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While Hollywood was busy trotting out movie stars and handing out awards to movies you aren't going to see, Americans still attended theaters this weekend, plunking down their hard-earned money for "Act of Valor," the action movie that stars real Navy SEALS. I was hoping they'd kill bin Laden on screen, but I was left disappointed. Anyway, here are your box office receipts (chart via Box Office Mojo).
1. Act of Valor - $24.7M
2. Tyler Perry's Good Deeds - $16.0M
3. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island - $13.5M
4. Safe House - $11.4M
5. The Vow - $10.0M
6. Ghost Rider 2 - $8.8M
7. This Means War - $8.5M
8. Wanderlust - $6.6M
9. Gone - $5.0
10. The Secret World Of Arrietty - $3.7M
You'll notice that Jennifer Aniston's "Wanderlust" was a huge flop, barely cracking the top ten.Could it be we've reached the point where people enjoy reading about Aniston more than they actually like SEEING or HEARING her? Keep her at arm's length, to look at pictures of her smiling with her mouth open, with a headline next to it that contains the word BITTER or PREGNANT. The SEALS gave Aniston, and Amanda Seyfried's huge eyes a thorough beatdown.
Also, take a look at "Journey 2," a movie that's shown incredible staying power, given that I wasn't even aware it was a sequel to something until two weeks ago. This has remained a strong February at the box office, and I wish the quality of the movies lived up to those big returns. Now, time to throw everything into our little PBCS formula and see what happens.
1. The Artist - 749
2. The Descendants - 312
3. Act of Valor - 217
4. Chronicle - 152
5. Good Deeds - 97
6. The Secret World Of Arrietty - 88
7. The Woman In Black - 51
8. Safe House - 42
9. The Vow - 41
10. Journey 2 - 35
I'm as sick of the top two movies in these standings as you are, but fear not. The Oscars have come and gone and they'll now go away swiftly. I promise. I don't want the Oscar stink lingering any longer than it has to.


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On December 26, 2006, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), which began as the American Society of Biological Chemists (ASBC), celebrated its 100th birthday. This important milestone is an appropriate time to reflect on the Society's origins, accomplishments, and future prospects as this volume endeavors to do. By any criterion the history presented here is a story of vision, hard work, and sacrifice by a very large number of dedicated people.
Starting with a modest group of 81 founders from North America, the ASBMB has grown into one of the most important learned scientific societies, with more than 12,000 members from around the world. The roots of the Society were in the American Physiological Society (APS), which had been formed several years earlier. Prior to the founding of the ASBC, the APS had provided the principal forum for the dissemination of U.S. research on the chemical aspects of biology. Indeed, it was the sense, most strongly espoused by John Jacob Abel of Johns Hopkins University, that this outlet was no longer adequate to serve the rapidly growing experimentation in this area, which led directly to the creation of the ASBC.
Since its founding and continuing today, the Society has numbered in its ranks an impressive cadre of scientists, who have often given freely of their time to promote and foster the Society's various activities, which have in turn helped to catalyze the extraordinary advances in molecular bioscience of the 20th century. The Society's development over the years is also extensively intertwined with that of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), which was founded a year earlier by essentially the same individuals, and from a historic viewpoint the two entities are basically inseparable. Considerable overlap has always existed in the activities of the scientists responsible for the JBC and the Society. The cooperative endeavors of these dedicated individuals form the basis of a remarkable and ongoing story in the history of scientific investigation.
Erratum: The biographical information for Mildred Cohn in the ASBMB history book, "100 Years of the Chemistry of Life," should have said that Cohn and Harold Urey studied ways of separating different isotopes of carbon; that Cohn received her Ph.D. in 1937; and that she was the first woman to be appointed to the Journal of Biological Chemistry editorial board. In addition, the award she received in 1987 was the "Distinguished Service Award of the College of Physicians."
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Rajon Rondo is the best player in this series, better than LeBron "Bury my Game at Wounded Wing" James. But the skinny Boston point guard isn't the reason the Celtics are on the verge of closing another chapter in the long and miserable history of Cleveland sports.
It's never one player, as the Cavs should be able to tell you by now. They have the best player in the game, the reigning two-time MVP, and all it's gotten them is a 3-2 deficit with Game 6 in the hostile confines of TD Garden.
It could be the last game Cleveland plays this year. More important, it could be the last game LeBron plays in a Cavs' uniform. After looking around at the help he didn't get and the likelihood that his supporting cast isn't going to get better, it's quite likely LeBron will leave town as a free agent.
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This is not good for Cleveland. The only way the Cavs can beat Boston is if LeBron puts up two straight 40-point, triple-double performances. He's not healthy enough and the Celts aren't accommodating enough for that to happen.
You never say a great player can't win a game all by himself. LeBron's done it once in this series, in Game 3. He could do it again.
But you know that's a stretch, because LeBron is getting as much support from his teammates as President Obama is from Senate Republicans.
Compare that to Rondo, who was able to take the first half off Tuesday and still watch his team win by 32.
Before Game 5, a lot of people were going to give all the credit for a Celtics win to Rondo. It's easy to see why. The kid has been a better player over five games than anyone on the court, including LeBron. Before the series began, Boston was about the Big Three. Now, it's the Big One with three pretty good supporting players.
Rondo is a skinny little squirt, the kind of player you just hated on the playground because guarding him was like guarding the reflection of a shadow. You could see him, but even if you stood in front of him, he seemed to move right through you, except he didn't move. He flowed.
But as great as Rondo has been, the reason the Celtics annihilated Cleveland in Game 5 on Tuesday wasn't him. He didn't score a single point in the first half and didn't do much else, either. Even handing out an assist seemed a bigger task than backfilling the Grand Canyon with a salad fork.
Instead, Boston's Big Three checked back into the game. We'd almost forgotten how good Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce are when they're on their games. Blame Rondo's brilliance for that.
