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Willy Aybar versus the Rays………..Arbitration 2009
It is only a matter of time before Dioner Navarro is again celebrating. But this time it will be for a arbitration hearing settlement against his team, the Tampa Bay Rays. But he might not be alone that night celebrating as utility player Willy Aybar is also scheduled to go to arbitration with the Rays in 2009. Since Andrew Friedman took over the player contract reigns 3 seasons ago, he has only been to two hearing for the team. What is surprising is the fact that both of those hearing were for former Rays catcher Josh Paul, and the Rays won both hearings. So for the next 2 days, lets dig into the background and the career numbers for the Rays still arbitration eligible players. Both Navarro and Aybar are seeking substantial raises in 2009, and will go before an arbitrator for the first time to secure their 2009 contracts with the Rays.
But this year will be different for the Rays. Navarro, who is also a catcher posted personal bests in several offensive and defensive categories, and when compared to recent catchers in the MLB, is considered a bargain even at 2 plus million dollars a year. Navarro also went to his first All-Star game in 2008, and that just might be a nice piece of hardware to push him over that $ 2 million dollar plateau with ease.. The Rays started the off season with 6 members eligible for arbitration, but 2 were eliminated by trades, and 2 signed a contract with the team before the team's 12 p.m. deadline on January 20, 2009.
Former Rays starter Edwin Jackson was traded to the Detroit Tigers for Matt Joyce and finally agreed to a $ 2.2 million dollar contract wit the Tigers, with a chance to earn an additional $200,000 dollars through innings pitched incentives. The Rays were not as kind to emotional and energetic cheerleader Jonny Gomes as the team cut ties with the fan favorite and he eventually decided on a minor league deal with the Cincinnati Reds for $ 600,000, with production incentives of $ 200,000 possible in the deal. Gomes also will have a chance during spring training to secure a left field spot in the Red's outfield.
Rays 2008 Team MVP Jason Bartlett signed a contract with the Rays at 10:50 a.m. on January 20th, to just get under the wire of the Rays set deadline to discuss contracts with arbitration eligible players. Bartlett signed for $ 1,981,250 dollars on a 1-year deal, but the Rays control him until 2011. Rays platoon right fielder Gabe Gross avoided arbitration by signing a 1.255 million dollar contract on January 14, 2008 for a1 year deal. Gross will compete with Joyce and Rays new comer Gabe Kapler for playing time in 2009.
So that leaves the Rays with 2 very important members of their 2008 American League Pennant winning squad still on the outside without a contract. Both Navarro and Aybar can take a huge amount of credit for the surge of the Rays in 2008 based on their newly set career bests. Aybar can also put on a tag of "always ready" on his resume by coming in and taking charge several times in 2008 due to injuries of star players Bartlett, and Evan Longoria. So let's begin with the Rays utility man, who played above and beyond his expectations in 2008.
Willy Aybar came to the Rays in a trade with the Atlanta Braves prior to the 2008 season. He had been a handful for the braves in both injuries and personal situations that almost got him a bad label in the league. Aybar had been obtained in a trade with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2006 and went straight into the Braves minor league system. When the Rays considered Aybar for a trade prior to the beginning of the 2008 spring training season, they had a lot of information and problems to sift through before finally completing the deal.
After consulting with their scouts and members of their new Dominican Republic complex staff, Tampa Bay began to really talk with the Atlanta Braves about a trade involving 24-year-old infielder. Aybar's off-the-field issues, most notably a stint in a substance-abuse rehabilitation program that wiped out most of his 2007 season, could be an impediment.
The Braves had suspended Aybar indefinitely in April 2007 after he left the team without permission. He was supposed to report for treatment on a sore wrist that had him on the disabled list to open the season but instead drove from Atlanta to Boston to see his older brother for help dealing with drinking and drug issues. Aybar finally completed his rehab program in August 2007, but a broken hamate bone in his right hand kept him from making it back to the majors.
He underwent season-ending surgery and didn't take the field again until October, when he began the winter-ball season playing for Licey in the Dominican Republic. He has had a strong season in his home country,hitting .339 and posting a .415 on-base percentage in 15 games during Licey's run to first place in the league's January semifinal series. So the Rays decided that Triple-A pitcher Jeff Ridgeway would be good enough bait to obtain the troubled infielder. But the Rays could not have anticipated the trouble in the off season prior to reporting for the Rays.
