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What do Kyle Davies, Todd Van Poppel, Kevin Jarvis, and Claude Willoughby have in common?
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Yesterday the Royals released Kyle Davies, whom they acquired from the Braves for Octavio Dotel in July of 2007 and gave 99 starts to despite a 29-44 record and 5.34 ERA.
Toss in Davies' early work in Atlanta prior to the trade and he's thrown 768 innings with a 5.59 ERA for his career. Not only is that really, really bad, it's historic.
Things could change if he makes it back to the majors and lowers his ERA–after all, he's still only 27 years old–but right now Davies is just the fourth pitcher in the history of baseball to have an ERA of 5.50 or higher in 750 or more innings:
YEARS IP ERA Kevin Jarvis 1994-2006 781 6.03 Claude Willoughby 1925-1931 841 5.84 KYLE DAVIES 2005-2011 768 5.59 Todd Van Poppel 1991-2004 907 5.58
After releasing Davies general manager Dayton Moore told Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star that he "has very good pitches" and "has got better days ahead of him." Perhaps he's right, since it'd be tough for Davies to be much worse, but then again Moore is the same guy who kept him around for $3.2 million this season.
- elmaquino - Aug 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM
They all suck at pitching!
- Chris Fiorentino - Aug 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM
I can understand Davies as he was a 4th round pick. Same thing with Van Poppel being a first round pick. Obviously, those guys must have shown some skills to be drafted into the league that high and teams didn't want to give up on the guy.
I don't get Kevin Jarvis though. 21st round pick so he really didn't have a pedigree to speak of. Then his first 6 seasons, he goes 12-19 with a 6.62 ERA in 299 innings. So what happens next? In 2000 for Colorado, he goes 3-4 with a 5.95 ERA and this is impressive enough for the Padres to give him a 3 year deal? Amazing. He actually was only below average in 2001…12-11 with a 4.79 ERA. Then his last 5 years, he goes 7-15 with a 6.44 ERA in another 174 innings.
So a 21st round draft pick NEVER has an average year, yet gets 12 seasons in the majors? Weird.
- adenzeno - Aug 11, 2011 at 3:43 PM
He must have been gritty, competitive, and always took the ball and had veteran presence.
- Chris Fiorentino - Aug 11, 2011 at 3:49 PM
I'm not the biggest fan of WAR, but his is -5.6 for his career and he earned almost $10 million in his career. LOL.
- b7p19 - Aug 11, 2011 at 3:43 PM
They were all traded for Octavio Dotel?
- rje49 - Aug 11, 2011 at 4:42 PM
Todd Van Poppel is one of the main reasons I stopped collecting baseball cards after 1993. You were expected to pay a premium for his card, even if you were convinced the guy was nothing special.
- FC - Aug 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM
And to think… the Braves almost drafted this guy instead of Chipper Jones… (They only didn't because Poppel said he would not sign with the Braves). Major bullet dodged Matrix-style right there. I wonder how the 90's Braves would have been different without Chipper.
- sportsdrenched - Aug 11, 2011 at 4:44 PM
Someone ask Dayton which of the other 29 teams were first in line to sign Davies after he was cut loose.
- dreamkafka - Aug 11, 2011 at 6:29 PM
Now, who would be the worst by era+, all good hitting eras here…
- humanexcrement - Aug 11, 2011 at 10:54 PM
So you're telling me the 1925 Claude Willoughby rookie card I keep in my firebox is just taking up space?
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From time to time I am reminded of my first pet, that damned hermit crab, and I momentarily yearn for a memento of his short life. Sadly, we don't even have a picture of him.
It's too bad LifeGem wasn't around when he died.
Yesterday I found this article in the Chicago Tribune about the company, which for the low price of $2,199 and up, creates an eponymous "certified, high-quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique life."
The testimonials on the site reveal that most LifeGems are sold to spouses who have lost their life partners, adult children who aren't ready to be parentless yet, and parents who braved the unthinkable task of burying their son or daughter. And then there are the Ludwig van Beethoven LifeGems, sold on eBay a few years ago for $200,000 (proceeds went to charity).
