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Buy vs. Build?: That is the Question
Building a green prefab has been my dream for many years, and now that I am finally ready to purchase my very first home that little voice inside my head keeps nagging me about it...
When green prefab news first started popping up in the design community I just looked and listened with awe and thought, "maybe someday." Then, as more builders got into the industry and it started to become a little more streamlined, my "maybe someday" felt like an affirmation more than a pipe dream. But nonetheless I was not in a position to start house hunting at the time, so I just put the idea on the back burner.
Jump to a few years later and I am finally ready to begin looking for my first home. As I have begun the house hunting process I've learned what you can buy in a metropolitan city with my budget, and it makes me want to keep renting.
One day, as I needed a break from my traditional search, I searched for green prefab home builders in Seattle. As I started snooping around, to my surprise, it seemed like the cost of building my dream home was less than the craptastic fixer-uppers I had been considering. I met with the builders and the once far-fetched dream seemed like it could actually be a possibility. I have met with a land realtor and have been moving forward to see what this will really entail, but all the while still looking at fixer-uppers.
I think that being a first-timer the idea of building a home, even if it's not in the traditional way, just scares me to the point that I'm afraid to take the leap. It helps that it's a prefab and there's a lot less risk with extra costs and contracting issues, since it is all pre-packaged and done in-house. I just need to make sure that the project stays within the budget. The only thing worse than paying a bunch of money for a house I don't totally love is to have an empty lot with no house and no money. I'll keep you posted as the decision unfolds.
Have any of you taken that leap of faith to build your dream? How did it turn out for you?
(Images: Left: Are You the Fixer-Upper Type?, Right: Modern Prefab Homeowners Dish on Their Digs)
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I looked up the cost of a prefab and while it's a lot less expensive to build a home than it was to buy a home, the estimates don't take into account the cost of the land. When all is said and done, buying an existing home is still probably cheaper than buying the land and having a home built.
You know, in terms of price they should go the groupon route: they know they can offer a prefab for a lot less if 100 people sign up.
I think it would be so exciting to do. I would love to build one of these if I had the time and energy. You do need to follow the same advice you get for any project of this scale and plan on adding another 25% to the budget to cover unexpected things that come up. Though you won't encounter the problems of renovation (dry rot, etc), weather and mistakes will still happen, and that will add to your costs.
Yes, I looked into this in the Los Angeles area and ran into some obstacles in the zoning area. These homes are classified the same way that trailers are, so it's not easy to find a spot where it's legal to put them. Also, because of that, I didn't find many building familiar with putting together something like a Rocio Romero house, for example.
I also don't agree with the prefab industry's insistance that these homes don't depreciate while also insisting that they're just like traditionally-built homes. If it's as simple as all the benefits without the depreciation, we'd all be living in prefab homes.
I want to do the same thing, and that Rocio Romero is my favorite! To me, prefab is waaay too expensive for all the hastle, but then again I live in the midwest where houses are a dollar a dozen
I would suggest you do a ton of research before plunging into building any home or even buying one that you want to renovate. The various home rehab TV programs, with the possible exception of Holmes on Homes, make house construction and renovation seem easy, it is not. If you're going to attempt building a prefabricated home, consult your municipal, county. and state zoning and building codes. A number of jurisdictions have prohibitions or regulations that make prefab home construction difficult or impossible.
If you can, visit models of the homes you like and make sure you will be comfortable living in them. Choose your contractor(s) carefully. A recent NY Times article chronicled a near disaster experienced by a family building an LV home in upstate New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/garden/in-the-catskills-a-prefab-box-of-galvanized-steel.html . To avoid disasters and unforeseen problems, engage real experts to advise you on this project. It may cost more, but will save you wasted money, time and effort in the end.
Good Luck!
@toypixie, I don't think any livable homes are being abandoned or trashed. The ones that are torn down to reclaim the land for building are generally unfixable anyway.
@ JOHN H: All good points, but the NY Times article about the LV home seemed less of a "near disaster" than a perfect example of folks who simply didn't do their homework. The couple having the house built went with the low-ball contractor and seemed to not pay any attention to cost-to-build range that Rocio Romero clearly states on her web web site. They spent some absurd amount on their kitchen floor and left the rest unfinished. Hmm...