Aybar was arrested in February 2008 for suspicion of Domestic Abuse in the Dominican Republic and was initially held without bond. Even though Aybar's lawyers have told a local magistrate that Aybar's wife is dropping all of the charges, the infielder was still incarcerated in the Dominican for several days. After finally getting the situation solved Aybar went about getting ready to report to the Rays Spring Training complex in St. Petersburg, Florida for the 2008 season.
Then on February 20th it is learned that Aybar, Joel Guzman and Juan Salas are still being detained in the Dominican Republic on visa issues. The Rays consulted MLB about providing help to get their three players out of the country in time for Spring Training. Aybar and Guzman were both finally granted their visas and reported to camp in late February. But that was not the end of the frustration for the young infielder. During Spring Training he suffered a pulled or strained hamstring and it put him under suspicion that he might not be ready for the regular season.
When camp finally broke in April, Aybar had been given a spot on the 25-man roster and a starting gig at third base as the Rays sent their budding superstar, Evan Longoria down for more seasoning in the minors. With a regular spot in the lineup it looked like it would be Aybar's year to shine in the major leagues. But 10 games into the season, Aybar was put on the disabled list because of the same hamstring injury and lost his starting shot at third base for the Rays as they finally brought up Longoria to stay for the season.
During 2008, Aybar started 79 games for the Rays. 40 of those were at third base during the early season and Longoria's stint on the disabled list after the Seattle series. On September 17, 2008, against Boston's Tim Wakefield, Aybar and Fernando Perez set a record by both switch hitters hitting a home run off Wakefield from the right side of the plate. That was the first time since 1969 that two switch hitters hit a homer against the same pitcher in a division play.
But it was during his stint at third base after Longoria injured his wrist in Seattle that he showed his versatility and power to the Rays. Starting all 30 games while Longoria was out, Aybar hit .308, with 5 homers and 18 RBI's. During that span he hit 14 extra base hits and also walked 11 times for the team. But it was as a third baseman that Aybar made his number for 2008. Playing those 40 games at third, he hit .297 , with 6 homers and 20 RBI's for the year. Elsewhere in the field or at Designated Hitter, he only batted .206, with 4 homers and 12 RBI's. He had made a statement that third base was home for him.
But Aybar also played shortstop on occasion during one of Jason Bartlett's disabled list ventures and performed a great job in the middle for the Rays. But he did go through a streaky pattern at the plate in 2008, hitting .309 on June 9th, before going 22-188, or a .186 average from June 10th to August 6th. He dropped his average all the way to .222 before taking over for Longoria after his injury. In his first game at third after the Longoria injury, he hit a career best 2 homers in a game against the Mariners' and had a career high 4 RBI's on the day. His 10 homers in 2008 are 5 more than he has ever gotten in his career.
But on the dark side, he did miss a total of 45 games due to his hamstring injury, but later in the season did go without incident or injury for the rest of the year. So his 2008 average of .288 against left-handers was one of the best averages on the Rays against southpaws during the season. Buy Aybar did save his best for last in 2008 as he went 3 -4 against the Red Sox at home on September 17, 2008 to help the Rays defeat the Red Sox.
The unfortunate side of Aybar in 2008, is that 8 of his 10 homers were solo shots and did not help get extra runs for the Rays during the season. But Aybar was the middle hitter in the June 9th game against the Los Angeles Angels at Anahiem where Longoria, Aybar and Navarro all homer in sequence for the Rays. Aybar did have 13 game-tying or go-ahead runs in the year, and also had 3 infield hits for the Rays. He also put down 3 bunt singles for the team, and was picked 6 times for "Web Gems" by the Rays PR staff during the year for his defensive plays.
On defense, Aybar had a total of 118 total chances on defense in 2008, with 29 putouts and 84 chances. He however committed 5 errors on the season to put his fielding percentage at .958. that is pretty average for a guy trying to fight to get playing time every day. I do not have a total breakdown of if must of these errors came from other positions besides third base in 2008. That total would put him in the middle of the pack with respect to utility men in the league, most of which make over $ 1 million a year.
So is this enough for Aybar to get rewarded with an arbitration figure higher that the Rays suggested contract of $ 900,000 dollars for 2009. Aybar did counter with an offer of $ 1,050,000 for the season, a difference of only $ 150,000 dollars. The proof might actually be in Aybars' post season numbers as he went 9 for 23 during the playoffs, posting a .417 average, with 2 home runs and 6 RBI's in 10 games. the fact that he hit for 16 total bases and only struck out 4 times in the playoffs might be enough to get him that extra $ 150,000 dollars in arbitration money.
