal capacitance of the J108. He said a much lower capacitance device like the J310 should have maybe 150pF added across the gate to source leads. Actually in my case I found the J310 worked (2 crystals oscillating at the same time) even without the additional gate-source capacitance. My construction is rather messy. Nevertheless I don't think there would he a relatively significant amount of stray capacitance to make up the difference in gate-source capacitance. Refer to the following circuit diagram: And here's a picture of my messy construction, with two 'scope probes, a spectrum analyser, and a DVM hanging off it: Firstly, ignore the buffer circuit on the right hand side. Ignore everything to the right of the arrow marked "TEST POINT". This left half of the circuit is equivalent to what Kostas did. I added the 10uF capacitor at the 12V supply connection only because I felt guilty about the rather long (maybe 1m or more) twin-lead cable to my power supply. The two crystals I played with first were a 3.579MHz TV colorburst crystal and a 5.9904MHz crystal, both used old junk box items in HC49 cases. I found that I could adjust the 22K trimmer potentiometer and at different settings, either one or the other, or seemingly BOTH crystals would oscillate. It was exactly as Kostas described in his article! Here are three oscilloscope screenshots of the three states of behaviour if this circuit. Firstly, at lowest trimmer resistor value (highest gain) the 5.9904MHz crystal oscillates (see frequency counter measurement at the bottom left of the screen). Next as the gain is lowered, the 5.9904MHz crystal stops and the 3.579MHz crystal starts up. In both cases, a reasonably large amplitude and spectuclarly clean-looking sinewave. At even lower gain (higher source resistance) the oscilloscope waveform gets all messed up and the oscilloscope synchronisation can no longer lock on to it. One could speculate that this is because both crystals are oscillating, And the waveform we are seeing is the summation of 3.578MHz and 5.9904MHz sinewaves. But speculation isn't good enough... so now I turned to the spectrum analyser for a more deep investigation. Now the next problem is that the spectrum analyser has a 50-ohm input impedance and such a low impedance directly connected to the crystals killed all oscillation stone dead, in my case. This is where the right hand part if the circuit comes in. This is a transistor in the common collector configuration. This configuration has a high input impedance but a voltage gain of less than 1. In this circuit I measured that the output voltage is approximately 1/150'th of the input voltage. But it converts a high input impedance to a low output impedance which is what we care about here. The spectrum analyser has plenty of sensitivity and dynamic range to see tiny signals way way down. When only the oscilloscope probe is connected to those two crystals, the probe itself is acting as some capacitance to ground. When the probe was removed and the crystals connected to the common collector transistor buffer base, I found it necessary to add some capacitance to ground. I used 10pF which worked well. The results are very clear, it really is oscillating on both crystal frequencies simultaneously. First at high gain, here's the 5.9904MHz crystal oscillating: Next at a lower gain setting, here is the 3.579MHz crystal oscillating. Note the 2nd harmonic, approximately 24dB down. After passing through this common collector buffer, which is NOT a low distortion linear amplifier, the spectral purity of the nice clean sinewave is lost. The same applies also to the 5.9904MHz oscillation, but the spectrum analyser sweep is only set to 0 to 10MHz. Finally here is the result at low gain - both crystals are oscillating. There is a peak at 3.579MHz and another at 5.9904MHz. Note also the numerous other mixing products at lower amplitude, caused by the non-linearity of the common collector buffer. Now I measure the amplitude of the 5.9904MHz oscillation and the 3.579MHz oscillation at different source resistor values and plotted them on a graph. To make my life relatively easier, rather than having to remove the trimmer resistor for measurement, I found in the junk box a nice dual-gang 100K linear potentiometer (this is the one shown in the photograph above). Using this I could measure the resistance on one of the ganged potentiometer while the other was active in circuit. The RED line is 5.9904MHz and the BLUE line is 3.579MHz. You can see clearly at the lower resistance values, the 5.9904MHz crystal oscillates. Above about 1.5K, the 3.579MHz crystal takes over. From about 3K to 10K, both crystals are oscillating together at the same time. The levels of the two frequencies were surprisingly similar. Above 10K, only the 3.579MHz crystal oscillates. The two graphs below show the same information, but one uses a linear vertical scale in milli-volts over the 50-ohm load, the other is in dBm (to 50-ohm impedance load). The range 3K to 10K where the RED and BLUE lines are both present together, is where both crystals are oscillating simultaneously. What didn't work...I couldn't get three crystals to oscillate simultaneously the way Kostas did. I could observe at highest gain the highest frequency oscillating, then handing over to the next lower, then the lowest frequency crystal as I reduced the gain. But I could not find a point where all three oscillated at the same time. Furthermore I could not succeed in getting EVERY pair of random crystals from my junkbox to oscillate simultaneously. Further investigation...So clearly this oscillator really does operate on multiple crystal frequencies simultaneously. I feel that a lot more study could be done, to completely understand how it works and why; and what are the necessary conditions for it to work. As I said, I really don't have time now... but here is what I would like to investigate, if I did have time:
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Source is the 1860 edition of volume 9, Bach-Gesellschaft zu Leipzig (Joh. Seb. Bach's / Kammermusik / Erster Band), edited by William Rust. There are two versions of this Trio in G major: a) Trio für zwei Flöten und Bass (BWV 1039) and b) Trio for Cembalo and Viola da Gamba (BWV 1038), later arrangement from Trio BWV 1039. There is a ms of separate parts of this last trio (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin), where the figured bass part is declared by Rust as being an autograph ms.