The loved one whose carbon they will be using this time around to create up to 10 half-carat diamonds? None other than the man who popularized sparkly crystal-studded couture himself.
The King of Pop, Michael Jackson.
I was only two years old in 1984, so I don't recall the (apparently infamous) Pepsi commercial shoot when MJ's hair caught on fire and had to be put out with a fire extinguisher. But reputable sources confirm it happened. And the MJ carbon that will be used to create these LifeGems comes from none other than a few charred locks of his hair that were preserved by the executive producer of the commercial.
Now, I'm not generally a queasy person.
When I'm eating fast food "chicken" or Combos (neither one happens frequently, but a girl's gotta treat herself now and again), I don't mind if a friend asks incredulously, "do you know what's in that?!" Because of course I do. Of course it's not all-natural, organic, and hormone-, and preservative- free. But I don't particularly care. The stuff tastes good.
When a friend is cooking me dinner at their apartment, I don't ask whether they thoroughly rinsed all of the produce, or made sure to use a new cutting board for the veggies after cutting the animal protein, or washed their hands after handling raw eggs – and they don't tell me. It wouldn't bother me either way. Bugs in produce? Extra protein!
But I'm a diamond girl (I might be a lesbian, but I'm still a nice Jewish girl).
And that means if I see a sparkly ring on your finger, I'm going to look at it. And if I like it, I'm going to compliment you on it.
But oh dear God, if I ever compliment someone on their ring and they tell me it was produced from their loved one's cremated ashes or lock of hair, I will vomit.
And if they tell me it's a LifeGem from their precious pet (apparently diamonds aren't just a girl's best friend anymore, but man's best friend, too…) I will almost surely drop dead on the spot.
And then you can all make a LifeGem out of me.
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Eyeing a face-saving exit on Syria
Idea of a Geneva Conference is the Obama administration's bid to extricate itself from the quagmire without taking decisive steps against the regime
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- US President Barack Obama arrives at the White House on July 7, 2013 after spending the weekend at the Camp David presidential retreat.
For over two years, US President Barack Obama has resisted domestic and international pressure to play a more active role in the Syrian crisis. Last month, he decided to change his position, however, and arm elements of the Syrian opposition that his administration considers as "moderate". Following a series of meetings with the US National Security Council, the Obama administration confirmed that the Syrian regime had used chemical weapons against its opponents, causing the death of at least a 100 people. This was viewed as having crossed the "red line" that Washington had laid down for the Syrian regime in July 2012, warning that such use would be a game changer in the way it dealt with the Syrian crisis.
Obama's new position has raised questions over the real reasons behind this change and, in particular, its timing. For months, the US administration has known that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons against its opponents at more than one location. Yet, it attempted to evade these reports, which required a firmer response. Although Obama and the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, have eventually admitted that there was strong evidence of the use of chemical weapons, the response did not go beyond verbal condemnation. The US statement on the number of victims of chemical attacks was also inconsistent, i.e. how did this relatively small number of casualties lead to a change in the US position towards a regime that, according to the United Nations, has killed more than 100,000 Syrians to date? It therefore seems clear that the change in the US position comes against a backdrop of other factors, of which the use of chemical weapons may be the least important.
Last summer, following the first reports on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, Obama rejected the advice of his senior advisers to arm the Syrian opposition, so as to create a balance of power on the ground, which would force the regime into accepting the idea of a negotiated settlement to the crisis. At the time, the US administration was divided into two camps. The first camp included the then secretary of state, Hilary Clinton, former CIA director, General David Petraeus, and chairman of the Joint-Chiefs-of-Staff, General Martin Dempsey. This camp called for arming the Syrian opposition. The second camp included Vice-President Joe Biden, former national security adviser, Thomas Donilon — one of the advocates of what has become known as the "Russian track" — and to a certain extent former secretary of defence, Leon Panetta.
After his re-election as president, Obama replaced most of his foreign and security policy team. His choices for the new team were in large part consistent with his own positions and views. The new Secretary of Defence, Chuck Hagel, and Secretary of State, John Kerry, are considered to be among the staunchest opponents of foreign military intervention. The new CIA Director, John Brennan, who replaced General Petraeus — who quit the post last summer, following a personal scandal — thinks that the US should remain focused on fighting terrorism. In addition, Brennan was known to be a proponent of security coordination with the Syrian regime during his work at the CIA under both Panetta and General Petraeus.