Aybar has been one of the American Leagues hidden gems in 2008. He can hit, play defense and is a great clutch player for the Rays. I was actually surprised not to hear his name mentioned throughout the off season as trade bait for a big time hitter or reliever. Who knows if Aybar will even make it past the trade deadline in 2009 with the team. His stock has been going up all throughout 2008, and 2009 might be the year he can finally break through that utility player mold and become a starter with someone else during the stretch run.
Time will tell, but I am thankful that we have Aybar as a reliable and constructive member of the Rays bench. With a new contract in hand, and a chance to retain his psot on the Rays 25-man roster for 2009, Aybar might just be the happiest guy to report to the new training complex in Port Charlotte. But then again, maybe Navarro will spring for dinner that first night.
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While most runners and coaches believe that more running equals greater success, Daniels cautions about its potential to dissuade potential distance runners. "We may be going overboard with the mileage thing in running, especially for youngsters. We may lose too many potential runners if we start off stressing mileage when they are middle-school or even high-school aged," he says.
Effect of Training Volume on Physiology and Performance
As runners, we all know that the better we get, the harder it is to improve. Unfortunately, none of the adaptations associated with training continue indefinitely. Much of the research on biochemical adaptations to endurance training has been done on animals.
For example, the mitochondrial enzyme content of rats has been shown to reach its maximum adaptation with running 60 minutes per day, five days per week. A study published in European Journal of Physiology in 1998 on horses training for 34 weeks found that increases in muscle fiber area and the number of capillaries per fiber plateaued after 16 weeks of training. After the first 16 weeks, the horses were divided into two groups: a control group and an overload training group, which trained with higher mileage. Both groups increased mitochondrial volume and VO2 max with the increased mileage over the next 18 weeks, but there was no difference in those variables or in muscle fiber area and capillarization after 34 weeks despite the two-fold difference in training volume between groups over the final 18 weeks. Clearly, there is a limit to muscles' adaptive response to training.
Obviously, the more untrained you are, the more you can expect to improve by increasing your mileage. For example, a study published in Journal of Applied Physiology in 1992 found that weekly mileage ranging from five to 75 miles per week explained 86.5 percent of the difference in VO2 max between runners. Another study published in European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology in 1986 found that runners training more than 62 miles per week ran significantly faster in races from 10K to 90K compared to those who ran less than 62 miles per week.
More: A Lesson in Oxygen Intake and VO2 Max
While it is likely, and even probable, that running more mileage leads to a higher VO2 max and faster race times due to all of the previously described adaptations, we cannot conclude cause and effect from cross-sectional studies comparing separate groups of runners. It's likely that genetically gifted runners who have high a VO2 max are capable of running more miles, and run faster races.
According to David Costill, Ph.D., professor emeritus of exercise science at Ball State University and former director of its Human Performance Laboratory, physiological changes plateau at a modest amount of mileage.
"When you go from an untrained state to a trained state, running 30 to 40 miles per week, VO2 max and the measurements commonly taken from muscle biopsies increase, but as you move up to about 60 miles per week, things start to plateau," Costill says. "The exact mileage at which this plateau occurs depends on the individual, but beyond about 60 to 70 miles per week, there's not much change taking place." So, if VO2 max and muscle cellular adaptations plateau at about 70 miles per week, why do people run much more than that? "I really have no idea," says Costill. "People who run 5Ks and 10Ks still need a lot of speed, and when you run 120 or 130 miles per week, you can't do much quality."
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In 2004, I conducted a study on the training characteristics of the U.S. Olympic marathon trials qualifiers. My findings, which were published in International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance in March 2007, revealed that the men averaged 90 miles per week with a peak mileage of 120, while the women averaged 72 miles per week with a peak mileage of 95 for the year of training leading up to the trials. However, the elite male marathoners (sub 2:15) didn't run statistically more than the national-class marathoners (2:15-2:22). The elite men averaged 97 miles per week with a peak mileage of 126, while their national-class counterparts averaged 90 miles per week with a peak mileage of 119.
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Economic and Strategy Viewpoint
August 2014
In this month's Viewpoint: Forecast update: recovery continues but headwinds persist, Europe: downside risks rise, EM forecast update: politics and policy and Macro summary
Forecast update: recovery continues, but headwinds persist
- We have trimmed our global growth projections for 2014 and 2015 to 2.6% and 2.8%, a sluggish outlook by the standards of past cycles. The 2014 downgrade reflects some base effects from a poor first half and modest cuts to H2 in the US and Eurozone. For 2015 we believe structural headwinds will persist, not least a weaker supply side performance in the US due to adverse trends in demographics and productivity. We see past disappointments on US growth as more fundamental than just a consequence of unfortunate events.