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There's very disturbing news from Nigeria:
"At least 29 pupils and a teacher have been killed in a pre-dawn attack by suspected Islamists on a school in northeastern Nigeria, reports say." (BBC News)
The BBC's Will Ross, reporting from Lagos, adds that "it sounds like a horrific attack." Survivors say the gunmen set fire to buildings. Some of the students were burned alive, he reports, while "others were shot as they tried to run away."
Reuters, which is reporting that 27 students and one teacher were killed, says "it was the deadliest of three attacks on schools since the military launched an offensive in May to try to crush Boko Haram, an Islamist insurgent group whose nickname translates as 'Western education is sinful' in the northern Hausa language."
As the BBC adds, "Boko Haram promotes a version of Islam which makes it 'haram,' or forbidden, for Muslims to take part in any political or social activity associated with Western society."
In February 2012, NPR's Dina Temple-Raston noted that:
"The U.S. intelligence community is turning its focus to groups like al-Qaida's arm in Yemen or Islamic militias in Somalia such as al-Shabab. More recently, in Nigeria, a local separatist group called Boko Haram has taken aim at the U.S. It released a video message this week that called on jihadis to focus on the United States; their leader said President Obama was waging a war against Muslims.
"This is the kind of clarion call that al-Qaida used to sound. Experts are quick to say that it is unclear that Boko Haram has the reach to launch any attack against the U.S., but intelligence officials are watching the group all the same."
As Eric Guttschuss of Human Rights Watch told All Things Considered this past April, though:
"The International Criminal Court has opened up a preliminary examination and they have found that crimes against humanity have likely been carried out by Boko Haram, as well as serious human rights violations by the government security services."
Also earlier this year, Human Rights Watch reported that:
"Attacks by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram and abuses by government security forces led to spiraling violence across northern and central Nigeria. This violence, which first erupted in 2009, has claimed more than 3,000 lives. The group, which seeks to impose a strict form of Sharia, or Islamic law, in northern Nigeria and end government corruption, launched hundreds of attacks in 2012 against police officers, Christians, and Muslims who cooperate with the government or oppose the group.
"In the name of ending Boko Haram's threat to Nigeria's citizens, government security forces have responded with a heavy-hand."
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says prosecutors can use a person's silence against them if it comes before he's told of his right to remain silent.
The 5-4 ruling comes in the case of Genovevo Salinas, who was convicted of a 1992 murder. During police questioning, and before he was arrested or read his Miranda rights, Salinas answered some questions but did not answer when asked if a shotgun he had access to would match up with the murder weapon.
Prosecutors in Texas used his silence on that question in convicting him of murder, saying it helped demonstrate his guilt. Salinas appealed, saying his Fifth Amendment rights to stay silent should have kept lawyers from using his silence against him in court. Texas courts disagreed, saying pre-Miranda silence is not protected by the Constitution.
The high court upheld that decision.
The Fifth Amendment protects Americans against forced self-incrimination, with the Supreme Court saying that prosecutors cannot comment on a defendant's refusal to testify at trial. The courts have expanded that right to answering questions in police custody, with police required to tell people under arrest they have a right to remain silent without it being used in court.
Prosecutors argued that since Salinas was answering some questions — therefore not invoking his right to silence — and since he wasn't under arrest and wasn't compelled to speak, his silence on the incriminating question doesn't get constitutional protection.
Salinas' "Fifth Amendment claim fails because he did not expressly invoke the privilege against self-incrimination in response to the officer's question," Justice Samuel Alito said. "It has long been settled that the privilege 'generally is not self-executing' and that a witness who desires its protection 'must claim it.'"
The court decision was down its conservative/liberal split, with Alito's judgment joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.
Liberal Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented. "In my view the Fifth Amendment here prohibits the prosecution from commenting on the petitioner's silence in response to police questioning," Breyer said in the dissent.
Salinas was charged in 1993 with the previous year's shooting deaths of two men in Houston. Police found shotgun shells at the crime scene, and after going to the home where Salinas lived with his parents, obtained a shotgun kept inside the house by his father. Ballistic reports showed the shells matched the shotgun, but police declined to prosecute Salinas.
Police decided to charge him after one of his friends said that he had confessed, but Salinas evaded police for years. He was arrested him in 2007, but his first trial ended in a mistrial. It was during his second trial that prosecutors aggressively tried to use his silence about the shotgun in closing remarks to the jury.
Salinas was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The Texas Court of Appeals and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the conviction, with the latter court saying "pre-arrest, pre-Miranda silence is not protected by the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, and that prosecutors may comment on such silence regardless of whether a defendant testifies."
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While Princeton University undergraduates express high levels of satisfaction with social and residential life, a working group of students, faculty and staff is recommending several changes to enhance this essential element of the campus experience.