I built my dream house. It has geo-thermal heating and cooling, tons of natural light, storm water collector and a design that fits my personality, but It was an ordeal. 2.5 years of daily stress. I had 2 full time jobs; my regular job and the job of managing the contractor, bank and architect. I thought I did a good job interviewing and bidding out my project. Look as 87 homes from 5 different builders. Got references and the works and still the project was late, the builder tried to cut corners and when confronted to try to charge extra for doing the work correctly. There is also the issue of dealing with the banks and fees for when the project goes over time and extending the construction loan because the project is behind
The story started with flood damage to my original house. It had to be torn down, we de-constructed the home and only one dumpster of material was discarded. We got a tax deduction for the material we donated to various charities. I hired an architect who was great. The builder, I though was great. I had checked them out, but in the end they tried to cut corners and change the design to increase their profits. If I were to build again I would have gone with the less experienced builder on the list. The rationale for this is the more experienced builder knows where to cut corners to increase profits where the less experienced builder is still trying to make a name for himself.
The Project almost bankrupted me. There were some very tense months at the end of the project where it looked like I would lose my home and land. Finally hired an attorney who helped straighten out the builder (another unexpected cost, but something I should have done earlier).
I look at the pre-fab homes that are now available and know I would rather go pre-fab than new construction.
Keep in mind the amount of engineering that could be required in the Seattle area. My wife and I just bought our first home in Kirkland, and I was in the same position you are now when we started our search, i.e. considering going new pre-fab instead. However, the cost of land out here, coupled with the seismic and other engineering requirements put me off the idea for now, at least for our first home. When we inevitably move in the next 10 years and are hopefully doing a little better financially, I'll reevaluate.
That said, if you can make it work, go for it! I'll bring a keg of Red Hook to your first party!
@Shamwise - reading your story, I just wonder why you think it's still worth it if the house almost bankrupted you. I mean, how is that possibly worth screwing up your financial future?
I would not dare build a home, any home, without having a fat, fat bank account. No matter how diligent and honest your architect -- and I know many diligent, honest ones -- things just end up costing way, way more than you anticipate or estimate, and everything takes much, much longer. That's just the way it is. I'd probably end up in an insane asylum if I tried to build my own house without knowing that even if things go terribly wrong, my financial future is still fairly secure.
Prefab houses are like anything else -- a commodity being sold to us for a company's profit. Go forth and gentrify, people. Renovating a beautiful little bungalow that's fallen into disrepair is far more green than building a new house.
@ Pi. The issue is not my financial responsibility. I am very responsible. The issue came down to the builder who is supposed to purchase material build the home and get reimbursed from the bank. The problem was the builder. He stopped paying sub contractors, Work was not getting done and the bank would not let me fire him without a bank approved alternate. I paid money out of pocket for the subs to keep them from walking and paid out of pocket . A construction loan does not pay out anyone until the work is inspected by the bank and work is considered "done." Towards the end I had to wait for closing to get my money back that the builder should have put out for materials and paying subs. At closing I got back that money and now all is well.
The only reason to pick pre-fab would be the building process.
We built about four years ago, our second home, about a mile from the first. Initially we considered adding a home theater onto the old house, but it would have made ours the most expensive home on the "block" (cul-de-sac, actually) which is always discouraged in real estate. And it wouldn't REALLY be what we wanted.
Then we started to consider building. (This is in New Hampshire, where real estate prices didn't drop as much as some areas.) We had a fair amount of equity in our old place, but land prices were incredible, and often were literally acres in size (too much to keep up) AND often needed utility improvements which we would need to pay extra for, such as bringing in natural gas lines and electricity. We realized we couldn't afford that.
Finally we discovered a little development going in not far from home. It was a brand new cul-de-sac, with six units, technically condominiums on a private street, but with individually owned homes AND lots. Four units were done (one being the model), one was under construction , and one was still an empty lot at the end of the cul-de-sac. After visiting the model several times, we talked to the builders, found out they would build us the house we wanted (within some limitations) on that lot, and we signed on. This would take care of many of the cost-prohibitive components: they already had permits from the town, they already had underground utilities installed, and the lot was smaller and more manageable for landscaping and maintenance.