Tuesday night, we got a demonstration of just what they can do. Allen was deadly from outside. The Cavs could have dropped a piano on him and he still would have drained the shot — and the free throw. Garnett and Pierce were opportunistic and also deadly. Allen finished with 25, Garnett with 18 and Pierce with 21. That's 64 points right there.
With Rondo contributing nothing, the Celtics took a six-point halftime lead. In the second half, Rondo decided to score. He made it look easier than scratching your nose, and against Cleveland's defense, it was that easy. With Rondo putting in 16, the Celtics ran away to a 120-88 win. And it wasn't even that close.
LeBron, meanwhile, couldn't get going. He shot 3-for-14 and had just 15 points. After ringing up five assists and five rebounds in the first half, he added just two assists and one board in the second. It could be the elbow, or it could just be that he woke up Tuesday morning and realized he's surrounded by garbage.
Any way you look at it, it was the second worst playoff game of his career, surpassed in ineptitude only by his non-performance in Game 1 of the Cavs' 2008 playoff series against the Celtics. LeBron was 2-for-18 in that game with 10 turnovers and the Cavs lost the game and went on to lose the series in seven games.
They're on their way to losing this one in six. LeBron could change that, but no one else on Cleveland's team has shown capacity or the inclination to help. Antwan Jamison is a great scorer who's forgotten how. Point guard Mo Williams can light up a scoreboard — in the regular season. In the playoffs, he has been almost as useful as sunscreen in a coal mine. If it hadn't been for Shaquille O'Neal's 21 points, the Cavs would have lost by 40.
Great players win championships. So do great teams. In this series, it's the Celtics with both the great player and the great team. All Cleveland has is one great player who's not playing great.
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Campaign for Primary Accountability, an anti-incumbent Super PAC, has revealed some of the lawmakers on its 2014 hit list — and longtime San Antonio Republican Lamar Smith is on it.
The Campaign for Primary Accountability is a nonpartisan group whose goal is to generate more competition in the electoral process by targeting longtime incumbents in districts dominated by one party.
The group intervenes in primary elections (of both parties) because that's the only time these incumbents can be ousted — because of the gerrymandered nature of their districts. Spokesman Curtis Ellis told The Hill Smith, who was first elected by San Antonio and Hill Country voters in 1986, has been targeted because his constituents have grown dissatisfied with his performance.
"There's a sense Smith is not universally loved, respected or regarded. He was the author of SOPA [the Stop Online Piracy Act that was loathed by libertarians and many others], and that worked out really well, didn't it?" Ellis said. "He was one of the authors, leadership got behind it, the establishment told everyone 'there's nothing to see here, just vote for it' and that blew up in everyone's face."
Ellis said they have heard "through channels" that Libertarian-leaning Matt McCaul is planning to challenge Smith in a race that would be "viable" and "serious".
The organization spent $3 million in 2012, taking out a number of lawmakers including Democrat Rep. Silvestre Reyes from Texas. This year, Ellis said the group plans to match and exceed their last performance.
"We expect our efforts to be much more robust than last cycle. We're putting together a donor campaign, fundraising with small donors, which we frankly didn't do that much last time around," Ellis said.
Last cycle's core supporters included Texas billionaires including Houston CEO of Aquinas Companies Leo Linbeck III and oil tycoon Tim Dunn from Midland.
The group had a mixed record in 2012. It intervened in successful races against Reps. Silvestre Reyes of El Paso and Jean Schmidt of Ohio, but it failed to oust Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio.


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The Toronto Maple Leafs won in Boston again to force their playoff series to a sixth game.
Now they'll need to finally win a game at home.
BOSTON — The Toronto Maple Leafs won in Boston again to force their playoff series to a sixth game.
Now they'll need to finally win a game at home.
Tyler Bozak scored a shorthanded goal, Clarke MacArthur also scored and James Reimer stopped 43 shots to help Toronto beat the Boston Bruins 2-1 in Game 5 on Friday night and stay alive in their first-round playoff series.
Game 6 is Sunday in Toronto, and the Leafs would need a victory then to force a decisive seventh game back in Boston on Monday.
The Bruins won Games 3 and 4 in Toronto earlier in the series. Boston has not lost on the Leafs' home ice in the playoffs since 1959.
"I'm sure that we've poked the Bruins," Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said. "They're going to be a very desperate team come Sunday night, and we have to be equally desperate."
The Bruins actually turned desperate after falling behind 2-0. Toronto outshot Boston 19-8 in the first period and the edge was 25-12 in the second before the Bruins outshot the Leafs 32-8 the rest of the way — including 19-4 in the third.
"The third period was more like our team," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "If there's anything you need to understand from this, it's that we've got to play three periods like we did in the third if we're going to close this off."
Zdeno Chara scored for Boston to cut the deficit to it 2-1 with 8:48 left. The Leafs killed off a delay-of-game penalty in the last four minutes and then protected the lead when the Bruins pulled Tuukka Rask for an extra attacker with 1:11 left.
Rask made 31 saves.
"They've a good team, they're a mature team and they're an experienced team," Reimer said. "Obviously they wanted to find a way to keep it from going back to Toronto. We were able to squeak it out."
Only once in their history have the Leafs come back to win a playoff series after falling behind 3-1: In the 1942 Stanley Cup finals, when Toronto four straight to take the title after losing the first three games against Detroit. The Bruins are 15-2 in playoff series after taking a 3-1 lead, but they blew a 3-0 lead against Philadelphia in the 2010 Eastern Conference semifinals.
"We came in with the mindset to just get it back to Toronto to give ourselves a chance. We've done that," MacArthur said. "We want to keep going. We've worked hard all year and I can see it starting to pay off."
The Maple Leafs opened a 1-0 lead with a shorthanded goal in the second period when Tyler Bozak got around Andrew Ference for a breakaway and then went in alone on Rask with 8:33 left. They made it 2-0 on another Bruins mistake, taking advantage of Johnny Boychuk's giveaway that led to MacArthur's goal.