- Such an outlook means that US unemployment falls further and inflation is likely to pick up in 2015 as cost pressures build, prompting the Federal Reserve (Fed) to start to normalise rates from mid-year. The Bank of England (BoE) is likely to join the Fed in tightening, but the European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Japan (BoJ) are expected to increase stimulus.
- Our scenario risks remain tilted to the downside with Eurozone deflation and a deterioration in the Russia-Ukraine crisis the greatest 'known unknowns'.
Europe: downside risks rise
- Weak Eurozone growth and weaker inflation are a concern, leading us to downgrade our growth and inflation forecasts. However, markets appear to be buoyant with speculation that the ECB might unveil its own quantitative easing (QE) programme.
- The UK continues to buck the trend in Europe with ongoing strong growth. It may see a slight slowdown towards the end of the year as pay growth continues to be weak and the housing market slows, however, the Bank of England is likely to continue to prepare markets for eventual increases in interest rates.
EM forecast update: politics and policy
- A mix of policy and politics have driven our revisions to EM forecasts this time, with sanctions in Russia, elections in Brazil, intervention in China and reform efforts in India all playing a part.
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The last two classes have also been strong. Which 7-8 players, or more, who are rising sophomores or RS freshmen do you think will be key contributors next year?
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Before measuring a quantum particle(photon) it exists in a superposition state, once we observe(measure) it, it settles in one of the possible states(destroying superposition). For entangled particles, does measuring destroy entanglement as well?
Yes: If you measure an entangled property, you destroy the entanglement, always.
I think @OndřejČernotík has already already nicely answered this one, but I think your question included the assumption that the measurement and the entanglement were talking about the same property, e.g. spin polarization. And if so, the answer is just a simple yes.
Superposition and entanglement slight variants of the same phenomenon, that being the ability of a quantum system to contain more than one possible state at the same time. In superposition the multiple states mostly share a single relatively small region in xyz space, such as an atom, whereas in entanglement the states may be quite large.
Here's as more specific example of that commonality, first given by Einstein: If you have a very large wave function and then find the particle at one distant part of that wavefunction, how is it that that probability of finding that same particle at some other large region of the wave function a light second "instantly" drops to zero? How did that distant part of the wave function "know" at an apparently superluminal velocity that the particle had already been found?
Einstein's example was just another form of entanglement, not of conserved angular momentum but of mass-energy. The universe insists on absolute conservation of both, so in both cases finding the property (angular momentum or mass-energy) at one well-defined location requires that that property be balanced out or removed from the rest of the universe, no matter how large the wave function has become.
In terms of superposition, such examples show that any quantum wave function contains entanglement, even if it is "just" a smooth, simple wave packet for the particle location. It's just that the entanglement issue does not show up clearly until you make the wave packet so large that its curious conflicts with the speed of light become apparent.
That depends on what kind of measurement you have in mind. Don't forget that often what is a measurement outcome from one point of view is a superposition from another. So some kind of superposition can still be preserved.
Take, for example, a Bell state measurement, which projects a pair of particles (not necessarily entangled before the measurement!) onto one of the maximally entangled Bell states. But when you take just one of the particles, say, polarization entangled photons, and measure its polarization, the entanglement is destroyed by the measurement.
Entanglement is a matter of perspective. It depends on how you split a system into subsystems. Say you have a system $S$ with an associated Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$, which can be written as a tensor product of two factor spaces $\mathcal{H}_1$ and $\mathcal{H}_2$ with their associated subsystems $S_1$ and $S_2$: $$\mathcal{H}=\mathcal{H}_1\otimes\mathcal{H}_2$$ Then you can classify the states in $\mathcal{H}$ as either entangled or separable with respect to these subsystems. Specifically, if there is a pure state representation for either subsystem, then the total state is separable, otherwise it is not and the subsystems are entangled. Whether a measurement destroys this entanglement depends on what you measure. Any measurement that happens entirely in $S_2$ or $S_2$ will result in a pure state in the measured subsystem therefore destroy the entanglement.
However you can also perform a measurement on both systems at the same time which does not necessarily lead to a pure state in the subsystems, but only a pure state in the total system. In that case the entanglement of the two subsystems can be preserved.