We used the architect-designed model home as a starting point and made some changes. The poured concrete foundation had a foot of height added so we could have the headroom to finish the walk-out basement to include our home theater, family room, and a full bath (along with closets for the theater electronics and the furnace and water heater.) We had to move some structural supporting walls upstairs because of this, making some shifts in the ground floor plan, and we eliminated an extra closet facing the front door in favor of a more attractive entry niche. Because we raised the foundation, the door from the kitchen into the 2-car garage had to be moved or the steps to the door in the garage (which now were higher and protruded more) would have blocked parking a second car (except a Smart Car, maybe!) Fortunately we caught this problem early in the stud phase, because the builders didn't spot it on their own! (Moral: check often, know your floor plan, and be proactive. They also were going to switch two different sized windows around and cause some other mayhem we had to get fixed.)
We totally redesigned the top floor to include twin masters, one over the garage, which the model home didn't have. We have a kind of "Jack and Jill" bathroom arrangement with 3/4 baths connected by a shared bubble-tub room, since neither of us takes a lot of baths, but we both wanted the option to soak...This took a lot of sketching and messing around, before we could hand off the plan to the architect's draftsperson to make code-worthy.
We wanted to go green as much as possible, too. We managed the high efficiency blown-in insulation, quality windows, recycled carpeting, Energy Star appliances, etc. We failed to get the cement board siding (the builders insisted on maintaining the vinyl of the established neighborhood as agreed to with the Town, and would have charged us more than $10K extra, over the cost of vinyl, to install it...) We failed to get the on-demand water heaters (2) since they would have cost at least $4K each. (A possible upgrade for later.) We failed to get solar panels (too expensive.) Budget made us forfeit some of the green dreams, but we did pretty well... Also we couldn't make the builders use LEED approved site-recycling, since that costs more and wasn't part of what they were equipped to handle -- we bought into THEIR development, after all -- so we had to live with some of their choices.
In the end we are fairly happy with the outcome. I'm not exactly convinced the construction was of the highest quality -- nail heads are protruding in the drywall. They failed to connect the dryer hose to the exterior outlet, and we had a gallon of condensation in the hose within a few months, an very unexpected problem that made the dryer fail to work. Because we added square footage with the second master bedroom, we had to have a second furnace in the attic, and they had condensation drainage pipes run down the exterior of the house which froze solid in the third month of residency, causing the condensation to overflow the tray and drip through the ceiling of my closet, until they came in and re-routed the drainage... (I wonder if we had been able to CHOOSE our builders if research would have caused us to avoid these guys.) We had a one year builder's warranty, and one of the builders actually lived in the first house in the development, so we called on him (at midnight for the frozen furnace drainage!!!) and got things fixed as we could. (Think that's why he just sold his place and moved???)
This was our first (and only!!) building project, and you learn from your mistakes! And you PAY for quality and for "green". (It's going down a bit as more people demand green building, but there are costs for being ecologically responsible -- it takes more man power and time and thought, so being careless is always cheaper.) You make your trade-offs, you do what you can, you get what you get, and you deal. If my partner weren't a pretty well-paid software engineer, this would NEVER have happened.
Good luck with your building project/s! (By the way, pre-fab is only eco-friendly if the fabrication facility is nearby. Shipping home components is costly both in money and in fossil fuels...)
One thing that I didn't see mentioned here is something that I encountered when I purchased my property to build my home--land loans are harder to get than a regular home mortgage loan. Depending on the size of the lot and what you plan on doing with it (sub-diving and selling it off, building one house, etc.) it's also more difficult to secure financing (in Connecticut more than 10 acres is hard to finance if you are building one house on it). I purchased 33 acres and had one heck of a time finding financing to build one house on it, most banks told me they don't offer land loans.
Sorry, I meant to say "sub-dividing it and selling part of it off"
a few years ago we nearly built an LVL, even had a contract on the land. But, after doing a lot of research and as much preplanning as we could, there were just to many possible disasters for us to take the leap. I echo what others have said here - lending can be difficult for these kinds of builds and it's hard to find a contractor experienced with prefab. In the end we felt more comfortable purchasing a known property and paying a little bit more, than with risking the unknown of building.
Thanks everyone for all of the great insights. It is quite helpful and much appreciated.
My parents built their own cabin/home. They are pretty well versed in Real Estate and construction. It was supposed to take a couple of months. It took them 5 years to full finish it. Just unforseen things happened. Mind you this wasn't a pre-fab. They are planning on building again, this time having had the experience, they know what 'not' to do this time around. It's a pretty brave step for any newbie.