Clearly, the new team is coloured by a pragmatic tendency largely in accord with the president's view, which favours staying out of Middle Eastern problems. It also indicates that the second Obama administration is more conservative than the first one concerning intervention in Syria. Indeed, Kerry has repeatedly stated that he will be working towards changing the calculations of the Syrian regime so that it agrees to a political settlement to the crisis. Yet, this has not been translated in the way expected by many observers.
Once Hillary left the administration, the Donilon camp — which called for full coordination with the Russians and ruled out arming the Syrian opposition — emerged victorious. Accordingly, Kerry went to Moscow at the beginning of May and surprised many by reaching an understanding with the Russians on holding a new international conference on Syria to reach an agreement on the implementation of the Geneva Accords, agreed upon on June 30, 2012. This agreement, according to all reports, was in line with the Russian stance since it did not refer to Bashar Al Assad's future.
The Americans thought that the Geneva Conference would help contain the growing regional involvement in the crisis. They also hoped that this initiative would grant them a face-saving exit, while not wishing to take decisive steps in response to the Syrian regime's use of chemical weapons. In addition, the agreement would serve as a means to alleviate the pressures from Arab and European allies to do more to undermine the position of the Syrian regime.
The US position communicated to the Russians was that failure to hold the Geneva Conference would lead to arming the opposition. Using the issue of chemical weapons to justify arming the opposition was only a means to applying pressure on the Russians to work harder to bring their Syrian ally to the table of negotiations.
Dr Marwan Kabalan is the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Diplomacy at the University of Kalamoon, Damascus.
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By Ryan Dombal on April 13, 2009 at 5:10 p.m. EDT
-- Not sure if you heard, but vinyl is back! Big time. Like it never left and stuff. The return of records continues with two new reissues from Dan Bejar's band Destroyer. Nominal have re-released 1998's City of Daughters and 2000's Thief on big black discs this month. Both feature re-worked covers from original artist Lester Smolenksi and stereo sound remixed by a team including Bejar himself. Destroyer is also on the road this spring.
-- The lineup for this year's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival-- taking place August 28-30 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park-- is very random. You've got Black Eyed Peas and then M.I.A.; Incubus and then Modest Mouse; Dave Matthews Band and then TV on the Radio. I guess there's always a possibility of Fergie peeing her pants, but there's really no upside to Incubus. Other P4k friendly acts: Beastie Boys, the National, Os Mutantes, Deerhunter, Band of Horses, Q-Tip, Mastodon, Built to Spill, and more. Jack White's new band the Dead Weather will also play only their second scheduled show (so far.) Check the Outside Lands site for the full list.
-- Speaking of bands playing Outside Lands: the Pearl Jam reissue campaign is already underway, but they're still living-- Pearl Jam are still playing shows and making albums! In fact, their upcoming self-released ninth LP is due before the end of the year, according to Billboard. They're also in the process of compiling a 20th anniversary film made up of existing footage with director Cameron Crowe.
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First day of #paxaus is going rad. Great panels, crowds well managed.
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Doesn't that look beautiful?
Like something you'd find on one of those soft/nature blogs?
Well you are in for a surprise
The Bolton Strid in England is one of the most innocent looking streams.?
Though it looks like you could just hop across the rocks, but if you miss you will die for sure. It packs very rapid currents just a couple of feet below its surface. No one really knows how deep it really is. Nobody who has ever fallen into the Strid has survived. It has a 100% fatality rate.
It's always the things I google expecting to be false that wind up being horribly true.
I forgot to add but here is a?SOURCE
"It's relatively common for people to assume they can jump the creek, walk across its stones or even wade through it (again, just looking at it, the Strid really seems to be only knee-deep in places, and certainly not the instant, precipitous drop into a watery grave that it is). Most of the time, they never even find the body. Which means there are just dozens of corpses down there, pinned to the walls of the underground chasms, waiting for you to join them…"
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"It's exactly how water works in a video game: It looks all stupid and harmless, but the second your foot touches the surface, you get some bullshit drowning animation and die instantly."