That's when the Bruins began applying relentless pressure, turning around what had been a 19-8 advantage in shots after one period. Boston outshot Toronto 36-14 the rest of the way, including a backhander from Jaromir Jagr that appeared to barely nick Reimer's right shoulder before passing over the crossbar with 11.1 seconds left.
"Those are things that happened, but they happened too late," Julien said.
Notes: David Krejci had 10 points (five goals, five assists) in the series, leading the NHL in playoff scoring entering Game 5. He and Nathan Horton have combined for eight of the team's 15 goals in the first four games. ... The Bruins called up Matt Bartkowski from Providence of the AHL to fill in for Wade Redden, who was out with an undisclosed injury. ... F Joffrey Lupul entered the night with 17 goals in 43 playoff games. ... Leafs D Mark Fraser missed the game. He had surgery on Thursday to repair broken bones in his face after getting hit with a puck in Game 4.


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As North Carolina contemplates ditching the Common Core State Standards, the state might also want to contemplate this reality: the two preeminent college entrance exams in the United States, the ACT and the SAT, will be aligned with the Common Core.
The ACT, Inc. says its college entrance exam, the ACT, is already aligned with the Common Core and is an active partner with the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
And not to be outdone, last month the College Board announced it will redesign the SAT. David Coleman, the (relatively) new CEO for College Board, said that both the SAT and the ACT had "become disconnected from the work of our high schools."
David Coleman's job before taking the helm at the College Board was as an architect of the Common Core State Standards. He focused on writing the English Language Arts standards.
Indiana has become the first state to drop the Common Core State Standards. Lawmakers there worried that their students might be at a disadvantage when it comes to taking the college entrance exams, and representatives from the two companies sought to reassure them.
"I think the big question is, 'If Indiana decides to completely get away from Common Core — and any undesirably elements of Common Core — would that put Indiana students at a disadvantage when they take the college entrance exams SAT or ACT?'" Sen. Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, told StateImpact earlier this year. "I asked that question of both representatives, and both of them said as long as Indiana has college- and career-ready standards, then we would not be putting Indiana kids at a disadvantage."
A story over at The Huffington Post features test prep expert Jed Applerouth's review of the 208 page preview of the new SAT. He found that the new exam reflects the Common Core State Standards throughout and that it is essentially a 12th grade Common Core assessment:
Sensitive to the political controversy that has recently embroiled the CCSSI (with states like Indiana withdrawing from the standards altogether) the College Board writers explicitly mention the Common Core only once in the 208-page description of the redesigned SAT. But don't be fooled; scratch ever so slightly beneath the surface of the new SAT, and you hit a Common Core gold mine.
The best example of how the SAT reflects the new Common Core standards can be found in the math section, per Applerouth:
Nowhere on the new SAT is the move towards Common Core alignment more profoundly evident than in the redesigned Math section. For example, take a look at the College Board's language outlining the first two skills tested by the new "Heart of Algebra" category of questions:
- Create, solve, or interpret linear equations in one variable.
- Create, solve, or interpret linear inequalities in one variable.
Compare this language to that of the first Common Core standard in High School Algebra:
- Create equations and inequalities in one variable and use them to solve problems.
This minor rewording is indicative of just how deeply the new Math section is tied to the Common Core.
All of this begs the question: if North Carolina ditches the Common Core State Standards, will its students be adequately prepared for college entrance exams?


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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Overall, I'd say it was a good book to start the year with. It didn't knock my socks off or anything, but I definitely enjoyed it. It's two stories, really. Separated by 150 years, connected by place and bloodline and a necklace. The stories alternate throughout the book, but it's never difficult to follow either. A Nova Scotia setting, a touch of magical realism, and lovely black and white art--lots of plusses. It kept me turning the pages, but never with an overwhelming enthusiasm.
(Project progress: Misc. Projects--Read the World, setting-Canada, fiction
AND 2012 unofficial-for-me reading challenges, Graphic Novels Challenge, book 1 of 12)
This winter is driving me crazy...it just doesn't feel like winter at all. :( We'll have a day or two of cold weather (like yesterday and today), but then it warms up again to unseasonably warm temperatures. But what's even worse is the severe lack of snow. While December here is not generally super snowy, it's definitely not as lacking as this December was. In fact, it was the least snowy December since 1939. :( And while we're only a few days in, January sure isn't making up for lost ground...and the forecast isn't giving me much hope either. I grew up in the Great Lakes snowbelt, and was so grateful when we moved back nearly a decade ago (though to a different Lake). Not having "real" winters in the South always left me feeling unsettled. And it somehow it just seems worse having that unsettled feeling here in upstate New York.
Will someone please buy our house?!! I am soooooo ready to move. (This is truly not news, is it?)
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- Kailana said...
And you can read a book about Nova Scotia and think 'Hey! This is where Kelly lives!' :)
I agree on the weather... Did you know Nova Scotia is the warmest province in Canada now? This takes in the entire province temperatures. Some of the bigger provinces do get warmer than us, but they are so big they have other areas that get very cold. We are just little... Although it is snowing a bit right now.
I hope someone buys your house soon!
- January 4, 2012 at 11:38 AM
- Carl V. said...
Holy crap, do you live next door to me? You are describing our Missouri winter, and my frustration with it, to a "t". I was so disappointed to have no snow around Christmas, and tomorrow it is supposed to be 60 degrees. Don't get me wrong, I'll go outside and think it is nice, but it is so very wrong.
Mercury is on my radar thanks to a review I read from someone last year. I am a fan of Hope Larson and I think I even had this one on my library queue last year before realizing I needed to wait until a time when I would actually read it.
Congrats on your first read of the year. I just accomplished that myself. Always fun to put that first one on the "completed" list.
- January 4, 2012 at 12:13 PM
- DesLily said...
woohoo! that first book is a done deal LOL..sorry it wasn't a more enjoyable read though.
we are having a cold front come thru and I am loving it!! although I would no longer enjoy or even be able to shovel snow so I guess I have to stay here although I dislike 9 months of the year! sheesh.
- January 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM
- Jean said...