In a report issued May 2, the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life states: "The basic message is clear: Overall levels of satisfaction are high (and generally higher than at other institutions) and where there is dissatisfaction, in large measure it does not correlate with any specific demographic factor or living arrangement. In other words, while we found areas for improvement, we did not discover any definable group that is not having a meaningful and rewarding social life at Princeton."
The 13-member group, appointed by President Shirley M. Tilghman in September 2010, however discovered after meeting with 17 focus groups and receiving almost 300 comments on its website that there were some needs that could be better met, areas that could be improved and concerns that could be addressed. Its key recommendations include:
- Students should be prohibited from affiliating with a fraternity or sorority or engaging in any form of rush at any time during the freshman year, or from conducting or having responsibility for any form of rush in which freshmen participate. The penalty for violating these prohibitions should be severe enough to encourage widespread compliance, which probably means a minimum penalty of suspension.
- The University should significantly increase its commitment to enforce policies that prohibit serious forms of hazing wherever it occurs, and the University should become even more vigilant in imposing highly consequential disciplinary penalties on students found to have engaged in hazing that seriously threatened the health and well-being of any student.
- The working group concurs with the widespread and strongly held view across a broad range of campus constituencies that it would be desirable to reinstate a campus pub that would be open to all undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff and help to model the responsible use of alcohol.
The group also recommends several initiatives regarding both larger- and smaller-scale events on campus, building relationships across classes, enhancing life in the residential colleges, expanding the roles of residential college advisers and Outdoor Action/Community Action groups, and revamping aspects of freshman orientation and Princeton Preview.
"The working group was asked to put forward its judgments and suggestions and to stimulate lively and informed conversation about on-campus social and residential life," the report concludes. "The next steps depend on those students, faculty and staff who have responsibilities in these areas. It is now for them to decide which of the ideas and recommendations in this report ought to be pursued, by whom and at what pace. The members of the working group would be delighted to participate in this ongoing conversation in any ways they can be helpful."
Following up on previous work
Tilghman appointed the working group following a period of significant change in campus life. A new four-year residential college system had been implemented, creating new living and dining options for juniors, seniors and graduate students. The Frist Campus Center was celebrating its 10th anniversary; the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding had moved into spacious new quarters; and Campus Club -- a former eating club -- had reopened as a gathering place for all undergraduate and graduate students.
A separate student-faculty-staff-alumni task force had spent the previous year examining relationships between the University and the eating clubs, organizations founded and operated by students and alumni that for more than a hundred years have played an integral role in undergraduate life at Princeton. In May 2010 that task force issued a report making 25 recommendations to improve the relationships and the experiences students have in the clubs. In addition, the task force identified several issues related to undergraduate on-campus social and residential life that fell outside of its charge, but that it thought merited careful review by a similarly constituted group of students, faculty and staff.
Tilghman asked the new group to address the issues identified by the Eating Club Task Force and, specifically, to accomplish two tasks: review the University's goals regarding undergraduate on-campus social and residential life; and answer four questions: How can undergraduate social and residential life be enhanced and improved on campus? How can the University enrich the social and residential experience in the residential colleges? What is and should be the role of fraternities and sororities at Princeton? Is it desirable, and if so, feasible to reintroduce a campus pub?
The working group included five undergraduates, two faculty members (one of them a residential college master) and six members of the staff, including two directors of student life in the residential colleges and, as co-chairs, Vice President for Campus Life Cynthia Cherrey and Vice President and Secretary Robert Durkee.
In addition to meeting with focus groups and creating a website, the group examined data about the social and residential experience of Princeton undergraduates, and it met with an outside expert on fraternities and sororities. It also established an affiliated committee under the leadership of Amy Campbell, director of campus life initiatives in the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life, to examine in detail the issues related to reinstatement of a campus pub.
Identifying goals and themes
The group's report provides a brief history of social and residential life at Princeton, as well as a snapshot of the data the group considered in making its recommendations.
In reviewing the University's goals regarding undergraduate on-campus social and residential life, the report states: "In its undergraduate admission process, Princeton University looks carefully at two sets of characteristics. One set focuses on academic qualifications and capacities, while the other encompasses extracurricular activities, leadership potential and a broad range of personal qualities. Both sets of characteristics are important because while Princeton is first and foremost an academic institution, it also cares deeply about developing each student's non-academic interests and talents and preparing students to live healthy, productive and meaningful lives that include opportunities for leadership and service to others."
The residential experience and campus social life, the report concludes, are intended to develop core values and build the skills needed to create a sense of community and mutual respect, a sense of responsibility for themselves and others, an empathy for those from different backgrounds and a capacity to be refreshed, foster friendships and live a balanced life.
Throughout the report, students and alumni who submitted comments to the group's website are quoted. "I think the goals for social and residential life should be about creating opportunities for meaningful interaction, to prepare students for life beyond the University, and also to provide a social network that ensures that they have support and guidance and the strength of community," one wrote. "I also think that there must be an expectation of responsible, thoughtful, engaged participation for all campus community members in the social life of the campus."