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- Adactio: Jeremy Keith: Indie web building blocks
I was back in N?rnberg last week for the second border:none. Joschi tried an interesting format for this year's event. The first day was a small conference-like gathering with an interesting mix of speakers, but the second day was much more collaborative, with people working together in "creator units"—part workshop, part round-table discussion.
I teamed up with Aaron to lead the session on all things indie web. It turned out to be a lot of fun. Throughout the day, we introduced the little building blocks, one by one. By the end of the day, it was amazing to see how much progress people made by taking this layered approach of small pieces, loosely stacked.
The first step is: do you have a domain name?
Okay, next step: are you linking from that domain to other profiles of you on the web? Twitter, Instagram, Github, Dribbble, whatever. If so, here's the first bit of hands-on work: add
rel="me"to those links.
Twitter Github Flickr
If you don't have any profiles on other sites, you can still mark up your telephone number or email address with
rel="me". You might want to do this in a
linkelement in the
headof your HTML.
As soon as you've done that, you can make use of IndieAuth. This is a technique that demonstrates a recurring theme in indie web building blocks: take advantage of the strengths of existing third-party sites. In this case, IndieAuth piggybacks on top of the fact that many third-party sites have some kind of authentication mechanism, usually through OAuth. The fact that you're "claiming" a profile on a third-party site using
rel="me"—and the third-party profile in turn links back to your site—means that we can use all the smart work that went into their authentication flow.
You can see IndieAuth in action by logging into the Indie Web Camp wiki. It's pretty nifty.
If you've used
rel="me"to link to a profile on something like Twitter, Github, or Flickr, you can authenticate with their OAuth flow. If you've used
rel="me"for your email address or phone number, you can authenticate by email or SMS.
Next question: are you publishing stuff on your site? If so, mark it up using h-entry. This involves adding a few classes to your existing markup.
Having fun with @aaronpk, helping @border_none attendees mark up their sites with rel="me" links, h-entry classes, and webmention endpoints.
Now, the reason for doing this isn't for some theoretical benefit from search engines, or browsers, but simply to make the content you're publishing machine-parsable (which will come in handy in the next steps).
Aaron published a note on his website, inviting everyone to leave a comment. The trick is though, to leave a comment on Aaron's site, you need to publish it on your own site.
Here's my response to Aaron's post. As well as being published on my own site, it also shows up on Aaron's. That's because I sent a webmention to Aaron.
Webmention is basically a reimplementation of pingback, but without any of the XML silliness; it's just a POST request with two values—the URL of the origin post, and the URL of the response.
My site doesn't automatically send webmentions to any links I reference in my posts—I should really fix that—but that's okay; Aaron—like me—has a form under each of his posts where you can paste in the URL of your response.
This is where those h-entry classes come in. If your post is marked up with h-entry, then it can be parsed to figure out which bit of your post is the body, which bit is the author, and so on. If your response isn't marked up as h-entry, Aaron just displays a link back to your post. But if it is marked up in h-entry, Aaron can show the whole post on his site.
Okay. By this point, we've already come really far, and all people had to do was edit their HTML to add some
relattributes and
For true site-to-site communication, you'll need to have a webmention endpoint. That's a bit trickier to add to your own site; it requires some programming. Here's my minimum viable webmention that I wrote in PHP. But there are plenty of existing implentations you can use, like this webmention plug-in for WordPress.
Or you could request an account on webmention.io, which is basically webmention-as-a-service. Handy!
Once you have a webmention endpoint, you can point to it from the
headof your HTML using a
Now you can receive responses to your posts.
Here's the really cool bit: if you sign up for Bridgy, you can start receiving responses from third-party sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc. Bridgy just needs to know who you are on those networks, looks at your website, and figures everything out from there. And it automatically turns the responses from those networks into h-entry. It feels like magic!
Here are responses from Twitter to my posts, as captured by Bridgy.
That was mostly what Aaron and I covered in our one-day introduction to the indie web. I think that's pretty good going.
The next step would be implementing the idea of POSSE: Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere.