How many people have looked at the house? Any feedback from the realtor about what they thought? Keeping fingers and toes crossed for you when they're not busy doing other things.
- January 4, 2012 at 2:53 PM
- Amanda said...
Winter has been ridiculously warm here too. I mean, I'm wearing short sleeves today! Ugh! I hope you get some better weather soon. And a buyer for your house.
Mercury was a fun book. Not earth shattering, like you said, but I enjoyed it.
- January 4, 2012 at 2:56 PM
- Chris said...
I totally agree with you on this book…I was meh about it. Wasn't horrible wasn't great. As for Winter…same as Amanda :( Short sleeves to work today. What the hell?? Our weather is so weird here. It actually FREEZED last night and killed my tomatoes and bell peppers and then it's warm today :/ makes no sense….
- January 5, 2012 at 2:38 AM
- animewookie said...
First book of the year...Yay!!! I actually woke up to a bit of snow this morning..and by a bit I mean it's just enough so that you can't see the ground through it...But I was still very excited...lol I hope you get some soon :)
- January 5, 2012 at 7:51 AM
- Debi said...
Oh you better believe it--I thought of you often! How could I not, right? :)
This is the first thing I've read by Hope Larson, and I definitely enjoyed it enough that it won't be my last! Here's hoping we both get a better taste of winter soon!
I bet this is your good time of the year, isn't it? I know that I, for one, could not grow to love Florida summers. *ugh*
We've only had a small handful so far, which the realtor didn't think was unusual for the month of December. Actually just got a call and have a viewing this afternoon. Who knows--maybe this will be THE ONE. *fingers crossed*
Sounds like you, Chris, and I all had the same reaction to Mercury. :)
We're not quite short sleeves weather here--that has to be a bit depressing, huh?
Obviously our temps haven't been quite as warm and yours or Amanda's, but we have had several days when it gets into the low or even mid-40s. And January/February is usually the time of year when we don't get above freezing for weeks on end. This winter is just too weird!
I know, doesn't that first book of the year just feel great? :) And yay for snow!!!
- January 5, 2012 at 11:06 AM
- Trish said...
Mercury actually sounds pretty good! Though I'm not sure about the lack of grabby-ness. These days I average a book every three months (minus audio), so it's gotta be something that grabs me!
I'm wondering if we're having colder weather than you! :) We typically have days in the 70s in December but it's been steadily chilly (even cold). Though the other day we did have a Saturday beautiful enough to take Elle outside while we raked our leaves. It was glorious.
I'll wish you some snow. And a buyer for your home!!
- January 5, 2012 at 9:51 PM
- kreed said...
It is super warm here, too. Kind of freaking me out!
- January 5, 2012 at 10:57 PM


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The value of anything is established by its properties. If values aren't really arbitrary, then there is an absolute morality. The rest of this is trying to explain why values can't be arbitrary, they can only be misunderstood as arbitrary.
This thread is an argument that order is the basis of all concepts. Order is very rigid, so when you build a concept like a moral system on it, like all concepts should be built, it is going to lead to absolute results. Morality is based on values, and the only way to justify morality is to prove your values are accurate. My argument is that values aren't arbitrary, thus there is an absolute morality.
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Many atheists shy away from absolute morality because it sounds religious. I argue that there has to be an absolute morality because the universe is absolute. This may seem wrong as there are many subjective things. I am contending that this isn't true because subjectivity resides on the conceptual level and like disorder and change is not a part of actual existence, but rather merely descriptive. Absolute morality has to exist because the base foundation for morality is order, which enables it to have structure as a social concept. This means that even as a concept, it has to have an absolute and most perfect form as a social concept.
I have been working on this for a while, and I think I am nearing completion, but I am wondering what faults may be found with this line of thought... I have had to return to the drawing board to correct my errors a few times already.
This below is an addendum:
What I am contending is that once morality is conceived as a concept, the nature of order upon which any concept is structured necessitates a most perfect form.
Individual perception causes humans to see the concept with innaccuracy in contrast to the order with which the concept maintains structure in conceptual reality. This creates subjectivity.
But where I am really going with this is that order is the base functional principle of any structure in the universe.
At the very foundation of the level of actuality lies order. Without order, molecules neither form nor bind. Order enables structure, which in turn enables every other level of existence. Order permeates every level of existence as its foundation, including anything that exists on the conceptual level. For this reason, structural order serves as the archetypal basis that justifies having a moral system.
Disorder is mistaken as coexisting with order, but it exists on the conceptual level only and is a name given to an observation of change. It is not a counterpart to order. That means disorder is not actual. It is conceptual.
These things tie together to start to point out that best action can be established on the basis of the order of the universe, and the lack of actuality of disorder which would be its only challenger.
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Yeah, I have been on a TA hiatus. Simon and I have been chatting over the last few months about it. I actually started taking a look what he has been up to a few mins ago. I just signed that Watson change.org petition your email sent me. Thanks for letting me know about it.
I think that Simon is trying to work on the morality itself, and I am working on justifying it. I think they can work together too.
I have two preliminary comments. First, I find the metaphysics of "order" here very strange. Why on earth should we assume that reality would be "disordered" unless some "order" was imposed upon it? You see this a lot when certain theists use ridiculously non-Humean accounts of the laws of nature (far beyond what any sane necessitarian would posit) to argue that there must be a "lawgiver." But I see absolutely no reason for thinking that reality would be otherwise "disordered," rather than things simply being how they are.
We can spend more time on the metaphysics of "order" later though, as the main problem is that I think this argument, at least as formulated in the OP, does not show what it purports to show. The actual conclusion to be drawn is much weaker. Even if for the sake of argument we take John's bizarre metaphysics on board, all this argument shows is that if there are real values, then there must be a universifiable morality. But this is not particularly troubling to most moral skeptics, certainly not to myself, as we are not relativists, but anti-realists about moral value. For me at least, John needs to respond to the metaethical "argument from queerness" before moral anti-realists like myself can begin to take this argument as a challenge, again putting the issues with the bizzarre metaphysics aside. Really though, there are so many terms doing enormous argumentative heavy lifting here that need to be unpacked more, such as "absolute result," "order," etc.