My husband and I have been considering the same thing while looking at purchasing our first home in San Jose, CA. We love the design of the Living Home C6 model. It's discouraging to see what a dump you can buy in a city like this for the same price that you could build a beautiful sustainable house. The process still seems daunting though! We are thinking we might go with purchasing a condo or town home as our first place to build equity for the construction loan.


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Toilet Cleaning and Department Chairing: Volunteering a public service
AbstractWho will do a job that nobody wants but that someone has to do? The search for a volunteer is modelled as a war of attrition in which everyone is tempted to just wait for someone else to do it. We show that the volunteer will be, ceteris paribus, the individual for whom the benefit/cost ratio of performing the public service is the largest, the one most impatient to consume it, or the one who stands to benefit from it the longest.
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I think...well, I'm the girl that wishes we were a progression guild when we aren't ^^; . I have my group of boys that we whisper back and forth expressing our desire that people wouldn't afk randomly and need a bio break between every attempt, and that just once could we maybe have someone actually have watched the videos besides us?
We aren't progression, though, and never will be. All four of us know that our schedules won't lets us commit to a real raiding guild, and we like the people we run with even when they drive us crazy.
I'm also the one (and only one, ha ha) who follows WoW Insider religiously, so I'm the only one that knows about upcoming changes, how they work, when to expect the next new patch, and so on.
Silly guildies.
I must say that if you guys want to be a raiding guild you can. My guild (shameless guild plug :) ) Casual Hardcore - Maelstrom, only raids once a week. 1 day... for 3-4 hours...and we are 1/8 Heroic in DS. I know of another guild as well that runs a similar schedule except that they only raid one day for no more than 3 hours. They are 8/8 Normal and were 2% from their first heroic kill last night.
My point is this: If you guys really want to raid, you can. Every raid takes a little work and scheduling is always an issue but if you can find a few more people who are committed, you can field a raid team that can progress into the end-game raiding tier.....even on 1 raid day a week. No back-breaking 4 day schedule. No 6 hours of raiding every night. No high pressure "Hardcore" mentality. Keep the faith. Keep trying to get the others involved. Post in the forums. Look in /trade. Recruiting sucks but give it a try. You will most likely find a few others willing to join.
Do not get me wrong. We will not see a heroic Madness kill anytime soon. We will be lucky to get to 6/8 before the end of the expansion. The one drawback with raiding only happening one day a week is it leaves little time for practice. We still get together to have fun and that's what counts in the end...that we have fun.
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A great read and I think anyone who's been in WoW for some time will see a lot here that echoes their own expeiences, especially in semi-casual raid guilds. My own belief is that 'friends' in WoW is a very thin concept when progression gets involved. I've never seen it better put than by Slashdot which, whilst about EQ, has much in common with this issue.
"...a game full of people who want to "win" and "be the best" at any cost. People who quit are viewed as giving up on their guilds; they are ridiculed, denounced, and hated. There is massive peer pressure to keep playing. Often people you thought were your friends in the game were simply using you to advance, or improve their characters. Online relationships between people ... are fickle, and are only good as long as everyone's getting a good dose of the drug (loot, advancement in the game, and good social relations with their guild). "
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Information Commissioner Suzanne Legault says a lack of leadership and resources is creating weaknesses in Canada's Access to Information system that need to be urgently addressed.
At a news conference in Ottawa to release her annual report to Parliament, Legault faulted successive governments for allowing the Access to Information system to fall behind the demands made by Canadians.
Her report found some federal institutions do not have enough staff to even acknowledge the receipt of access requests for six months, while response times to some requests can be as long as three years or more.
Legault also pointed to the fact that Parliament itself is not covered by Access to Information legislation.
"All together, these circumstances tell me in no uncertain terms that the integrity of the federal access to information program is at serious risk," said Legault in a statement accompanying the release of her report.
Access to Information, introduced by Parliament more than 30 years ago, requires federal departments and agencies to respond to requests for information. The regime was expanded in recent years to include Crown Corporations, including the CBC.
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Legault said she will submit recommendations for reform later this fall. And, she said, she will be releasing details of an investigation into federal institutions' growing use of wireless text-based messages for internal communications — and whether those messages are properly being kept and released when requested
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Asked were the leadership needs to come from, Legault said the president of the Treasury Board, Tony Clement, is the minister responsible under the act and therefore should be held accountable.