You could do this using something as simple as If This, Then That e.g. everytime something crops up in your RSS feed, post it to Twitter, or Facebook, or both. If you don't have an RSS feed, don't worry: because you're already marking your HTML up in h-entry, it can be converted to RSS easily.
I'm doing my own POSSEing to Twitter, which I've written about already. Since then, I've also started publishing photos here, which I sometimes POSSE to Twitter, and always POSSE to Flickr. Here's my code for posting to Flickr.
I'd really like to POSSE my photos to Instagram, but that's impossible. Instagram is a data roach-motel. The API provides no method for posting photos. The only way to post a picture to Instagram is with the Instagram app.
My only option is to do the opposite of POSSEing, which is PESOS: Publish Elsewhere, and Syndicate to your Own Site. To do that, I need to have an endpoint on my own site that can receive posts.
Working side by side with Aaron at border:none inspired me to finally implement one more indie web building block I needed: micropub.
Having a micropub endpoint here on my own site means that I can publish from third-party sites …or even from native apps. The reason why I didn't have one already was that I thought it would be really complicated to implement. But it turns out that, once again, the trick is to let other services do all the hard work.
First of all, I need to have something to manage authentication. Well, I already have that with IndieAuth. I got that for free just by adding
rel="me"to my links to other profiles. So now I can declare indieauth.com as my authorization endpoint in the
headof my HTML:
Now I need some way of creating and issuing authentation tokens. See what I mean about it sounding like hard work? Creating a token endpoint seems complicated.
But once again, someone else has done the hard work so I don't have to. Tokens-as-a-service:
The last piece of the puzzle is to point to my own micropub endpoint:
That URL is where I will receive posts from third-party sites and apps (sent through a POST request with an access token in the header). It's up to me to verify that the post is authenticated properly with a valid access token. Here's the PHP code I'm using.
It wasn't nearly as complicated as I thought it would be. By the time a post and a token hits the micropub endpoint, most of the hard work has already been done (authenticating, issuing a token, etc.). But there are still a few steps that I have to do:
- Make a GET request (I'm using cURL) back to the token endpoint I specified—sending the access token I've been sent in a header—verifying the token.
- Check that the "me" value that I get back corresponds to my identity, which is https://adactio.com
- Take the h-entry values that have been sent as POST variables and create a new post on my site.
I tested my micropub endpoint using Quill, a nice little posting interface that Aaron built. It comes with great documentation, including a guide to creating a micropub endpoint.
It worked.
Here's another example: Ben Roberts has a posting interface that publishes to micropub, which means I can authenticate myself and post to my site from his interface.
Finally, there's OwnYourGram, a service that monitors your Instagram account and posts to your micropub endpoint whenever there's a new photo.
That worked too. And I can also hook up Bridgy to my Instagram account so that any activity on my Instagram photos also gets sent to my webmention endpoint.
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Each one of these building blocks unlocks greater and greater power:
Each one of those building blocks you implement unlocks more and more powerful tools:
But its worth remembering that these are just implementation details. What really matters is that you're publishing your stuff on your website. If you want to use different formats and protocols to do that, that's absolutely fine. The whole point is that this is the independent web—you can do whatever you please on your own website.
Still, if you decide to start using these tools and technologies, you'll get the benefit of all the other people who are working on this stuff. If you have the chance to attend an Indie Web Camp, you should definitely take it: I'm always amazed by how much is accomplished in one weekend.
Some people have started referring to the indie web movement. I understand where they're coming from; it certainly looks like a "movement" from the outside, and if you attend an Indie Web Camp, there's a great spirit of sharing. But my underlying motivations are entirely selfish. In the same way that I don't really care about particular formats or protocols, I don't really care about being part of any kind of "movement." I care about my website.
As it happens, my selfish motivations align perfectly with the principles of an indie web.