Applying the principle of charity, the best version of John's argument I can articulate right now is:
1. "Disorder" (a concept that needs some elucidation) is subjective in the sense that it is something we project onto the world and is not a real feature of the world.
2. Corollary to 1, the universe is orderly.
3. Any conceptual framework erected upon an accurate view of reality as orderly must be "absolute" (another concept that needs more clarity), as it would be impossible to improve upon, because one cannot get any better than a perfect reflection of an ordered reality.
4. The value of a thing comes from its properties.
5. (assumption from 2 and 1) the value of a thing is absolute, since it stems from its properties, which are part of the "ordered" reality.
6. (from 5) if there are values at all, there is therefore a correct value, a correct value being that value derived from an accurate perception of the properties of a thing in accordance with "ordered" reality.
7. Morality is based upon values.
8. (from 6 and 7) Therefore, if there are values, there is an absolute morality.
Again, coherence and clarity problems, aside, the two most glaring problems are why we should think there are values at all, and given the idea that "disorder" is something we project onto reality and not a feature of it (a notion with which I completely agree), why the same does not obtain for order? What justifies this asymmetry?
I don't have a horse in this race Christian, I just popped in to say that your second premise is flawed: "2. Corollary to 1, the universe is orderly"
The universe is anything but orderly - everything is decaying, from atoms to orbits - the galaxies are flying apart, stretching the fabric of space/time - even black holes are slowly evaporating, entropy abounds. Like us, the universe began dying the instant it was born.
I might add—and you must believe it because, as you have noted—I am perfect, that one glance at the sky on a starry night will reveal little in the way of order. In fact, the stars look like sparkles spilled on a black floor.
I have no way of knowing, I've never spilled any sparkles.
This is why the order/disorder perspective doesn't work. It's distracting and confusing.
Unseen, appearances can be deceiving. So can the language we use,eh? anyways, there's order and disorder in most everything, but, as far as we know, all matter is composed of particles that are ordered at their most basic levels, and the laws of physics and mathematics are non-random.
Look, because there is some order in some places or on some levels doesn't make the universe on the whole orderly.
RE: "the laws of physics and mathematics are non-random." - until we reach the quantum level, then all bets are off.
He is trying to summarize my argument. He actually did a pretty good job.
Christian, I don't know if you're serious or not, but what the *&^%$ is the 'argument from queerness'?
Also, what do you mean by 'anti-realist' in regards to morality?
I really think the order/disorder perspective is distracting and really irrelevant. I think it just confuses people. Can it not just be assumed by everyone that order is a necessary part of anything that exists? Who would assert that matter is not 'ordered', and why would you engage a person who thinks that?
That is a good summary. You are right that I say disorder is a projection we apply to the effect of "nothing" replacing something in a structure. Why is order real and disorder not? Because order functions in reality and is a part of reality. The cause of disorder is nothing being where something was. With order, there is always something there. Where there is order there is something, and where there is disorder there is nothing. One is real, and the other is nothing. I don't see that as asymmetrical.
As for values, we and any other creature are information processing machines. Values are merely measurements. I don't really understand why you are asking if there are values, when it seems obvious that values exist.
There is, it is based on biology. There was this psychologist named Bob Hare, he wored for a long time in prisons studying the brain patterns of inmates. He found that, when told they were going to receive an electric shock, then given a countdown, then shocked. He found that normal inmates would have massive reactions in the Amygdala, they would cringe in fear and preparation, they would exhibit predictable behaviors. But a certain percent of the inmates, the more violent usualy, would not have these reactions in the Amygdala, their brains were prepetually underactive in this area. It was through further study of this that Dr. Hare pioneered our modern understanding of phychopathy. See the phychopath suffers a deficiency, they are not normal, just as a person who is born without legs suffers a deficiency. And what the phychopath is deficient in is the normal reactions of the brain that allow us to function is a socially viable manner. If every one was a phychopath society could not function, and society is a nessecary evil for the existance of man.


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"Our kids are grown now, and we're looking more for ourselves," said Bill Thompson, of Clayton, N.J. "The heck with them!"
He's just kidding, probably. Thompson and his wife, Paula, did not have to be wooed at last weekend's Atlantic City Fall RV Show — they were already hooked. But they have already reached their RV peak, and it was time to start coming down, according to the Press of Atlantic City.
"We're looking to what they call 'downsize,'" Thompson said. "We love the RV lifestyle. We've been doing this since 1994. We started out with a pop-up and now we have a huge Class C — and now we're starting to go back."
The reason for the trade-in?
"My wife finds it a little bit intimidating to drive," he said. "But I like it."
"He likes the power," Paula added.
A person would have been struck by two things while walking through the maze-like rows RVs filling the great, open expanse of the Atlantic City Convention Center on Saturday — one, this would be a great place to play laser tag, and two, it was awfully quiet. As in, people-coughing-in-an-art-museum quiet.
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"It's dead," said George Teutsch, general manager of Atlantic Cape RV Sales in Galloway Township, at about 11 a.m. "In other years, this time of the morning, it'd be wall-to-wall with people."
Atlantic Cape owner Earle Humphries added that in past years, there would be "200 people on line" just before the doors opened. This year, he said, pointing to Teutsch, "it was us."
It's not that there's a lack of interest, Teutsch explained — it's just that there's a lack of credit.
"It's more the fault of the banks," he said. "We have buyers, but we can't get them financing."
Of course, for those who do not have to worry about financing, going to an RV show is like being a kid in a candy store, if said candy were 12 feet high with two bedrooms and their own generators. Show director Harry Lutz estimated that about 70% of sales at events like this weekend's show are on a straight cash basis.
"We anticipate strong sales," said the ever-optimistic Lutz. "The important thing to emphasize is that RVers are not going to give up."