The working group identifies three recurring themes that emerged in its work: an "intense desire" by entering students to get to know older undergraduates in order to benefit from their experience; the importance of relieving stress and building friendships through unstructured socializing; and the call for a broader sense of community.
In recommending the changes regarding fraternities and sororities, the report states, "The working group expresses its concern that because of the nature of the selection process and the cost, fraternities and sororities exacerbate the divide on campus between students of means and students with limited resources. It also expresses its concern that behavior within some of the Greek organizations is demeaning, dangerous and incompatible with Princeton's values."
The proposal to prohibit first-year students from affiliating with these organizations grew out of a concern that "membership … in freshman year narrows students' social circles before they gain a full sense of the opportunities Princeton has to offer or experience the full diversity of backgrounds and interests among their fellow students," the report states. "This concern is heightened by the pipeline relationship that exists between some of the Greek organizations and some of the eating clubs, which has the effect of tracking students very early in their Princeton careers."
This recommendation, as well as the one on enforcing hazing policies, also emerged from a concern about the dangerous use of alcohol, according to the report.
"The particular circumstances of Greek life at Princeton accentuate this concern," the report states, "because (a) rush takes place in freshman year when students may be more insecure and less capable of resisting peer pressure than they will be in later years; (b) students may be more susceptible to peer pressure if they believe admission to a fraternity or sorority will also get them into the eating club of their choice; and (c) the lack of a significant junior and senior presence in fraternities and sororities at Princeton means that most pledging and hazing is conducted by sophomores, in contrast to the junior and senior leadership that more typically exists on campuses with fully developed Greek systems."
The group is not proposing a prohibition beyond freshman year, but is recommending the University continue with its policy of not officially recognizing fraternities and sororities. This means the organizations cannot use University resources or facilities. The group also recommends that the University be more vigilant in challenging the national fraternities and sororities that use Princeton's name on their websites.
While the working group endorses the widely supported reinstatement of a campus pub, it states that the next step of finding a place for it was more difficult. In the end, it acknowledges the advantages of building a new facility, but recommends as more feasible converting one of two spaces on campus: the downstairs "Tap Room" at Prospect House; or the downstairs café area at Chancellor Green.
"The working group believes the benefits that would accrue from reinstating a pub, especially in helping to create a more responsible culture on campus regarding alcohol, justify the investment of time and resources to develop a plan for one of these two locations, and seek the approvals and funding necessary to go forward," the report states.
The working group also recommends a variety of changes to address the recurring themes that surfaced.
They include adding one or two "big signature events" each year to attract all four undergraduate classes, such as concerts with headliner talent, all-student dances, or an annual Princeton birthday party with music, dancing and a special cake. It also recommends smaller-scale events intended to increase bonding within each of the classes and among the classes. In addition, the report calls for more events in the residential colleges that are open only to college members, open to those outside the college and planned by students, as well as greater outreach to juniors and seniors.
The working group also suggests that Outdoor Action and Community Action groups get together on occasion throughout freshman year to share experiences and seek guidance from the upperclass students who lead these pre-orientation programs.
The report asks whether residential college advisers and dormitory assistants in the upperclass dorms should play more of a role in building a sense of community in those dorms.
In addition, the report recommends making a greater effort during orientation to bring freshmen together with upperclass students who can share their insights and experiences. And it suggests creating more time for bonding and fun at both orientation and Princeton Preview, the annual hosting program for admitted students and their families.


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Last week was the most memorable week of my scientific career. Accompanied by family, friends and colleagues, I was honoured with the award of a Nobel Prize in an unforgettable ceremony and banquet. That same week, I also chose to express highly critical views about deficiencies I perceive in the system scientists use for publishing and rewarding scientific research, for which I was both attacked and praised.
My remarks focused on the power of certain journals, which I refer to as luxury journals, that have distorted how science and scientists operate.
I was not surprised by the range of opinions my comments provoked, but I have been impressed by their quantity. The evidence that the scientific community wants and needs this discussion could not be stronger. I write this to respond to some of the criticisms, to expand on some points I made, and to suggest some next steps.
It is understandable that some see hypocrisy in my criticism of a system that has served my own career well. I have published extensively in Nature, Cell and Science. I have now, of course, won the Nobel Prize. It is therefore easy, some have said, for me to voice my concerns. But that, in some ways, is exactly the point. I am saying what many others believe but feel they cannot say, because they fear their careers might be damaged.
Yet others have spoken out. I recognise that I am not the only person to criticise luxury journals and an academic reward system that relies too much on them. I applaud those who reached this view long before me. I accept that I could have spoken out earlier in my career, but the Nobel Prize has afforded me a platform from which to speak loudly. The charge of hypocrisy would be fair were I still submitting my own research work to luxury journals. I see none in speaking out, while doing as I say.
It has also been pointed out that I have a conflict of interest. I have edited a major subscription journal (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS), and now edit an open access one (eLife), both of which compete with the luxury journals in different ways. But I have long held a negative view of the role of impact factors, an imperfect measure of the importance of a journal and its content, and shared my views with the staff and editorial board members who served with me during my term as editor-in-chief of PNAS. The problems with the scientific rewards system extend beyond the competition among the journals.