If the two subsystems are spatially separated like in a two remote particle setup, then you can naturally only measure locally on one of the subsystems and destroy the entanglement between the two particles.
A measurement by some detector is when one of your entangled qubits interacts with your detector in some way such that it triggers a reaction in the detector that you can measure, for photons you use Avalanche photo diode's (APD).
When you're photon hits the APD, it triggers an electron to move which in turn should cause more electrons to do, and this 'avalanche's' until you have a measurable current.
What happens to the photon however is that it interacts with the atoms in the APD in many, probabilistic ways. This is how that, after the APD hit, measurements on the photons entangled pair will become probabilistic, because there is no way to know what is going on with the first photon.
Perhaps they are theoretically still entangled and have corrolations between all the tiny measurements made on the first photon by the APD, but it would be impossible to tell. It's easier to think that the entanglement is just gone, immeasurably so.


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Grease swath: Spill makes sidewalk slippery
Six months ago, Mono Loco changed hands and unveiled a slick new menu. But more recently, the Water Street eatery dealt with something even slicker: grease seeping from a receptacle in the alley behind the orange-pink stucco building.
Michael Keaveny, director of operations for Coran Capshaw's five-restaurant group, believes rainwater may have filled the tank, which is maintained by an oil removal company called Valley Proteins, causing the greasy overflow.
"It's not uncommon," he says. "It's something most restaurants have to deal with."
The clean-up from such a spill is not the city's responsibility, says Judith Mueller, director of Public Works for the city, but if such a spill occurs on public property, a report is filed with her department; something she says is "pretty rare." Spills on private property are reported to the department of neighborhood development.
The Mono Loco spill oozed from the receptacle, formed a glistening pool in an alley pothole between Mono Loco and Cassis, and eventually crossed the Water Street sidewalk, where pedestrians tracked through the greasy swath for several days until the Mono Loco crew cleaned it up with kitty litter and degreaser on Friday, August 26.
Unlike the folks at Valley Protein, Mono Loco "had a guy out there the evening we found out about it," says Keaveny. "We cleaned as much as we could ourselves and then had a power cleaner come to make sure there was nothing on the sidewalk."
The spill caused neither complaints nor injuries, says Keaveny.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Where has the Singapore Democratic Party gone
The Singapore Democratic Party skippered by Dr. Chee Soon Juan was one opposition party in Singapore that stood out from the others.
The public saw Dr. Chee as a student of men such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr; men who believed that unjust governments should be confronted by all possible peaceful means under the law, the principle one being the constitutional right of peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws.
He truly believed, at least that was what I thought, that the truth will eventually overcome injustice and all tyrants will crumble under it's weight and the enslaved will be set free.
We thought that he believed and still does that all laws enacted by governments are not necessarily just. There are some just laws and other unjust. The just laws should be obeyed and the unjust ones such as the criminalization of free speech and expression should be disobeyed and there is nothing wrong in that.
And we were filled with admiration and respect for his several protests and public speeches deliberately breaking unjust laws for which he was repeatedly arrested and jailed.
And many including myself were drawn to the SDP as opposed to any other opposition party in Singapore primarily because of the courage shown by Chee, lacking in the others, to confront Lee without fear or hesitation without regard for his personal safety or happiness, fearlessly championing the rights of his fellow Singaporeans.
Lately the Singapore Democratic Party under Dr. Chee seems to be a very different party altogether, almost unrecognizable. Since the Tak Boleh Tahan protests of 2008, there has not been a single instance of civil disobedience, not a single public protest, not a single attempt to galvanise the masses to demand democratic change.
Except for it's online party blog which has been very active with reports, news and opinions and the holding meetings and speeches in private premises, we no longer see a Gandhi or a Martin Luther King Jr. on the streets of Singapore anymore.
It would not be inaccurate to say that today, the interested observer will see no real difference in the policies and doctrine of the different opposition political parties of Singapore, with the Singapore Democratic Party no different in essence from the others.
None of them believe in the principles of non violent struggle by the breaking unjust laws, content with making criticisms of the ruling party in the hope that Lee Kuan Yew and his PAP will one day heed their call and bring about some change.
Lee Kuan Yew's principle tool for repression of his people is the use of the law to silence dissent. Yet no single opposition party dares to publicly state that the government should stop misusing the law. Even though every single party knows that Singapore judges are corrupt, not a single party dares to openly state that it is so.
No single party dares to hold a peaceful demonstration protesting the misuse of the legal system, even though they all know that this is how Singapore is run, the reason being that the Singapore Democratic Party just as the others fear the dire consequences if they did that.