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a scientific look at how we divvy up the work and the wealth, how some of us end up with too much or too little effort or reward. That's partly due to Ricardo's Law of Rent, showing how wasteful use of Earth cuts wages. And it's partly due to how a society's elite runs government around like water boys, dishing out subsidies and tax breaks. While geonomists look political reality right in the eye, without blinking, conventional economists flinch. When Paul Volcker, ex-chief of the Federal Reserve, moved on to a cushy professorship at Princeton cum book contract, the crush of deadlines bore down. So Volcker asked a junior associate to help with the book. The guy refused, explaining that giving serious consideration to policy would ruin his academic career. The ex-Fed chief couldn't believe it and asked the department chair if truly that were the case. That head honcho pondered the question then replied no, not if he only does it once. And economics was AKA political economy!
shaped by reality. In the 1980′s, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax. Tax receipts, however, rose only 15%, since traders simply fled to London exchanges. Fearing a further exodus, the Swedish government quickly rescinded the tax altogether. (The New York Times, April 20) That willingness to tax anything leads us astray. Pushing us astray is that unwillingness to pay what we owe: rent for land, our common heritage. Assuming land value is up for grabs, we speculate. We cap the property tax on both land and buildings and the rate at which assessments can go up; while real market values rise quicker, assessments can never catch up. Our stewards, the Bureau of Land Management, routinely sell and lease sites below market value, often to insiders, says the Government Accounting Office. Once we grasp that rent is ours to share, we'll collect it all, rather than let it enrich a few, and quit taxing earnings, which do belong to the individual earner. That shift is geonomic policy.
an answer to a rarely asked question. If price is a reward for production, why do we pay for land, never produced by any of us? What is land price a reward for? Good behavior? How much money do we spend on the nature we use? Who gets it? What do they do with it? (If you answer all these correctly, you're not a genius but a geoist.) The worth of Earth is enough that were we to collect and share it, we could abolish taxes on the goods we do produce. For example, San Francisco's Redefining Progress has calculated that Cali-fornia could abolish all state and local taxes were it to collect the values of resources and of using na-ture as a dump. By exorcising the profit motive from depletion and pollution, rent collection could replace bossy regulation. Economies could self-regulate, as the rest of the eco-system does. See how big problems yield to big answers when we ask the right questions?
as unfamiliar as geo-economics. The latter is a course some universities offer that combines geography and economics. A UN newsletter, Go Between (57, Apr/May '96; thanks, Pat Aller), cited an Asian conference on geopolitics and "geoeconomics". The abbreviated term 'geonomics" is the name of an institute on Middlebury College campus and of a show on CNBC. Both entities use the neologism to mean "global economics", in particular world trade. We use geonomics entirely differently, to refer to the money people spend on the nature they use, how letting this flow collect in a few pockets creates class and poverty and assaults upon the environment, and how, on the other hand, sharing this rental flow creates equality, prosperity, and a people/planet harmony. This flow of natural rent, several trillions dollars in the US each year, shapes society and belongs to society.
about the money we spend on the nature we use. It flows torrentially yet invisibly, often submerged in the price of housing, food, fuel, and everything else. Flowing from the many to the few, natural rent distorts prices and rewards unjust and unsustainable choices. Redirected via dues and dividends to flow from each to all, "rent" payments would level the playing field and empower neighbors to shrink their workweek and expand their horizons. Modeled on nature's feedback loops, earlier proposals to redirect rent found favor with Paine, Tolstoy, and Einstein. Wherever tried, to the degree tried, redirecting rent worked. One of today's versions, the green tax shift, spreads out of Europe. Another, the Property Tax Shift, activists can win at the local level, building a world that works right for everyone.
an answer for Jonathan of the Green Party (Nov 7): "What does 'share our surplus' mean?" Our surplus is the values that society generates synergistically. It's the money we spend on the nature we use: on land sites, natural resources, EM spectrum, ecosystem services (assimilating pollutants). It's also the money we pay to holders of government-granted privileges like corporate charters. We could share it by paying for the nature we use and privileges we hold to the public treasury then getting back a fair share of the recovered revenue. Used to be, owners did owe rent ("own" and "owe" used to be one word). And presently, some lucky residents do get back periodic dividends: Alaska's oil dividend and Aspen Colorado's housing assistance. Doing that, instead of subsidizing bads while taxing goods, is the essence of geonomics. Jonathan: "Is local currency what you mean?" Editor: It's not. Community currency is a good reform, but every good reform pushes up site values. That makes land an even more tempting object of speculation. Now, any good will eventually do bad by widening the income gap – until you share land values.