I have also been clear as to the extent of this conflict. As was declared in the Guardian article, I am leading a challenge to the luxury journals as editor-in-chief of eLife. I am doing this work because I believe that journals need to be radically improved and we have the means to achieve this. Though I draw an employee's salary, I have no wider financial stake in eLife's success, and I have always been entirely open about my role. I believe my argument would be weaker if I were not also attempting to change the system in some ways.
I understand, too, concerns that my stance will have career implications for junior colleagues in my lab. I shared these concerns, which is why I discussed the issue with them more than two years ago, when I took on the editorship of eLife. My colleagues agreed then, as they do now, that we should be challenging the big journals, and that papers we would once have submitted to Science, Cell and Nature should go elsewhere.
I am deeply committed to developing the careers of younger scientists I work with – that, indeed, is a major motivation for my argument. I do not want them to have to play a system where the artificial scarcity of prestige publications makes recognition and advancement such a lottery. It is gratifying that several of my lab colleagues have publicly supported me.
My purpose in avoiding luxury journals, other than being seen to walk the walk, is not necessarily to prompt others to do the same. Rather it is to prompt reflection among researchers, institutions and funders, who are in a position to limit the poor incentives that the reliance on luxury journals has created. I want scientists and administrators, especially those involved in funding, promotion, recruitment and tenure, to think hard about the influence that publishing decisions and research assessments have. That is the way we will drive change.
One of the most important changes we need is for journals to exploit the advantages of publishing online rather than in print. Too many journals remain wedded to print, artificially limiting the number of papers they accept. This made sense when journals were constrained by page counts, but makes much less in a digital world. It makes journals more selective than they need to be, driving extreme competition for space that is good for subscription businesses but bad for science.
Intense competition for space in key journals means that the editorial process often involves multiple rounds of revision, review and resubmission, causing long delays in publication. Additional experimental data and information are often demanded by reviewers who might later, as authors, be competing for space in the same journals. Much of this data is then relegated to supplementary appendices. The experience can be highly dispiriting for researchers.
I see a solution in open-access journals. They generally cover their costs upfront, for example using a business model whereby a fee is levied for publication. This model is more suited to the digital medium: all the work that meets the editorial criteria for the journal can be published, and it can be made freely available to everyone. As high quality science grows, so can the number of articles published. This, more than anything, is what makes eLife not like the luxury journals: it is selective, but will publish everything that meets the editors' standards. There is no picking and choosing to meet a quota. It also tries to address some of the other issues listed above, for example using a much more efficient editorial process. And when eLife receives an impact factor, it will not be promoted.
Journals, however, are only one half of this equation. We also need to address the demand for luxury journals, from researchers themselves and from the institutions that use them to judge scientific quality. We need to discuss what researchers, universities and funders can do to remove the incentives that make it rational to publish under the biggest brands. I would like to suggest four places to start.
1) Academics who serve a role in research assessment could shun all use of journal names and impact factors as a surrogate measure of quality. New practices and processes must be devised and shared so that we can rapidly move forward. My Berkeley colleague Michael Eisen has added an important point: we must speak up in appointment and funding committees when we hear others use journal names this way. Here we need peer pressure as much as we need peer review.
2) Researchers applying for positions, funding and tenure should avoid any mention of impact factors in their applications or CVs. Article metrics might have a role to play, but narrative explanations of research significance and accomplishments would be more helpful.
3) Funders, universities and other institutions should make it clear to their review committees that journal brand cannot be used as a proxy for scientific quality. If reviewers object, they should find different reviewers.
4) Many of us serve as editors or editorial board members of journals – and we could insist that the publishers of these journals stop promoting impact factors. Instead, the journals could emphasise the other valuable services they provide to authors and readers to promote their worth to the community.
No doubt others will come up with bigger and better ideas to move us away from the problems that we currently face. If I have helped to spark a discussion, I'm delighted. Now we have to turn our attention to action.


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The region was hit with record-low, subzero temperatures on Tuesday. Temperatures were subfreezing by Wednesday.


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Have you ever seen someone knock back a shot of melted butter? I have.
It was at Red Lobster (home of some cheese biscuits that'll make ya want to skip the rest of the meal), and it was repulsive. Don't get me wrong--I enjoy butter as much as the next gal, but witnessing that scene made me squirm in my seat.
On a semi-related note, I was recently reminded of one of my favorite candies when I was growing up--butter rum lifesavers. I really loved their rich flavor. I can recall hearing about a beverage called hot buttered rum and because I want to know everything, I looked up its description. Imagine my surprise (and initial disgust) when I learned that it's made by beating together butter, brown sugar, and spices and melting this mixture into a combination of rum and hot water. To my mind, that doesn't sound like a very far cry from taking down a shot of melted butter. Have any of you had hot buttered rum? Is it not as nauseating as I think?
I was recently given a little bottle of butter rum flavoring, and I decided to try it out in some mega-muffins. Would they taste wonderful like those lovely little lifesavers, or would they turn my tummy inside out and upside down like a dose of tepid fat?