The Singapore Democratic Party just as the others complain that they are a fear ridden society, yet they are not prepared to shed the fear themselves and openly and publicly challenge the PAP.
It is the same with every single constitutional violation that is a daily occurrence under their very noses, yet not a single party including the Singapore Democratic Party dares to openly mount a challenge or resistance because they fear and therefore they refuse to act.
In fact Tan Jee Say, an SDP's election candidate who lost, actually told reporters before the elections that he was happy to see that Dr. Chee has "mellowed" over time, that he was not so confrontational as before, meaning that he has stopped using civil disobedience as a tool to bring about political change, and that his image in the public has been rehabilitated as a less confrontational human being, as if it was a desired quality.
In fact another of his candidates Michelle Lee was allegedly reported to have said, when Chee was falsely accused of going on a public protest at one of the recent election rallies that if he ever did that again, she would leave the SDP.
What is even more telling was that Chee himself has said that he now feels that actions of civil disobedience were no longer his preferred political action for change when he said that he was told by many that his actions were too far ahead of present day Singapore, and therefore ineffective.
Chee and the SDP should keep in mind that many were attracted to them especially because they were different from the others. They alone had the courage to stand up to the brunt of the PAP unlike the others who would make the necessary noises but back off when it really mattered.
If the SDP and Chee now decide to become just like the rest and moderate their criticism so as not to anger the powers to be, this would be a very bad let down on what we thought Chee and the SDP really stood for.
At least for me, what matters most is not getting into Parliament because if even if you do, and you are afraid to confront injustice without fear, it means nothing in the end.
We have seen the Workers Party's Low and the SDA's Chiam in Parliament for decades, but they have not been able to bring about a single instance of democratic change. Now we have 6 more Workers Party MPs in Parliament but I don't see them being able to do anything from the way they operate. Low, Sylvia Lim and the 3 other new entrants are going the make their usual speeches, Lee Kuan Yew's son is going to promptly ignore them and they will go home and come back the next day for another round of speeches.
Pritam Singh of the Worker's Party has made some fine speeches and criticisms during the election rallies, but if indeed he really said or did anything meaningful, I am sure that if the government would not have him removed through false criminal charges, Low himself would have silenced him.
From the opposition political scene in Singapore, the way it now appears, with Chee's SDP no different from the other opposition political parties, it really seems unnecessary to have multiple political parties because they are all basically the same, since their aspirations are all the same. They all want democracy and freedom, just like the Reform Party or the Workers Party or the NSP.
Unlike in the the UK for instance where the Labor Party is distinctively different from the Liberals which is center right, or the Conservatives which is right wing, Singapore's opposition appear all the same except for the men who run them. Ultimately in Singapore, it all boils down to whom I like, Kenneth Jeyaretnam, Low Thia Khiang, Goh Meng Seng or Chee Soon Juan.
One should not be tailoring one's philosophy or principles to enable one to enter Parliament, because that way you would have lost both the Parliamentary seat and your principles in the process. What one should do is to stick to one's principles regardless whether you win now or you lose, because what matters is your own belief that your principes are right, and the knowledge that right will eventually succeed and when it does, it will be permanent.
Alas, I am sad to say Chee's Singapore Democratic Party is just the same as any other opposition political party of Singapore. So if you like him, join him. If you don't then join Jeyaretnam if you prefer or anyone else as you please because noone has the courage or the willingness to take on the PAP on it's injustices where it matters.
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- tearsunderstars said...
"In fact another of his candidates Michelle Lee was allegedly reported to have said, when Chee was falsely accused of going on a public protest at one of the recent election rallies that if he ever did that again, she would leave the SDP."
It was untrue. The mainstream media lied about what she said, as their usual tactics to smear opposition.
TR asked on her facebook:
Michelle, TNP published an article on page 12 today in which you appeared to denounce Dr Chee: "I felt what he was doing was not helpful."
You comment is not very helpful as it is used by TNP again to smear the party by harping on SDP's past in 'civil disobedience'. Regardless of your personal view, it should be kept within the party.
Michelle replied:
Dear TR,
Unfortunately TNP does not accurately report what was said and what happened. I am very disappointed with their reporting. I am also disappointed that anyone would lend credibility to anything they report.
I do not want to dwell further on their report and thereby lend credibility to this non-issue. At this stage of the campaign we all need to be focusing on the issues at stake for our nation.