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Legault said the problems with information access did not originate with the current Conservative government — in fact, she said, her statistics show that the deterioration in response times started around 2000.
And while recent budget cuts and cuts to the federal public service are a concern, she said a larger problem is that there is simply not enough access professionals — departments can't find people qualified to handle requests.
"That is again a question that should come under the authority of the Treasury Board Secretariat — they need to train officials to be able to handle the requests," Legault said in French.
The delay in handling Access to Information requests is worsened when events like this summer's railway derailment and explosion in Lac-Megantic, Que. generate a lot of interest and lead to an increase in requests, Legault said.
Legault said she also remains particularly concerned about the RCMP's response to access requests, noting that requesters are still being told only that the force will respond when it can. She said she has spoken to RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson but has not seen the force's plan to deal with the backlog, although the RCMP is in the process of adding staff to deal with it.
She said that when a department gets behind in access requests it can take up to three years to recover.
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After the retirement of Nicklas Lidstrom at the end of the 2011-2012 season, many hockey fans assumed that the next captain of the Detroit Red Wings would be one of two people: Henrik Zetterberg or Pavel Datsyuk. Both players have led their team and the NHL in class and ability for quite some time, and both were more than capable assistant captains under Lidstrom. The only question was which player would win out? Turns out it's Zetterberg. Zetterberg was drafted 210th overall by the Wings in the 1999 entry draft, making him the lowest drafted Conn Smythe winner in history, and presumably the lowest drafted NHL captain in history as well. Teammate Tomas Holmstrom will not get a chance to skate with the new captain, however. Holmstrom, whose contract expired at the end of last season, has decidied to retire. Holmstrom, 39, was drafted 257th overall in 1994, and has earned four Stanley Cups with the Wings. He's one of the most frustrating players on the ice during any given g...
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Yesterday Monday, July 11, marked one year since the Spanish made us touch the sky crowned champion in the 2010 World Cup . Andres Iniesta was the moment in which he starred for history with his goal in overtime against the Netherlands, but it would be unfair to forget the goals from Villa in the previous games, Casillas stops, the struggle of Llorente, the direction of Xavi, Pedrito races, Busquets work ... In short, from 23 players to each member of the coaching staff, all contributed their bit.
We want to celebrate the anniversary of the most important day in Spanish football through our Pegunta week, so between all share our memories. Therefore I ask:
What is your best memory of the World Cup?
Which party, player, action or goal you remember most strongly? What time you have been etched in the memory? Where did you live the final? How did you celebrate the victory? As sure most would say Iniesta's goal, we will try to circumvent it in search of greater originality. As always, we ask us in our section contestéis Football Notes Responses .
Last week's answer: What team you think will win the 2011 Copa America?
In the midst of our follow-up of the Copa America , I asked last week what team you think will be proclaimed winner . The best answer chosen by yourselves has been to meckeverest, and I must say that saw the party of Argentina early this morning , the prognosis is not all misguided.
The hostess and Uruguay are the favorites for me. Brazil has quality, but lacks weight players miss in tough games. Argentina do not think staying in the level exhibited in his debut. Go over, or will be disappointed. As a player, Messi.
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Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Minor Help
Not So Nasty Nate made a comment the other day about the Sox' lack of depth on the corners that resonated with me. I got to thinking about some players who are a bit off the radar and might contribute in 2013. I'm pretty geared up for my Spring Training trip (52 days!) so count this as a little list of non-big name guys I'm hoping to check out somewhat closely while I'm there (thus ending their careers in the process). Plus, a thread that isn't all-Hall of Fame all the time seems useful;...Read More...
Jose Can Still Seabiscuit Posted: January 09, 2013 at 02:15 PM | 94 comment(s)
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
Minor League Review - The Pitchers
The Sox should be pretty pleased with the performance of their minor league pitchers. While the veterans at the MLB level had rough years it was an encouraging year for a few prospects and The Trade added a little more depth. At the big league level the final numbers were not great but Felix Doubront gave the club cause for optimism.
What I see here is a farm system that has some guys who can either be contributors down the road or pieces if the Sox elect to go for a big trade. This gives ...Read More...