For those who already have an RV, in fact, it's a booming time. James Ford, of the Gettysburg Battlefield Resort in Pennsylvania, said his campground has had a banner year, with the past four months breaking all sorts of records.
RVing, Lutz said, "is an extremely inexpensive way for families to travel. It's a heck of a lot cheaper to go RVing than to stay in a hotel."
Or, as Tony Cahill, of Eagleswood Township, put it, RVing is "just getting away, instead of being a slave to a hotel room — a high-priced hotel room."
Shawn Manogue, Ford's partner, even had his own unique pitch in these unsettling times.
"It's a perfect time," he said. "With the H1N1 virus, you don't want to be staying in any hotels. You got to know who's in your room!"
Some prospective buyers already had their outdoorsy future all planned out.
Steve McLaughlin, of Downingtown, Pa., who described stays in hotels where there was nothing between him, his wife and the baby, envisioned a time when he can "put the kids to sleep, then sit outside and have a fire."
Walking around inside a Kropf 52 Special Edition — designed to look like a house, complete with siding and windows — McLaughlin was impressed but wondered about a few details.
"This is really cool," he said. "I've never seen anything like this before. The question is, where do you put it? They should almost have a person next door with lots for sale."
For the Kahana family, of Franklin Township, Gloucester County, the answer to that was simple — their own backyard.
With four kids, Julie Kahana explained, "we need some extra space. We want to put it on our property so the kids will have their own house. We can make them chicken nuggets and send them out there."
The "Fusion," it seemed, was made to be entered in style — straight up a giant, open ramp.
"This is, like, for a racing team," said Kahana's husband, Rob.
"No, it's not," she answered. "It's cool, though! The whole bathroom is black tile. It's sharp."
The draped carpetway rolled past RV models with names such as the "CrossRoads Cruiser" and the "Diesel Pushers" — seemingly something for everyone. But Lisa Rundle, of Millville, had no illusions as she walked down the wooden stairwell from one RV's second floor.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
When you keep adding 2 + 2, the possibilities are infinite
But that is pretty much what we're about to do.
In a nutshell, you can find our argument in the title of this post. What the article does is stack up like Jenga blocks an oppressive amount of facts on top of some vague speculation and media opinion, and leaves us with the notion that the Blue Jays are about to go tumbling down south of the border, as did the Expos and the affiliated minor league teams in Canada.
To us, it just seems like there's been some essential information overlooked in the article. For a little more detail, we offer the following specific arguments.
A Canadian media company and a Global media company are not the same beast
One of the first arguments made is that Rogers is the last of the media companies to own its own franchise, while the Disneys, NewsCorps, Tribunes and Time Warners of the world have bailed out.
At a glance, we can see the connection, but in truth, Rogers' business model very different. While those media companies are content producers (filmed entertainment, online, TV, newspapers), Rogers' biggest bucks come from content distribution (broadcast distribution, mobile networks) and consumer products (mobile devices and everything else at the Rogers Video stores).
For multinationals like NewsCorp and Disney, the Dodgers and Angels created a lot of extraneous and decidedly local content, which barely registers as a priority for them.
The clear example of this dichotomy would be Ted Turner's Braves, who were a vital piece of his emerging media empire from the 1970's through the 1990's. Braves games were a cornerstone of TBS's evolution into the Superstation, but once Turner was sucked into the Time Warner family, the Braves became an undesirable, Atlanta-centric relic of the pre-merger days.
For the Tribune, keeping the Cubs and Wrigley and WGN all wrapped together in a neat package might have made sense if it weren't swamped in a ridiculous amount of debt and tossing any asset it can overboard in a futile attempt to stay afloat.
The clear distinction with Rogers is that they are a national company with national media holdings, including a national network of Sportsnets that need compelling local (i.e. Canadian) content.
Moreover, Rogers is a company that has a far more direct connection with consumers than most media conglomerates. While the Blue Jays aren't exactly the beating heart at the center of the Center of the Universe, it seems to us that Rogers might not be eager to pull up stakes and offload the team in a rush and risk alienating those same customers to whom they market cell phones or DVRs.
"There is greater consensus amongst the Toronto sports media that the Blue Jays will soon be on the market."
Much of that media speculation came in the days (and hours) after Ted Rogers passed away, and to be frank, nobody knew what they were talking about at that point.
Moreover, you had a lot of people within Rogers who were freaked out by the instability of losing Ted, and some of them anonymously vented those insecurities. We wouldn't exactly take that to the bank.
Media companies don't need content...unless they need content
Amongst the speculation, Toms points to a Jeremy Sandler article that features an anonymous quote stating:
"It is natural for media companies to get out of ownership of sports teams and stick to their core competencies," said the official who asked not to be named. "They're selling them because they can compete for content now."
But this is stated one paragraph after Sandler notes that Sportsnet carried 100 games and the Fan 590 carried all 162, so there is a certain rational dissonance there.
At the risk of repeating ourselves, Rogers is a Canadian media company which is compelled by federal regulations to air a certain amount of Canadian-produced content. Would Rogers really want to cut loose a property that nets them more than 360 hours of Canadian content for their television enterprises and more than 650 hours of CanCon for not only the Fan 590, but for a whole slew of stations along their network of News talk stations?
Sure, they could let the team go and then reacquire the rights from the new owners, but doesn't that seem a bit more troublesome and less secure than the situation that they have now?
The Beest - Interim CEO or Calculating Overlord?
This is where the article starts to go off the rails a bit. Toms ties together the firing of Bart Given with the hirings of scouts (not a stretch), but then ascribes to them some element of Paul Beeston's ambition to be the permanent overseer of the Blue Jays.
What proof does he have? Snappy Jeff Blair's huge big picture view of the shifting sands of Toronto's sports landscape, which features Beeston as the central unifying figure that brings all the pro sports franchises together into one TorontoSportsCollosus. It's like something out of Tolkien.