Back to the issue, unfortunately that's how Singaporeans want it. I don't feel sad for SDP, I feel sad for the Singaporeans.
- Fri Jun 03, 03:59:00 AM PDT
- Gopalan Nair said...
To tearsunderstars,
If in fact the Singapore media lied about that claim, which we all know they are very capable of doing, I accept that you did not say it.
As to your comment "You comment is not very helpful as it is used by TNP again to smear the party by harping on SDP's past in 'civil disobedience'. Regardless of your personal view, it should be kept within the party" I cannot follow the argument.
You appear to misunderstand the purport and purpose of Singapore Dissident. It is to bring about political change for a more democratic Singapore and this blog serves a very useful purpopse.
As to whether the state controlled media of Singpaore has lied in any particular instance, it is impossible to tell. And neither is it possible to argue that every single claim made by that state controlled media is untrue either. So Singapore Dissident will continue to use whatever media or Internet information that it finds plausible and if such as in this case, if I had got it wrong, I would be pleased to say so as well.
But I am not prepared to keep anything within or without the party as my duty lies not with the Singpaore Democratic Party but to Singapore. But of course I wish the SDP and Chee well.
Your statement "You comment is not very helpful as it is used by TNP again to smear the party by harping on SDP's past in 'civil disobedience'" shows you have completely misunderstood my position, and that my understanding of your stand has proven correct.
Your statement obvioulsy indicates that you consider Chee's past record of civil disobedience a disadvantage and a smear on the SDP's record. I on the other hand consider that to be the greatest achievement of the SDP and something that they should be proud of.
Let me once again state that I believe that civil disobedience is the answer to Singapore's problems and not going the route of the Workers Party or the others, by merely making speeches and going home.
- Fri Jun 03, 10:32:00 AM PDT
- tearsunderstars said...
TR = Temasek Review team by the way.
Only this statement is my comment: Back to the issue, unfortunately that's how Singaporeans want it. I don't feel sad for SDP, I feel sad for the Singaporeans.
- Fri Jun 03, 11:48:00 AM PDT
- Gopalan Nair said...
To tearsunderstars,
I find it at pains to know how you seem to know what Singaporeans want!
- Fri Jun 03, 12:00:00 PM PDT
- tearsunderstars said...
Well, I have observed so far on Facebook that some people are happy that Dr Chee stopped protesting amd that SDP has "revamped their image" this election. I recall that even during one of the SDP's workshop, someone asked him not to practise civil disobedience (source from Teo Soh Lung's Facebook). I've been around Temasek Review and the oppositions' facebook for some time to read that people still disliked him for being lunatic to protest and all.
However these people are at conflict with themselves. They hate the PAP for all sorts of reasons but do not support Dr Chee's acts of civil disobedience. In other words they want democracy but don't like Dr Chee's most effective way to get it.
- Fri Jun 03, 12:10:00 PM PDT
- Gopalan Nair said...
You may or may not be true. For me that is beside the point. One does not tailor one's actions to comport with the prevailing opinion. One should do what is right, regardless of the outcome. I may be wrong but I say and do what I think.
Sadly I think you have fallen into the trap that the PAP has set.
Let me re-hash what I say all along. There are many, even if not vocal, who believe in the power of civil disobedience, not only in Singapore but around the world. I am one of the few vocal Singaporeans who say it.
As in anything in life, right trumps the unjst. That must be trite. Second these things do not take masses. The masses just follow the lone protester.
And I am sure, you yourself, if you see a protest in sufficient numbers would join in.
And that is the answer to the whole thing. Not just saying that facebook and other such things indicate otherwise.
- Fri Jun 03, 12:31:00 PM PDT
At the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison a militant women's suffrage activist and member of Emily Pankhurst's Women's Social and Political Union threw herself under the hooves of King George V's horse and was trampled to death for her cause. As we speak, Liu Xia, Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo's wife, weeps for her human rights activist husband currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in the PRC and cries: "It's time we stopped treating words as crimes!" He might well not survive imprisonment. She, too, is under never-ending harassment by the Chinese Communist party.
For me, the troubling question is: "Do we really want to see Dr Chee similarly beat himself to a bloody pulp against LKY's police state again and again for our amusement and benefit while we enjoy the fruits of his sacrifice from the safety of the sidelines?" Personally, I don't. He has already endured much over the last 20 years so what gives us the right to ask that of him and his family one more time? Frankly, I think Singaporeans haven't earned that privilege and don't deserve a person like him.