what you do when you see economies as part of the ecosystem, following feedback loops and storing up energy. Surplus energy – fat or profit – enables us to produce and reproduce. To recycle society's surplus, the commonwealth, geonomics would replace taxes with land dues (charged to users of sites and resources, including the EM spectrum, and extra to polluters), and replace subsidies with rent dividends to citizens (a la Alaska's oil dividend). Without taxes and subsidies to distort them, prices become precise, reflect accurately our costs and values; then, motivated by no more than the bottom line, both producers and consumers make sustainable choices. While no place uses geonomics in its entirety, some places use parts of it, most notably a shift of the property tax off buildings, onto locations. Shifting the property tax drives efficient use of land, in-fills cities, improves the housing stock, makes homes affordable, engenders jobs and investment opportunities, lowers crime, raises civic participation, etc – overall it makes cities more livable. Geonomics – a way to share the bounty of nature and society – is something we can work for locally, globally, and in between.
more transformation than reform; it's a step ahead. Harvard economics students this year did petition to change the curriculum, in the wake of the English who caught the dissension from across The Channel. French reformers, who fault conventional economics for conjuring mathematical models of little empirical relevance and being closed to critical and reflective thought, reject this "autism" – or detachment from reality – and dub their offering "post-autistic economics". Not a bad name, but again, academics define themselves by what they're not, not by what they are, unlike geonomists. We track rent – the money we spend on the nature we use – and watch it pull all the other economic indicators in its wake. We see economies as part and parcel of the ecosystem, similarly following natural patterns and able to self-regulate more so than allowed, once we quit distorting prices. To align people and planet, we'd replace taxes and subsidies with recovering and sharing rents.
a way to connect the dots. Making the cyber rounds is "The Cavernous Divide" by Scott Klinger, from AlterNet (posted March 21): "As the number of billionaires in the world expands, so does the number of those in poverty." Duh. The yawning income gap is not news. Nearly every issue of our quarterly digest carries a similar quote. Yet the connection was worked out long ago by one of America's greatest thinkers, Henry George, who labeled his masterpiece, Progress and Poverty. Techno- and socio-advances always enrich few and impoverish many. Yet progress also pushes up location values – the geonomic insight (is Silicon Valley cheaper now or more expensive?). Instead of taxing income, sales, or buildings, society could collect those values of sites, resources, EM spectrum, and ecosystem services via fees and dues, which would lower the income ceiling, and instead of lavishing corporate welfare, pay out the recovered revenue via dividends, which would jack up the income floor. Dots connected.
a discipline that, compared to economics, is as obscure as Warren Buffett's investment strategy, compared to conventional investment theory, about which Buffett said, "You couldn't advance in a finance department in this country unless you taught that the world was flat." (The New York Times, Oct 29). The writer wondered, "But why? If it works, why don't more investors use it?" Good question. Geonomics works, too. Every place that has used it has prospered while conserving resources. Yet it remains off the radar of many wanna-be reformers. Gradually, tho', that's changing. More are becoming aware of what geonomics studies – all the money we spend on the nature we use. Geonomics (1) as an alternative worldview to the anthropocentric, sees human economies as part of the embracing ecosystem with natural feedback loops seeking balance in both systems. (2) As an alternative to worker vs. investor, it sees our need for sites and resources making those who own land into landlords. (3)As an alternative to economics, it tracks the trillions of "rent" as it drives the "housing" bubble and all other indicators. And (4) as an alternative to left or right, it suggests we not tax ourselves then subsidize our favorites but recover and share society's surplus, paying in land dues and getting back "rent" dividends, a la Alaska's oil dividend. Letting rent go to the wrong pockets wreaks havoc, while redirecting it to everyone would solve our economic ills and the ills downstream from them. People must learn to stop whining so much and feel enough self-esteem to demand a fair share of rent, society's surplus, the commonwealth.
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Lord Give Us Frugality - But Not Yet
It is not so much a question of not knowing what to do
We knew what's right and wrong before we were elected.
We heard a lot of stories and we reckoned they were true
About developments and the way they got selected.
We know we mustn't fall into the pit
But when we're on a roller
We forget!