But here's an obvious question that bears asking: If Paul Beeston wanted to reach out and grab the precious ring that is the Jays' presidency, wouldn't he have grabbed it already? Wouldn't Rogers have given it to him months ago if he really truly wanted it? Couldn't he have had it and named his price?
And if all of those questions are answered in the affirmative, then why the charade of all of these interim shenanigans?
Isn't it at least plausible that Beeston is doing what he says he's doing, and seeking out someone to take the Jays' top job?
The MLSE Merger
We can totally see it happening. Maybe. But it would be a sad day.
The Stadium Issue
Sure, the Rogers Centre isn't one of the new-fangled old-fashioned parks with fewer seats and pseudo-retro styling. But Rogers got it for a song and has plowed a significant amount of money into upgrading it.
The stadium experience has vastly improved over the past few years, and there won't be any significant push from anyone other than cranky baseball purists to replace it with a new publicly funded stadium for at least another 10 years.
Besides - Have you seen the size of the Rogers store that they have there now? You think they're gonna rip that thing out of the building any time soon?
And by the way: no other city in North America is going to build a park for the Blue Jays to move there any time soon.
A Final Thought
Part of what motivates this latest round speculation is the inertia of the Jays offseason. There are thoughts that yanking back on the reins is a sign that all sorts of changes are in the offing.
But when we look at the team's prospects over the next few years, we're left asking ourselves why the Jays would plow a bunch of money and/or years into a free agent this year when it is as plain as the moustache on Dave Stieb's face that their fortunes look good in the years beyond 2009.
Why mortgage your future payroll and lineup flexibility on an overpriced free agent when you have a number of highly-regarded and inexpensive players on target for 2010. And they'll join a team that will feature a (fingers crossed) fully manned and healthy pitching staff.
It sucks as a Blue Jays fan to think in those terms, but that seems to us to be the most sensible explanation and the most prudent path for the team to take.
(Our apologies for the length of this thing...but congratulations for those of you who made it the whole way through!)
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- Lloyd the Barber said...
You're the man. I'm thoroughly impressed, though the article still scares me.
The cloak and dagger Beeston stuff is definitely a reach, especially the part about him lording over Riccardi.
- February 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM
Neither of you know what you're talking about.
But for some no-name reporter guy, having an inflammatory thesis has benefits
How do you think Naomi Klein sells books ?
- February 3, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- Pete Toms said...
Hey, TOS, always liked your blog name.
Thanks for reading my piece and thanks for the thoughtful response.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either why RCI would want to sell the Jays (the "related party transactions") but RCI is feeding this speculation to the Jays beat writers....ok, not super recently, but December ain't that long ago either....
I'm not sure baseball is leaving Toronto, nobody is, but....if RCI decides it doesn't want them...well, it's gonna be a dark day for us Jays fans unless MLSE wants them ( and I think, no ).
At Anon, being compared to NK makes me laugh, I can't stand her or her husband. Canada's entitled classes at their most smug and irritating. I was also referred to as a "pointy head" today at DJF ( am I allowed to speak of that blog here? ) which also made me laugh. I fancy myself as more of a stoned guy in his basement.
Anyway, as much as RCI has disappointed us Jays fans ( and back in 2000 I thought they'd spend gobs of money on payroll to drive up audience for the broadcasts....but...well we know how that turned out ), I think it's them or bust.
- February 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM
- Pete Toms said...
Hey, TOS, always liked your blog name.
Thanks for reading my piece and thanks for the thoughtful response.
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me either why RCI would want to sell the Jays (the "related party transactions") but RCI is feeding this speculation to the Jays beat writers....ok, not super recently, but December ain't that long ago either....
I'm not sure baseball is leaving Toronto, nobody is, but....if RCI decides it doesn't want them...well, it's gonna be a dark day for us Jays fans unless MLSE wants them ( and I think, no ).
At Anon, being compared to NK makes me laugh, I can't stand her or her husband. Canada's entitled classes at their most smug and irritating. I was also referred to as a "pointy head" today at DJF ( am I allowed to speak of that blog here? ) which also made me laugh. I fancy myself as more of a stoned guy in his basement.
Anyway, as much as RCI has disappointed us Jays fans ( and back in 2000 I thought they'd spend gobs of money on payroll to drive up audience for the broadcasts....but...well we know how that turned out ), I think it's them or bust.
- February 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM
Pete Toms,
Don't worry, your article was pretty good.
I was just questioning your integrity as a human
- February 3, 2009 at 6:56 PM
Or maybe just more than the flaws in your logic, which Tao hovered through
- February 3, 2009 at 7:02 PM
- stonedog said...
My impression of the Jays off-season was that JP's been told that he will probably be replaced when a new team president is found, so let's not screw over the new guy with unnecessary contracts to dodgy free agents. Ricciardi sounds like he's about ready to go home and be a dad anyway, and I can't blame him - I wouldn't want his job.
We all know Rogers is still making scads of money, and all your points are valid and pertinent, Tao. They'd need a really compelling reason to sell, and let's face it, with the Leafs and Raptors sucking, the Jays are the only other game in town, so...
- February 3, 2009 at 7:03 PM
I would say that NK is more of a manipulative tight-ass
- February 3, 2009 at 7:15 PM
- Paul said...
I laud both sets of commentary. It's this kind of discourse that keeps a fanbase going, and one the expos in question didn't have.
- February 3, 2009 at 8:23 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
A thought about the scads of money that Rogers makes: they make it from cell phones. Really. A lot. But on cells and Blackberries... And lord, don't we know it.
Rogers makes some good coin from cable, a bit from their specialty and pay channels, a little less from radio and they break even on their over-the-air stations (Omni and City).
And believe us when we tell you that the mobile kids don't like to play sharesies with the cable kids, and they only play nice with broadcast when they have to, and none of them want to give a Rogers-red penny into the Jays.
(And really, can you blame them?)
Also, the fact that there are this many entrenched interests within the company helps fuel some of the leaks.
And thanks for commenting Pete...we appreciate the dialogue.