Good news--they're delicious. The flavor is subtle, but not too understated that you don't immediately think buttah upon taking a bite. The moral of this post? For once I actually like an artificial flavor much, much more than the real thing. Yes, when it comes to butter rum, I think I'll stick with candy and baked goods and leave the cocktails (and shots o' pure fat) to the more psychotic daring among us.
Better-Than-a-Shot-of-Butter Butter Rum Muffins
(alternately, Artificially-Flavored-and-Proud-of-It Butter Rum Muffins)
(based on these beauties)
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon butter rum flavoring
1/4 teaspoon butter rum flavoring
3 tablespoons sugar
milk, if needed
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Grease or line 12 regular muffin cups or 6 mega-muffin cups.
Beat the butter with an electric mixer until creamy. Add the sugar and beat well. Add the eggs one at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
Combine the flour, baking powder, salt, cloves and cinnamon in a separate bowl.
In a third bowl, combine the milk and butter rum flavoring.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture alternately with milk mixture, ending with flour mixture and combining only until JUST blended. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, filling 3/4 full. Bake for 20-25 minutes for regular muffins (or 30-35 minutes for mega-muffins) or until golden. Remove from the pans immediately and cool on a wire rack.
For the glaze, combine 1/4 teaspoon butter rum flavoring and 3 tablespoons of sugar in a small saucepan; heat slowly, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves. If the mixture gets too thick, add a little milk. Brush the glaze over warm muffins and sprinkle with coarse sugar for a tasty finish.
December 17, 2009
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67 comments:
- amanda said...
Ugh, my 2 year old has taken a bite out of a block of butter on more than one occasion. And each time he talks about how good it is. Bleh.
The muffins look awesome! I love the sugary top. - December 17, 2009 at 8:59 AM
- Barbara said...
My sister used to eat spoonfuls of Crisco!
Anyway, glad these turned out tasting like the butter rum lifesavers- they were my favorite too! - December 17, 2009 at 9:08 AM
- KatB said...
How ironic - I was just watching on TV last night as one guy dared another to take a shot of popcorn butter. The other guy refused, so the first guy did it himself, only to find out it was butter-flavored cooking oil. Eew.
- December 17, 2009 at 9:33 AM
- Karen said...
Mmmmm, yummy! Great pictures.
- December 17, 2009 at 9:37 AM
- shaz said...
Ha ha, my kids fight for the little pats of butter we get served at cafes. The winner then eats it straigth up! I think I can volunteer them to try out that drink (I'm with you, it sounds way queasy-inducing). Your mufins on the other hand, look absolutely gorgeous. So golden and crumbly.
- December 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- LilSis said...
Om my! That's a lot of butter! Might be good to dunk one of those Red Lobster biscuits in some melted butter, but to drink it? Ick! (I was just thumbing through some recipes that I tore out of Food Network Magazine and found their version of those Cheddar Biscuits. I still haven't tried them yet.)
I haven't thought of those Butter Rum lifesavers in years! They were my favorites, also. It was tradition that we always got one of those lifesaver books for Christmas. You know, the ones that had four or five packs of lifesavers on each side. I always attacked the Butter Rum ones first.
The muffins look great!I've gotta bookmark this recipe to make sometimes in the near future. - December 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- lisa is cooking said...
I do like butter and rum, but I've never worked up the courage try to a hot buttered rum. These muffins look like a great alternative!
- December 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- kat said...
Those muffins sound terrific but the idea of drinking a shot of butter is just gross!
- December 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Pretty muffins! They must taste really good!
Rosa - December 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- kimberleyblue said...
Wow, that sounds gross - both the shot of butter and the butter rum drink.
Your muffins, on the other hand, do not sound gross at all! I loved those lifesavers as well, and these muffins, mixed with that cinnamon, must be great. - December 17, 2009 at 10:08 AM
- George Gaston said...
Grace, this is one awesome muffin ~ moist and delicious! And thanks for the wonderful memory of Butter-rum Lifesavers... I always liked those the best.
- December 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
I loved those those little rum candies when I was a kid! I used to have a rum cake recipe that used rum flavoring(I must find that now), and it was so moist and delish.
Your muffins look perfect with the sugar crusted tops, Grace, and I'm sure the flavor is amazing!And I prefer my butter baked into something tasty, not in a shot. :) - December 17, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I'm not sure I should be looking at this post before breakfast. A shot of butter just doesn't cut it....wink. But these mega muffuns do.
- December 17, 2009 at 10:59 AM
- Jennifer said...
Oh no no no...hot buttered rum is nothing like downing a shot of butter. It's more like a very adult version of the lifesavers you (and I) loved as children. My nana always had a pack in her purse!
The muffins look yummy. - December 17, 2009 at 11:12 AM
- oneordinaryday said...
The only time I wanna eat a puddle of butter is when it's in the middle of my mashed potatoes or a buttermilk biscuit, and even then I have to smush it around. Gotta agree on the ick factor of hot buttered rum. The muffins sure are pretty though!
- December 17, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Maria said...
My dad can never get enough butter! He would love this treat:)
- December 17, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- Hungry Dog said...
I don't want to drink any melted butter or any buttered rum, but I WOULD like to eat one of those gorgeous muffins! That sugary crust looks divine.