We are just a gang who can't say 'no'
We're in a terrible fix!
We always say 'Come on, let's go', just when we ought to say 'Nix.'
When a hustler gives a heist a whirl
We know we ought to give his face a smack!
But as soon as someone shakes the money tree
We somehow sort of want to fill the sack!
We are just fools when city lights glow
We can't be prissy and quaint
We aren't the types that just wait
How can we be what we ain't?
We can't say 'no! '
Whatcha gonna do when a scammer talks purty
And starts to talk turkey
Whatcha gonna do?
Supposing that he says
That there are rake-offs like baubles
Or a pay-back which boggles
Whatcha gonna do?
Supposing that he says there's pie
In the sky that's sweeter than cream
And he's got to build his dream or die?
Whatcha gonna do when he talks that way?
... Spit in his eye?
We are just a gang that can't say no
Can't seem to say it at all -
We hate to see a pitcher go
When he is paying a call!
For a while we act refined and cool,
A sitting on the velveteen settee
Then we think of that old golden rule:
'To do for him what he would do for me'!
We can't resist the con men
Such plausible and affable chaps
With an Apple on their laps
Something inside of us just snaps
We can't say no!
We are just a gang who can't say 'no'
Yessin is how we get screwed!
With or without the mistletoe
Here at party central
We're in a holiday mood!
Other councils may be harder to trick
But those other gangs ain't havin' any fun!
Every time we give a big tick
We have a funny feelin' that we won!
Though I can feel the undertow
The voters are muted in complaint
'Till it's too late for restraint -
Then when we want to but we cain't
We cain't say 'no! '
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This weekend, 69-WFMZ-TV will air an award-winning documentary that tells the story of Frank Misa Grunwald -- a man who survived a concentration camp.
Misa's Fugue was made by Fleetwood High School students.
"There is not one aspect of this film, from start to finish, that has not been touched in some way by a high school student," said Sean Gaston, the director of Misa's Fugue and a Fleetwood Area High School teacher.
"I always tell my students the best lessons are not only the ones where I hopefully teach you something in the short time we are together, but you teach me so that I can become a better teacher," said Gaston, who learned about creating blueprints from students.
"Just by measuring the doorway in the picture, he's able to then get an idea of what the size of this building is," said Gaston.
Grunwald's story had never been shared like this before.
"When we brought his initial interview back from Indianapolis it was five and half hours," said Gaston. "They sat down and transcribed every syllable, stutter he made."
The students in the English department helped write the script. Students in the art department provided visuals. Social studies students found primary documents.
"I talk to a lot of them, and they're all pretty excited that their work is, whether they were singing, whether they did an original piece of artwork, whether they cut something," said Gaston. "They're all really excited about seeing their work make its television debut."
See what Fleetwood students, teachers and independent film makers in 2011 worked on for almost two years on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. on 69-WFMZ-TV.
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Petrova beats Wozniacki 6-2, 6-1 to win WTA final
Nadia Petrova stunned top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 6-1 to win the Tournament of Champions on Sunday, clinching her third WTA title of the year.
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Nadia Petrova stunned top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki 6-2, 6-1 to win the Tournament of Champions on Sunday, clinching her third WTA title of the year.
The second-seeded Russian broke Wozniacki twice in each set, taking control from the beginning through her booming serve and groundstrokes.
"It was a great way to finish the season by winning the title in Sofia, and the doubles in Istanbul," Petrova said after her first win in the past five matches against Wozniacki. "I want to congratulate Caroline for her amazing performance this week."
Wozniacki had a medical timeout during the second set and is looking forward to a break.
"It did not go very well for me today. Now I will go on vacation to recharge the batteries for next season," she said.
The 30-year-old Russian, who also won titles in the Netherlands and Japan this year, will rise one spot to 12th when the WTA rankings are released Monday. It was the 13th career victory for Petrova, who received a check for $270,000.
The Tournament of Champions is the final event on the WTA calendar. It featured the six highest-ranked players who have won a title during the season but didn't qualify for the WTA Championships, along with two wild cards.
The event in 2013 and 2014 will again be held in Sofia. It was staged in Bali the previous three years.
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