- February 3, 2009 at 8:39 PM
That makes me sad. So the Toronto Rogers Jays are this significant marketing tool, but no one wants the responsiblity of charging the batteries at night
- February 3, 2009 at 8:53 PM
- Colin said...
The thing that worries me is that Ted Rogers understood this, he understood that a baseball team was an excellent marketing tool, and he understood how they could be tied into cross-promotion and branding.
That said, who knows if the new guy, if and when he come forward, will see things the same way. Especially if that person is not a baseball fan. Maybe he'll see the Jays as an albatross to be dumped ASAP.
What might be the Jays' saving grace is that they have become quite entrenched in Rogers. If Rogers sells then they must find someone without any interest in relocation. Mostly because without the Jays the Rogers Centre instantly becomes worthless, the Argos simply aren't an anchor tenant and I'm sure they'll be out of there as soon as another option comes up. Besides, they'll also lose a lot of good will from their market base.
What I can see is Beeston is simply taking his time to familiarize himself with the team, because the day a new president is named he moves into a dark office deep in the bowels of the Rogers Centre and begins the process of uniting the sports properties in Toronto.
I'm not sure I can see a full-out merger with MLSE, unless Rogers buys MLSE out (and in this economic market that seems unlikely even ifr we all know the Leafs will be profitable even if Canada dropped into the Third World), I see it more as a long-term agreement. Cross-promotion, Rogers logos everywhere, all the games on Sportsnet/theFan590, a red-brick road from the Rogers Centre to the Rogers Centre B (formerly known as the ACC), I can see it all. You could double the price of Leafs season tickets and boxes and throw in Jays season tickets and boxes, they'll still sell. The synergy of it all is intense.
And one last thought, for all those who complain about the Rogers Centre and want a "baseball stadium". The Rogers Centre may be older, and it may be concrete everywhere and it may be missing real grass, but I like it. Sure, a "baseball stadium" would be nice, in July, but in April and September it can get mighty cold. Besides, a "baseball stadium" would have less seats and I don't know about you but I like being able to walk up to the ticket sales in the middle of the second inning and not worry about getting a seat. While a "baseball stadium" might bring better crowds, which would be nice for the noise level, I like not having to line up for 3 innings to use the washroom, and I like that if the people beside me are pissing me off I can just move a few rows back. Also, I like that I never have to worry that my night might be ruined by the weather, as far as I'm concerned a stadium without a roof is a step backwards. As for the grass, I seriously have never understood this one. When I go to a baseball game it's to see the baseball, not the fucking landscaping.
- February 3, 2009 at 9:27 PM
- Pete Toms said...
Colin, I wonder the same, what the hell would RCI do with the stadium sans Jays? And I think you're right about Mr. Rogers also. I think Godfrey realzied that Mr. Rogers wasn't long for this world and without his support the beancounters at RCI ( rightly or wrongly ) were gonna gut it or sell it ( or both ). Which leads me to Beeston....this guy has nothin better to do than get his butt handed to him in the AL East with a relatively tiny payroll (we've only seen the beginnings of this) and no dough to spend in the draft? A bit off topic but Jordan Bastian wrote since I sent this post in to BOB that the Jays are the ONLY team this offseason to not sign a SINGLE free agent to a major league deal. But, we got the near 40 pitcher from Japan so....
- February 3, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Great post Tao !
- February 4, 2009 at 4:44 AM
There is a distinct possibility that the Jays will move if sold. Can anyone believe that the cheapskate Rogers made a 500 mill profit last quarter and they won't sink a dime back into the team. If they suck for the next few years(I think that they will) then attendance will go down NOT up. IN addition, there is no guarantee that they will be good next year either. Case in point, they will have no shortstop or catcher signed for the 2010 season. Also , who is subbing for Rolen who most certainly will be on the DL. On NY radio, a lot of pundits have postulated that the Jays will be one of the teams that will be selling and trying to get rid of Wells, Halladay, etc so on. I don't know about Doc, BUT if the Jays can get rid of that obscene salary that wells makes then that would be a gift, if anything.
Bruno Van Rottweiler
- February 4, 2009 at 8:19 AM
- Colin said...
They have a couple of catchers in the minors who have a shot at cracking the 2010 lineup, otherwise they'll find a free agent. As for shortstop they'll either resign one of their guys or find a new FA.
Jose Bautista is Rolen's sub, and Scutaro can play 3B too, if Rolen is injured they have it covered. They also have a nice young player who tore up AA last year (Scott Campbell) who it would appear they are converting from 2B to 3B.
Unless they get hit by some serious injuries this team has the potential to do some serious damage in 2010, and anyone who thinks below .500 is a given this year is an idiot and probably didn't pay much attention last year. BP's third order wins standings had them at 92 wins and third best in the AL (and fourth in baseball!), and that's a far better predictor than the actual schedule. The loss of Burnett and Marcum does not guarantee a drop of 11 games, especially if Wells stays healthy, Ryan recovers fully, and Hill returns, not to mention potential development from Snider and Lind.
Playoffs are a stretch, but sucking is a whole different animal.
- February 4, 2009 at 11:08 AM
Colin you are just stupid.
- February 4, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Colin said...
Well now you've convinced me, I can't believe how wrong I was. The Jays will suck because all their players are terrible and signed to bad deals and it's only a matter of time until the team uproots and flies the team and the Rogers Centre to Nashville.
- February 4, 2009 at 1:12 PM
The jays lose about 25M a year but as has been pointed out here, as a marketing tool and as a broadcast entity they take in more than they lose...however RCI has no incentive to spend wads of cash to finish third so they will be a perpetual b-class team. Which will do for RCI at least until they can start filling the Dome with Buffalo Bills fans then all bets are off on the Jays ownership...if only that RIM idiot were a ballfan..
- February 4, 2009 at 2:47 PM
Sorry Tao but I was at the international bowl a while back and they are tearing the Rogers store out of the stadium. I saw it with my own 2 eyes.
I don't get it... There must be thousands of people moving into the area. Do they prefer renting from the no name shop on Front vs Rogers?
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