- December 17, 2009 at 12:37 PM
- Karly said...
I've never tried buttered rum, but it actually sounds kinda yummy. I don't think I could drink plain melted butter, but I could handle it mixed in with other goodies. :)
Great looking muffins! - December 17, 2009 at 1:09 PM
- BonBon Rose Girls Kristin said...
Dude. I'm GAGGING! But the muffins...those are a different story. YUM!
- December 17, 2009 at 4:43 PM
- Patricia @ ButterYum said...
What a funny post... nope, I never did see anyone knock back a shot of melted butter. The thought is too icky to imagine!
On to those wonderful biscuits - you might be interested in making them yourself. I posted a recipe for mini ones, but you could certainly make them bigger if you like. They are totally addictive!
http://butteryum.blogspot.com/2009/11/bite-size-cheddar-biscuits-with-garlic.html - December 17, 2009 at 4:58 PM
- Kitchen Butterfly said...
My 4 year old daughter loves to EAT butter....on its own, yes on bread but she always begs for a bit to lick....Love the pearl sugar on that lone cake
- December 17, 2009 at 5:27 PM
- Jennifer said...
I am the type of person who after watching someone down butter could probably never do it! Those muffins look delicious I love the sparkly sugar on the top!
- December 17, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- Lindsey@pickyeatings said...
I'm really hoping they took the shot of butter on a dare...
- December 17, 2009 at 6:34 PM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
I've never seen anyone knock backa shot of butter but I believe you-it's not something I'd want to do myself! I did see deep fried butter on Oprah though-scary but fascinating! This however looks and sounds much, much, much more appealing :)
- December 17, 2009 at 7:36 PM
- Unknown said...
Hot buttered rum, the one time I drank it, was wonderful. I was a kid, and my grandfather wanted me to sleep. Sweet, warming, relaxing.
- December 17, 2009 at 10:16 PM
- Anonymous said...
Those muffins are totally tempting! I want to make them this weekend! What can I substitute for butter rum flavoring?
- December 17, 2009 at 10:20 PM
- Pam said...
Butter rum lifesavers are still my very favorite flavor. The muffins are calling my name... can I have one or three?
- December 18, 2009 at 12:18 AM
- Mimi said...
I have to agree that butter rum lifesavers are my favorite lifesaver. We got those lifesaver books for Christmas every year too. The muffins look delicious.
Mimi - December 18, 2009 at 1:15 AM
- Daniel B. said...
However bad watching someone knock back a shot of butter may be... it pales in comparison to watching someone chew down a stick of the stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JB-i870pi8&NR=1 - December 18, 2009 at 8:46 AM
- Faith said...
I've never seen someone take a shot of butter bottom's up! Wow, that's courage, lol! (I completely know what you mean about RL's cheese biscuits! After a few of those, who needs an entree?!) I've never had hot buttered rum, but I do love the lifesavor flavor. Your muffins look fantastic, especially with that delicicous sugar crust!
- December 18, 2009 at 9:16 AM
- Cookie baker Lynn said...
I love both the names for these muffins. Melted butter shots does sound disgusting. I like my butter modestly covered in flour and sugar, thank you very much.
- December 18, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- TKW said...
Both of my girls would totally guzzle butter if they could get away with it. Nasty!
- December 18, 2009 at 10:30 AM
- eatme_delicious said...
Mmm butter rum flavouring in a muffin sounds SO good!! Not that I don't slather butter generously on things, but downing a shot of it on its own does sound disgusting. I've never tried hot buttered rum but really want to. It sounds so interesting and I imagine it's balanced out by the other things in the drink.
- December 18, 2009 at 10:34 AM
- megan said...
cute post! I love the way you write. :) And those muffins look delicious
- December 18, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Albany Jane said...
haha, I am totally a butter eater. I might do a butter shot too, but I'd probably rather sip and savor the melty, buttery, goodness. Oddly, I really don't like the butter rum lifesavers. Just something a little cloying in them.
I love the dome and sugar on your muffin. Crackly, butter goodness - sure looking good. - December 18, 2009 at 11:18 AM
- www.dhaleb.com said...
I used to work at Disneyland when I first got into college and we had some down time between parades. Out of boredom, I dared one of my co-workers to eat 10 pats of butter and he did! I don't know what's worse, gulping down melted butter or chewing on the chilled version? I like butter too but not on its own!
- December 18, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- Haddock said...
butter rum flavor?
Must try it out. - December 18, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- Kate at Serendipity said...
Ewww, I never saw anyone take a shot of butter, but I remember when I was in grad school we all got together to make the foods that one or more of us had never had--artichokes, escargots, crab, lobster, all the things you dip in garlic butter (or anyway we did back then...). I was sick for a week afterwards--too much butter. And I smelled like garlic too. Phew. Thanks for the memory.
This muffin, on the other hand, looks like it would be divine! - December 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- Julie said...
Umm, yeah, I could never imagine doing a thing like that *looking around nervously*
But I imagine these muffins would be way better than that! - December 18, 2009 at 3:37 PM
- kellypea said...