On 7th May 2011, Singaporeans knowingly handed the keys to the city to the Lee's, AGAIN, to plunder as they wish and with that they lost all claim to ask for any further favours from Dr Chee, in my opinion. Unlike the poor, uneducated masses galvanised by Gandhi and Mandela, we cannot claim that we were ignorant of the incumbent's ugly history, can we? The Burmese people at least recognise Aung San's tremendous bravery and have risen time and again to shed their own blood in the streets in solidarity with her. By contrast most Singaporeans of today for all their pretentious trappings of affluence, education and sophistication, show no such courage and therefore stand unworthy.
I think Dr Chee is being politically astute by recognising that there is a time and a place for open street protest and that it should be used judiciously and timed with surgical precision for maximum effect. The runup to this election was not that time. In refusing to allow himself and the SDP from becoming the customary sitting ducks, PAP was deprived of a hapless sacrificial goat for the first time in its history and in seeking to manufacture one (a la James Gomez) to distract people from the real election issues, they fumbled and dropped the ball embarrassingly in front of a mocking nation. LKY in particular was at a loss without a ready-made victim to bully and lo and behold, the hidden ugly face of the true despot soon showed as he arrogantly talked down to citizens, threatened the voters of Aljunied, petulantly told Chen Show Mao to 'go back to China' and was forced to issue a public apology to the Malay community. Score 1 for Dr Chee.
I think the SDP is beginning to appreciate that age has rendered the PAP cat sclerotic in its responses and it can no longer catch any mouse that avoids flagrantly pulling its whiskers and tweaking its nose. There's more than one way to skin it. Thus carefully calibrated public protests coupled with the intellectual argument will eventually win the trust of those that have the eyes to see and the ears to hear. All others will continue to Pay And Pay cash.
- Fri Jun 03, 05:28:00 PM PDT
- Gopalan Nair said...
Sorry but you misunderstood. I have never said Dr. Chee should be the only one protesting and getting arrested. God knows he has suffered enough. But it doesn't take too much for someone among the millions today to hold up a placard somewhere and gets arrested. You know the most that will happen is a court appearance and a small fine. Someone else tomorrow and someone else the next day. It is not too hard.
And with the same happening often enough, it becomes a common sight, and hopefully a common sight becomes a flood.
And even if it did not become a flood, it is still far more damaging to the ruling party than anything else.
I personally know from the SDP website of Seelan Pallay's and Kai Sinong's protest and arrest. They simply let them go.
Lee Kuan Yew unlike Gadaffi is simply incapable of shooting or torturing anyone. He is too afraid of being strung up at the war crimmes tribunal in the Hague.
An insident here, an insident there and it becomes islandwide. You must see the particualr advantage of this sort of action in a built up island like Singapore. Even if noone took any pictures, the news would have still spread anyway from Block 101 to Block 102.
And on top of that with sufficient rumor mongering, you can finish the job.
But I am certain you are going to see protests very soon. If any Singaporean speaks out against such activity, it is the effectiveness of Lee's Fifth Column that is enabling it. Not because Singaporeans are unlike anyone else in the world.
- Fri Jun 03, 06:04:00 PM PDT
The difference between you and CSJ is that Chee saw the light, you still didn't and is still fumbling in the darkness thousands of miles away, shooting off your mouth faster than your brain.
- Fri Jun 03, 11:33:00 PM PDT
- Gopalan Nair said...
I have put up the ad hominum attack. Again these are either the same person or serveral people employed by the Singapore govevrnment that are clearly worried over the effect that criticism over the Internet has over their continued hold on power.
Previouly I used to just delete them but periodically it is necessary to put them up to show how worried the Lee Kuan Yew administration has become.
- Sun Jun 05, 06:16:00 PM PDT
Dear Gopalan,
Your ranting is really very shallow and immature. You are also a coward posting from the comfort and safety of San Fancisco. And to think you even dare to condemn and brand others who are made of sterner stuff than you
- Mon Jun 06, 12:17:00 AM PDT
- Gopalan Nair said...
Another comment from that anonymous gentlemen from Lee Kuan Yew's cyber force that they use to discredit their critics. With these sort of comments, they don't seem to be achieving much.
- Mon Jun 06, 09:42:00 AM PDT
Singaporean with a little bit of brains and not robots would know that what Mr. Gopalan has been saying all this time is true. If not LKY would have use all the $$$ and power he has under his control to sue him in California.
Think about that!
- Mon Jun 06, 01:26:00 PM PDT