Jose Can Still Seabiscuit Posted: September 22, 2012 at 12:35 PM | 7 comment(s)
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Friday, September 14, 2012
Minor League Review - The Hitters
With the minor league seasons over it seems like a reasonable time for a look at the state of the system. I'm going with the hitters for now and I'll get to the pitchers later in the week. I figured a position by position look probably makes the most sense. Any reference to a league (e.g. AAA, AA, etc…) is where the player spent the majority of his season unless otherwise noted.
1st Base
Not an especially strong position for the Sox ...Read More...
Jose Can Still Seabiscuit Posted: September 14, 2012 at 10:52 PM | 82 comment(s)
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Saturday, August 25, 2012
Minor League Update - The ex-Dodgers
We don't need another thread on this trade but…the heck with it. Plus, if it annoys TVErik a bit, that's kind of fun (oh we kid because we love). With all the attention on the players we traded and the money gained I think some focus on the players we are getting back is warranted. I ignored Loney because I think it's a safe assumption that he's going to have a Red Sox career about as long as Carlos Pena's.
Rubby de la Rosa – So the first thing I learned is that it's pronounced ...Read More...
Jose Can Still Seabiscuit Posted: August 25, 2012 at 02:43 PM | 42 comment(s)
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Thursday, August 02, 2012
Minor League Update
The trade deadline cameth and wenteth and while the Sox were generally (and prudently) inactive we can now rest assured that the guys on the farm are going to be there the rest of the year.
The impetus for the Sox' moves seem to have been freeing up some room on the 40 man roster. With that in mind I spent a bit of time at www.soxprospects.com looking at players who would need to be protected this coming winter. Among their top 40 prospects the Sox feature three players who will need to be ...Read More...
Jose Can Still Seabiscuit Posted: August 02, 2012 at 09:43 PM | 40 comment(s)
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Thursday, July 05, 2012
Minor League Mid-year Update
Our last minor league thread is over a month old so I figure there is no time like the present to get a new one rolling. Both John Sickels and Baseball America have released updated prospect lists and between those independent sources and any look at the performance of the minor leaguers 2012 is a great year so far for the minors.
Sickels; Bogaerts #11, Bradley #36, Barnes #41, Lavarnway #59, Swihart, #90, Jacobs #105, Owens #119
BA: Barnes #13, Bogaerts #31, Bradley #32, Lavarnway "also ...Read More...
Jose Can Still Seabiscuit Posted: July 05, 2012 at 02:16 PM | 36 comment(s)
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Sunday, June 03, 2012
Red Sox Draft Thread
I recently completed my traditional draft prep of ignoring amateur baseball entirely for 363 days out of the year, and so with the first rounds scheduled for tomorrow, I went and looked at some talent rankings and mock drafts. The Sox have two late first-round picks this year (their own 24th pick and the Phillies' 31st) as well as a sandwich round pick (the 37th), which is also Papelbon compensation.
The establishment of tough new slotting rules means that the Sox will have only about $350k ...Read More...
Matt Clement of Alexandria Posted: June 03, 2012 at 05:08 PM | 65 comment(s)
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Monday, May 14, 2012
Minor League Thread: 150 PA Prospects
I like to look at minor league numbers about 150 PA into the season because this is when a few of the component numbers start to stabilize. For strikeouts especially, and to a lesser degree walks and some of the power stats, we've got enough of a sample to begin to make some claims. And I'm claiming that there are a bunch of good things going on in the system right now. This is particularly fun because the Sox drafting and development has been in a slump with the last few drafts in ...Read More...
Matt Clement of Alexandria Posted: May 14, 2012 at 12:02 PM | 86 comment(s)
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Friday, April 06, 2012
Minor League Thread: Jose on the Roster Assignments
When clubs announce their roster assignments for the minor leagues, they provide un-spun, objective information about their own evaluations of their minor league players. You only get that level bump up to AA if the club really believes that you have the skills and talent to succeed at the higher level. Along with the release of the prospect rankings, it's one of the best collections of information we're going to pick up.
Jose very helpfully ran through the roster assignments as listed ...Read More...