Ew on the buttah swilling. These little things sound yummy. I had to grow into a butter rum lover because it wasn't one of my favorite flavors as a kid. Nice how tastes change. Thankfully. Okay, so not liver. hahahaha
- December 18, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- hannah queen | honey & jam said...
Mmm, butter! Those look delicious.
- December 18, 2009 at 4:51 PM
- vanillasugarblog said...
red lobster LOL! we had a reb lobster on cape cod, of all places. it did horribly here and closed within 3 months.
wouldn't it be cool to put some of those Lifesaver butter rum thingees in this? you know? you know, you speak my crazy food-language - December 18, 2009 at 5:13 PM
- Nutmeg Nanny said...
Wow a shot of butter...that's gotta be good for ya. Now these muffins look awesome! I should try to find some of this butter rum flavor. Yum!
- December 18, 2009 at 5:52 PM
- Jessica@Foodmayhem said...
I think Lon can eat a chunk of butter, no blinking, but I'm with you, kinda gross. The muffins though, those look good.
- December 18, 2009 at 6:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
One of my childhood friends use to eat butter her mum would cut butter up into little cubes and give it to her I think that may be child abuse. These muffins loook great though.
- December 18, 2009 at 7:00 PM
- Kerstin said...
Wow, these sound amazing! A friend of a friend used to eat dairy products to comfort herself - including butter, sour cream, etc right out of the tub...
- December 18, 2009 at 10:41 PM
- Anonymous said...
mmm rum glaze!
can imagine my teeth sinking through that yummy struesel.
looking good. love the muffin! - December 18, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- pigpigscorner said...
Butter goodness....yum!!
- December 19, 2009 at 7:49 AM
- Y said...
Ugh to the shot of butter. Really? I'd rather have my butter in muffin form, thanks! :)
- December 19, 2009 at 8:00 AM
- Rebeca said...
ewww i mean i love buttery bread and such but a shot of butter, blech... but the muffins look DIVINE!
- December 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- Emily said...
I always thought hot buttered rum sounded weird, too. Is the butter necessary?
I need these muffins! They look so delicious! - December 19, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- Amanda said...
You had me at butter. These look fab!
Amanda - December 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM
- Unknown said...
This reminds me of an episode of Paula Deen where she ate deep fried butter. I thought it was gross.
- December 19, 2009 at 7:43 PM
- Unknown said...
Those were my most fav. live savers too!!! omg...they were so good. (and rich). I want to make these muffins and a baaaaad way!!!
- December 19, 2009 at 10:44 PM
- MrsLavendula said...
my sister used to snack on butter bars! hahaha! i rather like them melted as a dip to lobsters! ok, now that thought made me hungry!
- December 20, 2009 at 2:54 AM
- Lori said...
I would so squirm in my seat if I saw that. Yuck.
I too loved butter rum Lifesavers when growing up. ANd anytime I have tried to make a dessert with rum in it- the rum flavor is WAY too subtle. It gets burned away I think. So I could see why the artificial one would work better. Having said that I do have a rum cake that is outstanding. Mostly because you pour rum and butter over the cake after baking. Hmmm. Me thinks Holiday dessert. I will keep you posted- ha. - December 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- tiffany @ the garden apartment said...
As a child, I ate butter. Seriously. As an adult, I no longer do.
Anyway, these butter rum muffins are gorgeous! I love how the glaze and the coarse sugar gives it a crunchy (and tasty) exterior to a moist muffin. Yum! I will definitely be trying these. - December 20, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- Maris said...
I've never seen anyone take a shot of butter and I hope to keep it that way!
- December 20, 2009 at 11:45 AM
- MaryBeth said...
Yuck...that sounds nasty. I love butter just like the next person but that is a bit much.
- December 20, 2009 at 4:43 PM
- Dolce said...
I never had butter rum... But the idea kind of makes me sick... but the muffins, I could!
- December 20, 2009 at 7:37 PM
- Deborah said...
Yeah, I couldn't handle a shot of butter, but I'm pretty sure I could handle one of these!
- December 20, 2009 at 8:30 PM
- Robin said...
I love those lifesavers! Hot Buttered Rum is a bit strong for my taste, I make a better and creamier version using ice cream. I do like rum cake though so these muffins are perfect!
- December 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM
- Jaime said...
a shot of butter? gah! those muffins definitely look better!
hehe - i never noticed your profile pic before ;) - December 21, 2009 at 9:27 PM
- Lisa said...
Butter shots at Red Lobster? Somehow I can picture that, no problem! lol! I remember a phase as a girl when my favorite snack was a saltine smeared with a thick layer of butter. I've gotten well past that but I do still think a Butter Rum Muffin sounds grand!
- December 21, 2009 at 10:29 PM
- Glenda said...
You had me at "Better-Than-A-Shot-of-Butter Butter Rum Muffins"! =)
- December 22, 2009 at 2:20 AM
- Ingrid_3Bs said...
Have I told you before that I love your super creative and oh, so funny recipe names? I do now please pass me a muffin!
~ingrid - December 22, 2009 at 9:16 PM
- Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella said...
Hi Grace-just wanted to say hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Have loved reading all about Chez Grace! :)
- December 25, 2009 at 5:47 AM


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