Matt Clement of Alexandria Posted: April 06, 2012 at 11:44 AM | 141 comment(s)
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Friday, February 10, 2012
Offseason Minor League Thread
Because the Red Sox system is so thin in the high minors, and because their low-minors strength doesn't feature any single obvious superstar, the prospect ratings have been a bit all over the place. John Sickels' top five only shared two names with Jim Callis' top five, and Keith Law didn't rank Callis' #1 in his top 100, but he did put Sickels' #7 in his 100th spot (only the second Red Sox to make the list). Since I don't actually watch minor league games, I tend to count on ...Read More...
Matt Clement of Alexandria Posted: February 10, 2012 at 09:30 AM | 61 comment(s)
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Minor League Thread: Other Things That Are Also Bad
A midseason survey of Baseball America's top ten Red Sox prospects, with MLEs for high minors hitters.
1) Ryan Westmoreland – had successful surgery on a "cavernous malformation" in his brain this spring, is recovering well and beginning baseball activities. Whether, following major brain surgery and neurological rehabilitation, Westmoreland will still stand among the couple dozen best young ballplayers in the world is an open question that won't be addressed until next year at the ...Read More...
Matt Clement of Alexandria Posted: July 13, 2010 at 04:12 AM | 39 comment(s)
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Weekly Minor League Thread: This and that
Just a couple of notes, feel free to add anything that you'd like.
—Since starting the season on a tear, Corsaletti, Ellsbury, and especially Lowrie have come crashing back to earth. Hard. None of them have particularly good numbers right now. I'm beginning to think they won't all be ready to start in teh Majors next year.
—The Sox signed 30-year-old Corky Miller and placed him in Pawtucket, where Kent Huckaby just went on the DL. This is good depth where the Sox really need it. Corky has ...Read More...
Darren Posted: April 26, 2006 at 01:10 AM | 30 comment(s)
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
Red Sox Minor League Park Factors
Culled from Transaction Oracle:
Team R H 2B HR BB SO Pawtucket 1.05 1.04 0.91 1.59 1.10 1.15 Portland (AA) 1.08 0.97 0.88 1.18 1.01 1.03 Wilmington 0.94 0.95 0.91 0.75 0.93 0.99 Greenville 1.07 1.07 1.00 1.07 1.07 1.07 Lowell 1.04 1.02 1.08 1.10 1.10 1.04 Fort Myers 0.97 1.01 1.04 0.90 0.98 1.14 Also, before 05, ...Read More...
Darren Posted: December 10, 2005 at 11:51 PM | 26 comment(s)
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The U.S. Supreme Court is keeping Utah attorneys in suspense on whether it will hear the contentious case involving the appropriateness of placing 12-foot-high crosses on public property in the Beehive State to memorialize state troopers killed in the line of duty.
Supreme Court justices met on Oct. 7 to discuss whether to take the case, and were expected to announce the decision later that day or this week. Instead, justices will continue discussions Oct. 14, said Brian Barnard, a Salt Lake City civil rights attorney involved in the case.
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"It is most interesting that this initial decision is taking so long and these repeated considerations by the justices," Barnard said. In order for the high court to take the case, four of nine justices must agree, he said.
The justices' decision is one the Utah Attorney General's Office and Barnard are anxiously awaiting on opposing sides.
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff has pushed the high court to take on the case, arguing that the highway crosses should be displayed.
"With two simple lines the highway crosses remind us of the ultimate sacrifice made by troopers while trying to protect us," Shurtleff has said. "Before now, no other court has ever held that memorial crosses establish a religion. The crosses only establish a trooper died in the line of duty."
Barnard, meanwhile, represents the organization against placing crosses on public land. Barnard, who filed a brief on behalf of American Atheists Inc., argues the case is not worthy of the high court's attention, claiming issue of roadside crosses on state land doesn't apply outside of the Beehive State.
"There are no similar [publicly funded] memorial cross programs in other states. This decision is not going to have ramifications beyond Utah," Barnard said of his request. "While of concern to the Utah Highway Patrol Association, the case is not the kind of case nor of such national interest, that the U.S. Supreme Court would normally get involved in."
The filings earlier this year by Barnard and Shurtleff were the latest arguments in what has been a lengthy court battle over the alleged display of religious imagery on public land between the Utah Highway Patrol Association (UHPA) and New Jersey-based American Atheists Inc.
In January, a federal appeals court in Denver delayed an order demanding the UHP remove crosses placed along the state's highways to commemorate troopers killed in the line of duty. The 90-day stay, approved recently by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, allowed attorneys for the association and UHP to try to appeal their case to the nation's highest court.
Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz will represent the A.G.'s Office and attorney Byron Babione of the Alliance Defense Fund in Arizona will represent UHPA if the high court takes up the case. Babione will try to persuade the Supreme Court that the crosses don't establish a religion because "the passive memorials coerce no one to do anything."
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The trooper's name, rank and badge number are printed on a 6-foot crossbar, and a large depiction of the UHP's beehive symbol hangs below where the two bars meet. The first cross was erected in 1998 on private property and 13 others were added later, most of them on public property. The memorials are privately funded and owned by the UHPA, while the state owns the public land on which some of them sit.
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The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in January to allow the stay followed a 5-4 December decision by the same court to deny a request to hear the case from the UHPA.
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Perhaps we are not looking in the right way
Let's just assume that we aren't alone, and that the universe is filled with intelligent life. So far, SETI didn't track the correct solar system/star to spot them. However, having spend so many ours listening to the sky it seems hard to imagine they just missed them all.
Perhaps other intelligent life forms are simply not sending high power radio waves across the universe for other (perhaps hostile) life forms to detect. But perhaps they are kind enough to send some low energy signal in such a way that other life forms can detect them because all intelligent life forms (at a certain level) are sending the same low energy signal. If there are enough life forms out there this means that we would be able to detect it. Of course no information of location is revealed. Only that there is a pulse of life running through the universe.
How can we detect it?
Not with normal focused radio antennas. We need something big to "see" as much sky as possible.
But what about the Doppler shift? The further away, the more red shift in signal when it is received at our end. So a received frequency curve at earth could already tell something about the distribution of life over the universe. This however implicates that the sent frequency must be known by all senders.
But perhaps there are different ways that such alife signal could be composed such that it can be detected by us.
Let's discuss!!
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Dec 23 2012: 'Of course no information of location is revealed.'
Well, the source of any signal is not diffuse in a three-dimensional space, and its 'volume' no protection against possible 'hostile' species...
The difficulty in tracing any 'message' may it be intended or unintended is the sheer width and quantity of the possible 'carrier ways' and not to know what and where exactly to look for ...
The Doppler shift would not affect the contend of any message, just its 'playback' speed. But what if a message would not use 'conventional' electromagnetic waves and would, let's say, be encoded in manipulated 'Neutrino' streams instead?
Dec 23 2012: Hi Lejan, could you explain to me: "Well, the source of any signal is not diffuse in a three-dimensional space, and its 'volume' no protection against possible 'hostile' species..."
Do you mean that any signal could be traced in three-d space?
But can you think of a way that other life forms could compose a signal in such way that its location is not revealed and you just need more sources to detect it. Is that possible when they would use encoded Neutrino's?
Dec 28 2012: Hello Frank,
the origin of messages based on electromagnetic signals is traceable in 3D space, just like you find a light-house in the middle of the night by following its light trail. And given the vast space of the Universe a whispered and thereby dim 'message light' would not reach far if this message was about saying 'Hello, is there anybody else out there?' ...
Even a message encoded within a Neutrino stream would reveal its source, as its vector of direction is already included in the stream itself and its distance measurable by 'cross bearing' as a form of triangulation - although detecting Neutrinos is a difficult task on its own due to their limited interaction tendency.
SETI once discovered the so called WOW! signal and the article about it on Wikipedia may give a good insight on how the localization was done and which frequency-band was 'listened' to:
The only 'untraceable' form of communication my limited fantasy can think of would be based on 'quantum entanglement' or 'quantum teleportation', which by its nature would not make sense for a first 'hello', as those 'quantum conditions' had to be created first and therefore needed to be known and synchronized by both communicating parties. In terms of location spotting this method seems 'save' to me ... :o)
Trans universe communication is a bit on the frustration side anyway, as our and probably other species are to limited in life-span to really get to enjoy it. So even if we would be able to detect a clear and intelligent message one day, those minds who send this signals on purpose are most likely not existent anymore and maybe their whole species as well ...
So if there is no 'faster than light' way of communication, our odds are quite limited ...
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The 11th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention (COP11) will be held in Bucharest, Romania, in June 2012. Contracting Parties will be aware that many important wetland resolutions are to be considered at COP11, as well as the financing and hosting arrangements for the Convention Secretariat for the next triennium and beyond.
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